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  <row Id="1" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8" CreationDate="2009-06-28T07:14:29.363" Score="55" ViewCount="2094" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have meta.stackoverflow.com, should we continue using uservoice.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only requirement for participation here is that you have an existing stackoverflow / serverfault / superuser account -- but you can be a brand new user, so anonymous participation is allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that questions tagged &quot;bug&quot; or &quot;feature&quot; could be voted on and commented in a fashion very similar to what uservoice already offers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people wanted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/193243-move-from-uv-to-getsatisfaction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;move to GetSatisfaction&lt;/a&gt;, but I wasn't happy with that service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T09:13:00.970" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T09:13:00.970" Title="Should meta.stackoverflow.com replace uservoice.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="3" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T08:14:46.627" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as UV annoys me (and believe me it does), this doesn't do the job of UV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key part of UV is the issue tracking component. Where is the part on here to say what's been declined, started, completed, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could easily be the place for questions like about SO and how it works though (ie things that don't necessarily result in site changes but are just issues people want to discuss).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T08:14:46.627" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="6" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T08:40:18.673" Score="6" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using Google for your OpenId provider, it generates a different openid url for each website you use with it.  This means that for stackoverflow.com, meta.stackoverflow.com, superuser.com and serverfault.com you will have 4 different openids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently you can have an main and an alternate openid - should the system support as many openids as there are sites in the stackoverflow family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41673" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T05:24:39.127" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T05:25:38.643" Title="Should StackOverflow support more than 2 openids per account?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T08:49:59.507" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you could well use meta in place of UV, and there are some nice benefits in addition to unified authentication/identity, common l'n'f etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main difficulties I have with UV is that it tends to 'lose' older/less popular items. They just drop off the radar, rarely to be heard from again. Especially if an item has been declined, it is very hard to continue a conversation and raise it from the dead again. This is where meta could shine owing to the way SO has been designed - you never have to throw anything out;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who knows? Today's 'declined' stupid idea could be just what the community is clamoring for in another six months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tracking could be achieved with tagging (declined, started, completed etc) as Jeff suggests, however there would need to be a distinction between 'tracking tags' (needing elevated reputation or moderator rights to exercise), and subject tags for mere mortals. That sounds like an extra feature that would need to be developed (6-8 weeks?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6329" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T08:49:59.507" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T08:50:44.670" Score="54" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to see uservoice.com replaced with this site and expect that to naturally happen. The end-user experience is consistent and the friction of working with the UV site is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com won't have every feature to assist this initially but these can be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T08:50:44.670" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="9" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="364" CreationDate="2009-06-28T08:58:25.837" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the very beginning (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/#comment-13940&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;), the idea to have to &quot;pay&quot; with your reputation points to set up a bounty makes me cringe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &quot;featured question&quot; is obviously a very good idea, and I welcome it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, rather than to see one's &lt;em&gt;public&lt;/em&gt; reputation points slashed by a bounty (for instance, going from 3000 to 2500), why not have a separate &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt; &quot;bounty points&quot; in one's profile, by default equals to your reputation? (and visible only by the SO user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you set up a 500 points bounty, that private account diminishes, not your current rep points.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If your public reputation grows again (by, for instance, 200), your private bounty points grows also (by 200 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That way, your public reputation, which should represent the value of your &lt;em&gt;participation&lt;/em&gt; to the site, is never affected by your bounties.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;However, bounties would continue to be limited by the total points of your reputation, just like today.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Any other rules currently in place for bounties would still apply, unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before submitting this to UV, I wanted to test this brand new metaSO ;)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Plus I can edit my question on meta, which I can not do on UV!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:49:24.210" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:49:24.210" Title="How about a separate private &quot;bounty points&quot; *alongside* your public &quot;reputation points&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:16:44.733" Score="8" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that each user should have the same user on each of the SO related sites. I'm very active in SO and have some activity in ServerFault and I don't need separate statistics for every site - just a single &quot;meta user&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastEditorUserId="11361" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T18:09:33.373" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:09:33.373" Title="Should a user have only one account on all SO/ServerFault/Meta sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="11" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:19:00.827" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/111786/bbuser&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;bbuser&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;The user has not entered a name in his profile.&#xA;I don't know where the name &lt;code&gt;bbuser&lt;/code&gt; comes from, but I assume it is somehow part of his OpenID.&#xA;He appears as &lt;code&gt;bbuser&lt;/code&gt; in questions, answers and elsewhere on &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is is not possible to find the user by searching for &lt;code&gt;bbuser&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;It would be cool if this would work and here is why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I told two people about &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; recently and both were very interested.&#xA;After a while I asked them if they had subscribed and they told me their ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could not find any them with user search.&#xA;It happened to be that both of them had not bothered to enter a username in their profile.&#xA;I guess that this is quite common for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In my opinion it would be useful if we could search for users by the parts of their OpenID that is used to identify them at &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly a google search for &quot;&lt;code&gt;bbuser stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt;&quot; returns the users profile as result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:49:47.770" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:49:47.770" Title="Search for users per (part of) OpenID" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:20:43.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think using the StackOverflow engine to monitor and keep track of feature requests and their importance in the community, can be compared to using PHPBB (or other discussion board) to deal with Questions &amp;amp; Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both solutions will do the job, however one of them is specifically designed to do a job and while maybe not perfect, will generally prove itself to be the better candidate over time (reluctantly or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7828" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:20:43.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:25:28.907" Score="7" ViewCount="974" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of the 3797 badges  present in the data dump, only 2982 were issued with the creation date of 2008-09-23.   Since the beta badges were issued, people have been earning them in trickles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the beta badge awarding be locked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T10:55:42.570" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T22:27:13.050" Title="Should the beta badges stop being awarded to users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;beta&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:25:45.960" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes!  The sanctity of the Beta Badge is sullied!  Stop this badge inflation now!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example user 155.  He didn't rank a beta badge until very recent activity (mid-June), when he was awarded a beta badge! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sign up in early September, answer almost nothing...leave for six months, and when you return to a production site and start posting again, you still get the Beta badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that over 1000 badges have been awarded to folks who where not active enough during the beta period to earn one, like us &lt;strong&gt;Original Hardcore 2982 SOpedians&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2982 forever!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T22:51:23.433" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:51:23.433" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:29:43.873" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is the right solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that certain OpenID providers (most notably, Google, and often Yahoo unless you have set up a named OpenID) use &lt;strong&gt;per-domain hashes as their OpenID strings&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=aitoawlsz5_hewdpvee74euceg0aiysm2uq2rar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;versus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;http://username.openid.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means it is effectively impossible to identify anyone on two different sites using their OpenID, if they choose a provider that uses this same strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could add 50 different OpenIDs per user, but &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't want to force users to have multiple OpenIDs for &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; convenience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if you do, you're avoiding the real core problem: what are viable ways to identify the &quot;same&quot; user on two websites, when the user only uses a Google OpenID?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: we now have a reasonable workaround in place, which is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/openid-one-year-later/&quot;&gt;demand email from Google GMail OpenIDs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: I changed my mind and support this due to the proliferation of email addresses, since email = identity. You can now have an unlimited # of credentials (email or URL) associated with your account at the network level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T05:25:38.643" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T05:25:38.643" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="95" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:31:24.150" Score="2" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;While playing with the data dump for a blog post (&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/geekomatic/2009/06/11/1244725080000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Badge Analysis Over Time&lt;/a&gt;), I see that no Popular Question badges awarded for 27 May, which is odd.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The missing badges show in both the absolute graph (first) and the relative graph (second), as we see below.  The relative graph is great for seeing the relative trends, and also to see if the badges were or were not retroactively...it looks to me as if they were not awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-missing-badges-mid-may.png&quot; alt=&quot;Absolute graph&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-80-20-badges-mid-may.png&quot; alt=&quot;Relative graph&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did this really happen?  Or is there a fault somewhere?  At no point since the early days has there ever been no Popular Question badges awarded, especially mid-week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:51:07.237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:51:07.237" Title="No Popular Question badges awarded for 27 May?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:31:27.147" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OpenID is kind of a semi-private bit of information, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is sort of like asking to search for someone by their login name -- all you need is the password to complete the puzzle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do use parts of the openid to identify the user (not the whole thing, but &lt;em&gt;parts&lt;/em&gt;) when the user gives us nothing else to go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:31:27.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:32:13.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Jarrod turned off the badge tasks accidentally at one point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:32:13.680" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:33:57.360" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;criteria for Stack Overflow / Super User / Server Fault beta badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;member before private beta ended&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;earned 3 bronze badges on or before 9-15-2008 (date private beta ended)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(please note, these rules do NOT apply to SE 2.0 beta badges)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I don't really have a problem with users earning it later. They &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; sign up during the beta.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a change of heart on this, and &lt;strong&gt;ruled out earning the beta badge after the beta period is over&lt;/strong&gt;, as it did seem a little unfair to those who were really active during the beta. I made adjustments on SO and SF to reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T22:27:13.050" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T22:27:13.050" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="20" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:34:47.293" Score="11" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says, should meta.stackoverflow.com have badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2422" LastEditorUserId="2422" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T16:46:41.143" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:46:41.143" Title="Should meta.stackoverflow.com have badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="21" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:35:27.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I think the Beta badge will keep to be useful in the future. When Stack Overflow 2.0 with nifty HTML5 and Web 3.0 social, semantic and 3D features will be beta-tested, the ones willing to brave the beta version instead of the safe, known SO 1.0 as you know it today will deserve a beta badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, Stu's answer to me sounds a bit like whining. So what if the guy answered only a few questions instead of racking up 000's of points? If he posted at least one answer during the beta period, he did do something, and I'd say he deserves a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19530" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:35:27.573" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:36:23.220" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO / SF reputation scores are measuring different things, because they have different topic focus (programming vs. sysadmin). Super User reputation is also measuring something different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so is participation here, technically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see the desire to sync the &lt;strong&gt;contents&lt;/strong&gt; of your profile (website, email, about me, etc), but not the reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:36:23.220" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="23" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:43:01.610" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a meta question about meta.stackoverflow.com. Meta discussions of this type clutters the site -- it should be deleted or moved to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, should &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; have badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="838" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:43:01.610" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:43:20.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In meta-discussions, reputation score, badges, upvotes and downvotes all lost their sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69424" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:43:20.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:43:32.327" Score="41" ViewCount="835" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question says it all:&lt;/em&gt;  Should users edit other users' posts to correct grammar and spelling problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen arguments both ways, and lean toward yes...but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T15:13:23.107" LastActivityDate="2010-09-24T14:02:39.810" Title="Should users edit other users' posts to correct grammar and spelling problems?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;edit-rights&gt;" AnswerCount="18" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:43:42.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind the differing profiles, so long as I can log into each without having to re-register.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might thing about putting crosslinks to the other sites on the sidebar... I know it would encourage me to jump over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:43:42.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:45:34.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes sense to me to have a consolidated Meta rather than a fractured UserVoice. While it makes sense that the subject matter covered by each individual site be separated on those sites, meta-issues are often common to all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:45:34.880" />
  <row Id="28" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:49:26.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. reputation should be separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:49:26.587" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:50:57.817" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for yes. And yes I know the counter-arguments. But it makes posts more readable. And I, as a non-native English speaker, like to learn from my mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:15:33.027" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:15:33.027" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="113" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:52:06.597" Score="10" ViewCount="359" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to read more about design decisions, optimizations, scaling techniques applied during  development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69424" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:48:02.343" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T12:21:34.567" Title="Behind the curtain" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;development&gt;&lt;optimization&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:52:12.213" Score="26" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither at &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; nor at &lt;code&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/code&gt; nobody has ever earned the &#xA;&lt;em&gt;Generalist&lt;/em&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many different tags do I have to be active in to earn the Generalist badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T08:53:06.297" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T09:38:15.143" Title="How many tags needed to earn the Generalist badge?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;generalist&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:53:39.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see people enter a reason in the cases where it's a judgement call. I've seen some edits that I'll call &quot;drive-by&quot; edits that make me say &quot;Huh? How is that better?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:53:39.900" />
  <row Id="33" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:56:02.907" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it is a requirement to systematically reach this badge every single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69424" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:56:02.907" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31" CreationDate="2009-06-28T09:58:16.940" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that badge might need to be promoted to gold, or its threshold lowered. If it goes gold, then a silver badge could be created with a lower threshold and called something like &quot;Versatile&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T09:58:16.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:05:08.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should definitely listen to the podcasts - Jeff gives away a lot of stuff in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3146" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:05:08.313" />
  <row Id="39" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:07:36.920" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;now implemented! see description for how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for more detail:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/generalist-badge-implemented/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/generalist-badge-implemented/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T09:38:15.143" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T09:38:15.143" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:09:31.797" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the taxonomist badge be awarded more than once? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think so, but there are only 874 badges awarded and over 1500 tags that have been used 50+ times.  The definition states &lt;em&gt;&quot;Created a tag used by 50 questions&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:52:30.620" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:52:30.620" Title="Can the taxonomist badge be awarded more than once?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:09:46.523" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, why not? A higher reputation on this site indicates that one cares about SO and adds to the debates about how SO can be improved. Something similar can be argued w.r.t. badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand: most people coming here will be SO members already, so they don't need the addictive effect that badges have on new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:09:46.523" />
  <row Id="43" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:13:29.900" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several different aspects to the whole &quot;meta&quot; area:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta discussion&lt;/strong&gt; (Required features: &lt;em&gt;discussion, maybe voting&lt;/em&gt;): Now we have meta.SO, so that's good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature requests&lt;/strong&gt; (Required features: &lt;em&gt;discussion, voting, status tracking&lt;/em&gt;): Currently handled by Uservoice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bug tracking&lt;/strong&gt; (Required features: &lt;em&gt;discussion, status tracking&lt;/em&gt;): Shouldn't there naturally be a FogBugs installation for Stack Overflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Customer support&lt;/strong&gt; (Required features: &lt;em&gt;Q&amp;amp;A, Minimal discussion and status tracking&lt;/em&gt;): Can probably be handled by meta.SO. Fun fact: even Uservoice doesn't use Uservoice for this (they use &lt;a href=&quot;http://uservoice.zendesk.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zendesk&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uservoice is really only made for handling feature requests and it provides the basic features that are needed for that. It might have it's flaws, but it basically provides the right tools. The stackoverflow engine only provides voting and some kind of discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than a tag, the missing status tracking would be more something like the current closed/deleted/locked state of questions. Depending on the internal implementation of these question properties it might be fairly easy (or not) to add a few more states like &quot;started&quot; and &quot;completed&quot;. Setting these would be restricted to moderators and you would have basic status tracking for each question. The only disadvantage would be that you can't really search for these properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:13:29.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="45" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:20:45.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd vote for a &quot;Meta&quot; badge that you get once you got enough &quot;normal&quot; badges. Maybe like 20 badges give a bronze Meta badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:20:45.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="46" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:28:35.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not allow more than 2 openids per account? What does it have to do with google anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OpenID does not mean &quot;one single id per user on the web&quot;, some users have multiple (more than 2) openid providers - and it would be nice to login using any one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if a user account is shared across sites (so/sf/su), or will be shared at some point in the future, then by allowing to login using any openid provider registered with this account solves this google-openid problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11414" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:28:35.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="47" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:29:10.033" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixing spelling/grammar errors makes a post objectively better. That falls into the same category as fixing broken code formatting. Posts are made better this way and everybody wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not an error, just a matter of taste, then this is different. Subjective changes to a post should be done with care and only with good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:29:10.033" />
  <row Id="50" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:43:21.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing a post just for fixing grammar and spelling could be effective, if done properly and responsibly. However, there's always the slight chance that editing the post changes the question or answer, or at least the spirit of the it. The English language has subtleties that can easily be overlooked, especially by non-native speakers, that can cause confusion, or increase confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think editors should think twice before rushing in to 'fix' posts. If you're not sure about what the original writer meant, leave a comment or just resist the urge to edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2819" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:43:21.217" />
  <row Id="52" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:47:05.373" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it can be awarded more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And tags can also be created by anonymous users who eventually get culled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:47:05.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="53" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:49:41.203" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A typical night of development:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: Let's see the latest feature.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Me/Dalgas&lt;/strong&gt;: Here you go!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: What is that? I don't know what that's supposed to be..&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Me/Dalgas&lt;/strong&gt;: Isn't that what you wanted?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: But there's no words on it..&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Me/Dalgas&lt;/strong&gt;: Want us to redo it?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: No.. no time.. we'll do it live - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DO IT LIVE.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have it any other way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:49:41.203" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="54" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:54:48.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bugbash.net/comic/113.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/bug-bash-stackoverflow-development-process.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:54:48.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="55" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:55:27.677" Score="16" ViewCount="648" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Overflow is great; it gives you a chance to talk about Stack Overflow in a disconnected forum so that you don't have to break the fight club rules of talking about Stack Overflow on Stack Overflow. (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the cases when you want to talk about Meta Stack Overflow?  I would assume that the same rules apply in that you cannot talk about Meta on Meta.  So where is a guy to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="153008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-22T11:55:18.103" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T11:55:18.103" Title="What about meta-meta Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="57" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:58:53.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it's pretty obvious where THAT line of inquiry will go :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd assume that any meta-level is allowed on meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:58:53.193" />
  <row Id="58" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-06-28T10:59:33.877" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;meta can be called recursively, yielding meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T10:59:33.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="59" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:00:37.120" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voted the question up for the humor. Humor is not present enough on SO if you ask me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19893" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:00:37.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="62" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:05:36.560" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;meta will go a long way to remove such discussion from SO proper.  fun.stackoverflow.com, or similar, would do likewise -- keep the main board pure, and provide an outlet for those who just can't ask a straight question today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastEditorUserId="95071" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T12:38:05.620" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:38:05.620" Title="Should there be additional parallel boards?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;forums&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="63" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:06:23.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is supposed to go in an &quot;answer&quot; or a comment to Jeff's post, but here it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I see what you are saying and I really don't expect to be given reputation at serverfault for my answers on stackoverflow, as the site deals with a technical aspect I know little about, why shouldn't we get our reputation transferred to this site and to superuser? I don't know, it just seems to me like a logical thing, at the very least for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:06:23.143" />
  <row Id="64" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:08:01.953" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The big problem we ran into, actually, was meta-discussion overwhelming the channel. Every new person wanted to speculate about the rules and their effect, and every violation was followed by a long postmortem. At first, we had a scoreboard showing who was the best at talking without violation, but this quickly turned into a competition, destroying actual chat. When we took down the scoreboard and banished meta-discussion of the channel to #meta-discussion, everything worked out nicely. (And, of course, for discussion of the concept of #meta-discussion people had to go to #meta-meta-discussion, and for chat about how silly that whole idea was, we created #meta-meta-meta-discussion …)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:08:01.953" />
  <row Id="65" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:08:27.867" Score="29" ViewCount="1256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the Stack Overflow data dump became available, I put together a data analysis script and created some &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/stats.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;graphs of SO activity and history&lt;/a&gt;. I thought this new meta site would be an appropriate place to make people aware of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the graphs might be a little obscure at the moment. Mostly they reflect my curiosity and they're a bit experimental in the sense that I would create a graph and then see whether there was any interesting trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's one of the interesting graphs:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e:78mI..4izardw1jQkjgWiDcWkDe7jbj1dDf2eWewhGdecTj1cJcDbTZJZOYJYOW5a7WkYTXBX2VxW2WcXeZrVxdTYZb2crcTbeaebjarcbYTYZXBZrYjYeZuVmUJWEZWXJX5UuXJT-YhTBUJWsShSUSZUMScT5UJS0R-RcSUU-WcTmaDTxShRcRcRMTGSmQEUhRMP8RcSsQnP0QMQJPMQPRmQEQ5O3QsSJQPPHQ8QsQRQ5QJQMQUQxQ8P.PpPXQHRMT-QvPxRMQZR8QpSEQJP0P5QvRBRmSUSJP0RpTGRZQkSGRXP.SkRuVhScSJQ0R0RJRkRPSsRsPfQUQHPcQnPfQRPMQpQkQMP8QMP5PfP8P5PhPkRkRxQvPcPEQpQPP0QJO8PEP5OnO5PpP3OhPZOsPpPBPcPJOpOcOcOJOPOZPpPUNXOPOcNRN3N.OMOJN.N3OcOhN0NJNROUN.NnNHNMNHMsMpMnNHMZNfNBN8MsM.NsNpM.NUNkNMMvM5MMNcNPNkOHNvM.NXMvMfNUNZM0NJMHL8MXMvNBNJOPMfNUMkMHMXMcL.MBMBMML3McMxNEMkM0MhMXMvMsLxMkMvL8MpLxMMMPMfMELcMBL3MsMHLaMk&amp;amp;chtt=Answers%20per%20question%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any ideas for more graphs, suggest them here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="145828" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-16T20:15:05.257" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T22:07:56.377" Title="Stack Overflow stats graphs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="66" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:09:37.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think as soon as the &quot;belongs on meta stackoverflow&quot; close reason is implemented (which presumably will move the question over here) this should be done by 4-5 high rep users with enough time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better yet, they could automate some of it, although it could turn up some false positives so human judgment is probably best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="16417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T11:17:47.500" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:17:47.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="68" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="65" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:10:58.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear the way you're processing data is aggregated, ie, successive plot points are based on prior plot points so you're not seeing it windowed properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see it graphed in terms of when the question was asked, not the global average, if its possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:10:58.437" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="69" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="65" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:12:44.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the percentage of 1st answers that are accepted, although it's not really a graph it's a number I'd be curious to know. Or perhaps something relating an answer's posted time to the original question's posted time and the number of votes they got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:12:44.500" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="72" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:14:26.290" Score="7" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does rep even mean anything here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whats the point of community-wiki questions, considering everything here is likely to be subjective-argumentative anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep-whoring, is that bad here? or is that good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:27:40.837" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:24:08.583" Title="How relevant is rep and community wiki on meta-stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="73" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="93" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:15:37.520" Score="20" ViewCount="956" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the fastest gun in the west solved? Is it really a problem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T11:04:30.237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:51:54.810" Title="Is the fastest gun in the west solved?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="74" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="72" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:17:18.343" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff goes over part of this in the blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;bounties make little sense on a discussion site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;wording needs to be tweaked (i.e. questions-&gt;topics, answers-&gt;replies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;need to be able to follow questions/get notices of additional replies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;remove notion of community wiki, as discussion sites have a stronger sense of ownership, plus nothing will be off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;ensure that chronological ordering is the default, if not the only, sort order, both for replies and comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;remove accepting an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;some of the close reasons will have to be removed or tweaked &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’ve made a few of the easier changes already that were based on (groan) meta-data. Others will be tougher. We won’t know until we try, so …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly feel that because reputation does not matter here, we should have our SO reputation linked over to here and not be able to get any reputation off of questions on this site. After all, your StackOverflow reputation &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; relevant here because this is a site &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow. That's my take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="16417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T11:23:32.337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:23:32.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="75" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:17:32.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that SuperUser is going to cater for the 'fun' questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9360" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:17:32.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="76" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="72" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:18:30.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep encourages people to participate, so I think it's still relevent. It might need tweaking it for this site though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community-wiki, perhaps not so much. I'm not sure editing of others posts is really appropriate here either..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:18:30.820" />
  <row Id="78" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:20:37.947" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you just want to keep it straight forward and utilize tagging. Forking things too much makes things to complex to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:20:37.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="79" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:21:37.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two-minute initial no-voting period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three-minute prohibition on edits for answers posted very quickly; say, within a minute of question posting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:21:37.117" />
  <row Id="80" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:24:08.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really loathe the &quot;The question says it all&quot; statement, its really really redundant. And not the good redundant, the bad type. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, there are a thousand ways to do it better than that, ie: simply by rephrasing the question in a more verbose way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:24:08.887" />
  <row Id="82" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:25:45.420" Score="29" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I find out which tags I have created?&#xA;This would be interesting to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags could be highlighted on the users page for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-08T12:31:29.000" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T12:31:29.000" Title="Can I find out which tags I have created?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="83" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:29:07.130" Score="4" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I ran some stats on the SO dump to search for question with answers marked correct that have less than -1 votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list was illuminating: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/7690#7690&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/7690#7690&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is slowly getting rectified, is there a better way of getting this stuff fixed, should there be an official section on SO for this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T18:07:20.177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:07:20.177" Title="What should we do about questions marked correct that have obviously incorrect answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="84" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:29:11.030" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I highly disagree with this. Part of the hook of a bounty question is that you are slicing off your hard-earned reputation because the answer means something to you. Having another pool completely defeats that purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:29:11.030" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="85" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="58491" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:31:29.417" Score="23" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful if &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt; ( and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;) is pointing to this website. After all, there is no reason why we can't lump all the meta discussion together in a single website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt; works&lt;strike&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; is still not working. SO Admin, please fix this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT not by OP, July 29, 2010:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Both URLs now work, but not in the way originally suggested in this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-26T15:34:25.440" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T14:17:12.543" Title="Should we make meta.superuser.com to point to this website" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="86" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:36:03.900" Score="23" ViewCount="767" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13/should-the-beta-badges-stop-being-awarded-to-users&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; reminded me of a big complaint I had and forgot to voice before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to be busy when the SO Beta was happening and was unable to participate. When you posted that blog entry with the proposed tags for the site, there was a &quot;Founder&quot; badge and a &quot;Beta&quot; badge proposed. People quickly said that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; badges should be attainable &lt;em&gt;at any point&lt;/em&gt;. That is to say, if someone joins StackOverflow today, they should technically be able to get every single badge on the site. Badges are akin to collectibles, and if someone says there's this one collectible you can never have it kind of takes the fun away from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You removed the Founder badge, why not Beta too? You could still mark it in their profile somewhere they participated in the Beta, I want people to get their recognition for helping the site out, but I don't think it's really fair to other users to have a badge you simply cannot get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:54:34.537" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T06:19:34.413" Title="Why are beta badges awarded at all?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;beta&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="88" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="898" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:41:52.090" Score="106" ViewCount="1817" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the addition of Recent Activity a while back it became much easier to know what's going on. However, sometimes when a badge is awarded, it's not immediately clear why it happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that some awarded badges (those that can be be awarded several times) a little bit more verbose, for example, in the Recent Activity page it should say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Jun 27] awarded &lt;strong&gt;[● Nice Answer]&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;link-to-question/answer&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/101#101&quot;&gt;mentions below&lt;/a&gt; that the discovery is part of the fun. He mentions a parallel to the Xbox achievement system, but from what I can tell, an achievement for 'A Perfect Lap' is not ambiguous, nor is &quot;Launch a Gnome into Space&quot; in Half Life Episode 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &quot;Nice Answer&quot;, which can be awarded several times, is not the same - it's not precise enough. I have to go to the Profile page, sort answers by votes and then try to remember which answers were previously awarded, and which weren't. Sometimes it just becomes too much of a hassle to hunt for this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-09T21:25:29.823" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T21:25:29.823" Title="Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="90" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="54293" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:45:30.133" Score="18" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently created a bounty for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/929744&quot;&gt;question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty deadline came and went without a suitable answer (IMO). Because I wasn't happy with any of the answers I didn't accept any. Thus the bounty was awarded to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/929744/encrypting-sqlite-database-file-in-iphone-os/942165#942165&quot;&gt;top answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with the community awarding the bounty - however I would like to re-bounty to get a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A re-bounty system would be complicated and alternatives and solutions should be thoroughly  debated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:52:23.370" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:52:37.467" Title="Should SO introduce a Re-Bounty feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="91" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="85" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:46:04.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, maybe, it just gets tricky when you have to disambiguate serverfault meta questions with stackoverflow meta questions. But that said, there should be a high amount of colinearity, and tags should be able to supplement the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:46:04.110" />
  <row Id="92" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:50:59.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess this case is not so frequent, so simply reasking your questions with bounties would worth a try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69424" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:50:59.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="93" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:52:50.207" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had an idea for this that I submitted to uservoice a while ago, but I can't seem to find it now so I'll recreate it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When casting a vote, the effect of that vote would be delayed for all other users for five minutes or something. &lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; would be able to see the vote effect, so that you could easily confirm that your vote was actually cast. But everybody else would see the effect of that vote five minutes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow each answer to be voted on its own merit, at least for the first few minutes. From the point of view of a user, the site would appear to work exactly the way it does now except it would look like everybody else was off having a coffee break whenever you cast a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:52:50.207" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="94" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:53:32.467" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the question is really: is it a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several different aims to the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get a specific answer to a question as quickly as possible for the sake of the questioner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get a full, detailed answer to a question over time for the sake of future visitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow developers to show off :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting a quick answer in serves two purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It may serve the first site purpose in minutes (or less - I think my fastest was to have an answer posted and accepted while the question was still saying &quot;1 minute ago&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It shows other potential answerers that you're answering along a particular line of thought. For instance, if I see Marc Gravell answering about a particular topic, even with just a quick answer, I probably won't bother any more; he's likely to say everything I would, unless I've got a completely different idea.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem I see is that of positive feedback - an earlier answer will often get more votes (and keep getting more votes) than a better, later answer. That's not always the case, but it does happen. (And I'm fully aware that I'm usually the beneficiary of that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T11:53:32.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="95" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:55:08.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wasn't that the day no views were being counted? No views == no popular questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/200269-illogical-viewcount-bug-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice ticket for this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;date encoding error -- fixed!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;closed on 05.28.2009&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T20:14:48.927" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T20:14:48.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="96" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="155" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:56:32.803" Score="33" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, I have two questions which should be transferred:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/350248&quot;&gt;What would you want to see in a StackOverflow API?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282179&quot;&gt;Is there a guide to accessing StackOverflow data programmatically?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The latter should be updated now that the data dump is available, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a facility for this in place? Is there going to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I suspect the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet facts&lt;/a&gt; question would be more apprpropriate here, too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T04:53:58.680" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T04:53:58.680" Title="Can we transfer questions from SO to meta?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;transfer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="97" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="846" CreationDate="2009-06-28T11:59:00.537" Score="13" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite a few SO questions don't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; belong on UserVoice, but would definitely be right at home here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;the first meta question&lt;/a&gt; of course. There will be many grey areas, so I think it would be good to guidance around this area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:41:22.987" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:41:22.987" ClosedDate="2009-06-30T07:41:43.773" Title="Is there going to be a &quot;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; close reason?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="98" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:04:27.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some merit in being &quot;First&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise the internets would not be full of F1rsT p0stz ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastEditorUserId="16084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T19:11:14.297" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:11:14.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="99" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:04:38.650" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951056/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/1004428#1004428&quot;&gt;Nope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No matter what Jeff says, Fastest Gun in the West is still a massive problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are the first to post an answer you have an almost 50% chance of it getting accepted, if you post the 5th answer you only have a 2% chance of getting your answer accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;0   50477    46.305&#xA;1   26680    24.475&#xA;2   14516    13.316&#xA;3   7609     6.980&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T00:14:04.217" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:14:04.217" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="110" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:06:50.860" Score="2" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone seen any non abusive sites pop up yet that makes use of the stackoverflow data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:54:50.257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:57:15.723" Title="Stackoverflow data dump sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:07:07.100" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, sometimes when a badge is awarded, it's not immediately clear why it happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is intentional and by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are supposed to incite curiosity about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the badge exists and &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; you did that caused you to earn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said umpteen zillion times, this is based on the Xbox 360 Achievements model. You see the achievement flash on screen..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb306/shinlord/UpStart/Achievement-MonkeyBusiness.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. and then you go figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The discovery is part of the fun!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T08:21:06.887" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T08:21:06.887" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:07:09.393" Score="73" ViewCount="4638" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title suggests does anyone have ideas for additional badges for SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked the idea of 'hidden' ones that are triggered by odd, random criteria. Basically Easter eggs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Member of all 3 stack overflow sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Made it a community wiki so people can edit easier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T14:23:23.347" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T14:15:16.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T17:53:46.860" Title="Additional Badge Ideas" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;easter-eggs&gt;" AnswerCount="120" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="25" />
  <row Id="103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="85" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:07:36.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If that suggestion is implementented, each &quot;question&quot; will have to be tagged by the site name or site-agnostic tag. It would probably better if the engine made a choice mandatory. (ie. made the asker choose &lt;em&gt;at least one&lt;/em&gt; site tag before the question is posted )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:07:36.257" />
  <row Id="104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="119" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:08:08.813" Score="106" ViewCount="1751" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the this gray color scheme extremely difficult to read. It's also very hard to tell the difference between questions with answers and without.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T22:26:24.763" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T23:15:46.950" Title="Can you bring the color back to meta?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:08:58.860" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Private beta participants &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contributed a not-insignificant amount of their time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;put up with bugs, downtime, and errors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;filed bug reports and helped us troubleshoot errors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;populated the site with a lot of quality questions and answers so we don't go live with a &quot;ghost town&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that, they get a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:08:58.860" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:10:18.137" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at whether it's really a problem.  To find out, we need to focus on questions that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have more than one submitted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have one accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have not been closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other answers haven't included these criteria, and I think that's a big problem.  For example, if you don't filter out questions with only one answer, well then of course the first answer is going to be much more likely to be accepted - because duh, it's the ONLY answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're playing along at home with SQL Server, the query to find the questions I'm focusing on is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT pQ.Id) AS Questions&#xA;  FROM dbo.Posts pQ&#xA;  WHERE pQ.PostTypeId = 1 &#xA;  AND (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM dbo.Posts pA WHERE pQ.Id = pA.ParentId) &amp;gt; 1&#xA;  AND pQ.AcceptedAnswerId IS NOT NULL&#xA;  AND pQ.ClosedDate IS NULL&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of those 88,975 questions, how many of them had the first answer accepted?  The query I used was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT pQ.Id) AS Questions&#xA;  FROM dbo.Posts pQ&#xA;  INNER JOIN dbo.Posts pA1 ON pQ.AcceptedAnswerId = pA1.Id&#xA;  WHERE pQ.PostTypeId = 1 &#xA;  AND pQ.ClosedDate IS NULL&#xA;  AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT Id FROM dbo.Posts pA WHERE pQ.Id = pA.ParentId AND pA1.CreationDate &amp;gt; pA.CreationDate)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out 49,989 of the first answers were accepted, or about 56% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next question would be, &quot;How often was a later answer scored higher by the viewers?&quot;  The query I used was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT pQ.Id) AS Questions&#xA;  FROM dbo.Posts pQ&#xA;  INNER JOIN dbo.Posts pA1 ON pQ.AcceptedAnswerId = pA1.Id&#xA;  INNER JOIN dbo.Posts pA2 ON pA2.ParentId = pQ.Id AND pA1.CreationDate &amp;lt; pA2.CreationDate AND pA2.Score &amp;gt; pA1.Score&#xA;  WHERE pQ.PostTypeId = 1 &#xA;  AND pQ.ClosedDate IS NULL&#xA;  AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT Id FROM dbo.Posts pA WHERE pQ.Id = pA.ParentId AND pA1.CreationDate &amp;gt; pA.CreationDate)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out 3,167 times, a later answer has a higher score than the accepted (earlier) answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:10:18.137" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:11:22.190" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;Member of all SO sites&quot; would be nice, but I would change it to 'Participant', i.e. asked/answered at least 1 question in each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:11:22.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:12:43.623" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for reference - if you use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow database export&lt;/a&gt;, this data is not contained in the dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:12:43.623" />
  <row Id="110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="100" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:15:04.757" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SPWho2.com&lt;/a&gt;, a statistics analysis dump for StackOverflow.  I built it so that I can throw in the database dumps for ServerFault and SuperUser when those become available too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm super-anal about not being abusive with it.  If there's anything that anybody wants to see added to make it more clear about where the real data lives, let me know and I'll be happy to implement it.  I'm never going to show the question content or answer content on SPWho2 because I don't want to distract the search engines.  Every author page and question name links back to StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also created &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Data%5FMining%5Fthe%5FStackOverflow%5FDatabase&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki articles about importing &amp;amp; analyzing the StackOverflow export&lt;/a&gt; over at SQLServerPedia.  It's a SQL Server wiki, and I'm editor-in-chief over there.  I put my howto scripts, sample queries, and tutorial videos there, including a &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/sql-server-tutorial/data-mining-the-stackoverflow-database/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tutorial video about mining the StackOverflow database with Excel's data mining plugins.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastEditorUserId="26837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T12:46:56.927" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:46:56.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:19:22.623" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Troll - 100+ down votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:19:22.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="24" />
  <row Id="112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4439" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:19:48.053" Score="16" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently &quot;flair&quot; on stackoverflow family of sites can be distinguished only by the site favicon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Name of the site should be written on the big space between user avatar and site favicon to ease identification (especially in a &quot;stack of flairs&quot; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: integrated &quot;stack of flairs&quot; has been suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/116/should-combined-flair-be-offered&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T06:15:23.977" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:15:52.883" Title="&quot;flair&quot; should be more distinctive about site name" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:21:51.260" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Jarrod posted self-deprecating answers, but as an outsider, let me tell you that the database code and schema are really tight.  (And I should add that has absolutely nothing to do with me, hahaha.)  If you're going to scale a SQL Server database fast to a large audience at a low cost, you don't want any extraneous business logic in the database.  No triggers, no &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Defined_Function&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UDF&lt;/a&gt;s, no CLR code, no record-by-record operations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally when I do performance tuning for clients, I start tracing queries with a duration of more than 10 seconds.  At Stack Overflow, I have to crank my filters down to 150-200 ms just to see any activity. It always gives me a grin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just generally speaking, application servers are cheap, and SQL Server is expensive ($5k-$25k per CPU).  Even if you use open source databases, it's easier to scale application servers than it is to scale database servers.  Every added web/application server is relatively easy to implement with a load balancer - every added database server, not so much.  Every time you have to do anything even remotely CPU-related, do it in the web/application tier, not the database tier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T12:21:34.567" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T12:21:34.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:23:07.063" Score="31" ViewCount="719" Body="&lt;p&gt;I struggle to pick up rep points even when answering questions and giving good demo's of code via a pastebin - sometimes spending 15 mins+. Then along comes a noob question, for instance &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049112/what-is-the-in-jquery&quot;&gt;What does $ mean in jquery&lt;/a&gt; and before you know it the simple answer has got 26 upvotes, never mind the 11 for asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we do anything about this? Maybe give the question a complexity rating which goes towards the possible amount of points that can be earned? Probably contentious I know but its just an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:56:28.790" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:01:11.790" Title="Noob questions, simple answers and big rep points" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:23:17.577" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inciter&lt;/strong&gt; - answer or question that generated 50+ comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested revision:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Encourager&lt;/strong&gt; (bronze) received 10 or more comments on a single question or answer with a score greater than or equal to 1. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provocateur&lt;/strong&gt; (silver) received 25 or more comments on a single question or answer with a score greater than or equal to 5.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instigator&lt;/strong&gt; (gold) received 100 or more comments on a single question or answer with a score greater than or equal to 10. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all cases, your own comments wouldn't count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="130431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T13:32:21.590" LastActivityDate="2010-04-14T13:32:21.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="180" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:26:29.783" Score="16" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently &lt;strong&gt;flair&lt;/strong&gt; is offered on a per site (MSO, SO, SF and in the future SU).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should their be a &lt;em&gt;combined&lt;/em&gt; &quot;piece of flair&quot;, or even better a simple XML that returns a users flair from all sites so we can roll-our-own flair display widgets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T06:46:46.343" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T11:44:59.900" Title="Should Combined Flair be offered?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:27:28.673" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is relating to the non &quot;noob&quot; questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can consider doing answer refinement.  Give a good short answer to the poster's question, then refine it better and better.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer refinement helps both your reputation and the original person that asked the question.  The person that asked the question may not need a code example, the extra 10 minutes you spend doesn't need to go into your original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer refinement also helps other questions on the site, because people that would give a very similar answer to you won't waste their time, and they will move onto another question that they can help with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not aware of any penalty for editing, and I do not believe it is frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastEditorUserId="3153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T12:40:00.703" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:40:00.703" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:27:36.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal experience: I listened to the podcasts, but dislike pissing about with beta software. I was sceptical of badges and points. But when Joel suggested the Beta badge, I was there like a shot. (That may just be a reflection on how sad I am.) Fortunately the site didn't really suck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:27:36.410" />
  <row Id="119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:29:55.767" Score="-43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am open to tweaking some of the parameters, but the greyscale is here to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aren't all discussion sites just shades of grey, anyway? (&lt;a href=&quot;http://instantrimshot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rimshot&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All of the Oz sequences were filmed in three-strip Technicolor. The opening and closing credits, as well as the Kansas sequences, were both filmed in black and white and colored in a sepia tone. Publicity for the film mentioned the Technicolor but not the black-and-white or sepia, thus making it sound as if the entire film had been made in color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes color and sepia would be juxtaposed in the film within seconds of each other. At one point, Dorothy sees her Aunt Em on the Wicked Witch of the West's crystal ball; she is then replaced by a vision of the Witch. Aunt Em appears only in sepia-toned black-and-white, while the Witch appears in the crystal ball in full Technicolor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%281939_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T13:48:47.433" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:48:47.433" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:31:46.323" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super Hero - 500+ points in 24 hours or having 10 answers accepted in 24 hours, either way showing super human (answering) abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:31:46.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:38:33.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are people so interested in their reputation score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1518" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:38:33.857" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:39:35.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered questions should be black with light gray numbers, unanswered questions should be a very light gray with black 0s, and questions with accepted answers should have black with white numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:39:35.087" />
  <row Id="124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:43:55.000" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's some other data that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/17174/sam-saffron&quot;&gt;Sam Saffron&lt;/a&gt; put together&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking only at &lt;strong&gt;questions with 5 answers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;0                  2524        26.196&#xA;1                  1982        20.571&#xA;2                  1918        19.907&#xA;3                  1715        17.800&#xA;4                  1496        15.527&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking only at &lt;strong&gt;questions that received 2 answers within the first 5 minutes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;0                  8069        35.073&#xA;1                  6508        28.288&#xA;2                  3972        17.265&#xA;3                  2094        9.102&#xA;4                  1054        4.581&#xA;5                  558         2.425&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think that looks totally reasonable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:43:55.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="169" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:56:49.383" Score="153" ViewCount="1232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a frequent visitor of user voice, so this could very well have already been suggested there, and I apologize in advance if it has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My request is simple: Many times, there will be a question where some people feel like it should be closed. At the same time, I'll feel like it's a perfectly legit question, and it should therefore NOT be closed. Right now, I have to wait till it gets enough close votes (which it always does for some reason, as soon as 1 or 2 people vote to close, e/o else decides to vote as well) and then vote to re-open. How about, as soon as there's one vote to close, there should be an option to counter the close vote, something like &quot;vote not to close&quot; or whatever. This would then bring the &quot;Vote to close&quot; number down by one. Only when the vote to close outnumbers the vote not to close by 5, that's when a question is indeed closed. Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15861" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T12:38:54.437" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T03:30:10.427" Title="How about a &quot;Vote not to close&quot; option to counter the &quot;Vote to close&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="22" />
  <row Id="126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:58:52.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a higher level of specialist badges.  Maybe even considered as a new badge level.  Platinum Specialist Badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like 10x the amount of votes needed as the gold specialist badge.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:58:52.700" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:59:03.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the solution is simply to adapt. Some questions are pretty much read once, by a small handful of people, then it drops off the face of the Earth and is never visited again. In those cases, not much rep is at stake, and it generally goes to the first acceptable answer. It doesn't matter if you write a better answer, if by then the question is answered and no one will ever read the thread again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others are continually bumped, as new answers are added, people comment, and the question gets edited. Those tend to attract much more rep, and in those cases, it also tends to balance itself towards the good answers. It doesn't matter that someone else posted first, because people keep coming back to the thread, so once your superior answer goes up, everyone will see it, and you'll get plenty of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means it's not really a huge deal IMO. Sometimes you get fewer upvotes than your answer warrants, but that's usually only in the cases where no answer in the thread gets more than 3-4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the questions where some answers get 20+, later answers have plenty of time to get caught up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the type of question also influences this. Questions that are tricky to answer, but which interest a lot of people are great. (I had one answer jump to 74 upvotes within a few hours the other day. Not because it was a stunningly good answer, but because it did the job, and a lot of people were interested in the subject, and kept commenting and keeping the question (and my answer) visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes, I write detailed answers and get nothing for my trouble because by then, no one else is going to read the question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just life. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the JQuery question you mentioned, it's worth noticing that it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;asking about a popular technology (so more people will read it, answer it and up/downvote it, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is easily answered. It's hard to give good or bad answers to it. It's not a question where people are inclined to read down past the first answer to see if there are any subtleties they'd miss otherwise. The simpler the answer, the more the &quot;quick&quot; answer is favored. Which means it's usually more rewarding (in more ways than one) to answer the more complex ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T12:59:03.997" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="150" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:59:14.900" Score="9" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I up vote questions I think are useful but not necessarily important to me (I only up vote answers I understand and agree with) and I &lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS&lt;/strong&gt; up vote a question I answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it obvious that people are very miserly with their question up-votes. I think this is because of the reputation rewarded for an up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a reduction in reputation for question up-votes to &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will encourage people to vote more and thus the amount of reputation earned would be similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:56:50.903" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T09:17:20.430" Title="Are people too miserly with up votes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="129" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T12:59:33.370" Score="8" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel Spolsky has clearly stated that he wants these sites to be welcoming and inclusive where anyone can ask any relevant question even if that question has appeared elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With questions being closed in seconds, is the community really being inclusive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to close questions seems to bring out the nasty side of some people, as evidenced by the snide comments about the use of English that have accompanied some closures.&#xA;Perfectly valid questions have been voted for closure as &quot;joke questions&quot; by people ignorant of the subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions absolutely deserve to be closed but shouldn't this be a last resort carried out by the moderators?&#xA;Closing a question is a strong response, it's really like telling someone to &quot;shut up&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sites are much more than collections of questions and answers. A real and growing body of high quality knowledge is being constructed which is a truly fantastic thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there better ways of maintaining the quality of questions other than closing them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Many thanks for the responses about the current closure process. I'd really like to know what you think about question closure as a &lt;strong&gt;metaphor&lt;/strong&gt;. Is that inclusive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1518" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:08:48.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:08:48.410" Title="Are there better alternatives to closing questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:05:19.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two distinct purposes to serve. One is true meta-questions - asking &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow, the other is discussing improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many such meta-questions, ranging from &quot;what does this icon mean&quot;, or &quot;what does Community Wiki mean&quot; (what &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; it mean exactly?), to &quot;why haven't I gotten this badge yet&quot;, or &quot;should we edit grammatical errors in other people's questions&quot;, or &quot;when should we vote to close?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of those really belong on UV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are bug tracking, feature requests and other discussions related to improving the site. Yes, they could probably be moved here - the SO software does seem to support most of the necessary features, but I think it makes sense to keep them separate. Isn't it simpler for everyone if we know that Meta is for asking questions &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; SO, and UserVoice is for, well, letting users voices get heard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, I think some kind of stricter tagging policy might be required. If you're going to search through this place for feature requestions, it'll get messy if you have to search for everything tagged [feature], [feature-request], [features], [new-features] and so on. Perhaps a few tags ([feature] and [defect] perhaps) should be given special treatment, and be visible as checkboxes or radiobuttons, the way community wiki is, to make it easy to clearly mark which questions are &quot;stuff I want improveed on SO&quot;, and which are just &quot;stuff I'd like explained about SO&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastEditorUserId="33213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T13:10:46.293" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:10:46.293" />
  <row Id="131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:05:51.313" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it's on uservoice too (only supposed to be having a quick look here so I haven't really got the time to find and post a link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would the same would work for reopening too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it reopen the moment the number of close votes dropped to 4, or would it have to gain a nett score of 5 reopen votes to be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:05:51.313" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:09:45.920" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too find it a little strange that Jeff said that a closed question is a question on its way to deletion, yet Joel stated that he wants each question asked in every way possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times questions can be specialized instead of being closed.   This doesn't always apply though.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 questions may have the same subject, and 99% of the people think they are the same.  But the body of the question is asking slightly different things.  In these cases specializing the subject to make it clear about the distinction in each question is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:09:45.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25645" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:11:57.850" Score="10" ViewCount="1230" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested to know if stackoverflow earns money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, how? any statistics? Is it a good business model? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130023" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T00:49:16.567" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T00:49:16.567" Title="Is Stack Overflow a business success?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:13:57.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this discussion perplexing, because closing is a rather democratic process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users must have 3,000 reputation to close a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users are limited to 12 close votes per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the same user cannot vote to close more than once on the same question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it takes five (5) votes to close a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;users can cast reopen votes in the very same manner!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you don't agree with the closures, vote to reopen. How is this a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:13:57.627" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2373" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:15:51.477" Score="180" ViewCount="3901" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to get &quot;upset&quot; (though that is too strong a term) when I got down-voted without comment. If my answer isn't good enough then I'd like to know why. Not only does it improve the answer for the OP but it improves my knowledge too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the down-vote has been explained I've found it useful &amp;amp; it has improved my answer, or forced me to delete the answer if it was totally wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there any way we can encourage people to leave a comment? Perhaps they don't lose rep if they explain their down-vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit though that I haven't always explained my down-vote either so you could call me a hypocrite. I've also grown a thicker skin over the months of using SO (it seems to have come with the higher rep score ;-)), so I'm less bothered about this now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this has been covered on uservoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="145982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-25T00:57:19.200" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T07:41:14.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" Title="Encouraging people to explain down-votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="20" FavoriteCount="30" />
  <row Id="136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:15:53.050" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really think it's a problem. I'm rarely the first to answer, which means I have to write &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; (or at least longer ;)) answers in order to catch up. I'll never catch up with Jon Skeet rep-wise, but I've got 22k so far, and almost all of it has been earned on questions where I was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the first to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't really bother me. The questions where &quot;first answer wins&quot; are usually the ones where only a few upvotes are going to be given anyway. In the longer-running questions, where all the real upvotes are given, there's plenty of time to jockey for position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:15:53.050" />
  <row Id="137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:15:53.223" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it makes the question better, makes it more readable etc, then yes I think it should be done. Where I have a problem is people editing the posts but adding no benefit, and even starting edit wars, for example changing a UK English spelling of Colour to the the US English spelling Color, there's no need to do that, it adds no value, everyone knows they meant colour, its just going to cause arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:15:53.223" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:16:27.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot really comment on this, but you can certainly use public information to see the &quot;health&quot; of the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like our traffic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how many people work for the company now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:16:27.167" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:19:56.770" Score="12" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering about this ever since I signed up on SO. With answers, it's easy to determine what to upvote. Is it helpful, is it informative, is it correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of that really applies to a question though. So which criteria are we supposed to use for upvoting questions? (And for that matter, which purpose does it serve? Upvoted answers are listed first, so here the effect is obvious. What difference does it make whether a question gets upvoted?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T19:07:16.170" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:26:47.763" Title="Why should I upvote a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="128" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:20:45.287" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was one of the questions I explored at SPWho2.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Avg-Questioner-Upvotes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What kinds of questioners do the most upvoting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or in other words, what tags are the friendliest?  Are people who ask questions with a particular tag more likely to do upvotes?  These are NOT the upvotes performed on their question - these are the upvotes done by the questioner themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, yes, there's a huge variation.  Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who asked &quot;beginner&quot; tag questions average 393 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who asked &quot;homework&quot; tag questions average just 33 upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Avg-Questioner-Upvotes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;full report on SPWho2.com&lt;/a&gt;, along with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Avg-Questioner-Downvotes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;report on average questioner downvotes&lt;/a&gt;.  I find it hilarious that people who ask vim and emacs questions are much more likely to perform downvotes than other users - a little grumpy, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next month I'll add one for average answerer upvotes too.  For example, are people who answer &quot;PHP&quot; questions more likely to upvote others?  What are the friendliest tags, and what are the least friendly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:20:45.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:21:14.253" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually upvote a question when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I'm already curious about the same question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;2) They made me curious about what they're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvoting it may make it more visible to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastEditorUserId="3153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T13:44:45.027" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:44:45.027" />
  <row Id="142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:21:25.173" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mouseover explains&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;question up arrow mouseover&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is useful and clear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;question down arrow mouseover&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is unclear or not useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:21:25.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:25:30.033" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff really didn't want to have this meta site, so it'll remain greyscale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1897" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:25:30.033" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="128" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:25:59.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've pondered this, but then you end up with questions about how people use scale. For instance I have an acquaintance who has said that on a scale of 1 to 10 he never ever rates &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; 10 because there is always room for improvement. So even on a small scale is anything less than 3 reflect poor quality? Would people start up voting with 1s poor-mediocre answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current system is clear an unambiguous. -1 if it was poor. +1 if it was good. 0 if it was unremarkable. Simple is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:25:59.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:26:18.377" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that you should be forced to leave a down vote answer and have an &quot;up&quot; arrow for the reason of the down vote.   People can click it up and you will recieve +1 rep points for it.  With a maximum of some number, let's say 5.  You still lose your -1 when you press the down vote, but it would be gained back shortly if it is for a valid reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is unfortunately incentive currently though to NOT leave a comment.  The person you are downvoting may be pissed off and down vote some of your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:26:18.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:34:17.327" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea, but you'd have to be careful with it. When I see people explain down votes in the comments they aren't always tactful. Maybe if you were prompted with a small menu of acceptable reasons to be down voting and then if you chose &quot;other&quot; you could type something more specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:34:17.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:34:47.077" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good way to combat the chase perpetrator to downvote would be to have a period of anonymity so that the user who answered or downvoted/commented would not be known until the dust has settled (7 days). This may also go someway to solve the voting for friends/famous people issue that is rife in SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:34:47.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:35:10.040" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually upvote a question when I post an answer to it, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I found the question interesting enough to make me work on it (for that, +1 ;) )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I often answer questions with no answers or no upvoted answers yet, and I hope to make that question more visible in the &quot;unanswered&quot; tab, increasing its visibility and -- hopefully -- attracting other answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:35:10.040" />
  <row Id="150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="128" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:35:42.690" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people are pretty free with the up votes.  My own analyis has show an up to down vote ratio starting at 10 last fall and growing to about 12 now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Brent Ozar, I also investigated the relationship between votes and other user data (like reputation and up:down vote ratios, etc.) in a couple of blog posts, like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;geekomatic.ch:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/06/18/1245340860000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Down Votes vs. Up Votes vs. Reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;geekomatic.ch:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/06/24/1245844920000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Voting Patterns in Detail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of my favorite graphs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Down (&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;-axis) vs. Up (&lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;-axis) vs. Reputation (bubble size)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/image/stack-overflow-badges-reputation-vs-up-vs-down-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Down Votes versus Up Votes versus User Reputation&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Up Votes as a percentage by User Join Date and Average User Reputation by Join Date&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/image/stack-overflow-up-votes-as-percent-over-time-small-and-average-reputation-by-join-date-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Up Votes as a percentage by User Join Date and Average User Reputation by Join Date&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Larger images and other stats on the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-19T09:17:20.430" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T09:17:20.430" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="72" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:35:58.727" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that reputation is still relevant here. The idea of both rewarding people for positive contributions as well as being able to identify them (with the score number) is important both for Q&amp;amp;A and ensuring that people are incentivized to provide quality posts. This argument also applies to the badges as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, and I touched upon this in my email to Jeff, Community Wiki doesn't make much sense in a discussion site. First, because there's a stronger sense of ownership of content in a discussion - when people edit your post it changes what &lt;em&gt;you've&lt;/em&gt; said. Also, StackOverflow uses the notion of Community Wiki for posts that are allowed to remain active, yet aren't strictly programming questions, mainly to prevent people from gaining obscene amounts of rep from them (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). However, such a post cannot occur here - if it's on-topic I see no reason why the author shouldn't receive reputation from it. If it's not, then it will be closed and/or moved to a more appropriate site. Once SuperUser is up it will be an easy place to send non-meta, non-programming/sysadmin questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, these are just my thoughts about the site, so feel free to disagree. My main conception was making it more discussion oriented, but the posts that currently populate the front page still follow the Q&amp;amp;A model, so we may end up needing CW, accepted answer, etc. after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:35:58.727" />
  <row Id="152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="162" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:36:07.837" Score="5" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should some badges come with added reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;em&gt;Civic Duty gives you +100 reputation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not advocating reputation for every badge just a select few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:35:53.730" Title="Reputation for Badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:39:24.617" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Where do we go to discuss StackOverflow?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Meta StackOverflow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;And to discuss that?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Meta meta StackOverflow!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;...And that?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Good god man it's metas all the way down!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1569" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:39:24.617" />
  <row Id="154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:39:32.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question and I'm hoping the answer is yes. It's probably trivial to do too after it's been done for serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:39:32.307" />
  <row Id="155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="96" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:40:26.503" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect that this will eventually be possible, just as it's possible to transfer between SO and SF. The only thing is that (afaik) post ownership is currently lost for users that don't have an account on the site being transfered to, so even if the user subsequently signed up, it's currently not possible for them to regain ownership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T17:41:17.170" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T17:41:17.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="159" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:42:13.517" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a really hilarious (and correct) answer to a question and wanted to link directly to it because of the way answers &quot;float&quot; up and down based on votes. And for me to find the URL I had to go to the posters profile, page through all of their responses (thank God it wasn't Jon Skeet), and find the link. Is there an easier way? If not could we have a link to the question posted in the question header so we can copy it's destination?(The way that I have seen that liked best was just the number displayed linking to the correct URL so you could just click the URL and copy it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:12:32.497" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:12:32.497" Title="Would it be helpful to be able to link to specific answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:43:07.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to admit that I actually don't upvote much. Thats usually because I'm looking for questions to answer and if something has a lot of answers generally I'll skip it as already having been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes but not often questions themselves will be interesting or I'll find them in relation to something I need to know, either from a direct SO search or via Google, in which case I'll upvote a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My usual standard for upvoting is that is has to meet one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be correct when there are other answers that (imho) are incorrect so it needs to be distinguished;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is particularly insightful, clear and/or pithy; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it describes something quite innovative or clever that I otherwise wouldn't have thought of.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obvious answers to simple questions are a roll of the dice to see who answers first. I generally don't upvote those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:43:07.040" />
  <row Id="158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:44:09.037" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's more work, but when you vote it would be nice if it popped up a short optional comments field. You can't force anybody to leave a comment (you can't force them to leave a legitimate answer, either). But it would be nice to see for each question/answer a list like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+1 worked for me&#xA;+1&#xA;+1&#xA;+1 concise&#xA;+1&#xA;+1 Insightful&#xA;-1&#xA;-1 wrong&#xA;-1 &#xA;-1 i hate python&#xA;-1 confusing&#xA;-1 wrong&#xA;-1&#xA;-1 your an idiot&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more I use it, the more I think that slashdot has the best discussion.moderation system out there. This is inspired by it, but in a SO-ish way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastEditorUserId="1019" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T14:04:39.143" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:04:39.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="156" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:44:58.190" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already possible - if you see an answer you want to link to, just right-click the &quot;link&quot; button and copy the URL. When you visit this URL you will be automatically taken to that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:44:58.190" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:45:04.667" Score="59" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Architect - awarded to a user who has an idea implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it would have to be a manually awarded badge - but highly prized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:45:04.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="128" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:45:11.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, the number of upvotes an answer can expect is a function of its potential audience. Fun/CW questions have the widest audiences and receive the most votes. The most popular tags (like C#) are next. Most questions and probably most upvotes per answer of the &quot;real&quot; questions. And it trails away after that. JPA questions, for example, aren't often easy but will rarely garner more than 1-2 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:45:11.060" />
  <row Id="162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="152" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:47:51.040" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. Badges &lt;em&gt;tends&lt;/em&gt; to come via the same sort of actions which gain you reputation anyway... I don't think it makes sense to make the reputation system even more complicated in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T05:19:07.993" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T05:19:07.993" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:50:59.143" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The more I think about it, the more I think that downvotes per se aren't the problem. Incorrect downvotes are. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1053971/a-java-practice-problem/1053980#1053980&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, Tim, who was actually kind enough to leave a comment, is actually wrong. The answer works. However well-intentioned, he's just wrong. Those kinds of downvotes annoy me. That answer currently has about 10 hours to receive a downvote before I'm better off just deleting it, which is kinda irritating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other problem is that people use downvotes just for opinions they don't like, even if they answer the question. I've been downvoted a ton by Python fanboys because I dared to suggest using VB.NET as a RAD tool (instead of Python). Those kinds of downvotes are idiotic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real problem that you would solve by disallowing anonymous downvoting is tactical downvoting where people just downvote something to give their own answer better relative position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:50:59.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:53:31.400" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise of the question is invalid: it is based on an assumption that the &quot;fastest gun in the west&quot; phenomenon is a problem, which I believe to be incorrect. One of the problems with forums is noone posts there because tit takes a day or two (minimum) to get an answer. The fact that the system here encourages quick answers is a good thing. Usually if you have a programming related problem you need an answer &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:53:31.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="152" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:53:42.803" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bad idea, but it is just not needed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People already find enough intrinsic rewards in getting badges.  The badges don't need any extra reinforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since it's not needed, I would rather the development team of stackoverflow (and related sites) spend their time implementing other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:53:42.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:54:35.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Next question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:54:35.377" />
  <row Id="167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:56:08.977" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Counting votes in favor/against a feature/bug does not a web application make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO already has the userbase.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO can track votes 1-per-user on question/answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The status of change requests can be conveyed by tags/editing, etc. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: &lt;strong&gt;SO &gt; UV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="11208" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T17:22:19.370" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:22:19.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="152" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:56:17.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YES!!!!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always disliked the fact that reputation follows technical knowledge rather than community building. I realize that asking/answering questions is a form of community building, but trying to improve the site by discussing it is at least as important. To use a metaphor from an SO question I posted last year, the person who carefully tends the Banana Slug article on wikipedia is important, but isn't nearly as critical to the site as the admins who try to create, influence, or enforce policies^. SO's system has always considered the banana slug guy to be the lynchpin, while the people who are editing grammar or trying to change the way people use the site get bubkis**.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get the Strunk &amp;amp; White badge (and some others: Taxonomist, Editor) you should certainly get a significant number of points. Would some people &quot;game the system&quot; by editing articles just for the points? Sure. But if they're out there editing they're doing good so it's OK. (You're really just paying them for working on the site...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And not lots and lots of points, but 100 points is enough to be satisfying but not enough to screw up the balance of the game^H^H^H reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;^ Most wikipedia admins are a bunch of power-crazed Nazis. I'm well aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** They actually have to have quite a bit of juice before they're even allowed to do those things, and the juice comes from technical knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:56:17.603" />
  <row Id="169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:57:15.150" Score="82" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am definitively in favor of that process.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;By the time the 5 &quot;close&quot; votes are here, not enough people are still looking at the question to care to vote for reopening, even if they wanted to &lt;em&gt;at the time&lt;/em&gt; where closing votes were being (slowly) set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it has been proposed &quot;numerous&quot; time on UserVoice already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Currently, the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/143004-add-anti-close-votes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Add anti-close votes&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is ranked 6th, with 179 votes.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Before that, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/126069-add-stay-open-stay-close-links&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;add &quot;stay open&quot; / &quot;stay close&quot; links&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, marked as &quot;duplicated&quot;, with the comment &quot;numerous duplicates&quot;, but without ever mentioning one single similar request.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:57:15.150" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="156" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:58:18.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be nice if there would be automatic linking to other answers/questions, such as Youtube's automatic link to a specific time in a video (in comments, if you type 1:25 for instance, it will be automatically hyperlinked to jump to the 1m25s mark in the video). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be some RegEx parsing added to recognize question/answer ID and automatically hyperlinking it, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...This question was answered&#xA;  [here][#156]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could be translated into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...This question was answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/156/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, however, would not be practical, because nobody remembers question IDs. Therefore, while it would be nice to have, this approach would not work well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if the search was improved, specific answers could be found more efficiently...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T13:58:18.613" />
  <row Id="171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:58:51.030" Score="1" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I feel vindicated after &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12455/community-wiki-and-so-meta-discussion&quot;&gt;&quot;Community Wiki&quot; and SO meta-discussion&lt;/a&gt; and I'm mostly asking this to gloat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But wouldn't it make sense for rep points from Meta to transfer back (maybe at a reduced exchange rate) to the other sites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never, ever liked the concept of rep following knowledge (I think Jeff would fairly say &quot;helpfulness&quot;) rather than community building, but I think now it could follow both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T01:07:52.773" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:07:52.773" Title="Rep transfer from Meta" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;&lt;rep-transfer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="178" CreationDate="2009-06-28T13:59:00.873" Score="6" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping to port the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wave Java Robot API&lt;/a&gt; to ASP.NET fairly soon, and a Stack Overflow robot is an obvious thing to do. Whether this will be feasible for a 3rd party site to implement is a different matter, but if you could ask the SO team to implement anything, what would you want to see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that SO may need to implement the federation protocol in order to effectively publish new waves as questions are created (as a sort of RSS equivalent) but with just the robot API I'm sure it would be feasible to ask questions, provide answers and comments inside Wave. Those are the &lt;em&gt;obvious&lt;/em&gt; features - I'd be interested to hear any more esoteric ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know Jeff is somewhat skeptical of Wave in general at the moment, but hopefully this will change when he gets to play with it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:13:08.470" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:13:08.470" Title="What kind of Google Wave integration would you like?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;integration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:00:54.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People tend to upvote questions much less than answers. This is understandable and various explanations were proposed in the past for why this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I find that the most useful predicate for how much a question would interest me is mostly not the question's votes, but rather its &lt;strong&gt;tags combined with the rep of the OP&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IOW, questions with my &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt; tags by people with rep in the thousands, in my experience, are the most interesting questions.&#xA;In contrast, questions from google 1rep dudes are usually less interesting (to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would suggest that SO allow us to sort question by the OP's rep, and not worry so much about rating questions (which proves to only half-work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:00:54.987" />
  <row Id="174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:07:40.697" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will upvote a question if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is clear and well-written, including sample code where appropriate, useful tags etc. Ideally it should indicate that a certain amount of thought has gone into the question too, e.g. &quot;these are approaches I've already tried, but they don't work because of X, Y, Z.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a non-trivial question which tackles a common source of misunderstanding (e.g. &quot;pass by reference&quot; vs &quot;pass reference by value&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I very rarely downvote questions though - I usually add a comment or vote to close instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've blogged in more detail about &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/05/20/reasons-for-voting-on-questions-and-answers.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;why I vote one way or another&lt;/a&gt;, if you want to know more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:07:40.697" />
  <row Id="175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:08:05.797" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea. However, some tweaks need to be made to the system to be successful. Mainly, we need some way of marking a feature as completed or declined. Otherwise when you list out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;feature requests&lt;/a&gt; there's no way to see what's been done and what's left to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best existing mechanism for doing so would be the close mechanism. However, there are a few drawbacks to this approach. First, it's not possible to filter out the closed requests when viewing the request list. Second, it would be better to allow discussion to continue after a request has been completed or declined, to allow for discussion of the solution or additional justification about why it the feature is needed in an attempt to counteract the decline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is for a moderator to post a reply, then have that reply become the 'accepted' answer. This solution would allow people to continue discussing the issue past completion/decline. However, one of the suggestions I made to Jeff was to remove the notion of an 'accepted answer' from this site, as it doesn't make much sense in a subjective discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the best solution would be for a completely new mechanism that could specifically handle feature requests. But yes, I definitely think that UV can, and should, be supplanted by this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of right now, basic UV functions are now being emulated through tags. To make a feature request, tag your post &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Similarly, bugs are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If your request is declined, it will be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Likewise, &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;status-started&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;status-under-review&lt;/code&gt; are anticipated, but have not seen use yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This use of tags to reflect the status of the feature request may be temporary, but I suspect that tagging &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt; will remain as the official mechanism for requesting or suggesting improvements to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T05:21:00.983" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T05:21:00.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="181" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:09:57.303" Score="9" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never understood this asymmetry. You can up-vote all you want (well, up to some daily limit), but down-votes are discouraged by decreasing your rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're worried about down-vote abuse, then a daily limit would fix that most likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why punish someone for rating a poorly written question as such? With this policy people are more likely to vote to close a question (it's free).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:13:20.710" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T22:42:25.610" Title="Should downvoting cost you rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:10:26.883" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes they should. I am not a native English speaker and I would really appreciate it if someone who knows better corrected me. This is one fine and free way to learn and become better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2812" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:10:26.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:11:25.303" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Treat each question as a Wave. Each answer and comment would essentially then be modeled as such. I would automaticlaly be a participant of the wave of any question I ask, answer or mark as favourite. Like the current So, ideally there'd be no private messaging. All messages would constitute public content for the question. I think it's really important that we keep that principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:11:25.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:12:15.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't vote to close a question until you have 3000 rep. By that point, you generally don't care about losing one point here and there for downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:12:15.553" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="116" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:14:36.403" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I was just discussing this with someone else. I like the idea of being able to see multiple account details in one place &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more than transferred or combined rep. The numbers represent slightly different things, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that &lt;em&gt;badge totals&lt;/em&gt; could be combined between the sites, however - the rep would give you a good general idea of how they're distributed anyway, and it would save having too much visual clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:14:36.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:15:00.333" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think that when a post is deleted by moderator or the community that any downvotes for it should be refunded back to the users who gave them. That would make the system fair. Normal downvotes should cost even a nominal amount of rep (which 1 rep is) to discourage their abuse. But, for me, the rep cost of downvoting a spam/offensive question means I just don't other than voting to close and/or flagging, as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, what's the point of paying rep to downvote someone on 1 rep who is no doubt a throwaway account anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:15:00.333" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:16:43.933" Score="7" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I have observed it doesn't help identify a user who is any better at asking and answering but instead helps clutter the system with unnecessary alternative names for tags. These extra tags then cause finding to be a harder process than it should and therefore gradually make tags more and more useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I have observed it doesn't help identify a user who is any better at asking and answering but instead helps clutter the system with unnecessary alternative names for tags. These extra tags then cause finding to be a harder process than it should and therefore gradually make tags more and more useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like badges, and only the taxonomist I have a problem with for it's potential to award messing up the tag system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the badge is not causing the generation of the tags (as I can't prove that) but it is most probably influencing any cleanup decisions. If a mod want's to do any merge/cleanup he/she has to make decisions as to which is most popular (can that simply be calculated as most questions in that tag as the good ones may be in the other tag), has a user been awarded the badge or about to. It would probably mess up the user's badge creation count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if this is not true then can you please explain why tags are in such a state as it has been like this since as far as I can remember it. Searching within tags doesn't make any sense any more. It is more effective to use google with site:stackoverflow.com and bypass the tags all together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36157" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T04:34:00.363" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:34:00.363" Title="Is the taxonomist badge really needed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="182" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:18:30.483" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, coming up with &quot;c' as a badge is so obvious I'm not sure why it justifies a silver badge. What's more, it leads to people mass tagging answers with new tags they create just to get this badge. We've had issues with this in the past. IMHO Taxonomist not only adds nothing, it's actually detrimental.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:18:30.483" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="182" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:18:48.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, with that qualification, then why have a Beta badge?   (It's existence has been questioned too: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86/why-are-beta-badges-awarded-at-all&quot;&gt;Why Are Beta Badges Awarded At All?&lt;/a&gt;)  Or the Yearling badge?  Or the Woot badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T14:45:57.763" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:45:57.763" />
  <row Id="185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:19:12.057" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget also the trivial ability to &lt;strong&gt;reverse your own close-vote&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. in a case a question was improved significantly). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:19:12.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="182" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:21:58.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accurate tagging is important, so should be encouraged.  Perhaps a taxonomist badge shouldn't be awarded until other people start to use the new tag a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:21:58.603" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:24:41.263" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Harry Enfield &quot;You don't want to do THAT!&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded for an answer that tells the questioner they're doing it all wrong, without any constructive suggestion on how to do it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:24:41.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:27:48.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Misery Guts badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people who've issued more downvotes than upvotes.  Do they really think that the majority of content on SO sucks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:27:48.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="182" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:35:08.633" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you radically overestimate the power of a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; create new tags for no reason whatsoever, all the time, regardless! &lt;strong&gt;I doubt the average user even knows that badge &lt;em&gt;exists&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, so to attribute tag creation problems to it is laughable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guy just got the Taxonomist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2772/borrego&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2772/borrego&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess he's gaming the system! Oh wait, he hasn't been on the site since AUGUST OF LAST YEAR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(unless there is specific data you can point to.. but I haven't seen any yet. So pardon me if I don't take your claims seriously in the absence of any actual, y'know, DATA.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:35:08.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:36:27.757" Score="10" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO this reason to close is used too often. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/385297/whats-wrong-with-c-compared-to-other-languages&quot;&gt;What’s wrong with C++ compared to other languages?&lt;/a&gt;. IMHO this question is entirely deliberate but I've seen other questions like this closed for the &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we need to rename this reason &quot;trolling&quot;? That's what I think the standard is aimed at (and should be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-15T07:07:53.987" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T07:07:58.730" Title="Should we rephrase or clarify &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;argumentative&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1657" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:36:28.207" Score="6" ViewCount="653" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please answer with &lt;strong&gt;a specific date&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll accept the first answer with the correct date (once he does).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ahhh, the unabashed frivolity that is meta-SO. I hope this doesn't get closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; belong on meta? I sure hope so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:22:08.587" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:22:08.587" ClosedDate="2011-08-27T17:51:48.397" Title="How long till Jon Skeet dominates meta as well?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;reputation-leagues&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="199" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:36:35.837" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;How frequenty are data dumps going to be released?  Is there a policy forming?  How about some sort of feed or differential dump?  I guess a suitable delay might be in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to automate some of the statistics I do, and some questions can only be answered  by looking a changes in two snapshots or with a differential system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:15:07.137" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:15:07.137" Title="How frequenty are data dumps going to be released?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:37:58.283" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything that enhances a post and improves legibility for the googler who steps on it, should be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4749" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:37:58.283" />
  <row Id="197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="201" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:38:59.263" Score="39" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am aware that comments have only a simple field, with no formatting possible and that is fine (if formatting is needed, your comment should actually be an answer!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I find some comments hard to read because they are mainly one giant line (of up to 600 characters!).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Any newlines entered during the redaction of the message is stripped from the published comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to preserve those newlines?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(but may be deleting empty lines, to prevent abuses like a comment taking 600 lines because a prankster could find amusing to post a 600 newlines comment!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's recap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what we need (and can actually &lt;em&gt;preview&lt;/em&gt; while typing a comment, making it more readable, both for the writer -- and the reader, should newlines being kept):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;declined for newlines&lt;/strong&gt; (why? no reason given at this time.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what we don't need but is &quot;nice to have&quot; (even though we cannot preview those):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;granted&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt; text.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;what we really don't need (and cannot not preview):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;granted&lt;/strong&gt; for... &lt;code&gt;__code sample__&lt;/code&gt;!? Code sample? Seriously? In a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What was an incentive to post a new answer (because of the lack of formatting) is now further diminished.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But the comments remain published as one long-hard-to-read-gigantic line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:36:36.197" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T04:01:23.723" Title="How about newlines within comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1299" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:39:03.867" Score="31" ViewCount="690" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent question by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;Joel on Logo&lt;/a&gt; got me thinking. This has been raised on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/126735-make-user-s-answers-anonymous-after-certain-rep-level&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;user voice&lt;/a&gt;, but has been declined. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would someone with lesser rep or a less famous name have received the same number of votes/answers as Joel? I know the question was briefly closed, but it got reopened when the intent was made public. I think someone did try it, but I don't think their question was suitable for the experiment and it was soon closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, do answers by Jon Skeet and others with &gt; 20K rep garner more votes than equally correct votes by others less notable? Is this because of their name, their rep or the fact that the answer is correct? I would hope it's the latter, but perhaps we ought to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the following experiment would yield any useful information: If Jon created a second account under a pseudonym and posted a few answers along side slightly &quot;worse&quot; answers credited to Jon so we can see which ones garner the most votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another experiment (though this would require a change to SO) could be to hide the identity of the poster for a period (a day?) but leave the (approximate) rep score visible. This might show whether people were using the rep as a guide. On a personal note, if there are two equally correct answers I tend to award my up-vote to the one with the lowest rep score - to spread &quot;the love&quot; around (so to speak).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that questions and answers should be permanently anonymous, or that there shouldn't be a way of finding out the identity of a poster straight away. I just feel that the question or answer should be judged on it's own merits rather than the perceived merit of the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:41:56.333" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:30:00.830" Title="Should there be anonymous answers (and questions)?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;anonymous&gt;" AnswerCount="9" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="195" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:40:48.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The information is cleverly hidden in plain sight!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our plan is to create a new data dump every month, reflecting all data in the system up to that month. We will seed the latest and greatest dump (at a low bitrate) as long as we can, ideally permanently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:40:48.010" />
  <row Id="200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="96" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:42:23.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this very question here &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/189/should-there-be-an-option-to-move-questions-between-so-sf-here-and-su-when-it&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/189/should-there-be-an-option-to-move-questions-between-so-sf-here-and-su-when-it&lt;/a&gt;. But as is often the way Jon Skeet got in there first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:42:23.420" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:44:04.197" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is particularly relevant when one comment is being used to reply to more than one other comment, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Foo: Yes, that's certainly a problem. Will edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Bar: No, &quot;pass by reference&quot; and &quot;pass reference by value&quot; aren't the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Baz: You should definitely be using Joda Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a lot easier to read (IMO) than:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Foo: Yes, that's certainly a problem. Will edit.&#xA;  @Bar: No, &quot;pass by reference&quot; and &quot;pass reference by value&quot; aren't the same thing.&#xA;  @Baz: You should definitely be using Joda Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd like a few other bits of markdown to be available in comments, but I know Jeff wants to discourage more significant comments - it ends up leading to discussion rather than Q&amp;amp;A. Personally I &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; discussion, but it's Jeff's prerogative :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T15:19:18.260" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:19:18.260" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:48:20.520" Score="9" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Homework on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a pattern on StackOverflow where people often get very snippy when someone asks what is obviously a homework question.  They say, &quot;go do your own homework&quot;, vote to lock, downvote, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, do people really think it's the job of SO members to police other peoples' homework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60261" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:58:00.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T12:48:11.417" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T08:43:05.593" Title="Should users answer homework questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:48:38.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon-Skeet should be a tag here on Meta SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:48:38.163" />
  <row Id="204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:52:30.447" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, homework questions can be no different from regular questions, and typically deserve to be answered.  Asking a question about basic programming concepts is not any less legitimate than asking questions about the particulars of IE's JS engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing is, even if you don't think you should answer the question, someone else inevitably will (unless the question gets closed).  There's always people on SO willing to pick the low hanging fruit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might say it depends on the content of the question.  For example, a question like &quot;what makes this method O(n^2)?&quot; is a lot different than &quot;please write bubble sort in Java.&quot;  At the same time, these are all questions that someone trying to learn a language must answer at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to be up to us to enforce someone else's bad behavior in their classes (like cheating online), and it'd be a difficult policy to enforce should we decide to do so.  And all questions are questions, ultimately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60261" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:52:30.447" />
  <row Id="205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:55:48.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I was the first to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo/1003846#1003846&quot;&gt;answer that Logo question&lt;/a&gt;, and I didn't notice (at first) who had asked it.  (I noticed immediately afterwards, hence the jocular comment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, I'd have been less inclined to answer the question if I knew it was from someone &quot;famous&quot;.  I suppose that's an argument &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; anonymity, from the other end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:55:48.863" />
  <row Id="206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:56:42.310" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, people shouldn't answer other peoples homework questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talking about it, hints, similar examples, etc. are great.  But posting answers, even with well thought out and helpful explanations does harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming homework is a highly 'kinetic' learning process.  Talking about it is not enough, one must actually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Police'&lt;/em&gt;?  I'd say &lt;em&gt;&quot;taking an active interest in the health of our future colleagues&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:56:42.310" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:57:50.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;oh, come on -- meta-meta-SO is meta as well, therefore it belongs here as well. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T14:57:50.327" />
  <row Id="208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-06-28T14:58:52.880" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt it very much. I'd expect Jeff to be the top user here, at least in the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from anything else, I doubt that I'll check Meta as often as SO - but more importantly, Jeff is the authority in terms of &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; behaviour. Where I might quote the C# spec on SO, Jeff can just say how the system is meant to behave at the moment :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly that's not the same thing as the community idea of what's best, but given the time Jeff has spent thinking about these things, I expect his opinions will garner a lot of votes quickly. I don't think it's coincidence that so far he's the only Meta user to break the rep cap :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: (A few days later.) Okay, so it turns out I'm just as addicted to Meta as to SO. I still expect Jeff to &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; be at the top though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T21:36:59.980" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T21:36:59.980" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:01:56.947" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to sum this up is too look at john resig's all-time points to questions answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=jquery&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. NB There are probably better examples of this on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers (and comments) should be anonymous for a period of time to avoid the personality based voting. This would also help if we had mandatory downvote comments to avoid chasing the downvoter for retaliation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="6440" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T15:07:17.790" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:07:17.790" />
  <row Id="210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:02:04.387" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the user has stated that it is homework and what issues they are having with it, and it shows that they have done the basic background work.  The benefits of getting answers on SO are that you have some indication of reliability of the answers and you also get varying viewpoints all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. Why is this particular algorithm O(nlogn), when it looks like O(n^2)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question is poorly worded, they have done no background work or they haven't even indicated that they have started to understand the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. Tell me the difference between an apple and an orange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, the rules are the same as for any other good SO question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:02:04.387" />
  <row Id="211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:06:35.750" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this might tie in with my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/enouranging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/enouranging-people-to-explain-down-votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution to my question and this one could be that if you explain your down-vote it doesn't cost you any rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:06:35.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:10:20.997" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a &quot;cost&quot; to downvote; it's like throwing stones -- there's a social inhibition against doing it, until someone starts, and then all of a sudden, WHAM, viral release of anger. There's some really interesting epiphenomena about the voting system on SO. I've noticed that there seems to be several different tiers of votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The highly upvoted answers. These have several advantages: they're usually good answers (have merit), people see the vote counts so they're more likely to reinforce that, and they show up first on the &quot;votes&quot; tab so if you're looking at that, and there are a lot of answers, you see them first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers that have a net vote count of 1 or 2. Someone's already voted them up, so it's socially more acceptible to reinforce that vote. If there are only a small number of answers, you'll notice these, but if a question has 10 or 20 answers, they tend to get lost in the shuffle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers that have a net vote count of 0. I think people are hesitant sometimes to upvote or downvote something that has a 0 vote count... you really have to read an answer and judge it on its own merits. For a question with lots of answers, these tend to be down towards the bottom and get read less frequently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers that have a negative vote count. Again, it's easier to vote down someone who's already been voted down. These are at the bottom of the list and are read less frequently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't care much about the reputation score, the only advantages to me are being able to have some editor abilities, and to be able to offer some of it as a bounty. I do care about the social aspects of Q &amp;amp; A voting. This site has several advantages over newsgroups, one of them is that people here tend to be more helpful and less sarcastic. I'd like to see that continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:10:20.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="193" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:12:10.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question is subjective and argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2422" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:12:10.557" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="85" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:22:24.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yet another problem with not having a consistent, overarching brand for the trilogy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130041" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:22:24.307" />
  <row Id="218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:24:19.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a metrics question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the questions that have the first 2 answers within 10 minutes, what's the upvote difference between the first and second answers, and is that upvote difference statistically significant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had several occasions where I've submitted a nearly-identical answer within 60 seconds of the first one, and there were a huge difference in votes. Weird... first because I would have expected this forum to be more merit based (as long as answers come in quickly, who cares whether one arrives in 4 minutes and the other 4 minutes 30 seconds), and secondly because why should I care about votes anyway? I have this strange urge to be less rigorous, go ahead and post my quick answer first, then go back and edit it to have the right links &amp;amp; stuff, especially since there seems to be a time period after the initial post when corrections/additions are accepted without it being called an &quot;edit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest deciding what qualities of answers you want first (correct &amp;amp; complete answers that are reasonably quick) and coming up with social rules to encourage those qualities. SO's pretty good but issues like this make me wonder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:24:19.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:27:37.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your ID should be global, but your reputation, badges and even bio should be unique to each site. The default would be to have the same bio as the first entered, but you should be allowed to override it for each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:27:37.367" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:29:50.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a good think that sites can't aggregate my presence without my explicit permission (or at least a little bit of work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I'm sure with a few redirects and some token passing amongst the sites different accounts could be linked quite easily on the SO/SF/SU end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130041" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:29:50.170" />
  <row Id="221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:34:22.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the &quot;homework&quot; tag gets attached by someone who's not the original poster, based on an assumption that may not be correct. All I care about is truth in advertising. If it's homework, I'm less likely to answer, or my answer may be more pedagogical in nature. If it's not a homework question, since we're all suffering in a sea of software complexity, quick guidance towards a solution is much more appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:34:22.140" />
  <row Id="223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="228" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:37:49.247" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking questions about legacy programming languages (in particular web based code) it seems that most often the majority of answers are basically &quot;you should up date the code to a more modern language/framework&quot;. (This is one reason I have not asked more questions as my current job requires me to work almost exclusively in classic ASP, as well as I'm a complete idiot and humbled by the entire SO community and don't want to be thrashed for asking &quot;silly&quot; questions.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand that in some cases a valid answer is to update to a modern language/framework, there are situations where it is a requirement that the legacy code continue to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could there be some sort of short hand or a general understanding introduced so that most of the SO community, especially the major contributers who answer so many questions (which I greatly appreciate by the way) could ID these types of questions, therefore helping to ensure two things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are needed for specific legacy programming languages will be supplied as such, helping the asker out by having only relevant answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users looking to answer only questions about modern programming language/framework questions can know not to inject the answers so as to save themselves and the asker time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3349" LastEditorUserId="3349" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T14:08:04.787" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:08:04.787" Title="What is a reasonable way to articulate in the question that answers need to revolve around the legacy language?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="224" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:38:00.370" Score="3" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to subscribe to relevant updates on this site and Stack Overflow and Server Fault (through RSS or something)? Being interested in 3 forums means 3 times as much work to check them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a while, and features have changed, so I'm wondering if this could be revisited as a feature-request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/UQjwQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This box is the dropdown box for the Stack Exchange logo in the upper left. It has tabs for hot questions across all sites, a list of all Stack Exchange sites, and responses/comments for questions I've participated in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you folks either replace the &quot;hot questions&quot; tab, or make a new tab, so it's only for the sites I'm a member of? Or better yet, make it a preference so I can select which sites I want to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T14:41:19.797" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T14:41:19.797" Title="Monitoring Stack Exchange sites of interest to me" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;update&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="223" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:41:18.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you might need a two-fold approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag it with &quot;legacy&quot; or &quot;legacy-code&quot; so it's a bit more obvious on the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just put a sentence at the top of the question (and perhaps bottom as well!) stating that you can't rewrite the application at this stage. The fact that you're never going to rewrite it needn't be mentioned :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:41:18.583" />
  <row Id="226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="224" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:41:32.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorta kinda.  Check out this &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/flenser/stackoverflow%5Fmerge%5Ftag%5Ffeeds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo Pipes example for StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; done by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2541/sam-hasler&quot;&gt;Sam Hasler&lt;/a&gt;.  You can click View Source under the pipe and modify it for your own needs.  In the String Builder box, you can customize it to match just the tags you want to search on, and then clone the pipe.  You can build 3 different pipes - one for each site, each monitoring the tags you want - and then subscribe to the results via an RSS reader or with email alerts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:41:32.717" />
  <row Id="227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:43:57.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I up-vote when I actually want to know the same thing, but I doubt that I could ask the question any better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I think I could make the question better, I usually will just do that instead. I don't up-vote questions that I just improved, because that seems too much like a pat on the back. Now I won't say that I will never up-vote a question that I improved, it is just likely to happen after someone else edits the question so that I can no longer see that I had some part in making the question as good as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:43:57.330" />
  <row Id="228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="223" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:49:08.720" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is one specific example of a more general rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If your question has an &quot;obvious&quot; answer which you can't use for some valid reason, state that in the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any answer ignores that part of the question, downvote it. The possible grey area would be when an answer explains why your restriction makes the question impossible to answer, or when it suggests a way of working round your original reason for avoiding the obvious answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T15:49:08.720" />
  <row Id="230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="324" CreationDate="2009-06-28T15:52:04.330" Score="13" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I'm a good SO citizen: I have a question, I search on SO and on google to see if someone's asked the same thing, and I can't find anything that shows up, so I go ahead and post a well-written question on SO. Then later it gets closed, because it's a duplicate question for something that I wasn't able to find on my initial search. Great, the system worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there ever a case where I should delete the question I posted? Why or why not? Do duplicate questions cause much resource bloat for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:15:54.900" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:48:20.353" Title="duplicate question etiquette: to delete or not to delete?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="230" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:03:35.177" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that deleting the question is a good idea. If you haven't found the question in your first search, then probably other will not find it either. But they could find your question. Even if it is already closed they will find the link to the other question - and of course the answers ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T06:53:27.063" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T06:53:27.063" />
  <row Id="234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:04:32.897" Score="20" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you are camping (please excuse the MMO jargon, sometimes I just can't help myself) your own particular corner of StackOverflow, hoping for a couple of upvotes before bed.  It's freezing cold and you can't quite drag yourself across the room to grab the little blow heater, because that would mean leaving the almost adequate warmth of your laptop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A completely objective question pops up, to which you absolutely know the answer.  Riding the surge of adrenaline, you spend the next twenty minutes typing like a madman. Desperate to beat the other lunatics that loiter in your tag of choice.  You beat them to the punch and enter a superlative answer, code samples, examples and maybe some ironic humour. You are flushed with your own awesomeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You go to bed. Satisfied you have garnered a couple of points of virtual self validation. You look forward to the flush of pleasure in the morning when you see your account bumped ever closer (yet never close enough) to that shining example of Skeetness.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, the next morning, no such flush occurs.  Your answer sits in prime position for some questioner love and none eventuates.  You might get a couple of upvotes from some sympathetic SO compatriot, but the ultimate (i'll try to avoid any unsavory metaphors here)  satisfaction of &lt;strong&gt;accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt; is denied you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question. How you react to this kind of situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Catch yourself monitoring the&#xA;questioner's account waiting for them&#xA;to log on and then breaking nearby&#xA;inanimate objects when your answer continues to be ignored.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Panic that the questioner might&#xA;delete their account, leaving your&#xA;beloved question to evaporate in a&#xA;puff of disinterest. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wondering if it was something you&#xA;said and answering some other&#xA;of the questioner's queries in the&#xA;hope of redemming yourself in their fickle eyes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen a few examples of this type of frustration on Twitter and wondered how the hardcore StackOverflow community dealt with this type of rejection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastEditorUserId="73488" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T03:27:17.723" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T06:11:02.840" Title="How do you react to an apparently dis-interested questioner?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:04:41.193" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;rep points kinda remind me of that whole &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen%5Fin%5Fthe%5FArt%5Fof%5FArchery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Zen and the Art of Archery&quot;&lt;/a&gt; business. I've gotten caught in that trap of reputation-score-addiction once or twice: poring over questions over and over until I answer one that gets upvoted. It's not worth it. Post questions or answers because you feel like it or because you think you can provide value to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:04:41.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:05:06.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I come across a question that appears to be a homework question, I usually provide partial information, so the asker can hopefully figure the rest out (him|her)self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1038271/recursively-printing-data-structures-in-perl/1040133#1040133&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:05:06.997" />
  <row Id="237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="234" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:07:27.693" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the time to answer more questions instead. The questioner will &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; come back eventually...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:07:27.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:12:20.177" Score="2" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers are ordered by up-votes, this is accepted as correct. However, an issue arises when several answers have the same number of up-votes, answers are ordered by creation date, oldest to newest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose this is changed to be ordered by reputation (after up-votes). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Higher reps should be awarded this perk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Special Case: Zero Votes:&lt;/strong&gt; Answers with 0 votes should be ordered by creating date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this too complicated, does it add value?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T10:30:20.117" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:30:20.117" Title="Answer Ordering" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:14:33.357" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of times I have asked questions that what I really need is either a link to the relevant section of the docs (because I can't find it) or a few terms to Google (because I can't seem to figure out what people call something). &lt;em&gt;What should people do to avoid getting RTFM like answers?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people knew what it stood for I'd start using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18285/is-rtfm-counter-productive/37531#37531&quot;&gt;WTFM&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:16:11.800" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:16:11.800" Title="How should a questioner indicate they want links to documentation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rtfm&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="239" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:16:57.810" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I always view answers in the sort order of &quot;newest first&quot;. I like the idea of using rep as a tie-breaker when sorting by votes, but personally I'd order it the other way round. High rep users already have the benefit of name recognition - I think display order should try to &lt;em&gt;mitigate&lt;/em&gt; that rather than exacerbating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:16:57.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="239" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:17:59.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First come, first serve. If the answers have the same merit (same number of up-votes), list them chronologically. Because the user has more rep, does not mean this particular answer is better than one from a low rep user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:17:59.883" />
  <row Id="243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="240" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:19:42.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have your questions specifically said &quot;I'd love to RTFM, but I can't find the relevant bit of the docs - links would be very welcome!&quot; This feels like it's another symptom of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/223/what-is-a-reasonable-why-to-articulate-in-the-question-that-answers-need-to-revol/228#228&quot;&gt;this more general issue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes answerers won't read questions carefully, admittedly - I know I've been guilty of that on multiple occasions - but at least if you &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; requested documentation (and potentially explained how you've tried to find it) it's reasonable to disregard and possibly downvote answers which ignore that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:19:42.203" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="240" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:22:01.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you simply ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I want to do X but can't find the documentation. I've Googled, but come up with nothing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;shouldn't get you RTFM answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:22:01.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:22:21.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about adding something to the recent activity page, that says something along the lines of 'You have a question with an accepted answer of less than 0 points.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:22:21.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:30:56.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now, he is 80 rep points behind Jeff, so I guess tomorrow at noon, at the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4749" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:30:56.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="240" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:33:18.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing. Clarify in the comments of the RTFM-answer that you can't find the manual. Make it clear in your question, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:33:18.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="85" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:36:57.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should probably just be a 301 redirect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:36:57.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:41:54.380" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that answers to simple questions get you more rep points because more people can understand both the question and answer &amp;amp; hence are more likely to say &quot;yes this is a clear and informative answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers to more obscure questions won't get you as many (if any) rep points because less people are interested in either the question or answer and even less people (perhaps only you and the OP) are interested or even understand the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:41:54.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:51:27.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the more generic answers are useful to more people and thus get upvoted more. So it's not really a problem, it's just the system working correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it; simply answer those questions you can add value to. The reward you get isn't really the upvotes; the reward you get is the knowledge that you've made somebody else's life better by helping him or her with a tough problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="996" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:51:27.433" />
  <row Id="255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:51:47.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it would be possible to set the question in a &quot;Has to be rewritten&quot; mode. So the questioner has one or two days to rephrase it or it is closed after the time elapsed. However that is no solution for real duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:51:47.867" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:53:58.363" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a big difference between a homework question and a work-related question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better differentiator is &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; is being asked and &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; is is being asked.  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Can someone give me tested, commented, debugged code for sorting&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  is a very different question than &lt;em&gt;&quot;I wrote this sorting code and it fails under these conditions, and I can't see why, please help&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone is asking the community to do their work (whether academic or professional), we should ignore or vote down, and perhaps even heap scorn on them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone is asking for help with a specific issue and has give it some thought beforehand, we should help, and vote up or praise if appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:53:58.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:56:11.663" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the worst that could happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a scenario: SO becomes &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; place for students to post their homework questions in the style of &quot;plz give me the codez&quot;. These questions are all answered by rep-whores until there are basically no more CS exercises left unanswered in the universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that so bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If all HW questions are answered, then people won't worry about marking them as such, so it would be easy to ignore such questions if you dislike doing other people's HW.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we reach a point in which poor college CS professors don't have any more exercises to hand out because &lt;em&gt;every trivial programming exercise known to man has been solved on SO&lt;/em&gt; - well, that's a world I want to live in (and be a student in).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say, if you don't like HW question, vote them down. But don't close them. Your undeservingly high salary depends on there being way too many non-programmers polluting the job market, after having graduated with a CS degree by copying answers from the internet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:56:11.663" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="239" CreationDate="2009-06-28T16:58:38.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be kinda nice to have a new ordering tab, as I'll admit, I'm too lazy to keep switching back and forth between &quot;newest&quot; and &quot;votes&quot;. (The choice is &quot;sticky&quot; and it costs an extra page download!!! :-) It'd be nice to show maybe the top 5 new answers and then the rest ordered by votes, or some weighting algorithm (e.g. count(votes)-K*log(time since ordering) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe an option to see both at once in a splitter window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T16:58:38.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:02:17.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were making the decisions I would allow an arbitrary number of accounts, though that is probably because I program mostly in Perl where arrays are never bounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:02:17.203" />
  <row Id="262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:04:07.387" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would really like to have a single place where I can point to, that has the rep points for all of my accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have attempted adding the flair from ServerFault to my StackOverflow bio page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Having it on this site would make slightly more sense than on the other sites.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T02:56:06.403" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T02:56:06.403" />
  <row Id="265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:14:22.430" Score="58" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Name suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130179/quinn-taylor&quot;&gt;Quinn Taylor&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Smart Upstart/Underdog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got an accepted answer where a rival answer was submitted by somebody with X times more reputation that you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T00:18:37.767" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T00:18:37.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="267" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:16:06.873" Score="4" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of solving the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73/is-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-solved&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun In The West&lt;/a&gt;&quot; problem I think there should be a time delay before a user can &quot;accept&quot; an answer.  (&lt;em&gt;I should note there may well be one, I've never been lucky enough to get an answer right away&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone asking a question I'll usually wait a bit just to ensure that others have a chance to answer... however there's been several times I've come to a question asked in the last 30 minutes with an accepted answer... where the &quot;accepted&quot; answer really isn't really the best answer, a complete answer or is a total tangent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. (fictitious question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Q: How do I set the value of a hidden form element in&#xA;   JavaScript/.Net MVC to the value of a another select element?&#xA;&#xA;A: Use jQuery.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong I think jQuery is great however I think the community would be better served with the &quot;more&quot; correct/complete answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For the record, I am aware that there is an enforced delay (48h?) in accepting your own answer, to your own question (and I applaud this fully)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastEditorUserId="6144" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T17:47:01.340" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T04:04:00.157" Title="How long do you have to wait after posting a question before accepting an answer on SO?" Tags="&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;&lt;jquery-solves-everything&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="266" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:17:32.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As soon as your problem is fixed (by your definition). Since you can always change the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:17:32.923" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="266" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:17:35.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just long enough for someone to post an answer that meets your needs. If that happens in 5 seconds, then 5 seconds&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;... if it takes a month, then a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't rush&lt;/strong&gt;. I know some people get irritated (and the site likes to nag you) when no answer is accepted, but screw 'em - you're the one asking the question, it's your prerogative to accept any or no answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, WRT the &quot;use jQuery&quot; answer: if that works for you, then accept it. It may not be the best answer for 99% of everyone else reading the question, and so never achieve the top score... but that's not what Accepted means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;Ok, so you actually have to wait at least 15 minutes, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38090/discourage-questions-being-marked-as-answered-within-an-hour-or-so-of-being-poste/44099#44099&quot;&gt;the system prevents you from accepting sooner&lt;/a&gt;. Something about folks accepting the first answer that came along...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-28T04:04:00.157" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T04:04:00.157" />
  <row Id="269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="266" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:18:25.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's my understanding you can choose a new answer to accept if a &quot;more correct&quot; or more helpful answer is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:18:25.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:21:31.773" Score="8" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up-votes are easy on both SO and meta. You like something, you vote it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-votes are trickier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On SO&lt;/strong&gt; down-voting a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; means that the question is a &lt;em&gt;poor&lt;/em&gt; one. Poor meaning badly written or really annoying for some reason (e.g. give-me-da-codez).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-voting an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; usually means it's plain wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On Meta&lt;/strong&gt;, however, many questions revolve around matters of taste (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/202/should-users-answer-homework-questions&quot;&gt;the HW question&lt;/a&gt;). When voting on answers to such questions, I want to be able to push down the suggestions that I disagree with and promote the ones that I think are correct. But I don't want to hurt people's reputation by doing so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-voting on Meta isn't really saying &quot;your answer is stupid and wrong&quot;; it's more like &quot;I prefer we do it the other way&quot;. The whole site is basically meant to discuss matters of social preference, etiquette, do's and dont's, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In SO most people wouldn't down-vote an answer just because some other answer is better. People generally accept that there may be different solutions to a problem and feel comfortable in letting up-votes alone decide on the most popular one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Meta, on the other hand, there might be groups that really care about some issue and would like to see it solved in a particular way. And, in case &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1/should-meta-stackoverflow-com-replace-uservoice-com&quot;&gt;meta replaces UV&lt;/a&gt;, voting on answers would really be voting on preference more than correctness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should down-vote semantics on Meta be different than on SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the system should not deduct reputation points if your answer gets down-voted, thereby allowing/encouraging more free down-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:25:40.427" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:25:40.427" Title="The meaning of down-votes in meta vs. stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:23:26.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think downvotes on meta are just saying that you do not agree. But that can turn into people downvoting a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since opinions cant be wrong, just misinformed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should go easy on the downvotes to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offensive answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be things we obviously flag (or downvote if we feel so)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is to &lt;strong&gt;turn off downvotes&lt;/strong&gt; and make the flagging feature better fleshed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like sorting flagged items lower than non flagged items and showing visually if the item is flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:23:26.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:23:56.463" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down-vote on meta == i don't like your avatar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should down-vote semantics on Meta be different than on SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naw. As with SO, reputation is influenced much more by up-votes than down-votes. You're gonna need to be desperately unpopular to really be hurt by 'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:23:56.463" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:24:16.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @Brad Gilbert re: a &quot;single place&quot; for rep info - ideally I'd like to see my ServerFault, StackOverflow, Meta and eventually SuperUser &quot;recent activity&quot;, badges and rep on 1 screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's another site though. Ideally it would take the form of an over-arching &quot;network.&quot; Then the individual topic sites would be children to the larger network and cross site activity can be monitored from the parent organization's site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would allow new specialized sites owned by Jeff and Joel to be added fairly easily as they come online. I know Jeff was thinking this is only a trilogy, but even Star Wars got prequels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:24:16.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:27:11.620" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some comments on an answer end up collecting several up votes of their own.  Some badges based on &quot;great&quot; comments would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Preaching to the choir&quot; - x upvotes on a comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ouch - no love here&quot; - x downvotes on a comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:27:11.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:28:53.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeff wants to keep comments as simple as possible to avoid continued discussion, I would like to see two markups for comments - newlines and hyperlinks. I find it annoying to have to copy a link someone posts in a comment (even with Chrome's &quot;Paste and Go&quot; feature).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Apparently I'm stupid - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/745/dbr&quot;&gt;dbr&lt;/a&gt; points out that links are automatically being href'd. I'm not sure how I managed to miss that one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T14:03:53.050" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T14:03:53.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="239" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:31:54.137" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm with Jon Skeet on this one.  How is the little guy going to become a Jon Skeet, if Jon Skeet keeps sifting to the top of the list because of rep points?  Sometimes you need to shine some light on the little tree in the forest so it can grow up to be one of the trees in the forest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-JFV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1391" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:31:54.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="234" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:32:08.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting Discussion ... brings up some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, it is desirable for the community that the author of a question pay attention to the answers, upvote as appropriate, and accept an answer if appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- Does the &lt;strong&gt;questioner&lt;/strong&gt; owe anything to the community after posting a question?  If so, what is owed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2- Is an &lt;strong&gt;answerer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;entitled&lt;/em&gt; to upvotes (and the corresponding rep) for a good answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3- What can we do to encourage the desired behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:32:08.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="285" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:34:31.040" Score="17" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not saying you should get rep for editing other people's posts but allow for some mechanism to encourage people to clean up questions (and answers if needed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ideas to start the discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit counter on your profile page (and being able to sort users by edit counts)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being able to vote up edits (and have a separate edit reputation from your regular rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More badges for editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's good for the StackOverflow system as a whole not to be dependent on a few active editors. Since what happens if they go away or refuse to edit for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:25:17.397" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:03:00.487" Title="Adding incentive for editing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="234" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:39:44.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/9852/tomjedrz&quot;&gt;tomjedrz&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the questioner does owe it to the community to come back and make some response to the people who have answered the question in their own time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that the answerer is entitled to anything beyond courtesy (hence my bugbear about unexplained down-votes!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questioners are already encouraged to accept an answer - but that relies on them coming back to the site and visiting their profile page on a semi-regular basis. I think anything else (e-mails for example) would get too intrusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:39:44.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:40:52.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the impetus behind this however I must warn you of the flak you are about to receive by haters of the Editors Guild that lives deep in StackOverflow. I am talking about the 3 or 4 users who have itchy &quot;edit&quot; button fingers who wrack up dozens of &quot;edited by ...&quot; credits within minutes of a post by changing tiny things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These people are necessary as they keep posts fairly clean. Their rewards are intrinsic and they do not require more motivation. Its a minor miracle that they haven't been banned outright because of their over zealous meddling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to @Ólafur Waage's update to his question, I don't think more people need to be incentivised to edit posts. I think even without the current crop of editors the most egregious errors will be corrected in due course.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T18:14:29.667" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:14:29.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:46:44.053" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is already &lt;strong&gt;sufficient encouragement&lt;/strong&gt; to get people to edit posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People edit because they &lt;strong&gt;earned that ability&lt;/strong&gt; (sufficient reputation to allow editing).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;badge awarded&lt;/strong&gt; for editing a certain number of post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recognition - The post is marked as &quot;edited&quot; and &lt;strong&gt;tagged with their name&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people just find an &lt;strong&gt;intrinsic reward&lt;/strong&gt; by helping out and adding to the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently over 1,800 people with &quot;editor&quot; status on StackOverflow. I just feel that the developers have struck a &lt;strong&gt;good balance&lt;/strong&gt;... a &lt;strong&gt;sufficient incentive&lt;/strong&gt; to provide an &lt;strong&gt;appropropriate&lt;/strong&gt; amount of editing. I would hate to see an &quot;over-incentive&quot; for people to over-zealously &lt;strong&gt;mangle other people's posts&lt;/strong&gt;. The overall quality of posts I see here is uncharacteristically high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T13:03:22.137" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:03:22.137" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="289" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:53:03.493" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a small debate which took place in the comments for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-58/#comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #58&lt;/a&gt; regarding linking to an answer (such as MSDN, php.net, or other definitive sources) versus providing it inline. What is the community's position on the proper etiquette here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:07:18.923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:07:18.923" Title="When the answer to a question exists on another site, what is the proper way to respond" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="291" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:54:58.450" Score="1" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you able to (as the asker of the question) able to edit a question that has been marked 'Closed'?  Being able to do so might make the question valid again, instead of asking a new question, but re-wording it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-JFV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1391" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:24:42.670" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:24:42.670" Title="Edit a Closed Question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:56:21.287" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My usual practice is to link to the resource but either quote a short but relevant section (e.g. the &quot;remarks&quot; section of an MSDN page) or praisee it. Creating a verbatim copy of a large amount of text is &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; good in the face of the resource being removed - which I suspect isn't going to happen for MSDN .NET documentation, Wikipedia or JavaDoc as three common examples. (I'm hoping the last MSDN re-org was the last for a while.) However, the document may very well be updated to become more accurate as time goes on. Copying more of a document than could reasonably be called &quot;fair use&quot; could run into legal issues, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where possible add some extra value:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain how it's relevant to the specific question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Balance multiple points of view by referring to other documents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give some sample code around the general point stated by the document&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:56:21.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:57:16.790" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, link to the original source and provide a quote of the text of the relevant section. It saves time for the reader who can then at least decide if the response is relevant before trudging their way through whatever page they land on. It also provides historical context for the original intent of the answerer in case the text on the linked page changes substantially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, links move and no one is perfect when it comes to providing new locations for things. Microsoft often orphaned several help links the last time they reorganized MSDN and it wasn't for lack of trying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:57:16.790" />
  <row Id="291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="288" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:57:42.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, as owner of the question you can always edit, vote to close/reopen or delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T19:47:07.557" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:47:07.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:58:09.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume by &quot;another site&quot; you mean in some forum somewhere, rather than on ServerFault, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, when I find the answer to a question in a forum, I do something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like your problem is X - I found this solution on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WebsiteX&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\\ Code example&#xA;Example code is here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives attribution to the original poster on the original site, but provides the answer inline here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T17:58:09.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T17:59:42.307" Score="3" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55/what-about-meta-meta-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What about meta-meta stackoverflow.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it also appropriate to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; to discuss Meta Stack Overflow itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:24:35.030" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:24:35.030" ClosedDate="2009-06-29T00:08:17.117" Title="Recursive meta" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:01:01.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need meta.meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:01:01.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:03:01.020" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe rather than hide the poster information for a day or two, you could just make the &quot;answered by&quot; an expandable area closed by default. This would &quot;hide&quot; the poster from people unless they explicitly clicked the link/button to show the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:03:01.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="301" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:07:14.067" Score="40" ViewCount="1084" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have added a bounty so I can get some response from the powers-that-be. (where are you, Jeff)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T09:25:24.033" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T12:04:36.130" Title="Reputation for comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="288" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:08:55.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also people with enough reputation can edit any questions. Open, Closed or even Deleted questions (10k+)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:08:55.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="288" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:17:05.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is, IMHO, one of the best uses for closing (vs. simple deletion): it allows the author (or other editors) to expand on what little good might exist in an otherwise poor question, while reacting to criticism. When sufficiently improved, the question can then be re-opened and answered, without piles of now-offtopic answers having collected in the interim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:17:05.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="630" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:18:23.417" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there going to be alt colored badges for this distinctly grey site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:01:55.390" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:01:55.390" Title="Grey badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:21:54.470" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than 1 point for a single up-vote on a comment perhaps if it was 1 point (or 5 points) for 10 or more up-votes that might work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I'm not really in favour of rep for comments. It would change how they were seen and used. I'd only go for it if there were a really convincing argument that it would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T12:04:36.130" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T12:04:36.130" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:23:51.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, editing is often its own reward. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we could perhaps do more to discourage the abuse sometimes directed at editors by those with an overactive sense of ownership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a more subtle indication of the editor in the post itself, combined with a separate &quot;recognition&quot; page highlighting those who've contributed heavily in the past week/month...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:23:51.687" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="308" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:28:15.373" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130654/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow/130656#130656&quot;&gt;the same rules as SO&lt;/a&gt; apply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(really missing the ability to edit other people's posts right now - gotten used to correcting all spelling errors, etc. and now I can't)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:26:54.043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:26:54.043" Title="How does reputation on meta work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:31:23.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it'd be nice to address the herd mentality type of voting.  Sounds like a good experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a user perspective, however, I think hiding that information would be frustrating.  If you're in a rush, sometimes you'd like to skip the white noise and go straight for the solution.  Some people just post &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; answers the majority of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:31:23.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="304" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:44:57.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to earn it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some discussions about reputation transfer between the sites, but the prevailing view seems to be that because the areas of discussion are different the rep should be kept separate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T18:44:57.300" />
  <row Id="309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="287" CreationDate="2009-06-28T18:47:14.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the StackOverflow sites should strive to be both &lt;strong&gt;authoritative and self-contained&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a link to a pre-existing answer might be appropriate for &quot;fair use,&quot; the &lt;strong&gt;most relevant information should be included&lt;/strong&gt; (an re-authored, where appropriate) as part of a specific and complete answer to question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;strong&gt;not advocating wholesale copy-and-pasting&lt;/strong&gt; other people's work but a simple link to another site does not bring the content of that site under the scrutiny of the StackOverflow process (voting, comments, etc). I might up-vote a link while not necessarily agreeing with everything on that site. And a comment about the contents of another website would probably be confusing and out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T19:37:58.203" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:37:58.203" />
  <row Id="311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:12:15.237" Score="12" ViewCount="1205" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a Stack Overflow IRC channel specifically for meta discussion since early August, but Jeff seems very intent on refusing to acknowledge its existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the channel information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;irc.freenode.net&#xA;#stackoverflow&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:01:17.923" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T10:56:42.190" Title="What about the IRC channel?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;irc&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:16:56.803" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say no, you can go too far in refining a 'points system'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently passed the magical 2000 rep mark, and can now edit other peoples questions and answers. There is no reputation gain for that either, and I find it quite refreshing to be able to do 'good' just for the sake of it, without thinking about reputation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:16:56.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:17:38.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still think you should move to a real bug-tracking system. There must be a decent one out there &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, until you manage to find a Fantastic Organizational and Grouping tool for Bugz, the SO system would be an improvement over UV. Heck... it can't be any worse...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:17:38.517" />
  <row Id="314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="299" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:17:41.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Badges&lt;/a&gt;? We don't need no stinkin' &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3H7l3RZEik&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:17:41.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="311" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:23:26.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IRC is just a primitive, open, fast, version of Twitter. Atwood is looking to the &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt; of self-absorbed cliquish chat, not the past...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:23:26.460" />
  <row Id="316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="311" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:29:52.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very difficult to make an official irc channel for meta discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This format makes it possible to record and analyze all suggestions. The irc is more focused on casual chatting and often strays away from serious discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also splitting up official meta discussion into two or more locations leads to split community. I know this from watching the discussion on many large open source projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff also commented on irc channels on &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/2370579706&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his twitter&lt;/a&gt;. Referencing to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xkcd's problem&lt;/a&gt; on their irc channel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T19:43:02.590" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:43:02.590" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="299" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:40:35.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All badges should be silver on meta-SO. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:40:35.810" />
  <row Id="321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:43:34.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why isn't it enough promoting the suggestions you like? If the others stay on a low level, it is shown what the majority thinks without downvoting. If they rise also, you have to live with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:43:34.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="129" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:44:02.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See my answer to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/288/edit-a-closed-question/298#298&quot;&gt;Edit a Closed Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the best use for closing a poor quality or argumentative, but otherwise on-topic question is the opportunity that closing gives to the author and editors for discussing and fixing problems without worrying about a deluge of argumentative or side-tracked answers piling up in the meanwhile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This had the potential to work even better when a single user could close and re-open a question: you could actually conduct a close, discuss, edit, and re-open process with only the author and one editor involved. However, it can still do the job now, so long as all of the folks who voted to close are willing and able to revisit it later on and vote to re-open upon seeing improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/756650/stackoverflow-why-do-people-close-questions&quot;&gt;this off-topic question on SO&lt;/a&gt; also has a few decent answers to this question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:44:02.913" />
  <row Id="324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="230" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:49:20.687" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are good answers on both, flag for moderator review and ask for a merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then leave the dup as a signpost for future researchers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:49:20.687" />
  <row Id="325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:54:16.713" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, Jeff, do the words contrast and readability tell you something? You have a transcript of your podcasts for the hearing-impaired. I am seeing-impaired but normally I have not to change my environment settings to read a page. Therefore could you please bring the colors or at least the contrast back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:54:16.713" />
  <row Id="326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:58:33.253" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of more badges and I &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; the idea of an edit count (limit one per question/answer).  I wouldn't mind seeing an 'edit' stats page like we now have for tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of upvoting an edit is an interesting one.  I think the majority of edits would go unappreciated, but I've seen many poorly-worded (and sometimes just plain poor) questions get salvaged by a good editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T19:58:33.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-28T19:59:53.750" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need some color to let the eyes know where the focus should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am partially dyslexic and what helps is to see visually (usually with colors) where one thing ends and another begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the top bar to me seems mixed in with the rest of the site. Where on the other sites, it pops out and separates the top menu from the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same with the vote count box and the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't need much, a blue gray tone (#81819F for example) is more than enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the link colors a&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;r&lt;/a&gt;e very hard to distinguish. (did you see it?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been using this userstyle style to keep the neutral theme and help me use the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(&quot;meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;&#xA;.post-text a {&#xA;    color: #676B7F !important;&#xA;    text-decoration: underline !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.accepted-answer {&#xA;    background: #EFEFEF !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.nav a {&#xA;    background: #676B7F !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;#topbar a {&#xA;    color: #676B7F !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.question-hyperlink {&#xA;    color: #676B7F !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.started a {&#xA;    color: #676B7F !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.user-details a {&#xA;    color: #676B7F !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.answered-accepted {&#xA;    background: #90AF8E !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.unanswered{&#xA;    background:#AF8E92 !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.answered{&#xA;    background: #81879F !important;&#xA;}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T01:08:45.730" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:08:45.730" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="332" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:15:11.157" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we don't have badges on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:24:06.553" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:24:06.553" ClosedDate="2009-06-30T05:10:05.073" Title="We should remove the &quot;Badges&quot; link from here" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="331" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:18:17.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;puts on the joke hat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, ill get right on it. Gimme a sec.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cznp.com/minus%5Fbadges.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here, how does this look.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/331/we-should-remove-the-badges-link-from-here&quot;&gt;somewhere&lt;/a&gt; that there will be badges on MSO. Here is my source, this is a quote from Jeff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there will be badges on meta-so – Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*giggles a little*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T00:00:17.057" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:00:17.057" />
  <row Id="333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:19:55.903" Score="30" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think not. If the concern is spurious bumping then simply stop bumping the post after some arbitrary edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site might be part-Wiki, part-Q&amp;amp;A but I think its clear that people feel a sense of ownership over their questions and answers, which CW diminishes to some respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: does this happen enough such that people won't maintain their posts as the facts change? I suspect it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Let me just add that there are plenty of ways of bumping your post without editing it currently, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retagging the question (assuming you wrote an answer);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing the question (assuming you wrote an answer);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing someone else's answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding another answer to the question;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using a sock puppet to add another answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a sock puppet edit it's own answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a sock puppet edit someone else's answer (provided it has enough rep).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a sock puppet edit the question/tags (provided it has enough rep, or owns the question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK all of these things will bump the question to the front page and none of them involves editing your post. So if someone wanted to constantly bump a question they already can. I haven't seen a problem like this to date, which suggest to me that we don't have a problem with spurious bumping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:38:51.210" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:38:51.210" Title="Is there any point forcing a post to Community Wiki after 6 owner edits?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;&lt;maintenance&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="335" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:20:17.977" Score="15" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I keep collecting tags to highlight interesting questions and questions I want to ignore more questions now appear where tags from both lists are present. It seems like currently the ignore tag has precedence. I wonder what people think if those tags could have weight/importance to them. Would that be too complicated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130007" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T00:51:11.800" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T20:17:14.260" Title="What should happen with a question that has both ignored and interesting tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:24:23.707" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer 'ignore' having precedence over 'interesting'.  I'd like to see every 'java' question, but I don't need to see the 'fun, offtopic, not-programming-related, java' questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T20:24:23.707" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:28:06.257" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do also. I often worry if I am coming back later and fixing up the question with more relative data that I will trigger the CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea you had of stop bumping after n consecutive edits by the owner (or some other person)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we all benefit from editing without fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T20:28:06.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:28:22.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reasoning behind this is to prevent people &quot;evilly&quot; gaining reputation and attention by constantly editing their question, which bumps it to the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T20:28:22.247" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:37:00.633" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The forced-CW action when there are many edits from various authors makes sense because at some point then the post &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; no longer be considered solely the original author's work, and the site should reflect that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this scenario, where a single author modifies a post multiple times... perhaps over the course of several months even, does not really indicate anything special. I agree that, ideally, it shouldn't force CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it was put in place to solve a very real problem. Some people &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; make periodic, pointless edits to their own questions in order to garner additional attention. Abusing what is normally a useful feature. Forcing CW doesn't stop this, but it does help to remove one potential motivation for it (rep). If it were possible to suppress this via other means, i'd be all for it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So&lt;/strong&gt;: how do you propose to stop gratuitous bumping of posts without also removing the ability for those who do make valuable and substantial updates to their posts to garner fresh reviews?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time-based suppression? (1 bump / day) (still provides plenty of opportunity for abuse by the patient)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A fixed number of bumps for the life of the post? (first six edits bump, but later edits do not)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quanity-based suppression? (bump only on edits changing more than 50% of the post) (still fairly easy to abuse)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T20:37:00.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:43:52.740" Score="0" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine, when you get to 10k rep (obviously the point where you can comment, edit, vote to close and delete, have access to the moderator privileges).. instead of it showing an ever-increasing number, it just shows &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blink&amp;gt;awesome&amp;lt;/blink&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would the ramifications of this be? (both positive and negative)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a similar idea of a logarithmic scale for reputation discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W25802&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 26&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: And Jon I thought had a very nice considered opinion about this.  And he's onto something because, it's like I said; until we have the reputation cap it was sort of a huge looming problem.  So I would say that's the number one thing I would look at.  That is you have to have really strong limits in the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[4:58]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: Maybe they should be logarithmic or something like Richter scales?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: Ya, I thought about that but it just it gets... hairy.  It just seems complex at some level versus the one man one vote rule.  I mean there's some people who think that the more reputation you have the more your votes should count which I think is extremely bad, like I think that's totally the wrong way to do the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: Wait wait don't answer that yet because that's a question we have coming up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:59:17.933" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:59:17.933" Title="Theoretical question: Hide rep above 10k?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:48:56.487" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation does three things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It controls the access you have on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It shows the reader of the answer / question how highly the user is regarded in the community (one note though: high rep != good programmer and good programmer != high rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It gives the user a goal (like gamer points on XBOX), it has no real value but it gives an incentive to shoot for a higher goal. (even though past a certain point you get minimal value)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So hiding the reputation at all past 10k removes point 2 and 3. Hiding it from others lessens point 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me I wouldn't like it, I'm in this for the game. I like challenging myself to try getting many upvotes for each answer and to get the reputation cap each day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T20:48:56.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-06-28T20:54:52.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could reset the question (not accepted anymore), if it hits a threshold (e.g. -5 votes). And you have to clarify what happens with the already earned rep for accepting this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T20:54:52.293" />
  <row Id="348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:03:18.170" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some &quot;for&quot; points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's quite discouraging to see a user with two hyperbolillion reputation points, when you only have 100.. &quot;I'll never get that many points, why bother?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes it less... &quot;fair&quot; - a user with 100 rep posts a good answer, at the same time someone with 200k posts much the same answer. Chances are the 200k answer will be upvoted (although that's could be a reason to hide reputation entirely..)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By the time they have unlocked everything, chances are they are invested&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..and some &quot;against&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's basically human nature to show off!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation is encouragement to do continue answering questions (see previous point)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would you also have to hide the number of badges? The users profile? The data-dump?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T21:03:18.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:04:08.557" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, if the original poster of the question felt that this answer fixed his problem. He has the right to accept it (be it wrong or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly there are cases where the original poster is just going in the wrong direction with his question and the community votes some answer that rectifies his trouble in a way he is not looking for (and then voting for it immensely) But he can still accept any answer he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is that an accepted answer is necessarily not the correct one. It's just the one the OP wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think we shouldn't do anything about this. This is a system to help others, the OP can accept a solution but we as a community can show our support for the answer we think is right and it will be the 2nd one after the accepted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T21:04:08.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="352" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:05:17.807" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am asking about the supposed principles that all the users need to follow on stackOverflow,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some cases i want to understant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- Some one asked a question and made it as a wiki -&gt; why all answers are wikis as well &quot;i mean users used to make the answers as wikis, not forced to&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2- When its better to make a question as a wiki and when not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3- When to make an answer as wiki and when not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4- Whats the real purpose of Wikis on stackOverflow, while i still see a lot of answers on the same wiki question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5- Why wikis questions or answers votes, don't give to their owners more points? &quot;i know its hard to calculate but its also not fair to gain 100 votes on a question and do't get at least one point, we need to think for a way&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20126" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:59:02.707" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:59:02.707" Title="Whats Wikis questions and answers principles?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="350" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:10:29.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Community Wiki is supposed to be a way to have a collection pot of information on some subject from the entire community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a CW does more things than you post. For example if you post an answer on a CW question and I edit this answer, your name will no longer appear. Since I am the last editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So any notion of ownership does not exist on a CW question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users misunderstand CW's and many use them to ask subjective questions and prevent rep whoring on answers which many agree with. A CW question was not originally supposed to be about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T21:10:29.133" />
  <row Id="354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2595" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:18:17.727" Score="19" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the recommended way of dealing with retagging many questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if there are only 6 questions that use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/smething&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'smething'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;smething&lt;/a&gt; when they should be using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/something&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'something'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;something&lt;/a&gt;, it's easy enough to manually retag them, although you get the captcha every two edits, which it rather tedious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't scale very well though - for example, something that bothered me is there are about 300 questions tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/subversion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'subversion'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subversion&lt;/a&gt; and about 1,500 tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/svn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'svn'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;svn&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously mass-retagging could really break things, so it shouldn't be a one-click oops-all-&lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt;-questions-are-now-tagged-&lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it could be based on voting (in the Tools menu), with a moderators final approval?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T17:32:18.967" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T17:32:18.967" Title="Batch retagging?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;batch-edits&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="354" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:21:44.990" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another issue with the 1-by-1 approach (if you take the time) is that you swamp the front page... suggest that batch retags shouldn't set the &quot;last updated&quot; (or whatever) that triggers the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T21:21:44.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="354" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:27:04.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I set the # of questions per page to 15, open the first page worth of questions in browser tabs, retag each one (closing the tabs as i go), refresh the tag query page, and repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't do this very often. It's a huge PitA. And as Marc notes, anyone doing it this way pretty much owns the front page 'till they're done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A system where you could propose a tag merger, comment on it and vote for or against it... would be great. Heck, we could actually use this Meta-SO site (via questions with a &lt;code&gt;retag-proposal&lt;/code&gt; tag) for that purpose, if the admins were willing and able to process the results...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T21:27:04.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="354" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:46:25.243" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a way that you could nominate a tag for elimination or merging into another tag.  Then it would show up in the 10K tools section where those users could vote for or against the nomination, and hopefully also post comments or concerns.  Enough votes and it all happens at once over night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some issues with this, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's tough to automate tag elimination, because sometimes the tag you want to eliminate is the only tag on a question.  We need to know what to do in that scenario.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want to restrict the future use of eliminated/merged tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When merging tags, we need to add the merged tag to the job that automatically updates tag synonyms.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When merging tags, how do you handle multiple distinct synonyms.  For example, correcting 'access' to become 'ms-access', what about questions pertaining to &quot;disk access&quot;?  Obviously those latter questions are tagged poorly as well, but that doesn't mean they won't exist.  Perhaps that becomes part of the discussion, where the &quot;disk access&quot; questions are identified and corrected manually first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T18:14:15.733" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:14:15.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-06-28T21:54:46.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote the better answer, or write your own..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One benefit of the later is it will appear in the users &quot;Replies&quot; box, which might prompt them to look at the answers again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T21:54:46.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:14:21.663" Score="4" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a steadily growing number of questions which have perfectly reasonable answers which appear to have been orphaned in that the original asker is either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No longer using the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No longer using that login (perhaps it's an anon one that they no longer have the cookie to)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No longer interested in the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feel the question isn't actually answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through all un-accepted questions with at least one answer with N upvotes and no comment on them from the asker and no activity within X days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'pinging' the asker to indicate that they might want to take action themselves (editing the question to be more clear or commenting on the current top answer as to why they feel it isn't what they needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repeat the search again in 1 week, the ones that have no been modified are then auto-accepted by a mod in some identifiable way 'community accepted' for example. This can confer a lesser (or zero I'm not fussed) rep effect than a proper accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary motivation here is to get the 'unanswered' view to give a real reflection of the questions still needing attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a process that can be repeated every so often. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest as initial values for discussion 14 days for X and 3 votes for N.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-26T17:22:28.143" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T17:22:28.143" Title="What to do about old orphaned questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:15:53.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.  I happen to have a high (but not ungodly high) amount of Rep - over 10K.  And I ask very few questions (I google a lot first).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my public rep wasn't affected by putting a bounty on questions, I would put a bounty on every question I ask - to get more interest in it.  My &quot;bounty rep stash&quot; would go down, but not drastically decrease, and would probably stay somewhat even with the rate I ask questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just an example using myself as an example, but I bet it applies to others as well.  Letting me do this defeats the point of bounties - I need to really feel the sacrifice to give bounties meaning.  Otherwise you'll see a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; upswing in bounties and questions without them won't get as much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:15:53.033" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:17:51.017" Score="37" ViewCount="629" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you reach 10k rep, you get to see other users deleted answers. I just think it's dishonest as a system to call a feature &quot;delete,&quot; but show that to totally random strangers in the backroom. Due to the nature of the rep, given enough time, all of the regular users would eventually reach 10k rep, no matter how insensitive or jerk they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's usually a good reason why people hit &quot;delete&quot; to their own work. They regret writing something totally bullshit or maybe they spoke too much about their own work that they shouldn't have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, is there really a practical reason why 10k rep user should view self-deleted answers?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Does the benefit really outweigh the creepiness? (Imagine if total strangers could see your deleted messages in Gmail?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What suggestions could we make to change it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Borrowing from the email metaphor, I think it makes sense for users to &quot;empty trash&quot; so the items gets seriously deleted. Imho, however the deletion is implemented is not important. It could be a soft delete, SQL Delete, or physical destruction of metal plates as long as the user or the 10k rep user no longer sees the deleted item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the workarounds, if we can't change the behavior? &lt;br&gt;&#xA;The least we could do is stop calling it &quot;delete&quot; if it's actually not a &quot;delete.&quot; Call it &quot;hide from public&quot; or &quot;actually not delete&quot; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related user voice: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/96223-remove-ability-for-10k-users-to-view-self-deleted-posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Remove ability for 10k+ users to view self-deleted posts (declined)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/234454-implement-empty-trash-or-rename-delete-to-hide-from-public-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Implement &quot;empty trash,&quot; or rename &quot;delete&quot; to &quot;hide from public&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Recovery of a &lt;em&gt;deleted-but-good answer&lt;/em&gt; is a practical benefit for the community, but I see that as creepy dangerous feature. IMHO, each user &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have the rights to take back his or her perfectly good answer, and that the protecting privacy outweighs the benefit or creepiness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that it's all possible to find things out from Google cache or wherever, but why promote this as default behavior? As 10k rep user, I see others deleted answers by default. @codinghorror wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But like any version control system, deletions are illusory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything and everything that's implemented by human is more or less illusory including phone system and the medical records. Should the government start tapping into phone lines and scanning for words? Remember, this is a question of &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; had we given the opportunity to design a system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T06:49:36.623" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T07:35:56.600" Title="Why should 10k rep users view self-deleted answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:17:56.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect a lot of these are casual users - i.e. not really invested in the site. They have their answer, they leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting by proxy is... subjective, and I'm not sure it can be automated; and I'm not sure that the (few) moderators would want to invest hours each week doing this? I know on MSDN forums (over the weekend) they do a blitz on this (when I participated I would get the regular e-mail stack on a Monday morning); it must take &lt;em&gt;ages&lt;/em&gt;, and they have more admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:17:56.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:23:19.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting; indeed, I don't recall of many occasions when I wanted to actively do this as a regular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &lt;em&gt;moderator&lt;/em&gt;, there are occasions when this is necessary to review prior activity - but this is rare; all I'm saying here is that even if they removed the 10k+ ability, &lt;strong&gt;I'd&lt;/strong&gt; still quite like (i.e. need) to review deleted items - but I have different reasons...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:23:19.520" />
  <row Id="369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:24:40.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I would like to see shared is my list of favourites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging questions because I expect to need that answer in the fairly near future. But with multiple sites I'm likely to end back with attempts to remember the right keywords for search to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:24:40.237" />
  <row Id="371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:25:53.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a process that bumps two random unanswered questions every hour, in the hope that the questions either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get an answer, if they have 0 answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get an upvote on the answers, if they have 1 answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:25:53.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:28:14.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see cases where people delete whole questions they really shouldn't. Questions with good answers. I've seen this where the OP is simply criticisized, often justifiably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing certain users to see these posts is useful combined with the ability to undelete such posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:28:14.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:28:18.137" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Personally&lt;/em&gt;, I'd rather that there was a vote-to-wiki that functioned like &quot;close&quot; etc; this would prevent the ugliness of people editing deliberately to force wiki, and avoid the accidental wiki you sometimes get by people tidying up a post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:28:18.137" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:28:22.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question also then becomes whether the bounty goes to the winner's &quot;reputation&quot; or &quot;bounty stash&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:28:22.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="293" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:30:31.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time to re-read &quot;Gödel, Escher, Bach&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:30:31.640" />
  <row Id="377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:32:40.967" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used it in the past to recover correct, useful answers that were deleted. IMHO, that alone is a good enough reason to leave them around for a while. Who knows why people do this... but it does happen now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose they could probably be purged after a few months without any major risk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:32:40.967" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="378" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:32:48.780" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an idea for a fairly simple OS X utility I want, but I don't currently know enough about OS X development to make it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone on Stackoverflow could write it in an hour or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the ethics(?) of asking a question, with the primary intention being to getting someone to write this utility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened completely inadvertently with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804538/tool-to-determine-what-lowest-version-of-python-required&quot;&gt;&quot;Tool to determine what lowest version of Python required?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; - I asked that purely out of curiosity, to see if such an application existed. It didn't. Fair enough.. Then a few days later Greg Hewgill answered the question with a link to his Github project!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's sort of &quot;recruitment&quot;, but recruitment implies money and this is more a suggestion for some bored programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:58:28.213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:58:28.213" Title="Suggesting project ideas using Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;&lt;recruitment&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:33:36.127" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is nothing like email. You are posting info to a public forum, if anything it is more like  NNTP. In that regard the 'CABAL' of the NTP admins could view everything including deletes. Anyone who captured the post pre delete sees it too (one very good reason the admins have to be able to see the deletes if they need to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's public, deal with it or don't post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does SO even restrict bots like the Wayback Machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding to more of your comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have no rights except attribution. Again if this is a problem for you &lt;em&gt;don't post here&lt;/em&gt;. Designing a system that allows very easy posting of content basically requires the people running it to look at what happened after the event. Since in SO case the 'admin like' status of 10K users is made very clear (asnd is basically necessary, the sort of paid for moderation required to do it only via 'official' people is prohibitive) if you have a problem with said status of those people you just shouldn't post anything you might not want deleting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastEditorUserId="12748" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T10:48:49.667" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:48:49.667" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="378" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:36:47.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have 12.4k - if it's important to you, post a question asking for it and throw in a bounty of 500. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, however, kind of sucks as you have to wait 48 hours or whatever until you are able to attach a bounty to a question. This doesn't seem particularly logical to me as sometimes you know it's something that requires a little work and you just want to put the bounty on there from the start. &#xA;Hell, my top question was asking people to program a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/746082/how-to-find-list-of-possible-words-from-a-letter-matrix-boggle-solver&quot;&gt;boggle solver&lt;/a&gt; and plenty of people threw their solutions in. I meant to add a bounty when I started the question, but the 48 hour limit made me forget about it until it was already pretty much over. I think I'll go ahead and add a bounty now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:36:47.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:37:09.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling the nuances of the system would become rather devilish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you rebounty, can there be n accepted answers for the question, or only the most &quot;accepted answer&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it important to visually display the fact that it's a rebounty?  And if so, how?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you rebounty indefinitely, or only n times?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would answers be segmented between those entered before and after the rebounty?  If not, the second-most-voted answer has a good chance of becoming the rebounty winner.  If so, are you able to override it and accept the one of the originals?  How does this apply to re-re-bounties?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I bet &lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legalized-marijuana.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;there's more&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:37:09.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:40:53.240" Score="16" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite often will read a thread of comments, and want to vote up a few of them. I vote one up, read the next few comments, vote up anothe- *giant red box*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen that &quot;You can only submit a comment vote every 5 seconds&quot; box far too often.. Is there any reason I can't vote for 12 comments per minute, rather than 1 comment every 5 seconds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T22:45:45.787" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:59:54.723" Title="Can we get x comment votes per x minutes, rather than one vote per 5 seconds?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:41:52.177" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jeff that some badges are reasonably cool to find by &quot;discovery&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Autobiographer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Citizen Patrol&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cleanup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disciplined&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But others do get frustrating when you have received it before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popular Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enlightened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For badges you receive multiple times it would be nice to have a link to the triggering post.  For a badge you haven't received before, I'm cool with the whole notion of discovery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:41:52.177" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:53:43.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;fun&quot; board you're referring to would house things like &quot;Favorite Programming Cartoon&quot; and &quot;Favorite Coding Music&quot; and &quot;Favorite Coding Beverage&quot; and things like that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think these questions get asked at a very high rate on SO anymore, and tend to be shot down when they're tried.  Providing an outlet for them is a reasonable hope, but frankly, &lt;strong&gt;I don't see much value in it&lt;/strong&gt;.  Sure, I may want to get some ideas for new music to listen to while coding.  But I can use Pandora.  And as much as I enjoy reading Jeff's blog posts, I don't really care about what food gets him in the mind for coding.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The resources, in terms of equipment, time investment, and support don't justify it in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:53:43.207" />
  <row Id="385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="382" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:55:18.510" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like this for comments posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too often I seem to get the &quot;you can't post twice in xx seconds&quot; message. If the second comment is short it is quite possible to come in under the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:55:18.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="354" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:58:01.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this is it won't always work, I for example moved from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta&quot;&gt;rosetta&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone&quot;&gt;rosetta-stone&lt;/a&gt;, because there already exists something with that name, that has nothing to do with a question that asks for examples in other languages. Which means the tag should still exist, but many thing that were tagged rosetta had nothing to do with that technology/module whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-28T23:31:23.070" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:31:23.070" />
  <row Id="387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:59:06.660" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most definitely yes&lt;/strong&gt;, downvoting costing rep is one of the features I love about stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This concept is borrowed from animal training, it has been shown that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_training#Reward_and_punishment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;positive reinforcement&lt;/a&gt; is the most effective way to train an animal. Applied to SO this means that if you are going to down vote someone (something that will make them feel bad) you should feel a little bad yourself thereby discouraging positive punishment on the site and making the site a happier community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there is room to adjust the pain ratio depending on rep, I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-05T14:42:25.147" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T14:42:25.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="382" CreationDate="2009-06-28T22:59:54.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem I see with this, is that you would need to keep track of potentially more data, for a longer period of time. Which may not scale well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T22:59:54.723" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:07:15.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also some with accepted answers that have a significant number of down-votes ( think double or triple digits ), but the question is abandoned, so the answer will exist forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:07:15.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="182" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:10:40.313" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My problem with the Taxonomist badge is that &lt;strong&gt;it's a land-grab badge&lt;/strong&gt;.  Whoever gets there first, gets it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as Google Tide (the successor to Google Wave that includes a programming API) comes out, I'm going to run to SO and ask a question on it so in a week or two, I'll be able to get the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not granted on merit, like Organizer, it's just granted on who got there first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:10:40.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7183" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:12:55.610" Score="73" ViewCount="6062" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read me first: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some times I post things that are border line community wiki, like this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/784131/are-there-any-c-open-source-log-viewers&quot;&gt;Are there any C# open source log viewers?&lt;/a&gt; which the community wiki police demanded be made community wiki, thus signing the questions death warrant and stopping all contribution. Whereas this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/124275/does-anyone-know-of-any-cross-platform-gui-log-viewers-for-ruby-on-rails&quot;&gt;Does anyone know of any cross platform GUI log viewers for Ruby On Rails?&lt;/a&gt;  remains non community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know what you are thinking, the Ruby crowd are nicer people, but still. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done this in the past, put up a little comment saying, this question should really be community wiki. I feel bad about it, its pure bullying. Even worse is the bullying followed by prompt -1 should be community wiki vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel gets away with 102 upvotes for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;logistics of moving a turtle&lt;/a&gt; without the community wiki police wanting his blood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, should we shut down the community wiki police? If so how? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RE&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If someone thinks it's subjective&#xA;  that's a hint that the question is&#xA;  either not specific enough or that it&#xA;  is inherently subjective but still&#xA;  worthy of inclusion like list based&#xA;  answers often are)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't saying, look your question is a bit subjective because XYZ, it may make sense to re-word it a little, nicer than -1 should be community wiki? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select count(*) from Comments&#xA;where Text like '%should%wiki%'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;1151&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Normally I do not put answers in a question, but Marc came up with a great little idea, just introduce a vote to wiki feature and be done with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T16:57:46.647" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T07:29:43.763" Title="Should the community wiki police be shut down?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="20" />
  <row Id="395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="230" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:26:28.700" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Joel's take on this would be &lt;strong&gt;do not delete it&lt;/strong&gt;.  I don't want to speak for him, but he's said before (or I think he's said) that he likes duplicate posts, especially with different wording, because it catches all the people who searched for the question using &lt;em&gt;your terms&lt;/em&gt; instead of the &lt;em&gt;original terms&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T00:05:17.967" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:05:17.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:33:14.797" Score="3" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of this k3wl AJAX really needed? What really gets me is comments. Surely, surely, surely, the comment text is small and the show comments could just unhide the HTML, or insert the text from an embedded string. At the moment, there is a pointless, irritating wait whilst a server round-trip is performed. It takes more than 50-100 ms and is therefore evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just don't get me on the subject of Slashdot, Twitter, etc., retarded and unreliable AJAX.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T12:01:00.087" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T12:01:00.087" Title="A little less AJAX?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:33:32.130" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is Joel's question subjective? there are a fixed number of ways in move the turtle, including movement in the orientation as well as movement as translation. These can be listed, in full along with what they do (or a link to a site that clearly lists them all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who cares how much rep Joel gets because he's got a podcast and blog to pimp questions from. He's a ****ing co-creator! HE could put an infinity symbol next to his name if he wanted and I wouldn't care a bit (so long as Jon Skeet gets infinity plus 1 ;))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon's probably should be CW but was asked &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; ago before that sort of community consensus had been established.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone thinks it's subjective that's a hint that the question is either not specific enough or that it is inherently subjective but still worthy of inclusion like list based answers often are)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:33:32.130" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="396" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:38:00.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that their bandwidth suppression measures would disagree...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that, if their stats show the first comment unhide corresponds to high probability of many unhides on the same page (or subsequent pages) that they should send all comments in one go on the first request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said this will mean that, on fast moving new questions the comments would stand a good chance of not being up to date and thus have considerable duplication which is better represented by up/down vots on a single comment (even if only for machine comprehension semantics...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:38:00.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:41:05.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd try to write something helpful here, but... The whole &quot;police&quot; / &quot;bully&quot; name-calling thing kinda saps my resolve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd rather non-questions were just closed without comment, their authors' pleas for enlightenment met with stony silence? &lt;em&gt;Really&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:41:05.933" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:53:37.650" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right: standards are inconsistently applied because it's really up to each individual how he or she interprets SO's guiding principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We used to have a similar problem with anything career-related, which I always saw as meeting's SO's standard. It got to the point where there were enough people above 3k rep that a handful closed--or tried to close--every career question that came up. Sometimes it would close and reopen multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually Jeff posted a blog entry saying (amongst other things) that career questions are OK and the problem has pretty much disappeared. The career question police have moved onto greener pastures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until there is a similar clarification in policy, the problem will likely persist. The only thing you can do is bring such questions to community attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:53:37.650" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2009-06-28T23:57:08.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But our hiring system consists of reviewing deleted answers of all candidates to get embarrasing stuff to ask at interviews :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways I feel the soft delete is  odd, but I ＣＡＮ remember more useful cases than bad cases &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-06-28T23:57:08.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:07:51.750" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just replace &quot;wikipedia&quot; with &quot;stackoverflow&quot; in this article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedians-grumpy-and-closedminded.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Amichai-Hamburger expected, the&#xA;  Wikipedians were more comfortable&#xA;  online. &quot;They feel the internet is a&#xA;  more meaningful place to them,&quot; he&#xA;  says. But to his surprise, although&#xA;  Wikipedia is founded on the notion of&#xA;  openly sharing and collecting&#xA;  knowledge as a community, they scored&#xA;  low on agreeableness and openness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this is the same attitude that infects users who are &quot;close&quot; happy, and likely those are the same people getting on your case about community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:07:51.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="396" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:13:46.010" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree the comments functionality does need looking at, I dont mind the ajax however instead of the response being table markup they should be using json and client side templates. I just did a quick sample and the showing of 6 comments requested 2k of gzipped table markup taking 296ms. Way too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:13:46.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:27:19.800" Score="5" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;.  Only &lt;strong&gt;17 Users&lt;/strong&gt;, 2 Moderators, and 4 Admin/Developers can vote to close.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know where Meta will be more popular or less popular than Server Fault, but would there be value in lowering the Rep requirements for actions?  I'm most specifically interested in &lt;strong&gt;Close and Open votes&lt;/strong&gt;.  Those are the votes that most guide the community - defining what is and isn't appropriate.  Until the community itself is making them, it's up to the moderators to wield the heavy stick.  And I'm wondering about the judgement call cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Meta, SF, or both, have lower Rep limits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:27:11.607" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:27:11.607" Title="Should Rep Requirements for Actions be lowered on lower-traffic SO-Family sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="396" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:28:59.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the new comment system - it shows the first few comments (or the most voted ones), then AJAXily loads the rest when you click (which I've never seen take more than a second).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeh, a few comments probably don't take many bytes, but some posts have many comments (most in June 09 was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951056/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/951414#951414&quot;&gt;107&lt;/a&gt;),  and each page has multiple posts each with it's own comment thread.. It could add up to a fairly considerable size (especially when multiplied again by the number of questions and views!)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the rest, I think SO has implemented &quot;AJAX&quot; really unobtrusively, especially compared to the likes of Twitter, where even pagination is done via AJAX (&quot;because we can&quot; being the only obvious reason!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:28:59.377" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:36:04.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SF is self correcting over time; it just requires more moderator intervention early on until enough users achieve 3,000+ reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what will happen here. I don't think closing is as relevant on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel something should be closed as spam or offensive, but don't have the reputation to vote for it, just flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:36:04.880" />
  <row Id="410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="396" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:39:02.003" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The point is not saving of bandwidth but saving of your brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reason to show more than 5 comments; if you feel a comment deep in the comment list should be shown, then vote it up, and it will be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same theory as the rest of SO: the best content goes to the top, so you never have to read more than a page (in this case, a page is 5 comments). And if you want to read more than 5 comments, then invoke the pagination.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;very few posts have more than 5 comments, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;strong&gt;I increased the threshold to 15 visible comments for meta&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T12:00:43.997" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T12:00:43.997" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:39:04.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope. If the accounts were shared, I think it would be a bit misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not very good at sys-admin stuff, so my ServerFault reputation should be lower than my programming/StackOverflow rep - and it is! (I seem to be better at &quot;meta&quot; than programming too, I'm currently the second-top user here, for.. some reason oO)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:39:04.563" />
  <row Id="414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="406" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:47:36.227" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One factor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since meta.* does NOT allow anonymous participation, we arguably should relax the rep limits on voting and commenting. I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep required to vote: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep required to comment: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm leaving the offensive (15 rep) and downvote (100 rep) requirements, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:47:36.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:48:18.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YES         !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:48:18.363" />
  <row Id="416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="65" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:55:03.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag popularity over time would be a nice thing to visualize&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:55:03.790" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:57:49.867" Score="45" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your browser supports user-stylesheets, you can always use that to change things - StackOverflow's CSS classes are nice and clean, which really helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you want to make accepted-answered questions bright green, unanswered ones pink, and regular ones blue - load this into &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; or similar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(&quot;meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;&#xA;    .answered-accepted {&#xA;        background: #0F0 !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    .unanswered{&#xA;        background:#F00 !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    .answered{&#xA;        background: #00F !important;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You.. err.. may want to tweak the colours:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5330/picture6iht.png&quot; alt=&quot;Colourful Metaness&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, any StackOverflow styles on &lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserStyles.org&lt;/a&gt; should work fine on &lt;code&gt;meta.&lt;/code&gt;, since it's basically the same HTML.. Just change &lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;)&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(&quot;meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;)&lt;/code&gt; and all should be fine..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently there's not many SO styles, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org/styles/12768&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Stackoverflow Dark w Small UI Improvements&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is a bit more contrasty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T00:57:49.867" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T00:59:46.323" Score="17" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a page for each individual badge (eg. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/1&quot;&gt;The Teacher Badge&lt;/a&gt;), which shows the description &amp;amp; the list of people who recently earned it. Given that the URL is based off the badge's Id, why are there some badges that appear not to exist (eg. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/16&quot;&gt;16&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/29&quot;&gt;29&lt;/a&gt;)? Were they removed? Have they not been discovered yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T11:12:34.980" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:12:34.980" Title="What are/were the missing badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-06-29T01:10:40.353" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can come up with a meaningful solution to shut down the &quot;community wiki police&quot; as you call them then you should probably post an answer to your own question.  Otherwise, I'd say this is a pretty much an inherent part of software developer behavior.  I recall reading something in Weinberg's &lt;a href=&quot;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThePsychologyOfComputerProgramming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Psychology of Computer Programming&lt;/a&gt;&quot; about software developers being extremely rule-oriented.  And when someone sets out a rule that subjective, wide-open questions should be community wiki, then most of us are going to be quite inclined to be at least a little annoyed by people who don't follow the rule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess what I'm saying is that I think trying to shut down the &quot;community wiki police&quot; is pretty much a waste of time due to the inherent psychology of many of the people that frequent StackOverflow.com &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2820" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T01:10:40.353" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2009-06-29T01:15:33.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how many answers are actually un-deleted - it seems of much greater benefit to restore deleted &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; - since it cascade-deletes other peoples answers (which they may have worked hard on)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one solution could be - when an answer is deleted, the edit-history is destroyed, and only the current revision is kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow someone, if they really want, to make something go away by editing the post to say &quot;Opps&quot;, then deleting.. It wouldn't be an advertised feature, just an potentially useful side-effect. For the most part, people would just click delete and it can be viewed and restored if needs-be..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, when you post anything on the internet, it's pretty much there to stay - what if Google cached the embarrassing answer? What if the data-dump (an impossible to destroy torrent) was performed while the post was visible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T01:15:33.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2009-06-29T01:24:16.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they are the super-secret badges you have to earn before you know what they are?&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/theory&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/conspiracy&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO's robots.txt disables caching on &lt;code&gt;/badges&lt;/code&gt; so archive.org doesn't shed any light on what the pages once were. I would guess they are badges that were created, decided to be a bad idea and deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T01:24:16.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T01:34:46.237" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Interesting/Ignored tags feature was first added, the preference to hide questions was in the sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked this, since most of the time I don't mind the questions just being greyed out.. but there are times I want them hidden. Having it enabled all the time seems quite.. destructive (from my view as a user - obviously it doesn't &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; delete anything)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current I have to go into my profile, into my settings, click the option and navigate back to the page and reload, just to toggle this..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems quite a lot of clicks, especially given that the questions are hidden using Javascript (if I'm not mistaken)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:29:44.887" Title="Restore the &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; preference to the Interesting Tags box?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2009-06-29T01:36:42.287" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the reputation for each site should remain separate.  However, let it be pointed out that having high rep on Stackoverflow doesn't mean you know a lot about programming in general anyway.  You could just be an iPhone programming god, and know nothing about Java, C, .Net, SQL,  or many other popular programming topics.  They may not have actually answered any programming questions at all, but just got a lot of rep answering fluffy, subjective questions that don't have much merit.  You can't really draw any opinions at all about somebody based solely on their reputation.  To draw a real opinion, you actually have to look of the answers they have given.  All reputation means is that you have spent enough time on the site, and put in information that has been found to be somewhat useful to someone.  Remember, you get +10 for an upvote, and -2 for a downvote.  So you have to try really hard, or be a real jerk, to actually have a declining score.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T01:36:42.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31" CreationDate="2009-06-29T01:43:38.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it could be awarded if you get two of the &quot;tag&quot; badges? (The &quot;Earned 400 upvotes for answers in the .net tag&quot; ones)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T01:43:38.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="433" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:00:50.653" Score="97" ViewCount="3218" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been quite a few times that I wished I could send a message to another user on SO - not ask a question for everyone to see, but just a short message informing them of something or requesting them to do something.  Are there any plans to allow this to happen in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/57537/how-do-i-contact-other-users&quot;&gt;How do I contact other users?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-18T18:27:47.060" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T03:10:20.817" Title="Any way to send a personal message to another user?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;messaging&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="21" />
  <row Id="433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:07:21.917" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been suggested many, many times, going all the way back to the earliest days of the site. Prior to the creation of Meta SO, feature requests were posted on UserVoice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/14640&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Messaging between users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Declined without comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/16805-user-messaging-or-wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;User messaging or wall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it's possible we might have some kind of messaging function later, so as not to expose emails but let users communicate. But it's low priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Comments were added to the system to allow users to communicate with each other &lt;strong&gt;in the context of a specific post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/99462-allow-private-messages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Allow private messages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it's about the questions and answers, not social networking. But if you want to contact someone, check their profile -- they will provide an URL or email address there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/216825-how-do-you-send-a-message-to-a-stackoverflow-user-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How do you send a message to a stackoverflow user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Declined without comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Later on, the system was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43019/how-do-comment-replies-work&quot;&gt;expanded to allow notifying other users of comment-replies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with the ability to communicate with other involved users in regards to a specific post, the requests kept on coming. When Meta Stack Overflow replaced UserVoice, the number of feature-requests exploded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11498/how-user-messaging-could-be-realized&quot;&gt;How user messaging could be realized&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11635/instant-messaging-on-so-sf-su&quot;&gt;instant messaging on SO SF SU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18266/is-there-a-way-to-contact-another-member-of-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Is there a way to contact another member of stack overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18970/is-there-plans-for-an-im-capability&quot;&gt;Is there plans for an IM Capability?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41474/request-a-specific-expert-on-a-subject-to-answer-your-question&quot;&gt;Request a specific expert on a subject to answer your question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/50452/feature-request-wake-up-and-accept-my-answer-please&quot;&gt;Feature Request: &amp;quot;WAKE UP and accept my answer please&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74952/my-social-network-integration-for-private-messaging-commenting-etc&quot;&gt;My Social Network Integration for Private Messaging, Commenting, Etc...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/76420/how-can-i-get-in-touch-with-a-stackoverflow-member-privately&quot;&gt;how can I get in touch with a stackoverflow member privately?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22private+message%22&quot;&gt;Many, many more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consistent response to this is that it's a bad idea, &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It could hide information from the community: useful information transmitted privately is unavailable to other readers, subverting the core purpose of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It could be used to harass other users (&quot;Answer my question!&quot;, &quot;Accept my answer!&quot;, &quot;Yer momma so fat she overflows the stack!&quot;, etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/do-trilogy-sites-need-a-third-place/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some value&lt;/a&gt; in being able to communicate with other users outside the context of a specific question or answer. This point was conceded with the implementation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/stack-overflow-chat-now-live/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a chat system&lt;/a&gt;: users on every Stack Exchange site can create and participate in chat rooms, integrated with the normal user accounts. There are still no truly &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt; messages between users, but for those who want to chew the fat or discuss &lt;em&gt;whatever&lt;/em&gt; outside the confines of the sites themselves, this can provide a viable solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it became apparent that &lt;em&gt;moderators&lt;/em&gt; occasionally need to contact users about sensitive topics, and relying on email for this created problems. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/moderator-messages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;So the ability for moderators to send a private message to another user was implemented&lt;/a&gt;. The use of these messages are heavily restricted, reviewed by the system administrators, and reserved for critical messages &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For normal users, the advice remains: if you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; others to be able to contact you privately, add basic contact info to your profile's bio page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-18T17:39:41.220" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T17:39:41.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-18T17:39:41.220" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23685" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:10:38.850" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it was written somewhere or mentioned in the podcast, but I had expectation that if I write something in the uservoice, eventually one of the moderators would review the case and write one-liner. Even if the request was unpopular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the users of meta stackoverflow expect the same thing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:28:56.737" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T07:40:54.817" Title="Do all meta stackoverflow bug, feature request, and discussion eventually get reviewed by a moderator?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:14:46.720" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No there isn't and I like it that way. It's a Q&amp;amp;A site and this strongly encourages that all answers and comments are part of the record rather than, say, the OP and someone else getting into a private chat and solving the problem to the benefit of noone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm strongly opposed to private messaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;The biggest weakness of the current system is that someone can leave a comment on one of your posts, you essentially reply to them and theres no way to bring this to their attention (unless they've subscribed to the question, which lets face it doesn't happen). This can be an issue if you've been marked down and want to correct the issue.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T12:16:56.160" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T12:16:56.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:19:17.660" Score="73" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some ideas (some serious, some not so):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Recursive Badge&lt;/code&gt; - Awarded for gaining the &lt;code&gt;Recursive Badge&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Poet Badge&lt;/code&gt; - Awarded for getting 3 upvotes on an answer given in the form of Haiku&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Voyeur Badge&lt;/code&gt; - For those that like to watch. Viewed 1000 questions without participating in any manner (answering, commenting, voting, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Communist Badge&lt;/code&gt; - Every question/answer given marked as community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Capitalist Badge&lt;/code&gt; - Only answering questions with a bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Self-esteem Badge&lt;/code&gt; - Gold badge awarded to everyone, because everyone's a winner!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T02:19:17.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="31" />
  <row Id="439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="434" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:33:53.617" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I think that while Jeff said that he would try to review all feature requests, he hasn't made any promises about responding (or even reading) all of them. In any case, what you really want is to get community feedback regarding your feature request, and that's something that I think can be done a lot more effectively here than on UV. Once you start accumulating replies and upvotes the team will definitely start to pay attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, as a moderator here, I am going to try to review as many posts and feature requests as I can, but again I make no promises about providing feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T02:33:53.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:34:29.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I want is the colors to be almost indistinguishable from grey. That would make the site a little less drab, but it would still convey that this is not like StackOverflow or ServerFault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why the grey color scheme was chosen, it was to make it visually appear bland and nondescript, but that can still be done without removing all of the color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T02:34:29.637" />
  <row Id="441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="434" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:49:06.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is still a little to early to tell how this thing is going to play out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could become completely irrelevant, or it could be the major force for improvements on all of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Actually as I write this the first question says it was asked 19 hours ago.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T02:49:06.620" />
  <row Id="442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="445" CreationDate="2009-06-29T02:56:45.200" Score="47" ViewCount="842" Body="&lt;p&gt;The descriptions for the editing badges are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor&lt;/strong&gt;: First edit&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/strong&gt;: Edited 100 entries&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/strong&gt;: Edited 600 entries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does &quot;entries&quot; include your own questions/answers, or are these badges just for edits to other people's stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions about how editor badge works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if I edit only a question's tags, but not its body?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if I edit both a question's tags &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; its body?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do edits to Community Wiki posts count?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do edits to answers count?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do edits to tag wiki pages count?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do edits to comments count? (Moderators can edit other users' comments, even outside of the usual five minute window.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T15:23:00.770" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T15:23:00.770" Title="What kind of edits contribute to the editor badges?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;editing-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="446" CreationDate="2009-06-29T03:00:09.170" Score="22" ViewCount="1679" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reasonable guidelines for how much/often I can screen scrape from SO? I've been looking around heavily in related topics and have seen Jeff's enthusiastic response to the user information grabber made in python, a post of someone implimenting this program to scrape the user profile of all SO users, but also seem to remember reading a blog(?) post somewhere by Jeff who seemed quite upset by people who contributed heavy traffic to the site (someone who used a .NET application that made several requests per second, and Yahoo's spider).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in creating an application that allows offline/online browsing, with most of the functionality of SO, and some of my own ideas. Of course with no api available, I'm forced to screen-scrape for the content, and at more regular intervals then the several types of rep-trackers out there since I require up to date post/comment information as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've considered scraping all the content with my server and serving it out from there, but that would create the illusion that all the requests are coming from one source and returning to one, which isn't the case - and I wouldn't want to be blacklisted for such a reason. On the other hand I can make the requests come from the users themselves, but this would actually cause more traffic, although it would not be able to be traced back to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any guidelines to follow, or posts by the SO team for me to read as how to do this in an acceptable manner, or should this idea be abandoned? I'm unaware of how much traffic I'd actually generate, but would hate to have my work reduced to nothing by getting blocked if people actually my app.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-10T03:16:39.983" LastActivityDate="2010-06-01T23:41:28.010" Title="Etiquette of Screen-scraping Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="442" CreationDate="2009-06-29T03:19:51.273" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not include edits to your own posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does not include edits to tags &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;community-wiki posts are eligible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag wiki posts are eligible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;only edits to title and body count towards the S&amp;amp;W/Copy Editor badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T15:41:42.490" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T15:41:42.490" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="443" CreationDate="2009-06-29T03:39:29.263" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have scripts that check for unusual / abusive access patterns, and a daily &quot;top n&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/45516/recommended-logparser-queries-for-iis-monitoring&quot;&gt;traffic summary report&lt;/a&gt; of inordinate and anomalous usage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We regularly block (IP range ban) unknown scrapers that do not identify themselves and/or have poor behavior patterns. These bans are permanent until someone emails us to make a case that they should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to get blocked, here's how:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use GZIP requests&lt;/strong&gt;. This is important! For example, one scraper used 120 megabytes of bandwidth in only 3,310 hits which is substantial. With basic gzip support (baked into HTTP since the 90s, and universally supported) it would have been 20 megabytes or less.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Identify yourself.&lt;/strong&gt; Add something useful to the user-agent (ideally, a link to an URL, or something informational) so we can see your bot as something other than &quot;generic unknown anonymous scraper.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use the right formats.&lt;/strong&gt; Don't scrape HTML when there is a JSON or RSS feed you could use instead. Heck, &lt;em&gt;why scrape at all&lt;/em&gt; when you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;download our cc-wiki data dump&lt;/a&gt;??&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be considerate.&lt;/strong&gt; Pulling data more than every 15 minutes is questionable. If you need something more timely than that ... why not ask permission first, and make your case as to why this is a benefit to the SO community and should be allowed? Our email is linked at the bottom of every single page on every SO family site. We don't bite... hard. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, you want an API. Now there is one!&lt;/strong&gt; see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackapps.com&lt;/a&gt; for all the info you could possibly want, and more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-01T23:41:28.010" LastActivityDate="2010-06-01T23:41:28.010" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2009-06-29T03:53:18.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really mind too much about them getting beta badges, but if that is the case then the text that is associated with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/30/beta&quot;&gt;beta badge&lt;/a&gt;, should really be changed from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actively participated in the Stack Overflow private beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Managed to get an Account during the private beta, and also, at some point, participated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T03:53:18.993" />
  <row Id="448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-29T04:28:43.903" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people argue that private messaging is not a good idea for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I don't get. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you disallow private messages you ultimately get people shouting over the heads of everyone else (i.e. over posts, comments) in order to communicate 1-1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember such horrors from other Q&amp;amp;A/Sex-Change web sites that shall not be named where at some point half the questions became &lt;code&gt;&quot;eh, this question is for [highest ranked C++ guy], ...&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. This might not occur exactly the same way in SO since people do vote down and close annoying messages, but it does occur in milder ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other reasons why it should be easy to send a private message to a member:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You may want to ask them a private question or offer them a job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question may not to be public for some reason, perhaps due to company IP issues, and so you need to seek help privately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question may only be answerable by a specific person. E.g. someone who is a writer or major contributor of some library that you use, and posting it on SO might be a big waste of time since very few people use it and know it well enough. This happened to me. I asked a bunch of questions about some library that turns out only select people actually used. I didn't know who they were beforehand, and most of my questions didn't really get answered because the probably missed them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But above all, I really dislike seeing comment threads that have in-jokes and personal chats. If people want to talk they should be able to do so in private. I don't think that would hurt the site at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T04:28:43.903" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-06-29T04:29:53.430" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be an interesting statistic to show on a users bio page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T04:29:53.430" />
  <row Id="450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="454" CreationDate="2009-06-29T04:30:52.650" Score="9" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the interest of people using SO as a research resource/tool it would be good to be able to mark questions as &quot;unread&quot; instead of just star them. That way you can work through your list of &quot;unread&quot; questions in order to learn about certain topics you are interested in marking them as read when you're done. Stared questions are more useful for questions you really like and want to keep an eye on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. &quot;I have no time ATM but a question I came across looks really interesting and I want to save it for future research.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4504" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T20:01:44.897" LastActivityDate="2011-05-20T07:36:38.390" Title="Bookmark/Mark as unread" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;research&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T04:36:46.613" Score="52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Premium (paid) Badges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These can be purchased via Pay Pal for $49.99&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always appear first in the list of badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shiny color (animated gif should do the trick)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only viewable by the recipient (that's the sweetest part)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T04:36:46.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="197" CreationDate="2009-06-29T04:44:39.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would really like some of the basic markdown stuff be added, for example &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`code highlight`&#xA;*italic*&#xA;**bold**&#xA;***bold italic***&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T04:44:39.603" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-29T05:00:18.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I think there isn't any IM sort of mechanism as of now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if you only want the target user to look at something, you can post a comment under one of his questions or responses.. that should light up his/her envelope icon. Also consider deleting your 'look here' comment once your goal is achieved. &#xA;Also use with extreme discretion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've only had this need once - and it was to have a top poster look at one of my questions which didn't seem to be going anywhere with the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T05:00:18.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="450" CreationDate="2009-06-29T05:02:46.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe have 2-3 different colored stars (like in GMail labs) that each person could then use according to his/her preferences. Multiple clicks on the star image would toggles between the colors and none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T05:02:46.957" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4684" CreationDate="2009-06-29T05:18:17.263" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be nice to have a page with just the answer (and maybe the questions) for some topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that there has been an extensive discussion about a question isn't always relevant to someone who wants to just learn about the topic. For questions that are quite general. E.g. &quot;What are generics?&quot; a wiki page that has a complete answer without all the fluff of the comments and &quot;wrong&quot; answers would be nice. Links could then be put in these pages to refer to other wiki pages. Hey, I hear you saying &quot;Why don't you just use Wikipedia?&quot; well maybe Wikipedia should use SO. I mean SO is a lot easier to work with than Wikipedia so why not add more Wiki-style features to it. I just think the navigation around SO is not quite up to scratch. If I go to a question about generics there should be a link in the answer to a question about inheritance etc. much like Wikipedia allows for easy navigation around the &quot;knowledge tree&quot; if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with tags is that they give a whole bunch of specific questions instead of one with a general introduction/tutorial on the topic. For example I think there should be an equivalent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance%5F%28computer%5Fscience%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4504" LastEditorUserId="4504" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T08:19:08.590" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:24:15.340" Title="Wiki pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36044" CreationDate="2009-06-29T05:19:18.867" Score="6" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be more aware of when other SOpedians edit my own questions and answers, which is sure to happen because my innate spelling and grammar skills are  overloaded by my vocabulary and lackadaisical proofreading habits.  That said, I would like to review edits to my posts to ensure the basic content has not changed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do folks think of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, apparently there is the revisions tab, which I had not seen.  But revisions are not in the summary page, which I'd like to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T20:42:07.850" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T04:23:42.543" Title="Notifications for edits by others of my own questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-06-29T05:19:42.813" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[sigh] The whole rep-whoring thing again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as though there are two camps: those who accuse others of rep whoring, and those that accuse the first group of bullying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Call these &lt;strong&gt;rep-whores&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;rep-pimps&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep whores would like to earn &quot;easy&quot; points by creating questions that arouse lots of interest in the community and get voted up a lot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep pimps would like rep-whores not to receive rep for the above (that's the pimp's job). Why? Well, no clear explanation aside from &quot;we don't want you to get points for your contribution&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pimps-whores analogy is thus very apt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the issue revolves around the following premise: &lt;em&gt;If a question is relevant to the forum and is popular then it should be allowed to persist.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people disagree with this. Maybe they think that only non-popular questions should earn you points. Or only very objective one-answer-only questions. Who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules of SO seem to be: if you don't like the question, you can vote it down. If you think it's inappropriate to the forum, vote to close it. I'm not familiar with the rule that says &quot;if you don't want this guy to earn points for this popular question, vote to close it&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It remains for the rep pimps to explain exactly what they have against people earning &quot;easy&quot; popular rep points, aside from pure rep-competition of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep pimps, I await your comments. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T05:19:42.813" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="456" CreationDate="2009-06-29T05:27:56.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already possible. Just click the envelope at the next to your username at the top of the screen. The &quot;Revisions&quot; tab contains the edits other people made to your posts during the selected time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T05:27:56.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33939" CreationDate="2009-06-29T06:04:33.953" Score="66" ViewCount="1444" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a horrendous speller, and my mild dyslexia does not help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I typo in my comments, I look at it a few days later and see something that screams to be fixed. But to fix it I would have to get rid of all my up votes and lose continuity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be allowed to fix minor typos in comments? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T07:13:55.087" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T04:17:56.087" Title="Should we be allowed to edit comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="455" CreationDate="2009-06-29T06:05:04.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;tags should work for this purpose. Click on the tag, then click on the &quot;related tags&quot; sidebar on the right. That will combine the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The right sidebar will let you go up (to a single tag) or down (add another tag) fairly easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T06:05:04.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-06-29T06:10:15.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just delete and re-post, which is good enough.  Editing comments comes with baggage: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;can others of sufficient reputation edit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit history?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit info near comment?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relative (to questions and answers) simplicity and lack of formality with comments is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T06:10:15.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-06-29T06:12:59.407" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's a difference between comments and questions/answers - I view comments as a mostly short-term dialogue: typos don't really matter so long as the meaning is communicated. Questions and answers are more of a long term idea, meant to be as clear and presentable as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to edit comments could lead to some very confusing comment threads if people use them to change the whole meaning of comments instead of just correcting typos etc. Having an edit history per comment seems like overkill :) The whole &quot;revisionist&quot; aspect makes sense for posts, where the final content is absolutely the most important thing - but I think the complexity and room for abuse in the comment system outweighs the benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it would make sense to be able to edit your own comment &lt;em&gt;while it's the last comment displayed&lt;/em&gt; though. (Mind you, you never know when someone has seen the comment and is replying to it...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T06:12:59.407" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="443" CreationDate="2009-06-29T06:14:59.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there is an SO data dump, why would you even need to scrape the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T06:14:59.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-06-29T06:21:38.577" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitively.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Delete and repost might work if you realize &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; your mistake. But if you only realize it the next day, and there were already several other comments... reposting your comment is not possible anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;can others of sufficient reputation edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;edit history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;edit info near comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, a simple one just to know it has been edited, and only if it is not the latest comment (see next point)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;people use them to change the whole meaning of comments instead of just correcting typos etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a/ with an edit status, you at least know the comment has been edited/tampered&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;b/ if you realize the comment you answered to has been significantly changed, making your own comment &quot;not relevant&quot; anymore, this is indeed an abuse: just flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T06:21:38.577" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T06:58:21.123" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frustration badge: 5+ answers accepted before hitting the daily rep limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over-and-above badge: contributing significant extra content in an answer after it's already been accepted, but only if the answer then gets another 5 upvotes (to avoid just mindless padding).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T06:58:21.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="455" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:06:18.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the suggestions on uservoice is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/138261-allow-a-per-tag-home-faq-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tag-specific home pages&lt;/a&gt;... which (with an editable copy) would ideally provide some space to discuss a topic briefly, and link to the definitive frequent questions/answers for that topic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T07:06:18.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:24:01.843" Score="10" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here I have two suggestions on tag specific badges,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To get tag specific badges you should get 400 or 1000 upvote on a specific tag. You can see how much score you did on a tag when you click on a tag, at stats panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be great if we can see our score at our profile, or can we see them somewhere else ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers seems like have no effect on users score on a tag. In my opinion they should have a score point. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:26:30.053" Title="Scores on tag specific badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51370" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:24:40.327" Score="8" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many &quot;beginner&quot; developers would like SO in other languages (German, French, Spanish). Will this be possible someday?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-04T02:11:05.800" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T02:11:05.800" Title="Other language localization" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;localization&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15139" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:46:13.990" Score="14" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Steps to reproduce&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;Users page on Stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type a name into the input box with lots of results (&quot;anonymous&quot;, any firstname)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to navigate to the next page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Expected behaviour&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second page of the users list is displayed with all users named &quot;anonymous&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Effect&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The inputbox is empty and the second page of &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; users is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Additional information&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fx 3.0.11, JavaScript enabled, all Addons disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a bug or a missing feature ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:47:58.817" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:43:32.317" Title="Page navigation on Users page doesn't work if using the input box" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;&lt;users-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="468" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:47:05.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see what being a beginner has to do with wanting localization for your own language...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhoo, this was discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/podcast-48/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #48&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T07:47:05.827" />
  <row Id="471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="468" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:49:26.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting, as I was pondering over the same question and I reached the following conclusion: you can't really be a good developer unless you know (at least basic) English. I know this is tough but whether we like it or not that's reality. &#xA;Adding new languages would turn SO more into 'discussion' site I feel rather than a pure Q&amp;amp;A. Not to mention how much more complicated some of the aspects would become - dupes, tags...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130007" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T07:49:26.820" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="230" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:52:29.433" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(relates mainly to enforced closures - not the OP deleting their own question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are 100% reposts (same author, identical question), then I do either delete or merge. Beyond that, it gets tricky - as you often need specialist knowledge in an area to understand whether it is the &lt;strong&gt;same&lt;/strong&gt; question, or a &lt;em&gt;related&lt;/em&gt; question. I do perform merges (usually when flagged by the community), but &lt;em&gt;relatively&lt;/em&gt; rarely. Maybe Jeff would have a different stance...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue is that if we delete/merge too quickly, then the person asking the question might not find it... so best to just close initially (unless it becomes obvious that they've seen the dup).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, one option here might be some kind of &quot;leave it in the OPs homepage, but with a redirect to the merge-master&quot;. I don't know how easy that would be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T07:52:29.433" />
  <row Id="473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:53:09.917" Score="8" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I notice that some questions simply go unanswered. Due to the volume of questions asked, sometimes these questions go away from the front page fairly quickly, and then they are never seen or heard from again. If such an event occurs, can one re-ask the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130102" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T20:54:26.557" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T20:54:26.557" Title="Can I re-ask a question if it hasn't been answered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="490" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:55:34.357" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that by signing on to StackOverflow, I am also signed on to my email account. But when I log &lt;em&gt;out&lt;/em&gt;, it only logs me out of the &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt; without logging me out of my email. This means I am running around saying &quot;hey you should XSS me&quot;. Is this specific to the way OpenID behaves, or is it specific to the way StackOverflow implemented it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:06:18.273" Title="The way OpenID is handled" Tags="&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="473" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:55:54.433" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always try &lt;strong&gt;editing&lt;/strong&gt; the question, which bumps it to the top of the front page again.  Take the opportunity to change the subject or the question body to make it more clear, and perhaps someone will answer this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5536" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T07:55:54.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="473" CreationDate="2009-06-29T07:57:09.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can update your question regularly until you get the answer. Updating will get your question to the main page. If you ask the same question it will be dublicete and will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T07:57:09.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35920" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:03:41.280" Score="14" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the UV entry &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/167318-notify-comments-for-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Notify comments for comments&lt;/a&gt;&quot; has 69 votes and it ranked 14th:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;it calls for a notification whenever comments are added to an answer I have left a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to define (question by question) the level of notification I want to get when I answer to or leave a comment within a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;any other answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;any other comments (to the answer I have left a comment, which is what the UV entry is about)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;any other comments (even on other answer I have not commented)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those notifications could be signaled by a &quot;blue&quot; letter (instead of an orange one), and listed separately from the current &quot;responses&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea remains:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;if I have been involved in a question (answer or comment), I want to know as soon as possible of some or any activities on that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a/ Is this an insane idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;from the user's point of view?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;May be the very active members could dislike being &quot;notified&quot; every 2 seconds because of their many-many answers? But again, that is why I have propose different levels of notification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;from the SO team's point of view?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;May be the database requests involved are just &quot;too much&quot; an hurdle for the system?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b/ Would you rather have a daily email notification system (like you already have when you are posting a question)?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think it would not be a good solution since:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- the interest of this kind of notification is to be able to respond/comment immediately (while the other users are still around and invested in the question).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;That means a 'daily' update is not very useful in this case.&#xA;- I cannot see my emails at work (personal emails are blocked, sadly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:36:48.330" Title="What level of notification should we have regarding questions we have posted an answer to (or left a comment)?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="473" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:12:58.123" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question remains unanswered, you can always try offering a bounty. Please read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow/483070#483070&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; regarding the bounty system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T08:12:58.123" />
  <row Id="479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="473" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:19:49.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of people follow tags more than the front pags, so if you tag your question reasonably it should still stand a good chance of being seen, even if somebody is doing a tag update (and owning the front page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is the &quot;Community&quot; user who will periodically prod your question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can edit it a few times to get it back to the front&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or offer a bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or &lt;strong&gt;delete it&lt;/strong&gt; and re-ask it (perhaps re-wording it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/63/tumbleweed&quot;&gt;Tumbleweed badges&lt;/a&gt; suggests that this &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be an issue - or maybe those questions were too vague or too specialized to get a decent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T08:19:49.667" />
  <row Id="480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="469" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:24:19.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workaround:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;name&quot; tab to sort the list by name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Either click the page navigation buttons, or edit the URL ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=302&amp;amp;tab=name&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=302&amp;amp;tab=name&lt;/a&gt; ) , to arrive at the right letter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T08:24:19.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="527" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:28:17.243" Score="26" ViewCount="1226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the discussion here so far, a lot of it has understandably been focused on regular users; not necessarily high rep users, but people who have essentially &quot;committed&quot; to the site in some way, and know a &lt;em&gt;reasonable&lt;/em&gt; amount about it. Suggestions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/477&quot;&gt;fine-grained notification settings&lt;/a&gt; are great for those of us &quot;in the know&quot;, but it's a pretty high-end feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That kind of user - while obviously important - probably accounts for a relatively small proportion of page views. In particular, I guess (and Jeff may have figures for this) that most page views don't come through the front page at all: they're straight from a search result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is aimed at encouraging users to take a fresh browser which they aren't logged into, do a search which gets a Stack Overflow result (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=int+c%23+downsides&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;int c# downsides&lt;/a&gt;) and seeing what it would look like to a completely new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the meaning of the information obvious to you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this a community you would want to join, if you didn't already know about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the navigation, etc. obvious?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't actually done the experiment myself yet (at least, not committing enough time to it to give a meaningful answer) but I'll try to do so later. It's hard to forget everything we already know about Stack Overflow and any quirks it might have, but I think it's a worthwhile thing to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-05T09:57:27.630" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T09:59:22.447" Title="What's the single biggest barrier to entry on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:37:03.663" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's perfect, personally. I found Stack Overflow through Google, searching for something. The fact that the most up-voted questions are on the top makes finding the answer to your question extremely quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &quot;barrier to entry&quot; that I found when I first joined was all the &quot;inside jokes&quot; (like you :P) and acronyms (call me stupid, but I didn't know what &quot;SO&quot; meant for the longest time). But I guess that's to be expected, and it doesn't really hamper one's ability to find the answer to his questions quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowdays, if I'm looking for something on Google and I see a result from SO, I go there first thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd like to add that the one thing that did not make sense to me at first was community wikis. I just didn't understand the point of them. It didn't help that everyone else magically knew when questions should be made wikis or not, but never really gave any reasons. I got the hang of it eventually, but at first I always got nervous when asking a question, and asked myself, &quot;Should this be a community wiki? Is it going to get closed if I don't make it one?&quot; The solution to this would be to add some kind of &quot;help&quot; or &quot;what's this?&quot; link next to the community wiki checkbox, that goes to the SOFAQ or a similar page explaining what community wikis are and what they're used for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130082" LastEditorUserId="130082" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T08:44:28.110" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T08:44:28.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:45:46.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also as a note if you're checking Jon's link, log out from SO and then check it out. Since there will be ads and a popdown saying &quot;First time here, check the FAQ&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T08:45:46.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:48:16.663" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having to navigate the OpenID login system to become a full member of the community was a bit of a barrier when I first started.  It may have become easier for new users since then, but there was certainly a lot of grumbling at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5536" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T08:48:16.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:52:32.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there is a barrier for new users, especially the ones who register and ask a question never to return. Looking at the users page there are thousands upon thousands who have a single rep point. I wonder why these people choose not to return. Are they unsure that they should come back and tick an answer, is this highlighted well enough? What can be done to retain these people and make them an active participant once there question has been answered? Do they get an email asking them to mark their first question? Would giving them a badge straight away help to capture the hearts, even if it retained 10% of them. It would be interesting to do some &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B%5Ftesting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a/b&lt;/a&gt; testing around these new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="6440" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T09:11:06.283" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:11:06.283" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="474" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:06:18.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's OpenID. You need to be logged in to your OpenID provider to be logged in to here, but this site has no control over if you're logged in to your OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130082" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:06:18.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:09:05.740" Score="31" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else have problems with the editor? I may be doing something incredibly stupid but I find that whenever I use tab I tab out of the box. Which is obviously irritating if your trying to add a code sample. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would be quite cool if tab inside the main text box could be used for indenting. I know this would mess up people who like to navigate the form using tab but the content for a question is often large enough to justify it IMO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts? Any other issues you have with the editor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-10T01:12:53.897" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T07:56:25.730" Title="The Editor - Possible Improvements" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:11:26.937" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was asked for a while back and Jeff replied that a query like that would be to heavy to be used regularly (by a user that is). Since you theoretically could see your score for every tag. (which goes through every tag and gets your upvotes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer gives 15 in rep. It does not give an upvote. I think the query that asks for this information is slow enough than to slow it even further by calculating in accepted scores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:11:26.937" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:13:36.090" Score="45" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One very simple one - when writing code, when we hit &quot;enter&quot; it would be &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; nice if it went to the same indent, i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;void Foo()&#xA;{&#xA;   if (foo) &amp;lt;- I'm about to hit enter here&#xA;   &amp;lt;- I would like the cursor to be positioned here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another request - the Ctrl-K shortcut indents the code if any of it is at the first column, but outdents otherwise. It would be nice to have a shortcut to &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; indent, so it's easy to indent a whole block of code. (Usually I add an extra line with a character at the start, then select the whole block including the new line, hit Ctrl-K and then remove the extra line, but that's a pain.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and finally: a shortcut key to display all the shortcuts as an overlay, like Google Reader does. (Press &quot;?&quot; in Google Reader to see what I mean.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:13:36.090" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:14:18.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it annoying too - especially when writing code, or pasting code in from Visual Studio and then trying to use hightlighting and tabs to move it to the left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &quot;Shift tab&quot; or &quot;Alt tab&quot; (well perhaps not this combination, but you get the idea) might be a compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T13:26:15.537" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:26:15.537" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:15:57.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stopped using the editor for code editing a long time ago. I just fire up an IDE and do it there, just remember to indent the entire codeblock by one tab and select and copy paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:15:57.317" />
  <row Id="501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:40:32.827" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hands down the search feature. Sorry but it's just plain useless. Anything that's worse than a Google custom site search should be replaced by a Google custom site search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one reason I hardly ever downvote duplicates: I can't blame people for not finding them most of the time. Sometimes I know the duplicate exists because I've seen it before and still can't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:40:32.827" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:41:39.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be able to paste in the raw URL to a question and the editor will auto-link it with the title of the question. This alone will save me a bunch of time in copying and pasting twice to link a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:41:39.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="553" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:49:04.663" Score="24" ViewCount="579" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been repeated UV tickets on this, all of them declined. Basically, there are a number of inconsistencies in the rep system that revolve around this: certain actions (accepting answers, having your answers accepted, winning bounties) can go above the soft daily cap of 200 but if you're below 200 they don't increase your soft cap meaning you can get ordering issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets say you've gained 190 for the day. Someone upvotes then accepts your answer. You're up to 215. If instead they accept them upvote you're at 205.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, upvotes can cancel out downvotes which leads to situations where you have 20 upvotes above the cpa then a single downvote so lose -2 (ie gain 198 for the day) whereas if the downvote had happeend before any of the 20 excess upvotes that woudln't have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen a reason for this inconsitency and such tickets are declined that the system is &quot;by design&quot; so I'd like to know what the &quot;by design&quot; part of this is and why it's like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T05:29:28.890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T09:16:20.263" Title="Why is the inconsistent reputation system &quot;by design&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T09:53:08.130" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Centennial Badge&lt;/strong&gt;: visited the site each day for 100 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23034" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T09:53:08.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:04:00.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got no problems with homework questions as such... If they generate interesting and informative answers then there's very little downside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:04:00.243" />
  <row Id="508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="504" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:08:05.630" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, from our perspective, reputation isn't meant to be a precision tool used to build lifesaving surgical instruments or rocket ships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a broad aggregate representation of the trust the community puts in you. Thus, the simple way it's calculated has been good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are really worried about the &quot;loss&quot; of 5 or 10 rep due to order of operations, then I humbly suggest you're overthinking this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;now completed, see:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T09:16:20.263" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T09:16:20.263" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="514" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:08:33.647" Score="19" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always been a bit of a puzzle to me.  I generally upvote every question I answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if it seems a good enough question to take time answering, it seems a good enough question to upvote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I want to encouraging people to ask more questions about topics I'm interested in, especially since I work on some of the less-common areas here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pragmatically, if I upvote a question, it seems more people may have the chance to read my wonderful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T10:19:59.070" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T07:42:47.777" Title="Why don't people upvote questions they answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="504" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:12:40.720" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that what we've got works &lt;em&gt;reasonably&lt;/em&gt; well at the moment, even though I agree that it's inconsistent. From the sounds of it (based on previous podcasts) it's a relatively fragile system - I think I'd rather leave it alone than tinker with some tricky timing issues. On the other hand, I'd rather revisit the issue of rep caps completely: I still believe that a rep cap based on time isn't as useful as a rep cap based on a cap per post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not arguing against there being rep caps at all, and it's quite possible that whatever alternative was proposed would end up reducing my rep rather than increasing it - this &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; about personal gain, even though I'm sure it looks like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, this was my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/35824-change-the-reputation-limit-algorithm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first UV suggestion&lt;/a&gt;(declined). This prompted my first mention on the podcast, long before I got anywhere in terms of rep. (I think I had about 1K rep when I posted the suggestion, back when 10K was a huge amount to have :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I totally agree with Jeff's point about it really not being terribly important. On the other hand, for those users who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; treat it as a sort of game, it's akin to rules being inconsistent in any other game... I'd say that changing the rep system definitely counts as tinkering round the edges of the system rather than adding really significant value to the site in general. I doubt that anyone's going to get so annoyed by the inconsistencies that they stop contributing due to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T11:51:05.210" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:51:05.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:13:37.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea... I have my email address on my user profile and have gotten several interesting comments from people who don't otherwise seem inclined to post, or where the comments would have been off-topic to the question at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:13:37.130" />
  <row Id="512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:14:13.743" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because some times the question is poorly written, lacking enough detail, or just plain lazy in nature &lt;em&gt;(google has easy to grasp hits, RTFM)&lt;/em&gt;, which do not necessarily mean I won't answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm much more likely to upvote a question if it makes me think &lt;em&gt;&quot;oh, interesting&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, was very well written (logical flow, solid background, well formatted code samples, spat of self-deprecating humor, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T07:42:47.777" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T07:42:47.777" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:19:36.507" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting for answers makes sense: your answer is competing with other answers and upvotes is how the community &quot;picks&quot; the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvoting questions has no similar context. After all two Java questions don't relate to each other, vying to be picked as the best. It just doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, in SO, question askers are the consumers, answerers are the producers. Production is harder than consumption and thus deserves more reward, basically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do upvote questions on occasion, usually for one of two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A total newb has asked a real quesiton. This is an almost automatic upvote for me to get them to the point where they can vote/comment/etc. Part of the need for this has been diminished by  by changes allowing people to do this on questions they ask but still I want to get people asking real questions up there ASAP; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is truly outstanding, in terms of the value of its answers, the issues that it raises or the usefulness of the question. This is a truly subjective decision.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are easy: tyou upvote the right/best ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:19:36.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:20:08.720" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb is that I upvote questions when I find them on Google when I look for a solution to a problem of mine - I upvote the answers that helped me &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the question. It seems like other people do that as well because some of my questions / answers get upvotes even (almost) a year after they were asked / answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:20:08.720" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:23:47.417" Score="25" ViewCount="944" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not that I feel bitter when somebody else's answer is 'up voted' above my own, but it's when a user with a high rep answers a question and their answer seems to attract an immediate barrage of up votes.  Now I'm not saying that these votes are always unwarranted, but by simply observing this behavior, the system seems flawed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of reputation (or at least one of the concepts) is to give users a sense of trust in the reputed user's answers.  But this should be trust, not blind faith.  I know that this problem doesn't exist for every question asked on S.O, but it's defiantly present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this is a contentious question, as it might seem overly critical, but does anybody else agree with me and, if so, does anybody have any thoughts on how this problem could be alleviated?  It's a great shame when a new or less active user's answer is stifled by the reputation-rich user's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6085" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T20:35:19.450" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T20:13:50.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T11:23:44.247" Title="The Problem with Reputation: Does High Reputation Attract Too Many 'Up-Votes'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:30:03.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all I have seen many many cases where a low reputation user got many upvotes for his great answer and often in the same question where the high rep users are sitting in the dust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly I kinda agree, but in a different sense. What seems to happen is when an answer gets 1-2 upvotes an is at the top of the list. The rest of the upvotes for that question seem to go for that answer in blind faith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen of course many many cases where a question has many upvoted answers and a late well done answer comes along and blows the others away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW I did a quick search for questions where this occurs (low rep users winning with good answers) And I found these in under about 2 minutes of searching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/551289&quot;&gt;551289&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/918865&quot;&gt;918865&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1053705&quot;&gt;1053705&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1048643&quot;&gt;1048643&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/934937&quot;&gt;934937&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:30:03.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:31:09.333" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise of the question is (imho) incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers from high rep users don't get more votes because they have high rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certain users have high rep because they know how to answer questions effectively and quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, there is also a factor of who is answering the question. Users have reputations way beyond the number. If Jon Skeet answers my C# question, there's a pretty darn good chance that he's right. He's earnt that level of respect. That's a good thing for a question asker to have rather than hiding it on the grounds that doing so somehow creates a level playing field. That just means all answers are equally untrustworthy. Not good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean Jon automaticaly &quot;wins&quot; any answer &quot;contests&quot; though. Other answers can be better, quicker, more to the point and so on and be rewarded as such. I've certainly seen this happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good, timely answers will get upvoted and it doesn't matter who they come from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:31:09.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:34:34.177" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing is perfect, ever. It's a flawed world running flawed systems. That aside. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess there are a few issues to consider: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a Google searcher I am looking for the &lt;strong&gt;&quot;objective&quot; correct answer to a question&lt;/strong&gt;, since there are little to no incentives to improve old posts quite often information is spread between multiple answers, as a newbie I would imagine that seeing the same question answered 5 times by 5 different people quite confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/59590/lock-keyword-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/59590/lock-keyword-in-c&lt;/a&gt; ... this is the result of a search for the &lt;code&gt;lock&lt;/code&gt; keyword in C#. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know that there is a better way to phrase the question and title the question, we just don't bother. We all would have ways to improve the answer, we just don't bother. We all know the question should probably be split up so it can be dealt with more throughly, we have no way to do that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Overflow as a community is way too focused at the last 1 hour of activity than improving and refining the body of knowledge in the expert system. I think this hurts the new users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the community does quite a lot to help facilitate collaboration, but as a newbie you just don't realize how fast you need to be to get in on it. It may seem like there is this barrage of questions that somebody else (hint Marc or Jon :) seem to constantly get right. This may deter you from participating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I started out the whole community wiki thing really confused me, I think that is one area that newbies must find very confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had no problems with the OpenID piece, I actually really like it, helps me forget passwords which is one thing I love forgetting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-05T09:59:22.447" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T09:59:22.447" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="299" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:35:38.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are now badges on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:35:38.730" />
  <row Id="521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:43:48.273" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;seeing what it would look like to a completely new user.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;      * Is the meaning of the information obvious to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If by &quot;information&quot; you include informations about the site, the all &quot;vote-accept&quot; feature is quite &quot;unclear&quot; for new occasional users.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;They do not read the FAQ (what for? They have a question, they want an answer).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;They may infer the all &quot;voting-selecting answer&quot; thing by looking at other questions, but for very narrow topic (few views, fewer answers), they are a bit at a loss about what they are supposed to do with answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is a lot already (tooltips on arrows and tick signs, red box on upvote to remind an answer can be 'ticked', reminder on questions to select an answer...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But all those mechanisms are not valid for the occasional user with a quick post, a look two days later (oh cool! Here's my answer!), and... nothing. He is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposition: rather than &quot;first time here? Check out the FAQ!&quot;, I would rather have a:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First time here, take the feature tour!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feature tour: 5 static HTML pages (1/5, 2/5, ..., 5/5) mentioning the five most important thing to know about SO, like for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask a question (and look after suggested questions to avoids dups)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote (up or down, on answers for your questions, or on other answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment (or vote on comment)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;select an answer (or post your own and select it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 pages, colored graphics with few text and lots of arrows and circle to highlight important parts, around a concrete use case scenario (a story).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;No screencast (too long).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Anything more verbose is likely to be skipped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And then, an &quot;advanced feature tour&quot; for those who are interested and want to go beyond the common use-cases)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:43:48.273" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:48:56.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fan Boy (or Fan Girl) - only ever answers/asks questions on one language (most likely Objective-C)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:48:56.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:50:35.730" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chart Topper&lt;/strong&gt; - asked the most up-voted question (and/or answer) that week, it should be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:50:35.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:55:21.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote question I answer because they generally have no other answers, or have non-upvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way I increase the visibility of the question on the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tab, hoping to attract other answers challenging or completing mine.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since most users might be unaware of that particular side effect (increase in visibility on a SO tab), they might associate upvote solely with the quality of the question (redaction, research, clarity, ...), which is a good criteria.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I only think it should not be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; criteria, especially for questions on narrow topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:55:21.290" />
  <row Id="527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T10:57:40.020" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of different &quot;views&quot; can be unintuitive even to me who uses the site every day (for 20 days and counting - c'mon WOOT!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on the logo (/) give a slightly different view than clicking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the &lt;strong&gt;recent&lt;/strong&gt; page is some time hard to find for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO would benefit form a simplification of &quot;views&quot; - less is more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T10:57:40.020" />
  <row Id="528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="530" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:03:45.997" Score="2" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed in the last half year that some communities are especially hostile towards StackOverflow. Apparently their main problems are that StackOverflow is too Microsoft-centric (which is something I don't agree with, I think people are equally encouraged to ask questions regarding any technology, and the thriving iphone subcommunity on StackOverflow is a proof of that) and that the questions and the answers are of too low quality (again, I don't think that's true). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;s&gt;excellent&lt;/s&gt; example of StackOverflow (and Jeff Atwood) bashing can be found &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678398&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in this thread&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the otherwise very high quality Hacker News.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but feel that there is more going on than the usual anti-Microsoft feelings and elitism but I'm afraid I really don't understand it. What are your opinions? What could the StackOverflow community do to please these people or is that something we want to do in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastEditorUserId="8954" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T11:23:30.550" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:40:22.780" Title="Why are some poeple so hostile toward Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;reddit&gt;&lt;bashing&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4440" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:06:12.917" Score="5" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;When surfing on one of the SO sites (SO, SF or Meta, and soon SU), and accessing a user's profile, it would be easier to have links to his/her profile on the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give us a better view of his profile (&quot;developer only?, IT guy? advanced computer user?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;increase the visibility of the other SO sites (&quot;wait a minute, there is a ServerFault site? or a Meta site? Interesting, I will check them out&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allow the user to quickly switch between his/her different profiles and check the evolution of the rep or comments on the other site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those links could be located on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the profile page, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but also on the &quot;recent&quot; page.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(in the latter case, they would be visible only by the user, allowing for a quick check of latest responses/comments between the sites)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T06:16:14.487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:51:40.550" Title="How about links from one user's profiles to his/her other SO site profiles?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:07:03.850" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we just need to keep supplying quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First they ignore you, &lt;br&gt;&#xA;   then they laugh at you, &lt;br&gt;&#xA;   then they fight you, &lt;br&gt;&#xA;   then you win. - Gandhi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:07:03.850" />
  <row Id="531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:09:45.747" Score="51" ViewCount="513" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that do to the high volume of activity on the site it appears as though only questions that were asked or answered in the last ten minutes are appearing on the main page of the site, meaning if you asked the question 15 minutes ago it won't appear on the main page anymore until it gets some sort of interaction. Fifteen minutes isn't that long of a time when you think about it, and I believe it may lessen the chance or your question being noticed.  Is there anyway you could ease the firehouse approach so that not everyone is being sprayed by the full stream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is a hack, that one can do to display only certain tags, by simply requesting &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vbscript+or+mvc+or+asp.net+or+asp.net-mvc?sort=newest&quot;&gt;multiple tags in a URL.&lt;/a&gt; Is there any way you can implement this hack, so that it is no longer a hack which only a few know about, and so that it's more elegant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love the way that you can add &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; and &quot;Ignore Tags&quot;, and then it fades or highlights these results, I thought the easiest way to expose this aesthetically was maybe to take it one step further. by making it if I click on the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; title, it actually filters the questions view to display only questions related to my tags, and then if I click it again it toggles back to the current behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130112" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T02:46:37.267" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T02:46:37.267" Title="Filter view to show only interested" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;favorite-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:11:33.013" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being hated can actually be a good thing, the worst thing you want is to have a product that people are indifferent to, you want some people to LOVE and some to HATE your product. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being hated means your product is alive, and that people have an opinion about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are never going to make all the people happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:11:33.013" />
  <row Id="534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="577" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:11:34.137" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this ever happen? How could we solve it? &lt;em&gt;(Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/help/verified&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter Verified Account&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Applying for a job someone includes &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&lt;/a&gt; in their Resume/CV as proof they are 'mazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted it would be difficult to convince the employer you choose the username &lt;em&gt;jon-skeet&lt;/em&gt; (plus the picture), but there are plenty of +20k users with odd usernames and no picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it seems a trivial matter but, Twitter probably thought the same 18 month ago. And as we know people are getting jobs off the back of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:36:37.520" Title="Genuine User Problem" Tags="&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;job-offers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:16:43.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a Stackoverflow problem, I think this is a hiring problem.  If you don't vette a candidate's resume, and still go off parts of it ass your decision - that's your problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is using SO-rep as a hiring decision, they should be familiar with the system, and can vette them through various questions like &quot;What do you like best about SO?&quot; and &quot;What have you learned from it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:16:43.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:16:54.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess a Verified Account would work, it would need a way of inspiring confidence though. For example what is to stop someone linking to a verified account? Sure it would say &quot;this person is 'rjstelling' and we have a valid address for them&quot; but that doesn't mean the interviewee is this person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how you would do that without revealing personal information which would match the CV.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:16:54.560" />
  <row Id="539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="529" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:18:32.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it.  I think the best way to do it would be with the badges too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:18:32.013" />
  <row Id="540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:20:08.593" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm quite curious about which answers other people received badges for. When I see that an answer has earned the necromancer or populist badge, I think it must be worth at least a glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2434" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:20:08.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:21:49.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting thought, and having some sort of verification could always be an option in the future.  However, I feel that if an employer hires somebody solely from their S.O. reputation, then that employer deserves to get deceived.  Sure, adding your high rep to your CV might be appetising to an employer, but if they don't carry out further testing and vetting on a candidate, then that's their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6085" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:21:49.620" />
  <row Id="543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:23:32.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read that Hacker News link you posted and don't find it all that nasty.  Yes, there was some SO, Joel and Jeff hostile comments.   But the vast majority was either positive or neutral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there was also lots of &lt;em&gt;&quot;why this&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;why that&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but it would be a mistake to equate questioning business models with hostility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the &lt;em&gt;&quot;oh, I could whip that up in a weekend&quot;&lt;/em&gt; comments kinda funny.  But do note that other commentators responded with &lt;em&gt;&quot;then just do it, you naive kids, you!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  (My gut tells me that is from  folks who haven't actually taken a green field project into polished production system that scales.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there is almost always going to be platform zealots and folks with vested interests in competing projects whining one way or the other.  But by no means was that thread a hatefest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T11:31:54.353" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:31:54.353" />
  <row Id="544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:24:58.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was quite funny to read the thread you linked to. This &quot;Nothing to see, can be done in one weekend&quot; mentality is so typical and is also the reason why so many OSS projects have usability problems, despite having some bright minds behind them. The question is, if it can be done in one weekend, why did nobody ever do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow and the system behind is a great product, and the pure fact that the software is neither OpenSource nor free is something that leads to some people just feeling negative about it, maybe because it contradicts their beliefs, maybe because it is simply a proof that closed source software can be great as well. And that can't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20363" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:24:58.597" />
  <row Id="545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="529" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:25:19.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great to have flair pointing to the other sides. This would give me username, karma, badges. It should be put on the profile page, imho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here in Meta, it would even be interesting to have the username, karma and badges in the card about the author of a question or anser for the underlying SO site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:25:19.593" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:27:34.223" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still have &lt;em&gt;no clue&lt;/em&gt; what I  got necromancer for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:27:34.223" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="102976" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:28:42.893" Score="28" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there's a SVN Revision Id at the bottom of every page, but I think it'd be nice if we could see a couple short sentences about what went into the deployment.  Not changelogs in the commits, but a little blurb like &quot;&lt;em&gt;fixed bug with username not showing on tags/users page; added links in users profile page to other family sites&lt;/em&gt;&quot; would be handy to know what to look for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Another argument for this.  At some point, careers silently changed from showing &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of your SO accounts to letting you pick the ones you wanted.  Which is nice, great feature.  Except it hid all the accounts except SO.  So for an undetermined period of time, I was not showing flair I would have liked to show.  Obviously this isn't the end of the world, but it's example of how a changelog benefits the community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:54:59.797" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:54:59.797" Title="Could we see a changelog of deployments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deployment&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:30:43.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty easy for the employer to check this at an interview: &quot;Please could you log into Stack Overflow and show me what you've been up to?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need a &quot;fix&quot; for this until it actually shows up as a real world problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:30:43.670" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:31:06.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote good questions, the same as good answers. Obvious? For instance, this question isn't that great so I haven't upvoted it. However, Stu gave a good answer to an obvious question, so I and others have upvoted that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, questions are more scarce that answers. Perhaps questions should count double.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:31:06.600" />
  <row Id="551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:32:04.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are people who don't take kindly to criticism. Downvoting a person's, closing a person's questions, and negative comments about a person's post could cause that person to lash out at the community. Then of course there are the people who generally think the idea of this kind of website is bad for whatever reason. It's best to let these people vent, close/ignore their comments, and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130102" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:32:04.960" />
  <row Id="552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="592" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:34:08.810" Score="8" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I wrote a question about blocking certain chars on passwords. This became tremendously unpopular and it seemed like every day everyone wanted to rain on my parade. Eventually &quot;I got it&quot;, agreed completely with what people were posting to me, and just wanted to withdraw my question so that my reputation doesn't slide even further down hill. Unfortunately the system is designed such that it won't let me withdraw my question or redeem myself here. Instead, I just get daily reputation attacks. That's a terrible system and needs to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:51:02.800" Title="The &quot;I Get It&quot; Reputation Problem" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="504" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:34:13.007" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be easy if the accepted answer rep just did not count towards the cap? Just let the cap only count upvotes, and there will never be any inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:56:26.120" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:34:34.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They find out in the interview, if you cheat. When hiring you normally have a face-to-face meeting at some point and then the candidate has to show, he is telling the truth (a browser and an internet connection provided :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:34:34.097" />
  <row Id="555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:37:23.467" Score="108" ViewCount="8680" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, for God's sake, we are made to believe that he is a human just like us. So, please take a nap while mere mortals like us can answer some questions and get some (not-so)well-deserved reputation points. Or at least, give us some timeslots(in GMT Please, no algorithms here) during which you are asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30341" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:21:12.067" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:21:12.067" Title="Why Does Jon Skeet never sleep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="42" />
  <row Id="556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:38:33.633" Score="1" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking at the job boards for a while now, and I have yet to see any jobs for co-op positions. Are companies simply not interested in paying the amount to be listed if the employment is for the short-term only? Or are the companies that know of Stack Overflow simply uninterested in hiring co-ops? Has there ever even been a co-op listed? I think a lot of companies could get some fairly talented people as interns, so why do you suppose this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130102" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T07:59:45.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T11:38:56.550" Title="Why No Co-Op Jobs on Jobs.Stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;job-offers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:38:56.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe this is the case.  Cannot the question owner close/delete their own question?  I certainly can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:38:56.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:40:05.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes the question owner should be able to delete his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:40:05.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:40:40.290" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223#309062&quot;&gt;He doesn't sleep... he waits&lt;/a&gt; ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon is UK based (like myself); you should be OK between about 00:00 and 05:00 BST (GMT +1) - so 23:00 to 04:00 GMT ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:40:40.290" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:41:05.627" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Jon Skeet sleeps, his brain (linked to so via TCP (telekinesis control protocol)) posts on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:41:05.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:41:26.670" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ha.  &quot;He&quot; is a team of highly-trained professionals on five continents, with principal offices in New York, London, Mumbai, Tokyo, Guam and San Francisco, working around the clock to maintain the immortal reputation won at a cost of so much blood and treasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:41:26.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:42:35.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for deleting one of your posts, here are the rules in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228462/how-can-a-question-or-answer-be-deleted&quot;&gt;SO FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. As you can see, you can delete your own questions, but do not get back the reputation lost (but you loose the reputation gained). You will also earn a badge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/38/peer-pressure&quot;&gt;&quot;peer pressure&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Alternatively you can mark the question as community wiki. Then you do not gain or loose any reputation, but the question is still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:42:35.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:42:53.547" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure he is a illusion, either a collection of people or a machine :D (or half man-half machine. Like the Terminator)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:42:53.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:44:10.890" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can change it to community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T11:44:10.890" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-06-29T11:48:12.410" Score="203" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, just so everyone knows my rough routine, here's my timetable for weekdays. All times are UK time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6am: get up, shave, get dressed etc (no SO presence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6.15am: Check email/SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6.30am: Walk to station (tiny SO presence via Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7am-8am: On train/bus to work (SO presence via 3G)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8am-9am: Breakfast/coffee, possibly with a bit of SO first (no SO presence during breakfast)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9am: Work (some SO presence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 noon: Lunch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12.30pm: Work (some SO presence) or board games until ~2pm (no SO presence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4.30pm: Leave work, travel on tube (no SO presence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5pm: At station or on train (SO presence via 3G)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6pm: Walk home (tiny SO presence via Android phone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6.30pm: Dinner and putting kids to bed (usually no SO presence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7.30pm: Working (mostly writing), watching TV, going out etc (variable SO presence)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 midnight (ish): Bed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 12am to 6am UK time is the best time to catch questions before I see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I realise this is a boring answer to a frivolous question, but hey...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone wants me to share my location with them via Latitude, let me know :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: My weekend schedule is more variable. It usually involves taking the kids swimming between 8.15am and 9.45am, although I have my netbook with me then so I'm often on SO during that time. On Sundays I'm likely to be at church (or travelling to/from there) between 10am and 12pm, but might be on SO at virtually any other time. I tend to spend &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; time on SO at the weekends, but it really depends on what else is going on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-07T15:43:08.737" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T15:43:08.737" CommentCount="48" />
  <row Id="570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="601" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:06:44.330" Score="8" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to edit posts in SO - not for spelling errors or edit wars - especially when I see people struggle with the English language (I'm not of native English tongue either) or being downvoted because of poor expression. If the question is interesting, I sure go on editing to prevent it from being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I miss this in meta, as I do not have enough reputation. Could or should SO reputation be taken into account for the rights of operations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T14:39:15.933" Title="Editing based on SO reputation" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:12:41.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, those daily reputation &quot;attacks&quot; can't have hurt too much as they are only &lt;strike&gt;1&lt;/strike&gt; 2 points each. One upvote erases &lt;strike&gt;ten&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;em&gt;five&lt;/em&gt; down votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if you accepted the answer which gave you the &quot;ah-ha&quot; moment and modified your question by adding a &quot;thanks for the responses, I understand why this isn't a good idea now&quot; line, I think you would see that rep come back in spades. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T12:25:12.633" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:25:12.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:14:41.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would image that there are few internship/co-op positions listed because Fog Creek charges for the job placements. While the fee is justifiable for a company looking for a full-time, permanent savior, it makes much less economic sense for a short-term person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:14:41.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T12:14:41.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:23:25.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This gets exponentially more difficult to pull off as more people use their real names as their SO handles. In fact, only 2 people within the top 35 rep scores at the time of this writing do not use their full name and/or actual photo in their SO profile. You would be hard-pressed to convince anyone that you were Jon Skeet on StackOverflow if your name was Jimmy Johnson, you don't wear glasses and you weren't from the UK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you were to try and pass yourself off as Cletus, Shog9, TheTXI, etc. then that would be easier but non-trivial to fake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unfortunate that folks who do not know what they are talking about are able to fake their way through tech-interviews (happened at our company at least once in the past 2 years). These people are quickly removed and hopefully the organization is smarter for it. The individual that got through our process was hired on at 2 other area firms within 6 months of our firing him so it wasn't just us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T12:36:37.520" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:36:37.520" />
  <row Id="574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="570" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:23:52.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I miss the retagging and editing too, though I prefer to edit the titles - after all it's the first thing anyone sees so a poor title could lead to fewer views and fewer answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can only work within the rules laid down ultimately by Jeff &amp;amp; the other admins. The amount of rep required for voting up and leaving comments has already been reduced. I guess the others will be reduced if the admins feel it's necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this bring it to their attention that it might be an issue, but really only in the short term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:23:52.043" />
  <row Id="575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:31:01.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Co-Ops and Internships are generally handled via other avenues (such as directly working with local schools that are ready to supply businesses with fresh student talent). Advertising this sort of position does not make financial sense overall. If there was going to be any advertising, I would expect it to be a lot more local because it is not very common for people to go for internships that are not local, unless that opportunity came with things like free room and board and other big perks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:31:01.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T12:31:01.917" />
  <row Id="576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:31:08.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a mild/manic version number fetish and I have to resist looking at the number and trying to figure out what has change (by looking at UV / blog / codinghorror twitter)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So releasing this (or a version history) could prevent me going insane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:31:08.297" />
  <row Id="577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="534" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:32:20.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the answer to this is the solution being touted in the Podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An employer will pay to speak (send message) to users they are interested in. If any company doesn't want to pay then they run that risk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can opt-out so everyone is happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:32:20.853" />
  <row Id="578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:34:05.013" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two serious ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Big Day&lt;/strong&gt; -- capped out on rep in a given day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality Poster&lt;/strong&gt; -- (pick your metrics but let's say) last twenty answers yielded 50 upvotes, at least 4 accepted answers, and no downvotes &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really believe in a Quality Poster badge.  Would help distinguish professionals from rep-whores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Curmudgeon&lt;/strong&gt; -- last 100 votes, more down than up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:34:05.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:41:58.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are going to be hostile towards other websites that tend to cater to the same subject matter or work in the same methods. There has always been friction between Digg and Reddit because of their similar styles. There was friction between Digg/Reddit and sites like Slashdot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of this just comes down to territorial fanboyism. Just like you have Playstation fans denouncing the XBox and vice versa. People will find reasons to hate on the &quot;competition&quot; even if they aren't good reasons or the hate isn't justified in the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:41:58.100" />
  <row Id="580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:43:30.950" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rockefeller / Gates&lt;/strong&gt; - You have to buy it, and it costs 20k in reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:43:30.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="531" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:44:10.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a checkbox for hiding questions with your ignored tags in your profile. Also, setting your Ignored and Interested tags in your profile makes it permanent, no hacks required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:44:10.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:44:38.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they are moving from uservoice over to meta.stackoverflow (the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C'mon get meta&lt;/a&gt;&quot; blog post was updated).  Part of that is updating the &quot;uservoice&quot; text throughout stackoverflow.com. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T13:00:32.470" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:00:32.470" />
  <row Id="583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="531" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:47:59.943" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be a good addition to &quot;Show only Interesting tags&quot; with the current &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; feature in the user prefs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:47:59.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:51:24.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;obligatory&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Badges?  We don't need no stinkin' badges!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/obligatory&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the design of the system is that badges are &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; awarded for behaviour that we want to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt;.  &quot;Odd, random criteria&quot; would fall outside of that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, having a &lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt; here on the meta site specifically for badge suggestions would be a great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T12:57:39.780" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:57:39.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" />
  <row Id="585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:52:04.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct me if I'm wrong but there is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; rule that you're not allowed to talk about &lt;strong&gt;Meta-StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt; on &lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow meta**(2n+1)-stackoverflow discussion here, and meta**(2n)-stackoverflow discussion on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loops are far more efficient than recursion and we avoid stack overflow, too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130117" LastEditorUserId="130117" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T12:58:51.727" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:58:51.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="595" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:57:50.450" Score="9" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the addition of Server Fault and the future addition of Super User, I can imagine it gets relatively hard to keep track of all that is going on without having three windows open at the same time and constantly refreshing each of your recent activity pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible/feasible to create some sort of mini-site that would allow a user to keep track of their account statistics over all the sites and see the recent activity on them (new comments, answers, rep gains/losses, etc.) in one place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I am really looking for is almost a clone of the current Recent Activity page (the one you click on the envelope to get to) that would show the activity from all the sites (as long as you have them linked, such as with the same OpenID). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to take it another step forward, you could take the personal profile page and modify it to allow for the inclusion of all sites at one time as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:34:47.833" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:34:47.833" Title="Single location for SO/SF/SU user info" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2009-06-29T12:59:17.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of badges is to encourage good behaviors, and that's just as important here on the meta site as it is on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T12:59:17.217" />
  <row Id="592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:01:46.307" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in a comment, the best solution is to edit the question to reflect the fact that your ideas have changed, and mark the answer that changed your mind as correct. If you edit the question people will read and understand that you &quot;get it&quot;, rather than continuing to believe that you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:01:46.307" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="594" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:02:55.180" Score="13" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was asking another question on this meta site, I realized that because of its newness, I wasn't really sure what I should have tagged the question. A had the idea of using the tag &quot;helpmetagthis&quot; which could be used as an alert for editors in the world out there to lend a hand tagging questions which the original author isn't sure what it should be filed under. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this would be a good idea for the other sites as well. This would also allow people to keep it in their &quot;favorite tags&quot; list and allow those topics to be highlighted, giving those of us with a penchant for revision a chance to help out their fellow man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments, suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:43:29.463" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:47:06.383" Title="Proposed Tag - &quot;helpmetagthis&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="593" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:05:16.127" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is currently not a problem on SO (due to many current tags) But when hosted solutions and other SO sites pop up this could be even implemented as a feature for the moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like a little checkbox where the question gets tagged with some default tag when the user doesn't know how to tag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:05:16.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="587" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:07:50.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tabbed browsing helps a lot. If you read the questions you have to open it separately anyway. Maybe I should mention that I have 20 browser windows open and each contains at least 4 tabs.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;No, not all for SO ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But I'm browsing that way all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T13:24:52.273" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:24:52.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="603" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:11:31.820" Score="5" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which site would be the best site to ask database design questions? I don't mean the architecture like master-slave replication, because that would fit on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I were building a knowledge exchange like Stack Overflow, should I store the questions and answers in one table or should I have one question table and one answer table?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25741" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T15:01:02.420" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T19:13:16.383" Title="Which site for database design questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;site-rec&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="593" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:12:23.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the large number of overlapping tags can be a burden for not just new users but folks posting on topics which are new to them. I don't think, however, that 'helpmetagthis' is any more intuitive for new users. I know I certainly wouldn't think to try that as a newbie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I think the users should leave the tags blank (and have text which explains the usage) at which point the system inserts a &quot;tag help requested&quot; tag. Think of it as an &quot;other&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:12:23.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="596" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:14:12.470" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest StackOverflow for that as it is an application level decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you were to ask about how to install the database, that would be ServerFault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:14:12.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="602" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:19:08.073" Score="16" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall reputation scores are headed nowhere but up.  Pretty soon there will be thousands of mods.  What to do?  Thoughts on possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thousands of mods is fine.  Carry on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adjust the threshold values for high-level SO privileges.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do a straight-up inflation adjustment.  You had x rep, then at the turn of the year we applied the Consumer Rep Index to all scores, now you have (x / inflation) rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implement a rep decay mechanism, so that inactivity sheds some of the overall rep that's built up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T21:09:16.777" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T21:13:01.247" Title="What to do about rep inflation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="570" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:21:40.610" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep participating over here and your rep will be high enough in short order to do the editing.  I'm sure if the SO team sees that after a bit people aren't getting enough rep quickly enough to do these things, they will lower the thresholds, but I just started answering questions and in one day got 150 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll see a smaller community here, but probably much more active users.  Also there are a bunch of moderators on this site as well I believe who can take care of that role in the few weeks it takes people to build up rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:21:40.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:21:58.223" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Implement a rep decay mechanism, so that inactivity sheds some of the overall rep that's built up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this was discussed on some SO Podcast and was decided that it was a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thousands of mods is fine. Carry on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the idea, the idea is not that mods should be limited but that the system trusts users after x reputation. If it trusts a lot of people then that is great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:21:58.223" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="596" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:22:35.787" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Table normalization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Relationships&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indexing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Triggers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constraints&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Queries, Stored Procedures, and Functions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accessing the DB via code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ServerFault&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maintenance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Installation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mirroring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replication&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Backups&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are any other items which I may have missed, either alert in comments or edit answer yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:22:35.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:22:46.770" Score="8" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;Show Total Votes (or Up/Down Votes)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This has been asked before on UserVoice, but I'll ask it here as well.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the &quot;votes&quot; reported against a post are the net votes (up-votes - down-votes). Are we going to get an easy way (tooltip, AJAX expander, etc.) of finding out the individual scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason I ask is that I'm trying to go through deleting answers that nobody has voted on and are just one of many answers to a question so don't really add anything to the site. However, there is a difference between an answer that truly has no votes and one that has equal numbers of each type. In this case someone has found it useful even if someone else disagrees. It might also make me try to improve the answer too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, deleting the latter type of answer will cost me some rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T03:12:18.543" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T03:12:18.543" ClosedDate="2009-10-18T19:18:58.780" Title="Are we going to be able to easily see the separate up-votes and down-votes on a post?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:25:03.333" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is designed to make sure you are legit before you can start doing things.  So for example, it keeps spammers out because you actually have to participate just a bit in order to start using the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the higher levels, for moderator type privileges, reputation serves a slightly different role.  It basically confirms that you've been here long enough that you know how things work AND that the community as a whole considers you an experienced participant. In that regard, it doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with having a bunch of mods.  The community itself will also be growing and those moderators will be needed because the activity on the site will also have gone up as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the best part of SO is the willingness of the team to change the rules for the better as this work in progress continues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:25:03.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:26:12.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree a lot with what Olafur says about the mod count going up. There is a problem along the way though which was discussed for a time on Uservoice concerning some users who are seriously not up to the task of being an editor, but have still managed to achieve a rep score allowing them to be merely by posting hundreds of garbage questions which will almost always score some sympathy up votes along with the numerous down votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still believe that there should be some sort of ratio between Asked vs. Answered (and perhaps a ratio concerning their number of high score questions/answers vs. negative score questions/answers) before certain moderation capabilities are bestowed upon a user. This would ensure that you are keeping the users who simply &quot;don't get it&quot; from getting extra power just for sticking with it long enough and overall lowering the quality of the system itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:26:12.317" />
  <row Id="607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:29:45.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will always be newbies to the site - I do hope. Therefore the inflation adjustment would not work. Otherwise I would get the same rep as some active newbie soon would have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the boundaries for some of the operations, mainly the moderators will have to be adjusted over time (without anybody loosing his or her earned rights), but this is a trust site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something like: You are granted mod rights&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you have 4/5 of the highest rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you are on one of the n first pages in user stat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one could be used to grant mod rights on popular tags as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:29:45.833" />
  <row Id="610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:32:38.243" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First you'd have to convince Jeff that using a bug tracking system is actually a good idea...  Good luck :P &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:32:38.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:32:51.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be able to see your Positive vs. Negative score on your questions and answers by looking at your Reputation graph. If you include your entire timeline, you should have the scores on the right side that show the Positive vs. Negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:32:51.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:33:17.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;:shrug: just my 2c: stackoverflow is a lot more friendly than the newsgroups &amp;mdash; I'll take downvoting any day before incessant belittling and sarcasm. I'm a raving Microsoft-hater, but I just put all the M-$oft tags (C#, .NET, Silverlight, etc) on my ignore list and I'm happy as a clam. (Plus, you get to use Markdown/WMD here!!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:33:17.587" />
  <row Id="614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="619" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:36:19.297" Score="16" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of &quot;question&quot;, we would have &quot;book&quot; and instead of &quot;answer&quot;, we would have &quot;review&quot;. There might even be a way for Jeff and Joel to hook into Amazon so if someone uses books.stackoverflow.com to buy a book, they can be the referrer and get some money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is a good idea and works well on SO, then maybe SF and SU can get their own books section too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1058333/jquery-book-recommendation-and-can-we-have-a-books-reference-wiki-on-so&quot;&gt;this question on SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I should have clarified, but these would be books relating to the subject matter of StackOverflow (computer science, software engineering, programming), ServerFault (IT, system admin), and SuperUser (power user, software applications).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T13:44:31.443" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:44:31.443" Title="Can we have a books.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="614" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:40:15.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a good idea for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hosted version of stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:40:15.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="528" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:40:22.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to the twitter rss feed for the search &quot;stackoverflow&quot; and you'll see that the negative comments are less than 1% of all comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like Stu said, most of the bashing on Hacker News or elsewhere is from people that just have beef with Joel and Jeff and aren't really bashing SO itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:40:22.780" />
  <row Id="619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="614" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:42:58.407" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom made a point about it being a good idea for a hosted version of StackOverflow, which I could agree with more if it was towards a wider range of topics/audiences. But a book review section which is devoted to programming books I could definitely see as a fun and useful sub-area of StackOverflow.com itself. The idea about Jeff &amp;amp; Joel working out a partnership with Amazon or other book dealers is great as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:42:58.407" />
  <row Id="620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="614" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:43:33.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that they could do it. I just think that it would end up being more work than it's worth. As you point out, there are questions asking for good books to read on any given topic on Stack Overflow already. Do a search and you have your wish. Moreover, with the rate of new books entering the market, it could end up being a full-time job, keeping &quot;books page&quot; up to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:43:33.583" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:43:42.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than posting my email address in my profile for all to see, I'd like the idea of having a section of my user profile that is visible to other users that I designate as &quot;contacts&quot; (or &quot;friends&quot; though I hate that term). I'm somewhat paranoid about posting personal info to the general public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the need for private messages / chat / etc., however: it seems like it would be an unnecessary resource drain for this site, something that should be carried on in an out-of-band channel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:43:42.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:47:54.057" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the color scheme.  It treats the the meta site like a &quot;shadow&quot; of the real site.  Very appropriate, imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:47:54.057" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1404" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:49:25.443" Score="47" ViewCount="810" Body="&lt;p&gt;I less than one year, StackOverflow has &lt;strong&gt;accumulated 23,305 tags&lt;/strong&gt; (as of this post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should higher-end moderators have an interface to &lt;strong&gt;rename, combine, and delete tags&lt;/strong&gt; at the database level (i.e. beyond editing individual messages)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most changes would be fairly obvious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Formatting inconsistencies&lt;/strong&gt; like &quot;&lt;code&gt;visualstudio&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;code&gt;visual-studio&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;code&gt;visual+studio&lt;/code&gt;&quot; could be combined.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Word Variations&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;code&gt;reference&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;referencing&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;references&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obvious user error&lt;/strong&gt;: the tag &quot;&lt;code&gt;best practices&lt;/code&gt;&quot; becomes two  - &quot;&lt;code&gt;best&lt;/code&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;code&gt;practices&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obsolete or tags made irrelevant&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;code&gt;visualstudio2010beta1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be the fringe cases and judgment calls. If a proposed change is that controversial, it could be discussed here (meta.SO), where appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maintaining a completely sanitized tag cloud is difficult to impossible. I'm not even suggesting that. But there might be a place for a bit of routine maintenance and sanity checking. This is best done on an on-going basis rather than all at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T04:53:00.383" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:53:00.383" Title="Do 23,000+ Tags Need Tag Database Editors?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:50:39.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this suggestion best:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/206392-refund-downvote-cost-for-upvoted-comment-on-same-question-answer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/206392-refund-downvote-cost-for-upvoted-comment-on-same-question-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:50:39.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:52:12.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree that this is even an issue. Millions(!) of mods is kind of the point. The idea is that the site(s) are run by the masses, not by an elite few. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having users with ridiculous rep levels does not hinder a new person from gaining reputation except in the face of high-rep users commit fraudulent actions to keep someone down, and even for the highest level of moderator the damage that can be done is limited. This is all by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if they introduce some PvP features whereby Jon Skeet can buy better post tools than me I may change my answer but until then, I don't see this as an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:52:12.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:53:22.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tough call. I have quite a few questions where I haven't accepted an answer but I have upvoted several of the answers, because either no one's really hit the nail on the head, or there are multiple answers that are addressing different aspects of my question. Not sure how to handle these. Sometimes I wish I could accept 2 answers rather than just 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:53:22.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:54:14.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the biggest service that Rich B et al. serve the community is their tag updates.  Most of these formatting variations are edited to match the common tags.  I think you'll notice a large number of these 23000 tags have only one or two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, given the current level of moderation, I would think this is more or less a non-issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:54:14.917" />
  <row Id="629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="378" CreationDate="2009-06-29T13:57:57.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a long time I've been wishing there was a site/organization out there that would act as a broker between open-source customers, and open-source programmers... (maybe there is one?) I have situations like this myself: there's some simple tool I really want, or a simple feature I'd love to have added to programs I use, but I don't know how to do it myself, and I can't afford to pay someone lots of $$$. But I would be willing to pay $100 or $200/yr to some organization that would award $$ to programmers who fill in the gaps for small-project software improvements that don't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T13:57:57.387" />
  <row Id="630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="299" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:02:17.940" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;All badges should be silver on meta-SO. :)&quot; -- Bill the Lizard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the badges should be tin, silver, and platinum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:02:17.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:02:47.860" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding an extra interface for adjusting tags has been proposed and it was felt by the SO Team that it could potentially do a lot more harm than good and could cause some potentially catastrophic problems in even a minor mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't quite see what the title &quot;Needs Tag Editors&quot; means, because retagging is one of the very first moderation abilities given out. So that should mean that there are even more users (and more every day) who gain this ability to retag things as they come along (or go back and attempt to clean up the tags done in the past).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:02:47.860" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:03:07.593" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag cleanup is good in principle. Last tag I cleaned up was to remove 'gae'. 'google-app-engine' was much more popular and 14/15 of the 'gae' questions were also tagged with 'google-app-engine'. Well I got hit with CAPTCHA &lt;strong&gt;seven times&lt;/strong&gt; in that little stint of 15 retags. That is a &lt;strong&gt;serious&lt;/strong&gt; disincentive to do any kind of mass edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm not really surprised we've had a proliferation of redundant and pointless tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:03:07.593" />
  <row Id="633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:04:46.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would object to trying to clean up tags that have become obsolete, or irrelevant. I believe it would be too difficult to determine what technologies are no longer relevant. Perhaps with beta versions, it might be safe. But, outside of that, many people and companies are stuck, for various reasons, with technologies that perhaps should be obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm sure a lot of the tags that have only been used once could be cleaned up, and that might trim things down quite a bit. By my search, pages 190-332 of tags contain tags that have only one associated question, even just removing the bulk of those would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:04:46.200" />
  <row Id="634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:07:37.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gray-scale theme makes me think my monitor (or my eyes) are broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:07:37.520" />
  <row Id="636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="639" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:15:06.347" Score="-11" ViewCount="754" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of mention has been made of the seriousness of Stack Overflow (and presumably Server Fault). Would it be a good idea to turn &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;smilies&lt;/a&gt; :-) into actual images as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phpbb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phpBB&lt;/a&gt; in questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T20:08:04.033" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T07:34:23.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:15:06.347" Title="Should smilies be turned into images in questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:17:49.773" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will kill anyone who does this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just kidding! &lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/EmKca.gif&quot; alt=&quot;:)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="153011" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T19:19:58.630" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T19:19:58.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:17:49.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:17:51.660" Score="67" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please god no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:17:51.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:17:51.660" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:18:42.843" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;img src=&quot;http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1807/eek.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:18:42.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:18:42.843" />
  <row Id="640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:18:59.083" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no. I believe a humorous answer now and then is a good thing and perfectly acceptable. However, I would see adding graphical smilies as encouragement to use them and I don't think its behavior that should be encouraged. It doesn't need to be discouraged, but I wouldn't want it to be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:18:59.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:18:59.083" />
  <row Id="641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:19:59.160" Score="-11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The amount of emoticons a person uses on a professional site like SO.com is inversely proportional to their intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:19:59.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:19:59.160" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:20:19.707" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I wanted smilies, I'd go to Yahoo answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:20:19.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:20:19.707" />
  <row Id="643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:22:25.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a shame there's not also a measure of experience as well as trustworthiness.  It's frustrating to take the time to construct a well thought out answer, get a couple of up-votes and then see lots of up-votes for questions like &quot;In Java what's the difference between '=' and '=='?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127479" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:22:25.520" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:22:30.543" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Textual Smiles are fine. But all the graphics to represent them are lame. And it would be a shame to increase the &quot;graphics load&quot; of the finest text-only site on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4473" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:22:30.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:22:30.543" />
  <row Id="645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:23:02.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love getting information from SO. Apart from fun questions, smileys always iritate me (even ASCII character based ones). If you want to be sarcastic, hint that something is not to be taken seriously, I suggest rephrasing in most cases. There is the odd case of humor - which most the times speaks for itself. And do not forget people with non English background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most of all, inline graphics are most distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please do not add this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:23:02.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:23:02.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:25:50.317" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we are doing just fine with keeping the tagging sane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO.com is one of the (very) few sites where the tags are actually useful. That is quite an accomplishment in my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to help, stop throwing up that captcha and turn me loose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T17:39:45.047" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:39:45.047" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:26:57.910" Score="-9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Answer added for the purposes of downvoting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:26:57.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:26:57.910" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:29:41.587" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/p.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/l.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/e.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/a.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/s.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/e.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/n.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://f.friendster-tweakers.com/rsc/fts/ftsg7/o.gif&quot; alt=&quot;P&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:29:41.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:29:41.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:32:17.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of like the fact that you cannot delete it. Let it stand as a reminder that you should be cautious of the things you post and think things through more before posting .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have enough noise coming into the site, we don't need anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:32:17.663" />
  <row Id="650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:33:32.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's added, it should be an option. I kind of like them, but I think the development staff have bigger fish to fry. Besides... you can always do it manually if you must.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://forums.di.fm/images/smilies/music-smiley-014.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img701.mytextgraphics.com/sparklee/2009/06/29/d10c2358ad97064a460714887829e4b2.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may ban my account now:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastEditorUserId="130022" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T14:44:23.827" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:44:23.827" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:33:32.013" />
  <row Id="651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:33:42.450" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Allowed&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?  Are we going to have a new close option?  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Use of emoticons&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is a reason to close a post?!?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see it now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;Using Emoticons&lt;/strong&gt; by Ólafur Waage, malach, yshuditelu, TheTXI, dbr and Rich B&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:33:42.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:33:42.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:33:56.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An automated similar tag finder would be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should run overnight and find tags with similar spelling and present moderators with tag merge proposals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also could search for obsolete tags, say, with no more than 10 questions and no activity for last 2 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:33:56.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="663" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:37:01.070" Score="-2" ViewCount="543" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-on-se-sites&quot;&gt;Are expletives allowed on SE sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest people answer with a curse word/short phrase and if the votes on it are net positive then it should be acceptable on normal SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T14:31:02.040" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T14:31:02.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:46:20.937" ClosedDate="2011-05-17T17:58:40.873" Title="How much/what kind of cursing can people get away with on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:41:26.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done some 'fake' cursing in some comments on occasion, but would not go beyond that.  E.g.: The 'word' &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A4ck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;frak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which was used in the new Battlestar Galactica .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:41:26.817" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:44:01.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really care about smilies that much, use Firefox and write your own smiley-to-image converter in &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:44:01.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:44:01.240" />
  <row Id="658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:45:12.500" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't want to be the one drawing an explicit line in the sand as there are always edge cases. However, I would recommend to users to remember that they are creating an image of themselves by what they post, so be wise about what you choose to put out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:45:12.500" />
  <row Id="660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:46:11.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Implement a rep decay mechanism, so that inactivity sheds some of the overall rep that's built up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this. Decaying reputation points would only really effect people with low rep, not those with tens of thousands of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could have it decay logarithmically, so reputation decays faster the higher your rep, but &lt;code&gt;a)&lt;/code&gt; this kind of punishes the active users most, &lt;code&gt;b)&lt;/code&gt; reputation applies linearly, so if someone with 100k rep loses 1% a day, it takes much more effort for them to regain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea I had (although I don't think it'd really work in practice), is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/345/theoretical-question-hide-rep-above-10k&quot;&gt;hiding reputation above a certain point&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:46:11.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:46:27.473" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the flags I see, there are some delicate members of the community who will flag most any swearing. Personally, I like this - keeps if SFW etc. And I've yet to see a case where the swearing actually added anything to the post, where &quot;regular&quot; words wouldn't be more expressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what'll &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; get you whacked for 150 (or whatever) is mixing it with flaming/baiting - i.e. &quot;since {language x} is so f!&quot;£$ s$$$, what &lt;em&gt;decent&lt;/em&gt; tools can I use instead?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also regularly see people editing out cursing, and I'm 100% supportive of those edits. Again; it adds nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:46:27.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:46:27.473" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:55:24.160" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal rule of thumb: If I wouldn't say it to a boss, co-worker, or customer, I don't say it on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:55:24.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:55:24.160" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:55:58.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*puts on the joke hat*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone put a permanent filter on anything I say, so i cant &lt;code&gt;*******&lt;/code&gt; curse all the &lt;code&gt;*******&lt;/code&gt; time like I used to. &lt;code&gt;***&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;****&lt;/code&gt; it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's kinda hard to get the rage out. I even have some clbuttic swear words i use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:55:58.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:55:58.123" />
  <row Id="666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="102970" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:58:03.140" Score="35" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something I've wanted since the day the &quot;Responses&quot; tab was added: An RSS feed for replies to my questions/answers..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's feeds for about everything else, but not this.. The obvious problem is authentication with OpenID, since you need to be logged into access the feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible solution to this is, protect the feed URL with a unique token. This is how many private torrent trackers resolve authenticated feeds. Basically the RSS feed address would be something like &lt;code&gt;http://example.com/users/recent/0/recent.rss?token=94ff6f5039d60ea569182dcd3e64df7c&lt;/code&gt; and the user would have a &quot;regenerate token&quot; button should they wish to invalidate the old feed address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(the email responses option isn't what I'm looking for, and routing the emails through an email-&gt;RSS system seems kind of.. backwards)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:54:03.947" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:54:03.947" Title="RSS feed for my &quot;Recent Activity&quot; page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:58:23.343" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I like about meta.so.com vs uservoice is that it encourages the Q&amp;amp;A format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a uservoice mod, I see a lot of requests saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;I want you to do X&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, where 'X' is a specific way to handle problem 'A'.  'X' may or may not be very well thought out (often not), and there's no way to group together all the different requests that we solve 'A' without closing a bunch of them as duplicates, even though they don't all really ask for the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, a user is more likely to ask the question &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can we solve A?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and then provide their idea as the first answer.  IMO, this sets us up to have a much better discussion over the best way to really handle the problem.  It means when someone asks about the same problem we'll have a place we can point them.  If someone poses a solution before stating the problem, we have a way to handle it (edits).  Most of all, we have a way to vote among the different solutions, and a way to vote for items at the problem level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing uservoice does have vs stackoverflow is how it handles the voting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Better vote scarcity.  On meta.so.com, it will be too easy to just vote for everything that needs fixed, rather than forcing users to think about how they want to prioritize their votes.  As a result, everything has a high vote total and it's less clear which new features or bugs users really feel is important&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When voting on solutions to problems, you really want to be able to &lt;em&gt;move&lt;/em&gt; an upvote from answer to another better one rather than just vote for both.  But Stackoverflow locks your votes in place much too soon.  And you'd want to do this in a way that doesn't necessarily impact the rep score for the person from whom you just revoked a vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T15:19:09.493" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:19:09.493" />
  <row Id="668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-29T14:58:27.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think swearing using &quot;real&quot; or &quot;fake&quot; swearwords is appropriate on SO. It has been said that swearing shows a lack of vocabulary &amp;amp; using fake terms (IMNSHO) just jars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes we all swear when things don't work as expected, but it doesn't help coherent thought and what you want when posting a question you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; need answering it pays to be calm and considered - after all you might miss out some vital piece of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T14:58:27.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T14:58:27.290" />
  <row Id="669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="354" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:01:53.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that rather than attempting tag mergers there could maybe be a way of creating tag synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example '&lt;code&gt;t-sq&lt;/code&gt;l' and '&lt;code&gt;transact-sql&lt;/code&gt;' are made to be synonyms for '&lt;code&gt;tsql&lt;/code&gt;'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you'll have about as much luck as King Canute...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:01:53.600" />
  <row Id="670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:01:58.530" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like accepting an answer should resolve this. It shows you've read another persons answer and realised you were mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't work, I would edit the question to clarify, if that didn't work, mark it as Community Wiki (which makes you &quot;immune&quot; to reputation-changes from that question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:01:58.530" />
  <row Id="674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:11:40.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag input box does a great job of discouraging new tags, and encouraging the use of more popular tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retagging is also one of the first &quot;edit&quot; privileges you get (at 500rep), so there are more retaggers than people able to edit questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a section of the 10k-rep tools that shows newly created tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the community user already does tag-maintenance - it occasionally retags posts, for example I recall it retagging one of my questions from using &quot;editor&quot; to &quot;editors&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a question here &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354/batch-retagging&quot;&gt;&quot;Batch Retagging&quot;&lt;/a&gt; about this very topic - basically allowing users to suggest (larger scale) tag improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:11:40.893" />
  <row Id="675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="680" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:12:42.137" Score="11" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Unanswered&quot; button gives a page with already answered questions, just those not already concluded/checked as answered as well as those that don't have an answer with an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where can I find a list of all the questions that have no answers (zero answers, or 0 answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T08:09:34.870" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T08:09:58.097" Title="Is there a page that displays questions with zero answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:13:04.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't care if people choose to swear in their questions and answers.  I choose to keep my professional cap on when answering or asking questions here, and so my language is the same as that which I use when speaking to colleagues and clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that people should edit other people's posts to remove swearing, as I see this as censorship.  We don't need protecting from bad language, and if you are offended by swear words, you should simply avoid the question/answer, make that your protest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6085" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:13:04.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T15:13:04.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:14:25.410" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe what the unanswered button displays is all questions that have no accepted answer and no answer with at least one upvote. I believe the theory behind this is, if the question doesn't have an upvoted answer, there must not be a &quot;good&quot; answer yet. Additionally, I think this works well because it can add traffic to the question and get people to upvote a good answer that hasn't been seen yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:14:25.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:15:18.950" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really want smilies you can add them yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site could host a small number of often used smilie images so that you could do this for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![smile](/images/smile)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:15:18.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T15:15:18.950" />
  <row Id="679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:16:33.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be a good idea. Scope to pick up questions that the masses have skipped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:16:33.813" />
  <row Id="680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:16:47.870" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there isn't. Unanswered used to be exactly that, but this way it was found that just one answer, even if not helpful at all, excluded the question from the list. It was much less likely to get answered again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a threshhold would be interesting: show me unanswered questions with at most n answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; This was true at the time of writing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to find zero (0) answers, include the following in the search query: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0&quot;&gt;answers:0&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will result in all questions with no answer. If you use another number, it shows all questions with a minimum of so many answers. (answers:1 returns all questions with at least one answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T00:38:05.110" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T00:38:05.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:29:10.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not in the platform.  The unanswered page, as mentioned, shows both unanswered questions and questions with no upvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find unanswered questions using the data dump however.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/06/finding-old-unanswered-stackoverflow-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar has a post about just this.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:29:10.100" />
  <row Id="683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="593" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:29:38.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the exact same issue on &lt;code&gt;meta.&lt;/code&gt; (but not on StackOverflow).. That said, for someone &quot;new to tagging&quot; it can be quite confusing..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps next to the tag box there could be a &quot;Help!&quot; button - it would display a little box with a short description about tagging, and some suggested tags..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested tags would be generated by getting all the most used tags from the &quot;related questions&quot; (the ones displayed below the &lt;code&gt;Title:&lt;/code&gt; input)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also mention the &quot;helpmetagthis&quot; tag - although I'd suggest an alternative tag, as I think helpmetagthis is a bit hard to read (too many words, including the first 8 that spell &quot;help meta&quot;), maybe &quot;tagme&quot;, &quot;pleasetag&quot;, &quot;helpwithtags&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T17:34:32.810" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:34:32.810" />
  <row Id="684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="696" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:31:34.153" Score="7" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only interested in receiving new questions, and receiving each question once (for example, I don't care if it gets answers or comments - I don't want a question showing up in the feed more than once). However, I haven't seen this option, but I could have overlooked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T06:47:37.183" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:48:47.243" Title="Is there a way to get an RSS feed of all new questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:42:35.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the rep system is fine. And I think pegging it to the ability to edit other people's posts is fine since a history is displayed. I think that pegging it to the mod panel will go down as a very very bad idea. Why? Well it's the kind of thing that can get abused in so many ways without anyone ever noticing. How well they will have access to your ip, your email, your real name (if you gave it). It's a very serious privacy issue that needs &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; more control than it's been given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:42:35.607" />
  <row Id="686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="694" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:45:50.327" Score="40" ViewCount="1195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there ever a case where you would want to accept an answer, but not upvote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a single situation where this would be the case.. So would it not make sense to have the &quot;Accept&quot; button upvote the question too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T21:26:19.980" Title="Accepting answer without upvoting?" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="593" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:45:56.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, I like it. As a side note some of the tagging issues could be corrected automatically by a parser of even minimal intelligence. For instance how hard is it to have it realize that .net and dotnet are the same thing. How about excel-2007 and excel2007? A days worth of work could go a really long way. It's the proverbial low handing fruit:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:45:56.333" />
  <row Id="691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:49:11.723" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting w/out upvoting makes sense in one situation IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you end up using an answer that you don't like, but works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The check should not also upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:49:11.723" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="684" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:49:18.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is not, apart from using the data dump and creating it for yourself, which would be oddly outdated once you get it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I support the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:49:18.337" />
  <row Id="693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:50:42.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It never makes sense to accept without an upvote, but the functionality should remain separate. It is a good way to judge people who actually 'get it' and deserve your attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:50:42.500" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:51:01.767" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it is simple enough to cast an upvote and accept the answer, I don't a see a reason to constrain the user in this manner. I agree, I've never had a situation where I wasn't upvoting along with accepting. But, everyone has a different reason/rationale for upvoting, so I don't think the system should force that upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:51:01.767" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:52:14.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said it elsewhere but a lot of tag duplication happens of things like dashes and punctuation. For instance you will have vb.net and vbdotnet. Or vb6 an vb-6. Such errors could easily be fixed on the fly. Even if you had an admin maintain a lookup table say one day a month, I think you would see drastic improvement. You could also have a google-like &quot;did you mean X?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:52:14.383" />
  <row Id="696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="684" CreationDate="2009-06-29T15:58:34.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &quot;secret&quot; RSS feed, intended for bots which contains all new questions (it's used for &lt;code&gt;sobot&lt;/code&gt; in the irc.freenode.net #stackoverflow channel), but I don't think it's publicised, so I'm hesitant to link to it.. If you really want it, I guess the best thing is to email the SO team (the &quot;contact us&quot; link in the footer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's obviously there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&lt;/a&gt; - but that's only &quot;popular&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &quot;Planned&quot; Uservoice ticket &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/24713-provide-rss-for-all-views&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Provide rss for all views  &quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One comment on that ticket mentions you can get a feed of all questions for a specific tag: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/scala&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/scala&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T15:58:34.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:11:48.220" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one corner case which hasn't been mentioned yet: you accept an answer, but you don't have any votes left for the day :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:11:48.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="684" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:17:03.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can, with Yahoo Pipes.  Check out my answer to this related question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/224/monitoring-this-site-and-stackoverflow-and-server-fault&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/224/monitoring-this-site-and-stackoverflow-and-server-fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:17:03.357" />
  <row Id="699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:19:35.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe some people think that +15 that you already get for an accepted answer is enough and they want to save their upvotes for other questions/answers?  It's also possible that they're already out of votes for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't think it makes any sense to accept an answer without upvoting it (upvote means &quot;this was helpful&quot;, if it works and you're accepting it, it must have been helpful), but it's so easy to just click the other button I don't see any reason they should be combined into one atomic action.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T13:20:27.220" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T13:20:27.220" />
  <row Id="700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="714" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:24:49.407" Score="39" ViewCount="924" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that there is an upper limit. But why do you have to type at least 15 characters to post a comment?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It is easy to work around it anyway (like adding dots or other useless things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T14:57:26.137" LastActivityDate="2010-06-01T22:01:44.230" Title="Can we get rid of the threshold of 15 chars for comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:27:45.170" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you get a number of answers, none of which quite hit the mark, but there is one that gets you 80% of the way to a solution. That's one reason for perhaps not awarding an upvote AND the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other reason is, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/686/accepting-answer-without-upvoting/697#697&quot;&gt;as John points out&lt;/a&gt;, where you've run out of votes for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:27:45.170" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:27:48.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GitHub does something very similar thing - they simply show all commit messages (without showing diff's or anything like that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/changelog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/changelog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:27:48.370" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:29:10.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't reputation be like XP points in popular RPG games : If you have 100k, you only generate 0.1 rep for an upvote instead of 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:29:10.223" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="424" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:29:44.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was easier than I thought! Hurray for jQuery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are bookmarklets. Make a new bookmark (in your toolbar), give it a name and change the URL to the &lt;code&gt;javascript:&lt;/code&gt; code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SO/Hide Ignored&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hides any questions with ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:void($(&quot;.question-summary.tagged-ignored&quot;).hide())&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SO/Only Interesting&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only shows questions with interesting tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:void($(&quot;.question-summary%20+%20:not(.tagged-interesting)&quot;).hide())&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SO/Show All&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Undoes either of the above&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:void($(&quot;.question-summary&quot;).show())&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:29:44.887" />
  <row Id="705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:29:55.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of like it. It reminds us not to clutter up the page with a bunch of those &quot;okay&quot;, &quot;thanks&quot;, &quot;no problem&quot;... messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:29:55.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:30:23.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While 15 chars is easy to work around, it also prevents bonehead mistakes like clicking Add before you actually wrote anything, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:30:23.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:31:08.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can do more harm than good.  I once took it upon myself to change a bunch of posts tagged 'access' to 'ms-access' since the latter was more popular by 10:1.  Once I had retagged a couple dozen posts I ran across one that was asking about disk access and clearly had nothing to do with MS-Acess the application.  I then had to go back through and check each one I had already changed to make sure I hadn't mis-tagged anything (I had).  If retagging had been easier, it might have been some time before my mistake had been discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:31:08.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:32:54.457" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can put spaces between the last characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Yes                    .&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will work and looks like this &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Yes .&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to how HTML truncates regular spaces. (see my comment on the question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I like that there is a minimum. Kinda forces us to talk more about the item in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:32:54.457" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:33:59.993" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The types of questions asked on SO tend not to be yes/no types of questions and generally require a bit of explanation. Answers are, on average, a few sentences at least, and responders seem to enjoy posting thorough and detailed answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I suppose there's no reason to impose a minimum on trusted users with high enough rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130139" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:33:59.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:35:48.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes get two answers that are really close to each other in quality, and would like to accept both (but can't) &amp;mdash; so what I'll do is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept what I feel is the better answer, but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; upvote it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give the runner-up answer my upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider this to be a little more &quot;fair&quot; to the 2nd-place answerer, who gets 10 points from me. The accepted answerer is getting 15 points + the prestige of having the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:35:48.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="345" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:36:32.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep should correspond to some sort of naming ladder (like the various names of a character in role-playing games, although I hesitate to tout something so geeky).  This is done on other discussion boards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at 0-50 rep, you're a Novice, and it says so next to your name.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;At 51-250, you're a Coder&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;At 250-750, you're a Developer, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when you get to 10k rep, everyone is called an Imperial Hacker Of The Time-Space Continuum, or a Pooh-Bah, or whatever, your choice; but in any event, everyone gets the same name, clearly implying that once you get up there, you're pretty much all the same in some respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:36:32.310" />
  <row Id="712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="531" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:40:23.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a simple bookmarklet to do this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/424/restore-the-hide-ignored-tags-preference-to-the-interesting-tags-box/704#704&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (well, I wrote it to quickly hide &quot;Ignored&quot; tag questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SO/Only Interesting&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only shows questions with interesting tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:void($(&quot;.question-summary%20+%20:not(.tagged-interesting)&quot;).hide())&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make a bookmark, change the URL to the &lt;code&gt;javascript:&lt;/code&gt; code. It wont apply to every page, you'll need to click it for each page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to make it more permanent, you can paste the above code (minus the &lt;code&gt;javascript:&lt;/code&gt; part) into a new &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; script&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:40:23.207" />
  <row Id="713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:41:37.243" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current unanswered view works the way it does &lt;em&gt;because users asked for it&lt;/em&gt; to behave that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, it originally showed exactly what you're asking for now, but in practice it turned out that this is much less useful than showing questions with no upvoted or accepted answers for reasons mentioned by others. So someone filed a uservoice request, and enough people voted for it that it got the team's attention and was implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the current unanswered view is broken because you can't get a meaningful sort order.  The &quot;newest&quot; questions just match the front page early, and never change if you go to the last page. Questions in the &quot;votes&quot; sort have the same problem: the highest voted won't change, and the lowest voted match the front page.  The &quot;my tags&quot; sort is just a more targeted version of &quot;newest&quot;.  When you're viewing unanswered questions, what you're really looking for is a way to find old questions that you haven't seen before that perhaps you could answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T00:58:52.983" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T00:58:52.983" />
  <row Id="714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:47:03.393" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say no, it discourages comments like &quot;lol&quot; which don't really add anything of value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like you say, it's possible to work around the limit, but you have to go out your way to do so (I think it encourages good commenting in the way the badges encourages good questioning/answering)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:47:03.393" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:48:52.843" Score="7" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if I'm the only one who thinks this, but I think the &quot;alert bar&quot; (or whatever it's called - the orange bar that has badge notifications, etc.) on the top of the website is really annoying, because it moves the content of the page up/down. I would much rather see a lower-corner alert (a good example of this is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesixtyone.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thesixtyone.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this is a preference thing, but just wanted to throw it out there to see if others agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2039" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:37:52.160" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:37:52.160" Title="Alerts are annoying" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:52:16.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you are right. I just click on it and it is gone. But putting it in a corner would be an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:52:16.097" />
  <row Id="717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:53:42.847" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine I would often miss a badge alert if it was off in a corner.  I don't see a real problem with it the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:53:42.847" />
  <row Id="718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="724" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:54:46.260" Score="1" ViewCount="1465" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quantcast claims 1.8 mm unique visitors per month, and 17.2 pageviews per month: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't see this part but on Google Analytics it shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;3,768,298 Absolute Unique Visitors&#xA;18,180,413 Pageviews&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for the last month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pageviews seem to match up very closely.  Why would there be such a huge difference in unique visitor counts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It makes a big deal in the ranking scheme for quantcast.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:06:56.997" Title="Quantcast numbers vs. Google analytics numbers. Why the discrepancy?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:57:44.710" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just click the X and get rid of it. Adding in an entire preference setting and the logic behind it just to save yourself a single click is pretty absurd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:57:44.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:59:30.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As rep grows with time it will be less useful for judging the reliability of an answer.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Joel (allegedly) knows a bit about Excel's macro language - but he has less rep than a kid who has nothing better to do than post on SO all day.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So you could have a world expert on a particular topic with a rep of a few hundred and posts by somebody who knows nothing and a rep of 10K+.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we going to have to show rep only related to answers with the same tags ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:59:30.447" />
  <row Id="721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-29T16:59:39.447" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no issue with the bar. It gets your attention like it was designed to do, and it is easy to dismiss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T16:59:39.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:01:56.447" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must have more than &lt;del&gt;40 answers&lt;/del&gt; (make that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?page=30&amp;amp;tab=votes&amp;amp;q=user%3a6309%20isaccepted%3a1%20votes%3a0%20wiki%3a0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;150 answers&lt;/strong&gt; on non-wiki questions&lt;/a&gt; one year and a half later) &lt;strong&gt;accepted but not upvoted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Those questions are often posted  by &quot;occasional&quot; users with very few reputation points.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Most of them never accept an answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Some finally get the tick thingy, but completely misses the upvote (&quot;I have accepted the answer, now, why would I be supposed to do something &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in the meta question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/481/whats-the-single-biggest-barrier-to-entry-on-so/521#521&quot;&gt;What’s the single biggest barrier to entry on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, they simply do not know (and do not care).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="6309" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-10T20:05:28.657" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T20:05:28.657" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:03:04.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Bill the Lizard mentioned, automatic changing of tags can be very problematic.  I think that re-tagging really needs to be a manual effort because you have to read the post to figure out what the tags should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the re-tagging process needs some serious streamlining.  I occassionally try to do some re-tagging because I have slight OCD when it comes to organization of things, but it becomes incredibly tedious in a short amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we need is system that will support re-tagging in batches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 1:  Select Source tag&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Step 2:  Select Target tag&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Step 3:  System shows you posts with the Source tag one at a time.  For each post you say &quot;Source&quot;, &quot;Target&quot;, &quot;Other&quot;, or &quot;Remove&quot; to choose whether to leave the Source tag alone, convert it to the Target tag, convert it to some other tag, or remove the tag entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would make it very easy to convert tags but allow manual confirmation that the tag should be converted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2284" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:03:04.087" />
  <row Id="724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="718" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:06:56.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC Quantcast estimates the unique visitors from the users that are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info/Glossary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;carrying their cookie information.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Uniques are a standard measure of audience size available from sophisticated analysis tools including Quantcast. Although many tools label them &quot;visitors,&quot; uniques technically count the distinct cookies received from or sent to visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quantcast is the only measurement service to provide audience data for both unique cookies counts and people. The Quantcast inference-based direct measurement model takes into account numerous factors including the frequency of visitation and the respective balance between work and home access to build a translation of cookies to people that is unique to each digital media property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The model was introduced in June 2008 and is detailed in our white paper, 'Cookie Corrected Audience Data' available to view or download here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info/FAQ#FAQ-FAQ7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a courtesy, Quantcast provides 'rough' audience estimates for non-Quantified digital media properties. These rough estimates are just that - far from perfect. We strongly recommend non-Quantified publishers refine the accuracy of our reporting on their audience activity by joining the Quantcast Publisher program at absolutely no cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:06:56.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="354" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:09:51.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Automatic changing of tags can be very problematic. I think that re-tagging really needs to be a manual effort because you have to read the post to figure out what the tags should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the re-tagging process needs some serious streamlining. I occassionally try to do some re-tagging because I have slight OCD when it comes to organization of things, but it becomes incredibly tedious in a short amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we need is system that will support re-tagging in batches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 1: Select Source tag&#xA;Step 2: Select Target tag&#xA;Step 3: System shows you posts with the Source tag one at a time. For each post you say &quot;Source&quot;, &quot;Target&quot;, &quot;Other&quot;, or &quot;Remove&quot; to choose whether to leave the Source tag alone, convert it to the Target tag, convert it to some other tag, or remove the tag entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would make it very easy to convert tags but allow manual confirmation that the tag should be converted.  I don't think that it's possible to fully automate this process but the process described above would make things as easy as possible to correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2284" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:09:51.187" />
  <row Id="726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="758" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:12:15.610" Score="4" ViewCount="581" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or better yet: xyzzy.stackoverflow.com to test against?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA: sandbox.stackoverflow.com is a much better name, and better encapsulates my idea. Thanks dbr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150086" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:39:25.317" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:39:25.317" Title="Can we get a test.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;testing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2911" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:17:14.087" Score="8" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll start by saying that the tagging system on StackOverflow is generally very good, especially when compared with other sites.  But at the same time there is some obvious room for improvement and I am very much in favor of making it easier for users to tag things correctly and harder for them to tag badly.  For example, I think tags like &lt;code&gt;'and'&lt;/code&gt; should be banned, warnings shown if you use a tag with less than 10 other instances, tag synonyms checked at the time of a question is asked or edited rather than hourly, and a method created to propose tags for elimination or merging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But does bad tagging really cost the site much?  Obviously it costs the question asker, since bad tags can doom a question to oblivion, but that's not really what I'm getting at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I've thought that a lot of the site really depends on good tagging, but lately I'm not so sure.  Google, for example, won't use the tags for indexing.  And I've rarely used the tag search option on the site itself when I didn't have a pretty good idea exactly what I was looking for.  This could be improved by allowing a tag wildcard search to match the interesting tags code.  We lose some metrics data, but is that really important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest potential impact is when a question does not get answered &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of how a new user tagged their question, and as a result we lose that user. Will this happen often enough to be worth fighting for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T01:44:35.213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T01:44:35.213" Title="How much does bad tagging impact StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:21:32.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that bad tagging has much of a negative impact on the site thanks to the number of people who spend a lot of time combing through questions and retagging them to something more appropriate. This cuts down on a lot of the cruft. My previous suggestion for a &quot;standard&quot; tag to alert other users that a question needs help got mixed results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Previous Suggestion: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/593/proposed-tag-helpmetagthis&quot;&gt;Proposed Tag - 'helpmetagthis'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:21:32.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="593" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:27:51.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two problems with this for the main SO site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the two minutes it took for someone to notice and re-tag it it's already too late.  The RSS feed went out with bad tag information, and the question may have already dropped off the front page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You'd need to get users to actually use the tag.  Most of the bad tagging comes from people who think they know exactly what they're doing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:27:51.003" />
  <row Id="737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:30:11.463" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe tagging is a never ending job for the community to constantly improve. The tagging on SO.com is one of the best I have ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arguments and such that have resulted from editing and other things are a good and healthy part of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one of the biggest assets the team could give us would be to help us 'power editors' out by giving us a mechanism to bypass the captcha. My editing/retagging is greatly slowed and hindered by the captcha. If it were removed, I wouldn't mind taking on even more editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T17:37:06.627" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:37:06.627" />
  <row Id="740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:32:23.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it holds SO back more than it negatively impacts things.  If I had a lot of faith in tagging, I would use it more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems be bad etiquette (according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq/119628#119628&quot;&gt;sofaq&lt;/a&gt;) to clean up questions, tagging and retagging them and tweaking tag names; but I think that's a poor choice.  Giving people a blessing to go forth and surreptiously and unobtrusively change all duplicate and synonymous tags would greatly improve the system, in my opinion.  And some tags don't make much sense - &quot;hackernews&quot; and &quot;jquery-solves-everything&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:32:23.177" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:32:57.730" Score="2" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the new jobs board and podcast discussions on employers searching over stack overflow for information about applicants:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the most appropriate way to promote yourself using StaclOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T17:36:25.273" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T09:32:44.490" Title="What is the most appropriate way to promote yourself using StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;job&gt;&lt;self-promotion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="741" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:35:23.370" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Build up a reputation by providing many quality answers, and then include good information in the ad hoc section of your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:35:23.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="741" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:38:07.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to joel Coehoorn^s answer: put your flair on your website or blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:38:07.500" />
  <row Id="746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="741" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:38:44.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Double check spelling and grammar before posting.  A lot of employers will be turned off by minor grammatical errors.  Firefox has a built in spell checker if you need one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always go back later and edit your entries for accuracy too.  Maybe have someone proof your grammar.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might take some of your top rated answers / questions and expand them to be more complete.  Then include a reference to those answers in your resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:38:44.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1007" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:39:02.537" Score="116" ViewCount="1767" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question, it would be nice to see the &lt;strong&gt;total number of votes&lt;/strong&gt; as a little tagline underneath the total vote score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/9I3Ab.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to see the difference  between:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+0 (0 votes)      &amp;lt;-- of little interest (0 up, 0 down)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;versus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+0 (214 votes)    &amp;lt;-- controversy (107 up, 107 down)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could show the individual up/down totals (+12, -15) but I thought a simple total might be somewhat cleaner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T14:38:00.460" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T14:38:00.460" Title="Show Total Votes (or Up/Down Votes)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:41:09.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I only &lt;em&gt;occasionally&lt;/em&gt; use the tagging feature to find/filter anything on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where tagging is sometimes useful is in questions where a specific version of a product or tool isn't mentioned in the body text, but is specified in the tags. For example SQL Server or C# versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did used to try and highlight/ignore questions by tag but found that I missed out on good stuff I'd never really had an interest in before, or the question highlighting would be distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO's tagging is OK, it's no worse/better than many other tagging implementations driven by their own communities, and personally I've never really found tagging systems that effective or ideal anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:41:09.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:42:44.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely this should remain private.  While one has no hard expectation of privacy on the internet a degree of casual anonymity lets you answer questions without people stalking you through your ID.  Answers may not be universally popular.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Economist&lt;/em&gt; publishes anonymous articles for the same reason.  In order to get experts to write on potentially controversial material they have to offer an anonymous forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case my Stackoverflow account is &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of my web presence apart from a few posts to archived mailing lists.  From this perspective I would rather not facilitate casual stalking by third parties.  I do not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; want random recruitment agents or prospective employers seeing my stackoverflow account unless I specifically decide I want them to.  Not being able to control that could have financial consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting real (non deniable) identity information about a SO poster should require a court order or gross/illegal violation of somebody's terms of service (read: compromising an OpenID provider).  I also suspect that casually revealing identifying information would violate privacy laws in quite a few jurisdictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:42:44.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:50:14.677" Score="22" ViewCount="484" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a couple of kinds of behavior that seem to crop up in the SO community, and it really seems to artificially boost reputation. There may not be a solution (or it may not be a problem!) but here are some thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is the fact that &quot;celebrity&quot; users, or users with lots of reputation, are treated significantly better than others. Take Joel Spolsky's most recent question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;&quot;How do you move the turtle in LOGO?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed, opened, closed, and re-opened. And the question has earned Joel - what - &lt;s&gt;1030 reputation&lt;/s&gt; 103 votes, and lots of reputation! Wow! I'm not saying that Joel's question is a bad one. But lets compare to other questions that one might consider to be in the same equivalence class - easily answerable, specific questions, short questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/129/how-to-export-data-from-sql-server-2005-to-mysql&quot;&gt;How to export data from SQL Server 2005 to MySQL&lt;/a&gt; (5 votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25/how-to-use-the-c-socket-api-in-c-on-z-os&quot;&gt;How to use the C socket API in C++ on z/OS&lt;/a&gt; (5 votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=1&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;hightest-voted questions&lt;/a&gt;, I can hardly find any which are specific technical questions. So that Joel's question was so upvoted could only mean that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was upvoted based on his celebrity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People have been interpreting the questions as a sort of zen-like wakeup call, designed to get people talking and thinking about they way they vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not mean any disrespect toward Joel, and again, I think his question was a good one. This post isn't about Joel! But the boost in reputation did not (imho) mean &quot;Joel is really good at programming, and he has earned my trust as someone knowledgeable about computers.&quot; &lt;em&gt;It may be true&lt;/em&gt; that Joel is a proficient computer expert, but not based on the merit of that one question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to an example about myself. I recently gave &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1044229/i-found-a-php-script-in-a-gif-file/1044293#1044293&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (130 reputation) to a question about PHP's image-creating libraries. I am very appreciative of the community's support for my answer - an answer which I believe was well-thought and that I put effort into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At the same time&lt;/em&gt; I can't look someone and tell them, with a straight face, that my reputation is a great reflection of my computer-related knowledge. Billions of people on the net have created tutorials for PHP's GD image library - I just happened to be the person to post a few of them. Heck if I know why it got 13 votes! (oh, but please don't downvote it!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is built by the community - so the community absolutely gets to decide what questions are important, and how they choose to dispense reputation. But in practice, I feel like peoples' reputation would be much lower if the community were more discriminating about the way they voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: am I totally off base here? Is this even something that can be corrected with a different reputation algorithm? Or am I the only one who sees this as a detriment to the SO community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And, to be completely clear, I do not intend for this to be an &lt;em&gt;ad hominem&lt;/em&gt;, and I am not jealous about not having a higher reputation. But I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; take reputation with a grain of salt, in part for these reasons, and I thought I'd bring it up! It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; meta, after all!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:05:16.567" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T10:02:52.283" Title="Upvoting based on celebrity, too many upvotes (&quot;excessive rep slurping&quot;)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;celebrity&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="881" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:52:53.640" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;My StackOverflow account is becoming difficult to use, since I cannot move my questions effectively to ServerFault and, in the future, SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to move about a hundred of my questions to ServerFault, and another hundred to SuperUser. However, the movement of questions does not work effectively at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get a red box for each movement of a question. One hundred movements would mean one hundred red boxes. This would make the use of SO even harder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An example of red box which you get when you move your question to SF&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/redBox.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The box shows zero answers which I see irritating, since the question contains answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, please add better question organization tools StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T08:12:17.007" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T08:12:17.007" Title="Unable to use SF effectively with SO" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:54:25.510" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would actually like to see something like this for new moderators. There are numerous new tools available, one of which is recalculating individual users' reputation. As a test, I recalculated mine and I lost the 99-point rep boost that everyone has when they start here. I emailed Jeff to see if he could restore it, but I haven't heard back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some other tools that I'd like to try out (like deleting/destroying users) but I don't want to junk up this site with test accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:54:25.510" />
  <row Id="756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="741" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:56:10.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a few MVP types deliberately promoting their own sites on SO and SF.  There is a fine line between this and spam but as long as the material is relevant I don't see any issue with blowing ones own trumpet.  If the postings are offensively spam-ish they will get flagged so the system has built-in checks and balances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really use SO as a promotional tool (although possibly I could).  Some of my longer answers are verging on white papers and might be worth rehashing as such.  I think that a personal or professional web site is probably a better front-end but you could link to particular SO answers if you have anything you are particularly proud of.  The reverse is also true.  If you have a site with significant material (even a halfway decent technical blog) you could fan out to it from SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastEditorUserId="15401" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T09:32:44.490" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T09:32:44.490" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:56:51.103" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your Stack Overflow reputation is a measurement of how much the system trusts you.  It is not, nor was it ever intended as, a measurement of how good a programmer you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:56:51.103" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:57:41.413" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;SandboxOverflow&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been times I'd want to try something about the StackOverflow site without touching the actual site. I can't remember specific examples, but one would be deleting my own answer when a bounty is issued, or how negative reputation is handled etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site could be reset every 24 hours, perhaps even users (with over x reputation on SO/SF/SU) could create (temporary) accounts with specific privileges/reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ and sofaq tag has satisfied most of my curiosities, but it could prove useful..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:57:41.413" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:58:37.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts can be re-tagged by people with sufficient rep and many people do tidy up tags.  An example of this is SQL Server, which generates many redundant tags.  The user community does a fairly good job of keeping the tags tidy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:58:37.917" />
  <row Id="760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T17:58:44.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a limit of 200 reputation per day, Joel probably didn't actually garner 1,030 repuation from that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Old answer (apparently incorrect)&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, Joel Spolsky only garnered &lt;strong&gt;300&lt;/strong&gt; reputation from that question. The max limit for a given question is 300. Any reputation accrued after the 300 limit is 'lost', as it were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T17:58:44.923" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:00:28.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree this is something of an issue. Or at least, it is a very good reason to not simply judge people based on the number of their rep. It happens every week with whatever question Joel and Jeff discuss on the podcast. However, I really expect that's nothing that can be done, other than being a wise consumer of the data presented by SO. Your rep is a number, based losely on &quot;how much the system trusts you&quot; and somewhat on &quot;how good a programmer you are&quot;. And even, somewhat on &quot;how good a writer you are&quot;. The key is, if you're trying to evaluate a user, look at more than just their number, look at how they achieved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have even noticed it with my own reputation, as my rep has gotten higher, I've found it easier to get reputation. Part of that is likely because I've gotten better at clearly stating my opinion/answer. However, I certainly recognize that part of it is that basic psychology plays into how people vote and therefore, they are more likely to vote for an answer by someone who has established reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:00:28.397" />
  <row Id="765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:01:38.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click the [x] the bar disappears until I click onto a question. Then it appears again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:01:38.190" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:01:56.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course guys like Jon Skeet attract more rep, because they already earned a lot (emphasize on &quot;earned&quot;).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But don't make the exception (Joel asking about turtles) the rule. Joel is very famous in this community and the question was obviously simple. The question got popular because of this contrast. It make people think &quot;What does Joel intend?&quot;. And they tried to show their respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:01:56.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:02:42.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem to be any different than real life. If Steve Jobs says he has an idea for a new application, many more people will &quot;notice&quot; what he has to say than if I come up with the next best iPod killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sarcasm&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just become one of the &lt;strong&gt;leading software-industry commentators&lt;/strong&gt; since the earliest days of blogging, co-found a web site that attracts &lt;strong&gt;30-40% of the world's programmers&lt;/strong&gt;, start a podcast that &lt;strong&gt;1000's of people download&lt;/strong&gt; weekly, make an off-comment plug for a post you are going to make...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and you can have a few thousand extra &quot;reputation points&quot;, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:02:42.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:05:09.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't get hung up on reputation. It's not real money or measure of self worth. It's only marginally better than certification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:05:09.103" />
  <row Id="771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:07:52.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to being (sort of) a measure of programming skill and writing ability, reputation serves as a metric for how much time and effort you put into the community.  Someone like Jon Skeet, who visits SO daily and continues to answer questions even after he's hit the daily cap, should have an enormous rep IMHO.  Said another way, SO can only give you what you put into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130126" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:07:52.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:08:34.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Esoteric questions are only of interest to people working with that item.  For example, there are many questions about WPF Minutae on Stackoverflow which I don't look at because I am not using WPF.  I have asked questions about SANs that got no answers because very few people care about or work directly with SANs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean to say that WPF isn't important to people working with it.  I just don't work with WPF so I don't read WPF questions.  SANs can be very important to those working directly with them but many people aren't directly involved with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Populist questions are the most accessible so the most take interest in them.  Therefore they get the most traffic.  The rep system is just a heuristic - it's not perfect.  Bear in mind that it was designed to encourage people to answer questions, not to be an objective metric of their 1337-ness.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:08:34.227" />
  <row Id="774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="785" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:10:02.150" Score="4" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does StackOverflow mean to you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it simply a place to get questions and answers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it is a community where you enjoy being around people like you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:59:01.120" Title="What does StackOverflow mean to you?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:12:11.380" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a place where I can see a big number next to my name (and the badges don't hurt either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've lurked at programming sites before, but never participated. Then one day in September I saw a question on SO that looked easy, so I signed up and answered it. Then I got upvoted. Then I got a badge. Then I couldn't stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also do quite a bit of editing, mainly because I like making things better; it drives me nuts when I'm on any other forum and I can't edit anyone's posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for all that, I would likely have gotten bored and left months ago if it weren't for that number at the top of the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T18:20:31.907" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:20:31.907" />
  <row Id="776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:12:15.280" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like StackOverflow because it gives the me the ability to contribute and promote growth. I typically try and facilitate this with my editing and moderating abilities. I have been around since the beta, and I have enjoyed watching StackOverflow grow into an overwhelming success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think I played at least a small part in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:12:15.280" />
  <row Id="777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:13:24.620" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly it's a place where I can find answers to my questions.  Partly it's a MMORPG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:13:24.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:17:17.280" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a user of stackoverflow, I noticed a phenomenon which quite decreases the quality of answers, that is, showing the first answer first (then, according to up-votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice that, specially in easier questions, people rush to give an answer quickly, that is satisfactory, but with speed having a higher priority than quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest that, after someone asks a question, the answers just appear like 10 minutes later, not in creation time order (maybe random, maybe according to reputation, I don't know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be an incentive to giving a more complete and detailed answer, rather than a quick and dirty one. What do you guys think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130149" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T18:21:38.277" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:21:38.277" Title="Suggestion for getting better answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="781" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:17:31.273" Score="3" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/429/shouldnt-meta-stackoverflow-com-become-metauser-com&quot;&gt;Shouldn&amp;rsquo;t meta.stackoverflow.com become metauser.com?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like it would make sense to have a meta.serverfault.com and meta.superuser.com that are seperate instances for discussion of each of the respective parent sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this going to happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-27T00:12:48.183" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T00:12:48.183" ClosedDate="2009-06-30T06:52:22.237" Title="Will there be a meta.serverfault.com and a meta.superuser as well?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;per-site-meta&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:17:40.913" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I view it as a place to increase my skills and abilities in multiple ways. First of all, obviously, is technically. As a c# programmer there are many areas of the .NET framework I've never had to touch, but I've learned at least bits an pieces about many of those areas from SO. Additionally, I believe it has improved my communication skills. By trying to provide answers that get upvoted, I've had to learn to communicate my thoughts better. I believe this is immensely important to my day job because any time you work with a team, your ability to communicate and show people why you think what you do is extremely important. And finally, as my knowledge and answers have improved it has been a source encouragement and validation of my talents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:17:40.913" />
  <row Id="781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="779" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:18:50.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wish it was just a singular meta site instead of meta.stackoverflow.com that way you don't have to have the possibility of the same junk being asked in three different locations. Then you could just add an appropriate site-specific tag if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:18:50.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="779" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:19:18.413" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no. They are all based on the Stack Overflow Engine, so there is only a need for one meta site as all meta discussion should be relevant to all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:19:18.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:19:56.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that has been addressed on the podcast several times.  The current perspective by Jeff and Co. seem to be that there is real value in having a correct (albeit brief), immediate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are long and thorough will be voted to the top of the stack eventually in a majority of cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:19:56.930" />
  <row Id="785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:21:18.457" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think StackOverflow is a place where even the most beautiful prancing unicorn is no more important than the smallest dust mite.  All shall have their chance at glory in the cage, but only one can be crowned Supreme Lord of the Rainbow Sphere!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I've been licking a lot of brightly-colored toads lately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:21:18.457" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="779" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:21:19.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having separate sites would keep the meta sites much cleaner. Having to partition each site's topics using tags is bound to be messy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just the simple fact that they used 'meta.stackoverflow.com' seems to imply to me that there will be separate sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:21:19.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="779" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:21:57.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. From my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/429/shouldnt-meta-stackoverflow-com-become-metauser-com&quot;&gt;&quot;Shouldn’t meta.stackoverflow.com become metauser.com?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[meta.stackoverflow.com] is engine-specific metaness, and the engine is called &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;, still.. so I think it's appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We also have (thanks to Tom Ritter) the domain &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflowoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflowoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; pointing here as a redirect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:21:57.580" />
  <row Id="789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:23:44.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/778/suggestion-for-getting-better-answers/783#783&quot;&gt;Jeffrey&lt;/a&gt; said, there is value in a quick answer many times and over time the better, more complete answers tend to float to the top. But I would add, if you're looking to learn something from a question, be a smart consumer and don't assume the right answer is at the top or even the accepted answer. This is especially important, because I would imagine a lot of the time you're not looking for an answer to the same exact question, but a similar question/issue, and therefore you need to be able to apply the answers to your own situation and not be fully reliant on the vote system. The voting system is a tool, not the end all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T18:29:14.693" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:29:14.693" />
  <row Id="790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="967" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:25:29.117" Score="2" ViewCount="369" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to evagelize StackOverflow at user groups, conferences, students and others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What mention in presentations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't programming related, but it's relate with StackOverflow. Maybe belong to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T05:58:20.247" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:52:01.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T18:26:05.997" Title="How to evangelize StackOverflow (ServerFault and SuperUser)?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:27:32.077" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you getting paid?  Why even ask this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have passed on the word, of course.  That's pretty much all it takes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best line:  &quot;You know &lt;a href=&quot;http://experts-exchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;expert sex change&lt;/a&gt;?  Its like that, but it doesn't suck.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:27:32.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T18:27:32.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:30:15.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most high-rep people answer quick then re-evaluate their answers and edit them to provide more details and content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, however, the thing that most results in low-quality answers is selecting a correct answer too early.  It suppresses the desire to provide a similar answer but with more detail or with a slightly different twist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:30:15.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:30:20.027" Score="5" ViewCount="555" Body="&lt;p&gt;I no longer use the service that I originally used to register, and would like to change my OpenID provider to another account, or at least add a second account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible? How do I change my OpenID provider or associate a backup OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164437" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-01-31T13:28:34.460" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T09:06:06.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:54.673" Title="How do I change my OpenID provider(s)?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:35:18.187" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll give you a hint.  So far, 16 and 29 are the only missing numbers in the sequence.  29 is a badge (secret) and 16 is just a gap in the identity field for that table, which as gnovice points out was the number for the original &quot;Specialist&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T22:33:06.470" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:33:06.470" />
  <row Id="797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:35:59.153" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a steel, to keep me sharp. Not that my job doesn't challenge me day-to-day, but those challenges tend to be in the same areas; SO exposes me to problems and ideas that i wouldn't normally encounter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it lets me purge latent obsessive tendencies by fixing typos in other peoples' posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:35:59.153" />
  <row Id="798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:36:01.383" Score="1" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;The suggestion (&lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt;) is that we take SO discussions here rather than conduct them on SO.  But one of the things I've looked for in a sister-site is the ability to ask things of the community that aren't programming related.  Or to just be unprofessional and generally dopey when the desire strikes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will it fly?  Or is this still not the place for off topic and jerky behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be an offtopic.stackoverflow.com in that case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-02T21:19:52.410" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T21:19:52.410" Title="Can we ask stupid questions here or give stupid answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;off-topic&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="798" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:36:47.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YES          !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask whatever you want.  I wouldn't go so far as to say you can ask totally off topic posts (you'll see that people will delete them) but you are going to have MUCH more leeway here from the community I expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally welcome your stupid questions. (although maybe not your stupid answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:36:47.013" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="798" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:38:59.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ask whatever you want, but that doesn't guarantee you're going to like the way the community rewards you for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:38:59.473" />
  <row Id="802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:41:06.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With Stackoverflow I can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer questions for fun - recreation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amuse myself while waiting for long winded batch jobs to finish - kill time&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get a sense of helping somebody by ... helping somebody - participate in a community&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get help with problems - better tech support than most vendors&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pontificate on topics that interest me - can't be arsed setting up a blog&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learn by digging around further to answer a question that I know part of the answer to - self improvement&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learn stuff I didn't know by reading answers - self improvement&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally get pats on the back for stuff that people appreciate - warm fuzzies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally get lots of upvotes for writing a good answer - sense of achievement&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:41:06.600" />
  <row Id="803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="798" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:41:38.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the site being for meta, there is a topic. We should stay on topic and professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/339/is-meta-stackoverflow-a-free-for-all&quot;&gt;free for all&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:41:38.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="747" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:42:30.667" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators and 10K rep users get access to the &lt;strong&gt;vote velocity&lt;/strong&gt;, or the amount of upvotes and downvotes for a given question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this information is already available, I can only surmise that it wasn't included for one of the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Performance hit for providing that information for every action request on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To not 'encourage' excessive voting (both up and down) for a topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because it's not really 'important' across an aggregate context.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:42:30.667" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="798" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:43:47.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a primary forum, a meta forum, a server forum.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/62/should-there-be-additional-parallel-boards&quot;&gt;There should be an offtopic forum&lt;/a&gt;.  There should also be a community forum (community wiki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:43:47.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:51:58.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I view rep here as different. It means nothing about you, your trust, or your knowledge. But I'm not sure what it does mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote up a &quot;question&quot; when I think it raises a good, valid point or suggestion. I vote up an &quot;answer&quot; when I think it provides a good solution to the &quot;question&quot;. I vote down when I don't think it's a good idea or it's a subpar solution. If I don't vote, I don't have an opinion (I don't care, it doesn't matter to me, I'm not sold yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:51:58.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="818" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:52:15.433" Score="7" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to see a Meta Badge that pegs you for having more rep on meta than on the main SO site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talks about talking about code much more than asking or answering questions about code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what it would be called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="439" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T02:00:08.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T02:41:46.090" Title="meta specific Badge idea" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="815" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:56:54.313" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not sure what it would be called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphaloskepsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Omphaloskepsis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:56:54.313" />
  <row Id="819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2009-06-29T18:57:40.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if you disagree with something on here you should articulate &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you disagree instead of just downvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T18:57:40.023" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="230" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:04:22.737" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree to some degree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's argument&lt;/a&gt; about how duplicates increase visibility by making it easier/more likely to find a question when searching (since different people will word questions differently). As such, I don't see any problem with multiplying the &lt;em&gt;signal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't see &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; value in multiplying the &lt;em&gt;noise&lt;/em&gt;. Having multiple copies of black-and-white, programming-related questions can be helpful, but having multiple copies (exact or very near duplicates) of gray, non-programming-related questions seems pointless. How many questions are really needed for tangentially-related discussion-y topics? Are many copies really needed for jokes, or influential video games, or &quot;Should I get a Master's?&quot;, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I think the programming-related nature of the question should dictate whether a duplicate is deleted or not. If it's off-topic and/or subjective discussion, pitch it. Otherwise, let it be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T19:04:22.737" />
  <row Id="824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:08:14.520" Score="6" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Favorite data is not exactly confidential; I can go to a user's profile and see everything they have as a favorite. Why isn't there an easy way to see who marked my questions as favorite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2011-06-12T14:08:52.747" Title="I want to see who marked my questions as favorites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="815" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:08:57.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/18/the%5Fbastard%5Fhits%5Fcruise%5Fcontrol/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cruiser&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hate the company cruiser. And every company has one - the person who doesn't really have a job outside of collecting stats on how winnable the Solitaire game on their desktop is. But so as to disguise this fact, they spend most of their time out of their office &quot;working&quot; with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T19:08:57.030" />
  <row Id="826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="270" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:10:56.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation in this site means pretty close to nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree, downvote, preferably with a comment, and if you agree, upvote. It's not really a big deal as far as reputation goes the loss of 2 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T19:10:56.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="824" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:11:29.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way to do this directly (Stack Overflow provides no mechanism to do so), but sometimes you can use Google to find out. As an example, suppose you wanted to find out who marked &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet Facts?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; as favorite. Just search for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Jon Skeet Facts?&quot; site:stackoverflow.com inurl:favorites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jon%20Skeet%20Facts?%22%20site:stackoverflow.com%20inurl:favorites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T19:11:29.100" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="815" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:22:39.650" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about you call it the &quot;Gym Teacher&quot; badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Those who can, do. Those who can't&#xA;  do, teach. Those who can't teach,&#xA;  teach gym.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T19:22:39.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="834" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:32:56.990" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anybody else having problems with Firefox in SO today? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;can't vote  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;toolbar of edit body doesn't show  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;close options window doesn't show up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on? IE seems to work fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9611" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T01:39:54.810" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T01:39:54.810" Title="Problems using SO with Firefox" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="832" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:34:43.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens sometimes when somehow the jQuery gets messed up and cached this way. Just force a hard refresh of the site or clear your cache and you should be good to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T19:34:43.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="832" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:35:08.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm running Firefox 3.0.11 and haven't seen any problems, other than slow loading pages (so some JavaScript stuff isn't available until I manually stop the loading of the page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T19:35:08.233" />
  <row Id="841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:53:36.970" Score="6" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;meta&quot; makes sense as url for general discussion about the site and engine, but not as the primary mechanism for feedback, bug reports, or feature requests.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, feedback.stackoverflow.com should redirect to meta.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T21:05:39.940" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T21:05:39.940" Title="feedback.stackoverflow.com should also point to meta.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="844" CreationDate="2009-06-29T19:57:34.620" Score="5" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just accidentally discovered MetaSOFlow today - wouldn't it be wise to create a header listing all of SOFlow's sister sites at the top of each site to allow for better discovery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/842/stackoverflow-sister-sites/905#905&quot;&gt;a greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; to do this for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T10:46:25.597" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T07:33:14.093" Title="Easy Navigation Between Stackoverflow Family-Sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:00:11.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be even more userfriendly if questions would not only get closed but also moved toward meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69424" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:00:11.743" />
  <row Id="844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="842" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:01:01.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the wasted screenestate to the left of the login bar might be used for linking to the other sites...Right now, there are only three sites (SO, SF, SU) and meta. However, I think a dropdown menu linking to the three main sites might be useful to some people, as long as it isn't distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T20:11:41.077" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:11:41.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="842" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:01:16.733" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be a better place for it somewhere on the page, but it's definitely there already (and the &quot;feedback always welcome&quot; link also directs here as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:01:16.733" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="97" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:02:00.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They already have this implemented... I closed one with that reason already. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:02:00.883" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="747" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:02:01.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might make sense to show it on a users own question, since they basically can see this information by the reputation they gain/loose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to know, you can determine this easily enough using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO data-dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure what you gain by having the information easily visible, since it could be misleading (say if a question was crappy, so it was down-voted, edited then voted back to a positive number). I think the final score is all that really matters..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:02:01.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="842" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:02:54.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The links are at the bottom. I don't think moving the links upward would be a good choice, as I wouldn't expect most typical users to care. They want answers to questions. The more &quot;dedicated&quot; users who are interested in the overall community, I would expect to follow the blog and other related things that would help direct them to new areas/features as they are added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:02:54.140" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="859" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:13:33.770" Score="8" ViewCount="941" Body="&lt;p&gt;I listened to Jeff saying that superuser.com is the 3rd in the trilogy. I guess that makes meta the 4th in the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you remember that Douglas Adams continued to call his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a trilogy even after books 4 and 5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1463" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:29:09.953" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:29:09.953" Title="The 4th in the trilogy" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:15:06.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is the fourth in the trilogy, then who's the &quot;JarJar&quot; of metaSO? =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:15:06.887" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="956" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:18:44.197" Score="3" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;I refresh the 'Newest' tab of a particular tag every so often throughout the day to keep on top of new questions asked. However the caching used on Stack Overflow and presumably the other sites seems quite aggressive. I'll refresh and find a question asked 30-45 minutes ago that wasn't showing up when I last checked about 10 minutes ago (note: accurate testing not performed!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What determines expiry of the cache and what is a good refresh interval to use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:06:40.337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:06:40.337" Title="How aggressive is the caching used?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;caching&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:21:38.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it is probably true that a question from Joel will always attract more attention and votes than one from John Stackoverflow Doe, I believe that many people voted for his question because of nostalgia: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They remembered their first attempts to move the turtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:21:38.777" />
  <row Id="859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:23:08.430" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you remember that Douglas Adams&#xA;  continued to call his Hitchhiker's&#xA;  Guide to the Galaxy a trilogy even&#xA;  after books 4 and 5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual+Title&amp;amp;BookID=369345&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.panmacmillan.com/images/frontCovers/main/9780330316118-01.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.panmacmillan.com/images/frontCovers/main/9780330316118-01.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="44330" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T21:02:07.960" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:02:07.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="753" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:26:05.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I think I understand what you're saying. When you move a question to a sister site (say, from StackOverflow to ServerFault) it leaves behind the question so you know what happened to it. However, it removes all the answers on that question when it's moved, leading to the &quot;red box&quot; that corresponds to having zero answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since your question and answers are intact on the sister site, you can just delete the 'original' question if you don't want those &quot;red boxes&quot; cluttering up your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, how are you able to move your questions over? When I try to close my own questions, I get a message saying that 4 other votes are required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:26:05.893" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="919" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:35:52.610" Score="16" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was voting to close a question as 'Not a real question', but my mouse slipped to 'Blatantly Offensive'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to have some means of changing my close reason, before it gets closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3295" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T21:36:13.207" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T22:56:32.737" Title="Ability to change close reason before it gets closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="863" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:39:09.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it lists the reason as the most &quot;popular&quot; reason anyway, so in the grand scheme of things, it shouldn't matter too much&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:39:09.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="866" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:41:13.423" Score="115" ViewCount="1295" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Enthusiast and Fanatic Badge&lt;/a&gt; on the blog, a comment was added that a nice feature would be adding the number of consecutive days you've visited to the site to the user's profile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’d love to see on your user page a count of how many consecutive days you have been on SO/SF. Kind of like looking at your uptime on a Unix box. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/#comment-25836&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code Slave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it would be a good feature and wanted to put it out there for discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know personally, I would like to be able to track how many consecutive days I've visited the site without having to figure it out on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T06:51:38.357" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T22:50:19.680" Title="Consecutive Day Count in profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;consecutive-days&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:42:38.210" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a big suggestion following the creation of two new badges which were based on 30 consecutive days (&quot;woot&quot;), and 100 (&quot;fanatic&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently pursuing my &quot;woot&quot; badge (and subsequently my &quot;fanatic&quot; badge too) - somewhere between 20-25 days away I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:42:38.210" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:42:55.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Piers Anthony once mentioned that a trilogy is 27 books (3^3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, both Terry Pratchet's Discworld and Piers Anthony's Xanth are in their second &quot;trilogy&quot; using the above definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15880" LastEditorUserId="15880" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T20:49:14.067" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T20:49:14.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:54:07.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lack of a single-sign-on is the biggest barrier for entry to me - I suspect it can be done by something simple like loading an image from the other sites with a suitable unique logon token (say, a UUID) on the query string, and sending back the appropriate cookie with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:54:07.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="875" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:58:07.517" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I track my daily community wiki upvotes or downvotes except my profile page ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:05:46.837" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T11:25:15.077" Title="Where can I track my upvotes from community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="234" CreationDate="2009-06-29T20:59:06.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's an answer I've put quite a bit of time into, I'll check back now and then for a few days. If there's still no accepted answer after a week I may leave a comment (&quot;Hey, any luck with that problem?&quot;), sometimes out of sheer curiosity about whether my solution actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; correct. If there's still nothing, I forget about it for good and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T20:59:06.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="870" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:00:37.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might be biased, but I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9863/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;my service&lt;/a&gt; is pretty good for what you want to do. It doesn't do daily reports, but it will report upvotes and downvotes to any post, including Community Wiki ones, since the last time you checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T11:25:15.077" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T11:25:15.077" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:02:00.160" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would find a concurrent-days counter interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I have been on both StackOverflow and ServerFault for more than 30 days in a row. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But no badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is easy to visit StackOverflow every day and still &quot;&lt;strong&gt;miss a day&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot; StackOverflow's day starts at midnight (GMT). So my &quot;StackOverflow day&quot; starts at 8pm, my time (Eastern Time). So it is conceivable that I simply &lt;strong&gt;logged in one morning&lt;/strong&gt; and didn't check back until &lt;strong&gt;much later the next day&lt;/strong&gt;... technically &quot;missing&quot; a day-as-tracked-by-stackoverflow in between. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;UPDATE: Oh, crap. A possible slight miscalculation. I might-- just might-- have another day or two to go. We'll see.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T13:43:58.113" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:43:58.113" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66992" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:15:31.953" Score="7" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be an easy way to search ServerFault from StackOverflow (and the others)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest thing would be to add a &quot;Try searching ServerFault&quot; link next to the &quot;Alternately, try your search in Google:&quot; on the no-results page, but this wouldn't help with overlapping searches..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, searching for &lt;code&gt;[sql] error 1234&lt;/code&gt; might have better results of ServerFault, but a programmer might only searching SO for such a problem (a reasonable thing to do)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there could be a SO/SF/SU/Meta buttons at the top of the search results, which jump you between sites? Something like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1778/sosearchmockup.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8761/thumbsosearchmockup.png&quot; alt=&quot;Multi-site search mockup&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1778/sosearchmockup.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(Full size mockup)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the user may not be logged into ServerFault, I guess it'd be best to display the results on the current site (with the different colour scheme maybe?), obviously all the links would go to the correct site (&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/...&lt;/code&gt; in the example image)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example of such a feature is Google:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6938/othergooglesearches.png&quot; alt=&quot;Googles other searches&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T17:41:47.560" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:33:46.367" Title="Make the search box return results from all StackOverflowian sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;integration&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="753" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:22:36.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is moved to serverfault, you can delete the &quot;empty&quot; question on stackoverflow...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, keeping the question around could be of benefit to other users - if someone searches for (using your example image) &quot;ssh macbook&quot; and the moved question shows up, they can &lt;code&gt;a)&lt;/code&gt; find the answer &lt;code&gt;b)&lt;/code&gt; know such questions belong on serverfault (before they ask something similar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a bit of a pain having closed questions in your profile, but the moving process zeros the upvotes, so it should be pretty far down your list of questions (and if you have more than 10 questions, it will be on the =&gt;second page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:22:36.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="894" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:23:34.897" Score="12" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Version canceled - Minimalistic version now available.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-minimal.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:43:26.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:43:26.447" Title="Sister-Sites Greasemonkey Concept" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;integration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:27:19.147" Score="6" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if anyone's actually using my &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reputation Tracker&lt;/a&gt; tool, but it now lets you select which sites you want to see reputation for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no UI around it yet, but you just use the &quot;sites&quot; URL query parameter as a comma separated list of sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;so = StackOverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta = Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sf = ServerFault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;su = SuperUser (anticipating the normal URL scheme)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the URL for me to find out how I've done today on StackOverflow and Meta is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?user=22656&amp;amp;mode=day&amp;amp;sites=so,meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?user=22656&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;sites=so,meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adjust for your own user ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the UI is somewhat crude - I wasn't sure whether to try to put the tables side-by-side or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T19:11:16.743" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:11:16.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T19:11:16.743" Title="Ann: Reputation Tracker now covers SO, Meta and SF (and SU?)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="96" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:28:07.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to put my 2 cents in by saying that ownership preservation of questions and account transfers are very important and needs to be done &quot;right&quot;. It would be a disservice to the community if moving between the sites was at all painful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the SO team will do a good job with this, but we will see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132553" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:28:07.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:37:59.263" Score="51" ViewCount="1512" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to have a &quot;friends list&quot; on Stack Overflow. This would allow us to be able to follow the questions and answers that are posted by users that we want to watch/monitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest it be implemented in the same fashion as DotNetKicks.com; where you can add someone to your &quot;friends list&quot; without them needing to approve you the way that other social networks do it. It should be completely open for us to add anyone to our &quot;friends list&quot; that we like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7831" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T10:53:42.710" LastActivityDate="2011-06-13T13:09:25.600" Title="A &quot;friends list&quot; on Stack Overflow would be nice" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;friends&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="23" />
  <row Id="888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="841" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:39:13.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I Agree. &quot;meta&quot; doesn't tell me that this is for feedback anyway. I had to go here and check it out to figure out what it was about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7831" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:39:13.223" />
  <row Id="890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:41:37.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to roll your own cause you're impatient, you could do this pretty easily with Yahoo Pipes and the Users' Recent Activity feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:41:37.990" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:43:12.387" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I had any friends. This would be a great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:43:12.387" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:44:40.713" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love a friends list. On a side-note, are you guys able to &quot;comment&quot; on the original question? I'm not - getting the following error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;r.validate is not a function&#xA;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/content/js/question.js?v=3591&#xA;Line 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:44:40.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="882" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:48:21.983" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These links are already in the footer of the page, but I only noticed these because I was specifically looking for them (&quot;there must be a link to serverfault somewhere..&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They really should be more prominent..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a pedantic note, you don't need to re-include jQuery because Stackoverflow already uses it, so you can simplify the Greasemoney script a tiny bit and remove..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;GM_JQ.src = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js';&#xA;GM_JQ.type = 'text/javascript';&#xA;document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(GM_JQ);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T21:48:21.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T21:52:15.500" Score="176" ViewCount="4168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this one on UserVoice, and I thought it was fitting to bring it up here for further discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow already works with Mobile Safari, but the experience is far from optimum.&#xA;I believe an iPhone-optimized version (or maybe even a native client) would be perfect.&#xA;I can help with either.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think a some kind of mobile version of Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow would be great for using as a reference, but using it to ask questions would probably get cumbersome if you had to type up a long question with full description. However, using it to look up an answer when you're away from your desk would be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, why not just use the regular Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow? Well, we all know that the small, touch screens get cumbersome to use when navigating websites built for desktops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7831" LastEditorUserId="31671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-20T05:33:35.140" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T05:33:35.140" Title="Mobile and iPhone optimized version of Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="32" />
  <row Id="897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-06-29T22:09:46.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%5FGently&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dirk Gently&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T22:09:46.643" />
  <row Id="898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-06-29T22:13:07.290" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a technical addendum -- we do not store which question or answer triggered the badge anywhere. (because it was never part of the design).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if we wanted to do this, we don't have the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The background badge grant process just returns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;userid, number of badges that userid should have&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. for each badge, in a loop. Note that there is no postid there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: good ol' waffles checked in a change that allows us to store the post with the badge award, so this is now complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-09T09:29:44.227" LastActivityDate="2010-07-09T09:29:44.227" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-06-29T22:19:18.663" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The funny thing is; on SO some of what I consider my best answers are on very obscure topics - intricate details of &lt;code&gt;System.ComponentModel&lt;/code&gt;, for example - that few people ever get involved with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know full well that if I'm &lt;em&gt;lucky&lt;/em&gt; I'll get maybe 2 votes for it (simply because most people don't dabble in those areas, are unlikely to read the question, and even less likely to know if the answer is good or gibberish), but there is a certain pleasure in simply giving a detailed, robust answer that I can refer to later (and hopefully comes up in google when somebody wants to know how to implement the undocumented &lt;code&gt;IFlibbleHoop&lt;/code&gt; interface*)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*=not a real interface, don't look for it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T22:19:18.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="903" CreationDate="2009-06-29T22:36:00.747" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing through the data dump, I have found a column named 'score'. From what I can tell it is simply restricted to being an integer value. My guess is that it's the sum of upvotes - downvotes, however I'd like to be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is it, and if possible, how is it calculated (if not already obvious)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-26T18:38:33.177" LastActivityDate="2010-09-26T18:38:33.177" Title="Data Dump - Posts.xml -- 'score'" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;score&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="902" CreationDate="2009-06-29T22:45:58.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;code&gt;score = upvotes - downvotes&lt;/code&gt;. I don't know why the individual upvote and downvote counts aren't included, but you may be able to reconstruct them from the &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt; table if you need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-29T22:51:28.477" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T22:51:28.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="904" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-29T22:47:40.327" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The interface should be similar to the new tags interface.  This would help 10k users find things that have been assigned to misspelt, but not new, tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130036" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:41:02.360" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:41:02.360" Title="admin tool to see tags assigned to at least one question but fewer than X questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="842" CreationDate="2009-06-29T23:01:08.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Created a Greasemonkey script to do this for now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/882/sister-sites-greasemonkey-concept&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/882/sister-sites-greasemonkey-concept&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/gm-so.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T23:01:08.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="957" CreationDate="2009-06-29T23:04:08.697" Score="9" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/363/what-to-do-about-old-orphaned-questions&quot;&gt;old orphaned questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its about old unorphaned questions like:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/56087/does-ruby-have-real-multithreading&quot;&gt;Does ruby have real multithreading?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To remain correct this question will need &lt;strong&gt;constant updating&lt;/strong&gt;. An absolutely wrong answer is marked correct and receives &lt;strong&gt;free advertising&lt;/strong&gt; by being green and showing up first. There are 3 additional answers that add no value to the discussion and this is the number one result for googling &quot;ruby real multithreading&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question cannot be asked again, as it will be marked a dupe, there is no motivation to keep it up to date, so it's bound to get out of date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have some sort of responsibility to clean up this mess? Should there be some sort of incentive to help maintain this knowledge? Should ownership be revoked from the original asker? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this is actually an abandoned question. The user no longer uses Stack Overflow. Nonetheless I'm sure I could dig up similar questions by users who have not abandoned the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:14:10.503" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:14:10.503" Title="Cleaning up our rubbish: do we have a responsibility to clean up old questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="906" CreationDate="2009-06-29T23:07:34.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the SO-Sites should alert you when a question is older than n-months, especially since much of what we discuss on these sites is very time-sensitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do make it a habit to clean up here and there when I mosey from question to question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T23:07:34.477" />
  <row Id="909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="904" CreationDate="2009-06-29T23:19:47.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to Tags and then work your way back from the last page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T23:19:47.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2009-06-29T23:43:09.197" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the question, if the question/answer provides no value to the community I think it should be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is specific enough to be unambiguous, things like &quot;What is a mutex?&quot; the community should be allowed to vote to revoke ownership, give the question back to community wiki owner, and the top voted answer should be marked correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is a much bigger question of motivation, why would you engage in any of these activities if there is no rep in it for you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess an elaborate scheme could be instead of revoking ownership, taking ownership of a question and receiving all the upvotes/downvotes from that time on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps old questions (3 months and older) need a different mechanism for receiving rep, thing like better phrasing, question and answer refinement should be the things voted on. Of course voting on merges is a big fat can of worms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-06-29T23:43:09.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="906" CreationDate="2009-06-30T00:34:51.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel has mentioned this several times on the podcast; he was sick of seeing old answers in old, old threads on forums that were locked. I've always seen Stack Overflow (and others) as places where as the real answer changes it can be updated as it comes across - in some ways it's like Wikipedia but focused on questions and answers instead of articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping the answers clean and correct is something that only the community can truly take care of and could help determine how much of a long term use SO/SF/SU are to the Internet as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, I believe we as the community do have the responsibility to help keep the answers as appropriate as possible however there is a hole when the community chosen answer is much better than the one chosen - hopefully there will be some option for those with enough rep to &quot;unchoose&quot; an answer if a question is old enough instead of only being able to downvote (thus saying it's not a good answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2619" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T00:34:51.897" />
  <row Id="912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="965" CreationDate="2009-06-30T00:49:59.490" Score="7" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Originally close votes required was 3 then 4 now 5 as the number of people who could close increased. Not so long ago 10k+ rep was limited to the first page of users. It's now onto page 6 I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it time to increase the delete votes from the current 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T18:05:20.063" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:05:20.063" Title="Do we need to increase the required delete votes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T00:51:45.210" Score="8" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never understood why we have 5 columns of 7 rows per user page. 35 is an unusual number for this kind of thing. There certainly is no lack of room. Users is one of the shorter pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not increase is to 5 columns of 10 or 50 per page? Nice round number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:41:06.120" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:41:06.120" Title="Can we have 50 users per page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;users-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-30T00:52:11.963" Score="79" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Repeat after me: SO is not a social networking site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T00:52:11.963" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="949" CreationDate="2009-06-30T00:54:34.393" Score="223" ViewCount="1304" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Jeff, any chance you changed your mind?&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T04:28:32.393" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T21:57:12.017" Title="Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-30T00:56:05.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;User RSS feeds (already implemented)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is not social networking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T00:56:05.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="879" CreationDate="2009-06-30T00:57:31.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here, use this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=018205968162215846785:ge5giybfqde&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=018205968162215846785:ge5giybfqde&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T00:57:31.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:04:50.903" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make a vote. Click on a link on the page. Hit the back button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least for me (FF 3.0 on Ubuntu), I see the orange vote marker, but the number has not been changed. Often, I voted up an answer that had 0 votes, making me believe that somebody down voted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, refreshing the page fixes it, but this is sort of annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As I figured, this seems to be a browser cache issue. I still consider this a bug as the orange vote marker is there, but not the changed number. I don't know much about web development, but it seems to me like this should be possible to fix. Any ideas why this is happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:42:46.987" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T05:42:46.987" Title="Votes do not appear after navigating to new page and returning" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="863" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:04:57.737" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, i'd like this too... Of course, if we could retract close votes, that would solve this problem as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:04:57.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:05:06.240" Score="8" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should SOFlow be expanded to include user-submitted papers and articles, which can then rake in higher scores based upon the quality of their work. Authors of tutorials/papers could be granted the &quot;Author Badge,&quot; and maybe even the &quot;Golden Educator&quot; with 10+ articles averaging 10+ upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The great thing about SOFlow is the community, which could determine the acceptability of any article, and post comments/corrections to content found therein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T06:12:20.243" Title="StackOverflow Tutorials/Papers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;&lt;tutorials&gt;&lt;academic&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="913" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:07:04.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also the ordering of the users is something that always confused me when i saw it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:07:04.207" />
  <row Id="922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="918" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:07:06.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think many in the SO Community will be confused by that behavior. After all, you're navigating backwards into your cache :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:07:06.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="918" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:07:12.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a browser cache issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7831" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:07:12.520" />
  <row Id="924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="920" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:10:51.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just think of it like jeopardy: your answer must be phrased in the form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and write and submit your papers or essays, but submit them with an intro that states the problem your essay addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:10:51.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="879" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:13:18.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=018205968162215846785:ge5giybfqde&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Custom Search&lt;/a&gt; (including all of SO, SF, and MSO) into your Firefox Search Box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikihow.com/Add-a-Custom-Search-Engine-to-Firefox%27s-Search-Bar-%28Windows-Version%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Search all of StackOverflow, ServerFault, and Meta simultaneously from Firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:13:18.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="937" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:14:16.310" Score="11" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently it shows like this (a recent example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as &quot;not programming related&quot; by RSolberg, Tim J, Rob Kennedy, Paul Alexander, Michael Petrotta an hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about it would show like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as &quot;not programming related&quot; by RSolberg, Tim J and as &quot;not a real question&quot; by Rob Kennedy, Paul Alexander, Michael Petrotta an hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed as:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;not programming related&quot; by RSolberg, Tim J&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;not a real question&quot; by Rob Kennedy, Paul Alexander, Michael Petrotta&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   an hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T13:01:49.423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:27:51.247" Title="Show all voted close types when a question is closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="920" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:17:47.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, there are already other sites that do this fairly well. Once you cut out the value of Answers by building them into the question itself, what does Stack Overflow's Q&amp;amp;A system bring to the table? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't help but think this sounds like the guy with the hammer looking for a nail...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:17:47.893" />
  <row Id="928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:21:38.117" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's why I will usually comment before voting to close, and only vote to close about an hour after that comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:21:38.117" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:24:31.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't say i've seen a tremendous number of posts being deleted, save for those occasions when Jeff goes through and cleans house. If it ain't broke...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:24:31.417" />
  <row Id="930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:28:40.300" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;++ I've wished for this many, many times... and not just for the cases where a question no longer deserves it. Fat fingers and a laptop touchpad often lead me to choose a reason other than that which i originally intended!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/863/ability-to-change-close-reason-before-it-gets-closed&quot;&gt;Ability to change close reason before it gets closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:28:40.300" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:29:46.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this extra information really add any value? IMHO it doesn't. Nearly all the time there's consensus on the reason too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:29:46.477" />
  <row Id="932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="920" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:29:57.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why? Authors here carry weight. If I see that Jon Skeet wrote an article on .NET 4.5 and C#, I will be more compelled to read it than I would Joe Smith's blog. The community here is already providing quick-and-simple answers to each other every second - why not stop playing catch-up with eachother and actually practice some offensive-education.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I like the model of up-voting questions to illustrate quality. I don't know of any tutorial site even remotely similar to what SO would offer. All authors have a history of activity, reputation, etc. Their papers are each weighed independently by its subject matter, clarity, and usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly see great potential in this. Sure, it's &lt;em&gt;kinda&lt;/em&gt; be done before...but then again, SO wasn't completely original - and yet it blew the competition away when it launched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:29:57.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="982" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:39:06.250" Score="4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a particular reason why vote times are omitted in the data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this could be a very useful data-set. Is this one of the steps that was done to anonymize the data, or does it simply not exist? This would be a very good addition to future dumps to help build time-based relationships, which are currently very rigid and full of assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-27T00:11:25.827" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T00:11:25.827" Title="Omission of vote time in data dump" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:51:24.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's really a problem.. Have you seen cases where things have been wrongly deleted? As Shog9 says, there's not much being deleted..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It requires 8 votes to delete something (close votes + delete votes), and it can just as easily be restored.. &gt;3k users can dispute the closing of a question (and by extension, the deletion) by voting to reopen it, as can everyone else can via comments..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be more users with 10k rep, but anyone who has spent the time to get to 1000 upvotes on their content (ignoring the daily-rep-cap, down-votes, community wiki etc) is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; fairly.. invested in the site. It takes just as much effort to get to 10k rep now as it was when there was no &gt;10k users - I don't see why new &quot;10kians&quot; should be any less trustworthy..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:51:24.537" />
  <row Id="935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:52:29.370" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe people would like it better if you didn't call them &quot;Friends&quot;... maybe &quot;Idols&quot;, &quot;Heroes&quot;, or &quot;Stalkees&quot; would go over better. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:52:29.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:53:43.593" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And when the SO team is done with that, maybe they could build me a deck and repave my driveway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:53:43.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T01:53:43.593" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:56:02.637" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would both clutter up the close-message, and lead to annoyed people wondering &lt;em&gt;why Rob thought their question was not a &quot;real question&quot;, when everyone else though it wasn't programming related&lt;/em&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might happen because a user accidently clicked the wrong close message (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/863/ability-to-change-close-reason-before-it-gets-closed&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;) - it gets averaged out and prevents arguments, I'd say..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:56:02.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2009-06-30T01:58:17.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could have &quot;Question Auctions&quot;: if a question has no accepted answer and the owner hasn't logged in for 6 months, other SO users could bid some of their Rep to take over ownership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kinda not being serious... and I also kinda am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T01:58:17.047" />
  <row Id="939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="418" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:07:50.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number 16 was the original &quot;Specialist&quot; badge. It existed at one point as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/135648/list&quot;&gt;the revision list for the SO badge FAQ&lt;/a&gt; (revision #8), but it was not &quot;turned on&quot; since they hadn't decided on the requirements for it yet. Once they made tag-specific specialist badges, it disappeared. Maybe there's still a place-holder for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T02:21:26.257" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T02:21:26.257" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:24:54.237" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we have a method of explaining why we think a question or answer should be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could work identically to closing a question, maybe with an additional text-input box (like the &quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot; flag option) to provide additional info because the reasons for deletion should really be more specific..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &quot;exact duplicate&quot; doesn't explain to me the user has re-posted the same question, thus it should definitely be deleted (not just left closed). Like with close-messages, these reasons would be listed under the deleted item (or answer).. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think comments are suitable, as they can be a pain to quickly.. &quot;extract&quot; deletion reasons from them - I have to scan through the comments, and and they may all be irrelevant..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Equally, for un-deletion, it'd be useful to know why another user thinks a question should be restored. For example &quot;new user deleted question after they accepted an answer&quot;, or &quot;Jeff went insane and started deleting any questions with the letter O in it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think requiring un-deletion reasons is possibly &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; important, since commenting is disabled on deleted questions - we have no way of explaining why we think it should be restored&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T22:51:03.930" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T22:51:03.930" Title="Require reason for post deletion and un-deletion?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="933" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:35:56.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was done to anonymize the data&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T02:35:56.287" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="882" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:36:57.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated to include new Search&lt;/strong&gt; (Search Meta/SO/and SF all together)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adds links to the top, and updates regular search to &quot;Power Search,&quot; which will return results from all of the SO sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-plusplus.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    $(&quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .css({&quot;background-color&quot;:&quot;#f1f1f1&quot;,&quot;padding&quot;:&quot;5px 10px 5px 10px&quot;,&quot;position&quot;:&quot;fixed&quot;})&#xA;      .html($(&quot;#footer-sites&quot;).clone())&#xA;      .prependTo(&quot;#header&quot;);&#xA;    $(&quot;#footer-sites:eq(0)&quot;).append('&amp;lt;form id=&quot;cse-search-box&quot; action=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div style=&quot;padding:2px 0;text-align:center;&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; value=&quot;018205968162215846785:ge5giybfqde&quot; name=&quot;cx&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; value=&quot;UTF-8&quot; name=&quot;ie&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;input type=&quot;text&quot; size=&quot;35&quot; name=&quot;q&quot; class=&quot;textbox&quot; value=&quot;power search&quot; maxlength=&quot;80&quot; onfocus=&quot;if (this.value==\'power search\') this.value=\'\'&quot; tabindex=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;background:#ffffff url(/Content/Img/search.png) no-repeat scroll left center; border-color:#cccccc -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color #cccccc; border-style: solid none none solid; border-width: 1px medium medium 1px; margin:0; padding-left:16px;&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/form&amp;gt;');&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T02:55:19.250" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T02:55:19.250" />
  <row Id="943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10659" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:39:02.427" Score="27" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's currently no good way of searching through my questions or answers..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wasn't really a problem until the questions/answers were paginated, as I could quickly scan through or ctrl+f the page.. Now I have to click through countless AJAX-paginated pages to find it, or try and use Google to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two possible ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &quot;filter&quot; input box above the &quot;Questions&quot; and &quot;Answers&quot; section (I think this should be able to use the same AJAX'y page loading stuff, just returning the search results rather than page x)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new bit of search syntax, which would be more flexible (but less obvious). Maybe &lt;code&gt;[user:dbr]&lt;/code&gt; - which could be combined with other terms: &lt;code&gt;[user:dbr] [python] imports&quot;, or quickly search for another users stuff: &lt;/code&gt;[user:Someone Else]`&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T10:21:43.530" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T05:25:11.457" Title="Ability to search my stuff?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="952" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:39:04.280" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;specifically stackoverflow and serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that possible?  It sure would be convenient for scripting purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T10:31:38.597" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T10:32:37.167" Title="harmonizing user ids among the sites?" Tags="&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="944" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:43:52.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would LOVE to see this happen. I realize that it's probably too late in the game to change the user IDs on ServerFault, but back when it was first announced I had the idea that a user would have a single account (with, incidentally, a single ID) that existed on all the sites. Separate posts, rep, badges, etc. but basic user info would be the same across the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only would it have made it easier to provide a unified rep tracker, but it would also eliminate some of the headache that goes with migrating questions from one site to another and trying to preserve ownership of the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it looks as though Jeff is trying to right this mistake with Meta by prepopulating the site with the current users from SO and SF, and is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2/sync-meta-user-accounts-daily-with-other-family-sites&quot;&gt;actively looking into&lt;/a&gt; keeping the data in sync. So I guess we can probably expect that SuperUser and whatever other Overflows come down the line will enable users to retain their IDs from whatever sister site they're a member of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T02:49:19.343" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T02:49:19.343" />
  <row Id="946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="943" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:46:49.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always use Google as a backup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;site:stackoverflow.com dbr php jquery code&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T02:46:49.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="920" CreationDate="2009-06-30T02:52:58.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say you want to write a tutorial on writing a simple filesystem, post a question along the lines of &quot;How would I go about writing a simple file system?&quot;, then write your tutorial as an answer to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been said numerous times (by Mr Atwood and the likes) that using SO as your own &quot;programming notebook&quot; is a perfectly valid use of the site, so long as you make everything fit with its Q&amp;amp;A-style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Jeff's post about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;start of the StackOverflow private beta&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;yes, it is OK and even encouraged to answer your own questions, if you find a good answer before anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a related question on StackOverflow about exactly this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2572/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;&quot;Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you write a good answer (even to your own question), the community benefits (more good answers == good), and you'll probably get lots of (well earned) rep for it. Everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T02:52:58.787" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:01:04.337" Score="72" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is implemented, perhaps a useful additional would be a notification when a question I vote for closing is edited, so I can review the new (hopefully better) question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T22:00:23.677" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:00:23.677" />
  <row Id="950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="944" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:02:10.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a database perspective, this seems impossible at this point (well, not impossible, but practically given the amount of work necessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that user id is the identity field in the user table and it serves as a foreign key to other information stored in other tables.  So changing that user id would mean changing data all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might have been a nice to have, but at this point seems unlikely given other priorities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T03:02:10.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:03:51.540" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;This includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions deleted by ourselves;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions deleted by others;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers deleted by ourselves; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers deleted by others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There does seem to be a steady stream of traffic being deleted and I think it would be prudent to at least notify the relevant parties that the content has been deleted (or has been voted to be deleted maybe) and to get a list of such content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I should've gotten an Enlightened badge yesterday. I didn't and I'm guessing the reason for this is that a question I already had an Enlightened badge for had been deleted. But I have no idea which one. I'd really like to know what's been deleted and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:38:01.163" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:38:01.163" Title="Can we get a list of our content that's been deleted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="944" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:16:44.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a vision of a unique OpenID identifier as the &quot;key&quot; to all three sites, but Google's &quot;every domain gets their own hashed OpenID&quot; has kind of thrown a huge monkey wrench into that. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: we now have fairly robust cross-site account association that even works with Google (see your accounts tab), but I realized I didn't answer your question. We never planned to provide for the same &lt;em&gt;numeric&lt;/em&gt; ids for every user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T10:32:37.167" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T10:32:37.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="841" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:17:05.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say this just leads to confusion, why have two URL's going to the same site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ~only link to here says &quot;feedback always welcome&quot; (I doubt many people will randomly type &quot;feedback.stackoverflow.com&quot; into their address bar). Plus the existing questions should make it clear what this site is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the FAQ or About page should really mention it can be used for feedback or feature-requests a bit more explicitly (than just &quot;discussion&quot;)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T03:17:05.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="951" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:18:07.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hmm, if only &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/481/whats-the-single-biggest-barrier-to-entry-on-so/501#501&quot;&gt;our &quot;useless&quot; site search&lt;/a&gt; allowed one to search for deleted posts. Too bad it's useless, and therefore not worth investing development time into.. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;oh, and I found the above post by -- wait for it -- using the built in search! Of course there are only about 200 posts, so..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T03:18:07.353" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:28:31.603" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would call it favorite user. Just like I can add a question to favorite I add a user for later revisit or to see what questions this persons asks or what answers the person provides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T16:15:58.493" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T16:15:58.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="853" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:29:43.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I just checked. The list of question ids returned from lists / views / searches are cached for 2 minutes (120 seconds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The homepage is cached at 60 seconds per tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tag counts are cached for 10 minutes (600 seconds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T05:31:31.667" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T05:31:31.667" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="906" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:35:25.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To extend on what Jonathan Sampson &amp;amp; Chealion have said, some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Old questions (or perhaps questions belonging people that haven't been active in months) automatically become community wiki, so that answers can be more easily updated/corrected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that are set to community wiki automatically make the highest voted answer the &quot;accepted answer&quot;, since that's what the community thinks (point 1. would lead into this nicely)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Need to allow moderators to &quot;un-accept&quot; accepted answers (&amp;amp; possibly &quot;accept&quot; other answers, although this is less necessary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a new flag for answers, allowing users/moderators to mark items as being out of date and/or wrong (or possibly automatically after a certain amount of time). After a certain threshold (say 5 votes), display a warning at the top of the answer (similar to how the duplicate question warning shows at the top of a question) informing users the content may be out of date. (this is only necessary for answers, since if the whole question is out of date it can simply be closed as no longer relevant).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T03:35:25.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28513" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:40:12.717" Score="7" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;J&amp;amp;J have spoken about this on the podcast a bit, and steps have already started with jobs.stackoverflow.com (and the &quot;allow people to contact me about jobs&quot; checkbox on the profile).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How will the future recruiting features work for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:51:20.070" Title="What will the future recruiting features of Stack Overflow involve?" Tags="&lt;job&gt;&lt;recruiting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-06-30T03:48:07.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Explain to me the difference between this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This damn thing doesn't work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This f**king thing doesn't work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;F**k&quot; is just a word.  Stop imbuing it with some magical power it does not possess.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T09:50:35.863" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T09:50:35.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T03:48:07.297" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="961" CreationDate="2009-06-30T04:24:35.743" Score="12" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the idea of voting for a great comment, but why does it change colors at 5ish up votes?  Comment votes don't seem to give reputation, or anything else for being great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130166" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:30:18.780" Title="What do &quot;great comment&quot; votes do?" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2009-06-30T04:31:14.403" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the votes do is help to visually identify good or insightful comments. You are correct, the color of the vote count does change at (IIRC) around 5 upvotes, and then again around 10. The specific color is tied to the site you're on; for example, the color becomes more orange on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when the page initially loads, there will be at most 5 comments below each post. The rest of the comments can be expanded out, but the initial comments are the five highest-scoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, the score serves no purpose. However, I will say that even though I don't get reputation from a comment vote, I personally like to see that someone liked my comment and thought it was good or insightful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-top-n-shown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-top-n-shown/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T05:19:04.273" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T05:19:04.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2009-06-30T05:23:43.433" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still think there should be a badge, even a bronze one, for getting 10 upvotes on a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T05:23:43.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2009-06-30T05:36:33.683" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this got deleted, which I vehemently disagreed with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11598/what-is-the-worst-interviewee-answer-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11598/what-is-the-worst-interviewee-answer-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it does happen. But it is rare, at least right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're considering putting in limits where posts that are voted &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; highly (as in, 50+) are essentially &quot;protected&quot; from deletion by anyone other than a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T05:36:33.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="970" CreationDate="2009-06-30T06:15:16.103" Score="10" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/filter/recent?days=14&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice&lt;/a&gt; is still present, and has a lot of content. There are requests there that I'm really keen on, and I'd like them to be discussed further on Meta. (I strongly suspect that UserVoice discussion will fizzle very quickly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it reasonable to repost requests here (after checking for duplication, of course) with a link to the original UserVoice request, making changes to the proposal to take account of the existing comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main concern is that this will cause a flurry of activity, making it impossible to keep up with Meta for a few days - and in particular, a lot of ideas which would get significant discussion in &quot;slower times&quot; will get very little attention in the stampede. This could be avoided by a semi-automated trickle migration from UV, but I also like the idea that if people really care about ideas, those are the ones which should be migrated first. (That's not necessarily the same as those with the highest votes, necessarily.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T09:50:34.500" Title="What should we do with our favourite UserVoice requests?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2009-06-30T06:43:29.920" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to &quot;evangelize&quot; is to simply use the sites: Ask great questions. Provide great answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have already been extremely generous in contributing your time, and others will hopefully reciprocate, in a virtuous &quot;pay it forward&quot; cycle. Learn from others, while sharing what you've learned with others!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sharing is of course welcomed -- the more the merrier -- but ultimately, you shouldn't need to satisfy anyone but yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T06:43:29.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T06:43:29.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2009-06-30T06:50:35.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Are you on a mission from God?&lt;/a&gt; (OT: Jeff, if you read this: that was a link!)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Honestly, I do not want to be evangelized and I think other do not want it either. Tell them how cool the site is and they should check it out. But don't make things religious. Trust a roman catholic ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T06:50:35.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T06:50:35.020" />
  <row Id="969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2009-06-30T06:54:16.540" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep it simple, keep it small. Pick the one request you wanted the most to be implemented in SO and post it. If it's done take the next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T06:54:16.540" />
  <row Id="970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2009-06-30T07:23:14.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with John Smithers -- pick your favorites and copy n' paste them over here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize, but in all honesty, there are far too many requests for us to ever get through on UserVoice. I've spent marathon sessions of hours trying to go through them all (not just the top 50) and it's just .. impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some of them date from almost a year ago and I am unsure how relevant they still are in our current brave new world of site status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if someone would like to play &quot;editorial review&quot; and pick the &quot;best&quot; UserVoice requests and plop them over here, that'd be fantastic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T07:23:14.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="972" CreationDate="2009-06-30T07:41:09.720" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;On uservoice, it's clear, how a bug/feature request or whatever works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter a bug&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gain (or not) votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get declined by an admin or get a bug fix&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How will this be on meta, right here? Is there any suggestion for this? I would like to see the status of my requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to tag a feature request?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to tag a bug report?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In which way are bugs handled?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In which way are feature requests handled?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know, this belongs on meta-meta-stackoverflow... ;-)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T18:41:33.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T08:00:36.943" Title="How do feature requests/bug reports work on meta?" Tags="&lt;meta-faq&gt;&lt;workflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="971" CreationDate="2009-06-30T07:45:26.323" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my thoughts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure the item is tagged [bug] or [feature-request].&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators will review all questions with those tags periodically&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators will apply &lt;strong&gt;moderator-only tags&lt;/strong&gt; to the item to indicate its status&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some moderator only tags we might need? Ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[status-completed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[status-norepro]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[status-declined]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[status-accepted]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[status-deferred]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time to close is when the item is truly done and complete, forever. I suspect we will use the tags more often for that in case there is further discussion necessary of our &quot;fixes&quot; which sometimes are not so.. &quot;fixed&quot;.. or have other related issues, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T07:45:26.323" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-30T07:48:58.653" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a friends list don't you think you tend to upvote your friends because they are your friends, instead of the content of their posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T07:48:58.653" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-06-30T07:58:09.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could implement this via a little GreaseMonkey script. It can access a browser database, so you can monitor whatever you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little inspiration is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/38483&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VZ Tools&lt;/a&gt; (yes, it's German). There you can see what's happening with your contacts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T07:58:09.413" />
  <row Id="975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-06-30T07:58:38.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;267&amp;nbsp;KB (as of, er, just now) is a bit heavy for a mobile front page too (figure according to Pocket IE) - if you are going to have an iPhone client, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Windows Mobile&lt;/a&gt; client would also make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To go down the mobile optimised web approach, there are a few obvious tweaks (smaller font sizes), and a few less than obvious ones (don't show comments by default).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-05T16:13:28.720" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T16:13:28.720" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:01:57.860" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like a sticker for my laptop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60518" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T08:01:57.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T08:01:57.860" />
  <row Id="981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="75019" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:12:43.090" Score="86" ViewCount="2348" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you think it would be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find the highlighting on SQL or VB.NET answers is more distracting than helpful; for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1062158&quot;&gt;Converting MySQL select to PostgreSQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1062320&quot;&gt;Retrieving data from a VB.NET arraylist of objects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to pick the two I've been looking at recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-15T08:46:08.030" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T21:43:24.717" Title="Syntax highlighting language hints" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="37" />
  <row Id="982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="933" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:12:57.270" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of Jeff's requirements in releasing the data dump was that &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; user voting data would not be available. The site goes to great lengths to keep voting data private, and I support that. Jeff strongly had in mind the AOL data dump debacle (google it if you're not familiar) in which AOL thought they had anonymised a search dataset but enterprising researchers were able to correlate data searched for with other information and actually identify real-world individuals. Like, down to their home address, just from what they typed into the AOL search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow obviously has less private information and less potentially invasive results if voting data were to be exposed, but if the online site keeps voting data private then the data dump should respect that privacy too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the millisecond-resolution vote timestamp were included in the dump, I believe the up/down voting patterns could strongly correlate with other activity on the site (questions, answers, comments). The more history available in the dump, the stronger the correlation can be. People use Stack Overflow during certain times of the day and not others, and the usage pattern will be distinct for each individual. There might be enough pattern information in there to identify who cast a given vote or votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not completely certain that one could get useful information out of timestamp correlation in this way, but I think there's enough of a risk that I suggested truncating the timestamps. If somebody can present a convincing argument that there &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be a way to discover user voting patterns, then the data dump can always be changed for future runs. It's certainly not set in stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T08:12:57.270" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="987" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:34:12.743" Score="27" ViewCount="681" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I applaud the excellent work of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-new-community-moderators/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all our community moderators&lt;/a&gt;, the question has come up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long will be the elected moderator’s “mandate”? Is it for life, or are we going to have “moderator elections” regularly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, any community moderator who wishes to recuse him or herself can certainly do that at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we have term limits that require community moderators be cycled out periodically, so others get a chance to moderate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we hold regular (say, yearly) moderator elections?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it better to have a larger pool of community moderators, and let the normal ebb and flow of turnover get us &quot;natural&quot; variability in moderation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T10:50:50.930" LastActivityDate="2011-05-20T14:28:18.140" Title="Should Community Moderators be &quot;elected for life&quot;, or have terms?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:38:12.560" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An experienced moderator is a good moderator. If they do a good job keep them as long as they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T08:38:12.560" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:38:50.813" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something for posting an accepted anwser once a day for 15-30 days. Don't know what you could call it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T08:38:50.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:45:49.203" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, It should be 'for life'. I think this because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You would be effectively kicking out experienced moderators. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would also mean that the moderating 'team' is spilt once a year. Which is also undesirable. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderating is pretty much the same person to person. Someone who is competent will not be too different from someone else who is competent. It's not like you can have different policies for which users can vote. The job is simply to enforce the terms and conditions of the site and some maintenance/tidying up. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Although Stack Overflow is meant to be community driven I am not sure on the idea on them worrying about community approval. Sometimes, not often though, it may be their job to be unpopular (say, closing a popular but wildly off-topic question). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately I see little to gain in moderator elections. If any moderator is bad/abuses their position then I imagine they would be kicked out by the SO Team anyway!. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think regular elections for new moderators is fine, but I don't see why existing ones should be up for re-election and maybe booted out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally you should consider that generally elections are useful in deciding the direction of the community. This is not that. These are people who follow the policy and decisions decided by the SO team and the community. They are civil servants, not politicians. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastEditorUserId="35454" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T10:55:21.560" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:55:21.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:52:35.383" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A mobile might be a good idea for those who can't access the web version for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;contractors/consultants at customer sites who can't log on using the clients network (for whatever reason) and need the answer to an urgent question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;system administrators whose entire network has gone down and need to ask the collective wisdom that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server&amp;nbsp;Fault&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;commuters who need to have a bright idea on the way home from work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know these might sound a bit contrived, but you get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-05T16:15:41.340" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T16:15:41.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:52:40.890" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say &quot;for life unless they misbehave or become inactive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the site grows quickly we may need to have elections periodically to create more moderators anyway, of course - but I'd say we should keep trusting existing moderators unless we have a reason not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be concerned about a moderator who didn't log in for a month, and obviously any examples of abuse of power need to be taken seriously, but other than that I think it's best to let them get on with their &quot;job&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T08:52:40.890" />
  <row Id="990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T08:58:02.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since with more rep points comes more power (as stated in the FAQ, a high rep profile is quite close to a moderator profile), and rep points don't go away, it seems consistent that if someone is once a moderator, he will always be a moderator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T08:58:02.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T09:11:09.080" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we have term limits that require community moderators be cycled out periodically, so others get a chance to moderate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, experience is key here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we hold regular (say, yearly) moderator elections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be done as the community grows. There should be some number to go by. Like at n number of questions / answers per day you need y mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it better to have a larger pool of community moderators, and let the normal ebb and flow of turnover get us &quot;natural&quot; variability in moderation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are referring to 10k mods. Then I think it's good to have a large pool of them, since usually there are a lot of minor fixes they can do. And when the community grows, the number of 10k mods should grow as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T09:11:09.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="996" CreationDate="2009-06-30T09:24:24.073" Score="12" ViewCount="1704" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many problems arise with google's OpenId implementation (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/215/problem-with-meta-stackoverflow-account-doubled&quot;&gt;accounts doubled&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/887/nuke-my-fake-google-id-account&quot;&gt;fake GoogleId Account&lt;/a&gt;, ...), asides with all the obvious privacy concerns (although quite opposed to security ones...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will it be possible to &lt;strong&gt;remove an account&lt;/strong&gt; directly &lt;strong&gt;from&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;interface&lt;/strong&gt; without involving the admin team (Yes, I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know they are &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; responsive) ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some rules could apply : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can only delete recently created&#xA;accounts (several days ?) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with a rep under a certain limit (1 ?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obviously only the account you are logged in (beware of XSS attacks !)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-11T16:19:01.473" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T07:27:04.390" Title="Possibility to delete our account" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3500" CreationDate="2009-06-30T09:45:26.377" Score="6" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until April 2009 &quot;most recently changed&quot; was the default (and only) way &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56285?tab=favorites#sort-top&quot;&gt;favourites&lt;/a&gt; were ordered; then it was changed so that you can sort them by views/newest/votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some 170 questions favourited, many of which are very &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read&quot;&gt;popular&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760/whats-your-most-controversial-programming-opinion&quot;&gt;ones&lt;/a&gt; that keep popping up every once in a while. Now it's impossible to easily see which questions have new answers (or edits); you'd have to manually scan the dates in the favourite list to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider favourites a list of stuff I've marked as &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt;, something I'm &lt;em&gt;tracking&lt;/em&gt;, and I'd think I wasn't alone with the habit of browsing SO by checking which of those questions have new answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose that &quot;recently-changed&quot; ordering is re-added, along with the current options. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3369/order-favorites-by-the-date-they-were-marked-as-favorite/4203#4203&quot;&gt;indicated here&lt;/a&gt;, this feature has been implemented: there's now &quot;recent&quot; among the sort options on the favourites page. :-) As a bonus, user's own questions and answers can also be sorted this way. Thanks to everyone involved! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T22:17:09.423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T22:17:09.423" Title="Possibility to order favourites by &quot;most recently changed&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="992" CreationDate="2009-06-30T09:47:16.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the delete option should send an e-mail to the registered address and only actually delete when the user returns via the link provided (or enters the code provided).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should minimise accounts being deleted by accident or maliciously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility might be to mark the account as deleted but not actually delete it for a couple of days. If it has been deleted maliciously then it might give the owner enough time to visit the site, spot it and cancel the delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately any system would be prone to spoofing - even the current one of e-mailing the team and asking them to delete the account for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T10:53:41.877" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:53:41.877" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:00:50.257" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Throw the bums out!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I jest.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least a &lt;strong&gt;regular election/selection&lt;/strong&gt; would be nice.  Once a year maybe?  Just because a moderator's &quot;term&quot; is up doesn't mean they won't be renewed.  We won't necessarily be loosing experience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Furthermore, &lt;strong&gt;being a moderator is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a bucket full of roses&lt;/strong&gt;.  There is a degree of responsibility involved that can wear on folks, and makes them a target of abuse.  No need to run them into the ground.  It can also rot the soul, leading to a sense of entitlement.  Yes, J&amp;amp;J can boot them, but this is a destructive process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow is by its nature very democratic&lt;/strong&gt;.  Having sheriffs for life does not continue that democratic philosophy.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Being a community moderator is a growth experience for many folks&lt;/strong&gt;, and I think it would be best for more people to hold the position over time.  This would be good for the newly appointed moderators, SO itself, and the wider community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I assume a fixed/defined number of ♦ moderators will be determined by the SO team and adjusted as they see fit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T10:21:28.367" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:21:28.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:04:09.330" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hot Streak&lt;/strong&gt; - name for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/35454/damien&quot;&gt;Damien&lt;/a&gt; idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something for posting an accepted&#xA;  anwser once a day for 15-30 days.&#xA;  Don't know what you could call it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:04:09.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:05:28.780" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beginners Luck&lt;/strong&gt; - accepted answer in the first 2 days of joining / or with you first ever answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:05:28.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:06:32.193" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest to force commenting &lt;strong&gt;ONLY when down-voting from 0 to -1&lt;/strong&gt;. I think no answer deserves a negative quotation unless it's blatantly wrong or offensive, and then it also deserves at least an explanation!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Maybe best using a list of &quot;pre-made reasons to down-vote&quot; like suggested by @Oorang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also encourage &quot;up-voting all the other answers and leaving this one you think deserves the down-vote alone&quot;, which I think is better (IMHO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:06:32.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:07:02.737" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatter Box&lt;/strong&gt; - ratio of comments to answers is 10:1 or above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:07:02.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:10:00.593" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scatter Gun&lt;/strong&gt; - more that 5 answers to the same question, each must have 2+ votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:10:00.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="747" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:10:16.320" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An unobtrusive way of showing the information would be as a &lt;strong&gt;tooltip&lt;/strong&gt;, shown when hovering over the score (or perhaps the up/down arrows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:10:16.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="94576" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:18:30.043" Score="21" ViewCount="615" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are SO Team planning some SO stuff shop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange Store&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://shop.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What stuff SO users want?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mugs, Stickers, T-Shirts or Posters :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86498/what-kind-of-stack-exchange-community-swag-do-you-want&quot;&gt;What kind of Stack Exchange &amp;amp; community swag do you want&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stickers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/coming-soon-trilogy-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trilogy Stickers&lt;/a&gt; - from SO team&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-10T13:49:43.750" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T13:49:43.750" Title="StackOverflow shop?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;shop&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="1005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="747" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:18:55.720" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another way could be something like Digg, where upon clicking on the number of diggs, it toggles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/258atk4.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i40.tinypic.com/2dikd3t.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this wouldn't work quite well here, so perhaps show this in a tooltip over the number, as Jonik &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-vote-totals-or-up-down-votes/1003#1003&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:18:55.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="747" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:23:11.123" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The total vote count (score) is denormalized, but the individual up/down vote counts are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to display it on every post would incur 2 vote table queries * number of visible questions / answers. Our DB is fast, but the vote table is pretty massive, and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; doing a query is always faster than doing it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possibly something we could do on demand (as @hmemcpy notes), but as an &quot;always displayed&quot; it is a non-starter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also: downvotes are still quite rare on Stack Overflow, so I'd say about 90% of the time, when you see a score, it is pure upvotes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;strong&gt;Jarrod implemented displaying total up/down votes today&lt;/strong&gt;. This is currently deployed to meta and will be deployed to other sites in the evening PST later today. Simply click on the vote number itself to show up/down vote totals. Requires 1000 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T18:15:16.187" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T18:15:16.187" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="1008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:24:02.103" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea!  I'd love a digital Stack Overflow doormat that displays my current flair!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:24:02.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:27:31.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should have T-Shirts with the flair of the user but with the ≈ or ~ approximation signs in front of the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:27:31.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1015" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:27:39.740" Score="37" ViewCount="506" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one useful thing I was ever taught in HCI was always give advanced users &quot;hidden&quot; short cuts and features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things a noob is not interested in but a power user can easily take advantage of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@rjstelling - &lt;strong&gt;Auto linking @username&lt;/strong&gt; to users profile (a la Twitter). It's already the de facto standard in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[#102] - &lt;strong&gt;Simple question linking&lt;/strong&gt;, this would expand to the title linked to the question, i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[#102#160] - &lt;strong&gt;Simple answer linking&lt;/strong&gt;, as above the the second number specifies the answer i.e.: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/160#160&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Idea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these useful? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The @username idea has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;implemented&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T10:59:34.260" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T11:02:25.037" Title="Advanced Syntax Ideas" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="1011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:29:06.257" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should have a mug or a t-shirt that says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Please stand back, I am trying to beat Jon Skeet's answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and on the T-Shirt have a ninja in some sort of fighting pose. (optional)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:29:06.257" />
  <row Id="1012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:30:19.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A T-Shirt or Mug that says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I hit the soft cap before lunch!&quot; (or rep cap)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:30:19.000" />
  <row Id="1013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:31:35.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Poster with the top 50 users with the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Followers of Jon Skeet&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with him at the top like a king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:31:35.580" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:32:18.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/97836-provide-a-way-to-quickly-link-to-a-question-within-markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;related UserVoice suggestion&lt;/a&gt; for linking to questions/answers easily which you might like to look at for thoughts about the syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about autolinking usernames though - it's certainly not something I need on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:32:18.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:33:14.733" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'd find these useful - particularly the username one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:33:14.733" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:33:51.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/26837/brent-ozar&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar&lt;/a&gt; already does &lt;a href=&quot;http://shirt.social-shirt.com/stackoverflow-shirt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow T-shirts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:33:51.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:34:02.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A mosaic of monochrome user-icons would be kinda cool. But it would need some witty phrase to compliment it - any suggestions? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-flow-guys.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Enlarge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-flow-shirt2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T12:20:29.780" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:20:29.780" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2009-06-30T10:58:35.750" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For simple question linking, I'd prefer the Flickr style:&#xA;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010/advanced-syntax-ideas&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010/advanced-syntax-ideas&lt;/a&gt;] to generate &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010/advanced-syntax-ideas&quot;&gt;Advanced Syntax Ideas&lt;/a&gt; - also would allow for easy cross-linking from sister sites (e.g. &quot;See the [foo] thread on meta&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T10:58:35.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:03:49.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A benevolent dictatorship is always better than democracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I suggest however, moderators should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Distributed evenly through time zones&lt;/strong&gt; - no point having 80% in the US etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A range of &quot;specialties&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, this may involve for example &quot;Objective-C only shortlist&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some women&lt;/strong&gt; - it's a real &lt;em&gt;sausage-fest&lt;/em&gt; round here. Seriously, I'd support a &quot;women only short list&quot; for the next moderator.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:03:49.437" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:05:01.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always liked the ways Slashdot did it. Moderation abilities are something that you earn and that you have to keep earning. So someone who stays away for a month might lose his/her mod status. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:05:01.833" />
  <row Id="1023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67755" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:11:03.210" Score="2" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the community want meta.* to be listed on Google et. al? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surly it would be confusing to noobs - they would find this site that kind of talks about programming, but not really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you should log in even to see the questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="89035" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-15T12:33:37.693" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T13:19:47.630" Title="Should all links to meta.* be &quot;nofollow&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26144" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:14:50.157" Score="2" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some times an answer is very detailed and expands on the question, it would be good at this point to have separate tags for that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe just 2 (giving a total of 7 when combined with the question tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow for some &lt;em&gt;funky&lt;/em&gt; searching and help link answers to different questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too complex? Maybe a 10k rep to tag answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit (example):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question: What the best way of&#xA;  encrypting data on the iPhone?&#xA;  [tagged: iphone, encryption]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer 1: Use sqlcipher [tagged:&#xA;  sqlite, sqlcipher]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer 2: Simple XOR [tagged: xor]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer 3: Don't encrypted on the&#xA;  iPhone it's too complicated to get it&#xA;  in the app store [tagged: appstore,&#xA;  itunesconnect]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All valid answers but with very different solutions, someone searching for answers to ecryption and itunes connect could be instantly taken to the 3rd answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:36:56.133" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:36:56.133" Title="Tags on answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:20:28.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is not necessarily too complex, but too much of a rare situation where it would be useful to warrant implementing an entire tagging system on the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:20:28.320" />
  <row Id="1026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:25:07.497" Score="9" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of SO user would like meet people from SO in the real world (outside matrix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this it would be great, if SO have some function for creating user groups (strictly moderated). It's possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, we don't want build social-community web like facebook, but in real world is good to making connections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T10:21:39.917" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T10:21:39.917" Title="SO local user groups" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:26:51.953" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;It drives me a little batty that when reformatting question/answer that a SOpedian has inadvertently used the quote block on when they intended a code block.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@interface AdressCardxxxxx : NSObjectxxxxxxx &amp;lt;NSCodingxxxxxxxxxxx&amp;gt; {&#xA;    NSString* namexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;&#xA;    NSString* streetxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;&#xA;    NSMutableArray* tasksxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; //bob is your uncle&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...becomes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; @interface AdressCardxxxxx :&#xA;&amp;gt; NSObjectxxxxxxx &amp;lt;NSCodingxxxxxxxxxxx&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt; {&#xA;&amp;gt;     NSString* namexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;&#xA;&amp;gt;     NSString* streetxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;&#xA;&amp;gt;     NSMutableArray* tasksxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;&#xA;&amp;gt; //bob is your uncle }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...when the quote button is used rather than the code button, which really sucks when trying to put it back together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a real reason that I am not getting as to why the quote button needs to break text up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:26:51.953" Title="Stop the quote block button from ignoring CRLF in the text to be marked down?" Tags="&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;quote&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1026" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:28:26.600" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to be able to filter users by country on SO. To search for fellow Icelanders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:28:26.600" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1026" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:29:10.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would help if you could find users close to you, if both you and they have added a Location. Although I think this might require multiple fields for the location to ensure that everyone has it entered in a way that can be parsed and geolocated (and that there's enough, since I don't want people who put United States to show up, since they might be on the west coast while I'm on the east coast).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:29:10.483" />
  <row Id="1030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:30:18.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding on Kyle, the primary purpose of them was to get the best comments loaded on the page for all requests (instead of via AJAX) - so they can be indexed by search engines/visible to all users.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:30:18.780" />
  <row Id="1031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1032" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:30:49.340" Score="6" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was talked about a few podcasts ago. And they referenced some other site that does this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently location is a string but adding a country dropdown (and for the usa a state drop down) could be a great addition to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then allow for user filtering by country / state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:02:05.593" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:02:05.593" Title="Filter users by country" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-search&gt;&lt;demographics&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="1032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1031" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:32:47.290" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Find users in &lt;strong&gt;Iceland&lt;/strong&gt;: Google - &lt;em&gt;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:users &quot;iceland&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Find users in &lt;strong&gt;Atlanta&lt;/strong&gt;: Google - &lt;em&gt;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:users &quot;Atlanta&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course that only works for those who explicitly stated &quot;Iceland&quot; in their profile :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T11:37:54.097" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:37:54.097" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1031" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:33:01.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this more than other social networking-esque feature requests like friends and groups. This would allow you to search for those in your area, and then if they have websites and emails to connect with them that way. I am a big proponent of keeping the facebookiness and myspaceiness off StackOverflow as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:33:01.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:33:25.183" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Narcissist&lt;/strong&gt; - accept 10 of your own answers (must have up votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:33:25.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="995" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:34:50.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd kind of like to see this for everything to be honest. For example: &quot;You've earned badge foo!&quot; is nice, but if I can't work out &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; I earned that, not so useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:34:50.327" />
  <row Id="1036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:36:17.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There could be a link to SO itself. But is it very likely that Google would rank Meta-SO posts higher that SO posts, if someone googles for an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:36:17.127" />
  <row Id="1038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:41:14.447" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would help to make sure that the possible duplicates link to all older duplicate questions, even if everyone who voted to close picked the same one or two questions. However, I'm not sure how it would look and act, rep requirements, and more, so I figure I'll throw the idea out there and let the rest of the SO community help come up with something cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:18:00.147" Title="Can we add Possible Duplicates even after a question is closed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:42:51.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say even remove the reason from everyone except the moderators. In fact, there should be a way for moderators to filter by close reason to allow them to permanently delete or move questions that just don't belong and add 0 value to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:42:51.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1057" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:45:31.677" Score="20" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was something that was discussed briefly on UserVoice in the past but I feel that this should be another good avenue for it's discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we have seen recently is an influx of users gaining moderation capabilities for what many consider gaming the system. What I mean is that you have users who will post literally hundreds of questions, the vast majority of which will receive either negative or break-even vote totals, but the few sympathy upvotes they do receive is enough to keep their rep score climbing higher. So now we have users gaining thousands in rep even though they may have less than 10 total answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am initially suggesting is some sort of ratio between questions asked and questions answered. This would ensure that those gaining moderation capabilities are the same type of people who actually use StackOverflow (and it's sister sites) to help other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion could also be expanded in other ways to incorporate other metrics such as the number of high score answers vs. low score answers. This would further insure ensure that you are promoting the users who are providing good contributions to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T22:28:17.833" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T22:28:17.833" Title="Implement Ratios For Moderation Abilities" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;rep-ability&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:51:03.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well those with sufficient rep can still edit questions after they've been closed to add the links manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that what you mean or have I missed the point of your question completely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:51:03.283" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:53:25.137" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest doing this like on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All registered users already have an email address associated with their account. Add &quot;Enable e-mail from other users&quot; to user prefs. For those who have the option enabled, &quot;E-mail this user&quot; link appears on their user profile. Clicking that takes you to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3aEmailUser/Jonik&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;form for writing a message&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/D9dZO.png&quot; alt=&quot;archived screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be pretty cheap to implement and unobtrusive for potential recipients (opt-in required; email address is never revealed to the sender or general public), yet effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="155739" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-02T03:10:20.817" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T03:10:20.817" />
  <row Id="1044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1041" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:54:14.633" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling to see exactly why you would grant moderation like powers based on questions at all. The ability to comment is one thing, but editing and closing suggests a value judgement which isn't related to how good your questions are, even if your questions are very good. Simply put, how can you be an authority without having been authoritative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Privilege karma based on karma(total) - karma(questions)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastEditorUserId="13018" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T12:07:57.813" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:07:57.813" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1041" CreationDate="2009-06-30T11:59:25.433" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation != Moderating abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it's actually quite hard to game the system and I can't think of any users with high rep who have not correctly earned it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T11:59:25.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:04:12.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be an option to disable alerts.  I browse from multiple PCs and have to kill the alert multiple times on each PC...for each new response I probably see (and need to close) the alert 4-5 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:04:12.520" />
  <row Id="1047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1031" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:05:27.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could prove useful, as you could cross reference with the the &quot;I'm open to employers (not recruiters) contacting me&quot; to give functionality:&#xA;Employers can search for candidates near them&#xA;Users could restrict that only employers in their country/county/etc. can contact them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe at a future point in time extend this to go down to postal/zip code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:05:27.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:17:40.460" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding in an option for very light highlighting that would essentially do little more than colour brackets and isolated literals, treat '' and &quot;&quot; as text delimiters and nothing else would be useful for a vast number of languages currently unsupported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Functional example code look like crap with the current highlighter as do punctuation-light languages like SQL. Perl is just hilarious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually thinking about it more you wouldn't even want the text stuff. It is too costly a hit to readability when it fails (thinking generic type parameters in F# for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially nothing that requires unbounded state and never goes across a new line should function very well. Something that is unbounded but the bounds are highly common like whitespace, new lines, any non-word character, etc. have a high probability of not messing up many languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-27T12:14:15.990" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T12:14:15.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1038" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:18:00.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing the question to add in the duplicates is much more efficient. If the question is already closed, you won't see the box with the duplicate possibilities anyway because you won't be able to vote for it to close (since it's already closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:18:00.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:19:35.430" Score="3" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11115/you-know-youve-been-browsing-stack-overflow-too-much-when&quot;&gt;You know you&amp;#39;ve been browsing Stack Overflow too much when?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the title says it all really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastEditorUserId="8205" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T12:34:37.907" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:39:47.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:19:35.430" ClosedDate="2011-08-31T16:25:47.663" Title="You know when you've been on StackOverflow too much when" Tags="&lt;fun&gt;&lt;off-topic&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:23:04.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shout &quot;Downvote!&quot; to the interns attempting to explain polymorphism.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;You place a golden-star sticker on favorites items throughout the house.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;You take your laptop to the restroom...&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;You use &quot;Skeet&quot; as a verb meaning &lt;em&gt;to answer questions&lt;/em&gt;: &quot;Don't mind me, I'm skeeting on SO.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T12:28:05.957" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:28:05.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:23:04.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:24:20.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keeping SO impersonal and limited to a Q&amp;amp;A forum does quite a lot to keep discussions from dissolving into flame wars.  It also helps to keep discussions on-topic, which is a good thing for a Q&amp;amp;A forum.  IMHO, if SO was turned into a social networking site the quality of material would degrade rapidly.  Therefore I think there is a reasonable argument that SO should discourage personal contacts or conversations by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some enterprising bod wants to start a 'Stackers' web site or mailing list they could but it needs to have a certain distance from SO and strictly discourage discussion of SO Q&amp;amp;A material so the actual Q&amp;amp;A doesn't get dragged off SO and lost in the social networking fluff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be argued that there's a niche for a geek version of LinkedIn and the requests for contacts and messaging facilities are indiciative of that demand (in fact, that facility used to be known as 'Usenet' before it got destroyed by spam).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the objectives and design for such a site are in tension if not in conflict with the design objectives of Stackoverflow and it should maintain a deliberate distance from Stackoverflow even if Joel and Jeff decide to build it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:24:20.567" />
  <row Id="1057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1041" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:25:12.813" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want a ratio, I just want to see questions either not earn rep or at least put a freeze on rep if you ask too many questions and never do anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have users who have simply become question pumps and just ask questions about every little thing they have to do in a day. These mindless zombies are fine to have around, since they give us someone to laugh at (and laugh we do!), but they should not be earning moderation abilities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can point out at least one of these question pumps who also uses his abilities to 'farm' his questions through constant edits and close/reopen wars. He has been in the penalty box quite a bit for it, and yet we trust him with &gt;3k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:25:12.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:25:35.790" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're participating in meta.stackoverflow.com :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:25:35.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:25:35.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:26:13.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have 73,933+ reputation...I'm looking at you Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:26:13.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:26:13.310" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:29:58.667" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know that this question is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247342/you-know-youve-been-browsing-stack-overflow-too-much-when&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:29:58.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:29:58.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:32:26.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reputation (not rep score) on TheDailyWTF.com is almost forgotten, yet your reputation on SO ends up being exactly the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:32:26.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:32:26.070" />
  <row Id="1062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:34:14.287" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're starting to hate your own issue-management/bug-tracking system for not having voting and comment capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:34:14.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:34:14.287" />
  <row Id="1063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:37:07.620" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often I post messages with many links to external resources that will probably go stale over time.  A facility to generate a permalink to (say) archive.org or a mirroring facility might be helpful to secure resources over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, many firewalls block sites like flickr.  I'm a contractor so I tend to be at the mercy of whatever network security policy happens to be in place at the site.  Sometimes I would like to be able to post screen shots or other supporting files such as code snippets but I don't always have the option of doing this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation is going to get worse over time as the blacklist vendors spot new sites.  They also tend not to be overly concerned about false positives.  1337-ness is ephmeral - attempts to find more obscure sites are just an arms race against blacklist vendors.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will find that none of the commercial blacklist vendors block (for example) slashdot.org as they know that they will get a serious PR backlash if they do.  Given that Stackoverflow has quite a high profile these days an 'official' stackoverflow archival site would have similar political clout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is (to some extent) reinventing the wheel I think that relying on third party sites to host such material is not always workable.  A service 'material.stackoverflow.com' or similar for posting supporting material would help with such issues.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastEditorUserId="15401" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T13:17:31.627" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T14:00:07.917" Title="Archival facilities for fan-out material" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;firewall&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:37:37.743" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're checking your SO reputation BEFORE your first cup of coffee. Or even BEFORE you get out of bed ;-) &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;placeholder for the obligatory xkcd link &quot;laptops are weird&quot; ;-)&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (don't know the number by heart, and xkcd is websensed here :s)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T12:46:29.157" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:46:29.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:37:37.743" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1063" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:39:50.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My biggest concern with this is the resources it would take up which would be otherwise used for increasing overall bandwidth and maintainability of the sites themselves (especially as they continue to grow in size in terms of users, questions, answers, and comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:39:50.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:40:26.300" Score="13" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;abbr&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag is useful to clarify abbreviations without hunting down external links for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Migrating this from: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/118664-add-support-for-abbr-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/118664-add-support-for-abbr-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T20:41:58.793" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T02:12:45.647" Title="Add support for abbr tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:41:00.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You start dreaming about Stack Overflow and SOpedians.  Seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few night ago I had a dream that Jeff was hosting DevDays at his home, and 'we' (a bunch of SOpedians and I) were wandering around randomly.  I came accross Jeff's Lightsaber (ala Star Wars) on a mantel.  Being curious, I picked it up and was checking it out.  Jeff came in, saw me, and screamed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Don't touch the Lightsaber!  Get out, Stu!  Out!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:41:00.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:41:00.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1063" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:42:10.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Snippets makes it sounds like it's a pastebin like service. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can and most do post the vital information for a question in the question itself and the service has a good feature set for quoting others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:42:10.510" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:42:33.240" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You talk to someone at your university and chat about StackOverflow and when you tell him your username he goes, &quot;Oh! You're the pony guy!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:42:33.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:42:33.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1071" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:43:45.903" Score="0" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO recognised me yesterday and i gave my email, to become a unregistered user and ask the question.  But somehow today its not tracked that i asked that question, so i cant edit the question, tick an answer and more importantly say thank you. how can i do this? i went to login page but that creates a registered user, and doesnt link it with the unregistered usereven if i use the same email and username&#xA;paul&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:46:11.123" Title="unregistered user - how can i return to my question to select an answer? SO has forgotten i was the questioner" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1070" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:45:13.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contact team@stackoverflow.com and have them merge the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:45:13.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1070" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:45:33.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend that you contact team@stackoverflow.com and they should be able to assist moving the question under your profile once you sign up for one (if you haven't already).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:45:33.090" />
  <row Id="1073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1070" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:46:01.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can send an email to team@stackoverflow.com and ask them to connect you with that account (if you can provide information that it is really you)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:46:01.950" />
  <row Id="1075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:46:30.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stanlemon.net/projects/jgrowl.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jGrowl&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T13:09:24.727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T13:09:24.727" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:47:35.193" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Please &lt;i&gt;do not&lt;/i&gt; make tab key insert an actual tab!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users (well, at least this one) rely on the tab key to change focus when they are not using their mouse.  &lt;strong&gt;It would break a fundamental UI feature&lt;/strong&gt; that's been around in data entry forms (on and off the web) since at least Windows 3.1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest to use spaces if you are entering code in the editor.  If you have an unusually large block of code, you're probably copy/pasting from an IDE anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T18:12:15.593" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:12:15.593" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:48:56.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about using the space above the logo and the information bar (with your username) and having it smaller. So it doesn't move the content down (which i think is the worst thing it does)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:48:56.220" />
  <row Id="1078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:50:09.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Less rare than you might think.  Quite often answers hit material around the strict space of the question and might merit tags of their own.  However, one might argue that retagging the question would be appropriate in many such cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:50:09.493" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="239" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:55:41.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, if somebody with 10k rep and somebody with 12 rep were to tie on an answer, I'd probably select the 12 reps answer, and upvote the 10k rep. Clearly, if somebody with a much lower rep is competing with those of a higher score, the lower fella deserves some credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:55:41.850" />
  <row Id="1081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1088" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:58:48.380" Score="16" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked many questions at SO.&#xA;This means about 30 tabs to scroll to find answers which I have not yet accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions of mine are long-term projects. They may require years to be answered satisfactorily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, some questions have showed bugs in Vim and OS/X such that I cannot solve them alone. An example is the question about &lt;em&gt;Scattered window in OS/X Screen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, please &lt;strong&gt;add a feature to SO which allows me see my unaccepted questions effectively&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="Masi" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:34:50.843" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:34:50.843" Title="Unable to find unaccepted answers effectively" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T12:59:08.067" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You wish that the Cornify button was a permanent fixture of the website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What? Don't look at me like that. You know damn well you pressed it hundreds of times too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T12:59:08.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T12:59:08.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:00:15.847" Score="1" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC-Wiki license&lt;/a&gt; makes mention of &quot;the author&quot;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bob makes a post, it's obvious Bob &quot;owns&quot; the content, but what happens when he checks the Community Wiki button? Does it become the property of the Stack Overflow community? Even if Bob is the only one to have edited it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say I were to use a Community Wiki answer for something or other - say, in a book - who would I attribute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:29:17.663" Title="Ownership of content in Community Wiki posts?" Tags="&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:02:01.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're searching the upvote/downvote button in a Lotus Notes Discussion Database :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:02:01.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:02:01.913" />
  <row Id="1087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1084" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:02:43.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Say I were to use a Community Wiki answer for something or other - say, in a book - who would I attribute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you can see the edit history, I would look over that and make a judgment call on what 1 person or many people to credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:02:43.207" />
  <row Id="1088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1081" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:02:44.330" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. I don't see why this shouldn't be a sorting option to go along with the sort options for date, views, and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:02:44.330" />
  <row Id="1089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1091" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:09:00.570" Score="4" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if users could add their own styles to the CSS-Rules on SO. This is nothing more than a textarea in the user preferences that takes precedence over the default styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users could create themes that are easier for them to use, and share with others. Sure, I could use my own local browser to override the styles, but that won't benefit me working on the other two machines that I visit regularly from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T13:17:59.580" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:17:59.580" Title="User-Specific CSS" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1089" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:10:42.907" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already do custom stylesheets for websites with your web browser and some add on developer tools (or some are like that right out of the box). Having SO implement it on it's own seems to be a big waste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/heres-a-meta-uservoice-question-can-you-bring-the-color-back/417#417&quot;&gt;See this answer for more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:10:42.907" CommentCount="47" />
  <row Id="1092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1089" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:11:03.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a complete fix but you could just use the custom stylesheets if your browser supports them. Wouldn't work on non-compatible browsers and be a pain if you change computers a lot (as a lot of programmers do)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:11:03.060" />
  <row Id="1093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1210" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:11:24.730" Score="120" ViewCount="1696" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like the recent activity and responses pages to show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them).  If I leave a comment somewhere, I am implicitly engaging in a conversation.  Currently, I have to keep looking everywhere I recently left a comment to see if there are new comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Derived from uservoice items:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/73264-make-the-user-s-start-page-more-like-a-facebook-start-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/73264-make-the-user-s-start-page-more-like-a-facebook-start-page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/38310-new-since-last-visit-notifications&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/38310-new-since-last-visit-notifications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/167318-notify-comments-for-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/167318-notify-comments-for-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one was merged with the second one.  When that one was completed, the &quot;recent activity&quot; page was introduced, but I think it is still a problem that it fails to inform me of comment conversations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T07:19:06.170" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T05:47:49.083" Title="Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="23" />
  <row Id="1094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1401" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:11:48.333" Score="1" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; page of stackoverflow.com, clicking on one of the tags in the &quot;Unanswered Tags&quot; list doesn't have any affect on the list of questions shown. For example, the top question on that page at the moment is tagged with &lt;em&gt;vista&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;graphics&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;winforms&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;.net&lt;/em&gt;, but clicking the &lt;em&gt;c#&lt;/em&gt; tag in the Unanswered Tags list doesn't remove this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I've noticed that on this site multiple selections of unanswered tags are anded together, but this doesn't happen on stackoverflow.com either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all works fine on stackoverflow's Questions page!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77090" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T17:35:16.427" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:35:16.427" Title="Unanswered Questions on StackOverflow - tag search not working?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1089" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:13:41.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have firefox (and being here suggests you should) then you have access to &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stylish&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; both of which can accomplish what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the latter for highlighting interesting things on SO and the former for not making me feel like I'm dying slowly when I'm here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:13:41.417" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:13:42.510" Score="9" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions are &quot;solved&quot; - it's clear what to do with them, there's tools to deal with them.. but what happens when two users post the same answer? This happens a fair bit, particularly on questions with simple answers (&quot;Click this button&quot; type ones)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we upvote both answers, since they are both correct? Do we upvote the first one (although if the answers were posted within a few minutes of each other, after an hour it's impossible to tell as they both show up as &quot;answered 1 hour ago&quot;)? Do we upvote the currently highest voted one? Do we upvote one and downvote the other? Do we flag one (seems a little excessive)? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T02:26:27.960" Title="Dealing with duplicate answers?" Tags="&lt;voting&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:16:46.200" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the age old Fastest Gun In The West problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who get the answer first should obviously be rewarded for their speed, but if there are instances where users post the same thing within seconds within one another, I will tend to upvote all of them. If it's within a few minutes, I will not be so lenient because that should have been enough time to review the already posted answers or load any new answers that were written during the construction of your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seconds apart = close enough to reward both&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minutes apart = not close enough, fastest should get the upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:16:46.200" />
  <row Id="1101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:22:48.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually wait a minute to see what user takes the effort to expand his answer. Then upvote that person. Or if someone comes along with an expanded well thought out answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:22:48.150" />
  <row Id="1102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:23:49.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started to comment on the later ones. This will encourage them hopefully to either withdraw or enhance the answer to add value. (if I can't see which is the later one, I prefer to comment on the underdog.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:23:49.847" />
  <row Id="1103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1108" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:24:39.317" Score="-6" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting requires a small rep sacrifice.  The thinking goes that if you are going to penalize someone with a downvote you should be committed to it, and the small rep sacrifice goes a long way to achieving this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't closing questions require the same sacrifice?  It's a small cost to pay, and it would help to keep people from jumping the gun on closing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the%5Fsour%5Fwikipe.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent study&lt;/a&gt; found that wikipedia contributors do not have very high levels of agreeableness.  If stackoverflow shares some of those traits, this tendency pushes people to be as exclusionary as possible and on topic questions are closed by the group before the group of openers can react.  Consider that it's more likely that a group of users spontaneously forms to close, than that a group forms to reopen (regardless of the question's content) because the act of silencing someone else fulfills this antisocial desire (whereas opening does not do the same).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even a 1 point rep sacrifice would go a long way to ensuring that questions that should be closed are still closed, while those that should not be are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-02T15:39:19.717" LastActivityDate="2010-12-02T20:35:40.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:24:39.317" Title="Should &quot;closing&quot; require some rep sacrifice as well?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:25:04.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have the title field as a &lt;code&gt;textarea&lt;/code&gt; so that browsers' spell checking functionality works there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;my tongue is only slightly in my cheek here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; I've just discovered that Google Chrome can spell check text boxes, but it appears to be on a per page or site basis as I have to keep re-enabling the option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T15:28:14.373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:28:14.373" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1103" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:26:09.937" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good way to ensure that nothing gets closed. We've seen how the trend is towards people to specifically not vote down things just so they don't lose rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:26:09.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:26:09.937" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:26:57.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this happen just yesterday (my answer happened to be first, but the other user got one upvote before me, so naturally his answer got the rest of the upvotes).  As the duplicater (who lost the vote count) I just removed my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:26:57.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1103" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:27:22.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Closing is an important part of the community policing of noise. There are already too many disincentives to being a closer, if you start penalizing them more, the noise will drastically increase on the site. SO.com has enough noise to begin with, we sure don't need any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:27:22.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:27:22.880" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1103" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:28:29.960" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to think not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are a problem because they can be used tactically and punitively. There's always a cost to the recipient. Close votes OTOH are meaningless individually and 5 is quite a high barrier for an effect. I also strongly feel that the market forces mechanism of close/reopen resolves 90%+ of problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:28:29.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:28:29.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="824" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:29:30.927" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd actually suggest going the other way: make my list of favorited questions private.  I don't see why anyone else needs to know which questions I like enough to come back to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:29:30.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1110" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1118" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:31:14.447" Score="1" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;This idea is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1081/unable-to-find-unaccepted-answers-effectively&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions in SO vary from very challenging to very easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After asking many questions, my SO accounts are becoming hard to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of some questions of mine is to act as a public frontend for my research projects. These projects involve problems which may take years to be answered satisfactorily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I propose to have the fourth site&lt;/strong&gt; in SO-family which target is unsolved programming problems. These problems include &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Knuth's problems from 4.0 to 5.0.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unsolved bugs in editors/OSs/...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unsolved problems in Algorithms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do we need the site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some questions occur to be more challenging than expected initially when asking questions at SO. I would like to move a few of my questions to the 4th site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestion for the site's describtion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4th site is a collaboratively edited&#xA;  question and answer site for&#xA;  programmers – regardless of platform&#xA;  or language. It's target is to solve&#xA;  unsolved problems in Computer Science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T02:18:23.730" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:18:23.730" Title="Unable to work effectively with challenging programming problems in SO" Tags="&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1110" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:33:14.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you not simply have a tag? I imagine this forth site would not generate enough traffic to be a success on it's own..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:33:14.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="824" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:33:41.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would allow to find people that have the same problems or interests. Nice feature for networking. Alternative: neighborhood graph based on tags in questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:33:41.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:37:16.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're reading this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:37:16.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:37:16.523" />
  <row Id="1114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10655" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:39:38.157" Score="42" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have more advanced search features, things that Google cannot easily or reliably provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ideas based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/943/ability-to-search-my-stuff&quot;&gt;&quot;Ability to search my stuff?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[user:dbr]&lt;/code&gt; to find my posts (questions or answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[question:Alice]&lt;/code&gt; to find questions by Alice  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[answer: Bob]&lt;/code&gt; to find answers by bob&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, more similar to GMails search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[user:dbr]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[user:Alice] [is:question]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[user:Bob] [is:answer]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other ideas based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130026/masi&quot;&gt;Masi's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1081/unable-to-find-unaccepted-answers-effectively&quot;&gt;&quot;Unable to find unaccepted answers effectively&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[user:Masi] [is:answer] [accepted:no]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or &lt;code&gt;[user:Masi] [is:answer] [is:unaccepted]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[user:Masi] [vim] crashes&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other random ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[is:unanswered] [python]&lt;/code&gt; - find unanswered Python questions, this is somewhat possible by clicking &quot;Unanswered&quot; and appending &lt;code&gt;/tagged/python&lt;/code&gt; but you cannot search the question body/title, only filter by tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[subjective] -[is:communitywiki]&lt;/code&gt; - find subjective questions not community-wiki'd (For the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&quot;&gt;&quot;Community Wiki Police&quot;&lt;/a&gt;!..)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[.net] [is:answer] [votes:&amp;gt;100]&lt;/code&gt; - find popular answers to .net tagged questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[is:flagged]&lt;/code&gt; [votes:&gt;10] - find popular questions that have been flagged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[not-programming-related] [votes:&amp;lt;0]&lt;/code&gt; - find non programming related questions that have been downvoted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[vs*]&lt;/code&gt; - wildcard tag search. Searches for all tags starting with &lt;code&gt;vs&lt;/code&gt; - to find questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;vs2008&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;vs2010&lt;/code&gt; etc (idea from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1649/searching-for-a-tag-containing-breaks&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Other ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T14:02:59.397" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:02:59.397" Title="Additional search features/syntax?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="20" />
  <row Id="1115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1084" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:39:53.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like Ólafur's suggestion.  At some point I wonder if attribution to the person is really necessary or if just attributing the site is sufficient.  For example, if you cited a wikipedia article, it's likely you wouldn't also cite the 300 contributors to the article.  StackOverflow has a lot less traffic on each question though, so you're certain to be able to find at least one main contributor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:39:53.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1110" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:41:41.460" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only would it not have as much traffic, but people won't necessarily be willing to solve more complex research based questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of credibility and recognition involved solving a difficult problem, one that's best suited to white papers and research teams etc. Expecting users to help solve a complex  problem for nothing more than a bit of internet credibility seems like a stretch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:41:41.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:44:05.727" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Date Ranges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[edited:2009-07-03..2009-07-13]&#xA;[edited:&quot;last week&quot;]&#xA;[edited:&quot;this month&quot;]&#xA;[edited:today]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation granted from a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[reputation:50..100]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T14:16:44.260" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:16:44.260" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1110" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:45:08.610" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Solving those types of problems or the development of new algorithms is a way to get yourself published and even write your thesis or dissertation and other highly things in the academic world. I think those would far outweigh the potential benefit of a StackOverflow-like rep score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:45:08.610" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:48:50.707" Score="3" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surprised this hasn't been asked yet (it's already been on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88947/what-should-visitors-to-stackoverflow-be-called&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/26539/what-should-contributors-to-serverfault-be-called&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should contributors to meta.stackoverflow.com be referred to as?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Stackers&quot; and &quot;Faulters&quot; naming-scheme really work here - &quot;Metaers&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Metastician? Metadors? Peoplewhoshouldpossiblyhavesomethingbettertodo'ers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T03:34:37.770" Title="What should the users of meta.stackoverflow.com be referred to as?" Tags="&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:49:33.623" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People with no lives who not only spend all their time StackOverflow, but spend even more time discussing StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am one of those people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the most recognizable term is - &quot;nerd&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:49:33.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:53:05.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obsessed  .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:53:05.177" />
  <row Id="1124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:53:53.473" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1060229/why-would-cookies-be-vanishing-in-ie6-8-and-what-can-i-do-about-it&quot;&gt;a question about a problem with cookies in IE for a PHP site&lt;/a&gt;, without the best diagnostics to start off with. One user said that it was hard to tell from the limited information I gave and suggested using Fiddler. So I added an edit to my question with further details pulled from using Fiddler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My original question received four answers shortly after it was posted 17 hours ago, and after I edited the question to specify further diagnostics, it does not seem to have received new replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do in the future if I post question X, and later have additional information Y to include? Are there appropriate ways to draw more responses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130155" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:00:36.297" Title="How can I effectively get attention to Round Two of a question?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="1125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1137" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:54:10.557" Score="73" ViewCount="672" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the list of tags in &quot;ignored tags&quot; and &quot;interesting tags&quot; has a little &quot;remove tag&quot; icon to the right of each tag. However, since this icon is not inside the div containing the tag, it can sometimes get wrapped onto the next line, which causes confusion as to which tag will actually be removed by the &quot;×&quot; icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Example&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/3324/tags.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following questions are raised:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which &quot;×&quot; do I click if I want to remove the &quot;.net&quot; tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which tag will be removed by clicking the &quot;×&quot; between &quot;sofaq&quot; and &quot;not-programming-related&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you could solve this by putting the &quot;×&quot; in the same div as the tag, as suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/245/michael-pryor&quot;&gt;Michael Pryor&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4237/screenshot1368.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Migrating this from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/138951-move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/138951-move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="147574" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-09T04:44:23.660" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T04:44:23.660" Title="Move the remove tag &quot;X&quot; icon inside the tag in interesting/ignored tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="1126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1124" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:56:03.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Start a bounty.  I've found this to be extremely effective at raising an old question from the dead (although you don't get many answers until right when the bounty is about to expire).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:56:03.233" />
  <row Id="1127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:56:48.130" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good day, my name is Ólafur Waage and here's today's Jon Skeet update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently he is 23 rep behind the top user dbr and only 20 rep behind the site's owner Jeff Atwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is truly exciting so tune in tomorrow for another exciting update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:56:48.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1103" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:56:50.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the downvote system and the closing system are meaningfully different. At 100 rep you can downvote, while it takes 3000 to vote to close. I believe this is because up and down voting is at the heart of what SO is providing it's end users. It is providing a way of more easily determining what answer to a question is correct. However, I do believe the disincentive of a slight loss of rep for the down-voter is necessary to keep people from using downvotes as part of an overall &quot;reputation game&quot; or to target other members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, voting to close I believe is a service to the community. It helps keep question that do not have a place on SO from being there. Additionally, I believe the voting system, vs allowing a single person with the necessary rep being able to close a question, is also a good choice, because it helps limit the close/reopen wars (limit, not eliminate) and keeps any one user's opinion of what a valid question is from caring too much weight. But still, as a service to the community, I don't believe it should carry any loss of rep with the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:56:50.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:56:50.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1124" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:57:44.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can post a bounty or ask a new question.  Be careful with the new question option, though, as it might be seen as a duplicate if they're too similar.  Usually if you post a link to the original and state that the new question is a follow-up people are pretty understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:57:44.960" />
  <row Id="1130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1124" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:58:14.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing a question with new information will tend to put it back up to the front page on the active questions tab, but I know most people tend to focus on the New Questions tab. Starting a bounty seems like one logical way to do it. Another way would be to create a new question, as long as it wasn't an exact duplicate of what you were asking (in other words, craft your new question so that it incorporates what you now know so that you don't hit the same potholes you were in before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:58:14.600" />
  <row Id="1131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:58:20.733" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Addicts  .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:58:20.733" />
  <row Id="1132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1124" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:58:34.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users that browse through questions using the &quot;Active&quot; tab may encounter your recently modified question, but users that mainly go through &quot;Newest&quot; (like me) wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question really got no answers, I don't think there's anything wrong with deleting it and reposting with newer, more complete information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:58:34.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T13:58:43.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1125" CreationDate="2009-06-30T13:58:48.017" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least add a confirmation to that thing. I click it by accident way to often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T13:58:48.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:01:38.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Groupies .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:01:38.180" />
  <row Id="1136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:01:59.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know that this answer will be right some time, at least for a day or so ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Just thought to let you know...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;At this time, Jon Skeet is only &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt; (nine) points behind the first (Jeff). This means... only one (1) up-vote on an answer (assuming he hasn't reached his cap today, which I think he has).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T15:49:15.030" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:49:15.030" />
  <row Id="1137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1125" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:06:00.043" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4237/screenshot1368.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T21:36:21.670" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:36:21.670" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:06:00.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Über-stackers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:06:00.980" />
  <row Id="1139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:07:52.770" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack-overlords&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:07:52.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:19:27.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw the demo for Wave I thought that SO would be a perfect fit for the site. As cletus posted each question should be it's own wave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to fork a new wave might be useful - especially if the OP asks two (or more) questions in the same post. Your answer would then be clearly linked to the relevant part of the question and there would be no confusion about which part you were answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you link/merge Waves? If so then this might be the perfect solution to duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:19:27.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:20:34.890" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;how about: metaheads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:20:34.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:20:52.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderation should primarily be a meritocracy as quality of work is more useful than popularity of the work.  Democracy is secondary to that - it is peripherally useful in that public opinion of the merits of a particular individual &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be correlated with their actual merits.  However recent history is littered with examples where this was not the case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, public opinion can be manipulated by people with access to mass media - which can undermine the democratic process by skewing public opinion with incomplete or biased information or outright propoganda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:20:52.520" />
  <row Id="1144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:25:43.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't hide your Ignore tags the current system isn't perfect, but I think it strikes the balance between greying out and highlighting fairly well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at it positively, while the question is greyed out because it has at least one of my Ignore tags it's background is changed to show that it has at least one of my Interesting tags, and I might be able to answer the question after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T22:11:20.913" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:11:20.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:26:21.570" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unselfishness&lt;/strong&gt; — For people who consistently post good answers in obscure or low-view tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the joking about Objective-C fanboys, one of the perennial frustrations is that so few people view or vote on questions in that tag. My highest-voted SO answer was (still is) a semi-flippant one to a question with a Java tag. :-/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, we post for a given language because we love it and/or use it all the time, but also because we care to help other users of the language. Nobody's hating on the Java or C# dudes, probably because they're in the majority, but does that necessarily make one any less of a fanboy? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="130179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T14:42:35.087" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:42:35.087" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1084" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:29:17.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't you just credit StackOverflow and include the URL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:29:17.663" />
  <row Id="1149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1241" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:30:51.700" Score="0" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no syntax highlighting nor any ways to emphasize code written in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that this is one of the key factors leading users to misunderstand one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the backticks (&lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;) and &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; signs at the moment for code that I write in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please, give us an option to turn syntax highlighting on for comments.&lt;/strong&gt; We cannot avoid the fact that that some users decide to put code in their comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="153008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-25T08:10:24.737" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T08:10:24.737" Title="Can we enable syntax highlighting for code in comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="152" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:35:53.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the &quot;some&quot; part. Anything that has to do with popularity (lots of upvotes, views, etc.) should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; come with any extra points, since that could just incite people to write more funny, subjective, and or controversial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags that require actual consistent work would be good candidates (like Civic Duty, Strunk &amp;amp; White, Taxonomist, etc.) and could encourage more community participation. Some of my SO pet peeves include (1) the dismal votes/view ratio (realizing of course that some people aren't site members, or don't have enough rep to vote) and (2) poor tagging, poor question titles, and typos. Perhaps &quot;two birds with one stone&quot; is optimistic, but a fella can hope...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:35:53.730" />
  <row Id="1153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:39:24.550" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments aren't the proper place for full blown code. For one, it isn't even multi-line. Secondly there's no other way to format a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have the need to post enough code that it requires syntax highlighting, then post it as an answer, or have the person requiring it ask another question where you can provide an answer there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:39:24.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:41:16.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why you are supposed to edit your question or answer. Comments were just not meant for extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep the comments short and simple please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:41:16.527" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:43:08.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you're listening to somebody at a party, you like what he/she says, and you think &quot;+1&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:43:08.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T14:43:08.177" />
  <row Id="1157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:44:16.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Metaphiles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This name comes from the site name, &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;-phile&lt;/em&gt;, which is Greek for denoting fondness for a specific thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:44:16.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:52:36.500" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bounty Hunter&lt;/strong&gt; — Given the first time your answer is accepted for a bountied question. Generally they're harder to answer anyway. (Or as @Alconja suggested with Capitalist, for answering only bountied questions, something like that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Just found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1182/bounty-hunter-badges&quot;&gt;this related MSO question&lt;/a&gt;, and of course the idea &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/110435-bounty-hunter-badges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;originated from Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;. How could I expect otherwise? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="130179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T16:09:53.927" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:09:53.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" />
  <row Id="1159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:53:17.183" Score="3" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1063646/list&quot;&gt;VonC's answer&lt;/a&gt; to my question right from its publication. He edited his answer about 5 minutes after his first edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The version control system makes it very hard to see what has been changed in the version history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please, give each independent edit own tab in version history.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO includes edits at the moment to one history instance if you have edited files in a short time period. This behavior should be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T02:23:23.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:23:23.747" ClosedDate="2009-07-03T02:23:40.440" Title="To give each edit own version history" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:54:42.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need to add this much more complexity to the site. There are better things for the devs to work on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments were never meant to be anything so complex anyway. We have already made them a lot more complex than they need to be. I would rather we keep them the way they are now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:54:42.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1110" CreationDate="2009-06-30T14:55:33.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow, the concept, works well as a Q&amp;amp;A. I don't really think it supports the idea you are trying to describe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a lot more dialog involved (and we don't have threaded conversations here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there may be a lot more code/samples/text etc - probably more suitable to a public repo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the aims of the users are different, as is the target audience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the last point, I realise that &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; site may help (and maybe a hosted SO is &lt;em&gt;an&lt;/em&gt; option) - but I genuinely don't think that it is the &lt;strong&gt;best&lt;/strong&gt; tool for that (very different) scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T14:55:33.433" />
  <row Id="1163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1166" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:04:56.283" Score="9" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I periodically go through my old answers looking for those that received no votes and no commentary, with a strong bias toward deleting them.  I figure if this site is a resource to be searched for questions and answers, I owe it to the community to delete my share of the chaff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else do this?  Even remotely possible that this should be encouraged?  I'm talking self-policing only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have seen others do this, and appreciated it, so I thought it worth asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T18:12:14.180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T12:56:31.077" Title="Do you clean up (delete) your old, unvoted answers? Encourage?" Tags="&lt;delete&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;&lt;organization&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="1164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1159" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:08:00.113" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found it confusing that what I thought were edits weren't showing up in the history (or at all for first edits) until I realised that edits made within 5 minutes of each other were counted as one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the reasoning behind this (for certain), but it can be confusing when comments are added and changes made to the post and they don't show up. I had one case where I changed an answer because I realised that the link I originally posted, while related, was actually incorrect. After I changed the answer I got a comment saying just that. I couldn't see the old version to recover the link so I had to do the search all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T15:16:42.713" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:16:42.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1163" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:11:06.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/604/are-we-going-to-be-able-to-easily-see-the-separate-up-votes-and-down-votes-on-a-p&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question speaks to a desire for support in finding such question to delete them. So you're certainly not only in the pursuit. However, I'm not sure this is behavior that should be encouraged. They're your answers, so you're welcome to do as you choose. But generally speaking, I think un-upvoted answers are unlikely to be seen after the first hour or two of the posts existence. And from that point on, someone who is actually reading through all the answers, is probably looking at a similar but not exactly the same issue, and therefore, unless the answer is incorrect or bad practice, it could potentially provide a meaningful piece of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:11:06.860" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1163" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:11:13.023" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - I do this. It's one of the reasons I've asked for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/604/are-we-going-to-be-able-to-easily-see-the-separate-up-votes-and-down-votes-on-a-p&quot;&gt;the ability to see separate up and down votes&lt;/a&gt; so I can see those answers that truly have no votes. If an answer has equal numbers of up and down votes (usually 1!) I'd like the chance to be able to correct the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also only delete where my answer is just one of several that say the same thing. If there are no (or only one or two) other answers then I will leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:11:13.023" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1163" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:11:42.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say leave them there. It is a collective base of knowledge and even though a particular answer may not be voted up or have commentary. There is still merit to have your details there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for down voted answers, that's a different story. 8^D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:11:42.617" />
  <row Id="1168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:12:55.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely search by user! (or at least search my own questions and/or answers) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I have an old question or answer with a particular keyword, and it takes me forever to find it because I can't easily narrow down the search results to only my own questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:12:55.623" />
  <row Id="1169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1159" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:13:42.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as much of a problem, those little edits are limited by the captcha system and rarely contain much actual content change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather less noise and complexity over having this fine grained detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:13:42.033" />
  <row Id="1170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:14:25.497" Score="196" ViewCount="1265" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like mentioned on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/164247-you-can-t-undo-comment-votes-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For something that can be done so&#xA;  easily by accident, there should be&#xA;  the ability to undo mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I have clicked several times on a comment up-vote without actually wanting to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest being able to cancel the up-vote (maybe only for a couple of minutes or even less than a minute, no problem, as long as I can undo a miss-click).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is getting up-voted on a regular basis. Heck, I just earned a &quot;Great Question&quot; badge for it. Isn't it time to reconsider that &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'status-declined'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; tag, and change it in at least a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'status-deferred'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;? Pretty please with sugar on top...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-10T13:30:57.273" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T13:30:57.273" Title="Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="20" />
  <row Id="1171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:14:33.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I upvote the response which answers the question most completely and with the most detail (not always the same thing). If there are 2 responses which are simply &quot;click here&quot; with out any value added, neither get the vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have on at least one occasion had my response trump 2 preexisting responses which were both technically correct, but not very useful. I believe this is because I included more background, a code example and link to further information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, IMO, is the type of answer that should be, and in many cases &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the type of response that gets rewarded over time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:14:33.077" />
  <row Id="1172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1159" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:14:40.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this behavior is a byproduct of counting all edits in a five-minute window as one edit. This feature was created because there was a common pattern of quickly answering a question with two or three sentenced and maybe a link. Then the user would immediately edit their answer with more detail, and also correct typos and other errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem comes when you factor in the fact that a post rolls over to Community Wiki after 5(?) edits from the original author. Since it's very easy to make these 5 edits in the initial period of 'forming' the post, people wanted a way to retain ownership and reputation from these posts. The solution has been collapsing all edits within a 5-minute window into 1 edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's possible to retain the multiple-edits-count-as-one feature and still have a revision entry for each edit, then I support this feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:14:40.080" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:16:42.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, but the real question is: what should we call people who post questions/answers &lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt; meta.stackoverflow.com on meta.stackoverflow.com? (egads, now I'm in that boat too :( !!! )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:16:42.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:18:40.167" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. This needs to be done the same way as other voting, but it is not a huge priority in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:18:40.167" />
  <row Id="1175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:19:20.583" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this would be nice, I give it an incredibly low priority because up votes on comments are nearly meaningless at this point. One or two random votes for a less than stellar comment aren't going to change the meaning of a discussion a great deal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:19:20.583" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66238" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:32:49.290" Score="101" ViewCount="1083" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times it takes me a while to properly compose my question before posting. Sometimes it's just a jumble of ideas and concepts, and is not something I'd want seen immediately. However, there is no way to save a partial question unless you post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should work exactly like it does in Gmail. There, once you start composing your question, it's autosaved as a draft. If your browser crashes or you need to come back later to complete it, it will be there for you to finish and post later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optionally, allow multiple draft questions and a page to edit/delete them. If needed, make them expire after some amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from this uservoice item:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/111995-allow-questions-to-be-saved-as-drafts-prior-to-posting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/111995-allow-questions-to-be-saved-as-drafts-prior-to-posting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-20T04:39:00.263" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T14:47:56.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:38:00.570" Title="Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;draft&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="17" />
  <row Id="1178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:33:52.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Social cripples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:33:52.657" />
  <row Id="1179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:34:10.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first glance I was going to say &quot;just copy/paste it to notepad&quot; but your point about sudden crashes and the like makes sense to me enough to vote this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:34:10.860" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:35:17.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Playing devil's advocate here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could compose the question in your editor of choice[*] over a period of time and then copy and paste into SO when it has reached its final glory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[*] especially one that had autosave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE &amp;amp; CLARIFICATION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that the idea was a bad idea - just that there are other existing alternatives. TheTXI and Diago have put forward very good reasons why being able to save drafts on the site would be useful &amp;amp; I agree with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could also be a prompt (like for unaccepted answers) if you've started a draft and not published it after N days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T12:49:43.290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T12:49:43.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:00:12.420" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:41:56.130" Score="75" ViewCount="1410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest two new badges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Greedo&lt;/strong&gt; - first bounty earned (bronze) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boba Fett&lt;/strong&gt; - earned 2000 rep through bounty (silver)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from Uservoice ticket, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/110435-bounty-hunter-badges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bounty hunter badges&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, originally posted by Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T08:17:19.797" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T15:23:38.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:41:56.130" Title="Bounty Hunter badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="1183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:43:29.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you search google for something program related my guess is that it would only turn up results for SO. I don't see how a google search from a normal question would turn a user up here especially since nothing really programing related is even discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somehow they end up here, it would be my guess that it is what they were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:43:29.590" />
  <row Id="1185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:46:15.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first thought was &lt;strong&gt;Metaflowers&lt;/strong&gt;, but the &lt;em&gt;flowers&lt;/em&gt; part could be easily mispronounced (as in the plant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:46:15.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:47:35.243" Score="10" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's confusing to me that the &quot;My Tags&quot; tab of the Unanswered questions page doesn't use my &quot;Interesting Tags&quot;. Instead, it appears to use the 25 most overall popular tags that were on any question I ever answered. The current implementation doesn't end up displaying the unanswered questions that actually match my interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from this uservoice item:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/67646-filter-my-tags-questions-using-interesting-tags-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/67646-filter-my-tags-questions-using-interesting-tags-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T06:09:26.607" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:09:26.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:47:35.243" Title="Filter &quot;My Tags&quot; questions using &quot;Interesting Tags&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1182" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:49:07.597" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually that's not bad, both in concept and execution.  I'd second that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:49:07.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:49:07.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:50:47.077" Score="78" ViewCount="378" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often when I edit one of my answers, it's because I want to better address the original question. The only problem is that I can't see the original question while I'm editing my answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see the original question text beneath the &quot;answer edit&quot; form. This way I could scroll down slightly to read it if I wanted to, or just ignore it if not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current workaround is to click the 'return to answer' link and hope that you remember to launch it in a new tab/window, then tab back and forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from this uservoice item:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/122874-display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/122874-display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T09:54:03.083" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T09:54:03.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:50:47.077" Title="Display the original question beneath the answer edit form" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="1190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:50:58.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your significant other not only knows that stackoverflow.com exists, but also the names &quot;Jeff Atwood&quot; and &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:50:58.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:50:58.293" />
  <row Id="1191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:53:42.360" Score="72" ViewCount="2900" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Programming puzzles. This way the answer can be posted the same time as the question, eliminating doubt that no answer is possible for hard questions and proving that the question is not a homework exercise (since the author already has the answer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The socratic method. In your answer you can ask a leading question, and then once the reader has a guess they can click to reveal the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: now that several new websites have been created through SE 2.0, this became much more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Websites such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;gaming&lt;/a&gt; really need it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T18:04:35.553" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T16:05:31.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:53:42.360" Title="Add markdown support for hidden-until-you-click text (aka spoilers)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="1192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:53:50.487" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;gmail has drafts, blogger has drafts, outlook has drafts (connected to remote exchange server I can edit email later), I think youtube has draft like feature where you don't publish something until you're done editing... and it's all in the cloud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually look at stackoverflow at the end of work hours (more then usual), I see question I want to answer, I start typing, but I remember I have to go. I can finish it later at home. So do I save it in gmail drafts, google documents, on exchange server, in notepad then save document on usb drive and then take it home ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really can do any of this, but I still think it would be nicer to have drafts for posts, &lt;strong&gt;where I want to post&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If needed, make them expire in some&#xA;  amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to expire item would be good thing, to protect SO database from too many drafts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe to require certain amount of reputation to be able to make drafts ?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;just my thoughts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:53:50.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:53:50.487" />
  <row Id="1193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1198" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:57:04.130" Score="7" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think we need to distinguish between Unanswered and Unsolved.  Questions with answers are not unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130182" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:02:22.370" Title="Unanswered vs Unsolved" Tags="&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1189" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:57:51.273" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This bugs me too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, clicking &quot;edit&quot; could load the edit form right there on the page.  This would help in some cases where you want to copy/paste something from a comment or from another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T02:29:47.600" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:29:47.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:57:51.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:58:10.117" Score="66" ViewCount="778" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create or allow for a community-wiki editable home page per tag. One where we could place essentially the tag-specific FAQ and other tag-specific links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/138261-allow-a-per-tag-home-faq-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;originally posted by Marc Gravell&quot;&gt;Imported from uservoice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T20:31:54.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:58:10.117" Title="Create a tag homepage/FAQ" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="1196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:58:29.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  There were times I answered a question, then had it revoked because it &quot;wasn't a question&quot; while I was editing it.  Then I had to post another question from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130182" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:58:29.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:58:29.710" />
  <row Id="1197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1189" CreationDate="2009-06-30T15:59:52.750" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh God, please yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T15:59:52.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T15:59:52.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:02:22.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree there is a semantic difference, and there is a corresponding display difference (0 answers and red box vs N answers and green box). However, from a use case perspective, I believe grouping them together under the same tag is preferable. If the user wants to personally be more selective, the visual indicators are there to allow for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:02:22.370" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:06:07.803" Score="-6" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice a lot of people are marking their question/suggestions as community wiki, which I think is a good thing.  Since this site will be mostly discussion, opinion, and feature suggestions, does rep make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the moderator powers that come with increased rep, couldn't those instead come after a certain level of contribution and time as an active member?  As your time as an active member and number of questions and answers increases, so do your powers as a moderator? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T16:50:51.737" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T19:43:57.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:06:07.803" Title="How about doing away with rep on meta.stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:08:09.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me there is still a wee bit of color that they didn't totally kill. Normally, clicking on a question with an accepted answer shows that answer in gray. But if I click on my profile and select an accepted answer, it first shows up as gray then fades to green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else notice this? It's like finding a pretty flower growing up through the concrete! =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:08:09.767" />
  <row Id="1203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:10:52.583" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the issue with doing this is there are still tasks that need to be done, like closing questions, retagging, editting, etc. And these require the reputation system to determine who can perform the tasks. Additionally, everything that is valid here would be at best Community-Wiki on SO, so perhaps its the Community-Wiki that doesn't belong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:10:52.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:10:52.583" />
  <row Id="1204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:11:18.137" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it's &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt; that doesn't really make sense anymore since pretty much everything here will be subjective discussion and opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is Rep. It's mostly just for fun on MetaSO, except for unlocking various moderator abilities, which so far don't seem to be needed as much since so much more seems permissible here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:11:18.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:11:18.137" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:12:08.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need rep to be able to do stuff - re-tag, edit, close etc. and those functions will still be needed over here. Without rep being awarded here there are only two choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only appointed admins can have these rights.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use some function of your rep from SO/SF to determine who has those rights.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T17:24:24.077" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:24:24.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:12:08.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:12:48.333" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give some simple mind-blowing colors for each tag and with/without boldness for recent/interesting tags identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will really help the users get attracted not distracted..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:17:09.167" Title="Colorify the tags rather than bolding it!" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:15:07.673" Score="5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/469/page-navigation-on-users-page-doesnt-work-if-using-the-input-box&quot;&gt;Page navigation on Users page doesn&amp;rsquo;t work if using the input box&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When searching for a user without knowing the exact name, it shows paginated results of all matches. However if you try and navigate through these results they are automatically defaulted back to the reputation based sort. It's impossible to see any more than 35 matches for any search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Either remove the paginated results for user searches &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make them work :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:48:12.030" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:48:12.030" ClosedDate="2009-07-19T23:42:02.707" Title="Improper pagination of user search" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:15:18.297" Score="12" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm editing or retagging a question, I don't like to have to go into the question page itself. This is particularly cumbersome when doing librarian work - retagging multiple questions to conform to naming schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from this uservoice item:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/20121-put-edit-and-or-retag-on-the-question-list-pages-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/20121-put-edit-and-or-retag-on-the-question-list-pages-&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:29:00.020" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T12:12:10.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:15:18.297" Title="Put &quot;edit&quot; and/or &quot;retag&quot; links on the question list pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:16:15.860" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature reminds me of commenting on one's status on Facebook - you get updates for &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the following replies. So instead of spamming, notifying can be done only when @username is mentioned (linked) in the reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastEditorUserId="8205" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T16:22:25.287" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:22:25.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:16:15.860" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="1211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:17:07.187" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And remember, any such implementation would have to scale to Jon Skeet and possible race conditions when earning multiple Nice Answer badges at the same time. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="130179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T21:30:15.483" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:30:15.483" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1207" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:17:09.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really a section I don't care much about most of the time - colorizing this would be very distracting.  When I do want to look at it, the boldness and font-size changes are enough to do the trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:17:09.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:19:44.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please leave the closing/reopening system alone. It works fine as is. There is a bias towards reopening, but most of the noise is getting purged properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:19:44.573" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:22:52.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community needs to have a voice and guiding influence on what is and isn't acceptable, and close votes are it's primary method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And administrative tasks like editing and retagging are best spread over many people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:22:52.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:22:52.383" />
  <row Id="1215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:24:09.680" Score="186" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Based on suggestions in the comments from Jonik, Bill the Lizard, and Chris Lutz, I've updated the badge name and other details...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sportsmanship&lt;/strong&gt;: Awarded when you've given 100 upvotes to non-wiki competing answers (i.e. other user's answers to questions that you have also answered and earned at least one upvote for). This could be awarded multiple times, once for each successive set of 100 upvotes you give.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; Hurray! &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/10/vote-early-vote-often/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This has now been implemented&lt;/a&gt;, although it can only be earned once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-20T14:15:16.617" LastActivityDate="2010-10-20T14:15:16.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-11T11:13:58.320" CommentCount="29" />
  <row Id="1217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:27:34.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you'll get a closing war: close it, no, yes, no, yes,...  with a long comment thread why and why not. Than SO is the discussion group and not Meta. I don't like this scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:27:34.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:28:37.813" Score="34" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, if I want to add a tag to my list of &quot;interesting&quot; or &quot;ignored&quot; tags, I have to go to the home page, type in the tag name, and click Add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would work better if, while I was on the page for the &quot;foo&quot; tag (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo&lt;/a&gt;), there were &quot;Mark as interesting&quot; and &quot;Mark as ignored&quot; buttons somewhere, such as on the right side, underneath the &quot;42 questions tagged foo sorted by...&quot; text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from this uservoice item:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/114011-mark-tag-as-interesting-or-ignored-from-that-tag-s-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/114011-mark-tag-as-interesting-or-ignored-from-that-tag-s-page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-16T06:50:32.867" LastActivityDate="2011-07-12T18:45:12.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:28:37.813" Title="Mark tag as &quot;interesting&quot; or &quot;ignored&quot; from that tag's page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1220" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:32:39.317" Score="26" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;A requirement of 750 rep to edit community wiki posts seems too high.  750 rep will take weeks for most users to acquire.  Even an extremely active user will take at least 4 days (at a max of 200 rep per day, neglecting bounties).  A user who has invested the time to make it to 750 rep is probably on their way to earning the 2000 rep required to edit &lt;em&gt;anyone's&lt;/em&gt; post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, there are two options here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lower the rep required to edit community wiki posts significantly (I'd suggest to 100), so that they really are Wikipedia-like (e.g. anyone can edit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stop calling them &quot;wiki&quot;, since they are nothing like Wikipedia, and come up with some new term which only implies that no rep is earned from the question (&quot;unaccredited&quot; or &quot;unowned&quot; or something).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T00:36:12.307" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:36:12.307" Title="Lower the rep required to edit community wiki posts (or stop calling them &quot;wiki&quot;)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1219" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:35:25.190" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would support both, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A rep limit of 100 might be a little too low, but 250 would work nicely, I think. And changing the name from community wiki to simply community would be a good idea (especially since community posts are, by definition, not owned by an individual but by the entire community).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:35:25.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:36:08.683" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Spoiler&quot; tags would make the site seem kinda juvenile and unprofessional, IMHO.  I think Wikipedia did away with their &quot;spoiler warning&quot; tag for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: 13 months ago, when I wrote the above, there was no StackExchange. I've changed my opinion now that SE sites are launching. I think for some of them it would make real sense. I still don't think it's necessary as a platform-wide feature (in particular, no need on SO proper), but on a few SE sites I think it is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-30T16:05:31.673" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T16:05:31.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:36:08.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1219" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:43:49.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think in the early days here at meta, and I presume on SF and superuser to come, it is a challenge as there aren't really enough regular users with enough rep to help out the moderators. However, within a few weeks I would expect the system work acceptably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I think 750 is a number that works well. For dedicated users it shouldn't take too long to get there as you mention. And I'm not sure it should be too easy for everyone to get there, as believe there are things you should learn about the community before you earn the keys to the kingdom, and earning rep is a way to show you've learned what is needed to respect the system that is in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:43:49.367" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:45:21.627" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the very narrow range of questions this would be useful for, couldn't spoilers simply be obfuscated using ROT13? It worked for newsgroups..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea for a workaround, utilise the code-block &lt;code&gt;overflow:auto&lt;/code&gt; property:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Spoiler --&amp;gt;                                                                                                  Not really, this is just an example&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a &quot;proper&quot; spoiler tag is to be implimented, I think the most important part of this is codinghorror's response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;isn't there a HTML tag that we could set a CSS style on to work this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..so is deciding on a markdown representation. For example, prefixing each line with &quot;! &quot;, the same way block-quotes use &quot;&gt; &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; This is a block quote,&#xA;&amp;gt; using current syntax&#xA;&#xA;..but, the following is a spoiler!&#xA;&#xA;! This is a spoiler,&#xA;! using a new syntax&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem with making a new &quot;spoiler&quot; syntax would be sites using the data-dump for whatever reason would have to implement it also.. Currently the posts are standard, nice and simple markdown, and I think it's better this way..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T16:50:38.523" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:50:38.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:45:21.627" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:45:50.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;heavy query&quot; logic makes sense, unfortunately. Still, it the stats were on a tab other than the default, most users wouldn't be hitting it all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a good balance is to just grab a user's score for their top 3-5 tags, and have a link to load more detail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:45:50.143" />
  <row Id="1225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:46:38.300" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actively fix minor grammatical errors and improve formatting on other people's questions.  Sometimes this happens in multiple edits that are more than five minutes apart, so they don't count as a single edit.  I've been warned once or twice by other users that this is pushing a given post to its six-edit limit.  But I have no intention of changing my behavior (&lt;em&gt;which improves the site!&lt;/em&gt;) to accommodate a dumb rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I disagree very strongly with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-editing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this StackOverflow Blog post&lt;/a&gt;, which says (among other things) that I shouldn't bother changing &quot;it's&quot; to &quot;its&quot; unless I also have something more substantive to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:46:38.300" />
  <row Id="1226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50062" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:47:27.720" Score="7" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;openID is awesome, and this isn't a knock on openID.  But it's still a fringe system, and there are an unusually large number of people that just don't get it.  For those that do, we can use openID.  For those that don't, let them log in with a username and password.  You can even make SO become an openID provider, and then their username and password &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; an openID.  Everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a strong incentive to making this possible for superuser.com &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt;.  That audience isn't going to know the difference between an openID and an openBSD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maps to this uservoice item on SO &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/34450-offer-openid-registration-directly-through-stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;becoming an openID provider&lt;/a&gt; and this one for allowing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/14549-don-t-require-openid-to-register-for-the-site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;regular logon scheme&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-16T10:02:06.023" LastActivityDate="2010-05-16T10:06:05.773" Title="Allow non openID logons, or have SO become an openID provider" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:49:27.170" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree on the point that SO should become an openID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:49:27.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:49:34.627" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd agree that making logging on to SuperUser as easy as possible is almost essential. If people aren't able to &quot;own&quot; their questions and come back to see the answers they're not going to use the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:49:34.627" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:50:34.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myopenid&lt;/a&gt; works just fine for me. It uses my email address and my password. Very, very simple. And I can just login into any of the SO sister sites whenever I want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would anyone need anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:50:34.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:52:29.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe a user who is getting to the point of asking a question on superuser could reasonably be expected to be able to handle/understand what openID is. I certainly wouldn't object to SO becoming an openId provider, but I wouldn't put it very high on the list of desires. I really think it's a fairly simple system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T16:52:29.580" />
  <row Id="1234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:14:24.067" Score="2" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of LINQ tags in stack overflow: linq, linq-to-objects, linq-to-entities, linq-to-xml and a lot of crazy stuff. There one big tag that doesn't follow the more or less general pattern of linq-to-, and that is: linqtosql. Are there any chances of getting that renamed to linq-to-sql? I know I could go and edit the 1300 or so questions myself, but I'd rather not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6068" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T06:10:31.020" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:10:31.020" Title="LINQ tags in Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1195" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:17:21.033" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;You mean something like this:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;perl&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Related tags&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl5&quot;&gt;perl5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl6&quot;&gt;perl6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Outside links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CPAN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://perl.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;perl.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:17:21.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T17:17:21.033" />
  <row Id="1236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1234" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:17:27.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This goes hand in hand with the many suggestions to have some kind of tag editing tool. The biggest problem right now is that it is a lot of power to be giving users and they could do some pretty dangerous stuff to the database with it. Consistency is something we should definitely strive for when it comes to tags, however, so at the very least we could make topics like this and have them manually do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:17:27.757" />
  <row Id="1237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:19:23.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be a badge of shame to have a higher meta-reputation than regular reputation. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:19:23.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T17:19:23.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1408" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:20:46.330" Score="11" ViewCount="843" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone successfully embedded their &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;flair&lt;/a&gt; on a WordPress.com-hosted blog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The free hosted version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.WordPress.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WordPress.com&lt;/a&gt; (not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.WordPress.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WordPress.org&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.wordpress.com/code/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;strips out all unwanted code&lt;/a&gt; from all posts before publishing. So they to strip out just about anything I can add to embed my Stack Overflow flair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I'll be switching to a paid, hosted site in the future (fixing the problem), but I'm looking for a quick, short-term solution.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T09:31:08.067" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T10:36:22.467" Title="How to embed Stack Overflow flair in a WordPress.com (free) blog?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:27:18.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a testament to OpenID, I had no idea what open ID was before I visited StackOverflow. Yet I found it perfectly seamless to use OpenID without tapping into the more-technical portion of my brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that SuperUser users will have the same experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the otherhand&lt;/strong&gt;, I didn't find my &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt; experience quite as seamless. I really had to fiddle around with all the settings to make it work properly over multiple sites using OpenID with different e-mail addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T21:05:16.820" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:05:16.820" />
  <row Id="1240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1219" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:31:13.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd argue the &quot;community wiki&quot; option is entirely vestigial with the introduction of meta-.  Certainly, it makes sense for some questions to revert to a non-reputation-gaining status.  (Certain popular and broad-based questions rack up reputation for the asker until they get 30 answers.)  But rather than chose to make a question  &quot;community wiki&quot;, it would be better to ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:31:13.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:45:18.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least, I would want &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt; to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for syntax highlighting, you don't get that for simple &lt;code&gt;inlined code&lt;/code&gt; sections, so why would you need it in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:45:18.423" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2751" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:53:21.103" Score="20" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;How often does this happen to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit a question  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change a tag  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hit tab and type &quot;tags&quot; in the edit summary box  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notice that the tag autosearch has stolen back your cursor so you just typed &quot;tags&quot; in the tags textbox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the tag autosearch please stop stealing my cursor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(btw, what is it called?  Autosearch isn't right... autocomplete isn't right... tag suggestor??)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T19:46:55.873" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T19:47:16.217" Title="Stop tag completion from stealing cursor focus" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1226" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:54:38.090" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Allow non openID logons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..don't think this will happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OpenID is awesome. You are awesome. You and OpenID belong together. :) [codinghorror]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for SO becoming a OpenID provider.. I think one of the main ideas behind SO using OpenID auth is to raise awareness of it's awesomeness. One this note, I honestly think SO becoming a OpenID end-point is counter-productive to this..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? It goes from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;OpenID? What the feck is that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Signs up with one of the suggested providers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Logs on to StackOverflow with it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Logs onto ServerFault with it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hurray, I only had to have one account! I wonder what else I can use this for.. Hm, I should implement this on my own site!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..to..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Ugh, another signup form, another password to remember.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sees &quot;SO is now an OpenID provider&quot; notice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A what? Who cares&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doesn't look for sites I can use my OpenID with&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doesn't implement OpenID on my site&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a less subjective, more solid reason for SO &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; providing OpenID accounts is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I log in, I'm giving my password to Verisign, the SSL certificate issuing people, who know a lot about crypto and such (I happen to use their OpenID provider)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the flak Jeff has received for this posts such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001268.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;crypto&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001263.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his OpenID security problems&lt;/a&gt; - I'm not holding that against him, I suck at crypto and security too, but I'm not going to start my own OpenID provider..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing I like most about OpenID is it delegates a fairly important process to people who are better at it. No giving my password to someone who might store it in plain-text, for example..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, even if SO becomes an OpenID provider I could log in with any OpenID - but I wouldn't not, I would have simply registered with a username and password and ignored the feature (and that'd be a shame)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:54:38.090" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1234" CreationDate="2009-06-30T17:56:33.733" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want all the linq-to-XXX tags changed to linqtoXXX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T17:56:33.733" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1269" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:00:49.947" Score="13" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously... some days I only have fourty, some days twenty.  Some times it dips down to ten or so.  Yeah, I've got a butt-ton of filters, but so what?  Does that make me a bad person?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible workaround may be to increase the number of questions we can have on the front page, like 100 or 200 or something.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-20T02:22:40.740" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T02:22:40.740" Title="Can I get 50 questions on my front page, please?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1251" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:03:23.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be helpful, currently all questions are loaded and then irrelevant ones are hidden with javascript post-load. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could decrease unnecessary bandwidth use but would increase server side processing. Not exactly sure which is worse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:03:23.140" />
  <row Id="1254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1259" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:06:03.960" Score="1" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was very frustrated with 401s the other day and did a search on SO for 401.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/395/how-to-switch-a-large-app-from-vb6-to-vb-net/401#401&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/395/how-to-switch-a-large-app-from-vb6-to-vb-net/401#401&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a list of questions about 401.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to work for any number entered into the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="439" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T11:25:16.343" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:25:16.343" Title="Search with number (like '401') will take you to a question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:07:48.340" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several badges related to having an accepted answer (Scholar, Enlightened, Guru) but none that relate to &lt;strong&gt;achieving a certain threshold of accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt;. For example, knowing somebody has had 10/50/100 answers accepted would increase my confidence that they know what they're talking about (not just throwing out lots of mildly helpful answers over time), and is yet another way to reward people who provide an excellent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few name ideas such badges...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aficionado&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Master&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Philosopher&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pundit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Savant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In speaking with the SO team about this earlier, they suggested that &quot;there's a 'rich get richer' problem with this style of award.&quot; I can see how that can certainly happen, but I see it in a different way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People who strive to provide good answers in less-popular tags&lt;/strong&gt; (such as Cocoa and Objective-C, like I do) &lt;strong&gt;will likely never get enough votes/views/favorites to earn most of the popularity-related badges&lt;/strong&gt;. In contrast, an &quot;N accepted answers&quot; badge can be earned through technical knowledge and helpfulness, without being tied to a popular technology. (Or posting a subjective/controversial/funny question/answer, whether intentionally or not.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if knowledgeable people start answering every question just to &quot;level up&quot; on accepted answers, I can see how newer members can feel left out. However, I (like to) think most people aren't prone to abuse the system that way, and more good answers does benefit the community as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="130179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T18:16:49.567" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:16:49.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T18:07:48.340" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:09:38.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another consideration beyond using an existing html tag is that they won't want to fork too far away from the stock markdown implementation.  The more SO drifts away the harder it will be to merge changes (in either direction).  So if they can't push this into the core markdown syntax, it's probably not worth doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:09:38.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T18:09:38.320" />
  <row Id="1259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1254" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:10:58.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it's a bug or if it's by design.&#xA;It returns the post number 401, which could be useful for tracking down specific posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching &quot;401&quot; (with quotes) will return what you're after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T23:20:09.373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T23:20:09.373" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1261" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:11:06.927" Score="1" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I have no doubt that this badge idea would get shot down, I find it amusing to think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers would be able to accumulate special votes (almost like flagging a post) where each vote would be the equivalent to the voter facepalming. If you as a voter find the post jaw-dropping in the not-so-good way, facepalm at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enough votes (say &lt;strong&gt;10 or more&lt;/strong&gt; facepalms) would trigger a special badge of shameful humor. It wouldn't have any more negative side effects than temporary embarrassment for the user, but it could serve as a reminder to think before you post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://media.photobucket.com/image/picard%20facepalm/seraphsephirot/picard-facepalm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The most famous facepalm in the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T23:27:51.420" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T15:59:14.437" Title="Badge Proposal - *FacePalm* or &quot;Doh!&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="1261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1260" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:12:12.900" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We only want to encourage good behavior with badges, not negative behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny concept though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:12:12.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:19:23.303" Score="1" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the following behavior weird, am I the only one?  I haven't found any other questions here or in UV that address this &quot;issue&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on &quot;Questions&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(My Interesting Tags get highlighted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on a tag from &quot;Interesting/Related Tags&quot; list to filter by, which is also marked as one of your Interesting Tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Nothing gets highlighted anymore)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on &quot;Unanswered&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(My Interesting Tags get highlighted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on a tag from &quot;Unanswered Tags&quot; list to filter by, which is also marked as one of your Interesting Tags&#xA;section&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Everything gets highlighted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OR Click on a tag from &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; and you get redirected to the &quot;Questions&quot; section&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be best if once you click on a tag to filter by, only the items that contain additional tags which you have marked as interesting get highlighted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: And why would clicking on Interesting Tags from the &quot;Unanswered&quot; section redirect you to the &quot;Question&quot; section and not the unanswered questions with that tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:13:46.993" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:13:46.993" Title="Tag Highlighting" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:20:58.947" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know new users (&amp;lt;50 rep) can comment on their own questions/answers.  Can they also comment on others' answers to their questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, that should be allowed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T09:03:48.027" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:03:48.027" Title="New user comment clarification" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="1264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:21:04.360" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compulsive Voter&lt;/strong&gt; —  For those of us who consistently use up our daily votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously has negative incentives for stuffing the ballot box, usually with upvotes. I see it more as a humorous badge, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:21:04.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T18:21:04.360" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:24:06.570" Score="9" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt; I get this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Showing 2009-06-14 to 2009-06-14 ; current time is 2009-06-14 19:12:14 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click &lt;em&gt;yesterday&lt;/em&gt; I get this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Showing 2009-06-13 to 2009-06-14 ; current time is 2009-06-14 19:14:44 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yesterday shows me June 13th (yesterday) &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; June 14th (today). This doesn't seem right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Ported from Uservoice)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T20:13:21.603" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:13:21.603" Title="bug: &quot;yesterday&quot; tab in responses page shows both yesterday and today" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1263" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:24:52.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they can. I've seen it done many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:24:52.463" />
  <row Id="1267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1262" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:29:55.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the first point: I think they're not highlighted because you're looking at an interesting tag, so naturally &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of them would be highlighted - and that doesn't add any value.  I'm not sure that highlighting ones that contain any other interesting tags would help - you already know they're interesting... is a question about mysql + php more interesting than a question about php?  I don't think so when you've chosen to look at the php tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your second point - could not reproduce.  I just got taken back to Questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:29:55.260" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1260" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:33:03.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt;, if anything, it should be a self-awarded badge. Otherwise it's mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:33:03.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1251" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:37:56.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, and also get rid of the annoying lag between the moment a page finishes to load and when the filtered-out message are removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bunch of features on SO seem to be implemented like this. The filters, the Inbox icon and the orange toolbar. A bit annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:37:56.643" />
  <row Id="1270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1287" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:44:40.077" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried asking two questions on MSO within 10 minutes of each other, and was blocked from posting the 2nd one until 20 minutes pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the criteria for no longer being a new user?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should users who are new to &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the SO sites, but are no longer new in one of the others still be considered new for the purposes of limiting questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T01:17:22.503" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T03:46:31.893" Title="when is a user no longer considered a new user?" Tags="&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:44:55.740" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at my user profile and saw that a question is listed as having been posted 2 minutes ago, but when I clicked through to the question it said it had been posted 8 minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I wouldn't care about such a small discrepancy.  However, being a new user on MSO I'm limited to one question every 20 minutes.  Having entered MSO I'm in bug hunting mode, and I've already found 2 bugs, ported one from uservoice and written up a more general question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have an accurate time stamp in the profile page so that I can see when I can post another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:42:08.643" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T05:42:08.643" Title="Bug: time stamps in user profile page are wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1271" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:49:17.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions are cached to reduce the load, I'm pretty sure if you post exactly 20 minutes after your first post it will work, even if it isn't reported as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:49:17.897" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1254" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:56:02.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This behavior makes sense to me.  A search for &quot;Browser 401&quot; or &quot;HTTP 401&quot; or &quot;IIS 401&quot; (or even &quot;error 401&quot;) will get what you want.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just the number is so vague as to be meaningless. Do you want the error code 401?  Or do you want to know what protocol uses port 401?  Or do you want to find a routine to factor 401?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't blame the system for responding to your own lack of precision.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T18:56:02.060" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1441" CreationDate="2009-06-30T18:56:58.860" Score="96" ViewCount="638" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just opened up a question with 10+ pages of answers. It was more of a poll-style question, but it was one I wanted to participate in. I'm not a big fan of duplicate answers (adds more noise than signal) so I would much rather up-vote somebody who gave the same answer (or close enough).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a small search-bar just above the answers would be a tremendous help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/search-answers.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-03T08:52:12.193" LastActivityDate="2010-07-03T08:52:12.193" Title="Searching Questions with n-Pages of Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="1275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1242" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:05:28.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;InTagiSense? IntelliTag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I know exactly the problem, and it's irked me for some time too. +1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:05:28.437" />
  <row Id="1276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:05:47.747" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is a duplicate, it's going to be closed. What to do with answers to it that just link to another answer of the same person? This seems redundant. I wanna ask you how you behave with this &quot;dupe answer&quot; in such cases, assuming the linked answer is a good one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote the answer, because it's a link to a good answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote the answer, because it's a duplicate just to earn reps (in your opinion).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put a comment, telling the answerer that you think the answer should be posted as a comment to the duplicating question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not found a duplicate of this question, so i decided to go and ask here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastEditorUserId="34509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T19:13:25.857" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:13:25.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T19:05:47.747" Title="Linking to an answer in an answer for a dupe" Tags="&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1265" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:06:07.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will port here my comment on the UV entry:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True: &quot;yesterday&quot; should be the link allowing me to see what I have done yesterday &lt;em&gt;compared&lt;/em&gt; to today.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I have to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remember the &quot;today&quot; score, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go to yesterday &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and *mentally subtract&quot; it from the &quot;yesterday score&quot;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very painful ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:06:07.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:07:12.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for having complete, un-expiring anonymity when you want it. When asking a question, and when posting a comment. You should still be awarded points if you're up-voted too. If anybody abused the anonymity, there's always the flag - and moderators do/should have the power to look beyond that veil of anonymity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:07:12.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8056" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:10:19.250" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make &lt;em&gt;Enter&lt;/em&gt; behave like a normal form. Currently it just auto-completes tags (like &lt;em&gt;Tab&lt;/em&gt;). It should add the selected tag to the list, clear the box and let you continue adding more tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what you need to do to add two tags to a filter list now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tag1 -&amp;gt; Tab -&amp;gt; tag2 -&amp;gt; Tab -&amp;gt; Tab -&amp;gt; Enter/Space&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the two superfluous Tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I'm proposing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tag1 -&amp;gt; Enter -&amp;gt; tag2 -&amp;gt; Enter&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is this faster, but for the 90% case of just adding a single tag to the list it's 2x as fast!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tag1 -&amp;gt; Enter&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tag1 -&amp;gt; Tab -&amp;gt; Tab -&amp;gt; Enter&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T14:16:31.750" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:16:31.750" Title="Please review this faster way to input tags into filters" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1276" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:11:44.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote to close the question, and leave it at that. You might also want to add a comment, but I wouldn't worry too much about it - if it's genuinely an exact or very close duplicate, I suspect it won't last very long anyway (unless new answers are posted before it's closed which have genuine merit). Move on to another question where your time can be better spent :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:11:44.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T19:11:44.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1195" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:14:56.883" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Further to Brad's - the most common dups, too (I haven't added links, but you get the idea):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frequent C# Questions&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the correct version numbers ;-p&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Parameter passing &quot;by ref&quot; vs &quot;by type&quot;, and &quot;value type&quot; vs &quot;reference type&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &lt;code&gt;foreach&lt;/code&gt; loop only sees the last value&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When to use &lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why should I use properties?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:14:56.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T19:14:56.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1270" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:15:25.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are timing limits all over the StackOverflow-like sites to prevent abuse, spamming, and automatic attacks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the 20-minute-per-question limit is specific to &quot;new users&quot; but don't feel slighted. Those types of reasonable-use limits are imposed all over the system, even for &quot;veterans.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T19:21:15.853" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:21:15.853" />
  <row Id="1284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:17:10.980" Score="4" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the comments, reviewed the edits....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065229/how-can-i-determine-a-users-locale-or-country-automatically&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065229/how-can-i-determine-a-users-locale-or-country-automatically&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm totally confused by wtf just happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T07:56:32.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T07:56:32.843" ClosedDate="2009-07-22T07:59:22.363" Title="What happened in q 1065229?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1284" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:20:10.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same here. Bill, accidental-click? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:20:10.367" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:20:14.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update - 6/30/2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon's in 3rd place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go, Jon, go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="11208" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T19:28:52.107" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:28:52.107" />
  <row Id="1287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1270" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:20:18.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is set out &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, with summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you’re a new user, with reputation below 100&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You may only post 1 question every 20 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You may only post 1 answer every 3 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then Jeff added (in the comments):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if your rep is &amp;gt; 100 you are totally immune to this rate limiter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 20 minutes surprises me, unless they've had to revise the numbers. But it won't be long before you have 100+ points. And register your account too; that may help (and it'll avoid you losing it when your browser dumps the cookies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T03:46:31.893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T03:46:31.893" />
  <row Id="1288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1284" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:24:36.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good example of why having moderators is a wonderful thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:24:36.407" />
  <row Id="1289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:26:12.830" Score="0" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quick-Draw:&lt;/strong&gt; First to respond, and with accuracy. Imagine a couple gun-slingers in the west. Being the first to respond means nothing if you miss the mark. Being the first to respond, and hitting the mark makes you the Quick-Draw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rules:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer must be in within 3 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer must have 10+ upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer must be accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer must have 2 or less Revisions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer Latest Revision must be within the Quick-Draw window too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The date the answer is accepted doesn't matter. The only time-relationship that matters is the Answer-Submission time and the Question-Submission time - modifiers include Answer Revisions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:55:20.760" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T11:48:52.193" Title="New Badge: Quick-Draw" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="1290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:27:25.387" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site suffers enough from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73/is-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-solved&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West&lt;/a&gt; problem. No need to encourage it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:27:25.387" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="1291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:27:42.000" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dunno. This is already how I get most of my rep points--do I really need to get badges for it, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, there's already the Enlightened badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:27:42.000" />
  <row Id="1292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:28:17.337" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/19/enlightened&quot;&gt;Enlightened&lt;/a&gt; badge is for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer was accepted with at least 10 up votes. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:28:17.337" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="1293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:28:32.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concept is clever, but I think the implementation is potentially tricky and might encourage undesired behavior. For example, how do you handle edits, does it only count if it's your original answer, no edits? Also, wouldn't this encourage simple, fast answers? Simple and fast answers are good and acceptable, but I don't think they need to be encouraged, which is the point of badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In response to your edit. I understand the intent is for quality answers, however, unless N was quite high I believe it would likely encourage behavior that shouldn't be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T19:34:06.337" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:34:06.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1284" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:33:59.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hadn't noticed that half the comments were missing from that thread so I didn't clean the rest of them up when I locked it.  It's cleaned up now.  Thanks for pointing it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:33:59.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T19:34:30.987" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="1295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1284" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:41:23.217" Score="-7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what happens when my fanclub gets together and decides to make noise about a valid edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question is why anyone would vote this answer up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065229/how-can-i-determine-a-users-locale-or-country-automatically/1065239#1065239&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065229/how-can-i-determine-a-users-locale-or-country-automatically/1065239#1065239&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess if you don't understand what reverse IPs are, and you don't understand software or networking that might seem like a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:41:23.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T19:41:23.217" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="1296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1289" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:42:04.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the proposal that the answer just has to be &lt;em&gt;posted&lt;/em&gt; within 5 minutes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer posted + at least 5 upvotes + answer accepted, all within 5 minutes, would make more sense to me as something which encourages fast answers which are accurate from very early on - instead of an answer which is posted quickly but rubbish, then edited and eventually becomes good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:42:04.713" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1263" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:48:27.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. This has been around for a long time, but you would never know it by how many people continually ask for the already implemented feature on UV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:48:27.117" />
  <row Id="1298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1219" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:49:10.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. I think 750 is something that indicates the user is trusted and invested, but it is high enough to exclude anyone who has just posted two or three answers/questions. Editing someone else's post (even a CW one) is still a responsibility and SO's Q &amp;amp; A environment means that the focus is more on answering questions rather than editing other peoples answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole purpose of rep is that with increased input comes increased power. The higher the barrier to entry, the fewer ill-meaning people you will get. If you make the edit cutoff 10k, you'll get VERY VERY few editors who deface questions, but you'll also have almost no editors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a significant number of people with editing privileges, and I don't think they're falling behind, so I don't think we need to increase the number. And the CW posts specifically don't need thousands of people to be adding extra input. If they NEED to have their say, they can just add an answer or a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:49:10.547" />
  <row Id="1299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:50:34.503" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea -- should be an option for both poster and reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poster/answerer should be able to remain anonymous as an option, and change that option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reader should be able to set an option to, by default, not show names of posters/answerers.  Maybe a global default setting, with mouse-over to reveal specific names when they really want to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:50:34.503" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2009-06-30T19:55:32.777" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Community wiki&quot; is a Frankenstein's monster of a feature.  (Look at it's name!  What does it mean?)  A great many of the uses for this feature have, in my opinion, been removed by the introduction of this meta-site.  Over-editting is definitely one of the odder ways to trigger &quot;community wiki&quot;, but it makes a bit of sense if the purpose of the feature is to open up editing to more people.  If a post is edited X times, it's a good guess that it's the sort of post that could benefit from more editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, &quot;community wiki&quot; does more than just allow a larger population to edit a post.  Some of the effects might make sense in certain cases, but it seems dumb to penalize a question that happens to have a number of typos.  Even worse is penalizing a questioner who periodically maintains their own question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the entire feature needs to be rethought and this particular problem readdressed.  The current &quot;solution&quot; is too complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T19:55:32.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1303" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:14:02.793" Score="4" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/sQYIa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Heisman trophy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was in grad school, we would say that one of our buddies got &quot;The Heisman&quot; when he was hitting on a girl and she overtly shot him down with the metaphorical stiff-arm denial. Just for fun, I feel like there should be a &quot;Heisman&quot; badge for a case when someone is denied or falls short of a badge or other reward in some annoying or embarrassing fashion. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When one of their answers is accepted, but then unaccepted in favor of another one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When they have the highest rated answer (and greater than X upvotes) for a question asked by someone who deleted their account before accepting an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other interesting &quot;Heisman&quot; badge ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T20:28:31.690" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T20:28:31.690" ClosedDate="2009-07-01T02:57:53.870" Title="Badge Proposal: The Heisman" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:17:31.053" Score="-1" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a way to improve the chance of the best answers showing up closest to the question, what if you randomly reordered all answers posted within 10 minutes of each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a question (or answer) received enough upvotes you could then switch back to ordering by upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would help reduce the impact of variations in network access/latency while still acknowledging that, all other things being equal, it's important to be able to answer the question relatively quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A variation: randomly reorder all answers posted within any 10 minute block since the question was posted - probably easier to implement...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70186" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:52:16.413" Title="Randomly reorder all answers posted within 10 minutes of each other" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="1303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1301" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:18:20.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your answer is +50, but an answer with +1 is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You send an email to team@stackoverflow.com and they don't respond back (have no idea how this would be awarded)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also propose renaming the badge to &quot;Son of a...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T20:32:50.410" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T20:32:50.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1302" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:22:35.537" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a terrible way of trying to correct the FGITW &quot;Problem&quot; (which isn't a problem). We should be rewarding those who post quality answers quickly. If I get first in the drive-thru, I don't want to be shuffled around with 5 other customers just to make things &quot;fake-fair&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T20:22:35.537" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="1305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1302" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:24:13.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me just say &quot;good lord, no.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you understand the FGITW 'problem'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T20:24:13.783" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="1306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2470" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:24:19.743" Score="17" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as how SO's one year anniversary is coming soon, question and answer dates are going to need to display the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T20:58:34.423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:58:34.423" Title="Add year to question and answer dates" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;dates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:27:24.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Relative times (5 minutes 28 seconds ago) for questions under x-minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HH:MM:SS questions within 24 hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And full dates beyond that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T20:27:24.120" />
  <row Id="1308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:27:49.033" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you hover the tool tip does show the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently in the non-tool tip display it displays:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;seconds ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;minutes ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hours ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;yesterday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Month Day at Time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it would be good to show: DD/MM/YYYY (or some variant thereof) after the question is a year old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T20:35:45.863" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T20:35:45.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:36:43.037" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you know it just doesn't hide the year if it is in the same year as the question anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T20:36:43.037" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1302" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:39:04.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually scan through answers before selecting one to up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T20:39:04.887" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="1311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T20:42:54.707" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email notifications should be sent to commenters when replies (or questions) are posted to their comments. Otherwise comments which need followup will have loose ends and the question might not get an approved answer (question gets abandoned prematurely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:10:35.580" ClosedDate="2009-07-01T03:20:10.757" Title="Email notifications should be sent to commenters when replies are posted to their comments" Tags="&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2009-06-30T21:04:45.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to know which tags I've created. I an pretty sure that I have a couple on SO, but no way to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:04:45.387" />
  <row Id="1313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1314" CreationDate="2009-06-30T21:07:31.153" Score="33" ViewCount="773" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the best time of day, or weekday, to ask questions on Stack Overflow? I'd like to know if there might be a way to maximize the exposure or the amount/quality of responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, it would be good to know how to avoid times that might be particularly bad to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84937" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-25T06:17:57.683" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T06:17:57.683" Title="What is the best time to ask questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="17" />
  <row Id="1314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1313" CreationDate="2009-06-30T21:09:06.017" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See the blog&lt;/a&gt;; activity over time, GMT (back in January):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(you might also want to look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/555/why-does-jon-skeet-never-sleep/566#566&quot;&gt;Jon's schedule&lt;/a&gt; ;-p)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stack-overflow-revision-dates-by-hour.png&quot; alt=&quot;Activity over the day&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:09:06.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1313" CreationDate="2009-06-30T21:28:52.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be the case that the time you post does not significantly affect the total number of views it gets. Think about the front page exposure, for example: on a particularly busy moment your question spends less time on the front page than it would at a quieter time, so I'm not sure posting at a active moment helps that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to maximise the amount of answers early on (which leads to more exposure on front page, and, in many cases, to very high-quality answers eventually, as people compete honing their answers), follow these guidelines: ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the topic shouldn't be anything obscure (preferably about C# or Java)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question should be pretty easy (e.g. &quot;Why isn't there a get(index) method in a Set&quot;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question might be ever so slightly provocative or controversial&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not too serious about that, but it is a fact that more difficult questions, or ones concerning a little less-trodden topics, are often left without that many views, or &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; good answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:28:52.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2009-06-30T21:31:24.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the concern here is that if people know what tags they have created they might start using it on dubious questions to try and get the Taxonomist badge. I could definitely see that happening, considering as it is some people &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know they created a tag and push it on questions sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, I can definitely remember thinking I created a juicy one months ago but I can't remember what it was for the life of me, so I would like to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:31:24.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1302" CreationDate="2009-06-30T21:52:16.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like this idea ... group responses and randomize (or sort by votes) within certain time frames (perhaps 1st 10 min, 1st hour, 1st 8 hrs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A clear and public goal of Jeff and Joel is for each of these sites to be the &quot;canonical&quot; home for answers in it's focus area. To accomplish that, the site should encourage thorough, careful, well-thought out and well written responses.  A corollary of the &quot;canonical site&quot; goal is that questions and answers need to have applicability &lt;em&gt;beyond&lt;/em&gt; the immediate need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quick, shoot-from-the-hip answers get votes, but the thorough, complete answers address the long term goals of the site.  The FGITW pattern &lt;strong&gt;is a problem&lt;/strong&gt; because quick, incomplete answers are rewarded with votes and rep, effectively discouraging the kinds of answers which the site really needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposal mitigates the issue by reducing the advantage of being &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; while still giving some advantage to being among the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T21:52:16.413" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="1320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:09:54.590" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;When should questions on Meta Stack Overflow be community wiki? I have seen a lot of non-community-wiki questions here that would have been community wiki on Stack Overflow. Obviously the rules are going to be different here, but what are those rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:16:54.810" Title="What are the guidelines for community wiki on Meta Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1320" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:15:08.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you want to have a question that has a collection of information from the entire community. For example a community edited list of some sorts. (just like CW's were supposed to be)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wikis have been misunderstood for a long time now. Here's a post that's a prime example of what a CW post should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So any post that could possibly contain information that the community decides on and edits. Think of it as a wiki article (sorta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:15:08.010" />
  <row Id="1322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1320" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:16:54.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would certainly hope that the CW works here as Olafur intended, but all too often I am already seeing instances of people who will make a topic CW simply to shield themselves from down votes (you know who you are). I hope this behavior doesn't continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:16:54.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1336" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:25:58.517" Score="14" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the community does a great job policing questions/answers, etc. and the community has some good tools available to do this.  Between flagging questions with some reasons behind it and editing posts, closing them, and deleting them, the only thing that seems to be missing to me is the ability to flag a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons to flag a user as abusive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Abusive Behavior&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offensive user name or profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Others?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="146540" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-08T15:05:46.710" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T15:05:46.710" Title="Flag abusive users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:28:09.680" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember requesting this a long time ago and I'm surprised that nothing really ever came about from it. They went ahead and implemented the ability the flag a post and inform moderators, but not an actual user (which I think tends to be more important in the grand scheme of things)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:28:09.680" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:28:41.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been stated many times that this will never be implemented on SO. You should remember that from UV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com if you have a chronic problem with a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:28:41.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1339" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:45:03.367" Score="69" ViewCount="2870" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar things have been asked before and declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/126056&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Award no rep or limited rep for questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/109779&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Drop giving rep for questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/215702&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Restrict People With Low Answer/Question Ratios From Moderation Tools&lt;/a&gt;, really illustrates the need to stop users from gaming the system by simply asking meaningless, ridiculous question after question to gain rep. We have users who have gamed the system enough to actually have moderation capabilities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These users do not deserve the system's trust and instead cause nothing but problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My solution is to enforce a threshold for how many questions you may ask and receive reputation on based on your answers or other activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please stop these people from becoming trusted members of the community. It will not be good for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Two examples of this issue&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39677&quot;&gt;4.6K rep - 319 questions, &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; answers, 180 votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015&quot;&gt;3K rep - 457 questions, &lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt; answers and &lt;strong&gt;16&lt;/strong&gt; votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to edit more in, or leave them in the comments and I will edit them in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T08:19:50.377" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T16:26:09.193" Title="Please charge rep for questions after threshold" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="27" FavoriteCount="15" />
  <row Id="1327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:45:27.157" Score="-1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the original author of the question tries to close question their own question, it still requires 4 more votes?  It would make senses just to close the question if the request came from the original author.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2011-06-16T03:55:19.513" Title="When the original author of the question closes their question, it still requires 4 more votes?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;original-author&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:51:20.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I've wanted to move a few of my questions here to Meta, but I need at least 4 other people to help (or a mod).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are a few issues that would need to be worked out should that user decide to open the question back up. If the owner closes their own question by themselves, should they have the power to open by themselves? If so, what if there are already close votes - closing and reopening would effectively zero out the votes. Maybe if a question is closed by X people (say 2 people + owner) then it would have to be opened up by X people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, there are tricky edge conditions to be aware of, but I think that if you can delete (and undelete) your own content, then you should be able to close and open it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:51:20.390" />
  <row Id="1329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:52:47.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this CW on SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34456/etiquette-for-closing-your-own-questions&quot;&gt;Etiquette for closing your own questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specially this quote (by Euro Micelli)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The way I look at it, these questions and answers are not just for you but for anybody who might have the same question in the future. Just because an answer works for you now, it doesn't mean necessarily it will work for someone else in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T22:52:47.030" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23566" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:56:12.157" Score="5" ViewCount="567" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, sorry, I know this is really superficial, but look at this page: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/a/page/that/does/not/exist/number/11&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/a/page/that/does/not/exist/number/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the giant, ugly, horrible white space below the footer that burns into your eyes?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You can use this website to fix it (note - I am not associated with this website in any way): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff - I need an answer. Please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T08:49:55.907" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T08:49:55.907" Title="Footer does not stick to bottom of page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;cosmetic&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-30T22:58:41.120" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1066411/good-eclipse-rcp-tutorial&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1066411/good-eclipse-rcp-tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that there has to be a way to more easily allow people to share things like this. Sure, Digg and Reddit exist for this kind of thing, too, but there has to be some way to leverage Stack Overflow as a link-sharing community, especially since (IMO) it totally beats the other social bookmarking sites when it comes to comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:05:51.417" Title="Is there a better way to let users know to post questions as questions and answers as answers?" Tags="&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1331" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:00:37.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a Q&amp;amp;A site. And it's designed around that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's working fine as is, you are going to have edge cases like this, but it's not something you need to change the design over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:00:37.433" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1331" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:05:05.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to let them know is to close the question down as &quot;Not a real question&quot; and let them learn from their mistake. Sometimes the best way to learn to not touch a hot stove is to get burned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:05:05.973" />
  <row Id="1335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1331" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:05:51.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lead by example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just edit their question to match a 'jeopardy' format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my edits as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1066411/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1066411/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:05:51.417" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:08:27.087" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you flag a post from that user for moderator attention, it is highly likely that we will look at their other recent activities, including (but not limited to) questions, answers, comments, votes - and correlations to other users if there is a suspicion of a sock-puppet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are being a nuisance, there are a range of options - but also don't forget that just because they've annoyed you doesn't guarantee that we're going to throw the book at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The e-mail approach works too, but don't forget the team is US-based, but between us the moderators have pretty-much the whole day covered; if they are actively an issue, a moderator flag may get acted on quicker than the e-mail. Or do both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; don't forget you can vote... if somebody is being offensive, vote them as offensive. For most puppet accounts, the penalty (100 points) may be enough to take away much of their access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-06-30T23:10:28.020" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:10:28.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1284" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:11:16.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a mere mortal user of this site, can I ask what happened here, and why I can no longer see the original post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, what did the OP do to earn complete post deletion -- just so I don't do it myself in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:11:16.520" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="1338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1398" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:14:35.933" Score="7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Questions&quot; tab/button/section/whateveryoucallit, you can filter by tag: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But in &quot;Unanswered&quot;, you cannot: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/bug&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/bug&lt;/a&gt; (improperly goes to the &quot;My tags&quot; section)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This would be very useful if you are skilled in one area and want to answer questions in that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T11:24:08.767" Title="Why can't we filter unanswered questions by tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:23:52.510" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have thresholds for every type of voting in the system, and we have a threshold for how much rep one can attain (which is a quasi-threshold on how many answers a typical person will post in a day), so I don't necessarily have a problem with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a problem, it is likely that problem will still be around tomorrow which you can ask. If it is an important problem, you shouldn't be afraid of losing a little rep to get it answered in a hurry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:23:52.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1341" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:27:49.380" Score="2" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question once. I put up a bounty after a period with no answers, and there was only one answer. Nobody else answered, and one person voted this answer up (only one, no downvotes). I voted the only answer down, because it was wrong and I did not want it to get my bounty. When the time came for the bounty to be auto-awarded, it just... disappeared. The bounty was removed from the question and no answer was accepted. I don't know if this was because I downvoted the only answer, or there was no upvoted answer, or something else. Can somebody please explain how this works?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(If you are wondering what question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574195/android-youtube-app-play-video-intent&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574195/android-youtube-app-play-video-intent&lt;/a&gt;. The other answers were added much afterward the bounty ended.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T09:41:26.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T09:41:26.747" Title="Is a bounty still auto-awarded if you downvote the answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1340" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:29:41.390" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The highest upvoted answer gets half of the bounty. If you accept an answer, it gets full bounty. If no answers have more than two upvotes, no bounty will be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow/483070#483070&quot;&gt;Bounty FAQ item.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this snippet from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You do not accept an answer. Any answer that was a) provided after the bounty period started and b) &lt;strong&gt;has 2 or more upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; is automatically accepted after 7 days. The bounty is subtracted from your reputation. The answerer is awarded half the bounty amount (unless it’s your own answer, see #3 below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you downvote an answer that has many upvotes, and in the end that answer is at the top (with two or more upvotes, and you didn't accept another one) that answer will get the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:29:41.390" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="1342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:40:10.227" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On one hand people are gaming the system, but the flip side is that people are asking questions that the community sees a value in, that is why they voted the questions up. I think a stream of great well thought out questions should be encouraged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of things that I think should be done to help avoid abuse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No rep should be gained by asking a duplicate question&lt;/strong&gt;, in fact any question that is asked and then closed should give you no rep (which should be fixed retroactively). I would go as far as to say the the answers should also get no rep, because they dilute from the value of the original question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The community should be given the ability to revoke ownership of a question, in case it is abuse, abandoned or the asker has obviously lost interest. When ownership is revoked all the rep gained should be revoked as well. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:40:10.227" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="1343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2293" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:50:41.993" Score="6" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really just looking for honest answers from fellow users for this one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How often do you get captchas, and what were you doing when it appeared?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some future scripts I'm working on may attempt actions that could at times require a captcha, which would throw a big wrench into the gears. I'm just trying to figure out when I can expect to see them, and when I can expect to avoid them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself have only had to answer a captcha once, and it was on my first post ever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is more inclined to wiki-style answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:41:21.417" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T08:55:29.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T23:54:29.253" Title="How often do captchas appear?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1343" CreationDate="2009-06-30T23:59:15.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every other edit (if done in quick succession).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Every other answer (if done in quick succession IIRC)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-06-30T23:59:15.983" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T23:59:15.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1343" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:03:31.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually answer a question with the straight answer right away (ie, &quot;You want to use X function for this.&quot;) and then revise my question within the next 5 minutes (which is the grace period before it counts as an edit) multiple times with links, examples, maybe even a jsbin demo, etc. I hit the captcha pretty much every edit while I do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other example is when I find a tag with 5-10 questions that is clearly inappropriate. I try to retag them all but usually hit the captcha an absurd amount of times in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, I get several captchas daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:03:31.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T00:03:31.370" />
  <row Id="1346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1343" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:03:31.557" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Far too frequently, for my liking. It's not uncommon for me come home from work, open a bunch of questions in tabs, and crank through them. But the captchas slow me down significantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:03:31.557" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T00:03:31.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1311" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:10:35.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is even considered, it should only be after a long period of account inactivity.  I'll throw out one week as a starting point.  It should also be disable-able on your user preferences page.  I don't need dozens of notification emails from a site I visit every day. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:10:35.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1343" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:13:49.893" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you spend too much time working on an answer, you get a CAPTCHA.  (So I get one almost every time I submit an answer.  (I'm a slow thinker.))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:13:49.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T00:13:49.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1343" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:15:27.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Constantly, although I have become pretty good at avoiding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:15:27.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T00:15:27.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1369" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:17:50.773" Score="18" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently when a question is closed as a dupe, you'll see what question(s) it is a possible duplicate of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the opposite? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there are many occasions that duplicate questions can contain information that might be vital to some user. So to see other questions that are a duplicate of the one the user is browsing can be very helpful for those that need more information that might be in those other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could even be a portal. Since the duplicate question has the &quot;root&quot; question linked, and when you click on that you both get more information and other questions that have been voted duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T23:04:06.407" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T23:04:23.957" Title="Please inverse the community user's duplicate listing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1350" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:22:23.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the issue you raise is important. I have seen many useful information in &quot;duplicate&quot; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe merging would be a better idea for these cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:22:23.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:35:46.363" Score="8" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be really useful to be able to browse my own questions like I can all questions and that is by one or more tags. Sometimes I'm looking for a particular question to reference and just can't find it (without google) but I'll have a fair idea of what it's tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T07:15:41.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T05:24:12.070" Title="Please allow us to browse our own questions by tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1353" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:37:38.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. This is yet another feature request which I think would be excellent to implement along with other useful organization and searching tools on your own library of questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:37:38.997" />
  <row Id="1355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1323" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:43:17.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; flags (text-based) on users, but can only be added by, and are only visible to,  moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Gordon Gano sings this line in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/music/Violent+Femmes/%5F/Kiss+Off&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiss Off&lt;/a&gt;, it's a reference to what the principal of his high school told him after the band played at a National Honor Society ceremony. While they were still in high school (before they made it big), The Violent Femmes were asked to play some music at the NHS ceremony. They said sure... and then they played Gimme the Car. The students in the audience went crazy, pandemonium ensued, and the principal told Gano, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlikely to be ever implemented for anyone other than moderators as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-22/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #22&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the rare event where a user goes haywire — remember that it costs $5 to even join MetaFilter — these users will be given “timeouts” of a day or two until they cool down. &lt;strong&gt;There are no scarlet letters or black marks that can be placed on users.&lt;/strong&gt; The history of the user’s actions, particularly if that history is public, is usually enough to handle the problem. We definitely agree with this philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T00:43:17.857" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1353" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:54:49.640" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is another request for enhancing the search feature, to wit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:18393+%5Bjava%5D&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:18393+%5Bjava%5D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that the alias&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is now functional, if you are a logged in user you can search your own stuff by typing &quot;me&quot; instead of your actual id number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore the tags listed on the user page now automatically generate this syntax; so when you click on a tag from a user's page you will get just the questions or answers that user has provided within that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T05:24:12.070" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T05:24:12.070" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="1357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1361" CreationDate="2009-07-01T00:56:48.433" Score="8" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now one of the only real ranking in terms of overall performance on StackOverflow (and related sites, obviously) is the Reputation score. I know there are also some rankings per tag, but I am looking for possibilities for new types of user rankings based on other criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most prolific question asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most prolific answering&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Greatest Answer-to-Question ratio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest average question score (with at lest X questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest average answer score (with at least X answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most accepted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepted vs. Total Answers ratio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would never expect that all of these would ever be implemented, but I am interested in knowing what would be the most popular options or what other potential options for user ranking there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:41:28.440" Title="New User Rankings" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;rankings&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2204" CreationDate="2009-07-01T01:06:50.283" Score="26" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like the &quot;today&quot;, &quot;yesterday&quot;, etc. links in recent activity to display in the user's current time zone, as well as any non-relative timestamps (for example, the absolute timestamp seen when hovering over a relative timestamp).  It is annoying that the evening is a different day than the afternoon (for me on east coast US).  I imagine for someone even further from London it's much more annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd just need to add a time zone preference for users, and default it to UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for server-side things like daily rep cap, I don't think many users would care if those were still based on UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T12:03:03.403" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T00:30:34.183" Title="Make recent activity &quot;today&quot; etc. buttons based on user's time zone" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1357" CreationDate="2009-07-01T01:16:19.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't this be possible with the data dumps? Does it need to be real time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T01:16:19.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T01:23:53.190" Score="6" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;On podcast #56, Jason Calacanis offer $100,000 USD to purchase 10% of StackOverflow.com.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was his offer over, under or matches the current going rate for StackOverflow.com?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, was he just going to purchase a piece of StackOverflow.com or a piece of the whole SO, SF and SU business model?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastEditorUserId="26327" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T01:17:25.290" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:18:00.230" Title="Jason Calacanis's offer to buy part of StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1301" CreationDate="2009-07-01T01:31:02.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't you know that recently the Heisman trophy winners have been busts in the National...Football..League (Had to say it like Ron Jaworski).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T01:31:02.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-07-01T01:50:20.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you've already upvoted an answer, but you come back later and realise that you also should have accepted it?  (I've done this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T01:50:20.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2009-07-01T02:17:20.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it was exactly a serious offer. I think he was simply attempting to quantify how much he believes in the possibilities and business model of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T02:24:45.743" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T02:24:45.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2009-07-01T02:21:34.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the reason for this choice is that there are many features of the system that have to revolve around a consistent timezone. When facing that choice, unless you're serving people solely in one geographical location, I think UTC is the obvious choice. And since these features are tied to UTC, it would lead to an inconsistent user experience to show the user stats based on a different timezone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be just daily rep cap and woot/enthusiast badges that are based on UTC for the days. However, I believe that even just with the daily rep cap, allowing the user to see something, that is reporting to be one day (today or yesterday) and having that based on a different timezone leads to an undesired and unnecessary point of confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T13:33:41.923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T13:33:41.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1260" CreationDate="2009-07-01T02:31:02.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this what down-votes are for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make it a badge, good or bad, people will want it. Basically you're just encouraged bad questions..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T02:31:02.107" />
  <row Id="1368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T02:48:03.033" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1359/make-recent-activity-today-etc-buttons-based-on-users-time-zone&quot;&gt;Make recent activity &amp;ldquo;today&amp;rdquo; etc. buttons based on user&amp;rsquo;s time zone?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Times on comments, questions, answers, etc (on the tool tip) are expressed in UTC. This is annoying. Can we please have these in local time? This requires no different storage or change in how SO works, it's just a case of adding or subtracting up to 12 to the number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:54:23.743" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:54:23.743" ClosedDate="2009-07-01T02:56:14.967" Title="Make times on the site in user's local time zone" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;localization&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1350" CreationDate="2009-07-01T02:51:26.380" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One useful side-effect of this would be to stop people (accidently) voting-to-close the wrong part of the duplicate, something I've done a few times (I voted to close a duplicate, not realising that the other was already closed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have seen many useful information in &quot;duplicate&quot; posts. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1350/feature-request-inverse-duplicate-listing/1351#1351&quot;&gt;hayalci&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, if there is useful answers in the duplicate they basically disappear. They are really hard to find, even if you search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I've seen thematically identical questions asked with ZERO words in common. Last time I checked, Lucene wasn't magical faerie dust, unfortunately.. :) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/#comment-20685&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With proposed inverse-dupe links, you have a list of other &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; similar questions, which you can check for other useful answers if you're really interested in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the inverse-duplicates could be accessed by a link next to the edit/retag/flag/close, just below the tags? Something like..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7797/inversedupemockup.png&quot; alt=&quot;Inverse duplicate mockup&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure about the wording, it's a bit long, but it seems to me a sensible place to put it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another two mockups, based on Shog9 and Ólafur's comments,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4195/duplicatedbysidebar.png&quot; alt=&quot;Duplicated by sidebar modification&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, a slight variant on the current &quot;Related questions&quot; side bar, which lists (and highlights) exact duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4894/dupenotice.png&quot; alt=&quot;Related Questions sidebar with dupes highlighted&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quite like the last one - it's not as big of a change, doesn't much extra clutter (no new tabs/links under question), and is a sensible place - duplicates are &quot;related questions&quot; after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T17:26:01.553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:26:01.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T03:06:36.187" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a problem with the diff, when someone edits a link the change isn't visible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3407/picture9vpg.png&quot; alt=&quot;link change diff problem&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that example, someone changed the URL from &lt;code&gt;http://example.com/something-05&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;http://example.com/something-06&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I can demonstrate it here, I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Example link&lt;/a&gt; (check the revision history!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:41:45.807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T05:41:45.807" Title="Display link-changes in edit-history diff?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-07-01T03:16:32.233" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be useful. To check for replies to a comment you've made is pretty unfeasible currently - it involves checking every answer you've ever commented on for new comments..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't have to show you every new comment, like is done for answers (which would get out-of-hand rather quickly) - it would just say &quot;New follow-up comments today on the following questions/answers:&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are single threaded, and always ordered - it's easy enough to find your comment and read from there-on, as long as you know which question/answer to look at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An option to only see replies directed at you with &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; could be nice, but that's starting to getting rather.. Twitter'ish, and would be unreliable given StackOverflow does not require unique usernames, and many people only use first-names when replying (&quot;@Jeff blah blah&quot; for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T23:08:23.263" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T23:08:23.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T03:16:32.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2009-07-01T03:28:35.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the only page I recall seeing this problem on.. And even still it's a very minor annoyance (how often do you really view the About page? Once, &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the extra 35 lines of CSS really worth it? Perhaps a better solution would be to make the About page a little more verbose? Mentioning something about the site effectively being the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1/should-meta-stackoverflow-com-replace-uservoice-com&quot;&gt;SO bug tracking/feature request system&lt;/a&gt;  for one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T03:28:35.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-07-01T03:37:15.770" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm putting in my vote for the 'Vote to Wiki' feature.  If there has to be a change to satisfy the &quot;make it a wiki police&quot;, then it should be baked into the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But frankly I think there are enough safeguards already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T03:53:28.197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T03:53:28.197" />
  <row Id="1375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1388" CreationDate="2009-07-01T03:42:41.110" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose there are two questions that are very obviously duplicates of one another. The one that came first has maybe a few votes and no answers. The second has double the votes of the first and already has two answers. Obviously having two copies of the same question floating around isn't ideal, but what's not so clear is: which one should be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I faced this decision a few minutes ago with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1206/notify-comments-for-comments-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. I ended up closing the second, more popular one, but I'm wondering if I made the right choice. The author of the second post wasn't aware of the existence of the first post and unwittingly duplicated it. Granted, the idea time to catch this would have been when the post was first made, but obviously this can't happen all the time. The fault does lie with the person that posted the duplicate, but I'm wondering if this isn't an optimization for personal good at the expense of the good of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I wouldn't appreciate a post I authored to be closed as a duplicate of a post that came later, but at the same time there was already interest and activity around the duplicate, whereas the response to the original was much more limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an option moderators have to merge posts together. Though I've never tried it (so someone correct me if I'm wrong), I think that it copies all the answers from the duplicate into the master and deletes the duplicate question. In this situation it might be advantageous to move the responses, but I question if it should be used as a general rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I'd like to get some community feedback on this issue. Did I do the right thing? Should I have closed the other one? Or should I just have left both alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:55:14.663" Title="Closing an earlier post as a duplicate of a later one" Tags="&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;merging&gt;&lt;closing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-07-01T03:50:52.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't force my browser to act like a desktop text editor!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's already problems with seemingly simple things like trying to give the editor keyboard shortcuts.. For example, the code-block command &lt;code&gt;Ctrl+k&lt;/code&gt; invokes the delete-selection emacs'ish command in Camino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Messing with the inputs indentation really isn't a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;textarea&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'s job, and that's all the &quot;editor&quot; really is! I imagine such a feature could easily screw with pasting into the input box, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This pushes a simple textarea into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000869.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Uncanny Valley of User Interface[s]&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, something I feel the WMD editor has quite successfully avoided (disable Javascript and this box basically works the same, minus the preview)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editor isn't &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; bad for writing code.. For single-level-of-indentation code, I generally write it with no indentation, then use the &lt;code&gt;ctrl+k&lt;/code&gt; shortcut to indent the first level, then select the rest of the code and hit &lt;code&gt;ctrl+k&lt;/code&gt; again.. I'll try and demonstrate..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 1 (write script with no indentation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(true){&#xA;something()&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 2 (select the lines and &lt;code&gt;ctrl+k&lt;/code&gt; to indent it):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(true){&#xA;&#xA;    something()&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 3 (remove the extra two lines, select all the code, press &lt;code&gt;ctrl+k&lt;/code&gt; to make it into the final code-block):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    if(true){&#xA;        something()&#xA;    }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to write code with anything more than one level of indentation, I just copy the answer-text into to a proper text editor (which I'm sure most users have open anyway!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a good Firefox addon for this, actually. &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;It's All Text!&quot;&lt;/a&gt; adds a little &quot;Edit&quot; button to each input box.. When clicked it loads the current text into your editor-of-choice.. When you save the file, the textarea is updated and you can post your answer. Same as the copy-and-paste to a proper editor, with less key-strokes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T03:50:52.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1470" CreationDate="2009-07-01T03:54:25.060" Score="10" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would inferring tags from a question's title and body and filling them automatically into the tag field (or at least suggesting them separately as a hint list or something) be worthwhile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not referring to the tag auto-complete that goes on already, mind you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The way I see it, it's the people who struggle defining their problems who probably need the most help with getting them solved. That's what I'm implying with this question, just so you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19825" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T09:13:38.457" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T09:13:38.457" Title="Auto-tagging" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1377" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:10:01.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Natural language processing is a very complex thing, one can only determine to certain degree what the most reasonable tags would be. To do this would take a lot of resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should know fully well what type of tags your question involves when you ask it. Trying to get a computer to do this for you is lazy for those who use it, and complex for those who make it. Not to mention the large disadvantage caused by mis-tagged items. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:10:01.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:14:20.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is an option moderators have to merge posts together. Though I've never tried it (so someone correct me if I'm wrong), I think that it copies all the answers from the duplicate into the master and deletes the duplicate question. In this situation it might be advantageous to move the responses, but I question if it should be used as a general rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used this once.  It moved all the answers from the dupe to the target, and deleted the original question.  It also moved comments, and I think it may have migrated upvotes on the original question, but I don't recall.  You get this plain-looking but informative output screen saying everything it did.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/270&quot;&gt;Here's the aftermath&lt;/a&gt; of a merge.  I moved 811 into it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a powerful tool, but it doesn't give the users much indication of what the heck happened (no revision log, etc).  Maybe there should be some indication from the user's perspective, then we could use it more liberally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:14:20.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1381" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:23:03.650" Score="14" ViewCount="378" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065806/how-do-you-get-jquery-to-wait-until-an-effect-is-finished&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; earlier. I was the only answer, it got 10+ votes, and it was accepted. I am pretty sure this is the requirement for the Enlightened badge. I have seen many awarded since so I am pretty sure the badge script is &quot;running&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the deal? Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-11T14:45:00.393" LastActivityDate="2010-04-11T14:45:00.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:14.190" Title="Why are badges sometimes not awarded?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:31:51.240" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably lost an Enlighted badge somewhere along the way. Typical reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question was deleted;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer was voted to less than 10 upvotes because of a downvote, someone changing an upvote or a rep recalc losing some people's votes; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP changed accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases you don't lose your existing Enlighted badges. You simply won't be awarded another one until you have enough accepted answers that qualify. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:31:51.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:14.190" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44527" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:37:51.883" Score="17" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment links to possible duplicates are inserted in the question text once a question is closed. It would be better to insert the links right away as soon as someone votes for it as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People interested in answers to the question would probably be interested in related questions, even if the current question is not closed as a duplicate yet. Even if the question never reaches the closing threshold, the links to the related questions would be useful. At the moment only users that can vote to close can see these links before the question is really closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can add comments with links to the duplicate questions, but this is not very readable and ends up as duplicate information once the question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T09:54:53.073" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T10:02:20.157" Title="Show possible duplicates in the main post before it's closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1383" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:45:32.923" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how we used to do it (before the current duplicate-flagging system was in place). It provided a way for readers to recognize duplicate questions from the listing page (because the text was visible in the summary) and seemed to hasten the closing of true duplicates, while giving anyone disputing the flag some serious motivation to argue against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:45:32.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:45:36.527" Score="16" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching for duplicates of a question often multiple ones turn up, but when voting to close only one of them can be specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to be able to add more than one duplicate link when voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T18:42:45.190" Title="Allow same user to add multiple links as possible duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1377" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:49:33.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On top of what Ian said, i'll theorize that most folks capable of writing a decent title and body are also perfectly able to fill in some decent tags. While those unable to properly tag a question are probably also not asking very good questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while an editor is busy fixing the rest of the post, he can take a few extra seconds to fix the tags as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:49:33.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:53:06.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had occasion to ask a moderator to merge questions where the later question was preferable to the former. The moderator responding (good ol' Bill!) did an excellent job, leaving the later question and adding comments to the merged answers requesting that they be updated to reflect the tone of the new question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, this is one of those areas where human intervention is preferable to a fully-automated system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:53:06.493" />
  <row Id="1388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2009-07-01T04:55:14.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just merge them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T04:55:14.663" />
  <row Id="1389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T05:01:56.397" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/202198/whats-the-best-manner-of-implementing-a-social-activity-stream&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Stackoverflow question while Googling. I wanted to reopen the conversation and try to ask about scalable solutions (the solutions posed are not) but the question is 8 months old and basically dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the best thing to do would be to ask again? This got me wondering about dead questions that have some answers but could be expanded upon. Are redundant questions with good answers spread among them a bad thing? Certain other sites that SO competes with have this problem in a big way and it can be frustrating when turning up pages in Google. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some other &quot;right&quot; way of re-starting a conversation that died because the asker was satisfied or absent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18424" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T09:28:40.730" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T09:28:40.730" Title="What to do if you are interested in a (good) question that didn't get a good answer?" Tags="&lt;editing&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T05:05:25.187" Score="63" ViewCount="754" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might sound a bit crazy, but hear me out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a certain behavior among voters on SO that, while understandable, makes down-voting incorrect or unhelpful answers somewhat counter-productive: the &lt;em&gt;sympathy up-vote&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Try this&lt;/strong&gt;: watch new answers, and wait for one that's particularly useless to pop up. Make sure it isn't blatantly abusive or insulting - just completely unhelpful. Wait for a few minutes, to make sure it isn't improved by the author or a wandering editor. Note that it hasn't been up-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, down-vote it... And wait to see how long it hangs around with a -1 score before someone up-votes it. It won't be long...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems there are many kind souls on SO who feel that any answer which is not blatantly offensive shouldn't be scarred by a negative score, and who will act to counter any votes that result in such a scenario. Nothing wrong with that, &lt;em&gt;in and of itself&lt;/em&gt; - everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and so long as they don't up-vote to the point where it sorts ahead of other, correct and helpful answers, no harm done...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...except for the disparity in reputation taken from and then returned to the person who posted the answer. See, it turns out that posting &lt;em&gt;benignly&lt;/em&gt; unhelpful answers is actually a pretty decent way to pick up a few rep points. Since it takes &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; down-votes to counter the rep bestowed by a &lt;strong&gt;single&lt;/strong&gt; up-vote, snagging an early down-vote on your unhelpful answer will almost assuredly leave you with at least an eight-point bonus once all is said and done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; you were so inclined, you could garner a tidy reputation by merely being consistently fast, and only subtly wrong. It's better to be lucky than good...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's is a shame. And so, I propose that, so long as the current vote score for &lt;strong&gt;a given post&lt;/strong&gt; is less than 0, the rep bestowed upon the author for an up-vote should no more than match the rep taken from him for a down-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One down-vote: -2, one up-vote: +2, net score for the post: 0, net score for the user: 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, an up-vote followed by a down-vote would still result in a net +8 rep for the author. That's fine - i don't see anything wrong with the difference under normal circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(reposted from UV, now that MSO is the official feedback site...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-28T02:23:18.683" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T02:23:18.683" Title="Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="1391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2009-07-01T05:05:50.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If possible, I would rephrase your question to be sufficiently different to the original and include a link to the original. If its too close it'll get closed as a duplicate. Only the owner can really reignite a question (by starting a bounty on it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's not possible, well, perhaps you should post the link to the question here and what your question is as well as how the existing answers are insufficient and perhaps we can give specific advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T05:05:50.583" />
  <row Id="1392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T05:34:07.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only real thing that I see that UV provides that MSO doesn't is a limited number of votes. This forces users to only vote up the stuff they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want until that gets done/rejected/whatever. That avoids the problem where every user up votes everything. It allows the developers to more easily prioritize feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T05:34:07.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T05:59:12.577" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions that get closed as &quot;belongs on uservoice&quot; now &quot;belongs on meta&quot; that would simply not exist if the search results and Related Question hints that show up when you ask a question simply included the meta questions as well. Many of them are legitimate questions about the use or etiquette of SO. New users aren't familiar with meta. . While the &quot;feedback always welcome&quot; link is inviting for offering feedback, its not obvious that it's the location for asking questions about the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140229" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T02:23:15.297" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T02:23:15.297" Title="Include meta in search results and related questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1396" CreationDate="2009-07-01T05:59:16.977" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often come to SO to find that my rep has changed. I want to know what it was that made my rep go up (or down). There is the rep graph on my profile page, but this only shows me the total rep gain and total rep loss for a question/answer. This is great if I remember how much rep I had gained/lost on all of my questions/answers previously... but I don't know. Could we see how much rep we gained/lost in a given time period from what questions/answers? Seeing that I gained 40 rep from an answer is good. Seeing that I gained 10 today, 20 yesterday, and 10 a week ago is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:19:15.180" Title="Better Rep Tracking" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1393" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:01:44.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree that meta questions should be included on the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should Stack Overflow have related Server Fault questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should Server Fault have related Super User questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, cross-site related queries is far beyond the scope of anything we'll be able to do anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:01:44.613" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1394" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:02:42.350" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the envelope next to your name, then go to the reputation tab. Edit dates in URL to taste or use links on page to specify time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:02:42.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1394" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:04:24.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can select a period in the graph to the left of the reputation summary to only see your changes for that period.  Either drag with your mouse, or use the entry boxes below the graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:04:24.093" />
  <row Id="1398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1338" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:06:14.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;You are on the wrong tab. &lt;b&gt;Switch away from the My Tags tab&lt;/b&gt;, because it will override your selection (My Tags is effectively a list of tags, so it cannot be filtered.)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Remember, SO tabs are all STICKY. If you select a particular tab one, it will stay selected.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the My Tags tab on /unanswered now overrides and shows exactly what tags are in play, also, it uses your &quot;interesting&quot; tags if you've populated them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T23:46:43.430" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:46:43.430" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1393" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:15:32.130" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Naw, let's not do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we show meta search results in with SO search results, folks will just stay on SO for their meta-SO tasks, including asking more meta-SO questions on SO proper. Which kinda defeats the whole purpose of &lt;em&gt;having&lt;/em&gt; a meta-SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close 'em, with prejudice, and send 'em this way - then they can stay, if that's what they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:15:32.130" />
  <row Id="1401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1094" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:18:04.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've changed this so tag selections override &quot;My Tags&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T17:34:57.647" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:34:57.647" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="1402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1394" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:19:15.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use my own &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/stackoverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt;. I've got it set up to let you easily see what's happened today or what happened yesterday - I find this a bit simpler than going into the version on Stack Overflow (and it predates it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Internally there are options to show several days or a specific date, but I've currently hidden them to avoid the SO server getting overloaded with JSON requests :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important point (for those interested in rep) is that both of these treat a day as a UTC day - in other words, the same period as the rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:19:15.180" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="1403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:28:38.777" Score="16" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to have our envelope updates not only show rep-based upvotes, but community wiki and comment upvotes as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like some finer granularity when it comes to vote tracking if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T02:59:55.300" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T16:27:46.000" Title="Tracking of Community Wiki upvotes and Comment Upvotes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:35:06.513" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the SO team should internally make a small utility/page to merge/rename tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, allow us to submit tag rename suggestions which get queued (maybe even voted upon!).  Then an SO dev can manually check the Queue from time to time and implement the requested renames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:35:06.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:38:13.917" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you say, this is due to the discrepancy between the amount of rep lost for downvotes and gained for upvotes. I've never really understood this discrepancy - I would personally rather have downvotes make a difference of -10, possibly with a cost to the downvoter of -5 instead of -1. This may discourage more &quot;frivolous&quot; downvotes which don't achieve anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I reserve downvoting for answers which are incorrect or significantly misleading - and in those cases it seems crazy for a single upvote to counter 5 downvotes. Surely we should have a more serious form of discouragement for potentially harmful answers. (Or alternatively, you could think of it as encouragement to delete an answer which you posted in good faith but turned out to be inaccurate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I'd like to at least hear more discussion about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; downvotes are so relatively powerless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Thinking about this more, I suspect that one of the problems is that rep is seen in multiple ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A score in the &quot;game&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An indication of how much the system trusts you (should the system trust you more for posting an answer with +1 and -4 votes than if you hadn't posted it?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An indication of technical prowess / typing skills (even though it &lt;em&gt;inaccurately&lt;/em&gt; measures  these, it's still seen that way sometimes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having technical knowledge doesn't really mean that someone knows what's best for SO or has SO's best interests at heart - but we use it as a surrogate metric. It works pretty well most of the time, but it does make issues like this trickier to reason about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T06:54:35.343" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:54:35.343" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:47:49.947" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the dangers of a mistake in merging tags, I'd suggest taking (stealing!) a technique from the genealogists of the Mormon church ... yes, really!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they find that records of two people are actually records of the same person, they &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; merge those into a single record, just in case there's a mistake. Instead, each is tagged with the ID of the other, and it's a presentation issue to merge the details together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, if an error is discovered later on - even years later - the link can be removed and the data cleanly split apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I propose that people with sufficiently high reputation be able to define &lt;em&gt;&quot;tag synonyms&quot;&lt;/em&gt; that get merged in the presentation layer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you could define &lt;code&gt;visual-studio&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;visual+studio&lt;/code&gt; as synonyms of &lt;code&gt;visualstudio&lt;/code&gt;, with the effect that only &lt;code&gt;visualstudio&lt;/code&gt; would appear to the user. The other two forms would be silently converted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reversing an inappropriate merge would be easy, just delete the synonym link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major challenge with this approach is making it sufficiently performant ... but there are ways to achieve that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30280" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:47:49.947" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:48:30.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the problem is well thought out, I'd be quite curious to see how true it is in practice. Honestly, getting upvotes for questions and answers (particularly questions) is not hard at all and I fail to see how someone could actually manage to get any sort of meaningful reputation out of &quot;pity upvotes&quot; - there are a LOT of much more powerful ways to game the system, this one just doesn't seem like a priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:48:30.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1238" CreationDate="2009-07-01T06:53:41.103" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the list of permissible tags shown by WordPress.Org, there doesn't seem to be an easy way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if (hint, hint) PNG was one of the supported formats for flair, you'd be &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30280" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T06:53:41.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="54290" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:03:40.877" Score="172" ViewCount="1408" Body="&lt;p&gt;My sad story: few months ago I was looking for a solution to my problem and was about to ask a question on StackOverflow when I found already existing question with slightly different wording. Sadly, this question had almost no answers. Now if I own the question, I would just set up bounty on it to get decent answers but since it wasn't mine I couldn't do that and I couldn't start my own question since it would be a duplicate. So how about making it possible to start a bounty on any question I want not just the ones I asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:44:03.510" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:44:35.353" Title="How about making it possible to set up bounty on someone else's question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="16" />
  <row Id="1410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1443" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:07:18.857" Score="8" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be nice to check someone's reputation on ServerFault or SuperUser even if you're currently browsing StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you could check, how active he/she is on other platform and browse his/her profile on the over there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I propose to implement a little badge in the profile page which shows the reputation on the other platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nice addon could be to see the reputation if you hover over link to user's profile right in a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: What is your opinion about my proposal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:27:34.407" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:27:34.407" Title="Display SO/SU/SF reputation on every platform" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:16:00.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand your argument, Shog9. But doesn't this fine tuning make SO less understandable? We should consider giving new users not a hard time to understand the system. See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/481&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/481&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score/1405#1405&quot;&gt;Jon skeet's approach&lt;/a&gt; would help more, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T07:16:00.520" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49224" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:19:48.467" Score="56" ViewCount="1320" Body="&lt;p&gt;An unresolved bounty is a question with an expired bounty including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no auto-select (no answer with 2 upvotes or more)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no selection (the user did not care about a 7-day limit: SO is not ebay)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487737&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/825478/how-to-set-araxis-as-diff-merge-tool-for-msys-git&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; are both examples of &quot;unresolved&quot; bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both case, the OP did see an interesting answer (when returning to his question well after the bounty limit, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jocelynlegault/status/2275436991&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this tweet illustrates&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both case, he reported being unable to select it as the official answer (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jocelynlegault/status/2310826770&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this tweet&lt;/a&gt;), not for the bounty (since it expired, and that is ok), but simply to mark their question as &quot;resolved&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this normal?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This may be due to a technical limitation (like the &quot;non-selection&quot; being marked &quot;permanent&quot; at the bounty expiration), and not possible to be changed, but I would like a status in order to get back to the Ops.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(since both &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/121182-bug-no-more-answer-tick-mark-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UV 121182&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/232470-bug-unable-to-accept-an-answer-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UV 232470&lt;/a&gt; have not been addressed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-24T14:16:16.110" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T14:16:16.110" Title="Why an answer can't be accepted after an unresolved bounty?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="1414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:24:34.040" Score="-15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is effectively completed, because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bounty system is no longer tied to accepting an answer in any way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can issue multiple bounties on your question if necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the following alerts are sent to the bounty owner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 days before end of bounty, email to user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 days before end of bounty, site message to user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 day before end of bounty, email to user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emails only sent if we have email for the bounty owner, which we don't require.) If the bounty owner fails to select, and no answers meet the auto-select criteria, which are..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer must have been posted AFTER the bounty started&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer must have at least 2 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. then the bounty is not awarded to anyone. Details are in the &lt;code&gt;/faq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T07:05:15.617" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T07:05:15.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:27:54.657" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you really need this answer, you should make a duplicate, link to the other question and set up a bounty for yours. And please tell me, if they closed a bounty duplicate. I'm curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T07:42:34.077" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T07:42:34.077" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:38:31.527" Score="9" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask a Question&lt;/a&gt;&quot; page in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt;.stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt; has this block of text to the right of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How to Ask&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is your question about the Stack Overflow engine or websites?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We prefer questions that can be&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;answered&lt;/em&gt;, not just discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, MSO is specifically meant to be a discussion area.  A place where SO and its sister sites can be discussed without fear of being closed or downvoted as being subjective, belonging on UV or belonging in the SOFAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the &quot;How To Ask&quot; block should reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:33:23.517" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T10:50:42.117" Title="&quot;How To Ask&quot; block in MSO doesn't encourage discussion" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1430" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:45:09.077" Score="20" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;When closing a question as duplicate, currently you can view what other people suggested as a duplicate. But when you cast your own vote, you still have to manually enter in the question ID or search for the question again. Often text-searching is hard to find the same question, and it's ugly to copy-paste the question ID back from another tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you should be able to &quot;agree&quot; with a suggestion already on the table or add your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposition 1 - Click on a suggested question's link to choose it as your possible duplicate. Maybe a &quot;Choose This&quot; or &quot;I agree&quot; link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposition 2 - Click on a suggested question's link to open the question in a new tab as it does currently. On the opened page is a new button to &quot;Select this question as possible duplicate&quot; to close the tab and select the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which one feels better (or none)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot of current dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/415/duplicatequestiondialog.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-17T20:49:00.513" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T20:49:00.513" Title="Choose the same question as others suggested when closing question as dup" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:50:18.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same thing happens on the &quot;recent activity&quot; page when there has been very little activity.  See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/111210-keep-footer-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;keep footer at the bottom of the screen&quot;&gt;ticket I opened in uservoice&lt;/a&gt; a long while ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T07:50:18.860" />
  <row Id="1420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:58:18.233" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be slightly more complex to engineer, but I've often thought I'd like to see rep bonuses and penalties as a bell curve, i.e. diminishing at extremes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thinking here is that it's not particularly fair that an simple answer on a high visibility subject can easily gain 20+ upvotes and be no more &quot;correct&quot; than a detailed, insightful, genius answer on something obscure which might get just 1 or 2 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was my design, I'd allow a certain potential maximum rep change (plus or minus) for any question and weight the score around zero the heaviest so +10 might represent 90% of the potential value and +20 represents 100%. Attaching rep to the score of the question rather than the individual votes would also mean the overall view was important, and up and downvotes were commutative: +5 and -5 would give you 0 rep rather than 40 as it does now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T07:58:18.233" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2009-07-01T07:59:53.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Again, this is easily fixable with stylish or greasemonkey. Your personal taste is exactly that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T07:59:53.987" />
  <row Id="1422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:04:58.843" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at a questions edit history the edits are labelled 'editted', which is fine but the original question is labelled 'answered', which is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/1370/list&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/1370/list&lt;/a&gt; the original question says 'answered 5 hours ago' above the questioners name. It hasn't been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2434" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T01:43:36.093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T21:05:07.120" Title="Questions' edit history label the original question as answered" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:08:51.657" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to play Devil's Advocate here, since &lt;em&gt;nobody&lt;/em&gt; else said no, and the OP wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've see arguments both ways&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people might not like having &lt;em&gt;anybody&lt;/em&gt; edit their questions, and they might see it as a personal affront.  This should be used with care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I edit a few posts a day for grammar, spelling and formatting, and I don't mind at all when somebody edits mine, since it's usually for the better (Brian D Foy, here's looking at you with all the Perl questions I asked that you fixed up).  I just thought I'd bring up another side here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T14:39:14.420" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T14:39:14.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:10:51.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like a bug indeed... should be &lt;strong&gt;&quot;asked&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T08:10:51.293" />
  <row Id="1425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:11:15.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like there's a common page for editing entries of any sort, be they questions or answers.  The question page allows you to edit the tags and the title as well as the text.  Apparently they forgot to change the &quot;answered&quot; to &quot;asked&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T08:11:15.973" />
  <row Id="1426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:24:33.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how useful this would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I have registered and answered a couple of questions over on ServerFault I'm not a sys admin so my rep is stuck resolutely at 101.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will register and contribute on SuperUser - if nothing else I'm bound to have PC problems I need fixing at some point - but I'm sure my involvement level will be different again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will having 3 potentially wildly differing numbers tell you anything useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T08:24:33.460" />
  <row Id="1427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:26:32.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I'll just fix the obvious typos - particularly in the title. Any change I might make to fix the grammar might obscure the intent of the OP. If something's not clear then I'll post a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will always fix the formatting of code though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T08:26:32.503" />
  <row Id="1428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1418" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:27:24.560" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposition 1:&lt;/strong&gt; Um, &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I appreciate your desire for efficiency (mom always called it laziness), my concern here is overly quick &lt;em&gt;&quot;me too&quot;&lt;/em&gt; from people who don't actually go on to check out the alleged duplicate question.  If folks don't go and look then how do they actually know?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the question title may be enough, but may times it take a step more...going into the other question to make the &lt;em&gt;&quot;it's a duplicate&quot;&lt;/em&gt; decision.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thinking is that just that small effort more will prevent this.  That's why I say...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposition 2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yea&lt;/em&gt;, that works for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T08:27:24.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:33:32.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you could add your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;flair bladge&lt;/a&gt; in the editable right box of your profile page, it would be just enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the iframe/script is rightfully stripped from the textarea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T08:33:32.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1418" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:41:06.790" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposition 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make clicking on the link show the question &lt;em&gt;in the pop-up&lt;/em&gt; (rather than in a separate tab). The pop-up dialog expands vertically to include the question. It can be reasonably small, with scroll bars if necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of the question text, include a link saying &quot;Yes, this is the one I mean&quot; - so at least a user has to scroll through the whole question (if it's long enough to require scroll bars) before they can do it, but they don't have to go through different tabs and have the other tab communicate back to the original one - keep it in the same flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T08:41:06.790" />
  <row Id="1432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-01T08:48:28.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Work Shy Fop Badge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit like the Woot! badge, but only awarded if the site is visited more than once every working day (Mon - Fri) and never visited at weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skizz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastEditorUserId="130431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T13:29:56.380" LastActivityDate="2010-04-14T13:29:56.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T08:48:28.737" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2009-07-01T09:28:04.727" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why not research and add an answer to the question yourself?&lt;/strong&gt; This will bump it to the front page and engender discussion. You can also edit your answer over time to improve it, which will also bump the question. (Note that trivial editing for the sake of bumping alone is considered abuse and seriously frowned upon. Not that you'd do this, but just putting the disclaimer in..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you feel the question failed because it was asked in a flawed way, edit it to improve the question.&lt;/strong&gt; This will also bump the question and maybe result in new answers and interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you don't have the 2k rep to edit someone else's question&lt;/strong&gt; and you feel the question was flawed, ask again linking to the original with refinements to make it a better question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T09:28:04.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1418" CreationDate="2009-07-01T09:48:40.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 for Proposition 1. Frankly I think the fear of the &quot;me too&quot; snowball effect is unjustified. You can have a link for the question next ot a link for &quot;select this&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can say that the way it is now sometimes I have to wonder if it's worth the effort of closing because I have to basically type in the exact question title more often than not to get it to come up (the search isn't good enough to bring it up based on a few key words).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T09:48:40.043" />
  <row Id="1435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="966" CreationDate="2009-07-01T09:50:34.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't do anything&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wait for people to copy/paste their pet request. It may be rude, but Ron Jeffries wrote a nice article summing it up called &lt;a href=&quot;http://xprogramming.com/xpmag/petitiontheking.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Petition the King&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T09:50:34.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2009-07-01T09:51:45.810" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The part that concerns me about this is the OP is the one who can select the answer so what happens in the bounty now if the OP selects an answer? Or are they prohibited from doing so because someone offered a bounty on it? Isn't there potential for question hijacking if this is the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hijacking goes the other way too. If someone can set a bounty on another's question and select the winning answer, they could do this when the owner is in theory deciding which answer to pick or there simply hasn't been a satisfactory one to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T09:51:45.810" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="1437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1377" CreationDate="2009-07-01T10:37:55.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like my post over on SO would be relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1038252/code-golf-quickly-build-list-of-keywords-from-text-including-of-instances&quot;&gt;Code Golf: Quickly Build List of Keywords from Text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this would fail with people to ask questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hai. Wy pHP an't rendrn my dataah? I has the varible n echo. KTHXbai&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again - perhaps the result from the process could send off a short comma-seperated list of the resulting keywords to be processed. Only the ones that actually exists as tags would be returned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T10:43:08.010" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T10:43:08.010" />
  <row Id="1440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1377" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:02:58.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ok, for example, what would the &quot;suggested tag&quot; output be from this very question you asked? The limitations of this method are so severe that the negatives outweigh any positives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has come up before on UserVoice and I've declined it for the same reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:02:58.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1274" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:06:57.860" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do like your mockup, but I just don't know how big a priority it is -- that many answers is such a rare occurrence on the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/48105/another-search-constraint-question/48529#48529&quot;&gt;now support&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;code&gt;inquestion:1234&lt;/code&gt; operator which does allow you to do this via the search box, at least.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I also implemented an &lt;code&gt;inquestion:this&lt;/code&gt; -- it works on the referrer so it'll only work for the first search from the current page, but hopefully that's enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T08:40:24.193" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T08:40:24.193" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="1442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1449" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:08:27.887" Score="15" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I maintain an extensive list of interesting/ignored tags, and add to it almost daily. It would be extremely usefull to be able to click on a tag in the question and have the option of adding it to the interesting or ignored list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is really a conveniance feature but could potentail be usefull for others and highlight the use of tags much more effectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similiar request was posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1218/mark-tag-as-interesting-or-ignored-from-that-tags-page&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="Diago" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:27:20.037" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:27:20.037" Title="Ability to add tag to Interesting/Ignored by clicking on it" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:08:37.277" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New experimental feature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/32043?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/32043?tab=accounts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;more work coming on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:08:37.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1370" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:09:50.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In fact, I can demonstrate it here, I think: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think example.com changed to example.net. Hover with the mouse over the link. Status bar will tell you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right that it could be shown more obviously in the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:09:50.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1274" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:10:46.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the site is not focused on poll style questions, I would think it is of low priority. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question with that many answers will get duplicate answers (and most defiantly has many many duplicate answers if it's that big)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding features that are outside of the big picture scope of the site is something I think is not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:10:46.213" />
  <row Id="1446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1442" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:12:57.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would have to be some other button next to or near it, since clicking on the tag gives you questions in that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for example only have 6 interesting tags and 1 ignored tag and it has stayed that way since the introduction of the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would not interest me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:12:57.127" />
  <row Id="1447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1377" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:36:10.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An excellent suggestion. If delicious.com can do it, so can SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seriously suggest you just copy the same UI delicious has - it's perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:36:10.817" />
  <row Id="1448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:41:44.390" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of a threshold for questions, because SO is a Question/Answer site.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Couldn't you address this problem by reducing the rep for questions significantly? Say 3 points for an upvote instead of 10?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T15:24:46.147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:24:46.147" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1442" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:41:58.103" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be just a small '+' and/or '-' sign next to each tag (depending on it already being in your favorite or ignore tags), which only become visible when you hover over the tag (like with voting or flagging comments), then it isn't intrusive and very easy to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:41:58.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-07-01T11:42:41.703" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question title says it all, really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... other user's post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... other users' posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common grammatical mistake, and one I wish I had enough rep to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T11:42:41.703" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1461" CreationDate="2009-07-01T12:03:37.223" Score="16" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I feel handicapped not being able to edit other people's posts here on Meta (and until recently could not even retag questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does our hard-earned reputation on SO not count in Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already a lot of questions that need editing, and there are practically no users (aside from the mods) that can do that at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25/should-users-edit-other-users-post-to-correct-grammar-and-spelling-problems&quot;&gt;should users be able to edit others' posts&lt;/a&gt; question itself contains so many spelling and grammatical errors that it's down right irritating not being able to edit it (on SO it would have been cleaned up in two seconds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should definitely be some conversion rate - or &lt;strong&gt;at least just carry over the privileges&lt;/strong&gt;, if not the rep itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:12:02.687" LastActivityDate="2010-09-02T18:38:56.947" Title="Should reputation from SO carry over to Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1451" CreationDate="2009-07-01T12:07:31.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Just because you are trusted by SO to ask and answer programming/software engineering questions doesn't mean you should be trusted by MSO to ask and answer SO questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T12:29:09.393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T12:29:09.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2009-07-01T12:13:49.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the thing is that people would not be searching for answers to questions that they have, but for the question that they have. So as long as the question contains the right wording and tags, they should be able to find what they are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your example, if I was looking for information on iPhone encryption, I wouldn't be searching on things like appstore, xor, or the other answer tags, but I would be searching on things like iPhone and encryption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that said, I think being able to have more than 5 tags on a question would help, as long as the tags didn't reflect the answers (because then you'd have people getting sent to questions that aren't about their question because of the tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T12:13:49.460" />
  <row Id="1454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1451" CreationDate="2009-07-01T12:14:43.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one way I want to say yes (Meta should be the combination of -all- your individual rep scores), but at the same time I realize that would not work either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has 1,000 rep on one site, 1,000 rep on another site, and 1,000 rep on the third site, that would make them have 3,000 rep, which is much greater in terms of privileges allowed by their normal usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thomas also makes the good point that your scores on the individual sites should not be taken as an indicator necessarily of how well you perform on Meta (the same as your score on SO doesn't factor into your score on SF).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T12:14:43.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1451" CreationDate="2009-07-01T12:43:05.803" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't buy into the whole &quot;trusted by SO and not by META&quot; line of thinking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which skills exactly are lacking in a SO user with 10K rep to justify not letting him edit on Meta? Privileges that come with rep are just a way of making sure you have enough experience and familiarity with the system before you interfere with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I honestly don't see the danger in letting high rep users from SO carry over their privileges to Meta. Can someone give an example of a reasonable scenario that demonstrates why a user might be trusted on SO but not trusted on Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T12:43:05.803" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1467" CreationDate="2009-07-01T13:37:28.870" Score="24" ViewCount="885" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please get rid of daily reputation limit, if not on SO.com, then at least on metaSO. On SO.com I can at least see both sides of the argument, but on metaSO the cap seems a bit useless. Let the active members of the community flourish here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T10:09:08.303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:36:21.630" Title="Please get rid of daily reputation limit" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="1467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T13:40:35.993" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. Between the inconsistencies in the rep limit being calculated over a daily basis (thanks to the differences in local vs. server time), and the inconsistencies that other users such as Cletus have pointed out previously, I think it is losing it's popularity (if it ever really had any). It is a serious demotivator for very active users who contribute a lot to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I and others have hit our rep limit early in the day and then completely stopped activity for the day, which cuts down the number of people who are willing to answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: As I mentioned in another comment, I am also a strong advocate of raising the rep limit to something more reasonable for super-active users such as 500 rep in a day if you aren't going to bother getting rid of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T13:51:57.993" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T13:51:57.993" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="1468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T13:43:31.930" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know for sure whether I'd support a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; removal of the cap, but I'd at least like to see it discussed. I'm still in favour of a per-post cap rather than a daily cap, personally. That way you don't get oodles of points for trivial posts, but a large effort across many posts would reap appropriate rewards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally agree that on Meta it makes very little sense indeed, but I suspect that it would be awkward (with the current code base) to have a per-site reputation algorithm. It &lt;em&gt;ought&lt;/em&gt; to be easily pluggable, but I would guess that the pluggability would have to be designed in from the start :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T13:43:31.930" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="1469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T13:43:46.063" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd add my vote for removing or raising (thanks to TheTXI) it here on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T13:49:56.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T13:49:56.033" />
  <row Id="1470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1377" CreationDate="2009-07-01T13:46:44.543" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps next to the tag box there could be a &quot;Help!&quot; button - it would display a little box with a short description about tagging, and some suggested tags..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The suggested tags would be generated by getting all the most used tags from the &quot;related questions&quot; (the ones displayed below the Title: input)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(From my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/593/proposed-tag-helpmetagthis/683#683&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://delicious.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt; has a similar feature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5092/delicioustagging.png&quot; alt=&quot;delicious' tagging system&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Recommended&quot; are tags I've used before, that other people have also used for the URL, &quot;Popular&quot; are ones I may have not used, but are the most common for the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;tags I've used before&quot; may be irrelevant for StackOverflow, but it's a good demonstration of how I think the tags could be presented (not auto-filling the Tags input, but suggesting them in a separate box, and adding the tag when you click it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T13:46:44.543" />
  <row Id="1471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1621" CreationDate="2009-07-01T13:51:50.397" Score="12" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so I wanted to ask this question about Hibernate and polymorphism, and before asking it I searched on Google, and lo and behold, there was already &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/979200/hibernate-polymorphism&quot;&gt;a question on SO about it&lt;/a&gt;. It's 3 weeks old and has never really been answered. What's the most appropriate way to &quot;bump&quot; it up to being higher up in the &quot;active&quot; list? I don't have an answer to it myself, and I'm not the OP so I don't want to edit the original post. And SO etiquette says I shouldn't ask a duplicate question. What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T09:38:33.257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T09:38:33.257" Title="etiquette: how to &quot;bump&quot; a question that's the same as the one you wanted to ask?" Tags="&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1471" CreationDate="2009-07-01T13:59:49.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; you could change a tag, then change it back to what it was. I don't think editing tags puts the question in danger of morphing to community wiki (I think just edits to the main body do that). Not sure if this would be &quot;appropriate&quot; etiquette, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T13:59:49.440" />
  <row Id="1474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1471" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:04:31.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I do is add something like this to the question (usually my own though):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- Shameless bump --&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way the question gets bumped but doesn't change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:04:31.503" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4525" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:07:32.853" Score="62" ViewCount="1315" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, you can get flair as HTML, Javascript, or JSON.  Let's say I'm extra-cautious of XSS vulnerabilities.  In that case the HTML and Javascript options are a no-no for me.  JSON is possible if I use a trusted parser, but it's still just basically giving me HTML stored in a JS variable.  A better option for me is a dynamically-generated image.  You could cache the generated image for some time (say, 30 minutes?) to cut down on server demand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: As pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;Kyle Cronin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/98786/rcar&quot;&gt;rcar&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1238/how-to-embed-stackoverflow-flair-in-a-wordpress-com-free-blog&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1238/…&lt;/a&gt;), a much greater need for this feature would be for use in sites which disallow iframes and scripting, for example when used as a sig on a forum, or when used on a blog hosted by wordpress.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3238/offer-additional-properties-to-json-flair&quot;&gt;Offer additional properties to JSON flair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-22T00:55:27.523" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T14:19:41.783" Title="Can we get flair as an image?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="15" />
  <row Id="1476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1475" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:13:24.493" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add to this, it would also allow the image to still work when SO is down for maintenance because the server serving the images could be entirely separate (and lightweight). I'd really like to see this too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:13:24.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1481" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:21:34.757" Score="28" ViewCount="567" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed quite a few questions cropping up on MetaSO (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1471/etiquette-how-to-bump-a-question-thats-the-same-as-the-one-you-wanted-to-ask&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1124/how-can-i-effectively-get-attention-to-round-two-of-a-question&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for example) concerning the desire to increase visibility for old questions that may not have any answers, or just not enough quality ones. If you want to bump a question that isn't your own, editing and answering it are two options. These options won't work if you don't have the Rep to edit posts from other users or if there is nothing to really add to the answers. Too much editing also summons the &quot;auto-wiki&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think there would be any benefit to having a quick and easy-to-use bump feature added to questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some implementation ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking of there being a link, maybe next to the edit/close/flag links, that each user could only use once per question. It would bump the question just as if it had been answered or edited. Once you use it, the link disappears for that question. It would also probably make sense to put a Rep limit on using the bump feature, so only more trusted SO users could bump things they felt were in need of more visibility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1477/feature-request-one-shot-bumps/1478#1478&quot;&gt;Jon's answer&lt;/a&gt;, there could be a limit like &quot;a question can only be bumped X times per month.&quot; The number of bumps left could be displayed next to the link. When they reach 0, the link disappears. After a month, it resets. This would allow a user to bump more than once, but avoid &quot;mass bumping&quot; from many users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1477/please-add-a-way-to-bump-questions-back-to-the-front-page/1481#1481&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;, the bumping mechanism could have a small Rep cost (1-5 points).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:27:44.203" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:27:44.203" Title="Please add a way to 'bump' questions back to the front page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:25:00.223" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once per question per user? If a different user sees the same question 6 months later, they ought to be able to bump it too, potentially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there ought to be a hard limit for the number of times a question can be bumped though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:25:00.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:26:26.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community user already bumps questions - Jeff would be able to give you the exact mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps rather than bumping the post directly the link should send a request to the Community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure on the limits though either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:26:26.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1475" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:26:32.933" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great idea. Someone might want to, say, display their flair in their signature of another forum, but for security reasons the forum won't let the user insert their own JS or iframes into the source of their page. However, most do allow linking of images, so this would work quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As an aside, neither method of embedding the flair works in the &quot;About Me&quot; section of profiles here, so this is not a theoretical limitation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:26:32.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:32:09.020" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a different idea: Allow for bumping by users, but they come with a cost of reputation to perform the action. I imagine this cost could be anywhere from 1-5 reputation points. This would ensure that bumping is done more for actually getting an answer than it is for potentially cheap rep-whoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:32:09.020" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="1482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:35:11.540" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally dislike people who link &quot;How to ask questions the smart way&quot; on Q&amp;amp;A sites and on IRC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One, it is off-putting to a new user who, upon reading the basic FAQs, finds a 20-page manual on how to ask questions the &quot;proper&quot; way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the main problem with HTAQTSW is it caters and is useful to no one.  Why is this?  Because the people who could use it most will never read it.  The people who ask poorly phrased, un-researched questions just aren't going to take the time to read a treatise on how to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; take the time to read it and understand it generally &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; ask questions of a higher caliber than most of the masses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while back Joel talked about &quot;How to ask questions the smart way&quot; on the podcast and I actually agreed with him on this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastEditorUserId="21960" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-19T01:10:58.893" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T01:10:58.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:34.610" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:35:18.513" Score="42" ViewCount="1310" Body="&lt;p&gt;The majority of questions are answered by say the top 200-500 users disproportionately moreso as you get closer to Jon Skeet :). Now while the ratio of &quot;askers&quot; to &quot;answerers&quot; is expected to favour &quot;askers&quot; I have to wonder if this has perhaps gone too far. It's at least raising as an issue to talk about I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started answering jQuery questions late last year. At the time there were quite a few of them, lots of simple ones and not all that many people answering them. This was useful to me as I used it to help learn jQuery. Real-world problems from programmers beat made-up problems from books, particularly in a forum where others will vote you up or down if you're right or wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it would be possible for someone to do that now. jQuery questions get jumped on like a feeding frenzy. It's not the only tag like that either. Between Jon Skeet, Marc Gravell and others, it'd be damned near impossible to get an answer in on any C# question unless you instantly know the answer and are lucky enough to see it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now while the efforts of those gusy should (rightly) be applauded I have to wonder at the long term effects. To borrow an analogy, it's like a handful of predators have been so successful in this ecosystem that they've crowded out every other predator to the point of near-extinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of those &quot;where is the next generation coming from?&quot; scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway I'm not saying it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a problem. Nor am I making a suggestion how to fix it if it needs fixing but I am curious to hear some other opinions on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:13:20.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" Title="Are power users creating a vacuum on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;future&gt;" AnswerCount="31" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="1484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:40:31.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I've been able to do to sort of mitigate the effects of super high users (although I am now well above the 10k threshold myself) was to focus on other tags which didn't get much attention such as Reporting Services. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that as technology moves forward, there is going to be new subject matter that comes around and allows for more users to jump into the fray and answer questions there. As hard as it may be to believe, I don't think Jon Skeet can truly be in all places at all times, so as the site opens up to more technologies, you'll see more users flocking to the areas that don't have the overpowering of the super users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:40:31.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:42:54.033" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; that the current crop of people answering jQuery/C#/Java/whatever questions would get bored and move on or specialize eventually, and others would take their place. I mean, how often can you explain a child selector before the fun goes out of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if by chance that &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; happen, then so what? A machine that never tires of answering newbie questions isn't such a bad thing to have around...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:42:54.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:43:28.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this relates to my anonymous poster idea. If you were just judging the answer on it's own merits then you might get an evening out effect. Unfortunately without running experiments I can't be sure about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been pointed out that it's sometimes nice to know that Jon Skeet (or other guru) is answering your question because you can have confidence in the answer almost before you read it. It's also true that the purpose of the site is to get good answers to problems and if the current mechanism provides them then there's nothing wrong with the current system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:43:28.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:44:58.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about this topic the other day - and wondering how it was anybody could ever get a Skeetian-Reputation with all of these monsters running around gobling up all the questions. But then I started thinking about duration, and the fact that old answers get up-votes, regardless how old they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start answering questions en-masse, your solutions will exist for all eternity! Anytime anybody finds one, you may get an up-vote. So in reality, if you have a massive base of solutions, and relatively-few accepted answers, you could still compete with those getting their solutions accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The summary, just keep solving other people's problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:44:58.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:45:27.507" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is much that can be done without alienating the current power users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There of course will be new tags that will be cold for a while and after some time will have users jumping on them (as per your analogy)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users will get discouraged by the rep count of the super users thinking that they will never achieve something like that. But I think the system isn't designed around getting the top spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In EVE Online skill training is done in real time. So a user that started when the game came out and has trained the whole time will always have higher skill points than you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the catch is that the gain he is getting past a certain point is minimal. And for you to get to a point where you are a viable opponent against him does not take a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies there. It's a brutal world, if you don't have the answers quickly someone else will answer them but you don't need that much rep to get some abilities on the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:45:27.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:47:23.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I (like theTXI) have been trying to do more commenting, editing, and answering on subjective or esoteric (xslt!) questions. No altruism involved at all, I'd just rather keep myself off the front-page of users when I'm trying to find a job - don't want to look like a slacker!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously that's not the SOP with the 200-500 you mention, but anecdotally I have to say I'm not sure I agree with your premise. I'd actually say that ultra-majestic-users (i.e. skeet and gravell) aside, it's the ~1000 rep users who make the bulk of answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:47:23.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:48:14.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick answers to questions? Yeah I'd say this is a good thing. The 'next generation' will be there when the Skeets of the world leave and/or move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can say, however, that I'm often discouraged from attempting to answer a question, because I assume someone quicker/smarter will get to it first. Whether this is good or bad - I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2039" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:48:14.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="715" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:48:27.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like jQuery-Notice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sandbox.timbenniks.com/projects/jquery-notice/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sandbox.timbenniks.com/projects/jquery-notice/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:48:27.607" />
  <row Id="1493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1497" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:51:51.173" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to have &lt;strong&gt;a way of showing me that my idea has been approved/disapproved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be also nice to know when the suggested improvement to SO will be in SO. For instance, to see how the suggested feature is going to be coded to the system would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be fair to give something back to the initial questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be interested to hear the development news about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1081/unable-to-find-unaccepted-answers-effectively&quot;&gt;better organizing tools in SO&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/738/unable-to-find-a-question-which-was-a-bounty&quot;&gt;second here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1110/unable-to-work-effectively-with-challenging-programming-problems-in-so&quot;&gt;4th site for challenging programming problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1149/to-put-syntax-highligthing-on-for-codes-in-comments&quot;&gt;inclined commenting system for codes in comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/570/editing-based-on-so-reputation/1119#1119&quot;&gt;development codes of syncing features in SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uncertainty makes predictions difficult. It also increases frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please, do not be ignorant. Please, show us that you are considering our ideas in your development group.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T02:19:06.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:19:06.410" ClosedDate="2009-07-03T02:19:10.170" Title="To have a way of showing the acceptance of an idea in meta SO" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1475" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:52:24.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something of an accessibility concern here with data presented as an image. That kills the idea for me, I'd rather access the data from an service and do my own flair if I was concerned by XSS here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:52:24.743" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:55:22.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the few times I agree with Rich B :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember the daily cap limit was intended to prevent runaway rep totals, but to be honest, even with the rep cap it's already happened. Just look at the first page of the user list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either the daily cap needs a bump to say 500 or 1000 or just removed. It seems a bit unfair that new users to SO who are contributing great answers are hobbled by the 200 pt daily limit with no real chance of catching up with the high scoring beta crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst rep isn't the be all and end all, it is nice to see those numbers going up. And as some others have said, once you hit the rep cap it's a bit of a disincentive to spend a proper amount of time on a particularly gnarly question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:55:22.147" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T14:57:47.553" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two separate problems here, and I think they need to be considered separately. I'm going to talk about it in terms of me (Jon Skeet) rather than in general, as it'll just make it easier to write. Feel free to chalk that up to arrogance if you want; a lot of it would still apply to many other high-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer will only address one issue - I'll look at the other in another answer, to make discussion easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can a new user compete with me?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the current rep cap limits, a new user would take a very long time to get near the top of reputation. Let's take a &quot;best case&quot; scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I decide to give up on SO completely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No-one ever votes on any of my posts again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new user is able to get 350 points per day (200 limit and then 10 accepted answers per day &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; hitting the limit, every day). 350 is a &quot;pretty good day&quot; for me. It happens reasonably often, but it's fairly tough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With my rep today, it would take that uber-user just over 7 months to catch up with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More realistically, I'm going to keep posting. Even if I drop my involvement significantly, I'd expect to get 200 a day fairly easily, partly due to old answers. At that point the new user is only gaining on me at a rate of 150 per day, and it will take them nearly a year and  a half to catch up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see that happening, basically - and the longer I keep going actively, the worse that's going to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off: is that a problem? I honestly don't know. Would I have been quite as active if I'd started late enough to see little realistic chance of getting to the top? Probably... but I can't honestly say for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some potential system-wide partial solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monthly rep league&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Periodic rep reset (say to Max(10000, CurrentRep) to avoid losing rights)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep decay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is the most appealing to me, and was a popular choice on UserVoice. You can see it now on a per-tag basis, but I'd still like to see it done on an holistic basis too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An individual solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I ask Jeff to somehow set my rep back to 1 without losing the existing answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That just punts the problem down to Marc, etc - the high rep users are going to be hard to catch until you get down quite a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts on this - including how important it is - are very welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right, on to the other topic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T14:57:47.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1493" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:01:01.773" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Jeff has stated that tags will be used to show issues that have been closed, accepted, rejected and completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:01:01.773" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:02:45.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of Aliens vs Predator. They should become Aliens :-)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joking aside: Farming rep is highly exaggerated. Then they can't compete with Jon Skeet, so what? As long as someone answers the questions. The only bad situation would be, if he is gone one day and no-one fills the gap. But how likely is that?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is a Q/A site, no rep farm. Reputation points is bonus, fun and used for moderation status. But really, please, don't drive it to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:02:45.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:04:55.290" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Second problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do I make it hard for other users to feel they're contributing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see that my frequent answers could be somewhat intimidating to some people. (If only they knew me in real life, I suspect that would make all the difference. I'm about the least intimidating person in the world.) There are competing demands here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want the best answer possible to be available&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want the questioner to get a good, accurate answer quickly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want other people to contribute too (and improve their own skills in doing so)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this smacks of arrogance - but I really &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; contribute an answer if I don't think it would add anything to what's already posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible personal solutions that I (and others) could apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stop posting entirely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't answer a question until it's 5 minutes old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't answer a question which already has a &quot;reasonably good&quot; answer (maybe just add comments suggesting improvements)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't answer &quot;easy&quot; questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm open to all of these things. I love answering questions, but I'd hate for that to become a &quot;net negative&quot; for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; the situation isn't actually so bad, and that really people &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; the idea of competing with me (and others like Marc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to note: it's pure coincidence and somewhat unfortunate that the two topics I know most about (C# and Java) are probably the biggest topics on Stack Overflow. I suspect if my languages of choice were Perl and Haskell, no-one would have heard of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:04:55.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="1500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1513" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:16:10.817" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since they are the same engine, I figured they would be running the same code base, just with different databases. However Meta is at svn revision 3813 while SO is at 3772, nearly 50 revisions behind. What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T10:00:48.190" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T10:00:48.190" Title="Why are SO and MSO at different SVN Revisions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;svn-revision&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:18:11.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt;!  I completely agree with editing posts for grammatical errors or to help the flow of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOWEVER&lt;/strong&gt;, editing a question to the point that the OP's question has been changed completely should not be acceptable behavior on SO.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:18:11.703" />
  <row Id="1503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:19:24.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took quite a while before I ever was interested in a question that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; had already answered. Mainly because I'm more interested in Perl, and he in C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:19:24.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:20:12.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I would suggest perhaps a sliding scale of rep cap rather than a single bump. As has been mentioned its meant to be about runaway totals. So it should probably start low that way you have to show a certain commitment of time to the site as well as &quot;knowledge&quot; before the site &quot;trusts you&quot; more. After all that was one of the primary purposes of the rep anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder how valuable the cap is after the user has passed 10k, unless the dev team plans to add more trusted access to even higher reps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps if the cap was removed after 10k John Skeet would have overflowed the counter on his account record :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3720" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:20:12.913" />
  <row Id="1505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:22:35.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people who don't ask questions the &quot;smart way&quot; are be the sames users who would never read such a document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prudent user (most users) would first observe and watch the site for awhile to get the &quot;lay of the land,&quot; then get their feet wet by answering a few simple questions... then ask their own questions when they are comfortable with the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, of course, no harm in writing such a &quot;how to&quot; document. It just wont actually solve any problems, assuming there is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:22:35.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:34.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:24:22.170" Score="3" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/468/other-language-localization&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/468/other-language-localization&lt;/a&gt; (and I'm sure others)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only speak one natural language, but can understand the frustration as-well-as appreciate the value of multiple languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a cloned SO at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.fr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.fr&lt;/a&gt; is a the wrong approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something more akin to the Wikipedia model, &lt;a href=&quot;http://fr.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fr.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; where all questions are reproduced and users can translate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions (and answers) move to a new language will become &lt;code&gt;community wiki&lt;/code&gt; and offer no reputation (however badges would be a fitting reward).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefits would run both ways, I'm sure there are many talented programmers in India and China who could add to and expand SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T15:27:03.743" Title="Wikipedia Style Localization" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;localization&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1506" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:27:32.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something more akin to the Wikipedia model, &lt;a href=&quot;http://fr.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fr.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; where all questions are reproduced and users can translate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the man hours needed to translate all the questions border on insane. Vs the rate of new questions asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:27:32.773" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1516" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:28:56.777" Score="6" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;616 people seem to have it, but I just met the stated conditions and remain badgeless and afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;relevant post &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1069470/how-to-get-my-submenus-to-disppear-after-a-certain-period-using-javascript/1069625#1069625&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if it matters (and you're allowed to view it)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T08:14:59.073" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:14:59.073" Title="&quot;Disciplined&quot; badge working?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;disciplined&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:30:10.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I compete with myself, not others. If the large reps are the issue (making it look impossible to compete), level them a bit... &lt;s&gt;or let us purchase some platinum badges at (say) 10k each...&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK - scratch the badge idea; but I'd be happy-ish with a rolling flatten/drain - perhaps elastic back towards 20k (so high rep users lose rep more quickly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T16:31:35.083" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:31:35.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1508" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:32:58.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How long has it been? It can take some time before the system awards it to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:32:58.827" />
  <row Id="1512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:38:26.537" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[I was going to post a question about this but, since it's already been asked here...]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we find a way to &lt;strong&gt;encourage a good behavior&lt;/strong&gt; (constantly improving posts) &lt;strong&gt;without the bad side effects&lt;/strong&gt; (&quot;owning&quot; the front page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a tinkering editor. I write, post, come back, update, clarify, reformat, rework, reword... sometimes days later or even weeks. I thought it was a good thing (to improve the quality of posts over time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;strong&gt;no idea&lt;/strong&gt; that this activity pushed my posts-- some say &quot;evily&quot;-- to the front page. That certainly wasn't my intention. I don't often use the &quot;active&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we need some sort of &quot;acceptable way&quot; to allow an encouraged behavior (refining posts) such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit causes bump &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; every -n- number of days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limit the number of times a message is bumped from editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't bump message unless &quot;significant&quot; content has been added (sounds difficult)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In my opinion, retagging should never bump a message (no content has been added)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADDED&lt;/strong&gt; - I like the &quot;no auto-bump on edit&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1477/feature-request-question-bumping/1481#1481&quot;&gt;idea&lt;/a&gt; from @TheTXI. There would be a &quot;bump this message to the top&quot; button in the message but it would cost reputation. That solves the problem for both editors and users who just want the message to be re-addressed for whatever reason. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T02:08:47.130" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T02:08:47.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1500" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:41:37.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meta announcement blog entry&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff noted that there'd be code-level differences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;bounties make little sense on a discussion site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;wording needs to be tweaked (i.e. questions-&gt;topics, answers-&gt;replies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;need to be able to follow questions/get notices of additional&#xA;  replies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;remove notion of community wiki, as discussion sites have a stronger sense&#xA;  of ownership, plus nothing will be&#xA;  off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those would require code changes rather than just database changes, since there aren't database switches you can throw (yet) to change the wording on the site or disable wiki across the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:41:37.480" />
  <row Id="1514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1500" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:47:03.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And SF is at 3773.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that there's no pressing need (no must-fix bugs or must-have feature) that's worth the downtime of an upgrade (or the effort of a minimal downtime upgrade).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the way SVN works, they could be identical checkouts, and someone's doing development on a branch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastEditorUserId="130206" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T15:59:15.893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:59:15.893" />
  <row Id="1515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1451" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:49:56.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anything, I think privileges should carry from MetaSO, to the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a high score here, then that means you want to make the system better. So then you are more likely to want to edit posts that could be better, but you may not be active enough on the other sites to be able to gain enough rep to fix those posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that one of my favorite things to do are to fix posts that aren't using Markdown effectively, or adding links to further information about those posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything having a higher score on MetaSO, than the other sites, means you are more likely to fix a post, than post yet another answer, that is slightly more accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was one &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/16549/network-equipment-console-cables/16827#16827&quot;&gt;question on ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;, that I would have added a link to the information the poster was referring to, but all I could do was to post a comment with a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:49:56.820" />
  <row Id="1516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1508" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:51:36.427" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, maybe Disciplined is broken, as it was last awarded &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20946?tab=recent&quot;&gt;over 2 weeks ago&lt;/a&gt;. Still, even though badges usually take maybe ~5 minutes, it's possible this is on an hourly or daily (or, perhaps, bi-weekly(!) cycle)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13018?tab=recent#sort-top&quot;&gt;you&lt;/a&gt; (along with 266 others) were just awarded it a few hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T14:23:41.817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:23:41.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:54:22.723" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is with all the Skeet-worshipping around SO? Isn't it a bit fanboyish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:54:22.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1508" CreationDate="2009-07-01T15:54:46.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the better question is: does the badge still make sense?  Do we really want to encourage people to delete something that at least three other users have found useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deletion of posts has become a rather discouraged practice in the time since SO was first launched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T15:54:46.840" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1520" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:09:37.960" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1038331&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which was changed by someone to community wiki. Strangely, not all of the answers were changed to wiki as well. The question never reached the 30 answer auto-wiki limit. Also time doesn't seem to be related as there is a mix of owned answers and wiki answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas on what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-11T04:27:01.537" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T04:27:01.537" Title="When a question converts to community wiki, what rules wiki the answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1519" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:12:20.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is converted to CW existing answers aren't. It will be up to the owners of the answers to go back and change the state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New answers will be CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or at least that's what I assume is happening from observation of the times it's happened to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:12:20.620" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:13:58.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First question was: &quot;What his offer over, under or matches the current going rate for StackOverflow.com?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no going rate.  The company is private, not a public company.  (And no, I have nothing to do with it, hahaha.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second question was: &quot;Also, was he just going to purchase a piece of StackOverflow.com or a piece of the whole SO, SF and SU business model?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would probably want to ask him that - I don't think he's monitoring this site for his name.  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:13:58.590" />
  <row Id="1523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:14:58.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the rep cap, it is extremely rare for me to answer more than four or five questions in a day. If I get a couple of easy questions, I'll cap out anyway--why should I hang around and try to snag any more easy ones? Let the new guys get them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am a representative sample, I think this is as strong an argument as any for keeping the rep cap in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:14:58.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1526" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:14:59.040" Score="74" ViewCount="915" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently picked up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/a&gt; badge, which I am damn pleased with.  It is a somewhat exclusive club with 354 badges thus far bestowed.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was earned mostly by cleaning up horribly formatted code blocks (no code block, using a quote block instead, evil fracking tabs, poor indentation consistency, etc.) and questions from struggling ESL folks who need bit of help.  That, and I've got some badge whore tendencies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, now that the S&amp;amp;W is in the bag, beyond being a good little SOpedian, what are my motives?  I still clean up questions, but not as much as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one?  &lt;strong&gt;Would a higher level S&amp;amp;W badge motivate SOpedians to continue S&amp;amp;W cleanups of SO?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="148310" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-09T08:01:19.513" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T08:01:19.513" Title="A higher level Strunk &amp; White badge? 1000 edits or such" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;editing-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="1525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:18:37.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you heard his 'This Week in Start-Ups' podcast? Content is good but it's way overproduced. Loud noises and themes all over the place which, when you listening via audio, is extremely annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this offer was serious, Stack Overflow and especially Superuser have massive potential they could dominate the 'Knowledge Exchange' market and I believe Calacanis is in that market. Might be worried about it as well as wanting to be part of the growth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more important question would be: Did Joel and Jeff accept?  I imagine they didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:18:37.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:20:30.493" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, brilliant idea Stu!  A &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; badge, awarded at 1000 edits, is what we should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T15:58:44.187" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:58:44.187" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:25:25.473" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a pretty good idea, but I think that we should limit it to edits to the content or title only, not to your own posts, and only edits that haven't been rolled back. I think after 1000 of those you deserve a gold badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:25:25.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:29:10.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[I know SO isn't only about reputation but, putting that asside for a moment...]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; changing the &quot;daily cap&quot; to a &quot;per-message cap.&quot; Here's why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may make &lt;strong&gt;no ultimate difference&lt;/strong&gt; in the reputation scores (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/35824-change-the-reputation-limit-algorithm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood said he tested it and it made no difference&lt;/a&gt;) but, since I have been a &quot;top-scoring&quot; user on meta.SO (&lt;em&gt;temporarily, I'm sure&lt;/em&gt;), I can see how per-day limits might provide a &lt;strong&gt;diminishing incentive to contribute&lt;/strong&gt; for some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a few &lt;em&gt;vaguely&lt;/em&gt; interesting questions (on meta.SO) which have pretty much maxed out my daily rep thereafter. I continue contributing but, &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; from a &lt;strong&gt;reputation-as-incentive point of view&lt;/strong&gt;, why bother? A few even-mildly good posts essentially &lt;strong&gt;&quot;cancels out&quot; anything else you contribute&lt;/strong&gt; to the site for some period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only imagine what someone who continually contributes top contents feels like. Jon Skeet could flat-out &lt;strong&gt;leave this site for months&lt;/strong&gt; and still have one of the &lt;strong&gt;fastest growing reputations&lt;/strong&gt; on the system. He's earned it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in the interest of rewarding someone's on-going contribution to the system, maybe the rep from a single post should max-out at some point, while a &lt;strong&gt;continuing contribution to the site is rewarded&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T17:52:31.457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:52:31.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="623" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:29:31.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a moderator should be able to mark one tag as a duplicate of another, and have the engine immediately retag any post which uses the duplicate, to be automatically edited to use the correct tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The engine should also hide all, user visible, trace of the dup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:29:31.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:29:59.610" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if Jeff's new necklace gives you a clue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bigtshop.com/items_images/1180148331hip%20hop%20iced%20out%20%24%20sign%20bling%20%20necklace.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe his new wheels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.streetdreams.org/wheels/dub/dub_pimpstar_light_chrome.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T21:18:00.230" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:18:00.230" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:30:47.893" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they should turn rep into stock options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:30:47.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1519" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:36:39.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one case in which SO behaves strangely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question is asked as non-wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less than 30 answers are posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is converted to wiki by the asker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question hits 30 answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... then the answers posted before the wiki-ing of the question are never auto-converted to wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If step 3 hadn't occurred, all answers would have been wikied.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If step 3 had been part of step 1 (i.e. the question had been originally asked as wiki), then all answers would have been wiki from the start.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But if step 3 occurs, then all answers posted before it occurs will never be wikified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/888224/what-is-your-longest-held-programming-assumption-that-turned-out-to-be-incorrect&quot;&gt;What is your longest-held programming assumption that turned out to be incorrect?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you scroll down, you'll see that even though there are more than 150 answers, some of the ones on the front page are not wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:36:39.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:45:43.020" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; get rid of the rep cap on SO.com. Here is another story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep cap on SO.com is &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;. It acts as a hint to limit yourself to a certain amount of time on the site each day. Of course you can stay as long as you like but the daily cap is a gentle hint that maybe you should be doing something else for awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would like however is some consistency with above-the-cap items (accepted answers, bounties, etc) such that whether they were above the cap or not wasn't a timing issue with whether you happened to be at or above the daily cap at the time they happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:45:43.020" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1539" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:50:24.197" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been pondering the idea of writing a book of kids and/or people new to programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, it is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would pose question on SO users and use the answer(s) in the book. I'm not planning on getting rich of this but after my costs who should get the money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:30:01.107" Title="Stackoverflow Book Royalties" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;business&gt;&lt;books&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:53:34.127" Score="3" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something I was doing the other day - working with .htaccess files - made me wonder where it would belong if I needed help - Stack Overflow or Server Fault. There might be some topics that fall in the middle, where they are of interest to programmers/developers, but it tends to be more on the IT side of the fence (database configurations are another good example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how should I go about deciding where to post a question? Should it be possible for me to use one site and cross-post (and gaining the rep on each side for that side's account, or for one to be forced into community wiki)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-05T19:25:02.167" LastActivityDate="2011-03-05T19:25:02.167" Title="Is it necessary to be able to cross-post between sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;&lt;cross-posting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1534" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:55:58.987" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming this is a serious question, you should keep the money you earn. Otherwise, you could try tracking down the individual users whose content you're including, but this is not necessary to be able to publish it - just make sure you follow the terms of the Creative Commons 2.5 license and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;properly attribute&lt;/a&gt; your content. You'll also have to license your book under Creative Commons as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:55:58.987" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1534" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:56:16.333" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you would have to release your book under the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution-Share Alike License. This is why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Share Alike — If you alter, transform,&#xA;  or build upon this work, you may&#xA;  distribute the resulting work only&#xA;  under the same or similar license to&#xA;  this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A book is a transformation (from digital to physical), I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I still think you MIGHT be able to sell your book. The Cathedral and The Bazaar is a book that is published, but also distributed under a free license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would consult a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T16:56:16.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1493" CreationDate="2009-07-01T16:57:28.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be fair to the developers, I think they have been &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; transparent their plans and thoughts about suggested features. They have provided frequent blog posts, weekly podcasts, and now set up (and heavily participated in) an &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; Q&amp;amp;A system to let us air our thoughts and feature suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can appreciate that there is &lt;strong&gt;a whole culture of people&lt;/strong&gt; here that feels so ingrained in Stack development. But I would hope that any features they add here would be geared towards improving the design of the Stack systems in general and not devote tons of time to building this site specifically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wherever possible, use the existing infrastructure you created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T17:16:03.977" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:16:03.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1534" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:06:15.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can%5FI%5Fstill%5Fmake%5Fmoney%5Ffrom%5Fa%5Fwork%5FI%5Fmake%5Favailable%5Funder%5Fa%5FCreative%5FCommons%5Flicenses.3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this FAQ item&lt;/a&gt; from the CC site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a snippet, please read the entire thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can I still make money from a work I make available under a Creative Commons licenses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Absolutely. Firstly, because our licenses are non-exclusive which means you are not tied down to only make a piece of your content available under a Creative Commons license; you can also enter into other revenue-generating licenses in relation to your work. One of our central goals is to encourage people to experiment with new ways to promote and market their work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Secondly, the noncommercial license option is an inventive tool designed to allow people to maximize the distribution of their works while keeping control of the commercial aspects of their copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as long as the license is not under a &quot;non commercial&quot; license option. Which I believe the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO license&lt;/a&gt; is under.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:06:15.437" />
  <row Id="1540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1534" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:06:33.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Pogue of the New York Times did something similar to this: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1579128270&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The World According to Twitter.&lt;/a&gt;&quot; I'm following him (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/pogue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@Pogue&lt;/a&gt;), and recall getting 10+ questions a day from him. He would ask his followers to rewrite a popular pun, or answer a question a particular way, and he would then pick from the responses which ones to include in his book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't expect to see any money going to the twitter'er'er's who provided the content :) They weren't completely left un-awarded though. Here's Pogue's page for them: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davidpogue.com/bio_photos/twitter_authors.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://davidpogue.com/bio_photos/twitter_authors.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said - I don't see anything wrong with taking the material, formatting it, organizing it, and selling your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T17:12:44.970" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:12:44.970" />
  <row Id="1541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1535" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:08:05.587" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, I would not do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post your question to the site you deem most appropriate, and the community will decide if it stays, or if it's migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sure hope the OpenID syncing between the sites will get better, so the questions aren't autmatically changed to community wiki, but migrated to your user account on the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:08:05.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49752" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:13:21.410" Score="14" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few bugs with the Rep graph on the user profile page that cause it to display a different value than the actual Rep for the user...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The +100 Rep bonus from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2092/ive-just-seen-my-rep-on-so-jump-by-100-is-this-due-to-a-rep-recalc/2094#2094&quot;&gt;associating accounts across sites&lt;/a&gt; does not appear on the Rep graph, making it display 100 less than the true user Rep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a bug I previously posted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/202436-bug-with-reputation-tracker-when-hit-with-offensive-penalty-100&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt; having to do with offensive penalties. From the UV post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I recently noticed a user (#82118) who&#xA;  made a joke that was not very well&#xA;  received and got hit with a -100&#xA;  penalty for offensiveness. They had&#xA;  already earned around 100 points from&#xA;  upvotes for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I looked at their reputation&#xA;  tracker on their profile, I noticed&#xA;  that the graph didn't agree with their&#xA;  reputation (the graph was much lower).&#xA;  Also, the list next to the graph&#xA;  showed &quot;0&quot; and &quot;-100&quot; next to the&#xA;  offending answer, instead of &quot;100-ish&quot;&#xA;  and &quot;-100&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It appears that the reputation tracker&#xA;  takes away all points earned AND&#xA;  subtracts 100, even though this is not&#xA;  what happens to the actual user&#xA;  reputation. The result is that the&#xA;  reputation tracker is below the actual&#xA;  reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T12:31:03.857" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T12:32:27.867" Title="Bugs with Profile Reputation Graph" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:14:54.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only good I can speak of the Cap is that when I hit it...I often times am less-distracted by SO throughout the rest of the day :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:14:54.213" />
  <row Id="1547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1543" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:24:14.833" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also noticed a bug in the rep graph. Here's a bug report I filed on UserVoice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look at the rep graph for this user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4857?tab=reputationhistory&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4857?tab=reputationhistory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the profile page says that the&#xA;  user has a rep of 286, the graph seems&#xA;  to indicate that the user has a rep of&#xA;  -747. Adding up the numbers on the table to the right of the graph, it&#xA;  would seem the user should have a rep&#xA;  on or around -730, leading me to&#xA;  suspect that the number in the profile&#xA;  is inaccurate. Unless the user has a&#xA;  large (~1000) source of rep that's not&#xA;  present in the table/graph, I suspect&#xA;  that this person has conned the system&#xA;  into creating more bounties than their&#xA;  rep should allow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/202716-user-rep-graph-shows-negative-rep&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/202716-user-rep-graph-shows-negative-rep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:24:14.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1535" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:34:23.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the not-programming-related tag on StackOverflow and you'll see that 90% of those questions aren't really borderline.  Most of them belong on superuser.com and the community has a bit of a derision toward those types of questions (Help me with my computer!) so they get closed rather quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My inclination is unless you are talking about computer HARDWARE, you likely won't be closed if you post on stackoverflow or serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, as fretje says, the community will decide!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:34:23.280" />
  <row Id="1550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:36:07.330" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SO, I think asking questions the smart way includes describing the problem as clearly as possible with the least amount of waste (keep it short and to the point).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Format your text into paragraphs so it isn't a big chunk of text and &lt;strong&gt;use bold&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;italics&lt;/em&gt; to highlight words and phrases that are important to the context.  Think of it as pre-highlighting the question.  I like to bold key issues in my problem (how do I capture the space key with the &lt;strong&gt;TextCompositionManager&lt;/strong&gt; since &lt;em&gt;I don't want to use the InputManager for this&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep your code simple, clear and well formatted.  This sucks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public static void Foo(GeneralizationManager _fmainP, TargetLinkDesignator _bLol){      &#xA;  using(new TransactionalGeneralizationManagerTorquer(new ContextualBrachinatrix(), Repository.GetLatestTransactionalContext())){&#xA;    foreach(InterstitialLink il in _bLol.Interstitials.Where(x =&amp;gt; x.IsInternationalized))&#xA;      //imagine this going on for thirty or more lines&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So reformat your code to emphasize your issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public static void Foo()&#xA;{&#xA;  using(new TransactionScope())&#xA;  {&#xA;    // how do I participate in this transaction?&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-read your question after submitting and change anything you think might be confusing or that doesn't make sense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, when someone asks for additional information, don't hesitate to edit your question.  Adding additional information in the question will bump it and make it likely that more people will read the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:36:07.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:34.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:49:52.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that while rep is an incentive to post, it can sometimes lead to &quot;SO fatigue&quot; as one tries to keep up. Some of us, hopefully, realise that it isn't about the rep and I think those are the ones that we really want to keep around anyway. The important aspect is that people respond to others with the answers they need and while it would be ideal if rep actually directly corresponded with the quality of a response in all cases, it never will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that as long as we're willing to recognise the abilities of those who contribute to the site, regardless of the rep they have acquired, then the site will always have a good amount of contributors. After all, I'd rather have 20 posters who each give one extremely good response than 1 poster who gives 20 mediocre ones, even if that means there are 20 guys at 5k rep instead of 1 at 50k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that isn't intended as a dig at those at the top - your answers are usually just the kind of quality we should have on the site and an example of how rep can indicate quality as well as contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Quality Votes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One potential balance could be to give reasons for up votes, like have an upvote for completeness, another for informative, another for formatting, etc etc. That way, your rep is a combination of different attributes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:49:52.557" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1506" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:51:33.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to disagree that a cloned SO at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.fr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.fr&lt;/a&gt; (with just a translated interface) is the wrong approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Chinese and Russian unauthorized clones have already been created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programmers like to hang out and discuss in their natural language.  If they didn't, those sites wouldn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But like Ólafur points out, translating the actual content of the site would be ridiculously time consuming for little to no value.  I'll put money down that a translation of the SO content site never actually spontaneously appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T17:51:33.737" />
  <row Id="1555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1558" CreationDate="2009-07-01T17:55:15.617" Score="12" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question and have seen others to which the best and most relevant answer (at least the one that solved my particular problem) is placed in the comments to the question as opposed to the answers:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/879608/asp-net-mvc-controller-parameter-not-being-gathered-from-form&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/879608/asp-net-mvc-controller-parameter-not-being-gathered-from-form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to recognize the commenter as the person who correctly answered the question, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. The only thing I could think of was to ask the commenter to repost his comment as an answer, but I cannot figure out a way to contact him. In the meantime the question is sitting unanswered and I am getting other &quot;answers&quot; (leading me to believe that people are not reading the comments and answers already posted before trying to answer it themselves).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are we supposed to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;Note, I don't want to accept the comment as an answer(I agree completely with the answers to this question that comments are comments and answers are answers and they should stay that way). I do wonder if there should be some way to contact people in a reasonable manner (comments on their profile that they must opt in to receiving in email?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T00:33:05.197" LastActivityDate="2011-05-01T22:00:11.660" Title="mark a comment as answer to a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:06:15.213" Score="8" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, we can edit a question to put in a link to related items, we can add a comment and we can suggest a duplicate when voting to close, however, I think it would be beneficial if there were a simpler way to attach links to a question to other links without closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I envisage a &quot;related question&quot; button or even &quot;related answer&quot; that allows you to link another post to the one you're viewing. While you can do this by editing the question, adding a comment, or posting an answer, I don't think these are necessarily appropriate when say linking old questions that are no longer editable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefit of such a feature would be that users would have a recognisable way of seeing related links, they could vote on the more useful related links (thereby indicating which ones provide better assistance with the question they are viewing), and the search facility of the site could utilise the link information to hopefully improve results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely convinced myself on this feature but I thought it was worthy of some discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To encourage discussion, I'd like to add that we should consider the opposite as well. As in, do all the different ways you can see related questions actually make it worse rather than better. Is there a way to reduce the methods into a consolidate system that is more useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T19:04:49.377" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T19:04:49.377" Title="Should there be a way to link questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;&lt;linked-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1555" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:07:08.083" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, no. When i leave a comment, i do so because i &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to leave a comment. If i'd wanted to answer, i'd have posted an answer... or edited an existing answer to include my suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's keep the two forms of communication separate...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T18:07:08.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1555" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:08:02.667" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, you can't, and this is by design, so I wouldn't expect it to change any time soon. If you want people to stop answering, you could always post an answer yourself that quotes the comment and mark it accepted. I'd also recommend upvoting the comment so that it sticks out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your comment about contacting other users, it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;been implemented&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T00:07:54.687" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T00:07:54.687" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1556" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:11:10.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a section on the right that lists possible related questions, matched by tags. Also, you can add a comment with a link to a related question, and as you said closing as a duplicate also puts a link to the questions it duplicates. Ultimately, I think this problem has been solved multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, with regard to related answers, I think that ultimately if two answers are related their respective authors (or those that can edit) should cross-pollinate with the missing information, rendering such a link, at best, vestigial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T18:11:10.833" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1563" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:21:46.393" Score="12" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the primary purpose of badges is to encourage contribution rather than discourage, perhaps we can have a Sidekick badge for those who have high-voted comments on say 50 or more accepted answers (or possibly, to widen the criteria, answers with 10 votes or more). Due to the narrow criteria, I would expect this to be a Gold or Silver badge, or perhaps, have different levels as in Nice Sidekick, Good Sidekick, and Great Sidekick as corollaries to the Answer and Question badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this badge would encourage users to contribute to the good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the name can change (to protect the innocent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:16:22.447" Title="&quot;Sidekick&quot; badge" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:26:33.730" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1560/sidekick-badge&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, I think we should have a Sidekick badge for those who frequently contribute to upvoted or accepted answers via comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T18:26:33.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T18:26:33.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1560" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:27:50.530" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think we need another badge or two that recognizes users contributing stellar comments, and I don't think that it should be limited to great answers. Surely a highly-voted comment on a mediocre or bad answer also deserves consideration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually surprised that I can only find &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/274#274&quot;&gt;one other&lt;/a&gt; suggested badge that deals with comment quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/reversal-and-pundit-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It looks like I've been heard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T17:16:22.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:16:22.447" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="971" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:41:33.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While moderator specific tags are a good idea, would new MetaSO-specific close reasons work better than (or at least in concert with) tagging? Closing as &quot;No longer relevant&quot; is a little vague, but closing as &quot;New feature declined&quot; or &quot;Bug fix completed&quot; is more informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T18:41:33.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T18:41:33.960" />
  <row Id="1569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1571" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:47:06.083" Score="10" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of questions are very generic, share an experience kind of questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, quite often I am interested in a specific answer that may not have gotten that many upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions also tend to elicit lots of responses so going back to find that answer somewhere in the middle of a sea of responses is a pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T19:35:33.933" Title="Is there any way to favorite / bookmark an answer?" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1679" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:47:32.587" Score="11" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the Stack Overflow data dump will occur monthy, it makes sense to be able to be notified about a new dump and download it. The current solution has been to post a link to the .torrent file &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on the blog&lt;/a&gt;, but this process requires manual intervention on the part of the producer and consumer of the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better solution would be to create an RSS feed that would automatically be updated after the end of every month. Many BitTorrent clients have the ability to automatically download from an RSS feed, which would be convenient for obtaining the latest dump automatically. I imagine a situation where as soon as a month is over a script runs on Stack Overflow to dump the data, compress it, create the .torrent, update the RSS feed. Within minutes users/servers across the world automatically see that there's an update and proceed to download, effortlessly creating a worldwide content distribution network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get started, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/bitTorrent.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's a site&lt;/a&gt; that describes how to create a valid BitTorrent RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T03:41:25.347" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T08:09:17.353" Title="Create a data dump RSS feed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1569" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:47:55.007" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can bookmark the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1569/is-there-any-way-to-favorite-bookmark-an-answer/1571#1571&quot;&gt;link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;v this thing here, just bookmark it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T18:47:55.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1569" CreationDate="2009-07-01T18:48:26.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest you can do within the Stack Overflow system is favorite the question and just remember what answer you were interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T18:48:26.237" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1579" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:10:19.100" Score="25" ViewCount="1084" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose of the tumbleweed badge? Why is asking questions no one answers or looks at a desirable accomplishment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:40:27.337" Title="What is the purpose of the tumbleweed badge?" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28119" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:10:19.100" Score="29" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing other users' posts, to reformat code or to clarify the meaning of a question, for example, I always return to the post, and refresh it, before submitting the changes to make sure that someone hasn't already made the same changes to the post whilst I have been editing it. I have found that this would be a particularly common scenario with the more popular questions, or questions that have unformatted code which several people may rush in to edit, for example, and it is unclear when editing the post whether changes have already been made by other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am proposing is that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When editing a post, you are notified if there have been any other edits by other users on the post, whilst you have been editing it, similar to the notification displayed in the bar at the top of the page when answering a question and other users post answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If other users &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; edited the post, have the option to load the most recent version, whereby further edits can be made if need be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would reduce the time wasted by others making changes to a post that have already been put into effect without their knowing, and also reduces the number of revisions on a post that are similar or the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;code&gt;dbr&lt;/code&gt; said, it wouldn't necessarily have to be a real-time notification.. Just &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; form of notification to help reduce duplicate edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T10:44:57.937" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T11:35:42.190" Title="Notifications for concurrent changes when editing posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:10:22.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep the limit.  That said, one of the happiest times of my day is when my SO rep. resets.  (How sad is that? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:10:22.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:11:35.713" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see it more as a consolation prize. No one looked at your question or answered it, so here's something to hold you over until you get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:11:35.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:19:26.863" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to remember SO is not about being a game.  It's not a &quot;competition&quot;.  I'm sorry some people see it that way.  It's about getting help to real developers who are out there doing real work and are stuck on a problem.  Changing the patterns of the &quot;power users&quot; (i.e. the users that answer quickly and correctly) would change the nature of the site and make it less of a resource for people.  You would see a reduction in the importance of the site and as a result a reduction in questions being asked.  The entire reason people ask questions is because of the quality and speed with which they get answers.  Messing with that formula would be a big mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're here for rep. or to treat it like a game, here's a game for you:  Answer a C# question faster and better than Jon, Marc, Jared and etc.  It's a game I play every day and it's damn fun.  But, it's also about getting real answers to real people doing real work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T21:15:11.080" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T21:15:11.080" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:40:30.667" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title is pretty descriptive, but as it suggests how much research do you do before asking a question on Stack Overflow, or Server Fault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to do research quite a lot into topics which I consider easily searchable such as questions about an API or something that is easily identifiable, has clear keywords and is a problem many people would have had. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that relate to something not working as expected, where code samples are needed I tend to ask right away. The main problem I can see occurring in SO is people ask the questions right away as the quality and speed of answers is so good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:26:10.220" Title="How much research do you do before asking a question?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1599" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:41:05.627" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anyone thinking about changing the color of various SO badges based on the number of people who achieve them?  Some examples as of today (1 July 2009):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disciplined (bronze) has been awarded 616 times vs. Good Answer (bronze) 4316&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enlightened (silver) 4114 vs. Self-Learner (bronze) 1614&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, Disciplined deserves to be upgraded to silver and Enlightened downgraded to bronze simply based on the award totals.  I think that periodically re-coloring the badges allows the system to reflect how easy/difficult it is &lt;strong&gt;in practice&lt;/strong&gt; to achieve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130126" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T19:19:58.813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:19:58.813" Title="Will any badges ever be re-colored?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1609" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:42:17.917" Score="2" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;For one thing, the whole deletion thing for questions and answers needs to be totally revamped, since it's beyond broken, but one thing at a time, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should be able to mark any closed question as &quot;this totally does not belong here, visible to the public&quot;, once I have enough reputation to do that (which I do on SO). There are some things that don't belong, and instead of waiting for a moderator, the community should be able to make things at least hidden from the public as soon as it's closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:34:35.697" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:34:35.697" Title="Why do I have to wait before nominating a question for deletion?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="1589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1587" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:44:34.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The caveat: by changing their color (i.e. worth), you will change people's desire to get them, reskewing the data again. For example, more people will probably start deleting their upvoted posts if you make &quot;Disciplined&quot; a silver badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:44:34.293" />
  <row Id="1590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1586" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:44:49.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do as much research as possible, because I don't like having to ask questions. (Maybe I should just get over it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:44:49.767" />
  <row Id="1591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1586" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:46:03.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I search my language docs, Google, and the proper site. If I find nothing after about an hour of looking (depending on how hard  the proper is - harder problems mean I look harder, obviously), I ask it because I figure it's only adding to the database of questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:46:03.603" />
  <row Id="1592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1587" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:46:30.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree a shift might be warranted based on real data of how difficult it is to achieve a certain badge. However, I would add that the badge and it's color adds incentive, so perhaps something like self-learner or some other bronze proving difficult is not something that should be overly encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:46:30.183" />
  <row Id="1593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1586" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:46:50.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a balance between doing as much research as possible and none at all. After all, the point of Stack Overflow for me is to save time without wasting the time of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to look in the books I have to hand, ask colleagues if I think they might know, and perform extensive Google, Bing, and other searches before I ask a question. However, even then, I sometimes discover the answer moments later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think people should be smacked down just because someone else found the answer by googling as web searches can be a fine art sometimes; any encouragement that can be given for someone to do better is more appropriate than discouragement, which usually leads to disenfranchisement. As the age old adage goes, it's easy when you know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:46:50.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:46:59.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose &quot;Hart Rules Your Head&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:46:59.403" />
  <row Id="1595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1588" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:49:25.030" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Assuming that the post deserves it, I think that for the large majority of questions simply closing them works fine. It will drift off the front page and eventually be forgotten. Now consider the converse - a post that might be borderline, but deserves to stay open. Even though many people may want the post to remain open, they can't express this until the post is closed (there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote-not-to-close-option-to-counter-the-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;request to change&lt;/a&gt; this behavior). Instead of letting people open it back up, those same closers may immediately delete the post. Now, unless you have 10k rep and either the URL or check the moderator tools, there's no way to find it and undelete/reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the 2-day waiting period is crucial to prevent abuse of close/delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:49:25.030" />
  <row Id="1596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:52:41.230" Score="9" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now there are simply the colors of Silver, Gold and Bronze to indicate the badges. I think there should be some sort of design like the Xbox 360 has for its achievements. You could still keep the colors by coloring the badge with Silver, Gold or Bronze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example would be like have an image of a mop or broom for the Clean Up badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2445" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T09:54:34.067" Title="Will the badges ever have a design to them instead of just having colors?" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;&lt;achievements&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="1597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1588" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:53:35.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Kyle.  You also want a new user to see that his question was closed, and why, instead of him just wondering &quot;What the heck happened to my question?!  I guess I'll ask it again...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:53:35.223" />
  <row Id="1598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1596" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:55:51.830" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give each badge it's own achievement icon?  I think it's a cool idea, but it's a lot of work.  I suspect that if Jeff was open to this, they'd solicit icons from the community (and not on a paid basis).  So if you really want this, I'd mock up a couple of icons and see if they like the look of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:55:51.830" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1587" CreationDate="2009-07-01T19:57:07.133" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem here is a misconception on what badges are for. I may be wrong but I believe badges are there to encourage good behaviour, rather than to be evenly awarded. It doesn't matter that a Silver one gets awarded more than a Bronze one, it matters that the appropriate behaviour is appropriately rewarded. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze levels indicate the level of desire for users to behave a certain way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T19:57:07.133" />
  <row Id="1600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:01:20.210" Score="9" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be a new level of badges added above gold, ie &lt;code&gt;Platinum&lt;/code&gt; badges?  My reasoning is that two questions on SO (the programmer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;cartoons&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one&quot;&gt;jokes&lt;/a&gt; questions) have greater than 100k views, and several others are well above the 10k view requirement for the &quot;Famous Question&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe SO should implement platinum badges, say for 250k views, getting 1k favorites or upvotes, things that are extremely rare but will happen eventually.  Since gold badges are so common now, I think it's fair to have some achievements that are extremely difficult to achieve.  What are your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  Maybe the things like view-counts and stuff aren't the best example for achieving platinum badges.  Maybe it would be best to reward extremely stellar contributions, but I just like the idea of having some super-rare achievements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T18:09:00.147" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T19:26:36.220" Title="Platinum Badges" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1596" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:02:20.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the icon-idea. A Wall-of-Achievements full of icons would be sweet :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:02:20.473" />
  <row Id="1602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1600" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:03:48.693" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you have to look at what the reasoning behind the badge is, what is the motivation for providing that badge? Are you encouraging better behavior on the site? I don't see badges as merely flair, but more goals that encourage better contributions and I'm not sure that a platinum badge for Awesome Answer or Godly Question is really going to do anything more than the existing gold badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="23234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T20:14:31.957" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:14:31.957" />
  <row Id="1603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1600" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:03:53.060" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, I think Platinum (or maybe Green Silicon, since Platinum would look like Silver) Badges are a good idea.  But I would put the bar very high, and instead of making them of the form &quot;Answer/Post a Thing with X Views/Favorites&quot;, make them more action oriented towards excellent behavior or contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Populist is a good example: Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along those lines, but slightly more difficult.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Authority - Lead a tag in Upvotes for 2 Months Straight&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hacker - Responsibly disclosed a security flaw in Stackoverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clean Sweep - 90% Accepted Answer ratio for a month, with at least 50 Answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T20:09:51.737" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:09:51.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1596" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:04:17.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my new vision for &quot;Tumbleweed&quot;, as per my comment &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1576/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-tumbleweed-badge/1579#1579&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/34754258_5006d2a967.jpg&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; height=&quot;256&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T20:45:19.187" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:45:19.187" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:05:05.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;An 'A' for the effort&quot; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:05:05.227" />
  <row Id="1607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1600" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:06:59.700" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eh... Do we really need to heap more rewards on that cartoon question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:06:59.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1600" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:08:23.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would make them gold badges with star, which would be easily extensible to gold badges with two stars, three stars,... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges with bronze/silver/gold versions could easily be extended by requiring 2.5-times the gold badge requirements for gold-with-star, 10-times for gold-with-2-stars, 25-times for three stars,...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:08:23.173" />
  <row Id="1609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1588" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:10:11.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand your frustration, but as Kyle and Tom note, the waiting period allows closing to be disputed and thus helps to prevent abuse. In situations where a post must be deleted faster, flag it: offensive and spam deletions are both automated and require no waiting period, while asking for moderator intervention can expedite the removal of inappropriate questions that don't fit into either of those categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:10:11.423" />
  <row Id="1610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50692" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:13:02.540" Score="50" ViewCount="5786" Body="&lt;p&gt;When will the Stack Overflow API be released and what should the community expect from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77429" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-20T21:47:30.033" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T10:57:14.153" Title="When will the Stack Overflow API be released?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="1615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1600" CreationDate="2009-07-01T20:43:50.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your example is a fun question. Probably only fun questions will reach this view count. Do you want to scatter fun questions all over SO, because they try to get that badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T20:43:50.110" />
  <row Id="1616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2009-07-01T21:10:10.843" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;code&gt;Skeet &amp;amp; White&lt;/code&gt;? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T21:10:10.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-07-01T21:35:39.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By choice, I have my e-mail/blog etc in my profile; but I've spent years on usenet etc, and this information is very easy to come by anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all the time on SO, I haven't been pestered. I've had 2, maybe 3 people asking me about a question - which I've either taken back to the site, or (in one case) pointed out that I was the editor, not the answerer - and that I couldn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion is that &lt;strong&gt;in terms of regular questions/answers&lt;/strong&gt; there isn't a huge demand for this; the only times I can see it being used are in the off-topic flames etc that start; and that isn't a good thing to encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I &lt;strong&gt;would&lt;/strong&gt; like to have a user-specific &lt;strong&gt;moderator&lt;/strong&gt; ability to add a message to a user, but that is because I sometimes need to get hold of people who haven't provided an e-mail address, to tell them why I've done something; or to &quot;cease and desist&quot; (kindly). But that isn't an issue for most users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T21:35:39.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2009-07-01T21:44:21.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;to get a song stuck in your head....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiSMyyj-Ac&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.youtube.com/vi/%5FUiSMyyj-Ac/default.jpg?h=60&amp;amp;w=80&amp;amp;sigh=%5F%5FVafS5ueiHTyqS9Q6btb%5FbxZ2-lw=&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T21:44:21.930" />
  <row Id="1620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T21:44:39.340" Score="8" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need meta tags to more easily describe our preferences.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Current mechanism (regular expressions) is not sufficient because related tags (semantic issue) don't have to have related names (syntax issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problems that would be solved by meta tags;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(...) If someone has set up&#xA;  their filter for say vs* and retag all&#xA;  vs2010 to visualstudio2010, they may&#xA;  lose their desired highlighting&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Nathan Koop on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354/batch-retagging&quot;&gt;Batch retagging?&lt;/a&gt; proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[UPDATE]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Meta tag is a collection of normal tags and multi tags like c++*. In every context a normal tag can be used meta tag can be used as well. Every time an operation on meta tag is being performed it gets replaced with all normal tags it denotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-04T18:50:38.183" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T18:50:38.183" Title="We need meta tags to be able to organize and search tags easily" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1471" CreationDate="2009-07-01T21:52:43.720" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit the question and make it better - even if you just go through and fix a few typos, improve formatting a little, or make the title more descriptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of doing a &quot;null edit&quot; where nothing really changes, or editing a tag for the sake of editing a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better question is more likely to be answered, so spending a bit of time improving it (less than if you had to write the question from scratch) is to every-ones benefit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T21:52:43.720" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T21:57:48.373" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an observable usage pattern with StackOverflow that people monitor the newest questions and answer only them. So after the initial flurry there is very little activity on a question. Generally that is fine, but some types of questions have answers that change over time (what framework is available for X, for example), or might have better answers if got the attention of the newer members of the community who weren't around when it was first asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with asking a new question is that it very quickly gets closed as a duplicate. So perhaps there should be a way to resurrect old questions. The most obvious way would be to have a question closed as a duplicate cause the duplicate to become new again (with perhaps some exceptions based on number of votes on answers, or the number of answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another might to allow someone with sufficient reputation to resurrect a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T00:31:29.983" Title="How can we solve the &quot;freshest questions get looked at only&quot; problem?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1622" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:00:23.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most obvious way would be to have a question closed as a duplicate cause the duplicate to become new again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the current implementation of bumping, then this would cause two questions to be bumped on each close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another might to allow someone with sufficient reputation to resurrect a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't gone, just back of the pile. And if it's a common issue it's going to get a lot of views through google. (which amounts for 90% of the site's traffic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:00:23.903" />
  <row Id="1624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1622" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:04:07.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was another recent suggestion concerning bumping topics and I had the idea of charging reputation to bump a topic back to the top of the active list. Granted this won't do a whole if people monitor the new questions only list. But I will say this, if I am going to watch the new questions list, I want to see new questions, not resurrected old ones. That's why I watch the new questions list and not the active list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You aren't really going to be able to legislate how someone uses the site and what questions they care to look at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:04:07.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1577" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:06:31.207" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I've ever encountered this problem, but overwriting someone elses work is pretty crappy, and should be prevented..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could steal the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit%5Fconflict&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia method of resolving edit conflicts&lt;/a&gt; - if a question is modified since the user started clicked edit, when they click save it shows both versions side-by-side, and allows the user to manually merge them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty simple to implement, all you need is a hidden form &lt;code&gt;edit_start_time&lt;/code&gt;, which you compare to the questions &lt;code&gt;last_modified_time&lt;/code&gt; when the user clicks save, and a page which shows the markdown from the other user and the WMD box with the current users edit. A diff would be nice, too (since the framework is obviously there for the edit-history)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding another polling-for-activity feature seems like it would a lot of unnecessary strain on the server - I definitely think it's justified for new answers, but for edits it seems overkill (as I said, I don't think I've encountered the problem before)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:06:31.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1620" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:07:37.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How often do tags get renamed?  Have you actually ran into this problem more than once?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not really clear what exactly a &quot;meta&quot; tag is from your question either.  Can you explain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-01T22:16:36.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:16:36.843" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:15:02.277" Score="82" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great Voter&lt;/strong&gt; — For voting 3000 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Electorate&lt;/strong&gt; — For voting 30000 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic currency of the Stack Overflow is reputation earned by votes. To encourage the reputation system to function, we should encourage more upvoting by the silent majority.&#xA;Currently there is only one badge called Civic Duty for voting 300 times. Why not expand this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-08T08:58:36.253" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T08:58:36.253" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T22:15:02.277" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1620" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:19:21.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a way to write OR queries. Just put &quot;or&quot; between the tags: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vs2010%20or%20visualstudio2010&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vs2010%20or%20visualstudio2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem solved...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:19:21.440" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1600" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:22:20.840" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Come on!  Like it's not expensive enough now with all the gold badges, and silver badges, and bronze badges we're minting over here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sheesh.  I had to drive an armored car over to Jon Skeet's house just to deliver them to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the air freight charges, don't even start!  Not only that but UPS has been telling me that some of the badges are getting lost!  No one has emailed me yet about their badges not arriving so maybe they're wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:22:20.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:22:58.670" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Controversy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question or answer voted up and down at least x times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:22:58.670" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T22:22:58.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:30:43.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would just makes answering more work..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the answers contain the appropriate words, like &lt;code&gt;sqlite&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;XOR&lt;/code&gt;, it'll show up in searches anyway..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:30:43.660" />
  <row Id="1632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:32:58.070" Score="1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post memorable or interesting SO questions for this week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:02:32.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T22:32:58.070" Title="Weekly Interesting Question 6/29-7/3" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:34:36.270" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prison Tattoo&lt;/strong&gt; — For going into &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt; more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:34:36.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T22:34:36.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1632" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:39:34.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1071596/cant-cast-integer-to-char-in-char-array&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1071596/cant-cast-integer-to-char-in-char-array&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: New guy getting to understand the difference between the integer 1 and the character '1'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:39:34.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T22:39:34.573" />
  <row Id="1635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1632" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:42:18.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1064325/why-not-use-pointers-for-everything-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1064325/why-not-use-pointers-for-everything-in-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: Guy asking why he shouldn't just use the heap instead of the stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why its interesting?: The top answer taught me a lot about memory management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:42:18.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T22:42:18.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1555" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:46:17.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A comment's a comment, not an answer. Allowing these to be &quot;accepted&quot; destroys a big part of the SO concept, which is the ability for others to edit an answer and make it better, or keep it up to date (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Learning from Stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a great comment you want to accept, I would (and have) added a comment saying &quot;@Bob: Correct! Could you please post your comment as an answer so I can accept it?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no response in a day or seven, you could post it yourself (community-wiki'd) and accept that (albeit after 48 hours). It can always be deleted when the comment'er posts their own answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:46:17.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:50:54.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without people trying to post good answers, and others trying to outdo them, the tool that is StackOverflow would cease to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without people to &quot;compete&quot; with, the MMORPG named StackOverflow would cease to be fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:50:54.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2009-07-01T22:58:48.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this happening.. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/101#101&quot;&gt;&quot;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Badges are supposed to incite curiosity about why the badge exists and what you did that caused you to earn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I've said umpteen zillion times, this is based on the Xbox 360 Achievements model. You see the achievement flash on screen..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.xbox365.com/gdb/images/GGGruGdPLG04221653/Xbox%5F360%5F366%5F500.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.. and then you go figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing &quot;you are __% close to this badge&quot; kind of ruins the fun/surprise..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data-dump&lt;/a&gt; if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T22:58:48.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1632" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:02:32.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068725/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-word-append-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068725/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-word-append-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one really annoyed me, this person has been leaching off the site, and 7 upvotes were given to the community explaining the word append. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it interesting because of the social aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:02:32.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-01T23:02:32.430" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:06:11.030" Score="3" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at this answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068191/xcode-whats-up-with-the-nib-xib/1071737#1071737&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068191/xcode-whats-up-with-the-nib-xib/1071737#1071737&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the bolds works, and the other one just turns up as ** in the actual post. However, the bold is correctly applied in the preview of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the string that isn't working: &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt;ml n**ib**&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:05:57.127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:05:57.127" ClosedDate="2009-07-02T02:23:49.230" Title="Bug: bolding with ** isn't working properly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1643" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:10:52.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;xml n &lt;strong&gt;ib&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;xml n**ib**&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;xml &lt;strong&gt;nib&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it doesn't work when bolding partial words, which at times could be useful if you ever need to use ** inside another word sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unclear which would be better in this case, stats on how often ** is used? :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a**b**c&#xA;ab**c**&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;abc&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:10:52.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1242" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:13:41.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what happens when you try to make standard HTML form tags into something fancier!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to just hit escape before tab'ing to the &quot;post question&quot; button.. It cancels the tag auto-completion if it's open, and doesn't break anything if not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:13:41.997" />
  <row Id="1646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1643" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:18:21.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A failing in the markdown parser.  It starts a bold if the bold tag starts on a word boundary, but not inside a word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt;ml n**IB**&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it works in the preview box correctly, so the javascript parser is correct, the server side one is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:18:21.173" />
  <row Id="1647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1620" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:18:29.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a problem, nor is there an obvious fix for this..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say the Batch Retag option does get implemented, and the &lt;code&gt;vs2010&lt;/code&gt; is changed to &lt;code&gt;visualstudio2010&lt;/code&gt;.. When you are browsing StackOverflow and you notice none of the Visual Studio questions are being highlighted, you look at the tags and realise it's not tagged as &lt;code&gt;vs2010&lt;/code&gt; but rather the more verbose name, update your filters and it's fixed for ever more..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose one partial solution would be to update users interests/ignores when a batch-retag happens, but this obviously wouldn't work with wildcards, and is so easily fixed by the user it's hardly worth the effort!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:18:29.940" />
  <row Id="1648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1596" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:21:03.040" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're going to start shipping physical badges soon.  Update your profile with your address and your solid gold, solid silver, and solid bronze badges will arrive in the mail in 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:21:03.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16617" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:23:40.053" Score="7" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;For whatever reason, I tried to search using a tag containing an asterix &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; - instead of returning no results, it returns an entirely blank page. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that any URL containing an asterisk will return a &lt;code&gt;400: Bad Request&lt;/code&gt; and an entirely blank page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing happens if you go to and URL ending in &lt;code&gt;.config&lt;/code&gt; (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax/4366#4366&quot;&gt;Brad Gilbert pointed out here&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.config&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T08:58:17.770" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T09:54:59.737" Title="Searching for a tag containing * breaks the site" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="1650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1586" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:26:10.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often only do a basic googling and if I don't find an answer or don't understand an answer I do I a search on stackoverflow. If my problem is solved I upvote question and good answer and go on working. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the problem is not resolved I begin to write the question and look at the questions stackoverflow relates to my question. If my problem is not resolved then I ask the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this goes very fast and means to add some very easy questions to stackoverflow like how to access the last list element in python. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if the answer is not on stackoverflow and some programmer could be interested in it too then it is worth asking the question to improve the quality of data that is available on stackoverflow. If it isn't interesting at all nobody will upvote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:26:10.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:35:14.550" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are problems with code-prettify,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this [^\s&amp;gt;/] == &quot;example&quot; # is highlighted as a regex, not a comment, 1 / 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..but it mostly does a really good job&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no good solution to this, Markdown does not provide a way to specify what language a code-block is (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), so StackOverflow would need to implement their own way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I've modified a markdown parser to look for a special first-line, something like..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{{language:python}}&#xA;import os&#xA;print os.listdir()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usability problem then is, there's no way to know which languages are supported, or how I should specify say, Visual Basic .NET - should it be &lt;code&gt;visualbasicnet&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;visual-basic.net&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;vb.net&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;vbnet&lt;/code&gt;, etc..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose this could be overcome by making the code-block button ask for a language (or maybe add second specific-language-code button), but then the site isn't using Markdown anymore, it's using StackOverflows own non-standard version..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T18:06:35.640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:06:35.640" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1654" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:47:52.040" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we have the ability to rollback our own edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? I just edited my own question slightly too hastily, realised I had been stupid, went to click &quot;Rollback&quot;, and realised the button wasn't there, so I had to manually undo the edit..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would be confusing UI-wise, although I guess &quot;Rollback&quot; could be thought of as the &quot;Why did someone touch my stuff! Undo!&quot; button..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:02:18.720" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:02:18.720" Title="Rollback own edit?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:50:09.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reason is if a question has no answers for a week, it must be pretty hard question! If it was just a crappy question/spam/etc, chances are it would be closed within a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, or it's the the engines way of saying &quot;Sorry, I couldn't get you an answer. Please forgive me :(&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:50:09.817" />
  <row Id="1654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1652" CreationDate="2009-07-01T23:51:30.597" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do that already actually: if you are editing your question, you can select another revision in the upper drop down. This way you can easily rollback to previous revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-01T23:51:30.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T00:03:33.827" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of each question you can now ask to be notified via email if answer are posted. What I would prefer is a tracking page that is like recent but show these question that are being tracked in a page in my user profile. Like the info but not a big fan of the email option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32958" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:05:09.073" Title="Tracking page in user profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;&lt;notify&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="194" CreationDate="2009-07-02T00:08:46.980" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has now happened... briefly. He's already slipped back down to 4th place. Hopefully when he &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/555/why-does-jon-skeet-never-sleep/566#566&quot;&gt;wakes up&lt;/a&gt; he can retake the lead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/h2tX3.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/h2tX3.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T00:44:44.230" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T00:44:44.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T00:28:26.310" Score="154" ViewCount="886" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes (like today) I see that an answer of mine that had been accepted is no longer the accepted answer. Thing is, I have absolutely no idea which one and I'd really like to see which one to satisfy my curiosity. Please add that to recent history or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T21:26:27.477" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T21:26:27.477" Title="Please show us when we lose an accepted answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="14" />
  <row Id="1660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1622" CreationDate="2009-07-02T00:31:29.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The obvious solution to this problem is to get rid of the Newest Questions view. Now I'm saying we should do that but it's clear to me that's what most people look at. New questions get the most vote activity. Far fewer people look at the home page (but they do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps make Newest Questions a higher-rep privilege?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T00:31:29.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1667" CreationDate="2009-07-02T00:35:29.803" Score="39" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a SO newbie with no rep points who just got his 1st question answered (John Saunders - thanks!).  I tried to upvote the answer, but get a popup that says I don't have enough rep points yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand the basic principle - give people incentives to &quot;give back&quot; to the community, so I have no problem with restricted privileges at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But...IT'S MY QUESTION!  Who's in a better position to judge if it's a good answer or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: One of the answers to the Meta Stack Overflow question &quot;Why don’t people upvote questions they answer&quot; implies I should have been able to upvote in this instance, but I can't.  Change in policy?  Bug in the code?)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102554" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T23:05:03.673" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T17:24:41.700" Title="Shouldn't a rep-less newbie at least be able to upvote a good answer to his/her own questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;privileges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1697" CreationDate="2009-07-02T00:39:51.477" Score="40" ViewCount="614" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clear people vote on fun questions differently to &quot;real&quot; questions. Arguably this should even apply to programming-related CW questions too. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630602/what-made-programming-easier-in-the-last-couple-of-years/630622#630622&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; gets a gold Great Answer badge. Seriously? Such questions are basically polls so badges are handed out like candy. IMHO this diminishes their value greatly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost SO is a Q&amp;amp;A site for programming questions, not wedding cakes and Dilbert cartoons. A certain number of fun questions should be tolerated but programming questions should be the ones rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T09:04:42.173" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T09:06:00.927" Title="Please remove badges from &quot;fun&quot; questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;off-topic&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1661" CreationDate="2009-07-02T00:41:08.183" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've already changed it so a newbie can comment on their own question, which is a good change. This seems like a natural extension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one reason why when I see a newbie ask any kind of real question I'll pretty much always upvote it to get them to the point where they can vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T00:41:08.183" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1656" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:05:09.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/32958&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/32958&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that not do it for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:05:09.073" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:12:29.353" Score="0" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a badge for &quot;heroes&quot; and a hero nomination system. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8815/peter-bailey&quot;&gt;Peter Bailey&lt;/a&gt; inspired this with all his help on obscure JavaScript questions that no one else helped answer (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1059574/javascript-event-not-being-set-correctly-in-closure-when-called-cross-frame/1059902#1059902&quot;&gt;cross frame event handling in IE&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;strong&gt;The idea doesn't need to be a badge&lt;/strong&gt;, but it'd be nice to be able to give more personal feedback than an upvote and an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T01:32:08.197" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T01:32:08.197" Title="Can we give a badge to heroes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="1666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:16:16.457" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never been comfortable with badges being earned from the &quot;fun&quot; questions, but &lt;strong&gt;I have never been able to come up with a way to prevent it that makes sense and doesn't create HUGE windows for abuse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any good ideas on this that can't be gamed or abused, please reply (as an answer! not as a comment!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is effectively completed through our sister site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://programmers.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;. It's for softer programming issues that may or may not involve source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare FAQs, just the first few paragraphs will do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T09:06:00.927" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T09:06:00.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1661" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:17:35.457" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a rep-less newbie, you've not yet earned the site's trust. Fortunately, it's not hard: ask a good question or post a good answer, and you'll quickly have that ability - all it takes is two up-votes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the author of a question, the site does grant you one special ability: you can mark an answer as &quot;accepted&quot;, proclaiming to the world that it helped you solve your problem. IMHO, this is actually quite a bit more helpful than merely being able to up-vote: once a question has an Accepted answer, passing readers are able to read that answer knowing that it actually worked, and thereby better understand your problem. Not to mention the little bit of satisfaction it can give to the kind author of that answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So be patient, new user! You'll be able to up-vote soon enough. Until then, exercise the abilities that you do have to their full extent!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:17:35.457" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1643" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:19:17.620" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a workaround, you could use &quot;&lt;code&gt;**x**ml n&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;ib&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot;: &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt;ml n&lt;b&gt;ib&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:19:17.620" />
  <row Id="1669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1643" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:23:17.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;THIS IS NOT A BUG.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;THIS IS BY DESIGN.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It becomes very difficult to talk about code when&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;your_variable_names_are_suddenly_underlined&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Intra-word emphasis is a bad idea and we have &lt;strong&gt;EXPLICITLY&lt;/strong&gt; disabled it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Markdown’s single biggest flaw is its intra-word emphasis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don’t think anybody writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;un*fricking*believable&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;often enough to justify making it nearly impossible to talk about tokens with underscores in them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;some_file_name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is interpreted as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;some&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;file&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It even works across word boundaries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;file_one and file_two&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;file&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;one and file&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; two&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever you’re writing tokens with underscores you have to make absolutely sure you’re in a backtick-delimited code span. The same problem will also nail you on equations like a*b*c, but that seems to pop up less frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Showdown follows the reference implementation on all this, but in WMD I do a little preprocessing to hack the idiocy away: basically I just backslash-escape any underscores or asterisks that might trigger it. It’s a flagrant violation of the standard, but since it’s a pre-pass that should produce identical output with any Markdown processor, I feel justified. Unfortunately my hack did screw up one edge case (which I don’t have in front of me) and there isn’t any way to disable it. Both those things will change in the next release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:23:17.890" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1649" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:25:59.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has never been supported, so you're describing a bug in a &quot;feature&quot; that doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:25:59.850" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1726" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:38:41.380" Score="14" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upon reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1649/searching-for-the-tag-status-breaks&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, i was intrigued - i'd never realized that such a feature existed on SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that was because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1649/searching-for-the-tag-status-breaks/1671#1671&quot;&gt;it didn't exist on SO&lt;/a&gt;. But, come on - it'd be cool, right? After all, everyone loves wildcards! And when i'm in a hurry, i'd rather just type &lt;code&gt;singular-tag*&lt;/code&gt; than bother looking it up to see if perhaps the plural form has more questions attached...tes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T12:15:43.133" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T21:41:12.667" Title="Please allow wildcards in tag searches" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;wildcards&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="1674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:46:16.477" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are all awarded programatically - this doesn't sound like something StackOverflow could determine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to personally thank someone, leave them a comment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:46:16.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:46:27.587" Score="3" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought I would have this badge by now, but perhaps I didn't visit the site one day. Or perhaps I don't understand the meaning of &quot;visit&quot;. The description for this badge says &quot;Visited the site each day for 30 days.&quot; How do you trigger a &quot;visit&quot;? Do you have to ask or answer a question? Vote? Leave a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="164446" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-25T20:09:30.827" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T20:09:30.827" Title="How do you earn the Enthusiast badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:50:00.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All you need to do is visit at least once a day, every day for 30 consecutive days. To make sure you get the badge, ensure that you're logged in to Stack Overflow (or Server Fault, as your case may be). It's also worth noting that a new day begins at 0:00 UTC, which is 20:00 (or 8:00 PM) EDT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:50:00.353" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1570" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:50:16.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We'll just have a category in WordPress and you can subscribe to that category post feed if you want to be notified when new data dumps are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RSS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/feed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/feed/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also note that we are now hosted on Legal Torrents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legaltorrents.com/creators/146-stack-overflow-data-dump&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.legaltorrents.com/creators/146-stack-overflow-data-dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They might have RSS feeds as well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T08:09:17.353" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T08:09:17.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="552" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:51:02.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a limit on the amount of points a person can lose on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10026" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T02:51:02.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1681" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:00:46.333" Score="3" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is my gravatar on Meta Stack Overflow different than my gravatar on Stack Overflow? My profiles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/10026/ykaganovich&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/10026/ykaganovich&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10026/ykaganovich&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10026/ykaganovich&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't seem right....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10026" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T20:07:20.497" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T20:07:20.497" Title="Why is my gravatar on Meta Stack Overflow different from my gravatar on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:04:35.607" Score="13" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a.. 3.9% colour difference between the background of code and the default answer background (245 vs 255) - could this be made a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; easier to see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For code it's not too big a problem, it stands out due to the syntax highlighting.. but block-quotes (someone elses words most likely) look very similar to the rest of the question, aside from a slight indentation..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a subtle border would help?:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6396/picture9gbw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Quote with border&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; The way SuperUser does this is great, could it be extended to the other sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/9476/sublocks.png&quot; alt=&quot;Block quote and code on SuperUser&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T09:42:24.543" LastActivityDate="2010-07-05T14:57:03.253" Title="Increase contrast of block-quote/code-block?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:09:07.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say add a second level of &quot;special tags&quot; that only &gt;10K users can &lt;em&gt;remove&lt;/em&gt;. So questions can be tagged as &quot;fun&quot; by the OP or the community and badges can be suppressed from those posts. If the tag is added incorrectly, there's still opportunity for the more involved members to correct it - even via the flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's nice about this solution is it would also work for meta.SO for special status flags &quot;completed&quot;, &quot;decline&quot;, etc. to help mimic the UV platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140229" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:09:07.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1681" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:11:13.487" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to control your icon, you will first need to provide an email address to both sites (I can't speak for Stack Overflow, but we don't have one on file for you here on Meta). Then all you need to do is set up an account on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt; and link your email address to the image that you want to use as your icon here and on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:11:13.487" />
  <row Id="1685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:19:49.050" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ways that propose this is done (and I like the idea):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow messaging only after a certain amount of reputation is acquired. This is to stop a million new users messaging Jon Skeet. But, if Jon Skeet messaged a person with 1 rep, they could respond.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow users to opt out of messaging, and/or set a &quot;reputation threshold&quot;. If a users reputation threshold is X, then only users with reputation &gt; X can message them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think private messaging would be a great feature. There are plenty of times I want to take a conversation (going on in comments) offline. Also, I have gotten to know/recognize some users as I have used stack overflow because these people post on the same posts I do. It would be nice to be able to recommend posts to people because they might be interested in reading the question or would have good input. I am not inclined to put my personal email on stack overflow, so having an integrated messaging system would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if people don't want to have messaging supported, it would be nice even to just have &quot;question recommendations&quot;. Just something that lets you say to another user &quot;hey, have a look at this question, you might really like it!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:19:49.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="96" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:22:17.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to have a link to the meta.SO question too so we can jump to the meta discussion and post answers there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140229" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:22:17.420" />
  <row Id="1687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:22:21.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow... I'd love to earn 1500 rep off of a single answer that's two words long.  That's more rep than I have total right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5982" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:22:21.400" />
  <row Id="1690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1691" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:32:52.980" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a post has been edited, you can go into the revision list, and click &quot;View Source&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post has not been edited (and I don't have the edit privilege) is there any way to see the raw markdown..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask I because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view/1246#1246&quot;&gt;&quot;Preview should match the posted view&quot;&lt;/a&gt; - it's impossible to see the source markdown, and how it's different from the rendered Markdown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not exactly a huge issue, just curious!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:36:40.007" Title="Can I view the Markdown-source of an unedited question/answer?" Tags="&lt;editing&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1690" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:36:40.007" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible, but it's not exposed in the UI. What you need to do is isolate the post number (I'm using this post, 1690, as an example) and go to this url:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/1690/list&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/{post-id}/list&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From here, you can click the &quot;view source&quot; button to see the source of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:36:40.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2009-07-02T03:48:44.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you've clicked around every day? HTTP being a stateless protocol SO has no way to tell if you are &quot;there&quot; or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T03:48:44.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1675" CreationDate="2009-07-02T04:04:39.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Kyle said, its a matter of visiting at least once a day for 30 consecutive days. I'm not sure if it's just a matter of having a page open while logged in during that time but I can reveal how I achieved the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I browse stackoverflow at work and at home and usually have it open in a tab all day long at work and 24/7 at home....my morning routine at home usually involves checking the latest questions so I typically refresh the page each day...and if I'm not at home, I usually check SO on my iPhone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between work, home, and my phone...its fairly easy to obtain the badge with minimal effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39532" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T04:04:39.613" />
  <row Id="1695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1681" CreationDate="2009-07-02T04:22:10.693" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if you do not provide an email addres, the &lt;strong&gt;Gravatar is based on the last IP you used to access either site&lt;/strong&gt;. You came in from two different IPs, so either..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provide an email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;access the sites from the same IP addresses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravatar is always IP or email based. Just depends what you give us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T04:22:10.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T04:23:37.837" Score="56" ViewCount="1319" Body="&lt;p&gt;So many interesting questions get asked on Stack Overflow and then immediately closed (or worse yet, closed and re-opened for days on end) because they're subjective, argumentative, and fundamentally unanswerable due to our &lt;em&gt;lack of omniscience&lt;/em&gt;: without the ability to see into the future and/or know the &lt;strong&gt;secret motivations&lt;/strong&gt; of companies and their developers, we are left to make wildly varying (un)informed guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious solution to this is to add a &lt;a href=&quot;http://av.vet.ksu.edu/flash/8ball/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;built-in clairvoyant&lt;/a&gt; feature to the Ask a Question page. Similar to the current &quot;Related Questions&quot; feature, this could be used to answer otherwise-unanswerable questions &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they're asked, thus saving everyone time and frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a simple system whereby a web cam is aimed at an ordinary &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00001ZWV7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mattel Magic 8-Ball&lt;/a&gt; device, long recognized as one of the most accessible and accurate fortune-telling mechanisms available to modern society. A simple &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001EI7H3K&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vibrating pad&lt;/a&gt; could be placed under this rig and triggered in response to the user's typing. Once focus leaves the &lt;code&gt;Title&lt;/code&gt; input field, a short delay will be triggered, followed by a bit of logic to capture the 8-ball's result and feed it through a simple OCR routine to produce the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/174/magic8balloutlooknotsog.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far as i'm aware, SO would be the first major Q&amp;amp;A site to implement such a feature...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623062/why-was-googles-chrome-browser-written-almost-entirely-in-c-and-not-c-or-java&quot;&gt;Why was Google’s Chrome browser written almost entirely in C++ and not C# or Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/255477/why-did-microsoft-choose-a-restful-api-over-webdav-for-blob-storage&quot;&gt;Why did Microsoft choose a RESTful API over WebDAV for BLOB storage?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/854807/why-did-microsoft-choose-mvc-for-asp-net&quot;&gt;Why did Microsoft choose MVC for ASP.NET?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/940654/why-did-my-wife-divorce-me&quot;&gt;Why did my wife divorce me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/987722/python-brighter-future-than-ruby-closed&quot;&gt;Python brighter future than ruby?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/433258/why-isnt-ocaml-more-popular&quot;&gt;Why isn’t OCaml more popular?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78991/why-is-github-more-popular-than-gitorious&quot;&gt;Why is Github more popular than Gitorious?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/523728/why-isnt-google-web-toolkit-more-popular&quot;&gt;Why isn’t Google Web Toolkit more popular?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;...another UV resurrection...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-03T05:53:51.467" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T05:53:51.467" Title="Add a &quot;Magic 8-Ball&quot; feature to the Ask a Question page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="1697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T04:26:24.570" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How 'bout &gt; 30 answers triggers &quot;no badges&quot; mode in addition to CW? Yeah, it's &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; to abuse that, but it's a huge PitA...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually... If you adjusted the logic to only force no-badges and CW when the undeleted answer count &lt;em&gt;stayed&lt;/em&gt; &gt;=30, it'd both preserve badges for the FAQ and make abuse even more difficult... (post 29 crap answers &amp;amp; watch 'em get flagged and deleted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T04:26:24.570" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T04:35:42.347" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reposting as answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps give users ability to flag questions as something fun related. Make it a high enough rep requirement to avoid people flagging valid questions, but low enough to ensure enough respectable users will flag. If flagged as fun remove rep/badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to avoid restricting access to too few users since some of the higher up users seem to abuse this in their favor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T04:35:42.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T05:54:53.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is sort of saying what some of you have already said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the mechanism for closing questions works pretty well. Questions that need to be closed get closed, and quickly. I think the users would respond quickly to identifying a question as &quot;fun&quot;, and that could trigger the no-badge rule. I say have people vote for it, just like closing a question (although I'm not sure what the rep requirement should be for being allowed to do this... that's for you guys to decide :-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the argument for NOT turning off badges on CW posts? All the CW posts I have read are not really technical, and if they don't count toward reputation, why should they count toward earning badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T05:54:53.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T06:01:50.003" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know, stackoverflow is great. I think the concept could work in a bunch of different areas. Will there be an easy way for people to create a QA site that runs on the stackoverflow engine? In particular, I'd like to see a site for tech support. It would be nice if people could post computer related questions that don't have to do with programming. For example, they could ask the classic pc vs. mac question, or ask for help diagnosing their network issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this has been thought of before, but does anyone know what's going on with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T06:24:55.923" Title="Is the stackoverflow concept going to be spread?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1700" CreationDate="2009-07-02T06:07:14.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, and you can spread it yourself with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;  for an easy monthly payment starting at $129/month!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT, there is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; and the soon to be launched &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; (both run by the Stack Overflow team), the later of which very well may address your ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T06:12:22.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T06:12:22.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="920" CreationDate="2009-07-02T06:12:20.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really think that this would be a great use of a modification to the stack overflow engine. Now, I wouldn't include it in a questions and answer section, I think it would be a great section to the site seperated on it's own (or maybe even on it's own domain). I won't comment on badges or points, I'm sure something will be offered that is well thought out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel and the greater team now employed have done an awesome job on the question + answer site with feedback, editing, and specific design goals. However, sometimes I get the urge to write an article to stuff information down peoples throats instead of waiting for them to hopefully not understand something and ask a question. However, the current site layout doesn't suit this well, it suits more proficiently a quick question and answer site with fairly general questions and maybe some code examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on an article based website I would expect to see similar goals (voting, editing, commenting), with site design geared towards an author to community approach. The SO design that carries over is that old and outdated articles can be edited and modernized, bugs fixed, grammer clarified by a community working together to provide great information, but may not fit so well within a question and answer format. And most importantly, articles that are just plain WRONG can be removed from public view, or are very clearly indicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And perhaps it's best to fill in the relevance to myself... I'm a fairly amateur developer, but work in an engineering group for a CDMA and a brand new HSPA network in Canada. As such, I know alot about gotchas and specifics to writing applications against mobile broadband networks, things where we've threatened to send customers $100,000 bills for applications that just behave badly on our network, that a regular TCP/IP application developer would see as completely valid. This is information that is also not necassarily readily found in the public domain due to the way service providers treat their networks as closed eco systems. I wouldn't mind writing an article or two about this, where hopefully the well informed can research article relevant to them that may not fit within the context of a question that they'd otherwise just &quot;wing-it&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could ask a question, and answer it myself, but for a question / answer site that still just feels wrong, what would feel right if I asked a question and while waiting for a response had found the correct solution, then I would create an answer saying this is how I solved my problem, as a response for anyone who has a similar question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T06:12:20.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T06:14:51.047" Score="25" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010/advanced-syntax-ideas&quot;&gt;&quot;Advanced Syntax Ideas&quot;&lt;/a&gt; but not quite the same.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how many links I add to docs in one day of posting, but it's a lot. I've made this somewhat easier with &quot;smart bookmarks&quot; or whatever you want to call them so that if I open a new tab and type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;msdn system.diagnostics.process&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it goes to the right URL. I can then cut and paste that URL back into SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are a few things wrong with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It means I have to set up the bookmark on all my browsers, and other people don't get the same benefit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That doesn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; work - for example, generics muck it up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a somewhat clumsy workflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It only works for MSDN and JavaDoc (I have a similar one there, although I don't tend to use it as much)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to documentation are good. I think we should encourage them. I propose that we make the &quot;add link&quot; button smarter, so that the server can work out what you mean (ideally with a preview - that would be handy for normal links too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically a radio button saying whether you want a &quot;normal&quot; link, MSDN, JavaDoc, and whatever the equivalent is for other technologies. Type in the relevant URL or name, and the server will resolve it (which means we can put appropriate smarts in to handle generics etc) and the browser can preview it. I haven't mocked this up, but I'd be happy to if anyone's interested. (I haven't used Balsamiq Mocks yet, but it looks fun :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The preview side of things &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be hard due to iframe busting etc - I'm not sure. Just fetching the page title would be a good start, to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like my suggestion for the &quot;close as duplicate&quot; workflow, this is about keeping the workflow all on one page where possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I'd be very happy to work on the bit of code which determined the right MSDN link: I've already done some of that as a prototype. (You can fetch the DHTML served on the left hand side and walk the tree - with caching, of course.) Now adding Intellisense to that would be even sweeter, but perhaps a step too far :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T09:36:22.700" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T05:43:27.627" Title="Make it easier to link to documentation for common technologies" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;posting&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1700" CreationDate="2009-07-02T06:20:06.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been wishing for the Stack Overflow model to be adapted to a gaming website.  That way we can ask questions about video games via this new model rather then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;by certain other methods&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100835" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T06:20:06.090" />
  <row Id="1707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1700" CreationDate="2009-07-02T06:24:55.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO I think the spread will be limited. Joel's Google Tech Talk on the subject is somewhat insightful on the subject. They spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of site to design and I think it works really well for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can drop that same concept into a different community and it'll just not work. His opinion was that general topics--too broad and where people weren't doing it for a living--didn't work. Yahoo Answers is a prime example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the concept has had far more limited success (to date) as serverfault. I'll be interesting to see how Superuser does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T06:24:55.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T06:40:10.333" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a question of the month badge, possibly the question that received most upvotes in the previous month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar badges may also exist for answers and different time periods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31505" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:42:32.850" Title="Question of the month badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:03:47.950" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slacking Off at Work&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people who spend most of their workday on SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:03:47.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T07:03:47.950" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:09:53.897" Score="6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I suggested in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/345/theoretical-question-hide-rep-above-10k/703#703&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, I am &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; in favor of &lt;strong&gt;rewriting History&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, the rep score shown next to a user is always the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; one. It would be quite interesting to have the one &lt;em&gt;at the posting time&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be in brackets, or in a tooltip in order no to be intrusive and to preserve the spirit of what is displayed currently : how the user is recognized &lt;strong&gt;now&lt;/strong&gt; by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T17:00:03.170" Title="Show user reputation when item was posted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1732" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:11:26.997" Score="23" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068450/&quot;&gt;question yesterday&lt;/a&gt; by a new user was shot to absolute pieces. I reviewed it this morning as it had some &quot;flags&quot; against it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was &lt;strong&gt;actually embarrassed&lt;/strong&gt; at how the community treated this question (in particular a good number of pretty offensive comments that I have now deleted). I re-opened it (it had been killed as spam) - but the chances are that is another potential user lost through hostility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;hi evryone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;            im doing a sample in .net remoting.i want to knw is it possible to exchange data betn a computer in mi network to a computer in another network.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK; the English isn't great; and unfamiliarity with the markdown formatting is to be expected - but it took me about 30 seconds to fix this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm doing a sample in .NET remoting. I want to know is it possible to exchange data between a computer in my network to a computer in another network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't get is why the community members involved didn't just fix the question, which is otherwise &quot;sound&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything we can do to encourage &lt;strong&gt;positive&lt;/strong&gt; edits (on questions in particular, but answers too, I suppose)? Something like S+W, but more... perhaps the ability to &lt;strong&gt;upvote an edit&lt;/strong&gt;, with &lt;strong&gt;badge(s) to match&lt;/strong&gt;. In addition to encouraging positive edits, this also provides a route to reward the number of &quot;editor&quot; types on the site. I know it occasionally gets heated (edit-wars etc), but &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; their efforts are purely constructive and greatly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional: &quot;edit&quot; votes should contribute towards rep; after all, rep is defined as a measure of a member's involvement and trust on the site. If somebody is making lots of very good edits, then they are a: involved, and b: just as trustworthy as somebody posting good answers. You'd probably need the reverse too, though - downvote edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't necessarily expect the newbies/OP etc to use the edit voting; I would expect that to be the rest of the community)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:15:28.057" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:15:28.057" Title="Encouraging people to improve questions (and be welcoming); and BADGE idea" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1710" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:13:01.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even employee of the month scares me.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;No, keep the amount of badges low. This would be an inflation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:13:01.627" />
  <row Id="1716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:17:32.443" Score="8" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do badges get calculated in real time, or do they get calculated by an external service?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Stack Overflow use any external services to do things? E.g. maintenance, e-mailing, badge calculation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149793" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T20:04:03.527" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T20:04:03.527" Title="How do badges get awarded? By a service or on change?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;services&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1710" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:18:33.873" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have &quot;{nice|good|great|popular|notable|famous} question&quot;, and the blog question of the week (which often attracts a lot of viewers, earning at least one of the last three).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can see happening here is rewarding the &quot;in&quot; questions (&quot;comic&quot; etc) that are often controversial, and don't do anything to serve the &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt; site aim - answering peoples questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, leave it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:18:33.873" />
  <row Id="1718" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:20:16.383" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I fix typos and grammar in someone else's post I feel like I'm stealing thunder from this person. He asked the question, I just made few corrections and not only did I get the same attribution (that box with name and picture) but I even get listed in front of him! Wouldn't it be better to just save my edits in history but do not put my name there if the edit is relatively small? Just a simple link instead of that box (as it is in case of multiple edits) would make me feel better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T07:56:47.917" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:46:27.460" Title="Should edits be always attributed?" Tags="&lt;editing&gt;&lt;hijacking&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1718" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:28:07.363" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is important to be &lt;strong&gt;very clear and obvious&lt;/strong&gt; that another user has edited it - they may have done harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a bad edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is obvious that it is edited by another user, it is likely to result in an edit rollback.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it isn't obvious, it is likely to result in down-vote / closure / flags / deletion etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides - I want to know you made the good edit, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1714/&quot;&gt;so I can reward&lt;/a&gt; it ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T07:36:56.030" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:36:56.030" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1716" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:31:25.233" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A scheduled job; there are a number of scheduled tasks at different intervals (every few (5?) minutes; hourly; daily etc) that do a range of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how much detail I should go into though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the badges are on the &quot;every few minutes&quot; loop... if you really want to know, it took 16416ms on the last cycle ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:31:25.233" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1659" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:31:49.257" Score="87" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked for this a while on UserVoice - I'd be very much in favour of this. It's weird to see your rep drop by 15 and have no idea why. It also means there's an answer with more information in than mine, which means I may be able to learn something from it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="31671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-04T05:33:00.540" LastActivityDate="2011-05-04T05:33:00.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1543" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:32:13.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that rep lost to bounties doesn't appear in the graph&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:32:13.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1710" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:42:32.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea in that anything that encourages &quot;good&quot; questions is a good thing.  A well thought out question that clearly defines the problem without ambiguity or requests for more information should be rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that basing it on the number of up-votes (or number of answers) is necessarily the best way to do it, though.  Quality should be rewarded, not popularity.  And the &quot;fun&quot; questions should be excluded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:42:32.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1745" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:42:57.123" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add another layer of make-believe &quot;awards&quot; to the existing reputation and badges, I thought it might be interesting to have something that is transient, based on ranked performance over a given time period (call them what you like, but I'll refer to them as trophies for the rest of this post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way, have trophies that would be awarded to the user who has performed &quot;best&quot; based on a given set of conditions over say a week. That user would then hold that trophy for the week, but would (potentially) lose it to another user the following week as the rankings change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for example you could have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sage&lt;/strong&gt; - User who posts the most accepted answers in a week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most Improved&lt;/strong&gt; - User who gains the most reputation in a week relative to their total reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Collector&lt;/strong&gt; - User who is awarded the most unique badges in a week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overflowed&lt;/strong&gt; - User who has spent the most time on the site in a week (not sure if you can measure this, but it could be most views, most votes, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Philosopher&lt;/strong&gt; - User who asks the question with the most upvotes (or question with the most answers, or most questions) in a given week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quick Draw&lt;/strong&gt; - User who answers a question (and gets accepted) the fastest in a given week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paramedic&lt;/strong&gt; - User who brings the oldest question in a given week back to life, by answering it (and getting accepted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make sure super-users (like Jon Skeet) don't just constantly have all of them, you could include one or all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only allow any given user to hold one trophy at a time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only allow a user to hold a given trophy once ever (or once a month/year/etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it so that any user who has already held a given trophy needs to do exponentially more to gain it again (eg. with the Collector - userA has 10 badges in a week &amp;amp; userB has 9, userA wins, but the following week, userA gets a 20% handicap, meaning if userA got 10 again &amp;amp; userB got 9 again, userB would win since 10*0.8 &amp;lt; 9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: you could also get a badge to indicate/prove that you once held a given trophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I better make this a question... So what do you think? Stupid idea? Good idea? Really stupid idea? Good idea, but would take too much dev time, so a low priority? Suggestions for other trophies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:15:36.793" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:15:36.793" Title="Please add trophies that get awarded to the user who has performed &quot;best&quot; based on a given set of conditions over a period of time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1672" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:47:25.990" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Looks like it might be possible&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server_Full_Text_Search#Prefix_Term_Searches&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, it's not possible, since that's only a &quot;begins with&quot; search which does not work well with our tag data. &lt;s&gt;On top of that, &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.asp.net/t/1193493.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asterisks aren't possible in URLs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/s&gt; (this was fixed in ASP.Net 4.0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I implemented an experimental &quot;explode&quot; operator which allows you to effectively do the same thing -- it &quot;explodes&quot; the tags using ~ wildcards in a begins-with and/or ends-with manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;all questions tagged bug, but without a tag beginning with &quot;status-&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-~&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;all questions with a tag containing &quot;edit&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~edit~&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~edit~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't fully tested all the permutations, but you must include at least 4 characters for it to be a valid match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL. Like I said!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; You can now use &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; for tag wildcards as well, for example:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-%2a&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-*&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~edit%2a&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-04T21:41:12.667" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T21:41:12.667" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1725" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:49:49.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/95721-monthly-league-for-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monthly reputation league UV ticket&lt;/a&gt; was closed recently after the tag stats were introduced. Cool setup you have there though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think benefit vs work required is quit minimal though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:49:49.760" />
  <row Id="1728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1725" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:50:35.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gut reaction: sounds like a lot of complexity for relatively little benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the attraction of the general idea, but I don't know that it's got enough going for it to be worth the effort. For one thing, where would these be displayed? There's already a lot of information in the user flair (think of newbies seeing this!) so you'd probably want to  have it just on the user profile page... in which case who's going to see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean to sound too negative - it does sound interesting - but I just don't really think it's worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:50:35.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:53:14.417" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create a badge, &quot;Giant Killer&quot;, for when your answer is accepted in preference to, say, anyone in the top 10 by reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:53:14.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1718" CreationDate="2009-07-02T07:55:35.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you proposing reversing the order of display? In other words instead of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[editor] [owner]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we would show&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[owner] [editor]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if that might be MORE confusing since it no longer makes &quot;right column under post = owner&quot; true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it does &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;edited by&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;answered by&lt;/strong&gt; right there in the text.. &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the owner gets a special color. I dunno, this seems pretty clear to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T07:55:35.643" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13641" CreationDate="2009-07-02T08:27:00.933" Score="3" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now the database refactoring is done, would it be possible to explore questions through tags &lt;em&gt;based on the USER's profile&lt;/em&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if I am on a user's profile and I click on one of their Tags 'T', I would like to see the n questions where he/she has put an answer, not the NN questions ever tagged T.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;same goes for the tags beneath a question in somebody's profile&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;same for &quot;favorites&quot;: click on a tag is a way to filter through all somebody's favorite questions in order to see only the one tagged T&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those requests could be combined with the usual sort directives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That could mean an API like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1234/tagged/T or U?filter=tag&amp;amp;sort=votes&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1234/tagged/T or U?filter=question&amp;amp;sort=views&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1234/tagged/T or U?tabs=favorites&amp;amp;sort-top&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show me all questions tagged T or U where user 1234 has put at least one answer, sorted by his/her most upvoted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show me all questions asked by user 1234, tagged T or U, sorted by the user's most viewed questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show me all favorite questions for user 1234, tagged T or U, from the most recent to the oldest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first beneficiaries would be the users themselves, for their own profile which can contain a lot of question/answer/favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this is originally the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/184781-tag-based-exploration-of-a-user-s-profile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UV entry 184781&lt;/a&gt;, which was &quot;under review&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other similar ideas on Meta might have already been posted. I just wanted to move this ticket here.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;On the same topic, we have on Meta:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1353/please-allow-us-to-browse-our-own-questions-by-tag&quot;&gt;Please allow us to browse our own questions by tag&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/18393/cletus&quot;&gt;Cletus&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/943/ability-to-search-my-stuff&quot;&gt;Ability to search my stuff?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/745/dbr&quot;&gt;dbr&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114&quot;&gt;Additional search features/syntax?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/745/dbr&quot;&gt;dbr&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T17:59:57.180" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T17:59:57.180" Title="How about a tag-based exploration of a user's profile?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="1732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1714" CreationDate="2009-07-02T08:28:05.533" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting edit is something i've been advocating for a while now. Both &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/278/adding-incentive-for-editing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Adding incentive for editing&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and in a declined UV ticket. (it was declined for to much work with to little benefit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very much for this, this will create a subculture of editors where they look at edited questions and speculate over what kind of editing is good by up and down voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will create a community driven rule on how to edit and what edits are good. Like we already have for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T08:47:35.050" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T08:47:35.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T08:48:39.227" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently it works this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You select a text to link, click the hyperlink button and paste the url. When you hit OK the text you selected is now linked. There is even a title feature in the current hyperlink but this only fills out the title attribute of the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when inserting links to other SO questions, or when generating a collection of links this becomes a pain to juggle. So I suggest a small change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do it the old way and select a text and click the hyperlink button, there are two fields. One is filled out &quot;Title&quot; since you selected a text. And the other is a url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the hyperlink button without selecting a text, both fields are empty and it will be inserted where the text cursor is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:17:28.093" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T13:02:27.147" Title="Please add a title and link when inserting a Hyperlink to other StackOverflow posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T08:52:52.667" Score="15" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow got a mention in the Guardian's Ask Jack column for 2nd July.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/02/delphi7-windows-vista&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/02/delphi7-windows-vista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I'm still not sure of the etiquette for this sort of thing here on MSO. I know it would get closed straight away over on SO, but I'm hoping we can be a bit more flexible here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; The other links are interesting, but I was thinking about primarily non-programming related media. I get the impression that the sort of people who write into &quot;Ask Jack&quot; aren't particularly computer or Internet savvy so they aren't likely to come across Stack Overflow directly or via the blogs etc. mentioned by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T22:24:35.397" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T22:28:32.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T08:52:52.667" Title="Is this the first mention of Stack Overflow in the mainstream media?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:03:21.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet does sleep (no really).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, there are times of day when there a lot of unanswered questions on popular tags.  Particularly at weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you try and make sense of some of the plzsendcodez questions you can gain a lot of rep that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12744" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:03:21.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1718" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:03:58.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would agree with the &quot;problem&quot; stated for two reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am dyslexic so tend to notice the picture rather than the word &quot;edited&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I usually read SO etc on a mobile device so have to scroll and see the name/picture of the editor rather than the poster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree the edits should be attributable.  My suggestion would be to diplay the name and not picture for the editor (in the same way as it works for comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:03:58.847" />
  <row Id="1737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:07:15.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some more news / reviews by large sites I found&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsfactor.com/blog%5Farticle.php?aid=2176180&amp;amp;full%5Fskip=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Blogoscoped: StackOverflow's Karma Bounty, Data Dump, and Sister Sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://androidguys.com/?p=5738&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;You’ve Got Questions. That’s Understandable.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Stackoverflowcom-to-Deliver-Programming-Expertise/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow.com to Deliver Programming Expertise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:07:15.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T09:07:15.143" />
  <row Id="1738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1746" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:10:38.833" Score="4" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to showing reputation scores, SO should rank users. In the users section, users are ordered by the reputations they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each user should also have a unique rank, since many users can have the same reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rank must follow the order laid out by reputation, but for those having similar reputation, an additional formula should be defined which can rank users based on tags, time since registration, frequency of activity and/or helpfulness of their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130243" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:33:56.057" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:33:56.057" Title="User ranking on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rankings&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1738" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:13:46.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think reputation changes so quickly that this is not an issue. This can also be analyzed from the data dump if so inclined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:13:46.953" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:15:01.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add my 2p:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't tend to vote on answers to this type of question - particularly if the answer isn't CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If polls or fun question didn't earn rep or badges then I might.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for implementation details: How about another check box similar to the CW one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:15:01.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1738" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:20:39.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is really an issue, but you could introduce a tie-breaker based on badges, e.g. have a &quot;score from badges&quot; of 25 * gold + 10 * silver + bronze. Then if the users are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; tied, go for &quot;higher user id wins&quot; (as they've accrued the same score in a shorter time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But no, I don't think this is worth doing :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:20:39.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1725" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:29:59.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need to be careful with badges. While they are useful to encourage good behaviour, if you're not careful winning the badge becomes more important than the behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example take the Civic Duty and Skunk &amp;amp; White badges. When I started here (OK on SO) I knew those badges existed but achieving them seemed a distant goal. As time progressed and I started voting (&amp;amp; editing when I had enough rep) they started getting nearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I approached the 300 votes I started hitting my vote cap as I was actively looking for posts to vote on. I only voted for posts I would have voted for in normal circumstances but I actively sought them out rather than just stumbling across them in the normal course of events. Once I achieved the badge my voting fell back to its previous behaviour. A graph would show this peak. The same applies to my edits, start of sporadic, hit a peak just before the badge and then drop down again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you might say that I should be voting/editing at the higher level all the time - but I should be doing other things other than hanging out on SO/MSO &amp;amp; that amount of voting/editing takes time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I'm trying to say is that too many badges might distort people's usage of the site to the detriment of the site. So while we should consider new rewards we should consider all the possible outcomes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:29:59.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1738" CreationDate="2009-07-02T09:44:01.933" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People get too excited by the reputation / position. Just post good questions / answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;lo que será, será&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T09:55:33.327" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T09:55:33.327" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1750" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:07:29.273" Score="2" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is based on the discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068714/keeping-updated-with-the-latest-technologies/1068739#1068739&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: A user called Microsoft brain dead (it has since been edited out) in an otherwise very good answer to the question (it's even the top voted answer as of now.) People downvoted the answer for this wrong behavior and not for the answer's point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take: This is wrong, I think downvotes should not be used to punish bad behavior, but to reward or punish the helpfulness of the answers, not their political correctness. There are other means to signal/punish this kind of answers (comments/flags/editing by users of high rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the using of downvotes as a punishment measure shows there's no intermediate measure, it also shows that the system works, because it worked out well and in a reasonable  amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your take? Are punishing downvotes valid? Do we need an intermediate step between flags and commenting to avoid this misuse of downvoting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To be absolutely clear, I totally agree that politically incorrect people should get coerced into good behavior, I just wonder about the best way to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a tie so far (2 want to use downvotes as a means and 2 don't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T14:07:53.110" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:07:53.110" Title="Downvotes as punishment for &quot;bad behavior&quot;" Tags="&lt;voting&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1747" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:16:39.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree, this should be flagged based on it's offense. But there's a catch, downvote is specified that an answer is unclear or not useful. And in many other cases, answers that use bad language are characterized as unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the broken window effect in action here. An answer gets one downvote and people follow along down voting into oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T10:23:25.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:23:25.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:19:38.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really think this is a total non issue, SO is about answering coding questions and the rep system is just a way of judging how reputable (duh!) a member is and getting a right guess at the worth of his (or her) answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer questions not for the rep but because it's fun! It's nice to help people, rep is a nice way of knowing people appreciate my answers but I think I'd keep on answering if it wasn't there, and I suspect that would apply to most people who use SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130196" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:19:38.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1747" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:22:06.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone has their own idea of how votes are &quot;meant&quot; to work. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/05/20/reasons-for-voting-on-questions-and-answers.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's my take on it.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately we can't force people to use their votes in particular ways, although there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; guidance already I believe. Yes, I'd view this as a bad reason to downvote (just a comment would be fine) but that's life. I personally view downvotes without comments as a more significant annoyance than downvotes for reasons I don't agree with, if you see what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:22:06.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1751" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:26:05.750" Score="141" ViewCount="1193" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, a downvote usually indicates a problem with an answer. When I downvote it's to mark the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; as having a problem, not the person. If the answer is fixed, I want to remove that downvote - but it's tricky to keep track of all the questions I've looked at over the last few hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't actually downvote very much, but it's very easy to forget what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have some way of indicating in an edit that you (the editor/answerer) believe the reason for the downvote has now been resolved, so that the downvoters could come and undo their downvotes &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; explain why it's still not fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: this isn't about rep-recovery, but quality control. I would feel a lot better about downvoting on &quot;iffy&quot; answers if I felt it was like that the answer would be fixed and I could undo the vote. Whether or not I'd get back the cost of the downvote is somewhat immaterial.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-05T11:06:32.290" LastActivityDate="2010-06-05T11:08:10.787" Title="Allow an edit to notify downvoters: &quot;I think I've fixed the issue now - please check&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="1752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:33:31.893" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea but wondering on the implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could have one of two things. (just brainstorming here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An editor changes the question / answer and checks a field called something like &quot;Notable improvement&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This sends a notification (either via the top bar or the envelope) to all downvoters (and possibly even all the commenters and other editors)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could have a passive listing in your recent history area where you can see a recent list of edited questions of things you have &quot;upvoted&quot;, &quot;downvoted&quot;, &quot;commented&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(upvoted also since you could change your mind if the essence of the question could change over time and you no longer agree with the current state of it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:33:31.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:36:10.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would enjoy this. I too apply temporary down-votes until solutions are cleaned up/corrected. This would be a great feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:36:10.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:40:18.943" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry. I still feel like all this skeet-fapping is a bit silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:40:18.943" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:42:25.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea too as it should help improve the site. If posters see a reclamation of rep after fixing a post then it makes them a) more likely to do it in the future and b) more aware of what a good post looks like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:42:25.757" />
  <row Id="1756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:51:33.380" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that works now, is to have no highlighting (none being better than wrong) by using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;code&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:51:33.380" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="1758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:58:56.187" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch/1752#1752&quot;&gt;Ólafur Waage&lt;/a&gt;'s idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or you could have a passive listing in&#xA;  your recent history area where you can&#xA;  see a recent list of edited questions&#xA;  of things you have &quot;upvoted&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;downvoted&quot;, &quot;commented&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd only extend it to add in that listing all new comments on questions where you've commented. Now is a bit of a pain to have comment threads in an answer, having to review recent list and go check if there's anything new on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T11:06:07.820" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T11:06:07.820" />
  <row Id="1759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2009-07-02T10:59:06.777" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the purpose of the Tumbleweed badge is (or should be) to bring attention to a neglected and probably esoteric question. Unfortunately it fails in that regard because we only see what users are awarded badges and not for which questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically this badge would have a whole lot more value if you could browse the questions awarded Tumbleweed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T10:59:06.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:18:32.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thinking of the number of times I've wanted to give someone more than +1 and the number of similar comments abounding on SO, this seems like a nice compromise on this subject would be to actually be able to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could limit such supervotes by time period, or let them cost rep - I'd happily (but perhaps not frequently) offer some of my rep to somebody for writing something particularly awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T11:18:32.893" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:18:48.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already reward the answer with both an up-vote and acceptance which will give them 25 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't think this enough then a comment on the answer is a good way of acknowledging the &quot;debt&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T11:18:48.680" />
  <row Id="1762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1738" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:19:32.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds a lot like a duplicate of my own suggestion for different user ranking metrics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1357/new-user-rankings&quot;&gt;New User Rankings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T11:19:32.453" />
  <row Id="1763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2264" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:26:47.880" Score="14" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know at first glance this sounds identical to the bounty system, but it is not necessarily what I am thinking of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are questions or answers out there that you think are just -that- good and they deserve to be rewarded more than usual. What I wanted to potentially suggest was the ability to award reputation on a question or answer moreso than the typical +10 for an upvote. This extra amount would be directly proportional to the amount of rep you decide to sacrifice (with a limit of say 50 rep). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there could be the potential to try and game the system doing this, but I would imagine it would be incredibly easy to isolate this type of behavior in the nightly checks that go on. I also believe that for the most part this will be used only for seriously good content because we know how well most people like to cling to their own rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:50:56.133" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:50:56.133" Title="Sacrifice Rep To Reward Question Or Answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;scoring&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:29:11.540" Score="23" ViewCount="2052" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering who's attending DevDays. It'd be nice to meet some of the community IRL (some for punches, most for hugs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official site is hard to browse for this given its insistence on real names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestion (from Jon Skeet)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're the first person to answer this question for a particular city, add an answer with the city name in bold and your own name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's already an answer for that city, add a comment - and the person owning that answer can then edit your name into the answer (or just edit the answer directly, if you can).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1822#1822&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/so-devdays-boston&quot; title=&quot;straight to the thoughts&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/13275#13275&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1919#1919&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/reviews-of-devdays-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1837#1837&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-san-francisco&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1830#1830&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1839#1839&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1829#1829&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1807#1807&quot;&gt;London UK&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1872#1872&quot;&gt;Cambridge UK&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/1902#1902&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/devdays-whos-going/18349#18349&quot;&gt;Sitting at home, crying&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th - Nov 2nd) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T13:15:49.213" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T00:46:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T11:32:40.067" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T06:31:00.397" Title="Who is going to DevDays 2009?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="1766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:30:26.047" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being hopeful, I'll start an ATL list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Atlanta, Georgia (United States)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54680/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16417/paolo-bergantino&quot;&gt;Paolo Bergantino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9345/steven-a-lowe&quot;&gt;Steven A. Lowe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T01:49:13.880" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T01:49:13.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-03T13:16:46.817" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:33:18.007" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've long suggested this kind of thing in a more generic sense. Basically my idea (now a stagnant UV ticket) is that your recent activity view should include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers to your questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments on your answers or questions;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to content you've downvoted; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Any&lt;/em&gt; activity in a question you've favourited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of which this is one example. Basically the current mechanism is a little too crude for a good workflow. The point of a downvote should be to improve an answer but the UI doesn't help you at all in this regard. You have to somehow keep track of downvotes (yes I know theres a votes view) given and manually check them for modification. It should be easier than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T11:33:18.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1952" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:39:56.133" Score="32" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea is that sometimes someone will post an answer and get the accepted answer award, even when it is obvious that someone else has an answer that is &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; correct. This can be done either through the OP's laziness in only awarding the check mark to the first decent answer, or because the OP just doesn't necessarily know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am proposing is a method for the winner of the check mark to pass it off to another answer on the thread. There have been a number of times where I have wanted to do this to someone who spent much more time and effort on their answer than I. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have also been a couple of times where someone else in a thread was awarded the check, even though they themselves tried to tell the OP that mine (or someone else's answer) deserved it more than them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case I was unclear above, giving away the accepted check mark would also entail giving away the full 15 points that were rewarded along with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T05:47:02.067" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T05:47:02.067" Title="Allow Accepted Answer recipient to give it away" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:46:01.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first sight it sounds like it might be a good idea - a couple of questions spring to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the rep transfer? Would you loose all the 15 points or just a fraction? Would the recipient gain the full 15 or just a fraction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would only one transfer be allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T12:02:29.153" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:02:29.153" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2009-07-02T11:47:08.737" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Against this. SO might be part-wiki but it's part-Q&amp;amp;A and if the OP selected an answer, it did the job for him. What is &quot;better&quot; is often subjective. This proposal goes towards turning into a giant FAQ site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually you'll see two answers float to the top: one is accepted and one is an alternate. Those two often give two sides to the one issue. That's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see very little upside for this with some downside (ie some potential for abuse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T11:47:08.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:07:15.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea, but it would eventually get out of control. I currently have given over 150 downvotes, and received a few (not too many of course =P) As the system gets larger and larger, they're going to be sending out more and more edit updates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I think this idea could work if you added a checkbox somewhere on the post itself (question or answer) that allowed you to say &quot;Send me updates when this is edited&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, you could downvote it (comment why you did so) and check the box. When the OP edits the answer, you could go back and upvote them (if their change was satisfactory). But, if you become overrun with 'edited' updates, then you can simply uncheck the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/477/what-level-of-notification-should-we-have-regarding-questions-we-have-posted-an-a/1773#1773&quot;&gt;What level of notification should we have regarding questions we have posted comments on?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and my answer was almost identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a little caveat on both. There could also be something in your preferences that says &quot;Notify me if any downvoted answers are edited&quot; and then it would 'autocheck' that box when you downvote something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:07:15.583" />
  <row Id="1773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:09:45.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just added an answer to a different question on this, but I think that in general this is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch/1772#1772&quot;&gt;Allow an edit to notify downvoters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you could add a checkbox that says &quot;Alert me if there are new comments on this post&quot; then you could simply check the box if you wanted to know, and uncheck it when you didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T12:21:17.377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:21:17.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:14:41.900" Score="18" ViewCount="2239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on our experience, these steps can help troubleshooting OpenID login issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are you behind a proxy or firewall?&lt;/strong&gt; OpenID requires very long URLs and proxies / firewalls with aggressive settings will sometimes block OpenID accidentally. This has been documented a bunch of times, often in corporate settings. If so, try without the proxy/firewall -- or convince your network admins that OpenID is in fact safe to allow..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have you modified the default cookie policy in your browser?&lt;/strong&gt; OpenID, and our login process, requires cookies to be enabled and match the default settings that browsers ship with. If you have modified the cookie policy in your browser (or even worse, have disabled cookies altogether) this can prevent logins from working.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have you tried clearing your domain cookies?&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes the cookie information gets corrupted somehow (not quite sure what happens here) but clearing cookies for the domain in question (serverfault.com, superuser.com, stackoverflow.com) has been known to work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have you tried in a different browser?&lt;/strong&gt; The world is lousy with great browsers, and switching out browsers can quickly tell you if there's something &quot;wonky&quot; with your browser plugins, configuration, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are you able to log in to other sites that support OpenID?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/directory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lots of sites&lt;/a&gt; now support OpenID &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_dam_just_broke_facebook_opens_up_to_openid.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;including big ones like Facebook&lt;/a&gt;. Does your OpenID work there?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does your OpenID profile have invalid information in it?&lt;/strong&gt; This is &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; rare, but we have seen instances where profiles with problematic info (like invalid / gibberish email addresses) cause exceptions on our end. If possible, try a new, default OpenID or switch OpenID providers just for testing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is your site especially slow to respond?&lt;/strong&gt; In order to prevent denial of service attacks, it's common for OpenID libraries to have cutoff times of a few seconds when making HTTP requests. If you're delegating, try putting your delegation on a blank, plain vanilla HTML &quot;hello world&quot; page to remove any processing delays.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you use a self-signed SSL certificate?&lt;/strong&gt; Because self-signed SSL certificates, if generally accepted, would allow DNS poisoning or other network attacks to enable identity spoofing, we do not support them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a diagnostic page which might give you more information about any potential problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After using the above page, check the &quot;recent logs&quot; link to see what is going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other OpenID troubleshooting tips others would like to pass along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-26T03:07:34.957" LastActivityDate="2011-05-05T09:37:30.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:13:28.490" Title="I Can't Log In With My OpenID -- Troubleshooting Tips" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;troubleshooting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="1776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:20:12.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not crowdsource it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a possible idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encourage people to vote for the 'tag' on a question (up or down, for reasons you'll see in a minute)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the votes for a particular tag ('fun', gtky, etc.) exceed a certain threshold (10? 15?), then all of the answers and the question are 'cut off' from badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd obviously need to allow your 10K users (grin) to vote to put badges in the 'this doesn't count towards badges' pile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible issues with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once people learned that their precious badges could be lost with people voting on tags, they may not vote. So the only badges that ought to be lost are the gold badges. The rest are relatively trivial to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, you'd have to reward people voting on the tagging system for questions. Voting on tags would also allow people who cannot yet vote to determine what tags may be 'innappropriate' for a question, and would get out of the tag wars that we encounter from time to time (though it mostly happens because of that damned taxonomist badge, which already suffers from too much human moderation and not enough programming moderation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:20:12.963" />
  <row Id="1777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:21:11.730" Score="100" ViewCount="35234" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow site engine, as you know, uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; for questions and answers. Per the Markdown spec, you are allowed to freely intermix &lt;strong&gt;HTML&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Markdown&lt;/strong&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we do not allow &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; HTML tags, as that would be an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XSS&lt;/a&gt; paradise. To that end, the Stack Overflow engine allows only the following &lt;strong&gt;safe, whitelisted subset of HTML tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following attributes are allowed on the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;src=&quot;&quot;&#xA;width=&quot;&quot; (up to 999)&#xA;height=&quot;&quot; (up to 999)&#xA;alt=&quot;&quot;&#xA;title=&quot;&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following attributes are allowed on the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;href=&quot;&quot;&#xA;title=&quot;&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HTML tags not on this list are stripped from the output. They may render in the client preview but they will always be removed on the server.&lt;strong&gt;You must enter the tags &lt;em&gt;exactly as shown&lt;/em&gt;. Any deviation from this list (adding extra spaces, using single quote or no quotes, etc) means the tag will be stripped.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not and will not allow table tags -- sorry. This is intentional and by design. If you need a quick and dirty &quot;table&quot;, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and ASCII layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am open to suggestions. Are there some other (safe!) tags you think we should allow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="145828" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-19T21:55:22.530" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T22:09:36.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" Title="What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="91" />
  <row Id="1778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:24:38.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;it's like a handful of predators have been so successful in this ecosystem that they've crowded out every other predator to the point of near-extinction&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't that what always happens? It's just the nature of ecosystems, there will always be a dominant predator. I don't think there's a way to avoid it. If Jon and Marc stopped answering questions you'd just find that the next best answerers would fill the void they leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're always going to have some people that are just that little bit more knowledgeable about a subject, who are good communicators, a little quicker at putting together a cogent answer, that everybody else will struggle to answer questions as fast or as well as them. That small advantage probably gets exaggerated over time too, as they get more feedback and more practice their answers will get better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:24:38.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1703" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:30:59.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Type in the relevant URL or name, and the server will resolve it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does it have to be server side? This could easily be done entirely client side without having to change the markdown syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't be hard to write a Greasemonkey script to do it, and if it worked well it might then get brought into stackoverflow proper. That's how the &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34366&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tag manager started out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:30:59.707" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:31:01.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scoble was a &lt;em&gt;big&lt;/em&gt; one, early on (and thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadprogrammer.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Krakovskiy&lt;/a&gt; for mentioning it to him)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/11/pr-less-launch-kicks-off-a-stack-overflow-of-praise/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scobleizer.com/2008/08/11/pr-less-launch-kicks-off-a-stack-overflow-of-praise/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Shoes links to us, which is quite an honor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://help.shoooes.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://help.shoooes.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are others I can't think of right now..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:31:01.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T12:31:01.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:31:56.243" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1588/why-do-i-have-to-wait-before-nominating-a-question-for-deletion&quot;&gt;Why do I have to wait before nominating a question for deletion?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it necessary to wait 48 hours to delete a question like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1775/why-can-you-not-take-back-an-upvote-on-a-comment-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1775/why-can-you-not-take-back-an-upvote-on-a-comment-closed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:37:35.667" ClosedDate="2009-07-02T13:14:31.383" Title="Why do I have to wait 48 hours to delete a question marked duplicate?" Tags="&lt;delete&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="62" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:33:24.023" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site is prompting me to select an answer to my question.  I don't like any of those posted so far, so my self-answer follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a reason one always finds the Wendy's in town right across from the McDonald's, which is right down the street from the BK, which is across the corner from the Subway and KFC.  The reason is that the businesses co-locate intentionally, and the reason they do it is they know it's good for business.  If your first thought for fast food is to head their direction, then they've already won your money.  Even further, if they can get you to just think &quot;fast food&quot; when you're hungry, they've made you think so much less about the whole thing that they've won even more of your money.  If those places were scattered all over town, you would have to first decide exactly what you wanted, and consequently where you wanted to go, then go there, without the opportunity to change your mind at the last minute and go next door instead.  That's a harder prospect to think about, and might just stop you from going out to eat altogether. (&quot;Don't Make Me Think&quot;, anyone?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise with SO, SF, SU.  Each board does serve a specific kind of fare, and works hard to differentiate itself; and the purity of the board matters.  It is important to know what's on the menu before you go, and to know that they serve consistent, high-quality fare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in a larger sense, what the SO sites really serve is not coders, or unix SAs, or spreadsheet jocks, but a huge population of tech-savvy tinkerers and professionals.  That group has other interests, too.  If you want to draw them and keep them, then in addition to having a forum for their individual, specific interests, you should also be catering to their other, known, common interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious ones, that have already been identified, here and on other posts/locations, are:  technical books, subjective (on-topic) discussion, humor, and wholly-off-topic.  (In truth, the decision about how many related forums to have should be driven by traffic metrics -- when traffic gets too heavy, meiosis takes place.  But classification must of course be done carefully.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SO sites collectively will do themselves a huge favor by (1) creating forums for discussion of these related topics, (2) making navigation from forum to forum seamless, so that the user effectively feels like he's at the same site, and (3) strengthening the moderator organizational structure, so that some mods have strong authority over individual boards, and others have broader, cross-board power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep, user details, even URL are all manageable details.  &lt;em&gt;It is the intuitively obvious, effortless navigation from one forum to another that creates the cross-feeding of visitors and the sense for the visitor that these boards, collectively, are a web &quot;destination.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the links to related forums aren't directly on the banner, then they should be at the top of the right sidebar.  Anywhere less prominent consigns each separate site to a more solitary existence, increasing the likelihood that a visitor never finds the material that really grabs him, and moves on, never thinking of the SO family of sites as a place to come back to often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:33:24.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1781" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:34:01.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are cases where a question needs to be removed asap. I think these are rare cases and closed questions usually do no harm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think it does then you should contact the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:34:01.790" />
  <row Id="1784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1703" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:34:36.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that having some form of automatic links would be really useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would especially be useful for those questions where you need to answer quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5982" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:34:36.643" />
  <row Id="1785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1747" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:35:47.683" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already clear that SO is not strictly a Q &amp;amp; A site. It has become a community, and with in every community, there have to be standards and sanctions. I think downvotes should be used if you feel that the 'bad behaviour' warrants it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I would &lt;strike&gt;never&lt;/strike&gt; not voluntarily work on a Mac, because I have no idea how and I've found it very frustrating. That is a fact that has &lt;strong&gt;NO BEARING&lt;/strong&gt; when it comes to my answers on SO. There is no reason for me to mention that. Random Apple hate,  M$oft hate, or linux hate have &lt;em&gt;no place&lt;/em&gt; here. Just like 'one-word-answers' or 'people who give very smart technical answers while calling the OP a moron for asking a dumb question'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These deserve to be downvoted until they are edited. We (the metaso users) should be using our downvotes to shape the community into something we call all be proud of. If my company turned out to be filled with brilliant bigots/racists/elitists/sexists jackasses, then I wouldn't want to work there, and I wouldn't want to see SO devolve into that either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first rule of SO is 'Be Nice' and I think that's just as important. In conjunction with &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch/1772#1772&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's&lt;/a&gt; suggestion that we be able to monitor posts to see if they were edited, I think this behaviour will be very easy to fix. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample workflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: What is 2 + 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;: Microsoft Sucks! 4! -RandomHater&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment&lt;/strong&gt;: (-1) Although your answer is correct, your &quot;Microsoft Sucks&quot; has no place here. -DevinB&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;: (&lt;em&gt;edited by RandomHater&lt;/em&gt;) The answer is 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment&lt;/strong&gt;: (+1) for a succinct answer. -DevinB&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd probably also delete my first comment because it is no longer relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, it's much harder to stop people from giving technically incorrect answers, because we all THINK we're correct. But we can stop people from being a-holes about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:35:47.683" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1781" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:37:35.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really find this annoying at times, especially for questions that are exact duplicates.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've seen more than one question closed as exact duplicate when they were in fact not duplicates at all.  Often times they appear to be duplicates on the surface but it takes an expert in the area to understand why the questions are in fact different.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a 48-hour cooling off period allows for experts to get in there and point out the flaw in the duplicate argument.  Not having a 48 hour cool off means that 5 non-experts in the area could duplicate, close and delete a question before an expert ever got a chance to point out the flaw in their reasoning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I think it should be legal for a 10K+ user to delete a question closed as Spam immediately.  Doesn't take an expert to know spam &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:37:35.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:40:05.007" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is sort of off-topic, but would it be possible (feasible?) to create something in between quotes and code?  There are a lot of questions with quoted error messages or something similar where one wants to preserve line breaks, but also doesn't want syntax highlighting.  I know it can be accomplished using pre tags, but it's not readily apparent, especially to newbies.  Maybe just a button that will wrap things in pre tags for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T12:40:05.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1774" CreationDate="2009-07-02T12:55:31.273" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't wait until after something goes wrong to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;set up an alternate OpenID in your profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T17:31:36.900" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:31:36.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:13:28.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1794" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:03:06.213" Score="6" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;How often do people get serial down voted here and on SO.com?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It would be interesting to hear from other people who get serially down voted as to how often they see this, and perhaps if Jeff or team can provide any statistics on how many times the recalcs catch this activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T03:56:41.830" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T03:56:41.830" Title="How often do people get serial down voted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:03:40.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the most part I've seen people behaving well and making the &quot;fun&quot; questions Community Wiki. The only fairly game-proof solution I can see is a fairly high-level moderation function, along the lines of your &quot;Flag Offensive&quot; button, which is only visible to people with enough rep to close / delete questions, perhaps called &quot;Flag Just-for-fun&quot; or &quot;Flag Discussion&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand the offensive flag correctly, you count the number of people who flag a question or answer over time, and only the ones that achieve a certain velocity threshhold show up for your moderators to make the last call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the moderators agree that a question is a purely fun, subjective, or discussion question, they mark it as community wiki and all rep / badge points accrued against the question are reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5381" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:03:40.770" />
  <row Id="1792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:04:41.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I see this kind of activity against my account at least once a day. Pretty obvious too, since there can often be long strings of -2 across old or random questions and answers. I have seen it where it fills my reputation activity list for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:04:41.233" CommentCount="35" />
  <row Id="1794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:05:32.277" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the recipient of it only one time in the past (and even then it was not that major). I think I disagreed with someone on their answer and voted them down, next thing I know I had about 7 of my older answers voted down in quick succession. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people can be pretty thin-skinned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I am editing this because I do take issue with the idea that certain people must &quot;deserve&quot; the action because they happen to get on people's nerves or do something else that may be seen as objectionable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that idea pretty ludicrous. If you are offended by a user, suck it up and deal with it, or if you find it truly abusive, alert the proper authorities. Taking action into your own hands to go and downvote everything you find is not acceptable at all. By downvoting an item, you are giving a subtle clue to future viewers of the answer that it is not correct (when in fact it may be) and you will be providing a disservice to more than just the person you are attacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Edit&lt;/strong&gt; If you are the recipient of a case of serial downvoting, take your problem up with the team by mailing team@stackoverflow.com. Often times this will be taken care of with the nightly rep recalc (wasting the efforts of the voter(s)). It will also allow for the moderators/team to inform the offender that their action is not acceptable behavior on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T14:33:03.597" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:33:03.597" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="1795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:09:28.977" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has never happened to me. If this is happening to you regularly and frequently then perhaps you should be asking what you're doing to attract such attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:09:28.977" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="1796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:11:19.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was covered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-26/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 26&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;: Have you read Eric Raymond's How to Ask Questions?  Like this epic, 100,000 word--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah.  And that's the thing that he tried to encourage people to use as the answer to all Usenet questions that they don't feel like answering right now.  Like, point everybody to How to Ask Questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, this is why I say I think the more sophisticated Stack Overflow users are the ones that actually vote for questions.  Maybe we should have some sort of promotional thing or bonus that comes with that because they appreciate how difficult it is to actually ask a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;: And I think a lot of people don't appreciate good questions. The irony of the thing that Eric Raymond wrote is that the type of people that ask bad questions are not going to read this giant &quot;Treatise on how to ask questions.&quot;  It's this total Catch-22 of a problem -- so who does this document actually serve at that point?  It's just masturbation for someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah.  It's just the way you can be one of these annoying programmers which is like [condescending tone] &quot;I'm not going to answer your question because you did not read this entire document.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;: [laughs] But on Stack Overflow the advantage is that, unlike Usenet, people go in and fix your question.  I won't give you my whole diatribe, but I've seen it happen again and again.  People come in and help you fix your question, and it feels good.  It feels good to help other people, I don't know why.  It's really addictive.  Even I, having built the system -- and frankly I'm a little bit sick of it at this point just because I'm doing it all day every day -- even I still get totally sucked into it.  I'll spend hours, literally, just clicking around Stack Overflow, editing stuff, looking at stuff, learning stuff. The system is incredibly addictive, even to me, so I guess that's fair since we were the target audience.  So I guess it would be a failure if that was not true.  But I enjoy using the system, for what it's worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W25802&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the transcript&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:11:19.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:34.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:28:27.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel Spolsky sometimes mentions the site in his Inc. Magazine column, and he wrote a whole column about how Stack Overflow got started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081101/how-hard-could-it-be-the-unproven-path.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How Hard Could It Be?: The Unproven Path&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1544" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T22:28:32.287" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T22:28:32.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T13:28:27.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:32:30.403" Score="2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm most active in the c++ tag and as a result I find myself referencing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C++ FAQ Lite&lt;/a&gt; quite a bit.  That tendency comes from my brief Usenet experience, where the convention was to link to known good content rather than writing your own answer (i.e., don't reinvent the wheel).  The convention on SO, however, appears to favor writing your own complete answer rather than linking somewhere that might not exist in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the C++ FAQ Lite website has only had one update in the last three years, is there any benefit to posting some of the more interesting FAQs (using the c++-faq tag) on SO and letting the community decide on the best answer?  I'm certainly not suggesting we plagiarize the excellent work of Marhsall Cline et al.  It's just that many C++ language questions (and I think this applies to most programming languages) that come up on SO can be answered simply by referencing the FAQ website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the right thing to do?  Should SO seek to become the home of all programming language FAQs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130126" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T17:56:32.667" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:56:32.667" Title="Should SO seek to be the home of programming language FAQs?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:33:00.747" Score="38" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now there isn't a great way to monitor the questions that I am interested in following. What I seem to do now is go to my recent history for questions I have commented on, and then link to the questions from there. The problem is, if I am really interested in a question, I have to monitor it closely. Sometimes I will &quot;favorite&quot; a question so it is easier to access more quickly, because I do not have a lot of favorites. But favoriting is not the right thing to do. I think you should only favorite a question if you really really like it, not to make it easier to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that you can mark questions as &quot;interested&quot; or something like that. What this means, is that you will get notifications for everything associated with a question: any time a new answer is posted, the answer/question is edited, and &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; comments to any of the answers (or question). This would make it &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; easier to follow questions. Especially if someone adds a new answer or comment way down the road, after you have long forgotten about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice if such a feature allowed you to write a sentence or two to associate with the question to remind you about something. In fact, if this is done, we could just use this feature to implement &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch&quot;&gt;John Skeet's idea&lt;/a&gt; to allow an edit to notify downvoters. Instead of that specific feature, you can mark a question as interested after downvoting and add a comment, &quot;remove downvote when fixed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you all think? Do you propose a better way to manage monitoring questions of interest? (The other thing I do is keep a bunch of browser tabs open with questions I am following... and this is messy :-( ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130236" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T05:53:50.717" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T05:54:41.883" Title="Mark questions to receive notifications and updates?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="1804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1802" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:36:11.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hmmmmmmmm....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I can see value in this from the nature of the site, but in practice I'm not sure that SO can ever be focussed enough to be all things to all men. My gut says that I'd rather places like zvon continued to fill this role and SO remained dedicated to the specifics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:36:11.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:36:30.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to look at these blog entries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:36:30.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:36:41.673" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a question that would, in my opinion, address this issue. It seems to incorporate some ideas here, and it's something I have wanted for a long time. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1803/mark-questions-to-receive-notifications-and-updates&quot;&gt;Check it out here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:36:41.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:37:05.243" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/london/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;London (Oct 28th)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/london.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kensington Town Hall&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Houses.of.parliament.overall.arp.jpg/200px-Houses.of.parliament.overall.arp.jpg&quot; height=&quot;122&quot; alt=&quot;Parliament&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/venueskensington/greathall/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kensington Town Hall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hornton Street&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;London W8 7NX&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;United Kingdom &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13018/annakata&quot;&gt;annakata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5662/andrew&quot;&gt;Andrew Freemantle (Andrew)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4725/tom-hawtin-tackline&quot;&gt;Tom Hawtin - tackline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12048/finnw&quot;&gt;Finn Wilcox (finnw)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6461/splattne&quot;&gt;Stefan Plattner (splattne)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104021/paul-biggar&quot;&gt;Paul Biggar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/151/darren-greaves&quot;&gt;Darren Greaves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3897/robsoft&quot;&gt;Rob Uttley (robsoft)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6088/cgreeno&quot;&gt;Chris Greeno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2961/stu-thompson&quot;&gt;Stu Thompson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1755/matt-lacey&quot;&gt;Matt Lacey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8954/drjokepu&quot;&gt;DrJokepu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2902/unsliced&quot;&gt;unsliced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123266/bruno-rothgiesser&quot;&gt;Bruno Rothgiesser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20972/dominic-rodger&quot;&gt;Dominic Rodger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T11:05:07.203" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T11:05:07.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T13:37:05.243" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:39:14.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the RSS feed for the question? I know that this is not the most ideal (can't see comment posting, etc.) but until a better solution is implemented, this is what you are stuck with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I am not saying that a SO-based solution would not be nice, I am just giving an alternative option compared to a brand new feature that needs to be designed and implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T18:26:04.143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:26:04.143" CommentCount="33" />
  <row Id="1811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:40:34.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand upon TheTXI's answer, I use RSS feeds combined with Google Reader. I feel it is a real winning combination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that between RSS feeds, interesting tag filters, favorites, and the recent history envelope, you should be all set. What are we missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T13:59:56.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:59:56.843" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1802" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:40:55.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it should -strive- to be that...but the longer it stays open and the more questions that roll in, the more it is going to be seen as the standard place to look for information on programming languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:40:55.890" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1816" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:44:05.307" Score="14" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question comes from listening to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-60/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 60&lt;/a&gt; where Jeff states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You want to scew heavily towards action in your life, otherwise you are one of those people who are a philosopher. &quot;Uh lets just think about everything&quot;. You can think about stuff but you should also do stuff, since that's how progress is made in the world&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this was an interesting point. But it missed one element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently work as a system designer, so I have to create rules like those who govern StackOverflow for a living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am on meta mainly to learn more about the design of systems and how a simple rule can change an entire system, and what pitfalls you should avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am here as a student of system design and to provide my experience to others who want it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:28:13.217" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T22:11:41.873" Title="Why are you on meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="18" />
  <row Id="1814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1802" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:44:24.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is closely related to my question on having &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/920/stackoverflow-tutorials-papers&quot;&gt;Articles/Papers available on SO&lt;/a&gt; from Users (or groups of). I actually love the idea - after all, I can see SO being the primary place for developers to go to when they need to learn, or want to contribute. It's going to have anybody from the novice/hobbyist to the academic/professional. It's the greatest environment to publish FAQs, Papers, and Tutorials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:44:24.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:46:11.540" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here for the ladies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well that and I've hit the daily rep cap already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T13:52:18.717" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:52:18.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T13:46:11.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:46:23.507" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cletus promised me ladies. Why else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Seriously though...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious how this stuff works. I've been developing web-applications for years, but I want to learn more about creating community sites that scale well when your audience is in the hundreds-of-thousands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a brilliant conception, and it would be wise of me to glean as much from it as I can for application in my own world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:46:23.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T13:46:59.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:47:12.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I have the time at the moment ;) - or should that be :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to put some guff about making SO a better place, but then thought better of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did give me the chance to have more rep than Jon Skeet (if only for a day) ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T13:55:02.360" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:55:02.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T13:48:05.327" />
  <row Id="1818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:48:36.357" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here because I hit refresh on the main SO site and there were no new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:48:36.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:51:19.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it is about ownership and giving back to the community. I do answer questions, but as I am more and more detached from programming myself, my goal is to turn this phenomenal site into something even more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, in my heart I maybe am sort of a philosopher. Maybe my other job (see profile) is the reason for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:51:19.563" />
  <row Id="1820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:52:01.900" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More opportunities to have a big number next to my name and a picture of a pony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:52:01.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1825" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:52:30.823" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current time as I was writing this is 16:21 (GMT+2) and for some reason 1:20:06 PM UTC appears as &quot;21s ago&quot; on SO. (the date is good however).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't UTC = GMT? (1:20 pm UTC should be 3:20 GMT+2, giving a 1 hour offset meaning that 21 seconds ago should be 1 hour and 21 seconds ago.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I am probably missing something here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130254" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:56:42.590" Title="What’s going on with the time conversions on SO?" Tags="&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:52:56.190" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Boston (Oct 7th)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/boston/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Back Bay Events Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;180 Berkeley Street&lt;br&gt; Boston, MA 02116, USA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/2RGUD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/2RGUD.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/boston/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;From carsonified&quot;&gt;Speakers&lt;/a&gt; (topic)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; (FogBugz)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16929/miguel-de-icaza&quot;&gt;Miguel de Icaza&lt;/a&gt; (Mono)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6524/john-resig&quot;&gt;John Resig&lt;/a&gt; (jQuery)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14343/ned-batchelder&quot;&gt;Ned Batchelder&lt;/a&gt; (Python)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/152182/dan-pilone&quot;&gt;Dan Pilone&lt;/a&gt; (iPhone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.patrickhynds.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Patrick Hynds&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criticalsites.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://216.177.9.81/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Duane Laflotte&lt;/a&gt; (ASP.NET MVC)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/572/thomas-owens&quot;&gt;Thomas Owens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;Kyle Cronin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34211/andrew-hare&quot;&gt;Andrew Hare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/459/dlamblin&quot;&gt;Daniel Lamblin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25664/kyle-walsh&quot;&gt;Kyle Walsh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/326/ian-robinson&quot;&gt;Ian Robinson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2688/bdukes&quot;&gt;Brian Dukes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2273/pandincus&quot;&gt;Pandincus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T00:46:11.110" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T00:46:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T13:52:56.190" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="1823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:55:39.553" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It beats working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:55:39.553" />
  <row Id="1824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:55:55.137" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here because I'm apparently addicted to all things SO. &quot;Crystal SO, gnovice?&quot; &quot;Sure!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, if you were given the opportunity to make suggestions (which were actually considered!) about how your favorite TV shows or movies would be made or how the car you drive was designed, wouldn't you jump at that chance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T14:01:03.003" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:01:03.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:56:42.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's only 13:56 UTC at the moment. I think you're mistaken about your time zone. You may be two hours ahead of &quot;British time&quot; but UK is on BST now, which is UTC+1, making you UTC+3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GMT ~= UTC, so I don't think you're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; GMT+2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where are you, geographically? I can go from a city name to a full Olsen time zone fairly easily :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T13:56:42.590" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2064" CreationDate="2009-07-02T13:58:25.257" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bug #1:&lt;/strong&gt; There is no green mark for indicating the acceptance of a question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/895608/unable-to-have-vim-like-c-w-f-for-screens-copy-mode&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; such that I cannot tick rampion's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Bug #2:&lt;/strong&gt; I had at least one bounty open in SO. They all have disappeared such that no questions have been accepted, not even automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A picture from my profile where there is no green tick&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/SO-bug.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T02:11:36.867" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:11:36.867" ClosedDate="2009-07-03T02:11:43.760" Title="Disappeared indication of my bounties and the green tick" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="1827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1802" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:01:18.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to referencing back to other sources, I think the best solution is quote the relevant text in case the site goes down in the future, and to provided a link to the original material (as closely as you can get to the quoted text).  We can't just start completely ripping off existing sources, but eventually all the relevant portions will be collected, along with additional information from our community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:01:18.417" />
  <row Id="1828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:01:21.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can accept your answer after a certain time. 2 days i think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the bounty. The answer has to fall within &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this criteria&lt;/a&gt; to be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You accept an answer. The bounty is subtracted from your reputation, and awarded to the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You do not accept an answer. Any answer that was a) provided after the bounty period started and b) has 2 or more upvotes is automatically accepted after 7 days. The bounty is subtracted from your reputation. The answerer is awarded half the bounty amount (unless it’s your own answer, see #3 below).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You accept your own answer. The bounty is subtracted from your reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:01:21.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:01:48.803" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/washingtondc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Washington DC (Oct 26th)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/washington.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The State Theatre, Falls Church, VA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestatetheatre.com/index.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The State Theatre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;220 N. Washington St,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Falls Church, &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;&amp;amp;source=s%5Fq&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=VA+22046&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=39.780156,93.076172&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;z=14&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VA 22046&lt;/a&gt;, USA&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Tel: 703 237 0300 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Speakers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bruce Eckel&lt;/a&gt; (Python)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/danpilone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dan Pilone&lt;/a&gt; (iPhone)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;K. Scott Allen&lt;/a&gt; (ASP.NET MVC)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rdworth.org/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Richard E. Worth&lt;/a&gt; - (jQuery) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gollygee.com/weblogs/jblocksom/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jonathan Blocksom&lt;/a&gt; - (Google App Engine)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/3758317570&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The How-To Geek Guy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/117502/brett-bim&quot;&gt;Brent Bim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27868/dmmckinnon&quot;&gt;Daniel McKinnon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17744/micah&quot;&gt;Micah Martin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16587/gortok&quot;&gt;George &quot;Gortok&quot; Stocker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2590/matt-rogish&quot;&gt;Matt Rogish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6897/bob-king&quot;&gt;Bob King&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4660&quot;&gt;yshuditelu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/131313/michael-kohne&quot;&gt;Michael Kohne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1551/ChrisBallance&quot;&gt;Chris Ballance&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/67&quot;&gt;Rex Morgan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/105756&quot;&gt;Jeff Dalton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/58856/rickschott&quot;&gt;Rick Schott&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/636/brianly&quot;&gt;Brian Lyttle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1690/portman&quot;&gt;Portman Wills&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29&quot;&gt;Michael Haren&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T22:19:17.623" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T22:19:17.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T14:01:48.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:07:36.653" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/seattle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Seattle (Oct 21st)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/seattle.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seattlesymphony.org/benaroya/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Benaroya Hall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;200 University Street&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Seattle, WA, 98101&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23283/jaredpar&quot;&gt;JaredPar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1950/jon-erickson&quot;&gt;Jon Erickson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56959/dustin-campbell&quot;&gt;Dustin Campbell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1894/scott-muc&quot;&gt;Scott Muc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastEditorUserId="1894" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T02:29:29.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T02:29:29.223" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T14:07:36.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:11:02.977" Score="14" ViewCount="1331" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, Jeff, what are you using to store reputation, anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:20:55.327" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:20:55.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T14:29:47.940" Title="What happens when Jon Skeet's reputation exceeds the limit for the data type holding it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:11:48.903" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than continue to comment on other's posts. I've decided to open myself up to downvotes by answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been at least two recent metaso questions related to this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch/1772#1772&quot;&gt;Allowing Editor to notify downvoters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is about being able to be notified on edits on &lt;em&gt;only a single post&lt;/em&gt;. Not the entire question (RSS feed and/or Favorite)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/477/what-level-of-notification-should-we-have-regarding-questions-we-have-posted-an-a/1773#1773&quot;&gt;What level of notification should we have regarding questions we have posted an answer to (or left a comment) ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is about being able to be notified on comments on &lt;em&gt;only a single post&lt;/em&gt; that has been commented on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, these all fall under the same broad category of being able to get MORE information about specific things that are changing rather than broad strokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RSS - doesn't cover this problem, because the RSS is on the entire question, which, if the question is very active, would be an incredible amount of noise if you are only concerned with one answer. Also, as noted in my comments, I prefer my Outlook inbox to be for work emails, but that doesn't mean I don't want to be notified about these things when I log in to SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Favorite - I can favorite a question, but then I have to manually check every one of them to see if any comments have been added, or any of the pieces of it have been edited. And again, I would still need to click through in order to check if the particular post I was concerned with was edited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion for these were enumerated on both the previously linked questions, but I feel it's worth repeating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a checkbox on every individual post that says &quot;notify me when this is edited&quot; which would generate a notice in your &quot;SO Event Feed&quot; (the thing that shows up when you click the mailbox).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a checkbox on every individual posts that says &quot;notify me when this is commented&quot; which would generate a notice in your &quot;SO Event Feed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A third option would be to merge those two, since it seems likely that people who want to follow the comments would also follow the edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, you could choose precisely what you want to be informed of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:11:48.903" />
  <row Id="1834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:12:31.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user id of the &quot;Masi&quot; account here on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130026/masi&quot;&gt;MSO&lt;/a&gt; is 130026.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user id of the &quot;Masi&quot; account on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54964/masi&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; associated with that question is 54964.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my user ids on SO, SF and MSO are all the same - 59303. I didn't do anything special when  registering with SF and MSO so I would imagine everyone else's are too. In previous questions you've mentioned having multiple accounts to help manage your questions. Have you logged on with the wrong account in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I may have been hasty in my assumption that the same user has the same id on all sites. A comment in another answer indicates that it isn't always the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T14:20:22.987" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:20:22.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1802" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:12:51.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do quite a few code examples on sites such as pastebin.me and jsbin.com which allow you to live demo script. I just link to the url but it will cause an issue when any of these pastebins go down or close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a uservoice request for a pastebin.stackoverflow.com turned down as it was a duplicate. I am still searching for the original!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:12:51.757" />
  <row Id="1837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:14:15.013" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/sanfrancisco/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;San Francisco (Oct 19th)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/sanfrancisco.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fortmason.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fort Mason Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Landmark Building A&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;San Francisco, CA, 94123, USA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26/shawn&quot;&gt;Shawn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26837/brent-ozar&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23234/jeff-yates&quot;&gt;Jeff Yates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/106&quot;&gt;Sean Massa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/116/mark-harrison&quot;&gt;Mark Harrison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4835/tooshel&quot;&gt;Sheldon McGee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/763/mattmillr&quot;&gt;Matt Miller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T03:55:36.293" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T03:55:36.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T14:14:15.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:15:32.797" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/toronto/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Toronto (Oct 23rd)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/toronto.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Venue&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stlc.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts&lt;/a&gt; - Jane Mallet Theater&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;27 Front Street East&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Toronto, ON, M5E 1B4, Canada&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Tel: 416.366.7723&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Speakers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jordan Baker (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/hexsprite/a-taste-of-python-devdays-toronto-2009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Taste of Python Slides&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Barry Gervin and Joey Devilla (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/AccordionGuy/urine-for-a-treat-or-aspnet-mvc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Urine for a Treat (or ASP.Net/MVC) Slides&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ralph Whitbeck (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ralphwhitbeck.com/2009/10/25/StackOverflowDevDaysTorontoMySlides.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery Slides&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Greg Wilson (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bits of Evidence Slides&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://craigagreen.com/downloads/gregwilson.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Audio&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reginald Braithwaite (Ruby/Thinking about thinking about programming - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/raganwald/sets/72157622647242360/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Revised.revised(Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)) Slides&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://reginald.braythwayt.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his site&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3333/paul-tomblin&quot;&gt;Paul Tomblin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40650/balabaster&quot;&gt;Ben Alabaster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29043/john-macintyre&quot;&gt;John Macintyre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/84416/cwrea&quot;&gt;Chris W. Rea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/506/matthew-ruston&quot;&gt;Matthew Ruston&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wolever.net/~wolever/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Wolever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6144/scunliffe&quot;&gt;Stephen Cunliffe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastEditorUserId="6144" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T15:02:15.833" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T15:02:15.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T14:15:32.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:16:03.653" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clever Marketing...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/metaso.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T15:18:29.883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:18:29.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T15:20:16.727" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="1841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:18:55.987" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It goes to MIN_INT and the rest of us get to look down on him for a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:18:55.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1714" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:19:44.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the Strunk &amp;amp; White badge extended to recognize persistent editing with intent to improve - or a new badge to recognize continued efforts to improve questions (and answers).  I can see that you'd probably not award it every 100 edits; more like every 1000, perhaps.  But I know I spend time - quite a lot of time overall - fixing the grammar of questions and answers, or just fixing up trivia (like the persistent inability of people to press the shift key at the same time as the 'i' key).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although a few questions are awful, and occasionally they are from people with high enough reputation scores to leave you wondering, most questions have some redeeming quality and can be fixed up to leave a semi-reasonable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised to find a user whose profile showed many (200+) questions, one answer, and 6 votes (2 up, 4 down).  Said user has amassed some 1300 reputation points.  That's an odd profile - and perhaps not one that is going to get to the upper end of the reputation league, though they've only been aboard under two months.  I am sure that this non-contributory - or only somewhat contributory - technique should not be encouraged; indeed, I wonder whether there should be limits on the powers gained when the reputation comes predominantly from questions and not answers.  In my opinion, someone who gains all their reputation points from asking questions has not demonstrated that they should be trusted to edit answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:19:44.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:21:18.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, answering the question, it has happened to me once or twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like you are one of the few (if there's more than one) people who get serially downvoted daily. That is serious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Serial downvoters should be detected via the vote fraud scripts and punished, heavily, as  should all bad behavior (like insults, offenses and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:21:18.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:22:09.677" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;2^32 = 4294967296 (unsigned int)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4294967296 / 200 = 21474836.48 (factor in daily rep cap)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;21474836.48 / 365 = 58835.1684... (factor in days in a year)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would take Jon Skeet (and his descendants presumably) 58835 years to overflow the datatype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been correctly pointed out that Jon Skeet is not bound by a 200 rep cap.&#xA;He in fact has an average of &lt;strong&gt;279.850...&lt;/strong&gt; points per day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;74 720 (JonSkeetRep) / 9 (MonthsActive) * (365 / 12) (avgDaysPerMonth)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2^32 = 4294967296 (unsigned int)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4294967296 / 272.949 (JonSkeetDailyRepAvg) = 15735420.5217... (NumberOfDaysToOverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;15735420.5217 (NumberOfDaysToOverflow) / 365.25 (AvgDaysInYear) = 43081.2334... (NumberOfYearsToOverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Jon Skeet would still have to live &lt;strong&gt;another&lt;/strong&gt; 43000 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second edit to reflect the fact that there are &lt;em&gt;365&lt;/em&gt; days in a year and not &lt;em&gt;356&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T19:39:36.183" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:39:36.183" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="1847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="793" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:33:37.853" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is documented on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to your user page and click &lt;strong&gt;add openid&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;change openid&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/openid-multiple-association-2-new.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that once both are populated, the &lt;strong&gt;primary&lt;/strong&gt; OpenId will be overwritten if you associate another OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use the [swap] link (not pictured) to switch your primary and secondary OpenID at will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After changing, &lt;s&gt;beware that copying your profile to other accounts &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5656/copy-profile-from-stack-overflow-didnt-copy-alternate-openid/6018#6018&quot;&gt;does not copy the OpenID details&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/s&gt; you might want to click on &quot;Copy Stack Overflow login credentials to all Stack Exchange sites&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/G9sKb.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-07-03T05:44:51.507" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T05:44:51.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:54.673" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:38:32.927" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a &quot;first page power-user&quot;, but I frequent less heavily attacked topics than C# or Java - predominantly C, SQL, Unix-y tags.  Many of the answers that have cost me the most effort have only been rewarded with just a few up-votes and the accept tag.  Some of my more casual answers manage to get many more up-votes.  That's life on SO.  There is an element of hit and miss as to when you get to see the question.  I don't mind that I live on the fringes; maybe I'm just eclectic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's ample room in the less frequented areas to provide useful answers.  You can make a decent reputation doing so.  It amuses me that I have the fewest badges of anyone on the 'first page' (though there's one with 4K more reputation and only 3 more badges).  I have provided lots of answers (though nowhere near as many as Mr Skeet), but they seem to have less average worth than many other people's answers.  (I know someone who went out and deleted their answers if they didn't garner up-votes; I only usually delete my answers with down-votes, or ones which are flimsy enough given answers that arrive later that a down-vote is likely.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do get votes from old answers - at the moment, more of my points for today are from old work than from answers given this week.  That's useful; it is a side-benefit of having provided a lot of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the people with high reputation scores are also generous with their votes - having voted thousands of times each.  Although you can't track who voted, there is a clear correlation between own reputation and voting record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:38:32.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:39:59.447" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do you think the rep cap was invented? Defensive coding in the guise of a social mechanism ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:39:59.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T14:39:59.447" />
  <row Id="1853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1858" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:40:22.550" Score="3" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;From some time now I noticed on the right (in stackoverflow.com) there are only silver badges being awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a bug or we have no more users that earn bronze, leaving only the silver ones for more active users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:45:16.657" Title="No more bronze badges being awarded on SO?" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:40:51.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I got my degree in philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:40:51.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:43:04.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which badges are you talking about, &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; bronze badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a user who earned a bronze badge today&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/132309/robbo&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/132309/robbo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:43:04.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:43:06.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a while back that you don't get your bronze badge for nice answer (or related) if you happen to have a question that was previously given that badge and happened to fall below the limit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:43:06.990" />
  <row Id="1857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:44:42.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Came here yesterday for the first time to complain about a newb policy, then got sucked into thinking about the whole system design/community aspects. Similar reasons to Ólafur Waage's answer, which he articulates better than I could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also (hate to admit it, but...) having Jeff Atwood comment on my first post here was kind of a rush.  I've read that compulsive gamblers are often formed when they hit the jackpot the first time they gamble - that's a little like the feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After only a day on SO, I'm seeing a lot of what behavioral psychologists call &quot;variable schedules of reinforcement&quot;, which can lead to addictive behavior.  No doubt I'll have more to say on this in the future (unless the Intervention happens first ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here I am again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102554" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:44:42.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:44:45.237" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We stopped showing bronze &lt;em&gt;on the homepage&lt;/em&gt; because they were so commonly awarded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only silver or better are shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is only a display issue and has nothing to do with the badges themselves or how they are awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:44:45.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:45:40.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think things may be improved by making a distinction between &quot;entities&quot; (php, java, mysql) and &quot;concepts&quot; (bestpractice, design, ui).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, the system filters my results pretty well, but it would be interesting to see whether splitting the tags into groups as suggested above, and giving concepts priority (as they are typically entity independant), would provide even better results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130261" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:45:40.087" />
  <row Id="1861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1879" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:49:09.300" Score="4" ViewCount="622" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the /badges page for a logged-in user, there is a green check beside each badge that the user has obtained.  This check is the unicode symbol &amp;amp;#10004, but for many users that will display as a block.  This is the case on a default English Windows XP install (I think because Arial Unicode isn't there by default), which I imagine covers a huge part of your audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better if you just used an image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/359/check.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T03:54:29.477" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T03:54:29.477" Title="Check marks indicating obtained badges use unicode &amp;#10004 symbol, not available for many users" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;unicode&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1865" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:53:30.117" Score="8" ViewCount="1340" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has (or could) the database schema for Stack Overflow been made publicly available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not the whole schema, how about a list of the tables used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want this as a learning resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88631" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:18:10.407" Title="SO database Schema?" Tags="&lt;database&gt;&lt;schema&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="1864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:56:33.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they will ever really do this because there is a lot of money invested in it as well as the StackExchange framework. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will imagine there will be more details, though, in the future when they release an official API to work with certain areas of the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; as Rich B said, there is also the data dumps, which displays a lot of what you may be looking for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T15:02:12.013" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:02:12.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:57:17.610" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not the whole schema, but we've documented the contents of the database export schema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/How%5Fto%5FImport%5Fthe%5FStackOverflow%5FXML%5Finto%5FSQL%5FServer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how to import the database dump into SQL Server&lt;/a&gt;, which includes table creation statements, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding%5Fthe%5FStackOverflow%5FDatabase%5FSchema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my notes about the schema&lt;/a&gt; like the field contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:57:17.610" />
  <row Id="1866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:57:59.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you looked at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; yet? I know it is not 100% complete, but I would think it would give you a reasonable starting place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T14:57:59.417" />
  <row Id="1867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5045" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:03:07.563" Score="8" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;And if so, is reputation recalculated (removed) for that question and all its answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens here in meta that questions (features requests) are closed when they are completed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-24T21:34:04.827" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T22:15:21.343" Title="Do closed questions ever get deleted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:06:10.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't there a skeetfact about how all data types descend from Jon Skeet anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:06:10.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T15:06:10.257" />
  <row Id="1869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:06:53.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe by default they are not deleted, but a moderator can delete them. I think this is helpful, especially in the case of dups because there are many ways to ask the same question, so it provides more &quot;pointers&quot; to the question. Additionally, I believe deleted questions do eventually result in recalculated rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:06:53.500" />
  <row Id="1870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:10:59.230" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators (&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: more specifically, users over 10k reputation) can vote to delete a closed question after 48 hours and it takes 3 of our votes to delete it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that it can be voted to reopen (&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Olafur says that it is NOT reopened, just undeleted still in closed status) past the delete status using the same mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, rep is NOT recalced, which can make it a little confusing since you will have rep awarded or lost at some point but no longer be able to see how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited to add:&lt;/strong&gt; Additionally, Moderators, in the ♦ sense, can delete any question, at any time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T17:24:29.753" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:24:29.753" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="1871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1889" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:18:56.590" Score="15" ViewCount="535" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the purpose of up/downvoting answers -- some answers are better than others, some answers may be wrong, .etc.  With regard to questions, though, there are other mechanisms to deal with &quot;bad&quot; questions:  comments, close, flag.  A poorly written question should be improved.  A bad question should be closed/deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, though I see poorly written questions downvoted. I'm not sure what this accomplishes.  I get loss of rep for offensive or spam questions, but for an off-topic question?  or one that is just poorly written?   Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that rep ought to be based more on answers on a site of this type.   Fundamentally, it seems that rep ought to be based on what you add to the site, not what you ask of it.  A particularly good question does add to the site, but a poor question doesn't really detract from it in the same way that a bad (wrong) answer does. Sure, go ahead and give people more rep for asking a particularly good question, but why punish people for asking bad questions when there are other ways of handling that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not handle questions more like comments and allow upvotes, but not downvotes?  It seems to me that many, if not most, of the downvoted questions are first timers.  It's more likely that your first introduction to the site will be in asking a question, rather than answering. There is a significant risk to alienating new users when their questions are downvoted -- there's a visceral response to seeing that negative number next to your question.  Why not let the close/flag system weed out questions that don't belong and the comment system work to improve poorly worded questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T03:41:50.910" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T11:13:38.797" Title="What purpose does downvoting questions serve?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:20:10.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/cambridge/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cambridge (Oct 30th)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/cambridge.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/conference-venue-cambridge.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robinson College Auditorium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Grange Road&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Cambridge, CB3 9AN, UK (&lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s%5Fq&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=robinson+Grange+Road,+Cambridge,+CB3+9AN,&amp;amp;sll=52.202808,0.105314&amp;amp;sspn=0.020936,0.043216&amp;amp;g=Grange+Road,+Cambridge,+CB3+9AN,&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ll=52.204516,0.105604&amp;amp;spn=0.005234,0.010804&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=17&amp;amp;iwloc=A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;map&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Speakers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christian Heilmann&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frank Stajano&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Steven Sanderson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remy Sharp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael Foord&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/75245/perspx&quot;&gt;Alex Rozanski (Perspx)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56285/jonik&quot;&gt;Jonik&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/51445/kaitsu&quot;&gt;Kaitsu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4728/simonn&quot;&gt;simonn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31480/gid&quot;&gt;Gareth Davis (gid)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62667/gaz&quot;&gt;GaZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastEditorUserId="130027" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T06:28:51.520" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T06:28:51.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T15:20:10.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1871" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:21:54.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good point. I mean, considering the fact we can vote-close a particular question...what good is there in down-voting it? The only types of questions I down-vote / close-vote are typically spam-ish in nature. Or, if the author uses inappropriate language/etc I may down-vote / close-vote too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again...down-voting a question leaves a mark on the authors reputation. This isn't the case with vote-closing a question (or atleast I don't think it is). If a user is abusing the system via questions (commercial in nature, &quot;How can you NOT want x-gadget&quot;) voting their question closed won't really discourage that type of behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps down-voting questions is a good thing after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T15:33:09.163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:33:09.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:22:20.687" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see an opt-in option where people who leave comments may request to get notifications when people leave comments to their comments. (Comments from the question asker)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, If I ask a new question and someone asks me for more clarification  in a form of a question in a comment and I reply, it would be beneficial if the person gets a notification so that the thread continues. I am pretty sure that person is not going to keep checking to see if I replied. People just move on to more recent activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen a few questions in limbo because of unanswered questions in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:22:20.687" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1871" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:27:58.817" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everybody has the ability to vote to close a question, so voting down a question is often times their way of expressing &quot;this is a bad question and does not belong&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it is common to vote down questions that need lots of work in terms of having horrible sentence structure and are basically unreadable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can best be summed up with the idea that there are as many reasons for voting down a question as there are people who vote them down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:27:58.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1871" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:34:58.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we subscribe to the downvoting as punishment way of thinking then downvoting is the way to handle inappropriate questions, whatever their inappropriateness might be (offensive, stupid, badly written).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we subscribe to the downvoting as marking useless questions, then downvoting would be a way to handle spam mostly (or utterly incomprehensible questions, maybe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1747/downvotes-as-punishment-for-bad-behavior&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; totally unscientific poll (well, not even a poll), around half of the population subscribes to the downvoting as punishment way of thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another relevant point is that not everyone can vote to close, so they'll vent up the frustration via a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: After the discussion below I've come to think that the real value of downvoting questions is to help people discriminate and let them have the chance not to read uncomprehensible or otherwise awful questions until they've been fixed. As always, downvote with a comment (even if you get serially downvoted for it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T15:44:02.177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:44:02.177" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="1877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:37:54.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took it to mean J&amp;amp;J think we are &lt;strong&gt;losers&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;groupies&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;fanboyz&lt;/strong&gt; who need lives.  :P  OK, it wasn't so explicate...but...welll...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I kinda agree with their points and am dramatically cutting down on my MSO time.  I'd taken an interest because UV never did it for me and _nobody's site was kinda dead.  Wikipedians who get too wrapped up into the Wiki laws, personalities, etc always kinda freaked me out.  Don't want to start calling User #1 Jeffbo....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:37:54.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1871" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:37:59.353" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the tooltip for the down vote button says: &quot;This is unclear or not useful.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that really is the only criteria we need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:37:59.353" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1861" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:38:55.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be corrected (in IE at least) by going to Tools &gt; Internet Options &gt; &quot;General&quot; tab &gt; Fonts and select &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot; as the default font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:38:55.717" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:44:43.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me I guess I'm more of the &quot;fly on the wall.&quot; I've been around since the beta, I've seen and participated through some of the major issues that have arrived over the development, granted not as much as others. I want to continue to observe and help with the continued development of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:44:43.173" />
  <row Id="1883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1718" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:46:27.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was suggested once on UserVoice, and declined. IMHO, it would be a great feature to have. This strange mix of wiki and forum, public and private ownership... has tilted too far in the direction of private, and it's hurting both the site and those who would work to improve it. Wikipedia makes you seek out editors and contributors, we could do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SO model depends on ego, and reducing the visibility of editors would let egos win without crippling editing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think making this an opt-in feature would suffice - if you're making a minor edit (fix typos, formatting) check it, if you're adding or changing something more significant then don't. And then add the ability to flag individual edits so as to allow easier identification of abusive editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:46:27.460" />
  <row Id="1884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:47:40.127" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer does discourage new answers. The system is even designed to look for unaccepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I feel you should accept an answer &lt;strong&gt;when your problem is fixed. Whenever that is.&lt;/strong&gt; Of course there are limits to when you think should accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your problem is fixed, a better answer is either &quot;do something else because of X&quot; or the same as the accepted but more info on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can easily monitor new answers to your question from the envelope. So you should be able to see if anyone adds to your accepted question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:47:40.127" />
  <row Id="1885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:48:48.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say so, as it implies the original person looking for an answer doesn't need it/won't check back. I'd only accept an answer that actually fixes the problem I've got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, questions are supposed to be objective, rather than subjective. (&quot;Why doesn't this work&quot; vs. &quot;What's the best way to fix this&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:48:48.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:49:42.383" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only aware of one instance where it happened to me, but I'm not as active as some others on SO..  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that situation, an individual had posted an obviously wrong answer to a question (using a completely different technology in a bad way).  I did not initially downvote their answer, but posted a comment that pointed out the problem.  They subsequently deleted my comment, so I added it back and also downvoted at that time.  Within a few minutes they had deleted my comment again and also downvoted several of the top answers on my profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than get ego-involved, I just decided to ignore it and move on.  Some people just won't be reasonable, and it's not my job to force them to be so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:49:42.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:54:30.500" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do believe that it discourages more answers. That's why I typically wait for a while before awarding a check mark on a question, unless the answer was spot on exactly what I needed (such as in &quot;how do I...&quot; questions). After giving it a day or two, then I will tend to revisit questions and award check marks to the best answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T15:54:30.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:55:03.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the questioner's point of view accepting an answer means &quot;thanks to this answer I've solved my problem&quot;. So if that's the case then you as questioner should accept the relevant answer. You don't owe any future potential answerer's anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the answerer's point of view it shows which questions we shouldn't waste our time answering as no one is going to be particularly interested in the answer. We can go off and search for questions no answers or no accepted answers and try there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes accepting an answer will discourage more answers, but that (in my opinion) is a good thing. There's nothing stopping you adding a new answer if you think that there's something missing from the answers already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T19:36:36.777" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:36:36.777" />
  <row Id="1889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1871" CreationDate="2009-07-02T15:56:53.597" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting on questions serves a very similar purpose to voting on answers: it provides a visible hint to other readers. Chances are, a heavily down-voted question or answer is not worth the time to read, while one with up-votes might well be worth a look. Even more: since August 2010, downvotes also feed the automated &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56817/can-we-prevent-some-of-the-low-quality-questions-from-entering-our-system/60294#60294&quot;&gt;Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account&lt;/a&gt;, to filter out low quality questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have a question and I'm searching for an answer, I want to find an existing question that asks this question (and has good answers for it). I don't want a question that was unclear, because chances are the answers will be similarly unhelpful. Not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; - but if there are two questions that match my search, then the one that made it easy to provide a good answer is the one I want to read &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;sympathy votes&lt;/a&gt; irritate me - they skew the rating of a question or answer away from the intended &quot;who found this useful / unhelpful&quot; scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T19:39:29.183" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T19:39:29.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1892" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:05:33.640" Score="11" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user commits to serially down voting a series of questions/answers from a specific user in a certain amount of time, make those down votes cost more and more as they go. This way serial down voting will work if the user is committed, but they have to pay the penalty for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this were to be implemented, what other rules and conditions would you like to see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this seems like a much cleaner solution than the current recalc script that runs once a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T03:55:46.137" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:08:35.217" Title="Please add a serial downvote tax" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1890" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:08:39.497" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already a downvote tax (one rep per downvote), and there are system tools designed to stop anomalous downvoting patterns (see here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vote Fraud and You&lt;/a&gt;).  The most damage one person can do in one day is 60 rep--pretty small to most active users with thousands of rep.  And if you see evidence that someone is being abusive, you can always e-mail the admins and they'll take a look.  I don't see the need for an extra system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T14:02:36.057" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T14:02:36.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1890" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:09:24.927" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To this, I would add: it should only apply to older posts. If someone's flooding the site with reposts of their question (as does happen on occasion), it makes more sense to flag and close them. But I don't see any reason to punish those who down-vote them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:08:35.217" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:08:35.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:12:08.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No way! Only the text smilies are universally loved. Everyone has different taste in graphical smilies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T16:12:08.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T16:12:08.460" />
  <row Id="1894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:14:34.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible solution would be to have reputation leak with some constant amount (same as &quot;rep decay&quot; mentioned by Jon Skeet above?), but with the high water mark visible and some more elaborate statistics if one digs deep enough on the user page. Statistics could show total rep earned, best day/week/month, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would perhaps make it less &quot;intimidating&quot; to newcomers since the actual rep shown under the user name would be lower than the total earned. Keeping statistics would make it possible to get the full picture and &quot;real&quot; rep of the person for anyone interested (such as fans and employers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130263" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T16:14:34.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1928" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:18:52.220" Score="5" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been discussed before, but in light of some of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1790/how-often-do-people-get-serial-down-voted&quot;&gt;recent conversation on serial downvoting&lt;/a&gt;, I can't help but wonder what is accomplished by displaying the author of a given question or answer.  There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198/should-there-be-anonymous-answers-and-questions&quot;&gt;similar question regarding anonymous rep&lt;/a&gt;, but if anything, I don't think it goes far enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If questions and answers are supposed to stand on their own merit, why do we need to show the author at all?  I'm not proposing any change to the way rep works; rep should still be accrued and abilities gained.  The only difference is that questions and answers would appear anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this better reflect the goals of SO?  If so, how far do you think the anonymity should be taken?  If not, what shortcomings am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T01:32:54.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:32:54.447" Title="Should questions and answers show the author?" Tags="&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;anonymous&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1895" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:21:07.393" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that ownership of questions and answers is a good thing.  It fosters a sense of community and allows us to know &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; it is that has answered our questions or asked a question we answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this information can be used maliciously but I think that the benefit of community outweighs the risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T16:21:07.393" />
  <row Id="1897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1895" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:21:08.203" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you get rid of the whole concept of &quot;ownership,&quot; a significant percentage of the users here would contribute a lot less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users are here, not only to share information and to help out a community, but to &lt;strong&gt;show off their skills&lt;/strong&gt; a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T16:21:08.203" />
  <row Id="1899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1895" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:23:04.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll play Devil's Advocate here since it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198/should-there-be-anonymous-answers-and-questions&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; that discusses anonymity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is merit in being able to see the identity and rep of the person answering your question. It gives you a clue as to how reliable the answer is likely to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T16:23:04.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:40:49.670" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/amsterdam/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amsterdam (Nov 2nd)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/amsterdam.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A barn.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westergasfabriek.nl/english/engels%5Fwelcome.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Westergasfabriek - Transformatorhuis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Klönneplein 2&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Amsterdam, 1014 DD, The Netherlands&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Speakers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Spolsky (Fogbugz)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christian Heilmann (Yahoo)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simon Willison (Python)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frank Stajano (Google App Engine)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alex Thissen (ASP.NET MVC)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jörn Zaefferer (jQuery)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/117831/dyve&quot;&gt;dyve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6399/edoode&quot;&gt;Edoode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40072/imkes60&quot;&gt;imkes60&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31822/perica-zivkovic&quot;&gt;Perica Zivkovic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/99422/peter-stegnar&quot;&gt;Peter Stegnar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/106064/timw&quot;&gt;Tim Wynants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4725/tom-hawtin-tackline&quot;&gt;Tom Hawtin - tackline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8159/whatsisname&quot;&gt;Whatsisname&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3134/franks&quot;&gt;Frank Sons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1007/serge&quot;&gt;Serge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="131191" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T21:04:10.410" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T21:04:10.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T16:40:49.670" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="1903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:48:54.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't one in Tel Aviv, is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T16:48:54.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T16:48:54.970" />
  <row Id="1904" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:57:21.190" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the Stackoverflow home page. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Type into the search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;utf-16&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Press enter&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scroll down to the bottom of the page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;Next&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page that comes up is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=utf26&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;tab=relevance&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=utf26&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;tab=relevance&lt;/a&gt; as though my search term was &quot;utf26&quot; not &quot;utf-16&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may have something to do with a previous search I did, for &quot;ucs-2&quot; I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.0.11, Windows XP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65977" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T04:53:40.553" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T04:53:40.553" Title="Bug report: &quot;next&quot; button in search changes the search term" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="1905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T16:59:01.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iceland&lt;/strong&gt; (wishes upon a star)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ólafur Waage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T16:59:01.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T16:59:01.280" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1904" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:00:41.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the page boxes are incrementing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Page 2 is utf26&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Page 3 is utf36&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Page 4 is utf46&lt;br&gt;&#xA;etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T17:11:58.020" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:11:58.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:06:25.973" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is all very silly in my opinion.  If someone is faster, smarter, more knowledgeable, and more eloquent than others they will, &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt;, achieve a higher reputation on stackoverflow.com than those who are slower, less intelligent, less knowledgeable, and have trouble expressing themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how life works.  I think the ecosystem/predator analogy is a good one.  I really would not like to see &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; deliberately handicap themselves.  The only thing this would do would create a perception of equality between all members of the site that does not exist.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a reason that Jon and Marc are the leaders in the C# arena by a great margin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They are faster, smarter, more knowledgeable, and more eloquent then everyone else who is answering C# questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any attempt to level the playing field to make those of us with less reputation feel better will only result in a degradation of the credibility of our most prominent users.  And it is the &lt;em&gt;credibility&lt;/em&gt; of any user along with the correct substance of the answers that they provide that makes the site worthwhile at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:06:25.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1871" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:07:09.030" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you should stop thinking about downvotes as punishment. It's more a quality assurance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:07:09.030" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1911" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:11:24.277" Score="10" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question is raised and two answers are posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first is a solution that adheres to best practice and industry convention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second uses a kludge to get the right result&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should voters act in this situation? Am I encouraged to vote up an answer simply because it answers the question? Should I be down-voting an answer that strays from best practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, someone may ask how to pull out an attribute from a specific line of XML:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer 1 would demonstrate use of XPath&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer 2 uses a regex to extract the attribute.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130262" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:05:46.813" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:05:46.813" Title="Should you downvote an answer that &quot;works&quot; because it is not strictly &quot;correct&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;wrong-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="8" />
  <row Id="1910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:15:10.010" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you should edit it and make it correct and safe. Or failing that, identify the scenarios in which it will break badly, and point them out via comments... Then down-vote with self-righteous fury at the short-sighted programmers now-a-days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:15:10.010" />
  <row Id="1911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:16:24.513" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would upvote &lt;strong&gt;Answer 1&lt;/strong&gt; and not upvote &lt;strong&gt;Answer 2&lt;/strong&gt;.  Correctness is about more than just accomplishing the end goal.  In other words &lt;em&gt;the ends do not justify the means&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good answer needs to not only provide a solution but it needs to provide a solution in a manner that adheres to best practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; the second answer but I don't think it deserves an upvote along with the better answer simply because it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:16:24.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:18:06.990" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is where the lack of granularity of up/down votes gets sticky.  For me, you have three categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers which provide the right information - these get upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers which provide incomplete information or a solution that works but isn't a particularly good idea - no vote of any kind, perhaps a comment explaining the shortcoming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers which don't answer the question, are factually wrong, or are simply so terrible as to make me sad - downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I doubt even half of the community treat it the same way, which is either a blessing or a curse, depending on who you ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:18:06.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:18:10.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, recently they refactored the entire database, de-normalizing it some and duplicating columns across tables to minimize joins and speed up queries.  So if you did see it, you'd probably think it was amateur because of the dupe columns.  It wouldn't be a good learning point (unless you started with the old version, and saw the queries they improved by moving to the new version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:18:10.407" />
  <row Id="1914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:28:24.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say vote up the &lt;em&gt;most correct&lt;/em&gt; answer (at the time of your voting). So in your example, I would vote up the XPath answer unless the questioner specifies that he doesn't have a real XML library and so couldn't use XPath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:28:24.877" />
  <row Id="1915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:28:38.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is precisely how and why the SO voting system works. Some will look at that and upvote both, many will upvote the first and not vote on the second and a few may downvote the second as bad practice. Personally, I'm not inclined to downvote for something that works but is not best practice because there is a better way. But regardless, in the end I believe the votes work themselves out so that the answer with the best practice in it ends up at the top and the one that works but might not be advisable is second in line, above those that don't answer the question at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:28:38.400" />
  <row Id="1916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:32:17.660" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is that when someone is asking a question, certain conditions cause a message to appear advising the user that their question may be appropriate for community wiki status, and explaining briefly what this means.  The conditions under which this would happen would include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) The title containing any of the keywords:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;favorite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;opinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;most&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;least&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;best (or possibly phrase &quot;are the best&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;worst&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;think&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;feel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Any of these tags are used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not-programming-related (for SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;poll&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;humor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="47529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T06:03:37.800" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T06:03:37.800" Title="Suggest community wiki based on title keywords, tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1916" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:35:20.053" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules for what is Community Wiki are so screwed up already I don't know if you could effectively program to look for questions that might be CW status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think before we try and provide helpful tips to question askers, we need to figure out what CW actually means first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that they could easily avoid the little warning by  just not using those tags as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T18:14:47.883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:14:47.883" />
  <row Id="1918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1916" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:36:19.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this suggestion, but would also like to see them start out closed and require five votes to re-open...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:36:19.710" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:38:38.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/losangeles/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Los Angeles (Oct 16th)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/losangeles.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;California Science Center&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;California Science Center&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Loker Room &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;700 Exposition Park Drive &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Los Angeles, CA, 90037 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/GenInfo/PlanningYourVisit/Directions/FreewayMap2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;freeway map&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp;&amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/GenInfo/PlanningYourVisit/Directions/StreetMap.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;street map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/42346/adam-bernier&quot;&gt;Adam Bernier&lt;/a&gt; (looking forward to it!) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/37207/tjb&quot;&gt;T.J. Barbour&lt;/a&gt; (can't wait!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4835/tooshel&quot;&gt;Sheldon McGee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastEditorUserId="4835" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T16:59:51.100" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:59:51.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T17:38:38.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1916" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:46:05.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's just start everything as CW and require 5 votes to turn it into a regular question.  I'm only half-kidding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:46:05.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2009-07-02T17:58:30.623" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would only add another answer for a question with an accepted answer if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the accepted answer is wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the accepted answer is flawed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a good alternative to the accepted answer that is not yet covered &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the first cases, you'd want to add a comment as well.. (and downvotes!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T17:58:30.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1890" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:03:55.663" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we are identifying a voting pattern we don't like, we should be stopping it entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All downvotes should be consistent. They are all worth equal amounts and they cause identical amounts of rep-burn to the user. If you start costing people more to downvote once they've been identified as serial downvoters, then how do you recognize a 'good' downvote from them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was once a user that answered a question of mine very well, and I upvoted him, and I was interested to read some of the other things he had written. I read a few of them, and there were some very blatant impolite suggestions, and some incorrect answers. After reading a few of his answers, I'd given 4 downvotes and 2 upvotes. That user was &quot;SO Sucks&quot;. He's since changed his name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the point is that I wasn't being malicious, I had no grudge against this user, I just found answers that I thought were worthy of downvotes. Overall, after doing that voting, &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; ended up down 4 rep points, and he was up 12. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your suggestion is put in place, I would be down something like 10 points, and he'd still be up 12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the comments, I think a good solution would be to have a cap on the number of votes you can give to any one user in a particular day. &#xA;With the red-pop-up we all recognize as the &quot;I can't let you do that&quot; box. That way, the votes remain consistent in their value and their and effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, we'd want to have a flag if they were mostly negative as well, because most users have upvote behaviour that FAR outweighs their number of downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this would make it difficult to downvote spammers into oblivion, becuase if they post 6 times, we can't do anything about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Scratch that, we can just flag their butts into oblivion)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T18:28:52.233" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:28:52.233" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="1927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1895" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:09:13.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From so SO FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is completely optional; normal use of Stack Overflow — asking and answering questions — does not require any reputation whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As we've said all along — Stack Overflow is run by you! If you want to help us run Stack Overflow, you'll need reputation first. Reputation is a (very) rough &lt;strong&gt;measurement of how much the Stack Overflow community trusts you&lt;/strong&gt;. Reputation is never given, it is earned by convincing other Stack Overflow users that you know what you're talking about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff says it pretty clearly. Rep and owners are CRITICAL PILLARS of the SO formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all trust Jon Skeet. Because his answers are consistently solid and thorough. But would it be as noticable if he was anonymous? Wouldn't this discourage him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marc Gravell and Bill the Lizard both became moderators because of their consistent and excellent behaviour on the site. Both from their technical advice, and their voting/comment/closing behaviour. They were good examples of what we want an SO user to be. The only way we could know that is because they attach their names to everything they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T18:32:01.867" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:32:01.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1895" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:17:53.103" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution of others' material should be hideable at user option.&lt;/strong&gt;  If one wants to hide identities of others, to minimize one's own bias, one should be able to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution of one's own material should be hideable at poster option for questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;  If one wants to hide identity to avoid unduly influencing responders with one's name, one should be able to do that.  (Except mods, of course, should be able to override and see author.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution of one's own material should NOT be hideable at editor option.&lt;/strong&gt;  You modify someone else's content, and your work is visible to all, period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastEditorUserId="95071" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T18:43:40.640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:43:40.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3553" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:37:25.833" Score="1" ViewCount="2413" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Firefox 3.5:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when the mouse hovers over the voting errors, instead of getting a tooltip telling me what the error is, I get a blank tooltip.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tooltips for links in questions appear empty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tooltips for badges are empty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember where else tooltips are supposed to appear in order to check if they work or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I'm running on Windows XP, if that makes a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: On Chrome when I put the mouse over things with tooltips (voting arrows, community wiki checkboxes, edit, rollback &amp;amp; delete links etc) I get a nice yellow box with little black text describing what it is (a tooltip).  On Firefox when I do the same I get a nice yellow box with no text in it.  The box itself is extremely small.  So small, in fact, that it took me a while, to realize that I was looking at an empty tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-17T20:02:27.447" LastActivityDate="2010-07-17T20:02:27.447" Title="Tooltips are broken in Firefox 3.5" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;tooltips&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="1930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:40:26.357" Score="7" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;That phrase was quoted from SO podcast #60 and based on previous Jeff Atwood's comments, he prefers developers to spend more time answering questions on SO than talking about SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't particularly appreciate these kinds of comments because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time developers spend on SO is their own time. No one is paying them. All contributions are free and are done based on developers' generosity. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No one should feel like they should be doing something rather than another on SO.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of developers could be earning real money working on real projects rather than spending time on SO. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people prefer to be philosophers than trying to answer technical questions which are beyond their experience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the motivation from Jeff might be to get more traffic which brings more ads and subsequently more money. Meta posts don't contribute in this area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might want to use the meta site more than answering questions. My goal is for SO to improve itself so I can benefit from it better so I can do my job faster and more efficiently so I can earn more and so I can market myself better. Everyone benefits. I actually do not mind paying for this. I was paying Experts Exchange to get answers as I have projects to finish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use most of my SO time asking questions and I hardly answer questions. I mean I do not spend time searching for questions to answer. I am really busy and I use SO so that I can finish my work faster. I am not into badges, points, reward systems and stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with them. It's just not my forte.  Does this make me a bad SO user? Am I like those customers banks don't make money off and they would rather not have them? My questions could bring more traffic. Even Joel says he likes newbie programmer questions. The long tail brings more traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My goal from using the meta site is to get requested functionality implemented. Then SO could be more productive for me and others. Site owners should be glad and grateful users want to talk about how to improve from their sites. SO is for the users by the users and gets better from users' input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how meta stuff is part of building a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:47:51.183" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:47:51.183" Title="&quot;Meta stuff is not building a solution&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1260" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:42:41.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would just encourage spiteful behavior from users who could cast a vote for such a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:42:41.077" />
  <row Id="1932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:43:25.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the same bug. It has existed in all versions of Firefox which I have used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:43:25.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:44:43.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it interesting that my highest rep scoring answer was one of the most trivial (and easy to verify) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017778/protected-classes-in-net/1017825#1017825&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017778/protected-classes-in-net/1017825#1017825&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;compared to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/557496/heightmap-generation-algorithm/557583#557583&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/557496/heightmap-generation-algorithm/557583#557583&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073227/why-is-fs-seq-sortby-much-slower-than-linqs-ienumerablet-orderby-extension-m/1073515#1073515&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073227/why-is-fs-seq-sortby-much-slower-than-linqs-ienumerablet-orderby-extension-m/1073515#1073515&lt;/a&gt; (ok newer but I can't see it getting much more) which were both vastly more effort to do but also much more rewarding in terms of learning about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially the site's about how you want to use it, to me it's more about extending my knowledge by forcing me to really get deeper into something (and then being told when I'm wrong). I'm not going to stop because I am incapable of getting near the top, I suspect many others aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sites like this inevitably get the sort of power users we get here (some people just are that much better). Hopefully the tag system will help those within a smaller niche achieve the (deserved) fame the more main stream people do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will get interesting is when a power user &lt;em&gt;leaves&lt;/em&gt; (or dies) since their living history will become that bit more ossified. If your answer was right once but is now outdated and someone comments to that effect you stand a good chance of fixing it. Now the comment would do into the aether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all that questions and answers can be 'community wikied' the owner in terms of notifications is still very much the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a point: should someone who has edited a community wikied entry be able to get all the notifications that the original author would. Hmm I'm straying from the original question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:44:43.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="1934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:45:15.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm running Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP (both home and work) and I have never seen any of these issues on Stack Overflow or here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T18:56:20.360" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:56:20.360" />
  <row Id="1935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1930" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:45:27.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't sweat it too much - it seems like an offhand comment.  You are free to do whatever you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:45:27.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1930" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:46:32.910" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you need to worry too much about your involvement. You may use SO primarily to ask questions, but others primarily answer questions, edit posts, fix grammatical errors, and police spammers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many different types of users on SO, and no single type should feel pressured to conform to the behavior of any other type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep asking questions, we'll keep answering, others will fix our grammar, and yet others will keep the noise to a minimum while we all enjoy SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:46:32.910" />
  <row Id="1937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:53:27.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be that the asker cannot use XPath for some reason, then he is happy for a workaround. Even it is dirty (yeah, you are right, there are no clean workarounds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T18:53:27.917" />
  <row Id="1938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T18:53:50.943" Score="2" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;The JavaScript flair badge will block the loading of the website on which it is placed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's better to separate the HTML and JavaScript, so the JavaScript can be placed near the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1633" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T07:16:07.830" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T07:44:26.220" Title="Separate flair JavaScript from HTML tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2049" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:02:56.757" Score="40" ViewCount="2377" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is a great way to mark up text to be entered. But when you use it on StackOverflow-family sites, it's really difficult. For instance, if I say I typed this sentence by starting with a &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt;, then used &lt;kbd&gt;o&lt;/kbd&gt;, followed by &lt;kbd&gt;r&lt;/kbd&gt;, then &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt;, you can see that it quickly becomes an unreadable mess of boxes and smashed-together type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whoever is in &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; of the visual design should probably fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm so very sorry. Please don't let the silly answers below discouraging you from fixing the styling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39808" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T07:14:13.580" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T03:57:09.513" Title="&lt;kbd&gt; elements are way intrusive" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;cosmetic&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="18" />
  <row Id="1940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:12:17.857" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;I had no idea you could even do this, but now that I know, I want to do it everywhere!!!&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ins&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Home&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;PgUp&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Del&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;End&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;PgDn&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;↑&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;←&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;↓&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;→&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T17:00:35.110" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:00:35.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T19:12:17.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:14:29.550" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Atwood should have never told us about this. This will only end in disaster.&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:14:29.550" />
  <row Id="1942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:17:39.777" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;         &lt;kbd&gt; I &lt;/kbd&gt;&#xA;&#xA;       &lt;kbd&gt;am&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;ok&lt;/kbd&gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &lt;kbd&gt; w &lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;i t&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt; h &lt;/kbd&gt;&#xA;&#xA; &lt;kbd&gt; t &lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt; h &lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt; i &lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt; s &lt;/kbd&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:17:39.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T19:17:39.777" />
  <row Id="1943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:19:46.887" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new data type is automatically spawned called JonSkeetInt that can hold an infinite value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1470" LastEditorUserId="1470" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T00:29:05.787" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T00:29:05.787" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T19:19:46.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:19:49.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eliminating this is an affront to emacs users everywhere. They will then delete SO with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;End&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Del&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;S&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;O&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;F8&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:19:49.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:24:28.793" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;T&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;h&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;s&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;s&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;w&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;h&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;y&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;w&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;e&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;c&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;n&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;'&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;h&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;v&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;e&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;n&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;c&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;e&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;h&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;n&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;g&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;s&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;.&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or so I'm told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:24:28.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:25:15.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have used Firefox 3.0.x (through all the builds) and now 3.5 and am not seeing the issue you are reporting either.  WinXP SP3 box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32247" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:25:15.920" />
  <row Id="1947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:25:49.213" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to make a keyboard and failed miserably. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I will present this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Any&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mystical Any key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:25:49.213" />
  <row Id="1948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:31:08.560" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to propose that from here on out we replace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Caps Lock&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mays&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Billy Mays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;William Darrell &quot;Billy&quot; Mays, Jr.&#xA;  (July 20, 1958 – June 28, 2009) was&#xA;  an American television direct-response&#xA;  advertisement salesperson most notable&#xA;  for promoting OxiClean, Orange Glo,&#xA;  and other cleaning, home-based, and&#xA;  maintenance products. His distinctive&#xA;  beard and loud sales pitches made him&#xA;  a recognized television presence in&#xA;  the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T22:35:19.697" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T22:35:19.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:32:14.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I switched to 3.5 specifically to check this out and I must say that I am NOT having any tooltip issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T19:32:14.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:45:40.710" Score="81" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;`&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;1&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;2&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;3&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;4&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;5&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;6&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;7&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;8&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;9&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;0&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;-&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;=&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Bkspc&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;q&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;w&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;e&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;r&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;y&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;u&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;i&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;o&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;p&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;[&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;]&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;\&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Caps&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;s&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;d&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;f&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;g&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;h&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;j&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;k&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;l&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;'&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;z&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;x&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;c&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;v&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;b&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;n&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;m&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;,&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;.&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;/&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the most fun I've had all day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="142114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-22T01:46:48.063" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T01:46:48.063" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="1952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:15:54.787" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very least it would be nice to be able to reject having your answer being the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way if you later found out that your answer was wrong, or just not the best one you would reject it, then there would no longer be any accepted answer for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:15:54.787" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="1955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:22:15.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, &lt;strong&gt;bad advice is worse than no advice&lt;/strong&gt;.  The bad advice could be taken to heart by a novice who doesn't know any better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But whether or not to downvote, to me, really depends on how much of a kludge the second answer is.  If it is a particularly bad kludge, I would downvote it.  If it seems to have received more upvotes than it deserves, I will downvote it.  Otherwise I'd just leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would always leave a comment explaining why it is a bad idea (or upvote an existing comment which says why).  I think a comment with 8 upvotes that says &quot;wait a minute this is a bad idea&quot; would deter users more than a negative vote total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:22:15.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1960" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:23:44.690" Score="8" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I ran into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1072909/new-php-framework-could-i-get-some-feedback&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; where someone asked if we could give him feedback about his new PHP MVC framework. I couldn't decide whether to close it or not. On one hand, SO seems like a good place to ask something like that, but on the other, it's not really a &quot;question&quot;, and doesn't have any correct answers. I ended up voting to close it as &quot;Not a real question&quot;. Was that right? Should we allow such &quot;give me feedback on my framework/application&quot; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130082" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T21:07:55.177" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T21:07:55.177" Title="Should SO allow &quot;give me some feedback&quot; questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="1958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:24:42.877" Score="50" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very old post and the system has changed, it includes the original code for the keyboard and below it the image it generated, currently the original code does not make a good keyboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying out beat Pesto's keyboard. Mine has square buttons and correct spacing between items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;°&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;1&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;2&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;3&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;4&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;5&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;6&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;7&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;8&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;9&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;0&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;ö&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Backspace&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Tab&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;q&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;w&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;r&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;t&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;y&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;u&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;i&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;o&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;p&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;ð&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;ENTER&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Caps&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;d&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;f&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;g&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;h&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;j&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;k&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;l&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;æ&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;´&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;+&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;z&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;x&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;c&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;v&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;b&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;n&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;m&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;þ&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Shift&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Win&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Space&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Alt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Win&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Menu&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ctrl&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Orginal (image form)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/rWlGX.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="147647" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-22T03:57:09.513" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T03:57:09.513" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="1960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1957" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:27:15.350" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was asked a while back on SO itself concerning &quot;code reviews&quot; and it received positive feedback. I actually posted a Code Review question myself and it turned out well. I received some very good critiques and took that advice towards building a better DAL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as there isn't a super massive chunk of code and the author of the post is pretty clear about what areas he is looking for critiques on, I don't see a problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Here is the actual topic I posted. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/619855/code-review-ado-net-data-access-utility-class-vb&quot;&gt;Code Review: ADO.NET Data Access Utility Class (VB)&lt;/a&gt; (yes, there is what you might consider a super massive chunk of code in there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: If the author of the post doesn't make it look like he is putting any decent effort into his question (such as being clear about what he is looking for help on or what specific areas to look at), then it is unlikely to receive much feedback from the community except close votes. In the cases of pure author laziness, I would probably vote to close myself. But if it looks like someone actually put a concerted effort into getting some useful feedback from the community, try it out and see how you can help the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T20:37:41.270" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:37:41.270" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="1961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1957" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:28:27.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it depends on how abstract it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are describing their framework in a manner that is abstract and COULD be applied to other questions, but it isn't SO abstract as to be useless, then yes, we can offer guidance on their framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is so specific that they write out 500 lines of code, and ask us to look through it, then no, SO isn't the place for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've rethought it, &quot;Give Me Feedback&quot; isn't really a StackOverflow relevant question because it doesn't reflect a well thought out question. If you can specify the single part, function, class or algorithm that you aren't sure of, the you are indicating that you have done your best. If you are simply saying &quot;Here's what I did, what do you think?&quot; then that is something that should be taken up internally in a code review. SO is for questions which can be broadly applicable, and although this person may make some common mistakes, they aren't going to come up in a &lt;strike&gt;google&lt;/strike&gt; Bing search, so they aren't adding value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user says &quot;I've created a framework X, and this part Y could have been implemented in three ways and I chose A, but I'm wondering if B or C could have been better, given my framework, what do you think??&quot; That would be acceptable, because it shows that the person has attempted to highlight the specific area that they need guidance on, rather than a catch-all &quot;do my review for me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T20:37:44.110" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:37:44.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1965" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:38:17.867" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you add a feature to see the exact number of view for a question with views over 1,000?  I have some questions that have over 2,000 views and would like to see have my more I need for the Notable question badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:40:45.817" ClosedDate="2009-07-03T03:50:27.343" Title="Exact number of Questions views over 1K" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="1965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1964" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:40:03.840" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the question and you'll see the exact number on the right hand side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:40:03.840" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="1966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1964" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:40:45.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Open a question and then look to the right. Says, &quot;Viewed&quot; and under that, it says &quot;x times.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.-It appears to round up, so if you have 1,600 views, it says 2k, but you really have 400 more views to get to 2,000. This could lead to some confusion, if you're tracking it that closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:40:45.817" />
  <row Id="1967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2056" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:44:30.210" Score="13" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/219901-display-the-number-of-votes-a-user-has-left-for-the-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Migrated from UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, after being on SO for a few weeks, it's obvious that there is a per-person limit of 30 votes per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to wisely use my daily SO votes to help build up the community and reward good questions and answers, as well as downvote answers that are unhelpful or incorrect. It's mildly annoying that I can't tell how many votes I have remaining until I get within the last 10, and then it only appears in a fleeting warning box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be great to have the number of votes remaining appear in the header, next to envelope, reputation, badge count, etc. (Having it there instead of buried in some profile page/tab would be most useful to me.) Not only would it become easier to gauge how many I've used so far, but could also pique the curiosity of users who perhaps don't vote much or at all, such that they would click on it to see what the deal is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T01:29:30.460" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:29:30.460" Title="Display the number of votes a user has left for the day" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="1968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1967" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:46:41.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be nice to find out. Until then, if you find yourself running out of votes, you can always go back and take away up or down votes on things you have already voted (typically within a 24 hour period I believe. After a certain time they just get locked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:46:41.187" />
  <row Id="1970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1967" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:50:48.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually find the current way pretty good. I don't want to be overly conscious with the votes I have, if I feel I should vote, I should, and not take too much thought calculating if I've got enough votes preparing for the rest of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warning gives enough time to go undo a vote or be more cautious if you want to store some votes for the answers in a specific question or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:50:48.027" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="1971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:52:58.300" Score="1" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961942/what-is-the-worst-programming-language-you-ever-worked-with&quot;&gt;What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?&lt;/a&gt; got closed an locked recently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you feel strongly&#xA;  that we should keep this alive, please&#xA;  take the discussion to&#xA;  meta.stackoverflow.com – Marc Gravell♦&#xA;  21 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the question should not die,&#xA;but rather think it's time for it to retire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm locking this due to a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of&#xA;  negative feedback from lots of&#xA;  different users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean the comments:&#xA;There have been a lot of comments and I have read and reread them all.&#xA;They are not overly negative. There have been negative ones but also some really nice ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm sad this got closed. I thought it&#xA;  was going to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;+1 for your work maintaining the question. For more useful than having&#xA;  questions which are abandoned only to&#xA;  be reasked at some later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't mean the comments, I am curious about what sort of 'feedback' you are talking about. Anyway, in my opinion feedback should be primarily pointed at me. To make this easier I have added my email address to my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think people got annoyed because I removed the subjective tag and because I constantly updated the language overview. I don't think subjective is an appropriate tag for this question but admittedly removing it wasn't the wisest thing to do and I regret that I did it. I still think the language overview is useful but it probably does not belong on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal to let this question retire with dignity is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag it subjective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the language overview section completely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove the lock.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I  will not revert any of this.&#xA;If this is done I think it is also safe to reopen it.&#xA;After a while the question will be buried and harm nobody but &#xA;if someone has a really interesting answer he or she can still share it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T00:01:32.997" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:51:07.643" Title="What is the worst programming language? - Discussion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:56:46.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda said my piece in the comments to the question itself... but for the record, i think you had good intentions - it's just not a question that will ever be calmly, objectively answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow works best with questions that can be answered at least semi-objectively. Yes, there are some objective measures of language &quot;goodness&quot;... but a whole lot more of it boils down to personal taste and style. So you end up with people as passionately in love with a language as those who hate it, and neither will ever agree with the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Endless flamewar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:56:46.887" />
  <row Id="1973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2009-07-02T20:58:37.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a question about what is the &quot;best&quot; or &quot;worst&quot; of much of anything is going to suffer a kind fate on StackOverflow. You are going to make it very argumentative with a lot of hurt feelings (you know how programmers are with their favorite languages). I don't know if it was community wiki or not, but if it wasn't, it probably should have been in the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T20:58:37.693" />
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PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="142114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-22T01:44:56.100" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T01:44:56.100" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="1975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:06:15.227" Score="28" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have many tags marked as &quot;interesting&quot; and others as &quot;ignored&quot;. (I use Java at work, I'm a Cocoa guy by night, any anything dealing with Windows/.NET/C# simply doesn't apply to me.) When tags are added to the list in the right navbar, they appear in the order in which they were added. There are several problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It can be difficult to visually locate a tag quickly, unless you have memorized its location.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tags appear as the same gray boxes like everywhere on SO, but with a small &quot;x&quot; afterward, and they wrap based on size. This tends to leave a ragged right margin and wasted space.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ordering based on when the tag was added is not always the most intuitive default. Various users might prefer to view them alphabetically, by popularity, recent activity, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to introduce a tabbed interface to switch between various orderings, and remember the value in the cookie, profile, etc. Coupled with this, perhaps users could specify a custom ordering that works best for them? (Currently the workaround is to copy all the tag names, remove them all, and re-add them in the desired order, but this is obviously annoying.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T12:36:39.507" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T02:26:52.213" Title="Ability to sort/reorder interesting/ignored tags in sidebar" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="1976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:09:52.130" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fact: Jon Skeet's reputation cannot be stored in any datatype.  It exists only in not-yet-invented quantum computing devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact: The reputation number you see beside Jon Skeet's avatar is merely the projection of his reputation into the 4-dimensional spacetime that humans understand.  His reputation actually occupies most of a 256-deminsional hyperspace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact: Only Jon Skeet is capable of understanding how the previous two facts do not contradict each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T21:09:52.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T21:09:52.130" />
  <row Id="1977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1975" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:14:04.287" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's to much work for little benefit. I agree with alphabetical order. That way you can always figure out where the tag is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the X next to the tag, heres a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1125/move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&quot;&gt;MSO feature request about that.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T21:14:04.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1981" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:33:57.657" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/220131-improvements-to-badge-index-page?direct%5Flogin%5Ftoken=0f0ab78c1602769f6c55735e05fc446d&amp;amp;subdomain=stackoverflow&amp;amp;tracking%5Fcode=ef3bbd3827bfb469bfe755d535125b10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Migrated from UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt; shows the possible badges, number of total recipients, and brief descriptions. However, I have a few suggestions (mostly minor changes) that could make it a bit nicer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no way to see (on that page) which badges I've earned multiple times — they all appear with a green checkmark. It would be nice to show something like &quot;x 4&quot; like in the badges section of the user profile page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no way to see which badges &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be awarded multiple times — you have to click on a specific badge to see yea or nay. It would be nice to have a small, simple icon next to badges that can be earned multiple times, similar to the checkmark showing which badges I've earned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The layout would be nicer if the number of recipients for each badge were in a separate column — since the badge images are different sizes, the overlap and ragged right alignment makes the numbers harder to read.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An alternative view that groups badges by &quot;achievement level&quot; (gold/silver/bronze) would be nice, as would a view that groups progressive degrees of the same accomplishment. (e.g. Nice Answer &amp;rarr; Good Answer &amp;rarr; Great Answer &lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt; Popular Question &amp;rarr; Notable Question &amp;rarr; Famous Question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="130179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T21:54:17.170" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T21:54:51.583" Title="Suggested improvements to badges index page" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="1981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1980" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:38:14.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the look of the badges site. I think it would be much nicer if they would group the badges by type (gold, silver, bronze) and show visually what badge can or cant be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T21:54:51.583" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T21:54:51.583" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="1982" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:48:10.540" Score="11" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself of correcting typos rather much such that I need to wait 30-seconds to fix typos in my comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can delete my comment in the first 5 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;such that others do not know about it &lt;em&gt;( no indication in the Message )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;such that it will be public if I do not remove it in the first 5 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;such that I can post a new comment if I remove it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a great improvement in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;change the 30-second time penalty OR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at least decrease it to 15 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T02:18:46.130" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T03:11:45.587" Title="To change the 30-second time limit in comments" Tags="&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:49:02.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with 30 seconds, and it keeps people from really spamming things up. I don't think there should be that big of a deal to wait an extra 15 seconds to post another comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T21:49:02.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T21:59:17.207" Score="17" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing the main questions page, questions have their tags listed below them.  Currently, when you hover the mouse over a tag, a tooltip comes up with information on the follower count, some options and if given a tag wiki summary.  It would be useful to be able to determine immediately just how many questions are tagged with that tag; I propose altering the tooltip to read something like &quot;view 23 questions with the TAGNAME tag&quot;; that is, to add the number of instances of that tag to the tooltip for the tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be useful to be able to view the relative popularity of the tag without needing to traverse any links, and should be relatively technically simple to implement; tag tooltip text could be cached and updated occasionally to obviate the need to query the DB for the number of tags on each pageload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="146482" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-07T07:28:46.033" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T07:28:46.033" Title="Suggested Improvement: Indicate number of Tags in Tooltip" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tooltips&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="1986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2029" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:00:26.203" Score="2" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1071762/how-would-you-develop-software-for-a-nuclear-plant&quot;&gt;How would you develop software for a nuclear plant?&lt;/a&gt; got some interesting answers, despite being closed at least once (I think). Yet when I asked the OP what he wanted from the question, he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actually I just wanted to hear some&#xA;  war stories but apparently there is no&#xA;  such thing as &quot;software that controls&#xA;  nuclear plant&quot;. – &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14131/pavel-chuchuva&quot;&gt;Pavel&#xA;  Chuchuva&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what to do with this question for posterity. It turns out that there was no actual answer, as there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; no software that actually controls a nuclear power plant. Should we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close and eventually delete it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask the OP to edit it to be more general, and to better fit the answers, so that one answer might eventually be chosen?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the editing ourselves?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas, thoughts, meta-discussion welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T02:34:11.947" Title="What should we do with a Question about &quot;How would you develop software for a nuclear plant?&quot;" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:04:48.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there is no software that controls nuclear plants, he should accept that answer. Since it's the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he is really asking a question that is not really about nuclear software :P Then he should edit the question since his original premise doesn't work (only as an exercise). If the edit is good, then the question could garner some good answers. (not like the joke ones currently at the top)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:04:48.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:05:07.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think questions about nonexistent software are to some extent speculative questions; I think there's a place for them if they're asked as speculative questions, such as &quot;how would one write software for high reliability such as for a nuclear power plant&quot;, but questions about software that are only assumed to exist are a little bit TOO speculative (and assumptive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:05:07.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:13:55.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close it because it was very vague to start with. This is much like asking how databases work--it's not a question that can be answered without throwing the book at somebody. Nuclear power plants are complicated collections of mechanical devices, embedded code, and software. Thinking that you're going to get an answer other than &quot;very carefully&quot; even if there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; software that controlled a nuclear power plant is naive, at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plenty of more focused questions have been closed due to them being too broad. I fail to see how this is any different. This is something that belongs on howstuffworks.com, not on stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:13:55.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="1997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:16:05.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get quite different effects on the different screens I use - what looks OK on one is almost hidden on others.  I'm in favour of subtlety over shouting with the colours, but I support a slightly increased contrast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:16:05.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="1998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2000" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:16:38.613" Score="9" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if question owners could flag their own closed questions for migration from the other StackOverflow sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:13:44.977" Title="Please add a 'Migrate to Meta.StackOverflow.com' link on SO" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="1999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:18:18.890" Score="15" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies of this has come up recently / been done to death, I've only just discovered meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I signed up for SO just after its launch nearly a year ago and the quality of answers was so high it was a genuinely fantastic resource. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my recent experiences have been anything but positive. It appears to me now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users are only interested in spraying quick answers in the hope of gaining some rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users have no real interest in following up and engaging in dialogue or answer improvement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any question that is 'deep' or difficult or cannot be answered with a quick, fired-off, answer, either doesn't attract any response at all or attracts facile / low grade / sarcastic answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of the high quality users have lost interest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People seem more interested in having a rep than actually answering, helping, guiding, teaching and sharing knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am finding myself returning to some of the older specialist forums after being frustrated here, and actually getting better answers and discussions than I can here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else experienced this? Is anything in the works to try and tackle it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Why the down vote? Is anything even slightly critical of SO deserving of instant opprobrium? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am in no way criticising Jon Skeet and the other 'power' users&lt;/strong&gt; who have given a huge amount of their time and knowledge, they are fantastic guys but they can't be expected to answer everything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I know it's a question and answer site.&lt;/strong&gt; Providing a response and following up with edits in response to questions or requests for clarification about an answer is what made SO so good originally and should be a fundamental part of what happens here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't have a problem with quick answers&lt;/strong&gt; - if they're useful then all the better if they're also quick, who needs an answer six months later?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't expect people to code solutions for me&lt;/strong&gt; - I'm a self-starter, self-finisher and happy to figure things out from suggestions from experienced guys. I don't need or want to be force fed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example question, asked today, clearly explained and not too deep / technical / obscure. All I was looking for was a response from someone technically competent and with a bit of experience solving the problem I had posted about. Instead I got one facile answer, one completely sarcastic answer and one that made a vaguely interesting point about associative databases but still fairly useless given the question. You be the judge..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1074688/user-defined-data-objects-what-is-the-best-data-storage-strategy&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1074688/user-defined-data-objects-what-is-the-best-data-storage-strategy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27805" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T01:26:10.110" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:16:52.703" Title="What has happened to the quality of answers on SO?" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;so-experience&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1998" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:18:35.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice if users could migrate even non-closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:18:35.943" />
  <row Id="2002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1998" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:20:15.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; is a close option, now. Jeff will have to confirm if it auto-migrates like the serverfault.com option does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure about the old posts, though.  I think they may just have to be reposted, or manually moved by Jeff, et al.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:20:15.923" />
  <row Id="2003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1998" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:22:55.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's currently possible for moderators to move questions over here from either SO or SF. Your best bet would be to flag your post and ask for it to be moved. If the moderator agrees, they will move the question for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that there are features in the works for mass migration, but as long as you have just two or three you want moved over this solution should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:22:55.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1999" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:23:28.973" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a Q&amp;amp;A site, it is not a discussion site. Is there a problem with someone getting a very fast and correct answer? Does every answer need to be long-winded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am generally one of those people who will post fast answers, but I will also go in and revise my question as I go along adding more and more information the longer it stays open. This does not have to be the case in every instance because sometimes the best answer is one that tells you what the answer is and then gets out of the way. If I want to know 2+2, I don't need a dissertation on the subject before being told it's 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: After looking over your recently posted example, I think one reason why you may not be getting the number of answers (or quality of answers) you like has a lot to do with a perceived hostility in you responses to them. There was a sarcastic answer, but it raised a legitimate point and he even clarified it in another response after that. It seemed to me as someone looking on after the fact that anytime someone posted an answer that didn't gel with your desired outcome, you attacked (whether you realized it or not). That is a good way to keep people from continuing to work with you towards a good answer, and it may actually scare off other people from even starting to answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T22:54:18.557" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:54:18.557" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1999" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:28:00.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the large part of this issue is simply that there are more people asking and more people answering. Many are answering trying to be helpful even though their answers aren't working for the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong though, there are a lot of great questions and great answers that get posted many times a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the focus is on getting answers, I am curious to see if the rate of accepted answers has gone up or down since the launch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The honeymoon days were great, where you even had computer science legends answering and asking questions, but the floodgates have opened and there are just more people interested the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About your example question, I think it has one foot on ServerFault and one foot on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-02T22:49:23.090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:49:23.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2009-07-02T22:29:33.467" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd either like to see an edit capability for my own comments, or I'd like to see this time limit waived once, for 30 seconds, if I've deleted one of my own comments. This would allow me to immediately replace the deleted comment, without permitting spam - it would be one deleted comment exchanged for one new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T22:29:33.467" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:09:46.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hiya again ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shog9 and TheTXI cover a lot of the points with these very open ended, not-really-answerable questions. In addition to the comments posted, there were a number of spam+moderator flags*, and a good number of users made the valid point about your daily &quot;bump&quot; of this question (55 edits) - enough so that it became a running joke in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to look at the number of comment votes on things like &quot;I'm shocked to see this re-opened&quot; (&lt;strong&gt;+40&lt;/strong&gt;). In general, it was attracting quite a bit of hostility, even if the intention was pure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel that the question should not die, but rather think it's time for it to retire&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be happy with that... but in particular, the daily &quot;bump&quot; was preventing this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*=I won't go into specifics on any flags, as I believe there is an important expectation of privacy in raising a flag - but the point is the &lt;em&gt;number&lt;/em&gt; more than the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:09:46.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="473" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:18:20.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A related example is at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1076894/favorite-javascript-unit-testing-framework&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1076894/favorite-javascript-unit-testing-framework&lt;/a&gt;. In this case, the question is a clear duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/300855/looking-for-a-better-unit-test-tool-for-javascript&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/300855/looking-for-a-better-unit-test-tool-for-javascript&lt;/a&gt;. However, the questioner points out that things may have changed in nine months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should he go about getting an update?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:18:20.340" />
  <row Id="2011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1999" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:18:35.207" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, here's my 2 cents.  You ask a very legitimate, but very complex question.  Generally this is a question that you would put to an architect, not a developer.  And then you ask ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;So what is the best solution?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points I think you need to recognize about your question: (1) it's hard; (2) it's not typical for SO; (3) it's targeted at architects.  So, the only people that are going to be able to answer you are: (1) someone who has done this before; (2) an architect that decides to sit down and spend an hour or more researching the problem and composing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recognizing #1, it's a hard problem, you get typical answers of the type &quot;did you push back?&quot;  Those make sense.  To those reasonable responses, you say ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I cannot simply say, sorry, why don't&#xA;  you try a more traditional approach&#xA;  and to suggest doing so is naive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I push back on requirements for a living, so I think your statement is actually the naive one.  I have actually been blamed by customers for not pushing hard enough do dissuade them from a bad course of action after something I recommend (strongly) against blew up in their faces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you get a smart ass &quot;hey give them Java and say go for it!&quot;  And you let it drag you down and you start to pop-off.  As such, you lose any credibility in the question that you may have had.  That answer should have been water off a duck's back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got legitimate answers (not the answers you wanted) and you immediately went ad hominem with your response (&quot;you're naive!&quot;)  Personally, I think your expectations of SO are too high.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:18:35.207" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:27:21.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close this question.  There is no doubt in my mind that it is both subjective &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; argumentative.  I don't want to debate that with you.  You obviously disagree.  But, then I saw that Jeff Atwood voted to re-open it.  That made me believe that even though it fit the criteria for closure, it should be allowed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given all that, I think your daily bumping of that question was completely obnoxious and made me wish for an ignore function.  I am very glad that Marc did what he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:27:21.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:29:02.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we're programmers here, we're try to reproduce the issue when that happens so that most straightforward thing to do would be staring at Marc Gravell's reputation and refreshing the page to see what's going to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:29:02.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T23:29:02.280" />
  <row Id="2014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:51:57.030" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the OP tags their question &lt;code&gt;not-programming-related&lt;/code&gt; it's almost always going to be closed. If they've already admitted it's not related lets save the close attack and just tell them what to do. Just tell them up front - &quot;This isn't appropriate on SO&quot; and provide a link to the FAQ that describes the kinds of questions that are appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140229" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:59:15.950" Title="Suggest &quot;Question not Appropriate for SO&quot; when tagged not-programming-related" Tags="&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:55:59.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eventually, everyone who wants it and is persistent enough will have mod capability -- even at 10 points a day, it would take you just under three years to become a mod.  The solution is to have some way for rep. to exit the system or to raise the requirements for moderation capability on a regular basis (year 1: 10,000; year 2: 15,000, etc ...)  In theory, if you can gain rep. by questions, then you should be able to be the Jon Skeet of questions.  Just a bad-a$$ question asker.  After all, somebody is up-voting those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:55:59.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2014" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:56:44.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't he getting that message when the question closes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could happen is when a person gets his question closed, he should get a link to the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:56:44.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2014" CreationDate="2009-07-02T23:59:15.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often times I think if someone is going to tag something as not-programming-related I think two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Often times newbies wouldn't know to tag it as not-programming-related&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) If they are smart enough to choose not-programming-related as a tag, they should probably be smart enough to already know this, and are ignoring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that what you are proposing is a possible solution to something that is either too rare to be too big an issue or not a real solution either (if they know to use that tag, they should know better already, but choose to ignore it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-02T23:59:15.950" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2020" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:08:48.487" Score="4" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few users that are learning the system the hard way. And many others that do not know why a question he asked was closed as &quot;Not Programming Related&quot; or &quot;Not a Real Question&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I suggest is a notification to the owner of the question similar to the badge notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question &quot;Title here&quot; was closed as &quot;Not Programming Related&quot;. You can read up on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; what kind of questions you can ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also apply to down votes and other things that are happening to you and could help you along your way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These would be one time notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:23:09.697" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:23:09.697" Title="Please supply some helpful links to a user when their question is closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;tutorials&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2018" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:10:22.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know some people find the notification alerts annoying, but myself think they aren't used enough. I would love to see more of those alerts so that I could keep better track of what is happening on the site as I am using it. They aren't terribly obtrusive and they are simple enough to dismiss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:10:22.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2032" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:23:23.647" Score="0" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please detect serial down voting and generate a pop up and a limit to disallow voting on that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to the read box that tells you that you are out of votes and stuff, but instead: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You've exhausted your votes on $username for the day, please try again in X hours.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T03:54:37.293" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T03:54:37.293" Title="Please detect serial down voting and generate a pop up and a limit to disallow voting on that user" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="2029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:26:37.617" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question has merit.  It probably could have been worded better, but I get the gist.  I think he was just curious about the software development procedures that are used in such a safety critical environment.  I'm curious too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:26:37.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2028" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:29:27.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be under the assumption that some sort of daily limit on votes per user is implemented. But if that ends up being the case, I think that this would be a pretty handy way of notifying a user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was a way to detect that you were giving votes in rapid succession (say less than 5 minutes apart) to the same user, that would make it much better to detect cases of serial downvoting instead of just cases of two people being active at the same time and their votes coming rapidly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:29:27.483" />
  <row Id="2031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:31:06.107" Score="11" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be very handy if we were able to see the tags associated with each question listed in the &quot;Related Questions&quot; section of the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Use case&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was asking a question titled &quot;Return statements in Ruby&quot;, intending on getting feedback for best-practices for ruby return statements (as they are optional).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Return statements obviously flagged tons of not-aptly-titled questions, most if not all of them had nothing to do with the particular syntax of ruby.  Instead of being able to visually filter the non [ruby] tagged Related questions, I had to question whether or not this was a dupe and click on several of them to find out if they were related (no, they weren't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the tags there would have saved time and reduced duplicates if my question had already been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T13:52:50.580" LastActivityDate="2010-11-14T15:44:17.867" Title="Please show the tags associated with each question listed in the &quot;Related Questions&quot; section of the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2028" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:33:05.090" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To generate some sort of working algorithm for preventing serial downvoting. You would have to look at the logs of a real serial downvote and gather points from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the user going through the targets answer/question list and downvoting quickly ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the user only downvoting new answers by the target&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the user doing this over a large period of time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has the user ever upvoted the target?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there sudden bursts of downvotes to a question that isn't on the front page (or a recent question)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:33:05.090" />
  <row Id="2033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1357" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:41:28.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sort of against these features. It seems way too game like. And there are also some possibilities for gaming, for example, I could keep creating creating a new account for each answer I post, until I got one accepted, and then I would have 100% accepted answers! Obviously, you could put in restrictions like you must have more than 500 rep (arbitrary, could be anything), but that seems kind of unfair (and the people who do well in these rankings would just be the very high rep users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:41:28.440" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:43:16.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand what you are saying about meaningless questions gaming the system, however to discourage or possibly penalize (charge for) question askers would severely undermine the supply and demand of questions to answer on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really comes down to the ratio of good vs gaming users, and in reality - what is the worth of reputation after a certain level?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side of the coin, I tend to ask more than answer these days, unless I see an unanswered question I can help with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is partly as I am usually too busy to write up answers to my satisfaction, but also as I would prefer not to flood questions with correct, but not particularly good, answers just so that may 'game' 1 or two votes from the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5302" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:43:16.173" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31344" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:48:22.853" Score="39" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often on SO, there are extended discussions in comments between a few users. There is an accepted convention that you proceed these comments with &lt;code&gt;@whoever_you_are_talking_to&lt;/code&gt;. It would be nice if, when somebody typed &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; and then a user name, it would notify that user as if somebody had commented on of their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would eliminate the need to go back and check your comments to see if somebody has replied to them. Also, if somebody down votes your answer and leaves a comment, it gives you the opportunity to fix it and notify them, so they can choose to remove the vote if they want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T07:28:01.920" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T14:08:45.043" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T14:15:18.897" Title="Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="2036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2028" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:49:35.407" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Serial-downvoting is already detected and prevented - only without the popup, something that has been discussed on the StackOverflow podcast a few times (I cannot find mention of it in the transcript however)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall, the reasoning is basically if you tell the user &quot;we've stopped counting your votes again $user&quot;, they'll work a way around it. If you silently ignore them they continue on, not causing any real damage..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: [...] There was a gem of something in there that's a little bit interesting that we've thought about which is, we have had incidents of people who--they get pissed off at another user so they go in and downvote everything that user has ever done.  Right?  First of all, that's not as bad as it sounds because an upvote is worth five times as much as a downvote, so it would take five downvotes to cancel out one upvote so there's a limited amount of damage you can do.  Plus you only have 30 votes in a 24 hour period anyway, so you can only do that on 30 posts by that user.  But still, it is aggravating and I totally empathize with people that are complaining because this is annoying.  Somebody told me, it might have been you--I don't remember, Mr. Reddit fan, but on Reddit they track this and if they see a user consistently downvoting another user, they basically silently undo all those votes, like those don't even count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W25802&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from Podcast 026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a better discussion of this subject, but I cannot find it (the above quote took about 20 searches to find..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:49:35.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:51:10.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would absolutely love this. It has been one of the biggest things I have looked for in a while. You can get into so many discussions in the comments on questions and answers that aren't yours that it is nearly impossible to keep track. Being able to track actual replies would be very easy to manage these conversations and debates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:51:10.117" />
  <row Id="2038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2039" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:51:52.533" Score="15" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a 2 in one question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the asker of a duplicate question gain rep for asking the duplicate question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the answerers of duplicate questions gain rep for answering them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By asking a duplicate question you are diluting from the value of the site. It takes lots of TLC to find the dupe, and merge it in. Yet you still are rewarded for producing that work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answerers of the duplicate question are also diluting from the value of the site. Cause good and valuable information becomes harder to find and splintered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="16241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T20:59:42.617" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T21:01:44.347" Title="Should you gain rep for asking a duplicate question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:55:07.330" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One big pet peeve of mine is when someone answers a duplicate question with the link to the duplicate instead of doing the proper thing and commenting and/or editing the post itself. The posting of the duplicate link as an answer always seems to me to be a very cheap rep gaining ploy. So if people didn't get rep on questions closed as duplicate I probably would not be upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On closing a question as duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question asker loses all rep gains or losses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers lose all rep gains or losses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On reopening a question that was previously closed as duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question asker has the rep reapplied&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers have rep reapplied.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:55:07.330" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2041" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:55:49.263" Score="16" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two tabs have following tooltips&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Active&lt;/strong&gt; : &quot;Questions that have recent activity&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hot&lt;/strong&gt; : Questions with recent interest and activity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem to display different questions with some common ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the exact difference between &lt;strong&gt;hot&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;active&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T16:52:28.057" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T16:52:28.057" Title="What is the difference between &quot;hot&quot; and &quot;active&quot; questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;hot&gt;&lt;active&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2040" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:59:02.173" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Hot is taking into account a different measurement of the &quot;velocity&quot; of that question such as number of views, number of votes, and number of answers within a given time frame. Active questions are questions that have immediate activity on them (i.e. a question with a new answer is immediately bumped up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:59:02.173" />
  <row Id="2042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2040" CreationDate="2009-07-03T00:59:25.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Active is based on creation / last modified time of any answer or the question itself.&#xA;So the recently changed questions or new ones are in the active list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hot seems to be a mix of how recent the question and how busy it is. (votes, answers, comments etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T00:59:25.867" />
  <row Id="2043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:02:57.140" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They may render in the client preview but they will always be removed on the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;That bit kinda bugs me.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:02:57.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1930" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:03:02.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Erm, this entire site is dedicated to nothing but discussing StackOverflow, and suggesting ways to improve it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:03:02.520" />
  <row Id="2045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:03:32.643" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/1210#1210&quot;&gt;quote from Jeff&lt;/a&gt; here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the &quot;notify when people say my name&quot; is really interesting, but &lt;em&gt;requires&lt;/em&gt; unique names which we don't enforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone can come up with a good solution to this problem (2 users with the same name in the same thread), I'm sure he's all ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:03:32.643" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2062" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:08:40.730" Score="5" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the URL of the StackOverflow podcast feed that works with Microsoft's Zune software/player?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88631" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T00:43:47.397" Title="Subscribing to the StackOverflow podcast with Zune player" Tags="&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:08:55.300" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there should be no rep for asking a duplicate question. Answering it with a real answer should garner reputation. I don't want to require everyone to be duplicate cop and search for the duplicate before deciding to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, I don't think there should be extra rep for the accepted answer to a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of several steps that should be taken around closing duplicates, linking to the duplicates, and creating a FAQ of languages and topics. I'd like to see some integration among these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:08:55.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:09:29.853" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;kbd {&#xA;    -moz-background-clip:border;&#xA;    -moz-background-inline-policy:continuous;&#xA;    -moz-background-origin:padding;&#xA;    background:#EEEEEE none repeat scroll 0 0;&#xA;    border-color:#CCCCCC #AAAAAA #888888 #BBBBBB;&#xA;    border-style:solid;&#xA;    border-width:1px 1px 2px 2px;&#xA;    color:#000000;&#xA;    padding:2px 1px;&#xA;    white-space:nowrap;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..would make &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; a bit less broken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5772/kdbtagfixish.png&quot; alt=&quot;Demonstration of above CSS&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly it breaks Pestos castle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-27T03:56:31.213" LastActivityDate="2010-11-27T03:56:31.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:09:48.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assumed Jeff's answer would be the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suggestion would be to only activate the @reply function if a user commenting on the same post has that name. 99.9% of the cases this will hold true, I don't think I've ever seen two people with the same name comment on the same post -- although I'll assume it has happened on some of the more massive comment threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:09:48.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:28:12.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really have an opinion on whether the asker should not gain reputation from a duplicate question. I certainly don't mind that they do, and don't think I would mind if they didn't. However, I believe answerers should maintain whatever rep they receive. No one can know every question that has been asked, and as an answerer, you shouldn't be expect to first search and ensure it's not a dupe (that's the askers responsibilty). And so, the answerer is attempting to help build the community and should be rewarded if people find their answer helpful. At times this means an answer that is just a link to the dupe will gain rep, but in that case I have more of an issue with the upvoters than the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:28:12.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1967" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:29:22.317" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had this originally (actual count) and it caused no end of friction. You have &quot;enough&quot; votes until you get close to running out, at which point we tell you how many are left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how it is now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;once you get below (n) votes the count is displayed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;above (n) votes the count is not displayed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This solution works and will not be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:29:22.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:32:20.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how the WMD Editor works. Since Shift + 2 is @ in american keyboards and does not cause trouble there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question could be turned into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/230521-fix-key-binding-for-ctrl-q-in-wmd-editor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this UV item&lt;/a&gt; if the mods change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:32:20.500" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:32:57.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly didn't expect to get up-voted for my answer.  In fact, I thought I would get down-voted.  The question was so vague that I started to site some mil-specs and some &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%5FCriteria&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Common Criteria&lt;/a&gt; stuff.  But, then I remembered a fun fact I knew about the java license agreement and decided to respond with that because at least it was interesting and correctly responsive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what to do?  I don't know.  The problem in my mind is that it is a slippery slope if you just delete it.  I would edit the question to be about developing highly secure software. For example, it might be interesting to discuss how to architect develop Common Criteria software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:32:57.147" />
  <row Id="2059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:34:35.440" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another neat feature would be js autocompletion - type @, and get a list of users involved in the thread, filtered as you type more characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to reply to me, you could type &lt;code&gt;@bl(down)(enter)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the (probably extremely uncommon) event of multiple users with the same name could be resolved by adding (userid) on the end.. Not sure exactly how this would work though - people don't know each others' ids unless they go and check. Maybe the autocomplete box could also show you the first bit of the last thing that user posted in the comment thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:34:35.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-03T01:36:16.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It turns out that there was no actual answer, as there is no software that actually controls a nuclear power plant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Close and eventually delete it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this any different from a question like.. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/585234/how-to-read-and-write-into-file-using-javascript/585247&quot;&gt;&quot;how to read and write into file using javascript&quot;&lt;/a&gt; - to which the answer is &quot;No&quot;...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, it's not really a question, but rather a topic for discussion, something SO isn't really suited for..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, quite a few of the answers &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; interesting, it's programming related and I don't think it's really harming the site..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T01:36:16.670" />
  <row Id="2062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2047" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:00:17.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I felt bad mocking you for having a Zune, so I did a quick &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22stack+overflow%22+podcast+zune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google search&lt;/a&gt; and found in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/05/podcast-5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comments of SO Podcast #5&lt;/a&gt; that someone was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/05/podcast-5/#comment-310&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;having trouble&lt;/a&gt; subscribing with their Zune. However, it sounds like once the person &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/05/podcast-5/#comment-330&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;upgraded to the latest version&lt;/a&gt; there was no problem. Do you have at least Zune 2.5? If not, you should try upgrading to see if that fixes your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:00:17.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:09:15.497" Score="8" ViewCount="1095" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Question&quot; and &quot;Unanswered&quot; pages, there's a large gap between the list of questions and the pager when the page is displayed in Webkit-based browsers (Google Chrome 2 and Safari 4).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steps to reproduce&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use either Google Chrome 2 or Safari 4 (or any Webkit based browsers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log into Stackoverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enable the &quot;Hide Ignored Tag&quot; preference flag (located in the Profile page, under the &quot;prefs&quot; tab)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter into either the &quot;Questions&quot; or &quot;Unanswered&quot; pages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scroll down to the end of question list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is to be noted that the gap will disappear if the page has been zoomed-in/out once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Windows Vista, Google Chrome 2 or Safari 4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenshot&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/seh%5Fhui/temporary/capture%5F03072009%5F092908.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of problem&quot; /&gt;&#xA;(as of 3 July 2009)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;References&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/231300-chrome-big-blank-gap-between-question-list-and-pager?direct%5Flogin%5Ftoken=654fa388813f411421b0ffea6d20043c&amp;amp;subdomain=stackoverflow&amp;amp;tracking%5Fcode=211516c3c3e6b6587856aa37de82ef81&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uservoice reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32283" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T09:16:06.483" LastActivityDate="2010-06-08T10:12:31.517" Title="Large blank gap between question list and pager" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;webkit&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1826" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:11:13.700" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what Olafur said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;IF YOU DO NOT SELECT A ANSWER ON YOUR QUESTION DURING A BOUNTY, YOU FORFEIT ALL RIGHTS TO &lt;em&gt;EVER&lt;/em&gt; ACCEPT AN ANSWER ON YOUR QUESTION.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is intentional and by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:11:13.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:14:02.397" Score="7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure the details on how this would work, except to make the person disappear as though they never existed (so remove all their comments, questions, and answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might make some comments seem out of place, but oh man, would it make time on SO more wonderful if you could magically make someone disappear.  It would also remove the impetus for people to mete out their downvoting justice to people who've annoyed them (but haven't really broken any &quot;rules&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T18:02:40.827" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:02:40.827" ClosedDate="2011-08-17T21:05:04.947" Title="Can we get a [block] or [ignore] feature so we never have to see someone's posts again?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2063" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:24:43.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really a bug, it's from your tag filter. Questions are removed on the client side adding a gap where each removed question would normally fill space. (90% sure). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the case I suppose it could be improved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T02:31:58.953" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:31:58.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-03T02:31:58.953" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="2068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:27:30.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we remove this restriction for people who are 10K+ and commenting on their own answer?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the case I most frequently run into the comment restriction.  I occasionally get multiple follow up questions in the form of comments that I want to respond to individually.  It's a real pain to want to give feed back but have to wait for that time limit to expire.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:27:30.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:29:17.057" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much like the reputation system, this denotes a certain amount of reading too much value into the badges themselves&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; I reiterate this, even though I have apparently lost my stack overflow beta badge, as I came into the beta program pretty much on the last day. It's a shame, as I was quite proud of it, but again, my life carries on, 1 day at a time ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5302" LastEditorUserId="5302" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T06:19:34.413" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T06:19:34.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2065" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:36:23.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be difficult because you also need to consider edits.  Today edit authors are currently credited in both the history and inline in the post.  What should show up in that case for a blocked user?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can definitely see support for this type of feature though.  It's like the equivalent of a killfile for NNTP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:36:23.560" />
  <row Id="2071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2065" CreationDate="2009-07-03T02:39:06.613" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cost: A lot of code editing  to show or not show a user throughout the system.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Reward: ....?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I just don't see any benefits to justify having to build this into the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T02:39:06.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2075" CreationDate="2009-07-03T03:05:19.213" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/125639-rollbacks-should-trigger-captcha&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Uservoice Suggestion&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a user edits a tag, or edits a question, the CAPTCHA is invoked after multiple short timeframe edits. However, if a user simply hits 'rollback', he can rollback as many entries as he wants (I've done it on 25 and not had an issue) without triggering CAPTCHA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desired Behavior&lt;/strong&gt;: I think this behavior should be changed to invoke CAPTCHA for &quot;Rollback&quot; much like it does for &quot;Edit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T06:20:46.357" Title="Rollbacks should trigger CAPTCHA" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;rollback-wars&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7173" CreationDate="2009-07-03T03:07:49.223" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/223202-allow-tags-to-be-edited-on-moved-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Uservoice Item&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1004078/is-there-anyway-to-determine-who-dropped-a-table-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; there's a tag called 'ass-kicking' that no one can get rid of since the question was locked and moved to &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt; . I'm not sure what the resolution could be, but either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow 10Kers to edit locked questions to remove tags (for questions that have been moved?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow us to flag said questions so people that can remove tags or edit questions that are moved can do that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that I don't think it's a good idea to create a system where I could potentially have a tag last forever because no one but 4 people can get rid of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T23:51:16.307" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:51:16.307" Title="Allow tags to be edited on 'moved' questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2088" CreationDate="2009-07-03T03:11:51.977" Score="8" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki allows you to take other people's answers and replace them with (well) another person's answer to 'cheat' the original poster out of votes/badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki posts in Stack Overflow exist to allow users to edit other's answers more easily -- to encourage participation. I could (with a mere 750 reputation, IIRC) go into any Community Wiki post and edit an existing answer. But what if I wanted to take a user's popular answer to another (very similar) question and just copy/paste that in? I could do that, and according to the 'rules' of CW, it would not be 'bad'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where it becomes unfair is now I'm getting rewards for someone else's answer; and they in turn are deprived of those rewards. Those rewards come in page views to their profile (which may lead to upvotes in other questions) and badges. It's that second part that is most important, it's the part that allows the original author to retain some benefit for a answer he made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki should either &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not give badges (another &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1662/please-remove-badges-from-fun-questions/1776#1776&quot;&gt;mSO discussion tracks this&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing should be explictly limited to improving the current answer without taking someone else's answer from another question wholesale. (clearly impossible)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391523/what-are-some-good-free-programming-books/392926#392926&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I compiled all of the answers in that post into one answer. This one answer became 'the answer', and I received badges for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, in this question, we found out that Question # 391523 was a duplicate; and was closed ( I don't necessarily agree with it being closed, since that's a nomination for deletion, in your words). My answer still sits there, getting upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gatekiller comes into that question, takes my answer, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4705/free-programming-ebooks/12053#12053&quot;&gt;replaces the accepted answer in his question&lt;/a&gt; with my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it would stand, the author of that answer would potentially receive dozens of upvotes for an answer he never gave, and I would be left out, with my reward mechanism removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Solution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take out the reward for Community Wiki Posts (OR)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Institute Guidelines for adding/editing CW posts (AND/OR)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain why the current system is broken.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, even if you choose not to do any of these things, a discussion on the merit of this issue would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T03:24:55.203" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T08:14:16.537" Title="Community Wiki Allows for Gaming to get badges" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2009-07-03T03:14:24.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds reasonable enough and it could also be thought of as a potential short cool-off period to prevent rollback wars as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T03:14:24.637" />
  <row Id="2076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2074" CreationDate="2009-07-03T03:37:54.563" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, and also find it confusing that CW posts will award badges, but not reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100835" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T03:37:54.563" />
  <row Id="2077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2040" CreationDate="2009-07-03T03:55:36.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hot = most activity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;active = most recent activity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T03:55:36.020" />
  <row Id="2078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2009-07-03T04:03:45.703" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think badges are moreso a quick record of what you've done on SO than Pokemon-esque &quot;Gotta catch 'em all&quot; efforts. Also, I think that the Beta badge isn't the only unattainable badge. Since there are silver and gold badges for 400 and 1000 upvotes in a particular tag, respectively, the possibilities are practically infinite (bonus points should be awarded to whoever can snag the gold for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ninja-on-fire&quot;&gt;ninja-on-fire&lt;/a&gt; tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like a soldier's ribbons, badges provide us with a quick glance at our achievements on SO. Except we don't get shot at on a regular basis, so they tend to have much duller stories behind them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, keep the Beta badge and bring back the Founder badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T04:03:45.703" />
  <row Id="2079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2080" CreationDate="2009-07-03T05:30:06.917" Score="3" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it will be faster to search a potential employee by targeting the job add to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone looking for a job passively and he opens a particular question to see the answer in stackoverflow, then chances are more that ad being viewed if it is related to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. If I am looking at question related to WCF (i.e. TAG with WCF,.NET ...) then there are more chances that I click on the job if it is related to the TAG of questions WCF not RUBY! (this is just an example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think so it is fairly straightforward to achieve this and will be more fruitful when there will be more jobs on the stackoverflow job-board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same thing can be looked for other ads around stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19917" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T01:44:54.360" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:44:54.360" Title="Relevant Job Ad" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;job&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2079" CreationDate="2009-07-03T05:43:20.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really a request for Fog Creek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, Fog Creek should be geolocating the IP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; pass them the tags from the page (if any) as that might be less narrow than Random City, Random Country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I suspect there aren't quite enough job listings (I mean, you'd need thousands and thousands) to make this kind of targetting worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T05:43:20.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T05:49:50.783" Score="0" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1059580/distributed-lock-service&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt;, and got an answer with 3 upvotes.&#xA;Then, I edited my question in such a way that the answer is no longer relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question will no longer appear as an unanswered question, and so will have little change of being promptly answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming I really want my question answered, and I consider it unanswered, what should I do in this case? (I decided to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1070495/distributed-lock-service-over-mysql-gigaspaces-netapp&quot;&gt;reask the question&lt;/a&gt;, with no great success so far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T08:59:09.317" Title="Solve the Modified Question problem" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2081" CreationDate="2009-07-03T06:00:51.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how many people actually use the &quot;unanswered questions&quot; tab - I know I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing the question will bump it briefly, so it should get a bit more attention - and if you make it very clear (i.e. in a bold bit of text in the question) that you've edited the question, that should help to make it clear what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some ways asking the modified question &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; editing the original (but linking to it for background) would have been better, so that the original question would still stand alone as a question with a valid answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T06:00:51.930" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2009-07-03T06:20:46.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why you would want to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why excessive posting and editing triggers CAPTCHAs is to stop spammers. Rollbacks, by nature, can't exactly be used well for spamming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130291" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T06:20:46.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2087" CreationDate="2009-07-03T07:11:46.563" Score="5" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it happens when it takes a bit longer to answer a question (got interrupted or something), that we get a captcha. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T09:25:24.820" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:25:52.697" Title="Why show captcha when an answer takes too long" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;anti-spam&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-03T07:21:11.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that my question is vague and really calls for opinion or speculation, not for an answer. raven is right - I was just curious. However the question got some good answers and at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1071762/how-would-you-develop-software-for-a-nuclear-plant/1077122#1077122&quot;&gt;one of them&lt;/a&gt; is from person in the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So go ahead, edit the question to match good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14131" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T07:21:11.033" />
  <row Id="2087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2009-07-03T07:44:27.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the page shown is a hip reference to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATFxVB4JFpQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FOTC video about robots&lt;/a&gt;, I've always imagined that there was (or still is) a robot in the wild that deliberately takes a long time between a form fetch and a posted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It must be thinking that returning a form with 1K characters in a field only 100 ms after fetching the page would obviously not happen with a human, so it should wait for a while before answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it waits. And since we get the &quot;I'm a human&quot; page after several (ten?) minutes, it must wait quite a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the threshold time that causes the CAPTCHA page seems to be just about as long as it takes to actually verify the facts of an answer as well as get distracted by at least one unrelated Wikipedia link and possibly one phone call from a customer wondering if you've finished his project (that he hasn't authorized to start) yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I've expanded and tried to clarify the point I wasn't making as well as I could have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68204" LastEditorUserId="68204" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T08:19:25.713" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T08:19:25.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2074" CreationDate="2009-07-03T08:14:16.537" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's certainly a discrepancy in terms of CW granting badges but not rep. Big deal? Maybe, maybe not. Personally I'm not terribly bothered by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as for gaming the system: there are various ways of gaming the system to get more badges - fewer for rep, but I dare say it's possible. The problem is that any &quot;fix&quot; to that is likely to harm the system too. For example, suppose someone &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; create an answer just by grabbing all the best bits of other answers. That's improving the site by collecting all the information together. In an ideal world, the other posters would then delete their original answers, leaving one definitive answer. That's good for the site, but bad for individuals in terms of &quot;unfair&quot; rep and badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically there's a tension between what's good (and fair) for an individual and what's good for the site as a resource. The system has been designed to keep the two goals in line as far as possible, but it's never going to be perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would favour leaving the system as it is until there's evidence of widespread gaming which &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; improve the quality of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T08:14:16.537" />
  <row Id="2089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2065" CreationDate="2009-07-03T08:18:43.720" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a good idea... and I don't think anything will get implemented here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However: occasionally, people change screen names. And sometimes, it gets out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently keeping tabs on one user who has used at least 5 names with about 10 edits (i.e. swapping between names); this might make it hard to ignore them by eye alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T08:26:08.710" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T08:26:08.710" />
  <row Id="2090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2081" CreationDate="2009-07-03T08:59:09.317" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should have asked a new question and referenced the original as explanation. From what you've said the new version of the question was sufficiently different to make it not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T08:59:09.317" />
  <row Id="2097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2009-07-03T09:45:51.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be possible that the session cookie has expired, so it looks to the server that you're jumping in and answering as the first action in a new session. I'd class posts without a session cookie as suspicious (on the premise &quot;that you've come straight to posting without reading the form&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T09:45:51.543" />
  <row Id="2108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2110" CreationDate="2009-07-03T11:47:37.247" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I upvote or downvote comments at StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130296" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T11:52:14.570" Title="How do I upvote or downvote comments?" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T11:47:40.383" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/879/make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites&quot;&gt;Make the search box return results from all StackOverflowian sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As there is heated discussion as to where some edge case questions should end up, there is similar confusion on my part as to where I should search for answers to particular problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any thought being put to have an integrated search that will pull results from whichever one of the trilogy the question has been asked? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may also be useful to drive knowledge of the various strands of SuperStackFault to people that don't follow the place that closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &quot;new users can't create tags&quot; more odd rules!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:01:39.623" ClosedDate="2009-07-03T23:20:31.887" Title="Search over stackoverflow and serverfault at the same time?" Tags="&lt;search&gt;&lt;integration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2108" CreationDate="2009-07-03T11:48:52.750" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can up-vote comments by clicking the up arrow right next to them (you have to hover over the comment to see the arrow).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Down-voting of comments is not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: this might be interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/755319/how-does-comment-voting-work&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/755319/how-does-comment-voting-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T11:48:52.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2109" CreationDate="2009-07-03T11:49:27.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are some custom google searches out there where you can do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T11:49:27.947" />
  <row Id="2114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2108" CreationDate="2009-07-03T11:52:14.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably need a bit of rep to vote on comments too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you do to vote on questions.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T11:52:14.570" />
  <row Id="2115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T12:07:24.377" Score="20" ViewCount="1169" Body="&lt;p&gt;What special formatting tricks can be done in the comments now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proven&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;**text**&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;__text__&lt;/code&gt; = Bolding = &lt;strong&gt;text&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*text*&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;_text_&lt;/code&gt; = Italics = &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;`&lt;code&gt;text&lt;/code&gt;`  = Code Formatting = &lt;code&gt;text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[example](http://example.com &quot;title&quot;)&lt;/code&gt; Inline links with title and text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://example.com&lt;/code&gt; plain old links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disproven&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cannot insert &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cannot use &lt;code&gt;#[text]&lt;/code&gt; to increase size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-01T09:15:37.403" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T07:33:31.090" Title="Text Formatting Now Allowed In Comments (List of Proven and Disproven Abilities)" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="27" />
  <row Id="2119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2009-07-03T12:13:34.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just beware of potential abuses if the system also throws a rep bonus in the bowl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T12:13:34.160" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2115" CreationDate="2009-07-03T12:17:30.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only bad thing is that it counts the markup toward the number of characters.  So bolding something means you can actually enter 4 characters less.  Of course, this effectively makes the minimum comment length 11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T12:17:30.453" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1556" CreationDate="2009-07-03T12:35:17.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a section on the right that&#xA;  lists possible related questions,&#xA;  matched by tags.- Kyle Cronin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you totally miss the point.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Questions matched by tags are often &lt;strong&gt;vaguely&lt;/strong&gt; related because there are finite number of all tags and finite (small) number of tags in each question. This mechanism can never replace linking questions manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I think this problem has&#xA;  been solved multiple times. - Kyle Cronin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, you totally miss the point.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The aim is to have clearly visible section when links to similar questions/answers could be put in and subsequently found in. Now, we have a total mess where you have to look through all answers and comments to find some useful links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps the related questions could be&#xA;  underneath the main question as a&#xA;  collapsible region (above comments),&#xA;  as I often miss it in its current&#xA;  location. – Jeff Yates&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line SO is supposed to be a Knowledge Base and as such has to have good tools for linking items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T12:35:17.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1163" CreationDate="2009-07-03T12:56:31.077" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested on UV that we change rep recalcs so when they happen rep for deleted answers doesn't effectively get removed. Specifically, rep for a deleted answer/question would be the &lt;strong&gt;higher&lt;/strong&gt; of 0 and the net rep from the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, if someone gets a couple of votes on an answer where there is a better version or theres just lots of the same versions there is a disincentive--however small--to deleting it. We should remove that disincentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T12:56:31.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2065" CreationDate="2009-07-03T12:58:54.533" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know whos annoying you or why but you need to stop taking it seriously. Frankly, most of the time I don't even look whos really asking, answering or commenting. I'm more interested in the content than whoever is behind it. This sort of proposal while being non-trivial to implement sets a bad precedent imho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T12:58:54.533" />
  <row Id="2132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2141" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:06:37.587" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I downvote a question, I don't want to see it anymore, it shouldn't keep appearing everytime someone answers it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to do that or at least add some form of ignoring a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Ignoring tags is not ideal, because I want to ignore &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; questions, not every single one with one tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:23:55.707" Title="Remove downvoted question from my homepage" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2191" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:10:05.427" Score="13" ViewCount="1378" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the recommended syntax for an image with a hyperlink? I tried doing it with the markdown toolbar buttons and the image and link buttons conflict with each other, so I had to resort to HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44330/jason-s&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd5a7ef1476fb01998a215b1642dfd07?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These work properly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44330/jason-s&quot;&amp;gt;![alt text][1]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;[1]: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd5a7ef1476fb01998a215b1642dfd07?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44330/jason-s&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;   &amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd5a7ef1476fb01998a215b1642dfd07?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;[&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd5a7ef1476fb01998a215b1642dfd07?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;&amp;gt;][2]&#xA;[2]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44330/jason-s&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href='http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44330/jason-s'&amp;gt;![alt text][1]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(single quotes not allowed?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to do the same thing in Markdown without having to resort to HTML?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T20:04:53.010" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T20:04:53.010" Title="What's the recommended syntax for an image with a link?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2132" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:11:43.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you want to then see it if it was edited (which might make the question useful and clear)? I can see your point though (but it would encourage people to ask the same question over and over).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to hide questions that are closed unless I follow a direct link to them hough (like a comment notification)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:11:43.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2133" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:13:02.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The specifics of what HTML is and isn't allowed are outlined in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:13:02.003" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2138" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:13:36.027" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add more badges for cleaning up tasks, like closing questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:53:43.433" Title="Badges for cleaning up" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2153" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:14:58.567" Score="16" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take an account without the &quot;Critic&quot; badge, upvote a question, immediately downvote it, then immediately cancel the downvote, and you get the critic badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:40:01.820" LastActivityDate="2010-05-26T16:25:07.693" Title="Is the Critic badge badge awarded prematurely" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2136" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:15:40.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed 10 or 20 questions with a unanimous vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed 10 or 20 questions as duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This prevents (or tries to prevent) negative and pointless voting to get badges. Since you have to select a duplicate and you have to select a correct close type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one problem though with the first one. It forces that people vote the same if they want to get the badge. So if the first person picks the wrong thing, the others have to pick the wrong thing with him to get a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:15:40.030" />
  <row Id="2139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:16:06.567" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; downvote it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:16:06.567" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:17:48.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the solution would be to require the downvote to be in place for more than 'x' minutes or something, or require loading of a full page (rather than just an XML callback which is presumably what caused it, even though I was just trying to cancel my upvote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst on the subject, why not have it such that clicking downvote on an upvoted question should just cancel the upvote, and not give you the downvote without a second click? (analogous to a spinner control)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:17:48.107" />
  <row Id="2141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2132" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:23:55.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this happened it would greatly reduce the urge for people to fix their posts, since the people they are trying to convince to remove their down votes aren't going to see their posts anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:23:55.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:28:24.540" Score="7" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to have a preference to keep comments hidden by default, like it used to be on Stack Overflow some time ago. It could be on by default, but honestly, I'm not interested in most comments I end up reading and they just clutter the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6068" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:53:13.737" Title="Preference to keep comments hidden by default" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2148" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:31:32.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130212" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:31:32.863" />
  <row Id="2150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2148" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:31:47.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this as a new feature, even if I were personally not going to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:31:47.683" />
  <row Id="2152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2148" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:35:43.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like reading through the comments, but when I'm done I would like to hide them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:35:43.557" />
  <row Id="2153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:37:05.143" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awarded badges are not removed, by design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood has &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mentioned this&lt;/a&gt; on a few occasions: &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Badges are almost never removed&lt;/strong&gt;. You do not lose the badge once you have it.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if, for example, you left 10 comments (Commentator badge) and then deleted one, you would not lose the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:37:05.143" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:43:23.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is so easy to get this badge that it isn't worth introducing any extra code to govern it. If you can be a &quot;critic&quot; with one click... so what if you can do it with two too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:43:23.367" />
  <row Id="2167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8036" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:48:04.540" Score="25" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a very common behavior to refine answers several times after submitting them. Most of the time, the refinement is just adding and removing several characters or words. You might notice some other issues right after the edit. It's pretty common to face a captcha. The current threshold is a little unacceptable (specially for slow connections). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Migrated from:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/218544-increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/218544-increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T07:28:34.073" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T22:12:47.337" Title="Increase captcha threshold for post editing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:51:42.487" Score="9" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have an action, link, button, whatever to turn an answer into a comment. More or less like flagging, when an answer receives enough votes that it is actually a comment it becomes a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6068" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-07T05:34:31.780" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T05:35:18.517" Title="Turn answer into comment" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2167" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:52:26.323" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several possible solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the edit magnitude (the number of characters edited) into account. Don't ask for a captcha for a number of small edits. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just increase the threshold. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the rep into account. Either use a step-function to reduce captchas after a specific rep or decrease captcha count as the rep goes high. However, if you chose this route, you should make sure there's a maximum limit so that if a high-rep account is hijacked, not much harm can be done. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove that stupid image. It's a pain to wait for it to load on slow and high latency connections like mine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:52:26.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2169" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:58:24.907" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would turn into a comment to the question then? And I don't understand your last sentence, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T13:58:24.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2169" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:05:10.490" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something tells me this would be difficult to implement.  First, what does it become a comment of, the question?  Second, how do you resolve any potential formatting, code blocks, etc.  Third, what if it's bigger than 600 characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you pick answers to those questions, they're going to be arbitrary.  I just don't think this provides any improvement over the current system of commenting on the question, downvoting, and if necessary, flagging for a moderator.  In fact, I'd argue that it's substantially worse than the current system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:05:10.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2148" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:06:00.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: That's right. Well one thing we just rolled out was, we're surfacing some of the comments on the question page now, one thing I didn't like about comments was that they were essentially unsearchable, because they were loaded through Javascript, and through Ajax&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pryor: But technically you can go back to the old way if you want, you said. Are you going to allow that in the settings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: Yeah, we're not big on preferences, I'm kinda down on preferences as a design technique?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: You mean the user chooses their preferences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: Yeah! I think that your default should be good enough for like, more than 95% of the people? Otherwise you're kind of screwing up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: Well anyway yeah..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: But in this case I actually believe that this is a preference that we will add to the system because you could make the argument that you really don't want to see comments unless they're really really good or maybe not even at all. So you can actually set the threshold at which they get escalated to the question page? Right now the threshold is 0 essentially, the last 5 comments will appear if there are 5 comments, and then..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: But I felt with comments that it made more sense to escalate them to the page, you have to do it in a way that you're not overwhelming the page with comments, so it's top 5, by date or by voting – if we have enough votes then we'll show you the top 5 by votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pryor: So the threshold is set to 5 by default?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: The total number threshold is set to 5, we're thinking about adding a threshold variable in that, the comments that are escalated to the main page have to have n votes to even appear at all – in a user preference. Like you could set it to 5 and then the only comments that got voted to 5 or higher would actually be escalated to the main page for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: What would be the name of that user preference?  Like what would the little radio button say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: I don't know! I don't know that one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: It seems a little too complicated I mean, unless you experience that, you may not know how to set that preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: Yeah, well it's an advanced user setting, but some users really objected to comments being on the page at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: They just, you know what? You mean you got feedback, somebody sent you an email saying they don't like comments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: Yeah! There's not a lot, there's a minority but..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: Yeah. Forget it. You could do anything. You could change it so that there's a button you click and it sent you money in the mail, $20 bills&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: When you click that button $20 bills arrive in the mail? And you would get somebody saying  &quot;Why did you change stack overflow? It was PERFECT&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29044&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #51&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:06:00.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2177" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:09:41.867" Score="2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/suggestion-notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment&quot;&gt;Suggestion - notify user when their name is mentioned in comment&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I track when people comment an answer after me (it may be a reply to me). Or when I comment the question asking for clarification, how do I see that they have updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course without having to visit all the places I have commented to see if there is a comment &quot;answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130299" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:25:37.773" ClosedDate="2009-07-03T14:25:54.310" Title="How do I track people answering my comments?" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="468" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:19:50.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English-only Stack Overflow and Server Fault was not an issue  because most good developers/adminstrators have some fluency in English - but last time I checked, the chinese clone of SO seems quite vibrant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It already becomes less true for power users. And because the software  behind Stack Overflow will be used by non-technical communities - welcome  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; - you can't expect them to have a working knowledge of English, so localization must and will be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15366" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:19:50.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2175" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:25:37.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a good way currently, but there are feature requests and discussions about ways to improve the system, linked in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:25:37.773" />
  <row Id="2178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1556" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:28:33.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it's a good idea to have &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; place to list similar questions..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not improve the existing &quot;Related Questions&quot; section - add the ability for users to suggest better related questions, which would promote them to the top of the list and visually highlight them in some way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6905/picture9luq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mockup for community promoted similar-question&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;[+]&lt;/code&gt; could be hidden in the same way the comment voting/flagging buttons are, perhaps same with a button to flag a community-decided related link (in cases of misuse/abuse)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how many people would actually use this, so making it an improvement of an existing feature seems like a good idea (that way, if no one uses it, it's not taking up extra screen space)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's a somewhat similar idea which I really liked, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1350/feature-request-inverse-duplicate-listing&quot;&gt;&quot;Inverse duplicate listing&quot;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T14:54:11.637" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:54:11.637" />
  <row Id="2179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2184" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:29:50.510" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy questions get the most votes. I think that's undeniable. More people know the answer so vote. It seems clear to me that when people don't know they answer they don't vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we encourage answering harder questions by making votes for such questions proportionally worth more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I should've been clearer. The idea I'm floating is that the value of each vote could be inversely proportional to the total number of votes for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T14:35:24.630" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:19:36.887" Title="Should we weight vote worth inversely to number of votes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;difficulty&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:32:22.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two major issues I can foresee with this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who decides the difficulty of a question? An easy question to some may be difficult to others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allows system to be gamed easily. If I solve a very easy question it would be possible for me to mark it as hard to get rep in my favor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see some instances where this may be helpful, but there's too many cases where it wouldn't hold true.&#xA;A lot of the time partially correct or incomplete answers get voted up by one or two with the correct answer voted up much more. This is the expected behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Counter Proposal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make upvote strength proportional to the upvotes on the question  itself. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasoning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While usually answers to difficult questions have fewer votes, the questions themselves usually have more, and get set as a favorite much more frequently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using this method the community decides how useful the question was, and thus upvoted answers on quality questions are worth more. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T14:48:10.933" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:48:10.933" />
  <row Id="2182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:33:44.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems clear to me that when people&#xA;  don't know they answer they don't&#xA;  vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may not vote for questions they don't know anything about, but that doesn't seem to stop them voting foranswers for which they have a similar level of ignorance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should we somehow discourage upvoting of answers? I sometimes think it should have the same penalty as downvoting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:33:44.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:44:13.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably don't want to make it too hard to get the critic badge otherwise you might encourage needless down-voting just to get the badge. Which would be in contravention to the purpose of badges and rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3720" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:44:13.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:44:46.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few questions I'm raising for this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What about the first few minutes, where the question has low votes and few answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a question that is outside the domain of most people hard?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How about an easy question in a rare domain?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will time be a factor in this as well. Since I think it will help in defining the difficulty of the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you answer a question that has gotten the tumbleweed badge (or a similar criteria) and for each upvote you get, you get a bonus +5 rep (or something) until some criteria is hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:44:46.447" />
  <row Id="2185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2167" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:47:46.987" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as another example of why this is sometimes required: in cases where the preview doesn't quite match the posted version (e.g. for links or code formatting) it can be a bit of a trial-and-error process. CAPTCHA makes it that bit more tedious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:47:46.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="468" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:51:42.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the same reasons that Johan have mentioned, I think that the &lt;code&gt;Stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt; core will be l10n ready eventually, but I wouldn't hold my breath for &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.es&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;desbordamientodepila.com&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.it&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.cn&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English is the lingua franca of the web, moreso for developers. Good documentation in most languages is definetly lacking, with honourable exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:51:42.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2009-07-03T14:54:53.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about a uservoice (bear with me!) type voting system where you have got x points to grade the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep points are then earned as certain levels are hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say if you had a rate the answer 1 to 5 and basically. If you hit 10 votes you get 10 rep points but it takes at least two upvotes to get this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would hopefully make the grade of answers better as people fight to get the full 5 vote points. Answer with a simple link and you can expect 1 vote point, a more in-depth answer could get 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively give 2 rep points per voting point? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T14:54:53.007" />
  <row Id="2188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:08:16.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said this before - I'd like to see rep offered as a fixed potential amount per question with diminishing returns on votes such that early votes have more reward than later ones.&#xA;This has the effect of mitigating popularity and bandwagoning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a little ridiculous to earn hundreds of rep on a single question, and less popular languages etc have a harder time attracting interest if you're not likely to get more than an upvote or two no matter how good your answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:08:16.877" />
  <row Id="2189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:09:00.697" Score="4" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably not the most important thing, but since uservoice is closed, here's a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The syntax highlighter for code blocks really screws up on PostScript code, making it essentially less readable then unhighlited code (and that's pretty hard with Postcript). And, after all, PostScript is a programming language :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Looking closer, it would go a long way if the prettyfier would at least recognize the precent symbol as a comment starter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note: To the right of this input box it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about this&#xA;  website, ask it on&#xA;  meta.stackoverflow.com instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could lead to a mental infinite recursion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-07T22:49:10.903" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T22:49:10.903" Title="Syntax highlighter misbehaves with PostScript code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="2190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1999" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:16:52.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this will be downvoted to oblivion*, but I believe this is yet another example of what seems to be a fundamental rule on the web: Any useful or interesting site which allows user interaction will over time be rendered useless by plain bad contents without enormous effort from the owners' side. That is not to say that a site will not be used anymore beyond this point, just that the savvy and productive users will have left for greener pastures, leaving the rest to spam and bicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who's been using the web for a few years probably have seen at least one good site go bad from sheer overload of bad content. Digg and LinkedIn Answers are there, Reddit and del.icio.us are on the way, and only a few sites seem to survive in the long run: Wikipedia comes to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a similar moderation structure would be useful - I know I'd love to see a lot of questions here answered with &quot;RTFM!&quot; and a delete (at least it should be possible to hide all closed questions). Another issue is bad tagging - A lot of vendor-specific questions are marked with general tags. This badly weakens the very useful tag filtering options - I don't want to hide &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; SQL questions, only those related to vendors I'm not familiar with. Tag moderation could be very useful, but it seems rare in practice. Another suggestion would be heavy deduction of rep for bad questions (closed &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; downvoted), and some sort of entry barrier to asking if you've got few points or lots of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*No, that's not a stab at Slashdot at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130301" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:16:52.703" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2133" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:18:37.177" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible to use Markdown for both the image and the link. You'll have to do it manually because, as you said, the toolbar isn't smart enough to do it for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![alt text][2]][1]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44330/jason-s&#xA;  [2]: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd5a7ef1476fb01998a215b1642dfd07?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44330/jason-s&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd5a7ef1476fb01998a215b1642dfd07?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:18:37.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:19:12.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems clear to me that when people don't know they answer they don't vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to deny that for myself. I constantly find myself voting a lot more for (good) questions that I understand but &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:19:12.183" />
  <row Id="2193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2169" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:22:24.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very bad idea, because it is often very subjective as to what is a comment or an answer. And what would happen to the votes (up or down) would they be refunded? If not, then you're saying that the people who downvoted can never get their rep back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a user may have put quite a bit of thought into their answer which you think is a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit in response to comment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking something inappropriate is less subjective, because you are &lt;em&gt;offended&lt;/em&gt; by it. It not a contextual thing, it's something visceral. When you are marking something as offensive, you are saying you want it expunged from the site, which is a pretty big deal, although necessary at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is also subjective as to whether or not something is the 'right' answer, especially when two things both helped you out. In those cases, all you can do is upvote them, and mark the one which is &lt;em&gt;most helpful to you&lt;/em&gt;, again it is &lt;strong&gt;okay&lt;/strong&gt; that it is subjective, because it was asked by a single person, and the selection of the 'most helpful answer to me' should also be made by me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, marking something as a comment immediately precludes them from receiving any votes, it also has the potential to steal votes away from them. And, as I mentioned previously, some answers ARE comments. For instance: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;How can I best expose my website to&#xA;  hackers? I really want to, because of&#xA;  XYZ&quot; (not a real question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;XSS can be exposed to by this&#xA;  method&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Exposing your site to hackers&#xA;  can have no benefit, it will be a&#xA;  danger to your hardware, software, and&#xA;  all your clients, and any benefits&#xA;  will be BY FAR outweighed by the&#xA;  destruction that would be wrought.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it is obvious that the second answer would be correct (in this very contrived question), even though strictly speaking &lt;strong&gt;it is a comment on the question&lt;/strong&gt;. The second person sought to go to the heart of the question, which means that rather than answering, they were clarifying and commenting. This means that the second answer should be moved as a comment, even though we can easily recognize that it is more correct than any 'answer' could be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, if you'll grant that there are situations where a 'comment' can live on as an answer, it means that you are creating a gradation of 'good comment answers' which can stay and 'bad comment answers' which must go. And generally, the measure is going to be whether or not they are useful. If they aren't useful, they should not be posted at all, they should be downvoted, and a comment should be added to say 'this is not helpful, nor an answer'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, moving the answers away will be troubling and frustrating to the person who posted what they thought was an answer. Furthermore, you are taking away the ability of the community to up/down vote them, which is the entire purpose of the up/down vote buttons, it is to encourage and discourage certain bvehaviours. When you move it to a comment, we can no longer do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T11:53:13.297" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:53:13.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:42:50.303" Score="4" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;That solves the badge gaming problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes the name is of course tongue-in-cheek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T04:46:25.060" Title="Move the &quot;fun&quot; questions to verbaloverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:43:52.920" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a fantastic idea.  I do not see it as social networking.  I don't foresee this feature making stackoverflow like a facebook, myspace, or twitter.  But, there are a few guys that I work with that use SO and it'd be nice if there was a very easy way to see what my &quot;colleagues&quot; are posting.  Yes, I could certainly look at each one of their user profiles, but the view would certainly be a great feature.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would even take it further and suggest maybe having a colleague/buddy/friend and an ignore list.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:43:52.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:45:25.820" Score="-1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a category of general or open ended questions that often attract derisive or sarcastic responses. Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1074688/user-defined-data-objects-what-is-the-best-data-storage-strategy/1079873#1079873&quot;&gt;one example&lt;/a&gt;. My idea is that a poster could mark their question as &quot;Brainstorming&quot; and in the spirit of Brainstorming, downvoting answers would not be allowed. This would encourage users to enter creative solutions without fear of losing reputation. Good ideas would percolate to the top and bad ideas would languish at the bottom with 0 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited to add: Please downvote this if you disagree so that I can at least enjoy the irony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2nd edit: I think my idea is fundamentally different than the community wiki -- or at least my understanding of it -- but since the CW itself is loosely defined and evolving I won't belabor the point. From the CW FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It turns out that it's a mechanism for&#xA;  members to voluntarily pose a question&#xA;  so that it will not accrue reputation&#xA;  points, only badges. It's used when&#xA;  some members might threaten to close&#xA;  it because it's perceived to lie&#xA;  outside acceptable criteria for site&#xA;  questions. (Or at least questions for&#xA;  which points should be awarded.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I misunderstood this: I was under the impression that no points were accrued for CW questions or answers, but reading this it sounds like points are accrued for upvotes on answers but not the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12752" LastEditorUserId="12752" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T17:53:09.567" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:53:09.567" Title="Allow questions to be marked as &quot;Brainstorming&quot; and only accept upvotes on answers" Tags="&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:47:26.873" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea.  The system can use all of the backend rules for point thresholds, etc. with the stored UTC time while the presentation of dates/times can be output in the user's local timezone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would actually make yesterday mean yesterday and today mean today in terms of that user's location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:47:26.873" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2203" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:48:42.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the upvote only model is flawed but if you really want this you can always make the question community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still the idea of a different type of question isn't without merit. I am just not sure it'd work in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:48:42.207" />
  <row Id="2208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:54:29.493" Score="9" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;PROPOSAL&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remove the &quot;Accepted Answer&quot; feature from community wiki posts.  Since the community votes for the best answers, the answer with the highest votes should be considered the answer.  So let the votes do the talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this post was initially placed out there months ago, subjective questions are being removed at a growing rate.  I don't think that having less &quot;subjective&quot; posts makes this idea go away, but it does reinforce the idea that &quot;subjective&quot; posts can't have an answer.  It also reinforces the belief in the community for doing what is right via voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-20T16:43:30.867" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T16:43:30.867" Title="Remove &quot;accepted answer&quot; feature for community wiki's" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2009-07-03T15:57:48.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two possibilities here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a question, whether or not it is subjective. For example, &quot;should I use technology A or B given my requirements?&quot; is subjective but an answer will clearly help the OP and &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be selected as the correct answer. Such questions are sometimes asked as CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has no such possibility of an actual answer for the OP in which case it's not a question, it's a discussion and (imho) is not appropriate content for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a result I'm against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T15:57:48.317" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2009-07-03T16:02:32.283" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By moving them, they become less fun. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T16:02:32.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2203" CreationDate="2009-07-03T16:19:59.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might as well call this &quot;Digg mode&quot;.  Jeff has &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt; that he believes downvoting is an important part of the spectrum.  Besides, you don't dismiss bad ideas when brainstorming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T16:19:59.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2065" CreationDate="2009-07-03T16:40:20.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another reason against this: You could easily post identical content to someone you block, leading to duplicate/redundant posts..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T16:40:20.740" />
  <row Id="2217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2009-07-03T16:40:56.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that there are many subjective questions where the post selected as 'correct' is simply the one that agrees with the what the poster already thinks, it is also true that many of the answers to community wiki questions are very well thought out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a single poster will write a long paragraph highlighting both sides of the issue, and trying to succinctly capture exactly the parameters of the question and then offer an opinion afterward. They should be able to be rewarded for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is about rewarding effort, and anything we do that FORBIDS rewards will seriously damage participation in those kinds of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T16:40:56.933" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2203" CreationDate="2009-07-03T16:50:30.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow meets the Special Olympics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care what brainstorming sessions you think you've been in, but if you go and propose something mind-blowingly dumb, you're going to get knocked for it, unless you are in some sort of anti-brainstorming session where EVERYONE is saying something mind-blowingly dumb and nobody else is smart enough to realize it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are truly concerned with downvotes, you can always screw up the Community Wiki system moreso than it already is. People already use the CW status to prevent topics and answers from getting negatively affected by down votes, so that should solve your problem rather than introducing a Special Olympics mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T17:01:03.280" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:01:03.280" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2009-07-03T17:07:41.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All work and no play makes Jack a dull&#xA;  boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't take the fun away. Consider also that many of the &quot;Fun&quot; questions are loosely tied to Programming/Technology, so not only does it offer a nice release from all of the so serious events throughout my day, it is still benefiting me in some sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:07:41.800" />
  <row Id="2226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2009-07-03T17:11:58.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am entirely in favor of disabling &quot;accept&quot; for answers to CW questions. At best, it's meaningless. At worst, it creates confusion. Anything that stresses the wiki aspect of CW is a good thing, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Accept&quot; makes sense for normal questions, as it allows the person with the problem to indicate what actually solved it. But a CW question may have only a weak connection to the issue that prompted its original author to post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the FAQ questions: they include some shining examples of how &lt;code&gt;CW&lt;/code&gt; can be used effectively, with multiple contributing authors for both the question and answer(s), often expanded from a single, specific question to cover multiple, related questions on a given feature. &quot;Accepting&quot; an answer for these makes no sense - at best, it should be done right away so that future contributors can edit the right answer. But there's always the danger that the original author will show up and accept some other answer, thus down-playing the work of the community authors in favor of something else. That this (to my knowledge) hasn't happened again speaks to how useless such a feature is for CW questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kill it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:11:58.793" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2179" CreationDate="2009-07-03T17:19:36.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea... I'd like to see some data on the distribution of votes to high-ranked answers over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut feeling is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2179/should-we-weight-vote-worth-inversely-to-number-of-votes/2184#2184&quot;&gt;Ólafur&lt;/a&gt; is on the right track with the time-based approach. If multiple votes within a short time period (say, a day...) were considered less valuable than the same number of votes over a longer period, then truly great answers would still get rewarded. This could even be used to replace or inform the current daily rep cap...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:19:36.887" />
  <row Id="2229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2230" CreationDate="2009-07-03T17:49:01.577" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2215/whats-the-secret-to-getting-posted/2223#2223&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the question asker brought up a good point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's no external notification that your question was successfully posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature Request&lt;/strong&gt;: Add an orange bar to the top of the screen that 'pops up' when your question has been successfully posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:51:42.053" Title="Add &quot;Your Question has been posted&quot; notification" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2229" CreationDate="2009-07-03T17:51:42.053" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you post a question, I could have sworn it took you to you question (proving that it got posted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:51:42.053" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T17:54:38.380" Score="29" ViewCount="478" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be neat if you could see a users &quot;User Rank&quot; or &quot;User Percentile Rating&quot; within their profile. It could just be something like &quot;Top 25%&quot;, &quot;Within Top 250 Users&quot;, or &quot;Rank: 4500 out of 6500 users&quot;, and would easily tell you where you rank based on score compared to all other users of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would increase the &quot;game-iness&quot; of SO, and would be another thing in addition to Score that would keep users wanting to increase their score. It would be like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Man I only rank within the top 1500 users, damn I need to get my score up to be within the top 500. That's be awesome! Gotta go answer more questions.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there's a similar request &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1738/user-ranking-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but it's not the same as what I'm suggesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7831" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T09:14:47.350" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T09:14:47.350" Title="User Rank -or- User Percentile Rating" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-rank&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2231" CreationDate="2009-07-03T17:57:56.547" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that I personally (and some others) will judge our rank based on what page we are on in the user listing. After hitting a certain rep level, that is one of the few ways you can continue to strive towards high rep goals. &quot;I wanna get up on page 2!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: You might also want to include a link to this older suggestion which proposes a number of new user rankings: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1357/new-user-rankings&quot;&gt;New User Rankings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T17:57:56.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:14:08.753" Score="8" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand being forced to pass the CAPTCHA test if you post too quickly, but I can see no reason for it if you post too slowly?  So what if I take 15 minutes composing my question or answer?  How could that possibly be used for abuse?  Would you prefer my post was full of typos and incorrect information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't rush me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: This is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2085/why-show-captcha-when-an-answer-takes-too-long&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  That question is asking why it is happening.  I don't care why it is happening, I want it to stop because I can't see any reason for it.  I am requesting a bug fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2009-08-15:  Why was this marked completed?  It wasn't.  I am still annoyed by that CAPTCHA when I take too long to compose a question.  Why?  Please explain the logic behind that decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T23:01:32.113" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:00:07.963" Title="Stop displaying the CAPTCHA if you take too long to edit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:17:48.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never seen the CAPTCHA displayed for posts taking long time to right (perhaps I write too fast). If this is the case, I can't think of any legit reason why it would be doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:17:48.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:19:08.197" Score="19" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just out of idle curiosity I thought I'd check how many of my answers had been accepted. The only way I could see was to manually count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would people be interested in seeing this as a statistic on the profile page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - mine's about 11% (28 ish / 264) - it's ish because I gave up counting and didn't want to count my answers to my questions that I'd accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T11:36:37.513" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T09:36:41.297" Title="Would it be useful so show people's &quot;hit rate&quot; - i.e. percentage of answers accepted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2242" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:19:38.227" Score="0" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not clear to me that this is because of the reputation drop issue earlier today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current reputation number here on meta is 121. I was curious to see how that number came about, so clicked on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/76337?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;reputation history&lt;/a&gt; link for myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a 90 and a 20 and a 10, and I believe I'm missing a 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:24:41.007" Title="Odd Reputation Number: 90 + 20 + 10 = 121?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2238" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:20:51.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was actually one of the rankings I was suggesting here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1357/new-user-rankings&quot;&gt;New User Rankings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be an interesting metric, but it will almost always be skewed towards people with a lower answer count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:20:51.513" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:21:10.157" Score="22" ViewCount="588" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've suspected for a while that downvoting imposes a limit on one's daily reputation limit and therefore counts downvotes twice. Today with TheTXI's help I was able to confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The daily reputation limit is calculated by (200 - (number of downvotes)). Not downvotes you've received, but downvotes you've given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, let's say this morning I give out 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes for various questions and answers. My rep drops from 5000 to 4995 because of the cost of downvoting. Then I post a great answer that receives 20 upvotes. I receive 195 reputation (because of my five downvotes). Now my reputation is 5190.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's counting downvotes twice. Once immediately, and once with the daily cap, preventing me from getting those last 5 points even though I was upvoted enough times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TXI and I tested this in this way: I downvoted him once I was at my rep cap, then he upvoted me. He expected my reputation to go back to what it was (with his upvote restoring one reputation), but it was not restored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who both downvotes and reaches his daily reputation cap often, I'm missing out on a lot of reputation I would have otherwise gained. Plus this calculation makes it more difficult than necessary to determine if I've reached today's cap yet or not. If it were a constant 200 I'd just be able to look and see if I've hit 200 yet or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T08:07:02.163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:07:02.163" Title="Daily reputation cap effectively counts downvotes twice" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="2242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2239" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:23:01.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You, me, everyone gets a 1 to start off with, and your rep can never drop below 1 even if you get down-votes that should take you into negative territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether there are reasons for this. Unless it's must have rep &gt; 0 to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:23:01.337" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="2243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2238" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:23:01.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great stat. Also what would be good at a glance is a ratio of Questions to Answers--identify who's and asker and who's an answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a threshold, though.  I think that if you don't have a &quot;minimum answers&quot; thing, you'll get a huge skew of folks who have only answered one question. Sort of like when the do all the awards at the end of an NHL season--there's always a minimum number of games played for best save percentage. Otherwise, some minor league goalie who was in for five shutout minutes would win every year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:23:01.540" />
  <row Id="2244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:23:31.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can confirm this behavior. I can also confirm that if a user is the recipient of a downvote, he can still make up that lost 2 reputation (as long as they are now under the rep cap). If you are the person who votes down, you can't seem to recoup that lost 1 rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also confirm that this is apparently unrelated to other rep limit complaints that typically have to do with the timeframe calculations that go on (where the rep limit actually resets at 8pm EST instead of 12am).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this should be a major item worth investigating by those with actual access to the code base to see what exactly is going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T18:32:32.237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:32:32.237" />
  <row Id="2245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2239" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:23:55.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a starting bounty for everybody of 1 point. maybe due to the errors in regard of account bounty of today, you lost your 100 rep from starting an account on meta coming from SO or SF. The recalc done does not know about the 100 starting rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2092/ive-just-seen-my-rep-on-so-jump-by-100-is-this-due-to-a-rep-recalc&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2100/whats-happening-to-jeffs-rep-on-meta&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2103/how-did-i-just-go-down-150-rep-on-so&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:23:55.423" />
  <row Id="2246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2239" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:24:41.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get one point to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12752" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:24:41.007" />
  <row Id="2247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2231" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:46:04.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I second this, as you can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1705/jon-skeet-badge/1708#1708&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see: when Joel and Jeff say in the podcast that they get &gt; 3'000'000 distinct hits with a world population of 9'000'000 programmers - taking into consideration that some will have multiple ip addresses to post from - we can estimate that 1/6 of all programmers are on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am in the first 1.5% of all users on SO, does that means that i can savely say that I am in the top 10% worldwide? Or even the top 1.5%, as good programmers are on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T18:46:04.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2009-07-03T18:57:50.990" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] and I'd want to award them some of my reputation to get 'em started. [Brent Ozar]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible problem to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is used to get the system to trust you - when you contribute usefully, you get points.. but if anyone can give a new user, say, 50 points - they can suddenly comment without the system learning to trust you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably not a big issue, but you could quickly get several accounts to a reasonable reputation without having to answer questions with each one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mehrdad worded this much better in his comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... [Reputation is] a measure of community participation. As noted in SO official FAQ page: &quot;rep is never given; it's earned.&quot; Doing this would fundamentally change what rep means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T20:17:10.737" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T20:17:10.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:01:38.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you looking for suggestions? It would be great if it was targeted. Jobs in my area, in tags I have been active in or interested should be favoured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:01:38.500" />
  <row Id="2250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2258" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:02:23.600" Score="3" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that if I want to actually help on StackOverflow.com that I might want to monitor new questions using an RSS feed for certain tags only.  That way I could see questions that relate to the subject area where I can best help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is their some other way to do it...even on the site.  How do I filter questions by tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seth B Spearman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:44:22.480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:44:22.480" Title="Is there a way to do RSS feeds on a set of tags" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="2251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2298" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:02:56.890" Score="3" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2103/how-did-i-just-go-down-150-rep-on-so&quot;&gt;Cletus&lt;/a&gt;, I saw a drop in my rep not only on MSO (I don't care),&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;but more importantly on SO&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(339 points in my case, which, for a &quot;git&quot; like me, is not just &quot;one day&quot; of clever answers;) )&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(Yes, &quot;git&quot;. And I have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/80/git&quot;&gt;badge to prove it&lt;/a&gt;! And yes, I am going for the gold on this one...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is because some of us activated the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2092/ive-just-seen-my-rep-on-so-jump-by-100-is-this-due-to-a-rep-recalc&quot;&gt;account tab feature&lt;/a&gt;, and a rep recalc had to be initiated to fix some kind of loophole. Whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff hastily mailed me, and I quote here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The recalc means you loose any rep from the deleted post, etc. This is Normal&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scary stuff (you got to love the &quot;etc&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;you loose&quot;, like permanently? Or just for &quot;6-to-8-weeks&quot;&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:29:04.613" Title="Will we get back rep points lost after a &quot;rep recalc&quot;?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2250" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:04:19.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/[insert tag name here]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: If there is a tag called &quot;hotdogs&quot; I can subscribe to that tag feed with the url:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/hotdogs&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/hotdogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can filter questions by tag by adding tags to you interesting tags list (that will provide highlighting for questions that come through matching your interesting tags). By clicking on a tag, you will be displayed a list of questions that match the tag you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another method is to use the search box and search for '[tag name]' (include the square brackets) and that will search specifically for that tag. Searching for '[tag name] my query' will search the questions for you query and limit the results only to those falling within [tag name]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:04:19.927" />
  <row Id="2253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2251" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:07:36.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume it's forever. The recalc does exactly that, recalculates all the rep that you should have as of now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see it changing, and for most users it probably goes down over time as things are pruned/removed and deleted. Perhaps if things become undeleted in the future you'd see an increase in a rep recalc, but I wouldn't be optimistic of things like that happening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:07:36.597" />
  <row Id="2255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2251" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:16:39.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given how opaque this kind of rep loss is, wouldn't it be a good idea to have some sort of auto-email to tell you when a post of yours is deleted? (and preferably &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:16:39.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:40:37.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, whatever is devised will strive to remain specific and discrete. I wouldn't mind seeing unsolicited offers... but only if they're serious, targeted, and &lt;em&gt;rare&lt;/em&gt;. If it devolves into mega-job-board-style recruiter spam, then that box will be unchecked quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:40:37.923" />
  <row Id="2258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2250" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:43:59.630" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To subscribe to a single feed for multiple tags, use &quot;or&quot; in the URL. For example, if I wanted to subscribe to the questions tagged &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt; here, I would use the following URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/status-completed+or+status-declined&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/status-completed+or+status-declined&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use this trick when browsing with tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+or+django&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+or+django&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(further reading: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:43:15.773" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:43:15.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:44:09.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; like to see in-messaging but it didn't sound like J+J were keen when it was mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:44:09.147" />
  <row Id="2260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2009-07-03T19:53:24.583" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's an inconsistency and a slight annoyance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with TheTXI's assertion that it's a &quot;major item&quot; though. This isn't going to be affecting &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; users for more than a couple of points a day - and even those it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; affecting are unlikely to be losing &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; rep. If you cast 20 downvotes in a day, the double counting will have cost you 20 rep (vs single counting them). 20 rep is hardly a lot, and I doubt that many people actually cast anywhere near that many downvotes regularly on a daily basis. (Taking TheTXI and welbog as examples, I reckon their averages are around 0.7 and 2 downvotes a day respectively. My mental arithmetic may well be out a little bit, but not a huge amount.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seriously doubt that this is likely to be the best use of the team's time any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T19:53:24.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T20:25:11.793" Score="35" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;&quot;How about making it possible to set up bounty on someone else’s question?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but a little less extreme..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, you could &quot;top up&quot; the points of another users bounty (up to the current maximum, 500)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say a question has a bounty of 100 points, I could contribute up to 400 of my points towards it it. When the bounty is resolved, 100 points would be deducted from the original user (well, 50), and 400 from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than one user could contribute (again, up to the maximum limit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question already has a 500 point bounty, this feature wouldn't apply. Also as cletus suggested, you should not be able to add to the bounty within maybe two days of the bounty closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated Suggestion:&lt;/strong&gt; Acknowledging the inherent complexity, what if, when offering a second bounty, the user immediately agrees to forfeit control of who the bounty is given to &amp;lt;-- the original user to offer a bounty does so, and further, &lt;em&gt;the bounty expiration remains unchanged.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;This would help &lt;em&gt;lower rep users&lt;/em&gt;.  They might not be able to offer the astronomical +500 rep bonuses that the 10k crowd can.  These +500's certainly attract more views than the +50s.  Presumably, the 10K users also already have the ear of the Stack Exchange Gods and need not beg so arduously for a feature on Meta, or have the visibility on [so] that their questions are answered quite quickly.  Right now, if they forfeited too much rep it would relegate them to maybe barely being able to talk in chat.  They might lose: 'create tags', 'retag questions', 'view close votes', 'reduce ads', 'vote down', 'create chat rooms', 'edit community wiki', and 'set bounties'.  While none of these are huge, it also makes that hope of someday getting to 10k appear infinitely further off in the future...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/96247&quot;&gt;this proposal&lt;/a&gt; is reasonable, maybe not stellar, but reasonable, so a low-rep user could offer a larger bounty in the hopes of getting on the &quot;someday-we'll-implement-this-when-Jeff-gives-us-Friday-off&quot; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-08T05:09:31.350" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T05:09:31.350" Title="Contribute to bounty?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2009-07-03T20:27:01.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea, though I'm pretty sure it's been proposed in various forms multiple times. Would you be comfortable with someone else (the original asker) deciding who gets the lump sum? What happens to the bounty timer? Is it reset? For some reason I think that anyone wants to and is capable of answering a 500-point bounty will also answer a 50-point bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T20:27:01.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T20:27:52.737" Score="6" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind getting downvotes, but if I do get one I'd like to know why, especially if I believe my answer is a legitimate one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T20:49:26.617" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T20:49:26.617" ClosedDate="2009-07-03T20:31:06.957" Title="Require Comments on Downvotes" Tags="&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="2264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1763" CreationDate="2009-07-03T20:32:08.563" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eh... On the one hand, reputation is already fairly meaningless, apart from the whole &quot;you've been around and used the site for a while&quot; aspect. So, provided there are no reservations on giving more people more access to the site, faster, this is probably fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it'll open the door wide to rep-farming, finally allowing me to monetize all the time i spend on SO... EBay, here i come!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T20:32:08.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2009-07-03T20:52:31.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reason you suggest this is because you don't have one =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T20:52:31.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:19:18.230" Score="4" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the posts on SO follow a normal distribution of quality, as seems likely, should not one downvote roughly as many questions/answers as one upvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further:&lt;/strong&gt; It seems that people here (and I'm suprised by this) see downvotes as &quot;negative&quot; or &quot;punishment&quot;, when I see them as marking questions that by any sensible measure don't make sense and answers that are simply technically wrong.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;: Perhaps I have not made myself clear. I am not asking about how to explain &#xA;observed mass behaviour. I am asking about how an individual should best behave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T17:02:43.350" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:57:58.027" Title="Polarity of conflict between upvotes and downvotes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:23:20.593" Score="144" ViewCount="32045" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know interesting clones of the SO website model? Please list them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T14:04:47.237" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T12:03:38.313" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T01:50:38.453" Title="Stack Overflow clones" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="42" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="184" />
  <row Id="2268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:23:34.447" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kyle suggested I post on here as Shog9 and I were having a discussion in the comments of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2263/require-comments-on-downvotes-closed&quot;&gt;this closed question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a somewhat non-answer, but I think it's worth posting anyway. For more on my voting patterns, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/05/20/reasons-for-voting-on-questions-and-answers.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my blog entry&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shog9 makes the entirely valid point that he doesn't owe anyone an explanation for a downvote. While I take that point, I generally try to argue in terms of &quot;what does the world most good?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is actually &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; or misleading in some way. I'd say it deserves a downvote. If no-one has stated why it's wrong/misleading (at least in terms of what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; see as the problem with it) I think it's &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; helpful to leave a comment alongside the downvote. If someone else has already left an appropriate comment, then upvoting the comment is indication enough, IMO: the poster certainly has something to work on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Shog9 also indicates that if he prefers post A to post B, he will sometimes vote up post A &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; vote down post B, even if post B isn't actually bad in itself: it's just not as good as post A. Personally, I don't think that's a useful reason for a downvote. If a post wouldn't deserve a downvote if it were the only answer, I don't think it deserves a downvote just because there's a better answer: the answer either has merit, or it doesn't. (I'll make an exception for blatant redundancy/plagiarism - that's a separate reason for downvoting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble is, there's a tension here. I have absolutely no right to tell Shog9 how he should or shouldn't vote... but if everyone votes in roughly the same way, then the votes carry more information. Suppose someone decides that they like the direction &quot;down&quot; more than the direction &quot;up&quot; - so they decide to vote down all the posts they like. I think we can all agree that's not a helpful behaviour, but it's a personal choice. That's a &lt;em&gt;very extreme&lt;/em&gt; example of course, rather than the distinctly grey area of real life, but I hope it's useful nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we ask for guidance from on high as to how Jeff thinks we should be voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we decide amongst ourselves some guidelines for voting, and all try to stick to them even if they're against our personal preference? (Commenting could potentially be part of those guidelines.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we all just keep doing our own thing, meaning that some people &quot;overreact&quot; to downvotes as they assume that receiving a downvote means the same thing it would if they themselves &lt;em&gt;gave&lt;/em&gt; a downvote? (That set of people includes me. I get annoyed if I get a downvote with no comment, as I see it as an indication that something is &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; with my post, but with no clue as to how to improve it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just a storm in a teacup? I know RichB believes so (or at least his comments on UserVoice have led me to think that) but for me it's about trying to improve the quality of my answers - and when I &lt;em&gt;give&lt;/em&gt; a downvote, it's to improve the quality of someone else's answer, or to at least stop other people from believing something which is untrue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T21:23:34.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:29:32.277" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on how you view a downvote. I've just written a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes/2268#2268&quot;&gt;long post&lt;/a&gt; about this but the relevant point is that I only downvote an answer if I think it's wrong or misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there aren't as many wrong/misleading answers (in the questions I look at) as there are &quot;moderately helpful&quot; ones - or genuinely excellent ones, even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quality may well follow a normal distribution, but not centred around &quot;neutrality of helpfulness.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T21:29:32.277" />
  <row Id="2270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:33:15.030" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the vast majority of people upvote a lot more than they downvote. There are really two reasons for this. First, people like rewarding good behavior much more than they like punishing bad behavior. Second, the rep loss from a downvote provides some disincentive (as opposed to upvotes being free).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stu Thompson has created a i&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/geekomatic/2009/06/18/1245340860000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nteresting graph&lt;/a&gt; that plots upvotes vs downvotes of high-rep users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-badges-reputation-vs-up-vs-down.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-badges-reputation-vs-up-vs-down.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T21:33:15.030" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="2271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:34:05.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The distribution of quality maybe is normal, but I doubt that. In an excellent community such as SO with professionals I would expect more good then bad answers. I doubt that because I want to do so. If this community was really bad, what would be my point in spending my time here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I tend to improve much more on positive feedback, I rather encourage by voting up then discourage by penalty of downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw, I am a mathematician and therefore do understand the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And don't forget that downvotes cost the downvoter, and therefore many are discouraged to downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are humane and psychological reasons for upvotes to outnumber downvotes, rather then statistical ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:49:25.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:38:06.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes posts should follow a normal distribution of quality (or a minor deviation there of) but your 2nd assumption is wrong due to these factors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A downvote is a negative act and it gives off a negative effect for the target and you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to that it effects you as well, that rule alone will severely affect the outcome of any result drawn from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Based on the descriptions of up and downvotes. An upvote is a helpful answer and a downvote is not a helpful answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person (when given a choice) of no effect on him and a positive effect on a target and a negative effect on both parties. Will be very inclined to choose the neutral/positive choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenario where he picks the negative/negative choice is not within the normal boundry. So a user is far more likely to give an upvote to a mediocre answer than he is to give a downvote to a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this is subjective. And one set of people will look at a rule in a system in one way and others in another. The above is my take on it, from how I perceive the rule and what I've seen others go by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though a downvote does little, it is still a negative tool (albeit an important tool) But it's implications are negative even though it's impacts on the system is a positive one (since it separates the good from the mediocre from the bad)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T22:11:54.017" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:11:54.017" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-03T21:39:53.987" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is of course &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnprog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CNProg&lt;/a&gt;. They at one point had a copy of the look of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very small community and the highest user has 311 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T21:39:53.987" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="2274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:04:45.063" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ournakedfood.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Our Naked Food&lt;/a&gt;. The design could use some serious work though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:04:45.063" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2276" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:14:54.573" Score="-4" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the time when I follow a users link, I just want to see their site, look it over, then return to answer their question (not leave SO completely and not come back). Could we make the links users post open in a new window please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I originally wanted this implemented because it's what some other sites did, but I now definitely prefer SO's way. If I want to open a new tab, I middle-click/control-click (or whatever), if not, I just click. I'm in control of what happens. Would never want to go back now. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="130281" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T00:37:30.590" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T05:51:04.277" Title="make links posted by users open in a new window" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2275" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:18:01.523" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just hold down &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; when you click - or right-click etc... or in some browsers &lt;kbd&gt;Shift&lt;/kbd&gt; + click... and so on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:18:01.523" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:18:46.997" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(mostly non-answer intended as a reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes/2268#2268&quot;&gt;Jon's long answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, it's neither desirable nor truly possible to &lt;em&gt;enforce&lt;/em&gt; consistency in voting. Some people will upvote answers they like, answers they think are underrated (sympathy votes, etc), or merely answers by an author they feel deserves a reward for actions elsewhere. And downvote for a similarly wide variety of reasons. If comments are encouraged or enforced, we'll almost certainly see some change in behavior, but i'm not convinced it will be entirely... or even largely positive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My primary rationale for this line of thinking is that some votes on SO are already not anonymous, and already require a reason to be given: close votes require both. I think this discrepancy can be justified by the much larger potential impact of voting to close a question vs. merely down-voting it, and the corresponding desire for such votes to be relatively rare. None the less, you don't have to look far to find... &lt;em&gt;spirited discussion&lt;/em&gt; following the application of such votes. Indeed, i'd be surprised if the outcry over perceived-unjustified downvotes even comes close to matching that over perceived-unjustified close votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes, even when unjustified, are largely benign on SO: the site subtly discourages them via a small rep cost for the voter, and largely mitigates the rep damage for the author of down-voted posts by charging only &lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;/&lt;sub&gt;5&lt;/sub&gt; of the points granted by a corresponding upvote. If you're getting a single, stray downvote here and there, it might injure your pride, but won't actually have much of an impact on your standing among other users. (Serial down-voting is another issue, though partially addressed by existing scripts and heavily discussed in other posts here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling is that votes - up or down - have their primary value as hints to other readers: which questions are worth reading, which answers should i read first, next, at all. And i vote accordingly, doing what the site lets me to adjust the scores of answers to a given question to where they match my own personal opinion of what matters. I won't vote a decent answer to where it scores &amp;lt; 0, but i see no reason to leave it &gt; 1 if a better answer scores lower, because if i were searching out an answer to the question, i'd want to read the most comprehensive answers first. I don't have a hard and fast rule on this though; sometimes i'll vote on every answer to a question, other times i'll only vote for one or two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going forward, i think it's more valuable to adjust the site to accommodate different voting patterns than to try adjusting each user's individual voting strategy. The latter is simply doomed to failure: no matter how much work we do to come up with workable guidelines, and how much evangelizing we might do trying to get users to use them, there'll always be new users who haven't bothered reading every FAQ and who'll still vote, or old users who just don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Obligatory &quot;answer&quot; portion:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible solution to the problem of confused users with hurt pride might be that found on Slashdot: anonymous, pre-defined &quot;reasons&quot; for the down-vote. A user seeing their answer voted &quot;Inaccurate&quot;, &quot;Dangerous&quot;, or &quot;Misleading&quot; should take a good hard look at their answer, while another seeing his answer voted &quot;Overrated&quot; might simply shrug it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T22:24:47.777" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:24:47.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2275" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:18:49.447" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are more ways to open a link in a new window if it does not by default (Ctrl click, middle mouse click (in some browsers)) than there are ways not to open a new window when a link does by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my feeling is no on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:18:49.447" />
  <row Id="2279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:21:22.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/&lt;/a&gt; for Django, but for now it's rather lacking and seems like there isn't much movement at the moment either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T15:32:48.660" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T15:32:48.660" />
  <row Id="2281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:24:26.030" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a russian clone of Stack Overflow at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askdev.ru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askdev.ru/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-29T08:47:32.357" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T08:47:32.357" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:27:09.533" Score="3" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is stackoverflow Birthday field kept private from other users? When is the display field Age changed? Is it changed just on the first of each month or randomly within an random range of Birthday? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1024051/how-could-one-keep-a-dob-field-private-when-displaying-the-users-age-in-years&quot;&gt;Original SO question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130131" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:57:25.577" Title="How is stackoverflow Birthday field kept private?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:31:18.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vacuously, at least half the answers are at least as bad as the median. Even around half of Jon Skeet's answers are as worse than his medianly good answer. Not every answer is voted on, and the cut off in terms of standard deviations is not equal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The appropriate law here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s%5Flaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sturgeon's Law&lt;/a&gt; (interesting the Wikipedia entry seems to disagree with the OED without any citations - what crud (improved it)). 90% of answers should be marked down. I guess we are used to crud, but I shouldn't think more than 10 of answers deserve an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(FWIW, my most forceful reason for downvoting is because the answer is dangerous, followed by wrong, misleading, idiotic and mental.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:31:18.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2282" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:32:04.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak conclusively, but I know that the age in my SO profile rolled over, as expected, on my birthday. I suppose someone could scan the SO profiles daily and record the ages, then identify someone's birthday by when they change, but if someone wants to know &lt;em&gt;that badly&lt;/em&gt;, I guess they can know. If you're really concerned about your privacy, don't put in your real birthday (or don't put one in at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, either intentionally or unintentionally, the user ages provided in the data dump aren't always accurate. I suspect that it's (current year)-(birth year), which leads to an age in the dump (22, in my case) that's 1 more than the user's actual age (I'm actually 21).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1024051/how-could-one-keep-a-dob-field-private-when-displaying-the-users-age-in-years/1024090#1024090&quot;&gt;Original SO answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:32:04.873" />
  <row Id="2287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:50:30.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you could quantify the &quot;usefulness,&quot; which is being measured in voting, you probably do see normal distribution. However, that does not make the mean usefulness of entire Stackoverflow to be zero mean neutral: neither useful nor harmful. We have self-selecting group of people who is going out of their way to tell people some information. The mean usefulness of the answers and questions are way higher than zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it in terms of money, say some people make more than they spend while others spend more than they make. If you look at the general population, there's no guarantee that the median population spend exactly they make (hopefully not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, even if the distribution of the perceived &quot;usefulness&quot; of the questions/answers are distributed in Gaussian way, that does not guarantee symmetric human reaction towards &quot;useful&quot; behavior and &quot;harmful&quot; behavior even discounting the penalty. Geeks are still subject to basic human psychology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, upvotes and downvotes won't be symmetric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: How does this have anything to do with how an individual should best behave? If 50% of the people told misleading and/or false information, the society wouldn't function, let alone programming Q &amp;amp; A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2&lt;/strong&gt;: Another factor is the asymmetry of knowledge distribution about a given topic. By nature of public voting, the topic of the question/answer first needs to be understood by the electorate. Most people can appreciate funny jokes and cartoons, but not too many people even be interested in some weird hack in Scheme or writing Mozilla plugin using Delphi. That may not reflect &quot;favorite joke&quot; question 1000 times more useful than others; rather it heavily reflects that there are 1000 times more people who gets it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastEditorUserId="3827" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-03T23:18:39.770" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:18:39.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:51:40.910" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to leave a comment, but I don't* tend to downvote unless an answer is actively unhelpful (if you see what I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue here is that somebody &lt;em&gt;else&lt;/em&gt; then downvotes, and I'm pretty sure I've been held responsible for the downvote. Not that this is actually a problem, of course... I can take it ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*=actually, if a new user (rep=1) posts a good question/answer, I often do a downvote-upvote, as that way they get +12 instead of +10 to welcome them to the site. I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that counts as gaming...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:51:40.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:52:05.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both cases look like the algorithm may just simply be  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; if (currentDailyRep + repGain &amp;lt;= 200)  &#xA;   currentDailyRep += repGain;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you tried downvoting 10 times, then getting an upvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:52:05.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2085" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:52:18.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To trigger CAPTCHA: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The minimum window is 5 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The maximum window is 40 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;basically we are flagging anything that looks suspicious, and forcing users to prove they're not bots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: due to popular demand, I removed the maximum time check -- so only minimum times are checked when posting now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T09:25:52.697" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:25:52.697" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2136" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:53:43.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I like the idea of rewarding the removal of content. I realize that in most cases the questions closed aren't useful / don't belong / whatever, but I strongly believe that people should be rewarded for &lt;strong&gt;creation&lt;/strong&gt; as opposed to otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:53:43.433" />
  <row Id="2292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2282" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:57:25.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's always seemed strange to me that the field exists at all. After all, if age, why not race, sex, politcval affilation etc? I have no problem about people knowing my age , and have mentioned it in several of my SO posts, but its presence in the profile is a bit peculiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T22:57:25.577" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1343" CreationDate="2009-07-03T22:57:46.670" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To trigger CAPTCHA while editing / answering&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The minimum window is 5 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The maximum window is 40 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a maximum of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one edit every 30 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one answer every 60 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one question every 60 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To trigger CAPTCHA while doing performing other actions, there are throttles of various sizes depending on the action -- it's mostly a &quot;slow down&quot; speed bump to inhibit potentially dangerous &quot;I'm going to post obscene things as fast as possible!&quot; situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: some new reductions in CAPTCHA throttle thresholds, &lt;strong&gt;if you have &gt; 10k rep&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for edits -- reduced by two-thirds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for post submission times -- min seconds reduced by one half, max minutes increased by x2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: assuming you are a logged in user and have &gt;= 200 reputation: after successfully completing one captcha, we now suppress captcha for 5 minutes on your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T21:44:56.027" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T21:44:56.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-03T22:57:46.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2109" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:01:39.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea - I'm not aware of any way to search two sites at once using &lt;code&gt;site:&lt;/code&gt; with Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/35739/searching-two-sites-at-once-using-google&quot;&gt;Serverfault Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:01:39.623" />
  <row Id="2297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:26:05.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, how do you measure quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, answer quality will, over many questions, be normally distributed given the central limit theorem (if anyone is interested in why).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, they might be normally distributed but the mean is not at 0 (no quality). The mean will be positive quality so if the mean is &quot;great&quot; do you want to treat &quot;good&quot; answers as &quot;negative&quot; (being lower than the mean) compared to &quot;awesome&quot;. This would be particularly disastrous if &quot;good&quot; answers in this scenario had negative net reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourth, quality is only one factor (and a vague one at that). On some topics you will find people voting on whether they agree or disagree with the opinion stated. And popularity of opinion is not the same thing as quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fifth, there is a time factor in voting. The closer an answer is given to question the more votes (up and down) it is likely to receive. Non-parametrically speaking, this is probably more related to &lt;em&gt;ranking&lt;/em&gt; than &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, because there are various factors in play, you'd probably want to model this as some kind of multivariate regression analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:26:05.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2251" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:29:04.613" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really think we shouldn't penalize people for cleaning up their answers (or having answers given in good faith deleted) as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1163/do-you-clean-up-delete-your-old-unvoted-answers-encourage/2129#2129&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:29:04.613" />
  <row Id="2299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:29:40.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people comment on downvotes, I always use it as an opportunity to learn up on the subject as my knowledge was obviously lacking in some way. I'll never retaliate by downvoting them, even if their comment was something along the lines of &quot;That's wrong jackass&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a problem with people retaliating against you, either there is something wrong in the way you are interacting with people or you are interacting with the wrong people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After downvotes with no comments, my next biggest issue with voting is sympathy voting. Voting should be done on the worth of the question/answer alone. Not to correct some perceived injustice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:29:40.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" />
  <row Id="2300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2301" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:42:00.573" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens when you answer someone's question, they accept your answer, but then you find out that your answer is wrong and the asker hasn't revoked the check mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could there be some way for the owner of the answer to remove the check mark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastEditorUserId="139837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:51:44.673" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:51:44.673" Title="Rejecting an Acception" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2300" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:44:44.137" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can correct your answer... Take it as an opportunity to educate others who might have made the same mistake you did as to &lt;strong&gt;1)&lt;/strong&gt; why your original answer was wrong, and &lt;strong&gt;2)&lt;/strong&gt; what the better solution is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:44:44.137" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="2302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2241" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:44:57.413" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't count twice, the voting system is just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/504/why-is-the-inconsistent-reputation-system-by-design&quot;&gt;inconsistent&lt;/a&gt; by design and this generates lots of corner cases. Like at 190 rep upvote then accept answer yields a different result to accept answer then upvote. Personally I think it should be fixed because it looks bad and looks like a bug (and imho is a bug).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Jon's point about the devs having enough to do, frankly I think the solution to this is trivial. Just put rep in two buckets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soft cap: upvotes (+10) and downvotes (-2) received, limited to 200 per day;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hard cap: downvotes given (-1), answer accepted (+2 given, +15 received), bounties (variable).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the system is completely consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:44:57.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10660" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:55:52.880" Score="44" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could potentially completely change the answer. We should be given the opportunity to review it and if necessary comment or change our minds about accepting it. Of course we can do that now but there are no edit notifications so we either have to review all our accepted answers periodically or get lucky and find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:24:34.890" Title="Notify us when an answer we've accepted has been edited" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2303" CreationDate="2009-07-03T23:58:05.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually a really good idea. I forget, are edits to your question/answers notified? Because, if they aren't, they should be as well for much the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-03T23:58:05.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T00:06:46.177" Score="37" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your summary page shows &quot;N Edits to your posts&quot; for the selected time period but you really have to be looking for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we add edits to the notification feed? You could put the reason for the edit (entered--or not--when the editor changes it) and just a link to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="156902" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T17:46:31.327" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T17:46:31.327" Title="Notify us when one of our posts is edited" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;global-inbox&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-04T00:36:11.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YA Russian-Ukrainian clone: &lt;a href=&quot;http://itquest.ru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://itquest.ru/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T00:36:11.957" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2308" CreationDate="2009-07-04T00:40:15.237" Score="19" ViewCount="533" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I started data mining the StackOverflow database, I found a surprising number of users had set their birthday in a way that made them 89 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/06/stackoverflow-data-mining-cleansing-the-data/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogged about it&lt;/a&gt; and gave a full list of the 89-year-old users, and here's a few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/159&quot;&gt;deuseldorf&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/90&quot;&gt;Coding the Wheel&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/730&quot;&gt;Keng&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/987&quot;&gt;Will Dean&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1065&quot;&gt;kokos&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1223&quot;&gt;ColinYounger&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1242&quot;&gt;Lars Truijens&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13293&quot;&gt;dydx&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14173&quot;&gt;Confused Computer Guy&lt;/a&gt; - Age 89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's not like it was an even distribution - there were much less 80-87 year old users, and no 90 year old users.  I'm guessing these users picked a date 89 years ago that has some special significance, but I can't figure out what it might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:50:06.887" LastActivityDate="2010-05-30T18:29:28.993" Title="Why are so many user ages &quot;89&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2307" CreationDate="2009-07-04T00:43:27.990" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I suspect that the &quot;89 year old&quot; users are simply using the oldest date they're allowed to by the system. If you try to set your birth year before 1920, the system will return an error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Birthday - must be after 1920/01/01&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T00:43:27.990" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2047" CreationDate="2009-07-04T00:43:47.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use this site to generate Zune-friendly one-click subscribe links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zunepodcastsubscription.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.zunepodcastsubscription.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using that, here's the one-click Zune link (although I have no idea if the SO code will allow Zune-style links):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;zune://subscribe/?StackOverflow=&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/?feed=podcast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/?feed=podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: nope, it sure doesn't.  Not surprised.  Well, you can build a local html page with an a href tag pointing to that Zune URL above and it should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T00:43:47.397" />
  <row Id="2311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-04T00:50:22.640" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google tells me that there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://ra-ajax.org/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com.blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stacked, an open source implementation of Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.  There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stacked.ra-ajax.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stacked demo site&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/stacked/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stacked repository at Google Code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-29T08:46:54.247" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T08:46:54.247" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2303" CreationDate="2009-07-04T00:59:04.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't the &quot;Recent Activity&quot; already do this? I believe that it shows any posts (answers or questions) that have been edited on any of your questions or your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's maybe not an in your face notification, but I kinda like it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I could be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5441" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T00:59:04.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25476" CreationDate="2009-07-04T01:01:04.000" Score="3" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see comments now appear in user feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently they all are titled like &lt;em&gt;Comment by Simon Lieschke&lt;/em&gt; which gives nil information about what topic the comment is on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be changed to include the question title like &lt;em&gt;Comment by Simon Lieschke on Documentation on the SEE_MASK_NOZONECHECKS environment variable&lt;/em&gt;? This would help tremendously for giving some context as to what the comment is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2766" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:02:08.857" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:02:08.857" Title="Improved titles for comments in user feeds" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="2315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2316" CreationDate="2009-07-04T01:19:12.880" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to be able to see the reason for an edit without having to click through to the diff to view it. I think it would benefit users to be able to see at a glance whether the edit was a clarification, rewrite, or simply a small typo/formatting change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two ways I see to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Show the reason on the same page under the edit time:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;edited 1 hour ago&lt;br /&gt;typo&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8ddc689f98bf1bcdf0c1d057cfd2f9d9?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; /&gt; lc&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Show the reason in a tooltip when you mouseover either the word &quot;edited&quot; or the entire edit notification.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think this would be beneficial? How else would you propose to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T08:53:15.067" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T08:14:43.353" Title="Show reason for edit without clicking through to diff?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="2316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2315" CreationDate="2009-07-04T01:35:00.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what benefit this will provide. While I do think it's important to be able to review the revision history and the change notes, I don't think it's necessary to include that information on the main page. When you're viewing a post, you should see what it is, and not be concerned with how its different from its previous revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T01:35:00.800" />
  <row Id="2317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2318" CreationDate="2009-07-04T01:55:14.870" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;What exactly is the right way to propose a feature request and its implementation? Obviously, the main idea, overview, background, and the like should go in the question, but how about a proposed way of doing it? Should it be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Included in the question body? It's all part of your original idea, so keep it together. Let people propose new ways as answers or comment as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Included as a separate answer? This keeps with the question-answer model of the site and lets people vote individually on your ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If #2 is the right way, how should reputation be handled? Should you post your ideas as community wiki to let people freely vote? Or is it ok for you to gain reputation twice, once for the feature and once for the implementation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:31:28.347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:31:28.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T02:14:10.020" Title="What is the right way to make a feature request?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2317" CreationDate="2009-07-04T02:00:51.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is #1, keep it all together. Though StackOverflow and ServerFault stricly require the question/answer model, the rules have been relaxed here. The reason the site still says things like &quot;question&quot; and &quot;answer&quot; is because it's going to take a little time to make the necessary changes toward a more &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;discussion-oriented&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, this does not mean that questions will no longer be allowed or even no longer be the predominant method of starting a topic, just that other forms of discussion will also be permitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T02:00:51.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T13:42:57.947" />
  <row Id="2319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-07-04T02:08:23.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Orleans&lt;/strong&gt; (can has Dev Day?)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Autin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(took my cue from Olafur, maybe we can drum up some interest in other cities)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T02:08:23.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T02:08:23.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2009-07-04T02:21:21.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Variations upon this theme have been suggested before. My usual concern is the added complexity of things like adding bounties to other people's questions and who chooses the answer or potential hijacking issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this proposal is far more limited and thus far less complicated. You should probably limit it by saying you can't top up a bounty within, say, 2 days of it expiring and point out that the winner is still selected by the OP. Other than that, I see no real problem with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue worth discussing however is should this extend the deadline for the bounty?  I'm thinking not but maybe there is an argument for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T02:21:21.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T02:24:50.133" Score="14" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;One problem with bounties that has turned me off using them is that if you start one, you will have an answer selected and you may not get any good ones. I can understand the bounty having to end to stop gaming the system but maybe we need some flexibility here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should allow the OP to pay in extra to extend it another week, a few days or whatever. This should only go on for so long. Maybe a month total? Arguably this extra rep added shouldn't increase the bounty either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the amount to extend it is also a function of the size of bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:54:13.900" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:54:13.900" Title="Allow extending bounties by topping them up (within limits)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;extension&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T02:33:55.760" Score="21" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this situation. I post a legitimate and correct answer to a question and receive a few upvotes. Then the OP realizes that's not what they wanted to ask, and significantly rewrites the question, rendering my answer irrelevant and useless. Ideally the OP would comment on every answer saying &quot;check my edit&quot; but &lt;em&gt;some people don't know to do that&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves two possibly bad situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I never know, the answer stays, and the votes don't reflect the usefulness of the answer anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of a sudden I get an influx of downvotes because my answer isn't helpful anymore. &lt;em&gt;If I'm checking and notice my rep has dropped&lt;/em&gt;, I come back after the fact, edit the answer, and bring it back to the original quality. This is great, but 9 times out of 10, the downvoters never come back and notice the answer has been edited. It might get more upvotes, but it still doesn't reflect the true value of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can get notified when the OP gets edited, we can nip it in the bud and go back to edit our answers to match - thus maintaining the quality of the answers on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T01:54:22.003" Title="Notify us when the question has been edited after posting an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T02:35:01.793" Score="4" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, this won't work with the linking feature:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#binarySearch%28int%5B%5D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#binarySearch%28int%5B%5D&lt;/a&gt;, int)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I try and [link it][1] this is the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#binarySearch%28int%5B%5D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#binarySearch%28int%5B%5D&lt;/a&gt;, int)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T08:27:28.103" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:27:49.070" Title="Please improve the auto-linking to allow square and round brackets" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;auto-linking&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2322" CreationDate="2009-07-04T02:44:03.410" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good suggestion. I've been downvoted before simply because the question was edited changing the validity of my answer. Most people tend to realize this is whats happened but some don't. It would be good if there were such a notification so you could modify or delete your answer, as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T02:44:03.410" />
  <row Id="2327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2330" CreationDate="2009-07-04T03:01:20.140" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been some discussion recently about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;showing which question/answer has given you a badge&lt;/a&gt;. Jeff has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/898#898&quot;&gt;already mentioned&lt;/a&gt; that the data needed for this isn't stored, so I imagine it would be a good deal of work to implement. I have an idea that &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be less work, and is a different take on the previous feature requests for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous requests seem &lt;em&gt;user-centered&lt;/em&gt;, in that the new feature would be something added for each user to look up info about which questions/answers gave them a badge. I'm thinking of a more &lt;em&gt;community-centered&lt;/em&gt; approach: a way for the community to see which questions/answers were most recently awarded a given badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tabs could be added to the &quot;Recently awarded to&quot; page for each badge: a &quot;Users&quot; and a &quot;Posts&quot; tab. The &quot;Users&quot; tab would be what is shown there now, and the &quot;Posts&quot; tab would show the recent questions/answers awarded that badge. I don't know if this would be less work than the &lt;em&gt;user-centered&lt;/em&gt; idea: I thought that since only the last 50-100 recently awarded questions/answers would have to be stored for this, it might be easier to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One source of inspiration for this came from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1576/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-tumbleweed-badge/1759#1759&quot;&gt;this answer that cletus gave&lt;/a&gt; on a question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1576/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-tumbleweed-badge&quot;&gt;the &quot;Tumbleweed&quot; badge&lt;/a&gt;. To quote cletus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the purpose of the Tumbleweed&#xA;  badge is (or should be) to bring&#xA;  attention to a neglected and probably&#xA;  esoteric question. Unfortunately it&#xA;  fails in that regard because we only&#xA;  see what users are awarded badges and&#xA;  not for which questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So basically this badge would have a&#xA;  whole lot more value if you could&#xA;  browse the questions awarded&#xA;  Tumbleweed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature would certainly make the &quot;Tumbleweed&quot; badge more useful for improving the visibility of overlooked questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T15:00:56.700" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:00:56.700" ClosedDate="2009-07-04T07:55:02.213" Title="Please enhance the &quot;Recently awarded to&quot; badge page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2343" CreationDate="2009-07-04T03:26:27.287" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/898#898&quot;&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt; that a background process runs to figure out how many badges you should have. I can understand this design. It solves a lot of problems. I can also understand why it's then hard to figure out what question awarded you a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when you look at the Great Answer list it shows the &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; who received a badge. We should be able to show the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; that generated the badge I would think. Now Great Answer isn't too terrible because you can figure it out from a user's profile. But what about Necromancer? Or Tumbleweed? Or even Populist? Good luck figuring that out and it would be really nice to see this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T07:26:14.747" ClosedDate="2009-07-04T07:55:25.300" Title="List the quesions/answers not the users that received a badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;awards&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2328" CreationDate="2009-07-04T03:34:07.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe not have the questions displayed on the badge page, but in a user's profile, mark the question with the badge that was awarded for it. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[25] How awesome is this place? [* Great Answer] [* Necromancer]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that finding where your badges is supposed to be part of the search and destroy fun, but honestly, I'm not going through somebody's entire answer history to find out what the heck they won't leave dead to get the Necromancer badge.  For question/answer specific badges, this is a solid idea, and would be really neat to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T03:34:07.130" />
  <row Id="2330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2327" CreationDate="2009-07-04T03:37:07.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm cross-posting this here because they're duplicates (referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2328/list-the-quesions-answers-not-the-users-that-received-a-badge&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;) and I'm unsure as to which should win out. After one gets closed, I'll delete it from that one, I suppose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe not have the questions displayed on the badge page, but in a user's profile, mark the question with the badge that was awarded for it. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[25] How awesome is this place? [* Great Answer] [* Necromancer]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that finding where your badges is supposed to be part of the search and destroy fun, but honestly, I'm not going through somebody's entire answer history to find out what the heck they won't leave dead to get the Necromancer badge.  For question/answer specific badges, this is a solid idea, and would be really neat to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T03:37:07.417" />
  <row Id="2331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2315" CreationDate="2009-07-04T03:39:06.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind #2 - a tooltip should be fairly unobtrusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But like Kyle, i don't really think this is all that necessary. If anything, we should be encouraging people interested in how a question has changed to visit the revision list, so that they can get the full picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T03:39:06.570" />
  <row Id="2332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2323" CreationDate="2009-07-04T03:41:02.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; method doesn't work for this URL &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like so: Binary Search&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TinyURL&lt;/a&gt;, which I've especially used with Amazon when they have funky characters (like the (C) symbol) in their URL. When using TinyURL, at least tell people where they're going, since it obscures the end point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps that transition could be made easier, but I know URL parsing is hard, and I just figure it's easier to do it that way than having Jeff et al try to fix some esoteric exceptions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T08:27:49.070" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:27:49.070" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-04T06:08:48.100" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scientist&lt;/strong&gt; - upvoting X number of &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you've provided an answer that received at least one upvote, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you upvote at least one other answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;both of which happened before an answer was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user answered the question, received an upvote for the answer, and then deleted it, that should also count.  Presumably they learned something from a better answer, just like a real scientist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept behind this badge is mainly to encourage the upvoting of questions more often.  The restrictions would be to prevent random upvoting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T06:08:48.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T06:08:48.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2275" CreationDate="2009-07-04T06:34:54.353" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The website should not open new windows. As already mentioned, you can do it yourself when you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jakob Nielsen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;puts it nicely&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer's carpet. Don't pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management). If I want a new window, I will open it myself! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130264" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T06:34:54.353" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2275" CreationDate="2009-07-04T06:52:27.323" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be an option in the preferences, like it is on reddit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T06:52:27.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2009-07-04T07:05:15.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A similar issue is &lt;kbd&gt;AltGr&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;+&lt;/kbd&gt; (next to 0 in the upper row) on this Finnish/Swedish keyboard layout that normally would output a backslash but now toggles backtick &lt;code&gt;enter code here&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far when having to enter a backslash, I've typed it in some other app and then copy-pasted to SO answer box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130264" LastEditorUserId="130264" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T07:22:36.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T07:22:36.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2328" CreationDate="2009-07-04T07:26:14.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always wanted the ability to be able to click on badges and see what actually was the recipient of that badge. I pretty much agree with this suggestion 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T07:26:14.747" />
  <row Id="2344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2009-07-04T07:34:58.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are just shortcuts in the editor. &quot;AltGr&quot; is equal to Ctrl + Alt on a US keyboard. So the shortcuts in question are ctrl+alt+q and ctrl+alt+1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:22:23.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2307" CreationDate="2009-07-04T07:35:04.943" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like blatant ageism. How do you know a 90 year old man wouldn't be a useful member of the website!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T07:35:04.943" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="2346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2323" CreationDate="2009-07-04T08:06:18.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;examples removed as they are now obsolete -- we do auto-encode parens and brackets now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, in all cases you'll have to encode the space and comma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T04:49:07.413" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T04:49:07.413" />
  <row Id="2347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T08:09:57.480" Score="13" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to navigate the questions and answers via the keyboard?  I'm thinking of something like what gmail does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather not depend on a Greasemonkey script if I have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8590" LastEditorUserId="138520" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T00:23:04.010" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T00:23:04.010" Title="Is there keyboard navigation of questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T08:32:18.083" Score="2" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while all the user-feeds I subscribe to get &quot;reset&quot;. It happened this week, where I suddenly saw dozens of items in my feed reader about months old activity, and it's happened a few times before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has this happened to anyone else? I'm using Google Reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened again just now. Two user feeds that I subscribe to were updated with activity from months and months ago. There users have &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; recent activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/7224&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/7224&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218462/in-a-firefox-extension-how-can-i-copy-rich-text-links-to-the-clipboard/218841#218841&quot;&gt;One of the items&lt;/a&gt; is from &lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please fix this. It's my personal experience that RSS feeds in SO show me more false positives than true positives (many updates to the same old posts) and are thus useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="11208" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T04:07:25.690" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T08:00:02.963" Title="User RSS feeds occasionaly &quot;reset&quot; and show ancient activity" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2348" CreationDate="2009-07-04T08:33:54.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We added user comments to the user feeds last night. No idea otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T08:33:54.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2009-07-04T08:45:58.377" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will there still be one bounty per question? If so, one could hijack a question with a low bounty - depriving the OP from the chance to put a higher bounty on it. And then there's also the problem of which answer is considered the accepted answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of variations on this suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Multiple bounties&lt;/strong&gt;. If the first one didn't yield great answers, more could be placed (by the OP or by other users).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;bounty pool&lt;/strong&gt;, where people could contribute to the bounty of questions they care about. This would also have the advantage of creating questions with huge bounties (e.g. 10 points from every interested user).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T08:45:58.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="913" CreationDate="2009-07-04T08:51:52.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We were trying to get designs that &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; fit on 1024x768 displays -- or at least the key pagination was visible at that resolution, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T08:51:52.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2315" CreationDate="2009-07-04T09:00:15.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To provide the benefit of this idea:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Editing an answer let it pop up again on the main page. With this feature you can find out fast, if it was only a typo which was corrected or the poster provides a new argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T09:00:15.690" />
  <row Id="2355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2009-07-04T09:33:40.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the shortcuts in the WMD editor will have to get localized to solve this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T09:33:40.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T09:37:42.997" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many question list views have ~188 characters of the question body text. However, this cut-off point may be in the middle of an entity such as &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, sometimes resulting in broken summaries like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;... template&amp;lt;typename T&amp;amp;gt&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO the cut-off point should be at a word boundary or at least a displayable character boundary, not just at a byte offset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130264" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T11:09:31.843" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T11:16:17.900" Title="Question summary may cut off at the middle of an entity" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;question-summary&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="2357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2356" CreationDate="2009-07-04T09:49:35.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think for the most part this is not a great big deal and it will end up being a larger time actually developing the fix than the time or energy saved in having to click the actual article to see the true text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T09:49:35.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2347" CreationDate="2009-07-04T09:52:37.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen any real method of keyboard navigation outside of your standard keyboard navigation for the web browser, and this has a tendency to skip over some things like the vote mechanisms and other AJAX-esque elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T09:52:37.313" />
  <row Id="2359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2322" CreationDate="2009-07-04T09:59:13.927" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had similar experiences to Cletus where the answer I posted was the first and correct, but over time the question changes and all of a sudden you can get hammered because you were unable to keep up with the changing requirements of the question. This can definitely get very annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also be incredible useful for those of us who monitor questions to close. If this was combined with the ability to remove a close vote, it could allow us to vote a question to close when it doesn't meet standards, and when it is revised, we would get notified and be able to then remove our close vote if we felt it was an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T09:59:13.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2361" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:12:49.027" Score="12" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that most of the users who come from America (and probably more from outside our shores) are familiar with the concept of Rollover Minutes when it pertains to mobile phone plans. The idea is that if you do not use all of you minutes in a month, they will get &quot;rolled over&quot; to the next billing month, allowing you to use those rollover minutes in case you go over your limit in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we can take this concept and apply it towards the idea of rep limits here on StackOverflow. The idea is that if you hit your rep limit, but then continue to gather upvotes for that time period, those extra upvotes could be &quot;banked&quot;. These banked points would then be used to offset downvotes that you cast and downvotes cast against you (and other reputation droppers such as a deleted post costing you 100 rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current System&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daily Rep Limit = 200&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have accumulated 200 rep through 25 up votes (50 rep not counted due to limit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you receive a downvote, your rep is now down to 198 and it will take another future upvote to push it back +2 (wasting another 8 points) to get you back to the rep limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: If you have 215 rep via 25 up votes and an acccepted answer, this turns out even worse because you'll be dropped to 213 rep without any chance of boosting back up that +2 because you are still technically over the rep limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daily Rep Limit = 200&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have accumulated 200 rep through 25 up votes (50 rep &quot;banked&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you receive a downvote, your rep remains at 200 (Banked rep now = 48)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have 215 rep through 25 up votes and an accepted answer, I would also hope that it could correctly calculate your &quot;new rep limit&quot; of 215 so that you could be prevented from losing that 2 rep (which would knock you down to 213) and have no way of making it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, any further upvotes (again now that you have hit rep) would be applied to your banked points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Details&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Banked rep can only be used during the same day it was banked (this would prevent someone from accumulating hundreds of banked rep points which could prevent them from ever really losing any rep again)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If necessary we could impose a bank limit, which would only allow you to have X points banked at any one time (say 50 or 100).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:59:20.863" Title="Reputation Limits and the Rollover Minutes Concept" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2360" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:16:40.797" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking it's a pretty large system change to prevent people from losing a few rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You already have 200 rep for the day and got an accepted answer, and are worried about the 2 rep you lost and didn't get back when someone else upvoted you later on the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T10:16:40.797" />
  <row Id="2362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2364" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:17:13.430" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using a domainname which includes my full givenname an the first charakter of my firstname. Compared with this these information isn't available to SO and I prefere it so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are there any reason against hiding the OpenID handle in profile? Would prefere showing OpenID handles is optional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99895" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T10:44:09.763" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T10:44:09.763" ClosedDate="2009-07-04T10:44:13.787" Title="Hiding OpenID on profile pages is a good idea?" Tags="&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2362" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:20:22.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see what your OpenID handle is. (Or am i misunderstanding the question?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T10:20:22.377" />
  <row Id="2364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2362" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:21:55.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any real logical reason why it HAS to be displayed. I agree that it should at the very least be a preference to show or not (perhaps hidden by default).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Actually it is hidden to other users. You can see yours in your profile, but not others, so this is more or less just something that needs to be closed as &quot;not actually a problem&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt; if this is asking for the ability to -make- it visible, I don't have a problem with it, but I don't find much use for it overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T10:41:19.957" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T10:41:19.957" />
  <row Id="2365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2360" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:29:53.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really don't see the point... you're talking about a few percent of something that has &lt;strong&gt;no intrinsic value whatsoever&lt;/strong&gt;. The rep is useful at the macro scale to understand involvement etc - but don't micro-analyse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T10:29:53.807" />
  <row Id="2366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2362" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:37:06.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no need for other people to know this, so why tell them? For the same reason, your e-mail (generally used for site admin) isn't public unless you repeat it in your free text area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want it public, put it there - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt;, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T10:37:06.083" />
  <row Id="2367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2356" CreationDate="2009-07-04T10:59:09.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good point - a lot of work has obviously gone in to making these sites look as good as they do, and this does, in however minor a way, detract from this. I can't imagine the code fix to at least prevent breaking in the middle of an entity would be that complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T10:59:09.883" />
  <row Id="2368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T11:01:07.087" Score="2" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Creating stable and live artificial ecosystem is ultimately hard if not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New ideas of how to enforce &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; behavior keep coming up. The more rules there are the more edge cases we see and have to deal with, however. Complexity of system raises exponentially due to interactions among rules. Let's face it, humankind can't manage exponential complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we take a closer look at how natural ecosystems are organized and try to organize SO in the same way? Isn't this the only way to survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The less rules the better. Either a system is self-organizing, lives and evolves or is heavily regulated and destined to die.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[EDIT]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Writing this I actually had in mind economic systems. Especially &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%5Fmarket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;free market&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%5Fmarket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;controlled&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulated%5Fmarket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;regulated&lt;/a&gt; markets.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What prompted me to write this is never-ending problem of downvoting. How do we downvote in a free market economy? We can't. We can only upvote (pay). And this proofs itself to be enough. Does the fact that we have downvoting in SO mean we're heading towards controlled or regulated &lt;em&gt;market&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-24T22:46:04.017" LastActivityDate="2010-04-24T22:46:04.017" Title="Is SO able to create stable, live ecosystem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2368" CreationDate="2009-07-04T11:10:17.033" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Natural ecosystems allow for a multitude of organisms to thrive in them. StackOverflow has taken a stance to only cater towards certain subject matter (and even then certain types of questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were to start organizing the same way natural ecosystems organize, we're going to end up seeing and growth and abundance of the &quot;weeds&quot; which are analogous to all the noise questions which don't benefit StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather have a clean lawn and garden rather than a weed-overgrown backyard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T11:10:17.033" />
  <row Id="2370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-07-04T11:19:29.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 more thing to add - deleting/reposting technique ain't good, cause now there`s a 30second cooldown for commenting. So - every time i want to edit my grammar issues i've made accidentally, i'm loosing 30 seconds. :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T11:19:29.163" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2275" CreationDate="2009-07-04T11:29:18.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, this is something that should only be handled by your browser. It really annoys me when a website decides its wants to do funky things with its links. If I want a new tab, I will middle-click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to bother [middle/ctrl/shift] clicking, I'm sure you (or someone else) could easily code up a greasemonkey script for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T11:29:18.140" />
  <row Id="2372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2360" CreationDate="2009-07-04T11:32:15.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A very much larger anomaly is when you put a bounty on a question. Start the day putting 200 rep on a bounty and you can earn back the 200 rep and gain 200 on top of that. End the day with putting 200 on a bounty, and all you can do is break even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T11:32:15.827" />
  <row Id="2373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-07-04T11:55:37.843" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments are there for people who want to explain their downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can think of is &lt;strong&gt;an AJAX &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; reminder for users when they cast downvotes&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/gzdqj.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the first downvote, we can't say we didn't remind them, and honestly that's as good as it gets. Forcing a comment will end in even worse results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now implemented and live for users with reputation below 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-30T07:41:14.203" LastActivityDate="2011-07-30T07:41:14.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="2374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2375" CreationDate="2009-07-04T13:12:19.017" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an undocumented web call or some sort of meta api to get all new comments globally in the last N hours? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T16:15:34.130" Title="Is there a web call or some sort of meta api to get all new comments in the last N hours?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2374" CreationDate="2009-07-04T13:17:31.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a comment based tool in the 10k toolkit where you can see the most commented questions today and in the last 2-7-14-30 days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T13:17:31.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2360" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:08:59.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what I tell myself when it happens to me:  Get over it.  It's just a web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having once done something that (I hope) is completely out of character due to perceived inequities in the rep process on SO&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, I try really hard to keep it in perspective now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Read through my questions if you need more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T14:08:59.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:22:53.060" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose this isn't so much of a bug as an annoyance.  Yesterday afternoon I checked my email and had a &quot;1 question has 1 answer on ServerFault&quot; email.  I got excited (too excited probably), in hopes of having gotten a good answer.  When I opened the email, though, the answer was one I had posted to my own question.  I understand that answering your own question is likely a rare occurrence, but notification shouldn't be sent in that case.  After all, the asker knows s/he answered the question, no? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130318" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T07:27:42.107" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T07:27:42.107" Title="Notified about my own answer to my question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2410" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:23:43.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you answer under a different account? Maybe you could provide a link to the question in question, perchance??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here's the only account I could find for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/9735&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/9735&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maybe this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/26837/splunk-form-search-with-multiple-variables&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/26837/splunk-form-search-with-multiple-variables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T15:37:29.963" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:37:29.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2368" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:30:49.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question rests on a false premise, that natural ecosystems are less complex than Stackoverflow.  As I see it, Stackoverflow's rules actually serve to simplify normal human interaction by defining scope and boundaries.  Rather than add complexity, they actually reduce it.  The question, I think, is really whether Stackoverflow has achieved a balance between simplicity -- which provides coherence and direction to sustain interest -- and complexity -- which provides richness of experience and diversity of knowledge -- that will allow it to both continue to grow and remain useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T14:30:49.547" />
  <row Id="2423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2427" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:50:33.447" Score="1" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;I signed into SO today to find the magical orange-overseer alerting me that I've won a new badge called &quot;Enthusiast.&quot; I was pretty excited, and rusted to my profile to check it out - well, there's &quot;Woot,&quot; which is new for me. But I wasn't able to find &quot;Enthusiast.&quot; Is this a mix-up with names, since you are considered an &quot;enthusiast&quot; if you are awarded &quot;woot&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:31:34.293" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T14:19:52.350" Title="Congratulations, You Won &quot;Enthusiast&quot;....Err, Woot" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;semantics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2423" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:53:22.567" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://woot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Woot!&lt;/a&gt; is sponsoring the enthusiast badge for the time being, hence the rename. I recommend that you read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T14:53:22.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2431" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:54:40.190" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there are a lot of questions scattered around StackOverflow that contain a lot of good, well written information about how the StackOverflow system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their formatting is mixed but most of it follows some standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&quot;&gt;main FAQ&lt;/a&gt; that tries to collect together the questions and groups them by type but some questions are focused on StackOverflow itself (not the other sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a related item on meta about transferring questions that you can view &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/96/can-we-transfer-questions-from-so-to-meta&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What changes to the current FAQ system should be done when moved to meta?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should questions regarding a specific system be here or on that system?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should there be a main FAQ item or should we use the tags and the search?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should there be one question for each feature of the system or many?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If one per feature, should that question contain an index of answers below?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What kind of formatting guidelines can we setup?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Examples of well formatted FAQ answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128742/how-does-editing-work-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;(1)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279995/accepting-answers-what-is-it-all-about&quot;&gt;(2)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any other suggestions I would love to hear them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T19:58:46.070" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T19:58:46.070" ClosedDate="2010-12-09T13:29:06.587" Title="How can the stack overflow faqs be improved as they are transferred to meta?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;meta-faq&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="2430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:11:16.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that there is a big &quot;please do not migrate FAQ content here yet&quot; on the site, I presume that Jeff Atwood may have a plan in place already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:11:16.220" />
  <row Id="2431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:15:33.057" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, please &lt;strong&gt;wait until we finish coding the moderator question migration&lt;/strong&gt;, as there's a dependency on the new improved way we are handling account mappings between sites. (Google giveth 90% of traffic, but Google taketh away with hideously painful per-site hash OpenID implementation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all honesty I have never been very happy with the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some random thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make it bite sized&lt;/strong&gt;. Stick with the one topic per question / answer format, and &lt;em&gt;KEEP IT SHORT&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remove any reference to &quot;stack overflow&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. The FAQs now apply to Server Fault, Stack Overflow, Super User and the meta site itself (although we may turn off a few things on meta, it'll be largely the same)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Try to preserve ownership&lt;/strong&gt; as earning gold and silver badges here on meta for your faq questions and answers (remember, badges are earned on wiki questions) are 100%, totally and completely valid!! The original people who created these questions deserve a chance to re-earn those silver and gold badges over here, as they will be losing them on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;don't overuse bullets&lt;/strong&gt;. Write in paragraphs of text like I am here. Try to incorporate images and paragraph breaks to keep it readable. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128742/how-does-editing-work-in-stack-overflow/128777#128777&quot;&gt;This answer by shog&lt;/a&gt; is what I'd like to see more of. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127588/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work/127590#127590&quot;&gt;This answer by Justin&lt;/a&gt; is what I'd like to see less of. (no offense intended, but a bunch of bulleted lists does not a FAQ make).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;simplify, simplify, simplify&lt;/strong&gt;. Cover the important stuff at the top. Leave the nitpicky details at the bottom. If nobody reads it, have you really accomplished anything?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:15:33.057" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:17:05.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that some following simple standards can be followed as far as WHAT makes up the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Main FAQ page should provide a decent introduction, and then each FAQ itself should be another question to link to (like we already have). I think we could make a rule that says &quot;A proposed FAQ questions needs to have X upvotes to get linked to officially.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:17:05.270" />
  <row Id="2433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2356" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:17:33.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something like this might work (without knowing the actual schema).  It may be worth pre-computing the fragment, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var question = new Question { Text = text, ... }&#xA;var stringBits = text.Split(' ');&#xA;if (stringBits[0].Length &amp;lt; MAX_SNIPPET_LENGTH)&#xA;{&#xA;    var builder = new StringBuilder(stringBits[0]);&#xA;    for (int i = 1; i &amp;lt; stringBits.Length; ++i )&#xA;    {&#xA;        if (builder.Length + stringBits[i].Length &amp;lt; MAX_SNIPPET_LENGTH)&#xA;        {&#xA;            builder.AppendFormat( &quot; {0}&quot;, stringBits[i] );&#xA;        }&#xA;        else&#xA;        {&#xA;            break;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    question.Snippet = builder.ToString();&#xA;}&#xA;else&#xA;{&#xA;    question.Snippet = stringBits[0].Substring(0, MAX_SNIPPET_LENGTH);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T19:20:35.823" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T19:20:35.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2368" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:19:09.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's ok for natural ecosystem to die since new one comes into place. This is actually happening all the time, species die and new one replace them. But I doubt Jeff would want SO to die even if something else would come after it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:19:09.070" />
  <row Id="2435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:19:20.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Should questions regarding a specific system be here or on that system?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm quite happy to see all of SF, SO and SU FAQs here in one place, as long as they're site agnostic.  I don't want to be reading a FAQ from SF and see only SO mentioned, etc.  I expect that most of the FAQ items will be site agnostic, discussing tags, badges, reputation and up/down-voting, etc.  and most already are, yet happen to be painted with the SO brush.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Should there be a main FAQ item or should we use the tags and the search?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm quite happy to see an &quot;umbrella&quot; entry, linking to individual entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:19:20.617" />
  <row Id="2436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2423" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:19:44.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Congratulations, next up...the Fanatic badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:19:44.873" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2410" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:21:56.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that this doesn't raise a notification on your own recent activity page. I have never had a chance to actually see if that is the case using the email notifications. If so that would be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:21:56.210" />
  <row Id="2438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2440" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:36:10.420" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question's in the title. While I haven't found any information &lt;em&gt;contradicting&lt;/em&gt; this possibility, I have also not found a &lt;em&gt;positive&lt;/em&gt; answer either. Given the special nature of CW questions, I'd like to make sure that bountifiability doesn't die with communitywikification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:16:14.713" Title="Can I put a bounty on a community wiki question?" Tags="&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:37:29.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? You'll get weird nonsensical threads, for (a slightly contrived) example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[Alice] Your answer is wrong!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[Bob] Alice: &quot;Your&quot;, not &quot;You're&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[Charlie]: Bob: That's what she said&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..unless you implement a revision history for comments, which I think is rather excessive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At most I think you should be able to edit a comment in the first 5 minutes, to fix typos without having to delete and repost it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think comments are all that important (compared to actual questions/answers), and there are many other things far more deserving of the SO developers time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:37:29.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:38:00.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, whether or not the question is Community Wiki makes no difference to the bounty system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:38:00.150" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2009-07-04T15:38:22.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you even gain rep from an accepted answer of a Community Wiki question (I can't remember off the top of my head). If you can gain rep from a correct answer (which I want to say is not the case), then I would suspect you should be able to set a bounty...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do not believe that is true. I believe setting a rep on a bounty (if it were in fact possible) would be more like throwing away rep than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T15:38:22.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2374" CreationDate="2009-07-04T16:15:34.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you view source the page you can see how the comments are fetched. You can only fetch comments for one question at a time, but as long as you weren't fetching them too frequently&#xA;you could write something to poll each id and update a count. You'd need to also monitor the questions so you would know if they were on questions or answers and what the title of the question was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T16:15:34.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2009-07-04T16:32:25.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Things I think every FAQ item should contain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarity.&lt;/strong&gt; Clear answer(s) to the actual question(s). Not a long description of how the system works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;References.&lt;/strong&gt; The answer should link to some place where the originators of the site answer the question or define the rule in place. It should be linked and preferably with a collection of links at the bottom of the answer (wiki style)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Link to the main FAQ item.&lt;/strong&gt; When a user reads a FAQ question, he could have found it via the search box, so if he has more questions. He can find them easily with this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Common structure.&lt;/strong&gt; When a user reads the FAQ he is clicking through to other questions. And currently their structure is mixed. So all answers should have a common structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simple answer at the top to the Title question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Followup answers to the ones within the question itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Visual representation of the item in question. (Images / Videos etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extended description of the item, split into sections.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T16:32:25.930" />
  <row Id="2444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2317" CreationDate="2009-07-04T16:33:51.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be separated out into problem - solution. Too often when people make feature requests they don't state what the real problem they are trying to solve is, just the solution they want to solve it. It's also common that the initially proposed solution is impractical or non-optimal. Allowing the solution to be rated alongside other solutions allows for a better exploration of the solution domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T16:33:51.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T16:33:51.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2447" CreationDate="2009-07-04T16:37:54.110" Score="4" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Alternatively&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if the author of the accepted-answer were informed that his answer (after heavy editing) was accepted. &quot;You can share a portion of your score with the editor.&quot; Have a bounty-like scrubbing bar and a send button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points to share: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;Send&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Original Idea (Scrapped)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Often times we'll see answers given, which are horrendous. Not merely their solution, but their presentation. The explanation may be vacuous, the code may be improperly indented and thus difficult to read. The problems go on and on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, some good-willed contributor will come along and purify the post. Cleaning up formatting, grammar, spelling, etc. Sometimes these are rather substantial changes that require a great deal of effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could possibly be argued that these changes are a sort of boost for the original author to get his answer noticed. Should these efforts go unrewarded? (Aside for the Strunk &amp;amp; White badge for those who edit tons of posts)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be unthinkable to inform the Asker that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The answer you have selected was a collaboration between n-persons. Award all points to original author, or divide points among all contributors.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could even offer them a short list of contributors with a summary of what they did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tom Smith - Original Author (View Original Post)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mike Ceaver - &quot;Cleaned up code-formatting, fixed grammatical errors&quot; (View with Changes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each name has a checkbox indicated who will be of the few to receive a portion of the award.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T16:44:53.950" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T04:15:34.313" Title="Collaborative Answers / Point-Sharing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;sharing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="2446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2445" CreationDate="2009-07-04T16:42:46.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've certainly changed some of my answers into community wiki before now, in order to include content from other people without trying to claim credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not sure there really needs to be any specific actions. If people want to write a list of credits, they can - some people may frown on it, although I suspect that the more discreet the credits, the more likely they are to avoid being edited out of existence. Does anything in the system need to change? Can't this be handled on an ad hoc basis by the people involved? Does the person asking the question really need to be informed about this? They're likely to care far more about the answer than who is responsible for it - and that's the way it should be, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of a problem is this? Are people really that desperate for credit that they get cross about this? Presumably the editor in question knows the system: they know they won't get rep from it. Normally I'd expect they're doing it for the general good of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The ability to share the reward with editors is okay, but adds complexity for a problem that I still don't see as being terribly severe. It's possible that I'm underestimating how much of an issue this is, but I've never found it particularly galling to edit something but not get credit for it. Admittedly I answer more than I edit, but do we know whether others are really feeling aggrieved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T16:48:47.577" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T16:48:47.577" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2445" CreationDate="2009-07-04T16:48:42.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment I don't edit posts for rep - but then again I only edit posts to fix glaring typos/grammar or formatting issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was the potential of rep on offer then I might be inclined to edit more posts and make more extensive edits to those posts. At some point I might even make the post worse that it was before or twist the sense away from what the originator intended. This would be a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing with no thought of reward is probably the best approach. It means you edit because you think the post needs improving. If the OP disagrees they can always roll back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T16:48:42.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="504" CreationDate="2009-07-04T17:10:00.177" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jon and Jeff that the reputation system is working pretty well &lt;em&gt;as a whole&lt;/em&gt;. The thing I'm not happy about is that Stack Overflow is a community for developers and for such a community, it doesn't look good to have obvious bugs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when you are &lt;strong&gt;over&lt;/strong&gt; daily cap and you downvote someone (which can happen pretty easily when you are browsing on the iPhone) and you revoke that downvote immediately, the reduced reputation will not be restored. This is not a significant thing in terms of reputation but it reflects the &lt;strong&gt;professionalism&lt;/strong&gt; of the site. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/revisiting-the-daily-reputation-cap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Changing the design as a result of bugs&lt;/a&gt; is not a good thing (by the way, I'm a proponent of the uncapped accepted answer behavior; I said that in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/921180/c-round-up/926806#926806&quot;&gt;To quote Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And when a flaw is found, changing&#xA;  the code to fix the flaw without&#xA;  considering whether the fix breaks&#xA;  something else is not a good&#xA;  problem-solving technique.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  when you find a bug, consider whether your algorithm is deeply flawed to begin with before you just randomly start swapping the directions of comparisons around and break stuff that already works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest polishing the reputation part of the Stack Overflow code base and &lt;strong&gt;officially documenting the intentional inconsistent behavior&lt;/strong&gt; somewhere in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:19:58.443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:19:58.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2429" CreationDate="2009-07-04T18:16:49.347" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What changes to the current FAQ system should be done when moved to meta?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Should there be one question for each feature of the system or many?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;If one per feature, should that question contain an index of answers below?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, any features shared between sites should be described in a site-agnostic manner. Any subtle differences between sites should be noted in an errata section at the end of the answer; major site-specific topics deserve their own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All FAQ questions and answers should be marked Community Wiki - we should do as much as possible to allow and promote collaborative editing (this was fairly widespread in the original FAQ, but not ubiquitous outside of &lt;code&gt;sofaq-official&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be exactly one major question asked, optionally including strongly-related follow-up questions. Related questions / topics / discussion can be linked, but should be in their own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be exactly one canonical answer to the question, including within it answers to follow-up questions and links to additional related information in other questions where appropriate. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2208/remove-accepted-answer-feature-for-community-wikis-and-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;So long as there can be an accepted answer to CW questions&lt;/a&gt;, this answer , and no other, &lt;strong&gt;should be marked accepted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minor discussion (concerns over inaccuracy, contributions by users without enough reputation to edit CW posts) should be relegated to comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extended discussion, requests for changes to the behavior of the features described in the FAQ, bug reports, or other concerns not directly related to the FAQ itself... should be &lt;em&gt;separate questions&lt;/em&gt; on MSO.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/289223#289223&quot;&gt;Forcing these discussions in non-answers within the FAQ itself is not helpful to anyone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should questions regarding a specific system be here or on that system?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should be here. They're still meta-questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Should there be a main FAQ item or should we use the tags and the search?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both. I suspect search will be the primary means of access, but if someone wants to browse through all FAQ topics grouped by section, then a directory will enable this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, a per-site overview page should be provided for site-specific FAQs and linked to from the master directory (for the same reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What kind of formatting guidelines can we setup?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal should always be to answer the question(s) asked in a succinct and accessible manner. To this end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question formatting guidelines&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question body should be as brief as possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Title should ask an actual question, and not be repeated in the body.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use bullet list for follow-up or more specific questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each sub-question should be distinct - they will be answered separately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include a link back to the overview page, separated from the question by a horizontal rule.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer formatting guidelines:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;##&lt;/code&gt; headings to denote sections within an answer. When the section is used to answer a question, use the question text &lt;em&gt;as&lt;/em&gt; the section heading.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use bullet lists when no explanation of the information presented in each bullet is required.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prefer full sentences over partial sentences completed by bullet lists. Prefer paragraphs over bullet lists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When documenting a UI, prefer screenshots over textual descriptions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When including screenshots, process them in some way to make them stand out from the rest of the site (lest the similarity in styling cause them to be mistaken for part of the page rather than an em" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T18:16:49.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T18:27:57.027" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T18:38:19.763" Score="39" ViewCount="1420" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a question which started off with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2263/require-comments-on-downvotes-closed&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;, then turned into an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes/2268#2268&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, and now it's a question in its own right (as suggested by Jeff). I'm not sure where it could go from here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's obvious that different people cast downvotes for different reasons. (Upvotes are less controversial, generally.) Here are some possible reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is misleading (may be technically accurate, but will lead to readers making mistakes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer doesn't match the question (e.g. a C# answer to a question about Java)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer doesn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; address the question, e.g. suggesting a completely different solution, even if the question specifies that there are good reasons why the current approach &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to be followed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is okay, but not as good as another one which currently has fewer votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer appears to be plagiarised from existing answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is by someone I don't like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is abusive (profanity, spam etc).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No reason, I just felt like it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%5Fin%5FThe%5FHitchhiker%27s%5FGuide%5Fto%5Fthe%5FGalaxy#Happy%5FVertical%5FPeople%5FTransporter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Happy Vertical People Transporter&lt;/a&gt;, and prefer down to up. Have you considered down?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ideological grounds: answer suggests a technology I don't like, or expresses a negative opinion of a technology I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I go with 1, 2 and 8 - although I'll add comments suggesting changes in various other situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I missed anything? What do you do, and why? What are the net benefits (to you, the world in general, and the answerer) from your approach? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T08:57:40.050" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T13:09:31.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T19:08:52.753" Title="Why do you cast downvotes on answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="23" FavoriteCount="13" />
  <row Id="2452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-04T18:43:46.317" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only downvote when the answer is &lt;strong&gt;technically wrong&lt;/strong&gt; and sometimes when it's spam (most of the time I flag spam, rather than downvoting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I don't downvote &lt;em&gt;misleading&lt;/em&gt; answers (those that recommend less than ideal solution) if they are technically correct. I handle that by upvoting or providing a better answer and mentioning that in a comment. I believe in any case, it's the responsibility of the reader to make sure the answer is suitable for his/her situation. So if an answer is correct but misleading, while not an ideal thing, it's still not worse than not answering at all. The poster had spent time to post a technically correct answer and shouldn't be punished for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I handle all other cases by a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T18:50:07.880" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T18:50:07.880" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-04T18:55:05.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At different times, i've down-voted answers for any or all of #1, #2, #3, #5, and #9. I'll usually try to leave comments for the first three reasons, unless someone else already has; i'll rarely bother leaving comments for any of the other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also down-vote a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; if i think it's poorly asked, argumentative, asks for something dangerous, or is blatantly off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T18:55:05.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-04T19:03:19.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to vote according to the rule: helpful or unhelpful.  In practice this probably corresponds to your 1, 2 &amp;amp; 8, though 2 is probably harder to judge than 1 &amp;amp; 8.  Typically, I will only upvote the first and/or best correct answers -- they are not always the same.  More complete answers are to be preferred over correct, but incomplete answers.  For example, an answer that contains a link to some document that describes the correct answer probably won't get an upvote from me if there is an answer that both references the link and quotes from it.  I wouldn't give a downvote to the linked answer because it's helpful but not as helpful as it could be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule I try not to downvote unless I feel the answer is actively unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also tend to not downvote questions -- only answers.  I prefer to flag or vote to close questions rather than downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T19:31:42.617" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T19:31:42.617" />
  <row Id="2455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-04T19:22:48.457" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see a bad answer at 0 votes, I generally leave a comment to give the poster a chance to correct or delete it (since the first downvote has been known to trigger a flood of pile-on downvotes). If I check back later and find that it is still wrong and not deleted, I will then downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a bad answer has already been voted up into, say, the top two or three answers, I will both comment and downvote. I don't want bad answers to be above good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what I mean by a bad answer, I would say #1 and (on rare occasions) #6; however, in practice these of answers rarely stay around long enough for me to downvote (thus the 27 downvotes in my profile).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For #2, #3, #4, and #5, I'll simply leave a comment. For #8, I'll flag the answer; that already knocks the answer down a notch and potentially leads to -100 rep for the answerer, so I see no need to penalize both the answer and myself by downvoting also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T19:22:48.457" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-04T19:25:15.843" Score="1" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to have some indication of how many people (or perhaps IP addresses) are following individual RSS feeds.  Are statistics available that could show how many &quot;followers&quot; a particular RSS feed has?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T16:21:36.747" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T16:21:36.747" Title="Are there any statistics kept on RSS feeds?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;followers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-04T19:45:14.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost always (1). I could probably exhaust all my downvotes every day on answers that are simply and objectively wrong. If you don't believe me, try posting a simple question regarding C on SO - you will immediately get about four or five answers that show that the answerer has not a clue about C and are syntactically and semantically wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is true of other languages, as the only ones I really follow are C++ (which seems somewhat less affected) and C. But the C bad answers are really bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T19:45:14.080" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="2458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2462" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:04:42.427" Score="4" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the site has up to today more than 73.750 users, so you can't follow everybody&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can't qualify users by his reputation since it doesn't tell's you if a user is good or bad, but how much &lt;em&gt;the system trust in the user&lt;/em&gt;, so you can't guide yourself by user's reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and this site is intended to be a mixed of blog with other things, so you can learn things reading answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with highest reputation are knowledgeable, but they aren't the only ones wich are involved, so you must not know about somebody who has low reputation (ie Jhon Resig)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what users would you be interested to follow? Or, which users are you following right now or you have followed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a good resource in learning, as blogs are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32173" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:48:37.340" Title="What StackOverflow users answers would you follow?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:10:00.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would actually follow people I know personally, from other sites and stalking celebs (although not Jon Skeet!). IMO, such a feature would be more useful for following people who post infrequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T20:10:00.260" />
  <row Id="2460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:13:26.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Straight down the middle for me ... Jon, Marc, Jared, Mehrdad ... consistently great answers to threads that interest me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T20:13:26.790" />
  <row Id="2461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="96" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:15:29.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2143&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T20:15:29.997" />
  <row Id="2462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:33:56.350" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Tom, I would use it to follow people who post &lt;em&gt;relatively&lt;/em&gt; rarely, but are likely to be interesting, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16929/miguel-de-icaza&quot;&gt;Miguel de Icaza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6380/scott-hanselman&quot;&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric in particular appears to have fingers which only ever type pure gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T20:33:56.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2465" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:48:54.380" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2250/is-there-a-way-to-do-rss-feeds-on-a-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question about RSS feeds.  Now I am wondering if there is documentation on learning all of the ins and out of SO?  What are the different URL combinations that I can use?  How do I become a power user?  How can I follow answers to all of my questions?   Can I exclude string from a search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show me the docs please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SEth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39478" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T23:22:51.467" Title="Is there documentation on how to use Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;documentation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:54:58.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rate the answers based on their content, the person that answered it or their rep has very little meaning to me. (Well, still waiting for my first answer from Jon Skeet or Joel Spolsky...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I often do is look up some other answers of somebody who's answer I find to be especially brilliant. That's where I learn something really interesting, much more than in browsing through the questions that seem interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T20:54:58.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2463" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:58:30.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your best resource right now is the StackOverflow FAQ: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq-closed&quot;&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that there is a meta.Stackoverflow Q&amp;amp;A site, the FAQ is in the process of being updated, reformatted, and integrated into this site. Keep an eye out here for updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-04T23:22:51.467" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T23:22:51.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2009-07-04T20:58:42.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further to this, what happens when multiple users contribute to one post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume it gets awarded to the person who originally posted the answer, which seems a little unfair if someone else contributes to the answer (which is hte idea of CWiki..), but splitting the bounty between contributors would be abuse-prone (people doing meaningless edits just before the bounty is awarded etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T20:58:42.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2456" CreationDate="2009-07-04T21:06:34.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way to reliably determine this.. IP's are dynamic, readers like Google Reader could account for numerous readers (or numerous IP addresses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reliable way would be to have a unique user identifier in the feed URLs, and that would only work for registered/logged in users (which would be a bulk of them, most likely).. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything like this would require the RSS feed URLs to execute code, rather than be dumb cached files, which would increase the server load, all for something of fairly limited interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's more interesting statistics that could be calculated/displayed first, perhaps number of view from Google vs number of views from within StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T21:06:34.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-04T21:08:47.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvote for 1, 3 or 4. I'll downvote a misleading answer only if it's leading in an especially bad direction: towards obsolete technologies, for instance. I'll usually just comment things like leaving out &quot;using&quot; blocks in C#, unless I feel the poster should &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; have known better than to set such a bad example (you know who you are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything else, and I'll either comment or just leave it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T21:08:47.453" />
  <row Id="2469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2473" CreationDate="2009-07-04T21:12:07.740" Score="6" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just occasionally, I lose two rep as if I've been downvoted, but no downvote shows in either my own rep tracker or the one on Stack Overflow itself. It's just happened now - my reputation went up 13 since my last check, which was one accepted answer and one &quot;invisible&quot; downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a downvote which was cancelled have this effect, which would then be erased on the next recalc? Or is there &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; a downvote out there, but I just can't see it for some reason? Is there any way a rep recalc could &lt;em&gt;cost&lt;/em&gt; me just two points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this is likely to be a question only Jeff and the team can answer for certain, but I'd like to see some educated guesses too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Obviously the amount of rep involved is inconsequential - I'm just interested in the anomaly. If I know why it happens, I probably don't even care much about whether it will be fixed...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T23:10:08.517" Title="Why might I lose 2 rep &quot;invisibly&quot;?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2009-07-04T21:16:55.357" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already implemented.  I should have searched &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/131779-show-year-in-field-date-asked-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt; first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T21:16:55.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2469" CreationDate="2009-07-04T22:09:47.743" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you were at your rep limit and was awarded 15 through an accepted answer, a downvote would take away 2, and then if it were removed you would still be unable to recoup that rep because you were technically over the limit and any further upvotes would not count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted an example similar to this in my suggestion about banking reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T22:09:47.743" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="2474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2469" CreationDate="2009-07-04T22:10:50.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing a downvote now, if you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?user=22656&amp;amp;mode=day&amp;amp;sites=so,meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;your tracker&lt;/a&gt;: for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/525425/525426#525426&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Maybe it didn't show up immediately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T22:10:50.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2469" CreationDate="2009-07-04T22:29:23.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could just be latency, I've found the Recent page a bit slow or inconsistent at times (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/762/latency-of-the-red-envelope&quot;&gt;question related to this&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've no idea how your reputation tracker gets it data, but if it's screen-scraping SO, the site being a bit slow would explain that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T22:29:23.780" />
  <row Id="2478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2469" CreationDate="2009-07-04T23:10:08.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rats!  You've caught on.  Just think in 25 years at 2 points per day we could have gotten you back to a normal human's rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T23:10:08.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-04T23:26:46.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't follow anyone. Nor do i use the tag filters. I think it'd be useful to do both, i just haven't gotten around to it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, JavaScript fascinates me. So if i was going to follow anyone, it'd be Paolo Bergantino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T23:26:46.777" />
  <row Id="2480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-04T23:30:10.827" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only downvote when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is &lt;strong&gt;seriously&lt;/strong&gt; wrong. This does not include minor syntax issues, typos and the like. The point of SO is to get you on the right path, not provide a comprehensive, fully-debugged program;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The advice is seriously flawed. This doesn't include differences in opinion. I've gotten downvotes like &quot;-1 just cos I hate VB.NET&quot; and that irks me somewhat. I don't tend to recommend Python for much if anything but that doesn't mean I downvote people who do;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer has nothing to do with the question like if someone asks about database table structure and someone replies how you should be using Ruby on Rails;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your abusive answer downvote, I don't downvote there. I just flag it. If it doesn't meet the standard for being flagged does it justify a downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T23:30:10.827" />
  <row Id="2481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-04T23:56:33.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't follow people's answers on Stackoverflow, but I have added a few blog feeds to my iGoogle page based on SO and the podcast -- notably Jon Skeet, Marc Gravell, JaredPar, and Uncle Bob.  I've always enjoyed hearing Uncle Bob talk, but didn't think about following his blog until the brouhaha on the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, now, thanks to this question I'm following Eric Lippert...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-04T23:56:33.273" />
  <row Id="2482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2484" CreationDate="2009-07-05T00:25:37.057" Score="3" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;500 plus questions in a week?  Is there really that much interest in meta discussion or are we just asking questions to get our rep up here?  If the latter, do we need a fundamentally different &quot;scoring&quot; system that doesn't encourage questions for questions' sake?  Since it's meta discussion, for most questions there doesn't really seem to be a rationale for upvoting -- or perhaps I need to think of it a different way, more like scoring points in a debate than having the correct answer.  The best way to get rep seems to be to ask questions that are interesting, but if you didn't already have the question before you got here, why ask it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the interest in Meta artificially high now and will it ebb as time goes on or is the rep system going to drive artificial discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T12:22:49.893" Title="Is there really this much interest in Meta or is it a function of its newness?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2482" CreationDate="2009-07-05T00:45:42.563" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't speak for anyone else, but i'm spending time here because i kind of ignored UV at first, and afterword felt that a handful of shrill users had managed to encourage changes i wasn't happy with. Possibly a misconception - but no sense in taking chances when there's a way to make myself heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, i'm kinda burned out on SO at the moment. Nothing major, a few personal issues, etc. MSO is my methadone...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and i want to get full editing capabilities here, so i can fix typos and grocers' apostrophes. Those things really bug me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T00:45:42.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2482" CreationDate="2009-07-05T00:59:34.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do suspect that there is a bit of a 'land rush' (so to speak) with people trying to be the first to raise certain topics of discussion and suggest certain features, much as there was with StackOverflow and ServerFault, and will be with SuperUser. It's human nature to want to be the first, to shape the discussion of your pet topics for others to follow in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the fact that, being exclusively about StackOverflow and related sites, that there's much less of a subject area than either programming or system administration, so it's also possible that we'll simply run out of things to discuss and the site will drop in activity or we'll start rehashing the same old subjects with different players.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, ultimately I don't think this will happen, at least not to the extent that it happened on UserVoice. Since StackOverflow is in a constant state of change, I think that we'll always have new subjects to explore, features to suggest, and bugs to report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T00:59:34.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-05T01:19:07.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I down vote readily, if warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I look at the answer and decide if it's helpful, or not, and that will guide my votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'll downvote if the answer is wrong (#1), misleading (#2) or shows signs that the answer author hasn't read the question fully/properly (#3, #4).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abuse I'll flag - and most of the other reasons listed are more reason for me to UP-vote someone else instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30280" LastEditorUserId="30280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T10:51:33.587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T10:51:33.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-05T01:27:58.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would follow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16929/miguel-de-icaza&quot;&gt;Miguel de Icaza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5597/anthony-williams&quot;&gt;Anthony Williams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anthony Williams is author of the new book &quot;C++ Concurrency in Action&quot; and maintainer of &lt;code&gt;boost::thread&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastEditorUserId="34509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T01:57:09.163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T01:57:09.163" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-05T01:29:10.510" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me the main strength of Stackoverflow is the fact that correct answers &quot;float&quot; to the top, I only ever downvote if I think that the answer is impeding a correct answer floating above it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW I &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; downvote any answer to a question that I have also answered, it seems wrong somehow, even though its probably not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10387" LastEditorUserId="10387" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-29T02:50:54.043" LastActivityDate="2010-04-29T02:50:54.043" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T02:04:08.053" Score="3" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little while ago I provided an answer on Stackoverflow that someone liked and asked me via private email if he could use portions of it in production code, which I was happy for him to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way for me to licence any original code I may post here so that people may use it without needing to contact me specifically. In my commment area on my profile? Maybe we could have a Licence terms section of our profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10387" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T04:24:59.650" Title="Licencing code snippets" Tags="&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2489" CreationDate="2009-07-05T02:10:08.803" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything you post on StackOverflow and its sister sites is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;automatically placed&lt;/a&gt; under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; license. As such, all anyone needs to do to use the content is to follow the terms of that license. However, since the person requested to use your code in a production codebase that likely cannot be placed under a Creative Commons license (as is required by the license) then they will have to contact the owner of the content (in this case, you) to obtain a different license. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism built into StackOverflow for contacting another user (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;yet&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, if you wish to dual-license (GPL, public domain, etc) your content here, you can put an appropriate note in your &quot;About Me&quot; section of your profile and people can choose the license under which they wish to use your content. Note that this will only apply to content you create - if you edit an answer, that answer cannot be relicensed without that owner's consent as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T04:03:07.520" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T04:03:07.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2482" CreationDate="2009-07-05T03:09:48.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, for one, seem to be running out of things to discuss.  I've migrated everything over from uservoice, as well as a few things that I never mentioned on UV but have been bugging me.  It's a little sad, because I'm actually in the top 20 users but probably won't be for much longer.  Oh well. :-/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T03:09:48.723" />
  <row Id="2494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2482" CreationDate="2009-07-05T04:08:20.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the idea of being able to be some sort of small driving force in the future development of the StackOverflow paradigm very rewarding. It does feel as if my input on the Meta is taken more seriously than it would be on UserVoice (perhaps because of the more active participation by those actually in charge of the development).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T04:08:20.937" />
  <row Id="2495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2489" CreationDate="2009-07-05T04:24:59.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951832/what-license-should-be-on-sample-code&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17174/sam-saffron&quot;&gt;Some&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;us&lt;/a&gt;, have started putting a snippet, to this effect, in our profile page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All original code samples I post here&#xA;  are given freely to the public domain&#xA;  on an &quot;as is&quot; basis, but no warranty&#xA;  is given (implied or assumed) etc -&#xA;  you know the drill...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes code samples much easier to share. &#xA;Note, public domain is not really a license. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T04:24:59.650" />
  <row Id="2497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1041" CreationDate="2009-07-05T05:21:49.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&#xA;After reading through the comments on this page, I started thinking that perhaps Question Rep should possibly be less than Answer Rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I of course would first like to know who, and how much, peoples rep would be affected, before actually doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that this wouldn't really affect &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; that much, for example, he has about a dozen questions, but over 4000 answers. Also his top two answers are higher than all of his questions.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/which-accounts-have-more-questions-than-answers&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; to find out more information about these users.&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;According to the responses on my related question, This isn't a big enough deal yet, to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T21:16:38.503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T21:16:38.503" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T05:57:46.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2507" CreationDate="2009-07-05T06:17:13.313" Score="6" ViewCount="1378" Body="&lt;p&gt;Software Stack: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Database Details: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the details of the Stack Overflow development architecture. Things such as schemas and queries related to how they handle tagging, caching of various parts of the page, how the database is configured to handle greater number of reads to writes (or vice versa if it's write heavy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these can't be answered directly regarding the exact implementation, then answers or discussion on how you would implement the different aspects of the site would be great, or Best Practices regarding how to implement a site similar to this. Also, maybe a collection of the links to the posts that describe an aspect of the site design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Caching&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SQL Server Configuration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tagging&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have updated the question to make it more clear what I was looking for.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498/what-is-the-architecture-of-stackoverflow/2507#2507&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; answered with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to the different technologies and info on the what the software stack consists of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still think this is a duplicate or irrelevant question, please edit it or remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="415" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:28:03.020" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:28:03.020" Title="What are the architecture details of Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="2499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="596" CreationDate="2009-07-05T06:24:24.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd simply say StackOverflow is for working with the data and ServerFault for managing where and how the data is securely stored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="415" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T06:24:24.310" />
  <row Id="2500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T06:47:38.823" Score="-6" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently discovered my reputation had been dropping because of a question that had 4 downvotes. I delete the answer because one more downvote it would not have mattered if anyone liked the answer ( people vote in a herd ). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also looks like it makes sense to delete a comment that starts receiving downvotes with no upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-16T07:50:06.143" LastActivityDate="2010-05-16T07:50:06.143" Title="Questions and Answers should not be allowed to contribute a negative score to overall reputation" Tags="&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="2502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2500" CreationDate="2009-07-05T06:57:54.230" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That just shows the system is working. The idea is that if you write something which the community deems wrong/misleading/etc, you will lose the community's trust a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You deleted the answer, so by the community's judgement (which can be wrong occasionally, admittedly) the world became a better place again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T06:57:54.230" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2500" CreationDate="2009-07-05T08:00:41.270" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re &quot;4 downvotes&quot; and &quot;one more downvote it would not have mattered if anyone liked the answer&quot;  - multiple &lt;em&gt;flags&lt;/em&gt; (spam/offensive) causes deletion; but not multiple downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re comments; there is no such thing as a comment downvote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &quot;opinion&quot; questions: mark them wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T09:05:48.150" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T09:05:48.150" />
  <row Id="2505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2498" CreationDate="2009-07-05T08:50:43.490" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a database export &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;, this will give the database structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;J&amp;amp;J talk about some implementation details on the podcast from time to time (e.g. the database refactoring to move current revisions of questions and answers to avoid joins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T08:50:43.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2009-07-05T09:03:50.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that it &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; discourages new answers, it definitely does still happen - and often in batches. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/283299/best-compression-algorithm-for-a-sequence-of-integers&quot;&gt;this question yesterday&lt;/a&gt; (which is over 6 months old and has an accepted answer), suddenly gained 3 new answers. Obviously somebody stumbled into it, thought it was interesting and added an answer. It jumped to the front page and 2 other people thought it was interesting and added an answer. These all fell into the 3rd bullet on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1880/is-accepting-an-answer-discouraging-more-answers/1925#1925&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer above&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're happy that your question is answered, set the green tick - but you may well find you get additional answers / comments / etc long into the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T09:03:50.790" />
  <row Id="2507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2498" CreationDate="2009-07-05T09:36:21.633" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has actually been asked before and has been covered in the StackOverflow blog (and I am sure somewhere in the FAQ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the link to the blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T09:36:21.633" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2482" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:19:35.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not brilliantly technical (I ask mostly questions rather than answer them on SO), but I actually feel I can answer MSO questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T12:19:35.283" />
  <row Id="2517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2482" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:22:49.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally find uservoice hard to understand and this so much easier to look through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2209" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T12:22:49.893" />
  <row Id="2518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:25:16.297" Score="5" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much time deleted question lives in the system? I'm asking since I couldn't find my own question that got deleted few months back but it has some insides I'd like to remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T17:23:16.097" Title="How much time deleted answer lives until it get cleared from the database?" Tags="&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:29:54.010" Score="22" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I originally posted this on UV, but I'm moving it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is somewhat annoying when you close a question, but are not the last person closing it, that the official close reason doesn't necessarily match the reason you've chosen.  I'd like to be able to see the reason that each voter has chosen in addition to the official close reason.  If the reason was kept along with the close vote (a FK to the reasons table wouldn't take much space), then it could be provided as a hover over on the person's name when the close message is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T18:19:08.157" LastActivityDate="2011-06-16T21:29:47.503" Title="When you hover over the name of the person closing a question it should show the reason they've chosen" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2524" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:37:04.303" Score="7" ViewCount="539" Body="&lt;p&gt;This guy keeps appearing, and we're not sure why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He posts anywhere between 5 - 12 of the same sort of &quot;answers&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use native Win32 zip dll apis (used  by IE)&lt;br /&gt; Never use external DLLs on Windows !&lt;/p&gt; &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simply hook it (very classic, see Compuserve and MSDN)&lt;/p&gt; &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simply see the source code of Sleep (Kernel32 source, posted on Compuserve and Google Groups, Win32 api ng)&lt;/p&gt; &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You absolutely don't need any plug-in (absurd !)&lt;br /&gt; Simply use a standard Win32 COM hook, and that'all !&lt;/p&gt; &#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See and copy the classic and perfect MSDN sample from SDK.&lt;/p&gt; &#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you have 10k rep on SO you can see these links to older deleted posts, same thing. I believe this is one of his &quot;runs&quot; from a while back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/820804/823930#823930&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/820804/823930#823930&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/821676/823943#823943&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/821676/823943#823943&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/823553/823907#823907&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/823553/823907#823907&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/829075/829531#829531&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/829075/829531#829531&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/828134/829556#829556&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/828134/829556#829556&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/826796/829756#829756&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/826796/829756#829756&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/825144/829572#829572&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/825144/829572#829572&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/823012/823899#823899&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/823012/823899#823899&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/822714/823991#823991&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/822714/823991#823991&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/810273/820245#820245&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/810273/820245#820245&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pattern is non-answers that point to vague &quot;newsgroups&quot; and &quot;MSDN&quot; and so forth. It's not horrible trolling, but it's clearly some kind of passive aggressive resistance to Stack Overflow that keeps recurring over a period of months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dealing with this is essentially a one-click operation on our end, so it's no real work per se. But it is &lt;em&gt;strange&lt;/em&gt;. This is the most persistent (and odd) troll we've developed. I think I've deleted at least 6 instances of this user, and I'm sure Bill and Marc have deleted the same stuff several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not been able to cross reference his IPs reliably, so banning does not appear to be an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saw an IP this time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;194.98.3.74&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Geolocates to France, which is consistent with some evidence from previous runs. Man this guy is persistent. Will IP ban if we can get some consistent ranges from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T10:21:31.240" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T12:04:47.547" Title="Dealing with persistent trolls: &quot;see the newsgroups guy&quot;" Tags="&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;trolling&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:51:17.903" Score="2" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that one can add an openID and then swap it to make it primary and so on. But is it possible to delete an earlier openID (after making it non-primary)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12649" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T06:45:57.817" Title="Is it possible to delete an old openID after adding a new one?" Tags="&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2522" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:55:23.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;No, you can only overwrite at the moment.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19808/remove-alternative-openid&quot;&gt;can do it now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-23T06:45:57.817" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T06:45:57.817" />
  <row Id="2524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-05T12:58:31.523" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just keep deleting them as they come - i.e. your current course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, you can't do anything systematic about it to ban him. If he is actively trolling (i.e. he &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; he's being unhelpful and he's trying to irritate people) then fretting about it is just feeding that desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everyone just deals with trolls in the simplest way possible, hopefully they'll get bored. That's certainly been the standard advice on newsgroups etc for years. It doesn't always work, of course: if a dedicated group of trolls &quot;attacks&quot; a newsgroup, reducing the signal to noise ratio below any useful level, it can sometimes effectively spell the end of that newsgroup. Fortunately I see no sign of that happening on SO - yet. As the site gathers momentum, it will become more of a target, of course. My &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; is that SuperUser will be trolled more than SO/SF/MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T14:10:52.923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T14:10:52.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:00:14.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about contacting him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask him if he is misunderstanding the way this particular system works and offer suggestions where he can better himself. (if he is interested)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he is unwilling and doing this on purpose, then the job is to just keep going as Jon suggested, that he will eventually get bored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T13:00:14.263" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:00:47.570" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea -- it provides full disclosure -- but would prefer to have it handled with a hover effect instead of expanding the close message.  See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2519/when-you-hover-over-the-name-of-the-person-closing-a-question-it-should-show-the&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T13:00:47.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:03:25.207" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;What project type is used for SO?  A Web Site or a Web Application?  And Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T14:05:01.737" Title="StackOverFlow Visual Studio project type?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:04:57.777" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree.  Close votes should work basically the same way as up/downvotes in this respect.  There should be some definite period during which the vote can be changed.  For a close vote the most reasonable period is until the question is actually closed.  Once it's closed, you'll have to vote to reopen if you want to change your mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T13:04:57.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:10:42.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the heads up.  I suggest that anyone who sees an answer that fits the pattern simply flag it for the moderator to make it (and the account) easier to delete.  Normally I wouldn't have flagged such an answer, but I'll keep my eyes open from now on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T13:10:42.943" />
  <row Id="2530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:13:53.560" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET MVC Web Application according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T13:13:53.560" />
  <row Id="2531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:16:28.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't actually get deleted (at least in non-exceptional cases), but once deleted you need 10K rep to be able to see them.  If you know the question number, you should be able to see your own deleted question, however.  Using the question number you can build the URL that will take you there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a basic search via google using your user name and &quot;deleted by&quot; and didn't come up with anything.  Perhaps if you could give me (us) some keywords that would fit, I could find it for you and give you the question number/link to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T13:23:40.993" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T13:23:40.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2544" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:44:06.233" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tvanfosson posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2519/when-you-hover-over-the-name-of-the-person-closing-a-question-it-should-show-the&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt; an hour ago about showing the reason the type of close vote each user voted for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was suggested by me &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/926/show-all-voted-close-types-when-a-question-is-closed&quot;&gt;about a week ago&lt;/a&gt; and I agreed with dgr that it would clutter up the screen and accepted his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I saw tvanfosson's feature request I immediately saw that his suggestion would solve the clutter issue that I had with the first request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My original request was declined about 30 minutes ago but let's imagine this as a scenario where the original was declined before the 2nd suggestion was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we handle a resubmission, that is a re-imagining of the idea that tries to solve some of the issues of the original, not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A new question with a link to the original.&lt;/strong&gt; This would allow for a separate discussion and leave the original intact. And this idea could then be accepted or declined on it's own. This would scatter the commentary about the idea itself around the site, so a person looking for one place to discuss this would have a hard time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An answer in the original.&lt;/strong&gt; This would bump the original to the top again to allow further discussion of the original item. This would keep the suggestion of the idea in one place to be evaluated perhaps at a later date. But this idea has some flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer doesn't allow for as good of a discussion (via comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a feature request is long and the discussion is long, a new user would have a hard time distinguishing between commentary and a new suggestion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to hear your take on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="139837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:53:01.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:53:01.613" Title="How to handle a resubmission of a feature request?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:46:28.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may be missing something, but aren't these simply bad answers, that could be dealt with via the normal upvote/downvote mechanisms? They don't seem to be particularly abusive in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T13:46:28.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2009-07-05T13:48:42.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The enlightened badge is only awarded if your answer was the &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; answer for this question. This is un-intuitive, and IMHO wrong, but is probably the cause for your bagelessness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135647/how-do-badges-work-in-stackoverflow/940294#940294&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 2010:&lt;/strong&gt; Looks like the behaviour has changed, &lt;kbd&gt;Enlightened&lt;/kbd&gt; badges now seem to be given for any accepted answer with 10 up votes (even if it was not the first answer to be given).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="3848" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-11T13:15:37.397" LastActivityDate="2010-04-11T13:15:37.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:14.190" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2009-07-05T14:05:01.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for reasons, one thing Jeff has mentioned is that ASP.NET MVC makes having clean url's easy. So they get friendly, searchable, logical url's like &lt;code&gt;../questions/{id}&lt;/code&gt; without any additional work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T14:05:01.737" />
  <row Id="2538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2541" CreationDate="2009-07-05T15:04:50.190" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today, I was on SF and my mouse pointer paused over a question title on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions&lt;/a&gt; page and I thought I saw a thumbnail of the question pop up. Later, CNR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anybody else see this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T15:34:16.030" Title="Question thumbnails? I thought I saw one" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-05T15:23:14.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you implement a delete-count system that suspends the account for 24 hours if 5 questions get vote-closed sequentially? And the account-suspension goes up 24 hours eat time this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T15:23:14.420" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2538" CreationDate="2009-07-05T15:34:16.030" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you weren't on the front page? Items listed there have a tooltip containing the first few lines of the question, while on the Questions page list those are always visible in the list itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T15:34:16.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T15:42:13.627" Score="32" ViewCount="882" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Download Source:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-sites_minimal.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-sites_minimal.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greasemonkey script for linking the SO-Sites together. Jeff rightly pointed out that a mere clone of the footer-list takes up a bit too much space, so I thought this would eliminate that problem, or at least minimize that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each site is represented by a 10x10 colored box. The color of the box of course is associated to the color-scheme of that particular site. The black cube is the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-minimal.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-03T07:13:30.937" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T07:13:30.937" Title="SO-Site Bar (Minimalistic)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="2544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2532" CreationDate="2009-07-05T15:43:39.770" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A new question with a link to the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO doesn't work all that well for extended discussion. Re-opening an old, potentially-crowded question with new ideas seems like a good way to see those ideas ignored or lost in the noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a bit of precedent for this on SO already... I've often seen it suggested to those who are posting questions &lt;em&gt;nearly&lt;/em&gt; identical to existing questions, but with some key difference. By explicitly linking to the exiting question, and describing why theirs is different, they're able to avoid wasting time on repeated discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T15:43:39.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2360" CreationDate="2009-07-05T16:08:34.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There exists several edge cases that, although most people never notice, do happen on occasion. Doing this might help simplify the Rep Cap algorithm so that the edge cases that do occur, would have an affect that would be easier to predict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T16:08:34.593" />
  <row Id="2546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T16:26:04.330" Score="0" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi folks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think there is (or should be) a place for questions concerning UI design and usability on stackoverflow? I don't mean the &quot;how do I achieve X with technology Y&quot; kind of questions, but those that deal with issues of design (colour, layout, affordance, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that such questions deal less with programming directly, but they are the kinds of things that may programmers deal with on a daily basis. There have been a few times when I've considered asking such a question, but have withheld from doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that a site dedicated to such issues will become a part of the SO family, so is there a place for them anywhere here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29620" LastActivityDate="2010-06-18T17:05:31.907" Title="UI &amp; Usability questions on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;usability&gt;&lt;not-directly-programming&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="2549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="596" CreationDate="2009-07-05T16:33:00.960" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always held the notion that if your question is about getting results from a database via some query. (as in you need help in constructing that query, or how to make said query faster). It would belong on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is about database migration of your system, a scaling question or any other maintenance/construction of a database system. They would belong on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that some of these maintenance questions require some SQL but that's a side effect of how you interact with the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T16:33:00.960" />
  <row Id="2550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2532" CreationDate="2009-07-05T16:34:07.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure the SO engine is not made for discussions. Both ways have flaws. But I like the &quot;An answer in the original&quot; approach better.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I try to keep things in one place. Even with a link to the old question, people will argue about stuff, which was already done in the orignal post. Too much scatter, too problematic to follow the stuff, if you ask me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T16:34:07.527" />
  <row Id="2551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="596" CreationDate="2009-07-05T16:34:11.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely you've answered your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it relates to the &lt;strong&gt;use&lt;/strong&gt; of the database then it's a SO question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it relates to the &lt;strong&gt;maintenance&lt;/strong&gt; of the database then it's a SF question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programmers are (usually) going to be looking for the former type of question and so will look on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sys admins and DBAs are going to be looking for the latter type of question and so will look on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally programmers will be looking for the latter and will tend to look on SO first. If they don't know about SF they might ask their question, but it will be closed as &quot;belongs on SF&quot; so they will be directed to SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that might be useful could be to detect SQL in the title or tags and put up a notice about looking on SF for non-programming SQL questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T16:34:11.783" />
  <row Id="2554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2532" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:02:20.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I can attest from experience, you can't always know when something has been submitted as a request previously.  I am pretty rigorous about checking for potential duplicates before I ask a question, though in this case the requested feature solves the same problem but is not the same request so I probably would have submitted it anyway.  I'm reasonably sure that I never even saw the other request in the potential duplicates list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this scenario, I suggest that we take what will most likely naturally occur anyway and let the new request stand on its own.  When (if) a potential duplicate is found, we use the regular close mechanism or add references to previous, similar requests as they are found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T17:02:20.937" />
  <row Id="2556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2546" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:03:59.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's not a specific how do I implement X, the question is valid as it could (perhaps should) influence the language used, the whole approach taken (MVC, MVP, MVVM etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps we should take each question on it's merits and not be aggressive when closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T17:03:59.887" />
  <row Id="2557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2609" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:10:50.247" Score="10" ViewCount="581" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been some discussion about certain users that ask tons of questions, but otherwise do not actively participate in a productive manner. I do not know if this is in fact true, I just want some proof one way or the other. I would assume that at the very least these particular users have a habit of making enemies. I would like to see further discussion about this, which is the reason for question's existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They usually have &lt;strong&gt;less than half&lt;/strong&gt; as many answers as questions, or possibly none at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They will often have given an uncharacteristically &lt;strong&gt;high number of down-votes&lt;/strong&gt; compared to how many up-votes they have given. One in particular has 4 down-votes with only 2 up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they have participated at all on Meta Stack Overflow, it has been minimal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They probably have had their &lt;strong&gt;accounts locked&lt;/strong&gt; at some point.&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;That is not to say that there aren't accounts that might appear to be similar, but that aren't actively anti-productive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to have more information about the accounts that follow this trend, whether or not they are productive members of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really need to know who they are, just some of the specific details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;up/down votes given&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;up/down votes received on questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;up/down votes received on answers&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ratio of good questions to bad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ratio of good answers to bad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ratio of questions to answers&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether they have been put in the penalty box, and if possible how many times, or even the reason they were put there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their general reputation range ( 0-50, 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k, 5k, 10k, ... )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether they are active on any of the other sites&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether &lt;strong&gt;you think they are useful members&lt;/strong&gt;, or not, based on what you've seen. This will have to be a judgment call.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have any further information, go ahead and add that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have something added to this list, just post a comment, and someone will add it, if it is deemed useful.&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Basically what I want to know is, to what extent there is such a problem, or is there even a problem.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said earlier I also want information on all accounts that generally fit this profile, no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to coax this information out in the hopes that it will be useful, to reduce the problems that may occur from these users, without hurting other users that may have similar attributes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T08:39:03.770" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T08:39:03.770" Title="Which accounts have more questions than answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2518" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:23:16.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very first question (id 1, a test question) was deleted from Stack Overflow about a year ago, and it's still there..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you recall the title, someone should be able to find it for you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T17:23:16.097" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2561" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:32:29.087" Score="11" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently it's in the format..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;MM/DD/YYYY&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..which confuses me. It's also ambiguous (for 12 days a month anyway), and inconsistent with other parts of the site, such as the Recent page: &quot;Showing 2009-07-05 to 2009-07-05&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be changed to the ISO 8601 (international standard) format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;YYYY-MM-DD&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T06:17:33.987" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T06:17:33.987" Title="Change date format of &quot;x hours ago&quot; tool tip?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;dates&gt;&lt;internationalisation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2560" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:36:01.183" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in favor in the ISO 8601 standard due that it follows a setup where a date is numerically larger than a date it it's past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2010-07-05 (1 year from now)&#xA;2009-07-05 (today)&#xA;2009-06-05 (1 month ago)&#xA;&#xA;20100705 &amp;gt; 20090705 &amp;gt; 20090605&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's very logical to read a date where you go from the largest entity to the smallest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2009-07-05 09:00:00&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T17:36:01.183" />
  <row Id="2562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2560" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:42:53.617" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eh... You've got the whole tooltip, why go with such a brief date format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Sunday the fifth of July, at one second, thirty-six minutes past five o'clock post-meridiem coordinated universal time, in the year of Our Lord two thousand and nine...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T17:42:53.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:52:46.137" Score="8" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reading this question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/which-accounts-have-more-questions-than-answers&quot;&gt;Which accounts have more questions than answers?&lt;/a&gt;, I started wondering what ways are there that we can measure participation more accurately than reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always been skeptical that a user's reputation score actually reflects their &quot;reputation.&quot;  That is your level of knowledge and ability to ask/answer questions may not be correlated to how well you &quot;play together in groups,&quot; as they used to say in kindergarten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the theory that, if you can't say something nice about someone, you shouldn't say anything at all, I wonder if the ratio of upvotes to downvotes may be a better indication of your &quot;plays well together&quot; score than your reputation. Another potential measure may be the ratio of upvotes to downvotes on your own questions.  Or flags to votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other metrics, or would any of these metrics, be useful to expose for users on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T20:06:18.677" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:06:18.677" Title="Is the ratio of upvotes to downvotes a meaningful measure of participation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2009-07-05T17:57:08.420" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another potential measure may be the ratio of upvotes to downvotes on your own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see that being interesting... Everyone has the same number of votes to give (whether or not they actually do), but the number of votes they can &lt;em&gt;receive&lt;/em&gt; is much less bounded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T17:57:08.420" />
  <row Id="2566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:01:49.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another potential measure may be the ratio of upvotes to downvotes on your own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting way to measure but i don't know if it would work as intended. Since i've seen OP's that downvote all answers that don't solve their problem. And others who ask a question and upvote every answer they get (even though they are wrong)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:01:49.797" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:04:31.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a personal level I've only ever down-voted twice on So and once here and then in one case it was borderline and only the &quot;promise&quot; of the critic badge tipped me over the edge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Partly it's the cost in rep to myself that dissuades me, but mainly it's the thought that of itself down-voting won't achieve the desired result. I'd rather comment when I see something incomplete or wrong in an effort to get the OP to correct the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:04:31.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2500" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:09:34.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And what is the point of the peer pressure badge if you can't delete your own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:09:34.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:09:46.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; hard thing to accurately quantify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ratio of [what is currently rep] to number of questions and answers &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; like the most meaningful thing to me, but I remember looking at that a while ago and it actually didn't work out as expected given a few users with extreme profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see some serious research on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:09:46.563" />
  <row Id="2570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2542" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:10:30.353" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not too sure about pinning it to the top of the window (&lt;code&gt;position:fixed&lt;/code&gt;), aside from that  it looks quite nice, if a little unintuitive at first (&quot;What are these three little coloured boxes?!&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative idea, using each sites &lt;code&gt;favicon.ico&lt;/code&gt; in the toolbar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/651/iconsintoolbar.png&quot; alt=&quot;Using favicon's in toolbar&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    $(&quot;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;span class='link-separator'&amp;gt;|&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.stackoverflow.com'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src='http://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico' title='StackOverflow' style='padding:1px'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.serverfault.com'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src='http://serverfault.com/favicon.ico' title='Visit ServerFault' style='padding:1px'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://meta.stackoverflow.com'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src='http://meta.stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico' title='Visit Meta Stack Overflow' style='padding:1px'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .appendTo(&quot;#hlinks&quot;);&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should probably hide the current site's icon..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:10:30.353" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2546" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:17:43.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can ask general design (including design pattern) questions on SO, you should be able be fine asking usability questions. Usability is clearly an aspect of software engineering, and I think SO should focus on all aspects of software development, including usability. The only aspects of software engineering that are beyond stack overflow are the more management type questions, and even so, some process questions are still appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:17:43.127" />
  <row Id="2572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2557" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:26:49.033" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the statistics you request, what would you do? I don't think anything could be done to change or improve things.. There's always going to be people that participate in a site less than others...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more important fact is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;lots of people are hugely active in positive ways&lt;/a&gt; - I think that far outweighs the list of people you're looking for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T20:38:50.433" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T20:38:50.433" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2557" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:36:52.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to know, why don't you download the database dump and examine it.  You'll probably find all you want to know and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, I don't understand why you care.  I believe that the bad feelings caused by all this petty accounting outweigh any benefit there might be to finding all the &quot;freeloaders&quot; who only ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to remind you that those &quot;freeloaders&quot; view ads, as do the people who view their questions.  If they happen to click through they're doing their part by helping to fund the site.  Isn't that enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:36:52.177" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="2574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2576" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:45:05.993" Score="5" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1084099/track-users-online/1084197#1084197&quot;&gt;answering a question today&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/133362/richard&quot;&gt;the author&lt;/a&gt; responded (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1084099/track-users-online/1084593#1084593&quot;&gt;wrongly using solution-functionality&lt;/a&gt; rather than commenting) with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/133366/richard&quot;&gt;another unique account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what to do when I notice this type of behavior on SO. Do I report it? Is it permissible, even though it's primarily accompanied with voter-fraud, etc. I'm not suggesting that this user is deviating from proper conduct - only curious about what users are to do when they identify this type of stuff taking place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other (Possibly Related) Accounts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/133357/richard&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/133357/richard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T18:52:36.523" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T04:48:52.253" Title="Users making multiple accounts" Tags="&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;voter-fraud&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:45:52.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the ratios you talk about help tell the story of a user but fails to tell the whole story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer/Question&lt;/strong&gt;: There are people who are good at asking questions. A good question can contribute to the discussion and make us think. And there are the questions that are used to game the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contributions/Net Votes&lt;/strong&gt;: What if the user is giving well thought out answers to questions in narrow areas?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Up Votes/Down Votes&lt;/strong&gt;: Do we want people who are only going to give safe answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Touchdown/Interception&lt;/strong&gt;: What if you are a running game quarterback? What if your receivers aren't fast enough to Go All The Way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that there aren't good reasons to monitor these things. Just don't take it too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:45:52.997" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2574" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:52:49.610" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't say it really bothers me... But past comments / blog posts seem to indicate that the site admins take it very seriously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there are legitimate reasons why someone might end up doing this (lost password, lost cookies for unregistered account, broken OpenID provider...) so i advise against being too quick to jump on them. If you see someone repeatedly posting with multiple accounts, send an email to the SO Team and let them investigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:52:49.610" />
  <row Id="2577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="879" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:52:56.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just thinking that this would be a great feature, while I was looking for a topic that spans both SO and SF, while I accept that I could google to search over both sites, I think that such a feature would be useful because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First time users would be alerted that there is another sister site they can search on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would allow dups on topics that could possibly be on either site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lazy people like me could just search in one place :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27907" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T18:52:56.100" />
  <row Id="2578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2574" CreationDate="2009-07-05T18:58:29.643" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The particular incident you are talking about simply involves a user whose browser cookie was lost somewhere in between and now the system is looking at them as a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do remember one high rep user who publicly &quot;dropped&quot; his account to &quot;start over&quot;. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/75834/oscar-reyes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/75834/oscar-reyes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscar-reyes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscar-reyes&lt;/a&gt;) Eventually he is going to have two 10k accounts, which means he packs twice the power of any 20k+ user. Is that fair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="16417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T19:52:32.837" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:52:32.837" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:10:39.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would follow &lt;strike&gt;cult leader&lt;/strike&gt; jQuery author &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6524/john-resig&quot;&gt;John Resig&lt;/a&gt;. The guy knows his stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:10:39.757" />
  <row Id="2581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:14:30.153" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My concern with mobile is that we will get short Twitteristic answers like this as opposed to well thought out 300 word Skeetistic masterpieces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastEditorUserId="3819" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T01:32:20.867" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T01:32:20.867" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30054" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:20:29.093" Score="4" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've wanted to get into robotics for the longest time now, but haven't really had enough knowledge to get the ball rolling. Seeing the success of the SO-Family Suite, I'm curious if it could ever be possible to include a robotics site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I start to see a lot of blending between the sites though. For instance, somebody recently asked where SQL help should be posted, on the Server side of SO, or the Software side. I could see similar things taking place in a robotics environment, with mechanics, software, and server-issues. But I don't think that should be viewed as a problem - only as a blending of worlds, in a venn-diagram fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would anybody else like to see a RoboOverflow? I call dibs on making the &quot;oO&quot; into robotic eyes in the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:41:51.883" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T22:27:20.030" Title="RoboOverflow?" Tags="&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;robotics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:23:40.817" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I answer a technical question on SO, I generally write some code, run it through the compiler to check it, and then post all or serlected bits of it when I'm happy that I'm both conceptually and syntactically correct. I can't see how this can be done on a mobile (for example, you can't host iphone development on an iphone) and I believe it would result in a lowering of quality of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I believe the mobile phone is the invention of Beelzebub, but that's another issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:23:40.817" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:29:07.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't follow anyone, just read the first 3-10 highest rated answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29363" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:29:07.573" />
  <row Id="2585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2618" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:32:27.427" Score="8" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt; Jonathan answered &quot;Page generation from PHP Class&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/RIPog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/RIPog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many sites broadcast (opt-in of course) your activity over your twitter-line, letting your friends/followers know what you're up to, discover content that you find, and participate in events/projects that you're participating in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has it been considered by the SO Team to implement a Twitter-broadcasting system to send out activity from users to their followers? This would be great for getting SO more traffic, and would help some of us keep our followers happy even when SO commands more time than Twitter now days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T19:37:29.770" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T03:01:17.720" Title="Broadcasting User-Activity over Twitter" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;&lt;networking&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74951" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:36:26.307" Score="46" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/171942-list-of-comments-on-profile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;, but with the discontinuation of that site wanted to move the suggestion and discussion here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of all comments on the User Tab would be useful. Recent comments are available from the recent tab but I'd like to have access to all comments. I would envision something very close to the list of Answers already present on the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-14T14:36:53.503" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T14:36:53.503" Title="List of Comments on User Tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;users-page&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2585" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:37:23.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this has been requested before. Personally I think it has problems: for regular users it would be &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; too much noise to be useful. Better for users to occasionally tweet a question/answer they've found particularly interesting, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RSS feeds for users can serve the same sort of purpose, if you really want. (Are there RSS feed to Twitter feed converters? Sounds like an obvious thing to do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:37:23.653" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="2588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:42:29.210" Score="104" ViewCount="922" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is migrated from a suggestion I made at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/238022-mark-an-answer-as-favorite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times I am not interested in the question so much as I am the answer. Unfortunately, the only site option for bookmarking an optimal answer is to bookmark the question. This leaves you having to remember that no the question wasn't that great, but there's an answer in here worth a million. It'd be nice to be able to favorite an answer allowing you to jump immediately to the answer that was much more valuable than the question. I understand that I can bookmark the answers link using my browser but it seems being able to favorite the answer within the site's ecosystem is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T08:36:36.220" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T01:20:56.860" Title="Mark Answer as Favorite / Star" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="26" />
  <row Id="2590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:48:37.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It basically depends on what subject interests you.  I work in Perl, so I know a question isn't fully answered until &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8817/brian-d-foy&quot;&gt;Brian D Foy&lt;/a&gt; has chipped in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:48:37.340" />
  <row Id="2591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2557" CreationDate="2009-07-05T19:50:44.993" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if they never post a single answer, somebody asking (reasonable, original) questions is &lt;strong&gt;hugely productive&lt;/strong&gt; to the site... otherwise we'd be sat their looking silly while we chew the cud here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re &quot;locked&quot; accounts; actually, many of the (few) people who have been suspended at some point are regular, &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt;-constructive users. In the case of total trolling/spamming, there are more... &quot;immediate&quot; fixes than suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't consider involvement on &quot;meta&quot; a critical measure of their benefit on SO. I fully expect the number of regular meta users to be a tiny fraction of the SO users; that doesn't in &lt;strong&gt;any way&lt;/strong&gt; mean that the people who just stay on SO are less important. For example, I wouldn't expect to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt; on meta (although he does have a parked account), but on SO he is a &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; asset to the C# fraternity (i.e. pretty much &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt; his answers on C# are correct).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T19:50:44.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2594" CreationDate="2009-07-05T20:02:18.040" Score="0" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I include &lt;code&gt;code samples&lt;/code&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;within a phrase&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of one of my answer, I find it hard to see that code from the rest of the phrase.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So I like to put quotes around it like that:'&lt;code&gt;code sample&lt;/code&gt;', or double-quotes: &quot;&lt;code&gt;code sample&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since we already have a shortcut to put a text as code sample (&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;), I would like to reuse that shortcut in order to put quotes around it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would mean the following phrase:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;my clever answer with a code sample function() call in it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would become, &lt;strong&gt;with 'code sample function()' highlighted&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;my clever answer with a &lt;code&gt;code sample function()&lt;/code&gt; call in it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(just like today)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;second&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;my clever answer with a &quot;&lt;code&gt;code sample function()&lt;/code&gt;&quot; call in it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(oh! I see now you function() call)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;third&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;my clever answer with a '&lt;code&gt;code sample function()&lt;/code&gt;' call in it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(a more subtle way to signal the code sample part of the phrase)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fourth&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;my clever answer with a code sample function() call in it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(back to normal, no more &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; around the text, just like today, and you can then repeat the cycle)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tested it in my own WMD version and it works great (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2593/how-about-quoted-code-samples/2594#2594&quot;&gt;my answer below&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But before bugging &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/u/Dana.E.Robinson/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dana.E.Robinson&lt;/a&gt; with a patch, I would like to see what the community thinks about this proposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:09:10.230" Title="How about *quoted* code samples?" Tags="&lt;editor&gt;&lt;quote&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2009-07-05T20:02:47.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To test the cyclic &quot;code sample auto-quoting&quot; effect of &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; for yourself, just:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;install Git (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;msysgit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the Windows users)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;type &quot;&lt;code&gt;git clone &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/derobins/wmd/tree/master&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot;: it will create a wmd directory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;open &quot;&lt;code&gt;wmd/wmd.js&lt;/code&gt;&quot; in an editor and replace within the function &quot;&lt;code&gt;command.doCode()&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;chunk.findTags(/`/, /`/);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;chunk.findTags(/[\&quot;']`|`/, /`[\&quot;']|`/);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;else{&#xA;    chunk.startTag = chunk.endTag=&quot;&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;		else{&#xA;			if(chunk.startTag == &quot;`&quot;){&#xA;				chunk.startTag = &quot;\&quot;`&quot;;&#xA;				chunk.endTag = &quot;`\&quot;&quot;;&#xA;			}&#xA;			else if(chunk.startTag == &quot;\&quot;`&quot;){&#xA;				chunk.startTag = &quot;'`&quot;;&#xA;				chunk.endTag = &quot;`'&quot;;&#xA;			}&#xA;			else{&#xA;				chunk.startTag = chunk.endTag=&quot;&quot;;&#xA;			}&#xA;		}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;open wmd-test.html, and start typing a few character, then repeatedly &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T20:02:47.337" />
  <row Id="2595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="354" CreationDate="2009-07-05T20:03:31.983" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Good news&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now available as a moderator-only function, thanks (as always) to Jeff and the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So; if you have a need to merge two (or more) tags, please propose it here on &quot;meta&quot; (so it can be discussed etc), stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;which site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;which &lt;strong&gt;master&lt;/strong&gt; tag (the one to keep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;which tag or tags to migrate and delete&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;if appropriate&lt;/strong&gt; it will enacted by a moderator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reduce the scope for error, I would anticipate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a grace period (to allow discussion/disagreement along the &quot;no they're very different&quot; lines)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a question back on the affected site (tagged with all the tags involved) along the lines of &quot;tag-merge proposed [link]: are these the same thing?&quot;, so that the people who know those areas have visibility (the moderators can't necessarily be expected to know the area(s) well enough to directly approve/veto the merge)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T20:30:19.003" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T20:30:19.003" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2009-07-05T20:04:45.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a different preference for how code-in-text could be formatted: change the background colour for that section of the text too. That's a lot clearer than quotes in my view, as well as not interfering with code which &lt;em&gt;uses&lt;/em&gt; quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T20:04:45.850" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="2599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="666" CreationDate="2009-07-05T20:20:42.443" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this, it would help me keep up with responses to my questions.  Plenty of other sites use the token method without any problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd especially like to see this implemented in tandem with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;this suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, so I'd know when someone has responded to a comment I left somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T20:20:42.443" />
  <row Id="2600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2009-07-05T20:24:21.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested something similar on Uservoice, which was declined with no explanation: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/111313-use-background-color-for-inline-code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Use background color for inline code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've noticed that inline code (using either the code tag or backticks) is hard to differentiate from regular text. Can you add a light background-color to code tags so that they stand out a little more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T20:24:21.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2593" CreationDate="2009-07-05T20:58:16.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may be misunderstanding, but I dislike the idea of putting quotes around code.. It reminds me of all the times I've had to say &quot;No, type it without the quotes..&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the &lt;code&gt;inline code&lt;/code&gt; could be made more visually distinct from regular text? Something like..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6416/picture9jqi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Border around code tag&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;blockquote p code{&#xA;    border:1px dashed #C8C8C8;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2737/code-coloring-for-inline-code-in-answers&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson's question &quot;Code-Coloring for Inline-Code in Answers&quot;&lt;/a&gt; which would achieve the same thing: enable syntax highlighting for inline code, the same regular code blocks. The different colours would stand out from the rest of the text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T14:09:10.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:09:10.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2009-07-05T21:11:45.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Questions+Answers/Comments&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much non rep earning activity is the user willing to participate in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't remove this (then the comments won't make sense) but I acknowledge that it is deeply flawed: &#xA;&quot;You could also look at Wiki questions and answers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastEditorUserId="3819" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T22:06:31.673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T22:06:31.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2612" CreationDate="2009-07-05T21:25:28.730" Score="0" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2593/how-about-quoted-code-samples&quot;&gt;&quot;quoted code&quot;&lt;/a&gt; question, but is more to do with something I just remembered is a bit of a pain. Often, when I quote a method or class name, I'll link to the documentation, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Interestingly, .NET's &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.interlocked.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Interlocked&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; class didn't gain a &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.interlocked.read.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Read&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; method&#xA;  until .NET 2.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing this involves typing the name of the class/method, then selecting it and hitting Ctrl-K, then &lt;em&gt;reselecting&lt;/em&gt; it to include the back ticks, then hitting Ctrl-L. It's a bit of a palaver. Any chance we could have a single keyboard shortcut to do both bits in a single hit? (So it would pop up the URL dialog, but the text would already be in a code font.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:05:18.123" Title="Keyboard shortcut for &quot;code font link&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-05T21:34:10.253" Score="4" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Migrated from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/217722-produce-a-keyboard-shortcut-overlay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this UserVoice request&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just been trying to find a list of WMD keyboard shortcuts - and I can't see one. There's the formatting reference, but I can't see a keyboard shortcut list. Obviously this &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be addressed as a FAQ entry, but there's a better way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google Reader has a very nice feature whereby if you hit &quot;?&quot; while you're not editing anything else, an overlay pops up with all the keyboard shortcuts. Obviously we couldn't use &quot;?&quot; in quite the same way, but even just a little &quot;keyboard&quot; button next to the help button at the top right of the edit box would be a reasonable trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be particularly useful for any shortcuts which &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; map directly to buttons. There may not be many (or even any) now, but I can imagine some possibilities, particularly if other feature requests are accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:45:52.087" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:45:52.087" Title="Keyboard shortcut overlay" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2557" CreationDate="2009-07-05T21:43:10.623" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you really want to know, why don't you download the database dump and examine it. You'll probably find all you want to know and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those without the means or inclination to do so, I'll share my findings. I wrote a query that would scan order users by their question:answer ratio. So as to not point fingers, I haven't included the user IDs, but seeing as this data is &lt;em&gt;publicly available&lt;/em&gt;, it's not exactly a big secret who these people are. (note that this is the data from the last dump, which is now over a month old)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ratio   rep     #qs    #as&#xA;139.0   3556    278     2   &#xA;137.0   1041    137     1&#xA;111.0   566     111     1&#xA;78.0    491     78      1&#xA;60.66   886     182     3&#xA;36.0    1106    36      1&#xA;35.0    237     35      1&#xA;35.0    830     35      1&#xA;34.0    461     34      1&#xA;30.0    340     30      1&#xA;29.0    1102    29      1&#xA;29.0    293     29      1&#xA;28.0    242     28      1&#xA;27.0    426     27      1&#xA;26.0    118     26      1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has no answers, their question:answer ratio will be infinite, so I had to query them separately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#qs   rep&#xA;134   1169&#xA;98    678&#xA;66    292&#xA;59    509&#xA;57    874&#xA;49    958&#xA;47    558&#xA;44    463&#xA;40    461&#xA;39    548&#xA;39    193&#xA;34    173&#xA;30    79&#xA;30    141&#xA;29    1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at this data, I think that this 'problem' is way overblown. The maximum rep that appears here is 3556, which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; that high (all things considered).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T22:06:17.790" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T22:06:17.790" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="2611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2563" CreationDate="2009-07-05T21:56:33.227" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly believe that you ratio of answers to questions is incredibly important and should be used more often as a metric along with reputation in determining who should be promoted to new privileges. This would stop users from asking hundreds of questions and no real answers from achieving enough reputation to be given mod abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T21:56:33.227" />
  <row Id="2612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2605" CreationDate="2009-07-05T21:59:06.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link first, then mark as code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type function name / keyword&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select symbol&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt;, enter URL. Linkify shortcut leaves link text selected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T21:59:06.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2614" CreationDate="2009-07-05T22:21:58.923" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2606/tag-merge-request-php5-into-php/2610#2610&quot;&gt;these comments&lt;/a&gt;.. Basically wondering if there's a way to find all &lt;code&gt;php5&lt;/code&gt; questions without the &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you search for &lt;code&gt;[php5] -[php]&lt;/code&gt; it goes to..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/-php php5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..which returns results with the &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; tag (wrong), but if I manually correct the URL to..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php5 -php&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..it works perfectly (I removed &lt;code&gt;%20&lt;/code&gt; from the URL for clarity)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:22:22.367" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T00:47:23.853" Title="Search for questions with tagA, but not tagB?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2613" CreationDate="2009-07-05T22:31:27.247" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The order in which you place the tags matters. If you're searching for questions tagged A and not B, you'll need to put the A before the -B in the search URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php5%20-php&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php5 -php&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the search exhibits bugish behavior when you place the negative term first, it's possible this is by design. Consider a search for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php5%20-php&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/-this-tag-doesnt-exist&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;code&gt;this-tag-doesnt-exist&lt;/code&gt; doesn't exist, then that query would have to return all the questions in the system, a (potentially) costly operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, however, a bug in the display of the negated tag. Here's how it's supposed to look, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;according to the blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-tagged-not-clause.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, here's how it actually looks in my browser (notice the missing &quot;not&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/ZbkG2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T00:47:23.853" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T00:47:23.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2616" CreationDate="2009-07-05T22:53:30.610" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;What constitutes a (good|acceptable|worth-developing) feature-request? It seems as though I see many people requesting things, myself included, which are quickly met with &quot;nah, the so-team shouldn't waste their time on that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears as though if you are capable of hacking your own solution together for yourself, using special style-sheets, greasemonkey, 3rd-party apps, screen-scapers, etc., you shouldn't pester the SO-Team with a feature-idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question will help me, and others, determine what would be a &quot;good&quot; request in the future. It'll keep us from posting things that the community thinks is worthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-05T23:14:11.947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T03:22:09.020" Title="Criteria for Feature-Requests" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;meta-faq&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2615" CreationDate="2009-07-05T22:55:37.047" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are different classifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature requests which are invalid due to them not being good ideas&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature requests which are invalid due to them not being worth the time to develop&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature requests which are invalid due to the solution already being readily available outside of StackOverflow (such as through a popular web browser extension).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature requests which are good but unlikely due to the cost/benefit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature requests which are good but unlikely to be implemented for some time&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature requests which are good and likely to be implemented in fast time frame (such as bug fixes when they are discovered).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T22:55:37.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2605" CreationDate="2009-07-05T23:06:41.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a overly specific thing to add a keyboard shortcut for (we'll end up turning WMD into a javascript-based emacs!..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not much typing to add the &lt;code&gt;[``]()&lt;/code&gt; around &quot;Interlocked&quot; by hand - Markdown is pretty terse..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T23:06:41.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2585" CreationDate="2009-07-05T23:26:16.443" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want this, use &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitterfeed.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitterfeed.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://rsstotwitter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rsstotwitter.com/&lt;/a&gt; and your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/130154&quot;&gt;&quot;user feed&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also related, there is a third-party &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackalert&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackalert twitter bot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I dislike this idea, Twitter is already noisy enough without encouraging lots of auto-generated posts.. &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/isnotrss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/isnotrss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-05T23:26:16.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2615" CreationDate="2009-07-06T01:49:01.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's an excellent question and TheTXI outlines several good categories.  I think the &quot;official&quot; response for this is waiting on the moderator-only tags to come out for Jeff to put together some sort of handbook for assigning categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T01:49:01.857" />
  <row Id="2620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13315" CreationDate="2009-07-06T02:23:17.540" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;What information do you think is missing from the community data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands I think the current data dump contains most of the information we need. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T12:12:06.527" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T20:24:57.493" Title="What information is missing from the SO community dump?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-data&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2625" CreationDate="2009-07-06T02:30:56.573" Score="11" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user is the type of person to consecutively get downvoted to potential negative reputation, so be it. What's the reasoning to maintain a minimum of one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason that may justify this is of trying to not deter new users from the site whom haven't read the FAQ and unknowingly and wrongly ask or answer a question. But most of us acknowledge this and not downvote in such a scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the reasoning behind this lower bound?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23107" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T08:01:00.670" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T16:08:56.297" Title="Why does reputation have a lower bound of 1?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2009-07-06T02:34:11.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many nuclear reactors are controlled by software. This has not generally been necessary in the United States where enriched fuel permits a physically small but high power reactor. Any reactor that is physically large with a longer neutron lifetime is generally software controlled. The CANDU reactor is one example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is nothing new - computer control of reactors goes back to the early 1960s and I seem to recall that the PDP-5 was designed with this purpose specifically in mind. The IBM 1800, Varian 72 and PDP 11 are all currently used as reactor control computers. Typically the actual control is done from assembly language code without an intervening operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All safety critical software undergoes a rigorous categorization and qualification process. There are both national and international standards than must be adhered to (can't recall the standard numbers offhand). The software involved is typically not huge - maybe a couple hundred thousand lines. Due to the qualification process any safety-critical code is extraordinarily expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T02:34:11.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2009-07-06T02:49:57.273" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the real reason, so I'll wildly speculate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet forced them to use an unsigned int.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So nobody just creates another account if their rep went below the starting point (1). This cuts down on a bunch of zombie accounts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The StackOverflow team believes that everybody's special in their own way and doesn't deserve to have a negative self-esteem (aka reputation).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose whichever explanation you find best suits you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T02:49:57.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2009-07-06T02:50:59.507" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow team believes that everybody's special in their own way and doesn't deserve to have a negative self-esteem (aka reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This. A rep of zero or negative seemed cruel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, everyone starts out as &quot;a one&quot; instead of &quot;a zero&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T02:50:59.507" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T03:10:55.277" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed what seemed to be a bug in the way the stackoverflow editor handles numbered lists. I did a search on meta for this and it didn't come up, but if it is a duplicate, I'll delete the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Here are some points:&#xA;&#xA;1. One&#xA;2. Two&#xA;3. Three&#xA;&#xA;Here are some more points which continue the theme:&#xA;&#xA;4. Four&#xA;5. Five&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you actually type this into the text editor, this is the result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some more points which continue the theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Four&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Five&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the ordered list resets after the break. This is probably just an edge case (and not necessarily worth fixing), but I ran into the problem today and figured this would be a good place to raise the topic! My workaround was to use back-ticks around the numeral, but then you lose the hanging indent. (ie, &lt;code&gt;1.&lt;/code&gt; One)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might this be worth fixing? Is it expected behavior? Or am I doing it wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T16:47:04.287" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:47:47.247" Title="Bug in editor for numbered lists?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="2628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2627" CreationDate="2009-07-06T03:21:08.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it should use whatever number you want to start at and increment from there. How many people have had their &quot;all lists start at 0&quot; crusades thwarted by SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T03:21:08.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2615" CreationDate="2009-07-06T03:22:09.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember, though, that plans are afoot for community SO implementations, possibly for non-IT audiences (I have seen mention of a DIY-based StackExchange) where it's not ideal to require suggest a greasemonkey solution to an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T03:22:09.020" />
  <row Id="2631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T03:24:16.837" Score="12" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to view the number of users online at any given time (or even an approximation)?  This could be really useful to provide an indication of whether your question is likely to get answered any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also provide a bit of an indication for why your question is getting very low views - if there are only a few users online, then that could be the reason for little interest in a question, whereas if there are lots of users online and the question still doesn't garner many views, then maybe it needs to be rephrased or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that this can't be used definitively, but it could be used as a rough guide, and could also just be an item of interest.  Perhaps it could show the number of users that have been seen in the past 5 / 10 minutes? (Shouldn't be too hard, since each user page already shows the last time that they were seen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T13:54:47.840" Title="View approximate number of users online" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-count&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T03:28:06.087" Score="12" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228462/how-can-a-question-or-answer-be-deleted&quot;&gt;deleted answer FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, if you delete your own answer, and that answer was upvoted, you lose the rep you gained from that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you don't &lt;em&gt;gain&lt;/em&gt; the rep you lost from a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, is that a good thing? As you've probably already guess, this happened to me today! I posted an answer which had a logic error. Someone downvoted it, left a comment about why, and I said &quot;oh snap! They're right!&quot; and deleted my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now I have this quandary. I made an honest mistake, and someone told me about it, and, and, I deleted my answer like a decent person!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is: on the one hand, one could post a wrong answer (or an answer which demonstrates a user is untrustworthy), the user could catch their mistake, delete it, but still be stuck with the penalty. In this light, it seems kind of unfair, the user should get their rep back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, giving the rep back would really get diminish an incentive &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to post bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flipside, if a post that people &lt;em&gt;liked&lt;/em&gt; was deleted, why should that user be penalized (in a sense) by having that reputation lost - since prior to deletion, their post had earned the trust of another user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: is it worth reconsidering the way reputation is handled when deleting questions? I kinda want to say (because of my traumatizing experience today) that it might be worth trying giving reputation back to deleted answers - if we feel that answers are usually deleted because the poster wanted to clarify a mistake. Is this a bad idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T23:25:55.103" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T14:26:16.783" Title="Reedem reputation for deleted negative answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="2634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4198" CreationDate="2009-07-06T03:54:24.920" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's too easy to mistakenly tap upvote and downvote buttons on the iPhone. I suggest asking for confirmation for any kind of voting action performed on the iPhone's Mobile Safari. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T17:13:15.990" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:00:02.920" Title="Please ask for confirmation when voting on iPhone" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2009-07-06T03:58:57.303" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would certainly like to be notified if someone posts a comment after a comment I posted, on either a question or an answer. Sometimes some very useful discussions can happen in comments. But often a potentially useful discussion is cut short because an earlier commenter isn't aware of the new comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, there isn't even a good way to check manually, is there, apart from manually looking up recent threads that I found interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60075" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T03:58:57.303" />
  <row Id="2637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:01:42.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's not ideal to permanently punish your logic error. Could you instead have fixed the error? You'd probably get at least one upvote which would more than counter a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a good idea to give back rep lost that way, for exactly the reason you give:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;giving the rep back would really get&#xA;  diminish an incentive not to post bad&#xA;  answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how it would be possible to implement without that negative side-effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, regarding this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the flipside, if a post that people&#xA;  liked was deleted, why should that&#xA;  user be penalized (in a sense) by&#xA;  having that reputation lost - since&#xA;  prior to deletion, their post had&#xA;  earned the trust of another user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting good posts should certainly be discouraged! If it's not deleted, even more people can benefit from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:01:42.980" />
  <row Id="2638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:16:35.600" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the next time reputation is recalculated it's as if the deleted item never existed.  So you &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; get back rep lost due to a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:16:35.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2646" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:17:33.900" Score="3" ViewCount="439" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are situations where the questions are not-so-good idea or a bit questionable. For a hypothetical example, let's say someone asks &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's the cheapest way to Elbonia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could answer this literally involving parachutes, or warn the questioner that there's an outbreak of monkey flu in Elbonia, which doesn't directly answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In SO, there may be similar situation where one asks &quot;How can I do XXX using YYY?&quot; and someone starts to question the question itself and answer back &quot;Don't use YYY, use ZZZ.&quot; (ZZZ may be Eclipse, Python, MVC pattern, etc..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like the reactions of the voters are inconsistent on these &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/12/06.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rosh Gadol&lt;/a&gt; (in Joel's words) answers. Sometimes they are upvoted by many and accepted, other times they are heavily downvoted. The same sometimes goes for literal answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, should the answerer question the intent of the questions? Or should one assume that the questioner knows what he or she is talking about, including the fact that there is monkey flu in Elbonia? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2010-12-21T21:39:51.133" Title="Should one answer the questionable questions literally or try to look at the big pictures?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="2640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2627" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:19:48.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like there's currently no way to distinguish between two separate lists, and one list with an un-numbered paragraph in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you indent the mid-list paragraph...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;test&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indented paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;test&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:19:48.607" />
  <row Id="2641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:23:47.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make him invisible to the rest of the site.  He posts something, it looks like it's there on his end, but no one else sees it.  Then he's less likely to create a new account, so you won't have to keep finding the new one.  And when people ignore him he's likely to just get bored and go away anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:23:47.603" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:26:04.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If reputation wouldn't hurt by simply deleting the answer, what's stopping the trolls from typing asdfasdfasdf or insulting someone and deleting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:26:04.263" />
  <row Id="2645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:36:16.810" Score="121" ViewCount="817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would really like to see all of my questions and answers on the profile page, even if some of them were deleted, and I don't have enough rep to see them on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that some questions are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year&quot;&gt;automatically deleted&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;after 30 days or 1 year&lt;/em&gt;, and the author might be oblivious about what happened.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T22:41:36.357" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T22:41:36.357" Title="Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="2646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2639" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:44:29.217" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that the best method is a combination of the two.  Offer the questioner some advice about the best way to do it, but then also try to provide some insight into the way that they are asking it.  This insight may help to show them just why the way they want to do it is not the best, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would advise you not to go to Elbonia because there is an outbreak of monkey flu there.  However, if you know for a fact that you do &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to go to Elbonia, then I would suggest using a parachute.  Note that if you do use this method, you run the risk of landing on a monkey and thereby catching the afore-mentioned monkey flu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:44:29.217" />
  <row Id="2647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53285" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:52:20.747" Score="9" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a stupid question and I know the answer but if you have such a good way to do formatting in questions/answers why it's not used for &quot;about me&quot; section on profile page? Looks easy to make and adds just a little bit more consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T07:05:03.133" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T07:05:42.463" Title="Why is &quot;About me&quot; field in profile is not markdown enabled?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1672" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:53:59.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to see this. It would definitely help me when searching for things such as &quot;ssrs&quot; and all of its sub-tags like ssrs2005 and ssrs2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:53:59.590" />
  <row Id="2649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2647" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:55:04.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has limited HTML capabilities such as bolding, italics, line breaks, h1 through h3's, and lists. I know there are more allowed tags but I can't remember where to find them. Links and images are also allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view my profile as an example of the limited html capabilities (I have bolding, line breaks, lists, images, and links all throughout).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:55:04.190" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64340" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:57:49.507" Score="4" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to spread the word on Stack Overflow awesomeness whenever I get a chance. How about providing a &quot;Recruiter badge&quot; which you obtain when you've managed to get XX (10, 50 or 100) number of people to sign up &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; they reach a certain level of reputation like 50 or 100... something to indicate they’re active on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is basically a simple referral scheme: when you sign up, you can enter the ID of the SO user who was kind enough to tell you about the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To all the downvoters: don't we want to reward behaviour that benefits the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10932" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-13T07:55:22.210" LastActivityDate="2010-09-13T07:55:43.120" Title="Implement a recruiter badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2639" CreationDate="2009-07-06T04:59:27.677" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is obvious that someone is trying to do something that they shouldn't be doing, it should be considered an obligation to set them down the correct path by informing them of the errors of their ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you should attempt to acquiesce to their requests by providing them an answer if possible. If every time someone comes to this site and makes a request and someone tries to turn them in a different direction, it may be likely that they themselves will turn in a different direction and never bother returning to SO because it will appear as if nobody really wants to answer anything they ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T04:59:27.677" />
  <row Id="2653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2651" CreationDate="2009-07-06T05:00:39.673" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would definitely allow for people to game the system to get the badge by creating a lot of zombie accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your rep limit would HAVE to be larger than 50 or 100 because it is EXTREMELY simple to get that high by just posting some sarcastic wit here and there (believe me, I know!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T05:00:39.673" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2634" CreationDate="2009-07-06T05:02:28.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a lot of ways I want to agree with this...it can be frustrating...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand I have to wonder if this is a case of the solution being too much bother to develop when you could simply say to the iPhone user &quot;Hey...maybe you should zoom in on your screen a bit more to separate the up and down vote arrows.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T05:02:28.453" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2009-07-06T05:07:19.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not agree that deleting a question should regain the negative votes. I also believe that deleting a question should delete the rep gained from it as well. This is why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you delete an answer, you are making a conscious decision that the answer is not worth it's current place in StackOverflow. To me this counts as a forfeiture of your reputation in both losing the upvotes and keeping the downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the answer you are deleting happens to be a mistake, I believe you should live with the consequences that mistake brought. Either keep it there and let it get downvoted, or delete it and live with the minor repercussions early on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T05:07:19.037" />
  <row Id="2656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2639" CreationDate="2009-07-06T05:31:17.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always try firstly to answer the question directly however if I notice they are going about things in a sub optimal or non standard way I tend to include an N.B section and show them how I would approach the solution. This lets them make a choice without knocking their original approach.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T05:31:17.750" />
  <row Id="2657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T05:54:53.790" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you do a search and come up with nothing, there are a bunch of search suggestions, such as surrounding your search in quotes or using Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also include links to search the other affialiated sites. So if I was to search for 'hot chipset action' and it was to return nothing (which, unsurprisingly, it does) I would get something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/search?q=hot+chipset+action&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;hot chipset action&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/search?q=hot+chipset+action&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;hot chipset action&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T18:00:54.707" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:00:54.707" Title="Should link to other SO sites when searches don't pan out" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2009-07-06T06:06:41.830" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than providing alternative search links, why not just do the searches?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;No results were found on StackOverflow, but your search matched the following questions on ServerFault and SuperUser...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each site would have to be configured with a set of &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; sibling sites (so that cookingoverflow.com didn't search SO, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T06:06:41.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2627" CreationDate="2009-07-06T06:33:12.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually a &quot;feature&quot; of Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;be sure to test things in the babelfish markdown parser engine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T06:33:12.027" />
  <row Id="2660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2661" CreationDate="2009-07-06T06:40:11.153" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not find in meta.so.com a syndication feed for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the questions, only for the tags. Since meta has much less traffic than &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/684/is-there-a-way-to-get-an-rss-feed-of-all-new-questions&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;, it would be sensible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to follow stackoverflow.uservoice this way and I miss this feature. Any solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:15:54.777" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:16:18.740" Title="Syndication feed for the whole Meta site?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2660" CreationDate="2009-07-06T06:43:04.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/&lt;/a&gt; ? That looks about right. Admittedly I only found it be experimentation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T06:43:04.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:00:23.563" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My advice to the community: just &lt;strong&gt;flag them as spam or in need of moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;. Don't waste a downvote - we'll get to it if you flag it. Perhaps add a comment &quot;flagged for deletion&quot; or similar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think I've deleted at least 6 instances of this user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just 6? I think I usually destroy a handful of these accounts &lt;strong&gt;each week&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The behaviour is pathetic, and barely even a nuisance - but I seriously wonder what they get out of it. If they hope they are being annoying, they're very wrong; it takes 2 clicks (on a single page) for the community to flag the posts, and the same for me to destroy any and all activity from each account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T07:09:02.963" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:09:02.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2660" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:01:09.240" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feed for all questions is offered in the URL bar (of a modern browser at least) when you visit the frontpage &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL is indeed h t t p : / / m e t a . s t a c k o v e r f l o w . c o m / f e e d s/.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I'd expect, but of course it would not hurt to advertise this feature more prominently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111786" LastEditorUserId="111786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T07:22:02.840" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:22:02.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2660" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:06:52.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the homepage, scroll to the bottom, and look for the RSS icon -- it's there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the homepage and list by tag pages have individual RSS feeds for each tab now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:16:18.740" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:16:18.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:17:10.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An interesting idea, but I wonder how large the (useful) crossover is... most of the things I'd be interested in would be pretty specific to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:17:10.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:20:09.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as there are unattainable items in a collection of desirable items, you will always have to deal with complaints about this.  The more badges that are restricted due to literally impossible criteria, the more complaints you will field from the userbase.  Adding more (or adding back) &lt;em&gt;literally impossible to get&lt;/em&gt; badges will increase this noise and eventually put strain on the system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really it comes down to a choice of living with the occasional beefing about unattainable badges, or doing away with all of them so you don't have to hear it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO it's fine where it is, but I wouldn't want to see more badges added with this kind of criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:20:09.147" />
  <row Id="2668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2669" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:29:19.607" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the view where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=month&quot;&gt;questions with most activity and interest in this month&lt;/a&gt; are displayed.&#xA;At the bottom right corner of every question it shows something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;2h ago User Name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this is the time of the last modification and the user who modified the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question in the list is closed for quite a while now, but it shows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;2h ago  some user&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this keeps changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can this happen when the question is closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T07:39:22.487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:39:22.487" Title="Possible bug in last activity display" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:33:50.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People can still edit existing answers... I expect this is what happened to bump this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure enough, glancing at the recent history of the user attributed on the &quot;hottest questions&quot; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2h revised  What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?&#xA;            deleted 65 characters in body&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:33:50.423" />
  <row Id="2670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2639" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:37:40.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has become clear to me in the past year that there are a lot of people being given software development jobs who should not have them. There are also a lot of people who are being given jobs to do that are well out of their current reach. In both cases, the people I'm referring to have learned what they currently know through non-traditional paths, especially Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These paths may have taught them utter nonsense, as Google returns the good with the bad, and many of these people do not have the experience to judge between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My (least-)favorite case is .NET developers who Google for &quot;web service security&quot;, then decide they need to use WSE because those are the articles that show up in the search. Bing is no better, and shows &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480545.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Web Service Security Patterns - Community Technical Preview &lt;/a&gt; as the first search hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a disservice to such users to give them any information about WSE until you're certain they really do want to use it. Same with other stupid ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once they decide they want to do it, go ahead and help them to the best of your ability, but you're not helping by helping them do the wrong thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:37:40.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-06T07:56:05.130" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possibility is that its not a troll at all, but a spammer testing the waters with automated/semi-automated tools (in the same way email spammers sometimes send non-spam email to test what's getting through filters)... My reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're posting pseudo nonsense, but using vaguely relevant sounding words (maybe testing what sort of content an &quot;acceptable&quot; post needs to contain to slip under the moderator radar)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're posting links off the site (if they're aiming to start spamming they're going to want links, so they need to test messages that contain links. Also could be testing what kind of links get more/less attention - eg. using tinyurl type url shrinking services to hide the true endpoint).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're persistent, yet don't exhibit traditional troll-like behaviour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You said you can't pin down the IP address, so it could be coming from a botnet or similar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm just brewing unnecessary conspiracy theories, but just something else to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More likely though, its one of the new breed of more subtle trolls that attack sites like wikipedia and make subtly wrong edits because they get off, not on intentionally annoying people, but on the knowledge that they're tricking people into believing incorrect information or sending them on wild goose chases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way I think the other answers here have the best (only?) solution, which is to just keep on dealing with it as it comes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T07:56:05.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2673" CreationDate="2009-07-06T08:02:44.863" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;under the link &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1084476/xml-string-manipulation-in-js&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1084476/xml-string-manipulation-in-js&lt;/a&gt; a single answer is under community wiki while the rest are not (the lower one in the image)...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7946/bugm.gif&quot; alt=&quot;bug&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48317" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:20:59.623" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T05:20:59.623" Title="a single answer is under community wiki while the rest is not" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2672" CreationDate="2009-07-06T08:05:33.483" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, when posting an answer, there's a &quot;Community wiki&quot; checkbox for making that particular answer CW, even if the whole question is not. I believe this is not a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the answerer thought that he doesn't need to get rep for that specific answer, or wanted to make it more easily editable for the community. Or he simply misunderstood what Community wiki meant. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T08:05:33.483" />
  <row Id="2675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2315" CreationDate="2009-07-06T08:14:43.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thought: how would you handle multiple edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initial answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Significant update (reason &quot;more research found&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Significant update (reason &quot;added test results&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minor update (reason &quot;typo&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should the reason box/tooltip show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43452" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T08:14:43.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2677" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T08:47:58.920" Score="32" ViewCount="2157" Body="&lt;p&gt;The data dumps are currently released once a month. Over time as new features are introduced to Stack Exchange sites and other bits of data added, the 'anatomy' of the data dump is likely to change. What is the current structure of the public data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A copy of the data dump can be obtained from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Stack Overflow Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/RPQYc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTTP Archive&lt;/a&gt; of data dump files by date (maintained by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2961/stu-thompson&quot;&gt;Stu Thompson&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T22:58:45.767" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T04:08:21.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T08:47:58.920" Title="Database schema documentation for the public data dump and Data Explorer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;data-explorer&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="59" />
  <row Id="2678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2677" CreationDate="2009-07-06T08:48:10.247" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;January 2011&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;+--- badges.xml&#xA;|     - Id&#xA;|     - UserId, e.g.: &quot;420&quot;&#xA;|     - Name, e.g.: &quot;Teacher&quot; &#xA;|     - Date, e.g.: &quot;2008-09-15T08:55:03.923&quot; &#xA;|&#xA;+--- comments.xml&#xA;|     - Id&#xA;|     - PostId&#xA;|     - Score (Only present if score &gt; 0) &#xA;|     - Text, e.g.: &quot;@Stu Thompson: What a horrible idea, you clueless git!&quot; &#xA;|     - CreationDate, e.g.:&quot;2008-09-06T08:07:10.730&quot; &#xA;|     - UserId (Optional.  Absent if user has been deleted?)&#xA;|&#xA;+--- posts.xml&#xA;|     - Id &#xA;|     - PostTypeId&#xA;|        - 1: Question&#xA;|        - 2: Answer&#xA;|        - 3: Tag wiki&#xA;|     - ParentID (only present if PostTypeId is 2)&#xA;|     - AcceptedAnswerId (only present if PostTypeId is 1)&#xA;|     - CreationDate &#xA;|     - Score &#xA;|     - ViewCount&#xA;|     - Body &#xA;|     - OwnerUserId (present only if user has not been deleted; always -1&#xA;|       for tag wiki entries (i.e., the community user owns them)) &#xA;|     - LastEditorUserId &#xA;|     - LastEditorDisplayName=&quot;Rich B&quot; &#xA;|     - LastEditDate=&quot;2009-03-05T22:28:34.823&quot; - the date and time of the&#xA;|       most recent edit to the post&#xA;|     - LastActivityDate=&quot;2009-03-11T12:51:01.480&quot; - the date and time of&#xA;|       the most recent activity on the post. For a question, this could&#xA;|       be the post being edited, a new answer was posted, a bounty was&#xA;|       started, etc.&#xA;|     - CommunityOwnedDate (present only if post is community wikied)&#xA;|     - Title&#xA;|     - Tags&#xA;|     - AnswerCount&#xA;|     - CommentCount&#xA;|     - FavoriteCount&#xA;|     - ClosedDate (present only if the post is closed)&#xA;|&#xA;+--- users.xml&#xA;|     - Id &#xA;|     - Reputation &#xA;|     - CreationDate &#xA;|     - DisplayName &#xA;|     - EmailHash&#xA;|     - LastAccessDate &#xA;|     - WebsiteUrl &#xA;|     - Location&#xA;|     - Age &#xA;|     - AboutMe &#xA;|     - Views &#xA;|     - UpVotes &#xA;|     - DownVotes&#xA;|&#xA;+--- votes.xml &#xA;|    - Id &#xA;|     - PostId &#xA;|     - VoteTypeId&#xA;|        -  1: AcceptedByOriginator&#xA;|        -  2: UpMod&#xA;|        -  3: DownMod&#xA;|        -  4: Offensive&#xA;|        -  5: Favorite (if VoteType = 5, UserId will be populated)&#xA;|        -  6: Close&#xA;|        -  7: Reopen&#xA;|        -  8: BountyStart&#xA;|        -  9: BountyClose&#xA;|        - 10: Deletion&#xA;|        - 11: Undeletion&#xA;|        - 12: Spam&#xA;|        - 13: InformModerator&#xA;|        - 15: ModeratorReview&#xA;|     - UserId (only for VoteTypeId 5)&#xA;|     - BountyAmount (only for VoteTypeId 9)&#xA;|     - CreationDate&#xA;|&#xA;+--- posthistory.xml&#xA;      - Id&#xA;      - PostHistoryTypeId &#xA;         -  1: Initial Title - The first title a question is asked with.&#xA;         -  2: Initial Body - The first raw body text a post is submitted with.&#xA;         -  3: Initial Tags - The first tags a question is asked with.&#xA;         -  4: Edit Title - A question's title has been changed.&#xA;         -  5: Edit Body - A post's body has been changed, the raw text is&#xA;               stored here as markdown.&#xA;         -  6: Edit Tags - A question's tags have been changed.&#xA;         -  7: Rollback Title - A question's title has reverted to a previous&#xA;               version.&#xA;         -  8: Rollback Body - A post's body has reverted to a previous&#xA;               version - the raw text is stored here.&#xA;         -  9: Rollback Tags - A question's tags have reverted to a&#xA;               previous version.&#xA;         - 10: Post Closed - A post was voted to be closed.&#xA;         - 11: Post Reopened - A post was voted to be reopened.&#xA;         - 12: Post Deleted - A post was voted to be removed.&#xA;         - 13: Post Undeleted - A post was voted to be restored.&#xA;         - 14: Post Locked - A post was locked by a moderator.&#xA;         - 15: Post Unlocked - A post was unlocked by a moderator.&#xA;         - 16: Community Owned - A post has become community owned.&#xA;         - 17: Post Migrated - A post was migrated.&#xA;         - 18: Question Merged - A question has had another, deleted question&#xA;               merged into itself.&#xA;         - 19: Question Protected - A question was protected by a moderator&#xA;         - 20: Question Unprotected - A question was unprotected by a moderator&#xA;         - 21: Post Disassociated - An admin removes the OwnerUserId from&#xA;           a post&#xA;         - 22: Question Unmerged - A previously merged question has had its&#xA;              answers and votes restored.   &#xA;      - PostId&#xA;      - RevisionGUID: At times more than one type of history record can be&#xA;        recorded by a single action.  All of these will be grouped using the&#xA;        same RevisionGUID&#xA;      - CreationDate: &quot;2009-03-05T22:28:34.823&quot; &#xA;      - UserId&#xA;      - UserDisplayName: populated if a user has been removed and no longer&#xA;        referenced by user Id&#xA;      - Comment: This field will contain the comment made by the user who&#xA;        edited a post. If PostHistoryTypeId = 10, this field contains the&#xA;        CloseReasonId of the close reason (see below).&#xA;      - Text: A raw version of the new value for a given revision&#xA;         - If PostHistoryTypeId = 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15  this column will&#xA;           contain a JSON encoded string with all users who have voted for&#xA;           the PostHistoryTypeId&#xA;         - If PostHistoryTypeId = 17 this column will contain migration&#xA;           details of either &quot;from &quot; or &quot;to &quot;&#xA;&#xA;      CloseReasonId&#xA;       - 1:  Exact Duplicate&#xA;       - 2:  Off-topic &#xA;       - 3:  Subjective and argumentative&#xA;       - 4:  Not a real question &#xA;       - 7:  Too localized&#xA;       - 20: Noise or pointless (Meta sites only)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-19T04:08:21.420" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T04:08:21.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T08:48:10.247" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2647" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:00:49.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's basically the same HTML that is allowed in questions without the markdown parsing. Since there is not markdown editor attached to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:00:49.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2691" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:05:04.840" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Listening to an old SO podcast, Jeff mentioned that the reputation graph is using a JQuery plugin to do to the charting. I was wondering which JQuery plugin this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11534" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T10:35:25.293" Title="What JQuery lib is used for the reputation graph?" Tags="&lt;jquery&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:05:49.253" Score="5" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember Jeff saying, when they announced Server Fault, that it was going to be possible to move questions between sites. I'd find that feature very nice as since then I've found at least 10 questions on either site that belonged to the other one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6068" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-08T01:32:47.377" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T01:32:47.377" Title="Move questions between Stack Overflow sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:11:40.563" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have 3k rep, you can nominate this by voting close: &quot;belongs on serverfault.com&quot; etc; at 5 votes it is moved by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If needed, a ♦ moderator can do this immediately; so if it is obviously on the wrong site, but in a low traffic tag, consider flagging it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:11:40.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:21:46.703" Score="17" ViewCount="738" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should you respond to &quot;Give me a fish&quot; / RTFM questions? I mean the case where people post questions simply to get someone else to write their code for them, on topics that would usually be the first result on Google if they had taken the effort to search once before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usually I just plug in a link that points them to the right place... and the Google search terms I used if I'm annoyed (aka I do their Google search for them). This is the &quot;teach them to fish&quot; approach.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But given the big and growing SO user-base, these questions usually elicit someone to post an actual code sample &amp;#8212; the &quot;give them a fish&quot; approach.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what the community thinks about this. I'm thinking we're making lazy people even lazier with the latter approach. The person just scrapes the code off the response and into his source and off he goes without being any smarter. The person is going to repeat the same behavior the next time he is stuck. Although I'm fine with people choosing to maintain their intellectual status-quo, is SO encouraging the wrong behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T20:08:16.487" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T20:08:16.487" Title="How should you respond to &quot;Give me a fish&quot; / RTFM questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;" AnswerCount="9" />
  <row Id="2688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:24:51.623" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever else you do; &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; just add a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/cfc75c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lmgtfy&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - it is likely to be both downvoted and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:24:51.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2682" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:34:40.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/flot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;flot.&lt;/a&gt; Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt;, real cool things you can do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:34:40.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:35:19.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to do both: I show them a link, and give them a code sample (maybe not exactly what they need so they can finish it up), with a (hopefully) decent explanation of how the code works so they are aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:35:19.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:42:22.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm with Paolo here. I discourage &quot;RTFM&quot; within responses. I actually ran into a guy yesterday who used that as part of his response and down-voted until he changed it. He later got an up-vote from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was on the DELETE command in SQL, so it really only needed a link to the docs. At times, I'll just post this link - I mean, the person asking the question may be totally fresh to this world, and not even know what a doc is, let alone how to use one - I didn't at one time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user asked &quot;how to translate this code to regular PHP&quot; yesterday. It was a small block, showing an object method being used, but was entirely procedural. I took it anyway, and tried to explain some of the more confusing things, like the ternary operator, and a formatting print statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this world, I don't tend to get upset over &quot;stupid&quot; questions. I just help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:42:22.050" />
  <row Id="2695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2697" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:44:41.140" Score="3" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;s&gt;Markdown&lt;/s&gt; google-code-prettify has some incorrect lexical rules for Java (and possibly other languages.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It correctly identifies this code block from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085832/text-rendering-with-opengl-cant-rotate-text-positioning-not-working-properly&quot;&gt;SO question 1485832&lt;/a&gt; as being written in Java...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Gl.glLoadIdentity();&#xA;float tamaño = texto.Tamaño;&#xA;double tan = texto.Orientacion.Y / texto.Orientacion.X;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but as you can see the syntax highlighting of one of the identifiers is messed up.  I am guessing that it does not consider the non-ASCII character '&lt;code&gt;ñ&lt;/code&gt;' to be part of an identifier, whereas Java itself does consider it to be part of the identifier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:07:47.857" Title="Syntax highlighting and non-ASCII characters" Tags="&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;unicode&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:48:08.900" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that you get a badge (&quot;Peer Pressure&quot;) for deleting a downvoted answer, which may be some consolation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:48:08.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2695" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:50:10.347" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Submit a patch! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We just deployed the latest trunk of prettify.js ; revision 83&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T06:07:47.857" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:07:47.857" />
  <row Id="2698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:51:06.927" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not the individual &quot;give me the answer&quot; question that's a problem. It's the &lt;em&gt;history&lt;/em&gt; of asking the same bad questions over and over that is a problem -- &lt;strong&gt;is the user actually learning, or abusing the system?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:51:06.927" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-06T09:58:17.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Giving a link is OK, but be careful if you give a link to a google query.  If the question becomes popular enough, or the answers good enough, it might end up pointing back to itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T09:58:17.660" />
  <row Id="2700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2701" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:00:36.983" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that are duplicates and triplicates are still asked, even though the automatic &quot;Related Questions&quot; list that appears &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; be showing them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These re-asked questions still get upvotes even after a question has been closed as a duplicate. To further discourage the questions, perhaps prevent upvotes to them after they've been closed? Or transfer the upvotes to the duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this might help meta question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/223129-prevent-upvotes-for-questions-closed-as-duplicates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/223129-prevent-upvotes-for-questions-closed-as-duplicates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:27:21.237" Title="Prevent upvotes for questions closed as duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2700" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:03:21.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are unlikely to do this, because voting is an important axis of expressing disagreement with a closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T10:03:21.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2890" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:03:49.517" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;The revisions list shows when a question was closed and who by but not &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;. This would make it useful to see the complete history of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm talking about the revisions list not the actual page that displays the question. On contentious questions the post can be closed an reopened several times but the reasons are missing from the revisions page. Here are a few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/184618/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/184618/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1003841/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1003841/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/184618/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/184618/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imported from: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/209267-show-why-a-question-was-closed-in-the-revisions-list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/209267-show-why-a-question-was-closed-in-the-revisions-list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T04:34:34.273" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T04:34:34.273" Title="Show why a question was closed in the revisions list" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="193" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:07:02.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think part of the problem is that subjective questions, when answered properly (and yes, it depends on the answer) might be actually helpful and shouldn't be closed. However, argumentative and loaded questions that don't provide a benefit should be closed, if not closed and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What really matters, at least in the more subjective questions, is that the answer doesn't just give a solution, but also explains why this is a good solution and what the drawbacks might be. If I take a question like &quot;What's the best IDE?&quot;, I would expect a few things - (1) the question is in wiki mode, (2) every post is about one IDE and there is only one post per IDE, (2) people who support one IDE upvote and edit the post to add additional pros/cons of their favorite IDE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T10:07:02.943" />
  <row Id="2704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:14:00.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some thoughts ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most institutions that set homework have a policy that submitting answers you can't explain or copying without attribution is grounds for failing the course: either way you'll be no better placed when exams come round. Just copying code or answers to plug in to, for example, Project Euler, seems only to short-change the person who does it. We might view it differently if someone takes a code snippet we wrote, uses it in a project that gets into litigation over patents or copyright or fails in other ways where lawyers get involved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For anything other than a trivial question there is skill in choosing good search terms and selecting a good answer from the ones offered. Defining 'good' is an interesting exercise: finding a code snippet to copy seems no better than having the snippet on SO. My 'good' would be somewhere that helps equip a person to deal with this class of question: ideally it gives a pointer to the tools and some insight but then sets the very question the questioner raised but without giving the solution :-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Items found from a search are (likely) to be accessible to the questioner (unless the searches include material that is not available to everyone) whereas print books may not be accessible to a questioner or other readers of the question and its answers. In the long term, though, the book-style approach is likely to be better for the development of the questioner than learning how to cut and paste. The practice of giving references to materials that are not legal to download should be deprecated (even though establishing what is legal in every jurisdiction is not usually possible)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Internet links tend to decay over time. Is it better for SO, for example, to actually include the material (with attribution where appropriate) or refer to it elsewhere. I don't think we undertake to keep our answers up to date as links and technology change&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where a code sample is requested perhaps it should be enough to indicate how to approach the problem, at most giving some pseudocode -- I might go further and suggest code samples should contain (deliberate) errors or omissions or be given in obscure languages (Algol-68 or Coral-66, anyone?) but I suspect an avalanche of downvotes would ensue &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T10:14:00.773" />
  <row Id="2705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2651" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:14:00.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always hate these sorts of rewards, because I tend to recommend websites to people via the front page - I've found they're much less likely to click if I point them to a link that's obviously benefiting me in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also that most of the people that I've recommended it to have already signed up by now...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T10:14:00.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2729" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:15:26.713" Score="53" ViewCount="1292" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you spend a day or more to solve a technical problem and when you finally solve it, you may want to post it on your blog (if you have one) to share with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, most developers doesn't have a lot of time to update their blogs, and that is why personal blogs are not ranked very much in Google/Bing.&#xA;So even if you describe a brilliant idea, chances are that, except a few of your friends, nobody will ever find it. This is a common reason why some developers starts their blogs and soon give up; it is not interesting to write for the community if you have no feedback on your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike your personal blog, Stack Overflow/Server Fault are highly ranked in Google (I wondered much when I saw that question asked on SO just an hour ago appeared on 3rd position in my Google search!), so if your question and answer are valuable for others, they will be rated and will be visible for other developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having this in mind, is it a good practice to post a question and answer it yourself immediately on Stack Overflow/Server Fault when you want to share your idea with the community? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T21:43:23.170" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T21:43:23.170" Title="Posting and answering questions you have already found the answer to" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="18" />
  <row Id="2707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:17:48.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be ok for a few occasions. But piggybacking on the system would be frowned upon I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the users of whatever system would love to hear how you solved problem X but when a user gets to be known as the self answerer, we would see a lot of negative reactions towards that due to various factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation &quot;exploit&quot;, unfair badge earning (even if it is a CW) etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T10:17:48.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2711" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:23:45.087" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question contains a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag in the first sentence, this is shown as plain text in the summary in the question list which is confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2695/syntax-highlighting-and-non-ascii-characters&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the strikeout is typically used to show where an error was corrected, either the strikeout should be rendered in the summary or the struck text should be hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T11:13:07.807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:13:07.807" Title="Render HTML in question summaries?" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2682" CreationDate="2009-07-06T10:35:25.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also worthy of a mention is &lt;a href=&quot;http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery Sparklines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T10:35:25.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2708" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:02:56.037" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, HTML is not rendered in the summary; Markdown is shown as ASCII there too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:02:56.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2728" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:18:20.103" Score="1" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-60/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #60&lt;/a&gt;, Superuser will be going into Private-Beta &quot;Sometime in July.&quot; I'm curious how the SO-Team picks users to participate in the Private-Beta. Is the selection based on community-activity, reputation, question-answer ratio, or goold old-fashion nepotism ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Now that we’ve got a logo and color scheme, the superuser.com private beta should begin sometime the month, and any Stack Overflow or Server Fault user with reputation of 200 or more is invited!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T11:54:52.170" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:54:52.170" Title="On Private-Beta and User-Selection" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;private-beta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4204" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:19:24.203" Score="6" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I change my profile information in one of the SO sites (Stackoverflow), the changes don't seem to be reflected across all the sister sites. Shouldn't that be the case? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Just to clarify, I'm talking about the &quot;About Me&quot; section and the other profile information, and not badges, reputation (obviously) etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12649" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:18:20.023" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T23:23:52.400" Title="Synchronise changes in profile information across SO sites" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;profile-sync&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:20:32.687" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it is possible to answer your own question and set yourself as the accepted answer, it is generally not a very well-accepted practice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the furthest extent that StackOverflow should serve as your personal blog advertising engine is through your personal profile page. I know that I'm not the only one that tends to downvote or flag (as spam) questions and answers that tend to be little more than adverts for a blog or personal website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:20:32.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2727" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:22:26.553" Score="3" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just read this question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085618&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085618&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the first comment says it all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the policy on putting affiliate tags into Amazon links on Stackoverflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:38:17.340" Title="Amazon affiliate tags" Tags="&lt;amazon&gt;&lt;affiliate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2713" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:23:10.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that they tend to select those who happen to be in the top ranks on sites like StackOverflow and ServerFault (hey, maybe here? Maybe maybe maybe?). I think overall it is better to have a selection of users who are already familiar with the mechanisms and can help find some real problems than just opening it up to any user who may not have the experience working with it (as I understand the idea of the beta is to find problems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:23:10.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2714" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:25:11.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see this as a potential desire (especially if you went through the steps to associate your OpenID across all accounts for the 100 rep bonus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that I would like to add is that if this ever happened, it should be an option because I know that I personally like to include different information on my different profiles (such as my faux badges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:25:11.537" />
  <row Id="2720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2714" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:27:05.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a core section of the bio that's shared and then a section that's unique for each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment all mine are the same, but that's down to laziness on my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:27:05.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2700" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:27:21.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Atwood said, voting is the primary method that people without much moderator power on the site can point out whether they agree or disagree with a particular action taken by higher ranked editors. Often times you'll see a question closed for a reason (even duplicate) and you'll have a lot of people upvote the question as an expression that they don't believe it is really a duplicate and that they want the question reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether this makes them correct or not is irrelevant. I agree with Atwood on this on the idea of it being an unlikely feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:27:21.237" />
  <row Id="2724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2716" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:29:46.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on what is going on. If you are answering a question concerning books or products and you are giving examples of really good books, I would more or less look past it (because if they are the one giving me the product for the first time and I like it, I wouldn't mind giving them some kickback for the review).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are asking a question or something and it is more blatantly spam trying to sell products without any real value behind it (or if that review or link is not a good idea on that particular question/answer) then I will be like ChrisF and flag it as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:29:46.863" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:32:31.020" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was a genuine case of posting a question because you had a real problem you needed help with and then posting an answer a day or so later when you solved it - with or without the help of any answers - then I can't see a problem with it. In fact I've done it with a couple of the questions I posted on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact I can't see a problem with posting the question after the fact, but I wouldn't post the answer straight away - you never know someone else might come up with a more elegant solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have mentioned, but the OP didn't, I wouldn't include any links to my blog in the question or answer, unless there was extra background information than could be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T11:54:31.593" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:54:31.593" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2672" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:38:16.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often times people will mark a particular answer as Community Wiki to prevent themselves from receiving the negative effect of downvotes. This tends to be whenever you are posting that is rather sarcastic or more joking than anything else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:38:16.997" />
  <row Id="2727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2716" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:38:17.340" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would flag any affiliate links as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Appropriate on your blog, but not on a public forum, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:38:17.340" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2713" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:39:43.140" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read something where Jeff said that any user with a reputation of 200 or over on SO or SF could take part in the beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;EDIT: found the link&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/logo-contest-winner-for-superusercom/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; blog post mentions it at the very end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:39:43.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:41:12.357" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having this in mind, is it a good practice to post a question and answer it yourself immediately on stackoverflow/serverfault when you want to share your idea with community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely, that is one of the design goals for the site: to be a frictionless technical mini-blog where &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; get reputation for your hard work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow is You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T11:41:12.357" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T12:50:38.547" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since StackOverflow now has a large programmer population and a high degree of activity, it would likely be a good place for a language use index such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TIOBE Programming Community Index&lt;/a&gt;. While this could be done via screen scraping the Tags page, or though the periodic database dumps, it seems that it would be a bit easier to be developed by someone with direct database access. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, a site such as StackOverflow might be able to provide a more accurate picture of language since it reflects active issues by developers in an developer environment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: One small update to this is that this wouldn't necessarily have be a real-time listing, it could also be a monthly listing like the TIOBE index which would also serve to smooth out any &quot;bumps&quot; in the actual use. Also, a couple responders have noted that there would be a skew towards .NET languages; however, this skewing may or may not be such a bad thing as it could also reflect the languages that are being used more in professional environments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update Two: Also, another thing to note as it might not be clear enough, but I'm not really referring to an industry wide standard index based upon the StackOverflow data but rather an index that is more specific to StackOverflow. Maybe a language/tag use trending chart is a better phrase to use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastEditorUserId="1185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T18:33:56.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:33:56.477" Title="Implement language use index similar to the Tiobe Index based on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="2736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2735" CreationDate="2009-07-06T12:53:50.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the results would be statistically sound. For example, I think most of Joel's (and perhaps Jeff's) audience on their own blogs are .NET developers, which skewed the original population (and therefore the oldest questions are heavily weighted in favor of .NET). Now that SO is public, this is lessened, at least a little, but any results still probably wouldn't be statistically valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T12:53:50.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2744" CreationDate="2009-07-06T12:57:10.873" Score="4" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason that inline-code (back-ticked, of course) in answers is excluded from the prettify-process? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a piece of code is a bit too small to be blessed with its own blockquote, and so it's merely streamed inline with the rest of a paragraph, but having syntax-highlighting on it would still break up the different parts of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I don't think this should be included in comments - which has already been discussed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T13:10:32.410" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T04:47:31.057" Title="Code-Coloring for Inline-Code in Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;&lt;inline-code&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2735" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:00:56.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that given it's still (relatively) young age, StackOverflow is not a great indicator of the popularity of languages due to it's very large .NET-centric audience which is what the core audience consisted of when it went live. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Java and other languages like Ruby and Python and PHP are definitely very well represented in terms of questions and answers, but I think to use the site as a guage on the actual popularity of the languages may be a bit off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:00:56.533" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2735" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:03:53.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that that should be done on the monthly data dumps as I can't see the benefit in having a real-time index. The variation in numbers of questions posted will give a very noisy picture. There may also be artificial peaks at the weekend (say) as people work on their pet projects at home, which could well be in the more obscure languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the other answers on the initial .NET bias of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:03:53.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:06:23.040" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If these people really don't know a better way to get their questions answered, then it's up to us to teach them, not to answer the questions for them. Otherwise, they may literally never learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no reason to believe this is a matter of stupidity. I honestly don't know why some of these people are doing this kind of work. I've tried to find out, but have not yet found a way to ask the question in a way that gets me an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some &lt;em&gt;small&lt;/em&gt; number of cases, on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.asp.net/28.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET &quot;XML Web Services&quot; forum&lt;/a&gt;, I have been left with the impression that there are people who are working for a bad outsourcing firm (I've worked with several good ones). I get this impression when someone basically says, &quot;I just started today, and my boss told me to write a web service that does so and such. What is a web service?&quot; or when they come up with some nonsensical requirement that was clearly not understood, yet seem terrified of asking the customer for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those (small) number of cases are absolutely not helped by handing them the answer. They will never learn how you got the answer, for instance. It has amazed me to see the number of people who are not familiar with &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/&lt;/a&gt;, and who have found it only because I posted links, including the search links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll also never learn how to find the answer themselves next time, except that you will have taught them that the way to get their job done is to not stop to think, not spend five minutes on a Google or SO search, but to just go ask on SO and get some &quot;helpful&quot; person to do the job for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Please don't feed the pigeons&quot; is not the same as &quot;please be mean to pigeons&quot;. It's purely practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:06:23.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2737" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:08:30.213" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I am not mistaken you -can- do syntax highlighting on code in a paragraph (example, I cam now going to call my &lt;code&gt;SuperFunction()&lt;/code&gt; right now). All I did was select my little bit of code and hit the code button and it will perform syntax highlighting on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another example, this time using my &lt;code&gt;System.DoesItWork&lt;/code&gt; value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This can be achieved by putting backticks on both ends of your little code sample.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are speaking of actual color-specific items (like certain parts of code showing red, others blue, etc.) then I could see your point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:08:30.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2762" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:08:30.650" Score="4" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it happens to me that a simpler upgrade take more time than expected because a bug or something, but in the case of SO I think that they are smarter, more methodological, more prepared for the upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm curious about the reasons why the yesterday upgrade take longer than the expected time (I think that even 1 hour was a pessimistic excepted time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T02:43:00.140" Title="Why SO maintenance upgrade take longer than expected?" Tags="&lt;downtime&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2737" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:11:47.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the difference between this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SuperFunction()&#xA;&#xA;System.DoesItWork&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;SuperFunction()&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;System.DoesItWork&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former is (or should be coloured) the latter isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - I vacillate when it comes to this question. Sometimes I'm happy with the way it looks, but other times I wish is was coloured. I think it has to do with the actual words I'm using. If the keywords are normal English then I want them to stand out more. If they're obviously code then I'm happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T13:17:53.170" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:17:53.170" />
  <row Id="2745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2742" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:12:01.983" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Atwood had to go to the bathroom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, yesterday was a pretty major hardware and OS upgrade. I think 1 hour was definitely too optimistic to be taken seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the grand scheme of things, however, I think people get a little bit too uptight during maintenance periods. It's like crack-addicts detoxing when SO is down for an hour or two. There are plenty of other sites out there to browse for a while when SO is not available. There is also that entire world away from your computer monitor as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:12:01.983" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2737" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:12:13.030" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the thing with inline code is that it is usually too short a snippet to &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; syntax highlighting. With long code snippets, this is often useful, since the snippets can be several lines long. However, with inline code, it is often for short keywords or short snippets that, as you say, are too small to be put in their own blockquote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I use inline snippets for variable names or class names, for instance, and they don't really need colouring as they are only one or two words. If it is hard to read the code and it needs to be broken up to better understand it, then it's probably better to put it on its own line anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:12:13.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2750" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:19:30.120" Score="8" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I have provided two answers to the same question, there is only one answer shown in my user profile.  This answer is followed by &quot;(2)&quot;, indicating that two answers are there, and the rep shown is the sum of those two answers' rep.  Clicking on this takes you to the highest-rated (or maybe the oldest?) of the two answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is misleading if you are looking at how much rep you got for a given answer because you want to know how close you are to a badge.  It also makes it hard to get to the second answer that was provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my profile, I see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/9506/twoanswers.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on this takes me to the far more popular answer (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432/what-real-life-bad-habits-has-programming-given-you/164556#164556&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) which currently has 739 rep.  But it is difficult to find the other answer I provided to this question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432/what-real-life-bad-habits-has-programming-given-you/359521#359521&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) which currently has 13 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:04:34.317" Title="Stop grouping together multiple answers to the same question in user profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="2749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2747" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:23:23.523" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never got this concept. I guess it's based on that you should only have one answer per question.  If you need to add more info, you can edit your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system is designed that way (ie. it asks you if you're sure you want to add another answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a side effect of the intended design of the site (to answer a question) and the actual usage of many question (poll / subjective questions with many answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:23:23.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2747" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:25:53.737" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this. It makes it almost impossible to find those multiple answers in the same question (whether for yourself or if you are looking for an answer from a specific user who has multiple answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:25:53.737" />
  <row Id="2751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1242" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:26:07.687" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a similar suggestion a while back on uservoice, but it was declined at the time.  I'll reproduce it here since it is similar to (but not exactly the same as) your suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/102248-tag-suggestions-tooltip-steals-focus-when-dismissed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tag suggestions tooltip steals focus when dismissed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Start creating a new question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the &quot;Tags&quot; box, type &quot;java&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  =&gt; The suggestions tooltip appears, showing &quot;java&quot;, &quot;javascript&quot;, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Click in the main edit area (where you would actually type the question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Expected: Focus goes to the question area so I can type my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actual: Focus goes to the question area very briefly, then the the tag suggestions tooltip disappears, and when it disappears it gives focus to the tags edit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T12:51:32.813" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:51:32.813" />
  <row Id="2753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:29:11.133" Score="5" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programmers are known as early adapters, and if Stack Overflow is so successful, I think a general question and answers website open to the whole public will be extremely successful. Plus this being built with a Microsoft stack, I think it will be bought by Microsoft in less than a year.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:09:37.003" Title="Will there be a &quot;sister-site&quot; for general q&amp;a (i.e. a Yahoo Answers killer)?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2753" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:30:38.847" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;make one yourself&lt;/a&gt; this september.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:30:38.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2753" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:31:22.810" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have developed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://Stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; engine which would allow for people to create whatever kind of StackOverflow-like site they wish. I do not think they have any intention of making a Yahoo Answers killer because in all likelihood it would end up just as bad. The entire idea of having a single site for absolutely everything brings far too much noise and not enough signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:31:22.810" />
  <row Id="2756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2753" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:34:22.560" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can just imagine Joel and Jeff responding to a general q&amp;amp;a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;xxxHotChixxxx:&lt;/strong&gt; So like, I love my boyfriend sooooo much. I wan to get married and have 7 kids, but he says no. The other day he was lookin at my BFF Jillian, an he stared at her jus waayyyy too long. I think hes cheatin on me, but I want all those kids! What can I do!?!?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW Im 13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, now.  In your circumstance, you should apply what I like to call &quot;The Joel Test for Relationships&quot;.  You need to rank this boyfriend of yours according to the results from this test, and compare it to offers from other &quot;opportunities&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does he use &quot;source&quot; control?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can he make a &quot;build&quot; in only one step?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does he make daily &quot;builds&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does he do &quot;usability testing&quot; with everyone in the hall?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds to me he fails point #12.  Dump him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd give it another 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastEditorUserId="148808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T14:02:02.147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:02:02.147" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2753" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:35:49.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typical questions would include &quot;How is babby formed?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:35:49.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2742" CreationDate="2009-07-06T13:43:44.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I believe Jeff and his crew have done a very good job of watching statistics and planning their upgrades and downtime around times when the site's usage is relatively low. I'm not sure if he ever posted the numbers, but I've gotten the impression, even just from watching posts/responses rates that the traffic is WAY down over the weekend. Sometimes upgrades take longer than expected, no big deal. Nothing has to go significantly or noteworthingly wrong for an upgrade to take longer than expected; its a fragile task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T13:43:44.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2742" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:03:08.793" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in the case of SO I think that they are smarter, more methodological, more prepared for the upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your confidence in our abilities, but you've made &lt;s&gt;four&lt;/s&gt;three mistakes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:03:08.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2737" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:07:05.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, this could help differentiate inline code from regular text, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2593/how-about-quoted-code-samples&quot;&gt;especially in block quotes&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:07:05.293" />
  <row Id="2765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2768" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:12:02.573" Score="13" ViewCount="703" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does Stack Overflow handle spam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130296" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T19:32:48.417" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T19:32:48.417" Title="How does Stack Overflow handle spam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="2768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2765" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:15:29.850" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;new user limits (only 1 url allowed in posts, only 1 question per 20 minutes, only 1 answer per 3 minutes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;captcha&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;script detection heuristics and &quot;honeypots&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;user flagging (spam / offensive / moderator attention)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;auto-removal of some items based on certain flag thresholds being met&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;active moderator participation throughout the day to look at moderator flagged items&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:15:29.850" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="2769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2765" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:18:55.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They use &lt;a href=&quot;http://recaptcha.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reCAPTCHA&lt;/a&gt; to ask for CAPTCHA's if there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2085/why-show-captcha-when-an-answer-takes-too-long/2290#2290&quot;&gt;frequent actions performed&lt;/a&gt; (although this is more a preventative measure than for actually &lt;em&gt;dealing&lt;/em&gt; with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also the moderators in place, who can delete posts that are deemed as spam, and the community, who are the ones who flag posts as spam to get the moderators' attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:18:55.410" />
  <row Id="2770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7493" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:23:56.417" Score="4" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to see what users have recently been active. This is somewhat standard with many forum-style websites, showing how active the site has been in the last n-minutes or so. As a functional advantage, this also serves to let you know when is a good time to get a question in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T21:00:02.490" Title="&quot;Recently Active&quot; users list" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;user-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2775" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:25:50.430" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I watched in one fell swoop the 'BCL' tag disappear over a period of 3-4 hours. Whilst this tag only had around 120 questions tagged this way, it was a fairly valid tag when referring to the .NET Framework Base Class Library. There's even a team at MS specifically dedicated to just the BCL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BCL Team Blog - Basetypes, Collections, Diagnostics, IO, RegEx...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should major re-tagging exercises be voted for first by the community before a single user makes an arbitrary decision to remove a niche tag such as this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:51:23.420" Title="Should mass tag edits/removal be throttled or put to the community for voting?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2770" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:27:01.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could just hard-code Jon Skeet's name on there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:27:01.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2778" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:30:18.863" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2737/code-coloring-for-inline-code-in-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2737/code-coloring-for-inline-code-in-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to use the automatic syntax highlighting on a block of code, and at the same time manually insert markup for specific sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if a question contains a block of code one may wish to repeat the same block in an answer but with markup such as &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to highlight the changed portions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this is not possible at present because normal markup is ignored in code blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest a new tag such as &lt;code&gt;{{{ ... }}}&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;codeblock&amp;gt; ... &amp;lt;/codeblock&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to trigger the usual syntax highlighting but without disabling normal markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is there a workaround for the current implementation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T16:00:03.583" Title="Mixing automatic syntax highlighting with manual markup" Tags="&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:30:34.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have to wonder what good it would do putting it up for a community vote. If it is a niche tag, are you sure there are going to be enough people who would advocate for it remaining up against a larger number of people potentially ignorant of the possible implications?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:30:34.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:32:21.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case of anything major, &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, we (♦ moderators) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354/batch-retagging/2595#2595&quot;&gt;can now do batch retags&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;saving lots of your time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;with community agreement&lt;/strong&gt; (probably the biggest point you were trying to make)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;avoiding lots of updates that block the front page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the above post for my proposed process... &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2601/batch-retag-request-merge-svn-and-subversion&quot;&gt;with example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T14:52:20.327" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:52:20.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:33:28.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The BCL tag was used to describe the .NET framework. It was used incorrectly as a duplicate of .NET. There is no value added by referring to .NET as the BCL interchangeably. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be pointed out that the process is already throttled thanks to the horrible captcha system we have in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least with individual editors reviewing each question and manually reviewing tags there is the 'human element'. Automating this will be cold and unforgiving and will be a lot more likely to exhibit problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T16:51:23.420" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:51:23.420" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="2777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:35:58.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely like to see a community vote for mass tag merging. I would also like it if regular users (with more rep than ~1000) could suggest tags to be merged for normal users. There are many tags that should be merged that I think the moderators just don't have time to look for (for example &lt;code&gt;datastructures&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;data-structures&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:35:58.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2773" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:37:22.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect this would end up being complicated in both implementation and use, but I can certainly see the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another alternative might be to have special line endings which you could then use to refer to particular lines easily later. That might be easier to achieve - so // [1] might be translated into a bold &quot;1&quot; which you could then label afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly this is entirely based on the Manning book style which I'm familiar with :) I suspect it could work quite nicely on SO though... it depends how easy it is to modify Prettify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:37:22.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2782" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:38:58.157" Score="120" ViewCount="1841" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often Transact SQL questions get tagged as &lt;code&gt;t-sql&lt;/code&gt; when the convention now is to tag as &lt;code&gt;tsql&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, no matter how hard you can try to educate users that the 'correct' tag is &lt;code&gt;tsql&lt;/code&gt;, you're always going to get posters tagging with the wrong one (&lt;code&gt;t-sql&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly not everyone notices or understands the number next to the tag name in the autocomplete tag textbox. Also if this is a first time tag use (say after an editor has done a daily cleanup to re-tag these correctly), the system doesn't prompt the user to think about the tag they're about to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it would be better to, for obvious cases such as &lt;code&gt;t-sql&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;tsql&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;active-directory&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;activedirectory&lt;/code&gt;, implement a system of tag synonyms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;* Update: Implemented *&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go here for the official repository:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/50088/official-repository-of-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Official repository of tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T03:40:09.583" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T00:10:40.170" Title="Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-synonyms&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="2780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:42:41.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tagging convention (according to SO popularity) is 1230 in favor of tsql and 2 in favor of t-sql. I have said this in numerous other tagging questions that I believe the convention should be the most popular format (in this case it is obviously tsql). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag synonyms have also been something brought up in the past but I have never really seen anything that came across as a sensible way of actually making it work effectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:42:41.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2787" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:44:24.827" Score="10" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The prime example is C# and .Net. 95% of C# questions are also tagged .Net. The reverse isn't the case so it's not a synonym. Basically, C# is a child of .Net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to create some sort of one-way linkage like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T10:58:42.413" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T10:58:42.413" Title="Could we make tags imply other tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;alias&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:46:40.087" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that tags on SO should be relatively rigid.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, when tagging media like images, audio, or video that &lt;em&gt;is not otherwise easily indexed&lt;/em&gt;, you want a very loose tagging structure that encourages adding as many and as varied tags as possible.  This is because you rely on the tags to index your content for search.  It's why flickr and youtube let you tag things any way you want.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when talking about text, which is &lt;em&gt;already easily indexed&lt;/em&gt;, the tags themselves don't matter for indexing.  Instead, they are used strictly for categorization. Categorization is a different thing entirely, and to make it work you need a rigid set of categories to sort into.  It's why gmail labels (which are really tags) are harder to just create willy-nilly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow content is definitely text-based, and that means we should be thinking of rigid tag categories rather than a loose tag cloud.  I've advocated a few changes to the tagging system to help improve things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt; Minimum rep threshold required to create new tags (implemented at 100, I'd like to see it bumped to 250 so that an eager new user has to spend at least more than one day with the site before they can create new tags).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt; A better explanation of why the question was rejected would be nice, too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a warning whenever using a tag that appears on fewer than 10 other questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Restrict certain junk words like 'and', 'the', 'a', &lt;strong&gt;'server'&lt;/strong&gt;(on stackoverflow), 'visual', etc from use as tags entirely.  Possibly even do this silently where possible- the tag just doesn't show after you post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some synonyms are already tracked and corrected automatically every hour.  This should be done as questions are posted and edited instead.  This way,  users are more likely to notice the tag changed (often the entire question is resolved before the correction, so the user never knows about it) and we reduce time spent by community members correcting these tags that could be more profitably spent elsewhere.  This is also important because by the time a correction is applied the question has fallen off the main page, and users that might have been interested in the question based on the corrected tag will never see it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;done&lt;/strong&gt; A way for users to nominate tags for merging/elimination/add to synonyms list built into the user interface of the site (not just posting a question here) that allows high-rep users to comment and vote on the nominations via the 10K tools.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-name 'tags' to 'labels' ala GMail, to encourage users to think of them in terms of categorization.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="17035" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T03:43:26.777" LastActivityDate="2010-07-24T03:43:26.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T16:45:39.503" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="2784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:48:10.727" Score="1" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/981/syntax-highlighting-hints&quot;&gt;Syntax highlighting hints&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The syntax highlighting system on SO has some serious problems. It works okay for most C family languages (C, C++, C#, D, etc.), but it interacts horribly with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, OCaml and Lisp cause problems because of unmatched single quotes. It would be nice if users could create syntax highlighters for different languages and post them. If they were approved by enough users, they would become part part of the site and we could use them in posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The syntax might look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Blah blah blah `inline code here`(language) blah blah blah.&#xA;&#xA;(language):&#xA;    block code here&#xA;    ...&#xA;&#xA;Blah blah blah.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:48:10.727" ClosedDate="2009-07-06T18:24:14.910" Title="Allow different syntax highlighting for different languages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2789" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:48:57.263" Score="17" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading folks' posts here on MSO about the prominent personalities on SO (Atwood, Spolsky, Skeet, Gravell, Rich B, et al) and the impact on reputation, I decided to &lt;em&gt;&quot;run some number&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, graph them, and of course blog about it: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/07/06/1246876860000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Personalities of Stack Overflow by the Numbers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the kids that can't be bothered to read my rambling, grammatically incorrect prose, here is the most interesting of the two graphs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation (x-axis) vs. Posts (y-axis) vs. Profile Views (z-axis)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/image/stack-overflow-reputation-vs-posts-vs-views-small.png&quot; alt=&quot; Reputation (x-axis) vs. Posts (y-axis) vs. Profile Views (z-axis)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lack of a correlation between Profile Views and both a users reputation and number of posts surprised me.  Anybody have any thoughts on what makes a SOpedian's profile worth visiting?  Something I can look for in the data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-19T09:11:50.993" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T09:11:50.993" Title="What makes a SOpedian's profile worth visiting? (Data dump analysis)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="22" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:50:37.593" Score="15" ViewCount="473" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often more than one person contributes to the community coming up with the final accepted answer to a question. However, it is only possible to accept a single answer. Restricting to one final answer does make sense for the sake of referencing that answer later, but in many cases that answer is the product of the input from several individuals. I would like to be able to decide how much of a bounty goes to different users, or some other mechanism to recognize the contribution of multiple users. Of course I could always upvote their previous answers, but this is really incorrect if their previous answers aren't the complete, final answer I've accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What think you metaSOrs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="120990" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-23T00:57:09.100" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T11:25:38.727" Title="Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="2787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:51:26.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That almost sounds like an automated method of what I have been doing for a while now when it comes to tagging. I will generally tag something in it's broad category (example sqlserver) and then use the other tags to whittle down the specificity (sqlserver2000, sqlserver2005, sqlserver2008). This would allow for someone to subscribe to the broad tag sqlserver and still see my problem which is specific to sqlserver2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your example of C# and .NET I think showcases a lot of examples of people tagging wrong. If their problem is specific to the C# language I believe it should be C# and you shoudln't have to include .NET at all. If your question is a confusion in the actual .NET framework itself (and therefore not generally C# specific, or VB, etc.) The C# tag isn't exactly necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this is generally I how I view it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question I have would be, does this automatic linkage mean that the tags will automatically display that are linked, and if so, would this take away one of your five allowed tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:51:26.300" />
  <row Id="2789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:54:33.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't really trust profile views as a metric of popularity. I know personally that early on I fell into the habit of clicking on my own profile to view my upvotes/downvotes, etc. (this was before the &quot;little envelope&quot; functionality was added). I still tend to click on my profile instead of the envelope, thus potentially inflating my profile views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, profile views may be a measure of &lt;em&gt;popularity&lt;/em&gt; for some, and &lt;em&gt;narcissism&lt;/em&gt; for others. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; You also can't underestimate the &quot;train-wreck&quot; profiles: users who give utterly horrible answers, or routinely ask terrible questions. They probably get more views just out of morbid curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T15:01:03.517" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:01:03.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4151" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:55:58.457" Score="3" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;The data-dump is absolutely awesome. Thanks guys. I know that you have plans to release a new one each month, and seed it as well, but I'm curious about the size-increase from month to month. Will the data-dumps from here-on-out contain ONLY the data for that past month, or will they be cumulative and include the data from previous months as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T02:00:06.173" Title="Are the Data-Dumps Cumulative?" Tags="&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="2792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2786" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:56:46.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ability to accept multiple answers alone would require a pretty sizable change to the underlying concept of the StackOverflow mechanism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it weren't for the way bounties are currently decided when there is no accepted answer (i.e. the winner is the one with the most votes after the time limit) then I would agree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:56:46.087" />
  <row Id="2793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:57:31.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the number of profile views depends on the &lt;i&gt;type&lt;/i&gt; of answers that a person posts. For example, a person who comes across as insanely knowledgeable (or insanely dumb) might have more profile views, that a person who just gives straightforward answers. Or a person who gives a lot of controversial answers might have more profile views because people want to see his/her profile to see if his/her answer can be trusted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is just mad hypothesis, but what I'm saying is that maybe reputation and number of posts might not be the only two dimensions you should look at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12649" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:57:31.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-07-06T14:58:04.013" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm offended that I didn't get my name in a very large pink bubble on that graph somewhere. Maybe add some sparkles as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to think, I'm the only person on all of StackOverflow who has his own website pointing back to his profile...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ponyoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ponyoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T14:58:04.013" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2786" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:00:55.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2445/collaborative-answers-point-sharing&quot;&gt;answers having multiple contributors&lt;/a&gt;. That would keep the accepted-answer down to 1, but offer the original author the ability to share some of the booty with his helpers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:00:55.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2790" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:01:35.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that for logistics sake, the dumps should only cover the time period in question. That way you can always get &quot;the whole picture&quot; from all the dumps put together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:01:35.467" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:04:35.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I tried to make part of the space in my profile actually useful by including a reputation tracker link and custom google/uservoice searches.  That's mainly for my own use, but I know some others have also found the search useful in particular, and I like to think that contributed to my profile being viewed a little more often.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with that in mind, I'm curious to know who that outlier is from the top100 between myself and Marc Gravel.  Does he have anything in his profile that might be similarly useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T15:14:08.003" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:14:08.003" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2605" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:05:18.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always just do all of the linking myself so that I can control the names of the links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[example]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com&lt;/a&gt; &quot;This is just an example&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This points to [example][], so does [this][example].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use the built-in editor features, it would have added the link twice &lt;code&gt;[1]:&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[2]:&lt;/code&gt;, which makes it harder to edit the post, as links change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:05:18.123" />
  <row Id="2799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:11:19.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IronPython is .NET, but it's not C#. And C# questions don't have to be .NET related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Jeff said in one of the early podcasts that they specifically decided against a hierachical categorization. I think that makes sense; there's always too many corner cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:11:19.670" />
  <row Id="2800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:14:41.403" Score="5" ViewCount="489" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/should-i-not-answer-my-own-questions&quot;&gt;Should I not answer my own questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I solve a tricky problem, should I ask a question about it on Stack Overflow and answer it myself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T10:41:43.753" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:13:48.013" ClosedDate="2011-03-09T15:21:49.377" Title="Should I ask questions I already know the answer to and answer them myself?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2800" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:16:22.170" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T22:13:48.013" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:13:48.013" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="2802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2800" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:16:23.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a duplicate. Please see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:16:23.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2800" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:16:59.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's even encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stack-overflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2572/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/252194/how-to-earn-the-self-learner-badge&quot;&gt;How to earn the “Self Learner” badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T18:56:57.640" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T18:56:57.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T15:16:59.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2800" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:17:35.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is covered by one of the site FAQs, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely!  You'll get the added benefit of having the community review your answer and offer suggestions for improvement.  If nothing else, you'll have added another useful bit of information to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130126" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:17:35.010" />
  <row Id="2806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2781" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:19:36.757" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;C# =&gt; .Net&quot; is also a good example of why this might not work, thanks to the growing community of mono users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:19:36.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:19:51.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is interesting but I think theres a lot of noise in that graph, namely you should be able to compare profiles views to one of more of the following and get a better correlation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total views of questions (answered or asked);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvotes received;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would also make an interesting graph is to compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average upvotes per answer of non-CW question vs ranking or reputation. You might want to exclude the top and bottom 5% as outliers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;% of answers that are accepted answers (non-CW questions in both cases) vs ranking or reputation (min 50 questions answered);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average reputation gain per answer vs ranking or reputation. This one could be interesting because I think it will actually be a bell curve where Jon Skeet's will be low just because he gives so many answers above and beyond the daily rep cap. It'd be interesting to see if that holds for anyone else; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amount of &quot;lost&quot; reputation (because of the daily rep cap) vs ranking or reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you do any of the above. I'd like to see the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:19:51.890" />
  <row Id="2811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:22:03.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see a question that is not yet closed and would like to cast a vote to re-open it if it gets closed. Can't we vote for a question to remain open (which will cancel out one vote to close)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:22:03.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2820" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:22:48.507" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82/can-i-find-out-which-tags-i-have-created&quot;&gt;Can I find out which tags I have created?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/182/is-the-taxonomist-badge-really-needed&quot;&gt;this question about the taxonomist badge&lt;/a&gt; caused me to wonder how close I am to said badge. Is there a way to see which tags I created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:37:23.813" ClosedDate="2009-07-06T15:45:59.553" Title="Is there a way to know which tags I created?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2819" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:23:16.323" Score="10" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, should tags be in the form of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[foobar]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;foo&lt;/a&gt;-bar]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T15:54:30.783" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T17:19:17.063" Title="tags: foobar versus foo-bar?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="2814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:26:02.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that you would want to stick with whatever was the most popular and continue to push that as the convention for that particular set of tags. In some cases a separation of the words is ideal (such as feature-request) but in others it is not as good (visualstudio seems to be a much more favorable tag than visual-studio in SO as well as all of it's &quot;subtags&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:26:02.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2800" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:26:24.903" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault/2725#2725&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; the best approach is to post your question, wait a day or so and then post your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might get a better answer than you already have and also it's not that obvious that you already knew the answer ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:26:24.903" />
  <row Id="2817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2838" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:26:39.833" Score="6" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know how the team handles the code for all sites... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they separate solutions? Is it the same code with different stylesheets and configuration files (ie: pointing to different databases)? Does every instance has its own server? is it all a secret?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:04:06.410" Title="How's the code organized?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:27:29.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the terms &quot;foo&quot; and &quot;bar&quot; are distinct, I think they should tagged as &quot;foo-bar&quot; like &quot;visual-studio&quot; or &quot;vampire-slaying&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the terms are together, they should be tagged together like &quot;coldfusion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically just replace space with a hyphen in tags. The tag text box isn't really specific about how to combine words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Combine multiple words into single-words, space to separate up to 5 tags (python c# ruby)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want people to be consistent you need at least an example of a multi-word tag in the parenthesized list of examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:27:29.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:27:50.737" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;which way will users search for this term on the broader Internet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important factor &lt;em&gt;by far&lt;/em&gt;. For example, I'm about to rename a bunch of tags on Server Fault which are in the form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[windowsserver2008]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe anyone types &quot;windowsserver2008&quot; into Google (or Bing, or whatever). I believe they type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Windows Server 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means the appropriate tag is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[windows-server-2008]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. because dashes are treated as word breaks in every known search engine (and regular expressions, since forever). This is critical to get right because it means people will be able to find what they're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;which form is more popular?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case where the search argument cannot be made -- for abstract terms, or technical terms that tend to be a &quot;lump&quot; without word breaks -- I tend to argue &quot;survival of the fittest&quot;. Whichever tag has more questions associated, whichever tag is used by more people, should win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:27:50.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2812" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:28:04.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is I would love to know about it, but as far as I know there is no simple method of finding out who was the first to create a tag. In theoretical terms, you could look for the oldest item with a certain tag, but that is not a guarantee to be the originator because tags can be changed and taken away, so the oldest may have been retagged at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:28:04.590" />
  <row Id="2821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2830" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:31:10.943" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1263/new-user-comment-clarification&quot;&gt;New user comment clarification&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the first things that many new users do is to ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People then respond, and there is a need for the original poster to provide feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the user doesn't have much reputation, they can't comment, so many resort to asking follow-up questions as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would stackoverflow be enhanced by allowing users to comment on answers associated with questions they asked, no matter what their reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19068" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T09:06:51.580" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:06:51.580" ClosedDate="2009-07-06T15:47:30.193" Title="Can low level users comment on answers to their own questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:35:02.253" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I personally feel that this is OK (in moderation), the community may not agree. An example I recently saw...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/46439/matlabdoug&quot;&gt;employee of The MathWorks&lt;/a&gt; who is active on SO decided to post a couple of questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/945483/how-do-i-choose-computer-hardware-which-best-optimizes-the-performance-of-matlab&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/945222/why-do-i-receive-a-out-of-windows-resources-warning-when-i-open-numerous-figure&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) that he knew were most commonly asked about their product (MATLAB). He felt that putting these questions (and their answers) in a highly visible place (i.e. SO) would help MATLAB programmers be able to easily find them. This seemed to me to be a perfectly good use of SO, and was in line with the FAQs and posts dealing with answering your own question. However, a few users responded with downvotes and a negative comment or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess answering your own question in this way is something of a roll of the dice. Sometimes the community likes it, sometimes they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:35:02.253" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2812" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:37:23.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dupe: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82/can-i-find-out-which-tags-i-have-created&quot;&gt;Can I find out which tags I have created?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:37:23.813" />
  <row Id="2827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:39:30.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never bothered to maintain a blog but I suppose &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/774/what-does-stackoverflow-mean-to-you/802#802&quot;&gt;I use SO/SF in that sort of capacity.&lt;/a&gt;  It's not exactly a blog but occasionally someone asks a question that falls right into a pet subject and I can discuss it at length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:39:30.490" />
  <row Id="2830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2821" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:46:07.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes I believe you can comment on your own stuff no matter what rep. I even think i have seen this on many occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:46:07.087" />
  <row Id="2832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2841" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:54:52.077" Score="7" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we flag questions and answers as spam, abuse or requiring attention, how exactly do the moderators use the information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing there's a shared queue somewhere that moderators can all see. Is there some method of knowing whether something that has been flagged has been addressed yet? How do you make sure that two moderators swooping down to fix an edit war don't get into an edit war with each other? How do you see and use the details we enter when we flag a post as requiring moderator attention? Do you see the name of the user who submitted the report, or just the report? Can we see a screenshot of the flag queue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the whole flagging mechanism seems pretty opaque. I'm hoping a moderator can outline the details of what they do with the reports. I know we have the details of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how to use flagging&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd find it easier to use if I knew what is done with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:23:22.577" Title="Details about the flagging mechanism" Tags="&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="2834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2800" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:56:07.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted, it's covered by the FAQ.   The only thing that I would add is that the answer ought to be self-contained or, at a minimum if it links somewhere else, it should contain enough material to be useful on its own.  If it looks like you are just trying to hype your blog, I think you will be rightly downvoted and/or closed as SPAM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I think it's a good idea to mention that you will be posting your own solution as one alternative in your question.  Giving people a heads up may avoid some unthinking downvotes.  A subtle reference to the relevant FAQ is may help, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ex:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In keeping with the FAQ [link], I'll be providing my solution as an answer.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T15:56:07.193" />
  <row Id="2835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:57:26.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users will inevitably try to create all variations of a tag, mostly unintentionally. That's was the basis of my original suggestion (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/623/do-23-000-tags-need-tag-database-editors&quot;&gt;Do 23,000+ Tags Need Tag Database Editors?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely come up with a simple statement of the &lt;strong&gt;preferred way&lt;/strong&gt; to name all tags and let the &quot;editors&quot; nudge the tags into that definition. Edge cases can be handled individually. Ideally, this standard would fit in a ~&lt;strong&gt;10-word statement&lt;/strong&gt; that you can place under the tag entry box. Something like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Enter Message Tags: [___________________________________]&#xA;Use hyphens for multiple words (i.e foo-bar). Avoid abbreviations.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prefer &lt;strong&gt;visual-studio&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;visualstudio&lt;/strong&gt; - Even though &quot;visualstudio&quot; has a higher usage, programmers are used to camel case. Most people are not. As the Stack systems become more mainstream, it makes for a more familiar experience. Lower-case tags also makes combined words harder to read. &lt;strong&gt;Search engines&lt;/strong&gt; will like it much better, too. That's a major consideration. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prefer &lt;strong&gt;object-oriented&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;oo&lt;/strong&gt; - Pretty much for the same reasons as stated above. Prefer the more verbose form for consistency and presentation. If a user is looking for &quot;OO&quot; and it is missing, they are much more likely to know to try &quot;object-oriented&quot; than the other way around; the person who does not know the abbreviation exists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll think of more later.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T17:19:17.063" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T17:19:17.063" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2832" CreationDate="2009-07-06T15:59:01.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine a long stainless steel table in a large, dark room. A bunch of figures are positioned around this table. Their faces are shielded from each other by cloaks and by the poor lighting. Every once in a while, you can catch a glimpse of the hideous deformities that their faces have become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a naked, broken figure strapped to the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The occasional maniacal cackle breaks out, followed by the sound of the ban hammer smashing down upon the pour soul and turning them into goo. The table then rotates around where a new soul is exposed. The figures commence with their various forms of torture until the inevitable sound of the ban hammer on human flesh is heard again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every 43 minutes, a poor broken soul of a man that just wants to be a part of things pulls a cart into the room and feeds the ghouls their portion of pony meat. He scurries away quickly after that, the only sound he makes is the scuffing of his foot that he drags behind him because of his hunchback. That, and the soft muttering under his breath. &quot;Why can't SO be a place for discussion?&quot; &quot;People should be able to post anything.&quot; &quot;Why does nobody like me?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are horrible screams in the distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T16:25:47.647" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:25:47.647" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2832" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:01:14.617" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;well, it works a little bit like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9002/blueballfactory.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, the blue ball represents YOUR REQUEST FOR MODERATION.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:01:14.617" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="2838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:04:06.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No secret, it's been mentioned in the podcast a few times.. Podcast #52 mentions this I think, although the transcript is incomplete &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29049&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29049&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: We thought the worst case scenario was that we would literally branch the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall right, it's the same code, instances share same server, with different assets (logo, stylesheet), and each with a separate database&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:04:06.410" />
  <row Id="2839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2832" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:06:14.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you don't realize is that the flagging a question doesn't actually notify the moderators.  Instead, it computes a hash based on your username and selects an image with the same hash value.  This image is displayed on a monitor placed in front of a cage of adolescent male chimpanzees.  The cage itself is hooked up to a series of sensors such that if the chimps get riled up and shake the cage, an electrical impulse is sent to the hard drive controller for the database, which may result in the question being deleted, a random rep change for some user, or nothing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process is similar for flagged answers and comments, except they use drunken camels and obese gorillas, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:06:14.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:07:13.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to note that many of the users with the highest number of profile views, have been talked about on the blog, or the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:07:13.350" />
  <row Id="2841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2832" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:11:26.423" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a shared queue of items that are flagged as either spam/offensive or moderator.  Users with 10K rep can see spam/offensive, while only moderators can see moderator-flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can clear the flags on a item to reset it.  It's been my practice to review an item with flags, and if it's a clear-cut case, I'll act or not act on it, and then clear it.  If it's a judgement call, I'll leave the flags, and see if it accumulates more or another moderator sees it as actionable.  &lt;em&gt;(This is pretty unorganized/variable in my opinion, but I work with what I'm given/told, and it hasn't seemed to be a problem here)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the number of items flagged for a mod appear in a red box with a # in the header, so we see those immediately.  So &lt;strong&gt;items flagged for a mod are instantly visible to us&lt;/strong&gt; - so if there's anything crazy-bad, like a porn in an answer, flag it, rather than marking it offensive.  Finally, we see the user who submitted the flag, and the message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T21:23:22.577" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:23:22.577" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2844" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:12:13.240" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the user stats page, under tags, what does the little multiplier indicate?  It's clearly not upvotes, as you can check anyone who's gotten a silver badge for a tag and see that the multiplier is much lower than 400.  So is it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of questions answered that have that tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of questions asked + answered that have that tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Estimate of the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else entirely?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:41:04.397" Title="What do the multipliers next to the tags mean on the user stats page?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2800" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:13:36.373" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you do this, be very, very sure that your answer is technically correct. As others have suggested, a good way to do this is to wait 24 hours between posting the question and posting the answer, so you can compare your answer to those provided by other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:13:36.373" />
  <row Id="2844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2842" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:13:40.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many questions with that tag for which you have posts (answers or question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:13:40.807" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:18:59.960" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag suggestions were improved recently to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/159938-tag-suggestions-should-ignore-hyphens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ignore hyphens&lt;/a&gt; so typing &lt;code&gt;t-s&lt;/code&gt; still suggests &lt;code&gt;tsql&lt;/code&gt;. Obviously some people still aren't spotting the more frequently used tags, but hopefully it's not as bad as it was. Maybe the suggestions should more prominently highlight tags that only differ in hyphens if they are more widely used than the one the user is attempting to insert (or just silently change them when it's submitted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:18:59.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:20:02.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;code&gt;bcl&lt;/code&gt; referred to the .NET Base Class Library then it should really have the tag &lt;code&gt;.net-bcl&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I came upon something tagged &lt;code&gt;bcl&lt;/code&gt;, I would have no idea what it was referring to. If instead it was tagged &lt;code&gt;.net-bcl&lt;/code&gt;, at least I would be able to determine that it is related to &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:20:02.830" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2842" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:26:07.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Testing the 'posts' vs 'questions' theory: will delete soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the curious: this is the only question I've posted to with the 'statistics' tag. Prior to this post it showed exactly one use of this tag on my profile.  Afterwards the tag doesn't show at all.  It could be a community wiki thing (in which case it's a bug!), or it could be questions and other recent activity has pushed it off the page.  Either way, this number is similar to others that are known to be un-normalized and frequently out of date, so I'm going to let this stay a little longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T16:41:04.397" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:41:04.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T16:26:07.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2735" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:48:09.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to note that Perl has a low score on Tiobe, because the places where most Perl users ask questions, are not indexed by Tiobe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T16:48:09.210" />
  <row Id="2860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:30:30.360" Score="3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a little over a week since Meta first went live, and what a week it as been! When Jeff and I talked about creating a meta-discussion site based off of the SO engine, he asked if I could identify some places where the Q&amp;amp;A needed to be tweaked to better support discussion, so I sent him an email that contained a few ideas that he included in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135685/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work-in-stackoverflow/135687#135687&quot;&gt;inaugural blog entry&lt;/a&gt;. One week in, I think it's a good idea to review them, remove the ones that are unnecessary, and add additional ones that have become apparent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;bounties make little sense on a discussion site&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still agree with this statement. I don't think that bounties fit well with subjective discussion, and I'm not sure offering bounties for feature requests is a good idea, though Jon Skeet has proposed setting using the bounty system to indicate increased interest in feature requests (and I'd get you a link if I could find it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;wording needs to be tweaked (i.e. questions-&gt;topics, answers-&gt;replies)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think this is a good idea. Though there has been much more Q&amp;amp;A here than I expected, there are also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;feature requests&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/announcement&quot;&gt;announcements&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fun&quot;&gt;general fun topics&lt;/a&gt; that don't follow the Q&amp;amp;A format, so more neutral language is probably a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;need to be able to follow questions/get notices of additional replies&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a discussion site, you often want to follow topics you've participated in. The current system allows for notification of new replies if you're the topic owner, but if you're just a participant you have to manually check back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;remove notion of community wiki, as discussion sites have a stronger sense of ownership, plus nothing will be off-topic&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've actually done a complete 180 on this and I think that we should definitely &lt;strong&gt;keep&lt;/strong&gt; community wiki. However, it should only be used if the post needs to be edited by others (such as for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; posts). This is actually what CW was originally for - to allow people to collaborate in a Wiki-like fashion. Sadly, on SO, it has taken on the dual-role of being for subjective/off-topic posts, due to its reputation-negating properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also clarify what I mean by &quot;nothing will be off topic&quot;. I certainly don't want Meta to become a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/339/is-meta-stackoverflow-a-free-for-all&quot;&gt;free-for-all&lt;/a&gt;, and it's certainly possible to be off-topic. However, since reputation here doesn't mean what it means on SO or SF, it's OK to post fun questions and get rep from them. So the question becomes whether or not to close as off-topic, not whether or not the post should be CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strike&gt;ensure that chronological ordering is the default, if not the only, sort order, both for replies and comments &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's already shot this one down. The reason I included it is because I envisioned people replying to other people in their own reply (like more conventional discussion boards) and it would be important to be able to see the context in which the reply was created when reading the topic. However, as Jeff has said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt; is your friend&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so this feature may not be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;remove accepting an answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also changed my mind on this. Though it has slightly different semantics here on Meta, I do think that the ability of the topic starter to select a reply that has resolved their issue is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;some of the close re" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:29:20.350" Title="What changes to the SO engine are necessary for Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;so-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:35:26.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may want to encourage linking back to the answer you are replying to along with your blockquote, that way someone can click back to it in an instant if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree with getting rid of bounties. They really don't make sense on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to follow along with questions and get better notifications of replies (especially on things that don't belong to you) would be a god send and has been requested numerous times up the point of this edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think CW needs to be completely done away with. I still think it can serve it's purpose to prevent gaming on questions and answers that have an obviously sarcastic or otherwise humorous lean. I think more or less we need to rethink what CW means on Meta as opposed to the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the proposition of getting rid of accepted answers. Often times people ask here for genuine questions on how to do something and they get an answer. I see no problem with them clicking on the correct answer for the check mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T15:02:18.717" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:02:18.717" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:37:15.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderator-Only tags, and a guidebook for how we should use Meta-SO for uservoice requests, how Moderators should (or only Devs perhaps) categorize the requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T17:37:15.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:39:31.833" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll downvote for a misleading answer that I can't easily correct with a comment.  I see no reason in pushing anything below -1.  (There's also the issue that a sympathy upvote for a downvote will raise the answerer's reputation, which I'd rather not happen.)  If there's a better answer, I'd rather upvote the better one.  I won't downvote a good answer just because it isn't the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think it's cricket to downvote without a comment, except if the answer was obviously grossly bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, put me down for 1 and 2, sometimes 3 and 4 and 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T17:39:31.833" />
  <row Id="2864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:40:57.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I'm even more at a loss as to what rep means on meta than it does on SO.  If I up/downvote a suggestion, does that mean I agree/don't agree with the proposal?  If so, how does that tie at all to rep?  Our editors and 10k moderators are going to be the people with the best suggestions?  I just don't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T17:40:57.667" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:43:48.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest making feature requests fundamentally community wiki; that way, there's more of a chance of getting useful input without concern of rep-trolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T17:43:48.540" />
  <row Id="2868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:46:41.033" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried this once:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/354587/optimizing-aggregate-for-string-concatenation&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/354587/optimizing-aggregate-for-string-concatenation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon after using SO I realised that it was a much better coder's blogging tool than a blog, because the editing experience is damn-near perfect for code samples. So I wondered about using it instead of a blog, and when I thought of the above &quot;cool&quot; demo of the power of expression lambdas, I &quot;blogged&quot; it as a puzzle question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it ended up with positive upvotes, there was a point where it went into negative territory. I had people accusing me of gaming the site. Someone told me it shouldn't be on SO, it should be a blog post (which was the whole point of the exercise!) So I put it on a blog post, and then someone else accused me of abusing SO to drive traffic to my blog. At which point I decided... people are too weird for it to be worth the effort. Sad but true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the comment from highly-repped user Lasse V. Karlsen made me realise what was happening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, next time, perhaps you should ask&#xA;  a real question instead of just look&#xA;  how clever I am type of chest-beating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At face value, it's a strange response. SO is suppose to be a repository of questions and answers, and how they get on the site won't matter to people who visit in the future. And of course I had already asked &quot;real&quot; questions before this. Why get annoyed? Why get personal and insulting? Why apparently take a playful puzzle question as some kind of affront to decency or a show of unacceptable arrogance? Surely whenever someone posts an answer to a question, they could be accused of saying &quot;just look how clever I am&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My theory is that for a lot of SO users, the reason they come to the site is because they enjoy the feeling of helping the helpless, and feeling smarter than someone else. &lt;em&gt;This is not a bad thing&lt;/em&gt;, I hasten to add, as the end result is that people get assistance for free - it's the essence of SO and it works very well. I appreciate it a lot myself, because it feels good to help someone, and I know by trying to explain the basics I'm sharpening up my understanding of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aim of SO is to produce an online resource consisting of questions matched with good answers chosen by the community, but it achieves this by having another matching function: to provide smart people with some newbies to provide help to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Self-answered questions (or even puzzle questions answered by someone else, such as mine) do not provide the second function, and so they make people angry, sometimes without them even knowing why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastEditorUserId="27423" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T18:07:10.237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:07:10.237" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="2872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2009-07-06T17:56:35.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think perhaps some new close reasons could be &lt;em&gt;added&lt;/em&gt;. For example, a close reason of &quot;declined&quot; could replace the combination of a &quot;declined&quot; tag and closed as &quot;no longer relevant&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Devil's advocate:&lt;/strong&gt; The only down side I can think of is that, if you wanted to search for questions that were declined or completed, tags would be easier to find than close reasons. But would you really need to search for those anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; One solution, suggested below by Kyle, is a close reason that automatically adds a tag to the question. The best of both worlds: a clear one-click close operation and a tag for easy searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T19:05:45.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T19:05:45.747" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:12:35.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An easy way to see and search a listing of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions that are either feature requests or bug reports &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; either unresolved (however we choose to define that) or declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T18:26:04.113" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:26:04.113" />
  <row Id="2880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2735" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:16:13.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting as far as the SO community goes, but it would have no real comparison to a &quot;real&quot; index until the community grows beyond it's strong .NET user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:16:13.250" />
  <row Id="2884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2916" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:26:19.213" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, this is getting really meta here, as this is a meta question about a question about meta, but bear with me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2876/wheres-my-association-bonus-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question; it was closed as a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2732/rep-bonus-missing&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question.  No problem with that; I'm all for dupes being closed.  However, here's the real question; when I went to ask the question, the only question in the Related Questions list that came up was the originating question from Jeff announcing the association bonus.  Is there a problem with related question searching, or is this a hole in the searching algorithm, or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T19:28:26.013" Title="Why didn't my meta question show associated question?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2884" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:29:15.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just clicked on your question and on the very top of the Related Questions is the &quot;Rep Bonus Missing&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:29:15.760" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:29:54.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that by answering tough or obscure questions, I'm lucky to get more than one vote, but by repeatedly answering the easy questions about &lt;code&gt;IDisposable&lt;/code&gt; that are asked every day, I can make 220+ in a day pretty reliably - assuming I can find the time (and I get lucky with the timing of accepted questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; just answered &quot;What's the value of yield return?&quot; again - and have seen it asked and answered by others many, many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO rep measures answers more than questions, because repeatedly asking easy questions appears to be quite hard to get away with - whenever someone starts asking 2 stupid questions per day, the community soon gets wise to this and downvotes them. I doubt if you can build up much rep by asking instead of answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's pretty clear to me that SO rep is nothing more than a measure of how a person likes to spend their spare time helping other people with programming problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing to do with how smart they are, or how deep their knowledge goes... just where they focus their available time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastEditorUserId="27423" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T20:58:49.133" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T20:58:49.133" />
  <row Id="2890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2702" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:31:03.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He suggests that the reason is shown in the list. Right now, the revision list simply shows that it was closed and by whom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Post Closed by EnderMB, Mehrdad, DJ, Marko, Adam Davis&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Post Closed as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; by EnderMB, Mehrdad, DJ, Marko, Adam Davis&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that adding the reason in the revision list could be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:31:03.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2901" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:39:28.713" Score="0" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently want to say &quot;If you made a certain change to this answer, I'd upvote it&quot;. But I don't say that, because it would be a lie, because how would I remember to come back and check?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how about introducing the idea of a &quot;conditional upvote&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be associated with a comment, so when adding a comment to an answer, you could check a box to say &quot;Conditional upvote&quot;. The comment then explains what changes would need to be made to the answer in order for it to qualify for an upvote from the commenter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The significance would be that I'd be able to go to my profile and see listed all the outstanding conditional upvote comments I've made, and I'd get a notification when the associated answer was edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I upvote the answer, or if a week passes, it disappears from my conditional upvote list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T00:22:41.363" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T00:24:04.880" Title="Conditional Upvote associated with Comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2897" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:41:05.763" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature was requested. The suggestion was that voters would be informed that solutions were updated. They could then return, and decide if they wanted to up-vote/down-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch&quot;&gt;Allow an Edit to Notify Down-voters: “I think I’ve fixed the issue now - please check”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T18:46:13.680" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:46:13.680" />
  <row Id="2899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2897" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:41:08.507" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just periodically re-check all comments in my &quot;recent&quot; list. Once they roll off the end, too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:41:08.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2897" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:43:11.813" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last thing we need is 12,000 comments from TheTXI that say &quot;I'd upvote this answer if it contained more ponies.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to preempt TheTXI's comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4409/better.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ponies!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T19:12:52.663" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T19:12:52.663" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="2902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2897" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:45:27.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please no. No more complexity. The voting system works fine as it is with 'drive by' votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:45:27.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2897" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:48:05.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the issue with implementing this feature as requested is how could you programatically determine if the person modified the answer in the way requested by the comment. As indicated you can do this fairly easily through a manual process, but I would support the idea of allowing a user to &quot;follow&quot; an answer and get notification of changes to the answer and/or comments added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:48:05.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2897" CreationDate="2009-07-06T18:52:54.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems unnecessarily complicated, hard to explain and of rather limited use..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't you simply comment on how you think the answer could be improved, and check your last x comments using your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27423?tab=recent#sort-top&quot;&gt;recent&lt;/a&gt; tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even edit the answer yourself? I can't really think of a case where you would comment &quot;I'd upvote this if [you complete rewrote this answer and totally changed the meaning]&quot; - so the changes are likely to be pretty small, so should be unoffensive to do yourself..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T18:52:54.127" />
  <row Id="2908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3010" CreationDate="2009-07-06T19:01:23.663" Score="4" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supporting bold/italic/code formatting and autolinking in comments has been great. However, it's ironic that this doesn't happen when the comment is displayed on your recent activity page. You can't navigate to a particular link directly in your &lt;code&gt;/users/recent/{user-id}&lt;/code&gt; page. It should be a straightforward thing to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T07:02:49.953" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T12:23:30.210" Title="Please add comment formatting to the user's recent activity page to match normal comment formatting" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2009-07-06T19:16:47.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have tried to evangelize (unsuccessfully).  Of course, my target audience is the userbase for the SAS system and its set of languages (still very much alive and kicking after 34 years).  It's sad but true.  The primary source of &quot;knowledge exchange&quot; for SAS software is still the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.sas/topics?pli=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;newsgroup comp.soft-sys.sas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I try to direct people to the infinitely better model of Stack Overflow I get flooded with what essentially amounts to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We've been doing this for decades this way.  Get off my lawn you crazy kid!&quot;  I'm 40 and I'm a kid to the SAS old-timers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sheesh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52522" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T19:16:47.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T19:16:47.963" />
  <row Id="2911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2009-07-06T19:17:30.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the only problems with tagging is that new users won't understand the relationship between tags and how they affect the viewing audience for their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see new users posting questions with a single tag, and often it's not even related to the problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about implementing some kind of warning to the user before posting a question if they only use one tag?  In the warning you could re-iterate that using broader tags will widen the viewing audience for their question, and give them a &quot;submit anyway&quot; button to make it fairly unobtrusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T19:17:30.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2884" CreationDate="2009-07-06T19:28:26.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Related Question will work best when there are more questions (as on StackOverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'll also be less effective on Meta, because there are generally so few words in common.. For example, there's plenty of keywords in common between &quot;Generate RSS feed in Erlang&quot; and &quot;Erlang RSS feed generation&quot;, but not so much between something like &quot;Why was my question deleted&quot; and &quot;Is deletion really necessary in this case?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T19:28:26.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1508" CreationDate="2009-07-06T19:35:55.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick survey of recent recipients of the &quot;Disciplined&quot; badge reveals people who received it on June 14th, 13th, 12th and earlier. So it's not on a bi-weekly cycle or anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there doesn't appear to be any Disciplined badges awarded more recently than June 14th at the time of this post. I'd speculate that the badge is either broken or it requires some kind of manual action that has not been recently performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 8 July 2009, it looks like the Disciplined badge is being awarded again. There are now &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/37/disciplined&quot;&gt;883 people with the Disciplined badge&lt;/a&gt;, up from 616 yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99451" LastEditorUserId="99451" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T14:26:18.650" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:26:18.650" />
  <row Id="2921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2908" CreationDate="2009-07-06T19:41:11.953" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I look at your recent comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/33708?tab=recent#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/33708?tab=recent#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;, it looks good to me. Your 'recent' page (accessible by clicking the envelope button) is not the same view. If the formatting isn't visible there, that might be something to look in to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T19:41:11.953" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4934" CreationDate="2009-07-06T20:29:37.670" Score="16" ViewCount="883" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Bounty Info&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to hear from someone who has actually tried to get the taxonomist badge by retagging fifty posts in a row.  Did it work for you?  If so, how recently did you do it?  Did you get the badge immediately upon tagging the fiftieth question, or was there some kind of delay?  If it didn't work for you, is it because people undid your edits faster than you could make them?  Did you catch any flack from moderators or other users who realized what you were doing?  Could the badge be rescinded for so blatantly gaming the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Since Meta SO is new, this is a rather significant bounty.  I mean, you could win ten percent of Jon Skeet's rep!  I hoped that this question would have the distinction of being the first bounty on meta SO, but it looks like someone &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3283/what-kind-of-place-should-there-be-for-contest-questions&quot;&gt;beat me to it&lt;/a&gt;.  I guess I shouldn't have decided to wait until Monday to post the bounty...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description for the Taxonomist badge is: &quot;Created a tag used by 50 questions&quot;.  This leads me to a few questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alice creates a question, that is tagged with &quot;aardvark.&quot;  This is the first-ever question in the system tagged &quot;aardvark.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After a few days, Alice (or someone else) decides this tag isn't relevant, so it is removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After a while, Bob creates a question that is tagged &quot;aardvark.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This time the tag sticks, and eventually forty-nine more questions are tagged &quot;aardvark.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This raises the questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which user gets the taxonomist badge, Alice or Bob?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alice was the first person to ever use the &quot;aardvark&quot; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Bob used the tag, he seemed to be &quot;creating&quot; the tag (since it didn't exist beforehand).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Bob gets the credit, what if he was the one who removed the tag from Alice's post in step 2?  In that case, he would be effectively stealing the badge from Alice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other questions about gaming the system to get this badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the tags have to stick for a certain amount of time before the badge is awarded?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the questions have to be tagged by a certain number of users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could I simply go in at an off-peak hour and retag fifty questions to get the badge, then undo my changes before anyone gets mad?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is anyone willing to admit that they tried this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, were you able to get the badge this way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T13:55:57.860" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T09:47:29.647" Title="Taxonomist badge: what counts as &quot;creating&quot; a tag? And what prevents gaming the badge?" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-06T20:33:35.880" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion Taxonomist is the badge the most people have talked about gaming the system to get.  And really, that's probably about the only way most of us could hope to achieve it any more.  I'd just as soon see it disappear completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T20:33:35.880" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="2935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-06T20:41:55.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed that this is the most likely and possible badge to &quot;game&quot;. If I had to guess, I would expect you would at least initially be awarded the badge by going through and retagging 50 questions to a new tag and then undoing it. I wouldn't expect their to be real-time logic looking for this type of behavior. However, I would be surprised if someone were able to &quot;game&quot; the system in this way for long. I expect quickly someone would see you received the taxonomist badge and try to figure out how you did it. Honestly, I think of all the badges that exist, its the one I would be most likely to remove if I have the chance. In general I believe the badges do a good job of encouraging desired behavior. However, in this case, I'm not sure what type of desired behavior this would be encouraging?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the first part of question. Someone who can view the code would have to give a definitive answer, but I would hope and expect that Bob would receive the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T20:41:55.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20905" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:00:42.340" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm definitely being influenced by books, and I'm not sure whether it's a good thing or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know how sometimes in technical books there'll be a sidebar, or a little inset bit of text or something similar, indicating either &quot;This may be interesting but not crucial&quot; or &quot;This is absolutely fundamental&quot; depending on any icons that go next to it? Usually they have a different background colour, so clarify their bounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, for the first time I've found myself doing it on SO. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089018/why-cant-decimal-numbers-be-represented-exactly-in-binary/1089026#1089026&quot;&gt;this answer about floating point&lt;/a&gt; a comment indicated somewhere that I wasn't being entirely clear - or at least he brought up a somewhat separate point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to address that point, but without losing the main train of thought... so I (ab)used quoting to get the same sort of effect I'd try to achieve in a book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: should I actually introduce it in a completely separate section, and not try to turn SO into a book? Or is this a handy way to use markdown? I'm certainly not quoting anyone, so in those semantic terms it's wrong...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I care a fair amount about the presentation of my answers, so I'd be very grateful to get feedback on alternative approaches before I go too far down the road and start getting used to them :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:14:25.180" Title="Using quoting markdown for &quot;sidebar&quot;" Tags="&lt;editing&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2936" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:03:50.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my editing experience, I would have used a horizontal rule and a header like I did in this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sidenote:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;blah blah blah blah&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:03:50.010" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:03:50.303" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a reason I disagree with, one of my questions on StackOverflow was closed very quickly (I'm a little biased since I asked the question, but still, I think it should have remained open).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it fair to ask that a question be moved to the community wiki after it was closed? If that is fair, then what is the proper mechanism to make that happen: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a comment to the thread requesting it?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit the original post requesting it such that the post pops back up to the top of recent questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some other way?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and if you are interested in the thread that I believe was mistakenly closed, here it is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088049/good-book-holder-for-decent-sized-programming-books-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088049/good-book-holder-for-decent-sized-programming-books-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38693" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-12T18:16:32.740" LastActivityDate="2010-06-12T18:16:32.740" Title="Is it fair to ask that a question be moved to the community wiki after it is closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="2939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2936" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:04:39.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would either add it as a comment to your answer, or use a footnote (1) in the body of the text and refer to it at the bottom of your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Like this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:04:39.573" />
  <row Id="2941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2968" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:12:04.260" Score="6" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious as to what the reasoning behind making the time stamps for the questions and answers in UTC instead of localizing the time for the client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do realize it's easier to store the value in UTC.  But, I would guess most of us think in local time and showing the date &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; time of the post isn't as meaningful if it's in UTC, having to do a conversion each time we see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be more useful and intuitive if it showed &quot;answered Jul 2 at 15:38 EST&quot; where EST is the viewer's local time zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible I'm just not Skeet enough to think in Coordinated Universal Time.  (Skeet is an adjective as well as a verb, right?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As noted by me and others, perhaps defaulting to UTC, but allowing a user to select a different timezone in their profile would be a reasonable request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:25:28.620" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:25:28.620" Title="Why are the time stamps in UTC instead of localized for the client?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2941" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:24:00.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you really want users to bother filling in their time zone? JavaScript can guess what offset you happen to be at right now, but that's not a good indication for any other point in time. Then you'll get users who have seen the right information until recently, but things have gone wrong for them because it had autodetected their settings and got the wrong actual location, etc. (1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you have to make sure the server always has up-to-date time zone information, which isn't as easy as it might sound (depending on exactly what you're doing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely feasible - especially if it's just a case of representing a UTC instant as a local time - but I'd personally rather see everything in UTC completely, rather than have the &quot;7 mins ago&quot; stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It wouldn't have been nearly as easy pre-.NET 3.5, by the way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who has to deal with time zones all the time, I'd advise Jeff and the team to stay away from them unless they really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; have to handle them. (It's possible that StackExchange will have to do this, as there'll be more local deployments I suspect.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) At least we could get away with a single time zone setting on SO. When trying to provide support to ActiveSync users on iPhones, I have to ask users for &lt;em&gt;four&lt;/em&gt; different time zone settings - two on Google Calendar and two on the iPhone. Madness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:24:00.800" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:31:19.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Convince the SO Team to open a store...I'll even design the first shirt ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's me in the first cell, second row. Can you find skeet, and atwood? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-flow-shirt2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:31:19.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T21:31:19.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:36:16.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, things that should be moved to community wiki will have a torrent of comments saying &quot;This should be CW&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions which are 'subjective and argumentative' there are some of them which might actually be good candidates for community wiki if they were refactored to edit out all the possible flamebait in them. However, the way the community usually manages this is that if a user edits out all the problems, then it may get re-opened, or they can try to reformat it so much as to be unrecognizable and try again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In YOUR case, your question wasn't closed as &quot;S &amp;amp; A&quot;, it was closed as &quot;NPR&quot; because it is in no way programming related. Similar to &quot;How much is on your desk?&quot; or &quot;What is your Programmer Ringtone?&quot; these are questions which you can ask to programmers, but they really don't have to do with programming. Even if your question was initially CW, then it would likely have been closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you asked a question in your title that I didn't explicitly answer. &lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt; it is FAIR to ask that they re-open it so you can move it to CW, but generally, the answer will be no, because moderators often-times (not always) would give you a chance or a warning to move it to CW first, before they vote to close. In your case, the CW-ness was not the contested part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:36:16.767" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="2946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:40:01.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if a question is closed, the author (mods too) should be able to reopen it as CW (community wiki) or move it here to the meta site.  It seems like the author's only option is to delete it or hope that enough people come in and vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:40:01.207" />
  <row Id="2947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2948" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:40:34.273" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every so so often, &quot;serverfault questions&quot; are asked on stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like people can vote to close a question (which often happens to such questions), it would possibly be nice if people could vote for &quot;send to serverfault&quot; instead, and if there  are enough votes the question is closed and automatically opened at the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question would also get a link to the quesion created on the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same for the other sibling sites, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drawback: Maybe it's better if the person asking actually has to re-question at the other site (and thus search for an already existing answer there first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:04:27.110" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:04:27.110" Title="Please add a way to send questions to serverfault.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2947" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:42:40.303" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You already can vote to close as &quot;belongs on serverfault.com&quot; (if you have 3000 reputation) which does exactly what you're describing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of such a question on StackOverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088346/adding-custom-dns-entries-for-name-resolution-in-the-local-network-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088346/adding-custom-dns-entries-for-name-resolution-in-the-local-network-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here's its migrated counterpart on ServerFault: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/36562/adding-custom-dns-entries-for-name-resolution-in-the-local-network&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/36562/adding-custom-dns-entries-for-name-resolution-in-the-local-network&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:42:40.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="2949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:45:50.413" Score="9" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just received the Woot badge on SO, neat. But the strange thing is, I only visited the site once when I first noticed the badge. The requirement is to visit the site every day for 30 days, so how come I got the badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: wait, I think I get it. I have to visit SO, not Woot. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T03:41:00.293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:09:51.587" Title="Bug: The Woot badge" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3021" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:46:59.987" Score="121" ViewCount="5115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edit a lot of posts everyday. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;--User&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these items be removed during the editing of the post by an editor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="165097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-22T10:10:52.460" LastActivityDate="2011-08-23T14:21:35.477" Title="Should 'Hi', 'thanks,' taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;signatures&gt;" AnswerCount="27" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="43" />
  <row Id="2951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:47:22.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. These should be removed for multiple reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any fluff on the top of the post ends up consuming space in the preview on the questions list.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The username is displayed with the avatar directly below the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Thanks' or 'plz help me' or any other closing statement is just useless and detracts from the content of the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that currently, we have been asked to not edit the post for these reasons alone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/#comment-15830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/#comment-15830&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But these posts typically have multiple other reasons to edit anyway so this is almost never a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T21:53:01.213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:53:01.213" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:47:37.403" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leaning heavily on the 'trials'.  I wouldn't expect the team to put something here that wasn't thought to be technically ready to go live on the 'main' sites also, but social engineering is hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think about using the meta site to trial major new features?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:37:57.027" Title="Will/should the meta site ever be use for new features tests or trials?" Tags="&lt;beta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:47:49.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there is a valid point in that being a celebrity or at least viewed as a celebrity can help you gain some attention.  I think that the LOGO question was interesting because it was used as an example in the podcast which undoubtedly brought in a large audience of viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question was really a discussion around whether or not a question was too simple and easy to be on SO between Joel and Jeff, I think that it hit home with many SO users.  Because it hit home, I think people responded by voting up the question and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't want questions/answers to become anonymous because there are some users on the site who have helped me out a great deal and I do feel some responsibility towards trying to assist them in the future.  The inverse of this is also true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:47:49.107" />
  <row Id="2954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2949" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:49:15.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the badge is for visiting StackOverflow every day for 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:49:15.337" />
  <row Id="2955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2952" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:49:33.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe meta would be an excellent proving ground for new features/enhancements. However, given there are already many features being requested for modification or removal from meta vs SO; I don't think all features would apply or be used in the same way. Still, for those relevant I would encourage it. I believe this would especially work well since I believe many of the users here are &quot;more dedicated&quot; than the average user, and therefore will be more forgiving to bugs and be more willing to provide constructive feedback about a feature that needs tweaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:49:33.907" />
  <row Id="2956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:49:51.060" Score="54" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally do not think that salutations and taglines alone justify an edit for them to be removed from a post.  If the question or answer has other reasons to justify an edit, sure go ahead and clean them up while your in there.  But as a general rule of thumb for me, I don't think its a big enough deal to justify an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I completely agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts/2960#2960&quot;&gt;Jon's answer&lt;/a&gt; in terms of the perfect world where the question is just the question with no clutter (salutations and taglines).  So in the ideal world, they are not there to begin with.  But if they are there, I still probably wouldn't edit them just to remove the clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T00:39:55.877" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T00:39:55.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2949" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:51:21.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you have to visit SO, woot is just sponsoring the badge for now. It will switch back to enthusiast (its real name, and reason it seems out of alphabetical order in the badges listing) after the sponsor period elapses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:51:21.993" />
  <row Id="2958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:52:01.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google does it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jeff says, Just add quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55562" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:52:01.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T21:52:01.997" />
  <row Id="2959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2949" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:52:03.407" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't you be a little worried if StackOverflow could track how often you visited woot.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:52:03.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:54:12.220" Score="74" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. I view this in quite a simplistic way. Let's take your action out of the equation - if we had two parallel worlds, one with the question including the greetings etc, and one without, which would we choose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd choose the world where the questions just had the required information, as readably and concisely as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your actions make that world reality, so +1 from me. Admittedly that's treating your time as if it were free - it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be that you could spend the same amount of time on more useful edits, but I'm never sure that flies. The actual act of removing the greeting probably doesn't take much time, and by the time you think &quot;No, I won't bother&quot; you'd already have &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; the question and thought of doing it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If the user then rolls back the edits insisting that they really &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; the greeting, then I'd suggest leaving it alone, but that's a slightly different matter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:54:12.220" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="2961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2952" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:54:19.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need to be mindful of the fact that the meta users are not typical users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not against this idea, I'm just saying that those of us who are on meta are more likely to be able to adapt to a new feature (and more likely to read the manuals) than those on the regular sites. We are the &quot;Super Users&quot; of the StackEngine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, you have an army of eager and willing beta-testers, so I say go to it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T21:54:19.307" />
  <row Id="2962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2981" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:59:18.593" Score="-1" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2832/details-about-the-flagging-mechanism&quot;&gt;Details about the flagging mechanism&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any screenshots of the stackoverflow moderation interface? I'm writing a web-based application and I'm looking for some inspiration for management interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39077" LastEditorUserId="39077" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T16:10:11.893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:10:11.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T22:04:27.990" Title="StackOverflow Moderation Interface" Tags="&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2966" CreationDate="2009-07-06T21:59:51.400" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming that the end of the URL associated with a question is changed whenever a title is edited... is this correct?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the original URL link to the edits page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what are the implications to SEO for the site, since Google is considered the home-page of SO?  Is this deemed an acceptable trade-off, since edits will most likely take place early in the lifespan of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:50:18.823" Title="Does the question reflected in the URL change when a question title is edited?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="2964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:00:38.547" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the author of a question uses a salutation and/or ends with a &quot;Thanks&quot; in his question because he/she is trying to be nice/respectful to others that might be answering his/her question, I see absolutely no problem with that. And, in fact, sometimes I find it kind of refreshing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can at least see the argument (although I strongly don't agree) for someone removing the salutations if he/she is editing the question for technical correctness or other things in order to make the question more concise. However, I absolutely think it is bush league with no legitimate justification to just edit an author's post to solely remove salutations and that is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If StackOverflow, Meta, etc. want to ban the use of salutations, thank you's, etc. then do so explicitly. It is not like there are not other rules for these forums. You can make a rule via a dictatorship or via a democratic process... I don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as evidenced in this thread, there is clearly a split about whether or not salutations or the like are ok in questions (maybe a majority leaning towards no).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this is all about common sense. It takes literally zero time to read a &quot;Hi&quot; or a &quot;Thank You&quot;, and to me, the personal benefits of seeing those words if someone chooses to use them outweighs what I consider a weirdly rigid regiment of question asking by some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually find this whole conversation a bit disturbing. I for one am not going to teach my kids that is wrong to say &quot;Hi&quot; or &quot;Thank You&quot;, even in electronic form, even for &quot;fear&quot; of being downvoted, edited or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess for now, until such a hard and fast rule is in place regarding this issue, I will probably mix using salutations and not using them. If I do, I will feel no shame about it and I suppose I cannot stop someone from taking them out; I guess I will just have to determine whether or not it is worth it for me to put them back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38693" LastEditorUserId="38693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T02:40:45.710" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T02:40:45.710" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="2965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:00:40.287" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually salutations don't take up enough space to make a huge difference in the preview lines and taglines take up none at all unless the question is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if the post has nothing else wrong with it and is just bookended with &quot;Hi/Thanks&quot;, then you can probably pass on the edit. There are posts which need attention much more than these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, cutting other filler-ish lines and rearranging sentences to make the edit seem larger so you can justify taking out salutations/taglines seems a bit childish. I've seen it in a few cases and would not like it to become the norm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it boils down to the semi-personal nature of the site itself. It's half technical paper and half discussion. We aren't robots and we aren't speaking to robots. Some people just want acknowledgment of that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:00:40.287" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2963" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:03:12.383" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2963/click-here-for-ponies&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2963/click-here-for-ponies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T00:40:40.880" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T00:40:40.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3017" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:04:46.010" Score="10" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there have been some questions up here recently that bring up the edge cases in which people can gain reputation without actually contributing much, I will add one more way that has recently been getting worse and worse (at least in my experience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone posts a question. It is relatively simple and involves a link to a particular page of the documentation with perhaps a quick code sample on how to use it. You do this, get a few upvotes, all is well. Ten, maybe fifteen minutes later, another user comes along and answers the &lt;em&gt;exact same thing&lt;/em&gt; you said. This user will probably not get the accepted answer, but since the answer is in fact correct he will get a few upvotes. Theorically, I could simply go around C# questions (which I know nothing about), see what answer gets upvoted and quickly post something that is pretty much the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything to be done about this? Is it even a problem? I believe that it just adds noise to the site to have several answers that all say the same thing, not to mention the gaming aspect of it that people can gain reputation by not knowing anything. I have noticed a few users actually post comments on these kind of answers along the lines of &quot;This was already said by so-and-so, you should remove this answer to reduce the noise&quot; - is this the right approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="16417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T22:20:36.933" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T23:20:23.457" Title="Is there anything to be done about answer sniping?" Tags="&lt;community&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2941" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:06:35.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Traples, w/ exceptions for feasibility:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Store in database in UTC&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;compute all statistics (daily point totals, limits, etc.) in UTC&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;convert times for display as date/time to local time&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;local timezone defaults to UTC&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;local timezone can be set by user on user's account page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:06:35.880" />
  <row Id="2969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:06:48.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me start by saying that I find salutations, sigs, etc. extremely annoying. They set my teeth on edge and tend to colour my view of the post they enclose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I do not believe there is any justification for editing Stack Overflow answers (note answers, not questions) that contain these entities. Correct spelling (I'm always grateful for that), but leave it at that. Unlike a question, an answer is an expression of personal belief, knowledge and attitude, and should not be messed with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T07:36:49.523" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T07:36:49.523" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:08:34.290" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we need a vote to close an answer or vote to delete an answer option?  I completely agree that this is an issue and have seen it occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:08:34.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:09:01.093" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's anything that can be done...and furthermore, I don't really see it as a big problem. A lot of the times I find differently worded versions of the same answer help me get my head around the problem better in the first place, which is a big plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noise is one thing, but I have a hard time advocating the removal of &lt;strong&gt;correct&lt;/strong&gt; noise. I'm all for getting rid of incorrect answers that could be misleading, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:09:01.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:12:13.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see it as a problem. If someone is going to continue to get rewarded for it they are going to continue doing it. Perhaps the community will wisen up and look at how far apart the answers are, but generally if they see two answers close together saying the same thing, they may not realize that one person came and posted a lot later and will just assume that it was a case of two similar answers getting posted at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a vast difference in time, I personally won't vote for another answer that says the same thing. If there is a minimal time difference, then I will be much more generous in how I dole out my votes over multiple answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:12:13.220" />
  <row Id="2974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:13:38.280" Score="15" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;Title says it all, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I accidentally checked the box on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/36637/can-i-atomically-swap-a-raid5-drive-in-linux-software-raid&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130299" LastEditorUserId="145982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T14:24:19.143" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T14:24:19.143" Title="Is there a way to remove community wiki status?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="2975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:14:11.170" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not! I have to agree with toast - there's no reason we can't be a bit more informal and attempt to interact with the community on a more human level. If this is how the majority of programmers interact with their peers (no greetings, all information), then I'm &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; glad I don't have to deal with that every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:14:11.170" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="2977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2949" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:26:16.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to admit, after I first saw the Woot badge, I started going to woot.com for a few days as a little experiment to see if that was actually what you had to do to get it. I eventually figured it out and stopped going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes... facepalm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:26:16.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:29:06.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on, I would down-vote answers that didn't add anything to what had already been said. I've kinda stopped doing that, but maybe it's not such a terrible idea... Many people do tend to take down-votes as a hint that they're doing something wrong, especially if coupled with a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:29:06.230" />
  <row Id="2980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:35:15.330" Score="13" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I navigate with Ctrl-n,p,f,b (readline/emacs keys) so that I don't have to move my hands too much and get RSI again. Is there a way to disable Ctrl-b being hotkey for &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130299" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T16:07:12.917" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T21:41:42.497" Title="Is there a way to disable the hotkeys?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2962" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:36:01.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2832/details-about-the-flagging-mechanism&quot;&gt;This other post&lt;/a&gt; has the details. It's really just a list of things that have been flagged in the same SO style you see around you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:36:01.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T22:36:01.663" />
  <row Id="2982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2952" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:37:57.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Features so far have been tested in the field (SO.com) and tweaked when necessary. I think that this is a fine way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:37:57.027" />
  <row Id="2983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:44:39.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure that is what really goes on - I mean &lt;em&gt;gaming&lt;/em&gt; the system, or &lt;em&gt;copying&lt;/em&gt; other people's answers with no real knowledge on the subject matter? I would think that at least 90% of the time people simply come up with similar answers independently (and unwittingly). Usually there isn't much harm in that, in my opinion. And, blatant copying aside, reputation isn't completely undeserved even if someone else was a bit faster in posting (the first draft of) a very similar answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good example, note the comments: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049833/multi-valued-hashtable-in-java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049833/multi-valued-hashtable-in-java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T23:11:49.853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:11:49.853" />
  <row Id="2984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:45:15.413" Score="8" ViewCount="396" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to have noticed a bit of a trend where a posted question will very quickly get an answer, but a very poor one.  It would seem that some people are &quot;camping&quot;, waiting for new questions to be asked, and then jump on them and try to get an answer submitted asap, presumably in hopes that it will get marked correct.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this would be fine if the answers were correct, but I find that they are often extremely weak answers.  And this is just speculation on my part, but it seems like once a question has one response, traffic to it drops dramatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really know exactly what to propose about this....it seems there are several issues with undesirable behavior from people trying to gain reputation.  I wonder if increasing the weight of downvotes might be the answer, or maybe even making their weight exponential, ie: 1 downvote is no big deal, but 4 downvotes is a very big deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is to try to do something to get rid of people that are posting answeres that are just not very good at all, and they know it, but they are hoping that by having &quot;many lines in the water&quot;, they might catch an extra fish here and there.  I think this type of behaviour should be discouraged on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130390" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:40:15.027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T02:59:48.417" Title="Half-assed answers from new question campers....problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="2985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:53:13.537" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the voting system takes care of this nicely on the areas with a lot of interest, not so well on the areas with less interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:53:13.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="2986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:53:20.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a risk and answer this question (about answering questions first) first.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the voting system, as it stands, is itself is a fairly good incentive for providing good answers.  In my own experience, I've been hanging around SO for a few weeks, and have been fairly hesitant to offer answers until understanding the culture a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am, however, intrigued by the possible weighting of additional downvotes (and maybe the reverse for upvotes)... but multiple downvotes may indicate a further problem suitable for flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T22:53:20.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="2987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T22:57:37.527" Score="1" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that Stack Overflow is for technical questions only. Is there another version for other aspects of software &amp;#8212; such as marketing software &amp;#8212; similar to &lt;code&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/code&gt; for admin questions? If not, what do you think about the idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-03T23:15:54.133" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T23:15:54.133" Title="Is there a Stack Overflow for marketing questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="2988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2987" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:00:20.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will be able to make your own soon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no use for a marketing site, but if you think it would be useful, I say go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:00:20.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:00:32.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually probably a good thing for a condensed answer based on a link to be posted, since eventually the link may disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:00:32.340" />
  <row Id="2991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:01:30.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so down vote the bad answer and upvote a better one. What is the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:01:30.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2790" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:11:17.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They will have to be, cause the new data dump is going to include some new fields ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:11:17.220" />
  <row Id="2994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1359" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:22:03.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site doesn't need to know what timezone the user is in. All you have to do is have a little JavaScript that will replace the UTC time with the user's local time on their computer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:22:03.860" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="2995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:25:14.103" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I come across a question on SO that is actually a number of questions all in one. If these &quot;sub-questions&quot; are closely related, it's not a problem. But if they are only weakly related (or not at all) it gets ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm now (ironically or hypocritically) going to ask a few questions of my own for the community to respond to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you consider a question made up of a number of weakly-related sub-questions &quot;inappropriate&quot;? Why or why not?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many is &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; many sub-questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you think is the best way to deal with such questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/907873/10-questions-in-ruby&quot;&gt;here's one such question&lt;/a&gt; I had some discussion about with another user. I will add a more complete version of my response in an answer below, but in short I felt that this question should be closed and many of the questions asked separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T02:18:28.137" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T02:44:14.737" Title="Multi-Question Questions: How Best to Handle Them?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;multiple&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="2996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:27:09.050" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the brouhaha over the account association bonus, I noticed that the bonuses do not show up in the &quot;Recent Activity&quot; screen, nor to they (apparently) show up in the user reputation screen.  Apparently, there are other reasons why rep can change stealthily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;knew&lt;/strong&gt; my serverfault rep had dropped over the weekend, but could not for the life of me figure out why!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a problem.  When rep is added or removed, a transaction should be shown.  A transaction should not be &lt;strong&gt;removed&lt;/strong&gt;, it should be &lt;strong&gt;reversed&lt;/strong&gt; with an offsetting transaction.  We all may be anal, but we do keep track, at least approximately!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you all think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:43:45.417" Title="Reputation Transaction Screen - show bonuses &amp; reductions due to deleted questions" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="2997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2995" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:37:07.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider a &quot;multi-question&quot; to be in bad form. It discourages people from answering because if they don't have an answer for all of the sections, then they won't post even a partial answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that two is usually too many. Unless the second question is asking whether or not there are alternative methods or very closely related to the first. The site is better served by having multiple small questions rather than large FAQ-style ones. Smaller, more focused questions have a better chanced of turning up in specific Google searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if there is a best way to deal with them. Editing out all of the extra questions and posting the extras as separate questions seems like rep-whoring (even though you are providing a necessary service and technically deserve some boost for it, but the original poster deserves some for asking in the first place). And I can't think of any other solution than telling the poster to split it up, which probably won't happen in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastEditorUserId="3824" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T23:54:30.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:54:30.033" />
  <row Id="2998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2995" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:39:00.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't consider a question made of of many smaller questions to be inappropriate, but I do find it frustrating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would like to see people who have a lot of sub questions to make them all different questions, but perhaps have them linked together to provide a greater context to those attempting to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First question: as stated above, not really&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is inappropriate, I think we can take the method that the Supreme Court does towards obscentity...you'll know it when you see it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As stated above, I would like to see people separate their questions into the smaller questions and then link them to each other to provide appropriate context.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:39:00.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="2999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:40:51.257" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the fast answer is a bad answer, then downvote it. If it is a decent answer (i.e. it answers the question appropriately) then I don't see a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you originally mark up an answer that is fast but then you find another answer down the road which is much better, feel free to remove your upvote from that other answer and give it to the new answer (or just keep upvoted because they are both technically correct).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people stop getting rewarded for posting fast and inadequate answers, they will stop doing it. As long as they are being rewarded for it they will keep doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:40:51.257" />
  <row Id="3000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:42:56.503" Score="4" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this question asked on SO, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089607/does-try-finally-ignore-exceptions&quot;&gt;Does try/finally ignore exceptions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is really similar or duplicate of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/833946/in-c-will-the-finally-block-be-executed-in-a-try-catch-finally-if-an-unhandled&quot;&gt;In C# will the Finally block be executed in a try, catch, finally if an unhandled exception is thrown ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And its brethren. (There have been over 70 views and no one thinks its a duplicate)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At what point is a question a duplicate? Are there a clear set of guidelines / rules? Or is this a touchy feely thing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/230/duplicate-question-etiquette-to-delete-or-not-to-delete&quot;&gt;duplicate question etiquette: to delete or not to delete?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-06T23:57:45.900" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T01:54:43.957" Title="At what point does a question become a duplicate?" Tags="&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="3001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:43:08.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO keeps my language fairly clean by virtue of being mostly technical discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:43:08.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T23:43:08.047" />
  <row Id="3002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2996" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:43:45.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent activity screen does a halfway decent of of keeping track of you rep gains and losses over the time periods. I would much rather see that page modified to take into account things like special bonuses or losses due to deleted answers and questions then I would rather see a completely different screen try and do a better job. No point in having two areas where one does it half-decent and the other tries to plug other holes. Just plug the holes in the Recent Activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:43:45.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2995" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:45:20.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for keeping a question as focused on a specific topic as possible... the narrower the better. Here's my reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The contents of SO should be easy to search, either by keyword searches or (specifically) using the &quot;tags&quot; they supply. By packing too many varied topics into one question, that can make it harder for someone to find the topic they are looking for, since questions are limited to using only 5 tags. A question that covers more than 5 general topics will therefore not have its content completely represented by its tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answers to specific questions should also be well-developed and easy to understand. By packing a number of sub-questions into one question, each may not get the attention it deserves. The question itself may not get many answers since users may not want to write such a long answer or might feel like they &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; answer if they can't address &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the questions adequately. In addition, if someone is only concerned with answers to one of the sub-questions, they would potentially have to sift through a lot of other answers to get to the info they need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases of multiple weakly-related sub-questions, I generally vote to close (to pause answering on a poorly formed question), then suggest that the OP either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the question and reask the sub-questions separately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Narrow the current question to one important one and separately ask the rest later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:45:20.743" />
  <row Id="3004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3000" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:45:27.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that when a question is asking the same thing (and likely to get the exact same answer), then it should be classified as a dupe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of it is touchy feely, however, and I feel a lot of people accidentally classify something as a dupe even when there are some subtle differences which may not make it the same and is asking for something a bit different. There seems to be a lot of reflexive knee-jerk reactions when it comes to voting to close for duplicate reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:45:27.143" />
  <row Id="3005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8057" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:50:52.430" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't remove &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1077144/network-manager-keeps-creating-dhcp-connection-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question from my favorites. (Favorite count decreases, but returns to previous value on refresh)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is locked, closed, and migrated so I imagine one or a combination of these is the cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember for sure, but I think the favorite count was 3 before I tried to remove it, and it is now 1. Coincidence, or have I de-favorited the question for others somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4949" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T09:29:13.207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T09:30:47.390" Title="Bug: Can't de-favorite a (locked, closed, migrated) question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="3006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:52:12.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually the two similar answers are different by a small token. Ideally the second poster would simply edit the first to add clarification. But many of the answerers are driven by rep - that's what the site promotes so it's to be expected. Given that, it's unlikely that the individuals answering will edit the original post rather than posting their own answer. I'd say, that the OP should step in and edit the original answer to include any relevant details from the later post to create the &quot;official answer&quot;, then accept that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gone back to delete a couple of my own answers that overlapped others so significantly as to not add any value on their own. I believe that this was the original intent of the Disciplined badge, to encourage users to cooperatively create the best answer by deleting their own noise and adding new data to the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With any reward based system where individuals are only rewarded for their individual efforts you're gonna get noise like this. If there was a way to share rep, you might get better answers, but that would be incredibly difficult to pull off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140229" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:52:12.807" />
  <row Id="3007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3000" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:52:52.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I saw a blog post about this ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ah here it is&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:52:52.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3000" CreationDate="2009-07-06T23:55:37.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff defined some different classes of duplicates in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/230/duplicate-question-etiquette-to-delete-or-not-to-delete&quot;&gt;one of his blog posts&lt;/a&gt;. He says about &quot;Borderline duplicates&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s often benefit to having&#xA;  multiple subtle variants of a question&#xA;  around, as people tend to ask and&#xA;  search using completely different&#xA;  words, and the better our coverage,&#xA;  the better odds our fellow programmers&#xA;  can find the answer they’re looking&#xA;  for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Handling duplicates is also discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/230/duplicate-question-etiquette-to-delete-or-not-to-delete&quot;&gt;this other MetaSO question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-06T23:55:37.130" />
  <row Id="3009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-07T00:07:04.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it help to somehow encourage people not to accept a particular answer until some minimum amount of time (e.g. 1 hour) has passed since they posted the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122321" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T00:07:04.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2908" CreationDate="2009-07-07T00:14:32.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worse than that - if they contain a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; then they get broken altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment from Josh on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085051/problem-with-printing-contents-of-a-list/1085059#1085059&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; (I'm happily married by the way, Josh, bad luck but I'm flattered all the same) appears as &quot;I&quot; in my envelope page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="21886" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-10T12:23:30.210" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T12:23:30.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-07T00:15:38.853" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm now against salutations at the start of a question or answer because it clutters the preview on the front page question list, but don't see the harm in a 'Thanks in advance' or 'Thanks for looking' at the end. We can't live lives of total formality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having seen the light and having been a mod for a bit, these things have become offensive to the eye now :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO posts look so much cleaner without salutations and sigs/tags than the posts on some of my pre-Stack Overflow haunts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-07T13:36:16.443" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T13:36:16.443" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T00:43:31.560" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see SO implement user based tags like delicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if no one is answering my question, but I know Scott Hanselman would know the answer I could tag my question &quot;for:shanselman&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when Scott logs in he would have a list of questions directed at him to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I acctually think that if a user is sent a direct question and answers it, this should be worth slightly more reputation points, because you are proving your &quot;real life reputation&quot; in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also create bon-a-fide experts so that a question that hasn't been answered in a while could prompt the asker: &quot;You should send this to XYZ&quot; where XYZ is a leader in the tag category for the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this system also adds more merit to blog flair, because your blog flair could have a link to &quot;ask me a question&quot; which would all get funneled through the SO system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="107289" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T08:16:48.650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:23:05.600" Title="Send Question To User Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3000" CreationDate="2009-07-07T00:43:59.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that the first question is C#-specific whereas try/finally is a construct that exists in other languages (eg Java). I can't think of any language-specific issues with this but that doesn't mean there aren't any. Back in the Java 1.4.2 days, try/catch was horribly expensive so performance was a valid consideration (fixed in Java 5+). Not that performance was a focus of the question (either one) but it's that kind of thing that can differentiate otherwise similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two questions are certainly close though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T00:43:59.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2009-07-07T00:49:23.213" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point of this (and it could be incredibly spamtastic if put in the wrong hands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why someone like Hannselmann couldn't subscribe to the C# tag and then respond to questions that come in that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is to consult the community, not just a particular member. Otherwise we would have all already filled up Jon Skeet's inbox and asked him to answer all our questions personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T00:49:23.213" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-07T00:55:03.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get frustrated when I see this - seems like it happens to me all the time. Generally, if I run across this, I look up who answered the question first, and then I comment on everybody else who offered the same solution and ask them politely to up-vote the original author. Sometimes they delete their answer, and up-vote the author, and sometimes they don't. Kinda annoys me that they don't acknowledge the same answer, and the fact that they were late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T00:55:03.420" />
  <row Id="3019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2009-07-07T01:21:58.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just send him an email with the link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T01:21:58.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-07T01:43:23.940" Score="140" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been against the greetings and salutations (along with other extraneous clutter) in questions for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It will leave even less room in the question preview so that we have more difficulty gauging what a question consists of by reading the preview.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It takes time to read and parse through those questions when I am trying to spend my time more efficiently reading through the actual question and figuring out how to appropriately answer it. If I have to start reading all the little side comments and snarky humor inserted in there it detracts from the overall message.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this is supposed to be a website which is servicing more than just the primary author, we need to think about how we construct messages so that they appear more clearly to those searching on google for questions that match their own. If I am looking for a solution for question X, I want to find someone who had the same problem, not their short autobiography and formalities before getting to that actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T01:43:23.940" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3000" CreationDate="2009-07-07T01:54:43.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a new question is &lt;em&gt;answered&lt;/em&gt; by the answers to an old question, I will generally consider it a duplicate. The exception to this is when an answer to the new one does, or potentially &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; add a significant amount of useful information - in that case, it's worth editing one or both to draw a clear distinction between them, and perhaps a &quot;See also:&quot; crosslink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T01:54:43.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3026" CreationDate="2009-07-07T02:07:13.543" Score="5" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kinds of 'questionable' or 'illegal' gaming have you seen on any of the SO engine sites? How did you figure out that it was gaming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T02:16:12.973" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:57:11.547" Title="What ways have you seen the SO engine gamed?" Tags="&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3024" CreationDate="2009-07-07T02:09:21.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this would count as &quot;gaming the system&quot; but a recent example might be where I answered a question by Jon Skeet and he offered to withhold giving the check mark until I had hit my daily rep limit. That way the +15 would be added on top of the rep limit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have not seen this personally but I assume it would be possible for a user to post a question, then answer it with a zombie account, vote it up or accept it so that the zombie account now had enough rep to go on and function in the system to serve as an upvote machine for the user. If I am mistaken and this methodology is not possible, even better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T02:09:21.750" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3024" CreationDate="2009-07-07T02:14:16.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... The whole thing's set up to be sort of a game, so most of what comes to mind is probably acceptable usage (rushing to get a brief answer in quickly, then editing it, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Undesired gaming usually tends to be subtle; otherwise, what's the point? But i do recall seeing a question where the author promised - in the question text - to upvote anyone who posted anything in reply. I don't believe that worked out so well for him though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T02:14:16.847" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3024" CreationDate="2009-07-07T02:21:24.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/36052/what-is-the-purpose-of-source-as-a-shell-command&quot;&gt;asking a question and then immediately answering it with a lengthy pre-prepared answer&lt;/a&gt; count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T02:21:24.600" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="3029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-07T02:50:56.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with salutations and thanks, provided they're not too wordy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T02:50:56.913" />
  <row Id="3030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3024" CreationDate="2009-07-07T03:11:35.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most gaming seems to happen when a question is fresh, old questions seem to receive less attention and people can not be bothered to game them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this happen sometimes: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post bad/funny/incomplete answer quickly &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get down voted to -1 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct answer, get upvoted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see tactical donwvoting happen sometimes (which has been discussed in another question, and IMHO is a really bad practice). Which is downvote good answers so your answer will be on equal grounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally will tactically upvote good answers, I try to upvote good answers on questions that I also post an answer, if I think my answer is better. It encourages participation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see people post vague/simple questions lots of times to attract lots of views and random upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T03:11:35.753" />
  <row Id="3031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2949" CreationDate="2009-07-07T03:12:36.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do realize that if you hover your mouse over the badge, it will give you a pop-up description of the badge, ... right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the tooltip wasn't that clear about what it meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Visited the site each day for 30 days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes one wonder, what other &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3032/badge-descriptions-ambiguous&quot;&gt;Badge descriptions [are] ambiguous&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T14:09:51.587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:09:51.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T03:33:38.823" Score="10" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may seem a little prudish, but as a new SO and MSO user, I found the badge descriptions a little less than fully intuitive.  For all you old-timers, here's a privileged glimpse into the observations of the ignorant and uninitiated...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the Scholar badge reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;First accepted answer on your own question&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An initial quick read of the hover-over description led me to believe this was tongue-in-cheek, meaning &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You accepted your own answer.  You must be a scholar.  Heh.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I knew that wasn't the case (on either count) I re-read it more carefully and realized it was still ambiguous.  I think the word &quot;First&quot; is troublesome on this badge and might be more easily understood if it simply said something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Accepted an answer on your own question&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, other badges that have the word &quot;first&quot; seem less than straight forward.  The Teacher badge (&quot;Answered first question with at least one up vote&quot;) could easily be taken to refer only to the first question I answered, rather than the first time an answer was voted up.  Same with Student badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know these seem like nitpicking, but these sites are great precisely because they cut out the ambiguity and get to the meat of the matter.  This seems like the place to bring up even the trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastEditorUserId="130373" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T12:50:25.003" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:50:25.003" Title="Badge descriptions ambiguous" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;&lt;semantics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2009-07-07T03:38:15.750" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been some confusion over the descriptions in the badges in the past, so I can understand why someone would be having problems with understanding what each one means. I figure if someone took the time to make a better description for the badges to make them more clear, I don't think Jeff &amp;amp; The Team would ignore it immediately. It may not be something that gets changed immediately (since it is a minor nitpick after all), but I don't think it would be looked at negatively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there seems to be even more confusion than I thought, I will try and provide some more information concerning the badges on StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Autobiographer&lt;/strong&gt; - Fill out your user profile. (only awrded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beta&lt;/strong&gt; - Be a member of the site's beta period (only awarded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Citizen Patrol&lt;/strong&gt; - Flag you first post (only awarded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/strong&gt; - Cast any combination of 300 up and down votes. (only awarded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cleanup&lt;/strong&gt; - First rollback of a question or answer. (only awarded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commentator&lt;/strong&gt; - Left 10 comments on questions and answers (only awarded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Critic&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded first time you cast a down vote (only awarded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disciplined&lt;/strong&gt; - Deleted your own post that had a score of at least +3 (awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor&lt;/strong&gt; - First edit to a question or answer (only awarded once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enlightened&lt;/strong&gt; - You are the first to answer a question. Your answer is accepted. Your answer scores at least +10. This can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Woot!/Enthusiast&lt;/strong&gt; - Visited the site for 30 days straight (only awarded once I believe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Famous Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Asked a question with 10,000 views (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fanatic&lt;/strong&gt; - Visit the site for 100 straight days (only awarded once I believe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Your question is favorited by 25 people (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Generalist&lt;/strong&gt; - Active in many different tags (awarded once, but not implemented at this time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer voted up 25 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question voted up 25 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer voted up 100 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question voted up 100 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guru&lt;/strong&gt; - Accepted Answer and Score of at least +40 (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Necromancer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer a question more than 60 days after it's posting and score at least +5 (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer voted up 10 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question voted up 10 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notable Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question viewed 2,500 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Organizer&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded upon the first time you retag a question (awarded only once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peer Pressure&lt;/strong&gt; - Deleted your own post after it scored at least -3 (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Popular Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question viewed 1,000 times (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Populist&lt;/strong&gt; - Your answer has 2x the score as the accepted answer. Accepted answer must be at least +10 (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scholar&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded the first time you accept an answer on a question you post (awarded only once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Self-Learner&lt;/strong&gt; - Accepted your own answer and scored at least +3 (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stellar Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question favorited by 100 users (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after you edit 100 questions or answers (awarded only once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Student&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after asking a question with a single up vote (awarded only once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supporter&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after casting your first up vote (awarded only once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taxonomist&lt;/strong&gt; - Created a tag that is used on 50 questions (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after receiving your first up vote on an answer (awarded only once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tumbleweed&lt;/strong&gt; - Ask a question that gets no comments, no answers, and low views over the course of a week (can be awarded multiple times)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yearling&lt;/strong&gt; - be a member of the site for a year (awarded only once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T04:24:30.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T04:24:30.417" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="3034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3032" CreationDate="2009-07-07T03:49:59.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;first&quot; (in many cases) means the badge will only be awarded the first time the criteria are met. This is contrary to the Nice Answer series, for example, which will be awarded for each time the criteria are met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was also confused as a new user and apparently still am. I think it could be cleared up by appending &quot;(Awarded once)&quot; to the confusing descriptions instead of using &quot;first&quot;. The enlightened badge, however, should still say first because it indeed means &quot;first answer&quot; (thanks TheTXI).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Enlightened - First answer and was accepted with&#xA;  at least 10 upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scholar - Accepted an answer on your own question (awarded once)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Student - Asked a question with at least one up vote (awarded once)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="44853" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T04:07:57.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T04:07:57.447" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3124" CreationDate="2009-07-07T04:52:17.817" Score="-1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are user details not maintained in a common place across sites? If I need to change something (not that there are many things a user can change), I will have to change on all the three (and four or many more ;) in the near future) rather than one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:42:48.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T04:52:17.817" Title="User details not maintained in a common place" Tags="&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3024" CreationDate="2009-07-07T04:54:49.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was intentional, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1090376/unix-manual-programs-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was just answered then closed by the same person 2.5 minutes later. I don't know if it's &quot;gaming&quot; per se, but it's questionable in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: It definitely wasn't intentional (you'll notice the answer has been deleted), but it's possible other people with intent and enough power can do this to game the system somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="44853" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T05:31:33.407" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:31:33.407" />
  <row Id="3043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3040" CreationDate="2009-07-07T04:58:19.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the introduction of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;account association&lt;/a&gt;, I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2/sync-meta-user-accounts-daily-with-other-family-sites&quot;&gt;syncing of data&lt;/a&gt; between the user profiles of the sites is right around the corner. However, some people will want to maintain different data on different sites (this will become more prominent as the number of sites grows), so I hope that this will be an opt-in feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T05:03:23.320" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:03:23.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T04:58:19.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-07-07T05:03:43.293" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are people, not machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't start questions with a &quot;Hi&quot;, but I usually end them with &quot;Thanks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: don't remove greetings/thanks taglines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:03:43.293" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2445" CreationDate="2009-07-07T05:15:01.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;here is a use case for point sharing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050696/the-business-of-artificial-intelligence&quot;&gt;had a question&lt;/a&gt; on SO which concerned high-level overview of a topic, where diversity is a much more important feature, than single, well-explained topics; I'd very much like to offer a bounty of some amount, but offer a larger share to new collaborators (and well-thought out answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:15:01.800" />
  <row Id="3046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-07T05:26:11.450" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So what if someone has answered the question first? You can still post a better answer if there is one. Maybe if the first answer gets accepted, you need to think twice about posting your answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, even after I accept an answer to my question, and someone posts a better answer (in terms of better performance or better code), I accept the new answer and let go off the previously accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still have a couple of Q posted almost months ago in my list which are unaccepted because I need to try out the better solution before marking it as accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To accept not-so-good answer when some one comes up with a better one seems unjust to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:26:11.450" />
  <row Id="3047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1998" CreationDate="2009-07-07T05:44:25.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to ask the following question but I think it belongs here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why not let people with 'x' amount of rep vote to migrate from the current site (SO/SF/MS/SU) to one of the others?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would take the manual work out of it, remove the burden from moderators, and still have a safety mechanism built in just like 'vote to close'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61332" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:44:25.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3057" CreationDate="2009-07-07T05:53:08.717" Score="6" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does a question about logic gates and chip design belong on stackoverflow?  It's &quot;not-programming-related&quot; but it sort of is...  It wouldn't really belong on any other SO variant either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking the above general question but I'm referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088712/race-condition-in-two-adders&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in particular.  It was marked as 'not-programming-related' and I was debating whether or not to remove the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61332" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T22:06:44.390" Title="What to do with Hardware Question on SO?" Tags="&lt;hardware&gt;&lt;not-directly-programming&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="3050" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T05:54:36.837" Score="8" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there is some distinction between Fogcreek running the job site on SO and the actual SO team, but I would like to put this out there none the less:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lower the cost of internship/co-op position listings.   There are never any listings for this category and it is with good reason.  It costs too much.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/4gCHW.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can fully understand a company paying $350/per listing for a full-time, full-fledged developer for their company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the number of companies that are willing to pay this amount to post possible internships are few and far between.  37Signals charges $300/job and $50/internship and I think this is the right approach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see far more internships on the job site, so lets see if we can do something to reduce to cost and subsidize the young developers a little more in their internship endeavors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastEditorUserId="2635" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T06:30:57.620" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:30:14.720" Title="Lower the cost to post Internship positions on jobs.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;job&gt;&lt;job-offers&gt;&lt;internships&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3024" CreationDate="2009-07-07T05:57:11.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I'm new here and everything, but what would be the point?  Yes, your rep would increase, but why would that matter?  Is there a prize to be won?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could someone benefit by gaming the system?  Is this site really just all about ego?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130307" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T05:57:11.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2009-07-07T06:09:43.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This kind of low level hardware question doesn't seem to have a place within the overflow network (electronics site required?) and on first blush would seem like a &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; smaller audience than a programmer or even sysadmin site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess we'll see if Jeff creates an electron overflow site, otherwise Close-&gt;NPR seems like the right call for this question, but &quot;hardware&quot; may be covered by SF in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T06:09:43.560" />
  <row Id="3053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T06:12:16.810" Score="2" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/296/reputation-for-comments&quot;&gt;Reputation for comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments are really helpful in answering the questions. At times people edit their answers to include the changes as per the comments. So why should upvotes on comments not boost one's rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we coming up with the feature of adding comment votes to rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T00:02:48.630" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T00:02:48.630" ClosedDate="2009-07-07T12:08:50.157" Title="Why don't we get reputation for upvotes on comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-07T06:13:37.263" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pattern I've noticed is similar: fast posts to get in at the top followed by more substantial detail within the free edit period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see where jeff is going with the free edits, and I appreciate being be to fix mistakes without dropping my page ranking :P but I suspect that going the opposite way and actually disabling edits (or posts appearing) entirely within the first 5 minutes or so would produce better quality answers because you may as well spend the time getting it full and correct then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T06:13:37.263" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3053" CreationDate="2009-07-07T06:31:23.507" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If upvotes on comments were &quot;valuable&quot;, I think you'd need to add downvotes on comments and make the downvotes have negative value, because otherwise they'd skew people's rep misleadingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the result would merely be amplification of rep based on whether people had posted comments under their own answers or not. You'd see an explosion of use of the comments system for things that had previously gone into answers, probably making the answers less readable. Then people would want code snippets to work in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the votes against comments are not about rep. They're just a quick way for someone else to say &quot;I would have said the same thing&quot; without having to type it out. If someone disagrees, they can write a comment of their own saying why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T06:31:23.507" />
  <row Id="3057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2009-07-07T06:39:36.053" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These questions are very much programming related.  The most popular languages for digital hardware description, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Verilog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VHDL&lt;/a&gt;, borrow heavily from C and Ada, respectively, with added constructs for modeling hardware behavior.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SystemC&lt;/a&gt;, another hardware description language, is essentially just C++ written in a specific style, and linked with the SystemC runtime library.  And now there are even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cadence.com/products/sd/silicon%5Fcompiler/pages/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;products&lt;/a&gt; to convert plain C code to hardware.  This allows complex algorithms to be written once, and implemented in either hardware or software.  So there is definitely an increasing convergence between hardware and software design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112212" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T06:39:36.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3053" CreationDate="2009-07-07T07:10:36.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the fact theres no rep for comments. Sometimes comments can be used to make remarks that aren't necessarily relevant but are either insightful or just amusing. Now I don't mind that because there's not too much of it to just be annoying. Incentivising it would create more of it. We don't need that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T07:10:36.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3040" CreationDate="2009-07-07T07:31:21.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I for one would probably have a very different profile on superuser, and I should &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; update my profile for SF; simply, the geek-details on my SO account aren't really appropriate if I am asking about getting the CD drive working on ubuntu (or whatever).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T07:31:21.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T07:31:21.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2987" CreationDate="2009-07-07T08:01:29.097" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think marketing with relation to Software is in fact valid for Stack Overflow? As would other external factors relating to development. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T08:01:29.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3082" CreationDate="2009-07-07T08:55:00.383" Score="9" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25/should-users-edit-other-users-posts-to-correct-grammar-and-spelling-problems&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question touched on it briefly but how should the spelling and grammar be handled by users who do not have enough rep to edit posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often come across posts where the spelling and grammar makes the question illegible, and it will take a significant amount of time in my case to gain the rep required to edit these posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can flag posts for everything except potential grammar, and filling each question with comments advising the OP to fix his grammar or spelling, doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions, Comments, Potential Flag for Grammar/Spelling option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T09:27:55.457" LastActivityDate="2011-06-19T11:33:22.087" Title="Spelling and Grammar Flag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="101501" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:26:43.093" Score="6" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;How you can get a list of all the comments you have written? There is the &quot;recent&quot; -tab in user information but that lists only the 50 or so last events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastEditorUserId="1431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T19:41:24.593" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T14:16:38.677" Title="How you can get a list of all the comment you have written?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:28:50.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't currently. This would be a good feature request though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T09:28:50.030" />
  <row Id="3072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1930" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:30:52.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After listening to the podcast and reading this thread again, I must say that I feel as though Jeff doesn't have a good appreciation for the role of philosophy in general. Maybe it was just an off-hand comment that wasn't really thought-through, or maybe it wasn't meant in the seemingly-unequivocal manner in which it was communicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, I have no idea what programming would be without the impact of philosophy. We practice philosophy when we design data-structures, asking ourselves questions like &quot;What IS a user.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really want to spend too much time on this response, because I don't think Jeff really meant what it sounded like he meant. Just to summarize, if you're not the type that &quot;thinks about problems,&quot; you're probably not a very good developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T09:30:52.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3068" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:34:47.390" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a &quot;Requires cleanup&quot; flag that people over a certain rep can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a catch though. If you put that required rep at 2000 (edit post rep). And let's say 5% of the 2000&gt; people look at that queue. Even at that number we have way way to many people looking at one post that possibly has a few spelling errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T09:34:47.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:38:40.427" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as an example, when the last data dump was released I created a small C# program to convert it into Protocol Buffers format, but omitting the text. The text itself is rarely interesting for data mining purposes, but obviously takes up a lot of the space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That raises three alternative formats immediately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Protocol Buffer (with .proto files obviously) including text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Protocol Buffer excluding text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XML excluding text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that not &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; many people are interested in the PB format, but if I were to also provide some appropriate tools to make it LINQ friendly, it may be fairly easy to create a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linqpad.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LINQPad&lt;/a&gt; plugin or whatever. I find it easier to write LINQ than SQL :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be good to have a &quot;diff&quot; format so that people who have the previous data dumps can easily add the new ones. That would need to include deletions as well, of course - it wouldn't be a trivial thing to do (well, not for me anyway) but would make it a lot lighter each month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not suggesting that Jeff should be doing this by the way - although the no-text XML version would probably be welcome and relatively easy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T17:55:56.210" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:55:56.210" Title="What alternative formats of the data dump would people be interested in?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:41:40.070" Score="5" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if the user's local time zone is considered when calculating whether or not to award them a woot/enthusiast badge? If not then which time zone is it calculated from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130188" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:13:34.590" Title="Is timezone considered when calculating the woot badge?" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:48:15.483" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a paragraph in another answer that I enclosed with parentheses. As I typed the closing parenthesis, I noticed that both the opening and closing parentheses disappeared in the preview! After submitting my answer, they appeared correctly in the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to have been caused by the Markdown &quot;footnote&quot; syntax above the paragraph I was writing. Try this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;blah [blah][1]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com&#xA;&#xA;(foo bar)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parentheses around &lt;code&gt;(foo bar)&lt;/code&gt; will disappear in the preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-26T13:20:49.553" LastActivityDate="2010-11-26T13:20:49.553" Title="Parentheses in WMD preview unexpectedly disappear" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3076" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:49:43.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since all of SO is in UTC (daily reputation caps etc.), I suspect Enthusiast/Woot badge makes no difference and it is using UTC as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130264" LastEditorUserId="130264" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T10:58:03.217" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:58:03.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3077" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:49:51.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;just move the link ref down, since order is not relevant (output is the same either way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;blah [blah][1]&#xA;&#xA;(foo bar)&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T09:49:51.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3085" CreationDate="2009-07-07T09:57:21.370" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having looked at these questions about how to more easily search and locate own answers and questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1024/tags-on-answers&quot;&gt;Tags on Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1353/please-allow-us-to-browse-our-own-questions-by-tag&quot;&gt;Please allow us to browse our own questions by tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/943/ability-to-search-my-stuff&quot;&gt;Ability to search my stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;Additional search features syntax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the way forward here is not to use the tagging system but to introduce a system of personal labelling such as that used by Google Mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I have a group of answers related to IIS and programmatically setting or gathering data from the metabase. The spread of tags on the questions asked is quite wide because different users tagged them in slightly (but correctly) different ways. This means that there is often no overlapping tag that is common across them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a system of personal labels means that you can organise your answers without being beholden the repository of tags which are short, terse and you kinda have to know that an answer you gave did fall under a certain tag (or tags). For example, I'd probably label the answers I'd given above as &quot;IIS Metabase&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags on questions are fine for finding questions but less handy for when you want to group your own answers together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it's an extra set of metadata, it's a private set of metadata that has more meaning with regard to ordering and categorising your own view of your answer data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T10:08:22.370" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:19:12.477" Title="Would a system of personal labelling be more useful on own questions, answers and favourites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="3082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3068" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:04:48.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you can just &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;use the moderator flag&lt;/a&gt; for this -- there's a place where you enter the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-flagging.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:04:48.977" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3080" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:14:13.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried using &lt;a href=&quot;http://askjonskeet.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AskJonSkeet&lt;/a&gt;? This isn't quite as silly as it sounds - if you embed your user id and name into the URL, you can search for answers from people other than me. For example, if you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askjonskeet.com/user/23354/marcgravell/search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askjonskeet.com/user/23354/marcgravell/search&lt;/a&gt; you'll be able to search for answers by Marc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:14:13.107" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3080" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:19:12.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I appreciate the need for good search, I can't get excited - simply because SO is so well indexed by google - I just use queries &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bpropertydescriptor+%2Bgravell+site:stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt; to find my own answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+propertydescriptor +gravell site:stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:19:12.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:26:15.540" Score="108" ViewCount="8200" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This discussion took place during the Stack Exchange 1.0 days, when FogCreek sold Stack Exchange licenses for a fee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69362/are-there-going-to-be-public-details-about-the-enterprise-version-of-se/69436#69436&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange licenses are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; being sold for intranet use.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Important Caveat&lt;sup&gt;tm&lt;/sup&gt;: this is something we are &lt;strong&gt;merely discussing&lt;/strong&gt; that may happen &lt;strong&gt;more than one year&lt;/strong&gt; from now, if it happens at all. Bearing that IMPORTANT CAVEAT in mind, please read on.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel is convinced that open-sourcing Stack Overflow, in any way, shape, or form, will destroy the business model of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; (pushing prices down to hosting commodity levels) and possibly the Stack Overflow family of sites as well (fragmentation &amp;amp; dissipation of audience via army of clone sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does open sourcing Stack Overflow even make sense at all?&lt;/strong&gt; What do we (stackoverflow.com llc) get out of it? What does the community get out of it? Is it &quot;win-win&quot;? Or does someone lose?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are there &quot;hybrid&quot; models of open sourcing that could work?&lt;/strong&gt; Rather than treating this as an &quot;all or nothing&quot; scenario, is there a way to open source parts of what we're doing, or restrict licensing so that we don't compete with ourselves in the hosted StackExchange part of the business?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aren't there other companies pursuing open source &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; hosting businesses at the same time?&lt;/strong&gt; Such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sixapart.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Six Apart&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movabletype.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Movable Type&lt;/a&gt;? I'm not sure how applicable this is to hosting business models, but certainly Slashdot and Reddit have gone open source. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dotnetnuke.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DotNetNuke&lt;/a&gt; also runs a similar business model, apparently.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Won't we be competing with open source versions of ourselves &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt; in the long term?&lt;/strong&gt; There are certainly already open source Stack Overflow clones, and lots of open source FogBugz competition and clones. Over time, won't the competitive pressure increase from the continual improvement of open source copies of what we do? Would it make sense to do it ourselves so we control it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could there be &quot;enterprisey&quot; closed source and &quot;public&quot; open source parts of the business?&lt;/strong&gt; I've always said that StackExchange is going to have to fork because their private small, medium, and large business audience will want very different things than the public internet audience we serve. Wouldn't this be one way to segment the &quot;free as in whatever the heck it is we're calling free these days&quot; open-source dev work from the value-add closed source product?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Feelings? ... ponies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-01T11:05:59.840" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T02:27:43.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" Title="Will Open Sourcing Stack Overflow Destroy Our Business Model?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="65" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="51" />
  <row Id="3087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3093" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:27:42.330" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will the great tagging re-organisation affect you if you are working towards a specific tag-based badge, if at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:35:56.590" Title="The Great Tagging Reorg and tag-based badges" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3075" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:30:09.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the diff format, its going to be really hard as there is at least one new fields in the upcoming dump (is community wiki)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I am happy with the current one XML file fits all solution, it does not take too long to download over bittorrent and I am able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/SamSaffron/So-Slow/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;load it all into my local SQL server DB&lt;/a&gt; in about 6 minutes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I find the text quite useful, for example I used the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&quot;&gt;text in the comments here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fear that introducing any complexity will reduce the teams inclination to work on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My biggest wish would be for a daily diff as opposed to a monthly diff. Cause that would allow for much faster feedback loops. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T10:47:29.057" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:47:29.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:32:41.203" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'd be amazed if anyone could accurately predict this. I'll be surprised if our guesses as to how companies will use StackExchange come true in the first place... and a year is a very long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see Joel's point: FogCreek has to add value somewhere. Maybe that will be things like AD integration - but I'd be surprised if an Open Source version didn't gain that ability fairly quickly anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I think a lot of companies would want to use a hosted version (or at least an &quot;installed and supported by someone else&quot; version) to avoid wasting their employees time setting it up etc. The risk comes from other hosting companies. How much will they want this? It depends how profitable it is for FogCreek, I expect. I don't actually expect every cheap hosting company on the planet to snap this up, even when it runs on Mono and against Postgres - but I dare say there &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be a challenge for FogCreek to work out how it can add enough value to make money, but I suspect it will come up with something. Managing internally-hosted implementations would be one starting point, I expect - and that speaks to their area of expertise anyway, with things like CoPilot. I can see companies really wanting a private, internally-hosted StackExchange for internal knowledge sharing. Will the cheap hosting companies want to do that? I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing which distinguishes SO from the phpBB style forums in my view is that it works well when there's a broad subject matter where a single question can touch multiple areas. For very focused groups, I don't think there'd be as much benefit. That may well make it less attractive for tiny web sites which just want a simple discussion board - which &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; mean it's not worth cheap hosts getting involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what the community gets out of opening it anyway - that's tricky. I expect (and hope) you'd treat significant patches with a great deal of timidity; applying someone else's patch to the main SO is a big undertaking. However, I'm sure there will be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; groovy new features added by the community (possibly including those Joel would rather have exclusively to FogCreek, admittedly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bigger benefit will be to individuals who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; want to run their own server but on a small-time basis which wouldn't merit paying for StackExchange. Heck, there's also plain curiosity :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; like to see it Open Sourced, but I can certainly see why Joel is nervous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T10:39:15.860" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:39:15.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3087" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:35:56.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you retag a answer you've got upvotes for, those votes will affect the new tag(s). Same goes for a reorg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:35:56.590" />
  <row Id="3094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:36:23.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was hoping you might ask, the podcast on this was interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1). Yes. I suspect a very large number of us (me! me! me!) would like to get involved, and motivated developers make for the best technology. The customer is always right and in this case you have a chance to give direct influential access to a very savvy group of customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2). I'm not really au faitOSS guy, but surely you can choose any licence you like such that you could prohibit the commercial use of SO codebase in such a way that it competes with your hosting, e.g. disallow commercial hosting. Hell, couldn't you sit down with a lawyer and work out a bespoke StackOverflow Licence if you have to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3). Definitely out there, god knows what their diverse business models are like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4). Almost certainly. Historically, at some point every closed system becomes unsatisfactory to those who &quot;own&quot; it's usage. Be it Internet Explorer or the American colonies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5). Can't see that kind of schizophrenia working. You're dooming yourself to conflicts of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:36:23.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:37:01.307" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe I am right in saying that the key thing with some (but not all) of these combined open source and hosted setups is that they don't open source all of their code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They open source the core code so that you can install an individual instance of the product, say for a single Wordpress blog. But they don't open source the extra bits from their hosted solution that makes it easy to scale the solution to tens of thousands of blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing that counters Joel's claim that a hosting company could get a competing StackExchange up and running in minutes. Though it only adds a little speed bump for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:37:01.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:37:57.697" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you decide to open source at all, don't go hybrid on the license or the edition (free/enterprise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use something like the Affero GPL to make sure people hosting the code contribute back all changes, but don't use a confusing license, or you'll keep away the guys you'd like to have contributing to your code, and only attract those that won't respect your license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an enterprise edition (with AD support, for instance), what will you do when one of your users comes up with a patch to implement it in the free license? &#xA;If you want to maintain the comunitity leadership, refusing features will make that difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:37:57.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:39:27.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Point 4 has been answered convincingly by &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Benjamin Pollack&lt;/a&gt;, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are Open Source clones and there will be many more (simply because the SO mechanism/UI is so convincing) but for a long time to come, they will be far inferior. I agree with Jon in the other regards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:39:27.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:41:02.030" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me be honest: When I saw the pricing of Stack Exchange, I went &quot;WTF?&quot;. But then again: I am not a business, I am an individual. So if you Open Source SO, then that would allow people on the low end who would not be customers otherwise to become customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am perfectly willing to setup my own SO on my own Server, well knowing that the whole thing is not going to be as good as your hosting, but for my free site it would be good enough. So no harm to the business plan there. Even as you may lose some people who would be interested in the small plan, I think that overall I don't see much of a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT I see a problem at the other end of the spectrum: Self-Hosting is $2500 per month per server, or 30000$ a year per server. As we would need our own admins anyway to set it up, the &quot;real&quot; and &quot;open source&quot; versions would not make much difference - apart from the 30k$. This might hurt you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there is the thing you mentioned on the podcast: What prevents hosters from adding SO to their portfolio? SO is a big brand in IT now, but you're also aiming outside of IT. I'm not sure if that works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that an Open Source SO and the StackExchange pricing can co-exist, but then again I am not a business-man, so maybe I'm missing something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wordpress is a bit of a different example: They have free hosting, but they charge for stuff like changing your themes or making certain changes. So they are making tiny amounts of money from people who want care-free hosting, but they have a LOT of people to make tiny amounts from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:41:02.030" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:41:15.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) Open-sourcing Stack Overflow certainly makes sense, as now the community itself can partake in the growth and expansion of the system itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) There could be a commercial-use license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) There has to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) I've seen open source versions already, so yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5) No real point in doing so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SO community is already so well established it would be difficult for anyone to exactly copy SO and steal any significant market-share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130102" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:41:15.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:44:21.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could extract them from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:44:21.473" />
  <row Id="3101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:45:39.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a large range of options when it comes to open sourcing. Whether you choose, say, a GPL license or a BSD license will have a large impact on what people can do, as I'm sure you're well aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the safest model to choose is a dual-licensed model where code can be used for free under a viral license (eg GPL) but can be licensed commercially too. In some ways this is the best of both worlds but it does have a downside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real benefit of open source is that you get developer involvement essentially for free (apart from the time required for someone to organize and lead the project). The negative of the dual-license model is that if people contribute code under say the GPL license, you will have a tough sell convincing them to let you sell it commercially too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plus side of any open sourcing of course is that you will get free development done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I wouldn't worry about the impact of competing with IllegalArgument.com. You were here first and will have a large loyalty base as a result (like Digg and Reddit). Ultimately, it's not hard to duplicate the functionality of StackOverflow once you've seen it. I know theres nothing here I couldn't write and I think we're talking only man-months to produce something with most if not all of the functionality. By open sourcing, you can probably head off such efforts and then control the licensing as people will more likely use yours than duplicate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside of any open source effort as well is that once you've done it you can't take it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other potential models including providing the source code for free but charging for support. I don't know if this would suit SO but it works for MySQL and others. JasperReports does this too and they have a dual license model but don't accept contributions to the official source because of the aforementioned issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In doing this you could also provide a basic version for free and have a better commercial version either by way of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modularized behaviour, although other people can always duplicate this;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indemnity;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Putting limits on the free version such as non-commercial use or limit the number of users, posts or some other such limitation. Personally I'm not a fan of the &quot;crippleware&quot; approach however.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:45:39.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:46:38.070" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Joel that releasing the source of stackoverflow as-is would destroy the business model of StackExchange. All the points he made in last weeks podcast are valid, whereas all the points Jeff made (and makes again above) are merely equivocation. Saying that other business like Sixapart survive in spite of open-source competition doesn't prove anything unless you have their books to examine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way it wouldn't hurt StackExchange is if StackExchange customers demand (and get) some special features that aren't open-sourced, but until StackExchange is up and running it's impossible to predict that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course people could make open-source clones of the StackOverflow software, but that applies to any software - there is still caché to running on the real StackOverflow software if that's what the customer wants. Also, I think sometimes people over-estimate the competition from open-source software that doesn't exist yet. There's a big difference between releasing a complete project as open-source and having some people track all your improvements to the main codebase (or forking it and adding 'enterprisey' features themselves), and starting a clone project from scratch. We observe the former much more often than the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:46:38.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:47:53.160" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The source code is only a part of what makes this site valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the bulk of the value comes from us, the users, contributing our knowledge and expertise free of charge, in exchange for the warm fuzzies that come from helping someone, and also the recognition of our peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At what point did the number of man-hours spent on answering questions exceed that spent on writing the code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:47:53.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:47:59.317" Score="50" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Does open sourcing Stack Overflow even make sense at all?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it makes sense.&lt;/strong&gt; You get a horde of extremely competent and enthusiastic users as potential contributors to the SO code base. These users (me included) will contribute with new functionality, better unit tests, new designs, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Are there &quot;hybrid&quot; models of open sourcing that could work?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It depends.&lt;/strong&gt; Open sourcing the SO code base, but licensing such that it can't be hosted by anyone but you contradicts the FOSS spirit, but I guess it's possible. I can't think of a suitable existing license or a project sporting such a license at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Aren't there other companies pursuing open source and hosting businesses at the same time?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indeed.&lt;/strong&gt; WordPress.org is in direct competition with WordPress.com, TypePad is in competition with MovableType, etc. Both Automattic and SixApart seems to be doing just fine. Especially in the case of Automattic, I'd say they're doing a hell of a lot better after open sourcing WordPress than they did before.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Won't we be competing with open source versions of ourselves anyway in the long term?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yep.&lt;/strong&gt; I think the &lt;a href=&quot;http://nrkbeta.no/2008/03/26/the-nrkbeta-doctrine/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NRKbeta Doctrine&lt;/a&gt; applies just as much to source code and services as it does to copyrighted content. &lt;strong&gt;The only way to control your content is to be the best provider of it.&lt;/strong&gt; If SO doesn't provide the community with the source code for SO-like services, someone else sooner or later will. Can and will SO risk losing the head-start to another service provider?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Could there be &quot;enterprisey&quot; closed source and &quot;public&quot; open source parts of the business?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolutely.&lt;/strong&gt; See my answer to point 3. There's lots of other examples of service providers doing the same, but I think those examples weigh heavy enough (for now, at least).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61818" LastEditorUserId="132347" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T02:27:43.907" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T02:27:43.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:49:11.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Currently, it wouldn't make any sense. Open source only make business sense when there is a community of users or businesses that find supporting a core software module/product useful for their business, but not part of their core business and thus to risky to devote resources to. By everyone contributing to the open code base, the risk is dispersed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The classic example of this is the HTTP server. Every company needs one, but it rarely falls within a company's core business model.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, SO as an application is distinct specialized enough that it is not a commodity, and therefore doesn't fall into the above category of software.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, if this is a core &quot;engine&quot; that ranks questions / answers / users, you could choose to open source that.  For example, you could open source the &quot;badges&quot; component.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes there are companies based on open source. You should evaluate how successful they have been and if their success matches up with your goals. Note that two of the companies you listed were acquired.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seems like you already have the answer to this question. Yes, I agree - you will be competing against open source clones, particularly in markets you may not have entered yet (Asia, Eastern Europe)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;See answer to #2 - if you want to provide an open source version of &quot;Stack Engine&quot; you could do so - but the only benefit would likely be goodwill of the community. As such, should not have the full features of the core site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7507" LastEditorUserId="131197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T08:47:44.823" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T08:47:44.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:53:42.483" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel has a point that if you open source something and try to create a business from just hosting the same identical thing you don’t have much of a business model. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making money from open source is all about added value. You can open source stack overflow, and people will use it, some may host it, but you have to show that StackExchange adds value, great uptime, staff to help you personalise and set up your site, experience of large knowledge exchange sites, and custom coding. The business that doesn’t want to pay for these things and goes for the lowest price is not going to make you much money anyway. The business that wants to have the “enterprisey” features is the one that you make money from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what benefits your will get form open sourcing the SO code, this is difficult to tell. ASP.net is not a mainstream open source language, but you have enough profile so you will get some popularity. For what it is worth, I think the best open source systems are those which are highly extendable (Firefox, Movable Type, Drupal for example) , I don’t think the SO code base was designed to work in this way, so it’s evolution may not be that fast and the benefit that you get from the community may be minimal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary, you probably won’t loose money but you probably won’t gain much either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;footnote:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A potentially good example of point 5 is mysql, it has a large opensource community which feeds the paid for enterprisy community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastEditorUserId="56672" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T12:44:28.527" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:44:28.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:55:41.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure that you aren't the first to comtemplate / go down this road. What has the experience of others been as a result of going open source (in some way shape or form) and what were their motivations in doing this in the first place?  I think for some it has been desperation, for others a shrewd move since it has enabled others to build plugins for a solution.There are other companies like sugar crm taking an approach see here &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/community/sugarcrm-community.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/community/sugarcrm-community.html&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The approach you are taking with stack exchange is an interesting one in that at one level you are a business which operates consumer sites and in another you are then looking to commercialize the same back end software for end users.  So as far as I can see for $1,299 a month i could setup a competitor to stackoverflow with yourselves - and you are worrying about open sourcing it and generating a competitor? $15,000 a year isn't a lot of money to setup a competitor! Thus this leads me to the question - where do yourselves see the revenue opportunities for stack overflow? I think if you answer this question then whether, if and in what form you go open source will come out in the wash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect quite a few people would be interested in just looking at the source since yourselves were early in on the ASP.NET MVC scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trust this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:55:41.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T10:55:42.000" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just thought I'd add to it that SVN and GIT are both open source, and people seem willing to pay for them to be hosted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the network effect should protect you from competitors to your existing sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4430" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T10:55:42.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:00:16.477" Score="11" ViewCount="746" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now I remember looking at some SO source months ago and it was div heaven basically. The pure CSS zealots would've loved it. But today I look and see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DIV id=&quot;question&quot; class=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;TABLE&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;TBODY&amp;gt;&amp;lt;TR&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;TD class=&quot;votecell&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;DIV class=&quot;vote&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;INPUT type=&quot;hidden&quot; value=&quot;288968&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;IMG class=&quot;vote-up&quot; src=&quot;./so_files/vote-arrow-up.png&quot; width=&quot;40&quot; height=&quot;25&quot; alt=&quot;vote up&quot; title=&quot;This question is useful and clear (click again to undo)&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;SPAN class=&quot;vote-count-post&quot;&amp;gt;6&amp;lt;/SPAN&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;IMG class=&quot;vote-down&quot; src=&quot;./so_files/vote-arrow-down.png&quot; width=&quot;40&quot; height=&quot;25&quot; alt=&quot;vote down&quot; title=&quot;This question is unclear or not useful (click again to undo)&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;IMG class=&quot;vote-favorite&quot; src=&quot;./so_files/vote-favorite-off.png&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; height=&quot;31&quot; alt=&quot;star&quot; title=&quot;This is a favorite question (click again to undo)&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;DIV class=&quot;favoritecount&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;B&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;BR&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/B&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/DIV&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/DIV&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/TD&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;TD&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;DIV&amp;gt;          &#xA;            &amp;lt;DIV class=&quot;post-text&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this doesn't bother me (I'm a pragmatist) but I'm curious... is this something new? Why the change? Did you have issues using floats for this? If so, what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey it gets better. The tables are &lt;strong&gt;nested&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Now&lt;/em&gt; watch some heads explode. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T16:27:22.777" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:23:32.817" Title="When did SO start using tables for layout?" Tags="&lt;css&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;tables&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:12:57.227" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might help thinking about this to listen to Tim O'Reilly's comments about where online value is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://twit.tv/floss73&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;FLOSS Weekly interview&quot;&gt;http://twit.tv/floss73&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow seems like a canonical example of something where the value is in what's contributed to the site, not in the software running the site. Even if many someone else's take the software and set up their own *Overflow-type sites, they have the problem of displacing StackOverflow's momentum and brand recognition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just having StackOverflow's software doesn't give anyone SO's infrastructure, or data, or  knowledge about how to deploy the software effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As O'Reilly says, even if you have the software for Google's search engine, that doesn't let you run another Google; there's a lot more to it than just the code. (Although, of course, Google still haven't opened their code, which I'm sure isn't for want of people asking them to.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, from a business perspective, there probably comes a point where the code itself is such a small part of the overall value of StackOverflow, that giving the code away will do you more good than harm. Joel is right to be cautious just now, in that you're not clearly at that stage yet, but surely you will reach it at some point (probably shortly after Google does :-) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:12:57.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:18:30.543" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will without a doubt change the business model that Joel has planned for S-ex.com.  you cannot charge $129 / month hosting when the exact same software is available for me to install on my own server, let alone the $2500 / month required for me to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to downplay the functionality within the SO engine, but there feels like there is a big difference between SO and a blog engine in terms of setup complexity and options, complexity that perhaps would explain why sixapart gets away with charging for 'professional' versions and for support of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work for a large bank, which for reasons of data protection (yes, even for developer chat) does not want any conversations occurring outside our network.  As such we would only consider an onsite install - the choice between $30000 that Joel wants for an onsite install and the cost of a shared server in our data center - ~$1500 - makes taking an open source solution a no-brainer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've replaced a good number of proprietary solutions with open source alternatives, (operating systems, source control, bug tracking, wiki etc.,), being able to address scale issues without considering the license cost is a huge factor in our decision making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the real question for me is whether you should change the pricing of the hosted version and to move to opensource sooner rather than later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:18:30.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3116" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:20:21.220" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/36826/linux-routing-problem&quot;&gt;at Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; that was migrated from Stack Overflow. I think the question is not related to my actual user in Server Fault. It's not a reputation problem, but more of a management problem. I can't give it &quot;my own answer&quot; or close it or do anything to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I don't know how to answer, if at all, this question. Meaning, found the solution: the diver had several bugs, which is okay, that's what I needed to find out. But what do I do? I simply put it in as my answer? Or do I close it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130404" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:23:04.140" Title="Why can't I edit my migrated question?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="3114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:21:49.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only logical way would be through the data dump. Right now there is no other mechanism in the system to go back and time and see all of your comments. Unless you wrote some kind of script that trolled through every one of your questions and answers and looked for comments you wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:21:49.563" />
  <row Id="3115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3113" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:22:01.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to associate your accounts in your profile &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130404?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. ServerFault doesn't know who you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:22:01.677" />
  <row Id="3116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3113" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:23:04.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now StackOverflow and MetaOS don't know who your account is on here likely because you hadn't gone through the proper association steps yet. Once you do that you should be listed accurately as the question owner on the post that was migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:23:04.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:24:20.390" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope they did it just to make some heads explode, honestly. The holy war between tables and divs is one of the most annoying arguments in all of IT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:24:20.390" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="3118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:26:49.593" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those interested to see where the tables are. Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://cznp.com/so%5Ftables.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this image&lt;/a&gt;. It's the same grid as with the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:26:49.593" />
  <row Id="3119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3053" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:28:31.403" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they awarded rep for comments, my snarky, pony-referencing comments would ensure that I hit my rep limit every day. Even I don't think that I deserve to get rep for all of my smart-ass comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:28:31.403" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3050" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:30:14.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears more like a question for Joel for jobs.joelonsoftware.com since I believe that is where we actually get all the job listings. I do not believe that StackOverflow is really in charge of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:30:14.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:30:32.607" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if you do opensource it, I don't think it will hit the traffic on SO in a major way, since it is the &lt;b&gt;community that matters a lot&lt;/b&gt;. Just because there is another site to do the same thing, doesn't mean people will shift to it (and even if they do, the shift will be very very slow) since SO has built up a very nice community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cases in point are reddit -- &lt;b&gt;I don't see any site using reddit's opensource code that has even a fraction of the traffic that reddit does&lt;/b&gt;. Same thing applies to wordpress -- even though there is a separate opensource self-host version of wordpress, the hosted version of wordpress has quite a lot of traffic. The kind of sites using it that will mushroom will be those for niche topics and specific subsets, and might eventually end up replacing forums in many places where it makes sense, especially for tech support for products like ubuntu, various linuxes etc. And many companies may even use the paid hosted version for their tech support, replacing their forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do opensource it, there are two ways you could make money off it, as I see it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keep certain enterprisey features of SO premium. Provide a free opensource version of SO for smaller companies and hobbyists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provide hosting, and support to companies (big companies would definitely make use of this, since they can't be bothered to manage their own site). This would also help very small companies use this software for free (if they can't afford it) and probably would shift to the supported and hosted version when they grow bigger.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very important thing to note here, is that if you opensource it, and people start using it in a big way, &lt;b&gt;the brand recognition of SO will increase by a huge amount&lt;/b&gt;. On the other hand, keeping it closed source will mean only a few people will be using the non-public version of StackExchange. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.activecollab.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ActiveCollab&lt;/a&gt; is a case in point here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One major advantage of opensourcing is that the community will be able to add a lot of new features to the OS version, and you could still make money off it by providing hosting and support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 0.02¢&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12649" LastEditorUserId="12649" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T11:36:03.637" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:36:03.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:33:29.483" Score="81" ViewCount="6048" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per Jeff's suggestion &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/726/can-we-get-a-test-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use this question as a formatting sandbox (if you can edit CW questions) and you can post answers if you want to test out formatting there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beware that since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/72082/changes-to-syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;changes to syntax highlighting&lt;/a&gt; in December 2010, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/63800/interface-options-for-specifying-language-prettify/81970#81970&quot;&gt;the inline hints&lt;/a&gt; added March 2011, &lt;strong&gt;no syntax highlighting is applied unless the question's tags or an inline hint enable it&lt;/strong&gt;. So, to test highlighting here in the sandbox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Set some language tags to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/72082/changes-to-syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;the explanation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/63800/interface-options-for-specifying-language-prettify/81970#81970&quot;&gt;the list of languages&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adding clashing tags, such as both &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;perl&lt;/code&gt;, enforces a fallback to &lt;code&gt;default&lt;/code&gt;, which is different from &quot;no highlighting&quot;. &lt;s&gt;(These tags are currently set on this question.)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or: on the start of a line, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/63800/interface-options-for-specifying-language-prettify/81970#81970&quot;&gt;specify a language inline&lt;/a&gt; using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; hints, and indent the code 4 spaces as usual:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-html --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    While not hinted otherwise: &amp;lt;html&amp;gt; source &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;goes&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; &quot;here&quot;.&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-js --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    var a = 3;&#xA;    while(not (a &amp;gt; 0)){&#xA;      alert(&quot;JavaScript code &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;goes&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; here.&quot;);&#xA;    }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Save your post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://getfirebug.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firebug&lt;/a&gt; (Firefox), &lt;a href=&quot;http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebInspector&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Web Inspector&lt;/a&gt; (Safari, Chrome) or &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/03/07/improved-productivity-through-internet-explorer-8-developer-tools.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Developer Tools&lt;/a&gt; (Internet Explorer 8) to edit the resulting HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; element and add the attribute &lt;code&gt;class=&quot;prettyprint&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, or change it into something more specific, like &lt;code&gt;class=&quot;lang-vb prettyprint&quot;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Run the following in the location bar: &lt;code&gt;javascript:prettyPrint();&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="150562" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-03T07:35:39.693" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T05:34:54.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T11:33:29.483" Title="Formatting Sandbox" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="90" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="50" />
  <row Id="3123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:40:25.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should use whatever works for them, I suppose. Maybe they realised that with pure divs, maintaining and adding things were a nightmare :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it also means, there is not going to be a mobile version of SO any time soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12649" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:40:25.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3040" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:42:48.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Jeff, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2714/synchronise-changes-in-profile-information-across-so-sites&quot;&gt;this similar question&lt;/a&gt;, the feature is coming up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12649" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:42:48.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T11:42:48.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T11:58:20.873" Score="108" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key question is #1; until that is adquately resolved, all of the others are irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does open-sourcing StackOverflow make sense at all?  &lt;strong&gt;Absolutely not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is absolutely nothing that you, as a business, will gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow (the codebase) is an application, not a framework.  You want this to be a cathedral, not a bazaar.  You don't want random strangers, even if they are fans of the product, to submit to the codebase.  If users have ideas for product improvements, great.  Let them submit the ideas.  And then the SO management team can weigh them against other ideas, against the business model, and against the various costs, and decide whether or not to implement the idea.  And if the idea is implemented, the SO management team can guarantee that it is coded in a way that fits in with the overall design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put: would you house your business in an office building that was &quot;open-sourced&quot; during the construction process?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if open-sourcing StackOverflow won't help the business, who would it help?  &quot;The community&quot;?  If the goal is charity, there are many more effective ways to give back to the community (of users, developers, what-have-you).  The community doesn't &quot;win&quot; anything by having access to the source code--so it's not a &quot;win-win&quot; situation, it's a &quot;lose-&lt;em&gt;meh&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is a non-starter, and I'm surprised to even see it coming up. Forget it, and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T11:58:20.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="3126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3068" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:01:25.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind this idea. Especially if there was a nice separate list with an RSS feed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps just an RSS feed even?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least then as an editor I could be working on things I knew were bothering the community. It is difficult to be everywhere all the time, so this could certainly help to give me and other editors more 'eyes'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:01:25.633" />
  <row Id="3127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3312" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:03:11.527" Score="19" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;The '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/programming&quot;&gt;programming&lt;/a&gt;' tag is even more useless than the completely useless '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;' tag. Please delete the '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/programming&quot;&gt;programming&lt;/a&gt;' tag so we can clear the system up a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T17:40:05.247" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T17:40:05.247" Title="Please remove the programming tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3127" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:10:20.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to set expectation: at the moment we have &quot;merge&quot; and &quot;rename&quot;... so AFAIK we can't do this without more input from the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:10:20.813" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3141" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:12:22.053" Score="8" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow for sure is a classact. What are the downsides of stackoverflow that you are aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130296" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:07:19.833" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:07:19.833" Title="What are the downsides of stackoverflow that you are aware of?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="311" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:12:55.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not that I refuse to acknowledge IRC, I know nothing about it. I've spent maybe 30 minutes on IRC in my entire life!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have some community members who &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; interested in IRC that help maintain it on our behalf, and I fully support this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/18061/gamecat&quot;&gt;Gamecat&lt;/a&gt;, for example, and I know &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2/geoff-dalgas&quot;&gt;Geoff&lt;/a&gt; occasionally delves into IRC and of course represents us wherever he goes as an official Stack Overflow Associate&lt;sup&gt;tm&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only concern is that I don't want IRC to degenerate into a weird back channel where people are rude to each other, as has happened in the past. This (indirectly) reflects poorly on us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:12:55.807" />
  <row Id="3131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3157" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:13:12.847" Score="10" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about doing an experiment of trying to learn a new language through Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Either Python, Ruby, or C# whichever one has more tags]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two questions: 1) is the unofficial policy of closing &quot;easy&quot; questions going to make this either stupid or hard? &#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;2) Would it be better to just troll through the questions on the website or download the database and do some filtering locally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any feedback is welcomed. [including &quot;you're an idiot, this will never work&quot;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130409" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-27T22:50:44.857" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T01:09:46.767" Title="Is it possible to learn a new language through Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:14:13.257" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is better to wait for StackExchange launch and see what additions and modifications corporate users need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very unclear right now how open sourcing can affect your business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29363" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:14:13.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:15:53.643" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Addiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:15:53.643" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:16:03.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you ask &quot;what does &lt;code&gt;if&lt;/code&gt; do&quot; etc, your questions are going to get slammed (of course, if you ask a specific &lt;em&gt;detail&lt;/em&gt; about it, then great and fine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be pretty impossible to learn a language from &lt;em&gt;reading&lt;/em&gt; SO - but you can certainly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask sensible questions when you get stuck (after searching, of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hone your knowledge of an area by watching that tag - sometimes some truly great nuggets of wisdom drift past&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:16:03.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:19:01.687" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes without explanation. Too often people will down-vote your question/answer without telling you why. You're left with no explanation, no name, and no direction towards fixing whatever it was that they were upset with. It is my opinion that this is in no way helpful to anybody, and in fact may discourage many people from even attempting to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T12:27:06.857" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:27:06.857" CommentCount="26" />
  <row Id="3136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:19:27.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Timesink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fun&quot;&gt;fun tag&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130409" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:19:27.503" />
  <row Id="3137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:23:08.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proprietary code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- rms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:23:08.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:24:24.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can definitely learn new solutions, which will be useful in any language. Today I learned about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quicksort&lt;/a&gt; when I asked a more detailed question regarding the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091740/phps-usort-callback-function-parameters&quot;&gt;inner-workings of PHP's USORT function&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This cleared up my confusion in thinking usort callbacks cycled through arrays in a linear process. Granted, I didn't learn a new language, but I did learn a new solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:24:24.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="311" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:28:33.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've gone in from time to time...and nobody is ever there/talking. I'm not the type to squat in an IRC just to have my name there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:28:33.780" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:35:54.153" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rich B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What the hell, I have a sense of humor too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:35:54.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:36:32.707" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's wrong of me to attempt a serious answer, but one of the biggest shortcomings of the SO model, in my mind, is that it doesn't have an effective way to do troubleshooting.  I've seen a lot of questions along the lines of &quot;Why is this code block resulting in $SOME_FRAMEWORK crashing?&quot;  Often these require a multi-step process to diagnose, but there is no good way to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to establish a conversation with the OP that allows both sides to be notified of new information from the other person.  This results in conversations that take far longer than they should, or even get forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's incredibly difficult for a third party to follow any such conversation.  Thus you lose a bunch of potential resources to resolve your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If questions or answers are edited as part of this conversation, it leaves other answers and comments behind.  At worst they appear patently wrong, but they often become redundant, seem off-base, or appear to be non-sequiturs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the solution to this?  I don't know.  Better abilities to track questions and answers you're interested in would help, but ultimately I just don't know if such problems will ever really fit within the SO domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:36:32.707" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:39:50.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll learn best writing code in the language you choose to learn.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://projecteuler.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Project Euler&lt;/a&gt; has a lot of (maths oriented) problems you can solve.  There are also a lot of online tutorials and books (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://projecteuler.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dive Into Python&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you come here and say something like &quot;I'm teaching myself Python, and I'm having trouble with X; what am I doing wrong?&quot; (after searching, of course), then no one should have any problem with &quot;easy&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:39:50.333" />
  <row Id="3143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:40:54.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you learn a language just using SO?  No.  At least, not before you seriously wear out your welcome.  SO shouldn't be your primary resource for learning a language.  It is great for clarifying points of confusion and for improving your ability to take advantage of a language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get to a decent competency, SO is a great way to see a lot of challenging questions that people have run across in the language of your choice.  You can learn a lot from trying to answer these questions, and then seeing how the really adept answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:40:54.037" />
  <row Id="3149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:49:52.947" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who has struggled mightily to get divs to behave the way I want them to, I give props to the SO UI designers for having the balls to use tables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:49:52.947" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:50:19.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, if you don't release the source, somebody will build it themselves. I don't think you need to worry about what open-sourcing the project will do. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO's only option is to offer the users something different. If we could plugin to SO via a thorough API, that would make SO different than any spin off. It's not the technology that makes SO neat, it's the content and the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T12:50:19.517" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T12:54:02.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably already know it  but there is a  Spanish social news site called Meneame &#xA;([meneame.net]) which platform was open-sourced from the beginning and they are still getting about 80k daily unique visitors  (Google trends said: &lt;a href=&quot;http://trends.google.com/websites?q=meneame.net%2C+stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;geo=all&amp;amp;date=all&amp;amp;sort=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://trends.google.com/websites?q=meneame.net%2C+stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;geo=all&amp;amp;date=all&amp;amp;sort=0&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that they didn't built it thinking about  business models  but they are making some money with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course they got a lot of clones, but they are the reference and the community was already built that's what makes Meneame to have an added value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T08:44:32.723" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T08:44:32.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:00:47.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;em&gt;You can answer and ask questions to your heart's content as an anonymous user&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that &quot;anyone&quot; can post a question is a weakness in my opinion.  I'm seeing more &amp;amp; more &quot;homework questions&quot;, not the cool/challenging/interesting ones, but rather the inane questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a &quot;hit &amp;amp; run&quot; question like &quot;why won't my program compile&quot; (let's say due to a case mismatch in a variable name) or &quot;what does += do in this C program&quot; I feel that it dilutes the quality of the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, questions can be downvoted &amp;amp; closed, etc... but I'd be happier if I never had to see such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the admins have a point though, now that I think about it...  Why clog the system with 100s of 1000s of registered users who will only ever ask 1 question... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the answer is forcing registration, having some type of &quot;posting probationary period&quot; or what... but I fear that as word spreads, the signal to noise ratio on SO will go down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:00:47.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3808" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:11:05.397" Score="15" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like updates to favorite questions to show in the recent activity page, just like updates to my own questions are shown.  As it stands now, favorites are little more than bookmarks, that require manual polling to check for updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T08:25:21.567" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T05:55:16.963" Title="Show updates to favorite questions in recent activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="3156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="824" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:17:08.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like you may be able to get this from the public data dump now, starting from the July 2009 dump: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/creative-commons-data-dump-july-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/creative-commons-data-dump-july-09/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:17:08.930" />
  <row Id="3157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:17:42.770" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is about limiting yourself &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; to SO to learn and do research (in conjunction with hands-on programming), then it might be possible to learn a new programming language through SO, but you'll probably pull your hair out in the process.  The wealth of information in other online resources, books, or other materials would be just too much to pass up - unless you're extremely patient or just want to prove a point about only using SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="62505" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:17:42.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:29:34.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure I agree 100% with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes I will &quot;favorite&quot; a question so it is easier to access more quickly, because I do not have a lot of favorites. But favoriting is not the right thing to do. I think you should only favorite a question if you really really like it, not to make it easier to follow.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm not clear on just what exactly favorite questions are supposed to be used for.  I thought the only reason to favorite a question was because you wanted to be able to find it later.  It doesn't count as a second form of voting, in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would support your suggestion that we could mark questions to receive notifications, especially for the purpose of tracking comment threads on questions/answers I don't own.  I have made a few feature requests that are a little similar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3155/show-updates-to-favorite-questions-in-recent-activity&quot;&gt;Show updates to favorite questions in recent activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own them)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T22:16:22.743" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:16:22.743" />
  <row Id="3161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:29:47.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll suggest you are not asking the right questions...similar to a developer trying to justify some implementation without having a clear idea of the requirements.  Instead, you may ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What value does open source bring your paying customers?&lt;/strong&gt; i.e., your advertisers in one biz model and your corporate subscribers in the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What value does open source bring your crowdsourcing partners?&lt;/strong&gt; i.e., your content providers that work for those &quot;at a boys&quot; and reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What value does open source bring to your future revenue?&lt;/strong&gt; Do you need feature providers that work for &quot;at a boys&quot; and reputation? Do you need open source to undermine the value proposition of your competitors? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9367" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:29:47.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3184" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:34:00.030" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;On what basis does stackoverflow bring out the &quot;related questions&quot; (while posting questions)? Most of the time they seem to be off target with little or no semantic value to the question being asked. How can stackoverflow improve upon this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130296" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:04:54.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:04:54.417" Title="On what basis does stackoverflow bring out the &quot;related questions&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="3163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:34:23.787" Score="10" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092219/assertcontains-on-strings-in-junit/1092236#1092236&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt;. How can we make the system more tolerant of humor? One option would be to have a joke checkbox (just like community wiki) on answers only (not questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you check the box, &quot;no rep for you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just to clarify, when I asked the question, the linked answer was downvoted to -2 or -3. Now that it is back up to 0, some might construe my point as being that it should be voted higher. It wasn't. If it stayed at 0 I wouldn't have been prompted to ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could not allow voting on questions marked humor, and allowed those who don't want to see jokes filter them out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:03:46.223" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:34:45.757" Title="How can we be more tolerant of humor?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:37:56.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about just use community wiki for humour in the first place? You won't lose rep when people downvote your obviously useless answer, and you can point out that your answer is a joke in either the comments or in some small text at the end of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better idea would be to not post answers that are just for humour value. Humour has a place on SO, just not if humour is the only reason you're posting something. Alternatively you can keep the humour to the comments, where people are more likely to upvote things on humour value alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:37:56.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:39:14.597" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*puts on joke hat*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this, people seem to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:39:14.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:43:52.587" Score="3" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would probably be a difficult feat, but could we have a badge for winning your own bounty? Maybe something along the lines of &quot;Self-Poacher&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would anyone even qualify for the badge right now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130102" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:04:08.820" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:04:42.880" Title="Badge for winning your own bounty" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:45:20.077" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if it is humourous then it isn't an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, it's a &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't need to 'tolerate' humour on the site, because it is not a forum, it is a question and answer site. The community has shown again and again that humour is considered noise and shouldn't be added. This is absolutely true, because if you consider SO as a repository of knowledge, then the jokes (on serious questions) don't really have a place. Funny or not, they really shouldn't get upvotes, because they aren't answers to questions and therefore aren't useful to the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the people mark them as community, they will not suddenly become a valuable addition to the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at BEST, I'd say they should be comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:45:20.077" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3127" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:51:29.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stackoverflow tag is very usefull for questions regarding actual stack overflows (in code)....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26796" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:51:29.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3167" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:55:42.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you can't accept your own answer to a bounty question, I assume you mean &quot;your own answer is the highest-voted answer at the end of the week.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you get half your bounty points back, in that case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badge is an interesting idea, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21398" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T13:55:42.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:59:23.377" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;This link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/Agile&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/Agile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Takes me to a list of questions with the tag &quot;gile&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use it as a &quot;live bookmark&quot; in firefox, and as far as I can see the list there is up-to-date (with Agile tagged questions!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to do anything else to report the anomaly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:13:55.640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T05:13:55.640" Title="Odd capatilisation error in a tag feed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:01:18.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't need humor on SO.com. Keep it on the meta site if you need to post it. At the very least keep it to the comments on SO.com and keep it at a low level please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:01:18.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:02:48.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of companies make money off of opensource software.  In the case of StackExchange, you're paying for a service, not just a piece of software.  After all, even if you open-source SO, people will still need a place to host it.  And who better to handle the hosting than the people who help make SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, consider the advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It discourages &quot;security by obscurity.&quot;  Since your code is accessible by anyone, you're forced to implement &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; security measures rather than trying to hide exploits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think you'd be surprised at how it can improve a platform.  Simply put, the 5 (?) of you may be good at what you do, but there's no way you can be any better than the armies of programmers who post on StackOverflow/ServerFault and are just as concerned (if not more concerned) with making them a better place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be most satisfying to my (and I'm sure everyone else's) geekdom to learn a bit more about the software I've been using for the past few months.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:02:48.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3171" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:04:09.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to strip &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; capital letters from the tag, definitely a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Equivalent to &quot;java&quot; tag: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/THEjCAPITALaLETTERSvAREaSTRIPPED&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/THEjCAPITALaLETTERSvAREaSTRIPPED&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:04:09.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:06:32.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can get away with a certain low level (low as in not much!) of humour if it's not the entirety of your answer. For example, you could say that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/963982/should-i-use-return-continue-statement-instead-of-if-else/964016#964016&quot;&gt;my answer here&lt;/a&gt; starts off with a humorous comment (all right, not that humorous but you get my point), but I immediately follow it up with a fuller answer and an explanation of that comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had I just left the answer as the first sentence then I would have deserved to have been heavily voted down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:06:32.943" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:07:17.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you were really funny you wouldn't get voted down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:07:17.200" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:10:23.363" Score="6" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;piggyback on the thread&lt;/a&gt; about the 'horrors' of having salutations in your question. Nestled deep in the comments of that thread, someone said that using salutations are &quot;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; allowed&quot; and there is a &quot;hard rule already&quot; regarding this. I couldn't find such a hard rule written anywhere. (If there is, please point it to me and accept my apologies). So I must assume that this is some sort of unwritten, community hard rule. And if someone doesn't know about it, they will be dealt with in a manner decided by the powers that be in the community, possibly being embarrassed and/or starting an argument about why something was done a certain way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would save a lot of time, heartache and general BS'ing around if we just codify these rules and be done with it. It's not like StackOverflow, et al. don't have written rules already (just check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; ... one of the rules being &quot;Be Nice&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the proper way to (1) determine whether a rule should exist (e.g., a dictatorship or democratic process) (2) codify that rule once it is determined that it should exist (3) enforce those rules if they are broken? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's just get these rules down &quot;on paper&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I want to make one thing clear as I have been accused by a member of Meta of wanting to do away with community moderation. &lt;em&gt;That is absolutely not true.&lt;/em&gt; He claims that community moderation and a set of rules are mutually exclusive. I totally disagree with that assessment. A huge point of forum moderation is to enforce a set of rules or guidelines for posters...whether they are officially written (some which we have), unwritten (some which we have), assumed (some which we have) or otherwise. All I am asking here is whether it makes sense to put some more rules in the officially written capacity to help in the overall well-being of StackOverflow. My premise could end up being proved wrong and things remain as status quo, but in no way am I trying to remove the community flavor of this site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38693" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:41:57.710" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T04:41:57.710" Title="How to deal with unwritten rules and guidelines on StackOverflow, et al.?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;policy&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="3180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:12:21.820" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only rules that matter were &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;written&lt;/a&gt;/approved by the SO Team. Ignore everybody else's self-proclaimed authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with saying &quot;Hello&quot; in your post. Just maintain and adherence to &quot;Questions&quot; and &quot;Answers&quot; and you'll be fine I'm sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just avoid lengthy jabber like &quot;So, how's everybody doing today? Good? Good. I've got a question if you have the time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T14:17:39.950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:17:39.950" CommentCount="41" />
  <row Id="3181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:14:17.523" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most all the guidelines for stackoverflow are written, but you have to read a year's worth of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog posts&lt;/a&gt; and podcast transcripts to get caught up.  I don't recall ever seeing salutations being specifically called out by a site admin, so they certainly aren't forbidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the context of a Q&amp;amp;A site these salutations ultimately &lt;em&gt;detract&lt;/em&gt; from your question.  You are trying to be polite, but it's actually &lt;em&gt;rude&lt;/em&gt; in this context, because it forces your audience to spend time reading information that isn't relevant to the question and completely ignores the future users who will come looking for help with the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T03:58:50.563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:58:50.563" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:15:06.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing missing from the question is what constitues the SO/SE source code. If it is just an HTTP renderer with database interface and user authentication, then I don't see the problem with open sourcing that. The hosted version can get it's added value from the tools that are used to create the look and feel, administer users perhaps, do automatic backups and any other housekeeping chores. If SE is being aimed at non-IT based companies, they aren't going to know the ins and outs of CSS to set it up properly for the SO engine. I'm sure there are a few other tools that can add to the value of a hosted solution that need not be put into the open source version. This allows the small groups to benefit as well. Who knows, it may prompt someone to suggest to their employer to use the system. Also, open sourcing the SO engine would give you added benefits - localisation for one, especially those non left-to-right-top-to-bottom formatted languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skizz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:15:06.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:17:49.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community makes the rules. They are formed and solidified through discussions here and on the blog. Ultimately everything gets vetted before the development team, but as the FAQ states: &quot;This is our site&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another factor that should be acknowledged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the type that needs constant static rules on paper for everything on a site like SO, and you cannot accept the dynamic nature of SO.com's community moderation, then &quot;this may not be the site for you.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:17:49.170" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="3184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3162" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:18:35.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IRIC, it uses SQL Server's built-in full-text search with the words from your question title (minus some stop words) as the query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:18:35.007" />
  <row Id="3186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:23:04.357" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact is, it IS a democratic process. Amongst the 'rep groups' no one has more power than any other person. The only possible candidates for dictators would be Jeff and Joel, but even they are on equal moderator status with the other mods, so it would still be an Aristocracy (rule by the upper classes) or Oligarchy (rule by elite few). Both of these are candidates for SO, however, as more and more people achieve the necessary reputations, there are more and more voices with input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community is the deciding factor. When it comes to &quot;Hi/Thanks&quot; the community has come to the general consensus (with RichB at the helm) that they are not necessary, and will be counted as noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with codifying the rules is that they then LOSE the aspect of collaborative cooperation. When the rule comes down as NO SALUTATIONS, then we have the problem of either obeying the rule that we don't disagree with, or disobeying the rules of the site. On the other hand, if the rules are unwritten then we always have the opportunity of letting the flow of the community decide how we should act. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I certainly wouldn't vote anyone down for a breach of an unwritten rule (unless they were being offensive) and I'm certain that the other mods wouldn't either. Matters of salutations and such aren't worth downvotes. They are worth an edit (amongst other edits) or a comment, but not a downvote. In this way, the users will gradually learn the feel of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the rules start getting handed down, you're going to get a lot of people who rankle against authority who will hate those rules. But if the rules are decided by the consensus of the community, then you'll find a majority fall under the &quot;agree/don't care&quot; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:23:04.357" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="3187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:26:12.537" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I much prefer sticking to a &lt;em&gt;semantic&lt;/em&gt; layout where possible.  That means using the div tag sparingly as well.  It has a specific purpose (creating a logical division) just like table.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there's nothing wrong with using a table for layout here and there, as long it's done very sparingly, isn't your &lt;em&gt;default&lt;/em&gt; layout tool, and the overall structure of the site is apparent from the semantics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T16:07:33.463" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:07:33.463" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:28:40.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the concept of open sourcing a saas product interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand I can understand the concept that withholding the source code gives a major competitive advantage, and of course it may lead to someone creating his/her own clone (think of identi.ca for twitter). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is something that can also be considered:&#xA; stackexchange concept embraces a lot of generatives that would make it better than free/open source and thus valuable by itself (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Immediacy, it's going to be the first service of it's kind available and as a saas setup time is (should be) minimal (compared to installing the open source version on your own server).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personalization, well that's the whole goal of stackexchange &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interpretation, this essentially boils down that stackexchange would also be the best group to provide commercial support. Essentially saying you can deploy the software on your server for free (and thus provide you the control) but technical support can be bought for your piece of mind (plus other services such as consulting (or certification for onsite support), interpretation/analysis of the data could be considered ie: how to improve/increase interaction amongst the users of a client).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Authenticity, only stackexchange by the creators of stackoverflow can give this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accessibility, a saas is available everywhere (though an API and mobile version would be nice), an internally deployed version might not be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Embodiment and Patronage might not apply to stackexchange as pure saas play&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Findability, stackexchange is a brand and it can promote itself more than the open sourced version and therefore get more clients. Also stackexchange will profit from the relation to stackoverflow (this also enforces the authenticity) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless if stackexchange will have an open sourced version or not, it does seem to have all the ingredients for success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I believe that an open sourced version would help stackexchange to be more successful as it reinforces a lot of the points mentioned above and it could open the last two point Embodiment (local stack exchange user groups) and Patronage (users giving back by evangelizing and contributing code / plugins / bug fixes etc) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:28:40.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:31:32.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget &lt;a href=&quot;http://cahoots.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cahoots&lt;/a&gt;, best implementation I've seen yet. It also helps that its developers are programmer MVPs. It's built on CodeIgniter, which is yet another plus. Though it still has some bugs, I've found it's very easy to extend and set up a new site with. Certainly much easier to extend this to build your own SO site than to start from square one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:31:32.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T14:31:32.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3195" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:34:25.400" Score="5" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may seem like an attempt at trolling for reputation, but I recently posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091682/whats-the-best-original-programming-joke-youve-authored&quot;&gt;a &lt;em&gt;fun, offtopic&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt; (that I tagged as such), It was similar to an existing question, but I thought it was different enough to stand on it's own.  However, I quickly got 5 close votes, then a fury of comments and then it was Locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that marking this particular question as Locked probably was best because the comments were getting out of control.  However, I still like the question and think it has some value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22514" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-12T18:17:09.627" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T07:27:14.353" Title="Should there be an appeal process for Closed or Locked questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;locked-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3193" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:35:20.500" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is a vote to reopen process. If it got locked then either it got a ton of negative votes or a moderator intervened and locked it (or maybe it hit some comment/edit velocity threshold). You could try appealling to the SO team but I wouldn't hold your breath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun, off-topic questions don't stand by the merit of being unlike any other fun, off-topic question. Only a few are tolerated and most of them are disputed. Only a very few will survive. First and foremost, SO is for programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:35:20.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3193" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:36:26.020" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave your appeal in the comments to the question, if it's closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locking happens by Moderator action, and there is no appeal other than to post it here (as it should be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:36:26.020" />
  <row Id="3197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:37:20.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only will open-sourcing stack overflow hit your business model, but also mere talk of it will hurt the business model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think you just decide pretty soon and announce you will never open-source stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, Jeff, you have my email and I would be glad if in exchange for this suggestion you sent me the latest tarball with installation instructions so that I can tinker with Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:37:20.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3193" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:40:34.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except in locked posts you are more than free to use the comments to plead your case and then have the ruling overturned by getting enough reopen votes. We don't need a new judicial system on top of that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:40:34.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3193" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:48:11.457" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091682/whats-the-best-original-programming-joke-youve-authored&quot;&gt;this particular case&lt;/a&gt;, I took the (unusual) decision to add a comment and lock it because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was getting a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of negative responses (including every type of flag) from the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was very similar to an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one&quot;&gt;existing open question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it had been rapidly closed by the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a comment war was developing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was destined to yoyo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I didn't want to simply delete it, as that provides no visibility to the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For completeness, I also (by e-mail) pointed the user at &quot;meta&quot;, so this was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;by no means&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a silent / nameless action, without any chance of appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't, however, imagine that question being popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:48:11.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:50:15.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of unwritten rules will get spotted by people reading questions and answers before posting their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll notice that questions don't have the &quot;Hi/Thanks&quot; top and tail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll notice that humour is reserved for comments and not encouraged in questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately most people come to StackOverflow to get their apparently intractable problem solved and aren't really bothered about the subtleties of posting a &quot;good&quot; question. If they strike it lucky and get an answer that works they might come back and participate, but they're probably already predisposed to post according to the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:50:15.917" />
  <row Id="3202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:53:57.193" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say there are rules and there are community expectations and protocols. The rules are spelled out in the FAQ, in posts from Jeff and through the rules enforced programmatically by the system. Outside of that there are many community expectations and protocols. A person on there first visit to the site should not be expected to know or adhere to these; especially since they are dynamic by nature. However, as a person spends more time in and watching the community I would expect them to pick up on things that the community expects and self-enforces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the salutations example is a very good one. I would be shocked if anyone's question has ever been closed for containing salutations and hopefully they are not discouraged for having included salutations. However, if someone is providing other edits it is absolutely appropriate to remove the salutations. And from that, I believe the person will quietly pick up on the fact that as a community we don't feel they need to or should be included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, I think the difference comes down to this. Rules are enforced by the programmed system and through the official site moderators. The rest of the expectations are created by and managed by the community through the tools provided (voting, edits, flagging, etc); and they can change and adjust over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:53:57.193" />
  <row Id="3204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:57:08.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turn the question on its head: How does &lt;strong&gt;freeing&lt;/strong&gt; (not to be confused with open-source which &lt;a href=&quot;http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28491-why-open-source-misses-the-point-of-free-software&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;misses the point&lt;/a&gt;) change the game for stackoverflow.com LLC? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is only one reason to free your software: enable your users, provide them with the &lt;em&gt;freedom&lt;/em&gt; that comes with your software, the &lt;em&gt;freedom&lt;/em&gt; to implement all of those UserVoice features and bug fixes they've been whining about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact is, with the correct license (e.g. Affero GPL as suggested above), your competition will only come from companies and individuals that share your views (and goals) of free software. Any competitor will have to do the same thing as you: create value for the end-user. I dare say, nobody does this better than you and therefore you have nothing to fear from freeing stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:57:08.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:58:38.837" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it until you start having actual competitors, excluding of course Chinese knock-offs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:58:38.837" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" />
  <row Id="3206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3162" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:59:08.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can stackoverflow improve upon this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can convince users to properly tag their questions and write titles that actually &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; the question rather than making some vague allusion to part of the technology involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:59:08.080" />
  <row Id="3207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2009-07-07T14:59:11.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally feel that it is great that questions can be edited to clarify their points, or edited for spelling or grammer, but when someone takes the time to strip out a 'Hi' or a 'Thanks' it seems so a petty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's as if some bigshot blowhard came over and said shut up with your talking and ask me how I want to be asked. It's just plain rude that the only improvement you can make to my question is to make me blurt it out in the quickest way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've all had to deal with the know it all BOFH when we need information we haven't learned yet, but does he have to be such a bastard about it? And do we really need that attitude here? I think it adds no value for an editor to be such a douche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130429" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T14:59:11.903" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="3208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, consider this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the actual content of the site, Joel seems to embrace the bazaar model. He wants the silly questions and the big, involved questions too. From some things you have said on the podcast, I get the impression that you would like to keep the content as refined as possible and at times you actually seem &lt;em&gt;annoyed&lt;/em&gt; by questions you deem to be beneath the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think it's going to be like when people who you don't agree with are changing the code base as well as the content in a way you do not like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130087" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:08:50.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3216" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:18:30.917" Score="3" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know that stackoverflow is pretty much self policed and that the community will enforce rules etc.  I would like to actually define WHO the community is and also define what is NOT considered the community.  As best practices are discussed for the future growth of stackoverflow, it will definitely help to have a general understanding of who the community is exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;....&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It seems like the folks who have responded generally view the community as any registered user.  Therefore, every registered user would have an equal say or an equal opportunity to voice their opinions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:36:26.070" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:36:26.070" Title="What and Who is the community for stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:18:57.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps repeating some of what others have said, but since I was asked to bring my comments here, I'd rather keep them whole than splice them up as comments to other responses. Sorry, I'm lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Background: I am a rabid free software fanatic since the 1980s I pretend to be pragmatic on the 'Net, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Joel: releasing the SO source code would mean his hosting&#xA;business would have to compete with a number of competitors who drive&#xA;the price down (nearly) to cost. It is almost inevitable. Joel would&#xA;have to provide something extra to justify higher prices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some companies manage to do that. There are significant differences in&#xA;the prices for, say, web hosting and DNS registries, even though the&#xA;software and service are essentially the same. However, it is a very&#xA;difficult market to be in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if these kinds of Q&amp;amp;A sites do become a lucrative&#xA;business, I predict someone will clone the SO code, perhaps making it&#xA;free software from the start. Then Joel is in a difficult situation&#xA;again, although he'll have a couple of years of head start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest it may be worthwhile to consider avoiding that by&#xA;pre-emptively open sourcing the SO code base at the opportune moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's at least few ways in which Joel can help keep his competitive&#xA;edge despite the code being free:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the Affero GPL license, which means all his competitors would have&#xA;to release any changes they make, even if they don't distribute the&#xA;code. At least they won't be able to compete by having a better product:&#xA;everyone has access to the same code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Release the code in a delayed fashion. The Free Software Foundation&#xA;did this with the Ghostscript implementation of Postscript (or rather,&#xA;accepted it when done by its developer). GS was released in a non-free&#xA;fashion first, then a year later under a free license. This made it&#xA;easier for the developer to be paid by printer manufacturers who needed&#xA;bug fixes and improvements sooner rather than later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Embrace the competition: sell support for setting up and maintaining a&#xA;SO instance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not saying any of the above will make Joel's life easier as a&#xA;hosting provider, but I would like to suggest these for consideration in&#xA;your discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25148" LastEditorUserId="25148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T06:42:43.707" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T06:42:43.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:18:57.207" />
  <row Id="3211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:21:03.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several have suggested that the main value of open-sourcing is the &quot;free&quot; programming work.  However, the success of the SO framework, imho, is it's simplicity.  We all know it works well... right now.  Yes, there are lots of tiny burrs that could be polished off, but the core is already successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I think that the core question to resolve is whether there will be  successful alternative open-source competitors (question 4).  I think that this is inevitable, and &quot;owning&quot; the SO framework that everyone uses for this type of site might be more valuable than eeking out the profits from SE for a half-dozen years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:21:03.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T15:21:03.480" />
  <row Id="3212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:23:47.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the community is whoever decides to take an active part. Anybody who uses this site as more than just a drive-by answer site. Many of us have invested a lot of time and effort into the success of this model of website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:23:47.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:25:23.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The model of who is the community is pretty well enshrined in the gaining of privileges through reputation. Those who contribute, and whose contributions are respected and valued by the users of the site, become more able to shape the site and how it works. A community is not a &quot;who's in, who's out&quot; rule, but an entire structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only democracies could work the same way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:25:23.233" />
  <row Id="3214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:25:50.117" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community:&lt;/strong&gt; me.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Not Community:&lt;/strong&gt; the late Michael Jackson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use these two samples in comparison tests to answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:25:50.117" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:26:59.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the &quot;potential community&quot; is more important that the existing community.  I'm fairly new to SO, and was immediately drawn in by the overall &lt;strong&gt;utility&lt;/strong&gt; of the site:  I need an answer... I got an answer... right away.  After that experience I tried a few more times, and I feel myself getting sucked into what you may be referring to as &quot;the community.&quot;  I now &quot;care&quot; about the &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; as well as the &lt;em&gt;utility&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added:  Everyone enters the community from the outside... one of the &quot;potential community.&quot;  Their ideas of what is or is not acceptable have been formed from a range of online experiences.  Some of these people may do things at first that are outside of the existing community norm (myself included), but may have much to contribute in the long run (I hope this includes me).  I think that the future value of this &quot;potential community&quot; should always be taken in to account when dealing with newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastEditorUserId="130373" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T15:39:27.927" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:39:27.927" />
  <row Id="3216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:28:14.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: You are the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slightly longer answer: Everyone who decides to post to StackOverflow is the community. Even the drive-by askers. They all define, in some way, how StackOverflow works. Be wary of those who hide behind the will of the community because you will often find that they believe will of the community just so happens to be their personal opinion as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes for interesting dynamics as some issues are pretty cut and dry: No asking about dental surgery, for example. But then there are issues which are contested. Generally we should try to reach a consensus or at least a compromise where both sides give a little. And there are also sub-communities within the larger community as well. This is where most of the rub comes from I think. People start believing that their sub-community is the community at large. They start defining community by some arbitrary metric that excludes people they don't like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:28:14.403" />
  <row Id="3217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:29:34.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community is anybody who is registered to put it plainly. Much like your home-community is anybody who is on living in that area. Whether they interact or not, smile or not, or even leave their home is not important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, there are active members in the community. Following the analogy, those who visit in the park, volunteer at the shelter, etc. Similarly, there are active members here - most of which spend a lot of time on MetaSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:29:34.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:30:21.813" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow is you.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The topic of the post is not necessarily relevant, but I thought the title applies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:30:21.813" />
  <row Id="3223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26956" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:39:38.890" Score="8" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone got any tools/scripts etc. for getting the data dump into MySQL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T23:44:31.440" Title="Importing Creative Commons Data Dump into MySQL" Tags="&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T15:47:21.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel sorry for people who think humor has no place in their work life.  I've had to work with some of those people, and it's a sad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T15:47:21.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:04:30.113" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are a lot of interesting posts in this thread.  I want to call out a few of the different arguments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you open source it, you get free labor and at least you get to manage commits and vet new patches and features yourself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is false.  First of all, most of the patches you get will need to be rejected.  In the end, you likely either spend as much time reviewing patches as it would take to implement the feature, or you're just not getting the patches.  Secondly, open sourcing doesn't guarantee that you get to be the maintainers of the project. It won't stop people from also forking it to do what they want.  For a product like this, where the maintainer has a very high standard for polish and integration (a good thing) and the audience includes many competent, connected developers, the likelihood of a serious fork is very high.  So the idea that going open source somehow lets you pre-empt the clones is just wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Company X seems to do pretty well with open source&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irrelevant. It's a different business in a different situation.  Even if the situation seems similar, there will be little differences that can have a big impact. This applies to WordPress and Reddit as well.  And many of these companies are still in the stage where they're burning through VC money, so appearances can be deceiving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The on-site version is too expensive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very much true.  For that kind of money, I could take one of the (bad) clones as a starting point and tell a developer to spend a couple months turning it into something usable.  It'll take a bit and won't be quite as nice, but pretty soon we'll have something that our users like almost as much, is tailored to fit our company, integrates with our existing systems, and is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; cheaper to operate. If after a year I'm still not happy, we can work on it more and I'm still not out anything vs using SE.  If I had that kind of money to burn and needed something right away, I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; buy SE, but I probably can also have another developer hack a replacement at the same time and so you wouldn't keep the business for long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, I'm a programmer and not a business manager, so perhaps this would never even occur them.  Instead, all they'll see is a big price tag on something that's basically a toy for their internal users.  Either way: it's too much.  Basically the problem is that it assumes the reason you'd want the onsite version is to go bigger, when it's more likely customers will want it because they're smaller; they only want to use it for internal staff and don't want it's contents public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also need to look at it from a forum site standpoint.  Right now there are thousands of little sites running vBulletin or phpBB.  What do those users pay?  How can you capture some of that money?  Currently you are completely priced out of this.  The only way to get into that market at all is to have some form of installable package.  Will it hurt you if a bunch of other little sites start using the same code base as stackoverflow? Probably not, especially if they're paying for the privilege.  Will releasing the code as open source allow you sell to more of these users or fewer?  Depending on how you do it, it could be many many more, or it could completely cut off any sales of the for-pay edition at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Competition from other other providers will drive the price down to your costs or below.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps.  I think probably not quite that far: as the originators of the code base, you will always be able to command a premium over the competition.  If you go this route, what you would need to do is make sure you're in the business of selling hosting to the richest customers (the banana republicans) rather than poorest.  Let others worry about making money from the low end.  Yes, you're giving up a lot of revenue to them, but most of that doesn't count because it's revenue from customers that could not have afforded your offering anyway.  All you get to think about is the portion that you lose due to pricing pressure from the competition.  This will be significant at first, but the story isn't over yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this does for you long-term is allow you to use the competition to grow your market.  Some of the smaller customers that start out going through a competitor and could never have afforded to even get started under your current plan will now grow enough to need your services.  Think of it like giving CoPilot away for free on the weekends.  Some of those weekend users will eventually want it during the week.  And some other big users might hear of it because they know someone who knows someone who uses it for free.  Over the long haul, the economics say this &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be the better option for the business.  A bigger market usually means more revenue - eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can split the code base into distinct parts and open source just some of the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separating the engine from the interface is a good idea anyway, and probably required for StackExchange to be a success.  Additionally, setting up the engine to use a provider or plugin model for certain parts would be a very good idea.  One big is the authentication mechanism.  Another is treating your main input editor as a pluggable component (so users can swap out your markdown for freetextbox, for example).  Others include adding badges and moderator tools as plugins.  I could come up with more like this.  Again, this makes sense to do anyway, and will make managing the StackExchange product easier.  It would also allow you to hold some key code in reserve in a meaningful way if you ever do go open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I really like about it is that it gives you the option to sell the components.  You could forget StackExchange (at least as the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; money-maker - I really doubt it will take off anyway because you can't just install a community on a server), and sell your markdown editor implementation as a component that can plug into any web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally, my own new point:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Speed is a feature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You keep saying this, and we know it is very much true.  You have the ability to show potential customers the graphs published by google and bing of how clicks and attention drop off as a page takes longer to load, look them in the eye, and guarantee your pages will load in the fastest block.  Even if you open source the code, your competition would have a hard time doing that, because they don't have your intimate knowledge of how it works and what it takes to keep it fast. You can do a better job monitoring and profiling your customers performance, and tuning the servers than anyone else could ever hope to. And this is another big reason the banana republicans with money to burn would go to you for hosting vs cheaper competition, even after you open source the product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T02:56:19.663" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T02:56:19.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T16:04:30.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3340" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:06:47.393" Score="35" ViewCount="793" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to view the progress on certain SO Badges? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tumbleweed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - What value constitutes low views for a week?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fanatic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Woot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; – Is there a way to view how many days in a row you currently have?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; – Is it even possible to get this badge anymore?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130437" LastEditorUserId="130437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T11:15:43.543" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T11:15:43.543" Title="SO Badge Progress Report" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-progress&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:08:18.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There does seem to be an inconsistency at times.  Posts that are genuinely hilarious get up-voted... often to the top spot.  Others that might miss the mark might be penalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your suggestion to be able to mark an answer as &quot;humor&quot; has real merit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:08:18.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3244" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:09:25.660" Score="4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love the charts. How did you build &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/75594?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; little bad boys? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130444" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:19:43.650" Title="How did you create your charts?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:09:34.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an issue with implementing the generalist badge is determining what is general. The simple idea of earning it for earning the tag badge in multiple badges I think has a flaw because so many of the badges are related. If you earn the c# badge, it doesn't really make you a generalist to earn the .net badge. I would argue it wouldn't even be much of a generalist if you also earned the VB badge, there's just so much overlap. I really like the concept, but I'm really not sure how it could be quantified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:09:34.287" />
  <row Id="3234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:09:53.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You had to participate in the Stack Overflow beta to get the Beta badge and the beta closed some time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:09:53.140" />
  <row Id="3235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:09:56.183" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. They are meant to be mysterious by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:09:56.183" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:11:37.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865/consecutive-day-count-in-profile&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question has a feature request for the days in a row related to fanatic and woot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is tumbleweed is intentionally vague to allow for tweaking over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And beta can still be awarded, but not to a user who joins today. Only to a user who joined during the beta period and earns three bronze metals (Jeff states this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13/should-the-beta-badges-stop-being-awarded-to-users/19#19&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T16:22:00.403" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:22:00.403" />
  <row Id="3237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:11:43.267" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://debugging.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;debugging.com&lt;/a&gt; is going to be in the same park.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:11:43.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T16:11:43.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8880" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:13:55.843" Score="12" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;The JSON version of flair currently offers these fields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;id&lt;/strong&gt;: The user's ID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;gravatarHtml&lt;/strong&gt;: HTML of an IMG tag to display the Gravatar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;profileUrl&lt;/strong&gt;: The URL to the user's public profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;displayName&lt;/strong&gt;: The user's display name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;reputation&lt;/strong&gt;: The user's rep, with commas separating thousands&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;badgeHtml&lt;/strong&gt;: HTML to render the entire flair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is insufficient for a user to build flair to their own liking without doing some html scraping.  I'd like the following JSON attributes to be added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;gravatarURL&lt;/strong&gt;: The URL of the Gravatar image, without the size parameters.  Or possibly just a gravatarHash field.  (Currently, you could get this by scraping the gravatarHtml field, but that's not ideal.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;goldBadges&lt;/strong&gt;: The number of gold badges earned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;silverBadges&lt;/strong&gt;: The number of silver badges earned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bronzeBadges&lt;/strong&gt;: The number of bronze badges earned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd like reputation to be given as a pure integer.  Maybe a user wants to show off their badge on a German site, where &quot;.&quot; is used as the thousands separator.  Or maybe they would prefer to show their rep in hex.  (Yes, I know I could strip the comma from the reputation field, but I'd prefer it if the comma didn't come there to begin with.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T13:18:26.587" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T13:18:26.587" Title="Offer additional properties to JSON flair" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;json&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3232" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:15:43.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/flot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flot jQuery plugin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:15:43.943" />
  <row Id="3240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:16:27.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tumbleweed - Pretty vague to allow for changes in the way it is awarded&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woot/Enthusiast and Fanatic - No real way to track it now through the StackOverflow user interface at this point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beta - This would be possible if you were active during the beta period of one of the sites. Meta did not have a beta period so this is pretty much a non-existent badge for Meta. All the other sites have either had it or will have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:16:27.360" />
  <row Id="3241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:16:57.733" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone but RichB ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:16:57.733" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3232" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:19:13.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1093265/how-did-stackoverflow-create-their-date-filtered-chart&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1093265/how-did-stackoverflow-create-their-date-filtered-chart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:19:13.063" />
  <row Id="3243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3232" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:19:13.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/i-dont-give-a-damn-about-my-reputation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Geoff Dalgas worked on it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:19:13.457" />
  <row Id="3244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3232" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:19:43.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The charts were created using the Flot plug-in for jQuery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/flot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/flot/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:19:43.650" />
  <row Id="3245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:20:54.090" Score="11" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Safari because it supports most of Emacs keyset in textareas. Unfortunately, Stack Overflow breaks that. (Especially annoying are &lt;strong&gt;strong text&lt;/strong&gt; (C-b, left-arrow), followed shortly by &lt;code&gt;enter code here&lt;/code&gt; (C-k, cut line).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I would like to request a preference to turn off the keyboard shortcuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: In another question, somebody mentioned disabling Javascript, but that sounds like it would break the rest of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7851" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T16:06:35.557" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T16:06:35.557" Title="Option to disable keyboard shortcuts in WMD" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3209" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:21:02.733" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In soviet russia, the community is you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:21:02.733" />
  <row Id="3248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3267" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:30:26.843" Score="2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you envision how the Stack software could evolve to incorporate more collaboration features without &quot;&lt;em&gt;breaking&lt;/em&gt; it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am talking to some colleagues about starting a StackExchange-hosted site. My detractors are concerned that StackOverflow's design &lt;strong&gt;does not allow for collaboration&lt;/strong&gt; in any meaningful way. While I agree, my argument is that the questions/answers format stands on its own merits while more collaborative methods could be &lt;strong&gt;incorporated into the system&lt;/strong&gt; as it evolves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we looking at simply morphing the comments section into some sort of threaded conversation system (without it becoming a horrible threaded mess) or is there &lt;strong&gt;a more inspired model&lt;/strong&gt; waiting to be discovered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the brilliance of StackOverflow (et al) is the break from traditional forums/conversations... to one where individual answers &quot;float&quot; to the top as they are voted on by the community. I would hate to &lt;strong&gt;break that model&lt;/strong&gt; if it meant trying to force two &lt;strong&gt;fundamentally incompatible&lt;/strong&gt; communication models together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T07:01:58.933" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T07:01:58.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T15:07:18.497" Title="Could Stack Sites Ever Seamlessly Incorporate More Collaboration/Discussion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:31:50.207" Score="4" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3131/is-is-possible-to-learn-a-new-language-through-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your opinions on the perceived 'unwritten rule' to close easy / simple / 'beginner' questions? For it? Against it? Legitimately want to know how to declare an array, and can't find a good resource? I think my problem with this stems from not knowing where to draw the line - what constitutes a question that's 'too easy'? I don't believe there should be such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:15:51.417" Title="Closing 'easy' questions - yes or no?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:34:10.783" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, easy questions are there to help noobs.  The only reason to close them is if the question is exceptionally badly asked and can't be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:34:10.783" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:34:19.033" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of StackOverflow is to become the resource for programmers to find these sort of questions. You'd be surprised how much old and outdated information there is out there, there's no harm in rehashing things. As long as the user isn't obviously abusive like going around asking 100 simple questions to farm rep as they do tend to get (pity?) upvotes sometimes, I say go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick example is actually exactly what you used: How to declare an array. If I do a google search for &quot;how to declare an array in javascript&quot; the first result suggests you do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var x = new Array();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When actually the recommended way of doing it now is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var x = [];&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a user that is &quot;just googling it&quot; might end up with the wrong information. If they ask this question on SO then a user could hopefully suggest the better method with some reasons why, and then the first result on Google could be StackOverflow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:34:19.033" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:51:31.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All questions (programming-related) welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:51:31.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:51:41.500" Score="2" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't the owners of these various Q&amp;amp;A sites just go multi-language?  It's pretty simple, if you've got a community behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7644" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-31T14:10:40.903" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T14:10:40.903" Title="Why don't they just make SO multilingual? It's possible!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;languages&gt;&lt;non-english-speakers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3262" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:53:25.470" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a multi-lingual user would dillute his effort , and most likely not bothering to answer the same question in both languages;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;english is the lingua franca of programming anyway - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001248.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see 'The Ugly American Programmer&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:53:25.470" />
  <row Id="3264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3262" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:53:35.947" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Jeff Atwood hates people who are different than him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:53:35.947" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="3265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3262" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:53:40.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed heavily in a previous podcast. Jeff Atwood doesn't like the idea. I believe Joel was a lot more amicable towards it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:53:40.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3262" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:58:14.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3269/if-accepted-answers-could-be-translated-by-the-community-what-language-could-you&quot;&gt;Instead, why not allow people to translate answers for others?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eu posso ajuda com portuguese (brasil).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T17:11:53.853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:11:53.853" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3248" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:59:19.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that the community is what mostly shapes the site's usage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the community that has evolved around SO, for example, polls are frowned upon and strong editing just doesn't happen much because of attribution problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has many wiki-like features, and wikis are made to collaborate. In smaller communities where you can get to agreements about how to use the tool and where competition won't matter so much you can certainly use the current site to collaborate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, open a question discussing topic X and start an answer, people can then start editing directly your answer and only add a different one to share a totally different point of view, using voting to choose among the different point of views. Commenting would only be used to discuss changes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bet you can imagine better scenarios that would allow SO to be used to collaborate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T17:04:31.430" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:04:31.430" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3262" CreationDate="2009-07-07T16:59:42.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't that entail individual translations of every question, answer, and comment to every other language? I don't think I could be convinced that this is nearly necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T16:59:42.643" />
  <row Id="3270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3248" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:06:11.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the wiki aspect could be more strongly encouraged; perhaps a built-in means of &lt;em&gt;merging&lt;/em&gt; complementary answers. But for the most part, i'm happy with the level of collaboration supported on SO &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt; - it pleases me immensely that, instead of being forced to post a new one, i can edit in additional information to an existing good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion is reasonably well served by the comment system. If there is need for longer, deeper discussions, this could be made threaded and broken out into a separate page for each post... but i do not expect to see this any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:06:11.237" />
  <row Id="3273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:15:51.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, how about this easy question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;When was C first standardised?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the right way of answering this (obviously programming related) question? Personally, I would refer it to wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:15:51.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3350" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:19:40.707" Score="3" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've answered questions in a lot of areas that are only of passing interest at best to me, so the 'my tags' feature when I go to look for Unanswered content is filled, frankly, with spam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may have one entry colored 'Interesting' for every few pages of noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am able to set a list of Interesting tags in my preferences. Is there a way to get a list of questions (answered, unanswered, etc.) filtered to just those tags? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit: As noted by Ritter below, I can Make a link like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell+monads&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell+monads&lt;/a&gt; . However, this doesn't extend to filtering that for unanswered content. Any ideas?]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34707" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T00:55:32.083" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:56:39.323" Title="Can I search for just (unanswered) content that matches my Interesting tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:27:03.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make a bookmark of a search of your interesting tags.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/security%20encryption%20cryptography&quot;&gt;Here's an example&lt;/a&gt;.  You could use greasemonkey to put the link prominently on the SO page, or even generate it dynamically if you change your interesting links a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:27:03.790" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:30:23.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does open sourcing Stack Overflow even make sense at all? What do we (stackoverflow.com llc) get out of it? What does the community get out of it? Is it &quot;win-win&quot;? Or does someone lose?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open sourcing Stack Overflow makes sense. The LLC gets a few benefits. First of all, it gets free labor. Programmers aren't cheap. Secondly, it decreases the likeliness of other open-source implementations. Third, it gives you inroads and mindshare into an entire audience who wouldn't use StackExchange. By using OpenStack (I'm naming it now, whatever), they might end up using StackExchange or contributing patches in the future, which is of value to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community gets similar benefits. People who would never buy StackExchange could use OpenStack instead. We'd get a whole ton of good looking, well designed, ASP MVC code. People who really love StackOverflow could express their thanks by contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there &quot;hybrid&quot; models of open sourcing that could work? Rather than treating this as an &quot;all or nothing&quot; scenario, is there a way to open source parts of what we're doing, or restrict licensing so that we don't compete with ourselves in the hosted StackExchange part of the business?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is always the dual license option&lt;/strong&gt;. For those that aren't familliar with dual licensing, the idea is that you license the software under the GPL for no cost, but you also license the software under the BSD (or MIT) license for a fee. You could easily add this to your current pricing scheme. Essentially, there is an additional &quot;Free&quot; tier at the bottom with no hosting, and you also add a &quot;purchase&quot; option where you get a  BSD'd copy for $x. This would probably be pretty expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few benefits to doing this, but basically, the reason that you would open the source of SO is to garner updates to the code from the community. The price of updating the code without contributing back is the the cost of the BSD'd code. A company can essentially &quot;buy off&quot; the need to share their own proprietary stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, your &quot;compete with ourselves&quot; point is well taken. However, you forget about your prime advantage: you know the code base. Yes, someone could just set up shop and install OpenStack on a ton of servers, put up a front a la WordPress.com, and start charging. But are they able to compete with you on developing new features? If they fork it after your first release, will they be able to make it better than you will be able to, given your knowledge of the codebase? You're also discounting the social element involved. Basically everyone would know that that's what they're doing, and I honestly doubt that many people would do business with someone who would do something like that. At the very least, I know that I'd want to use an originating service, as I wouldn't trust someone else to have a thorough knowledge of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aren't there other companies pursuing open source and hosting businesses at the same time? Such as Six Apart and Movable Type? I'm not sure how applicable this is to hosting business models, but certainly Slashdot and Reddit have gone open source. Dot Net Nuke also runs a similar business model, apparently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are. What you have to &lt;strong&gt;remember is what these companies' value propositions are: convenience&lt;/strong&gt;. They're in the business of selling bottled water, basically. No need to worry about filtering it for yourself; just pop the top and drink. Lots of people make lots of money selling bottled water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Won't we be competing with open source versions of ourselves anyway in the long term? There are certainly already open source Stack Overflow clones, and lots of open source FogBugz competition and clones. Over time, won't the competitive pressure increase from the continual improvement of open source copies of what we do? Would it make sense to do it ourselves so we control it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true. As you've said, there are already lots of clones. If you were to release SO as open source, there would be less of a tendancy to re-implement SO itself, and more of a tendacy to just contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could there be &quot;enterprisey&quot; closed source and &quot;public&quot; open source parts of the business? I've always said that StackExchange is going to have to fork because their private small, medium, and large business audience will want very different things than the public internet audience we serve. Wouldn't this be one way to segment the &quot;free as in whatever the heck it is we're calling free these days&quot; open-source dev work from the value-add closed source product?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my above comment about dual licensing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:30:23.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T17:30:23.107" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:36:37.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on tags, then click on the tag you want to search.  The page will then display only that tag's contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any subsequent tags you click on on the left hand side will then be added to your search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63925" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:36:37.690" />
  <row Id="3283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3289" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:36:58.753" Score="8" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of my favorite reads have been the &quot;Code Golf&quot; questions, as well as similar contests - such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-encoding-challenge&quot;&gt;embedding an image into a Twitter message&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of role should these type of questions fit into the SO community?  Should there be lots every day?  Should they be rare?  Do they really have a valid place in a Q&amp;amp;A kind of community?  Is it different from community to community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should ServerFault have lots of &quot;Build a server that does all this, for as little as possible&quot; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T02:08:38.720" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T01:18:06.837" Title="What kind of place should there be for &quot;Contest&quot; questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;contest&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:40:06.193" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to submit questions like this with immediate bounties. He who has the most votes, wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:40:06.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:41:22.833" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are valid questions because they are programming questions, and they are even &lt;strong&gt;fun&lt;/strong&gt; programming questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no rule defining how many valid questions you can have per time unit, so there should be as many as the community asks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:41:22.833" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:42:59.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally don't like to see &lt;em&gt;spoilers&lt;/em&gt; to contest questions, but like homework question, I think they're on SO to stay.  If people can't find them on SO, they'll find them somewhere else, so we might as well accept them so we can all learn from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:42:59.517" />
  <row Id="3293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3127" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:48:26.200" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, just deleting the tags won't work, since anyone with enough rep can just remake the tag... you'd also have to block the tags, which just doesn't make sense...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63925" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:48:26.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3296" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:48:41.590" Score="135" ViewCount="1322" Body="&lt;p&gt;This badge, which I'd nominate as a silver, would be awarded for every 5 accepted answers a user has with no votes.  There should probably be a 24-hour window after acceptance before this badge is awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do this, you ask?  Well, one of the much-belabored issues of the SO model is that rep is more easily accumulated by facile participation in shallow, accessible, popular topics, while successful handling of difficult, high-expertise-required issues often enough goes unrewarded.  This badge attempts to act against that tendency, interpreting someone who writes a lot of accepted-but-not-voted-on answers as actively helping people solve &quot;unpopular&quot; problems &amp;mdash; likely, in large part, problems from new, low-rep users who lack even the power to upvote a good answer to their question, and so may go ignored by more rep-oriented users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that behavior is a desirable sort of participation, it attempts to provide recognition, and thereby incentive, for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally I was thinking of this badge in terms strictly of upvotes, but it seems appropriate to disqualify questions from counting toward this badge if they receive downvotes; the idea is to reward helpful answers that go mostly unrecognized, not to reward &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; answers.  So I've modified the qualification from &quot;no upvotes&quot; to simply &quot;no votes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T06:29:50.617" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T07:11:55.490" Title="Badge suggestion: Unsung Hero (5 accepted answers with no votes)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="3296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3294" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:53:12.910" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like this idea. It also made me think of another badge idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purple Heart - Accepted Answer with a negative score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:53:12.910" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3294" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:54:10.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the concept for the badge. But I might be more inclined to tie it to views of the question rather than upvotes. A good, accepted answer is likely to and should have upvotes. But that doesn't mean it is necessarily getting recognized the way it should, which it sounds like is your intent. You'd probably have to do some real analysis of voting patterns to truly determine what would be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:54:10.310" />
  <row Id="3298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3294" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:54:57.457" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. Pretty sure I've had a fair few quick answers accepted with no upvotes, or with an upvote only from the question asker, on SO. Also like TheTXI's suggestion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggest that it should be no upvotes OTHER THAN ONE FROM THE QUESTION ASKER (if this is recorded?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:54:57.457" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3301" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:55:18.977" Score="5" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://gyazo.com/184a2a1eb644b44c1fdf70b94cff13d5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I cant seem to correlate any relation between the two numbers. It says I have 222 total score for the jquery tag but how is this evaluated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T04:02:10.103" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T04:02:10.103" Title="What do the numbers in the Top Users section mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3299" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:56:04.737" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first is the number of upvotes received by the user in non-community wiki situations. The second is number of non-CW answers (or questions in the questions part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:56:04.737" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="3302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3311" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:56:35.247" Score="1" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to know on SO the breakdown on the totals of your reputation points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39478" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T18:15:04.807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:30:56.527" Title="Is there a way to know how you got your reputation points?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3299" CreationDate="2009-07-07T17:58:17.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first number is votes the second is answers . I believe the votes are a net of upvotes minus downvotes. And I believe the answers may only take into account answers where you received a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T17:58:17.357" />
  <row Id="3310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:01:07.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can check your reputation graph on your profile page but it won't show everything (such as questions and answers which have been deleted, or bonus points achieved through things like associating accounts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can keep a more minute-by-minute track of your rep by looking at the reputation breakdown on your recent activity page as well. This will show you all the active posts you have made and the number of votes (up or down) and the total points gained or lost from the actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:01:07.610" />
  <row Id="3311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:02:22.770" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click your linked username at the top of the page to open your user page. &lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fusername.png&quot; alt=&quot;username&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the Reputation tab to open the reputation graph and breakout. &lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Freputation&quot; alt=&quot;tab&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the entire area of the graph, or enter a date range that includes your entire SO history. &lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Frepgraph.png&quot; alt=&quot;graph&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scroll through the list, noting how much each post contributed to your rep... &lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Freplist.png&quot; alt=&quot;list&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T18:10:46.147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:10:46.147" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3127" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:03:51.810" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any logical reason for that tag to be there. If SO is a programming site, you would assume all questions should be programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:03:51.810" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:11:23.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Skeet&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tracker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T18:19:33.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:19:33.417" />
  <row Id="3314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34120" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:12:07.003" Score="4" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1093751/can-i-replace-20-with-nbsp-in-urls-that-have-spaces/1093769#1093769&quot;&gt;an answer that involved some HTML&lt;/a&gt;, which I indented by four spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;http://some/url/with&amp;amp;nbsp;nbsp/&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;compare to the original input I made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;http://some/url/with&amp;amp;nbsp;nbsp/&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as though &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; gets replaced by an actual non-breaking space within a code section in the final output. I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; this was not always the case (can someone confirm?), and it generally contradicts the meaning of a code section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also inconsistent with the way text within backticks is treated. Now I know I could circumvent that by using &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;, but I'm &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; hesitant of this double encoding of source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T12:04:27.770" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T12:05:32.960" Title="Are &quot;code&quot;-sections consistent? &amp;nbsp; gets replaced" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:12:14.450" Score="5" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/943/ability-to-search-my-stuff&quot;&gt;Ability to search my stuff?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be nice to see an Advanced Search screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it would be nice to see a checkbox with &quot;Limit Search to my own Questions&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone has probably said this already but checkboxes with only search within answered questions and unanswered questions would be handy too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36590" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T18:00:24.407" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:00:24.407" ClosedDate="2009-07-26T10:57:31.050" Title="Search - Advanced Search - Only My Own Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3315" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:13:43.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;or, like [searching-tags], add a delimeter for #searching users#&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:13:43.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:17:42.647" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;REMOVE THE CAP!  FREE REP!  FREE REP!  FREE REP!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:17:42.647" />
  <row Id="3318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3315" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:22:00.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is tentatively going to be done, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1353/please-allow-us-to-browse-our-own-questions-by-tag/1356#1356&quot;&gt;according to this answer&lt;/a&gt;. The syntax would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[java] --userid:18393&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see all answer/questions with a java tag by a particular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:22:00.307" />
  <row Id="3320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:25:31.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you check the source of the page, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; is written as &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;, so the double-decoding is happening on the client, not the server. That's pretty interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a bug in the code formatter itself. Isn't that a component written externally to SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:25:31.867" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3294" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:32:31.427" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that this is a good &lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt; but I don't necessarily agree it is a good idea. We should be giving more badges that encourage giving upvotes. I don't want a situation where I have to consider if my upvote will have a BAD effect on what the user wants. I want to ALWAYS ALWAYS upvote people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:32:31.427" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3331" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:50:19.623" Score="18" ViewCount="635" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following piece of Markdown code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The is some regular text.&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; def factorial(n):&#xA;    ...     return 1 if n &amp;lt; 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)&#xA;    ... &#xA;&#xA;* This is a list item.&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; def factorial(n):&#xA;    ...     return 1 if n &amp;lt; 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)&#xA;    ... &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the second code block is preceded by a list item. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the factorial code not properly formatted under these circumstances? (At least not during preview; when I hit the &lt;strong&gt;Ask Question&lt;/strong&gt; button in a minute we'll know how it shows up in practice.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To demonstrate the problem, I'll insert the Markdown code show above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The is some regular text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; def factorial(n):&#xA;...     return 1 if n &amp;lt; 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)&#xA;... &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a list item&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;p&gt;def factorial(n):&#xA;      ...     return 1 if n &amp;lt; 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)&#xA;      ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This applies to numbered as well as unnumbered lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-24T09:10:44.863" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T09:10:44.863" Title="Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3294" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:51:42.713" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the badge in that it sounds 'fun', but I'm not sure about what behavior it encourages (and that's what badges are about after all).  I suppose you could say it adds an incentive to answer questions for users with &amp;lt;10 that can't also upvote your answer.  On the flip side, it might also encourage someone to accept your answer without voting for it because they know it will contribute to your badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:51:42.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:54:34.660" Score="45" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes at work I have an immediate need to get an answer for a question. I have 3,000 points at my disposal so I'd like to just put a bounty on the question as soon as I post it to give it the highest possible chance of being seen. Why do I have to wait?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T21:05:32.053" Title="Why can't I just offer a bounty for a question right off the bat?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="3331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3327" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:56:31.963" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a crappy work-around, but you can do insert a backticked space to trick it.  Put a space into those backticks and it should work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This is a list item.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;``&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; def factorial(n):&#xA;...     return 1 if n &amp;lt; 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)&#xA;...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a list item.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; def factorial(n):&#xA;...     return 1 if n &amp;lt; 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)&#xA;...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:56:31.963" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3327" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:57:11.690" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that I usually have to add &lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt; spaces before any code instead of &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; spaces when it's code that appears as part of a list item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;- 4 spaces&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A list item (one blank line after this):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;- 8 spaces&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T18:57:11.690" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2009-07-07T18:57:34.060" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Podcasts &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-26/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#26&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/podcast-34/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#34&lt;/a&gt;, Joel and Jeff talked about this. They didn't want a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; to interfere with the 'normal' method of asking/answering questions. If you're allowed to offer it right away, then it has the potential to create an economy where people only focus on questions with bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that it's very rare (over 90% of questions are answered) for your question not to be answered. As far as getting it answered quickly, well that depends &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on what time you ask your question&lt;/a&gt; (All times UTC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stack-overflow-revision-dates-by-hour.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question time Graph&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T19:05:06.473" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T19:05:06.473" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2009-07-07T19:02:29.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps something could be worked here so that the you could offer an initial bounty, but they would be featured differently, it wouldn't affect their front page rating and the site wouldn't match the bounty points, something like that. I agree you've earned the points and it would be nice if you could &quot;put that to work&quot;, but I also understand what I think (from memory here) was Joel's point that you wouldn't want the site to become people camping for questions with bounty points, so I don't think it should be overly encourage. Maybe even the person could incur a penalty. I think the key if the feature was added would be to disinsentivise it to the point that it would be used sparingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T19:02:29.533" />
  <row Id="3340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2009-07-07T19:26:06.423" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/27562-badge-progress&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice request for badge progress&lt;/a&gt; was declined with the following comment from Jeff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is modelled on the xbox live achievements model, and that does not show progress, either.. by design&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T19:26:06.423" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3230" CreationDate="2009-07-07T19:39:24.017" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To get the Beta badge, I suggest finding an SQL injection vulnerability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T19:39:24.017" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T19:51:57.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm astonished that nobody seems to mention an IMHO very important point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Releasing the source would allow others to build websites for other topics/sub-cultures&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about all those people who are e.g. into mathematics, aquaristics (fish tanks), whatever. I'm sure there are many groups out there who would love to build a question+answer based site like stackoverflow/serverfault/superuser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130465" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T19:51:57.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T19:51:57.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T19:58:30.917" Score="16" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the reputation score is actual reputation, it seems like having a high reputation would be enough to prove you are human. Why do I need to keep proving it?   I could see captcha appearing if my behavior became erratic (maybe my account was taken over). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13100" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T21:44:10.817" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T21:44:10.817" Title="Why is Captcha for higher rep users even necessary?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T19:59:53.373" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that meta doesn't lend itself to every question having a single correct answer, it seems wrong that you can accept a particular answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be missing the mark, but you've got three classes of question here on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tech support issues for SO/SF (&quot;Where's my rep&quot;/&quot;How can I track my rep&quot;/etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feature/enhancement requests (&quot;How about this new badge&quot;/&quot;Can we have comment notifications in the RSS feeds&quot;/etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opinion questions (&quot;should easy questions be closed&quot;/&quot;How to deal with unwritten rules&quot;/etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those, I only see the tech support issues actually having an answer worth accepting, and seems that it could be exploitable if people started accepting answers, purely because they've of the same opinion for a feature request. Similarly, starting a bounty seems exploitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T22:17:29.797" Title="Should accepting an answer on meta give a reputation bonus?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="3348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:01:13.377" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These spring to mind to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accounts could be compromised by something malicious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Malicious users could &quot;game the system&quot; through sock-puppetry (etc) to allow their bots to bypass the captchas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:01:13.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:01:51.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because every user is equally susceptible to having their accounts taken over (the security on every account is identical.) Furthermore, the higher rep users have more power, and therefore their accounts are more desirable to take over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more power you have and the more power you use it, the more often you'll get CAPTHA'd. This is the burden of responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:01:51.420" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:02:45.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a bookmarklet that only shows your &quot;Interesting&quot; tags (make a bookmark, change the URL to the following):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:void($(&quot;.question-summary%20+%20:not(.tagged-interesting)&quot;).hide())&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combined with the URL &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/haskell&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/haskell&lt;/a&gt; for example, it should do what you want..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not perfect, if there is only two interesting answers on the page, that's all you'll see at a time (anything else would have to be a server-side change..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:02:45.607" />
  <row Id="3351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:03:05.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2860/what-changes-to-the-so-engine-are-necessary-for-meta&quot;&gt;brought up&lt;/a&gt; a bunch of times. Accepting an answer makes no sense on meta. We all get it already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T20:29:27.143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:29:27.143" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3354" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:03:59.137" Score="72" ViewCount="1488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has successfully borrowed at least one XBox feature (Achievements).  I'd like to see another feature borrowed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I'm playing Halo online and another player is being a bigot.  I have the option to add him to a list of ignored users.  After doing that, all the racist things he says will never be heard through my headphones anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on Stack Overflow, I'd like the ability to add a user to a list of ignored users.  This would hide all of that user's comments, and maybe his questions and answers as well (not sure if hiding questions/answers is necessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This serves multiple purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would make it easy for users to avoid other users' flamebait.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would give users a more appropriate response to flamebait.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ability to start flame wars would be reduced, since fewer users would see those comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users would now have an incentive to be more diplomatic, as there is now a negative consequence to the behavior (the silent treatment).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Administrators could review which users are the most often ignored, which would be a strong indication that someone should be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;put in the penalty box&lt;/a&gt; or even locked out of their account.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Administrators wouldn't have to spend as much time dealing with complaints about abusive users, since users would have a better way to respond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13018/annakata&quot;&gt;annakata&lt;/a&gt; makes a good point in a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;#3662&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt;, that I thought should get more visibility:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had a problem, reported it and got the response &quot;not bad enough to do anything about, sorry&quot;. Which is kind of true, because the only options available to the mods are the nuclear one (penalty box) and the zero-effect one (do nothing). We need a middle ground option where abuse can be handled for &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; without also being handled for &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T15:21:27.340" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T03:45:28.537" Title="Add the ability to ignore users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="3354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:04:57.280" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love an ignore feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/greasemonkey-ignore-user-script&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey: Ignore User Script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T12:56:02.280" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:56:02.280" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:05:17.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since meta rep only applies to meta anyway, I don't think it's a big deal. It only means that people respect your opinion on meta-discussions, not necessarily your technical acumen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting answers may still be important on subjective questions as well, because it &lt;strong&gt;MAY&lt;/strong&gt; signify that the issue has been closed. In which case it makes sense to allow the moderators (or super moderators) select the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:05:17.980" />
  <row Id="3356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:07:18.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I initially suggested that the mechanism for accepting an answer be removed from Meta, as this site is intended to be more discussion-oriented, I have since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2860/what-changes-to-the-so-engine-are-necessary-for-meta&quot;&gt;changed my mind&lt;/a&gt;, and I do think that, &lt;em&gt;when applicable&lt;/em&gt; the ability of the topic starter to select a reply that has resolved their issue is important, and I think that the rep bonus is part of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:07:18.903" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3360" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:13:40.217" Score="20" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMPORTANT - Read before using...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This script is not meant to be a solution for bad behavior on Stackoverflow. If you feel somebody is violating the rules of this site, please contact the proper authorities (team@stackoverflow.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remove any instance of a particular user or group of uses from your Stackoverflow experience with this greasemonkey script. Just place their names in the &lt;code&gt;userids array&lt;/code&gt; and listen as the noise decreases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tuesday, July 14, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script would remove any questions that were edited by anybody within your ignore-users list. This has been fixed. Additionally, avatars representing your ignored-users will be replaced with random avatars. Any remaining references to any names in your ignore-list will be replaced with 'unknown (Google),' a common title for unrecognizable users on SO. Script was not operating properly on community-wiki posts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Submit your improvements...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var userids = ['Username 1', 'Username 2'];&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;    	if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;    			window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    	} &#xA;    	else { &#xA;    			$ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    	}&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    	$.each(userids, function(){&#xA;&#xA;    		$(&quot;.post-signature:contains('&quot;+this+&quot;')&quot;).remove();&#xA;&#xA;    		$(&quot;div.answer&quot;).each(function(){&#xA;    			var paCount = $(this).find(&quot;.post-signature&quot;).length;&#xA;    			if (paCount == 0) { $(this).remove(); }&#xA;    			if (paCount == 1 &amp;amp;&amp;amp; ($(this).find(&quot;.post-signature:contains('community wiki')&quot;).length == 1)) { $(this).remove(); }&#xA;    		});&#xA;&#xA;    		$(&quot;a.comment-user:contains('&quot;+this+&quot;')&quot;).closest(&quot;tr.comment&quot;).remove();&#xA;    		$(&quot;a[rel='canonical']:contains('&quot;+this+&quot;')&quot;).html(&quot;unknown (Google)&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;    		var randHash = &quot;&quot;;&#xA;    		for(var i = 0; i &amp;lt; 4; i++) { randHash += Math.floor(Math.random()*0x100000000).toString(16); }&#xA;&#xA;    		$(&quot;.user-gravatar32&amp;gt;a[href*='&quot;+this.replace(/\s/g,&quot;-&quot;).toLowerCase()+&quot;']&amp;gt;img&quot;)&#xA;    		.attr(&quot;src&quot;, &quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/&quot;+randHash+&quot;?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;    	});&#xA;    }&#xA;    $(window).ajaxComplete(function() {&#xA;    	letsJQuery();&#xA;    });&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-18T14:02:46.650" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T14:02:46.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T21:28:38.093" Title="Ignore Users Script" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="15" />
  <row Id="3362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:17:32.760" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might be helpful in some scenarios, but... I'd feel pretty foolish if i posted a new suggestion only to find out it was the exact duplicate of a very popular suggestion posted an hour ago by someone i was ignoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:17:32.760" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:21:05.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/91097-ignore-certain-users-option&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Something like this&lt;/a&gt; was declined on UV, but there weren't any reasons given, so I can only guess.  I think Jeff's preferred solution is to warn such a person, use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt; if need be, and if they fail to shape up, take more drastic action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(This should probably go without&#xA;  saying, but if the problem behaviors&#xA;  continue beyond the timed suspension,&#xA;  your account is very likely to be&#xA;  permanently deleted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, in systems where I've seen an ignore feature implemented, it always results in confusion.  People appear to answering questions that nobody has asked, non-sequiturs abound, information gets duplicated.  I don't favor it for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole Greasemonkey thing had me thinking about this again.  How would ignoring even help in the case of an edit-war, like one that hypothetically, maybe, allegedly, theoretically inspired this thread?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T20:59:46.753" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:59:46.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:25:32.397" Score="7" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to look at my recent activity a lot and when i go to my user page to look at questions and answers, they're always sorted by votes first, when what I'd like is ordering by date by default.  Is there a way to enforce a default ordering or remember my last preferred ordering?  A client side cookie would seem sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T03:07:16.863" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T06:00:02.707" Title="How can I set my default question/answer sort on my user page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3360" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:44:41.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;add the following to subscribe to the global ajax complete event to handle the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(window).ajaxComplete(function() {&#xA;    letsJQuery();&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T20:44:41.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4203" CreationDate="2009-07-07T20:45:06.847" Score="13" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now you can sort your favorites by &lt;em&gt;views&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;newest&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt;.  (Someone also suggested being able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/995/possibility-to-order-favourites-by-most-recently-changed&quot;&gt;sort by edit date&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, chronological order helps my recall when searching for an item (default view for delicious).  Considering this, I suggest being able to sort favorites by the date they were marked as favorite (provided this information is tracked by SO.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:17:15.527" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T10:32:11.537" Title="Order favorites by the date they were marked as favorite" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:01:57.483" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another issue here... IIRC, some of the voting options are disabled for posts with bounty - which has potential for abuse (although I believe ♦ moderators can still kill it if needed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, in reality even under the current process somebody could radically edit their original post just before adding bounty, but it would be an &lt;strong&gt;obvious&lt;/strong&gt; abuse, making it much easier for us to justify hitting &lt;kbd&gt;delete&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However; I can easily imagine &quot;what is your favourite pet's name for programming?&quot; with a +50 bounty to prevent regular voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:01:57.483" />
  <row Id="3378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3381" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:13:52.470" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can login to StackOverflow but not Meta, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've cleared all my cookies etc but absolutely no joy and I've associated all my accounts (didn't know if that had anything to do with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did have a hunt around meta.stackoverflow to see if there were similar problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm running IE7 on Vista Ultimate. This problem also happens on my other machine running Windows 2008 Standard SP1 and IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T08:45:01.887" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T08:45:01.887" Title="Is there something broken with IE7 and MyOpenID?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3378" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:17:27.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm running IE7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah! There's the problem. It's a known issue with how IE7 and IE8 handle cookies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&quot;&gt;I Can’t Log In With My OpenID — Troubleshooting Tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:17:27.590" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3262" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:24:39.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If SO were multi-lingual I wouldn't ask anything in portuguese. Nobody would answer my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I search something programming related in Google I always use english words. But Google keeps giving results in portuguese. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8041" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:24:39.327" />
  <row Id="3392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:43:56.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thing is, the SO code really isn't all that valuable.  It wouldn't take long for a few good people to have a half-assed duplicate ready to go, and then polish it.  Three full-time people cannot keep far ahead of an interested community.  In a year, we'd likely have Gnu Overrun, no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that there will be OS SO clones out there, if there is interest.  There's nothing you folks can do about that.  The current SO people can keep all the trademarks, and those will be worth something, at least as long as they stay on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, open-sourcing SO will not lose much, if any, revenue.  It will be a case of the trademarked SO vs. a non-trademarked (or at least with less valuable trademarks) OS version, no matter whether SO is open source or not.  Either the trademarks will carry the original SO or they won't, and the code really doesn't matter.  The market will drive towards commodity hosting prices, no matter what.  There will be companies who are willing to pay premium prices for the real SO from StackExchange, but they will do so regardless of whether SO is open source or not, and they will expect premium service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a question of what open sourcing SO would gain you people.  You'd have some development assistance, although I don't know how valuable that would be.  You'd generally find and identify bugs earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may or may not contribute to the community spirit.  What makes SO a success is the community, not the software.  Having the software OS might make people feel like more of a community, and might attract more Open Source and Free Software people, which would be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, frankly, it isn't going to make much difference.  There will be OS/Free Software setups that do pretty much the same thing, no matter what.  The hosting prices will be driven towards commodity hosting prices, no matter what.  The real thing will command something of a premium price (although probably not the projected rates) no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that, I'd recommend OSing SO, and hoping it will help the SO community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:43:56.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T21:43:56.037" />
  <row Id="3394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3397" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:50:00.523" Score="10" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there no means of notifying a user why their question is deleted?  I just asked an honest and real question about the use of meta and the role of admins; when going to comment on an answer (a very good answer, I should add), I find that the question was deleted.  Is there any way to find why my question was deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="148310" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-16T04:34:09.657" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T04:34:09.657" Title="Question Deletion Notification?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;administration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3394" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:52:58.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that you know why its been deleted...  The reality is we need to find a way for everyone in the community to get along or simply agree to disagree and remain respectful about it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All sides need to be considerate and look/reflect inwards before pointing a finger at someone else...  The rollback wars are typically caused by 2 people.  If the author rolls it back, stop the war and flag the post if you feel strongly about it...  Let the mods be mods...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:52:58.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3394" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:53:39.893" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Vote for: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted-closed&quot;&gt;Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted/closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and then badger moderators into leaving comments prior to deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:53:39.893" />
  <row Id="3398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3394" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:54:16.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions or answers that cause a lot of friction (as defined by downvotes, excessive comments, rude behavior, rollback/edit wars, etcetera) -- for whatever reason -- will be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no notification system for deletions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:54:16.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3401" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:55:04.167" Score="10" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, maybe this is just ridiculously stupid to ask, but is there a link on a question page to see the Edit History of that question?  What is the &quot;normal&quot; way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:07:33.840" Title="Link to view the Edit History of a question?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3400" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:56:55.110" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just click on the time that shows how long ago it was edited...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not see a time for how long ago it was edited, that the current version is also the original post (thanks Pesto).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T22:05:02.280" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T22:05:02.280" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3400" CreationDate="2009-07-07T21:59:11.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just put the question number in where # is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/#/list&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/#/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T21:59:11.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:01:48.750" Score="106" ViewCount="1279" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we could subscribe to an RSS feed of all the questions that match your 'favorite' tags i.e. an RSS feed of the questions that get highlighted as yellow when viewing the question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can achieve a similar effect by combining tags as described &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;here&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2250/is-there-a-way-to-do-rss-feeds-on-a-set-of-tags&quot; title=&quot;here&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, however this is a pain to maintain, requiring the RSS URL to be edited in the feed reader if you start monitoring new tags, or stop monitoring old tags, also you have to worry about getting the syntax correct (c%23 instead of c# as an example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be much nicer if we could simply subscribe to a URL such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/interesting/41301&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/interesting/41301&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you could change the tags that are included in that feed from the ‘prefs’ subsection of the user account area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41301" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-08T03:50:31.677" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T03:50:31.677" Title="RSS feed of your favorite tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="32" />
  <row Id="3404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3262" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:02:56.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I'm useful only for questions asked in English, and for giving answers in English.  If we all have a common language, we can all participate in our areas of expertise, and we can come to reasonably agreed answers.  If this were a multilingual site, then we'd reduce it to a batch of overlapping sub-communities, and we would have a danger of having significantly different answers in (say) German and Japanese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By having one official language, we have one community, with sub-communities based on subject area rather than language, and we can consolidate duplicates to some extent.  The benefits are real.  If we have only one language, it obviously should be English.  (This isn't true for all conceivable subjects, but it is for software.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd have absolutely no objections to having easily available translations of questions and answers, since there's a lot of people using this site that have problems with English (and I really, really hope that all of those people are not primary English speakers).  Really, I have nothing against Swedish speakers, I just can't communicate with them except in English, and so I can't cooperate with them except in English.  (Yes, I'm a US citizen.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T22:02:56.837" />
  <row Id="3405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:04:34.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the edit Jeff gave - this is planned for implementation.  No timetable, but if you like it, vote up the question and the team will see a lot of people care about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T22:04:34.413" />
  <row Id="3406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3347" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:17:29.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that if a question &lt;strong&gt;has&lt;/strong&gt; an answer, then accepting an answer is appropriate and should result in some reputation gain, at least to the answerer.  Since we allow questions (topics?) on meta that may not have an answer, however, perhaps we need to distinguish between questions and non-questions (discussions).  Questions would follow the normal scoring rules, where topics would not allow the ability to accept an answer (since there really is none).  The user would get the option of classifying the question at the time it was submitted, though it could be reclassified by people with significant reputation using voting rules.  Reputation gains for accepted answers would be rolled back if the question is classified as a discusssion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T22:17:29.797" />
  <row Id="3408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:43:19.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this concept could be extended; when a question gets enough downvotes, it can be closed.  Similarly, if a user gets enough &quot;ignores&quot;, perhaps their behavior can be flagged for review / probation / whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would serve a different purpose than flagging a post; flagging a post indicates that &lt;strong&gt;the post&lt;/strong&gt; is offensive.  Ignoring a user indicates that the &quot;ignorer&quot; finds the &quot;ignoree&quot; so offensive that they don't care whatever they say.  Plus, if I'm ignoring the user, I won't end up flagging their posts, which could tend to mean that their offensive behavior gets &quot;unflagged&quot; long enough to offend more new users who haven't learned to ignore that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="28053" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T22:52:09.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T22:52:09.477" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3360" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:48:09.747" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually find &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;this thread&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pretty offensive. I would express myself by voting &quot;offensive&quot;, but unfortunately my ♦ means that it would delete the entire post — which isn't my intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting a script to ignore somebody &lt;strong&gt;by name&lt;/strong&gt; is clearly inappropriate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choosing to use a script to ignore &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; set of users is frankly blinkered; you destroy the entire context of the things you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; interested in. I won't try to stop you... but... why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re the point (comments) about empowering &quot;folks who can't do anything about other users&quot;; that is ridiculous. You are all empowered; use the &quot;flags&quot;, or e-mail the team. However, you will understand that when an intervention &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; required, it won't be done in theatre for your viewing pleasure. That doesn't mean that things are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; we all know who the target of your ire is. I've been catching up on a few hours of missed posts, and frankly his actions are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the worst of today — quite far from it. None of us are angels, but let's stay in reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also possible, upon raising a flag, that the moderators will reserve the right to assess the situation and decide that no action is appropriate at the moment. That is purely a &quot;general policy&quot; comment, and &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be taken as an indication of any specific event (it can't be: I wasn't directly involved in today's fun).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-18T09:57:36.737" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T09:57:36.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T22:48:09.747" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="3410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:53:13.037" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/greasemonkey-ignore-user-script-now-includes-lists/3409#3409&quot;&gt;here for my thoughts&lt;/a&gt; on this; short version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I genuinely don't think the team should add this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if an individual post offends you: flag that post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it the mere existence of another user offends you: grow up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T22:53:13.037" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-07T22:55:06.373" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is not meant to be a developer social networking Web site (this has been mentioned in the podcasts). It's a Q&amp;amp;A site. People are not at the forefront of Stack Overflow, &lt;strong&gt;questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt; are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are relevant for their &lt;em&gt;authorship&lt;/em&gt;, not for their &lt;em&gt;presence&lt;/em&gt;. There's absolutely no point in ignoring a &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt;. You shouldn't really care &lt;em&gt;who says something&lt;/em&gt; but rather, &lt;em&gt;what is said&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can ignore tags&lt;/em&gt; because they represent &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T17:53:02.047" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:53:02.047" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="3412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3421" CreationDate="2009-07-07T23:14:29.277" Score="0" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is a stupid question, but... Flagging behavior is not particularly well documented in the FAQs; it's unclear as to whether or not flagging a question or a comment will be unrevokable or will pop up a dialog for a reason or just seemingly do nothing.  I would like to be able to test this behavior, both to learn more about how it operates and to validate that it's working properly on my browser; however, I don't particularly want to end up flagging a random post particularly if it's an irrevocable act; I'd rather not add more trouble for the moderators to have to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, could we possibly get a question that we could use to test flagging behavior that the moderators would know to safely ignore?  That way, we can test the behavior without causing excessive work for the moderators.  It could even be this question, if that's determined to be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this comes up largely because it appears that using the &quot;comment flag&quot; is unrevokable (at least, it appears to be on my browser); as it turns out, I didn't know that the &quot;flag a question&quot; link brought up a cancellable dialog box, because I didn't want to try flagging any questions (none seemed offensive enough).  Really, this is a question about being able to test the functionality of SO / meta without causing side effects; since we have no real manual for this product other than the product itself, it would be useful to have a playground to test the UI on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I'm aware of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/726/can-we-get-a-test-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, but I'm thinking of something a little simpler, just a single question with a few test answers to try this out on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-07T23:21:57.403" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:13:20.077" Title="Flagging testing question?" Tags="&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;testing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="3413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3412" CreationDate="2009-07-07T23:17:28.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flagging functions work fine. Informing a moderator works the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T23:17:28.047" CommentCount="25" />
  <row Id="3414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3412" CreationDate="2009-07-07T23:20:55.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another month at your current rate should put you over 10K on SO. Then you'll be able to see posts flagged as spam or offensive, and those deleted for this reason, as well as those removed by moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt you'll have to wait long after that for an opportunity to test them yourself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-07T23:20:55.960" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3412" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:13:20.077" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you flag something as &lt;strong&gt;offensive&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;spam&lt;/strong&gt; it goes into a separate queue that we have to remember to check manually.  If you flag something for &lt;strong&gt;moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt; we see the &quot;Mod-Signal&quot; link at the top of every page and we know that the Joker has escaped from Arkham again and it requires immediate attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been flagged for moderator attention once and offensive three times, so we know that much works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:13:20.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3452" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:16:55.617" Score="11" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;h3&gt;WARNING!!!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Users not particularly experienced in database-administration should NOT attempt the following.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anybody thought about hosting the data-dump on their own public-facing server, and allowing queries to be ran against it by visitors? Likely smart to put a cap on the query-execution-time to keep somebody from trying to smash your server. Would be smart to have it in its own database, with its own user-account too. Limiting the account to read-only queries is necessary as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm currently working on getting all of this data into a MySQL database. Going to play with the idea locally, and maybe attempt to host the toy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:49:07.000" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:45:56.060" Title="Public-Facing Interactive Data-Dump" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:19:32.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should definitely do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:19:32.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:21:01.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would give it 14 seconds before someone dropped all your tables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to prevent someone from doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Based upon the reassurance that you wouldn't leave every hole wide open, I would actually be interested in something like this because it would allow me to glean information from the data dumps without having to go through all the trouble myself in setting them up (laziness on my part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be interesting if you could hook in a reporting engine of some sort that would allow for more slick reports and charts on the fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T01:11:20.250" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:11:20.250" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3447" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:23:58.233" Score="0" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;The approach so far has just been to increase the number of closed votes needed. Originally it was 3 then 4 and now 5. But perhaps we should be raising the minimum reputation instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092289/interview-advice-on-reason-for-wanting-to-leave-current-job-closed&quot;&gt;Interview advice on reason for wanting to leave current job&lt;/a&gt; was closed. It seems that there is a distinct lack of awareness about &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/a-question-about-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's stance on this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about social engineering, management, or career building,&#xA;  ergonomics, or other “soft” topics&#xA;  related to development work. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The “winners” of this poll, items 1-7,&#xA;  map strongly to my idea of what we&#xA;  built Stack Overflow for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T05:38:05.160" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T05:38:05.160" Title="Do we need to raise the minimum level for closing questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="3426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3425" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:27:31.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a way I want to agree with this, but in another way I am more towards making it harder for people to effectively game the system by achieving 3,000 rep by posting hundreds of questions and no answers. I know this has been discussed ad nauseum in other threads, but I think it is warranted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hey, on StackOverflow I'm already over 10k, so whatever the limit gets raised to I likely wouldn't be too upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:27:31.167" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="3427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:28:53.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a mobile version is a great idea, and I'm curious what percentage of mobile users are iPhone users.  Perhaps a mobile version specifically geared toward the iPhone is in order if the numbers are great enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, look at what Google has done on their apps such as Mail, Reader, Calendar, etc.  No need to go to those extremes, but those apps are nearly as good as native iPhone apps.  Perhaps better in that they don't require a download or updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30812" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:28:53.830" />
  <row Id="3428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3430" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:37:16.930" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed, I nominate it to be reopened. Eventually, that happens and it is reopened. However, the question can be closed again, but I can't vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something here needs to be fixed, somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:39:20.837" Title="Why can't I keep nominating a question for opening?" Tags="&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3425" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:38:39.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the closing system is working fine for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that the quote from the blog includes 'related to development work'. This is a key point here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question cited as an example is closed as 'not programming related'. I agree wholeheartedly with that. There is nothing even remotely related to programming in that question. The question is solely about career development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:38:39.320" />
  <row Id="3430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3428" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:39:20.837" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users (who have the ability) can only vote to close once and vote to reopen once. This was not originally the case, and it allowed for close wars which allowed the post to indefinitely flip back and forth. This is to make sure that eventually it will settle on a single status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: The ability to vote to close and to reopen on questions which do not belong to you is reserved for users over 3,000 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:39:20.837" />
  <row Id="3432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:45:48.910" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would go in the recent activity page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:00:47.083" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:00:47.083" Title="Please notify us when a question we ask or answer is closed or reopened" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;reopened-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3432" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:48:17.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes perfect sense. I would also possibly suggest one of those orange bar notifications on the fly, but I know how much you hate those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; I should clarify that I am talking about the orange bar notifications for things like badges that appear on the top of the screen, not the idiot envelop flashy thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T00:55:03.350" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:55:03.350" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3436" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:50:42.507" Score="8" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone asks a question, and gets no answer after while, they get suggested to raise a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a week the bounty expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was useful answer, then the OP loses rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the scenario is really, the OP loses rep for asking questions that nobody else is interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intended ? Should we encourage a monoculture ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2789" LastEditorUserId="2789" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T03:28:09.107" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T14:50:11.883" Title="We penalise people for asking questions nobody else is interested in: Is this Intended?" Tags="&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:53:54.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems kinda mean. Perhaps the points should be given back...or maybe only a portion of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:53:54.553" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:55:31.860" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Against this. Getting no answer when you probably need an answer is punishment enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:55:31.860" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T00:57:04.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a tumbleweed badge for this...I don't see why we would implement a punishment for something we give a badge for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T00:57:04.423" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:10:46.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really short-sighted idea. How can StackOverflow / ServerFault become a repository for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions if they only promote the &lt;em&gt;popular&lt;/em&gt; ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:10:46.553" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:13:07.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should Stack overflow just be for mainstream questions of dubious value and or merit [tat]? Seems at the moment we are noob-centric. More obscure subjects should be encouraged, IMO. Of course questions ignored because they are rubbish is another matter, but then they wont get upvoted either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="4725" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T09:39:00.093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:39:00.093" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3442" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:19:44.647" Score="17" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once requested this on UserVoice a few months back and at the time it was declined (I can't remember if there was a reason attached) but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3428/why-cant-i-keep-nominating-a-question-for-opening&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; made me think about it again, so I am going to throw it out here for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some have argued in the past (and as you can see in the link above, in the present as well) that it is likely that some questions will continue to flip back and forth between closed and open status as the community divides into two camps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of this was taken care of with the implementation of the rule that a user can only vote to close once and only vote to reopen once. This has definitely cut down on it quite a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion is for the vote closing and reopening level to increase with each &quot;swing-back&quot; in status. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is closed with 5 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is opened with 6 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is reclosed with 7 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is reopened with 8 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue pattern&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternative Method:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is closed with 5 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is opened with 5 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is reclosed with 6 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is reopened with 6 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue pattern&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T02:02:14.863" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:00:27.963" Title="Close/Reopen Votes - Sliding Scale For Threshold" Tags="&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="3441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:26:44.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A popular reason to open source Stack Overflow would be so that people who want to host it for free (say, people running non-profits or open source projects) can host an instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not have a version of StackExchange available to non-profits and open source projects for free, thus negating the need for those people to use a clone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51691" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:26:44.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T01:26:44.583" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3440" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:28:49.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like your first example. The system is currently skewed towards reopen, and if anything I believe it should be equal or skewed towards closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:28:49.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3425" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:39:29.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this'll probably be necessary at some point, if the site remains relatively successful. But i don't think we're there yet by a long shot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure that so long as i can go to the &quot;Close&quot; page and find day-old exact duplicate questions with only 4 close votes... we don't have enough people voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find this ability being abused, flag the affected questions for moderator review. That's what it's for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:39:29.100" />
  <row Id="3445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:43:05.490" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need some way to discourage people from starting a bounty and then not accepting any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If bounties did not cost rep, all questions would have 500 point bounties :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could get your rep back if no answers get any upvotes or something..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:43:05.490" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:44:00.460" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct. The system does currently penalize those users. I don't believe it is a major issue however since the bounty is voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:44:00.460" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3425" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:44:41.477" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of me wants to agree with this.  It seems like a no-brainer; the number of people capable of closing questions increases, thus the threshold should increase in response.  But the number of bad questions is also increasing, and there's no indication that one is outstripping the other.  We need more people in order to close more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, questions tend to fall into one of three categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obviously needing to be closed - where a small number to close is useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Debatable - they'll get closed and opened a few times, but eventually one side will win out; all hail democracy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intentional manipulation of the system - the limit of votes to close and the increasing number of people with the ability to reopen better invalidates the ability of a small, rogue group to cause widespread problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:44:41.477" />
  <row Id="3448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3440" CreationDate="2009-07-08T01:51:19.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone suggested that Close voting be handled more like normal voting. I think this might be a decent way to approach the problem. Most of the mechanics are there to handle the votes themselves and it would only require 6 to 8 weeks to implement the actual close when it hits the fifth vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once closed, the vote count should have to return to 0 before being reopened again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically treat Close voting like normal voting, but set the status of the question to Open when it reaches 0 or to Closed when it reaches 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that some people might think it &quot;skews open&quot;, but it really &quot;skews current status&quot;. If you and four other people immediately see a problem with it, then it will get closed and will favor that condition unless the openers can outvote the closers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even vote prescriptively instead of waiting for the undesired condition and voting reactively. If the count is 0 and you like the question, but feel that some people will see it the wrong way and try to close it later; you can cast your open vote now to put it at -1 to require 6 votes to close. On the flip side, if the question is closed and you feel that others are opening it just to make a point; you can throw your vote in now and put it at 6 for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T01:51:19.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3440" CreationDate="2009-07-08T02:04:03.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was suggested on UV. Personally I think it's no longer needed now you can only vote to close or reopen a question once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T02:04:03.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-07-08T02:12:04.003" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that I often find myself doing is checking the status of my questions (or reputation, answers, votes, comments, etc.) Perhaps that would be a good place to start - optimize for viewing profile information, reputation information, and browsing questions - rather than editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T02:12:04.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2009-07-08T02:39:27.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I've been working on a fairly ambitious project to do something similar to this. &#xA;I've been building a PHP/JS framework to calculate and graph statistics from the dump, which also includes a template system to analyze data that can't simply be calculated with a simple query.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A public interface to this seems like a good addition to this project, and I'll definitely invest some time in the idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still a few weeks away from launching anything significant, but I'll update when I'm done. I've already registered what I feel is a rather fitting domain, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;statoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T02:39:27.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:01:27.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;semi-Open Source: Code available, but not licensed for &quot;Resale&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, individuals and organizations can use it, contribute patches and features, but ISPs and Web Hosting companies can't undercut StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be accomplished by Dual Licensing... free for personal/intranet use, royalties required for reselling or providing StackExchange-like services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T02:45:40.873" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:45:40.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T03:01:27.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:06:26.367" Score="13" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking that we create some more badges to reflect the contribution that &quot;power editors&quot; make to the site.  Currently we have only the one badge (which is non-repeatable), &quot;Strunk &amp;amp; White&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/9k41u.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the silver, &quot;Strunk &amp;amp; White&quot;, badge repeatable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a gold badge for a significant number of edits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expose the number of edits a user has made on their profile somewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a very &quot;pro-edit&quot; user and I strongly believe it is a behavior that should be encouraged.  The biggest contribution I make to the site is cleaning up peoples posts where English isn't their first language or providing relevant links.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there bad edits? Sure.  But there are way, way, way more good edits than bad. After doing a marathon of a post-cleanup session I feel like a user should be able to see and chart their contribution through badges/counts.  If it isn't worth recognizing users who hand edit and re-tag thousands of questions then I don't know who is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Originally this had a decent number of votes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/114885-give-more-feedback-for-us-hardcore-editors-?lang=cn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uservoice&lt;/a&gt; and the response was it was waiting on a database refactoring in 4-6 weeks.  Well that was a long time ago, so I'm hoping that we can work towards getting some of this implemented with the new DB design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T20:47:49.803" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T20:47:49.803" Title="Can you provide more feedback for the power editors?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3455" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:11:11.563" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine you and &lt;strong&gt;He Who Shall Not Be Named&lt;/strong&gt; would be big recipients of this. I am all for a greater number of badges across a variety of scenarios (and offering higher level badges for some things that are already there). If we are going to reward someone for Strunk &amp;amp; White, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to reward them for even greater community committment, or to continue rewarding them for their ongoing work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:11:11.563" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:13:14.757" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I prefer to use CSS layout where possible, but try to be pragmatic about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one real bugbear for which I almost always use tables is laying out forms.  To do a simple form like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Label    Input&#xA;Label    Input&#xA;Label    Input&#xA;         Submit&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is just hellish with CSS.  You have to &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; the widths each column will need, and stick in work-arounds for different browsers.  If you change the text in a label, then you have to go back and revisit the CSS to get the width right again, and that's assuming everyone uses the same size/font you do.  And you have to go through this for &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; form.  Total PITA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plonking it into a table, it just lays out the way you want, and the columns size appropriately for everything to fit.  A lot less headaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:13:14.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3495" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:24:14.587" Score="6" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Go to favorites page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Change the sort order or view a different page of favorites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Click through to a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Press browser's back button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sort order reverts to &quot;votes&quot; and it shows page 1, no matter where you were.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected behavior:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sort order is persisted and it shows the same page you were on before you clicked through. That is, the back button takes you back to exactly what you saw before and doesn't reset the view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else notice this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T03:04:05.997" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:04:05.997" Title="Bug: Favorites sort order and page not persisted on browser back" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:25:34.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't agree with you more. Tables are &lt;em&gt;inherently&lt;/em&gt; worse - an HTML parser wading through nested DIV tags and cascading styles with different per-browser hacks is obviously way better than wading through nested TD tags. /troll, ducks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:25:34.027" />
  <row Id="3462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3464" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:40:04.833" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the &quot;community wiki&quot; questions dont really seem to be in line with Jeff's ideology for the SO site, should all the community wiki questions be moved to meta?  Seems like a better place for discussion/subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130437" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:47:02.413" Title="Should SO community wiki be moved to meta?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="3463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3462" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:44:46.953" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; wiki questions from SO are out of line with the SO ideology. Even though some are designed for fun, they can still be very programming-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:44:46.953" />
  <row Id="3464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3462" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:45:31.320" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not at all. Meta is for discussion of StackOverflow itself, not just a garbage dump for anything you might not think is valid discussion on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of items on SO that are CW and are perfectly legit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that you read up more on what Community Wiki actually is and how it is used in StackOverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What Are Community Wiki Posts On StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:45:31.320" />
  <row Id="3465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3462" CreationDate="2009-07-08T03:47:02.413" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. The community wiki questions on SO, while perhaps not as straightforward as non-CW questions, are still (however vaguely) programming-related or they'd get closed just as well. Meta is not for programming-related questions, but for discussion about SO. Thus they belong on SO, not meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; questions however that do belong here, but certainly not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T03:47:02.413" />
  <row Id="3466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:05:34.113" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't really a question, but I thought some people here would appreciate this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;main tags route&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;, the count for the &quot;new&quot; &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt; tag is off by OVER 6000! Tags aren't normalized and so this one is still out of date after a major re-tag.  It's the 10th most used tag on stackoverflow and at the moment it's not even shown on the first page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ooh: it's even better. I just got a badge in the 'sql-server' tag, and I still have my 'sqlserver' badge as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T11:33:25.363" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:11:48.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T04:05:34.113" Title="Tag counts way out of date" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:12:38.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I like the humor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes critical breakthroughs happen when somebody starts a sentence &quot;wouldn't it be funny if....&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T04:12:38.183" />
  <row Id="3468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:33:37.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a timing issue with the queries. Because tags are full text, the global replace happens so fast that a query to &quot;count&quot; the instances, counts none -- as they were all just replaced milliseconds ago by the previous query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The daily tag normalization will pick it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T04:33:37.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T04:33:37.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:38:58.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;not a bug, as this is an AJAX call and not an URL in the browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T04:38:58.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:40:11.873" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the WMD control does not respond to &lt;kbd&gt;Cmd&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;B&lt;/kbd&gt; for bold in Safari 4 on OSX. (Problem with both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Also an issue with webkit nightlies) The correct keystroke is &lt;kbd&gt;Cmd&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;B&lt;/kbd&gt;, not &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;B&lt;/kbd&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked at the code for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;util.addEvent(inputBox, keyEvent, function(key){&#xA;  // Check to see if we have a button key and, if so execute the callback.&#xA;  if (key.ctrlKey || key.metaKey) {&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done some limited searching, and &lt;code&gt;metaKey&lt;/code&gt; is supposed to be true when the &lt;kbd&gt;Cmd&lt;/kbd&gt; key is held. Oddly enough, Firefox 3 in OSX responses correctly to &lt;kbd&gt;Cmd&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;B&lt;/kbd&gt; but Safari 4 does not. Google Docs responds correctly to &lt;kbd&gt;Cmd&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;B&lt;/kbd&gt;, so it's possible to use the &lt;kbd&gt;Cmd&lt;/kbd&gt; key in Safari 4, so I don't think this is an issue with Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue happens with the WMD control from the git repository, not just the one on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16204" LastEditorUserId="145982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-08T23:36:26.230" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T23:36:26.230" Title="Weird Bug: WMD Control uses wrong shortcuts in Safari 4 but not Firefox" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:42:03.627" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Similar to Usenet KILLFILE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like this idea.  From Usenet experience, there's always a couple of odd characters who seem to contribute little to discussions but are able to stir up way more than their share of controversy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nice to be able to just ignore the controversy.  Plus it gives people the ever-satisfactory rejoinder to any disagreement, &quot;that's it, you're going into&#xA;my killfile!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a practical thing, it might be useful to moderators to see which users are being ignored by lots of other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T04:42:03.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3360" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:55:18.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this XKCD comic below demonstrates perfectly why some of us need this script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png&quot; alt=&quot;Alice: Are you coming to bed? Bob: I can't. This is important. Alice: What? Bob: Someone is *wrong* on the internet.&quot; title=&quot;Alice: Are you coming to bed? Bob: I can't. This is important. Alice: What? Bob: Someone is *wrong* on the internet.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even more relevant is the alttext: &quot;What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T16:24:55.193" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:24:55.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T04:55:18.813" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T04:55:45.057" Score="45" ViewCount="2834" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to see an actual native iPhone app for Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, etc.  I've actually developed a number of iPhone apps myself, and would certainly be interested and willing in doing the bulk of the legwork, but it would be necessary for the SO team to expose a real API, instead of simply RSS feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe if there's enough demand behind this, we can convince the SO team to build a rich API, which could be useful for many other applications, not just an iPhone app.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-20T21:43:54.510" LastActivityDate="2010-10-28T19:46:00.320" Title="Native iPhone app" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="3475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2009-07-08T05:04:27.783" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussion around this at this link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/896/mobile-iphone-optimized-version-of-so&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/896/mobile-iphone-optimized-version-of-so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38693" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T05:04:27.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3470" CreationDate="2009-07-08T05:29:22.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's strange, I'm on Safari 4 and both Cmd-B and Ctrl-B work fine for me. I'm actually much more annoyed that Cmd-H creates a heading — it's hijacking the &quot;Hide Safari&quot; behavior, since Cmd-H is a systemwide shortcut. I'd really like to see that one disappear... :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T05:29:22.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3480" CreationDate="2009-07-08T05:59:27.200" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to tell if a Question is community wiki in the current July SO dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be no field for is wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T19:40:44.007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T12:19:12.113" Title="Is there any way to tell if a Question is community wiki in the current July SO dump?" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3479" CreationDate="2009-07-08T06:01:27.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now fixed and exists in the latest dumps &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T12:19:12.113" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T12:19:12.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44331" CreationDate="2009-07-08T06:08:34.730" Score="11" ViewCount="727" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just updated my Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/SamSaffron/So-Slow/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;community dump importer&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It works around a few tiny glitches in the dump (empty user names) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It splits up the Tags and creates a PostTags table&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It loads up all the new columns in the August dump &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the increased amount of work (tag splitting) the total time to run the import has gotten a little out of control, it now takes 8 minutes instead of 6 minutes (on my machine tm) to load up the data dump. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone knows of a faster way to get all this info into SQL Server please let me know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-03T16:56:16.230" LastActivityDate="2010-07-03T16:56:16.230" Title="What is the fastest way to load up the data dump into SQL Server?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="3482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-08T06:11:27.727" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we're following the xbox live model, well they have flagging... and they have mute. was that a mistake then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is that if the lack of a mute feature causes someone to want to not spend time on SO, well that's a serious problem for SO. It does not seem that the penalty box has been a sufficient deterrent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T06:11:27.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3492" CreationDate="2009-07-08T06:36:04.983" Score="4" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;How are the comment-fields converted from text to HTML?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're looking into doing something similar (not for comments, but for writing small lists with bold and italic text.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the text parsed or is there some RegEx to get * * bold * * and convert double stars to open/close &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags? We've also been looking at parsing (&lt;a href=&quot;http://textile.thresholdstate.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Textile&lt;/a&gt; in particular). Just wondering what the some of the options are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130488" LastEditorUserId="130488" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T06:52:31.550" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T07:53:43.970" Title="text formatting" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T07:30:19.613" Score="4" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or a cache related effect? (Or both?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's only me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: On the Related panel of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/193/should-we-rephrase-or-clarify-subjective-and-argumentative&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; there is a &quot;Make it funner&quot; related question that's no longer available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-05T05:57:58.183" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T05:59:04.220" Title="related questions show deleted questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3489" CreationDate="2009-07-08T07:49:36.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting. In the example you give it is fairly recently deleted (yesterday), so it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be cache related; but that is pure conjecture...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T07:49:36.557" />
  <row Id="3492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3484" CreationDate="2009-07-08T07:53:43.970" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt;.  If you download the WMD editor (either the main version or SO's fork), you'll find a file &lt;code&gt;showdown.js&lt;/code&gt; that does the Markdown-to-HTML conversion.  (There are server-side libraries for it too, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WMD is mainly the editor for questions and answers, not comments, but SO is using a subset of the Markdown syntax available in questions and answers for comments now too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T07:53:43.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3458" CreationDate="2009-07-08T08:43:35.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hear hear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that this isn't just related to the back button. If you go into your profile, select favorites, sort by newest, then quick questions, then profile / favorites again, it will have been reverted to votes again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because it's related to it being an AJAX call doesn't mean it's not a bug, IMO. It's defying the user's expectations (partially set by sort order elsewhere being sticky). It may be harder to work around due to being an AJAX call, but it can't be impossible... the AJAX call &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; set a flag in the user profile, for instance - and that flag come down to the page when the user fetches the list of favorites next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it could count as &quot;not a bug&quot; in terms of working as designed, but in that case I'd say the feature is not as well designed as it might be :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't mean to sound whiny in all of this... it's not like I don't appreciate all the cool stuff the team does :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T09:18:56.957" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:18:56.957" />
  <row Id="3497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:14:39.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A downvote reason missing from your list is &quot;Though the answer was correct and accepted, the answerer said something negative in comments about a technology for which I am a rabid advocate&quot;.  I ran into that one recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the plus side, the guy did leave me a helpful comment explaining his downvote.  Which is nice; I wouldn't have known to assign him zero credibility in all future matters, otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:14:39.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:21:53.437" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One reason for which I &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; downvote is 6: &quot;Answer appears to be plagiarised from existing answers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;specifically encouraged in various forums (podcasts, blog entries)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;likely to result in an answer that is better than all the rest, since it can take the good and leave the bad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I'll often &lt;i&gt;up&lt;/i&gt;vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:21:53.437" />
  <row Id="3499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:22:55.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The downsides?  Oh, there are many unintended side-effects of the the StackOverflow system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the stated goals was to be &quot;wiki-like&quot;; that is to say, there is the intention that good answers will float to the top, and that over time, answers will converge toward &quot;the truth&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the karma system works against this.  The &quot;fastest gun in the west&quot; problem is well known; early answers get up-voted far more frequently than later answers, and generally speaking, the first semi-correct answer rises to the top, over the more accurate and complete answers that come later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, points are given for asking and answering questions, not for editing and refining existing questions and answers.  So, the system is constantly generating more and more noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think, for a moment, if instead of editing a page, Wikipedia allowed each user to add another page for the same topic.  You'd have a zillion pages on each subject, and it would be difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I don't have any good suggestions for amending the incentives to reward the desired behavior; but the disadvantages to the current system should be examined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:22:55.050" />
  <row Id="3500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="995" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:23:23.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd definitely like this. I loved the previous ordering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new ordering (date posted) is particularly confusing because there's nothing in the displayed data to show that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; by posted date: the date displayed is the most recent change date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also doesn't help that the tab tooltip still says &quot;sort by most recent activity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:23:23.900" />
  <row Id="3502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3546" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:34:03.363" Score="6" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the best way forward when I see more than one good answers for my question? This especially happens with open ended questions, as I've seen with one of my earlier questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130296" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T09:39:22.943" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:49:15.637" Title="What is the best way forward when I see more than one good answers for my question?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="3503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3502" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:37:39.563" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote them all and accept the best one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then go on to avoid asking open-ended questions in favor of questions with specific answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:37:39.563" />
  <row Id="3505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3507" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:50:54.957" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can one find the &quot;unique visitors&quot; counters for the last day/hour/month?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I'm just curious about how much StackOverflow has advanced since the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001207.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Overnight Success&lt;/a&gt;&quot; article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="54491" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:59:28.250" Title="Does StackOverflow.com have a counter or graph of &quot;unique IPs of visitors&quot;?" Tags="&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;web&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3505" CreationDate="2009-07-08T09:59:28.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this graph.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T09:59:28.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3502" CreationDate="2009-07-08T10:16:48.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But what to do with this open ended question? I could go ahead a post a good answer, but that would be just silly. Since chaos nailed it. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T10:16:48.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T10:16:48.180" />
  <row Id="3509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-08T10:18:03.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Popular questions and answers (I'm especially referring to humor) get upvoted a lot more than advanced, technically challenging questions/answers. I do enjoy it myself, too, but very skillful q&amp;amp;a should be awarded more than funny one-liners, imo. The difficult stuff, which should be exposed more, gets suffocated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T10:18:03.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-08T10:28:19.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have used a bounty only once, and it was specifically designed so that other people working on plotting SO via code_swarm would dust off their code and post it. Three people did, and now there's usable code to make the videos happen, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/747009/anyone-plotting-so-via-codeswarm&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably would not post a bounty if it was obvious that nobody had an answer to my question. I'd only post a bounty if I need sample code, or need someone to hold my hand a bit in comments while I try what they suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People on SO like answering questions if they have the knowledge to do so. If all you see is tumble weed after a few weeks, there's a very good chance that nobody feels confident enough to offer you an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, posting a bounty in such a cirsumstance will do one of three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cause someone to spend an hour researching it and give you a good answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cause someone to give you an answer that they're not sure of&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;End up automatically giving the bounty to an existing dubious answer, if its the highest rated one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I really want to know where glibc does its PID caching in TLS (down to the relavent chunk of assembly) .. but that's a question best suited for the glibc developers, not SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;99.95% of those who ask questions on SO will have a good experience, I think that's pretty admirable. With bounties, that number becomes 99.99 .. I don't think there could be a 100% perfect system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T10:28:19.150" />
  <row Id="3512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2574" CreationDate="2009-07-08T10:52:49.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you believe their is abuse, then flag for moderation (including details). It is pretty easy to investigate and (if appropriate) merge and/or delete some of the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it isn't &lt;em&gt;desirable&lt;/em&gt; to have multiple accounts, and in particular gaming will not be tolerated. It is expected from ad-hoc visitors who are unfamiliar with SO and just want to ask a question, but even then it is pretty easy to patch the accounts together if there is reason to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T10:52:49.667" />
  <row Id="3514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3129" CreationDate="2009-07-08T10:57:32.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expiration of answers.&lt;/strong&gt;  For certain types of questions, the &quot;best&quot; answer may change over time and the StackOverflow model doesn't quite capture or allow for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, let's say I asked &quot;What is the standard way to manage DB persistence in Java?&quot; back in 2000.  At the time, the best answer might have been EJB (gulp).  Today, the best answer is probably Hibernate.  (Tomorrow, who knows?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this situation, users relying on StackOverflow to answer the question may be misled!  The best answers should be voted up over time, but if the initial best answer got a lot of votes, then it may be difficult for subsequent votes to overcome that initial surge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we account for this?  Is there a way to revisit questions where the best answer has clearly expired?  Is there a way to value more recent votes over votes that are several years old?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T10:57:32.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3557" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:06:17.397" Score="4" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a trend on StackOverflow, where users posting questions for the first time, normally having less then a hundered reputation also always have their first question downvoted, mainly because they don't know how to ask questions (Which is a common issue) or they don't understand how SO works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we, as a community, encourage new users to stay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having your very first question downvoted can be very discouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise we can send them to the FAQ, but what else can be done to recover these uses who often don't come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-05T17:24:39.230" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T17:44:27.717" Title="Downvoting of new user questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3523" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:10:17.867" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a few questions that I have answered, or that have answers, which do not have an accepted answer, mainly because the OP does not come back and flag these answers as accepted, or the OP doesn't come back to the site. At times the correct answer is listed but there is noone to accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct way of handling these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T11:49:05.883" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T09:29:05.707" Title="Questions not having answers accepted or users not returning" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="3518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3516" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:14:19.100" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first reaction was to say &quot;Leave them alone&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to the OP whether they accept the answer or not. They don't &quot;owe&quot; it to anyone to do anything once they've posted their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On further reflection you might do some good by up-voting the good/best answers or down-voting (with comments) the bad/worst answers. This will show up on the OP's recent activity page (if they are a regular visitor) and might prompt them to accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T11:41:02.577" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:41:02.577" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:16:24.790" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new user is told to check out the FAQ before he even logs in. You can see that notification yourself if you log out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question by a new user != A badly written question. But there is some correlation. Usually if it's not that bad someone takes it and edits out the bad parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there must be some barrier for us to just say &quot;These kinds of posts do not compile with us&quot;. We can do that with downvotes and even flags if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to train the blue eyed new users that we have a standard. And we need to stick to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:16:24.790" />
  <row Id="3521" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:17:22.717" Score="7" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may already have been established (and I agree) that easy questions are welcome and valid ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3251/closing-easy-questions-yes-or-no&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3251/closing-easy-questions-yes-or-no&lt;/a&gt; ) but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is there an argument for encouraging beginners to answer the easy questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I'm not an expert but I still enjoy answering questions on Stack Overflow, I don't get the chance very often (either because I don't know the answer, or because I'm not fast enough). But teaching is a great way to learn, and most of the time when I start to answer a question I do a little research, and learn a little more myself. It's safisfying and productive. All the more so on the occasions I'm up there with the fast guns and earn an upvote or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please feel free to edit and add to these points if you can think of better ones)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In favour: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of todays beginners and intermediates are tomorrow's experts! We shouldn't put them off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All (well almost all) input to stack overflow (or it's siblings) builds value.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The established experts can/will still comment, vote, edit, mentor and Love the answers and answerers to ensure quality. Think Nurturing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Against:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quality of answers could diminish (although the whole system is all about continuously improving the quality of answers, and wrong or poor answers don't survive long)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Speed of answers would almost certainly decrease.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be impossible to manage/implement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff seemed in past podcasts not to value very easy questions, and he didn't seem aware that beginers could enjoy answereing as well as getting answers to their own questions. In other words he thought beginners only existed in his &quot;google traffic&quot; demographic, not in his &quot;interested browsers and participants&quot; demographic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experts like answering questions too, what right do we have to ask them not to?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow is a meritocracy, (experts.Merit &gt; beginners.Merit), Therefore (experts.Value &gt; beginners.Value)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130512" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:26:07.313" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:26:07.313" Title="Should easy questions be left for Beginners? IE Beginners like answering questions too?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;easy-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="3523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3516" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:19:08.853" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throw the answer you see as correct some upvote goodness. That way the answerer gets some recognition even if the asker is never to return. And people drifting by will be able to see what others believe as the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:19:08.853" />
  <row Id="3524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:20:51.600" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I see a problem here. I think it's right that bad questions get downvoted whoever asked them. At most I would suggest mandating a comment explaining why a question was downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe some other aspects need explaining better to new users. For example, if I ask a sysadmin question on SO it might be a bit confusing to be pushed onto a different webs site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2998" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:20:51.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3516" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:21:02.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally I look at the questioner's rep and account page to determine if they commonly leave questions unanswered.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they frequently don't answer questions, I consider that rude and I'm less likely to leave an answer for them in the future.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they usually do answer questions and just didn't do it this time, I consider re-working my answer to be more complete and hopefully encourage them to select my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:21:02.590" />
  <row Id="3526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:21:23.727" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions should be a free for all. That will develop a natural system for experts to explain a certain question is their way and encourage new users to learn more about a certain subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experts could take a personal stand on not answering very basic questions, but thats their own choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:21:23.727" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:22:01.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you start trying to limit the people who can answer particular questions because they are &quot;too easy&quot; then you run the risk of having nobody answer that question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a problem with the fastest gun in the west problem, then you can mitigate this some by answering in much larger terms. Often times a large and well documented answer will surge past fast answers that also happen to be correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:22:01.107" />
  <row Id="3528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3534" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:22:32.447" Score="29" ViewCount="644" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the idea based around questions for &quot;evil&quot; purposes, such as writing spambots and malware?  Should the be answered or downvoted/flagged/closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, pardon my noobishness, I'm not sure if there's already a rule for this or not.  I don't have a high enough rep to close questions and there's nothing on the matter in the main FAQ.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100835" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:02:26.413" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T03:26:31.993" Title="Questions with nefarious intent?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3528" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:24:27.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could probably vote these as spam using the flag function. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say use the Google motto of &quot;Do No Evil&quot;. If you have moral qualms against answering a question, then don't answer it and comment as so. More than likely questions like this will get closed very quickly anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:24:27.833" />
  <row Id="3530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3528" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:24:30.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should be flagged spam if they are spam question etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not sure. Flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:24:30.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3528" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:28:46.460" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going to be tough to know who's evil and who isn't. After all, nobody in their right mind will say &quot;I need to spam 900 email accounts 3 times a day with viagra ads.&quot; Instead, they'd suggest &quot;I've got 500-1000 employees that need to receive product-stats three times a day. What's the best way to do this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're slick enough, we'll all take the bait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:28:46.460" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:29:14.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This problem affects any forum and is usually solved by recommending that people lurk, read posts and possibly post answers before posting questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the nature of SO is that people find it because they have a problem they need solving and usually fairly urgently. So in this case they jump right in and post a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than reminding everyone to &quot;be nice&quot; I don't think that there's a lot we can do as there will always be someone who jumps on the new poster by just down-voting rather than just commenting with positive feedback or editing the post to tidy the source formatting etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T11:43:18.443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:43:18.443" />
  <row Id="3533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3502" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:30:38.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find with the bigger open-ended questions (&quot;programmer cartoons&quot;, &quot;defend PHP&quot;) that I simply read through dozens of answers anyway, the ones with most votes. An &quot;accepted answer&quot; is often meaningless in those cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So choose an answer if there is one, but otherwise just upvote and don't sweat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:30:38.017" />
  <row Id="3534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3528" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:36:41.677" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few of these, though they are usually couched in the terms that Jonathan mentions in his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones that haven't have usually had comments/answers along the lines of &quot;why do you do this?&quot;, &quot;this sounds like spamming&quot;, etc. and often the OP responds with what seems to be perfectly plausible reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there are &lt;strike&gt;four&lt;/strike&gt;five levels of action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just answer the question without comment. Who are we to pry into other people's business, which may be confidential.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do nothing. The OP doesn't get an answer and tries somewhere else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment indicating that you think this is &quot;evil&quot; and asking for more information as to why the OP wants to do this. If you believe the response then answer the question. If not then go to the next level.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down-vote the post, preferably with comment so that the poster knows why. &lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;-- added this as a not quite nuclear action.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag the post as spam, offensive or just requiring moderator attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is basically saying that you have to treat each post on its own merits. The other thing you could do is check out the poster's profile and see what other questions/answers they have posted. If everything else points to them being legitimate then just answer the post, if not flag it and/or them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T03:26:31.993" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T03:26:31.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:46:41.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the answers posted above. The SO community has a well-documented standard that has emerged as SO has grown, I believe SO has done enough by providing the information in the FAQ. This might not be enough to ensure a new user has a positive experience when asking a question on stack overflow, however the user also has an obligation to discover and abide by the standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The type of user SO aims to attract should not be averse to observing standards, nor learning by example, and while it may not be a positive experience to be downvoted, one quickly finds out when one has made a faux pas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35031" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:46:41.270" />
  <row Id="3538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1508" CreationDate="2009-07-08T11:58:23.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Disciplined&quot; badge was just awarded to me today; however, I'm not sure exactly what it was awarded for as I can't seem to remember deleting an answer recently. So it does appear that it is being awarded, but it might be bugged for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T11:58:23.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:01:25.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I almost always vote up questions I answer.  It's foolish not to, because voting it up keeps the question on the front page, and if more users click on the question, more will see your answer, giving your answer more chance of being upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:01:25.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:06:35.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because you know the (or more likely an) answer to a question doesn't necessarily make that question &quot;useful and clear&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:06:35.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3528" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:14:06.073" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, there is a problem with characterizing a question as 'evil'. I saw a question about &quot;Monitoring Internet Usage in my small office&quot;. The asker was downvoted to oblivion, as were the answers (myself included). Over time, the votes have been removed/canceled out by upvotes, but this person's technical question was downvoted because of the community being angry about being 'spied on'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later I read a second question by a different person about 'monitoring internet traffic through a particular router' because this person phrased the question differently, they go HUGE upvotes, even though the question was essentially the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We therefore have to split questions into two aspects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A) How technically can X be done??&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B) What ethical implication are there?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is fundamentally about &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;. It is a technical question and answer site. If the hackers get better (and they will) then the security teams will also get better. If the 'way to hack' is published on SO, then the security guys will use that to learn 'ways to protect'. As Bruce Schneier says on his blog all the time 'Secrecy is not security'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question bothers you, don't answer it. But if I can, I still will, because it's not my job to go visiting their intentions. And if it is a technically interesting question, I'll upvote it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:14:06.073" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3502" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:18:24.517" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that the question is not &lt;em&gt;wildly&lt;/em&gt; open-ended and simply &lt;em&gt;partially&lt;/em&gt; open-ended. Such as 'My algorithm is XYZ, I need to improve it, any suggestions?'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, Chaos is correct, upvote all of them. Then mark as accepted the answer which is MOST helpful. Then, (in my case) I edited the question with a tag at the bottom that explained that both X and Y were incredibly useful responses, but I could only upvote one. This will typically point the question readers to read both posts, and upvote both of them if they like them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:18:24.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3110" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:23:32.817" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use of tables depends on how far you want to take the &quot;tabular data&quot; notion. The table on this page separates the upvotes from the writter answer. That's tabular data in my eyes. You could just as easily display a boring table like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;VOTES      | ANSWER&#xA;=================================&#xA;15         | I hate tables&#xA;---------------------------------&#xA;-50        | I love tables&#xA;---------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow just presents it nicely :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:23:32.817" />
  <row Id="3548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:25:00.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in the question enough, you can always try investigating the answer via Google. Do not stop at retrieving the minimum answer either, you can always go far beyond that with online resources. Not only will this help you better answer a question, but it will help you learn a lot more about what you looked up so that you can be of greater help on additional related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130102" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:25:00.807" />
  <row Id="3549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:25:15.000" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something like this would just draw yet another blurry line for people to argue about.  How could you even enforce this sort of thing?  Even if you just set it as a guideline, I think it runs contrary to the goals of the site.  We want people to get good answers to their questions, and the faster that happens, the happier the OP tends to be.  Besides, experts often know an even better way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I'd tell you to just answer whatever you can answer.  Just be sure the entirety of your answer hasn't been covered by any one post.  Even if most or all of your answer is mentioned across a number of other answers, there's still value in consolidating it in one place.  Eventually the rep will come, and, more importantly, even if your answer is too late to add, at least you might have learned something in researching it.  Isn't that kind of the point, anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:25:15.000" />
  <row Id="3550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:25:26.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone should be allowed to answer, but remember that you can upvote any answer.  In particular, I try to follow the guidelines of the SO site, by upvoting any answer that I find &quot;helpful&quot;.  I also personally have a slant towards giving more upvotes to the people with lower reps, mainly because we do have a cap on the number of votes we can cast in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:25:26.030" />
  <row Id="3551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:29:04.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a systematic way to solve; nor do I think experts should recuse themselves from easy questions. However, I know when I see a question that has a few answers that are essentially the same, I try to make sure I upvote user's with lower rep scores as a form of encouragement. I try to ensure their answer isn't moving above an answer that is clearly better, but I know how it can be frustrating to post the same answer 30 seconds later than someone else and get no upvotes when they get 5. Especially if the other person has a lot of rep to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:29:04.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3481" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:31:29.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you load the data without any manipulation at all it takes 6 minutes, but if you perform data manipulation it adds 2 minutes?  I don't see that as a dramatic amount of additional time spent.  Unless you're concerned about the overall time it takes, and not just the addition of the data manipulation.  In that case we would need some performance statistics on where your bottleneck is.  That will tell you where to focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:31:29.363" />
  <row Id="3553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:31:46.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is with Firefox 3.5 in general, not only with the SO sites.  It's related to Google Toolbar.  I removed the toolbar and reinstalled it and now tooltips work fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T12:46:12.977" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:46:12.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3521" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:37:19.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is &lt;strong&gt;easy&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy for Eric Lippert may be increadibly complicated for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the system is going to be placing any kind of limits on high rep members, they should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be defined in an elastic way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could make an argument that high rep members should not answer ANY questions for N minutes after a question is posted. Where N is higher the higher the rep is. The problem is that you would be discouraging participation by your most valued members. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree, SO can be very intimidating for newbies, but I do not think that limiting high rep users in this way will be productive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:37:19.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3516" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:43:27.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've frequently seen questions where the Accepted answer is one of the crummiest ones on the page! And right below it is a better answer that everyone is upvoting - but the OP isn't paying attention anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example (accepted answer not totally wrong, but clearly incomplete):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398982/how-do-foreach-loops-work-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398982/how-do-foreach-loops-work-in-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moral is: users have to learn to take the green tick with a pinch of salt. It's really only a single vote, so it counts for much less than a high number of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastEditorUserId="27423" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T07:02:58.283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T07:02:58.283" />
  <row Id="3556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3558" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:57:37.927" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first SO question I was happy to finally have something to ask!  Until I got only 2 answers and one answer was from me.  I haven't accepted my answer yet becuase it has 0 upvotes so I'm still wondering if it's even the best way.  The other answer is more of a suggestion to look into something than answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried rewriting the question for more clearity and also getting it bumped back to the top of the list.  What else can be done to try to get more answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per request the question I talk about as my example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/809078&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/809078&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130529" LastEditorUserId="130529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T14:22:05.423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:52:46.210" Title="Help getting unanswered questions answered" Tags="&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2009-07-08T12:58:47.890" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with you guys. We have a mechanism to edit bad questions - we should use it. This will help the new user understand how best to ask a question. Simply downvoting and shouting &quot;read the FAQ!&quot; will drive new people away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T12:58:47.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3556" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:00:02.767" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;edit and re-word&quot; is definitely a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep, bounty is an option... but you don't have the rep... yet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mention &quot;code behind&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/809078&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt;. If this is ASP.NET, try adding the asp.net tag; that will get you a different audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you've nearly got 100 on your SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when that happens, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;associate it to your MSO account&lt;/a&gt; for another +100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;then you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;place a bounty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's a thought; have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;current questions&lt;/a&gt;; help &lt;strong&gt;somebody else&lt;/strong&gt; out with a good/helpful answer, and you should easily get the last 30 points you need to commence your master plan ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T13:05:12.563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:05:12.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:05:18.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good idea if we could have an OP accepted answer, and a Community accepted answer.  There's nothing saying the two couldn't be the same, but I've definitely seen cases where there is a question with a clearly correct answer, but the OP marks an answer that is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if someone asks, &quot;How are statements ended in C#?&quot; and someone answers &quot;with a ?&quot; that would obviously be wrong, but nothing is preventing the OP from marking that as accepted.  On the other hand, if the Community had the opportunity to accept an answer as well, then there could be a second accepted answer that will most likely be correct.  Maybe there could be a rep requirement or something, I don't know, but I thought it was worth bringing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:05:18.023" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:10:06.540" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that there is linking between accounts on the different sites, what about cross site badges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Programmer&lt;/strong&gt; - awarded for having greater than some amount of rep on SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server Admin&lt;/strong&gt; - awarded for having greater than some amount of rep on SF&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Metahead&lt;/strong&gt; - (or some answer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1120&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) awarded for having greater than some amount of rep on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Power user&lt;/strong&gt; - awarded for having greater than some amount of rep on SU&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While naming is certainly important, it is not my talent, so liberties should be taken with these names and the amount of rep would need to be determined, but I would think something like 5k maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, my thought is these would be badges visible on all sites, so if you earn it on SO, it would be listed under your badges on SF, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:10:06.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T13:10:06.540" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3556" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:12:34.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned on other questions (I believe by Marc Gravell as well), since you are still working on your question yourself, you can add more context as you find more information. So your 'edit and re-word' will also make the question easier to answer (which is good for us lazy programmers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you may dig deeper and discover that your original question is just a surface problem for a more deep rooted issue, in which case you can ask a second question (as long as they are actually &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt;). Once that happens, you may be able to answer your own first question, and take ALL the rep associated. Muahahahahaha. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:12:34.010" />
  <row Id="3562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:13:11.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the voting system is working as designed in these cases.  Anyone who visits a page where the accepted answer has a large negative score and the next answer has a large positive score can draw their own conclusions.  It has been stated before that in many cases the OP is exactly the wrong person to accept the best answer, or they wouldn't have needed to ask the question in the first place.  This is why the &quot;community accepted&quot; answer, the one with the most upvotes, appears directly below the OP's accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:13:11.103" />
  <row Id="3563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:19:25.980" Score="12" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just thought of something that might be nice. How about you, in the very least, list bounties won somewhere on your profile? Perhaps this should even be public information. I'd like to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions I've answered that have or have had bounties on them;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which of those I won;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to those questions/answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounties I've started;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total rep gained from bounties;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total rep spent on bounties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:01:21.767" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:01:21.767" Title="Please list bounties a user both participated in and won" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3556" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:20:50.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me a lot of the suggestion for question bumping, which would allow for users to bump up topics which they feel didn't get a good look the first time around. Of course re-wording the question in some fashion through an edit process would also bump, so this may be moot. Just reminded me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1477/feature-request-question-bumping&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1477/feature-request-question-bumping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:20:50.670" />
  <row Id="3565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:23:12.683" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for it, because I can't think of reason this information &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be available.  On a related note, why isn't there a Bounty Hunter badge?  I don't even care what it does, it just seems like the most obvious badge name ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:23:12.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:23:26.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a good idea. You list various options of features, and it has positive overall value to add to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better if this system could be retroactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:23:26.130" />
  <row Id="3567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:23:43.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I have never once participated in the bounty system in any way, I think this would be an interesting set of stats to see on other users, but then again I'm a stat fanatic. It's probably a good thing I am not a fan of baseball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:23:43.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:35:38.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got one of those, an accepted answer with a -12 ranking.  The thing is, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a correct answer.  At first, I answered it very in a very flip way with an obviously dangerous suggestion, but over time I improved it until it's actually what I feel a deserving answer, but people continue to pile on and vote it down in spite of the improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you ask me what to do about &quot;obviously incorrect&quot; answers, I say that a negative score doesn't necessarily mean it's &quot;obviously incorrect&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:35:38.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3573" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:38:56.313" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was part of the old website and I am now re-entering so it can be addressed in time. (Not that I want to unsubscribe at this stage - I think it is only good courtesy from the site owners to allow subscribers to unsubscribe)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just to clarify - Content can stay, but user must go if he wants to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18681" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-11T16:20:09.413" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T16:20:32.643" Title="It should be just as easy to unsubscribe as it is to subscribe to a forum here" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;unsubscribe&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3571" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:43:26.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I don't even know what the process is to close your account here.  A little quick poking around on the user page didn't reveal anything, which is odd.  You ought to be able to close your account on any member of the SO family, or across all of them, fairly easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be able to do is to close your account and expect all your content to go with it.  That stuff is all under the CC-Wiki license.  Of course, there's nothing stopping you from deleting as much of your stuff as the system will allow before you go...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:43:26.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3571" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:43:54.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take it you are talking about deleting your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Send an email to team@stackoverflow.com and they will be able to help out whenever you need it (and they are typically very responsive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:43:54.273" />
  <row Id="3575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3571" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:46:18.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you could always just stop coming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want, it is easy for us to delete your account to prevent you returning; however, we would prefer not to delete your content (unless there is a strong whiff of &quot;troll&quot;/&quot;spam&quot; about you). In particular, that content is &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; covered by cc-wiki, and is probably available both in google search results and in the public db dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd also prefer not to remove (for example) accepted answers; if the answer is good, it should stay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an option if you want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit your profile and change your display name to be &quot;somebody&quot; or something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;then flag a moderator (or e-mail the team) and ask your account to be &lt;em&gt;deleted but keeping the content&lt;/em&gt;; easily done, but we'll probably ask you to verify your account, for example by adding &quot;yes Marc, it is me&quot; to your profile (or similar) or by e-mail, or both (and yes, we can see old e-mail addresses too; so hijacking an account can't destroy all trace of an original e-mail address)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we can then (&lt;strong&gt;in theory&lt;/strong&gt;) drop your account. But we'll be sorry to see you leave, and I really don't want to do this (I haven't deleted a &quot;bona fide&quot; user to date...). Please stay ;-p I'd also probably double-check with Jeff before I start doing this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One caveat: all negatively voted posts are automatically deleted when dropping a user account, even if we choose to keep the &quot;good&quot; content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T13:51:52.833" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:51:52.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3481" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:46:27.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like you're at a good pace, it takes me about 12 minutes to import everything with PHP into MySQL, where I import each table in parallel (the longest table takes 12 minutes, others are finished in 1-8 minutes or so depending on length). It also involves applying a regular expression to every line of the XML files. I haven't optimized the script yet, which I plan on doing tonight; but don't really expect too much performance gains. (If anyone uses PHP and can do this faster let me know!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only suggestion I have is, have you tried running in parallel? The database should allow multiple connections, and I don't expect each instance of the program to consume 100% of the available processor, but I don't have experience with .NET at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-03T16:55:21.020" LastActivityDate="2010-07-03T16:55:21.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3578" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:46:30.717" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/762/latency-of-the-red-envelope&quot;&gt;Latency of the red envelope?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've notice that the new replies icon (recent activities link) doesn't highlight all the time.  For instance, if I am looking through different question lists and scouting around, the new replies icon doesn't highlight.  However, if I click on my profile link it will highlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this done by design or is this possibly a bug/defect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:49:43.633" ClosedDate="2009-07-26T09:41:07.137" Title="New replies icon doesn't highlight as I would expect" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:49:43.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to comment, but there are quite a few questions on this subject already. These are the top four if you search for &quot;envelope&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/762/latency-of-the-red-envelope&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/762/latency-of-the-red-envelope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2025/bug-recent-activity-comment-responses-link-is-often-wrong&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2025/bug-recent-activity-comment-responses-link-is-often-wrong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3303/envelope-new-replies-randomly-turns-orange&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3303/envelope-new-replies-randomly-turns-orange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/bug-clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/bug-clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:49:43.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:50:22.750" Score="5" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel keeps suggesting such a site in the SO podcast, and imho it would be a perfect fit for the platform. Apparently Jeff wants it to be part of superuser.com.  Isn’t the gamers’ community large enough to deserve its own site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1014" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:50:24.460" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T14:27:59.727" Title="Is there going to be an SO flavor for gamers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gamers&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:52:08.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know of any plans for anything like this, but you can make your own: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone is interested, I own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fragoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fragoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://fragoverflow.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fragoverflow.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://fragoverflow.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fragoverflow.net&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T14:23:53.780" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:23:53.780" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:54:29.987" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with GameFAQs (other than their connection to Gamespot and lack of ponies)?  They even have a question and answer system now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T18:46:38.173" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:46:38.173" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:55:26.577" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they include video games as part of SuperUser I will be incredibly unhappy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:55:26.577" />
  <row Id="3584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:55:41.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I don't see what gaming questions have to do with the questions asked in SO, SF, or (shortly) SU.  I think a version for computer games could be very nice for computer gamers, but somebody would need to get it going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:55:41.083" />
  <row Id="3585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-08T13:59:43.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By lightening up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question that gets a humourous answer I don't mind, as long as I get a real answer. It's nice to be reminded that work isn't 100% serious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And chances are if the thread makes me laugh, I may be more likely to remember the (real) answer in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T13:59:43.687" />
  <row Id="3586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3589" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:02:14.573" Score="8" ViewCount="610" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27534/see-who-is-upvoting-downvoting-my-question-answer&quot;&gt;See Who is Upvoting/ Downvoting My Question/Answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got a particular answer that got downvoted a couple of times, for reasons I don't understand. I'm not particularly concerned about the odd point of rep (though for us low-rung ladder people, it all counts!), but I'm more bothered because I really don't understand what was wrong with the answer I gave. I can understand no votes, but for it to be actively downvoted has puzzled me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without the downvoter commenting to my answer, I'm left stuck without any further recourse. How can I tell who downvoted it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note - I'm not a saddo looking to indulge in some pathetic tit-for-tat. I'm just puzzled because the question couldn't really have a 'wrong' answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1048982/1050056#1050056&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, although I've since noticed it on another answer of mine too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3897" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T08:59:44.673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T08:59:44.673" ClosedDate="2011-04-08T16:40:09.107" Title="Can I tell who downvoted one of my answers?" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="3587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:03:55.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't expect to see &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; site for games - I'd expect to see specific sites for specific games, or at least genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know one of the benefits of the SO model is that with tags you can sort of categorise without segmenting, but I would expect a popular new game to have enough interest to make it worth having a specific site - within that site, the tags could be for modding, achievements, tactics, walkthroughs etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise one site could cover a whole series, e.g. &quot;EvilOverflow&quot; for the Resident Evil games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd expect this to be one of the uses of an open sourced SO - or possibly StackExchange. Definitely better to get it maintained by the community around that game rather than by Jeff et al.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:03:55.657" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:05:34.437" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, basically. Add a comment saying that you'd like comments with downvotes - that's about all you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a pain, but there's no way to force someone to leave a meaningful comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:05:34.437" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:06:34.583" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing this would almost always end in pointless &quot;tit-for-tat&quot; as you called it (even if not your specific case). It'd cause more harm than good - arguments, &quot;revenge voting&quot; and so on..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:06:34.583" />
  <row Id="3591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3563" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:07:02.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea. Then we can see Marc Gravell for the scurrilous bounty hunter he truly is :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:07:02.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3571" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:14:05.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reason there is no ability to unsubscribe is because there is no ability to subscribe in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You go to SO or SF and you log in.  Then you log out.  If you want to put in details about yourself in your profile you can, but you don't have to.  I think that's the whole point of OpenID, so that you can avoid the subscription model altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to &quot;unsubscribe&quot; it would be a simple matter of removing all their profile content, and logging out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:14:05.043" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:23:45.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you could pose your answer as a question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:23:45.647" />
  <row Id="3595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:39:48.497" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with humour isn't that it is evil and must be eradicated from SO at all costs because we are robots, but because most of the time it's not helpful to solving the question - the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; point of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example you mentioned, it could have easily been a comment, a perfectly suitable place for such replies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't get misleading/useless situations, where the top-voted answer is a particularly funny joke or XKCD comic..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you don't get people filling the site with joke-answers trying to gain reputation, which hopefully means they are gaining rep by &lt;em&gt;actually answering questions&lt;/em&gt; (again, the point of the site!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's easy to find, being displayed right below the question - not burried away on some obscure meta.stackhumour.com site or something..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you're not misusing the community-wiki feature, which isn't a &quot;this isn't really a suitable question/answer for this site, don't blame me!&quot; button - it's to allow others to contribute to a post..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:39:48.497" />
  <row Id="3597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3502" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:49:15.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option, if you have editing privileges, is to edit one answer such that it quotes, summarizes, cites, and links to the other. And then accept it. This way, you still have one comprehensive answer, but both authors get some credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:49:15.637" />
  <row Id="3598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:52:39.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that an SO-variant for games would be quite successful - especially since you could generate revenue through targeted advertising. Based on which questions people answer, upvote, or read, you could deliver ads for games that match the genres that they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmmm, I should probably patent that idea...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91671" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T14:52:39.987" />
  <row Id="3599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:01:22.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a business model, you generally want to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;commoditize your complements&lt;/a&gt; ... not your own business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a for-profit business, open sourcing software makes sense if it drives sales of something else. What would releasing the SO engine as open-sources achieve from a business standpoint?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community contribution of development time?&lt;/strong&gt; Possibly, but much of the cost of releasing software comes from testing and maintenance - not necessarily development.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Having the community find and fix bugs?&lt;/strong&gt; Can't see that for SO, it seems to be stable and the types of defects that are out there don't drive people away from using the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Increased market visibility / marketing benefits?&lt;/strong&gt; Possibly, since I suspect that sales of SO hosting will be driven more by word of mouth than advertising. However, having poorly managed clone sites could just as easily discourage customers - if they're bad enough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it's hard to make a compelling business case for open sourcing something like SO - and I have yet to hear one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91671" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:01:22.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T15:01:22.693" />
  <row Id="3600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3602" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:16:14.890" Score="19" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came up with an idea for how to begin putting an end to the edit/rollback wars and then the ensuing comments battle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if you are only allowed to edit a post (not the author) once a day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if you are also only allowed to rollback one edit to your post a day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There would not be a overall limit on the users ability to edit other posts other than the one edit per post per day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There would also not be a limit on the number of times a single post could be edited or rolledback (multiple users), but each edit/rollback would trigger the 24 hour wait...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is currently some threshold in place that allows a post to be edited after it is posted without calling it an edit.  This same threshold could apply to the edit in case a mistake is made (fat fingered, mis-tagged, etc.) which would allow the editor a window of time to correct a mistake before getting locked out.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If either the editor or rollerbacker feel that the current state of the post is not acceptable and they are out of mods for the day, then a moderator can get flagged through the current process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T15:12:32.663" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T15:12:32.663" Title="Stop Edit/Rollback Wars: Limit Number Of Edits/Rollbacks Per User Per Post Per Day" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;edit-rights&gt;&lt;rollback-wars&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:19:48.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe once per day (or set time limit, maybe per hour) per post edited. That way you can still clean up multiple posts in a day but you aren't having this 'war' on a single post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:19:48.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:19:50.947" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reserving comment on the issue as a whole because I'm still on the fence about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I will say that one edit per day is too low.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who edits a post, hits &quot;Save Your Edits&quot; and then immediately sees something that either I've missed or actually made worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:19:50.947" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="3603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:20:54.487" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is actually a very simple idea that might be very effective. Indeed, the moderator remains the fallback in the case of actual problems. I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that means I don't see another edit war is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is a good idea to let the editor have a few more edits - but not necessarily infinite...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably the data is already available (since it is visible in the &quot;recent&quot; tab).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:20:54.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:28:20.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If moderators can respond quickly (10 minutes or so) I think this would be good. I just don't want to see somebody increase the content of somebody else's question by 50% or more with complete nonsense, and then wait for a moderator to get around to cleaning it back up - meanwhile causing all visitors to brush the question off as nonsensical, and thus limiting the involvement from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my only fear. I'm all for breaking the edit/rollback-wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:28:20.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:29:28.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't fix something that works.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always open-source it later if it makes sense, the opposite is impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:29:28.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T15:29:28.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:33:19.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really think one edit per post is enough.  Possibly this would be a time to borrow a play from Wikipedia -- the Three-Revert Rule, specifically.  Three might suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it'd be nice if an edit limit in general could be limited to applying only in cases where edits are contested in some way.  Simple version of contest detection is edits by multiple users, complex version is applying fancy diff logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:33:19.857" />
  <row Id="3607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3649" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:39:46.573" Score="2" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally created two accounts with my two openids, instead of putting both openids on the same account.  I want to close one of my accounts so I can associate both openids on the same account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can it be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5314" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T19:14:53.300" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:14:53.300" Title="Is there a way to close(merge) an SO-family account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3607" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:46:21.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the big problems with OpenId, if you don't have your own webpage providing, then you need to stick to one provider for the SOs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:46:21.863" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3607" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:52:22.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just email team@stackoverflow.com with your details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:52:22.587" />
  <row Id="3612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3556" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:52:46.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The definitive FAQ for this on SO is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26049/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:52:46.210" />
  <row Id="3613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3607" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:53:09.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email to the team (team@stackoverflow.com). They can help you with this if you can prove you are really who you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T15:53:09.650" />
  <row Id="3614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2009-07-08T15:56:37.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I believe this is a non-issue.  Specifically has this even occurred as of late?  Certainly not to the extent of the great rollback/edit wars a couple of months ago.&lt;/strike&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admins (if I'm not mistaken) now have the tools at their disposal to lock down posts, so simply flagging a post should be sufficient to garner the attention required to deal with these wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; - Given that the facility already exists for admins to be quickly notified of edit velocity, I would propose a &quot;Cool Down&quot; period once a certain edit threshold has been reached.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To enter a Cool Down period X edits would have to occur in X period of time.  The Cool Down period would force an increased time between edits and for each edit in Cool Down, the time period between edits would further increase.  Think failed logins on brute force password attempts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;li&gt;1st edit = 2 minute wait&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2nd edit = 4 minute wait&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3rd edit = 8 minute wait&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4th edit = 16 minute wait&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this period of time, it should be possible to sort out a post and come to a decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="33226" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T16:17:55.783" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:17:55.783" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:03:49.837" Score="78" ViewCount="1096" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers and questions allow both upvoting and downvoting - comments, however, only allow upvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful to allow downvoting of comments for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, if you accidentally upvoted a comment you didn't intend to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second, if you strongly believe that a comment is misleading, incorrect or off topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91671" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T23:41:02.913" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T05:59:07.330" Title="Should downvoting be allowed on comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="3616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3400" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:07:33.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's the first revision, and you still want to look at the history, just go to &lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/&amp;lt;post ID number&amp;gt;/list&lt;/code&gt; (get the ID number from the &lt;code&gt;link&lt;/code&gt; link) and you'll see the history for that one revision. (useful if you want to view source and don't have the rep to edit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:07:33.840" />
  <row Id="3617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:08:06.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On your first issue - this has already been covered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1170/should-i-be-able-to-cancel-my-up-vote-on-a-comment&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your second issue - down-voting comments might be a step too far, just post another comment pointing out the problem. Use the @user technique to identify which comment you're responding to. If it's really bad, flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T16:16:31.450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:16:31.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:08:37.047" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First, if you accidentally upvoted a comment you didn't intend to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you would need to downvote it - I think that there should be a similar click-to-undo feature like there is with up/downvotes on posts but downvotes wouldn't need to be there to cancel out an upvote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Second, if you strongly believe that a comment is misleading, incorrect or off topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's serious enough then you should flag it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:08:37.047" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:14:43.497" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;C'mon, people.  The upvotes on comments mean approximately nothing.  Let's have downvotes, too.  The more dimensions of pointlessness this site adds, the sooner somebody dies from forgoing food and sleep while using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, sure, why not?  Plus, wasn't it &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff himself&lt;/a&gt; who said that only having upvoting represents only half the potential information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:14:43.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:14:54.367" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a comment is wrong, respond to it with another comment. That provides a lot more information than a downvote which could mean anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with the &quot;undo an accidental upvote&quot; idea, but I don't see any much point in downvoting comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the value of upvoting comments: if a comment indicates that an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; is wrong, the upvotes on that comment indicate support for the reason given. They're almost like downvotes for the answer, IMO - just without rep getting involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:14:54.367" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="3621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:18:20.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a reasonable addition to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments were really &lt;strong&gt;designed to be a light-weight mechanism&lt;/strong&gt; to communicate some ancillary information about the post. But I see the comment system on Stacks evolving out its &lt;strong&gt;2nd-class status&lt;/strong&gt; into a more robust part of the contribution process... for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes the &lt;strong&gt;comments posted are awesome&lt;/strong&gt; and such a high-quality part of the question/answer process, that it simply needs to be recognized as a bigger contributor to the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some topics simply call for &lt;strong&gt;more ingrained collaboration&lt;/strong&gt; of people to help the process of formulating a more thorough answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And the business/social-hosting reasons I discuss here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3248/could-stack-sites-ever-seamlessy-incorporate-more-collaboration-discussion&quot;&gt;Could Stack Sites Ever Seamlessly Incorporate More Collaboration/Discussion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:18:20.137" />
  <row Id="3622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2987" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:23:02.070" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to say, this post inspired me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/07/stackoverflow-for-marketing-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow for Marketing Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:23:02.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2987" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:43:21.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may possibly see sites like this pop up on StackExchange as different communities in and around the web want a home for things.  Fishing, Football, all kinds of things would be possible in that world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:43:21.713" />
  <row Id="3627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:50:09.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real question to me is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;what does an up-vote on a comment really mean?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always felt that it just implied somebody else was feeling it, and was giving you props...  It really has nothing to do with reputation and ability to add witty comments doesn't imply you know how to code...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with that said, I don't think this is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were to be implemented, then does a downvoted comment affect your rep?  Does casting a downvote affect your rep?  If you can get punished, should an upvoted comment give you rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I say no to this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:50:09.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:54:18.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any empirical data regarding the average time to retagging on obvious examples like &quot;t-sql&quot; to &quot;tsql&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's always better to look at the data before attempting to correct a perceived problem (which may not actually be one).  If they're getting retagged quickly, the system is working fine, in my book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:54:18.610" />
  <row Id="3629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:54:49.930" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd also suggest that by having downvotes on comments, you're adding &lt;strong&gt;symmetry&lt;/strong&gt; to the system, that is, treating comments in a similar way as you are treating answers and questions.  From a purely UI point of view, maintaining symmetry is a good thing to do; it reduces potential user confusion and increases ease of use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T16:54:49.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4227" CreationDate="2009-07-08T16:55:14.633" Score="5" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bump: Jeff, Joel?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've toyed with the idea of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-flow-shirt2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;designing a Shirt&lt;/a&gt;, but toying with an idea is pointless. If I did design a stackoverflow shirt, what would be the legal extent to which I could profit from my work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if a user wrote an app that used SO as an engine for material, could he sell licenses to the program?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly people shouldn't be allowed to sell answers they find on SO, but I'm curious about people who do a great deal of work, and happen to use bits of stackoverflow in their projects, or in my case in their apparel-ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know that you aren't lawyers. I am trying to speak directly to the SO-Team here, and by-pass the necessity of a lawyer. Clearly, if they are alright with me making a shirt, the lawyer-expenses won't be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T12:22:00.543" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:29:15.370" Title="How can we use the Stackoverflow Name/Logo?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="3631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:10:17.300" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is worth remembering that having the site is only half the battle.  Actually, I'm lying.  Having the site is about 2% of the battle.  Getting a critical mass of users is the other 98%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of StackOverflow, it was the combined (and separate) fame of Jeff and Joel that got the ball rolling; otherwise the site would have likely languished without enough quality questions and answers to get it going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question is not &quot;Does the Gamers community deserve its own site?&quot;, but rather, who has enough credibility in the Gamer community to get a similar site going?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:10:17.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3630" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:15:22.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question wandered across a few boundaries, so I'll attempt to disambiguate, then answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I design a Stackoverflow shirt,&#xA;  what would be the legal extent to&#xA;  which I could profit from my work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;edited to remove some legal jargon I had no right to have written in the first place&lt;/strong&gt;)&#xA;Assuming that you had not announced your intention to do so ahead of time, the words (or compound word) &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; are just words. So if you create a shirt that says &quot;stack overflow&quot; anywhere on it and it has nothing to do with (or reference) this site then it is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if you want to use the Stack Overflow typeface, the Stack Overflow logo, the Stack Overflow url, your Stack Overflow flair, or anything derived DIRECTLY, or inspired DIRECTLY by this website, then you should talk to a &lt;strong&gt;LAWYER&lt;/strong&gt;. I don't mean to yell &lt;em&gt;at&lt;/em&gt; you, I'm just trying to emphasize the lack of legal expertise that exists in the metaSO and SO communities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What if a user wrote an app that used SO as an engine for material, could he sell licenses to the program?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what you mean by using &quot;SO as an engine&quot;. If you are using the SO datadump as your source material, I'm fairly sure that's illegal, (again, see a lawyer). And that also answers the licensing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;people who do a great deal of work, and happen to use bits of stackoverflow in their projects&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are talking about incorporating the answers you find here into your code, I believe Jeff put something in a blog-post about the license he wanted to use. Basically you could re-use anything here as long as you didn't CLAIM it was your own. Proprietary/non-proprietary, it was all good as long as you didn't in some way claim that you yourself wrote it and not the original author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for incorporating the site into your application in some direct manner, then again, your lawyers would have to work that out with their lawyers. And your people with their people. I imagine it would involve a lot of expense'd lunches. If that is the case, I'd like to come too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T17:52:47.400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:52:47.400" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3638" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:17:04.083" Score="4" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all, really; there's a &quot;spam&quot; criteria available for closevotes for questions, and there's a &quot;spam&quot; criteria for flagging both a question and an answer.  What is it that makes something &quot;spam&quot;?  Is it irrelevance, or is it asking a question (or providing an answer) that serves as little more than an advertisement for the respondent's product / service / whatever of choice?  Or something in between?  Or something completely different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:37:59.663" Title="What criteria are appropriate to flag a post as spam?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="3634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3633" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:19:30.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spam tends to be a catch-all term for anything that reeks of garbage and does not belong on this site in any way, shape, or form. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much like the US Supreme Court handles defining obscenitiy: &lt;em&gt;You'll know it when you see it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:19:30.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:21:16.013" Score="10" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wandering around LinkedIn yesterday when I came across its &quot;answers&quot; area.  It apparently has a service much like SO/SF, wherein people can ask questions and other &quot;Subject Matter Experts&quot; can answer them, thereby earning expert status by their answers being accepted as &quot;the answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, this closely mimics what SO/SF does &amp;#8212; to the point that I saw the same user post the same question there and on SF yesterday &amp;#8212; so I was wondering if the people here would see any value in creating an app for LinkedIn's Applications section that would post a person's SO/SF rep score and a link to that person's profile (and, also, a link to the sites themselves?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good way to not only garner recognition for individual users, the community, and the sites, but it may also help those users who are currently job hunting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that LinkedIn only offers its API to &quot;approved LinkedIn partners,&quot; so, and I may be wrong here, the request may have to come from SO/SF itself as opposed to enterprising users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130561" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:05:46.070" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T20:05:46.070" Title="Is there any value in creating an app that will link SO and SF rep with LinkedIn profiles?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;&lt;linkedin&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3635" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:23:29.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scores? Maybe not immediately. But if your potential-employer digs into your score to find why you got it, yes. If he sees that you average 5 up-votes per answer on C#, that can be good. If he sees that you got popular for posting pictures of cats programming...probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:23:29.197" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3635" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:24:29.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it not be possible to just do this yourself (as in anybody with a LinkedIn profile) by posting a link back to their profile, or if there is some HTML-capable area they could post their User Flair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not real up on LinkedIn (haven't logged into it in a couple years) so I am cannot say what is possible and what is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:24:29.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3633" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:25:55.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SOME criteria for spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicates from people who should know better&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occurs when someone posts a question, and then it gets closed. So they post it again. Willfully clogging up the site is spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blatant advertising or hate-mongering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occurs when someone writes &quot;Has anyone else had an incredible experience with product X? Because I TOTALLY have! It's only 9.99 from website XYZ(.com)&quot; Alternately, users write &quot;Product Y is the worst thing ever!&quot; Usually those will be closed as Subjective and ARgumentative, but if a user has done it more than once, it is also spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not at all programming related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I really like ponies. Discuss&quot; I'm looking at YOU TheTXI. (I'm just kidding, he's never done that &lt;strong&gt;TheTXI: Actually I was asking &quot;As a Programmer, what is your favorite type of pony&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;). But anything that is not programming related shoudl be closed as NPR, but again, if it is BLATANTLY not about programming, then it can be flagged as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gibberish/Garbage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HKALKJF akjdslfkjasd laksjd flakf lkjadsl jlkasd lfdkj ajlksj lduejaf laoifwjoe alsdj alfiwejl sdjlakfj jfiajds eje afjldk foiuf lksj elwkjelr djlfiajfkr r. Agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T17:28:02.097" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:28:02.097" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3645" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:36:52.623" Score="13" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far I have seen these colors for up voted answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Green background, Yellow text - Accepted Answer&#xA;Grey background, Dark Grey text - Normal Answer&#xA;Grey background, Blue text - ???&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the number of votes a question has is in blue, what does that signify? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have seen this again today and I'm still not convinced it's a glitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example I managed to grab from my profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5310/13470492.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Blue Upvotes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And another:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8597/mored.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59730" LastEditorUserId="59730" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T13:47:25.873" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T11:17:20.440" Title="Why are the number of upvotes on an answer sometimes blue?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3633" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:37:59.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...asking a question (or providing an answer) that serves as little more than an advertisement for the respondent's product / service / whatever of choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's definitely spam, and you should almost always flag it.  The only time I would say not to flag a blatant advertisement as spam is if the product/service &lt;strong&gt;directly answers the question&lt;/strong&gt; (spam should never be in the form of a question).  If it's a borderline case, go ahead and flag it and let a moderator decide.  Sometimes we see patterns of advertising that we like to keep track of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question or answer just seems off-topic or irrelevant to the forum, I don't think it necessarily needs moderator intervention.  People can vote to close those in the normal fashion.  If it's a blatant &quot;How is babby formed?&quot; type of question, you can go ahead and flag it, but those normally get closed in minutes by the community anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:37:59.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:50:30.647" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three revenue sources for software:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell the software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell consulting/maintenance around the software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Host the software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case you will also have ad revenue from your three web properties that use the codebase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open sourcing the software definitely eliminates #1 above and may also eliminate #3 (as Joel mentioned in Podcast #60). I could certainly see FogCreek being able to make a ton of money using the #2 approach - sell the server, installation, configuration, and training for $50,000 plus an annual maintenance fee. Enterprises want the software on their own network - a reason I think the StackExchange idea will not be as successful as it could be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be many advantages of open sourcing the software from a business sense: getting the FogCreek brand out (for Joel), developer good will (you buy products from companies you like), and contributions from open source developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T17:50:30.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T17:50:30.647" />
  <row Id="3645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3639" CreationDate="2009-07-08T17:59:43.887" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't mean anything actually.  It is just a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22184/what-do-the-stackoverflow-colors-mean&quot;&gt;bug in Firefox.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T11:17:20.440" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T11:17:20.440" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="3646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:27:04.097" Score="19" ViewCount="773" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strongly related:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-worry-about-copyright-issues-for-code-posted-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Do I have to worry about copyright issues for code posted on StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that all the submitted content on Stack Overflow is licensed under the following CC license:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I read from that, Stack Overflow owns all the content on the site. Everybody can use any code on SO as long as Stack Overflow is attributed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This worries me for developing proprietary software, because now the app is not fully owned by my company anymore (and pieces are just licensed off SO). Our legal guys are probably not going to be happy with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to ask questions about my open source project, this also implies I now need to put all my OS projects under the same license. I like BSD, and these two are not exactly compatible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see all the questions and answers be placed under the public domain. I feel most people on SO already treat it as such, especially the ones developing proprietary software. I think it's in everybodies interest to also make this very clear on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80911" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T22:00:44.230" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T07:05:47.783" Title="I'm worried about Stack Overflow content licensing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="3647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:29:34.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's the case that SO owned everything, I don't think I'd worry. I'm fairly confident that nobody really uses the exact code they find on SO. Often times you replace variables with your own, example strings, file-paths, and method names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've benefited greatly from the assistance here on SO, but I've never once used the exact response I was given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we own our code, I call shot-gun on concatenation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$foo = $bar . $bar; // Property of Jonathan Sampson&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T18:36:04.483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T18:36:04.483" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="3648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:30:38.560" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're using code verbatim from &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; source, you should attribute it. That's just common courtesy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, how much code on SO would you ever just copy into your program? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T18:30:38.560" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3607" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:37:04.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email team@stackoverflow.com explaining the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can, edit the duplicate, and write in the description that it is a dup of your other account. You may also want to edit the description of the original. This will help prove that the person who owns the duplicate account, is in fact the same person who owns the other account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually done this, and it worked flawlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there should probably be a warning, if you are trying to log in with an OpenID that is not associated with any account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T18:37:04.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:53:28.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This worries me for developing proprietary software, because now the app is not fully owned by my company anymore (and pieces are just licensed off SO). Our legal guys are probably not going to be happy with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's a serious concern, well then, don't use Stackoverflow to help you write your code.  And don't google and take code off blogs either, because most of that is CC-licensed as well.  And don't copy code out of reference books, because I doubt that's even CC-licensed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T18:53:28.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:54:03.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will downvote for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) mostly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) sometimes, depends on how seriously misleading and whether it can be easily corrected&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) rarely, if it really looks like the information won't translate at all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7) for one &lt;em&gt;very special&lt;/em&gt; person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8) for spam, &lt;a href=&quot;http://discordianquotes.com/quote/people-stop-getting-offended-words-just-words-retarded&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see here for a succinct statement of my (highly offensive) opinion on profanity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one of the most important considerations as to whether I will downvote anything is whether my rep presently ends in 5, in which case I will likely only downvote things I feel extremely strongly about, or presently ends in 0, in which case I will probably not downvote anything at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never claimed not to be crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T18:54:03.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3658" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:56:06.523" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will the account association reputation bonus show up in my recent activity section as a distinct item?  I cannot check my accounts for the answer because I have not received any rep bonus on any of the sites yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should be of use to future users of meta who may not have enough rep on any of the sites to get the bonus, and who may wish to know where it will show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="28053" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T00:00:49.107" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:00:49.107" Title="Does Rep bonus show up in recent activity?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3659" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:56:43.183" Score="4" ViewCount="489" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following up to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3633/what-criteria-are-appropriate-to-flag-a-post-as-spam&quot;&gt;recent question on the criteria for spam&lt;/a&gt;.  I have yet had a need to click the &quot;flag&quot; link, and was wondering what happens without experimenting with some poor, innocent post.  Is it immediately flagged?  Are you able to retract?  Do you get a choice of flag categories?  Are you sent to another page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:22:08.063" Title="What actually happens when you click the &quot;spam&quot; link for a question or answer?" Tags="&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:57:59.363" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a novel-addition...LEARN from StackOverflow. Don't copy the solutions, learn the solutions. Even if your implementation of what YOU LEARNED is similar to the examples from which you studied, all is well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll be legal, safer, and smarter in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T18:57:59.363" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-07-08T18:58:00.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO licenses its content under the CC license to be helpful, not as a hindrance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would then assume that content taken from this site is safe to use in proprietary software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is most highly trafficked during business hours.  People are using this code in their work as that is the intended use of the site. (Help programmers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My non-law-background-opinion: Don't worry about it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Small caveat: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001268.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don't copy code from the internet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T18:58:00.190" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:01:00.150" Score="2" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to follow the link to GitHub in this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1067360/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1067360/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it contained a percent-escaped underscore, though the source didn't.  Escaping the link broke it (which may be GitHub's fault, but nevertheless...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the link should have been (and was written in the source as):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/brosner/everyblock_code/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/brosner/everyblock_code/tree/master&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but was rendered as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/brosner/everyblock%5Fcode/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/brosner/everyblock%5Fcode/tree/master&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't figure out any way to fix the link so it worked (aside from sending it through a URL shortening service or similar). There's no need to escape _ in URLs; perhaps it could just be passed through.  Or is there some way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6372" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T18:52:00.207" Title="Can an unescaped underscore (_) be included in a link?" Tags="&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;underscore&gt;&lt;escape&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3653" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:03:04.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bonuses do not show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why, I don't believe I have seen an official answer. However, I would guess it has to do with how bonuses are implemented and therefore, they would not be retrievable in the same manner as reputation from voting and acceptance of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:03:04.880" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3654" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:03:05.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go. Here is what you will see if you venture into the &quot;flag&quot; link. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/flag.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Select, poof. Then it is gone. I don't know what comes after that (retraction, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:03:05.773" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3654" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:07:24.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an addendum to what rcar mentioned: Clicking on the &quot;flag&quot; link on both a question and an answer brings up the &quot;Please flag with care:&quot; dialog screencapped in his answer; however, clicking on the flag icon on a comment will simply flag the comment for moderator attention; while clicking on the &quot;flag&quot; link on a question or an answer is undoable, clicking on the flag icon on a comment is &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; undoable (much like upvoting a comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an addendum to this addendum: I asked a question about whether or not we could get a question to be used for testing the flagging mechanism; it caused a bit of activity.  You might find it useful; it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3412/flagging-testing-question&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="28053" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T19:12:28.750" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:12:28.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:13:48.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously wrong answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;disrespectful answers, right or wrong&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;and always leave a comment explaining each downvote (question or answer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;rant&amp;gt;I strongly suspect that the drive-by downvoters which are the source of most if not all irritating unwarranted uncommented downvotes will not have the courtesy to explain their actions here, since they don't bother to do it there either!&amp;lt;/rant&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-16T13:08:03.093" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T13:08:03.093" />
  <row Id="3662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:17:01.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone offensive enough for you to ignore is offensive enough for you to report to the Stack Overflow team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are quite effective at cracking down on offensive users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T11:20:35.830" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:20:35.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3600" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:25:54.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i must be missing the edit wars - i've only seen 2 or 3 edits to my posts, and only felt compelled to roll back a couple of them (because they either removed intentional humor or 'fixed' a non-existent typo)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from a &lt;strike&gt;rep-hound&lt;/strike&gt; purely mercenary point of view, if users with high rep want to make endless trivial edits instead of answering questions, so much the better ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:25:54.493" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3654" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:30:42.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking the flag on a comment brings up a dialog box saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Really flag this comment as offensive, spam, or hate speech?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the options of &lt;code&gt;Ok&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Cancel&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63925" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:30:42.120" />
  <row Id="3665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:32:02.220" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i find it hard to think of good questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and when i do, they don't get many votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so i'm fairly amused to see that there are people that can come up with a few hundred questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;more power to them - just because they're trivial or silly to &quot;&lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&quot; doesn't mean that they have no value to others&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:32:02.220" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3586" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:36:33.013" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you probably got dinged for calling subversion &quot;trendy&quot;; people can get mightly protective about their favorite tools (try saying something disparaging about Perl, for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;drive-by downvoters are cowards; most SOees are more conscientious than that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:36:33.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="104400" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:44:13.137" Score="6" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to build a little php script to process my flair requested as json, to get a nice image to use on boards and such.&#xA;For the sake of the server, I want to cache it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way of doing this should be by using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP%5FETag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ETags&lt;/a&gt;. If this would be supported I could simply save the latest ETag and send it with every request. If the server returns 200 Ok the script would process the returned json to for example a new image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, would it be possible to add this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84535" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T11:04:13.680" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T11:04:13.680" Title="Making the Flair API more usable for further processing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;http&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="3668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:48:55.717" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is tough.  The value of StackOverflow, to everyone involved, is intricately tied to the number of valuable questions as well as the answers given to those questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be interesting to see privileges doled out based on question/answer ratios or even question/answer score ratios.  As programmers, I think a lot of us would love to see some beautiful, holistic number or icon that resolved all of these intricate nuances into a single score. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to gain the potential benefit of making one's Rep more reflective of their expertise, the Rep score could become more complex &amp;amp; opaque to new community members.  The simplicity of the existing scoring methods have a great appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:48:55.717" />
  <row Id="3669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:51:02.100" Score="6" ViewCount="537" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I have answered a few questions that were upvoted by factors more than the accepted answer, but not accepted. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1099418/how-to-do-word-break-in-html/1099453#1099453&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, at the time of my writing, has an accepted answer that the asker said was not what he wanted. I don't know why. In the future, when people view this, people might only look at the accepted answer and move on. Would it be possible to have a &quot;community accepted&quot; feature? Maybe only the people at the top can vote to accept it or something. How much rep, if any, should go to that person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T07:23:23.117" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T07:23:23.117" Title="Would it be possible to have a &quot;community accepted&quot; feature?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3657" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:56:46.220" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it invalidates the markup if there is an underscore. Same with an ampersand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:56:46.220" />
  <row Id="3672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3669" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:57:31.123" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bunch of up-votes shows the communities acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;accepted answer&quot; has no up-votes, but yours has 12...clearly yours is the community-accepted answer :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:57:31.123" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3669" CreationDate="2009-07-08T19:59:35.980" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a badge called Populist which addresses the fact that the community finds your post much better than the accepted answer. Implementing something along the lines of &quot;Community Accepted&quot; is incredibly redundant since the community is voting on it with their upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T19:59:35.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:06:49.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who is fairly new to SO, I can still fully relate to being a complete newbie (although I feel I'm quickly being assimilated.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1)  I think the &quot;Ask Question&quot; button should be more prominent.  I think it should also advertise that there is no registration needed (subtext or hover over).  To me, not needing to register for a site to ask or answer a question is huge.  I think this alone is a large contributer to the success of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2)  I must agree with a previous answer that talked about OpenID.  Up until now, I've not been forced to use OpenID on any site.  I've got unique usernames and passwords on hundreds of sites (this should indicate something very bad... I'm just not sure what.)  I had to first read up on OpenId, then find out which of my email addresses would work with open id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3)  I lost a question or two because the cookie was destroyed when I first used the site.  I entered an email address when asking the first question, but I was not able to use OpenId with that email address.  I thought maybe I would get the questions associated with my account after entering that email address in my profile, but no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:06:49.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3654" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:16:31.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A spam vote (like an offensive vote) is very simple; there is no retraction (or even obvious visibility). But don't panic if you do it by accident; it needs about 6 such votes before the system will automatically step in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that, items with spam/offensive votes are visible to users with 10k rep, and to ♦ moderators. The ♦ moderators will check the list (which is usually empty or short) periodically and investigate. If the item is obvious spam, it'll usually be deleted. If it is a false positive (i.e. innocent), we'll clear the flag. If it is unclear, we might let it ride for a while to see if any more community members agree it is spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging for a moderator is different; you need to give a reason, and &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; the ♦ moderators can see it. This is made &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; clear to us (a red counter at the top of every page), and we'll investigate ASAP. Assuming it is a reasonable complaint, of course ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-moderator-topbar.png&quot; alt=&quot;Moderator toolbar&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T20:22:08.063" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:22:08.063" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3679" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:20:15.603" Score="3" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I find the URL to the error page with the kitten picture? I was trying to find this for a demonstration, and for the life of me, I can't seem to find it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that is a compliment too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:21:11.640" Title="What is the URL for the stackoverflow error page?" Tags="&lt;error-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="3678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3677" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:21:01.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never actually seen the error page. All I have ever seen is the &quot;Hey this post no longer exists&quot; page and the &quot;We're down for maintenance, go do something productive&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:21:01.547" />
  <row Id="3679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3677" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:21:11.640" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/error&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/error&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/error&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:21:11.640" />
  <row Id="3681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:30:53.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been on SO for 8 months and got 1300 rep (or 6 Skeetdays worth) in that time. I don't especially care for the powers endowed upon me as my rep (slowly) rises; I'm here for Q&amp;amp;A! If someone wants to game SO then good on 'em. Like others say it's up to the community as a whole to realise the value of their contribution with votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely this will only be a real issue if someone uses their &quot;ill-gotten&quot; moderation powers for &lt;em&gt;evil&lt;/em&gt;, at which point the other moderators will kick their arse...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29620" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:30:53.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:31:29.623" Score="33" ViewCount="348" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible? If not, can it be as a feature request? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-10T10:54:52.297" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T18:55:06.813" Title="Search in list of favorited questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="13" />
  <row Id="3684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3669" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:33:01.840" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be in favor of a notification -- if there isn't one already -- when an answer receives more votes than the currently accepted answer.  This would allow the OP to easily revisit the question and change the accepted answer if a better one came along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:33:01.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3669" CreationDate="2009-07-08T20:36:36.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is to have it stick to the top, right below a person's accepted answer. Not everyone views posts the same way, and if the community thinks that an answer is best, and it's on page two for me, I might not see it. However, if the community can not only upvote, but say &quot;this is the right solution&quot;, then the &quot;right&quot; answer will stick to the top for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T20:36:36.093" />
  <row Id="3709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3710" CreationDate="2009-07-08T21:20:46.057" Score="0" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there was another question about removing the reputation limit (also tagged as declined)...  It seemed like there was some backing of the idea of actually increasing it here on the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I propose making the reputation limit&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;500&lt;/strong&gt; points per day for the meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not proposing this because I've simply run out of rep for the day.  After reading through this post &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1466/please-get-rid-of-daily-reputation-limit&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, it seemed like many people thought it would be a useful feature here on meta.  I could care less about rights to edit, not a big deal to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Human nature tells you that people want the rep, why discourage interaction unnecessarily...  And more importantly, the questions here on meta tend to be more about things just like this and not how to write Hello World in perl on an apache webserver...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I think the rep on this site is not as big a deal as on SO or SF, so why treat it the same way?  Why discourage participation in a highly participative section of the SO sites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I've stated that rep is different and I am not the community, please take a look at this question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3718/what-does-reputation-mean-on-meta-and-why-is-it-different-than-so-sf&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about what reputation means on the meta sites...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:23:56.680" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:23:56.680" Title="Please increase the daily reputation cap on Meta StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3709" CreationDate="2009-07-08T21:33:13.410" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To what purpose? I can't see any reasoning that is much different to SO etc - or am I missing something? In fact, in many ways rep is even less important here... so why change anything? Is it just because you're missing edit rights etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some ways &lt;strong&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; of the more discussion-based flavor, things like edit are even less important (just add a reply disagreeing, rather than fixing some subtle technical point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: what is the driver to change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T21:50:13.320" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T21:50:13.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3709" CreationDate="2009-07-08T21:33:31.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why there's a need for meta to have a different rep limit than the rest of the systems. There's nothing inherently different about meta that means users should be able to or need to be able to gain more than 200 rep a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what you mean by &quot;rep means something completely different on this site than the others&quot; is that rep has less empirical meaning. It does not really show any knowledge of programming or system administration, its simply a number by your name. But it still is a measure of something, it's a measure of your investment in the site. A measure of how well you state your thoughts and opinions about the design choices surrounding SO. Therefore, though I agree there is less empirical meaning to rep on meta, there is still meaning to the site for the reputation. It is still a measurement of how much the site (in this case meta) trusts you. And therefore, I believe it should be treated the same as it is on the other sites. Which Jeff and company seems to clearly decided they want to maintain the daily rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, each person can make their own choices about their involvement in the site. If you want to check out after hitting the daily cap, that's fine, I know there are many people who do so. However, I know there are those, who are invested in the site beyond gaining rep, so they continue on. To each his or her. I suspect, if the data the team sees suggested that there was a statistical problem with the daily rep limit (ie, questions stopped getting answered because the &quot;best users&quot; stopped participating when the hit the cap) then perhaps there would be a change. But to this point, it seems it is working well enough and the SO team is committed to keeping it this way for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-08T21:48:38.937" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T21:48:38.937" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3709" CreationDate="2009-07-08T21:36:13.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. (and so I downvoted, btw).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep cap serves a few purposes, and at least one of them relates to the amount of time and effort you put into the site. A user with 1000 reputation did not earn that on one day. They had to return on multiple days and contribute significantly on each of them. There are ways around the rep cap, but at least on metaSO, I think it is a significant indicator of how long and how often someone is contributing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you continue to hit the rep-cap every day, you'll still climb the ranks and become respected. It just takes a little longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, people should be able to respect you based on your responses alone, the number of digits beside your name shouldn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T21:36:13.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3709" CreationDate="2009-07-08T21:37:28.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sold on that idea that a new user could be able to edit posts in 4 days. 200 seems to work fine for all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T21:37:28.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3669" CreationDate="2009-07-08T21:39:22.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, this is quite a blast from the past (so to speak). I actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/21704-community-accepted-answers?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suggested this&lt;/a&gt; many months ago, back when StackOverflow was still in private beta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every part of Stack Overflow is run and moderated by the community except one: the selection of the accepted answer. As long as you have one person in charge of selected answers you will always have to deal with their particular biases, which decrease the value of Stack Overflow as an objective reference to programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea that in addition to the answer selected by the asker that there be a community selected answer. This would be completely orthogonal to the up/down votes for the questions, and would only allow one selected answer per person per question. An approach like this would greatly serve to make Stack Overflow a more equitable and fair system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is how it could work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Expose the &quot;select answer&quot; link to everyone (or perhaps just registered users) and allow them to select at most one answer per question. The answer with the highest number (5 or more) of selections becomes the community-selected answer. To reduce potential for abuse, there should be no reputation or badge associated with this answer selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(this is in response to criticism that Stack Overflow is merely the &quot;blind leading the blind&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogging-harmful.blogspot.com/2008/08/stack-overflow-blind-leading-blind.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogging-harmful.blogspot.com/2008/08/stack-overflow-blind-leading-blind.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the official response was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did. Votes and sorting are the de-facto community answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;community mode essentially achieves this; see FAQ. Posts automatically get moved into community wiki mode when certain criteria are met. Also, votes are de-facto choosing the community accepted answer; it's the one with the most votes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly an interesting suggestion, but unless something has changed in the nature of StackOverflow in the intervening months (as well it could have) I think that the official response would be much the same today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T21:39:22.117" />
  <row Id="3717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3669" CreationDate="2009-07-08T21:54:18.700" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site is at it's heart a 'question &amp;amp; answer' site. Although many people have taken to posting answers which appeal to the community at large, there are cases where they do so at the expense of the actual question asked by the poster. An example (NOT REAL) situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; I know this isn't best practice, but restraints force me to&#xA;  do &lt;strong&gt;XYZ&lt;/strong&gt;, how can I implement it (or&#xA;  work with it) to minimize the&#xA;  risks/down-sides?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; It is &lt;strong&gt;NEVER&lt;/strong&gt; acceptable to do XYZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer will then get upvoted hundreds of times, even though the answerer &lt;em&gt;did not answer the question&lt;/em&gt;. Someone else may attempt to answer the question correctly, but because the community is so set against doing XYZ, they won't upvote that answer. Then the poster marks it as correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the correct answer (the answer the poster was looking for) will appear directly beneath the question, and the 'best practices' or 'community accepted' answer will appear right below it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have definitely been times where I think the OP picked the wrong answer, (especially when one of my own beautiful and well-crafted answers are in the mix) but since I &lt;em&gt;am not the asker&lt;/em&gt; then I do not know exactly what he/she is looking for. Only they do. You may have answered the question to the best of your ability, but only the OP can select the answer that helped them the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T21:54:18.700" />
  <row Id="3718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3722" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:00:31.167" Score="3" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few recent suggestions about either removing the daily reputation limit here on meta or increasing it...  The questions have both been received differently and the answers actually contradict one another...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3709/feature-request-increase-daily-reputation-limit-on-meta-site&quot;&gt;Increase rep limit&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1466/please-get-rid-of-daily-reputation-limit&quot;&gt;Get rid of rep limit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please reply with your answer or vote up/down answers below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:08:00.883" Title="What does reputation mean on META and why? Is it different than SO/SF?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3718" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:01:55.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe reputation means the same thing on meta as it does the other sites; its a measure of how much the system trusts you as voted upon by your peers. In this case, the system is concerned with your involvement about and discussion of the concerns of the overall stackoverflow ecosystem. With increased reputation comes increased tools (editing, etc) and in the same way as it does other places, an increased &quot;trust&quot; in your answers. If you see someone with 10k rep answer a question about the site, subconsciously I believe people are more likely to trust that person's answer than the answer from a person with 1 rep. Just the way it would be with a programming question on SO or a system admin question on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:01:55.610" />
  <row Id="3721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:02:09.127" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that a couple of questions regarding anonymous posts have been discussed recently, but they've been in the spirit of encouraging impartiality when voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes we just have a burning question about something we might think is embarassingly simple or easy.  We might have given our SO username to prospective employers, or generally don't want to lose our street cred with the community.  However, these could be questions that add real value to the site... through search and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be a &quot;anonymous&quot; questions section of the profile that simply gave the number of questions and Rep earned, without naming and linking to the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T07:13:33.913" Title="Optional anonymity to hide ignorance" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3718" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:05:39.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall, I do not see major differences in what the reputation scores mean and believe that yshuduietelu's answer was pretty good.  It is totally a measurement for how the system trusts and ranks you amongst others in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But...  I do see a difference in what the real world values are for the scores.  For example, I most likely will never brag about having a high meta score and I'll never put it on my resume while the SO reputation score in theory could be used for those things...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason there is a reputation limit was to keep the system constrained and prevent runaways users.  Some argue that this has worked others look at the rankings and see the top few users as unreachable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simply do not think the rep limit on the meta site is as important as the others because it requires heavy participation from users to drive the best results (yes you could argue this for the other sites too).  As TheTXI pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1466/please-get-rid-of-daily-reputation-limit/1467#1467&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, once you hit the limit, you are not as likely to stay involved with things.  I feel the same way.  Why have a system that would discourage folks from participation?  Rcar also suggested that the cap limit here on meta would have the same affect on him &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1466/please-get-rid-of-daily-reputation-limit/1528#1528&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:05:39.620" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3718" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:08:00.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On meta-SO, it is arguably easier to receive votes, because there can be so many more 'correct' answers which are not duplicates, in the same way that myself and yshuditelu can be right (me more than him =P) and not contradict each other at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So limiting rep makes just as much, or MORE sense here, because the only way to gain rep &lt;em&gt;faster&lt;/em&gt; than others is to have your answer marked as correct. If you simply 'shotgun' answers all over the place on SO, you will not get votes. But if you do that here, there is a chance that you could get significantly upvoted without putting any thought into any of your answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation reflects both your involvement, your tendency to provide solid answers, and how often people agree with you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:08:00.883" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="3724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3721" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:08:03.197" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always just post your potentially embarrassing questions under another account. Also, if you're worried about looking dumb to potential employers, Joel said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-58/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #58&lt;/a&gt; that, for good employers, this is a non-issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do, however, think that if a person cannot delete their post (usually because there are upvoted answers) that they should have the ability to 'disown' the post, so that it stays visible on the site but unassociated with that particular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:08:03.197" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3721" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:08:19.217" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the anonymity part can be achieved by clicking &quot;logout&quot;, it seems like kinda a low-return-on-investment use of developer time to make a whole set of mechanics for associating semi-anonymous postings with a registered account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:08:19.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3721" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:13:11.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like 'Anonymous posting area' would end up becoming a bathroom wall of posts. Anyone who is frustrated or angered by something could seek refuge there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is embarrassingly easy, you should think long and hard about whether or not it is worth being on stack overflow. If you aren't willing to attach your name to it, then why would you want to subject everyone else to reading it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Socrates: I only know that I know nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have a dumb question, at least I'm smart enough to know that I don't know the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:13:11.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3721" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:13:30.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea to allow your profile info to be hidden from a question or answer...  But how  would this work in the data dumps that are accessible to the public?  Would the user still receive upvote and downvote credit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T22:13:30.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-08T22:28:05.253" Score="72" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Noted&lt;/strong&gt; - user profile viewed 1000 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prominent&lt;/strong&gt; - user profile viewed 5000 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Renowned&lt;/strong&gt; - user profile viewed 20,000 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="130179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T04:18:44.990" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T04:18:44.990" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T22:28:05.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-07-08T23:07:19.517" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to the &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Is this a community you want to join&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the community can &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be really harsh &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen beginner/&quot;noob&quot; questions getting downvoted just because the OP has missed something obvious.  Instead of helping the OP, some people just seem to start flaming them.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1059480/math-opposite-sign-function&quot;&gt;Here's an example&lt;/a&gt; of what I'm talking about, it was at -4 when I first viewed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you'll always get a minority who let the community down in this way, but I find it concerning that for some people this is the first experience they get of StackOverflow.  I'd prefer if it was a positive one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a problem that can be solved with algorithms or clever features on the site.  The community just need to realise that the person asking the question is a &lt;strong&gt;human being&lt;/strong&gt; who has a &lt;strong&gt;problem&lt;/strong&gt; and is asking for &lt;strong&gt;help&lt;/strong&gt;.  They shouldn't be punished if they don't have enough knowledge to ask the question &lt;em&gt;&quot;correctly&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39277" LastEditorUserId="39277" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T21:26:37.970" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T21:26:37.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-08T23:18:16.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;em&gt;perspective&lt;/em&gt; is that you &lt;strong&gt;only gain&lt;/strong&gt; goodwill. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;strong&gt;do not gain&lt;/strong&gt; in perceivable quality, you do not gain in security, you do not gain in features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;strong&gt;lose&lt;/strong&gt; time in reviewing submitted patches, you lose corporate marketshare from forks, and you lose potential community members due to fragmentation of the market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would suggest - tentatively - that you may want to partner with a Big Iron-y company to see what their needs are for this kind of software. Perhaps that company would get a special rate, in exchange for being a &quot;Friends and Family&quot; contributor to SE features/licensing model. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe that offering something for nothing(open source) is a viable business model. I do not see how it fits into a functional and viable theory of real-world economic behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T23:18:16.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-08T23:18:16.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-07-08T23:27:20.190" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think comments for downvotes should be anonymous for ever (as Jonathan Sampson and redsquare). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the downvoter does not have to live in fear of retaliation. And the downvoted will get the information to improve her/his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:06:31.237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:06:31.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-08T23:37:27.757" Score="5" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Naturally before I ask a question on a forum or site like &lt;em&gt;stack overflow&lt;/em&gt;, I'll first search on the sites and on &lt;em&gt;google&lt;/em&gt; for the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how long should I do so before I give up and post the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find some questions I can find the answer too online &lt;strong&gt;eventually&lt;/strong&gt;. But it takes some serious searching as its not immediately available with the search terms that I &lt;strong&gt;thought&lt;/strong&gt; were obvious, or the site where the answer lies isn't google-indexing well or recently enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I give up too early I'm just being lazy. Which is obvious when the answers I get are just links to other sites or blogs which already contained the answer, but didn't show up immediately in my searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whats the (n)etiquette, threshold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:22:33.127" Title="How long should I search for an answer before I ask on stackoverflow (and friends)" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4212" CreationDate="2009-07-08T23:42:25.383" Score="8" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to dissociate a StackOverflow and a meta account which have previously been associated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:06:47.623" LastActivityDate="2011-04-11T16:15:48.107" Title="How to dissociate associated accounts?" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2009-07-08T23:45:13.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I think performing a reasonable search is the prerequisite.  Reasonable can vary depending on your question and your need, but in general, if you haven't performed any reasonable diligence in tracking down the question, you should do that first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-08T23:45:13.187" />
  <row Id="3740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:12:27.177" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it would be &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt; if you looked for the answer yourself for a period before asking the question, there is definitely not any type of prereq. People have a tendency on the sites to say 'you should have googled this' but that is actually frowned upon A LOT on this site and you will tend to get voted down for saying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason being is that no question is too simple for this website, and the goal of this website is to be the one source for programming answers. In theory the idea is that when you do a google search, StackOverflow is your #1 result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:12:27.177" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:22:11.257" Score="14" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want that too - motivation to answer programming-related questions. What is yours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130600" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-10T09:51:21.147" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T14:05:11.077" Title="What motivates people to answer questions in Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:27:23.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Help people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:27:23.073" />
  <row Id="3744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:30:03.073" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:30:03.073" />
  <row Id="3745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:30:33.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Boredom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And I hate bad code.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="4725" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T02:14:36.487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:14:36.487" />
  <row Id="3746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:34:06.237" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The big number next to my name is totally awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and that warm fuzzy feeling that I get when helping people through their problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:34:06.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3749" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:36:10.610" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1813/why-are-you-on-meta&quot;&gt;Why are you on meta?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3742/what-motivates-people-to-answer-questions-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;we're finding out about what motivates people to answer questions on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;; but what motivates people to answer questions on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:23:27.017" ClosedDate="2009-07-09T05:55:14.453" Title="What motivates people to answer questions in meta?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3747" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:36:52.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1813/why-are-you-on-meta&quot;&gt;&quot;Why are you on Meta&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:36:52.960" />
  <row Id="3749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3747" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:38:15.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like being able to put my voice out there and hope that it is heard when it comes to trying to determine the future of this website. Maybe my 2 cents are worth something when it comes to the development of this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:38:15.447" />
  <row Id="3750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:43:37.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To learn from others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To help others in need&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To learn about other languages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:43:37.883" />
  <row Id="3751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:44:21.147" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) There's a certain rush when someone puts you on the spot and everyone else is going to see your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) It's like a mini project with a sense of completion for only a couple of minutes work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) I end up learning a lot just by trying to answer in a way that's clear to someone other than me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:44:21.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:46:45.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I have found that I do is answer a question as quickly as possible, trying to be the first person to answer.  Then, I'll go back and edit it with a better example or more details, hoping to continue to get voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that it takes a lot of effort (for me) to gain a decent amount of reputation points.  To get where I am I spent like two days with Stack Overflow open all day on one monitor constantly monitoring new questions and trying to jump in.  That's just way to exhausting and time consuming to do on a regular basis though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5982" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:27:51.197" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:27:51.197" />
  <row Id="3755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:52:52.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One alternative to providing an open-source version would be to provide a Free version on StackExchange, similar to the way that UserVoice does it.  The reason that people would want an open-source version would be to run it for their site, for free.  If you provide that functionality for them, there would be much less need for it (other than making changes to the code/functionality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason that it WOULD benefit the community would be to show off the quality of the code.  This is a programmer's haven.  I'm sure that a lot of people here would LOVE to see the code, just to use it as an example of a great codebase.  Perhaps a license like the Microsoft .NET source code license would apply (look but don't touch).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5982" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:52:52.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T00:52:52.393" />
  <row Id="3756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:53:06.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coming here, you learn a lot from other programmers. Of course, nothing is built on SO without the users, so what's the harm in answering a question while you're visiting? I usually get that &quot;Oh! I know the answer to his problem!&quot; feeling, and I know that by submitting my answer, I add onto the circle of life that exists between all programmers on the site sharing knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130604" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T00:53:06.170" />
  <row Id="3757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2115" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:01:28.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that is only very recent - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001285.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001285.html&lt;/a&gt; for more info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:01:28.750" />
  <row Id="3758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:09:44.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Share knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Camaraderie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improve the &quot;state of software&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is a secondary interest to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:09:44.187" />
  <row Id="3759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:10:54.790" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Money&lt;/strike&gt; Rep for nothing and &lt;strike&gt;chicks&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;badgers&lt;/strike&gt; badges for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:10:54.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:12:16.720" Score="21" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be a silver version of the Populist badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I was thinking 10 upvotes for you; 5 for the accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT FROM BENEFACTOR (PengOne): I'm starting a bounty because I really like this idea and want to draw more attention to it. The bounty goes to the person who comes up with the best name and best description for such a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-16T16:44:21.417" LastActivityDate="2011-06-16T16:44:21.417" Title="Silver Populist Badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3747" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:13:33.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Share knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Camaraderie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improve the &quot;state of Stack Overflow&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gee that sounds familiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:13:33.803" />
  <row Id="3762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3760" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:15:21.433" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say yes.  Many of the questions I answer don't ever see 10 upvotes total, let alone on a single answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:15:21.433" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="182" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:21:17.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is easily the most annoying badge to be awarded. I have this badge on stackoverflow.com, and the very first day I got it, I threw this question on uservoice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/42635-make-it-easy-to-see-why-you-got-taxonomist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/42635-make-it-easy-to-see-why-you-got-taxonomist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I don't know what tag I created, I feel frustrated at the pointless nature of it. I haven't been rewarded for something I've done intentionally, I've been rewarded for something I've done unintentionally far in the past that's had this consequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what tag it was! Was it 'svn'? Was it 'linux'? was it 'vimrc'? Does this badge make me cool or a failure? I DON'T KNOW?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking as someone who has been rewarded with this badge, I think the very least that should be done is let the user know why they're awesome, otherwise the user doesn't really feel awesome at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14648" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:21:17.970" />
  <row Id="3764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3766" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:33:01.427" Score="3" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to avoid using/installing BitTorrent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you know of any third party that has put the Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump(s) 7zip archive on their servers so that a direct download URL is available? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At 200 MB it is within the same range of many podcasts and even more videocasts so the file size should not be a problem in itself - although of course content providers normally pay for it. But it could also be on another kind of server, such as for Open Source software or Creative Commons files).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T13:04:58.173" Title="Non-BitTorrent way to get the Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump?" Tags="&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3760" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:44:50.617" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was actually thinking this very thing earlier today and never got around to posting it. I see no problem with this honestly. Maybe you could have three levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bronze - Your answer gets 2x the amount of the accepted answer (no minimum)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Silver - Your answer gets 2x the amount of the accepted answer (accepted answer minimum of +5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gold - Your answer gets 2x the amount of the accepted answer (accepted answer minimum of 10) &amp;lt;-- Current Method&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:44:50.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3764" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:46:18.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comments of the latest data dump, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/creative-commons-data-dump-july-09/#comment-26995&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stu Thompson included a link&lt;/a&gt; to download the latest dump directly from his server:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow/so-export-2009-07.tar.bz2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow/so-export-2009-07.tar.bz2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a past dump, sth is hosting both the original dump and the SQLite version that I made on his server:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tejp.de/files/so-export/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tejp.de/files/so-export/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:46:18.550" />
  <row Id="3767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3760" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:53:12.637" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize that this is somewhat tangentially related, but I've never liked requiring the accepted answer to have at least 10 upvotes. It would make much more sense to require that &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer have at least 20 upvotes. As it currently exists, you could have a question where the accepted answer has 7 upvotes and your answer has 90 upvotes and you won't get the badge. But another question where the accepted answer has 11 upvotes rewards an answer with, say 23 upvotes with a Populist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I don't actually &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; any Populist badges (I should, but that's another topic), but I believe that my above assessment is an accurate reflection of the behavior of the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tie this back to the original subject, I think that you could get bronze and silver badges by lowering the required score that &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer has to have in order to be awarded the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:53:12.637" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3760" CreationDate="2009-07-09T01:54:36.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Naw. Populist should &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt; a silver badge. Gold should be another version, even more difficult to obtain (say... beats an answer accepted at 20 by 2x). That badge should then be named &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Demagogue&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T01:54:36.897" />
  <row Id="3770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:03:03.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from tag counts, people ask questions if they have a C#/.NET problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unanswered Tags:&#xA; * c#× 2512&#xA; * asp.net× 1831&#xA; * .net× 1573&#xA; * java× 1225&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2789" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:25:53.497" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:25:53.497" />
  <row Id="3771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:12:09.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoy helping other people learn something new or solve a problem.  For quite awhile I was thinking about getting my PhD and becoming a teacher for this reason.  Turns out that I like actually writing software too much to give it up.  SO is one avenue to fulfill that original desire of mine to teach.  Blogging, which I've only recently taken up -- partly due to enjoying SO so much -- is another way.  This way I have the best of both worlds -- and I don't have to write a dissertation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:12:09.877" />
  <row Id="3772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:22:39.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To help form a more active and reciprocal community where more developers, including myself, can find help asap when in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:22:39.507" />
  <row Id="3773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3747" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:23:27.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There aren't any new, good questions on StackOverflow to answer right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:23:27.017" />
  <row Id="3774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7320" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:30:06.417" Score="12" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; Simplification of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Not intending to change its current &quot;declined&quot; status, just to facilitate the understanding of the suggestion&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The request is to allow &lt;strong&gt;content&lt;/strong&gt; in languages other than English. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how it would work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The user selects desired languages in preference tab ( default is English  ) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The systems shows content to that user in its preferred language(s)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When posting a question the system will mark the content with the user preferred language: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is only one language that would be used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is more that one, the language will be prompted ( with the first language preselected )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If nobody change its preferences everything will remain the same as of today ( because English would be the default language ) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No engine localization is needed, no gui translation is needed, no content translation is needed,  no different domains nor auto-translate, nor volunteer translate is needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the ability of the system to filter non-interesting languages ( I don't understand a clue of Chinese or Finnish, but I could answer Spanish and English questions ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand and agree, English is a &lt;strong&gt;must have&lt;/strong&gt; for good programmers, but StackOverflow is not only for &quot;good programmers&quot; but also for those who get &lt;code&gt;NullPointerException&lt;/code&gt; in a Hello World program. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming beginners may also be English beginners and they should not spend 2+ years learning English to start learning to program. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original post follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&#xA;First of all: I know English is the lingua franca of programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the posture of Jeff: [The Ugly American Programmer] and I know it has been discussed on [podcast 48]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just let my do a last attempt to show an easy way to support internationalization on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons to support i18n:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that all awesome/great/decent developers use english when talking about technology, but I think SO is not only to show each other how much we know already of programming and to show we can code using butterflies and we already know all the emacs keystrokes to make a sandwich. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow should be also for those who doesn't know why the following throws a &lt;strong&gt;NullPointerException&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; String a = null;&#xA; a.toString(); // doh!!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it turns out that ( at least in my country ) people who is learning to program is also learning english. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the condition to access a great resource such as SO is to have the innocent to take first a 2 yrs  English course seems unreasonable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Objection to support i18n&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important issue with SO i18n is the visual noise this would create. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course I don't like to see Japanese questions in my front page If I don't know japanese at all!! or Russian, or Icelandic or Swahili for that matter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way,  I don't want non Spanish speakers to see my questions and translate them, downvote them and close them ( as it happened with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88579/&quot;&gt;my very first post&lt;/a&gt; in this site )  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So how to achieve SO i18n?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same way I don't see Visual-Basic questions in first place. By using the ignored tags feature, we could filter/show q/a in different languages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of tweaking is needed in the current tag mechanisms. But I don't think it is impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A language meta-tag could be added to the system. By default everyone's will be English &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course and it should not count toward the 5 tag limit on questions ( hence meta ). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;ignore-tag+hide tag&quot; will be enabled to all users by default for this meta-tag. That way a English-only speaker won't notice the change at all ever, if he doesn't add more languages in it's preferences. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While posting the default langauge meta-tag will be added to the question with the possibility to change to another in the user profile. ( If there's only one language in the user profile the option is not shown as of today. If more than one lang is available something like the following may appear at the bottom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tags:&#xA;[                 ]&#xA;Combine multiple words into single-words, etc. etc&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Language:&#xA;[English][x] // combo here!&#xA;Change the question default language.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aaaand that it!. Web2.0 internationalization instantaneously!! User will post/answer in their preferred language&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to translate the web site it self  ( most of the directions are easy to understand or the simply interface of StackOverflow will lead them ) At most a SO-FAQ autogenerated by the own community will explain things as Community-Wiki etc. But in general terms there is no need to change the &quot;Users/Tags/Badges/&quot; etc for the content which is the relevant topic here will shown in the prefered lang. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other proposals as have community translate the questions but this is a terrible idea because it creates a lot of noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some [SO-Clones] show up in first place for this need. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If those are not good reasons then think about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WORLDWIDE ADVERTISEMENT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why limit SO to have english only ads when it could have ads for any language ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T19:56:36.293" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T19:56:36.293" Title="Add meta-tag to support internationalization" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;localization&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="3775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2115" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:35:22.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was new as of 2009-7-3, there is a comment by Jeff under this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/197/how-about-newlines-within-comments/452#452&quot;&gt;answer which was posted on 2009-6-29:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like some of the basic markdown stuff be added, for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;`code highlight`&#xA;*italic*&#xA;**bold**&#xA;***bold italic***&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;hey look! &lt;i&gt;italic&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt; and some &lt;code&gt;escaped *code* sample&lt;/code&gt; –&amp;nbsp;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;♦&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1149/to-put-syntax-highligthing-on-for-codes-in-comments/1241#1241&quot;&gt;mentioned&lt;/a&gt; it on the 30th:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At least, I would want &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt; to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for syntax highlighting, you don't get that for simple &lt;code&gt;inlined&lt;/code&gt; code sections, so why would you need it in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means it had to have been implemented between 2009-6-30 and 2009-7-3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:35:22.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3774" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:39:43.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this opinion may be dismissed because I'm an American (and in Texas, for shame!), but here it goes, anyway:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few topics have been brought up about localization (or localisation as they say across the pond), but nothing's gained too much traction. The reason is that this is all user-generated content. We have no control over whether or not somebody posts something in Chinese or Arabic or Telugu. However, English is the de facto standard of the programming world--our world. As Anglo-centric as this sounds, it doesn't exclude anybody by having English as the de facto language of StackOverflow. Because our (programming) languages are based on English, it is a necessary skill as a programmer to know it. Therefore, English is the closest thing we have to a universal language (excluding math).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, problems are universal, and I should be able to help somebody in Italy or India (both on my checklist today!). If done in their native languages, only those language speakers could help, severely limiting the potential for help to arrive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: We remain a strong community by being able to communicate throughout it. By sectioning it off for arbitrary regionalization when we &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; a universal language, you only hurt the user experience. Also, I might lose it if I ever saw a Quebecois tag. Only kidding. Sort of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:39:43.110" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1576" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:40:27.337" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like the one badge where you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be rewarded for being intentionally mediocre.  I could write a well phrased question about a topic that nobody cares about, so nobody answers or even reads it.  It would be a valid question, so it won't get closed and would it just sits there until I get a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there should be a &lt;strong&gt;tumbleweed cleaner&lt;/strong&gt; badge for someone that answers one of these questions, or a tumbleweed question of the day based on moderator selection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:40:27.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3779" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:44:33.497" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Oracle Sql Developer, which you run by typing sqldeveloper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed there were exactly six of one and half a dozen of the other when I searched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:47:54.343" Title="Tag: sqldeveloper or sql-developer?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3778" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:47:54.343" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;sql-developer - separate the words!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:47:54.343" />
  <row Id="3780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-07-09T02:48:45.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Shog9 mentioned, the amount of code you get from SO would not be enough to worry about licensing. Attribution, however, is always a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow does not own contributions. They are owned by the contributor. The CC licence helps to overcome having to ask each individual author, by applying a licence that allows use under certain conditions by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just like Wikipedia, now that they've changed to CC BY-SA. You can use content from there, as long as you stay within the license. Also, you have to use a substantial amount to have the Share-Alike kick in. For the small amount of code on SO, it's probably ok, but check with CC or a lawyer if you aren't sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31567" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T02:48:45.543" />
  <row Id="3781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3782" CreationDate="2009-07-09T03:34:21.783" Score="1" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Locking of questions is currently in place, and is typically used in cases like halting edit wars. However, instead of locking an entire question and its answers, I think that it would also be beneficial to able to lock &lt;em&gt;individual answers&lt;/em&gt;, leaving the question and other answers still active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some reasons why I think it would be useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If an answer falls prey to an edit war:&lt;/strong&gt; Admittedly, I haven't actually seen this happen for an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, just questions. But locking only the answer would be a helpful option in such a case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For specific use on MetaSO:&lt;/strong&gt; There are a number of questions on MetaSO that have the form where the question is simply a container for a general class of feature request, with the answers representing the specific individual feature requests that are accepted or declined. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&quot;&gt;The Great Tagging Reorg&lt;/a&gt;. Some of the retagging suggestions in the answers have been completed, and these are indicated with a &quot;DONE&quot; icon placed at the top (example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg/2856#2856&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). However, the answer can still be edited, voted on, and commented on, which isn't really of any use now that the request has been filled. The answer &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be deleted, but then there's no record of previously suggested and accepted requests. It would be nicer if the answer alone could be locked, freezing the editing, voting, and commenting so that it can simply remain there for posterity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's the community's take? Is this a useful/feasible feature request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As Kyle so adeptly pointed out with his answer, this feature is already enabled. In short, you pretty much can't do &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to a locked answer... unless you're a mod, in which case you can unlock it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a summary, here's what you can't do to locked answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Up/downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark as accepted (I was kinda surprised by this one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T14:03:26.433" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:03:26.433" Title="Locking Answers" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="3782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3781" CreationDate="2009-07-09T03:40:04.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, moderators &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; capable of locking individual answers. If think an answer (or question, for that matter) should be locked, flag it for moderator attention with a short reason of why it should be locked. If the moderator agrees they will lock it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This answer has been locked as a demonstration)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T03:40:04.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T03:49:55.870" Score="15" ViewCount="531" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/75189/what-are-diamond-moderators&quot;&gt;What are diamond moderators?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, is there a list somewhere of all the abilities that moderators have? For instance, I just found out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3781/feature-request-locking-answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that mods can lock answers.  I remember seeing a couple of times that there are some limitations on what mods can do (mostly due to the underlying engine), so I was just wondering, exactly what abilities do the mods have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="155160" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T12:58:59.520" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T13:57:12.047" ClosedDate="2011-08-25T23:02:31.030" Title="What abilities are moderators given?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="3784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3786" CreationDate="2009-07-09T03:51:58.000" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just noticed that even if an answer is locked, the &quot;add comment&quot; link is still there.  This is confusing, since locked answers can't actually be commented on.  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3781/feature-request-locking-answers/3782#3782&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for an example of what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T03:55:48.207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T03:56:02.093" Title="Remove &quot;add comment&quot; link from bottom of locked answers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="3785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T03:55:01.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the strong programmer's vices that I tend to see something and I go &quot;Wait! I &lt;strong&gt;could&lt;/strong&gt; solve that!!!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And proceed to waste about 10 minutes to hours to craft out a perfect solution (in my own eyes, anyway) and relieving the programmer's pride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Confidence level: +10)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... Probably the fuzzy feelings like helping others come later that we could rationalize off to other people to hide the real fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(... and yes, earning reps and badges are &lt;strong&gt;fun&lt;/strong&gt;, sort of like toys inside packets of junk food meant to lure impulsive kids :p)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T03:55:01.827" />
  <row Id="3786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3784" CreationDate="2009-07-09T03:56:02.093" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;some of our comment libraries break if that link isn't present, so.. sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T03:56:02.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2009-07-09T04:40:42.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should perform a reasonable search first. Reasonable search would mean try a couple different terms and follow some related article links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you can't find an answer through search because you are coming at the problem from the wrong angle and / or  have the wrong search terms. Stackoverflow, or friends, can sort you out about that pretty quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often I find that as I am going through the process of writing a question I clarify the question. This gives me better ideas about what to search for and end up working it out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5506" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T04:40:42.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2574" CreationDate="2009-07-09T04:48:52.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd look out for ``sock puppeting'', but beyond that (given the questions here dealing with OpenID glitches) I would not worry about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see someone answering a question, then using another account to upvote the answer / leave positive feedback, that's a sock puppet. Similarly, someone using an alter ago to leave comments / upvote their own questions or even voting to re-open them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not be bothered if someone had two 10k accounts, I'd be bothered if they used them to game the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T04:48:52.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-07-09T05:01:45.463" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Creative Commons people have a note about this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably depends on the meaning of &lt;em&gt;derived&lt;/em&gt;.  It would be hard to make a case that incorporating a few lines of code would make the entire program a derivative work, and it would be hard to imagine somebody on SO mounting the expensive legal challenge which will almost certainly fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it should be made the policy that code snippets fall under the CC BSD license as mentioned below, so that it's totally clear that incorporating code snippets in proprietary code is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally use the &quot;remember me if these 3 lines of code make you rich&quot; license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the CC FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I use a Creative Commons license for software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We do not recommend it. Creative Commons licenses should not be used for software. We strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses which are already available. We recommend considering licenses made available by the Free Software Foundation or listed at the Open Source Initiative. Unlike our licenses, which do not make mention of source or object code, these existing licenses were designed specifically for use with software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creative Commons has “wrapped” some free software/open source licenses with a human-readable &quot;Commons Deed&quot; and machine-readable metadata. You may use these &quot;wrapped&quot; software licenses to take advantage of the Creative Commons human-readable document as well as the machine-readable metadata while still licensing your work under an established software license. It is important to note that CC has not altered these software licenses in any way, but has simply bundled human- and machine-readable explanations of the licenses along with the original license text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BSD/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T07:05:47.783" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T07:05:47.783" />
  <row Id="3792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3793" CreationDate="2009-07-09T05:17:36.347" Score="10" ViewCount="873" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oftentimes I want to include code samples in a list, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item Two, for example:&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;private bool ItemTwo()&#xA;{&#xA;    return this.IFeelLucky;&#xA;}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item Three&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;The problem is there isn't a good and intuitive way to do this using markdown. It's doable, but you have to do some formatting black-magic to get it that way, which is just not &quot;nice&quot; to deal with.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source that produces this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;1. Item One&#xA;2. Item Two, for example:&#xA;&amp;lt;br/&gt;&amp;lt;br/&gt;&amp;lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;private bool ItemTwo()&#xA;    {&#xA;        return this.IFeelLucky;&#xA;    }&amp;lt;/code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;3. Item Three&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to just be able to do it this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;1. Item One&#xA;2. Item Two, for example:&#xA;&#xA;    private bool Test()&#xA;    {&#xA;        return this.IFeelLucky;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;3. Item Three&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which results in, well, this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Item Two, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;private bool Test()&#xA;{&#xA;    return this.IFeelLucky;&#xA;}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Item Three&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: In order to use markdown, you have to indent a minimum of &lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt; spaces. I still stand my ground that this isn't 100% intuitive - you can indent only a single space to continue a list item (see below) - but at least it's good and easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;1. List item&#xA;&#xA; Item continued&#xA;&#xA;2. Another list item&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;List item&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item continued&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another list item&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T20:11:40.947" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T20:11:40.947" Title="How to nest code within a list using markdown" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="3793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3792" CreationDate="2009-07-09T05:34:03.073" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code is possible in markdown (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox/3431#3431&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) - you just have to leave a blank line and then indent by &lt;strong&gt;8 spaces&lt;/strong&gt; as a minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this.isSomeCode = true;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T05:34:03.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="636" CreationDate="2009-07-09T06:19:36.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ugh, no.  My wiki at work does this, and it busts &quot;count(*)&quot;, transforming it into &quot;count&quot; followed by a star gif. :-( :-( :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T06:19:36.643" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T06:19:36.643" />
  <row Id="3796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2714" CreationDate="2009-07-09T06:23:39.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Came here to post this myself, after making a minor (yet essential - employment status) update and having to copy/paste to serverfault and meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If (when?) this is done, it definitely has to be an optional thing. An &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2/sync-meta-user-accounts-daily-with-other-family-sites/229#229&quot;&gt;answer to another question&lt;/a&gt; sums up this need nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would probably be adequate to have a &quot;propagate changes to:&quot; list at the bottom. You make one edit intended to be seen on all sites, then you can go back and tweak it if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not be the easiest approach to take, but since some people will maintain some differences in all profiles, perhaps a diff/merge option should be made available for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T06:23:39.920" />
  <row Id="3798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3799" CreationDate="2009-07-09T07:19:56.883" Score="1" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just browsing through a user's reputation history (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45243?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;45243&lt;/a&gt;) and noticed that there is a &lt;strong&gt;massive&lt;/strong&gt; drop in reputation there, all for one question (-452 rep).  How does this happen - did he really get down voted that much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:52:11.760" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T19:47:20.877" Title="What could cause this massive drop in reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3798" CreationDate="2009-07-09T07:25:25.613" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610916&quot;&gt;that question&lt;/a&gt; has 7 up votes which exactly correspond to the amount of positives rep he got and considering the answer had a bounty associated with it &lt;del&gt;(see the highlight round the accepted icon)&lt;/del&gt; [Due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent changes in how bounties work&lt;/a&gt; you can see that a 500 rep bounty was paid out] I would say he paid out a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/18821/nathan-koop&quot;&gt;Nathan Koop&lt;/a&gt; asked in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are we sure it was a bounty, the question was asked Mar 4, and the selected answer was also written that same day (minutes later) it seems strange to me that the user would wait for 48 hours and then place a bounty (almost all of his rep) on a question where he already had the correct answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My dear &lt;s&gt;Watson&lt;/s&gt; Nathan, you're making the classic mistake of assuming other people share your motivations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at the user's (let's call him &lt;code&gt;A&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45243?tab=recent#sort-top&quot;&gt;profile's recent tab&lt;/a&gt;, what was his last activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;March 4th writing the question under discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you check you'll see that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/36457?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;person who wrote the accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; (we'll call him &lt;code&gt;B&lt;/code&gt;) gained 762 rep around the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You mean &lt;code&gt;B&lt;/code&gt; hacked &lt;code&gt;A&lt;/code&gt;'s account and awarded himself the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see you've learned from me after all, no nothing so sinister, have a look at the question, it's regarding boolean operations, how to negate a boolean value. What kind of programmer would you expect to ask such a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A novice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;code&gt;A&lt;/code&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/358533/how-important-is-boost-to-learn-for-c-developers/358581#358581&quot;&gt;highest ranking answer&lt;/a&gt; is about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boost.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;boost&lt;/a&gt;. Does that fit the profile of a novice programmer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, not at all, brings up &lt;code&gt;boost::math&lt;/code&gt; which I doubt a novice would run across. This makes no sense, what do you think is going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;code&gt;A&lt;/code&gt; got tired of using stackoverflow and decided to award his reputation to a friend (or just a random passer by).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Got tired of stack overflow??&lt;/em&gt; But, but that's &lt;strong&gt;Blasphemy!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said not everyone shares your motivations, or mine for that matter, I'm sure some would say that we're spending way too much time on such a trivial matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well to hell with them I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="3848" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T19:47:20.877" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T19:47:20.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3798" CreationDate="2009-07-09T07:31:26.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, it was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610916/easiest-way-to-flip-a-boolean-value/610919#610919&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt;; however, other possible causes &lt;strong&gt;not in this case&lt;/strong&gt; but in general:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep recalc, perhaps following suspicion of &quot;gaming&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;posting a few &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; offensive/spammy posts (-100 each post if you get 6 such votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T07:31:26.880" />
  <row Id="3801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T07:37:11.460" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an inferiority complex which SO helps to alleviate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T07:37:11.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T07:38:09.323" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a provision for deleting old questions. When trying to delete some questions this error message shows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, this question cannot be&#xA;  deleted: too many existing answers, or&#xA;  upvoted/accepted answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't there any way to delete these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:51:40.203" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:51:40.203" Title="Delete past questions with accepted answer or more upvotes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2009-07-09T07:43:01.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mail team@stackoverflow.com with your reasons. Basically this will need to be handled on a case-by-case basis with human judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that just because &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; don't find value in your question any more doesn't mean that it doesn't provide value to other users. If there are upvoted answers, that means that people have found those answers useful - so it would be a shame to remove that useful information from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm sure this wouldn't stop a moderator from deleting a question where there's a really good reason why it should be deleted anyway. Or the moderator may have other suggestions as to how the value can be preserved while addressing whatever your concern is. For example, if you accidentally included your password in an edit, a moderator (or at least Jeff :) may be able to directly remove that edit or blank out the password.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T07:43:01.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T07:44:47.430" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the recommended steps if I notice content taken from SO/SF/SU which is placed on another site without respecting the terms of use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically I've commented on &lt;a href=&quot;http://maneeshchaturvedi.blogspot.com/2009/07/eclipse-templates-for-auto-code.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt; having recognized the answers from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028858/useful-eclipse-java-code-templates/1029304#1029304&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but I got no answer - comment was not even published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the next step?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:51:23.833" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T16:00:03.710" Title="Reporting content reproduced without attribution" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;attribution&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T08:08:04.650" Score="9" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flair for StackOverflow are all horizontal, and they don't fit well in my blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get some flair that is more vertically based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2044" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:51:01.767" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:51:01.767" Title="Vertical Flair?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3792" CreationDate="2009-07-09T08:22:02.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is all documented in the editing help, that little [?] button above the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also linked from the sidebar of every edit page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T08:22:02.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3155" CreationDate="2009-07-09T08:25:52.250" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;your favorites view now has a &quot;recent&quot; sort (versus the &quot;newest&quot; sort which is based on CreationDate).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if you favorite a question, you opt in to updates on that question and they will show in your &lt;code&gt;/recent/&lt;/code&gt; and light up the envelope, just as if you own the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T05:55:16.963" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T05:55:16.963" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3804" CreationDate="2009-07-09T08:30:43.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely, the greater crime is putting 'Working with an IDE tends to make life &lt;i&gt;quiet&lt;/i&gt; simple' when he meant 'Working with an IDE tends to make life &lt;b&gt;quite&lt;/b&gt; simple'. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though - interesting question. I guess all people can really do is to apply peer pressure and publicly ask for attribution? If he blocks your comments, I'm not sure there's much more you CAN do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Though it would be nice to be wrong on that!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T08:30:43.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3873" CreationDate="2009-07-09T08:58:21.197" Score="8" ViewCount="454" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be useful to add a drop down field &quot;Difficulty&quot; for questions. With a very limited set of options, say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beginner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advanced&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expert&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, users could easily judge if they can answer a specific question (depending on their experience in the topic) and how much time it will probably take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beginners usually know they are new so they can easily select &lt;em&gt;Beginner&lt;/em&gt;. Those with some experience just select &lt;em&gt;Advanced&lt;/em&gt; and those working on a topic for years may chose &lt;em&gt;Expert&lt;/em&gt;. I think it's not very difficult to judge halfway correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the difficulty rating does not have to be very precise anyway, it's more a rough estimate by the asking person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an addition, rep gained on this topic can be multiplied with a difficulty factor. This would solve the problem of lots of rep for often-viewed and easy to answer questions and few rep for less-viewed, difficult questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you so far for the answers. I clearly underestimated the fact that some users are going to always chose &lt;em&gt;Expert&lt;/em&gt; difficulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe readers voting on the difficulty would be a workaround. Of course, we cannot use the rep factor then, for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of voting would obviously introduce a whole new set of issues, since we could vote on both content and difficulty (I'm almost positive this kind of proposal existed before?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastEditorUserId="39590" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T13:42:31.457" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T17:17:40.477" Title="How about a difficulty rating for questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;difficulty&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3950" CreationDate="2009-07-09T09:24:48.013" Score="10" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm considering trying out the StackExchange concept on an internet niche (non-software related) that I already operate a fairly prominent (for that niche) public website for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if anyone had a rough idea how many people you would need to get involved in the knowledge exchange concept to allow it to run on &quot;automatic&quot; like StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the enthusiasm and commitment of the users involved will be a factor, but are there are any broad statistical observations from the &quot;Stack&quot; sites already in operation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastEditorUserId="130625" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T23:57:26.250" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:57:26.250" Title="How many people do you need to a make a StackExchange site work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="3814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T09:25:05.747" Score="5" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often I favourite posts that I find either interesting and/or useful, and may be useful for future reference. However, I have 5 pages of favourites (and I'm sure other users have lots more), and when it comes to finding them I often find it difficult, for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't remember what the question was titled - I have a general understanding of topic/tag, like &lt;code&gt;Javascript&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Cocoa&lt;/code&gt; but even for specific problems I sometimes can't remember how the question was phrased&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user titled the question in a vague way which doesn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; link it to the answer; for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1039680/why-cant-i-roll-a-loop-in-javascript&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is titled &quot;Why can't I roll a loop in Javascript&quot; which doesn't particularly tie it to the idea of closures, which makes it harder to find if I wanted to link back to it in future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am suggesting is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you favorite a question, you&#xA;have the option to give it an&#xA;alternate title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is displayed&#xA;along with the post title in the&#xA;favorites tab, which makes it easier to find for future reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way it would be easier to find, because I can find it based on what I specifically found useful or interesting in that question, which may have been different or more specific than what the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; was focusing on in their question. Perhaps when clicking on the star to favorite the question, one of red boxes (similar to the one shown when flagging a post) could appear with an option to give the bookmark an alternate title, or to leave it blank if you don't want to associate one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is always the bookmark option in the browser, but it'd be nice to be able to keep the favourites on Stack Overflow - then if I'm away or not using my main browser I don't have to go there to find what I'm looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:34:34.590" Title="Ability to give favourites alternate titles" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3818" CreationDate="2009-07-09T09:33:43.467" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to ignore individual posts/questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for example, the top question for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;Highest Voted Questions&lt;/a&gt;&quot; list is always What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this post and I no longer wish to see it, can I mark this as &quot;Read&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you can have &quot;ignored tags&quot; but there are lots of C# questions that I'm either not interested in, or don't know enough about to answer and I don't want to ignore all C# questions so setting C# as an ignored tag would hide potentially interesting questions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86148" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:50:23.177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:50:23.177" Title="How do I ignore an individual question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3816" CreationDate="2009-07-09T09:36:11.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could modify the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/greasemonkey-ignore-user-script-now-includes-lists&quot;&gt;Ignore User(s) Script&lt;/a&gt; to ignore questions based upon their id instead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T09:36:11.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3816" CreationDate="2009-07-09T09:53:04.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not currently. If you want to view sorted by votes, I highly recommend browsing questions by tag instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just click any tag to get started, then use the &quot;related tags&quot; sidebar to begin combining them.. or do something more advanced&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T09:53:04.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2009-07-09T09:55:31.857" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's not very difficult to judge halfway correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're asking people to rate themselves less than &quot;expert&quot;? Or rate their work and effort objectively in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems unlikely, based on my observatons of how people work in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T09:55:31.857" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:14:59.857" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following answer of mine: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1098031/symbian-series-40-60/1098265#1098265&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1098031/symbian-series-40-60/1098265#1098265&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Nokia Series 40](http://www.forum.nokia.com/Technology_Topics/Device_Platforms/Series_40/)&#xA;is based on Nokia's proprietary operating system. For third party application&#xA;development, you can use Java ME and MIDP, Flash Lite or widgets (i.e.&#xA;XHTML+CSS+Javascript).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In preview the hyperlink displays correctly, but on the actual answer it takes the whole paragraph to be the hyperlink text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: There was another hyperlink issue in my answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;For both, you can find the tools and SDKs from&#xA;[http://www.forum.nokia.com](Forum Nokia), alongside other developer resources.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which should have been&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;For both, you can find the tools and SDKs from&#xA;[Forum Nokia](http://www.forum.nokia.com), alongside other developer resources.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixing this made the issue mentioned above disappear: Now the Series 40 link text displays as I intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the issue still remains: Preview and final were showing different formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130264" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T08:58:02.990" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T08:58:02.990" Title="Bug: Greedy hyperlink texts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3825" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:24:28.927" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before ServerFault, &lt;em&gt;&quot;as a developer&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, I'd probably have asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/38181/why-does-my-site-use-the-iusr-account-when-configured-for-pass-through-authentica&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because IIS is still technically part of our developer toolset I think the question would probably be equally well valid on StackOverflow because more developers would have encountered the type of issue encountered in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like an overlapping question to me. What does the community think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:50:02.183" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:50:02.183" Title="Are some questions better served on stackoverflow or serverfault?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:30:02.830" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;couple of weeks ago I created a very simple Stackoverflow iGoogle Gadget. If anyone's interested, here's the URL for adding it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&amp;amp;url=files.getdropbox.com%2Fu%2F10936%2FgadgetHosting%2FstackoverflowProfile%2Fprod%2Fstackoverflow.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;click&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are welcome :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130634" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:49:35.473" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:49:35.473" Title="Stackoverflow iGoogle Gadget" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3823" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:36:35.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a tricky one; until you know what was wrong, it is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;hard to know&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; whether it is a server or development issue. Either (or both) may be the case. And if we knew the problem already we probably wouldn't be asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a narrow set of cases, though. As long as the question explains &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; it is relevant to the given site (i.e. there is a reason to suspect server and/or development, I can't see a problem with it being on either (or even both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T10:36:35.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:47:37.830" Score="7" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, a question was asked on SO and the user who posted it also posted two answers. Both the question and answers gained both up and down votes. In total, he gained (according to his profile) 120 rep points and lost 22 rep points. The question was then subsequently closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;. This means that in the 4 minutes the question was open, the user gained almost 100 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that because upvotes can significantly outweigh downvotes, there is no real dis-incentive to posting junk questions that will almost certainly be closed a short time later, but in the meantime will gain a user potentially significant reputation, especially so if they also add answers to their own question which get votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this problem be tackled in some way? Perhaps when a question is closed (only as spam/not a question?), any positive reputation is recalculated to give it a lesser (or even no) weight?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:49:13.613" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:49:13.613" Title="Dis-incentive to ask questions that will get closed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:54:03.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not a &lt;strong&gt;hybrid model&lt;/strong&gt;? Open Source for &lt;em&gt;people that won't pay anyway&lt;/em&gt;, like non-commercial entities, open source projects, etc, and only make enterprises pay with a clause in the open source licence that explicitly disallows commercial use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will get the best advantages from both worlds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T10:54:03.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T10:54:03.980" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:56:28.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that that rep idea would work - why wouldn't everyone just post &quot;expert&quot; questions so that they can get more rep for the question (or for answers that they post) and to help others get more rep quickly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T10:56:28.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3828" CreationDate="2009-07-09T10:58:41.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't reputation hunting irrelevant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T10:58:41.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3828" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:00:22.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But if it was truly a junk question, it wouldn't get any upvotes would it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question on StackOverflow that I thought was valid. Within moments of asking it, two people favorited it, two people upvoted it, and two people provided serious thoughtful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So obviously I wasn't alone in thinking it was a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was then closed about 10 minutes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, it only takes the opinion of a few people with high reputations to close a question without having to give any specific reasons why - that's hardly a fair debate about the validity of a question...so why punish people further for asking questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastEditorUserId="130625" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T11:08:38.117" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:08:38.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3823" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:13:49.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your not sure you could either post it on the one you think is most applicable and if you don't get an answer post it on the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first instance make it clear that you're not 100% sure which site the question should be on and explain why you think &quot;this&quot; site is most appropriate. In the second case explain that you have already posted it on the &quot;other&quot; site. I'd link the questions so hopefully it won't get closed as &quot;belongs on SO/SF&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:13:49.523" />
  <row Id="3834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3828" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:15:24.940" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been asked before (as far as the losing rep on closed/deleted questions is concerned) and I've never seen any sort of real resolution about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't necessarily mind seeing the positive rep that was originally accrued get eliminated once the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:15:24.940" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3806" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:17:32.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/54680.json&quot;&gt;There is a JSON option&lt;/a&gt;. You could build a vertical-rep bar from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:17:32.973" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3824" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:17:54.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added it and put in my UserName but it got stuck on &quot;Loading...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was also kind of wondering why there wasn't any sort of authentication going on. If I wanted to, I could have my very own Jon Skeet stalker rep-stalker gadget on my page. Overall I don't think this is major.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T11:45:33.737" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:45:33.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3823" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:22:43.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something as broad as &quot;IIS7&quot; is hard to judge because there are specific parts of IIS which could be asked on either site. If you are having problems with setup, installation, and maintenance, that would obviously lean more towards ServerFault. If you have an issue with getting it working for serving up a website, sounds more like StackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly it should just be a judgment call and you go from there. If a good deal of the community feels that it is in the wrong spot, they probably won't hesitate to tell you about the error of your ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:22:43.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:26:11.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3024/what-ways-have-you-seen-the-so-engine-gamed/3028#3028&quot;&gt;a bit of a grumble&lt;/a&gt; about this earlier.  I'm OK with it now, as long as you make it clear what you're doing, and seriously think about making it a community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:26:11.607" />
  <row Id="3839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3814" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:27:10.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could be a feature that would be useful in a more sweeping change to the favorites page. It seems right now to me personally that the favorite page has a lot of things in which it could be improved upon to make it something that I and others would get more use out of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:27:10.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:30:19.450" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this for much the same reason as a_m0d. ChrisF commented on his post and said that if someone did that (posted everything under the wrong difficulty rating) then people would downvote it, but I do not agree with this. You are introducing an opportunity for people to get downvoted based on the difficulty level, not the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:30:19.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:34:38.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community is not just about you. Once you make a post, you have added your question or answer into the vast knowledge bank that is StackOverflow (or one of it's sister sites) this information is supposed to stick around so that the same questions don't have to get posted every week and people can answer their own questions by seeing what came before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:34:38.737" />
  <row Id="3842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:35:36.180" Score="0" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been reading a bit about the database structure of stackoverflow and I just want to know how do you see if the user has voted for the question he is viewing? Where is that saved? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8715" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:48:45.090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:48:45.090" Title="voting database structure" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="3843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:39:17.343" Score="4" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have heard about vote frauds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By which criteria a vote is declared as fraud?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How we can find out these sorts of activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the consequences of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I am visiting a user's profile and listing his questions and answers and I decide to up vote many of his answers because I find them useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will this also be considered as abnormal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:48:29.933" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:48:29.933" Title="What is a vote fraud?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voter-fraud&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3843" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:44:08.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact criteria should remain private for obvious reasons, as should the methods of discovery. But a typical scenario is having two accounts and up-voting yourself from the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible consequences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cancellation of votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deletion of one or more accounts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possible suspension of the remaining account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vote Fraud and You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More Voting Anomalies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:44:08.827" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3843" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:44:44.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's kind of hard to say exactly what vote fraud is other than &quot;votes that were gained undeservedly&quot; such as when someone will go and vote everything from a user up or down regardless of the content of the question or answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system already has an algorithm in place that does a pretty good job detecting irregular voting patterns. When something of the sort has been detected, it will inform the appropriate entity, and a rep recalc will likely be triggered on the voter and the recipients to make sure things are leveled out to the most accurate terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequences for repeated infractions can include penalty boxing and banning, I would assume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:44:44.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3859" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:47:36.687" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, the number of questions and users has grown significantly.  So much so that if I want to look at pages further down the line, I can only show 50 questions per page, and the page advancers only move up to 2 pages at a time.  I am working if there will be a goto page option, or increase the number of questions per page, or increase the amount you can click to (by like 10 pages or so)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130437" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:48:09.660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:48:09.660" Title="Is it time to change the page advance system?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3849" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:47:56.047" Score="2" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1103326/want-to-find-out-total-number-of-results-returing-from-mysql&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; this morning about how to get the number of rows returned from a mysql query in PHP. Relatively easy question, so I wasn't amazed when Paolo Bergantino left a comment that he was working on getting his answer in when I got mine in. Fair game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the front page of SO, the question was advertised as having 2 answers, the second from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24208&quot;&gt;Adam Plumb&lt;/a&gt;. But when you go into the question...there's only my answer. When you go to Adam's profile, his recent tab doesn't show that he answered this question. The front page, however, still says he answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming he answered it, but saw that I had already given the same answer. When this happened, he deleted his answer and up-voted mine, likely. Should the front page still contain his answer with the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T15:13:05.043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T15:13:05.043" Title="SO tells you who deleted their answers...maybe?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;cache&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3848" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:49:12.437" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect the front page was a caching issue. For performance reasons many of the numbers you see (vote counts / etc against posts; article counts against tags; etc) are heavily cached and re-used - so may be a minute or so out of date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm; yes, he deleted it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:49:12.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3856" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:52:19.417" Score="1" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I participate in the Stack Overflow testing team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T19:04:09.963" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T19:04:09.963" Title="Can I join Stack Overflow's testing team?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;testing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3847" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:54:04.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;em&gt;go to page&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=1&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=1&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just edit the &lt;code&gt;page&lt;/code&gt; value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:54:04.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3850" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:55:05.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Invitation, likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Invitations would logically be based on experience testing/developing software/websites, activity within the community itself, familiarity with SO and how it operates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, with SO having three (soon to be four) personalities, so much testing has already taken place. The &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; for more testing shrinks with each passing day. The system is stabilizing, and the community has become the prominent testing-force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T18:58:16.367" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T18:58:16.367" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3850" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:58:00.900" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What specific testing? The product is now long out of private beta... there are the site-specific betas, which mainly require you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/server-fault-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;turn up&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also seen at least one feature arrive here on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;MSO&lt;/a&gt; ahead of the other sites; so maybe &quot;look carefully here&quot;; but there usually is no trumpet... you might also watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, most testing is internal to the team AFAIK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:58:00.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2009-07-09T11:58:51.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure they keep userid's, with questionid's together within the vote-table. If a simple select turns up a record, that user has voted on that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A typical voting-table may look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user_id (5283)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question_id (12839)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote_date (2009-07-10 08:52:23)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote_value (1, -1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data-dump&lt;/a&gt; contains an XML file of votes that can give you  some more insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T11:58:51.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3843" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:03:42.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example of vote fraud: this morning, I received 15 votes on Meta within about half an hour. Each was for a different answer. I mailed team@stackoverflow.com who checked and found out that yes, it was one person voting for everything with my name on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those votes were then cancelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is basically the scenario you describe in your question. I don't know the exact algorithm used, but such behaviour would be deemed suspicious at least, when manually checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T12:03:42.147" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3850" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:04:02.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think you are seeing lots of bugs then post them here. Someone will look into it and post a response, usually fairly quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure you include all the details - operating system, browser etc and include screen shots if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T12:04:02.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3862" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:12:28.327" Score="3" ViewCount="845" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the reason for stack overflow got named as like this . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think stack over flow is not only concept in programming . There might be some reason for name  for this Questions Answers  forum &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How SO is running ( financially support ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:18:38.163" Title="Name Reason for stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;so-name&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3857" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:14:16.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's witty...and appropriate. I mean, we're talking about tens of thousands of developers pouring their thousands of years of collective-experience into a single resevoir...whoa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In software, a stack overflow occurs when too much memory is used on the call stack. In many programming languages, the call stack contains a limited amount of memory, usually determined at the start of the program. The size of the call stack depends on many factors, including the programming language, machine architecture, multi-threading, and amount of available memory. When too much memory is used on the call stack the stack is said to overflow; typically resulting in a program crash. This class of software bug is usually caused by one of two types of programming errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T12:14:16.930" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3847" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:17:23.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see why this would look almost like an oversight during the initial design period. Jonathan did show that it was possible to skip around via the url, but I don't think it would be too much to ask to have a page number selector in the page listing either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T12:17:23.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3857" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:39:17.633" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was actually decided upon by reader's of Jeff's blog.  There was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001095.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;naming contest&lt;/a&gt; and Stackoverflow was the winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is the name a specific programming error, but the general public has an idea of what a stack that is overflowing would look like (the general concept).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second question:  Stackoverflow is fully ad supported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T16:18:38.163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:18:38.163" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3867" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:55:01.603" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1573/whats-the-use-of-the-featured-question-tab-in-meta-if-there-are-no-bounties&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s the use of the Featured question tab in Meta, if there are no bounties?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No bounties means no featured items?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:42:44.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:42:44.417" ClosedDate="2009-07-09T13:06:43.007" Title="Should the &quot;Featured&quot; Tab be Removed from MetaSO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;featured-tab&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3863" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:56:33.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are no bounties, then yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T12:56:33.993" />
  <row Id="3865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:56:36.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The data dump is pretty anonymous in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can not tell which questions a user looked at, or when.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can not tell who voted for which question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that info was published I would imagine some people would take on vendettas (since you could possibly extrapolate voting patterns from question views). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T12:56:36.480" />
  <row Id="3866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:58:25.057" Score="0" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same as the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T09:56:17.777" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T09:56:17.777" Title="Why an answer marked as community wiki cannot be changed back to a normal post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3863" CreationDate="2009-07-09T12:59:37.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are no bounties and never going to &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt; any bounties then it would make sense for it to not be there... on the other hand, if removing it is going to take time away from other features, I don't think it's actually doing significant harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see bounties taking on some meaning on Meta eventually. I've suggested before that it might be a way of a user (or collection of users, if eventually bounties can be contributed by onlookers) expressing a really high level of desire for a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T12:59:37.797" />
  <row Id="3870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3866" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:01:55.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent gaming. I do think there are some exceptional cases where it is fair for a question or answer to go back to normal mode. Perhaps the moderators need that power. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T13:01:55.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3828" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:13:14.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think any dis-incentive to asking questions on this site is a terrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is meant to foster easy asking and answering of questions.  A dis-incentive would completely undermine that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have closing and deletion of questions, that is good enough IMO.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation is not the main point of the site.  Keeping people who don't deserve it from earning it should never take precedence over the actual functionality of the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T13:13:14.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:19:27.130" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that someone is asking the question implies &quot;expert&quot; automatically almost. They don't know: so they ask...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thought:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are long, hard to read, badly posed questions with short answers, and very short questions with difficult answers because OP does not realise how damn difficult it could be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the proposal...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T13:19:27.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3866" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:23:05.867" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's about gaming.  A community wiki post is one that belongs to the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt;.  It doesn't matter if it got that way by the number of edits, or by the OP &quot;donating&quot; it to the community by checking the box manually, it's still community owned.  It would seem rude to me for an individual to take back something that was owned by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can still see the need for it if the box was checked accidentally.  In this case I think it should be possible to uncheck the box within the initial 5-minute edit &quot;grace period&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T13:23:05.867" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="3876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3360" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:30:27.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To replace the user's gravatar with a random gravatar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var randHash = &quot;&quot;;&#xA;for(var i = 0; i &amp;lt; 4; i++)&#xA;  randHash += Math.floor(Math.random()*0x100000000).toString(16);&#xA;$(&quot;.user-gravatar32&amp;gt;a[href*='&quot;+this.replace(/\s/g,&quot;-&quot;).toLowerCase()+&quot;']&amp;gt;img&quot;)&#xA;  .attr(&quot;src&quot;, &quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/&quot;+randHash+&quot;?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That of course goes inside the &lt;code&gt;$.each&lt;/code&gt; loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T01:56:33.887" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T01:56:33.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T13:30:27.387" />
  <row Id="3877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:35:10.203" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within limits, aren't the people asking the questions the ones &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; likely to know the difficulty of the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T13:35:10.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:52:35.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Revisionist&lt;/strong&gt; - Based on the ratio of posts to edits for the original author of a post. The higher the number of edits, the closer to the badge you get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Perfectionist&lt;/strong&gt; - Based on the ratio of posts to edits by anyone, including the original author. The lower the number of edits, the closer to the badge you get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know where the badge threshold would lie for these, but I think they would encourage better quality in posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T13:52:35.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T13:52:35.330" />
  <row Id="3881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2009-07-09T13:53:17.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it would be better if the people answering the question rated the question. That way the average answer could be given. Of course it would have to be after a set number of responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T13:53:17.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3802" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:00:51.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, in situations like this, I think people should be able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3721/optional-anonymity-to-hide-ignorance/3724#3724&quot;&gt;disown&lt;/a&gt; their questions. This way they're effectively deleted from the point of view of the poster, but the question is still in the system for those that spent time to contribute good answers (and got upvotes/accepted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:00:51.250" />
  <row Id="3883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:06:18.527" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the day, I was able to use the greater than and less than symbols in my &quot;Location&quot; profile field... it looks like it's being scrubbed now, but &amp;amp;gt; and &amp;amp;lt; doesn't yield the symbols either.  Has anyone figured out how to get these characters into the field?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add context to this, my location (yes, it's for fun) on SO and MSO is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Milky Way&gt;Solar System&gt;Earth&gt;North America&gt;U.S.A&gt;Ohio&gt;Columbus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On ServerFault, it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Milky WaySolar SystemEarthNorth AmericaU.S.AOhioColumbus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could figure out an alternative, but I'm feeling intellectually lazy at the moment, and I'm also curious about there being a way to accomplish this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7643" LastEditorUserId="7643" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T18:53:26.327" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T11:59:59.610" Title="Greater Than and Less Than not supported in location field of profile" Tags="&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3885" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:09:20.190" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I ask Flash CS4 and Action Script programming related questions at StackOverflow.com ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45261" LastEditorUserId="45261" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T12:13:58.430" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T12:13:58.430" Title="Flash and Action Script Questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="3885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3884" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:11:00.707" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why not - it's all programming. Has anyone suggested you shouldn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/actionscript3&quot;&gt;actionscript3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/actionscript&quot;&gt;actionscript&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash&quot;&gt;flash&lt;/a&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:11:00.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3884" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:12:57.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People ask AS questions all the time on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:12:57.297" />
  <row Id="3887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3883" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:18:41.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the use-case here? Do you have an example location you want to use but can't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:18:41.780" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3360" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:24:20.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel it is the place of moderators to punish those who misuse the site and while you have every right to control what appears on your computer screen, I feel that it breaks the point of the site if you are able to block content from specific contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:24:20.547" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T14:24:20.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:28:32.543" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that would be useful would be to have an RSS feed of whenever a question has a bounty put on it and when that question is decided. This would be a good way of featuring such questions and probably wouldn't be too noisy either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T09:29:39.057" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T09:30:04.937" Title="Please add an RSS feed of bounty questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3908" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:30:30.493" Score="2" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow and Server Fault, question voting (in my opinion) relates to the relevance of a question, as in, &quot;Will anyone else struggle with this? Have I struggled with this?&quot;. However, on meta, I feel that it can also mean &quot;Is this a good idea?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3866/why-an-answer-marked-as-community-wiki-cannot-be-changed-back-to-a-normal-post&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, I think those are at odds with one another as I feel the question is one that others may well want the answer to although the idea is not a good one (in my opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Meta is to replace User Voice, do we need a second &quot;Good Idea&quot; voting mechanism? Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;This is intended to discuss voting on Questions as opposed to the answers to questions. It has been proposed that Meta replace UserVoice as the way ideas/bugs etc. are suggested for the SO-family of sites. I feel that unless the question voting is standardised, this may not be feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:22:04.357" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:22:04.357" Title="How is question voting intended on meta? Can Meta really replace UserVoice?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3828" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:31:34.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's closed. In two days, it can be deleted. Eventually, that reputation will go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If necessary, flag for moderator review... they can merge or delete the question immediately. (though the reputation will still persist until a recalc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:31:34.323" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:31:55.953" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on the question. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Some of them&lt;/a&gt; are a call for suggestions where we vote on our favorites. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3866/why-an-answer-marked-as-community-wiki-cannot-be-changed-back-to-a-normal-post&quot;&gt;Some of them&lt;/a&gt; are questions about how SO works where we can actually answer, so you vote on the one that best answers the question (Jeff usually wins). &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3811/how-about-a-difficulty-rating-for-questions&quot;&gt;Some of them&lt;/a&gt; are suggestions where we discuss what the heck should be done and we vote on the best argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.-All links at random from the top of the front page...so as you can see, there are plenty of all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:31:55.953" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3814" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:34:34.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better yet, just edit questions with poor / vague titles and give them good, descriptive titles. Maybe clean up the tags a bit while you're there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:34:34.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:41:35.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have approached voting (as far as how to receive upvotes) as this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you say something that someone else agrees with or likes, they will upvote (or at least not down vote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you say something that someone disagrees with or finds is inappropriate for meta, they will downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:41:35.133" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12923" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:44:43.903" Score="5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want whenever I'll open my profile my asked and answered questions should be sorted &quot;Recent&quot; by default, it is currently sorted on the basis of VOTES.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything I can do this, or this is a pending feature from SO :) If its pending then I request SO team to add this whenever possible :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45261" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T03:10:22.133" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:10:22.133" Title="How to make &quot;recent&quot; activity by default?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:45:17.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On questions labeled &quot;feature-request&quot; or that are suggesting a feature, I believe voting should display your interest in the feature. Additionally, an answer can be provided to express any additional thoughts you have on the topic that might be meaningful to others considering the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most other questions (how does feature x work? is this a bug? why did this happen?), I would treat voting similar to how you stated voting on SO and SF. Is the question well stated? Is it potentially helpful to others? etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:45:17.463" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3896" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:49:07.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I don't see any problem with this as a request, I do not see any real pressing need why it should be ASAP. I don't think hitting the preferred sort style every time you view the page is too much of a difficulty right now that can't wait for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T14:49:07.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T14:57:43.043" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a privacy concern.  I should be able to prevent other people from viewing my profile.  A couple options that I should have...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only members of the site that are logged in can view my profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only members with at least ____ points can view my profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My profile is not made public at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasoning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't want random users/visitors stalking me and tracking what I do on this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question/answer that I made could easily, in the future, come back to haunt me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's my right&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, I should be able to hide certain sections of my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130648" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:20:18.790" Title="Protect/Disable my Profile" Tags="&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3901" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:01:01.423" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't want random users/visitors stalking me and tracking what I do on this site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question/answer that I made could easily, in the future, come back to haunt me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So post anonymously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's my right&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No it's not.  Using the site is a privilege granted upon (very few) conditions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the very least, I should be able to hide certain sections of my profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What sections would you want to hide?  And why would you fill in that information just to hide it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want people finding out information about you, don't provide the information.  The site has an extremely low barrier to entry, and doesn't really require anything for you to use.  It's perfectly valid for you to use it without providing any sort of information, or using fraudulent (but not illegally obtained) information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:01:01.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3901" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:03:47.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we as a society have a really screwed up ability to differentiate between rights and privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:03:47.587" />
  <row Id="3904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3901" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:04:02.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a social networking site. If you don't want people seeing things about you, just don't put anything there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:04:02.297" />
  <row Id="3905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:06:46.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote based on whether I like your avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:06:46.203" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3901" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:06:52.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at your profile, it tells me absolutely nothing, because you didn't fill in any information. It looks like you already have your solution for privacy and anonymity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:06:52.510" />
  <row Id="3907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3909" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:07:08.033" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this phrase used a few times and while I understand the connotation that these users think that it is easier to reopen a question than to close it, what I don't understand is why they think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could people who believe a question favors either status explain how the mechanisms of the site cause this. Understanding this might even change some thoughts about what to do about the closing system, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:15:24.170" Title="What does it mean that a question &quot;skews towards reopen&quot;?" Tags="&lt;reopen-closed&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="3908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:10:20.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was working on the assumption that voting on questions was read as one of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm having this problem too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think this would be a good feature to implement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and that voting on answers was basically the same as on SO/SF:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This answer provides useful information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now whether that's answering a question on how something works, or suggesting a mechanism for implementing a feature is, by and large, immaterial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:10:20.433" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3907" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:10:38.970" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question requires the same number of votes to close as to re-open, but there are two factors that skew the system in favor of open rather than close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions start out open. So with an equal number of people voting to open and to close, the question will stay open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions can be voted open by their original author (who presumably &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; it open, else why post it?) - this effectively gives him two open votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; a bad thing, but it's worth keeping in mind when discussing the closing feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:10:38.970" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3907" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:15:24.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I discussed this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/629340/why-is-there-a-double-standard-regarding-non-programming-related-questions-at-so/631677#631677&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (It makes more sense to link to it than it does to re-paste it; though that should be ported over to meta.stackoverflow.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:15:24.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3916" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:21:47.980" Score="5" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, I think there is a flaw in the reputation system.  Say there is a user who is not the most technical and are on the site mostly to learn, but is highly enthusiastic about the community.  It seems the only way to become apart if the community here is to gain reputation points.  The problem comes from the fact that the only good way on gaining reputation points is to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a way for these users to gain points slowly somehow (i.e. Gain 1-2 point per day they vist the site)?  Or should the SO community be only made of those that are technical and can answer questions with great explanations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a student that has been programming in Java and various other languages for a couple years now, but I find myself being dwarfed by other users that seem to know every intricacy of these languages.  This is great for learning but I don't see a way for me to ever become apart of the community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:42:48.070" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T04:42:48.070" Title="The problem with noobs and reputation points" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3921" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:22:17.807" Score="41" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about anyone else but I have a reasonable list of favourites now and it can be rather difficult to find the relevant ones at any given time. Sometimes, I have a specific one in mind, others I just want to see all favourites relating to a specific topic. It would be nice if there were a way to organise my favourites by tag, or OP, or possibly just search them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we improve the favourites feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your ideas on how we might improve the favourites feature of the SO sites. Try to keep each answer to one idea so that the votes reflect the popularity of a single idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="23234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T12:37:22.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:37:22.510" Title="Better Favourites Organisation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="3913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3896" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:24:30.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Auto-sort Profile Questions by Date...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following greasemonkey-script will auto-sort profile-questions by date (giving most recent first)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    if ($(&quot;.tabs-question-user a:eq(3)&quot;).html() == &quot;recent&quot;) {&#xA;    	$.post($(&quot;.tabs-question-user a:eq(3)&quot;).attr(&quot;href&quot;), function(data){&#xA;    		$(&quot;#questions-table&quot;).html(data);&#xA;    	});&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T15:54:32.157" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:54:32.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3911" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:26:53.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of it as an invitation to learn. Pick a question that interests you, and research the answer. Maybe you'll come back and find out that the answer you were going to post has already been provided - no worries, you still learned something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to learn is to ask questions. Get good at it, and you can accumulate rep that way too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:26:53.233" />
  <row Id="3916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3911" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:27:21.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of user's who have gained a fair amount of reputation solely from asking questions, lots and lots of questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39677/blankman&quot;&gt;one example&lt;/a&gt; from a quick search through recent question in c# tag). Additionally, I know for me personally, my involvement in the site has nothing to do with the features exposed by gaining more rep. Certainly I am interesting in increasing my rep, but I don't do a lot of editing or any of those features that are now available to me. I enjoy trying to answer questions and reading good questions and answers to learn new things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:27:21.137" />
  <row Id="3917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3911" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:27:55.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why should you get a good reputation for doing nothing? So you think that my doctor's reputation should grow when he doesn't actually practise medicine? That makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is there to encourage participation and to reflect (to some extent) a users ability, knowledge, and discipline. Just handing it out for being there seems to go against that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:27:55.840" />
  <row Id="3918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3911" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:28:38.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a professional software developer for 26 years now and I still don't know every intricacy of languages I'm supposed to be an &quot;expert&quot; in &amp;amp; I struggle to answer some of the questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just keep persevering reading questions looking for ones you can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about questions you want to ask. I've gained more reputation on Meta from asking questions than I have answering them (or at least I did in the first week). This will give you enough reputation to participate a little more and gradually gain the more reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, don't worry about it. Just use the site as a place to ask questions or search for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:28:38.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:30:39.463" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend and I were discussing the MVP vs. MVC pattern the other day (mainly in terms of &quot;we don't know what MVP is and how it differs from MVC) and i found the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2056/what-are-mvp-and-mvc-and-what-is-the-difference&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SO discussing this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I'm more than capable of opening an email client, pasting the link in, typing a subject and hitting send, I do think it would be nice to have an &quot;email this to a friend&quot; functionality like pretty much every news site on the Internet does. Maybe even a dead simple one like just typing in an email address, hitting send, and not even leaving the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else agree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2577" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:35:05.913" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T21:30:16.120" Title="Please add the ability to email questions and answers to friends" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="3921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3912" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:32:16.217" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Provide the ability to view favourites by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:32:16.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3912" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:32:49.863" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Provide a search feature for searching favourites (could be just in the favourites page or as part of the main search).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:32:49.863" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3919" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:34:15.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every feature has a cost associated to developing it, even &quot;simple&quot; features. So there always has to be a value added or cost benefit analysis. With this feature, I'm just not sure the value added would be worth the development/maintenance costs and added clutter to the UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:34:15.757" />
  <row Id="3924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3912" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:34:26.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Provide a way to annotate favourites and maybe even tag them (like labelling &lt;strike&gt;your GMail&lt;/strike&gt; a popular online e-mail service provides).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="23234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T15:42:01.017" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:42:01.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:34:26.987" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unable to find questions you can answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that one of the problems that I face is that I feel unable to contribute back. I can become overwhelmed by all the questions on the site that I am unable to answer, and when I do spot a question I can answer, there are already a half dozen answers with at least one of them superior to what I could have written. This can be discouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how to resolve this issue though. Ideas anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:34:26.987" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3953" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:35:36.967" Score="3" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great if there was a way that we could associate our accounts with Twitter and when viewing questions and answers, could &quot;tweet&quot; it automagically.  I know that there have been times that my question was not very straight forward and someone from twitterville actually came in and answered it for me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would essentially be a one way form of communication, maybe a button in each post that would allow you to tweet the post's link with a brief text input (obviously keeping the entire post to under 140 characters)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;you can argue that SO is not a social networking site, but that does not imply that there is no value or utility to be had there by some form of integration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T15:43:00.157" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:43:00.157" Title="Tweet question and answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3912" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:37:34.707" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A way to single out questions that were favorited because of a specific answer to the question.  Perhaps this could be covered by annotations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:37:34.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3919" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:37:44.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does seem like SO doesn't have a lot of standard tools that other sites have, but I think this is not necessarily a bad thing.  It gives SO a nice clean feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I do agree I would like to see some of these tools available (see my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3932/feature-request-spell-checker&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt; for a spell checker), but I also would like SO to keep this clean look and feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastEditorUserId="130385" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T15:52:51.580" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:52:51.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3940" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:40:13.323" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's two examples (note that in first example, backticks also had no effect, for some reason):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;include/db.php&lt;/code&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;try {&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    $attribs =  &#xA;            array(&#xA;                    PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT =&amp;gt; $config['db']['persistent'],&#xA;                    PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE =&amp;gt; $config['db']['errormode']&#xA;            );&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$db = new PDO(&#xA;        $config['db']['uri'],&#xA;        $config['db']['user'],&#xA;        $config['db']['pass'],&#xA;        $attribs&#xA;);&#xA;$db-&amp;amp;gt;query(&quot;SET NAMES 'utf8'&quot;);&#xA;$db-&amp;amp;gt;query(&quot;SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;} catch (PDOException $e) {&#xA;        print &quot;Error!: &quot; . $e-&gt;getMessage() . &quot;&lt;br/&gt;&quot;;&#xA;        die();&#xA;}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;function dbGetEngine() {&#xA;        global $config;&#xA;        return substr($config['db']['uri'], 0, strpos($config['db']['uri'], ':'));&#xA;}&#xA;?&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;include/config.php&lt;/code&gt;:&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;//$config['db']['uri'] = 'sqlite:' . realpath('.') . '/site.db'; // PDO's database access URI&#xA;$config['db']['uri'] = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=sitedb'; // server should be : 195.78.32.7&#xA;//$config['db']['uri'] = 'pgsql:host=localhost;dbname=sitedb';&#xA;$config['db']['user'] = 'user_goes_here'; // database username&#xA;$config['db']['pass'] = 'pass_goes_here'; // database password&#xA;$config['db']['persistent'] = false; // should the connection be persistent&#xA;$config['db']['errormode'] = PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION; // PDO's error mode&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gets worse, try adding space prior to the asterisk :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just removing the asterisk fixes stuff up. Thing is, I believe it looks nicer with the asterisk ... and it's definitely a bug :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39974" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T08:44:41.563" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T08:44:41.563" Title="List entry followed by code block messes up the code section" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:43:58.583" Score="3" ViewCount="463" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to see a built in spell checker into the main text-panel for posts.  Every time I post here or SO I quickly open up gmail paste my post there, and use its spell checker to make sure I didn't make any stupid mistakes.  I know other services have these types of features and it would be nice to see SO have one as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agree/Disagree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW I found 2 small mistakes for this short post)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I know I made a comment about this on ChrisF's answer but I thought that I should also mention it here in the question.  I know there are many third party tools to add spell checker functionality to SO.  But some (if not many) people out there do not have these tools. They are either at work (like me), or some other place where they using a machine that is not owned by them, or they aren't power users and just don't have these tools installed.  If StackExchange becomes used for other non-technical sites, then you will probably have to count on the fact that people are using IE6 or something just as bad.  That's why it would just be nice to have a built-in spelling tool. Again may not be worth it, but I think it would be interesting to discuss at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-06T18:23:16.243" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T18:23:26.660" Title="Please add a spell checker to the markdown editor" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="3934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:46:39.863" Score="10" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;p&gt;As every programmer, I ] need my ][ square ] brackets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the moment, I have to switch to US layout in order to type them on StackOverflow. Since Croatia is not a big country, it's not all that important... except Hungarian layout also has square brackets in same place: -[- AltGr+F and -]- AltGr+G.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the underlying software thinks I'm holding Ctrl when I'm in fact holding AltGr... which is not the same :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS StackOverflow is not the only one, this is a rare, but sufficiently common problem: Code::Blocks is mapping AltGr+F as one of its shortcuts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39974" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T08:10:45.627" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T08:10:45.627" Title="Minor bug: Croatian keyboard layout's ] combo (AltGr+G) results in Insert Image dialog" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3932" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:47:00.487" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which browser to you use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Firefox and Chrome have spell-checkers either built in or as extensions which I (have) to use. Incorrect words get highlighted with a red underline and the context menu provides the correct spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I've done a quick search and there's an extension for IE called ieSpell, but it hasn't been updated since 2006 so I don't know whether it works with IE 8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't mean to imply that the SO team shouldn't implement a spell checker because certain browsers support one natively or relatively easily through extensions/plugins. Though if they do they'll have to ensure it can cope with both US and &quot;proper&quot; English ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to point out that there were existing possibilities that Eric might have missed for whatever reason. I know that I've learnt things that were obvious to others and they were surprised I didn't know what they knew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T16:25:25.847" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:25:25.847" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4843" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:47:31.923" Score="10" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems a lot of questions on Meta Stack Overflow are being prefaced by &quot;Feature Request:&quot; or &quot;Bug:&quot;. Should this title labeling be done, or is a duplication of the tagging system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-21T12:25:08.100" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T12:25:08.100" Title="Should meta use Tags and Title Labels?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3936" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:48:33.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are tags for bug and feature-request. And they are used by Jeff and the mods. I think the rest is just for convenience or to highlight the issue at hand&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:48:33.600" />
  <row Id="3940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3930" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:49:04.653" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to embed code in a list, you'll need to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3792/how-to-nest-code-within-a-list-using-markdown&quot;&gt;precede it with 8 spaces&lt;/a&gt; instead of the usual 4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;include/db.php&lt;/code&gt;:&#xA;    &#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;try {&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    $attribs =  &#xA;            array(&#xA;                    PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT =&amp;amp;gt; $config['db']['persistent'],&#xA;                    PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE =&amp;amp;gt; $config['db']['errormode']&#xA;            );&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    $db = new PDO(&#xA;            $config['db']['uri'],&#xA;            $config['db']['user'],&#xA;            $config['db']['pass'],&#xA;            $attribs&#xA;    );&#xA;    $db-&amp;amp;gt;query(&quot;SET NAMES 'utf8'&quot;);&#xA;    $db-&amp;amp;gt;query(&quot;SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;} catch (PDOException $e) {&#xA;        print &quot;Error!: &quot; . $e-&amp;gt;getMessage() . &quot;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;        die();&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;function dbGetEngine() {&#xA;        global $config;&#xA;        return substr($config['db']['uri'], 0, strpos($config['db']['uri'], ':'));&#xA;}&#xA;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;include/config.php&lt;/code&gt;:&#xA;    &#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;//$config['db']['uri'] = 'sqlite:' . realpath('.') . '/site.db'; // PDO's database access URI&#xA;$config['db']['uri'] = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=sitedb'; // server should be : 195.78.32.7&#xA;//$config['db']['uri'] = 'pgsql:host=localhost;dbname=sitedb';&#xA;$config['db']['user'] = 'user_goes_here'; // database username&#xA;$config['db']['pass'] = 'pass_goes_here'; // database password&#xA;$config['db']['persistent'] = false; // should the connection be persistent&#xA;$config['db']['errormode'] = PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION; // PDO's error mode&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:49:04.653" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3926" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:50:00.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this proposal, but I don't think it goes &lt;em&gt;far enough&lt;/em&gt;.  For those of us who don't tweet, it should be able to send emails to a list of contacts.  Maybe it should print out a letter and mail it to Donald Knuth, just in case he knows the answer.  Actually, is there a way the server could make my computer get up, walk down the hall, and ask someone else?  Because I'm just too lazy to do it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:50:00.370" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3926" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:51:28.170" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please no. SO.com is not a social networking site and it shouldn't be integrated with one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you insist on spamming your every SO.com interaction to a social network site, just copy and paste the link please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is so specific, why not just add this to a greasemonkey script for (very) limited number of people who might make use of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T16:07:39.490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:07:39.490" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="3943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3936" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:52:44.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to preface a title like that because I think people use the title to work out how to vote and respond on a question, rather than the tags. The tags are a search convenience and I don't think most users review them before voting or providing comments and answers. The question content and its title are the most important when trying to garner responses, not the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:52:44.493" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2148" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:53:13.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please introduce such a preference - browsing the answers is currently a pain at times. If you are not interested in an answer you are not interested in the comments to that answer. So if there are many uninteresting answers or many answers you have already seen, it is now quite hard to find the interesting ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose two more ideas to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The preference should not be whether comments are shown or hidden, but the number of comments shown. So you can show 0, 5 or 20 per answer, as you like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There could be buttons &quot;show all comments&quot; (or perhaps show top 5 comments) / &quot;hide all comments&quot; for the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; as well. These buttons should apply to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers to the question at the same time. So you can have easy searchability even though your preference is to hide the comments. (Just click &quot;show all answers&quot; and search.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21499" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:53:13.737" />
  <row Id="3946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3365" CreationDate="2009-07-09T15:58:43.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wrote a script (greasemonkey) that will auto-sort questions by date for you: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3896/how-to-make-recent-activity-by-default/3913#3913&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3896/how-to-make-recent-activity-by-default/3913#3913&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T15:58:43.840" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="3948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3952" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:02:20.117" Score="4" ViewCount="501" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like the OpenID (since SO is one of the first sites I use that has it consistently implemented), but now I have about 5 accounts in varying degrees of answered questions. Is it possible to consolidate them into the primary OpenID that I am starting to use more and more as more sites are implementing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T19:08:59.270" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:08:59.270" Title="How do I consolidate my stackoverflow accounts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3813" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:03:44.677" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Listen to &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3792.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 18&lt;/a&gt;. Jeff is talking to Joel for the first time about the progress of the beta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff said there were about 3,000 people invited to the beta so far. At that point, 1,000 people had already answered a question with at least one up-vote (Teacher badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tone of the conversation was, at those levels, Stackoverflow was already successful (i.e. working) in that it was meeting the need for which it was designed; people ask questions and successfully receive answers. At that level, it was pretty obvious that it was declared &quot;a success.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a data point to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T17:02:02.640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:02:02.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3948" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:05:32.713" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com and they can merge your accounts for you. Be prepared to demonstrate ownership of your accounts (probably posting a comment or editing your About Me section).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:05:32.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3926" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:05:56.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly useful to some, but (IMHO) overly specific. What if i use Facebook, or LinkedIn, or a bit of custom PHP that builds a list into the sidebar of my cat blog - SO isn't gonna be able to build in equivalent features for &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'd rather see two enhancements that, combined, could accomplish the same thing, while opening the door to easy integration with other sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A feed for Favorites. Click the star next to a question, see it show up in your personal favorites feed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Twitter that allows unlimited characters in a single &quot;tweet&quot;, as well as proper formatting and such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With those two in place, you can use a small script to direct your Favorites feed into your Twitter account. Now whenever you &quot;Favorite&quot; something, you'd automatically &quot;Tweet&quot; it as well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:05:56.723" />
  <row Id="3956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3926" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:07:51.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda like this idea. You could have a 'Also publish my question to....(various well known places)' .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't change SO into a social networking site, all it's doing is pushing your question out to other places where folks may not have heard about SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this also benefits SO because you expose SO to a wider audience who may not have heard about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:07:51.977" />
  <row Id="3957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3998" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:08:15.893" Score="10" ViewCount="649" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/twitter-bird.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;em&gt;Tweet Tweet...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the title suggests, let's see you javascript-guru's break out the grease and integrate twitter. This is absolutely necessary because the community has a sharp division over what SO is, and is not. Some say twitter should be avoided because SO isn't a social-networking site, and yet many of us find twitter to be a part of our normal every-day life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Start your engines. And integrate &quot;Tweet This&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hello World:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/home?status=hello+world&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/home?status=hello+world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:30:22.057" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:42:26.850" Title="Integrate a &quot;Tweet this&quot; button with Greasemonkey" Tags="&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3960" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:13:03.573" Score="1" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://getsatisfaction.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;getsatisfaction.com&lt;/a&gt; a knowledge exchange competitor of hosted stackoverflow engine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DISCLAIMER: I have no professional/financial affiliation with getsatisfaction.com or stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32700" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T07:01:49.387" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T07:01:49.387" Title="Is getsatisfaction.com a competitor to hosted/general purpose SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3959" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:17:15.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GetSatisfaction is more centered around customer support for a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That meaning, you have people for the company there. And users can ask questions about the product the company has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see a great example of GetSatisfaction for &lt;a href=&quot;http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adobe's version of it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has features like what the mood of the users are in a said question and others that make it more support oriented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see where the resemblance is though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:17:15.753" />
  <row Id="3961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3959" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:18:04.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is more likely competition for Uservoice. It was even brought up on Uservoice that we should change to getsatisfaction from Uservoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:18:04.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3919" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:21:14.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh. Copy what's in the address bar and paste in email. Not that big of a chore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:21:14.900" />
  <row Id="3964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:23:16.080" Score="1" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that the launch of Stack Overflow was brilliant from both a business perspective and a technical perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having recently discovered the site, I was not present at the launch and the Spolsky blog and podcast don't seem to do the launch justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you summarize and explain the aspects of the SO launch that were brilliant? Which of these aspects can be copied by other startups?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:16:40.193" Title="How was Stack Overflow launched?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13282" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:25:08.797" Score="21" ViewCount="808" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw a question about a problem (or possible bug) with &lt;a href=&quot;http://subsonicproject.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;subsonic&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow. At first, I wanted to suggest that the asker post his question to the subsonic support forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When searching for the URL of that forum, I noticed that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://subsonicproject.com/docs/Questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;subsonic project&lt;/a&gt; closed its support forums and now advises users to post all their subsonic-related questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this within the intended use cases of Stack Overflow, or is this abuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19635" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-11T18:21:47.620" LastActivityDate="2011-04-17T21:05:30.757" Title="Is it okay to use Stack Overflow as the support forum for a product or project?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="3967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:26:08.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Open Sourcing SO is a horrible, horrible idea.  Please do not do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who plans to launch half a dozen SO sites as soon as I can, I want to pay you money.  Please let me do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:26:08.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T16:26:08.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3992" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:37:38.237" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an edit/close war do moderators have the ability to shut off those functions to non-moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It hardly seems right for a question to be locked because it gets in a close war but deserves to be open (let's pretend there's a large group of people who all of a sudden dislike Java questions). The question is perfectly good and valid, but now no one can vote or answer on it because it was the recipient of undue attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be a useful feature for moderators to have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:18:57.950" Title="Can moderators turn off vote closing?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="3973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:40:42.283" Score="16" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed when I was using SO and meta today that I was hoping back and forth between the two to see if I had any notifications on the other.  It would be cool/nice to see notifications pop-ups for other sites that you are registered under the same Open-ID.  The same could be said about the letter icon to the left of your name.  Maybe you could have multiple for each site your registered to, or turn red if something happens somewhere else as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just some more food for thought.  Anyone else have any ideas for something like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-06T03:49:54.037" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T03:49:54.037" Title="Please enable cross site notifications" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3966" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:44:11.913" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go against the grain here: I don't like it. It's one thing for SO to be a user-to-user forum so that fellow developers can help solve problems, but I don't think it's really appropriate for reporting bugs and making feature requests for technology vendors (whether open source contributors or companies) to reply to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to pin down exactly why I feel that way, but I think it's to do with the relationship between the users. On SO, the moderators are those who have proved themselves worthy in a general community sense. On a technology-specific forum, I'd expect the moderators to be associated with that technology. They should be able to close a feature request as &quot;declined&quot; (with a reason) or mark a bug as fixed, There's a level of power, responsibility and knowledge which has nothing to do with what the users are like in the more general terms of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine for SO to be one of the encouraged ways that users help to solve each other's problems, but I wouldn't want it to be the primary support forum for a technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Something I should have said before: I would view this as a good use of StackExchange - if a technology vendor (or whatever) wants to host a specific site for their technology, that would be great. I just don't really want to see feature requests and bugs for every API in the world on SO. (I'm fine with &quot;I think this might be a bug, but I'm not sure - what do you think?&quot; type questions though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I've just been speaking with Kevin Bourrillion of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Java Collections&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guava&lt;/a&gt; projects. He's recently announced that Stack Overflow should be used as &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the support mechanisms. From his &lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/group/google-collections-users/browse_thread/thread/9bc16709c9ad0bcf?pli=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mailing list post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where-to-post summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How do I?  --  StackOverflow! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I got this error, why?  --  StackOverflow! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I got this error and I'm sure it's a bug  --  file an issue! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I have an idea/request  --  file an issue! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why do you?  --  the mailing list! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;When will you?  --  the mailing list! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You suck and I hate you  --  contact us privately at me@glennbeck.com! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You're awesome  --  aw shucks!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sounds like exactly the right balance to me. Topics requiring &quot;deep&quot; knowledge and discussion are likely to be best on a specialist list - whereas questions which &quot;dabblers&quot; can answer easily would do well on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be fascinated to see the degree to which this becomes a standard practice - and whether it will be different for commercial products vs open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T22:08:18.913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T22:08:18.913" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:46:43.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Meta is good and necessary to answer questions that concern the Stackoverflow-Trilogy of Q&amp;amp;A Systems. But this is no replacement for UserVoice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no way to indicate just how bad you want a feature except posting obnoxious &quot;I want that feature too&quot; answers / comments, since you have only one vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The worst problem: People tend to post &quot;Mee too&quot; answers instead&#xA;of voting a feature-request question up, or vote on the answers&#xA;instead of the question. (See, for instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2148/preference-to-keep-comments-hidden-by-default/3944#3944&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.)&#xA;For example, there can be many upvotes on a particular answer that&#xA;descripes a feature, but almost no upvotes on the question that&#xA;poses the problem. So the votes on the feature-request question do&#xA;not carry much meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It might become clear to frequent users when a vote means &quot;I want&#xA;that feature&quot; and when it just means &quot;Well said&quot;, but it is not clear&#xA;to casual users. On UserVoice it was clear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no clear way to distinguish between actual questions, feature-requests and bug-reports. (That might change, though, if the Meta FAQ would define&#xA;tags &quot;bug&quot; and &quot;feature-request&quot; for this purposes.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: I think it would be better to keep UserVoice, or it would&#xA;be necessary to introduce a second voting mechanism like the one on &#xA;UserVoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21499" LastEditorUserId="21499" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T07:01:46.850" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T07:01:46.850" />
  <row Id="3977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:48:52.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also have one question page that accessed all the SO sites, with the questions all in their own color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:48:52.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3964" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:54:36.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Come up with idea for website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get bright minds together to make this website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Profit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T00:16:40.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:16:40.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:55:23.503" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1104958/apache-2-fails-to-start-after-upgrade-to-php-5-3-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO as &quot;belongs on serverfault&quot;.  The user had already taken the suggestion to &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/38434/apache-2-fails-to-start-after-upgrade-to-php-5-3&quot;&gt;ask the question in the correct forum&lt;/a&gt;, so unfortunately when I closed it, the automatic migration created &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/38441/apache-2-fails-to-start-after-upgrade-to-php-5-3&quot;&gt;a duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.  It would be nice if this migration wasn't automatic, particularly for moderators who can migrate questions manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the easiest solution in these rare cases where the question is already asked on SF is to simply close the question as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; to avoid the duplicate on SF, but I wanted to bring this to people's attention since it's a very quick and easy mistake to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T18:07:07.097" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T19:00:02.727" ClosedDate="2009-08-10T00:21:04.117" Title="Close questions as &quot;belongs on serverfault&quot; without automatically migrating" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:57:30.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This confused be enough that I came here, worked out that it was the right place to report bugs, did a search to see if it was already reported and came here. In other words it not expected behavior and therefore it probably should not be what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130594" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T16:57:30.977" />
  <row Id="3981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3964" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:00:01.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a &lt;strong&gt;critical mass&lt;/strong&gt; from the &lt;strong&gt;day one&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Without this even very brilliant site can fail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:00:01.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3964" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:03:16.037" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was mostly a success due to both Jeff and Joel having existing blogs with big groups of people who would be very interested in this product.&#xA;That and the site did a good job of filling an existing hole. Before SO there was no good place to get answers to a broad range of programming questions besides hunting through scattering of forums and IRC rooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10047" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:03:16.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3966" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:03:44.297" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think explicitly saying &quot;SO is our support forums&quot; is a bit weird, but saying &quot;StackOverflow is a good place to asking programming questions, such as those involving SubSonic&quot; (as they are doing) is perfectly valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using it for bug-tracking, or general discussion of SubSonic wouldn't be appropriate - but mainly because such questions aren't appropriate for SO anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I think if it was a valid StackOverflow question, it's irrelevant how the user came to ask post it on the site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:03:44.297" />
  <row Id="3985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1508" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:09:07.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in the same boat as Rob and the rest; recently awarded the badge, but to my knowledge, I've never deleted a post. I also feel conflicted about reporting it because I like getting badges, and now it will probably be revoked D:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1569" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:09:07.860" />
  <row Id="3986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:10:10.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as how each of the sites (including Meta?) is it's own separate instance on it's own separate database, I don't know how well this would be implemented. I agree with the idea of being able to have one central location for your question and answers and recent activity, but I don't know how well cross-site notifications would be achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:10:10.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3990" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:13:43.043" Score="6" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a deluge of questions by folks with rep of 1-10. Many of these questions are &quot;homework&quot; or questions that are annoying to me &quot;please read my 500 line script and tell me whats wrong with it&quot; Is there any way to filter questions by reputation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130598" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-07T10:29:12.200" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T10:29:12.200" Title="Can we filter questions by reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="3988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3989" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:14:01.770" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, there are currently many ways I can view what I have done &amp;#8212; my questions, my votes, my favourites etc. But where is the view that shows me new answers to my questions and comments on my questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21499" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T20:13:33.973" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T20:13:33.973" Title="How can I view recent answers and comments about my questions / answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="3989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3988" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:15:52.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the envelope icon at the top of the page next to your name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_envelope.png&quot; alt=&quot;the envelope&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is your Recent Activity Page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-31T20:19:42.137" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T20:19:42.137" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3987" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:17:38.577" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Hackish (hopefully temporary) solution...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could write a greasemonkey script to detect &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span class&quot;reputation-score&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on a page, test its value (is it too low?) and subsequently remove that question from the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:17:38.577" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="3991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:17:51.393" Score="5" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone send me a link to the first question on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T00:42:08.000" Title="What was the first question on SO?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="3992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3972" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:18:57.950" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the sofaq question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128533/what-is-a-locked-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a &quot;Locked&quot; question in Stackoverflow? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question or answer which is locked can no longer be edited, voted or commented upon. If a question is locked, new answers can still be added to that question, and any of the (unlocked) answers can still be edited and voted upon. Locked posts can later be unlocked by privileged users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locking doesn't prevent new answers. It might be nice to lock only closing, or only editing - but I don't think there's many cases where this would be of much benefit.. Locking the post for a while should give everyone time to calm down a bit (which is pretty much the point of locking)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:18:57.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="3993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3991" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:19:39.743" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First? Dunno. The fourth was &quot;When setting a form’s opacity should I use a decimal or double?&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:19:39.743" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3991" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:19:44.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first question that wasn't deleted was this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Questions and Responses in Stack Overflow all share the same ID Generator (they are likely in the same table?), and that explains why QuestionIDs aren't incremental at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T19:01:41.940" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:01:41.940" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="3995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3901" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:20:18.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, despite some of the mocking comments, I think it's a fair enough question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously from a software development perspective, the thought of someone figuring out (from your questions) what you know and don't know about developing computer software might not be a major issue unless you are bluffing at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if StackExchange gets off the ground and this software gets used, say, as some kind of emotional support Q&amp;amp;A site, then I can see privacy issues becoming quite important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some kind of anonymous mode might not be a bad thing to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, calling myself &quot;Joe Schmoe&quot; probably gives you a hint as to my own personal stance on privacy issues. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:20:18.790" />
  <row Id="3996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3987" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:25:54.833" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also a lot of new users with good questions who haven't had the chance to gain rep yet. We already have closing, downvoting, flagging, deleting and editing. Those are in place to clear up spam, unclear, offensive, closed and poorly-worded questions, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes, flags and closing is a much better indication of a question's worth than the reputation of the one who asked it. I can name a lot of high-rep users who consistently ask bad questions, and I've seen lots of good questions asked by brand new users. A filter won't solve anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:25:54.833" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="3997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59259" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:26:15.147" Score="6" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;New users seem to take a while to discover the Recent Activity page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3988/how-can-i-view-recent-answers-and-comments-about-my-questions-answers&quot;&gt;How can I view recent answers and comments about my questions / answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think this might be in part because the current envelope icon &lt;img src=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/content/img/som/replies-off.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; doesn't map well to the concept of activity or notifications. What would be a better icon, or how could that page be made more discoverable by new users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-02T05:55:20.367" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T05:55:20.367" Title="What would be a better icon for the recent activity page? or how can that page be more discoverable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="3998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3957" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:29:21.387" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3006/picture11z.png&quot; alt=&quot;Preview of SOtweet&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/%5Fdbr/status/2576533742&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;..and it works&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           SOtweet&#xA;// @namespace      org.neverfear.sotweet&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;// Set CSS style&#xA;var style = window.document.createElement('style');&#xA;style.type = 'text/css';&#xA;style.innerHTML = '#tweeeet{display:none;position:absolute;left:30%;top:40%;width:350px;height:100px;padding:10px;background:#9AE4E8;-moz-border-radius:10px}#tweetmsg{display:none;} #tweetsubmit{display:none}';&#xA;document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;head&quot;)[0].appendChild(style);&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    function getTinyURL(longURL, success) {&#xA;        var API = 'http://json-tinyurl.appspot.com/?url=';&#xA;        var URL = API + encodeURIComponent(longURL) + '&amp;amp;callback=?';&#xA;&#xA;        $.getJSON(URL, function(data){&#xA;            success &amp;amp;&amp;amp; success(data.tinyurl);&#xA;        });&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    // The tweet'ify div, shown by the tweet link&#xA;    $('body').prepend('&amp;lt;div id=&quot;tweeeet&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;form id=&quot;tweetform&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;tweetloading&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/ajax-loader.gif&quot; width=&quot;24&quot; height=&quot;24&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span id=&quot;loadingmsg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6721/twitterlogotransparent.png&quot; width=&quot;27&quot; height=&quot;26&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;textarea rows=&quot;3&quot; cols=&quot;40&quot; id=&quot;tweetmsg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/textarea&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;input type=&quot;button&quot; value=&quot;Close!&quot; id=&quot;tweetclose&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Twitter\'ify it!&quot; id=&quot;tweetsubmit&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/form&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;');&#xA;&#xA;    $('.post-menu').append('&amp;lt;span class=&quot;link-separator&quot;&amp;gt;|&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;#&quot; id=&quot;tweetifylink&quot;&amp;gt;tweet&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;');&#xA;&#xA;    $('#tweetifylink').bind('click', function(){&#xA;      $('#tweeeet').show();&#xA;&#xA;      // Show loading thingy, hide form until tinyurl is grabbed&#xA;      $('#tweetmsg').hide();&#xA;      $('#submit').hide();&#xA;      $('#loadingmsg').append('Getting TinyURLified address');&#xA;      $('#loading').show();&#xA;&#xA;      $('#tweetclose').bind('click', function(){&#xA;        $('#tweeeet').hide();&#xA;      })&#xA;&#xA;      getTinyURL(document.location, function(tinyurl){&#xA;        // TinyURLification complete, enter into tweetmsg input, submit&#xA;        $('#tweetmsg').val(tinyurl + ' &quot;' + document.title +'&quot;');&#xA;        $('#tweetmsg').show();&#xA;        $('#tweetloading').hide();&#xA;        $('#tweetsubmit').show();&#xA;&#xA;        $('#tweetform').submit(function(){&#xA;          var submiturl = 'http://twitter.com/home?status=' + encodeURIComponent($('#tweetmsg').val());&#xA;          window.location.href = submiturl;&#xA;        })&#xA;      });&#xA;&#xA;    })&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Todo:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make tweet buttons on each answer submit the link to the answer's permalink, not the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tidy up CSS styles from a single-line string&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tidy up HTMl additions from a single string&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Truncate title if too long&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;#stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;#serverfault&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;#metaso&lt;/code&gt; hashtag, and remove &lt;code&gt;- Stack Overflow&lt;/code&gt;/etc from message?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Move imageshack-hosted Twitter logo into &lt;code&gt;data:&lt;/code&gt; URI?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only add styles on-click, rather than at the scripts top level?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dim page background when popup is added&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look for &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://is.gd&lt;/a&gt; JSONP service, instead of tinyurl (shorter URL)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add support for SuperUser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T08:42:26.850" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:42:26.850" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="3999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3997" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:29:43.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting but almost completely unworkable idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the Stackoverflow logo as a basis with the inbox and with every piece of new activity it adds another block to the stack. You could then get a quick view of how much junk you have to look at that is new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:29:43.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3979" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:29:56.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option would be for the question asker to migrate it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be the possibility for this to be abused, but not anymore than everything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:29:56.860" />
  <row Id="4001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3997" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:30:41.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe if it were more verbose. Most forums (and yes, I'm aware SO is not a forum) have a private message notification in the form of &quot;No new messages&quot; when there's nothing and &quot;&lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; new messages&quot; when there is something new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the icon were replaced with a message along those lines it would be more clear what it's for. Especially if it informed you more about what specifically has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;One new answer to your questions&quot;, &quot;One new comment on your post&quot;, &quot;Two edits to your question&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or possibly something more terse: &quot;Answers: 1 | Comments: 1 | Edits: 2&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be lots of room in the header section for simple messages like that. As long as the issue with it misfiring is solved, this would be useful and clear, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T00:37:20.447" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T00:37:20.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3891" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:35:52.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Meta SO is much better than User Voice. I had asked for comments to allow some simple markdown on User Voice, and nothing ever came of it. The same thing was asked for on Meta SO, and it got implemented in less than a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:35:52.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3987" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:37:04.847" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a significant number of the people who actually answer questions were to do this, it would seriously impact the number of new people coming to SO to ask questions.  If people don't get their questions answered, they won't be back.  Overall, I think it would degrade the utility of SO in unacceptable ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:37:04.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4007" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:39:32.123" Score="19" ViewCount="602" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The downside...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the type of question that would be a duplicate - but I don't see any, so I'll ask anyway. I'm finding it difficult to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; visit Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow for any significant amount of time. I wake up in the morning, and check Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow at 5:30&amp;nbsp;am. I check it before I close my laptop to head off to work. I check it when I connect at the office. I check it throughout the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I break the combination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The upside...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have explored more methods of accomplishing tasks than ever before after having registered here and viewing some questions. I've been introduced to many new tools, practices, and theories about development that I can honestly say make me more confident as a developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-07-16T13:12:25.900" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T13:12:25.900" Title="How can I keep from getting addicted to Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:40:54.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You stop fighting and embrace it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:40:54.980" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3948" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:49:18.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email team@stackoverflow.com explaining the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can, edit the duplicate, and write in the description that it is a dup of your other account. You may also want to edit the description of the original. This will help prove that the person who owns the duplicate account, is in fact the same person who owns the other account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually done this, and it worked flawlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there should probably be a warning, if you are trying to log in with an OpenID that is not associated with any account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;( copied from my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3607/is-there-a-way-to-close-an-so-family-account/3649#3649&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:49:18.373" />
  <row Id="4007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:55:52.413" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it's an interesting effect these sites can have on you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand there is the boost to self-esteem and personal pride with high reputation and upvotes...but you don't always get the upvotes you feel you deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there is the fear of looking stupid in front of your peers if you post something dumb and hidden peer pressure to conform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, we end up with a form of inconsistent gratification attached to the thrill/fear of loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't that what makes gamblers addicted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suspect the remedy would be along the same lines as for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:55:52.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:56:09.727" Score="13" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;By using stackowerflow data dump and spending couple of hours I managed to get it up and running. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if I’ll get DMCA notice but I have emailed team@stack... yesterday to ask permission. No one replied. I also complied with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/comment-page-1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/comment-page-1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think it is useful? my idea was to make it available on mobile internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another question is after adding non-cluster index (postid,tags) for search, search is still slow. How can i improve performance of search? DB server is sqlserver express 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;check it at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.mobi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.mobi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74896" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:02:14.313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:02:14.313" Title="stackoverflow.mobi" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2009-07-09T17:56:33.690" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you hit 10k the urge starts to drain away slowly (at least for me). Until I found Meta and now I'm cracked out all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all addictions are bad. I mean you could be hooked on leprechaun porn or something and that wouldn't do anybody (except maybe the leprechauns) any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T17:56:33.690" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4027" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:10:00.203" Score="2" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;It returns results really really fast. Are the pages spidered and indexed? Some schema optimization ? Just curious :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T20:42:40.120" Title="How does the SO search return results so fast" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;technology&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="4012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4016" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:14:15.710" Score="11" ViewCount="980" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emphasis:&lt;/em&gt; This is not a &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; downvote, or &lt;em&gt;when is it ok&lt;/em&gt; to downvote, or &lt;em&gt;what to do when&lt;/em&gt; voted down.  This question is about a particular pattern of downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I had an answer downvoted.  It wasn't the best answer, but certainly not technically incorrect.  It got me to looking at another user's voting pattern b/c I saw something odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every answer that wasn't this particular user's had been downvoted (modulo one that was a one-liner summary of his answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, two aspects to the pattern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;downvoting other answers is like upvoting yours your answer instantly has one more rep than everyone else's (at the time of answering)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;early on in the answering process, this can have a definite impact on the reputation you receive for an answer b/c your answer (very possibly later) now bubbles to the top b/c it has 0 points, versus the other answers which have -1...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding point #2, you can further &quot;game&quot; the system by undoing your downvote after you've gotten a couple of votes up, undoing any (minimal) damage to your rep and the other's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a pattern people have noticed much?  Is it worth trying to discourage it?  Or am I just a sore downvote recipient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Note:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to get back at this guy.  His answer to the question that started all this is very detailed and informative, mine leads you down a different (not as useful) path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;More background:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked a few other questions he'd answered and noticed a similar pattern  on questions he'd answered - many technically sound answers had -1 rep.  I even asked him (via comment) if I'd been downvoted b/c my answer wasn't his and got affirmation.  Additionally, another answer I'd written was downvoted at the same time he answered with the only other question (question is 2 months old).  Again, nothing technically wrong with my answer - it actually contained the same information as his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6148" LastEditorUserId="6148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T21:02:03.670" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:46:23.037" Title="Is the &quot;down-voting (most) all answers that aren't yours&quot; pattern considered harmful?" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="4013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:16:41.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes shouldn't be used for competitive or punitive reasons, they should only be given for wrong or 'slightly wrong' answers (not counting 'subjective' questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:16:41.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:20:13.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote him back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or be a tattle-tell and go tell a moderator to point out the voting abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:20:13.047" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="4015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:21:53.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's just good old human jealousy &amp;amp; pettiness...been around since the dawn of civilization, that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for solutions, you could try wiping out the human race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there should be specific SO rules just to deal with this sort of stuff, otherwise you'll end up legislating the site to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:21:53.093" />
  <row Id="4016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:25:39.777" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed it before, but it only has happened in rare cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not already, I would suggest this be a pattern that's looked for by the suspicious vote pattern job to tag for investigating if a user exhibits a history of doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:25:39.777" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4018" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:25:54.690" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try and submit a question through Google Chrome, when I click &quot;Ask Your Question&quot; the whole page reloads with all of my form values cleared...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T06:27:22.677" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T16:41:30.520" Title="Anyone else having problems submitting questions through chrome?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="4018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4017" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:26:36.673" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Chrome (v. 2.0.172.33) almost exclusively and have not had this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:26:36.673" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4008" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:28:11.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it extremely useful, as it is blazing fast and super simple for a quick lookup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4749" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:28:11.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:32:49.157" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4012/downvoting-answer-pattern-harmful-voting-down-most-all-answers-that-arent-yo&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; on someone downvoting all other answers but his own got me thinking about a habit I have that I'm not particularly happy with.  In the case of questions that get very few votes -- for example, just about anything in the Shoes tag -- I tend to be far less likely to upvote other answers when answering.  If there is another answer that isn't as complete or has a small error, I don't upvote, because it's very likely that a month from now the results will still be 1 upvote for the slightly wrong answer and 0 for my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's the right thing to do for the long term purpose of the site, because my answer is more correct.  Still, I believe that all answers should be approached as if in a vacuum, not voted for or against based on the quality of the other answers.  How would you handle this sort of situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:56:06.393" Title="Should I alter my downvote pattern on low-view questions?" Tags="&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:35:54.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For very subjective questions, poll questions, etc. I'll often down-vote everything i disagree with, regardless of whether or not i've posted an answer myself. Those questions should be CW anyway, so i'm not particularly worried about hurting anyone's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For actual programming questions, i down-vote incorrect or misleading answers. I'll also down-vote answers that are less helpful than another, lower-rated answer (in addition to upvoting that answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with down-voting objectively-good answers just to make your own answer higher sort closer to the top. Fortunately, there are limits to how much &quot;gaming&quot; can be done built into the system (limited # of votes, limited timespan for changing votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2451/why-do-you-cast-downvotes-on-answers&quot;&gt;Why do you cast downvotes on answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:35:54.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:37:41.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is ridiculously low.  They can trivially make more than $100K/month in profit just off advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait until SO gets joint ventures with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, TopCoder, Dice, Monster, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:37:41.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4020" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:39:03.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is pretty much how I approach it.  I upvote an answer if it is helpful, and downvote it if it is just outright wrong.  There's a vast middle ground where I read the answer, perhaps comment on it but don't vote either way.  On some questions I might vote on half of the answers; on others I don't vote for any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cosmic sense of justice should eventually prevail, and if not, we'll just be a little off-balance for a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:39:03.883" />
  <row Id="4024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4010" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:39:29.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An enslaved army of highly trained monkeys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:39:29.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4020" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:40:03.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you handle this sort of situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done all of the following at one time or another:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post your own answer, and then leave a comment on the other answer noting its deficiencies. Come back a few days later and check to see if they've been corrected - if so, upvote then.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post your own answer, linking to and calling out the deficiencies in the other (most useful when the other answer has subtle inaccuracies or is correct but misleading).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit the existing answer, adding in your corrections and additional information. Then upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:40:03.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4010" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:43:14.980" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're using the new mind-reading features in .NET 4.0, so the server already knows what you're going to search for (and starts looking) before you even hit the submit button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe they're using SQL Server full-text search (is this covered in one of the FAQs?) so yes, everything is &quot;spidered and indexed&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/11/stackoverflows-sql-2008-fts-issue-solved/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; that mentions them in the same sentence...  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastEditorUserId="29638" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T18:49:10.120" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:49:10.120" />
  <row Id="4028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:47:29.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Install &lt;a href=&quot;http://sam.haslers.info/firefox-microsummaries.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this microsummary&lt;/a&gt; and then bookmark each of your recent activity pages in Firefox's bookmarks toolbar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:47:29.767" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:49:31.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine, but it is under very low development rate right now. Soon....&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://phpancake.sourceforge.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://phpancake.sourceforge.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:49:31.503" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T18:49:31.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:49:52.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll admit to having done this once or maybe twice.  Not a regular practice or something I'm proud of.  I think this was the scenario that led to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another user answered with an incomplete answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I provided a better answer seconds later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Within a minute, the first user edited his answer and copied my answer (pracitally verbatim).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, since he did this quickly, that didn't count as a revision, so his answer still stayed on top, and it looked like &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; copied &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; answer, which I didn't think was fair.  So I downvoted him so I'd be on top.  Then I went back after an hour or two and undid the downvote (after all, I didn't really think his answer was wrong, since it was my answer to begin with).  Again, I don't think this was good behavior, nor do I do it often.  I'm just being honest here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, a similar behavior that I'm sure many engage in is this: when posting an answer, I usually won't upvote any other answers to that same question, even if I think they are good answers, since that would be equivalent to giving myself a -1.  I might come back a few hours later and upvote the good answers, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:49:52.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4020" CreationDate="2009-07-09T18:50:22.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I run into the same sort of problem. There aren't as many views/votes for the tag I'm primarily active in (MATLAB), and I end up with the same dilemma about whether or not to upvote answers competing with my own. Even though it can backfire on me sometimes, I usually bite the bullet and upvote other competing answers anyway (by &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt;, I'd guess it's 60-70% of the time). The way I see it, a good answer is a good answer. Sometimes it ends up eventually bumping the other answer higher than mine on the list, but that's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a completely lost cause though. The highest voted answer doesn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; get accepted. Also, the &quot;Populist&quot; badge offers some consolation (although it doesn't really work for low-view/low-vote tags). This is actually what inspired me to suggest the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/1215#1215&quot;&gt;&quot;Sportsmanship&quot; badge&lt;/a&gt;, which I originally called the &quot;Self Defeatist&quot; badge, for obvious reasons. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T18:56:06.393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T18:56:06.393" />
  <row Id="4038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2542" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:03:01.613" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with dbr that I don't like the position:fixed, but also I thought the favicons were a little too cluttered for the sites simplistic layout.  My solution? Combine both ideas.  Also I added link-titles and a link to super user since it will be opening soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/tj111/folders/Jing/media/b8947684-f3c4-4b85-94b0-58d6d3046c69/2009-07-09_1501.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    $('#hlinks')&#xA;      .append('&amp;lt;span class=&quot;link-separator&quot;&amp;gt; | &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;')&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://stackoverflow.com' style='display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#f60;margin-right:5px' title='Stack Overflow'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://superuser.com' style='display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#00ADED;margin-right:5px' title='Super User'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;superuser&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://serverfault.com' style='display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#c99;margin-right:5px' title='Server Fault'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;serverfault&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://meta.stackoverflow.com' style='display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#ccc;' title='Meta'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;meta.stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:  The light maroon color for the Server Fault link made it seem inferior, so I used to bright Red from the logo.  Also added the 1px fix (thanks Jonathan).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/tj111/folders/Jing/media/23027c78-f398-40ed-8955-91809e14349a/2009-07-10_1513.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    $('#hlinks')&#xA;      .append('&amp;lt;span class=&quot;link-separator&quot;&amp;gt; | &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;')&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://stackoverflow.com' style='display:inline-block;position:relative;top:1px;width:10px;height:10px;background:#f60;margin-right:5px' title='Stack Overflow'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://superuser.com' style='display:inline-block;position:relative;top:1px;width:10px;height:10px;background:#00ADED;margin-right:5px' title='Super User'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;superuser&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://serverfault.com' style='display:inline-block;position:relative;top:1px;width:10px;height:10px;background:#E8272C;margin-right:5px' title='Server Fault'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;serverfault&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .append(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://meta.stackoverflow.com' style='display:inline-block;position:relative;top:1px;width:10px;height:10px;background:#ccc;' title='Meta'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;meta.stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastEditorUserId="12605" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:14:32.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:14:32.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4041" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:07:17.123" Score="10" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1104064/run-php-script-from-python&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which is nearly an exact duplicate of another. Would it be possible to make certain CSS elements available to editors so that certain edits can be quickly and easily differentiated from the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Messages that could appear in such boxes are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your question is almost an exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://0.0.0.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Please consider revising your question to indicate why answers to the duplicate do not fit your need.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your question appears to be purely subjective in nature, please consider adding specific technical elements to your question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your question is inflamatory and may be closed quickly unless it is revised&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... Or, others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strongly differentiates the views of the Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow community from the original poster and helps nudge poorly written questions into well written questions, when possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if someone uses this special markup (maybe %$ ... message ... %$), the user sees a new comment from &quot;so-community&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this has been raised before, I did not find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-31T20:24:28.350" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T20:24:28.350" Title="Wikipedia style notice and warning markup?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4041" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:12:15.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We already do duplicate searches based on the title you give.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We do searches already based on subjectivity in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If George Carlin was alive he would cry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:12:15.827" />
  <row Id="4046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4041" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:13:47.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, but not sure if &quot;editor only&quot; formatting is really possible on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bold text is now allowed in comments. So just post a big fat all-bold comment saying that. Or edit it in at the top of the question, maybe in a blockquote box...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:13:47.657" />
  <row Id="4048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3991" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:22:22.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh. Well, you have two answers pointing at the second question, since that one hasn't been deleted. But, since you asked for a link to the first question, i'm going to give that to you as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1/where-oh-where-did-the-joel-data-go&quot;&gt;Where, oh where, did the Joel Data go?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:22:22.760" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:30:22.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been suggested in the past that if you are throwing your hat into the ring and answering a question then you shouldn't be able to vote on other questions in that thread.  However, after thinking about this for awhile I'm don't think it is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vindictive down-voting is just a part of any social-voting system.  It is going to happen.  However, it is rare enough that I don't think people should get their knickers in a twist over it.  Especially over 1-2 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastEditorUserId="2635" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:20:46.777" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:20:46.777" />
  <row Id="4054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10387" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:31:38.557" Score="6" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get some really bad subject lines on SO, and also in some of the other forums I use. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Connection&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Databinding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consuming web service&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Weird WebService behavior&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soap header&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WCF help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, easy as it may be to attribute these titles to laziness or cluelessness, I've begun to wonder if it may not be something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a site used by people from all around the world. Does everyone have the same concept of what a title line is meant for and how to construct one? These very short title lines look more like categories than titles. Maybe the authors came from a culture (or even school) where categories were used in this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I wonder not only if there are legitimate differences in how people understand what's meant to be in a title line, but also what, if anything, we should do about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T12:00:06.910" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:38:21.193" Title="What's in a Title (line)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4054" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:35:31.163" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My biggest gripes with titles are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags in the title&lt;/strong&gt;, like &quot;[CSharp] How do I compile?&quot; We have tags for a reason. They're just clutter in the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;How to&quot; titles&lt;/strong&gt;, like &quot;How to brush teeth?&quot; They seem to come from users hailing from particular unnamed nations. It's just awkward phrasing. I like to change these to &quot;How do I brush my teeth?&quot; instead. It's a more natural sentence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Categories aren't so bad, as long as they're more specific than the tags. We have tags for categorization, but titles are basically categories, too. When people are searching, a title like &quot;Connectivity problem with PHP&quot; is going to get a lot of hits, even though it's a category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me a title should give readers a clear idea of what the question is about, without giving too many details. So no &quot;Help me with PHP&quot; titles, and no &quot;Help me to connect with a MySQL 5.3 database from PHP 3.1 on Tuesdays when the moon was waning the previous three nights&quot; titles, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good title gives the details of the question that, along with the tags, should allow any reader to decide if he'll read the question based on his interests. Bad titles leave people wondering about what the content is, or doesn't let people know about important details in the question. For example, someone may see a &quot;connectivity issue&quot; title, and skip it since he thinks it's a networking error, but really it's a user authority issue with MySQL. The title should have been more specific so that the answerer market has a greater chance of getting pulled in to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T19:42:30.673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:42:30.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4074" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:37:27.417" Score="2" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the current user count of stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grapsh, trends and more stats are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:00:16.427" Title="What is the current user count of stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;user-count&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4056" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:39:51.780" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were 93861 registered users as of the last &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/creative-commons-data-dump-july-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; a couple of days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:39:51.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4056" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:42:46.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 74,620 listed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;SO/Users&lt;/a&gt; page (2132 pages * 35 per page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:42:46.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:43:54.893" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are downvoting other answers because they are not yours, then that is dirty pool.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you are downvoting other answers because they are all wrong, then that is cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:43:54.893" />
  <row Id="4063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4008" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:48:11.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice work. To answer your question there are many possible ways to speed up a search, starting with full-text index (which SO uses) to faster hamsters, err servers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6399" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:48:11.480" />
  <row Id="4064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4065" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:48:55.330" Score="6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, a way to &quot;follow&quot; a especific user (an analogy could be mark a tag as &quot;interesting&quot;/&quot;ignored&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121487" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-18T17:52:11.440" LastActivityDate="2010-10-18T17:52:11.440" Title="Is there any way to mark a user as &quot;favorite&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4064" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:50:15.327" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can follow their RSS feed.  Scroll all the way to the bottom of their &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;user page&lt;/a&gt;.  The RSS link is on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:50:15.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4073" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:55:06.770" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4056/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4056/what-is-the-current-user-count-of-stackoverflow/4058#4058&quot;&gt;Greg&lt;/a&gt; there are 93,861 registered users in the data dump. However, on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;SO/Users page&lt;/a&gt; there are only 74,620 (2132 pages * 35 users per page). How is this possible? Does the data dump contain deleted users? Is there a way to keep your account from getting listed on the SO/Users page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:31:53.027" Title="Why are there more users in the data dump than SO/Users page?" Tags="&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;user-count&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4070" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:56:21.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They probably cleared up a lot of duplicate accounts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:56:21.687" />
  <row Id="4073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4070" CreationDate="2009-07-09T19:59:56.640" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing SO user view doesn't count anonymous users (the Unknown (Google) ones) in its user list, but the data dump obviously has to include them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T19:59:56.640" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4056" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:00:16.427" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another way of look at how many &quot;users&quot; there are-- depending on how you define that-- is to &lt;strong&gt;look at the number of Teacher badges&lt;/strong&gt; (answered a question with one up-vote) and the number of &lt;strong&gt;Student badges&lt;/strong&gt; (asked a question with one up-vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that won't give you the number of unique viewers/month, it give you an idea of how many people have actually &quot;used&quot; Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Teacher Badges - 34,573&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Student Badges - 33,203&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:00:16.427" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:05:05.187" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some are objecting to the term &quot;friend&quot; as being too facebooky. How about &quot;trusted responder&quot;, or &quot;person known to answer questions well&quot;? I'd like a way to know that, say, Alex Martelli has answered another Python question. Why? Not because Mr. Martelli is my friend -- he doesn't know me from Adam. It is because I almost always learn something from reading his answers. Same with S. Lott and several others. This would be a useful feature, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14028" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:05:05.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4156" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:11:08.637" Score="9" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I answer a question, I try to be as complete as possible.  I also realize that I may not be &lt;em&gt;as&lt;/em&gt; complete as I'd hoped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki answers provide an opportunity for good answers to float to the top, AND for shortcomings in those answers to be rectified by folks other than the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But right now, the system discourages creating Community Wiki answers by denying all rep credits to those who create them.  It also discourages improving community wiki answers by not granting any rep to people who do that.  This means that the pattern that's encouraged is many separate and disjointed answers to each question, not one comprehensive answer that incorporates the bulk of the community's knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combine that with the &lt;s&gt;750 rep minimum&lt;/s&gt; 100 rep minimum to edit a Community Wiki answer, and I frankly don't get the point of the feature.  It seems promising, but it just doesn't get used much, and it seems like the system, intentionally or unintentionally, is designed to ensure that this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was it designed like that?  Should it be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36754" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T05:03:36.020" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T08:13:10.150" Title="Why does the system discourage designating answers (or questions) as &quot;community wiki&quot;" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4080" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:19:43.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's mostly for large, vague questions as opposed to specific technical questions.  It prevents users from racking up ridiculous reputation from a single, popular and slightly off-topic question.  I think the goal is to keep the majority of the questions technical and specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:19:43.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4070" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:31:53.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Abandoned accounts are removed from the database as detailed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We delete cookie-based unregistered accounts when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The user has not visited Stack Overflow in four months&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  AND&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  The user has less than 100 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We delete OpenID registered accounts when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The user has not visited Stack Overflow in four months&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  AND&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  The user has only 1 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2619" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:31:53.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4107" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:36:06.420" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta.stackoverflow faq says that questions relating to SO, SF and SU are welcome. A recent question was closed as &quot;not stackoverflow related&quot;: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4061/i-want-my-superuser-com-already-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4061/i-want-my-superuser-com-already-closed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a change of scope of meta.stackoverflow.com in progress that is not yet reflected in the faq?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:10:05.483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:10:05.483" Title="Scope of meta.stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta-faq&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="4093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4101" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:36:27.923" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I answered a question on SO that was somewhat popular; my answer got quite a few upvotes.  However, the question got deleted; now my recent activity -&gt; reputation doesn't show anything for that, but new upvotes I'm getting are not awarding reputation (as I've apparently hit my 200 / day limit).  What's up with that?  Can we possibly get to see all the rep that was awarded to us in a day, regardless of whether or not the question was deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  Okay, just found out what happened; it seems that the question was closed and automatically transferred over to ServerFault.  What makes this interesting, though, is that it got transferred to community wiki on ServerFault, and so I got no rep on SF for my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:09:33.513" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:09:33.513" Title="Transferred question = invisible rep?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4092" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:37:50.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was closed because the post had no substance.  It was only labled that it was not stackoverflow related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:37:50.707" />
  <row Id="4096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4092" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:41:31.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; (if that's an option), would have been more appropriate; but I certainly agree it should have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:41:31.503" />
  <row Id="4097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4092" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:42:57.610" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Troll posts are lucky to get closed and not deleted as offensive or spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:42:57.610" />
  <row Id="4098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4080" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:43:14.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the wiki aspect of the feature. Everyone (with at least 750 rep) can change your answer. If I wrote an answer and you change that answer to correct it, who should get the rep? You or me?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you divide it: how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:43:14.867" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4115" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:47:57.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as it does not get confused with alternate tagging conventions such as using a broad category (such as &quot;sql-server&quot;) along with a more specific tag (&quot;sql-server-2005&quot;). This convention allows for people to subscribe to a general tag but still be able to gather enough specificity about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:47:57.570" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4093" CreationDate="2009-07-09T20:50:29.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really; and you may find that the numbers change after a rep recalc (rep from things that get deleted may be lost, although you should still get any rep that you &quot;missed&quot; in the day from the rep cap).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you want me to force a recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - can you cite the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T20:50:29.893" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="4107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4092" CreationDate="2009-07-09T21:08:16.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the close reasons aren't very precise, I'm afraid. Though technically the post was about SuperUser, the content was mainly about how much that user wanted SuperUser to go live, and not about the site itself, so I closed as &quot;not stackoverflow related&quot;. It's certainly less changed than some of the other close reasons (&quot;blatently offensive&quot;, &quot;spam&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, people should realize that closing a question isn't the same as deletion. When moderators think that questions can be salvaged, they will close instead of delete, allowing the poster the opportunity to either justify why it belongs on the site or fix the content so that it's on topic. So if your post is closed by a moderator, consider it an opportunity and see what you can do to get it opened back up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-09T21:13:33.503" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T21:13:33.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1187" CreationDate="2009-07-09T21:09:11.020" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually if we could add the &lt;code&gt;Interesting Tags&lt;/code&gt; filter to each major section (front page, Questions, and Unanswered) that would be cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T21:09:11.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T21:09:11.020" />
  <row Id="4111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-07-09T21:12:04.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of a friends list, upvote your favorite users. You can track them later and also at the same time they get their own points much like questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if you should be able to downvote users though, that's just mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T21:12:04.513" />
  <row Id="4114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-07-09T21:45:46.220" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was here pretty much since the beginning, so I can't say for sure, but I think newbies get something of a mixed message from all the vestigial subjective questions.  In the first month or so of SO--before we really knew what the site would become--everyone was asking and answering and voting up subjective questions like &quot;What's your favorite programming &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;  Nowadays those kinds of questions are quickly downvoted and closed.  New users might find that the vestigial subjective questions have lots of votes and assume they are still popular, only to get shot down when they ask one.  Even if it is a good enough &quot;subjective&quot; question that it is not immediately closed, they get told &quot;make that community wiki or else&quot;, even though they probably have no idea what in the world &quot;community wiki&quot; even means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1219/lower-the-rep-required-to-edit-community-wiki-posts-or-stop-calling-them-wiki&quot;&gt;my thoughts on community wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T21:45:46.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T21:46:30.053" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for adding the following rule to &lt;em&gt;Good Tagging&lt;/em&gt; frame;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Don't tag with two separate tags (general and specific) when they can be merged into one specific one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Example:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;not windows and xp but windows-xp&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;not boost and asio but boost-asio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:09:02.243" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:09:02.243" Title="Good Tagging frame - add a new rule" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-07-09T22:08:37.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How the existing community treats new users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have at least 100 rep, any question you post is pretty much ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Should be community wiki.&quot;  WTF is Community Wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OpenID was a bit of a shock.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting without an explanation (irritating to veteran users at best, incomprehensible by new users).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T22:08:37.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3579" CreationDate="2009-07-09T22:10:19.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a StackExchange site for gamers that has been up for a while: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamelegend.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GameLegend&lt;/a&gt;.  It's been having a very difficult time building a community so far.  I've been trying my best, but I'm just one gamer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6406" LastEditorUserId="6406" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-14T14:27:59.727" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T14:27:59.727" />
  <row Id="4121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4115" CreationDate="2009-07-09T22:20:10.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need to have some method of hierarchical tagging, tagging by inheritance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T22:20:10.347" />
  <row Id="4123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4115" CreationDate="2009-07-09T22:24:12.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of tag space to allow a generalisation (which it might actually be if the user isn't familiar with other versions) and some specificity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can be quite interested in IIS questions in general on SO/SF and would rather not have to check each specific tag (now that we have IIS4,5,6 and 7).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no harm in tagging with a generalisation and a specific version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T22:24:12.973" />
  <row Id="4127" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-09T23:27:40.720" Score="0" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/443/etiquette-of-screen-scraping-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Etiquette of Screen-scraping Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4122/once-your-ip-is-banned-due-to-screen-scraping-so-how-long-will-it-remain-banned-f&quot;&gt;Once your IP is banned due to screen scraping SO how long will it remain banned for?&lt;/a&gt; I thought it useful for there to be an official position on this so people know what's acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow blog already has a post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/script-responsibly/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Script Responsibly&lt;/a&gt; but there's a large gap between getting &quot;uncompressed user page multiple times per second&quot; and doing none at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have one standard from this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get compressed data. Your scraper needs to be clever enough to accept compression.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What else? How often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T23:27:40.720" ClosedDate="2009-07-09T23:32:43.783" Title="StackOverflow screen scraping code of conduct?" Tags="&lt;policy&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4211" CreationDate="2009-07-09T23:29:51.140" Score="13" ViewCount="594" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed on StackOverflow as &quot;belongs on ServerFault&quot; and thus automatically moved to ServerFault, it retains the 'belongs-on-serverfault' tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would make sense to either remove this tag automatically, or if you wanted to leave some indication that the question had been moved, remove it and add 'moved-from-stackoverflow' (or superuser, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51691" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T09:39:35.413" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:40:03.120" Title="Change the &quot;belongs-on-serverfault&quot; tag when a question is moved to serverfault" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="4129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4128" CreationDate="2009-07-09T23:33:09.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea, since a &quot;belongs-onserverfault&quot; tag on Serverfault is akin to the &quot;programming&quot; tag on Stackoverflow.  Entire pointless and should just be inferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63925" LastActivityDate="2009-07-09T23:33:09.413" />
  <row Id="4133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:26:18.223" Score="9" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;On our profile page it lists how many upvotes and downvotes we've handed out. What I'd also find interesting is to see how many votes of each type we've &lt;em&gt;received&lt;/em&gt;. Is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T20:42:01.910" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:42:01.910" Title="Please allow users to see votes received as well as votes given" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:27:54.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add to the list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   12. Is plain silly.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is related to 3. and 4., but it is even worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, an answer has been upvoted to the &lt;strong&gt;top&lt;/strong&gt; of the list because it is funny, but does not address the question in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-16T13:09:31.533" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T13:09:31.533" />
  <row Id="4135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:38:52.080" Score="3" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just went to the hot tab on stackoverflow.com and saw a question that was closed there.  Why?  I would figure that something that's closed really isn't all that hot and should be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4835" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T03:01:48.837" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T22:45:43.680" Title="Why would a closed question be hot?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;hot-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:39:47.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why this couldn't be possible. There already is a very long-way-around for this by going through your reputation list and keeping track of all the numbers there and adding them up...but also this wouldn't track things that were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T00:39:47.197" />
  <row Id="4137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4135" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:40:08.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was busy, so it's hot, but maybe they could set it so that if it closed it wouldn't be hot anymore (or active).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T00:40:08.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4135" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:40:49.907" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hot is tracking things that measure as incredibly active with views and comments and answers over a period of time. It has nothing to do about the overall quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T00:40:49.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3991" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:42:08.000" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For people with under 10k rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7503/firstsoquestion.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/442/firstsoquestionthumb.png&quot; alt=&quot;First SO question&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(Click for full size image)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T00:42:08.000" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4128" CreationDate="2009-07-10T00:55:36.017" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it worthwile to have a &quot;moved-from-stackoverflow&quot; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T00:55:36.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-10T01:35:21.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Digium has managed to open source their asterisk software while maintaining an Enterprise version. Redhat (RHEL vs Fedora || CentOS) and Novell (SLED vs OpenSUSE) have done the same too ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see an open source version of StackExchange - I would love to start a site for car enthusiasts - oilchange.org or something similar - but I can't really justify investing the money for the StackExchange service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, it depends on the Open Source License you choose, you write your own license that prevents people using the software, or any derivative of it, in a manner that competes with you, but allows them to use it freely for their own purposes - ie: a company can't start their own hosted StackExchange service, but they can create a site for hobby-electronics or something ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124085" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T01:35:21.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T01:35:21.437" />
  <row Id="4146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4147" CreationDate="2009-07-10T01:39:44.313" Score="5" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that I am not using this feature correctly?  Or perhaps I should be modifying my expectation, but when I click on the 'Unanswered' button I get a list of results that contain perhaps one or two unanswered questions at the top, followed by many more already answered questions.  Another strange thing is that interspersed with the results are random unanswered questions within and around the answered ones, so that we are not only seeing answered questions in with the unanswered ones, but they are not sorted so that the unanswered ones stack up at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one to be seeing this?  Am I not using the feature correctly or is there some way that I am supposed to sort the results on my own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T11:23:45.897" Title="Unexpected Results From Clicking The Unanswered Button" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="4147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2009-07-10T01:49:01.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers you are seeing do not contain any up-votes. The question is not considered answered until either an answer is accepted or one of the answers receives an up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T02:23:56.787" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T02:23:56.787" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2790" CreationDate="2009-07-10T01:58:53.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the new dump is out now I'd like to say that the dumps &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; cumulative as of May/June. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T01:58:53.883" />
  <row Id="4152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:03:21.550" Score="45" ViewCount="708" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while I miss having the option to write some LaTeX math on SO. E.g. when &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885411/how-do-i-build-this-finite-automaton&quot;&gt;talking about automata&lt;/a&gt;. I'm certainly &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1106929/find-all-combinations-of-coins-when-given-some-dollar-value/1106968#1106968&quot;&gt;not the only one&lt;/a&gt;. And I think the person answering &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055098/how-do-i-design-the-transition-functions-for-this-pushdown-automaton&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; would have appreciated it as well. I'm sure there are more examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be done, look e.g. at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=8997&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Physics forums&lt;/a&gt;. Multiple solutions exits, either by converting the LaTeX code to an image or MathML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the fields of theoretical computer science and computer programming overlap (formal languages, data structures, ...), and because plenty of users are acquainted with LaTeX, I think it makes sense to provide support for mathematical notation on SO. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T08:07:39.910" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T18:54:07.210" Title="Adding support for math notation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;latex&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="20" />
  <row Id="4153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4152" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:14:57.650" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any service out there that lets you generate latex images using query strings?  I'm thinking something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://example.com/latex.png?formula=2%2B2%3D4&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hardly ideal because the URL encoding makes it difficult to read (the above example is just &quot;2+2=4&quot;), but it would at least be a workable solution.  But I don't see it being implemented here because it's not necessary often enough for the team to focus their efforts on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, if this service doesn't exist, someone should create it and they'd probably be able to make money.  Since the URL encoding is so difficult, users would have to come to your site and enter the formula there, and let it generate the image url for you.  You could sell ads there directed at math and science professors (which might be pretty effective, since you'd have a fairly narrow audience).  And the generated LaTeX could have some kind of non-obtrusive watermark that would lead users back to your site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T02:51:05.393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T02:51:05.393" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:17:52.260" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to show what tag someone got the taxonomist (and whatever other badges that are tag-related) badge for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T02:17:52.260" ClosedDate="2009-07-10T03:03:56.747" Title="Taxonomist Idea" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4160" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:29:53.770" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all, I'm not sure where to ask a deployment question, Stackoverflow or ServerFault. It's kind of a crossover question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need to be able to sort out the server requirements for deploying a click once app, I thought that my sever had all the required attributes, but I am having issues, which sort of implies a serverfault.com question. However it's very likely that only a .NET Dev would be able to answer me....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do you think I should ask my question ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10387" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:35:20.000" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:07:24.490" Title="Deployment Questions: ask on Stack Overflow or Server Fault?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4080" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:34:43.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community Wiki answers provide an opportunity ... for shortcomings in those answers to be rectified by folks other than the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're being misled by the word &quot;Wiki&quot; being in &quot;Community Wiki.&quot;  In practice, so many users are over 2k rep (at least on main SO) that &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question can be rectified by folks other than the original author.  And even then, it's not really &quot;community&quot; owned.  Sure, the original author gets no rep from it, but try to significantly edit a &quot;community wiki&quot; question or answer (i.e. to the point that it expresses a completely different idea than it did to begin with) and people will cry foul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truth is that &quot;community wiki&quot; on SO really means something like &quot;something that generates so much attention--because it is 'fun' rather than 'technical'--that the community feels it would generate unearned and undeserved amounts of rep.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T02:34:43.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4166" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:47:07.750" Score="0" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be a good idea to allow users of Stack Overflow / meta - Stack Overflow / Server Fault etc to be able to use the same user ID profile data.  So for example, If I wanted to do so I could have signed into meta - Stack Overflow with my Stack Overflow User rather than having to create a completely identical user on meta-SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this wouldn't be something everyone would want to do, but I think it should be an option for those who don't mind having the same user id / user data&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130690" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T12:35:52.650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T14:00:03.977" Title="Optional Single-user Single-Signon Idea" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4152" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:54:58.240" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found a site that does just this: &lt;img src=&quot;http://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?c=%5csqrt%7ba%5e2%2bb%5e2%7d&quot; alt=&quot;c=sqrt(a^2+b^2)&quot;&gt; should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;and particularly &lt;a href=&quot;http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=59&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; for more info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I can't seem to get the image working,&lt;/s&gt; I got the image working, thanks to Kip; for those who are curious, the url I am using is &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?c=%5csqrt%7ba%5e2%2bb%5e2%7d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?c=%5csqrt%7ba%5e2%2bb%5e2%7d&lt;/a&gt; (which doesn't work properly as a link either - wonder if it has something to do with the \ in the url?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a cool one: &lt;img src=&quot;http://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?%5cfrac%7bStack%7d%7bFlow%7d&quot; alt=&quot;StackOverflow&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T18:37:28.297" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T18:37:28.297" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="4160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4155" CreationDate="2009-07-10T02:58:41.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is pretty clearly a StackOverflow question. The people on ServerFault may &lt;em&gt;run&lt;/em&gt; the servers that the app's being deployed to, but I don't think many handle deployment issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T02:58:41.677" />
  <row Id="4161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4155" CreationDate="2009-07-10T03:16:41.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no reason you can't ask on both sites - simply state you've asked in both places. (This has happened several times that I can recall) At worst you'll get two different audiences giving you possible answers. However as Jeff pointed out - try one first and if you get a lukewarm response, then try the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think it's something a .NET dev would be able to answer - ask on StackOverflow first but there is a lot more overlap between Server Fault and Stack Overflow than you would think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2619" LastEditorUserId="2619" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:07:24.490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:07:24.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3816" CreationDate="2009-07-10T03:18:17.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add a vote for adding a feature to hide &quot;not interested.&quot; I say this because I deal only with WIndows enterprise systems and I really have no use for Linux related topics. As much as I'd love to learn more about Linux, I really need to focus on my areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider this request!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards...Michael&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T03:18:17.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2009-07-10T04:27:52.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below is a screen shot, just to make this issue clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/0b5680a5ba.png&quot; alt=&quot;loading ...&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this doesn't load in place, image is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?9e6c24daeb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18484" LastEditorUserId="18484" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T21:05:07.120" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T21:05:07.120" />
  <row Id="4165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-10T04:39:29.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Slightly off topic though already sort of mentioned. What about a free closed source version of Stack Overflow for download?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking along the lines of things similar to Microsoft's 'Express' editions of Visual Studio where the product works but has certain limitations built in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could for example create a free to download but closed source 'Stack Overflow Express'. It could be limited by for example, only working with SQL Server express (total database size 2GB Max), no support for running ads, limited number of page views a day, limted number of total users, limited styling support, no plugins, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would make a great free product for interanet or extranet use within small companies, organisations or groups and not impact on the business of getting the big users to buy the real thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T04:39:29.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T04:39:29.833" />
  <row Id="4166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4157" CreationDate="2009-07-10T04:45:46.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already allow that. Use the same OpenID that you created for one of your other accounts. Then you'll be able to associate those accounts together and get a +100 rep bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T04:45:46.050" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T04:47:22.817" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the right hand side, a user can add some tags under the interesting tags section. And when the user click on one of the interesting tags, he can see only the questions which are tagged with the tag he clicked on. However, the interesting tag section has disappeared. So if the user wants to see any other interesting tag, he has to first click on Question tab (on which he can now see the interesting tag section) and then select any other interesting tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be really convenient, if the interesting tag section is available on all pages, so that the user does not have to go to the Questions tab to see the section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:31:57.317" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:31:57.317" Title="Interesting tag section disappears when a user clicks on interesting tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4172" CreationDate="2009-07-10T04:50:02.503" Score="11" ViewCount="1002" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this isn't an outrageous question. I'm developing a Web application that is going to be sort of like a blogging platform, but aimed towards storing snippets of code. I have read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/updated-wmd-editor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog posts&lt;/a&gt; about the effort to improve the WMD editor. The reengineered code is available on GitHub, but there doesn't seem to be any info about whether/how it's licensed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to use it in my app or would that be messed up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130286" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-21T13:03:33.783" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T13:03:33.783" Title="Can I use Stack Overflow's reengineered WMD editor?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="4169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="112" CreationDate="2009-07-10T04:54:05.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is the target audience for the flairs? If it is other stackoverflow users then you don't want to change it too much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the strength of the flair is that it looks just like it does on stackoverflow. Maybe some kind of subtle color difference between the flairs for each site and / or some kind of mouse over effect (even just a link title with the URL).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5506" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T04:54:05.520" />
  <row Id="4170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4168" CreationDate="2009-07-10T04:54:40.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine if they made it available on github that it would be available for you to use on your own projects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T04:54:40.123" />
  <row Id="4171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2009-07-10T05:06:22.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But there are so many more details available why limit yourself to just the number of people on? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about the number of on-line users who have been active in the area your questions is in?  Or take this further to show how many of these users have high rep through actually answering a lot of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5506" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T05:06:22.483" />
  <row Id="4172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4168" CreationDate="2009-07-10T05:13:50.117" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there isn't a license present in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cky/wmd/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;main repository&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;most active fork&lt;/a&gt; is released under the MIT license. There is, however, one issue that prevents free and clear use and distribution of these files: the original, minified version was &lt;em&gt;never actually released&lt;/em&gt; under any open source license. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/download&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;author's website&lt;/a&gt; says that the &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; version will be open source, but it doesn't say anything about the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; version. I doubt you'll have a legal problem here, but you should have all the facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you want to be 100% legit, just &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/downloads/wmd-1.0.1.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;download and use&lt;/a&gt; the current version from the author's site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:39:29.323" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:39:29.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="112" CreationDate="2009-07-10T05:19:57.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use flair on my blog. This serves to impress possible employers and connect other programmers with SO, SE, and even Meta. Obviously I should and can make some remarks around the flair, but a combined one or more decriptive one would be great. Maybe a small wizzard to customize the flair like in facebook, where I can choose wich information can be included on the flair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T05:19:57.517" />
  <row Id="4174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2009-07-10T05:52:06.773" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I understand &amp;amp; agree with the accepted answer, its still confusing for new users (it confused me for ages until I went hunting for a bug report &amp;amp; stumbled across the answer in the faq somewhere). Logically its understandable that people to expect &quot;unanswered&quot; to mean &quot;has no answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the solution to the underlying issue could be as simple as a title tag on the main &quot;unanswered&quot; tab/button/link. Or perhaps a description next to the &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; header at the top of the unanswered page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Well I'm blind... as Jeff points out in the comments below there's already a description on the right saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;12,345&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;questions with &lt;strong&gt;no upvoted answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis on &quot;no upvoted answers&quot; already there)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T07:33:38.370" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T07:33:38.370" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T06:09:14.877" Score="9" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little number next to each question to be able to tell which questions have been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or in related only appear questions answered with upvotes already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:20:35.930" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:20:35.930" Title="Add the number of (upvoted) answers to questions listed in the related section" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="85937" CreationDate="2009-07-10T06:16:57.853" Score="3" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should be able to subscribe to wildcard tags with RSS (like c++*).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-04T21:25:35.593" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T21:25:35.593" Title="Make RSS feeds capable of using multi tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4017" CreationDate="2009-07-10T06:25:50.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use different versions of Chrome on different machines, including Chrome on Linux, and haven't seen this issue at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T06:25:50.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T06:48:12.457" Score="27" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going along with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3422/public-facing-interactive-data-dump&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; idea, I've created a sandbox for the monthly SO data dump. Eventually it will have an integrated SO stat framework that I've been working on for the past few days. It runs on MySQL 5, so make sure you use proper syntax! The only real restriction that I've placed on it as of yet is that all returns are limited to &lt;strong&gt;500 results&lt;/strong&gt;, mainly to prevent memory errors. Feel free to run some queries in 500 result sets if necessary.  Also, it is &lt;strong&gt;read only&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The database can be found here, &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;strong&gt;You must have javascript enabled&lt;/strong&gt;.  I also recommend you don't return all fields using * since their display is limited on the visual style, and this will make them almost impossible to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find any errors or mistakes, let me know. I'm still rapidly developing this so there's bound to be a few -- or several. I'll fix them ASAP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example query is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Title, PostTypeId, Score, ViewCount FROM posts   &#xA;    WHERE Title != &quot;&quot; LIMIT 200 ORDER BY Score DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can sort items ASC or DESC by clicking the respective field titles, and you may do live search upon any sorted column.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have ideas or suggestions let me know. I may or may not already have similar things in the works. Soon I will be integrating graphs and charts so you can easily model your data to use elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Schema&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently the five default tables:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;posts&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;users&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;votes&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;badges&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The field titles are verbatim from the dump, and have the same casing.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Examples: PostTypeId, Title, LastEditDate, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All times have already been converted to Unix Stamps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a good wiki here, specifying exactly what the tables are.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan on adding more tables shortly to make things easier, and will post those updates here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:07:17.407" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T10:45:35.740" Title="Data Dump Sandbox" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;community-data&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="14" />
  <row Id="4180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-07-10T07:20:52.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Biggest feature request from my point of view: make the query area a multiline textbox with a smaller font :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fabulous idea though. Currently trying to see the number of votes my posts have received, grouped by vote type. It's taking a little while - I hope you've got a timeout as well :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I like Piotr's idea of showing some interesting sample queries. You might want to allow these to be really easily parameterised, too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I am user [...] - show me my (links to different queries with prepopulated userid).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The query I ran was as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select votetypeid, count(1) from votes&#xA;inner join posts on votes.postid = posts.id &#xA;where posts.owneruserid = 22656&#xA;group by votetypeid&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(22656 is my userid, obviously.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lets you work out a &quot;raw rep&quot; by calculating 15 * count(type=1) + 10 * count(type=2) - 2 * count(type=3). That doesn't take into account bounties or your own downvotes, or posts which have changed to become CW after you gained some rep from them. It's a reasonable starting point though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone with more SQL-fu than me can convert that formula into a query in its own right :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:59:01.520" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:59:01.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T07:31:16.450" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;In  Firefox, when starting to write an answer or a question and then pressing the browser back button I get an alert regarding the unsaved question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not happen with Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Version 10.00 Beta&#xA;Build 4464&#xA;Platform Linux&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no JavaScript errors in the error console.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:32:46.517" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:32:46.517" Title="Opera not poping up confirmation on unsubmitted answer/question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-reproduced&gt;&lt;opera&gt;&lt;linux&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T07:53:05.310" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/700/can-we-get-rid-of-the-threshold-of-15-chars-for-comments&quot;&gt;Can we get rid of the threshold of 15 chars for comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I want to just write &quot;Sweet answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T07:53:05.310" ClosedDate="2009-07-10T10:09:36.343" Title="Can we drop the 15 characters minimal length for comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-10T08:33:02.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be mentioned that open source and free software are slightly different concepts, but I'll use them here interchangably anyway, with the meaning of free software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) There are many ways in which you can consider whether open sourcing makes sense. Gains/losses are one significant angle. There is also a philosophical one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the philosophical sense, freeing the code is itself a goal&lt;/strong&gt; - the rationale being the same that science tires to embrace: advancing the body of human knowledge, or in this case the codebase of humanity. Things to consider here is not what gains will be gotten from making the software free, but rather what will losses will be made (if any), and whether they can be afforded. In this view, closed source is a bit like hiding a cure for common cold and selling it for rich people - somewhat shady business, but it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the utilitarian gains/losses angle, you need to consider the affected parties, as you already stated in the question. What do you gain/lose? What does the community as a whole gain/lose? What do other individuals gain/lose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You gain improvements to the code by the community&lt;/strong&gt; - not just new stuff being coded, but also multitude of eyeballs checking the code for errors. Usually, this is an overstated advantage, but considering your audience has a lot of skilled coders, it might be very significant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also if you release with AGPL, you may even gain improvements from competing business, as they'd have to release their modifications. Whether this is significant, it's hard to tell.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also from utilitarian view, &lt;strong&gt;you gain karma points&lt;/strong&gt; - a lot of people seem to like open source, and freeing you code would make a great impression to the open source community. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The community gains the possibility to improve on your code&lt;/strong&gt;, whether directly through submissions to your code, or by forking to develop for other purposes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The community gains other problem-solving sites with quality code&lt;/strong&gt; - as people, inspiried by the awesome code of SO, start setting them up for all kinds of topics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This also means an important gain: &lt;strong&gt;Other individuals gain the possibility to set up their own sites - even for non-profit or private scenarios&lt;/strong&gt;. Not everyone has money for StackExchange. Then again, there already are open source alternatives.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Losses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You may lose some business of StackExchange&lt;/strong&gt;, but I don't feel confident in guessing whether this will happen and how much you lose. In any case, it's doubtful that you gain business.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The community may lose coherency and quality of problem-solving sites&lt;/strong&gt;. If multiple copies spring up, it might dilute the problem-solving field and reduce quality as the other sites probably wouldn't be as well maintained. I don't expect the community for programming questions to disperse from here, but for other topics this may be a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The community may lose your contribution&lt;/strong&gt; - if there's no StackExchange business model, and everyone and their friends are hosting problem-solving sites, are you anymore interested in improving this system rather than just letting the community deal with it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other individuals can't really lose anything, since they're only given stuff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) You will indeed inevitably be competing with open-source options. If you go open source, you'll probably be controlling the progress. You can delay this until the open source alternatives are starting to gaining community and popularity - but if you delay too much, you'll need to work a lot to get to the top, since everyone will be focused on the alternative that was open source from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant question here is, &lt;strong&gt;does it matter whether you are in control or not?&lt;/strong&gt; You'll always have SO code for your sites, regardless. The risk for you is that an open source alternative becomes a lot better, and people start migrating there, so you have to work to keep up with the competition. You could avoid the work by going open and just controlling the progress yourselves. Then again, I don't expect OS alternatives to get attractive enough for migration in a long time, but who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T08:33:02.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T08:33:02.560" />
  <row Id="4184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4193" CreationDate="2009-07-10T08:40:48.303" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just asking a question on Stack Overflow and after entering the title I got a hundred or so related questions, which are absolutely unrelated to anything I care about. Did anyone actually bothered to scroll the down and see more than the first 5 hints? Wouldn't it make more sense to filter it a bit better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5363" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T11:14:43.353" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:15:57.653" Title="Why does stack overflow suggest so many irrelevant questions on the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; screen?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4185" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4186" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:01:05.873" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;In stackoverflow.com, when I go to questions, it doesn't show the default 15 results, it shows a different number of results going from 5 to 10 usually. I have tried it with Chrome and Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In meta.stackoverflow.com it works correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this happen to anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130436" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T10:25:23.350" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:25:23.350" Title="Bug in StackOverflow.com? Not showing 15 results" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4185" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:07:36.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you checked the Hide Ignored Tags option on your preferences page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember reading in an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2063/large-blank-gap-between-question-list-and-pager&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that it is applied on the client side so even though the database will return all the results fewer will displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T09:07:36.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:08:04.093" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great, great, great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest you add a section with some interesting queries.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It would be cool to have it under &lt;strong&gt;data.stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt; domain as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="95735" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T09:13:06.017" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T09:13:06.017" />
  <row Id="4189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4205" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:23:22.787" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this has been proposed before, but I couldn't find anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times it happens that a question is asked, some answers are added, and then the original poster changes the question in such a way that the answers are no longer relevant. This makes the answerers look like fools in some cases (and they often get downvoted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anything be done to prevent this on SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible solution would be to only allow &lt;strong&gt;adding&lt;/strong&gt; to an existing question when one or more answer has been added. Just a thought...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clarification&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;adding&quot; to a question, I don't mean only allow comments, but prevent the original content from being edited by the OP. They can only add extra text below the original text. Others (with high enough reputation) can of course edit all the content if required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This piece of text under the header &quot;Clarification&quot; is an example of what I mean (I added this after the first answer was posted here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130672" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T13:06:43.087" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:06:43.087" Title="Only allow adding to existing questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4189" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:28:20.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it will always be important (in the general case) to be able to edit the original question, to add detail etc. In particular, if the OP adds more detail as an &quot;answer&quot; it tends to get hammered and requested moved into the question! Comments can't often be used for this, due to both space issues and rep requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think it has been edited inappropriately, roll it back or edit it (perhaps highlighting the &quot;original question&quot;). You can also flag it for a moderator, who can lock the post (prevents edits, but doesn't prevent new answers). This would be an exception, not the norm - and to be honest if the OP is misbehaving to that extent it is probably easier to close and/or delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T09:28:20.517" />
  <row Id="4192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4184" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:31:38.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have actually found the suggested results on the ask a question screen a lot more helpfull than those that are returned by the search sometimes, I suppose with more questions the filters should be tightend up a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T09:31:38.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T09:31:38.683" />
  <row Id="4193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4184" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:32:51.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stackoverflow search leaves much to be desired, however it is a useful quick check to see if there are any questions already asking the same thing. I think they could improve on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the site has been setup to help Google index the content as many people have pointed out that Google is really StackOverflow's homepage, and the majority of users will come from there and land on the question which answers their question (ie: google search).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;Some ideas&lt;/a&gt; for additional search options have been suggested regarding the general search, and I think that the similar question search/filter needs to also be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="415" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T09:32:51.103" />
  <row Id="4198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2634" CreationDate="2009-07-10T09:40:51.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer here is figuring out what the use case is for mobile browsing of this site.  If it's the full experience including answering questions, then I would agree with the arguments that people tend to write long posts, and thus the effectiveness of mobility is less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is that a mobile version of the site should be created to address this issue. It is mostly a presentation issue, and could easily be developed by the SO team in a reasonably short time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think the amount of use this would get justifies creating this specialized version.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="415" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T09:40:51.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4181" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:11:42.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, I can reproduce this on Opera 9.xx windows as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, Opera. Good times.. good times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:11:42.930" />
  <row Id="4202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4206" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:14:20.110" Score="4" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108612/method-with-same-name-and-different-parameters-in-ruby/1108714#1108714&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; of mine has some italicized words containing underscores in the first line.&#xA;These look good in the preview, but in the answer they appear non-italicized with surrounding asterisks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a known bug, and is there a workaround?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122321" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:07:52.053" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:07:52.053" Title="Markdown italics with underscores look good in preview but not in answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:17:59.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can now sort favorites by &quot;latest&quot; (CreationDate) or &quot;recent&quot; (LastActivityDate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that by our definition, activity means only edits to question or answers, or new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: new sort order for favorites, &quot;added&quot; (Date Favorited, which is a join to the votes table, so it is a little expensive)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T10:32:11.537" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T10:32:11.537" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2714" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:18:47.583" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can now copy profiles via the buttons labelled &quot;copy from {site}&quot; on the accounts tab of the user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;blind&quot; souls like KronoS here's where it's at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/hfHG6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you'll get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/tZDyC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="151224" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-10T23:23:52.400" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T23:23:52.400" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4189" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:20:30.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would make more sense on a site like ebay where money is changing hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason to have that restriction here. You could propose better notifications of edits for questions you've participated in, perhaps, but that's relatively low priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally most questions have a flurry of editing during the &quot;interest period&quot; and then stabilize. So if you check back to questions you've answered after a day, I expect 99% of the time you'd have the desired effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:20:30.760" />
  <row Id="4206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4202" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:21:23.283" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workaround - write the italics tag yourself. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Use &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;attr_accessor&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; to add attributes&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;produces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;i&gt;attr_accessor&lt;/i&gt; to add attributes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ugly, but it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether it's a known bug - it's known now ;) (Things like this are fundamentally tricky for markdown, unfortunately.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:21:23.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4167" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:23:29.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you mean the right hand side --&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, the &quot;drill down&quot; there is adding tags and making the tag combinations that are more and more specific. You can use the browser back button to get back to a previous tag combinations, or click the &quot;tagged&quot; tags at the top right to go to a top level tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:23:29.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4202" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:24:46.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The server-side markdown parser does not like mixing _ and *.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't cross the streams!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:24:46.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4167" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:35:31.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a choice of multiple paths to make, it's generally good usability to keep that choice visible after selecting. Another option would be to provide a navigational way back at the same area, something like &quot;Browsing [ruby], one of your [interesting tags].&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags probably weren't thought as navigation choice, but in effect they have that role as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:35:31.037" />
  <row Id="4210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4133" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:36:30.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reputation is basically this, summarized as a single number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we want to show upvote / downvote received count, as it will lead to heartache and more support emails than we already get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:36:30.573" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4128" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:39:44.020" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you're not going deep enough: these tags should not exist, period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want something moved&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote for it to be closed as &quot;move to {x}&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag it for moderator attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;do NOT tag it &quot;belongs-on-x&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(exception for superuser temporarily until we get that part of the code done)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: complete, we now auto-remove any [belongs-on-x] tags when a question is migrated from site to site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T09:40:03.120" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:40:03.120" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3735" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:40:21.507" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is now a disassociate button on the user page, accounts tab. To use it, you'll take the following steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Change your OpenID on the site you wish to associate. Change it to something you aren't using on &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; other Stack Exchange sites&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt;. If you have an alternate OpenID, change that too. If you fail to do this, the system will automatically re-associate your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Change your email. Again, something you're not using anywhere else on the Stack Exchange network&lt;sup&gt;‡&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click the &quot;Clear All Associations&quot; button on the bottom of the Accounts page on your profile. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to another SE site where you have an account, and log out (choose &quot;Log out &lt;strong&gt;everywhere&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;). Then log back in. The rest of your accounts will be re-associated. (But note that the &quot;Accounts&quot; page in your profile is cached, and may take a little while to reflect the change)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; If you have your own website domain, you could use that as a delegate, by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips/63119#63119&quot;&gt;simply adding some hidden HTML tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;‡&lt;/sup&gt; Many email providers allow for some sort of alias, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12096&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;for Gmail&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;your.username+anything@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-11T16:15:48.107" LastActivityDate="2011-04-11T16:15:48.107" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="4213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2607" CreationDate="2009-07-10T10:45:43.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having the shortcuts in the tooltip mouseover for the editor toolbar buttons (as they currently are) isn't sufficient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T10:45:43.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4184" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:15:57.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the /ask page is matching entirely and &lt;em&gt;exclusively&lt;/em&gt; on words in the title. Bad titles, bad results; good titles, good results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It always made me laugh a little that people claimed this &quot;method&quot; of searching was better and more effective than our search box, which searches for your search terms in both title and body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:15:57.653" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4176" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:27:17.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you can combine tags already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/bug+status-completed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/bug+status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that + has to be encoded if it occurs in a tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:27:17.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4217" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:32:30.930" Score="13" ViewCount="563" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do some people post comments that are actually answers to the question? Wouldn't posting an answer be better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T12:22:43.850" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T17:02:38.637" Title="Why do some people answer in comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4217" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:35:23.797" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'll put in a half-answer in the comments when I'm really not sure if I'm right or not, hoping that somebody can confirm what I'm saying.  Then I'll go off and research the answer, and by the time I get back somebody else has confirmed what I said in a real answer, so I'll vote them up, or if nobody has, I'll answer myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really just trying to spur a quick correct answer, and not put down something as an answer if I'm not sure it's right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:35:23.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:35:33.433" Score="2" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add other OpenID to my account, but when I do this that I have a question that I am logged in and If I would like to relog with the second OpenID. Whatever I choose OpenID's are not joined. What to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38940" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T17:28:52.300" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T17:28:52.300" Title="Cannot assign other OpenID account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4217" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:40:26.347" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I vote to close a question, I refuse to answer it as well. But sometimes I will give some input in the form of a comment. Occasionally such a comment from me will be a real answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively I'll post &quot;have you tried ...?&quot; comments. Someone posts a question saying they want to know how to parse XML, so I'll say &quot;Have you tried XSLT/XPath?&quot; with a link to a resource explaining it. You could call that an answer, but from my point of view it's just a verbose link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it's an answer if I'm supplying real information that I generated on my own, or aggregated on my own. If it's just a link it's not an answer. Your opinions may differ, but that's how I see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:40:26.347" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4217" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:41:17.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally it's not obvious when your response should be an answer or a comment. I have sometimes commented on questions, and it's turned into a discussion that results in an answer. YMMMV :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115413" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:41:17.510" />
  <row Id="4222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4219" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:48:22.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are referring to merging unregistered (cookie based) and registered (OpenID based) accounts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;email team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are referring to adding an OpenID (or overwriting an OpenID) on an existing account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:48:22.587" />
  <row Id="4223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-07-10T11:56:27.930" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for lowering this limit too. It's silly to put in &quot;Comment       .&quot; just to get it posted. Didn't it used to be 10? Can't we get 10 at least?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Preventing mistakes is a non-argument. It only stops accidental posting if you post 14 characters or less and if you've done that well it's easy enough to copy and paste into a new comment and delete the old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T11:56:27.930" />
  <row Id="4224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4225" CreationDate="2009-07-10T12:03:52.723" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed in this thread &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245592/why-can-you-have-a-column-named-order-in-db2&quot;&gt;Why can you have a column named ORDER in DB2?&lt;/a&gt; the user with accepted answer ( David Hughes ) not a link to his profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:34:30.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:34:30.410" Title="Why is this user not seen as a link?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4224" CreationDate="2009-07-10T12:05:50.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/32443/dave-hughes&quot;&gt;doesn't exist&lt;/a&gt;. His profile was deleted for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T12:05:50.943" />
  <row Id="4226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4224" CreationDate="2009-07-10T12:16:00.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T12:16:00.793" />
  <row Id="4227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3630" CreationDate="2009-07-10T12:21:36.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See footer of every page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com LLC; user contributed content licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, no, you can't use the logo unless we give you permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, you can use the user contributed content as long as it complies with the linked terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T12:21:36.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-07-10T12:51:29.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was suggested to me that I should post here a request fixing problem with AltGr+G on Croatian keyboards. Basically, AltGr+F is used to insert [, and AltGr+G is used to insert ] on Croatian keyboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3934/minor-bug-croatian-keyboard-layouts-combo-altgrg-results-in-insert-image-d&quot;&gt;More details here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39974" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T12:51:29.327" />
  <row Id="4232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3987" CreationDate="2009-07-10T13:37:33.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to have this feature both for questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe for questions it should be part of a &quot;complex&quot; search function while for answers it could be enabled only for questions that have more that X answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:37:33.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T13:53:36.300" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still don't fully understand the motivation for Community Wiki, and why it some questions should be originally marked as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is turned CW later on, is the accumulated rep gain for the posting user removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:01:53.970" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:00:08.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T13:53:36.300" Title="Does turning a question to community wiki cause a loss of reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3936" CreationDate="2009-07-10T13:55:14.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amusingly, there is a change in progress that makes it highly desirable to categorise things as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;bug&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;feature-request&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;discussion&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if we seem to be &quot;owning&quot; the front page while we do this ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:55:14.137" />
  <row Id="4236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4234" CreationDate="2009-07-10T13:57:28.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the rep gained is not lost if it switches over to Community Wiki. You will not gain or lose any further reputation, however. Answers do not automatically flip over to CW status if the question flips (only new answers will be automatically CW). Those answers that remain non-CW will continue to gain and lose rep even if the question itself is now CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to gain rep when a question is Community Wiki is for the answer to have been posted before the question turned to CW (if it wasn't that way originally) or by receiving the +15 from an Accepted Answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T13:57:28.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T13:57:28.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4217" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:01:34.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I vote to close a question because it's not appropriate for SO, etc., but it is a question that I know the answer to, I will often add the answer as a comment to be helpful but not encourage other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other times, like when my answer is really a joke and the question isn't CW, I'll choose to answer with a comment so that it isn't confused with a real answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:01:34.260" />
  <row Id="4238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4606" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:10:10.457" Score="3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be a question directed at one of the inside guys, but I was wondering what the current percent of traffic is coming from Microsoft's new search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:02:03.440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T18:18:58.237" Title="What is the current percent of traffic from Bing to Stackoverflow and Serverfault?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:10:22.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would downvote &lt;strong&gt;only if the kludge answer out-scores the best-practices answer&lt;/strong&gt;.  It's all about having the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answer float to the top.  Then I would probably also leave a comment letting the answer know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:10:22.793" />
  <row Id="4240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:12:59.770" Score="11" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4234/does-turning-a-question-to-community-wiki-cause-a-loss-of-reputation/4236#4236&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I was wondering whether it would make sense to force answers to CW along with the question. All previous reputation will be kept, but no new reputation will be gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastEditorUserId="12855" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T10:58:24.170" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T19:07:05.590" Title="Force answers into CW after question has been made CW" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1238" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:13:16.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not the official flair, but this unofficial one by Steven Robbins should work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/09/updated-stack-overflow-wordpress-widget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Updated: Stack Overflow Wordpress Widget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:13:16.977" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:17:37.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You feel strangely jealous of Jon Skeet and his sky-high reputation, even though you've never met the man and he seems perfectly normal and nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:17:37.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T14:17:37.640" />
  <row Id="4243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4240" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:18:50.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of the Code Wedding Cake topic on StackOverflow. I was the first answer in there along with a few others who slipped in before the author changed it back to CW status and we continued to gain rep for it until we either hit our daily limit or some other users felt the urge to go in and continuously edit our posts until it automatically switched over (which I am pretty resentful of, I see the act of repetitive edits to force a CW switch a form of abuse). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as your answer, I don't necessarily see any problem with it aside from a slightly greedy perspective, so overall I wouldn't be bothered if it stayed the way it is now or was revised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:18:50.113" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:20:44.783" Score="4" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am planning on launching a stackexchange web site and would like to better understand how to make it successful.  (Initially, I thought that asking this question was equivalent to asking people to give up business secrets.  But I realize now that when stackexchange launches the likelihood that two sites will compete with each other is close to nil.  So we all benefit from sharing ideas on growing our sites so we can defend them against the big boys when they join the party.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the key ingredients in making a stackexchange web site successful?  Is doing paid advertising for the site important?  Is having a big mailing list of potential participants important?  Is SEO important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also interested in the importance of having a set of experts who are willing to answer questions as soon as the site launches.  In answering &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2904/stackexchange-business-plans&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, Adam Davis writes: &quot;Jeff and Joel both agree that to start a really good SO style website, one must already be or have subject matter experts that are there to start it off.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How critical is this?  If it is critical, what is the best way to gather a group of SMEs to answer questions on the launch date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:24:54.787" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:39:19.313" Title="What is required to make a stackexchange web site successful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="4246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4245" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:23:55.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Audience (preferably with enough knowledge to answer the questions).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An active set of moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:23:55.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4245" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:25:24.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Us.&lt;/a&gt; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The programmers who choose to&#xA;  participate in Stack Overflow are the&#xA;  “secret sauce” that makes it work. -Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or more generally, a knowledgeable and active community for whatever field your site will serve (good mechanics for a &quot;RadiatorOverflow&quot; site about car repair, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T14:32:20.283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:32:20.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4248" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:33:17.563" Score="1" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like the reputation and collaboration pieces of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about creating a hosted service similar to &lt;code&gt;ning.com&lt;/code&gt; and friends?  Let users create their own communities, support it with Google-style ads, etc.  You'd need a place to upload files, too, and include them in wiki pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I participate heavily in the Yahoo! groups list for a piece of enterprise software (Epicor Vantage).  If there were a viable, and better, alternative to Yahoo! groups, I'd switch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:11:57.523" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T20:11:57.523" Title="Stack Overflow software as a social networking tool" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3163" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:34:45.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Humour simply does not translate on the internet or by email. You need the personal touch, to understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's &quot;humour&quot;. What's with the &quot;u&quot; shortage over the pond?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:34:45.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4245" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:39:19.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the main requirement for good SE site would have to be the topic.  If your topic is popular there is a higher chance that you will be able attract not just people that are interested in the topic, but experts that want to share their knowledge with these people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is the Internet and niche markets can attract lots of people, but some niches are so small that you will never be able create a user base that will grow (it will stay a ghost town).  Topics should be on things that all people have an interest in, like health, books, cars etc.  These topics all have experts in the field as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as for paid advertising... I think it is a waste of money. I have never seen any advertisement for SO.  SO and hopefully other SE type sites will get free advertising though search engines, which is how probably 80% of all SO users found SO.  Another good form of free advertisement in today's age are through informative blogs.  Both of the founders of SO have great blogs with great articles on topics that their sites are based on.  Finally the main way people are going to find your site is through today's word of mouth, hyperlinks. As your site grows more people will tweet/blog/send emails with links to your site and blog.  Unlike true word of mouth where you say something once to one person and that's it, hyperlinks are always there telling people to &lt;em&gt;GO HERE&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all of these publicity, paid advertisements will never match the capabilities of Web 2.0 communication.  So, create a blog and a twitter account for your service, and make sure you invite a bunch of friends to participate to start the community up and spread word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you build it they will come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:39:19.313" />
  <row Id="4253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4248" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:42:17.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe if Jeff &amp;amp; Co. decide to release an open-source version of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; framework someone could branch it out to accomplish more of the functionality you would expect in a social network or a Yahoo! Groups style site, but I wouldn't want to see StackOverflow itself (and it's primary framework) get developed into something it is not supposed to be, or try to be all things to all people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a recipe in disaster. It is much better to focus on a specific target and shoot for it than to try to &quot;spray and pray&quot; and hope to hit every target imaginable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:42:17.570" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4248" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:42:24.803" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This idea feels like it's moving away from the core of what the SO engine is good at: Q&amp;amp;A. By the time you've added messaging, file uploads, wikis for everyone etc you'll end up with something more like SharePoint. SO is focused on Q&amp;amp;A - that's its whole purpose for existing: it helps people get answers to questions fast. To my mind, that's the only really important thing. The fact that it's &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; and that eventually you get to know other users a bit is more of a means to that end than an end in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it makes more sense for you to work out which bits of the SO stack you particularly like, and request those features in a site which is already &lt;em&gt;aimed&lt;/em&gt; at social networking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:42:24.803" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20953" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:54:38.617" Score="11" ViewCount="1092" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Jon Skeet has broken the 100,000 barrier!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it's hard to pinpoint the exact time, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23244/should-jon-skeet-get-a-prize-for-being-first-to-reach-100k-rep&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; was created very shortly afterwards, with a post date of 2009-09-24 01:39:44Z. The winner is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4255/contest-to-predict-date-and-time-that-jon-skeet-will-eclipse-100k/20953#20953&quot;&gt;silky&lt;/a&gt;, who called September 24!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be fun.  There could be a programming element to this, since some data mining might be able to help you observe patterns to help enrich your chances of winning.  Jeff would, of course, be able to provide some SO swag to the lucky winner, even if it's just a fun badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when do you think that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; will eclipse 100k?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/11/stack-overflow-share-your-flair-now-in-png/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/imageFlair/imageFlair.php?userid=22656&quot; alt=&quot;Current Score&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="404" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:20:34.533" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:20:34.533" ClosedDate="2011-08-27T16:41:03.303" Title="Contest to predict date and time that Jon Skeet will eclipse 100k" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="100" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:57:15.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.statoverflow.com/sandbox&lt;/a&gt; went up recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T14:57:15.723" />
  <row Id="4258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:59:02.743" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friday afternoon has hit Meta SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday Afternoon&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The time period in which an uncharacteristically large set of non-programming-related &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; questions are posted on StackOverflow and related websites. It is assumed that this is the most popular time period due to the urge for users to want to &quot;wind down&quot; from a hard week of attempting to treat StackOverflow like serious business. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The time period in which most SO humor trolls wake up and begin feeding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:42:41.360" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:42:41.360" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4238" CreationDate="2009-07-10T14:59:48.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MediaPost: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;amp;art%5Faid=109514&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bing's Growth Accelerates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adding in Live.com and MSN Search along with Bing, the combined search engines have grown at an average of 16 percent during June 2009. Hitwise estimates that Bing grew faster than the three other prominent search engines for the month.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to LOVE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/view%5Fplay%5Flist?p=ADB303ECB3C92C0C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the commercials&lt;/a&gt;....but I don't &lt;em&gt;'bing&lt;/em&gt; as often as I &lt;em&gt;google&lt;/em&gt; though. Habit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.industrialsearchenginemarketing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bing.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.industrialsearchenginemarketing.com/blog/2009/06/29/is-bing-msn-driving-more-traffic-to-industrial-websites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.industrialsearchenginemarketing.com/blog/2009/06/29/is-bing-msn-driving-more-traffic-to-industrial-websites/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:50:06.517" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:50:06.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:00:43.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10/9/2009 12:00:00 PM UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, that's October 9; I was mimicking the date-time format used in SO tool tips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:31:40.610" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:31:40.610" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:03:52.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take the stroke of midnight on Halloween.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:03:52.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:08:43.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put me down for Sept. 28.  I think he'll actually do it a little faster, but that's my daughter's birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm at it, I'll also claim Sept. 27, which is Jon's 1 yr anniversary at SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I should also check the data dump and do some extrapolation based on how much he's earned per day over just the past 60 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T16:37:51.060" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:37:51.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:14:27.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if you look at his rep graph it seems to be almost a liner graph starting at 2008/09/27.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today is 2009/07/10, and he has a rep of 77,307.  It has been 286 days since he started.  Some how he has been getting 270.3 points adverge a day. So by this math he should reach 100K at.... 2009/10/2 Around 7am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Woops, I was never good with dates.  I corrected my answer to be more accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastEditorUserId="130385" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T15:27:43.370" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:27:43.370" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:16:42.357" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do I get to guess as well, or is there a sneaking suspicion that I may be able to influence it? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to say &quot;6-8 weeks&quot; but I think it'll be a little longer than that... unless people feel like asking big bounty questions about time zones ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I've recently been tracking what it'll take for me to get there before my one year anniversary (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/137454/what-does-the-private-modifier-do/139028#139028&quot;&gt;September 26th&lt;/a&gt;). At the moment I need a little shy of 300 a day, which is fairly easily achievable. Weekends are generally a pain (it's hard to get 300 on a weekend day) but if I only assume 200 for the remaining 4 weekend days before the 26th, I still only have to get 324 per day. That's doable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T22:11:47.317" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T22:11:47.317" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="4268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:22:48.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the officially accepted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts/310323#310323&quot;&gt;Auto-Characterization&lt;/a&gt; of His Skeetness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can make 1 == 3 anyway, so&#xA;  it makes no difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words: Jon Skeet's rep doesn't reach 100,000. Jon Skeet redefines 100,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:22:48.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:27:59.953" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he'll EVER hit 100,000. Something tells me there's a bug in the system that is going to replicate the old arcade days. Jon will hit 99,999 and then forever be stuck there, or he'll go back to 1 and get the &quot;Awesomeness&quot; badge that repeats every time you get to 100,000 rep, that badge will be platinum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that should be a feature request? Sorry...Friday has arrived. 8^D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastEditorUserId="71" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:15:48.453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:15:48.453" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4217" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:37:53.293" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are probably as many answers to this question as there are people answering in comments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll do it sometimes if i have a suggestion that doesn't really seem like a complete answer, if the length and formatting restrictions of a comment allow it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, i just don't want to bother writing up a good answer, so i'll use the comment to post a hint, in the hope that it'll prompt someone else to go to the trouble of researching and fleshing it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others have noted that they'll use comments to provide answers to inappropriate questions. I'll usually still post an answer in that case, but mark it CW... however, this can upset some people, and i'm not entirely sure whether it works to encourage other CW answers (ok), or just encourage other answers (not ok). So i'll occasionally post my answer as a comment then as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:37:53.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-07-10T15:38:07.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the winner get all of Jon Skeet's rep, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T15:38:07.297" />
  <row Id="4273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4278" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:05:38.620" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my big concerns about SO is how sustainable it will be in the long run.  We've all been part of other communities that compete with SO in the past and present and I'm curious why we think that SO &quot;has that thing...&quot;.  Some people say that Apple &quot;has that thing...&quot; or Google &quot;has that thing...&quot;, but does SO &quot;have that thing...&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why will SO succeed while others will not?  Will SO outlast the ASP.NET forums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;has that thing&quot; = positive buzz, perception of cool, will not fail, etcetera......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will new users continue to come to SO?  Will advertisers continue to contribute money (of late I've notice quite a few &quot;your ad here&quot; messages, not good?)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:15:14.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:22:08.380" Title="What drivers will make SO sustainable for the long run?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:08:14.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that fast answers often help getting the question formulated well. The first answers often raise some issues that, once addressed when the author (who's probably still around) enhances the question, makes the later answers better (especially if the first answer is not adjusted to changes in the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast answers also might stop people from posting their questions on multiple sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the default sorting should be &quot;votes&quot; rather than &quot;oldest&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:08:14.530" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4273" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:08:55.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think as long as the turn around time on answers stays as low as it is, the site will be fine.  It's rare to find a question here that is old without something resembling a good answer in it.  Compare that to any other forums where someone will have a question and there are 0 responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130194" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:08:55.710" />
  <row Id="4276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4273" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:08:56.530" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Printer&lt;/em&gt; drivers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, right. Well, i'll keep showing up so long as there are plenty of good questions, and plenty of good answers to those questions. If it devolves into 90% &quot;plz send codez&quot; and the linked results of Bing searches, then so long...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:08:56.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4315" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:20:20.247" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to evaluate the StackExchange platform for an Ask the Professional type of implementation and there are a couple of things that may or may not be deal breakers in the analysis and I'm curious if they fit in at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can permissions be used to limit which registered users can answer questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you require folks to be logged in to even view the questions?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:45:21.193" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:32:38.157" Title="StackExchange - Permissions For Answering And Viewing Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4273" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:22:08.380" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The critical mass gives it the initial thrust, and the community-wiki aspect of being able to sanitize other people's data gives it the sustainability. I mean, let's face it, we all love to clean up after other people - it makes us look smart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:22:08.380" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:30:09.110" Score="7" ViewCount="512" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the concept of reputation is to give the user a sense of trust in the person answering the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that note I find many users who's reputations are very high, but its from asking questions and getting up voted and not from providing other users with answers. At this point it is misleading unless you go to the users profile and investigate where their reputation is coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a split between, answering reputation and asking a question reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;just throwing it out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i did not say to entirely get rid of reputation from asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am merely suggesting a separation in the two. A reputation for answering and a reputation for asking good questions. This way you can differentiate quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If its strictly for the system, then why display it after each users name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130614" LastEditorUserId="130614" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:46:05.250" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T15:42:18.590" Title="Different types of reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4277" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:30:18.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would expect that, for a price and perhaps some internal coding efforts, something like that seems possible. It seems like it could be worked into the SO framework, but I guess I wouldn't expect it to be initially support it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:30:18.127" />
  <row Id="4282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:37:23.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the concept of reputation is to give the user a sense of trust in the person answering the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is mistaken.  The concept of reputation is to gauge how much the &lt;em&gt;system&lt;/em&gt; trusts you.  See the &quot;What is Reputation&quot; section of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Official FAQ&lt;/a&gt; to see what new abilities you get at different levels of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:37:23.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4286" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:38:43.903" Score="23" ViewCount="806" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed quite a few cases (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109641/promoting-a-technical-blog&quot;&gt;here's a recent one&lt;/a&gt;) where people not only vote to close a question, but then also answer said question. At best this is just silly, and at worst it is totally hypocritical and seems almost like rep whoring (since often the closers answers are the only ones that remain to be voted on since no new answers can be given).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to close a question, it makes more sense to simply add a comment if you feel the need to say something. This also leaves the option open for the author of the question to delete it if they want to. If the author realizes they've asked a duplicate, or they want to avoid the onslaught of downvotes that can often accompany a closed question, they should be allowed to delete it. However, if any answers to the question have upvotes, the author can't delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why do people answer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; close? Should we try to crack down on this sort of thing, via either new features, clearly stating it in the FAQs, or just getting the word out through commenting when we see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Just to clarify, I'm asking this in relation to SO, not MetaSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:46:02.190" LastActivityDate="2010-10-10T01:40:58.033" Title="Closing Etiquette: Why Do Some Answer *and* Close?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="4284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:39:34.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the concept of reputation is to give the user a sense of trust in the person answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not entirely true, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt; - &quot;Reputation is a (very) rough measurement of how much the Stack Overflow community trusts you.&quot; Therefore, it is indicative (in a rough sense) of what you do for the community - if you have a &quot;high&quot; reputation it can indicate that you are someone who provides good content to the community, if you have a &quot;low&quot; reputation then it can indicate the converse (although of course it's more complicated than that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On that note I find many users who's reputations are very high, but its from asking questions and getting up voted and not from providing other users with answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with you there - lots of people who have &quot;very high&quot; reputation answer questions far more times than they ask questions - also if people ask &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;, well thought out questions, they should be rewarded for this, following on from what the FAQ states about reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:39:34.100" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:39:57.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Bill said, reputation is about how much the system trusts you. In more cases, this trust comes from answering questions with good technical issues. However, the system requires questions as well. So reputation is gained from answering good questions and it is possible to gain just as much reputation from asking questions as you can by answering them. The system requires it, and therefore trusts you more if you consistently ask good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39677/&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt; I found yesterday for a similar question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to your edit. Reputation is just a measure of the system's trust of a user. The system does not care if your rep came from questions or answers; it needs quality of both. If you as a consumer of this information care, then the responsibility is on you to look at the user's profile and determine for yourself what the number means. Your reputation on SO has no concrete meaning. It may suggest technical ability; but it does not do so universally. So if you are looking to determine someone's technical ability the onus is on you to properly interpret a user's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T16:49:02.847" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:49:02.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:42:52.627" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about stackoverflow itself that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have been asked on this site in the first place, this is the accepted way to handle it.  The question should be closed (and later deleted), but go ahead and give the asker the answer they were looking for first so we don't leave them with an absolutely horrible experience for it.  Also, mark your answer as community wiki (though sometimes I forget).  I take a similar approach for duplicates, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:42:52.627" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:48:54.920" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I know the answer (or can be helpful), I'll give it. If the question isn't supposed to be asked, I'll vote to close. I see it as generous, not hypocritical - after all, I didn't make the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything wrong with this. We're being strict, but generous. Additionally, I think it makes a good impression on those asking the question who may not be entirely sure what the scope of SO is. They'll learn about the scope, but also see that the people here are not psycho-thread-killers who want to dominate the platform - we're genuinely here to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:48:54.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:49:37.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid I'm occasionally guilty of the behavior described.  I vote to close if I think the question should be closed/deleted, and I answer if I think I can be helpful (sometimes requiring &quot;amusing&quot; to be interpreted as a kind of helpfulness).  They're kind of independent considerations in my process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably ought to mark community wiki if I vote to close, but I don't because I'm a big rep whore. (Though questions on the fast track to closing are rarely-to-never worth any rep to speak of, except for TheTXI who inexplicably seems able to harvest them like fruit ripe on the vine.  So maybe I'm only a medium rep whore.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:49:37.713" />
  <row Id="4290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:51:19.990" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done it a few times.  Usually it's along the lines of &quot;this isn't really programming related, but I happen to know your answer, so here it is.&quot;  Worst case, they don't get the answer and the don't come back, same as if I just voted to close.  But maybe, just maybe, they'll see it in time and get the answer they need &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; learn about how to use SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:51:19.990" />
  <row Id="4291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:53:00.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really feeling it.  The immediate effect would be to devalue rep gained from asking questions, and I don't think that's appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:53:00.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:54:56.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only answered a question that I voted to close once (that I can remember). It was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840413/&quot;&gt;Blankman question that he had asked 15 minutes prior&lt;/a&gt;, but I hadn't seen this until after he had accepted my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really irked me to the point that I e-mailed Jeff about it to ask his opinion on the matter. I really wish I could take that answer back but it was already accepted so I couldn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm mad at myself for not having checked if the question had been asked by the same user before I posted an answer. Especially a user I know asks the same questions over and over again. I would gladly take back that answer and lose all the rep I gained from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:54:56.760" />
  <row Id="4293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:58:43.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know, I just did this (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110686/proving-simple-addition&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;), and while I don't do it often, I don't think it's too inappropriate.  In particular, when something is inappropriate for SO, but there is a relatively straightforward and easy to compose answer, I figure the best way to go is to let them know the answer (if it's easy for me to answer), and also to let them know that SO isn't the right place to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:58:43.000" />
  <row Id="4294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T16:59:28.003" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do it precisely for the reason that &quot;It may not get closed so, I'm going to go ahead and answer it anyway just in case&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T16:59:28.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:01:01.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll most often do this when it seems iffy as to whether or not a question will actually be closed (very subjective questions, for instance). In those cases, i'll mark my answer Community Wiki, out of hope that, if i fail to close, perhaps i can at least encourage other authors to follow suit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally i'll do the same for questions where i can't fit my reply into a comment, either because of length or formatting restrictions. Again, i'll mark it as CW. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If i remember, i'll try to go back and delete the answer if and when the question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; finally closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a bit dodgy, but it is my hope that marking the answer CW will mitigate this (not that it's prevented some folks from accusing me of inconsistency or gaming, but i suspect they'd have found something to whine about anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:01:01.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3997" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:01:13.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my notebook's screen the icon is almost invisible - I just didn't notice &#xA;it until someone pointed me to it, even though I was looking for this functionality. It definitely should be darker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I suggest to leave this only as an additional shortcut to the recent activity area.&#xA;There should be a textual link or a tab in the user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21499" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T19:08:08.967" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:08:08.967" />
  <row Id="4297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:04:10.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like people showing how they solved their own problems. In other places I would post it with the prefix &quot;HOWTO: ...&quot; but unfortunately some people use that word when they actually mean &quot;How to...?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, I would be tempted to accept my own answer in such case, solely to let people know that, &lt;em&gt;for me&lt;/em&gt;, the issue has been solved. It's perfectly fine to me if others do that, but we now know that accepting one's own answer makes some people frown. To avoid that, during the first few days I would add some text above the question. Like maybe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You'll find my own solution below, just hoping it will help someone, like discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault&quot;&gt;Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault&lt;/a&gt;. Improvements to my solution, or other solutions, are very welcome! After all: as I had difficulties finding the answer, I may very well be missing some point, or some documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During that few days, I would not accept my own answer then. Some days later, I would remove that additional text, and accept the best answer -- my own, or someone else's improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Actually, making it a community wiki may keep people from posting improvements, so I guess I would not make the question a CW, but I might declare my own answer a CW to avoid frowning.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would welcome a better way to support these kind of HOWTO's. Maybe this can simply be some well-known tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:04:10.787" />
  <row Id="4298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:06:08.170" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, time to buck the accepted norms again: I think the FAQ is actually wrong - or at least it doesn't tell the whole story. Reputation is several things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Points in a game, as seen by many users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How good you are at asking questions on the relevant set of topics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How good you are at answering questions on the relevant set of topics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(If a post isn't marked CW but should be) How entertaining you can be&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; as a measure of how much the community trusts you not to mess things up if you're given more privileges. That's just a surrogate metric though, basically because we have no other simple way of telling how much the community trusts a particular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because someone is good technically (or knows everything to do with a particular game, if that's the topic of the site in question, for example) doesn't mean they have any sense of what's right for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone could be a complete git but still get reputation for giving correct answers. They could still be &lt;em&gt;bad for the site&lt;/em&gt; (by generally being obnoxious and giving it a bad name on Twitter, for example) - that would discourage some people for voting for them, but probably not everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the reverse side, someone can be very good for the site, but rarely contribute in a way which gives them rep. This is harder to do before you get enough rep to edit questions, but that's the most obvious example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this water is already somewhat muddy, I don't think it really makes much sense to start splitting rep into two different types. Someone who contributes great questions is just as likely to be good for the site (and use extra powers wisely) as someone who contributes great answers, IMO. In fact, I'd say the average quality of question (in terms of style, precision etc) is lower than the average quality of answer - so I'd like to encourage good questions more, not less :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T18:11:26.817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:11:26.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:06:23.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I have noticed is this, people jump on an unanswered question very quickly and blot down something very small, one sentence or a link at first. This shows up as an answer when other users are just browsing and it defers users from going into those questions because they think there is an answer there. While that is happening the initial answerer edits his answer and expands it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130614" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:06:23.507" />
  <row Id="4301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4306" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:10:20.203" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a couple of questions that I believe accurately fitted the description for what makes a good question on stack-overflow. However, these questions were closed by users who must have only scanned the question. For example, this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110138/what-is-a-stack-overflow-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110138/what-is-a-stack-overflow-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was closed as &quot;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;, when quite clearly it is contrary to what makes a good meta question, and in agreement with what makes a good stackoverflow question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering, is there a way I can contact a moderator with the power to correct this mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, maybe the amount of rep needed to close a question isn't high enough, as more users are achieving the needed rep who I don't consider to be responsible enough with the power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, how about if a question is closed and re-opened, it should take more close votes to close it a second time. Maybe the sum of the rep of users who voted to close should be weighed against the sum of the rep of the users who voted to reopen, and that should decide which way a question goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11898" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T17:14:13.860" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:15:51.480" Title="How/Can I ask a moderator to review a closed question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:12:57.970" Score="5" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;should users lose reputation that they gained from a question has been closed. If a question was closed then clearly it didn't follow SO rules, but if people upvoted it before it was closed, the user still gets reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I had taken the user link out, to respect the users privacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT #2: I am only talking about users asking the questions, not the users who have answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130614" LastEditorUserId="130614" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T17:30:13.510" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:30:13.510" Title="Reputation for Closed Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:14:47.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's why I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/which-accounts-have-more-questions-than-answers&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/which-accounts-have-more-questions-than-answers/2609#2609&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, you would notice that it is indeed, not that big of a deal. The highest rep was under 4k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:14:47.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4301" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:15:23.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if the question was closed mistakenly it will be open promptly without moderator's intervention. don't worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:15:23.120" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4301" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:15:51.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  You can flag it, and a moderator will see it.  But if anything I would expect to opposite to happen: moderator review is more likely to result in the question being closed permanently.  Generally, if 5 high-rep users voted to close, there's a reason for it.  There are excpetions, of course, so go ahead when you think you really find one of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:15:51.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:16:04.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only up-vote a question if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A)&lt;/strong&gt; It's obvious by the poster's language that he has already done some research, or put some thought into the question/issue (basically, if it's a good question - though, this is very relative).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B)&lt;/strong&gt; If the question is 'somewhat good', and the person asking the question has less than 100 points, which gives you the ability to vote up, flag offensive posts, leave comments, create tags and vote down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C)&lt;/strong&gt; The question boggles the mind.  Or if it's something very unusual, but interesting and helpful if accomplished (tools and or strategies that will make me more efficient at my job)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the rating system as something that tells me how familiar you are with the community.  If you really want to know more in details about actual skills, you need to look at the users' profile and see how they have achieved X number of vote points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130185" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:16:04.857" />
  <row Id="4308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1383" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:18:06.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this would be great. It's very annoying for somebody to close a question as a duplicate. Especially when I've just seen a question closed as a duplicate, and the closer wrote in the comments something along the lines of 'Sure I've seen this before, but can't find the original'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they can't find the original, they shouldn't be closing it as a duplicate because it's probably not!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:18:06.087" />
  <row Id="4309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4303" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:19:15.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the event of duplicate questions, I don't think they should lose reputation.  They're helping the system by providing a wider search base to locate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:19:15.890" />
  <row Id="4310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4303" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:22:31.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case where a question is closed because it is spam or offensive and maybe even not relevant/programming related, it is likely to be deleted and therefore the rep would be lost the next time rep is recalculated. However, as LFSR suggests, duplicates are not the worst thing. As has been mentioned by Jeff a lot, it is amazing how people can ask the same thing without using any of the same words, so it is good to have some of those duplicates in the system. Not saying they shouldn't be close, but it is an argument for the user not losing the reputation gained from the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:22:31.963" />
  <row Id="4311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4303" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:23:49.353" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Duplicates...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think they should lose any rep. It's not the answer-author's fault that the question had already been asked (in cases of duplicates). He still invested effort in making his answer, and others found it helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;All else...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation in general is a reflection on your status with the community. The events that take place prior to the closing of a thread reflect your participation in the community, and is therefore not subject to change because somebody else broke the rules - the blessings you receive from the community should not be retracted (unless you're undergoing penalty by moderators, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Implications...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this rule were implemented, should all negative-rep be restored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:23:49.353" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4017" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:24:09.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had some problems with SO, but I was switching the Chrome channels on dev and beta back and forward. I had problems with reputation chart, it wasn't displaying any data on in list on the right.If you were changing channels, it is possible there is problem with release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:24:09.047" />
  <row Id="4313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4303" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:24:09.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would likely depend upon why the question was close as some are closed because the question itself was inappropriate for the forum where as others are closed because of duplication and the like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of duplicates there is a pretty good chance that someone might come up with a well worded response that is relevant to the question before the duplicate is caught and closed. As such, it doesn't seem appropriate to penalize someone as there doesn't seem to be an expectation for users to determine if a question is a duplicate before answering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as others have noted, you actually lose any reputation gained by deleted questions and as such, I don't see the need to penalize someone if the question is deemed worthy enough to keep even if it is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:24:09.677" />
  <row Id="4315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4277" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:28:36.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like one of those types of requests that would be better served for a branch off of an open sourced version of StackExchange, and not one that I would necessarily think would belong in a &quot;main branch&quot; StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:28:36.823" />
  <row Id="4316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:28:41.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; This was written a long time ago. Meanwhile in general I wish no answers were given to those questions at all, to ensure (future) question askers learn how to use the sites. See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38391/high-reputation-users-having-trouble-understanding-super-user&quot;&gt;High reputation users having trouble understanding Super User?&lt;/a&gt; (which is really about answering duplicates et cetera; not quite specific to Super User I guess, though Super User probably has a wider, less technical, target audience that might need more moderation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's good (&lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt;) to read here why people do it. I'll tell you: I never realized that! Even worse, I recall when I just started to use SO, I was quite frustrated about questions being closed while I was composing an answer. I think I even typed something like &quot;&lt;em&gt;I guess SO is not for me then&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and was about to say goodbye... I really did read the FAQ et cetera but still felt like there were some people bossing around the new people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm lucky (for myself) that I sticked at SO nevertheless. But I wonder if the people who see their question closed actually realize that people who voted for the close still helped them. So, for those who answer and vote: what about just taking some credit for your helpfulness by stating something like &quot;&lt;em&gt;Though this question is not programming related and I voted for it to be removed, just some answer to get you started anyway: ...&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T14:09:02.130" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:09:02.130" />
  <row Id="4317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4277" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:32:38.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would only work for a highly specialised implementation where there were already some acknowledged experts. But it is an interesting idea - particularly the idea of using the rep scores of the &quot;non-experts&quot; to identify future &quot;experts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could (note could) have this semi-automatic when people hit a certain rep score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:32:38.157" />
  <row Id="4318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4217" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:40:15.423" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments cannot be downvoted.  For unclear questions, if the question is clarified or other people interpret the question differently then people might downvote an answer that does not answer their interpretation of the question.  Also someone may be afraid of losing rep from an answer that may not be what people want to hear if the truth is unpopular or politically incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopfully avoiding downvotes is not politically incorrect or else I should have posted this as a comment.  :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112212" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:40:15.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:45:34.447" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while when a very similar question is asked, I'll want to post a reference to an answer I gave for another question to help provide some more ideas to the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that dealing with the &quot;your answers&quot; list is not easy.  If you click an answer on any page but the first, and it turns out it wasn't the one you were looking for, and then you go back, of course you're back to the first page of your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to have a filter box or a search box to simply narrow down the list of questions that I've answered to assist me in finding the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T20:41:27.693" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:41:27.693" Title="It would be nice to search only my answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:47:15.893" Score="2" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much time, in hours, did it take Atwood to create a usable version of SO?  I'm purposely leaving the definition of &quot;usable&quot; open to discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T19:04:17.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:04:17.033" Title="How much time did Jeff Atwood spend on creating the first usable version of SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4321" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:49:23.950" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're still counting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kid...I kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:49:23.950" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:53:29.220" Score="-2" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually have three:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the current Stack Overflow question I'm answering or editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one for refreshing newest questions on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;browsing meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extra points for honesty.  Let's hear it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-20T20:50:21.957" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T02:40:48.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T17:53:29.220" ClosedDate="2011-06-22T16:52:43.530" Title="How many Stack Overflow family browser tabs do you have open?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:56:51.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually have one for SO, one for MetaSO, and sometimes one for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:56:51.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T17:56:51.907" />
  <row Id="4325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:58:05.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; SO Family tab open for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps me stay on task with what I'm supposed to be doing at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:58:05.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T17:58:05.653" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="4326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2009-07-10T17:59:23.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have one open on the newest meta questions, one on the newest SO questions and a tab open on GMail so I can spell check my posts before I submit anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130385" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T17:59:23.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T17:59:23.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3911" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:00:41.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think it is a good idea to allow the ability to retag questions and to edit the community wiki questions as I could see someone who has been a member for a couple months knowing enough at that point to be able to contriubte in those ways, but still not have enough reputation yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't really think that you should be allowed to go much past that as&#xA; the reputation is also a measure of how much you know within the knowledge domain. For example, on StackOverflow, having 2000+ reputation could also be interpenetrated to mean that you know a thing or two about programming and likewise with ServerFault. As such, there is a bit of an expectation that you may be able to identify a poorly worded question and help the asker out in clarifying what they meant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way that the bar might be lowered a bit, in regards to retagging questions and editing community wiki questions might be to add a time frame to the items, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retag questions - 500 points, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; 250 points and three months as a user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit community wiki posts - 750 points, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; 325 points and six months as a user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:00:41.450" />
  <row Id="4328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:02:07.130" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate Post&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/heres-a-meta-uservoice-question-can-you-bring-the-color-back&quot;&gt;Here's a Meta UserVoice Question: Can You Bring The Color Back?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colors (or lack there of) are KILLING MY EYES. Is it just me or is it really awful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17744" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:31:00.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:31:00.843" ClosedDate="2009-07-10T18:19:43.143" Title="Why is this site so drab?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4328" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:05:11.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/heres-a-meta-uservoice-question-can-you-bring-the-color-back&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/heres-a-meta-uservoice-question-can-you-bring-the-color-back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:05:11.870" />
  <row Id="4330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4328" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:05:17.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too bad so sad.   &lt;strong&gt;It is just you (Answer to your 'question').&lt;/strong&gt;  Try to phrase it as a real question like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/heres-a-meta-uservoice-question-can-you-bring-the-color-back&quot;&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt; did.  This is still a Q and A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:05:17.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T18:05:17.490" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:05:34.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually 3, SO, meta and the question I'm currently reading/responding to. Occasionally more if I've recently answered a question and want to check frequently for replies (or votes :-P).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:05:34.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T18:05:34.893" />
  <row Id="4332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4321" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:06:36.917" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But honestly, I can imagine making a first cut, that allows for questions, answers and reputation tied to voting likely would not take too much effort (just check out one of Phil Haack's &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; haackoverflow presentations). However, I don't think the first usable version would have many of the features we all have grown to love. And certainly I know much has been over time to tweak performance, strengthen the &quot;integrity&quot; of the voting system, and to allow self-moderation of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T18:14:46.860" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:14:46.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4319" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:18:58.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can search the titles of questions you answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10000&amp;amp;userId=54680&amp;amp;sort=Recent&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10000&amp;amp;userId=54680&amp;amp;sort=Recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could search this by installing (and editing a bit) my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3739/greasemonkey-searchable-favorites-list-on-every-page&quot;&gt;favorites-search greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt;, and change the datasource from &lt;strong&gt;userfavorites&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;useranswers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just re-examined the script, and the &lt;em&gt;useranswers&lt;/em&gt; page, and it looks like you'll have to edit the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(&quot;h3 a&quot;, data)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;selector to match &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(&quot;div div a&quot;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T18:42:24.723" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:42:24.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4321" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:20:01.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;42         .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3340" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T18:20:01.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7150" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:33:25.110" Score="5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I search for the word &quot;BETWEEN&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=between&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=between&lt;/a&gt;) I get the following error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please enter some text to search for in the upper right!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine this is because of keyword filtering, is this required? Is there a workaround?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T20:20:57.970" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:20:57.970" Title="Unable to search for the SQL keyword BETWEEN" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T18:58:25.540" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to the page for a tag that doesn't exist but is all lower-case, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pony&quot;&gt;pony&lt;/a&gt;.  But, if you went to the page for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/PONY&quot;&gt;PONY&lt;/a&gt;, which also doesn't exist, odd things happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get a listing of all questions, just as if you'd gone to the newest questions without any tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The text on the right says (currently) &quot;217,570 questions tagged&quot;, but doesn't show the tag.  In looking at the page source, there isn't anything in the div where the tag should be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it makes more sense to redirect to the lowercased version of the tag, or just give the standard &quot;0 questions tagged PONY&quot;, but the current behavior certainly doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:44:54.893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T05:44:54.893" Title="Tags with capitalization behave oddly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:00:00.197" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious, I know there is a 200 reputation cap for upvotes in a single day. However, what happens when you get upvoted more on that day? Are the points simply lost? Or are they queued onto the next day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130102" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:47:47.477" Title="What happens when you hit 200 reputation by upvotes for one day?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4338" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:01:16.787" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The points are lost. The up-votes still count towards badges though (subject area badges, nice  question/answer etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some of the votes you did receive are rescinded for some reason (voter fraud, deleted question etc.) then a rep recalculation will be performed and the other votes you still have for that day used to calculate your new rep total. If you've exceeded the cap by more than the votes lost you won't notice the recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:01:16.787" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3911" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:05:05.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem you're highlighting is a bit of a fallacy. While it's true, there are people on here that know more than you, even the great Jon Skeet doesn't know everything (sorry, Jon). The community, together, knows nearly everything about the topics discussed, but only &lt;em&gt;collectively&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of my knowledge comes from having screwed it up in the first place. If I see somebody making the same mistake I did, then it's very easy to swoop in and get the answer out, because it's automagic. You can still earn lots of rep (there are a &lt;em&gt;ton&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;) by providing thoughtful, well-explained answers to problems, even if a technical solution already exists. Although it may seem like it, nobody on here knows the answer to every post. The people answering are likely just as intelligent as you are, but just have had the experience of running across a problem before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember that Java is a remarkably pervasive language (and yet I've never used it, haha!), so the audience for it is huge. However, I'm a mediocre C# guy (I do mostly SQL/database work), but I've still answered C# questions. Find questions you can answer, don't worry about the Fastest Gun in the West, and just keep plugging away. It took me nearly a month before I was able to get a rep cap day (that may be slow, but I'm not ashamed to admit it). I spent the first month getting my bearings and figuring out how to answer questions so that they helped people. Some days I do a good job of that, and some days I don't. C'est la vie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a large group, there will always be barriers of entry, but StackOverflow does a fantastic job of giving everybody equal footing to become part of the community. So long as you contribute any way you can, you'll find yourself more and more a part of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:05:05.143" />
  <row Id="4342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:12:01.047" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I'm going through tagging questions as discussion, feature-request, or bug (as requested by Jeff), it would be awesome if I wasn't subject to CAPTCHAs.  So I humbly request that there be a developer flag that can be placed on a user that will prevent him from getting the CAPTCHA.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be done after talking with the user and getting his agreement not to bot the site using his account, and would be a convenience feature for users who do manual retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:  In response to the account being compromised, there are two scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;compromised by CSRF, which SO already protects against&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;compromised by a knowledgeable malicious entity.  I think this case is equivalent to a user's, moderator, or administrator account being compromised.  The damage will be done at a faster rate, yes.  It's up to the user being responsible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to someone going postal and not agreeing to honor his word: I didn't expect the flag to be set very often, only on a dozen or two people.  Jeff already trusts many of us with the keys to his castle - those with ♦'s, Greg debugging the data dump, and so on.  I see this as no different.  The few people who have proven themselves as valuable contributors retagging items on SO are perfect examples and candidates.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T21:47:25.780" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T21:47:25.780" Title="Manually flag users as not-bots" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="4343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4342" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:14:26.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would stop a user from agreeing to not bot, and then to go bot once he now has free reign? Sure you could ban him afterwards, but the damage would have already been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:14:26.457" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4342" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:14:41.670" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your account could still be taken over by a bot and then run through the whole time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, this should be on a per session basis. If you pass a CAPTCHA during the current session, you should be trusted until that session ends (maybe timeout of an hour). That would solve the retagging/mass edits issue that I know I always hit if I answer a question and then edit the tags/grammar of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there should be a timer, so that if you hit &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; number of actions within &lt;code&gt;y&lt;/code&gt; seconds that are evenly spaced out, you get the CAPTCHA again to prevent the human signup/bot takeover that TXI mentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:14:41.670" />
  <row Id="4345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4342" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:16:09.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been stated before, this doesn't help if your account is compromised. The mechanism is in place to prevent funny business - and you're implicitly agreeing to not be a bot in the first place, which is something you or anyone else could easily go back on anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there's a good way to say 'this person is not and &lt;strong&gt;never will be&lt;/strong&gt; a bot'. What if Jeff runs over your toe in his Hummer, and you want 'revenge'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:16:09.740" />
  <row Id="4346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4342" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:16:58.370" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say the odds of this happening are low, based on this metric:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Developer time necessary to implement such a system: A lot&#xA;Developer time saved by such a system: 0&#xA;Developer time necessary to keep system the same: 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, laziness wins the day!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:16:58.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4338" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:37:59.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you hit the reputation cap for the day you can still earn rep from accepted answers as well as bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only upvotes don't count after that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:37:59.283" />
  <row Id="4351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4338" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:47:47.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wrote a program that credits all the remainder reputation points to his account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:47:47.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-10T19:47:47.477" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:52:36.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While not everyone feels this way, there is a significant number of people who simply love to edit. I am not sure we need to encourage even more people to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:52:36.217" />
  <row Id="4353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4342" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:54:05.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the whole idea behind reputation is so the system can learn to trust you, perhaps the higher your reputation, the more the captchas could be relaxed? Maybe have around 4000 rep (double the editing reputation threshold) the capcha could occur after 10 consecutive edits (instead of the current two), or even disabled entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accounts being compromised and used for mass-edits seem extremely uncommon and unlikely, and even if this happens it should be a case of temporarily disabling their account, undoing the evil changes and informing the user via email about what has happened..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there's a good way to say 'this person is not and never will be a bot'. What if Jeff runs over your toe in his Hummer, and you want 'revenge'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your account could still be taken over by a bot and then run through the whole time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would stop a user from agreeing to not bot, and then to go bot once he now has free reign?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the same as what's in place now - not much.. Captchas are, and always will be susceptible to the.. erm.. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;bored Australian&quot; attack&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user with &gt;2000 reputation &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; go and start editing spam into posts.. moderators could start randomly deleting accounts and such, but... &lt;em&gt;they don't&lt;/em&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They've invested a lot of time into their account (10 days if they hit the rep-cap every day, which is unlikely for a new user). If a user starts being evil, their account gets deleted, their edits undone and that's the end of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T20:24:49.937" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:24:49.937" />
  <row Id="4354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4337" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:55:53.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3171/odd-capatilisation-error-in-a-tag-feed/3174#3174&quot;&gt;It is stripping all capital letters out&lt;/a&gt; for some reason.  Since you're giving it all caps, your tag gets turned to empty string, so it's like you're browsing all posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:55:53.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4342" CreationDate="2009-07-10T19:58:09.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just remember that when you answer a reCAPTCHA, you're &lt;a href=&quot;http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doing good for the world&lt;/a&gt;.  Taking that into consideration might ease the pain for you. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T19:58:09.277" />
  <row Id="4356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:06:09.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be nice to submit questions like this with immediate bounties. He who has the most votes, wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you need immediate bounties?  Such a question would need several days to garner replies and let people work on them, so 2 days pass, you set a bounty, and 1-7 days pass and the winner is chosen (by expiry or by accepted answer).  Every contest would run for a minimum of 2 days, maximum of 9).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:06:09.943" />
  <row Id="4357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:08:53.533" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are cases where an existing question overlaps almost perfectly with my needs, but it still does not satisfy my requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best course of action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask a new question, referencing the previous one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit the original question? ( sounds like a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; bad idea )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment on the new question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a sample, I've asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109689/catch-all-smtp-server-gui&quot;&gt;catch-all smtp server with gui&lt;/a&gt;, which is closely related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1006650/dummy-smtp-server-for-testing-apps-that-send-email&quot;&gt;dummy smtp server for testing apps that send email&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T06:12:48.537" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:12:48.537" Title="Nearly duplicate questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4357" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:14:48.053" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would post a new question, referencing the old one &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; explaining why it does not answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:14:48.053" />
  <row Id="4359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:20:38.047" Score="16" ViewCount="533" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask per day? Per hour? Per other time unit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related Questions:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/89365/limitation-on-submition-question-is-it-an-explicit-request-to-create-a-new-accou&quot;&gt;Limitation on submition question, is it an explicit request to create a new account?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/89405/lets-have-150-question-cap-in-3-months-instead-of-current-50-question-cap-every&quot;&gt;Let&amp;#39;s have 150 question cap in 3 months instead of current 50 question cap every month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/89670/please-warn-about-exceeding-50-question-limit-prior-to-asking-a-new-question&quot;&gt;Please warn about exceeding 50 question limit prior to asking a new question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/89550/i-cant-ask-any-more-questions-for-a-while&quot;&gt;I can&amp;#39;t ask any more questions for a while&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="155585" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-04T08:03:04.320" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T14:22:54.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-29T16:46:33.990" Title="Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4357" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:25:06.557" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Galactic Cowboy mentioned, you should reference the previous question and explain why yours is not a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, you should also be phrasing your question to make it &lt;em&gt;obvious&lt;/em&gt; that it is not a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Create Email Application in .NET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Create Email Application in .NET without using WCF&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The root question is obviously the same, but even at the main page, it is immediately apparent why you asked your question instead of simply being happy with the previous one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After crafting a title which &lt;em&gt;highlights&lt;/em&gt; the differences, you should write out your question and include references to the helpful answers in the other questions (the ones that got you &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; all the way to your answer) and ask a direct question about only the part that was omitted in the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try your best not to have that much overlap in your questions if possible. Explicitly mention the areas which overlap and you DO NOT REQUIRE an answer to. That way, no one can accuse you of having a duplicate question, because they are related rather than identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:25:06.557" />
  <row Id="4363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4359" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:26:42.437" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may only post a question every 30 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the theoretical limit is 120 questions per hour.&#xA;If you are a robot.&#xA;But robots aren't supposed to pass the humanity test (codename: CAPTCHA).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T11:46:18.340" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:46:18.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-04-29T16:46:33.990" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:27:44.247" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retagging process should be streamlined.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need a better way to propose batch operations on tags than what we have now (single thread on meta...). There should be some mechanism to mark a tag as the one to be merged/renamed or deleted. These marks should be visible on tags page so users with privilege to make batch operations could apply them quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could even try to leverage voting in the process of marking tags. This way if a tag's mark gets X upvotes it could be acted upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="95735" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T20:35:28.107" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:14:17.263" Title="Let's streamline retagging process" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4364" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:36:50.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like this idea at all, and that is even if you made the vote threshold high enough to keep from a few ignorant souls from making potentially disastrous changes to the tag structure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would much rather continue to have a thread where this stuff is actually discussed and reasonings given ahead of time then just allowing people to select and vote to merge as they see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:36:50.477" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:37:28.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't go to the tagged questions page for anything ending in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config&quot;&gt;.config&lt;/a&gt;, or that has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl%2A&quot;&gt;star in it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not the only one who wants this to work, just check &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1649/searching-for-a-tag-containing-breaks&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1672/please-allow-wildcards-in-tag-searches&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard that this is a setting in IIS, so it may be as simple as flicking a switch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T13:45:36.260" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T13:45:36.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:37:56.593" Score="1" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;What percentage of the people in SO program in C#?  What percentage program in Java?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do these percentages change as a function of reputation?  If so, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T21:44:16.487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:27:57.053" Title="What percentage of the people on SO program in C# vs. Java?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4364" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:41:55.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully there isn't enough problems with people mis-tagging, or creating poorly thought out tag names for this to too much of an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it exists currently, we can discuss it before it actually goes into effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:41:55.747" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4435" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:45:24.857" Score="19" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just entered a question titled: &quot;What’s the best way to serialize / deserialize a &lt;code&gt;Dictionary&amp;lt;String,String&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in .Net 2.0?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And SO told me: &quot;The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that working currently?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What are you looking for in the title to flag something as &quot;potentially subjective&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is it because i asked for &quot;the best way&quot; to do something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3314" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T05:47:51.697" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:14:56.403" Title="How does the automatic subjective filter work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;filter&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="4372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4373" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:46:25.687" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the main reasons I use bounties is to increase the attention and exposure to a question I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, I myself rarely answer bounty questions, &lt;em&gt;even if&lt;/em&gt; I have a good contribution to the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is simply because when I'm bounty hunting I want to &lt;strong&gt;win&lt;/strong&gt; the answer, rather than just contribute to the answer. (I'm speaking practically, and ignoring the idealistic behaviour)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that upvoted answers on bounty questions should have a higher point value to encourage participation, even if the odds of actually winning the answer are lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good comments!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;rep-mining?  the whole rep system is based on incentives.  Why have reputation if you don't care about it?  Human behaviour modification is predicated on the system of 'paying attention to what you measure'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One true answer? we all know that the &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer is not always the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answer.  Sometimes the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answer for one person is not the right answer for someone else.  I'm under the impression that the purpose of SO is to create a repository of knowledge, not just a Q&amp;amp;A forum.  If it's just Q&amp;amp;A, then sure, only the &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer counts, but if it's a knowledge base, then surely every good answer is worth being availabe?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T05:46:25.617" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T05:46:25.617" Title="increase upvote value on bounty questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4372" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:50:21.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the bounty offers a good enough incentive. If you know that your answer isn't good enough to actually answer the question, or it isn't better than the rest of the answers there, don't post it--regardless of bounty. If all you have is a +1 on another answer, then just comment or edit the answer to include your little &quot;aha!&quot; After all, you were late to the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that rep-mining is a behavior that should not be encouraged. Anything we can do to get people to help get at least one right answer there instead of a bunch of pieces put together to make up a whole answer should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:50:21.867" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4371" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:51:02.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is it looks for words like &quot;best&quot;, &quot;favorite&quot;, &quot;your&quot;.  I'd be interested in knowing just what words trigger it, and how that list was determined.  Not that it matters much, I'm just as curious as you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:51:02.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4367" CreationDate="2009-07-10T20:59:11.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, since the Java and C# tags are the most active, as you go higher up the rep scale, you will find more and more Java/C# devs because it is easier to earn reputation in busier tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T20:59:11.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:01:36.850" Score="97" ViewCount="1277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes images are required to ask questions. Currently images need to be stored on external servers. If the image gets deleted, or the server goes down the question could become far less useful to other people encountering it. I would expect that uploading images would cost reputation, or have a required minimum level to keep spam away. Being able to inline display said uploaded  image would be a plus as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130741" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T04:32:06.367" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:32:49.717" Title="Please allow image uploads directly onto the site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="4377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:02:05.270" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently under tags edit box there is only this info:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Combine multiple words into single-words, space to separate up to 5 tags (voting bug)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should have more hints to prevent creation of new, improper tags all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T22:45:33.150" Title="More hints for what tags are preferred" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4364" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:05:18.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allowing for the fact that I'm only human (and can only get so much done per day), it &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; to be broadly workable at the moment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:05:18.430" />
  <row Id="4379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:05:35.640" Score="5" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to sort my favorites based on tag.  The reason why is that I have a lot of favorites saved over many different tags. If I'm looking for a favorite in &quot;python&quot;, then I click &quot;python&quot; and see all my &quot;python&quot; favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this seem reasonable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119215" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T20:36:54.807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:39:02.490" Title="Please allow users to sort their favorites based on tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4385" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:05:52.043" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;On an old question with no accepted answer, the user sees a &quot;start a bounty&quot; link/button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4378/bounty1.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After clicking this they get the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2172/bounty2.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to move the &quot;What is a bounty?&quot; link outside of the &quot;start a bounty&quot; box.  I can see a user being afraid to click &quot;start a bounty&quot; because they don't know what a bounty is, and they don't realize that clicking the button brings up another menu (as opposed to starting the bounty &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also want to change &quot;What is a bounty?&quot; to simply &quot;What's this?&quot;.  That seems to be how most other &quot;cool&quot; sites are wording it nowadays.  And everyone wants to be like the cool kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Here's a mockup of what I was thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6668/bountymockup.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another suggestion was made by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/745/dbr&quot;&gt;dbr&lt;/a&gt; below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T13:22:50.357" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:22:50.357" Title="Please move the &quot;What is a bounty?&quot; link outside the &quot;start a bounty&quot; box" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4364" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:14:17.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There may be many retag requests &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;, but my guess is that the need for batch retagging will greatly decrease after a few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:14:17.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4424" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:22:34.813" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Works:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pointers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pointers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pointers+c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pointers+c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fails:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c+pointers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c+pointers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It treats the last case as a single tag called &lt;code&gt;c+pointers&lt;/code&gt; rather than two tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It generates the URL if you go to the page for c tagged questions(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&lt;/a&gt;), and then scroll down to the related tags sidebar and click on any other tag to form a tag1+tag2 filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130620" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T10:58:38.780" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:58:38.780" Title="Bug with single character tags in urls" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4380" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:24:17.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the reasoning for this is to make it stand out from the other buttons (the ones on every question..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it really should be above the comments at least:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/5827/bountycomment.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bounty button below comment&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Actually, putting the bounty along side the edit/close/delete buttons isn't too bad - mock-up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/4993/movedbountymockup.png&quot; alt=&quot;moved bounty button mockup&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit v2&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, I misunderstood your question! I agree with your point about new users maybe not clicking the &quot;start a bounty&quot;, unless they already know what it is.. That said, programmers are typically pretty curious, and I would guess most people would wonder what this green link is..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple &lt;code&gt;?&lt;/code&gt; after the URL might be enough for the less curious, and wouldn't take up much space:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/671/picture12xkc.png&quot; alt=&quot;A ? after the bounty link&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative idea (one that wouldn't add more link-clutter to the page) - you would get an alert the first time your question goes unanswered for 2 days, saying &quot;You can now start a bounty for [question name]&quot;? You would click the question-link, and see the green bounty button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T01:42:53.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T01:42:53.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:25:58.150" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition; in my office some of the more popular image hosting sites are blocked by policy; so often I simply can't see posts with an image as a key part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside is the additional hosting/bandwidth costs... not sure how big that would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may also be some legals to deal with... so I'm not 100% convinced it will happen, but interesting idea. It would be a good thing, I expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T21:38:02.797" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:38:02.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:27:22.447" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I will post a message and realize that I worded it wrong, especially if it gets downvoted.  I go back and edit it, but 20 minutes have passed and people are no longer looking at the question because it's no longer at the top of the stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else experienced this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T21:30:49.360" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:44:53.943" Title="Questions becoming stale after a short period of time" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4377" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:29:03.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even just a few examples (and anti-examples) would be good. The retag thread is full of such ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T22:45:33.150" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T22:45:33.150" />
  <row Id="4389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:29:28.513" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uploading an image to support an answer or question should &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; cost the poster any reputation.  That is crazy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, and this is a big BUT...  The concept of the SO family allowing uploaded images to support posts would be amazing.  Definitely one of my top 3 of 4 request items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;OMG IT'S HERE!  IT'S REALLY HERE!!!!  THANKS GUYS!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/BPfiX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="139837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T17:32:49.717" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T17:32:49.717" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4387" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:32:54.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, anything that bumps a post back on the front page will get visits; you just have to look at how quickly people will re-open a &quot;fixed&quot; post (quite quickly), or jump on inappropriate edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YMMV depending on site activity of course, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I don't see an issue here - i.e. a bumped question does get read. Indeed, the &quot;community&quot; account randomly bumps unanswered questions to exploit this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:32:54.213" />
  <row Id="4391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14562" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:33:15.167" Score="28" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently in the front page, if a question is modified, answered, commented etc. the last user to affect the question appears:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4802/imagen1y.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is when I want to know what that user did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, for very popular questions I know it will be the last answer in page ... 16 etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comments of edits I copy the user name ( ctr+c ) click on the question, and then ctrl+f to find him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice if I can have a link to what that user did on that question to see it directly. I guess a link in the &quot;time&quot; would do, just like in the editing history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5774/imagen1fzj.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDiT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just realize this functionality is half done in the &quot;Recent&quot; tab in the user profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2453/imagen3bxb.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And actually have the &quot;link to recent activity&quot; functionality already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I guess the only think I need now &quot;someone&quot; ( like Jeff  ) see this post and assign an status&lt;/strike&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally this request have been marked as &quot;planned&quot; Yeah!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T06:47:22.403" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T17:38:27.970" Title="Add link to most recent activity of a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:40:01.980" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fantastic idea.  I wouldn't mind seeing the schema listed on the page (or at least link to it) along with a few example queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:40:01.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4387" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:44:53.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a question is in negative territory, it will be very hard I think to get significant visibility for it even if it is updated.  The exceptions are those that are downvoted because they are controversial.  These do seem to retain quite a life.  Perhaps you could try changing the title -- &quot;new and improved&quot; -- to highlight that the question has been edited when you have questions with downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @Marc says, if you edit it, it should reappear on the front page and get more views.  Unfortunately, with downvotes I don't know how much this will actually help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:44:53.943" />
  <row Id="4394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:45:55.423" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like partnering with a image host service. StackOverflow main business is not image hosting. So I guess a nice facade may be in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T16:30:01.220" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T16:30:01.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-10T21:50:45.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;em&gt;occasional&lt;/em&gt;, interesting, &lt;em&gt;programming-related&lt;/em&gt; challenges (like the twitter-sized image-compression question) have their place, just like &quot;What's your favourite programmer cartoon&quot; does..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the twitter-challenge as an example, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a valid question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how much of a picture can you fit in 140 characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag them with &lt;code&gt;code-challenge&lt;/code&gt;, so people with a firm aversion to such fun can add it to their ignored questions filter, and I don't see the problem (as long as they remain &quot;occasional&quot;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T21:50:45.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4409" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:19:31.717" Score="8" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moving along the lines of these questions: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3060/bumping-posts-for-questionable-reasons&quot;&gt;Bumping posts for questionable reasons&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1477/feature-request-question-bumping&quot;&gt;Feature Request: Question Bumping&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;What is considered a questionable reason when bumping a post?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1060345/click-event-fires-in-ie-firefox-but-chrome-is-dropping-the-event-assignment&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; a week-ish ago and it breezed through the front page with very few views.  I went back and edited the question to a &quot;more descriptive&quot; title.  I edited the title because my intention was to bump the question back up to the front page. Clearly the edit didn't do much and the question soared through the front page once again.  Tumbleweed badge here I come!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I knew when I was licked, but there have been instances where this feature has been abused.  What are your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:42:17.523" Title="Purposeful Question Bumping: Abuse or feature?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:23:08.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you. On serverfault there is a lot of double too.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There is also others things like tag &quot;windowsvista&quot; and &quot;windowsvista64&quot; while, from my point of view, &quot;windowsvista64&quot; could be changed by &quot;windowsvista&quot; and &quot;64bit&quot; tags.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Another things is tags that can be use for more than 1 things. Like &quot;screen&quot;, it can be GNU Screen or screen like a monitor. For this case I think that the tag &quot;screen&quot; should be impossible to use because it has more than 1 meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130744" LastEditorUserId="130744" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T07:55:12.913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T07:55:12.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4410" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:36:53.747" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Err, why does it say &lt;code&gt;... (voting bug)&lt;/code&gt; under the Tags input, on the Ask a Question page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4769/votingbug.png&quot; alt=&quot;(voting bug) on the tags page&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T05:40:52.147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T05:40:52.147" ClosedDate="2009-07-11T05:41:17.583" Title="Why does it say &quot;(voting bug)&quot; under Tags input (..or &quot;Better example tags&quot;)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4377" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:41:50.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A message dissuading people from creating new tags would be a good idea, perhaps &quot;Try to use appropriate existing tags before creating new ones&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also perhaps mention of how to pluralise tags, say &lt;code&gt;exception&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;exceptions&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T22:41:50.603" />
  <row Id="4404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4402" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:41:54.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like it selects a few at random (or has been hard-coded with appropriate examples); on SO it is &lt;kbd&gt;python&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;c#&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;ruby&lt;/kbd&gt;, and on SF &lt;kbd&gt;secure&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;ssh&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;raid&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MSO, we've been talking about &lt;kbd&gt;voting&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;bug&lt;/kbd&gt;s, apparently ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T23:13:17.143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:13:17.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4397" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:56:36.450" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that editing a question to bump it is NOT abuse unless you do it in such a repetitive manner that it starts to really distract from other questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you edit once to get it back up, that's a big difference than bumping it once every half hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T22:56:36.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:59:38.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Image hosting is a job in itself, and I don't think a few broken images is reason enough to undertake such a task - very few SO posts &lt;em&gt;rely&lt;/em&gt; on images..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would quite dramatically increase the sites bandwidth usage also - the site is currently just gzip'd text (more or less):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: What does our site call anyway? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: It's Stack Overflow. But what I'm trying to get to is that most of our site is text, so in a way it is a text overflow. If you look at our site, what images are we serving up? The logo, the vote buttons... I mean these are tiny, tiny images, really. We hardly... we don't do any image hosting locally. So any images you see on the site is from a third party site almost by definition. So the fact that we're going through almost 750KB/s peak of pure text, and compressed text at that, because for a long time we had the gzip religion, which is that everything that you serve should be compressed because it's just an utter no-brainer to compress 'cos you just have ridulous amount of CPU time and, like, tiny trickle of bandwidth. Plus it's just a better experience, right? You get the page faster, it's just better anyway you slice it. The only time not to do it is for some reason every CPU you have is pegged at 100%, then you don't want to be doing compression, but that's such a rare case. So we revisited it: there were a few edge cases we weren't compressing. I found out that in IIS, I think 6 and 7, it will not compress anything that's sent to a proxy, like if it sees &quot;PROXY&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29034&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(From StackOverflow podcast 44)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://imageshack.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imageshack.us&lt;/a&gt; does a good job of this task already - there's images I've put on it years ago that are still around.. even StackOverflow itself uses imageshack for the images shown during maintenance (or it did until recently?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One situation where this would absolutely make sense - Stack Exchange, specifically the &quot;On Site&quot; plan - you do not want to rely on external servers to host content for your internal sites!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T22:59:38.233" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4408" CreationDate="2009-07-10T22:59:41.367" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to participate in StackOverflow but keep getting messages about how I need &quot;more reputation points&quot;. The only way to get more points is to ask questions, which seems kind of dumb. Wouldn't you want to reward people for answering questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it would be nice if users that sign-up could bring over reputation from other tech communities like Hacker News or github or better yet, change your reputation system so people like me who want to help by adding comments can do so. Maybe you could start me out with 20 points and if I make dumb comments that get down-voted, I loose my commenting privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97448" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T14:17:21.260" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T14:17:21.260" Title="Can reputation be transferred here from other non-Stack Overflow websites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4407" CreationDate="2009-07-10T23:01:51.737" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can answer questions with reputation of 1.  If you answer well, you will get voted up and earn reputation.  SO rep. is designed to be a level of trust from the SO community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:01:51.737" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4397" CreationDate="2009-07-10T23:06:23.273" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to bump an unanswered question that's fine.  That's a feature.  Just make sure your edit improves the question in some measurable way.  Improve the spelling or grammar.  Clarify the question.  Tell us where you've looked and what you've found so far.  Just getting more people to look at the same question again won't help anyway, unless you make some effort at improvement.  Very frequent bumping with no visible change to the question will probably result in it getting flagged and locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:06:23.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4402" CreationDate="2009-07-10T23:10:32.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Marc Gravell said, they are examples...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it should say it should explicitly say it is an example like &lt;code&gt;(eg: voting bugs)&lt;/code&gt; just to be clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63925" LastEditorUserId="63925" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-10T23:40:04.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:40:04.447" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4367" CreationDate="2009-07-10T23:27:57.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, for &lt;strong&gt;questions asked&lt;/strong&gt; you could look at the numbers on the tags;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;c#      28587     1.00 (relative to C#)&#xA;.net    17413     0.61&#xA;java    15108     0.53&#xA;asp.net 13711     0.48&#xA;c++     10298     0.36&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the site as a &lt;strong&gt;resource&lt;/strong&gt; for people with questions (i.e. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;who is going to read your question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)... here's some page stats for per-tag searches that I've munged a little bit - I've scaled to 1 (so everything is relative to C#) since I don't think I should post raw page counts...:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;c#      1.00&#xA;.net    0.56&#xA;java    0.54&#xA;asp.net 0.41&#xA;c++     0.40&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak about how this compares to rep without a lot of analsis - but certainly the popular tags are very well represented on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:27:57.053" />
  <row Id="4413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4397" CreationDate="2009-07-10T23:42:17.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think bumping a question is so ineffective most of the time that whether or not you &quot;abuse&quot; it is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this because it's clear to me the majority of people look at New Questions and not the home page. New questions garner more votes clearly. Also, depending on the day and time, questions can be on the home page for such a short time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only really works if the topic engenders response and those new responses keep it alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-10T23:42:17.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-11T00:07:30.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your question: no, I don't think it's a problem. Quick answers that are bad/wrong will still get downvoted (or at least they should). Good/helpful answers will get upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually think it's a &lt;em&gt;good thing&lt;/em&gt; just like the fastest gun in the West &quot;problem&quot; isn't really a problem. All of this means the question asker is much more likely to get an answer &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt;. What other site out there can you ask a question and get a response in a useful time frame (being a few minutes typically)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forums are useless. Most people don't post on them because it takes days to get a response when you typically need one &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;. likewise if someone finds an answer to their own question in the interim, there's not much incentive to go back and answer their own question for the people who will come later and find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly we do have question camping but think about it for a minute: you have hundreds (if not thousands) of people who are &lt;em&gt;actively looking for questions to answer&lt;/em&gt;. Where else can you say that for programming questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T00:07:30.777" />
  <row Id="4420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2984" CreationDate="2009-07-11T02:59:48.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of answers in the &quot;the voting system works, just down-vote it if its stupid or up-vote the better answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea works in principle, but it seems that more often than not the first answer(s) garner more rep than the later answers even if the later answers are more accurate. It seems that after a certain point some sort of odd inertia kicks in and people go 'gee, this has 11 up-votes, it must be better... I don't know how but maybe the other 11 people know something I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its amazing the effects of peer pressure... and now the real question: will this get no votes because I'm off, or because no one agrees, or because no one wants to admit that this is a real problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T02:59:48.417" />
  <row Id="4421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4427" CreationDate="2009-07-11T03:27:53.570" Score="3" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered two questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112804/how-to-keep-div-focus-when-the-mouse-enters-a-child-node&quot;&gt;back&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112835/calculate-years-from-date&quot;&gt;back&lt;/a&gt;, both by new users. They both accepted my answer, but neither upvoted it. I see this happen fairly frequently to users (not just me), so my question is: can users upvote answers given to their question? If they can't, shouldn't they be able to? If they can, is a notice shown to them when accepting an answer along the lines of &quot;also upvote this if you found it helpful&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T05:36:28.557" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T15:34:49.367" Title="Can new users upvote answers to their questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2009-07-11T03:34:28.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe new users (with Rep less than 15) are able to vote on &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; posts, even answers to their own questions. I've had the same thing you described (acceptance with no upvote) happen to me a few times, and I believe most of those were users with 1 Rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; make sense for new users to be able to vote on answers to their own questions, since they can already comment on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T03:50:32.290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T03:50:32.290" />
  <row Id="4423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2009-07-11T03:35:41.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions:&#xA;   15   Vote up&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32700" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T03:35:41.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4384" CreationDate="2009-07-11T04:00:54.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brad is right -- the decision to allow plus in tags causes us no end of grief, and results in a lot of contortions in the coede.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if any of the tags contain a plus, use space to delimit them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if none of the tags contain a plus, you can use plus or space to delimit them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T04:00:54.927" />
  <row Id="4425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-11T04:17:46.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This kind of reminds me of chess sites like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redhotchess.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;redhotchess&lt;/a&gt;. Besides the regular one-on-one games and clan duels, the website has special areas for tournaments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site hosts monthly tournaments with different rating range like 1200-1300, 1400-1500,... 1800+. This allows mediocre players compete against each other while high ranking players to do their thing. Not sure if it applies directly here, but I would guess it does due to the &quot;10x&quot; nature of the programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another related concept is timeout/timebank. Tournaments and siege could be set with different timeout (1day, 3day, 7day, 14day, 21day) for different style of coding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there are sieges. There are several titles like &quot;1day Red board&quot; and &quot;7day Blue board.&quot; Only one person can hold a title at a time, and only one person can challenge the title at a time. I think the goal is to keep the title as long as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with applying this model is getting the programming questions. Maybe the moderators can pick and assign the question from stock questions and submitted ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T04:17:46.457" />
  <row Id="4426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2009-07-11T04:18:13.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'd leave the behavior the way it is rather than creating a special case where you can upvote answers to your own questions.  I like the fact that you need to contribute something (a good question or a good answer) before you get voting rights.  Allowing comments to answers on your questions makes sense as you may need to provide feedback to issues raised in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T04:18:13.943" />
  <row Id="4427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2009-07-11T04:27:44.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say it would be a good idea if they could up-vote on the answers to their own questions.  That would allow them to give back to the community after receiving a helpful answer.  And as for it being an exception; well, commenting already has a similar exception, so why not voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63925" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T04:27:44.370" />
  <row Id="4428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T05:30:19.333" Score="3" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the criteria for selecting a moderator in SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:32:05.147" Title="How a moderator is chosen in SO?" Tags="&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2009-07-11T05:36:16.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't view this as a problem since an accept is worth +15 and an upvote is +10. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you want the user to have enough rep to upvote then &lt;strong&gt;upvote their question and give them the rep&lt;/strong&gt;. It only takes 15 to meet the upvote threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T05:36:16.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4372" CreationDate="2009-07-11T05:46:15.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't agree with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stuff posted on bounty questions is &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; much more likely to be voted on in general, because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there's a giant [+200] (or whatever) on the question title bringing attention to it in every list it appears on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it's on the featured tab with a very small list of questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the featured list is sorted by time, like eBay, so the most recently ending stuff is always at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T05:46:15.527" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4371" CreationDate="2009-07-11T05:47:38.553" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;return Regex.IsMatch(s, &#xA;@&quot;\bbest\b|\bworst\b|\bhardest\b|\byour?\b|\bfavou?rite\b&quot;, &#xA;RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T05:47:38.553" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T05:50:42.093" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2621/why-does-reputation-have-a-lower-bound-of-1&quot;&gt;Why does reputation have a lower bound of 1?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that if a user with 1 vote gets down voted for any of his questions or answers his vote count remains the same. After some time when he get up voted the points for the down votes are not counted? If he gets 1 up vote his reputation goes to 11 instead of 9. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why this happens? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional or a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T16:58:35.643" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:58:35.643" ClosedDate="2009-07-11T06:11:47.943" Title="Why isn't a negative reputation applied in SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4436" CreationDate="2009-07-11T05:58:56.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design. I believe Jeff said that it &quot;seemed cruel&quot; to have less than 1 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's that question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2621/why-does-reputation-have-a-lower-bound-of-1&quot;&gt;Why does reputation have a lower bound of 1?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T05:58:56.047" />
  <row Id="4438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:12:17.507" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a toolbar for stackoverflow that can be added to a browser window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T16:58:08.353" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:58:08.353" Title="Stackoverflow toolbar" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="4439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="112" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:15:52.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, for now, we made the default flair CSS site specific -- so the link colors will at least match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:15:52.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="529" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:16:32.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;accounts&quot; tab on the user profile now fills this role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:16:32.387" />
  <row Id="4441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:22:05.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/stack-overflow-moderator-voting-now-open/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/stack-overflow-moderator-voting-now-open/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A while back, there was a nomination period followed up by a voting period.  The SO team reviewed the nominations and chose the ones that would be voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was great that the community got to take on an active role in the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also gain access to some mod tools once your rep is at 10K...  (not there yet though personally, so not too sure what I could do with that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:22:05.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4438" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:30:34.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kind of features are you thinking of for a toolbar?  There have been a few META posts on greasemonkey scripts that tweak the UI a bit...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:30:34.897" />
  <row Id="4443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4438" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:31:49.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are various &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3687/greasemonkey-script-ideas-best-of-stackoverflow-greasemoneky-implementations&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey scripts&lt;/a&gt;, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;a bar to let you easily switch between sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there are any &quot;Google toolbar&quot;-style toolbars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:31:49.367" />
  <row Id="4444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:32:05.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the community is mature enough (as on stackoverflow.com), &lt;strong&gt;moderators are selected through voting&lt;/strong&gt;, as RSolberg answered. I would estimate the community needs to be 6-9 months old at least for this to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community is new (as on serverfault.com, and superuser.com), we need moderators to launch with, and so by necessity &lt;strong&gt;some moderators have to be hand selected by the &quot;powers that be&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as these communities grow, they will need &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; moderators, and voting will be the preferred method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:32:05.147" />
  <row Id="4445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:32:30.940" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to identify whether users are online or not? Something like online offline status symbols used in a chat application for every user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-31T17:53:37.237" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T17:53:37.237" Title="Is there a way to identify whether users are online or not?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:34:42.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an interesting idea, but would be concerned about the overall number of users on the site at any given time cluttering it up.  Maybe a count would be sufficient with the ability to drill into that number to see the user names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also tie in well with the idea of a friends list where an icon could be added next to their user name if online or something along those lines (think Office Communicator type of thing)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T06:34:42.037" />
  <row Id="4447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T06:52:38.747" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the registered user section there's a label &lt;em&gt;Seen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is showing wrong information. When I visited my own profile page I got the information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seen: 18 mins ago.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to what criteria this info is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T20:16:26.103" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:00:16.920" Title="Profile page bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11873" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:08:43.287" Score="31" ViewCount="980" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've answered a number of questions on SO recently where it is obvious that the poster has just blatantly used SO as a substitute for loading up their own IDE/language documentation or helpfile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been other questions I've answered where it took me a 30 second Google search to find the relevant information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably took the poster longer to enter the question in SO than if they had bothered to make the small amount of effort to look it up for themselves, but I guess they were off getting a coffee or having a chat and decided to offload the effort &quot;virtually&quot; onto someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, answering these questions gets you a bit of rep in return but it feels like a hollow victory, and it leaves you feeling a bit &quot;used&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's as though SO is encouraging a habit of laziness amongst a certain class of developers, and this attitude may well spread as SO becomes more popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a concern that should be addressed in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you can downvote questions that are obviously silly but unless you have a decent amount of rep built up, it feels painful to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T18:14:16.970" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T01:25:12.733" Title="Does SO encourage developer laziness?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="29" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="4449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:18:53.287" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that I see quite a bit of questions matching your description, although I'm not sure if its laziness or not. A lot of the time I think that programming beginners found the site from google or another search engine and decided to give it a try.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that if I can use full sentences to describe a concept that is new to me it is much more likely that I get the desired answer than if I type in a quick search term and pray for the best.,This is because although I may not be using the proper terms for the concept people who are familiar with it should be able to point me in the right direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are of course users who don't fit into this description, especially one user who I see ask questions almost daily: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015/shore&quot;&gt;shore&lt;/a&gt;. I usually downvote his question regardless of what it is due to the fact that he never votes up or select answers when they are clearly given to him. In the last question he asked he went so far as to comment &quot;Thanks! :)&quot; to one of the answers, &lt;strong&gt;yet did not even upvote it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;208&lt;/strong&gt; questions, &lt;em&gt;1&lt;/em&gt; Answer (score of -1), 2 upvotes, 4 downvotes, If I had my way he would be banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T07:18:53.287" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:21:54.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure where it gets the information for that section, but the time error has a 99% of being a result of using caching. Wouldn't consider a bug, and isn't all that important anyways; unless of course you're stalking someone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;After reading your other question I agree that online/offline could be useful, but the specific time of last seen not so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T07:21:54.520" />
  <row Id="4451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4438" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:28:59.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is in fact a Stack Overflow toolbar for FireFox,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11928&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Add-on&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has fairly limited functionality at the moment, but it's pretty hard to do much without an API (unless you use GreaseMonkey as already pointed out, although still less than ideal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T07:28:59.517" />
  <row Id="4452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:35:12.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People like that have always existed and will always exist. I've seen them daily on IRC support channels, and at least weekly on mailing lists and usenet groups. The only difference is that I see them every second on SO :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, I think that SO is not at fault and could hardly do anything about it. People that won't do a search won't do a search, even if you close their questions and ban them from SO, they'll just go somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having those questions answered on SO has the added benefit of storing that information for the next person who &lt;em&gt;does search&lt;/em&gt; so they can find it on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T07:35:12.390" />
  <row Id="4453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:49:23.313" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if Google does, too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T19:46:27.087" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T19:46:27.087" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:54:20.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i think &lt;em&gt;some other site&lt;/em&gt; would be most appropriate. This is based on the notion that SO is/was intended to be a &lt;strong&gt;help&lt;/strong&gt; site, not an entertainment/edutainment site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;codegolf.com would be very appropriate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;note: clutter is clutter, even if it's fun clutter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;addendum: &quot;ignore the tag&quot; doesn't reduce the clutter, it just eliminates the clutter from my screen - while slowing everything down in the process&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T01:18:06.837" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T01:18:06.837" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2009-07-11T07:56:06.743" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;with no chat feature, online/offline status is useless...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T07:56:06.743" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2009-07-11T08:29:49.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;seen&quot; dates have a granularity of about 15-30 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T08:29:49.383" />
  <row Id="4457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T09:28:22.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They would rather interrupt someone else (whatever the cost to that person) than spend 30 seconds of their own effort. Sometimes they will put effort into asking a question on a forum despite some searching being quicker and less effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we want to change human behaviour, we have to live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T14:33:54.177" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T14:33:54.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2009-07-11T09:43:12.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be a nice feature with the option to turn it on or off, similar to turning on or off facebook chat. For various reasons I prefer my online status not to be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T09:43:12.920" />
  <row Id="4459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T09:47:59.637" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so I looked at my SO.com accounts tab and it said I could associate my account with my meta account. Strangely, it said there was no serverfault account to associate with, even though I have one and all three accounts authentiacte using the same provider - Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now my SO profile says I'm happily associated with meta, but my meta profile says I'm not associated with anything. Trying to update my meta profile with my email address says that the address is already registered to someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, serverfault knows my email address but then happily prompts me to associate with both SO &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; meta, despite SO telling me it can't associate the other way round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite a pickle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where has it gone wrong? Is there anything I can do from my end to unwind this tangle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130711" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T04:45:47.027" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T04:45:47.027" ClosedDate="2010-05-12T03:29:33.767" Title="Cross-site account association is all befuddled. How do I fix it?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T10:16:37.227" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my limited experience on the site it seems that questions in some categories attract more votes than others regardless of (my opinion of) their quality. This may be because there are many more people with an interest in that area, so there's a larger pool of people likely to vote. This seems to lead to fairly basic questions that everyone has a view on attracting scores of votes, while niche questions attract a handful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possible reason would be if there are any philosophical differences between sub-groups. For instance I'd be interested in seeing if people tend to vote differently between .NET and Java. Do Java users vote more or less? Do answerers in each category vote more or less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now the questions. &#xA;Is it possible to see average votes by tag?&#xA;Can we determine the number of people &quot;active&quot; in a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T15:28:27.053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T15:28:27.053" Title="Is there a way to determine the average/weighted votes for a question by tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T10:26:27.233" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've certainly seen quite a few questions that I could easily Bing. Though with some of them I wonder if it is because I know the particular keywords that'll give a useful response. If you don't know enough about the domain you might not be able to frame the search terms uniquely enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be considered bad form to respond to such a question with, a link like &lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Does+SO+encourage+developer+laziness%3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. On the one hand it could be seen as a slap down, on the other it might genuinely help the asker to see how you found out the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T10:26:27.233" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2009-07-11T10:38:22.653" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this materially different to the &quot;Seen:&quot; field on the profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T10:38:22.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4459" CreationDate="2009-07-11T10:49:08.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;email team@stackoverflow com with your details, specifically user page URLs. Sounds like you have a number of duplicate accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T10:49:08.780" />
  <row Id="4465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T11:00:41.167" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see questions about if and how bad tags are automatically being corrected. They're popping all the time. Please make the database of synonymous tags visible to users to end these speculations once and forever. Thank you in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-14T06:26:05.090" LastActivityDate="2010-07-14T06:26:35.263" Title="Make the database of synonymous tags visible to users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;automation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4460" CreationDate="2009-07-11T11:00:55.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess the best way to answer this is to download the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/creative-commons-data-dump-july-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; - then you can work out whatever queries you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that some tags definitely receive more interest and votes than others - I don't find that surprising though... in fact, it's pretty much guaranteed to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do think of some interesting queries to run, I for one would like to see the results (and the queries themselves) - if you could edit your question with anything you find, that would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T11:00:55.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4438" CreationDate="2009-07-11T11:07:20.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Powers That Be could get a free one from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conduit.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Conduit&lt;/a&gt; and then also make a few cents everytime someone installs it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No adware, no spyware. I use it on one of my own sites and people are happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastEditorUserId="130625" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T11:48:28.097" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T11:48:28.097" />
  <row Id="4472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4438" CreationDate="2009-07-11T11:43:52.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/216752/firefox-stackoverflow-toolbar&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Toolbar&lt;/a&gt;. (personally &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/216752/firefox-stackoverflow-toolbar/217798#217798&quot;&gt;I don't see the point&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T11:43:52.073" />
  <row Id="4474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T12:13:06.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this and indeed like Joe Schmoe I've been able to answer questions I've not known a great deal about by either looking in the MSDN (for Microsoft based questions obviously) or by using Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time I mentioned that the OP should have experimented or search first I was down-voted (presumably for not being helpful!). I'd provide the link, but I can't remember the question now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I appreciate that one of the stated aims of this site is to get it to be the first port of call for people wanting answers to programming questions, I think that a little more effort before posting questions would go a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all that, I have been stuck on a problem and when I've asked someone for help they've said &quot;you don't want to do that, do this instead&quot;. Basically, I've been so caught up in the minutiae of why something didn't compile or work as expected that I've missed the fact that I should have taken a step back and looked at the problem afresh. So while searching may reveal the answer to the specific problem, having that human interaction can lead to a better result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is a bald statement of &quot;this doesn't work&quot; there'll often be answers or comments that ask for more information or why the OP is using the stated approach. This in turn can lead the OP to question their approach and may lead to a better solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T12:13:06.180" />
  <row Id="4476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T12:43:08.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poorly written and badly researched questions are a feature of every programming forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't consider this to be a particularly high grade question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1113295/send-video-from-server-to-client&quot;&gt;send video from server to client&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Since I have rep == 1, I can only post one link - question 1113253 is another example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In common with many drive-by questions, they are very short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the minimum content length to post a question should be increased to more than 10 characters. Might be worth analysing the data dump to get some data on a better minimum, or search for high-vote short questions that prove this is a bad idea. It may be a bad idea purely because it will create more junk to parse. Still, might be worth a short-term experiment to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T12:43:08.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-07-11T13:00:11.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful to have a noob/first-timer version of the web interface, maybe with just a big &lt;strong&gt;Ask A Question&lt;/strong&gt; button and a big &lt;strong&gt;Answer This Question&lt;/strong&gt; box...and, of course, a prominent search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just thinking in terms of non-technical users I'd like to try the StackExchange approach on, most of whom would be overwhelmed looking at the current GUI with all the tabs at the top of each page, and the tags listed down the side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Internet Marketing community throw around a statistic along the lines of...you have about 3-5 seconds to capture a user's attention before they leave the website again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, ideally, you want to make it incredibly obvious to the first-timer what options are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be a &quot;Switch to Advanced View&quot; toggle somewhere on the page for anyone who wants more options later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T13:00:11.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2009-07-11T13:41:58.293" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the fact that you can't reuse your rep between the SO/SF/Meta sites.  The partitioning out between SO and SF is incredibly stupid.  If someone asks a question on SO about, say, the FILLFACTOR of a database (and he's a developer and member of the SO community), should he have to friggin re-join this new SF community and have his question closed?  Sorry, but that stupid and annoying, and causes friction when that user tries to post the question to SF (sorry, my example goes backwards, but it could go the other way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unnecessary partitioning out of the SO/SF/meta sites keeps well-rounded experts from wanting to use any of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24995" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T13:41:58.293" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2009-07-11T14:48:15.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a nice idea. But do we want to see Stackoverflow act like a Chatting site ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130328" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T14:48:15.473" />
  <row Id="4481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4483" CreationDate="2009-07-11T14:49:43.703" Score="7" ViewCount="1568" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see changes in the comment section. Presently, we cannot start a new line. Everything gets posted in one line. Even the code looks horrible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, to color the code in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130328" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T07:40:11.643" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T16:38:40.247" Title="Add syntax highlighting and line breaks to comment formatting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4481" CreationDate="2009-07-11T15:12:53.443" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is limited Markdown allowed in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can create bold using the &lt;code&gt;**[text]**&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can create italic using the &lt;code&gt;*[text]*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can do inline code using the backticks &quot;`&quot; on either side of the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T15:12:53.443" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4459" CreationDate="2009-07-11T15:33:04.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email team@stackoverflow.com explaining the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Include the urls to all of your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can, edit the duplicate, and write in the description that it is a dup of your other account. You may also want to edit the description of the original. This will help prove that the person who owns the duplicate account, is in fact the same person who owns the other account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually done this, and it worked flawlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;( copied from my answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3607/is-there-a-way-to-close-an-so-family-account/3649#3649&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3948/how-do-i-consolodate-my-stackoverflow-accounts/4006#4006&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T16:57:37.617" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:57:37.617" />
  <row Id="4485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2009-07-11T15:43:03.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that atleast add support for a New Line. Presently, everything gets posted in one line. Its quite ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130328" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T15:43:03.450" />
  <row Id="4488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4465" CreationDate="2009-07-11T16:14:19.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps when you enter a &quot;bad&quot; tag and click submit, it would alert you in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say you enter the &lt;code&gt;subversion&lt;/code&gt; tag and click submit, it would say something like &quot;Please use the &lt;code&gt;svn&lt;/code&gt; tag instead of &lt;code&gt;subversion&lt;/code&gt;&quot;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would only happen the first time you click submit, so you could ignore it, should it be wrong.. It could also be done AJAX'ily, the same way the &quot;Your question may be subjective&quot; alert is done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the tag-autocompletion should be made to suggest &lt;code&gt;svn&lt;/code&gt; when you start typing &lt;code&gt;subversion&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The synonyms could be based of batch tag changes, say when &lt;code&gt;tagA&lt;/code&gt; is merged into &lt;code&gt;tagB&lt;/code&gt;, it stores the mapping in the synonyms database?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:14:19.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4544" CreationDate="2009-07-11T16:17:36.697" Score="2" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question on the stack overflow site asking how people employ perl to their advantage. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112799/how-do-you-make-use-of-perl-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112799/how-do-you-make-use-of-perl-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the question received 6 answers, 1 vote, 82 views, and a couple comments, it was marked by some stack overflow powerusers to be 'not a real question' and then closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? How is that not a real question? I don't want to start a flame war or anything of the sort - I just want to know why my question was closed, and determined to be 'not a real question' even though it got real answers. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &#xA;I specifically asked what the users of the site were currently doing with perl, I think you guys are becoming confused with what my question was asking and what the alleged duplicate question is. I didn't want to know what perl could be used for (as the other question asked), I wanted to know what the users of stack overflow were doing with perl - how they were employing it in their day to day operations. It seems to me that the other question that you guys are linking is the more open ended one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of closing the question why not just move it to the community wiki instead? Why stifle the users asking questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT2: The stack overflow blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&lt;/a&gt;  says:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Borderline duplicates. These questions are ambiguous; they’re in the same ballpark as a previous question, but have subtle differences that may make them legitimately standalone questions. These are subject to interpretation. We rely on Stack Overflow users to tag these questions appropriately so they naturally “group” with the questions they’re related to. The more tags the questions have in common, the more likely they are to show up together on the related questions sidebar. You can also edit in links to the possibly duplicated posts, if appropriate, but be sure to make the tags match so the system can figure out the relationship without as much manual effort. There’s often benefit to having multiple subtle variants of a question around, as people tend to ask and search using completely different words, and the better our coverage, the better odds our fellow programmers can find the answer they’re looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason as to why my question was closed is unsatisfactory to me. Labeling something as not a real question is ridiculous, especially when it got 6 answers before it was closed. My question is not a cut and paste duplicate, or an  exact duplicate. At msot it's an accidental duplicate that holds a very large semantic difference to the question you guys linked below. &lt;strong&gt;They are not the same.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the powerusers made a mistake, and should be more careful in the future. I'll leave it up to you guys to discuss it if you wish; I'm getting too frustrated with the moderator attitudes around here. No offense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130763" LastEditorUserId="130763" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T04:17:32.797" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T04:28:10.517" Title="Why was my question flagged as 'not a real question'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2009-07-11T16:20:07.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm. You asked this same question in your comment on SO, and nobody responded. Personally, I think you deserved answers from those who voted this way. It's a real question, even if it's a very broad one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:20:07.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2009-07-11T16:25:16.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You aren't asking a question about a specific programming issue. You're asking a question that can never really be 'answered' in any meaningful sense of the word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have voted to close. If you had made it community wiki, I'd have voted to close based off of the fact that it is a duplicate. Others may not have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons it should have been made community wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not a question with one discrete answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Poll&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:25:16.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4498" CreationDate="2009-07-11T16:37:34.603" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the intervening months since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-top-n-shown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;feature was introduced&lt;/a&gt;, there have always been at most 5 comments shown under a post when the page loads. However, it seems that, on Meta, that limit has been tripled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There doesn't yet seem to be a user preference to tweak this number, so I think that this is likely a bug somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3179/how-to-deal-with-unwritten-rules-and-guidelines-on-stackoverflow-et-al/3180#3180&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Instead of showing 5, now 15 comments are displayed under the post, taking up significant space:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3179/how-to-deal-with-unwritten-rules-and-guidelines-on-stackoverflow-et-al/3180#3180&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/XOzlk.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T00:51:27.407" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T00:51:27.407" Title="Number of comments shown on load has increased on Meta" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4495" CreationDate="2009-07-11T16:42:36.723" Score="2" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like a reasonable change to the recent comment markup.  Instead of relying on Jeff's regexp to be perfect and only match things that need to be &lt;em&gt;italicized&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;bolded&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;code&gt;in code&lt;/code&gt;, why not include the ability to make sure we can show those characters when we need to but the unthinkable happens.  The unthinkable being, of course, a false positive by the perfect regexp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130283" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T10:33:30.667" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T10:35:54.967" Title="Ability to escape comment markup" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2009-07-11T16:56:13.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For one thing, it was poorly written. For another it was largely a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/968036/what-are-the-popular-contemporary-uses-for-perl&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It also could not have a single correct answer, so it should have been a Community Wiki question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T16:56:13.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4493" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:16:54.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001285.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;regex&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely agree, it would be nice to be able to escape the markdown characters using backslashes, this would be consistent with the markdown used in the posts, where you can do &lt;code&gt;\*this\*&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; *this*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious workaround is to use the inline code-blocks.. Surround the bits you don't want to be bold/italic in backticks `&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Something `*like this*`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..which will display in a comment as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Something *like this*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T19:55:35.430" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T19:55:35.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4500" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:17:50.397" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I joined the StackOverflow site today and have a question about the reputation. According to the FAQ, you can get reputation for the following 2 things (amongst others):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Question or Answer is voted Helpful: +10 reputation  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Answer is marked Accepted: +15 reputation OR the full amount of the bounty, if any&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the answers I've given in my profile, I have a total of 20 up votes across 9 different answers, 3 of which were accepted. I actually had 4 accepted answers earlier on, but one became unaccepted when a better answer was offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also understand that users start with 1 reputation and can gain up to 200 reputation points in a day, so earlier today, I had 201 reputation points, which is the limit. This all makes sense so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, I noticed that my reputation points had gone down to 186, but I can't seem to make it all add up. Adding up just the up-votes, discounting the fact that some answers were accepted, gives 200 points for that alone. I checked, and I hadn't been voted down on any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only explanation I can think of is that my reputation reached the 200 limit with 4 accepted answers and 16 up-votes, after which I received 4 more up votes, which weren't counted due to the fact that I was at the limit. When one of the answers became unaccepted, I lost the 15 points for it, bringing me back down to 186. However, those 40 points that weren't counted for the up-votes I received earlier aren't counted now, despite the fact that I have less than 200 reputation for today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly bothered by it, but I thought I would at least raise it to see if I'm missing something obvious, or if it is perhaps a potential bug (albeit, not a very serious one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130765" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T21:11:01.543" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T21:11:01.543" Title="Why does my reputation not add up?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4501" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:18:28.123" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should the reputation requirements to participate in a stackoverflow knowledge exchange site change as the site evolves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In normal use you gain reputation by being up voted, either your question or your answer.  When an SO site is first created there are realtivley few questions and few answers.  This makes it easy to gain reputation so you can better participate in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a site matures it's more difficult to ask a new question or post a good answer.  That makes a barrier of entry for participation steeper.  Which also makes it hard to vote for good answers or leave constructive comments (15 and 50 reputation respectively). In effect you are prohibited from being a part of the community because you didn't get in early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the barrier of entry for low impact actions (voting, comments) be lower as the site matures and more users gain moderator like permissions (retags, edits, closes) and higher for high impact moderator like permissions as the site matures?  People with previous permissions would be grandfathered in as the barriers changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will enable the moderators to moderate the 'less trusted users' rather than the computer (reputation is a measure of how much the system trusts you) but still enable quality participation a growth in users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is less of an issue for dynamic topics that stackoverflow has started with (all computer related) and more of an issue for more stable topics (loomoverflow anybody?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53498" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T07:01:32.227" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T07:01:32.227" Title="Should reputation requirements change as a Stackoverflow Knowledge Exchange site grows in users and content?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="4498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4492" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:21:46.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See Jeff's answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/396/a-little-less-ajax&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's just upped the displayed comments from 5 to 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T17:21:46.410" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:28:57.163" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually long questions are from people who are very detailed or very confused.  Due to their length people are less inclined to read them and answer them.  But there are also people who prefer these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should stackoverflow automatically tag questions over a certain length as &quot;long-question&quot; perhaps not taking code snippets or edits into account when determining length?  This would also help those who don't want to see long questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53498" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T18:35:47.147" Title="Is there a way to auto-tag long and short questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4496" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:28:59.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've hit the nail on the head.  The system just discards rep from upvotes beyond 200, which means that if something else happens which lowers your rep below the 200 cap, that other rep no longer exists to bring it back up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T17:28:59.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4497" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:30:30.063" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the rep requirements for high-level rep actions should ever increase, otherwise you face the possibilty of someone losing those abilities through no fault of their own.  If the system trusted you yesterday, why doesn't it trust you today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T17:30:30.063" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:36:33.900" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please add an option to preferences making it possible to set how many pages to show on one screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T00:31:01.077" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T00:31:01.077" Title="Please add pagination option to preferences" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2009-07-11T17:46:39.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me put it to you this way ... if I went to a writers' version of SO where authors and English professors answered questions and asked &quot;what can I do with a pencil and paper?&quot; do you think that's a real question?  The applications of perl or any other programming language for that matter are limited only by your imagination.  I did not vote on this question, but in my opinion, the question &quot;what can you do with perl?&quot; boarders on nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per your comments and edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get frustrated.  But, I think you're confusing SO with a discussion board.  Kinda like &quot;hey, let's all tell stories about what we have done with perl.&quot;  It's not a place for war-stories (although some of this type of thing gets in from time to time) ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or &lt;strong&gt;require&#xA;  extended discussion&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis added).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastEditorUserId="130201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T19:29:00.530" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T19:29:00.530" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:00:29.353" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is good that we build up a body of high-quality knowledge on stackoverflow regardless of where that information may be found elsewhere&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often stackoverflow answers are of better quality than other referenced I find on the internet. This is probably because answers have been reviewed and voted on by other users. This means, I can search for something in stackoverflow first before I go to google. It's the same if I want to look up a word, I go directly to dictionary.com, or if I expect wikipedia will have the kind of answer I want, I go directly there. We can cut out google so we don't have to depend on their monopoly of the internet search. (Don't read this as me saying google are bad, because they provide an unbeatable service).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11898" LastEditorUserId="11898" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T18:06:53.020" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T18:06:53.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4499" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:04:19.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er, no.. It's not exactly difficult to look at the question at decided if you can be bothered to read it or not..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this would do is make less people view questions they may be able to answer. It would also make people less likely to put time and effort into good, comprehensive questions (&lt;em&gt;&quot;if I add any more words to my question, it'll get marked as 'long' and no one will look at it!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T18:04:19.157" />
  <row Id="4508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5063" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:23:13.577" Score="51" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that offer bounty should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; auto select the highest vote answer as the accepted answer. Currently after an answer has been auto-accepted, it can't even be unaccepted. This is not a desired behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because the most popular answer may not be the correct, or even reasonable answer. The bounty offerer should reserve the right not to condone any answer he doesn't believe in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: OK guys, in my last minute effort to prevent the auto-selection mechanism from selecting the highest vote answer( but not necessarily the correct answer), I have deliberately &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4508/please-do-not-auto-select-answers-on-bounty-questions/5063#5063&quot;&gt;select the most downvoted answer&lt;/a&gt;. What an irony. I guess this experiment should convince everyone who auto accept is not a good idea.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:45:53.327" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:46:45.977" Title="Please do not auto select answers on bounty questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="4509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4499" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:35:47.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Due to their length people are less inclined to read them and answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't entirely agree with you there; whilst some long answers &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be a deterrent from reading, if it's on a topic that I'm interested in or have the ability to answer, I'll read it; sometimes these are the better questions, in fact, since:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can be more detailed than shorter questions, and less ambiguous and actually make sense compared to some very short, or shorter questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often the longer questions are more specific than other questions that are popular and everyone goes in to answer, so I'm more likely to get a good answer in than in a popular question that lots of people know the answer to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can often be more thought-out than shorter questions where the user has asked a simple question without doing a search beforehand, so can be more interesting. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I don't think it's necessary to tag questions as either long or short, because long and short questions can both be good or bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T18:35:47.147" />
  <row Id="4510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:41:09.283" Score="5" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a poll question on SO:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109880/what-do-you-call-the-punctuation-marks-and-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109880/what-do-you-call-the-punctuation-marks-and-closed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was created as community wiki, seemed (to me) concise and unlikely to spark controversy, and was at least peripherally programming-related.  I seeded it with a few very brief answers, hoping that would encourage others to do the same.  (I'm a relative newbie.  I may have failed to establish it as a poll at first.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In SO FAQ terms, I felt that it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was not a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was &lt;em&gt;most certainly&lt;/em&gt; subjective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was not argumentative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;did not require extended discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was closed fairly quickly as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;.  I'm &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; arguing that it should have been left open, nor asking that it be re-opened.  If the community feels that a question is not interesting or useful, then it ought to be closed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid I still don't 'get' the social mores that govern SO polling.  Nearly all of the most popular questions are either polls or call for highly subjective discussion.  (Take a look at the &quot;hottest questions this month&quot;...)  There would appear to be right and wrong ways of conducting polls--I'd like to hear from some SO natives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.  Despite my own involvement with this question, I'd rather not see SO become a poll- and opinion-based site.  SO's main strength lies in its ability to distill the experience of its many users into clear, concrete solutions to real problems.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:  A follow-up question:  What kinds of polling questions do belong on SO?  Should all polls be discouraged?  (Please don't read that as sarcasm--it seems like a reasonable option.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose at its root this becomes a question of SO as programmer resource vs. SO as programmer community...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18347" LastEditorUserId="18347" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T02:14:11.253" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:28:15.880" Title="How should one ask polling questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:42:30.257" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the FAQ, the questions that belong on Server Fault are defined as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that Server Fault is not&#xA;  for general computer troubleshooting&#xA;  questions; if you paid for that&#xA;  desktop hardware, and it's your&#xA;  personal workstation, it is unlikely&#xA;  that your question is appropriate for&#xA;  Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if the question applies to a work environment but is asked by a non-sysadmin.  Should it be marked as &quot;belongs-on-superuser&quot; or reworded to apply to multiple users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2209" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T04:01:09.580" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T04:01:09.580" Title="wrongly tagged &quot;belongs-on-superuser&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:54:21.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it has been suggested before, and it may not be popular, but why not set the timestamp of the answer to the last edit, and sort the answers with equal votes accordingly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T18:54:21.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-11T18:59:47.987" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is because the most popular answer may not be the correct, or even reasonable answer. The bounty offerer should reserve the right not to condone any answer he doesn't believe in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In which case... don't leave it to the last moment. Go in ahead of time and &lt;strong&gt;accept&lt;/strong&gt; the answer you choose. Indeed, IIRC the system warns you (by e-mail) when your bounty is approaching the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has to do &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; - otherwise you have either an open-ended bounty, or some confused and frustrated respondents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &quot;take&quot; on bounty is that it is simply like &lt;strong&gt;advertising&lt;/strong&gt;; you pay your points, and you might attract a few more people to look at the post. It is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; (although not guaranteed) that you get a perfect answer out of this. If so, fantastic! But in the other case, &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; has to happen. If needs be, select the least useless answer, and add a comment that it didn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; help due to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;x&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T09:57:17.403" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:57:17.403" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4510" CreationDate="2009-07-11T19:10:39.833" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm sure there are certainly &quot;wrong&quot; ways of asking poll-like questions, I don't see that you particularly made any mistakes. It's possible that people thought it too trivial a question and chose &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; as the closest fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An awful lot of SO is subjective - it would be hard to argue otherwise. A solution that I find elegant may not appeal to someone else, etc. Personally I'd prefer if if the close reason of &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; were renamed to &quot;inflammatory or trolling&quot; or something similar. Just because something is subjective doesn't mean it can't be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a certain amount of luck in asking a question, IMO. I believe that in some cases people (possibly including myself!) will vote to close something where if they'd happened to see it 20 minutes later, they'd have appreciated value in some of the answers. It's somewhat inevitable, to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being explicit about how you'd like the question to be answered is generally useful, although you run the risk of appearing to be bossy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T19:10:39.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T19:30:38.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it does encourage laziness, but it's no different from other sites. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114340/add-values-of-a-function-to-listbox-when-click-on-checkbox&quot;&gt;This is a great example of a terrible question&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; - It now contains code, a day later after posting), it can't even been answered because it gives insufficient detail. I find it amusing it even got answers! That said, I quite like some of these questions (the ones that can be answered anyway) since it's a quick way to gain some reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17461" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T14:27:38.437" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T14:27:38.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-11T20:28:12.513" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, and that's why the site is great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the goals of SO is to become the canonical place to find good answers to any programming question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: ... But if it's a simple question like &quot;What does the third argument mean, the documentation doesn't explain what the third argument is&quot; and then explain, you know, there are ways of doing that which are not copyright violations where you just provide the answer, and I think that's awesome because I really do want StackOverflow to answer all these questions, I want it to be the canonical source of knowledge, like, if there was no article on wikipedia about Cuba, just because there's a really good website that tells you everything about Cuba, should you go and make an article about Cuba on Wikipedia? Yeah! Sure! Because it's got to be an encyclopaedia, it's got to have everything!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29044&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(Podcast 51)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also why one of the founders of the site asked the incredibly simple question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;&quot;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something you could find in Google within seconds, but you'll find answers on random crappy websites where there's some typo in the code, or worse some security issue with the code, and there's no way of fixing it, or posting an alternative solution - this is what StackOverflow does well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not quite sure how you would have security issues with LOGO code, but that's not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; my point..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it be considered bad form to respond to such a question with, a link like this &lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Does+SO+encourage+developer+laziness%3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Does+SO+encourage+developer+laziness%3F&lt;/a&gt;. On the one hand it could be seen as a slap down, on the other it might genuinely help the asker to see how you found out the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find answers which are links to Google &lt;em&gt;incredibly&lt;/em&gt; unhelpful - mostly because the answer that says &quot;go and search you lazy person!&quot; usually ends up as the first search result..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's easy to find the answer on some webpage or in the official documentation - post an answer quoting it, with the link to source and any required attribution... That way not only do you answer the persons question, you gain reputation, you make it easier for others to find the answer in the future, and are helping StackOverflow - everyone wins!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T20:28:12.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4511" CreationDate="2009-07-11T20:52:52.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point the message is trying to make is that ServerFault is for, well, servers.  That and larger scale implementations of things, like rapid deployment of some software to a bunch of computers.  If it's just an issue you're having at work with your workstation PC, then it probably &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; belong on SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did this &quot;wrongful&quot; tagging happen to you?  If so, what's a link to the question, and I'll see if I can explain more exactly why it's not applicable to ServerFault. (Unless I agree with you, in which case I will be able to do exactly nothing ;)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T20:52:52.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T20:56:54.927" Score="2" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the web need another freelancing website? No, but if put correctly it can be unique and highly profitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to provide a freelancing job board for &quot;&lt;strong&gt;temporary&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;small&lt;/strong&gt; (under $1,000 or $2,000)&quot; and &quot;&lt;strong&gt;location independent&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; tasks. The point is to price fairly. Unlike other freelancing websites, it's hard to stand out of the crowd. Even if you did, you get paid $10/hour or even less. Rarely you get $25/hour and only if you got clients that likes your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the situation here should be different, less quantity and less tasks &amp;lt;&gt; higher quality and higher pricing. ($60/hour is a good rate for a good programmer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Freelancers are scored based on a formula based on their score. (The formula needs to focus more on users' responses and answers more than the questions). Buyers select the freelance based on his/her score, pay should be higher than freelancing sites (not less than $50/hour).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In return, Stack OverFlow makes developers to work harder on the site. Freelancers that wants to do quality work and get paid fairly will participate on SOF to get higher scores, they'll try to post better answers and more explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for the profit of all. Buyers that will get quality work (and not spaghetti code), freelancers that will be paid fairly and SOF that will get better answers and discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? (If you are not interested in hiring/freelancing, so think about your mates, don't be so selfish and say NO just because you don't need it, try to discuss the advantages and drawbacks instead.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12637" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T11:51:26.963" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T11:51:26.963" Title="Freelance jobs in SOF" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3283" CreationDate="2009-07-11T22:05:03.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the exchanges have reputation, it is a literal manifestation of what happens in many other contests that have no real reward other than getting noticed by your peers.  It also appears a great way to garner publicity for the site.  I saw the twitter art contest originally on reddit.com  So I imagine it drove a ton of traffic to stackoverflow.com and many of those people probably where not aware SO existed before that contest peeked their interest.  So, contests are good for the community because it is fun, gives talented members recognition and drives new users to the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as how many, I think it is directly proportional to the community's size.  People only have so much time. 100 of users can maybe only support one a month, 1000's maybe once a week.  1,000,000's maybe everyday.  I think it also depends on the topic.  Something like game development is really hard to do in day, but creating a hiku in a day seems doable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112794" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T22:05:03.107" />
  <row Id="4525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1475" CreationDate="2009-07-11T22:07:48.497" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seemed like a good idea to me, so I threw something together in PHP this afternoon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/11/stack-overflow-share-your-flair-now-in-png/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link to my blog - I can't post images or multiple links :-(&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/imageFlair/imageFlair.php&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can reference the script directly on my site if you want to (unless the load gets too much), or you can grab the code from my blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all pretty configurable with backgrounds, fonts, layout etc. all changable a config file. It uses the JSON feed for the data, and caches the image for 30minutes by default to keep the load down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope someone finds it useful :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Fixed a stupid gravatar bug, and enabled pretty urls so now you can go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/imageFlair/1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.grumpydev.com/imageFlair/1.png&lt;/a&gt; and get the same result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2:&lt;/strong&gt; I've added an optional parameter for which site you wish to display, so the url is now &lt;a href=&quot;http://url/mode/id.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://url/mode/id.png&lt;/a&gt; where mode is either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;so - Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta - Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sf - Server Fault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;su - Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for Jeff (id number 1 is easy :-)) in March 2011, they look something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/vicK3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/n1Zqd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Meta&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/muiTH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Server Fault&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/6IfTi.png&quot; alt=&quot;Super User&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26507" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-15T10:05:50.367" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T10:05:50.367" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="4526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1238" CreationDate="2009-07-11T22:11:13.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Marc mentioned, you should be able to use the Wordpress widget (assuming you can use widgets), or failing that you can use the Flair as a PNG thing I threw together this afternoon. I've posted more details on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1475/can-we-get-flair-as-an-image/4525#4525&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Can we get flair as an image?&quot;&gt;Can we get flair as an image?&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26507" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T22:11:13.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4523" CreationDate="2009-07-11T22:16:01.310" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're suggesting linking reputation to price, I'd have to say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two main reasons: firstly, SO reputation certainly &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; represent the relative merits of users. Compare myself with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt;, for example. I have 20 times his reputation - but I'm in awe of his abilities in various different ways. There are plenty of other users that could be similarly compared :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, as soon as there's concrete real-world gain from having higher rep, it increases the probability that people will try to game the system. Yes, some people do so now - but at least we can just say &quot;You're only cheating yourselves.&quot; Once that makes a difference in terms of actual pay, it's a much more significant issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T22:16:01.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4528" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T23:10:36.150" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hiya,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've often found a situation where multiple replies helped with an answer, but only one person gets the overall answer, i think it would be incredibly beneficial (and fair) to provide a function to say an answer that was provided &quot;assisted&quot; as well as being able to tick just one as the current &quot;answerd the question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shadi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130253" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T02:04:51.710" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:14:21.820" Title="Add &quot;Assisted Answer&quot; feature to questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4529" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-11T23:18:41.350" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation graph in everyone's profiles used to be able to select a wider range than this. Now it says &quot;Maximum 60 days allowed&quot;. This is rather a disappointing change. Any particular reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-11T23:40:17.500" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T23:40:30.497" Title="When (and why) did the reputation graph change to a 60 day limit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4510" CreationDate="2009-07-11T23:33:17.723" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close this particular question for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What you call [pick your name for curly braces] is not programming related; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not a big believer that SO should be used for polls at all and as such my standard for those that cut the mustard is very high.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure why the reason ended up being &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;. To me, that's not the appropriate reason. Either &quot;not programming related&quot; or &quot;not a real question&quot; is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T23:33:17.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4529" CreationDate="2009-07-11T23:40:30.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't tell you when exactly, but I know it's been a couple months at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-11T23:40:30.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-12T00:28:50.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty system is no longer connected to accepted answer in any way, and you can offer multiple bounties over time. So I believe this request is now complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are three alerts sent to the bounty question owner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;direct email, 2 days before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;site message, 2 days before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;direct email, 1 day before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:46:45.977" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:46:45.977" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="4533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4503" CreationDate="2009-07-12T00:30:47.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a selector for 15, 30, and 50 questions at the bottom of the page of any question list. Thus is &quot;sticky&quot; and saved in your profile. So this already exists..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;page-sizer&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions?page=1&amp;amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot; title=&quot;show 15 items per page&quot; class=&quot;current page-numbers&quot;&amp;gt;15&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions?page=1&amp;amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot; title=&quot;show 30 items per page&quot; class=&quot;page-numbers&quot;&amp;gt;30&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions?page=1&amp;amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot; title=&quot;show 50 items per page&quot; class=&quot;page-numbers&quot;&amp;gt;50&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;page-numbers desc&quot;&amp;gt;per page&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T00:30:47.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4528" CreationDate="2009-07-12T00:51:16.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this warrents the additional UI complication - it seems like this is basically what upvoting is achieves - the most upvoted answer will be displayed just below your accepted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T00:51:16.357" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3434" CreationDate="2009-07-12T00:52:30.617" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem for me is that the question is shown as answered, not that the bounty is given away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T14:50:11.883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T14:50:11.883" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4523" CreationDate="2009-07-12T00:58:08.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be a good idea for a separate site, like &lt;strong&gt;freelancer.stackexchange.com&lt;/strong&gt;, but I wouldn't want to try and mix it in with the Q&amp;amp;A on Stack Overflow.  Any kind of job posting in the regular flow of Q&amp;amp;A on SO would just be seen as noise, unless you're looking for gigs, in which case the Q&amp;amp;A would be noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T00:58:08.747" />
  <row Id="4537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T01:10:42.813" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4508/bounty-do-not-auto-select-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;Bounty: Do Not Auto Select Accepted Answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This topic has other questions on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big problem I see is that the person asking the question has no control over the quality of the accepted answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if I understand correctly - if the user does not accept one manually one will be chose in the question has an answer with 2 or more upvotes.  This is horrible functionality - because that answer may have nothing useful about it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I suggest that as long as the OP responds to that answer with a comment before the expiration that they can take that answer off the list of acceptable ones, or some other way of stopping an auto-selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that once one is selected other users who come along later now are faced with an &quot;Accepted answer&quot; that is BS.  It will cause more confusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other scenario is one where the question can never have an accepted answer because the bounty expired.  this also sucks because now someone with the solution (perhaps the OP himself) may find a solution later on but will be unable to post an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the logical solution would be to create another DUPLICATE question.  I don't think that is desired behavior...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the OP would be justified in that action because he came to SO for an answer, and SO has failed miserably in those cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, et all, Please fix this!  please.  With sugar on top.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T01:10:42.813" ClosedDate="2009-07-12T01:14:14.457" Title="please fix the auto accept for bounties" Tags="&lt;bounty&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-12T01:30:11.260" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the system and how it works. And overall, I think it's a good choice. However, perhaps as an addition to the current system (and having never asked or answered a question with a bounty, forgive me if it already is this way), would it be possible to allow the original asker to &quot;unaccept&quot; the accepted answer in the case it was auto-selected. Allowing them to do this without taking the bounty reward away from the person who received it nor giving the rep lost back to the asker. However, for the sake of completeness and accuracy this would allow the asker to keep an incomplete answer from forever being shown as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T01:30:11.260" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4528" CreationDate="2009-07-12T02:03:48.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing prohibiting you from upvoting multiple answers, which I think would be more than enough to reward an answer that provided extra information (or was also factually correct).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T02:03:48.207" />
  <row Id="4540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3068" CreationDate="2009-07-12T02:04:50.137" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if the rep-challenged were able to submit a possible edit to the question, and someone with more reputation were able to approve or reject the change (somewhat like flagged revisions in Wikipedia)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Suggested edits are now part of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-19T11:33:22.087" LastActivityDate="2011-06-19T11:33:22.087" />
  <row Id="4541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4511" CreationDate="2009-07-12T03:03:49.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's going to depend on what it exactly it is that the question is dealing with.  I've seen some questions come through where a user is asking other sysadmins their opinions in order to get a feeling for where their own sysadmin is coming from, or in order to disprove something their sysadmin is saying.  Something like this I would agree should not get tagged &quot;belongs-on-superuser&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as another example, some desktop support issues asked by non-sysadmins clearly should get tagged &quot;belongs-on-superuser&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also second Darth Eru's comment about not catching all of the questions that should be retagged (or people not feeling like it).  I think that if someone has a good history of appropriate retagging then it's an indication that they might be a decent moderator at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T03:03:49.607" />
  <row Id="4542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4543" CreationDate="2009-07-12T04:21:17.567" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;re: &lt;b&gt;repeated questions&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think repeated questions may be handled in a slightly better way.  Currently usually what happens is a link is posted to the duplicate question, and the new question is closed down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be better if there were some way to &lt;em&gt;merge&lt;/em&gt; duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T04:46:37.343" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T04:46:37.343" Title="handling repeated questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4542" CreationDate="2009-07-12T04:26:39.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a way to merge duplicates. Moderators can do it. Flag for moderator attention citing the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T04:26:39.607" />
  <row Id="4544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4489" CreationDate="2009-07-12T04:28:10.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the others. This question was so open ended as to be essentially meaningless. It's an OK question but not for Stack Overflow -- better for a pure discussion bulletin board of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T04:28:10.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4546" CreationDate="2009-07-12T05:26:06.913" Score="9" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed the following question appears slightly odd in Firefox 3.5. Note &quot;them.&quot; is the only text on the second line, so it appears in a rather odd location. (I expect it would wrap to be under the word &quot;For&quot; like all other questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using IE6, however, this displays correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6790/sostrange.jpg&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else see (or not see) this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-07T02:42:57.177" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T02:42:57.177" Title="In question lists, some of the question body previews wrap strangely" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;question-summary&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4545" CreationDate="2009-07-12T07:03:08.997" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not really browser specific; I can repro it in IE8 and Chrome as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's just a side effect of float left (tags) and float right (user info), but I'll have to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T07:03:08.997" />
  <row Id="4547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4577" CreationDate="2009-07-12T07:59:14.970" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes, Tags and Badges live at the bottom of the stats tab on a user's profile, but there's no quick way to get there (that I know of...). It's fine when a user is new, but for people with a lot of questions and answers it takes a lot of scrolling to get there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be loathe to add more tabs to that interface (there are already 7 on there), so can we have something like jump-links at the top of the pane instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29620" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T12:09:44.503" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T16:02:19.930" Title="Make it easier to get to the bottom of a user's stats pane" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="4548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4547" CreationDate="2009-07-12T08:07:20.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;kbd&gt;End&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - checking the html, there are named anchors; try using &lt;code&gt;#badges&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;#tags&lt;/code&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29620/banjollity#badges&quot;&gt;like so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T08:07:20.427" />
  <row Id="4549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3934" CreationDate="2009-07-12T08:07:22.680" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same with Hungarian layout. You could use your browser's developer tools to find the hotkey assignment code and manually unassign the handler, but you have to repeat it on every page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest adding buttons for the [{ characters or create a browser plugin for that. I heard FF does not suffer this issue, but for those who use IE or Chrome on Windows is annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My approach is to open Notepad and type in these characters. Then I copy-paste. (However, when I post a longer code, I already use some other external text editor to replace my tab characters to four spaces.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PS: i18n, I wish I had participated in the beta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T08:07:22.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6603" CreationDate="2009-07-12T08:43:41.183" Score="8" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether SO proved any of the claims used when it was built? Claims and mechanisms such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How the community will do things right and the law of large numbers will select the good solutions (~)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The property of no-registration required causing OPs to never find back to their questions and no one accepts it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the cost associations of given and received downvotes achieve the desired effect? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't upvotes draw attention of those who simply want the badge for +300 votes and vote for answers without even thinking about it? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were the SO mechanisms created based on any scientific (human, phsychological, behavioral, etc.) research?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc. you name it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PS: Maybe a dupe, maybe too early to ask.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T09:11:26.660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:13:24.687" Title="Did SO prove the claims of its existence?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4552" CreationDate="2009-07-12T08:46:04.727" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to reference another answer in my own, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(-some user-)'s answer sums it up, I just wanted to emphasize/add (-some clarification-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it preferred that I edit the referenced answer and add my own clarifications and additions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically - should each answer be whole and complete, or should they interact with one another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24545" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T13:19:32.707" Title="Referencing other answers - acceptable or not?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2009-07-12T09:00:22.353" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a problem, as long as you are adding actual value to the question. For minor stuff you can edit stuff in (a slight inaccuracy, links to documentation, etc.) but at some point if you have more to add I don't see why it shouldn't be in an answer of its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I like to do is to get the answer's direct link and copy only the hash value of it and make it the direct link. So I might do &lt;code&gt;[link](#12345)&lt;/code&gt; or something like that. This has the added bonus that if someone clicks on the link I am providing the page won't have to reload and it'll go directly to the answer. I really think there should be an easier way to this, though, but that's another matter altogether...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T09:00:22.353" />
  <row Id="4553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4562" CreationDate="2009-07-12T09:17:07.457" Score="57" ViewCount="2015" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have the option to just upload an avatar rather than have to use some external service like gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While gravatar may be convenient and useful, it's also a serious privacy concern because the operators of gravatar have basically got a web bug that allows them to track users and identities across multiple sites.  ISP proxy servers can do similar tracking, associating their own users with gravatars and logins on various sites just by analysing the proxy logs... as can corporate and other proxy servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of people don't have a problem with that, but I do.  So I refuse to use gravatar and similar services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not terribly happy about OpenID for the same reason &amp;#8212; but at least I can set up my own OpenID server if I want to... which is what I'm going to do when I can be bothered.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130776" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-31T14:59:58.117" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T05:42:01.583" Title="Can we use non-gravatar avatars?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="4554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2009-07-12T09:30:49.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In these situations I put a comment on the target answer asking the person to clarify things or I myself add some extra info. When it seems the person did not react to it, I put my own answer and cite the original person by name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are cases when I feel I have to add an answer, because the others see a bigger picture when there isn't (e.g. an exact algorithm is the solution, no need for discussion) and don't see a bigger picture when there is (start to give code samples but fail to recognize the OP shouldn't have chosen the original approach in the first place). IMHO - I should add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I agree with &lt;em&gt;Paolo Bergantino&lt;/em&gt;, mostly :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T09:30:49.073" />
  <row Id="4555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4550" CreationDate="2009-07-12T09:32:23.647" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How the community will do things right and the law of large numbers will select the good solutions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think perhaps one of the problems with SO is that the asker of the question chooses which answer to accept. Now, this can work very well, if the answer quite obviously does or does not answer the question. For example, if a question is posted asking why a particular function doesn't work and somebody replies with the explanation and a fix which makes the function work, the user can obviously judge that to be a good answer; afterall, their function now works and they understand what they did wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for those questions which are more subjective, such as the user asking for advice or an explanation, they're probably amongst the worst people to be judging what is a good answer. I've seen so many accepted answers that contain incorrect information and bad advice, where there are perfectly good, better answers that were not accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the voting system really helps here. If the asker of a question has accepted an answer while a different one is getting twice as many up-votes, that may be an indication to them that they haven't selected the best answer, but unfortunately not all questions are actually that popular. Some only have 2 or 3 answers with a few tens of views and 2 or 3 up-votes distributed around the answers. It's not quite so obvious to the asker which is the best answer between three that all have just one up-vote each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in the case where some of the answers do only have 1 or 2 up-votes, there aren't enough votes there to balance out. All it takes is for a couple of equally misinformed people to up-vote a slightly incorrect answer over a better one in an unpopular question to make it appear as though it's the best one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I have any suggestions on how to solve this, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T09:32:23.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2009-07-12T09:51:18.183" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd reference the other answer as an acknowledgement. I think it's courtesy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen answer A (say partially correct) then answer B (correct), then Answer A is updated to include answer B. Answer B poster should get credit or at least acknowledgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T09:51:18.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4558" CreationDate="2009-07-12T10:02:30.220" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would a flag be useful for discreet questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say you wanted to highlight bad behavior that can't be flagged (say serial anonymous down voting), you can either email the team or post a public question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you'll have to mention a user name. What if you're wrong? Or you're correct but the user takes offense and decides to have some revenge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense to have a flag so allow sensitive questions? It may also reduce email flowing to the team@stackoverflow.com, and would allow moderators to share information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: to clarify: &quot;flag&quot; not &quot;tag&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastEditorUserId="27535" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T10:12:12.287" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T10:17:51.517" Title="&quot;Moderator only&quot; or &quot;Private&quot; flag for sensitive questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4557" CreationDate="2009-07-12T10:09:41.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you are discussing a specific event / user&lt;/strong&gt;, then don't post on MSO; use the flag for moderator, or e-mail the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you are having general discussion&lt;/strong&gt; about user-interaction, then MSO with the &lt;kbd&gt;discussion&lt;/kbd&gt; tag should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is interesting... and indeed &quot;we&quot; have recently been discussing (off-forum) how we handle moderator collaboration. Thinking aloud, the problem with just a flag or tag (with an access check) is that even if it is impossible to get it wrong there would be a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of places to check that the data isn't being exposed... which could be painful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;data dump&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;new post&quot; outputs&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;home page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IRC bot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user stats page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;auto-suggest when asking questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;related&quot; panel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;?does the captcha use text from the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10k rep &quot;tools&quot; pages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm not sure that a regular question (with a flag) is the safest option if privacy is important. I'm not convinced that we see enough of this to make it really necessary to do much extra to secure it (against the above). In most cases a moderator flag will get our attention, with the e-mail as backup (and for longer questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or another way: is there a specific scenario you want to &quot;fix&quot;, that doesn't work (well) with the existing processes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T10:17:51.517" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T10:17:51.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2009-07-12T10:17:19.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I hate about gravatar is their 'nickname' restrictions.  There's no good reason for websites to limit names like that (lowercase and numbers only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T10:17:19.870" />
  <row Id="4560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2009-07-12T10:25:29.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; is the same, then I would recommend closing it as a dup. If they are different questions, but a previous answer may help (code re-use is good...), then I will happily link to the existing answer &lt;em&gt;as part&lt;/em&gt; of my answer. There is no benefit in copying the text unless you are fundamentally changing it, and that way it retains attribution against the original author (who may get some more upvotes from the cross-reference).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T10:25:29.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2009-07-12T10:32:21.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cost based approach seems to work on most parts of SO. Due the -1 of downvote, I do it in extremely rare cases. Instead, I put a comment on various places asking for clarification and such. Unfortunately, if an answer is too old, you cannot even revoke your downvote. (Maybe someone could come up with an adaptive cost scheme for the downvote system, taking the time between downvotes, reputation, other votes, etc. into account.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T10:32:21.247" />
  <row Id="4562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2009-07-12T10:45:37.440" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it would be nice to have option to point to other avatar using URL, it doesn't have to be hosted by SO-family sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T10:45:37.440" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="4563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4510" CreationDate="2009-07-12T10:47:06.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polls were from the beginning a proper use of StackOverflow, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12373/which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;this one.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T16:47:59.540" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:47:59.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4578" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:01:30.543" Score="10" ViewCount="392" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, it is not clear that there is a rep limit before a new user can post URLs. This may lead some people to believe that a newcomer without rep is forgetting linking URLs, may result in unnecessary downvotes or rude comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think this limit is a good measure to prevent spam, I believe it must be documented. I personally learned it from a comment to a &quot;linkless&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Documents the reasons for the gains and losses of reputation but not the limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T02:50:19.840" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T02:50:19.840" Title="Document rep limit for new users" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4576" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:01:52.577" Score="48" ViewCount="1588" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site FAQ refers to &lt;em&gt;moderation tools&lt;/em&gt;, available to users who've earned more than 10,000 reputation: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;10,000&lt;/b&gt; &amp;nbsp; Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are these tools exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T20:32:30.520" LastActivityDate="2011-06-02T12:00:01.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-01T19:04:33.697" Title="What are the moderation tools available to high-reputation users?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="19" />
  <row Id="4566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:02:37.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, one bounty per question should be enough, but in this case, the system shouldn't sweeten the deal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question itself is basically 100% compatible with yours, it could still net good answers for you and the original OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The privilege to accept answer should remain at the OP's side - as you, actually, only need a good enough answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the bounty is set, you could 'guide' the answers with your comments to incorporate your scenario too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T10:52:10.620" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T10:52:10.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:21:22.440" Score="2" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished working with a HUGE program for demonstrating a routing algorithm (using LinkedList in Java). And although it seems to be working fine, i would like if more people could test it to make sure there are no bugs. Can i ask people to test my program on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;= Thank you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T18:23:42.683" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T02:05:06.720" Title="Can i ask people to test a program?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;testing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4565" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:24:31.357" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the top bar where you have the Logout, About, and FAQ options, there is another one added called Tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the tools are just lists of items for different criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flagged items&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with the most close votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Different lists of questions with heavy activity in terms of up votes, down votes, etc. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you hit 10k, it is almost a bit of a disappointment because you expected more powerful tools, but they serve their purpose, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-28T00:37:56.903" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T00:37:56.903" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-01T19:04:33.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4547" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:25:26.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any reason not to press Ctrl-End, or the equivalent keyboard shortcut on your browser? There's no need to duplicate browser functionality IMO. Admittedly this doesn't work so well on some mobile browsers, but most have an easy way of scrolling to the end of a page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T16:02:19.930" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T16:02:19.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:26:05.363" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will have a hard time convincing those looking at your question to trust you to run the code (especially if you are an unknown user). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as it is generally not a good idea to open up attachments in an email from people you don't know, running code which you are unsure of the source could be just as dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T11:26:05.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4564" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:27:52.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure it is 10 rep to post a link in your post if you are a new user. I have gone and given up votes to new users precisely for the reason to allow them to post URL's (they had come into the chat room to inquire, and after explaining themselves and reading their question I felt they were deserved an opportunity to post the URLs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T11:27:52.220" />
  <row Id="4572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:30:12.253" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see that as a real question as such. I'd be loathe for SO to become a beta test advertising site. If you're talking about people performing a code review, I suspect few people really want to review hundreds of lines of code. Individual routines are likely to get more useful feedback - or general design questions. You can try, but don't be surprised if you don't get much out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T11:30:12.253" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:44:07.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow works best for discreet, specific questions. I have seen a few &lt;em&gt;fairly small&lt;/em&gt; &quot;please review this&quot; questions, but they are rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T11:44:07.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-12T11:50:03.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of user filters. Compose your own rules and have the ability of 'saved' searches. (I always wanted a search option for truly unanswered questions). (Here are &lt;a href=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/lp%5Ffilter%5F1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/lp%5Fapply%5F1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; screenshots how we did it once.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T11:50:03.657" />
  <row Id="4575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T12:06:36.443" Score="9" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few minutes ago a found an &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; that is definitely worth reading! It has 74 up-votes.&#xA;If I want to see &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; with the most votes then I can see them by clicking on the 'votes' tab. Is there a way to see those questions whose answers have the most votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26449" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:24:26.960" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T06:47:29.667" Title="Is there a way to see answers with the most votes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="4576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4565" CreationDate="2009-07-12T12:08:25.627" Score="56" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's mostly just lists. I just recently became a member of the +10k club. Allow me to enumerate all of the views available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each view is found in one of five categories: &lt;strong&gt;links&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;stats&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;flags&lt;/strong&gt;. There is also a tab for the same &lt;strong&gt;review&lt;/strong&gt; view that is available to users who have yet to reach 10k. When you click on the &lt;strong&gt;tools&lt;/strong&gt; option in the header, &lt;strong&gt;stats&lt;/strong&gt; is the first category opened. It contains general lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A list of all items flagged spam and offensive, as well as how many times they were flagged as each.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest voted questions sorted by vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lowest voted questions sorted by vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest voted answers sorted by vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lowest voted answers sorted by vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most commented questions and answers sorted by number of comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most viewed questions and answers sorted by number of views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most edited questions and answers sorted by number of edits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags that have been created recently, sorted by frequency of use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;links&lt;/strong&gt; category contains other lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posts flagged as offensive or spam (same as the first item in the stats category)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recently deleted posts, sorted by time deleted (I think)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recently closed posts, sorted by time closed (I think)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See all recent edits in chronological order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New posts by new users, which lists all questions and answers posted by users who have registered recently, sorted by when they were posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with newly created tags, sorted by time they were posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New answers to old questions, which lists new answers to questions that have had no activity for 30 days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recent questions with most view velocity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recent questions with most edit velocity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recent questions with most vote velocity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt; category has views relating to questions that have been or are being closed or reopened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most close votes, sorted by number of votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most reopen votes, sorted by number of votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recently closed, sorted by time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recently reopened, sorted by time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt; category has views relating to questions and answers that have been or are being deleted or undeleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most delete votes, sorted by number of votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most undelete votes, sorted by number of votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recently deleted (not by owner), sorted by time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recently undeleted (not by owner), sorted by time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;flags&lt;/strong&gt; view shows spam flags and comment flags. There are 2 paragraphs of text describing what you should do, which is to look at the flags and decide if you need to add your own flag vote to the flagged post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the &lt;strong&gt;stats&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt; views, they are filtered by time span which is choosable by the user. The options are &quot;30d&quot;, &quot;14d&quot;, &quot;7d&quot;, &quot;2d&quot; (default) and &quot;today&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 10k reputation can also see deleted answers when viewing a question, even &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/365/why-should-10k-rep-users-view-self-deleted-answers&quot;&gt;when deleted by the author&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other feature we get is the ability to delete closed questions 48 hours after they were closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These lists help us see where intervention might be needed: where edit wars are going on, where new tags with typos have been made, which questions are spam, etc. They don't really give us any new power other than to delete questions the rest of the community has already decided doesn't belong on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="4596" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-06-02T12:00:01.117" LastActivityDate="2011-06-02T12:00:01.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-01T19:04:33.697" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="4577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4547" CreationDate="2009-07-12T12:09:30.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;pressing &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; also moves the page down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;kbd&gt;shift&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt; moves the page up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(assuming you don't have the focus on an input box)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T12:09:30.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4564" CreationDate="2009-07-12T12:10:58.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New user (less than 15 rep) restrictions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new users may not post images&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new users may only post one URL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New user (less than 100 rep) restrictions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new users may only post one question every 20 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new users may only post one answer every 3 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To lift these restrictions, gain more rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T18:54:20.160" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T18:54:20.160" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4575" CreationDate="2009-07-12T12:13:20.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a workaround you can check users with Great Answer from the Badges page, then on the user profile page, answers are sorted by number of votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130744" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T12:13:20.247" />
  <row Id="4580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4547" CreationDate="2009-07-12T12:17:52.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you should let your mouse go (or grow a third left/right hand to do a right CTRL+END). It's a good practice. Some mouses allow you to program the 4th, 5th or more buttons to special  keyboard shortcuts. I considered adding [{ keys to mine. This site is not for productivity! ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T12:17:52.770" />
  <row Id="4581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2009-07-12T13:19:32.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an answerers perspective you want your answer to be as whole and complete as possible - and interact with the other answers if need be to get there.  I don't see anything wrong with editing your answer to include other answerers points (this is a Wiki/Creative Commons like thing) but I like to credit people and upvote them for the help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a site perspective it's irrelevent.  The top few answers will trickle up to the top and the asker (and google searchers) will find their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53498" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T13:19:32.707" />
  <row Id="4582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T13:46:39.437" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to the side discussion &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4445/feature-request-online-status-of-user&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; the ability to &quot;chat&quot; or initiate some sort of contact with another user would be handy at times.  I've had 2 occasions already where my best answer to a poster was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;email me a link... and we can work out this issue&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where some wonky IE-only HTML/JavaScript issue was occurring on a site but the sample code posted didn't repo the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this opens up the spam issue... so I posted a comment with a tinyurl... to a google search query that included my email address so the user could contact me (but hopefully the spam bots would fail at scraping)... then as soon as contact was established I'd delete the comment that contained the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however, when I post an answer to a question... if I could tick a box (off by default) that would allow the poster the option to &quot;Allow poster to email you&quot;... then I could happily provide better 1-on-1 nitty-gritty debug help without exposing my contact details to anyone... (unless I wanted to)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simplest implementation would just send the email to me with a reply-to set to the poster, or a more robust system would include some on-site chat option similar to PM's on message boards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Addition:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I should note that the original question/answer on SO was updated with the applicable details once the solution was figured out so that others would gain from the info. I suspect this would be the same with other questions posted in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS &quot;new users&quot; not being able to create tags kinda sucks... I couldn't tag this question appropriately at all :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:53:26.490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:53:26.490" ClosedDate="2009-07-12T14:36:17.467" Title="Contact option for user" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;anti-spam&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T13:47:31.667" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675/is-there-a-page-that-display-questions-with-0-answers&quot;&gt;is there a page that display questions with 0 answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just surfing the unanswered questions, trying to find the &quot;truly&quot; unanswered questions, rather than just those with very few (and no upvoted) answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...is there any way to get that view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5146" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T15:13:51.413" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T15:13:51.413" ClosedDate="2009-07-12T14:41:48.720" Title="Is it possible to see only questions with zero answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T14:01:18.437" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we find a better way to give an incentive for people to give feedback on the answers to their questions. I'm thinking about a mechanism to help us close the loop. Sure, there is the &quot;accepted answer&quot; check mark. That works well, but I see a lot of questions with several plausible answers but no accepted answer. There are also cases where there isn't one single answer. I assume that most people eventually find a solution to address their question. It would be nice to have a mechanism that gave them a bigger incentive to tell us what worked and therefore help the next person with the same question. Maybe that could be folded in the reputation score. Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37018" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T18:22:48.577" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T20:44:04.393" Title="Better incentive to provide feedback on answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4584" CreationDate="2009-07-12T14:32:01.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a better solutions to your problem than the ones in the list, post it, you will be voted up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T14:32:01.047" />
  <row Id="4586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4575" CreationDate="2009-07-12T14:57:13.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;God I wish there was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also have the option to exclude CW answers since they're 90% noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; to see good &lt;strong&gt;programming related&lt;/strong&gt; answers without all the Dilbert cartoons and wedding cakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T14:57:13.593" />
  <row Id="4587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4598" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:05:10.337" Score="2" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been(and still am) getting the best ever solutions to the questions I'm asking everyday at SO.The community is just more than great,I'm even advertising SO to my friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of questions(137 and growing everyday) that I've asked in the past three months makes me a little ashamed so the idea of having a bronze(nothing useful) badge for asking over 100 or 1000 questions came to my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance to everyone! SO is great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81800" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T08:39:05.710" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:04:59.300" Title="Badge for asking questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:20:18.527" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think getting answers is reward enough for asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T15:20:18.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:22:10.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But there is no reward for just giving answers, either, unless they're upvoted or accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is upvoted or viewed enough there are badges for that (if it's badges you're after rather than answers to genuine questions?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely, we're aiming to build a community where we can find answers to our questions but also help others from what we know. Both activities are rewarded (if others in the community find them helpful) and rewarding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T15:22:10.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:23:35.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Votes for good questions are the proper reward.&lt;/strong&gt;  I am acutely aware of the effect of traffic - I'm active in Delphi areas, where views and votes are relatively low overall, whereas in the C# realm things are much busier and rep/badges accumulate quickly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that's as it should be - we're not rewarded for effort, we're rewarded for results, and I know that Delphi has a relatively small user base right now (I think that's misguided, but it is what it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18484" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T15:23:35.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:40:32.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is, what I think, to be a good solution that addresses everyone's concerns.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All we need is one more state transition - from an open bounty to one of a regular open question.  The state transition happens IFF the asker CHOOSES it.  The asker must give up more hit points (maybe a minimum of 50) and the original bounty points go to the top answer (if any upvoted) and the second (50?) go to the second highest upvoted answer.  (the bounty pointes are rewarded exactly as they are now in the case of the asker not choosing)  Possibly the person can also choose whom to give the bounty to - but that might cost more extra hitpoints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question remains in a state the has no accepted answer, but the people who spent time and got upvotes are rewarded for their effort.  The asker also gets what he/she wants by having the question still open for more people to answer or to self-post a resolution later.  (perhaps get back some points if that happens - but less than the amount for choosing to keep it &quot;open&quot; - otherwise it could be &quot;gamed&quot;.  I offer this possibility because you would want to reward someone for posting their own resolution.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I understand from Jeff and others is that there is concern for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People ask questions, then place bounties, then are not involved/active.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is addressed by using the default behavior as it stands now.  If you aren't active in your own bounty then you have no right to choose the results.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People's (answerers) time is not &quot;valued&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is addressed by rewarding people who have answered - it is addressed at least as good as it is now, and possibly better - by awarding points to more than one person possibly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just a suggestion, but I think it addresses all the possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(excpet for what I guess might be an objection solely on implementation - that the SO code is brittle in its recalculation logic - much work might be needed to handle this case and still keep people's bounties, but taht is just a guess.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T15:40:32.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4604" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:41:14.560" Score="4" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that one has some problems with coding or designing specific project. Should one ask general question about techniques, algorithms, generic problem (anonymising the project references), or should one ask about specific problem in specific problem? Or perhaps something in between?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;generic:&lt;/strong&gt; Cross-browser implementation of “HTTP Streaming” (push) AJAX pattern&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;specific:&lt;/strong&gt; How to implement AJAX-y 'incremental blame' view in gitweb (git web interface in Perl)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one should ask generic questions, how to anonymise problem? If one should ask specific question, how avoid 'homework' syndrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T18:22:27.760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T18:22:27.760" Title="Should one ask generic or specific question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4592" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:45:35.903" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both questions have their place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue with generic questions is they can get too generic (&quot;How do I write code?&quot;). My criteria for a good question is this: does it have a definite answer? Do the answers relate to each other or have some meaning to someone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad: What did you study in college?&#xA;Good: Given X, Y and Z about me, which of these courses should I study in college?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the difference? The fact that someone says &quot;I studied biology&quot; is, well, meaningless to anyone else in the context of being an answer to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that specific questions can get too specific. It doesn't happen oten though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T15:45:35.903" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4575" CreationDate="2009-07-12T15:52:09.400" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a solution, &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20parent.ParentId,%20child.Title,%20parent.Score%20FROM%20posts%20AS%20parent,%20posts%20AS%20child%20WHERE%20parent.ParentId%20=%20child.Id%20ORDER%20BY%20Score%20DESC%20LIMIT%20500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with highest rated answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The only downside is you have to append the ID manually to the end of &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As per Cletus' request, &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20parent.ParentId,%20child.Title,%20parent.Score%20FROM%20posts%20AS%20parent,%20posts%20AS%20child%20WHERE%20parent.ParentId%20=%20child.Id%20AND%20child.IsWiki=0%20ORDER%20BY%20Score%20DESC%20LIMIT%20500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top Posts in Questions NOT CC Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T23:23:49.483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T23:23:49.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2009-07-12T16:21:09.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;lots of people don't have a problem with that, but i do. so i refuse to use gravatar and similar services&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that is your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T16:21:09.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T16:30:36.233" Score="5" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually keep SO and SF open in separate tabs of my browser and I check them from time to time for new questions I am interested in.&#xA;To keep them up to date, I have to refresh the page every time I visit it: would it not be better to include an auto refresh in the front page of the two sites?&#xA;Say, for instance, a refresh every 5 to 10 minutes, so you just have to activate the tab and see the update immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T05:50:28.067" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T05:50:28.067" Title="Refresh on the frontpage" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2009-07-12T16:32:26.557" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already quite a lot of badges for asking good questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nice Question: question upvoted 10 times (bronze)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popular Question: question with 1,000 views (bronze)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notable Question: question with 2,500 views (silver)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite Question: question favorited by 25 users (silver)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Good Question: question  upvoted 25 times (silver)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Famous Question: question with 10,000 views (gold)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great Question: question upvoted 100 times (gold)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stellar Question: question favorited by 100 users (gold)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were you wanting a badge simply for asking a large number of questions? I wouldn't personally support that - it would encourage people to ask lots of pointless questions just for the sake of it. Quality is more important than quantity IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T16:32:26.557" />
  <row Id="4599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2009-07-12T16:34:32.380" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that would put way too much load on their servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of people don't care to have the page refresh as often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best solution would be a browser plugin to auto refresh the page for you.  I know firefox has extensions to do that. (I'm not sure about other browsers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T16:34:32.380" />
  <row Id="4600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2009-07-12T16:34:37.213" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't beleive this needs to be appointed as an actual feature.  If you want to keep the sites refreshing, you can use Firefox and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tab Mix Plus&lt;/a&gt; extension's Auto Reload feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100835" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T16:34:37.213" />
  <row Id="4601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2009-07-12T16:34:59.580" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Autorefresh can be very annoying though - if you're just about to click something and the page changes, that can be really surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The update bar at the top is one thing, but I don't think I'd want a full page refresh - at least not in the current display format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T16:34:59.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2009-07-12T17:32:34.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I wan the page to be refreshed constantly, I want it to refresh on MY TERMS. In other words, WHEN I CLICK THE REFRESH BUTTON. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want an auto-refresh, load a firefox plugin that does autoreload. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T17:32:34.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4592" CreationDate="2009-07-12T17:32:41.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't be afraid to ask anything, generic or specific. All knowledge is good knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking a generic question may help you understand something and more specific questions will come from that! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2699" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T17:32:41.740" />
  <row Id="4604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4592" CreationDate="2009-07-12T17:34:48.127" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pros and Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generalized Questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pro: You are likely to reach a wider audience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Con: You are likely to get a lot of vague answers which may not really be all that helpful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pro: You are much likelier to get an answer that exactly fits your problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Con: Your audience of potential answers may end up being much smaller (depending on the subject matter you are asking about).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T17:34:48.127" />
  <row Id="4605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-12T17:45:47.393" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Underminer&lt;/b&gt;, or &lt;b&gt;Zealot&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when you downvote more than (three?) competing answers on the same thread&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T17:45:47.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-12T17:45:47.393" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4238" CreationDate="2009-07-12T18:18:58.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see some stats here; nothing has really changed since then, except the names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001224.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001224.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Well, it's not true that &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; has changed, Google is now up to about 90% of our overall traffic..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if all the other search engines (other than Google) on the planet were destroyed in a fiery cataclysm, it would make virtually no difference to our traffic at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T18:18:58.237" />
  <row Id="4608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50646" CreationDate="2009-07-12T19:02:19.910" Score="24" ViewCount="822" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer in the form of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ISO date&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest answer that's off by no more than one week wins. And one answer per person, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pledge to donate all of this question's up vote rep as a bounty to the winner when the time comes*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extrapolate away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a handy SEDE query for &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/282/total-questions-and-answers-per-month-for-the-last-12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Total Questions and Answers per Month for the last 12&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we're getting real close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cheeky, yes, I know. But hopefully not illegal. I do promise to award the bounty, or may a mod strike me dead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="11208" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-16T03:42:15.487" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T17:39:22.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-10-13T08:29:20.113" Title="Meta Raffle: When Will StackOverflow Reach One Million Questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="4609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-12T19:10:38.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gleaner&lt;/strong&gt;: Answering two old (2+ months) unanswered questions &lt;em&gt;in a row&lt;/em&gt;, with at least 1 upvote for each answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's to catch the guys who systematically go through the old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37018" LastEditorUserId="37018" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T23:43:56.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T23:43:56.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-12T19:10:38.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2009-07-12T19:28:30.610" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is desired strongly enough, maybe they could do it like the status bar that tells you &quot;&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; new answers have been posted&quot; when you are writing an answer.  That would just put an information bar at the top of the screen, but wouldn't steal focus or force a screen redraw or anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thought: you could make it like the Facebook homepage: only check for an update when the mouse is moved somewhere over the page (so that you are not hitting the server to update minimized windows, or windows in non-focused tabs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T03:56:23.633" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T03:56:23.633" />
  <row Id="4611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4608" CreationDate="2009-07-12T19:41:22.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;2011-03-05 - So help me God, this is the day!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130787" LastEditorUserId="130787" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-19T09:41:45.033" LastActivityDate="2010-04-19T09:41:45.033" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4608" CreationDate="2009-07-12T19:47:12.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the answer. But I won't tell you. Just give me the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T19:47:12.140" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4608" CreationDate="2009-07-12T20:20:18.867" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doing a quick &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20FLOOR%28%20%28%28CreationDate%20-1214870400%29%20/2592000%20%29%29%20AS%20Month,%20COUNT%28%201%20%29%20as%20Questions%20FROM%20%20posts%20WHERE%20PostTypeId%20=1%20GROUP%20BY%20Month%20ORDER%20BY%20%20Month%20ASC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;calculation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1    4256&#xA;2    15123&#xA;3    15874&#xA;4    15079&#xA;5    12922&#xA;6    15407&#xA;7    20354&#xA;8    22109&#xA;9    22180&#xA;10  27549&#xA;11  30887&#xA;12  5230&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming expontential...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;F(x) = 7505.728097(1.141219)^x   &#xA;Sum at 21 months = 91841.42, at 22 is 1055990.9  &#xA;9.6 months from today&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming linear...   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;F(x)  = 2029.263636 x + 6163.509091&#xA;Sum at 28 months = 1002622.8   &#xA;15 months 29 days from today&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way too far!&#xA;Can we have 500,000 maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T20:36:34.717" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T20:36:34.717" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="4614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4608" CreationDate="2009-07-12T20:21:41.213" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican%5FLong%5FCount%5Fcalendar#2012%5Fand%5Fthe%5FLong%5FCount&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2012-12-20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T20:21:41.213" />
  <row Id="4615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4597" CreationDate="2009-07-12T20:39:08.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roll your own solution. Greasemonkey-up a quick script using jQuery that periodically gets the front-page questions. Any question with a date newer than the first question on your page, you add to your page and delete that same number of questions from the bottom of the stack. That way you always have the twenty or so newest questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address Skeet's concern about items vanishing/moving when you go to click on them, cause the service to wait while your mouse is over any particular question. This is nothing more than setting a boolean value when you enter/exist the hot-zone and checking that value before you update your stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can create this on any subdir of Stackoverflow you like since they have a 404 page that doesn't change the url entered. Set your script to run on www.stackoverflow.com/live-ticker and you're all set. You can use $.get and $.post from the jQuery library to get the data you need from the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T20:39:08.517" />
  <row Id="4616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4584" CreationDate="2009-07-12T20:44:04.393" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said this before, but the OP doesn't owe it to anyone to accept an answer. While it would be polite for the OP to accept the answer that they used there's nothing the system can do to force them to accept it. Increasing the amount of rep you gained for accepting an answer could be counter productive, as it could lead to people accepting anything just to get the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The currently highest voted answer is the &quot;accepted&quot; answer as it's what most people agree with. If you think it's not then down-vote it and/or post a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T20:44:04.393" />
  <row Id="4617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4618" CreationDate="2009-07-12T21:04:54.457" Score="11" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was posting a question on StackOverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I was tagging my question with keywords, the site told me new users are not able to create new tags, but it wouldn't tell me which one was new.  So I had to delete the tags to figure out which one was new.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted the screenshot below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gallery.me.com/mshnitzer/100013/Picture%201/web.png?ver=12474324270001&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be nice if this could be updated to state which is the problem tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126059" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T05:08:32.680" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:26:40.343" Title="New Users Not Allowed to Add Tags - Which One is New?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4617" CreationDate="2009-07-12T21:07:47.343" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's auto-complete on the tags so the new one should be the one that didn't have a drop-down with suggestions in it. This doesn't help you after the fact, but should help when entering them in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:26:40.343" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:26:40.343" />
  <row Id="4619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-12T21:35:30.267" Score="5" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;i.e. - because they won't get any points for the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130609" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-12T22:51:54.670" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T16:54:19.117" Title="does making question wiki discourage people from giving answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="4620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4619" CreationDate="2009-07-12T22:08:38.290" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not for me.  What discourages me from answering most wiki questions is the 30+ other answers already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T22:08:38.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4619" CreationDate="2009-07-12T22:28:33.290" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  Poorly worded, insulting, argumentative questions or questions with lots of answers already are the ones that don't get (more) answers.  I doubt if most people even look to see if the question is CW before answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T22:28:33.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4617" CreationDate="2009-07-12T22:31:55.237" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say clarifying the message to indicate which are new is not an unreasonable suggestion.  The code obviously knows which one(s) it didn't find.  Perhaps adding some text on how to select tags if your rep is under 250 to the question page would be helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T22:31:55.237" />
  <row Id="4627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4619" CreationDate="2009-07-12T23:45:36.583" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am less disposed to answer CW questions not because they are CW but for two other reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;200+ other answers&lt;/a&gt; in some cases; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The high propensity for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fun&quot;&gt;fluff questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-12T23:45:36.583" />
  <row Id="4628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T00:46:06.630" Score="6" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is getting old. It seems that every second career-related question has been closed then reopened, sometimes multiple times, and probably by the usual suspects. From the StackOverflow blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/a-question-about-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Question About Questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current results for Which type of&#xA;  “programming related” questions are&#xA;  appropriate [on Stack Overflow]?, in&#xA;  order by votes, are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7 . Questions about social engineering, management, or career building,&#xA;  ergonomics, or other “soft” topics&#xA;  related to development work. (7)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The “winners” of this poll, items 1-7,&#xA;  map strongly to my idea of what we&#xA;  built Stack Overflow for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to point out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1117236/got-a-big-decision-to-make&quot;&gt;latest question affected&lt;/a&gt; because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3425/do-we-need-to-raise-the-minimum-level-for-closing-questions&quot;&gt;the last time I did&lt;/a&gt; the sequence went:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jul 8 at 8:23:&lt;/strong&gt; posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3425/do-we-need-to-raise-the-minimum-level-for-closing-questions&quot;&gt;the question on meta&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jul 8 at 1:53:&lt;/strong&gt; RichB &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1092289/list&quot;&gt;bumps it for no other reason than to close it&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; no content or tag change there, just a bump saying &quot;There is nothing programming related at all about this.&quot;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jul 8 at 2:20:&lt;/strong&gt; closed by Paolo Bergantino, Rich B, Ólafur Waage, John Saunders, Pesto. 2 or 3 of these are active on here, are aware of Jeff's comments about what's programming-related and persist closing such questions anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what does it take exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T14:38:42.850" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:26:13.003" Title="Just what do we have to do to get people to realize career-related questions ARE programming related?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2009-07-13T01:11:40.927" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;just one man's opinion: programming questions have technical answers that can be verified by running code or checking a well-known reference. career questions are opinions at best, polls and rants at worst&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so usually i vote to close them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T01:11:40.927" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2009-07-13T01:12:44.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you can ask, but the question would probably be closed quite rapidly ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T01:12:44.890" />
  <row Id="4631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-13T01:26:29.303" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greengrocer - 10 unreverted edits to other people's posts that merely remove apostrophes. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Greengrocers.27%5Fapostrophes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greengrocer's apostrophe&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T01:26:29.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T01:26:29.303" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4567" CreationDate="2009-07-13T02:05:06.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can&lt;/em&gt; you ask? Yes. I can't guarantee the response, but I doubt it will be what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T02:05:06.720" />
  <row Id="4634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4635" CreationDate="2009-07-13T03:14:05.810" Score="2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;My user page on StackOverflow is asking me if I have &quot;considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty&quot; for the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1106947/windows-mobile-app-play-mms-stream&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1106947/windows-mobile-app-play-mms-stream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which happens to be my first participation on this site.  I've gathered the basics of how this all works, and I even understand the concept of a bounty (which is brilliant by the way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is nowhere in the UI where I am offered the ability to provide a bounty because I am started off with so little reputation (1 to be exact).  My question is most definitely not answered either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really at a loss for how to give my question more visibility (and more incentive) while being so restricted as a new user to the site?  Is this the way it should be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130795" LastEditorUserId="130795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T03:29:01.320" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:35:24.253" Title="How do I provide incentive to answer my question when I have no reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4634" CreationDate="2009-07-13T03:21:57.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presumably you are also working on a solution to your question, via other research or even just trial and error.  Edit your question to show the results of that research and it will be 'bumped' back to the top of the home page and the active view so that others can see it and know about any new information you might discover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, there's already a 'bounty' of 15 reputation for any non-community wiki question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T03:21:57.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4997" CreationDate="2009-07-13T03:50:35.157" Score="2" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of my question is a text field for being notified &quot;daily of any new answers.&quot;  I assume this is an email address, but there is really not hint in the UI to indicate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also not received any emails either.  Is it because I'm a little too proactive to get my question answered that I am checking the site every few hours?  Does that turn &quot;new&quot; answers into &quot;already seen&quot; answers, therefore sending me no daily email?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  Nobody has used the &quot;notify&quot; feature long enough (or at all) to know what it does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130795" LastEditorUserId="130795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T01:41:19.207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:55:27.770" Title="Notify email address daily of any new answers" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T04:10:31.823" Score="3" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question and a couple of respondents asked for the source code. I could only post portions of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If attachments were allowed I could have uploaded a .zip file with the whole application.  Will this be a feature in SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130797" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T20:23:26.253" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T18:02:11.477" Title="Please add a system to allow file uploads attached to questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2009-07-13T04:20:49.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you're posting a zip file of code for a question you're posting far too much.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Questions should be limited to specific problems or functions in your application so that the error can be readily seen and fixed by other members. I know I definitely wouldn't go digging through multiple files of code to try and solve an issue, but that's just me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T04:20:49.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4641" CreationDate="2009-07-13T04:22:04.677" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are tagged with one of my &quot;ignored&quot; tags on Stack Overflow are hidden completely. On Server Fault, however, those questions are &quot;lightened&quot; to lower their contrast. Why is that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just because at first there were fewer questions on SF so it didn't make sense to hide some of them? Are there plans to apply the same logic to both sites (eg hide on both or &quot;lighten&quot; on both)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T04:26:31.010" Title="Why are ignored questions not hidden on Server Fault?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="4640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="95195" CreationDate="2009-07-13T04:22:42.357" Score="5" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen some discussions here on meta-SO where moderators have said that the appropriate action for a user who appears to be trolling in comments is to click the &quot;Flag this comment as offensive, spam, or hate speech&quot; flag by the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you could include &quot;trolling&quot; in the list of reasons to flag a comment?  Until I read this on MSO last week, I didn't think trolling was a subset of &quot;offensive, abusive, or hate speech.&quot;  I guess you consider it part of &quot;offensive&quot;, but to me offensive would be something like unnecessary profanity or vulgarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe the problem is just that my personal interpretation of &quot;offensive&quot; is more narrow than others'?  I don't know, just a suggestion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: when I say &quot;trolling&quot; here, I mean someone who makes comments that seem to be designed to start and/or egg-on an argument, rather than lead to thoughtful discussion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-15T07:21:58.690" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T07:23:31.077" Title="Suggestion: Maybe add &quot;trolling&quot; to the list of reasons a comment can be flagged?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;trolling&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4639" CreationDate="2009-07-13T04:26:31.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a user preference&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/USERID?tab=preferences#sort-top&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hide ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T04:26:31.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4640" CreationDate="2009-07-13T04:33:19.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is clear trolling with no real defensible value, then the moderators can get visibility of it sooner (and more obviously) with the &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot; ; however, for &lt;strong&gt;automatic&lt;/strong&gt; processing, either &quot;spam&quot; or &quot;offensive&quot; will work fine. If you can't justify (to yourself) clicking &quot;offensive&quot;, then click &quot;spam&quot; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;spam&quot;, I would include anything that is &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; not a constructive question / answer; trolling is just fine (for me) to fall into the spam trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T04:33:19.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2009-07-13T04:56:45.430" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/05/22/6-more-free-file-hosting-websites-that-would-be-useful.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lots of free file hosts&lt;/a&gt; you can use -- it puts us in a difficult position to be hosting arbitrary files for user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T04:56:45.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4647" CreationDate="2009-07-13T05:15:51.330" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not as interested as I once was in some topics. How can I remove them from my interesting tag list? Adding them to ignored tags may work, but I want less clutter, don't want my tag lists to grow indefinately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T05:49:59.633" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T05:49:59.633" Title="edit my interesting tags" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4644" CreationDate="2009-07-13T05:21:18.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on your username and go to the tab &quot;prefs&quot;. There you will see small crosses next to the tags to delete them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/USERID?tab=preferences#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/USERID?tab=preferences#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T05:21:18.777" />
  <row Id="4646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2009-07-13T05:39:35.353" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm strongly against such a feature. StackOverflow is meant to be a &lt;strong&gt;knowledge exchange&lt;/strong&gt; platform, where we try to build, say, &lt;em&gt;the Wikipedia of programming &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, not a place for troubleshooting &quot;hey, dig through my source code. fix the problem for me&quot; issues for free. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, if you look at the answers in Stack Overflow, many of them are much longer than &quot;change that line to something else&quot; type of answer. Many good answers here really try to explain the reason that caused the problem and many alternative suggestions. They are more like blog entries than classic answers found in forums. This is what makes Stack Overflow a unique Web site. Those answers can be useful for a lot of people, not just the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a consequence, I believe &lt;em&gt;any feature&lt;/em&gt; that encourages asking arbitrarily long questions and make the OPs think less before asking is &lt;strong&gt;completely against the spirit of Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;. It would no longer be a knowledge exchange platform but place to troubleshoot specific problems, which in my opinion, is no fun at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T17:39:31.077" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:39:31.077" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4644" CreationDate="2009-07-13T05:49:38.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need to go anywhere -- just click the little [x] next to the tag on the sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T05:49:38.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2009-07-13T05:54:04.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be fair, there is a pretty big drop-off &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182833?sort=votes&quot;&gt;in voting&lt;/a&gt; between..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about language-agnostic algorithms for hypothetical problems that have potential real-world applications. For example, traveling salesman or BSP. &lt;strong&gt;[69 votes]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about social engineering, management, or career building, ergonomics, or other &quot;soft&quot; topics related to development work. &lt;strong&gt;[26 votes]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;directly under it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I do happen to agree that these questions should be allowed, a significant part of the community considers them fairly marginal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the fact that these sorts of career questions are a bit contentious is perhaps to be expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T05:54:04.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2009-07-13T06:14:57.537" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maintaining an avatar at Gravatar requires that we like and trust that specific site. Maintaining it at &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site doesn't scale for all the other sites we visit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of site-specific solutions, we should point StackOverflow at an avatar hosted at one site of &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; choice, using the open &lt;a href=&quot;http://pavatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pavatar&lt;/a&gt; protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as we point StackOverflow to our identity hosted at a site of our choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70157" LastEditorUserId="70157" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T13:55:10.697" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:55:10.697" />
  <row Id="4650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4651" CreationDate="2009-07-13T06:17:42.713" Score="0" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered this question over on SF and would like to edit the question title to reflect that the OP was asking about OS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/39149/how-to-set-projector-machine-to-always-mirror-at-1024x768&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/39149/how-to-set-projector-machine-to-always-mirror-at-1024x768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to get this permission based on my linked SO account, where I have enough points to do this?  I doubt I'm ever going to answer enough sysadmin-y questions on SF to boost my score much above what it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; the larger question has to do with being able to rely on my reputation from one site to edit on another site.  If the sites were totally unrelated (diesel mechanics, cooking, and gardening) I would think &quot;no&quot; is a reasonable answer.  For strongly related sites such as these I think the answer might veer more towards &quot;yes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T20:17:01.100" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:18:13.683" Title="Can I get permission to edit on ServerFault based on my SO rep?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4650" CreationDate="2009-07-13T06:18:33.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention and we will do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everyone gets 10 moderator flags per day -- use 'em!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T06:18:33.030" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4634" CreationDate="2009-07-13T06:26:42.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can, failing everything else, (although there is a discussion about having a grace period to unwikify questions) ask the question again (now without the CW clicked) stating what's the current situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T06:26:42.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2009-07-13T07:07:19.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't try to educate them, cletus. You won't change their minds.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;They think it is not programming related, so they vote for closing the question. You have a different opinion, so vote for re-opening. That's it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Don't waste your time bothering that, from your point of view, others don't get it on such a dinky topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T07:07:19.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T07:21:31.577" Score="3" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few takes already on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2832/details-about-the-flagging-mechanism&quot;&gt;how does flagging work&lt;/a&gt; and that there's no need for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3068/spelling-and-grammar-flag&quot;&gt;cleanup flag&lt;/a&gt; open to more than the few moderators around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3068/spelling-and-grammar-flag/3082#3082&quot;&gt;Jeff's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4650/serverfault-can-i-get-permission-to-edit-based-on-my-so-rep/4651#4651&quot;&gt;take&lt;/a&gt; on the issue is clear, bother moderators even for trivial things (if you don't have the rep but care enough to see it fixed), like a title edit or retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welbog's suggestion (which I intended to convey and failed miserably at it): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have over 175 +10k-rep users on SO. Why not add a flag that is like the moderator flag but is visible to +10k users instead of just moderators? A flag for littler things like retagging, closing or cleanup. I personally would respond to such flags when I am online, especially if it contained a little blurb about the complaint. The moderator flag would remain as a method of handling bigger problems, and moderators would be able to see the +10k flags as well. Or, rather, +10k users would be able to &quot;promote&quot; their flags into moderator flags if they need moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way we won't waste manpower because people &quot;haven't got enough rep&quot; to help, even if they wish to (because, let's be honest, flagging a post over a title edit just isn't gonna happen ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-09T02:35:27.487" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T02:36:58.910" Title="Let people without editing rep help fix answers/questions!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4664" CreationDate="2009-07-13T07:50:05.167" Score="2" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should I do if there's bad grammar in comments, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4650/serverfault-can-i-get-permission-to-edit-based-on-my-so-rep/4651#4651&quot;&gt;&quot;it's&quot; as a genitive&lt;/a&gt; (link is to the answer that has the comment). Does it qualify as &quot;offensive, spam, or hate speech&quot;? Or are comments too lightweight (as Jeff put it) to qualify for cleanup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Sorry, I should have phrased it a bit better. I don't think that comments with grammar problems should be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T11:46:42.877" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:46:42.877" Title="Bad grammar in comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4654" CreationDate="2009-07-13T07:55:38.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about doing what Jeff suggests until the moderators complain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T07:55:38.797" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4657" CreationDate="2009-07-13T07:58:14.903" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A spelling or grammar error hopefully does not count for hate speech or spam. As a non English speaking person I can tell you that I do not want to offend anybody with a superfluous apostrophe or a missing comma. I do believe that comments are too lightweight for cleanup, but encourage all to use their best English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commenting on bad English in comments would discourage non English speaking people to contribute, which would be worse then some spelling errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T08:27:16.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4671" CreationDate="2009-07-13T08:18:16.763" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to disable Captcha when a user is editing is own question/answer ?&#xA;At least for something like 15m after the post (to prevent mass change on someone posts if account is hacked).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130744" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T07:34:01.963" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T07:34:01.963" Title="Captcha on our own post" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4657" CreationDate="2009-07-13T08:31:59.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since comments can't be edited, only deleted and re-added and the end of the &quot;conversation&quot;, then any comment cleanup is likely to be too much bother and cause more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grammatical errors should certainly not be marked as offensive (even though I'm one of those who cringes every time I see &quot;it's&quot; as a genitive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5536" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T08:31:59.677" />
  <row Id="4665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4666" CreationDate="2009-07-13T08:44:45.207" Score="1" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the reputation model, humans are easy creatures and getting upvoted feels awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I have noticed people on both Stackoverflow and Serverfault doing the following for points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer a lot of questions (mostly copy/paste from Wikipedia or Google)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rarely up-vote anyone else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gain a high reputation (without deserving it, imho)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a model of &lt;strong&gt;giving reputation&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;receiving reputation&lt;/strong&gt; these people are &quot;bad citizens&quot; in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that people should &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; have less number of up-votes than a number of questions answered/asked. If nobody is up-voting the answers/questions, then the sites are kind of losing the point of peer-review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Possible solutions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Provide a badge (if you don't already)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provide a badge that values people that provide up-votes (can be abused)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Up-vote ratio&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the reputation awards so that each reputation point you receive is multiplied by your &quot;votes / questions &amp;amp; answers&quot; ratio. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Example: If I have 3 up-votes and 4 answers and 3 questions, then my ratio is 0.4 and if I get an up-vote for one of my question or answers, then instead of awarding me 10 points; I get 4. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will encourage users to read through other answers and provide some peer-review without encouraging people to just up-vote. To avoid abuse, only use this for ratios below 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not trying to &quot;punish people for posting answers&quot; in any way. The may-be &quot;non-existent&quot; problem I'm trying to solve is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number of well thought-out answers that people spend time working on get no up-votes at all while carbon copied Wikipedia answers or your answer simply repeated with someone with more time to do mark-up magic. I think that problem would get solved if more people would be actively reading and up-voting threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hey, maybe I am jumping to a solution of a problem that doesn't exist. I at least feel less inclined to write detailed answers if nobody reads them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2011:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year has passed and people still keep answering to this post like I am trying to punish those hard working people providing answers on Stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed a user pattern and thought to myself, &quot;this could be better&quot; and also noticed that I felt less interested in writing detailed answers on Stackoverflow as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Skeet's response is good - and it's not always we have to &quot;control&quot; user patterns, sometimes we just have to adapt instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all your replies. I consider this case, closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99209" LastEditorUserId="99209" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-06T10:24:10.270" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T10:24:10.270" Title="Awarding upvotes (giver/taker ratio)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T08:48:35.853" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think that people should never have&#xA;  less number of up-votes than a number&#xA;  of questions answered/asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you think that you shouldn't be allowed to post as many answers as the daily upvote limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just looking at my own stats on SO, I have given 3198 votes, of which 3061 are upvotes. I've posted 14 questions and 4372 answers. Should 1311 of those answers not have been posted, even if they've been useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If nobody is up-voting the&#xA;  answers/questions, then the sites are&#xA;  kind of losing the point of&#xA;  peer-review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people will answer more than they upvote. Others will upvote more than they answer. Others will edit lots and answer rarely. You don't need to try to force everyone to play the same role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't see any point in giving a reward for upvoting indiscriminately - which your system &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; do. It would encourage people to use up their quota of upvotes every day, without making any check that those upvotes are being used appropriately. You would be better off upvoting everything in sight than reading answers carefully and only casting half as many votes. That can't be a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T08:48:35.853" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4657" CreationDate="2009-07-13T08:51:24.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;just a quick not from a dyslexic - i hope not.  I cant often understand the ' context - countless people have tried - it just doenst stick. not being hateful or offensive  and I am cetainly not spam - (well hope not) =&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T08:51:24.237" />
  <row Id="4668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4657" CreationDate="2009-07-13T08:54:23.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; provide a relatively temporary conversation. If a series of comments provides a lot of value in itself, then it's a good idea to promote those comments as answers - either separately or as part of the original answer. At that point, they can be cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the comments themselves aren't temporary, but I think their &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt; is usually transient - things like suggesting changes to the answer. As such, so long as they get the point across, I don't think there's much need for cleanup. I &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't start flagging comments which were simply ungrammatical. I'd view that as an abuse of the flagging system, personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's a good idea for all of us to do our best when it comes to communicating clearly, it's obvious that some people have natural disadvantages - dyslexia being one example, and not having English as a native language being another. Such users aren't being abusive, they just don't find it as easy to write in correct English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T08:54:23.437" />
  <row Id="4669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4654" CreationDate="2009-07-13T09:42:38.550" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a Monty Python skit or a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; solution is to earn enough reputation that you can edit stuff yourself&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if some part of a post bothers you so much that you just &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to see it changed OMG RIGHT NOW NO MATTER WHAT, then use the moderator flag and let us know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not the same as &quot;flag every trivial thing in the system&quot;. Good lord, people! Use your common sense!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T09:42:38.550" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="4671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4661" CreationDate="2009-07-13T09:53:30.257" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why we should be any more or less concerned about &quot;own post&quot; (I can't see a reason to distinguish this from any other editing). The current captcha rates are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1343/how-often-do-captchas-appear&quot;&gt;discussed here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most edits (with some exceptions such as edits immediately after posting) can be rolled back / undeleted / etc - so if something bad happens, don't panic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T09:53:30.257" />
  <row Id="4672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T09:59:20.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think that people should never have less number of up-votes than a number of questions answered/asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems an arbitrary restriction and implies that every user should spend their time reading as well as writing answers.  Different users approach - and enjoy - SO in different ways, some provide content, some organise it and many 'manage' quality by voting; as Jon indicates, the diversity is self-balancing.  A ratio would imply that everyone should act in a certain way, which means some users will be constrained, leading a decline in their main contribution.  It'd be like everyone having to grow their own crops, take their own garbage to landfill, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; write their bestseller.  SO is good at allowing people to focus on what they're good at; effectively punishing people (through a ratio) who write more books than grow crops seems a little feudalist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80482" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T09:59:20.317" />
  <row Id="4673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T09:59:42.617" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you want to happen is to &lt;strong&gt;punish the people who give good answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser gain more value on &lt;em&gt;answers that work&lt;/em&gt; than by &lt;em&gt;redistributing reputation&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the same value that is behind the reason why capitalism is used even by socialist countries: capitalism's surplus-profit model trumps over the communist &quot;government produces everything its citizens need&quot; model wherein quality suffers from the need to provide equal resources to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly unacceptable, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130805" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T09:59:42.617" />
  <row Id="4674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4661" CreationDate="2009-07-13T10:27:47.197" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do a lot of writing, and a lot of editing, and the captcha has never annoyed me. If anything, I like seeing it...wondering what odd combination of words I might get. Got a great one the other day, so I sent it in to Jeff and Joel for the blog. I find the good in it. It's keeping the site clean, and adding a bit of mystery to your interactions ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T10:27:47.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2009-07-13T10:34:57.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO allows a substantial amount of code to be posted. In all honesty, if you're finding the limit to be too little, you're probably not getting close enough to your problem before posting your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people, not accusing you, ask questions like &quot;What's wrong with this?&quot; and then plaster 100 lines of code into their browser (many times un-tabbed). Try not to be that person. Instead, use your error-reporting to determine what problematic section should be copied. That, or ask a more general question about your issue and extract a solution from the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T10:34:57.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T10:36:34.040" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait is the point of stack overflow to have my questions answered or to gain reputation? I'm confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;personally I don't care how much rep I have so long as I can help other people and be helped by them. I don't care how much rep the person ansering the question has either. Although If there are two answers I'll probably pick the one with the higher votes (even if it comes from a user with a lower rep)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is just a way to get people to participate, I can award you with 10 meta rep by upvoting this question, because I think it's a good one, or I could take away 2 points by down voting this question. The question is still being answered though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote lots ask lots and answer not so much. thats partially because I dont have the time to look stuff up or just don't have the answers to hand. I think the people who answer questions are noble souls who take time out of thier day to help others they should not be punished for not participating in the &quot;Reputation Game&quot; some of them may be rep whores but rep is free and if they dont upvote something then somone else will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If every reader who thought a question was vaugely good voted for it we'd have a rep explosion and it would cease to mean anything. People are selective about what they vote for, and the only vote for things that they think merit it either way, that is as it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and I can't upvote this thread because you need 15 rep to upvote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T10:36:34.040" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T10:40:26.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in these proposals, which are all along the same lines thematically as what you're proposing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also more of an &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; than a &lt;em&gt;theoretical&lt;/em&gt; problem, in my experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/which-accounts-have-more-questions-than-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/which-accounts-have-more-questions-than-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2686/how-should-you-respond-to-give-me-a-fish-rtfm-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2686/how-should-you-respond-to-give-me-a-fish-rtfm-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T10:52:01.807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T10:52:01.807" />
  <row Id="4678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T10:50:44.507" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Civic Duty silver badge for voting 300 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-1 for giving a negative vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enough and fair enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T10:50:44.507" />
  <row Id="4679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:09:31.053" Score="40" ViewCount="800" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep seeing &lt;em&gt;inappropriate&lt;/em&gt; questions get migrated from Stack Overflow to Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/39765/how-to-set-desktop-background-in-ubuntu-closed&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How to set desktop background in ubuntu?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to set desktop back ground for twin view moninters . I tried with set back ground that image been center of both monitor. i am looking that image should each monitor center&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tagged: [ubuntu], [display]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(oops, looking again, this one actually wasn't migrated from so -&gt; sf, but it is representative of at least a dozen I've seen make it to sf that were not at all appropriate for a server-oriented site .. so consider it an &lt;em&gt;example&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1042185/www-sample-com-vs-sample-com-closed&quot;&gt;Here's one that got migrated and shouldn't have&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the thinking is &quot;well, this isn't a programming question, let's get it out of here ASAP!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it is not a programming question, but &lt;strong&gt;it is not a server question either!&lt;/strong&gt; I get very frustrated with users who have 3k rep (necessary to cast close and migrate votes) who decide that these questions should be trash binned by any means necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we prevent this in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that there will eventually be FOUR sites you can migrate questions to or from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow (programming)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server Fault (servers, sysadmin, IT pro)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User (general computer enthusiasts)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta Stack Overflow (discussion about the sites themselves)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want this to become like a game of ping pong with site adherents tossing questions in whatever direction they feel like just to get them out of &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; little playground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas? Thoughts? How can we prevent inappropriate &quot;trash binning&quot; in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-13T01:06:12.297" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T01:06:12.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T20:37:29.743" Title="serverfault.com is not your trash bin!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:10:21.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do see a difference in a second career question to help an individual decide with his personal problem or a more abstract question that could be helpful for many. It is probably similar to &quot;help me with this code&quot; versus How to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As career development is sort of peripheral, questions phrased too specifically to help only the author might be justifiably closed, whereas broder questions IMHO are perfectly ok. I'm thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/301291/a-career-in-programming-and-now-for-something-completely-different/301449#301449&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, the question you refer to is best answered by people that know you and maybe have an idea about the two work places. And of course by your heart. But the community only can give you opinions on what they think to be a great job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:10:21.470" />
  <row Id="4681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4679" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:10:31.897" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that getting Super User up and running ASAP will help, since that's obviously a SU question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe the move shouldn't be automatic? Maybe it should be a generic &quot;not-programming-related&quot; (on SO, and something else on the other sites) and the mods can decide if it should be closed, moved (and select the site it should be moved to), or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option is that if it's marked as belongs-on-X, then the mods on X have to accept it as belonging there. If it doesn't, they can decide to leave it where it is and close or delete it or forward it to another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T11:15:50.527" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:15:50.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T20:37:29.743" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:20:01.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, it depends on the career question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's very general and applicable to a large number of people, then I'm fine with it as long as its properly tagged, has a good title, and a well developed question that can be answered (even if its subjective).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if it's a question that only pertains to a small population, then I don't think it belongs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:20:01.307" />
  <row Id="4683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:23:40.267" Score="1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a  bug when a closed question gets an answer. You can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1118896/is-stackoverflows-reputation-system-hurting-the-site-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; what I mean. An answer is posted a minute after the question is closed. I understand the idea, that user probably had started writing answer before the question was closed, but I saw a ten-minutes difference. Isn't it possible to notify user that he won't be able to post his answer to a closed question (the same way that he's notified of new answers, or at submission time)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T04:28:39.537" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T04:28:39.537" Title="Answers to the closed questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="455" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:24:15.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jonathan, I completely agree. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/920/stackoverflow-tutorials-papers&quot;&gt;I requested that SO implement similar functionality&lt;/a&gt; some time back. There's simply too much knowledge on this site, and not enough organization. I'm with you on the fact that sometimes I don't want to learn from specific questions - I'd like to learn from a user-contributed documentation wiki. This is a proven method, and has seen great success in other areas. Taking into consideration the user-base of SO, their education, experience, and willingness to Edit, I can see this being a tremendous addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:24:15.340" />
  <row Id="4685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:24:48.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well. for one thing, if you have an issue with a close vote of mine, &lt;strong&gt;let me know about it&lt;/strong&gt; instead of hoping I'll stumble across this post and see my name mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll review it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You picked a real bad example (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1117236/fun-job-or-career-choice-closed&quot;&gt;Fun Job or Career choice? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DUPLICATES (same author)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1084105/is-this-career-suicide&quot;&gt;Is this Career Suicide?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/935853/going-from-it-to-dream-job&quot;&gt;Going from IT to Dream Job&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1022172/work-for-huge-company-or-small-company-that-makes-products-for-huge-company&quot;&gt;Work for huge company or small company that makes products for huge company?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/977771&quot;&gt;Career Decision&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/999327/what-is-the-best-career-choice-based-on-my-talents&quot;&gt;What is the best career choice based on my talents?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1117236/fun-job-or-career-choice-closed&quot;&gt;Fun Job or Career choice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(4 more that are deleted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any better examples of what you're talking about? Preferably questions where you disagree with a close vote of mine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T11:33:18.567" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:33:18.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4683" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:27:07.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always been by design. The reason has always been stated as making it so the answerer does not lose their work. Even with this in place, people still complain about losing their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is no real reason as you seem to imply that a answerer would want to take back their answer if a question was closed while they were answering. They will likely still get their votes (possibly more if they are right and that is the only answer posted before close). This has long been a 'gaming' method to get easy rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the answerer did decide the answer should not be on a closed question, there is always the delete button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:27:07.563" />
  <row Id="4688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4679" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:31:33.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if a question has been voted as 'not belonging on site X', then it shouldn't be able to be moved back there (except by a moderator perhaps?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully that would mean that even if the first set of 3k+ rep users pushed it over inappropriately, the low-friction route for the second site's 3k+ rep users would be to close it rather than move it somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is otherwise a problem that people with high reputation are not necessarily also sensible people when it comes to this kind of problem - lots of sites have this kind of decision made only by moderators, but since this isn't the environment that this family of sites is trying to culture, either this or Thomas Owens' method is probably necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:31:33.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T20:37:29.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4679" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:31:51.137" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an idea way out of left-field...why not make a trash-bin? Send all of the obscure questions there for scavengers to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:31:51.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T20:37:29.743" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4634" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:35:24.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contribute to the site by answering other people's questions, so that you can build the necessary reputation perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:35:24.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4683" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:36:53.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it hurt anybody? The question taken as an example has been closed as &quot;belongs on meta&quot;. The answer given is a valid answer, and maybe that answer would not have been given on meta as the question might have slipped the answerers attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person now earned +1 rep, but was thrown a downvote as he dared to answer unintentionally a question that is not bad, just on the wrong side. I think this is a little too strict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's suppose the question gets reopened. Should the person be given these 2 points back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that the community will have to mature in some aspects of closing, voting etc. and remember the reason for the site: helpful information for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:36:53.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:44:34.310" Score="24" ViewCount="864" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, the only effect of having 3 sites instead of one is that questions in Serverfault and Superuser are seen less and answered less. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This just causes audience fragmentation and dissipation for no reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition it causes useless friction and waste regarding the endless issue, where does this question belong to? Belongs-there, belongs-here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site comes with a powerful tag filtering feature anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those 3 sites have very similar audiences, questions, and expertise fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where is the limit between writing macros and programming (superuser/stackoverflow)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Configuring rewrite rules for apache, is programming or administration (superuser/serverfault)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advanced registry configuration is administration or power-user tasks (superuser/serverfault)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing bash scripts is programming or server administration (stackoverflow/serverfault)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to add your examples in the comments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is that most questions fit in at least two sites and what matters is not the issue itself but what was the bigger issue the asker was trying to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:36:24.367" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T08:36:53.010" Title="Why do we need the trilogy instead of just one site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="4693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:45:12.737" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Less noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:45:12.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:51:24.263" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea of the three sites is a good one, but what we need to be addressing is the interface (yuk) between the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like yours and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/879/make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; address the issue and even suggest possible solutions. Even if the exact solutions mentioned here aren't implemented they will have some effect on those that actually are and eventually there will be cleaner interface between the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One suggestion could be that when someone asks a question the similar question search is performed on all sites and the site that returns the most answers is the one that should get the question. Or check the tags from all the sites and direct the question at the site that contributes the most tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So pose your question and then suggest a possible solution or two and you never know one of them might get implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:51:24.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:52:54.337" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that most people would not bother to tag their questions accordingly ([SO], [SE], [SU]). This would result in much noise, as Jonathan points out. Some questions might be valid on 2 sites, and in this case we should be rather forgiving to prevent shuffling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that the answering style will be different as well. If I as a programmer ask about a macro problem, the people on SO will tend to assume that I have some basic programming knowledge and give a higher level answer that does not teach the absolute basics or go further into the stuff as would fit for a professional programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking on SU, I would probably get a totally other style of answer, starting at a much lower level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will route the people to the right site over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first thought about shared questions between the sites (maybe through a shared database), but the argument I just stated speaks against that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:52:54.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4679" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:53:46.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have sites accounts being joined, could we have a minimum rep on the target site for a moderator to be able to move it there. This way the moderator will need a stake in the site that a question is being pushed to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is getting to complicated… to simplify&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To say a question isn’t suitable for site X should be normal 3K rep on site X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To say that a site is suitable for site Y may only require a 3K rep (or even slightly less) on site Y &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt; it has been flagged as not suitable for site X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it may be possible for someone who is a moderator on SF but not on SO to push a question there once it has been flagged as not suitable for SO. However it would not possible for a power crazy SU moderator to start stealing good questions from SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:53:46.827" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T20:37:29.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-13T11:55:00.183" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see why they're separate - there is more power in a focused community, and it's more attractive to the search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also tend to agree that there is a lot of potential overlap in the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps an &lt;strong&gt;option&lt;/strong&gt; to see consolidated question and answer lists might be an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, user experience is what counts. If users get frustrated switching from site to site again and again (I'm already suffering a bit of this when checking MSO as well as SO) then eventually someone else with another SO clone will step in and fill the need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T11:55:00.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:08:07.173" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today-butt&quot;&gt;Clicking envelope beside username shows fewer recent activities than &amp;ldquo;today&amp;rdquo; button&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it would be useful for the &quot;Recent Activity&quot; screen (i.e. click on the envelope) to default to showing a time frame, rather than nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;EDIT {&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;I'm specifically referring to the &quot;Top 5 Posts&quot; section&#xA;&lt;b&gt;}&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that too much coffee has frazzled my memory, but I'm sure it used to default to 'today'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T16:07:34.713" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T16:07:34.713" ClosedDate="2010-12-03T16:07:15.917" Title="Have Recent Activity default to show something" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4716" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:11:33.847" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure what others think of the digg bar (also appears on stumbleupon.com, popurls.com) but I think it could be a nice inclusion for browsing tags in stackoverflow by reducing the need for back/forward the whole time. Plus the random button would be a good way of finding new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bar would need to do unanswered questions I imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T12:19:05.293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:23:11.157" Title="&quot;Digg bar&quot; style bar for stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;diggbar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:11:41.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think that people should never have&#xA;  less number of up-votes than a number&#xA;  of questions answered/asked. If nobody&#xA;  is up-voting the answers/questions,&#xA;  then the sites are kind of losing the&#xA;  point of peer-review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? You've only stated that you think it is bad, not &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you think it is bad.&#xA;Moreover, &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; people upvoting answers? &#xA;Otherwise, how do these &quot;leeches&quot; gain a high rep? Surely they do that by, you know, people upvoting their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in my experience, copy/paste from wikipedia gains fewer upvotes than actual answers tailored to the specific question, so the system already rewards good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before jumping into solution mode, how about confirming that a problem actually exists. Do you feel there are answers that do not get upvoted because people are &quot;leeches&quot; and answer, but don't vote? Link to a few of them please, so the rest of us can see the problem for ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, what you're saying is that you want a solution which can be abused, to a problem we're not sure exists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, of course, you seem to forget that it is ultimately the answers that give the site value. You can upvote as much as you like, but the reason people ask questions here is because they get answered. The voting is useful too, but secondary, and simply allows the questions to be ordered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I can think of a couple of hypothetically bad scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone who consistently posts bad/low quality answers (say, copy/paste from somewhere else)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone who indiscriminately upvotes answers not because the answer warrants it, but because he wants to spend more votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the one you're worried about, someone who posts &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answers, but never ever votes &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; adds value to the site. Just like someone who only upvotes &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions, but never answers anything himself, adds value. The problem is not people who do one thing, but not the other. The problem, if one exists, is people who do one or both of these activities &lt;em&gt;badly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is, or should be, a relation between upvotes and answers. Rewarding people for maintaining a fixed ratio between the two just encourages bad votes or bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:11:41.480" />
  <row Id="4704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:13:57.240" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; made policy on the blog  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This just causes audience fragmentation and dissipation for no reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you are discussing &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;, you are discussing &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no (good) community that can form around &quot;let's just talk about everything and tag it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also same reason neighborhoods tend to form in communities -- chinatown, little italy, garment district, wall street, etcetera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the answer is that most questions fit in at least two sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples? Most questions do in fact fit pretty reasonably into these ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;programming (so)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;servers (sf) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;general computer hardware or software (su)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;discussion about the discussion (mso: you are here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. buckets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering your examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing macros?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Configuring rewrite rules for apache?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advanced registry configuration?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing bash scripts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd first ask &quot;what is your job title?&quot; and then &quot;which community do you consider yourself a part of?&quot; followed by &quot;what are you trying to accomplish?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use the same mountain to go downhill really fast on snow -- but it's usually plainly evident to the participant which culture they consider themselves a part of, &quot;skiers&quot; or &quot;snowboarders&quot;. There's not a whole lot of confusion within the community itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T14:32:09.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T14:32:09.410" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="4705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:15:39.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder what the ratio of such occasions are? The problem is, that there is no absolute 'oracle' person who could vote the good and medium and bad answers. Everything is relativized to the community, but the built in mechanisms to 'guide' the users to the optimum behavior seems to be inadequate. The SO site is a great place for socio-scientific research though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are tons of options available: make a bit harder to vote (e.g. move the vote option to the bottom-right of the answer), use floating point value between (-1 and 1) for voting. Use weighting system to compensate for high-rep/low-rep answers, randomize answer listing by default, move the accepted answer away from the top, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With proper scientific analysis, things could be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:15:39.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T12:15:39.333" />
  <row Id="4706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4683" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:17:08.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does notify anyone mid-compose, and disables the &quot;Post Your Answer&quot; button (at least that's the behaviour I've seen). I believe this works by periodically checking the status of the question - if you time it right, then there will always be the chance of submitting an answer to a question that has been closed. In my opinion, it is better to accept this answer, than throw it away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:17:08.897" />
  <row Id="4708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4712" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:22:29.403" Score="18" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two flavors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an example right now, but it's bound to happen soon if it hasn't already.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The same question is posted in two places at the same time. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1119081/what-do-you-use-to-upload-your-files-code-documents-to-a-live-server&quot;&gt;this SO question&lt;/a&gt; for example, which is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/39804/best-syncing-tool&quot;&gt;this SF question&lt;/a&gt;, posted within a half hour of each other by the same user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Move it to the proper site and close it once it gets there as a duplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a way to close it right away as a cross-site duplicate, without moving it first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag it and let a moderator merge them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close it as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; or something else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, flavor 2 is a bit of a special case; perhaps the question really spans both sites in terms of content and intended audience. Should multiple-postings in this case be allowed? If so, should they somehow be linked to each other? If not, how do we avoid a migration war?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T13:57:04.883" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T21:57:11.420" Title="What to do with cross-site duplicates?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4701" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:26:04.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My screen doesn't show &quot;nothing.&quot; Maybe you have no activity to report?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:26:04.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4708" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:28:35.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's any different to duplicates on one site. First step is migration, and then let that community discover/handle the duplicate. When we come across these on SO, we vote to close one based upon its activity, date, structure, etc. I think the same course of actions would be sufficient for cross-site dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:28:35.887" />
  <row Id="4711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:36:23.287" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm just a nerd, but the title of this question immediately brought to mind &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%5Fwell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravity Wells&lt;/a&gt;. It seems almost inevitable that if you get a lot of reputation, you will get even more upvotes. And those upvotes will increase with the increase of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, we don't operate the same way the Universe does. Some users will downvote reputable users out of envy, or spite. So while I think there is a valid point in suggesting users upvote other users because of their impressive reputation, I think it's equally valid to suggest that those with large reputation experience the exact opposite too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet, personal testimonies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:36:23.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T12:36:23.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4708" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:37:36.623" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is clearly a question that does belong on another site, migrate it and then treat it as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a borderline question, let it live in both cultures, as the answeres will be different, programmers answering for programmers, and admins answering for admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is important to keep the sites focused, but frankly, I am a programmer and will ask questions in SO mainly. So if I have a borderline question I will ask it in SO, not researching SF or SU upfront.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking the questions in a comment or the text will be of help and might point me to some additional answers. But I might not understand them, as the answerer expects too much from me as knowledge of the other community goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:37:36.623" />
  <row Id="4713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4708" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:38:25.430" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't assume that &lt;strong&gt;all users&lt;/strong&gt; will be &lt;strong&gt;on all three sites&lt;/strong&gt;. Each site has to stand on its own merits and you have to treat each site as &lt;strong&gt;separate communities&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is inappropriate on one site, users now have alternate places to go with their questions. It's a nice convenience if moderators choose to transfer it for them. If it turns out to be to be a duplicate, let the other community handle it with the &lt;strong&gt;means already in place&lt;/strong&gt;. If the first moderator happens to spot it as a cross-site duplicate, it can simply be closed and the &lt;strong&gt;original poster can decide&lt;/strong&gt; how to rework their question if they want to try it on another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the edge case where the question is appropriate on more than one site, leave it on both sites and let the &lt;strong&gt;users of each community benefit from the information&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T12:43:34.827" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:43:34.827" />
  <row Id="4714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4650" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:41:04.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even with the related nature of SO and SF there isn't much of an overlap between experts in one and experts in the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reputation is a measure of how much the system trusts you and you have to earn that trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there will be a few sys admins who are good programmers and vice versa, but for the majority of us knowing a lot about programming doesn't make you qualified to answer server questions. If you can't answer questions or pose good questions yourself how can the system measure your abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be more of an overlap between SO &amp;amp; SU and SF &amp;amp; SU, but if you are active on SU from day one (or two) then you should be able to gain enough rep to earn edit, close and even moderation privileges fairly rapidly. I've been active here on MSO since it launched and already have full edit rights. In a week or so (assuming the same level of activity) I'll have close rights. It doesn't take long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the argument for using the rep on one site to influence the rights on another, but my experience here has shown me that it's not really necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T15:18:13.683" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:18:13.683" />
  <row Id="4715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4721" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:42:23.020" Score="19" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/97836-provide-a-way-to-quickly-link-to-a-question-within-markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uservoice&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the nice features in FogBugz is&#xA;  the ability to type &quot;case 17&quot; in the&#xA;  body of a case, and have it&#xA;  automatically create a link to case #17.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it's possible to extend MarkDown,&#xA;  it'd be great to be able to simply&#xA;  type &quot;#17&quot; in the body of a question&#xA;  or comment and have it render as a&#xA;  link to question #17 on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It'd be even nicer if &quot;#17&quot; was&#xA;  automatically expanded to the full&#xA;  title of the question, linked to that&#xA;  question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This would be especially handy when&#xA;  reporting duplicates - you could&#xA;  simply type &quot;duplicate of #1234&quot; and&#xA;  have SO build the link for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to link to SO/Meta questions from SF and vice versa via a small link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T13:56:14.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T13:56:14.513" Title="Provide a way to quickly link to a question within MarkDown" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4702" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:54:03.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please no iframes, whatever you do!  I don't want to follow some external links and still be stuck in a SO iframe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:54:03.497" />
  <row Id="4717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4715" CreationDate="2009-07-13T12:58:48.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw the question title, I thought I would hate it. But I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be nice to have user-friendly title-links instead of copy-pasted URLs (easily). As the Stack sites  becomes more complete with answers, they will tend to become &lt;strong&gt;more self-referential&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I am a bit dubious about how often I would look up, remember, and type in a 6- 7- 8- 9-digit number number, #941584, rather than just copy-and-pasting the whole shebang (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941584/byte-byte-int-why&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941584/byte-byte-int-why&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T12:58:48.603" />
  <row Id="4718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4720" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:08:26.090" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope I have come to the right place to for this kind of question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click certain tags I know have questions in them they are displays as 0 questions. For example I clicked the as3 tag which I have as an interesting tag. I know there are questions in there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same thing with actionscript3, totally empty. Even if you click through stats, newest, featured, hot, votes and active - it says 0 questions. BUT when I click the flex tag, it shows the questions and then if I click as3 in the &quot;related tags&quot; box it shows all the questions in as3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am just being totally stupid and doing something wrong or have all the questions just disapeared in the &quot;interesting tags&quot; section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130837" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T13:17:54.923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:09:06.773" Title="Certain tags are totally empty when you select them?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:13:40.807" Score="18" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful to add a &quot;Answer Later&quot; tab that would similar to the Favorites tab so you could mark questions to answer at a later time.  There are so many times I see a question and would like to answer it but dont have time, then I have a hard time finding it again later.  Right now I mark it as favorite and then go back and answer it and unmark it as favorite (unless I really like the question).  Do you think other people might find this useful? Do you do this some other way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130437" LastEditorUserId="130437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T13:20:59.137" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T21:40:03.353" Title="Add &quot;Answer Later&quot; Tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:14:41.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the list of tags (and their question counts) is updated as a regular job, whereas the set of questions is queried &quot;live&quot; when you click on a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if someone has been retagging &lt;code&gt;as3&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;actionscript3&lt;/code&gt; for example, the tag will still appear for a while, but without any questions when you click on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:14:41.757" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4715" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:16:32.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copy-pasting the whole URL is much easier for me because when I type out the link text I can then look to the URL to see what the question title is. It would actually be more trouble for me personally to bother with the ID's than it would be for the whole URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:16:32.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4719" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:17:42.473" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that favorites sorted by newest (as you probably do) should serve this purpose well enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:17:42.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4719" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:19:10.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people end up using their Favorites tab as a set of bookmarks anyway. If you just sorted your favorites by newest you could see all your most recent ones and go back to them. It sounds a lot like you are wanting to add in something that we already use something else for in the most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:19:10.747" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:19:25.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like those tags were merged under the new 'actionscript-3' tag.  New questions should now only this tag, and not the other two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find more info of these mass-retags here:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T14:03:14.567" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:03:14.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4702" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:23:11.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate the Digg bar and it's one major reason why I never bother visiting that site anymore. For the most part I think the UI of StackOverflow is spot-on and adding extras like that on top of it will end up cluttering it more than anything else, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is something that is off by default which can then be turned on by individual users, then maybe I won't have an issue with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:23:11.157" />
  <row Id="4726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:29:44.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd actually like to see/build a small app that allows me to easily monitor SO status - check to see if there are new comments, view rep, that sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the site actually ON an iphone is necessarily a little tricky (can't compile and test code on the phone...) so I'm not so fussed about using the desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet posted (on a thread that was to be moved) a URL to retrieve some JSON from his user feed, but alas that doesn't currently appear to be working. I wouldn't mind parsing a little HTML to implement this, but it doesn't feel like the right approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130839" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:29:44.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:32:13.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It occurred to me recently that all questions already have an implicit bounty of 15 rep, but that's just a side note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties work okay as is, but I think they can be improved by making the following changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove bounty rep from the offering user as soon as the bounty is posted.  Essentially you're now holding the rep in escrow.  This will remove any special dis-incentive to accept an answer for bounties, because the bounty rep is already gone.  Maybe this happens already; I don't use bounties so I don't know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give back the normal 15 rep for an accepted answer to the user that offered the bounty.  This will provide a good incentive to promptly accept an answer to their bounty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now it should be safe to stop expiring bounties, or rather move the expiration out to a much further point in the future (6 months?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T15:07:36.947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:07:36.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:34:32.723" Score="-1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;How come SO questions and answers cannot be submitted to Digg?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edit) Implied request: make SO work with the diggbar -- &lt;strong&gt;if you are logged into digg&lt;/strong&gt; and click this link, you'll see what happens. &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/d1rhHa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://digg.com/d1rhHa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T14:03:14.027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:03:14.027" Title="How come SO questions are not diggable?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;diggbar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="4731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4728" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:43:47.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if Digg would like getting bombarded with every single SO question and answer that gets posted. I don't see what purpose it would really serve Digg or SO/SF/SU for that matter. If you are looking to get more eyes to your question, I could potentially see that...but by the time you submit something to Digg and it gets viewed by someone, your question is probably already dealt with by someone who is a user of StackOverflow itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:43:47.440" />
  <row Id="4732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4728" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:44:44.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does Stackoverflow preclude anyone from submitting a post to Digg? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/how%5F2031148%5Fsubmit-news-article.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to Submit a News Article to Digg.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:44:44.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:45:24.950" Score="9" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a blog post called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.jrock.us/articles/Learn%20Perl.pod&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Learn Perl&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on his blog, &quot;Content Considered Harmful&quot;, Jonathan Rockway writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As an aside, Stack Overflow's&#xA;  reputation system is slowly killing&#xA;  the site. In an effort to gain&#xA;  reputation points, people are&#xA;  answering questions that they admit to&#xA;  not knowing the answer to. It seems&#xA;  like every answer in the Perl section&#xA;  starts off with the phrase, &quot;I don't&#xA;  know Perl, but...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think the above observation is correct? If yes, is the reputation system at fault? What could be changed to fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T13:47:08.450" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T13:18:43.823" Title="Is Stackoverflow’s reputation system hurting the site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:47:18.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not an issue.  If the answer is incorrect or too vague, people should down-vote that answer.  That's the reason the voting/rep system works so well, it almost guarantees the best answer will be the highest or one of the highest voted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:47:18.747" />
  <row Id="4735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:47:31.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nonsense. If you don't give a good answer, you don't get substantial reputation. Somebody could fool a couple people, but you're not going to get a reputation of considerable value by falsely claiming to know answers to technical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:47:31.910" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:49:00.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, I took a quick look at three [perl] questions. None of them had &quot;I don't know perl but&quot;. If the author wants to make his point, he should give examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:49:00.567" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:49:45.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know Perl, but....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I spend my time in C# tag where I feel the answers to good, specific questions are quite good, and bad answers are quickly pointed out. For tags with less traffic I believe it would be more likely for this to become an issue. However, I believe, in that case, that the issue lies with the voting and not with the reputation system itself. If you don't know answer is correct/helpful, then you shouldn't be upvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T14:23:16.363" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:23:16.363" />
  <row Id="4738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:50:12.347" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question gets answered, then upvote and hurray, all is well with the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers provided are wrong, then don't reward them for being idiots. Eventually the correct answer will bubble up to the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This entire site was based off the reputation system and without it, you would have a serious decline in the number of people who stick around every day answering dozens of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:50:12.347" />
  <row Id="4739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:51:37.140" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;BS, really. There have been plenty of times that I &lt;strong&gt;answered a question&lt;/strong&gt; about a programming situation &lt;strong&gt;without knowing the specific language&lt;/strong&gt; being discussed. I have enough &lt;strong&gt;experience with algorithms&lt;/strong&gt; that I can offer information about how to solve the problem, even if I don't know the exact syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of full disclosure, it would simply be a nice courtesy to start my post with, &quot;I do not know Pearl, but...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:51:37.140" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:52:56.333" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more a side-effect of the expertise included in the community.  Stack Overflow has a lot of qualified people answering questions for .NET and other Microsoft technologies, because it was seeded from readers of two Microsoft-centric blogs.  It also has qualified people answering questions on other topics, but not quite as many.  Therefore, questions on the other topics may not get answered quite as quickly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if someone who works primarily in C# notices an unanswered Perl question with an obvious mistake, they are likely to post their solution.  But because they don't work in perl every day they may qualify their answer a bit, because maybe they're missing something subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The genius of Stack Overflow is that this isn't a bad thing.  If they're right, the original asker does a facepalm and gets their answer faster.  If they're wrong, the answer gets voted down (or at least not voted up) and no real harm is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:31:06.953" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:31:06.953" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:55:10.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;not to mention that instrumental on Rush's Counterparts that was Part 4 of the Gangster of Boats Trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:55:10.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T13:56:51.707" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've answered Perl and Python questions with a sort of &quot;Treat this answer with caution, I'm not a Perl/Python expert, but...&quot; Heck, I've even answered Ruby questions in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By answering the question, you're giving the OP something to try or investigate. Not a lot of harm done if it's wrong, but great if it happens to be right and you were using educated guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the benefits outweigh the downsides, but I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; think it's a good idea to express your own self-doubt in the answer, so that if it doesn't help quickly the OP won't waste a lot of time on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T13:56:51.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:01:05.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the case where the site they should have searched is SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1104661/finding-mac-address-from-ip-closed&quot;&gt;Finding MAC address from IP [closed]&lt;/a&gt;, all that was necessary was to type &quot;mac address&quot; without the quotes into the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll generally complain to the poster if a two to five minute search with obvious keywords would have found the question &lt;em&gt;on SO&lt;/em&gt;. If I can type their entire question into the search box and get the answer, then I think they should have been able to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I omit any case where you &quot;have to know how to search for it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:01:05.523" />
  <row Id="4745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4718" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:09:06.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a lot of re-tagging lately. Where possible, I've tried to use the tools to migrate the data such that the old tag is deleted, but this has not always been possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for any confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:09:06.773" />
  <row Id="4746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4750" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:10:05.297" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1119370/where-do-i-find-the-definition-of-sizet&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; in SO, then in a comment I got pointed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502856/whats-the-difference-between-sizet-and-int-in-c&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which is basically the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue here is that I searched for the term 'size_t' looking for something relative and the mentioned question didn't appear among the results, or when I typed the question title in 'related questions'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the criteria for searching? IMO, if I search for  I would like to see &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions that have (at least) this term in the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121487" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T14:37:28.950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:37:28.950" Title="Why don't some results appear when searching by 'search-term'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:11:30.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reputation&lt;/em&gt; is what &lt;em&gt;drives&lt;/em&gt; SO. There are trade-offs in such a system. One of the downsides is that sometimes people will just post BS to try to get a few points here and there. However, the fact that others are motivated to provide better answers (for more reps) and even more others are motivated to vote on answers (you even get a badge for voting ;-) means this downside is reduced drastically compared to the UseNet or other web sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no system in which everyone will behave perfectly (however it is defined). SO's rep system helps promote better &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (and consequently, better answerers as well, but that is a side effect) regardless of how people behave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:11:30.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:13:38.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a pain until you get about 50, and can up/down-vote and comment, and I think that early speed bump is the biggest problem with rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &quot;I don't know Perl...&quot;, sometimes you can spot errors in the approach taken, or the implementation of an algorithm, without needing to know the language's syntax, or libraries.  I answer questions on Server Fault with an approach that will work on any Unix, when a platform specific answer would be better, but not portable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:32:01.077" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:32:01.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2557" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:15:08.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does it matter? If somone is asking lots of questions the good questions get up voted the bad ones get down voted. If it's a bad question they wont get any rep, unless it's about your favourite webcomic/computer joke, but I think we are over that now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not like we as users are footing the bill for all the Guff questions in the database, they are there taking up a miniscule number of megabytes on a server, while all the usefull questions are there to help us do what we need to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people ask a lot of questions, some people answer a lot of questions, some people vote, some don't. So long as at least some people do all of the above I'm happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number of people answering questions is always going to be the minority, because most questions require domain knowledge, where asking a question implies a lack of domain knowledge. Given the number of domains there are in programming and how often programmers have to tackle different problems it can be assumed that people are going to get stumped more than they can answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TBH I think that stack overflow could possibly survive if only John Skeet was answering questions full time. The man is a machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although arguably I think many people seem to turn to SO before even doing a simple Google search on their problem, this might be because forming a human readable question is easier than formulating a google readable query that will come up with the results you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:15:08.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4746" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:16:18.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'd be better off using Google and searching on stackoverflow.com instead of trying to rely on the search system that is built in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:16:18.937" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4746" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:19:08.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just come to accept that the search system is far less reliable than the memory of other users.  It's kind of like a distributed search through pedantry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, creating a question with the title &quot;What is size_t in C++?&quot; causes the system to not even be able to provide a similar question, even though they obviously exist.  Actually, this is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; messed up.  The question title &quot;What is size&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;t in C++?&quot; doesn't work, but &quot;What is size&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;t in sdfsdklfjdsf?&quot; gives possible duplicates.  Who wrote this thing?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T14:25:12.290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:25:12.290" />
  <row Id="4752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4746" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:20:46.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are also much better off using the external tools. In addition to using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+size_t&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+size_t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use things like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://askjonskeet.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://askjonskeet.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:20:46.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:22:42.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the blog post by Jonathon, I frequent the Perl tag, and I really don't know where he's coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the particular example he's talking about follows Damian Conway's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://search.oreilly.com/?q=Perl+Best+Practices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Perl Best Practices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: using &lt;code&gt;$_&lt;/code&gt; whether it's &quot;understood&quot; or not. Conway reasons that it is not clear which functions take &lt;code&gt;$_&lt;/code&gt; as a default argument, so one suggestion is to always be explicit. Despite that I disagree with a fair amount of PBP (and Conway never wrote it to be the One True Standard), I would never consider its recommendations &quot;an example of doing it wrong&quot;. 1) Conway put so much thought into it, and 2) he really got the ball rolling as far as examining if there are common flaws that make Perl as unreadable as some of its reputation suggests.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, I haven't really seen that many &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answers that begin &quot;I don't know Perl, but&quot;. The case mostly happens with &quot;cross-posted&quot; questions with a number of language tags, as when somebody asks &quot;does LanguageX have Perl feature Y?&quot; And in many of those cases, there are &lt;em&gt;NO&lt;/em&gt; answers yet from the more established Perl experts, so I don't see wanting to be helpful as reputation panhandling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:22:42.103" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4719" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:34:11.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this relates to better favourites organisation, for which there is another thread. You could post this idea there as I see a benefit in being able to say why you favourited something, e.g. Answer later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3912/feature-better-favourites-organisation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3912/feature-better-favourites-organisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:34:11.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T14:34:11.800" />
  <row Id="4755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4701" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:34:32.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine says &quot;Showing 2009-07-13 to 2009-07-13 ; current time is 2009-07-13 14:33:57 UTC&quot;.  Which is to say, &quot;today&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: sounds like this could be a dup of this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/bug-clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bug: clicking envelope beside username shows fewer recent activities than “today” button&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it could be a misunderstanding of this behavior: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1359/make-recent-activity-today-etc-buttons-based-on-users-time-zone&quot;&gt;Make recent activity “today” etc. buttons based on user’s time zone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T14:39:33.110" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:39:33.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:34:42.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some 'game' could be played with Woot! (visit every day for 30 days) and Fanatic (visit every day for 100 days), Civic duty (vote 300 times) and Disciplined (delete your +3 voted post), Citizen Patrol (first flag), Shrunk and White (edit 100 entries). You just mindlessly do the required operations and you get them.&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;Its easy to avoid the retag game. Retagging should not count to this badge.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see one possibility for taxonomist: create 50 questions about a good but neglected topic on SO. My brainchild: &lt;strong&gt;fork-join&lt;/strong&gt; in java/concurrency subtopic (its neighbor, CCR is already taken).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if you do them in a community wiki format, you'd still get the badge? Would be a useful game - for the learning community and for the tag creator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or better yet, find 50 existing concurrency question about a problem very close to fork-join and retag them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T07:01:55.400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:01:55.400" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4636" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:40:32.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you got an example question where you've filled in the e-mail address and not got anything? If so e-mail team@stackoverflow.com with the details I'm sure they'll look into it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:40:32.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:46:14.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of these sites is to get answers for questions you have and help other with question they have.  Reputation/badges/Pats on the head are really secondary to the primary goal of the site.  They are kind of a feel good aspect of the sites, but don't really do anything. I don't really think people care about someone's Rep as long as they get the answer they are looking for.  The moment that the site starts restricting people's ability to ask and answer questions (either by not allowing them to answer, or merely discouraging it), the site has lost it's intended purpose.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I post answers, because it's nice to help people out, and because sometime I am going to have a problem that I need an answer, and someone will help me.  Does it matter than John Skeet has a higher rep than I do?  No, not really.  Do I want to even the playing field so I can catch up to him, nope.  My rep really shows how well I am answering questions.  It's a way of measuring myself, and showing where I need to improve on what I know.  (and it does too, I've made some comments which were wrong and quickly realized it by people giving feedback through comments and voting).  If someone is angry, because they don't get to have the top score, sorry, they are just going to have to try harder.  A good response is a good response, because it answers a question.  It doesn't matter where it came from.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:46:14.107" />
  <row Id="4759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4715" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:51:15.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When linking to [Question 12345] the question text should be displayed like &quot;How do I change the oil in my car?&quot; instead of just a question number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:51:15.423" />
  <row Id="4760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4779" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:51:25.740" Score="6" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lets be honest with ourselves does it really matter that people are gaming badges/Rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely if someone is so obsessed with Rep that they are willing to got to any length to get it that's their problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use SO to get questions I can't find the answer to answered, I don't care if the person who answers it has 1 rep or 100,000 rep. If the answer is correct thats all that matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's wrong I'll vote it down, if it's correct or kind of correct I'll vote it up and maybe comment on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the badges could be gamed, but some person some where having &quot;all teh badgezors&quot; is no skin off my &lt;strike&gt;back&lt;/strike&gt;nose. I don't care so long as when I have a question someone is willing to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all for the community, I answer questions when I can and when it's not already been answered, I up/down vote things as I think is appropriate. Usually I'm motivated by making the community a better place, sometimes I'm motivated by making my rep a round number (I was so chuffed when my rep hit 1337) but I really don't care about who has what badges, sure I feel a little fuzzy inside when I (legitimately) get a badge, because I can see that I have benefited the community in some way, I'm not worried about the penis measuring that seems to make so many people go off the rocker. Who cares if people have more rep than you or don't legitimately have badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fair enough more rep leads to higher levels of privilege but badges don't mean squat, if someone has low enough self esteem that the only way they can get their kicks is by getting virtual badges to put on their virtual sash well they have bigger problems that badge gaming. And why should we care?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastEditorUserId="151167" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-05T09:35:31.167" LastActivityDate="2011-05-05T09:35:31.167" Title="Does it matter that people &quot;Game&quot; Badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4760" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:52:39.100" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gaming rep matters some, because there are administrative privileges keyed to rep.  Gaming badges matters not at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:52:39.100" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4760" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:55:36.523" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only badge that I see which could be &quot;gamed&quot; and provide some sort of real negative impact on the site would be the taxonomist badge. All other badges are generally either pretty innocent enough, or if you game something (i.e. a quick flagging of a post for a badge) the negative effects are minimal. Taxonomist badge on the other hand can have some pretty drastic effects, but even then it is usually caught fast by moderators who are monitoring the tag changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:55:36.523" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="4763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:56:11.073" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a closed question is viewed by the OP display a message below the closed box giving them some pointers on why it might have been closed and how they could edit it to make it more acceptable so that it could be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message need only be displayed for the following reasons, and could be tailored to each:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not programming related &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective and argumentative &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not a real question &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no longer relevant &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although some message for the following explaining why it was closed may help mitigate any confusion (particularly with meta, as many will not have heard of it.):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exact duplicate &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on serverfault.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:02:31.517" Title="when OP views a closed question give them editing pointers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4760" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:56:42.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't stop people gaming the system, simply because there is a system and some people have to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you can do is make it not worth their while. In the case of badges it probably isn't worth changing anything. In the case of rep Jeff has already taken action to prevent voter fraud and will do so again should the need arise - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:56:42.420" />
  <row Id="4766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4789" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:58:25.200" Score="11" ViewCount="704" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &quot;Hot&quot; questions are based on some sort of views/velocity criteria but &lt;strong&gt;does anyone know the actual algorithm used&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I was considering a feature suggestion about the &quot;Hot&quot; tab, but I don't have enough information to speak intelligently about it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T16:13:01.170" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T20:19:24.420" Title="How are &quot;Hot&quot; Questions Selected?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;hot&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="4767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4763" CreationDate="2009-07-13T14:59:25.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess your first step would be to actually sit and define what those close reasons mean. I know we've had in the past a lot of confusion concerning the &quot;not programming related&quot; and the &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; options, where people will bicker back and forth incessantly over whether something is or isn't what it is said to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T14:59:25.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4766" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:00:50.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the actual algorithm (I am sure that Jeff will end up posting eventually) but I know that it involves a combination of views and answers over a short period of time. The more activity in a shorter area of time would likely lead to an increase in &quot;temperature&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:00:50.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4763" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:02:31.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically it's fairly clear why a post has been closed.  Some people do put information on why they close questions in the comments already.  I tend to do so when it's debatable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you suggesting that the system force people who close to vote to provide reasons?  I'm not in favor of this.  We already provide a general reason that's apparent in most cases.  Further, most newbie cases can be resolved by directing them to the FAQ.  I've got better things to do than post &quot;Please see the FAQ&quot; every time I vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:02:31.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4760" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:06:16.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are an administrative way to get users to participate in certain types of functionality. Whether a badge is designed to encourage good behavior or to get users to try certain features, &quot;gaming the badge system&quot; still accomplishes that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:06:16.047" />
  <row Id="4772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:06:22.067" Score="6" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Source&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[This link will merge with the text and the 2nd link][1]&#xA;&#xA;non-link text&#xA;&#xA;[this link causes the previous link to merge with it.][2] &#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://example.com/ &#xA;[2]: http://example.com/áéíóúö/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Demonstration&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This link will merge with the text and the 2nd link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;non-link text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this link causes the previous link to merge with it.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Description&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there are client side and server side bugs with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server side:&lt;/strong&gt; when rendered the above is one link, pointing to &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Client side:&lt;/strong&gt; when previewed only the first link is linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm primarily concerned about the foreign alphabet characters since they are the most frequently used, not other glyphs that &lt;a href=&quot;http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/urlencodechart.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;may be used in URLs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Possible workarounds&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/217533/links-to-urls-containing-parentheses/258369#258369&quot;&gt;said elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes URLs can fail to link correctly because they contain disallowed characters. In these cases &lt;a href=&quot;http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/urlencodechart.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;encode the characters using the % notation&lt;/a&gt;. Previously characters such as () [] ' and * were not allowed but the server-side Markdown renderer has been modified to accept them now. Currently the only (known) characters that aren't accepted are ones with accents, graves, diaeresis etc. For example: é or ö, although &lt;strong&gt;with wikipedia links&lt;/strong&gt; you can just use the unadorned character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T11:52:09.533" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T11:53:49.537" Title="Markdown renderer doesn't accept é or ö in links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:22:20.090" Score="7" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I ask a question on stack overflow, and then go to Twitter to see if I can get help there. Any developers that follow me are immediately directed to the SO question. I've actually seen a few devs sign up for SO because of this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The steps I follow are this - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write question on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shorten the URL for my newly posted question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Think of a tweet that is 140 characters - the length of the url &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post the tweet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sure would be nice if there was a &quot;Tweet this question&quot; button on SO. Maybe I would push it, and then a tweet would be auto-populated for me using the tags - maybe one that says &quot;Help me with this (tag1, tag2, tag3) question on stackoverflow&quot; and then a shortened URL. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although some of the answers already added are wary of a million &quot;share&quot; buttons being added, I don't think very many people use those sites as they use twitter. In a lot of ways it's as much a question answering service as SO is, and as I described above it's helped me find answers to programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T16:18:28.410" LastActivityDate="2010-08-24T13:12:00.550" Title="&quot;Tweet this&quot; button" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4773" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:26:17.130" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure we need ye olde &quot;Share This&quot; button...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://csshook.com/cssresources/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sharethis.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Share What Now?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something...pure about SO not having a litany of icons at the bottom of each post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:26:17.130" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4773" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:26:38.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can shorten the URL by excluding the title and only including the id. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4773&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4773&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as a button, I would hope not. I am not a big fan of cluttering the UI with more buttons and mechanisms to use with other websites. I made this point in a previous question concerning submitting stuff to Digg. All those websites that have a jillion buttons to submit their content to a jillion different providers always has annoyed me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find Twitter to only be useful for harassing elected officials. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:26:38.220" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3912" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:28:57.333" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;one option: tag your favorites as you wish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;simpler solution: organize your favorites into &quot;folders&quot; (one folder per favorite)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the latter would suffice for the way i use favorites; your mileage may vary...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...though if i &lt;strike&gt;wasn't so lazy&lt;/strike&gt; had more time i'd use the browser Favorites to organize them instead of SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T01:34:39.457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:34:39.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4773" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:33:50.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefox Users...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3957/community-challenge-integrate-a-tweet-this-button-with-greasemonkey&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3957/community-challenge-integrate-a-tweet-this-button-with-greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3006/picture11z.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T16:09:18.867" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T16:09:18.867" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4760" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:37:08.827" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't matter. That's why we discuss it, endlessly: because the results are irrelevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:37:08.827" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4785" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:37:40.457" Score="13" ViewCount="551" Body="&lt;p&gt;My rep went over 2,000 today which meant I could edit other people's posts. Great! Then I added a bounty to a previous question, which brought me back down to 1,984...and I can no longer edit other posts. Should this changed? Or is this ideal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Thank you all who up-voted in an attempt to restore my editing-ability, but unfortunately I have already capped my rep-limit today, so your efforts are all in vain :) I appreciate the kindness though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="166308" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-10T14:56:57.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T14:56:57.780" Title="Is losing privileges after placing bounty OK?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:37:47.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site has existed less than a year and has gained huge popularity since its launch.  The notion that anything is &quot;slowly killing&quot; StackOverflow is laughable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to appropriateness of answers, this is an open site, with free flow of contributions, &lt;strong&gt;by design&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.&quot; -- Winston Churchill&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95071" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:37:47.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:40:21.513" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's ideal. That way, if somebody's gotten up to 2,000 rep, and then all of the sudden gets downvoted to oblivion (or Bolivian, depending on your preference), then they should lose that editing privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you did do this to yourself, which remains slightly amusing. I'll give you a +1 to get back to that point, though, since distinguishing between voting and bounty rep may be a good idea, as has been brought up by folks who hit the rep cap quickly after garnering a bounty in the morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:40:21.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:40:44.107" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this should be changed. If you drop below a specific threshold I do not believe that you should continue to have those abilities. If it was just a fluke occurrence, it should not be difficult to get yourself boosted back up above the mark again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:40:44.107" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:41:11.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd think it fair -- after all, if you'd lost the reputation through a string of downvoting, where the community is showing they're losing faith, it would seem silly to retain &quot;superpowers&quot; (read: extra features entrusted to the more widely respected members of the community)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:41:11.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:41:59.387" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the point of putting your reputation on the line for a bounty if there is no consequence of losing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:41:59.387" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4772" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:42:23.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you use numeric or named html entity references it seems to work code as above but with some of these in [2], don't know if this is an easier workaround or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  [2]: http://example.com/&amp;amp;atilde;&amp;amp;#226;&amp;amp;#227;/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This link will merge with the text and the 2nd link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;non-link text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/&amp;atilde;&amp;#226;&amp;#227;/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link causes the previous link to merge with it.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:42:23.773" />
  <row Id="4787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4679" CreationDate="2009-07-13T15:54:25.200" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to how when you ask a question &quot;possible dupes&quot; are shown... a option like this might be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: How to set desktop background in ubuntu?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags: [ubuntu], [display]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Submit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... on submit... SO then checks the tags (or lack thereof) and if it doesn't see any programming-like tags. e.g. no LANGUAGE tags, nor SQL tags, nor MATH-FUNCTION tags... then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offer up a page with....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hmmm, it looks like this question might be better handled&#xA;on one of our other sites.&#xA;&#xA;Is your question about:&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;General Computer Help&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Server Administration&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Computer Programming&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;How this site works&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;whereby if the user chooses anything but the Programming button... the question is posted to the applicable site, and the user is informed, then given a link to view it on the sister site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T15:54:25.200" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T20:37:29.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4766" CreationDate="2009-07-13T16:46:29.120" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;What Formula Should Be Used To Determine &amp;quot;hot&amp;quot; Questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on my analysis of the above and the comments so far, here's the &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt; version of what I have implemented so far. This might suck. I don't know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(log(Qviews)*4) + ((Qanswers * Qscore)/5) + sum(Ascores)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;--------------------------------------------------------&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;((Qage+1) - ((Qage - Qupdated)/2)) ^ 1.5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that I do not weight an accepted answer very heavily. This is intentional, as I feel accepted answers are a fine social contract, but not necessarily a good data point for question or answer quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T20:19:24.420" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T20:19:24.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2009-07-13T16:54:59.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the 30s limit is unchanged, it would be helpful to have a counter displayed in the notification window letting me know when the time has elapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T16:54:59.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1187" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:00:13.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any better use of &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; would be an improvement; either filtering in &quot;My Tags&quot;, or having a checkable filter for any display.   This was a popular request on uservoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130365" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:00:13.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T17:00:13.180" />
  <row Id="4792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:03:00.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a system like Digg uses for its comment system.  Where you can edit your comment for X amount of time before it becomes 'locked' and is unable to be edited further.  That way you can fix your typos and stuff right off the bat, but after that it's either live with it or delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:03:00.337" />
  <row Id="4794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4797" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:10:19.953" Score="3" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a link has gone stale in an answer, what is the correct way to report this in the SO universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. Jon's first link in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194304/whats-the-best-way-to-write-0-100-in-c/194307#194307&quot;&gt;Bad Link Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have added a comment but not found the correct link yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164427" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:15:48.290" Title="What to do when you find a bad link in an answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4794" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:15:48.290" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can edit it with a correct one, then I would do so...  If the link is bad, and the correct one cannot be determined, I'd edit the question/answer and note that the URL was not working as of MM/DD/YYYY...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also add a comment to the question/answer informing the poster that there was an issue with the link (you can do this regardless of ability to edit)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:15:48.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35917" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:22:39.820" Score="56" ViewCount="945" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my proposal.  Every comment has a '&lt;strong&gt;Reply&lt;/strong&gt;' link after it.  Clicking on this link adds the standard &lt;strong&gt;@UserName:&lt;/strong&gt; to the comment edit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After posting, the &lt;strong&gt;@UserName:&lt;/strong&gt; is converted into a javascript '&lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt;'.  By '&lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt;' I mean that it appears to be a hyperlink, but is actually a span with the hyperlink style and javascript in its &lt;strong&gt;onmouseover&lt;/strong&gt; event.  When you hover over this link, the comment it references is highlighted in some fashion (background color changes, its outlined, whatever).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the referenced comment is hidden, one of two things can happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) The comments section is expanded and unshown comments are revealed, or&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;2) A hovering div appears next to the pointer containing the comment that is referenced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. 2 is probably easier to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T07:31:58.340" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T22:10:49.647" Title="Let's make it easier to reply within comments!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;responses&gt;&lt;replies&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="4799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4628" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:26:13.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just what do we have to do to get people to realize career-related questions ARE programming related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to &lt;em&gt;use the tools we have been given&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave a comment&lt;/strong&gt; with your argument as to why the post should be open. Link to that blog post for reference. Link to your post here, if you feel it does a better job of making your argument. Check back later, and back up your argument if anyone disagrees with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it gets closed anyway, then &lt;strong&gt;vote to re-open&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really feel the closing borders on abusive, then &lt;strong&gt;use the &quot;flag for moderator review&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; feature to get someone involved who can override the &lt;em&gt;hoi polloi&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if, after exhausting these resources, the question remains closed... then accept that your opinion is in the minority, and &lt;strong&gt;move on&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:26:13.003" />
  <row Id="4800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:27:29.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if it also alerted the first Comment's User, that a reply has been left.  This can be part of the Responses section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:27:29.687" />
  <row Id="4801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:37:16.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112384/to-break-up-your-jquery-code-into-functions-do-you-do-it-the-same-way-as-in-java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112384/to-break-up-your-jquery-code-into-functions-do-you-do-it-the-same-way-as-in-java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that there are still plenty of examples where the first or second to answer are not the answers that end up getting selected or with the most votes...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:37:16.987" />
  <row Id="4802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4804" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:46:19.370" Score="3" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a couple new &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; have been added. One is called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/41/reversal&quot;&gt;&quot;Reversal&quot; badge&lt;/a&gt;, and states the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided answer of +20 score to a&#xA;  question of -5 score. This badge can&#xA;  be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One point of worry: wouldn't this drive people with highly voted answers to &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; a question that might otherwise be okay (or borderline) &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; to try and get a badge? Shouldn't there be an additional restriction that &lt;em&gt;you yourself&lt;/em&gt; can't have downvoted the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:01:47.430" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:01:49.520" Title="The New &quot;Reversal&quot; Badge: A Potential Problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13280" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:47:16.367" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the inclusion of the Pundit badge... you know this is coming to the forefront.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will there be a stats screen for comments?  Or is there already a way to show all your comments with their votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="130310" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:12:22.823" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T03:59:13.210" Title="Stats for Comments" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="4804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4802" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:48:00.240" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your downvote only accounts for 1 out of AT LEAST 5 necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that 4 others would have to also downvote it, making the power of your own downvote weaker. And if that question ever gets any up votes (we are all well aware of people giving out sympathy votes for downvoted material), it means you need yet another downvote to offset it to keep it towards the -5 range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/reversal-and-pundit-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/reversal-and-pundit-badges/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; I should also note that getting that many upvotes on a question that could potentially hit -5 is pretty hard (it was my answer to a really bad question which led to the badge). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest difficulty is in getting 20 people to spend an upvote on an answer to an otherwise terrible question. Usually once a question hits a certain amount of down votes, people will just skip over it and pay no attention to the answers inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:01:49.520" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:01:49.520" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4802" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:48:04.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps someone might try that, but they have only 1 vote (or there's another issue); so they can do very little to get it to -5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:48:04.737" />
  <row Id="4807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7365" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:49:00.610" Score="6" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoy reading the SO FAQ and the Badge descriptions but I feel these 'documentation' are a bit short - just look at the amount of questions emerging on meta about how things work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a plan or place to enrich the FAQ/descriptions of/on various things of SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe some associated links placed in FAQ (no, not the generic search link) or on the badge description could be more enlightening (e.g pointing to community wikis on meta?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Please don't quote the search results for SOFAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2:&lt;/strong&gt; Just some clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is not about me not finding answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am aware of the FAQ link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am aware of the link at the bottom of the FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm a bit enthusiastic about code comments and documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:42:58.467" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:58:58.883" Title="Detailed SO documentation" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4807" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:51:46.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you try searching for questions tagged SOFAQ? That is where the real meat of the documentation is contained on StackOverflow. That is where we flesh out in much much much greater detail a lot of the topics of importance for StackOverflow (and then they can pretty much be the same for the others sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sofaq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sofaq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: This is located on the very bottom of the StackOverflow FAQ Page. If this is too hard for you to use to get to the heavy-details FAQs, then I don't know how else to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're looking for excruciating detail, we host a section of constantly evolving &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=sofaq-official&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow FAQs&lt;/a&gt; that document everything about the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:29:14.500" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:29:14.500" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:52:15.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm actually a bit surprised by the amount of negative emotions towards this in general...  As Mehrdad pointed out, Stack Overflow is a great knowledge exchange platform.  I completely agree.  It is an excellent knowledge exchange platform.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But why must we limit knowledge transfer to text?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to upload supporting docs/code/images/etcetera to questions and answers is definitely a limitation of the overall SO experience.  As Jonathan pointed out, questions that are along the lines of &quot;hey whats wrong with these 200 lines of code&quot; are going to be frowned upon.  These questions will be met by down-votes and folks asking what the specific issue is.  If someone were to post a project in a zip file and say &quot;whats wrong with my project, it doesn't work&quot;), it'll be met by huge resentment with downvotes, negative comments, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do we lose by folks posting some zip files with project code in them?  Do we stand to be negatively affected more by that or will our overall experience be improved?  I certainly don't think it would be more negative and having this feature would only help some folks and make answers a bit more robust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:52:15.527" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:53:05.370" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to strongly agree with the losing of privileges based on reputation. I realize that there will always be exceptional cases where it seems unfair, but if we normalize based on the exception then absurdity will ensue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not losing your privileges once you have obtained them would be too much like a bad union contract, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22/new-york-teachers-paid-to%5Fn%5F219336.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;700 teachers doing nothing in New York&lt;/a&gt; is evidence enough of how disatorous that can be. Hopefully this real world example is enough evidence to bring home the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:53:05.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:54:10.147" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4376/feature-request-image-upload&quot;&gt;Feature request: Image upload&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4637/feature-request-file-upload&quot;&gt;uploading arbitrary files is out of the question&lt;/a&gt;, but it could be very useful to be able to upload a screenshot or some king of graph (UML, Schema, etc.) when answering some question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though there exist several places to host images, but keeping them in the same server as the answer would give some confidence that the uploaded image will be there as long as the answer itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could block outside requests to avoid some server load, and require some outstandish ammount of rep to upload, but it would be genuinely usefull.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T19:19:43.410" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T19:19:43.410" ClosedDate="2009-07-13T18:33:48.777" Title="Please allow the uploading of images" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;images&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4803" CreationDate="2009-07-13T17:58:08.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comment stats are not required for tracking of the Reversal badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with that said, the fact that there is no real good way of tracking comments other than from the recent activity page and that only shows a chronological list of comments left on things you post, I can see this being a necessity almost now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T17:58:08.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:00:53.907" Score="4" ViewCount="603" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6812/vb-net-syntax-highligting-does-not-properly-support-comment&quot;&gt;VB.NET Syntax Highligting does not properly support comment.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you try to put a code you put it into a code tag, but some programming languages have problems with this, like when you put a &lt;strong&gt;'&lt;/strong&gt;, that represents a comment in Visual Basic language the code that put all the the other code highlighted as a comment and ends when you put one more &lt;strong&gt;'&lt;/strong&gt; like you can see here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;'Here is a String declaration&#xA;Dim test As String&#xA;'Here ends a String declaration&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please put something that you have to specify what is the programming language that is in the code tag, to improve the visual element. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T19:20:38.227" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T19:20:38.227" ClosedDate="2009-11-25T17:31:19.643" Title="Improve The Code Tag Highlighting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="4814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4813" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:03:04.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, the code highlighting seems very good for C#, but for VB and others it is quite poor, if not unhelpful. I would love to see this improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:03:04.027" />
  <row Id="4815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4813" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:03:48.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has pretty much been asked before in other posts where people are requesting more language-specific highlighting features (and the ability to select what language you want).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can definitely be frustrating when doing VB and trying to put comments, so I end up usually marking up my code with c# comments, even though that won't be very good for anyone doing a full copy/paste job on my content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:03:48.757" />
  <row Id="4816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:04:16.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most popular comment I make is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could You please include some example&#xA;  input and desired output examples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened several times. How do I return to this question to see if I can help? I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; mark the question and search through them manually later... But the 'favourite' feature has been named like this for a reason. It's designed to help You mark the questions You like for some reason, the ones that are valuable for You - and this is how I use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see later if the question was edited, I send myself an email with a link to the question. I then review it after a day or so, but this is NOT how programmers do things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130724" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:04:16.597" />
  <row Id="4817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4838" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:08:20.313" Score="-1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;For folks who do not have the ability to vote to close questions for specific reasons, you are left with few options.  You can add a comment with a link to the duplicate, but if you review the flag options, there really doesn't seem to be a good fit for something like flagging as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly wouldn't use Hate Speech and think flagging for needing moderator attention is rather broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to add a text entry next to the needs attention selection or potentially add a duplicate option on the flag menu?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T12:25:41.930" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T12:25:41.930" Title="Improve Flagging Options" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="4818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="87415" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:11:09.063" Score="13" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the definition of &lt;em&gt;&quot;too localized&quot;&lt;/em&gt; for closing a question? I see several suggestions, but nothing definitive or specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-08T10:48:58.090" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T19:31:43.270" Title="What questions should be closed with reason &quot;too localized&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:11:41.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being able to enter the duplicate link would be good, then have a button the moderator could hit that would autoload the duplicate link in a standard format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:11:41.747" />
  <row Id="4820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:11:44.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Select &quot;requires moderator attention&quot; and there will be a text entry box.  You can use that to narrow down specifically what needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:11:44.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4818" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:13:22.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd use that close reason when the question is written in a non-English language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:13:22.117" />
  <row Id="4822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4813" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:15:07.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&#xA; If it's in Google Code the project of the code highlighting, here is the code highlighting project that i use in my site and it support's the language selection feature, but remember that is a project written in JavaScript.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SyntaxHighlighter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="130877" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:05:10.173" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:05:10.173" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="4823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4827" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:15:51.153" Score="9" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are rollbacks not included in a user's recent activity history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you go to a user's profile and click on recent, why can you not see where they have rolled back posts? Isn't this just as relevant as the edits it shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/383?tab=recent#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/383?tab=recent#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/686228/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/686228/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T16:18:52.310" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T16:18:52.310" Title="Should rollbacks be included in a user's recent activity history?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;rollbacks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="4824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4818" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:17:04.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the following query on google: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.ca/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.ca/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+&lt;/a&gt;“too+localized”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When questions are specific to a certain local: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/266629/best-software-companies-in-montreal&quot;&gt;Best Software Companies in Montreal&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions related to pay: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245553/entry-level-software-developer-pay&quot;&gt;Entry level software developer pay&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extremely niche questions: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141758/gdi-has-been-accelerated-does-anyone-know-when-this-happened-closed&quot;&gt;GDI has been accelerated. Does anyone know when this happened?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Institution specific questions: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/992759/b-com-vs-b-tech-in-computer-science&quot;&gt;B.com vs B.tech (in computer science)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="33226" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:25:01.377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:25:01.377" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:17:22.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leaving a comment is fine. That is the preferred course of action. No flag is necessary, someone will get to it eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:17:22.863" />
  <row Id="4826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4823" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:17:50.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was noticed when we were looking over the recent activity on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686216/what-code-would-you-have-on-your-wedding-cake/686228#686228&quot;&gt;Wedding Cake Code&lt;/a&gt; answer. It appears that GateKiller's rollback was not recorded in his recent activity, nor was it included in Rich B's activity. Yet when I revised (not a rollback) I did get an inclusion in my activity list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:17:50.037" />
  <row Id="4827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4823" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:18:33.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the rationale has to do with the fact that rollbacks don't really create anything new.  That's just a guess, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other alternative is that they wanted people to be able to see the other things you've done on this site, other than your constant rollback wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:18:33.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4818" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:20:38.580" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limited amount of answerability based on the location asked (Blah Blah in [insert town here])&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spoken language is not English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requires extensive knowledge of a custom built system which is not available for others to use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are some basic reasons off the top of my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:20:38.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:22:02.940" Score="0" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that i will be very happy if added in StackOverflow is a Private Message(PM) system like in forums, because there's some things that you want to be in private with your internet friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T16:25:49.703" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T16:25:49.703" ClosedDate="2009-07-13T19:13:38.443" Title="Private Message Feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;messaging&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:23:53.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The majority voice here seems to be opposed to anything social-icky. Your best bet is probably to email your friends, or get them on  your own IM client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:23:53.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:23:58.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally people who want to be contacted will give their email address (or a website link) on their profile to allow for people to contact them. This has been discussed before and I really doubt that it will ever get implemented. The idea of the sites is supposed to be for Q&amp;amp;A, not extended discussions and social networking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:23:58.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:24:45.407" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO.com is not a social site. It is a programming Q&amp;amp;A site. No thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to talk to you, you would find a way to contact me in my profile. Many people do include this, if they don't, they don't want to be contacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:24:45.407" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:25:17.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonable to assert that a lot of users won't want to be contacted (spam, flamewar instigation, etc). Users who don't mind being contacted can be, through the personal website or email listed in their profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T18:31:55.463" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:31:55.463" />
  <row Id="4835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4818" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:25:31.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting.  I always thought that meant that the question does not have appeal to a broad enough base of developers.  It's like that guy at a company meeting with 500 people in it who will raise his hand and ask a really specific question about his project that nobody else in the room gives a damn about and won't get off of it. :)  Something like ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Here at my company we use a library&#xA;  called AwesomeLib.  But when I call&#xA;  DoGreatStuff on CoolObject in&#xA;  AwesomeLib, I get the following&#xA;  exception ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a question and it's programming related.  It might be considered &quot;not a real question,&quot; but assuming the guy is sincere in asking it, it's just too localized to be answered or interesting to anyone if I did answer it (like I'm in his company or something).  That was what I thought anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:25:31.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:26:40.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature has been requested before and declined on UserVoice: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/99462-allow-private-messages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/99462-allow-private-messages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;admin response&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it's about the questions and answers,&#xA;  not social networking. But if you want&#xA;  to contact someone, check their&#xA;  profile -- they will provide an URL or&#xA;  email address there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:26:40.040" />
  <row Id="4837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:26:53.840" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anger Management&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Awarded for every 100 consecutive posts that don't result in a close of a flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the criteria could be tweaked but this is intended to encourage people to write on-topic contributions that don't troll or incite others into angry responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:26:53.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T18:26:53.840" />
  <row Id="4838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4817" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:30:40.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's unclear what the flag link actually does. There should be a visual cue indicating that you'll be prompted for a specific option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that you should be able to include a duplicate link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:11:25.880" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:11:25.880" />
  <row Id="4840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:35:23.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with everyone else here in that you can use email for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are times I'd like to tell somebody something which; a) adds zero value to the community, and/or b) might embarrass the other person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases, it might be nice if we could flag a comment as private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I still don't know if this is a good idea or not, but thought I'd throw it out to the community anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:35:23.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3936" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:38:05.777" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Titles are not tags. Keep the tags in tag boxes, and stop duplicating them in the title. This is the same convention we have been using on SO.com since adoption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:38:05.777" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4807" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:40:55.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lack of documentation is a negative. I would suggest a Wiki instead of traditional documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:40:55.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:53:53.503" Score="2" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering about this for a while now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since people really only gain reputation and don't really lose it over time (barring extreme cases), will the various reputation levels stay consistent or will they move? Will an upvote always be 10 points and a downvote 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there is no real 'sink' to take reputation away, everyone will eventually have tons of it and everyone will be a 10k+ moderator. What will be done to prevent this? Or is this the ideal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39036" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:12:01.423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T09:44:55.913" Title="Will reputation 'inflation' become a problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="10" />
  <row Id="4850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:56:46.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already the sink of bounties which can take a big chunk out of your reputation if you choose to use them. However, reputation is an indication (and only an indication) of a users expertise and contribution quality, not a currency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also disagree that everyone will get 10k+. It takes effort to get that kind of reputation and not everyone will post to the appropriate quality and quantity to achieve that reputation level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if it becomes an issue, I'm sure those in charge will effect a change that will either level the reputation or reset the limits to something higher. Note I said &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; it becomes a problem, I don't think it will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:56:46.553" />
  <row Id="4851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:57:30.713" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Downer&lt;/b&gt; or, &lt;b&gt;Parent&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes for closing of threads with high traffic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3947/music-to-listen-to-while-coding-closed&quot;&gt;for example&lt;/a&gt;.  Stuff that comes out of these threads bring color to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="111307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T15:03:39.630" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:03:39.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T18:57:30.713" />
  <row Id="4852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:57:46.020" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea is that as long as new people come along, the more moderators/editors there will be a need for to keep up with the growing population. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with the current levels of rep or how it is gained and lost. You need to spend a substantial amount of time to gain 10k rep. If you spend that much time, generally it can be guessed that you have invested enough in the website to earn your &quot;stripes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue which I have and some others have had is the way in which some people achieve their rep, such as by posting tons of questions which gain them enough rep to achieve close voting capabilities. This is a rather minor blip, however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:57:46.020" />
  <row Id="4853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:58:00.920" Score="2" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/reversal-and-pundit-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;latest post&lt;/a&gt; on the StackOverflow blog says that badges are there &quot;to encourage positive behavior&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why not giving each user some reputation points for each badge? Maybe with differences: a &quot;woot&quot; badge would mean 100 points, while a &quot;scholar&quot; badge would give 10 points to the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: someone pointed out that you already gain some reputation implicitly when you get a Badge. That's false for 90% of badges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woot -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Autobiographer -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Beta -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Citizen Patrol -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Civic Duty -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Cleanup -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Commentator -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Critic -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Disciplined -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Editor -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Fanatic -&gt; no rep earned&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23034" LastEditorUserId="23034" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:57:02.607" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:57:02.607" Title="Giving points for each badge earned" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="4854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3936" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:59:15.597" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's unnecessary at best. IMHO, if you need to prefix your title with &quot;Feature Request:&quot;, your title needs more work - i should be able to tell. Same with bugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At worst, it encourages &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; title tags. SO is rife with terrible, undescriptive titles prefixed with &quot;C#&quot; or &quot;JavaScript:&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule of thumb&lt;/strong&gt;: if it can be worked into a single sentence description of the post itself, then it should be. And if not, then it doesn't belong in the title at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T18:59:15.597" />
  <row Id="4855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:59:31.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Everyone&quot; being those willing to put in the effort for at least 50 days, and that's reaching the rep cap each of those days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep inflation isn't really a big issue because the system is not intended to just have a few 10k moderators.  Everyone who earns that level is likely the sort of person you want with those powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:01:03.143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:01:03.143" />
  <row Id="4856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T18:59:51.853" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assuming it should be (at least) one or the other&lt;/strong&gt;, is a retag request (ie: the recent &quot;Please change 'db-design' to 'database-design'&quot; question) more of a 'discussion' question or a 'feature-request'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:24:31.170" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:50:16.883" Title="How to categorize retag requests?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="4857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:00:01.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the number of people with lots of reputation increases so do the number of people on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that as the number of pseudo-mods increases, so does the number of people that need to be moderated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the system will continue to work as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:00:01.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:01:21.007" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a real problem with a lot of active users being 10k moderators.  That threshold really only gives you the ability to vote to delete closed posts, and access to a dashboard that allows you to more conveniently use the abilities you gained at lower thresholds.  I think SO currently needs more people exercising those abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:01:21.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:01:28.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not classify a retagging request as a feature request since the features of the site are not changing.  I think that using the retagging or retag in the tags area should be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:01:28.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4853" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:01:41.667" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of your badges you achieve are for things that you normally gain rep for anyway. I don't see any reason to have a &quot;bonus&quot; of rep for badges, as that would likely encourage more negative behavior to precisely achieve the bonus (such as going about the trying to game yourself a taxonomist badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badges themselves are the reward for the positive behavior. You don't need a reward on top of a reward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:01:41.667" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4853" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:02:10.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge should be enough on its own to encourage the positive behavior.  And most of them come to you after activities that result in a good deal of rep already.  And if there isn't gaming for the badges now (like the Taxonomist badge, Jeff!), there will be if there's rep attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:02:10.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4853" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:02:39.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you already earned reputation on your road to achieving the badges and because why would you want to encourage badge collection? You want to encourage good contributions to the site; reputation and badges provide this incentive but providing one for the other just incentivises the incentives which doesn't actually add any value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:02:39.403" />
  <row Id="4863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4853" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:02:45.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would make it much more desirable to game badges. Since badges currently aren't worth anything, it is really not worth it to game the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tie rep to that, and open another can of worms entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:02:45.167" />
  <row Id="4865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:04:22.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a retagging is a discussion. There is no feature as I see it, but it is a decision that merits some validation before being performed to ensure it's the right decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:04:22.677" />
  <row Id="4866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:05:04.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would request that we put all these retagging requests into a single large question devoted towards the discussion of these requests. It can be a little bit of a pain to see these little Q's constantly hitting the new question screen every time someone wants to change a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:05:04.137" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="4867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:06:20.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep them individual, but tag them 'retag-request'. Each one needs its own discussion and voting. They have nothing to do with 'feature-request's though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:06:20.960" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4830" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:07:00.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience with various web forums, this feature is most commonly used by newer users trying get help directly from experienced users &amp;mdash; to make sure their question gets attention from the bigger names at the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now turn this around for a moment; if you were one of the more experienced users &lt;code&gt;*cough*&lt;/code&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;code&gt;*cough*&lt;/code&gt; would you want anyone and everyone to be able to send you a message like that?  Would such a feature be useful, or would those users be more likely to just get swamped with junk messages?  If they don't get swamped, is this fair to users that don't message these people directly?  If you are planning to use the feature to discuss stackoverflow with your existing &quot;internet friends&quot;, don't you already have good communication channels available to you for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:51:16.200" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:51:16.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1195" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:09:00.430" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;from uservoice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that these types of pages would become stable fairly quickly, so a good FAQ could be compiled for all of the major tags. Also, if something controversial is added, then it needs to be stated as such or removed outright. Voting is probably the answer for dealing with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also completely agree with Jon Skeet's idea (from user voice) of having a reputation barrier per tag. In other words, you must have earned 1000 reputation in &lt;code&gt;Java&lt;/code&gt; tagged questions in order to contribute to that FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T12:43:49.707" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T12:43:49.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:09:00.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:10:53.097" Score="2" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the discussion has dealt with whether or not StackOverflow &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be open sourced, but a more interesting question IMO is what tangible (ie. non-idealogical) benefits the community could hope for in the event StackOverflow was open sourced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full disclosure:  I feel that open sourcing StackOverflow is a bad idea so long as StackExchange is around; should that venture be abandoned, and the StackOverflow team will to put up with the time investment, then I can't see a compelling reason not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume that some time from now StackOverflow is open sourced, with a well defined process for submitting patches (and, presumably, a few new employees to type &quot;Decline&quot; all day :) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What features, improvements, &quot;bug&quot; fixes, or the like would you contribute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:32:59.023" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T18:51:02.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:10:53.097" Title="What would you contribute (or try to) to an open sourced StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="17" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:14:25.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Becoming a moderator requires quite some effort and time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though some might use their abilities to &quot;do evil&quot; I'm sure the vast majority will use it to do exactly what is required from them: moderate (in a positive sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, having more moderators means there will be more people to keep the &quot;bad&quot; ones in line as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides if moderator's can flag suspicious moderator actions, they will probably be able to weed out the bad ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:14:25.527" />
  <row Id="4872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:14:47.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally would be more inclined to branch off of an open-sourced StackOverflow and develop features for it which would allow it to work more towards an idea I had for a software design/architecture collaboration website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume others would likely want to take the framework core and build on a lot more social networking features on it which don't tend to be held in high regard on StackOverflow itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it would be better overall if there was some branching done to any type of open-source StackExchange project. That way you don't end up having way too many ingredients thrown in. If you want a StackExchange which is geared towards the social networking aspects, go for it. If you want something that allows for more collaboration between users on longer questions and answers (multi-stage items perhaps?) work on that. I don't think everything should all be thrown into a single pot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:23:54.887" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:23:54.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:14:47.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:16:25.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luckily, 10k+ rep isn't that powerful as you think (I'm far from it and don't really want it - I'm fine with editing on SO). The concern, as asked in other questions here on meta, is more like the absolute numerical value of the rep, and how the answers given by such users affect the quality of a post. But having 10k+ users around the world helps maintain the site 24/7 indeed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the case of rep-sinks, just run a small thought experiment: if you loose large amount of rep due some rules or 'recession', what would you do? Work harder to regain it or loose faith in SO? (One small cognitive trick is to see the rep value as there were no 'k' in it - you only observe around +.2 per day this way :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:16:25.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:17:37.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just completely modify it into an image rating site for all sorts of adorable things that aren't ponies.  It'd be called notponyoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:17:37.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:17:37.280" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:19:29.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly bug fixes. I don't have that many good ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:19:29.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:19:29.627" />
  <row Id="4876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4883" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:19:46.993" Score="3" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the reason that I cannot see that functionality that I have too low reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:24:08.587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:27.320" Title="How can I create a Tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:20:16.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Threaded comments... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:20:16.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:20:16.727" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:21:06.453" Score="1" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copied from uservoice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I edited a question and an answer today. They duly appeared in the RSS feed for my activity, but they appeared as old stuff because the original dates were old. If I have a stream of questions, answers, comments and edits, I think it makes sense to have them appear in the order they were made. Edits break this &quot;makes sense&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:24:01.877" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:24:01.877" Title="Is it a bug that the time on RSS feeds for edited entries reflects creation time?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;from-uservoice&gt;" />
  <row Id="4879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:21:12.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd look at all the high vote things which are/were on uservoice and got turned down, and do them. But before that I'd add a mute user feature in and before that I'd get rid of the table based layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:21:12.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:21:12.160" />
  <row Id="4880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4876" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:23:50.830" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &quot;create&quot; a tag simply by using it on a post. If it doesn't let you, you don't have enough rep (you need 250 on SO; 100 on SF and MSO - if the FAQs are up to date...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:29:57.833" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:29:57.833" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:24:36.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Properly linked and detailed documentation about the behavior and other things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Private badges: for those who like to get badges and define their own rules for getting one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More notifications&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More customizable and saveable searches and filters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In-page links and other small productivity enhancements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More display options, e.g. code/answer folding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T19:26:14.833" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:26:14.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:24:36.107" />
  <row Id="4883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4876" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:25:36.043" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need 250 reputation now to create new tags.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are over 23,000 tags already available.  Odds are what you need is included among their number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that the point of tags is not to summarize your question but sort it into a set of well-defined categories.  Tags are how your question connects to an audience of users qualified to answer it.  These users will have certain tags marked as 'interesting' or subscribe to the rss feeds for their tags.  If you create a new tag, that tag is guaranteed to not help attract any of those users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good rule of thumb is to check the auto-suggest prompts when tagging your question.  Any tag with a number less than 10 after it's name is almost certainly wrong.  If you feel you have a fairly common topic (take 'mssql' for example) and you see a very small number for that tag, try an alternate name (like 'sql-server').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T11:04:27.320" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:27.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4876" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:31:31.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real question is: &quot;Why are you creating a new tag?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:31:31.807" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:37:16.873" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google Wave robots. I suspect it'll be a lot easier to implement said robots in the same server farm as the database than via an intermediate internet API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:37:16.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:37:16.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:38:05.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Separate answers so they can be voted on separately. All CW of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An easy way of generating alternative formats for data dumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:38:05.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:38:05.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:38:45.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An MSDN / JavaDoc link simplifier, extensible so that systems for other languages could be plugged into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:38:45.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:38:45.590" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:38:46.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People don't get Jon Skeet-like levels of rep from &quot;I don't know ****, but...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus if anything: the problem would be in people upvoting mediocre or bad answers, not in having a rep-system per se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in some of the other answers, not knowing for sure if the answer is correct for that specific programming language doesn't neccesarily make it a wrong answer since not all questions are language specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, they can't guarantee knowing the right answer the first few times, after getting rep from these subjects they won't keep saying they don't know it if their previous answers were correct. Problem solved if you ask me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:38:46.803" />
  <row Id="4891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:40:10.057" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A pluggable reputation system, if possible. (I'm aware this is likely to be pretty tricky, although I suspect that the work in making it all hang together would be a good thing in terms of refactoring anyway. I'm only guessing at what the code looks like now, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:40:10.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:40:10.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:43:54.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh dear, don't let Jeff hear this... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Else he'll change those @username replies into Twitter messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I like the idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:43:54.227" />
  <row Id="4894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:44:55.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After listening to some of the podcasts, the view expressed by Joel seems to be he wants the answer posted even for the simplest of questions (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo)&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't remember which podcast it was in.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;My interpretation was that Joel wanted good factual answers in SO.  Not a google search link, or an answer that said RTFM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130888" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:44:55.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T19:45:06.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Newlines &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in comments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T19:45:06.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T19:45:06.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:00:33.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be willing to throw an awful lot of time at making the envelope more responsive and just generally better.  Its really quite frustrating to have it light up rand() time after it should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:00:33.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T20:00:33.347" />
  <row Id="4897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:03:52.427" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Pluggable text editor&lt;/code&gt; - so you can separate out the markdown editor and substitute in something like freetextbox, a bb-code editor, or whatever you'd like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Pluggable authentication&lt;/code&gt; - for the OpenID haters out there, you could swap out the authentication for something completely different a la the ASP.Net Membership provider model.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Stricter tagging rules&lt;/code&gt; - combined with better collection of tag synonyms and auto-retagging to the canonical version at post time, which would then be used to create:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tag-specific home pages&lt;/code&gt; - In the wiki style of course, so that users with sufficent rep &lt;em&gt;in that tag&lt;/em&gt; can edit it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:03:52.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T20:03:52.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4899" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:09:43.723" Score="6" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;What problem does the Community Wiki feature actually solve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T09:45:37.963" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:22:45.267" Title="What problem does the Community Wiki feature actually solve?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="4899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:12:46.367" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pandering for rep: asking questions that will get what the community considers an unfair amount of interest (like &quot;What is your favorite programming &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;).  Community Wiki allows some of those to be tolerated, as long as the asker agrees (by making it CW) that he won't accept any rep from it.  This also disincentivises those types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T20:30:33.490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:30:33.490" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:14:04.307" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has the potential to solve a number of problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opening up collaborative editing and composition to more users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removing some of the disincentive for collaborating on a single, comprehensive answer vs. posting a new answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allowing open-ended questions to be asked, answered, and voted on without skewing the reputation system away from questions with concrete answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not any or all of these benefits are ever seen depends on the question and those contributing. The sofaq questions are some of the best examples of how this &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; work well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:14:04.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:14:51.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allows an answerer to state an unpopular opinion without fear of massive rep hit, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provides a functionality for asking questions where there isn't really a correct answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:14:51.027" />
  <row Id="4902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:17:52.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lack of free, concise, detailed and discussed properties about some general questions straight from &lt;strike&gt;experts&lt;/strike&gt; the community. It's actually a good feature, however, unfortunately, the site's rendering engine makes it hard to see it as a complete and well organized information source. You need to read through answers similarly to a regular question. Wikipedia, in other hand, is more like a single-paged in-place edited source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:17:52.353" />
  <row Id="4903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:21:07.860" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a question like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138367&quot;&gt;Most wanted features for C# 4.0&lt;/a&gt; is a good usage of community-wiki. I think it is a question about, relevant to and interesting to programmers. However, it certainly has no correct answer, nor does it really add to the knowledge base of SO. So, I think it belongs, but I don't think people should gain rep from it; which is what CW accomplishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, for the SO-team, I believe the automated features that turn questions CW save them a lot of headaches. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet facts&lt;/a&gt; maybe belongs, maybe doesn't, but automatically after 30 answers (I believe) a question like this will become CW. Which results in generally discouraging this type of behavior. And keeps people from gaining an insane amount of rep from something that is not contributing to the knowledge base of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, before the addition of meta, I believe CW was necessary for the few meta questions people just could not avoid and that were necessary for the system to grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:21:07.860" />
  <row Id="4905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:28:49.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO.com is not a social networking site. There is no reason this feature would be beneficial on a programming Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:28:49.000" />
  <row Id="4906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4379" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:39:02.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could modify &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3739/searchable-favorites-list-on-every-page&quot;&gt;my favorites script&lt;/a&gt; and accomplish this functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:39:02.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4920" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:45:20.687" Score="6" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are all of the questions being edited and removing information from the title?  There is no clear violation of any best practices of FAQ's type of thing.  Heck, there is even a question on this very topic on META, but no community backed decision...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3936/should-meta-use-tags-and-title-labels&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3936/should-meta-use-tags-and-title-labels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A moderator (Jeff) has weighed in on this discussion &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3936/should-meta-use-tags-and-title-labels/5069#5069&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and tags should no longer be placed into the title.  While I personally disagree with it, I'll abide by the ruling and not contest these types of edits any longer just as I said I would do when a decision was reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T16:52:10.810" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:52:10.810" ClosedDate="2009-07-14T17:14:49.500" Title="What is with all of the title edits on Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3912" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:46:12.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, have your own properties (your personal pages' contents) available in an XML format and have XPath/XQuery support for doing evaluations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:46:12.247" />
  <row Id="4909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:47:50.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3774/add-meta-tag-to-support-internationalization&quot;&gt;meta-tag support&lt;/a&gt; for internationalization ( among other uses ) of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:47:50.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T20:47:50.773" />
  <row Id="4910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3919" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:47:56.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This really falls under the &quot;SO is not a social networking/news site&quot;. I see no need for the feature, especially when all that is required for you to do is to copy/paste the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you can join the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/greasemonkey&quot;&gt;greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; bandwagon and make this for yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:47:56.857" />
  <row Id="4911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4907" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:49:14.677" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user or users with enough reputation believes they should be removed and are doing the work. Unless community consensus is reached against what that user or users are doing, then I don't think this is a problem; the community is expressing itself through the users with enough reputation to perform this action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:49:14.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:49:47.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Requiring a rep threshold is a good idea. In addition, I think posting an image should cost 10 points of reputation so as to limit images to cases where there really is some benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not just the bandwidth and the storage space and site responsiveness I worry about: Images provide far less value for search and retrieval of information later on. If people just post a screen capture of their editor rather than posting the code in text, the whole value of the site as a means of people with similar questions being able to locate answers via search engines goes down the tubes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, rep threshold + rep cost are both necessary if this idea is going to be adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:05:38.257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:05:38.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4907" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:50:32.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think some sort of abuse is taking place, please feel free to inform the moderators through the supplied interfaces or email them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:50:32.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27655" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:51:54.713" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under the revisions tab for my recent activity, the &quot;today&quot;, &quot;yesterday&quot;, etc. buttons seem to be retrieving edits to my posts based on the timestamp that the post was made, rather than the timestamp of the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I click on &quot;last month&quot;, I should only see June 2009 edits.  But I see four edits from July.  All of those edits were made to questions or answers that I posted in June.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example: I have to click on &quot;last week&quot; for it to show an edit from nine minutes ago (since the edit was to a post made last week).  It doesn't show up when I click on &quot;today&quot;, &quot;yesterday&quot;, or &quot;this week&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; It looks like this has been fixed at some point (maybe when all the changes for the envelope notification were put in?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T04:01:21.720" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:02:08.533" Title="Revisions tab in recent activity is based on date question was posted, not on date of edit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:53:51.630" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted the original suggestion on UserVoice, and I later developed a native iPhone application (as discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19682/so-iphone-app-anyone-else-doing-one&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, the screenshots are from an older version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, for iPhone users, there's a huge difference between a mobile-optimized website and a native app. Therefore, even if there was a mobile-optimized version, I would still continue developing the native app.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, back to reality. The RSS feeds don't provide enough information (votes, views, etc.), and therefore the app parses the XHTML, which is quite fragile. Given the time it takes for Apple to approve new versions and bug fixes, even seemingly small changes in the markup could cause the app to stop functioning for weeks, and this is precisely why I haven't released the application yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, if an official API is ever released, we can have a fully functional app in a matter of weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said before, the app will of course be completely free, and I'm willing to publish the code under GPL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T20:53:51.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13655" CreationDate="2009-07-13T20:55:43.060" Score="36" ViewCount="1094" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the set of 500 of most popular tags on the site in question.  Find and store the correlation of pairs of these tags, e.g. the proportion of the time that a question tagged &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; is also tagged &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For each user, assemble a score by tag; for each non-CW question/answer, for each tag on the question, they receive a score in that tag equal to their number of upvotes, divided by the number of tags on the question, times 1 minus the correlation between this tag and the other tags on the question, per each tag (i.e. if &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; is correlated 0.8 with &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; and 0.3 with &lt;code&gt;linq&lt;/code&gt;, then the user's score for &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; in a question that is also tagged &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;linq&lt;/code&gt; is multiplied by 0.2 * 0.7 = 0.14).  Scores for tags not found in the correlation table are not adjusted for correlation, i.e. they're simply &lt;code&gt;votes / num_tags&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For each tag score, apply this formula: &lt;code&gt;score = (score * 50) / (score + 50)&lt;/code&gt;.  (This caps the output at 50 and imposes an extremely tough curve of diminishing returns over 25.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sum the resulting tag scores.  If the result is &gt;= 500, the user qualifies for the Generalist badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The various constants in there are wild-assed guesses; the core idea is the methodology.  It at least attempts to address the tag overlap issues that have plagued discussion of implementing Generalist.  I expect it to be torn apart, but perhaps it's a start. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see also my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12603/badge-suggestion-polymath-gold-version-of-generalist&quot;&gt;suggestion for Polymath&lt;/a&gt;, which would be a gold badge with the same logic but 5x the awarding threshold (so 2500 if the 500-point threshold above were adopted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T08:52:12.013" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T08:52:12.013" Title="Suggested implementation for Generalist badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;implementation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="4917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4916" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:08:46.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my math is right -- which it rarely is -- on SO, the 501st tag still has 194 uses.  I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that cut-off, especially considering that the cut-off will increase over times.  I'd include any tag over a certain threshold.  How about 50 to coincide with the Taxonomist badge (which is often earned through gaming the system)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:08:46.207" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="4918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:21:41.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about someone creating some browser helpers or add-ins so we can copy a hyperlink &lt;em&gt;with the text and title, etc&lt;/em&gt; then paste it into SO, properly formatted? I can do that in certain other web-based forums, and it's very convenient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, it's at least convenient when it's possible to select the link and not, for instance, the table it's embedded in. But when it works, it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:21:41.470" />
  <row Id="4919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:27:06.270" Score="10" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;A system such as Stack Overflow thrives on real-time communication.&#xA;XMPP is to the best of my knowledge most suitable for this&#xA;and is already commonly used for real-time notification by many sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to follow my questions and answers and also any new questions&#xA;which may be of my interest.  It might be also desirable to use instant&#xA;messaging client to participate in discussion: leave comments, vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130904" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:38:11.873" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:00:16.387" Title="Please add XMPP (Jabber/GTalk) notifications in addition to the RSS feeds" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4907" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:28:43.677" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bulk of the edits appear to be minor title and tag changes. I don't get it - why is this [surprising|concerning|bad]? It happens countless times on SO-proper &lt;em&gt;every day&lt;/em&gt;, as part of the normal operation of the site - if it's happening more on MSO right now, my guess would be that it's because up until recently very few MSO users had editing capabilities, so posts went uncorrected unless a moderator took the time to do something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to bet that in a day or so, it'll quiet down. 'Til then, don't stress about it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:28:43.677" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4919" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:30:52.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visit often. That's about as real-time as it gets :) That, or you can subscribe to some of the RSS feeds. There are services out there that will IM you when you've got RSS updates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'll CW my post&lt;/strong&gt; so others can add their suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rss2twitter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RSS2Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inezha.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inezha&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Deliver RSS Feeds to your IM and Email in real-time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitterfeed.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TwitterFeed&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Feed your blog to twitter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfeeds.com/general/get%5Fstarted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMFeeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T21:41:25.373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:41:25.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T21:32:06.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4919" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:31:40.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is not a social networking site. This kind of functionality would not be useful to many people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you try using a combination of RSS feeds and Google Reader. Other than that, you are free to write your own connector from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:31:40.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:40:12.173" Score="5" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1117236/fun-job-or-career-choice/1117245#1117245&quot;&gt;recently answered&lt;/a&gt; a somewhat subjective question with what I genuinely hope was good advice.  It got downvoted, which is fine, except that I have no idea why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that voting is probably secret to encourage honesty, but I'm wondering if there is any intent to address the votes with no apparent basis.  For example, would it be at all useful to prompt for an optional (or even mandatory) explanation when voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea would be for the comment to be either mandatory or strongly suggested, but anonymous by default.  This lets people downvote anonymously but still offer some basis.  And if the stated reason is dumb, well, then that would speak for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130696" LastEditorUserId="130696" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T23:59:16.400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:19:17.790" Title="Arbitrary Negatives Considered Harmful" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4924" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:42:58.637" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a recent change implemented that suggests on down-vote to leave a comment as to why.  You probably won't see this go much further than this because all of the voting is supposed to be 100% anonymous to the users unless there is a comment (+1 or -1) type of thing going on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could always add a comment such as &quot;why the downvote?&quot;  For things that are fairly discussion based/oriented, you can mark your answer as community wiki to prevent the rep damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also could be getting gamed a bit, where other folks who have answered the question voted yours down to push theirs above yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:42:58.637" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="4926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:44:26.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this problem really that widespread? I must not be active enough on SO these days; I don't think it's ever happened to me. (And I'm hoping it won't now that I've just opened that up! :D) I'm a professional developer, but like many (I used to say, &quot;all,&quot; until I saw Jon Skeet), I'm not perfect. I do believe I deserve many of my downvotes, and the ones I don't think I deserve, well, I can see where someone &lt;strong&gt;else&lt;/strong&gt; might think I do. I just move on, and try to learn from it -- especially if the downvoter comments and tells me why I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, as others have said, if this happens to you, go to the moderators. That seems obvious to me; if it were to happen to me, I'd want it corrected. If you're tempted to do it to someone, well ... &lt;strong&gt;don't.&lt;/strong&gt; First off, downvoting costs you rep -- sure, not as much as the downvotee, but cost is cost. It's cutting your nose to spite your face. Second, if there's someone you think truly has done something outrageously awful or is horrendous for the community, again, go to the mods. That's why they're there! Vigilante justice rarely works in the real world, and online is no different. As programmers, we ought to be logical enough to grok that -- and rational enough to at least consider what we're doing before letting our emotions run wild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit I'm having a blast reading the comments on some of the responses to this one ... Very touchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T21:44:26.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4924" CreationDate="2009-07-13T21:46:20.637" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen one effect. I used to give a comment on most of my downvotes, until one poster reacted by sifting through my recent posts, and downvoting nearly every answer I had made in the past 2 weeks--even some answers already classified as &quot;Good Answer&quot;. My objections weren't abusive and usually contained enough information to indicate where I thought the answer got off track. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I think an answer is to allow non-trackable comments on downvotes. Possibly change the name of this comment to &quot;suggestion&quot;--so that it even points at the idea of being helpful rather than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;em&gt;suggestions&lt;/em&gt; about an answer, perhaps the user could delete this when they got enough RTFMs or equivalents--or perhaps suggestions could be voted on, like comments. So it's RTFMx8 (and would take up less space.)&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;If you like the idea of an anonymous suggestion, the feature is being discussed here: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, please upvote &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes#answer-3733&quot;&gt;Peter Mortensen's&lt;/a&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastEditorUserId="130846" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T17:19:17.790" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:19:17.790" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4919" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:00:16.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has suggested Wave integration a number of times. AFAIK, this is built &lt;em&gt;on top of&lt;/em&gt; XMPP, but with additional support for versioning that would seem a better fit for the sort of notifications that i'd want from SO (not just &lt;em&gt;new something posted&lt;/em&gt; alerts). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this will ever happen... but let's hope!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:00:16.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4924" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:01:17.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figure it this way, you can't please everyone.  If you get net positive votes, that's the best you can hope for.  I think the isolated down vote is basically meaningless and unless I get several, I didn't do anything wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many reasons people cast down-votes that are not related at all to the quality of the answer (and in my opinion against the spirit of the community) like down vote so their answer goes above yours, down vote for personal reasons (not to say anyone does not love you personally :) or just down vote to be difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per comment:  I don't think they are necessary.  If you're a constant, good contributor, your rep will increase.  If you get mired down in thinking about every +/- 2 swing you get, you will drive yourself crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastEditorUserId="130201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T22:41:46.483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:41:46.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:10:48.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One meta level in any system is all you ever need for unbounded recursion. e.g., higher-order logic can be used to reason about higher-order-logic constructs as well as first-order logic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;meta.stackoverflow implies meta(.meta)*.stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:10:48.963" />
  <row Id="4931" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:18:54.663" Score="7" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add a &quot;site maintenance&quot; category to blog.stackoverflow.com, and post a &lt;em&gt;quick&lt;/em&gt; note to it prior to doing updates.  It wouldn't have to be anything more than &quot;site down for 1hr while we upgrade the OS to support more RAM&quot;, and even that is more than is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be useful when doing significant batch retagging (especially if the feature were updated to post the note automatically) and for notes about unplanned outages/slowdowns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:20:43.637" Title="Maintenance Notices" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;maintenance&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="4932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4931" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:20:43.637" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be very helpful indeed when the site outages are actually expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:20:43.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:21:09.517" Score="2" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any chance we might start displaying a user's Rep to Post ratio on profile pages and/or wherever rep is shown?  While overall reputation should remain the &quot;one true metric on the system&quot; it would be interesting to see how much rep, on average, a particular use earns whenever they enter a question or answer into the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was curious enough to whip up a fragile bookmarklet that should work on profile pages to display a user's ratio right after their rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;javascript:function n(i) {i = $.trim(i);return parseInt(i.replace(new RegExp('[^0-9]'),''),10);};var r = n($('td.summaryinfo div.summarycount').text());var q = n($('div#questions-table .summarycount').text());var a = n($('div#answers-table .summarycount').text());var ra = r / (q+a);void($('td.summaryinfo div.summarycount').html($('td.summaryinfo div.summarycount').html() + '/' + parseInt(ra,10)));&quot;&amp;gt;Get SO Ratio&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4668" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T11:26:02.960" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:35:30.557" Title="Displaying a User's Rep to Post Ratio" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:21:57.243" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've wanted to find out who created which tags for awhile now to help aid me in other useful statistics, so I created an algorithm to determine who created which tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only run it on about 100 tags so far because the Taxonomist badge was released late in the game and later tags require a somewhat different method. It seems to be reasonably accurate but cannot account for deleted posts or chain editing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far it doesn't appear as if anyone is gaming the system, but most of the tags so far are very common (c#, java, c, etc). I'll see how things stand when I get to some of the newer tags.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A somewhat prettier version can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/tax.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The user for asp.net has created quite a few posts, but in defense it is a very popular tag. I know of a few tags that have been started in deleted posts, but I can't find the original owner. Python was created in such a manner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tag: c#| User: 8| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: web-services| User: 2| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: linq| User: 2| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 1&#xA;Tag: .net3.5| User: 2| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: database| User: 2| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: mysql| User: 2| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: sqlserver| User: 32| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: query| User: 2| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: language-agnostic| User: 13| Edits/Posts Before By User: 3| Edits/Posts After By User: 2&#xA;Tag: performance| User: 13| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: algorithm| User: 13| Edits/Posts 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0&#xA;Tag: api| User: 172| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: applications| User: 145| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: string| User: 115| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 1&#xA;Tag: testing| User: 157| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: orm| User: 13| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 2&#xA;Tag: exceptions| User: 233| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 1&#xA;Tag: learning| User: 573| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: e| User: 8| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: google| User: 308| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: mvc| User: 364| Edits/Posts Before By User: 9| Edits/Posts After By User: 9&#xA;Tag: forms| User: 103| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: jquery| User: 648| Edits/Posts Before By User: 3| Edits/Posts After By User: 6&#xA;Tag: programming| User: 4| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: flex| User: 0| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1297| Edits/Posts After By User: 60&#xA;Tag: coding| User: 15| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: ui| User: 117| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 1&#xA;Tag: visualstudio2008| User: 417| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 1&#xA;Tag: io| User: 9| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: gem| User: 91| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: patterns| User: 358| Edits/Posts Before By User: 2| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: r| User: 8| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 0&#xA;Tag: post| User: 15| Edits/Posts Before By User: 1| Edits/Posts After By User: 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some possible edge cases exist in the algorithm which I'll fix shortly, this is more a proof of concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Further info copied from a comment above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are created once, by the first person to ever use them. Even if that tag is deleted before it is used again, it has been created by the first user. Tags have to be active for a certain amount of time to stick (from what I can tell only 20-75 minutes, but some time nonetheless). Tags don't have to be used by a minimum amount of users (unless its a very small amount, but can't be inferred if it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T21:54:42.183" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:54:42.183" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="4935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4976" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:23:07.063" Score="5" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I see some people here are doing crazy editing, I think it'd be nice if we could implement a way to mark those users we don't want editing our questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T15:42:12.713" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:42:12.713" Title="Mark a user as not being able to edit your question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;edit-rights&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="4936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4933" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:30:17.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This metric (rep/post) has just as little meaning as any other perceived reputation statistic.  People that outperform in less popular tags are far less likely to achieve the ratios of more popular tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I have both:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;calculated this for myself against a couple of other users, just for kicks, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;seen users go through and methodically delete all their zero-vote posts, presumably to increase this ratio.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old saying &quot;Garbage in, garbage out&quot; really applies to this calculation ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="130310" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T22:37:59.440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:37:59.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4933" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:35:29.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts that happen near or after the daily limit is reached would count as a negative to this metric.  Now, not only would you not get rep. you would dilute your rep-to-post ratio as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:35:29.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:41:34.243" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to wait a lot in writing messages to SO because my keyboard's &lt;code&gt;Key Repeat Rate&lt;/code&gt; gets very slow in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the following settings in OS X&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/keyboard.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that some process is continuously ON and then OFF, and so on.&#xA;If I type in SO's question box, the  process starts. It does not start when I write to the title -box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process seems to be related to SO's javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can you find the process which slows me down?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use OS X Leopard, Firefox 3.5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T20:22:22.730" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:22:22.730" Title="Apparent bug in SO's javascript for the question box" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4924" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:43:30.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has gone around many times on UV, and I still think it's a bad idea.  People are aware that they can leave a comment explaining the down vote if they so choose.  The only possible reason to &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; it would be to try and prevent gaming, which is futile.  If you aren't requiring comments, then you need be be very certain that your mechanism for encouraging them doesn't discourage voting on the whole.  (Anonymous) voting is the lifeblood of the reputation system, and it must continue to flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My thoughts (bullet-points for easy consumption):&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requiring a comment doesn't require it to make sense.  At best, it'll be a good reason which a thoughtful person would make without being compelled to.  At worst, it'll be a thinly veiled effort to make gaming seem like legitimate objections.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When someone thinks they've been downvoted without &quot;good reason&quot;, they will want something to be done about it.  We'll very quickly get to meta-moderation, voting whether one another's votes were justified to begin with, which will leave to even more enflamed tempers, calls for punitive or corrective measures, and plain old fashioned retaliation (i.e. more gaming). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All in all, the fact that downvotes hurt the voter half as much as they recipient is a fine system for keeping downvotes in check.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eliminating anonymous votes by requiring comments is, in my opinion, more problematic than leaving the system in place.  It may not be perfect, but nothing is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:43:30.930" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:44:48.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for this proposal. It might have a narrow focus but it's definitely useful and trivial to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why rot13 is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an adequate solution, take this answer I gave to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/677579/project-euler-16-c-2-0/677616#677616&quot;&gt;Project Euler #16 - C# 2.0&lt;/a&gt; as case in point. I used rot13 on the answer and earnt 2-3 offensive (spam) votes plus a number of downvotes for my trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:44:48.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-13T22:44:48.627" />
  <row Id="4942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:46:15.713" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a member of SO for a couple of months, though only really active for the past few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has only recently dawned on me (as a newer user) that &quot;reputation&quot; has nothing to do with the user's reputation as a question answerer or asker, but is indeed just a system measurement to determine what access/editing rights you have on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that realization only came through reading a number of postings here on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I'm more than averagely stupid as a website user (grin) so it must be confusing a lot of other new users too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not call &quot;reputation&quot; something else instead that doesn't have an implication of human trust attached?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I guess I'm thinking from the point of view of the forthcoming StackExchange when applied to non-technical users. I can envisage some confusion when a user with a &quot;high reputation&quot; provides an answer to a question and someone believes that answer to carry more weight as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, those sorts of inaccurate answers should be voted down but that implies there are enough users with enough knowledge to know the answer is inaccurate. On a newish StackExchange site, that might not be the case for quite a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastEditorUserId="130625" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T23:12:46.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:29:27.250" Title="Why not call &quot;reputation&quot; something else? - since it's not about your reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4012" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:46:23.037" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could try answering the questions correctly.  Then people wouldn't need to downmod you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:46:23.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4942" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:49:33.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mainly because I, for one, don't really agree with or share your realization.  I'm of the opinion that reputation score is, in fact, to some degree correlated with social reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider this to be the case because many users of the site &lt;em&gt;perceive&lt;/em&gt; it to be the case, and this is a textbook example of a situation where the perception creates the reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:49:33.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4974" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:51:16.203" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefuly this isn't just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any of the three sites (SO, SF and Meta), click through to an individual badge to see who has earned it. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/badges/9/autobiographer&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/badges/9/autobiographer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I view an individual badge, my user info disappears from the page header. The whole header section collapses to &quot;about&quot;, &quot;faq&quot; and the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that intentional, or a bug? If the former, what's the reasoning behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:25:28.517" Title="Why does my user info disappear when viewing a badge?" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:51:43.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CW allows fun/poll questions to exist without them giving away huge amounts of rep so I guess it &quot;solves&quot; that problem. Well, that's one way to look at it. Personally I think it &lt;strong&gt;causes&lt;/strong&gt; that problem. A lot of these questions wouldn't exist otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition it causes a number of other problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It may help avoid pandering for rep but does nothing to stop pandering for badges making some of them (eg Great Answer) pretty meaningless as they're hardly ever awarded for programming related answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CW is used as a dumping ground for dubious questions. Often something which is nothing more than a discussion will get comments like &quot;should be CW&quot; but really the problem is that it's not a real question; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People use tagging something as CW as carte blanche for any kind of question. When its voted to close you'll sometimes get comments like &quot;but I marked it CW&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:51:43.820" />
  <row Id="4948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4942" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:53:59.500" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think reputation is a reasonably accurate name. It shouldn't be mistaken for technical expertise as getting reputation is simply an exercise in persistence rather than expertise. But reputation &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a rough indicator of your investment in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere it's called &quot;karma&quot; and other things. Joel refers to it as &quot;points&quot; in talks he gives. &quot;Points&quot; or &quot;score&quot; probably has too many game-related connotations. Reputation really is the best of the bunch (imho).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:53:59.500" />
  <row Id="4949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:55:09.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem all that complicated to me. If no answer is accepted, then you should have the ability to offer subsequent bounties until you get an answer that you can accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you actually accept the answer on that question, or does it get automatically accepted when it earns the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather see a longer time frame for open bounties.  I've got one question without an accepted answer.  I haven't offered a bounty because it seemed like the time limit was too short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69527" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:55:09.653" />
  <row Id="4950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4733" CreationDate="2009-07-13T22:58:13.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote the article in question.  I stand by my general observations, but the points about reputation brought up here are excellent.  There is not much reputation to gain from answering questions incorrectly but quickly, and yet people do it anyway.  I wonder what is causing this effect; there seems to be no gain, but I guarantee you that if someone asks a Perl question, there will be 5 answers in 5 minutes that are all wrong.  It is interesting and confusing.  (As to how this kills the site, I know a number of people who are active contributers in the Perl area who are just turned off by this.  The see a question, formulate an answer, and then see six slightly-wrong variants.  This just makes them mad, and they move on to something less frustrating.  It happens to me, for sure.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some people noted that the golf example from my article was not referencing any one specific post on SO.  That's true, but there is a lot of stuff in the Perl section that starts, &quot;Golfing this down a bit, ...&quot; and then they proceed to do a poor job golfing it down.  Again, shutting up would be a lot better than posting, don't you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This annoyed me enough to blog about it, even if it's not &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T22:58:13.583" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:07:18.790" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting images can be extremely useful in certain circumstances, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Screenshots of user interfaces &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UML diagrams&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but SO makes this very painful to do, so it's no wonder so few people post them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, last week I wanted to show some screenshots of how another community site automatically adds notification when you first post to a thread, (another thing that SO doesn't do very well).  I soon gave up in disgust - it was just too clumsy to be worth the trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To see the site I'm talking about, which has a fairly good image upload feature, and - as a result - benefits tremendously in the quality of the info that is posted, go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rcgroups.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RC Groups&lt;/a&gt;.  There're a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of things SO could learn from here!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree that there should be a rep cost or a minimum rep before you could post images.  Why should an SO newbie be penalized if his/her first question happens to benefit from an image?  A simple upper limit on image size (50-100K?) should prevent severe bandwidth consumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I DO agree that there should be a disincentive to post screen shots of code - as Sinan says, it's not searchable. But the existing downvote mechanism will probably take care of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's err on the side of making it easy, and fix any problems &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; they come up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102554" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:07:18.790" />
  <row Id="4952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4935" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:09:54.620" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is a specific post of yours you're having an issue with, you can flag it to bring it to a moderators attention. Beyond that though, I think the complexity this would add to the system would not be worth the payoff. The theory behind reputation is that it is a measure of the trust the system has in you; and therefore it unlocks certain features. If any user or users are abusing this power, then the moderators and/or SO team can take actions against this. Otherwise, if a user or users are trusted by the system, then they should be trusted. Once you post a question, it is not entirely your own. From the faq...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is&#xA;  collaboratively edited. If you are not&#xA;  comfortable with the idea of your&#xA;  questions and answers being edited by&#xA;  other trusted users, this may not be&#xA;  the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:09:54.620" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4935" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:10:00.020" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel an edit was abusive, report it to the moderators. Otherwise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are not comfortable with the idea of your posts being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:10:00.020" />
  <row Id="4954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="83372" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:24:25.210" Score="3" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;A threshold of 2000 for editing other people's non-wiki posts is too high. Some people who are regular contributors would still take a year or two to earn enough reputation to reach that threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If anyone's interested in comparisons, in Wikipedia, you're allowed to edit existing articles before you're allowed to create new articles)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T07:33:39.527" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T07:33:57.607" Title="Please reduce the threshold for editing other people's posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="4955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4954" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:27:06.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the threshold is fine where it is at. You still get plenty of people arguing it is too low or that posts shouldn't be edited at all (I guess reading the FAQ is too hard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:27:06.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4942" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:29:27.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there is trust attached on many cases. There where suggestions about replacing the actual number with some simple titles (novice .. god) and hide the reputation value entirely from the answers (if you want to find out, see the user's page; just extrapolate the case of the comments not having the rep value but the name only). One obvious example is the existence of the Populist badge itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More logical option would be to show the reputation of the answerer regarding to the tags at hand: You might have 20k+ rep from C# answers and 100 rep from Java answers. Would you (blindly) trust a person with that property if you see 20.1k or 100 beside his name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I never understood is why the badge counts are listed along the rep value. You need to see the users page to find out which badges are there, but does it help you at all? Not for me: knowing he's been there for 100 days continuously makes you trust him more? Nope, it seems to be just for fame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So bottom line, the more reputation (and experience with the site) you gain the more you can assess others' reputation value when you meet on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:29:27.250" />
  <row Id="4957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4954" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:29:38.813" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely 2000 can take awhile, it took me about 9 months on SO. However, you have to draw a line at some point. It seems to me no one can get to 2k without having some level of investment in the site and spending enough time around the site to pick up on some of the community expectations. But, the lower you drop it, the more likely you will have people with less investment and knowledge of the system gaining trust they may not use well. You have to draw the line somewhere, and I think it's working well where it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:29:38.813" />
  <row Id="4959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:32:25.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this happen with some languages more than others? The proportion of LMGTFY-style questions with a ruby tag is far less than 10% in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strangely enough, a couple of LMGTFY-style questions have been from a user with a triple digit reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if laziness is even the right explanation. It seems that googling it would involve less effort than asking on SO. Maybe the question asker is feeling lonely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:32:25.083" />
  <row Id="4960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4954" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:32:44.893" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One year: &lt;code&gt;2000 / 365 = 5&lt;/code&gt; reputation per day.  That means every other day you would have to earn one upvote.  If you aren't doing that, then you aren't a 'contributor' (at least one that I would trust editing my posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-13T23:39:28.903" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:39:28.903" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4924" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:52:49.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just seen the suggestion. It needs to permit an anonymous comment, or it won't get used very often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would like to find out whether there are good reasons my answers are being downvoted. If the downvote was for no good reason then we'll get no better comments than &quot;because I felt like it&quot;, or something less polite. But we can ignore those comments if we also get some good, brief reasons for the downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we do, we may find that there's a group of downvotes that happen because people don't understand what downvotes are for. In that case, we can improve the FAQ to educate future new users. I (for one) may be getting downvotes because people think I'm  being mean (like I ever do that). In that case, I can decide to be nicer (or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we can't do anything based on ignorance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:52:49.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4965" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:55:29.660" Score="8" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since stackoverflow asked for my birth date, I am expecting a gift. I would like SO to award reputation to a user annually on their birthday in the amount of their age. To qualify, a user has to have achieved a minimum level of reputation, say 1000. This gift will acknowledge the wisdom gained by aging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12752" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T06:18:01.437" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T02:02:33.330" Title="Please award reputation equal to a user's age on their birthday as a gift" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="4964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:57:07.783" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would stop a user from lying about their age? I'm not saying doing something on the user's birthday, since the information is collected, is a bad idea. But I wouldn't go for rep based on age. Additionally, you'd need to stop user's from changing their b-day daily, so receive the rep every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-13T23:57:07.783" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:03:07.787" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a fine idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130922" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:03:07.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4954" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:06:14.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to wonder if it isn't too low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; questions then 2000 isn't really all that much and (imho) people who answer questions are the best qualified to edit other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since we haven't really had a problem with editing so there's probably no reason to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T01:18:26.673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:18:26.673" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4971" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:06:25.417" Score="-1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should feature request titles be of the form &quot;Please [feature request]&quot;? Does asking politely increase the likelihood of implementation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12752" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:17:35.200" Title="Should feature request titles begin with the adverb 'Please'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4967" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:10:32.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That seems a bit unnecessary...  Can we then demand something like...  MUST HAVE TWITTER ASAP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:10:32.133" />
  <row Id="4969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4967" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:11:48.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Outside of possibly a very minor sub-conscious pull (in one direction or the other), the politeness of your suggestion will have no affect on whether it is implemented. Factors that are likely to play in include general acceptance, ease of implementation and pervasiveness of the &quot;problem&quot; it address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:11:48.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:15:46.897" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What exactly is the point of this?  The reputation score on SO sites is a measurement of how well the system trusts you...  Your age has 0 impact on your worthiness and trust...  I've found answers on SO from people in their teens to be more productive than folks in their 30's and 40's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I think this is a horrible idea and the controls around confirming age are nearly impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T00:22:08.513" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:22:08.513" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="4971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4967" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:17:35.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be strictly unnecessary but its understandable. It's the difference between making a request and making a demand. And while it no doubt will have no bearing on whether or not its implemented, the version without please will be (imho) perceived to be more negative than is intended and that probably affects the votes and the responses (both in number and tone), at least to some small degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:17:35.200" />
  <row Id="4972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4954" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:20:38.577" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand upon what jinguy posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One year: 2000 / 365 = 5 reputation&#xA;  per day. That means every other day&#xA;  you would have to earn one upvote. If&#xA;  you aren't doing that, then you aren't&#xA;  a 'contributor' (at least one that I&#xA;  would trust editing my posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that this reputation number should be higher to the tune of 3,000 or so in a calendar year.  The ability to edit posts should be for current active contributors and someone who is not maintaining 3,000 points in a calendar year is probably not a very active contributor.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe new proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Increase reputation threshold to edit posts to 3,000 points within the last 12 calendar months (last full year from today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just made the official proposal here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4985/increase-reputation-limit-to-gain-edit-privleges&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4985/increase-reputation-limit-to-gain-edit-privleges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T00:47:52.083" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:47:52.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4946" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:25:28.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The users page used to have that issue. It was recently changed back. It's probably the same issue. I agree this one should be changed back too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:25:28.517" />
  <row Id="4975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:27:12.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um...not cool. My birthday was the 10th (3 days ago), and I got nothing :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:27:12.300" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="4976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4935" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:29:15.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I totally and 100% appreciate the overall sentiment of this idea, I think overall this is probably not a good idea.  Even though I've been vocal about concerns on the edits that some users have been made, I can still safely say that are cases for great edits to my posts by the same users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, just because I disagree with Rich and some of his edits does not mean I want to stop him from editing my posts when I have a typo, it is ambiguous, etc.  Rich does do a great job at helping out in these situations and I would definitely want his help, especially when the change may prevent me from looking bad.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would extend this by saying that I would definitely prefer that there was some form of agreement on what best practices are for some edits and overall posting guidelines.  Quite a few of the so called edit wars could be corrected by an agreement.  Simply disabling any user's ability to edit with the reputation on a per post basis seems to be rather negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:29:15.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4980" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:33:44.013" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122596/iterating-through-a-result-set-in-sql&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122596/iterating-through-a-result-set-in-sql&lt;/a&gt; and &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122596/concatenating-columns-from-a-result-set-in-sql-server-2000&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122596/concatenating-columns-from-a-result-set-in-sql-server-2000&lt;/a&gt; appear to be the same question. They have the same question id, but different URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T04:25:51.977" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T04:25:51.977" Title="Can two questions have the same title?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="4978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:35:50.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did the user change the url? Also, I think the last / represents a variable value that doesn't really determine the ultimate destination. Perhaps Jeff could tell us what exactly that segment is used for beyond Google-ranking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:35:50.257" />
  <row Id="4979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:37:32.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122596/you-can-make-the-url-say-anything-you-want&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122596/you-can-make-the-url-say-anything-you-want&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last part of the URL is just for SEO (and human readability too, I guess).  This is normal for SO-family sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:37:32.307" />
  <row Id="4980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4977" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:37:50.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone edited the title, and there's a little casual overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:37:50.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10436" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:38:52.707" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;A search is done when you type in the title of your new question, then click on the textarea to type the body of the question. I've found this search to be infinitely more helpful than the search bar. I believe the ask-question search just uses the titles of the questions. I don't know what the search bar uses but it usually isn't as helpful. I find myself hitting the ask question button so I could use it to do a search. Could we offer a way to use that search, as well as the search bar? Maybe an advanced search. Being able to search through the questions is an imperative feature. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T21:21:14.627" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T21:21:14.627" Title="Why doesn't the search bar weigh question titles very heavily? (completed)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4954" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:38:58.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having the authority to edit other people's posts is a pretty big deal. If anything, I would be in favor of &lt;em&gt;increasing&lt;/em&gt; the amount of rep required. It took me 14 days (today, actually) to reach 2,000 here on Meta, and even less on SO. If you're active, you'll gain rep quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:38:58.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4954" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:42:57.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has a much greater sense of ownership for content than does Wikipedia, and therefore a much higher standard for editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:42:57.753" />
  <row Id="4984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:45:13.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; idea. What if these were the rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User cannot edit their birthday (who would need to afterall?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User must have 100+ rep already.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User is awarded 20 points on birthday that is subject to the cap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T00:45:13.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4987" CreationDate="2009-07-14T00:46:56.317" Score="3" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4954/please-reduce-the-threshold-for-editing-other-peoples-posts&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post, I thought I'd make a counter proposal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that overall reputation should be higher to gain rights to edit posts to around 3,000 or so and that 2,000 is too low.  I also believe that it should be calculated for the current calendar year and the rights are only applicable if you meet the minimum number within the last year.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that the reputation score is a measurement of trust, but so is a users current contributions to the site.  I think that folks who are not maintaining 3,000 points in a calendar year are probably not very active contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PROPOSAL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Increase reputation threshold to edit posts to 3,000 points within the last 12 calendar months (last full year from today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T03:55:57.203" Title="Increase reputation limit to gain &quot;EDIT&quot; privleges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;edit-rights&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4985" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:01:20.993" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should a users current activity be taken into account when determining a users &quot;trust&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I feel that once you earn your required rep you have proven, for the most part, that you can be trusted. This shouldn't change over time. If someone stops contributing for a few months for whatever reason, their level of &quot;trust&quot; hasn't changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing posts shouldn't be a privilege of activity, it should be solely a privilege of &quot;trust&quot;. A user can still make semi-frequent contributions by cleaning up posts etc without earning 3000 rep a year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:01:20.993" />
  <row Id="4987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4985" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:07:17.893" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, editing is the single most important feature of Stack Overflow. Editing is why i signed on. Editing is what turns aside from the path to yet another wasteland of poorly-asked questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should encourage that. A good editor shouldn't lose his privileges for spending more time editing than rep-whoring. A bad editor should lose his privileges regardless of how much rep he's managed to accumulate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:07:17.893" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="4989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4981" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:19:03.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that well. Instead, you should search with google:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com search items here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching with tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions/tagged/feature-request search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching multiple tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions/tagged/php+mysql search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:19:03.350" />
  <row Id="4991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:31:03.033" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1208/improper-pagination-of-user-search&quot;&gt;Improper pagination of user search&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1208/improper-pagination-of-user-search&quot;&gt;Improper pagination of user search&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users&lt;/a&gt;, type a couple letters (&quot;Jo&quot; for example), then click on [2] or [Next].  This takes you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=2&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=2&lt;/a&gt;, which is the second page of all users sorted by reputation, not the second page of usernames containing the search text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:31:03.033" ClosedDate="2009-07-14T01:35:59.783" Title="Pagination for 'Type to find users' results does not work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="4992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1208" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:40:28.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, results come from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/users/filter/jo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/users/filter/jo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the links point to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/users?page=num&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/users?page=num&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't appear to be a &amp;amp;userFilter, &amp;amp;userfilter, or &amp;amp;filter variable for the GET method. Nor a page segement to the user-friendly method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T01:47:34.607" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:47:34.607" />
  <row Id="4993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4994" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:41:10.177" Score="3" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know, this is a really REALLY broad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of interesting question lists can you generate from the data dump (that you can not get by using the SO UI) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T23:17:53.483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T23:17:53.483" Title="What interesting question lists can you generate from the data dump" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="4994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4993" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:43:17.320" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is one I prepared earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List of all the unanswered questions by people with more than 5000 rep. (note I can not exclude closed questions as the info is missing from the dump) Also some of the list is out of date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select '[' + Title + '](' + 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' + cast(Id as varchar(max)) + ' &quot;link&quot;)  &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;' from Questions &#xA;where Id in &#xA;(&#xA;select q.id from Questions q&#xA;left join Answers a on q.Id = a.ParentId &#xA;group by q.id&#xA;having isnull(sum(case when a.score &amp;lt; 0 then 0 else a.score end),0) = 0 &#xA;) &#xA;and OwnerUserId in (select Id from Users where reputation &amp;gt; 5000)&#xA;and AcceptedAnswerId is null&#xA;and IsWiki = 0&#xA;order by CreationDate desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1066450&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;In Eclipse 3.5 (and with the Aptana plugins), how do I get a view that I can use to show my project, including &quot;dot&quot; files?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1064372&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;how to use the Automation object model of Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, etc.) in &quot;plain&quot; COM/ActiveX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1061195&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Community like features in bug tracking software?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1061194&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;can i view aspnet.db in sql server 2008 management studio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1061009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Is there a way to transfer external files using Aptana's FTP browser?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1061000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;What is causing the jumps here?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1060720&quot; 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rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Adsense in a AJAX heavy webapp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019728&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;model view controler in grails with out database backend?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019567&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Tool for finding ways to get an object instance inside the debugger?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019561&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Visual Studio Unit Testing Accessor, how to re-generate them without closing VS?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1017005&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Creating a network adapter - how hard is it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016873&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Can WPF print PDF and Office files directly?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016539&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Are other companies/products/websites providing access via Google Data APIs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1015588&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Grails web flow testing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014092&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Does the dot Directed Graph allow for subgraphs with a different rankdir?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list goes on but I have no clean way of displaying it here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T12:21:36.420" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:21:36.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="4995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:51:54.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely be against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never understood this fallacious idea about people getting wiser as they get older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've experienced of most older people (than me) is that they become more stubborn and set in their ways, quite often refuse to move with the times, and often become argumentative and dogmatic as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure that's worth rewarding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, none of this applies to &lt;strong&gt;anyone&lt;/strong&gt; on SO or MSO ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:51:54.163" />
  <row Id="4997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4636" CreationDate="2009-07-14T01:55:27.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have used the notify feature twice. You use an email, which I admit I feel is rather obvious. I was emailed the day after posts were made in both cases, even though I already saw the answers by looking at the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the emails are getting caught in your junk filter? It has always worked for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T01:55:27.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="4998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T02:24:34.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's to stop a user from continuously changing their birthday on their profile so that they got &quot;gifts&quot; every day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a very good or workable idea. That said, I won't argue if anyone feels overly compelled to give me 33 upvotes next year. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T02:24:34.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4985" CreationDate="2009-07-14T02:51:20.187" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the idea that reputation is a measure of trust.  Reputation is at best a reflection of utility.  People don't vote answers or questions up because they trust a person, but because a person has been helpful.  The ability to provide a correct and helpful answer may be related to a person's ability to modify something for readability, but doesn't speak to whether a person can be trusted to exercise editing abilities in a cooperative manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, reputation and the attendant privileges are fundamentally a way to drive participation, not an indication of ability or trust.  The question really is how to structure the privilege levels appropriately to maximally drive participation.  The levels need to be realistically attainable by individuals with at least moderate interest.  From that perspective I think that they are probably ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would agree with the perspective that once you have the privilege there should be a way to determine whether you are exercising it appropriately.  So far issues with this seem to be handled at the moderator level on a case by case basis.  Perhaps, there is a way to measure both good and bad edits and factor that into a &quot;mod&quot; score that could be used as a more objective way to measure editing ability.  Perhaps after you get to 20K, you have the ability to vote on edits the same way you can vote on questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T02:51:20.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T03:54:26.093" Score="7" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are researching for a topic, before asking a question on SO we check if that question is asked (even indirectly), if not then we ask.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After asking and waiting, what if you do not get a relevant answer to the asked question. On reading responses/answers of other related/relevant questions you think, that this guy probably be able to answer your question better/best. But he has answered or even commented on the your question, may be he has been busy (in this case you cannot do anything), or since there are so many questions on SO that this question of your's have skip his eye.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is their any way that we can ping that guy (like poke), to tell him about this question. I don't know if SO has a system like that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not can we vote in favor of it, as wish list, if you guys think it might help.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their is spam fear factor, when you poke the guy again and again or for irrelevant question.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO can come up with a mechanism where a person is not allowed to spam others with irrelevant questions, but i think if the other person thinks he is disturbed/spam-ed he can vote the question down, ask it to close, with his comments specifying the reason, and moderator or even community can take care of it by &quot;5-votes&quot; to close it down. I think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130751" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T13:54:14.257" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T10:25:24.750" Title="What should you do when you think someone can answer a question, but has not looked at the question?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackoverflow-expansion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4985" CreationDate="2009-07-14T03:55:57.203" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I made the proposal that this counter-proposal is based on)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What proportion of bad editing is being done by users with a reputation between 2000 and 3000, compared to the proportion of users with a reputation between 2000 and 3000?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own guess would be that abusive editors would either have an extremely low reputation (drive-by trolls) or an extremely high reputation (people who think they own the place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T03:55:57.203" />
  <row Id="5008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4935" CreationDate="2009-07-14T04:06:46.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this were to be implemented, then some users would just simply mark everyone as not able to edit their posts. It would bring more harm to the site than good. And as much as I do disagree with Rich B on certain things, I do feel that him and his style (for lack of a better word), is probably the &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; harm out of all the possible worst case scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No system can be perfect, especially a system in which the public is allowed to define a portion of the ruleset. Our goal should be to make it the least bad thing out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T04:06:46.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5006" CreationDate="2009-07-14T04:09:09.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO community is based on allowing user's to answer at the leisure and desire. If you are not getting the responses you want to a question there are a few things you can do. First of all, make sure you question is worded well and explains directly and clearly what it is you need help with. Additionally, if you have continued working on the problem yourself, posting what you have tried (successful or not) will help show people that you're working to solve the problem yourself and may also provide more direction to potential answerers as far as what you're looking for. There is not a way, nor would I expect there to be in future, to specific &quot;ping&quot; one user; but if you make your question good enough, it likely will get seen by someone who can help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T04:09:09.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T04:22:22.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about all those 82-year olds I've seen listed here?  Why give them more rep?  And why not give rep to the few 8 year olds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T04:22:22.370" />
  <row Id="5011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5006" CreationDate="2009-07-14T05:11:56.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;em&gt;Unanswered Questions&lt;/em&gt; -&gt; &lt;em&gt;My Tags&lt;/em&gt; to show you questions with the tags where you are active that have no up-voted answer.  Perhaps we could highlight this feature better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastEditorUserId="130206" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T05:18:15.000" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T05:18:15.000" />
  <row Id="5012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5006" CreationDate="2009-07-14T05:17:17.440" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While emailing the person &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; been seen as a little intrusive, if you know that user's on Twitter I don't think it's unreasonable to tweet &quot;@foobar: I think this question is right up your street. Care to have a look? http://...&quot; I know that's happened to me a couple of times, and it wasn't a problem at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T05:17:17.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4993" CreationDate="2009-07-14T05:24:07.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might result in interesting filters to display questions on the frontpage:&#xA;only show me posts from users with rep +5k related to C&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though that would require some change of the SO UI... and is not really answering your question either...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T05:24:07.407" />
  <row Id="5014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-14T05:26:30.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10k moderation tools are only a means to quickly access: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flagged as spam/offensive &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest voted questions &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lowest voted questions &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest voted answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lowest voted answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most commented &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most viewed &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most edited &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are a mere help to go look what to vote for a close or do an edit on. You can do very much the same damage with a 2k account (except voting to delete which is controlled by the fact of requiring more than one vote). So I wouldn't fret over a huge amount of people who can see that kind of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T05:26:30.807" />
  <row Id="5015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T05:56:03.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree that awarding reputation point just based on age is a bad idea. how about some kind of notification to all users that &quot;This people are celebrating their birthday on stake overflow&quot; and list down people who have their birthday today and logged into stack overflow and answering questions. So other people can just wish them happy birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130943" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T05:56:03.900" />
  <row Id="5016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-14T06:24:10.953" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're asking the wrong question.  You should be asking &lt;em&gt;Can our business model survive being copied?&lt;/em&gt;  Because if you're successful, you will be copied, and it won't make a difference if they're running your engine, or one they made themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T06:24:10.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T06:24:10.953" />
  <row Id="5017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5187" CreationDate="2009-07-14T06:54:57.047" Score="15" ViewCount="1733" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you like them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could have Markdown to have a popup appear to insert the footnote's text [*].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: you can use a symbol and then &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, but that won't give you a link between the place where the footnote occurs and its body text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[*]:  A popup similar to when inserting links (and here having a different, smaller, font)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="33213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-21T19:17:38.183" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T19:17:38.183" Title="Markdown footnotes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="311" CreationDate="2009-07-14T07:44:23.237" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While we're on the topic of IRC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#SOMafia on irc.slashnet.org is NOT associated with Stack Overflow!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gotten several email complaints:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yesterday, just out of curiosity, I joined #SOMafia on irc.shashnet.org and there was a JeffAtwood op there. If it wasn't you, then I'm sorry, please ignore this email, but if it was - what the hell man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I understand I stumbled upon a private chatroom, and it's all fun and games, but I didn't expect to be called a &quot;flaming homosexual&quot; from someone like you, a man I admire and read his blog for several years. It was probably an inside joke with you guys, but still - not cool. I'm not going to pretend to be offended - I really could care less, but it was just juvenile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;another:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please delete my accounts on all Trilogy sites including Meta. I am no longer interested in SO after the verbal abuse today on #somafia by JeffAtwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;another:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am an avid reader of your blogs and recently I stumbled&#xA;  across #SOMafia IRC channel which had somebody who called himself as&#xA;  &quot;Jeff Atwood&quot; and abusing those who are entering the channel. At first&#xA;  I was shocked, then after some googling, I found&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/311/what-about-the-irc-channel&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/311/what-about-the-irc-channel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  and realized that it was bogus. As one of the comments for your post&#xA;  pointed out, It would be nice to see some blog post from you&#xA;  pronouncing the channel as fake. Keep up the great work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I never use IRC, so you can very safely assume if you see &quot;me&quot; on IRC it is not me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: not cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T10:56:42.190" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T10:56:42.190" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="5025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T07:58:19.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about those who are born on February 29?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think it is bad idea on other reasons. SO is not a supermarket with birthday gifts. I believe that it is professional community and reputation points is a measure of professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130951" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T07:58:19.060" />
  <row Id="5027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5028" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:12:20.037" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, in the default view (Recent Questions), I've got more than 2 screen heights of &lt;em&gt;Interesting Tags&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ignored Tags&lt;/em&gt;. Followed by 2 screen heights of &lt;em&gt;Recent Tags&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Recent Badges&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual questions use only 2 screen heights of space, so I'm left with lots of wasted space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend removing &lt;em&gt;Interesting/Ignored Tags&lt;/em&gt; from the front page completely. They should rather be available in a tab in the user menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I did a search but found no similar proposal. If this is a dup, I'd be glad to close, just tell me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:23:48.747" Title="Redesign the default view - the sidebar takes way too much space!" Tags="&lt;design&gt;&lt;frontpage&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5027" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:23:48.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered consolidating your interesting/ignored using wildcards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:23:48.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5038" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:18:42.947" Score="20" ViewCount="1743" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had a number of my valid answers voted down because people objected to the fact that I added a tagline to the end. The answers were correct for the questions asked and the downvotes were only due to the tagline regarding hiring, which said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're hiring! Developers and QA in Washington, DC area (or looking to relocate) should send resumes to careers@example.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are taglines and signatures disallowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:31:23.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" Title="Are taglines &amp; signatures disallowed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;signatures&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="5030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:23:09.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be because it could be seen as advertising. On the internet, advertising == spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to advertise, put it on your profile page in the &quot;About Me&quot; section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, do you plan on going through &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of your questions and removing the &quot;tagline&quot; when you're done hiring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130918" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:23:26.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question were about finding a job, I think it would be appropriate to include a reference if your company were hiring.  As a general practice in answers, I would consider it SPAM.  My advice is to avoid it.  This isn't Craigslist or a jobs site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T07:23:26.103" />
  <row Id="5032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:26:30.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strikes me that any tagline, whether hiring-related or not, feels like noise in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53166" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:26:52.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a thought: You have 30 characters available in your display name...you're only using 3 of them ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140286" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:28:54.110" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are four points here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People come here looking for answers to questions, not looking for jobs. Putting a tagline in your posts is a form of advertising and is spam if unwanted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People don't know who &quot;we&quot; is in &quot;we're hiring&quot;. If you're going to do an advertisement, at least post a link to your company instead of saying &quot;send your resume here&quot;. It's bad form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers are presumably going to remain on this site for the life of the site. If you somehow are not hiring, or change your contact information, you have to go back and edit every post. It looks funny to edit answers a long time after they have been submitted, without a good reason, especially if it is the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a normal web forum where people can post what they want. It's a questions and answers site. Cluttering answers with a &quot;we're hiring&quot; line is very distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to put up a hiring notice, do it in your profile, not on the question page or in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:29:54.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might not be against the rules, but people have a right to vote up or down as they see fit. It would appear obvious to most individuals that advertising in any form would likely attract negative attention, especially given the nature of the audience - the guys and girls who receive probably 90% of the worlds spam!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T07:37:55.573" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at a couple of your answers, and between the greeting, the &quot;HTH&quot; and signing off, the two rules and the advert, more of your &quot;answer&quot; space is unhelpful than helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it this way: that space would be better used seeing someone else's answer which is actually on the topic of the question. While I probably wouldn't downvote you for such an answer, I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; strongly discourage you from wasting the space in this way. There's no need for a greeting to the questioner, or signing off: just include the text which is actually relevant to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T09:57:41.813" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use your avatar picture to put in any information that you want users to see when reading your messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use your profile page to show any important messages that users shall see that are interested to find out more about you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, please avoid writing anything not related to the question or answer you are writing. It is inappropriate for this site. Downvoting might be a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1398" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T11:16:13.310" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original poster's &quot;tagline&quot; was not a tagline at all but an advertisement and voted down by the community as such -- which I completely agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, &lt;strong&gt;taglines and signatures are strongly discouraged&lt;/strong&gt;, and are likely to be edited out. We don't want to clutter up the questions page with a lot of redundant signature blocks and taglines and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please use your built in profile, avatar, and username as your signature; that's what they are there for, and every post you make is already &quot;signed&quot; this way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do of course encourage people to put lots of interesting information about themselves on their &lt;strong&gt;user page&lt;/strong&gt;, and we try to drive interested people there so they can learn who you are and what you're about. Self-promotion is fine on your user page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update #1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;flag any posts with signature blocks&lt;/strong&gt;. We'll remove them, and let the affected users know why we don't allow signatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update #2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official policy on signatures has been added to the /faq on each site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Can I use a signature or tagline?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; use signatures or taglines in your posts. Every post you make is already &quot;signed&quot; with your standard user card, which links directly back to your user page. Your user page belongs to you — fill it with interesting information about your interests, cool stuff you've worked on, or whatever else you like! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T10:49:05.957" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T10:49:05.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-01-22T15:03:01.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28416/what-is-the-policy-on-signatures-and-links-in-answers-for-so-questions&quot;&gt;What is the policy on signatures and links in answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="145210" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-25T10:31:23.130" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:31:23.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-02-26T00:08:33.123" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one more reason to avoid community wiki then. If signatures and taglines are &quot;strongly discouraged,&quot; and an answer is a wiki, then only the last editor's information is left with the question/answer. The original poster is not shown except in the revisions, and is therefore no longer present in the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I contribute good work to a question or answer, I like to sign my name as below so that it's obvious to everyone who bothers to read my contribution that I was the one who had the original thought or idea.  If anyone else comes along and edits the content substantially, I have no problem with them removing it.  It's not obtrusive, nor is it noisy.  I could agree that links to businesses, images, friendly greetings or salutations might be considered too much, but the additional few characters are surely not a stumbling block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing posts just to remove it seems excessive, but this is a wiki site and I certainly won't complain if my posts are held to a high editorial standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In previous questions, lots of people have mentioned that they don't even pay attention to the avatar and rep next to a question or answer.  A signature solves that problem, and I expect that many people who visit this site have seen my posts with the signature and associate them together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there's real value in allowing people such recognition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:25:31.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="5041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5043" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:38:52.603" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 10 days ago my reputation recalculated. and I've lost approximately 180 Reputation points at stackoverflow. I think this is caused because of the upvoted answers to the deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some new users (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/96942/wafaa&quot;&gt;for example this guy&lt;/a&gt;) ask same question again and again, and they delete the question and then ask it again. Now I'm looking my answers and I can't see some answers that I get upvotes. In this case if I get a reputation calculation, I will lost my reputation that I get from these questions. What do you think about this ? Are these scores should be removed from our accounts ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:00:53.390" Title="Are deleted questions reducing our reputation at re-calculation?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5041" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:49:28.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we do lose rep on deleted questions when a recalc is done. For evidence remember the recalc when the association of accounts failed: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2103/how-did-i-just-go-down-150-rep-on-so/2112#2112&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recalcs are done very rarely. I do not see a possibility at the moment to know about deleted questions and answers in a recalc. But the rules for deletion are strict. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228462/how-can-a-question-or-answer-be-deleted&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, reputation is not as important as we seem to make it. We are rewarded, and that is nice, as we usually do not get rewarded very often. And people gaming the system are a nuissance, granted. But life does not depend on a few points of rep. So I can live with this behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T09:00:53.390" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:00:53.390" />
  <row Id="5043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5041" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:50:00.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you'll lose the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, sometimes that sucks - but at other times it will prevent gaming the system. Ultimately, it means that all your current reputation (at the time of a recalc) is visible and accountable, which I think is worth the slight pain of losing a bit of rep every so often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:50:00.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5041" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:50:12.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your answer is deleted, either by you or by virtue of being attached to a question that's deleted, then you will lose the reputation gained from that answer at the next recalculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hit your rep cap on the day that you answered that question then your total might not go down by the full amount as there is previously &quot;unused&quot; reputation available to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a note somewhere in the FAQ questions about this, but I can't find it right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T09:00:32.900" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:00:32.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1867" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:53:03.447" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would you delete a question? Isn’t closing it enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are of such poor quality that they cannot be salvaged. They’re literally nonsense. Not every byte of data that is created in the world is infinite and sacred.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are so incredibly off topic that they add no value to a programming community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mental cost of processing these closed questions is not zero, particularly for users who are actively engaged and scanning questions to find things they can help answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If users see a lot of closed questions, they’ll note that we don’t enforce the guidelines, so why should they? Without any final resolution, asking questions that get closed becomes something we are implicitly encouraging — a broken windows problem. If this goes on for long enough, we’re no longer a community of programmers who ask and answer programming questions, we’re a community of random people discussing.. whatever. That’s toxic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If enough of these closed questions are allowed to hang around, they become clutter that reduces the overall signal to noise ratio — which further reduces confidence in the system. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:53:03.447" />
  <row Id="5046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5150" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:53:24.817" Score="4" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I was trying to help this guy answer his question and I thought I gave an okay answer which is basically in line with what his &lt;strong&gt;original&lt;/strong&gt; question title (see question #1114439) and later on got downvoted due to the question title got changed.  Granted that my answer was now not an answer to his &quot;altered&quot; title, but nevertheless.  Being penalize for some edit just sucks. (See the edit history to see this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like asking a question about bird and got an answer regarding bird then the user change his mind to a question about dog and of course the bird answer will get downvoted.  Sucks.  Anyhow... I don't know how this can be fixed...  Just ranting I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130960" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T12:46:12.800" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:23:32.320" Title="Downvoted due to question edits" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:56:42.077" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can do is edit your answer in line with the new question and hope that the down-voter comes back and reconsiders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the edit to the question is so drastic you can't answer it any more your only recourse is to delete your answer. The only (small) consolation is that you might get the peer pressure badge out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:56:42.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4939" CreationDate="2009-07-14T08:58:56.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would try to duplicate this in Google Chrome, or Safari, first. Could be rogue extensions in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T08:58:56.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:13:21.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our effort contributing content to the site is what brings in the visitors.  SO relies on this for its advertising model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems a bit cheap to not allow the individuals who post to gain something from their own content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I can see a 'slippery slope' argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:13:21.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5067" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:18:33.900" Score="19" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just thinking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons/5023#5023&quot;&gt;my post about describing close reasons&lt;/a&gt; it strikes me that there are two very distinct kind of questions which are currently being closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions which you believe really shouldn't be open, and you'd like to see deleted eventually&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions which aren't good in their current form, but could be good after some work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/770300&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It was asked in good faith, but in a needlessly provocative manner which was bound to rile some people up. With a bit of appropriate editing - preferably by the original poster - it could be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other options could be &quot;please provide more details/code (not enough information)&quot; and &quot;please edit (current wording is extremely unclear)&quot; - perhaps those could be rolled into one, perhaps not. Either way, the OP could be notified that their question isn't likely to get the answers they want due to problems with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The currently flagged &quot;please edit this because...&quot; reasons could be visible on the question, and optionally cleared when the question was edited. Whether the question should be closed after enough flags and a long time with no input from the original poster is up for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the repeated complaints about the system is that it's too unkind to newbies, who might ask a question and have it closed very quickly. This would help to reduce that to some extent (although not entirely eliminate it, I'm sure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:34:49.707" Title="Flagging a question for improvement without voting to close" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5061" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:22:09.160" Score="10" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature request:&lt;/strong&gt; Is there an easy way to visually mark an entry on the user's page's answer listing for the case when a question has been accepted/closed but not for the user at hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually revisit some of my answers to questions to check whether I could improve it further to achieve the accepted state, but the a question has already an accepted (and probably superior) answer other than mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess, this would require +N (where N &gt;= 0) query for the user page and will be declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To the performance enthusiasts: compare the load caused by this additional query with the load of opening K questions in a quick succession :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; To avoid confusion I'm referring to this listing:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/answers.png&quot; alt=&quot;Current listing stlye&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;em&gt;example&lt;/em&gt; for my proposal:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/answers2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T10:25:55.160" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:25:55.160" Title="Mark question state on the user's answers listing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="5054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:29:10.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a good idea. I would add some window of time the question cannot be closed after it was flagged for edit to give the original poster some time to react. I thought about the flag turning into a close vote after some waiting period, if no edit occured. But this would disallow to use the flag in cases where the questions is valuable in its current state as well. It suffices if after a lay period the flag looses its power to prevent from closing the question, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:36:07.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:29:31.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea. I think many questions get downvoted because they are vague or sometimes just don't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Flag as &quot;More detail required&quot; which notified the asker either next time they logged in or by email (if they subscribe to email updates for the question) would be a good work around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this more detail required is already implicitly implemented in the comment system, I think an explicit flag would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that one issue is how do you decide whether more details have been added? and how do you stop people from just adding it willy nilly to any question they fancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you going to weight the more details required by a number of votes or is it just a case of once a user with over say 2k rep says it needs more detail then a boolean flag is set?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T10:21:07.147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:21:07.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:44:46.543" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most people have noticed that Stack Overflow has a heavy bias towards C# and to a slightly lesser extent Java. Given that the purpose of Stack Overflow is to provide a Q&amp;amp;A site for all programmers (One site to bind them all.) How can we go about attracting more developers with other fields of expertise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm mainly a .NET/Java developer, but I occasionally have to delve into other languages. I think the number of people who can answer questions in these realms (especially the ones to do with the setup of a developer environment) without having to say &quot;I'm not really an X developer&quot; is quite low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood partner with prominent Java, Delphi, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc. bloggers? Or at least have them participate in the podcasts in exchange for them mentioning Stack Overflow? Maybe they could guest star on their podcasts and talk about the benefits of the community that we've been building?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note I'm not saying there aren't any people with these skills. There blatantly are, there are just less than there are C# and Java developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-15T11:28:28.410" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T11:28:28.410" Title="Attracting new developers with different skill sets?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;skills&gt;&lt;bias&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5053" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:51:04.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't see why it would need that much extra load; I don't know how the db is constructed, but I would &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; this to be about the same as getting the total number of answers (already shown). Plus the &quot;I have an accepted flag&quot; could always be stored on the question row (if it isn't already).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But! Who does it help? People getting answers to questions? Or just us addicts trying to see how old answers are doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally (if it was my change budget), I'd rather see more investment in getting the site perfect for the people with questions, new users, that sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:51:04.570" />
  <row Id="5059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:52:34.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aren't Joel and Jeff working on a jobs board that will sit in parallel to SO? if so send your job postings to that rather than taking up the time of people who are trying to get the job they already have and probably like done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a jobs board. This isn't a Forum. This isn't a social network for you to meet up with your &quot;peeps&quot;. This is a place where professionals can ask questions and get answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:52:34.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" />
  <row Id="5060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5056" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:54:01.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Informing prominent bloggers about SO, talking at user groups about SO, word of mouth, doing some reviews/articles for magazines - but I do think it's not only J&amp;amp;J but our responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tiobe index&lt;/a&gt;, and it seems to me, that the numbers of questions pretty much follow this index. I didn't do the math, but could it be that the represenation of people just about matches the usage of the languages? If so, it will be kind of hard to get more people from other development systems. It would seem that the percentage of programmers participating in SO from each camp would somehow not deviate too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:54:01.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5053" CreationDate="2009-07-14T09:58:34.777" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer Marc's question about who this change would help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first instance it helps everybody as it could lead to improved answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps the OP for the same reason. Unless the OP has abandoned the question (or the site) they must feel that none of the existing answers fully solve their problem, so having answers improved should help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally it &quot;helps&quot; the answerer in that their improved answer gains more up-votes, they gain more rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T09:58:34.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5064" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:03:48.073" Score="0" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an overly enthusiastic editor going crazy and editing all the titles, sometimes changing the meaning of posts.  What's the best way to flag an edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:02:47.290" Title="Is it possible to flag an edit for abuse?" Tags="&lt;edit&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:06:43.473" Score="-9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In democracy one can fight for truth, but not decide what IS truth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=KXZiRO8f-V8C&amp;amp;pg=PA120&amp;amp;lpg=PA120&amp;amp;dq=g+truth+in+not+about+democracy&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=mdJKQQctKo&amp;amp;sig=ZK32od9DCqGXmPPsTkr94MMMnCI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ei=w1dcSvKLGo7X-Qb%5FzNjxDA&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book%5Fresult&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jacques Lacan and the Other side of psychoanalysis&lt;/a&gt; by Justin Clemens, Russell Grigg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what tim is trying to explain you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:06:43.473" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="5064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5062" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:08:55.503" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either flag one of the posts as &quot;Requires Moderator Attention&quot; and explain in the text box that appears when you select that option, or e-mail team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:08:55.503" />
  <row Id="5065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5056" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:10:28.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some smaller techs already have a good support community around them. They have to. SO becomes a kind of default place for people who know about it already and are learning something niche without knowing where else to ask questions, so there are questions on SO about them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know about these things, the best way to encourage these users is to answer the questions well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way would be for SO to provide an API (don't know if they do or not) so fringe techs can plug their support site into SO should they want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:10:28.850" />
  <row Id="5066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1998" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:13:44.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff's just posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/migrate-questions-between-websites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this on the blog&lt;/a&gt; describing the new migration process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:13:44.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:15:11.700" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add that when you flag something like this, edits to it should show up on your summary page so you can go change your mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't change your mind that flag should turn into a close vote after a day (or some other arbitrary period).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:15:11.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3936" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:19:36.587" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not duplicate tags in the title.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the tag is &lt;em&gt;naturally&lt;/em&gt; part of the title, that's fine, but don't force fit the tags in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're supposed to look at the tags to tell what a question is, anyway -- they provide additional information on top of the title and summary itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:19:36.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:22:22.190" Score="10" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;When will SO stop wasting real estate of my screen by having static width layout?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be very interesting to hear how does Joel, being UI specialist, feel about this. JoelOnSoftware site has fluid layout...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="95735" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T16:23:40.483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:26:10.320" Title="Can SO have a fluid vs. fixed-width layout?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4907" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:23:15.707" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to jump in and start fanning the flames by editing, but in many of the cases the edits have been &lt;strong&gt;constructive&lt;/strong&gt;. Take this very post for example; &quot;What is with all the title edits...&quot; is vague, woolly, and isn't really the crux of what you are trying to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question that your body hints at is: is this acceptable. It is then double-ironic that a title edit to &lt;strong&gt;this post&lt;/strong&gt; that actually gets to the heart of your question (&quot;Do all of the title edits on Meta Stackoverflow constitute some form of abuse?&quot;) has been rolled back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion (FWIW): our &quot;editor&quot; community sometimes oversteps what is sensible/constructive, but &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; (and specifically in this post) they do a good job, improving the questions and answers. I think there are two problems, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;people sometimes get very attached to their wording, and it isn't always easy to step back and ask (impartially): is this revised wording perhaps better? or is the original better? (either answer is valid; the only invalid answer is indignation).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some of our editors have made a rod for their own backs; either through occasional inappropriate edits, or by too many edit wars (with the same causes as I mentioned above, but reversed), some people automatically assume that any edit is destructive. I do not believe that this reflects reality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there are edits to improve the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edits are fine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as Jeff has stated multiple times; if you get involved in an edit war, just walk away - it isn't worth it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would, however, hope that the community on MSO is at a level where we can take things in a positive light; we're not anonymous noobs on our way in from google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:23:15.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5070" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:26:20.067" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I completely agree it's a pain, there is one advantage of having a fixed width: when I reformat code to make sure it doesn't scroll horizontally, I can be reasonably confident it will be displayed properly for all users. Scrolling code horizontally is a horrible experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably a vertical line overlay showing 80 columns (or something similar) would be nice - if it would be feasible in the first place. Then users who care could format code appropriately but still take advantage of a wide screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:26:20.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:31:32.703" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sir Tim Berners-Lee&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:31:32.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:31:32.703" />
  <row Id="5075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:35:02.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charles Petzold&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:35:02.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:35:02.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:35:30.467" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&amp;amp;ands=ie6&amp;amp;from=codinghorror&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; something about &quot;ie6 and the sites&quot; on twitter recently, then I thought maybe SO/SF/SU may support the movement &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stoplivinginthepast.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stop living in the past&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and show a nice banner to warn ie6 users... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will it be aggressive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: only a warning (huge or small) pointing out that ie has newer versions like 7 or 8 and they are better for everyone...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11374" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T09:37:37.293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T09:37:37.293" Title="Should SO/SF/SU support stoplivinginthepast movement against internet explorer 6" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;ie6&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="5077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:35:37.727" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bjarne Stroustrup&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:35:37.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:35:37.727" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5094" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:38:45.697" Score="4" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to get a notification when somebody edits one of my questions or answers, but I'm not seeing that in my RSS feed.  Is there some other way to get this?  Have I configured something incorrectly?  Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; Marc Gravell answered this in a comment so I'm popping it up here.  This URL (which hopefully will get its own link sometime) does the trick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/%yournumber%?Tab=Revisions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/%yournumber%?Tab=Revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T08:14:41.900" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:33:03.380" Title="RSS notification when somebody edits my question or answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:39:17.577" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Jon Skeet (of course)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done on Podcast #72: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/podcast-72/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/podcast-72/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2094" LastEditorUserId="136733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T15:10:42.227" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:10:42.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:39:17.577" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="5080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5076" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:41:37.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most past persons are in the industry: they're not allowed to upgrade or use another browser. Is there a site stat about the amount of old browser usage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; How would you feel if one day your browser wouldn't be supported by the site any more? I don't know the WAP(?) version but they could just use that interface as it is a much simpler UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T10:49:47.573" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:49:47.573" />
  <row Id="5081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4963" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:41:43.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing a person's birthday is a potential security risk. Many sites use that information for user authentication. Knowing the birthdate and age (age is already available) would be bad. You could easily scrape the site looking for increases of reputation equal to a persons age, thus getting their birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skizz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:41:43.573" />
  <row Id="5082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:41:44.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Herb Sutter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:41:44.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:41:44.067" />
  <row Id="5083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5076" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:41:55.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with the sentiment there is a real problem with this movement. A lot of people browsing the web at work have to adhere to company IT policy and that often includes sticking with IE6. Now while there'll be fewer programmers and sys admins with that restriction there might well be more Super User users and having an aggressive &quot;stop using IE6&quot; policy would put them off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:41:55.350" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:42:48.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scott Meyers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:42:48.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:42:48.327" />
  <row Id="5085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:44:03.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andrew Koenig&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:44:03.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:44:03.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:46:25.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;P.J. Plauger&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:46:25.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:46:25.833" />
  <row Id="5087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:48:56.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone with at least 5 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C++ Standards Committee Papers&lt;/a&gt; written!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:48:56.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:48:56.293" />
  <row Id="5088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:51:05.957" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's kind of small but i'd like the ability to view a users (mine or others) accepted answers before all of the other ones in thier answers list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T23:11:11.327" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:11:11.327" Title="Display accepted questions first" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:51:09.447" Score="0" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be fun to have negative / embarrassing badges too. They should look different from the usual ones to convey &quot;negativity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spammer&lt;/strong&gt; nth question closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ignorant&lt;/strong&gt; xth answer with y negative votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dirty Player&lt;/strong&gt; voted down z competing answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abandoner&lt;/strong&gt; has q questions without a selected answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to add your suggestions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T00:00:29.990" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T00:00:29.990" ClosedDate="2009-07-14T10:57:24.400" Title="negative / embarrassing badges" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;negative-badge&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5076" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:52:19.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very cool.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;To all opponents; it's not about not supporting but about warning!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T10:52:19.263" />
  <row Id="5091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T10:56:37.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5097/who-should-be-a-guest-on-the-stack-overflow-podcast/5115#5115&quot;&gt;other post&lt;/a&gt; that was migrated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T11:30:49.420" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:30:49.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T10:56:37.220" />
  <row Id="5092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:00:35.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doug Lea, Java concurrency and fork-join expert. To teach you how to do fork-join things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T11:08:30.217" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:08:30.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:00:35.210" />
  <row Id="5093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:01:57.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joshua Bloch, to teach you how to do things &lt;em&gt;effectively&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T11:09:44.270" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:09:44.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:01:57.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5078" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:03:03.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edits to your posts are visible on the &quot;recent&quot; summary (the envelope at the top of the page), but not AFAIK via an RSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:03:03.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:03:07.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phil Haack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:03:07.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:03:07.027" />
  <row Id="5096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:03:32.310" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:03:32.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:03:32.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:13:20.657" Score="5" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/no-podcast-this-week-suggested-guests/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;solicited suggestions for guests&lt;/a&gt; for the Stack Overflow podcast.  Pitch your idea for a guest, and submit it to the slings and arrows of the SO communuty.  This pitch should include a brief reason why your selection would be a good guest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T17:26:22.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:13:20.657" Title="Who should be a guest on the Stack Overflow podcast?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="75" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:16:59.010" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Resig (jQuery developer) and the developers from the MVC team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="343" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:16:59.010" />
  <row Id="5099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:18:02.193" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce Schneier&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:18:02.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:19:05.140" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paul Graham&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:19:05.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:19:55.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kevin Rose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:19:55.480" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="5102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:20:31.640" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody. Guests shift the focus away from Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133048" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:20:31.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:22:36.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scott Bellware&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:22:36.800" />
  <row Id="5104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:22:38.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rob Malda.  In case anyone doesn't know who that is, he started a website called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashdot.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Seriously, it'd be interesting to hear his ideas about social software and how SO could be enhanced to better serve the developer community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2820" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:22:38.830" />
  <row Id="5105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:25:41.850" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steve McConnell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:25:41.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:26:30.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clay Shirky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:26:30.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:27:51.063" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd choose Scott Gu&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134869" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:27:51.063" />
  <row Id="5108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:29:52.713" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Miguel de Icaza is pretty interesting too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(He is a guest on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-61/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast # 61&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134869" LastEditorUserId="4872" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T05:48:10.230" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T05:48:10.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:29:52.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:29:52.730" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Randomly selected Stack Overflow users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:29:52.730" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:30:01.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guy Kawasaki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:30:01.183" />
  <row Id="5111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:31:19.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Craig Newmark (founder of craigslist)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:31:19.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:51:00.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hodgman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Hodgman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:51:00.580" />
  <row Id="5113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:56:10.663" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Carmack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:56:10.663" />
  <row Id="5114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T14:56:25.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike Taulty, Beatriz Costa, Tim Sneath&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132392" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T14:56:25.093" />
  <row Id="5115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T16:19:35.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T16:19:35.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T16:21:40.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;who else but me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T16:21:40.180" />
  <row Id="5117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T16:35:55.657" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Randall Munroe - &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xkcd author&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T16:35:55.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:07:47.530" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kent      Beck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T07:24:55.277" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T07:24:55.277" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:07:47.530" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:11:47.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eugene Jarvis - author of Defender, Stargate, Robotron, etc. Astounding engineer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simon Peyton Jones - creator of Haskell, proponent of functional programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brian Kernighan - needs no explanation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stu Feldman - original author of make&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mike Lesk - tbl, lex, uucp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ken Perlin - the reason most modern cgi looks organic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141841" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:11:47.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:46:21.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tim Sweeney (game developer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Walker (Autodesk)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Austin Meyer (X-plane)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5090" LastEditorUserId="5090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T04:35:30.197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T04:35:30.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:46:21.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:48:16.573" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Martin Fowler (ie. Continuous Integration/CruiseControl, Refactoring)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:48:16.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T18:25:42.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;High reputation Stack Overflow users (that have been screened to check they have good communications skills. Programming skills != communication skills).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T18:25:42.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T18:35:52.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Robert C Martin&lt;/s&gt; Done on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/podcast-41/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #41&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ron Jeffries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ward Cunninghan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156539" LastEditorUserId="136733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T15:21:24.277" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:21:24.277" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T18:35:52.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T18:42:46.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bokardo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joshua Porter&lt;/a&gt; (Bokardo) is a social design consultant. It would be interesting to hear his thoughts on the effectiveness of the Stack Overflow community design decisions. From his site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I write about recommendation systems,&#xA;  identity, ratings, privacy, comments,&#xA;  profiles, tags, reputation, sharing,&#xA;  as well as the social psychology&#xA;  underlying our motivation to use (or&#xA;  not use) these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems especially relevant to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16308" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T18:42:46.260" />
  <row Id="5125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-23T23:12:50.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eric Sink (Founder of SourceGear)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[He was a guest on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/podcast-36/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast # 36&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T23:12:50.927" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-10-26T12:08:40.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ayende about Rhino Mock and mocks in general&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rocky Lhotka about CSLA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roy Osherove about unit testing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-26T12:08:40.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-11-13T18:18:24.583" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy Hunt and also Dave Thomas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="4872" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T05:33:16.813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T05:33:16.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T18:18:24.583" />
  <row Id="5129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-11-13T18:24:57.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce Eckel,&#xA;Scott Meyers,...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T18:24:57.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-11-13T18:26:06.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rick Brewster author of Paint.NET&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T18:26:06.300" />
  <row Id="5131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-11-13T18:26:32.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T18:26:32.010" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-11-13T18:58:42.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lead Designer Greg Street from Activision Blizzard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T18:58:42.553" />
  <row Id="5134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2008-11-13T19:10:22.153" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joshua Bloch - author of Effective Java&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T19:10:22.153" />
  <row Id="5136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-02-04T20:01:16.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, I'll bite, then. Hans Reiser, 'cause then Jeff can test out his &quot;psychopathic maintenance programmer&quot; theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully expect to be slaughtered for this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T20:01:16.643" />
  <row Id="5137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-02-04T20:04:22.160" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan Kay -- Jeff seems to really like him and has implemented changes to the site based on him posting here. I'm interested in what he might have to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T20:04:22.147" />
  <row Id="5138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-02-07T02:38:35.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anybody from the book &lt;em&gt;Founders at Work&lt;/em&gt;, well, except Joel. Here's a list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David Heinemeier Hansson - Partner, 37signals and creator of Ruby on Rails&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Charles Geschke - Founder of Adobe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ron Gruner - Founder of Alliant Computer and Shareholder.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Steve Wozniak - Founder of Apple&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Philip Greenspun - Founder of&#xA;ArsDigita&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Evan Williams - Founder of&#xA;Blogger.com and Odeo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Craig Newmark - Founder of Craigslist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Schachter - Founder of&#xA;Del.icio.us&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joe Kraus - Founder of Excite and&#xA;JotSpot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blake Ross - Creator of Firefox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Caterina Fake - Founder of Flickr&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paul Buchheit - Creator of Gmail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ray Ozzie - Founder of Groove&#xA;Networks and Iris Associates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sabeer Bhatia - Founder of Hotmail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;James Hong - Founder of HotorNot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mitch Kapor - Founder of Lotus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bob Davis - Founder of Lycos&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arthur van Hoff - Founder of Marimba&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark Fletcher - Founder of ONElist&#xA;and Bloglines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ann Winblad - Founder of Open Systems&#xA;and Hummer Winblad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Max Levchin - Founder of PayPal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mike Lazaridis - Founder of Research&#xA;in Motion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mena Trott - Founder of Six Apart&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dan Bricklin - Founder of Software&#xA;Arts and creator of VisiCalc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;James Currier - Founder of Tickle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mike Ramsay - Founder of TiVo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Steve Kaufer - Founder of TripAdvisor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paul Graham - Founder of Viaweb and Y&#xA;Combinator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brewster Kahle - Founder of WAIS,&#xA;Internet Archive and Alexa Internet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Steve Perlman - Founder of WebTV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tim Brady - First employee at Yahoo!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:04:04.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-07T02:38:35.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-02-07T03:07:37.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Jason Calacanis. I'd love to hear Joel and Jeff discuss StackOverflow vs. Mahalo.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Completed! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T11:06:20.890" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:06:20.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-07T03:07:37.060" />
  <row Id="5141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5062" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:09:14.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always flag for a moderator; if needed, flag the post/reply, and just indicate (in the text) which edit you are referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For info, I'm aware of some of the edits in question, and I'm not entirely convinced that they are as destructive/context-changing as you suggest; but if you flag something, we'll look into it. You can also e-mail the team directly (page footer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:09:14.800" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:09:51.050" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lawrence Lessig - To discuss software patents and legal aspects of social web sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T11:25:38.787" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:25:38.787" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:09:51.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:11:03.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Richard Hipp - inventor of SQLite, to discuss open source, public domain and other topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:11:03.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:11:03.323" />
  <row Id="5144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:13:54.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;TheTXI and a stuffed pony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:13:54.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:13:54.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:13:55.780" Score="5" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time someone votes up another user's answer on a question that they themselves have answered, they should get a bronze &quot;Good sport&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130969" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T12:05:44.140" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:05:44.140" Title="Please add a new badge called &quot;Good sport&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5070" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:17:08.743" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like fixed width. This is especially useful for someone like me who goes between multiple monitor sizes between home and work and I don't have to let my eyes wander to find what I want to find. With a fixed with I know it is going to look the same regardless of what monitor and resolution I am using (to a degree).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:17:08.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5088" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:19:30.280" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This shouldn't be too hard to implement (just a new sort order on the answer list). I don't know how much traction it would gain though. For me the black background on the vote total works well enough to separate them and I don't necessarily feel the need to sort them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:19:30.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:22:48.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polita Paulus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:22:48.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T11:22:48.220" />
  <row Id="5149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5145" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:24:35.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think we have either enough or too many of the &quot;super-easy&quot; bronze badges that we hand out to newbies when they perform basic functions. This doesn't separate itself enough from the other &quot;first upvote&quot; badge to really make it worthwhile to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:24:35.730" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:33:18.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this could be resolved/addressed by putting which version of the question was current when the answer was provided. This would only appear when a question is edited, and would given the version number of the original question and possibly a link to the diff page to show the actual question that was answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be overkill though, as you could still experience the problem, it's just that it is more obvious what might have happened. Even more so given the frequency of the problem, which I suspect is not that high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:33:18.187" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5070" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:34:30.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loathe fixed width because I have a 24&quot; wide screen 1920x1200 monitor, and tend to have wide windows in firefox to fit more tabs without scrolling, even my terminal windows typically have at least 132 columns - great for grepping or tailing log files.  I tend to make my windows about two thirds of the screen width, so i can see what's going on in other windows and easily cut-and-paste between them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;anyway, on fixed width web sites that means a huge expanse of white glare with a narrow page of content in the middle.  ++ungood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my solution is to use the Stylish plugin for Firefox and make up little CSS override fragments that disable fixed width settings, font-size settings, and other hard-coding horrors.  The Firebug plugin is useful for doing this interactively to figure out what needs to be done in Stylish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, web designers who develop like that are missing one of the most important points about the web - the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; way to render a page is &lt;em&gt;however the user wants it to be rendered&lt;/em&gt;.  that's always more important than their grand design, no matter how beautiful they think it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;BUT, with all that said, SO's width doesn't bother me much at all.  not enough to even bother using Stylish to &quot;fix&quot; it.  An inch or so on either side of the actual page.  it would bother me a lot if my ffox window was horizontally maximised....that looks dreadful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130776" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:34:30.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5070" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:38:07.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using single monitor at 1920x1200 at work, more or less 50% of SO is white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely vote to have an option that you can set in your profile/cookie to have fluid layout&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52879" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T16:26:10.320" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:26:10.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14746" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:40:14.690" Score="1" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4993/what-interesting-question-lists-can-you-generate-from-the-data-dump/4994#4994&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I really wanted to post 500 hyperlinks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Now I know, this is an edge case, &#xA;but.... &#xA;&#xA;If I have a code block or a pre block &#xA;I get a nice scrolly bar on the right hand side&#xA;&#xA;when &#xA;stuff &#xA;gets &#xA;too &#xA;long &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;finish demo.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way I can get the same scrolly box for a list of clickable links? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T14:56:22.847" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T07:13:30.013" Title="How do I effectively post a long list of links?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5145" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:48:05.630" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this idea has merit, but as you've described it, it doesn't do enough to encourage positive behavior on an ongoing basis.  What if the badge was repeating and you got one every 10 (or 25, or 50...) times you upvoted a competing answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:48:05.630" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5076" CreationDate="2009-07-14T11:49:22.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with that specific message is it's way to user-unfriendly.  It's like the sites that pop up a huge banner telling me how getting Firefox will save the souls of my children or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the site really does have some limitations on IE6, what's wrong with &lt;em&gt;This site will preform better with a newer version of Internet Explorer.  It's a free upgrade [link].&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a site doesn't work with IE6 this is a failure on the part of the programmer, not the user: don't blame the user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T11:49:22.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:06:17.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;4. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;5. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;6. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;7. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;8. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;9. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;10. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;11. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;12. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;13. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poor man's table with short descriptions. Still no scrollbars, but at least more concise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T12:32:54.627" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:32:54.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:11:08.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Automatic library chooser for questions requiring an existing library - Commons *, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, GCollections, etc. Of course pluggable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:11:08.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T12:11:08.293" />
  <row Id="5161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5164" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:13:55.487" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that question migrating has matured, should we start migrating so-faq questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has a new Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/migrate-questions-between-websites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there questions that should be left there? Or should we just move all of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:19:28.983" Title="Should we start migrating so-faq questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;faqs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:33:51.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jimmy Wales (co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom Preston-Werner, or PJ Hyett, or Scott Chacon (GitHub)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Bentley (Programming Pearls).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:33:51.060" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T12:33:51.060" />
  <row Id="5163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5161" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:34:09.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Olafur had this same issue a couple of weeks ago and I remember Jeff instructing people not to try doing it until he gave the go-ahead. So until Atwood posts in here saying &quot;Yes&quot; I would say &quot;No.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:34:09.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5161" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:35:42.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can begin, with one caveat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is VERY IMPORTANT that users who want badges/rep from their migrated sofaq q's have associated their accounts to meta first, via the accounts tab on the user page!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for the lower value, &quot;random&quot; faq type questions that clearly belong on meta it is probably safe to begin this process immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:35:42.467" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:36:52.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be able to put links inside a set of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags, which will start scrolling when the size gets too big. You could then make your own list that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Apparently you can't do that. I also attempted using the BlockQuote, which will work for links, but will not actually start scrolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone give us a happy compromise here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:36:52.470" />
  <row Id="5167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:39:36.077" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you type in the title of question in either stackoverflow or serverfault, you get a list of related questions. If you type the exact same text into the search box at the top right you get far less, if any, results. &#xA;For example use &quot;php gd bmp&quot; in stackoverflow. The search box is completely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130982" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T12:56:48.127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:47:25.910" Title="Search box vs Question title" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:41:59.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO 500 links is getting into spam-esque proportions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:41:59.780" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:43:51.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want scrollbars, multi post the parts and you'll get the site scrollbar for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;4. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;5. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;6. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;7. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;8. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;9. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;       2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;10. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;11. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;12. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;13. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 1&lt;/a&gt;      2. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 3&lt;/a&gt;     3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 4&lt;/a&gt;       3. &lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link 5&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:43:51.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:44:24.033" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rich B For Massive Damage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:44:24.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T12:44:24.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5167" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:44:38.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking a question you get a list of questions matching the ored searched words, whereas in search they are anded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing a question in your example yields all questions containing either php, gd, or mbp in the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Searching will bring back all questions and answers with all three words in either title or body.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:44:38.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5167" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:45:15.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, your best bet is to use google instead when searching. I'm not sure what the blockades are to improving the SO native-search, but for now you can use google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com search items here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching with tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions/tagged/feature-request search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching multiple tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions/tagged/php+mysql search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:45:15.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2009-07-14T12:51:02.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your position, there's unfortunately not much you can do. People do not always pay attention to edit histories when they downvote answers. Ideally, the OP or an editor would change the question, leaving the initial intent and then adding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;EDIT&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was actually looking for the Big O performance of this&#xA;  algorithm, not the run time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would leave the important history there for voters and still direct new answers towards solving the OP's actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T12:51:02.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4916" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:06:42.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having thought about this for a while in the shower this morning -- it's where I do all my important thinking -- I'm wondering if this still isn't too complex.  I haven't followed any earlier discussion, so forgive me if this has been shot down before, but has any thought been given to a system like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;foreach answer in user.non_cw_answers&#xA;  foreach tag in answer.tags&#xA;    tags[tag] += answer.upvotes / len(answer.tags)&#xA;tags_meeting_criteria = 0&#xA;foreach score in tags&#xA;  if score &amp;gt;= S&#xA;    ++tags_meeting_criteria&#xA;if tags_meeting_criteria &amp;gt;= T&#xA;  award_generalist_badge()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where S is the minimum number of upvotes needed in a given tag to qualify, and T is the number of such tags required for generalist.  We could probably improve it further by having user.non_cw_answers only return the highest scoring answer for a given answer in the case of multiple answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has such a system been discussed before?  If so, what were the flaws seen?  If not, what comments do you have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:06:42.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:17:58.453" Score="5" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found that the best way to search on Stack Overflow is to start to ask a question and use the suggestions it gives me. I do this since I have found the search textbox to be mostly useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some other good tips for searching Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130989" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:13:27.770" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:36:54.887" Title="What are some good tips for searching Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="5181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5088" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:22:10.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea, but I can't think of any time I'd be likely to use it.  I suppose it'd be handy to check how many people have accepted my answer without upvoting or something.  Maybe I'm just excited at the prospect of more options and things to click on.  I'm a lot like a toddler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:22:10.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5180" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:23:28.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting a new question is probably the worst way to search Stack Overflow, since it makes it harder on those of us that are trying to kill dupes. However, it's been brought up before that the title search is a bit better than the full search. Which is odd, because according to the Powers That Be, the full search does title + text, while the title search just looks at other titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMI%5FenUS291US303&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=inner+join+site:stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;, which is really Stack Overflow's home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, use tags. The &quot;interested&quot; tags section highlights questions with your tags on there, making them stand out so you can peruse what interests you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T13:45:51.400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:45:51.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5180" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:24:05.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounded a lot like you would be posting a question on StackOverflow without first checking if it is a duplicate or not (which is a quick way to get your post closed if it is). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The search function on StackOverflow does stink. You can always use Google and limit the search criteria to only search on StackOverflow.com (&quot;site:stackoverflow.com jQuery&quot;) or use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askjonskeet.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askjonskeet.com&lt;/a&gt; as another method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ask a good question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be clear and concise, but do not leave out any necessary information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have a code snippet, make sure you post it so that people can tell what you are trying to do (but be judicious, we do not need your entire project)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure you are actually asking a question and not just rambling without some point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The more good information you give us, the more good information you are going to get out of us.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T13:39:24.780" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:39:24.780" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5180" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:29:07.083" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use Google to search Stackoverflow. If that doesn't work start asking your question. When you have typed the title look at the list of similar questions. Sometimes the list will show you a question close enough to yours that you don't need to ask your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:29:07.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:37:00.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think posting the links in SO is a good solution.  There are very few, if any, situations where a long list of links is appropriate.  In the question you link to, it could have been easily resolved by providing a link to some other page containing those links.  Blogs cost nothing; sign up for one and dump it all there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:37:00.113" />
  <row Id="5187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5017" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:47:04.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you need those. This isn't Wikipedia [citation needed], so generally a footnote can consist of just a *. No reason to try to formalize* it. You can then use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to make it a smaller font [rcar].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*: AKA Eating up the dev team's time.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, works great! Just remember, use \* when posting those. Otherwise, you get &lt;em&gt;italics&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T19:51:02.073" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:51:02.073" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="5188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5189" CreationDate="2008-10-29T20:27:46.773" Score="46" ViewCount="2382" Body="&lt;p&gt;What third party tools, plugins, addons, widgets are there for the trilogy websites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-14T06:51:48.167" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T16:00:55.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T20:28:04.680" Title="What third party tools are there for the trilogy websites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="45" />
  <row Id="5189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2008-10-29T20:27:56.303" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;List of 3rd Party Tools&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: These are NOT official apps, and are NOT officially sanctioned or supported.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Note: some of these are specific to Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;GreaseMonkey scripts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/greasemonkey&quot;&gt;Questions tagged greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bogojoker.com/2008/09/stack-overflow-edit-summary-quicklinks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey scripts: Edit summary quick links &amp;amp; Edit Summary must be filled in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12448/greasemonkey-users-here-is-your-vote-reputation-info-plug-in-for-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Track New Votes/Reputation.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16983/enhancing-stackoverflow-user-experience&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Unread question and favorite tags highlight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/48179&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Drag and Drop Tags to Ignored/Interesting lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16390/ignore-tag-implementation-for-greasemonkey-users&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Ignore tag implementation for Greasemonkey users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35942&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Add &quot;revisions&quot; links and auto-expand comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50954&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Keyboard Shortcuts for SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31486/question-dashboard-greasemonkey-script&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Question Dashboard for Trilogy, StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org./scripts/show/65674&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Beautify the UI of StackOverflow a bit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38600/script-to-add-reply-links-to-comments&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Add “reply” links to comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/47162/save-question-to-delicious-greasemonkey-script&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Add “Save to Delicious” link to question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34903/stack-overflows-voting-system-is-not-entertaining-enough/41397#41397&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Commander Keen on downvote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1274/seaching-questions-with-n-pages-of-answers/49338#49338&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Additional searchbox on question page for searching within the answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/77298&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script: Add “Printer-Friendly” link to question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cznp.com/sojet/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JetPack script: Reputation status&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38627/how-do-you-place-stackoverflow-flair-on-facebook&quot;&gt;Flair on Facebook!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12132/firefox-and-ie7-users-here-is-your-stackoverflow-search-plugin&quot;&gt;Firefox &amp;amp; IE7 Stackoverflow Search Plugin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10261/using-what-ive-learned-from-stackoverflow-html-scraper&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow Html Scraper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9863/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;Track Your Reputation (Web Service)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Reputation Tracker (by Jon Skeet)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31173/ubiquity-hack#35506&quot;&gt;Ubiquity script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21759/operator-user-script-for-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Operator Script for tag search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12397/firefox-stackoverflow-toolbar&quot;&gt;Firefox StackOverflow Toolbar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pietschsoft.com/post.aspx?id=36e89f5e-4e11-4a73-81c6-3dde5c757fba&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow badge to show in your blog.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/01/09/stack-overflow-wordpress-widget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WordPress Widget for a &quot;GamerTag&quot; style display of your Gravatar/Name/Rep/Badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://picandocodigo.net/programacion/wordpress/stackoverflow-reputation-wordpress-plugin-english/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WordPress Sidebar Plugin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://json-stackoverflow.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A JSON data service to access your Stackoverflow rep + an easy to use JS widget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chrisballance.com/so&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;User Rankings List&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chrisballance.com/so/badge.ashx?userid=1551&amp;amp;uselogo=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;User Badge Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sotag.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Votes-Per-Tag Application (Desktop/WPF)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://insomniacgeek.com/code/windows-gadget/a-stack-overflow-sidebar-gadget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Windows Sidebar Widget for Displaying Flair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-jo.se/f.pfleger/soflair&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Android Flair Widget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://widget.huxhorn.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mac OS X Dashboard Flair Widget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&amp;amp;url=files.getdropbox.com%2Fu%2F10936%2FgadgetHosting%2FstackoverflowProfile%2Fprod%2Fstackoverflow.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iGoogle homepage Stackoverflow Gadget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wittman.org/projects/stackoverflowindentfourspaces/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflowIndentFourSpaces - &quot;Indent Four Spaces (for SO)&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38544/stack-overflow-notifier-chrome-extension&quot;&gt;Chrome Extension Notifier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/victor/stackoverflow-flair.dcproj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Another dashboard widget for Mac OS X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://codebase.unchartedmess.com/homestead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cross site newest and active question list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dgkbnngeehclnibbdblaimapibmmcdal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code formatting assistance for Chrome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional scripts can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Userscripts.org&lt;/a&gt; by searching for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/so-addon?sort=votes&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'so-addon' sorted by votes&quot;&gt;so-addon&lt;/a&gt; tag is encouraged for scripts, plug-ins, browser add-ons and other tools that are posted to Meta Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="155449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-07T20:30:08.747" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T20:30:08.747" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T20:27:56.303" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2008-10-29T21:45:51.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pietschsoft.com/post.aspx?id=36e89f5e-4e11-4a73-81c6-3dde5c757fba&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow.com Badge to display in your Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a user control written in ASP.NET, but could be easily converted for other server-side platforms, or even converted to JavaScript with the help of a JSON service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7831" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-01-14T03:19:39.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/441800/stackoverflow-wordpress-plugin-sidebar-widget&quot;&gt;StackOverflow WordPress Plugin: Sidebar Widget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone add this one too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T03:19:39.777" />
  <row Id="5192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-02-24T10:50:28.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A JSON data service to access your Stackoverflow reputation + an easy to use JS widget. &lt;a href=&quot;http://json-stackoverflow.appspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://json-stackoverflow.appspot.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-24T10:50:28.573" />
  <row Id="5193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-04-24T20:04:41.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Highlight comment on hover&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add the following CSS to Firefox's &lt;code&gt;userContent.css&lt;/code&gt; file or add a &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; rule and when the mouse is hovering over a comment it will be highlighted so it's easier to keep your place and match comments with names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;  .comment:hover                  { background-color: #E5E5E5 !important; }&#xA;  .comment:hover .accepted-answer { background-color: #D9F5D9 !important; }&#xA;  .comment:hover .owner-answer    { background-color: #D6E4EE !important; }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-24T20:04:41.010" />
  <row Id="5194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-05-19T03:06:10.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to have an eclipse/vim/emacs plug-in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133223" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-19T03:06:10.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-06-02T10:22:52.920" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just made a Windows Sidebar Gadget for Stack Overflow.&#xA;Take a &lt;a href=&quot;http://insomniacgeek.com/code/windows-gadget/a-stack-overflow-sidebar-gadget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;look here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://insomniacgeek.com/files/media/image/WindowsLiveWriter/AStackOverflowSidebarGadget_119AB/image_6.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have got some questions on whether it is possible two have multiple gadgets. Yes, that is possible. You can have multiple gadgets, for example like this (A Stack Overflow and a ServerFault gadget):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://insomniacgeek.com/Downloads/TwoOfAKind.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I have just published the gadget with source code on &lt;a href=&quot;http://flairgadget.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodePlex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3584" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-02T10:22:52.920" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-06-07T02:11:15.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a little greasemonkey script cooked up to give some basic keyboard navigation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50954&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey stackoverflow.com keyboard shortcuts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;keys are similar to google reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; j - down (question or answer)&#xA; k - up (question or answer)&#xA; o - open in tab&#xA; v - open in same window&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147091" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-07T02:11:15.787" />
  <row Id="5197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-06-13T02:38:32.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished a &lt;a href=&quot;http://widget.huxhorn.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow.com Flair Widget&lt;/a&gt; for the Mac OS X Dashboard.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It would be nice if you could include it in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a positive answer to this question:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/980396/is-there-a-ajax-or-json-interface-to-retrieve-the-stackoverflow-com-userid-for-a&quot;&gt;Is there a AJAX or JSON interface to retrieve the stackoverflow.com userId for a given username?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131384" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-13T02:38:32.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-06-17T05:44:19.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my contribution. A StackOverflow Flair Gadget for the iGoogle homepage. You can add it from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/ig/directory?hl=en&amp;amp;url=files.getdropbox.com%2Fu%2F10936%2FgadgetHosting%2FstackoverflowProfile%2Fprod%2Fstackoverflow.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It's not yet perfect, I just created it in half an hour, so be patient :) I'll improve it a bit over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Btw, you may still see a wrong screenshot on the iGoogle directory page for this gadget. Just ignore it, it just didn't get updated to the correct one, yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130634" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:49:29.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T05:44:19.283" />
  <row Id="5199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5203" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:55:25.080" Score="33" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great to have the option to fold code snippets, entire questions and answer posts on a user basis and allow defining some generic foldable regions within the question/answer editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Non generic folding info could be stored in cookies perhaps to move the storage/processing requirement to the client side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definable folding can take any free and safe HTML tag or other multi character trick (&amp;lt;&gt;Fold this&amp;lt;&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-17T20:48:38.183" LastActivityDate="2011-06-17T20:48:38.183" Title="Please add the ability to fold blocks of code in questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;code-block&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5180" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:55:55.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on my username and you'll find a link in my profile that says &quot;Search StackOverflow&quot;.  This points you to a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) that will limit your query to stackoverflow questions and answers only (very similar to using the site:stackoverflow + inurl:questions operators).  You can bookmark that somewhere or if you are a firefox user add it to the site using a greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:55:55.770" />
  <row Id="5201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:56:30.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be very nice - especially if it's closed (or showing only the first line of code) by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:56:30.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5062" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:56:51.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say that every time someone has an issue with something &lt;strong&gt;He Who Shall Not Be Named&lt;/strong&gt; has done, they flag for moderator attention or email team@stackoverflow.com instead of posting a new question on the Meta in hopes of stirring up the hornet's nest all over again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is doing is trying to get as many people with axes to grind against &lt;strong&gt;He Who Shall Not Be Named&lt;/strong&gt; (whether rightly or wrongly) so that their voices can all sound louder when bounced around the echo chamber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I would make the argument that constantly posting on the Meta every time you have an issue with &lt;strong&gt;He Who Shall Not Be Named&lt;/strong&gt; is pretty childish, honestly. All you are doing is playing the victim card (and I make this out to everybody who makes this exact same type of question, not just the OP of this one) trying to draw even more attention to the situation, which is inevitably going to lead to it causing even more of an uproar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you are doing is trying to elicit some type of public scolding/humiliation for &lt;strong&gt;He Who Shall Not Be Named&lt;/strong&gt; instead of asking an actual question, and the moderators and the team have been pretty solid in how they choose to deal with these things. &lt;strong&gt;BEHIND THE SCENES&lt;/strong&gt;. Airing your dirty laundry out in public is not the appropriate way of handling these situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T14:02:47.290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:02:47.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-14T13:59:59.187" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I like this idea a lot. Every so often I post an answer where the main bit is actually quite small, but a footnote has a lot of code baggage - it would be great if that baggage could be folded up to keep it in proportion with respect to the rest of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T13:59:59.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:04:29.703" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really like to see this as a time-based rather than position-based feature.  The time should be short to limit the chance of disrupting the comment chain based on edits.  Ideally, this would be a jEditable or something similar that is only available for 30sec to 1min after the comment was submitted.  After that you'd have to clarify through additional comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:04:29.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:07:40.787" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of automagically inserting folding on (at least) code.  It would help with the newbies who dump their entire architecture into a question -- which I still prefer over those who provide no code at all.  Anything over, say, 10 lines?  What's the cutoff for when it adds a scroll bar?  Because that's probably about the time we should &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; have a fold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:07:40.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5180" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:09:31.950" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, your best bet is to use google instead when searching. I'm not sure what the blockades are to improving the SO native-search, but for now you can use google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions search items here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching with tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions/tagged/feature-request search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching multiple tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions/tagged/php+mysql search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T15:01:01.293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:01:01.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:10:01.633" Score="24" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a blind user of both Stackoverflow and Serverfault I was wondering if any thought has been given to making the sites more accessible? Most things work well enough such as asking and answering questions, but some things are not accessible such as up voting comments. It would also be nice if there were headings or another quick way to jump from answer to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T14:16:12.977" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T17:20:08.763" Title="Stackoverflow accessibility with screen reading software?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;accessibility&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:11:01.097" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Badger&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;mdash;awarded when someone continually requests new badges on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:11:01.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T14:11:01.097" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="5209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5207" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:12:25.997" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's extremely difficult for us to judge a site's accessibility.  I'd say the thing to do is to outline the problems you've observed in good detail, and post each one as a separate question on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:12:25.997" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5207" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:13:22.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good point. Too often we forget about the visually-impaired. I spent a couple months working on revamping a client's website after spending 10 or so minutes on the phone with a man who uses jaws to surf the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:13:22.203" />
  <row Id="5211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:18:09.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea, especially for code. I sometimes find myself putting a sizable piece of sample code into an answer, which some people may just not want to read through. It would be nice if I could fold it for people to skip over if they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, this would also help with &quot;code golf&quot; or challenge questions where solutions or hints included with the question could be folded so that people don't have to see them if they don't yet want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:18:09.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5213" CreationDate="2008-10-23T00:44:08.573" Score="30" ViewCount="1223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any limits to how I can vote?  What are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T05:28:42.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T00:44:08.573" Title="Are there any voting limits?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;voting-limits&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="5213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5212" CreationDate="2008-10-23T00:44:31.087" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; limits to how much you can vote per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maximum 30 all-purpose votes per day per user (up or down)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maximum 10 additional question-only votes per day per user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvotes available for users with 15 or more reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes available for users with 125 or more reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maximum 5 spam/offensive flag votes per day per user with 15 or more reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least 10 general moderator flag votes per day per user with 15 or more reputation.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One additional general moderator flag vote per every 1k of reputation, up &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/improved-flagging/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;to a maximum of 100&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maximum 12 close/open votes per day per user with 3,000 or more reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you have 5 votes or fewer remaining, a popup will inform you how many votes you have remaining.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you reach the limit and try to vote, a red popup will indicate the number of hours you need to wait before voting again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The website uses the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UTC/GMT&lt;/a&gt; clock for all users - A new day starts at 00:00:00 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UTC/GMT&lt;/a&gt; (see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0/java&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;time.gov UTC Clock&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also limits on changing your votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In general, once you have voted, you cannot change your vote. There are two exceptions.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exception one: you may change your vote an unlimited number of times within a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34323/im-getting-your-vote-is-too-old-to-be-changed-for-a-vote-i-made-less-than-5&quot;&gt;very brief window&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;from the first vote you cast on that post&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exception two: you may change your vote after every time the post is edited. A new window starts with the first vote you cast &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19235/is-this-a-bug-in-voting-or-is-it-supposed-to-work-like-this&quot;&gt;after each edit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To simply undo a vote &amp;#8212; i.e. make it as if you had never voted in the first place &amp;#8212; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30557/cancel-a-vote-so-that-the-tally-goes-back-to-zero-and-not-minus&quot;&gt;click the &quot;lit up&quot; vote button&lt;/a&gt;. Note that this still counts as a voting action &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25795/non-existing-vote-too-old-to-be-changed&quot;&gt;for the purposes of the window&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To reverse a vote &amp;#8212; i.e. change an upvote to a downvote or vice versa &amp;#8212; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30557/cancel-a-vote-so-that-the-tally-goes-back-to-zero-and-not-minus&quot;&gt;click the &quot;unlit&quot; vote button&lt;/a&gt;, as you usually would. There is no need to perform an undo first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-14T05:28:42.090" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T05:28:42.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T00:44:31.087" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="5214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:37:55.763" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, especially because it would make it easier to make a question 'multi lingual' where you could post a question or answer with multiple code samples in multiple languages without making it a nightmare to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:37:55.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5216" CreationDate="2008-08-29T15:10:20.813" Score="8" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;For all of my questions I have received great answers. I have implemented the answers in code and they work. I now feel compelled to close the questions because I don't believe there are more or better answers out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you close your questions that you feel have been answered sufficiently? Would allowing more people to answer dilute the existing, good answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:37:03.600" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:37:03.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-10T04:21:11.603" Title="Etiquette for closing your own questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="5216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2008-08-29T15:30:49.610" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should close your questions lightly. There are very few questions that have a definite answer that will never change, or that cannot be improved upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone might come in three months or a year, or later, and be aware of a caveat that nobody knew about when you posted the question. Maybe there was a security flaw in the approach and it was discovered later. Maybe it doesn't work anymore because Windows 20xx doesn't support feature Y anymore. Maybe the question was about Internet Explorer 10 and the correct answer changes for Internet Explorer 11. Maybe you asked the question in regards to FireFox, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Safari, but the answer doesn't work in the as-yet-unreleased super-duper-browser that will dominate the market in 3 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I look at it, these questions and answers are not just for you but for anybody who might have the same question in the future. Just because an answer works for you now, it doesn't mean necessarily it will work for someone else in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By letting the question open, you give the chance for other people to contribute an even better answer later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason for closing a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has attracted noise/trolling/attacks or other bad behavior.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has been asked before in a different post which has a better answer (then, post a note with a link to the other alternative and close it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer will truly not change (for example, because it's linked to legacy technology that won't ever be updated)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why I might be completely wrong about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If no one ever closes the question, who's going to stop people from trashing the question in a year?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing power allows for highly trusted users to modify an answer when needed, as new information becomes updated, so leaving it open might not be necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The need for guidance on closing posts has partially been provided by the reason for closing which must now be selected.  &quot;Already has the best answer&quot; isn't on the list at all.  In general, it is a good practice to only close a post for one of the provided reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:14.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-06T23:51:32.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2008-08-29T15:40:10.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Euro Micelli's post covered it well.  I just wanted to add, I can't tell you how many times I've stumbled onto a Yahoo Answers page that has been closed with several incorrect or incomplete answers.  It's quite frustrating, to say the least.  We certainly can do better than they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:14.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-06T23:51:32.227" />
  <row Id="5218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2008-08-29T15:41:38.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree with Euro Micelli; closing the question seems very drastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I'd say an important thing to maintain is to select an answer as the accepted answer to indicate which solution was most appropriate to you; and to vote up good answers and perhaps vote down bad answers. I've seen many questions where there are several very good answers provided but it seems that the questioner has taken the answer and lost interest. That may well make people think an ideal answer hasn't been determined when it has. I think it's vitally important to show your gratitude for good answers and perhaps scorn for bad so votes act as a more accurate measure of answer quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if I have veered slightly off-topic here; however I think this point is related and rather important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:14.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-06T23:51:32.227" />
  <row Id="5219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2008-08-29T19:55:25.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Euro except for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer will truly not change (for example, because it's linked to legacy technology that won't ever be updated)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On occasion, products like this go opensource and thus the development keeps going so even if it's legacy, you may want to keep it open just it case.  Besides all the new stuff will go to the bottom of the 'vote sorted' list anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="730" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:14.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-06T23:51:32.227" />
  <row Id="5220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5215" CreationDate="2008-09-16T04:09:41.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the hand if a post has a gazillion answers, is anyone ever going to read through all of them?  Especially if you already have perfectly good answers by checking out the first handful posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/Allan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:14.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-06T23:51:32.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5222" CreationDate="2008-10-23T03:40:56.097" Score="21" ViewCount="1790" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what circumstances can cause a question or answer to be deleted, and what that actually means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can a post be deleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; I delete my own post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I undelete one of my posts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does deletion &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; for a post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What else should I know about deleted posts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-07-26T18:12:01.593" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T03:19:36.200" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T03:41:16.597" Title="What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="5222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5221" CreationDate="2008-10-23T03:41:04.677" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How can a post be deleted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You&lt;/strong&gt; can delete your own posts unless it falls into one of the exceptions below.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators&lt;/strong&gt; can delete any post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users with a reputation &gt;= 10K&lt;/strong&gt; can vote to delete a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; after it has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stack-overflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt; for 48 hours. At &gt;= 20K, users can vote to delete as soon as it is closed. It takes at least 3 votes to delete, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/50523/should-delete-votes-be-limited-like-close-votes/51071#51071&quot;&gt;more if the question is popular&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users with a reputation &gt;= 20K&lt;/strong&gt; can vote to delete an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; if it scores -1 or lower. It takes three votes to delete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The system&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; will automatically delete any post &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22174/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;flagged&lt;/a&gt; six times as offensive or spam.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The system&lt;/strong&gt; will automatically delete &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006&quot;&gt;unlocked, unanswered questions with a negative score after 30 days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The system&lt;/strong&gt; will automatically delete &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/78048/auto-deleting-old-unanswered-zero-score-questions-after-a-year/92006#92006&quot;&gt;unlocked, unanswered questions with a score of 0 (or 1 if the owner is deleted), a viewcount less than the age of the question in days times 1.5, and less than 1 comment after a year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; I delete my own post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete your &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; if it has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-what-is-it-all-about&quot;&gt;accepted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete your &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; if it has more than one answer, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74466/does-systematic-self-deleting-need-to-be-prevented/74471#74471&quot;&gt;if an answer has been upvoted&lt;/a&gt;, or it has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stack-overflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt; for less than 48 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't delete &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of your questions or answers if you haven't &lt;em&gt;registered&lt;/em&gt; your account (associated an OpenID with it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I undelete one of my posts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, this is not possible, but there are two situations in which you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Immediately after you delete a post, it will turn light red to indicate that it is deleted and an &lt;code&gt;undelete&lt;/code&gt; link will appear. If you have less than 10k reputation, the link is inaccessible for your questions after you leave the page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If and when you reach 10k reputation on a site, you see all of that site's deleted posts. They remain unsearchable, but if you know the URL of your deleted post, you can visit it directly and use the &lt;code&gt;undelete&lt;/code&gt; link. If you were not the deleter, you may need to wait for other 10k users to cast additional undelete votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What does deletion mean for a post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; physically deleted (wiped from the system), they're just hidden (aka soft delete). This means they won't appear in search results or data dumps, and normal users following links to them will see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/404&quot;&gt;a 404 (not found) page&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can see all deleted posts and are able to undelete them. Normal users with a reputation &gt;= 10K can see deleted posts, and also vote to undelete deleted &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; (it takes 3 votes to undelete), however they cannot undelete deleted &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; can be viewed, edited, and undeleted by their original authors, however deleted &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; cannot be seen by their authors (unless they have a reputation &gt;= 10K or happen to be moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What else should I know about deleted posts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reputation gained or lost from up- or down-votes on a deleted post (or answers to a deleted question) will be removed (or regained, in the case of down-votes) when rep is recalculated. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14200/self-instigated-rep-recalc/71678#71678&quot;&gt;Rep recalculation is a manual process at the moment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reputation lost as a penalty for having a post deleted by flagging is not returned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deleting your own post when it has a score of 3 or higher will award you a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/37/disciplined&quot;&gt;Disciplined badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deleting your own post when it has a score of -3 or lower will award you a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/38/peer-pressure&quot;&gt;Peer Pressure badge&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers are automatically deleted when the question they're attached to is deleted, and will be automatically undeleted if the question is later undeleted, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40066/undoing-a-question-deletion-that-had-a-deleted-answer-brought-the-answer-back&quot;&gt;even if deleted prior to the question's deletion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T03:19:36.200" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T03:19:36.200" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T03:41:52.210" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5230" CreationDate="2008-10-20T14:25:21.913" Score="13" ViewCount="1015" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How do I search for questions with specific tags?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5229/how-do-you-search-for-specific-tags/5230#5230&quot;&gt;How do I search for questions that have specific tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5229/how-do-you-search-for-specific-tags/5230#5230&quot;&gt;How do I search for questions that contain specific text, as well as specific tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5229/how-do-you-search-for-specific-tags/5230#5230&quot;&gt;Are there any more powerful search options?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T13:29:07.783" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T10:06:47.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T14:25:21.913" Title="How do I search for questions with specific tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="5230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5229" CreationDate="2008-10-20T14:25:36.423" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How to Search with Multiple Tags?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two basic ways to search for questions with specific tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Search Box&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply type the tag you're looking for inside square brackets. You can search for questions with multiple tags and/or search for other terms within those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple example search looks like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[python] [beginner] tutorials&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That searches for the term 'tutorials' within the set of questions tagged with both &lt;code&gt;[python]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[beginner]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wish to do a text-search for a term that is also a tag, or for a phrase that contains common words, you may need to escape the text term by surrounding it entirely with double quotes. Multiple text-search terms can be specified if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;URL Location Bar&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can specify the tags to search for in the URL Location bar in the following format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apples%20oranges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apples oranges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way is more powerful because you can also specify operators like 'or' or 'not'. The Search Box method defaults all searching to &lt;code&gt;AND&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search for questions with one tag &lt;code&gt;OR&lt;/code&gt; another tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tagged/apples or oranges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search for questions with one tag but &lt;code&gt;NOT&lt;/code&gt; another tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tagged/apples -oranges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a search &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/46060/tag-search-not-operator-is-broken/49962#49962&quot;&gt;cannot begin&lt;/a&gt; with a &lt;code&gt;NOT&lt;/code&gt;, and any such leading &lt;code&gt;NOT&lt;/code&gt; will be removed from the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search for questions with tags that match a wildcard pattern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tagged/apples~&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These options can be mixed and matched as you see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T18:11:27.690" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T18:11:27.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T14:25:36.423" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="5231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5229" CreationDate="2008-10-20T14:32:35.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the &quot;Tags&quot; button near the top of the page. That takes you to a list of tags. The default list is the most popular tags, sorted in descending order of popularity. Another tab takes you to an alphabetized list of tags. Click on the tag name to get a list of questions associated with that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158615" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:39.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T14:32:35.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5229" CreationDate="2009-06-12T14:59:47.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can see the tag you want, e.g. 'Perl' in a post on the screen, you can click on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:39.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-12T14:59:47.497" />
  <row Id="5233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5180" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:39:39.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;s search items here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the address bar in the Opera web-browser (which&#xA;effectively works as a command line in this case) to search&#xA;using Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This saves a lot of typing. I am using a similar shortcut&#xA;for searching in ServerFault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;s&quot; is something I have defined, in menu Tools/Preferences/Search/Add,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Name: StackOverflow - through Google&#xA;&#xA;Keyword: s&#xA;&#xA;Address: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+%s&amp;amp;sourceid=opera&amp;amp;num=%i&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of use the &quot;%s&quot; in the content of the Address field &#xA;will be replaced by the actual string, &quot;search items here&quot; in &#xA;the example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default there is already an entry with the &quot;s&quot; as&#xA;keyword, but it can be deleted or changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only questions are to be searched (and not e.g. users)&#xA;then the address field would be, using Jonathan Sampson's&#xA;neat trick (see his answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+inurl%3Aquestions%2F+%s&amp;amp;btnG=S%C3%B8g&amp;amp;meta=&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:25:44.190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:25:44.190" />
  <row Id="5234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5235" CreationDate="2008-11-11T04:25:46.300" Score="147" ViewCount="20995" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does accepting an answer work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should I do it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why can't I accept my own answers right away?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which answer should I accept?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T19:35:51.637" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T14:29:30.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T04:25:46.300" Title="How does accepting an answer work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="72" />
  <row Id="5235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5234" CreationDate="2008-11-11T04:26:07.517" Score="145" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Accepting Answers: How does it work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is important as it both rewards posters for solving your problem and informs others that your issue is resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You may select any answer on questions you asked as the &quot;accepted&quot; answer. Only one answer at a time can be the 'accepted' answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a brief period (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/50697/time-limit-on-accepting-an-answer&quot;&gt;15 minutes&lt;/a&gt;) immediately after asking the question when you can't accept an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You may change which answer is accepted, or simply un-accept the answer, at any time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you accept an answer, the question asker (you) gets &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; rep and the author of the accepted answer gets &lt;strong&gt;+15&lt;/strong&gt; rep. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can accept your own answer to a question. There is no reputation awarded and the answer does not float to the top of the list. This can be done no earlier than 48 hours after the question is asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To mark an answer as accepted, click on the check mark beside the answer to toggle it from hollow to green. Before and after images:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/uqJeW.png&quot; alt=&quot;images of the unselected and selected checkmarks&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Which answer should I choose?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't hesitate to accept an answer that is well-written, suggests a good practice and works for you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Otherwise, even if there are answers that are &lt;em&gt;good enough&lt;/em&gt; but that you're not entirely satisfied by, you might wait 24 to 48 hours to give other people a chance to give you a better answer. A question with an accepted answer isn't as likely to receive further attention as one without an accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure that besides working for you, the answer is really good practice. Sometimes after the answer gets accepted, another comes in, uncovering the fact that previous one was in fact a bad hack.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bottom line is to accept the answer that you found to be the most helpful to you, personally.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What should I do if none of the answers is suitable?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-read your question critically and make certain that it's clear what the problem is, and what the specific question is. You might want to place a bold single sentence version of your question at the bottom of your post to make sure it's clear what's being asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-read the answers. Consider accepting the best answer of the bunch, even if none of them are exactly what's needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait a few days after asking it, and then edit your question with what you've learned since asking it &amp;#8212; perhaps additional information will help others help you. This will also have the effect of bringing your question back onto the home page where fresh eyes will see it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have &lt;strong&gt;more than 75&lt;/strong&gt; reputation, you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&quot; title=&quot;bounty system inner workings&quot;&gt;add a bounty&lt;/a&gt; two days after the question is asked if you haven't accepted any answers yet. This will add incentive for people to answer your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eventually you'll resolve the problem or find a work-around (which may be, &quot;This won't work, so here's what I did instead&quot;). Please add an answer with this information and accept your own answer so that others with your same question can see the path you eventually followed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What's with the accept rate?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Taken from the blog entry &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is the percentage of answers accepted based on the questions asked by the user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is calculated on questions that are older than 3 days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is heavily cached and can take 24 hours or more to update.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is only calculated when the user has 4 or more questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Which questions do not affect the accept rate?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following questions are not included in the accept rate calculation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community Wiki questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What does the accept rate mean?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the stat doesn’t appear at all, it’s a new user, or someone who rarely asks questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a low percentage, it’s a user who asks a lot of questions but accepts almost no answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a high percentage, it’s an engaged user, someone who frequently goes back and interacts with their questions after asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a middle of the road percentage, it might be an experienced user who understands what accepted answers are for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="134069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-04T14:29:30.250" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T14:29:30.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T04:26:07.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5234" CreationDate="2008-11-11T04:31:45.320" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for when, I would say wait between 24 and 48 hours before accepting one of the answers.  That gives time for multiple answers to be offered.  You should choose the best one, not simply the quickest one.  It also allows time for other readers to vote answers up and down, which might affect your decision (in a good way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133415" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:53.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T04:31:45.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5234" CreationDate="2009-06-29T08:50:03.673" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What if more than one answer is suitable but none actually cover it all.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual accepted answer would in that case would be a patchwork from other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could writeup my own answer from these pieces and eventually accept it but in doing so I would still like to reward the people who took the time to give their 2 cent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that currently there is no way to do this but it would be nice if we could (say create a group answer that would be displayed just like a normal answer with up-votes, comments and all, I could rephrase it to match what I have learned from the answers and check who participated in this.  Rep could be distributed evenly amongst participants I have chosen)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an idea that would work nicely, least in theory !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25812" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:39:53.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-29T08:50:03.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5247" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:46:53.737" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be a pretty simple suggestion (although I am not sure how simple it would be to implement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions where the question and answers will be the basis of pretty long and active comment threads. I think that this should be used as an indicator of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;the Question's Hotness&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that incorporating it into the Active might not be a good idea, because if I understand correctly, the active list is generated based on whatever made the last contribution, whether it was a question, answer, or edit? Perhaps this should be kept solely for the &lt;strong&gt;HOT&lt;/strong&gt; (not Active) calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T20:35:31.150" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T20:35:31.150" Title="Incorporate Commenting in the Hot Questions Algorithm" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hot&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5241" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:53:28.390" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this would be all that useful on SO/SF/SU... but it would certainly come in handy on MSO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:53:28.390" />
  <row Id="5243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:55:01.017" Score="1" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/806/-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;*.Stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see&quot;&gt;What StackExchange sites do you want to see&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a SO variant for graphic designers go down well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are literally millions of tutorials on blogs the internet that cater for learning new graphic design techniques/discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A SO variant could act as a central repository for people to post their free tutorials, as well as to ask for opinions on designs, font usage etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side, it would also give those web-developers on SO a place to go looking for graphic designers who do freelance work etc (further expanding the jobs board)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130636" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T15:28:34.167" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:28:34.167" ClosedDate="2009-07-14T15:27:41.190" Title="Would a SO variant for graphic designers go down well?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow-expansion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5243" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:56:33.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They would definitely need to implement image-uploading for that project. I would love to see one for designing though: everything from Photoshop to Maya.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T14:59:01.183" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:59:01.183" />
  <row Id="5245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5243" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:57:35.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.StackExchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.StackExchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't expect Atwood to create a new one for all of our dreams, afterall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:57:35.510" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="5246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5243" CreationDate="2009-07-14T14:59:52.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that the SO model is right for tutorials.  It doesn't really fit into the Q&amp;amp;A structure, and the sort of long-form, lots-of-images answers necessary for such a site don't really work especially well with SO.  Aren't there already repositories out there for tutorials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T14:59:52.677" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5241" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:02:20.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely wouldn't want to see comments affect the Active page (even though I might be the only one who uses it).  Questions already get bumped in the Active queue for every edit to the question or an answer.  Doing the same for every comment would just increase the noise on the Active tab.  If a comment is particularly insightful, it usually leads to an edit to a question/answer, which is going to get the question bumped anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that comments probably should affect a post's hotness score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:02:20.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:09:04.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar suggestion: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4654/let-people-without-editing-rep-help-fix-answers-questions&quot;&gt;Let people without editing rep help fix answers/questions!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing flagged questions to be automatically closed if they're not edited within, say, a day... sounds like a great way to keep the site clear of cruft without unduly confusing new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also suggest that a list of currently-flagged questions be made available to those with editing privileges, so that they could potentially step in and fix issues that the author was unable or unwilling to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, i think closing should still be the first choice for blatantly argumentative questions; flame-bait &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T15:14:24.297" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:14:24.297" />
  <row Id="5252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:27:41.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you answer the question you can provide a small quote from the original question you are answering.  That way it will be completely clear what you are answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:27:41.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5006" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:39:18.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't particularly like the idea of the system sending an email, IM, whatever to me whenever someone thinks I can answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it would be possible to simply flag the question for a particular user.  You flag a question for user x's attention and next time they login they see a bar at the top of the screen like you see when you have new comments/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:39:18.840" />
  <row Id="5254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3360" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:45:03.867" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like playing Devil's Advocate, so I'm going to raise an issue here for discussion that I don't think has really been covered yet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring users via a script like this could be construed as incredibly selfish, since it doesn't really assist the larger community. If there is someone on SO behaving in a manner that you &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; feel is insulting or damaging to the site as a whole, why wouldn't you take action to inform or contact a moderator? Using a script to ignore people doesn't stop what they're &lt;em&gt;doing&lt;/em&gt;. They are still doing the things you believe are damaging to the site, but you're just &lt;em&gt;pretending&lt;/em&gt; they're not. So you're basically letting SO get abused, instead of doing the responsible thing and pointing it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't people who enjoy SO be willing to give a little something back in the form of oversight and moderation, even if it means occasionally having to see things that annoy you? Problems generally don't get fixed by just turning a blind eye to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:45:03.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T15:45:03.867" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:50:43.373" Score="14" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to use tables in answers and questions. Without such support, I find myself using ASCII art tables with the code-text tool, but that takes too long, and isn't really maintainable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be used to illustrate memory cells, and of course to create &quot;real tables&quot; with information contained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like HTML tables using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; are not going to be supported. I would like to ask for a feature in the editor that allows and supports creating tables using ASCII art (so the nasty manual managing with spaces will go away), at the very least (no CSS guy - but could imagine there are other styling techniques too). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit (workaround):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, google chart supports the creation of graphviz diagrams, which is also able to render some limited HTML for creating tables. So the following URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=gv&amp;amp;chl=digraph html{abc [shape=none,margin=0,label=&amp;lt;&amp;lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; cellspacing=&quot;2&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td bgcolor=&quot;red&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&quot;white&quot;&amp;gt;Algorithm&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td bgcolor=&quot;darkgreen&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;font color=&quot;white&quot;&amp;gt;Example&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;First Row 1&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td PORT=&quot;tryp&quot;&amp;gt;Second Row 2&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Last Row 1&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Last Row 2&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&amp;gt;]; Funny -&amp;gt; abc:tryp:ne;}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gives when properly encoded this picture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/LfM62.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastEditorUserId="34509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T21:52:18.440" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T21:52:18.440" Title="Please add support for tables in answers and questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;table&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:52:11.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea.  I'd suggest supporting it for quote blocks as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:52:11.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5255" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:52:58.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &amp;lt; pre &gt; tag or taking a screen shot works OK so far, but I agree that some better support would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:52:58.523" />
  <row Id="5258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5255" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:53:06.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has specifically said that tables &lt;strong&gt;WILL NOT&lt;/strong&gt; be allowed in questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Pesto for drudging up the post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;Atwood Laying Down The Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T06:41:13.163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T06:41:13.163" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5078" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:53:36.193" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The RSS feeds take a while to get refreshed, you may need to wait a significant period of time before you see any changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:53:36.193" />
  <row Id="5260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:56:16.007" Score="0" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added a comment to a post, but now the post was updated and my comment no longer applies, so I would like to delete it. I was able to delete comments some days ago, today I noticed this is no longer supported. Is it intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131011" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T20:21:55.497" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:21:55.497" ClosedDate="2009-07-14T18:01:24.723" Title="Why am I no longer allowed to delete comments on stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5255" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:57:29.367" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some versions of Markdown come with support for tables natively too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Markdown as a proxy for table-markup eliminates the worries that somebody may forget to close a TD. The markdown simply won't translate into HTML if it's not 100% correct. As an example, ** won't cause all of the text on the page from here on to be bold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T16:08:03.463" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:08:03.463" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5260" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:58:19.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can delete comments that you own. There is a little delete 'x' button right next to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may run into an issue if you are no longer signed into the same account (since you appear to be 'unknown' here as well). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com to get your accounts merged and the problem fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T15:58:19.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5260" CreationDate="2009-07-14T15:58:19.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should still be able to delete comments by hitting the X on the right side of your comment. The only thing I can think of is if you somehow do not have the rep anymore to be able to post comments (which I imagine would prevent you from also deleting old ones?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Rich B stated it first in his answer, but I am going to update my answer as well to include the new information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are using an &quot;unknown&quot; account, it is likely that your credentials are not the same as when you posted the comment, so the system is not treating you as if you are the owner of the comment. If that is the case you need to inform the StackOverflow team at team@stackoverflow.com and they will be able to help you get all your different accounts straightened out, which should give you back ownership of your comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T16:04:11.047" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:04:11.047" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5056" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:11:40.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4733/is-stackoverflows-reputation-system-hurting-the-site&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; about how people answering questions that they really don't know that much about, could be hurting the site. That discussion stemmed from a well known Perl programmer &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.jrock.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jonathan Rockway's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.jrock.us/articles/Learn%20Perl.pod&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; post about that being a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that discussion, jrockway's response was this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4733/is-stackoverflows-reputation-system-hurting-the-site/4950#4950&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;As to how this kills the site, I know a number of people who are active contributers in the Perl area who are just turned off by this. The see a question, formulate an answer, and then see six slightly-wrong variants. This just makes them mad, and they move on to something less frustrating. It happens to me, for sure&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:11:40.767" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:13:41.913" Score="4" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;When commenting, and you write a URL in backticks, the &lt;code&gt;http://www.&lt;/code&gt; part is cut off, and it is converted to a link. Converting it to a link might not be so bad, but cutting it off can change the meaning of the content as you usually put code in backticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also accidentally came across a bug; there seems to be something strange going on with the characters after the URL. See my comments to this post. I entered the following in backticks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;header(&quot;Location: http://www.example.com/user/home.php&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Not completed!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See more bugs in comments to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastEditorUserId="130514" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T08:50:17.343" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T08:50:17.343" Title="URLs in comments bugs" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="5266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5267" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:15:23.163" Score="1" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a long-time user of StackOverflow, I have noticed that a certain answer seems to be the 'catch-all' answer for that website: &lt;strong&gt;jQuery&lt;/strong&gt;. It seems that if you have any type of question related to a website at all, &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; will post an answer using jQuery, regardless of it's helpfulness. It has even become its own meme in some circles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see you are trying to [insert task here]. You should totally drop that and try &lt;strong&gt;jQuery&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Insert optional jQuery example here].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also noticed in recent times that Greasemonkey scripts are becoming the new jQuery for MetaSO, thanks in large part to Greasemonkey-scripter extraordinaire &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130154/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt;. Often times now I will watch posts on Meta wondering when someone will come in with a Greasemonkey script to add or modify some piece of functionality that was requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am wondering now is: as a user who does not patrol ServerFault with any type of regularity, does a similar meme exist there as well? Is there a &quot;catch-all&quot; answer that seems to show up no matter what the question is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what do you predict will be the &quot;catch-all&quot; answer for SuperUser? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:29:32.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:15:23.163" Title="What is the jQuery/Greasemonkey of ServerFault? And what will it be for SuperUser?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;memes&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="5267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5266" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:16:00.667" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only guess that SuperUser's catch-all will be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you tried turning it off and on&#xA;  again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or as Moss from The IT Crowd refers to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T16:25:30.227" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:25:30.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:16:00.667" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5266" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:16:21.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been to SF in a while, but if it isn't &quot;Have you tried rebooting?&quot;, then those guys are all hacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:16:21.223" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:16:21.223" />
  <row Id="5269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5266" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:16:53.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Have you tried rebooting into safe mode?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:16:53.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:16:53.073" />
  <row Id="5270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5266" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:19:20.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;chkdsk /r&lt;/code&gt; and grab a coffee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:19:20.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:19:20.210" />
  <row Id="5271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5266" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:19:59.003" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another catch-all answer that appears often on SO (and will probably appear more often on SU) is the obligatory &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xkcd&lt;/a&gt; comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:19:59.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:19:59.003" />
  <row Id="5272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5266" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:20:17.187" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another one for SuperUser, inspired by the jQuery meme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I see you are trying to use Windows. You should totally drop that and try Ubuntu.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:20:17.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:20:17.187" />
  <row Id="5273" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:20:29.173" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/992/possibility-to-delete-our-account&quot;&gt;Possibility to delete our account&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that a lot of OpenID issues could be made 10% less agonizing if users had an easy way of deleting their own accounts, and merging them with other accounts.  Please provide this functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1432" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-11T16:18:49.040" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T16:18:49.040" ClosedDate="2009-07-14T16:30:17.017" Title="Provide a UI for getting rid of accounts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5273" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:23:08.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be a lot less agonizing (and probably with fewer negative repercussions) if people just emailed team@stackoverflow.com when they needed this done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:23:08.523" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5273" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:23:11.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think for the rare occurrences of this, emailing team@stackoverflow.com is just fine. Anything more complex is only likely to end in more support requests and problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:23:11.000" />
  <row Id="5277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5046" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:23:32.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go around and edit the question, you could also go and edit some of the answers. At the most basic you could have the answer state that it was an answer to the way the question was originally asked, and no longer reflects the state of the question, as it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would hopefully cause the answer to get comments, instead of down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:23:32.320" />
  <row Id="5278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5273" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:24:08.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accounts get deleted automagically after a period of inactivity and &amp;lt; 100 rep, but I like the idea of being able to manually disassociate your OpenID would be a good feature to have, especially if your OpenID were to get compromised in any way, shape or form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:24:08.897" />
  <row Id="5280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5283" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:33:37.460" Score="73" ViewCount="3421" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to &quot;easy&quot; questions that involves quickly answering by copying/pasting an embarrassing link to &lt;code&gt;lmgtfy.com&lt;/code&gt; (or similar responses in comments, which aren't downvotable) in an attempt to belittle the questions' authors. I think this comes from engagement in forums, where people would ask simple questions like &quot;What is a variable?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that we should NOT do this. As Stack Overflow grows, it is quickly becoming THE source of Google's suggestions. For instance, yesterday I did a quick search on Google for a particular framework, and Stack Overflow came up in the top three results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel expressed a desire in recent podcasts to see Stack Overflow as the ultimate source for all programming-related questions. I am sympathetic of this view, as I would like to see all questions (including &quot;What is a variable?&quot;) welcomed on Stack Overflow, because it is the best place for those questions to be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are voted upon, which is something that doesn't take place in most other locations. Answers are clarified by the community, something else that isn't happening elsewhere. Questions can be revised by just about anybody. And revision history is there for all to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps in the future, the next time somebody asks how many variables can be put on a page, we should kindly embrace them, and not send them on to Google. Stack Overflow is the ultimate destination &amp;#8212; not Google. Sorry, Larry and Sergey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related FAQ&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8724/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;How to deal with Google questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T23:00:59.633" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T23:00:59.633" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:33:37.460" Title="Embrace the non-Googlers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="5281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:36:47.117" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has always been unacceptable to use lmgtfy. It is even &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8724/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see someone using a lmgtfy reply, edit it to remove it and report it to the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="132734" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T20:18:18.457" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:18:18.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:36:47.117" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:37:24.180" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been something that a good deal of us have been trying to do for months now. When we see someone post something along the lines of LMGTFY or &quot;You should have googled first&quot; we comment telling them that it is not useful for precisely the same reasons you are giving above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then we will downvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT very much &lt;em&gt;ex post facto&lt;/em&gt;: &quot;LMGTFY&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&quot;&gt;is now officially banned&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-12T15:01:56.637" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T15:01:56.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:37:24.180" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="5284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:38:29.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When an easy question comes up, you can do one of to things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can post a quick link or quote an article and gain a quick few points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can post a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/865476/what-does-do-in-php/865493#865493&quot;&gt;long drawn out answer&lt;/a&gt; you revise and tweak and gain a bunch of rep from it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do what you wish.  But if you don't write the good answer, someone else will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:38:29.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:38:29.237" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:40:48.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I have mentioned in the past that I think people should have used Google before posting I have never thought that posting a link to lmgtfy served as an answer. I also think that people should experiment with their IDE before posting too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I think this - it's because that's what I do when looking at answers I'm not 100% sure of the answer to. It's often the case when I am sure too - just to make sure I've got the syntax right!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that people are under all sorts of pressures when developing and if you're a lone developer it can be hard to spot where you're going wrong sometimes. I've been in that position myself, so I can't really complain about anyone posting simple questions. After all the question is only simple if you know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:40:48.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:40:48.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:41:49.847" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to belittle you concerns, seriously...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I simply have not seen this as any sort of a problem on Stackoverflow. On the contrary, I find that some of the  simplest questions generate some of the most thoughtful and interesting conversations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; few people who post &quot;ask google&quot; responses, they are likely just following the type of response they learned from other systems. They are almost universally met with &lt;strong&gt;down-votes&lt;/strong&gt; accompanied by comments that say it is &lt;strong&gt;not appreciated here&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That has been my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T16:43:16.063" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:43:16.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:41:49.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:44:51.133" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone doesn't present a reason to believe they tried to research first, it is perfectly ok to instruct them in the very important art of doing their research.  &quot;Teach a man to fish&quot; and all that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a useful compromise in the community could be an encouragement for questioners to &quot;show their work&quot; and list the trouble they've already taken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, centralizing all programming answers in SO is an internet smell.  What you want is an internet that has many sources so that you don't centralize power or risk.  When SO goes down, everything else remains, and it should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:44:51.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:44:51.133" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:46:39.780" Score="2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5062/is-it-possible-to-flag-an-edit-for-abuse&quot;&gt;Is it possible to flag an edit for abuse?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can flag questions, answers, and even comments for moderator attention, but we cannot flag a specific edit that has taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, take a look at this question's revision history(+ see disclaimer below):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/4380/list&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/4380/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While viewing the history, it would be nice if there was the ability to flag for moderator attention.  Specifically during edit wars or when any user feels that the edits are unnecessary.  Seeing as how any concern will require &quot;moderator attention&quot; for further action, this seems like a needed piece of functionality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can then in turn use the data from flagged edits to potentially identify users who seem to get flagged more than others in proportion to their overall number of edits.  This will help in identifying potential misuse, abuse, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(+)&lt;em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I completely picked this one at random and do not know if any one edit deserves to be flagged or requires it...&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm fully aware that you can flag a question/answer/comment already and that some feel that is the route to go for flagging edits as well. But we cannot derive from that any sort of useful data to determine if specific user's have their edits flagged more than others. We cannot determine if people are not using the functionality as well as others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T19:50:53.317" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:50:53.317" ClosedDate="2009-07-14T17:07:25.817" Title="Add the ability to flag an edit for moderator attention" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:51:16.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would go well with the request to have a text entry when flagging, so the reasons can be cited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:51:16.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T16:52:39.463" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's typically my policy to simply delete LMGTFY responses, but I just want to make clear what I consider acceptable and not acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Acceptable:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you Google the obvious search terms to a very simple question, I think it's acceptable to say something like &quot;I Googled X + Y and it gave me the following results,&quot; and give a link to the site with the answer (not to Google).  I think this is okay because sometimes people &lt;em&gt;just don't know what terms to search for&lt;/em&gt;.  It might be obvious to you if you know the answer already, but not obvious to the person asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Unacceptable:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A link to lmgtfy.com with no other content whatsoever.  When I see these, I make a minimal effort to turn them into an acceptable answer, but 9/10 of the time I delete them.  If another answer already directly refers to the same material that a Google search turns up, I delete the LMGTFY link without trying to fix it.  The direct answer wins. Feel free to flag LMGTFY for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T16:52:39.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T16:52:39.463" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5290" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:00:34.787" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the little &quot;Flag&quot; link under the question, select &quot;Requires Moderator Attention&quot;, and type in an explanation such as &quot;The edits by $PERSON are $PROBLEM,&quot; click &quot;Flag Post.&quot;  Done.  We don't need another piece of functionality for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:00:34.787" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="5294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:08:33.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only time I post a link that uses outside search engines, I post carefully crafted urls so that the link will always go to where I intended it to go. For example if I want to link to a wiki page on some random site, but I think that page may at some point change locations, I use a Google I'm Feeling Lucky url, with enough search terms that I'm fairly confident of it's destination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;btnI=&amp;amp;q=site%3Amingw.org+%22about+MSYS%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;btnI=&amp;amp;q=site%3Amingw.org+&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;btnI=&amp;amp;q=site%3Amingw.org+&lt;/a&gt;&quot;about+MSYS&quot;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any other reason being worthy of my time to point out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T17:10:38.187" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:10:38.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T17:08:33.653" />
  <row Id="5296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5300" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:10:25.310" Score="12" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question yesterday that is no longer relevant and have voted to close it as such.  I was thinking that flagging it for moderator attention would be a good idea to expedite the process, but do not have the ability to flag my own question as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only have the option to edit, close, and delete...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Another potential option is on the vote to close option.  If the OP votes to close the question, maybe it should not require the 5 votes to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T15:42:08.533" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T15:42:08.533" Title="Add the ability to flag your own post for moderator attention" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5296" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:17:05.433" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now this is one I'm actually in favor of.  It allows you to bring mods to the question in the case of a rollback war or other hijinks.  There's no reason it &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:17:05.433" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="5301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5296" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:20:47.957" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually thought about posting this one a few hours ago myself. This would be very helpful to get moderators to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/migrate-questions-between-websites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;move your question to a different site&lt;/a&gt;, as well as review it for rollback wars and possibly even appeal a close vote (though this might get abused).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:20:47.957" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5296" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:21:18.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... this begs the question of why can't we close a question once an answer has been provided and accepted?  That would resolve the issue by allowing you to accept an existing answer and then close the question to further answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:21:18.900" />
  <row Id="5303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:22:42.373" Score="9" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know, some of us read the wrong way around...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130866" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T03:29:02.343" Title="Will there be RTL support in StackExchange?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:22:57.903" Score="3" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is a question regarding security and best practices for a user interface not programming related? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I refer to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1126732/lost-username-and-password-via-twitter-instead-of-via-email-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is a perfectly fine question. Maybe some people don't like the idea from this person but he is asking for best practices in terms of communication with his user and security... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130164" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:22:54.450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T20:09:13.180" Title="Not programming related?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="5305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:25:30.103" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will tell you why it was closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discuss!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow isn't meant for discussion, it was meant for getting answers to objective questions. There's some give and take, but putting &quot;Discuss!&quot; in your post is pretty much a close magnet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:25:30.103" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5303" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:28:50.550" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could have the letters go diagonally also, for those of us who like to read with their head cocked to the side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;strong&gt;For those who don't have a sense of humor&lt;/strong&gt;, downvote away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm not deleting it since I laugh every time I read it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T03:29:02.343" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T03:29:02.343" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:29:45.460" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't send them to Google and nothing else but you should at least try to teach them how to use Google by providing the relevant search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:29:45.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T17:29:45.460" />
  <row Id="5308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:29:51.773" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case of that question, the inclusion of the image in the original question probably put a lot of people off.  Add to it that the text isn't great.  Still, the concept strikes me as fine.  In fact, I've voted to reopen along with rewording it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:29:51.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:30:55.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be a &quot;perfectly fine question&quot; as are &quot;How was your breakfast?&quot;, &quot;What's your favorite color?&quot; and &quot;What is the meaning of life?&quot;  But all 4 have one thing in common, they are not least bit programming related.  Votes to reopen are silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:30:55.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:33:07.983" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's not programming related it is development related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should SO be recast be a development questions site rather than a programming questions site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:33:07.983" />
  <row Id="5311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5052" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:34:49.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions that most need editing seem to suffer from the inability of the poster to express himself in English. Consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow us to specify in our profile one or more languages that we speak. This information would be private.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow us in our profile to indicate a willingness to help with translation for people speaking one of a list of languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When one of our questions is flagged for edit, allow us to press a button asking for translation help. &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We'd have to enter a more extensive version of the question in a language we speak well enough to express ourselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The users who have opted in would receive a orange envelope (I think email might be too much).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of these users may choose to edit by translation. He'd get a screen showing both the foreign-language and the new English version of the question. He'd enter the translation into the English box.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When finished, the translated post would replace the original&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Too much? Too condescending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:34:49.707" />
  <row Id="5312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:42:56.507" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I say don't worry about it, until it becomes a problem.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does become a problem, that's when you will have enough information to make an informed decision. Until then, it is just wild guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point in time, there is no real proof that this will ever happen. We also don't know if there will be other changes that will make the argument moot. So the best course of action, is to sit and wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to point out, that at this time the site hasn't even been in existence for a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:42:56.507" />
  <row Id="5313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:49:25.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think part of the problem is that the question author didn't make any effort to point out he was actually needing an answer for any kind of programming purpose. It ends up sounding almost like it's more of a general curiosity question about features of the interwebs, as if he had asked &quot;Which is more secure: Yahoo or Google mail?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:49:25.550" />
  <row Id="5314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5315" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:50:12.837" Score="6" ViewCount="952" Body="&lt;p&gt;Branching from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5280/embrace-the-non-googlers&quot;&gt;lmgtfy-question&lt;/a&gt;, I'm curious if sarcastic responses in general should be tolerated on Stackoverflow. This is the nasty cousin of the LMGTFY responses. I'm afraid these types of responses (which aren't few or far between) will forum-ify the Q&amp;amp;A-style flow of Stackoverflow. To clarify, I'm referring to items that are more sarcasm than substance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we report these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T22:33:43.263" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:53:43.320" Title="Should Sarcasm be Acceptable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;&lt;sarcasm&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:51:57.590" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd rather just vote down a response that seems to be a bit unhelpful.  A little sarcasm probably isn't that bad, it shows some personality.  But not at the expense of being completely unhelpful to the OP's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say vote it down, and flag it it seems a bit beyond what you are comfortable with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:51:57.590" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:52:11.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this falls under 'offensive' as being a personal attack against someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:52:11.943" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5260" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:55:08.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally got it working. The problem was that my browser somehow failed to load the icon. I found it when looked at my posts marked with check-marks. There I saw:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;checked&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of check-mark image. Unfortunately the delete icon did not have the alternative text, and so it was not visible at all. After hitting Ctrl+F5 all icons were there and I was able to remove the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the team members of StackOverflow should consider changing the alt-text to the delete icon as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131011" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:33:43.370" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:33:43.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T17:55:08.980" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:57:43.217" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah. Sarcasm is &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also good: insulting the OP's mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:57:43.217" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:58:14.817" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we ten? In my mind there's a great distance between sarcastic and offensive. (By the way, the first sentence in this post isn't sarcastic. It's genuinely incredulous. The third-to-last sentence was a bit sarcastic.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:58:14.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-14T17:59:18.777" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I like the idea. I've been guilty of long-freakin'-code-posting myself. However, I somehow doubt &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001147.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff would agree&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T17:59:18.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:01:14.020" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, yeah, right, sarcasm should &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/moderator.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;not be allowed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not all happy little &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prim-and-packaged-Wal-Mart-family-friendly-answer&lt;/a&gt; writing machines.  If I feel like being sarcastic, I believe that that should be accepted.  Now, &lt;a href=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/nT3b8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;if you don't like it&lt;/a&gt;, you can &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://somethinggraphic.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/trump-youre-fired.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;downvote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; me for it and that's cool.  I'd rather you voted based on whether the answer is actually helpful, not solely on its &lt;a href=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/blinkenlights_original.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tone&lt;/a&gt;, but that's just my personal preference; you can vote based on whatever &lt;a href=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/grammar-police.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;criteria&lt;/a&gt; you like.  And that's part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/blinded-by-science&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;beauty&lt;/a&gt; of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave me the same &lt;a href=&quot;http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x89/edwardbayntun/gifs/Psycho.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;psychological space&lt;/a&gt; to maneuver, and don't make it a &lt;a href=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/thoughtpolice.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;thought police&lt;/a&gt; situation where voices that don't speak just how you like have to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/images/2008/03/22/silence.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;silenced&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T23:53:43.320" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:53:43.320" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4813" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:03:10.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to point out that it almost never highlights Perl code correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These all do the same thing, but aren't highlighted the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;die if //;  # Perl doesn't even have // for comments&#xA;die if m''; # the only one, that is even close, to being right&#xA;die if m();&#xA;die if m::;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I know that part of the problem is that Perl is a very difficult to parse language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I think we should be able to highlight the code manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre class=&quot;prettyprint&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&#xA;...&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;kwd&quot;&amp;gt;die&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pln&quot;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;kwd&quot;&amp;gt;if&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pln&quot;&amp;gt; m&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;str&quot;&amp;gt;''&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pun&quot;&amp;gt;;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;...&#xA;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre class=&quot;prettyprint-correct-perl&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&#xA;...&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;kwd&quot;&amp;gt;die&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pln&quot;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;kwd&quot;&amp;gt;if&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;!--                      /--higlight m'' together---\   --&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pln&quot;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;str&quot;&amp;gt;m''&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;pun&quot;&amp;gt;;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;...&#xA;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even editors that are designed for highlighting Perl code, can sometimes get it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:03:10.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:03:38.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting Jeff: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Good lord, people! Use your common sense!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody is heavily sarcastic without adding any content, downvote and consider flagging offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody is funnily sarcastic while adding good content, even an upvote may be warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the target of the sarcastic comment should be considered. If it's aimed at, say, the Tooth Fairy, one shouldn't probably mark it offensive, even if it may win a downvote for lack of usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:03:38.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:05:56.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if we're going to allow humor (which I hope it's already established that we are) a little bit of sarcasm is okay too.  I think it's more important that &lt;strong&gt;questions get answered&lt;/strong&gt; than how, in general.  I think it's important to remember, as both a writer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a reader, that sarcasm is sometimes difficult to detect in writing.  As a reader, you may be registering a false positive on your snark-o-meter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, I do have to draw a line somewhere, and I draw it at people directly insulting or otherwise attacking other users, personally.  Short of this, as long as a question gets answered, I think we can all take a little bit of good-natured sarcasm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:05:56.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7145" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:10:04.153" Score="8" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Citizen Patrol&quot; badge is given out for &quot;first flagged post&quot;.  I'd suggest that this also include comments.  In other words, if a user flags a comment before ever flagging a post, you should give him the badge for flagging a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe you could create a separate badge for first flagged comment (but I don't think that's really needed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T20:10:07.737" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:10:07.737" Title="Give &quot;Citizen Patrol&quot; badge for flagging comments too" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:11:42.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the CP badge is only awarded for items that are Flag For Moderator Attention. Flagging it as Spam or Offensive doesn't seem to reward the badge. With that said, I don't think you should give the CP badge out for flagging comments because you don't have the &quot;for moderator attention&quot; option which prompts you for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I may have been mistaken and the CP badge is only awarded for Offensive/Spam flags and not Moderator Attention flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:42:02.523" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:42:02.523" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:17:40.247" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about a particular project, and luckily was able to get in touch with the author of the software. On Stack Overflow, he provided an answer to my question. In this answer, he wanted to provide links to references, but complained that he could only leave 1 link in his answer since he was a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand why this was put in place, but can the limit be raised to something like 3 or 5? With all the self-policing that goes I think spammers would likely be caught very quickly. Raising the limit would aid in furnishing the completeness of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T18:21:40.403" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:29:56.673" Title="new users able to provide links in answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5332" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:18:37.633" Score="7" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to start by saying this is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an attack on anyone, regardless of rep level. Seriously, I'm not trying to start a flame war here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am curious. Meta opened up, and there are already dozens of questions dealing specifically with rep. A few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/345/theoretical-question-hide-rep-above-10k&quot;&gt;Theoretical question: Hide rep above 10k?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2251/will-we-get-back-rep-points-lost-after-a-rep-recalc&quot;&gt;Will we get back rep points lost after a “rep recalc”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3703/can-you-offer-a-bounty-once-youve-hit-the-daily-rep-cap-and-then-earn-more-rep&quot;&gt;Can you offer a bounty once you’ve hit the daily rep cap, and then earn more rep from votes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/176/should-downvoting-cost-you-rep&quot;&gt;Should downvoting cost you rep?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/752/upvoting-based-on-celebrity-too-many-upvotes-excessive-rep-slurping&quot;&gt;Upvoting based on celebrity, too many upvotes (”excessive rep slurping”)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/599/what-to-do-about-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;What to do about rep inflation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not knocking these questions, nor their posters, nor the answerers. (Yes, I just invented a word. Shakespeare did it, too. :)  ) And I will note that ALL of those links came just from the suggestions based on my title -- I didn't even have to do a search here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in others' opinions about rep in general, and why we all seem so fascinated by it, and if perhaps some of us take that fascination too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since meta is the place for this kind of navel-gazing ... Are we too rep-focused? Should we be? Is rep just a fun game for some of us, or are there those of us who take it really seriously? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to add something which I've already placed in a comment. I'm not proposing we get rid of rep, hide rep, destroy rep, nor anything else. I like the rep system. I consider it to be a very clever way to create a self-moderating system, by providing end users who have contributed value a way to keep the site clean and serene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; about StackExchange the software, nor StackOverflow/ServerFault/SuperUser/MetaStackOverflow the sites. The question is about we, the people, the end users. Are we, as individuals, too focused on achieving rep scores? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T19:41:49.267" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:54:58.833" Title="Are we too rep-focused?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:20:40.053" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  Rep seems to make people forget that &lt;strong&gt;this site is a Question and Answer site&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is meant to &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; aid that process, not hinder it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the rep system is great.  People worry about it way too much though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am fairly obsessed with my reputation...and that is a good thing because it drives me to answer lots of questions to the best of my ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It only becomes a problem when people forget that the purpose of this site is getting good answers to questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:20:40.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:21:22.960" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't have a carrot on the stick, you're going to lose a lot of your audience. This entire site was developed with the idea of reputation in mind. It's a central tenet to what makes StackOverflow StackOverflow (and the other sites as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never overestimate the altruism of your fellow man, and never underestimate what some of us will do for a big number next to their name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: This &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; a game, as well as a Q&amp;amp;A site. The fact that it is a game is what keeps people like me coming around and hides the fact that I am sitting here wasting my day answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:21:22.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:22:27.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a way of providing recognition.  Psychologically, it's very valuable for people to perceive that they are valued in some way; in short, reputation provides that feedback for people, in a distinct and quantifiable way that something such as message board posts do not, even if they achieve the same goal (answering people's questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the usage of reputation on SO (and SF, and meta, and SU eventually, and on any stackexchange platform) is a very canny way to attract and reward users for contributing (and adding to the value of the underlying platform).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:22:27.887" />
  <row Id="5335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:29:17.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a word, yes. The thing that bothers me the most lately is the whining and begging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why the downvote? (I.e., if I bug you, will you take it back?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have we not answered your question satisfactorily? (I.e., select my answer as the solution.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't seem to be upvoting answers. (I.e., WTF?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all paraphrases of actual comments from SO. The last one really threw me for a loop. A respondent actually chastised a questioner for &lt;em&gt;not upvoting enough&lt;/em&gt;. The OP then had to offer a public apology and explain that he hadn't been back to the site since he left work. (At which point of course it was upvotes for everyone.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For the record, none of these comments were directed at me, and, no, I won't give sources. I have no interest in public shame fests. But the rep-whoring is pretty amazing and increasingly tedious.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm also unconvinced that without the reputation, the site wouldn't be what it is. I participate regularly on two Linux-related sites without any such system (well, one has a minimal &quot;Vote to thank someone&quot; thing, but (a) that's recent and (b) nobody pays attention to it). They both get good traffic and are filled with regulars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:29:17.060" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="5336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5328" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:29:56.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need 10 rep to post those links. All that should require is a single upvote and you should be good to go. If you make a little comment saying that you can't post the links because of your rep limit, someone will undoubtedly come and give you a sympathy vote to allow you (I've done this numerous times to people who have come into the IRC chan asking this same question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:29:56.673" />
  <row Id="5338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:41:15.820" Score="27" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1035681/bookmarklet-that-detects-whether-the-current-page-is-a-result-of-a-get-request-or&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that went for a long time without getting a definite answer. Later, when I looked at my user page, I saw the text &quot;Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?&quot;. I tried to figure out how to start a bounty, and read through the FAQs, and eventually found out that I can't offer a bounty unless I have at least 100 reputation points. So my suggestion is to not suggest starting a bounty to users who are unable to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28324" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T06:07:34.300" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:07:34.300" Title="Please don't suggest starting a bounty to users who are unable to do so" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:42:11.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.  It accomplishes what it sets out to do, and that is get people to participate on the site.  People complain about using it etc. that's true, but it still accomplishes the underlying goal.  The question you have to ask is whether the site would be as popular without the reps and badges.  My guess would be no, so if you start downplaying it, people will get bored with the site and leave.  Look at other tech sites which have (had) huge followings.  SO is quickly gaining ground, because it has features others don't (and it's not the ability to vote on answers).  People see rep as a goal and actively work to get a higher score, and obsessing and being concerned gets activity on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:42:11.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:53:27.150" Score="3" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed the new Pundit badge. It's a nice badge but on user page it's not possible to find users comments.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So it would be great to have the Comment list like the Answers list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130744" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T19:59:37.423" Title="Comment list in user info page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5338" CreationDate="2009-07-14T18:55:55.690" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. It seems silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T18:55:55.690" />
  <row Id="5342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2009-07-14T19:02:38.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think anything should be done.  Simply put, rep is meaningless.  It has no effect inside (except granting some extra abilities) and outside of the site.  An up vote gives someone a nice feeling that what they are doing is appreciated, and a down vote with a small rep loss is an indicator to them that they may have made a mistake (and should go and fix it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, gaining rep is what fuels users to the site.  Getting more rep for an up vote provides a greater amount of positive feed back and encourages people to continue posting.  The moment you increase the amount of rep lost for a down vote, the less people are going to post.  You also have to remember that bad answers are punished swiftly and with great force (so a bad answer may get 6 down votes in quick succession).  A 5 rep loss for active users (all those with over 10k raise your hands, I think I count at least 4 posts from people who fit that), isn't that much, but making a starting user lose 5 to 10 rep per down vote will quickly discourage that person to return.  Essentially, this is all about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rats pressing bars&lt;/a&gt; and you want them to press it as fast and as often as they can.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if answers are bad, you want to encourage people to post, because they will gently be moved to the bottom from negative votes.  A person gaining 6 rep and losing 4 (1 up + 2 down) is little compared to that person posting a correct answer for someone else.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:02:38.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T19:10:30.157" Score="4" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;When answering your own question, it currently says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You must wait 0 hours before answering your own question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it won't let me accept my own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; wait 48 hours.&#xA;It was after the 48 hour time limit that it said I had &quot;0 hours&quot; to wait, and it would still not accept my own answer.&#xA;Perhaps only minutes were left (i.e. &amp;lt; 1 hour).&#xA;It should indicate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131045" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T19:35:43.650" LastActivityDate="2011-04-21T07:40:10.290" Title="You must wait 0 hours before answering your own question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5346" CreationDate="2009-07-14T19:13:18.957" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to wait 48 hours before accepting your answer on your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to answer it immediately, however, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86185/minimum-reputation-for-answering-your-own-question-should-be-higher-than-what-is/86186#86186&quot;&gt;after a shorter wait, if you have less than 100 reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="33732" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-21T07:40:10.290" LastActivityDate="2011-04-21T07:40:10.290" />
  <row Id="5348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-07-14T19:20:42.097" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree in theory with the reasons others have given for not allowing this, however I often wonder if people post answers which are really comments because there's no rep available for comments. Example, the accepted answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/40141/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; reads more like a comment than an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130790" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:20:42.097" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5346" CreationDate="2009-07-14T19:23:53.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this go against Atwood's whole idea of using the site to post information that you want to keep track of.  The &quot;Hey I have this cool trick, and I am going to post it on SO, so I have it and other's can see it.&quot;  He went on and on about this during the early so podcasts.  I don't want to have to wait 48 hours to close out an item that I want to remember. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:23:53.563" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2009-07-14T19:47:40.937" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote me up and I'll tell you the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:47:40.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-14T19:47:40.937" />
  <row Id="5358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5329" CreationDate="2009-07-14T19:54:58.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, here are my two cents. (Which, in the vein of the site, I didn't want to put in as part of the question itself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't care &lt;em&gt;too much&lt;/em&gt; about my rep.  (I find it somewhat ironic that I am myself guilty of posting yet-another-rep-question while using it to find out if we're too focused on rep-questions. I find it doubly ironic that this question was directly responsible for me being able to vote on answers, and triply ironic that it garnered me at least badges.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I care, especially in the early stages, about gaining the abilities I didn't have before. Not that I necessarily want to be able to vote to close questions (I do it sometimes, but rarely, IMO), nor be able to get it into edit wars (don't think I ever participated in one), but more -- as others have said -- that feeling of accomplishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't really navel-gaze my rep. For example, this question got downvoted. Whoever did that had a good reason to do so, I'm sure (quite possibly the raw irony of me asking it!), so que ce ra, ce ra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think some folks come off as wanting/expecting &quot;too much,&quot; or &quot;too soon.&quot; I tend to agree with folks that comments such as &quot;why did you downvote me&quot; and &quot;I don't think you're upvoting enough&quot; are somewhat silly, and tend to create negative ramifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the other end of the spectrum are folks who optimize their participation to garner the most rep. I'm OK with this, believe it or not. (Like I said in the question -- I'm not trying to tick people off, I'm just asking if we navel-gaze too much!) I'm OK with this because these folks are still providing value to the community -- in fact, much moreso than I, as I've been fairly inactive on SO of late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the end of the day ... I guess some people do take their rep too seriously, others see it as a game (and by virtue of playing it, contribute effectively), others don't care ... And it probably simply doesn't matter, since the sites are generally stronger for all the participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T19:54:58.833" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5304" CreationDate="2009-07-14T20:09:13.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a nebulous approach to discussion questions - if there are best practices the OP is looking for, with discussion about different tradeoffs, I'm OK with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it's vague and handwavey...yeah, that's not really in the purview of SO. (Although I like vagueness questions as much as the next guy)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T20:09:13.180" />
  <row Id="5361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5017" CreationDate="2009-07-14T20:10:18.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know &lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I just use superscript on it &lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Looks nice to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T20:10:18.890" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5017" CreationDate="2009-07-14T20:15:25.623" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely like them. Although they could be hacked on via font-work, it would definitely enhance usability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T20:15:25.623" />
  <row Id="5363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5346" CreationDate="2009-07-14T20:40:14.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can answer your question immediately. The 48 hour limit is for &lt;strong&gt;accepting&lt;/strong&gt; your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T20:40:14.180" />
  <row Id="5364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5366" CreationDate="2009-07-14T20:43:08.450" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/943/ability-to-search-my-stuff&quot;&gt;Ability to search my stuff?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find a question I made long time ago. I tried searching it, but there is much noise (other people's questions). Can I specify a user in the search box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This feature request has been completed: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-26T18:59:26.900" LastActivityDate="2010-09-26T18:59:26.900" ClosedDate="2009-08-11T02:44:35.547" Title="How to search my own questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5364" CreationDate="2009-07-14T20:45:27.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not use your questions list on your profile? Just click one of the last pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T20:45:27.293" />
  <row Id="5366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5364" CreationDate="2009-07-14T20:46:03.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will probably be somewhere on this list (especially if you add some more context to it):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.es/search?q=&amp;#34;jader+dias&amp;#34;+site:stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.es/search?q=&amp;#34;jader+dias&amp;#34;+site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T20:46:03.177" />
  <row Id="5370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:11:04.037" Score="4" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to this answer on a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read/1735#1735&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that post click on &quot;add/show X more comments&quot; then immediately click &quot;add/show X more comments&quot; on the post directly above it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A box pops up &quot;You may only fetch comments every 2 seconds (click box to dismiss)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you click the box to dismiss, you discover that the &quot;Add comment&quot; box has appeared, but the additional comments that you tried to view are nowhere to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to reload the page to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've reproduced it on both FF 3.0.1.0 and IE 7 on my Windows Vista box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-22T05:33:55.863" LastActivityDate="2010-04-22T05:33:55.863" Title="&quot;You may only fetch comments every 2 seconds&quot; causes comment fetch failure" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:11:58.230" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;link&quot; link in the answers are not relative anchor links ('#') but send the user to a completely new URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a question with URL...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://site.example.com/questions/1276/title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://site.example.com/questions/1276/title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are linked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://site.example.com/questions/1276/title/1234#1234&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://site.example.com/questions/1276/title/1234#1234&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times, some answers reference other answers. With the current linking scheme, this reloads the page. With the proposed scheme below, It would just scroll to the linked answer and not reload the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://site.example.com/questions/1276/title#1234&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://site.example.com/questions/1276/title#1234&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastEditorUserId="16084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-14T22:07:22.947" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T17:01:20.773" Title="links to answers cause page reload" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5371" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:15:23.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; actually just copy the hash portion of the URL and &lt;a href=&quot;#5372&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;use that in your links&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/6584821c-7353-4f33-997a-9c8da10b3f92/view-source&quot;&gt;view source&lt;/a&gt; for example). Then it won't reload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'll also &lt;em&gt;fail to work&lt;/em&gt; if there are numerous answers and the one you're linking to is on a different page from your own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T21:15:23.997" />
  <row Id="5373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5371" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:15:46.333" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions have more than one page of answers, and so a relative anchor link doesn't cut it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T21:15:46.333" />
  <row Id="5374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5370" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:17:40.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments all loaded fine for me despite seeing the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Opera 10.00 Beta Build 1551&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Platform Win32&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  System Windows XP  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T21:17:40.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5370" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:21:09.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reproduced (FF3.5, Windows XP SP2). Oddly enough, the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; set of comments failed to load with that message, while the second set loaded successfully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, it left me with no choice but to reload the entire page in order to view both sets of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T21:21:09.930" />
  <row Id="5376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5370" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:22:10.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can confirm the bug on Chrome 2.0.172.33 / Vista SP2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T21:22:10.093" />
  <row Id="5377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5370" CreationDate="2009-07-14T21:22:12.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reproduced this in Google Chrome 3.0.193.0, Win32, WinXP SP3. None of the additional comments for the second clicked link appeared after dismissing the box and I had to reload the page to get them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also reproduced in IE8 - same system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not sure this is really a bug. The warning tells you what happened and you can refresh the page to get the comments. Is this really something we want the guys spending time on fixing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T21:22:12.963" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T23:06:21.443" Score="6" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently trying to use the site(s) on my phone, which runs Opera on Windows Mobile 6.1. Actually looks OK. And if this comes through then question submitting works! But I just tried to upvote someone's answerr on both SO and here, and that doesn't work. Any plans to improve support for this browser? As a user of it, anything I can do to help if so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further observations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5391/invalid-email-problem&quot;&gt;email validation problem&lt;/a&gt; I encountered is also down to Opera mini. It's fine now I'm in work on a proper PC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastEditorUserId="83109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T07:47:47.900" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T22:00:03.273" Title="Support for Opera mini/Pocket PC" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="5391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T23:11:39.310" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the question I just submitted, I was unable to get notification emails because it said my email address was invalid. It isn't. It's a .us domain though - could that be the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastEditorUserId="83109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T07:46:17.823" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:46:17.823" Title="Invalid email problem" Tags="&lt;email&gt;&lt;validation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5391" CreationDate="2009-07-14T23:13:04.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like a logical assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if the email validation is a bit skimpy as far as what domains it allows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T23:13:04.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10608" CreationDate="2009-07-14T23:30:34.960" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;You see these tag views on quite a few blogs and I'm curious what SO used in their recent tags implementation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking more along the lines of the jQuery tool used or however else it was presented...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T21:04:49.563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T04:25:50.670" Title="How was the recent tags shown on the main pages built? Tag Cloud?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;so-design&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="5395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2009-07-14T23:59:43.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I did not care for the way you kept editing the original question (ostensibly to &quot;add links&quot;) which implicitly bumps it back to the front page every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything was rubbing people raw about this fairly negative toned and contentious question, it was surely related to the fact that you kept pushing it back up into their faces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-14T23:59:43.680" />
  <row Id="5397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2009-07-15T00:23:50.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree with TheTXI, the words BEST or WORST in a question title is at best a community wiki warrant and at worst death warrant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I think this is a pretty uninteresting question cause one persons &quot;best&quot; programming language will be another's &quot;worst&quot;... and there is always BrainFuck and family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a much more interesting approach is to look at particular aspects of programming languages people find problematic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T03:40:06.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:40:06.410" />
  <row Id="5399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-23T04:41:54.647" Score="17" ViewCount="469" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I see answers which are good, but not complete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, I sometimes think that the best answer is probably a mixture of a bunch of ideas with some of my own ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to have three possible actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post comments on an existing answer, asking the person to expand the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a new answer referencing all the prior work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a new answer referencing all the prior work and mark it community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, option 1 gives me no points and may end up unseen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 2 pollutes the list of answers on the question. You end up having many answers to a question that are similar, but not identical. Also, you have to be very careful to reference everyone, because you can end up getting downvoted, and pissing people off for &quot;stealing&quot; the ideas they &quot;had first.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 3 is good in theory, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get no points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't even have enough points to edit a community wiki that is not mine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People do not seem to want to invest the time required to fix up community wikis because they get no points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if you have a comprehensive community wiki-based answer, it usually isn't voted as the answer, because being first seems to be more important than being correct or comprehensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this whole obsession with ownership and being &quot;first&quot; is hurting this community and website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish there were some way to contribute to an existing answer without having 3000 points. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bob posts an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I edit the answer, and Bob gets a notification that I edited it. The contents of the edit are not shown on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bob accepts my improvement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get rewarded. (How I get rewarded is an interesting question.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everybody is happy and we are one happy community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of algorithm would you use to reward contributions? (E.g. percentage of upvotes from that point on)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this really a problem, or is it just me? Can this be solved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:52:11.520" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T06:25:39.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T04:57:08.953" Title="Why does Stack Overflow discourage collaboration?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="5400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2008-10-23T04:47:13.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your option 3 is what the vision was for this scenario, minus the wiki part.  If you combine several answers to make one complete answer, there is no reason you shouldn't get points for that.  If the community disagrees, your answer won't be voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:42:16.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T01:14:48.917" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2008-10-23T05:17:28.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with #2. There's nothing wrong with having multiple similar answers if there is a notable difference between them. I have done it, and have not been voted down for it, and if somebody expanded on what I already said I would have no problem with it either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we're usually dealing with topics where there's no &quot;right&quot; answer, I think having multiple similar answers that are not identical may be more valuable than a single concatenated answer anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary point of this site is to share information. Don't worry too much about cluttering the answers, If the community thinks that you didn't provide any value for the clutter and you get a bunch of down votes, then delete your answer and get yourself a Peer Pressure badge :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:42:16.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T05:17:28.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-01-07T21:46:25.513" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Option 4: Just edit the existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastEditorUserId="152657" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-27T06:25:39.383" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T06:25:39.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T01:14:48.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-01-07T21:49:14.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I get rewarded. (How is an interesting question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the authors/editors get reputation: 10 points per upvote, -2 per downvote. Per person (but of course only &quot;future&quot; up/downvotes: you don't get reputation for votes occurred before your edit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Until everyone decides to edit every post in a thread, and collect&#xA;  reputation from all answers :)&#xA;  -- Princess&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid spoil the system, the original author must accept your edit, otherwise you are not rewarded (you might still &quot;superedit&quot; the question if you have 2000+ rep). Now, that person might decided that you suck, doesn't accept your edit, but does the same edit him/herself. You are out of luck, but he/she doesn't get anything more than just accepting your edits (besides the wasted time of re-doing it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would work pretty well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131819" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:42:16.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T21:49:14.337" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-01-07T21:50:26.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about adding a canned phrase to the end of all my answers saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have plenty of points. If you find a newbie below with the same answer, please upvote that answer instead of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are way too fast to whack us with rules than help support rich content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have plenty of points. If you find a newbie below with the same answer, please upvote that answer instead of mine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:42:16.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T21:50:26.707" />
  <row Id="5405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-03-27T18:20:39.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the rationale of this question.  Someone reviewing answers should not be criticizing or downvoting an answer because it is not the end-all, be-all of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is little to gain in writing a book of content in an answer.  I see some of the best and most informative SO discussions result from amassed answers that cover all angles of the topic.  Doing so allows readers to upvote (and hopefully not downvote) the better of the answers, thereby distributing the credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to like how some have summarized the best responses by editing the question with updates.  There's no need to use community wiki for this approach, IMHO.  The questioner should still get credit for asking a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:42:16.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-27T18:20:39.947" />
  <row Id="5406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-03-27T18:26:03.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These all seem like symptoms of the real problem: user karma.  In programming (and other work), we often speak of &quot;egoless&quot; work, of removing the &quot;self&quot; from the work.  We criticize work, and hope the author doesn't take it personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then we have sites like Stackoverflow, which let us criticize answers, but then also apply that criticism to the user's &quot;score&quot;.  I'm not sure what the point of this is.  It seems to be contrary to everything we seek to achieve.  It means people get connected to having answers with high point values, not with helping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to score answers is a great idea, but it shouldn't use that to compute a &quot;user score&quot; that it shoves in your face all the time.  The top of every page is my name right next to a Pac-Man-style score: my value, according to this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:42:16.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-27T18:26:03.677" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-03-27T18:34:10.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the way the Stack OverFlow members do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't want a solution, or why it works, I just get to work and ask the guys here to do it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People here give me ideas, tips that helps me do my work better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want, for example, to show a pop-up on your page, don't ask for a complete solution, only for pointers and do the work by yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12637" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T23:37:11.010" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T23:37:11.010" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-27T18:34:10.913" />
  <row Id="5408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5409" CreationDate="2009-01-29T22:23:11.307" Score="5" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the etiquette for fixing up questions which have an incorrect answer that both has the highest number of votes and the highest voted answer is marked correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post example questions here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related Question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7572/why-do-incorrect-answers-keep-getting-accepted&quot;&gt;Why do incorrect answers keep getting “accepted”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/7690#7690&quot;&gt;list of problem questions&lt;/a&gt; I compiled using the SO data dump. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:41:31.570" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:41:31.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-29T22:23:11.277" Title="What is the etiquette for correcting old questions with incorrect answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5408" CreationDate="2009-01-29T22:25:39.260" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just rolled up all the answers I like, thanks! We need more examples here please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question - or better still upvote the correct answers to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include in your answer explicit reasoning why the other answers are wrong. Don't be personal or hostile about it, but give enough evidence to convince someone coming to the site in the future. If you need to post a new answer for this then do so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote incorrect answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment on each incorrect answer, either just referring to your answer or briefly refuting the relevant point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the accepted answer is &lt;strong&gt;dangerous&lt;/strong&gt; edit the question and chuck in a warning. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the accepted answer is &lt;strong&gt;dangerous&lt;/strong&gt; and the person asking the question has not fixed it in 24 hours downvote the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94906/how-do-i-return-random-numbers-as-a-column-in-sql-server-2005&quot;&gt;Example 1&lt;/a&gt; - Following this advice it was fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13540&quot;&gt;Example 2&lt;/a&gt; - This one is a bugger to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108403/solutions-for-insert-or-update-on-sql-server&quot;&gt;Example 3&lt;/a&gt; - The answer marked correct is not safe for concurrent usage, I am stumped on how to fix this up without being very aggressive cause the incorrect answer has 20 upvotes. The correct answer on this question is a cut-and-paste from my blog it has 1 upvote (which is my upvote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:56:15.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-29T22:25:39.260" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5408" CreationDate="2009-01-29T22:27:50.410" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the potential for that taking place in an environment full of professional developers? I suppose a question could get a few upvotes, and selected as the &quot;correct&quot; answer, but it would seem that the vast majority of developers having a solid understanding would either suggest a better answer, or downvote the horrible answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases it would seem sufficient to provide a better answer, and then reference your answer in the comments of the accepted answer. If your answer is better, it should begin taking on some weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, the accepted answers wouldn't be the accepted answers if they didn't accomplish what the author desired. That being said, accepted answers &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; work. That isn't to say they are the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answer, but they are at least &lt;strong&gt;sufficient&lt;/strong&gt; until the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answer arrives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:56:15.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-29T22:27:50.410" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="5411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5408" CreationDate="2009-01-29T23:13:43.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include in your answer explicit reasoning why the other answers are wrong. Don't be personal or hostile about it, but give enough evidence to convince someone coming to the site in the future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote incorrect answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment on each incorrect answer, either just referring to your answer or briefly refuting the relevant point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a really good example of this once - parameter passing in C#, probably - but I can't remember exactly what it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd actually regard it as slightly irresponsible &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do each of these things, if you're confident of your answer and can explain it convincingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:56:15.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-29T23:13:43.513" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5408" CreationDate="2009-01-29T23:27:01.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps upvotes need to be weighted based on the applicable tags of the votees.  IE C# experts with lots of points should be able to up or down vote stronger than those who have not proven themselves to be experts in a field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that if something is clearly wrong, then you have a responsibility to correct it, but I would leave the original content in.  Post evidence as to why it is wrong in the upvoted post, and give the postee a chance to respond to your comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:56:15.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-29T23:27:01.600" />
  <row Id="5413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5408" CreationDate="2009-01-30T11:14:48.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/new-replies-notification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent activity feature&lt;/a&gt; it should be easier to get the question askers attention as they will be alerted to comments and edits to their posts, but it might also be worth &lt;strong&gt;downvoting the question&lt;/strong&gt; to make sure they get the message that something is wrong, and also to reduce it's vote relative to any similar or duplicate questions so that when they are returned in search results or the Related Questions when asking a new question the questions with more reliable answers are given prominence. If you do downvote I think it would be polite to &lt;strong&gt;revisit&lt;/strong&gt; the question before the vote becomes permanent to see if anything has changed and remove the downvote if it has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:56:15.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-30T11:14:48.037" />
  <row Id="5414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5408" CreationDate="2009-01-31T00:36:49.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One recent subtle example is this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487258/plain-english-explanation-of-big-o&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487258/plain-english-explanation-of-big-o&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, all the current answers except for starblue's are technically incorrect. Granted, the asker probably didn't ask the right question and probably those answers really helped him better understand that stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T00:56:15.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-31T00:36:49.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T01:03:28.457" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Negative scores on accepted answers upset me. I know &quot;accepted answer&quot; means it helped the OP, not that it is correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless there are only 72 (according to the latest dump) questions which have an accepted answer with a score less than -1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are any of these scores unfair? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(question, accepted votes, highest voted answer) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/168427&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Compare SQL Server Reporting Services to Crystal Reports&lt;/a&gt;   -29	 39&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/911536&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Built-in types, when (not) to use?&lt;/a&gt;     -17	 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387801&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Why does PHP software often look better (on the outside) than software written in other languages?&lt;/a&gt;     -16	 21&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/216359&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Break Statements In the real world&lt;/a&gt;     -14	 47&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277991&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Linux : How to run a server on port 80 as normal user&lt;/a&gt;  -12	 35&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/435620&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How are CSS frameworks used?&lt;/a&gt;   -9	 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/163834&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;PHP templates - with PHP&lt;/a&gt;   -9	 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60032&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Getting the array key in a foreach loop&lt;/a&gt;     -8	 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/842590&quot; 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   -2	 0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/835092&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Python dictionary: are keys() and values() always the same order?&lt;/a&gt;  -2	 10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/812301&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Rounded Corners&lt;/a&gt;    -2	 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543225&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How to avoid tripping over UTF-8 BOM when reading files&lt;/a&gt;    -2	 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/971548&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;algorithm to check if a space is convex&lt;/a&gt;    -2	 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select Id, &#xA;    (select max(a.Score) from Answers a where a.ParentId = q.Id ) as MaxScore , &#xA;    (select a.Score from Answers a where a.Id = q.AcceptedAnswerId) as  SelectedScore&#xA;into #t&#xA;from Questions q&#xA;where AcceptedAnswerId is not null &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;select '- [' + Title + '](' + 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' + cast(q.Id as varchar(max)) + ' &quot;link&quot;)'&#xA;, ' ' + cast(SelectedScore as varchar(max)) &#xA;, ' ' +cast(MaxScore as varchar(max))  &#xA;from #t t&#xA;join Questions q on q.Id = t.Id&#xA;where SelectedScore &amp;lt; MaxScore&#xA;and SelectedScore &amp;lt; -1&#xA;order by selectedscore asc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:16:37.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T13:58:21.770" Title="Are there any questions with an accepted answer which wrongly has negative votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5419" CreationDate="2009-07-15T01:08:44.290" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I said I won't semi-duplicate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318503/comments-for-comments-answers-for-answers-is-it-that-hard&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, but for now my comment was ignored, so I post it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what happens when a user has &amp;lt; 50rep but wants to participate in a question? She/He maybe has something interesting to say/suggest but don't have enough rep, so, She/He decides to post an &quot;answer&quot; that it's clearly a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1127726/debug-hacking-traceback-to-static-pointer-dword-ptr&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, where I down-voted an answer for that reason and the user came with the valid point that he can't comment because his low rep, so he answered with the intention to get some clarification to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:48:51.203" Title="Using answers as comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="5417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5415" CreationDate="2009-07-15T01:16:12.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers generally garner more attention than any other answer for a given question. Normally, that will result in a nice little rep bump... but if the answer is wrong, unhelpful, or seen as rude... then the opposite may happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Break Statements In the real world&lt;/em&gt; - selected answer is unnecessarily opinionated... and C programmers don't take kindly to people dumping on their cherished language features. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do foreach loops work in C#?&lt;/em&gt; - selected answer is incomplete and wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How are CSS frameworks used?&lt;/em&gt; - answer is trite and unhelpful. Also, it was posted by asker and then accepted - adding insult to injury is a great way to collect down-votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:16:12.273" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5415" CreationDate="2009-07-15T01:16:37.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my slightly biased opinion, my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277991&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277991&lt;/a&gt; is both correct and accepted, in spite of the -12 score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:16:37.050" />
  <row Id="5419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5416" CreationDate="2009-07-15T01:22:54.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately that's the way things are. Tell them to go out and get some rep. If they've got something to share, it shouldn't take long for them to answer a couple questions, get a couple upvotes, and start using more features of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:22:54.773" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:32:27.763" Score="0" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;So let's say I get an answer from someone who seems like a nice guy to have around and is open to contact after answering a question. How can I start networking with other developers who use Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Messaging functionality isn't present. Does Stack Overflow end at the Q&amp;amp;A?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138600" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:16:30.277" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T20:16:30.277" Title="How can I network with other developers on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:34:15.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Submit the question:  &quot;How can I get in touch with &lt;em&gt;username&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;  Sure it'll be deleted within 10 seconds, but might catch their eye :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, the only thing you can do is click on their username to see their profile and hope they've added a website where you can find further info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148633" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" />
  <row Id="5423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:34:27.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For social networking on the site, you could try &lt;a href=&quot;http://nicksergeant.com/blog/programming/stack-overflow-friends-greasemonkey-script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Greasemonkey script to add a friends list&lt;/a&gt;. I imagine that's a future planned feature, but this is a nice temporary bandaid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" />
  <row Id="5424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:34:44.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be related to this other question(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188221/implementing-a-circle-of-trust-algorithm&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188221/implementing-a-circle-of-trust-algorithm&lt;/a&gt;), and the uservoice suggestion about it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/35055&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/35055&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" />
  <row Id="5425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:35:12.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can leave a comment at their answer asking for a contact details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if J, J &amp;amp; Co. decide to add direct messages at some point, although I have not heard anything indicating they are planning on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As usual, Uservoice is a great place to nudge them in the &quot;right&quot; direction. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131157" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" />
  <row Id="5426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:35:12.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On their profile page, they could list a personal website, which may list further contact info.  It's a bit roundabout, but it's available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143270" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" />
  <row Id="5427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:36:09.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I should add my AIM to my About Me. I have my email, if for some reason, another SOer has a question for me off-site. I would suggest that. There is a user search and a more-than-generous About Me box on your profile. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:37:03.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;some of the guys here are also in twitter (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com&lt;/a&gt;). If you have a twitter account, you can follow lots of developer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:39:30.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Step 1: Link to your &lt;b&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/b&gt; page in your profile. Substitute &quot;LinkedIn&quot; for myspace, facebook, your blog, yada, and/or yada. Encourage others to do so as well (As I am doing now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 3: Profit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:43:56.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I join the club, be able to send &quot;personal messages&quot; and to add &quot;contacts&quot; would be super cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the privacy example that sites like Facebook gives, I would like to avoid giving my email adress(or other information) until I accept the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if you implement intrasite messages, you should and &quot;ignore user&quot; capability to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something very basic, just enough to get in touch and avoid getting touched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:53:39.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about integrating most of the functionality between developers through facebook? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that way you won't have to rewrite a good networking platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most subfacebook communities like human pets are working like this. This creates more exposure in my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have said LinkedIn but other than networking I find that site to lack features. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152449" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T01:45:49.330" />
  <row Id="5432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20182" CreationDate="2009-07-15T02:03:51.670" Score="5" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many people here want to make connections (professional, that is). But not everybody here wants to be pestered with IMs through SO, or other annoyances. Some of us don't mind, and would welcome contacts through SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is a place for those of us who would be more than happy to allow others to contact us to post a bit of our information. The benefit of posting it here, rather than in individual user profiles, is that this is a central location to search users who have opted-in to the &quot;contact me&quot; group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make it fun, upvote people you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're not interested in networking with other SO-users, please don't attempt to keep all who are from doing so. Please do not attempt to bury this item.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:08:01.457" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T20:08:01.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T02:03:51.670" Title="Users interested in social networking on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;friends&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="5433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5432" CreationDate="2009-07-15T02:04:51.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name&lt;/strong&gt;: Jonathan Sampson ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54680/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/519/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/9364/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Location&lt;/strong&gt;: Atlanta, GA&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Subjects&lt;/strong&gt;: PHP, MySQL, jQuery, XHTML, and CSS&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Contact&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/contact.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sampsonresume.com/contact.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Twitter&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com/jonathansampson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.twitter.com/jonathansampson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Facebook&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/jonathansampson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/jonathansampson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/in/sampson83&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.linkedin.com/in/sampson83&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T13:24:58.740" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:24:58.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T02:04:51.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-15T02:39:00.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I hope Jeff doesn't ban me for this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'll fess up! I created the Ubuntu-9.04 tag on Serverfault. I haven't got the badge yet but I check on it once in a while. I also tag any questions that are related to Ubuntu with the Ubuntu-9.04 instead of just the regular Ubuntu tag. However, I haven't went so far as to retag other people's question (that actually does cross the line IMO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that make me a bad person? Am I a cheater? Maybe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you know what they say, If your not cheating your not trying. They also say cheaters never win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do ban me I'll still read your blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T04:53:58.347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T04:53:58.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5390" CreationDate="2009-07-15T02:51:10.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that Opera/WinCE/iPhone/what-have-you-platform tweaks don't really belong in &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow codebase.  Instead, this need should be served by third-party apps built using the (hopefully) forthcoming API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one, the experience would be a lot nicer.  There's also not much point in the developers working to support such a niche case, when I'm sure plenty of people will be willing to gin up clients for their favorite platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T02:51:10.210" />
  <row Id="5436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:02:41.977" Score="23" ViewCount="523" Body="&lt;p&gt;The increase in the character limit of comments has led them to become as important as the questions and answers that spawn them. On several occasions (especially on meta) I've found reason to want to link to a comment directly. I'd imagine something as simple as making the date / time stamp an anchored link which mimics the behavior of the question link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-23T05:00:32.010" LastActivityDate="2011-05-25T19:29:37.043" Title="Direct Link to a Comment" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="5437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1696" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:11:55.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To heck with the OCR, dudes, just give us the image!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And hey, I kind of liked that OCaml question :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:11:55.180" />
  <row Id="5438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:16:07.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look, this is Jon Skeet we're talking about.  Obviously we have a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet fact&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet's reputation threatens to overflow the type used to represent reputation, the type automatically doubles in size to accomodate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:16:07.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T03:16:07.270" />
  <row Id="5439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5436" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:33:31.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, this has been a problem for me too a few times, mainly in meta-SO.  It would have helped Jeff to link to me and TXI's bad joke in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/migrate-questions-between-websites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a recent SO blog post&lt;/a&gt; too! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T03:39:38.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:39:38.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5453" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:35:20.493" Score="6" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered authorising a company somewhere to produce real-world badges for stackoverflow accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this is trivial, but I'm sure a few people (myself included) would enjoy being able to bring our... flair... into the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefits are both ways; it advertises SO in the real world (at meetups, conventions, any kind of technical gathering), and allows people to show-off their status, which is, of course, one of the defining traits of geekdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Could we have stackoverflow at cafepress, or somesuch? So at the very least we can get stackoverflow branded stuff? Is the artwork available as vector anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130839" LastEditorUserId="130839" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T17:26:38.773" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:26:38.773" Title="Bringing Badges into the real world" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:40:04.750" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it would be considered gaming this badge, but synonyms seem to be a good way to work towards this badge. For example take a look at user &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/2067/kris&quot;&gt;Kris&lt;/a&gt; on Server Fault. He only has one reputation, asked only one question tagged with both &quot;mac&quot; and &quot;macosx.&quot; These two terms seem to be used synonymously, at least in the context of his question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:40:04.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5440" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:43:22.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't wait to be seen with my &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;woot!&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Necromancer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; badges :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:43:22.143" />
  <row Id="5443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:51:07.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Java is probably the worst programming language.  PHP, C, and C++ are pretty bad too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Flame away.  He hates your favorite language!!!11!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:51:07.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:54:14.363" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm nearing the 2,000 mark in reputation on StackOverflow.com; which I believe I will then earn the privilege to edit other people's posts.  Is the &quot;edit other people's posts&quot; role apply at a site-wide level or can it be granted for a specific set of tags in which I have demonstrated some level of competency?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148723" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:59:56.567" Title="Is it possible to be granted &quot;edit other people's posts&quot; permissions for just a specific tag?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:58:13.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipcrime%5F%28Usenet%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hipcrime&lt;/a&gt; is trying to figure out how to continue to annoy on a post-Usenet Internet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131039" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:58:13.233" />
  <row Id="5446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5444" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:59:06.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get it for the whole site. Reputation tries to be a measure of an overall level of trust you should have, I think trying to dilute that down to tag-based permissions looks attractive at first but would end up being more trouble than its worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:59:06.787" />
  <row Id="5447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5444" CreationDate="2009-07-15T03:59:56.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rule applies to the entire site. The purpose for the threshhold isn't so much to prove that you are competent, but to require a not insignificant person investment in the site, which serves the purpose of cutting down on spam/abusive edits, as well as providing an incentive to post good questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, once you reach 2000 rep, the system trusts you to edit other peoples posts, but there's no implicit assumption that you are competent in that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T03:59:56.567" />
  <row Id="5448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5449" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:01:10.137" Score="6" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just an idea on a fun badge...&#xA;Say a user gain lots of reputation in short period of time (to be determine (X amount of points and Y amount of time).... he is a climber or rising star, etc. etc.  Pick your wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130960" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-07T16:33:50.967" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T10:40:42.927" Title="Climber badge?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5448" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:03:28.907" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;X consecutive days of &gt;= 190 daily rep?  The &lt;strong&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_jersey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yellow jersey&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; badge, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Filburt makes an excellent alternative suggestion: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_classification_in_the_Tour_de_France&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the dotted jersey&lt;/a&gt; (for mastery of climbing mountains).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18484" LastEditorUserId="18484" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-08T10:40:42.927" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T10:40:42.927" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5450" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:25:18.770" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;A truly persistent &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesthornton.com/jargon/jargon.html#kook&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;net.kook&lt;/a&gt; can seriously disrupt a mailing list or Usenet newsgroup (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/15/netkook-institutiona.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;or worse&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd imagine Stack Overflow et all are inherently resistant to this sort of thing, but I'm curious to know if any have wandered in and tried to stir up trouble?  I'm not looking for names or dirty laundry.  Having encountered a kook or two in my day, I'm interested in the mechanics of kook-resistant communities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131039" LastEditorUserId="131039" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T14:43:11.093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:43:11.093" Title="Have any net.kooks shown up on StackOverflow or ServerFault?" Tags="&lt;trolling&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:27:03.333" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the person who asked a question it would be useful to know when a question was last viewed. As a potential answerer it would be useful to know when the question was last viewed before your visit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:00:01.747" Title="A last viewed date time stamp" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5450" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:41:07.947" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but He Shall Not Be Named.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T04:41:07.947" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T04:41:20.860" />
  <row Id="5453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5440" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:45:52.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best way to implement something like this would be to create Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User lapel pins. This would accomplish recognizing other users of your favorite site/s. Then you could have business-like cards &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Front   -------------------------------------------       Back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/%5FaWvxxJGWLqs/Sl1n2-edvWI/AAAAAAAAEfI/GbC6t4bOMnc/s800/Screenshot-User%20Soldier.moth%20-%20Stack%20Overflow%20-%20Mozilla%20Firefox.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture of stackoverflow example card&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;something along the lines of this although more polished&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;My image for the back of the card is to have the tags arranged in a tag cloud sort of visual but too much work to mock up right now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastEditorUserId="130239" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T05:30:19.573" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T05:30:19.573" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5448" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:50:29.023" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. Call it &quot;Ascender,&quot; &quot;Rising Star&quot; (as suggested), or something else entirely. I'd put two conditions on it, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User has 5 consecutive days (I say 5 for those that take weekends off) of 190 rep gain (kudos to Kyle for catching the downvote issue)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User has &amp;lt; 5000 rep (otherwise you'll hit the issue where folks with high reps and lots of posts get this badge every day).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T04:50:29.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:48:52.810" Score="-9" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been working on the Dotnetnuke module development since last two years and found that it is a optimum choice for remote teams. Its module deployment architecture is one of the reason that can help remote team members to work independently and come up with a simple zip package. Integration becomes less feverish and management becomes easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, this time, there is a different decision to make. An application which looks much more complicated and teams are remotely located. What am thinking here will Dotnetnuke be a good choice for web applications (not portal)? Suppose, we have to create a system like &quot;Stackoverflow&quot;. And we have to give a presentation to Joel and Jeff and convince them to choose Dotnetnuke as their preferred development platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Begin! ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:28:59.707" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:28:59.707" Title="How do we convince Joel and Jeff to choose Dotnetnuke as their preferred development platform?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5455" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:56:28.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A framework needs to fit the personality of the project manager and the organization paying the bill.  (Notice I didn't say developers, those guys can always be hired/fired until you get the ones that like your framework.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinionated and talented guys like Joel and Jeff are unlikely to follow the &quot;do-it-someone-elses-way&quot; framework, even if it save you the effort of inventing your own framework.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to be fair, what you are really asking is what the difference/ relative merits between dotnetnuke and mvc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33264" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T04:56:28.843" />
  <row Id="5457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5455" CreationDate="2009-07-15T04:59:10.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a rhetorical question? I can't tell if you're asking for presentation tips or actually trying to convince Joel and Jeff to convert to Dotnetnuke.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the latter, I think Joel and Jeff are both experienced enough to chose what tools they feel are most fit for the job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T04:59:10.237" />
  <row Id="5458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5455" CreationDate="2009-07-15T05:00:05.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is: &lt;strong&gt;YOU WON'T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T05:00:05.757" />
  <row Id="5459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5455" CreationDate="2009-07-15T05:17:58.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't the faintest clue what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you want StackOverflow to be ported to DotNetNuke? Do you want to implement your own SO-clone using DotNetNuke? Do you want Joel and Jeff to use DotNetNuke for some other project?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't understand the advantages you're mentioning. They're advantages compared to what? In which situation? Who are the remote teams, where are they located, and what are they working on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T05:17:58.407" />
  <row Id="5460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42662" CreationDate="2009-07-15T05:20:23.443" Score="38" ViewCount="985" Body="&lt;p&gt;In replying to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1129392/text-alignment-problem&quot;&gt;Text Alignment Problem&lt;/a&gt; on SO, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/70492/hyperslug&quot;&gt;hyperslug&lt;/a&gt; wondered what would happen if a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1129392/text-alignment-problem/1129399#1129399&quot;&gt;non-breaking character string was added to a post&lt;/a&gt;. What he discovered is that unlike a code block which wraps things up with scrollbars the non-breaking string overflows the post element div. A modification to the .post-text CSS is warranted to prevent this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of Problem.&#xA;eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T10:51:07.843" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T18:06:31.907" Title="Post Overflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6418" CreationDate="2009-07-15T05:32:27.567" Score="6" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just after SO dropped out of BETA, I asked an &lt;em&gt;Adult&lt;/em&gt; related question which got deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to ask the same question here (it got deleted for a point, right!) but but was asking a question about the adult industry with regards to servers and hosting and stuff. It wasn't naming any companies or products or stuff or pictures or links or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a question for ServerFault, but SF didn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So .. if that got deleted, how can someone ask legit questions about adult related material with regards to programming or hosting or servers or whatnot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially when it's not trying to show NSFW stuff or links to NSFW or illegal stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same goes with Gambling. There's a great post somewhere (did the SO krew do a podcast on this even?) -- the apparent shady side to our industry. It might be shady to some, but to others it's a legit and legal business model with legit clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there room in the StackExchange trilogy/quad-rilogy to ask these questions without offending some conservative people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers for all the answers: asked the question on SF &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/42819/looking-for-some-advice-for-adult-web-hosting-solutions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30674" LastEditorUserId="30674" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T04:57:24.340" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:57:24.340" Title="Is there any way possible to ask legit Adult based questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="5462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T05:50:15.753" Score="8" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff have stated that the reputation system is key to stimulating the kind of user behavior they want to see at StackOverflow and friends.  Well, it's not working particularly well for me right now.  After two and a half months, my rep has plateaued at 124, and I'm no longer interested in spending a lot of effort to get it much higher.  I'm not looking for a pity party here, but I suspect there are other users in the same boat, and if the reputation system is failing to motivate us, that might be a topic of general concern to the management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a major part of the problem is that the topics I'm writing on (C, C++, and algorithms) don't get as much attention from the community here as other topics, and that makes it hard to earn reputation points by spending time answering them.  Of the 16 answers I've written, four of them have been accepted as the official answer by the author (which accounts for most of my rep points), but none have more than two votes, and only five answers have any upvotes at all.  Basically, it looks like if the author really likes my answer, I'll get an upvote from him/her and maybe one other person, but otherwise my efforts just go &quot;plonk.&quot;   In most cases, it looks like if I don't answer a question when it first comes out, nobody is going to upvote it later, which limits the rewards for going back through the archives looking for questions I can contribute to, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/758849/the-ternary-operator-in-c/813502#813502&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;'s an example: in response to a question about what the ternary operator is needed for in C/C++, other people mentioned the fact that it is an expression, not a statement, but I was the only one to tie that to the use in function-like macros and give an example where you needed a function-like macro in C because a function couldn't give you the necessary type polymorphism.  An hour or so writing that answer, but I answered on May 1, and the only answers getting upvotes were written April 17, the day the question came out.  Plonk.  (Yeah, I may get an upvote or two from mentioning it here, but that's not my main point, which is that providing a unique perspective to questions that are a couple of weeks old doesn't seem to be a profitable use of my time, in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - it's nice to be above 100 points, so that I can downvote something if necessary, and it was really frustrating before I got up to 50 points so I could comment, but most of the other goals that seem worth shooting for are so far out of reach at this rate that it doesn't seem worth the effort.  Given a choice between spending time on the job I'm getting paid for, or constantly refreshing StackOverflow in the hopes I can pick off a relevant question a few seconds after it gets asked, I know which one offers the better reward-to-effort ratio.  I don't really have a lot of questions that could be asked here without a fair amount of effort to strip them of proprietary information, so that doesn't seem like a good way to points either (the Meta site here might be different in that respect).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure my experience would be different if I were writing about PHP, or C#, or something more popular like that.  But if you really want StackOverflow to be the font of all programming expertise, there needs to be a better way to reward those who answer older questions on rarer topics.  Because right now, to me, it looks like that is mostly an exercise in frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T15:39:26.257" Title="Reputation Failing As Motivator For Less Topical Topics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5461" CreationDate="2009-07-15T05:55:21.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;maybe just tag it with nsfw, and include that in the question title. Not sure how that would go down, but it might make people less likely to delete your question because you are identifying it for what it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T05:55:21.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5461" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:03:32.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it would require for you to analyze you question and boil it down in such a form that all association with adult-topics are lost, since then it's no longer a problem and hopefully your question will be a lot clearer (and more useful for other users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you don't show NSFW stuff and your question is ServerFault-ish, why wouldn't it fit in there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps give a small example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:03:32.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:03:45.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments have this problem too apparently. See my test above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:03:45.493" />
  <row Id="5466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5461" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:07:50.727" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you ask it in a way that's content-agnostic?  Most technical problems should be independent from the content.  e.g. image hosting, video streaming, credit card processing, age verification, text/video chat, etc.  None of those care what the content is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:07:50.727" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5462" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:12:17.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your right that it is hard to gather rep on less popular topics, but it actually works both ways. At my work they use Labview and by my last query there were 21 labview related questions... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off course, if I have a question and there isn't an answer to it yet I have to post it. But there is no guarantee that any reputable person will find my post and answer it. Resulting in a chicken-egg like discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best you can do is perhaps post questions you want help with or post a question for which you have the answer, but you think is very useful for others. That way people will hopefully award your resourcefulness with upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:12:17.103" />
  <row Id="5468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5469" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:25:52.073" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if votes on a community wiki should be rewarded as well like in the normal posts? If I understand the concept behind the voting system correctly, good or bad community wiki behavior could be rewarded or punished as it is a value-adding form of activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, not applying the regular rep values, but more like a +1/-1 style, therefore, controversial wiki entries should net 0 for the answerer and for the display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other option would be to have badges for these purposes instead (do we have these already?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: I'd like a discussion with views, points and arguments, so when you post a &quot;no, by design&quot; answer, please explain it a bit at least.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="23199" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T05:27:53.703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T05:27:53.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T06:39:37.050" Title="Should CW activity be rewarded similarly to normal posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5468" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:28:50.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community wiki posts are for topics that are generally open for discussion, and have no right or wrong answer. Also several users can contribute to create a more complete answer to a point where the original poster may have little or nothing to do with the reason the post is getting votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are free to express their opinions in wiki posts without fearing loss of reputation. Because of this people are also far more likely to down vote you over a difference in opinion, although technically there is nothing wrong with your post. The aim is to get the most popular or most agreed upon solution, while no solution may be more correct than any other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:28:50.057" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5462" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:30:16.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can certainly relate to your frustration as quite a few of my own answers are accepted with 0 votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that given you don't have much time to devote to the site (14 answers in two months aren't a lot of answers) and that you cannot ask real questions about your job without too much effort, there is simply no way for the system as designed to reward you, &lt;strong&gt;other than the satisfaction of providing a good answer and helping the community&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's not motivation enough and you &lt;em&gt;crave for rep&lt;/em&gt;, then you should either devote more time (ie, provide more answers per time unit, or ask general questions about topics of your interest that will probably give you upvotes) or accept things as they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old questions get a bump under the active tab whenever a new thing happens on them, so they are probably revisited by some people whenever you answer an old question. But yes, it is certainly not the same level of attention as with a new question, especially if there are lots of answers and viewers don't sort by newest just to see if the new answer deserves upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think the main problem in your case is that you don't devote enough time to get a real amount of rep. For which you should be thankful instead of complainful :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T06:35:47.697" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:35:47.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5448" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:35:37.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than a points based badge why not have a badge for the biggest mover of the day in terms of moving up the users list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or how bout having the badge based on an equation which takes into account the amount of upvotes compared to how many times the question has been viewed (so that its not just the c# answers that get the badges). Lets give a little consideration to the less popular questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:35:37.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5462" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:39:20.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would maybe like to see the reputation take into account the ratio of views a question gets compared to the upvotes. Surely a question with 10 views and 2 upvotes is worth more than 10 upvotes but 1000 views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It maybe too late to change the rep system however what about more badges to reward the less popular q&amp;amp;a.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:39:20.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5474" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:42:10.000" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;10 upvotes out of 10 views may be too few (it gets Enlightened if accepted, and Nice Answer for sure), but what about 20 out of 20? it'd come before Good Answer and encourage the answering of trivial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T07:09:04.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:09:04.477" Title="Stunner badge" Tags="&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5473" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:44:28.067" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your answer must be somewhat trivial if the first 10 users who see it instantly know it is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if the above happens you're almost guaranteed the Enlightened badge anyways.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20child.Id%20as%20ParentId,%20parent.Id%20as%20PostId,%20child.ViewCount%20as%20Views,%20parent.Score,%20%28parent.Score%20/%20child.ViewCount%29%20AS%20score%20FROM%20%20posts%20AS%20parent,%20posts%20AS%20child%20WHERE%20parent.ParentId%20=%20child.Id%20AND%20child.ViewCount%20%3E10%20ORDER%20BY%20score%20DESC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data&lt;/a&gt;, I don't know if any user would get this, but dump doesn't account for time votes were placed/time views were made. It does serve as a rough approximation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T07:05:20.040" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:05:20.040" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5416" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:48:51.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully Superuser.com will be a better place for people (n00bs) like that (myself included), since the question's will be more mainstream or more within their domain of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like commented above if rep is the problem: let them post good questions. If their comments are good answers, they should be able to come up with something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:48:51.203" />
  <row Id="5476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5440" CreationDate="2009-07-15T06:50:52.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option I can think of would be for each site to sell high quality sticker and/or patch exact representations of the badges for decorating laptops, monitor borders, etc (stickers) and laptop bags, jackets, shirts, ties, etc.(patches).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T06:50:52.533" />
  <row Id="5479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5461" CreationDate="2009-07-15T07:16:34.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;personally, i think that if the question was as you described (i.e. had no adult content in itself, just happened to be about servers/software for adult sites) then the fact that the technology was for the &quot;adult industry&quot; was completely irrelevant - it was a perfectly legitimate question, should NOT have been deleted, and you should not have been penalised 100 points for asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in fact, i'm quite disturbed that that even happened.   i can certainly see a need to keep adult content itself off SO/SF but technical questions about servers and software shouldn't be banned just because someone is offended by the mere concept of an adult industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;subjective and personal moral judgements like that should be left out of here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. i saw a post on SF today where someone clearly from the telemarketing industry was asking a question about asterisk.  I personally find that far more offensive and immoral than any &quot;adult&quot; content but if we go around banning that because I don't like it and adult-server tech questions because someone else doesn't like it, then pretty soon the entire site will be empty because if there's one thing you can guarantee about &lt;strong&gt;ANY&lt;/strong&gt; topic it is that someone, somewhere will manage to be offended by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;censorship is evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(illegal content - e.g. asking for help with a warez site or worse - is another story....but even that's a huge grey area because what's illegal in one jurisdiction is perfectly legal in another)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130776" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:16:34.853" />
  <row Id="5484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T07:44:05.863" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that ServerFault and, recently, SuperUser use borders around the tag buttons, on the questions. I think they get more polished like that. but why don't StackOverflow and Meta StackOverflow also follow this pattern? it'd be more consistent, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38333" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T23:57:21.200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T23:57:21.200" Title="why don't tags on StackOverflow and Meta StackOverflow have borders?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5489" CreationDate="2009-07-15T07:45:16.333" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/267113/how-to-implement-an-inherited-dictionary-over-wcf&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, The accepted answer doesn't float on top. Apart from that, the display is correct (ie the V mark and the green border)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I sort by &quot;vote&quot;, I've got the following answer order :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jezell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;chilltemp (Accepted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shaun Bowe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;oldest&quot; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jezell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;chilltemp (Accepted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shaun Bowe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and by &quot;newest&quot; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shaun Bowe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;chilltemp (Accepted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jezell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Firefox V.3.5 : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to ask for more debug information if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47341" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T07:48:37.690" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:50:19.403" Title="Buggy Accepted answer behavior : it doesn't float &quot;on top&quot;" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5486" CreationDate="2009-07-15T07:50:19.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is intentional. The post author has selected an answer they wrote as the accepted answer, and therefore it &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;does not change the sort order&lt;/a&gt; of the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:50:19.403" />
  <row Id="5491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2009-07-15T07:51:08.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatisanyonetryingtolegitimatelycommunicatewithalongunbrokenstringofsufficientlengthtooverflowtheelement?alsoacodetagdoesn'thavetohavecodeinitsointhelegitimatecaseusethat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1166" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T07:51:08.270" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5514" CreationDate="2009-07-15T08:03:31.337" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be consistent with the badge &amp;amp; tags system, it would be nice to add a link on the ♦ character to the list of moderators&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T08:27:26.790" Title="Add a link with the list of moderators?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T08:19:56.773" Score="1" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Erlang uses the underscore atom (in single quotes) quite a lot. See for instance &lt;a href=&quot;http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/match%5Fspec.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;MatchExpression ::= [ MatchFunction, ... ]&#xA;MatchFunction ::= { MatchHead, MatchConditions, MatchBody }&#xA;MatchHead ::= MatchVariable | '_' | [ MatchHeadPart, ... ]&#xA;MatchHeadPart ::= term() | MatchVariable | '_'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it seems to wig out your wiki-style display. So this is a straight paragraph with the offending item '_' in it and it looks super-fine-dandy in the preview when I am writing it but blows up when I submit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's no way to test this except by submitting and the bug failed to appear here so I have put it back in the StackOverflow comment where it happened which I had worked around. So you can see it &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1126755/in-erlang-is-there-a-way-to-create-an-empty-function/1130044#1130044&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;  - the big italic block after the 5th code snippet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131131" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T08:15:20.533" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T08:15:20.533" Title="Markdown Italics Bug Report" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5495" CreationDate="2009-07-15T08:27:26.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scroll to the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T08:27:26.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5484" CreationDate="2009-07-15T08:36:02.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a matter of styling via the CSS. Jeff et al obviously thought that the SU style looked better within the context of that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been some subtle changes to the styles here, so it's not beyond possibility that the the tag style could get updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could always make it a formal request. Or I'm sure that someone will be along with a GreaseMonkey script in due course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T08:36:02.350" />
  <row Id="5525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T08:54:06.957" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;On superuser.com, I saw a link to the tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/cybersex&quot;&gt;cybersex&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; listing page (leading to the page title &quot;Hottest 'cybersex' Questions). No questions are associated - presumably because it had been added through a spam question that was subsequently deleted. I would expect that in such a case (all questions associated with a specific tag have been deleted) that the tag itself would be deleted as well. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:35:18.367" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:35:18.367" Title="Tags where all questions have been deleted still appear in tags listing" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5525" CreationDate="2009-07-15T08:55:40.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are periodic cleanup operations that will eventually eliminate unused tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T08:55:40.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5528" CreationDate="2009-07-15T08:58:20.883" Score="11" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this is a stupid question, I already searched but didn't find anything. How are people showing keyboard 'glyphs' on superuser.com? I looked at the markdown help page and it didn't show anything regarding this, unless I might have skipped it. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/257/what-new-win7-keboard-shortcuts-have-you-found-most-useful&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/257/what-new-win7-keboard-shortcuts-have-you-found-most-useful&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131141" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:16:54.630" Title="Keyboard Glyphs" Tags="&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="5528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5527" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:00:49.303" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;CTRL&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Z&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Z&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T09:00:49.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:18:09.373" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;日本語にもこの表示問題ありますか？タイ語はわかりませんが、日本語では（絵本を除いて）空白があまり無いです。この一行を長くするには「あいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえお」と入力させていただきます。&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;そして記号の入ってない空白の無い一行：&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;あいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえおあいうえお&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Japanese doesn't really have the concept of spaces, but is also not picky about wrapping. Japanese text will (and should) usually wrap after the last character that fits on a line, as is illustrated here. There are no spaces in the above text except two empty lines where you see them, so this is being handled correctly (most likely by the browser).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine Thai and other languages without spaces are handled similarly, &lt;strong&gt;leaving this problem only to languages with spaces&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T09:18:09.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5512" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:22:20.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see what you mean (on the original post), and indeed the preview seemed fine (there are a few other gotchas between preview and actual).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the post, I changed it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; `'_'`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which fixed it; but lets see if it '_' happens here when I post this... nope - worked fine; very curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T09:22:20.937" />
  <row Id="5533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:49:08.327" Score="5" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like a feature whereby I will be reminded to accept an answer to a question that I have asked. When I ask questions, I usually like to give them a day or so to collect answers before I choose an answer as the accepted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good if when asking a question, I could tick a checkbox to have SO/SF/SU remind me in 24 hours that I have a question that needs reviewing. This would purely be optional (similar to the &quot;notify... daily of new answers&quot; option), but would keep reminding me until I either accepted an answer or stated that I didn't want to. This would prevent me from forgetting about the question and never accepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastEditorUserId="116923" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T10:18:22.100" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T10:18:22.100" Title="System reminder to review the answers to your question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5619" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:49:42.980" Score="4" ViewCount="1144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the software that runs the Stack Overflow sites have a name?  Just as Slashdot's software is named &quot;Slash&quot;, I've always thought Stack Overflow's software should be named &quot;Stack&quot; or &quot;The Stack&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:15:37.997" Title="Does the Stack Overflow software have a name?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;so-name&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5534" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:51:52.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If StackExchange manages to avoid forking, it would make sense to just call it that. That's the new &quot;generic&quot; name, really. It's a bit revisionist admittedly, but if StackOverflow is basically just one site using the StackExchange software, I don't see much reason to differentiate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the hosted version has a bunch of other things which aren't then in the SO branch, that's a bit different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T09:51:52.327" />
  <row Id="5546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T10:30:31.950" Score="4" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that user contributed content is licensed under cc-wiki but creative commons work still requires a copyright holder. So who actually owns StackOverflow's user contributed content? StackOverflow or the individual users who contributed the content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the individual users, then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;isn't StackOverflow breaking the terms of cc-wiki since they are using the content for a commercial purpose? (they generate advertising revenue from user generated content)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;could a user demand that all his/her contributions be removed from the website? What would happen in the case of content which had been heavily edited by many different users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is StackOverflow who owns the content then does that mean people using StackOverflow user contributed content on other websites should, under the terms of cc-wiki, attribute StackOverflow and not the individual users who wrote the content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does StackOverflow have a Terms and Conditions stating their IP rights with regard to the content they contribute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131167" LastEditorUserId="131167" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T10:34:56.357" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:34:56.357" Title="Who is the copyright holder of StackOverflow user-contributed content?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5556" CreationDate="2009-07-15T10:33:02.680" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Needs clarification. &quot;Don't make me think.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69424" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T10:47:59.970" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:20:04.237" Title="What is copying profile in account tab?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5546" CreationDate="2009-07-15T10:40:50.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, as far as I can tell there are various flavours. SO links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, it cites &quot;attribution&quot; and &quot;share-alike&quot;.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/images/icons/attrib.gif&quot; alt=&quot;attribution&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/icon/sa/standard.gif&quot; alt=&quot;share-alike&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;strong&gt;doesn't&lt;/strong&gt; cite &quot;non-commercial&quot;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/images/icons/noncomm.gif&quot; alt=&quot;non-commercial&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from the licences page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/88x31.png&quot; alt=&quot;attribution share-alike&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Attribution Share Alike&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This license lets others remix, tweak,&#xA;  and build upon your work even for&#xA;  commercial reasons, as long as they&#xA;  credit you and license their new&#xA;  creations under the identical terms.&#xA;  This license is often compared to open&#xA;  source software licenses. All new&#xA;  works based on yours will carry the&#xA;  same license, so any derivatives will&#xA;  also allow commercial use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &quot;commercial&quot; seems fine, IMO. Re &lt;em&gt;removing&lt;/em&gt; content; there is a moral right (on the 2.5 Generic page):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...to request removal of their name from the work when used in a derivative or collective they don't like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not quite the same as removal, but I guess it would depend on the scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T10:40:50.537" />
  <row Id="5549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5547" CreationDate="2009-07-15T10:44:53.130" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It copies the profile from the other site. What exactly don't you understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T10:44:53.130" />
  <row Id="5550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5547" CreationDate="2009-07-15T10:47:13.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you checked out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;this Meta post&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the Account tab allows you to link together your accounts on the Stack Overflow site family (SO, Server Fault, Super User, and Meta). It does this by checking if your OpenID exists on the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you have enough rep on one of the sites other than Meta, you can automatically earn 100 rep on every site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57365" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T10:47:13.767" />
  <row Id="5551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="65975" CreationDate="2009-07-15T10:50:50.710" Score="25" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has a &quot;Random article&quot; link on the front page that makes it easy for people to start exploring. It would be interesting to have something similar fro SO, perhaps with an additional (optional) constraint for &quot;unanswered&quot; questions. This might help eventually provide some attention to long-forgotten questions that weren't lucky enough to get an answer when they were new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T10:57:33.050" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T00:14:53.033" Title="Random question button" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;&lt;random&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="5552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5551" CreationDate="2009-07-15T10:55:06.197" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggested enhancement for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limit it to questions in my &quot;interesting&quot; tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limit it to questions I haven't answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would need to be limited to questions I haven't &lt;em&gt;seen&lt;/em&gt; as that would be expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of finding a random question which I may well be able to answer, but haven't done yet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T10:55:06.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5527" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:16:54.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive&lt;/a&gt; For great humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:16:54.630" />
  <row Id="5555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:18:23.620" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stephen Fry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:18:23.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T11:18:23.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5547" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:20:04.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copying the profile copies things like your &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;email&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;location&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;about me&lt;/em&gt; to the current profile.  It doesn't copy your reputation, interesting tags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:20:04.237" />
  <row Id="5557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5551" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:20:24.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community user does randomly poke old questions, but that relies on you refreshing the main page to see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:20:24.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:21:36.853" Score="25" ViewCount="6792" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is not Open-Source, but I like the whole idea of stackoverflow :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Giving bounties for Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Up/Downvoting Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The intelligent use of Ajax-Technologies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highly Rated users have administrative powers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing posts like a wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would like to program a (what is it called ) Q&amp;amp;A site / board / wiki system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I allowed to ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131161" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T04:12:42.677" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T06:49:20.140" Title="Am I Allowed To Make a StackOverflow Clone?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="5562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:24:47.443" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like that the trilogy keeps questions in their own silos. However it is a little tiresome to have to switch between sites to see if there are any responses. Could the response popup or envelope, work across sites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or at the very least could meta show responses from the trilogy as it is a meta site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:00:15.383" Title="Combined responses" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:26:46.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sir C. A. R. Hoare&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:26:46.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T11:26:46.300" />
  <row Id="5564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5462" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:27:05.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might help to change your expectations so that you're not trying to out-rep Jon Skeet, but demonstrate that you know a lot about the things &lt;em&gt;you know a lot about&lt;/em&gt;. I'll use myself as an example - there are not anywhere near as many questions on Cocoa development at stackoverflow as there are questions on Java or C#. That means I don't have a 10k+ rep. But neither does anybody else who frequently answers Cocoa questions. And of those people who do, I seem to be somewhat well-respected. Hooray for me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the usual stack-exchange techniques also apply; to get a higher reputation even within that field you have to ask and answer more, and do it better. That means investing more time in the site. If that's what you want to do then go for it, if it's not then you need to revise your expectation regarding rep. Again, I'm happy with the amount of time I spend on these sites so if I need to take more hours per week to build up a higher rep, that's not for me. But in general the options are to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the way you use the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change what you expect to get from using the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I expect they're in descending order of difficulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23743" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:27:05.053" />
  <row Id="5565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5562" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:27:42.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a central location that tracked activity across all the sites, but I would not want that feature to be built in to each site itself (i.e. when I log in to SU, I don't want to see my SF activity, and vice versa). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also do not want to see Meta become the central location to find that user activity. We already have user activity here as a separate site itself. Throwing in all the data from SO/SF/SU would make that incredibly confusing as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:27:42.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5512" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:30:08.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;**In order to make this bug fixable I will quote the complete text that caused the problem here. It seems to be quite hard to reproduce :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original post on StackOverflow has kindly been worked-around/fixed by Marc Gravell.**&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, first define the function:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;printEven(I,N) when I &amp;gt;= N -&amp;gt; ok;&#xA;printEven(I,N)             -&amp;gt; &#xA;   if&#xA;    I rem 2 == 0 -&amp;gt; io:format(&quot;~p~n&quot;,[I]), printEven(I+1,N);&#xA;    I rem 2 == 1 -&amp;gt; printEven(I+1,N)&#xA;  end.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Erlang is a functional programming language and (by definition) functions 'have' a value so you are going to get 'something' back. By convention the thing you get back on completion of a function that you are using for side-effects is the atom 'ok', that's the best to use here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can 'silently discard' the return value if you want. You do that when you invoke the function by pattern matching to the 'don't care' variable (which is underscore):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;_ = printEven(3,9),&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or by calling the function without a pattern match:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;printEven(3,9),&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you are much better to always check return values by pattern matching when you invoke a function:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ok = printEven(3,9),&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a a really good habit to get into because you will be using a lot of library functions that return error codes as you can see from their specs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@spec funky(X) -&amp;gt; [ok | {error, bad_op} | {error, wig_out}]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If funky has side effects you want to know it has failed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by invoking it with a pattern match so it will crash here and now if funky fails:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ok = funky(99),&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you match it to '&lt;em&gt;' or ignore the return value it will crash 268 lines later when your mojo expects funky to have done his thang, and then it is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;much*&lt;/strong&gt; harder to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is  happy path programming which is the done thing in Erlang. &quot;Let it crash&quot; is the motto. If you are new to Erlang you will find this very disconcerting - like walking about naked. Don't worry embrace it, it is a good thing. It leads to lots of code 'not being written'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You should also get in the habit of putting the clause that ends the recursion as the top clause as shown here - it makes reading the code &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sooo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; much easier when you have a multi-clause function.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131131" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:30:08.130" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:31:41.637" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, I don't believe they can stop you from writing your own code which does that.  You just can't copy their code base and use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:31:41.637" />
  <row Id="5568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:31:48.233" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow was not the first to do the Q&amp;amp;A system on the web, and they weren't the first to do the Wiki system. There is nothing really stopping you from making your own StackOverflow style website. Some open source clones (and some foreign clones) have already been made to varying degrees of success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been rumors of a possible open-source version of StackOverflow, but I would not hold my breath on that just yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other solution would be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; framework which is developed by Fog Creek Software. The SE Framework is the public-available version of the StackOverflow software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:31:48.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5562" CreationDate="2009-07-15T11:34:08.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can at any time use the &quot;Notify  daily of new answers&quot; option on each question or the &quot;I'd like email notifications of activity on my questions and answers&quot; option on the account page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T11:34:08.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:05:18.513" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment this question was typed Javascript was catching up with C++. They both had 10525 tags. C++ has occupied 5th place almost since the launch of the private beta and now it has been taken by javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think this is a significant event in the SO community life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131191" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T12:11:35.793" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:12:27.430" Title="JavaScript catches up with C++" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5585" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:11:46.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dunno about the &quot;SO community&quot;, but I think it represents a significant stage in JavaScript's life - it's a sign that JavaScript is becoming ever more mainstream for serious work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:11:46.367" />
  <row Id="5588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5585" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:12:31.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering most of the users are probably web-developers (in full or in part), no. I'd say this would be expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:12:31.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:14:18.387" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;With translation engine, separate site with translation or something along those lines. Much valuable information remains locked away in South America, Russia, China etc. because sites do not want to use technology to automate translation or for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I think there should be seperate versions for more languages, the google translate can then be used anyway. (mm2010)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18681" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T09:58:18.593" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:58:18.593" Title="What about accommodating other languages than English in the global village we call earth?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5585" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:18:05.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely a shift. Though it's a very natural shift, during the major shift of the IT industry itself (being so web heavy). Also the idea that you can make billions of dollars by simply having people type your site address in their browser and click go/navigate has made most of the developers out there web developers, and in web, the rule of Javascript for developint RIA is not deniable by any means. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129993" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:18:05.660" />
  <row Id="5593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74066" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:18:41.853" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that we have them on bottom, but it would be useful for me to have also on top, so that I don't need scroll down to switch between one site and another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52879" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T10:47:31.913" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T07:33:23.390" Title="Is it possibile to have link to stackoverflow, serverfault, etc. also in the header?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;&lt;header&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="5594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5589" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:19:03.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been debated in the past and Jeff has been pretty resistant to multi-language support, while Joel has been more in favor of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relying on technology to do automatic translations is a big problem in my opinion. Even the best ones give some pretty hare-brained translations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:19:03.997" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5585" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:19:22.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it says something different about JavaScript? Is it as hard to learn and difficult to understand as C++ to foster about the same number of questions? Do much more newbs use JavaScript and C++ programmers are more experienced and therefore do not ask as many questions? Is JavaScript profiting of SO being around in a much earlier stage of its life then is the case with C++?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that there are several reasons for a language to be prominent on SO, its reach only being one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:19:22.727" />
  <row Id="5597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:25:10.103" Score="4" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a complete documentation on what all stackoverflow supports or provides in terms of its features?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131189" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T12:33:16.393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T05:00:03.407" Title="Feature list of Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:34:23.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you looked at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey toolbar&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:34:23.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5603" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:36:00.393" Score="1" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;When did StackOverflow first go live?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T19:01:50.420" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:01:50.420" Title="When did StackOverflow first go live?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;so-history&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5597" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:36:05.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe there is a single feature list or design document available to detail all the features of StackOverflow. Most of that information can be found by perusing the various SOFAQ-tagged posts on StackOverflow. This will give you a very detailed run-down of the way things work and the way the community is set up to perform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:36:05.643" />
  <row Id="5601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:37:07.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would clutter the header with links that most people rarely need due to Bookmarks. That's not to say that I don't use the links at the bottom. I just don't see the need to put them on the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:37:07.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5602" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:37:30.443" Score="3" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this question will be ratted off-topic, but i hope it will not. We all know how important is the team when is about making and idea a great product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, stackoverflow is revolutionizing the idea of forums. In other words, stackoverflow is revolutionizing the web. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking over the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; page, and i'm curious about how the team members had find each-other in order to work on same product? Stackoverflow team members have different ages and different locations. Maybe one or two were friends before, but what about the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anywhere a story about the stackoverflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T14:37:39.990" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:37:39.990" Title="stackoverflow team" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;teamwork&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5599" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:39:37.697" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff announced the StackOverflow private beta on July 31, 2008. It went public some time afterwards. The StackOverflow blog was created long before as a communication method between Jeff &amp;amp; Joel and the audience and as a hosting ground for their podcasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private-beta-begins/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:39:37.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:39:57.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just open them in separate tabs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:39:57.650" />
  <row Id="5605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5602" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:41:03.963" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story can't be as entertaining as the fanfic I could write about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:41:03.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5602" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:45:43.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember reading this one by Joel Spolsky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081101/how-hard-could-it-be-the-unproven-path.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How Hard Could It Be?: The Unproven Path&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:45:43.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5608" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:50:16.467" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO I have set up around 150 ignored tags. And this list is growing every day. But I still see new questions with tags I want to ignore that are very similar to my ignored ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I don't care about SQL. Not at all, not in any context. I'm just not interested.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So I have set up the following ignored tags: sql, sqlserver, sql-server, mysql, sqlite, sqlexpress, sqlserver2005, sqlserver2008, sql-server-2005, postgresql........&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then a new question might come up with the tag 'linq-to-sql' and I think &quot;oh darn I'm gonna have to add that one too&quot;. It is really tedious to have to do this all the time (and it fuels my OCD :o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to add something like &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;sql&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; as an ignored tag, and that should be the end of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:54:37.137" Title="Set Ignored/Interesting tags based on basic regular expressions?" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5607" CreationDate="2009-07-15T12:53:07.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use wildcards as you can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T12:53:07.237" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:04:46.783" Score="2" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't appear to be a duplicate of any of the other openid questions here.  When I try to log in using my yahoo openid on any of the new sites (which worked before on stackoverflow), it seems to be working until the redirect to &quot;http://superuser.com/users/authenticate/?token=AS...&quot; which is just an empty page and nothing more happens after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tried in FF3 and IE6, same results on meta, superuser, and serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;using myopenid works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131199" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T19:44:37.257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:43:19.560" Title="Anyone else having trouble logging in with yahoo openid?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="5614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5616" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:08:48.870" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Need Definition for Closing questions &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is not programming related ? What is bountry for this ? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is not a real question ? how the questions are considered not a real question &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IN STACK OVERFLOW SITE ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T13:13:21.240" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:19:09.420" Title="Need Definition for closing questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5614" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:10:50.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you can read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;close reasons definitions&lt;/a&gt;. They also show up as tooltips when closing. You can start to vote to close at +3000 reputation, as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; will tell you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tooltip on voting to close for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not programming related&lt;/strong&gt;: Questions on Stack Overflow are expected to generally relate to programming or software development in some way. This question is very far afield from programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:19:09.420" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5614" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:11:47.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not Programming Related - Your question either has nothing to do with programming or can be seen as so general (work environment, careers, society) that the programming related part of it is minimal or non-existent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not A Real Question - This can typically refer to questions that are not questions. If you make a question and all you are doing is ranting or rambling about a topic, or your question is so mangled that it is undecipherable, Not A Real Question will generally be the close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:11:47.480" />
  <row Id="5618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5585" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:12:27.430" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And I find, sadly, to be completely&#xA;  honest with everybody listening,&#xA;  quality really doesn't matter that&#xA;  much, in the big scheme of things...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?pg=pgWiki&amp;amp;command=view&amp;amp;ixWikiPage=29025&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #38&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JavaScript is not a language. It's a toy, it's a woo-doo doll...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:12:27.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5534" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:15:37.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While brainstorming with some colleagues about StackExchange sites, I started calling them, collectively, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Stacks&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't thinking about the metaphor &quot;stacks&quot; when I coined it but it seemed like an &lt;strong&gt;effective buzzword&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I am trying precariously to write this without using the word &quot;paradigm.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The metaphor describes &quot;&lt;em&gt;a virtual exchange of ideas which is organized, not in linear time, but by the perceived merit of its content; a communication stream which forms through on-going contribution and is organized through a voting process where the most widely accepted ideas are presented first. Status and responsibility in the community of contributors rises in proportion of the abundance and popularity of their contributions.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course &quot;stack overflow&quot; is a programming term but there is the fortunate, but indeliberate, &lt;strong&gt;parallel meaning of &quot;stack&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; as in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an extensive arrangement of books and other information resources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a large number or amount; an orderly pile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to arrange the order of so as to increase one's chance of winning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the StackExchange framework will make enough of an impact on online collaboration to merrit a coined term. Where someone might say &quot;Google it,&quot; they may also say &quot;Check the Stacks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert C. Cartaino&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:15:37.997" />
  <row Id="5621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5612" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:16:10.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a SO user contact me earlier, saying that they had forgotten (their word) their openid, which turned out to be a yahoo mail (and no: I don't go around giving out opendids on request, before anyone asks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if in fact this was related? i.e. it simpy wasn't working. I'll be interested to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:16:10.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:17:04.783" Score="4" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search for &quot;what is a monad&quot; in SO.  The first page of search results does not include the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44965/what-is-a-monad&quot;&gt;what is a monad?&lt;/a&gt; which has been favorited and upvoted over ten times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+is+a+monad&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+is+a+monad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T14:11:35.643" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:42:27.783" Title="Example of really bad search in SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5622" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:19:31.637" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but google finds it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+monad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;virtually at the top&lt;/a&gt;, so all is not lost ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do wonder if the site can't just use google for the search; ideally site-specific (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/coop/cse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;custom search&lt;/a&gt;), but heck, vanilla would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:42:27.783" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:42:27.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5622" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:20:33.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is pretty common knowledge right now that Google searching StackOverflow (and related sites) is much better than using the StackOverflow search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also try &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askjonskeet.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askjonskeet.com&lt;/a&gt;, but I would still stick with Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:20:33.310" />
  <row Id="5625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="68918" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:23:52.457" Score="5" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a post is printed, the question and answers are printed, but the comments on them are not. It would be nice if the comments were also printed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-29T17:11:59.430" LastActivityDate="2010-10-29T21:07:29.690" Title="When a post is printed, comments should be printed too" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;printing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5646" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:33:41.060" Score="5" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every now and then I see a &quot;should be a wiki&quot; comment in a question... even in the superuser private beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T14:33:40.703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:18:41.843" Title="What's with the 'should be a wiki' comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5589" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:37:39.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with Jeff that, considering the target audience, international versions of stackoverflow and serverfault wouldn't make much sense, I do think they would be great for superuser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm german and I know a lot of people who I know would love to use this site but can't since their english isn't very good or just wouldn't want to bother with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole &quot;english is the definite language&quot;-thing doesn't hold up to general computer use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding automated translation: I haven't seen it done in a way that made much sense but I would love to stand corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Actually even for stackoverflow and serverfault translations might be a good idea. Attach a &quot;translate&quot; button to the question and the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone with a rep &gt; x can translate it, and anyone with a rep &gt; y can vote up the translation. A translation with more than z votes becomes the &quot;offcial&quot; translation and the translator gets some rep from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official translations can be found by on-site searches and search engines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I would translate questions that helped me or I found intresting to German.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130830" LastEditorUserId="130830" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T19:56:18.280" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:56:18.280" />
  <row Id="5633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5628" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:39:57.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If something is more of a discussion type, feelings are that it should be flagged as community wiki. All content the can be edited by more people (+750 rep and up). No reputation can be earned, as content is publicly owned and there is no right or wrong answers. Upvoting becomes a way of agreeing, down voting of disagreeing. Badges can be achieved though by the original owner of the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is wiki, all answers are too. But one can mark an answer as wiki. Both marking answers and questions is done using a checkbox near the edit box when asking or answering. The checkbox cannot be unchecked once submitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recommendations are somewhat of a borderline case. Obviously, somebody recommending something has put work into building up his experience and opinion about the thing he recommends. Therefore he deserves reputation, one would say. But if the thing is highly subjective, I would also tend to see it as a discussion more then a recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T13:54:27.980" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:54:27.980" />
  <row Id="5636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5628" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:42:27.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It tends to be used for polls, subjective questions or ones where the OP is asking for lists of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:42:27.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5628" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:45:22.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there's not a foreseeable end to the questions, it's likely best as Community Wiki. You shouldn't benefit from asking a question than can never really be objectively answered. If you could, we'd all be asking &quot;What's your favorite color?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:45:22.920" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:48:15.320" Score="3" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a limit to how many time somebody can edit a post just to change the tags?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1048803/list&quot;&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; that is 19 days old that has been edited 17 times - mostly switching between the image/images tag - so it pops to the top of the page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I can ignore this one user, it is going to get real annoying if others decide to play this game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130361" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T14:36:54.127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:36:54.127" Title="Limit to tag edits?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="5644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5432" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:50:32.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=68992255201&amp;amp;ref=ts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;facebook group&lt;/a&gt; a while back, it didn't catch on though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:50:32.423" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T13:50:32.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5642" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:50:37.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're really bothered you could raise a flag on that post &quot;Requires Moderator Attention&quot; and explain why in the text box that appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:50:37.187" />
  <row Id="5646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5628" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:50:52.417" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real benefit to CW is not supposed to be to shield people from down votes (like many people try to use it), it is supposed to lower the rep threshold for editing so that other people can help and add to your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people like to think that CW means that 'anything goes' which is obviously not true. Community Wiki was meant for common sense situations where common sense would tell you that you really should not be earning rep, nor should the answerers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This involves things like &quot;Hidden features of C#&quot;. Not &quot;What is your favorite dog as a programmer?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T14:07:57.967" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:07:57.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5642" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:51:10.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there's any such limit, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if a post &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; keep being edited by just a few people, you can flag it for a moderator to investigate. They may well lock the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the same user does this for lots of posts, they're likely to be warned and may eventually get in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:51:10.887" />
  <row Id="5648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5642" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:52:05.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a limit - however, flag it for a moderator and we'll intervene. I've locked the post in question; now I'll see if this is habitual...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:52:05.303" />
  <row Id="5649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5642" CreationDate="2009-07-15T13:52:11.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears this user is attempting to keep the question active by constantly making an edit. I would flag a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T13:52:11.527" />
  <row Id="5655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5589" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:20:16.957" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can suggest a simple idea - translation of the question/answer to any languages other then English is the responsibility and desire of the author. Automatic translation tools will not help. English text is a must in any case (though for superuser there may be sites like superuser.de, superuser.ru etc. with different languages) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main interface of SO will remain English, but for a translated questions there may be a small icon/tooltip near the question/answer indicating that answer and question are available in another language too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions/answers on another languages may attract more searches from Google/Bing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:20:16.957" />
  <row Id="5656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6018" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:26:40.353" Score="7" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a Super User account and copied my profile from Stack Overflow to it. Everything seemed to copy fine except for my Alt OpenID. Is this a known issue, or has anyone else noticed it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9433" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T16:59:55.973" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T01:45:37.947" Title="&quot;Copy Profile From Stack Overflow&quot; didn't copy alternate OpenID" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;profile-sync&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5659" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:26:56.007" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose that questions, that attract many unique users from external search engines can be valued by additional points/badges. For example there may be a badge for the question that attracted more hits from search engines then other questions during one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T14:34:21.237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:34:21.237" Title="Any additional points/badges for hits from search engines?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:28:55.567" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact I truly dislike avatars from just &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; third-party site. If I was allowed to put up just any URL as my avatar, then I could very easily track IP addresses of people who've visited any questions that I answered. Likewise, any third-party avatar site knows exactly which visitors share interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To extend on Craig's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;web bug&lt;/a&gt; in some very suspicious way (at the moment, I personally do not have a lot of problems with this, but I don't see any advantages either, so allow me to think about some worst case scenario):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third-party avatar sites &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; keep track of the IP addresses used to visit sites that include those avatars. (When caching is disabled then each page that shows &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; avatar, not necessarily &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; avatar, yields a record of my IP address and the page I visited.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For well-known sites, avatar sites &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; easily recognise profile URLs in the REFERER header, and hence match profiles to hashed email addresses, and (for a limited time) match IP addresses to hashed email addresses. (If a site would show only &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; avatar on some home page, or would show my avatar with different size or other URL parameters, then this would even be true without actually viewing my own profile.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy data mining will reveal static IP addresses. This also makes it easy to couple otherwise non-related hashed email addresses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I actually subscribe to the avatar site, then it will at least know how to match the hashed email address to the real address. (And it might have some better insight in static IP addresses.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's very easy to create some Greasemonkey script to alert one if a specific avatar hash is used on any page one is viewing, hence giving homebrew Sherlocks &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; means to track people across well-known sites. Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;wget&lt;/code&gt;-like&lt;/a&gt; software makes this even easier (or maybe there's some badly-behaving search engine out there that allows for searching on those hashes).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Really, one never knows if one day a site owner is forced to give the logs (including things &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/2100-1047%5F3-6050295.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that have been deleted&lt;/a&gt; long ago) to some government agency.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Given the display name and the avatar hash, one might validate if a guessed email address is correct. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-email-s-hash-is-not-a-good-idea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatars: why publishing your email's hash is not a good idea&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And kind of a side note: even when I &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to use an avatar site, it does not really warn me about using a dedicated email address. So, if some site decides to support avatars years after I left my email address on that site, then years later my avatar could show up on a site that I have long forgotten about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to prevent the tracking, is blocking well-known avatar sites (like by adding  them to Adblock, or to some tailored &lt;code&gt;hosts&lt;/code&gt; file). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If just &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; URL was to be allowed then blocking will be a lot more difficult. But is does come with some advantages: any tracking by a member (which could, of course, actually be a large advertising firm) using a custom URL will only work for pages that show the avatar of that specific member. That makes it much harder (if possible) to match other avatars to profile pages or IP addresses. I can then also choose to use a custom URL myself, stopping tracking by some third-party avatar site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In short: I'd prefer the avatars to be hosted on the SO servers. When not doable, then I'd prefer to keep using this well-known gravatar.com site which I can easily block. It feels a bit selfish though that other members may not be aware of the possible issues.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-22T13:25:10.507" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T13:25:10.507" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5657" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:30:41.673" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ick, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just begging to gamed. We don't want people playing &quot;SEO for questions&quot; with weird irrelevant keywords etc on StackOverflow, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:30:41.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:31:13.207" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not that there's anything wrong with that, how things are...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans to add some additional input fields for questions? Additional field's or tag convention's for identifying perticular attributes would be handy, that would allow more easially searching through the volume of question's.  Tags are great and all but they do not clerly designate something inclusive or exclusive, I would suppose that they would be inclusive from the perspective of the person submitting the question but an explicit anti-tag field may help stratify the question's more appropiately.  Seeing as there have been quite the number of spin off domain's, it may be the current preference obtain or otherwise increase how descriptive question's are.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the FAQ states;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;detailed and specific &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;of interest to at&#xA;least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it not contribute to item's 1 &amp;amp; 2, to allow for some ability to also designate booliean-like quantifier's to a question?  I'm not saying, pre-load a large array of various possabilities, I would suggest that simple radio boxes or some other way to mark a series of tag's for NOT or IS perferred in the solution.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not saying that question asker's would &lt;em&gt;themselves&lt;/em&gt; be ridged, it may be that they are in a position where some things are simple requirements for which they have no control.  Allowing some way for conveying this information quickly would allow for some reduction in the over all trend for many to answer &quot;You should not do that, it is fine because of X.&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I consider some adivce from &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another site&lt;/a&gt; that has some advice for Internet Q&amp;amp;A forums, similar (somewhat more detailed) prompting is given those who would ask a question online;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe the symptoms of your&#xA;problem or bug carefully and&#xA;clearly. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe the environment in which&#xA;it occurs (machine, OS, application,&#xA;whatever). Provide your vendor's&#xA;distribution and release level&#xA;(e.g.: “Fedora Core 7”, “Slackware&#xA;9.1”, etc.). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe the research you did to&#xA;try and understand the problem&#xA;before you asked the question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe the diagnostic steps you&#xA;took to try and pin down the problem&#xA;yourself before you asked the&#xA;question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe any possibly relevant&#xA;recent changes in your computer or&#xA;software configuration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several of these seem adaptiable to this perticular site  (the link I refer to has many other common sence suggestions), but to avoid any burdon on users, &lt;em&gt;optional/easy/quick-to-use&lt;/em&gt;  interfaces other than simply free-form text which (can often) be an awkwerd forum to convey this information in a concise way.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forgive any spelling error's, their is no spell checker here and I am dyslexic, I only say so to quell the seemingly all to frequent bigoted self richeous quib an unfortunate reality I would think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130244" LastEditorUserId="130244" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T16:08:17.690" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:08:17.690" Title="Ideas or plans to help questioners better think or structure their questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5656" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:31:40.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this too. But as my alternate is my Google OpenID and with the problems that Jeff &amp;amp; co had with these in the past I didn't pay it much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:31:40.917" />
  <row Id="5663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5656" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:32:09.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would expect, especially since the google open id accounts are different, that this is the intended behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:32:09.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5589" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:32:40.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started a question a while back that was intended to list various users from Stackoverflow, and which languages they would volunteer to translate accepted-answers into...but it went up in flames when other users abused their rights to editing, and ruined the entire attempt to solving this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:32:40.233" />
  <row Id="5666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5667" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:52:54.453" Score="-1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, what happens if I put HTML in the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or javascript in the message body?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;alert('if you see this then something's broke')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or HTML for buttons:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Can you see the button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we've seen this works OK, perhaps the first person with enough rep can test close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:37:01.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T09:52:54.453" Title="This is a beta, so should we be asking &quot;test&quot; questions? &lt;strong&gt;like this&lt;/strong&gt;" Tags="&lt;beta&gt;&lt;test&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5666" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:54:10.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the StackOverflow engine has been around for a while, I think this sort of testing has already been covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by others, you could re-post on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt; site but I don't think it's necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12124" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:37:01.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T09:54:10.330" />
  <row Id="5669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5666" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:55:05.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And I think it's more appropriate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131139" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:37:01.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T09:55:05.993" />
  <row Id="5670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5666" CreationDate="2009-07-15T09:56:24.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mmhh not really, the application has three previous successful installations remember?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:37:01.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T09:56:24.367" />
  <row Id="5677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5660" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:44:00.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could add a dozen little independent fields from which most questions will only use a small subset, or you could just have one big field where users can identify all the same details anyway. If they're missing something, they can be asked to provide more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, what is is &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; with the way it currently is? Users who neglect to give enough details aren't going to give enough details if there's a field called &quot;put enough details here&quot;. The problem isn't the input fields, but rather the mindset of the users filling them in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:44:00.723" />
  <row Id="5683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5660" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:51:28.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question askers should not be so rigid in thinking about the potential answers they get. They should be glad they get answers in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are not getting the answer you were hoping for you should rephrase your question or ask a new one with a narrower scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:51:28.863" />
  <row Id="5685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5687" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:52:52.717" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4336/unable-to-search-for-the-sql-keyword-between&quot;&gt;Unable to search for the SQL keyword BETWEEN&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was trying to find an answer I saw a few days back where some gave a Linq example.  I entered &quot;.Where(&quot; as my search term and it comes back with the error message: &quot;Please enter some text to search for in the upper right!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;same thing happens with the following terms:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;.Where&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Where&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131050" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:18:55.023" ClosedDate="2009-07-19T20:20:28.273" Title="Why can't you search for &quot;where&quot;?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="5687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5685" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:57:26.050" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Overview%5Fof%5FFull%5FText%5FStop%5FWords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stop word&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:57:26.050" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5685" CreationDate="2009-07-15T14:57:31.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like SQL keywords are being filtered out for safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6126" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T14:57:31.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5462" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:39:26.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know little about most of the popular SO topic areas, though I believe I know quite a bit about obscure programming areas that few others have an interest in: I suspect that's the lot of many systems programmers. SO is a good place to find out about things I don't know enough about and to sometimes share what I do know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I retired I didn't work for the money (though needed the money to live and to spend to help me to pursue my chosen profession more proficiently), similarly I don't come to SO et al for the rep and badges, though these give me some indication that I'm making use of the sites' facilities and give access to resources to use them more effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T15:39:26.257" />
  <row Id="5698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:42:25.287" Score="1" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gave a dumb answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112489&quot;&gt;question on SO&lt;/a&gt;. It earned a sum of -3 on my answer, and I was resigned to scurry away from the question and hide in the corner to lick my wounds. The displayed sum was minus 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked 'Delete' on my answer (24+ hours ago), and the answer has appeared to have removed itself. I can see it shaded pinkish with the 'Undelete' option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge hasn't been awarded. I am only wondering about the frequency of the badge calculations and handouts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;: Does the Peer Pressure badge apply to answers as well as questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I suspect that a badge hasn't been awarded (in error), is it appropriate to send an email to the SO team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T19:52:12.113" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:52:12.113" Title="Does the Peer Pressure badge apply to answers as well as questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;peer-pressure&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5698" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:46:30.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Peer Pressure badge does apply to answers as well as questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you'll only get it if the displayed score on your post is at least -3. i.e the number of down-votes exceeds the number of up-votes by 3 or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T18:38:54.187" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:38:54.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:53:43.730" Score="6" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Others have mentioned this before, but I can't find it as an official feature request.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why downvotes should only remove 2 points, not 10.  If I'm giving up rep of my own (currently 1 point) in order to state my opinion, I at least want to feel like that opinion carries the same weight as an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:36:00.707" Title="Downvote parity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:56:04.763" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;by design&lt;/a&gt; to lessen the impact of serial down voting, revenge down voting, and other asshattery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T15:56:04.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:56:17.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because downvotes are meant to be a gentle poke in the ribs, not a tyre iron across the back of the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way: downvotes are there to help rank answers and to encourage people to delete or correct incorrect or incomplete answers. This they do. They have a token cost to avoid their abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T15:56:17.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:56:40.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yet you don't pay for an upvote either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I would say that down votes should &quot;hurt&quot; the same as an upvote &quot;helps&quot; is if the user behind it has to sacrifice more rep to cast it (5pts or the full 10pts). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make a downvote deal -10, then it makes it too powerful to use when a user can only spend one rep to hurt another person by 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T15:56:40.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:57:21.440" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's to encourage participation by dampening the effects of negative responses.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The trick here is that downvotes are&#xA;  mostly informational. The cost of a&#xA;  downvote to the users’ reputation (or&#xA;  karma in Slashdot/Reddit parlance) is&#xA;  quite low. It would take a whopping 5&#xA;  downvotes to equal the effect of a&#xA;  single upvote. And, on top of that,&#xA;  downvotes cost you a tiny bit of&#xA;  reputation. The net effect is that you&#xA;  have to feel very strongly about&#xA;  something to downvote it. Downvotes&#xA;  are serious business, and not to be&#xA;  cast lightly. We designed our system&#xA;  around that maxim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T15:57:21.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5712" CreationDate="2009-07-15T15:57:43.573" Score="1" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this because of the &lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;tar Wars analogy Jeff pointed out a while ago? Or is it just by coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131248" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T18:18:40.287" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:18:40.287" Title="Why do all 3 sites start with S?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;so-name&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="5711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5707" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:00:14.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because Joel and Jeff really met for the first time back in the Slytherin House, and you know who their mascot was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:00:14.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5707" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:02:02.547" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's forward thinking on Jeff's part.  Eventually, when the entire thing is sold to Microsoft or Google, it'll be a simple transition to referring to them as $O, $F, and $U.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:02:02.547" />
  <row Id="5714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5707" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:02:28.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coincidence.  There were contests held where users were actually allowed to vote on the names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:02:28.953" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5722" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:07:11.197" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am having some problems with the markdown editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain me why this link doesn't work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be a link:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;0.25 €/kwh * 650W * 1 month&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be linking to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www00.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.25+€/kwh+*+650W+*+1+month&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem that I often have is that when I want to write on the next line I need to insert my own line breaks (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21384" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T11:50:35.143" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T11:51:33.837" Title="Why does the markdown editor not display my link properly and why do I need to insert my own linebreaks?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:10:55.733" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested in an RSS feed for questions with at least a certain number of votes or replies. This might be implemented as a GET parameter appended to any feed URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the following feed might return PHP articles with at least 20 votes:&#xA;stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/php?v=20&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following feed might return jQuery articles with at least 15 replies:&#xA;stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/jquery?r=20&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would purposely reduce the list of PHP articles for users interested in reading, but not necessarily replying to, specific topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130871" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:51:06.477" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T02:12:41.353" Title="Provide RSS feed for questions with &gt;n votes or replies?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5717" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:14:27.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the line break issue:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;editor help&lt;/a&gt;. You just need to include two spaces at the end of the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the link issue:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Obviously there are some unescaped characters in that text. I would recommend not linking that text anyway. That is messy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T18:57:18.267" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:57:18.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5707" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:18:23.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;...Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:18:23.280" />
  <row Id="5729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:19:23.783" Score="10" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, [crystalreports] has recently been renamed [crystal-reports] and whilst this might be a better name, I was a little confused as to :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why I could find anything tagged as [crystalreports] (can it not issue a redriect to search for the replacement tag?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why it still showed as an interested tag, given it had been &quot;retired&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T06:56:33.737" Title="When bulk renaming a tag, also update users' interested tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11325" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:19:28.733" Score="-2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see/predict some developer-oriented sites starting to use StackOverflow as their forum, instead of maintaining their own forum. I think it would be beneficial to both parties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can integrate Stack Overflow content in their site with tag-specific RSS feeds, and direct people to SO to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To link people to ask questions, they can just link to stackoverflow.com/questions/ask. But it would be even more beneficial if they could prefill tags with their site moniker, e.g stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=php,mysql,mysite.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something worth considering? (both the feature of prefilling tags, and the wider context of use as a plugin to another site) Has there been previous discussion about this? Would SO find this beneficial? Or is it a bad idea and SO is mostly interested in &quot;direct&quot; traffic and not serving third-party sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130063" LastEditorUserId="130063" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T16:46:47.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T02:00:03.900" Title="Prefilling tags when linking from an external site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33179" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:31:54.097" Score="7" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in the context of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5052/flagging-a-question-for-improvement-without-voting-to-close/5311#5311&quot;&gt;Flagging a question for improvement without voting to close&lt;/a&gt;, a suggestion that, in addition to a &quot;Close&quot; button, that there should be an &quot;Edit&quot; button to indicate that the question badly needs editing if it's to avoid being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions that most need editing seem to suffer from the inability of the poster to express himself in English. Some of that may be from people who cannot express themselves in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; written language, but I think that many could express themselves in their own language. The only problem is that I don't speak their language. But maybe other SO users do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow us to specify in our profile one or more languages that we speak. This information would be private.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow us in our profile to indicate a willingness to help with translation for people speaking one of a list of languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When one of our questions is flagged for edit, allow us to press a button asking for translation help. &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We'd have to enter a more extensive version of the question in a language we speak well enough to express ourselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The users who have opted in would receive a orange envelope (I think email might be too much).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of these users may choose to edit by translation. He'd get a screen showing both the foreign-language and the new English version of the question. He'd enter the translation into the English box.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When finished, the translated post would replace the original&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Too much? Too condescending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T17:14:53.587" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T11:02:16.787" Title="An Alternative to Translation for Non-English Speakers?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5700" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:36:00.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm uncertain about an answer but I still feel that it might be useful, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; if I want to state some controversial opinion (say, that all functions should either be commands or queries), I want the page to welcome my tentative or controversial answer. If downvotes counted equal as upvotes regarding reputation, then the most &lt;em&gt;risky&lt;/em&gt; (while potentially interesting) answers would be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:36:00.707" />
  <row Id="5750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:38:39.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds way too complex to me. Why can't we just keep the site as it is now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pretty much already do this for the horribly mangled English questions. I think it is working fine, especially if we can move past &quot;OMG EDITING IS TEH EVIL!&quot; and into &quot;How can we all help with editing?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:38:39.300" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5754" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:41:24.763" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were to post something, innocently, on the wrong site and became aware through my own observation or from the comments of others that another site was more appropriate for the question, am I able to migrate it myself or is that function only available to mods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131267" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T16:48:20.557" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T17:51:04.587" Title="Migrate my questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5752" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:44:24.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's only available to moderators and those with over 3000 rep (who can vote to close).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a post that you think should be migrated, flag it as Requires Moderator attention and explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't flag your own post (see comments) then post a question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T17:51:04.587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T17:51:04.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5752" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:44:41.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present, the migration function is based off of the close mechanism, so either 5 people have to close it as &quot;belongs on X&quot; or a moderator has to do it. If you notice that you posted on the wrong site, just delete your question and post on the correct site, no harm done. However, if you already have some answers that you want to save, you can try and get it moved to the right site by editing your tags to say &quot;belongs-on-X&quot; and/or put a message at the top of the post requesting that it be moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until users can flag their own posts, these are really the only tools that they can use to try and get some attention from moderators or users with the ability to close to move the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, if you see a post (not your own) that you think belongs on a different site, you can just flag it for moderator review, and, if you have closing power, close as &quot;belongs on X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T17:04:54.940" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T17:04:54.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5752" CreationDate="2009-07-15T16:45:49.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The function is only available to mods. Ideally you could flag your own question for moderator's attention, but I believe right now you cannot. The best you could do is post a comment indicating you believe it should be moved and asking others to help you out. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5296&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the feature request to be able to flag your own post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T16:45:49.587" />
  <row Id="5758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-07-15T17:00:22.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the current message &lt;em&gt;&quot;You've voted this post down - please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-26T16:26:13.250" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T16:26:13.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2009-07-15T17:02:47.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like to see a tool in the toolbar that opened a popup where you could search for the question or answer that you want to link. That way you wouldn't need to remember the question number, or open another browser window to refer to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16534" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T17:02:47.047" />
  <row Id="5762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5717" CreationDate="2009-07-15T17:15:14.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This particular link is so awkward and contains so many oddball chars I would recommend using TinyURL or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some URLs are just too difficult to parse. My &quot;favorite&quot; is URLs that actually contain http:// as part of the querystring..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Note that the escaping will be done automatically for you if you use the link button (or &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www00.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.25%20%E2%82%AC/kwh%20%2a%20650W%20%2a%201%20month&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's the troublesome Wolfram link from the question, entered using Ctrl+L&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T11:51:33.837" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T11:51:33.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4248" CreationDate="2009-07-15T17:27:46.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to add users to a &quot;favorites&quot; or &quot;friends&quot; list, and would also like to be able to private-message users directly through the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say &quot;yes&quot; to a limited featureset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T17:27:46.627" />
  <row Id="5771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2009-07-15T17:29:21.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed the option of allowing users to translate accepted-answers at their will, and it started to get some support from international SO-users. If there were an option to &quot;Translate this answer&quot; into Portuguese, for example, I would in many cases depending on the length of the answer. Then, when somebody from Brasil or Portugal visits, they would see their flag beside the answer - click, and the translated version shows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T17:29:21.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5785" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:03:54.337" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if there's a valid reason for it, but something which's been bugging me lately is the fact that the &quot;First Time Here? Check the FAQ!&quot; bar appears at the top of the login page. Can we get rid of this? Is it just on every page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastEditorUserId="139837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T21:05:45.040" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T21:05:45.040" Title="Why is the &quot;First time here?&quot; banner on the Login Page?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5784" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:06:53.053" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is because login is also &quot;account creation&quot; for SO (et al). Therefore, it is the only chance to point new users in the direction of FAQ, which I believe is a meaningful and good thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:06:53.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53759" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:18:37.450" Score="7" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is much overlap between the SO, SF and SU sites.  For instance, questions about shell programming are programming related (since they are about programming), about system administration (because they manage the shell) and for single users too, if they want to script their computer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest allowing questions that overlap sites to be posted to more than one site simultaneously in order to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;avoid duplication between sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get answers from all 3 communities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that the answers be visible on all relevant sites, and that any votes apply to all relevant sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  For instance, questions about VIM have appeared in SO (637/222780 questions) and in SF (17/8142 questions).  VIM is a valuable tool for programmers as well as sysadmins.  Where do such questions belong?  I didn't review all the questions in SO but the ones in SF could easily be in SO as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about Perl?  9/8142 on SF and 1772/222780 on SO.  If you're a sysadmin but not a programmer, Perl is most certainly relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are two cases where there is overlap.  I'm sure there are many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Here are some good examples of questions on SU that are relevant to SF and SO as well: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/43867/vim-editor-is-very-smart&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/43867/vim-editor-is-very-smart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/26863/remove-lines-efficiently-in-vim&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/26863/remove-lines-efficiently-in-vim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Here's another example of such concerns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25676/do-vba-question-belong-on-so-or-su/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25676/do-vba-question-belong-on-so-or-su/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-15T19:52:56.593" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T18:50:28.860" Title="Allow cross-posting of questions to more than one SO site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;overlap&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="5791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5628" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:18:41.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the original intention may have been for CW to be editable content, I don't think it's worked out that way; community wiki is instead an indication that either: a discussion without pursuit of a definitive answer is taking place (&quot;why should I...&quot;); the views contributed are by definition subjective or opinionated (&quot;what is your favourite...&quot;); the topic is trivial or fun and therefore higher traffic, so shouldn't lead to rep accumulation (&quot;do you love Jon Skeet?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am starting to think the use of the word 'wiki' is problematic, while 'community' is helpful.  Suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80482" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:18:41.843" />
  <row Id="5797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:24:27.040" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found that there are a handful of high-rep users [I'm looking at you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;] whose answers to a broad variety of questions are enlightening and educational. Often I find myself browsing through their answers just as an opportunity to learn something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I would find it useful (and a time-saver) to be able to get an RSS feed of all of the question, answers and comments these folks are posting, as a way to keep up with interesting content, rather than having to search on this manually. It may also be interesting to see which answers these folks upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the MSO community think of this? Am I out on a limb here or what. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91671" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T18:30:08.867" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:30:26.263" Title="Can we have a RSS feed based on a particular user's answers, comments, and/or upvotes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:28:57.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really feeling it.  I think it's better to choose the one site that the question is &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; appropriate to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that this would be probably require a tremendous effort on the developers' part, and not provide that great a return on that effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:28:57.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5797" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:30:26.263" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already get most of this in the recent tab of the user's profile. There is an RSS button down at the bottom of that page with the feed's link. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not going to include voting of course, since voting is anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance this is mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/5640/recent&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/5640/recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:30:26.263" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="5802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:31:44.960" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to think that the overlap is only possible when the questions are vague and ambiguous...  Each site has a specific purpose and a true programming related question does not belong on meta, sf, or su.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a bad idea and will only increase the garbage on all of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:31:44.960" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:42:44.437" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is so vague that it warrants posting on multiple sites at once, you should probably work to make your question more specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:42:44.437" />
  <row Id="5806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:43:03.923" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There may be some issues where there are system questions and programming questions--but I can almost bet that they aren't the same questions, at least I believe it would not be the case that they were the most sharply-focused possible. -1 for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how sharply-focused questions duplicate much. You might have a repeated preamble:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm working on a Iambic 50K Supersonic, running 1080 SuperNIX. We're putting together a project to direct thought-control satellites through email...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps there could be a possibility to &lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt; questions, but I wouldn't like to see a lot of administrative discussions, in a post discussing the COBOL API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastEditorUserId="130846" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T19:23:12.923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:23:12.923" />
  <row Id="5808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5819" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:50:36.330" Score="5" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does SO paginate answers?  Why not have all of the answers on a single page and allow the user to simply scroll using the browser?  Why force the user to hit a next page button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T19:51:28.370" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T16:09:45.533" Title="Why does SO paginate the answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5808" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:51:27.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because there are questions with hundreds of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would make the page really slow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Classic example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:51:27.977" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5808" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:51:48.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because some people decided it was a good idea to ask questions that &lt;em&gt;every person reading&lt;/em&gt; could answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so they did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the page grew too heavy, and was split up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:51:48.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5808" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:52:05.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there's just &lt;em&gt;too many&lt;/em&gt; answers. I am a pretty avid user of StackOverflow and I hardly &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; stumble upon questions that have paginated answers. If you're seeing too many of these you should probably get out of the what's your favorite cartoon type questions :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, though, the idea of the site as a Q&amp;amp;A site is that most of the time you're only going to want to see the top 1/2 voted answers for your solution and move on. Some questions defy this format and end up with more answers than necessary, so pagination is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T18:52:05.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:53:41.070" Score="6" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we change things so that questions marked as community wiki will not show up in unanswered questions?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It's somewhat annoying on ServerFault that the top two questions under &quot;unanswered&quot; are both community wiki, including the FAQ, which really doesn't need an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131159" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T19:41:19.680" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:00:02.677" Title="Could we change things so that questions marked as community wiki will not show up in unanswered questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5813" CreationDate="2009-07-15T18:57:41.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since they're CW, just add an answer to them.  It's not like you have to worry about a rep hit.  It's a kludge, but yet so very fitting in this field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rich B informs me that the answers still require an upvotes in order to take it off the unanswered page.  Therefore, I retract that answer and instead offer this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be some reasons for this, but I'm not too certain what they are.  If you're just looking to earn rep, it's easy enough to tell which questions are CW from the listing page.  Unless the page is completely clogged with CW questions, it strikes me as an extremely low-priority issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T19:05:31.283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:05:31.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5808" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:16:45.247" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking of pagination, perhaps Jeff &amp;amp; the team could implement a scrolling pagination like dzone (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html&lt;/a&gt;) has. So when you scroll down and pass, say 80% of the page, it loads up the next 25 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see this being a high priority, but this is pretty cool and could be a sexy side project for Geoff or Jared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:16:45.247" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="5821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:32:54.717" Score="19" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are your predictions for the Stack Exchange websites for the year, let's say, 2015?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will come back to this thread on Jan 1, 2015 (if it is not deleted by then).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'til then, ciao.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131301" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-26T20:46:47.153" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T09:40:01.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" Title="Predictions for Stack Exchange in 2015" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;future&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:36:10.123" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict TheTXI will become a moderator of SuperUser, and eventually MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:36:10.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:37:05.550" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict all of the sites will be infested by references to ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:37:05.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:37:45.177" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict people will never stop crying about 'abusive' edits instead of reporting them to moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:37:45.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" />
  <row Id="5825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:38:42.393" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict Joel fires Jeff and takes over development of SO and SE solely with Fogcreek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:38:42.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:39:30.333" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon has finally overflown the &lt;code&gt;Int64&lt;/code&gt; rep, and is back to human status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:39:30.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:40:06.967" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we all know the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aztecs&lt;/a&gt; installed a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%5Fbomb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vacuum metastability device&lt;/a&gt; on their rock calendars in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guatemala&lt;/a&gt; set to destroy &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%5FPyramids&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the universe&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year%5F2038%5Fproblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;December 21, 2012&lt;/a&gt;, we all know these predictions &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goedel%27s%5Fincompleteness%5Ftheorems&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;will never be proven&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy your alternate set of physical constants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But of course, &lt;a href=&quot;http://thestupidestmanonearth.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one man&lt;/a&gt; can save us all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T21:39:18.687" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T21:39:18.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:41:07.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict we see at least many more &quot;Make people comment on down votes&quot; suggestions on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T19:49:48.667" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:49:48.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:41:18.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict the term &quot;stackoverflow&quot; will be redefined in all text books..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:41:18.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" />
  <row Id="5834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:44:12.987" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict two new spinoffs (names will be different):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;doctoroverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt;: Ask questions about your medical problems, get answers from strangers on the internet INSTANTLY.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lawyeroverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt;: Why pay hundreds of dollars to a lawyer for legal advice?  Lots of people on the internet know every aspect of the law! (Just look at the comments to any news story about intellectual property rights.)  Why not let them answer for free, and the payment will be in the form of their massive rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:44:12.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5838" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:25:01.150" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be thousands of posts under the tag [WINFORMS]. As of now, there are only two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131304" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T12:19:24.243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:19:24.243" Title="Missing Posts under WINFORMS tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5837" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:50:19.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All winforms questions have been retagged windows-forms as many other tags have been retagged. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&quot;&gt;The Great Tagging Reorg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65060" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:58:04.797" />
  <row Id="5839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-15T19:59:19.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since tags are meta data, would it really be out of bounds for me to tag (add meta data) 50 questions with taxonomist-tag-for-me to 50 questions listed on this meta site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could do it and see how long it takes for someone to notice :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T19:59:19.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5837" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:01:51.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies for any confusion. If you think this is in error, let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:01:51.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:06:35.913" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upon achieving a critical knowledge mass of 1.5 million questions and answers, SO will become self aware and engulf the &quot;lesser&quot; sites. After determining that Jon Skeet is a threat to its superiority, SOnet will eliminate him by posting a C# question that is impossible to answer yet so devilishly mesmerizing that Jon will starve to death at his computer trying to solve it. With no one standing in its way, SOnet will insert &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469445/last-words-of-a-programmer/469561#469561&quot;&gt;this code&lt;/a&gt; into the software of every military organization in the world:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (launchMissiles = true)&#xA;{&#xA;   FireNukes();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:06:35.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:06:50.133" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself jumping between stackoverflow, superuser and serverfault to check on my activity.  Unfortunately there's no easy way to do that other than typing in the other domain and browsing there manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we have the ability to associate different accounts it would be nice if we could display a bar along the top of the screen that lets you jump directly to the other site.  Additionally the bar can indicate when you have new activity on the other site and your current reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of what I'm talking about can be seen on the 37signals apps.  When you have a highrise and a basecamp account you can jump between your linked accounts easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131308" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:34:54.633" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:34:54.633" Title="Create a unified bar to easily navigate between linked sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
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  <row Id="5844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5842" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:09:21.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was asked earlier today to add links to the top and I believe it was denied (or at least everyone was against it). You already have the links displayed on the footer, and most people who are &quot;power users&quot; of the sites generally have them all bookmarked anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:09:21.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:09:49.053" Score="3" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;When writing code in SO I always press &lt;kbd&gt;tab&lt;/kbd&gt; to indent code, instead I loose focus on the question text area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To indent I use &lt;kbd&gt;space&lt;/kbd&gt;, but doing this in many lines of code is annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8041" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T20:11:23.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:26:34.133" Title="How do you indent in SO?" Tags="&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5845" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:11:44.990" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Four spaces is the proper indentation for code on SO to make the markdown editor recognize it. Beyond this, the language might dictate it, but using the spacebar is really the only way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find this annoying, just write your code in your favorite editor and paste it into the SO editor. From there, highlight it and press &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;k&lt;/kbd&gt; or click the code button in the toolbar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T20:23:39.140" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:23:39.140" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="5849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5845" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:12:43.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I want to paste in a snippet of code, I usually type it up in my own text editor first, convert the tabs to spaces, then paste it into the editor here, select it, and use the code button to indent it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is probably a better approach, too, because if you type code into the site without testing it first, it could have bugs. And if you've tested it, you've presumably written it in your own code editor, and can simply copy and paste from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:12:43.157" />
  <row Id="5850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5845" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:12:45.673" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can manually indent four spaces for code, which will automatically trigger the code-highlighting, or you can highlight your code and hit the code button on the editor which will automatically indent and then add the syntax highlighting for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:12:45.673" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5854" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:18:13.800" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the ability to pin an interesting answer on screen when I go to look at more answers (or to hide the uninteresting answers). Granted, I could open multiple browser windows or tabs but this isn't so convenient for comparing two answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be useful when say comparing opposing views or suggestions, or creating a reference sheet before going away to try them and see what works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T23:00:02.173" Title="Allow temporary pinning or hiding of answers in a given thread" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5852" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:22:15.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt the developers want to spend time implementing features already offered by both the browser and the operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:22:15.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8055" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:26:38.720" Score="7" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get an RSS Feed for search queries? Sometimes the tags are not enough. For some topics the tags are not sufficient or you need to follow multiple tags and Search just simplifies this gap however the search results don't have an RSS feed or at least I can't seem to find. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131299" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T09:04:58.863" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T16:31:15.707" Title="RSS Feed for Searches?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="5860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:34:48.667" Score="3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've poked around MSO a bit and seen that there's a data dump and some discussion of screen-scraping, so perhaps I sadly already have the answer to my question, but is there/might there eventually be some way to interact with SO from a non-browser in a way that doesn't involve screen-scraping?  I'd like to build an Android app for accessing SO, but screen-scraping is both extra work and extra data...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131315" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:43:17.737" Title="Get SO data as JSON/XML?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;&lt;android&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5842" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:35:04.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Jeff's response on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; it is something they are considering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:35:04.153" />
  <row Id="5862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6028" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:36:49.957" Score="2" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I was just promoted to moderator status on SuperUser, I've had some inevitable questions about certain tools or certain practices, so that I stay in line with whatever policies are already standard among the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if it may be useful for there to be a moderator-only forum where newer ones (such as myself) can ask questions, or where one can post a topic (such as &quot;What is the best practice in dealing with posts such as this&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T17:28:08.017" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T03:35:25.423" Title="Private Forum For Moderators" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5860" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:43:16.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's JSON to get the reputation gained on a specific day, if that's any good to you - that's what my reputation tracker uses. URL format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/rep/[userid]/[from-date]/[to-date]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The userid is the numeric one (e.g. 22656 for me). The from-date and to-date are in yyyy-MM-dd format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:43:16.760" />
  <row Id="5864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5860" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:43:17.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been discussion in the past (really popular uservoice suggestion) concerning an API that would allow for access into StackOverflow, but nothing so far has come of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:43:17.737" />
  <row Id="5865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:46:18.820" Score="15" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just updated my &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reputation Tracker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It now really &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; cover SO, SF, SU and Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it has the option of including your flair for each site to display current reputation and badge counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The IDs for the different sites are stored in the &lt;code&gt;so&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sf&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;su&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; parameters. For example, my &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=22656&amp;amp;sf=173&amp;amp;su=410&amp;amp;meta=22656&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showflair=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bookmark&lt;/a&gt; is (formatted for reading convenience - obviously join the two lines together!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?&#xA;       so=22656&amp;amp;sf=173&amp;amp;su=410&amp;amp;meta=22656&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showflair=true&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old bookmarks (with user=xxx) will show the rep for StackOverflow only (even if you've got sites=meta) but the ID will be in the text box, ready for you to resubmit and bookmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: By unfortunate coincidence, the whole of csharpindepth.com may be up and down a bit tonight while we try to sort out a database issue. Please bear with us!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T20:54:06.157" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:37:22.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T20:46:18.820" Title="Reputation Tracker update" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="5866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5872" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:46:56.163" Score="5" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to figure out the best way to learn new things on StackOverflow, and  ultimately design a study plan to help myself and others. To this end, I'd like to hear how others use these websites to achieve this end.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a programmer and thus naturally inclined to use StackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what I currently do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a list of interested tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I try to read  questions  from each tag, as much as a I can (sort of random)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rarely, but if a question that I know an answer catches my eye, I give it a shot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I occasionally ask question in regard to problems I confront at work or from reading some technical books/articles or video lectures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it is the effective way to achieve my goal of learning new things on this site, and I want to refine it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T21:39:33.863" LastActivityDate="2010-06-30T08:38:21.040" Title="What is the best way to learn new things on stackoverflow and the rest of trilogy?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="5867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5862" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:48:45.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;create moderator.stackexchange.com or moderator.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;why not use existing engine as stackoverflow, and I guess it shouldn't take much of the space on server, database and application could be on same machine, and if it's completely private only for mods, it could be hosted on desktop machine :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:48:45.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-15T20:50:07.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the key goals of a developer is to be maximally lazy.  Hence, the use of SO as you describe it is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, understand that one person's easy question is another person's hard question.  Ultimately, (almost) all questions on SO can be answered by working.  But why work when I can simply ask the question on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T20:50:07.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11724" CreationDate="2009-07-15T21:03:58.317" Score="15" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see lots of questions that are good questions, but subjective or unanswerable and should probably be changed to community wiki (and are often closed because of this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense to have a &quot;Should be community wiki&quot; option in the vote to close box?  I would see this functioning in such a way that if a question was closed with that reason, and the OP edited it and changed it to community wiki, it would be automatically reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, marking this question as community wiki :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130222" LastEditorUserId="157773" LastEditorDisplayName="Diago" LastEditDate="2011-06-27T04:56:41.877" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T04:56:41.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T21:03:58.317" Title="Close as community wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2009-07-15T21:05:51.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frequently I'll try to answer a question that I don't already know the answer too.  I'll go digging through google and documentation and stuff and see if I can get an answer that will help the asker.  Even if I'm unsure of it, I'll post it anyway.  If it's incorrect it gets down-voted and its no big deal, I wasn't planning on it being 100% correct anyway.  Then I'll go and read the up-voted answers to see what I did wrong/how it should have been answered.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually how I taught myself how to program a few years back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, you get them right more frequently then you would expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T21:05:51.337" />
  <row Id="5874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5875" CreationDate="2009-07-15T21:24:00.480" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously StackOverflow (and the rest of paltry gang of 4) is very successful in IT.  I wonder if their concept can be taken to a non-technical communities, and perhaps replace &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo! Answers&lt;/a&gt; or at least compete with them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you guys think about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T21:40:49.503" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T21:40:49.503" Title="What is the future of StackOverflow outside of the IT world?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;future&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5874" CreationDate="2009-07-15T21:37:23.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For this very reason Fog Creek have developed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; Framework to allow for you and others to create their own StackOverflow-style website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T21:37:23.883" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5871" CreationDate="2009-07-15T21:39:15.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been suggested a number of times, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/333#373&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T21:39:15.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T21:39:15.227" />
  <row Id="5879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5882" CreationDate="2009-07-15T21:55:48.570" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everyone abides by the rules of StackOverflow. Sometimes they abuse the system by insulting other users as well as down voting their questions, among other things. It would be nice if a user could have blacklist, perhaps enabling read-only access to that group of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would not only help the victims of those users, but also moderators, who constantly have to intervene to resolve petty conflicts, becoming a bigger problem as the community expands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T22:30:25.330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T22:30:25.330" Title="Create a blacklist to keep from seeing certain users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="5882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5879" CreationDate="2009-07-15T22:10:14.257" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if I were sandboxed from their actions, that means I could sandbox myself off from the experts of a particular tag. And if I did that, it might mean that only people with less subject knowledge than you could think your answer was wizz-bang, while an expert might have a serious objection to the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation means that the system trusts you, so you shouldn't be able to be shielded from anybody whose reputation is significantly higher than yours. Unfortunately that means that you could be subject to some high-rep curmudgeons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But everything's a tradeoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T22:10:14.257" />
  <row Id="5886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6906" CreationDate="2009-07-15T22:18:55.243" Score="7" ViewCount="738" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to have similar editing possibilities with keyboard shortcuts in comments as in writing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find myself typing &lt;code&gt;Ctrl-B&lt;/code&gt; at the moment too often in the comment section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, &lt;strong&gt;add keyboard shortcuts to comments.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T04:59:36.840" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T16:39:05.697" Title="To have CTRL-B to make text bold in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5879" CreationDate="2009-07-15T22:25:38.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contrary to the alleged opinion here, silencing certain users has made my experience here considerably greater. Keep in mind that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/ignore-users-script&quot;&gt;ignore-users script&lt;/a&gt; isn't a solution to bad-behavior here. &lt;strong&gt;Reporting to Mods is the preferred solution.&lt;/strong&gt; The ignore-script is a hold-over, or an extra-jump if you absolutely need silence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T22:25:38.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T22:25:38.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5866" CreationDate="2009-07-15T22:34:31.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I find an interesting question but don't know the answer to it, I'll research the answer. Once I've found a solution that works, I'll go back and refresh the page - usually, someone else will have posted an answer by that point, so I'll compare what I found with what they suggest - thereby learning both from my own research and that of others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm absolutely terrible at asking questions, being much too impatient when it comes to finding answers for the problems I face day-to-day... Indeed, all but one of the questions I've asked on Stack Overflow were prompted by other questions on Stack Overflow. So I tend to avoid asking questions - there are plenty of people with real problems who can use the help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also try to spend a bit of time editing questions and answers. Plenty of folks struggle with English and/or Markdown and can use the help. A nice side-effect of this is that it exposes me to topics I'd otherwise avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-30T08:38:21.040" LastActivityDate="2010-06-30T08:38:21.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:03:01.937" Score="3" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ok, I'm totally not sold on the name, so please recommend another one...&lt;/strong&gt;  .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My current naming idea is to call it&#xA;  the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Master Jedi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;award&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &#xA;  The message could be something along&#xA;  the lines of:  The user has felt the&#xA;  force among our empire...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking this &quot;Master Jedi&quot; badge would given to users who max out their reputation on 3 of the 4 SO sites in a couple day period (2 to 3 days).  The badge would be awarded in each of the user's profiles where their rep was maxed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this should at least be a silver badge, but could certainly be a gold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-15T23:34:17.253" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:34:51.800" Title="New badge proposal: &quot;Master Jedi&quot;" Tags="&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="5903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5871" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:14:41.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would have the added benefit that no user can force the question into CW status, they can only force you to change it, or you can wait for people to vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:14:41.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-15T23:14:41.393" />
  <row Id="5908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5900" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:16:04.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only problem with this is that you would have a possibility of trying to assign a badge (or multiple badges) across multiple sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this was something that was seriously considered, I would suggest adding a threshold of days to it. I know just personally that it is ridiculously easy to max out on certain sites per day. There has not been a single day on Meta so far that I have not hit rep limit, and I hit rep limit on SuperUser very easily. If I started paying more attention to SO again, I could probably max out there (I am getting almost 50 rep a day not doing anything as it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say &quot;Max Out On 3 Sites [X] Amount of Times&quot; and then award your badges. You could also scale it so one day would earn you the bronze version, 10 days would give you the silver, and 30 days would give you the gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:16:04.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5918" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:16:28.847" Score="0" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just joined super user, and I've associated my super user account with other accounts (at least one of which has &gt;200 reputation), but my SU account still has a reputation of 1. Is it working like it should?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-14T16:05:34.943" LastActivityDate="2010-07-14T16:05:34.943" Title="How do reputation bonuses for associations between accounts work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;association&gt;&lt;bonus-reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5909" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:19:55.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not had any issues ever with associating. Every time I have associated accounts, I gained +100 (100 for SO, SU, Meta, and now SuperUser). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:19:55.323" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5862" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:22:11.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking about that for a while now. It would be great if you could discuss abusive users outside of the public eye, or how to handle disruptive comments, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:22:11.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5845" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:26:34.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This thought has actually caused me to install The &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's All Text!&lt;/a&gt;&quot; addon for Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:26:34.133" />
  <row Id="5916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5922" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:33:38.423" Score="0" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are times when using a fixed-width font adds significantly to the readability of the text.  It would be nice if we could mark a block of text as using a fixed-width font.  &lt;strong&gt;I know this can be done with the Code Sample markdown, but that syntax colors it and prevents other markdowns, like bold and italic, from working&lt;/strong&gt;.  Sometimes I just want a fixed-width font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, this works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;i&gt;italic&lt;/i&gt; &lt;strike&gt;strike&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just have to use HTML instead of markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T16:58:15.527" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T16:58:15.527" Title="Allow marking text as fixed width font" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="5917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5900" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:34:51.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose it depends on whether Jeff, Joel and gang want to reward that form of behaviour. It seems that they want great programmers asking and answering great programming questions on stackoverflow, they want great sysadmins asking and answering great sysadmin questions on serverfault and so on. Does it matter so much if one person is [perceived to be] a great programmer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a great sysadmin? Personally I don't see this adding much to any of the sites (though it could be seen as reinforcing cliquism, if any exists or is perceived).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23743" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:34:51.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5909" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:35:17.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to associate from the side which has more than 200 rep. It's worked fine for me every time but I always initiate the association from SO. I'm not sure if there is a way to disassociate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65611" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:35:17.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:43:38.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;code&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; fixed-width?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;asdfoao2 23r0 qBWEFwja&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;ao293f8S w345 AESFQ2er&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:43:38.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:46:31.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; tags seem to &lt;b&gt;do&lt;/b&gt; the &lt;i&gt;trick&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;following text does not have to be fixed width&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Markdown looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;pre&amp;amp;gt; tags seem to &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;do&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; the &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;trick&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;following text does not have to be fixed width&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastEditorUserId="1490" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T00:08:54.790" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:08:54.790" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:46:31.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or you can use pre&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Some fixed width text &lt;em&gt;with formatting&lt;/em&gt; &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was created with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;Some fixed width text &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;with formatting&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;the help file&lt;/a&gt; for all the editor details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65611" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:46:31.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:51:37.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others note, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; works. But i wouldn't mind seeing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; supported, for those occasions where you want to publish console output in an appropriate fixed-width font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-15T23:51:37.053" />
  <row Id="5924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:54:16.723" Score="12" ViewCount="418" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that Stack Overflow has become a group of four sites (the three main sites + this meta site), what's a good way to refer to the complete group? Is there an official name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43904" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:36:01.763" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:30:44.260" Title="What's a good way to refer to all four sites collectively?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-15T23:59:40.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(The) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5534/does-the-stack-overflow-software-have-a-name/5619#5619&quot;&gt;Stacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastEditorUserId="130625" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T19:12:41.820" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:12:41.820" />
  <row Id="5927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:00:19.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow site family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is still the first site. The commercial version of this web application is called by it, so... there is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/so-family&quot;&gt;so-family tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-25T10:30:44.260" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:30:44.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:03:45.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO/SF/SU/Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My addiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Stack Overflow family&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-25T10:29:16.363" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:29:16.363" />
  <row Id="5929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5916" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:04:43.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to work fine for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt; Bold&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;multiple spaces with &amp;amp;nbsp; &#xA;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;code&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;b&amp;amp;gt; Bold&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;multiple spaces with &amp;amp;amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;lt;/b&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/code&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:04:43.753" />
  <row Id="5930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5909" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:10:36.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/super-user-semi-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be sure to visit the accounts tab of&#xA;  your user page after you join, so you&#xA;  can get the +100 account association&#xA;  bonus on Super User! (Note that this&#xA;  requires at least 200 rep, so be sure&#xA;  to &lt;strong&gt;initiate the association from the&#xA;  site where you have at least 200&#xA;  reputation&lt;/strong&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you shouldn't make the association from the superuser site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8041" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:10:36.193" />
  <row Id="5931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:14:46.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Super Stack Fault Tetralogy. (That's what I'm going to call it, anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-25T10:27:14.830" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:27:14.830" />
  <row Id="5937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:34:46.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack-Tip Downwash&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only a suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:34:46.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-16T00:34:46.757" />
  <row Id="5938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:34:58.223" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't it already called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/849/the-4th-in-the-trilogy/859#859&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Trilogy&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if an abbreviation is key, &lt;strong&gt;SOFU&lt;/strong&gt; could work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T00:51:44.510" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:51:44.510" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="5939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5451" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:40:04.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this have privacy concerns, given that you can also look up when a user was last seen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;possible_viewers = User.find_all{|user| user.time_last_seen == question.time_last_viewed}&#xA;likely_viewers = possible_viewers.find_all{|possible_viewer| not (possible_viewer.tags &amp;amp; question.tags).empty?}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:40:04.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:47:10.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, they call it the Stack Overflow Trilogy on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/the-stack-overflow-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;. But I have no idea how you'd include Meta in that group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57365" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:47:10.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:50:20.980" Score="7" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did see the thread about an iPhone app, which was not too popular, but I thought this idea was unique enough that it should be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently contributing to all four SO sites. Particularly where SuperUser and StackOverflow are concerned, I'm finding it difficult to keep up. Perhaps I need to choose which sites to contribute to in order to keep myself from going nuts, but I also think a desktop app would have a chance at better integrating the sites for those of us that use more than one concurrently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it might help bring into prominence some of the SO family features which are currently a little underused (favorites, notifications (one email a day?) etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not capable of building such an application myself, but I'd be interested to see what people think of this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117703" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T02:38:44.140" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T07:59:25.027" Title="A desktop app for the SO family?" Tags="&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2009-07-16T00:56:51.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never seen any suggestion as far as a desktop app, but I would imagine that if/when a usable API is developed for the different StackExchange sites, any type of application could be developed regardless of their environment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how well a desktop-app would do in comparison to a web-app that can be accessed from anywhere, but I imagine that it would be a popular idea for people to work on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T00:56:51.977" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11028" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:09:10.077" Score="7" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to Google the whole trilogy of StackOverflow sites at once?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google only gives me two hits from a domain before asking me to search in that domain only. So if I want to search both StackOverflow and SuperUser, I'd have to look at the hits for the former, and then the hits for the latter, rather than both at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:35:36.227" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T10:04:01.573" Title="How do I Google the whole trilogy of StackOverflow sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="5947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5945" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:11:23.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like something that should be built into &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askjonskeet.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askjonskeet.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T01:46:11.270" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:46:11.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5945" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:20:56.237" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Set up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/coop/cse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Custom Search&lt;/a&gt; for the sites you are interested in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:20:56.237" />
  <row Id="5949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:24:56.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I considered creating a desktop app using the Adobe AIR runtime, however I have delayed the project since there is no open API, and because screen scraping is rather frowned upon for large requests.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If and when methods to accomplish this become available, I'm sure I as well as others will begin to make applications focused around SO sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:24:56.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:28:04.480" Score="19" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a trilogy site where each of the four sites in the trilogy is in a tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:35:03.247" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T16:49:29.197" Title="Having four sites to jump between is ridiculous" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="5951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:28:13.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;RSS feeds and HTTP POST operations should suffice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:28:13.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:29:43.437" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Trilogy. Obviously. After the many books in the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:29:43.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:32:02.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been asked numerous times and there has already been a couple posts already about using a Greasemonkey script to allow you to add in some of the information at the top of the site where your current rep information is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:32:02.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:37:33.480" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not make your own mashup site? You might just make some money off of it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option is consolidating most of your interests to RSS feeds on something like Google Reader. That is what I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:37:33.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:49:58.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;S*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or maybe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;S?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to think that most of the users of these sites either already know what a wildcard is, or could be taught easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:49:58.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:56:22.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Four Horsemen?&#xA;Stackapalooza?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T01:56:22.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="5961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5962" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:57:39.857" Score="6" ViewCount="640" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43019/how-do-comment-replies-work&quot;&gt;How do comment replies work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Twitter the at (@) symbol makes the tweet appear in the user page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it do anything on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-10T17:14:26.600" LastActivityDate="2010-07-10T17:14:26.600" ClosedDate="2010-07-10T17:14:46.590" Title="Comments with the @ (at) symbol before the user name triggers something?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;semantics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5961" CreationDate="2009-07-16T01:59:45.247" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does not do anything as far as programming. It is just a social construct we have all adopted to show who we are addressing our comment at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment-closed&quot;&gt;it also notifies the target&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only one person can be replied to at a time in a comment. The first one &quot;in&quot; wins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T03:41:31.040" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T03:41:31.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5961" CreationDate="2009-07-16T02:08:23.343" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would back the idea of having the @[USERNAME] actually try to predict the user being addressed and place a link to their profile.  Overall though, @TheTXI is correct, it is becoming a social construct (thanks to twitter) that we are beginning to adopt and adapt into other tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T02:08:23.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5862" CreationDate="2009-07-16T02:10:19.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kyle had a chat room going, and only 3 of us went into it.  Jeff insinuated you'd get him onto a messageboard or chat program only after the sun dried up and small squirrels became the dominant race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be cool with it, but ultimately, it's not going to be useful unless more than 3 or 4 of us are there, because we'll end up stepping on each others toes by having 3 people in agreement and a 4th being more free-flowing.  (more relevant for meta that SU)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tendency most people seem to follow is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you know what to do, do it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't, leave it (this is usually judgement call cases)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it stays there for a day or two, clear it - no one knew what to do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T02:10:19.637" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5597" CreationDate="2009-07-16T02:12:03.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bet Joel would like that too!  Eventually you'll get one, when they try selling it (maybe. I would expect it, but then again, maybe they won't care), but until then your best bet is just scrounging around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T02:12:03.433" />
  <row Id="5974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T02:28:25.827" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we are getting a list of things under a migrated question (something like the following):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;migrated to &lt;strong&gt;superuser.com&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;name list&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; æons ago &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;locked by Community♦ moments ago &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;closed as belongs on &lt;strong&gt;superuser.com&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;name list&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; some time ago &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bolded parts are links which are named identically, but lead to different things. While &quot;belongs on&quot; logically gets just a link to the site (because there is nothing migrated yet), &quot;migrated to&quot; gets a link to the migrated question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to me I always struggle as the &quot;superuser.com&quot; link after &quot;migrated to&quot; isn't the first thing I'd expect to link to the actually migrated question. Maybe it's just me but I'd like something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;migrated to superuser.com by &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;name list&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; æons ago:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link to migrated question using the question as title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or maybe extending the link to the whole phrase &quot;migrated to superuser.com&quot; would make things clearer. I don't know right now. I just noticed me pausing to think at least a few times recently with migrated questions, wondering which link would lead me to the migrated question. (According to Steve Krug we're always in a hurry and don't read but skim, so maybe my focus was just on the links and what they said and I coulnd't make much sense of them because I needed the context around them. But that seems to me a fundamentally human trait and possibly not specific to me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastEditorUserId="131358" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T16:06:20.737" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:06:20.737" Title="Could the link to migrated questions on other sites be made clearer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" />
  <row Id="5976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5977" CreationDate="2009-07-16T03:14:50.660" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a new stackoverflow type site, how do the first users get experience? You need 15 experience before you can upvote, but if nobody has experience, nobody can upvote. And if nobody can upvote, nobody can gain experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131349" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T07:31:28.557" Title="On a new stackoverflow type site, how do the first users get experience?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;so-experience&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5976" CreationDate="2009-07-16T03:21:05.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you have an account on a sister site with at least 200 experience, you can get an initial 100 experience from linking your accounts.  As long as this is true, that will never be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were starting from scratch without any sister sites, you'd want to remove the restriction on required rep to upvote for at least the first week or so, or have an admin/moderator give out the initial upvotes, or maybe have a &quot;beta&quot; period where any participants get an automatic +100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if you didn't, you can still accept an answer to a question, which gives you +2 and the answerer +15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T03:27:00.787" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T03:27:00.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5976" CreationDate="2009-07-16T03:21:11.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been taken care of now by allowing users to associate their accounts to other accounts they may already have on other sites, and doing so will give them an immediate +100 boost to their new profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T03:21:11.817" />
  <row Id="5981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5982" CreationDate="2009-07-16T03:34:47.320" Score="9" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend too much time on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One result of that is that it's fairly easy for me to see questions that are duplicates of one posted a few days before - I still remember seeing that one. About half the time, I can find the duplicate quickly in a search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a question should get a close vote from me with &quot;Exact duplicate&quot;. The problem is, I can only do that 12 times a day. Between the number of obvious duplicates, and other close reasons, I run out close votes fairly early in the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see a lot of questions with only one or two close votes, even if they're obvious duplicates. I wonder if that's due to other closers having hit their daily limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I think the limit should be relaxed. Perhaps the limit could increase based on reputation. But 12 a day will only be enough when there are only 12 questions a day that deserve a close vote from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T21:55:50.037" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T21:55:50.037" Title="Should the Daily Close Limit be Higher?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="5982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5981" CreationDate="2009-07-16T03:41:17.823" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed quite a long time ago and I think Atwood's reasoning for keeping it that way was &quot;eventually there will be enough users with over 3000 rep that 12 votes per user should be sufficient&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily agree with that, but I can see where he is coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I have thought of was allowing the number of close votes for the day to increase based on your rep. Say every 1000 rep you get an extra X votes per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3000: 12 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4000: 15 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5000: 18 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6000: 21 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7000: 24 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8000: 27 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9000: 30 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on and so forth (Perhaps have a cap after you hit the 10K rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T03:41:17.823" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5984" CreationDate="2009-07-16T03:41:51.643" Score="12" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should all linked accounts get the 100 bonus? My stackoverflow account has about 1300 points, I created accounts on all the other sites. My meta.so, and stackoverflow got a 100 bonus, but my superuser and serverfault didn't get bonuses. Is this correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5976/on-a-new-stackoverflow-type-site-how-do-the-first-users-get-experience&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that I asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131349" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T09:53:24.907" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T12:04:05.307" Title="Should all linked accounts get the 100 bonus?" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="5984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5983" CreationDate="2009-07-16T03:46:20.683" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be getting a 100 point bonus on all sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been noted that you must link all the accounts from a site that has more than 200 rep, otherwise the bonus will not be applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case you should email team@stackoverflow.com and see if they can't help hook you up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T03:46:20.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="5988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T04:07:04.510" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since, we're all into this OpenID thing, I think it would be really useful (and quite easy) to implement a friend invitation feature that grabs a list of friends from one's webmail contact list with an option to choose who to invite to SO, SF or SU. Something in the line of Facebook's friend invitation and recommendation feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131216" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T04:30:27.547" Title="How to invite friends to stackoverflow, serverfault and superuser?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;invitation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="5989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5988" CreationDate="2009-07-16T04:17:08.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't do that Jeff, you don't want to participate in a spam-my-friends-for-me type of &#xA;endeavour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T04:17:08.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5988" CreationDate="2009-07-16T04:23:13.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to invite friends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a great question you think they might be able to answer well. Send them a link, invite them to answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Send them links to your profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put your SO/SF Flair link on your blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a 'question of the day' to write on your whiteboard at work; change it frequently with a new number.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put a link to your SO/SF profile in your email signature, forums signature, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put the top 5 voted questions RSS feed on your blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T04:23:13.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="5991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-07-16T04:28:37.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/ig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iGoogle&lt;/a&gt;. Create a tab for each site. Within each tab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subscribe to the Newest questions feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subscribe Most Popular&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subscribe to your favorite tags. (i.e. python, c++, ms-access, whathaveyou.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T04:28:37.110" />
  <row Id="5992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-07-16T04:29:47.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the sort of thing I'd hoped would get accomplished by a desktop app, but we're still lacking an API for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="117703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T04:29:47.540" />
  <row Id="5993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5988" CreationDate="2009-07-16T04:30:27.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the key thing to realize here is that you shouldn't pressure people into using SO (unless there on experts-exchange). I agree with  because those are all passive ways to get people interested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T04:30:27.547" />
  <row Id="5995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6027" CreationDate="2009-07-16T05:15:50.663" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 4 Firefox windows open and in the Windows Task Bar, I see 4 &lt;strong&gt;Newest Questions - ...&lt;/strong&gt; Firefox windows. I have to mouse over them to figure out which one is which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking &lt;strong&gt;SO - Newest Quest...&lt;/strong&gt;,  &lt;strong&gt;SF - Newest Quest...&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;SU - Newest Quest...&lt;/strong&gt;, &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;MS - Newest Quest...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T08:31:11.317" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T08:31:11.317" Title="The beginning of HTML TItles of the site are the same for same pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="5996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2009-07-16T05:46:59.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create some fun outlet, see how it works. It may just exceed the expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also have a tag there &quot;too-serious&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130609" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T05:46:59.940" />
  <row Id="5997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5995" CreationDate="2009-07-16T05:51:33.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not use the tabs feature of Firefox? That way you would be able to see the site icons as well to help differentiate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T05:51:33.457" />
  <row Id="5999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7979" CreationDate="2009-07-16T06:48:12.863" Score="28" ViewCount="3312" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I delete my Stack Exchange account(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T12:06:39.420" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T07:24:03.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-03T17:40:52.637" Title="Can I delete my account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="15" />
  <row Id="6003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="72149" CreationDate="2009-07-16T07:12:17.640" Score="6" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a nitpick, but as this site seems to be about improvements to SO, I thought I'd mention it anyway ;0)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ive noticed that when I select a badge I received to observe it's meaning, the links at the top of the page are shorter by two, specifically the user profile link and the logout link.  Practically, this means that when I navigate to the badge page, the only way to get back to the user profile page is with the back button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this is a slight picky, however it could mean a lot more to someone else - as the insecurity some users feel when they are forced to navigate with the back button for fear of loosing their 'place' if that makes any sense :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130690" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T08:18:36.967" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T18:43:29.673" Title="User Profile &amp; Logout links inaccessible from the 'badge' statistics page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="6005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5976" CreationDate="2009-07-16T07:31:28.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A StackExchange site, be it part of the SO/SF/SU 'family' or the hosted commercial brethren without sisters sites (and bonus), is about more than upvotes and scores.  There is a significant 'community' dimension, and that needs building.  To that end, these sites start out with some moderators and they can upvote whoever they please, which can kick start the community and resolves the apparent vote-score paradox.  Receive two upvotes and a user is in the game...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T07:31:28.557" />
  <row Id="6008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6009" CreationDate="2009-07-16T07:44:32.703" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now on serverfault I'm ignoring windows stuff, because I'm not a windows guy. The problem is that &quot;all&quot; windows tags have duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&#xA;windowsserver2003, windows-server-2003, windows2003 (and the same for 2008),&#xA;sqlserver, sqlserver2005, mssql, ms-office ms-office-2007, visualstudio, visual-studio, windowsxp, windows-xp, etc..., etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should I request that these tags be merged? I hereby do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130299" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T20:23:36.110" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T20:23:36.110" Title="Is there a way to block &quot;windows&quot; tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6008" CreationDate="2009-07-16T07:48:46.017" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use wildcards in your ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you put in &lt;code&gt;*windows*&lt;/code&gt; it will ignore any tags containing &quot;windows&quot; at any point inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's a link to the blog article: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T07:48:46.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6008" CreationDate="2009-07-16T07:52:22.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can at least use wildcards, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This does make it easier for you some if you enter *windows*, *sqlserver*, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would make sense to merge some of the tags (like windows7 and windows-7), but then other are used to distinguish version specific problems and questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T07:52:22.220" />
  <row Id="6011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1716" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:02:25.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag-based badges (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;) are calculated on a daily basis at 3am PST. (Yes, I actually know this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; the rest, or at least the vast majority of the rest, are run on a 5ish minute interval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T08:02:25.300" />
  <row Id="6018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5656" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:15:42.190" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't copy OpenIDs -- just the &quot;soft&quot; profile fields (pretty much everything else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is now a &quot;Copy {Site} login credentials to all Stack Exchange accounts&quot; button on the &lt;strong&gt;account tab&lt;/strong&gt; of your user page now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/kE1OL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-07T01:45:37.947" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T01:45:37.947" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:12:28.937" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any insights into how revisions are tracked/displayed on StackOverflow? I'm curious to know if this was hand-rolled or built using other technologies out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I understand how WMD (and it's modified form) is used but I'm not sure how (if?) it helps display the revision history page - is there some other wiki implementation behind the scenes to help show revisions and diff-markup on the revisions page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T14:02:17.370" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:02:17.370" Title="Is there a wiki behind SO? How is SO question history maintained?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:18:07.170" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo Pipes&lt;/a&gt; could help with this. You can input multiple feeds, filter and re-read it afterwards. I'm at least going to try that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think that the most annoying thing of following all three web-sites is checking up on your answers. Just the feature of your profile on one site would list your responses and status on all the other linked accounts would work wonders for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, the accounts are already linked, why not provide a common notification platform for all sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99209" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T08:18:07.170" />
  <row Id="6022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6025" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:20:41.257" Score="17" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;This SO question is clearly a candidate for Meta, but I have to go read it to see if it was only closed, or migrated to where it belongs. Can't the text say &lt;strong&gt;[migrated to meta]&lt;/strong&gt; instead of &lt;strong&gt;[closed]&lt;/strong&gt; when that's what has happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9715/dibujozbh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tell me it has been migrated in the question title! Please?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T03:35:00.993" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T03:35:00.993" Title="Display &quot;migrated to meta&quot; instead of &quot;closed&quot; in migrated questions' titles" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6022" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:25:44.020" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would require denormalizing the value, which isn't worth it IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking through will show you exactly what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we did eventually denormalize this as MigrationDate, and there are lots more migrations now that we have 40+ sites, so -- implemented as &lt;code&gt;[migrated]&lt;/code&gt; on questions instead of just plain &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T03:33:32.913" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T03:33:32.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5995" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:31:03.610" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The favico icons next to each one should tip you off about which is which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting the site first is bad information design, the most relevant thing is the content &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T08:31:03.610" />
  <row Id="6028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5862" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:34:57.557" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer that most of the moderator talk (except for truly, obviously &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt; things like discussing details about individual users or disagreements or exploits) be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/moderation%20or%20moderator&quot;&gt;here under the moderator tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more of this we can do in public, the better!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for stuff that can't be, a simple email amongst the moderators on that tier should be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; This has now been implemented. The &quot;Teacher's Lounge&quot; is a private chatroom where moderators can discuss issues related to moderating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="160166" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-29T03:35:25.423" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T03:35:25.423" />
  <row Id="6029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6038" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:40:22.893" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;The style for nested lists is the same as the styling of a simple list. The biggest problem with this is the bottom margin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A &amp;rarr; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A &amp;rarr; 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A &amp;rarr; 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;B&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;B &amp;rarr; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;B &amp;rarr; 2&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;B &amp;rarr; 2 &amp;rarr; X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;B &amp;rarr; 2 &amp;rarr; Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;B &amp;rarr; 2 &amp;rarr; Z&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;B &amp;rarr; 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;C&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;C &amp;rarr; 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;C &amp;rarr; 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;C &amp;rarr; 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T17:13:04.767" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:13:04.767" Title="There is no styling of nested lists" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:59:18.857" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I visit all of three websites but lately I feel like I'm refreshing a bit too many web pages and I've considering maybe use my time a little bit more constructively instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is &lt;strong&gt;to create a common notification framework for all three sites&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers, comments and reputation changes should be tracked on all linked accounts, that way if I'm browsing Stackoverflow, I still get notified if someone answers me on Superuser or Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Integrate other methods than email for notifications, XMPP/Japper comes to mind. I wouldn't mind SO sending me a message if someone responds to one my questions or answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure others have noticed the addictive nature of these sites. You answer something and then you spend the remainder of your day seeing if anyone has responded to your comment (hello refresh button).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sitting around, refreshing 3-4 websites is just a bit too time consuming. If I could get notifications on XMPP or just on all of the websites instead having to check all of them would be much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also in my opinion help busy people use the sites without fearing it will consume too much of their time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99209" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:48:32.950" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:48:32.950" ClosedDate="2009-07-16T09:41:55.877" Title="Common notification framework" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6019" CreationDate="2009-07-16T08:59:58.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell from podcasts, the database just has the full text of every revision (in markdown format), and the revision history page then builds the diff when it has to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's frankly the easiest way of doing it - in particular it means your diff algorithm can become smarter over time and still work with all the old text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does have storage implications, admittedly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But no, I don't believe SO is built on another wiki system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T09:11:37.657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:11:37.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6029" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:27:54.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, how to fix in CSS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:27:54.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6039" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:31:05.113" Score="4" ViewCount="11304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just checking what items were downloaded by the SO pages, and I saw pixel.quantserve.com popping up. My first instinct was to block it using Adblock Plus, but I'd like to know what it's for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any reason &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to block &quot;http://*.quantserve.com/&quot; ??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131146" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:36:16.760" Title="pixel.quantserve.com - what's it about, and should I block it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;cookies&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6029" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:34:06.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is straight from Google Chrome's user agent stylesheets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ol ol ul,&#xA;ol ul ul,&#xA;ul ol ul,&#xA;ul ul ul&#xA;{&#xA;    list-style-type: square;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;ol ul,&#xA;ul ol,&#xA;ul ul,&#xA;ol ol&#xA;{&#xA;    margin-bottom: 0px;&#xA;    margin-top: 0px;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;ul ul,&#xA;ol ul&#xA;{&#xA;    list-style-type: circle;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:34:06.523" />
  <row Id="6039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6037" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:35:13.843" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quantserve is like Google Analytics, but totally public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this is important to attract advertisers, as they see your public validated traffic rank and have some idea of the type and number of visitors they might be advertising to)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish Google Analytics offered a world-public view into your web stats and we wouldn't need Quantserve..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T17:10:09.340" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:10:09.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6043" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:46:52.697" Score="4" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dev.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beta Access&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This site is currently in private beta&#xA;  testing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a new site coming or is it just the test server?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:51:38.483" Title="What is dev.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;private-beta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6041" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:51:06.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just the test server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:51:06.217" />
  <row Id="6043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6041" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:51:38.483" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have three tiers of development&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;localhost&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dev&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;production&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the test server -- development tier. So test locally, then build and deploy to dev, test there, and then if that's good, build and deploy to production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:51:38.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6045" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:53:47.157" Score="3" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got this message today while trying to accept my answer on my own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why i must wait this time, if i am sure that the answer i answered is the right one, just want to understand the point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I faced that just today on Super user, and didn't get this message before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20126" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T19:36:21.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T19:36:21.403" Title="Why must I wait 2 days before accepting my own answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6044" CreationDate="2009-07-16T09:56:45.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;original resistance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eventually relented here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, there are some special rules around owner-accepted answers, to prevent gaming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wait 48 hours.&lt;/strong&gt; You must wait 2 days from the time you originally asked your question before you can accept your own answer. This gives other users a chance to answer the question in good faith, and earn the accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No change in sort order.&lt;/strong&gt; Normally, accepted answers are “docked” under the question. This is not true for owner accepted answers; they stay in standard sort order like any other answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No reputation is earned.&lt;/strong&gt; Normally, accepted answers confer +15 rep to the answerer and +2 to the owner. Owner accepted answers do not earn rep (or badges) for anyone. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was initially very much against this, but several commenters in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why Can’t I Accept My Own Answer?&lt;/a&gt; post convinced me that, with a few rule tweaks, it could work. As you can see on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8681/jquery-validate-failure-in-opera&quot;&gt;a question I myself asked&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes you really have no other option than to close the loop yourself, and it’s nice to be able to do so by accepting your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T09:56:45.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6047" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:04:01.967" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the reputation tab of your profile, you'll see a green number and a red number for each question you've asked and answered. On one &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1135739/1135754#1135754&quot;&gt;particular question&lt;/a&gt;, I have two upvotes, but the numbers in question say 30(green) and -2(red). What do they mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131396" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:35:58.447" Title="Numbers in the rep tab" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6046" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:07:11.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means that you had 3 upvotes (+30 rep) and one downvote (-2 rep), which adds up to a cummulative 2 upvotes, as shown in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you earned +28 rep from this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:07:11.943" />
  <row Id="6048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6053" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:16:49.483" Score="6" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;They look indented or something like that. Are those the &quot;moderator only&quot; tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:24:04.390" Title="What's up with the tags that look different?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4898" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:22:45.267" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed as a newb, that community wiki can be used as a &lt;strong&gt;club&lt;/strong&gt; by experienced people on people that ask subjective like questions when they are starting out, especially when you are expecting forum like behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In stead of explaining why, yesterday I got barraged by a volley of &quot;this should be community wiki&quot; comments on a SU question until the question changed over by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was off line and came back to research why I was being beaten up. It was not a pleasant feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49156" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:22:45.267" />
  <row Id="6051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6052" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:22:49.373" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the &lt;strong&gt;red&lt;/strong&gt; colored &lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt; label?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify my question (which Jon has quickly answered),&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The &lt;strong&gt;red&lt;/strong&gt; color indicated that the tag was different and&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I had just started noticing the borders (that Thomas mentions).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I was curious about the color and the meaning of the actual tag.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;thanks.. .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T17:15:39.217" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:15:39.217" ClosedDate="2009-07-16T10:25:41.307" Title="Whats different about status-bydesign tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6051" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:23:05.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means &quot;this isn't a bug, it's how it's meant to work.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, suppose you wrote a post on Meta saying, &quot;I can't delete my own question. Bug!&quot; and it turned out that your question had a bunch of answers with upvotes, then this behaviour is &quot;by design&quot; - it's preventing content which other users have found useful from being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:23:05.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6048" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:24:04.390" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;red tags = moderator only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;border tags = required on every question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:24:04.390" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6051" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:24:50.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh. I think I figured out my own question, thanks to yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bordered tags are mandatory user tags. The red tags are moderator only tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:24:50.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6058" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:34:16.700" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is the accounts tab located in SO/SF/SU/META?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T10:36:50.917" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:36:50.917" Title="Accounts tab in SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="6058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6057" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:35:38.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on your name at the top of the page to access your profile. The accounts tab is the one on the far right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:35:38.673" />
  <row Id="6059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6046" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:35:58.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additional note: if you hit the rep cap, you'll see some votes with no rep gained, and other votes where you didn't gain as much rep as you would have otherwise. For example, &quot;3/10&quot; means &quot;you've received 3 upvotes, but only gained 10 rep due to the cap&quot; and a bare &quot;8&quot; means &quot;you've received 8 upvotes, but none of them gained you any rep.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;acc/15&quot; in yellow means an accepted answer which &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; earns you 15 rep, regardless of cap. (Likewise &quot;bounty/300&quot; or whatever the bounty for an accepted bounty answer happens to be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:35:58.447" />
  <row Id="6064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2963" CreationDate="2009-07-16T10:50:18.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ponies-free answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it does change. But the original URL still works – it doesn't link to the edits page it links straight to the most up-to-date version of the question. So the question has two equally valid URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131167" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T10:50:18.823" />
  <row Id="6069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6037" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:08:21.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://noscript.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Noscript&lt;/a&gt; blocks it as a matter of course, so I guess you are losing quite a bit of data. Certainly more than a site with 'average' users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:08:21.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:11:20.663" Score="3" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we have more than one site to ask questions on?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Some users, like me, are registered on all 4 of these sites.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This requires me to switch tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Suggestion:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consolidate everything into one site.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;When you ask a question, there should just be a DropDown list where you may specify what area it belongs.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be more sophisticated, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131161" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:33:54.903" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:33:54.903" ClosedDate="2009-07-16T11:49:42.513" Title="Why do we have more than one site to ask questions on?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6070" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:12:02.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was asked in the past. Less Noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; create dropdowns to declare the nature of your question. And you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; use dropdowns to declare what type of stuff you're interested in (Server stuff, Programming stuff, General Computer Stuff, Meta Stuff), but then you're really only reinventing the current method. Better just to keep them all distinct - which is what everybody would want if they were all merged to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stay logged into all four, and use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;minimalistic-sister-site-toolbar&lt;/a&gt; to jump around. It makes browsing all four very easy and nearly seemless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:12:02.230" />
  <row Id="6073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6070" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:13:23.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several questions have been raised concerning this already. Just as a starter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;Business Portal proposal&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA; There is even a tag for questions like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/trilogy&quot;&gt;trilogy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:13:23.020" />
  <row Id="6074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="83361" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:18:48.820" Score="26" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see a lot of occasions where a new user posts an answer when in fact they should be asking a question; for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023609#1129841&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182558#1137022&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we want to make life as comfortable as possible for new users (the life-blood)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we may have a different audience, especially on SuperUser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about the ability (moderator?) to change a user's &quot;answer&quot; into a new question? (presumably retaining the tags etc from the original question, and the ownership from the misplaced answer/question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest gotcha with this, though, is that in some cases this group (the people who paste an answer when they want to ask a question) are the same group that you never see again - so it might not be a 100% return...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting this as a &lt;kbd&gt;discussion&lt;/kbd&gt; (not a &lt;kbd&gt;feature-request&lt;/kbd&gt;) as I'm mainly interested in people's thoughts... would this be useful? or not so much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I think that is enough support to upgrade it to &lt;kbd&gt;feature-request&lt;/kbd&gt; ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="149076" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T12:42:14.733" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T12:42:14.733" Title="Convert non-answers into new questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;non-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6074" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:26:27.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Converting it to a question is a good idea. If they return or not, doesn't matter. If it is answered, someone else could be helped with. The only &quot;benefit&quot; the questioner has now, is being voted down to some nice place in nirvana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:26:27.110" />
  <row Id="6076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6074" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:27:03.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of being able to push it out to a new question, but I think what you may end up seeing more and more often is when people will post as an answer a reply to the other answers. In this way it would generally be useful more as a comment and not a separate question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how useful it would be, but perhaps something that allows you to highlight some text and then push it to a comment (with you being able to pick where to put it). I don't know how well this would work, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:27:03.747" />
  <row Id="6077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6074" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:27:41.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this will be a burden for the moderator. He has to look into each and every answer a new user posts and should decide whether it should be moved to the question or not. When the user group grows to an enormous one this will be a huge task for the moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's an option to vote the answer to be moved as a question for users with reputation above a specified level then it could be useful. Then the moderator will get a list of the questions that has been voted to move as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if the provided answer is no way related to the new question then he has to enter new keywords also for the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:27:41.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7182" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:30:20.943" Score="5" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a couple people complain that it's not easily visible when authoring a new question. Your eyes naturally wonder down the left-side of the page and miss the checkbox on the right that washes right into the background of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be moved down near the &lt;kbd&gt;Ask Your Question&lt;/kbd&gt; button instead, and maybe be given slightly more contrast to make it pop off of the background a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-cw.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T00:29:55.413" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:05:31.040" Title="Please Move the CW Checkbox" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="6079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6078" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:33:55.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be more useful if it could be a &lt;strong&gt;user setting&lt;/strong&gt; and not for each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:33:55.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6078" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:36:11.160" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would almost rather see the checkbox moved to the top rather than further to the bottom. That way it would definitely catch my attention more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:36:11.160" />
  <row Id="6081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:46:30.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Open-sourcing is good. Open-sourcing Stack Overflow is a &lt;em&gt;bad idea&lt;/em&gt;. It's so close to a finished product already. One of the major reason to open source a project like this (that I can see) would be to make it work on more platforms and that works &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; against your business model, which is to monopolize on the Stack Overflow engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I see lacking from your business model is the freebie choice. 10 clicks, no cost and you've got your own mini-Stack Overflow. Sounds bad for business? On the contrary, because this mini-Stack Overflow will be limited enough so that only the people who would never consider paying any big amount for the Stack Overflow engine will keep on using it. The most recent site using this business model that I can think of is &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/appengine/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google App Engine&lt;/a&gt; (You may say that it is open source, but that's just the framework; not the stuff behind that makes it all tick. Not to mention the hardware requirement it has.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:46:30.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-16T11:46:30.397" />
  <row Id="6082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6083" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:47:47.633" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the best browser configuration for running SO/SF/SU/META?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:08:09.097" Title="Browser requirments for SO/SF/SU/META" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="6083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6082" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:53:07.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IE 6 and anything written thereafter, really. I haven't seen a browser in which SO &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; work. Obviously it works better in the latest version of every major browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, websites should not have &quot;best configurations&quot; at all. If a site doesn't work in a browser, it's a failure in design. In this regard, the SO family is a good design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:53:07.327" />
  <row Id="6084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6082" CreationDate="2009-07-16T11:53:19.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just have a modern browser. Firefox, Chrome, IE7/8, Opera, Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T11:53:19.870" />
  <row Id="6085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6082" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:03:25.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;heck, it even works fine in opera mini on a mobile phone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T12:03:25.550" />
  <row Id="6086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6074" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:04:02.280" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this a lot, and I think it would be helpful to be able to promote the non-answers to questions.  I think it would be &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; beneficial in the cases where the user isn't coming back, because those are exactly the users who aren't going to see my comment suggesting they ask a separate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I also see a lot of is new users leaving answers that should be &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; (because they don't have enough reputation to comment yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="147166" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-17T09:33:06.600" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T09:33:06.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6074" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:06:12.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marc,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea. I think there should be another radio button on the Flag list to allow us to flag this sort of question for the moderators. It could even add a canned comment to the answer. Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@shalini: I see you're new here, so&#xA;  you may not have read the&#xA;  stackoverflow.com/faq yet (link at top&#xA;  of every page). This is not a&#xA;  discussion forum. It's a Q&amp;amp;A site. If&#xA;  you have a question, click the &quot;Ask a&#xA;  Question&quot; link. You've posted an&#xA;  &quot;Answer&quot;, and one that has nothing to&#xA;  do with the question. Welcome to&#xA;  StackOverflow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &quot;@shalini&quot; is replaced by the user's name (obviously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, in retrospect, that needed a smiley. It's from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023609#1129841&quot;&gt;first example&lt;/a&gt; that Marc cited, and I wrote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T12:15:09.553" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T12:15:09.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:14:33.030" Score="4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your experience, how long does it take Google to index an SO question/answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T13:19:06.457" Title="How long does it take Google to index an SO answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6089" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:15:42.617" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience less than 5 minutes.  Many times I have begun to answer a question and Google a part of it and the first result of my search is the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T12:15:42.617" />
  <row Id="6091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6089" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:20:29.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look to newest question on SO (SF and SU) and try finding on google :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do test and result is 30 min.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T13:19:06.457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T13:19:06.457" />
  <row Id="6092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6100" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:27:13.740" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some interesting tags stored on Stack Overflow with * in them (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23%2A&quot;&gt;c#*&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi%2A&quot;&gt;delphi*&lt;/a&gt;) and they no longer seem to be working. I'm fairly sure they did since I remember setting them up after reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post about when they were introduced&lt;/a&gt;. I just get a completely blank page when clicking on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also tested storing interesting tags on the other sites with * in and they all seem to be affected. Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17461" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T10:23:52.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T10:23:52.500" Title="Tags with * in not working correctly?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;wildcards&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21849" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:36:22.040" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a feed for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=week&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=week&lt;/a&gt; ?  If not, can one be created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131415" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T03:21:37.437" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T03:21:37.437" Title="Feed for http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=week" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="6095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6098" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:36:52.660" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent question I was answering, I had used localhost and your.domain.tld as examples for a user with regards to RWW and OWA.  However, I had to obfuscate the URL (think I put brackets around the colon) as I had exceeded the number of links permitted for my current rank.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we modify the parser to have a &quot;whitelist&quot; of URLs like 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' and possibly anything ending in .local?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131416" LastEditorUserId="131416" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T12:53:39.790" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T12:53:39.790" Title="Link restrictions for new users -- can we exclude 'localhost'?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:38:01.653" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;We started to see SO content duplicated in some sites. Does it affects SO position in Google results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T19:36:22.377" Title="Does Stackoverflow public dump of data and mirror sites affect its Page Rank?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6092" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:39:28.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The interesting tags feature only highlights questions that have tags that match your pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can't click on the tag with a wildcard in it and have it filter questions like you would with a tag without a wildcard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T12:39:28.387" />
  <row Id="6098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6095" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:40:38.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &quot;example.com&quot;, (and example.net, example.local, etc) since that's the domain that's actually reserved for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T12:40:38.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6096" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:41:55.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow content was scraped and used on other sites well before the monthly data dumps started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T12:41:55.533" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6092" CreationDate="2009-07-16T12:42:06.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does work concerning the highlighting of the tags. It does not when clicking on it to see all questions with corresponding tags. It used to show you only questions with the tag stripped from the * wildcards, so for *slq* that was sql. It sometimes still does right after adding the tag to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get some more information in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3898/did-the-wildcard-tag-feature-get-removed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; This feature has been extended and fixed. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16852/cant-set-up-interesting-tags-using-to-allow-wildcard-searches/16857#16857&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for a snapshot of the time being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T10:07:23.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1219" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:03:17.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference between StackOverflow and Wikipedia is that StackOverflow still places the author's name next to a post and you can still earn badges for it, even with a community wiki post.   Community Wiki mode is also often used to post content for which you still want to claim ownership, but not earn reputation points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow just has a greater sense of ownership in general, and this does still include Community Wiki content.  As such, it's only right that it maintain a higher standard for editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T15:07:21.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T15:07:21.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:10:39.567" Score="0" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why only the 50 first tags are shown in the accounts tab of a user ? Why do you not use the menu as used for the answers ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131420" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T13:18:43.470" Title="tag visibility in account tab on stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6110" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:18:43.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you've looked at the 50 tags that someone has been most prolific in, do the rest of the tags really make that much difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted over 4400 answers, but by the time you get to my 50th tag you're looking at tags that I've only posted 30 answers in... are the rest of the outliers really interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for badges - my user account shows 52 different badges. I haven't checked whether that's all of them or not, but I suspect it is. My guess is that it just divides all the badges awarded into at most 5 columns, but doesn't limit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T13:18:43.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2627" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:19:32.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The numbered list button is screwed up beyond belief.  Also, what shows up in the editor isn't what shows up in the preview.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My biggest complaint is that I can't create a list, highlight it, and then click the numbered list.  That's how just about everybody creates numbered lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;first&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;second&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;third  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(each appears on a different line in the editor) Select the above and hit the numbered list button and this is what you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first second third&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not quite the expected behavior.  Turns out the only way to do it is to click the numbered list on every single line you wish to be part of the numbered list.  This sucks, and should be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T16:47:47.247" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:47:47.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6114" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:23:38.320" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I want to do, and is a very common pattern in just about any editor that lets you create numbered lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to create a list by typing each step on a new line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;step one&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;step two&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;step three  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then want to highlight these lines and create a numbered list where each new line is assigned a number.  If I highlight all three lines in the editor and click the numbered list button in the toolbar, this is what I get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;step one   step two   step three&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this in any way expected behavior?  Would &lt;em&gt;anybody&lt;/em&gt; expect that to happen?  Does &lt;em&gt;anybody&lt;/em&gt; want this to be the normal behavior?  I don't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T18:31:54.890" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:31:54.890" Title="The numbered list button in the editor does not behave as expected" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6113" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:29:31.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not so hard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Step one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Step two.  Note that it will even wrap lines correctly, as this boring (but long) line of text will demonstrate for you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Step three&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what the text looks like (encased in a pre block):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Step one&#xA;1. Step two  Note that it will even wrap lines correctly, as this boring (but long) line of text will demonstrate for you .&#xA;1. Step three&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown handles this for you.  Notice that it doesn't care what number I actually typed, but will put an ordered number in automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I take your point about the button on the toolbar being broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T13:29:31.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:36:54.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know what would really rock?  Taking Google's search operators and formalizing them into an international standard that anyone who wanted to do &quot;search&quot; could then implement (poorly).   And from then taking that standard and formalizing how to extend it.  Then I could tag Google's superior engine and use it to search StackOverflow within a specific tag like I can with the lackluster index on the site itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T12:59:47.273" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T12:59:47.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6122" CreationDate="2009-07-16T13:58:25.303" Score="9" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged a question as spam and even though some time has past (30m), I was not awarded the badge Citizen Patrol. Do I misunderstand what it is awarded for, or could it be that the badge did not get awarded as the question was deleted before the next award run?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T20:18:01.297" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T14:34:40.690" Title="Citizen Patrol badge not awarded" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6113" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:00:17.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find it difficult to continue the numbering pattern after a block of code or quote. A handful of times I've had to throw out the autonumbers from Markdown and explicitly number my points manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't meant to be a nitpick, and perhaps that functionality has been patched or enhanced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:00:17.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6120" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:07:09.280" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a similar issue in June &amp;amp; I e-mailed team@stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is their response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's definitely being awarded, I see&#xA;  awards on 6-24, 6-22 x2, 6-21 x2, 6-20&#xA;  x2.. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh wait, we did break out the spam /&#xA;  offensive / inform moderator votes, so&#xA;  I need to add all 3 of those types,&#xA;  not just one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OK, the query has been updated. Thanks&#xA;  for letting us know..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it should be working now, though now you come to mention it I've flagged a couple of posts here as &quot;inform moderator&quot; and haven't had the badge either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; I've just flagged a post over on SU (it's gone now so I can't provide the link) &amp;amp; haven't received the badge over there either. Something is definitely amiss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2&lt;/strong&gt; I've just flagged a post on SF as spam and that earned me the badge over there. I think it's a problem with the &quot;inform moderator&quot; vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 3&lt;/strong&gt; From Jeff's comment on his answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;oh, I see. This is only awarded for&#xA;  spam and offensive flags, as we moved&#xA;  the mod flags to another table. So if&#xA;  you really want it, flag&#xA;  spam/offensive&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Citizen Patrol badge is only awarded when flagging a post as spam or offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now no longer the case. Any flag causes the badge to be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2011-02-09: Flagging for moderator attention now counts for the Citizen Patrol badge. This change applies retroactively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange/59446#59446&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-10T14:34:40.690" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T14:34:40.690" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6082" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:08:09.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It works on my Blackberry's default browser, to view.  I just have trouble getting an OpenID login to work reliably.  It worked once, hung around for a while then stopped, and now I cannot get it to work again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32247" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:08:09.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:22:15.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do we even need different sites for different types of questions?  Isn't that what tagging is supposed to solve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130722" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:22:15.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:34:36.957" Score="0" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow's &quot;Ask Question&quot; page refuses my email as a valid email address for the &quot;Notify  daily of any new answers&quot; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My email address has only one character before the 'at' sign (my initial), so maybe that's it? I prefer not to post my real email online, but if I were called Klaas Pietersen (bite me, I'm Dutch), then my email address would be &lt;code&gt;k@pietersen.nl&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T06:35:16.080" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:08:36.640" Title="&quot;Invalid email&quot; for valid email address" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6130" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:40:28.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's the first character.  I've been able to add the following emails  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;k@pietersen.nl &#xA;k@some.gz&#xA;test@google.mobi&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only ran into issues when using fake extensions such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;test@test.mobile&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you have an odd extension?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:40:28.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:43:30.987" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be more than a few posts about how to integrate serverfault.com with stackoverflow.com.  Why does this problem exist?  Why not just have one universal site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the benefits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions can be posted in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions can be searched in one place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User reputation is consistent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every new topic can be a new tag.  Then, tags that are not interesting to you can be filtered out.  Maybe we can also invent &quot;tag buckets&quot; which can filter out a group of tags (eg a Java developer may want to mask out all PHP-related questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big picture:  expand this one universal site to include topics like child care, health, travel, books, humor, ponies (yes..ponies), etc (see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/806/stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/806/stackoverflow-com&lt;/a&gt;).  This could be the best forum on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please if you think this a good idea vote this topic up so it can get some attention.  If it's not a good idea, please give some reasons so everyone can be on the same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130722" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:53:52.220" Title="Why do serverfault.com and superuser.com even meta.stackoverflow exist?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6133" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:48:44.137" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because StackOverflow came first with a very defined guideline as far as what was appropriate content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Serverfault also has a very specific subject matter that appeals to a whole different type of audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser has a very broad appeal that can appeal to numerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, trying to incorporate everything into one site is just asking for a big flaming pile of poo that nobody will be able to decipher (i.e. Yahoo! Answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:48:44.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6133" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:48:57.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't say I'd like for there to be one site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;generally interested&lt;/em&gt; in development. That means I skim through all the posts on SO, even on tags that I haven't marked myself as interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Change SO to a single forum for &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; and I wouldn't be able to do that any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, everything currently on SO could be tagged &quot;development&quot; and I could just be interested in that tag... but then where's the point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise reputation tells you something about someone's record (I wouldn't like to say &quot;ability&quot;) in the somewhat-broad-but-not-too-broad topic of development - or sys admin stuff for Server Fault. Reputation would mean virtually &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; on a &quot;universal&quot; SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an idea worth thinking about - and I'm going to ponder some more why my instinctive reaction is quite such a firm &quot;no&quot; - but I'm generally pleased with having 4 sites. (I don't tend to actually go to SF, and I'm not keeping up with every question on SU either, btw.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:48:57.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:49:01.197" Score="4" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that one of my answers on superuser had been edited by the community user. Looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/5309/list&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; it just says &quot;[made Community Wiki]&quot;. I'm left wondering why because it hasn't been edited and there are other answers to that question left before mine that haven't been turned to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Community user always left a reason why a question had been changed to community wiki people wouldn't have to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; it's been speculated that it was Community Wiki because the question was community wiki, which I accept, but if that was the case, and it was created initially as community wiki then &lt;strong&gt;why was I &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/recent/772?StartDate=2009-07-16&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-07-16&amp;amp;Tab=Revisions&quot;&gt;notified on my recent activity page&lt;/a&gt; that there had been an edit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; happened again, but this time it's clearly because &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/5757/list&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; was made community wiki which forced &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/5757/list&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; into community wiki without explaining why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="2541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T20:12:12.463" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:12:12.463" Title="Community user should give reason for making a post community wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="6138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:50:25.387" Score="1" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember it being extensively discussed in pre-meta times, but I hope that someone could clarify that for me here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Situation: I've 195 today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvote then downvote leaves me with 198&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvote then upvote leaves me with 200&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(no edits have been made in the mean time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is what happens to that &quot;excessive&quot; rep? Will I ever get back those two points? If not, isn't it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T05:47:28.660" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T05:47:28.660" Title="Reputation loss as daily limit reached" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6138" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:51:58.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; get them back if you get upvoted again before your first accepted answer. I've certainly seen that situation before, where you get 2 rep for the next vote. Once you're actually &lt;em&gt;over&lt;/em&gt; 200 for the day, you won't get a downvote loss back - for instance, if you end up on 215 due to an accepted answer, then get a downvote, the only way of rising above 213 is to get another answer accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether it's a &quot;bug&quot; or not depends on whether you believe the behaviour has been &lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt; either way. My personal suspicion is that it falls into the category of &quot;stuff which wasn't intentional but isn't serious enough to change.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: No, I don't believe a rep recalc will do anything to help you here. As I understand it, a rep recalc is effectively a matter of &quot;rerunning history&quot; but only including posts which haven't been deleted or votes that have been cancelled due to vote fraud etc. It doesn't change what happens in terms of the rep limit, as far as I'm aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T16:06:43.140" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:06:43.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6145" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:53:27.250" Score="2" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if StackOverflow is able to pay for itself or perhaps is generating lots of revenue. I like its business model a lot: job postings, enterprise application, ads. I haven't seen anyone talk about their revenue or if it's even a public company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will StackOverflow be bought by a bigger rival, like Google, Yahoo? Will it go public? Is it profitable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T10:36:32.297" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:41:33.327" Title="What is the profitability and future business outlook of the StackOverflow family of sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="6141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6136" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:54:19.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like a mod went in and turned yours to CW. In that case I would think it should be appropriate for the moderator to leave a comment explaining as such (as long as it is not blatantly obvious).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:54:19.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6140" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:56:23.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess that it will stay private.  Jeff and Joel like owning their own business, and with a decent amount of revenue from it, there is no real reason to sell out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going public now a days is more trouble than it is worth, and since SO doesn't need to raise capital to continue, it would only cause headache (and loss of revenue due to sox compliance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:56:23.143" />
  <row Id="6143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6140" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:56:41.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are looking way too far into the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot guess how much the SO-family of sites makes from their ad revenue, job postings, etc. I also do not see anything in the forseeable future that would change the business model for those sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are developing the StackExchange framework which I imagine is where they are looking to generate as much revenue as possible in allowing other users to create their own Stack sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:56:41.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6136" CreationDate="2009-07-16T14:58:04.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You answered a CW question. That's how SO indicates that answer becomes CW. No one actually went it and did anything to your answer. The other answers were given while question hasn't been turned into CW. I have a question on here btw, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4240/force-answers-into-cw-after-question-has-been-made-cw&quot;&gt;that advocates forcing all answers into cw once question was made CW&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T14:58:04.367" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6140" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:00:03.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the podcasts, Jeff has stopped referring to the &quot;meager wages&quot; he's paying &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jarrod&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Geoff&lt;/a&gt;. in fact, they've both been brought on full time, so certainly SO is making something. But I wouldn't expect to ever hear full details since it's not really our business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T12:57:26.773" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:57:26.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8571" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:03:19.987" Score="1" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm certain this idea occurred to the developers of Stack Overflow a long time ago. The potential is huge. Sure, I've got a LinkedIn profile with a few recommendations, but where's the hard evidence of my skill? Anyone can look nice on paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Stack Overflow it's different. You're being rated by other people in the same field. A quick glance on your profile by a programmer-savvy person from Company X, and he could tell if your skill set would fit or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm particularly interested in this because due to my somewhat unusual &quot;education&quot;, my age does not fit my CV and while employers in Sweden haven't raised many eyebrows, I've found it harder to be taken seriously in other countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen hints that the sites will be extended to support some kind of employment help services. But how far will &amp;ndash; and should &amp;ndash; this be taken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:51:38.883" Title="To what extent will (should?) Stack Overflow &amp; co. be employer-friendly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;job&gt;&lt;employer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6136" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:04:42.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A reason would have been nice for this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1133581/is-23-148-855-308-184-500-a-magic-number-or-sheer-chance&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1133581/is-23-148-855-308-184-500-a-magic-number-or-sheer-chance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still not sure why it was made CW by a moderator. It's a valid question, and is definitely programming related and not subjective at all really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T15:04:42.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6146" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:08:06.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already the links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; (on SO) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com&lt;/a&gt; (here), so I would expect any employer posting a job to check any applicants profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think more employers will look at SO profiles as more people post their flair on blogs, LinkedIn etc., after all it's another claim you are making and any employer should verify those claims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus the &quot;I'm open to employers (not recruiters) contacting me&quot; check box on the &quot;prefs&quot; tab of your profile indicates that something is in the offing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T19:45:33.740" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:45:33.740" />
  <row Id="6149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6140" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:10:39.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the only indicator on how the company/family is doing is to see the dev team and owners still actively involved in the progress and growth of the sites.  They are obviously making some revenue through advertisements on the family sites, but StackExchange seems to be where the real dollars will be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could argue that the four SO sites are really a test platform for StackExchange...  So ultimately, you'll probably never know how much money is in our out, but will know that things are OK with as much involvement as you see today...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T15:10:39.027" />
  <row Id="6153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="72049" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:25:49.673" Score="26" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we have a tag-centric view of tag voting stats, which is great.  Can we get a user-centric view?  Something organized like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;              answers      questions&#xA;php             477           28&#xA;mysql           212&#xA;linux           129           48&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like it would fit as a tab in the user profile display.  It could be argued that it could replace the user tag activity block, but that block measures different statistics that are separately interesting, and this display would probably be a lot less compact than the tag activity block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T02:57:55.970" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T02:57:55.970" Title="Can we get tag voting stats in per-user overview form?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:33:52.220" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking for a way to mark a question that I like and is relevant to me but doesn't have any good answers yet and it seems like there is not yet functionality to do this. Was thinking this might be a good user improvement. Like a &lt;b&gt;&quot;Tag&quot;&lt;/b&gt; button to tag a question so you can view them in the future. Maybe even add a section to the users profile page so that you can review all your &quot;Tagged&quot; questions at a quick glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think, is this a good improvement or is there already something built in that I just have been overlooking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131440" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T17:29:49.857" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:29:49.857" Title="user improvements suggestion stackoverflow tagging a questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6155" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:39:36.797" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could mark the question as a &quot;favourite&quot; - the star underneath the vote count. You can then access it from the &quot;favorites&quot; tab of your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the terminology isn't quite right, but it will do the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T15:39:36.797" />
  <row Id="6157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6158" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:39:59.057" Score="-4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;What other sister sites or cloned sites of Stack Overflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T14:29:42.703" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:29:42.703" Title="Different sites of StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6157" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:42:30.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are listed in the footer of every site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course this&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T15:42:30.923" />
  <row Id="6161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:52:38.507" Score="10" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either in the related questions list (with very high weighting) or in a separate list, it would be useful to show questions that link into the currently-viewed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1042" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T18:48:08.113" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T18:48:08.113" Title="Idea: show questions that link to the current question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6161" CreationDate="2009-07-16T15:56:06.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I was about to post a request to support linking questions together as a form of &quot;follow-up questions&quot; but decided that it would be overly complicated for something so simple (or, if you like: it breaks the KISS principle.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion is more intuitive though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T15:56:06.680" />
  <row Id="6165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:04:28.830" Score="6" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've just visited the superuser.com beta site and I must say I really like the color schemes and the way everything are so light and bright and just get out of the way for most things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feels like, why didn't StackOverflow use &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; scheme?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which site, in the SO trilogy, do you like best design-wise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastEditorUserId="3055" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-31T18:34:05.797" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T18:46:18.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-31T18:34:05.797" Title="The best-looking site in the trilogy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:06:01.243" Score="26" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to hate checkboxes without any &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;label&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Because basically that means that you have to click a 20×20 px² area to hit the checkbox. Making the texts &quot;Notify&quot; and &quot;daily of any new answers&quot; a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;label&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for the checkbox would allow you to click the text as well and not only on the tiny checkbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-10T08:10:42.170" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T08:10:42.170" Title="Could checkboxes such as &quot;Notify&quot; get an HTML label tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6165" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:08:14.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like grayscale and bleak, sad themes, so for me, it's meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46642" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:08:14.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6165" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:08:36.827" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the vibrant colors of Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:08:36.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6165" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:11:02.703" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Best is StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta is too sad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SuperUser is too blue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFault have good look, but I like orange. :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Color schema at Meta has lot of common with Jeffs opinion on meta discusion, I think. :)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86e1d35970b-pi&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-31T18:46:18.123" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T18:46:18.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6165" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:14:17.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think superuser has the nicest general appearance.  Unfortunately, if falls down in a few edge cases and where it fails, it fails spectacularly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the moment I have to vote the original SO.  But maybe by the end of the week superuser will have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:14:17.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6165" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:14:21.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's got to be SO.&#xA;The easiest on the eye. Clearly differentiated new, answered and accepted questions. I feel like other are missing this with SU's blue being too bright and hard to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131129" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:14:21.920" />
  <row Id="6174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6180" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:22:44.193" Score="4" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it calculated on the fly every time a reputation score needs to be displayed, or is every user's reputation stored as an integer in the database and updated as necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:30:39.187" Title="How is reputation calculated?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6174" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:25:14.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe a running total is stored. The administrators can force a rep-recalc (which wouldn't need to be done if it was always calculated on the fly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:25:14.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6174" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:30:39.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that a user has a Rep Score that is updated any time something happens which changes rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your rep can be totally recalculated using a mechanism that moderators have. This will go through everything available and give you a brand spanking new (and as accurate as possible) rep score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:30:39.187" />
  <row Id="6181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6136" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:30:41.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that a moderator did anything in this case. When you post a question or answer as Community Wiki, the notes for the original revision are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[made Community Wiki]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you answered a Wiki question, your answer was made Wiki by default, and thus has that in its revision notes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:30:41.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6133" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:53:52.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;imo. Having separate sites for separate topics is a good thing. It defines a certain environment both to what kind of people visit the sites, and what kind of behavior and questions that is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no well defined barriers as to what the purpose is, sites such as stackoverflow can quickly turn into usenet or yahoo q/a.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:53:52.220" />
  <row Id="6185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:57:14.550" Score="22" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering if there is any policy towards the use of M$ in place of Microsoft.  If you're editing another user's answer, do you change it or leave it as is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="637" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T08:59:18.507" Title="Is &quot;M$&quot; for &quot;Microsoft&quot; Allowed / Considered Ok?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9633" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:58:24.283" Score="3" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying there shouldn't be a &lt;em&gt;Recent Activity&lt;/em&gt; page, but the way it's currently implemented feels a bit... out of place. It's currently separate from the user page (&lt;code&gt;/users/recent/481512342&lt;/code&gt; vs. normal &lt;code&gt;/users/481512342?tab=recent&lt;/code&gt;) and could be condensed into the user page, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The additional tabs that are on the &lt;em&gt;Recent Activity&lt;/em&gt; page feels to me like they are mostly there for looking at historical data, because usually you go to the overview often enough not to miss anything important. They could be made accessible in some other way than tabs, because I think there's too many tabs on the user page already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of the tabs on the user page, there are a lot of them, and some of them show little more than trivia (a detailed listing of all the up/down votes I've placed?) The &lt;em&gt;prefs&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;accounts&lt;/em&gt; tabs belong in another section, because you do not need quick access to them, and they will also be growing in the future. A viable solution might be to change the &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; link to something like &lt;em&gt;manage account&lt;/em&gt; which in turn has &lt;em&gt;profile&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;prefs&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;linked accounts&lt;/em&gt; tabs or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are all my thoughts. Discuss!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:18:33.337" Title="Is Recent Activity superfluous? What about the other user pages?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6185" CreationDate="2009-07-16T16:59:57.830" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would change it to Microsoft. It has a negative clang to it, plus there's no need for brevity; it just makes the post less readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T16:59:57.830" />
  <row Id="6189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6185" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:02:26.123" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's childish and immature. We're all adults here, right? If somebody doesn't like Microsoft, fine, but they don't act like an imbecile in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:02:26.123" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6185" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:02:45.697" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't consider it a &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; to edit a post, but I would probably change it if I happened to be editing anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:02:45.697" />
  <row Id="6191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6194" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:07:49.540" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;While some questions that need closing are easy to spot, others are less so. For example, a perfectly valid question that belongs on another site. It won't get much activity since no one can answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now one solution seems to be to add a &lt;code&gt;belongs-on-x&lt;/code&gt; tag, but should that really be the way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts can be flagged. Would it be possible to use this feature for more than reporting offensive behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T05:20:42.357" Title="Making people with close permissions aware of certain questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6185" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:08:37.633" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think questions and answers should strive towards that encyclopedia-like neutrality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words an answer should state the facts without adding social commentary on the side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;M$&quot; to my mind adds the connotation that Microsoft is an evil corporation that cares about nothing but money. Whether you agree or disagree with that view, it doesn't belong in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a perfectly good reason for editing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:08:37.633" />
  <row Id="6193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6226" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:10:31.717" Score="17" ViewCount="484" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=139394&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;now supports&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;canonical&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, which allow a page to point to the canonical version of itself.  This would help to fix a problem with Stack Overflow's Google search results, in that questions appear multiple times for no good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the result page for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How to find header dependencies for large scale projects on linux&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;shows the question three times under different URLs, starting with the canonical one but then also including the superfluous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80923?sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80923?sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80923?sort=oldest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80923?sort=oldest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If each page had in its &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; section a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;canonical&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; pointing to the canonical page, that shouldn't happen any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Meta meta: Try as I might I can't get links to work. Apologies for the lack of links in this question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T19:33:44.903" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T18:06:56.197" Title="Suggestion: Use rel=&quot;canonical&quot; to improve Stack Overflow's Google results" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6191" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:12:22.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you get 10k+ rep you get access to moderator tools that provide, among other things, a list of questions that have the most number of close votes. I often go through the list and see what the questions are and why people think they need to be closed, and if I agree I cast my own vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that users that can close (3k+) but don't have access to the moderator tools (10k+) have a harder time finding questions that are appropriate to close, I think that there are enough 10k+ mods to take care of the obvious ones. And if a [3k, 10k) user does find a question that they think needs to be moved, they can always flag it for moderator intervention or, as you said, tag it as &quot;belongs-on-X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I think that the system has multiple ways for people with various reputations to identify and close/move appropriate questions, that I don't think another mechanism is strictly necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:12:22.133" />
  <row Id="6199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="102825" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:26:15.860" Score="4" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when we used UserVoice, I liked to occasionally browse the Completed tab and see what changes were made and features were recently added to the site. While I do think that Meta is ten times better at enabling users to suggest, discuss, and vote on feature requests, one of the downsides is that we are missing that feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest you can come is browsing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;active tab&lt;/a&gt;. For the most part this works, but as the posts aren't closed or locked in any way, any activity on the post (edit, new answer, etc) will toss it back to the top of the active queue even though the &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt; tab was added some time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I recently tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6199/see-which-feature-requests-have-been-recently-completed/6203#6203&quot;&gt;Kip's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; and, at least on Apple Mail, it suffers from the same problem that the Active tab suffers from. Namely, activity causes the RSS item  to reappear with &quot;UPDATED&quot; in the title. Although it's possible to use another RSS reader with the capacity to ignore updates, I do think that an in-band solution is still preferable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T21:13:03.053" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T21:13:03.053" Title="See which feature requests have been recently completed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6185" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:26:29.497" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally do not believe that any immature anti-[insert company here] content should be allowed. If I run across things like this I will quickly fix it and be done with it. I don't mind people having negative opinions, but you could voice them in a way that doesn't look incredibly petty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:26:29.497" />
  <row Id="6201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6217" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:27:00.577" Score="5" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very simply, I'd like to find out precisely how much reputation I've received from each tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is, I can see the &lt;strong&gt;number&lt;/strong&gt; of tags that I've answered / asked on my profile page under the &quot;tags&quot; section, but what I can't tell is their relative weighting.  If I've answered 10 questions on .NET and gotten 1 upvote each, but I've answered 8 questions on Java and gotten 3 upvotes each, it seems pretty clear that my value to the community (as measured by rep) is higher for Java than it is for .NET, but there is no way of determining that from the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to see is a way to determine just how much reputation I've received from any given tag.  Obviously, this would not add up to my total rep, since questions get tagged with multiple tags, but it WOULD give me a very good idea of where my efforts in the community are best received.  In the same way, being able to see someone else's reputation based upon the tags they have answered would allow for increasing (or decreasing, for that matter) the confidence one could have in that person's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the feasibility of this request based upon the back end implementation?  I know that reputation can be recalculated based upon logs (I was the recipient of a negative recalculation recently), so I know the information is in there somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T18:30:28.243" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T18:30:28.243" Title="Finding Reputation from Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6193" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:27:32.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh, I thought they did already, but it looks like they're only putting &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;canonical&quot;&lt;/code&gt; in links to other pages on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:27:32.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6199" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:29:07.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a workaround, maybe you could subscribe to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/status-completed&quot;&gt;status-completed RSS feed&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know in Google Reader, if something shows up in the feed which has already been viewed, it doesn't show up as new.  This would ensure that, after initially marking everything as read, you don't see any more items, except those which were just tagged status-completed.  I don't know how other RSS aggregators work in this regard...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T17:34:50.350" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:34:50.350" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6207" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:39:18.697" Score="2" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see in my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/46642/martinho-fernandes&quot;&gt;SO user page&lt;/a&gt; I have two Enlightened badges. But I have three answers accepted with at least 10 up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? Is Enlightened meant as &quot;with &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; than 10&quot; instead of &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what's the meaning of &quot;First answer ...&quot; in the badge description?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46642" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T01:28:12.353" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:28:12.353" Title="Don't understand the criterion for the Enlightened badge" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6138" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:40:35.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those points are lost forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a bug, is it by design. It was meant to limit the amount by which certain users (&lt;strong&gt;cough&lt;/strong&gt;Jon Skeet**cough**) could run away from the rest of the pack. So, the rep is not deferred to another day, it is simply lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the very next day you have another fresh chance to earn 200 &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:40:35.467" />
  <row Id="6206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6204" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:40:43.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;First answer&quot; means that you were the first person to answer the question. If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/410719/notimplementedexception-are-they-kidding-me/410800#410800&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, you will see that you were not the first person to answer, and therefore it's not elegible for the Enlightened badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:40:43.903" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6204" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:40:46.863" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is at least 10 vote, not more than. And by first, it means you were the first person to answer the question. So you should get it if you were the first answer, it has net 10 upvotes and is the accepted answer. Something I don't know is if/how it takes into account deleted answers, or for that matter edits. I would guess its simply if you were the first in, period, not factoring in those pieces, but I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:40:46.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6193" CreationDate="2009-07-16T17:49:33.157" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, and +1 for making me aware of rel=&quot;canonical&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T17:49:33.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6225" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:07:53.237" Score="6" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I asked a question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6201/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about finding out the reputation that has been granted based upon the tags of questions one has asked or answered.  The question was closed as an Exact Duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6153/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question; the problem is that it is CLEARLY not an exact duplicate.  My question had to do with discovering the amount of reputation awarded based upon tags; the &quot;exact duplicate&quot; had to do with showing the tags separated by question and answer, with nothing to do with reputation.  The concepts are completely different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do to get this question reopened?  It is a completely valid request, which is completely different from any other question asked on this site.  While other questions ask things about tags, this question asks something about tags which no other question on this site does.  I have nominated the question for reopening, but since it was closed by a moderator, it didn't go through the normal &quot;nominate for close&quot; process that normally involves a bit of discussion; nobody really had the opportunity to LOOK at the question, since it was so aggressively closed by the moderators (and everyone will now assume that it's invalid, since it was closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than hoping for 4 others to actually read the question and the (false) duplicate and nominating for reopen, is there anything else that can be done to reopen this question?  And in general, is there any way of bringing the incorrect moderator closure to the attention of the moderators other than waiting for 4 other reopen votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:26:58.847" Title="Reopen Question incorrectly closed as Duplicate?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6224" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:08:38.233" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some forums have titles for participants with different post counts and I thought that this could map reasonably well to the reputation system whereby different levels give you a different title. For example, you could have (these are Western themed for no reason whatsoever except to give an example):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0 = Out of towner&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;100 = New in town&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;1000 = Gunslinger&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;10000 = Regulator&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;100000 = Skeeter  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I envisage that this would be shown either alongside your reputation in posts or instead of your reputation (maybe dependent on user preference).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Please discuss - I don't know if this is a good idea or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:38:04.033" Title="Would people be interested in labels for different rep levels?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6212" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:10:09.437" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think it would add extra clutter for no real benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between badges and rep I think there's already enough information available. People can make up their own (private) labels for how they think of people if they really want to. Badges give room for creativity for naming (and in terms of what's achieved) - putting a label on reputation feels like it would be doing the same thing again to some extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:10:09.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6212" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:11:58.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there would be a meaningful way to display this, that would be more helpful and clear than the reputation number and badge counts displayed by each user's name. In fact, I think those are far more informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:11:58.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6211" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:14:39.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well posting it here will bring it to the moderator's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to suggest you flagged the post, but I've just checked one of my closed questions and there's no &quot;flag&quot; link (in fact &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5296/add-the-ability-to-flag-your-own-post-for-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; covers that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:14:39.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6201" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:15:44.637" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This is effectively the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6220&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; - they're basically pretty similar.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on a tag and then choose the &quot;stats&quot; tab, it will show your personal stats for that tag as well as a leaderboard. That includes the number of answers given and the total number of votes received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that that won't take account of the reputation limit (otherwise I'd have over 110,000 rep just from the C# tag!) or accepted answers, but it gives a good idea of how much the community has liked your answers. In fact, it gives a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; impression of where your efforts are best received, as the time of day &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; affect the effective value of the vote in terms of &quot;community value&quot; but &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; affect the value in terms of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take account of accepted answers you could use the data dump, but figuring the rep cap into it would require basically reproducing all of the logic of the engine in terms of all kinds of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and finally I'm not sure what it does for CW posts using that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T18:22:26.467" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:22:26.467" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="6220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6222" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:17:00.437" Score="6" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to know the number of upvotes I got on a specific tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this because I'd like to know how far I'm from a tag badge :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T19:46:55.733" Title="Is there a way to know the number of upvotes I got on a specific tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6220" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:18:13.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the tag and then to the stats page, your user should be listed. Example for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=badges&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:18:13.417" />
  <row Id="6222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6220" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:19:01.940" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This doesn't work anymore.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on a tag, then go to the stats page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be listed on each of the lists (if you have &gt; 0 upvotes).  If you aren't in top 20, you will be at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have found this to be a bit buggy, sometimes it thinks I'm a different user.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T19:46:55.733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T19:46:55.733" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6212" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:21:30.573" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this might be a good idea, as long as the titles follow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;rep-based permissions&lt;/a&gt;. It would be easier to tell someone that they need to be a &quot;gunslinger&quot; or whatever in order to edit other peoples posts than to quote the rep value, especially since with StackExchange those values may not be constant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:21:30.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6212" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:25:12.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, drawing from the answers provided by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6212/would-people-be-interested-in-labels-for-different-rep-levels/6213#6213&quot;&gt;Jon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6212/would-people-be-interested-in-labels-for-different-rep-levels/6223#6223&quot;&gt;Kyle&lt;/a&gt;, this could be displayed next to the badges as a glyph with a suitable tooltip to show the string. This would provide a neat UI that doesn't add so much clutter as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6212/would-people-be-interested-in-labels-for-different-rep-levels/6213#6213&quot;&gt;Jon's points&lt;/a&gt;, while adding the labels as per my idea and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6212/would-people-be-interested-in-labels-for-different-rep-levels/6223#6223&quot;&gt;Kyle's points&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:25:12.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6211" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:26:58.847" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reopened the question in question, but for future reference people &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; appeal their posts being closed if they don't feel that it was done correctly. In the case of duplicate questions, the best solution is to edit the post, include a link to the supposed duplicate, and a short explanation of why your post is different. In order to be relevant when the post is reopened, the blub should not reference the fact that the post is closed or request that it be reopened - the intent will be obvious enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This procedure holds for other close reason as well - if your post is closed as &quot;subjective&quot;, explain what sort of objective answers you seek, etc. There should be enough mods/users with 10k+ rep around to ensure that it gets reopened in relatively short order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:26:58.847" />
  <row Id="6226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6193" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:28:44.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;question-header&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/6193/suggestion-use-relcanonical-to-improve-stack-overflows-google-results&quot; &#xA;        class=&quot;question-hyperlink&quot; rel=&quot;canonical&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    Suggestion: Use rel=&amp;amp;rdquo;canonical&amp;amp;rdquo; to improve Stack Overflow&amp;amp;rsquo;s Google results&#xA;    &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice &quot;rel canonical&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: oh, I see. I think I misunderstood what Google wanted here (eg, one link in header versus a &quot;nofollow&quot; style attrib that goes on the &lt;em&gt;all the hyperlinks&lt;/em&gt; you want to make canonical). Making the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T18:42:55.357" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:42:55.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8777" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:37:58.577" Score="7" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frequently when following a direct link to an answer, the answer will stay highlighted indefinitely instead of fading-out like it supposed to.  This happens more often then not and gets very annoying.  There are no errors or warning in the javascript console or firebug, so I'm not sure what could be causing it.  Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencast.com/t/rszCe77ILnK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;screencast of it&lt;/a&gt;.  This is happening in Firefox 3.5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if this might be a firefox bug, because it stopped doing it for ~20 minutes after a restart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:30:03.417" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:30:03.417" Title="Answer Highlight/Fade-out doesn't fade-out" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6212" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:38:04.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of incentive for folks to want to increase their rank.  I feel there's no need to make folks feel bad about their rep by applying potentially demeaning ranks to those who are new or who have been unsuccessful in gaining rep despite genuine attempts at contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109117" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:38:04.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6229" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:47:31.950" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did the whole of the page finish loading properly? I've noticed that it only starts fading out when it's loaded everything including the quantserve tracker and the jobs bit. If one of those got &quot;stuck&quot; for you, that could explain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T18:47:31.950" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34260" CreationDate="2009-07-16T18:53:46.197" Score="4" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all, in not so many words... there are a lot of questions on StackOverflow about Apache configuration, especially on the proper way to create &lt;code&gt;RewriteRule&lt;/code&gt;s for some particular URL mapping.  I personally think that these kinds of questions would be more appropriate for ServerFault, as Apache configuration is a sysadmin-type activity, not really a programming thing. (I know &lt;code&gt;mod_rewrite&lt;/code&gt; is powerful but it's not quite a full-blown programming language ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what does the community think? Do Apache configuration questions belong on SF or SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT&lt;/em&gt;: examples aplenty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139349/how-to-remove-part-of-a-url-using-htaccess&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1139349/how-to-remove-part-of-a-url-using-htaccess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134535/modrewrite-insert-between-variables-and-values-in-url&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134535/modrewrite-insert-between-variables-and-values-in-url&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132268/how-can-i-append-httpreferer-to-query-string-using-htaccess&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132268/how-can-i-append-httpreferer-to-query-string-using-htaccess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and many others like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56541" LastEditorUserId="56541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T19:08:59.930" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T00:14:21.243" Title="Apache configuration/.htaccess questions (esp. mod_rewrite): SO or SF?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;apache&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6235" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:04:27.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are they trying to configure it &lt;em&gt;programatically&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:04:27.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6235" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:05:26.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that question which overlap the system could be asked in either of their overlapping sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:05:26.343" />
  <row Id="6239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:10:04.953" Score="0" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having separate domains for Server Fault and Super User from that of Stack Overflow's, yet keeping Meta as Stack Overflow's subdomain seems arbitrary and unintuitive as opposed to the very intuitive way the URLs of the questions on Stack Overflow match the titles of that webpage's question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance wouldn't the following be more intuitive at a glance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Stack Overflow  http://so.stackoverflow.com/   (dev.stackoverflow.com)&#xA;Server Fault    http://sf.stackoverflow.com/   (svr.stackoverflow.com)&#xA;Super User      http://su.stackoverflow.com/   (usr.stackoverflow.com)&#xA;Meta            http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ (alt.stackoverflow.com)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advantages of having short 2-3 letter subdomains would mean fewer words to type to jump between boards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, links to the sister sites will take less space on a page, leaving plenty of room to include additional links to as-yet-unthought-of subdomains. It'll fit better in a small box or on one line at the bottom/side/top of the page even if there are like 10-20 of these 2-3 letter subdomains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coming back to my question, are there logical, technical or just reasons of convenience that I am overlooking to have a whole domain as opposed to having just a subdomain at Stack Overflow itself?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I could think of was separate login profiles. That is until I found Meta asked for one too! Do we really need separate login profiles for what is essentially a sister site running the same software with the only difference being the audience or a subset thereof? Seems to be an unnecessary extra step for new users who are just looking to expand their horizons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any indications (blog or an already asked question) that Server Fault and Super User may someday redirect to x.stackoverflow just like uservoice now directs to meta.stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131391" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T04:05:30.520" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T04:05:30.520" Title="Do Server Fault and Super User have to be separate from the Stack Overflow domain?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;subdomains&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="6240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6239" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:13:28.553" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;stack overflow&quot; is meaningful to the code-geeks that frequent the original SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not really to &quot;regular&quot; users (even techno-savvy ones) on SU. And not necessarily to network/system admins on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let each set of users have domains that means something to them, I say. Especially as I assume superuser.com wasn't cheap ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re meta... frankly, it doesn't matter; it isn't really about &lt;em&gt;marketing&lt;/em&gt; MSO; the people who come to MSO are generally in two camps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new users on any of the other sites with a problem, clicking on the link at the bottom of the page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;addicts&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;enthusiasts&lt;/em&gt; of the other sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In neither case does it matter how memorable or searchable the site is; they'll go straight to it either from the link or a bookmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T20:55:35.060" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:55:35.060" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6239" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:13:39.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't type, I use bookmarks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:13:39.970" />
  <row Id="6242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6239" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:16:48.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For instance wouldn't the following be more intuitive at a glance? [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good grief... No! Why? What would ever make you think that?!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:16:48.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6239" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:16:49.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you not bookmark so you don't have to type?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would links take less space? All you see is &quot;StackOverflow&quot; as the link text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume different profiles for different target audiences: Code monkeys, BOFHs, whatever&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:16:49.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6249" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:20:00.333" Score="12" ViewCount="378" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a user of stackoverflow.  It is perfectly appropriate to refer to me as a SO user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6254/what-should-the-users-of-stackoverflow-be-called&quot;&gt;I am not a &quot;stacker&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not stack anything, unstack anything, or restack anything as a career. I don't stack anything unstacked or restacked, or unstack anything stacked or restacked, or restack anything stacked, unstacked, or restacked, or repair anything stacked, unstacked, or restacked. As a career, I do not do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, cutesy names for the users of a web site just reek of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosterism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;boosterism&lt;/a&gt;.  Is it too much to ask that we just not go there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thanks go out to Shog9 for bringing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6254/what-should-the-users-of-stackoverflow-be-called&quot;&gt;relevant discussion thread&lt;/a&gt;, now migrated to this site, to my attention.  Please see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6254/what-should-the-users-of-stackoverflow-be-called/6329#6329&quot;&gt;my response&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="47529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T19:43:57.920" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T21:46:50.883" Title="Can we ban the term &quot;Stacker&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="6245" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6330" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:20:36.950" Score="3" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to up-vote users who answer my questions with reasonable answers as a norm for taking the time to actually post an answer. It is rare unless the answer is not relevant at all for me not to do this, however this sometimes means I reach my vote limit quite quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to allow unlimited upvotes (one vote per answer) on questions asked by you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-04T08:50:03.920" LastActivityDate="2011-05-04T08:50:03.920" Title="Vote limit on your own questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6235" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:21:22.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should probably be asked on ServerFault. Though it is an area that straddles both development (rather than just programming) and system administration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any on SF and have they been closed as &quot;belongs on StackOverflow&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:21:22.247" />
  <row Id="6247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6165" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:22:08.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And for the 8% of mostly male customers who have some form of colour blindness... they're different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastEditorUserId="27535" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T13:20:17.203" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:20:17.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6244" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:22:45.550" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't know we were being called &quot;Stackers&quot; now.  This is the first I've heard of it, and I hate it, too.  On the subject, though, what are people calling themselves over on SF?  Serverers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:22:45.550" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7472" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:24:00.367" Score="56" ViewCount="880" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone seen this one yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My vote was only a few hours old. Then I realized the answer was wrong. Updated my question and went to remove the vote. Even after updating question I still have the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Small issue, but frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;Vote undo window drastically reduced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36590" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T22:59:05.163" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T19:09:31.567" Title="Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited &quot;problem&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="6251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:27:25.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had that happen with votes that were a few days old that I tried to change, but I've never tried changing a vote that was just a few hours old. I think maybe they need to extend the time for freezing votes... something like 24 hours after the last edit. If the question itself has been edited and the focus changed, old answers may no longer be valid and users may want to adjust their votes accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other problem, which I haven't ever noticed: If the question is edited, can votes on old answers be adjusted, or does the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; have to be edited? If the question is modified, it would make more sense for all the answers to become &quot;vote-modifiable&quot; again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T19:55:38.423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:55:38.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:32:11.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should vote for an answer unless you definitively know it's right. A few hours should be more than enough time to understand if something posted was right or wrong. You should be voting for things you &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; are correct, or at least correct in their context, don't vote for things &lt;em&gt;you think might be correct&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:32:11.557" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="6254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6261" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:37:04.953" Score="44" ViewCount="1629" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to try something interesting here - a poll with strict requirements for answers. Here are the rules. Note - posts may be edited if they are out of compliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your post must contain only your desired answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You must not duplicate an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you do accidentally duplicate an answer, it's your responsibility to delete it. Otherwise, it will be edited to say &quot;I can't follow directions&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Observers should vote up the names they like&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussion should occur in the comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer with the highest number of votes will be accepted as the official answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... what should we, the users of Stack Overflow, be called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T08:57:08.573" LastActivityDate="2011-04-25T22:46:44.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" Title="What should the users of Stack Overflow be called?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;poll&gt;&lt;terminology&gt;" AnswerCount="78" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:37:13.737" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackheads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:37:29.663" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overflowers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:38:26.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SlackOverflows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:39:34.700" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visitors to StackOverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:40:50.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exceptional or Exceptions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12096" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:41:14.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exploits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:41:45.083" Score="141" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:44:00.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Poppers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:44:19.460" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Muggles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:44:21.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;S.O.s  (pronnounced &quot;EssOhs&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132789" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:44:21.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Push-poppers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:44:21.973" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackFrames&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:44:35.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;poppers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137813" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:46:17.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Individuals with Special Needs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:47:09.813" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, for one, welcome our Stacker Overlords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:47:59.843" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pushers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:50:02.223" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO the name should came by it self if the community is there.. trying to come up with a name is a sure way to make it not become the name.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130965" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:51:37.727" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tail callers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:52:33.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plates&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:52:44.060" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:54:08.220" Score="77" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badge whores&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- or --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;badgers (badgers badgers badgers badgers...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:54:32.853" Score="75" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135328" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:57:00.290" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly Bored&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:57:43.203" Score="69" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expert sex changers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:58:41.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programmers. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88947/what-should-visitors-to-stackoverflow-be-called#89047&quot;&gt;vote here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T01:02:20.197" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;People with way too much time on their hands who should probably be developing instead of whoring reputation points in CrackOverflow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T01:13:54.663" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Newbies? (Not in an offensive manner)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134429" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T01:55:28.353" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slackers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T01:55:49.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Function pointers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T01:57:16.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Structs (kept on the stack; objects on the heap).  Kinda fits, if you think of how we're 'structing people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T09:28:49.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow ODs which would be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOODs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131151" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2008-09-18T17:51:27.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Underflows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" />
  <row Id="6287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SOCD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from SO + &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive_disorder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OCD&lt;/a&gt; and it sounds like XKCD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:37:03.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-01-04T20:43:09.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Peekers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T20:43:09.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-01-10T20:53:54.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SEs (Software Engineers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-10T20:53:54.783" />
  <row Id="6291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-01-10T21:03:01.707" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep whores&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135306" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-10T21:03:01.707" />
  <row Id="6292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-01-10T21:10:07.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StOvers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-10T21:10:07.963" />
  <row Id="6293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-03-15T01:23:51.970" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skeets&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130504" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T01:23:51.970" />
  <row Id="6294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-04-07T08:54:08.947" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overhead Heapers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-07T08:54:08.947" />
  <row Id="6295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-04-07T10:57:47.700" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-07T10:57:47.700" />
  <row Id="6296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T21:31:18.840" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stakker Humanoids&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T21:31:18.840" />
  <row Id="6297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T21:39:01.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overflowees&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T21:39:01.943" />
  <row Id="6298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T21:43:14.963" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programmers in Satan's Service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T21:43:14.963" />
  <row Id="6299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T21:44:55.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep-munchers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T21:44:55.070" />
  <row Id="6300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T21:52:28.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88947/what-should-visitors-to-stackoverflow-be-called/647068#647068&quot;&gt;I can't follow directions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skeets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skeet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Origin&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adopted in 1926 as the result of a contest to choose a name for the sport &#xA;  (the winner claimed that the word was &quot;a very old form&quot; of stack overflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="90352" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T21:52:28.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T21:53:43.100" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Underutilized - how else do some of the folks here have the time to answer so many questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131712" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T21:53:43.100" />
  <row Id="6302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T22:02:23.740" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The knights who say SO! Anyone need &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights%5Fwho%5Fsay%5FNi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explanation&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T22:02:23.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T22:04:15.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overflowians&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T22:04:15.420" />
  <row Id="6304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T22:12:23.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=south%2Bpark%2Bcheesing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cheesers&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T22:12:23.610" />
  <row Id="6305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T22:32:23.880" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People who post- Pushers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;People who read- Poppers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T22:32:23.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T22:37:14.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;S.O. geeks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T22:37:13.997" />
  <row Id="6307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T22:40:08.357" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Homo Sapiens&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57757" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T22:40:08.357" />
  <row Id="6308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T23:16:57.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SOFLOs (StackOverFLOw)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T23:16:57.723" />
  <row Id="6309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-25T23:53:00.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code Weasel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or Payload&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T23:53:00.800" />
  <row Id="6310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-26T00:37:14.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack-O's, (like &quot;Dan-O&quot; in Hawaii Five-O).&#xA;Now, if you're old enough to remember that TV show, just try to get the music out of your head. Muhahahaha!&#xA;(Theme song on You Tube at youtube.com/watch?v=LrkrQXuDq24)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-26T00:37:14.550" />
  <row Id="6311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-26T00:48:41.453" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Script kiddies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-26T00:48:41.423" />
  <row Id="6312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-26T01:29:01.717" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;flapjacks..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-26T01:29:01.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-26T02:33:18.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackbusters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-26T02:33:18.717" />
  <row Id="6314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-05-26T03:02:42.323" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverFlow + ies = SOFies!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150635" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-26T03:02:42.323" />
  <row Id="6315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-16T19:36:19.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Item ::  Stack.AddItem(Item)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T19:36:19.380" />
  <row Id="6316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-16T19:41:45.813" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really? no one for S.O.B's? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make your own back-ronym for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That Jon Skeet is one knowledgeable S.O.B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T19:41:45.813" />
  <row Id="6317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-16T19:50:04.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poeple who should be working&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155258" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T19:50:04.780" />
  <row Id="6318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-16T19:50:52.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's call us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stackos&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T19:50:52.597" />
  <row Id="6319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-16T19:52:13.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ad Revenue? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140859" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T19:52:13.343" />
  <row Id="6320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-17T00:35:57.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Virgins :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T00:35:57.387" />
  <row Id="6321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-17T00:41:05.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Pushed&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T00:41:05.897" />
  <row Id="6322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-17T00:50:09.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about SO'ers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47322" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T00:50:09.887" />
  <row Id="6323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:11:51.297" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopeless developers :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:11:51.297" />
  <row Id="6324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:12:22.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flowbees..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:12:22.013" />
  <row Id="6325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:13:00.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stacked&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148166" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:13:00.127" />
  <row Id="6326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:13:15.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SOFlow'rs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:13:15.180" />
  <row Id="6327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:19:05.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about Buffers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140678" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:19:05.920" />
  <row Id="6328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:21:00.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackMind / StackMinded&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:44:57.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:21:00.643" />
  <row Id="6329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:42:24.050" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6244/can-we-ban-the-term-stacker&quot;&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Stack Overflow users.&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T08:58:45.167" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T08:58:45.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-16T19:42:24.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6245" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:45:05.227" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think part of the reason for the voting limit is to prevent one user from having too much influence over the system. Additionally, as a side effect, I believe it encourages user's to selective about what they upvote, so they don't be out of votes when they've found a really good question/answer. I don't disagree with your practice or policy, but I don't think the system needs to take further action to encourage or support this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:45:05.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6244" CreationDate="2009-07-16T19:55:40.163" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any problem with this moniker. If I'm a 'trekkie' does that mean I go on 'treks'? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. It's just for fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T19:55:40.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6349" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:04:04.737" Score="11" ViewCount="710" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the point of having to accumulate rep separately across all these sites? There is clearly a very large overlap between the communities and if people find you trustworthy on one site, then you're probably still trustworthy on the others. I don't see the point in making people start over from scratch again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, why not merge the reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130291" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:13:30.537" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:13:30.537" Title="Why not merge reputation across SO, SF, and SU?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="6337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6245" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:05:00.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was enacted soon after the Private-Beta period started. There was some disagreement at the time, but I believe most people have agreed that this is a good policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:05:00.863" />
  <row Id="6338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:05:49.967" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different types of questions/answer deserve different reputation. It's that simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:05:49.967" />
  <row Id="6339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:06:53.803" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each site deals with its own specific niche. If you're trusted on one site there's no reason you should be given benefit of the doubt about your knowledge on other topics. If you're skilled in different areas you should be able to gain rep on all 3 sites. If you're not, users shouldn't be given the impression that you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:06:53.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:07:31.977" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've gained 10k rep on SO, there is a high likelihood you understand what questions and behavior are valid and acceptable on SO. However, that doesn't mean you know the first thing about what questions should be valid and what behavior is acceptable on SF or SU. They're all separate sites, with separate focuses, and therefore they trust each user based on their involvement with that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:07:31.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:08:26.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there is an overlap, there is enough of a difference to make someone who could trusted by StackOverflow not trusted by ServerFault (say).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As developer I'm trusted (to a degree) on StackOverflow, but not on ServerFault - which is how it should be as I know very little about system adminstration. I know a little bit more about managing my own PC so I should be able to answer questions on SuperUser and gain some trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:08:26.677" />
  <row Id="6342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6239" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:09:42.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about you, but I set my local DNS Server to redirect stupiduser.com to superuser.com. :)  &lt;em&gt;( Ok not really)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:09:42.897" />
  <row Id="6343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6344" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:10:04.217" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;the Community user earned the Civic Duty badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How the heck did that happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:01:58.383" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:01:58.383" Title="How did the Community user earn the Civic Duty badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6343" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:10:54.417" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the profile, it has 755 votes as of right now, which is greater than the 300 required for the civic duty badge. How does it get these votes? In it's profile it says &quot;Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted&quot;. I believe the community user may also own the votes (up and down) of accounts that no longer exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T20:17:39.773" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:17:39.773" />
  <row Id="6345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6343" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:11:40.063" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;profile page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that&#xA;  get permanently deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:11:40.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6351" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:14:43.163" Score="8" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is admittedly a rare occurrence, but there are a couple instance where I have posted an answer, was beat out by a few seconds by another user who posted essentially the same answer, deleted my answer, and then realized I had something else to add that could still bring value to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My choices now are either to write a new answer or undelete the old one edit it (or just walk away).  What I really want to do is just edit the deleted post directly, and then undelete when the edit is finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few other times I'll realize I've mis-read the question and will immediately delete my post.  I'd like to edit the deleted post saying something like &quot;Misread the question, nothing to see here&quot; for other users with 10K rep (I think I've seen one or two of these from most of the frequent SO users), but the only way to do that now is to undelete it first.  Of course, I could just do things in the right order in the first place, but I don't always remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T18:29:18.010" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T18:29:18.010" Title="Let me edit my own deleted post" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="6348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:15:23.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Happens to me from time to time too. You risk getting downvoted as a dupe while editing a live answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:15:23.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:15:55.273" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting point. I think it depends on how you view reputation. Some say that it is a measure of trust, others expertise. If you're in the former camp, I don't see how you can argue against this suggestion, if you're in the latter, I don't see how you can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think rep is a bit of both and therefore, linking it across sites isn't necessarily going to be useful. However, the privileges that rep awards users aren't necessarily based on anything but trust in my opinion and therefore I see no reason why privileges couldn't be linked except that they're tied so closely to rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="23234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T17:05:04.747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:05:04.747" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:31:57.637" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; edit a deleted post. I've done it a few times. Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1129082/list&quot;&gt;the edit list from one of my revised answers&lt;/a&gt; showing that I answered, deleted, edited, then undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:31:57.637" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6347" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:36:20.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can edit every entry in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow-closed&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow.  Go try it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to have 10K rep to view the deleted entries I am speaking of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:36:20.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6239" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:52:29.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta has it's own domain name!  (kinda) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflowoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflowoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:52:29.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6244" CreationDate="2009-07-16T20:57:27.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For better or for worse, the word &quot;Stackoverflow&quot; does not lend itself to any moniker easily.  Everyone I've talked to has said &quot;Oh you use Stackoverflow?&quot; not &quot;You're a stacker!&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Wars does not lend itself to a moniker either, and after 30 years there's still no common name for fans of Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my point is, &lt;strong&gt;don't worry about, no one says Stacker&lt;/strong&gt;.  And the few people who do are in the minority.  You'll be called a Stacker as often as you'll be called any other name you don't like: &quot;dude&quot;, &quot;hun&quot;, &quot;chick&quot;, &quot;bro&quot;, or &quot;buddy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T20:57:27.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6366" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:00:29.330" Score="10" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1306/add-year-to-question-and-answer-dates&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, sorted by votes, the accepted answer is #3 in order of votes.  It appears as number 3 in the list as well.  Is this new behavior intended?  Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T21:05:33.003" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:30:11.643" Title="Vote ordering of accepted answers has changed: Accepted below top voted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6365" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:03:55.373" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the asker accepts their own answer, it is still shown in order by votes. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; announcement of this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T21:03:55.373" />
  <row Id="6368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:05:57.307" Score="19" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;One would think only a moderator should be able to mess with moderator tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt;: I was also able to reapply it during a rollback.  So, actually I was able to both delete and &lt;em&gt;apply&lt;/em&gt; a moderator tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;: Again, I rolled it back.  It's no longer tagged &quot;status-completed&quot;.  Not trying to be an effer here, just don't think I should be allowed to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-30T06:26:45.567" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T06:28:03.773" Title="Why am I allowed to delete moderator-only tags?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rollbacks&gt;&lt;moderator-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6368" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:08:17.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was able to. Seems like a bug. I think it's intentional that non-moderators are not able to add them. I just would think that a non-moderator shouldn't be able to remove them as well. I believe the whole point is for moderators only to be able to provide status of feature requests and bugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T21:08:17.220" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6244" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:13:34.247" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hadn't heard that, but it is kind of catchy.  When it comes to monikers and the like, I'm sure that we could end up with something far worse.  I really don't find this offensive.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that would make me part of the &quot;stacker&quot; community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T21:13:34.247" />
  <row Id="6372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6368" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:17:07.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's actually by (accidental) design - if that makes any sense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On uservoice, users were able to re-open a ticket.  It just wasn't obvious how, or even that it was possible.  From the users' perspective closed tickets tended to just disappear, even though the url was still good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T22:05:17.357" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T22:05:17.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6379" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:36:34.447" Score="4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1170/should-i-be-able-to-cancel-my-up-vote-on-a-comment&quot;&gt;Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to cancel an upvote on a comment, and if not, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:51:34.757" ClosedDate="2009-07-16T22:01:48.917" Title="Cancel upvote on comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6374" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:39:34.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to cancel an upvote on a comment yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T21:39:34.400" />
  <row Id="6377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11464" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:42:21.117" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those tags are, to me at least, of higher interest than other tags on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be great to be able to see all of them at the top of the list of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T22:26:05.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:21:52.073" Title="Please always sort Red status tags to the top of the tag list (Tag tab) in Meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6458" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:43:05.043" Score="7" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't clear to me... is the reputation earned in the original site substracted from the user when it's moved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T06:41:05.480" Title="Do migrated questions migrate reputation and badges?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6374" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:44:02.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments differ from questions and answers in that comments never change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, if you thought a comment was good at one time, there is far less of a chance that you should be changing your mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, since there is no reputation involved with comment upvoting, it is far less important to be able to revoke a comment upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T12:51:34.757" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:51:34.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6987" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:44:23.637" Score="3" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you can't submit the question for any reason (ie: must include tag), and you fix the issue and click &quot;Ask your Question&quot; again, you are prompted with the human verification captcha&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T23:53:07.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:16:34.847" Title="Human verification on fail to submit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6389" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:46:01.773" Score="11" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we get the view we have when we first sign into the site (with the question &lt;strong&gt;title&lt;/strong&gt; text only), even when we hit the Questions button (when it changes to also showing the first line or so of the question)?  It'd be nice to be able to set some viewing preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is so I can see the 'Newest' Questions page with the homepage view.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-21T16:49:40.847" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T18:28:09.337" Title="Show only Questions Title on Questions View as User Choice" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;views&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;flexibility&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:50:04.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea...  Maybe if that menu is reopened by a user with a current close or reopen vote, there can be a &quot;cancel vote&quot; button on there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T21:50:04.457" />
  <row Id="6385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6374" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:50:09.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This request has always been declined in the past because the content you voted for won't change and they are just &quot;lightweight votes.&quot;  I'm going to take the time now to explain why they might be a little more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment votes do three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help SO decide which comments to display initially.  This is likely okay; even if you have 2nd thoughts about a vote, that comment was obviously still significant enough for you to spend time thinking about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a way to blow off steam.  Voting on comments is what keeps us from seeing a lot of meaningless &lt;em&gt;&quot;Yeah, what he said&quot;&lt;/em&gt; comments.  We don't really care what the final score is for this, but I think when users can't undo these votes it's likely to prompt them to make a comment they might otherwise not have needed to make.  Such a comment is unlikely to add any value.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help you spot comments from a long list that you might be more interested in.  As a discussion continues, a particular comment may not be as important anymore and you might want to be able to clear that.  This isn't the same as the first item, as I'm referring more to how the flag will stand out than what the number printed next to the comments might be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, rant over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T21:55:45.767" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T21:55:45.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6382" CreationDate="2009-07-16T21:59:52.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the big site logo in the top left of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, he wants the format of the home page applied to the &quot;New Questions&quot; view.  This is a request that was declined way back in the Uservoice days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T18:28:09.337" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T18:28:09.337" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6380" CreationDate="2009-07-16T22:13:41.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one bugs me too.  I'd suggest if the failure is just a lack of title or tags, that the system skip the CAPTCHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T22:13:41.980" />
  <row Id="6392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21494" CreationDate="2009-07-16T22:19:37.977" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a feature where we find a link or a button in the question page leading to the last visited page in the questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because now when the user go to a certain question, ask a question, answer or comment it and want to go back to the page he was on, this will be hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see rent a coder doing this in bid request page&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/amrelgarhy/folders/Jing/media/fb0c85f1-3932-4670-bdce-19e82fc0e4eb/2009-07-17%5F0118.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20126" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T16:08:41.217" Title="Go back to my last search page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-07-16T22:22:26.197" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to have &lt;strong&gt;footnotes&lt;/strong&gt;; this would require supporting &lt;code&gt;name=&quot;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; attribute on the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T22:22:26.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T23:09:31.777" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5188/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow/5195#5195&quot;&gt;What Third Party Tools Exist To Use With Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3584/magnus-johansson&quot;&gt;Magnus Johansson&lt;/a&gt;, we now have a very nice-looking Sidebar Flair Gadget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flairgadget.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flairgadget.codeplex.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-sidebarflair.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-16T23:28:27.673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T23:28:27.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-16T23:26:15.907" ClosedDate="2009-07-16T23:27:46.450" Title="Vista Sidebar Flair" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="6401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6400" CreationDate="2009-07-16T23:10:57.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very cool!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T23:10:57.663" />
  <row Id="6402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T23:35:28.723" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the WMD editor, I recently discovered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt; (link)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;G&lt;/kbd&gt; (graphic) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;B&lt;/kbd&gt; (bold)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;I&lt;/kbd&gt; (italic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some other useful hotkeys or tips on using WMD more efficiently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T09:24:07.757" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T13:15:47.773" Title="What are the most useful hotkeys/tips in the WMD editor?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T23:42:05.897" Score="3" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1383/show-possible-duplicates-in-the-main-post-before-its-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1383/show-possible-duplicates-in-the-main-post-before-its-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to close duplicate and other problem questions more quickly. If a question has a close vote, a small icon could be shown in the list view, which will let the other mods know that that question may need to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be helpful in the case where &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; has determined that a question is a dupe, but not enough other mods notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T00:45:19.727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T00:45:19.727" Title="Show flag in questions lists when close votes have been made" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6404" CreationDate="2009-07-16T23:48:07.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, this would be mostly taken care of by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1383/show-possible-duplicates-in-the-main-post-before-its-closed&quot;&gt;Show possible duplicates in the main post before it’s closed&lt;/a&gt;, provided the links were added to the top of the question such that they showed up in the preview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how we did it prior to the implementation of the current system for linking duplicate questions, and it seemed to work pretty well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-16T23:48:07.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-16T23:56:43.973" Score="9" ViewCount="776" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &quot;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&quot; is innocuous enough to be allowed in questions and answers, why can't we use it in comments too? Please don't make me memorize a bunch of dippy Markdown syntax just to add a little flavor to my comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T05:30:58.100" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T09:19:41.357" Title="Allow HTML tags in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="6409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5461" CreationDate="2009-07-17T00:26:05.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the industry that you would be asking the question for would have technical differences compared to others...  Why does the industry matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remove all references to the type of industry and generalize your question to the point that people will not know if you are asking for the US Gov't, Dell, Microsoft, ESPN, etc....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T00:26:05.587" />
  <row Id="6410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6407" CreationDate="2009-07-17T00:27:09.787" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea of a comment should be a quick text entry.  If the comments start getting all jacked up with LI and IMG and all of the others, you lose all UI smoothness for the sake of better terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, please no...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T00:27:09.787" />
  <row Id="6411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6404" CreationDate="2009-07-17T00:31:02.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like what your question title states, but it seems like you deviate from that a bit in the main section of the post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a flag or some kind of icon that could be shown to suggest that a question has received a close vote would be very beneficial.  Folks with the rep may actually get to closing these questions quicker which improves overall content on the site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T00:31:02.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T00:50:03.080" Score="5" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone recommend some articles or papers about the psychology behind online reputation/karma?  In addition to any external resources, I'd love to hear thoughts people here have.  I'm interested in questions like: Why are we all chasing after rep points?  What makes the implementation on SO or other sites successful?  Are we trying to get recognized by our peers, or does this hijack the part of brain that wants money and real world items?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131493" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:57:12.097" Title="Research/Articles about reputation on sites like SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;psychology&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6414" CreationDate="2009-07-17T00:53:19.463" Score="2" ViewCount="620" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really enjoy the podcast and would like to listen to other IT/programming podcasts.  I am also listening to TWISt, which was recommended on one of the Stack Overflow podcasts, and like it as well.  In addition, I'm subscribed to IT conversations.  Are there any other podcasts that are popular among the Stack Overflow community that I could check out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T21:36:23.660" Title="If I like the Stack Overflow podcast, what other podcasts might the stackoverflow community recommend?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6413" CreationDate="2009-07-17T00:55:36.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2826752/what-good-computer-science-podcasts-are-out-there&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on this with a bunch of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T21:36:23.660" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T21:36:23.660" />
  <row Id="6418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5461" CreationDate="2009-07-17T01:31:21.870" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't bother trying the 'nsfw' tag.  It won't fly.  Most of us use Stack Overflow at work, as it is designed, so there's not point in introducing the tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no reason you can't ask &lt;strong&gt;technical&lt;/strong&gt; questions about running an adult site, whether it's hosting pornography or gambling.  Just leave the NSFW stuff out of your question.  If your questions are about hosting large amounts of video, streaming live video from a web-cam, or making lots of credit card transactions online, and someone figures out what you're doing, it still isn't grounds to close the question.  (Even if you're asking technical questions directly about computing winning poker hands or something related, I'd say that's still fine.  Just no overtly offensive stuff.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question probably got closed because it belonged on SF, and as you said, at the time there was no SF.  I wouldn't try to read too much in to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T01:31:21.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6412" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:01:47.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why are we all chasing after rep points&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've said this numerous times ever since I first joined StackOverflow months ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never overestimate the altruism of your fellow man, and never underestimate what your fellow man will do to have a big number next to his name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We go after rep for the same reason we all want the high score at the local Frogger machine. That number next to our name leads to more recognition and the ego boost that goes along with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reputation and Badge system act as the &quot;carrot on a stick&quot; which draws a larger audience who is willing to sit around and answer questions, a task that most would think of as boring at first glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T03:57:12.097" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:57:12.097" />
  <row Id="6421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11844" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:06:27.527" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a noticeable delay the first time the upvote or flag images are &quot;hovered over&quot;. Can this be resolved by pre-caching (using JavaScript) or combining several images into a single file (using CSS)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also appears to be the cause of the &quot;loading...&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31687/bug-during-upvote/34105#34105&quot;&gt;bug (?)&lt;/a&gt; that is occasionally (momentarily) seem when clicking to see the detailed the up/down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131494" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T10:58:48.153" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T10:58:48.153" Title="Can the initial hover delay for comment upvote/flag images be mitigated?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6407" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:30:08.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm just sick of having to remember to escape &amp;gt; and &amp;lt; in posts but not in comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay-- and I'd love to know how to escape asterisks because I've had to resort to using &amp;gt;smile&amp;lt; instead of my usual &quot;asterisk&quot; smile &quot;asterisk&quot;...  &amp;gt;sigh&amp;lt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T02:30:08.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6402" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:37:06.563" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CRTL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; (Code block)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T02:37:06.563" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6448" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:42:32.133" Score="2" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does your profile contain your real birthday, or is off by +/- n days (where n is small)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the birthday isn't explicitly available to users, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2282/how-is-stackoverflow-birthday-field-kept-private&quot;&gt;as suggested by this post&lt;/a&gt;, it would be easy to write a script and determine peoples' birthdays.  Should I be concerned about advertising my birthday from a security standpoint?  It seems like just one more piece of information that could be helpful for identity theft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is there a good reason that the trilogy (err... all 4) sites maintain age in the profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130662" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:07:14.350" Title="Does your profile contain your exact birthday? Is that safe?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;security&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:48:02.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More like ±n random days where n is not necessarily small. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't see the need for having the exact birthdate on a site. Ever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T02:48:02.503" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:48:14.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I don't think the birthday is what people go after when trying to steal an identity,&lt;/strike&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/social-insecurity-numbers-open-to-hacking.ars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shog9's link&lt;/a&gt; is interesting...) but if it worries you, change it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T10:34:30.120" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:34:30.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T02:51:37.930" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not care enough to try and hide my birth day. (FEBRUARY 10TH, 1985 YOU HACKERS!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of all the personal information you can get from someone, this to me is one of the more innocuous ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T02:51:37.930" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10031" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:01:43.780" Score="8" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff I don't mean to offend you but,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like everytime I search for something using the built in search on SO/SF/SU I don't get good results unless I'm am searching for something very general. Is there a way to search for specific post? Or should I continue to use Google (maybe SO/SF/SU should just use Google also, why reinvent the wheel)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T03:24:20.763" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:44:42.707" Title="Is SO/SF/SU search not good or am I using it wrong?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6428" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:04:30.183" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is notoriously bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people who search will continue to search using Google and limit the results to the site they are concerned about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you can also do is set up you own &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Custom Search Engine&lt;/a&gt; (CSE) and then you can define what sites you want that search to stick to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:04:30.183" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6428" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:04:30.313" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff gets offended when this comes up, but it really isn't very good. Most &quot;advanced&quot; users just use &quot;&lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &amp;lt;search terms&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot; to find things, as it is infinitely better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOWEVER, I believe there are some improvements being planned that would make the site search more relevant. In particular, things like being able to add &lt;code&gt;-userid:XXX&lt;/code&gt; to search for posts by a particular user and so on. For more on that, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which currently has &quot;status-planned&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:04:30.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:08:10.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I want to know is how to get my birthday to show 0 like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; user has on their profile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:08:10.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:11:34.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is going to sound very insecure (SQL Injection) but why not allow users of SO to search using a SQL like syntax. Most of us are programmers anyway, which also makes this a good learning tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T18:26:22.923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:26:22.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:14:25.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re: &quot;Also, is there a good reason that the trilogy (err... all 4) sites maintain age in the profile?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll point you to the comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2282/how-is-stackoverflow-birthday-field-kept-private/2292#2292&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it [age] is relevant when we see a user is 15 years old vs. 40 years old. The 15 year old I am willing to cut more slack on his or her question quality. – Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:14:25.927" />
  <row Id="6434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6412" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:24:45.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A video from Google Tech Talks: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUt-163gZI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software&lt;/a&gt;. I watched this a while ago and I don't remember the details. But it's basically about applying game-like mechanics to non-game software. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, one of the things the speaker talked about was &quot;points&quot; -- IIRC she claims that any time a user sees a &lt;em&gt;number&lt;/em&gt; they're likely to think of it as a number of &lt;em&gt;points&lt;/em&gt;. She would probably call SO's reputation system a points system, as well as the badges system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65977" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:24:45.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10911" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:27:50.683" Score="2" ViewCount="963" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been impressed with StackOverflow's cache: it seems to strike a perfect balance between snappiness and sensibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of the half-dozen* cache invalidation strategies promoted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/caching/SQLInvalidation.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; does StackOverflow use? I personally would love to hear a 2-3 sentence summary from a member of the team, and I imagine it would be instructive to a lot of people building sites on the MSFT stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Okay, maybe I exaggerate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastEditorUserId="131499" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T19:58:24.020" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T02:18:14.773" Title="How does StackOverflow handle cache invalidation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;technology&gt;&lt;caching&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="6438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6428" CreationDate="2009-07-17T03:59:24.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are going to use the built in search, be sure to know and use the tag syntax: &lt;code&gt;[tag]&lt;/code&gt; is often more constraining than just &lt;code&gt;tag&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T03:59:24.997" />
  <row Id="6439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6440" CreationDate="2009-07-17T04:03:01.883" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;The migrated questions are shown as locked by Community and it is closed. Why these questions not deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastEditorUserId="131374" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T06:52:12.143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T06:52:12.143" Title="Delete migrated questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6439" CreationDate="2009-07-17T04:12:19.473" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions, especially the FAQ ones, have been linked to from many places, and deleting the question completely would break that link. Perhaps a simple redirect from the old link to the new location of the question would be a good compromise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T04:12:19.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T04:30:20.803" Score="6" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1649/searching-for-a-tag-containing-breaks&quot;&gt;Searching for a tag containing * breaks&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tags in my &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; with wildcards, like &lt;code&gt;html*&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;php*&lt;/code&gt; and so on. If I click on it it goes to &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php*&lt;/code&gt;, and all I get is a blank page. It used to be that clicking on them would take me to the page with questions tagged just &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt;. What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T23:44:43.357" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T00:00:01.687" Title="Clicking on tags with wildcards gives you a blank page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;wildcards&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-07-17T04:34:49.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have the Pundit silver badge for comment upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/reversal-and-pundit-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reversal and Pundit Badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T04:34:49.220" />
  <row Id="6444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6558" CreationDate="2009-07-17T04:38:55.430" Score="8" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else feel that the Civic Duty badge just gives noobs an excuse to upvote like hell. I know I did it just to get my first silver badge and it didn't take surprisingly long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T08:21:47.467" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:46:18.237" Title="The Civic-Duty Badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2009-07-17T04:41:23.180" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote? Yeah, that's one option... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point is, it encourages folks to vote. And voting is essential to the operation of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T04:41:23.180" />
  <row Id="6448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T04:48:52.940" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heh... Interestingly, given your birthdate and place of birth, it's actually possible to guess at your Social Security Number (for US citizens) with &lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/social-insecurity-numbers-open-to-hacking.ars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some degree of accuracy&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah - if you live where you were born, you might want to lie a bit on your SO profile page, just to be safe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T04:48:52.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6428" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:03:18.583" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would only use our search if &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you know an EXACT PHRASE that appears in the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;elephant muscles&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you know an EXACT PHRASE that appears within a SPECIFIC TAG&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[search] &quot;elephant muscles&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(that's how I use it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anything fuzzier, you'll be better off with Google. There's a reason Google is a trazillion dollar company and we are just 3 guys in a windowless, musty basement with a single unshaded lightbulb hanging down from a frayed electrical extension cord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all I'm saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22elephant+muscles%22&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22elephant+muscles%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T11:55:37.907" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:55:37.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6378" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:11:30.357" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers / Reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers on the migrated questions are deleted from the source site. This means, as with any deleted answer, the reputation will be removed in the next recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question and answer votes are preserved on the destination site and are cast by the Community user. These migrated votes will confer reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Badges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The votes will earn you badges on the target site. Badges are never removed from any user, &lt;em&gt;however&lt;/em&gt; it does mean you will not earn the &quot;next&quot; badge of that type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(some of this may change a bit over time but that's how it is now)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-25T06:41:05.480" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T06:41:05.480" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="6459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:20:15.947" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I logged into Stack Overflow this morning to find that I'd been awarded the Popular Question badge, but unfortunately I have know idea what for. I could probably find out with a bit of digging, but it would be nice if the banner and Recent tab made it explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-26T19:11:56.297" LastActivityDate="2010-09-26T19:11:56.297" ClosedDate="2009-07-17T06:24:10.123" Title="Feature request: tell us what we got a badge for!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6463" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:23:49.170" Score="18" ViewCount="919" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to be like the little kid that got beat up at school and runs home crying to mommy, but I just got tactically downvoted in a question. Someone else posted a &lt;em&gt;virtually identical&lt;/em&gt; answer to mine, &lt;em&gt;after I posted mine&lt;/em&gt;, and both of us quickly got 1 upvote. He then downvoted me, got a few more upvotes, and removed the downvote when he got &quot;ahead,&quot; mostly taking advantage of the fact most people vote for the top correct answer and then move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been discussed at some points why tactical downvoting is bad/wrong/etc, but it's obviously impossible to really detect for regular users because of voting being anonymous. The only reason I was able to &quot;catch&quot; the offender this time is because I happened to take a look at his reputation after I got the downvote and I noted that it was 3170. I then refreshed the page (looking for any vote changing, mostly) and my downvote was gone and his reputation had switched to 3171.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I am referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1141603/mysql-help&quot;&gt;is here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this something I just need to suck up and move on, or are there voting records that can confirm this and perhaps take some kind of action to prevent it from happening in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T09:11:22.920" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:48:53.053" Title="If you just witnessed tactical downvoting, is it a reportable offense?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;&lt;tactical-downvoting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="6461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6460" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:29:34.617" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Hacker News, you cannot downvote anyone that replies to your post, and on Slashdot you're not allowed to use your moderation powers on the same thread that you post on. Maybe we could adopt something similar here, where you can't downvote any competing answers to a question? This has some drawbacks, but can you really trust someone who posted their own reply to be objective about judging the other peoples' replies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T06:29:34.617" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6460" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:52:52.913" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like this idea of not allowing downvotes in threads you have a post. There are far more reasons for a down ote than tactical reasons. If you downvote an answer and supply a better one, doesn't the OP win?  Isn't that the goal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an OP I do tend to try and watch the answers I receive and will call out duicate answers and awardthe accepted answer to the first post.  As a answere I'll call out the behavior if I see it. And then close my eyes, scream, and mOve on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T06:52:52.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6460" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:53:11.250" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there are two approaches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can lodge a formal complaint. Ask the moderators to contact the guy, get them to investigate the behaviour as far as they can (I don't know whether votes which are made and then deleted are retained in the database) and see what happens. Ultimately it's hard to see what the result can be - deleting the answer? Transferring votes? It would all be a bit unsatisfactory. The only benefit would be that the guy is told off and hopefully won't do it again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let it go. You've put comments on the answer, so hopefully he'll either explain himself or at least know that it's a pretty unreasonable thing to do (assuming he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; do it - he could have undone a downvote elsewhere, of course). Move on, answer more questions, make the world a better place that way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd go for option 2. I sympathise, but in the end it's only a bit of reputation. At 32K it's a fairly insignificant amount of it, too. I'm glad you left the comment though - I hope this guy doesn't do this on a regular basis. (Again, assuming he is guilty as charged.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T06:53:11.250" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="6464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6460" CreationDate="2009-07-17T06:56:38.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an inverse game to that, which is potentially more harmful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a good answer to a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote everyone else, to draw the community to upvote them more, this way, driving them into the false impression about the goodness of their answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After an answer is accepted other than yours, delete your own post, and if it got upvoted or downvoted 3 or more times, you'll receive a Disciplined/Peer pressure badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nash cooperative game theory with punishment strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T06:56:38.073" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8262" CreationDate="2009-07-17T07:07:16.327" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, when I use the various tabs on my user screen (stats, recent, etc.) the entire page reloads and I lose my sort settings on them. I think it is possible to do an AJAX page update in place instead of the full reload efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T07:22:09.060" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T17:13:02.737" Title="Display tabs on user page without page reload" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2009-07-17T07:20:27.627" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also there is a daily upvote limitation (I suppose the limit is 30 upvote per day), this prevents the misusage of the voting system I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T07:20:27.627" />
  <row Id="6468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4550" CreationDate="2009-07-17T07:43:10.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How the community will do things right and the law of large numbers will select the good solutions (~)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is true; but the &quot;right&quot; answer is not always the &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; one. This often appears via large upvotes; think &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/62/populist&quot;&gt;&quot;populist&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, or those occasions where the accepted answer has -ve votes and there is an answer with +15 upvotes; I think that expresses the &quot;good&quot; solution, even if the OP disagrees&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The property of no-registration required causing OPs to never find back to their questions and no one accepts it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, it doesn't matter too much if we have a question without an &lt;strong&gt;accepted&lt;/strong&gt; answer; the answers are there, with a (subjective) voting indication of quality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do the cost associations of given and received downvotes achieve the desired effect?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, downvotes don't quite carry enough... -5 downvotes and +1 upvote (for sympathy) yields zero points overall; or it could even yield +10 points for a new user! I'd prefer to see, say, -4 points? -5 points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Doesn't upvotes draw attention of those who simply want the badge for +300 votes and vote for answers without even thinking about it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge isn't that exciting; I don't think I've seen this, but it isn't necessary to agree with every vote cast...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it is interesting to see how much UV and MSO can help shape the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T09:23:52.520" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T09:23:52.520" />
  <row Id="6469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6471" CreationDate="2009-07-17T07:44:12.620" Score="16" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently use favorites to mark questions that I need to keep a watch on, or look at later when I have time. The peeve is that they're inconvenient to access and I end up checking them infrequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small star icon (near the envelope icon) that could show the &quot;favorites&quot; tab would be really useful to quickly begin browsing favorites, instead of having to visit the account page, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:33:21.210" Title="A favorites star icon on the header" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6473" CreationDate="2009-07-17T07:44:25.933" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/943/ability-to-search-my-stuff&quot;&gt;Ability to search my stuff?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I want to go back to an answer I got from a question or check an answer I answered, say, last year but I wouldn't be able to find it...because you have to go through 9 pages or so of your questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that it would very useful if some sort of Filter was implemented (like in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;Users&lt;/a&gt; Page) that would be used to help you traverse your questions and answers easily and find what you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T08:29:44.337" ClosedDate="2009-07-26T11:02:41.397" Title="Filter your questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="6471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6469" CreationDate="2009-07-17T08:29:04.730" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a stop-gap, how about just a browser bookmark to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/41021?tab=favorites#sort-top&quot;&gt;that page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T08:29:04.730" />
  <row Id="6472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2009-07-17T08:29:28.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose it could but with the upvote limit per day, and with the hope that they will at least upvote good answers, not just the random ones, it might be a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus after they get their Civic Duty badge, they might be more prone to upvoting good answers compared to others users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T08:29:28.410" />
  <row Id="6473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6470" CreationDate="2009-07-17T08:29:44.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to search your own answers on Stack Overflow, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://askjonskeet.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AskJonSkeet&lt;/a&gt; - it doesn't just index &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; answers. The URL format is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.askjonskeet.com/user/[userid]/[username]/search/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.askjonskeet.com/user/1288/bill-the-lizard/search/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it would be nice to have something like this built into the SE engine - apart from anything else, I believe AskJonSkeet only indexes SO, not the other sites - but you may find it a helpful workaround for the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T08:29:44.337" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6460" CreationDate="2009-07-17T09:11:26.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has blogged about voting problems &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; so there are procedures in place to detect some dodgy voting practices. However, I'm not sure they'd detect what you describe as it's transient rather than permanent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a more serious problem if this was this posters normal behaviour. But without constant monitoring of their voting habits you're not going to be able prove anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case I'd let it go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T09:11:26.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T09:37:42.773" Score="7" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is home to some wild tag classes, namely that of the &lt;strong&gt;required&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;moderator only&lt;/strong&gt; breeds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These convey a special meaning and run with the winds of each question posted, heralding at quick glance their subject matter or Meta-specific content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much like how the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges page&lt;/a&gt; educatifies your mind to what each is for, it would be nice to have a list with a rapid-fire explanation of each of these elevated tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-20T06:14:04.757" LastActivityDate="2010-05-20T06:15:52.613" Title="Tag description/list for &quot;special&quot; tags used on Meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;glossary&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6480" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:09:38.377" Score="37" ViewCount="1187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been alerted to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/awesome-the-game-crafter-lets-you-build-and-sell-your-own-custom-board-games/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;company which produces board games&lt;/a&gt; - you design the game, artwork 'n all, and upload the assets to them. They produce the game and sell it in their store, taking half the profits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a big board game fan (1), and would love to help design a board game around Stack Overflow. Is this a crazy idea, or would anyone else be interested in it? Can we get it done in time to have some copies available for DevDays? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry, I know this is &lt;em&gt;hugely&lt;/em&gt; silly, but the idea has a lot of appeal for me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) For reference, mostly Settlers of Catan and similar games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T13:28:37.410" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" Title="Would you play a Stack Overflow board game?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="29" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="6481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:14:59.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends... I usually prefers a better game with a unknown universe than a bad game ripped-off a well known universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:14:59.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:15:30.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No I wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:15:30.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:16:24.007" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could have &quot;chance&quot; cards which hold a podcast number, and you'd have to listen to the podcast and play Stack Overflow Podcast Bingo, before returning to the real game, except it wouldn't be a real game any more, because We Would Be Drunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80482" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:16:24.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:17:27.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be very funny. And after adv you'll be even on the board game :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21384" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:17:27.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:18:22.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might play it, but only in particularly geeky circumstances like developer events. I can't see myself keeping a copy at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12124" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:18:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:21:19.663" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would it be like? Trivial Pursuit, but with programming questions? Or would it be more like Monopoly?, if you ask a meta question you get sent to jail, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:21:19.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:21:44.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be an interesting idea. I think the point should be to be the first to the rep-cap. The main problem with that idea would be getting old fast. The questions would have to change constantly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer an online game, maybe utilizing your rep-tracker. You already challenge yourself trying to cap out every day, why not make a competition out of it? A timer could start from your first activity for the day (to keep it fair across time zones). Shortest time to the cap wins. The tie-breaker would be total rep gained from accepted answers and whatnot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:21:44.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:26:41.733" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You think of creating a legitimate question, which is also boring and has no chance of being answered!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...just so that you can earn your &lt;strong&gt;Tumbleweed&lt;/strong&gt; badge!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:26:41.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T10:26:41.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1054" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:39:47.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have to check your profile on one of the sites to confirm your own age...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:39:47.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T10:39:47.120" />
  <row Id="6491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:41:57.377" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. It's called &quot;Programmer's Nightmare.&quot; I think we could do better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic409023%5Fmd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:41:57.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:44:06.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever it's gonna be, the winner should build a huge stack of cards (or the loser, probably, as it throws an exception).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:44:06.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:55:24.097" Score="10" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to get to a new question when reading a question, currently you need to go back to the list of questions.  It would be nice to have next/previous buttons on the current question page that take you to the next/previous question based on the &quot;list&quot; of questions you are currently viewing.  By list, I mean either the set produced by a search or by clicking on one of the various tabs to select an ordering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T16:49:09.450" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T13:39:59.597" Title="Add the ability to go to the next/previous question when viewing a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T10:59:54.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I entered my birth date in order to get the Autobiographer badge on Stack Overflow and then removed it again afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T10:59:54.500" />
  <row Id="6495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6517" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:07:36.793" Score="13" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now people over-write each other, edit unknowingly when others are editing, etc. Could we improve the edit-feature maybe to lock the question while it's being edited, and show who is currently editing it? Perhaps give the edit 10 minutes before the lock is lifted, and the user cannot touch the question for another 10 minutes or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential Abuse:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is possible that some people would attempt to lock themselves &quot;in&quot; to prevent others from editing the question, they would first need sufficient reputation (unless they are the author), and their lock will expire after n-minutes. Furthermore, no 1 person is allowed two consecutive edits (within n-minutes?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-inedit.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T00:32:19.370" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T00:32:19.370" Title="Preventing conflicting simultaneous edits" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="6496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:12:43.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would play the Flash version :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T11:12:43.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6495" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:15:10.033" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it needs &lt;em&gt;locks&lt;/em&gt;; but it is indeed a problem. Perhaps something as simple as including the revision number when editing, and not committing if there is a mismatch (but re-displaying the users edited textbox! it would be painful to re-type). Then the problem becomes the standard &quot;merge&quot; issue - you've got the original copy that you started editing, your revised copy, and the conflicting (&quot;HEAD&quot;) copy. You'd probably need to be able to see at least &quot;yours&quot; and the &quot;HEAD&quot; copy to manually merge (or decide that actually the other edit has done the job adequately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is a problem, I'm not sure it is a very &lt;em&gt;common&lt;/em&gt; problem. I have, however, seen a post get wiki'd in under 4 minutes by 8-odd people trying to fix the same question. Any 1 of the edits would have been fine, but instead all 8 got committed (over-stamping each other). Instant wiki, and arguably unfairly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem with locks is that I can &lt;strong&gt;guarantee&lt;/strong&gt; that this will be abused by people who don't want the post edited - i.e. post something inappropriate (spam, abuse, etc) then immediately &quot;edit&quot; to take a lock; normally, it would take the community about 2 minutes to spot this and remove it by editing - but the &quot;flags&quot; approach (spam/abuse/etc) takes longer to hit critical mass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T11:15:10.033" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:21:04.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about some characters like the BOF, Luser, Power Luser (thanks Joel), Crappy Consultant etc etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BOF gets an extra roll when he crashes a Luser's system&#xA;Crappy Consultant card doubles the cost of everything for the next 3 turns&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131534" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T11:21:04.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:24:53.573" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exact Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6441/clicking-on-tags-with-wildcards-gives-you-a-blank-page&quot;&gt;Clicking on tags with wildcards gives you a blank page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think since yesterday links in the interesting and ignored tags sections that include wild cards changed their behaviour to the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;python*&lt;/kbd&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That page obviously doesn't exist and I'm getting a blank page. Wouldn't the original behaviour that linked to: &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python&lt;/code&gt; be more useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: after reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6092/tags-with-in-not-working-correctly/6100#6100&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and following re-adding advice, I can confirm that re-adding works &lt;em&gt;until page is reloaded&lt;/em&gt;. So it clearly is a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2&lt;/strong&gt;: this is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1649/searching-for-a-tag-containing-breaks&quot;&gt;Searching for a tag containing * breaks&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not searching for anything. These are links in interesting/ignored tags sections! And the change has happened sometimes yesterday. The previous questions have to do with completely different issues. Please open this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit3&lt;/strong&gt;: this is not a &lt;em&gt;duplicate many times over&lt;/em&gt;. The&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;python*&lt;/kbd&gt; linked to &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;now it links to: &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here is the except form  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3898/did-the-wildcard-tag-feature-get-removed/3900#3900&quot;&gt;Kyle's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you click on a wildcard tag, it does not (and never has) taken you to &lt;strong&gt;a list of questions with tags that match that wildcard&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(highlighting mine). Yes, Kyle, it never have taken you to a list of question that match that wildcard. But it has taken you to the one single tag (&lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt; in this case). What is it if not a regression in usability is beyond me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T14:42:47.453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:42:47.453" ClosedDate="2009-07-17T13:40:57.737" Title="Linking interesting tags that include wild card" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:34:18.967" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't we just re-brand &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenga&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jenga&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T11:34:18.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:37:31.870" Score="4" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to have RSS feeds for given tag &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; specific view like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag=c++&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag=c++&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag=boost&amp;amp;sort=active&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag=boost&amp;amp;sort=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having ability to combine tags would be even better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag=sqlite+sqlite3&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag=sqlite+sqlite3&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the last but not the least;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;How the feature which had 343 votes on UserVoice didn't get moved to meta?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T10:00:21.090" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T13:59:34.237" Title="Provide RSS for ALL views" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:44:58.257" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'd need to invite somebody around to randomly edit the questions (often controversially), and occasionally you'd need to throw some of the questions into one of your other games (SF/SU) for no apparent reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;None&lt;/em&gt; of the &quot;rules&quot; would be written down, but you are expected to just &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; them or face the wrath of the other players.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can play with multiple separate racks, as long as nobody spots you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, it would be novel and fun for something like devdays; but other than that I suspect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T11:44:58.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T11:51:12.767" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'd have to base the game on getting 10k reputation or more, and grant more options to the players the more reputation they get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you have tags in the form of cards, and you draw cards on your turn. Then you can play cards to either ask a question with the tags whose cards you play, or play cards to answer questions with those tags. Then you have an randomized upvote/downvote step wherein certain tags are voted on more than others. The strategy of the game would be to spread out in tags, but you could concentrate on popular tags as well to get more points from one tag. I see this as being similar to gathering resources in Settlers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively you could make it more like Carcassonne, where ad-hoc teams of people work together to answer questions, and when it's answered they all gain reputation proportionally to the amount of work they put into it. Cards would be questions, and players invest a limited number of effort tokens into answering them. Every turn, there is a chance that the OP will reappear and either change the nature of the question (invalidating all effort up until now), add bounty (doubling rep gained from this question) or pick the answer with the most effort (giving lots of rep to the winner, or dividing it up for ties). Players can cast a limited number of downvotes, close votes, flags, etc per round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kinda like the second approach better, because Carcassonne is awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T11:38:17.583" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T11:38:17.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6513" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:05:28.257" Score="-8" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often find myself in a spot of trouble, and when I have minutes left to fix it, I sometimes turn to SO/SF to start the &quot;community help process&quot;. I suppose a tag like &quot;urgent&quot; or &quot;immediate-attention&quot; could enable contributors with spare time easily find the most desperate situations, giving more attention to those issues and solving them quicker. Or could this be a special tab on the home page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:28:28.853" Title="An &quot;urgent&quot; tag for questions that need answers within minutes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;downtime&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6424" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:07:14.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Birthday &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; one of those things that is frequently used as part of a security measure.  However, it's one of the already most readily available pieces of information about a person...  Should it be kept private, well, yeah, if you want the existing security measures to work.  Is your birthday able to be kept private, no, too late for that.  Are all the security measures that use birthdays stupid and broken.  Well, yeah.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:07:14.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:07:23.790" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's assumed that everybody needs their answer &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;. I certainly don't browse the questions and think to myself, &quot;Meh, he doesn't need an answer right now.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T12:14:12.217" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:14:12.217" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="6509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:08:06.677" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't think it would work. To get quick attention, &lt;strong&gt;ask a clear question with all the information required in it&lt;/strong&gt; and if anyone's out there with the answer you'll get a quick response - don't see any special tagging making a difference personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:08:06.677" />
  <row Id="6510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:08:47.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. It would probably need a rep penalty to prevent abuse. But then it sounds a lot like bounties....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you should be able to set bounties with 10 minutes time limit or something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Or just find an IRC channel...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42882" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:08:47.777" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:13:06.230" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that StackOverflow (and I presume the other sites will in time, if not already) are great for is immediacy. Some questions can get answered in seconds, literally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best thing to get a quick response is to give as much information as possible in the clearest manner possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;: If you have a question about how to write a particular SQL query, the following information is essential in getting you a super-fast result...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy-to-read schema&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sample data set&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Desired output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Query you already have (if applicable)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By providing that type of information, it is very easy for someone to see what you are talking about and get to work immediately answering the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:13:06.230" />
  <row Id="6512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4550" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:23:00.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked somehow similar question - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2368/is-so-able-to-create-stable-live-ecosystem&quot;&gt;Is SO able to create stable, live ecosystem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think answering either one gives much of an insight to the second...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:23:00.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:24:40.677" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am very much against this idea. Stack Overflow is meant to be a repository of information. It is NOT meant to be a place to farm out your work to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have something urgent, your time would be better spent asking the people around you, or figuring it out for yourself. On SO, because the answers are provided wikipedia style (anyone can answer) you can't guarantee it is correct, so if you are on a time-crunch the first answer could be completely wrong, and might destroy your application. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course that could happen if you were doing your own work too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All questions are equal on SO, one person should not be able to skip the line or get special treatment just because they didn't manage to get everything done beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, my sympathies go out to them, lord knows I've missed deadlines. But the point is that SO is not a technical-help phoneline that you can immediately get gratification from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:24:40.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6516" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:26:55.310" Score="10" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since so many thousands of tags and topics exist, it would be really useful to visually browse through tags by organizing them into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Portals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hierarchy&lt;/a&gt;, or hierarchical map. This drill-down map would make it easier to find the tag/subtopic you want or just generally browse within the topics you're interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we could nest all &quot;visual-studio-2008&quot; and &quot;visual-studio-2003&quot; tags into &quot;visual-studio&quot;, which would be under &quot;dev-tools&quot;. Something like how Wikipedia's categories have sub-categories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T13:48:08.863" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T10:04:01.620" Title="Tag hierarchy to browse through tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:27:59.897" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of potential for abuse of an 'urgent' tag.  How do you differentiate once &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions are tagged urgent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:27:59.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6514" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:29:14.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag hierarchy has been declined repeatedly in the past by Jeff. I don't see this changing any time soon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:29:14.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6495" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:32:56.177" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (along with Marc) believe that locks are not the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like your idea of an &quot;in edit&quot; tag. Or perhaps when you attempt to 'check in' your edit, it could present a version control style 'merge screen'. Shouldn't be too difficult since they already run a diff in the backend for use the the history. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to 'merge' 'overwrite' or 'discard'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that solution, you would not need the tag, because the tag DOES have the downside of broadcasting that someone is MAKING an edit, which, in the case of RichB, means that there are people who would wait around until he's done and then just overwrite his edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, instead you don't say &quot;who&quot; edited/editing, but just pop-up the 'edit merge' dialog that I'm claiming they should create, then you get a change to see if someone has made the same edits you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:32:56.177" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:33:17.067" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Draw a question card...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You get lost in a meta discussion. Lose a turn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:33:17.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6522" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:34:46.817" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened to be writing an entry and noticed that there was something odd about using the link definition name &lt;code&gt;reduce&lt;/code&gt;. The preview updates fine until I enter the last &lt;code&gt;e&lt;/code&gt; of &lt;code&gt;reduce&lt;/code&gt;, then nothing changes. The editor just goes into pause mode until I remove the &lt;code&gt;e&lt;/code&gt; again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll submit this post with a test link using the link definition name &lt;code&gt;reduce&lt;/code&gt; to see if it's just the preview that's not working properly: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other, non-working names: &lt;code&gt;map&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;filter&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;pop&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;push&lt;/code&gt;... yeah you get the idea? Any &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core%5FJavaScript%5F1.5%5FReference/Global%5FObjects/Array#Array%5Finstances&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Array&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-26T10:01:35.767" LastActivityDate="2010-11-26T10:01:35.767" Title="Markdown preview does not support link definition names that are the same as Array function names" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown-preview&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:42:37.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would personally enjoy it more if it was something non-programmers COULD play, (but probably wouldn't be interested =P) rather than a trivia-style programming question game. Mostly because the &quot;trivia-style programming question game&quot; already exists and is called &quot;Stackoverflow.com&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:42:37.847" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6524" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:52:11.353" Score="10" ViewCount="538" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if people don't explain why they up or down vote because they don't care or because they don't want the person to know they voted on an answer (or question)... But, it might be nice to be able to leave a comment anonymously as to why it was voted.  It could give us more insight as to people's thoughts on posts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, I think this would come into play a lot more dealing with down votes more than up votes, but I could see it being beneficial in both situations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes/3733#3733&quot;&gt;an answer posted to Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-13T06:49:18.210" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T07:57:06.640" Title="Allow users to leave an anonymous comment when voting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6519" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:54:33.903" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link definition names are stored in an Array.  Arrays have &lt;code&gt;reduce&lt;/code&gt; as a method, which seems to be the source of the problem.  You can reproduce it with &lt;code&gt;concat&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;filter&lt;/code&gt; or any other Array method, too.  I'm no Javascript expert, and I haven't dug far enough into the problem to figure out just why it happens -- especially because it begins working again if you include the optional title for the link -- but you can see for yourself that it affects the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/examples/splitscreen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;base WMD implementation&lt;/a&gt;, too, not just SO's version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the problem is that indexing any object in Javascript with a method name returns the function itself.  The structure of the Markdown editor is such that it stores URLs and link titles in two arrays, both of which are indexed by the link definition name.  The markdown converter craps out when attempting to escape characters on the function code returned when the index is a function name.  You &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to have the optional title, because if you omit it, it still thinks it has a title and attempts to escape characters on the function.  It begins working when you have the URL and option text in place, because the function gets overwritten in the two arrays with the proper strings.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is some of the code in question from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cky/wmd/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO branch of WMD&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;	if (g_urls[link_id] != undefined) {&#xA;		url = g_urls[link_id];&#xA;		if (g_titles[link_id] != undefined) {&#xA;			title = g_titles[link_id];&#xA;		}&#xA;	}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above code uses &lt;code&gt;link_id&lt;/code&gt; (which would be &quot;reduce&quot;) in order to index into &lt;code&gt;g_urls&lt;/code&gt; and g_titles&lt;code&gt;.  As I mentioned before, these will *not* be &lt;/code&gt;undefined&lt;code&gt;, even when they &quot;should&quot; be.  Instead, they'll be the &lt;/code&gt;reduce` functions themselves.  Note that, because of the structure here, unless both the URL and title are defined, one or both will be set to the function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next is the code that actually creates the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;url = escapeCharacters(url,&quot;*_&quot;);&#xA;var result = &quot;&amp;lt;a href=\&quot;&quot; + url + &quot;\&quot;&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;if (title != &quot;&quot;) {&#xA;	title = title.replace(/&quot;/g,&quot;&amp;amp;quot;&quot;);&#xA;	title = escapeCharacters(title,&quot;*_&quot;);&#xA;	result +=  &quot; title=\&quot;&quot; + title + &quot;\&quot;&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code attempts to escape characters on &lt;code&gt;url&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; (which, again, will not be &quot;&quot; even when it should be).  This kills the code, because you obviously can't escape characters on a function (Wouldn't that be cool if you could, though?  Like, it actually stripped the characters from the function code?  Pointless?  Sure.  But cool.).  So until both &lt;code&gt;url&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; have actual string values, the conversion process craps out, which is why it seems like it freezes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how to solve it?  The simplest way would be to change the first block of code to something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;	if (g_urls[link_id] != undefined &amp;amp;&amp;amp; typeof g_urls[link_id] != 'function') {&#xA;		url = g_urls[link_id];&#xA;		if (g_titles[link_id] != undefined &amp;amp;&amp;amp; typeof g_titles[link_id] != 'function') {&#xA;			title = g_titles[link_id];&#xA;		}&#xA;	}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a Javascript ninja will know of an even better way, but that should work.  I'd submit it as a patch, but my git skill is even more limited than my Javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT 3:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blixt has suggested this alternate solution, which appears to work just as well, is less of a workaround, and is probably better semantically.  In lieu of the above change, instead change these lines (lines 105-106):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;g_urls = new Array();&#xA;g_titles = new Array();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;g_urls = {};&#xA;g_titles = {};&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't done especially rigorous testing, but it appears to be working like a charm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T14:04:42.547" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:04:42.547" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="6524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6521" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:55:44.623" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is meant to be anonymous. We -encourage- users to leave a comment (especially when downvoting) but do not force it upon anyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are nice enough to leave a comment on a downvote to explain yourself, there shouldn't be any reason for anonymity other than to protect yourself from revenge downvoting. I don't think this happens quite often enough to warrant anonymous comments (plus those can be definitely abused).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:55:44.623" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="6525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6514" CreationDate="2009-07-17T12:56:28.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree. This should be done by meta tags which are more flexible than a hierarchy.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you want it to happen then vote &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1620/meta-tags&quot;&gt;Meta tags.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; request, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T12:56:28.547" />
  <row Id="6526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6521" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:00:55.230" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of this has been covered in answers/comments to these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2263/require-comments-on-downvotes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2263/require-comments-on-downvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to name but two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:00:55.230" />
  <row Id="6527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:02:40.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;only if I get to play as Jon Skeet (and thus win every time!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T22:54:10.177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:54:10.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:10:49.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess one solution would be to a allow a bounty straight off the mark (but maybe not include the 50 rep from the system). Given the cost of reputation this might alleviate the &quot;everything is urgent&quot; issue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:10:49.430" />
  <row Id="6529" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:13:51.713" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I don't know if this is the right place to rant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just posed a question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1142827/letting-a-java-swing-program-layout-itself-again&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1142827/letting-a-java-swing-program-layout-itself-again&lt;/a&gt;), I got some (partially correct) answers to my question within minutes. I then placed comments to these answers, but now my question appears to be dead, and it's very unlikely that my comments will be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't there be a system where people get notified they have responses to their comments? It might not work anyway as it would (like any form of thinking) destroy your (time spent) / (points earned) ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:36:24.783" Title="Why is there activity on my question for just 5 minutes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:16:30.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Along the lines of Rowland's answer, I think having an urgent tag should cost say 100 to 200 rep. It's not punitive measure, but a safeguard against poorly worded question and poor attitude of OPs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastEditorUserId="12855" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T13:25:42.027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:25:42.027" />
  <row Id="6533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:19:56.670" Score="1" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6428/is-so-sf-su-search-not-good-or-am-i-using-it-wrong&quot;&gt;Is SO/SF/SU search not good or am I using it wrong?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Stack Overflow using google search API? and why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131543" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:19:56.670" ClosedDate="2009-07-17T13:22:32.983" Title="Is Stack Overflow using google search API?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6529" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:20:46.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for.  Users &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; notified if you comment on their answers.  Due to the many vagaries of the magic envelope, they may not be notified for a while, but they will be eventually.  Whether such a comment will cause them to go back and add more information is strictly up to the user.  Relax, it's only been an hour since you posted the question.  Not &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; is a complete SO degenerate, constantly hitting refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:20:46.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1620" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:21:14.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batch retagging could browse interesting and ignored tags and change these too. It would have to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;change the tag if it is found in one of the lists&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add the tag, if a wildcard is found that includes the old tag, but non to include the new tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not add the tag, if a wildcard is found that includes the old tag, but there is a wildcard in the opposite list that includes the new&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see that there are some problems associated with this, and I would not like the batch mess with my data automatically apart from one case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the old tag should be removed as it will be nonexistent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that I would revisit my lists of tags when I see questions popping up wrongly marked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta tags would actually be too narrow of a solution. It would be great to have a taxonomy or even better a semantic net, some &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/120628/tag-hierarchies-and-handling-of/120795#120795&quot;&gt;neighbourhood function&lt;/a&gt; (which tag is close to which). But I guess that will just be overkill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-04T10:39:42.113" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T10:39:42.113" />
  <row Id="6537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6529" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:36:24.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The initial burst of activity is people seeing your question and trying to get the first answer in (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73/is-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-solved&quot;&gt;The Fastest Gun in the West&lt;/a&gt;). Usually the first answer gets the most up-votes assuming it's correct or nearly correct, so there is an incentive there already. The Enlightened badge is also awarded if the first answer gets 10 up-votes - another incentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time this initial burst of activity is over your question will have probably dropped off the front page of the site and so will be seen by fewer people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others have mentioned that your comments on answers will get seen, but it might take them a little while to percolate through the system, and if the people answering your question are answering a lot of other questions as well they might not see your comment straight away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:36:24.783" />
  <row Id="6539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6514" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:45:27.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a hierarchy makes sense, but I would like to see some kind of topic map or navigation tool to show tags that are related or correlate with each other. (not a huge priority for me though)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time it's really an issue with me is when the tags aren't obvious (especially if I don't know the terminology for a particular thing), either when I'm trying to post a question, or I'm trying to look whether a question has already been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:45:27.963" />
  <row Id="6541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T13:53:42.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What? I'm not already spending too much time on StackOverflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130989" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T13:53:42.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:10:49.100" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;A search for &quot;type-punned&quot; on Stack Overflow takes me to the URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=type-punned&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=type-punned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which lists a question &quot;strict aliasing&quot; and provides the link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/754929/strict-aliasing&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/754929/strict-aliasing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but that link just gets me a message from Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Sorry, that page doesn't exist!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions still &quot;exist&quot; but this one persistently doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this a bug? Poorly explained feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9654" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T14:29:43.407" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:29:43.407" Title="&quot;Missing&quot; questions on Stack Overflow: Page Not Found" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6546" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:14:32.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was deleted on July 8th.  References to it are still lingering though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have 10k rep you can still see the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:14:32.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:16:12.930" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's annoying&#xA;It's useless&#xA;If I wanted to see questions I would go to SO site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:21:44.133" Title="Please remove sobot from the IRC channel" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="6550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:17:38.483" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cited&lt;/strong&gt;: — if your answer is cited (&lt;em&gt;linked to&lt;/em&gt;) more than 10/50/100 times, perhaps only from answer with at least one upvote. This is to encourage comprehensive answers that are referred to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might be difficult to implement, and to tune: number of citations is a free parameter, requirements on grade of answer with citation (points / number of upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="130454" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T17:51:53.613" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:51:53.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T14:17:38.483" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6549" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:18:23.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my experience in the IRC, if you remove SObot, you remove the only person actually communicating :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:18:23.560" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6549" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:21:10.913" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ignore sobot using the command &quot;/ignore sobot&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can voice your concerns with the maker of the bot, zigdon, who frequents the same channel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:21:10.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6549" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:21:44.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just use my IRC software to ignore sobot. That way those that like the new question feed can have it, but I don't have to watch it update every 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, no matter what the IRC channel might say about itself it's absolutely NOT official and the StackOverflow team has NO control over it. So you'd really be better off requesting this there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:21:44.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:23:28.577" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indexed&lt;/strong&gt; (silver) &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;Highly Indexed&lt;/strong&gt; (gold) - Question has X page views from referal sites; google, yahoo and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that questions that are more relevant to the &quot;outside&quot; world (IE search engines, blog posts, etc.) would be encouraged and rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:50:13.433" Title="Indexed badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6546" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:24:02.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the user that created it was &quot;destroyed&quot;, which deletes any questions / answers / comments etc that they've made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question itself seems sound; undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update... hmmm; it looks like it may have been me that destroyed the user... I'm 100% confident that I had a good and valid reason... no idea what it was, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the logs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marc Gravell -&gt; Moderator destroys user for id = [redacted] by Marc Gravell - Jul 8 at 7:58&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:24:02.947" />
  <row Id="6556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6554" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:25:12.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could potentially lead to some pretty serious abuse which Google may not like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:25:12.377" />
  <row Id="6557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:26:06.207" Score="10" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have &lt;strong&gt;Instant&lt;/strong&gt; notifications by email of answers to my questions.  Can this be implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T01:48:40.247" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T01:39:37.127" Title="Instant e-mail notifications of answers to questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:29:36.727" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was upvoting anything I considered to be good before I knew about the Civic Duty badge. I think the ease of upvoting encourages upvoting more than the badge. And I think it's a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:29:36.727" />
  <row Id="6559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6557" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:31:28.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I personally would hate it, I could see a user preference that someone could set which sent twitter messages to them on new answers, comments, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wouldn't mind seeing a more active notification system like the big orange bar that flashes on the top of the page when you first log on or when you receive a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or as Joel said below, you could use the RSS feeds that are available. Those would allow you to get pretty instant notification of new activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:31:28.557" />
  <row Id="6560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6557" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:31:42.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I why people would not like this (inbox getting flodded with answers), I would be good if we were given the choice. There have been certain questions where I would love to have instant emails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:31:42.543" />
  <row Id="6561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6557" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:31:43.640" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So subscribe to the RSS feed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:31:43.640" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6165" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:35:05.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the dashed (should that be dashing?) serverfault boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131522" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:35:05.117" />
  <row Id="6563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:35:31.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the most similar real-world equivalent to SO would actually be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry%5FHungry%5FHippos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hungry Hungry Hippos&lt;/a&gt;, which unfortunately is not really a &quot;board&quot; game. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; probably play an SO board game, if I &lt;em&gt;actually knew&lt;/em&gt; any other SO users... like &lt;em&gt;face-to-face&lt;/em&gt; knew them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T14:41:59.663" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:41:59.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6377" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:36:02.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also put the &quot;required&quot; tag in front of indivual tag lists (on questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:36:02.837" />
  <row Id="6565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:40:46.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My only interest in rep score is that I can't do certain things without rep score.  Until today I couldn't even comment.  There are a few times I REALLY wanted to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39478" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:40:46.367" />
  <row Id="6566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:41:57.917" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can type &lt;code&gt;feature-request -status-declined -status-bydesign -status-completed&lt;/code&gt; on the address line once I'm there, but is there no easier way? Statuses are a special concept and really only apply to things like feature and bugs. And it would be nice to easily switch between statuses when looking at these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't generally want to see declined features, when I'm looking at features to see what's in the wind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But if a feature occurs to me, I don't want to pester the developers with a request that they've already said no to as a concept. So being able to see declined features is a good thing here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've recently dealt with a similar thing in one of my projects: general tagging scheme vs. an evolving specialized concept getting dumped into the GTS--which oddly enough was a sort of &lt;em&gt;status&lt;/em&gt;. So I can appreciate the evolving case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have them in my ignore tags.&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; I edited this whole post based on Jeff Atwood's clarification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastEditorUserId="130846" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T16:49:57.860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T03:00:02.537" Title="Can we get an easy way to filter out status tags in MSO on the tag page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6566" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:48:35.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are wanting the questions to be hidden from you, you could add them to your ignored tags list couldn't you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:48:35.670" />
  <row Id="6569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-07-17T14:49:53.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A very controversial feature would be to award rep for up-voting corresponding to the up-voter rep points. The more rep the up-voter has, the more rep point is awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you always award 5% of the up voter rep (10 for a 200 rep voter, 100 for a 2k rep voter, but only 1 for a 10 rep voter)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rational behind it is that the system trusts more high-rep-users votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveats&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know how it would relate to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1763/sacrifice-rep-to-reward-question-or-answer/2264#2264&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Sacrifice Rep To Reward Question Or Answer&quot;&gt;rep-farming&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would also rapidly have stellar-rep users. May be just have an extra bonus if the voter has a much higher rep than the author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T14:49:53.537" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:05:09.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that some kind of immediacy flagging is inevitable, because I see these sites as rapidly growing in popularity, and a smaller crowd of people that want to be &quot;online&quot; and answer things interactively. Probably, on a more intermittent basis, people will be desperate and post urgent questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, you need to discourage people from posting everything as urgent, but there are features like auto-timeout and high karma pricing that could make this work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I think tagged discussions is better than a chat room, is that chat rooms are not threaded, and if you have too many open items, the place becomes a mess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:05:09.000" />
  <row Id="6575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:08:53.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already a couple of projects out there to clone the StackOverflow platform. One is used for the Chinese language site &lt;a href=&quot;http://cnprog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CNProg.com&lt;/a&gt;. It is written in Python/Django and can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cnprog/CNPROG/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;. The other that I know of is &lt;a href=&quot;http://ra-ajax.org/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com.blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stacked&lt;/a&gt;. It is written in C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff have discussed the possibility of Open Sourcing the code for the platform at some point, though there is no firm consensus except that it won't be happening for several years, if ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel's software company Fog Creek hopes is offering a hosted version of the platform called &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;, which they hope will be available by Sept. 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5284" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:08:53.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:09:19.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue with this is that everything will get tagged as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;URGENT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  Who doesn't want to have their question solved in minutes?  Probably not a good idea...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:09:19.930" />
  <row Id="6578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6581" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:09:33.920" Score="19" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be neat to earn a badge for having &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; number of profile views. You could have different levels, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    Bronze - [Renown]    - 300 views&#xA;    Silver - [Celebrity] - 1000 views&#xA;    Gold   - [Eminence]  - 3000 views&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this really doesn't necessarily &quot;encourage positive behavior&quot; directly, but it is a good indicator that people are either eager to read your other questions/answers (which is likely because you've provided a thoughtful response). It could of course also be that you've offended someone for some reason. Either way, it shows you are participating in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? If you agree, would you suggest any changes on the name/count/type of badges that would be awarded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bounty added:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still interested in whether this will become a badge or not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;General consensus (thus far):&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of views should be increased&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove gold badge altogether &lt;em&gt;(I didn't like the name celebrity anyway...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    Bronze - [Renown]   - 1000 views&#xA;    Silver - [Eminence] - 3000 views&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another general problem seems to be &quot;how does this encourage positive behavior&quot;, which I have already outlined above. It's more of a metric that shows your participation in the community through a &quot;wow&quot; factor (again, this &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be seen as negative). Why is it even in the profile in the first place if it's a negative thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T07:02:05.243" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T01:20:50.297" Title="New badge proposal based on number of profile views" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:10:19.753" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why reinvent the wheel?  Purchase a StackExchange account...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; 5/27/2011&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is no longer a possibility&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="133440" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-27T06:49:20.140" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T06:49:20.140" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1975" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:10:32.557" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding in tags and watching them append to the end of the list is visually helpful. Would be nice to then come again around when next viewing a page that has the tag list to be sorted in alphabetical order. That would be friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:10:32.557" />
  <row Id="6581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:11:17.940" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting idea, but in time, everyone will get the gold badge...  Maybe some sort of time frame to achieve these results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the bigger question that needs to be addressed is, &lt;strong&gt;what is the purpose of the badge&lt;/strong&gt;.  Is it just Flair?  Is it a trust mechanism?  is it a little of both? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We all know that reputation is a measurement of trust, but really, what the heck does a badge mean or signify?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, gold badges show a great question and great answer which aids the reputation score in trust, but to be honest, the rest of the badges just seem to be &quot;flair.&quot;  I think that folks try to make badges more than &quot;flair&quot; which is why some don't like the idea of generating new badges, but since it ultimately is just &quot;flair&quot; for anything below the current gold medals, what is the issue with this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T17:59:52.100" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T17:59:52.100" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="6582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:12:11.860" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the first step to TheTXI monetizing his profile. Bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:12:11.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:12:40.537" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you think about a game around building stack overflow where each person plays a Jeff.  I see it as a cross between Settlers of Catan and Monopoly, where you have to accomplish certain tasks in order to win (like building the servers, writing the code etc.)  There could be like fate cards you draw which slow down or speed up the tasks you have to do.    Things like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You under estimate the amount of time it takes to finish tasks, lose your next turn.  This could have the famous Atwood quote &quot;I estimate it will take 6-8 weeks.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fallout 3 just came out, lose your next turn.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are on a call with Joel, and he tells you everything you just did was wrong and has to be redone, start over on your current task.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You con your friend to help you out with your &quot;side project&quot; telling him that it shouldn't take that long to finish.  Take another turn. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:12:40.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:13:50.967" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Man, if there's one word i hate seeing &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt; in a question, it's &quot;urgent&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Cause... truth be told... there are other things i should be doing too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:13:50.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6557" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:16:58.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Skeet's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/172/what-kind-of-google-wave-integration-would-you-like&quot;&gt;Wave integration&lt;/a&gt; is finally implemented, we'll have all the instant &lt;strike&gt;gratification&lt;/strike&gt; notification we can stand...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:16:58.387" />
  <row Id="6587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:17:44.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23921/pesto&quot;&gt;My profile on SO&lt;/a&gt; has over 600 views, and I'm certainly not renowned, let alone 60% of the way to being a celebrity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T15:19:12.683" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:19:12.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:18:13.680" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really thing this is relevant at all. All the guys on the top of the users page would end up with huge views. Any moderator, anyone who angers lots of people (Rich B) they would all get this badge. This wouldn't reward or recognize anyone who isn't ALREADY getting rewarded and recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:18:13.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2368" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:24:55.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible to do it, but I guess it has to wait for the SO 2.0 to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first problem is that SO seems to be based on some observations of human (programmer, community) behavior seen on other sites. But it turns out, SO has generated new behavior patterns by itself too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second problem is a vaguely defined objective function, (we could call it subjective function) and a clearly incomplete implementation, which are not even verifiable by the community. The lack of transparency is a key issue with SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how would you expect success when you have inconsistency in your model?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But these are just symptoms, which can be fixed eventually, or better yet, learn from the things what evolved here and rethink everything from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know, in mathematics, some matematicians use a trick to achieve 'progress': they &lt;strong&gt;define&lt;/strong&gt; a problem and give a solution to it, even though the problem itself has less to do with reality (at least for now, for example: optimal interplanetary mine freighter routing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads us to the concept of &lt;strong&gt;defining&lt;/strong&gt; things. You only need to define the ways of things consistently and then you can go and find a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To return to the current behavior (nicely observable here on meta) of the &lt;em&gt;architects&lt;/em&gt; it reminds me of the old joke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many Microsoft employees are required to change a bad light bulb? None, they just declare  that darkness is the standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:24:55.807" />
  <row Id="6590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6566" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:29:38.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also, you can turn ignored to invisible via your prefs tab on your user page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, your REAL request is for tag filters to apply on the tag page itself. I see. We have actually implemented this, so try typing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;example.com/questions/tagged/feature-request -status-~&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the address bar. Note that we have some fairly strict rules around what we'll expand using the ~ expansion wildcard. It works on both &quot;ends&quot; but must have at least 4 characters to expand from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T18:30:16.487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:30:16.487" />
  <row Id="6591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:30:45.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, here are the current profile views of everyone on the first page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;811&#xA;1207&#xA;2538&#xA;1068&#xA;1944&#xA;2046&#xA;1189&#xA;6546*&#xA;4209*&#xA;4715*&#xA;5049*&#xA;3869*&#xA;10331*&#xA;43990*&#xA;3944*&#xA;3664*&#xA;5531*&#xA;6365*&#xA;4176*&#xA;5375*&#xA;2412&#xA;3492*&#xA;1890&#xA;2198&#xA;2714&#xA;1866&#xA;2305&#xA;1704&#xA;1317&#xA;2833&#xA;2570&#xA;1350&#xA;5696*&#xA;1742&#xA;2357&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of 35 users, 15 would qualify for the gold badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it's a good badge or not, just thought I'd mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="16417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T15:51:45.660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:51:45.660" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:33:34.460" Score="0" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a Stack Exchange site for error messages. Imagine every error message under the sun documented in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1143642/svnmerge-and-a-file-replaced-with-a-directory&quot;&gt;a question I asked earlier&lt;/a&gt; with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;svn: Can't replace 'X' with a node of a differing type; the deletion must be committed and the parent updated before adding 'X'&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Body&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm using --- to manage our repository. In trunk, file X has been replaced a directory. When trying to merge this to a branch, I get the error ---.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/svn&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'svn'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;svn&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/svn-merge&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'svn-merge'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;svn-merge&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/branches&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'branches'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;branches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why this is a good idea:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;every application in the world is under-documented,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;most error messages just result in out-of-date forum postings (the problem Stack Overflow was built for),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;very few application authors have done the legwork,&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(open source is especially bad at this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;just using existing sites probably won't work (see below).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why other solutions are worse&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a simple &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/error-message&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'error-message'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;error-message&lt;/a&gt; tag on each site is simple, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag exists on Stack Overflow, and is practically unused (it may seem like this is an argument that no-one needs it, but I don't think that's the case).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up a workable system &amp;#8212; &lt;em&gt;and getting people to use it&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#8212; would be hard.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People would object to error messages showing up amongst &quot;proper questions.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The directions on each site seem to be against this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T18:07:32.300" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T18:07:32.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T23:10:08.293" Title="A Stack Exchange for error messages" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;site-proposal&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6593" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:34:14.097" Score="3" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;After marveling at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1143806/mysql-performance-issue&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, it occurred to me that there should be a limit on self-answers on non-wiki questions. This is mainly to protect the user from themselves so they can only use comments to respond, not inadvertantly spam the answer list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the user is not a native English speaker, so s/he may not get the subtle difference between a comment and an answer. If coming from the forum world, that shiny text box at the bottom of the post is the only way to respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Following Kyle's comment: How about a way for a mod to turn an answer into a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T11:08:16.333" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T11:08:16.333" Title="Limiting Self-Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;arguing-with-yourself&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6593" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:39:18.937" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That specific example is obvious spamming of the board.  Just flag it.  A moderator will handle it and the user will either learn how to behave or move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For other less obvious posts, there's already a warning that comes up when you answer your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:39:18.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6593" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:40:00.733" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Your Answer&quot; box isn't shown on your own questions. It's replaced by an &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button and you get the following dialog if you click it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you sure you want to answer your&#xA;  own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're responding to answers left&#xA;  on your question, use the comments&#xA;  link under each answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you persist after that, well....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:40:00.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6554" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:50:13.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the sake of discussion, let's ignore the potential for garnering this badge by link-farming your own questions... What behavior &lt;em&gt;on SO&lt;/em&gt; does this encourage, specifically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T15:50:13.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6604" CreationDate="2009-07-17T15:56:38.413" Score="2" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1143806/mysql-performance-issue&quot;&gt;the same question&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6593/limiting-self-answers&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; covers, if I were to go into that thread and downvote every answer sm1 made in response to his own question, would the nightly anti-gaming algorithm undo the downvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, do you think it's correct for it to undo the downvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(n.b. It's not that I downvoted all his answers, but I was very tempted to do it. So I wondered what would happen if I did.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:14:01.800" Title="Anti-gaming algorithm details" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:00:18.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That author only got 150 points from that answer, as of right now at least. She has under 400 total reputation on the site. Think about that: can't retag questions, can't edit anything (not even community-wiki posts)... Yes, it's a good amount of rep for a single answer, but hardly outstanding. And since a different answer was accepted, she hasn't seen many additional upvotes in the days following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a beginner answer to a beginner question. No harm done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, i'm much more concerned about the folks gaining reputation via sympathy votes. But ultimately, it's a meaningless number - there's just no point in getting too worked up about it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:00:18.043" />
  <row Id="6602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6784" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:01:09.450" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the syntax highlighter for code samples does not work with capitalization for SQL.  I just posted a question on SO and had to spend a couple extra seconds to modify it to get the highlighting to work...  Is this supposed to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144172/how-count-the-number-of-times-a-character-appears-in-a-sql-column&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144172/how-count-the-number-of-times-a-character-appears-in-a-sql-column&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to add this to the keywords list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SELECT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WHERE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FROM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;INNER&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OUTER&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JOIN&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LEFT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RIGHT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TOP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ORDER BY&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GROUP BY&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know there are others that would be useful, but didn't want to run through the entire list&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T23:52:24.013" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:52:24.013" Title="Would it be possible for the syntax highlighter to allow for SQL capitalization?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4550" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:02:21.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do the cost associations of given and received downvotes achieve the desired effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am understanding your question correctly, I think there is some evidence for this from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this StackOverflow blog post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I reformulated my queries, and I found that there were many, many more suspicious upvote patterns than downvote patterns. More than five times as many!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll repost a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/#comment-10984&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; I left on that same blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to point out the fascinating fact: an upvote changes a user’s rep by five times as much as a downvote (+10 vs. -2), and upvote-fraud was about five times as prevalent as down-vote fraud. It may be a coincidence, but the economist in me says that it is the invisible hand of the market at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:02:21.410" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6600" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:05:26.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A mutual acquaintance and fellow SO user has told me that the system catches anything beyond two downvotes to a user in a given day.  I don't know how he arrived at this information, but he's the sort who would have tested it to determine the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:05:26.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:12:42.343" Score="0" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a couple of feature-requests which deal with serial down voting (raised mainly by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5640/rich-b&quot;&gt;Rich B&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But should we react to serial &lt;strong&gt;UP VOTING&lt;/strong&gt; as well?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this because &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; my questions on meta got upvoted within 2 minutes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:56:00.190" Title="Should we do something with serial UP voting as well?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6600" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:14:01.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think every post (including this one) is made with the risk that it could get downvoted.  That is just part of the system.  If you don't want to get rep damage, you should make the question CW.  I would hope that the system doesn't go back through and potentially remove those...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:14:01.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6605" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:14:48.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) It's meta.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  2) Voting for good questions and answers is encouraged. (So is downvoting bad questions and answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a 30 vote/ day limit.  It seems to be working so far...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T16:21:09.043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:21:09.043" />
  <row Id="6608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6605" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:15:53.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess if you are asking good questions, maybe you should ask if 2 minutes is too long for the first upvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, meta does seem to have a more unique voting pattern where if folks agree with ideas/statements/etc. you get the thumbs up... For everything else people move on or vote down...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if its a big issue at this time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:15:53.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6602" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:17:59.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPPER CASE in SQL is relict of the past...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;BTW, are COBOL keywords being displayed properly? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:17:59.503" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6605" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:19:10.267" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm asking this because all my questions on meta got upvoted within 2 minutes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/wtf/not%20this%20one.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:19:10.267" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6605" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:33:29.827" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;algorithms&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;detect&lt;/a&gt; downvoting patterns detect upvoting patterns as well. So if someone is serially upvoting all of your posts, it likely will be &quot;corrected&quot;. Outside of the algorithm, the other way suspicious voting patterns are found are by the user receiving the votes notifying a moderator. Certainly this is more likely to happen with downvoting than upvoting. But I know one of the first few days on meta Jon Skeet had posted about having received a whole bunch of upvotes on old posts, and that was corrected (couldn't find the post, may have been deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:33:29.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6614" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:43:16.687" Score="7" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I see people downvoting questions simply because they have no ability to close a question and the question really belongs on another one of the family of sites.  For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144366/possible-to-restrict-a-powerpoint-template&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO.  I propose that closing be a two-tiered affair, where a much lower reputation score is required to move the question to one of the other sites than to actually close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of reputation required to move a question to another site should be the same as the amount required to vote a question down.  Note that being active on one site (having 100 rep) would automatically give you access to move questions on all sites if your profile is linked.  I propose that to eliminate confusion this be a different type of action than close, i.e., a new Migrate &quot;button&quot; would appear when you have 100 rep and the &quot;belongs on...&quot; reasons would be removed from the Close &quot;button&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related/alternative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6615/feature-request-reset-negative-vote-counts-on-migrated-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6615/feature-request-reset-negative-vote-counts-on-migrated-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T14:47:39.303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:11:21.687" Title="Separate close to move from other close reasons and reduce reputation required" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="6614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6613" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:45:43.987" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I like this idea. I'm not sure about 100 rep - maybe make it 500 so it's in line with re-tagging. Also, I assume this would be a vote-to-move kinda thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:45:43.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6617" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:47:27.713" Score="13" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often a question is voted down by a member of a site because the question doesn't belong on that site and the voter doesn't have enough reputation to vote to close the question.  In situations like this where the question is simply asked in the wrong forum, the vote count on the question should be reset to give the question a fair chance on the correct site when the question is migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6613/feature-request-decrease-the-reputation-required-to-close-as-belongs-on-another&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6613/feature-request-decrease-the-reputation-required-to-close-as-belongs-on-another&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378/do-migrated-questions-migrate-reputation-and-badges&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378/do-migrated-questions-migrate-reputation-and-badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-17T01:03:33.767" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T07:51:01.053" Title="Reset negative vote counts on migrated questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6613" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:48:14.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think lowering the rep required to vote to move a question would end up with a lot of questions that start to bounce back and forth between sites. While there are certainly examples of questions that clearly belong on a different. There are many questions where it's not entirely clear. And sometimes where it's not clear whether it belongs on another site, or there is no site in the SO family where it is appropriate. I believe generally questions are getting filtered out appropriately with the system as is. And opening up this feature to more users I believe would cause more problems than it would solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:48:14.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6615" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:50:15.340" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, I don't think people should downvote a question that belongs elsewhere, especially if it is from a new user. However, I think resetting the vote counts is a very good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="145951" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-22T07:51:01.053" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T07:51:01.053" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6624" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:57:15.780" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;What exactly does the moderator-assigned  &quot;status-bydesign&quot; tag mean?  What other moderator only tags are there, and what are their meanings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147834" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:03:28.763" Title="status-bydesign Tag" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6615" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:57:40.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, they don't cost reputation on the target site, so i don't see any reason to mess with them. Yes, some people might be down-voting the question for being off-topic, but there may be other reasons... Why mess with it? Up-votes are free, if the question doesn't suck it'll get upvoted quickly enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:57:40.247" />
  <row Id="6623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6621" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:58:25.637" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Status-bydesign: The problem someone is complaining about is there by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-completed: The request has been taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-declined: The request will not be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-norepro: We are unable to reproduce the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-deferred: We are planning to look at this issue in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-planned: We are have already planned a fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-review: We are reviewing your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-reproduced: We've reproduced your bug, and are trying to figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T17:03:28.763" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:03:28.763" />
  <row Id="6624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6621" CreationDate="2009-07-17T16:58:25.917" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot;&gt;Status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; is the response to a bug/feature request stating that this is the intended behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot;&gt;Status-completed&lt;/a&gt; means the feature/bug fix has been implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot;&gt;Status-declined&lt;/a&gt; means the feature request is &quot;rejected&quot; and will not be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot;&gt;Status-norepro&lt;/a&gt; means a bug cannot be duplicated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot;&gt;Status-planned&lt;/a&gt; is a feature that is being planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-review&quot;&gt;Status-review&lt;/a&gt; is a bug/feature being reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-reproduced&quot;&gt;Status-reproduced&lt;/a&gt; is a bug that has been successfully reproduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot;&gt;status-deffered&lt;/a&gt; is intended to mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there is also a status-accepted (though there are none currently) which would be when a feature request has been accepted, but has not been completed yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T16:58:25.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6592" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:15:34.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why couldn't this just be a tag: &lt;code&gt;tool-error-messages&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:15:34.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6592" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:27:45.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why a separate site is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the error message is from a development tool (i.e. a compiler or virtual machine), it goes on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the error message comes from some kind of server process, it goes on ServerFault.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Otherwise, it goes on Super User.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is that a lot of error messages don't get properly tested (because the error conditions are hard for testers to hit), so it isn't uncommon that an error message could mean one of many different things, some of which have nothing to do with the error message.  So having some kind of error message site which would explain error messages wouldn't be all that helpful I don't think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:27:45.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6786" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:06:29.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try raising your reputation so you can post a bounty on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:34:05.947" />
  <row Id="6631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6786" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:06:48.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reread it to see if you made it detailed enough. Do you have examples/would they help? I suppose you can edit the post and comment on it to bump it up. You can always add a bounty to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, remember that people browse with filtered views (by tag, by unanswered), so just because a few days go by doesn't mean it's invisible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131057" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:34:05.947" />
  <row Id="6632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6786" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:07:06.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to add as much detail as you can when you ask a question. There are too many one liner, no information, no code, no background, or too vauge questions sometimes.  These get downvoted or ignored because of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other reason is maybe you actualy asked something that few people know about. People do not want to give you half answers or try and answer something they do not know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:34:05.947" />
  <row Id="6633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6786" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:08:49.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey, at least this way you can earn the Tumbleweed badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:34:05.947" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T17:08:49.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6786" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:09:53.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More than detail, you need to get better at asking questions. This question doesn't really get started until it says, &quot;When I moved on to the HierarchicalDataBoundControl I got stuck.&quot;. The rest is background that we may or may not need to know. I may not even have read through all that stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:34:05.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6786" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:31:17.950" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want people to even view your question, you need to provide a title which &lt;strong&gt;asks&lt;/strong&gt; a question. If SO users want to know the general topic of your question, they can just look at the tags which you &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be tagging your questions with. Proper tagging is another effective way to get people viewing your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there, I have to agree with John Saunders and Trogy in that you need to get better at asking questions. Not to pick on you, but since you did ask, it's also a common courtesy to write your question using correct spelling and grammar, and to phrase what you're actually asking in as clear a way as possible. I'm not saying every SO user is a stickler for spelling and grammar, but it's just another thing that can turn people away prematurely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in trying to understand your &quot;UPDATE&quot; to the above question, addressed to John Saunders, I had to read it multiple times through and then actually read John's comment (which prompted the update). Questions that are just plain hard to read and understand are more likely to result in people reading through a sentence or two and then moving on to something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:34:05.947" />
  <row Id="6636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6377" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:37:59.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some tags that have a double width border around them, I would put those first. Followed by the &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;code&gt;status-*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you notice the &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; tag has a double width border, it also happens to be the highest used tag.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:37:59.403" />
  <row Id="6638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6641" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:44:25.010" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I construct a link to a comment in one of my posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T22:04:31.327" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:04:31.327" Title="How do I provide a link to a comment in a StackOverflow post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6638" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:46:10.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't. The best you can do is link to the question or answer the comment is on, and perhaps add the user's name to add direction for followers of the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:46:10.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6638" CreationDate="2009-07-17T17:50:07.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest you will be able to do is link to an answer that the comment is on. You can find a link's url by looking at the LINK flag underneath the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T17:50:07.090" />
  <row Id="6643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6644" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:00:36.063" Score="15" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed an annoying trend on Stack Overflow that anything not directly related to programming, the actual act of programming, is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144703/what-should-the-penalty-for-missing-a-deadline-be/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144703/what-should-the-penalty-for-missing-a-deadline-be/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is easily within the scope of Stack Overflow, it may not be to do with code but it is to do with software development. Programmers are more than code monkeys they are designers of software and all that entails. Why do I see questions on color design of applications closed? On usabity closed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong in my idea of Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Just to be clear. I did not write the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T03:02:34.597" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T09:59:20.980" Title="Project Management, Software Design and Human Factors should be within the Scope of Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:05:02.537" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the processes surrounding the development and writing of software and directly related to programming and should be acceptable questions on SO. The management of projects is a very important aspect in programming, without which programmers would not get paid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/a-question-about-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; item four is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about best practices and&#xA;  other aspects of programming,&#xA;  including use of software tools used&#xA;  in the development process, standards&#xA;  for maintenance and readability of&#xA;  code, advice to avoid potential coding&#xA;  pitfalls, etc. (11)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your question definitely about the development process. It is definitely a subjective question, which is also a gray area, but I do believe it is directly related to programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:05:02.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:10:19.073" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question you reference above concerning missing a deadline is something that can be applied to any work place that has deadlines. There is nothing programming specific about it (in my opinion and apparently in the opinion of others). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that deal with the workplace, project management, relations with clients, etc. do get allowed but typically only if they actually have a software-development slant to them. If the answer to the question could theoretically be taken and applied to any job out there, that would lead you to believe that the question itself is not programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:10:19.073" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6651" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:12:00.423" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6536/should-suggestion-be-retagged-to-feature-request-on-metaso/6642#6642&quot;&gt;Bill The Lizard&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every question on meta-* should have one of the bold-border tags, feature-request, bug, discussion, or support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we enforce this when creating a Meta-SO question, with a drop-down menu?  Or if not enforced, at least strongly suggest that the user pick at least one of these tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6647/require-one-of-the-bold-border-tags-on-new-metaso-questions/6651#6651&quot;&gt;As pointed out below&lt;/a&gt;, this actually is enforced.  So my suggestion would be to tell the user before submitting that he must use one of these badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T08:38:32.727" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T08:38:54.563" Title="Require one of the bold-border tags on new MetaSO questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="6648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:12:45.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about company policy are not really fit for Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will tend to be &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; because people will vary WILDLY in opinion, as well as the fact that labour laws, etc. will be very different depending on the millions of factors that could be involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are also not-programming-related because although they are used by consulting firms and computer development shops, they are policies that have to exist in every company, and so a group of programmers really aren't the people to be asking about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of Stack Overflow is to hold answers to programming specific questions, and although we do tend to wander into interpersonal management occasionally, those are the exception and they almost ALWAYS have to do with programmers dealing with clients, superiors, etc. In your question it was ANY superior dealing with ANY employee of theirs. The string to programming in particular is non-existent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T09:59:20.980" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T09:59:20.980" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6647" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:13:42.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is a big enough issue to warrant some type of change to how the system works, but I don't see any problem with actively encouraging users to pick one. They are pretty useful in breaking down questions into four distinct categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:13:42.863" />
  <row Id="6650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6780" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:14:27.390" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question was migrated from SO, I linked my SO account to Meta-SO, but I can't edit or mark my question as answered. Is it [closed], and therefore should I just forget about it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:34:42.153" Title="Is there a FAQ on &quot;My questions was migrated, what next&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6647" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:14:47.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is required, if you attempt to post without it, you get this message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be&#xA;  submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;must include one of these tags -- bug&#xA;  feature-request discussion support&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for, should there be drop-down support of this. I do think it would be helpful and more clear, but I don't think it is overly needed, I think the error posting is descriptive enough to help users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:14:47.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6650" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:22:18.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to move your question to Meta, and you should have control over it (if not email team@stackoverflow.com). When an item gets migrated, it gets closed and locked on the original site, but it should be open and available for everyone on the place it was relocated to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:22:18.410" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6650" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:23:41.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Your accounts &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131563?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;remain unlinked&lt;/a&gt;. Try linking them again.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have different UserIDs (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131563&quot;&gt;131563&lt;/a&gt; here on Meta, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/133544/breadtruck&quot;&gt;133544&lt;/a&gt; on SO). This means that you're two different people (to the system, you haven't developed schizophrenia that I'm aware of), and therefore, the closed question has a ghost user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Methinks you have found a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T18:31:10.080" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:31:10.080" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:24:15.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, when I voted to close that question I chose the reason &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;. I based that on the title, which is vague, open-ended, and designed simply to trigger discussion (not really a direct Q&amp;amp;A). The answers I saw before closing were additional evidence of the subjective nature of the topic. The questions added at the end are less subjective, but basically turn it into a poll question, which didn't help matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree with what TheTXI said, though. I can see how that particular question wouldn't seem specific to programming and instead be interpreted as a general question about workplace management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:24:15.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6659" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:25:33.577" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used my Gmail login to provide an open ID on Stack Overflow, then when i did the same on Server Fault i expected it to use the same username and what not, but on Server Fault i am now unknown(google). Is there a way to tie the accounts together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:30:21.527" Title="Tie Stack Overflow account with Server Fault?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:25:39.537" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I wanted to credit someone's answer in my own answer. I'd normally write something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Using what [Dlamblin][1] [said][2], I think the code would look like this:&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/459/dlamblin&#xA;  [2]: #1129732&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the said is linked, and if you use &lt;kbd&gt;Control&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt; and paste in &quot;#1129732&quot; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; will be generated with &lt;a href=&quot;http://#1129732&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://#1129732&lt;/a&gt;. I use a relative link because there's no need to reload the same exact page, so it's nicer for people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So WMD is throwing in an extra http:// in front of these kinds of relative links. Normally this is helpful for say &quot;google.com/bookmarks&quot; but not in this case;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Shouldn't a leading &quot;#&quot; stop that behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer shows that despite the code in the WMD not supporting relative links, there remains a mildly inconvenient route to producing the links. Therefore they probably aren't an XSS threat. This explains why I feel WMD's behavior is imperfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I do understand that questions are sometimes on another page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;Kyle&lt;/a&gt;'s suggestion of having some kind of link that is either relative if the question is currently on the page, or fully qualified if it is not, would be wonderful. Understandably it'd be some extra work. It's possibly best done as front end JS code which scans for &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; tags in the form of &lt;code&gt;href=&quot;#XYZ&quot;&lt;/code&gt; and fixes them to &lt;code&gt;href=document.domain+&quot;/XYZ#XYZ&lt;/code&gt; if the corresponding &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; tag with &lt;code&gt;name=&quot;XYZ&quot;&lt;/code&gt; isn't found on this page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-09T01:37:24.377" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T01:37:24.377" Title="Errant feature: WMD links to questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:26:49.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Copying my response to the question itself:&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting question, but I don't see that it's particularly specific to programming. Actually, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144703/what-should-the-penalty-for-missing-a-deadline-be/1144723#1144723&quot;&gt;Rex M&lt;/a&gt;'s answer provides a better basis for a real programming-related question... of course, it's already been asked: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/381089/how-do-you-handle-scheduling-deadlines-around-programmers&quot;&gt;How do you handle scheduling/deadlines around programmers?&lt;/a&gt; (and even that question is more of a subjective / discussion / poll topic than Q&amp;amp;A - it should probably have been marked CW).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T09:57:52.330" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T09:57:52.330" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:29:48.427" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;The RSS feed seems not to have the same filter as the site does. A bogus post with some expletives showed up in the feed but not on the site. Could this be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130542" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:44:40.793" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:45:34.257" Title="Items not filtered in RSS feed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6655" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:30:21.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go edit your profile on ServerFault, then add the account in the accounts tab in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:30:21.527" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11510" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:32:44.833" Score="3" ViewCount="999" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this week's podcast (#61) was good as usual but the part that really caught my attention was the following exchange with Miguel de Icaza (which I went ahead and transcribed and put on the wiki):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[40:12]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;de Icaza&lt;/strong&gt;: There are people using, well, I guess I... I'm not supposed to say this unless it's for a partner, umm... I'm not supposed to say the brand of this game, but there's a major blockbuster game that came in the last couple of months... um... very large, very popular, that you can see on the Novell website, um.. (laughs nervously) that is powered by Mono. But the agreement prohibits me from saying that in public. All I can say is ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt; (interrupting): You can only put it on the website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;de Icaza&lt;/strong&gt;: I can.. the agreement allows me to say that it is... if you go to Novell/products/mono, I believe... you will see... you will see the logo of said popular game. But I can't say its name. So, you know, I think it's being used in a lot of very interesting places, um, beyond what we originally intended it for. We thought, you know, &quot;Linux desktop&quot; and now, you know, it's used for server, ASP.NET, it's used for... you know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey, how about those SimCity programmers? How do you like their new game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;de Icaza&lt;/strong&gt;: Uh... yeah, yeah! I really liked that game!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;: What's it called, &quot;The Sims&quot; or something? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;de Icaza&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah I like that game! That's... it's pretty sweet, it's pretty sweet. Have you tried it yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah no, you know I haven't really since I, uh, I would kill my characters...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The game in question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesims3.ea.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sims 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page that Miguel refers to is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.novell.com/products/mono/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which links to the &lt;em&gt;Sims 3&lt;/em&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page on the Mono site referring to it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://mono-project.com/Companies%5FUsing%5FMono&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, where it also reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ea.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Electronic Arts&lt;/a&gt; used it to power &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesims3.ea.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sims3&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-61/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast show notes page&lt;/a&gt; on the Blog states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some big game projects that use Mono for scripting: &lt;a href=&quot;http://secondlife.blogs.com/babbage/2005/08/second%5Flife%5Fin%5F.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Second Life&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesims3.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Sims 3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just prior to the exchange above, Migel mentions that &lt;em&gt;Second Life&lt;/em&gt; uses Mono for scripting (i.e., not the main game code) but I got the impression from the conversation that more than just scripting used Mono for &lt;em&gt;The Sims 3&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did Jeff and I just get two different impressions from the above exchange or perhaps Miguel clarify his insinuation to Jeff afterward?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would find it much more interesting if &lt;em&gt;The Sims 3&lt;/em&gt; was written entirely with Mono, even moreso if they used something like C# to write it with (though my guess would be they would have used Managed C++ or something). It would help account for how the game shipped for both Windows and Mac at the same time, on the same disc (though, that's not really the most unheard of thing - &lt;em&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/em&gt; and other games have been doing it for years). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does anyone know if &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The Sims 3&lt;/em&gt; was done in Mono or just the scripting bits? I don't own the game myself so I can't really inspect it or see if it has a Mono runtime or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2577" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:32:07.693" Title="Podcast: Did The Sims 3 use Mono for scripting or for everything?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6613" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:44:08.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that you should be able to vote to close, before you are able to vote to close. That could get confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that you should be able to flag to migrate, which you can sort-of do already. What you should do currently is flag for moderator attention ( unless you own the question ), and write that it should be moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I propose is to have another option on the flag button, that basically does the same thing as flagging for moderator attention. If you already have enough rep to vote to close, it should just give you an error suggesting you vote to close instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:44:08.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10553" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:45:15.610" Score="37" ViewCount="849" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens sometimes to receive or see a &lt;strong&gt;very good answer&lt;/strong&gt; that arrives very &lt;strong&gt;late&lt;/strong&gt; and that &lt;strong&gt;would deserve more upvotes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can it be done to give a boost to them? I would happily spend some of my reputation point to be able to them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not merely a &lt;strong&gt;question of reputation&lt;/strong&gt; but moreover the idea is to let the answer &lt;strong&gt;&quot;bubble up&quot; faster&lt;/strong&gt; so that can be see easily from other people will look into question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I explained my question so that is understanble, sorry for poor my English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; set a bounty because I would like to have more opinions about this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT2:&lt;/strong&gt; bounty time is running out, i have to choose an answer but I am not convinced too much. &#xA;Most you got the point and there are some &lt;strong&gt;interesting proposals&lt;/strong&gt; like the one the propose to put randomly an answer at top, but I have no too much experience to say if there is one that could solve the issue or not. I would be curious to know what &lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt; thinks about it, if it feels there is something that can be improved or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52879" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T07:00:35.940" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T20:32:48.170" Title="How to give some boost to some really good answers that arrive late?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="6663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:46:49.877" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually an upvote with a comment along the lines of &quot;+1 this answer is very good because so-and-so&quot; will be enough to entice other people to vote it up. There's not much else you can do, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel &lt;em&gt;really strongly&lt;/em&gt; about an answer being very good and feel the user hasn't gotten the reputation he deserves, people sometimes go through the user's profile looking for other (good) answers to upvote them as well. Doing this too much will probably get you flagged and will end up hurting the user, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:46:49.877" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:47:20.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being able to spend 50 rep to give an extra upvote sounds like a good idea. Though I'd cap it at 1 extra upvote max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T19:10:35.013" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:10:35.013" />
  <row Id="6665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6684" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:47:37.903" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like Serverfault is going to take a long time to hit even a paltry 10000 questions although the quality has been superb.  Superuser is less than a week old and has over 1000 questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one year, what do you think the number of questions on SuperUser and ServerFault will be and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:26:14.537" Title="Is superuser growing at a much faster rate than serverfault?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6665" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:49:59.410" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think SuperUser is going to definitely surpass ServerFault in terms of page views, questions, and overall activity. This is directly because of the subject matters. ServerFault has a lot of highly technical subject matter that will only work for people with a lot of SysAdmin type experience. SuperUser questions are going to be a lot easier for your typical computer power users to be able to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:49:59.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:50:16.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if I could play at work and get paid for it and not feel guilty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:50:16.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:50:40.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like this idea because it effectively gives more votes to those with more reputation.  That breaks the democracy of 1 vote per user per question/answer.  I think everyone's vote should count the same.  If one person's vote counts for a lot more than others, then that one person can more easily make a bad answer look good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:50:40.543" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6665" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:50:40.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you expect? One website is for a rather specific niche that can sometimes easily fall under SO's umbrella (or now, SuperUser's), while the other is a free-for-all melee where anything related to a computer goes. It's only natural that SuperUser is more popular, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being the most popular of the trilogy, to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:50:40.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:53:52.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile I created a Yahoo pipe with this functionality for Newest view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pipe is called &lt;em&gt;StackOverflow - the newest questions by tags&lt;/em&gt; and you can find it either on &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/piotrdobrogost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my page&lt;/a&gt; with yahoo pipes or directly &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?%5Fid=nG3mFehy3hGLNEDgz0ypaA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Or you can skip all this and subscribe to your custom RSS feed &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; with the newest questions with given tags;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?Age=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?Age=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AGE&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;amp;Tags=&lt;strong&gt;TAGLIST&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;amp;_id=nG3mFehy3hGLNEDgz0ypaA&amp;amp;_render=rss&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;where&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;AGE can be any of; 10 min ago, 3 days ago, one week ago etc.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;TAGLIST can be any tag list &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;accepted&lt;/a&gt; by SO; python+or+django, windows+linux, c%2B%2B+boost etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:53:52.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6665" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:54:00.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll second TheTXI's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/39110/why-cant-the-iis-installer-cant-copy-staxmem-dll-despite-it-being-in-the-folder&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Server Fault and got one (not particularly helpful) answer a day later and then nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/240/why-cant-the-iis-installer-cant-copy-staxmem-dll-despite-it-being-in-the-folder&quot;&gt;the same question&lt;/a&gt; on Super User and got an answer the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly it's not particularly scientific, but it does illustrate TheTXI's point about the audience for each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:54:00.180" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6605" CreationDate="2009-07-17T18:56:00.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem I see with this question, is everybody likes getting up-voted. So who in their right mind would argue with getting up-votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason there are so much discussion about serial down-votes, is that they don't like getting down-voted. Not to mention that the person doing the down-voting is burning through their own rep to do that to you. Which means that they are actively being malicious, because they don't like you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For someone to go and up-vote all of your posts, means they probably look up to you in some way. And really who doesn't like being looked up to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T18:56:00.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:07:17.593" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just seems that so many poll type questions are thrown out in all the trilogy sites.  I figure it might be of some use to provide simple stats on a polling type of question.  For instance, if a question asked &quot;What is your favorite &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, it might be helpful to know at a glance that 57% upvoted &lt;em&gt;Foo&lt;/em&gt; and 39% upvoted &lt;em&gt;Bar&lt;/em&gt;, while 4% downvoted &lt;em&gt;Baz&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wouldn't be as useful in non-polling questions, so maybe it should be an optional feature enabled by the questioner by some means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:58:52.053" Title="Would it be useful to show percentage votes in polling questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;poll&gt;&lt;feedback&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6676" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:10:07.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that the SO engine needs to do anything to encourage and or make it easier to run poll questions. While I don't think none of them should exist, they're not the main intent of the system. In some cases you will see the asker, or an editor, update the question to show a summary of the answers as a courtesy to readers later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:10:07.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6686" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:25:49.047" Score="11" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the post editor screen, below the &lt;strong&gt;Edit summary:&lt;/strong&gt; input box, change the current plaintext listing of options from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Briefly describe your changes (corrected spelling, fixed grammar, improved formatting)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Briefly describe your changes (&lt;a href=&quot;#1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;corrected spelling&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fixed grammar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;improved formatting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;improved answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;by turning the most common change reasons to links and when the user clicks on them, set (add?) it to the edit summary input box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:00:02.587" Title="Clickable edit summary options" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6665" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:27:07.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The clever sysadmins are probably too busy to dilly dally on forums, cleaning up after code monkeys rep whoring on stackoverflow. Code monkey are, of course, all super users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I find serverfault a lot harder to follow then meta or SO. A combination of exotic technical stuff and less clear tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relating to my main skills, SQL Server, I usually find &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1992/paul-randal&quot;&gt;Paul Randall&lt;/a&gt; has cleaned up already. Who am I to answer a log or DBCC question after Him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:27:07.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6683" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:28:59.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about 'Edited Tags'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:28:59.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6683" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:29:18.617" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea a lot. Mainly because I'm often lazy with the edit summaries, and clicking a button is easier than typing it out (after clicking around the answer...the edit box isn't vim, sadly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd like to append &quot;made more awesome&quot; and &quot;made comprehensible&quot; to your list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:29:18.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:29:25.257" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who has the most closed questions on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:40:42.573" Title="Who has the most closed questions on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:32:35.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all questions are created equal.  Is there a reason noobs should not get good reputation for participating?  After all, that is the spirit of the SO trilogy and it's the magic that got us all hooked to the point we're now chatting about it on a meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, I see negative favoritism for noobs questions that involve responses ranging from downvotes to outright arrogance (e.g. RTFM, don't ask here, etc.).  I would sooner reward someone who contributes to the society before I'd ding them based on lack of relevance based on my own experience level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that, +1 to the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:32:35.723" />
  <row Id="6689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6687" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:33:00.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that information is (or will be) public&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:33:00.747" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:33:42.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fantastic.  Let's do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to put in 10 hours/week for the next few weeks to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be at DevDays Boston, the first DevDays, and can promote it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One caveat: I'm incompetent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:33:42.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:34:04.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, reputation transfer would make things interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, If you find a superior but neglected answer, you could downvote the other answers (and bear the rep lost).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:34:04.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6687" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:40:42.573" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a wild ass guess and say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unknown (google)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:40:42.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8547" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:49:27.857" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use some visual distinction on community wiki post display in various SO listings (on user page and on the main listings), for example: different color, [CW] displayed after the title or auto-add community-wiki tag to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T15:01:31.097" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:27:19.893" Title="Display community wiki posts differently on various listings" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6696" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:51:45.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that was what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt; tag was for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only kidding...I like this idea. Maybe give it a light gray tint on the background so we know it's wiki. We probably don't have to add yet another tag to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:51:45.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="88269" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:54:46.427" Score="9" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;When scrolling through my list of podcasts on my iPhone, it always catches me off guard that the SO podcast is titled &lt;strong&gt;'Blog - Stack Overflow'&lt;/strong&gt;, which is different from &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; single other podcast I listen too, which follow more traditional naming styles.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My I suggest a few?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff &amp;amp; Joel's Most Excellent Podcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two Bloggers and a Bag-o-'Pinions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ZZZZ Best Podcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Syntax Error&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Get it? SO, SF, SU and now SE!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Four to Six Weeks&quot;: The Geek Drinking Game&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, if those are a bit too silly, then maybe just...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow - Podcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure others have suggestions.  The point is, having the podcast title start with 'Blog' is just wrong.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-21T05:53:15.297" LastActivityDate="2011-04-21T05:53:15.297" Title="Rename the podcast to something other than &quot;Blog - Stack Overflow&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6676" CreationDate="2009-07-17T19:58:52.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As yshuditelu's answer and TheTXI's comment indicate, polls aren't universally popular. However, I don't think they're going away - so I think it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; make sense to support them better. I do agree that it's not the primary goal of any of the sites, but they can occasionally be handy - and I think that the more diverse the range of sites gets (with SE particularly) the more cases there'll be where polls &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; fit in well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe they should be a separate question type - and in the &quot;Questions&quot; tab, one could include or exclude poll questions. That way those of us who aren't keen on polls never have to see them, and those who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; like them get a better experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The options for a poll question (after it's been asked) would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote (only up?) for a particular option&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a new option&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a comment to an option&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would probably suggest that options should be restricted to a single line with no mark-up: if you want to provide justifications etc, use comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be displayed nice and easily with bars etc by each option - have a &quot;results summary&quot; just below the question, and then the expanded versions with actual scores and comments underneath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T19:58:52.053" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1620" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:01:59.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what he wants is for a tagged named &lt;strong&gt;[@.net]&lt;/strong&gt;, to be associated with &lt;strong&gt;[.net]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[c#]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[f#]&lt;/strong&gt; etc. That way if someone wants to follow everything having to do with .Net, all they would have to do is follow &lt;strong&gt;[@.net]&lt;/strong&gt;. Whenever there is a new tag associated with that meta-tag, they wouldn't have to add that tag into their interesting tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could also be a tag-page &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/@.net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/@.net&lt;/a&gt;, that shows a list of all it's associated tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So then going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/@.net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/@.net&lt;/a&gt;, would essentially be the same as going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.net+or+c%23+or+f%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.net+or+c%23+or+f%23&lt;/a&gt;, but with the added benefit of including new tags as they appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T15:02:38.563" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T15:02:38.563" />
  <row Id="6708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:26:23.247" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Board games are cool (definitely ones designed by lifelong board game designers), but they're pretty hard to make right.  You might find the following to be an easier game to make and publish, though perhaps not as on-brand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a game that is played by 3-10 people using only a pack of 100 blank index cards, and pens. Maybe dice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a PDF describing the game rules. Print as a booklet and fold it to the size of the index cards (use 4x6 for letter, or A7 cards for A4). Distribute with cheap pens.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Profit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules could be something a long the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- At the start of play the index cards are divided evenly among each player,&#xA;  any remainder cards are owned by the moderator.&#xA;- In the first round all players must play in the question stage by writing&#xA;  4 tags on the back of their card and placing it tags down in the middle.&#xA;  On the visible side players mark ownership with their username at the top.&#xA;- Score the new cards according to the scoring rules below.&#xA;- In subsequent rounds, place these newest question cards in a collection&#xA;  available to all players thus making them old cards.&#xA;  Per round, play moves in stages:&#xA;    - During the question stage, players choose to ask 0 or 1 questions,&#xA;      done as described above.&#xA;    - During the answer stage players choose to answer 0 or 1 old questions&#xA;      from previous rounds, becoming a respondent.&#xA;        - The respondent may not answer their own questions (unlike SO).&#xA;        - The respondent may only answer each eligible question once.&#xA;        - The respondent writes their username near the bottom of the front&#xA;          of the question.&#xA;        - An answer can be definitive or not, at the discretion of the&#xA;          question's creator. A decision must be made at the time of&#xA;          receiving an answer, and (unlike SO) cannot be changed later. A&#xA;          definitive answer will be marked with a check mark next to the&#xA;          respondent's username.&#xA;    - During the edit stage, players choose to edit 0 or 1 old questions if &#xA;      that player has more than X points. (recommend that X be optimized to &#xA;      occur in the 4th round, possibly X=50).&#xA;        - The editor may add tags up to a total of five, replacing only any&#xA;          struck through tags, or misspelled tags (unlike SO).&#xA;            - Before a player can strike through and replace a misspelled&#xA;              tag he must win a majority vote with the other players AND get&#xA;              final approval from the moderator. The player may not choose&#xA;              to edit a different question if permission to strike out a&#xA;              misspelled tag is not given. The moderator decides based on&#xA;              real arguments for actual misspellings or miscategorizations,&#xA;              and serves to disallow players from ganging up to vote on&#xA;              perfectly reasonable tags.&#xA;        - For convenience these should be added or replaced in a new color,&#xA;          or a separate area or column on the tags side.&#xA;- In a round, play progresses in stages. First all players choose to ask a&#xA;  question in the question stage, then all players choose to answer&#xA;  a question in the answer stage, and then all eligible players may edit a&#xA;  question in the editing stage. The round ends with a scoring stage.&#xA;- Play continues until end of the round in which the first player has used&#xA;  all of his share of index cards.&#xA;- At the end of each round, including the last round, score the new and old&#xA;  cards on the front under the username or by the answering username.&#xA;    - The moderator will flip all the question cards, and add any new tags&#xA;      on a master index sheet or card, place the creator's username(s) next&#xA;      to them and retain a use count of tag use in ticked grouped by five.&#xA;      This master list is kept secret during rounds of play.&#xA;    - If the moderator finds a tag to be inarguably off-topic (i.e.&#xA;      &quot;breakfast&quot; but not &quot;off-topic&quot;) that tag is not counted or new.&#xA;    - The front of cards asked or edited in this round with new tags will&#xA;      get plus +3 for each new tag, the tag's creator will be noted as the&#xA;      person who added the tag in the question or editing stages.&#xA;    - If more than one player created the same tag this round, add an&#xA;      additional +3 points to each question card featuring the new tag for&#xA;      each other creator of that tag.&#xA;    - Any tag (from edits or asking) which was off-topic will receive -3&#xA;      points on that card and will be struck through.&#xA;    - Any pre-existing tag will add a +1 to the tag creator's card featuring&#xA;      it's initial use. The moderator should note the usage by adding ticks&#xA;      in the index.&#xA;    - Any replaced tags which were misspelled will first be replicated as&#xA;      corrections across all cards that feature the misspelling for free&#xA;      (unlike SO) then count as tags above, (potentially adding points to&#xA;      the editor, if they own a question with a misspelled tag, or inventing&#xA;      a new tag for each owner of a misspelled tag question), and further &#xA;      add -3 points to all cards changed to mitigate the gain to the&#xA;      question owners.&#xA;    - Any definitive answer provides +7 points to the question card, and +5&#xA;      points to respondent (marked on the question card next to the&#xA;      answering username).&#xA;    - Any non-definitive answer added before there was a definitive answer&#xA;      will add +3 points to the question card, and +1 points to the&#xA;      respondent (also marked by the username).&#xA;    - Any non-definitive answer added after there was a definitive answer&#xA;      will add +1 points to the question card, and +1 points to the&#xA;      respondent (again marked by the username).&#xA;- Winners are determined as the player with highest points at the end of the&#xA;  game. Ties are broken by a badge count, with Gold badges being worth 7&#xA;  points, Silver badges worth 3 and Bronze badges worth 1.&#xA;- If any badges are needed they can be determined as follows&#xA;    - Any question with 10 or more points but less than 20 points gets&#xA;      1 Bronze good-question badge.&#xA;    - Any question with 20 or more points but less than 40 points gets&#xA;      1 Silver great-question badge.&#xA;    - Any question with 40 or more points gets 1 Gold famous-question badge.&#xA;    - The creator of the most new tags gets 1 Gold gift-of-gab badge.&#xA;    - The creator of the second most new tags gets&#xA;      1 Silver generalist badge.&#xA;    - The creator of the third most new tags gets 1 Bronze blah-blah badge.&#xA;      (not available in games with less than 3 players).&#xA;    - Any tag used between 10 and 20 times earns 1 Bronze taxonomist badge&#xA;    - Any tag used between 20 and 40 times 1 Silver project-maintainer badge&#xA;    - Any tag used 40 or more times earns 1 Gold project-lead badge&#xA;    - The player with the fewest answers earns 1 Gold know-nothing badge&#xA;    - The player with the fewest questions earns 1 Gold know-it-all badge&#xA;    - Badges may be affixed as [Bronze/Red, Silver, and Gold star stickers][1]&#xA;      to a player in tournaments.&#xA;&#xA;Alternative modes:&#xA;&#xA;- Players who know each other well may play without a moderator. In this&#xA;  case the tag index is known to all, as are the counts, and majority rules&#xA;  on misspellings (which can also be miscategorizations).&#xA;- Players with self-adhesive notes handy, such as post-it notes, may add a&#xA;  round stage after editing in each round called the comment round stage.&#xA;    - During this last stage of the round, self-adhesive notes may be&#xA;      affixed to questions on the shorter right hand side and feature&#xA;      comments, signed or unsigned. Comments may be added to fresh notes, or&#xA;      added in space on existing notes.&#xA;    - Comments may be anything, but comments in these forms affect scoring:&#xA;        - &quot;I question *username*'s answer&quot;: The score for that answer&#xA;          receives -1 points unless that answer is definitive in which case&#xA;          it gains +3 points.&#xA;        - &quot;Thanks, *username*&quot;: If there was an off-topic tag or misspelled&#xA;          tag that was edited by that username and that username has an&#xA;          answer to the same question, the question will gain +1 points.&#xA;          This can occur when the comment is made, or later when the other&#xA;          two conditions are met and the comment remains.&#xA;        - &quot;Funny, *username*&quot; or &quot;Good point, *username*&quot;: Affects the points&#xA;          of the named username's answer, if it exists, by +1 points.&#xA;- Tournament play&#xA;    - Tournaments are matches played in a bracketed series of games&#xA;      consisting of groups of N players (where N is even and the number of&#xA;      people it takes to finish a game of 100 cards in under an hour, to&#xA;      allow for snacks and bathroom breaks between hours on which the games&#xA;      start; suppose N=10).&#xA;    - At the start of a game, players write their username on each card in&#xA;      their stack. Optionally affixing an SO logo sticker with GUID on it.&#xA;    - Stages of rounds are time limited to 10 seconds.&#xA;         - Before the question stage starts, players signal they are ready&#xA;           by either putting a fresh card out, or putting their writing&#xA;           hand's palm flat on the table. They may write tags for 10 seconds&#xA;           when all players are ready. They may write a maximum of 4 tags,&#xA;           but are not required to fill out all 4 tag slots.&#xA;         - Before the answering stage starts, players signal similarly by&#xA;           placing a selected old card in front of them, or placing their&#xA;           writing hand palm down. Conflicts over a question to answer are&#xA;           resolved by a coin toss with each challenger. Once all players&#xA;           are ready players have 10 seconds to write their username on the&#xA;           card, but probably require less time.&#xA;         - Before the editing stage starts, players signal readiness&#xA;           similarly and resolve conflicts similarly as above. They propose&#xA;           corrections before the stage starts and receive permission in&#xA;           advance at the sole discretion of the moderator (no voting). When&#xA;           they are ready, they again have 10 seconds to complete up to 5&#xA;           tags depending on how many available tag slots there are.&#xA;    - All new and old badges are counted for each game and added to your score&#xA;      before determining winners.&#xA;    - The top half of scoring players (E.G. 5 persons) move on to the next&#xA;      bracket of play. They retain Badges between games.&#xA;    - In the final game, badges are not counted except in the case of a&#xA;      tie-break.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T00:09:27.057" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:09:27.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6506" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:28:28.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know exactly what the first thing I'm going to do once this starts happening. ... Hide everything tagged urgent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want the information from me &lt;strong&gt;right now&lt;/strong&gt;, I expect to see a check.&#xA;You do realize that the people who are paid to be on-call 24/7, usually get paid better than people paid to work 9-5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whats more, what happens if you don't get an answer? Do you keep the urgent tag until it is answered? I can just see it now, hundreds of questions tagged urgent, that have been that way for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you want to know the first thing that goes through my mind, when I see the word urgent? The first thing I think, is ... well &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; better get started on that, I've got other things I could be doing. I mean I have my own problems that I should be thinking about, I don't need to start worrying about your problems as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; think that your problem is more urgent to me, than my own problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:28:28.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:33:50.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would have to make it a Massive Multiplayer Online game where we could all go to a web site, create an identity, ask questions, answers questions, vote up, vote down, make comments, tag, keep score...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh wait a minute that is what we already do on SO sites. Never mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:33:50.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="6715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:40:37.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never purposely done anything to get a badge, other than post good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:40:37.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6444" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:46:18.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took me months to get it, I was aware it was there but never really tried for it. It's a badge that comes natually with use of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:46:18.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6696" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:50:18.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A visual distinction would be helpful at the profile screen, you easily see which posts are CW, and which are not. Otherwise, you have to go to the post itself to learn its status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:50:18.690" />
  <row Id="6721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6698" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:56:43.230" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, &lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow - Podcast&lt;/strong&gt; is the way to go&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T20:56:43.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T20:58:17.260" Score="12" ViewCount="768" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because for the life of me I can't and it's really bugging me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe one of you found it the same way I did and can remind me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T13:29:48.620" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T15:50:49.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T21:18:11.143" Title="Who remembers how they found StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:00:02.973" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was an avid reader of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog&lt;/a&gt;.  He first started talking about it, and the rest was history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I actually found Jeff's blog through Stumbleupon.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T21:20:32.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:20:32.230" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:00:54.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't remember, I joined a while ago. I can remember be a big fan of it almost right away though. The clear interface, and the quality and speed of the answers impressed me! When your used to asking on a forum then coming back a day later to someone who has a equal misunderstanding of the issue then SO was light years ahead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was my first question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/272007/getting-id-of-embedded-asp-object-using-javascript-and-jquery&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/272007/getting-id-of-embedded-asp-object-using-javascript-and-jquery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the quality of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:00:54.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:01:13.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it was through some arbitrary blog post saying &quot;Stack Overflow out of private beta&quot; or something along those lines.  I had never heard of it before, so I decided to check it out.  It did not disappoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:01:13.267" />
  <row Id="6727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:01:20.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rich B made me.  Seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:01:20.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:03:48.413" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://girldeveloper.com/intar-social-commentary/stackoverflow-the-answer-to-quot-site-expertsexchange-quot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GirlDeveloper's blog&lt;/a&gt; (aka &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4140/sara-chipps&quot;&gt;Sara Chipps&lt;/a&gt;) that first put me onto it, although I didn't join until it came out of private beta. Thanks to that blog post I'd &lt;em&gt;heard&lt;/em&gt; of it, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3978/douglas-leeder&quot;&gt;Douglas Leeder&lt;/a&gt; (a close friend) probably mentioned it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started writing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2008/09/28/new-addiction-stack-overflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; about the possibility of getting addicted to SO on the evening of the day I joined (September 26th 2008) although the actual post didn't go out until the Sunday evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T21:08:55.083" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:08:55.083" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:09:55.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somehow managed to find Coding Horror, at about the same time that Jeff and Joel started talking about Stack Overflow. I honestly don't remember how I found out about Coding Horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:09:55.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:11:04.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Haackoverflow from &lt;a href=&quot;http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC21/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PDC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:11:04.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:11:46.627" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel's blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:11:46.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:12:56.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, I've been here for 6 months already!? Well, according to my account, Jan. 13 was the day of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/440017/net-options-stream-video-files-as-webcam-image&quot;&gt;my first question&lt;/a&gt;. Correlating that to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/history/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google History&lt;/a&gt;, on Jan 13 I was looking up a friend by his screenname. It rendered a stackoverflow account - I viewed it, and two other search results. Signed up thereafter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How's that for MacGyver?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T17:01:02.107" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:01:02.107" />
  <row Id="6735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:23:41.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A link to Joel's blog from &lt;a href=&quot;http://use.perl.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;use.perl.org&lt;/a&gt;. It was kind of like &quot;Get over there before and support Perl!&quot; So here I am. The perl expert category wasn't quite as glutted as it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:23:41.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T21:23:41.190" />
  <row Id="6737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:29:34.577" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a question on SO and within minutes it was slammed shut offensively without any help as to how I could make it better. Furthermore, it got saddled with the 'subjective' tag, when if you read the whole description instead of just the question, it really wasn't subjective. What did I do wrong, and what can I do to not repeat this? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1145083/what-is-your-favorite-net-interface-closed&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Pointers from TheTXI on the best way to ask a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure it isn't a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure the question you are asking has a potential &quot;correct&quot; answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make your question clear and provide enough information for it to be possible for someone to actually help you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure it is programming (stackoverflow), sysadmin (serverfault), and computer (superuser) related.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure the title of the question is not subjective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T04:21:30.737" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T05:01:41.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T22:07:33.503" Title="How can I ask my [closed] question in a better manner?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:35:12.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anytime you ask something called &quot;What is your favorite&quot; it is going to get labeled as subjective (which is what it is, it is open to people's biases). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to ask a qusetion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure it isn't a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure the question you are asking has a potential &quot;correct&quot; answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make your question clear and provide enough information for it to be possible for someone to actually help you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure it is programming (stackoverflow), sysadmin (serverfault), and computer (superuser) related.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:35:12.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:38:50.437" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this seems to come down to adding another dimention to the voting system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;        interesting&#xA;            ^&#xA;            |&#xA;            |&#xA;proper&amp;lt;------------&amp;gt;improper&#xA;            |&#xA;            |&#xA;        uninteresting&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we already have buttons for voting on the intersting/unintersting axis&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the buttons for voting on the open/close axis should simply be labeld&lt;br&gt;&#xA;'close' and 'open'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;if close &gt; x+open &#xA;   then mark as closed&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131576" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-09T03:30:10.427" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T03:30:10.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:45:17.050" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe I found it by searching a question on Google. A StackOverflow question was the first result. I pretty much just joined to get rid of that annoying &quot;First time here? Check out the FAQ&quot; thing that kept popping up. I never believed I would get more 100 rep, let alone 7,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T21:45:17.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T21:45:17.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:49:19.957" Score="2" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate/Related:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2931/taxonomist-badge-what-counts-as-creating-a-tag-and-what-prevents-gaming-the&quot;&gt;Taxonomist badge: what counts as “creating” a tag? And what prevents gaming the badge?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I find out what the tag was for which I won a Taxonomist badge; this took me by surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T22:03:22.653" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:03:22.653" ClosedDate="2009-07-17T22:02:15.507" Title="What tag did I win a taxonomist badge for?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6782" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:49:43.117" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Delphi the \ does not escape a string ending, in Delphi if you want a ' you type:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;StringVariable := 'Foo'' bar'; // comments&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it works as expected, but in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/438260/delphi-fast-file-copy/438323#438323&quot;&gt;an answer on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; I've always noticed a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been able to create a small test case for this bug&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;StringVariable  := '\'; // comments&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think formatter has a preference for the c# / c style languages where the \ escapes the next char, so I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, this might even be a weird way of asking for a way to instruct the formatter that it's dealing Delphi...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11098" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T23:48:08.383" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:48:08.383" Title="Is the \ escaping of a char in the formatter a bug or just difficult to get right for every language?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62295" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:50:50.917" Score="28" ViewCount="747" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed there're tags that are actually the singular and plural forms of the same term, e.g. &lt;code&gt;string&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;strings&lt;/code&gt;, and I guess most of them should be merged. Here're some possible candidates (tag counts are as of 7/17):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; grouped tags by count and sorted alphabetically.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;gt; 1000:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt; (575) and &lt;code&gt;arrays&lt;/code&gt; (878)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;database&lt;/code&gt; (3703) and &lt;code&gt;databases&lt;/code&gt; (14)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;event&lt;/code&gt; (158) and &lt;code&gt;events&lt;/code&gt; (871)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;exception&lt;/code&gt; (218) and &lt;code&gt;exceptions&lt;/code&gt; (864)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;file&lt;/code&gt; (601) and &lt;code&gt;files&lt;/code&gt; (612)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;generic&lt;/code&gt; (57) and &lt;code&gt;generics&lt;/code&gt; (1032)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;image&lt;/code&gt; (589) and &lt;code&gt;images&lt;/code&gt; (539)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;string&lt;/code&gt; (1187) and &lt;code&gt;strings&lt;/code&gt; (277)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;500 - 1000:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;browser&lt;/code&gt; (610) and &lt;code&gt;browsers&lt;/code&gt; (43)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt; (532) and &lt;code&gt;classes&lt;/code&gt; (151)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;compiler&lt;/code&gt; (639) and &lt;code&gt;compilers&lt;/code&gt; (44)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;function&lt;/code&gt; (284) and &lt;code&gt;functions&lt;/code&gt; (316)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;list&lt;/code&gt; (476) and &lt;code&gt;lists&lt;/code&gt; (229)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;pointer&lt;/code&gt; (112) and &lt;code&gt;pointers&lt;/code&gt; (400)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;session&lt;/code&gt; (557) and &lt;code&gt;sessions&lt;/code&gt; (125)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;table&lt;/code&gt; (415) and &lt;code&gt;tables&lt;/code&gt; (128)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;template&lt;/code&gt; (217) and &lt;code&gt;templates&lt;/code&gt; (532)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;tool&lt;/code&gt; (44) and &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; (919)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;100 - 500:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;blog&lt;/code&gt; (37) and &lt;code&gt;blogs&lt;/code&gt; (111)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt; (45) and &lt;code&gt;bugs&lt;/code&gt; (197)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;build&lt;/code&gt; (276) and &lt;code&gt;builds&lt;/code&gt; (15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;callback&lt;/code&gt; (27) and &lt;code&gt;callbacks&lt;/code&gt; (107)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;certificate&lt;/code&gt; (145) and &lt;code&gt;certificates&lt;/code&gt; (33)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;checkbox&lt;/code&gt; (152) and &lt;code&gt;checkboxes&lt;/code&gt; (14)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;connectionstring&lt;/code&gt; (7), &lt;code&gt;connectionstrings&lt;/code&gt; (17) and &lt;code&gt;connection-string&lt;/code&gt; (95)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;constant&lt;/code&gt; (24) and &lt;code&gt;constants&lt;/code&gt; (84)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;constructor&lt;/code&gt; (245) and &lt;code&gt;constructors&lt;/code&gt; (25)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;cookie&lt;/code&gt; (80) and &lt;code&gt;cookies&lt;/code&gt; (359)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;cursor&lt;/code&gt; (52) and &lt;code&gt;cursors&lt;/code&gt; (52)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;dataset&lt;/code&gt; (191) and &lt;code&gt;datasets&lt;/code&gt; (91)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;driver&lt;/code&gt; (84) and &lt;code&gt;drivers&lt;/code&gt; (49)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;entity&lt;/code&gt; (85) and &lt;code&gt;entities&lt;/code&gt; (23)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;example&lt;/code&gt; (30) and &lt;code&gt;examples&lt;/code&gt; (87)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;field&lt;/code&gt; (68) and &lt;code&gt;fields&lt;/code&gt; (50)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;filesystem&lt;/code&gt; (78) and &lt;code&gt;filesystems&lt;/code&gt; (276)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;folder&lt;/code&gt; (54) and &lt;code&gt;folders&lt;/code&gt; (72)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;game&lt;/code&gt; (85) and &lt;code&gt;games&lt;/code&gt; (134)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;iframe&lt;/code&gt; (344) and &lt;code&gt;iframes&lt;/code&gt; (10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;integer&lt;/code&gt; (132) and &lt;code&gt;integers&lt;/code&gt; (14)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;interface&lt;/code&gt; (307) and &lt;code&gt;interfaces&lt;/code&gt; (171)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;key&lt;/code&gt; (53) and &lt;code&gt;keys&lt;/code&gt; (48)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;language&lt;/code&gt; (207) and &lt;code&gt;languages&lt;/code&gt; (48)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;method&lt;/code&gt; (109) and &lt;code&gt;methods&lt;/code&gt; (169)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;model&lt;/code&gt; (231) and &lt;code&gt;models&lt;/code&gt; (25)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;number&lt;/code&gt; (61) and &lt;code&gt;numbers&lt;/code&gt; (76)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;object&lt;/code&gt; (211) and &lt;code&gt;objects&lt;/code&gt; (176)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;password&lt;/code&gt; (106) and &lt;code&gt;passwords&lt;/code&gt; (177)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;path&lt;/code&gt; (217) and &lt;code&gt;paths&lt;/code&gt; (42)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;pattern&lt;/code&gt; (67) and &lt;code&gt;patterns&lt;/code&gt; (137)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;pipe&lt;/code&gt; (27) and &lt;code&gt;pipes&lt;/code&gt; (87)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;problem&lt;/code&gt; (97) and &lt;code&gt;problems&lt;/code&gt; (25)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;process&lt;/code&gt; (337) and &lt;code&gt;processes&lt;/code&gt; (150)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;project&lt;/code&gt; (78) and &lt;code&gt;projects&lt;/code&gt; (108)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;property&lt;/code&gt; (115) and &lt;code&gt;properties&lt;/code&gt; (300)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;script&lt;/code&gt; (256) and &lt;code&gt;scripts&lt;/code&gt; (61)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;service&lt;/code&gt; (275) and &lt;code&gt;services&lt;/code&gt; (126)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;set&lt;/code&gt; (45) and &lt;code&gt;sets&lt;/code&gt; (69)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;stream&lt;/code&gt; (101) and &lt;code&gt;streams&lt;/code&gt; (120)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;struct&lt;/code&gt; (156) and &lt;code&gt;structs&lt;/code&gt; (15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;style&lt;/code&gt; (171) and &lt;code&gt;styles&lt;/code&gt; (77)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;tag&lt;/code&gt; (62) and &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; (169)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;theme&lt;/code&gt; (34) and &lt;code&gt;themes&lt;/code&gt; (108)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;timer&lt;/code&gt; (78) and &lt;code&gt;timers&lt;/code&gt; (110)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;timestamp&lt;/code&gt; (117) and &lt;code&gt;timestamps&lt;/code&gt; (8)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;timezone&lt;/code&gt; (161) and &lt;code&gt;timezones&lt;/code&gt; (7)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;trigger&lt;/code&gt; (46) and &lt;code&gt;triggers&lt;/code&gt; (213)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;type&lt;/code&gt; (99) and &lt;code&gt;types&lt;/code&gt; (176)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;update&lt;/code&gt; (268) and &lt;code&gt;updates&lt;/code&gt; (19)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;user&lt;/code&gt; (112) and &lt;code&gt;users&lt;/code&gt; (90)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;variable&lt;/code&gt; (119) and &lt;code&gt;variables&lt;/code&gt; (307)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;vector&lt;/code&gt; (186) and &lt;code&gt;vectors&lt;/code&gt; (18)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;video&lt;/code&gt; (434) and &lt;code&gt;videos&lt;/code&gt; (19)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;view&lt;/code&gt; (132) and &lt;code&gt;views&lt;/code&gt; (106)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;widget&lt;/code&gt; (54) and &lt;code&gt;widgets&lt;/code&gt; (86)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt; 100:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;alert&lt;/code&gt; (20) and &lt;code&gt;alerts&lt;/code&gt; (24)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;app&lt;/code&gt; (34) and &lt;code&gt;apps&lt;/code&gt; (11)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;border&lt;/code&gt; (51) and &lt;code&gt;borders&lt;/code&gt; (10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;character&lt;/code&gt; (44) and &lt;code&gt;characters&lt;/code&gt; (37)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;container&lt;/code&gt; (32) and &lt;code&gt;containers&lt;/code&gt; (56)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;disk&lt;/code&gt; (35) and &lt;code&gt;disks&lt;/code&gt; (15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;expression&lt;/code&gt; (67) and &lt;code&gt;expressions&lt;/code&gt; (21)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;group&lt;/code&gt; (41) and &lt;code&gt;groups&lt;/code&gt; (27)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;keyword&lt;/code&gt; (20) and &lt;code&gt;keywords&lt;/code&gt; (63)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; (56) and &lt;code&gt;names&lt;/code&gt; (12)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;feature&lt;/code&gt; (16) and &lt;code&gt;features&lt;/code&gt; (63)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;picture&lt;/code&gt; (21) and &lt;code&gt;pictures&lt;/code&gt; (10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;sample&lt;/code&gt; (28) and &lt;code&gt;samples&lt;/code&gt; (19)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;setter&lt;/code&gt; (11) and &lt;code&gt;setters&lt;/code&gt; (26)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;shader&lt;/code&gt; (23) and &lt;code&gt;shaders&lt;/code&gt; (13)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;spreadsheet&lt;/code&gt; (25) and &lt;code&gt;spreadsheets&lt;/code&gt; (35)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;tooltip&lt;/code&gt; (42) and &lt;code&gt;tooltips&lt;/code&gt; (52)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;utility&lt;/code&gt; (19) and &lt;code&gt;utilities&lt;/code&gt; (67)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;value&lt;/code&gt; (64) and &lt;code&gt;values&lt;/code&gt; (19)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;wildcard&lt;/code&gt; (33) and &lt;code&gt;wildcards&lt;/code&gt; (15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131247" LastEditorUserId="131247" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T18:22:08.917" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T20:10:45.090" Title="Merge singular and plural tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:51:38.743" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Multiple times now, within the past 30 mins (2:15pm-2:45pm PST 7/17/09) I notice that stack overflow times out when I try to post something. This has happened on 3 occasions now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing a question I have and clicking save&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing my user profile information and clicking save&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trying to answer a question and posting my answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first instance of this happening the request timed out and my post didnt get saved. The ohter 2 times the request timed out but still saved my what I was posting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131581" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T23:48:28.723" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:35:43.833" Title="Stackoverflow times out when posting data" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T21:57:23.887" Score="3" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see posts talking about the size of the database but I've never seen any fun facts about the SO code size.  How many lines of code are there?  How big is the folder structure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130194" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:34:58.297" Title="StackOverflow code stats" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:02:37.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Programming Symposium subforum on Ars Technica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130194" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:02:37.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T22:02:37.013" />
  <row Id="6758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6751" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:02:43.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your last suggestion, to make the syntax highlighter language-aware, is the only fool-proof solution for this and similar problems. Hopefully one day this feature will be added to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:02:43.167" />
  <row Id="6759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6761" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:08:13.183" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes 50 rep points to post a comment on SO and only 1 point on Meta which is confusing, why the difference in the first place. (This part has been answered.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot flag a comment as &quot; this is a great comment &quot; on Meta. Does this mean that I will be able to when I achieve 50 rep points like on SO? If so shouldn't that be spelled out in the FAQ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="131563" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T00:20:53.207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:20:53.207" Title="Comments behaviour between SO and Meta-SO seem odd?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6759" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:16:39.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this behavior is by design. As meta is there for the sake of discussion in the first place, comments are a fundamental piece of privilege you should have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes are another thing, though. While it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; make sense for meta to have 1 rep user votes, I think they deliberately chose to disable it as you could create a thousand accounts and vote yourself with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:16:39.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6759" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:16:47.153" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is because meta is build for discussions. So giving a comment is much more important then on so where giving answers is the most important thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:16:47.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:21:20.487" Score="6" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the release of Server Fault and Super User I just thought I would throw this up in the air. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense to include other questions from SO's sister sites to try and avoid the migration of questions that might belong or are already on those sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131473" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T22:25:19.510" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T23:00:01.993" Title="Should the &quot;Related Questions&quot; list include questions from Stack Overflows sister sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6763" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:26:55.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as we know there is no plans to integrate the sister sites, however a suggestion regarding this has been made &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:26:55.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6767" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:35:22.043" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;With Super User up and running, I'm seeing some very basic, almost theoretical, type of questions showing up with a general attitude towards pushing the question to Stack Overflow.  I see lots of non-specific and too high level questions closed on Stack Overflow. Are we sending questions to SO from SU that will get closed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be the requirement for closing these types of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T18:28:45.723" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T18:28:45.723" Title="How programming related does programming related need to be on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:37:21.823" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Propose two types of upvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Normal upvote&lt;/b&gt;.  Current upvote.  Has the meaning &quot;This answer is helpful&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;I like that&lt;/b&gt;.  This kind of upvote means the answer is pleasing somehow, but not necessarily technically rewarding.  &quot;I like that&quot; votes add to a user's charisma score, not their reputation.  Community wiki answers can earn charisma points, so it makes posting answers to Community wikis &quot;more worthwhile&quot;.  It will be harder to claim that the system unfairly rewards &quot;celebrities&quot;, if the charisma vote is used correctly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this suggestion is likely to be thought 'bulky', but it will give the site an additional dimension.  Someone that gives &quot;good&quot; answers will be distinct from someone that gives clever or snarky answers that the rest of the community simply enjoys reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion is similar to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/752/upvoting-based-on-celebrity-too-many-upvotes-excessive-rep-slurping&quot;&gt;Celebrity and upvote &quot;slurping&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/599/what-to-do-about-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;Rep inflation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/345/theoretical-question-hide-rep-above-10k&quot;&gt;Hide rep above 10k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes&quot;&gt;Reputation attracts too many upvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198&quot;&gt;anonymous questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="111307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-17T22:44:09.143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:44:09.143" Title="Two kinds of vote" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6765" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:41:48.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a discussion about this on email when I moved a question over that probably shouldn't have been moved (simple Apple scripting). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general gist was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scripting is Superuser (Scripting != Programming) and programming is StackOverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Client Scripting is SuperUser (Not server scripting or heavy scripting for a sysadmin) otherwise it would be Serverfault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it falls into a gray area, err on the side of SuperUser.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:41:48.767" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6766" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:42:33.617" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:42:33.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:43:12.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original post has been edited to lessen the argumentative language (I downplay the work penalty) and I added the word 'code' all over the place to make it very clear that the question is about processes that result in code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this enough to move the question out of that gray area?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131576" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T09:56:27.707" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T09:56:27.707" />
  <row Id="6770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6772" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:58:09.953" Score="1" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I downvote an answer, I lose 1 rep point. If the author of that answer deletes said answer, why don't I reclaim that lost rep point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130849" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T10:56:05.957" Title="Why don't I reclaim my downvote penalty when the post I downvoted is deleted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="6771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6770" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:59:18.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will the next time your rep is recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:59:18.473" />
  <row Id="6772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6770" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:59:48.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a post is deleted you do not regain any rep you lost because of it, and you lose all rep you gain from it. You could ask for a recalc if you want from a moderator, but that will recalc your -entire- score and sometimes you might not like what you get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you can recalc you reputation here — &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;, without any moderators help. This &lt;em&gt;secret&lt;/em&gt; reputation page exists on all sites of StackExchange family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="157159" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-01T10:56:05.957" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T10:56:05.957" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6770" CreationDate="2009-07-17T22:59:56.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll reclaim it after the rep recalcs, as it does periodically. It's calculated asynchronously, so if you notice a wild swing in rep for no apparent reason, it's probably that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T22:59:56.550" />
  <row Id="6774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6765" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:03:03.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on which voting population is online at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:03:03.803" />
  <row Id="6776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53035" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:07:31.643" Score="13" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, Jeff has already stated he isn't trying to compete with Google. So why have a local site search anyway? Changing the form action value (or letting me choose between SO's and Google's) wouldn't be a drastic change and it would save me from having to open up a new tab, type what I'm looking for and append &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; to the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T08:02:10.343" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T08:02:10.343" Title="Can we have a setting that defaults our searches to Google?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6776" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:13:16.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would actually suggest that you take a look at setting up a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) and then you can base you searches on as many (or as little) sites as you want at a single time. Then you could even make that search engine your default search method. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:13:16.370" />
  <row Id="6778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6776" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:13:55.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;NO, please don't become one of those sites that uses Google Search, we can do better.  I always hate searching on those sites.  Google doesn't scale down well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:13:55.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6592" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:24:31.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think trying to generalize error messages is a major over simplification. Error messages pertain to a specific tool/product, and you should receive help from people using the products. Making one large database of error messages for all products will simply be filled with noise as no one is a &quot;error message&quot; expert. Contributors would have a daunting task of sorting through thousands of error messages on the question pages looking for ones they could actually answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People become familiar with the tools they use and can share that knowledge with you. Can anyone really claim to be a cross product error message expert? I mean, who here could really discuss resolutions to errors outside of maybe 20 products -- not counting obviously verbose error messages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:24:31.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T23:24:31.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6650" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:34:42.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reply back from team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no current way to re-own a&#xA;  question unless you had an account on&#xA;  the target site prior to the question&#xA;  migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is something we plan to get to in&#xA;  the near future, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The data in the database contains the&#xA;  keys necessary to re-associate, so it&#xA;  is possible to fix this after the&#xA;  fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer is probably forget about it in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:34:42.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6753" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:46:20.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have sporadic reports of this, but can never reproduce it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We suspect networking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where on the planet Earth are you? what country, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:46:20.403" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6751" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:47:55.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's open source -- submit a patch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:47:55.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6656" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:50:49.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt; , which is linked from the [?] toolbar button above the editor, as well as the sidebar on every editing page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All URLs must be fully qualified path names. We do not support relative paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This policy has changed. We now allow links that begin with http:// or https:// or ftp:// , or &lt;strong&gt;links that begin with / -- in other words, links relative to the parent URL are allowed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(We also no longer allow &lt;code&gt;#\d+&lt;/code&gt; numeric answer URLs any more -- they're not particularly useful.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-07T04:55:52.443" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T04:55:52.443" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6602" CreationDate="2009-07-17T23:52:11.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this would have be submitted as a patch to Google Prettify&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-17T23:52:11.133" />
  <row Id="6785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T00:59:49.510" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've edited a few tags on Meta, and it appears that the tag dropdown isn't always working.  I then end up creating new tags, when I might have chosen an old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T09:40:20.740" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T10:00:02.277" Title="Tag dropdown not showing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6632" CreationDate="2009-07-18T01:01:49.280" Score="8" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can imagine that after a few days my low viewed question with no answers is just going to be un-answered and un-viewed forever. I guess there isn't much interest in &quot;Implementing a HierarchicalDataBoundControl&quot;. So what does someone do, delete and re-post? Are there tricks to getting your questions answered. It seems like everyone is quick to answer the easy ones, which is fine I guess, but with the kind of experts that use SO I would have expected at least one response or comment to two of my questions yet I have gotten nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&#xA;So my questions were as somebody put it &quot;diarrhea of the mouth&quot;, fine I can accept the fact that they were not written very well. So when you edit and fix up your question, does it  move back up to the top or is it best to delete and repost a streamlined question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="131563" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T00:25:02.793" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:25:02.793" Title="Low views and no answers to my question after a few days, what next?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="6787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6785" CreationDate="2009-07-18T01:02:33.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you may have a caching problem with the jQuery files that run a lot of the AJAX on the sites. You can test this by trying to click the Flag link on a post and see if you get the red menu pop up. If not, you should try and clear you browser cache and initiate a hard refresh on your browser. That should clear it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T01:02:33.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-07-18T01:37:00.407" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overriding system shortcuts is a bad thing.  I can no longer paste into the text editing field without using the mouse, using Mac OS X, on a Dvorak/Cmd-Querty keyboard.  (Cmd-V converts into &quot;Code&quot;, which is Ctrl-K).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="188" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T01:37:00.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T02:48:07.070" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1803/mark-questions-to-receive-notifications-and-updates&quot;&gt;Mark questions to receive notifications and updates?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In stackoverflow and related sites, you get alerts only if you have got something to do with the post i.e. you asked the Q, you answered and got upvotes or comments, you commented and someone added another comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are times when a question might seem interesting but you are not able to contribute to the question in any way (due to lack of knowledge or whatever). You would still like to keep track of all the new activity in the post. So we should have some mechanism where you can mark a post for tracking and get alerts whenever there are new answers, comments or acceptance of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T02:48:07.070" ClosedDate="2009-07-18T02:53:03.963" Title="Tracking a post" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T02:49:16.217" Score="8" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;h1&gt;MAY BE FIREBUG RELATED. PLEASE DISABLE FIREBUG AND SEE IF THE PROBLEM GOES AWAY.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update #4&lt;/strong&gt;: Just adding to the data, firefox 3.0.12 just installed and firefox restarted. First page I went to was stackoverflow, and tried to up-vote an answer. This happened. I opened firebug to watch the requests - it refreshes my browser to start listening - and now I cannot repo the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update #3&lt;/strong&gt;: The problem appears to be within the client-side methods for updating the UI, and not the data-sending/retrieving. I'm noticing that I can vote and receive confirmation of votes, but the client-side methods to update the UI are bombing-out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update #2&lt;/strong&gt;: Appears to be working again....bummer. I was just about to watch the traffic as I sent the request again.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: This appears to be happening for all answers on the page too. Refresh doesn't fix it for me either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Went to vote (this happens with up &amp;amp; down) on a question only to find that my return value was &quot;null.&quot; I've still got the page open if there's any form data you guys would be interested in seeing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SiteName: SuperUser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QuestionID: 5564&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;When my up-vote is removed   When my upvote is applied.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-upnull.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-14T10:25:29.977" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T10:25:29.977" Title="Vote == Null?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="6792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6793" CreationDate="2009-07-18T02:59:36.433" Score="5" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I upvote a question I do so because I think it's a good question. Other people would benefit from seeing the question or maybe be able to add important answers. To increase exposure of upvoted questions, I suppose that upvotes should bump a question to the top of the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would give upvotes on question more meaning than just incentive to ask good questions. It would give upvoted questions additional exposure and increase the chances for good answers on questions people care about. It would also be useful to call some attention to old, unanswered questions people are still interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes instead shouldn't have any special effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T04:18:10.670" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T00:19:47.697" Title="Upvoting of a question should bump it to the front page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;frontpage&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6792" CreationDate="2009-07-18T03:02:49.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe votes should bump it up to the top, but I believe that it will (if not it should) be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;a factor in its calculated Hot-ness&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T00:19:47.697" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T00:19:47.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T03:14:54.503" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I am off topic, but this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1146446/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1146446/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on my firefox 3.5.1 looks in the live bookmark like something in Chinese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-08T01:09:11.517" LastActivityDate="2011-06-08T01:09:20.753" Title="Live bookmark for question in Chinese" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;language&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3774" CreationDate="2009-07-18T03:18:27.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has been beaten to death, but I think the claim that English is the lingua franca of programming is fundamentally wrong.  In particular, there is a huge number of programmers out there who speak only Japanese or &lt;del&gt;Chinese&lt;/del&gt; Mandarin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But your suggestion of having a language meta-tag is flawed in one respect: you would have a hard time gaining &quot;critical mass&quot; of users who could even understand and answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T02:30:21.150" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T02:30:21.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6794" CreationDate="2009-07-18T03:19:04.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It originally WAS all in Chinese. It then got closed and I am going to assume that stone (the OP) translated, editted, and it got reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1146446/list&quot;&gt;Revision List&lt;/a&gt; for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-08T01:09:20.753" LastActivityDate="2011-06-08T01:09:20.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2009-07-18T03:20:52.530" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is all born out of very good faith, and I respect that everybody doesn't have an iron grip on the English language. Many native speakers can't decipher between you're and your. I've had people tell me that &quot;plethora&quot; was a big word. It's not! But, I regress. Now that I've publicly declared respect, it's time for me to &lt;strike&gt;sully&lt;/strike&gt; argue it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This idea only creates a ton of noise on the site, and it leaves us open to poor translation, to boot. How often do we see competent programmers make boneheaded mistakes? I'm not saying I'm competent, but I earned my Disciplined badge today because I misread the question and gave an incorrect answer. Luckily, a few people saw it (after a bunch of upvotes!) and let me know that I was wrong. This whole crowd-sourced thing only works if a lot of eyes see what it is and evaluate it. There is so much room for error (especially in idioms and in our field where a bug is not, in fact, creepy nor crawly, but it is annoying as hell). I often click the Edit links to see what's changed throughout the life of the question, so I can get some history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, the language of programming is analogy. We often liken abstract concepts to something physical. I find that most translations, especially hasty ones, fall flat in this area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an additional example, let's say somebody asks an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mdx&quot;&gt;MDX&lt;/a&gt; question in Hindi. I don't even know how to identify Hindi, let alone read it, but I'm one of a handful of people who have ever answered an MDX question on here, and most of those questions only have one answer. It's an obscure topic, sure. So now there's an MDX question, with nobody but myself and maybe somebody else following the MDX tag. We don't speak/read/write Hindi. How likely is somebody going to be to take the time to translate a question that they don't care about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that point, are you ready to deal with the whining? We see how many &quot;gaming the system&quot; posts we have &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;. Wait until the translator gets a head start on answering the question! Especially for those piranha tags like C# and Java where if it's not answered in ten seconds, just wait two more. Anyway, talk about a headache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3774/add-meta-tag-to-support-internationalization/3776#3776&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, localization is rife with complexity, mistranslations, misunderstandings, frustrations, and the constant threat of obscurity. Why go down that path when English is already the de facto language of programming? We're one of the only communities in the world where we have a universal language out of necessity, not out of convenience. Setting the expectation of English allows us to reach as many people, as quickly as possible, and in as consistent of a way as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T03:20:52.530" />
  <row Id="6799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1802" CreationDate="2009-07-18T03:25:41.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, SO should seek to become a repository of FAQs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explicitly adopting the attitude of seeking to become a repository is important because it influences how moderators vote on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1137158/what-is-a-variable&quot;&gt;closing simple questions.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T03:25:41.313" />
  <row Id="6800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6791" CreationDate="2009-07-18T03:44:15.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've seen this but can't reproduce it. We think it's internet / networking (eg, failure to connect) related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can come up with a consistent set of repro steps let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T03:44:15.807" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="6801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:00:39.120" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be a little selfish of me to ask, but why was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1127396/list&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (and the answers) community-wikied? Was the (now deleted) user rep gaming or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T23:46:35.623" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:46:35.623" Title="Community-wikiing of question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:10:13.840" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Long-Haul Trucker.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;clearing the road&quot; of tumbleweeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answered &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/38/tumbleweed&quot;&gt;Tumbleweeded&lt;/a&gt; questions with at least one upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42346" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T04:10:13.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T04:10:13.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6801" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:16:34.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like a question for Bill The Lizard, based on the revision history&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1127396/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1127396/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T04:16:34.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:26:37.677" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/459?startdate=2009-07-17&amp;amp;enddate=2009-07-17&amp;amp;tab=badges#sort-top&quot;&gt;recently&lt;/a&gt; won a Taxonomist badge, totally by surprise, I'd love to know which if any tag I've created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/459?tab=stats#sort-top&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; of 373 tags, where I can only see 50. I can't identify a single one in which I owned the earliest question. The closest I saw was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=lucene&amp;amp;page=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Lucene&lt;/a&gt;, and I know that wasn't me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the information would cause gaming. I think gaming type users would easily just make a pen-and-paper list of tags they know they created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T00:29:55.210" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:29:55.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:28:37.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wizards.com/RoboRally/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.wizards.com/RoboRally/&lt;/a&gt; is a really cool board game that everyone should check out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131602" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T04:28:37.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:32:32.153" Score="1" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1146719/accessing-values-using-subscripts-without-using-sub2ind&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post.  When editing, the link appears properly in the preview.  However, the question shows something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(i.e. using&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS%5Fen-USUS294US304&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=sub2ind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS%5Fen-USUS294US304&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=sub2ind&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&gt;sub2ind).&#xA;  E.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they be different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61332" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T07:07:31.043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:08:08.873" Title="Possible Link Bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="6809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:37:12.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of people worried about gaming badges, ESPECIALLY the taxonomist badge. But I thought about it, and it is certainly NOT the easiest badge to game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just looking at silver badges alone, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;Strunk and White&lt;/a&gt; should be the easiest. Just start voting randomly on a bunch of questions and answers... or click edit on every new question you see and add something like capitalizing sentences, or just whitespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/13/yearling&quot;&gt;yearling&lt;/a&gt; badge would be the easiest silver badge to get, but I don't think that can be gamed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question should be, how could you make a tagging incentive badge that couldn't be gamed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T04:37:12.527" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6808" CreationDate="2009-07-18T04:38:11.647" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;your link is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?&#xA;/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/sub2ind.html&amp;&#xA;http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USUS294US304&amp;aq=f&amp;&#xA;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=sub2ind&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's never going to work very well (embedded http://, etc). I recommend simplifying it to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?&#xA;/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/sub2ind.html&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we now auto-encode any additional colons after the protocol part of the URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T07:08:08.873" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:08:08.873" />
  <row Id="6811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6737" CreationDate="2009-07-18T05:01:41.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charles, you asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I ask my [closed] question in a better manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is, &quot;don't&quot;. This isn't a fan club, it's a Q&amp;amp;A site, in that case, about programming. A question on the most &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; interface, or the most &lt;em&gt;misunderstood&lt;/em&gt; interface, might fly. But the &lt;em&gt;favorite&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T05:01:41.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T05:01:41.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T05:19:23.297" Score="13" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Descriptions are inside the code samples)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at this code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Public Sub Show()&#xA;    System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;Hello&quot;)   ' Comment here will fail subsequencing syntax highlighting&#xA;    System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;This should not be rendered as a comment&quot;)&#xA;End Sub&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare to this one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Public Sub Show()&#xA;    System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;Hello&quot;)   ' Ending quote solve the problem for now --&amp;gt; '&#xA;    System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;This is not rendered as a comment&quot;)&#xA;    System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;Ending quote solve the problem for now&quot;)&#xA;End Sub&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131601" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T22:16:45.013" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T17:28:43.890" Title="VB.NET/VBScript syntax highlighting does not properly support comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6812" CreationDate="2009-07-18T05:23:55.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on Google Prettify&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there's a suggestion out there somewhere to support the optional language-specific packs that can be used with prettify (essentially overriding the default detection method)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We just deployed the latest trunk of prettify.js ; revision 83&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T06:08:12.553" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:08:12.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53135" CreationDate="2009-07-18T05:43:18.950" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a total of two questions on meta.stackoverflow, yet under my profile it shows zero questions. One of those questions got around 8 up votes and I still have my reputation from them, this question happened to be very close to another question and it seems the answers to this question got transferred to another one. I was just wondering if there is, or should there be a way to notify people as to what happened because I was and still am confused as to exactly what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5873/superusers-questions-with-an-accepted-answer-color&quot;&gt;link to the other question&lt;/a&gt;. I was able to find this because my votes on the answers that were originally on my question transferred as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-10T06:13:41.193" LastActivityDate="2010-06-10T06:13:41.193" Title="Is there a record of merged questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;merged-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5871" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:10:01.587" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see lots of questions that are good questions, but subjective or unanswerable a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then should the close reasons not be..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;closed as &quot;subjective&quot; by {user1} .. {usern} on {date}&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;closed as &quot;unanswerable&quot; by {user1} .. {usern} on {date}&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not seeing the distinction here that makes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;closed as &quot;should be community wiki&quot; by {user1} .. {usern} on {date}&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;necessary at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T06:10:01.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T06:10:01.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6825" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:15:40.053" Score="15" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always struck me as a strange thing to not have. We have the ability to set things as Community Wiki at the start, and the ability to switch over to Community Wiki after something has been posted. Unfortunately there is no way to move something that is Community Wiki to a traditional post. I haven't even seen a method for this in the moderator tools, and I believe I remember reading something by Jeff saying that it was not possible at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the request is pretty simple. Allow for Community Wiki posts to get reversed back into regular posts. This would include making it an option in the mod tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-27T21:38:20.150" LastActivityDate="2010-11-28T01:05:04.990" Title="Ability to undo the Community Wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="82" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:16:07.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is unlikely we will do this [that is, show who created a tag] due to the taxonomist badge gaming concerns outlined above.. and over and over and &lt;em&gt;over&lt;/em&gt; in about fifty other posts on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see anything good come of making this information public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T06:16:07.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6827" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:18:43.543" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an interesting list of questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All top voted answers on non Wiki questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 20 '[' + q.Title + '](' + 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' + cast(q.Id as varchar(max)) + ' &quot;link&quot;)', &#xA;cast(a.Score as varchar) + ' &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;' From Answers a &#xA;join Questions q on a.ParentId = q.Id and q.IsWiki = 0&#xA;order by a.Score desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note, I have no IsWiki flag for answers so I can not filter them out - sorry Jon) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/357813&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Help me remember a quote from Alan Kay&lt;/a&gt;  241 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284797&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;&quot;Hello World&quot; in less than 20 bytes&lt;/a&gt; 200 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28637&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Is DateTime.Now the best way to measure a function's performance?&lt;/a&gt;    164 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47981&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How do you set, clear and toggle a single bit in C?&lt;/a&gt;  158 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/205003&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Is it wrong to go to interviews while employed?&lt;/a&gt; 135 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/381542&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;In C arrays why is this true? a[5] == 5[a]&lt;/a&gt;  129 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18450&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Is Mono ready for prime time?&lt;/a&gt;    126 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/160930&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How do I check if an integer is even or odd?&lt;/a&gt;    122 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284797&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;&quot;Hello World&quot; in less than 20 bytes&lt;/a&gt; 120 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5727&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;What are the barriers to understanding pointers and what can be done to overcome them?&lt;/a&gt;    117 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/434414&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;What is the most EVIL code you have ever seen in a production enterprise environment?&lt;/a&gt;   117 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176324&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Why does everyone like jQuery more than prototype/script.aclo.us or mootools or whatever?&lt;/a&gt;   116 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318398&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Why does C++ compilation take so long?&lt;/a&gt;  116 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&lt;/a&gt;  112 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2056&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;What are MVP and MVC and what is the difference?&lt;/a&gt;  110 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;What's the difference between JavaScript and Java?&lt;/a&gt;  108 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448673&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How do emulators work and how are they written?&lt;/a&gt; 107 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&lt;/a&gt;  102 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454303&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;Why are we using i as a counter in loops&lt;/a&gt;    102 &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26049&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;link&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;  99 &lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I completely agree that Alan Kay should have a gazzilion rep. Still, something does not sit right for me with this list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be an upper limit on how much rep a person can get out of an answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T07:59:49.670" Title="Should there be an upper rep gain limit for answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6821" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:24:41.390" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's rare, but sometimes it's fair to have this feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, in this question my arm was twisted into community wiki'ng it and since it has received very little attention, I am not motivated to improve it, even though I wrote an open source C# log viewer.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/784131/are-there-any-c-open-source-log-viewers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/784131/are-there-any-c-open-source-log-viewers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this question, I selected community wiki by mistake before I understood what it meant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100081/whats-a-good-threadsafe-singleton-generic-template-pattern-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100081/whats-a-good-threadsafe-singleton-generic-template-pattern-in-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-28T01:04:12.633" LastActivityDate="2010-11-28T01:04:12.633" />
  <row Id="6826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6823" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:25:51.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not taking into account the fact that for items which gain a lot of votes incredibly fast, the user is probably going to be stuck only earning as much as their daily rep limit would allow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for items that have been open a long time and earning rep that entire time, I still say you do not want to limit the rep gained from it. What you are basically saying is that as time goes on (or the popularity goes on) that item is obsolete and should no longer be rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's like saying that if I write a book, I should only get paid for the first 100,000 copies and the rest goes to nobody in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T06:25:51.027" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6823" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:26:26.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been talked about before, at least a little bit. Back when he tried it (around Christmas?) that changing the time rep limit to a per-post rep limit made little difference. Personally I still think it would be a good idea. You should probably read all the arguments for and against the current time-based limit &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1466/please-get-rid-of-daily-reputation-limit&quot;&gt;in this feature request&lt;/a&gt; (declined).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll keep being in favour of this, but at the same time I don't expect the situation to change any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: (On phone - please excuse typos.) I think it's worth thinking about the purpose of rep limits in general. One point is to limit how quickly/easily someone can get edit rights etc. I would argue that someone who posts 20 answers each of which gains 10 upvotes in a single day has proved themselves more invested in the community than someone who posts a single popular answer which gains 200 upvotes over the course of three months - during which time they may not even come back. To me, the first person deserves all the rep from their answers, but the second person's rep could reasonably be capped at (say) 500 for that one answer. In particular, positive feedback makes is a lot easier for a post to go from e.g. 40 votes to 45 than from 0 to 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all this, I'm not as bothered as all of this discussion makes it sound. Rep limits are somewhat important in terms of early access to privs, but they probably don't deserve &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; the attention some of us pay them... I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; like to hear Jeff and Joel discuss this a bit more on the podcast though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T07:59:49.670" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T07:59:49.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6818" CreationDate="2009-07-18T06:35:17.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the only record that a question was merged is found in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/5873/list&quot;&gt;revision list of the master question&lt;/a&gt;. Though the answers, comments, votes, etc are moved over to the master, the duplicate question itself is excised from the system (not even moderators can see it anymore).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, merging two questions is a fairly dramatic process, and we do our best to do it as sparingly as possible. My guess is that in your case, Jeff wanted to consolidate the similar feature requests so he could mark it all as completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that the process lacks transparency, I'm not sure what sort of notification would work to let the duplicate author know that their question was merged into another one. Maybe a locked, answerless 'stub' should be left behind with a link to the master question similar to the cross-site migration operation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T06:43:13.087" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T06:43:13.087" />
  <row Id="6832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6821" CreationDate="2009-07-18T07:04:43.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this as new users still don't read the FAQ even though they are told to. The  same issue with Duplicates, people will see duplicates but still post their question for the potential rep gain. I counted at least 4 possible duplicates on the SU home page today. But I digress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I support this as long as it is a moderator only function and can be voted for on request of the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-28T01:05:04.990" LastActivityDate="2010-11-28T01:05:04.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6791" CreationDate="2009-07-18T07:36:23.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you define &quot;a consistent set of repro steps&quot;, Jeff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is happening to me as well. Some strange behavior when trying to accept an answer as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rootspot.com/superuser/votingaccepting.png&quot; alt=&quot;bug&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is consistently happening whenever I try to vote or accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T07:36:23.577" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15380" CreationDate="2009-07-18T08:02:23.497" Score="10" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just awarded the woot (enthusiast) badge on Stack Overflow, but I definitely didn't visit the site every day for 30 days.  Here is my theory on how this happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you open a new tab in Safari 4 it displays a new feature called 'Top Sites' which shows you previews for the front pages of your frequently visited sites.  Stack Overflow shows up in my 'Top Sites', so I suspect that when Safari generates an up to date preview the 'visited today' count on Stack Overflow gets incremented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the problem then I doubt it's something that you can easily fix, but I thought I'd point it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131608" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T08:08:50.597" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T00:58:08.580" Title="Got woot badge unfairly with Safari 4" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T08:30:40.323" Score="2" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are lot of SO gadgets out there. But we have to enter the userid (number) instead of username. It will be good if we have an API to get userid from username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example gadget below from an SO user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://insomniacgeek.com/code/windows-gadget/a-stack-overflow-sidebar-gadget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://insomniacgeek.com/code/windows-gadget/a-stack-overflow-sidebar-gadget/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T13:29:04.043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T03:19:15.643" Title="API to get userid from username" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="202" CreationDate="2009-07-18T08:38:13.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worth keeping in mind that banning people from cheating on their homework on Stack Overflow won't necessarily stop them from using other sites to cheat, especially ones where you can pay for answers. (Not that all homework-related questions are cheating)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T08:38:13.840" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2009-07-18T08:40:08.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's not possible. I could change my username to Shoban and the system wouldn't be able to choose between my id and your id. Username is not unique, id is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21384" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T08:40:08.930" />
  <row Id="6838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1649" CreationDate="2009-07-18T08:42:07.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This impacts clicking on interesting tags which use wild-cards. And that &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; work before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addition: @Jeff: it certainly did. I could click on &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of my interesting tags on SO, many of which have wildcards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the problem is the creation of the links for clicking on interesting tags, that wildcards are no longer striped out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastEditorUserId="67392" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T12:25:53.830" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T12:25:53.830" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6834" CreationDate="2009-07-18T09:13:38.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;True, it might have happened to me as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Safari 4 beta would show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=view&amp;amp;cid=107735&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a slightly different User Agent&lt;/a&gt; for Top Sites than for actual usage. This is no longer the case in the current 4.0.2 release of Safari (at least not on a Mac; not sure when it changed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hey, we're still creating hits, right? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T09:18:39.133" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T09:18:39.133" />
  <row Id="6840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5076" CreationDate="2009-07-18T09:37:30.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Declined: if you are using IE6 you are being punished already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, there are enough little things that will be wonky or broken on today's web under IE6 that I don't think a warning banner matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T09:37:30.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6834" CreationDate="2009-07-18T10:13:30.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And here's me carefully accessing the site every day. D'oh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T10:13:30.897" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T11:03:48.833" Score="3" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the recent and future explosion in StackOverflows, I'd like to have one meta/mega site to access all of them. This site will simply be a collection of proxies to the different SO sites, aggregate content from all of them and allow posting questions to a specific sub-site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T15:16:25.043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T15:16:25.043" ClosedDate="2009-07-18T12:38:12.533" Title="One stackoverflow to rule them all" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;multiple&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2009-07-18T11:44:38.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the Users Search, type in the username you want, and get the id from its URL. Simple as pie :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T11:44:38.777" />
  <row Id="6850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6834" CreationDate="2009-07-18T11:55:52.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I visited woot with FireFox every day for less than two weeks when I suddenly got the woot badge. I still go there a few times a week just to see what they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4086" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T11:55:52.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6886" CreationDate="2009-07-18T12:02:36.187" Score="11" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122328/first-name-middle-name-last-name-why-not-full-name&quot;&gt;First name, middle name, last name. Why not Full Name?&lt;/a&gt; my answer has 34 votes and the accepted answer has 10.  But no sign of a Populist badge - should I have one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: The accepted answer on that question has received another upvote, so I now have the badge.  But either the description needs fixing, or the number of votes required by the accepted answer needs to drop to 10. If Chris F's answer is right then &quot;outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x&quot; is wrong.  It should be &quot;11 votes&quot; or the condition should be reduced to 10 to match the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T04:33:43.000" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:33:43.000" Title="Is the Populist badge broken? Or have I misunderstood?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;populist&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6851" CreationDate="2009-07-18T12:15:06.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;=&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T12:15:06.610" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98502" CreationDate="2008-11-06T19:08:07.690" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you read the reputation chart on your profile page? I get that you can resize/move the light blue area to cover different time periods, but how do you read the bars above the chart? What do the numbers actually mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4086" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="Diago" LastEditDate="2011-07-13T21:07:26.943" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T21:07:26.943" Title="How do you read the reputation charts on profile pages?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="6854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6853" CreationDate="2008-11-06T19:10:42.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shows all your points from upvotes (you receive 10 points for each) in green and all your votes for downvotes (you receieve -2 points for each) in red for each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my experience that it's frequently hours out of date, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T12:24:56.363" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6848" CreationDate="2009-07-18T12:26:47.237" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this already exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...one meta/mega site to access all of&#xA;  them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be your web browser with each of the sites open in a separate tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...aggregate content from all of&#xA;  them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...allow posting questions to a&#xA;  specific sub-site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on the appropriate tab and post your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T12:26:47.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2231" CreationDate="2009-07-18T12:29:19.360" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to ask for the same feature and I found this as a related question. I think it would be fun to have the following variables:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rank&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentile rank&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the following values available:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Current&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T12:29:19.360" />
  <row Id="6857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2009-07-18T12:39:22.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a discussion around the API for a while now &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1610/when-will-the-stack-overflow-api-be-released/1637#1637&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Thus far there is not been any confirmation of this happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T12:39:22.470" />
  <row Id="6860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6812" CreationDate="2009-07-18T13:29:34.717" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until a better solution is found, there are &lt;strike&gt;two&lt;/strike&gt;three work-arounds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put an extra apostrophe at the end, plus add more if needed to account for appostrophes in the comment text itself.  It's nice because the comment stands out consistently, but not as nice because the comment is still colored like a string literal and you need to watch for the extra apostrophes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;'You''re commenting!'&#xA;Dim c As New Comment()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put two apostrophes followed by two forward slashes at the front of the comment.  It's nice because you don't have to worry about extra apostrophes in the comment and because the comment is colored correctly, but bad because it adds a bunch of extra junk to the front that's harder to clean out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;''// You're commenting!&#xA;Dim c As New Comment()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Put two apostrophes followed by a hash (#) at the front of the comment. Works just like the previous method, but saves one character and the result look less like a bastardized attempt at C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;''# You're commenting!&#xA;Dim c As New Comment()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T17:28:43.890" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T17:28:43.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7035" CreationDate="2009-07-18T14:21:22.533" Score="2" ViewCount="601" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked the pages of SO site with Firefox 3.5.1 + YSlow 1.4.0 and I've got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/so-main.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Main screen&lt;/a&gt; (B, 80)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/so-user.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;User profile&lt;/a&gt; (B, 82)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/so-post.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Post&lt;/a&gt; (C, 72)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/so-edit.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Editing&lt;/a&gt; (A, 92)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could check the entire site if you want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feature request: please make them all above 90 points, especially in terms of speed related factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T00:01:45.667" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T00:01:45.667" Title="Stackoverflow site YSlow grade B?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6864" CreationDate="2009-07-18T14:49:12.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YSlow, while useful, isn't a dogma. There are a few issues that will lower SO's score:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gravatars images come from beyond SO's control and for practical reasons won't have far futures Expires headers and the like since the image name is just an MD5 hash of the email address and could change;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yahoo marks down lack of CDN usage. Frankly, CDN usage is overrated in this regard;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You also lose points for not using ETags and there are circumstances where they add little value (like far futures expiry combined with versioning). In these cases you're only adding ETags to boost YSlow score and that's it; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lack of minified JS/CSS is an issue but a minor one if you use compressed output (which SO does). The way compression works is that if you compress something with no spaces versus something with lots of spaces, the second version will probably be larger but not much larger. That's information theory for you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, SO isn't committing any particularly egregious sins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T14:49:12.547" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T14:57:10.567" Score="5" ViewCount="660" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are something like twice as many C# questions as Java questions? What does that represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there twice as many C# programmers as Java programmers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do C# programmers ask twice as many questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do Java programmers go elsewhere to ask questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there more C# questions because it's newer, or some Java programmers are moving to C#?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it a matter of early momentum or seeding? Do so many C# questions bring more C# programmers here to ask questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:43:19.920" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:43:19.920" Title="Why so many questions tagged C# on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6851" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:11:43.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do realize that it take a while for the stats to be re-calculated. I got the Civic Duty badge, after I already up-voted about 320 items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T15:11:43.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6866" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:17:30.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it means that people are asking twice as many C# questions as Java questions.  Any other answer would be subjective/speculation, since even a correlation with other data (number of licenses, etc) does not indicate causation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18484" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T15:17:30.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:51:52.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I first saw it in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Tech Talk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T15:51:52.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T15:51:52.640" />
  <row Id="6873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6875" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:45:10.193" Score="9" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to SO, so I'm trying to understand the rating system employed here as to what's offensive content.  In particular, it seems that topics related to game enhancements made through reverse engineering are offensive like shown &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/775481/keeping-address-in-c-hacking-game-code-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But any &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135685/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;guidance&lt;/a&gt; I find on the use of the offensive flag don't seem to include that sort of thing.  In fact, the accepted answer says: &quot;The Offensive flag is meant to be used only in extreme cases, like spam, hate speech, or abuse.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190705/should-an-answer-that-encourages-illegal-activity-be-marked-as-offensive&quot;&gt;legal aspect&lt;/a&gt; that might be involved, but as that topic's accepted answer says: legalities shouldn't be a factor in using the offensive flag as laws are different everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as someone that works in the security field as a software developer, I'm kind of apprehensive about posting questions related to my field on this site, as they might randomly marked as offensive.  Could anyone help clear up where that line is, since it currently seems arbitrary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T16:10:27.120" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T11:53:33.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T15:45:10.193" Title="Security is Offensive?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;security&gt;&lt;policy&gt;&lt;offensivetagging&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6873" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:48:58.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question. Quite frankly, I learned an awful lot back in the days I used to reverse engineer save-game files. It's an activity I would encourage anybody to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the question you linked to, and I would agree that is not offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question probably belongs on metastackoverflow, and I think there should be some clearer guidance written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131661" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T15:56:25.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T15:48:58.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6873" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:52:34.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is a community. If someone finds a question/answer offensive, they will flag it up. As you noted, these should only happen on extreme cases, not necessarily illegal ones (what may be illegal in one country may not be in another).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is, not everyone will follow these guidelines and one persons offensive is not what someone else will think of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way or another, flagged posts will be seen by the moderators who will have final say. These are really an internal SO feature, if that is what you are worried about, and will not end up with anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140505" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T15:56:25.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T15:52:34.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6866" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:57:14.943" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Top 5 tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c#× 29626&lt;br&gt;&#xA;.net× 17925&lt;br&gt;&#xA;java× 15630&lt;br&gt;&#xA;asp.net× 14137&lt;br&gt;&#xA;javascript× 10734  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c#, .net and asp.net are in the top 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is because the most of Jeff's and Joel's readers come from the Microsoft world. That's not strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason could be that Java is older and there were many other places where people can ask questions, with new technology (see iPhone) it will be easy to attract users to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21384" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-25T08:07:21.353" LastActivityDate="2010-06-25T08:07:21.353" />
  <row Id="6877" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:40:14.853" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;At work, all week I was unable to connect to SO.  I have received confirmation that the site has not been blocked either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get a 403 page ... {FF &amp;amp;&amp;amp; IE}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I try to do to resolve this issue??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131757" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:48:31.840" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:48:31.840" Title="Unable to connect to SO from work" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6877" CreationDate="2009-07-18T15:50:14.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careful with recommendations like Anonymouse.  Where I work, tunneling out like this will get you walked out the door and your things sent home in a box.  You may rail about it being nonsense, but if that's the policy of your employer you have to either live with it or find a new place to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to view looking at SO at work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're merely using it as a source for answers to tough programming questions that you encounter during the day.  Your employer is likely to support that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're spending time answering questions, building your reputation, and using time that you're getting paid to do something else.  Your employer is likely to frown on that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see SO from my desk, but I never log on.  I don't want to be tempted.  I wait 'til I return home to waste my own time.  8)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T16:00:25.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6873" CreationDate="2009-07-18T16:06:43.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Security questions that are &lt;strong&gt;programming related&lt;/strong&gt; are welcome on Stack Overflow.  I don't see any reason why general topics like reverse engineering should be considered offensive.  As long as you're not using &lt;code&gt;133t 5p34k&lt;/code&gt; and asking questions about downloading scripts so you too can be a &lt;code&gt;h4x0r&lt;/code&gt; (I mention this because I've seen it flagged, not because I anticipate that this is what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; will do), I don't see why your questions about security should be flagged.  Keep your questions general and don't ask how to crack specific products and you should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for the sake of completeness, questions about configuring your home Wi-Fi encryption are probably more suited to Super User, while questions about network security in general are more suited to Server Fault.  Programming questions of all varieties are always welcome on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T16:06:43.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T16:06:43.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6877" CreationDate="2009-07-18T16:13:29.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can SSH to your home computer (and allowed to do so) you can set up a proxy server like squid at home. Then at work you do this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ssh -f -L localhost:3128:localhost:3128 youruser@yourcomputer sleep 600&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your browser, use localhost:3128 as the proxy server. Your home proxy will even work if it only accepts connections from localhost. Also useful if you are on an unsafe wifi network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131187" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T16:13:29.503" />
  <row Id="6884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6895" CreationDate="2009-07-18T16:14:58.727" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I opened four Bounty questions such that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a moderator who can reject/accept it notices it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we get the improvements suggested on the sites as soon as possible. &lt;em&gt;I do not want that my questions get into the mass such that nobody notices them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One user downvoted my questions because I made them Bounty, while the other upvoted some of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests me that the users do not know when Bounty should be used. I used it because of the two reasons above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggests &lt;strong&gt;to have measures to show users that the feature-request are in Jeff's queue for consideration&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;#1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One simple measure is that &lt;strong&gt;moderators add the explicit tag &lt;code&gt;under-jeff's-consideration&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to each potential feature-request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we should have an explicit &lt;strong&gt;lieutenants-and-dictator&lt;/strong&gt; -model such that Jeff do not need to read all our feature-requests. My aim is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to give him more time such that the main sites improve faster &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to make the control of sites more explicit such that we do not make bounties for notice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:42:55.063" Title="To have a tag &quot;under-Jeff's-consideration&quot; set by moderators" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="6886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6851" CreationDate="2009-07-18T16:31:25.377" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer has to have 11 (or more up-votes). I was confused when an answer of mine beat the accepted answer by 2x and I didn't get the badge so I e-mailed the team. This is the reply I received:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;rule is actually &gt; 11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and the test is &gt; 2 * 11 on the post&#xA;  as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;minimum&lt;/em&gt; number of votes you&#xA;  would need to get it, is 23.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T16:31:25.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2009-07-18T16:45:07.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we get the improvements suggested on&#xA;  the sites as soon as possible. I do&#xA;  not want that my questions get into&#xA;  the mass such that nobody notices&#xA;  them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't mind me asking, what is it that makes you so special? Because whatever it is, I had not previously noticed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of us are trying to improve the sites. What makes suggestions from any one of us better than suggestions from the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll go look at your suggestions now, in case I can tell just by reading them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I looked. You have a lot of interesting ideas. You certainly ask enough questions on SO. I'm just not seeing the &quot;special&quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T17:20:20.710" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:20:20.710" />
  <row Id="6895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2009-07-18T16:53:35.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there's no real way to tell what ideas Jeff likes and wants to implement, and what ideas he'll ultimately decline. Personally, I try to review feature requests that come along and see if either they're already implemented or if Jeff has already declined the same or similar request in the past, and I tag them &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt; respectively. I also attempt to reproduce bugs and provide screenshots when it's necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest, however, have to be reviewed by Jeff. He's been very good about going through feature requests and bugs and marking them as completed, declined, etc. almost every night. Ultimately, I don't think that the volume of tickets is so overwhelming that a stronger system is necessary yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T16:53:35.767" />
  <row Id="6897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2009-07-18T17:07:13.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would a moderator know if a feature request or bug is under Jeff's consideration? If the issue has come up before, which as Kyle mentioned, and I've noticed others do, the moderators will help point you towards whatever the resolution was before. But, if it's something that needs to be considered by Jeff and/or his team, there is no way for a moderator to know if they're considering it unless they indicate they're doing so. The best you can do to bring attention to your bug/feature request is to properly tag it as such. In time Jeff and his team will get around to addressing these as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:07:13.423" />
  <row Id="6899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6900" CreationDate="2009-07-18T17:31:03.617" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/8077/how-do-i-set-up-ssh-so-i-dont-have-to-type-my-password/8078#8078&quot;&gt;discussion on Super User&lt;/a&gt; about the goals of the system and the types of answers that work best. One of the comments was this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the reasons for Superuser is to build a encyclopedic collection of common questions and answers. Links to other sites don't advance that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Super User's about page says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Super User is &lt;strong&gt;collaboratively built and maintained&lt;/strong&gt; by your fellow users. Once the system learns to trust you, you'll be able to edit anything, much like &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. With your help, we can build good answers to every question a power user might have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering these two quotes, my question is &lt;strong&gt;why distinguish between community wiki and regular questions?&lt;/strong&gt; There's a requirement of 750 reputation to edit CW questions, and 2000 to edit other people's questions, and CW questions don't generate reputation. Instead, why don't we just &lt;strong&gt;make all posts CW, and up/down-vote &lt;em&gt;individual edits&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, with both the question votes and the edit votes generating reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131139" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:38:11.090" Title="SO/SF/SU goals: community wiki distinction?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2009-07-18T17:38:11.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because then it is not a Q&amp;amp;A site and just another wikipedia. The concept of CW is for discussion subject and opinion polls. We are discussing this at length in another thread &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5778/help-define-superuser-com&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:38:11.090" />
  <row Id="6901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6884" CreationDate="2009-07-18T17:42:55.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted them. As already indicated by John I don't see any reason why feature-request, for which there is already a defined tag checked and managed by Jeff and the team, needs to suddenly have a bounty attached. The only correct answer is going to be Jeff tagging the question, as he as already either as declined or accepted. This is the process put together in Stack Overflow. If a feature is good enough and enough users like the idea then it will filter to the top and get done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted solely on the basis of the bounty as I considered it abuse of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also want to mention that you are of the opinion that Jeff works on this alone. Since the inception of SO a very big amount of the sites growth has been due to the teamwork and the community voting and making feature request. Jeff and Joel owns the sites, but they work very hard &lt;b&gt;with&lt;/b&gt; the community and the entire team behind coding the site. Even the moderators have a say in how things are put together. I do not believe in any way that Jeff is trying to be a dictator and I doubt he sees the site as his own personal playground. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He deserves the respect as the creator, and should be proud of an awesome platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:42:55.063" />
  <row Id="6902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2009-07-18T17:55:51.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favor of being able to offer a bounty from the start. I think this will yield more quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131636" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T17:55:51.100" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6866" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:03:50.200" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did some stats on the dump to get to the bottom of some of your underlying questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Java&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;54,896 Total Posts  &#xA;14,256 Total Questions&#xA;40,640 Total Answers&#xA;----------&#xA; 5,383 Unique Askers  &#xA;10,292 Unique Answerers&#xA;----------&#xA;2.6483 Questions per Asker&#xA;3.9487 Answers per Answerer&#xA;2.8507 Answers per Question&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;C&lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;96,797 Total Posts&#xA;27,147 Total Questions&#xA;69,650 Total Answers&#xA;----------&#xA; 8,681 Unique Askers&#xA;14,653 Unique Answerers&#xA;----------&#xA;3.1272 Questions per Asker&#xA;4.7533 Answers per Answerer&#xA;2.5657 Answers per Question&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt; &#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T18:03:50.200" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6913" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:19:16.047" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/8100/games-for-kids-closed&quot;&gt;Kids PC or Mac games&lt;/a&gt; that on SuperUser that has been closed because it was &quot;not computer related&quot;. Can someone please correct this! Last time I checked PCs and Macs were both types of computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8152" LastEditorUserId="8152" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T18:34:32.480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T18:44:01.623" Title="Post closed arbitrarily" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11358" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:27:16.053" Score="29" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presently, users with reputation over some threshold don't get &lt;code&gt;rel=nofollow&lt;/code&gt; on their &quot;official web site&quot; link in their profile, which is nice.  Can the same apply to links in the About Me section of the profile, for users with 3000+ rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, we don't want to encourage link spammers to generate &lt;code&gt;S[OFU]&lt;/code&gt; accounts, so setting a pretty high barrier is appropriate.  But with that addressed, I would argue that whatever linkjuice a user's profile has is largely the effect of their contributions, and it'd be nice to let them have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that under &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.360i.com/search-engines/google-nofollow-policy-reversing-tenant-seo-practices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google's new policy for nofollow logic&lt;/a&gt;, having nofollow links on the page damages the effect of the non-nofollow links.  So if you have any stuff going on on the web besides your &quot;official web site&quot;, you have the choice of not linking to it in your profile or hurting your &quot;official web site&quot; by listing it, as matters stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:47:16.870" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T21:15:32.283" Title="Can we not rel=nofollow links in profile About Me for users with 3000+ rep?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;nofollow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5886" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:27:33.213" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/2103/add-keyboard-shortcuts-to-comments&quot;&gt;this script now lives on StackApps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this request is declined and Jeff is unlikely to be swayed by a bounty, I have written a GreaseMonkey script to add this functionality.  I've added Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I support.  I agree that it would be a good idea for this to be incorporated into the base code, but I guess it is not a high priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T16:39:05.697" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T16:39:05.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6904" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:36:09.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With all the games stuff, SU is blocked by firewalls from several companies. I think they try to reduce these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T18:36:09.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:40:10.367" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to refer to the trilogy is, of course, with a regular expression:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;S[OFU]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pronounced &quot;ess oh eff you&quot;, naturally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T18:40:10.367" />
  <row Id="6912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6918" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:43:41.680" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'd like to hear more from Jeff and Joel (and particularly a proper back-and-forth discussion between them) about the purpose of the reputation cap, and why/whether a time-sensitive approach is the most effective one. Even if that doesn't result in any changes, I think it would be an interesting discussion. That's just an example though - this question &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; meant to be about reputation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other StackOverflow-related topics would you like to hear discussed on the podcast? Do you particularly like the SO-related stuff, or are you more interested in general tech stuff? (Of course it's quite possible that J&amp;amp;J are sick of meta discussions, and any answers here will be pointless - but that's a different matter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5097&quot;&gt;separate question&lt;/a&gt; dealing with potential podcast guests, so it's probably best to keep the discussion off that topic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:55:32.803" Title="What SO topics would you like to see discussed on the podcast?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6904" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:44:01.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed the post and I followed Jeff Atwood's precedent of using the &quot;Not Computer Related&quot; Option (we have a limited number of options to choose from and this is the best fit). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are just asking about games are most likely not going to be allowed going further on SuperUser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T18:44:01.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:42:52.847" Score="1" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or at least have maybe the ability to set some other answers as assisted answer. I find myself finding an acceptable answer unusable while other answers underneath it might be more suitable.&#xA;Would it be safe to say that the accepted answer should only make sense to the asker whether or not the question is important to others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131639" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-06T05:16:45.583" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T05:16:45.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T18:42:52.847" Title="Woudn't it make sense to have more than one answer acceptable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6931" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:50:43.683" Score="-7" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;To remove the problem of fastest typer getting more rep points out of a question, how about locking the answers for the first 2 minutes i.e. anybody can post an answer but it will not appear in the page until the question itself is 2 minutes old. I am sure the OP will not have too many problems with the 2 minute delay. It will allow people to write more thoughtful answers than just quickly typing some short answers. What is your opinion about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131638" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T14:38:12.297" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:54:45.613" Title="Don't show the answers for the question in the first 2 minutes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6912" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:51:27.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest I have never once actually listened to the podcasts (I do read the recaps the comment discussions on the blog, though). If there was discussion concerning the rep limits and such I think I would actually tune in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would definitely like to hear a serious discussion concerning the possibilities of a version of StackExchange being released as an open source project and the possibilities for that as far as what types of branches could be made from it. I think this was discussed before, but it was more along the lines of a proprietary vs. foss debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Another topic which I would absolutely love to hear about is Jeff &amp;amp; Joel's take on the pony meme that I have managed to unleash on this once innocent landscape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T19:55:32.803" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:55:32.803" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6866" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:55:25.910" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site is running on MS stack with C#?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have the best answerer on the planet regarding C#?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quality of other C# related forums and sites are worse than Java's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's shorter to type in C# into the tags as typing Java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java questioners already know the answer, but just want to elaborate the community's option?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java questions are less overlapping than C# questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java programmers &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; and are willing to find answers elsewhere?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java programmers learn C# here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C# is a base for Singularity?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implicit C# advertisement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java still lacks features to be asked about?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C# has more complex features to understand?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most java programmers wear eyeglasses: they don't C#.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-25T08:08:34.510" LastActivityDate="2010-06-25T08:08:34.510" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6917" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:56:12.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And then which answer would you list on top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I guess whatever delays we come up with, it won't keep a few from trying to gain reputation. And once those few get more relaxed about it, there will be new members who are eager to be on top. Too bad, but I doubt it can be avoided. It may even make some people stop from answering, as they may expect some answers to be in the wait-to-be-shown-queue?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T18:56:12.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6914" CreationDate="2009-07-18T18:59:28.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really doesn't, because &lt;code&gt;S[OFU]&lt;/code&gt; are meant, ideally, for questions that have a single best answer.  Making more than one answer acceptable would subvert that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T18:59:28.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T18:59:28.937" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="6922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6917" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:01:09.560" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This defeats the imperative of getting people answers to their questions as quickly as possible.  Any fastest-gun effects are a price worth paying for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, your suggestion might be good for optimizing SO as a &lt;em&gt;game&lt;/em&gt;, for certain sets of game rules, but loses sight of the core purpose of solving people's problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:01:09.560" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6912" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:05:14.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't listened to any podcast nor read the blog, but I'd like discussions about these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why every second response to meta questions involves &quot;by-design&quot; (declines or as explanation), without any explanation or a link to the explanation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would be the money to sell the entire SO, so the new owner can go ahead and fix the problems?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When will we have SO 2.0?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Besides the names and color schemes, what are the differences between the family sites that made them to be created and developed separately?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proofs, proofs, proofs, and transparency to validate the proofs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During SO design and development, was there any international involvement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my questions have been already discussed, please feel free to comment in the links to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:05:14.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6917" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:11:54.863" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem lies deeper, in the voting system itself beeing an inadequately designed mechanism - IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish there were be constraint on how fast the questioner can leave the site - I don't like when I leave my answer or ask for clarification and I have to wait a couple of hours to get response from the OP. Of course this is practically impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also quickly type in a sort answer: &quot;Maybe. Detailed answer is coming sortly.&quot; and then start editing your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing I would prefer is to have the good answer before I even ask my own question ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T19:31:52.400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:31:52.400" />
  <row Id="6925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6927" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:19:41.607" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder why the user's badge counts are displayed beside the avatar/reputation value? What was the reason behind showing the counts anyway, as to see what those actually are, the user needs to click on the name? Why aren't the badge counts shown on community-wikis then?&#xA;How can I trust an answerer who has 20 badges in &quot;Great Question&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please enlighten me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:26:33.187" Title="Why are the badge counts displayed beside the poster's avatar?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6917" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:23:11.677" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Woah there! Classic error you're making here. You've got a valid grouch, but your solution is like blindfolding the whirling dervishes to keep them from accidentally falling into that open manhole. Nope, you're gonna want to use that blindfold to bind their legs, mate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More explicitly: If you didn't show the answers for two minutes: &lt;strong&gt;You'd have a boat load of duplicates upon duplicates in that time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you really want to do is to: &lt;strong&gt;NOT ALLOW VOTING ON ANSWERS FOR TWO/FIVE MINUTES&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131391" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:23:11.677" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6925" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:24:21.793" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are meant to be shown off. If you meet someone in a boy scout uniform, you get impressed by the number of badges that they have, even if you don't necessarily know what those badges are exactly (in real life you would have to actually -ask- the scout what the badges stood for, just like you have to go to their user page to find out what those actual badges are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason behind showing the counts is just to provide a short and slightly informative view of how active/good they are on the system by showcasing the overall number of badges. You can draw your own conclusions. If a user has 800 bronze badges but only 5 silver, you may actually draw a conclusion that the user may only be partially helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can make up your own mind about what the badges mean to you when you look at them on other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:24:21.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:24:32.273" Score="6" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tagging system doesn't support (as far as I know) a tag to be &quot;separated&quot; into two tags. For example, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex&quot;&gt;Flex tag on SO&lt;/a&gt; currently has questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://flex.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flex&lt;/a&gt;. I'm sure there are more tags that have this problem.&#xA;How would you suggest splitting tags in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131214" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-21T12:24:35.260" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T20:03:12.530" Title="How to handle tags with multiple meanings?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ambiguous-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6928" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:27:07.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how easy it would be to go about it, but I would suggest breaking them into two different tags like &quot;adobe-flex&quot; and....well someone will have to help me there because I don't know enough about the other Flex to really give an idea about what else to call it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:27:07.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:32:56.920" Score="-2" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we want accepted answers for the questions (there are some features encouraging this behaviour already) there can be badge for users having accepted answers for all the questions they asked... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I could not find a name yet... ideas appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11374" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T04:33:20.473" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T06:40:51.943" Title="New badge for users having accepted answers for all the questions they asked" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6917" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:33:50.950" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the 1,000th time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FASTEST GUN IN THE WEST IS NOT A PROBLEM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is the quickest to post an answer and it is the CORRECT answer, then you just did the OP a service by giving them an extremely fast answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone posts a quick answer and it stinks, there is no reason for it to be upvoted (and it would likely be downvoted for being horrible), which means that another more correct answer will move to the top of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast and Correct are NOT mutually exclusive. Some people are able to post good answers very quickly and I think that they should definitely be rewarded for it. Some people post garbage answers very quickly and they already get punished by it with downvotes. And the best answer will generally always bubble up to the top. If you spent 5 more minutes creating a big long answer that is better than the quick and dirty one, you may not get the check mark, but in the long run you will earn a MUCH greater score than a short and dirty one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please stop trying to punish those who work quickly and effectively. If someone is able to post the correct answer to my question 5 seconds after I post it, I am -extremely- happy and I am not going to sit there and say &quot;No, you went too fast&quot; I'm going to say &quot;Holy crap that was fast, thanks!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:33:50.950" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:37:13.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want that so badly! What would it be called? The I'm an active member who has an obsession with not seeing the &quot;Have you considered starting a bounty?&quot; badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:37:13.857" />
  <row Id="6933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:38:10.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly excluding community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to have the option for CW of saying &quot;this answer doesn't and will never have a correct answer - don't expect me to ever tick it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:38:10.810" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:39:18.053" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this works very well with how badges are currently awarded. Badges are awarded now and you NEVER lose them. This is the case if you get a Nice Answer badge, but then your answer falls down to +9. You will not lose the badge, but it will prevent you from earning a new one if something else happens to come along and earn a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is &quot;what is ALL the questions they ask?&quot; Are you saying 1 out of 1, 5 out of 5, 10 out of 10? Depending on the size you want this to count, you could also run the risk of people posting garbage questions just so they can do a quick accept (regardless of the quality of the answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:39:18.053" />
  <row Id="6935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:40:00.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Idea needs a little work, but the basic motivation is great.  It seems to me that it would need some count threshold, e.g. at least 10 questions asked and 100% have accepted answers (silver) and at least 100 questions asked and 100% have accepted answers (gold).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's call the first one Gives Credit and the second one Really Gives Credit. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skip the CW questions for all purposes, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:40:00.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6928" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:43:27.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any general solution.  In your particular case, I'd suggest retagging the Flex lexer questions &lt;code&gt;flex-lexer&lt;/code&gt;, mostly because they'll be fewer and the people asking questions about it will be smarter and easier to educate, whereas there's no chance of ever getting the horde of Adobe Flex users to change their behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:43:27.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6940" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:45:02.920" Score="12" ViewCount="507" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to access PonyOverflow.com, but it keeps routing me to stackoverflow.com.  Does this mean I should be asking pony questions on StackOverflow until they finally finish PonyOverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, here's my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the heck is a pony anyway?  Is it a midget horse or just a brand of shoes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130722" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T04:25:08.083" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T04:25:08.083" Title="PonyOverflow.com Question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ponies&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6851" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:45:29.840" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it wasn't relevant in this case, if anybody else stumbles upon this question in the future wondering about their lack of a Populist badge, it's important to note that, either accidentally or by design, &lt;strong&gt;only one badge is awarded per question, to the highest scoring answer.&lt;/strong&gt; So even if you outscore the accepted answer (of score more than 10) by more than 2x, if you yourself are outscored by another answer you will not get the badge. I propose amending the description to make this clearer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with more than 10 votes by  more than 2x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:45:29.840" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="6939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:48:28.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that URL simply points to TheTXI's user page - for fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:48:28.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2009-07-18T19:51:24.160" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;PonyOverflow.com is a recursive joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I am looking for suggestions on how to successfully incorporate AdSense into my profile :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your question: A pony is neither a midget horse (midgets are evil little impish creatures that eat babies) nor a brand of shoes (as far as I know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ponies are magical creatures that bring happiness and love wherever they trot. Their slightly smaller stature is due to the fact that they were never intended to be beasts of burden. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A closely related magical relative to the pony is the unicorn. Many have mistakenly believed that unicorns are weaponized forms of the pony, but they do not share the same body build and are actually more closely related to the non magical standard horse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T19:51:24.160" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="6941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:02:47.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Stack Overflow is dev&#xA;Server Fault   is svr&#xA;Super User     is usr&#xA;Meta SO        is alt&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and if you think about it, each of them are just variants of &lt;strong&gt;CODEMONKEY&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I vote for &lt;strong&gt;The CODEMONKEY COMMUNE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;Commune&lt;/em&gt;? I give you the top 3 results on Wikipedia's disambig page for &lt;em&gt;Commune&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commune may refer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commune (intentional community), a community in which resources are shared&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commune (socialism), a leftist model for society&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commune (card game), a poker-based bluffing game&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if you haven't heard it yet, you may want to hear the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/CodeMonkey.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code Monkey song&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jonathan Coulton&lt;/a&gt;. Just don't go overboard and adopt it for an anthem or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131391" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:02:47.727" />
  <row Id="6942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6943" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:04:36.660" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4279/different-types-of-reputation&quot;&gt;Different types of reputation?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gained most of my rep by asking good questions about things I'm having trouble with. Does this mean I'm inexperienced and you shouldn't trust my (or someone like me to) answer(s) to your questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T17:00:04.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:00:04.140" ClosedDate="2009-07-18T20:25:37.283" Title="If you gain your rep by asking questions, are you still a valid answerer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6942" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:09:11.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking good questions is a good way to learn, for everybody - one of the site's concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes even, you can answer a similar question just by pointing to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:09:11.783" />
  <row Id="6945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:12:39.723" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I setup Ponyoverflow.com for TheTXI as a joke. We were giggling on IRC one night and he suggested we created a ponyoverflow site. I registered the domain and pointed it to his profile. Since he is the Pony King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:12:39.723" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:14:29.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Atwoods Family (TAF, speak &quot;tough&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130848" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:14:29.177" />
  <row Id="6947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:14:30.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Increasingly-Inaccurately-Named-Hitchhikers-Trilogy/lm/RYX5EQJ0M23VF&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Increasingly Inaccurately Named StackOverflow Trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:14:30.383" />
  <row Id="6949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:17:11.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I call it simply &lt;strong&gt;Jeff's&lt;/strong&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta User Super Server Stack Overflow Fault&lt;/strong&gt; when I want to explain it to my colleagues :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:17:11.427" />
  <row Id="6950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6942" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:21:03.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you are a valid answerer.  It takes critical thinking and judgment to ask a good question, and expertise to ask a great one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:21:03.353" />
  <row Id="6951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6925" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:26:33.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are just another dimension of measuring participation -- so the more badges someone has (and of which type) tells you how active they are on Stack Overflow and how many &quot;notable&quot; things they've accomplished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; go hand-in-hand- but not always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:26:33.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5924" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:27:28.190" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;3.1 (like 5.1 Surround Sound)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:27:28.190" />
  <row Id="6953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:32:13.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff got another name check in the Guardian in this week's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/15/games-evony-spam-internet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;technology section&lt;/a&gt;. It's interesting to see this sort of crossover from blogging back to the mainstream. I think it just means that blogging is becoming the mainstream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:32:13.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T20:32:13.897" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="6954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6928" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:39:08.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't be the first time were we took a tag, and renamed it to be more specific. The '&lt;code&gt;code-golf&lt;/code&gt;' tag used to be just '&lt;code&gt;golf&lt;/code&gt;', but after I found out that someone had tagged their golfing question ( as in the sport ), with the &lt;code&gt;golf&lt;/code&gt; tag, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg/3323#3323&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; for it to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is that if there aren't very many that are referring to gnu flex, for the tag to just be moved wholesale to the '&lt;code&gt;adobe-flex&lt;/code&gt;' tag. Then go through and remove the tag for any questions that actually referred to the gnu flex. The beauty of this solution, is that other users will notice the problem, and retag some of the questions for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are many of both, then my suggestion is a bit more time consuming. Go through all of the questions tagged '&lt;code&gt;flex&lt;/code&gt;', and for the ones for adobe flex, tag it '&lt;code&gt;adobe-flex&lt;/code&gt;', and tag the other ones '&lt;code&gt;gnu-flex&lt;/code&gt;', until there are none tagged '&lt;code&gt;flex&lt;/code&gt;'. Like I said, time consuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully when your done, nobody will use the '&lt;code&gt;flex&lt;/code&gt;' tag. It seems to have 'stuck' for the '&lt;code&gt;golf&lt;/code&gt;' =&gt; '&lt;code&gt;code-golf&lt;/code&gt;' retag, there currently aren't any tagged '&lt;code&gt;golf&lt;/code&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it could be fairly straight forward to separate them, most of the ones referring to Adobe flex, usually have the word Adobe, somewhere in the question it-self. So you could, for example, have a special tag splitting feature, that takes the tag to split, the two tags to split it into, and a regex, or two, to determine which questions go into which tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that this feature has been created, but I think it is doable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for whether there is even a problem, I think there is. The main point of tagging questions, as I see it, is for people who answer questions, to be able to find questions they can answer. If everything under the sun has the same tag, that to me is the same as not having a tag at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having them under the same tag is a source of confusion, and grief that we can very easily eliminate, by moving them into separate tags. We could just move out the ones referring to the flex lexer, but what is to stop a new user from misusing the tag? If a new user comes and asks a question, they will see the '&lt;code&gt;flex&lt;/code&gt;' tag, and the '&lt;code&gt;gnu-flex&lt;/code&gt;' tag. They will probably not even realize that the '&lt;code&gt;flex&lt;/code&gt;' tag does not refer to what they think it does, and use both tags. Which is essentially the same as not even doing anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think we should have any tags that could be mistakenly used for more than one thing. Any tag that can be mistakenly used, will be mistakenly used. So unless you actually want people to use the wrong tag, they should be specific enough that there is little chance of them being mistakenly used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T02:52:24.707" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T02:52:24.707" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:48:23.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2008: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/18/internet-websites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;100 top sites for the year ahead&lt;/a&gt; (under Geek Squad)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2009: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The 100 essential websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T00:20:51.583" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T00:20:51.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T20:48:23.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:50:14.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a similar idea on UserVoice, it involved creating a special class of badges that was revocable. So that if you un-accepted a question, you would lose that badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The UserVoice question had more to do with continuing to look at answers to questions you have asked&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:50:14.447" />
  <row Id="6958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-07-18T20:58:33.703" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The danger with this is that it could lead to answers being accepted when they weren't really the definitive answer on the subject and/or people answering their own questions just to accept them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the percentage of accepted answers was less than 100% then this might mitigate that as there would be less reason to accept any old answer. To use the numbers from Chaos' answer you could have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Silver - &gt; 10 questions with 80% accepted&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Gold - &gt; 100 questions with 90% accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T20:58:33.703" />
  <row Id="6959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:07:15.677" Score="19" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the team try to leave at least a little explanation when tagging a feature-request post with the &quot;status-declined&quot; tag?  On Uservoice there was usually a brief explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying it should be mandatory or anything, it would just be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-13T18:32:44.077" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T23:06:04.267" Title="Can the team provide some explanation for declined feature requests?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12763" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:10:26.387" Score="10" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;p&gt;iTunes only lets me get the last 10 episodes of the Stack Overflow podcast.  If I wanted to get some of the older ones onto my iPod, what are my options?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can get the MP3s by clicking one-at-a-time on the &quot;Download&quot; link on the episode pages at &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/&lt;/a&gt;.  Further, I believe that with some &lt;a href=&quot;http://markbowers.org/blog/node/185#comment-4049&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MP3 tagging magic&lt;/a&gt; I could mark them as podcasts, and not audio files.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I go writing a script to do this, is there a trivial way - say, an RSS feed of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the episodes, with the descriptions, etc, to get the back catalogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Windows/Cygwin-friendly answers are preferred.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51691" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T12:38:57.927" Title="Old podcast episodes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="6961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:15:16.627" Score="3" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been trying to post a question for the last 15 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow requires tagging, but it prohibited me from using tags since I'm a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I posted the test question -- and was penalized with 7 down votes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Why won't Stackoverflow let me post the question (it has one link in it)?  Do I need to register or do something to ask questions with one link and over a certain length?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) How can I regain the lost rep points ... I was just testing to see if I could post even a basic question and planned to delete it right afterwards!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very frustrated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T08:31:45.433" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:31:45.433" Title="Stackoverflow won't let me post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6960" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:18:28.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php?feed=podcast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php?feed=podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:18:28.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6961" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:19:51.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't create new tags (ones that haven't been used in a question by anyone else before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you could provide some more information? Are you getting any errors when you try to post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:19:51.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6961" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:20:40.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first day on Stackoverflow was hell because I felt I wasn't allowed to do the things I needed to do to ask a question. I can't remember exactly what, but I remember the frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I lost reputation when I couldn't edit (or couldn't figure out how to edit) my question and elaborated in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The happiest day in my SO life was when I got enough reputation to edit questions. Especially the ones where people had confused &quot;it's&quot; with &quot;its.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the first time SO sees you, it assumes you are a scoundrel and a thief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry, day 2 will be better. Day 1 does suck. We empathize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:20:40.937" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="6965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6961" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:21:08.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your test post unfortunately attracted enough &quot;spam&quot; flags (from other users) to get deleted. It was perhaps an unfortunate coincidence that we've had a persistent troll who regularly posts things involving &quot;asdfasdf&quot; that your post (titled &quot;adsfsadfasdfsadf&quot;, content &quot;aasdfasdfasdfasdf&quot;) got jumped on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re getting the points back; I don't think you can reclaim the points incurred from hitting the &quot;spam&quot; threshold. That is unfortunate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is indeed a restriction on posting links until you have a little rep; this is to prevent spam/advertising/etc from anonymous accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:21:08.527" />
  <row Id="6966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6961" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:21:46.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have 2 questions on SO and both seems to have posted fine. I can't remember but I think there was a restriction that new users could only post links once they have reached 15 or 50 reputation points. The rest of the reputation limits are in the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. I would suggest you read it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit&lt;/b&gt; As mentioned by Marc the 3rd question was deleted. It therefore seems the problem was the link you tried to include in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:21:46.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6961" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:22:57.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need more rep to able to create new tags but you can instead choose tags that comes close. You should check the FAQ where this is explained in detail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131645" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:22:57.963" />
  <row Id="6968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6971" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:25:12.453" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a native English speaker, but whenever I see the label &quot;Belongs on ...&quot; makes me feel it should be &quot;Belongs to ...&quot; somehow? Can someone explain the wording?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:47:13.667" Title="Naming of the belongs on or to?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:25:59.497" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems very simple to solve.  If no answer is accepted, just give the rep to the highest-voted answer (the same way it works now, if I understand correctly).  There is no need to do anything further (i.e. automatically marking that answer as accepted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:25:59.497" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6968" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:27:12.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Belongs on refers to a place to where it has to be kept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Belongs to refers to a person that owns it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:27:12.180" />
  <row Id="6971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6968" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:27:38.647" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;belongs&quot; can be used in a broader sense, without &quot;to&quot;.  For example, &quot;the suitcase belongs on top of the wardrobe&quot;.  Since you would say a post was &quot;on superuser&quot;, it's correct to say &quot;belongs on superuser&quot; in that context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:27:38.647" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6959" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:33:33.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff and the team has left reasons where applicable. Some features get asked more then once or there has been a detailed discussion. Just as we can down-vote anonymously and without reason I assume we could give the team the same level of understanding and let them decline a feature without reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:33:33.510" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4508" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:41:21.540" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to mark an answer as &lt;strong&gt;Least Unacceptable&lt;/strong&gt; and that answer would be accepted at the end if I don't change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way I could mark my current favorite and keep the bounty open hoping for a better answer. I don't like the idea that I would have to manage the deadline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, perhaps you could give the bounty owner control of the time of day that the bounty would close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of 2 use cases where this would come in handy (assuming that this marking is public):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is an answer that works but is kinda clunky. I can hold out for a more elegant answer (if there is one).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An answer that is a link to an outside site that gives a good answer. I can push for a writeup of the answer on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastEditorUserId="3819" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T05:00:08.443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T05:00:08.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6977" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:41:43.277" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing through my favourite questions list, and noticed that, strangely, &quot;What's Your Favorite [sic] Harmless Computer Practical Joke?&quot;, had no answers. That seemed funny, so I checked it out - it was migrated to SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems a bit strange - should it show the number of answers on SuperUser, should it show that it has been migrated, or is this &lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt; again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a59775df03.png&quot; alt=&quot;demo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-18T22:12:35.247" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:12:35.247" Title="Favourited, migrated questions appear as having no answers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6968" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:47:13.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might also help you to review &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answers.com/site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the definition of &quot;site&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The place where a structure or group of structures was, is, or is to be located: a good site for the school.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The place or setting of something: a historic site; a job site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A website.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that 1 and 2 refer to a location in the physical world, while 3 builds on these to establish a metaphor: a page or set of pages on a given host can be thought of as similar to to structures on a particular piece of ground. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if a question is a structure (say... a bike shed), then it belongs on a piece of ground &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; - and the close reasons establish that it was originally constructed on the wrong site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:47:13.667" />
  <row Id="6977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6975" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:49:12.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design. The 'stub' with no answers is left behind to redirect people that have a link or favorite to the old question to the new location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why it doesn't have the answers or answer count from the new location is because the sites are separate, and it's not possible to determine the answer count on the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do agree that there should be better notification that a question has been moved, rather than simply closed. Perhaps using &lt;code&gt;[migrated]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[moved]&lt;/code&gt; would work better than &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:49:12.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6960" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:51:12.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&lt;/a&gt; - you can go back as far as you like and download them that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:51:12.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3167" CreationDate="2009-07-18T21:51:16.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be a be to recall a bounty you put out, if you figured out your problem, but I don't think doing that should be rewarded with a badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To kind of steal from one of Joel's comments in an early podcast, I don't think Napoleon would have given you a little piece of colored cloth for doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T21:51:16.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6960" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:01:22.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downthemall.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DownThemAll&lt;/a&gt; Firefox extension, and setting filtering in &lt;code&gt;*.mp3&lt;/code&gt; or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:01:22.133" />
  <row Id="6981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6991" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:02:57.273" Score="4" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;... and when you click on it there's nothing in the question or its answers done by him/it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T11:24:43.500" Title="Why does a question appear as modified by the Community user" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;&lt;posts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7081" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:04:33.160" Score="15" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;Came to mind when reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6975/favourited-migrated-questions-appear-as-having-no-answers/6977#6977&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but would be useful for more than just moved, off-topic questions (I'd especially like to see duplicate questions flagged as such in the title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144703/what-should-the-penalty-response-for-missing-a-deadline-be-closed&quot;&gt;What should the penalty/response for missing a deadline be? [closed - Not programming related]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1148584/stackoverflow-wont-let-me-post-closed&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow won’t let me post? [closed - Belongs on meta]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1148053/data-module-in-dll-with-delphi-closed&quot;&gt;Data Module in DLL with Delphi? [closed - Duplicate]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147912/vmware-fusion-dhcp-with-multiple-static-ips-closed&quot;&gt;VMWare Fusion / DHCP with multiple static IPs [closed - Belongs on SuperUser]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T03:30:11.717" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T03:32:07.377" Title="Please append the reason for closing to the title along with &quot;[closed]&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="6983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6959" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:04:42.683" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish I knew why &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6380&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; was declined&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:04:42.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3167" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:04:42.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there were methods to define your own &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4870/what-would-you-contribute-or-try-to-to-an-open-sourced-stackoverflow/4881#4881&quot;&gt;private badges&lt;/a&gt;, you could do that and still be hidden from the others - if that makes you happy. In general, the ability to have your own near-real-time metrics about your performance might be an interesting thing too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:04:42.880" />
  <row Id="6985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6981" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:07:49.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community user is an automated process to stirr up some old and unanswered question. Actually, the user page belonging &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; the Community user describes its purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:07:49.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="6986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41354" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:11:58.450" Score="8" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you can follow up your suggestions (or solutions to bugs) like we could in uservoice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T21:46:15.140" Title="Add a notification when one of your questions get a status-* tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;follow-up&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6380" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:13:24.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Human Verification is just that. To confirm that you are a human and not a bot. Most automated process will continually post until they are successful. Ie. They will keep adding tags until the submission is accepted. This is the reason the Trilogy does not contain SPAM. Considering the irritation of spam on other forums and group I am more then happy with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a bug, and I am extremely surprised Jeff didn't flag it by-design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:13:24.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6380" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:16:34.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Annoying, but at least you don't loose your progress. Instead of skipping the CAPTCHA for this issue, why not have a javascript verification &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the data gets sent to the server?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:16:34.847" />
  <row Id="6989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6982" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:18:49.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually thought that this question was closed when I first saw it in the list though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1391" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:18:49.463" />
  <row Id="6990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6982" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:20:24.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good concept, but It would make the title too long in some cases, perhaps an abbreviation would make things sorter. It is also possible, that the [closed] change is automated and not parameterable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[closed - not programming related]   [XNP]&#xA;[closed - belongs on Serverfault]    [XSF]&#xA;[closed - belongs on Meta]           [XMT]&#xA;[closed - duplicate]                 [XD]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:20:24.573" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="6991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6981" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:32:16.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;kd304 describes the most likely reason for &quot;Community ♦&quot; getting involved. Just for completeness, there is another purpose that you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; want to see on your posts... it is &quot;Community ♦&quot; who gets the blame if your post is obliterated as spam/offensive. Of course, you'd probably need &gt; 10k rep to &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the remains of such a post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:32:16.227" />
  <row Id="6992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6982" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:35:41.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this. I know what you mean, wanting to know why, but it's really only a click away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Titles are already long as it is, and adding even more fluff to a title will just get in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:35:41.803" />
  <row Id="6993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7001" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:36:21.647" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please encourage people somehow to display their default timezone on their own user page, so we could know when to expect him back again? Practically, for those who displayed their location I could look it up, but I guess, for the newcomers this is usually not available at all (the ratio of autobiographer/all user, and users located on various celestial bodies). What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:28:46.673" Title="Display the user's timezone on his page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="6994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6993" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:38:07.453" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit cyber-stalker....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if people want to advertise their locale in their profile (Location), then fine...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:38:07.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="6995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:48:07.033" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post is based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4508/please-do-not-auto-select-answers-on-bounty-questions&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not for nor against of auto-accepting bounties.&#xA;Both sides have their advantages and weaknesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that the main weakness in the bounty system is &lt;strong&gt;its implicit acceptance of an answer with most votes&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the system auto-selects something, it should inform the user that the answer with most upvotes will be accepted by the system in a given time. The system only informs the user at the moment that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[your bounty is going to expire in a given period]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to change this to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[the given answer will get the Bounty on your question in a given period]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which in practice may be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;VonC's answer may get your bounty on &quot;To fix a bug in OS X Screen&quot; in 10 hours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would remind me, for instance, that the answer of the person, who has great skills in Screen/Git, has some flaws before I can accept it. I may then choose either to add comments to the answer or to edit it to fix minor mistakes which were initially confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My aim &lt;strong&gt;is to decrease the number of similar answers such that people improve more confusing parts and typos in the existing answers with great ideas.&lt;/strong&gt; This can be done either by comments or directly. The indication of the username with most upvotes in the notifications would &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give credits to the right person if the answer is excellent by advertising the username&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;encourage me to fix confusing parts in the excellent answer which I did not understand the last night&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;encourage me to add an own answer if the user with a bad answer is going to be accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are sometimes three other problems which you need to solve before you can understand the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I needed to study Screen, OS X's internals and Vim's internals in trying to understand one answer to my question about a bug in OS X's Terminal.app with Screen. It took me 3 days to study the basic functions and terms before I could get an insight to the answer. I finally forgot the whole  question for a month, since the problem opened other problems which I needed to fix first. The following presents how similar problems can be minimized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the message which informs you the expiration of your bounty rather annoying at the moment. I do not pay attention to it if I need to solve other problems related to my bounty first. It would be much more useful if it reminded me about the current top-voted answer. This would help me in prioritizing my time more efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please, make the auto-selection of bounties more explicit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T00:00:02.007" Title="To have an explicit auto-selection for bounties" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="6996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6995" CreationDate="2009-07-18T22:52:57.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt this request will ever be accepted. I guess there are some options to minimize the deficiencies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer your own question stating that you didn't received a good-enough answer and accept it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award the bounty before expiration to someone, for example a person with 1.900 rep to boost it to the editor's camp. And describe your reason too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T22:52:57.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7003" CreationDate="2009-07-18T23:04:13.607" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are questions which are basically the same sites allowed on on two Stack Exchange sites?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example take a look at these two questions from Server Fault and Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server Fault&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/3555/what-is-the-best-way-to-clean-an-lcd-monitor-display&quot;&gt;What is the best way to clean an LCD monitor (display)?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/8254/cleaning-an-lcd&quot;&gt;Cleaning an LCD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, then is there a way to link them or for the search box to look across multiple sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5891" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T04:02:51.403" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T04:02:51.403" Title="Are similar questions allowed on two sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6993" CreationDate="2009-07-18T23:05:48.117" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time zone isn't enough though. Would you expect them to log in during working hours or during time at home? Different people have different patterns. For me, the one period of time I'm almost guaranteed to be on SO is during my commute, which would be pretty rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to know when someone's often on, and they've been around for a while, you could analyse the data dump... it might be quite interesting to print a histogram for different users, actually...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T23:05:48.117" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-18T23:08:39.933" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;When an answer is given to a question, there should be an indication somewhere to show what revision of a question that answer was associated with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This helps in that questions can change drastically between versions, and it would allow users to see what revision of a question an answer pertains to in case it does not seem to pertain to the current revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, an answer that pertains to the current revision, could have the text 'Answered at current revision' or 'Answered at revision 4' or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131647" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T01:06:44.417" Title="Why Aren't Answers Associated With The Revision Of A Question That Was Asked?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7000" CreationDate="2009-07-18T23:15:27.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that the ServerFault question would have been better on SuperUser - if SU had existed at the time. On the other hand, I don't think it's really off-topic on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there will always be situations like this - the user groups aren't identical, after all. I think it's okay to have occasional duplication (particularly if there might be a different slant depending on context) but manual linking between posts (i.e. a URL in a comment) is probably good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T23:15:27.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7002" CreationDate="2009-07-18T23:17:49.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a nice idea, but I do wonder how often people would actually look at the original answer revision number. I doubt that I would, unless an answer really didn't seem to fit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One implementation point: it should be the revision at the time of loading the page, not the revision at the time of posting the answer. In other words, if you changed the question while I was typing this answer, this answer should still be associated with the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly there are times that could make someone seem prescient - if they opened the modified question in a different tab/window, then answered the new revision from the original window which only &quot;new&quot; about the original version... but I don't think that would cause that many problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T23:17:49.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-07-18T23:57:45.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you counting blogs belonging to mainstream media in the mix? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, 26 May 2009, Articulate, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;arts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; blog outlet of the ABC (aka Aunty), mentions the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.abc.net.au/articulate/2009/05/mona-lisa-mosai.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;image encoding in 140 characters or less&lt;/a&gt; challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-18T23:57:45.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-18T23:57:45.023" />
  <row Id="7008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-19T00:06:57.570" Score="9" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a way to consolidate answers into one or at least choose a set of answers as the accepted answer, as a question can sometimes have multiple answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if a question is asked for a list of software that can be used for the build process and many users suggest different software, there should be a way to consolidate these answers into one group. This prevents users from having to edit the question and consolidate the answers back into the question, or create their own answer with an amalgamation of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow votes on answers to be credited back to the original answerer rather than to the person who created the consolidated answer, it would also prevent the person from having to group the answers together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UI considerations do apply here as to what the best way is to group these answers together, as one can imagine that some of the answers in the group could possibly be fairly long, maybe a consolidation can come along with an edit to summarize the responses but still list and credit the answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: On further consideration of this, it may be best to let the consolidated answer automatically become community wiki, but let it automatically link/reference the answers you have chosen to consolidate, so that users can vote on those answers individually if they like. It also prevents votes on the consolidated answer from going to any particular individual.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second Edit: An add-on to the above suggestion of making it community-wiki is to perhaps make it a special type of answer that combines the votes from all of the chosen combined individual answers, but does not have its own vote count per se. The votes seen on that question would merely be the combined amount. This allows votes to go to the respective answerers and still allows the person to choose an accepted answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131647" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-09T04:36:05.093" LastActivityDate="2011-04-09T04:36:05.093" Title="Why Isn't There a Way to Consolidate Answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;merging&gt;&lt;consolidation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="7009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-07-19T00:17:47.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd settle for simple branded goods; pens/shirts/mugs with the stackoverflow logo. It's a very nice logo. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130839" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:17:47.923" />
  <row Id="7011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7008" CreationDate="2009-07-19T00:30:04.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The Stack Overflow Method of consolidating answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pick an answer, any answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extract portions of other answers that augment the answer chosen in #1, and edit those portions into said answer. Cite and link to the answers extracted from, where appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;(optional, question owner only)&lt;/em&gt; Accept the (now-comprehensive) answer chosen in #1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;(optional, if you're lazy)&lt;/em&gt; Upvote all helpful answers, post comments thanking the respective authors for their contributions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:30:04.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7008" CreationDate="2009-07-19T00:31:06.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would agree , I have a question where 4 or 5 people provided partial answers to the question. The answers should really be consolidated into one answer for future reference purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="131563" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T01:53:00.857" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T01:53:00.857" />
  <row Id="7014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7017" CreationDate="2009-07-19T00:48:04.910" Score="5" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;And if it's declined: Is there a reason this is not supported?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T01:02:00.057" Title="Ability to downvote comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7014" CreationDate="2009-07-19T00:51:57.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are used to quickly exchange short bits of information. I believe it was concluded that it wasn't necessary to use a full blown voting system on them, especially since comments that were voted up will float above the less useful ones in the previews.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also votes on comments don't contribute to rep anyways, so downvoting on them would feel redundant. It should be clear if something in the comment is incorrect when other comments around it are voted up. Also as @Shog9 said, if there is something completely off about a comment you can flag it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:51:57.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7014" CreationDate="2009-07-19T00:53:13.997" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, comments provide a way to speak your mind freely; upvotes provide a way for other users to indicate their agreement without wasting space with a follow-up comment. But if you disagree, you really &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; post a follow-up comment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment really bothers you, you can flag it. Enough flags, and it'll be removed. This is more useful than down-voting, which would presumably leave a misleading or abusive comment visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T00:53:13.997" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7014" CreationDate="2009-07-19T01:02:00.057" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've come across lots of situations where I think the wrong comments are standing out. They don't warrant a flag but there's no way to change what shows up without voting everything else up. It doesn't really make sense. Upvotes and downvotes are used to determine relative ordering of answers. I don't see why that doesn't apply to comment filtering too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T01:02:00.057" />
  <row Id="7019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7002" CreationDate="2009-07-19T01:06:44.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of issues here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, after a revision to any post is made you have 5 minutes to edit it and those edits won't create a new revision so the version someone sees when they start or finish posting may not be the version that is there 5 minutes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, this seems to be motivated by getting downvoted because an answer that was appropriate is no longer appropriate due to the question changing. I believe the solution to this is for those who answered a question to be notified when that question is edited (not counting retags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recent activity is not necessarily the right place for this because if you don't visit for a couple of days you may miss the notification so perhaps another mechanism is required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T01:06:44.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32073" CreationDate="2009-07-19T01:08:40.027" Score="31" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;A badge could be awarded to users who have received enough votes on a given day to trigger the 200 reputation/day limit. This would let them know that they've hit the limit, and the badge would be excellent compensation for any rep that is eaten by the rep limit beast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This should probably be a once only badge, awarded the first time a user hits the rep limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4702" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T23:03:20.323" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T23:04:22.257" Title="Award badge for hitting daily rep limit" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="7021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7020" CreationDate="2009-07-19T01:12:04.597" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a nice idea. But it should be given only for the first time. Because then people like Jon Skeet would get one of those per day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Not sure if it better be bronze or silver, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46642" LastEditorUserId="46642" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T09:06:03.140" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T09:06:03.140" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="7022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7023" CreationDate="2009-07-19T01:50:39.017" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had to delete a few questions and answers and really wanted to make mods know why I deleted them, as it stands I would have to revive my answer to explain the reason. With questions once its gone its gone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a little field that allows you to select why you deleted something: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eg. &quot;Deleted cause I answered the wrong question&quot;, &quot;Deleted cause I made a trivial logic mistake&quot; etc.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T01:52:56.063" Title="Require a comment when deleting an answer or a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7022" CreationDate="2009-07-19T01:52:56.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just edit your answer or put it in a comment before you delete it. Very few things in the system are really deleted - mods and users with 10k+ rep can still see deleted questions, answers, and their attached comments, so there's no need to create an additional mechanism to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T01:52:56.063" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7008" CreationDate="2009-07-19T02:10:17.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just live with the fact that stackoverflow doesn't really work that way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T02:10:17.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6993" CreationDate="2009-07-19T02:25:39.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would require that the system &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; what the user's time zone is, which it doesn't right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1359/make-recent-activity-today-etc-buttons-based-on-users-time-zone&quot;&gt;Make recent activity “today” etc. buttons based on user’s time zone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T02:25:39.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6981" CreationDate="2009-07-19T02:37:17.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When this is happening it is just the Community user making an &quot;edit&quot; (even though nothing is changed) to a random older post, to give it a bump (keeps the homepage fresh and helps questions that might have been missed get more attention).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T02:37:17.967" />
  <row Id="7027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7020" CreationDate="2009-07-19T02:39:36.807" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be for hitting like 245 in a day.  You would have to get a bounty or at least 3 correct answers after you have hit 200.  That would make it a challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T02:39:36.807" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="7028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-07-19T02:42:33.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of times, I've started answering a question only to see the question closed before I can submit my answer. This can be frustrating and I have even resorted to digging up the user's email address and contacting him that way. Being able to answer closed questions would be ideal, but some way to direct message the user who asked the question would have saved a lot of clicking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T02:42:33.217" />
  <row Id="7029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8642" CreationDate="2009-07-19T02:50:06.050" Score="2" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm heading to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow DevDays&lt;/a&gt;, and given that it's going to have talks on a wide range of technologies, what should I have installed on my laptop so I can follow along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AndroidSDK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Objective-C&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IPhoneSDK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google-App-Engine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JQuery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FogBugz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JavaScript&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mercurial&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVCS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Requires:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&amp;amp;displaylang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;.NET Framework 3.5 SP1&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&amp;amp;displaylang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET MVC 1.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Visual Studio C# Express Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answerers should post the technology&#xA;  and what you need to be able to follow&#xA;  along with a presentation (What&#xA;  editor? IDE? Operating Systems? Should&#xA;  we bring VMs? What prerequisites does&#xA;  each product need you to have&#xA;  downloaded)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:34:23.527" Title="What do I need to Bring to DevDays?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-resources&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-19T03:15:31.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I would suggest a Mac with Windows installed on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T03:15:31.503" />
  <row Id="7033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7020" CreationDate="2009-07-19T03:20:47.620" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this is something you are proposing gets awarded every time you hit rep limit I wholeheartedly disagree. For many of us, that means we will start getting a badge every single day, and eventually we're going to have so many badges that they start to lose what little value each one actually had.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this is something that only gets awarded the first time you hit rep limit (or perhaps after hitting the rep limit X times), then I could agree with that moreso.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T03:20:47.620" />
  <row Id="7034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-19T03:21:49.050" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most pony-centric desktop background (or stickers for your case)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T03:21:49.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6864" CreationDate="2009-07-19T03:35:01.677" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;make sure you are testing this as an anonymous (logged out) user, since the rendering is significantly different in that case, and anon users account for 90%+ of our traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what Cletus said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ETags are worthless&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Content delivery networks are worthless for anyone except Google and Yahoo scale websites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't control a lot of the things YSlow is complaining about (eg, Gravatar images, references to Google Analytics .js and Quantcast .js, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000932.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo's Problems Are Not Our Problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;That said we did register sstatic.net and we do plan to serve up images and stuff from a cookieless domain at some point. That's about the only rational optimization left.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is done&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T23:30:14.730" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:30:14.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-19T03:59:49.577" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disallow voting on comments if a post is locked.   Why show the buttons for voting, etc. if the post is locked and no changes can happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T04:02:26.177" Title="Disallow voting on comments if a post is locked" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7036" CreationDate="2009-07-19T04:02:26.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because voting on comments really serves no purpose other than to highlight something you agree with and there is no reputation gained or lost from it. All you get now is the possibility at a pundit badge, but that is only recently introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T04:02:26.177" />
  <row Id="7039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7045" CreationDate="2009-07-19T04:06:38.757" Score="3" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize that there are questions that don't get quick responses or good answers. But, Why do you think responses to good questions come so quickly and with great quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:48:43.460" Title="Why do you think responses to good questions come so quickly and with great quality?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7008" CreationDate="2009-07-19T04:23:45.627" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been contemplating this same thing recently. I plan on accepting the answer that most completely or clearly answers the question but also inserting at the end of my question a section where I outline all of the parts of the answers that I found most helpful with each users name. I disagree that the person that asks the question should compile all of the answers together into their own and then choose their own. If everyone started doing that, the motivation to answer question well and completely would be partially lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary of best answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have put together a list of the best parts of all the answers that I feel best answer the question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;accepting the answer that most&#xA;completely or clearly answers the&#xA;question&quot; - Mike Grace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Just live with the fact that&#xA;stackoverflow doesn't really work&#xA;that way...&quot; - Tom Hawtin&#xA;&quot;insert at the end of the question an outline of all the parts of the answers that I found most helpful with each users name&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T04:23:45.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-19T04:38:57.247" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kevin Rose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T04:38:57.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T04:38:57.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-19T04:39:22.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steve Jobs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T04:39:22.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T04:39:22.267" />
  <row Id="7045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7039" CreationDate="2009-07-19T04:52:34.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the people who have all of the answers are 'trolling'(in the fishing sense) the site for questions they can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wow, people don't like the word trolling.  What I picture when I see the word trolling is someone sitting on a boat, slowly driving around a lake looking for fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when I apply that word to the internet, I mean someone continuously looking through the &lt;strike&gt;lake&lt;/strike&gt; site(s) for new &lt;strike&gt;fish&lt;/strike&gt; questions to &lt;strike&gt;catch&lt;/strike&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm from Minnesota, so, maybe thats why I have a different sense of the word trolling. (We fish a lot here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T08:52:16.500" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T08:52:16.500" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="7046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7054" CreationDate="2008-08-25T13:45:28.223" Score="236" ViewCount="5592" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question almost as soon as I get my account.  I got a few decent answers, but I didn't get the information I wanted.  The question has long since become buried by newer questions, and there's still no accepted answer.  Unfortunately, because there are 6 answers, it probably looks to a casual observer like the question was answered and I just neglected to mark any answer as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the protocol for me to try to get this question answered?  I have several options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post the question a second time, possibly linking to the original, to get it back onto the new page.  This is encouraged on sites like Reddit.  However, it's probably not appropriate here, since we're encouraged to check for dupes and not submit a question that's already been asked by someone else, so this probably falls under that heading.  (That's why I haven't linked to my other question here, since it probably wouldn't be appropriate, but if someone thinks differently, then please say so.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait for some kind of wiki-like talk page to be implemented, then post a plea on the talk page for input and hope that activity on the talk page bumps up the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do nothing further on the Stack Overflow website.  If I edit my post to say that I haven't accepted any of the current answers but are looking for more, then the question might get answered eventually by people browsing through old questions to find something they can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait for the beta to be over, then post the question on other sites, but link to my original question on Stack Overflow.  People will either answer here, or they'll answer on the other site and I can post the accepted answer here myself.  This might be considered spamming for Stack Overflow, so it might be better to do this without the link.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Options #3 and #4 are probably the most appropriate, but I wanted to hear what the community thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1694" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T10:43:03.773" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T10:43:03.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:05:41.800" Title="How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="48" />
  <row Id="7054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7046" CreationDate="2008-08-26T15:14:13.027" Score="203" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can &quot;bump&quot; your thread by editing the question to &lt;strong&gt;provide status and progress updates resulting from your own continued efforts to answer the question yourself&lt;/strong&gt;. I usually do that unless I really hit a dead end with no further clues to follow. Some times I eventually bring about enough understanding to realise the answer, and thus post a resolution to my own problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;at least &lt;strong&gt;75&lt;/strong&gt; rep points&lt;/a&gt;, you can offer a &lt;strong&gt;bounty&lt;/strong&gt;, promising to give some of your points to the person who correctly answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131529" LastEditorUserId="155160" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-19T16:52:27.630" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T16:52:27.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:05:41.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35700" CreationDate="2009-07-19T05:39:01.547" Score="16" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about recognizing upvotes which do not convert to reputation after the daily cap is reached? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am still thinking up a good name for such a badge (&lt;strong&gt;ProBono&lt;/strong&gt; is a good name) and,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;suitable criteria when it should be given (some initial thoughts below).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That matters if this is seen motivational and good-to-have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards Motivation and Forming rules for this Badge.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The 200 rep cap per day is well taken.  &#xA;But, that should not demotivate (deter?) someone wanting to answer.  &#xA;And, if there are sufficient upvotes for an answer,  &#xA;  that do not translate into rep,  &#xA;    beyond a certain point, &#xA;    those upvotes should convert into another recognition.  &#xA;Badges seem to be the perfect path here.  &#xA;Do write about counter points, &#xA;  meta is supposed to be a forum for that too.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a good idea to extend this Badge consistently with the rep earning logic.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The accounting for the Badge works only when,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user has reached the daily cap for earning reputation points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user is doing activity beyond that point that is earning upvotes&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but, the cap is preventing the upvote to rep conversion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this means, like regular rep, this counting also skips wiki activity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to avoid top users from getting one on daily basis, it should be timed like the &lt;code&gt;Woot&lt;/code&gt; badge; &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;once instance at a time, retained for about a week or 3 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way could be to award the badge only if the user &lt;strong&gt;crosses twice the cap&lt;/strong&gt; (effectively 400 rep) for a day so that they have 'lost' 200 rep only because of the daily cap (all other constraints being active).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards naming the badge: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_bono_publico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ProBono&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; quite aptly catches the motivational aspect.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T00:03:44.667" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T00:03:44.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T06:17:20.423" Title="Badge for upvotes after rep cap is reached" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7060" CreationDate="2009-07-19T05:47:20.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could be potentially refined into something like if you manage to get X amount of upvotes above the rep limit (say +10). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would call it Pro Bono, which is derived from the act of lawyers and other professionals taking on a case and not getting paid for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T05:47:20.430" />
  <row Id="7062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7141" CreationDate="2009-07-19T05:49:02.783" Score="11" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a post is migrated from one site to another, the revision history is lost. I think that it's important to retain this history even if the post is moved to a different site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a practical reason for doing so - sometimes a post is edited to say &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/26049/list&quot;&gt;please move me to X&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in order to get other users to close the post as &quot;belongs on X&quot; or to get a moderator to move the post themselves. While this is an acceptable practice, the post comes out on X with the phrase &quot;please move me to X&quot; at the top. Since it's no longer necessary, removal of this phrase is warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, however, where the lack of a complete revision history shows its weakness. Although the post &lt;em&gt;displays&lt;/em&gt; the latest revision, when the post is edited the content in the edit box is from the first revision, which does NOT contain the phrase we're trying to remove. As long as the only thing to change was the removal of &quot;please move me to X&quot;, it's safe to add some dummy text (as the edit doesn't go through without &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; change) and then roll it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the latest revision differs substantially with the initial revision (as I expect the FAQ questions will) then you need to go to the site where the post was migrated from, get the source of the last revision, and make your changes on that. (this is, incidentally, what I did on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/7046/list&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;). It's a highly manual process, and one that can and should (for the sake of consistency) be avoided, and it can with the inclusion of the entire revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T19:52:53.317" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T19:53:13.590" Title="Preserve revision history on migrated questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7060" CreationDate="2009-07-19T06:02:53.507" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it should apply to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; votes after the rep cap is reached. Instead, how about a badge for a non-wiki answer with X upvotes that was posted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the author reached their daily cap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, this happened to me the other day on SuperUser - I was capped out and I posted an answer that rapidly gained 15 votes. I'm glad it was so well received, but I couldn't help but wish that the question (and my answer) were posted when I wasn't already capped out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T06:15:24.897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T06:15:24.897" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-19T07:04:57.177" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; rarely find that a presentation moves at a pace that lets me do whatever the presenter's doing. It's a much better idea to just soak up the presentation and then try to reproduce it with the notes later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exception: if you're in a talk where you know most of the material anyway but something surprises you, it can be useful to be able to try to reproduce that surprise at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crucial &quot;bring-along&quot; IMO: laptop + 3G card. How else can I post during the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T07:04:57.177" />
  <row Id="7066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7060" CreationDate="2009-07-19T07:35:19.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the concept. The situation happened to me several times, mostly before I got close to the daily cap and posted my final answer for the day. Next day I noticed I did not receive 180 rep from it - I felt cheated and discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are one option which could set things strait again: ask for rep recalc and hope you won't loose rep due deleted questions. I guess I'll try it, just to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest other names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Free advice - you did a good community job for free due The Cap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Out of business - you almost received rep from the community after you were out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Singularitee - your rep was absorbed by a wormhole&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T07:35:19.317" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3774" CreationDate="2009-07-19T08:04:13.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe not a tagging solution, but my proposal about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5199/please-add-the-ability-to-fold-blocks-of-code-in-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;region folding&lt;/a&gt; could help things out. The problem I face sometimes as a non-native-English speaker with tags, that you'd expect synonyms to be available if you are looking for something (concurrency - parallelism). Especially, you learned your terminology from different books than the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, to keep the balance, you'd need international moderator crew, one for each language, to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hungarian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;foul language and hatred answers&lt;/a&gt; written in other languages, especially for my people :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T08:04:13.033" />
  <row Id="7070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7087" CreationDate="2009-07-19T08:43:51.250" Score="6" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, &#xA;I am new to meta.stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it seems that serverfault.com is unavailable, the site does not load. Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?&#xA;edit: seems to be a dns problem on my site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;C:\Users\matt&amp;gt;tracert serverfault.com&#xA;Unable to resolve target system name serverfault.com.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also how can you get into the superuser.com beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131652" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T20:55:52.750" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:56:00.637" Title="Serverfault down? How to get into superuser beta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;downtime&gt;&lt;dns&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T08:49:19.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question for SuperUser has been ask many times. However find the details on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; Blog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T08:49:19.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7080" CreationDate="2009-07-19T08:52:18.357" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the ability to migrate questions, I have found quite a few duplicates on both SU and MSO due to questions being migrated from others sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we handle these as normal duplicates or should we just let them be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T09:46:09.590" Title="Migration causing duplicate questions - How to manage this?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7072" CreationDate="2009-07-19T08:54:34.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say deal with it on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting up a rule for that isn't a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T08:54:34.507" />
  <row Id="7074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7039" CreationDate="2009-07-19T09:06:25.890" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's some human psychology at work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a combination of some of the following factors...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boost to self-esteem from being seen to have the right answer (in public)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boost to self-esteem from being perceived as an &quot;expert&quot; on something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The element of competing against your peers (through reputation points)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The good feeling you get when you've helped someone else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The novelty value of this kind of community-based approach (might wear off in time as more similar sites get set up)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fear of losing out on &quot;easy&quot; reputation points to another user for a question you know something about (accounts for the quick answers, but is driven by the reasons mentioned above)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fear of looking stupid in front of your peers, some of whom may know you personally in the real world (hence high-quality answers, and the need to keep those answers high-quality consistently)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The pain involved in setting up a new account if you make yourself look like an idiot on the current one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just brainstormed a few answers there. It basically comes down to some combination of pleasure/pain linked in with the approval of others...all powerful human drivers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these sites play on that combination of base human instincts pretty well and it's quite easy to get drawn in. Hence you get many &quot;addicts&quot; hopping on every question they can answer, and usually providing well-regarded answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T09:06:25.890" />
  <row Id="7076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7039" CreationDate="2009-07-19T09:33:00.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be unrealistic to claim that at least &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of Joe's points don't apply to me, but in addition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I often (both on SO and usenet before that) will get interested in a question that I &lt;strong&gt;can't&lt;/strong&gt; currently answer; so I'll try to find out (on the train etc; I have a decent length commute!) by playing. Hopefully something approaching an answer will appear by the time I get to the other end...&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the original question is still unresolved, or my findings add some extra detail, then I'll post it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but either way, I've learnt something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm also very interested in other peoples replies, in particular on the non-trivial questions; with people like Jon, Eric Lippert, Jared Parsons (and many others) &quot;in da house&quot; there is a good chance of a useful reply that adds some detail you didn't know but is useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in my pet areas, but I'm very sure that I wouldn't be nearly as competent if I hadn't spent years reading (and writing) replies on sites like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T09:33:00.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T09:40:30.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm also unable to access serverfault. Stackoverflow and Superuser works fine. I get a DNS-timeout when I try to lookup serverfault.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131666" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T09:40:30.317" />
  <row Id="7079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T09:45:08.850" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;serverfault.com seems fine.. in 95% of the world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some worldwide DNS checkers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=serverfault.com&amp;amp;c=&amp;amp;s=ping!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=serverfault.com&amp;amp;c=&amp;amp;s=ping!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whatsmydns.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.whatsmydns.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/42678/dns-failing-to-propagate-worldwide&quot;&gt;asked why this might be happening on Server Fault itself&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T10:36:14.550" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T10:36:14.550" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7072" CreationDate="2009-07-19T09:46:09.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them for moderator attention as per usual!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T09:46:09.590" />
  <row Id="7081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6982" CreationDate="2009-07-19T09:57:37.390" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;edit: my reason for declining this was bunk, however we did implement a different way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrated questions will say &lt;code&gt;[migrated]&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T03:32:07.377" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T03:32:07.377" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7108" CreationDate="2009-07-19T10:31:12.040" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in how the SO family sites were bootstrapped in terms of the reputation value? E.g. if everyone starts at rep 1, they would need a fair amount of time to gain valuable capabilities like edit, vote and semi-moderator, and with it an action capable community. How did it happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:02:10.947" Title="How were the family sites bootstrapped in terms of rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-19T10:59:22.693" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hacker&lt;/strong&gt; -- This badge is never given out, the only people who have it have hacked the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T10:59:22.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T10:59:22.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T11:00:44.813" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is unaccessible from Hungary, and &lt;code&gt;ping 66.94.234.13&lt;/code&gt; fails too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;  1   &amp;lt;1 ms   &amp;lt;1 ms   &amp;lt;1 ms  . [192.168.2.1]&#xA;  2   10 ms    9 ms    9 ms  lo1.bsr2-gyongyos.net.telekom.hu [145.236.238.92]&#xA;  3    9 ms   10 ms    9 ms  g1-23.osr0-gyongyos.net.telekom.hu [84.1.78.94]&#xA;  4   12 ms   12 ms   12 ms  t3-1.osr1-salgotarjan.net.telekom.hu [84.1.78.100]&#xA;  5   14 ms   13 ms   13 ms  t3-3.osr0-salgotarjan.net.telekom.hu [84.1.78.98]&#xA;  6   12 ms   13 ms   12 ms  ge1-2.osr0-balassagyarmat.net.telekom.hu [84.1.78.9]&#xA;  7   13 ms   12 ms   12 ms  t0-9-0-4.core0-ip3.net.telekom.hu [84.1.78.106]&#xA;  8    *        *        *   Request timeout.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Budapest, NIIF (National Internet Infrastructure ~Foundation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;  1    &amp;lt;1 ms    &amp;lt;1 ms    &amp;lt;1 ms  L4506-vlan21.sztaki.hu [195.111.2.124]&#xA;  2    &amp;lt;1 ms    &amp;lt;1 ms    &amp;lt;1 ms  c72-gbeth0-1-934.sztaki.hbone.hu [195.111.0.225]&#xA;  3    *        *        *&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T06:56:00.637" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:56:00.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7082" CreationDate="2009-07-19T11:06:22.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out people's profiles here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of us started out with 101 rep (1 + 100 point bonus) and only a few like Jeff and other SO moderators with full rights (but still low rep). In the couple of weeks it's been active there are 16 people with &gt; 2000 rep who can edit other people's post and 9 with &gt; 3000 rep who can vote to close. No one has &gt; 10,000 rep yet, but that won't be long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were, however, a significant number who started out with just the single rep point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you check Super User you'll see people with &gt; 1000 rep, others in the 100's and quite a few with only 10's. Check back in a week or so and see how those values have increased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this has been achieved by the simple process of asking and answering questions. There was only one tweak to the &quot;normal&quot; rep allowances and that was to reduce the amount of rep needed to leave comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no magic, people just participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T13:57:06.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T13:57:06.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-19T11:13:31.257" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another one may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6930/new-badge-for-users-having-accepted-answers-for-all-the-questions-they-asked&quot;&gt;Gives Credit&lt;/a&gt; (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6930/new-badge-for-users-having-accepted-answers-for-all-the-questions-they-asked/6935#6935&quot;&gt;chaos suggested in his answer&lt;/a&gt;) for users having accepted answers for all/most of the questions they asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11374" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T11:13:31.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T11:13:31.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T11:16:11.637" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just visited &lt;a href=&quot;http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=serverfault.com&amp;amp;c=&amp;amp;s=ping!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;just-ping&lt;/a&gt; and got these results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Location                    Result min. rrt avg. rrt max. rrt&#xA; Amsterdam3, Netherlands:    Okay   188.7	 189.0	189.3&#xA; Amsterdam2, Netherlands:    Okay   189.6	 189.8	190.1&#xA; Florida, U.S.A.:            Okay   86.2	 87.0	91.0&#xA; Hong Kong, China:           Okay   206.8	 208.6	213.6&#xA; Sydney, Australia:          Okay   175.1	 176.8	187.7&#xA; New York, U.S.A.:           Okay   105.0	 105.4	105.8&#xA; Stockholm, Sweden:          Okay   179.9	 180.0	180.2&#xA; Santa Clara, U.S.A.:        Okay   30.7	 31.0	31.4&#xA; Vancouver, Canada:          Okay   14.6	 14.9	15.4&#xA; Krakow, Poland:             Okay   215.3	 215.6	216.2&#xA; London, United Kingdom:     Okay   165.4	 167.0	169.2&#xA; Madrid, Spain:              Okay   195.4	 197.5	210.8&#xA; Cagliari, Italy:            Unknown host: serverfault.com  		&#xA; Singapore, Singapore:       Okay   219.4	 219.8	220.5&#xA; Austin, U.S.A.:             Okay   62.5	 62.7	62.9&#xA; Cologne, Germany:           Okay   171.5	 171.7	 171.9&#xA; Munchen, Germany:           Okay   175.1	 175.5	175.9&#xA; Amsterdam, Netherlands:     Okay   181.6	 181.9	182.2&#xA; Paris, France:              Okay   171.3	 171.5	171.8&#xA; Shanghai, China:            Okay   239.0	 240.8	242.6&#xA; Melbourne, Australia:       Okay   184.8	 185.7	186.9&#xA; Copenhagen, Denmark:        Okay   179.0	 179.4	180.0&#xA; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:     Okay   226.2	 228.0	230.5&#xA; Lille, France:              Okay   178.5	 178.7	179.1&#xA; San Francisco, U.S.A.:      Okay   22.1	 22.6	23.1&#xA; Chicago, U.S.A.:            Okay   60.4	 60.6	61.2&#xA; Zurich, Switzerland:        Unknown host: serverfault.com  		&#xA; Johannesburg, South Africa: Okay   357.6	 358.7	361.1&#xA; Mumbai, India:              Okay   285.5	 292.6	338.2&#xA; Nagano, Japan:              Okay   121.8	 127.9	130.7&#xA; Haifa, Israel:              Okay   220.3	 228.6	244.7&#xA; Auckland, New Zealand:      Okay   167.4	 168.2	170.2&#xA; Groningen, Netherlands:     Okay   173.2	 173.7	174.2&#xA; Antwerp, Belgium:           Okay   191.4	 191.7	192.0&#xA; Dublin, Ireland:            Okay   166.8	 167.4	167.6&#xA; Moscow, Russia:             Okay   219.0	 219.3	219.8&#xA; Oslo, Norway:               Unknown host: serverfault.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it looks like there are problems with some European servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T11:16:11.637" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-19T11:28:05.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an answer to the question, but it's definitely not a comment on the question itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;upvote downvoted answers&lt;/strong&gt; when I feel that they've been wrongly downvoted. I do this especially when the downvote is clearly for reason #11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done the same thing with downvoted questions, and on SO I find that there are many gems amongst the questions that are rated -1 and below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At the same time, to answer the question:&lt;/strong&gt; I downvote rarely, and I almost always downvote highly upvoted questions. I do this when the answer is terse, arrogant, and uninformative (though it may be technically correct). This is a subspecies of #5, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T11:28:05.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7091" CreationDate="2009-07-19T11:36:12.387" Score="4" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow the user to hide its own reputation value and/or badges similarly as visible on wiki pages. If the visitor wants to know your reputation, he/she has to view it on your user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenarios why to do it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have so much rep/badge, that &lt;em&gt;your name gets recognized&lt;/em&gt; wherever you post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You want to be &lt;em&gt;just helpful&lt;/em&gt; and you show this by not advertising how 'good repped' you are, but rather focus on a good answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implicit &lt;em&gt;'reputation' by name&lt;/em&gt; within the community - same as in the real world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenarios why not to do it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could impose transparency problems regarding to the site's basic concepts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hard to implement on a per user basis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concerns about showing/hiding it in the question part or in answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Follow-up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6925/why-are-the-badge-counts-displayed-beside-the-posters-avatar&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; of mine.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T23:28:17.267" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T23:28:17.267" Title="Option to hide rep/badges on the avatar block displayed of you" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7089" CreationDate="2009-07-19T12:27:38.987" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your name is recognized, then removing the rep/badges isn't going to do anything - your &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; will still be there... unless you were planning on making posts anonymous before a hover/click-through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see your point, but I'm not sure there's really a &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; at the moment that this would solve. I think there would &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be a way of tracing a question/answer back to a person to avoid the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;anonymity idiocy problem&lt;/a&gt;. The rest of it would probably be quite simple - I doubt that it would actually be hard to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I'm not &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; the idea, but I don't think it's particularly necessary either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T12:27:38.987" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7098" CreationDate="2009-07-19T13:59:01.723" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about the people using  stackoverflow, specifically age range.  Is there anywhere to get details on the statistics about the users?  Is that sort of information included in the database dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131674" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T14:21:14.187" Title="Are there statistics on user details?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7097" CreationDate="2009-07-19T14:02:08.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Public statistics&lt;/a&gt; are available for stackoverflow, which show age ranges, gender, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also get the age details from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding%5Fthe%5FStackOverflow%5FDatabase%5FSchema#Users%5FTable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Users&lt;/a&gt; table in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;, although I do not think the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2307/why-are-so-many-user-ages-89&quot;&gt;ages are accurate&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5891" LastEditorUserId="5891" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T14:21:14.187" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T14:21:14.187" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T14:33:57.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finland fails (no dns record).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Operator: Sonera / inet.fi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastEditorUserId="85514" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T04:10:37.250" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:10:37.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7109" CreationDate="2009-07-19T15:08:49.317" Score="4" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, question popularity has a lot to do with what time-of-day it's asked. Also, I suspect that the day of the week is important too. These are just suppositions, however. Does time of day and day of the week in which a question is asked affect its popularity? If so, when and how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T15:22:44.327" Title="Time of Day, Day of Week and Question Popularity" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2009-07-19T15:12:45.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It affects it in just the most obvious ways, as in when more people are online you're more likely to get answers. Usually weekdays are much more active than weekends. As for the time of day, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; a good graph to illustrate the peak times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T15:12:45.867" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-07-19T15:16:40.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a checkbox at the bottom of the question that subscribes the user to comments? The users could opt in/out anytime they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T15:16:40.763" />
  <row Id="7108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7082" CreationDate="2009-07-19T15:18:22.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules on Stack Overflow have changed a lot since it was in private beta. I used to be able to delete other peoples comments to my own questions/answers, now I can only delete my own. I used to be able to answer a Community Wiki question with a non-CW answer, that is no longer possible. It used to be possible to get significantly more than 200 rep points in a day, that has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your question doesn't really reflect how easy it was for people with very little rep to affect the system in the early days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T15:18:22.877" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7105" CreationDate="2009-07-19T15:22:44.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff posted stats &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on the blog awhile ago. I also know he's said, if not posted data related to the fact that weekends see significantly less data than M-F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether this affects popularity, I believe it certainly does. While there is skill is asking a good question (clearly stating the problem, etc), there is definitely an amount of luck to getting a question that turns out to be popular. Especially on the weekends it seems that questions can kind of go relatively unseen, regardless of how good of a question it is/was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T15:22:44.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T16:41:24.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fails from Norway as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ host serverfault.com &#xA;;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I temporarily added &lt;em&gt;69.59.196.212 serverfault.com&lt;/em&gt; to my hosts file while I wait for the problem to be resolved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131678" LastEditorUserId="131678" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T16:53:02.320" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T16:53:02.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-19T17:30:18.010" Score="4" ViewCount="945" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&#xA; I've recently found an issue with stackoverflow and ie8. When I try to ask a question, press &lt;code&gt;[Tab]&lt;/code&gt;, then get back to edit box, do it again etc. 2 things happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 'Post Your Answer' button changes text (additional dots appear)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The page freezes, I can't edit message, I can only close the tab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is an issue with my IE, or is it general bug.&#xA;Quick look how it looks on my ie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rushbase.net:5580/~ravadre/stackoverflow%5Fie8%5Fissue.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T19:58:28.963" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T19:49:33.097" Title="Stackoverflow ie8 issue / bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-reproduced&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;ie8&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7116" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:03:03.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed, IE should switch to compatibility view automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Error location: wmd.js?v=3297 character 22805&#xA;Error: text attribute cannot be set, unexpected method call or attribute access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:03:03.963" />
  <row Id="7119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:09:30.957" Score="29" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it make discussing code easier if you could simply refer to a particular line or range? Or am I wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130069" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-08T21:02:12.353" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T23:04:39.877" Title="Why are there no line numbers in the code listings?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="7120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:11:41.070" Score="8" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow should be a place for both experts and those who are just getting into programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a self-taught programmer and I can attest for the fact that the most difficult thing about teaching yourself anything is knowing where to start and where to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1148633/how-to-write-a-windows-application-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was closed on StackOverflow as &quot;not a real question&quot; by a large number of user admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just wrong. The question looks and sounds genuine - an earnest beginner asking a community of programmers for some advice on where to start - and the question was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if there's any way to combat this or if the community feels like this is even a problem, but I thought it should be brought up. It wasn't like this in the beginning when only a few users had admin rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Also, I should add: The fact that there are &lt;em&gt;reputation points&lt;/em&gt; involved means that, to some extent (maybe a large extent?), StackOverflow is an incentive based community. If I feel that responding to question is worth the points I could potentially get out of it, I will answer it. If I don't feel it's worth the effort, I won't answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how a free-market system works. I'm not sure how much we need moderators to close questions. We should let the community decide whether a question is worth answering, not a select few individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;On the number of rep points needed to have the ability to close a question, Colin Mackay &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7120/user-admins-too-zelous-in-their-closing-of-questions/7139#7139&quot;&gt;suggests&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;[m]aybe the bar has to be set a little higher[...]? ... Some people are more trigger happy than others. So as the 1227 people currently able to close questions grows so do the number of trigger happy ones.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131684" LastEditorUserId="131684" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T23:59:50.990" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:59:50.990" Title="User Admins too zelous in their closing of questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;administration&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7142" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:12:03.643" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Picking any tag I eg 'c' then &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&lt;/a&gt; returns a result page with 0 results (and sidebar, header).  This is the same for every tag I've tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.0.11 OSX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; how I reproduced:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clicked on one of the tabs - Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clicked on a tag  'svn' in the main list of questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;got a 0 search result&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title of the final page says &quot;Bounty 'svn' Questions&quot; so some session state is clearly confused and all my tag searches are stuck onto questions with bounties only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Result:&lt;/strong&gt; not a bug but confusing (see accepted answer) but you have to click on the lower of the two set of tabs - active / featured / hot / .. in order to get unstuck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11177" LastEditorUserId="11177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T14:43:31.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:43:31.447" Title="Tag search on stackoverflow is stuck in 'Bounties' tab state" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:16:02.317" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;From the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programming questions, of course! As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;. Oh yes, and it should be about programming. You know, with a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does &quot;How do I write a Windows application&quot; sound &quot;detailed and specific&quot; to you? We want to help you, but you need to get yourself to a point that you can ask a more detailed question as to what you want to do. The answer to your question could literally be a whole book's length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:16:02.317" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7119" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:18:00.637" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this might be handy to provide a description of what a small block of code is doing line by line, I fear that it might enable people to paste huge blocks of code and say things like &quot;I'm getting a segfault on line 213&quot; and expect other users to dig through the code to identify it. In other words most of the time you think you need line numbers you're probably including too much code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:18:00.637" />
  <row Id="7125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7119" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:18:28.867" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a reason why this hasn't been wildly requested as of yet. Most code that is going to be posted on the site is going to be a short snippet where the relevant parts are the only ones going to be posted. Anything that gets a little longer will usually have comments in relevant parts explaining what's going on. We're programmers, I think that suffices. Allowing lines might encourage bigger code blocks, and that's not a behavior I think we want to encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I'm not  really super against this, just don't really think it's needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:18:28.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7119" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:24:04.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real reason why there are no line numbers is because it hasn't been written yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless it is a feature that the developers consider fairly important, they don't get implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, since the code posted here is usually short snippets, line numbers aren't very important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:24:04.163" />
  <row Id="7128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:27:35.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that in the case of that particular question it might have become detailed enough by adding a sentence suggesting a specific, simple problem to solve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For instance, if I wanted to make an&#xA;  application with displaying a window&#xA;  with the text &quot;Hello world!&quot;, how&#xA;  would I do that using C?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens here is that the question becomes a lot more specific; we create clear borders, which makes is &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; easier to provide useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:27:35.340" />
  <row Id="7129" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:28:21.503" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have StackOverflow and ServerFault now. How about a designer site focussing on questions such as Photoshop, Flash, Expression, etc...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131686" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T12:35:12.220" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T06:56:10.550" Title="How about a designer focused site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="7130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7119" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:31:15.987" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually refer to specific lines with an inline comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;int x = 10;&#xA;&#xA;// v is still statically typed as an int&#xA;var v = 10;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That usually works fine as far as I'm concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong - there are &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; cases where line numbers would be useful - but they're rare enough that I think there are higher priorities. In particular, IIRC the syntax highlighter is &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prettify&lt;/a&gt; rather than a home-rolled one - that doesn't &lt;em&gt;stop&lt;/em&gt; Jeff and the team from including line numbers, but it means that until it got put back into the main tree they'd have to maintain their own branch, which may not be a lot of fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:31:15.987" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:32:40.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a good question. But it's hot here, really hot, and i'm tired. So i down-voted and voted to re-open: it's programming-related, after all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:32:40.090" />
  <row Id="7132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7129" CreationDate="2009-07-19T18:35:00.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T18:35:00.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7129" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:05:20.087" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was asked earlier by another user and I think there was a pretty near consensus that this is probably something best left to someone else to create a new site using the StackExchange framework when it is released. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't expect Atwood &amp;amp; Co. to keep making new sites for every new subject that their audience wants to request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T19:05:20.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7137" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:35:54.450" Score="9" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first instinct is Superusers, but on the other hand, you could say that writing stuff in LaTeX is programming in a DSL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then you have questions about typography, styles, and you have questions like the main reason why im asking this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do I best cite a piece of software in my thesis?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I wait for superusers or is this stackoverflow stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T01:34:22.480" Title="Where should a question about LaTeX usage go?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7331" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:38:15.330" Score="6" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whose is it? Atwood, Spolsky, Anyone else? Is this run out of a garage? Is there a business with swanky offices. Are there loads of employees? I ask because you guys are way cool to adapt and run with new ideas so quickly and creatively. You guys are inspiring people who're inspiring others and each one teaching and sharing ideas, tools, experiences and practices as well with each other. Really. Everyone, owners, users, et al, here on SO. Great job all of you. You make this site an awesome place to hang out at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131391" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T09:36:51.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:04:15.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T19:38:33.903" Title="Who owns and runs Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7135" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:40:27.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the distinction between &quot;using&quot; and &quot;programming&quot; L&lt;sub&gt;a&lt;/sub&gt;T&lt;sup&gt;e&lt;/sup&gt;X is fuzzy, I would definitely say that, on the whole, the questions should go on SuperUser. Although your question is about citing code, it's not strictly about programming, so I would go with SU personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T19:40:27.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:47:10.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to have to take objection with you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question was closed on StackOverflow as &quot;not a real question&quot; by a large number of user admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; closed by any admin/moderator; just regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how much we need moderators to close questions. We should let the community decide whether a question is worth answering, not a select few individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is exactly what happened. No &quot;select few individual&quot; has had &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; involvement in that thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm missing your definition of &quot;admin&quot;... anybody with a rep over 3k can vote to close. At the time of writing that is the first 35 pages of users, plus another 2 = 1227 users. Not exactly what I call the &quot;select few&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T19:47:10.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:48:52.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't just vote to close it; I did a bit of editing first - the original title had all of the question text in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should change the text of &quot;not a real question&quot; to be &quot;not an answerable question, too broad, or not specific enough&quot;. The &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; here was (paraphrased), &quot;what should I do (tutorial to read) next to write a Windows application&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real answer to that question is, &quot;It depends&quot;. What kind of Windows Application? How could we guide this person when he's given us no idea where he wants to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T19:48:52.373" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7062" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:53:13.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was just a plain old bug -- should be fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will only pull the &lt;em&gt;latest&lt;/em&gt; revision, not the full history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T19:53:13.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7121" CreationDate="2009-07-19T19:54:07.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are probably on the wrong tab. Check the tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember our tab selections are &quot;sticky&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;so some session state is clearly confused and all my tag searches are stuck onto questions with bounties only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: You selected that tab so it stays selected -- as I said. It's &quot;sticky&quot;. So you are browsing bountied questions only &lt;em&gt;until you select another tab&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T02:55:41.313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T02:55:41.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7082" CreationDate="2009-07-19T20:02:10.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com started off as an invite only beta.  By listening to the stackoverflow podcast and doing wiki transciption you could get an invite.  serverfault was next, you had to have a stackoverflow account, pay attention to the blog, and a certain amount of stackoverflow rep. to participate.  By linking your stackoverflow and serverfault accounts you got +100 to your serverfault rep.  That's been the paradigm for meta and superuser:  Be a member of one site, sign up for the other site, link the accounts and get +100 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53498" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:02:10.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7070" CreationDate="2009-07-19T20:07:16.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It fails from the network operator Free in France and works from other French operators.  There are only two name servers (a very bad idea, specially since both are in the same AS, 26496) and both are unreachable from Free, probably because of the same routing problem. StackOverflow and SuperUser, which use a different set of name servers, are not affected. I would say that, ironically, the DNS setup of serverfault.com is extremely insufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; % check_soa stackoverflow.com &#xA;ns51.domaincontrol.com has serial number 2009071700&#xA;ns52.domaincontrol.com has serial number 2009071700&#xA;&#xA;% check_soa superuser.com    &#xA;ns51.domaincontrol.com has serial number 2009053100&#xA;ns52.domaincontrol.com has serial number 2009053100&#xA;&#xA;% check_soa serverfault.com&#xA;There was no response from ns21.domaincontrol.com&#xA;There was no response from ns22.domaincontrol.com&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the traceroute from 88.189.152.187:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;% traceroute ns22.domaincontrol.com.&#xA;traceroute to ns22.domaincontrol.com. (208.109.255.11), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets&#xA; 1  192.168.2.254 (192.168.2.254)  8.681 ms  9.688 ms  9.717 ms&#xA; 2  88.189.152.254 (88.189.152.254)  43.517 ms  44.648 ms  44.690 ms&#xA; 3  78.254.1.62 (78.254.1.62)  46.561 ms  46.606 ms  47.494 ms&#xA; 4  rke75-1-v900.intf.nra.proxad.net (78.254.255.42)  49.992 ms  50.021 ms  50.066 ms&#xA; 5  cev75-1-v902.intf.nra.proxad.net (78.254.255.46)  56.466 ms  56.495 ms  56.535 ms&#xA; 6  * * *&#xA; 7  bzn-crs16-1-be1008.intf.routers.proxad.net (212.27.51.101)  47.043 ms  38.357 ms  38.710 ms&#xA; 8  cbv-6k-1-po20.intf.routers.proxad.net (212.27.50.190)  40.310 ms * *&#xA; 9  gc-pni-cbv.routers.proxad.net (212.27.38.226)  43.800 ms  46.424 ms  47.354 ms&#xA;10  204.245.39.50 (204.245.39.50)  58.341 ms  52.945 ms  55.073 ms&#xA;11  ip-208-109-115-201.ip.secureserver.net (208.109.115.201)  55.118 ms  57.618 ms  50.900 ms&#xA;12  * * *&#xA;13  * * *&#xA;14  * * *&#xA;15  * * *&#xA;&#xA;% traceroute ns21.domaincontrol.com&#xA;traceroute to ns21.domaincontrol.com (216.69.185.11), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets&#xA; 1  192.168.2.254 (192.168.2.254)  6.134 ms  6.152 ms  7.302 ms&#xA; 2  88.189.152.254 (88.189.152.254)  47.879 ms  49.137 ms  50.139 ms&#xA; 3  78.254.1.62 (78.254.1.62)  52.500 ms  52.544 ms  53.766 ms&#xA; 4  rke75-1-v900.intf.nra.proxad.net (78.254.255.42)  53.794 ms  53.844 ms  54.918 ms&#xA; 5  cev75-1-v902.intf.nra.proxad.net (78.254.255.46)  58.370 ms  58.405 ms  66.252 ms&#xA; 6  p16-6k-1-po12.intf.nra.proxad.net (78.254.255.50)  66.289 ms * *&#xA; 7  bzn-crs16-1-be1008.intf.routers.proxad.net (212.27.51.101)  59.211 ms  38.640 ms  39.074 ms&#xA; 8  * * *&#xA; 9  gc-pni-cbv.routers.proxad.net (212.27.38.226)  150.281 ms  150.918 ms  150.902 ms&#xA;10  204.245.39.50 (204.245.39.50)  59.816 ms  61.553 ms  61.556 ms&#xA;11  ip-208-109-115-201.ip.secureserver.net (208.109.115.201)  54.192 ms  54.239 ms  54.325 ms&#xA;12  * * *&#xA;13  * * *&#xA;14  * * *&#xA;15  * * *&#xA;16  * * *&#xA;17  * * *&#xA;18  * * *&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:07:16.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5326" CreationDate="2009-07-19T20:09:53.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not possible, as comments aren't logged in the same way as posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:09:53.253" />
  <row Id="7146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2009-07-19T20:15:26.270" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is the brainchild of Jeff Atwood. The team was as far as I know originally Jeff and Joel signed on after talking to Jeff over the phone. There is no central location of work and the &quot;employees&quot; are spread across all over the United States (Jeff is in California, Joel is running his own company Fog Creek, and then I believe the others are in Oregon and North Carolina).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:15:26.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T20:15:26.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5685" CreationDate="2009-07-19T20:18:55.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, this is a stop word and will not be searched. Use more unique words in your search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001186.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001186.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:18:55.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7119" CreationDate="2009-07-19T20:20:00.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel much need for line numbers in code snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are times, especially when dealing with certain web services questions, when I'd really like them to post the complete WSDL, all XML Schemas, actual XML being sent and received, and maybe even all the code necessary to reproduce the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather they didn't paste that inline (even if they do learn to use the &quot;code sample&quot; button). For that, there's a format I like, though it should add the ability to collapse a block of code to a one-line description. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.asp.net/t/1447256.aspx#3297127&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://forums.asp.net/t/1447256.aspx#3297127&lt;/a&gt; for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:20:00.447" />
  <row Id="7150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4336" CreationDate="2009-07-19T20:20:46.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, this is a stop word and will not be searched. Use more unique words in your search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001186.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001186.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T20:20:46.760" />
  <row Id="7151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7152" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:02:21.487" Score="-2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they even start saying questiony things, &quot;like isn't this true?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I wrong, and this doesn't happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what if I make it a poll? What was your favorite statement disguised as a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:26:34.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T21:02:21.487" Title="Why do people make comments and rants and then pretend they're questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7151" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:03:37.657" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a rant pretending to be a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:03:37.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T21:03:37.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7151" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:10:39.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since when did we enter into the old-man-on-his-porch phase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a down arrow and a close link for a reason. Please use them accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:10:39.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T21:10:39.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7151" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:26:34.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A wise man once said, &quot;since when is Meta question only?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That man was me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta replaces (is going to replace?) user voice, which means bugs and feature requests will be posted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have to word feature requests in the form of a question?  Is this some twisted version of Jeopardy?  How about we just post your bug/feature request in what ever manner which we see fit?  If you want to enter it in the form of a question, go right ahead.  If you want to describe your feature request not in the form of a question, feel free.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:26:34.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T21:26:34.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7129" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:30:16.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ShoopFromThePixels.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems a bit narrow in its focus.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:30:16.350" />
  <row Id="7156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7120" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:31:51.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to write a program that fundamentally changes human existance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where should I start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:31:51.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:33:50.427" Score="3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's about time that the community of SO/SF/SU decide what should and should not be community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to facilitate this, I recommend 1 suggestion per answer. Since this is community wiki, vote up/down based on whether you like or dislike the idea. If your idea only pertains to one site, please identify the site. And please do not post an answer duplicating what's already been posted - up-vote it (and maybe leave a comment...) instead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T02:36:20.267" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T03:46:10.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T21:33:50.427" Title="What types of questions or answers should be made community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:35:25.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that do not have a right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are discussions that are valuable to the community, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1149778/is-software-engineering-dead&quot;&gt;this one on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. I think this is of interest to and benefits the community, however if there aren't right or wrong answers, no one should be able to gain reputation from posting, and therefore the question and all answers should be in community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:35:25.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T21:35:25.543" />
  <row Id="7159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-07-19T21:36:56.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Facebook-like system (i.e., &quot;100% notification&quot;) would be annoying at times, but I think missing out on followup questions or having someone miss out on yours is far worse. So, 100% notification would actually be a good start in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An improvement might be to give people the ability to opt out of notifications for a particular thread. I've noticed from Facebook that there's sort of a threshold where you go from a few harmless comment notifications to, &quot;OK! Make it stop!&quot; (Usually, it's because someone's status was something like, &quot;What's your favorite movie?!&quot; or because two people decided to use the comment system as an instant messaging service :).) Hopefully, that type of thing would happen quite rarely on stackoverflow, but if it did, a &quot;Stop Notifying Me About This Thread&quot; button would solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T21:36:56.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7174" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:08:18.167" Score="13" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing questions in one of tags I consider interesting, using URL like &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, and I have &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; among &quot;Interesting tags&quot;, &lt;strong&gt;all questions&lt;/strong&gt; are marked using &quot;interesting tag&quot; style... which result in strange looking page. In my opinion when viewing questions tagged with given tag, this tag should be temporarily removed (for the purpose of displaying given view) from &quot;interesting&quot; / &quot;ignored&quot; tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions with yellow background looks silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of &lt;em&gt;highlighting&lt;/em&gt; is, I think, to be able to distinguish a few questions (those with &quot;interesting&quot; tags) among other questions (those without).  Note that before today (19-07-2009) the behavior was different; perhaps there simply wasn't any syntax highlighting in 'view by tag' aka 'questions/tagged' view...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edited 21-07-2009&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The &lt;strong&gt;revised&lt;/strong&gt; idea is to support highlighting &quot;interesting&quot; / &quot;ignored&quot; tags also in &lt;code&gt;tagged/&lt;/code&gt; view, but exclude currently viewed tag from the list of tags that highlight. This way one would be able to see &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; interesting tags (or other ignored tags) in &lt;code&gt;tagged/&lt;/code&gt; view for some interesting tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="130454" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T08:39:25.640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:43:49.900" Title="When viewing questions in tag marked as &quot;interesting&quot;, they shouldn't be all marked interesting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;style&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7160" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:41:42.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, though; it is at least consistent, and it makes the rules simple. And if they are all going to be the same colour*, does it matter whether it is a block of white or a block of off-white?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*=give or take the edge case where some questions have another flag that you have marked to ignore)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T22:41:42.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7311" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:45:52.310" Score="8" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems some long well thought out answers receive a very low vote count: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873037&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873037&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, here &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's witty, and grossly incorrect comment got him &lt;s&gt;66&lt;/s&gt;104 upvotes, for a response that probably took him 5 seconds to come up with.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I not bother answering complex questions which require lots of work to answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do long well thought out answers result in negative reputation while short snappy ones get all the rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So people do not think I am singling out Jeff, here is a bigger list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it wrong to go to interviews while employed?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/205003&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/205003&lt;/a&gt;	306	135&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the difference between JavaScript and Java?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062&lt;/a&gt;	144	108&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?    &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841&lt;/a&gt;	196	102&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to check if a number is a power of 2 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/600293&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/600293&lt;/a&gt;	446	97&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I calculate someone's age in C#?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9&lt;/a&gt;	480	89&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't like this... Is this cheating the language?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/836945&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/836945&lt;/a&gt;	370	81&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do some websites add &quot;Slugs&quot; to the end of URLs? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47427&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47427&lt;/a&gt;	372	70&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do people have trouble learning recursion?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230218&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230218&lt;/a&gt;	428	68&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the difference between JavaScript and Java?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062&lt;/a&gt;	400	65&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why Windows 7 isn't written in C#?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783238&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783238&lt;/a&gt;	162	65&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why does every man and his dog want to code a blogging engine?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940&lt;/a&gt;	140	63&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What annoys you as a programmer? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27347&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27347&lt;/a&gt;	124	56&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you use &quot;kibibyte&quot; as a unit of measurement in your programs? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176922&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176922&lt;/a&gt;	66	56&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Programmer's Bill of Rights  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100518&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100518&lt;/a&gt;	472	54&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Big-O for Eight Year Olds?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/107165&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/107165&lt;/a&gt;	452	54&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you code while drunk?    &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/193551&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/193551&lt;/a&gt;	254	52&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you prefer &quot;if (var)&quot; or &quot;if (var != 0)&quot;? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/404838&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/404838&lt;/a&gt;	368	50&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the opposite of 'parse'? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/148857&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/148857&lt;/a&gt;	94	49&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Database-wide unique-yet-simple identifiers in SQL Server    &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/721497&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/721497&lt;/a&gt;	486	48&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many lines of code is too many?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20981&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20981&lt;/a&gt;	164	48&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 20 ' - ' + q.Title ,'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' + cast(q.Id as varchar(max)) , datalength(a.Body),&#xA;    cast(a.Score as varchar) From Answers a &#xA;join Questions q on a.ParentId = q.Id and q.IsWiki = 0&#xA;where datalength(a.Body) &amp;lt; 500&#xA;order by a.Score desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for even more enjoyment, here is a list of Marc's longest 20 answers, the most votes he got from a long answer is 9 next up is 4, but the avg is probably around 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deserialization Error: The XML element 'name' from namespace '' is already present in the current scope. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/523245&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/523245&lt;/a&gt;	13466	2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Data binding dynamic data    &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/882214&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/882214&lt;/a&gt;	11614	2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you implement Pipes and Filters pattern with LinqToSQL/Entity Framework/NHibernate?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/679027&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/679027&lt;/a&gt;	11456	3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the way to implement Save / Load functionality?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348022&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348022&lt;/a&gt;	10818	4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for pooled threads to complete. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/540078&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/540078&lt;/a&gt;	10754	1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I write a generic container class that implements a given interface in C#?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/847809&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/847809&lt;/a&gt;	10570	9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(thisType) to return properties, which are write-only    &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/772107&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/772107&lt;/a&gt;	9976	3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C#/winforms: how to best bind a propertygrid and a System.Data.DataRow   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/943621&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/943621&lt;/a&gt;	9878	1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I add my attributes to Code-Generated Linq2Sql classes properties?   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393687&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393687&lt;/a&gt;	9456	1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why does WPF support binding to properties of an object, but not fields? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/842575&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/842575&lt;/a&gt;	8552	1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using the .NET collection editor without using a property grid control   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/473506&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/473506&lt;/a&gt;	8244	3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expose a collection of enums (flags) in Visual Studio designer   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/831612&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/831612&lt;/a&gt;	7598	1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delphi to .NET + C#  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/237715&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/237715&lt;/a&gt;	7526	3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MonthCalendar.SelectionRange databinding example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/377163&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/377163&lt;/a&gt;	7516	1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.Net Property Grid. Is there a way to let the Grid manipulate object in different way    &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931644&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931644&lt;/a&gt;	7372	2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In LINQ to SQL, how do you pass pass parts of a LINQ query into a function   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/434480&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/434480&lt;/a&gt;	7180	4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DataGridView Binding &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/634643&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/634643&lt;/a&gt;	6994	3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;String.Join vs. StringBuilder: which is faster?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/585860&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/585860&lt;/a&gt;	6834	4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LINQ to SQL query against a list of entities &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/729899&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/729899&lt;/a&gt;	6746	3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Better way to do this LINQ to XML query? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873037&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873037&lt;/a&gt;	6728	1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 20 ' - ' + q.Title ,'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' + cast(q.Id as varchar(max)) , datalength(a.Body),&#xA;    cast(a.Score as varchar) From Answers a &#xA;join Questions q on a.ParentId = q.Id and q.IsWiki = 0&#xA;where a.OwnerUserId = 23354&#xA;order by datalength(a.Body) desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T02:01:56.037" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T02:01:56.037" Title="Why do long well thought out answers result in negative reputation while short snappy ones get all the rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:52:32.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short attention spans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(sorry for the long sentence)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T22:52:32.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:53:57.687" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In part, because more people understand them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In part, because more people see them (before the question is marked as complete).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the java/javascript one is... unduly upvoted. There are other examples of this, but I can't think of a way to handle it, except perhaps Jon Skeet's suggestion of a rep cap &lt;strong&gt;per question&lt;/strong&gt; (rather than per day) - so (for example) you only see rep for the first 10 (pick a number...) upvotes (100 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got some similar answers; for example some things relating to obscure and complex uses of &lt;code&gt;System.ComponentModel&lt;/code&gt; - where a &lt;em&gt;short&lt;/em&gt; (minimal) example is a few hundred lines of code. It is probably only going to get appreciated by the OP; but that is fine. The answer is still good, and I'm proud of it. Like you should be of the detail in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T22:53:57.687" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:55:11.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do long well thought out answers result in negative reputation while short snappy ones get all the rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two data points isn't really enough. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448673/how-do-emulators-work-and-how-are-they-written/448689#448689&quot;&gt;There are long, well thought out answers that get plenty of up-votes&lt;/a&gt;. Just not yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; a few stats pulled from the June data dump...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Average length of answers with a score of 30 or greater: &lt;strong&gt;1060 characters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Average length of answers with a score of 0 or less: &lt;strong&gt;700 characters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Average score of answers with a length of 5000 characters or more: &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Average score of answers with a length of 300 characters or less: &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T03:17:17.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T03:17:17.747" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:56:49.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the problem is that it's difficult to tell whether or not your answer is correct. As someone that doesn't understand a lick of C# I have no idea if your answer is brilliant or horribly wrong. So I don't vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg's answer, on the other hand, is both witty and common knowledge, and therefore gets upvoted a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T22:56:49.113" />
  <row Id="7167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-19T22:58:08.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People vote for what they understand and I think it's not that people don't appreciate that answer of yours, they simply don't understand it. And yes attention span does come into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also something to be said for being pithy. Greg's answer is basically a repeat of something said elsewhere (as far as I know). And &quot;Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet&quot; is a succinct and correct answer to the question ie there is no relationship other than sharing some common letters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for long answers not getting upvoted, I just had a look and my top 7 voted answers are all quite long. IMHO there is a skill to writing a long answer effectively (well, writing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; answer effectively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because something is long doesn't mean it's a good answer (both in terms of content as well as the ability for others to digest it) and just because another answer is shorter doesn't necessarily mean that other answer is worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-19T23:13:23.323" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:13:23.323" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7171" CreationDate="2009-07-19T23:35:41.327" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;In wake of SUs lower threshold of posts for a community wiki switch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should SO follow suit, what is the magic number? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/193551&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/193551&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783238&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783238&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230218&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230218&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etc ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T00:41:48.637" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:41:48.637" Title="Should the answer threshold for forcing community wiki be decreased on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="7169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-19T23:37:28.120" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki posts should be for those that want to allow more people to edit the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128742/how-does-editing-work-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Wiki FAQ mention&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:37:28.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T23:37:28.120" />
  <row Id="7170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7168" CreationDate="2009-07-19T23:40:08.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't take too many edits right now to switch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:40:08.217" />
  <row Id="7171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7168" CreationDate="2009-07-19T23:40:32.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not until we have at least a month of data under the SU change to see how it's going to pan out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:40:32.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2073" CreationDate="2009-07-19T23:51:01.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just flag it for moderator attention, and we can deal with the locked questions no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:51:01.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7160" CreationDate="2009-07-19T23:54:41.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a new behavior that was requested in another item. Prior to this, the &quot;/tagged&quot; page was unique in that it was about the only list of questions where the interesting/ignored filter was NOT in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this proves my theorem that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;for every user who requests a behavior, there exists another user who will request that behavior be removed once implemented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-19T23:54:41.497" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7181" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:03:18.273" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this come up a few times and I'm not sure what to think about it. Fact is, if you're so inclined, you can force a post to CW by repeatedly editing it (when you don't own it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this abuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T23:07:30.527" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T23:07:30.527" Title="Is doing repeated edits to something to force CW status abuse?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="7177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7168" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:04:55.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, IMHO CW is there basically to stop rep whoring on fun questions, not to disincentivize answering questions that a lot of people find interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:04:55.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7176" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:07:55.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that would be an abuse of CW.  The purpose of CW is so more people can edit, and more people editing will cause it to go to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:07:55.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:09:56.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We prefer short witty technically correct quips to long-winded, boring answers. We are busy and have ADD. I bet that on weekends longer answers receive more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:09:56.243" />
  <row Id="7181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7176" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:21:27.780" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt; edits to other people's non-CW posts require 2,000 rep, I would say that this is not technically abuse -- but &lt;strong&gt;I do not condone&lt;/strong&gt; editing someone's post with the express purpose of converting it to wiki, and if I see users doing this repeatedly as a matter of course and with intent, there will be consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also: since there are so many ridiculous complaints about this, I am reducing the CW threshold from 750 rep to 100 rep, effective immediately.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T00:41:09.203" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:41:09.203" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6078" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:29:47.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is in its current location by design and very VERY much intentionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(also note that this checkbox is not shown at all to brand new users, because we don't expect them to understand what it is, etc. If you want to see that, log out, then go to the /ask page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T09:05:31.040" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:05:31.040" />
  <row Id="7183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:34:48.583" Score="58" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Important change&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;End users can not mark questions wiki anymore, so the only appropriate way to get action on a question you believe really should be wiki, is to flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple points..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote-to-wiki will not be implemented&lt;/strong&gt;. When the answer to a problem is &quot;let's make things arbitrarily more complicated&quot;, it is rarely the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not bully users into community wiki&lt;/strong&gt;. You can offer a carrot in the form of a comment that says &quot;wow, I'd love to vote this up if it was community wiki&quot; but downvoting and other nagging is not appropriate. (addendum: the community wiki flag checkbox is &lt;em&gt;not shown&lt;/em&gt; for new users because they can't possibly understand it, you may potentially be nagging new users about a setting they don't even have.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you think something should be community wiki then flag it for mod attention&lt;/strong&gt; with a comment to that effect. Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, note that as of now the CW edit threshold has been reduced from 750 rep to 100 rep on all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-14T07:29:43.763" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T07:29:43.763" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:45:35.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question that is &quot;Rep Whoring&quot; (whatever that means) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:45:35.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T00:45:35.783" />
  <row Id="7185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:46:12.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:46:12.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T00:46:12.500" />
  <row Id="7186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:46:45.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A poll                      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:46:45.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T00:46:45.703" />
  <row Id="7187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:47:25.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A subjective topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:47:25.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T00:47:25.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7188" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:47:50.083" Score="9" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there are a large number of iphone tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of them have a very small number of questions and may be appropriate to keep individual, but there are 2 heavily used tags that are basically synonymous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone (~5000 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk (~2000 questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost any question about iphone-sdk is about programming the iphone. While the other direction may not be strictly true if you include jailbroken devices, looking at the 5,000 iphone questions and the 2000 iphone-sdk questions less than 2% even mention the word jailbreak, much less are about jailbroken phones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that the iphone-sdk tag be merged into the iphone tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131524" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T07:29:49.330" Title="Proposal: Merge iphone-sdk into iphone" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="7190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7188" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:54:09.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see iPhone-sdk as a tag which should be a more specific pointer towards questions which are directly linked to the SDK portion of iPhone development. I don't see any reason to be merging them, honestly. I've always been a fan of the broad + specific tagging convention where questions would be tagged both iPhone (gathering a larger audience) and iPhone-sdk (telling that audience specifically where they are having a problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:54:09.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7176" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:55:32.997" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened to me. The specific instance was my answer on the Wedding Cake Code thread. Because I didn't immediately switch my answer over to CW status, people decided to go in and edit it repeatedly until it automatically switched. I do infact consider this abusive behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:55:32.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2009-07-20T00:56:39.323" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;my tags&quot; part of unanswered now will use, &lt;em&gt;in this order&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Your Interesting tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, if you don't have any..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) A sum of the top (n) tags in questions you've answered or asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T00:56:39.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:08:30.760" Score="44" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one to get shot down: How about letting bounties to be set using the reputation gained through the use of another site? So, for instance, I'm a programmer with a high Stack Overflow rep who hates using computers. Wouldn't it be useful for me to be able to exchange some of my excess Stack Overflow credit to incentivise a question on Super User? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps I'd like to highlight a question on Meta Stack Overflow, but I don't spend my time immersed in the grey with diseased poo colour scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-26T05:52:15.910" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T05:52:15.910" Title="Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;stackexchange-2.0&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="7194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7199" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:14:13.023" Score="1" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to be confused about how the reputation system on these sites works precisely. I'm trying to advance so that I can make better use of these sites and provide more useful and valuable responses, but I feel like I'm not receiving reputation for upvoted posts and questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a cap as to how many upvotes I need to get to receive reputation? Do I receive reputation for each upvote? Do I receive reputation if I get the answer? Do I only receive reputation if I get the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't properly follow what actions I've made that get reputation, and I feel stuck at my current level where I can't be sure I'm efficiently helping people on the site according to site etiquette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="144987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-04T16:50:08.810" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T16:50:08.810" Title="How does the reputation system actually work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="7195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7193" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:14:28.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that'd work good for the General Computer sites, but not so sure about the upcoming StackExchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T01:14:28.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7193" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:15:00.333" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could lead to some potential abuse (basically using rep on one site to boost up an account on another site). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting idea and the way you described it as a way for people who are invested in one site to get a potentially quick answer on another site without having to go through the effort of building up rep there sounds logical. I just don't have a very good feeling that it would ever even get seriously considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T01:15:00.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7194" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:17:07.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only gain (and lose) reputation on answers and questions that are NOT marked as Community Wiki. You also have a daily rep limit of 200 reputation points (not counting bounties won and accepted answers past the 200 point limit). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You gain 10 reputation for every upvote (unless you are at your rep limit, when in that case you will only earn enough rep to hit the limit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You lose 2 reputation for every downvote (if you are above the 200 point rep limit, say 205, and you get a downvote, you are unable to recoup that last rep to get back to 205).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you received a check mark for an accepted answer, you get a +15 reputation bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the one who set the checkmark on your own question, you will get +2 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T01:17:07.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7194" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:17:19.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;View a comprehensive answer at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T20:11:30.567" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:11:30.567" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7327" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:42:18.390" Score="4" ViewCount="1339" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ADO Entity framework, as we all know, is replacing LINQ to  SQL as the default ORM Microsoft recommends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wonder whether SO is maintaining the its data access layer in LINQ to SQL, or is planning for a migration to ADO Entity for better support?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: SO &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;using LINQ to SQL as the DAL&lt;/a&gt;. Just not sure whether it is still now, or in the future.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T03:14:27.870" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:28:26.080" Title="Is StackOverflow still Using LINQ to SQL as the ORM?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:50:19.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A LED screen that displays your current Stack Overflow rep score in Orange, Server Fault rep in Red, Super User in Bright Blue, and maybe Meta in dim white?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T01:50:19.047" />
  <row Id="7204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7202" CreationDate="2009-07-20T01:50:50.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Definitive answer, courtesy of Kyle, is that yes, Virginia, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;they do use LINQ to SQL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I'm taking a stab at this since Jeff will be able to definitively answer this, but I don't know if he'll see this question. Anyway, it seems like straight SQL to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're taking advantage of SQL Server's &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142571.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Full Text Search&lt;/a&gt;, which uses certain SQL syntax. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They need to control the speed of queries on an ever-increasing database, and the only way to really get the right indexes and performant queries is to use SQL. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff knows SQL very well, and it would surprise me if he tried to put the data access layer in the hands of an ORM, which is a solution to a non-existent problem, if you ask me (and you sort of did). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, ORMs tend to be slow and do a horrific job of optimizing queries. Of course, I'm biased because I spend most of my days in SQL, but I still think ORMs cause more harm than good. It causes app devs to think that they don't have to understand databases, which is just naive, I think. That being said, I love using LINQ with lists and XML. Just not with SQL.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T04:32:51.753" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:32:51.753" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7176" CreationDate="2009-07-20T02:06:09.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure i did this to a sofaq question at one point. Heh, pretty sure i did it to a sofaq &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; as well, during a period on SO where the CW checkbox was unavailable to the author after an answer had been posted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Didn't consider it abuse then; it was a popular, useful, and completely off-topic Q&amp;amp;A that benefited immensely from multiple authors - the perfect use for CW. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're just editing arbitrary questions to force them into CW mode... then that should probably be considered abusive. Heck, if you're just editing arbitrary questions without adding anything of value via your edits, then that's abusive. Edits should have a purpose, and &quot;vendetta against the author&quot; isn't a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if you strongly believe a question &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be CW (discussion/subjective/GTKY/whatever), please don't use this technique to force it. It's potentially confusing (why all these edits in the revision history?), and worse yet it's not terribly effective: answers aren't made CW when the question they're attached to is forced into that mode by repeated editing. So you end up in the situation where early answers collect reputation for their authors, while later ones (and the question itself) do not. FGITW may be a Good Thing when it comes to fast answers to technical questions, but there's probably no point in rewarding it for discussion/GTKY questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T02:06:09.903" />
  <row Id="7208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-20T02:21:21.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A GTKY question (no real criteria for answers, just want to &lt;strong&gt;g&lt;/strong&gt;et &lt;strong&gt;t&lt;/strong&gt;o &lt;strong&gt;k&lt;/strong&gt;now &lt;strong&gt;y&lt;/strong&gt;ou...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(These probably shouldn't be on SO at all, but a few can be fun and help users to see each other as people... and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one&quot;&gt;will&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432/what-real-life-bad-habits-has-programming-given-you&quot;&gt;never&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760/whats-your-most-controversial-programming-opinion&quot;&gt;die&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T02:21:21.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T02:21:21.907" />
  <row Id="7209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-20T02:22:22.183" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm looking to see if a particular question is a duplicate, I often want to search just in the title. Please consider a search syntax that will permit that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T02:22:22.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-07-20T02:47:05.650" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the CW flag currently has only the following effects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posts are editable by people after a lower rep threshold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No rep gain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means that people asking for something to be made CW are effectively asking either of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want to edit your post, but I do not have enough rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think you should get rep for this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the first is of rather dubious value on the grounds that something is 'subjective' in some form or other, because surely, a subjective question or answer is by definition something least suitable for editing by third parties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't think the second point holds much water either (but I accept some will disagree with me), because there is a daily rep-cap, and if a question or answer is truly popular enough that a large number of poeple want to vote on it, then good for them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It very much feels like someone wants to put their judgement on a transaction that does not in any way involve them, between one that wrote something and another that appreciated that which was written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131481" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T02:47:05.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7213" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:10:15.833" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just ran across &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1151547/what-no-sort-for-ilistt&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO, and was completely thrown for a loop.  I wanted to upvote it, downvote it, and close it all at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't truly a question - the poster is stating that he'd like to see a solution for something that he feels is missing in the .Net framework, and he's started a feature request over on Microsoft Connect.  He's sort of asked the question of &quot;why isn't it in there already&quot;, but it's clear the intent is to drum up action on his issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you respond to this?  Is it ok and I'm just reading too much into it?  Or is this abuse of the site (borderline or clear-cut?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:18:10.353" Title="Using SO to petition support for [your favorite programming cause]" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="7212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:20:22.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People read answers with length proportional to their attention span.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T03:20:22.573" />
  <row Id="7213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7211" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:21:52.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to respond?  Well, I can't see any question there - it is just a big statement of fact (this functionality is missing, I have requested it, ...).  In the side bar (when asking a question), it states the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is your question about programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provide details. Write clearly and simply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about this website, ask it on meta instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he should re-phrase it so that it is a question (something along the lines of, &quot;why isn't this feature already present?&quot;), and that seems to be the way the top answer reads it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for using SO to drum up support, I reckon that if he asks his question (why isn't ...) and then posts as an answer a link to his feature request, this can be helpful.  SO is a community for developers, and as such is a great place to point out things that might help other devs (and to drum up support for things that they may need in the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T03:21:52.243" />
  <row Id="7214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7211" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:29:49.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I would do (and just did in this case) is ask the author to state it as a question.  If the purpose of the question is just to advertise his post on another site, I'd consider it spam.  But since this is a new question from a new user, it's better to be polite--he probably doesn't fully understand the etiquette here yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T13:18:10.353" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:18:10.353" />
  <row Id="7215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7211" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:39:30.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote to close (not a real question), and post a comment explaining why. There are places to post petitions, but SO is not one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T03:39:30.500" />
  <row Id="7216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6928" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:42:28.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Here's a breakdown&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;                  1922 &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex&quot;&gt;flex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;      &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;30   &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gnu-flex&quot;&gt;gnu-flex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;      &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;32   &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/adobe-flex-3&quot;&gt;adobe-flex-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;9    &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex4&quot;&gt;flex4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;            &amp;nbsp;292  &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex3&quot;&gt;flex3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;1    &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex2&quot;&gt;flex2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;1    &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/adobe-flex&quot;&gt;adobe-flex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of those tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex&quot;&gt;flex&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;573 &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex+actionscript-3&quot;&gt;actionscript-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;345 &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex+flash&quot;&gt;flash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;nbsp;199 &lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex+actionscript&quot;&gt;actionscript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well it looks like if we don't do anything that the regular users will do it for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T03:42:28.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7157" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:46:10.737" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only person to decide if a question is to be &quot;wiki&quot; is the asker, it should be completely up to her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T03:46:10.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T03:46:10.737" />
  <row Id="7219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:39:32.927" Score="5" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently look for featured questions, to look for something new to learn I may not be aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried looking for &quot;Famous Questions&quot; via the Badges page at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;That page shows a list of badges, and clicking on a badge shows the users who have that badge, which makes sense for most badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for some badges like &quot;Famous Question&quot;, it would be useful if I could see (in this case), the list of Famous Questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched SO, but no luck so far. Is there such a list somewhere on SO ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131708" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T04:26:50.540" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:26:50.540" Title="How do I find all &quot;Famous Questions&quot; on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7219" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:05:09.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a solution I made for a previous asker,  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20parent.ParentId,%20child.Title,%20parent.Score%20FROM%20posts%20AS%20parent,%20posts%20AS%20child%20WHERE%20parent.ParentId%20=%20child.Id%20ORDER%20BY%20Score%20DESC%20LIMIT%20500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with highest rated answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20parent.ParentId,%20child.Title,%20parent.Score%20FROM%20posts%20AS%20parent,%20posts%20AS%20child%20WHERE%20parent.ParentId%20=%20child.Id%20AND%20child.IsWiki=0%20ORDER%20BY%20Score%20DESC%20LIMIT%20500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Questions with highest rated answers that aren't WIKI's&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20Id,%20Title,%20Score%20from%20posts%20WHERE%20PostTypeId=1%20AND%20IsWiki%20=%200%20ORDER%20BY%20Score%20DESC%20LIMIT%20500&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Highest rated Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downside is you have to append the ID manually to the end of &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:05:09.533" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:08:43.120" Score="3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a bit baffled as to how I got the Pundit badge on SO. Apparently, I'm one of 7 elite pundits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description says &quot;Left 10 comments with score of 10 or more&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't sound too hard. Only 7 people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it only counting since the launch of the badge? Or is it for the whole history of SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you get multiple Pundit badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T04:33:30.800" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:33:30.800" Title="When a new badge is launched, are old responses taken into account?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;pundit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7222" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:13:13.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From past evidence (data analysis), badges are awarded based on events that happened prior to the creation of the badge. Being a pundit must be harder than you think ;)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how many you can receive, it's way too early to infer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:13:13.680" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7222" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:13:57.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments don't get up-voted like answers do.  It's rare for me to see a comment with 10+ up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I think part of this comes from not seeing the up-vote arrow for a comment until you mouse-over it, while up/down-vote arrows for questions and answers are always visible.  Maybe it's just too well hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastEditorUserId="130206" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T05:10:42.510" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T05:10:42.510" />
  <row Id="7226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7222" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:16:59.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting comments also was a fairly new feature. I remember when it first came out (now I feel like an old-timer ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:16:59.220" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7188" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:34:55.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tag Breakdown&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5077 iphone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1930 iphone-sdk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;124 iphone-sdk3.0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;73 iphone-simulator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;29 iphone-web&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 iphone+uiwebview ???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;13 cocos2d-iphone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 iphone-developer-program&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 iphone-os&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 iphone-3.0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 iphone-application&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 iphone-3gs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 iphone-web-app&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 iphone-privateapi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 iphone-sdk-3.0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 iphone-sdk-documentation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One each of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone+post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-2.2-firmware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-accessory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphonecoredatarecipes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-privateapis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk-2.2.1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk-3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphonevideo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rbiphonetest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rspec-iphone-sdk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't actually see any of the questions tagged &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; on the &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; tag page, unless they happen to also have both &lt;code&gt;iphone&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;uiwebview&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding this out has lead me to ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7229/why-can-you-put-a-in-the-tags-field&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T17:30:01.147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:30:01.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:35:41.247" Score="3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;h1&gt;I'm referring to tags which should be separate, or they have a '+', when they should have a '-'.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Look at the follow-up answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7229/why-can-you-put-a-in-the-tags-field/7600#7600&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apperently there are several questions tagged with the tag &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt;, and I'm not talking about questions tagged wtih &lt;code&gt;iphone&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;uiwebview&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed this when looking for a list of tags for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7188/proposal-merge-iphone-sdk-into-iphone/7228#7228&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I managed to find one by visiting the &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; tag page. Where I noticed that it did indeed have that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/883415/uiwebview-redirect-to-facebook-login-page&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;, it has &lt;code&gt;iphone-sdk&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;objective-c&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt; tags. The only reason it shows up is because of having both &lt;code&gt;iphone&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; tags, not because it has the composite tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990596/handling-zooming-and-panning-inside-uiwebview&quot;&gt;example-2&lt;/a&gt; has these tags &lt;code&gt;cocoa&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;cocoa-touch&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt;, but doesn't show up on &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt; tag page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because you can add tags to the tag pages with a single '+', you shouldn't be able to add that tag to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please do something to prevent users from mistakenly adding any tag with a single '+' in the middle of the tag. That way special tags like &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;gdi+&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;com+&lt;/code&gt;, are left alone, as well as several tags with &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt; in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Examples:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 22 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt;, but the tag page show 60 questions that are tagged with both &lt;code&gt;iphone&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;uiwebview&lt;/code&gt;. It doesn't, however show all of the 22 questions with the actual tag &lt;code&gt;iphone+uiwebview&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 3 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;xml+flash+actionscript&lt;/code&gt;, but go to the tag page, it shows 5. &lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; of which have the composite &lt;code&gt;xml+flash+actionscript&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 7 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;svn+ssh&lt;/code&gt;. While there are 10 on the tag page. Only 2 of which have the &lt;code&gt;svn+ssh&lt;/code&gt; composite tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T17:07:08.423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:07:08.423" Title="Why can you put a single + in the tags field?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="7230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7211" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:38:14.050" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO should be a fine place to post 'Programming' Petitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be anti-apathy, and do our part to make the programming sphere better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T05:14:57.730" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T05:14:57.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T04:38:14.050" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-07-20T04:56:51.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question, but the answer does not solve your problem, then the problem is not with the answer.  The supplied answers might not help you with your problem, but some other user might have the exact problem you have asked about, and there are good answers to that question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of changing your question, you need to ask a new one, so that it better reflects your problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65696" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T04:56:51.277" />
  <row Id="7232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7234" CreationDate="2009-07-20T05:00:30.310" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it correct to add a comment on thread that has not seen activity in a while?  Is it correct to do it when your addressing an issue in another comment, and not answering the main question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would gladly like your opinion on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:06:31.760" Title="Adding a Comment on an Inactive Question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="7233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7232" CreationDate="2009-07-20T05:02:54.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do it all of the time, it is especially useful if you want the person who wrote it to revisit their question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T05:02:54.027" />
  <row Id="7234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7232" CreationDate="2009-07-20T05:04:03.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a comment and not an answer, absolutely. Even though that question may not pop into the recent bin, it will still notify the owner of whatever it is you're commenting on. Generally, that leads to edits or more answers, which then push it to the recent page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T05:04:03.707" />
  <row Id="7235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7229" CreationDate="2009-07-20T05:09:12.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bad idea. Aside from the fact that the C++ users will revolt en masse if you ban + from the tags, you also have 30+ tags that have a valid + in them, just on SO. Go &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and type in &quot;c+&quot;. Granted, there can be some tag merging to be had, but the point of the tagging system is that we never know what will come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, an automated box that will say, &quot;Hey, you sure this is one word?&quot; if the user creates a tag with a + in it is entirely viable and I completely support that. But banning it en masse is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T05:50:16.390" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T05:50:16.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-24T23:42:07.250" Score="159" ViewCount="7734" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Stack Overflow trilogy websites, users may gain a certain level of &lt;em&gt;Reputation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does &lt;em&gt;Reputation&lt;/em&gt; do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can a user gain or lose &lt;em&gt;Reputation&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5212/are-there-any-voting-limits-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Are there any voting limits?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maximum amount of votes and reputation a user can gain or use in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;How can I audit my reputation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to get an exact overview of the actions that got you your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T11:01:24.007" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T12:14:42.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T23:42:07.250" Title="How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="47" />
  <row Id="7238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7237" CreationDate="2008-09-24T23:42:18.793" Score="210" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What does &lt;em&gt;Reputation&lt;/em&gt; do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a registered user, your reputation on the site is a part of your identity on the site. It determines, to an extent, respect among your peers, because it can generally only be gained when other users of the site vote up your questions and answers.  It also determines a users privileges within the system.  As you gain more reputation, the system learns to trust you and bestows new functionality that is restricted from low reputation users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a user gains reputation, he or she will gain the following abilities and responsibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+15 to upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+15 to mark offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+15 to post images&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+15 to mark your own posts as Community Wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+50 to add comments to a post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+50 to delete your own comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+100 to downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+100 to remove &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question/answer rate limits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+100 to edit community 'wiki editable' posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+100 to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions/7054#7054&quot;&gt;add a bounty to a question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+200 for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reduced advertising&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+250 to vote to open/close your own questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+500 to retag others' questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1000 to show separated up and down vote counts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1500 to create new tags (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/tag-folksonomy-and-tag-synonyms/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+2000 to edit others' questions and answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+2000 your user page website url is not &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nofollowed&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/32401&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+3000 to vote for opening/closing any question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+10000 to delete closed questions and access moderation tools (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+15000 to protect questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69989/propose-a-new-20k-reputation-privilege/70003#70003&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+20000 to edit all tag wikis (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69989/propose-a-new-20k-reputation-privilege/69992#69992&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;), be able to delete closed questions without a 2-day wait (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69989/propose-a-new-20k-reputation-privilege/70044#70044&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;), vote to delete answers with a score of -1 or lower (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69989/propose-a-new-20k-reputation-privilege/70009#70009&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can a user gain or lose &lt;em&gt;Reputation&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users gain or lose reputation based on how they interact with the system.  Primarily this is by asking and answering questions which are voted on by other users.  Posts which are voted up earn the user reputation, and posts which are voted down penalize them; however, up-votes are more heavily weighted than down-votes.  Posts which are marked as &quot;Community Wiki Editable&quot; do not change reputation on up or down votes (but you can still earn badges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Users gain reputation when:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Question is voted &lt;em&gt;Useful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+5&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Answer is voted &lt;em&gt;Useful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+10&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Answer is marked &lt;em&gt;Accepted&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+15&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You marked an answer to your question as &lt;em&gt;Accepted&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A down vote on your Question or Answer is removed: &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/77505/edit-a-question-from-other-user-and-get-2-rep&quot;&gt;suggest an edit and it is accepted&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You remove your down vote from an Answer you have voted as &lt;em&gt;Not useful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bounty on a question is awarded to your answer: &lt;strong&gt;+full bounty amount&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bounty time for a question expires and your answer had the highest votes (the bounty is divided equally if there's a tie): &lt;strong&gt;+1/2 of the bounty amount&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Users lose reputation when:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Question or Answer is voted &lt;em&gt;Not useful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;−2&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You voted an Answer as &lt;em&gt;Not useful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;−1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You wrote the first revision to a post flagged &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; 5 times: &lt;strong&gt;−100&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user removes a vote on your Question that they previously voted as &lt;em&gt;Useful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;−5&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user removes a vote on your Answer that they previously voted as &lt;em&gt;Useful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;−10&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You had an Answer marked &lt;em&gt;Accepted&lt;/em&gt;, but the question owner selects another user's Answer as &lt;em&gt;Accepted&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;−15&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have multiple user accounts merged.  Reputation is recalculated during the merge so you lose reputation gained from questions that have since been deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You place a bounty on a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Additionally:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All users start with 1 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user's reputation may not drop below 1 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2621/why-does-reputation-have-a-lower-bound-of-1&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If voted &lt;em&gt;Not useful&lt;/em&gt; when at 1, the reputation stays 1. Next, when whatever post is voted &lt;em&gt;Useful&lt;/em&gt;, or when the earlier down vote is removed (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10984/removing-a-downvote-adds-reputation-that-wasnt-there&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;), one will end up above 1 regardless of any earlier down votes that were ignored for the reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking accounts between Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User and meta from any account with at least 200 reputation: &lt;strong&gt;+100 reputation on each site linked to&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A maximum of +200 reputation may be gained per day. Accepted answers are immune to this cap (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/daily-dose-of-daily-reputation-ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) as are bounties (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).  (A new day starts 0:00 UTC == 7pm EST == 4pm PST == 1am CET == 5:30 am IST.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A maximum of +1000 reputation may be earned by users from suggested edits. You can only suggest edits to posts if you have under 2000 reputation, or to tag wikis if you have under 20000 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepting an answer that is marked Community wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35928/2-on-accepting-answers-something-is-wrong-with-my-account-on-so/35930#35930&quot;&gt;will not return &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; to the question owner&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an accepted answer is community wiki, it &lt;strong&gt;will not&lt;/strong&gt; earn the &lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt; points of reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If an earlier vote is removed &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; a post is made community wiki, then the reputation is not changed (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29088/downvote-removed-score-of-downvoted-user-unchanged&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do not receive any reputation for accepting your &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; answer to your &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As of May 2011, downvoting Questions does not have a reputation cost (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/90324/should-downvotes-on-questions-be-free&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-10T12:14:42.740" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T12:14:42.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T06:41:55.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T06:01:44.933" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;h1&gt;My idea&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a new user to stackoverflow and I'm loving  the usage of tags to filter questions. This feature is really good because of the huge amount of information the users post dialy, however I've found out that is somewhat tedious to filter each tag I don't want to see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean taking into consideration the fact that SO has around &lt;strong&gt;24.150 tags and 227,182 questions&lt;/strong&gt; it's just A LOT of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how about instead of having to write the tags on the sidebar or the user profile we add small icons to the tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow faster navigation and make it a lot simpler for users to understand and use SO. Allowing faster filtering and navigation to improve the user experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a little example of what I'm talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/9213/60195753.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way you can filter everything way faster than using the sidebar, thus improving the user experience and allowing the users to focus on the information they really need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what do you think of this idea?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131717" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T06:38:45.423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:59:03.357" Title="Improvements on StackOverflow frontend &amp; user experience" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7232" CreationDate="2009-07-20T06:06:31.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it is totally correct and encouraged! Note that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users will be notified of comments left on their posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments do not &quot;bump&quot; the last activity date of the question, which is good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:06:31.760" />
  <row Id="7264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7261" CreationDate="2009-07-20T06:06:44.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh well.. now the post isn't mine lol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131717" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:06:44.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7261" CreationDate="2009-07-20T06:09:19.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just use the interesting tags and look for the color change.&#xA;I can't imagine trying to filter out 24000+ tags, that would really hose the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:09:19.047" />
  <row Id="7266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7261" CreationDate="2009-07-20T06:11:45.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With your screenshot, it would be visually somewhat cluttered - the screen would become speckled with the icons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the icons could appear or disappear based on mouse hovers, just like the ones for comment voting/flagging do. That would reduce discoverability, but would be much more visually appealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option would be to allow drag and drop of tags into &quot;interesting&quot; and &quot;ignore&quot; buckets, much like GMail now does for labels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:11:45.633" />
  <row Id="7267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7222" CreationDate="2009-07-20T06:11:55.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is over the whole history of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I too was surprised how rare 10 comments with 10 upvotes is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; do a silver badge for something under this -- maybe 20 comments with 5 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T06:11:55.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7261" CreationDate="2009-07-20T06:18:32.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've personally found typing the few tags into the list fairly easy to do. I probably ignore or find interesting about 40 tags. I would support a drag and drop idea, but the icons add quite a bit of noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T09:21:23.913" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:21:23.913" />
  <row Id="7269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7261" CreationDate="2009-07-20T07:08:28.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of how often you'd actually want to add or remove tags from/to your lists. After just a few weeks, most of the work will be done. But then, the additional icons are not used anymore and just take up screen real estate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm against this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T07:08:28.770" />
  <row Id="7270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T07:31:21.283" Score="3" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&#xA;What is the best practice after finding a question as a duplicate to another one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways the question will get closed eventually. But what if it was possible to merge the question to the duplicate, because the duplicate can contain valuable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Feature request:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merge a duplicate question to the original one&lt;/strong&gt;. Voting has to be done in this case for avoiding unnecessary merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T09:26:20.183" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:26:20.183" Title="Merge question after finding it as a duplicate- Feature request" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7270" CreationDate="2009-07-20T07:42:05.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hard to say. In this case, I just delete my question if nobody has answered it yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you found a matching question, put a comment on the question itself and ask that OP to ask your things too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T07:42:05.437" />
  <row Id="7272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7276" CreationDate="2009-07-20T07:50:53.727" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like a small discussion about opening up SO functions as web services (APIs), so users can implement their own GUI/frontend for their needs for example? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think, what pros and cons can this kind of model have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T08:59:59.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T12:30:43.657" Title="Option to have real-time SO data available as web service too" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14626" CreationDate="2009-07-20T08:03:31.563" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen (and made) edits on questions that turned out to be erroneous, either because they accidentally changed the meaning of the question or because they introduced some other error. Sometimes it isn't even an obvious error, and you might want to discuss the change with the person who did it rather than go ahead and risk starting an edit war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious way to discuss the change is to add comments to the question, but that doesn't really make sense, because the discussion will probably end with that which is being discussed being changed or removed. Maybe the comments will be removed by the people who joined the discussion, but most likely not, and then the question has a bunch of irrelevant comments, making it harder to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there other ways to discuss this kind of stuff? I'd recommend being able to add comments amidst the revisions (i.e. they show up among the revisions as separate entries), or to add comments on the revisions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To show what I would like to avoid, the following question is a good example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185628/how-do-i-define-a-unique-property-for-a-model-in-google-app-engine&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185628/how-do-i-define-a-unique-property-for-a-model-in-google-app-engine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastEditorUserId="130514" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T05:49:45.807" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T05:19:55.010" Title="Are there ways to discuss revisions without cluttering the question itself?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7272" CreationDate="2009-07-20T08:08:22.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will be a very strange decision, as far as other users may want to implement different UI with different scoring/badging system... I can't see any &quot;pro&quot; argument why owners of SO will want to do this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that WebService API can be developed, but only to Get() answers/comments from site. However, RSS feeds are good replacements of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:08:22.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7277" CreationDate="2009-07-20T08:14:39.133" Score="2" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful to actually see on a post that it's already been flagged for e.g. moderator attention or as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, folks might be flagging the same post over and over again as spam for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This indicator should be visible only to those SO members who are able to flag it as offensive, spam etc. (it's dependant on your reputation, right?) - don't show it to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T09:03:05.377" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T01:16:27.967" Title="Show that a post has been flagged as spam or needing moderator attention" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="7276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7272" CreationDate="2009-07-20T08:15:00.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been talk about an API before, and I believe Jeff has said &quot;It's definitely something we want to do&quot; on the podcast - but with no timescale. I don't think it's a current priority, although a few APIs have been made available on a somewhat ad-hoc basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious downside from the SO side of things is that custom clients would probably not include adverts, draining revenue. However, I don't see that as a major problem: most visits aren't made by the kind of regular user who would have a custom client anyway - they're &quot;drive-by&quot; visits via search engines, and these wouldn't be affected. Custom clients for power users could enable users to generate content more efficiently, and it's ultimately content that drives the search hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:15:00.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7275" CreationDate="2009-07-20T08:20:21.030" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having different people flag something over and over again (say as spam or offensive) sounds like a good idea though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an indicator saying that it's been flagged, then others may be less likely to flag it themselves because, hey, someone else has already done that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But get different people flagging it, then it's more likely an actual problem. Instead of say, accidental, vengeful or spiteful flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:20:21.030" />
  <row Id="7281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7283" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:20:25.367" Score="4" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use my &lt;a href=&quot;http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogspot&lt;/a&gt; account as my OpenID login account to log into StackOverflow ( and other openid enabled website). On a second thought, I believe that maybe using my Google account is a better idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to switch the OpenID provider and at the same time, retaining the information pertaining to that account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T08:32:01.373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:32:01.373" Title="Change OpenID provider from Blogspot to Google Account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7281" CreationDate="2009-07-20T03:35:36.880" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has support for a second OpenID.  Go to your profile and Click &lt;em&gt;New Login&lt;/em&gt;.  You can make your new login the primary OpenID by clicking &lt;em&gt;swap&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is site site specific.  Other websites may have their own way of doing it, or not have the ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:32:02.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7272" CreationDate="2009-07-20T08:36:41.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put this answer to my question to detail my vision without obscuring the question above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My original idea came from Twitter having API to do updates. I thought only a few, parameterable web services needs to be developed in order to work with SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get-User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get-Posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get-Single-Post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post-Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post-Answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post-Comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit-Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit-Answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete-Own-Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete-Own-Answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get-Ads&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you're doing it for yourself only, you could customize your own client side UI as you want - sorting, further filtering, coloring etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For spinoff frontend sites, an ad-forwarding agreement would do the trick, and maybe a montly fee (which could be accumulated by other-ads on the spinoff site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:36:41.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-13T14:51:50.720" Score="33" ViewCount="1107" Body="&lt;p&gt;After I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/192793/what-is-your-favorite-programmer-t-shirt&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, something occurred to me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of those tshirts are great, but there was one missing...StackOverflow's!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so, after reading that post, I got a bit creative and put together these examples of  &lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow t-shirts&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/8360/soshirtbothlogotextov5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SO shirt 1 - White, Front Logo and Text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/815/soshirtlogoblackpe9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SO shirt 2 - Black, Front Logo&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7000/soshirtbothlogotextsmalrj9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SO shirt 3 - White, Front Smaller Logo and Smaller Text &quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So tell me people, if this t-shirt or any StackOverflow t-shirt was actually produced, &lt;strong&gt;would You wear it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you show how proud you are of this website, and what a blessing it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your ideas of producing a better StackOverflow t-shirt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am now thinking of actually producing such a shirt and wear it proudly to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Altough the above images portray tshirts, I agree that it's best to print on polo shirts...more professional looking ;-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Start posting your own original designs!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[update]&lt;/strong&gt; Reduced the size of the logo of the black shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44084" LastEditorUserId="44084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T16:44:48.433" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T23:25:49.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T14:51:50.720" Title="How would you design a Stackoverflow t-shirt?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;t-shirt&gt;&lt;merchandise&gt;" AnswerCount="31" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T14:56:46.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer black color with big logo on the front (right-top corner) and the site name on the   back (top). Sorry, but can't produce a picture to show up my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148920" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T14:56:46.090" />
  <row Id="7287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T14:58:31.970" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely would - tons of times better than wearing those lousy .NET T-shirts they give out at microsoft events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better if it was a polo-shirt though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to get one when you reach 10K rep, smt like &quot;stackoverflow Trusted Dude&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T14:58:31.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T15:26:28.370" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would.  However, to wear it to work, I would need either a polo or a button-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel, there is definitely a money-making opportunity here!  CafePress could provide the shirts, mugs, etc.  Geek swag is something that I know that I love to spend money on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T15:26:28.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T15:34:33.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd wear it.  I'm gonna add this to my Amazon Universal Wish List.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6688" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T15:34:33.533" />
  <row Id="7290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T15:38:08.347" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about making a &quot;geek&quot; t-shirt that isn't either black or white. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other colours people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148845" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T15:38:08.347" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="7291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T15:42:58.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think stackoverflow logo is really nice.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's a very nice idea :-)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;About the color, I prefer white - just like the website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139999" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T15:42:58.447" />
  <row Id="7292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T15:45:32.483" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd wear one, but I wouldn't buy one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135396" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T15:45:32.483" />
  <row Id="7293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T19:02:15.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote goes in favor of the black one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27148" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T19:02:15.360" />
  <row Id="7294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T19:04:23.607" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make the logo and text smaller. When it's that big it makes the shirt look cheap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149422" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T19:04:23.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-13T19:08:24.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;BSOD (Stackoverflow at Kernel)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T19:08:24.723" />
  <row Id="7296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-14T20:45:33.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a fan of branded polo shirts. For work, I just wear dress clothes; t-shirts are for expressing my personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the one on the left, though I'm not attached to black or white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not make a few versions so people can pick what they like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133224" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-14T20:45:33.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-14T20:47:26.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait, no &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_protector&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pocket protector&lt;/a&gt;? Oh, wait: No POCKET?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I prefer shirts with the logo on the heart, so the black one is nice, although the logo is too big I think. But yes, we need SO propaganda materials!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-14T20:47:26.363" />
  <row Id="7298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-14T21:19:50.353" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd buy one if it had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/303954/how-to-get-over-200-reputation-points-every-day#304024&quot;&gt;SkeetOverflow&lt;/a&gt; on the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-14T21:19:50.353" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-15T13:55:25.290" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would wear it only if my reputation were printed in it (and updated in real-time of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T13:55:25.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-15T14:28:35.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a t-shirt, the overflow logo on the breast pocket and &quot;stackoverflow&quot; across the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a polo, I agree that a small design is best.  Maybe the logo with &quot;stackoverflow&quot; underneath in smaller text so it's not much wider than the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Color-wise, I avoid both white and black; they project &quot;cheap&quot; to me - the kind of thing you get for free at a tech show because the company gets them made and printed for $1.50 in Southeast Asia.  Plus, white shirts discolor quickly and easily.  Most of my shirts are in the tan or blue color ranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T14:28:35.863" />
  <row Id="7301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-15T14:35:01.200" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only requirement that I would have is that the proceeds go to benefit SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T14:35:01.200" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-15T14:42:52.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't wear if you just put a logo in it. IMHO logo is quite crap as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it'd be so much better if you focus on fun stuff such as :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I asked 352 question in stackoverflow but no one gave a crap.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;My stackoverflow badge : &quot;Worst Question Ever&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for my lack a sense of humour but I think you got the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T14:42:52.870" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-15T14:44:33.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd want just the logo really big front and center on white or black, and I'd definitely wear one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T14:44:33.833" />
  <row Id="7304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-17T14:48:36.460" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put this on the back! =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6573/sotshirtqm8.png&quot; alt=&quot;T-shirt Back&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131705" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T14:48:36.460" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2008-12-26T10:57:14.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there can be one more good pattern....like a one small logo on the front and a big text on the back......what u say? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-26T10:57:14.907" />
  <row Id="7306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-01-13T19:03:49.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about something super-geeky like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*Me).addiction[0]=StackOverflow;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or maybe just: Me-&gt;addiction[0]=StackOverflow; =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the &quot;Me&quot; could be personalized, for a nominal fee of a few hundred Rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-13T19:03:49.543" />
  <row Id="7307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-01-13T19:07:55.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer a black polo shirt with the stackoverflow logo stitched on the front and the URL stitched on the sleeve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, yes, I would wear it.  Often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-13T19:07:55.853" />
  <row Id="7308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-01-20T13:59:48.910" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please take note of the related UserVoice request: &#xA;   &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/102591-t-shirts-that-say-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/102591-t-shirts-that-say-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Shameless Self Promotion:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/IB2YY.jpg&quot; width=&quot;600&quot; height=&quot;259&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastEditorUserId="15614" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T23:25:49.003" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T23:25:49.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-20T13:59:48.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-01-20T14:30:16.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow T-Shirt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;def StackOverflowTShirt():&#xA;    print &quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;&#xA;    StackOverflowTShirt()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only catch is, it doesn't really say what &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; actually is. And if anyone actually runs the code, it will cause a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stack overflow&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-20T14:30:16.180" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-04-10T04:42:26.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put the logo in the center of a light camo short sleeve (greens or greys) and put a rounded rectangle around it. Or, instead of the camo, a baseball jersey might look good. On the breast of a buttoned up gas station shirt sounds cool, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T08:41:18.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-10T04:42:26.520" />
  <row Id="7311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7162" CreationDate="2009-07-20T08:59:24.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its only fair I answer this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a trend short answers &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; have an edge over long answer, in fact long answers in general get up to a 6x edge over one liners. This edge is much reduced for the more complicated tags such as 'multithreading' where you only get a 3x edge (and you reach the optimum length earlier). This also explains why Marc's long answers are so poorly voted on. Few people understand them hence the low vote count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point you stop getting an edge and start losing it. This usually happens around the 15k letter mark, anything longer than that loses the edge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess &lt;strong&gt;anyone&lt;/strong&gt; can find the edge cases, but edge cases do not prove a point. I also think its hard to make a point that rules need to change just to accommodate for edge cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer my original questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do long well thought out answers&#xA;  result in negative reputation while&#xA;  short snappy ones get all the rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well the data does not back that up. It just backs up that there are edge cases where this happens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I not bother answering complex&#xA;  questions involving concurrency&#xA;  anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If&lt;/strong&gt; all you are interested in is rep, concurrency is a very poor tag to be participating in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do I suggest SO does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Move along, nothing to see here. I guess. It's the way the system works. Reputation is not a measure of effort or correctness, its a measure of popularity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T01:56:42.987" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T01:56:42.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:01:27.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An     API&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:01:27.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T09:01:27.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7275" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:02:54.373" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We used to show offensive / spam flag counts and it resulted in a lot of angst and complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have concluded that there is zero positive value in showing these counts to anyone but moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:02:54.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:06:14.740" Score="6" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;A nice feature would be to force logout from all other locations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I login on my work machine (I have shortcuts in my startup) and also on my home machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to leave that job unexpectedly I'd want to make sure that staying logged into the Trilogy could not be compromised by someone accessing my work account and accessing my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example would be, if I login on a library PC, or a friends PC I'd want to make sure I could force a logout from those if I forget to do it on the site by logging in at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131388" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-24T16:45:11.027" LastActivityDate="2010-05-24T16:53:01.917" Title="force logout all locations" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:08:53.223" Score="5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the original idea behind community wiki was, but as it is now it has very little to do with the wiki aspect and a lot to do with reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that community-wiki be renamed to something like &quot;rep independent&quot;, and that it shouldn't have anything to do with who can edit the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having done that, there should be a &quot;reborn&quot; concept of wiki questions/answers, for specific things that make more sense as wiki. Maybe even allow the original author to gain points from the post for a limited period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are some deeper issues with the concept of wiki in a Q&amp;amp;A site, that are not even being discussed because the reputation stuff is such a distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there is a specific &quot;problem&quot;. It's more an issue of muddled concepts. While you convinced me that it makes sense for the high-participation questions to be wiki, there are other situations where wiki is appropriate. Right now, the &quot;wiki&quot; label on a question seems to mark it as subjective, fun and lightweight, which makes me not want to use it on professional, esoteric subjects. Maybe it's just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened for me was I wanted to start a wiki that reviews all the different ways to represent date/time values in Python, their relative strengths/weaknesses, and how to convert between all of them. But I didn't know how to start a wiki. Do I collect all the answers into the question like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/934500&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, or do I write a short question and make the answer the actual wiki like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391523&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;? I went into meta SO wanting to ask this question, but when I searched for other discussions tagged as &lt;code&gt;community-wiki&lt;/code&gt; I noticed all the discussion was about the rep aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/716738&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;, for example, should really be a wiki. But right now, saying &quot;this should be wiki&quot; has the faint odor of an accusation. I'd like to see that change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131378" LastEditorUserId="131378" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T12:52:11.917" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:52:11.917" Title="Split the concept of community-wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="7320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3774" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:09:32.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &quot;put everything in the universe on one site, we'll just use tags to tell everything apart!&quot; in sheep's clothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe programmers who speak only Mandarin, or French, or Spanish, are better off forming their own communities and centers of gravity. Shared language is one of the fundamental aspects of community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just visit Chinatown in nearby San Francisco to see what I mean.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(now for &lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt;, it's a totally different story. That's why I encourage them to fork the code and make massive underlying changes, like ripping out OpenID with extreme prejudice, and dropping in full-blown localization with every string in a lookup table.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:09:32.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4550" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:13:24.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether SO proved any of the claims used when it was built? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are you asking us when you should be asking &lt;s&gt;god&lt;/s&gt; Google? &lt;strong&gt;What does Google say about Stack Overflow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the most -- and arguably the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; -- widely accepted metric of success on the internet that I know of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:13:24.687" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42763" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:20:23.363" Score="220" ViewCount="5952" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we started Stack Overflow, we wanted to make sure that downvotes were more of a visual and psychological motivator than a punitive action. That's why &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvotes are +10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvotes are -2, and cost the casting voter -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, recently, I've seen Marc Gravell and Jon Skeet both say similar things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IMO, downvotes don't quite carry enough... -5 downvotes and +1 upvote (for sympathy) yields zero points overall; or it could even yield +10 points for a new user! I'd prefer to see, say, -4 points? -5 points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am starting to come around to this way of thinking. There are some users who ask a lot of questions that get downvoted &lt;em&gt;heavily&lt;/em&gt;, but over time these users end up with a fairly sizable amount of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't feel right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We are considering changing downvotes to -5, with the same -1 cost to the casting voter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There really aren't that many downvotes in the system, so the net effect of this change would be to reduce rep growth for users who tend to get downvoted as much as they get upvoted. (Yes, I realize this is no panacea: over time, we'll still get rep inflation for marginal users based on sheer quantity; this is only one of several changes we are considering to help mitigate this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other downside to this change, besides the obvious minor loss of rep for most users, is that it would force &lt;strong&gt;a global reputation recalc for every user&lt;/strong&gt;. I think we're due for one of those anyway..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-04T08:46:37.513" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T12:14:01.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" Title="Should the weight of downvotes be increased?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="41" CommentCount="66" FavoriteCount="33" />
  <row Id="7323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7319" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:24:09.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;as it is now it has very little to do with the wiki aspect and a lot to do with reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you know that we reduced the threshold for CW editing to 100 rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for the record it has to do with both of those things.. this is the challenge of being a hybrid system, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001222.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;we are balancing opposing concepts&lt;/a&gt;. This takes tuning and compromises.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe even allow the original author to gain points from the post for a limited period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is already what happens with the current answer force threshold. When a question reaches 30 answers (10 on superuser), it and all answers are forced into CW mode. Reputation gained PRIOR TO that point is still valid, but votes cast after the CW date do not confer rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Forcing into CW mode doesn't make a lot of sense with relation to the wiki aspect, only to the reputation aspect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure it does -- if a question has 30+ answers, nobody in their right mind is going to read all those. They're going to skim the answers and maybe the top 3 responses. Enabling CW reduces the barrier to editing the question and best answers to consolidate, refine, and improve (or correct!) the things at the top, so the best information &quot;bubbles up&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe if you could point to some real world URLs that illustrate this &quot;problem&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt; It's difficult to take these kind of discussions seriously without any data or examples of any kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T10:04:49.680" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T10:04:49.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7270" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:26:13.363" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature already exists and is moderator only. If you believe a question should be merged, flag it for moderator attention and say what ID you think it should be merged with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:26:13.363" />
  <row Id="7325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:26:18.773" Score="209" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, definitely -5 for a down-vote for the down-votee, but then I would also &quot;up&quot; the cost to -2 for the down-voter.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The higher cost will reduce the &quot;just feels like it&quot; down-vote behaviour some people are displaying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T02:25:37.227" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T02:25:37.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="7326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:27:34.900" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;-5 sounds like a nice balance between the &quot;completely equal&quot; -10 (which is a bit of a nuclear option) and the &quot;pretty puny&quot; -2 current option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the cost of -1. When I say &quot;not sure&quot; I really mean that - it's not that I think it's wrong, but I have very little idea of what will happen. When people see that their downvotes have more influence on rep but cost the same, will they downvote more to feel the power? Will they save downvotes for genuinely incorrect/unhelpful answers? I have no idea, and I suspect no-one else does either. It may be worth implementing it and saying that the voting cost is &quot;under consideration&quot; or something similar. (Everyone else seems to have been coming up with the same suggestion of -2, which seems reasonable to me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do have one very specific concern: Rich B may be hit &lt;em&gt;very hard&lt;/em&gt; by this, as he tends to stir things up and have inappropriate &quot;punishment&quot; downvotes cast against him, I believe... &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; he downvotes a lot too. (I may not always agree with his idea of what's downvote-worthy, but I suspect he always thinks before downvoting and doesn't do so for purely personal reasons.) In many ways it feels wrong to bring up a specific user, and I know Rich is controversial anyway, but I for one wouldn't want him to lose edit rights due to this. I'm not suggesting any special treatment here - just raising it as a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T09:35:54.293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:35:54.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="7327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7202" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:28:26.080" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use both Linq to SQL and SQL blob strings, depending on what we're trying to accomplish and which fits the code better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there is no way AFAIK to do a full text search using LINQ syntax. (Maybe there's some nasty hack, but I didn't find much last time I searched)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:28:26.080" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8060" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:28:56.417" Score="5" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a number of questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7261/improvements-on-stackoverflow-frontend-user-experience&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt;) that have been moved between sites where the user is greyed out. As far as I can work out this means that there's no matching account on the new site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the OP has got an account here on MSO and has linked his(?) other accounts, but the question is still &quot;ownerless&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because the MSO account didn't exist when the question was moved. But when the user created the MSO account the system couldn't assign the question to that account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better to create a linked account on the target site but leave it dormant and only activate it when the user logs in. It would probably require that the user uses the same OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T14:04:10.957" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:04:10.957" Title="Is there a problem with creating an account on the new site after the question has been moved?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="7329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:33:17.007" Score="52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you are increasing the penalty of a down-vote I think you ought to strengthen the &quot;nudge&quot; that prompts people to explain the down-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, perhaps in this case the cost to the down-voter should be increased to -2 unless they provide a (possibly anonymous) comment, in which case it's -1 or even 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; As Jon Skeet suggested in his comment a way to avoid the &quot;afsdrwi&quot; type comment would only to refund the rep if a certain number (2, 5?) of people voted the comment as useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you've implemented the &quot;have you considered an explanation&quot; to the down-vote button for lower rep users, but with the greater cost you might need a greater nudge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T12:12:30.623" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:12:30.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="7330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:34:37.573" Score="63" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think -1 cost for -5 downvote is too low. It should be -2 or if it stays -1 it should be -3 or -4 (maybe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I think points lost by downvoting should be returned if the post or answer in question is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the argument for downvoting costing rep is to improve the quality of questions and answers on the site then perhaps we should incentivize people to delete downvoted content (of theirs) by returning any rep lost to them. I think this will happen with a rep recalc anyway but those are infrequent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, if the &quot;downvotee&quot; edits the question so you can change your vote, if this happens on a different day I don't think the daily rep calc properly works with this. This should be corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:34:37.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="7331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7136" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:36:29.150" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whose is it? Atwood, Spolsky, Anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cast of characters can be found on the about page of stack overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as owners, it's Joel, Michael, and myself at the moment. Employees, Geoff and Jarrod. A few other people we bring in from time to time that are more specialists (Brent, Jin, Jeremy, etc.) Fog Creek has at least 1 full time person working on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/133/is-stack-overflow-a-business-success&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/133/is-stack-overflow-a-business-success&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this run out of a garage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, yes. Home offices. There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-developer-lair/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a picture of Jarrod's lair on the blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T09:36:29.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T09:36:29.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:41:26.147" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had a look at my stats and the effect of this change would be really small for me. I stand to lose maybe 100 rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its interesting to look at the list of people who lose most out of this (restricting to people with less than 10k rep) people with more really should not care:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 100 UserId, UserName, (t.DownVotes * -4) + (u.DownVotes * -1)  as Loss1, t.DownVotes * -4 as Loss2, u.Reputation  from UserTotals t&#xA;join Users u on t.UserId = u.Id&#xA;where u.Reputation &amp;lt; 10000&#xA;order by Loss2 asc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results (people most impacted from the change - -5 instead of -1 for a downvote):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Loss&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640&quot;&gt;Rich B&lt;/a&gt;          -1156 7773       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62830&quot;&gt;Mastermind&lt;/a&gt;      -944  6542       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/67864&quot;&gt;theman_on_vista&lt;/a&gt; -568  670        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29746&quot;&gt;Thomas Hansen&lt;/a&gt;   -552  2430       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/51816&quot;&gt;Joan Venge&lt;/a&gt;      -540  4844       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10897&quot;&gt;mgb&lt;/a&gt;             -468  9772       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/46646&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;         -452  918        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54964&quot;&gt;Masi&lt;/a&gt;            -448  4193       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26227&quot;&gt;Paul Nathan&lt;/a&gt;     -444  5653       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56524&quot;&gt;mP&lt;/a&gt;              -440  1606       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/115&quot;&gt;Unkwntech&lt;/a&gt;       -440  8838       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12243&quot;&gt;Malfist&lt;/a&gt; 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Bemrose&lt;/a&gt;      -216  8240       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/122&quot;&gt;Mike Stone&lt;/a&gt;      -216  9750       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/543&quot;&gt;bpapa&lt;/a&gt;           -216  2974       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52551&quot;&gt;Spencer Ruport&lt;/a&gt;  -216  8374       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/71&quot;&gt;Dillie-O&lt;/a&gt;        -216  8139       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22076&quot;&gt;raj&lt;/a&gt;             -216  5790       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12637&quot;&gt;Omar Abid&lt;/a&gt;       -212  842        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/32632&quot;&gt;Charles Bretana&lt;/a&gt; -212  7565       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/38207&quot;&gt;James Anderson&lt;/a&gt;  -212  2868                 &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People most affected if the change is an extra -1 for a downvote and -5 for being downvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Loss&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640&quot;&gt;Rich B&lt;/a&gt;             -3398 7773       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/19068&quot;&gt;David Dorward&lt;/a&gt;      -996  8342       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62830&quot;&gt;Mastermind&lt;/a&gt;         -988  6542       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/115&quot;&gt;Unkwntech&lt;/a&gt;          -859  8838       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49153&quot;&gt;Click Upvote&lt;/a&gt;       -850  5683       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10492&quot;&gt;DJ&lt;/a&gt;                 -822  4910       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3850&quot;&gt;hop&lt;/a&gt;                -809  3473       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/51816&quot;&gt;Joan Venge&lt;/a&gt;         -756  4844       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3542&quot;&gt;Rob&lt;/a&gt;                -703  8979       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15689&quot;&gt;Brian Knoblauch&lt;/a&gt;    -667  4004       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/43582&quot;&gt;Bombe&lt;/a&gt;              -660  8322       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/832&quot;&gt;Rob Cooper&lt;/a&gt;         -652  9021       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1782&quot;&gt;Juan Manuel&lt;/a&gt;        -624  5192       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8457&quot;&gt;jrockway&lt;/a&gt;           -624  6781       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18941&quot;&gt;TheSoftwareJedi&lt;/a&gt;    -617  6218       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33226&quot;&gt;LFSR Consulting&lt;/a&gt;    -609  7074       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7565&quot;&gt;Robert S.&lt;/a&gt;          -600  9875       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26227&quot;&gt;Paul Nathan&lt;/a&gt;        -600  5653       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/383&quot;&gt;GateKiller&lt;/a&gt;         -589  7190       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/35364&quot;&gt;hasen j&lt;/a&gt;            -582  6373       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13744&quot;&gt;gbjbaanb&lt;/a&gt;           -580  8978       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4977&quot;&gt;Cody Brocious&lt;/a&gt;      -577  8965       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12243&quot;&gt;Malfist&lt;/a&gt;            -575  3332       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12855&quot;&gt;SilentGhost&lt;/a&gt;        -570  7726       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/67864&quot;&gt;theman_on_vista&lt;/a&gt;    -568  670        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29746&quot;&gt;Thomas Hansen&lt;/a&gt;      -561  2430       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2536&quot;&gt;rp&lt;/a&gt;                 -549  4776       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16391&quot;&gt;StingyJack&lt;/a&gt;         -537  4907       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4418&quot;&gt;warren&lt;/a&gt;             -513  6602       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5274&quot;&gt;Grauenwolf&lt;/a&gt;         -512  4016       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16673&quot;&gt;Suma&lt;/a&gt;               -508  3590       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56524&quot;&gt;mP&lt;/a&gt;                 -506  1606       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/941&quot;&gt;DannySmurf&lt;/a&gt;         -499  6650       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1471&quot;&gt;Outlaw Programmer&lt;/a&gt;  -499  3820       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49246&quot;&gt;starblue&lt;/a&gt;           -495  7913       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54964&quot;&gt;Masi&lt;/a&gt;               -490  4193       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7122&quot;&gt;David Arno&lt;/a&gt;         -483  5905       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10897&quot;&gt;mgb&lt;/a&gt;                -482  9772       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26177&quot;&gt;tim&lt;/a&gt;                -479  8798       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/987&quot;&gt;Will Dean&lt;/a&gt;          -470  7464       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6212&quot;&gt;Jason Punyon&lt;/a&gt;       -469  6670       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/36902&quot;&gt;mson&lt;/a&gt;               -462  2773       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/46646&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;            -457  918        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9787&quot;&gt;David W. Fenton&lt;/a&gt;    -456  2468       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12624&quot;&gt;Alex Fort&lt;/a&gt;          -450  5676       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2688&quot;&gt;bdukes&lt;/a&gt;             -445  8246       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1053&quot;&gt;Ed Swangren&lt;/a&gt;        -443  5628       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7724&quot;&gt;bzlm&lt;/a&gt;               -442  1515       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/32465&quot;&gt;Samuel&lt;/a&gt;             -438  6273       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2961&quot;&gt;Stu Thompson&lt;/a&gt;       -436  4212       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24587&quot;&gt;gs&lt;/a&gt;                 -436  7802       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54420&quot;&gt;Josh Stodola&lt;/a&gt;       -427  3955       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13924&quot;&gt;Jon Harrop&lt;/a&gt;         -422  1342       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40&quot;&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt;              -420  2795       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18658&quot;&gt;TraumaPony&lt;/a&gt;         -418  4192       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12943&quot;&gt;Bill K&lt;/a&gt;             -413  9121       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3434&quot;&gt;Apocalisp&lt;/a&gt;          -410  4848       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1790&quot;&gt;Jason Bunting&lt;/a&gt;      -405  7121       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1358&quot;&gt;EBGreen&lt;/a&gt;            -404  6827       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39106&quot;&gt;Filip Ekberg&lt;/a&gt;       -403  3935       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/120457&quot;&gt;Kirsh&lt;/a&gt;              -394  3235       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1821&quot;&gt;Graeme Perrow&lt;/a&gt;      -392  6515       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7028&quot;&gt;Sklivvz&lt;/a&gt;            -392  6722       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4435&quot;&gt;Jimmy&lt;/a&gt;              -390  8532       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1175&quot;&gt;Kristopher Johnson&lt;/a&gt; -389  7058       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15018&quot;&gt;stepancheg&lt;/a&gt;         -389  550        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21677&quot;&gt;J-P&lt;/a&gt;                -389  4867       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31610&quot;&gt;Geo&lt;/a&gt;                -386  5079       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8946&quot;&gt;Software Monkey&lt;/a&gt;    -383  7697       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21239&quot;&gt;mausch&lt;/a&gt;             -381  6271       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12349&quot;&gt;Justice&lt;/a&gt;            -375  7653       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30453&quot;&gt;01&lt;/a&gt;                 -374  2571       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39036&quot;&gt;samoz&lt;/a&gt;              -371  5816       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1551&quot;&gt;Chris Ballance&lt;/a&gt;     -370  7509       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2525&quot;&gt;blowdart&lt;/a&gt;           -369  6120       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27009&quot;&gt;porneL&lt;/a&gt;             -364  5767       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/432&quot;&gt;superjoe30&lt;/a&gt;         -364  2701       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2131&quot;&gt;DrPizza&lt;/a&gt;            -363  4342       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1343&quot;&gt;BCS&lt;/a&gt;                -361  6844       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2974&quot;&gt;Rob Wells&lt;/a&gt;          -358  9495       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4430&quot;&gt;Greg Dean&lt;/a&gt;          -353  4573       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/781&quot;&gt;Esteban Araya&lt;/a&gt;      -350  4793       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/493&quot;&gt;lomaxx&lt;/a&gt;             -350  9666       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3834&quot;&gt;Ngu Soon Hui&lt;/a&gt;       -348  4187       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13930&quot;&gt;dacracot&lt;/a&gt;           -345  3991       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44434&quot;&gt;lothar&lt;/a&gt;             -345  5577       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23921&quot;&gt;Pesto&lt;/a&gt;              -344  6185       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52201&quot;&gt;ck&lt;/a&gt;                 -341  6869       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/429&quot;&gt;Patrick&lt;/a&gt;            -339  4852       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;            -339  4590       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30018&quot;&gt;JohnFx&lt;/a&gt;             -338  4428       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63051&quot;&gt;x-x&lt;/a&gt;                -337  3626       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44743&quot;&gt;recursive&lt;/a&gt;          -337  5151       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8877&quot;&gt;Dan&lt;/a&gt;                -335  698        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/11649&quot;&gt;Javier&lt;/a&gt;             -334  9524       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39992&quot;&gt;strager&lt;/a&gt;            -334  9242       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4482&quot;&gt;Ben Hoffstein&lt;/a&gt;      -332  7138       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14642&quot;&gt;mattlant&lt;/a&gt;           -332  4414       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14092&quot;&gt;tloach&lt;/a&gt;             -328  3981       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31615&quot;&gt;Svante&lt;/a&gt;             -328  6437            &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Problem users&quot; do not seem to downvote that much, so it pointless making it more expensive to downvote. (however it seems rich b gets a lot of retribution votes) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the &quot;bad users&quot; will keep their editing rights&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is incredibly rare for anyone to lose more than 400 rep. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T01:48:54.823" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T01:48:54.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="7333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:50:23.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of increasing the effect of down votes to -5. (Also I'm for increasing the cost to -2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative suggestion; How about the rep received for an answer (or question) is calculated from final score rather than from each down and up vote. (I'm not sure about this, just an idea I'm throwing out there)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain by example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer that gets 4 up votes and 1 down vote current will get +40 &amp;amp; -2 rep, so +38 rep overall. If instead you calculate from the finishing score which in this case is +4-1=3 so the rep given overall is +30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reverse situation: An answer that gets 6 down votes and 2 up votes (for sympathy maybe). currently will get -12 + 20 so +8 overall. This seems rather wrong, the answer is clearly bad, so why are they getting positive rep. If we calculate from final score, that's -6+2 = -4 final score. Which gives rep of -8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, down votes to an already up voted question have the effect of removing a full 10 rep. However up votes to an already down voted question only have the effect of returning 2 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastEditorUserId="130715" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T10:02:29.723" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T10:02:29.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7334" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T10:39:06.853" Score="7" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now we have completed the trilogy. Stackoverflow, serverfault and superuser. But in some cases we might face with a problem of selecting the correct place. Specially there might be a question that can be considered as serverfault one as well as superuser one. But as the users we have a responsibility of putting the question at a right place. So are there any documented guidelines available for perform this &quot;selection&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131711" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:33:45.933" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:33:45.933" Title="Any guidelines to find the &quot;correct place&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7334" CreationDate="2009-07-20T10:44:41.513" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guidelines are in the faq pages for each site. You'll find the explanation of what questions are encouraged and which ones discouraged there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly it's not all in one place, but here are the links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T10:44:41.513" />
  <row Id="7336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11849" CreationDate="2009-07-20T11:00:55.113" Score="12" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mail notifications don't appear to have an option for plain-text rather than HTML, and they currently send &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; html parts (and hence hit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/MIME_HTML_ONLY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MIME_HTML_ONLY&lt;/a&gt; rule in spamassassin's default settings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, they flag the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/MIME_QP_LONG_LINE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MIME_QP_LONG_LINE&lt;/a&gt; spamassassin rule due to having lines longer than 76 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86080" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T03:26:58.277" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:46:11.740" Title="Option for plain text mail notifications? (and spamassassin scoring due to HTML-only-ness)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;anti-spam&gt;&lt;spamassassin&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7334" CreationDate="2009-07-20T11:34:24.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But as the users we have a&#xA;  responsibility of putting the question&#xA;  at a right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make your best effort. I assume it can be moved by the Powers That Be if it's posted to the wrong forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T11:34:24.310" />
  <row Id="7339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T11:59:24.220" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you were to do this I would increase the cost of casting the downvote to -3 (not -2, you increasing the downvote score by 5 after all) and make people explain. Some downvotes are simply vindictive and you'll be making those more effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T11:59:24.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7135" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:06:58.557" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every document you write in a TeX derived language---&lt;em&gt;every document&lt;/em&gt;---is a program. TeX and LaTeX are Turing complete, the problem is to get the desired output, and as such these questions are not out of place on StackOverflow (and we already have 200+ questions there, most of which are pretty good). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been fighting this battle for a while and simply won't quit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, however, I do see a distinction between. &quot;I [can't remember|never learned] the command for Foo in LaTeX.&quot; on one hand and &quot;My university doesn't provide a dissertation style and I need to achieve Bar obscure [layout result|front-matter arrangement|bibliographic convention]. What do I do?&quot; on the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former might be better on SuperUser, but the later definitely belong on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such is my $0.02.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:06:58.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7341" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:09:47.813" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;may be a dumb question but interested to know &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that the voting icon appearing in front of every question and answer belongs to the user who posted that or to the question or particular answer it self?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131189" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:21:11.447" Title="To whom voting belongs to?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7341" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:15:52.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The voting icon on a question represents voting for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting icon on each particular answer represents voting for the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:15:52.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7341" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:16:31.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The votes apply to the specific question or answer that it is next to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:16:31.007" />
  <row Id="7344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:23:41.023" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered making the penalty for downvotes of a question different that for the downvotes of an answer? I'm not sure about it (it needs more thought), but it bears consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:23:41.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7341" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:24:51.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;, it explains..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how it works: if you post a good question or helpful answer, it will be voted up by your peers: you gain &lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt; reputation points. If you post something that's off topic or incorrect, it will be voted down: you lose &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; reputation points. You can earn up to &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; reputation per day, but no more. (Note that votes for any posts marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not generate reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:24:51.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:52:16.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not make upvotes and downvotes a sliding scale instead of fixed amounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a moderator over at gamedev.net and they use a similar sliding scale system for user rating. If the voter has a much higher ranking than the user he is voting for then the vote can have a large positive or negative effect. If the difference is small or about the same then the effect of the vote only small. If the difference is negative (a user with a low rating upvoting or downvoting a high ranked user) then the difference could become almost negligable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a system has several side effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The spread of ranking becomes smaller. You need many, many more votes to get to e.g. 25K ranking because most of the votes will come from lower ranked people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Well respected members gain more influence. By having a higher rating their votes carry more weight. High ranked members are in a better place to promote good behaviour or downvote undesirable behaviour (that's how they got the high rating in the first place). Their votes will cause other good people to float to the top more easily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New, low-ranked people cannot start a voting block (e.g. recursively up-voting each other) because they all have similar low rankings so the net effect isn't that great. You need votes from high ranked people to really gain reputation and that's harder to do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a big downside though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recalculating rep becomes harder. You will not only need to measure the up/downvote itself but also the time at which the vote was made and the ranking of the voter at the time of the vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103202" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:52:16.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-20T12:54:44.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;13, sometimes I downvote 'clutter' - i.e. you sometimes have half a dozen one-line answers which are all saying the same thing but not adding anything to the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T12:54:44.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:07:50.173" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you add a new interesting tag with a # in it, and then click on that tag, it searches for questions with the tag excluding the sharp (i.e. c# -&gt; c, f# -&gt; f).  However, this only occurs if you click on the tag before reloading the page somehow.  Refreshing, going to another page, whatever, and the tag works properly.  The weird thing is, the url the tag points to is correct, but the results are wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reproduce, find a # tag that you don't have in your interesting tags list (or remove one) and add it, then immediately click on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tested with the + (c++ tag specifically) symbol, but that seemed to work.  There may be other symbols that cause this, but the tags weren't popular enough for me to find and test by flipping through the first few tag pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130283" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:40:58.297" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:40:58.297" Title="Bug adding interesting tags with #" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:14:09.663" Score="49" ViewCount="905" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will there be a video recording of DevDays 2009? Is that planned? Is anyone planning to do it for the rest of us that can not go and would really like to see what was happening there? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-20T16:32:49.557" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T22:23:43.820" Title="DevDays 2009 video recorded" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;videos&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="7351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7350" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:18:58.323" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be nice to have them recorded.  If you decide to do them again, could you put one in say Chicago, for us people who are too lame to live in Europe or on one of the coasts? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it sounds like Joel doesn't like Chicago, so Indianapolis, Louisville, Dayton, or Cincinnati would work for me also. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T11:27:04.380" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:27:04.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6187" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:19:50.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the only place that I can find links to the questions I've commented on. Often, I'll leave a comment on a question asking the OP for more info or what have you. I use my Recent page to find that comment again to check and see if the OP had responded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if there were a Comments section of the main page, that'd be fantastic, but I'm making due just fine with the current layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:19:50.880" />
  <row Id="7353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:26:07.703" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://langpop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;langprop&lt;/a&gt; is a useful tool for gauging trends in programming languages. It references many sites to determine its ratings. It is my contention that langprop should use StackOverflow. In my opinion, there is no better resource for determining what people are working on right now. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The google group can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/langpop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:38:06.437" Title="langprop petition to reference StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;languages&gt;&lt;trends&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7369" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:37:41.967" Score="0" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is only logical that Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User attract different people, but my guess is that the intersection should be rather large. Yet it seems to me that people's behavior on the three sites is pretty different. For example, I have the impression that the Super User and Server Fault communities don't like to upvote. Neither questions nor answers get any upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because the number of users differ so greatly? Or because people do indeed exhibit different behaviors? Are votes/user and comments/user significantly different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T04:07:36.940" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T04:07:36.940" Title="Just how different are the communities on SO, SF and SU?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="7358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:48:11.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, Superuser is a semiopen beta. People that know the SO blog do know about superuser and the password to join. My guess is that SU community is in almost a subset of SO joined with SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this lead to: questions asked on the &quot;almost everything goes&quot; SU tend to be low level, easy, newb, not so interesting for most members and therefore not value us much. This is also a reason why many members of SO did not join SU. And then, Jeff and Joel are not so well known in the SF and SU arena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect this to change when SU comes out of beta. Depending on how much we will be able to promote SU to users and gain support outside of the SO-SF community. And then, are users as reputation driven as we geeks are? To an extend, all humans are equal, but people with a real life tend to earn their reputation in other ways then collecting points on a internet site ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:48:11.820" />
  <row Id="7359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:48:42.220" Score="10" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to specify an interesting or ignored tag via a wildcard.  May tags which cover similar topics have common roots.  For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;windows&#xA;windows7&#xA;windows-vista&#xA;windows-xp&#xA;windows-errors&#xA;windows-xp-sp3&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would all match the wildcard &lt;code&gt;windows*&lt;/code&gt;.  Someone who finds one of these tags &quot;interesting&quot; would probably find all of them to be &quot;interesting&quot; (or vice versa, if they want to ignore all the windows related stuff, they would need to ignore all of these tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that technically everything tagged &lt;code&gt;windows-xp&lt;/code&gt; should also be tagged &lt;code&gt;windows&lt;/code&gt;, but that's not the case.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/windows-xp&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/windows-xp&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T08:57:25.260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T08:57:25.260" Title="Allow wildcards in ignored/interesting tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7359" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:56:04.350" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:56:04.350" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7359" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:57:39.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been quite a few questions concerning this. You can use * as a wildcard as seen here in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;. It has its limitations, as it only marks or hides the questions in the list and does not allow you to click on the tag and get a combined list of all tags matching thee wildcard, as discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6092/tags-with-in-not-working-correctly-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6500/linking-interesting-tags-that-include-wild-card-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6441/clicking-on-tags-with-wildcards-gives-you-a-blank-page&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:57:39.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4807" CreationDate="2009-07-20T13:58:58.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be thinking a little too far outside the box, but I'll put it out there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could &quot;outsource&quot; the FAQ to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Stack Overflow article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.  Let people detail all the Stack Overflow minutia there (that's what Wikipedia is good at).  Link to it from our FAQ page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't have to maintain this in a &quot;question&quot; (since that's not really what it was intended for).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The team doesn't have to spend all their time writing a detailed FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The FAQ would be community-edited, without requiring the team to re-implement Wikipedia for that one page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the Wikipedia police might get mad...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T13:58:58.883" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:05:43.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the code block small at first, with an option to expand beyond the bounds of the question (to solve the not-too-uncommon problem of horizontal scrolling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:05:43.737" />
  <row Id="7368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7328" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:16:50.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, i'm a bit concerned about this as well, specifically with regard to sofaq topics. Maybe it doesn't matter (a good faq is still a good faq), but i'd hate to move a whole lot of topics if the authors they're attached to still actively &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to be attached and just haven't had the time to spend on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:16:50.263" />
  <row Id="7369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:20:51.847" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I cannot really comment on ServerFault (I rarely go there, just not my cup of tea), I will limit myself to the comparison between SO and SU up to this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow already has a pretty concrete set of guidelines about what is and isn't allowed or accepted, and there are enough people to go about actually enforcing that way of thought. SuperUser does not have this yet (only a few have attained edit capabilities so far) and it relies much more heavily on users flagging content and then allowing Jeff and myself (and any other mods) to make the judgement calls. Given enough time and enough people gaining closing power, you will start to see some stability because the people will be able to start clearing away stuff on their own they do not feel fits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So far the commenting on StackOverflow is much much more active, primarily because there is already a community established and people all have their roles to play. It is much easier to interact with people you are familiar with on a daily basis, so you are more comfortable leaving the witty comment without fear of angering the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The content on SuperUser early on was very CW oriented because almost every other question was a &quot;must-have&quot; or a list or an open-ended discussion of some sort. I see these starting to trickle off, and the community backlash against the &quot;must haves&quot; I believe is starting to prevent people from posting new ones. While StackOverflow is almost entirely a straight Q&amp;amp;A now, I see SuperUser branching into four distinct types: Troubleshooting Q&amp;amp;A (My X won't work), Topical Q&amp;amp;A (&quot;What is X? How does Y work? Can I do Z?&quot;), Product Recommendation (&quot;Looking for a Notepad alternative that features built-in encryption&quot;), and the Lists &amp;amp; Discussions (&quot;must have X&quot;, &quot;What are your favorite Y&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T14:32:21.560" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:32:21.560" />
  <row Id="7370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7341" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:21:11.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The up/down vote arrows are for scoring the question or answer they are next to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation gain/loss from clicking the arrows applies to the user who created that question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only exception is Community Wiki questions or answers, where no one gains or loses any reputation., but the arrows are still for scoring that specific post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:21:11.447" />
  <row Id="7371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7359" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:25:34.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As ChrisF says, you can already do this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Interesting and Ignored Tags Now Support Wildcards&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simply specify one or more asterisks to match any number of characters, either in the middle, the beginning, or the end of a tag. So all these should work as you might expect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*.net*&#xA;jquery*&#xA;*c++&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:25:34.200" />
  <row Id="7372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7388" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:26:02.250" Score="9" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious: What's your up/down vote ratio? I'm still new here, but so far my ratio is about 11 to 1 with 209 up-votes and 19 down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that members become more bitter with time, and start downvoting more. Are there some statistics that can confirm this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130516" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T14:27:03.823" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T21:54:08.587" Title="What's your up/down vote ratio?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="16" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7353" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:26:24.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The results you would get from using StackOverflow would be heavily skewed towards C# and .NET in general. This is due to the overwhelmingly large audience of .NET people that first populated this site due to following the blogs of Jeff &amp;amp; Joel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not necessarily base my assumptions of what is the most popular languages and technologies on the net based on what gets put on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:26:24.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:29:04.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SuperUser - 28.333(repeating) with a current rep of just over 1,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFault - 8 with a current rep of 319&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow - 8.7362637362637362637362637362637 with a current rep of almost 13,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta - 19.55 with a current rep almost to 5,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think once people hit the 3,000 mark and then the 10,000 mark you will start to see rather drastic changes in their voting patterns which would allow for more down votes. I know that was the case with me. Once I hit 10k I stopped caring much about my rep in StackOverflow and was much more willing to cast downvotes on things since I no longer felt like I needed to keep getting a higher and higher score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also note that the longer you are a member, the higher your ratios are going to be (it will almost never shrink) because it is almost insane to imagine someone not named Rich B casting more downvotes per day than upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:29:04.087" />
  <row Id="7375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:31:51.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm shocked! That would be 3.39 for me on so. I'm a negative bastard!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:31:51.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:32:31.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: 331 Up votes to 7 Downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So around 47 to 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:32:31.450" />
  <row Id="7377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:32:53.087" Score="-1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting which are the technologies trends judging by the number of questions, voters,etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131741" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:59:42.340" Title="Which are technologies trends now" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;trends&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="7378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:34:00.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1201:94&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;12.777&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a nice guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:34:00.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7377" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:35:01.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can look at the tag cloud to the right of the home page to get an idea. iPhone and ASP.Net are always there, quite highly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:35:01.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7377" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:37:14.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;.NET is by far the most heavy populated area of StackOverflow. This can then be broken down to see that most of the activity is concerning ASP.NET development (both WebForms and the newly popular MVC Framework). The most popular language is by far C#. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Java development is a close second followed by Python and Ruby which all have their own hardcore communities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even functional programming languages have a pretty good showing on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:37:14.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:37:37.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the same impression from the beginning on ServerFault... There answers are not easily up-voted... Maybe sysadmins are just less click-happy than developers? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't have that feeling so much on SuperUser though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:37:37.957" />
  <row Id="7383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:38:48.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=SELECT%20Round%28%28UpVotes/DownVotes%29,%200%29%20AS%20Ratio,%20Count%28%2A%29%20as%20Occurances%20FROM%20users%20WHERE%20DownVotes%20!=%200%20GROUP%20BY%20Ratio%20ORDER%20BY%20Occurances%20DESC%20LIMIT%2050&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's some generalized statistics&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that &lt;strong&gt;82000 people have never downvoted&lt;/strong&gt;, and there is only just under 94000 users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:38:48.247" />
  <row Id="7384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:39:46.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SO:&lt;/strong&gt;   599 to 43 &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;approximately a 9 up to 1 down on average&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;SU:&lt;/strong&gt;   57 to 3 &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;approximately a 10 up to 1 down on average&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;SF:&lt;/strong&gt;   7 to 1 &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;precisely a a 7 up to 1 down on average&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;META:&lt;/strong&gt; 206 to 44 &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;approximately 4 up to 1 down on average&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FAMILY:&lt;/strong&gt; 869 to 91 &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;approximately a 9 up to 1 down on average&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Highlights...  I'm probably &lt;strong&gt;WAY TOO NICE!&lt;/strong&gt;  I would be at over 2K points here on META if I did not vote down 43 times though...  I also think that I'm more likely to vote down on META because the rep doesn't mean as much to me here as stackoverflow itself at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:39:46.400" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7377" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:43:10.780" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a fancy little resource: &lt;a href=&quot;http://langpop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;langpop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:43:10.780" />
  <row Id="7388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:45:54.600" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of good articles summarizing SO voting patterns on geekomatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/geekomatic/2009/06/18/1245340860000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Down Votes vs. Up Votes vs. Reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/geekomatic/2009/06/24/1245844920000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Voting Patterns in Detail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:45:54.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14110" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:47:54.013" Score="12" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood&quot;&gt;has been explained&lt;/a&gt;, the Populist badge is actually awarded based on 2x outscoring of an accepted answer that has more than 10 upvotes.  So, can we change the badge text from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with more than 10 votes by 2x &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T22:50:38.130" Title="Let's describe the Populist badge accurately" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;populist&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:53:28.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I knew I was generous with up-votes, but didn't think I was that stingy with down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SF: 521-1&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;SO: 129-0&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;SU: 122-0&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Meta: 74-0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;plus a handful flagged for spam and moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:53:28.437" />
  <row Id="7391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:55:58.127" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6365/vote-ordering-of-accepted-answers-has-changed-accepted-below-top-voted&quot;&gt;Vote ordering of accepted answers has changed: Accepted below top voted&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a case where I asked a question and received an answer that I upvoted (because it was helpful, even though it ultimately wasn't the solution to my problem). Later, I figured out the true answer on my own, and marked that as &quot;accepted&quot;. Now, when I open this question, it shows the upvoted answer before the accepted answer. Shouldn't the accepted answer always be the first one people see after reading a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T13:09:52.660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T13:09:52.660" ClosedDate="2009-07-20T14:57:50.663" Title="Shouldn't answers marked as &quot;accepted&quot; rise to the top of the list?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7391" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:57:35.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you accept your own answer it doesn't get listed first, but left in what ever position it occupies in the oldest/newest/votes list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:57:35.653" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:58:32.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;12.88 for me on Stackoverflow. That puts me in the realm of the &quot;nice,&quot; right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:58:32.883" />
  <row Id="7394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7377" CreationDate="2009-07-20T14:59:42.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you have to ask yourself is this: is SO representative of technology as a whole? It's Microsoft-heavy and I would posit that this is not representative of the entire sector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find Google Trends to be a more accurate (yet still flawed) indicator of trends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T14:59:42.340" />
  <row Id="7399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:12:34.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow: 9.4:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:12:34.910" />
  <row Id="7400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:14:08.313" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO: 156-1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU: 20-0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130194" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:14:08.313" />
  <row Id="7401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:20:44.747" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3926&quot;&gt;Tweet question and answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4773/tweet-this-button&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Tweet this&amp;rdquo; button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3957&quot;&gt;Integrate a “Tweet this” button with Greasemonkey.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I ask a question, I end up tweeting it to expose it to the people that follow me on twitter, many of which are SO users and in the same field. It would be nice to have a &quot;Tweet this question&quot; link after creating a question to automate the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1786" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T15:32:24.420" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:32:24.420" ClosedDate="2009-07-20T15:30:49.670" Title="Add a 'Tweet this question' link for the OP" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7401" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:22:28.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;...or, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3957/integrate-a-tweet-this-button-with-greasemonkey&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3957/integrate-a-tweet-this-button-with-greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:22:28.407" />
  <row Id="7403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7401" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:22:33.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been sought before...  There is a grease monkey script out there, but it is not perfect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3926/tweet-question-and-answer&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3926/tweet-question-and-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:22:33.793" />
  <row Id="7404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:27:48.980" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it far easier to ask an expert a question than spend hours researching it online. So no, it's not lazy to ask - it's occasionally prudent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers, Rob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131750" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:27:48.980" />
  <row Id="7405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6365" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:29:35.190" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the top voted answer should be shown before the accepted answer. Simply because the top voted answer is community's selected answer, whereas the actual selected answer can sometimes be what only one person thinks the right answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the top voted answer shown first would feel more community-driven, like the rest of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the order should be like this :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Top Voted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Selected answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rest of the answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131610" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:29:35.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:31:02.833" Score="6" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for some insight into how Stack Overflow releases are deployed and managed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What software/tooling is used?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What time are releases generally performed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many and what steps are involved?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming it's not too stringent given the light team working on the codebase. But considering the high rate of change, I could see some kind of tooling and automation becoming increasingly relevant, so I'm curious to learn what kind of decisions are being made to deal with the changes in scale and feature set over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this information available somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16308" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:31:02.833" Title="What is Stack Overflow's deployment process?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;deployment&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7353" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:38:06.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It, like just about every attempt to determine what people are using, will incorrectly rank Perl. The reason is that Perl people tend to hang out on irc. Most of the well known Perl programmers do not participate on Stack Overflow, that I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some don't because of the Fastest-Gun, people who only have a passing knowledge of Perl answering questions about Perl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:38:06.437" />
  <row Id="7409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:39:54.700" Score="3" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has been asked before but hey, that's part of the reason for the post. I've got a lot of experience in IT having been around the block for 30 years and I am the kind of person who will answer if I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I find the completely uncategorisied list of questions just too daunting. I just haven't got the time to scan through them. I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; if it was possible to just see questions in specific areas. For example, I'm mainly a VB.NET guy and whilst I do know C#, I'm not an expert so can't help in that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes questions can be tagged but that's up to the poster and half the time they might not be sure what's the best categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So people naturally categorise things - others don't. That's why we've got librarians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So bottom line, would like to contribute more but FAR too much data at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the reason for not categorising questions? I know search engines are great at unstructured data but this is for a poor human being who can't cope with the level. Noticed that only a relatively small number of people reply to most posts. That's probably because the rest of us haven't got time to sift through 100 posts to find the 5 they could answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers, Rob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Does Google find StackOverflow questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131750" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T07:38:30.110" Title="I'm embarrassed that I'm not answering questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:40:46.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everyone's Google skills are equal.  I've been given a beer for finding something that a frustrated workmate couldn't find.  Think of it as an opportunity to teach people how to improve their search skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:40:46.563" />
  <row Id="7411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7409" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:41:12.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to sort out the questions is to add some tags to your interesting questions list.  It is a big visual cue that you may be able to answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along those same lines, add tags that you know nothing about to your ignored tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You can find these settings right on the front page of the site, on the right column, near/at the top)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:41:12.677" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7409" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:43:48.177" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last question first, yes Google finds Stack Overflow questions, and very quickly (I've seen it find them in a matter of minutes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, I don't see how a poster not applying the right tags in all cases matters to you answering questions you're interested in.  If you go to the vb.net tag, you can be pretty sure that 99% of them are correctly tagged, and are therefore vb.net questions.  It doesn't matter if there are a lot of other questions &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; tagged vb.net in the system that you're missing.  Just concentrate on the ones tagged appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addendum: There is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&quot;&gt;ongoing retagging effort&lt;/a&gt; to try and categorize questions correctly, so hopefully the number of mis-tagged questions is shrinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T15:49:17.270" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:49:17.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:48:53.700" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;How about making it possible to set up bounty on someone else&amp;rsquo;s question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to have a feature that will allow me to assign a bounty to an old question (asked by someone else long time ago) and reanimate the discussion in this way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I found on SO question asked a few weeks ago. Of course I can ask a new question with slightly changed definition, but this will lead to lot of duplicated questions. I suppose we need to encourage adding more information to existing questions if they are clearly formulated, rather then creating new ones. There should be a way to attract attention of SO community to the question that seems to be important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:50:42.520" ClosedDate="2009-07-20T15:54:01.917" Title="I would like to assign bounty for a question asked by another person" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7409" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:49:09.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest mistake you're making is dismissing the tagging system out of hand. Currently, thousands of users can edit the tags on a question to make sure that our taxonomy stays within the limits of sanity. So far, it's been working wonders. Much better than any other user-generated tag system I've ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to start on VB.NET questions, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/vb.net&quot;&gt;start here&lt;/a&gt;. To get your list of new VB.NET questions as they get asked, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vb.net&quot;&gt;go here&lt;/a&gt;. The tags do actually work phenomenally well to categorize the posts. There are plenty of us who go around and edit tags and clean up the site as needed. As you use the site more an more, it will become much more natural to find questions that you can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:49:09.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7415" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:50:42.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;Simpsons did it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:50:42.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7409" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:55:30.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mods &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; edit tags and add the appropiated ones, so for &lt;em&gt;older&lt;/em&gt; posts, wrong tagging wouldn't be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:55:30.470" />
  <row Id="7419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="774" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:59:01.120" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to come for the boat-programming questions, but they are banned.  Now it leaves me mostly empty inside.  I come to visit less and less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T15:59:01.120" />
  <row Id="7420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="103700" CreationDate="2009-07-20T15:59:37.390" Score="4" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people are too modest and propose a different idea to a question in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it an acceptable idea to provide the user that posted the question with a link that allows such a comment to get promoted into an answer to the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131479" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-13T08:15:28.343" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T14:48:27.277" Title="link to promote comment into answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7420" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:02:08.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall I think this is looking for a potentially complicated feature which would not get used enough (or could possibly be abused) and would leave to a LOT of non-answer comments becoming answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:02:08.573" />
  <row Id="7422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7420" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:02:58.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't think this should be at the discretion of the question asker. A person could easily abuse this, by &quot;promoting&quot; poor and/or irrelevant comments, and cause that person to get downvoted. Additionally, I'm not sure its needed for the commenter either, if they feel they want to move it to an answer, it is easy enough to do this within the UI already, I don't think there needs to be additional support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:02:58.360" />
  <row Id="7423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:04:04.790" Score="1" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use OpenId with my regular google openId account, and last evening i made &quot;suppress my step&quot; ( delete all the footprint ) in firefox. &#xA;And this morning when i reconect, S.O has detect me as a new user. I did't well understand what's going on, and click ok.&#xA;Now it's seems that i lost my account, since my gmail adress is bind to a blank acount ( the one i used right now )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A way to get think back in order ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131756" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T18:32:00.763" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T00:00:01.897" ClosedDate="2009-09-29T05:05:10.743" Title="lost openid account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7425" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:14:52.000" Score="28" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I see the badges list, I'm unsure which ones are being capable of being won more than once.  Could we highlight these badges in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  I reviewed the entire list today, and if you click on each badge, you'll see the text &quot;This badge can be awarded multiple times.&quot; (as Jeff points out) for those badges that can be won more than once.  The key is though that you have to click through to see it.  I've edited TheTXI's answer to show what is now current.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature request is for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges page&lt;/a&gt; to show which ones can be won multiple times, so you don't have to go to every badge page to figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-10T18:51:35.927" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T19:18:44.500" Title="Mark which badges are capable of being won &gt; 1 time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7424" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:25:27.143" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually answered a question like this a while back and here is my answer (provided more detailed descriptions to all the regular badges):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3032/badge-descriptions-ambiguous/3033#3033&quot;&gt;Badge descriptions ambiguous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Altruist&lt;/strong&gt; - First bounty you manually awarded on another person's question (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Announcer&lt;/strong&gt; - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses in 3 days (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Autobiographer&lt;/strong&gt; - Fill out your user profile (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefactor&lt;/strong&gt; - First bounty you manually awarded on your own question (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Booster&lt;/strong&gt; - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses in 4 days (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beta&lt;/strong&gt; - Be a member of the site's beta period (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Citizen Patrol&lt;/strong&gt; - Flag your first post (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/strong&gt; - Cast any combination of 300 up and down votes (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cleanup&lt;/strong&gt; - First rollback of a question or answer (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commentator&lt;/strong&gt; - Left 10 comments on questions and answers (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/strong&gt; - Edited 500 posts (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Critic&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded first time you cast a down vote (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deputy&lt;/strong&gt; - Achieved a flag weight of 500 by reviewing and flagging appropriately (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disciplined&lt;/strong&gt; - Deleted your own post that had a score of at least +3 (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor&lt;/strong&gt; - First edit to a question or answer (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Electorate&lt;/strong&gt; - Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enlightened&lt;/strong&gt; - You are the first to answer a question. Your answer is accepted. Your answer scores at least +10. (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enthusiast(Woot!)&lt;/strong&gt; - Visited the site for 30 days straight (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Famous Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Asked a question with 10,000 views (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fanatic&lt;/strong&gt; - Visit the site for 100 straight days (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Your question is favorited by 25 people (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Generalist&lt;/strong&gt; - Active in many different tags (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer voted up 25 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question voted up 25 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer voted up 100 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Great Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question voted up 100 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guru&lt;/strong&gt; - Accepted Answer and Score of at least +40 (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Investor&lt;/strong&gt; - First bounty you offered on another person's question (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legendary&lt;/strong&gt; - Earned 200 daily reputation 150 times (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/strong&gt; - Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Necromancer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer a question more than 60 days after it's posting and score at least +5 (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/strong&gt; - Answer voted up 10 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question voted up 10 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notable Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question viewed 2,500 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Organizer&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded upon the first time you retag a question (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outspoken&lt;/strong&gt; - Posted 10 messages in chat that were starred by 10 different users (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peer Pressure&lt;/strong&gt; - Deleted your own post after it scored at least -3 (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Popular Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question viewed 1,000 times (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Populist&lt;/strong&gt; - Your answer has 2x the score as the accepted answer. Accepted answer must be at least +10 (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Precognitive&lt;/strong&gt; - Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Promoter&lt;/strong&gt; - First bounty you offered on your own question (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proofreader&lt;/strong&gt; - Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publicist&lt;/strong&gt; - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses in 5 days (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pundit&lt;/strong&gt; - Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reversal&lt;/strong&gt; - Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Revival&lt;/strong&gt; - Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scholar&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded the first time you accept an answer on a question you post (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Self-Learner&lt;/strong&gt; - Accepted your own answer and scored at least +3 (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sportsmanship&lt;/strong&gt; - Upvoted 100 competing answers (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stellar Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Question favorited by 100 users (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after you edit 80 questions or answers (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Student&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after asking a question with a single up vote (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suffrage&lt;/strong&gt; - Used 30 votes in a day (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supporter&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after casting your first up vote (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synonymizer&lt;/strong&gt; - First approved tag synonym (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tag Editor&lt;/strong&gt; - First Tag Wiki Edit (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Talkative&lt;/strong&gt; - Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taxonomist&lt;/strong&gt; - Created a tag that is used on 50 questions (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teacher&lt;/strong&gt; - Awarded after receiving your first up vote on an answer (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tenacious&lt;/strong&gt; - Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tumbleweed&lt;/strong&gt; - Ask a question that gets no comments, no answers, and low views over the course of a week (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unsung Hero&lt;/strong&gt; - Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vox Populi&lt;/strong&gt; - Used the maximum 40 votes in a day (once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yearling&lt;/strong&gt; - be a member of the site for a year (multiple)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-10T19:18:44.500" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T19:18:44.500" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="7426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7424" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:28:07.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, badges talk about &quot;first&quot; (ie, first flagged, first upvote), are only awarded once. However, I completely understand that their is confusion about this, especially due to &quot;enlightened&quot; which has first in it but can be awarded multiple times. I think even just adding parenthetically to the description &quot;awarded only once&quot; would be extremely helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:28:07.043" />
  <row Id="7427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:31:53.333" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, it has to say &quot;&lt;strong&gt;This t-shirt is not programming related&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; under the SO logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131610" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:31:53.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T16:31:53.333" />
  <row Id="7428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7431" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:32:37.153" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be very interesting to be able to earn a few badges more than once.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I would like to see a system for these badges where you can earn them as many times as you want, but each time gets harder and harder.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Commentator : Leave 10 comments on posts.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Commentatorx2: Leave 100 comments on posts.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Commentatorx3: Leave 1000 comments on posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Strunk and White : Edit 100 posts.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Strunk and Whitex2: Edit 1000 posts.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be implemented for many of the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:39:53.257" Title="Badge Request, Incremental badges for some of the 'Only Awarded Once' badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2786" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:34:46.597" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The goal isn't to have multiple answers each containing a piece of the puzzle. It's to have a single, correct, comprehensive answer. Bounty provides a means of encouraging answers to tough problems by offering a reward: allowing you to subdivide this reward creates a situation where you're misleading those participating (who think they're competing for a big prize but only receive a portion of it) and potentially discouraging users from taking the time to write a complete answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, i think it's a terrible idea. Good, useful answers &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be rewarded, by the voters who find them good and useful. If you aren't comfortable with the &quot;winner takes all&quot; bounty system, then &lt;em&gt;just don't use it&lt;/em&gt; - there's no requirement that you do so ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7008/why-isnt-there-a-way-to-consolidate-answers&quot;&gt;Why Isn’t There a Way to Consolidate Answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:34:46.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7428" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:39:53.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds pretty much like a amalgamation of several different requests. In some cases I am in favor of having certain badges have tiers for bronze/silver/gold with the difficulty growing of course (we already have this with a whole slew of other badges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:39:53.257" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-07-20T16:51:52.100" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-flow-shirt2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T16:51:52.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T16:51:52.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7696" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:05:56.627" Score="3" ViewCount="603" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have characters which are outside 7bit ASCII in my username &quot;Jakub Narębski&quot;. Characters outside US-ASCII are dropped from full profile URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130454/jakub-narbski&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130454/jakub-narbski&lt;/a&gt; (see that it is 'narbski', not 'nar&lt;b&gt;e&lt;/b&gt;bski' or 'nar&lt;b&gt;ę&lt;/b&gt;bski').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure if it is a bug or not. I think that the last part of URL is purely informational; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130454&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130454&lt;/a&gt; works as well, I suspect to allow to change one's name field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Added 30-07-2009:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This feature request, in the form of stripping diacritical marks, got implemented (&lt;kbd&gt;status-completed&lt;/kbd&gt;).  Wouldn't it be a good idea to separate this Unicode transliteration code and put it as ASP.NET snippet or mini-library somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See also:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://teddziuba.com/2009/07/this-is-america-take-your-unic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This Is America, Take Your Unicode Somewhere Else&lt;/a&gt; blog post by Ted Dziuba, which mentions &lt;a href=&quot;http://p3rl.org/Text%3A%3AUnidecode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Text::Unidecode -- US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text&quot;&gt;Text::Unidecode&lt;/a&gt; Perl module (which does US-ASCII transliterations of Unicode text), and mentions in passing Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Added 30-08-2009&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Perl6 has &lt;code&gt;:ignoreaccent&lt;/code&gt; modifier, and there is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://p3rl.org/Text%3A%3AUnaccent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Text::Unaccent - Remove accents from a string&quot;&gt;Text::Unaccent&lt;/a&gt; Perl module (which uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.gna.org/unac/description.en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;unac - C library and command that removes accents from a string&quot;&gt;unac&lt;/a&gt; C library).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:05:41.430" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T10:04:14.177" Title="Non US-ASCII characters dropped from full (profile) URL" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="7436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:11:46.727" Score="23" ViewCount="1013" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should SO's motto be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130657" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T17:26:23.713" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T14:54:16.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" Title="What should SO's motto be?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="35" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="7437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7435" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:13:02.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those characters are often encoding in URLs, but it works just as well to drop them, too. That last part is purely informational (SEO ftw), so if you felt like it, you could even call yourself &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130454/mary-queen-of-scots&quot;&gt;Mary, Queen of Scots&lt;/a&gt; and it still would go to the right page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:13:02.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:13:59.513" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Putting more palms to face than a Rick James tribute video&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have more important things to do, but they don't come with avatars&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You ask, we answer. We ask, you answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OMG, ponies!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This better be programming related&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because PonyOverflow.com keeps taking me back to this weirdo's profile page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We RTFM so you don't have to&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where RTFM is discouraged, but RTFFAQ is gospel&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is the podcast up yet?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You should totally drop that and try jQuery&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stop now if you plan on asking how to parse XML with regex&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's like folding@home, only it runs on bored developers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We were smart enough not to use a domain name that advertised sex changes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; need stinkin' badges!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first rule of Stack Overflow is you do not talk about Stack Overflow (you talk about Stack Overflow on Meta Stack Overflow)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Status declined&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we know you hate the colors&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closed as exact duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whatever you're requesting, Sampson has probably already written a greasemonkey script&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first rule of meta is you do not talk about meta (you talk about Stack Overflow)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its always Friday afternoon in Iceland&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server Fault&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We should be too busy being sysadmins, yet here we are&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This should be Community Wiki&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Must have ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a good chance your work filter has this blocked&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you ready to unleash the fury!?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;FORMAT C: and try again&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just wait until Alex starts looking here for new TDWTF.com material&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:09:29.813" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:09:29.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="7440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7446" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:17:06.230" Score="6" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder, what are the plans of those people on SO (later on Meta), who have reputation way over 10k? Apart from being elected to a diamond moderator, what do you want do with your enormous amount of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/reputation+discussion&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;No, no, forget that joke pal!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:34:05.527" Title="The meaning of reputation after 10k" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="14" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7473" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:17:54.320" Score="7" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or, to put it another way: is it a problem that people keep asking question that have multiple, obvious duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not intend to address the problem of hard to search for questions, nor of finely distinguished, subtly different problems; just simple questions with a few typical phrasings and fairly clear answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking an example from SO today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1154517/c-compiler-for-windows&quot;&gt;C++ Compiler For Windows&lt;/a&gt; (no particular criticism for this poster, I just took the first one I came to)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, Stack Overflow has been operating for more than 11 months and has been open to the public for most of that time. There are more than 200,000 questions and 1.1 million entities in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moment's thought might have suggested that the question could already have been asked, and searching for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=c%2B%2B+compiler+for+windows&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;c++ compiler for windows&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (link) returns half-usable questions on the first page including &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=c%2B%2B+compiler+for+windows&quot;&gt;C,C++ compiler for Vista&lt;/a&gt;. Presumable these came up when the OP went to ask, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this kind of thing a little annoying. It is noise, and in small amounts easily ignored. But there seems to be a lot of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system already tries to preempt the worst of this by offering duplicates when composing a question, but (as noted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2038/should-you-gain-rep-for-asking-a-duplicate-question&quot;&gt;Should you gain rep for asking a duplicate question?&lt;/a&gt;) the incentive from the rep system is to post anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that, by design, the existence of an answer on Wikipedia or some other site that Google knows of, shouldn't necessarily prevent a question-and-answer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does this &quot;problem&quot; need addressing? Is it a strength of the system? Irrelevant? If it is a problem, what can actually be done? Remove the rep incentive by canceling gains for posts closed as duplicates? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggestions so far:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Improve the search&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#8212; Use Google if necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a habit of showing the posters of duplicates how easily they could have found the existing instance. That is leaving a comment on the lines of &quot;Searching for &quot;[windows] c++ compiler&quot; turned up several results which might be useful to you.&quot; so that the user can be better prepared in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the suggestions on the &quot;Ask a question&quot; page more interactive (pop-up previews or similar)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Collect authoritative answers to the most frequent questions by subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adjust the rep system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2038/should-you-gain-rep-for-asking-a-duplicate-question&quot;&gt;Should you gain rep for asking a duplicate question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award no rep for questions at all. (I know there was meta question for this, but I'm not finding it...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am personally reluctant to go with adjustments to the rep system as the first remedy &amp;#8212; that shouldn't be the first tool we reach for, even if it is the most powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3734/how-long-should-i-search-for-an-answer-before-i-ask-on-stackoverflow-and-friends&quot;&gt;How long should I search for an answer before I ask on stackoverflow (and friends)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4184/why-does-stack-overflow-suggest-so-many-irrelevant-questions-on-the-ask-a-questi&quot;&gt;Why does stack overflow suggest so many irrelevant questions on the “Ask a Question” screen?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/114/noob-questions-simple-answers-and-big-rep-points&quot;&gt;Noob questions, simple answers and big rep points&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4303/reputation-for-closed-questions&quot;&gt;Reputation for Closed Questions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and rather obliquely &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/481/whats-the-single-biggest-barrier-to-entry-on-so&quot;&gt;What’s the single biggest barrier to entry on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey! I found an existing instance (or close to it) for &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question. ::sigh::&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3828/dis-incentive-to-ask-questions-that-will-get-closed&quot;&gt;Dis-incentive to ask questions that will get closed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Diddled the title because TheTXI &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7441/can-and-should-more-be-done-to-encourage-users-to-search-first-and-ask-later/7449#7449&quot;&gt;answered the question as written&lt;/a&gt;, and showed me that I wrote it wrong. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T12:06:39.123" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T13:19:51.563" Title="Can (and should) more be done to encourage users to search first and ask only if they don't find an existing answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:18:21.877" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a uservoice suggestion about this :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Give an accesskey attribute to the&#xA;  search box so we can quickly give the&#xA;  focus to the textbox with :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;alt + shift + [accesskey] on Firefox  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;alt + [accesskey] on IE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I just want to quickly jump to the search box from anywhere on the page, and having accesskey property on the input tag would be the easiest way to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131610" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T19:23:53.640" Title="Give accesskey attribute to the search box" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:18:32.460" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe to this point, from Jeff and Joel, it has been &quot;Expert's Exchange, without the evil.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:18:32.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:22:51.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to get onto the first page. That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:22:51.393" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:23:59.187" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one point I was really interested in whether or not I could get on the front page of users.  A sort of interesting challenge.  Now I know that there's little likelihood of me ever moving up the rankings beyond my current level.  As far as reputation goes, I'm basically doing well to keep my current position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the main, continuing motiviation is a desire to help and to learn.  I actually find that I learn more by helping.  That's what keeps me coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:23:59.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:24:12.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After you hit 10k, the only thing left fighting for is your place in the list (if that matters). I was on a big &quot;get to the next page&quot; kick for a while after I hit 10k, but now that I have Meta and SuperUser to play around in, I am not too concerned about my score on StackOverflow anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:24:12.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:24:41.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think SO doesn't affect developer laziness, it just exposes it (with viewable history!).  I know that I won't post a question until it is obvious that I can't find it on my own.  I've got one question that the answer was pretty simple, but I had already spent an hour searching for it before posting the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I wouldn't want a question attached to my name where the answer was just the first Google result!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130194" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:24:41.747" />
  <row Id="7449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:25:37.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how much more you can do to have people search for an answer first. I mean we already do a search as they type in the title of their question to see what matches pop up. Outside of forcing them to go through another search process before they even get to the Ask Question page, there isn't much you could do. And even if you did that, I don't see why you would be likely to find results any bit better there than elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:25:37.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:32:06.060" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Internet's most reliable source for answers with numbers next to them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Like Yahoo! Answers, only good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turning procrastinating programmers into a resource since 2008&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questionable answers to unanswerable questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Jeff thinks meta-discussion is a waste of time, why does he have the most rep?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The place to go in while waiting for SO to refresh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:03:47.653" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:03:47.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:34:44.063" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, really, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one/235212#235212&quot;&gt;the first time is free&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:34:44.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="7455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:35:12.470" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: because we believe you have too much time on your hands...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:35:12.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:35:30.687" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: Google Me&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Meta: To teach you by-design&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Server Fault: Down due DNS troubles&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Super User: Run as root and it will work&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:04:24.207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:04:24.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="7457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:36:08.720" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation doesn't matter. If you're on SO to get reputation then you don't belong on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, being 10k shouldn't change anything other than perhaps enabling you to help new users and clean up messes better with the moderator tools. We're here to help people and to learn. Gaining reputation is a side-effect of this and should not be seen as an end to itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:36:08.720" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="7458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7460" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:36:49.480" Score="4" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently got W00T (Enthusiast) and am now looking to Fanatic.  I saw on another post that SO has been open for 11 months but no one has won Fanatic yet.  Is it broken or just a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130194" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:21:16.663" Title="Why hasn't anyone won Fanatic yet?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7458" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:37:55.653" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Fanatic badge was just unveiled and started tracking &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;around 6/26/09&lt;/a&gt;. It'll be September before anybody gets it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:37:55.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7458" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:38:54.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Enthusiast and Fanatic was recently added badges. And the time period started after they have been added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:38:54.697" />
  <row Id="7463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:41:32.760" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My goal is to stay highly ranked in my favorite tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:41:32.760" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6140" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:41:33.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com#traffic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;QuantCast&lt;/a&gt; puts stackoverflow.com at about 3.0 million uniques per month. Given that they have such a targeted audience (all of us are interested in programming) I would think they could charge juicy rates for advertising. I would guess that they are getting $7.50 CPM which would put their monthly revenue at $22.5k, annual revenue $270k. This is completely a guess and almost certainly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WebTrafficAgents guesses that stackoverflow.com is making around $320k/year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131761" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:41:33.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7458" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:41:54.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the count for the Fanatic badge started at the same time as the Woot! badge, I would expect the first round to be awarded on or around September 4th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:41:54.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:49:56.557" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to say that I don't have any plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I realized that would be a lie. I'd like to have a gold badge. I'm a bit envious of people who have gold badges. They have three colored dots after their reputation number, and I only have two!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:49:56.557" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:50:07.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had several instances where I did look through the suggested questions when asking and did not find a duplicate.  Now I do a Google search using site:stackoverflow.com, if I remember, before asking a question.  I've had better luck finding existing questions this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to SO and typed in your example question &quot;&lt;code&gt;C++ Compiler for Windows&lt;/code&gt;&quot; and got this response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's not a very good title. Can you add some more unique words to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Google, it was the first (non-sponsored) result and there were 9 more pages of potential matches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this, my suggestion would be to improve search.  If you can't do better than Google, then use Google instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:50:07.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7229" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:52:58.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the valid uses of the plus either contain a &lt;code&gt;++&lt;/code&gt; or end in &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; the exception I see so far that might be valid and isn't just two tags like &lt;code&gt;php+javascript&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;code&gt;n+1&lt;/code&gt; which I am not sure what that's about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely trying to find things tagged &lt;code&gt;php+javascript&lt;/code&gt; ends up finding things tagged both &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt;, so that's weird-ish but explainable, probably even good behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:52:58.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:55:50.783" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note&lt;/em&gt; This isn't about centralizing the sites exactly, as in Jeff's blog post. I'm only suggesting here that the 'ask a question' and 'search' use cases have some access to the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current set of SO sites do a good job of categorizing questions in a useful way, but this still requires quite a bit of administrative overhead to keep things organized. Also, for users who aren't familiar with our system, performing a search in one may not provide the answer that they are looking for (i.e. an Apache question in stackoverflow.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For asking questions:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have 'Ask Question' redirect to a single page for all sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the title, have the user specify which site the question belongs on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The originating site can be pre-selected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give a one sentence explanation for each site (i.e. stack overflow is programming and developer tools questions (ok, not perfect but just an example)).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could also provide a post-submission check based on the tags the user picked. &quot;The 'Server-Administration' tag usually indicates that a question belongs on Server Fault. Would you like to have your question posted there (yes/no)&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For searching for questions/answers:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow the search to access all sites, listed with the appropriate colour styles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a radio filter to pick a specific site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While each site is for specific 'stuff', I feel like too great a division of content prevents the sites from working together. I'm hoping that these suggestions could act to tie everything together so that the knowledge and user communities don't become too fragmented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;After thinking about the problem further, I've got some more reasons for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, Server Fault has a much smaller audience than Stack Overflow and I think that this translates to many fewer people knowing it exists. I feel like many people just aren't going to learn to post there directly. Second, and Jeff can answer this, but what is the proportion of questions on Server Fault that were migrated? The goal here is to encourage people to post there directly as often as possible, and keep these questions off of SO (and put less burden on the mods to keep it this way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T00:36:52.847" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T00:36:52.847" Title="Implement a single front-end for searching and asking questions on any SO site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:56:10.653" Score="45" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its easy to be misled by an incorrect answer that &quot;sounds right&quot; when you just don't know.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the early answers that &quot;look right&quot; and sit at the top of the stack get over-voted.  When some genius posts a better answer you want to revoke your vote..  but you can't now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forget about &quot;gaming&quot;.  Its about giving the most &quot;points&quot; to the best dadgam answer, and fewer points to the less-great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="111307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T18:06:51.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:06:51.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:57:41.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has come up before, in fact this question may be a duplicate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll suggest someone search if &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; first search and find the duplicates easily. I'll then post the search I did so that anyone who actually did search can compare my search to theirs to learn why theirs didn't find the duplicates and mine did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to suggest people search for more than two minutes before posting. Five sounded reasonable to me, but then I'm an old guy - these young people, brought up with the Internet, have no patience, so we shouldn't expect it of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we need is for the search box to get fixed so that it's practical for them to search. We also need more interaction in the title box when entering a new question. Right now, you have to control-click on one of the links to get it to pop up in a separate tab, go read it, then come back. I'd like to have at least a preview right there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I think we need to get the most frequent duplicates into a language and subject-area FAQ. In fact, we should be looking not only for the most obvious duplicates, but also for the underlying question. The answers to these should become FAQs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, both the Search box and the Question box will find the FAQs first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T17:57:41.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T17:57:58.237" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; - Because &lt;a href=&quot;http://jonskeet.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JonSkeet.com&lt;/a&gt; was taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="23234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T18:13:40.717" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:13:40.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7471" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:01:10.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of what you are asking (aside from posting questions) is something that I would hope a well-planned API would be able to handle. This would allow sites to set up this item as a centralized hub on their own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been requested I can't even count how many times now and for varying degrees of centralization. I've heard conflicting stories about whether or not anything even remotely similar will ever get done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:01:10.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:06:01.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I had plenty of rep, I would use it more for bounties on my questions - usually, I ask harder/newer things than the average. My only target was to reach 2k to be able to fix formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take on Meta? No need for 2k here, so I just try to ask questions about the sites, provide feature requests, and perhaps encourage people with bounties to improve things around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:06:01.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:09:31.507" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted a few questions on StackOverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They weren't asnswered even though I let them simmer for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the answer because - hey.. I'm a real programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, my question is .. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Do I post my own answer and _vote to close_?&#xA;or &#xA;Do I post my answer and _accept my own_ answer_?&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131010" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:23:40.577" Title="To close or not to close" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7471" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:10:52.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been brought up many times in slightly different forms, and the gist of it is that &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; some of this will come to fruition &lt;em&gt;eventually&lt;/em&gt;.  I'd expect the cross-site searching eventually, but let's be honest, unless you know the tag you're searching for, you're better off using Google anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some probably never will.  For example, some of this hinges on things like linking users across sites, which is iffy with Google's OpenID implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:10:52.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7478" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:11:39.253" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post your answer and accept it as your answer because that was originally what you were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:11:39.253" />
  <row Id="7482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7478" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:12:11.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post your answer and accept it.  It may feel like repwhoring, but the goal is to help the &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; person to come along with a similar problem.  And let's be honest, don't you deserve a little rep for working it out yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:12:11.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7478" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:12:12.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5215/etiquette-for-closing-your-own-questions&quot;&gt;Simpsons did it.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(It's a duplicate)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:12:12.173" />
  <row Id="7484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:17:55.487" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see some anti-suggestions in the tags UI as well. For instance, any time someone enters &quot;mssql&quot;, I'd like to see a suggestion that they use &quot;sql-server&quot; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if the UI for this is nice enough, it might also suggest they add one of the version-specific tags as well, e.g., &quot;sql-server-2008&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:17:55.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7478" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:23:40.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if we should also add an ability to mark our questions as &quot;I don't need the answer anymore&quot;? Such questions could stop being pushed to the top by the Community User, and should stop showing up in &quot;Unanswered questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This touches a bit on all the unanswered questions that are unanswered because the person posting the question never came back to answer it, but that's a different discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:23:40.577" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:40:32.487" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're not &lt;a href=&quot;http://expertsexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;expert sex change&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:40:32.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="7487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6982" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:42:01.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that this is another in the line of &quot;should tags be duplicated in titles&quot; and I think that if we're not duplicating &quot;feature-request&quot; etc in titles, then we shouldn't duplicate closed state either. What's wrong with a tag to indicate closed state?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:42:01.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:42:20.887" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow:  Let me google that for ya.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:04:55.817" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:04:55.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="7489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:47:36.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search engine seems powerful.  With tagging, you can probably find what you're looking for faster than using Google if you use tags correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this though.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/goog-s.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;google search pure text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/so-s.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so search is a lot more vibrant and colorful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The search results page may something of an issue.  It feels a little tight, and usually makes for a lot of scrolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It contains information that isn't necessarily relevant to your search:  namely people's avatars and voting results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks great, but it might be a bit harder to use because it looks &lt;em&gt;too good&lt;/em&gt; and might be slightly more jarring to browse through than a google search results page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="111307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T18:54:05.523" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:54:05.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7423" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:54:05.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, you could loose your 'new' account and relogin into SO with your google account, as I guess you didn't ask SO to terminate your account? My browser frequently forgets the SO cookies, but then I just log in with my google account again. Correct me if I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:54:05.407" />
  <row Id="7491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T18:56:23.790" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;No boat programmers allowed&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T18:56:23.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:01:46.447" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harnessing nerd power since 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;5&lt;/strike&gt; 0 days without a rollback war&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastEditorUserId="130201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T20:31:04.537" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:31:04.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2770" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:02:31.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are there so many request centered toward &quot;user activity&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think stackoverflow (ant its family) is more Q&amp;amp;A centric, with no particular value (other than maybe curiosity) to the user asking or answering (well, in these case the reputation of the answerer may be important, but only in the context of the answer, I don't think it has value to want to follow &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; answer by one user)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it's my opinion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T19:02:31.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:03:42.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow? The name speaks for itself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:05:18.263" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:05:18.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="7503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7504" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:25:25.570" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3792/how-to-nest-code-within-a-list-using-markdown&quot;&gt;How to nest code within a list using markdown&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is a list immediately followed by a code block the code block is not recognized as code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Even though there is a newline between the two).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;int answer = 42;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; This happens both in the WMD preview and in the final (server rendered) post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T19:51:29.627" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T19:51:29.627" ClosedDate="2009-07-20T19:51:16.443" Title="Bug: Code after bullet list isn't renedered correctly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7503" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:31:45.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason, it takes &lt;em&gt;eight&lt;/em&gt; spaces to format code in a bulleted list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;item 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;item 2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I answered a question that wasn't asked (but which took me quite a while to figure out when I started on SO). For the question asked, I'd say the best workaround is to add a horizontal rule between them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Markdown doesn't have a way to explicitly end a list, there has to be &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to make it start a new section of formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T19:31:45.293" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7506" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:39:37.033" Score="20" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having recently hit the 10k mark I have noticed that people delete answers fairly often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that having to sift through all of the deleted answers in a list can be a bit annoying.  I feel it would be best to sort them to the bottom of the list so people don't have to be bothered with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-30T08:09:04.233" LastActivityDate="2010-05-30T08:09:04.233" Title="Please sort deleted answers to the bottom" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7505" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:41:28.680" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall it doesn't bug me too much (it's sometimes humorous to read what gets deleted and the reasons why), but I don't see why they couldn't get pushed to the bottom. Seems to make sense if you think about how the Accepeted Answer gets pushed to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T19:41:28.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:46:42.710" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super User: Reboot, Reinstall, Red Hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:05:44.100" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:05:44.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7505" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:50:28.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another solution would be to provide a toggle show/hide deleted posts, instead of messing with the sort order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I invite anyone that doesn't think this is a problem to visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq-closed&quot;&gt;main page of the SOFAQ&lt;/a&gt;. Tons of deleted, out-of-date stuff there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T19:50:28.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:50:52.850" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the new behavior for my tags: (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1338/why-cant-we-filter-unanswered-questions-by-tags&quot;&gt;meta:1338&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get a &quot;My tags&quot; tab for the main list of questions at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T19:50:52.850" Title="&quot;My tags&quot; tab for main question page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T19:56:06.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just want to be on the first page of some tag ... Which gives me an idea ... I'm going to start my own tag ... muahahah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T19:56:06.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:06:22.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that once you are fully trusted by the system (as in the stackoverflow stack) all your reputation means is that it is a sign that you are considered to be a respected member by other members of the site(s). However, it seems to me that the silver and goal tag badges such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/40/c&quot;&gt;C#&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/44/java&quot;&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt; are going to be more relevant to most users as they will be a sign that a user is considered to be a respected authority on a subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:06:22.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:12:07.560" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want some tag-expert badges.  Apparently, I'm too much of a generalist, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4916/suggested-implementation-for-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;despite my efforts&lt;/a&gt;, Generalist remains unimplemented. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, page 1 would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Got my php badge.  So now I am officially an expert in what I consider to be the second worst language in broad use.  Yay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="47529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T18:56:46.087" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:56:46.087" />
  <row Id="7515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:14:29.467" Score="1" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen many people refer to linking to pages on SO and even other sites as being bad and saying things like &quot;I hope they don't mind&quot;. Why is linking a bad thing? I did just read all about Google Penalties but although interesting it didn't really seem to answer why linking is a &quot;bad thing&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is linking &quot;bad&quot;, and if so why?, or have I heard wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T13:22:43.563" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T13:22:43.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T20:14:46.407" Title="Why is linking bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="7516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7515" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:19:55.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linking isn't a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:19:55.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T20:19:55.287" />
  <row Id="7517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:21:48.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping to cash it in for options in StackOverflow LLC ... is that on the table at all? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:21:48.403" />
  <row Id="7518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7515" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:22:07.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If all you do is post a link, then you aren't really answering the question very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually including content along with links is the preferred way to answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:22:07.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T20:22:07.177" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7515" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:22:30.067" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linking is not a bad thing as long as you actually provide some context to your answer. If all you are going to do is post a link in your answer, you aren't really answering, you are just providing a detour for the user. At the very least you could explain where the link goes and what it is going to show the user (maybe even quote some of important stuff in the answer so that the OP doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to click the link to possibly answer their question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your revised question, most people who say that linking is bad on the web have absolutely no clue how the web works. The only thing bad about linking is the fact that you have no guarantee that the thing you are linking to will be open tomorrow or the next day or 7 years down the road. That's the only problem. There is a reason this is called a web and it is because everything is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be interconnected. If it wasn't you would never make it past your browser's home page half the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A related (yet not really) &quot;bad thing&quot; was the use of &quot;hotlinking&quot; images, meaning you would put the image tag in your own code and the link source was pointing back to the other domain. This would cause the browser to download it from &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; source, meaning it was taxing the resources on the originator's website when people were visiting &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T09:26:53.723" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T09:26:53.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T20:22:30.067" />
  <row Id="7520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7515" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:27:47.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the link is helpful or on point, why would that be a problem?  The implied answer to the question is &quot;I found your solution here.&quot;  Why waste time and risk the ethical violation involved in copying over anything other than a short blurb?  I think the link is fair to the content creator since he or she gets blog hits (or whatever) and good for the question asker if the link answers the question.  It's not great for SO because the content is elsewhere and subject to change, but that's a issue any content aggregator has to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:27:47.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T20:27:47.437" />
  <row Id="7521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7515" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:27:49.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem isn't linking &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;, it's the transient nature of the web.  Those linked-to pages may not be there in a week, or a month, or years from now when someone has the same problem again.  That's why the best course of action is to provide a link, but, whenever possible, include the specifically relevant material from the linked page in your answer in order to preserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:27:49.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T20:27:49.627" />
  <row Id="7523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7515" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:29:02.100" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links in general:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One problem with links is that they can die/expire, the pages on the target site get reorganised or deleted, and the link is no longer valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other thing to consider is copyright, if you copy &amp;amp; paste content from another site, you may violate the rights of the original owners. From that point of view, a link is better, because it clearly indicates the original ownership (provided that the site you link to &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the original owner, and did not copy &amp;amp; paste..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links on SO:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7515/why-is-linking-bad/7519#7519&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; points out, posting only a link as an answer requires the person reading the answer to perform an additional action (click on the link) in order to see your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why I try to do both: Put a link to my source and copy the most important parts from the target site or at least a small summary int omy answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also follow that approach for links to other peoples answers on SO (see example above), because I consider it polite to attribute ownership where it's due.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastEditorUserId="22114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T20:47:22.140" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:47:22.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T20:29:02.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="75021" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:41:45.693" Score="8" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would really enjoy having a stats page available in my profile showing me for which tags I have given how many answers, and how much reputation I got for all those answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can do it somewhat with the &quot;Stats&quot; on the main page when I selected a tag - but that's not collecting together all my own personal stats, it shows everyone for that tag. I'd like to see it from the other side - show me all &lt;strong&gt;MY&lt;/strong&gt; tags I've provided answers for, with number of answers provided and amount of reputation earned for those answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T04:49:31.827" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T04:49:31.827" Title="Make a personal stats page available" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;personal-statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:45:37.387" Score="4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to ask questions about formal education on stackoverflow?  These are not technically &quot;programming related&quot; but it would seem to be a good for forum as long as they were restricted to computer science/engineering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance,  I'm considering going back to grad school and would like to ask what schools are good for research in a particular are of computer science.  Surely this has more value than &quot;Where is the bug in this code sample&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:04:16.883" Title="Questions on Formal Education" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29877" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:46:49.353" Score="9" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1138597/rearranging-project-after-svn-checkout&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question that has two &lt;code&gt;svn&lt;/code&gt; tags, I assume it is because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2601/batch-retag-request-merge-svn-and-subversion&quot;&gt;this retag request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can the batch retag facility check if there will be duplicate tags when it completes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T01:17:58.630" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:17:58.630" Title="Can the Batch re-tag feature automatically remove duplicate tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:52:14.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been more or less active on SO since public beta started in September, and I currently have 17.8k rep. I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I've become bitter with age; my upvote-to-downvote ratio is 1742:27 = 64.52.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've explained my reasoning for downvotes &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2451/why-do-you-cast-downvotes-on-answers/2455#2455&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;; basically, I downvote only in extreme circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvote whenever I like an answer or question, which happens quite a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:52:14.067" />
  <row Id="7530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7527" CreationDate="2009-07-20T20:57:58.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well there are 180 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/education&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;education&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also 601 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/career-development&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;career-development&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it does look like a large number of them are Community Wiki questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T20:57:58.623" />
  <row Id="7531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7527" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:03:25.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be a rather subjective question - how many people have sufficient experience with multiple schools to actually provide a valid comparison? Potentially quite argumentative too, if there's such a thing as &quot;school spirit&quot; among CS grads...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should ask it. If i saw it, i'd probably vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you do ask it, please make it CW and provide some guidelines to help users avoid flamewars (for instance: one school per answer, edit to add your experiences, don't duplicate, leave editorials for comments). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:03:25.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7527" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:04:16.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions have been asked quite a bit, but I tend to vote to close them as they are not a direct programming question which is the what SO is for.  If it is a a discussion question such as where to go to school, etc. META may be a better home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:04:16.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:11:47.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1337/brad-gilbert&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep: 3109&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;^  1418&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;v 37&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;1418:37 == 38.3:1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/768/brad-gilbert&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep: 562&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;^ 269&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;v 2&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;269:2 == 134.5:1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/1508/brad-gilbert&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep: 312&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;^ 84&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;v 0&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;84:0 == ∞:1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1337/brad-gilbert&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep: 1060&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;^ 383&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;v 1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;383:1 == 383:1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:11:47.683" />
  <row Id="7535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:15:59.413" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than having a single sidebar box for the most recent 18 badges (with SO displaying only silver and gold badges), sites should have one each for bronze, silver and gold badges.  If the dedication of a bit more real estate is seen as pleasing, I'd say display ten of each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives all badges a chance to hit the homepage, and we no longer have the more significant badges being quickly chased off by their inferiors (especially gold badges, which deserve to hold a place of honor for a bit longer than they do on any of the sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-29T16:04:24.663" LastActivityDate="2010-10-29T16:04:24.663" Title="Can we have separate homepage sections for recent badges of different grades?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;" />
  <row Id="7536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:22:13.427" Score="0" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4617/new-users-not-allowed-to-add-tags-which-one-is-new&quot;&gt;New Users Not Allowed to Add Tags - Which One is New?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just went to ask a question and was given this error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;new users can't create tags&#xA;  'education etiquette questions discussion' contains a new tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fair enough to restrict new users from creating a new tag, but how am I to know which one is new?  I was able to use the auto-complete to figure out which one was new, but not everyone may be able to figure this out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:28:01.947" ClosedDate="2009-07-20T21:27:34.997" Title="List which tag is 'new'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:23:40.157" Score="6" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I previously suggested the warning for users submitting a question with only one tag on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following up on that, I'd like to suggest another (relatively unobtrusive) warning to new users that suggests that if they are asking a question about their code, that they provide a dang code sample.  How many wasted man-months happen every day due to people asking for help with their code and not showing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe if it's the very first question they've ever asked, they could get a polite one-time Clippy&amp;trade;-style notice like &quot;I see you're about to ask your first question.  Did you: 1) Check your spelling and grammar?  2) Provide a sample of your code if you're asking a coding related question?  First impressions are important!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's sort-of posted in the sidebar, but I think new users, no matter what the interface, always need some hand-holding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:14:15.277" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:14:15.277" Title="&quot;Post your code&quot; warning" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7537" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:33:19.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that warnings get ignored...  People will ask their question in a manor they think will generate an answer.  If code is required, they'll be told so.  If not, maybe someone will make a lucky guess...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:33:19.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:45:34.683" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question once that was never actually answered.  Then the thing I was asking about stopped happening on my computer, so I couldn't verify an answer in any case.  I gave a few upvotes to answers that seemed helpful, but asking me to accept an answer in order to get a badge would not be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems to me to be kind of a cheap badge:  ask N questions that each get some sort of answer, randomly accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:45:34.683" />
  <row Id="7543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7537" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:46:55.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like your idea for if the it's the first question the user has asked prompting them with tips that are generally helpful for making good questions and receiving good answers. I wouldn't put a high priority on it, but if it's relatively simple to add to the system, I think it could be very helpful. But, I would definitely prefer it as a &quot;first question asked only&quot; kind of feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:46:55.777" />
  <row Id="7548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:56:00.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10 to 1.&#xA;But I guess the individual ratio is not as important as the global ratio which shows the level of quality of the questions not individual aggressiveness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131783" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T21:56:00.320" />
  <row Id="7550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T21:58:06.170" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, when i want to make a reserch, i pretend to ask a question. And see whats pop up. &#xA;The result are often more accurate that the search.&#xA;Indeed, it could be because the key word are more accurate when i ask a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the search is not so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131756" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T23:00:02.187" Title="The feature to detect duplicate when asking a question is more efficient than the search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7372" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:01:16.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO: 369 up,  26 down&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MetaSO: 9 up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU: 9 up, 1 down&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SF: none&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never took myself to be such a positive guy!   I guess I just only downvote when I think an answer is really bad advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T22:01:16.837" />
  <row Id="7556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:10:53.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea to merge them is good. I'm not entirely sure which way the community want it... any more feedback?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T22:10:53.930" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:13:47.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say definitely go towards plural tags if this gets put into place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, we'd want to be careful to make sure that the merging of plurality doesn't remove some important distinction.   For example, &lt;code&gt;generic&lt;/code&gt; doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as &lt;code&gt;generics&lt;/code&gt; (but it might in many cases).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T22:13:47.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7550" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:16:27.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the same way for me...  it seems that creating a new question is much more likely to have results than using the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T22:16:27.530" />
  <row Id="7560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:21:13.667" Score="4" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that the 'This Week' option under the summary of a user's activity pulls from the last Monday. While this makes sense, because technically it is 'this week', do you think it would be more useful if it pulled from the last 7 days? Especially if today is Monday, it would be pulling data from less than a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T00:06:22.917" Title="In History, Should the 'This Week' Button Show Since Monday/Sunday, or Last 7 Days" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7563" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:23:15.047" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got this community wiki shut down: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156218/where-do-geeks-meet-in-sydney-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156218/where-do-geeks-meet-in-sydney-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely understand that this question only relates to a very small number of developers that live in Sydney. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand if every person and his dog posts questions like this, SO will be flooded with what user groups are there is city XYZ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand there are already 200K questions on SO, this will quickly find its way to the back of the pile and only appear in google searches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this kind of question too localized? Is that the meaning of that close reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T00:00:24.457" Title="What is too localised?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;too-localized&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:25:53.740" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Twitter has a nice feature to save searches so you can quickly access them quickly in the sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have something like that for SO/MSO/SU/SF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of having to type in my search, like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[discussion feature-request only-awesome-features]&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the search box every time, I could save them as a search preset and access them in my prefs in a tab called &quot;Favorite searches&quot; or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better, the saved searches would be available in the site's sidebar, e.g. under related tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I know, the search is not the best, but searching for certain &lt;strong&gt;tags&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;groups of tags&lt;/strong&gt; (in the syntax: [tag1 tag2 tag3]) actually works ok, IMO. That's what I want to use it for, searching for certain groups of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2386" LastEditorUserId="2386" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T12:27:37.767" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T21:22:39.470" Title="Save custom searches for quick access" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7561" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:30:37.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it only applies to you fine folks in Sydney, Australia, that's extraordinarily localized. Essentially, the intent is to only filter people out of a question due to their skillset (e.g.-I don't do iPhone dev, so I don't peruse those questions). &quot;Too localized&quot; can apply to posting something entirely in Japanese or posting about local meetups. Both are very exclusive on SO, so will get rejected almost out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, a question about geek meetups that's a CW asking for a city per post, where users can add meetings in the comments or by editing an answer, that wouldn't get shut down. Well, it may for being not programming related (there are some codgers), but you'd skirt the localization!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T22:30:37.940" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="7566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7561" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:37:00.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If these types of questions could remain on the site, everyone and their dog would say Where are the devs eating dinner tonight in Seattle, Portland, Hilsboro...  You even pointed that out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is to prevent the noise and clutter from the site and try to prevent geographic specific or club like questions.  The other thing you could say is that SO is not the group message board or city message board and those should be on other sites...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T22:37:00.030" />
  <row Id="7567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7560" CreationDate="2009-07-20T22:41:14.677" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last 7 days for sure, or the first few days of the week will be worthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who wants something that shows 7 times as much info one night as it did 6 nights before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I live, Sunday is the first day of the week, not Monday. No need to internationalize if it's always the last 7 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T22:41:14.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1929" CreationDate="2009-07-20T23:07:49.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same problem - it is Google toolbar. Download/install the latest and the problem will go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:07:49.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7571" CreationDate="2009-07-20T23:12:37.273" Score="0" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please change the time stamp format for all the comments, answers, and anything else which has a time stamp to one which is parsable in Javascript.  I used to use the TimeStamp Converter script in Greasemonkey, but just recently it has been broken.  It seems as though the format has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script uses the title of the time stamp span to display the absolute (rather than relative) date that the question / answer / comment was posted.  (not sure anymore where I found the script)  However, Javascript can't parse this date format without lots of extra work - previously, the script worked with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var timeStampe = new Date(elm.title);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &lt;code&gt;elm&lt;/code&gt; is all the elements that have the class &lt;code&gt;relativetime&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;comment-date&lt;/code&gt;.  Currently the format of the time stamp is &lt;code&gt;2009-07-20 22:15:20Z UTC&lt;/code&gt;, but Javascript prefers time in the form &lt;code&gt;Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:10:47 GMT&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am fairly sure that it will be easier (and less browser intensive) to change the date format on the server side rather than the client side, so please consider this request for all those who use Greasemonkey!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:18:54.113" Title="Change the timestamp format" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T23:16:56.683" Score="4" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either I don't know how to do it OR perhaps it should be a feature (feel free to change tags accordingly); &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how do I &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get a list of all questions since last visit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get a list of all questions (for a given tag) since last visit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;see comments (to a viewed question) since last visit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131304" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:00:02.080" Title="Questions/Comments since last visit" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7569" CreationDate="2009-07-20T23:18:54.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's ISO 8601 - and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2560/change-date-format-of-x-hours-ago-tool-tip&quot;&gt;was just recently changed to that&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need help parsing this in JavaScript, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/436374/how-can-i-convert-datetime-microformat-to-local-time-in-javascript/436562#436562&quot;&gt;try SO&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:18:54.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:26:11.373" Score="105" ViewCount="804" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing incorrect answers get &quot;accepted&quot; makes me seriously doubt the value of Stack Overflow. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282647/does-perl-have-php-like-dynamic-variables&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; about Perl's symbolic references was accepted - but any competent Perl programmer knows that it's a horribly poor approach, and the answer that says as much outvoted the accepted one by 15 to 0 (at the moment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a technical site that values accuracy, or just a popularity contest? I was hoping for the former, but examples like the above make it look more like latter in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Edit]&lt;/strong&gt; A related question: Maybe a delay of 24 hours or so before any answer could be accepted would be helpful. I get the impression that many of these cases aren't &quot;gaming&quot; the system, they're simply newbies accepting the first answer they get that &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; to help. A waiting period would allow them to see what everyone else thinks of the answer - maybe they'd be more cautious about accepting an answer that's voted down to oblivion and loaded with comments that say &quot;no, that's wrong.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/493739/etiquette-for-correcting-old-questions-with-incorrect-answers&quot;&gt;Etiquette for correcting old questions with incorrect answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951056/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/1004483#1004483&quot;&gt;problem questions&lt;/a&gt; I compiled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-20T23:22:33.660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T22:08:52.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:26:11.373" Title="Why do incorrect answers keep getting &quot;accepted&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="7573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:30:36.777" Score="76" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very act of asking the question means the individual is likely to be the least knowledgeable person in the thread for that particular narrow topic.  This same person accepts the answer, even though it's likely they are the least qualified to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's okay.  It should still (most of the time) indicate that the accepted answer was able to solve the problem at some level for at least one person.  The voting system also ensures that any caveats not included with the answer can be readily visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:30:36.777" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="7574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:33:03.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In any system that has a bunch of humans, someone is going to look to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Gaming_the_system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;game the system&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have central authorities, popularity, validity of edits or any number of metrics. No matter what, a really motivated person can find a way to game a system. In the end, an exception is not usually the rule. Some folks may end up accepting really wrong answers, but good answers do make it to the top in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:33:03.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:39:11.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with a high enough rep should be able to change which answer gets accepted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: preferably without changing the author&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:39:11.173" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="7576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:39:37.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best practice isn't always the answer to the question that was asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your example &lt;strong&gt;Does Perl have PHP-like dynamic variables?&lt;/strong&gt;, the question that was marked as accepted, regardless of if it should or should not be used, is the answer to the question he was asking. (I guess it is, I don't know PHP or Perl)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the fortunate thing about SO is that the dialog is available for others to debate if what is being done is the right way or not. I think someone reading that post will notice that the answer directly beneath has many upvotes and would consider it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140859" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:39:37.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:41:12.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better if the answer the community feels is right (i.e. highest votes) appears above the accepted answer, with the accepted answer coming next. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16005" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:41:12.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:46:23.767" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can't possibly answer every question, so the chance of an incorrect answer slipping in could happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:46:23.767" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="7579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:47:39.270" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really vote for a 24 hours delay before answers can be accepted. Great idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:47:39.270" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:48:25.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The time limit for accpeting the answer would not change the people: they still use the first hint that seems to help, and hence they cant accept the answer, they would do nothing. So many answered question would stay unaccepted (except some high ranking person feels responsible to close open issues)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:48:25.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T17:49:55.333" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably something for which there is no good solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the early questions that I saw on Stack Overflow was phrased as &quot;which-is-better-this-or-that&quot; and the simple, obvious answer &quot;this&quot; was massively upvoted while a different non-answer with no votes was accepted. Yet the technically correct answer was &quot;neither of those, here is a third way&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This illustrates Joel's point and the limitations of &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; site like Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the asker did not understand the problem well enough, and asked the question in a manner that made bad assumptions about the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &quot;wisdom of the masses&quot; is not always so wise, as the incorrect answers received lots of votes and the correct answer received only one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the asker then accepted a non-answer with no votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the asker later added a comment saying 'I guess there is no correct answer but thanks for the discussion', which is funny because actually implementing any of the proposed solutions (or reading the background material) would have clearly demonstrated the correct approach (correct in the sense that &quot;it actually works and is robust&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So people are not perfect, thus the sites they collectively create and moderate will not be either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a solution though: get rid of the 'accepted answer' designation&#xA;(though I kind of like it, it provides closure without closing the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T22:08:52.790" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T22:08:52.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T17:49:55.333" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-11-12T18:43:23.713" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not have a accept answer by the person who asked the question and an accepted answer from the community? Either set a threshold based on the number of up votes, first answer to that threshold is accepted,a margin of up votes, it leads the second answer by x votes, or have a separate accepted button that a certain number of people have to click. You could restrict this by reputation. I am sure there are other ways to have the community select an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T22:48:08.317" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T22:48:08.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T18:43:23.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2008-12-08T19:16:31.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this site is the questions will remain, but once its past the front page they don't receive more answers or up votes. So the question will have the old questions but without new answers which are perhaps better. Or they will receive new better answers without any up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Im thinking about questions for code examples with code example answers. Not the more subjective ones (&quot;what framework is best for me?&quot;) or author specific (&quot;where is the bug in my code here?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I hope older questions maybe tagged with &quot;generalcodeexample&quot; or similar will resurface with new answers, so new (hopefully better) answers can have a chance to gain some votes. Instead of old good enough answers remain on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;generalcodeexample&quot; should be sorted by votes only IMO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new answers long after question is asked should have a chance against old answers with accumulated up votes over time. (how I don't know, points are not as important as getter the best answer recognised and on top)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156692" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-08T19:16:31.993" />
  <row Id="7584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-01-24T23:22:51.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1, part of the problem is SO seems to expect you to accept a solution. Or at least suggests you accept one. Sometimes this leads to people accepting something that is 'almost'  right. The same problem exists at most 'solution sites'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2, the second problem is that programming is not exact and people have different styles. Something I think is perfect for my style or follows my methodologies may irate another person and vice versa. On many occasions I have seen code that executed perfectly but was basically useless in a team environment as no one could understand it without constant re analysis ... &quot;who is right&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3, Sometimes an answer is actually a solution to the question asked ... ie it works. For that person the problem is solved ... The answer might not however consider wider issues like security etc ... again a working answer providing a less than perfect solution. The person asking the question is unlikely to be aware of these wider issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I am a new user on SO, but have been observing for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing I like about SO is that accepting a solution doesn't end the discussion. Through comments or new answers you (we) have the opportunity to correct or add to an accepted solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of what I have said is about &quot;popularity&quot;, is more about human nature and the ironically imprecise industry we work in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-24T23:22:51.000" />
  <row Id="7585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:12:44.227" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the whole &quot;accepted answer&quot; needs to be abolished and replaced with a &quot;thank you&quot; scheme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every person asking a question should be able to distribute up to 30 points (in total) to people who assist them. SO should display a thank you section at the top of the question to all the people who helped. Note you should also be able to thank people who commented and did not reply to your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-31T01:12:44.227" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:48:03.047" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my completely subjective view of how the voting system works. Roughly speaking (correct me if you aren't seeing the same behavior - and note that advantage is cumulative - e.g. you can be both fast and pithy, etc.):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fastest answer has the biggest advantage.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first answer that comprises a pithy statement of conventional wisdom, without reservation or offsetting factors, gets the next biggest advantage (which is what you'd expect, given the definition of &quot;conventional wisdom&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third advantage (compensating for late arrival) is pointing out an obvious flaw in a type #1 or type #2 answer, with a correction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer that references a canonical source, addressing the question,  comes next.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then comes an answer referencing a source no one has heard of (but addressing the question, right or wrong).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Next comes an answer referencing any source about some other topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Followed by a thoughtful, extended answer weighing various factors and suggesting further reflection.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Next, a response pointing out that insufficient information is provided, and without context it's dangerous to discuss the topic. (Interesting how easily this gets trumped).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then come funny answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But finally, all credit accumulated from the above attributes is futile if you are below answer #8.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting dynamic is that if you edit your response to improve it (possibly incorporating information from other answers), your answer will drop to the bottom of the group with your score (sometimes, sadly, below #8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any answer suggesting new, popular technology trumps an answer suggesting that an old way is a better way (think ORM/DAL).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And note that this process is becoming somewhat recursive/incestuous. Googling for an answer is incrreasingly bringing forth SO as a highly referenced source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-31T01:48:03.047" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-02-05T05:34:16.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we need there to be two answers, one selected by the person who asked the question, and a second selected by people with over a certain threshold of points, and only after the question had been open a few days.  Only an experiment allowing this would show whether this improves the correctness of answers selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57752" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T05:34:16.550" />
  <row Id="7588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-02-05T06:04:33.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ignore the 'accepted' answer and pay attention to the answer with the highest votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a much better indicator of answer quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T06:04:33.837" />
  <row Id="7589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-02-05T06:24:08.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting and reputation are both bad measures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible that someone with ~800 points doesnt know that they can refer to the documentation of String to find out how to find if a String contains a certain character ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If most of your users dont know anything and they all vote for an answer does voting help ? Im sure there are many examples of bad answers being voted up by people with lots of points.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its unfortunate that someone who didnt know something, then asks a question and gets a bad answer which leads them terribly astray. Its this sort of advice that leads the industry to be full of very incompetant developers who really should not be trusted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be possible for people to lose points if they give bad answers ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think it should otherwise the points currency has no value. In the real world people who are successful make lots of money (aka points) and people with dingbat ideas lose money and go broke. Should giving or voting for the wrong answer cost points - i think it should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153964" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T06:24:08.087" />
  <row Id="7590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-02-05T06:43:07.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the assumption that a user with high reputation is more likely to be correct than someone with low reputation, the following simple changes may help alleviate the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give high-reputation users the power to veto a marked answer and choose another one. OR, differentiate between the answer chosen by the asker, and the answer chosen by the masses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Weight the vote of high-reputation users more highly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T06:43:07.677" />
  <row Id="7591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-02-06T03:31:07.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation means nothing in terms of a perons competance or knowledge. In the end if you post enough times youll get points. Reputation is a measure of activity not quality in any form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153964" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T03:31:07.810" />
  <row Id="7592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-05-26T01:30:05.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You raise a valid point but having come from EE (many years ago, before it become the corporate monstrosity it is now) SO is SO much better. Sure, the wrong answer is accepted every now and then, but the question doesn't drop off the radar straight away, which I think is a huge strength of SO. New answers can be added much later and upvotes improve the chances that other readers will find the correct solution. As a relatively new SO user I enjoy going through old questions and upvoting what I think are good and correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with a 24-hour time limit only because I suspect that the number of times this happens is low in comparison with the number of times the correct answer is rewarded, and we want to encourage questioners to reward the correct answer. Hopefully after trying and testing it of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an incorrect or suboptimal answer is rewarded, the downvote system should be sufficient to indicate that it is not necessarily the best answer. This will work as long as people are prepared to use the downvote system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160618" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-26T01:30:05.223" />
  <row Id="7593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7572" CreationDate="2009-07-19T08:23:53.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the user that asked the question has the right to decide the answer... even if it's wrong. Besides, we have the point system to allow the community point out if there's a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131717" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:21:41.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-19T08:23:53.380" />
  <row Id="7594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7570" CreationDate="2009-07-20T23:25:43.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing that keeps track of your last visit on the SO site is the Responses page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use &lt;a href=&quot;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/#####&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/#####&lt;/a&gt;, with your # being appended on the end, which will give you all activity on your rep and badges and votes since the last time you checked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:25:43.520" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7561" CreationDate="2009-07-20T23:38:55.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;that should have been closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is not facebook [yet]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:38:55.047" />
  <row Id="7600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7229" CreationDate="2009-07-20T23:53:43.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've gone through and found all cases where there is a '+' in the tag name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've then gone through and marked all of them that have a &lt;strong&gt;single&lt;/strong&gt; '+' in the middle, this is so it ignores the &lt;code&gt;*++*&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1  × a+&#xA;    1  × cocoa+checkbox+tableview # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;b+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;c+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;10818  × c++&#xA;  796  × visual-c++&#xA;   78  × c++builder&#xA;   66  × c++0x&#xA;   58  × managed-c++&#xA;    8  × c++-faq&#xA;    7  × libstdc++&#xA;    7  × objective-c++&#xA;    4  × modern-c++&#xA;    3  × cc++&#xA;    3  × unresolved-externals-c++&#xA;    2  × dev-c++&#xA;    2  × lazy-c++&#xA;    2  × turboc++&#xA;    1  × aac+&#xA;    1  × c++1y                    # Problem&#xA;    1  × c++builder2009&#xA;    1  × c++-concepts&#xA;    1  × c++-standard&#xA;    1  × c++test&#xA;    1  × c-c++-mixup&#xA;    1  × cc++usersjournal&#xA;    1  × c-vs-c++&#xA;    1  × effective-c++&#xA;    1  × learning-c++&#xA;    1  × mac+setup                # Problem&#xA;    1  × open-c++&#xA;    1  × vc++.net&#xA;    1  × vc++2005&#xA;    1  × visual-c++-2008&#xA;    1  × visualc++2010&#xA;    1  × c++-cli&#xA;    1  × c++-standard-library&#xA;    1  × visual-c++-2008-express&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;d+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   52  × notepad++&#xA;    1  × to-be-wikified+1         # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;e+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   22  × iphone+uiwebview         # Problem&#xA;    1  × iphone+post              # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;f+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;g+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  110  × g++&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;h+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    3  × xml+flash+actionscript   # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;i+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  187  × gdi+&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;j+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;k+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    3  × gtk+&#xA;    2  × lapack++                 # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;l+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    4  × mysql++&#xA;    3  × xml+flash+actionscript   # Problem&#xA;    1  × ssl+python+stomp         # Problem&#xA;    1  × tinyxml++&#xA;    1  × visual+studio            # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;m+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   50  × com+&#xA;    1  × jvm+msil                 # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;n+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    7  × svn+ssh                  # Problem&#xA;    2  × n+1&#xA;    1  × column+name              # Problem&#xA;    1  × ssl+python+stomp         # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;o+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    2  × crypto++&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;p+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1  × php+javascript           # Problem&#xA;    1  × php+regex                # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;q+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;r+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;s+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1  × s+&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;t+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    2  × project+                 # Problem&#xA;    1  × git+ssh                  # Problem&#xA;    1  × vb.net+sql               # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;u+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;v+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;w+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1  × formview+mode            # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;x+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   14  × x++&#xA;    1  × ajax+hebrew              # Problem&#xA;    1  × checkbox+table           # Problem&#xA;    1  × cocoa+checkbox+tableview # Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;y+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    3  × spy++&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;z+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1  × blitz++&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-20T23:53:43.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T23:53:43.907" />
  <row Id="7601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7561" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:00:24.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay - Here's a thought. With Stack Exchanged being launched soon, would this be a useful resource as a separate site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags could be locales instead of technologies (or perhaps as well as technologies) and used simply as a way of providing a common place for developers to exchange information about their meetups, geek dinners, user groups and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how long the beta (which is free) will last but I might be willing to stick my hand in my pocket to get things going and see if it works or not if other people are also willing to help. If it does work, and we can get enough advertising to sustain it then everyone's a winner (I hope!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8152" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T00:00:24.457" />
  <row Id="7603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:04:06.187" Score="15" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering how hard it would be to enable a 'hiding' option that let me hide certain questions that I don't want to see. That way if it was a very active question that I have no interest in, I could simply click hide and not see it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only foreseeable reason why this couldn't be implemented completely with a Greasemonkey script is that it would be nice to get replacement posts. As of right now, even the hide tag feature simply hides the questions after they were loaded. If I hid a lot of tags, I would end up getting very few questions on the home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, of course, due to caching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T22:48:32.397" LastActivityDate="2011-04-09T22:50:10.783" Title="The Ability to Hide Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="7604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7560" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:06:22.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's worse it's not localized to your timezone, so depending where you are it could change in the middle of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T00:06:22.917" />
  <row Id="7606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2079" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:20:53.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you pass them the set of interesting tags I have, that would help I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131791" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T00:20:53.880" />
  <row Id="7609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7612" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:52:44.837" Score="11" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get the purposes of the disciplined badge. Why would someone delete a good answer where he has been awarded 3 up-votes, and why should he be marked as &quot;disciplined&quot; for doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T02:12:04.210" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:08:36.840" Title="What is the purpose of the &quot;disciplined&quot; badge?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;disciplined&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:55:30.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted one after it was no longer relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T00:55:30.140" />
  <row Id="7611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:55:37.347" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because supposedly if his answer got some up votes, which gets him reputation, but the answer is irrelevant, he is disciplined by doing the right thing and deleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T00:55:37.347" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:57:21.673" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its disciplined because you delete the post even though you will lose rep by doing so - i.e. you actually care more about answer correctness and relevance than rep (or, as smackfu says, you care enough about badges that it pushes you over the line (gives you enough incentive to delete your answer, knowing you will get an extra badge out of it)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T05:37:12.727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T05:37:12.727" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-21T01:39:59.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you get that much reputation, it matters very little if actions have negative rep consequences.  Downvote all day, who cares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131562" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:39:59.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7603" CreationDate="2009-07-21T01:43:59.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have written a simple GreaseMonkey script which will do this for you.  Just replace the ids with the ids you wish to hide, and it will remove these questions from the questions page.  This is my first GM script, so if you find bugs in it, please let me know.  I will try to make it a bit more user friendly, but this does work (on my comp anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Hide questions&#xA;// @namespace      http://stackoverflow.com/&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;//&#xA;&#xA;//************************************&#xA;//* Replace the numbers in brackets  *&#xA;//* with the ids of the questions    *&#xA;//* That you wish to hide            *&#xA;//************************************&#xA;var hiddenQs = new Array( 7609, 7598 );&#xA;&#xA;var questionDivs = &quot;//div[@class='question-summary']&quot;;    &#xA;//define a search function for arrays&#xA;Array.prototype.findIndex = function(value){&#xA;var ctr = &quot;&quot;;&#xA;for (var i=0; i &amp;lt; this.length; i++) {&#xA;if (this[i] == value) {&#xA;return i;&#xA;}&#xA;}&#xA;return -1;&#xA;};&#xA;&#xA;function getQuestions () {&#xA;    return document.evaluate( questionDivs, document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;var questions = getQuestions( );&#xA;var curQuestion, qID;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;for (var i=0; i &amp;lt; questions.snapshotLength; i++) {&#xA;    curQuestion = questions.snapshotItem( i );&#xA;    qID = curQuestion.id.split('-')[2];&#xA;    if (hiddenQs.findIndex( qID ) != -1) {&#xA;    	curQuestion.parentNode.removeChild( curQuestion );&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:43:59.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-21T01:47:57.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;suggester&quot; after you enter the subject seems a bit lacking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7880/how-do-you-open-a-file-in-c&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, does not come up at all as a suggestion if you type in &quot;How do you open a file in C++?&quot; as your question.  This is odd since that is the title of that question.  (It also tells you it's a subjective question and will be closed, but that's a different issue.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131562" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:47:57.390" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-16T14:50:15.237" Score="10" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of suggesting a topic (such as politics, religion or sex) that is better left discussed in a private forum...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When do you post a question to Stack Overflow?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RTFM&lt;/a&gt; first?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check Google?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Talk to your friends and colleagues?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rack your brain for days and days before posting to Stack Overflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160073" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T07:44:27.567" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T23:35:19.083" Title="When do YOU post a question to Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T14:53:20.127" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't care about question-reputation. I would try finding the answer hard myself. If i don't have any success, then i would ask in here. It's always good to be trained to find information himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T15:05:32.460" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's okay to ask questions even if you can find the answer by Googling, or on Wikipedia.  Web sites change quite often, and finding an answer today doesn't mean it will always be there.  One of the stated goals of the site is to consolidate programming knowledge in one place.  To that end, check to see if the question has been asked here before, and if it hasn't, post the question and the answer that you find elsewhere.  Make sure you cite your source.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-12T23:32:05.427" />
  <row Id="7619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T15:05:59.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post a question if I think I have a deep and hard question, however I have a few times used SO to answer questions that I definitely could have figured out on my own...but why not ask on SO, go back to work, and recheck in 5 minutes and see your solution...It's almost addicting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main point is that even asking stupid questions seeds data into SO, which further increases its value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T15:13:18.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a noob to this site, so interested in seeing the answers.  I am still avoiding asking many questions until I have a feel for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different places have different cultures - so I think the most important thing is to wait a little until you feel that you have an understanding of the mood.  Stack Overflow is new, so it seems to be still finding its mood. Think about all the people around you that you go to for advice.  They all have different moods as well - you likely have learned what types of questions you can ask different people without frustrating them.  Same goes for websites like SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one likes annoying, repetitive questions - but SO looks to be designing itself well to avoid this.  It is so fast, and so instant in its pattern matching.  If it keeps doing such a good job with search results, tags and instantaneous matching while typing questions I think it will be amazingly self regulating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T15:13:21.727" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that asking questions helps build up the SO database. And it's not wasting a &quot;scarce&quot; resource to ask here. Quite the opposite, the more questions and answers here, the more people come here and the bigger the community. In fact, I've even encouraged another user to post a question here &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the answer was found elsewhere ... simply to bring the topic to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, I try not to ask a question which is too close to one that's already asked, unless there is an interesting difference. I'd like to see SO cover as much as possible, but not too much redundancy here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148381" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T15:49:19.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do all of what you suggested. Googling, RTFM, racking my brain, trial-and-error, racking my brain some more, googling again. Consequently, I find it hard to ask a question on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this site is about learning. Letting someone else do your work because you are too lazy to try and learn yourself does not feel right for me. If you can't do it, you can't understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even googling is a skill that can (and should) be learned. When googling and RTFM does not yield anything useful, then SO is the right place to ask. Shortly after that, Google will return the SO page for the problem in question, and then that's one problem down that can't be solved by googling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:17:49.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to find my own answers first and post only when I can't find them.  The more I struggle, the more I learn.  However, if I need an answer fast I may consider posting a question before doing a lot of research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:18:40.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will Google for an answer first. However, sometimes making the query return the results your looking for can be difficult. Sometimes the results aren't quite what you need. Or the answers are out of date and have been superceded by updates so they don't answer your current needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also search on SO for answers. Usually it's hit or miss. I have the same problems I do with Google: making the query return something useful. I don't know how many times I've asked a question and had someone tell me it's redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that's the beauty of SO. You get responses quickly and even redundant questions can have answers. This is good because there are new people here all the time who many not have seen the older posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I post questions to SO when I have worked on the problem for a day or two and either can't figure it out on my own or can't find an answer on Google. I will also resort to SO when certain web sites are blocked by the command's firewall (I work for the military and many blogs, forums, etc. are blocked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, SO is a good, central repository of knowledge. There have been many times I have found an answer here or gained some knowledge that I didn't even know I wanted. Due to the variety of questions being asked, I never know when I may find something that will prove useful later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &quot;payment&quot; to the community, I provide answers when I can and I try to ask questions that others may find useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:53:20.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually post a question when I've noticed that my reputation chart is levelling off... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:04:53.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also say that if you spend an extended period of time googling a problem and you finally find the answer. Then it might be worth posting a question and self answering just so that the problem will be here for others in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132244" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-16T18:04:53.050" />
  <row Id="7627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:15:29.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm also a fan of looking for answers myself instead of asking questions on websites or forums. It's really good to be able to find information and solve problems on your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, especially if u're investigating a problem not in your true field of expertice, the comments on SO and forums can really point you in the right direction. That's why I value answers with links for further reading the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35685" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-26T15:52:41.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to post this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why do people ask questions on SO instead of googling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see many questions which are so simple such that I can get the answer by googling just two or three words in the title. And I refuse to believe that there exists programmers who do not know how to use the search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your opinion of this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this actually a good thing since the set of unique questions in SO grows with time, making it the one-stop place to ask/search for questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does it reek of a laziness to google for it? It doesn't seem right though as googling takes less effort in my opinion.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when I decided to google my question lest I contradict myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-26T15:55:57.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before I leave work after I spent the day trying to figure the problem out myself, which includes googling and asking friends on ICQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2008-11-26T16:03:05.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask questions it's usually when I need advice not an answer that I can find elsewhere.   For questions where the answers are hard to find on the internet -- like with newer or rapidly changing technologies where the answers you do find might be conflicting or apply to a different version -- SO can be a very good resource to help filter out the chaff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2009-07-21T00:36:15.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to Google/check MSDN first, but sometimes answers are hard to find.  For instance, I hate doing a web search for any related to Access simply because it's such a generic word especially when coupled with other certain keywords like &quot;data.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2009-07-21T01:00:10.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To address the question: I like to pose a question on Stack Overflow when I want to &quot;bounce an idea off other programmers&quot; or find tips and tricks I hadn't considered.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I might pose a question if I'm roadblocked and can't think of a logical way to solve a problem.  As usual, the answer is: it depends.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually ask colleagues first, then try a Google search (on an error message perhaps), and fall back to Stack Overflow if no one else has asked a question on this issue before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why Stack Overflow and not a Google search (etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the questions asked are homework style questions (or simple questions), but often the answers supplied here speak more closely to guidance or, in some cases, pose additional questions (perhaps to define additional scope).  You just can't get that kind of a response from static content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, as others have mentioned, good questions and answers can be updated over time to represent a community consensus on a topic which is singularly unique by comparison to individual searches or blog entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136224" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T01:51:15.290" />
  <row Id="7633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2009-07-21T01:23:29.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Online help, manual, F1 etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Forums (through google of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask a colleague&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search more thoroughly on SO what there is on the subject&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However my view on this tends to change now...   Old habits die hard but I would change the above to the following :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if time spent on 1-4 exceeds 30 minutes skip directly to 5 for 10 minutes then 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this depends on the information I am seeking.  For basic stuff the time limits will be shorter, for more complicated stuff it will be longer.  However I would bet that doing it this way I would end up SAVING time using SO... who would have thought this possible !!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25812" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T08:25:29.030" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T08:25:29.030" />
  <row Id="7634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2009-07-21T02:11:24.400" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a scenario i've been in many times: I post a quick answer to a question. It's accurate and reasonably helpful, and therefore collects several up-votes. Then someone else posts their answer... The extra time they spent on it clearly shows: it's comprehensive, easy to read, links to tangential-related information, includes good code samples... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so I delete mine and up-vote the new answer. Maybe edit it a bit, to include something from mine that i feel would benefit it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;End result: the question gets a single, solid answer. The other guy is rewarded for the extra effort he put into it. I'm rewarded with... the satisfaction of a job well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And maybe a badge...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:11:24.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:19:19.607" Score="16" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Stack Overflow user seems to have deleted all his questions and answers. He had more than 100 answers to other people's questions. Some of his answers had more than 10 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already recovered one of his answers (which had, according to Google's cache, 14 upvotes and was the accepted answer; another answer was even mentioning his answer, so I posted the small recovered answer as a comment to that one), but what should be done to the rest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undelete them (I believe only moderators can do so)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quickly recover the answers from Google cache and repost them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do nothing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if the answer is to recover the answers, what is the best way to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments to another answer which was referencing that one (only possible for small answers)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments to the question (also only possible for small answers)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A community wiki answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28258" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T13:29:21.830" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T13:29:21.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:19:19.607" Title="What to do when a user deletes all their questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="9" />
  <row Id="7636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:24:43.900" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I think the purpose of the site is to not only get your answers but contribute to a community the person also has the right to take them down if he/she so wishes.  I see no reason why you can't re-ask them if you really think someone else along the way won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139191" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:24:43.900" />
  <row Id="7637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:25:51.310" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;Do nothing&quot;... if somebody wants to delete their stuff, that's their choice. If there was an answer to a question that was especially helpful or important to you, then go hunting for it and save it somewhere locally if you wish, but I think you should respect the author's choice to remove his or her postings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34218" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:25:51.310" />
  <row Id="7638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:34:09.077" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The goal of this site is to provide high quality answers to high quality questions. If you, as a contributor, decide to take you don't want to participate in future questions that's fair enough - but to actively sabotage other questions by removing your own posts goes against the whole purpose of this community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Jeff should disable delete feature  once a question is upmoded more than a couple of times. It should certainly not be possible to delete an &quot;accepted answer.&quot; I feel a user should be allowed to delete answers which have a negative score, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of places where deleting your comments is not possible and it doesn't damage their community; Slashdot being the most notable example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:34:09.077" />
  <row Id="7639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:42:15.050" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would go with this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/64537&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.uservoice&lt;/a&gt; suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What if you add the ability for moderators, members with enough rep to bring those questions back, but under the Community Wiki user. This way these good question could live on in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested reputation threshold to activate such a feature: high, like 8K or even 10K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/28307&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice suggestion&lt;/a&gt; even goes as far as to suggest that deleted questions are still visible (to registered user only), without up/down votes possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, that translates the frustration of seeing a good information, looking for it a week later, and... finding nothing anymore. Or the frustration of spending time writing a good answer, before realizing that one's own good answer is gone because when a user delete a post, he/she deletes &lt;em&gt;all answers&lt;/em&gt; with it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:42:15.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:52:45.530" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only issue with restoring is that there could be a legal reason the posts were taken down, especially if they contained code snippets.  I would say the best solution is to upvote a similar answer, or repost the gist of the answer that was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153934" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:52:45.530" />
  <row Id="7641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:57:00.997" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To all those people saying that a person should not be allowed to delete their questions, I pose the following question: what if you started on StackOverflow with a open id that was somehow connected to your work, and your bosses say &quot;You shouldn't be doing that in our name, remove it&quot;.  It would be nice if you could transfer everything to a non-work connected id, but to do so requires direct intervention from Jeff Atwood, and not everybody knows that this is an option.  I think in a case like that people should be allowed to delete (or at least file off the identification marks) from all their questions, responses and questions.  And right now, the only way to do that yourself is to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:57:00.997" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-10T13:14:24.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the suggestion a while ago on uservoice to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/39784&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;email me the markup of my deleted questions and answers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-10T13:14:24.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2008-11-10T13:45:58.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the post was taken down for legal reasons, then that is one thing - but just deleting an accepted answer or upvoted response is another. I'd suggest the answer be moved to community mode and the associated user's name removed from public view, but still kept with the answer in the db itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could allow a full removal after jumping through a few hoops. The idea might be to allow answering with as little friction as possible, but I think adding as much fricion as you can really forces people to rethink deleting a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135341" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-10T13:45:58.433" />
  <row Id="7644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7635" CreationDate="2009-06-15T17:38:20.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always take the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; (not sure how frequent it is) and store it somewhere. Given that what you post here is under the CC license it's not like you're holding someone else's copyrighted material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T02:42:29.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-15T17:38:20.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7649" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:35:50.990" Score="3" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like how tags are cleverly displayed in gray boxes in this question, among others:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6119/retag-request-opensource-open-source&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6119/retag-request-opensource-open-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the markdown syntax for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T21:48:09.420" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T18:51:26.907" Title="Markdown syntax for pseudo-tags in question/answer text?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;syntax&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7648" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:38:34.283" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;hello, world&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;hello, world&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's used mainly to demonstrate keys that the reader is supposed to press, like &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;t&lt;/kbd&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is an HTML tag, StackOverflow applies some CSS to make it look like a real button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;kbd {&#xA;  background:#EEEEEE none repeat scroll 0 0;&#xA;  border-color:#CCCCCC #AAAAAA #888888 #BBBBBB;&#xA;  border-style:solid;&#xA;  border-width:1px 3px 3px 1px;&#xA;  color:#000000;&#xA;  padding:2px 4px;&#xA;  white-space:nowrap;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T03:58:09.857" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T03:58:09.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7663" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:45:02.630" Score="0" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&lt;/a&gt; user at stackoverflow today, but not getting what kind of user is this, is it from StackOverflow or its a fake account which is only made to cast downvotes (&lt;code&gt;12654 downvotes&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The userid in the URL is -1 :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it from Stackoverflow team or its a fake account, if so can't we block such type of users who just made to make downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45261" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T04:03:30.560" Title="What kind of user is this?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7650" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:46:18.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community is the automated user account that performs many of the system functions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T03:46:18.340" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:47:26.403" Score="6" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;StackOverflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt; includes a lot of information on how to ask questions and what questions to ask, but very little information on what makes a good answer.  I often see answers (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1157070/any-best-practice-of-doing-table-record-insert-with-sql-clr-store-procedure/1157086#1157086&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;) of the sort that simply reference an external site and say, in effect, go read this.  Unfortunately, over time this will lead to answers that are merely broken links as the linked information is moved (or removed).  On occasion, I've added comments indicating that answers that link to external sites really need to have a summary so that they remain useful over time.  I'd like to see something about how to construct a good answer addressed in the official FAQ along with the information about how to construct a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T20:14:02.333" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T07:47:12.023" Title="Should the official FAQ include information on how to answer as well as ask questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7652" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:52:02.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T07:25:29.170" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:25:29.170" />
  <row Id="7655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7648" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:54:08.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fun with &amp;lt;kdb&gt; tags:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T03:54:08.513" />
  <row Id="7656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7659" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:57:13.013" Score="14" ViewCount="1123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there guidelines for what constitutes a good answer?  Let's discuss.  Perhaps, we can come up with some ideas for the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building off &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7652/should-the-official-faq-include-information-on-how-to-answer-as-well-as-ask-quest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7652/should-the-official-faq-include-information-on-how-to-answer-as-well-as-ask-quest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T23:01:22.410" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T23:01:22.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-11T13:49:49.497" Title="How do I write a good answer to a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="7657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7656" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:58:06.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;References (with summaries of course) are often helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T03:58:06.930" />
  <row Id="7658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7656" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:59:01.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good answers do more than simply reference an external site and suggest that the OP refer to it.  Answers that primarily reference an external site should include a summary of the information so that it becomes a primary source as well as a reference.  This will help the answer to stand the test of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T03:59:01.047" />
  <row Id="7659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7656" CreationDate="2009-07-21T03:59:35.217" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to Write a Good Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be clear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provide examples.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link to more information and further reading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quote relevant material to keep the user from having to click on every link given to get basic information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Revise your answer to include more information as it comes along.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to monitor your question for comments so that you can reply with explanation if questions come around about your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T20:44:24.810" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:44:24.810" />
  <row Id="7660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7656" CreationDate="2009-07-21T04:00:23.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When possible include a relevant example to demonstrate how your answer applies to or solves the problem posed in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T04:00:23.390" />
  <row Id="7662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7656" CreationDate="2009-07-21T04:02:30.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't just provide the code which solves the problem - try to help the OP understand this code as well, and why it works.  This also helps others who come along afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T04:02:30.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7650" CreationDate="2009-07-21T04:03:30.560" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tells you right in the gray box on the user page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi, I'm not really a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a background process that helps&#xA;  keep Stack Overflow clean!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some&#xA;  attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Own community questions and answers so nobody gets unnecessary&#xA;  reputation from them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now for the misinformative answer!:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is an evil and manipulative ploy&#xA;  of the site's creators to&#xA;  pseudorandomly keep people's&#xA;  reputations in check so they don't&#xA;  &quot;lose interest&quot; in the site ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42346" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T04:03:30.560" />
  <row Id="7666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7562" CreationDate="2009-07-21T04:54:29.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always bookmark the search page in your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and by the way, &lt;em&gt;do you &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; use SO search?&lt;/em&gt; Everyone knows it sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T04:54:29.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T05:12:44.897" Score="-1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about an additional tab on the questions screen &quot;suggested&quot;.  This will give you unanswered questions that match the tags you have accepted answers for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131804" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T07:43:04.950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:43:04.950" Title="Feature idea: suggested questions tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7667" CreationDate="2009-07-21T05:31:44.897" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would be the difference between this and &quot;Unanswered&quot;-&gt;&quot;My Tags&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T05:31:44.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T05:43:46.440" Score="5" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a little textbox like the tags textbox which allows users to keep a list of duplicate questions, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;3423 23423 2232&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be cleaning than posting the links in comments and since you have the question numbers, you could add a button which allows the user to &quot;show all answers to all related questions&quot;. Might even be useful to consolidate the topics into one for search engine ranking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it would allow people to re-ask the same question from time to time, since the answer to e.g. &quot;what is the best x&quot; in Dec 2008 is not the same as &quot;what is the best x&quot; in Jun 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T04:06:40.137" Title="Add separate field for duplicate questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="7671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:46:45.497" Score="0" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1569/is-there-any-way-to-favorite-bookmark-an-answer&quot;&gt;Is there any way to favorite / bookmark an answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to admit I didn't realy search in dept for this feature, but is it possible to &quot;Bookmark&quot; or &quot;Star&quot; anwsers like in gmail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T15:20:04.283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:20:04.283" ClosedDate="2009-07-21T07:25:05.363" Title="Is there a way to &quot;Bookmark&quot; answers in stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7671" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:48:19.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the Star next to a question to mark it as a favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then go to your profile and click on the &quot;Favorites&quot; tab to see answers you have marked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, there is a website specifically for questions about SO, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:49:20.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T06:48:19.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7671" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:48:37.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you clicked on any question, you'd see there is a big STAR there to click on, to put into your 'Favorites' tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131464" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:49:20.843" />
  <row Id="7674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7671" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:48:55.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - you make it a favourite by pressing the star under the question score.  You can find your favourites on your profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:49:20.843" />
  <row Id="7675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7680" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:50:20.843" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am considering a situation where, I asked a question and while going through the answers or looking for a solution myself, found out that I am actually looking for something (maybe marginally maybe significantly) different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now do I delete the question and ask a new one? Or just edit it and let the answerers know? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tip I saw on the right hand side bar:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clarify meaning without changing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18768" LastEditorUserId="18768" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T07:23:29.207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:23:29.207" Title="What is a good thing to do when the implicit meaning of a question that I asked changes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7671" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:50:52.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;strong&gt;Google toolbar&lt;/strong&gt; and use SO while logged into your google account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then press the BlueStar to bookmark your pages on SO. Later wherever you install your google toolbar and log-in, &lt;strong&gt;you will retain all your bookmarks wherever you go&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130243" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:50:52.547" />
  <row Id="7677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7695" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:51:30.617" Score="4" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to edit the tags of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7667/feature-idea-suggested-questions-tab&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to add the &lt;kbd&gt;status-completed&lt;/kbd&gt; tag to it (since the feature is already present), but every time I submit the edit I get dumped back to the edit page again.  Is this a moderator only tag (i.e. only moderators can apply it? Does the same apply to the other &lt;kbd&gt;status-*&lt;/kbd&gt; tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:32:21.530" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:32:21.530" Title="Status-* tags - moderator only?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7677" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:54:57.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, moderator only. Jeff knows best, what is completed and what's not ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:54:57.357" />
  <row Id="7679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7671" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:56:10.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone is pointing at the star for favorite &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;. But the OP specifically said &quot;Answers&quot;. It seems to me that occasionally I've tripped over an answer that itself was worth remembering, perhaps even more than the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This most often happens on those large survey/fun questions where an interesting answer might be buried on page 3...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a small start next to the &lt;code&gt;link | flag&lt;/code&gt; set of actions....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this answer should itself become a feature-request question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68204" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:56:10.553" />
  <row Id="7680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7675" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:58:14.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Significantly: new question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Marginally: edit.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As always: it depends. I doubt that you can make up a rule for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:58:14.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7675" CreationDate="2009-07-21T06:59:48.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit your question if its similar. If you've encountered a new problem, ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers can be edited, too. It wouldn't hurt to leave a comment on questions that have the potential to become non sequiturs after your edit, just so the authors of those answers can go back and revise them. If all of the answers will become blatant non sequiturs, then that is probably a good sign that you need to ask a new quesiton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of one I had today was a guy was trying to store a value from a SQL query in a portion of SSIS. I had answered that literal question, and then John Saunders comes through and goes, &quot;Oh, you need this,&quot; which was the correct way to do what the OP actually wanted to get to. I was too busy just answering the bloody question to notice. The question got edited and John's post prevailed, while I deleted mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T06:59:48.927" />
  <row Id="7682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-04T14:46:52.180" Score="55" ViewCount="1211" Body="&lt;p&gt;What interesting statistics have you discovered from analysing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow data-dump&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog post announcing the data-dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/so-export-2009-06.7z.torrent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Direct link to the .torrent (original XML files) (2009-06)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://modos.org/so-export-sqlite-2009-06.torrent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Torrent for data in sqlite3 format by nobody_ (2009-06)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4959815/Stackoverflow%5Fdata%5Fin%5FMySQL.4959815.TPB.torrent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Torrent for data in MySQL format by Webber (2006-06)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/#comment-24147&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comment by Greg Hewgill describing the VoteTypeId values&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/sql-server-tutorial/data-mining-the-stackoverflow-database/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Video on using Microsoft’s Free Data Mining Tools on the data-dump&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/06/data-mining-the-stackoverflow-database/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternative link on authors site&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/999185/is-there-a-script-or-program-that-will-efficiently-and-quickly-load-up-the-so-dum&quot;&gt;tool that can load up the SO data&lt;/a&gt; into SQL Server really quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T23:16:21.153" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T09:18:56.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-04T22:47:40.833" Title="What interesting stats can I obtain from the Stack Overflow data-dump?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="16" />
  <row Id="7683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-04T15:42:39.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some things I found from analyzing data that Jeff gave me before making the data generally available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/15/stackoverflow-question-statistics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Question statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/02/stackoverflow-reputation-statistics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reputation statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/12/civic-duty-on-stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Voting patters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:04:28.613" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-04T15:50:13.953" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are based on the &lt;code&gt;so-export-2009-06&lt;/code&gt; data-dump..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Boring stuff..&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uncompressed there is 1.3GB of XML data (206.1MB compressed using &lt;code&gt;.7z&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Total number of..&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. users: 88,558 [1]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. reputation points: 16,199,960 (average of ~182 rep per user) [2]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. badges awarded: 234,599 [5]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. questions: 182,742 [3]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. answers: 698,923 [3]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. votes: 2,379,537 [4]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;UpMod                 1915441&#xA;DownMod                178300&#xA;AcceptedByOriginator   109549&#xA;Deletion                22107&#xA;Undeletion               1660&#xA;Close                    1492&#xA;BountyStart              1449&#xA;BountyClose              1379&#xA;Offensive                 365&#xA;Reopen                    121&#xA;InformModerator           112&#xA;Spam                       98&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Top Ten..&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;..badges&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Teacher           31416&#xA;Student           29526&#xA;Supporter         25362&#xA;Scholar           24150&#xA;Editor            23450&#xA;Nice Answer       22978&#xA;Autobiographer    12751&#xA;Critic            11609&#xA;Commentator        9831&#xA;Popular Question   8721&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, each of the following badges was awarded only once: [6]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;asp.net-mvc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;best-practices&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;cocoa&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;django&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;eclipse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;f#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;iphone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;jquery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;language-agnostic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;performance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. viewed questions [7]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? - 297,365 views&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What's your favorite &quot;programmer&quot; cartoon? - 140,287 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Programmer Jokes -- what's your best one? - 107,065 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What real life bad habits has programming given you? - 100,058 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Great programming quotes - 54,046 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is your favorite &quot;programmer&quot; t-shirt? - 52,027 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hidden Features of C# - 49,927 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Coolest Server Names - 48,448 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet Facts? - 35,868 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ) - 34,614 views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. voted questions [8]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What's your favorite &quot;programmer&quot; cartoon? - 682 votes&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ) - 621 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hidden Features of C# - 585 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs? - 451 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Programmer Jokes -- what's your best one? - 385 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? - 359 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Using what I've learned from stackoverflow. (HTML Scraper) - 352 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? - 340 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What do you use to keep notes as a developer? - 299 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What real life bad habits has programming given you? - 269 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. voted answers [9]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84629&quot;&gt;84629&lt;/a&gt; - 976 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84624&quot;&gt;84624&lt;/a&gt; - 745 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164556&quot;&gt;164556&lt;/a&gt; - 661 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184673&quot;&gt;184673&lt;/a&gt; - 621 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234170&quot;&gt;234170&lt;/a&gt; - 566 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84576&quot;&gt;84576&lt;/a&gt; - 551 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234138&quot;&gt;234138&lt;/a&gt; - 550 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186309&quot;&gt;186309&lt;/a&gt; - 544 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234419&quot;&gt;234419&lt;/a&gt; - 539 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164451&quot;&gt;164451&lt;/a&gt; - 512 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. most answered question [10]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618&quot;&gt;&quot;What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?&quot; [184618]&lt;/a&gt; - 533 points&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432&quot;&gt;&quot;What real life bad habits has programming given you?&quot; [164432]&lt;/a&gt; - 524 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640&quot;&gt;&quot;Great programming quotes&quot; [58640]&lt;/a&gt; - 490 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/262657&quot;&gt;&quot;The Coolest Server Names&quot; [262657]&lt;/a&gt; - 450 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756&quot;&gt;&quot;What do you use to keep notes as a developer?&quot; [78756]&lt;/a&gt; - 389 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102714&quot;&gt;&quot;What was your first home computer?&quot; [102714]&lt;/a&gt; - 373 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075&quot;&gt;&quot;Programmer Jokes -- what's your best one?&quot; [234075]&lt;/a&gt; - 362 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/76364&quot;&gt;&quot;What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?&quot; [76364]&lt;/a&gt; - 332 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760&quot;&gt;&quot;What's your most controversial programming opinion?&quot; [406760]&lt;/a&gt; - 302 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81677&quot;&gt;&quot;What's Your Motto As A Developer/Programmer?&quot; [81677]&lt;/a&gt; - 302 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. most comments on posts [11]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/770300&quot;&gt;&quot;Since SQL Server doesn't have packages, what do programmers do to get around it?&quot; [770300]&lt;/a&gt; - 107 comments&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164556&quot;&gt;164556&lt;/a&gt; - 83 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/586611&quot;&gt;&quot;How should disputes be handled on Stack Overflow?&quot; [586611]&lt;/a&gt; - 79 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184673&quot;&gt;184673&lt;/a&gt; - 65 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587512&quot;&gt;&quot;Should I be discouraged by StackOverflow?&quot; [587512]&lt;/a&gt; - 64 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423833&quot;&gt;423833&lt;/a&gt; - 58 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/383257&quot;&gt;383257&lt;/a&gt; - 56 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/629405&quot;&gt;629405&lt;/a&gt; - 53 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318765&quot;&gt;318765&lt;/a&gt; - 50 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/706756&quot;&gt;706756&lt;/a&gt; - 49 comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Graph..&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. age vs reputation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. age vs account age&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. rep vs number of questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. rep vs number of answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;.. question-to-answer ratio&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Queries&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the above data was gathered using SQL queries on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951056/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/959661#959661&quot;&gt;this database&lt;/a&gt;. For future reference, here are the queries used to generate the data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 1: select count(id) from users;&#xA; 2: select sum(reputation), sum(reputation)/count(id) from users;&#xA; 3: select posttypeid,count(id) from posts group by posttypeid;&#xA; 4: select votetypeid, count(id) from votes group by votetypeid;&#xA; 5: select name, count(name) from badges group by name order by count(name) desc limit 10;&#xA; 6: select name from badges group by name having count(name) = 1;&#xA; 7: select title, viewcount from posts order by viewcount desc limit 10;&#xA; 8: select title, score from posts where posttypeid = 1 order by score desc limit 10;&#xA; 9: select id, score from posts where posttypeid = 2 order by score desc limit 10;&#xA;10: select id, title, answercount from posts order by answercount desc limit 10;&#xA;11: select id, title, commentcount from posts order by commentcount desc limit 10;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="131247" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T12:05:00.843" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T12:05:00.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-04T22:56:22.347" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-08T18:47:35.180" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Data_Mining_the_StackOverflow_Database&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tutorial on importing the Stack Overflow XML files into SQL Server&lt;/a&gt; that includes how to bring it into SQL Server, what the tables and fields mean, and how to query it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also built &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spwho2.com&lt;/a&gt;, a front-end for some of the slicing and dicing I'm doing.  I've got reports like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top 100 Tags Last Month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Closed-Percent/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What question tags have the highest closed percentages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Avg-View-Count/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What question tags get the most views?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Avg-Favorites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What question tags get favorited the most often?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Avg-Answers-Submitted/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What question tags get the most answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/TagReports/Avg-Reputation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What question tags are used by people with the highest reputations?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm working on reports about users, answers, badges and comments next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2009/6/9&lt;/strong&gt; - User pages are completely online, although folks with wacko display names are going to have a hard time finding theirs. You can check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/User/a2/22656/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; as an example, or go to the home page at &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://spwho2.com&lt;/a&gt; and click on the first letter of your display name.  I'll build a search-box style lookup later.  On the individual user stat pages, sometimes the statistics are out of order, and I haven't vetted the statistics yet, so if you see anything odd let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2009/6/11&lt;/strong&gt; - On user pages, I've added percentiles so you can see where you rank in relation to other users overall, or for a specific tag.  For example, on &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/User/a2/22656/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's page&lt;/a&gt;, you can see that he scored in the 99.89% percentile for Submitted Answers on the .net tag, so you might wonder who beat him.  Click on the link for &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/Tag/Tag-.net/Submitted-Answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Submitted Answers for .net&lt;/a&gt;, and you can see the top 100 submitters for that tag.  If you go back to his page, another interesting statistic is that he averaged 0.31 hours to answer .net questions, which might sound pretty good - but he only scored 37.25% there.  Click on the link for &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/Tag/Tag-.net/Avg-Hours-To-Answer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Avg Hours to Answer .NET questions&lt;/a&gt; and you'll see that users are averaging as low as .05.  The tricky part to that is that they may have answered a lot less questions, so their average looks artificially low.  I still haven't vetted most of these, just having fun building pages out.  There's bugs with some tags that have # signs in them, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2009/6/14&lt;/strong&gt; - How much would you pay for a web site that does all this?  $19.95?  $29.95?  But wait - there's more!  I've added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user &amp;amp; tag search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the tag pages, I'm now showing the top 10 related tags for each tag (the tags that also seem to be attached most often to questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the tag pages, I'm showing the 50 oldest unanswered questions if you want to swoop in and find easy questions to answer.  Keep in mind that it's first come first serve - the pages will only be updated when a new database export comes out, so by the time you visit your favorite tag, some of the questions may have been answered by someone else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2009/6/26&lt;/strong&gt; - I'd always had a lot of links in the site back to Stack Overflow, but I've added even more after reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's post about attribution&lt;/a&gt;.  The user names are now linked back to their Stack Overflow profile, plus there's a footer on every page that links both to Stack Overflow and to the SO blog.  I already have every question linked straight back to the Stack Overflow question - I don't want to include the body of the questions (or the answers) on SPWho2 itself, because I'm not after the Google traffic.  I haven't included the questioner names next to the questions yet, but I'll do that in the next round of updates when the next database dump comes out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2009/7/13&lt;/strong&gt; - I just updated it with the June data dump.  I haven't QA'd the data due to an upcoming vacation, but hey, that's what you're for, ha ha ho ho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2010/02/13&lt;/strong&gt; - I set up a public-facing SQL Server with the Server Fault, Stack Overflow, Super User, and Meta Stack Overflow data dumps.  You can connect to it with SQL Server Management Studio 2008 or Toad for SQL Server.  Connection info is at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/02/querying-the-stackoverflow-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Querying the Stack Overflow Data Dump.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T20:28:18.990" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T20:28:18.990" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-08T18:47:35.163" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="7687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-14T20:55:52.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a small program to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bortzmeyer.org/stackoverflow-to-postgresql.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;import the data in a PostgreSQL database&lt;/a&gt;. My first analysis was on the interval between an article and the votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;54 % of the votes occur the same day as the post (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/24695&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fastest gun in West&lt;/a&gt;&quot; syndrome)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but you still have 27 % of the votes which occur more than a week after the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bortzmeyer.org/images/so-votes-per-day-log.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also studied the interval between a question and an &lt;strong&gt;accepted&lt;/strong&gt; answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;84 % of the accepted answers were posted on the same day as the question (again, the &quot;fastest gun in West&quot; syndrome)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but 4 % were posted more than one week after the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the longest delay is more than nine months (for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9019&quot;&gt;Best method for varchar date validation in Sybase (T-SQL)?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graphs and technical details can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bortzmeyer.org/stack-overflow-short-tail.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my original article&lt;/a&gt; (in French).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:04:28.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T20:55:52.180" />
  <row Id="7688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-16T05:07:15.197" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I've been mucking around with the data. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And came up with (a probably meaningless) stat that calculates the odds that when you post an answer it becomes accepted. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to filter out community wiki stuff (Jeff let me know this will be in the next dump). So that is mixed in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me when I post an answer about 21% percent of the time it will get accepted. The person with the highest ratio, is not Jon Skeet :) The prize goes to rq, who 73% of the time posts the accepted answer to a question. (I excluded people with less than 1000 reputation.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Top 16 are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;rq                  4596    33  45  0.733333333 http://quirkygba.blogspot.com&#xA;Daniel LeCheminant  62055   113 189 0.597883598 &#xA;NULL                17637   16  27  0.592592593 NULL&#xA;Jb Evain            36702   19  34  0.558823529 http://evain.net/blog/&#xA;Todd White          30833   16  29  0.551724138 http://code.logos.com&#xA;Rafael              80720   24  44  0.545454545 http://kukawski.pl&#xA;Eric Rosenberger    41624   30  56  0.535714286 &#xA;Paolo Bergantino    16417   350 679 0.515463918 http://www.rootspot.com&#xA;Alex Koshelev       19772   17  33  0.515151515 http://webnewage.org/&#xA;Ben Gottlieb        6694    108 212 0.509433962 http://www.standalone.com&#xA;JeniT               6739    11  22  0.5         http://www.jenitennison.com/&#xA;Bittercoder         4843    18  36  0.5         http://blog.bittercoder.com&#xA;John Siracusa       164     19  38  0.5         http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/&#xA;Ayman               40005   76  152 0.5         http://aymanh.com&#xA;Gdeglin             83491   33  66  0.5         http://www.inigral.com&#xA;Miles               64474   34  68  0.5&#xA;&#xA;select OwnerUserId, case &#xA;    when exists (select 1 from Posts p2 where p.ParentId = p2.Id and p2.AcceptedAnswerId = p.Id) then 1&#xA;        else 0 &#xA;    end as ItsRight&#xA;into #t&#xA;from Posts p &#xA;where PostTypeId = 2&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;select OwnerUserId, sum(ItsRight) as [Accepted Answers], count(*) as [Total Answers],  &#xA;  (cast (sum(ItsRight) as float) / cast(count(*) as float)) as Ratio &#xA;into #UserRatios&#xA;from #t&#xA;group by  OwnerUserId&#xA;having sum(ItsRight) &amp;gt; 0 and count(*) &amp;gt; 20 &#xA;order by cast (sum(ItsRight) as float) / cast(count(*) as float) desc&#xA;&#xA;select DisplayName, r.*, WebsiteUrl, Reputation from #UserRatios r&#xA;join Users on Id = OwnerUserId&#xA;where Reputation &amp;gt; 1000&#xA;order by Ratio desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T20:22:52.387" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T20:22:52.387" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T05:07:15.197" />
  <row Id="7689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-16T23:37:31.327" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No matter what Jeff says, Fastest Gun in the West is still a massive problem: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the first to post an answer you have an almost 50% chance of it getting accepted, if you post the 5th answer you only have a 2% chance of getting your answer accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full results are below:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;0   50477	46.305&#xA;1   26680	24.475&#xA;2   14516	13.316&#xA;3   7609	6.980&#xA;4   4023	3.691&#xA;5   2136	1.959&#xA;6   1244	1.141&#xA;7   790	0.725&#xA;8   521	0.478&#xA;9   285	0.261&#xA;10  193	0.177&#xA;11  125	0.115&#xA;12  116	0.106&#xA;13  66	0.061&#xA;14  43	0.039&#xA;15  40	0.037&#xA;16  28	0.026&#xA;17  25	0.023&#xA;18  15	0.014&#xA;19  14	0.013&#xA;20  8	0.007&#xA;21  4	0.004&#xA;22  2	0.002&#xA;23  5	0.005&#xA;24  8	0.007&#xA;25  1	0.001&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select q.Id , &#xA;    (  select count(*) from Answers a1 &#xA;    		where a1.CreationDate &amp;lt; (select a2.CreationDate from Answers a2 where a2.Id = q.AcceptedAnswerId)&#xA;        		and a1.ParentId = q.Id&#xA;    ) as AcceptedAnswerRank &#xA;into #t&#xA;from Questions q&#xA;where AcceptedAnswerId is not null&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;select AcceptedAnswerRank, count(*), cast(((count(*) + 0.0) / (select count(*) + 0.0 from #t)) * 100.0 as Numeric(6,3))   from #t&#xA;group by AcceptedAnswerRank&#xA;order by AcceptedAnswerRank asc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:04:28.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T23:37:31.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-16T23:59:28.913" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 72 questions on SO that have an Answer marked correct that is both lower in score than the highest scoring answer &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; are scored lower than -1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the list of bad, marked correct, answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/168427&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/168427&lt;/a&gt; -25 36&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/911536&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/911536&lt;/a&gt; -15 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/216359&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/216359&lt;/a&gt; -15 46&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387801&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387801&lt;/a&gt; -14 20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277991&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277991&lt;/a&gt; -12 35&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60032&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60032&lt;/a&gt;  -8  4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/435620&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/435620&lt;/a&gt; -8  2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13154&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13154&lt;/a&gt;  -6  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/842590&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/842590&lt;/a&gt; -6  12&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/821415&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/821415&lt;/a&gt; -5  12&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514492&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514492&lt;/a&gt; -5  19&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36239&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36239&lt;/a&gt;  -5  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23287&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23287&lt;/a&gt;  -4  11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/765797&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/765797&lt;/a&gt; -4  9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/812260&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/812260&lt;/a&gt; -4  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807712&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807712&lt;/a&gt; -3  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/653423&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/653423&lt;/a&gt; -3  5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/609063&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/609063&lt;/a&gt; -3  0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105788&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105788&lt;/a&gt; -3  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/821653&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/821653&lt;/a&gt; -3  9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/746548&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/746548&lt;/a&gt; -3  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/900019&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/900019&lt;/a&gt; -3  1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/865572&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/865572&lt;/a&gt; -3  4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/736670&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/736670&lt;/a&gt; -3  19&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/106179&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/106179&lt;/a&gt; -3  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158574&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158574&lt;/a&gt; -3  15&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182873&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182873&lt;/a&gt; -3  4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210383&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210383&lt;/a&gt; -3  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229868&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229868&lt;/a&gt; -3  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/167569&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/167569&lt;/a&gt; -3  7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/418612&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/418612&lt;/a&gt; -3  13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/445642&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/445642&lt;/a&gt; -3  16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/163834&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/163834&lt;/a&gt; -3  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289537&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289537&lt;/a&gt; -3  11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/693388&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/693388&lt;/a&gt; -2  4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/536818&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/536818&lt;/a&gt; -2  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/261164&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/261164&lt;/a&gt; -2  2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420371&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420371&lt;/a&gt; -2  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430615&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430615&lt;/a&gt; -2  8&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/441563&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/441563&lt;/a&gt; -2  4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/404676&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/404676&lt;/a&gt; -2  5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549427&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549427&lt;/a&gt; -2  0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238697&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238697&lt;/a&gt; -2  1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/478694&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/478694&lt;/a&gt; -2  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398982&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398982&lt;/a&gt; -2  32&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/419638&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/419638&lt;/a&gt; -2  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108692&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108692&lt;/a&gt; -2  10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/112920&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/112920&lt;/a&gt; -2  25&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/637870&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/637870&lt;/a&gt; -2  5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/703767&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/703767&lt;/a&gt; -2  2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/539797&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/539797&lt;/a&gt; -2  11&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/106336&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/106336&lt;/a&gt; -2  8&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269594&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269594&lt;/a&gt; -2  1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554790&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554790&lt;/a&gt; -2  1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/868632&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/868632&lt;/a&gt; -2  2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/758092&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/758092&lt;/a&gt; -2  -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/835092&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/835092&lt;/a&gt; -2  10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/717613&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/717613&lt;/a&gt; -2  2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/893781&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/893781&lt;/a&gt; -2  1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/342052&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/342052&lt;/a&gt; -2  18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/546921&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/546921&lt;/a&gt; -2  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/642532&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/642532&lt;/a&gt; -2  3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/738327&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/738327&lt;/a&gt; -2  2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188321&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188321&lt;/a&gt; -2  2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/537577&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/537577&lt;/a&gt; -2  61&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/699686&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/699686&lt;/a&gt; -2  1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891636&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891636&lt;/a&gt; -2  6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/73385&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/73385&lt;/a&gt;  -2  5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209795&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209795&lt;/a&gt; -2  0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/296490&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/296490&lt;/a&gt; -2  4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115291&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/115291&lt;/a&gt; -2  1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65994&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65994&lt;/a&gt;  -2  5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SQL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select Id, &#xA;    (select max(a.Score) from Answers a where a.ParentId = q.Id ) as MaxScore , &#xA;    (select a.Score from Answers a where a.Id = q.AcceptedAnswerId) as  SelectedScore&#xA;into #t&#xA;from Questions q&#xA;where AcceptedAnswerId is not null &#xA;&#xA;select '- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' + cast(Id as varchar) &#xA;, SelectedScore&#xA;, MaxScore&#xA;from #t where SelectedScore &amp;lt; MaxScore&#xA;and SelectedScore &amp;lt; -1&#xA;order by selectedscore asc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="131247" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T12:06:14.273" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T12:06:14.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-16T23:59:28.913" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-06-18T09:36:58.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very interesting stats. I have imported the XML into a MySQL database and the data dump is available here &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1008141/stackoverflow-data-for-mysql-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1008141/stackoverflow-data-for-mysql-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy data mining!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T19:49:05.937" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T19:49:05.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-18T09:36:58.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-07-06T11:07:50.827" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used Wordle to visualise common substrings in titles (the bigger the more common and/or longer recurring phrases). I add some more fuzziness to my algorithm because there's awfully many synonyms in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kometbomb.net/so/so-titles-tn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kometbomb.net/so/so-titles.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://kometbomb.net/so/so-titles.png&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:04:28.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T11:07:50.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7656" CreationDate="2009-07-21T07:25:58.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/02/17/answering-technical-questions-helpfully.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogged about this&lt;/a&gt; a while ago. The bullet points from that article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the question (carefully)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code is king&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer the question &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; highlight side-issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's okay to guess, but be honest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raise the overall accuracy level&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide links to related resources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Care about your reader: spelling, grammar and style matter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A time-limited answer may be better than no answer at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't be afraid to delete (or edit heavily) useless answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be polite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't &quot;answer and run&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Obviously the post goes into rather more depth on all of them :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to read the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/527962&quot;&gt;this rather similar question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:25:58.263" />
  <row Id="7695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7677" CreationDate="2009-07-21T07:43:31.147" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;red tags: moderator only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;strong outline tags: required&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T07:43:31.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7435" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:09:11.563" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what we have in the substitution table&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public static string RemapInternationalCharToAscii(char c)&#xA;{&#xA;    string s = c.ToString().ToLowerInvariant();&#xA;    if (&quot;àåáâäãåą&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;a&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;èéêëę&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;e&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;ìíîïı&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;i&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;òóôõöøőð&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;o&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;ùúûüŭů&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;u&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;çćčĉ&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;c&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;żźž&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;z&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;śşšŝ&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;s&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;ñń&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;n&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;ýÿ&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;y&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (&quot;ğĝ&quot;.Contains(s))&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;g&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (c == 'ř')&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;r&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (c == 'ł')&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;l&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (c == 'đ')&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;d&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (c == 'ß')&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;ss&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (c == 'Þ')&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;th&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (c == 'ĥ')&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;h&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else if (c == 'ĵ')&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;j&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else&#xA;    {&#xA;        return &quot;&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updated a few times now; does this cover it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-19T10:04:14.177" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T10:04:14.177" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="7699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7702" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:21:56.387" Score="7" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty new to StackOverflow, so I don't know what the general feeling is, but I've started answering a couple of questions, come up with something half-useful, and then got stuck, either due to lack of input from the OP, or just lack of knowledge on my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of those questions were really interesting, and I'd love to get more eyes on them -- there doesn't seem to be a mechanism for that besides &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4397/purposeful-question-bumping-abuse-or-feature&quot;&gt;&quot;bumping&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering whether it would be useful to allow people answering to &quot;Cry for help&quot; to alert other experts to the fact that there is a problem in need of solution. It's like a bump, but more purposeful, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to gloss over most questions that have more than one answer, unless they look really interesting. But the fact that somebody answered (or even that an answer was accepted) doesn't mean there is no more to say about the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sound reasonable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-24T03:19:36.207" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T03:19:36.207" ClosedDate="2011-05-24T03:17:06.710" Title="Feature: Cry for help" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7699" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:24:10.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's the bounty system if you have enough rep and it's your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T08:24:10.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7699" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:26:55.757" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand what you mean. It's reminiscent of a situation that I have thought of a couple of times; I read a Q&amp;amp;A with an accepted answer that I feel/know is not correct, but I also don't feel that I know enough about the subject to post a better answer. Could be interesting to be able to flag those in some way (&quot;Review by expert suggested&quot; or something) to highlight that there might be more to say on the matter. For those situations where you can say &quot;That's wrong&quot;, but not &quot;This is how you should do instead&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T08:26:55.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7699" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:28:35.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each question is a cry for help. Refine and bump or set a bounty.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW I'm pretty sure this question is a duplicate, but I can't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T08:28:35.817" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7699" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:31:15.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kind of like on Wikipedia where pages or sections can be marked as in need of review for certain reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T08:31:15.587" />
  <row Id="7705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:35:59.100" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Line numbers and code folding don't belong here, because &lt;strong&gt;you shouldn't be posting huge swaths of code&lt;/strong&gt; anyway. If it's more than a few snippets, the question and/or the answers are busted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &quot;need&quot; to link to a lot of code, host it elsewhere, and give us the relevant snippet with a link to the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any features that &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; posting a lot of code are also broken by design and will be declined for the same reason -- why would we want to encourage behaviors that lead to unreadable posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T08:35:59.100" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="7706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-21T08:51:05.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;divide et overflow&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T08:51:05.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="7707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T09:28:44.377" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about a Best Practices approach to suggesting feature requests. Perhaps they should always be general brainstorming discussions and re-tagged to feature request only when they get enough momentum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a recommend procedure this might cut down the amount of requests only one person wants for those that could be restrained by a community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T10:09:24.753" Title="Should most feature-requests be discussions first?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7707" CreationDate="2009-07-21T09:45:24.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the benefit of this. I don't think there's so much traffic in Meta that it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is requesting a feature, it's a feature request. Yes, that request should generate discussion in the answers, but I'm sure Jeff is capable of spotting a feature request that doesn't get much support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T09:45:24.560" />
  <row Id="7709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7699" CreationDate="2009-07-21T09:57:04.120" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be mitigated by &lt;kbd&gt;status-planned&lt;/kbd&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;How about making it possible to set up bounty on someone else’s question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So soon you should be able to throw some rep at it ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T09:57:04.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7707" CreationDate="2009-07-21T10:09:24.753" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a feature request includes an implicit request for discussion.  Each request has pros and cons that need to be dealt with, and sometimes the problem that leads to the request could be solved in a better, simpler, more elegant way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T10:09:24.753" />
  <row Id="7711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-21T10:38:14.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are doing this, please have a test phase, lets say a week, before finalizing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be several schemas implemented, but I'd to express my idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoted loses -2, downvoter looses -1 by default (same as now). If the downvoter feels, that's not enough, he could offer 2, 4, 6 or 8 rep of his own, and the system subtracts the half of it from the downvoted, e.g:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvote somebody (-1) and offer 6 additional rep (-6) for an extra. The target receives -2-3 = -5 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its a bit more complex to implement, I admit. Unfortunately, I can't prove any of its properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T10:47:41.920" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T10:47:41.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="7713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-21T11:03:43.577" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Shoot first, ask questions later, do some work eventually&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T11:03:43.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7715" CreationDate="2009-07-21T11:06:33.377" Score="3" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good manners says to say thank you when somebody answers your question. E-mail load control suggests &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; replying &quot;thanks&quot; because it's too much e-mail and people would rather have less. I'm not sure what StackOverflow expects. I got an e-mail notification today &quot;3 Questions Have 1 Answer - Stack Overflow&quot;. When I clicked, only 1 of the answers was new to me. That one was a short, correct, and complete answer. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot vote it up because I don't have reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I comment &quot;thanks&quot; on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:39:17.787" Title="When someone answers my question correctly and completely, what should I do?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7714" CreationDate="2009-07-21T11:08:52.050" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T11:08:52.050" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7714" CreationDate="2009-07-21T11:16:18.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If its the answer you are looking for, then mark it as the correct answer, so that others will know what you were actually looking for. Marking it as the correct answer itself means thanks in a way. As for voting up, stay a bit longer and you will be able to do it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T11:16:18.913" />
  <row Id="7717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T11:13:48.627" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I got a notification &quot;3 Questions Have 1 Answer - Stack Overflow&quot;. Only 1 question appeared to have a new answer. Then I realized why it said 3 not 1: on the other 2, I myself had commented on the answers people had posted to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not make sense to me that my own &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to answers to my own questions should be counted in (or if == 1, trigger) a notification &quot;N Questions Have 1 Answer - Stack Overflow&quot;. Misleading and extra e-mail load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a defect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, where do I report it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T11:46:08.947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T11:46:08.947" Title="Notification on my own comments to answers to my own questions -- seems wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:01:49.710" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click on stats, it always sorts by votes.&#xA;But usually it would be interesting to see that data maybe just once in a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it not be nice to preserve view state to last one or default it to &quot;recent&quot; ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131819" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:31:08.760" Title="Preserve stats page view (votes, newest, views, recent)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="0" />
  <row Id="7721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7714" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:19:29.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can never go wrong by saying &quot;thank you&quot; via a comment -- unless, of course, you're being sarcastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...waits for the sarcastic comment to this answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:19:29.007" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:35:05.663" Score="11" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm writing a response and when I click post, there are 0 (or, even for argument, 1) answers to a question, and my answer is right (perhaps even the same as another answer), should I delete my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:00:10.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T12:35:05.663" Title="If your answer is right, but it's late, should you delete it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="7724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2261" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:36:33.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The more I think about the scenarios, the more I find ways of exploit it for questionable purposes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a community driven rep-aggregator person. You start to offer bounties around, and the same person would around 50% receive it (time-random). As there is no rep cap for bounties now, the person could, in theory, beat the big guys in couple of days or weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, I support reputation transfer (e.g offering bounty), but with proper constraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:36:33.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T12:36:33.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7736" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:37:23.540" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;As answerers noted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7105/time-of-day-day-of-week-and-question-popularity&quot;&gt;my other question&lt;/a&gt;, time-of-day and day-of-week does affect your question's chances, independently of question quality. At the same time, there are probably bandwagon effects: popular questions become popular because they're popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;opinion&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;To maintain quality of SO ratings in the long-term, questions should be rated on quality (defined by the community, of course). The site should be structured to promote quality over luck.&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/opinion&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How might SO be changed -- I'm talking about general ideas here, not the SQL queries that support them -- so that time-of-day/day-of-week effects be mitigated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:31:30.300" Title="How to mitigate time-of-week and bandwagon effects" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="7727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7723" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:37:57.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By leaving your answer, you are accomplishing a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, you are providing an alternative wording. There's no problem with that at all. In fact, the variations in wording might make the difference between someone getting something and learning and them still having problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, by having a variety of wording, there are more possible searches that can be brought to a page. That should make it easier for someone using a search engine to find a page on an SO site that has their question and a number of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, your wording might help an answerer realize they were vague in one aspect and edit their post, creating a new and better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:37:57.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T12:37:57.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7723" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:38:24.427" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always looked at it like this: If you are within half a minute (30 seconds) then no. If your answer is different in a way than the earlier answer, even more so no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because someone was correct first does not necessarily mean that their answer is better. You could easily go in and edit your answer to provide more information and then you could start getting voted ahead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we all deleted our answers after the first technically correct one came in, we would probably be doing a big disservice to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:38:24.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T12:38:24.427" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="7729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7723" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:38:47.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say it's up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to delete if my answer turns out to be virtually identical to another one that came in whilst I was typing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other answers that are basically the same I've left and then gone back and deleted later, but I've never systematic about this. That's meant that occasionally I've gained one or two up-votes days (or even weeks) later. So clearly someone saw something in my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:38:47.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T12:38:47.567" />
  <row Id="7730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7726" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:41:16.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely voting is the only way to measure &quot;quality&quot; - and that's what we do now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than keeping votes hidden from other users for a period (which has been discussed before) I can't think of anything else that might mitigate this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:41:16.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7726" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:42:22.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have multiple ways of viewing the lists of questions (Newest, Recently Active, Hot, Featured). It is not the site's fault that most people prefer to watch the Newest Question list and ignore the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter what type of system checks and mechanisms you put in place, you are not going to stop people from using the site the way they want to use it. If you try to put too many roadblocks in the way of that, they are going to end up leaving. The fact that the time of day and other factors might define whether or not a question gets views is more to do with human psychology/sociology than some inherent flaw in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And your idea of rating questions by the community seems redundant. We already upvote questions we consider interesting or thoughtful (or just a generally good question). I don't understand how tacking on some other type of rating system would be beneficial at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:42:22.377" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7726" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:44:17.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question's popularity holds no bearing on the quality of answers it gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the questions are getting answered on the 'off-times' there is nothing wrong with the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because it doesn't have thousands of views and lots of answers doesn't mean it isn't getting answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if people want to increase rep gain, they should make sure to be on during the busy periods.  This isn't a requirement though.  Questions still get answered when the website isn't hitting its peak traffic times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:44:17.873" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7723" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:45:29.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened to me once (^_^). I arrived late, but posted a superior answer. Unfortunately, the community didn't responded as well as I expected, and basically a concurrently placed answer got a way more upvotes, than mine. Besides this, a small argument wars began on my answer's comments. At this point I decided, I delete my answer - there was an equally good answer available and upvoted - and mine had 6 votes - just enough for a Disciplined Badge! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:45:29.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T12:45:29.247" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7726" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:45:51.010" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One idea is to have questions get point boosts if they are asked in off-peak periods. This is an idea in the rough, of course... you'd have to define peak, off-peak, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; suggesting doing this without telling the users, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:45:51.010" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7723" CreationDate="2009-07-21T12:58:45.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually delete my answer if an almost identical one was posted a few seconds earlier.  There are a few users who will downvote answers they consider to be &quot;duplicates&quot; even if there is nothing really wrong with your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T12:58:45.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T12:58:45.887" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7726" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:04:32.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about disallowing voting (on both questions and answers) until the question is 24 hours old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could still post an answer, and the asker could still accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 24 hours, show the answers with a score of zero in random order (so rapid answers don't get an advantage in voting, though they would still stand a better chance of being accepted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time people start voting, they will probably already have 5 or more answers to choose from, even if the question was posted at a quiet time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I know this is very unlikely to happen :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:04:32.377" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7670" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:05:06.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't want to encourage asking duplicates.  If you know the question is a duplicate, don't ask it again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't really be asking most &quot;What is the best X?&quot; type questions in the first place.  That's not really what StackOverflow is about.  Instead, present your situation, and ask how best to solve the problem presented by those circumstances.  There's a subtle but important difference there, in that you're leaving it open for someone to suggest a completely new approach you hadn't even considered previously, ask for additional important information you haven't shared, or at least look at the strengths and weaknesses of a product relative to your situation rather than the general case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T18:56:42.807" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:56:42.807" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7747" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:09:40.987" Score="2" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meanwhile, in August 2009 &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary/15292#15292&quot;&gt;&quot;noise&quot; was added&lt;/a&gt; as reason for comment flagging, and the comment flags show in the 10k tools. And &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74447/allow-low-rep-users-to-suggest-edits&quot;&gt;Allow low-rep users to suggest edits&lt;/a&gt; is on its way. Hence: I don't care for this request myself anymore. An explicit &lt;code&gt;[status-declined]&lt;/code&gt; would be fine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about being able to set comments to auto-expire? Or, alternatively, set a comment to be removable by the author of the question or answer one comments on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the communities would allow for some personal or funny comments (even like &quot;Thanks&quot;) without those comments littering the sites forever. Or, when the original author is allowed to clean up, then comments that have been taken care of by editing the question or answer, could be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;by design&lt;/a&gt;, there's no way to send a personal message to other members, I find myself abusing the comments like some &quot;poor man's private messaging system&quot;. I try to refrain from things like &quot;Thank you&quot;, but sometimes I do want to point out something to someone. After a while (hours, days) I then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22poor+man%27s%22+%22arjan+van+bentem%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;search for those comments&lt;/a&gt; to remove them (hoping that no-one actually replied to them with another comment, like &quot;Thanks, fixed it&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/40049/do-you-use-the-same-root-password-for-every-device/40065#40065&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/8VjrB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Poor man's PM&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't find this feature request very important (at all), I am quite impressed by what's been given us already, and I doubt there's a way to implement it without making things too confusing. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to keep things tidy and clean. Still, I wanted to share it, just in case someone comes up with something very clever...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-21T11:15:26.083" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T11:15:26.083" Title="Allow for setting comments to &quot;auto-expire&quot;, to become &quot;temporary comments&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:09:47.537" Score="14" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Download Source:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-bigbox.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-bigbox.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Installation:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Install &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; for Firefox.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Restart Firefox.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Return here and click the 'download source' link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once downloaded, click &lt;em&gt;Tools&lt;/em&gt; &gt; &lt;em&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/em&gt; &gt; &lt;em&gt;Manage User Scripts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &quot;so-bigbox&quot; from the list, and add the following &quot;Included Pages&quot;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*stackoverflow*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*serverfault*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*superuser*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That's it, you're done.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;General Information:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Serverfault&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. Determines your user-id automatically based upon the DOM. You can change it to any other id to spy on your friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var user_id = $(&quot;#hlinks a[href^='...']&quot;).next(&quot;a&quot;).attr(&quot;href&quot;).split(&quot;/&quot;)[2];&#xA;&#xA;    user_id = 22656; /* What is Jon Skeet up to lately? &#xA;                        Overwrites previous value. */&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Upon page-load&lt;/strike&gt; When the panel is opened for the first time after a page-load the script will request any lists you've explicitly declared as 'true' within your copy of the script. It will then add a toggle-bar to the bottom of  your screen (fixed). Clicking this bar will toggle the search-lists. Searches are now &lt;strong&gt;case-insensitive&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Configuration:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comes with a list of configurable sources. If you don't want to search your own past answers, modify the sources-block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var user_questions = true;&#xA;var user_answers   = false; /* I DO NOT want to search my answers */&#xA;var user_favorites = true;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ships with a default cap of 100 recent items. This means your default lists will contain only the 200 most recent items. You can manually change this if you like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var max_items = 100;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-quick-search.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T02:57:56.927" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T04:55:54.607" Title="SO-Family Quick-Reference to Q's, A's, and Fav's" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="7740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7738" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:11:54.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not like this at all because if you make a temporary comment and then someone responds to that comment, it's going to look awfully strange for someone else coming in and it looks like Person B is talking to himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need to send a personal message to a user, use the contact information they provide in their profile. If they do not list any information, they must not really care to be contacted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Private messages have been shot down numerous times in the past and this seems like an even worse implementation of that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:11:54.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7750" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:11:57.910" Score="1" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I happened to reach 666 reputation on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if there were a &quot;Badge of the beast&quot; I'd won it. What do you think about it? Too silly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T00:38:35.183" Title="Badge of the beast (somewhat silly)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:13:13.577" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, too silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:13:13.577" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7738" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:20:19.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a case, where in certain situations, it would be acceptable and nice to have a feature, but overall, the feature would make the user experience more confusing and likely encourage use of the feature in undesired ways and at undesired times. While I know there are times where you don't have edit privileges and want to recommend a correction, and so it would be helpful to have this comment auto-delete. I don't think that one, possibly acceptable, edge case makes implementing a feature, that would be potentially confusing and misused, worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:20:19.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:27:54.493" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want the &lt;strong&gt;1337 badge&lt;/strong&gt;!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=1337%20Sauce&quot; alt=&quot;Badge&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/51/leetme.png&quot; alt=&quot;Leet Me!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T17:45:23.243" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:45:23.243" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="7751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:29:22.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about a Answer to Life the Universe and Everything badge? (42)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131823" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:29:22.130" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10179" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:33:22.040" Score="15" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;featured&quot; tab currently lists questions with open bounties, sorted by the time left until the bounty expires.  Could we also add the ability to sort by largest bounty?  Sometimes I'm looking for best bang for my buck, and there are so many open bounties on SO that it fills more than one page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T13:43:24.460" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T13:43:24.460" Title="Please give us the ability to sort &quot;featured&quot; tab by bounty amount" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;featured-tab&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7753" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:34:42.687" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I have absolutely no personal interest in the bounty system, I can see where this would be useful for mercenaries like yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:34:42.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:34:54.537" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Private badges. Track your own metrics and create your badge images, then post them in your description area and count them. Same as &lt;a href=&quot;http://ponyoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3167/badge-for-winning-your-own-bounty/6984#6984&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/privatebadge.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T14:12:04.777" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:12:04.777" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:43:20.280" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all. Could StackOverflow have the ability to insert &quot;inlined code&quot;, as well as change the format of code blocks to be the browser's default monospace font?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:32:26.027" Title="Request to add inline code and monospace font" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;inline-code&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="7757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4152" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:46:50.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;mimetex would be a great solution. It's rather lightweight and does math pretty well as dynamically generated images. It's also incredibly easy to set up. However, the administrators would need to add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mimetex&lt;/a&gt;'s website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:46:50.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7756" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:48:04.970" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already insert in-lined code using backticks, &lt;code&gt;like &amp;lt;this&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.  Do you mean you want syntax highlighting on it?  If so, I disagree.  That would be remarkably distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:48:04.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7756" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:48:15.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a test of &lt;code&gt;inlined&lt;/code&gt; code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, &lt;code&gt;x + (y + z) == (x + y) + z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Use ``, if you want syntax highlighting, use a code block.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:48:15.643" />
  <row Id="7760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7738" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:49:59.957" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Temporary comments do not serve any purpose &lt;em&gt;except as private messages&lt;/em&gt; in which case, why &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; they private messages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, this functionality would be better implemented as a private messaging system, which they have repeatedly said no to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The functionality on its own does not serve a huge purpose, because there is no way to guarantee that the comment has been seen by the people you would want to see it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, a &quot;(-1) You need to edit out M$oft&quot; temporary comment seems to make sense, because that way the user can edit it, and the comment will disappear, however, if the user doesn't see it, it will eventually become a (-1) without an explanation. Also, if the user does edit it, your comment will still disappear, regardless of you removing your downvote or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there is no way to create 'event-based' comments (i.e. when a user has read it/done some action) this functionality only serves to REMOVE information which could be useful to someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:49:59.957" />
  <row Id="7761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:55:44.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want a 'Damien' badge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:55:44.017" />
  <row Id="7762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:56:06.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if I get one when I hit 666 bronze badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, too silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:56:06.767" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-07-21T13:56:17.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But the number of the Beast is 616.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T13:56:17.280" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7723" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:06:32.557" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Noise is bad&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answers are identical, and you do not have &lt;em&gt;extra&lt;/em&gt; information that you could add (to make your answer better) then you are providing NO benefit to the OP, and you are simply adding noise to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens a lot on easy questions where people add answers and then leave. The question will end up with four identical answers and one good/great answer. That means that whenever anyone visits the question, they must wade through a lot of redundant space in order to read all the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;More answers&lt;/em&gt; is not always better, if the &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; are just &lt;em&gt;more of the same&lt;/em&gt;. If there is nothing new to add, then delete your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is identical to an earlier one: &lt;em&gt;Improve&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Delete&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something that came out of TheTXI defending his own post in a comment. If you post a duplicate answer, you are essentially stealing votes. All of us here recognize the phenomenon where someone will basically copy/paste your answer and then begin to get upvotes while your answer does not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really have an explanation as to why this happens, and typically it is not due to malicious intent, but the purpose of the site is allow the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answer to bubble to the top. But if you add a duplicate answer, then you are splitting the vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T14:15:05.177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:15:05.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T14:06:32.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7788" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:11:34.527" Score="1" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Atom feed, any HTML special characters need to be double-encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this item appeared in an Atom feed recently: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt; elements are way intrusive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Atom feed the title was encoded as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title type=&quot;html&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;kbd&amp;amp;gt; elements are way intrusive&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually needs to be double-encoded, i.e.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title type=&quot;html&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;kbd&amp;amp;amp;gt; elements are way intrusive&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Google Reader and on Firefox, it thought an actual &lt;code&gt;kbd&lt;/code&gt; tag was there, and in both cases it was stripped out (so the title actually read &quot;elements are way intrusive&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T08:29:43.177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:29:43.177" Title="HTML special characters in html-type titles in Atom feed need to be double-escaped" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7767" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:13:23.210" Score="3" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very sorry if this is duplication, but I can't find a mention of anything like this anywhere yet. It seems like it might even be a little obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about maths. Very often, in learning maths, it's important to start by understanding the more general concept that underpins a theory, and then understand the specifics. Wikipedia and Mathworld are fantastic sites for experts, but I think that a good teacher still has the upper hand - those sites present to be accurate, whereas a teacher can explain in terms that make things easier to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially I thought it would be great fun to have mathoverflow.com; you'd be able to ask about a theory or a piece of maths, and other users could post about the way it was explained that helped them finally understand it. The StackOverflow system would work wonderfully well for that; the best and clearest explanations would win out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, of course, why limit it to maths? All academic subjects could benefit from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the danger that it could turn into a homework question zone, but there's already a strategy to handle that at SO, and it seems to work pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this might prove a really interesting way to help people to learn by sharing understanding across all fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose there are two ways of implementing it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackExchange, supported by a company based on advertising. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hope that SE goes open source, and then pay for hosting with support from a nonprofit, (ala Wikipedia).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be a useful resource, and which option would give users a better end result?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130839" LastEditorUserId="130839" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T15:22:53.650" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:22:37.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T14:13:23.210" Title="Overflow sites specifically for students and learning" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;learning&gt;&lt;idea&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7766" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:16:47.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.StackExchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.StackExchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:16:47.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T14:16:47.860" />
  <row Id="7768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7770" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:20:39.647" Score="-1" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anybody else feel that the search box is a bit small?  I'd like to see it 1.5x to 2x as big as it currently is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason why is that it won't hold a simple search phrase + a couple tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-08T13:50:46.567" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T14:55:19.363" Title="Make the search box bigger" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:23:06.530" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's big enough. If it needs anything, it's better results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:23:06.530" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:23:08.217" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do know that the size of the box does not limit the size of the text inside it, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:23:08.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7773" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:23:52.380" Score="1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of the time of writing, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/139430&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; user has asked the same question 3 times and accepted answers for 2 of them only to open a new question with a slight modification to the requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this appear to be deliberate abuse or misunderstanding of the way things work? What can/should be done (other than closing the old questions as no longer relevant)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** Update **&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; to not be intelltionally abusive. The question then becomes how do we communicate to this and future users that such relatively minor changes (adding a constraint in each case here) should be edits to the original question. Or shouldn't they be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T14:32:21.060" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:47:51.550" Title="Is this abuse or misunderstanding of the way things work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7771" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:26:02.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could&lt;/em&gt; be abuse. &lt;em&gt;Could&lt;/em&gt; just be somebody asking similar, but distinct, questions. Hard to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:26:02.507" />
  <row Id="7773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7771" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:27:34.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like he is asking similar questions because he is having issues taking what was given to him and asking something different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to help from a lot of you guys&#xA;  ive been given the following code&#xA;  which works great. However ive&#xA;  realised ive missed an important bit&#xA;  of info out of the question and so&#xA;  have reposted here (with updated code)&#xA;  to clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall it may have been best if he kept it to one question, but since he is asking slightly different things on the same question I see it as being pretty much fair (not the smartest way of going about it, but I don't see any abusive behavior)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:27:34.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7714" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:28:59.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should say &quot;Thank you, Jon Skeet!&quot; like everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:28:59.377" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7756" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:32:26.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They will not use browser-default monospace font because Webkit-based browsers treat them differently than all the other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/107333-add-monospace-and-or-courier-to-the-code-font-family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;related uservoice request&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:32:26.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:33:02.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;&#xA;    var canhazthistimezbigger = 2;&#xA;&#xA;    $(&quot;#search .textbox&quot;)&#xA;      .width(($(&quot;#search .textbox&quot;).width()*canhazthistimezbigger)+&quot;px&quot;)&#xA;      .parent().css(&quot;text-align&quot;,&quot;right&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:33:02.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T14:35:54.287" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:34:10.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a purely selfish standpoint, I would love to see the source, as it is clear that the site has been done &quot;correctly&quot; in so many different ways, and I think it would make me a better developer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you did open-source it, you would have to license it in a way that protects you from direct competition, as I honestly think you guys should be the only ones in this space.  Having two or more StackOverflows on the internet would only dilute the model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think you should be very choosy about who gets write access to the code repository.  These people would have to be totally dedicated to the purity of the Stack Overflow concept, and the only way to be sure of that is to retain complete control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Undoubtedly you would face competitive pressures from clones who use your code.  But your secret sauce is not the code itself, it's the social model you have constructed that is embodied by the code, and that has already been open-sourced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish I had a crystal ball and could tell you what the best business model is.  Nowadays its seems that the more you give away, the more exposure you get and (potentially) the more revenue you can capture.  But I think you already have your audience.  From a business standpoint, I don't see how open-sourcing StackOverflow will help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:34:10.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T14:34:10.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:36:59.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added it all up in my head, and found that Jon Skeet's reputation velocity is a significant fraction of the speed of light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is good, because photons could use the competition!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:36:59.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T14:36:59.210" />
  <row Id="7781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7768" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:43:58.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the search box is the correct size for initiated users and professionals. Any bigger and it would attract attention away from more important areas of the UI and also leave less room for my badge collection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For new users though it could stand to be bigger/more salient. In fact &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6101/maintaining-superuser-signal-to-noise-for-new-users&quot;&gt;I suggested&lt;/a&gt; making it the landing page for superuser.com for users who are not signed in and got my hat handed to me. So I think its safe to say its staying where it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:43:58.337" />
  <row Id="7782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7771" CreationDate="2009-07-21T14:47:51.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've also seen this quite a bit on S.O. Maybe we need a feature where certain users (moderators or people with enough rep) can merge questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem isn't always the question itself, but that there will always be somebody who answers the (almost-) dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T14:47:51.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7723" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:00:10.113" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;devinb writes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7723/if-your-answer-is-right-but-its-late-should-you-delete-it/7764#7764&quot;&gt;&quot;Noise is bad&quot;&lt;/a&gt; - this should be your guiding principle when writing for SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Atwood has speculated that readers who are &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; interested in a question will read every answer posted... if this is true, then by leaving answers that are effectively duplicates you're wasting the time of every interested reader who follows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would go so far as to suggest that even if you &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; add something new in your answer, you should still consider removing it if you see another answer posted, before &lt;em&gt;or after&lt;/em&gt; your own, that covers more of the topic or is better written than your own answer. You can always take the unique portion of your answer and edit it into the better answer, or request that the author does so himself via a comment. Alternately, remove all duplicate information from your post, cite and link to the other answer, and follow with your additional information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again: &lt;strong&gt;fewer, better answers means less wasted time for those who eventually read them looking for help&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:00:10.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T15:00:10.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:08:20.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I humbly suggest that the value of making this project open source may come from the following scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The perception that there will be code review by the public will encourage higher quality code production (this may not be the case, but it is a motivator). This is an often overlooked and highly valuable consideration in many closed-source development scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actual review by the public has the potential to reveal security issues, and more importantly the turnaround from the community for a fix is typically overnight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Free porting to other platforms increases the size of the potential marketplace for support contracts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Open sourcing the project allays concerns about lock-in, or that the product not remain available into the future (who knows, a law in Utah may someday prohibit the StackExchange SAAS model...).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peddling (slightly difficult) open source software creates revenue models for support.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Open sourcing the project will allow others to turn it into something newer and better, and in particular further the ability to integrate with other software projects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Open sourcing the project will destroy the motivation for an open source equivalent to arise in competition to your own project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Measuring these against your project is a non-trivial problem! Best of luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131829" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:08:20.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T15:08:20.327" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:09:55.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for the record, that is really cool.  I wish I could resize it myself though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:09:55.773" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7765" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:14:03.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternately, SO could probably just use &lt;a href=&quot;http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html#rfc.section.3.1.1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;type=&quot;text&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the titles... AFAIK, the site doesn't allow HTML in them anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:14:03.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="943" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:14:16.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's now an easy way to search all of your favorites, answers, and questions from any page on any so-site: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7739/so-family-quick-reference-to-qs-as-and-favs-last-update-07-21-2009&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7739/so-family-quick-reference-to-qs-as-and-favs-last-update-07-21-2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:14:16.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7813" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:19:06.593" Score="1" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the great UI features of FogBugz (in my opinion) is the CSS popup when you hover over a link to another case.  I would love to see the same thing in the SO sites.  There are many times when I would rather see a popup of a link to another question rather than following the link, or even opening a new browser tab to it.  For those not familiar with FogBugz, the popup contains a preview of the content of the page that the link points to (not necessarily the entire page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who don't like the popups, there could be an option to disable them that is settable in the user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Here's a screenshot of the FogBugz popup.  I think it's quite helpful as just a reference point.  The popup preview of case 13789 appears when you mouse over the Case 13789 link.  And again, it could be a per-user option since I know popups are not the most popular things on the planet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the preview I think it would be helpful to have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preview of the question and info on the original asker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preview of the accepted answer, or if there isn't one a preview of the most upvoted answer or, in the case of a tie, the first posted answer with the most upvotes  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/PreviewPopup.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;FogBugz Popup Screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T15:39:22.110" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:26:12.137" Title="Popup preview of a SO/SF/SU/MSO link on mouse hover (ala FogBugz)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7794" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:24:31.960" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;When sorting answers to questions it makes sense to sort accepted answers to the top when sorting by votes, but if I want to see the oldest or newest posts, the accepted status shouldn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, I can look at the 'Answered X minutes ago' but if they were submitted very close, then you can't tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T08:19:42.667" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T06:42:01.773" Title="Accepted answer shouldn't be sorted to the top when sorting by Newest or Oldest" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="7793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7817" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:27:01.043" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two of the tags that I have set to &quot;interesting&quot; on stackoverflow are &quot;perl&quot; and &quot;apache&quot;. I have a feeling that it won't be long until I remove the apache tag from that list because 98% of questions with that tag relate to url-rewriting with mod_rewrite. I won't do that with perl anytime soon, but that tag (sometimes) has a similar problem with questions about regular expressions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are dupes, but slight variations on the same topic. In fact with the apache example, it has become next to impossible to find a dupe because the stream of questions has become so &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/apache&quot;&gt;endless&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the best way to deal with questions like these? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:05:34.880" Title="How should we be handling endless variations of the same question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="7794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7792" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:29:17.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea is that the very first item you read (regardless of the sort order) should be the accepted answer. I imagine this is intentional by Atwood and company because when someone visits a question from google, they don't want to have to go through the whole &quot;expert sex change&quot; scroll to the bottom to find it problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:29:17.850" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:29:21.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Haven't read all 50+ answers, but here are my opinions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Open-source the concept only. There are still Java, Ruby, etc. developers out there, who don't C#&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not much, as you would decline almost everything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, just keep the quality bar high and use modern scientific methods to optimize the community's behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want to sell the engine, no problem there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw, how do you imagine a business version of SO? A corporate knowledge base or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were you, and I was low on money, I would ask for donations, and perhaps ask god to help me out some way. Or any minor gods out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:29:21.557" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T15:29:21.557" />
  <row Id="7796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7793" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:29:41.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implement 1-vote duplicate closing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clarify that a question can be closed as an &quot;exact duplicate&quot; if they're similar and the &lt;em&gt;accepted answer&lt;/em&gt; for another question also answers the question in question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Filter closed questions out of search results by default...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:29:41.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:31:25.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to toot my own horn, but this thing really is awesome. I'm finding it easy to jump back to questions I've recently answered just by clicking the toggle-bar, and looking to the top of my &quot;Answers&quot; list. I can see which favorites were recently updated by looking to the top of my favorites list, and the same goes for questions I've asked. This is great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:31:25.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T15:33:36.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7726" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:31:30.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have my RSS reader to check for new / newly edited questions. So it doesn't matter what time you ask your question. If it's tagged with one of the tags I'm following, I will see it eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:31:30.300" />
  <row Id="7800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7793" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:32:00.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could ignore the &lt;kbd&gt;mod-rewrite&lt;/kbd&gt; tag, and retag any questions that should have the tag but don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:32:00.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7714" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:39:17.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't just write &quot;Thank You&quot; in a comment. If they were really helpful, write a more detailed comment about &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; it was useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you cannot possibly see anyone coming up with a better answer, Up-vote and Accept their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:39:17.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:40:49.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about some form of dynamically adjusting system, where people that are downvoted more are cheaper to downvote, as they are more likely to be trolls, and conversely, those that downvote a lot find it increasingly expensive to downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note I don't propose an exact solution - it is far too tricky!! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really is a question of finding a dynamic balance between upvote, downvote, downvote-cost.  There's an implicit upvote cost by way of limited votes per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting dynamic, and one could evaluate more dynamic approaches than just assigning certain weights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What opinion does one have of people that have a 1:1 ratio of up and down votes?  Rather than consider whether they are independently minded, free spirited, against the conservatism of the middle - maybe one might consider whether they are more likely to be acting in an antisocial manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever carrot/stick alteration you make to the system will change the nature of the equilibrium.  &lt;strong&gt;This is because there are advantages to tactically downvoting people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is pleasant to design a community website like this that rewards and reinforces positive social behaviour and by neglect implicitly suppresses the antisocial.   Reddit does very well in this regard also.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that website and this one, downvotes are sometimes more important in the role they play in suppressing unpleasantness, it generally gets pushed to the bottom of the page or disappears behind a &quot;click to expand&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big problem with downvoting however is the perverse reward, in that it pushes your answer to the fore.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maybe there is an argument to say that people that have answered a question cannot downvote competing answers on that question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131831" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T15:40:49.170" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7791" CreationDate="2009-07-21T15:55:53.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it is hard to do it right (calibrate delay, make it appear fast, make it vanish fast, make it not obscure link), and if it is not done absolutely right it is [censored] nuisance. I don't know and didn't use FogBugz, but I &lt;strong&gt;hate&lt;/strong&gt;, with passion, similar feature using SnapPreview on LiveJournal (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://gitster.livejournal.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gitster.livejournal.com/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd vote &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;. This is &lt;em&gt;web&lt;/em&gt;, not desktop application. The expectations are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is delay (latency) because it takes part over the net. In the case of desktop application there is no delay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the case of web pages you expect to get information about target of link in status area. In the case of desktop applications you expect some help on mouseover for some element.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="130454" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T21:26:12.137" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:26:12.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:05:22.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall, I think this is a good idea.  -2 for a down vote in the grand scheme of things really is not a big deal and by increasing the down votes to -5, there begins to be a little bit of pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious, of all of the down votes in the system, how many of those down votes were cast in the same thread as the down voter had a submission?  n other words, what percentage of the down votes were cast by someone who also had an egg in the basket?  I ask because I've seen a few more &quot;tactical&quot; down votes occurring where it was obvious that the down votes happening due to some competition for the highest position in the thread.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to answer a question and then have a few other folks come in and answer similarly, they could actually inflict some harm on my reputation score while lobbying for position...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the cost for a down vote should not be refunded in this situations?  Should the down vote cost increase to 2 points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:05:22.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7793" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:05:34.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merge questions based on whether an accepted answer (on another question) will fix the &quot;duplicate&quot; as well, rather than just on question text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merged questions could appear in an accordion style control with the parent being the highest repped question at the time of the merge (an children being minimized by default). The Parent and child questions would all be community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making duplicates disappear just means that the keywords used in that variation are guaranteed to appear again and again until the system knows that VB = Visual Basic = VB.Net, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:05:34.880" />
  <row Id="7819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:14:45.487" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering how I should go about informing the users of SO, SF, and SU of particular scripts/tools that can enhance their experience here on Stackoverflow. Considering the small portion of us who participate actively on MetaSO, a mere mention here doesn't really get its reaches out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the proper way to get the word out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7739/so-family-quick-reference-to-qs-as-and-favs-last-update-07-21-2009&quot;&gt;Quick Reference to Q's, A's, and Fav's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T16:27:12.203" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:27:12.203" Title="Properly Releasing SO Tools onto SO, SF, and SU?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="7821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:16:33.820" Score="6" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also see:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Is this really an &lt;strong&gt;exact&lt;/strong&gt; duplicate, and so deserving to be closed?  It may lead to an ultimately similar discourse, but Rich B's request for a specific and precise remedy of the reputation scoring system isn't the same as my question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;My question is abstract and somewhat subjective, what is reputation in regards question-asking, what will happen to SO if it incentivises noise? I think I've developed the question sufficiently for it to be different to the linked question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Is that not the true meaning of meta?  In the generic, what is the nature of reputation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Is the question &quot;Shall we go for lunch?&quot; an exact duplicate of &quot;Why do I feel hungry at lunchtime?&quot;  It would depend what you assume is in the mind of the asker of the 2nd question (you might assume they are saying hinting to go to lunch), but that is highly subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm not complaining about the user asking the questions - but the points system seems to reward some participants to ask low quality questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is an answer not its own reward?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an example user that I've seen asking a spate of C++ questions over the last few days.  Some of the questions have since been re-edited, with the most egregious errors removed.  But I can't understand given that C++ is what he mentions on his profile that he can possibly have gotten to 3500 on the back of his lack of knowledge on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1154593/list&quot;&gt;See Revision 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can you say?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;pair&amp;lt;const char*, const char*&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; as a &lt;code&gt;map&lt;/code&gt; key?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To ask whether assigning to a &lt;code&gt;std::string&lt;/code&gt; alter its memory address such that a reference that is taken to it will alter? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;code&gt;map&lt;/code&gt; value type parameter is a reference type?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1155142/error-in-forming-reference-to-reference-type-map&quot;&gt;Follow-up question continues...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How on earth can someone get to 3500 on the back of such nonunderstanding of the programming language?  I really don't see the point in bothering on this website when the competition is volume over quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Surely an answer is its own reward.  Basically anyone with a large collection of points has no claim to particular merit, if a situation persists where the non-experts can rack up the points through the tedium of asking questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this user didn't get all his points asking C++ questions.  But he has got, say about half of them.  Can you get a silver badge in C++ for just asking questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;When should I use a ThreadLocal variable?  How is it used?&quot;  (+11 votes) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Should C++ eliminate header files?&quot;  (+14 votes)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;When should I use private inheritance?&quot;  (+8 votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How is that 330 points of contribution?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the motivation to participate in answering to some degree is that it's a game and people like to score points.  That seems to be undermined when you have people equally rewarded for asking dozens of very average questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with not knowing and asking.  There something wrong when people rack up points for asking questions which are pre-university level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a rewarded behaviour, at the cost of question answerers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The balance of any rewards system should be to encourage the knowledgeable to participate.  There is natural motivation for people to ask questions and need answers.  The website will otherwise run the risk of being deluged by the ill-informed with no real knowledge that are &lt;strong&gt;perversely incentivised&lt;/strong&gt; to spam away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see evidence this is already in play. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131831" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T20:31:09.767" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:31:09.767" ClosedDate="2009-07-21T16:51:19.913" Title="C++ / How can someone that asks questions like this have 3500+ reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;&lt;rankings&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="26" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7821" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:20:32.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. I brought this up here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:20:32.427" />
  <row Id="7823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7827" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:20:53.867" Score="11" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;While looking over the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;idea&lt;/a&gt; on increasing the weight of down votes, I started thinking about the distribution for reputation scores and wonder if the accepted answer bonus of +15 is still a good number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;REP SCORES:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+10  per upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-5   per downvote (proposed/planned?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-1   per cast downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+2   per acceptance of answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+15  per accepted post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a down votes may be increased 150% from 2 to 5 points, the accepted answer will not be worth as much compared to a down vote before.  Saying that you will get +15 for an accepted answer and potentially lose that by a couple of down votes doesn't seem to reward the user who answered the question enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I've seen a few jQuery and CSS questions where folks were coming in and literally swiping the previously posted answers (almost verbatim at times) and then place a few down votes on the other posts to put themselves towards the top of the list.  In these cases, even if you get awarded the accepted answer bonus, you still got dinged pretty good from the other users tactics.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the accepted answer bonus be increased from &lt;strong&gt;+15&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;+20&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;+25&lt;/strong&gt;, maybe even &lt;strong&gt;+30&lt;/strong&gt;?  This would seem to reward the answerer a bit more and help recover some of the points lost for the odd down votes.  I also think that this could potentially improve the quality of answers as folks really have more to shoot for and also increase the number of folks trying to get &quot;the answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My only concern in this is that by increasing the rep score for answers, the behavior of answer swiping and tactical down voting would increase.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T15:04:05.553" Title="Should the weight of accepted answers be increased?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7819" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:23:05.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Meta is the right place. If people are interested in &quot;enhancing their experience&quot; then they're likely to come here. Most users probably couldn't really care less - announcements would just get in the way, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have another &quot;discussion/feature-request/bug&quot; tag of &quot;tool-announce&quot; or something similar. Then they'd be easy to group together - and maybe Jeff could highlight them on the podcast occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:23:05.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7819" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:25:48.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Mr. Skeet...  The posts really belong here on META, but that certainly doesn't get the attention of some of the other folks.  It would be interesting if this was a topic for conversation in one of the upcoming PodCasts where they can describe what users have done to expand on the SO ui's, etc.  Maybe even a quick SO blog on it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From recent experience (i.e. logo &amp;amp; turtles), the podcast seems to get quite a few folk's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:25:48.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7823" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:26:21.883" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you are trying to propose a solution to a problem that would further cause the problem to flourish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with that said, I always thought that an accepted check mark only being worth 1.5 upvotes was a little strange and that the bonus should have been much bigger. The only really good upside to a check mark is that it will allow you to go over rep limit (but only if you are already there, not prior to hitting the rep limit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wouldn't mind seeing the Check mark be worth 30-50 points myself. I think that would be a great encouragement for people to focus on actually trying to win the question rather than just trying to post quick answers hoping for a couple quick upvotes (since +2 is already worth more than a check mark alone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:26:21.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7823" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:26:50.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that increasing the value of accepted answers will make people downvote to put their answer on top any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already huge incentive to be on the top of the list of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't necessarily see the need to increase this amount.  We don't need to introduce more rep into the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:26:50.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:28:21.810" Score="6" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently answerered a question on SO without having digested it fully. On realising that my answer was total hogwash, I hovered over the &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; link but the hint &lt;code&gt;vote to delete this post&lt;/code&gt; put me off. I didn't want it to be put to a vote. I then edited the question and attempted to delete the text. This failed since the answer text is a required field. So I overwrote my answer with a short apology and posted it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Still not happy, I clicked the &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; link anyway and mercifully the answer vanished, saving my embarrassment.&lt;p&gt;&#xA;I'm amazed to find that I've become the recipient of a shiny new editor's badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131847" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:48:30.927" Title="Should I have been given a badge for incompetence?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7830" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:30:07.047" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editor's badge is pretty tame and is just given to anybody who has gone about editing posts. It is not something that is repetitious and more or less just signifies that you are capable of using a certain feature of the system. It is a reward for system usage, not for your knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Badges Rewarded For System Usage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Autobiographer - fill out your profile&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Citizen Patrol - first flagged post (offensive or spam, not moderator flags)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Civic Duty - Voted 300 times&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clean Up - Performed first rollback of a post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commentator - Leave 10 comments&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Critic -  cast First downvote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Editor - First edit to a post&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Organizer - First retag of a question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scholar - Awarded the first time you accept an answer on your question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White - Edit 100 posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Supporter - Cast first upvote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Student - Asked a question and received your first upvote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taxonomist - Create a tag that was used 50 times&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yearling - Active for a year&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the other badges are generally rewards for exceptional contributions (such as getting voted up X amount of times, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T16:48:30.927" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:48:30.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7792" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:32:00.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is considered anchored to the question. It is essentially a continuation of what the OP wrote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it is 'unanswered' there are different ways of ordering the 'possible answers' depending on how you want the information displayed. But you always want the Question displayed at the top, and the accepted Answer has become a part of that screen-section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:32:00.363" />
  <row Id="7833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7823" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:33:12.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since a down votes may be increased&#xA;  150% from 2 to 5 points, the accepted&#xA;  answer will not be worth as much&#xA;  compared to a down vote before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming legitimate down votes, I think that quote from you is a perfect reason to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; increase the weight of an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen quite a lot of questions where I wondered whether the guy asking the question is really the best person to judge which answer is the best. That's my top reason against raising the rep gain for an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should probably raise the real question and ask what could be done about illegitimate down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:33:12.057" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:35:50.487" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mentioned the inverse of this problem in a Uservoice request a while back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penalties for downvoting users with &amp;lt; 25 reputation (or some other amount) should not induce any rep penalty on the downvoter. Why? There is no incentive to downvote users who post spam/off-topic/useless questions when they won't lose any reputation for it - but the downvoter will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I completely disagree with changing the penalty from -1 to -2 ex-post-facto and then applying it to previous votes. As an example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640/rich-b&quot;&gt;Rich B&lt;/a&gt; would lose almost 30% of his rep &lt;em&gt;just from the extra -1 penalty on downvotes given&lt;/em&gt; from that recalculation, which is not fair. This doesn't even account for the -2 to -5 jump for downvotes against him, which I'm sure there are many :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:35:50.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="7837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3792" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:36:33.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to add a block of code to a list item, you have to add an extra 4 spaces for every level of that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code block outside of a list&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Main list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;sub list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;sub sub list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;sub sub sub list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# 4↴&#xA;    code block outside of a list&#xA;&#xA;- Main list&#xA;#     8↴&#xA;        code block&#xA;&#xA;# 4↴&#xA;    - sub list&#xA;#        12↴&#xA;            code block&#xA;&#xA;#     8↴&#xA;        - sub sub list&#xA;#            16↴&#xA;                code block&#xA;&#xA;#        12↴&#xA;            - sub sub sub list&#xA;#                20↴&#xA;                    code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need to force the Markdown processor to start a new section, just add a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on it's own line. That's how I managed to follow a list with a code block, for this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T17:21:49.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:21:49.553" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7823" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:39:12.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes one or more posters do not understand the original question but still get upvotes.  The asker is in a better position to judge this than a casual reader.  So yes I think the accepted answer should carry more points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:39:12.283" />
  <row Id="7841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7823" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:52:46.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you outweigh the increased downvote with a higher rep for accepted answers, then where is the benefit of increased downvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:52:46.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7867" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:58:38.770" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd consider it very useful and informative to be able to browse the list of the highest voted ANSWERS on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only would it shed great insight into what the general populous finds useful, it would allow one to learn from example how a great answer should be written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Yes, I know I could just click &quot;Users&quot;-&gt;&quot;Jon Skeet&quot;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130839" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:25:22.590" Title="How would I find a list of the best answers on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;site-usage&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-21T16:59:55.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also asked a question along the same lines here, closed for being a duplicate however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7821/c-how-can-someone-that-asks-questions-like-this-have-3500-reputation-clos&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7821/c-how-can-someone-that-asks-questions-like-this-have-3500-reputation-clos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131831" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T16:59:55.763" />
  <row Id="7844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7842" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:00:57.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could browse the answers that have received the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/25/great-answer&quot;&gt;Great Answer&lt;/a&gt; badge.  That link takes you to the users who have won it.  Each user's best answers are at the top of their list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:00:57.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7842" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:02:01.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the monthly &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; might help you in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:02:01.893" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="7846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5612" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:11:29.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am also having problems with logging in using Yahoo.  I am getting the following error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;failed to authenticate, returning Failed. Please ensure your identifier is correct and try again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried different browsers, and have successfully logged into other OpenId sites (meta being one of them) but cannot log into stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131851" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:11:29.263" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:16:14.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's happened. For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1082603/java-code-examples-for-tutoring&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the FAQ seems wrong on this point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, bounty awards, like all accepted answers, are immune to the daily reputation cap and community wiki mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26334" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:16:14.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:18:11.243" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;While hunting stack overflow for questions to answer, I figured out it would probably be easier to quickly see the questions you might be interested in if the tags were bigger and clearer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are faster to read than question titles, and it is quite hard to quickly figure out what topic the question is about just by reading the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131852" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T17:22:55.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:40:52.383" Title="Please display bigger tags on top of questions instead of small ones at the bottom" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="7849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7848" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:21:10.717" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't encouraging better titles be a more straightforward solution to your dilemma?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of us +2k-rep users try to fix up titles but we can't get them all. Users who mess up titles are also very likely to mistag their questions, too. At least, in my experience this seems to be the case. Having bigger tags isn't going to help you when the SQL question is tagged &lt;code&gt;php, apache, newbie, vampire, help&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:21:10.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7848" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:34:00.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you set your interesting tags for the tags you're interested in, then they will highlight and stand-out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:34:00.873" />
  <row Id="7851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7876" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:37:15.390" Score="2" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel keep hinting that people are starting to look at SO users to determine the quality of programmer they are during the interview process.  This hasn't happened where I am, but I anticipate that someone applying for a job is going to use their SO id as a way of showing how good they are.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: How would you validate they are who they say they are?  Obviously, I couldn't go to an interview, and say I was Jon Skeet (or if I did pass that off as being correct, I don't think I would want to work there).  He has his name and picture up, but what about some other high poster who doesn't use his or her real name or just part of their name?  As far as I can tell, there is no real easy way to verify a person's account outside of asking them to log in to SO while they are at the interview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update to comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying rep is an indicator, but there are several things which could be used to help determine ability.  The specialist badge for one, or how about being in the top 20 posters for a tag.  If someone came in and proved they were say number 14 of the top 20 posters for SQL, you wouldn't give that more weight than them not having it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update number two:&#xA;Here's where I am going with this.  If someone is going to lie, chances are they've gotten kinda good at it, unless they are an imbecile (granted this is possible).  Lying about having an SO account wouldn't get you the job in most places, but it might tip the scale.  By nature, most people are trusting, and won't scrutinize everything someone else says.  If people did no one would get scammed.  Casually mentioning it to the hiring manager, or an HR person without their knowledge of how the site worked could plant the idea in their head to check it out.  Also, directly asking someone to prove what they are saying is a little infuriating to most people too.  Really.  If you said you went to college X and the company immediately turned around and said, &quot;Bring your degree.  We want to see the actual paper.&quot; What would you say, you may not be angry, but you may be a little surprised? Most people are not confrontational, and won't directly challenge what someone says, because they don't want an adverse reaction.  Plus they have the company's image to protect and angering candidates that walk in the door to interview quickly spreads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last Edit: &#xA;I will fully admit, this is purely selfish question on my part as I am not part of the hiring process here.  I really fear that one of these days the hiring group is going to hear someone go, I'm so and so on SO.  They'll check it out, and tell the rest of us that they found this really neat person without ever verifying anything.  I would make them login, but something tells me, most people will not take the same approach as I would to hiring.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T18:10:15.387" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:58:59.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T17:37:39.713" Title="Verifying a user (mainly at an interview)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;validation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7851" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:40:20.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those of us who don't use our real names obviously wouldn't want SO rep to impact hiring decisions in the first place, so I don't see it as a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, my avatar really is a picture of me. It's just &lt;em&gt;very abstract&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:40:20.080" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T17:40:20.080" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="7854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7848" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:40:52.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want it...This will reverse the order of your tags/titles, and increase the font-size a bit on the tags to make them &quot;pop&quot; out a bit more. Just install greasemonkey, and you'll be up and running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;  function letsJQuery() {&#xA;&#xA;    $(&quot;div.summary&quot;).each(function(){&#xA;    	$(this).find(&quot;div.tags&quot;).css({&quot;float&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;font-size&quot;:&quot;14px&quot;,&quot;margin&quot;:&quot;0px 0px 5px 0px&quot;})&#xA;    		.insertBefore($(this).find(&quot;h3&quot;));&#xA;    });&#xA;&#xA;  }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:40:52.383" />
  <row Id="7855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7851" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:41:09.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If their profile has all of their personal information and matches the information in their submitted resume, takes them back to their personal website, etc. you can be pretty sure that it is the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or during an interview you could just ask them to log in and show you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are people like me who don't use their real names and cover up their ugly scarred visage behind cute pictures of cuddly animals. I hope I never get asked about an SO account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:41:09.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T17:41:09.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7851" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:43:45.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the candidate was prepared to show their real name, or something clearly derived from their real name, then I wouldn't consider their SO account as relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they brought it up, but were still hiding behind a pseudonym here then I might take it as a negative, especially if they refused to log in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:43:45.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T17:43:45.893" />
  <row Id="7857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7859" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:49:02.310" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greetings all, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question, possibly a bug, regarding the interesting tags section of the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, on the home page of stackoverflow, I have added the tag BizTalk to my list of interesting tags.  As I understand it, it will highlight any questions it sees on the main page with that tag.  No problems.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, If I click on the BizTalk tag in my interesting tag list itself, I expected it to list all questions that have been tagged BizTalk.  Right now, when I click on it, it displays nothing..  It says 0 questions tagged.  I know there is at least one question tagged BizTalk as I have asked one, plus have seen others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is suppose to happen on the home page when I click on a tag in the 'interesting tags' list anyways?  Does it only look for questions that appear on the home page, or does it go back in history for those items which have scrolled off the main home page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15952" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T05:06:58.093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:06:58.093" Title="Bug - Interesting Tags on homepage" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7851" CreationDate="2009-07-21T17:49:46.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until SO is providing explicit support for employment opportunities in this way, I would say how SO is used as proof of credentials is up to the employer and prospective employee. Certainly if the applicant is reporting that they are user x, as an employer I would want to come up with a mechanism for validation if I was going to give that any weight. Additionally, in this discussion, it is important to note that reputation is not an indicator of technical prowess. It would be the responsibility of the potential employer to properly weigh what the user has shown as far as technical abilities are concerned in relation to SO. In fact, that will always be the case, I don't think SO will ever be able to say, this person is of this level of ability. All it can do is say, this is the person's reputation and this is how they got there. Analysis will always have to fall to an actual person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T17:49:46.670" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T17:49:46.670" />
  <row Id="7859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7857" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:04:19.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tabs under the tags view are 'sticky', which can lead to unexpected behavior. For example, if the last tab you were using was &quot;featured&quot; and you clicked on the &lt;kbd&gt;biztalk&lt;/kbd&gt; tag, you would be greeted with a blank page because there are no featured &lt;code&gt;biztalk&lt;/code&gt; questions. To correct this, select another tab (newest, votes, active, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if you're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; accidentally on the featured tab, then this is indeed a bug, but I can't personally reproduce it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:04:19.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7871" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:17:10.650" Score="0" ViewCount="536" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vaguely related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7851/verifying-a-user-mainly-at-an-interview&quot;&gt;Verifying a user (mainly at an interview)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/426/what-does-the-im-open-to-employers-not-recruiters-contacting-me-preference-m&quot;&gt;What does the “I’m open to employers (not recruiters) contacting me” preference mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I will try to find some better links)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think most of us agree that, from the point of view of an employer, using SO reputation as a hiring criterion is a mistake, but we know that it does happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most users would probably feel that they would benefit if this practice stopped, as we can all think of users who have higher reputation than us whom we feel do not deserve all of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now I am wondering, is there anything the developers/moderators could do to discourage employers from taking reputation too seriously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a good way, so to kick off the discussion I will suggest a silly one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hold a lottery.  1000 lucky users will get free reputation points (prizes ranging from 2K to 10K rep.)  Now the employers will think twice, because the person they hire on the basis of rep might just have been awarded it randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:54:56.290" Title="How to *stop* employers using SO reputation for hiring decisions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;employer&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="7861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:20:18.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda doubt employers are really giving &lt;em&gt;that much&lt;/em&gt; weight to Rep/badges in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:20:18.490" />
  <row Id="7862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:20:22.183" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sincerely hope this is a non-problem.  I doubt any employer would look only at a user's reputation score alone, and not look at the content of that user's questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:20:22.183" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:21:18.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely fail to see why we think it is an issue for employers to look at reputation.  If they look at it and actually put value behind it, that is on them.  Users on the site know that it is a measure of system trust and not necessarily quality of user/programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if it helps you score a job, great...  If you don't use the site very often, I would be hard pressed to see an employer trying to use the rep in a hiring decision...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:21:18.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:23:14.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; a problem, or is it just an imagined problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take on this is that if an employer is foolish enough to use reputation as a be-all-end-all guide to hiring, then anybody worth their salt would run away from that interview. Anybody not worth their salt, though, would think the company's full of suckers (or they're just that naive). In all cases, everybody gets what they deserve. Brilliant system, I'd say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:23:14.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:23:27.410" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an employer is so short-sighted as to look at someone's reputation but not their content, then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would you want to work there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would you care if anyone else got a job there based on a possibly fake rep score?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are all kinds of dumb things employers sometimes use for hiring decisions. There are also all kinds of dumb things potential employees do to try to puff themselves up. Let the bad employers be fooled by the bad employees - they're made for each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:23:27.410" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="7866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:25:13.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait, somebody might notice I'm in the top 70 users and offer me a sweet job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do I sign up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:25:13.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7842" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:25:22.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select ID, Score from posts where posttypeid = 2 order by score desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:25:22.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:36:59.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's not possible to change them all in batch...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A more case by case analysis will have to be made I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;code&gt;Database - Databases&lt;/code&gt; case for instance there are only 14 plural... so I think changing those to &lt;code&gt;Database&lt;/code&gt; might make sense... Although 14 is not that much to take a look at them individually as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:36:59.207" />
  <row Id="7871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:41:34.570" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a combination of a lot of things, but more than anything, isn't it simply a measure of how long you've been actively using SO? Secondarily, I would say more &lt;em&gt;senior&lt;/em&gt; programmers will know more and can provide more useful answers more of the time. This is certainly useful for employers with deep pockets who are looking for a senior programmer, but what about an employer who needs to hire a bunch of more junior-level programmers? For that, they'd be better off looking at the content of the posts, not the reputation. My final point is that SO can be abused. People with high rep's might have high reps because they spend all day answering questions and not actually getting their own work done. I certainly wouldn't want that employee on my payroll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer the actual question: perhaps an item could be added to the FAQ page that contains a disclaimer as to why it's not a good idea for an employer to use rep scores to make hiring decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:41:34.570" />
  <row Id="7872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:42:29.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm, then it's about time I get that guy (or is Arjan a girl's name?) whose identity I've taken at  SO, some real reputation then!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:42:29.893" />
  <row Id="7875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7851" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:51:14.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the candidate is serious about suggesting that you check out their responses on SO, he/she should have no problems temporarily changing his/her username to something that you suggest.  You can then get on the site and search for the name and review the quality of the questions and answers submitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:51:14.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T18:51:14.617" />
  <row Id="7876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7851" CreationDate="2009-07-21T18:58:59.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not hard.  The employer gives you a question id and tells you to answer the question with some specific text.  You comply, the employer sees it, and you've proven you are who you say you are (or at least have good connections to that account).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T18:58:59.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T18:58:59.613" />
  <row Id="7877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:00:24.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it a catastrophic problem?  It is probably not, but it will become a headache in some instances.  Eventually, employers will use the rep as a way of validating people's abilities.  Now will the good companies do so, like Google, MS, Apple?  They will not, but only the top .01 percent of developers work at those places.  It doesn't matter whether or not an employer has heard of SO, because when the candidate brings it up, most will use it as a way to validate they are making the right hiring decision.  They will because there is a fundamental problem with hiring people: You can only tell if someone is as smart/knowledgeable as you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once someone passes your abilities, you have to take it on faith what they are saying is correct.  (I remember one story where a consultant mentioned some absurd comment about the stack and the heap to a tech manager about Java to show is technical prowess.  Sounding good, the manager bought it, and he became the architect, of the C# applications.)  I guarantee that most hiring people aren't going to take the time to look through posts and determine if the person is really as smart as they appear (they might not even be able to).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Here's my disclaimer, I work in this industry.  I work for a company who's sole job is to provide tests to determine people's profiles and competency in areas).  90% of the time, hiring people want a score so they can look at other people's scores and rate them.  Now I know what you are thinking, &quot;I wouldn't do that.&quot;  I wouldn't either, but I'm not the person who makes hiring decisions.  Most places don't function like MS where you are interviewed by 6 people and all have to say yes to get hired.  It's a look at the resume, an interview and maybe a second interview and the decision is made.  You can always not work at places that act that way, and maybe you can steer clear of them, but every time I've gone to work somewhere, there have always been skeletons in the closet, I didn't catch during the interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truthfully, there is no way to stop companies from using rep as a way of showing ability.  The only way is to not have it. Maybe that's O.K. that employers will use it.  Someone who has a rep at least is looking at a tech site and reading it which is more than I can say for people I've work with in the past.  Does that mean they are any good, nope, but if it is all they have to go on, it's better than nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T19:00:24.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T19:00:24.400" />
  <row Id="7891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-20T02:29:21.193" Score="3" ViewCount="676" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why stackoverflow uses ASP.NET MVC over ASP.NET webForms ? What advantages stackoverflow is getting by using MVC over WebForms ? If we needed a Seperation of Layers pattern , Why dont we add 3 Projects under our solution (for UI,for BL,for DB Access) and do it in typical Webforms ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136283" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:21:16.010" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:21:16.010" Title="Why stackoverflow used MVC over WebForms?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;technology&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7891" CreationDate="2009-07-20T02:37:41.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well MVC is testable, &#xA;it asks for more disciplined programming, &#xA;it lets you isolate sections of code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the guys can do MVC why should they take webforms and squeeze it so tight that it pretends to be MVC? I think the reasons above are enough to adopt MVC over webforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and by the way, MVC is also the big hoohah that the geek-boys can flaunt right in the face of lesser mortals like you and me &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Count me out though, my new app is on MVC&lt;/em&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132870" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T19:02:40.290" />
  <row Id="7895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7670" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:18:54.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't know if we need a separate mechanism to do this, I would really like to see the ability to close a question as a duplicate of multiple other questions. When a question is voted closed by non-♦ moderators, each can include a separate link and they will all be included in the &quot;possible duplicates&quot; section. However, when a moderator closes, since the close vote is immediate, only one question can be selected, and I have on several occasions edited the question to include more links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/NzKgJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-20T04:06:40.137" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T04:06:40.137" />
  <row Id="7897" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:27:31.960" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to see which question is the most favorite overall as well as in a specific tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T19:34:58.573" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:00:02.280" Title="Please add a feature to sort all tagged questions by the most favorited votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:27:45.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the same point about facebook, myspace, twitter etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been well reported about companies finding out information, complaints, cabals, deceit (eg CV, career), whatever from social networking and using it to discipline of fire employees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not use SO to find out if their employee uses it and how they interact?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you in LinkedIn or Xing? Do you want your employer to gather recommendations from these? Why not SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you want privacy, don't post your real name on the electric interweb...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T19:27:45.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:31:07.487" Score="3" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, questions get asked, answers are provided (that won't work, either because of a poorly asked question, or misunderstanding helper, it doesn't matter which). Edits are made to the question -- but it's too late! The question has fallen low on the question lists by this time - it's out of date. It's clearly rude to start a new question, but there's new material to be uncovered! How can we &quot;bump&quot; a question when appropriate, (without creating an infuriating tug-a-war between over-anxious clickers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T19:36:01.450" ClosedDate="2009-07-21T19:36:04.887" Title="How to (politely) bump a question?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7902" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:36:01.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I normally re-edit my question, summing up the point so far, and adding more information if appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T19:36:01.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7897" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:42:17.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stackoverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of C#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;What's your favorite programmer-related cartoon.&lt;/a&gt; (sadly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one&quot;&gt;Programmer Jokes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site&quot;&gt;What should a developer know before building a public web site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read&quot;&gt;What is the single most influential book every programmer should read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm particularly fond of #4, but then I'm biased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T20:23:07.483" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T20:23:07.483" />
  <row Id="7910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:49:20.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off disclaimer, I'm not complaining about the current state of the site.  I actually enjoying facing off with everyone to see who can get the highest answer, and I would feel cheated if they held back, or the system handicapped them.  This is what I think is or could potentially happen long term.  For me it's great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the problem is people's reputation being intimidating.  I would guess if there is a problem, it comes from up voting answers (or lack there of).  Short term, I don't think there is an issue.  Long term, the site may start to have difficulties maintaining a solid user base.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Cletus is correct, quite possibly SO is slowly starting to migrate to two types of user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;High performing users.  People who hit the site everyday, reach the reputation cap etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Non-performing users.  People who come to the site to get questions answered (and maybe not even asking questions, just using Google), but don't really participate in contributing answers.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third type of user, the people who are caught somewhere in between the two might be getting slowly squeezed out.  The problem occurs when the person wants to contribute to a highly knowledgeable area within SO, like C#, that person's answers are probably not as complete as others and gets little to no votes, because another answer is better.  Couple this with the fact that many times questions don't get a lot of attention due to the number of questions being asked, and users have to post quite several answers to get recognition that what they posting is acknowledged to be correct.  It's a possible positive feedback (or lack thereof) issue and a possible punishment issue where they are being down voted for a post which isn't totally correct.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Competing for top answer against people like Skeet, Gravell and several others is great.  It really forces you to think and know what you are talking about off the top of your head.  You can't research a question for an hour and make a post.  Generally, it's too late at that point.  The problem is that most people don't function at that level, they aren't aggressively trying to post the right answer and so miss out on getting rewarded for posting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO could start to have problems when the top posters start to leave in pursuit of other things.  It'll happen eventually, people change their daily behavior for various reasons.  That's ok.  The problem will arise if too many leave at the same time and it leaves a knowledge vacuum.  Can SO recover?  Sure, it may be there are enough other users to handle the high performing users leaving.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the answer? I don't know.  I certainly don't think that it is handicapping people who are really good at posting answers.  The only thing that might work which comes to mind is giving one rep for posting an answer, or 10 rep for every 4 answers? That way you have multiple feedback mechanisms working to encourage people to post.  Another possible fix is if top posters started up voting answers more.  I don't think this is good idea though, because it is counter to how people use the site (If it wasn't they'd be doing it already).  I'm not a fan of telling people to change their behavior on using a system, because, long term, I don't think it is a viable option.  This is even if there is a problem, which without looking at that data I don't know.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T19:49:20.787" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="7911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3774" CreationDate="2009-07-21T19:49:40.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not support the tagging of questions with a language. However, the alternative is also cumbersome. Having multiple SO sites (one-day) in multiple languages means a user must pick a favorite and stick to it, mostly.  Being multi-lingual, I would love to be able to have one account and subscribe to, say, &lt;code&gt;en.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;fr.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;de.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;. Now, those are country, not language codes, so I'd probably also subscribe to &lt;code&gt;ch.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; if it existed, except that there's 4 national languages there, 2 of which I do not understand exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T19:49:40.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3455" CreationDate="2009-07-21T20:00:20.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to fix errors on the ethertubes is like subtracting 1 from infinity, but I'll keep on trying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T20:00:20.407" />
  <row Id="7913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T20:19:46.960" Score="17" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the desire to keep a closed question around for Google or SO Search purposes, or when a question is a dupe, or has been moved to &quot;(sister site)&quot; and therefore I don't want the to be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as a user of the site, logged in, looking to help someone out (or just gain some rep) answering questions, the [Closed] questions just become noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you consider an option (for logged in users) to not show Closed questions,&#xA;  unless running a search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. if I search for &quot;IE getElementById error&quot; then please show the closed questions as they may be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when just going to the Questions page... p2, p3, p4, p5 etc. I'd rather not see those questions as typically they are the &quot;Spam, Not a real question, or Belongs on Sister site&quot; questions... all of which I'm not interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively any chance they could be styled similar to &quot;ignored tag&quot; questions where they are almost faded out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-18T10:57:53.180" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T10:57:53.180" Title="Please add the ability to filter [Closed] questions out of my results" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7891" CreationDate="2009-07-21T20:25:20.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you read past blog entries and/or listen to the podcast, you'll probably get a pretty good idea of what the SO Team likes about ASP.NET MVC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But start with this little exercise... Look at a typical page on SO, and ask yourself: &quot;What would WebForms add to this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T20:25:20.333" />
  <row Id="7915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T20:32:04.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this concerns you, don't identify yourself on SO and there is no problem.  Believe it or not, my driver's license does not say &quot;raven&quot;.  It says &quot;McLovin&quot;.  Even more unbelievable, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1288/bill-the-lizard&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard's&lt;/a&gt; last name &lt;em&gt;really is&lt;/em&gt; &quot;the Lizard&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T20:32:04.797" />
  <row Id="7917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3455" CreationDate="2009-07-21T20:47:07.420" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said repeatedly that the editors are every bit as much invested / involved / etc in the site, and that the editing is almost always for the good. If the rep and badges are meant to encourage desirable behaviour, then I'm all for ways to express this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T20:47:07.420" />
  <row Id="7920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7913" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:01:31.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, adding an extra tag &quot;closed&quot; when the question is closed and then adding that tag to your excluded list would do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO should build on top of existing stuff instead of making the code bigger each time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:01:31.140" />
  <row Id="7921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:03:04.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think an employer should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; hire someone with a high SO reputation, because it meant on their last job, they spent too much time answering questions on SO, and not enough time doing what they were paid for, which is probably why they are looking for a new job. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131464" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:03:04.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5698" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:04:46.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask a question within this topic. If I delete my own -3 post, then the entire question gets deleted by the OP, do I get the peer pressure / or in cases the disciplined badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:04:46.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T21:04:46.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3466" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:11:48.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing this issue on SuperUser - most tags are off by a small amount but some tags (eg. &lt;code&gt;mac-os-x&lt;/code&gt; or  &lt;code&gt;mac-osx&lt;/code&gt; which have been replaced by a more popular &lt;code&gt;macosx&lt;/code&gt; actually still show a days old number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;mac-os-x&lt;/code&gt; is showing as 11 instead of 0.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;mac-osx&lt;/code&gt; is showing as 12 instead of 0.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;macosx&lt;/code&gt; is showing as 3 instead of 28.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the daily tag normalization suppose to clean this up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2619" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:11:48.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T21:11:48.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:11:52.373" Score="5" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the user profile there is a field to enter your real name (which is optional), but that field is never shown when visiting the user profile. I think it would be interesting as it can allow for a better user experience. I usually participate in C++ question and come across the same people to whom I still cannot refer by name, nor can they refer to me by name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal is leaving the rest of the system as it is, but adding the real name to the user profile. After all, the age does show and I think it is less interesting than the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131866" LastEditorUserId="134300" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-26T16:09:32.760" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T16:09:32.760" Title="Adding Real name to user profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;real-name&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7924" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:17:36.733" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can simply put your name in the About Me section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:17:36.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7924" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:20:30.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use your real name as your user handle. Works for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:20:30.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:25:28.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would honestly answer, I have only 3.5k as I don't spend all day on SO as I generally have too much work to do, i.e. the job you are about to hire me for :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5302" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:25:28.697" />
  <row Id="7930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:33:55.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of issues here. Whether they should get or not rep and whether they should or not get moderation abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care about rep points, but moderation capabilities are a tool and a powerful one (I just learned that with enough rep points you can close a question with no other votes). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there is the correlation between the questions/answers and the power they yield. There is a general assumption that due to the fact that questions are not &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; (by some definition of &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;) the user will misbehave or at least not be competent as an administrator. Is that so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it. I have known bad programmers (well, better average programmers) that have made great managers and at the same time great programmers that could not deal with a team. To me both competences are not directly related. Coming back to the reputation problem, I cannot say in advance that a user with low or no technical competence whatsoever will be a bad moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, the worst can come true: we can end up with horrible administrators (not only the users we are talking here about, but also good technical people that arbitrarily decides to close questions, or change the contents... (it is curious how the threshold for editing is rather low and still people respects others contents). There should be tools to deal with it: administrators, moderators being able to block the malicious user powers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that is a general problem with administrators misbehaving, not specific to the set of users this question deals with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, BTW, each so often I also feel aggravated each so often when I see that a dumb question/answer brings more rep points than some answers that took me a time and effort to work out. And I don't really even care about rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:33:55.827" />
  <row Id="7931" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-20T18:45:04.393" Score="859" ViewCount="18689" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Community FAQ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For sites in the Stack Exchange 2.0 network&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see a list of commonly used words and phrases, see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/40353&quot;&gt;glossary&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Content&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Asking questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/18584&quot;&gt;How to ask a smart question?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8010&quot;&gt;How can I get answers fast?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/4359&quot;&gt;Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17463&quot;&gt;Should I ask a question I know the answer to?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8724&quot;&gt;How should we deal with Google questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/10857&quot;&gt;Should I send students to Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/10811&quot;&gt;How to ask and answer homework questions?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/66377&quot;&gt;What is the XY problem?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/7046&quot;&gt;How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/86997&quot;&gt;What can I do when getting &amp;quot;Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/92074&quot;&gt;What can I do when getting “It does not meet our quality standards”?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19190&quot;&gt;Should language-specific questions contain the language name in the title?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/64068&quot;&gt;Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Accepting answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/7656&quot;&gt;How do I write a good answer to a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5234&quot;&gt;How does accepting an answer work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/16721&quot;&gt;How does accept rate work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/86274&quot;&gt;How do I see which of my questions are not accepted?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/2686&quot;&gt;How should you respond to &amp;quot;Give me a fish&amp;quot; / RTFM questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Working with posts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does it mean when a question is...&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/10582&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22228&quot;&gt;locked&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5221&quot;&gt;deleted&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/52764&quot;&gt;protected&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/36415&quot;&gt;How do you reopen a closed question?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5215&quot;&gt;Etiquette for closing your own questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5408&quot;&gt;What is the etiquette for correcting old questions with incorrect answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17447&quot;&gt;Answer or comment: what&amp;#39;s the etiquette?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/53585&quot;&gt;How do favorite questions work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/11740&quot;&gt;What are &amp;quot;Community Wiki&amp;quot; posts?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19738&quot;&gt;Who is the Community user?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/16065&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/18870&quot;&gt;Why does the &amp;quot;Unanswered Questions&amp;quot; tab show questions that have answers?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/3122&quot;&gt;Formatting Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/2040&quot;&gt;What is the difference between &amp;quot;hot&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;active&amp;quot; questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/18545&quot;&gt;View or search for unanswered questions with a certain tag&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comments&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19756&quot;&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/43019&quot;&gt;How do comment @replies work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/45708&quot;&gt;How do I view my recent replies?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Etiquette&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/13676&quot;&gt;Is English required on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5029&quot;&gt;Are taglines &amp;amp; signatures disallowed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22232&quot;&gt;Are expletives allowed on SE sites?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5280&quot;&gt;Embrace the non-Googlers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/9953&quot;&gt;Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17878&quot;&gt;Thanking users who answered my question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Promotion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/15787&quot;&gt;How do I mention my own products in answers?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/94022&quot;&gt;How do I properly write an answer that references my blog?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/57497&quot;&gt;Limits for self-promotion in answers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/58032&quot;&gt;How does the Spam Flag work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Formatting and editing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/21788&quot;&gt;How does editing work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/76251&quot;&gt;How do suggested edits work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17038&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;#39;rollback&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22186&quot;&gt;How do I format my code blocks?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19145&quot;&gt;Denoting keyboard shortcuts in Stackoverflow questions/answers?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/1777&quot;&gt;What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/3792&quot;&gt;How to nest code within a list using markdown&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/99734&quot;&gt;How do I create a screenshot to illustrate a post?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/75491&quot;&gt;How to upload an image to a post?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/2133&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s the recommended syntax for an image with a link?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/faq-for-stack-exchange-sites/7936#7936&quot;&gt;Posting/Editing Times&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22192&quot;&gt;How can I view the source of a post?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tagging&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5229&quot;&gt;How do I search for questions with specific tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/18878&quot;&gt;How do I correctly tag my questions?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19753&quot;&gt;What happens to &amp;quot;zombie&amp;quot; tags?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/70710&quot;&gt;What are tag synonyms? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/76828&quot;&gt;What is meant by tag follower versus the &amp;quot;x number&amp;quot; that appears after a tag name?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17003&quot;&gt;Stack overflow tag filtering&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/31776&quot;&gt;Why do we tag questions?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/30187&quot;&gt;What do icons on the tags mean?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19173&quot;&gt;What do the Ignored Tags and Interesting Tags fields on the user prefs page do?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reputation, badges and voting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/7237&quot;&gt;How does &amp;quot;Reputation&amp;quot; work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17853&quot;&gt;How do &amp;quot;badges&amp;quot; work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/1380&quot;&gt;Why are badges sometimes not awarded?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/1716&quot;&gt;How do badges get awarded? By a service or on change?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/67397&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/63835&quot;&gt;What are tag badges? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5212&quot;&gt;Are there any voting limits?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17364&quot;&gt;How does comment voting and flagging work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/43004&quot;&gt;How do I audit my reputation?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/73673&quot;&gt;Why did I receive a message saying I have been granted a privilege, yet I don&amp;#39;t have enough reputation?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/6853&quot;&gt;How do you read the reputation charts on profile pages?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/4564&quot;&gt;Document rep limit for new users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/42904&quot;&gt;The global reputation recalc of March 2010&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Moderation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/75189&quot;&gt;Who are the diamond moderators, and what is their role?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/4565&quot;&gt;What are the moderation tools available to high-reputation users?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/24560&quot;&gt;Flagging a question for moderator review&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22174&quot;&gt;How does the Offensive Flag work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22194&quot;&gt;Should I edit a question or answer with offensive content?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/11474&quot;&gt;What is the etiquette for modifying posts?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8492&quot;&gt;Should an answer that encourages illegal activity be marked as &amp;quot;Offensive&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/10841&quot;&gt;How to handle duplicate questions?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/80170&quot;&gt;What is flag weight?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/61311&quot;&gt;Is it worthwhile to migrate questions that already have accepted answers?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/94421&quot;&gt;How to best handle the &amp;quot;Possible vandalism of own posts&amp;quot; flag?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/94465&quot;&gt;Should moderators enforce NDAs for software vendors?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/58032&quot;&gt;How does the Spam Flag work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/98399&quot;&gt;I think I found some user accounts that should be merged; what do I do?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19126&quot;&gt;How do you challenge the closing of one of your questions?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/32490&quot;&gt;Closing/Migrating question instructions/guidance&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/99338&quot;&gt;Who are the Community Coordinators, and what do they do?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Searching and RSS feeds&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5229&quot;&gt;How do I search for questions with specific tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/14898&quot;&gt;How do I make search return results that actually contain all the search terms?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/21756&quot;&gt;RSS feed for responses to your posts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Accounts, registration and logging in&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/44557&quot;&gt;Why should I register my account?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/18232&quot;&gt;How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/1774&quot;&gt;I Can&amp;#39;t Log In With My OpenID -- Troubleshooting Tips&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22205&quot;&gt;Where can I get an OpenID?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/24709&quot;&gt;How do I change my OpenID provider?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/793&quot;&gt;How do I change my OpenID provider(s)?&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/4219&quot;&gt;Cannot assign other OpenID account&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22223&quot;&gt;How do I remove my Primary OpenID?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/41277&quot;&gt;How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/1681&quot;&gt;Why is my gravatar on Meta Stack Overflow different from my gravatar on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/17443&quot;&gt;How is the default user avatar generated?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5999&quot;&gt;Can I delete my account?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/57537&quot;&gt;How do I contact other users?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19734&quot;&gt;Where can I find additional help?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/1343&quot;&gt;How often do captchas appear?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/27199&quot;&gt;When does a day start?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/56161&quot;&gt;Which browsers are officially supported? And what else do I need?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19920&quot;&gt;How does the SO voter fraud detection mechanism work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/60455&quot;&gt;Is Stack Overflow&amp;#39;s content protected?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/2677&quot;&gt;Database schema documentation for the public data dump and Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5188&quot;&gt;What third party tools are there for the trilogy websites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/18221&quot;&gt;Who owns the content I post?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/52066&quot;&gt;What makes a winning site proposal?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5399&quot;&gt;Why does Stack Overflow discourage collaboration?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/48578&quot;&gt;What can cause my question to be bumped?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/96732&quot;&gt;How do I remove my name from a post, in accordance with CC:WIKI?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/59445&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/9024&quot;&gt;How are Stack Exchange sites officially branded?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/10369&quot;&gt;Which tools and technologies build the Stack Exchange Network?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/76566&quot;&gt;List of unlinked pages on Stack Exchange sites&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/61541&quot;&gt;Where do the names of the Stack Overflow trilogy sites come from?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Site-specific entries&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/47634&quot;&gt;How does Meta Stack Overflow work?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/82988&quot;&gt;Choosing between Stack Overflow and Programmers Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8401&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren&amp;#39;t Stack Overflow questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22184&quot;&gt;What do the colors on Stack Overflow mean?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/22117&quot;&gt;What are the rules on using the Stack Overflow logo?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/19478&quot;&gt;The Many Memes of Meta&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is your question not part of the FAQ?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First look at questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq-proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'faq-proposed'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq-proposed&lt;/a&gt; to see if there is a question not in this index that might have the answer you seek. If you still can't find an answer, then see the following instructions for proposing an FAQ question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How can a question be added to this FAQ?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Link back&lt;/strong&gt; to this index.  Paste this at the end of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Return to FAQ index](/q/7931)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq-proposed&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'faq-proposed'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq-proposed&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/support&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'support'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt;.  When a post seems to hit a mature state, it will have &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/faq&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'faq'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; added by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag for a moderator to mark &lt;strong&gt;community wiki&lt;/strong&gt;.  Any FAQ post not yet community wiki should be made into a community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a link in the above table of contents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask only the question, stated plainly and simply, in the question body. The answer goes in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/2429&quot;&gt;How can the Stack Overflow FAQs be improved as they are transferred to meta?&lt;/a&gt; The migration itself is ancient history, but some of the advice is still relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-25T23:08:32.130" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T23:08:32.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-08-28T16:25:01.543" Title="FAQ for Stack Exchange sites" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="153" />
  <row Id="7946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:43:28.973" Score="8" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17204/6-simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation-fast&quot;&gt;6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admit it: you've asked this to yourself before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, do you know the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit:&lt;/em&gt; OK, so this question is a duplicate of another question asked LATER. Are you insane? Or just have myopia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131864" LastEditorUserId="131864" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T08:37:33.230" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:54:59.003" ClosedDate="2009-10-28T07:08:05.367" Title="Obvious one: Fastest way to get reputation on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="7947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:44:47.303" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:44:47.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:44:54.557" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer lots of questions well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early on in the UTC day, answer anything which can get you upvotes. Answer quickly with something &lt;em&gt;reasonable&lt;/em&gt;, then elaborate in edits. When you've hit the rep limit, only answer questions where you think you're likely to get the accepted answer. Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my tracker&lt;/a&gt; to check when you've hit the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never bother with CW posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are great, but somewhat annoying if they're awarded before you get to the rep limit: a 200 point bounty first thing in the day means you don't need to bother getting to the rep limit first, but that's not the tough bit anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and never take a day off if you can help it. Taking 20 minutes to post answers to get you up to the rep limit is easy; earning the same 200 points when you've hit the rep limit is hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:44:54.557" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:50:42.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUALITY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have quality posts and quality answers, you will undoubtedly get rewarded with up-votes.  If you are as good as the Skeet, you will hit your 200 point cap limit (200 per UTC day), but if you answer posts where you get awarded the answer, the bonus points still come through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:50:42.907" />
  <row Id="7951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:51:10.097" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the idea of increasing the weight of downvotes.  If that goes in, I would also like to see a way to let the downvoters be made aware that the post has been updated to reflect their input.  If on my 'Recent Activity' page I was alerted to modifications to answers that I downvoted, I would have the opportunity to go back, review and maybe even un-downvote if I thought the answerer redeemed him/herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:51:10.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:58:14.727" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPEED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speed is incredibly important. It is proven that the fastest questions will get the most views, and therefore the most upvotes. Also, if you are correct, the first answer has a higher chance of winning the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Do not sacrifice quality for speed! If you post a bad answer quickly you will receive more downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUALITY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation you gain on a post is a direct reflection on the quality of your answers. The better your post, the more votes you will receive, and the higher chances you will receive a check mark for an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VOLUME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the best ways to gain reputation is to continue to answer, answer, answer, and answer some more. Even when you are past your rep limit, continue to answer questions with speed and quality. You will continue to gain reputation through accepted answers (which are not bound by the rep limit), and you will also leave yourself with a very large catalog of old answers will continue to receive upvotes throughout time as more and more people read and find your contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T21:58:14.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7958" CreationDate="2009-07-21T21:58:55.887" Score="23" ViewCount="687" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw a comment in the question about increasing the cost/effect of downvotes on reputation that rep recalc is irrelevant because, in their words, it will &quot;only happen 2-3 times in a lifetime.&quot;  I was under the impression that it happened relatively frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How often does reputation get recalculated?  If it isn't done regularly, should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="146482" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-16T12:32:52.197" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T08:11:09.280" Title="How often is reputation recalculated?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;reputation-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="7955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:00:19.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe StackOverflow should publish some kind of metric that allowed you to guage the quality of answers provided by a user in general.  Not sure what that metric would be but I've had it suggested that (by my esteemed colleague &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29043/john-macintyre&quot;&gt;John MacIntyre&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quantity of &lt;em&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/em&gt; badges accumulated by the individual divided by the total quantity of questions answered by the user gives a very rough idea of the quality of their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation alone isn't a good metric because they might have given 1000 answers each receiving a single upvote giving them 10,000 reputation.  If they answer 2 questions a day each garnering 10 votes hitting the reputation cap on a daily basis, then they're far more likely to be of a decent callibre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance Jon Skeet (hopefully he won't sue me for pointing this out) has 578 nice answer badges [at the time of print] (Good job Jon, you rock) and 4516 answers (holy shit where do you find the time?!) which gives a metric of 12.8%.  Now we all know that with Jon's recent appointment as &quot;God of C#&quot;, I'd say that anyone having anything close to this [and having provided a suitable quantity of answers] should be considered worthy of hiring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:00:19.857" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="7957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7954" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:02:32.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep will get a recalc if you request it, or if you happen to be caught by the system as gaming the system or being a serial down/up voter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:02:32.077" />
  <row Id="7958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7954" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:03:29.157" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A system-wide recalc happens occasionally, for example when the rep rules are tweaked (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14200/self-instigated-rep-recalc/71678#71678&quot;&gt;Since&lt;/a&gt; December 2010, you can also trigger a recalc manually, following the instructions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43005#43005&quot;&gt;your reputation report&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, a rep-recalc can be triggered on your account by ♦ moderators:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on request&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if we've done something like merged your account(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if there is a suspicion of &quot;inappropriate activity&quot; that has resulted in one or more posts being deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, a rep recalc is nothing to fear. I've seen rep recalc result in increases as many times as decreases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re your last point... a regular system-wide recalc possibly wouldn't be a bad thing, but I have no idea how much impact it has on the system. Per-user it is pretty cheap (it'll process me in about 1 second - I just did it, and gained 2 rep! woohoo!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few known causes of discrepencies (there may be others):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a post you had previously gained/lost rep on is deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a &quot;feature&quot; that can lead to over-the-cap (i.e. 201+ points in a day) users losing 1 point repeatedly - recalc claws these back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-28T08:11:09.280" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T08:11:09.280" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="7960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:07:07.747" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best of a Bad Bunch&lt;/strong&gt; - For every X answers where you're the highest voted (and at least 2 upvotes) but the answer isn't accepted. Acts as encouragement to give good answers to questions that are unlikely to ever satisfy the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26334" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:07:07.747" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-21T22:07:07.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3076" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:13:34.590" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this particularly frustrating. My timezone is UTC+10, so if I visit the site in the morning, but the next day I only visit it in the evening, then a day goes missing from the statistics and thus the woot badge is not awarded - even though I visited the site each day (in my local day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really a bit demoralising...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:13:34.590" />
  <row Id="7962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:16:30.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to Jon's comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoid topics people feel strongly about. This basically means most things subjective. The reason being that you'll earn downvotes just because people disagree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes received when you're below the daily rep limit are fine. Later upvotes will cancel them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes received when you're at the daily rep limit are potentially a problem because order suddenly becomes important. 5 upvotes then 1 downvote is net -2. 5 downvotes then 1 upvote is net 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes received when you're above the daily rep limit (due to bounties and accepted answers) you want to avoid at all costs because they always count and future upvotes (that day) won't counteract them (unless you drop below the daily rep limit). So if you're at 230 for the day and then answer something that gets 40 upvotes and 10 downvotes (this can happen) you'll go down to 210 for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for bounties, avoid any the will be decided between midnight and midday UTC. Of course the bounty starter may just decide early at some random time but often people seem happy to let them auto-pick an answer. Also if someone is active between midnight and noon UTC to start the bounty at that time then it's not that unlikely they'll pick the answer in the same time frame 5-7 days later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer C# questions. There are the most of these, giving you the most room for earning rep from accepted answers plus it seems likely that you're more likely to get votes from these due to a larger audience. Some tests of the SO dump would prove this one way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer quickly and answer well. Most votes come in an initial burst. If you need proof of this consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427286/why-are-many-of-the-banking-sites-implemented-in-java-rather-than-net/427675#427675&quot;&gt;Why are many of the banking sites implemented in Java rather than .NET?&lt;/a&gt;. I answered this 2-3 hours after the question was asked. At the time I believe the next answer down was at +15-20 votes. I think in the next day both answers improved by 5-8 votes. This answer has been an exception to the normal rule in that it is a &quot;slow burn&quot; (meaning it continues to get votes over a long period of time) but the point is it took a long time to counteract that 2 hour head start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:16:30.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="7963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:27:55.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think part of the problem is that the effect of voting is +10/-2, but the number next to the question/answer is +1/-1. Say an answer gets 2 upvotes and 5 downvotes, they've gained 10 rep, but it their question/answer is at -3, so it's unlikely anyone else will vote it down unless it's trolling. Don't really know how you'd tackle that short of subtracting .2 for each downvote and then rounding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26334" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:27:55.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" />
  <row Id="7965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7318" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:34:03.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of recent browsers have temporary sessions that don't store cookies / history etc after you close the tab/browser - hence the infamous (and quickly ditched) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9fhjnJcB0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;advert&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;incognito&quot; in Chrome, &quot;InPrivate&quot; in IE, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps give that a go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't know what the bloke in the advert was looking at, but notice the similarity: &quot;O.M.G.I.G.P.&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;OMG PONIES&lt;/a&gt;&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having one button to log you out over multiple domains could be tricky... unless the site uses xss on itself ;-p And it would be used so rarely that I doubt you'd remember to use it in comparison to things like, say, collecting your belongings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your ex-company to abuse your account, they would presumably be committing identity fraud and possibly other similar things; if needs be, hit them with a lawyer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-21T22:56:02.113" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:56:02.113" />
  <row Id="7966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="984" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:34:17.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely don't force them out. Maybe regular elections (6-monthly?), but perhaps even that isn't needed. The downside of &quot;for life&quot; is that unless there is a turnover, when some moderators do then leave, you've suddenly got (perhaps multiple) inexperienced moderators. I'd say leave things as they are for the next 12 months and review things then - I can't see anything going too badly wrong before then!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26334" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:34:17.723" />
  <row Id="7970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:42:08.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get frustrated when I see this - seems like it happens to me all the time. Generally, if I run across this, I look up who answered the question first, and then I comment on everybody else who offered the same solution and ask them politely to up-vote the original author. Sometimes they delete their answer, and up-vote the author, and sometimes they don't. Kinda annoys me that they don't acknowledge the same answer, and the fact that they were late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:42:08.040" />
  <row Id="7971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7973" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:42:14.397" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;After linking i was granted 100 reputation, but it isn't shown on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/6244?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;graph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131794" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T13:32:08.653" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:32:08.653" Title="Reputation graph after linking SF and SU" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7971" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:44:27.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You received a 100 point bonus for linking your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:44:27.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7971" CreationDate="2009-07-21T22:47:13.617" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The graph only tracks the reputation you gain/lose for the questions and answers you post. Auxiliary bonuses (and rep gained / lost on deleted posts) don't show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T22:47:13.617" />
  <row Id="7975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-21T23:19:41.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't consider this &quot;sniping&quot;. Sniping is something else entirely. I would characterize this as &quot;answer bottomfeeding&quot; or &quot;answer scavenging&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally vote like this: if two people come up with the same answer and it's clear they did so independently (by virtue of time answered being sufficiently close) then I will tend to upvote both. If someone posts an answer and someone then posts the same answer 10+ minutes later they clearly would've seen the original and chose to duplicate it anyway. In this case I certainly won't upvote it. If it's an exact copy it may even justify a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T23:19:41.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2009-07-21T23:20:23.457" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen first answers with correct information, but then later someone comes along and says the same thing, but phrases it better, adds more links and code, etc.  Those tend to attract attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you're here for hitpoints, then there are lots of ways to get it.  it is up to you.  Use So how you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People do have to put in work to get hitpoints - if they don;t offer any additional value I don;t see them getting that many more though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T23:20:23.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-21T23:50:20.207" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2063/large-blank-gap-between-question-list-and-pager&quot;&gt;Large blank gap between question list and pager&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting a ton of whitespace on the Unanswered Questions page at Stackoverflow, between the last unanswered question on the page and the page navigation at the bottom. I'm using Google Chrome, version 2.0.172.37 (Official Build).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only occurs if I check the &quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; checkbox in my account preferences and only on Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130349" LastActivityDate="2009-07-21T23:50:20.207" ClosedDate="2009-07-21T23:52:48.403" Title="Whitespace on the Stackoverflow Unanswered Questions Page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5999" CreationDate="2009-07-21T23:52:03.983" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your account has never voted or posted a question or answer you should see a self-delete option on your user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if your account &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; voted or posted, do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit your profile to say &quot;please delete me&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; so we can confirm your ownership of the account.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obtain your user page URL or numeric user ID&lt;/strong&gt;. This is linked from the top of every page of the site when you are logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email the support address linked at the bottom of every web page&lt;/strong&gt; on the site. Where it says &quot;contact us&quot;, click that. In your email, you &lt;strong&gt;MUST&lt;/strong&gt; include your user page URL or user ID so we can find your account.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of note, we automatically cull old inactive accounts as documented here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T07:24:03.800" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T07:24:03.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-03T17:40:52.637" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="7980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-26T02:09:53.213" Score="3" ViewCount="889" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Founders' Blog&quot;&gt;Jeff and Joel&lt;/a&gt; made reference to the number of programmers in the world on one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Founders' Blog&quot;&gt;stackoverflow podcasts&lt;/a&gt; (around #37 - I'm a bit behind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel indicated that he had heard that there were about 4 million programmers in the world, 2 million of whom work in the States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was curious as to the actual numbers, but couldn't (admittedly very quickly) find definitive results.  I'm interested in the &quot;regular&quot; programmers - not those that &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; program, but those that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt;.  I would consider working as a developer or being a major contributor to an open source project as qualifying as &quot;&lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anybody seen any results of more than dubious quality?  Thanks in advance...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131722" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T10:16:37.793" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T10:16:37.793" Title="What is the number and distribution of the regular programmers in the world?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;programmers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="7981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7980" CreationDate="2009-06-26T02:36:20.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;EDIT:&lt;/b&gt; Just found a reference article from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sdtimes.com/SOFTWARE%5FDEVELOPERS%5FBECOMING%5FSCARCE/About%5FEVANSDATA/33548&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SDTimes&lt;/a&gt; which referenced some of Evans Data 2009 report. The full 63 page report can be purchased from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.evansdata.com/reports/viewRelease.php?reportID=9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evans Data&lt;/a&gt; and to clarify I have no link to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For 2009, Evans Data originally&#xA;  estimated that there would be&#xA;  approximately 15.2 million developers&#xA;  worldwide. However, it has reduced&#xA;  that estimated by about 600,000 in the&#xA;  current report.   In North America,&#xA;  Evans Data projected in a previous&#xA;  report that the developer population&#xA;  would grow to 3.85 million in North&#xA;  America during 2009. In the current&#xA;  report, it changed that figure to 3.72&#xA;  million based on current economic&#xA;  conditions. Evans did not disclose&#xA;  data on other regions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/software-developer-growth-slows-in-north-america-961&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the previous article I found with a referenced number of 14.5 million in 2007. Reference www.infoworld.com &amp;amp; Evans Data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New research shows that more software&#xA;  developer jobs will be created in Asia&#xA;  than in North America by 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The worldwide software developer&#xA;  population is expected to grow to 19.5&#xA;  million by 2010 from 14.5 million in&#xA;  2007, but North America will account&#xA;  for only 18 percent of those jobs in&#xA;  2010, down from 23 percent today,&#xA;  according to statistics from Evans&#xA;  Data presented at a conference the&#xA;  research firm is hosting Tuesday in&#xA;  Redwood City, Calif.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the North American share of the&#xA;  developer work force will shrink, the&#xA;  APAC (Asia-Pacific) share will grow to&#xA;  close to 45 percent from 37 percent&#xA;  today. The share of developers from&#xA;  EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and&#xA;  Africa) will slip to 30 percent from&#xA;  35 percent, and the share from Latin&#xA;  America will remain flat at 6 percent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't come near to Joel's numbers so he must have been referencing some other source. This second earlier article does provide detail to answer your question on distribution though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46527" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T00:37:58.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="65" CreationDate="2009-07-22T00:58:23.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The label &quot;Answers per question by day&quot; suggests that &#xA;average values are computed/used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it would be more appropriate to use the median value &#xA;instead of the average value (as the distribution of answers &#xA;per question is likely a power-law or exponential and not &#xA;symmetric around an average value).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could do both and the difference would say something &#xA;about the distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the median could be part of the experimental process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T00:58:23.807" />
  <row Id="7983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7985" CreationDate="2009-07-22T01:14:31.933" Score="3" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent &quot;Do my homework for me&quot; question on SO got me thinking: are there sites out there where people are recommending SO as a place where you can get other people to do your work for you? A bit of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bing.com/search?q=stackoverflow+do+%22your+homework%22+-site%3Astackoverflow.com+-site%3Astackoverflow.uservoice.com+-site%3Acodinghorror.com+-site%3Ajoelonsoftware.com+-site%3Abrentozar.com+-site%3Astackoverflow.fogbugz.com+-site%3Awww.alexa.com+-%22usage+statistics%22&amp;amp;first=51&amp;amp;FORM=PORE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;searching with Bing&lt;/a&gt; got me the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found quite a number of references to SO in the context of homework, but none were what I was afraid of. Still, I thought I'd mention them in case someone else here appreciates the time I wasted on this. ;-)  Among other things, I found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.muhuk.com/2009/06/psychic-irc-support-in-10-easy-steps/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Psychic IRC Support In 10 Easy Steps&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Google your question. If your question&#xA;  is generic enough there is probably a&#xA;  blog post about it somewhere.&#xA;  StackOverflow has quite an impressive&#xA;  repertoire of Django related questions&#xA;  as well. In fact I suggest you to use&#xA;  SO for your non-trivial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~carlosrene/e6998/Hmwk4.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;E6998 Summer 2009, Homework 4, &quot;User Interfaces and Unit Testing&quot;, &quot;Required Reading&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67299/is-unit-testing-worth-the-effort/67500#67500&quot;&gt;Is Unit Testing worth the Effort&lt;/a&gt;  at StackOverflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blog post, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2008/09/19/little-updates-here-and-there/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Little updates here and there&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;Feature Improvements&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was definitely NOT fun, look I even resorted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88339/which-is-better-shipping-a-buggy-feature-or-not-shipping-the-feature-at-all&quot;&gt;asking advice on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;! (*)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, from Planeta Debian Brasil, on 14/07/2009, there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eriberto.pro.br/blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;João Eriberto Mota Filho&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eriberto.pro.br/blog/?p=91&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DRBD com discos de 1 TB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bem, o problema parece claro: &lt;strong&gt;vmalloc() failed&lt;/strong&gt;. É o seguinte (resumo): o kernel pode alocar espaço para uso na memória física ou na virtual. Para a memória física ele usa kmalloc. Para memória virtual (RAM + swap) ele usa vmalloc. A literatura especializada diz que é raro usar vmalloc. No entanto, encontrei isto:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;kmalloc is limited in the size of buffer it can provide: 128 KBytes. If you need a really big buffer, you have to use vmalloc or some other mechanism like reserving high memory at boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fonte: STACK OVERFLOW. &lt;strong&gt;What is the difference between vmalloc and kmalloc?&lt;/strong&gt;. Disponível em &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116343/what-is-the-difference-between-vmalloc-and-kmalloc&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116343/what-is-the-difference-between-vmalloc-and-kmalloc&lt;/a&gt;. Acesso em 14 jul. 09.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, I found the exact opposite of what I was looking for, which in this case, is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) That's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88339/which-is-better-shipping-a-buggy-feature-or-not-shipping-the-feature-at-all&quot;&gt;Which is better: shipping a buggy feature or not shipping the feature at all?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, so you don't have to look it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a little irony. I didn't realize I needed to include a &quot;discussion&quot; tag, so the question was rejected. When I added the tag and sub" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T01:23:08.970" Title="A Little Homework on Homework" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="7984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7991" CreationDate="2009-07-22T01:21:23.893" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of Stack Overflow (+SF,SU, and Meta) users at my company and at my school that I know personally. I think it would be a useful feature to be able to have other users' flair on a tab in my account, that way I could check out what they've been asking/answering recently. Sure, I can use the users tab, and I can understand why &quot;friending&quot; hasn't been implemented, but I think a simple flair page could be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131887" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T02:58:58.040" Title="Can I add a link to developers that I have worked with in real life?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="7985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7983" CreationDate="2009-07-22T01:23:08.970" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'm convinced that there are consulting companies out there hiring people fresh out of bottom-tier colleges at rock-bottom prices, selling them as seasoned experts, and then handing them assignments along with a list of web forums. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T01:23:08.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T01:23:08.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24460" CreationDate="2009-07-22T01:04:21.727" Score="3" ViewCount="1831" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default RSS feed (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&lt;/a&gt;) appears to return just the most recent questions.  This can be time consuming to filter through.&#xA;Is it possible to only monitor those questions with X number of votes? Something similar to how &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.disstill.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;distill&lt;/a&gt; acts on feeds from digg.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149309" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T07:53:39.070" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T07:53:53.420" Title="Subscribing to the StackOverflow RSS feed for only the most popular questions" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7984" CreationDate="2009-07-22T01:28:52.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just link to their profiles in your bio, if you want it public. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, use your browser's &quot;bookmark&quot; feature...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T01:28:52.167" />
  <row Id="7989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7984" CreationDate="2009-07-22T01:48:36.977" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could host this easily enough yourself, create your own html page with a &quot;wall&quot; of your friends flair links. You could set it as your homepage so you check em out every time you start browsing.&#xA;Simply change the userid for each of your friends&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;99999&lt;/strong&gt;.html&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also then easily set up to view their flair from all sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should do it for you, for a sense of scale you could include Jon Skeet :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;SO Sites Flair&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div id=&quot;subheader&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;SO Sites Flair&amp;lt;/h1&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;content-page&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;&#xA;            How am I doing today?&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;            &amp;lt;iframe marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;210px&quot; height=&quot;60px&quot; src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/1.html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;iframe marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;210px&quot; height=&quot;60px&quot; src=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/flair/1.html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;iframe marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;210px&quot; height=&quot;60px&quot; src=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/flair/1.html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;iframe marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;210px&quot; height=&quot;60px&quot; src=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair/1.html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;     &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46527" LastEditorUserId="46527" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T02:54:42.967" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T02:54:42.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5199" CreationDate="2009-07-22T02:04:08.390" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my solution to this problem - a greasemonkey script which will hide all but the first line of each code block until it is clicked on (click again to re-fold the block).  It is a bit hackish atm, but it does work on my computer.  If you find any bugs in it, let me know and I will try to fix them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Added menu commands to show and hide all foldable blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Code folding&#xA;// @namespace      http://stackoverflow.com/&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;//default values&#xA;&#xA;// Add a selector for each element that you wish to fold&#xA;// to the array below (one array item per selector&#xA;var elementsToFold = new Array(&quot;pre:has(code)&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;// Close elements by default?&#xA;var closeByDefault = true;&#xA;&#xA;//-------------------------------&#xA;//- Do not edit below this line -&#xA;//-------------------------------&#xA;function getJQuery() {&#xA;    if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') {&#xA;    	window.setTimeOut( getJQuery, 100 );&#xA;    }&#xA;    else {&#xA;    	$ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsGo();&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;//add the folded style into the document&#xA;var style = window.document.createElement(&quot;style&quot;);&#xA;style.type = &quot;text/css&quot;;&#xA;style.innerHTML = &quot;.folded {height:1.0em; overflow:hidden;cursor:N-resize;}&quot;;&#xA;document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;HEAD&quot;)[0].appendChild(style);&#xA;&#xA;getJQuery();&#xA;&#xA;function letsGo () {&#xA;    $(elementsToFold.join(&quot;,&quot;)).click( function() {&#xA;    		$(this).toggleClass(&quot;folded&quot;);&#xA;    		});&#xA;    window.showHideElements = function (event) {&#xA;    	alert(event.innerHTML);&#xA;    }&#xA;    window.hideAllElements = function () {&#xA;    	$(elementsToFold.join(&quot;,&quot;)).each(function() {&#xA;    			$(this).addClass(&quot;folded&quot;);&#xA;    			});&#xA;    }&#xA;    window.showAllElements = function () {&#xA;    	$(elementsToFold.join(&quot;,&quot;)).each(function() {&#xA;    			$(this).removeClass(&quot;folded&quot;);&#xA;    			});&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    if (closeByDefault) {&#xA;    	$(elementsToFold.join(&quot;,&quot;)).each(function() {&#xA;    			$(this).addClass(&quot;folded&quot;);&#xA;    			});&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    GM_registerMenuCommand(&quot;Show all folded blocks&quot;, showAllElements);&#xA;    GM_registerMenuCommand(&quot;Hide all foldable blocks&quot;, hideAllElements);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T02:09:37.130" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T02:09:37.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7984" CreationDate="2009-07-22T02:36:22.170" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is not meant to be a social networking site.  The creator (Jeff) has turned down every feature request like this for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would be interested in some social networking aspects for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T02:58:58.040" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T02:58:58.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="7995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8119" CreationDate="2009-07-22T03:45:40.817" Score="6" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if I'm posting this question in the right area or even site.  This question goes to Jeff Atwood primarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you guys say you did not use any investors to start up Stackoverflow.com but clearly you're paying for renting servers and who knows how many other costs such as disk, data redundancy, bandwidth, software licenses using BizSpark, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how much realistically did it take you first two employees alone (even jeff before he hired employee #2) to start this up monthly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because I'm looking to start up a .com (something not even developer related).  Even though my site is not related, I am taking the same approach, no investors (and wifey doesn't want to get a loan or take any &quot;risk&quot; hehe yea right) and wondering how feasible this really is when trying to start up something with no money backing but solid plan hopefully when we sit down to create it.  The fact is there are many start-up costs for even a site doing 1.5 million hits a month period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By knowing start-up costs for this site and others who attempt to start up without any money in pocket it will give me a sense for reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T08:13:30.027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:02:40.077" Title="Startup costs for Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="7996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2009-07-22T03:46:34.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks and works good, although doesn't work in GreaseKit (safari).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One recommendation I have is using a better search algorithm. Exact matching can get gruesome when you have a lot of questions/answers. I find the &lt;a href=&quot;http://orderedlist.com/demos/quicksilverjs/javascripts/quicksilver.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quicksilver search/sort algorithm&lt;/a&gt; to be particularly good, which was &lt;a href=&quot;http://ejohn.org/blog/jquery-livesearch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ported to jQuery&lt;/a&gt; by John Resig himself.  It will make your code a bit longer, but will greatly improve searching for power-users, who are probably more likely to use this anyways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T03:46:34.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="7997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:15:58.237" Score="6" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is a duplicate or very obvious, but I was wondering how do I find out how many posts I've edited/corrected on Stackoverflow and similar sites.  Is there a way to tell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133204" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T21:45:24.147" Title="How do I know how many posts I've edited?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="7998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7971" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:20:30.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is shown on the graph - you can see it by going to the very first date on the graph - you will notice that the graph now starts at 101 whereas before account association it was at 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:20:30.223" />
  <row Id="7999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8453" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:24:47.007" Score="5" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;In answering &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1162926/learning-design-for-ui-and-website-design/1163023#1163023&quot;&gt;Learning Design for UI and Website Design&lt;/a&gt; I found myself linking to a lot of books at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;. Because it felt like an abuse I did not use my Amazon Associate link as a means to link to each book. However, I am not sure that everyone would have the same opinion that I do. Does the site actively prevent the use of affiliate program links or does it rely upon moderators and users to flag circumspect questions/answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:34:24.497" Title="Using affliate links in answer/question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;affiliate&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6755" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:34:58.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to Benjamin Pollack&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;StackOverflow’s *.cs, *.sql, *.css, *.js, and *.aspx files come to 2.3 MB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming an average of 40 characters per line, that's over 60,000 lines of source (probably more, since 40 char/line is generous).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:34:58.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7999" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:38:08.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know there is no filtering of affiliate programs. But out of personal opinion I would consider it &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; bad manner. SO isn't a place for you to generate money, especially by doing activities others do for free. Allowing this type of activity would also lead to excessive posting of links when it contributes no real value to the actual question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would flag any links I see with referrals hidden inside because it just isn't necessary. If you want to place them in your personal profile, that's another story since users go there to find out more about you, but as a solution to a question it is unacceptable IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:38:08.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7999" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:38:58.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that posting affiliate links is easily considered spam. There's no automatic system that will prevent them being posted, but at the same time you could easily find yourself on the wrong end of the &quot;flag as offensive&quot; mechanism, as anyone with 15+ rep can (and likely will) flag it as spam, forcing its automatic removal and a -100 rep penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, unless you're Jon Skeet, I wouldn't try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:38:58.613" />
  <row Id="8004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8006" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:51:56.857" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just read &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/10560/how-can-i-disable-the-bell-in-the-windows-console&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on superuser.com: &quot;How do I disable beeping in the Windows console?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first answerer pointed out that the question has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/252799/turning-off-the-cmd-window-beep-sound&quot;&gt;well-answered on stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except ... that it's not a programming question.  Superuser is clearly the best place for it.  The SO question was asked nine months ago, before SU existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I go vote to close-migrate on the SO question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:55:12.427" Title="Should we migrate old questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8004" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:54:44.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I think yes, we should do it. Being old doesn't make a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By the way, this specific question is programming related IMO.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:54:44.460" />
  <row Id="8006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8004" CreationDate="2009-07-22T04:55:12.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say yes. In fact, to use this particular question as an example, the reason why Greg duplicated an existing question is because it was on the &quot;wrong&quot; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've personally requested a question or two moved from StackOverflow as they fit better on Meta, but in general I think this is a good idea. Just flag it for moderator review and request that it be moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T04:55:12.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8011" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:00:49.470" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want the community's opinion on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose you have asked a question mainly about ASP.Net. The code-behind files can either be VB.Net or C#. The question is about ASP.Net, the fact that C# and VB.Net are related to ASP.Net is not directly relevant to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only include the tag ASP.Net, because...&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the tag that is relevant to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;0r...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;include the tags, ASP.Net, VB.Net and C#, because...&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions gets more views and therefore more chance of a good answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These are the communities of coders that are most likely to have an answer for the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, should you only include tags directly related to the question, or should you also include tags with related communities/technologies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of what I mean can be seen from a question I asked on StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147677/what-are-the-advantages-disadvantages-of-using-the-declarative-versus-programmati&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147677/what-are-the-advantages-disadvantages-of-using-the-declarative-versus-programmati&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;N.B. (Something I found on the StackOverflow FAQs)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229784/tips-for-effectively-tagging-questions&quot;&gt;Tips for effectively tagging questions.&lt;/a&gt; FAQ question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Pick tags that show higher counts in the look-ahead prompts...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;At a minimum, try to include at least one very broad tag (i.e., java or c#)...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131647" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T19:55:36.047" Title="Should Tags Be Chosen by Direct Relation to Question or Also Indirect Relation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7999" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:03:45.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a problem with it, &lt;em&gt;as long as you make it clear to all those reading the answer that you are doing so.&lt;/em&gt;  Post a disclaimer or something, so that they are not taken by surprise - this is common courtesy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:03:45.107" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6665" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:06:49.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SuperUser is amazing than any others in the SO Quadrilogy. It is growing faster than others definitely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:06:49.980" />
  <row Id="8010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8013" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:09:04.903" Score="5" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I ask a question so that it can get a quick response? I see some of the questions are very old and still not answered, but some others get a very quick response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-23T21:50:36.427" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T21:50:36.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" Title="How can I get answers fast?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8007" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:09:09.500" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags should only be chosen that are directly related to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing's more frustrating than going to a question because of a tag and seeing that it really has nothing to do with the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:09:09.500" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:12:20.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write your title clearly so people will look at it, and explain your problem well so they don't leave in confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag specifically and appropriately, so those who know the topics will look at your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:12:20.433" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" />
  <row Id="8013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:13:08.130" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask clear answerable questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put extra effort in the title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag your question right&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep refining/editing your question until they are perfect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be lucky that the expert in your field sees your question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:13:08.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7997" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:17:53.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can tell whether you've edited less than 100 or whether you've edited 100 or more by noticing whether you've got the Strunk &amp;amp; White badge.  After that, though, there is no reliable method of telling (that I know of).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:17:53.947" />
  <row Id="8015" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:20:21.100" Score="4" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;I changed my &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravatar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt; image 24 hours ago, and it still does not appear on the Stack Overflow sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I check it at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/check&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.gravatar.com/site/check&lt;/a&gt; which confirms that it should have already been changed on sites which use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to flip a switch somewhere on my profile or something to get it to refresh from Gravatar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T10:55:05.860" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T10:55:05.860" Title="Why does my new Gravatar image not update on Stack Overflow after 24 hours?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8015" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:22:44.063" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had problems where my browser (Safari) refused to update my Gravatar before, no matter how many times I refreshed. If you haven't, I suggest closing your browser, restarting it, and reloading your profile. If it still doesn't change, try flushing your cache, restarting, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't do it, I don't know what will, but it's definitely not StackOverflow's fault. I'd suggest filing a bug report with Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:22:44.063" />
  <row Id="8018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:25:56.937" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Provide enough information. Peter has added a lot of other points, all of which I agree with, but it's usually the lack of information which stymies us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If &quot;something goes wrong&quot; tell us &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt;. If it's an exception, post the full stack trace. If it's a compile-time error, post the exact error message. (Not &quot;something like this&quot; but cut and paste.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't post code which is &quot;something like&quot; your code which fails - post &lt;em&gt;actual failing code&lt;/em&gt; which we can compile and run wherever possible. (See my &lt;a href=&quot;http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;short but complete&quot;&lt;/a&gt; article.) It's very frustrating to point out errors only to be told, &quot;Yeah, but that's just a typo - it's not in the real code.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read your question to yourself after typing it out, trying to imagine that you're coming to it with &lt;em&gt;no other information&lt;/em&gt;. Does it still make sense? If you were trying to &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; it, is there anything else you'd want to know?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and respect people who are trying to help you. If you become argumentative with answerers, they'll just go elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:25:56.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" />
  <row Id="8019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6665" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:26:14.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be that ServerFault is also suffering a little from its' own image. There may very well be people that can answer SF questions, but do not even go there because they perceive themselves as not being 'expert' enough to belong on a SysAdmin site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pure speculation of course, but I wouldn't be surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131481" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:26:14.537" />
  <row Id="8021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8025" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:33:47.660" Score="1" ViewCount="839" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been getting the following error a few times today - any body else getting it?  Anybody know how to get rid of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A script on this page may be busy, or&#xA;  it may have stopped responding. You&#xA;  can stop the script now, open the&#xA;  script in the debugger, or let the&#xA;  script continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Script:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/js/master.js?v=3731:1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/content/js/master.js?v=3731:1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T12:23:37.870" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T18:45:38.747" Title="Script running slow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T05:43:38.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Twitter the title of the question (and url). There will probably be someone with a keyword search who will notice your question and head over to help you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T05:43:38.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" />
  <row Id="8025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8021" CreationDate="2009-07-22T06:01:45.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep having the same issue. I think it has something to do with a combination of the google analytics js and firebug / other add-in (Adblock Plus maybe). The two sites that give me this issue are netvibes and SO.&#xA;I have started to use chrome to browse SO ( &amp;amp; meta) as I need firebug and do not like enabling/disabling it all the time and anyway The issue seems to happen even with firebug in disabled mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="6440" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T06:10:22.723" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T06:10:22.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="94096" CreationDate="2009-07-22T06:09:45.023" Score="6" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/10575/turning-off-the-cmd-window-beep-sound&quot;&gt;10575&lt;/a&gt; was just migrated to SU from SO but the &quot;accepted answer&quot; checkbox was not. Does this mean the asking user needs to mark the answer as accepted again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-07T06:09:49.583" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T06:10:46.870" Title="Question migration does not maintain accepted answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T06:27:48.257" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related comments &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3735/how-to-dissociate-associated-accounts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder why not merge accounts with the &lt;strong&gt;same name and openID&lt;/strong&gt; by default and, in the rare case where people don't want to do that while having the same name and openID (I really have a hard time imagining a useful case in that scenario) they can dissociate the accounts afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, more than a feature-request this is a request for a reason why is this the current way. Easy enough to merge so better save the development effort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T06:53:40.823" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:52:50.333" Title="Why aren't accounts with the same name and openID merged by default?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2009-07-22T06:48:55.530" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; account, and I don't want anything to happen to it without &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; consent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the current solution: The system checks for related accounts and asks you if you want to associate them. One mouse click to confirm is not too much effort, and some people might want to keep their accounts unassociated. (They should have the option to do it, even though I can not imagine why they would want that. Customers...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have actually the same account for SO, SF and SU, but that would require a change in the database structure if you want to keep seperate reputation scores, which I consider the sensible thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would require a lot more work than the current solution: Leave things as they were with only one site, and only add the functionality to associate the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastEditorUserId="22114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T12:52:50.333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:52:50.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-22T06:50:36.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sliding Scale Based on Voting Record&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see some kind of sliding scale that would reduce the weight of people who are super downvoters  (Just IMHO, I give less weight to the people that seem to downvote a lot - YMMV of course!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some scale like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2-ln(1.3*dn/(up+dn))&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;gives a range with a nice long tail, but the exact parameters can be tuned as desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;95% 5&#xA;75% 3&#xA;50% 2&#xA; 5% 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T06:50:36.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7999" CreationDate="2009-07-22T06:59:24.310" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep the dev team employed!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind if there were a tag something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;amazon.com:0201634740&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which would translate to something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0201634740&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201634740/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with a stack-overflow referral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T06:59:24.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:01:12.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another factor is the size of the community you are talking to. Questions with popular tags get more answers more quickly than questions with less popular tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I am not trying to say that you should tag your questions with ill-fitting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T07:01:12.517" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2305" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:08:27.023" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree - this feature can be useful as a way to teach new users how to improve their questions, especially if a description of what was edited will be available as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T07:08:27.023" />
  <row Id="8034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:09:08.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the other answers given here, I would also add that for really fast and good responses, ask at a time of day when many software developers are using SO, so usually working hours would be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect about 2pm - 5pm (GMT) would be good because you get the bulk of European software developers at work and the bulk of US-based software developers at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130625" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T07:09:08.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:15:40.663" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system is probably working, as posted questions find answers very often. I was thinking how the people willing to provide answers could be supported better. What about some notification area in the profile that hints the user towards new/unanswered/hot questions on his field of expertise? Would this make it easier for people to find the right questions that they are able to answer quickly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always there are two approaches to do so, the simple, easy one: let the user decide on which tags he wants to be triggered, maybe allow for a simple boolean expression for tag combinations and serve him some hints towards unresolved questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or second, derive the expertise of the user by evaluating the tags of his answers, weighted by upvotes, and simply allow the user to choose whether to use or not use these notifications. It might be sufficient to simply count the upvotes on tags and derive some threshold for the tags which define the users expertise set. Then the user is diplayed some of the current questions that match this expertise set best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the latter method has a little problem with getting into gear as the user has to show some expertise before being enrolled in the program. But also obviously not everybody is entitled to be invited to answers, thus he has to earn some reputation/badges/upvotes before he can be enrolled nonetheless. As an incentive the user could be awarded extra reputation for answering (correctly) such an invited answer (very similar to invited talks on conferences).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ob-question: Does this seem like a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131427" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T15:11:00.743" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:26:16.460" Title="Notifications for unanswered questions on topics you previously answered well" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2167" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:28:07.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some reductions in CAPTCHA throttle thresholds, &lt;strong&gt;if you have &gt; 10k rep&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for edits -- reduced by two-thirds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for post submission times -- min seconds reduced by one half, max minutes increased by 2x&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;additionally: assuming you are a logged in user and have &gt;= 200 reputation, after successfully completing one captcha we now suppress captcha for 5 minutes on your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T22:12:47.337" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T22:12:47.337" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:28:13.943" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1163547/using-domain-name-in-htaccess-rewrite&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1163547/using-domain-name-in-htaccess-rewrite&lt;/a&gt; I have an inline code block that contains an url, which is being linked however the rest of that sentence is also being linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T08:56:45.923" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T10:00:02.473" ClosedDate="2009-08-19T10:28:36.447" Title="Bug with link 'auto-detection' not working correctly with inline code-blocks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:35:56.907" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some reductions in CAPTCHA throttle thresholds, &lt;strong&gt;if you have &gt; 10k rep&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for edits -- reduced by two-thirds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for post submission times -- min seconds reduced by one half, max minutes increased by 2x&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T07:48:57.527" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T07:48:57.527" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:40:30.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If somebody then asks &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; a question (usually in the comments on your post), answer them. They are generally asking for a reason, and can't give a clear reply until you have clarified something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T07:40:30.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" />
  <row Id="8041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:47:53.323" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some reductions in CAPTCHA throttle thresholds, &lt;strong&gt;if you have &gt; 10k rep&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for edits -- reduced by two thirds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for post submission times -- min seconds reduced by one half, max minutes increased by 2x&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Assuming you are a logged in user and have &gt;= 200 reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After successfully completing one captcha, we now suppress captcha for 5 minutes on your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T21:44:02.613" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T21:44:02.613" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16853" CreationDate="2009-07-22T07:57:26.797" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are interesting in following any questions on, say (for instance), 'authentication', you can just open a new tab in your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/authentication&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/authentication&lt;/a&gt; (more than 800 questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you realize that there are interesting questions as well on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/authentication&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/authentication&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; (3 questions), even on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/authentication&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means opening 3 or 4 tabs (just for one topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you follow actively 2 or 3 tags (in separate tabs, without using 'or' operator, in order to avoid having sorting through each list in order to not miss a question for a particular tag), and if those tags are relevant for 2 or more SO-family sites... you end up with a lot of opened tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1/ Would it be possible, when asking for questions tagged xxx, to be able to requests results from other SO-family sites? For example:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(and the following is by no mean a 'solution', just a proposition to illustrate how to achieve the end-result)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/authentication?sites=sf and su&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would display questions from SO and SF and SU, in my current SO page.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(Hopefully, color-scheme associated with each questions, or an dedicated icon, could help pinpoint which site they come from, but actually, when you are interested in a topic, you do not really care &lt;em&gt;at first&lt;/em&gt; where it has been published)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2/ If that is not possible (too complex, or too confusing for the user), what would be your suggestion for that kind of &quot;question monitoring on multiple sites&quot;? (except opening a gazillion of tabs ;) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that issue makes sense, I will add the 'feature-request' tag on it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I am just looking for some feedbacks first (since there could very well be a much simpler solution to this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did some tests with Google:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the results does not appear to follow a &quot;most recent&quot; order (which is what you want if you want to actively participate in the tags you are following)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google does not appear to support multiple &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=136861&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Search within a specific website&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (site:).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Perhaps the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/annotations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Google Custom Search&quot; API&lt;/a&gt; can help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding RSS, I am not sure the &quot;refresh&quot; rate of those feeds is quick enough for question monitoring (when you want to see at spot if a new question exists): a refresh in a browser directly query SO, but a refresh in an RSS aggregators would only display what has been published, or worse, what has been cached by the aggregator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="6309" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T08:46:14.407" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:44:20.397" Title="How do you search questions for a tag on multiple (SO-SU-SF...) sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8042" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:01:02.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For tag monitoring across sites, I'd just use RSS. You can get RSS feeds of a particular tag, so just use one for each site. (Some aggregators/other things have ways of treating more than one feed as a single feed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131139" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:01:02.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8042" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:02:44.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very rare that I want to search the same tag on multiple sites; largely by definition I expect there to be a good difference in the content of each, and I'd only search on the most appropriate site (am I interested in server configuration? programming concerns? or the end-user's experience?). If the &lt;strong&gt;same&lt;/strong&gt; content is on each, something is probably wrong...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt; ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:02:44.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8042" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:04:09.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't you just do a google search, scoped to..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com/tags/tagname&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;serverfault.com/tags/tagname&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;superuser.com/tags/tagname&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that &lt;code&gt;/tags/&lt;/code&gt; is a synonym for &lt;code&gt;/questions/tagged/&lt;/code&gt; although I had to fight Jarrod on this because he has this thing for URL route 'purity')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: alternately, I'm sure there are services out there which will combine RSS feeds -- you could combine the RSS feeds for that tag on all three sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T08:58:03.837" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:58:03.837" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8064" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:14:18.480" Score="1" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the rule for nice answer badges? I have 2 answers with 10 upvotes, but I only received only one nice answer badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T12:25:11.783" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T12:25:11.783" Title="How do Nice Answer badges work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8015" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:16:44.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to follow up with gravatar.com , not us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, usually you just need to wait a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:16:44.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8046" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:34:02.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badges can take a little while (usually of the order of minutes) to come through. It all depends on the timing of when the procedures are run that calculate what badge criteria have been met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff could tell you how frequently they are run, but I suspect that he would like to keep it quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:34:02.470" />
  <row Id="8051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8021" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:34:15.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it happens to you in Google Chrome, let us know, otherwise (if Firefox) I strongly suspect add-ins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also try running in Firefox safe mode which disables all add-ins as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Firefox 3.5.x had severe issues with prettify.js that no other modern browser (Safari, Opera, IE, Chrome) did. Upgrading to Firefox 3.6 will fix the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:17:05.803" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:17:05.803" />
  <row Id="8052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8037" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:56:38.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;technically a bug, but I think in this edge condition it's easier just to use a real indent-4-spaces code block, or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:56:38.227" />
  <row Id="8053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T08:58:25.580" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that the job listings on stackoverflow.com for me has turned to only show European ads (seeing as I'm European that's kinda nice) - however this is only AFTER I've actually clicked to go to the list, the small ads on the pages themself are still mainly showing all the U.S. ones - wouldn't it be ideal to make these small ads that's scattered out everywhere area based as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40240" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T08:58:25.580" Title="Area based job listings" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;job&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5857" CreationDate="2009-07-22T09:06:09.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searches are too performance intensive to be RSS feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't express your search as a set of tags (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;we support and/or in tags, see the blog&lt;/a&gt;), which &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have an RSS feed, I humbly submit you aren't trying hard enough. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T09:06:09.770" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1279" CreationDate="2009-07-22T09:29:25.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand this. I just added a tag to a question like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;click Edit  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;tab&lt;/kbd&gt; [now at post body]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;tab&lt;/kbd&gt; [now at tag field]  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;end&lt;/kbd&gt; [moves to end of tag field] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;{type enough chars to match the tag I want}  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;enter&lt;/kbd&gt; [completes tag]  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;enter&lt;/kbd&gt; [submits]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter does exactly what you describe, or maybe I'm not understanding what you wrote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T09:29:25.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3005" CreationDate="2009-07-22T09:30:47.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed in the next push.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T09:30:47.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8059" CreationDate="2009-07-22T09:35:12.297" Score="5" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164038/monitor-vs-mutex-in-c&quot;&gt;In this Q&amp;amp;A at SO&lt;/a&gt; there are (at the time of writing this) 3, answers, while the text above the answers says (2 answers). The answers were all posted more than 15 minutes ago. (I have a screen shot, but can't upload it anywhere until I get home after work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have experienced this a couple of times before. Doesn't really matter a great deal for me, I can handle the situation, but felt that I'd better report it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T06:06:27.567" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T20:34:25.440" Title="Bug(?): incorrect answer count" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8058" CreationDate="2009-07-22T09:49:38.693" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;typically, this is because authors delete / undelete their answers. That doesn't appear true in this case, which is odd -- although all three responses were posted in the same second, so maybe a collision in the database field increment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, answer count is denormalized and gets updated daily by a cron job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T09:49:38.693" />
  <row Id="8060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7328" CreationDate="2009-07-22T10:06:00.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our current plan is to check ownership when a user associates accounts (and on login, for users that are currently affected).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have all the necessary data; rest assured, we'll make sure you get your migrated questions back - MUST START CODING!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T10:06:00.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-07-22T10:48:11.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have one word for you: data&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual codebase for stack overflow is not that important, what has value is the questions. So I reccomend that you wait until stack overflow has so many questions any clone would be useless due to lack of questions. By that point even moving all the questions over would be useless, because people will go and look on stackoverflow.com and not some random clone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the reasons mentioned above your business model is not at risk relying you don't mistreat your community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T10:48:11.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T10:48:11.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:00:59.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some users end up down voting an answer simply because they don't like the advice given by the answerer. Adding more weight would probably make these people think twice before doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131826" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:00:59.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" />
  <row Id="8064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8046" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:07:50.417" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice answer badge is awarded (sometimes there is a delay) when a question receives a score of +10. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that if you receive a Nice Answer badge, you will not lose the badge even if the answer happens to drop below +10 sometime in the future. BUT, if it did drop down and another item goes to +10, you will not receive a new badge for that item (your badge count will remain the same because it will go back to matching you current totals).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:07:50.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:17:19.397" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that most of the uservoice-type questions (typically with status- tags) are unanswerable, or the answer is implicit in the status tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this mean that in the long run the Unanswered list (and count) is going to become poluted by these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry for the meta-meta question...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:00:03.210" Title="Wil uservoice-type questions clog up the Unanswered list?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8010" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:19:55.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the other answers are right, but &lt;strong&gt;people will not try to help you if you haven't gotten your &quot;hands dirty&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; with the problem. You'll notice that the process of specifying the question pushes you further in the debugging and testing of what you think is happening. Keep going! Many times you resolve the question yourself, or it derives in something that you really don't know that is actually useful to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bracketing&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Try to get the problem to be as small as possible.&lt;/strong&gt; You might think that you're asking about 50 lines of code, but if you can figure the one line that is not working, people can easily help you. Few people want to help you figure out which of your 50 lines of code is not working. Also, &lt;strong&gt;if your question is a dupe or easily answered on Google&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;you should know it before they do.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Find all dupes, and find an SO answerer that is the right person to ask the question:&lt;/strong&gt; To do this you will have to find all SO dupes of your question, and &lt;strong&gt;you might find that it's answered already.&lt;/strong&gt; But if you find something really similar but different, comment the best answer response and ask politely if they might care to look at your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastEditorUserId="131669" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T11:25:17.507" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:25:17.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T02:01:13.423" />
  <row Id="8067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8065" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:20:12.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should always look at Meta in the same way we look at the other sites. And I imagine that the ones you claim to be &quot;unanswerable&quot; will end up being answered by someone like Atwood when a decision is finally made on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as for the questions not having accepted answers, you can't really blame anybody by question authors for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:20:12.383" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8069" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:20:55.387" Score="-8" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about how badges were based on an Xbox Live concept, which made me think about clan support.  In online gaming, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_%28computer_gaming%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clan&lt;/a&gt; (or guild) is a self-organizing team that plays together and adds some social structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Stack Overflow family, there could be team ranking for score, badges, &amp;amp;c.  It could show up on your User page and after your name on posts.  It would be interesting to see if the Stack Overflow team could outrank Jon Skeet.  Maybe companies that develop and sell software (e.g Joel and his Fog Creek team) would want to be in a clan to help show question askers their answer is more official.  This might be a dumb idea for Stack Overflow or Server Fault, but maybe a good idea for Super User or one of the Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I love the idea, but I thought I would ask the question, and let the votes and comments flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Just found this related question:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7984/can-i-add-a-link-to-developers-that-i-have-worked-with-in-real-life&quot;&gt;Can I add a link to developers that I have worked with in real life?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22514" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:18:49.457" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T22:10:33.547" Title="Add clan (or team affiliation) support" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8068" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:26:44.327" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that Jeff and company would want to look like it is encouraging team behavior on the sites. You would assume that teams would work together to elevate one another, despite the correctness of their answers. Or downvote competition to make sure their members stay on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to consider yourself part of a &quot;group&quot; or something, you can always update your profile however you wish (even including custom badges like I myself do). But I would never expect this to be built into the systems on the sites we currently have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:26:44.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8077" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:00:57.483" Score="11" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;As programmers we are daily faced with having to get requirements, test things out, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's practically half our job to know what questions to ask, and how to ask them to get the most concise, actionable answer possible, especially from reluctant users/managers/customers/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you ask questions that get answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T03:57:23.607" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T03:57:23.607" Title="How to ask great questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:04:49.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions have to be short and to the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a huge class of problems that can't be solved here (or anywhere else). SO is good for &quot;how do I send a mail with Java&quot;, but you won't get help with the real problems that involve the larger picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" />
  <row Id="8074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:05:44.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think all the questions on here are getting answers (for better or for worse).&#xA;I see your generalized point here, but I think the answer lies in just reading the site for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" />
  <row Id="8075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:10:09.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In terms of gathering requirements, try to get a really good understanding of the client's intent -- what problem are they trying to solve? Ideally, watch as they go through their process the old way, and learn what works and what doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" />
  <row Id="8076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:14:58.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to avoid misunderstandings and misinterpretations humour should be avoided at all cost. No matter how dry the question, do not use jokes to lighten it up. Cheerfulness factor should equal void. Or null. Or nil. Not use it. Okey? Let's repeat: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Humour = Bad.  &#xA;No humour = Good.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll talk about smileys another time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:16:33.687" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something for the FAQ... it's been beaten to death. Hopefully people signing up for this site will understand... &quot;How to ask questions the right way&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the people who ask dumb questions are the same kind of people who won't read that article - &quot;it's too long, I just want my answer!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this site is doing a good job of discouraging the annoying behaviors that are rampant on other forums, but we're still in a private beta phase, so I'd like to think we're getting better quality folks here right now than what we'll see in the future. When it opens up to the public, I imagine there will be a lot of &quot;plz snd the codez&quot; questions... but we'll have to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:19:52.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I refer those interested in asking great questions to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this nice piece&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ESR&lt;/a&gt;. (&quot;Courtesy never hurts and sometimes helps&quot;, &quot;Make it easy to reply&quot;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also worthy is &lt;a href=&quot;http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=172086&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this tutorial&lt;/a&gt; on how &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to ask questions.  (&quot;Be patient&quot;, &quot;Show some effort&quot;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130815" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" />
  <row Id="8079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:28:32.957" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question seems tricky, don't forget to set up the context. Also, go through the question by yourself first... think it through. What really is your problem? Why do you not understand it? How can you understand more about it? It is silly to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ask a question&lt;/a&gt; if you already know the answer to it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Also, use the search button&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" />
  <row Id="8080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:56:24.840" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from the tags, I took this as a question about requirements collection, which so far puts me in quite a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with soliciting useful requirements from customers essentially lies in the difference between natural and formal languages.  We need discrete answers to questions about how the system needs to work.  But people naturally insist on qualifiers like &quot;well, usually&quot; or &quot;most of the time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I believe the trick to asking questions that get &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; answers for the purpose of requirement collection (if that's what you were asking about), is to &lt;strong&gt;define, define, define!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formally document all of the terms that have special meaning to your project, and make sure that the client always has a current copy.  Until you've come to terms on these definitions, no further discussion is going to be productive.  It sounds rude, but to some degree you have to train the natural vagueness out of your client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the first, informal project discussions, I steer requirements sessions to inherently-documented forms like chat and email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144324" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" />
  <row Id="8081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2008-09-11T18:58:32.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I meet with someone to go over requirements my goal is to really understand what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first rule I have is to not worrying about looking stupid or asking stupid questions.  It is the person or group you are meeting with responsibility to convey their requirements to you in a way that you understand.  Asking questions shows that you are serious about understanding what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to use a basic cycle of: Listen to their question, repeat their question and then express what you do not understand about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q:  &quot;Adam, we are needing a dynamic system that will notify our users to changes made to it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A:  &quot;Ok - so you want a dynamic system that will notify your users to change made to it.  So, what exactly do you mean by &quot;Dynamic?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be afraid to say &quot;I really don't understand what you are wanting. This is what I understand so far, please help me fill in the blanks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Derek&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:39:43.700" />
  <row Id="8082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8085" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:50:29.190" Score="14" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone tell me what the rules are for an Enlightened Badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I have an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/615334/a-tool-like-resharper-but-for-java/615352#615352&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; with 11 up votes I still haven't received this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T01:29:35.017" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:29:35.017" Title="Rule clarification for Enlightened badge" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="8083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:50:35.797" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Supervotes!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Now raised as a separate feature-request: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8098/should-we-have-a-small-number-of-supervotes-per-day&quot;&gt;Should we have a small number of Supervotes per day?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I've thought might be a good idea would be to give each user a small number of &lt;strong&gt;Supervotes&lt;/strong&gt; per day.  These would be worth several normal votes, would possibly cost some rep, and would be rationed to maybe 3 per day (as opposed to the 30(?) per day limit for normal votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you see answers that are so good you want to upvote them &lt;strong&gt;really hard&lt;/strong&gt;.  This would be a way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But of course it complicates the voting system, and the UI, and probably isn't worth the costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="21886" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T11:59:28.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:59:28.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8082" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:52:28.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer was not the first to the question. It needs to be for &quot;enlightened&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:52:28.467" />
  <row Id="8085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8082" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:54:07.447" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/615334/a-tool-like-resharper-but-for-java/615346#615346&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; with the same timestamp as yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the answer id numbers, yours is 615352 the other one is 615346, so it looks like the other answer was first by a few seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You only get the &lt;kbd&gt;Enlightened&lt;/kbd&gt; badge if yours was the first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:54:07.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-20T00:22:56.733" Score="49" ViewCount="7369" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the top users and see the honorable Jon Skeet profile with his 136k+ reputation. This man has a lot of quality posts and I respect him a lot. He deserves the reputation he has. Like a lot of other people here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how do you get over 200 reps/days? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking a sample of Jon Skeet's profile, we can read over a course of 54 days, he manages to rep 13,076 points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if we do the maths on that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13076 ÷ 54 = 242&lt;/strong&gt; reputation points/day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can someone have &lt;strong&gt;242&lt;/strong&gt; reps/day when the limit is 200?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;(This question was originally floated by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13913/daok&quot;&gt;Daok&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has led to a humorous &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Chuck-Norris-Facts style question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:23:04.483" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:23:04.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T00:22:56.733" Title="How to get over 200 reputation points every day?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="8087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-11-20T00:24:44.170" Score="78" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The limit of 200 is only for upvotes. After hitting the limit you still get reputation for accepted answers (+15) and accept&lt;b&gt;ing&lt;/b&gt; answers (+2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="813" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T00:24:44.170" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-11-20T00:35:03.307" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: This no longer works because of the time limit for cancelling votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update #2&lt;/strong&gt;: Even without the time limit, this will not work.  Rep points lost by downvoting others are not deducted from the cap.  So if you downvote 30 posts you can earn a maximum of 200 - 30 = 170.  If you could undo the downvotes you would only get back to the original 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a hack that can increase it slightly.  Downvote the max number of posts (I think it's 30) at the start of the day, gain rep from your upvoted answers until you hit the cap, then cancel your downvotes and you get your 30 points back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T17:58:49.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T00:35:03.307" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="8089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-11-20T00:55:43.093" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the better question is, what's the point exactly? I thought this was a site for programmers, not some kind of MMORPG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T00:55:43.093" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="8090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-11-20T00:56:38.443" Score="187" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the site's new logo explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ae3fbd60b2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T00:56:38.443" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="8091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-11-20T03:02:10.810" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was probably one of the  first members, before the cap was introduced, and before the rule was introduced that answers questions with 30+ answers didn't count for rep points.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T03:02:10.810" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-11-20T07:10:37.843" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT (29th December 2008): I've left the text below for historical record, but as of about 29th December 2008 8am UTC, the 200 cap is applied to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT (9th Feb 2009): I should have come back to this answer a while ago - the policy was changed back again, so you can get over 200 due to accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Text&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have said, the 200 cap doesn't apply to accepted/accepting answers. However, it's worth noting that (as far as I can tell) the 200 cap is an overall cap, not a cap on points given from voting. This makes timing important. Suppose in one day someone has 10 answers accepted and receives 40 upvotes. Two example timelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the answers are accepted before any of the votes: 150 points for accepted answers, 50 points for votes, and then the rest of the &quot;voting points&quot; are &quot;lost&quot; due to the cap. Total = 200.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the votes occur before any answers are accepted: 200 points for the votes (the rest being lost due to the cap again) and then 150 points for the accepted answers. Total = 350.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, answers accepted late in the day (UTC) effectively have a higher value. Anyone accepting one of my answers before I've hit the cap aren't really doing my rep any good (assuming I'll get sufficient upvotes to hit the cap anyway). This shouldn't discourage anyone from accepting answers, however - whether mine or others. Reputation is a fun side-show, but the main event here is obviously sharing knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T07:10:37.843" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-11-20T11:41:45.973" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen more post like &quot;plz send me the repzz&quot;. Most of then got closed fast but not this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let not forgot that the main focus of the site should be to provide quality answers and questions. And mr Jon Skeet has proven to be a champion on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe an idea for a new gold badge: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Energetic: earning 200+ rep in 10 or more days in a row ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T11:41:45.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:42:43.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question: If you get 30 upvotes Monday, and no votes Tuesday, will your 100 &quot;extra&quot; reputation points carry over?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134094" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:42:43.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2009-02-02T19:02:19.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my summary page for today 2. feb 2009. Has something happened to the CAP ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;0   Questions 	0 	Answer responses&#xA;6   Answers 	9 	Comment responses&#xA;7   Comments 	0 	Edits to your posts&#xA;215     Reputation earned 	1 	Badges achieved&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did no fancy up/downvoting of any sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145039" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T19:02:19.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2009-03-24T19:10:59.693" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think most people come to look at this question to figure out how they can get lots of rep.&lt;/strong&gt; They didn't come here expecting a discussion about the limits of the rep system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here are the observations I made while watching Jon Skeet answer one of my questions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; After watching his process, I think I now understand better how he harvests rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, he answers the question first. That is, he gets an answer in before anyone else. There's a strong culture of giving rep to whomever is the first to post an answer that is right, even if it may not be the best or most complete. Jon knows this and uses it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the answer that he initially posts is correct. It's not wrong, it may not be the best, but it is definitely correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, (this is a little conjecture), he looks at other answers coming in and changes his if there is a better answer. This preserves his position as the first answerer, while benefiting from the insights of others. Please note, he doesn't copy it, but adds some more explanation / examples / value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, he iterates. He takes the time to explore the edge cases. By doing this, he adds even more value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think anyone with deep technical knowledge in a subject and cat-like reflexes could gain more than 200 rep per day just like Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132693" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-24T19:10:59.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2009-04-07T21:04:02.530" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this limit discourages the users from being answering, i suggest that the upvotes increment the reputation in less points, &#xA;say, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for first 15, 10 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for next 15, 5 points, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for next 15, 2 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132969" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T11:56:09.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-07T21:04:02.530" />
  <row Id="8098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8100" CreationDate="2009-07-22T11:58:03.563" Score="4" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late&quot;&gt;How to give some boost to some really good answers that arrive late?&lt;/a&gt;, but I thought it warranted its own feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I've thought might be a good idea would be to give each user a small number of &lt;strong&gt;Supervotes&lt;/strong&gt; per day.  These would be worth several normal votes, would possibly cost some rep, and would be rationed to maybe 3 per day (as opposed to the 30(?) per day limit for normal votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you see answers that are so good you want to upvote them &lt;strong&gt;really hard&lt;/strong&gt;.  This would be a way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But it complicates the voting system and the UI, and probably isn't worth the costs.  Discuss.  8-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T06:52:22.610" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:59:08.433" Title="Should we have a small number of Supervotes per day?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8104" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:02:51.163" Score="4" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to publish a book made entirely out of SO questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to publish the book freely online, and to sell kindle and printed copies on Amazon.com. Proper attribution will be given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the license&lt;/a&gt; allow that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Udi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:35:29.000" Title="Publishing a book - &quot;Best programming Q&amp;A&quot; from SO contents?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;license&gt;&lt;creative-commons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:10:35.583" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think it would probably be too much complication to the voting system than many would like (even though I personally like the idea of being able to give a more valuable vote away).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this was even entertained, how would you differentiate the votes? Would it show up as a sudden +X or would there be a separate space to count supervotes? If there is not, the extra score may imply that more people are agreeing than there actually are, which can be misleading to many people. &lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;If we were to allow supervotes but not show them as separate votes, I would hope that they are still counted at +1 but the extra rep would not be shown and only displayed to the user in question. If a voter wants to state that they left one, that's fine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would like to say that if you are that intent on giving a supervote, the cost to cast must be equal to the actual cost of the vote. That would make it a direct exchange and would potentially limit any possible gaming from just trading away votes to each other to increase both accounts' rep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:10:35.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:20:03.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To improve the value of votes on newer answers, votes could be weighted by the amount of time they've been there. I.e. older votes are worth less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit in part consolidates (and perhaps clarifies) my comments on decay, and also proposes an alternative means of accounting for decay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with votes that come before all the answers are submitted is that people who vote at a particular time (i.e. anytime before all answers have been posted) have temporal parallax, so to speak. Here's an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sets of people A, B respectively view the answer sets 1 &amp;amp; 2, which sets of answers are made in order (i.e. people in set A can see answer set 1, those in B see 1 &amp;amp; 2). There can be as many subsets of A &amp;amp; B as there are answers to a question. Obviously, the best answer in set 1 is not necessarily the best answer out of the union of set 1 &amp;amp; 2. Thus, persons in set A may vote for an answer in set 1 but actually think the best answer was in set 2 (had answer set 2 existed at the time they voted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus A's votes are less informed than B's votes (which are less informed than a hypothetical C's votes that occur after there are more answers after set 2). B therefore has better informed votes (Assuming B votes on the merits - this is notwithstanding that B votes for things that already have votes just because those things already have votes). The value of the votes of people in set B are the only fully informed votes made as they are made with the benefit of all possible selections at that time (notwithstanding any subsequent answer sets).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single vote may therefore be described as an indication of the perceived value of an answer by the set of users who reviewed the set of answers available at the time they voted. The count of votes on an answer is the perceived value of an answer by the set of users who reviewed the set of answers available at the time they voted. The set of counts of all votes on the answers to the question ranks the answers according to the perceived value of the answer by the set of users who reviewed the set of answers available at the time they voted. (I just find these definitions helpful for clarity and concision of thought).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore posit that votes do not have the same value, and a unit weighting system of vote counting does not accurately reflect the actual value of the answers in many situations. The accuracy of the perceived value of the answers that the votes reflect diminishes where any answer subsequent to the vote would have been considered superior (in the mind of the voter) to the answer they voted upon. In other words, as more answers form, there is increasing probability that votes made prior to those answers (i.e. the perceived value) deviates further from the actual value of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This foregoing analysis presumes that the 'correct/best answer' actually never changes. In cases where the 'correct/best answer' does actually change (i.e. reality shifts and so the answers on stackoverflow/etc become incorrect), an answer may later appear that is correct and this new answer reflects the fact that the previous answers are invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, given A &amp;amp; B and the respective set of answers they know about when they review the question 1 &amp;amp; 2. After, the world changes and the answers in set 1 are now incorrect. If there are subsequent answers (forming answer set 2, which the people in set B know about but A did not) which accurately reflect the new material world change, only people in set B would be able to vote up the correct answer (subject to people in A reviewing their votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where A is a large set relative to set B (i.e. lots of people view answer set 1 but not 2), this is highly prejudicial to the Stackoverflow's presumed ambition to value and rank appropriately correct &amp;amp; incorrect answers. In fact, in certain cases this straight vote will actually prevent the Stackoverflow community from being able to highlight and rank at the top the best answers. Those early answers will simply be too far advantaged by existing votes and prevent new answers from percolating to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an alternative mechanism for re-evaluating answers that I have thought of: Once a question reaches a certain age (or other appropriate condition), someone can re-ask the question (or engage some mechanism which asks the community whether it's appropriate to re-ask the question), which resets all the votes and thus allows new answers to get a chance to percolate to the top. See e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/71522&quot;&gt;Expiration of answers for questions with novel solutions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131829" LastEditorUserId="131829" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T20:32:48.170" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T20:32:48.170" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:20:48.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, if it's a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good answer, the community will decide by voting it up. The best answers will naturally gravitate to the top - so you don't need to worry :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="986" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:20:48.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7999" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:29:10.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I note that some affiliate schemes offer a benefit to the new customer, such as a discount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people offering the service or product benefit from knowing where their new customers come from (at the cost of the discount) and the new customer is incentivised to use a referral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are affiliate links still bad in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will acknowledge there is a privacy argument, but most of us already leave the Referrer: header in anyway. The sort of person who makes the effort to remove those is probably not the sort of person who would click on links with long id numbers on the end anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NOTE: I broadly agree with a_m0d. Its okay as long you clearly disclose its an affiliate link.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:29:10.877" />
  <row Id="8104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8099" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:29:57.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.  The Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic CC license has two requirements: that you attribute the work, and that derived works also be licensed under Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic or a similar license.  You have described fulfilling one of these requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:29:57.420" />
  <row Id="8105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8107" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:30:39.263" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a question of mine was moved from SO to SU, but &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; I had an superuser account. Now the question is assigned to a non-existing user (grey text), and I can't edit the question or accept answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the question be reassigned to my new SU account? They are both merged, so it can be proven, that the two people are me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1136280/killing-the-windows-shell-closed&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/5131/killing-the-windows-shell&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt;, that is the question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I followed the answer below and asked the support. For other people with this problem, if you read this question: This came back:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This isn't quite possible yet but it is coming soon. Keep an eye on the blog!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113195" LastEditorUserId="113195" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T18:56:16.100" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:56:16.100" Title="Reassign moved question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;moved&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8099" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:35:29.000" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Pogue, of the NYTimes did this with a book called &quot;The World According to Twitter,&quot; in which he would ask his bajillion twitter followers to answer simple questions in 140 characters or less, or re-author classic sayings. He used the ones he liked, and made the book. He gave full credit to each author in the book, and even sent them a free book if any one of their submissions was used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:35:29.000" />
  <row Id="8107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8105" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:36:32.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you associate your multiple accounts together, you should regain control. If that did not work, you should email team@stackoverflow.com to get the situation sorted out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:36:32.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:50:57.163" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution to this problem seems simple to me: Don't award rep for asking questions at all. There's just no need to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People that genuinely want a question answered have plenty of incentive already to ask it. People who just spend all their time asking questions (so many that they can't possibly be actually involved in software development) are just wasting the time of people who answer questions. They should not be rewarded for this. Look at my record on StackOverflow and then look at &quot;Thanks&quot;. 399 questions and hardly any upvoted answers and yet they have four times my rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47612/u62&quot;&gt;U62&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62553/thanks&quot;&gt;Thanks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remove rep for asking questions (and do a recalc for existing accounts). Still have voting so people know which ones are interesting ofc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:50:57.163" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="8109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-22T12:52:03.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that could be done is show on the front page questions wit recent activity, including posting an answer, so within minutes of a new answer being added, there would be new visitors capable of upvoting, renewed interest in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T12:52:03.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-22T13:40:08.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the correct answer falls in the forest...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the goal of posting a robust answer after the fact is to provide those who are &lt;em&gt;in need&lt;/em&gt;, searching the web and seeing SO as meeting their criteria, a more complete answer rather than just the most popular at the time or the one meeting the asker's need, again, at the time of asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why we are here, right?  Who is in it for the points, anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do want a way for the searcher to see the right answer an think 'that is the right answer, and I believe it because &quot;they&quot; all trust it.'  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do you get those who are interested in a certain topic to review answers that might just be 'more correct' than the answer that was accepted?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps you add a view akin to the active/featured/hot/week/month set that focuses on questions that were answered after they were accepted, and maybe this set is filtered by the tags you find interesting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a badge for those that routinely search and upvote late answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a badge, akin to the necromancy concept (so make it bronze), for answering late an accepted question and getting upvoted &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T13:40:08.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-07-22T13:47:06.807" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I partially agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/8108#8108&quot;&gt;U62's answer&lt;/a&gt;. I would award less reputation for upvotes in questions (maybe 5 instead of 10?), and I'd do a massive rep recalc after that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T13:47:06.807" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1218" CreationDate="2009-07-22T13:53:52.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add my request for this feature; I was in the middle of asking the same question when the search brought me here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that the ability to &quot;Quick Add&quot; or &quot;Quick Ignore&quot; a tag should be available on every question page as well as on the tag's page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a question page, I would suggest that the tags listed for that question include two buttons similar to the X button next to tags in your interesting or ignored list on the main page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One button would have a + symbol rather than X with the hover background being blue or green rather than red. Alt text for the button would read &quot;Mark Tag Interesting&quot; or something similar. Clicking on that button would add the tag to the interesting list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other button would look like the canonical Do Not Enter sign: a red circle background with a white - symbol. No hover background change, but the alt text would read &quot;Ignore This Tag&quot; or something similar. Clicking on that button would add the tag to the ignored list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T13:53:52.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T13:53:52.593" />
  <row Id="8113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8105" CreationDate="2009-07-22T13:54:38.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There really should be more of an indicator, when a question gets moved, about how to regain ownership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be just a link in the moved question, or a link in the person's recent activity page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T13:54:38.927" />
  <row Id="8114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T13:55:07.470" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there was an old UserVoice issue on this, but I'm still seeing some weird behavior.  I've gotten used to it, but it is still annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on the Recent Activity link, the summary shown is not always correct.  Sometimes it is missing some activity. You can see this if you click on the Today link.  As often as not, for me anyway, more reputation shows up in the calculation even though the time range displayed at the top of the page does not change (except for the current time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T07:08:09.907" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T07:08:09.907" Title="Recent activity reputation statistics are incorrect on page load" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8114" CreationDate="2009-07-22T13:57:05.097" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the summary shown is &quot;today since &lt;em&gt;server&lt;/em&gt; midnight.&quot; When you click on &quot;Today&quot; it will display &quot;today since &lt;em&gt;UTC&lt;/em&gt; midnight.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I believe it misses the first 7 or 8 hours of the day (I think the servers are on PST/PDT).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I think that's a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T13:57:05.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:00:27.487" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;The revision list for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1165064/list&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; does not show (colour/highliht) the changes introduced in revision 2. The changes in question were some four-space indents added to mark code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131923" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:24:37.190" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:24:37.190" Title="Problem with displaying changes (4-space code indent added) in edit-history?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:01:57.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is anything more you can do other than upvoting the answer. Furthermore, I don't think you should be able to do more. The voting system is based around overall community approval, therefore each person can only vote once per answer, keeping any one person for having too much influence. If you are the question owner, of course you can mark an answer as accepted, and in the long run (unless the answer was your own) this should help the answer receive more upvotes if it really was very good, because it will always be displayed first. Additionally, someone adding an answer (and possibly your voting) will cause the question to rise again to the front page, and become more &quot;hot&quot; and &quot;active&quot; so it is more likely to get seen, even if it is many months old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:01:57.833" />
  <row Id="8118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1218" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:02:12.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using drag&amp;amp;drop on the tag &lt;kbd&gt;feature-request&lt;/kbd&gt;  results in this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I just dragged the tag into the editor). This is more easily done by just clicking on the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if the interesting and ignored fields could just filter the tags name out of the URL or the tag would only drag&amp;amp;drop its tagname instead of the URL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe on the search field it could add [tagname].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:02:12.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T14:02:12.697" />
  <row Id="8119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7995" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:02:40.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog&lt;/a&gt; would be the best way to get a feel for how they put things together in the early days. On the podcast Jeff mentioned many times that he was ashamed of how little he could pay &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Geoff&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jarrod&lt;/a&gt; in the early days. Since both of them have now been brought on full time, it seems that they are making enough revenue to make it worth it for them to switch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for servers, initially they were renting. However, since that Jeff has done a lot of that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/new-stack-overflow-server-glamour-shots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;work&lt;/a&gt; himself. Yes they pay to have their servers put into a rack at server farm, but they own the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/new-stack-overflow-server-glamour-shots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;servers&lt;/a&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/server-hosting-rent-vs-buy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for some of the thinking that went into this choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're trying to extrapolate this information to what it will take to create your own startup, there are many factors that you should consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel had already created one, now very successful, startup without investment capital&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel and Jeff had very high visibility within the community they were launching a product for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff had experience &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000893.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;generating money&lt;/a&gt; from Google Ad-sense or something similar (I expect Joel did as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel had experience hosting the joel-on-software forums and the related job site (which now factors into SO as a money maker as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are more things that were working in their favor, and even with that said Joel wrote an entire &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081101/how-hard-could-it-be-the-unproven-path.html?partner=fogcreek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; about how they broke all his rules for running a successful software company and were successful because Jeff, Jarrod and Geoff are &quot;smart and get things done&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:02:40.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8199" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:05:09.463" Score="4" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm listing this both as a bug and a feature request since it's subjective as to which it might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discovered while discussing another feature request that I can mark a tag as both Ignored &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Interesting. This leads to question lists that look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s279/ElectroKitty/ignored.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, perhaps this is intended behavior, but it seems counter-intuitive to me. I would argue that it would be best to make ignore / interesting mutually exclusive. If you try to add one and it's on the other list, you get the Red Popup of DOOM telling you to remove it from the other list first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, I have my answer: it's by design. I can live with that. Just seems counter-intuitive, is all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastEditorUserId="130431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T21:05:39.013" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T13:34:12.803" Title="The same tag can be in both interesting tags and ignored tags list. They should be mutually exclusive" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8116" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:08:17.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The change would probably be as simple as modifying the background of the code blocks. I light gray/green would probably be best, keeping with the theme of green for changes, but being grayish to indicate the code block. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:08:17.160" />
  <row Id="8122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7999" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:09:46.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself this: how would you feel if i edited your answer - which cited a book but didn't link to Amazon - and added my own affiliate link. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the effort i made to link to the book really worth the reward?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How 'bout this: what if i edited your answer, which already included &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; affiliate link, and changed it to my own... Keep in mind, this probably wouldn't show up in the revision history unless you actually viewed the source, which you wouldn't do if i made a bunch of other changes to mask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's getting ugly, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my take on this is that &lt;em&gt;at best&lt;/em&gt; it's trying to get paid for something the rest of us are doing for free, and at worst it's a slippery slope down to a morass of secret spamming. We should avoid it, unless/until the SO Team decides to implement &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7999/using-affliate-links-in-answer-question/8031#8031&quot;&gt;Mark Harrison's suggestion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:09:46.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:21:10.953" Score="1" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found a bug (using IE8) where when entering/editing text in a code block, the browser crashes (just the tab involved) and brings up for me a VS 'do you want to use the debugger' message.  I haven't been able to isolate it to the exact cause, but was able to get it to happen twice on the same answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was deleting lines, and changing spacing and adding text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T14:25:12.220" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:00:03.850" Title="IE8 Answer with Code" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-reproduced&gt;&lt;code-block&gt;&lt;ie8&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:22:27.403" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in actually making something with Python and learning the sciPy and/or numPy libraries. So I was thinking about data sets available to me. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump&quot;&gt;Another question&lt;/a&gt; had some people looking at the data, but very little about mathematical or statistical analysis on the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, poll rules apply - one suggestion per answer. Upvote the ones you like, downvote the ones you don't. I'll begin working on it this weekend, and as I get results, I'll post them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:50:32.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T14:23:30.923" Title="What useful data could I extract from the SO data dumps and analyze using sciPy or numPy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8124" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:25:44.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Figure out who knows each other in real life or digitally. Use data like who comments on what, who answers what, activity times, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50214" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:25:44.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T14:25:44.090" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8134" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:26:25.183" Score="0" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would help spur more niche activity if there were more niche tag badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag badges could be created based on some criteria, like 1000 questions or 1000 answers or something that would require at least some level of activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T14:39:38.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:48:41.660" Title="More tag badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8124" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:28:09.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correlate badges with specific activity to see if badges are linked to the activity they're supposed to generate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T19:50:32.560" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:50:32.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T14:28:09.150" />
  <row Id="8128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8124" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:29:01.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to see statistics relating to upvote/question ratios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance who is the highest?  Per tag? For people over 2k rep? 10k rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removing outliers may also be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:29:01.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T14:29:01.437" />
  <row Id="8129" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:34:56.110" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to find a comment I'd read (about how the website to use to post an image on SO), but found that recent activity is, well, recent.  How about we have a date range setting so we can look for all comments in a set period of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:00:03.307" Title="Set date parameters for recent activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8126" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:34:57.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it would be useful for Jeff and the team to develop an automatic tag badge system that would create a new badge when certain tags go over a certain question threshold (100 questions would create a bronze badge category, 500 would create a silver badge category, and 1000 would create the gold level category). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Disregard this. Apparently they already give the badges automatically (even if a badge doesn't exist yet) if you score enough upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T14:48:41.660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:48:41.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8126" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:37:21.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe tag badges are already automatically created once someone has reached 400 upvotes in a given tag.  I'm trying to dig up a reference to back this up, but I'm certain that's the case...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Here's the reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/specialist-badge-implemented/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/specialist-badge-implemented/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scroll halfway down for Jeff's post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood says: February 17th, 2009&#xA;  at 11:06 am&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ruby doesn’t get a badge? No fair.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Any&lt;/em&gt; tag gets a badge dynamically created when it reaches the threshold&#xA;  of 400 by at least one user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:37:21.747" />
  <row Id="8133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:37:35.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another Clone :&lt;a href=&quot;http://throwcatch.me/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ThrowCatch.Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:37:35.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T14:37:35.000" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8126" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:38:29.303" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already happens.  Earn 400 upvotes for &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; tag, and you will be awarded a silver badge for that tag, even if the badge doesn't exist yet.  Earn 1000 upvotes and you will be awarded a gold badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1000 questions or 1000 answers alone isn't good enough, because that would give you the ability to award the badge to yourself and in effect encourage you to spam those tags.  Using votes puts at least some emphasis on quality as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:38:29.303" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-22T14:54:54.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One important point to note is that answers get a lot more upvotes than questions.  Therefore you to concentrate on answering questions, not focused on coming up with more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T14:54:54.817" />
  <row Id="8136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8035" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:01:28.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would certainly want a time-delay before notification kicks in. And a opt-out if you go with the automatic version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:01:28.187" />
  <row Id="8137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:03:43.627" Score="4" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the best way to use Stack Overflow on a day-to-day basis. I know that for a lot of people, the Home page is probably what they see the most. But I'm wondering if it is more useful to watch the Unanswered page, or another page in order to see the most questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If someone already put your answer, please upvote it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T21:49:53.237" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:08:49.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:03:43.627" Title="Do You Watch the 'Unanswered' Page, Home Page, or another Page?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:05:25.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Active / Front page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:05:25.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:05:25.977" />
  <row Id="8140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:05:54.417" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions sorted by Newest page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T21:51:36.353" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:51:36.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:05:54.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:06:33.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unanswered            page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:06:33.827" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:06:33.827" />
  <row Id="8142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:07:19.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer the Unanswered page, about 3-4 pages back. You can find a number of questions that don't have any answers at all, and those are the ones I like to try and crack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130851" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:07:19.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:07:19.150" />
  <row Id="8143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:08:32.007" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Home page, occasionally Unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was truly unanswered then I might watch it more. I understand what &quot;unanswered&quot; means on SO, but I'd find it more useful to be able to answer questions that actually had no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:08:32.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:08:32.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8149" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:15:57.337" Score="20" ViewCount="392" Body="&lt;p&gt;These should work by adding spaces or removing spaces from the beginning of the current line or every line between the start and end of a text selection (inclusive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edited this question to supplement &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/493/the-editor-possible-improvements&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/493/the-editor-possible-improvements&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T15:32:57.467" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T07:31:39.453" Title="Add increase/decrease tab indent buttons to the editor toolbar" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8129" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:16:29.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can do this for your activity and activity related to your posts. You should be able to go to the link below and modify the dates as desired, up to 60 days in the past. For anyone else, substitute your userid where I have to the OP's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/13295?startdate=2009-07-01&amp;amp;enddate=2009-07-22&amp;amp;tab=responses#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/13295?startdate=2009-07-01&amp;amp;enddate=2009-07-22&amp;amp;tab=responses#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T15:25:28.537" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:25:28.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:17:14.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unanswered - From the &quot;middle&quot; of the pack. All in the toil of that Necromancer badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:17:14.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:17:14.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:17:45.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at who is answering during the time you are looking to answer and if the sharks are out, start from older posts.  Most people seem to take questions from the top of the stack, but if I see Jon, Marc, Merhidad and Jared answering .NET questions, I try and scroll back in time a little bit to see if there was a gem missed an hour or two before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:17:45.537" />
  <row Id="8148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:19:06.433" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions/Newest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally &lt;strong&gt;Unanswered&lt;/strong&gt; traversing from last page to first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:19:06.433" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:19:06.433" />
  <row Id="8149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8144" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:19:27.007" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes please on the Tab doing actual spaces instead of taking you out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; This applied to his original question about allowing Tab to work right in the editing textbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T15:43:41.573" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:43:41.573" />
  <row Id="8150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:22:01.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact tags I watch have changed over time, but currently I watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+or+netbeans+or+eclipse+or+language-agnostic+or+sofaq+or+regex&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+or+netbeans+or+eclipse+or+language-agnostic+or+sofaq+or+regex&lt;/a&gt;, sorted by activity. Occasionally I'll check the unanswered questions also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:22:01.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:22:01.810" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:27:01.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Jeff said : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001160.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Quantity Always Trumps Quality&quot;&gt;Quantity Always Trumps Quality&lt;/a&gt; in the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:27:01.837" />
  <row Id="8152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:27:57.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow I watch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~perl~&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tagged/~perl~&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/algorithm%20or%20regex%20or%20rosetta-stone%20or%20rant%20or%20fun&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tagged/algorithm or regex or rosetta-stone or rant or fun&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:27:57.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T15:27:57.687" />
  <row Id="8153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8144" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:28:48.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Select a block, or put your cursor on a new line, and hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; - it'll automatically indent as needed for a code block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:28:48.560" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:42:32.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please have the tab work in the editing textbox instead of taking the focus elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:42:32.370" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21571" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:43:43.657" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to do filtering and sorting at the same time on the question pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I want to view unanswered questions for all of my interest tags (the &quot;My Tags&quot; tab), but the default sorting is by upvotes, and I want to sort it by age (same as the &quot;Newest&quot; tab). I've tried messing with the URL, but without luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130851" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T08:27:22.683" Title="Advanced question list filtering" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8158" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:52:17.237" Score="3" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two badges given for consecutive duration on the site - &quot;enthusiats&quot; (30 days) and &quot;fanatic&quot; (100 days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that a simple script can login every few hours instead of the user, to gain the badge.&#xA;Am I correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: Great. I hope to publish the script as soon as I understand the OpenID mechanism well enough.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastEditorUserId="131410" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T16:22:31.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T14:32:21.980" Title="Can users fake &quot;Visited the site each day for X days&quot; badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8156" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:56:32.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:56:32.523" />
  <row Id="8158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8156" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:57:31.127" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes I believe this is possible and I'm not sure how you could keep it from happening without annoying your actual users. Furthermore, I think I would view taking the time to &quot;fake&quot; this might prove enthusiastic and/or fanatical behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:57:31.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8156" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:57:32.507" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figure if a user wants the badges enough to spend the time to write a little script to log in every few hours, he deserves them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:57:32.507" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8156" CreationDate="2009-07-22T15:59:14.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I plan on faking it by having my roommate log in for me this weekend because I will be unable to access a computer to do it myself.  It isn't the worst thing in the world.  If someone is willing to go through that effort, they deserve the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*Note*&lt;/strong&gt; This is not true for most/all other badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T15:59:14.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:08:01.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A feature request :) Could you add some more info about the recently changed questions..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the tooltip shows the start of the question, but I think far more interesting would be the start of the most recent (or most recently edited) &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;. And, at least, it would be useful to see who made the most recent change and when. For example &quot;jul 15 at 10:18  Roubachof&quot; like on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56285?tab=favorites#sort-top&quot;&gt;favourites page&lt;/a&gt; - this could IMHO be shown all the time (i.e. not in the tooltip) somewhere near the question title, maybe in slightly smaller font and another colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:08:01.627" />
  <row Id="8162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8165" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:11:48.160" Score="56" ViewCount="1278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a guy from Portugal today attempt to ask a rather simple question. But the question was so horribly confusing that he started getting down-voted, and close-voted. After discovering where he was from in his profile, I invited him in the comments to ask his question in Portuguese also - this was clearly easier for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering how many people we have from Brazil, Portugal, and others who understand a great deal of other languages, why can't we help these people a bit more? Maybe I'm just a bit too mushy, but &lt;em&gt;they are people too&lt;/em&gt; and they deserve just as much help as anybody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there no method of assitance we can implement that will open up Stack Overflow to the rest of the world? So many of us here are willing to assist with other languages, and thus reach out to others who haven't felt the pure benefits of Stack Overflow-involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-10T09:56:45.363" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T12:44:59.360" Title="We need to help non-English-speakers somehow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;internationalisation&gt;" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="8163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:15:47.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, if a question is not understandable, then it cannot be effectively answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to ask for clarification or fix up the question yourself if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if it goes long enough without being cleaned up, it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:15:47.960" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:16:56.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I think that is where the ability to edit questions/answers comes in.  If someone can't speak write English well, but he/she is able to put their thoughts down, someone from the SO community can clean it up and make it readable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it would by nice if the community could encourage non-native English speaking people to try to write it in English and then put it in their native language also. Obviously, I can understand English (although my spelling at times would lead people to deduce otherwise), and I can hack through Spanish.  I know I am no where close to unique in my ability to at least partially understand a second language.  What is a few extra lines in a question if it will help someone out a ton.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand it's Jeff site, and he can build it the way he wants, but I completely disagree with him that it is an English only site.  It's English only for now.  This is open to the world, and when enough people who aren't native English speakers start using the site, and can understand Russian, French etc., I think this is going to change.  I will full admit, that if I see something come across in Spanish, I will try and translate it and answer it if I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are going to be enough of people that can reopen questions, that it will essentially be out of the moderator's control to try and police it.  Yes, they can try and be diligent, but it will eat up all of their time eventually (currently, there are almost 250k questions, can you imagine trying to read each one?). So, SO can either embrace other languages, or try and fight it and ultimately probably lose if the site gains popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T13:17:38.593" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:17:38.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:17:08.393" Score="58" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often think people are too quick to downvote, particularly when it's a language issue and someone appears to be trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be nice to the newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:17:08.393" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:18:26.870" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be fine if users wrote the English version of their question, followed by their question in their native language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that people who are better English speakers, can improve the English version using the native version, if they can understand it. Then delete the Native language version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow people who are fluent in more than one language to be able to determine what the questioner wants. This will also allow people who don't understand the Non-English version to at least get some idea of what the person is asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T17:45:08.397" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:45:08.397" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:19:29.047" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I have the time, and even &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that I understand the question, I'll edit to try and make it accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I can't make sense of it, and no-one else is editing it, I'll down-vote and/or vote to close. That may seem harsh, but... at some point, a question is effectively just noise, regardless of whether its author intended for that to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-07T09:36:22.183" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T09:36:22.183" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:20:15.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to make a link to some online translation software such as google Language tools? While not perfect, it would allow people to write in their native language, hit a button to translate, Edit if needed, then post in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:20:15.233" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:24:45.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to be a touch more cynical: Write answers that promote the use of popular open-source technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two highest voted answers (that I put less effort into than most of my other answers) were about LaTeX and Ruby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:24:45.307" />
  <row Id="8170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7355" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:27:08.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 61 rep on SO, 1033 rep on Superuser. Enough evidence that the communities are different ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:27:08.617" />
  <row Id="8171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:27:41.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why stop foreign language speakers coming here? (There)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not allow questions in any language, and have a tag for each language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be some functionality which sensible filtered your view based on which languages you say you are able to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would that not largely solve the language issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: An extension of this could allow multilingual users to provide translations of the question into English to increase the possibility of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Joel that it is short-sighted not to consider non-English speakers on this site - and the current attitude to badly worded English questions from non-native speakers is pretty horrific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43965" LastEditorUserId="43965" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T16:34:44.097" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:34:44.097" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="8172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:29:27.243" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These shortcuts are found in many / most editors. These would be very useful for putting a code block inside of a list item, for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; : Indent by 4 spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; : Indent by 4 spaces &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; : De-indent by 4 spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; : De-indent by 4 spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other potentially useful keyboard shortcuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;7&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; : Replace &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; &gt; with &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;!&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; : Replace selected text with the final html code&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This would be useful when you want a code sample in a blockquote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-28T16:22:46.283" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T16:22:46.283" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8174" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:36:55.277" Score="2" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted an answer, and it was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't (or shouldn't) I get the reputation back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't get it back right away, then how come the Community User owns &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user/19742#19742&quot;&gt;that many downvotes&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T11:10:22.630" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T11:10:22.630" Title="Regain reputation lost by downvoting a deleted answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="8174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8173" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:38:56.707" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will when your reputation is recalculated. But note, almost everyone loses rep overall when their rep is recalced because you also lose reputation gained from answers to now deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T16:40:18.407" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:40:18.407" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:40:32.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, there is two related question for this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/468/other-language-localization&quot;&gt;Other language localization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And second, but I couldn't find it. It's about language correction question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:40:32.143" />
  <row Id="8176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:53:00.100" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a little confusing that the logo says &quot;meta stackoverflow&quot; but the site serves as a discussion site for StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser.  Shouldn't this site get a name and logo that reflects the true intent or, at least, doesn't obscure it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possibility: metatalk.com, which seems to be availble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the suggestion to change the name/logo gets some traction maybe we can have a poll question on the new name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T17:10:46.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:10:46.417" Title="If the meta site is for the entire family of sites, shouldn't the name/logo be changed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;logo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8176" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:54:42.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's from when the engine was called &lt;strong&gt;stackoverflow engine&lt;/strong&gt; (instead of stackexchange)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yeah, I suppose it could be changed now &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:54:42.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8179" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:57:10.830" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an option for this or can this ever be implemented into the website? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T08:35:37.277" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:35:37.277" Title="Option of be notified when a comment is upvoted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;options&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8178" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:58:58.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is currently no option. It has been somewhat suggest before, but I don't believe it will be implemented anywhere in the near future. By somewhat suggested I mean some ideas have alluded to the ability,  or would partially fulfill this ability. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is related to&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/477/what-level-of-notification-should-we-have-regarding-questions-we-have-posted-an-a&quot;&gt;Notifications for comments on comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Recent activity on unowned responses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:58:58.227" />
  <row Id="8180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:58:59.210" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With non-english speakers they often have trouble with a flurry of things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spelling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grammar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question structure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conceptual words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spelling&lt;/strong&gt; actually isn't always a problem because if they used a translator, then all the words will be real words, they just might not be the right words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's easy to clean up spelling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grammar&lt;/strong&gt; is very difficult even for native English speakers, but when the non-English speakers attempt it, they are bound to make some &lt;em&gt;easily correctable&lt;/em&gt; mistakes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question Structure&lt;/strong&gt; Often times because they are not familiar with the language they will throw a lot of words on to one line or one paragraph when they should be split up into many. Or, alternately, they'll throw every sentence on it's own line which serves to fracture the idea that they're actually trying to convey. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a little more 'personal' and subjective so it's harder to fix, but it is often very possible to fix these as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conceptual Words&lt;/strong&gt; this is the real sticking point. If they simply don't know the right words to approach what they are talking about, then it seems like there is no way to fix/answer the question. This is &lt;em&gt;incorrect&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have fixed all the spelling, the grammar, and the question structure, then you will find that the conceptual words are not as important, or at least it is much easier to highlight what is unclear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you've fixed all three of the earlier ones, you should then highlight the parts that are still unclear in a comment and allow the OP to break down those parts into smaller english words, instead of using concepts that require 'this word' they could instead break them down into many easier words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you spend the time to reformat the question, even if it is still vague, at that point it is back on the OP to clarify those parts, but you have ELIMINATED the language barrier, and this allows the question to be helpful to the site, rather than just dismissing everyone who doesn't speak English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:58:59.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8178" CreationDate="2009-07-22T16:59:07.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment there isn't a way to track this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T16:59:07.917" />
  <row Id="8182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:00:47.567" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can vote to close, then you have edit privileges.  There's a reason you get to edit other people's posts 1000 reputation points before you can vote to close.  Editing is to be preferred.  If you can't make enough sense of it to edit the question, ask for clarification, but don't close it.  Instead, give other people a chance to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:00:47.567" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8178" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:12:32.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this will ever be added. Comments were meant to be a very minor feature. Only recently have you even been able to up-vote a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:12:32.627" />
  <row Id="8186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1031" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:20:22.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel also talked about adding a little flag besides the name, and have rankings filtered by country. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like to see this supported directly in the SO-Family&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:20:22.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="493" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:23:13.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like the editor to write the code I mean, not the code I type.  It should be smart enough to correct any usage errors I make due to the lack of intellisense.  A unit testing framework that allows me to check my code for errors would be nice, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:-J&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:23:13.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8192" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:38:00.087" Score="7" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming a recalc is currently done using the exact times that each action (vote, accept, or bounty) took place. Almost all discussion about the recalc revolves around the fear of losing rep from deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be fair to first tally the points earned from upvotes/downvotes until the 200 cap is reached for a given day, and then apply the accepted answer and bounty points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T02:59:31.420" Title="Should the rep recalc award accepted answer and bounty points at the &quot;end of the day&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8188" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:45:10.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this was discussed back on the uservoice site; IIRC the ultimate decision was &quot;works well enough as is&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:45:10.673" />
  <row Id="8191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8188" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:46:03.883" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the rep recalc should work identically to normal reputation system. If it doesn't, then using it would seem like a way of 'gaming the system'. You shouldn't have different stacking rules applied simply because a recalculation was done on your account. Perhaps that's the key right there, it's a &lt;strong&gt;recalculation&lt;/strong&gt; not a &lt;strong&gt;calculation&lt;/strong&gt;, it double checks your rep to find errors (from deleted posts &amp;amp; questions), it doesn't apply a different ruleset when calculating your total. Sure, the rep system isn't perfect, but it should at least be consistently flawed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:46:03.883" />
  <row Id="8192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8188" CreationDate="2009-07-22T17:47:46.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between a reputation update and a recalculation.  An update is done when an action is performed that affects your score.  Presumably there is a current score value associated with your user record and it is simply updated.  A recalculation completely recalculates your entire score based on the current, undeleted actions that affect your score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you seem to be talking about is the normal scoring algorithm, not the recalculation process.  I don't see any real reason to adjust the scoring algorithm, but I would like to see more frequent recalculations so that the current score doesn't drift far from the actual score based on undeleted questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T17:47:46.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8227" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:03:38.180" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen some users that sould be comunicated some important information (stop flaming, please, please proofread your questions) and many questions about wether there would be private messaging have been clear that this won't be implemented in the near future for &quot;political&quot;, &quot;vision&quot; or mission statement reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for mods, I gess it would be very usefull to be able to send short messages, viewable with the magic envelope, and a small sumary showing like the &quot;You've got new answers&quot; banners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; specific feature not planed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not proposing &lt;em&gt;Private Messages&lt;/em&gt;, rather an &lt;em&gt;Administrative Information&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Public Service Announcement&lt;/em&gt; for mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:18:52.517" Title="Is there any messaging system in place?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8193" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:06:15.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Messaging features have been consistently denied based on the fact that Stack Overflow isn't a social media site. It's a place to go for questions and answers, not a place to have conversations. Most non personal communication can be placed inside comments to convey the message, and behavior is easier to enforce when it's all in the public eye. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has also been pointed out quite often that if users want to be contacted, they can place their info in their profile. For other users it is assumed that they do not wish to be contacted directly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:06:15.887" />
  <row Id="8195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8193" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:06:39.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can look on the user's profile page and see if they list contact details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no plans on implementing messaging features any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:06:39.893" />
  <row Id="8196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8193" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:07:39.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about the Contact Us link at the bottom of every page that makes it easy to send email to team@stackoverflow.com.   Presumably this would include moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:07:39.943" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:14:41.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on what I heard from Jeff in podcasts I don't think it is a priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the OP - it would be nice to make it easier for non English speakers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T02:19:55.770" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T02:19:55.770" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8193" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:24:08.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; with tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6051/whats-different-about-status-bydesign-tag-closed&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:24:08.790" />
  <row Id="8199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8120" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:26:00.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than red popup of doom, I'd suggest just take the tag off of the other list.  If they can't remember that they are already interested in it or ignoring it, then that is probably what they want anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:26:00.593" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:26:10.213" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if there are a lot of downvotes AND upvotes then that tends to indicate that it is a religious or other contentious issue.  Why penalize them overall for particular questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is a serious mistake to keep the -1 for the down voter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving it with -1 only makes it MORE enticing to do &quot;strategic&quot; downvoting or retribution voting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're going to ding someone for 5 hitpoints then it should probably cost you a little too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons why there may be so many downvotes (there are pile-ons - it would be interesting to see the statistics on downvotes) is that they are essentially &quot;free&quot;.  Maybe the problem really is that it is too easy to cast downvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:26:10.213" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:28:39.063" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed something similar in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5747/an-alternative-to-translation-for-non-english-speakers&quot;&gt;An Alternative to Translation for Non-English Speakers?&lt;/a&gt;. I'm glad people are still discussing this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll propose something lighter-weight now. Let's have the poster always first try his post in his best English. If he then feels he can do a lot better in his native language, then let's recommend he create a separate section in that language:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;La misma pregunta, en español&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He propuesto algo similar en &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5747/an-alternative-to-translation-for-non-english-speakers&quot;&gt;an alternative to traducción para no sean en inglés oradores?&lt;/a&gt;. Estoy contento de personas aún están discutiendo esta cuestión.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Te propongo algo ligera ahora. Vamos tener el póster siempre primero intentar su puesto en su mejor inglés. Si siente entonces él puede hacer mucho mejor en su idioma nativo, y vamos recomendar crear una sección aparte en ese idioma:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone speaks the other language, then they may use that version to help clean up the English version. As some will no doubt notice, my Spanish is no better than that of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsofttranslator.com/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bing Translator&lt;/a&gt;, yet even I could get enough information from a question in Spanish, Italian or French (or maybe Portuguese) to use that information to help clean up the English version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's still the case that all answers are to be in English. That should never change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:28:39.063" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8156" CreationDate="2009-07-22T18:40:50.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, some browsers (eg. Safari 4) that keep an updated &quot;thumbnail&quot; of your most popular visited websites will load the website every once in a while whenever you open the browser so long as those users have the site (SO, SF, SU, MSO) as on of their Top Sites and use the Top Sites feature they only need to open Safari once a day to get the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not perfect but I don't believe it's worth the effort to try and weed out the &quot;false&quot; requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2619" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T18:40:50.247" />
  <row Id="8208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14459" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:00:25.763" Score="2" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was curious if the ad support has continued to bring in enough $$$ to support the SO,SF, MSO, and SU websites?  This is a user site, but servers and bandwidth costs money. They must be doing ok since the websites continue to grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T17:30:30.337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:53:48.460" Title="Does SO, SF, MSO, and SU make enough support $$$ from ads?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:01:02.400" Score="4" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do questions revolving around some of the kinds of things Joel Spolsky sometimes discusses in his blog or Inc. articles have a place on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I mean subjects such as pricing strategy, business models, software as a service, venture capital, mobile applications markets, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they don't belong here, does anybody have a suggestion of where to take such topics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T12:02:57.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:06:22.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T19:01:02.400" Title="Do business of software questions belong on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;business&gt;&lt;marketing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8212" CreationDate="2008-10-07T18:56:56.907" Score="83" ViewCount="2750" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are some features of this site that you consider &quot;hidden&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I didn't know about the RSS feeds until Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky discussed them on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the podcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="672" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-18T13:30:47.910" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T10:48:06.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-07T19:16:54.807" Title="Hidden features of Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;&lt;hidden-features&gt;" AnswerCount="35" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="37" />
  <row Id="8212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2008-10-07T18:59:33.220" Score="98" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Attached Firefox/Internet Explorer search plugin.  In Firefox, when you are on Stack Overflow, just click on the search dropdown (to the left of the search text field) and hit &lt;strong&gt;Add &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: SO-family sites now also support OpenSearch, as described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55646/how-does-chrome-know-how-to-search-meta&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153513" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-09T14:43:19.773" LastActivityDate="2010-07-09T14:43:19.773" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2008-10-07T19:08:27.587" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can search for multiple tags by typing them in the URL separated by &lt;code&gt;%20&lt;/code&gt;.  This does an &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; search, i.e. only questions with &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the tags you specified will be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows%20com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows%20com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;searches for both the 'windows' and the 'com' tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively you can type the following in the search box in the top right for the same results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[windows] [com]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:05:02.393" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2008-10-07T19:23:36.340" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; IRC channel on freenode, and the SObot that will post new questions in the channel as they're posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150481" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-07T16:40:15.630" LastActivityDate="2010-11-07T16:40:15.630" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2008-10-07T19:50:59.467" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-completed%2bfeature-request?sort=newest&quot;&gt;recently completed features&lt;/a&gt; on Meta&amp;nbsp;Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-12T13:43:08.243" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T13:43:08.243" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2008-10-07T21:36:27.087" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can determine the total number of active users by looking at how many people have the &quot;Teacher&quot; badge (posted at least one answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/1/teacher&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/1/teacher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:05:02.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2008-10-07T23:15:51.970" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible to view the markup used to create any question or answer. (This may be useful if you wish to combine answers or quote part of the question with formatting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question or answer has been edited so that it has an &lt;strong&gt;edited X timeunits ago&lt;/strong&gt; link, you can use that to view the revision history, then use the &lt;strong&gt;view source&lt;/strong&gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it hasn't been edited then you can still view the revision history, but you'll have to manually enter the url in your browser's address bar. For questions, take the number in the middle of the page's url; for answers use the &lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt; link for the answer to get it's unique number in the anchor of the url (after the # character) and then go to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;http&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;://stackoverflow.com/posts/&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;number&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;/revisions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T05:52:37.613" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2009-01-01T02:29:38.763" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get a list of all of the questions and answers for which you've gained or lost reputation (along with the points up or down) in JSON format by pointing your browser at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/###/0/9999999999999&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Substitute your user number for the ### in the URL. The 0 and 9999999999999 are the starting and ending times for the report in milliseconds (so this goes from time zero to several hundred years).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Jun2009] Edit: This feature is apparently no longer supported, or the format has changed. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137077" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:05:02.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2009-07-04T14:25:36.683" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow Meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/3QmvR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-12T13:42:31.580" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T13:42:31.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-04T14:25:36.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2009-07-06T16:15:38.960" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the editing keyboard shortcuts act as toggles, including add hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:05:02.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-06T16:15:38.960" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8208" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:04:54.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;keeps hiring&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;full time developers&lt;/a&gt;, so I assume they are getting by just fine for now at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:04:54.397" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8209" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:08:18.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is a good option for a StackExchange site?  There have been quite a few questions coming up on trying to define what is programming related and what is not. What is computer related and what is not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully a good definition for those is created so it's easy to point to a FAQ about it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T12:06:22.577" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:06:22.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T19:08:18.757" />
  <row Id="8225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8209" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:12:20.320" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. These are discussion topics - and &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;there's a place for that&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:12:20.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T19:12:20.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:17:10.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like how everyone on this website has the same voting weight for each question.  You can vote once per question/answer and it has the same effect from a user with 15 rep vs 5000 rep. It keeps the community in balance to a degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T20:00:23.720" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:00:23.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8193" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:20:46.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've seen some users that sould be comunicated some important information (stop flaming, please, please proofread your questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add a comment to their latest train wreck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But for mods, I gess it would be very usefull to be able to send short messages,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; a specific question or answer to bring it to a mod's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:20:46.960" />
  <row Id="8230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1026" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:42:20.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-flash-mobs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent post&lt;/a&gt; about the Birds of a Feather session at this year's OSCON to add a bunch of R content got me thinking along these lines.  It might be nice to have a way of identifying which questions and answers were entered during certain events or by user groups.  This could make organizing the groups easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of this could be accomplished by tagging but it seems like that would be bad form since the tag wouldn't directly relate to the content of the Q/A, but rather to the poster or event.  I wonder if a group or guild system would be abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wonder if this is something that would necessarily need to be part of StackOverflow core.  If the platform has a good web service API a group system could be developed by a 3rd party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:42:20.990" />
  <row Id="8231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8259" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:43:11.043" Score="50" ViewCount="2427" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have often wondered at the practice on SO, SF, and the other sites where someone will ask a question and an answer will come in that says 'Look here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://link&lt;/a&gt; elsewhere&quot;. Rarely will the link have exactly the answer necessary--often it's an entire article--yet these answers get voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that, exactly? I realize this is subjective, but my own thoughts are that one should try and give the answer (even if the answer is 'no, it can't be done' or 'no, I don't think it can be done' -- very different answers) and then if you have a link that explains it, go ahead and post it within the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the community think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130324" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T05:33:12.990" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T05:33:12.990" Title="Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really &quot;good answers&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;answer-quality&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="20" />
  <row Id="8232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:47:57.727" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While they will &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt; not have the answer necessary, in my experience they often do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's always nice to include a summary of the content and how it pertains to the question, but if I were asking a question which was already answered well on another site, I'd certainly rather have the link than nothing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:47:57.727" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="8233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:48:30.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is not good practice (although have been guilty of it myself). What happens if the link ceases to exists? The answer becomes worthless. I would prefer to paste the main gist of the answer into the answer so if the link ever goes down for whatever reason then the answer is still valid. A large majority of my answers involve providing demo's of code via a live pastebin, however if these external sites go down what is the point? I have pushed for a stackoverflow pastebin to minimise this risk but so far it has fallen on deaf ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T10:04:41.997" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T10:04:41.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:48:58.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7515/why-is-linking-bad&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:48:58.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:49:46.210" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a summary is nice, but not strictly necessary in all cases.  The more information is required to explain the answer, and the more detailed the linked page is, the less I'd say you're required to summarize (if it takes more than a paragraph to summarize, just let the linked content tell the story).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if you're linking to a personal blog, or some other source that might not be there in the future, you should make an effort to summarize.  If you're linking to MSDN, Sun's Java Tutorials, or some other site that is likely to be around for years, a link is often sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:49:46.210" />
  <row Id="8236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8208" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:53:54.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not just ad support: At this moment, there are 84 jobs on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;job board&lt;/a&gt;. A job posting is 350 bucks for 21 days, so if 80 is average (they have a refund policy), that's $42000 per month (which is probably shared with joelonsoftware, but still).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd take a piece of that cake in no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:53:54.423" />
  <row Id="8238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8208" CreationDate="2009-07-22T19:58:48.947" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also hear that some yacht companies are planning to bring huge sponsorship to the next StackExchange site - for boat programming questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T19:58:48.947" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:00:48.487" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if the question is something like, &quot;Where can I find the documentation on numeric format strings for C#?&quot;  Of course, in that case the entire correct answer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Standard Numeric Format Strings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0c899ak8.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Custom Numeric Format Strings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, including a summary is good idea.  But saying a link only is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; bad isn't exactly right either, especially if that link points back to &quot;official&quot; documentation of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:00:48.487" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3657" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:08:48.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you used the &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt; part of the provided editor it would &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/brosner/everyblock%5Fcode/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;work&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would end up looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;If you used the ctrl+L part of the provided editor it would [work][1].&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://github.com/brosner/everyblock_code/tree/master&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*Update&lt;/strong&gt; This is once again a difference between previewing and posting. It &lt;strong&gt;does not work&lt;/strong&gt;, but appears to in the preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a different example of a URL that does not decode %5F into _ and therefore breaks look at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization#column%5Fchart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization#column%5Fchart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T18:52:00.207" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T18:52:00.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:12:21.743" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A link alone as an answer is a bad answer in my book.  Links break and the answer becomes worthless later even if the linked material answered the question initially.  At least if you include a summary, the answer can somewhat stand on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the fledgling FAQ on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7656/how-do-i-write-a-good-answer-to-a-question&quot;&gt;how to write a good answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:12:21.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8208" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:12:52.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a person qualified* to discuss the financial situation of this private enterprise in public I proclaim the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%5F8-Ball#Standard%5Fanswers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to be: &lt;code&gt;Concentrate and ask again&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*negated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:12:52.547" />
  <row Id="8243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:17:15.853" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are all friends here! right? So why would we need a friends list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T03:52:12.647" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T03:52:12.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8193" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:18:52.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The central idea around the stackoverflow.com knowledge exchanges, is exchanging knowledge publicly. You can see why a private message doesn't fit into this. Additionally the public nature tends to put people on their better if not best behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments and moderator flagging allow for feedback. I assume the moderator feedback is considered somewhat private, but that doesn't mean it could be made public for behavioral modification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:18:52.517" />
  <row Id="8245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8156" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:22:15.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;code&gt;curl&lt;/code&gt; request using a cookie file containing a log in is all you have to &lt;code&gt;crontab&lt;/code&gt;. It's not even a script really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm keeping it manual because... I don't care that much I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:22:15.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7766" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:22:37.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could add your proposed Overflow site to the list that is being assembled here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;What StackExchange sites do you want to see?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:22:37.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T20:22:37.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:31:00.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I thought it would be great if you could elect to display your own rep at a limit you choose. You'd actually keep a real, higher, and growing rep, but could decide say that you wanted it displayed as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%5F68000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;68k&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise it's as useful as the mileage I have with 5 different airlines. Its just there to expire. Though I really appreciated the once Swiss Air lowest tier &quot;gift&quot; of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachertorte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sacher Torte&lt;/a&gt; Air freighted to you direct from &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.sacher.com/Original-Sacher-Torte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Café Sacher&lt;/a&gt; in Vienna's Hotel Sacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:31:00.367" />
  <row Id="8249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8209" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:36:59.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not on stack overflow but perhaps as another &quot;stackexchange&quot; site ... and I suggested (but got no comments or votes) in the question &quot;What StackExchange sites do you want to see&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see/7525#7525&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see/7525#7525&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131304" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T20:36:59.030" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T20:36:59.030" />
  <row Id="8250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8320" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:58:25.987" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;As discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4384/bug-with-single-character-tags-in-urls&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, there is unexpected behaviour when a single-letter tag is the first one in a list of tags in the filter-by-tag url.  To get around this, one can use a space or %20 instead of + to separate the tags.  However, this workaround is currently only manually implemented.  If you hit the &quot;c&quot; tag, and then want to filter by one of the related tags like &quot;c++&quot;, you have to either edit the url by hand and hit enter, or go to another page to clear the tags, hit the &quot;c++&quot; tag and then hit the &quot;c&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these options is nearly as convenient or obvious as just clicking on the &quot;c++&quot; tag.  It seems that it should be fairly easy to make the link delimiter used dependent on whether or not a currently selected tag contains &quot;+&quot;, and I think it would improve usability.  So why hasn't it been done yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130283" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T10:11:55.373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:13:39.170" Title="Fix the single-letter tag &quot;bug&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8293" CreationDate="2009-07-22T20:58:48.463" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason, searching for 'make' in any of the Stackoverflow engines returns a page saying &quot;Please enter some text to search for in the upper right!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't appear to be length related; searching for net and home work fine. Is make a reserved word somewhere in the search validation code? I was attempting to search for anything relating to GNU Make on serverfault when I ran into this issue. Very frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T08:00:53.080" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T08:00:53.080" Title="Searching for 'make' fails on all four sites" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8251" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:01:56.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make is a very common term in every day language.  Thus it is filtered out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001186.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stop words are words so common they are typically ignored for search purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:01:56.370" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8257" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:05:22.443" Score="-3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5879/create-a-blacklist-to-keep-from-seeing-certain-users&quot;&gt;Create a blacklist to keep from seeing certain users.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4935/mark-a-user-as-not-being-able-to-edit-your-question&quot;&gt;Mark a user as not being able to edit your question&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of time was wasted on &quot;Edit wars&quot; and in some cases undesired edits still occur.  It is unfortunate that there are personality clashes, but it happens - even on a site like SO.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that SO allow a user to block some small number of users (perhaps that is determined by their hitpoints, or other score.  ) from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing their questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing their answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voting on their questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voting on their answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In turn, the user who elected this is also  blocked from the other user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To discourage this perhaps it would cost the user some hitpoints for this functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would reduce some overall friction and &quot;meta&quot; from the SO site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In spite of Jeff and Joel refusing to allow SO to be a &quot;Social&quot; site (and I agree with that decision) there is no denying that it has significant social aspects - the good, the bad and neutral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion for functionality is intended to keep some personalities from chafing others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shouldn't be used widely or without good reason, but I think it can be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T22:10:25.663" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:10:25.663" ClosedDate="2009-07-22T21:12:48.670" Title="Allow users to block some small set of other users from editing or voting on their posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;block-user&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="8256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8254" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:10:04.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Favorite.  From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:10:04.827" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="8257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8254" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:10:15.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the community members created a greasemonkey script that will hide users from your view.  It wouldn't stop them from answering, editing, or commenting, but you wouldn't have to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm torn on this because it does take away from the community aspect of the site, but at the same time, your experience is already getting hijacked...  Feel free to take a look...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/greasemonkey-ignore-user-script-now-includes-lists&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/greasemonkey-ignore-user-script-now-includes-lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:10:15.627" />
  <row Id="8259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:16:24.243" Score="62" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that links are fantastic, but they should &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; be the only piece of information in your answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An analogy would be if you are standing at 100 Main St. and you ask where 98 Main St. is. A good answer would be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It is the next building over&quot;. &lt;em&gt;points at building&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you instead include a link, you are saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'll direct you to a tourism information booth, and they will be able to provide you with your answer and much more!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is great, however, you haven't answered their question at all, you've deferred the answering to somewhere else.  And in this (fictitious) case the person has to take quite a detour to get to their destination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone goes on StackOverflow, the question &quot;answer&quot; should actually &lt;em&gt;contain&lt;/em&gt; an &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt;. Not just a bunch of directions towards the answer. You should provide context to all your links, otherwise the OP will have no idea what they are clicking into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think of all my answers on SO as if they are technical emails to a client. And unless the client asked &quot;Can you resend that link?&quot; there is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; excuse for sending them an official email with only links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also a way of saying &quot;I have absolutely no value beyond a &lt;strike&gt;google&lt;/strike&gt; Bing search&quot; Which is completely untrue, so why sell yourself short?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely forgot about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkrot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;linkrot&lt;/a&gt; which is a whole other reason why &quot;only links&quot; is a terrible response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:16:24.243" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6466" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:41:57.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh... I'm not against this, so long as i can still link to individual pages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But i'm not sure it'd do any good; it'd mean reloading almost the entire page anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: what's with the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:41:57.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5393" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:42:34.173" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*Note*&lt;/strong&gt; Please don't upvote this and screw up the bounty system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fairies and unicorns collect the tags from all of the posts.  Then they add up occurrences of the words and make them bigger if there are alot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After they are done, they take hand-fulls of the words and toss them at the web page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T19:44:44.250" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:44:44.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T21:42:34.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8251" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:43:30.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt; should probably be included in the search, though.  Perhaps StackOverflow – like Google – should include a way to explicitly search on a word, even if it ordinarily would be a stopword.  That way, we wouldn't end up with a &lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bash.org/?514353&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Who&lt;/a&gt;&quot; situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:43:30.690" />
  <row Id="8265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:52:16.583" Score="4" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;This just struck me as I was about to edit the title of a question from a new user: &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; would have no trouble finding this again - I know to go to my profile and look at my list of questions, then click the link. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But will a new user maybe just look in the Questions list? If so, he might not recognize the title I was about to change his to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T21:47:35.750" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T21:47:35.750" Title="Wondering: Are Some New Users Having Trouble Locating Their Questions after we Edit the Titles?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8251" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:52:23.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way to work around this is to search for the make tag. Bracket the word &lt;code&gt;[make]&lt;/code&gt; and it will allow the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130349" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:52:23.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:57:07.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My proposal, which I came up with separately before Shog9 graciously pointed me to this question, runs like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allocate each user with 2000+ rep (same as the threshold to edit others' posts) three daily bumps, used via a &quot;Bump Question&quot; button (which might display the number of bumps left). Bumping a question refreshes it for purposes of the home page display, same as an edit or new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This establishes a sanctioned, non-sneaky mechanism for bumping questions, discourages the edit mechanism from being used for bumping purposes, and defines an appropriate bump rate; three per day per user shouldn't hurt anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:57:07.387" />
  <row Id="8271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2009-07-22T21:58:17.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer just adding html comments in my answers to bump them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!--Unicorns have gotten out, need help with this soon!!--&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point being, I don't feel that this is an urgent feature.  Forcing a user to edit their question for a bump seems like a nice built-in penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T21:58:17.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8275" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:01:11.207" Score="9" ViewCount="636" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got 11+ upvotes and only 29 rep for an answer but my daily reputation was only at 156. That's 44 short of the daily cap! I'm trying to make 20k before the Boston Dev Days, too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T05:57:15.743" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T05:57:15.743" Title="The rep cap is 200 per day, correct?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8272" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:02:02.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sort of.  The days that the rep cap mechanism knows about and the days that the rep history knows about are different.  So it winds up looking like you didn't get all your rep for the day, but you did get it all, for some value of &quot;day&quot; (i.e. some 24-hour window, which I think cuts off at 8:00 PM GMT-5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:02:02.837" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8265" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:02:03.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most people can find it in their &quot;Questions&quot; part of their user profile.  Many people have a minimal amount of asked questions and would not have any problem finding thier question again.  This would be a select few that would have an issue of this.  Combine that with the statistical occurance of radically changing question titles and we do not have too many affected users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is a potential issue, but I always think back to the purpose of this site: Community Moderated.  It is a risk you take asking a question that could be modified by someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:02:03.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8272" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:02:27.963" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hit the &quot;Today&quot; button on your Recent Activity page - the default timespan doesn't line up with what the rep system considers a &quot;day&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:02:27.963" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8265" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:06:28.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that finding one's way to the profile display is not too high a bar for the site's intended audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, this isn't your great-uncle we're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My&lt;/em&gt; great-uncle Fred, the Algol coder, is another matter, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:06:28.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:08:20.713" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a question and I was going to comment on one of the answers.  Instead I accidentally hit edit and I was able to change the person's answer.  I did not hit save so I don't know if it would have saved it, but I just noticed it had the edit to begin with.  Can you really save over other people's answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151879" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:11:46.963" Title="Why is there an edit for answers from other people?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8277" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:10:03.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is you got edit ability when you just hit 2000 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131057" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:11:46.963" />
  <row Id="8279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8277" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:10:17.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you read the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is&#xA;  collaboratively edited. If you are not&#xA;  comfortable with the idea of your&#xA;  questions and answers being edited by&#xA;  other trusted users, this may not be&#xA;  the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:11:46.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-22T22:10:17.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8280" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:12:00.653" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1274/seaching-questions-with-n-pages-of-answers&quot;&gt;Seaching Questions with n-Pages of Answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt; works, but when there's 5+ pages it gets too much work. So add in-page (question) search to that first #sidebar.module or somekind of link which appends question ID to search bar. There's a lot of questions which have same kind of answers to same web sites etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I've seen on some sites this &quot;infinite scroll&quot; which loads new content when scrollbar hits bottom of scrollable area. This might be alternative for page numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit related to search also is that when you're writing answer the engine would scan other answers for same URLs / words and giving suggestion box like &quot;This URL is already mentioned in this question answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:19:54.427" ClosedDate="2009-07-23T01:52:11.243" Title="Add in-page searching?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8280" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:19:54.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, In question searches for multi-page questions would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:19:54.427" />
  <row Id="8282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8284" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:20:19.283" Score="17" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just looking through the recently deleted questions page, and I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3947/music-to-listen-to-while-coding-closed&quot;&gt;Music to listen to while coding&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't think it was such a good question in the first place. Be that as it may, it collected 100+ votes, 100+ favorites, and nearly 9000 views, so clearly a large segment of the community approves of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet three people just deleted it yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it be so easy to delete such a popular question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the number of required votes depend on the number of upvotes or something similar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it even be possible to delete something with 100 upvotes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it not matter because popular questions are likely to be undeleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it not matter because it didn't belong on the site in the first place, regardless of popularity?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/912/do-we-need-to-increase-the-required-delete-votes&quot;&gt;Do we need to increase the required delete votes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-14T06:40:21.033" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T06:40:21.033" Title="Should popular questions be so easy to delete?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:23:44.887" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to agree that there should be some kind of upvotes / vote needed to close regression. Many upvotes meaning that people think it is a good question and therefore shouldn't be closed (or not as easily)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131960" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:23:44.887" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8208" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:24:56.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Balpha has the right answer; ad revenue is trivial, job advertisement revenue is essential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In developing a business plan for my proposed stack exchange, I did some homework on how much ad revenue I could expect.  The calculation is outlined well &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sanjaydhingra.com/formula-for-calculating-google-adsense-revenue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  For my assumptions, job advertising was essential to cover my costs.  Google adsense (and Amazon affiliate) revenue wasn't sufficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4058" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:24:56.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:28:42.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it not matter because it didn't belong on the site in the first place, regardless of popularity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(but yeah, it'll be undeleted, re-opened, and continue its quest to build The Infinite List of Music for Programmers. So it goes...)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:28:42.597" />
  <row Id="8287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:29:13.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/912/do-we-need-to-increase-the-required-delete-votes/965#965&quot;&gt;Jeff's idea&lt;/a&gt; of protected high-voted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:29:13.340" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="8288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8475" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:54:38.253" Score="3" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I read a subscription on Google Reader, Google just-in-time loads more entries as I reach the bottom of the page. It would be nice to have the SO sites do this too instead of having a pager on questions with lots of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130349" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T11:29:23.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:07:03.710" Title="Ad infinitum scrolling for questions, like Google Reader" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:55:37.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be nice if doesn't slow things down, it's already getting a little busy on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:55:37.477" />
  <row Id="8290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2009-07-22T22:57:42.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't particularly care about this for questions, but it'd be great for &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;... So long as they don't pull a UserVoice and break linking with crappy AJAX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T22:57:42.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8297" CreationDate="2009-07-22T23:00:45.967" Score="2" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Community&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; user do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, the description says that one of the things that it does is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T10:55:04.180" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T21:50:23.430" Title="The Community User" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8251" CreationDate="2009-07-22T23:08:24.587" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even given jjnguy's explanation: entering text, clicking 'search', and then having the system tell you &quot;You didn't enter any text!&quot; seems like bad UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, it could say &quot;The following very common words were excluded from your search string: ...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T23:08:24.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8291" CreationDate="2009-07-22T23:24:02.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By poking, it means bumping so it shows back up on the main screen just like an edit would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post has more information:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6981/why-does-a-question-appear-as-modified-by-the-community-user&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6981/why-does-a-question-appear-as-modified-by-the-community-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-22T23:30:30.220" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T23:30:30.220" />
  <row Id="8298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8272" CreationDate="2009-07-22T23:26:45.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A maximum of +200 reputation may be gained per day. Accepted answers are immune to this cap (source) as are bounties (source). This immunity applies only to answers accepted and bounties received after reaching the cap.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(A new day starts 0:00 UTC == 7pm EST == 4pm PST == 1am CET).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T23:26:45.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8300" CreationDate="2009-07-22T23:31:26.260" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question on SO. However, a search reveals that a similar question has been asked, and I feel my question would get marked as a duplicate. The similar question has few answers - one of which is the accepted answer; and this answer is not the one I am looking for (i.e. it's a strategy change rather than a real solution to the answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very motivated to get an answer to this question - and thus would like to drive forward responses; possibly by offering a decent sized bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I simply ask my question, or is it possible to get &quot;ownership&quot; of the similar question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T23:36:03.133" Title="Asking similar questions - process?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8299" CreationDate="2009-07-22T23:36:03.133" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question isn't an exact duplicate, you should include that you saw that question in your search and explain why the question or answers are different from what you seek. Most people are reasonable and as long as you demonstrate due diligence in finding potential duplicates you should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if it's an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate, this won't be enough, so in that case it's best to bump the original and see if you can get some fresh answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T23:36:03.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2009-07-22T23:49:22.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing is ever truly deleted (or at least it's really rare). Deleted in most cases just means hidden from &amp;lt;10k rep users. Mods can always step in and undelete and/or lock a post. High vote questions with lots of answers getting deleted is an unusual event, easily reversible and thus (imho) not really worth worrying too much about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-22T23:49:22.367" />
  <row Id="8310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8265" CreationDate="2009-07-23T00:12:40.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That may, in fact, be the case, but the value of being able to edit and improve questions for all (including the title) outweighs the inconvenience to any single user.  My guess is that it doesn't have much of impact since the message indicator will pop up when you have new answers/comments on your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T00:12:40.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2009-07-23T00:32:24.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SO, I actually prefer paging. Other sites like DZone use this auto-scrolling behaviour. I guess to seem more app-like than Web-like but honestly I tend to just find it annoying and unnecessary most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paging makes it easy to get to the last page or even to a specific page (not often used but sometimes it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think it works for Google Reader but you'll note that others like Gmail use traditional paging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T00:32:24.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-23T00:50:44.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to offer a constructive suggestion, but since I don't care about my rep score in this site I'll go ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/translate%5Ft?hl=en#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;translate.google.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T00:50:44.737" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1026" CreationDate="2009-07-23T01:09:01.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As SO is relatively diverse in terms of technologies used, I guess any local &quot;user group&quot; would work better as meeting for a few beers in a pub rather than presentation-type things. If anybody wants a beer/cider in the London/Reading area...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(When I was at university there was a drinking society called &quot;The Society for Putting Things On Top of Other Things&quot;. I wonder if they are still going.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T01:09:01.390" />
  <row Id="8316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-23T01:17:58.773" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not, nor has it ever been, Stack Overflow's goal to be the one place in the world for all programming information in every human language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Direct programmers to native language resources.&lt;/strong&gt; Users who post non-English programming questions should be gently directed to programming forums in their own language. Community should form around the gravity of native languages. (see: Chinatown, Little Italy, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not our goal to teach English. It is our goal to teach programming.&lt;/strong&gt; If the post has salvageable English and makes some modicum of sense, it should be edited and improved just like any other post. If it does not, it should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The asker has to put effort into the question.&lt;/strong&gt; If the asker has barged into an obviously English dominated forum and yet insisted on posting a question in a different language, that is no different than the &quot;do my work for me&quot; sort of programming questions, the worst sin on Stack Overflow in my opinion. You want us to give you answers? Then prove that you've put some effort into the question, and that starts by politely asking it in the language this community is formed around. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edited a bit and made policy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T03:47:14.657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T03:47:14.657" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="8317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1477" CreationDate="2009-07-23T01:42:43.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is already possible through editing and we encourage people to revisit and edit their old posts to include better and more up-to-date info&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bounty feature also exists for this reason. Just open a bounty on your question and it'll stay on the &quot;featured&quot; tab for a week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not seeing the problem here..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T01:42:43.787" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T01:52:44.497" Score="16" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often new users post one-liners with unrelated questions/comments as answers to existing questions where I'd like to vote &quot;close as not a real answer&quot;. They come in several flavors: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559921/div-border-does-not-enclose-all-of-the-divs-elements/1167053#1167053&quot;&gt;Things that should be in comments instead of answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/255534/remove-the-default-browser-header-and-footer-when-printing-html/1166638#1166638&quot;&gt;Questions&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/637645/storing-settings-for-multiple-projects-commonly-in-c/1164304#1164304&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339089/can-the-iphone-sdk-obtain-the-wi-fi-ssid-currently-connected-to/1163965#1163965&quot;&gt;or&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/646370/how-to-access-your-website-through-lan-in-asp-net/1163739#1163739&quot;&gt;less&lt;/a&gt; related)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/918280/how-to-compile-qt-4-5-1-on-windows-xp-for-wince/1163987#1163987&quot;&gt;Me&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/918280/how-to-compile-qt-4-5-1-on-windows-xp-for-wince/943544#943544&quot;&gt;too&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/270656/import-a-oracle-dmp-file-into-a-fresh-install-of-oracle/1165654#1165654&quot;&gt;Weirdness&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/728743/installshield-packagefortheweb-compatibility/1164239#1164239&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/792413/problem-working-with-dsoframer/1164270#1164270&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/569715/working-example-of-connecting-a-windows-service-to-quickbooks/1164839#1164839&quot;&gt;Strange proposals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do with these kinds of answers? Just downvote? Flag for moderator attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-17T11:43:25.140" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T11:43:25.140" Title="Correct action for non-answers by new users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;useless-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="8320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8250" CreationDate="2009-07-23T01:53:59.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;It's because we hate our users. That's why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, users of &quot;certain&quot; languages.. anyway..&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;plus-delimiting is now detected this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;must not contain a space&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;matches this expression&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[a-z0-9#\-\.]\+[a-z0-9#\-\.]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T10:13:39.170" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:13:39.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8319" CreationDate="2009-07-23T01:55:04.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote, comment and flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T01:55:04.580" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8329" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:12:19.580" Score="7" ViewCount="699" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to make sure you guys are aware this happens sometimes before I delete this user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What is Astroturfing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Astroturfing is a word in English describing ... advertising, or public relations campaigns seeking to create the impression of being spontaneous &quot;grassroots&quot; behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/96878/tom-lo&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/96878/tom-lo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edit: sorry, Marc spoilt the fun by accident; not much to look at on this account now...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T08:59:00.673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T09:18:11.133" Title="Astroturfing on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;astroturfing&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8319" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:13:00.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, if a new user posts something that actually helps the question along in some way, even if it should be a comment, I say is fine, since they are trying to help, and have just not been on the site long enough to get the reputation yet.  Otherwise, for everything else, inform the new user and if its bad enough, flag, downvote, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63925" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T02:13:00.370" />
  <row Id="8325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:16:41.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awww... Poor Selenium. They just couldn't match the inherent awesomeness of FluidTest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T02:16:41.613" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:24:42.940" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course misrepresenting your affiliation is unacceptable, but what if each of the posts had a full disclosure at the bottom? Is that still disallowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, how can you tell the difference between an enthusiastic user and genuine astroturfing? In this case it was pretty obvious because the user had little content otherwise, but I'm sure that there are some users on the site with as many or more answers that boil down to &quot;use JQuery&quot; in response to a JavaScript question. Is it OK because it's free/open source? Where's the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T02:24:42.940" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="8329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:31:54.697" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I plan to delete this user, some sample &quot;answers&quot; for permanent reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We got tired of how badly Selenium handled XPaths, and the fact that XPaths were the main cause of us having to maintain scripts every time there was a minor layout change from the coders. We successfully trialled and then purchased several licences of a product called LiquidTest. We no longer have to combine multiple tools like Firebug and Python scripts together to create a test that will actually run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The teams finishing projects with Selenium are jealous of the teams on the newer projects using LiquidTest, and they can't wait to get involved or be on the next new project. That's a good sign in my books&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have found XPaths to be more trouble than they are worth. They're ok if you're not changing the pages your testing, but if you're not changing them, why not spend less effort testing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When my CTO factored in the cost of the man hours editing the Selenium scripts to work every few builds, we realised that it provided us with a poor return on investment. We've spent some R&amp;amp;D time hunting alternative tools. The latest is a trial version of a a tool called LiquidTest. It seems less brittle so far, using other references to objects before resorting to XPaths. It runs in Eclipse, records tests through the browser UI and can write JUnit, Ruby, C#, etc. so all the Java coders here picked it up almost immediately. So far so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem with Selenium RC as far as I can tell is that it was created by a third party. Even Jason Huggins has trouble making RC work - &lt;a href=&quot;http://clearspace.openqa.org/message/48380&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://clearspace.openqa.org/message/48380&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We trialled and purchased a product called LiquidTest that lives up to their claim that it makes test record and replay as easy as it was meant to be. It handles dragging splitters in our ExtJS framework pages, and replay works just fine without hacking or adding python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few answers that could be construed as valid, but the overall pattern is very strong and consistent -- astroturfing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T02:31:54.697" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:32:35.493" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6808/possible-link-bug&quot;&gt;Possible Link Bug&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wayback Machine&lt;/a&gt; to link to really good websites that no longer exist. The URLs are of the form &lt;code&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/〈date|*〉/〈url〉&lt;/code&gt;, e.g., &lt;code&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/index.html&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt;. The links display properly in the preview window, but display garbled in the posted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/561273/cygwin-assembly-language-development/579987#579987&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/561273/cygwin-assembly-language-development/579987#579987&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/11082/what-are-some-of-the-most-useful-outlook-plugins/11190#11190&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/11082/what-are-some-of-the-most-useful-outlook-plugins/11190#11190&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131796" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T07:07:13.167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:07:13.167" ClosedDate="2009-07-23T02:57:33.450" Title="Links with URLS containing http:// more than once" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:41:35.750" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a gold badge in one of my employer's trademarks. Should I delete all my posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, my employer has an anti-astroturf policy. I feel the need to insert the occasional disclosure statement. I guess it's a matter of common sense rather than something that can be automated. Though perhaps I could insert a TM symbol every time I mention an affected trademark, such as JavaScript&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T02:41:35.750" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8319" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:50:33.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers that should be comments, are usually people that don't have enough rep to leave comments. If I see one of these, from a user who (now) has enough rep to add comments, I will leave a comment for them to delete that &quot;answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T17:55:40.553" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T17:55:40.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8330" CreationDate="2009-07-23T02:55:43.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/index.html&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[su]: http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&#xA;[http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http://superuser.com/index.html][su]&#xA;[http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html][su]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Resulting in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;post-text&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;!--                                                                                                                                           v --&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;http://superuser.com/index.html&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; &#xA;[su]: http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html&#xA;[http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http://superuser.com/index.html][su]&#xA;[http://web.archive.org/web/20030606214502/http%3A//superuser.com/index.html][su]&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T03:01:33.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T03:01:33.230" />
  <row Id="8336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T03:06:36.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should really know better than to try that on a site by programmers for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're more likely to notice when something isn't quite right. We also like exploring inconsistencies. Which makes it significantly more difficult to sneak something behind our backs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they really wanted people to use their stuff, there is this little thing called &lt;strong&gt;advertisements&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T13:30:55.007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:30:55.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8339" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T03:20:26.933" Score="8" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just the other day I happened to notice that Jon Skeet has more &lt;em&gt;badges&lt;/em&gt; than I have rep.  Ouch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how much rep does the average SO user have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130704" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T09:05:43.437" Title="What is the average rep on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8342" CreationDate="2009-07-23T03:21:50.250" Score="-1" ViewCount="913" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add a SO-like notification bar to a web page...I'm sure its simple but it's probably been implemented 100 times over by someone. I'm looking for a jQuery plugin. Any links? (or even code!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131102" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T19:34:56.083" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T19:34:56.083" ClosedDate="2009-07-23T03:53:56.423" Title="How does SO implement the notification bar?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;jquery&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8339" CreationDate="2009-07-23T03:23:40.030" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/creative-commons-data-dump-july-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;June data dump&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Select Avg(reputation) From users&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...it's 182.93 (using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;Kyle&lt;/a&gt;'s sqlite import of the dump).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130090/ian-elliott&quot;&gt;Ian&lt;/a&gt;'s excellent statoverflow tool OTOH, &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=Select%20Avg%28reputation%29%20From%20users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;produces 194.0018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ian also suggests excluding users with a reputation of 1. With that done, you could say that the average reputation, for users who &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; reputation, is &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=Select%20Avg%28reputation%29%20From%20users%20Where%20reputation%20!=%201&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;358.9613&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T03:35:12.393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T03:35:12.393" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="8342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8340" CreationDate="2009-07-23T03:25:42.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a post about someone wondering the exact same question, which I came across it a few days ago on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605291/header-message-just-like-at-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Header Message&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T03:25:42.930" />
  <row Id="8343" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T04:08:13.197" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/469/page-navigation-on-users-page-doesnt-work-if-using-the-input-box&quot;&gt;Page navigation on Users page doesn&amp;rsquo;t work if using the input box&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;Users&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type in a common name (something which will match more than one page of users--&quot;peter&quot; works).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;next&quot; button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected: Page 2 of users matching &quot;peter&quot; is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual: Page 2 of all users is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Also strange to me (but maybe by design): the filtered user list doesn't sort by rep like the unfiltered one does.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T04:08:13.197" ClosedDate="2009-07-23T04:10:43.640" Title="Filtered &quot;Users&quot; page loses filter when &quot;next&quot; button is clicked" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6791" CreationDate="2009-07-23T04:38:04.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the way our client code is written, it seems that the browser is either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not receiving the full response (unlikely)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Misinterpreting the response&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each vote response is a json object, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// sample &quot;mark as accepted answer&quot; response&#xA;{&quot;Success&quot;:true,&quot;Message&quot;:&quot;/content/img/so/vote-accepted-on.png&quot;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The client code will update the UI based on the &lt;code&gt;Success&lt;/code&gt; property in a simple block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (data.Success) {&#xA;   // update answer styles&#xA;}&#xA;else {&#xA;   showError(data.Message);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For successful accepted answers, the &lt;code&gt;Message&lt;/code&gt; is the new check mark image to display. So the screenshots seem to indicate that the vote was successful on the server and the new image to  display is being passed back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &lt;code&gt;Message&lt;/code&gt; seems to be intact, I will try to refactor out the need for a  &lt;code&gt;Success&lt;/code&gt; property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, if any user is experiencing this, please use &lt;a href=&quot;http://getfirebug.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FireBug&lt;/a&gt; or some other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http sniffer&lt;/a&gt; to see if the response is like my example!  This feedback is much needed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T04:38:04.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8352" CreationDate="2009-07-23T05:16:33.577" Score="6" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have post editing abilities (and probably won't for a while) but I fancy myself to be fairly capable in the English language and I want to know for when I start editing: is it OK to perform massive surgery on a question/answer if I think I can understand what the person is saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:33:41.490" Title="Is it ok to massively edit posts to improve people's understanding?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-23T05:22:14.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is getting dangerously close to saying that questions and answers shouldn't contain any 'personality'.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrgh, I hate interacting with other humans.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;See, sarcasm ;b&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I know that there is a difference between 'humour/sarcasm/personality' and 'offensiveness'.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And yes, I know SO isn't a 'social' site.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;That's what the moderators are for.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As seen (for real) on one of those blind date tv shows:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Q - Why would you wear metal underwear?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A - To hold back all that &lt;em&gt;personality&lt;/em&gt; that I've got!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastEditorUserId="242" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T22:58:19.443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:58:19.443" />
  <row Id="8349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8347" CreationDate="2009-07-23T05:25:39.567" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe most users will find such activity acceptable as long as you improve the clarity of the post. However fixing minor errors like &lt;code&gt;your&lt;/code&gt;=&gt;&lt;code&gt;you're&lt;/code&gt; might be seen as abuse. If people are answering the question without any fuss, it's probably alright. If it's mine-field of spelling and grammar errors (not just the occasional instance), then fix it up a bit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should go without saying that if a post is completely incomprehensible after you read it through, fix it up -- but only you know what the user is &lt;em&gt;implying&lt;/em&gt;, if on the other hand you have no idea what they're after, leave it for someone else who might. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T05:25:39.567" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T05:44:26.037" Score="6" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since everyone hates 'soft' questions so much (but has too much fun with them to banish them forever)...    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a 'Soft' flag.&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could work that same as all the other 'vote based' things.&#xA;You know, needs 5 votes against to be marked 'soft', but could then be 'hardened back up' by 5 votes for.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a question is flagged as 'soft' it &lt;em&gt;can't gain any rep/badges etc&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But different to 'wiki' in that the 'soft' flag doesn't change the ownership mode but merely indicates that the question really contains no redeeming value other than humor/comedy/vacuous cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will give all the people who don't want to look at cartoons or jokes a means of filtering them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update #1 - Some 'soft' topics can now be asked/discussed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Programmers - StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programmers - Stack Exchange is for expert programmers who are interested in subjective discussions on software development. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This can include topics such as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Software engineering &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Developer testing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Developer tools and techniques &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Practical algorithms and data structures &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Design patterns &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Architecture &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Development methodologies &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Quality assurance &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Software law &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Code golf &amp;amp; programming puzzles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Freelancing and business concerns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastEditorUserId="155160" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T02:14:13.523" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T02:14:13.523" Title="Flag for 'Soft'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8347" CreationDate="2009-07-23T05:44:53.707" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally. Go to town - no one's gonna shed a tear over a hard-to-read question gone to make way for one that gets the point across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way i look at it, there's a revision history and a one-click rollback feature - even if you totally screw up, it's not hard to correct. The benefits &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; outweigh any risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T05:44:53.707" />
  <row Id="8353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-07-23T05:55:56.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very cool, do you also have a &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; table?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T05:55:56.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6791" CreationDate="2009-07-23T06:01:44.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has just started happening to me in the last few days. It seemed to start after I flagged someone's comment as spam/abuse/hatespeech (it was my first time using this feature), but it might be completely unrelated to that. Now that I have associated my account with &lt;code&gt;meta.stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt;, I get the same issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The null/empty box does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; come up if I disable Firebug. I.e., &lt;strong&gt;Firebug is causing the problem.&lt;/strong&gt; Firefox 3.0.6, Firebug 1.4.0, running on OS X 10.5 in case you want to test, but there might not be anything you can do about it. BTW Do I get a badge for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130949" LastEditorUserId="130949" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T06:14:32.973" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T06:14:32.973" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8357" CreationDate="2009-07-23T06:29:45.353" Score="-1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that it should be possible for closed questions to be opened/unclosed if there us sufficient interest (up-votes or favorite). This would mean that the masses could decide that although Jeff ;) thinks the question should be closed because it's of topic, if enough people (I have no idea how many) think they like the question or want to see answers to it, they could vote for it to be opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130021" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T07:05:03.457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:10:46.593" Title="Allow a question to be opened after it is closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8355" CreationDate="2009-07-23T06:31:22.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already happens. People can vote to reopen a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T06:31:22.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8355" CreationDate="2009-07-23T06:47:53.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is part of the design already. FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;15       Vote up&#xA;15       Flag offensive&#xA;50       Leave comments&#xA;100      Vote down (costs 1 rep), edit community wiki posts&#xA;200      Reduced advertising&#xA;&lt;i&gt;250      Vote to close &lt;b&gt;or open&lt;/b&gt; your questions, create new tags&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;500      Retag questions&#xA;2000     Edit other people's posts&#xA;3000     Vote to close any questions&#xA;10000    Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you want to vote to (re)open your own question, being at 848 (nice) can already do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH on meta, I cannot vote to close your question with 138 rep (until I reach 3000 rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T16:10:46.593" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:10:46.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-07-23T06:53:38.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you setup indexes and such too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T06:53:38.497" />
  <row Id="8360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8319" CreationDate="2009-07-23T07:32:31.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the first category:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Things that should be in comments instead of answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think these should be routinely deprecated. Users with rep &amp;lt; 50 cannot leave comments. If the comment is germane or seeks to elicit relevant additional information, especially in response to questions that are not, to someone knowledgeable in the field, well-stated and with all the necessary information to allow a good answer, they should allowed, if not encouraged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T07:32:31.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2348" CreationDate="2009-07-23T07:34:55.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, we changed the title field from type=&quot;html&quot; to type=&quot;text&quot;. It's one of the status-completed tagged items if you are interested. In fact, I bet searching for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[status-completed] [feed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course our search function is so bad and all.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T07:34:55.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:19:39.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really don't see the problem. Sure, those answers are annyoing and when I read them I get a little angry. I sympathize when the owner of stackoverflow gets even more angry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But usually, we do rely on voting. Don't we? If this liquid test stuff is any good and better than selenium (which I kind of doubt, but that's not the issue here), his answers will be voted up because they really are helpful. And if he's advertizing crappy stuff, he'll be downvoted pretty soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T08:19:39.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:47:49.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few examples of what I did on superuser: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/9207/must-have-windows-media-center-add-ins&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/9207/must-have-windows-media-center-add-ins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/4412/dvd-library-on-windows-media-center-extender&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/4412/dvd-library-on-windows-media-center-extender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/2303/is-it-possible-to-have-media-center-show-details-for-my-movie-files&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/2303/is-it-possible-to-have-media-center-show-details-for-my-movie-files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/2605/what-is-the-best-media-center-software&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/2605/what-is-the-best-media-center-software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its a slippery slope, some rules that are important to live by: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't bad mouth the competition, even if it sucks. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't answer every question with &quot;just use my software&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always disclose your affiliation &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it incredibly difficult to deal with this issue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T22:27:51.023" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:27:51.023" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8384" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:51:03.023" Score="6" ViewCount="802" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to decide how heavily to police something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been alerted to a number of flazx links on stackoverflow that link to rapidshare downloads of copyright material (i.e. e-books).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the content is copyright, my instinct is that these rapidshare links are simply illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easy option is to manually replace flazx links with amazon; but: how heavily would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; enforce this? (I'm trying to think how to respond to such links (especially the direct rapidshare/etc ones)... edit? removal? punitive?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T12:06:47.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:44.263" Title="flazx downloads: legal?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;downloads&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="8370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:54:10.623" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting requires you to have a certain amount of rep which is completely reasonable but downvoting after you mistakenly upvoted a question or an answer should not require you to have some rep. I don't see any point. If you upvote an answer or a question, you should be able to downvote it too, maybe not after ages but within a reasonable period of time. Maybe after you upvoted, the question/answer was edited and sounded wrong to you. So, you decided to change your vote. It should be a ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Err is Programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131994" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T19:44:35.537" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T19:44:35.537" Title="Downvoting after Upvoting Requires You to Have Some Reputation?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:51:25.867" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assume I am interested in only 1 tag in StackOverflow - XAML. Is it possible to display all the unanswered questions only for this tag(xaml)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best Regards,&#xA;Kiril&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T12:03:12.340" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:03:12.340" Title="How to make StackOverflow show all unanswered questions from one tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8371" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:53:27.140" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/xaml&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/xaml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T08:55:14.673" />
  <row Id="8374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8369" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:56:01.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd go with editing + light reprimand via comment (backed up by some quote from the SO 'rules')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T08:56:01.877" />
  <row Id="8375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:57:40.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ooopsssiiieee... Jeff: I didn't look at MSO first, but was looking at this user separately due to some spam flags. I too noticed the behaviour, and deleted all but the 3 posts that didn't do any of this. So there isn't much left to look at on this account now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry to spoil the fun, guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff: if you want to do a public show-and-tell again, perhaps add a moderator annotation to the account so that other moderators don't delete it out from under you ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T08:57:40.497" />
  <row Id="8376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:59:22.980" Score="24" ViewCount="586" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most users seem to vote mostly on answers. How can users be encouraged to vote on the questions as well? (This was discussed in podcast 62.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131522" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T07:36:45.053" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T17:49:15.023" Title="How to encourage voting on questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="8377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:59:33.193" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't downvote to reverse an upvote, you simply click on the upvote arrow again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastEditorUserId="615" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T09:06:08.513" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:06:08.513" />
  <row Id="8378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2009-07-23T08:59:40.757" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down-voting always requires you to have a minimum of 100 rep...&#xA;But I think you can 'undo' an up-vote (by clicking on the up-vote arrow again in stead of clicking on the down-vote arrow) with less rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T08:59:40.757" />
  <row Id="8379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:00:07.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a badge for voting on, say, 100 questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131522" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:00:07.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:03:54.513" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say there's nothing wrong with promoting a product if that's what the question was about, e.g. &quot;is there any better alternative to Selenium?&quot;. But if the question is &quot;how do I do X in Selenium?&quot;, referring to other products is irrelevant. In this case, half the time his posts were half relevant, the other half they were irrelevant advertising that did not answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160618" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:03:54.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5280" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:15:34.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see one unchallenged assumption in all this discussion so far, which is that &lt;em&gt;Google is always right for 'simple' questions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know that Google can throw up crap too. I sincerely hope that there is more chance of getting the CORRECT answer to a simple programming question on SO than there is off Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just another reason for answering simple questions on SO)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:15:34.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:15:34.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8386" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:16:49.090" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the URL is shortened... count the characters below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T09:41:45.093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:41:45.093" Title="Nitpick: Comment character length limit is less than 600 when you include a URL longer than 24 characters" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;character-length&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8369" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:36:58.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd certainly wouldn't change it to links to Amazon but just to the name of the material. But yes, I would edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:36:58.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8369" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:40:40.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of replacing them with Amazon links, personally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if it's copyrighted material it is &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; illegal and we have historically removed links like that in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:40:40.940" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:40:41.350" Score="0" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;The WMD (or possibly Prettify)  does not support the dot (.) character for elements, despite it being part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#d0e804&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XML Specification&lt;/a&gt;. This comes up on StackOverflow with XAML related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is an example of the rendering of an element and attribute, both with a &quot;.&quot; in their name. Notice that &quot;.suffix&quot; is coloured incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;prefix.suffix /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a new user on this site I cannot mark this question as 'xml' or 'xaml', as was my intention)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131999" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:14:28.253" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:13:28.920" Title="WMD/Prettify does not support dot character for XML elements" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;&lt;xml&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8382" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:41:35.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;shortening is cosmetic, not actually written to the db, so this behavior is correct and by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:41:35.817" />
  <row Id="8387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:51:53.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already a badge at 300 votes, the (silver) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Civic Duty&lt;/a&gt;  badge.  I personally think people are quite free with the up votes, and too stingy with the down votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:51:53.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:56:17.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allowing people to undo a vote by clicking the opposite vote seems like an OK idea.  It does not have to replace the current behavior.   Both might make StackExchange a tiny bit more users friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T09:56:17.983" />
  <row Id="8389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:57:21.147" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we might need a badge &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; for voting on questions. That might be a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking a badge for 600+ question (not answer) votes -- make it a gold badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;some quick metrics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;# of answer votes: 1,990,598&lt;br&gt;&#xA;# of question votes: 516,783&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;# of users with &gt; 600 question votes: 34&lt;br&gt;&#xA;# of users with &gt; 800 question votes: 9&lt;br&gt;&#xA;# of users with &gt; 1000 question votes: 6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;# of users with &gt; 600 answer votes: 504&lt;br&gt;&#xA;# of users with &gt; 800 answer votes: 294&lt;br&gt;&#xA;# of users with &gt; 1000 answer votes: 175&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd like to hear other suggestions as well..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;marking as complete with new gold badge now implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Electorate]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Voted on 600 questions and more than 25% of votes are for questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T04:21:43.117" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T04:21:43.117" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="8390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T10:01:19.307" Score="12" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that to some users, clicking &quot;downvote&quot; would be the way to cancel their upvote. However, if the user has insufficient rep, they receive an error message. Maybe clicking downvote should cancel an upvote (if available) and require a second click to actually downvote (after all, who is likely to go from a positive to a negative opinion?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously if there is no upvote set, downvote should immediately downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8370/downvoting-after-upvoting-requires-you-to-have-some-reputation&quot;&gt;this is the question that sparked me thinking about it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131999" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T08:23:11.777" Title="Downvoting should cancel an upvote before attempting to apply the downvote" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-07-23T10:23:56.787" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition, our user pages only show total up/down votes.  Splitting those into questions and answers may also help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T10:23:56.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8390" CreationDate="2009-07-23T10:49:07.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the other hand a red warning box is shown when a downvote is cast, making the error obvious and easily correctable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastEditorUserId="19007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T09:04:16.163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T09:04:16.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-23T10:55:40.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;sarcasm&amp;gt;There should be no sarcasm.&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131522" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T10:55:40.827" />
  <row Id="8395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:02:39.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the metrics be a little misleading?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By definition only one question per question can be upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than one answer per question can be upvoted. Whilst this applies especially perhaps to the questions that ask for many answers (often Community Wiki, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/452864/what-are-some-of-your-oldest-programming-books-that-you-still-use/&quot;&gt;What are some of your oldest programming books that you still use?&lt;/a&gt;) it can apply to many other questions. I have only asked one question on SO but upvoted several of the answers as they were helpful to me. If the upvote criterion was changed to 'single most helpful' or 'best' or 'most correct' answer then the question votes and answer votes would be more comparable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:02:39.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8445" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:10:38.773" Score="3" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've looked through all the related questions. Only one even mentions anything about what to click to &quot;accept&quot; an answer, and that refers to a &quot;check mark&quot; symbol which I don't see anywhere. Where is a clear user guide reference on how to &quot;accept&quot; an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:39:36.063" Title="How do I &quot;accept&quot; an answer -- where do I click?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="8397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8396" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:12:42.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the check mark next to an answer. It should then turn green (or some other color depending on the site's overall color scheme?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:12:42.193" />
  <row Id="8398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8396" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:13:13.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it's to the left from answer, under the vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastEditorUserId="12855" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T11:16:36.657" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:16:36.657" />
  <row Id="8399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8396" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:13:17.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should see the outline of a &quot;tick&quot; under the up &amp;amp; down vote arrows on each answer.  Click it for the answer you want to accept (and gain 2 rep for doing it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:13:17.433" />
  <row Id="8401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-26T18:08:20.667" Score="177" ViewCount="4715" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you for your confidence in our abilities!&lt;/strong&gt; But have you read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get a lot of IT/network/computer/technical questions on here, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315470/why-do-people-ask-for-computer-it-help-if-you-tell-them-youre-a-programmer&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow is meant to be first and foremost a programmer's resource&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;someone here might be able to help you&lt;/a&gt;, but you'll find that other forums more focused on your topic can give you a much better answer than a bunch of programmers.  It's likely that your question will be downvoted, closed, and in some cases marked &quot;offensive.&quot;  It's not that we hate you, it's just that we're programmers and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/290806/do-you-try-to-make-your-code-look-pretty&quot;&gt;we like to keep our corn pops separate from our cocoa puffs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that vein, here are a bunch of other forums where you can get help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This list contains the top two forums for each category as voted for below.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://techrepublic.com.com/5221-6230-0.html#CR54&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TechRepublic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.technet.microsoft.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft TechNet Forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Networking&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; (Home)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; (Enterprise)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.devshed.com/networking-help-109/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevShed Network forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Computer hardware&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ars Technica OpenForum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tom's Hardware Forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Computer software&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.anandtech.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anandtech Forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microsoft Based Operating systems&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/12009443&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NT, Win2K, &amp;amp; XP Technical Mojo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/99609816&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft OS &amp;amp; Software Colloquium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;*&lt;strong&gt;nix Based Operating systems&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Unix and Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Linux Forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/96509133&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Linux Kung Fu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Web Design/Hosting/CMS&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doctype&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitepoint.com/forums&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SitePoint Forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webhostingtalk.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Web Hosting Talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Math, Science, Engineering&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.physicsforums.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Physics Forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planetmath.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PlanetMath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Math Overflow&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;(Graduate level math only)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://math.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Math.StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stats.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Stats.StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Games&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Game Development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://draw3cards.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Magic: the Gathering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Business&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/&quot;&gt;answers.onstartups.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Business of Software forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other/General&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo! Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AskMeFi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out the answers below for even more suggestions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What forums can people go to to ask the questions that are off topic here?  Please list only ONE forum per answer so votes can bring the best forums to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T10:52:17.963" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T10:52:17.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T23:29:05.230" Title="Where can I ask questions that aren't Stack Overflow questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="34" />
  <row Id="8418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8401" CreationDate="2008-11-26T19:17:54.600" Score="92" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this &quot;question&quot; goes against the basic tenet that drives Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No matter what programming language&#xA;  you use, or what operating system you&#xA;  call home -- better programming is our&#xA;  goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who are you to make the determination that my question about a topic &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think isn't programming-related won't make me a better programmer? For that matter, who am I to say that your question about DNS or Subversion does or does not belong here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to close questions when I thought they were not programming-related. I think a lot of times, the relationship between programming and the topic of the question is tenuous at best. And I used to act on that. Then I realized that closing questions that I thought fell outside the scope of SO was only hindering people, not helping them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming is the foundation of those very topics that you mention as being better served by another forum. IT, software applications, networking--these are all programming topics. Otherwise, what are we programming and what do we have questions about? NP-completeness discussions and Jon Skeet worship only go so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T15:45:03.943" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T15:45:03.943" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T19:17:54.600" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="8445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8396" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:15:26.147" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only accept answers on questions you have asked.  Next to each question, under the up and downvote arrows, there is a check mark.  It looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/accept.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the check mark, the question will be accepted.  Click it again to unaccept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:15:26.147" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8351" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:23:11.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki does not really shift the ownership of a post. You are still eligible for badges and your posts still show up on your profile with their vote counts regardless of your status. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This just looks like you are trying to achieve a CW status without it being CW, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would much rather be in favor of an automatic rule that said a post that got closed for not being &quot;programming related&quot; or &quot;computer related&quot; or &quot;sysadmin related&quot; or any of the other logical close reasons would not receive any rep from up and down votes during its period under close status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:23:11.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:26:44.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a different case, which is when the question doesn't change, but the environment does.  For instance, if I ask a question about, say, VIM, and there's an answer which is helpful for VIM 7.2, I'd like to vote it up.  When VIM 8 comes out, this answer may no longer be the best, and a new answer may take the place of the old one.  At this point, I may want to remove the previous vote to reflect that the answer is not as good as it used to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:26:44.063" />
  <row Id="8450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8385" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:31:03.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The code tag has never been intended to understand or support all languages. It does a good job on some, and some have problems. Like VB, Perl (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4813/improve-the-code-tag-highlighting&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). You can find many request when searching the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;syntax-highlighting tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prettify&lt;/a&gt; used, feel free to contact the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:31:03.477" />
  <row Id="8452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8396" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:32:12.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If some people can't see how to do it without asking, perhaps the interface needs redesigning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe some help text somewhere directly on your question (obviously only visible to the question author) to say that you should mark an answer and how to do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also help with the number of questions that seem never have an answer accepted even if there is a perfectly good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:32:12.317" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7999" CreationDate="2009-07-23T11:34:24.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has spoken... &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2716/amazon-affiliate-tags&quot;&gt;MSO Q# 2716&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In summary, no affiliate links in answers, even if the answer is otherwise good, useful, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with him, but this isn't my website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T11:34:24.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:02:38.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pagination is in my opinion much better then progressive loading.  Progressive loading breaks both the scrollbar and the back button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with pagination is that it breaks the browser's Find function; however, progressive loading does not fix this issue either.  (We'd need a &quot;view all&quot; or &quot;print view&quot; option.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:02:38.437" />
  <row Id="8456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:11:48.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm compiling my remarks into an answer. Just to make clear: I am in favor of a separate badge for voting on questions, I just do not see a case for it just looking at the number. As I wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that &lt;strong&gt;2 million votes on answers&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;500,000 votes on questions&lt;/strong&gt; do not support the argument of less upvotes on questions. There have to be &lt;strong&gt;4 times as many answers than questions easily&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood then added some numbers about users extensively voting. My answer: So less than 0.4% of the users vote extensively (&gt;800 answer votes). This is statistically not an interesting group. (I would expect more people to vote on answers extensively as there are more answers in the first place.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be interesting to prove the case is the vote/answer and vote/question ratio. My last answer had the id 1170939. Taking away the questions (shared id), using Jeff Atwood's number of 1990598 votes on answers, that gives &lt;strong&gt;2.12 votes per answer&lt;/strong&gt;. Stack Overflow shows 232022 questions at the moment, with 516783 votes. That is &lt;strong&gt;2.23 votes per question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we look at certain posts about when to downvote, what a downvote is to mean, asking for a certain ratio of upvotes and downvotes: what would the criteria be to up/downvote a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;useful for me +&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;useful for the community, beginners +&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;well put +, poorly formulated -&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;earn me a badge +/-&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prevent from being closed +&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;signal that this should be closed, and I do not have the reputation points to do it -&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I would see some badges (gold, silver, bronce). Are there some significant threshholds, points people tend to camp out? Then maybe these points rounded up some are good guesses for badge achievement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T11:18:52.357" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:18:52.357" />
  <row Id="8457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8458" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:12:42.007" Score="5" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I apologize if this has already been asked.  I searched for information but couldn't find any.  I was wondering why reputation isn't given when somebody marks your answer as a favorite.  I have a question that has been marked more times as a favorite then given up votes.  I would think the amount of times the answer was marked as a favorite would at most be equal to the number of up votes.  If a user marks a question as a favorite, I would think the question would automatically get up voted.  Maybe there's a reason for not having it work this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131862" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T08:46:37.957" Title="Why not get reputation when your question is marked a favorite by somebody?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8457" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:15:55.040" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Favorites more or less act as bookmarks and not always because it was of special quality. I know some of us don't even like the idea of awarding badges based upon how many people mark it as a favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:15:55.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8457" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:18:55.153" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, marking a question as favorite is a rather temporal thing. I mark questions as favorite when I'm curious about the future answers, but when my curiosity has been met, my problem been solved, I usually unmark the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather see people upvote questions they favor, as this will be more permanent. This will be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8376/how-to-encourage-voting-on-questions&quot;&gt;encourage soon&lt;/a&gt;, as it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:18:55.153" />
  <row Id="8460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2586" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:19:44.927" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see that, and also to be able to see and sort by date and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T13:10:38.623" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:10:38.623" />
  <row Id="8461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:21:47.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question votes and Answer votes could have a separate, independent voting limit, so that voting on questions would become essentially &quot;free&quot;, answer-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the current voting limit is rather low, and on active days using the site without being able to upvote the obviously better answers is a bit frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:21:47.723" />
  <row Id="8462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8470" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:22:54.120" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/128436#128436&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, it is stated that &lt;em&gt;posts enter community wiki mode when it has been edited six times by the original owner&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? I often edit posts for small, merely cosmetic reasons and do not want them to be turned wiki. I'm well aware of the automatic preview, but even after carefully considering an edit, I often (multiple times per post) notice something a few minutes or hours later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number stated in above link may not be actually correct. The current value (and implementation details) seem to be unknown. If the actual number were, say, 20, I would not mind, since a value that high ought not to cause any trouble. On the other hand, if it were 5, I definitely would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit:&lt;/b&gt; It seems a main concern is that users would be able to bump often. In this case, there are some rather easy ways to prevent gambling in the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8462/why-are-posts-turned-wiki-after-a-few-edits-by-the-owner/8471#8471&quot;&gt;Ian's post&lt;/a&gt;, so I don't this this should be an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastEditorUserId="39590" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T06:53:27.257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:53:27.257" Title="Why are posts turned wiki after a few edits by the owner?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8369" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:23:19.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are countries were downloading copyrighted materials is not illegal, only making it available. Shocking, but true. The reasoning goes: you cannot be expected to know whether a content made available to you is copyrighted. Therefore I would comment on the questions, as I proposed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8492/should-an-answer-that-encourages-illegal-activity-be-marked-as-offensive&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T13:48:44.263" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:44.263" />
  <row Id="8466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:37:21.897" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 90% of the edits I do on SO are re-tagging poorly tagged questions, and the vast majority are from people posting their first question. It's common for them to take the nouns from their summary or first line of the question, and just stick that in the tags field, which means there's generally no mention at all of the stuff that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be that low-rep users cannot make a new tag, i.e. they have to pick one from the list of existing tags. A stronger form of this would be to limit them to tags which have been used at least, say, 10 times before, although that's more dubious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would, I think, improve things considerably regarding these &quot;wildcard&quot; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:38:57.110" Title="Limit tag selection based on minimum rep?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8466" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:40:04.807" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What is reputation?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;250    Vote to close or reopen your questions, create new tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they should be getting an error message if they're entering completely new tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's likely to be happening then is that they are choosing inappropriate tags and, other than introducing complex parsing of the question, I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:40:04.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8462" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:46:52.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a 5 minute window in which all edits are counted as one, so you can make more than 5 edits but only (say) 2 show up in the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course making so many edits in quick succession means that you are likely to hit the captcha screen multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:46:52.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8462" CreationDate="2009-07-23T12:51:22.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you edit a post it gets pseudo bumped. I'm not sure of the exact logic behind changing to wiki, but it is probably to prevent you from continually bumping your posts to the top. Your post should also be fixed up within the first 2-3 edits. I don't see how you would ever need to edit a post 20 times for logical fixes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend you read over your post before you submit in order to reduce the amount of times you need to edit it. This will also help you strive for quality from the start, instead of posting a mess and fixing it slowly over time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T12:51:22.097" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:02:13.653" Score="5" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Script Source (as of Thursday, July 23, 2009):&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/infinite-scroll-on-answe.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/infinite-scroll-on-answe.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Requested By:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130349/jasonh&quot;&gt;@jasonh&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8288/ad-infinitum-scrolling-for-questions-like-google-reader&quot;&gt;ad-infinitum scrolling for questions like google reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Details:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This script will auto-append the next page of answers (if such page exists) to the bottom of the current answers when your scroll-bar hits the bottom of the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can test it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/587/must-have-firefox-addons&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/587/must-have-firefox-addons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Known Bugs:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up-voting and down-voting should be working. You should also be able to accept answers to your own questions. At the moment, you cannot click to expand comments on newly-loaded answers. Please report any other bugs/issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If you improve upon this, please post your script as an answer, along with a short description of your changes/additions.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T18:00:20.817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T06:58:47.260" Title="Script: Infinite Scrolling of Answers (Now supports voting)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="8474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:07:01.007" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the downvote mechanism should encourage useful feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how about the voter gets -3 when they downvote &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; they either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on the answer/question that they're voting down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote on someone else's comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they did either of these things the voter would only get -1 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would encourage useful feedback on downvotes. It might also discourage downvoting where the reason for the downvote is trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the one thing that I always want to know when I get voted down is &lt;strong&gt;why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:07:01.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8288" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:07:03.710" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, but first you have to install Firefox and Greasemonkey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then click here - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8472/script-infinite-scrolling-of-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8472/script-infinite-scrolling-of-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, if you're a programmer versed in jQuery/javascript, please help improve the functionality a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:07:03.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:09:27.003" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently in the situation where I wanted to search for &quot;underscore underscore try&quot; and &quot;underscore underscore finally&quot; but the search feature removes the leading &quot;underscore underscore&quot;.  This sort of thing is also a problem if your searching for things that start with &quot;.&quot;  Is there any way around this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-EDIT-&#xA;This is also a bit of a problem &quot;__try&quot; and &quot;__finally&quot; eats the underscores in the preview but not in the posted question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T23:24:45.153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:25:02.297" Title="Is there a way to search for terms with punctuation?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;flexibility&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8485" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:12:14.830" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a bunch of those 'r' questions on Stack Overflow have been tagged something like 'r r plot' or 'r ide r'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?  Either way it seems redundant so I cleaned up a bunch of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131225" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T13:10:27.947" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:18:20.923" Title="Questions tagged with the same tag twice?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:13:29.547" Score="10" ViewCount="1274" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;strong&gt;for-fun, community-building thread.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, like an estimated 4.7% of developers, ply a non-trivial amount of my trade aquatically.  We are a growing number, and our issues, concerns, and loneliness affect us, just as much as your buggy Visual Studio (or Eclipse) affects you.  This is your opportunity to reach out to fellow boat programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8208/does-so-sf-mso-and-su-make-enough-support-from-ads/8238#8238&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; please comply with the following guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proof of today's date, prefferably with a printed newspaper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proof that you belong to meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proof of Programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proof of Boating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see me here considering Naked Cowboy's bid for mayor, while pondering a bug in some collision detection code while &lt;strong&gt;ON A BOAT&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/boat-programming.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Boat Programming&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T13:44:04.560" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T15:16:08.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T13:17:55.517" Title="Post Your Boat Programming Pics!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;boat-programming&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="8481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:14:44.540" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd notify the downvoter &lt;em&gt;any time&lt;/em&gt; a downvoted question is updated &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; commented, without any option from downvoter to turn it off, except lifting their downvote or the answer being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting, in my opinion, should imply more responsibility than just losing a point of rep and forgetting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, if an answer is irrecoverably bad, it keeps being downvoted until the answerer gets the message and deletes his answer, which is not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if there is heavy activity or heavy discussion on the answer, there certainly is something about it, which should force a downvoter to keep an eye on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:14:44.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:19:21.023" Score="19" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to get a specialist badge, one must accumulate at least 400 upvotes for a single tag.  Jeff set the bar extremely high because answers to questions tagged subjective tend to get upvoted a lot, and he didn't want to give out a bunch of subjective tags the first day.  He excluded Community Wiki questions from the counts for similar reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four hundred upvotes is a lot. If you only answer questions with a particular tag, never ask a question, and none of your answers are accepted, you will have accumulated a reputation of 4001 -- easily within the top 1000 Stack Overflow users at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically, you probably won't have a specialist badge if you haven't done enough work to put yourself in the top 100. &lt;em&gt;It seems the only way to get a specialist badge is to specialize in Stack Overflow&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be another path for people who have answered only a few hundred questions or specialize in areas that don't get much traffic. As the title suggests, &lt;strong&gt;I propose that the specialist badge &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be awarded for at least n &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answers&lt;/strong&gt; for a particular tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the number of accepted answers is a better measure than the number of upvotes. The latter can be skewed by the popularity of the question(s). The former shows that you've &lt;strong&gt;helped people solve problems&lt;/strong&gt; -- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;repeatedly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -- even if the problems only garnered the attention of a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T15:14:03.370" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T15:14:03.370" Title="Should the specialist badge be awarded for n accepted answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;specialist&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:22:40.547" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know - this really feels wrong some how.  Even at -2 we already have a lot of people complaining about getting downvoted.  -5 would make that much worse.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A subtler change that would have almost the same effect is just &lt;strong&gt;don't award rep points for upvotes to questions or answers with a negative score at the time of the vote.&lt;/strong&gt;  If the complaint is that some users are slowly accumulating a lot of rep as a result of &quot;pity voting&quot;, than just target the pity votes rather than all votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it seems like the new -5/-2 change is already decided :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I was opposed to changing this at all in the past because it looked like a solution in search of a problem. So a few users gain a little extra rep score.  So what? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're using SO that much they've still invested something of themselves in the site and therefore still earned a certain amount of trust.  Beyond that point is doesn't matter; rep is just a toy.  Trying to make rep meaningful beyond that is ultimately futile.  Who cares if they're gaming the system?  Providing good answers is still a much faster way to earn rep, and so they're never going to pass any of the big contributors.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be some concern these users don't really understand the system, and so will abuse the abilities they gain from higher rep.  But if they don't even care enough to post thoughtful content to their own questions, they're unlikely to use these powers much if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently realized this view was &lt;em&gt;wrong.&lt;/em&gt;  On one hand, I'm saying these users have &quot;invested something of themselves in the site.&quot;  On the other, I acknowledge they &quot;don't even care enough to post thoughtful content to their own questions.&quot;  So which is it?  Well, both.  They &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; care.  But their actions demonstrate that they don't care as much as I thought, or care about things that don't align with the site's values.  Therefore they have not really demonstrated that they've earned any trust, and something should be done to correct this.  Whether or not they would actually abuse the trust or use it all, even correctly, isn't really relevant until they actually earn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T16:36:55.153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:36:55.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="8484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:24:06.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When discussing or linking to your own or affiliated products, a caveat and full disclosure is always appropriate, if not required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example, I like the tool Balsalmiq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;caveat: i have no affiliation with balsalmiq. and i'm not nearly as fond of ponies as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt; but i love my new iPhone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:24:06.683" />
  <row Id="8485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8478" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:25:49.433" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably a residual of retagging &lt;code&gt;r-language&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;r&lt;/code&gt;, where many questions had both tags. The retagging function doesn't check to see if it will cause duplicate tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:25:49.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4916" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:26:57.723" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a simpler suggestion for the Generalist badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generalist (silver): 5-10 (tweak this number) silver tag badges;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack of All Trades (gold): 15-25 silver tag badges or 5-10 gold tag badges or something like that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:26:57.723" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8482" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:27:24.987" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say don't change the way the current specialist badges are awarded, but rather create a different class of badges for accepted answers for certain tags. You can still be a specialist in something even if you don't win all the answers. You could be a specialist just by focusing on a single tag over a long period of time to accumulate the votes. That would in fact make you a [tag] specialist, just not a tag expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a clear distinction between a specialist (one who focuses on a tag) and an expert (one who excels at a tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:27:24.987" />
  <row Id="8488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8482" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:29:52.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Specialist badge is there to encourage good answers, regardless of if they're accepted or not. I think it is pitched correctly as it stands. However, I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8482/should-the-specialist-badge-be-awarded-for-n-accepted-answers/8487#8487&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; - a new badge to cover accepted answers for a particular tag would be a good introduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:29:52.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8347" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:33:41.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fine (even encouraged) so long as the edits are justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem can be that people will start editing and changing what is essentially a style difference. This is at least in part understandable. After all, as programmers we tend to prefer the way &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; code over what someone else does. But you have to get over that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a good edit, the OP will generally appreciate it (or at least not be put out over it). If you're making stylistic changes, it's akin to barging your way into a stranger's house and rearranging his furniture. I've seen plenty of examples on SO of this sort of thing putting people out and it might go a ways to explaining why edit/rollback wars just seem to follow certain people around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:33:41.490" />
  <row Id="8490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8466" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:38:57.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already require 250 rep to create a new tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, users with 250+ rep tend to be nearly as bad. They'll create the tag, but even if someone deletes it from that question the tag still shows up as available for a long time. So tags like 'visual' and 'server' just &lt;em&gt;will. not. die.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we really need two other things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ability to ban the use of certain common bad tags (in a public place where users can see which tags are banned).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warn&lt;/em&gt; users when they pick an uncommon tag (used &amp;lt;10 times).  Let them click through the warning, but at least give them some immediate feedback that they might be doing something wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:38:57.110" />
  <row Id="8491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8482" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:45:33.120" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have answered &quot;a few hundred questions&quot; in a particular tag but hadn't got a badge yet, that would suggest that you'd got an average of fewer than 2 votes per answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the relatively minority tags, this wouldn't be particularly good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps counting an accepted answer as a vote (or maybe two votes) as far as the specialist badges are concerned would be reasonable...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:45:33.120" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8495" CreationDate="2008-10-10T10:13:44.560" Score="16" ViewCount="455" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see an answer that involves some illegal activity, such as breaking license agreements, should I then mark this as Offensive or should I simply down-vote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141906" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:44:24.957" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:44:24.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T14:15:11.090" Title="Should an answer that encourages illegal activity be marked as &quot;Offensive&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2008-10-10T10:16:28.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark as offensive and downvote I suggest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also users with more power should be able to &quot;censor&quot; or delete the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="986" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2008-10-10T10:16:35.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both. And posts like this should be left on Uservoice =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" />
  <row Id="8495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2008-10-10T10:19:44.377" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be very conservative with that, as not all people in SO are from the same country and laws can be very diverse. I would comment on the answer that it breaks these [laws] in [country].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T21:54:36.143" />
  <row Id="8496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2008-10-10T10:20:30.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, down-vote it and mark it as offensive, even more so if it includes links to illegal content as that could get the 'guys' (read: Jeff/Joel) in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" />
  <row Id="8497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2009-01-13T12:45:56.203" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some perfectly legal things which people may rightly be offended by, and totally illegal things which offend very few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may sound trite, but I'd mark it as &quot;offensive&quot; if it offended me. If it didn't, I wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't do any harm to let someone know that their post - even though not illegal - causes offense to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131146" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" />
  <row Id="8498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2009-01-14T00:58:10.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would you want to mark it as something other than what it is? If it's a concern, add an option to mark it &quot;Involves illegal activity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2009-01-14T14:13:03.110" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless it's really, really, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; blatant that what they're doing is illegal, I'd say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T14:13:38.723" />
  <row Id="8500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2009-01-14T14:20:41.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean, like an answer that suggests downloading a piece of &quot;abandonware&quot; -- something that is copyrighted, but no longer legally available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or discussions of breaking DRM, conscientious objection, and the like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are grey areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T13:48:00.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T13:56:39.017" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm following the &quot;status-completed&quot; tag on MetaSO to see what changes are going in.  Sometimes I see questions which request something which already exists (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8126/more-tag-badges&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, for example), and they get tagged &quot;status-completed&quot;.  This is a little misleading, since you didn't actually implement/change/complete anything.  Maybe another status-* badge can be used?  Either &quot;status-bydesign&quot; or a new one (I can't think of a good name for it though.. maybe &quot;status-alreadythere&quot;?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T23:44:16.457" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T00:01:35.543" Title="Separate &quot;status-completed&quot; from &quot;already works that way&quot; suggestions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8457" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:06:18.803" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question will be marked as favorite because of an answer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:06:18.803" />
  <row Id="8504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8482" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:14:06.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To examine this, let us take the Ruby tag, which is in that tier below the most popular tags.  It has approximately 3400 questions all-time, an order of magnitude less than C#, but 1/2 - 1/5 of the rest of the top ten.  The top people average 3 to 4 upvotes per question, which means that it'll take 100 - 133 answers to earn the silver version, and 250 - 333 answers for the gold version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's too far out of line with the rest of the badges at the same level;  Strunk &amp;amp; White requires 100 edits.  The badge is meant to show a consistent dedication and skill in a given area.  Lower it too much and you've taken away the value of it.  Besides, in the long term it'll only get easier as the number of users increases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:14:06.813" />
  <row Id="8505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:15:08.167" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1265/bug-yesterday-tab-in-responses-page-shows-both-yesterday-and-today&quot;&gt;bug: &amp;ldquo;yesterday&amp;rdquo; tab in responses page shows both yesterday and today&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday screen show information from yesterday and today. I think, it should displaying information only from yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if I click on envelope I get different information, then from Today screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:31:18.503" ClosedDate="2009-07-24T05:47:41.323" Title="Recent page is little confusing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:16:03.130" Score="15" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have thought long and hard about this before posting, but couldn't keep it in anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I explain my issue, let me clarify my terminology:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO/SF/MSO, at the top you have what I would call sections: Questions, Tags, Users, Badges, Unanswered&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then within each section you have tabs, so for example in Questions you have newest, featured, hot, votes, active and an optional 'stats' when you have a tag selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with that in mind let me explain my issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see additional tabs under Questions for unanswered (no answers added), and unanswered (no answers accepted).  This is in part due to the confusion caused by the Unanswered section, which actually lists questions with no upvoted answers (by design as stated &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675/is-there-a-page-that-display-questions-with-0-answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have stopped using the Unanswered section as heavily as I used to, because it wasn't showing what I wanted (questions without an accepted answer), and maybe under this new concept, the Unanswered section (no upvoted answers) could become merely another tab. After all, the Questions and Unanswered sections aren't areas of isolation, in fact one is a subset of the other, whereas Questions, Tags, Users and Badges seem to sit well as separate entities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I have often wanted to switch between Questions and Unanswered sections, whilst maintaining whatever tags I had selected, but having these as tabs under Questions, I think would alleviate that issue too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This merely represents my user experience since joining SO/SF/MSO a few months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130274" LastEditorUserId="130274" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T14:38:45.397" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:00:03.660" Title="Improving navigation around unanswered questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8508" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:16:08.363" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Duplicate:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378&quot;&gt;Do migrated questions migrate reputation and badges?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the questions I answered was moved from SO to meta. It was the one answer with the most upvotes I gained. Some were granted after it becoming wiki due to the many answers given, but what about the rest? Will I lose the reputation earned when there is a recalc? And will I gain that reputation on meta when there is a recalc, as it now is wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not asking because of my ~400 points at stake, just want to know whether this has been taken into account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T14:53:56.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:53:56.477" ClosedDate="2009-07-23T14:53:39.650" Title="Will moving questions retain reputation in the originating system?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8507" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:21:22.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am no quite sure about how it is being handled right now, but I do have an opinion the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I think it should make you lose all the rep for the question. Especially if you have enough reputation on the site (maybe &gt;1000?). You should really have read the FAQ by then and you should know which site to post meta stuff on (hint: Not SO.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reply to Jon Skeet's question in the comments, yes I believe this applies to answerers as well. They should know better by now as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T14:25:14.113" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:25:14.113" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8505" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:27:18.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dating is relative on SO sites, doesn't always line up with your calendar day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:27:18.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8506" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:29:42.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, what would also be nice is to have a Newest tab off of the Homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, allow the users to default their Questions page to the Homepage format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:29:42.250" />
  <row Id="8511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8505" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:31:18.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I complete agree, right now the yesterday add the parameters: &quot;StartDate=2009-07-22&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-07-23&quot; which means it shows today's activity as well as yesterday's. I believe it should add parameters such that it becomes: &quot;StartDate=2009-07-22&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-07-22&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:31:18.503" />
  <row Id="8513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8506" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:33:22.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being able to traverse the list of questions with no accepted answers would be a good idea. Would make going through and answering that more on the money since you'd be able to put in an answer that might trump and be the accepted or score more than what is floating in there currently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorting through Unanswered takes out any that have had at least one answer with an upvote, which may have been just a drive-by, and essentially blinds you from seeing that question in need of some attention without bumping it for the sake of pushing it under the bus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might make pitching for that Necromancer badge a little eaiser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:33:22.237" />
  <row Id="8526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8478" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:52:15.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For info, the related &lt;kbd&gt;retag-request&lt;/kbd&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8202/retag-request-sort-out-r-vs-r-language&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. As has been stated, the bulk re-tagging doesn't currently check for duplicates. It would be nice if it did (and I expect that this will get fixed in time; either as part of retagging, or as a separate de-dup script). But not today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:52:15.837" />
  <row Id="8527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8501" CreationDate="2009-07-23T14:58:23.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Status-Completed represents the fact that this 'feature request' has been implemented and it doesn't matter &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; it was implemented. The fact remains that what the person has requested is already available to them. They should be delighted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status-bydesign means that what has been reported as a bug was in fact a particular choice by the designers and that they will not be changing that functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T14:58:23.340" />
  <row Id="8529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6696" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:26:30.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the whole graphical part of how it would be displayed, I suggest displaying them with a blue background similar to how you display owner's answers. Very simple, and conveys a clear uniqueness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:26:30.710" />
  <row Id="8530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:27:28.203" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After thinking about it a little more, I've concluded that I don't think it is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does it not matter because popular questions are likely to be undeleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the key. There are currently about 200 users with 10k+ reputation; if any one of them looks at the recently deleted questions page and sees something they don't believe should have been deleted, they can cast an undelete vote. Then it will appear on the &quot;most undelete votes&quot; list, which is much easier to find things on, and it is very likely to be undeleted. So really, any decent question is not going to stay deleted for long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, any question getting delete votes will show up on the &quot;most delete votes&quot; list, so there's a window of opportunity to save it by opening it. But there are a number of questions that I don't want either opened or deleted, so this option has limited appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do have two suggestions to improve the process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Require an extra delete vote for every 50 or 100 upvotes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I don't think highly-voted questions should be impossible to delete, but making it just a little harder might be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Display the number of upvotes on the deleted questions page.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Actually, if this one is implemented, I don't think the other one would be necessary at all. If it is easy to tell which questions are highly voted, it is easier to undelete them, and therefore it shouldn't be harder to delete them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:27:28.203" />
  <row Id="8532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5865" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:37:22.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should get SO to put a link to the reputation tracker on a Users Profile page, so it only takes a button push.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:37:22.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T15:37:22.537" />
  <row Id="8537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:48:46.037" Score="10" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add this to the very bottom of StackOverflow's style sheet (or use stylish to test it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a,div {-moz-border-radius:3px;-khtml-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It instantly will soften all the hard edges for almost all the boxes on your site that drive my eyes crazy. The tags, etc. instantly become softer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there are still a few items that don't have borders so it won't work on them (like the horizontal menu at the top of each page) but it's still a great improvement. This is subtle, but it makes a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132054" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T15:53:33.810" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:51:56.280" Title="Try this CSS snippet to make StackOverflow look better" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8542" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:52:18.043" Score="-1" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this badge is to recognize those among us who make Grease Monkey scripts to extend the functionality of the SO family sites further than any of us have imagined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be a Gold level badge and by receiving 15 upvotes on a post tagged with greasemonkey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take for example this idea:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8472/script-infinite-scrolling-of-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8472/script-infinite-scrolling-of-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T16:00:09.320" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:11:27.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T15:59:21.717" Title="How about a &quot;Grease Monkey God&quot; badge?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:53:21.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's another one for you, Jon: &quot;Because my answer on the same question got downvoted&quot;.  There's been a lot of that this morning on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would call it short-term vindictive downvoting, as opposed to your #7, which is long-term vindictive downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:53:21.847" />
  <row Id="8541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8538" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:54:18.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just call it &quot;The Sampson&quot;. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:54:18.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T16:17:41.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8538" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:54:33.853" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if you get enough upvotes with the tag &quot;grease-monkey&quot; you can already get one of the automatic tag badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's better than trying to add a new class of badge which would be moderator awarded (something we don't really have at this point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:54:33.853" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8538" CreationDate="2009-07-23T15:58:31.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will vote in favor of this if it is modified to recognize an entire range of badges for tangentially-relevant and completely subjective things.  For example, TheTXI deserves a real &lt;code&gt;OMG PONIES!&lt;/code&gt; badge.  I want one for my beautiful Super Mario castle of &lt;code&gt;kbd&lt;/code&gt; tags.  &lt;strong&gt;He Who Shall Not Be Named&lt;/strong&gt; should get one for troll-hunting.  I could go on and on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T15:58:31.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8538" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:00:57.020" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a monkey god, just write a book about all the great things you've done and disseminate it widely. Be sure to include large codices on how you prefer to be worshiped and revered for all your super-humanness. Once you've converted Jeff Atwood et al. you should be able to get a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:00:57.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T16:00:57.020" />
  <row Id="8545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8538" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:05:13.137" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard rumors of a &quot;secret&quot; badge awarded for users that make an important contribution the site implementation.  It's handed out for things like reporting security flaws or providing a patch for the mark-down code.  Perhaps enough grease-monkey work would merit it as well (if it exists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T16:11:27.913" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:11:27.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T16:05:13.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8472" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:20:35.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this one of those Raskin &lt;a href=&quot;http://humanized.com/weblog/2006/04/25/no%5Fmore%5Fmore%5Fpages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ideas&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Did I mention it's a nice idea, and a handy feature assuming it follows the users' expectation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T16:32:43.750" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:32:43.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6696" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:27:19.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely feel that a community wiki question should be different from a regular question. The latter is usually direct and looking for 1 answer. The former is usually not worth the effort to read all the answers to before throwing in something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't care if the question looks different in the list view, but would appreciate if they all came with a free 6th tag of &amp;lt;community-wiki&amp;gt;, that doesn't have to show anywhere (though that would be odd) but can be filtered against so that it's not in your list view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:27:19.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:30:25.467" Score="7" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find StackOverflow suffers from a problem of questions rolling out to the dark areas of StackOverflow too quickly because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO doesn't support threaded discussions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The badge system seems to encourage people to concentrate on recent questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Fastest gun in the west&quot; syndrome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No email notifications for comments or replies; people comment and move on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ineffective search: no way to filter search on different criteria.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After approximately 2 days, if a question doesn't get answered, it has a very low chance to ever get answered unless a bounty is set up. These questions get placed under most people's radar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T16:39:53.083" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:49:39.200" Title="Do StackOverflow questions suffer from short attention spans?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8548" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:34:58.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) SO.com is not a discussion forum.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;2) Recent questions should be the focus. We want good, fast answers.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;3) FGITW is encouraged. See #2.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;4) See #1.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;5) Google works fine for me. Tag based searches on SO.com are pretty powerful as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for the record, that is what the bounty is for, and works quite well for that.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It should also be pointed out that questions get recycled (or 'bumped') to the front page randomly forever after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you should think about posting some examples of the questions that should get answers but don't if you really are seeing a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T16:40:32.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:40:32.410" />
  <row Id="8550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8548" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:35:29.900" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The things you're listing as problems aren't problems at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No threaded discussions because it's a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a discussion site. Questions that need discussion are questions that weren't worded properly or lack important information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badge system encourages people to concentrate on answerable questions, and to do it quickly. What's wrong with quick answers? Low-quality quick answers will be downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, questions are answered quickly, or comments are added quickly stating more information is needed. This is a good thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are notifications for comments and answers. It's the little envelope icon at the top of every page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use Google if SO's search is inadequate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:35:29.900" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="8551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:37:10.850" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4152/adding-support-for-math-notation&quot;&gt;Adding support for math notation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CS is close enough to math that you tend to get a few questions and answers with equations in them. Also, another topic that would be cool to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see/5282#5282&quot;&gt;a stack exchange site for is math&lt;/a&gt;. Based on those, it would be nice to be able to get math formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark me as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4152/adding-support-for-math-notation&quot;&gt;dup&lt;/a&gt;: references &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.codecogs.com/editor.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this solution&lt;/a&gt; that rocks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastEditorUserId="1343" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T17:43:49.197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:43:49.197" ClosedDate="2009-07-23T17:45:21.723" Title="Can we get Equation formatting?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8548" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:39:51.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question talks about how to pump up some interest into your older questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, since it is assumed that you are &lt;em&gt;still interested in a response&lt;/em&gt; you should be looking up answers for yourself, and editing the question with the new information that you have. That has two bonuses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bumping:&lt;/strong&gt; The question will be moved to the top of the &quot;active questions&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interest:&lt;/strong&gt; If you have added context, or changed the phrasing, the question may come across in a way that will generate interest from people who may not have bothered before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that you keep updating the question as you find new information, and people will return the favour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T16:49:39.200" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:49:39.200" />
  <row Id="8553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8551" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:41:33.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with math formatting is that a lot of it requires something like rendering LaTeX images (like Wikipedia does), which is expensive on the server side (especially for live editing), or using something like MathML, which some browsers don't support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:41:33.220" />
  <row Id="8554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8548" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:43:21.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Unanswered page and the bounty system were both put in place to alleviate the problem of some questions not getting answered.  You can also bump a question to the top of the Active page simply by editing it.  I don't know if we really need even more solutions to take care of the very small percentage of questions that don't get answered.  It's just possible that no one on SO knows the answer to some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:43:21.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8551" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:43:53.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could just try one of the sites listed here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=59&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=59&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason otherwise for SO.com to embed this functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T16:43:53.623" />
  <row Id="8557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:52:46.817" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Place # of items found on top of the page. I have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find out if my search keywords caused too many or too few result items.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's no clear pattern for search results. Where the keywords found in the title, body,  or both? Which keywords were used? Do the results include all the words or some depending of how many results it found? Some search engines try to use fewer of the keywords to increase number of results. I don't particularly like this feature because I don't know when they are doing it unless they highlight the keywords. SO doesn't do this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Need filters on search criteria, like search for keywords in title only, body only or both. Use all the keywords or some.. etc. Search by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T17:02:29.400" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T20:00:03.187" Title="Need search filters, place # of search items on top of listing and" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2009-07-23T16:59:14.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't actually know how the moderator section works, but I assume that if a question has 2 delete votes, instead of waiting for a third, someone new could unvote 1 delete vote so that essentially they are saying, it's better closed than deleted. If that's not already the case, then that's my suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T05:00:20.263" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T05:00:20.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:02:15.310" Score="12" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there way to sort questions on &quot;unanswered/my tags&quot; page by date? There is a &quot;newest&quot; tab, but it's shows all questions, not only with my tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130951" LastEditorUserId="130951" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T06:09:44.427" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T23:00:02.167" Title="Is there way to sort questions on &quot;unanswered/my tags&quot; page by date?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:11:40.357" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disagree. I've always voted with the understanding that it hurts only a little. I've never felt bad about down-voting something I just didn't feel I liked. Increasing the penalty would discourage me from down-voting at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have wanted to down-vote something twice in a row though, and found I can't. Considering I pay for each down-vote, I felt that I should be able to say: this is really bad. So, there'd be 1 down-vote = -2:-1 and 2 down-votes = -4:-2. You could limit it there, or let people keep going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I tend to vote without regard to the cost to myself really, it's something I forget about until after the &quot;this is not worth reading&quot; feeling has passed and my vote is cast. Then I notice, oh yeah, I lose a little for down-votes. That might have to be made more obvious if you're increasing the cost, or changing the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely the rep-recalc is something of a &quot;yikes&quot; that could really leave people feeling stung. So that's one big reason not to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:11:40.357" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" />
  <row Id="8561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:16:32.370" Score="3" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anybody interested in evening meet-up of StackOverflow users in London?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking pub, beers and development chatter/discussion - something similar to the old 'Agile Tuesday' meets that used to go on a few years back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132000" LastEditorUserId="132000" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T07:15:18.760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T15:34:43.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T08:46:05.000" Title="StackOverflow meet-up in London, UK" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8564" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:20:54.363" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I visit stackoverflow.com, &quot;Active&quot; questions are displayed.  I get a list of 30 &quot;active&quot; questions followed by &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Looking for more? Browse the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;complete list of questions&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;popular tags&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  Help us answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The complete list, popular tags and unanswered questions are all paginated, (i.e. links to page &quot;1&quot;, &quot;2&quot;, ... &quot;n&quot; with 30 questions/page).  However, the &quot;Active&quot; questions pages only lists 30 questions, without the option of viewing more...  This brings up two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I view additional &quot;Active&quot; questions?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I change the default to show more than 30 questions/page?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  Ahh, I new there was an obvious answer:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;Active tab&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't this the default page when a user goes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130662" LastEditorUserId="130662" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T20:51:09.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T20:51:09.747" Title="How to list more &quot;Active Questions&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8562" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:23:05.990" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get more active questions by viewing the active tab in the Questions link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom there is a page selector so you can see as many questions as you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:23:05.990" />
  <row Id="8565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8562" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:26:24.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the Active page, on the right you'll see links that allow you to select from 15, 30, or 50 results per page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:26:24.843" />
  <row Id="8566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8568" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:26:27.040" Score="5" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I clicked on the envelope next to my name (on Meta), I noticed I had a comment from a user for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased/7834#7834&quot;&gt;one of my responses&lt;/a&gt;, it read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Alex B - commented on Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&#xA;+1 for the&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I went to the actual comment itself, it read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;+1 for the &amp;lt; 25 reputation point. – Alex B 14 mins ago&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T08:23:43.987" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:23:43.987" Title="Bug when comments that contain an angle bracket are displayed in Recent Activity section" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8537" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:28:08.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there are still a few items that don't have borders so it won't work on them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;border-radius&lt;/code&gt; works regardless of whether there's an actual border! If there's only a background it will still create rounded corners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks anyway, it does make SO look slightly better. :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:28:08.040" />
  <row Id="8568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8566" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:32:19.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed, and it doesn't even seem to be that the browser is interpreting the '&amp;lt;' as an HTML bracket, but simply that the comment ended there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;commented on&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased/7834#7834&quot;&#xA;     class=&quot;answer-hyperlink&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&#xA;  &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;+1 for the &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:32:19.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8561" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:36:24.043" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anyone was looking for an example of why a question should be closed as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;too localized&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, look no further...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:36:24.043" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6146" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:43:02.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To some extent, I am sure that you can use your SO reputation on your CV/resume, but with that comes a dangerous territory.  The reputation is not a measurement of one's skill, it is a reflection of trust from the community.  If you answer 10K questions, I would hope you have 3K reputation.  But because you've answered 10K question, does 3K really mean that much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may be able to highlight some specific questions that you helped solve, and show that you are resourceful enough to not get stuck on any one issue for very long because of tools like SO.  Overall, I hope that the reputation is not what employers look at if they look at SO at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other side of this is they could say you spend too much time on SO and would not fit in very well with their demanding schedules...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:43:02.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8577" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:52:24.757" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question title asks, can we discuss recent developments in the world of IT on SuperUser? (for that matter recent programming news on StackOverflow). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see reasons why this would be great, it's a great informed community and the discussion would be in-depth and insightful. I think people would learn quite a lot and the quality would be better than the usual found on other forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand it is a Q/A site and even with community wiki I imagine it would cause some issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:17:33.913" Title="Can we discuss Technical News on SuperUser?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;news&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:53:00.133" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/469/page-navigation-on-users-page-doesnt-work-if-using-the-input-box&quot;&gt;Page navigation on Users page doesn&amp;rsquo;t work if using the input box&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what is wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I type a name, let's say &quot;rob&quot;, to search a user in the users page. It gives me about 2 pages. However, when I click &quot;next page&quot; or &quot;page 2&quot;, it returns back to the page 2 of the whole list, not the page 2 of the users for &quot;Rob&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that this issue happens on all 3 sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132087" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T16:49:55.117" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T16:49:55.117" ClosedDate="2009-07-23T18:00:31.240" Title="Pagination wrong in Users page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;users&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:57:36.350" Score="9" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked my first question. It received one answer, which was wrong (i.e. the suggested solution did not work when actually run).  The answer has three upvotes.  I've made a comment on the answer and also updated the question to clarify what I'm asking about (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1168649/redrawing-during-drag-and-drop&quot;&gt;Redrawing during drag-and-drop&lt;/a&gt;) and to indicate that the answer didn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: is there any way to indicate that the answer is wrong? I don't have enough rep to down vote yet and even then I think I could only down vote it once and the question would still be considered answered.  I'm a bit frustrated as the question is now kind of lost in the ether as it is considered answered, when in fact it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132075" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:52:19.683" Title="Question with wrong answer upvoted" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2009-07-23T17:59:17.743" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did right. You left a comment indicating that the answer didn't solve your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T17:59:17.743" />
  <row Id="8576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:00:43.293" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without having enough rep to vote down, about the only thing in your tool box is to leave a comment as you did stating that the offered solution did not fix your problem.  You can also use that as an opportunity to seek more information from the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the solution that was posted did not work, but maybe the posted solution could be tweaked slightly to work for you.  Leaving a comment could further the dialogue on the issue and pinpoint what the next viable option is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:00:43.293" />
  <row Id="8577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8572" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:02:27.727" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SU is not a discussion site... It is a Q&amp;amp;A site...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look for sites like this one for discussion:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:02:27.727" />
  <row Id="8578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8581" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:14:30.180" Score="1" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like people have become extremely aggressive in closing duplicate questions lately (often within a minute or two), and it seems like there's a downside to this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the loss of potential new answers and new points of view worth the benefit of not cluttering the space with duplicate questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:46:36.020" Title="Aggressively closing duplicate questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="27" />
  <row Id="8579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8578" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:15:30.100" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would it be a loss of potential new answers? They are more than free to continue answering on the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:15:30.100" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8578" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:16:48.973" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they're genuinely duplicates (we just had a regex question on SO which was an absolutely exact duplicate) then no - far from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answers don't get split between to questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questioner gets to see the existing answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No-one wastes time coming up with the same answer as is already posted in another question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically it's more efficient to close duplicate questions - and precisely to get them closed &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they get wasted duplicate answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:16:48.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8578" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:17:01.107" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a loss of new answers, it's an aggregation of all answers in one place.  If you want to answer the new one, follow the dupe link and answer on the old one -- provided someone else hasn't beat you to it already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:17:01.107" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8572" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:17:33.913" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule of thumb&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;If the word &quot;discussion&quot; pops into your head, it is generally not going to work well under a Q&amp;amp;A system.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:17:33.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8586" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:20:00.110" Score="16" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't expect this to happen much, but after reading about the R-Mob hitting the SO servers recently with their questions, I thought I'd go and check out what R is. I found the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127137/sample-code-for-r&quot;&gt;Sample Code for R?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and was giddy to see what I'd find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted-answer, with 6 up-votes (last I checked) is a link to a blog (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.climateaudit.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.climateaudit.org/&lt;/a&gt;) that occasionally &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; discuss R. Seriously? &lt;strong&gt;This&lt;/strong&gt; is the accepted answer for a question asking about &quot;Sample Code for R&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is sad, in all honesty. I wanted to learn about R, and instead I ended up on a blog discussing the surface-temp of Africa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got me wondering, what is to keep 2 people from asking questions, providing nonsense answers for eachother, and accepting their friend's &quot;solution&quot;? We spend a lot of time thinking up ways to prevent a single user from gaming the system, but this type of senario seems like we should start considering small groups of 'gamers.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T16:52:21.787" Title="Question with Irrelevant Answer Accepted, and Group-Gaming" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;&lt;irrelevance&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="8585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:22:49.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully they've programmed in some heuristics to monitor that kind of 'group collaboration'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:22:49.207" />
  <row Id="8586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:22:52.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It got me wondering, what is to keep 2 people from asking questions, providing nonsense answers for eachother, and accepting their friend's &quot;solution&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wrath of the other users on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bookmarks this question for use the next time someone suggests that down-voting isn't useful...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:22:52.367" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:26:10.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5415/are-there-any-questions-with-an-accepted-answer-which-wrongly-has-negative-votes&quot;&gt;list of accepted answers with negative votes&lt;/a&gt;, you can see how the community reacts in these situations.  Moderators do have scripts we can run to detect this sort of behavior, but we also depend on the community reporting it to see if there's a pattern that we need to correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:26:10.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:26:29.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supposedly there are measures in place to detect puppet accounts.  Presumably these would detect this sort of behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:26:29.667" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8578" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:26:46.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People need to learn how to search. And not just typing in one word and giving up. Think about keywords and try different combos to limit the search. Take a few minutes and research at least a little. It is a common problem at many websites (forums, userboards, etc) and this site.  There is a lot of information on this website and the internet in general. There is a lot of data available and your question/concern might have already been addressed. Duplicate questions just add clutter and even more search results to sort through. This applies to search with google and any websites search function. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an easy start.  The advanced button on google....&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at that site and think like those advanced options questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T18:46:36.020" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:46:36.020" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:33:27.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's one reason why I'd like to see the separate counts for up- and downvotes for each answer and question. Sometimes the sum just isn't enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:33:27.923" />
  <row Id="8591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8578" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:39:27.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think duplicate questions serve the purpose of drawing attention to the older original questions.  It's important to close the duplicates quickly so answers don't get split and so the link to the original appears at the top of the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:39:27.170" />
  <row Id="8592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:42:02.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've jumped the gun a bit, at least on the post you're referencing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is valid, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the answer is actually valid.  It seems that R has something to do with statistics and must be useful to climate study.  For instance, see the following entry on that blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.climateaudit.org/?page%5Fid=372&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.climateaudit.org/?page_id=372&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answerer should have pointed out that you'd have to dig a little bit through the blog to find content about R.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70132" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:42:02.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1418" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:50:53.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, all you have to do is hover over one of the listed questions, look at the 6 or 7 digit number in the link for the question, and type that into the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:50:53.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8574" CreationDate="2009-07-23T18:52:19.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you don't mark the answer as &lt;em&gt;the answer&lt;/em&gt;, people will still see it in the list of questions and will probably have a look and see your comment (or maybe they see that the answer doesn't apply to your question) and add their own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it might be more interesting for some to go to a question that has 0 answers compared to one that has several, but that shouldn't really matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T18:52:19.683" />
  <row Id="8595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:00:00.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wanted to get a lot of rep, they'd ask and provide answers back and forth, but wait a few days then put out bounties then immediately accept the answer.  The system throws in an extra 50 rep for the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just sayin...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T16:52:21.787" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T16:52:21.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8750" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:10:12.240" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;When trying to connect to any of SO's sites from work, I notice that they come up as 403: Forbidden on Windows. I checked the corporate web filter and these sites are not on the blacklist. Any ideas on why I can access SO from any computer &lt;i&gt;except&lt;/i&gt; the windows machines at work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132101" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T02:02:21.153" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T02:02:21.153" Title="403 Forbidden returned for any SO related page" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;access&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:10:39.257" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we all agree that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta Is Murder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, maybe it is time to migrate the &quot;Site FAQ&quot; link located to the bottom of a website's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq link&lt;/a&gt; to point to meta.stackoverflow.com ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, anyone looking at that page and posting a &lt;code&gt;so-faq&lt;/code&gt; gets his/her question closed and migrated here by the community. Might as well point them to the right place...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this proposal is to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add four tags to the &quot;required&quot; list of Meta StackOverflow, namely:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; : FAQ related to any of the SO family websites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq+stackoverflow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;faq + stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; : FAQ related to Stack Overflow only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq+serverfault&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;faq + serverfault&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; : FAQ related to Server Fault only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq+superuser&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;faq + superuser&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; : FAQ related to Super User only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replace the &quot;Site FAQ&quot; link to point to a search page searching for the proper tags, ie.: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq+stackoverflow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;faq + stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T15:24:22.430" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T15:24:22.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T20:20:23.970" Title="Migrate the &quot;Site FAQ&quot; link to Meta StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8596" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:13:35.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wonder if it has anything to do with my earlier question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8556/403-forbidden-on-http-superuser-com-questions-ticks1248367327861&quot;&gt;403 Forbidden on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/ticks?_1248367327861&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/ticks?_1248367327861&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting: &lt;a href=&quot;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; reports Superuser as being down...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:13:35.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8615" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:15:21.907" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that on SO there are now questions without answers and low views for much longer than when only SO existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are people hanging out more on meta (like me now for example), or SU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think this will hurt the great quality of answers one could get on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T19:17:39.927" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T20:20:56.337" Title="Has the division on all four sites affected SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:18:10.677" Score="13" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3669/would-it-be-possible-to-have-a-community-accepted-feature&quot;&gt;Would it be possible to have a “community accepted” feature?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People with reputation points &gt;= 5000 should be allowed to vote for accepted answers for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, a lot of new people come in, do a hit and run question and never mark an answer as accepted. Using this mechanism would solve this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could work as the following, close to the &quot;Close Question&quot; mechanism in place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You must have 5000 reputation points or above to vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You cannot vote for your own answer to be accepted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To mark an answer as accepted on a question with no accepted answer (for a day) requires 5 votes from the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To discourage people from voting to advantage someone, a vote cost 10 rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP of the question can mark an answer as accepted with no votes and override any votes without cost.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Optional&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This mechanism could also be extended to allow the move of an accepted answer (if the accepted answer is wrong):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To move an accepted answer, it requires 15 votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add 5 votes each time an accepted answer has been moved. (Ie.: second move requires 20 votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T07:19:23.683" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T07:19:23.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T19:27:20.440" Title="Community vote for &quot;Accepted Answer&quot; (Rep. &gt;= 5000 only)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8597" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:18:28.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It still needs to point to some kind of FAQ, so they can directly find their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:18:28.867" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8605" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:19:18.753" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;When coming to superuser.com yesterday I was presented a link to a (very useful) Responses tab (at the top of the page): &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/recent/1495/2009-07-22/2009-07-23?tab=responses&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/users/recent/1495/2009-07-22/2009-07-23?tab=responses&lt;/a&gt;.  But I can't figure out how to navigate there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132110" LastActivityDate="2011-06-01T00:44:14.137" Title="How do I navigate to the Responses tab?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8600" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:19:19.377" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's what the up-votes are for. Up-votes show, unequivocally, what the community likes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:19:19.377" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:20:06.653" Score="5" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;When closing a post as an exact duplicate, there is a prompt to enter the question it is a duplicate of.  If there have been other votes to close as a duplicate, you will see the posts those other users thought it was an exact duplicate of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem, as seen in this screenshot, is that the same master question gets listed multiple times.  They should be grouped and sorted by frequency cited, with something like &quot;(3)&quot; after them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/415/duplicatequestiondialog.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:20:06.653" Title="Group previously-selected master questions in duplicate questions dialog" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8602" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:21:24.197" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click your name (in the top bar), and then the 'responses' tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="132110" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-01T00:44:14.137" LastActivityDate="2011-06-01T00:44:14.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:22:48.960" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually consider this a bug. I've just clicked the wrong reason by accident, and I can't change it. It wouldn't be a stretch to imagine accidental votes get cast too. It's also pretty bad UI design since it seems like you can change your reason until you try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see any downside to allowing a minute or two to undo the mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26334" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:22:48.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:24:26.540" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any work going on to try to put questions in front of people that are the correct expert to answer them?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, when somebody like John Resig logs on, it should be very easy for him to see a few jquery questions that are most in need of his help.  Ideally, they would be the most &quot;important&quot; questions, perhaps defined by the the question having more upvotes than any answers.  Ideally, should all be inferred automatically without the system having to know that he created jquery, but the idea of people being able to &quot;vote&quot; that a certain user take a look at a question is neat to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another variation of this feature is putting answers in front of people that might be able to improve them.  Again, if an answer has been accepted but hasn't gotten as many upvotes as the question, perhaps it needs some love from an expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131493" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:43:56.163" Title="Intelligent Question Routing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;experts&gt;&lt;question-routing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8607" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:24:58.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Interested Tags.&quot; Things like this should be opt-in. I should seek out PHP/jQuery questions, you shouldn't hunt me down with them :) SO has to be a hobby, a labor of love, not a job. Most of us are already given a todo-list every morning :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:24:58.323" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="8609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8607" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:27:13.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the unanswered questions page, questions are sorted by tags that you have previously participated in.  That is the closest we have right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of sorting by the tags you have selected as interesting, it used to sort by tags that you had previously participated it.  I think I liked that better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T19:43:56.163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:43:56.163" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8600" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:28:21.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; understand the need for moving an answer (but really, if the person who made a question marks an answer as the answer, that answer ought to be a good one, even if there might be an answer that many of the community consider better further down.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for marking an answer when there is no answer, the only person it would benefit would be the person who submitted the answer, if you ask me. See this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990364/how-can-i-get-a-regex-to-check-that-a-string-only-contains-alpha-characters-a-z/990369#990369&quot;&gt;990364&lt;/a&gt;. It's obviously the community-voted answer, and since it's at the top, it's functionally as good as if it had been marked the answer. If it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; marked as the answer however, I might get a silvery badge, which would be nice and all, but it doesn't improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my two cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:28:21.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T19:28:21.913" />
  <row Id="8611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8600" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:28:32.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I have an Enlightened badge awaiting if a guy ever hits that bloody accept checkbox, I still can't get behind this one. The voting system works, as has been proven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times, users accept answers which help them the most, but the community doesn't necessarily like the best. Henceforth, we have the Populist badge. Why should you strip that reward mechanism away from the questioner? Though somebody explained something clearly to me (and I may upvote it), it may not be in terms that the OP can understand. Ergo, the &quot;Accepted Answer&quot; should be a responsibility that lies with the OP and possibly Moderators, if need be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T19:33:45.533" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:33:45.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T19:28:32.593" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:34:32.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this on Jeff's blog. I suggest that these sites become multi-language, with automatic content filtering based on an users preference. Here's my post to Jeff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the point about splitting communities is relevant. While I'd perfectly capable of using both English and (hypothetically) Portuguese Stack Overflow, I would be unlikely to check both, at least with the same frequency. I'd be willing to see questions in both languages, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the problems of mixing content are being overrated. Let's see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Browsers inform accepted languages. These can be taken as default, and overridden in the profile. So the initial experience can be optimal with no effort on the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Automatic recognition of language can be done the same way we do automatic recognition of spam, Bayesian filters. Word does it, by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Language-specific URLs can then be used to &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; a language regardless of profile settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is my suggestion. I'll leave a question here, though. What is the percentage of good answers/nice answers from users coming from non-English speaking countries? I ask this, because these are the answers you are likely to lose if you send the native speakers of these countries to other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, thinking about it, if we do go this way, it might be helpful if there was a feature to enable translation of a question from one language to the other, and linking question in different languages as being the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132113" LastEditorUserId="132113" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T19:40:01.523" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:40:01.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:46:01.977" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to opt in to being notified of changes on other posts besides our own. I may just be lazy but it's inconvenient to have to periodically check other interesting posts manually, via the built in favorites or otherwise. I'd like to be notified of specific things like new comments and post edits so I don't have to waste my time eyeballing what's changed from last week and this week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opting in could be presented just like the notification check box that appears at the bottom of the Ask Question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59180" LastEditorUserId="59180" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T22:46:05.933" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T22:58:32.913" Title="Notify us of changes to posts that are not our own" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;posts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8613" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:48:54.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click that little star next to the question. Then, it'll show up in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/59180?tab=favorites&quot;&gt;your Favorites tab&lt;/a&gt;, and you can sort by &quot;Recent.&quot; Use this for temporary bookmarks when you want to keep track of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:48:54.357" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8599" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:52:43.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I think it helped SO.  SO has aquired a large base of users and has a lot of content now.  The division keeps SO more focused. Every site has a purpose.  I would hang on meta if I want to ask or check out meta related questions and the same for all the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you hang out in the site with the most topics you deal with the most often or maybe the one you know the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:52:43.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8622" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:52:51.763" Score="6" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on SO and one of the answers was not only unhelpful, but it addressed something that I already dealt with in my question.  I wanted to down vote the answer, but since I just joined SO, I didn't have enough rep to do so.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why people can't start down voting everything when they first join SO, but I think we should be able to down vote answers to our own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132117" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:32:48.197" Title="Down vote an answer to my question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8600" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:53:06.017" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though I (once) thought it was a good idea, Jeff has been pretty clear that this isn't going to happen. I'll copy his answer to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/21704-community-accepted-answers?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice ticket&lt;/a&gt; that I posted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3669/would-it-be-possible-to-have-a-community-accepted-feature/3714#3714&quot;&gt;a similar question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every part of Stack Overflow is run and moderated by the community except one: the selection of the accepted answer. As long as you have one person in charge of selected answers you will always have to deal with their particular biases, which decrease the value of Stack Overflow as an objective reference to programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea that in addition to the answer selected by the asker that there be a community selected answer. This would be completely orthogonal to the up/down votes for the questions, and would only allow one selected answer per person per question. An approach like this would greatly serve to make Stack Overflow a more equitable and fair system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is how it could work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Expose the &quot;select answer&quot; link to everyone (or perhaps just registered users) and allow them to select at most one answer per question. The answer with the highest number (5 or more) of selections becomes the community-selected answer. To reduce potential for abuse, there should be no reputation or badge associated with this answer selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(this is in response to criticism that Stack Overflow is merely the &quot;blind leading the blind&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogging-harmful.blogspot.com/2008/08/stack-overflow-blind-leading-blind.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogging-harmful.blogspot.com/2008/08/stack-overflow-blind-leading-blind.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the official response was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did. Votes and sorting are the de-facto community answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;community mode essentially achieves this; see FAQ. Posts automatically get moved into community wiki mode when certain criteria are met. Also, votes are de-facto choosing the community accepted answer; it's the one with the most votes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly an interesting suggestion, but unless something has changed in the nature of StackOverflow in the intervening months (as well it could have) I think that the official response would be much the same today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:53:06.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T19:53:06.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:53:55.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just grit your teeth, and wait a couple of days. You'll get there. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T19:53:55.110" />
  <row Id="8619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:55:46.900" Score="17" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite often add a question as a favourite when there is something of interest to me in it or its answers. Looking back through my favourites, I cannot remember why I added some of them as a favourite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to be able to do is to add a note/comment when I add a favourite as a reminder as to why I've added it. This will show on my favourites page, but nowhere else - and possibly to no one else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it would be good to be able to favourite an answer to a question, thereby adding a favourite to both the question and a particular answer with something of note in it. This would only show as a single favourite, but when clicking its link would go to the favourited answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible? Or is there another way of doing this? I've already got too many favourites to remember why I added a lot of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:28:02.217" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:28:02.217" Title="Adding a note to a favourite" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2009-07-23T19:59:14.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep restriction keeps the trolls out.  Rep roughly shows some participation on the site and should know the boundaries of the site rules.  Otherwise, you got some punk that think its cool to just downvote all he wants if he is already at 1 rep.  There is also a lot of first timer questions and then they are gone once they get answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Ok, now I understand your concern better.  Yah I do agree with you that you should be able to at least up and downvote answers to your questions.  You know your question better than anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only concern I have for people is just to make sure to ask your questions thoroughly and give any relevant details.  Questions like &quot;Its broke, How I R do this?&quot; do not go over well and the wrath of SO/MSO/SF/SU shall descend upon them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T21:26:35.857" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T21:26:35.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:00:24.910" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some questions that have an accepted answer, the tooltip in the green tick has the wrong timestamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623062/why-was-googles-chrome-browser-written-almost-entirely-in-c-and-not-c-or-java&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for an example. The tooltip says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question owner accepted this as the best answer 0 secs ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says this no matter when you go to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't happen on all questions. Perhaps it is something to do with the question being a wiki or having had a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-29T15:41:06.223" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T15:41:06.223" Title="Incorrect time in accepted answer tooltip" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="8622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:01:12.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can add a comment on their response to allow them to try and improve their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also edit your question to make it &lt;em&gt;even more&lt;/em&gt; obvious that you've already tried that solution, or it's not what you're looking for, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've edited your question, you also have the added bonus of moving it to the top of the active list, which will hopefully drive more useful people to take a shot at answering it, and you'll end up with more upvotes and hopefully a good solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as the final icing on the cake, by that time you'll have enough reputation to downvote that initial annoying incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T20:01:12.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:03:19.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget your StackOverflow t-shirt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132078" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T20:03:19.150" />
  <row Id="8625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:14:22.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something to take notes, such as one of those 'notepads' and 'pens' I have been hearing about, otherwise a small laptop would suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as Jon Skeet says, you are not doing a workshop (as far as I know). It is a presentation so you probably don't need the actual technologies with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastEditorUserId="35454" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T18:00:56.910" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:00:56.910" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:15:17.663" Score="7" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently Questions and Answers listings under the stats tab on the user page can be sorted by Recent, Views, Newest and Votes. By default the sort order is by votes. If you select a different sort order then refresh the page the sort order is reset to votes. It'd be nice if the sort order was remembered across page visits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59180" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T03:04:13.033" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:04:13.033" Title="Make sort order for questions and answers on user pages sticky" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8599" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:20:56.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is still monstrously busy compared to SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion SU is going to suffer because it's discussion is SO unfocused. Almost any question appears to be fair game, and when something is closed, it seems arbitrary and contradictory, because there's 13 similar questions still open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85344" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T20:20:56.337" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8638" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:53:10.827" Score="5" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of a question page there's this text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not the answer you're looking for?&#xA;  Browse other questions tagged [tags]&#xA;  or ask your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the &quot;ask your own question&quot; part should be omitted if it is already &quot;your own question&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46642" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:00:02.447" Title="Hide the &quot;ask your own question&quot; message at the bottom of your own questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:56:20.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was standard practice to bring rotten fruit to things like these...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added more useful answer/my opinion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The serious answer? I'm bringing nothing more than a pen and pad of paper to jot down some reminders of URLs or other references to look into when I get home. I can't imagine that there will be time to do any computer work during the talks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the point of paying money to listen to people when you are tapping away at a computer? If you want demos and screencasts, go to those websites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly hope that the speakers are not just doing dog and pony shows - if so then I'll be disappointed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would find it hugely distracting to be listening to a speaker and have some guy sitting next to me trying to follow along mouse click by mouse-click. What's the point of that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T14:38:08.157" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:38:08.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:59:55.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree - this is a good idea and I upvoted it.  There's an easy solution - don't vote to close ones that may be reopened.  A little more leeway solves this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see all the downvotes for this already...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T20:59:55.077" />
  <row Id="8637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:08:39.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bring all your badges and wear them proudly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T21:08:39.123" />
  <row Id="8638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8630" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:14:50.487" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just like after you have already answered a question and the bottom note says 'Add Another Answer,'  perhaps it should say something like 'Ask another question.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T21:14:50.487" />
  <row Id="8641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8644" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:25:06.193" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just check it out: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1?tab=recent#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1?tab=recent#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Support is supposed to be rewarded for your first upvote. Why would Community upvote somehing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46642" LastEditorUserId="46642" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T21:33:19.067" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:47:57.403" Title="Why does the Community user/bot have the Supporter badge?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:25:57.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Towel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;towel&lt;/a&gt;, what else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I am interested in what I should bring to this event - this is my first conference so I don't really know what to expect. I considered leaving my MacBook and just taking my camera and iPhone, but I think that I might miss it if there's something I want to try out during the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T14:25:52.467" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:25:52.467" />
  <row Id="8644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8641" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:27:46.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you look, the Community User &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1?tab=stats#sort-top&quot;&gt;owns 70 upvotes&lt;/a&gt;, so it's not a bug. The reason why it was recently awarded is because Community owns the upvotes on migrated questions, a fairly new feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T21:27:46.797" />
  <row Id="8645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:28:30.903" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: Providing Computer Geeks with Friends since 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131887" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T21:28:30.903" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:45:54.507" Score="36" ViewCount="469" Body="&lt;p&gt;I listened to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-62&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO podcast today&lt;/a&gt; and one comment Joel made was is that if you're posting a question about a problem you're having, he prefers you do not mention the troubleshooting steps you took so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't do this, I am going to get all kinds of answers which would treat me like a newbie or steps anyone would have done as a start. I went through this and its frustrating and time wasting. I want answers that take me forward from the point where I am out of ideas. Because SO suffers from questions getting stale quickly, I need to take advantage of the &quot;smart productive&quot; answers which hopefully will get posted the day my question is posted. That's why I have to mention &quot;I tried this and this and that.. now what?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel wants a checklist in the answers. This is where we have a conflict of interest. As an SO user, I want to solve my problem NOW. Joel wants his site to be a reference, a repository of information, in the web where it doesn't matter to him if it takes days or weeks to build a good repository for each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this is part of a comment on the blog also I made)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T19:13:13.047" LastActivityDate="2010-06-21T10:17:35.320" Title="What should I do since Joel Spolsky doesn't want questions to have troubleshooting steps?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:48:39.370" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say keep putting your steps in the question until there is a better way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I listened to him talk about putting that content in the answers as well, but even he didn't seem to understand how it would actually work. I agree with Joel in principle, but the fact he needs to understand is that SO.com simply does not work the way he wants it to. The input he is giving probably should have been made at the start. Changing this behavior in the system (I don't believe users can just change their behavior to fix this) would be chaotic at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T21:48:39.370" />
  <row Id="8654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T21:59:08.253" Score="41" ViewCount="1060" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to edit my answers. To clarify, illuminate, add examples, add links, point to new information as it crops up, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's highly irritating that my effort to improve my answer turns it into a Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could anything be done to keep me from turning into a collective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just happened to me again... Ah well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164492/sine-table-interpolation/1178982#1178982&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1164492/sine-table-interpolation/1178982#1178982&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T15:55:09.687" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T19:20:30.410" Title="SO is too eager to turn my edited answers into Community Wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="8655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:02:44.497" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO won't be the reference Joel wants if StackOverflow doesn't prove to be a fast and effective tool for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By all means, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; tell us what you've already tried. I don't want my time taken writing an answer attempt that you've already ruled out by experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this point, it's currently&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abdu: 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel: 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:02:44.497" />
  <row Id="8656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:02:47.887" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I concur with this one; edits from the original author shouldn't count towards community-wiki-ness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:02:47.887" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:04:42.390" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason this is in place, if I remember correctly, is to prevent people form endlessly bumping their posts with edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it is a pain though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:04:42.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="70485" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:04:14.477" Score="0" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love Stack Overflow, but I have to admit I get frustrated when I see how quickly and often subjective, opinion, not-programming-related-(enough), etc. questions get closed. I understand the motivation behind this. We don't want those type of posts (including this one) to clutter up the Unanswered/Hot/New sections, making it harder for legitimate questions to get attention. However, I have often seen a significant interest in those types of questions, which makes sense to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, most of the people in the circles that I run in wouldn't know what I was talking about if I asked them what is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78354/worst-thing-youve-seen-on-code-closed&quot;&gt;&quot;Worst thing you've seen on code&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. This is just one of the many reasons it would be nice to be able to discuss such things here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I alone in my desire to have a place on Stack Overflow where we can have discussions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132136" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-19T09:05:45.057" LastActivityDate="2010-11-19T09:13:20.500" Title="Do you feel Stack Overflow needs a general discussion forum?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:06:50.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:06:50.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:08:15.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Meta&quot; SO is different from something like a &quot;Nerd Lounge.&quot;  Is that what you're getting at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://channel9.msdn.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Channel 9&lt;/a&gt; has the nice divisions of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Techoff/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tech Off&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coffeehouse&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:08:15.327" />
  <row Id="8661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:08:52.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No discussions on Stack Overflow please. If you wish to discuss Stack Overflow, this is the place to do it, but please keep it on topic anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all you want is a place to discuss your favorite chair, by all means create your own site. If you are hooked on this format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are really clever, I recommend you make your own site that fits really well into the Stack Overflow paradigm, but then create (or have someone create for you) a GreaseMonkey script that will allow users that opt in to see discussions on questions as a tab or something similar on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-19T09:13:20.500" LastActivityDate="2010-11-19T09:13:20.500" />
  <row Id="8662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:13:25.253" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for having the questions/answers automatically going into Comunity Wiki status, was to prevent people from editing Their question/answer just to bump the question to the first page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing is, it doesn't really solve the problem, you could just go edit someone else's answer, and it would bump the question up. Or add another answer to the page, perhaps with a dummy account, and have it edit it's own answer repeatedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would prefer it &lt;strong&gt;not bumping&lt;/strong&gt;, to it becoming a Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anybody wants to know where this rule came from, it was discussed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-20/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #20&lt;/a&gt;. I have included the relevant portion of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24222&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;: - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Somebody wrote a bot that would just&#xA;  revise posts every minute to keep it&#xA;  on the top of the stack. Actually&#xA;  there is a certain amount of people&#xA;  doing that still, which I'm trying to&#xA;  discourage. They way I like to&#xA;  discourage things is, where possible,&#xA;  creating rules in the system that make&#xA;  that behavior not desirable. Not&#xA;  negative, necessarily, but things&#xA;  happen that make it not worth much to&#xA;  you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So let me give you a specific&#xA;  example in that scenario. You have the&#xA;  user who's just editing their own&#xA;  posts every three hours so that it's&#xA;  always on the top of the stack. We&#xA;  have this concept now, it's actually&#xA;  implemented though I talked about it&#xA;  in previous podcasts, of the community&#xA;  owned post. Because one of the great&#xA;  divides in StackOverflow is that we&#xA;  have this ownership system where you&#xA;  get voted up and down, your content&#xA;  gets voted up and down, and that&#xA;  affects your reputation. You own&#xA;  stuff, so when you post something you&#xA;  own it. Then you contrast that with&#xA;  the Wikipedia model which is that&#xA;  nobody seems to own it, and we're&#xA;  trying to do both of those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At&#xA;  the transition point we came up with a&#xA;  couple rules. The initial rule I had&#xA;  was that edits by four different&#xA;  people will cause a post to switch&#xA;  from being owned by Joel, for example,&#xA;  to being owned by the community user.&#xA;  At that point you don't lose any&#xA;  reputation that you got up to that&#xA;  point, but any future upvotes on that&#xA;  content don't go to anybody they go to&#xA;  the content. I think this is the way&#xA;  it should be. Ultimately you're voting&#xA;  on the content more than the person&#xA;  anyway, so hopefully people are ok&#xA;  with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seeing that people kept&#xA;  editing stuff over and over I bent the&#xA;  rules a little bit and said ok, if you&#xA;  edit your own thing more than N times&#xA;  then it also becomes a community owned&#xA;  post. There is no real value to the&#xA;  user, in terms of getting additional&#xA;  reputation, to bump stuff up to the&#xA;  top of the stack anymore because if&#xA;  you edit your own thing enough you&#xA;  won't get any reputation from it. It&#xA;  behooves you to only edit it once, or&#xA;  however many times you need to edit it&#xA;  but hopefully no more than once, and&#xA;  just let it sit there and have people&#xA;  find it organically and naturally the&#xA;  way it is supposed to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T08:57:48.647" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T08:57:48.647" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:13:55.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, that would go against the rules/goals/direction of these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:13:55.677" />
  <row Id="8664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:19:30.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think opportunity knocks for someone to make a community based forum tightly coupled with SO. It certainly makes sense that people who interact answering each others questions would want to interact in other discussions. It doesn't have to be on SO, but it is a community waiting to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:19:30.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:25:42.707" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not providing that information is a waste of time for those answering and for the one making the question.  I did not listen to the podcast yet, but that sounds like a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think most people answering questions would prefer to have the steps already tried listed in the question.  In fact, I have seen many questions/answers where people have had to ask &quot;what steps did you take&quot; and many times there was a long comment discussion when answers had already been tried and the OP had to state that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the solution is that some editing AFTER the questions is resolved might put the question/answer pair it into the form that Joel seems to want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not giving steps you've already tried might work out ok for asking questions about turtles, but it is not a perfect fit for all our other questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:25:42.707" />
  <row Id="8667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:31:08.453" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is quite a bit of the original vision that didn't quite end up the way Joel wanted and it has to do with ownership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since everyone owns their own answer, there is a natural desire not to &quot;steal&quot; the information and combine into one answer. There is no culture of trying to grab all of the relevant information and make &quot;the clear answer&quot; out of it for every question. First, this really messes up the voting, as what was voted on has nothing to do with the question as edited. Second, it is frowned upon as reputation grabbing, and third, it mis-allocates reputation to the one who does the final editing, rather than the one who gave the real information necessary to have an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just isn't how the community evolved (if it was even possible to direct the community to actually do that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way of getting there is have a community &quot;ultimate&quot; answer on every question that fulfilled that checklist vision, but I don't think too many people would volunteer to edit the question and answer to get it to that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:31:08.453" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:31:32.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you could put a description of the steps you took in an answer immediately following the question. I suggest composing the answer notepad/gedit to reduce the window where others may try to answer the incomplete question in a way that will not be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I tempted to suggest that Joel can go push it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:31:32.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:46:23.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should continue to leave the CW bumping. The system works fine as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen quite a few instances where people abuse the system with editing and bumping, and if the system didn't automatically change the post to CW, they would gain a lot more reputation for this abusive behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T22:58:08.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:58:08.033" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8641" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:47:57.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real question I have to ask is: &quot;Who cares?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you in competition with the community user or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:47:57.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8871" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:52:14.187" Score="6" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at someone's rep graph that has only been using SO for a few weeks you'll see something like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lincolnfair.net/css_javascript/2.PNG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But overtime the points become too close to really see like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lincolnfair.net/css_javascript/1.PNG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not allow users to zoom in on the graph to a specific date(s), by doing this you would actually be able to see the points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T04:45:00.600" Title="Zoom in on rep graph?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8673" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8685" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:53:30.553" Score="2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of my programming fellows are fluent in reading and understanding English texts but they have problems when try to write a question or explain something. I'm having the idea of program a site similar to stackoverflow but oriented to Spanish speakers. I personally think the mechanism stack overflow uses to encourage good answers to programming question rocks. Am I evil? Am I doing bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130197" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T14:57:56.543" LastActivityDate="2010-07-24T14:57:56.543" Title="Am I doing bad if I program a site similar to stack overflow but for spanish speakers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;non-english-speakers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8673" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:59:33.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, you should really wait for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; to come out and make a Spanish programming site based off that. Not only is it easier (you save on development time and cost) but it's completely evil-free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:59:33.510" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8673" CreationDate="2009-07-23T22:59:59.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you read Jeffs posts on this topic, this is exactly what he wants you to do so go for it. Or have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; where you can use the framework already written to support you on this... not sure who'd pay for it though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46527" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T22:59:59.263" />
  <row Id="8677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:00:08.760" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really play on SO so I can't speak for how things work there. On Server Fault, not providing your troubleshooting steps seems to be a recipe for getting a plethora of poor and unhelpful answers and for making it take a lot longer to get a helpful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd look at asking a question on Server Fault (if I ever do ask any) a little bit like how I ask questions of technical support. I start by &quot;doing my homework&quot;, and I develop a written description of what I've done so far that I ship off to my tech. support rep. at the beginning of the case. This gets a lot of the simple questions off the table quickly and gets us down to the brass tacks of resolving the issue faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not having heard the podcast yet I can't comment directly on what Joel might've said. It seems only natural to me that the posters asking questions are here to find answers to their questions, not to build a reference resource. The fact that these sites are becoming reference resources is just an artifact of their function. (As long as the jerks who run the &quot;hyphen site&quot; get run out of business I really don't care what happens anyway... &amp;gt;smile&amp;lt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastEditorUserId="130120" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T23:06:42.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:06:42.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8681" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:03:21.883" Score="1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to me that SO is inundated with questions which can answered by a trivial google search or by perusing the documentation.  I'm not talking about 1 or 2 out of 100, but like 20-25% of the questions are of this type.  My feeling is that SO is devaluing itself by allowing these questions.  If SO wants to continue to be a truly &quot;expert&quot; forum it might be prudent by following the custom of some language centric irc channels and not tolerating questions that can easily be answered by some effort in reading or searching on the part of the questioner.  Continuing to allow these questions dilutes the quality of SO and may even sink it to irrelevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:56:44.640" Title="Disallowing questions that can be easily googled or answered by RTFM" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:04:14.837" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2063/large-blank-gap-between-question-list-and-pager&quot;&gt;Large blank gap between question list and pager&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I might be facing a possible bug in the stackoverflow question list  when browsing with Safari 4.0.2 under MacOS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I select the 'Hide ignored tags' preference, then no question belonging to my ignored tags show up in the list (good), but there is a blank space proportional to the number of not shown questions in the bottom part of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When opening the same question list under firefox (3.0.11 under MacOS X) the same questions show in the page, but there is no extra space between the last question shown and the 'Go to page' / 'Select number of questions per page' tool bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:05:36.887" ClosedDate="2009-07-24T01:14:10.827" Title="Possible bug with 'hide ignored tags' preference option?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="8680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8679" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:05:36.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it has to do with WebKit. The same happens for Google Chrome on Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:05:36.887" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8678" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:06:45.510" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point is to build a database of Q&amp;amp;A so that Google will always find it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:06:45.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8678" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:08:23.137" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: I was being sarcastic!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google can find anything so why don't we just stop using SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T01:34:24.080" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:34:24.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:11:06.743" Score="-3" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;All those very non-specific, throw-me-an-upvote, general opinion questions...  Very annoying.  Kind of like this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="856" LastEditorUserId="856" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-17T17:33:38.457" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T17:33:38.457" ClosedDate="2010-10-16T20:54:28.773" Title="What's with all the lame questions on SuperUser?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8678" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:12:45.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5280/embrace-the-non-googlers&quot;&gt;Embrace the non-Googlers…&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8724/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;How to deal with google questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T12:56:44.640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:56:44.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8673" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:15:27.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely don't think this would be evil in any way. In fact, Jeff's blog post from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, suggests to me he would encourage this, to the point of maybe even directing Spanish speaking people that direction if the question came up. As has been mentioned, stackexchange could be an option for you. However, I know the programmer in me would much rather write my own than purchase one. Additionally, depending on how you do your development, and support it while the site gets started, it may be cheaper for you. Regardless of how it's done, I think this would be a valuable service to provide and definitely not evil or bad in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:15:27.470" />
  <row Id="8686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8678" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:17:19.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it may have been in one of the podcasts (sorry, can't remember which) and Jeff/Joel spoke about how they want SO to have answers to questions of ANY level, even super-noob questions ('What is a variable?' type stuff) even if they have been answered previously on another website/resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:17:19.983" />
  <row Id="8688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:28:20.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can sorta understand Joel's point I think. You notice this kind of thing when dealing with programming problems at work. If you tell people what you've done so far or what you think the problem is, you can bias those people into taking the same path as you. Sometimes you really need a fresh perspective on the problem and it can be more beneficial for someone to go in &quot;blind&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other point against a troubleshooting list is that it makes the question longer. The shorter the question the better. A shorter question will more likely get read and answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a pure coding question and it's short that demonstrates you've reduced the problem to a simple test case. You can mention what else you've done or tried but too much information can be counterproductive (both in terms of bias and readability).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:28:20.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:29:36.517" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tiny suggestion, which really isn't that important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort all tags alphabetically when you display them. Always show the red tags first followed by the admin tags, followed by the rest (all sorted alphabetically  ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The front page on meta looks kind of inconsistent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-23T23:54:42.187" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T14:18:25.970" Title="Auto sort for tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="8690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:31:09.093" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edit compulsively. I doubt there's any post over a few paragraphs in length that I haven't edited &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; a half-dozen times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, I can't remember a single instance where I've accidentally triggered CW mode. Indeed, before SO put the checkbox on the edit screen, I struggled at times to force answers I &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; CW into CW mode!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, I edit in spurts. A big change, followed by several small changes as I proof-read. And all that happens within the 5-minute grace period, so most of them don't even show up in revision history (much less the more lenient CW trigger). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my advice then, is... &lt;strong&gt;save up your edits. Make 'em count&lt;/strong&gt;. Open a text editor, and make your changes while you're researching, then submit them en-mass. Not only does this reduce the chance that you'll inadvertently trigger CW, it provides those reading the front page with more of a reward for clicking through to see what changed when the question gets bumped by your edit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T01:44:24.197" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T01:44:24.197" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:34:03.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to check out some of the suggestions here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/171571/what-is-your-favorite-programming-discussion-forum-channel-or-chat&quot;&gt;What is your favorite programming discussion forum, channel, or chat?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, not SO. Because SO isn't a forum. If you're interested in finding out how weird lengthy discussions get when forced into the SO mold, take a look around this site (MSO)... it's not pretty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:34:03.547" />
  <row Id="8692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:36:49.213" Score="37" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a disclaimer, I must admit this may benefit me (I haven't checked), but probably not as significantly as most others. This issue is also something that has prevented me from answering questions by users with 1 rep in the past, especially if they are poorly fashioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Problem&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users with a programming question find SO from various methods, such as google. They ask a question with haste, hoping for a quick answer -- which they usually receive. Many of these users have no interest in Stack Overflow itself, but are simply interested in getting the solution they require. As a result of this, they'll check the site regularly for the first day or two until a sufficient answer has been posted. Once they get what they need, they bail; without the required rep or understanding that they should up-vote and select a response as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Result&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great many questions on SO are abandoned by users with no intention of ever coming back. The answer they require has been provided, but for one or more reasons they have neglected their duty of contributing back by way of awarding reputation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Reach&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;(Since Jeff loves Datum)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some queries on the data dump examine the reach of this 'problem'.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The query I used is based on extensions of the following base query;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT p1.Id, p1.Score, p1.OwnerUserId, p2.OwnerUserId, p2.Score&#xA;FROM posts p1 &#xA;INNER JOIN posts p2 ON (p1.Id=p2.ParentId)&#xA;LEFT JOIN users ON (p1.OwnerUserId=users.Id)&#xA;WHERE p2.Score &amp;gt;= 2 &#xA;AND p2.Score = ( SELECT MAX(p3.Score) FROM posts p3 WHERE p3.ParentId=p1.Id )&#xA;AND users.Reputation &amp;lt; 15&#xA;AND p1.PostTypeId = 1&#xA;AND p1.AcceptedAnswerId = 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result: &lt;strong&gt;3,288 Questions by users with under 15 rep which have answers with 2+ up votes that have no accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;AND (users.LastAccessDate-p1.LastActivityDate) &amp;lt; 604800 // 1 week&#xA;AND p1.CreationDate &amp;lt; 1249084800 // 1249084800 is 1 week before latest dump data&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to the where clause further reveals that &lt;strong&gt;877 questions that have answers with 2+ up votes have no accepted answer, and the owner of the question has not returned since the week the question was asked&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modifying there where clause, and removing the left join:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;AND p1.OwnerUserId = 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reveals a &lt;strong&gt;staggering 3,675 questions with answers of 2+ votes by deleted users&lt;/strong&gt;.  These are questions that were probably answered but the users who did the work can &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; be recognized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building off the previous and using an even more restrictive WHERE clause&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;WHERE p2.Score &amp;gt;=5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Still 1,178 posts that can never have an accepted answer.&lt;/strong&gt; How many posts are there with over 5 up votes that don't provide the correct answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modifying the where clause for Reputation to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;AND users.Reputation = 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still reveals &lt;strong&gt;388 questions by users with 1 rep have been abandoned&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Solution&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to how bounty questions work, if a user has abandons the site (not active since &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; time after the question was asked) with a question that has answers with 2+ up votes, &lt;strong&gt;force the answer with the most up votes to be the selected answer&lt;/strong&gt;. This will reduce the amount of questions that are unanswered, and also give users more of an incentive to answer questions by new users without extra hesitation.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added more statistics for deleted users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please feel free to add/remove rules to make this a truly practical feature.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T10:53:47.237" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T10:53:47.237" Title="Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;abandonment&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="8693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:44:17.763" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Programming Related&lt;/em&gt;&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know, the opposite of 'Closed as Not Programming Related' ; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:44:17.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="8694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:47:04.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow.com: Preventing developers from doing actual work since 2008!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:47:04.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="8695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:48:41.350" Score="21" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers to old questions are often posted by new users that don't know yet how to use the site. Often these answers are badly formatted and need cleanup, but quickly drop from the front page and are forgotten. I feel like these posts could use some more eyes, since many pass by without anyone fixing them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 10k tools there is a list of these posts and I think it would be a good idea to make this list available to more editors, like by lowering the reputation requirement to 5k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &quot;new post by new users&quot; and &quot;questions with newly created tags&quot; might be candidates to make available at a lower rep threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T02:48:49.507" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T18:20:03.420" Title="Make the &quot;new answers to old questions&quot; view available for people with &lt;10000 reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:50:28.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some CS professor(s) - no one in particular - except maybe Dough Schmidt of ACE fame&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:50:28.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T23:50:28.340" />
  <row Id="8697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:51:15.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the Miguel de Icaza one was great - a second time would be good eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T15:03:31.493" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T15:03:31.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T23:51:15.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:52:20.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Uncle Bob Martin&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;just because it was comic to hear those two apologize and also to listen to the differences of culture and process between Jeff and Bob.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/podcast-41/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #41&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="136733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T15:23:03.913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:23:03.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T23:52:20.323" />
  <row Id="8699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:54:53.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tess Ferrandez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-23T23:54:53.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T23:54:53.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8472" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:56:19.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also built a very similar greasemonkey script, although I went with a manual &quot;more&quot; link rather than the auto load, which I prefer, but either way, you're welcome to take any code from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;    	if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;    		window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    	} else { &#xA;    		$ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    	}&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    	var $pageLink = $(&quot;.pager:first .page-numbers.current ~ a:not(:has(.next)):last&quot;);&#xA;    	var pageHref = $pageLink.attr(&quot;href&quot;);&#xA;    	var lastPage = parseInt($pageLink.text());&#xA;    	var nextPage = parseInt($(&quot;.pager:first .page-numbers.current&quot;).text()) + 1;&#xA;    	var id = parseInt(pageHref.substring(pageHref.lastIndexOf(&quot;/&quot;) + 1, pageHref.indexOf(&quot;?&quot;)));&#xA;    	console.log(id);&#xA;&#xA;    	var $moreLink = $(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='#' title='load another page of answers' &amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class='page-numbers next' &amp;gt;more&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;    	var $loading = $(&quot;&amp;lt;span class='page-numbers next' &amp;gt;loading...&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;    	$loading.hide();&#xA;    	$(&quot;.pager:last&quot;).empty().append($moreLink).append($loading);&#xA;    	$moreLink.click(function() {&#xA;    		$moreLink.hide();&#xA;    		$loading.show();&#xA;    		var $more = $(&quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;    		$more.hide().insertBefore(&quot;.answer-paging:last&quot;);&#xA;    		var url = pageHref.replace(&quot;page=&quot; + lastPage, &quot;page=&quot; + nextPage++);&#xA;    		$more.load(url + &quot; .answer&quot;, function() {&#xA;    			$more.slideDown(1000);&#xA;    			$loading.hide();&#xA;    			if (nextPage &amp;lt;= lastPage) {&#xA;    				$moreLink.show();&#xA;    			}&#xA;&#xA;    			unsafeWindow.vote.init(id);&#xA;    			unsafeWindow.comments.init();&#xA;    			unsafeWindow.styleCode(); &#xA;    		});&#xA;    		return false;&#xA;    	});&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Features&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preserves whatever sort order you're already using&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paging links still at the top of the page, so if you know where a post is, you can still jump straight there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;more&quot; link will correctly load from the page you're already on (i.e. if you're on page 3 &amp;amp; load more it'll add page 4 content correctly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The following features still work on newly loaded answers:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commenting (&amp;amp; voting on comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flagging posts/comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Syntax highlighting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Works correctly on questions with heaps of answers where all the paging links aren't shown (i.e. for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; that have truncated page links like: &lt;code&gt;1 2 3 4 5 ... 8&lt;/code&gt;, the &quot;more&quot; link will still load data from pages 6 &amp;amp; 7 too)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This was only built for loading answers to questions (i.e. &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/*&lt;/code&gt;) and hasn't been tested elsewhere... (although I'm sure it wounldn't be hard to get working on all pages)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No known issues, but let me know if you see any problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T00:06:43.453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:06:43.453" />
  <row Id="8701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8757" CreationDate="2009-07-23T23:59:44.973" Score="6" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why aren't you guys using SO as more of a medium to get content from your users? Just do a question every week (like on Sunday) as the Official Podcast question of the week. Mark it a CW and ask users to post (as answers) what they want you guys to talk about or answer on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when you guys are recording. Lock the question and answer the top items in a section of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T12:27:55.750" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:50:41.850" Title="Why not use SO for the SO Podcast" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8785" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:07:52.277" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;It possible to get some moderator action to remove comments relating to Community-Wiki after a  question has been changed into a wiki question (either by the owner or the built in thresholds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example see this question on superuser: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/5564/windows-annoyances&quot;&gt;Windows annoyances&lt;/a&gt;. Here there are currently 20 comments and most of these are about turning the question into a Community-Wiki question rather than the actual question. Since this question is now CW all those comments are basically cruft. And worse they are up-voted so much that any real discussion is muted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to flag those comments (as spam?) and get them deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18437" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T01:29:42.313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:34:06.893" Title="Flag outdated CW comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="8703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:08:11.707" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8701/why-not-use-so-for-the-so-podcast&quot;&gt;Ólafur's question&lt;/a&gt;. This initiative is not endorsed,or suggested by the SO Team. I simply thought it would be interesting to see what you guys would like to hear discussed in next weeks episode, and maybe vote-up topics/questions you like from others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who knows, maybe this will become a regular thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T12:55:45.333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:55:45.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T00:43:49.673" Title="Podcast Suggestions for Episode #63" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8702" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:10:23.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even better, have people stop making those comments in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:10:23.937" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8703" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:16:28.843" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interview a top-10 member (or any &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; active member) for 10 minutes. Ask them about how Stackoverflow is integrated into their life. What type of browsing habits they have, and how they've grown to use the engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:16:28.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T00:44:24.283" />
  <row Id="8709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:24:07.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40410/andrew-rollings&quot;&gt;Andrew Rollings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;author of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1592730019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0735713634&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0977998304&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Commodore 64 Book - 1982 to 199x (Paperback)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hiivebooks.com/authors.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;and others&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to talk about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;game design and programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;writing and publishing books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveat: Andrew is a friend of mine, and did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; authorize this message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:24:07.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T00:24:07.347" />
  <row Id="8710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:27:25.927" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Raymond Chen&lt;/a&gt; (See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2094" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:27:25.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T00:27:25.927" />
  <row Id="8711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:28:36.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;YES, ABSOLUTELY&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There most definitely needs to be a free-style open-ended discussion forum for stackoverflow so that the &lt;strong&gt;chatterboxes will stop cluttering up the main site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an official discussion site would be less work for the mods&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an official discussion site can run all kinds of non-programming ads and sell &lt;strike&gt;crap&lt;/strike&gt; officially-sanctioned gear and paraphenalia to make more money to run and improve the main site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;finally, an official discussion site would make it &lt;em&gt;so much easier&lt;/em&gt; to ignore discussion questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:28:36.257" />
  <row Id="8712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-19T19:40:19.313" Score="6" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted a few times and answered my own questions, normally it was because I was overlooking or just plain doing something stupid.  So I deleted the post thinking it would not benefit anybody else.  What is the MO for keeping your posts?  At the same point I am afraid if I answer my own posts (because I truly found an answer) then people may vote my answer down, when in fact I was keeping it up in case it helped someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can an answer to your own post even be voted up by another person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T03:50:32.603" Title="When should I delete my posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8712" CreationDate="2008-10-19T19:43:23.987" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleting your posts when it is not helpful, or not relevant, or when it is contained inside another answer is a good idea, and removes clutter in general.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is actually stated in the FAQ that answering your own questions is OK.  And you can even obtain a badge for it if you have 3 up votes on an answer to your own question. &#xA;(Self-Learner badge: Answered your own question with at least 3 up votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you have any kind of value in your question/answer, even if you answered your own question, you should keep it up.   Even when your answer is not the best, and even if it has 0 votes, it might help someone who finds the answer and has a slightly different problem than the person who accepted the other answer had. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 other badges worth mentioning around this topic are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peer Pressure: Deleted own post with 3 or more downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disciplined: Deleted own post with 3 or more upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These 2 badges are to encourage deletion of posts that are just bloating the system I presume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:30:17.390" />
  <row Id="8714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8712" CreationDate="2008-10-19T19:45:06.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes an answer to your own question can be voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is something that could be helpful to somebody else, then definitely leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:30:17.390" />
  <row Id="8715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8712" CreationDate="2008-10-19T19:51:46.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh also, if you delete it after having received some down votes, then you get a &quot;Peer Pressure&quot; badge. I just got one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135259" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:30:17.390" />
  <row Id="8716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8712" CreationDate="2009-07-23T20:05:47.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't delete your own posts unless the question has been downvoted - add your answer and let others learn from it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131155" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:30:17.390" />
  <row Id="8717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:31:27.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;as if!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      !&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:31:27.640" />
  <row Id="8718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:32:48.197" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;try to give people the benefit of the doubt, especially when they're trying to help you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;downvoting people trying to help you sends the wrong message; leaving a comment is much better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:32:48.197" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8683" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:40:18.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's supposedly fertile ground for easy levelling up and rep whoring while the beta is going on. They want to come ahead with as low effort as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people asking those types of cwiki-fodder questions, all those &quot;must haves&quot; and &quot;recommendations with no criteria&quot;, know what they're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a shiny popularity contest right now, spinning out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:40:18.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8703" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:40:45.713" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talk about mistakes in Programming and tie that with mistakes done with SO and how they were fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:40:45.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T00:40:51.943" />
  <row Id="8723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-07-24T00:53:34.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neal     Gafter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T00:53:34.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T00:53:34.650" />
  <row Id="8724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:08:45.153" Score="71" ViewCount="4067" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of questions that can be answered with a simple Google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these questions, an answer can be found by just cut'n'pasting the question directly into the Google search field and scanning the first few hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every new user wants to try out the feature and ask a question just to play around with the site. That's fine, and I don't mind it, but how will we deal with it in the long term?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because all those trivial questions that can best be answered by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tried www.google.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are the reason why I don't visit coding related Internet communities anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5280/embrace-the-non-googlers&quot;&gt;Embrace the non-Googlers...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T10:52:47.090" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T10:52:47.090" Title="How should we deal with Google questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="8725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:09:54.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I would agree in a lot of cases, however, I will also point out that it has become apparent to me that MANY people just do NOT know how to effectivly search google...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:11:47.673" Score="91" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either answer nothing, or give a correct answer. But please do not answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tried www.google.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate such useless posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:12:35.567" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the difference between a person asking Google the question and asking StackOverflow the question?  If you don't want to take the time to answer someone's trivial question, just don't answer it then.  Right?  I think the whole point (well, not the whole point but part of it) is that you can answer what you want and ignore what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148814" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:12:43.680" Score="88" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the thinking behind Stack Overflow was for those Google searches to link somewhere useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By answering questions properly, instead of saying 'just Google it', you hopefully set up a definitive answer that Google will find for evermore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:12:54.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't post try google.com.. If I am interested in helping someone I will do the search and actually find information relevant and link to those pages.  If its that obvious that they should just go to google.. why bother wasting the time to type that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people do searches but still have trouble or they don't understand something.  Google finds stuff.. but is the the right stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this site is about helping people.  I would either help them as best I can or go on to the next question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140799" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:13:14.927" Score="58" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best programming ability I have is that my Google-fu is &lt;strong&gt;strong&lt;/strong&gt;.  Then again, I was trained on how to find the esoteric edge cases on the net when doing premier IT support - not everyone gets that kind of training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to really help with questions like this, post the answer you found &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;the Google search terms you used to find it&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134039" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:13:45.500" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the point of Stackoverflow is for people to search Google and find Stackoverflow. So it's still important to answer the question here (if it's not already answered). The goal is to have a site full of answers, and &quot;Google it&quot; is not an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:17:56.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's an easy one. Just down-vote the question and they eventually get pushed into oblivion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: I think you are right about people still testing out the site. I have posted a couple of questions that I could probably have Googled, but (1) I wanted to earn some reputation points so I could vote, and (2) I had been wanting to play around with some of the features of the site and posted a question or two more quickly than I ordinarily would on a discussion group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:27:41.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate the &quot;You should do an internet search&quot; answer to any question. It's the equivalent of saying &quot;I'm not interested in wasting my time with you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More important, and something to remember, not everyone has google-fu. Someone could spend hours looking for a TV show they vaguely remember and fail, because they don't think in a way that's conducive to quick effective search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132699" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T19:30:12.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Formulating a good query isn't trivial. Rather than just saying &quot;RTFM&quot;, why not give a useful pointer like &quot;Search Google for foo bar -baz&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's often nicer to just give them a direct answer but a Google pointer can be useful when the question is too broad or debated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:25:35.390" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone has their own reasons for being on SO, but the big three reasons are presumably (a) to learn something, (b) to teach something, or (c) to find out how to do something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering a question directly can accomplish all three of these goals.  A great way to learn something is to teach it, and if one doesn't know how to do it, they have to find out how to do it themselves first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering a question with &quot;search Google&quot; also has its place, too.  It probably indicates that the answer is easily found there.  That teaches as well: it teaches people to fish rather than just handing them a fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has enough users that you'll get all sorts of questions and all sorts of responses.  I'd think that really top-notch programmers will enjoy tackling the hard questions, and &quot;advanced novice&quot; programmers will answer the easier ones to gain traction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And hearing, &quot;You know, you should check Google first&quot; is far more polite than you'd get some other places:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess just deal with Google questions however you feel is best, and learn from the community here what they think of your responses.  You may learn that you're too harsh.  You may learn that you're too easy.  Or you may learn that you're just wasting your time and should spend time doing something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146690" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-09-19T23:11:51.420" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question seems to be suggesting that Stack Overflow should only be used as a last resort - when an answer cannot be found elsewhere on the internet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely this is the opposite of the site's intended purpose. I thought it was supposed to become the first place people would come for answers. To quote the FAQ,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No question is too trivial or too&#xA;  &quot;newbie&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-10-06T17:57:28.510" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with googling a technical question is that often the results are to sites where you have to pay for information (i.e. Experts Exchange). I know not to even try to get information from any of those sites. They are basically commercials, and I'm not buying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow offers a free alternative. Hopefully as the community grows, developers will recognize the site; and when they see a result for StackOverflow and one for Expert Exchange, they will know to choose StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132693" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-10-06T18:05:32.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently joined the stack. Since then I've came across quite a few very interesting posts which actually referred to Google Searches and believe me, I've never came across them on Google. So, some may be more effective at searching and this site proves it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why re-invent the wheel anyway? The information is too much out there, it's time to organize it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2008-12-13T03:21:11.317" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post an answer, even if you directly copy from that first easy-to-find search result, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I delete the last index from a list, in Python?&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#more-on-lists&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;list.pop([i])&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remove the item at the given position in the list, and return it. If no index is specified, a.pop() removes and returns the last item in the list. (The square brackets around the i in the method signature denote that the parameter is optional, not that you should type square brackets at that position. You will see this notation frequently in the Python Library Reference.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or you can also use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#the-del-statement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;del statement&lt;/a&gt;, by doing..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;del mylist[-1]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which would take &lt;em&gt;less than a minute&lt;/em&gt; to write and post, and would be a &lt;em&gt;useful answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is easy to answer by a simple search, it's easy for you to answer (even if you copy/paste the important bit, and link to the page).. but more importantly, those answers &quot;on Google&quot; have to originate somewhere.. StackOverflow will be ranked highly on Google - if you post &quot;Just Google it!&quot;-like answers, those will end up being the &quot;answers&quot; people find!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2009-02-17T22:07:01.310" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most annoying thing when googling about a specific question is when you end up in a forum where the exact same question is asked and all the answers goes like this;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Have you googled it?&quot;,  &quot;Tried google?&quot;, &quot;JFGI&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always wanted to sign up to the random forum just to spam; &lt;em&gt;&quot;I just fracking googled it and ended up here..&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should avoid the &quot;google answer&quot; at all cost if you ask me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2009-02-20T21:10:50.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is completely appropriate to tell someone that they could have easily solved an issue by checking google first - as long as you also give them the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2009-02-20T21:32:17.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stackoverflow voting system already deals with this well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are several choices of answers the best answers are being voted for.  I have not seen one top voted answer that was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tried www.google.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This says to me that this is not a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134504" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2009-02-20T22:19:53.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that people should try and find the answer using existing resources before posting a new question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this might just mean a quick search through Stack Overflow and a visit to  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.letmegooglethatforyou.com/&lt;/a&gt;, that is still much better than immediately posting questions without looking a bit on one's own.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not very efficient to be answering the same question over and over.  Follow good netiquette and respect the time of others around you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:19.583" />
  <row Id="8749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8703" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:11:47.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet asked this also at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6912/what-so-topics-would-you-like-to-see-discussed-on-the-podcast&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6912/what-so-topics-would-you-like-to-see-discussed-on-the-podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so its obviously a good question :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see more discussions on the impact of &quot;the Cloud&quot; and how its evolving. Maybe talk to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.roughtype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nicholas Carr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on his views of what he's seen since he published &quot;the Big Switch&quot;. He was mentioned and referenced in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/podcast-9/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46527" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:11:47.390" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T01:11:47.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8596" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:16:01.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're on the banned IP list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email us via the link at the bottom of every page with your IP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:16:01.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8692" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:17:04.557" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So what's the problem if there are questions without an &quot;accepted&quot; answer? It still will be clear what post is considered the best one, by the number of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is there to gain by forcing one of the posts to be accepted? You won't even lose rep because people will keep upvoting the answer, trying to &quot;convince&quot; the OP to accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact automatically making highly voted answers accepted would just make the whole &quot;accepted&quot; feature pointless. Currently &quot;accepted&quot; means that the OP thought this answer solved his specific problem. With automatic accepting of answers it wouldn't really mean anything anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:17:04.557" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9479" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:25:14.407" Score="0" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious as to why all of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stats&lt;/a&gt;, except business visitors, are open and visible. Is there a reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T10:30:33.257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T05:16:44.060" Title="Why are business visitors hidden in the Quantcast statistics?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8702" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:27:51.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those comments should really be flagged as abuse, for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down/7183#7183&quot;&gt;See this question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Particular, this is Jeff's stance: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not bully users into community&#xA;  wiki. You can offer a carrot in the&#xA;  form of a comment that says &quot;wow, I'd&#xA;  love to vote this up if it was&#xA;  community wiki&quot; but downvoting and&#xA;  other nagging is not appropriate.&#xA;  (addendum: the community wiki flag&#xA;  checkbox is not shown for new users&#xA;  because they can't possibly understand&#xA;  it, you may potentially be nagging new&#xA;  users about a setting they don't even&#xA;  have.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you think something should be&#xA;  community wiki then flag it for mod&#xA;  attention with a comment to that&#xA;  effect. Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:27:51.107" />
  <row Id="8755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8702" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:31:38.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to flag those comments (as spam?) and get them deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So do it then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hover your mouse cursor over a comment, you'll see a little &quot;flag&quot; icon appear to the left of it. Click it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If enough people do this, the comment will go away... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:31:38.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8701" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:54:14.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this, you might be able to use it as a queue with the highest voted (CW of course) answer being the priority on the show and then subsequently deleted once aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:54:14.637" />
  <row Id="8758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8692" CreationDate="2009-07-24T01:59:12.713" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd certainly like the 30 or 45 rep I'd get from this change, but I think its important to distinguish between auto-magically chosen &quot;correct&quot; answers and actual human-verified answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A different visual style should be applied to distinguish the two at the very least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T01:59:12.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1774" CreationDate="2009-07-24T02:25:44.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does your OpenID profile have invalid information in it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heh, that was my problem. I'm my own OpenID provider, using &lt;a href=&quot;http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phpMyId&lt;/a&gt;, and I had neglected to UTF-8 encode my full name in the Simple Registration Extension data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bet there's a bunch of DecoderFallbackExceptions or some such in a logfile somewhere. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132150" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T02:25:44.943" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:13:28.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T02:41:07.217" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm, recently answered a whole bunch of questions on Stackoverflow, but they've not modified my score.  Is there any reason would this be happening?  I doubt it is a bug, but just wanted to check, just in case :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133204" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T04:12:53.240" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T09:35:20.250" Title="Stackoverflow Score Not Updating" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8761" CreationDate="2009-07-24T02:44:27.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you answer a question and you answer is community wiki, you do not get rep gains or losses on the votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have gone over the 200 reputation per day limit, you will no longer gain rep until the server time hits midnight (which is right around 8pm EST right now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T02:44:27.783" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-24T02:51:34.550" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just let users with large amounts of reputation down-vote for free.  Also you could limit the amount of free down votes for these users (maybe 10-20 per day).  This way users who have proven themselves over time will get a tiny bit closer to being moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132153" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T02:51:34.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" />
  <row Id="8767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8771" CreationDate="2009-07-24T03:00:50.397" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I am on a Community Wiki, it seems that the reputation of users is hidden. I'm running on Google Chrome Windows XP. Is this a bug? or working as intended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T06:11:25.640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:57:16.523" Title="Why is user reputation hidden on Community Wiki questions?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8772" CreationDate="2009-07-24T03:01:09.937" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find a correlation with questions I've answered or marked as favorite.  Just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130920" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:30:10.273" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:30:10.273" Title="How do the tags which show up on a user's profile, get chosen?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8768" CreationDate="2009-07-24T03:02:37.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everytime you answer a question the cardinality of all the tags in that question get +1'ed on your profile. I am not sure if that same happens with questions you ask, though. So in your SO profile you have python 2x, because 2 of your answers were on questions tagged python, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T03:02:37.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8767" CreationDate="2009-07-24T03:03:05.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a bug - as designed as I understand CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW is about the question and answer content, not the rep of the people asking and answering.  Thus, one can edit others' CW questions and answers freely.  &lt;strong&gt;There's even less ownership of CW content than for SO in general&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editors' rep is not germane, and I suppose the editors' names are displayed just to enhance the sense of community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18484" LastEditorUserId="18484" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T16:57:16.523" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:57:16.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8767" CreationDate="2009-07-24T03:04:07.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Working as intended. Community Wiki questions do not affect reputation, and therefore, the reputation is hidden. Generally, CW questions should not be something that has one and only one answer, where reputation is awarded and important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T03:04:07.397" />
  <row Id="8772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8768" CreationDate="2009-07-24T03:04:28.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you answer a question with the tags &quot;Dog&quot;, &quot;Cat&quot; and &quot;Beaver&quot; and you get at least +1 on your answer, your profile will then show &quot;Dog&quot;, &quot;Cat&quot;, and &quot;Beaver&quot; for your tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question with the tags &quot;Dog&quot;, &quot;Cat&quot;, and &quot;Beaver&quot; and you get at least +1 on your question, your profile will be updated to show &quot;Dog x2&quot;, &quot;Cat x2&quot; and &quot;Beaver x2&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pattern continues as you continue to answer questions and ask your own questions with the variety of tags out there. The more answers and questions you have for a specific tag, the higher the number will climb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T03:04:28.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6229" CreationDate="2009-07-24T03:28:37.847" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've narrowed this issue down to the jQuery color animation plugin - it was way out of date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next build will incorporate the latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://jqueryui.com/demos/animate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery.UI&lt;/a&gt;; I haven't been able to repro any longer on our development sites!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All sites now have this code live and I'm not able to repro a stuck background color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T09:52:22.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T09:52:22.747" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="8780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8782" CreationDate="2009-07-24T04:11:54.180" Score="3" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;This evening I commented on an answer before I left the office and later I found that I might have been too hasty in my efforts.  It was pointed out to me, in a comment to my comment that I didnt allow the original poster the 5 minute edit pardon.  Maybe obvious, maybe not, my intention was not to instigate wrath, etc.  However, once my comment was pointed out and the answerer corrected his post, ultimately my comment was rendered obsolete.  &lt;strong&gt;I would at that point prefer not to seem to detract from an otherwise helpful post.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best practice at this point?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I leave my comment up and seem like a vengeful a**, even though I might have been good intentioned, or should I delete my post and leave incongruity in the comment list (ie, '@akf: i have updated my post' with no comment from me).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could then come back with another comment stating that I have deleted my irrelevant comment, or I could retain the comment, believing that the viewer would know enough to look through the edits and timestamps to understand the context of the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reiterate, what is the best practice on revisiting your own comments?  To delete or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(disclaimer: i looked for this in recent posts, couldnt find it.  please let me know if this is a dup)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T13:24:59.597" Title="Comment conventions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="8782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8780" CreationDate="2009-07-24T04:15:34.003" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete your comment if it no longer applies. Usually the person that replied to you will see that your comment is gone and delete their reply as well. I've been on both sides of this and it works pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative of leaving a false or misleading comment is worse, because although you've maintained comment continuity, you've also created unnecessary noise below the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:15:34.003" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8780" CreationDate="2009-07-24T04:16:13.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will generally only delete a comment if I catch it immediately. If I make a boo-boo and notice it too late, I wallow in my own failure, because I feel that deleting the comment (especially after people have replied to it) will cause a good deal of confusion in others trying to follow the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:16:13.200" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="8784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8780" CreationDate="2009-07-24T04:20:41.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete it and leave another comment clarifying the situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:20:41.627" />
  <row Id="8785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8702" CreationDate="2009-07-24T04:34:06.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, just flag this stuff for moderator attention, and we will take care of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:34:06.893" />
  <row Id="8788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8065" CreationDate="2009-07-24T04:43:26.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also observed this occurring, &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;and instead visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;MetaSO homepage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8065/wil-uservoice-type-questions-clog-up-the-unanswered-list/8067#8067&quot;&gt;as the TheTXI mentions&lt;/a&gt;, you or I will not have the answers to the hard-to-answer/unanswerable MetaSO questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42346" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:43:26.527" />
  <row Id="8789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8692" CreationDate="2009-07-24T04:53:44.343" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be reviewed by the subject matter experts to decide if there even is an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; in the list of responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:53:44.343" />
  <row Id="8790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8820" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:23:17.763" Score="77" ViewCount="2870" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please read this through before voting to close. There's method in my madness...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;April 1st is rapidly approaching, and I suspect many Stack Overflow regulars will have been considering what to ask as a &quot;prank&quot; question. I have nothing against good humour, but I think it makes sense to concentrate it in one place, rather than seeing SO turn into the white noise that Slashdot usually becomes on April 1st. (I'm sure it won't completely eradicate prank questions, but every little helps.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what question would you have asked on April 1st? Or rather, what question would you have &lt;em&gt;liked&lt;/em&gt; to ask as an April Fool? (I'm sure many people would have restrained themselves... no need here!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Silly answers to the questions can take the form of comments, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll accept the highest voted &quot;answer&quot; at the end of April 1st (or rather, at about 5.15am UTC on April 2nd when I get up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T04:54:49.083" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T17:48:11.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:23:17.637" ClosedDate="2011-02-11T18:03:57.363" Title="What question would you have asked as an April Fool?" Tags="&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;humor&gt;&lt;april-fools&gt;" AnswerCount="89" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="18" />
  <row Id="8791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:27:13.243" Score="61" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd have asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8790/what-question-would-you-have-asked-as-an-april-fool&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T13:56:30.123" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T13:56:30.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:27:13.230" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="8792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:27:15.040" Score="59" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey Stackoverflow,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to write a program that examines an other program and determines if the other program terminates or not. Unfortunately my program keeps getting stuck in mysterious infinite loops. I would appreciate any advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:27:15.040" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:27:51.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yo, dawg, sup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have posted something about how emacs was actually written in vi. Or how C# was actually written in Java.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peace out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:27:51.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:34:36.503" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;How explain what is binary to my dog?... is very smart dog.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:34:36.503" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="8795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:35:48.763" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose you're on a game show, and one of the doors on stage has a new car, the other two have goats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You choose door 1. Monty Hall shows you a goat behind door 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you switch to door 3, or stick with your original choice, door 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21398" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:35:48.747" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="8796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:37:53.453" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So lets say you have a treadmill as large as an airplane runway. The treadmill is designed to match the speed of a plane on top, essentially holding it in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the plane take off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21398" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:37:53.453" CommentCount="30" />
  <row Id="8797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:38:43.747" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;I can't print.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134266" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:38:43.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:38:48.537" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I write a program to prove a program is bug free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could I run this program against itself to make sure I wrote it right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148578" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:38:48.537" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:46:06.973" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I sit in a motorboat and put its prop in a bucket of water, will I propel forward?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:46:06.960" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:46:23.667" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing some socket polling code, and &lt;code&gt;select()&lt;/code&gt; isn't working right.  Can anyone tell me where I can go to report a bug in &lt;code&gt;select()&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="47529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T00:51:30.383" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T00:51:30.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:46:23.667" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T18:52:16.930" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Affordable You Tube Type Site Needed: Original or Clone Site Is Acceptable.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You Tube type site where people can post videos, and view videos. The videos should be able to be organized by categories. The site will be made into an adult you tube site. Using a clone of a you tube type site will be best because I do not have a lot of money for this project. The site must have a feature where videos can be embed into other sites like wordpress blogs, etc with a simple copy and paste of generated code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T18:52:16.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:24:55.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a REST API available for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/tisp/faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Tisp&lt;/a&gt;? (bounty +100)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:24:55.680" />
  <row Id="8803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:24:57.817" Score="89" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Date-Related Problem with C# Artificial Intelligence App&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I inherited an application that uses artificial intelligence and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google's spare resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to answer questions on Stack Overflow.  So far it's been working pretty well (it has earned almost 50K reputation at this point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that there must be a bug somewhere in it, because it recently started to post non-programming-related questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've narrowed it down to the following code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;namespace JS.AI&#xA;{&#xA;    public class QuestionModel&#xA;    {&#xA;        // ...&#xA;&#xA;        public bool IsProgrammingRelated&#xA;        {&#xA;            get&#xA;            {&#xA;                DateTime afd = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, 4, 1);&#xA;                DateTime now = DateTime.Now;&#xA;&#xA;                return&#xA;                    Math.Abs(afd.Subtract(now).TotalDays) &amp;lt; 2 ||&#xA;                    // ...&#xA;            }&#xA;        }&#xA;&#xA;        // ...&#xA;&#xA;        static private int thisAlgorithmBecomingSkynetCost = &#xA;            unchecked((int)0xFFFFFFFF); // CA0534&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remove that line from the &lt;code&gt;IsProgrammingRelated&lt;/code&gt; return statement, the problem seems to go away; any idea what that code is supposed to do, or why it's there?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm a little nervous about that &lt;code&gt;unchecked&lt;/code&gt; thing; is that working the way that it's supposed to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;[c#] [datetime] [ai] [jon-skeetnet] [plzsendtehcodez]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:24:57.803" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:32:23.197" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently have a program that's about 40k lines of code.  It's stable and efficient, but I don't like so many lines of code.  Is there any way I can put all my logic into a single regular expression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:32:23.183" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:34:40.947" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kind sirs,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need to put a JIT JAVA in my C# MONO, so I can code while I code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please send me the module.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Xzibit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:34:40.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:42:16.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/144859-april-fools-it-s-skeetastic?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another idea&lt;/a&gt; for April Fools, but it was flagged as spam on UserVoice. I think this further highlights the need for a separate meta-discussion area - if it doesn't belong on SO or UV, where can it go? I tried the IRC channel but there wasn't really a whole lot of activity - maybe one or two people responded and that was it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:43:12.890" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programatically, how would I increase my Stackoverflow points score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6216" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:43:12.890" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:50:05.213" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What is it about Java that makes it so much faster than C?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:50:05.200" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:50:51.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you do if you had a million dollars?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peter Gibbons&lt;/a&gt;, would do nothing. Lawrence has a good idea though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:50:51.373" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:54:22.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a prog newb and dk the prog to rite. Plz tell me the prog and send me the codez.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:54:22.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T19:58:35.023" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain this comic to me? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xkcd.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.xkcd.com&lt;/a&gt; I don't understand this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T19:58:35.023" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:00:16.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if someone could do my homework for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:00:16.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:01:26.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would a hello world look like in goatse? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T08:28:42.733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T08:28:42.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:01:26.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:01:33.893" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a homework assignment I have been given a 2048-bit integer, how can I determine all of the prime factors of this number?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:01:33.877" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="8815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:04:44.493" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What's the easiest way to get a gold badge on StackOverflow?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:04:44.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:09:08.977" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;!'/\/\ +|2!|\|6 +\/\/0 /\/\4|&amp;lt;3 J4\/4 /\/\0|23 |-|!|&gt;, |3|_|+ /\/\'/ &amp;lt;0|&gt;3 \/\/0|\|+ &amp;lt;0/\/\|&gt;!|_3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;|_4$$ |=00&#xA;{&#xA;     |&amp;gt;|_||3|_!&amp;lt; \/0!|&amp;gt; /\/\4!|\|($+|2!|\|6[] 4|26$)&#xA;     {&#xA;         $'/$+3/\/\.0|_|+.|&amp;gt;|2!|\|+|_|\|(&quot;|-|3|_|_0 \/\/0|2|_|&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;     }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone figure out the real error I wonder? Also, this 1337 was written by hand, and based off memory. no converting program was used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:09:08.977" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:18:52.290" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a C# project that includes the following snippet of code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public void PrintDefinition(Dictionary&amp;lt;string, Definition&amp;gt; dict, string word)&#xA;{&#xA;    Defintion d = dict[word];&#xA;    Console.WriteLine(String.Format(&quot;{0} - ({1}) {2}&quot;, word, d.Pronunciation.ToString(),&#xA;        d.PrimaryDefinition.ToString()));&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that when I call it like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;PrintDefinition(_oed, &quot;gullible&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it throws an exception.  What am I doing wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141841" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:18:52.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:40:44.000" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;is there a tool that provides Code metrics such as Turing Completeness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:40:44.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:47:16.730" Score="83" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Friend Stack Overflow,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am Barrister Idris Garba, The Attorney to Mr.Karimi Husseini, a British National, who was murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe, in early 2007.You can read more on this on: www.zimbabwenews.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He owned Diary Farms Limited in Cashel, Zimbabwe. He also owned three Tobacco Farms in Chipinge, and also a majority owner of Glendevon Farm also situated in Chipinge, in Zimbabwe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However before his death, Mr.Karimi Husseini was able to secure with a very good diplomatic contact, A Family Consignment (in the form of Gold and Diamond) valued at Four Point Seven Million United States Dollars (US$4.7m), in safe deposit Security Company in Durban, South Africa, with hope of transferring same to your country when he met his untimely death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since his death I have made several frantic enquiries through your embassy to locate any of my client’s extended relatives has also unsuccessful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his name through a business directory I got from the world trade center in Johanesburg, in order to get somebody bearing same name in your country as my client’s who will stand in as proxy to clear this consignment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A notice has been long issued to me by this company to provide my client's next of kin or else, the consignment will be declared as “unserviceable” and therefore confiscated by the Deposit Company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a proposal for you to consider this as a matter of urgency and pay priority attention to it.&#xA;If this mail appeals to you, kindly give me your urgent response. I am ready to share this consignment with you on a very good negotiable percentage to each party if successfully completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your response, please may I have your contact details such as:&#xA;Full Names, address, phone and fax numbers, and nature of business activity. The information will assist me in preparing relevant documents needed to change the consignment ownership to your name.&#xA;For confidentiality purpose,. pls do respond to the alternative email as: idrisgarba@post.ro&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly regret all inconveniences. Thanks in anticipation of your kind cooperation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours Barrister Idris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134989" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:47:16.730" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="8820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:52:36.857" Score="165" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;problem help please pleee plsea help uregnt&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in java how can I DO POINTERS PLS EMAIL ME AS I DO NOT CHECK HTIS SITE OFEN andersh@microsoft.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:52:36.843" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="8821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T20:58:14.113" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd032108s.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T20:58:14.083" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T21:05:00.493" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which is better, VI or Emacs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130222" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T21:05:00.480" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T21:11:59.260" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Help with Singleton Factory&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been running into trouble with my Singleton SingletonFactory (from which I make all of my singletons). Whenever I initiate it, I get caught in a loop - I've tried using a sendHelp() to catch the errors, but I am unable to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, is there an existing example of a Singleton Factory so I can see where I'm going wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T21:11:59.247" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T21:23:42.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to downvote my own comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65696" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T21:23:42.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T21:42:00.687" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am an Italian student who studies Computer Science at Pisa University, and&#xA;I am developing some project in Java using Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) and Java 2 Micro&#xA;Edition (J2ME, for MIDP 1.0 compliant devices). I need to know if there are some Java API&#xA;(for J2SE and J2ME) to send SMS to a mobile phone. I know Java Mail API but it doesn't let me to send SMS to a mobile phone but only e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I send SMS to a mobile phone? Which steps must I follow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there someone who can help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is babby formed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Plz email me teh codez.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T21:42:00.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-30T21:43:49.480" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OMG, I really, like, need you know, a program to count ponies...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131620" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-30T21:43:49.480" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T04:25:41.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it true that if you code while hanging upside down your code runs backwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T04:25:41.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T04:32:51.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What web framework should I choose for my next project?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T04:32:51.480" />
  <row Id="8829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T07:53:13.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;please explain how Abstract Pragma Resource Initialization Linkage works in the F# Object-Oriented Language&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2686" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T07:53:13.790" />
  <row Id="8830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T08:00:42.027" Score="72" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I ask a question here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139391" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T08:00:42.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T08:01:45.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain why recursive functions are recursive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139391" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T08:01:45.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T12:51:48.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear StackOverflow,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will Rich B. be taking the day off work today to focus full time on quashing April Fools posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry Rich, I just couldn't resist)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130222" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T12:51:48.143" />
  <row Id="8833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T13:10:25.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm getting this error when I try to compile my WPF project!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visual studio has thrown an internal error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details:&#xA;An error was thrown in Visual Studio core assembly : MacOSX.core.dll&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150091" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T13:10:25.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T13:47:26.373" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having some issues with the production release of Perl 6...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T13:47:26.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T13:54:34.810" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where can I find Stack Underflow?&lt;/strong&gt; :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145350" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T13:54:34.797" />
  <row Id="8836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T14:10:41.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I use python and regular expressions to scrape the interweb?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T14:10:41.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T14:24:27.970" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Python is not working! I plugged in my printer but when I do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;print(&quot;Hello world!&quot;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nothing comes out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T14:24:27.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T14:47:14.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Non-techies suddenly seem to gain around 50 IQ points when discussing anything computer related. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157938" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T14:47:14.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T14:56:08.953" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Places to waste time online?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The internet's great n' all, but I'm struggling to find &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt; online where I can simply pass the time whilst deriving little or no personal value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any recommendations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157938" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T14:56:08.953" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T20:00:19.470" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My floating point arithmetic algorithm is broken.  When I execute the following line of code I don't get 20!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;e ** pi - pi&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T20:00:19.470" />
  <row Id="8841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T20:06:25.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the sense of life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T20:06:25.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T20:07:59.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What.....is your favorit color? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Blue...NO! Aaaaah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T20:07:59.327" />
  <row Id="8843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T20:29:36.780" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this question that answered '42', but I forgot what the question was. Does anybody know the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T20:29:36.780" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T20:36:07.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;my computer are infected! Halp?!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sew today is April 1st and i know that thats the day the CornFritter worm is set to attack, what can i do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T20:36:07.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T20:53:51.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the chances of this question getting baleted as a duplicate or not programming related?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I made it a community wiki instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags: [panties-bunched-tightly] [meta] [please-dont-close-this-ill-give-you-a-buck-please-pls]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131254" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T20:53:51.543" />
  <row Id="8846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T21:03:25.403" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch, which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red hat or a blue hat; they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but not their own. Meanwhile, a six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the Nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that the N+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what color his hat is, what is the solution to this puzzle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001243.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coding Horror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135134" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T21:12:06.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you triforce?!?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When ever I try to do it, it just comes out wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;▲ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;▲ ▲&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should just be right ontop of it I don't know why the spaces don't work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131254" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T21:12:06.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T23:39:26.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What computer manufacturer builds the most durable cup-holders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T23:39:26.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-03-31T23:51:23.863" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the maximum number of seconds in a minute? Is it possible to have 62 seconds in a minute, and was there a 70-second minute in January 1, 1972?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-31T23:51:23.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T00:38:41.487" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to get Clanne Stewart Tartan out of my Jacquard loom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm punching in &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;........ ..............&#xA;. . . ... ... . . . .. &#xA;.. ..... ..... .. ... .&#xA;.... . ...... .........&#xA;.......... ... ..  ....&#xA;.  ...... .......... ..&#xA;.. .. .. .. ...........&#xA;... .......... . . . .&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but seem to be missing a red stripe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148381" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T00:38:41.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T01:14:37.437" Score="111" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;¡dn ʇǝƃ ʇ,uɐɔ ı puɐ uǝllɐɟ ǝʌɐɥ ı `dlǝɥ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T01:14:37.437" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:33:59.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was working on some javascript.  What did I do? diff to follow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;--- cornify.js  2009-04-01 03:28:44.000000000 -0400&#xA;+++ ludicrouscorny.js   2009-04-01 03:26:54.000000000 -0400&#xA;@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ cornify_add = function() {&#xA;    		head.appendChild(css);&#xA;    	}&#xA;    	cornify_replace();&#xA;    }	&#xA;+    cornify_add(); &#xA; }&#xA;&#xA; cornify_replace = function() {&#xA;    // Replace text.&#xA;    var hc = 6;&#xA;    var hs;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:33:59.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:37:09.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a Macro to convert Tabs into Spaces, using Emacs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:37:09.017" />
  <row Id="8854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:37:20.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like turtles!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:37:20.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:41:24.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;How do you use the Abstract Singleton pattern&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a case here where I would like to apply this pattern but I just cant get my head around it.  I mean Visitor Command Factory was bad enough but I finally got it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So...  How do you create an Abstract Singletong and where is it the most usefull&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25812" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:41:24.217" />
  <row Id="8856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T08:56:49.887" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reed the interscope is a series of tubes and tweets, how add a new tube? Will make Facespace faster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T08:56:49.887" />
  <row Id="8857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T11:45:28.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I automatically add captions to my pictures of cats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145182" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T11:45:28.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T12:08:12.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd have posted a link to cornify on every post and question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T12:08:12.330" />
  <row Id="8859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T12:17:11.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I promised our VP that Id reduce the number of bugs that crop up in our production systems.  After thinking about how to fix this, I told him I'd modify our applications to make them self healing.  I've begun catching very specific exceptions so I can make the necessary changes as needed, but now my code is all over the place.  I've more or less had to extend every system class I could get my hands on to do this.  I need to finish this soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of any good resources I can leverage in modifying our software to be self-healing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T12:17:11.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T12:31:04.897" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Help with a revolutionary compression algorithm&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have implemented a new compression algorithm working on any kind of data: text, image, sound, video, executables, ... The compression ratio is huge. Here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Step 1: '0' are null values, so they are removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Step 2: count the number of remaining '1'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Step 3: That's all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compression works very well. Nevertheless, one little problem remains with the uncompression part, and I don't know what is wrong. Any help would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T12:31:04.897" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T12:31:50.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why am I getting a stackoverflow when setting this property?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Module Module1&#xA;&#xA;    Private _bool As Boolean&#xA;    Private Property Bool() As Boolean&#xA;        Get&#xA;            Return _bool&#xA;        End Get&#xA;        Set(ByVal value As Boolean)&#xA;            Bool = value&#xA;        End Set&#xA;    End Property&#xA;&#xA;    Sub Main()&#xA;&#xA;        Bool = True&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    End Sub&#xA;&#xA;End Module&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158335" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T12:31:50.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T14:58:35.773" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished re-implenting the Linux kernel in Emacs Lisp, and I have about 700 pages of closing parentheses at the end of my source file.  Obviously, this needs some refactoring; ideally, I'd like to get it down to no more than 500 pages of closing parentheses.  What's the emacs keystroke to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T14:58:35.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T15:11:26.930" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why am I getting this warning (stack overflow at line 105) all of a sudden? What does it mean? I've never even heard of Stack, Is there somewhere I go on my computer to delete old Stack? I have Windows Vista. I don't want to download any unknown programs if I can just remove old Stack that is stored on my computer. I just don't know where to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T15:11:26.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T15:53:30.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where do I sign up for the Web 3.0 beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T15:53:30.557" />
  <row Id="8865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-01T18:58:55.573" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your mom up votes this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T18:58:55.573" />
  <row Id="8866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-02T02:49:47.110" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was coding python last night, I feel very tied and fell asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I get up this morning, and found that when I was unconscious, &#xA;I typed a lots of strange code like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class StalkBuffer():&#xA;    def __init__(self):&#xA;        pufsut the be () &#xA;        sellfff .but ()&#xA;        fdis = 2234 fd in [f,d,s]&#xA;def rem(sellf,dir):&#xA;    dataa = map(self.buffor)dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it is easy to write this code again, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but the question is , how can I found what I was thinking when I was unconscious by look though this code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-02T02:49:47.110" />
  <row Id="8867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-04-02T03:32:30.597" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a Windows program that is small. When I try to deploy it won't run. Keeps saying it requires &quot;Windows&quot;. How do I make it run without installing Windows? I don't want to make all my users download &quot;Windows&quot; just to run my little program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T04:54:19.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-02T03:32:30.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T05:00:01.233" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6229/answer-highlight-fade-out-doesnt-fade-out&quot;&gt;Answer Highlight/Fade-out doesn&amp;rsquo;t fade-out.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Chrome when I go to a question from the main page, sometimes the background color of an answer I have previously given sticks on orange and doesn't execute the animate code. This is &lt;em&gt;occasional&lt;/em&gt;. Refresh sometimes does the same thing and sometimes correctly fades to white. Once I have it fading to white, further refreshes work correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It smells like a timing/loading issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code that doesn't seem to be executing is (in the case that just happened to me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;        $(function() {&#xA;            $(&quot;#answer-1175423&quot;).animate({backgroundColor:&quot;#FFF&quot;}, 2000);&#xA;        });&#xA;    &amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you should do something to ensure that the animate doesn't even try until the whole page is loaded. Maybe throw it in with $(document).ready().&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it happens in other browsers or not. I'm almost always in Chrome for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T11:12:16.293" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:12:16.293" ClosedDate="2009-07-24T05:03:10.137" Title="Sometimes Stackoverflow background color of answer does not animate to white" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8692" CreationDate="2009-07-24T05:06:42.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To further the Axeman, perhaps to add to the sex appeal of the Guru tags is to add the responsibility of reviewing the 'unanswered' tags.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is that most 'unanswered' posts have been answered but not accepted.   It probably wouldnt be good just to award the ones that have actually been answered with at least one upvote by 'accepting' the upvote/time priority winner when it might not be the 'best.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there should be a view, available for those that have been awarded the gold guru tags (1000x upvotes for a tag), that concentrates list the 'unanswered' questions.  For those elite, they have extra votes: the ability to select the answer for the asker (after an elapsed time), the ability to close (as indecipherable, etc) or leave open or offer a bounty from the community chest questions that have no appropriate answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T05:22:41.217" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T05:22:41.217" />
  <row Id="8870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8874" CreationDate="2009-07-24T05:15:33.743" Score="3" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot upvote my own stuff (questions or answers). Why is it that I can mark my own question as a favorite?  Isnt that like upvoting it?  Wouldn't common sense dictate that, as it is my question, it is one of my favorites; ie something that I am interested in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T16:43:18.213" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T16:43:18.213" Title="Mark my own question as favorite?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8672" CreationDate="2009-07-24T05:23:24.053" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a greasemonkey script to do it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;        if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined' &amp;amp;&amp;amp; typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery.plot == 'undefined') { &#xA;                window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else { &#xA;                $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;        $(function() {&#xA;            var placeholder = $(&quot;#placeholder&quot;);&#xA;            var selectionMode = &quot;x&quot;; //change this to &quot;xy&quot; to allow zooming on the y axis too&#xA;            resetPlot();&#xA;            placeholder.bind(&quot;plotselected&quot;, function(event, ranges) {&#xA;                unsafeWindow.plot = $.plot(&#xA;                    placeholder,&#xA;                    [unsafeWindow.plot.getData()[0].data],&#xA;                    {&#xA;                        xaxis: { mode: &quot;time&quot;, min: ranges.xaxis.from, max: ranges.xaxis.to },&#xA;                        yaxis: { min: ranges.yaxis.from, max: ranges.yaxis.to },&#xA;                        selection: { mode: selectionMode },&#xA;                        points: { show: true },&#xA;                        lines: { show: true },&#xA;                        grid: { hoverable: true }&#xA;                    }&#xA;                );&#xA;            });&#xA;            placeholder.bind(&quot;dblclick&quot;, resetPlot);&#xA;&#xA;            var prevX = 0;&#xA;            placeholder.bind(&quot;plothover&quot;, function (event, pos, item) {&#xA;                if (item &amp;amp;&amp;amp; prevX != item.datapoint[0]) {&#xA;                    prevX = item.datapoint[0];&#xA;                    $(&quot;#tooltip&quot;).remove();&#xA;                    var d = new Date(item.datapoint[0]);&#xA;                    var date = d.getDate() + &quot; &quot; + [&quot;Jan&quot;,&quot;Feb&quot;,&quot;Mar&quot;,&quot;Apr&quot;,&quot;May&quot;,&quot;Jun&quot;,&quot;Jul&quot;,&quot;Aug&quot;,&quot;Sep&quot;,&quot;Oct&quot;,&quot;Nov&quot;,&quot;Dec&quot;][d.getMonth()] + &quot; &quot; + d.getFullYear();&#xA;                    showTooltip(item.pageX, item.pageY, &quot;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&quot; + item.datapoint[1] + &quot;&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; (&quot; + date + &quot;)&quot;);&#xA;                }&#xA;                else if (!item) {&#xA;                    $(&quot;#tooltip&quot;).remove();&#xA;                    prevX = 0;&#xA;                }&#xA;            });&#xA;&#xA;            function showTooltip(x, y, contents) {&#xA;                $('&amp;lt;div id=&quot;tooltip&quot;&amp;gt;' + contents + '&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;').css( {&#xA;                    position: 'absolute',&#xA;                    top: y - 10,&#xA;                    left: x + 15,&#xA;                    border: '1px solid #AAA',&#xA;                    padding: '3px',&#xA;                    'background-color': '#FFA',&#xA;                }).appendTo(&quot;body&quot;);&#xA;            }&#xA;&#xA;            function resetPlot() {&#xA;                unsafeWindow.plot = $.plot(&#xA;                    placeholder,&#xA;                    [unsafeWindow.plot.getData()[0].data],&#xA;                    {&#xA;                        xaxis: { mode: &quot;time&quot;},&#xA;                        selection: { mode: selectionMode },&#xA;                        points: { show: true },&#xA;                        lines: { show: true },&#xA;                        grid: { hoverable: true }&#xA;                    }&#xA;                );&#xA;            }&#xA;        });&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Features&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select a range &amp;amp; the graph zooms in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Double click the graph to reset the zoom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Optionally allow zooming on y axis as well as x axis (see inline comment about setting &lt;code&gt;selectionMode&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New&lt;/strong&gt;: Hover over points to get specific rep/date tooltips (plus a fix for the bug @SiegeX pointed out in comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, I still think its a good feature to incorporate into the site properly. Especially since as time goes on its going to become difficult to easily select a smallish time period, even for people with low-ish rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-14T04:45:00.600" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T04:45:00.600" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="8873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8870" CreationDate="2009-07-24T05:42:54.683" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if it really is your favorite, than mark it as such. I too can get giddy over the thoughts of someone answering my various questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness marking as favorite doesn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; do anything (other than badge for 25+ where 1 won't be the tipping point). Feel free to mark it as your favorite even if it is your question -- many people already do this. I should also state that this isn't really &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; in that there are alternative methods of finding your own questions with just as much ease. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T05:51:44.530" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T05:51:44.530" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="8874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8870" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:16:49.753" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The primary goal of marking something as a favourite is to make it easier to get back to. Yes, there are badges for heavily-favourited questions, but the problem of gaming the system by favouriting your own question is a pretty minor one - but the benefit is real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this with upvoting, where the primary goal is to say that a post is &quot;good.&quot; It makes no sense for you to mark your own post as good - it's &lt;em&gt;purely&lt;/em&gt; gaming the system, hence it's not allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T20:46:30.220" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:46:30.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:17:37.140" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user (other than the OP) edits a question and makes it significantly more understandable or better formatted for consumption (reading) is there anyway to reward that user with some rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3957" LastEditorUserId="3957" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T06:35:16.970" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:22:21.353" Title="Is there any benefit when a user improves (edits) a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8035" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:26:16.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually the first (the static) notification type is not too badly implemented by going to &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; and choosing &quot;My Tags&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131427" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:26:16.460" />
  <row Id="8877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8875" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:37:08.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just karma. It's a good thing to do, but there's no actual rep benefit etc (other than the editor badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been proposals for voting on edits, but I don't personally see the need, beyond the ability to perhaps flag a particular edit as offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:37:08.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:42:48.283" Score="10" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;These 2 questions have clearly wrong answers with upvotes. And they're still getting votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The log file one especially could be tried out, it would fail, but someone still voted it up. A downvote and comment has no effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like we have &quot;vote to close&quot;, what about a &quot;vote to delete&quot; for answers. I'd suggest a fairly high rep limit. Or badge ownership realting to the question tags (eg SQL Server)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/44014/best-way-to-move-a-log-file-in-sql-server-2005/44196&quot;&gt;Best way to move a log file in SQL Server 2005&lt;/a&gt; (SF)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175882/what-is-an-mdf-file&quot;&gt;What is an MDF file&lt;/a&gt; (SO)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be similar to this meta question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8574/question-with-wrong-answer-upvoted&quot;&gt;Question with wrong answer upvoted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T09:20:55.183" Title="How to deal with upvoted yet clearly wrong answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;wrong-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="8880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3238" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:44:57.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was working today on an image based flair for use in forums:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;For Light backgrounds&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26210/andrew-moore&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/basic/StackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;StackOverflow&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/5930/andrew-moore&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/basic/ServerFault.png&quot; alt=&quot;ServerFault&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/2189/andrew-moore&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/basic/SuperUser.png&quot; alt=&quot;SuperUser&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;For Dark backgrounds&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26210/andrew-moore&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/basic-inverted/StackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;StackOverflow&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/5930/andrew-moore&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/basic-inverted/ServerFault.png&quot; alt=&quot;ServerFault&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/2189/andrew-moore&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/basic-inverted/SuperUser.png&quot; alt=&quot;SuperUser&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to do some HTML scraping on &lt;code&gt;gravatarHtml&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;badgeHtml&lt;/code&gt; in order to get badges and gravatar URL, and I didn't bother changing the number format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The JSON flair format should give us access to the data, not force its implementers to use the flair HTML and number formatting. I agree with the original poster that flair.json should have the following modifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Addition of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;goldBadges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;silverBadges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;bronzeBadges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or even better, implement it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;'badges': {'bronze': 1, 'silver': 2, 'gold': 3}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pure integer value for reputation and badge values&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;gravatarURL&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; without the &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; parameter to the url&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9482/image-based-flair-downloadable-implementation&quot;&gt;You can download the source.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T18:18:59.987" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:18:59.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8879" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:48:16.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the three things you can do are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag it for moderator attention &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a constructive comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, votes are a measure of popularity NOT correctness, both usually correlate but not always. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:48:16.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8879" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:49:10.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote and comment on it, explaining that and why the answer is wrong. If you have a correct answer, give it. If the question already has a correct answer, point to it in the comment and upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, a vote for deletion option would be great. I would give the author the possibility to react on your comment. So I propose, as it has been done before, a &quot;please edit this post&quot; option that alerts the user through &quot;recent action&quot; to do something with the answer (delete or edit). After a threshold of maybe 48 hours, the votes to delete kick in, if the user did not edit the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the voters are alerted about the edit and would be able to withdraw the vote to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T09:20:55.183" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T09:20:55.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8879" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:49:26.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Vote to delete&quot;&#xA;- how many votes need to mark answer as a wrong?&#xA;- I think, for this reason, here is downvote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some time you see wrong answer, but this wrong answer can help to solve problem. (not at this two questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T07:17:11.913" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T07:17:11.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:50:42.187" Score="5" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're viewing a question, there's a list of &quot;Related&quot; questions on the right. I propose that a small icon be added to the titles that indicates if they're currently answered or not. I often use this list to jump from question to question, and if I can easily identify ones that are still unanswered, that's ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130851" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:20:14.620" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:20:14.620" Title="Add icon on &quot;Related&quot; question list that shows answered status" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:57:45.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While at first I agreed with Cletus that if it solved the problem for the OP, it's the best answer, it seems that the vast majority of questions are abondoned by the OP as soon as they accept an answer - the problem is resolved, and they have no incentive to check back and see if a better answer has surfaced. This functionality just adds a second set of eyes, and if the accepted answerer feels that another one is more complete, he should be able to pass off the distinction, or at least formally recommend to the OP that they do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130851" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:57:45.057" />
  <row Id="8887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8695" CreationDate="2009-07-24T06:59:50.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate making this tool available to more users. I was not even aware of its existence, but it seems to be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T06:59:50.577" />
  <row Id="8890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8879" CreationDate="2009-07-24T07:30:51.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Explain why they are wrong with a clear, constructive comment. Link to the valid answer(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T07:30:51.317" />
  <row Id="8891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8893" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:00:42.417" Score="44" ViewCount="1631" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone asks how to do XYZ, and you think doing XYZ &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; is a &lt;strong&gt;Bad Idea&lt;/strong&gt;, is it valid to post an answer saying so? You aren't answering the question, but instead, arguing the question's validity.  You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; do this in a comment, but I don't think comments carry enough weight on occasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I came across this today &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176239/what-is-the-best-wiki-software-if-the-site-is-all-about-individual-people&quot;&gt;SO1176239&lt;/a&gt;; for those not wanting to link away:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to build a wiki based website about professors, so that students can share information and check the reputation of the professor before working for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I really wanted to post an answer that said &quot;I think this is a very bad idea&quot;. (In fact I did anyway, despite awareness that it could get my flamed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was I wrong? What should I have done instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130262" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T20:05:59.273" Title="Is &quot;Don't do it&quot; a valid answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;opinion&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="8892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:26:10.927" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A considered response to a question that is asking for help to something that could be hazardous or illegal (and the latter is a minefield because of the global nature of the forum) would seem helpful to me. A comment should suffice in many cases but an answer may be appropriate on occasions to make the point more clearly or to layout supporting materials and references. More rarely, flagging the post may be appropriate if it is clearly a very bad thing that is proposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand an answer of 'You'd be better off buying a MAC' to a question that asks how to do something on MS Vista would seem wholly inappropriate (I don't use either of those platforms so can remain neutral on such technical matters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T08:26:10.927" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:27:08.950" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a valid answer, provided that you explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the OP shouldn't do it (which you did in the question you gave as an example).&#xA;But I would consider also to answer the actual question, too. As in &#xA;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Don't do it because of A, B and C. But if you decide to do it anyway, I would follow this approach:...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have recieved one or two &lt;strong&gt;Don't do it&lt;/strong&gt; answers on my questions, and I find it &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; helpful to question my own decisions on how to approach a problem. (It also bruises my ego a tiny bit, but that is outweighted by the benefits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T08:27:08.950" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8884" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:29:38.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very nice idea! The list of related questions is often very long and some further hints might be really beneficial for someone looking for answers (or questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T08:29:38.817" />
  <row Id="8895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8879" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:32:04.870" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about up-voting correct answers? Who cares about some up-votes for wrong answers when the other answers are at the top of the list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T08:32:04.870" />
  <row Id="8896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8780" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:35:33.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; leave a comment that &quot;makes you seem like a vengeful a**&quot; in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T08:35:33.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8879" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:37:51.447" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others said before me, you should use the options SO already provides to you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote the wrong answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide or upvote a correct answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wrong (as in dangerously worng, like &lt;em&gt;'delete C:\NTLDR in order to improve computer performance'&lt;/em&gt;), flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am opposed to any &lt;em&gt;vote for deletion&lt;/em&gt; feature. The voting system works well enough, in my opinion. Given enough time, the wrong answers tend to sink to the bottom.&#xA;No need to add more features that are not really needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T08:37:51.447" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2009-07-24T08:45:28.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YES. If it answers the question. May also give a suggestion on what to do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some may say &quot;Dont do it&quot; to this post, oh well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T08:45:28.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2009-07-24T09:23:32.703" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, if someone asks how to do something and you think it's a bad idea, give them some kind of answer to what they want and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; explain why you think it's a bad idea (or just what the downsides are) and how they might do it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should avoid preaching one's views. Your answer and your tone should reflect thoughtfulness and consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T09:23:32.703" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8761" CreationDate="2009-07-24T09:35:20.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;recently answered a whole bunch of questions on Stackoverflow, but they've not modified my score. Is there any reason would this be happening?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious point but, for the sake of anyone finding this question at a future date who does not realise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation score does not increase when you answer questions but if and when others vote for answers you have given (and, as already stated, votes for answers that are marked 'community wiki' do not affect reputation score).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T09:35:20.250" />
  <row Id="8907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8909" CreationDate="2009-07-24T09:59:48.670" Score="-1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please consider this situation: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1172470/what-is-quantum-computing-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1172470/what-is-quantum-computing-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question got closed, reopened (I voted for this), closed. I want to reopen this question but it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have already (or previously) voted to reopen this question&#xA;  (click on this box to dismiss)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I reopen it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T11:22:40.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T11:22:40.380" Title="Is it a bug that I am not able to Vote for Re-Open twice?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="8909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8907" CreationDate="2009-07-24T10:06:48.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only vote to close or reopen the same question once total. So you voted to reopen once, it closed again and you've used your one vote for that question. So this isn't a bug but by design. Once upon a time you could repeatedly vote but this tended to lead to edit wars with the same people. This way requires more people to get involved to change the outcome, which is probably a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T10:06:48.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T10:36:46.007" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176011/sql-to-determine-minimum-sequential-days-of-access&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; in SO and as a result of that question asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176837/sql-to-determine-distinct-periods-of-sequential-days-of-access&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is clearly a derivation of the first question, but also a distinctly different question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the process for asking these derived questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much of the original question should be quoted? or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the original just be linked in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="939" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:08:58.597" Title="Asking a similar but not the same question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="8911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8910" CreationDate="2009-07-24T10:44:04.597" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should quote and link to the original question. Explain clearly how your question differs and what about the answers given to the previous question don’t suit you needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/658381/dealing-with-morally-and-legally-objectionable-requests-from-management&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which I think exemplifies what I am suggesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T10:44:04.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8907" CreationDate="2009-07-24T11:10:41.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of this was to stop the many close/reopen wars we once had. In my opinion it did not address the true problem, but it seems to have helped a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Status: By design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T11:10:41.230" />
  <row Id="8914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8920" CreationDate="2009-07-24T11:54:10.460" Score="1" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135647/how-do-badges-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;extended FAQ on badges&lt;/a&gt; I recognize the rules for losing badges. There are two of them and both are completely justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, considering, that this is about Tech and Coding and Wizz, shouldn't there be a badge for &quot;Cheating&quot;. This badge should be awarded if someone cheated the site (reputation/badge/vote system) in a creative, successful and funny way. For example someone receives the Populist-badge without having outscored another answer. Obviously he loses this badge, either if caught or because he turned himself in. Especially in the latter case he could also have the badge &quot;Cheater&quot; assigned in return. (Generally as a cheating case will always need human intervention, this badge is not automatically assigned.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Cheater-badge probably should be a gold badge because the cheater beat stackoverflow and not some fool's homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, actually the badge should only be awarded if the cheater turns himself in, reveals the cheating technique and generally helps to improve the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131427" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T11:56:29.817" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T14:29:38.923" Title="Should there be a badge for cheating" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8914" CreationDate="2009-07-24T11:56:56.543" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questionable behaviour should not be rewarded in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T11:56:56.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11290" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:01:17.970" Score="4" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a gravatar, had it for a long time now. My stackoverflow user does not show that picture. It works fine in other websites. I have the correct email. Changing the gravatar image does not help either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't stackoverflow showing my gravatar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:15:43.163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:15:43.163" Title="My profile picture is not taken from gravatar" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:06:36.313" Score="4" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see lots of questions that are along the lines of 'What is the best software / tool for X?',  or 'What is your favorite trick for x?'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem to be the sort of questions that generate the most reputation, at least on serverfault.  I kind of don't like these questions, but that is just me so I am wondering what the official take is. Is there another question that someone should ask themselves when posting this sort of question that determines if it is appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't mind, 'I am looking for a good tool to do the specific task of X'.  Just the general / vague ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are these good questions? should they be community wiki?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it searching this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="131182" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T12:14:16.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:30:26.447" Title="Best of / Favorite / Funniest / coolest questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8916" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:08:18.857" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that the email in your profile matches the email you are using for gravatar (or include the new email on your gravatar account).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may have to wait a short period. It tends to take a little while for a gravatar image to be fetched and cached by StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:08:18.857" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8910" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:08:58.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This MetaSO question deals with that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4357/nearly-duplicate-questions&quot;&gt;Asking Nearly Duplicate Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the answer is (as mentioned):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain your question clearly and specifically&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to the original (similar question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain what worked/didn't work from that question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specifically highlight what you are asking that is different from the original question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way the last note the Answerers will read is the part that is explicitly different, and they will be able to focus their responses on that, instead of the 'duplicate' part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:08:58.597" />
  <row Id="8920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8914" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:09:46.213" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a super secret badge that is handed out to users who are exemplary in their service to the sites (such as discovering and helping correct a security vulnerability). This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/no-we-have-not-forgotten-about-the-hacker-badge/&quot;&gt;the &quot;hacker&quot; badge&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps you could attain for that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="155585" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T14:29:38.923" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T14:29:38.923" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="8921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8917" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:11:34.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any time I see something that is looking for the best, &quot;must have&quot;, &quot;most&quot;, etc, it is almost a dead give away to me that it is going to be an open-ended discussion and therefore going to get moved over to Community Wiki (this is SuperUser). So far it has been pretty effective at limiting the reputation affects these questions will have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:11:34.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:19:24.170" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't do it&quot; is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a useful answer to a question of &quot;How do I do XYZ?&quot;, unless it is embedded into a section of your response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually break down my &quot;don't do that&quot; responses like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To answer the question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why you should not do it that way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I was working a personal project just to explore some ideas/concepts. I asked &quot;How do I do X in Y situation?&quot; and received dozens of &quot;Don't Do It!!!!&quot; responses, which then got upvoted (downvoted by me), only one poster actually answered my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, I specifically stated that I knew it wasn't best practices, I was just trying to explore. Therefore, the flurry of &quot;Don't Do It!&quot; responses were incredibly unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, because this is a &lt;em&gt;technical&lt;/em&gt; Q &amp;amp; A site, you should answer the questions as best you can, to tell the OP &quot;Here's how you do that&quot; &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; &quot;Here's how you would accomplish that task&quot; maybe with a different approach. &lt;em&gt;THEN,&lt;/em&gt; only after you've answered the actual question, should you explain why it is not a good idea. Otherwise, you're just scolding people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to RSolbergs comment: &quot;It's acceptable if you are answering &quot;Is it okay to do this?&quot;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is asking &quot;is it okay to do this&quot; then yes, you can say &quot;no&quot; as long as you are backing your answer up. That is not the situation I was referring to. In that situation, it doesn't make sense to have a policy that forbids 50% of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the situation where someone asks &quot;How do I do XYZ?&quot;, if you say &quot;Don't do XYZ&quot; you are literally NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An analogy. If someone yells at you, &quot;Hey, how do I get out if I'm trapped in a well?&quot; and you yell back &quot;Don't Fall In!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then chuckle at how clever you are, and walk away while that person drowns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to Shog9 mention of things which should just not be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3528/questions-with-nefarious-intent/3545#3545&quot;&gt;Questions with Nefarious Intent&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a &lt;em&gt;technical&lt;/em&gt; Q &amp;amp; A site. It is not supposed to be the place for the high and mighty to make judgments on the others. If you feel uncomfortable with the question being asked, then you &lt;em&gt;should not answer it&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a discussion with a colleague about whether or not it is possible to create a web page which could access the printer directly and print something. He said it was not, I insisted that it was possible. In a million years, neither of us would ever use this on a production app, it would be DISASTROUS. But, the technical question was intruiging to me, so I put it forth to Stack Overflow. I mentioned that I would obviously never do this, and I still recieved &quot;Don't Do It!&quot; responses. Which were, as I've mentioned over and over, &lt;em&gt;completely useless&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions that are concerned with limits of technology, and the possibility of creating some functionality when under severe restraints, I would go to Stack Overflow, because the people there are millions of times smarter than I am. However, once I've laid out the technical question, I am looking for a technical answer, not for someone to preach to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind if someone says &quot;This is a bad idea, I would do this instead, but here is an answer to your question&quot; That is fine, because they have still provided an answer. However, if all they can say is &quot;Don't do that&quot; then I'm exactly where I started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technical questions deserve technical answers, and &lt;em&gt;Don't do it&lt;/em&gt; does not answer the technical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-23T20:05:59.273" LastActivityDate="2011-05-23T20:05:59.273" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="8923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8875" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:25:13.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can go to their profile page, find an answer or question and upvote it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, I &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; advocate this on an arbitrary question. I just think that you'll find if you like the way the person edits, then chances are you will also easily be able to find a very strong answer that they authored all the way through. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other bonus is that if the question is interesting, you might learn something by reading all the responses on it, and you might end up upvoting a lot of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside is that you might stumble across an answer by that person that you end up downvoting, so they'll be worse off... whoops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general, anyone who is a good editor, will tend to get a lot of upvotes on their questions/answers anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:25:13.227" />
  <row Id="8924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8780" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:34:22.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your comment is obsolete &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; no one else has referred to it, then you should delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if someone else has responded to your comment, then I would say that you don't want to orphan that person's comment either. In the past I have done things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DevinB: (-1) Your answer is needlessly hateful against &quot;M$oft&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[. . . ] Time passes, post edited&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SomeRandom: DevinB, there are no references to &quot;M$oft&quot;, maybe you should be nicer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DevinB: The answer has been edited, so I've removed my downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add a clarifying comment, then you still leave the original timeline/conversation intact, so it isn't confusing, but you can also save some of your dignity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow/8163#8163&quot;&gt;apologized in comments&lt;/a&gt; for my earlier behaviour. Because, rather than pretend I didn't say those things, I'd rather say &lt;em&gt;mea culpa&lt;/em&gt; and admit that I've learned my lesson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:34:22.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8917" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:34:48.390" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tricky one; I think there is a big difference between asking the right tool for a specific job, and just wanting a &quot;coolest&quot; thread. We might have some old and long old posts, but IMO many of the new &quot;funniest&quot; / &quot;coolest&quot; really deserve deletion; they add nothing... and should &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; be wiki if they live...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not hugely involved in superuser, but my &lt;em&gt;perception&lt;/em&gt; is that a lot of people have suggested that the signal:noise on superuser is suffering badly because of these. I wonder if we might not need to get stricter about this to keep SU from degenerating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:34:48.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="8926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8678" CreationDate="2009-07-24T12:36:27.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that Google doesn't have ANY answers. It sends you to other sites with answers. SO wants to be that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T12:36:27.917" />
  <row Id="8934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20422" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:02:20.577" Score="3" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there are going to be a couple of published authors presenting at DevDays, are there going to be opportunities to get books signed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:34:20.007" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:34:20.007" ClosedDate="2010-05-10T23:38:57.690" Title="Will there be any book signing opportunities at DevDays?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;books&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="8935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:02:52.477" Score="34" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a +10k-rep user on SO, I use the various tools to identify a lot of spam. There are two lists (&lt;strong&gt;new posts by new users&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;new answers to old questions&lt;/strong&gt;) which are especially useful for tracking down posts that are spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These lists are so useful, in fact, that I can reach 5 spam flags in under an hour. At this point I need to resort to using the flag for moderator attention option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm a fun-loving guy and when I'm given a prompt with a whole 140 characters, I'm going to fill it. If, after having reported the issue, I have characters left over, I fill the remaining space with little quips about various things. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;Some moderators&lt;/a&gt; have taken issue to me doing this. It is by this civil protest that I have gained support for my proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so I say that if I had more spam votes to complement my ability to find more spam I would not have so much opportunity to annoy the moderators with my poetic-albeit-terse reports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that +10k-rep users have the ability to find more spam than we have flags to report it with. This is a problem as it's involving moderators when it doesn't need to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Save the moderators from my writing: give us some more daily spam flags.&lt;/strong&gt; That and Marc likes vanilla ice cream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-14T17:12:31.573" LastActivityDate="2011-04-14T17:12:31.573" Title="Increase the number of daily spam flags with reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="8938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8935" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:07:44.717" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of another question asking for more close votes for users who have greater rep and I remember advocating for a sliding scale of close votes based on your rep level (every 1000 rep after 3000 would net you an extra three close votes on the day up until you hit 10k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be expanded to flagging as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:07:44.717" />
  <row Id="8939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8934" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:09:06.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether there's anything officially organised or not, I'm happy to sign books at the London DevDay. It doesn't have to be a copy of C# in Depth, either... I'll sign anything you like (within reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:09:06.423" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="8940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8934" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:09:21.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I will not be attending DevDays, if there are any stuffed animals needing signed, just send me an email and I will send a pdf of my signature which you can print out and tape/glue to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:09:21.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="8941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8935" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:10:25.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did have a uservoice on this (#231984); not sure where it went... but yes; personally I'm &lt;em&gt;broadly&lt;/em&gt; in favour of a few more flags for people with a reasonable rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:10:25.880" />
  <row Id="8943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8914" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:18:35.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges are specifically for behavior that we want to encourage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We want to encourage &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt; behavior, not behavior that games the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no.  That said, if you find an &quot;unusual&quot; exploit and report it you can already earn a the &quot;hidden&quot; Hacker badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:18:35.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="8944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:19:13.713" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated from SO to SU, for example, then reopened on SO, it retains the message &quot;migrated to superuser.com&quot; (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147277/can-you-go-home-at-5pm-guilt-free&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt;).  Is this intentionally left behind, or should it be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:19:13.713" Title="Questions migrated to another site and then reopened retain the migrated message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" />
  <row Id="9020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8875" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:22:21.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a badge you earn once after a certain number of edits, but that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:22:21.353" />
  <row Id="9021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8935" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:23:18.227" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have this same problem. My suggestion was to at least allow the admins to manually bump a user up when they see that a user is doing a good job flagging a lot of inappropriate content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I am not sure I care how it is implemented, but it really should be implemented soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:23:18.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9029" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:32:44.763" Score="0" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8934/will-there-be-any-book-signing-opportunities-at-devdays&quot;&gt;agreed to sign&lt;/a&gt; items at DevDays London. Now is your chance to declare what you want the Skeeter to sign for you within reason&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I'm lying. No it doesn't have to be within reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:19:59.133" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:19:59.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T13:33:34.717" Title="What do you want Jon Skeet to sign for you at DevDays?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="9024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9025" CreationDate="2009-01-22T23:20:19.027" Score="26" ViewCount="714" Body="&lt;p&gt;How are sites in the Stack Exchange network, including Stack Overflow, officially branded? How are their names abbreviated? What conventions should be used in the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-19T20:29:00.990" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T20:31:55.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T23:20:19.010" Title="How are Stack Exchange sites officially branded?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;trademark&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9024" CreationDate="2009-01-22T23:43:32.147" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Branding/trademark guidance and other legal information are located &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/legal&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. That page is accessible through the &quot;legal&quot; link in the footer of every SE network page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-19T20:31:55.260" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T20:31:55.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T23:43:32.147" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9022" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:40:09.047" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would ask him to sign my signature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:40:09.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T13:40:09.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9022" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:40:12.453" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I won't be there, so I can't have him sign anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my offer still stands, and this time I'll bump it up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will put 100 British Pounds into the pool for Jon to give a talk with his right hand as a sock puppet (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8634/what-will-jon-skeet-present-in-stackoverflow-devdays-in-london-cambridge/8639#8639&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addendum: I'll double the amount if the sock puppet is a pony named TXI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:40:12.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T13:40:12.453" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9022" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:41:38.497" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A cheque or contract. Don't worry, I'll fill in the number / specifics later...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:41:38.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T13:41:38.497" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9022" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:51:36.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Queen's forehead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T13:51:36.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T13:51:36.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9034" CreationDate="2009-07-24T13:57:11.107" Score="2" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it considered too invasive to edit someone else's answer to include some links to the suggestions they have already made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm specifically talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177574/maths-topics-and-resources-for-programmers/1177615#1177615&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. I was quite interested in the question myself and this user gave and answer referring to some course material freely available from MIT. I looked it up and found the material he is talking about. I could now edit his post to include the links, but I'm not sure if there's any rules of etiquette I should follow? Should I make it clear that some one else made the edit so I don't infer that he is suggesting these links in case they turn out to be rubbish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could of course just add them as a comment, but there's quite a few links, and comments don't provide any way to format links very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been 15 minutes since he made an edit, so it's probably not something he's still finishing off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T13:59:45.413" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T14:56:04.953" Title="Is it ok to edit other people's answers to add links?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="9034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9033" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:00:00.697" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This kind of behavior is fine, and in fact, it is encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit indicator will show that you edited the post, and the edit history will show what you changed. This is more than enough detail on your edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment is always nice however, and people can vote and reply on your edit this way so you can get a general idea of whether your edit was favorable or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:00:00.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9033" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:00:19.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend you simply post a comment suggesting he add the link. Maybe he has some reason for not doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he hasn't added a link after a reasonable amount of time, why not add our own answer with the link, and refer to his?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just reviewed that answer, and found two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The edit (nice edit) was made almost a day later. I might not have waited so long. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The links in the edit may not be links to the courses described by the OP. He never used the term &quot;opencourseware&quot;. It's possible the links are to the wrong courses - MIT is a big place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this particular case is one where a separate answer should have been posted, with the links, saying, &quot;I think these are links to the courses referred to&quot;. A comment should have been added to the original answer, asking the OP if these are the correct links. If he says yes, then edit the answer to include the links. If he doesn't answer, maybe go ahead and do the edit anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any problem &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; in editing an answer or question to add links or other information. But, in this particular case, I don't think there was justification to assume that these were links to the courses the OP referred to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T14:56:04.953" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T14:56:04.953" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="9037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9046" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:00:22.803" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone posted on superuser about desirable machine specs.  It's a fair question but the answers will date rapidly (and to be fair to them they did say &quot;Mid 2009&quot; in the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone any thoughts on whether it's desirable to be able to mark questions and/or answers as timeless or &quot;timeful&quot;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They wouldn't disappear, just be less visible in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it could be done then the database would clean itself, at least in part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130635" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:00:03.147" Title="Is it possible to add an expiry date type feature?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="9038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9033" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:01:48.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just do it, and if you're unsure, then also post a comment saying &quot;I just edited your stuff to include X; remove if that's not okay.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:01:48.247" />
  <row Id="9045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9037" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:06:09.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this may have been mentioned someplace in the past. Making it clear that programming/hardware questions are 'old,' should be held in high priority. I remember when I first started trying to learn Visual Basic (.NET), I came across so many classic-VB tutorials, and I had no idea of any differences. Had there been a giant &quot;Don't read this, you moron&quot; flashing like an ipod-ad, I'd be spared some serious frustration :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:06:09.917" />
  <row Id="9046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9037" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:06:20.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that all answers and edits are timestamped, I'm not sure there is a huge need for this...? &lt;strong&gt;Everything&lt;/strong&gt; in IT dates quickly (much more quickly than most sectors) - not just hardware; it would be too high maintenance to try to estimate when your answer dies...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:06:20.297" />
  <row Id="9047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9037" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:06:21.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a close reason called &quot;No longer relevant&quot; which is used for just this situation. 48 hours after closing for that reason, it can be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:06:21.233" />
  <row Id="9048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9057" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:12:38.023" Score="1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two or more answers to the same question, each with 10 or more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately called &quot;Two faced&quot;, &quot;Schitzophrenic&quot; or &quot;Confused&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130635" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:35:20.983" Title="Badge Suggestion - Two Minds" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="9049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9048" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:14:50.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the idea, don't like the name (it seems to imply that there is more than one person on an answer). The other ideas are slightly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since +10 will get you a Nice Answer badge, two of them in the same question should be &quot;Twice As Nice&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three nice answers all in one thread could be &quot;Three's a Crowd&quot; or &quot;Nicely Thricely&quot; and then after that I just stop getting concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T14:23:14.593" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:23:14.593" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9056" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:17:01.367" Score="4" ViewCount="506" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just googled: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+%2Baxure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site:stackoverflow.com +axure&lt;/a&gt;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got these answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/720191/web-ui-prototyping-tools&quot;&gt;Web UI prototyping tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/112803/what-is-the-best-web-prototyping-tool&quot;&gt;What is the best web prototyping tool?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978825/what-tools-are-available-for-designing-web-ui&quot;&gt;What tools are available for designing Web UI?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5672/what-are-you-using-for-web-ui-layout-design/5677&quot;&gt;What are you using for Web UI/layout design?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156755/tools-for-creating-ui-prototype&quot;&gt;Tools for creating UI prototype.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139555/whats-the-best-way-to-create-interactive-application-prototypes&quot;&gt;Whats the best way to create interactive application prototypes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/585071/user-interface-design-tool&quot;&gt;User Interface Design Tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55363/best-tools-for-creating-website-wireframes&quot;&gt;Best tools for creating website wireframes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the answer seems to be Balsamiq, Axure, Pencil, Pen and Paper and Protoshare. &#xA;But that is not the point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these questions have any close votes, non of them have any ref to others that exist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better way of organizing this information so it's not so splintered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:48:49.813" Title="How do we deal with octuplicate questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9050" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:19:10.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close as duplicate (maybe even have the mods merge the topics) so that they all point back either to the oldest or the most well-written one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:19:10.497" />
  <row Id="9052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9050" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:22:00.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't check all of them, but I'll take your word for it.  It's very surprising that none of those got marked as a dupe.  I'd suspect this sort of thing is the exception, not the rule; usually somebody catches it.  I guess there aren't a lot of people marking &lt;code&gt;gui&lt;/code&gt; as a favorite tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you can do is vote to close and add dupe links to them.  It's going to be difficult for anyone but the moderators merge the answers, which is what ought to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:22:00.620" />
  <row Id="9054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9033" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:27:12.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After actually going to edit the answer I noticed this along side the editing page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good Edits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Fix grammatical or spelling errors.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Clarify meaning without changing it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Correct minor mistakes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add related resources or links.&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Think that one answers my question&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Always respect the original author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:27:12.027" />
  <row Id="9055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9048" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:28:02.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a bad idea. Here are a few more suggestions for the name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Divide and Conquer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pair Programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Devil's advocate says:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Wouldn't this lead to &quot;answer bloat&quot; by tempting people to give needless multiple answers just to get the badge?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:28:02.043" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="9056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9050" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:29:02.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are &lt;strong&gt;suitable close&lt;/strong&gt; they can be merged; flag them for moderator attention. For example, those that are web can probably be looked at to see if a merge is appropriate; but some others might not be; &quot;User Interface Design Tool&quot; isn't as web-specific, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:29:02.443" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9048" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:35:20.983" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect you'd see gaming on CW, since it is far more common to have multiple answers (per person) on CW, and the vote scores tend to be higher. You'd probably have to exclude CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I'm not sure anything extra is needed... for a non-CW posts, there is already +200 points (for 2 of 10 votes) and at least two bronze medals in the bag, and a fair chance at a tick (+15 points), and twice the chance at &quot;enlightened&quot; (silver) and/or &quot;good answer&quot; (silver, possibly twice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:35:20.983" />
  <row Id="9058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9033" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:41:34.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I know there is a good link to some information, I &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; add it. Especially if it is something easy like &quot;&lt;code&gt;perldoc perlre&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, I know that I can post a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:41:34.887" />
  <row Id="9060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:50:56.863" Score="-7" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awarded when your answer is accepted / gets 3 upvotes, and the only other answer to your question is skeet's, and his answer gets 0 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well yeah, I tailored this badge to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177434/isnt-a-generic-ilist-assignable-from-a-generic-list/1177660#1177660&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, one can offer other conditions for this badge :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:19:20.820" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:19:20.820" Title="Badge suggestion: beat-the-skeet" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="9062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:51:47.513" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do I have to tag a question both as tag-request and feature-request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T15:06:17.710" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:07:58.967" Title="badge-request tag should not require feature-request on meta" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="9063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9060" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:53:33.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely wouldn't get implemented. Although I do get a sense of satisfaction any time I score higher than the Skeeter. That is reward enough I suppose :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:53:33.180" />
  <row Id="9064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9062" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:54:20.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because feature-request is a required tag for Meta. And technically requesting a new badge is a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:54:20.257" />
  <row Id="9065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9060" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:55:07.213" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really, it should be a Platinum badge, and the conditions should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Double A Jon Skeet Answer That Has a Score of 10+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Write an Answer That Makes Jon Skeet Nod Approvingly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, this thing won't nor should happen, for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which is that the badge would obviously be impossible to win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:55:07.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:58:12.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A video camera perhaps? Unless they're planning on releasing them as podcasts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T14:58:12.227" />
  <row Id="9067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T14:58:45.920" Score="6" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies in advance for not being able to get a satisfactory answer from reading all the related posts I could find.  I may be way off base with my assumptions, so I'll just list them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rep system is intended to indicate the level of trust that the site (and its users) have in your technical skill.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;* &quot;Questions&quot; that do not pertain to technical skills should be marked community wiki - one intended result being that someone particularly adept at posting popular joke/anecdote questions does not end up with a trust level equal to someone providing consistently high quality answers &amp;amp; questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The intent of the community wiki tag is to allow discussion that does not necessarily reflect techncial skill by taking rep out of the equation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose I don't really understand why people are offended when questions are marked community wiki.  While I find it fun and rewarding to answer questions, I'm not really invested in getting a top rep score - but I DO want to understand this more fully so I can moderate more consistently and fairly.  I'm OK with being unpopular with those who disagree with the intent of the site, but I want to do what I can to make sure I'm interpreting that intent correctly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it unrealistic to want everything that is NOT a sysadmin (on SF) Q&amp;amp;A post to fall under community wiki?  Is my litmus test: &quot;Will a correct and upvoted answer to this question accurately reflect an increase in trust for this user by the community?&quot; too harsh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[edit: I suppose it's the bold bit in particular that I'd like to paint in big letters on a wall somewhere - if it's accurate/realistic.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T16:18:46.573" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T16:18:46.573" Title="Yet another &quot;community wiki&quot; clarification question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9067" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:02:41.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My general rule of thumb for community wikiness is &quot;if it falls under the allowed subject matter but is open-ended (i.e. there really is no correct answer) then you are going to hit the Wiki button.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other real option for open-ended discussion would be the &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; close reason or &quot;not a real question&quot;. I don't know how strict the guidelines are being applied in SF, but I know that so far in SuperUser, we are leaning a lot more on CW than outright closing since the allowable subject matter is so broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:02:41.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9072" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:05:39.127" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175281/sql-query-delete-duplicates-if-more-than-3-dups/1175289#1175289&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; the real beauty of the accepted answer is in the detailed comments that the respondent left in response to probing questions (also in the comments). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would moving those responses (and maybe even editing them for punctuation, capitalization) into the actual answer be an acceptable edit or should we prod the respondent to do it themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made the edits including adding a few words to make it flow as if it were the original response and added a comment saying I did that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T15:19:50.713" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:56:52.673" Title="Is it acceptable for someone to move an author's comments into their answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="9071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9067" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:05:57.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I suppose I don't really understand why people are offended when questions are marked community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of people completely addicted to the rep game (see also the amount of angst poured out over minor discrepancies in when the daily limit kicks in). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:05:57.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9070" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:08:47.437" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally acceptable. Give some credit to the commentators and all, but go ahead and do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:08:47.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9067" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:11:13.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I view CW as being needed any time an answer drifts away from right and wrong and into the subjective.  That's not a very good answer, though.  On some level, determining whether a question should be CW follows Potter Stewart's line about pornography: &quot;I know it when I see it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &quot;What is the best web framework for $PROGRAMMING&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;LANGUAGE?&quot; is clearly a subjective question.  But what about &quot;What is the best web framework for $PROGRAMMING&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;LANGUAGE if I need to do X, Y, and Z?&quot;  While there are still differences of opinion on the matter, it moves to meeting specific needs instead of a vague generalization.  Should such a question be CW?  It probably needs to be decided on a question-by-question basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I decide is to ask myself: will this question result in a large number of viewers downvoting because they disagree with the views of certain answers, as opposed to the verifiable correctness of the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:11:13.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9070" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:13:08.763" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By all means, edit it.  You're making a stronger answer out of it, and you can always reference the comments themselves.  Don't bother prodding the author to do it; just take care of it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:13:08.763" />
  <row Id="9075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:18:26.453" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3615/should-downvoting-be-allowed-on-comments&quot;&gt;Should downvoting be allowed on comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comment to a question or answer is nonconstructive but doesn't warrant being flagged, there should be a way to indicate this to the author by giving the comment a negative vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:32:59.677" ClosedDate="2009-07-24T16:49:28.237" Title="We should be able to vote comments down as well as up" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9050" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:23:28.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought Jeff had said something in a podcast that he didn't mind the plethora of questions like this since there was a thousand ways to ask the same question, or something to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do like the idea of either editing the question or adding comments to say something like You might also check these questions for additional insights&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again it is a proactive type step too. If I see a question I'm pretty sure I've seen asked before, I try and steer the user that way before the answers pile up too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:23:28.847" />
  <row Id="9078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:26:36.587" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I click on the little envelope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It tells me that I have earned one badge, so I click on the &quot;1&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It tells me I earned a &quot;Popular Question Badge&quot; but how do I find out which question earned me that badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:49:50.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:49:50.843" ClosedDate="2009-07-26T07:57:06.427" Title="How do I find out which question/answer earned me a badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9078" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:28:22.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way would be to look through your question and check the view count and see which one went over the level for a popular question (1,000 views I believe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on your StackOverflow account, I can see why that wouldn't be very efficient. In your case, you might want to rank them according to Views and see the one that is CLOSEST to 1,000. This should point you to the one that just passed over the 1,000 threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that there should be a better way of tracking what questions and answers earn some badges. It would cut down on the amount of time taken out to actually hunt them down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T15:36:26.350" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:36:26.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:29:30.633" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that there's gradations to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's cases where the poster is trying to do something he or she really shouldn't, whether illegal or immoral or thoroughly unwise.  I tend to mention this in an answer, along with any helpful technical information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's cases where the poster is trying to do something impossible, and in that case I usually explain why it's impossible, and often make a guess as to what the poster is trying to accomplish so I can offer suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's cases where the poster is asking how to use a tool in a screwy manner (wanting reserved checkouts on SVN, for example), and in that case I explain why this is a bad idea and (if possible) how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer that's just &quot;Don't do that!&quot; is useless, unless the poster is asking whether it's OK, in which case it's just mostly useless.  It should always be accompanied by reasons.  An answer that doesn't respect the poster is also pretty much useless (just downvote the question and have done if you feel that way).  However, an answer that tells the poster how to do something stupid, just to strictly answer the poster's question, is worse than useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:29:30.633" />
  <row Id="9081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8917" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:30:26.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My instinct is to want more designations for questions, because I professionally find the &quot;tools&quot; posts to be FAR more useful (and appropriate for rep, tho maybe at half the level of actual questions) than the &quot;joke&quot; and &quot;funniest&quot; posts (which should have rep stripped from them, IMO, they have nothing to do with technical skill).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, since they all fall into &quot;not the stated purpose for the site&quot; bucket, I could see where there's a lack of interest in creating the administrative overhead to subdivide questions into additional categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:30:26.447" />
  <row Id="9082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9075" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:30:57.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, anyway. Comments are sweet little extras. They might contain helpful or agreeable things (then go and vote), but if they don't, that's totally fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:30:57.827" />
  <row Id="9084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9075" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:32:59.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall I would not mind if comments could get voted down, at least it would be a better indicator of it's popularity than just counting upvotes, but in the grand scheme of things it is definitely not required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:32:59.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9060" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:33:24.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would this count:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ceqgda.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pALWAPr5iWRkSf7JZ8BPZxzMEXgFZgfuOvP5LzJ8CagHkdp92KLFYgMWSnklLRpwHzPoqajmj03MEks5kT%5FD5rw/JonSkeetDelete-529647.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Beat the Skeet&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/529647/need-a-smaller-alternative-to-guid-for-db-id-but-still-unique-and-random-for-url/529707#529707&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/529647/need-a-smaller-alternative-to-guid-for-db-id-but-still-unique-and-random-for-url/529707#529707&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asked for a badge for it then too ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastEditorUserId="33051" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T15:44:24.390" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:44:24.390" />
  <row Id="9089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9070" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:47:50.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had an interesting experience doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/941584/byte-byte-int-why&quot;&gt;byte + byte = int… why?&lt;/a&gt;, I was asking why math operations on &lt;code&gt;byte&lt;/code&gt;s were implicitly upcast to &lt;code&gt;int&lt;/code&gt; in C#. Eric Lippert posted some pretty good insights in the comments section. [&lt;em&gt;Eric is a senior developer on the Microsoft C# compiler team, by the way.&lt;/em&gt;] So I posted his comments as an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original &lt;strong&gt;comment was very well received (33 upvotes)&lt;/strong&gt; but, when &lt;strong&gt;posting it as an answer, it got railed on&lt;/strong&gt; pretty good. I'm not sure why there was such a change in attitude from the original comment to an answer post. I can only imagine the answer got undue attention being called out and re-posted by the original poster (me) so people reacted defensively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether I was justified or not, I ended up deleting the post. It just didn't feel right that he wasn't there to defend an answer he did not actually submit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T15:56:52.673" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T15:56:52.673" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9092" CreationDate="2009-07-24T15:58:35.487" Score="7" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Question answered below&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a grace period of 5 minutes after you make a post (answer a question).  If you edit  your answer, this will not be processed (or shown) as an edit, nor will it change your spot in the list of answered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brad Gilbert added more info about this decision on his answer here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted/9092#9092&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted/9092#9092&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered a question (not 10 minutes ago), after about 3 minutes I decided to edit my own post with more details.  When I was done editing (took me about 20 seconds to edit), I noticed there were 2 other people's answers there, both had been posted while I was editing... but after editing, mine was at the top and didn't show as being edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there now some kind of grace period where you can edit your own answer without it affecting your spot in the list? (If so, what's the period of time?)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'SHOULD' there be a grace period?&lt;/strong&gt; (I haven't had coffee yet, so it's possible I'm still sleeping)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130185" LastEditorUserId="130185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T16:31:19.657" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:49:45.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T16:17:02.813" Title="Is there an editing 'grace period' on answers after they have been posted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;&lt;oddities&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9090" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:00:29.740" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's always been a five-minute grace period on all edits made by the same user. It's there so that you can make minor tweaks to answers and questions without having a ton of revisions in the history. All revisions made the same five-minute window are rolled up together into the same revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It encourages answering questions at a high level quickly, then filling in details after a minute or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:00:29.740" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9090" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:00:51.627" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; been a feature. If you edit your post within 5 minutes it doesn't count as an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel have discussed this in an early one of their weekly podcasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff wanted this because &lt;strong&gt;he&lt;/strong&gt; would go and edit his own stuff.&#xA;It was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-20/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast number 20&lt;/a&gt;. You can also read &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24222&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the transcription&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Atwood:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also try to copy a lot of things I've seen online that have been successful, like conventions. Let me give you a specific example: PHP-BB, and I'm sure there are other web discussion boards that do this too but PHP-BB is the one I know, has this editing convention. When you post you can edit your own posts, and I noticed that when people are using PHP-BB that right after you post something you'll always notice some goofy mistake that you made, like immediately. This happens to me 9 times out of ten I'll post and think &quot;oh, I should have talked about this&quot; or &quot;I missed that word,&quot; so you immediately go in and edit. At a certain threshold these are not treated as real edits, they're treated as just going back in time to pretend that it is the post you originally made. It doesn't kick off the whole auditing trail of you having edited it 50 times. One of the first things we did in StackOverflow is actually implement that. I remember talking to Geoff Dalgas about that, and he's like &quot;why do we have to have this?&quot; I said, &quot;you don't understand, this feature has to be in there on day 1 otherwise we're going to have so many revisions that are just in the first minute or two after posting and are just silly little things that are being corrected.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[28:20]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Spolsky:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You not actually recording the revision?  You're not doing the diff thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Atwood:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Not] within the threshold.  Right now the threshold is actually 5 minutes.  So up to 5 minutes after you post, if you edit your own stuff.  Now if I go edit it, it's a real revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T14:34:29.887" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:34:29.887" />
  <row Id="9094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:02:02.613" Score="1" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of us want to write scripts on top of stackoverflow, and many of these would need to extend or reconnect the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/content/js/question.js?v=4058&quot;&gt;vote object&lt;/a&gt;. My recent attempt to build an auto-page-loader was made difficult over not being able to properly inspect the vote object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that SO doesn't have much time to invest in making an API, but could we at least get a copy of the unobfuscated vote object?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm not asking about formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T16:56:15.287" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:56:15.287" Title="Can we get an un-obfuscated version of the vote object?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9067" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:08:52.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a little absurd to discount the reputation and badge system.  It's really a big part of what's made stack overflow so popular.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure it's cool to say &quot;I don't really care about rep, I'm just here for the community&quot;... but I'm willing to stick my neck out and say that I do like the rep system and enjoy it very much when my questions and answers get upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point: it really bothers me when a question goes community wiki when it really shouldn't... especially when I put some effort into an answer and it gets a lot of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that joke threads and &quot;what's the best chair&quot; questions aren't rep-worthy.  But just because a question is subjective and might have multiple answers doesn't mean that it should necessarily be on that same level.  It is certainly possible to demonstrate technical skill when answering a subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70132" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:08:52.517" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="9097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9060" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:18:17.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically Jon doesn't ask a lot of questions, so maybe you get a &quot;Skeet Padawan&quot; badge if he selects your answer as the answer to a question. 8^D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:18:17.560" />
  <row Id="9098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9094" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:22:26.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can try using &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbeautifier.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jsbeautifier.org/&lt;/a&gt;, which at least makes the code look nicer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:22:26.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6791" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:25:42.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This started happening to me today (didn't happen yesterday) on StackOverflow (tried to find this as an issue, but this question didn't come up when searching for &quot;click on this box to dismiss&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.doodle.co.uk/UserFiles/Image/StackOverflowBug001.png&quot; alt=&quot;click on this box to dismiss&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on it made it go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't shown it for up-voting a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Running Firefox 3.0.12, with Firebug 1.4.0 installed but off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing SVN: 4060 at the bottom of StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also seeing this here on Meta as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Firebug disabled, it does indeed go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as this version of Firebug works with FF 3.5.1, I'm going to go upgrade, and hope MouseGuestures updates soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:25:42.853" />
  <row Id="9100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:34:12.527" Score="6" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm quite satisfied with the Stack Overflow sites, but there's a (sort of) minor feature I'm missing, which would be rather easy to implement: &lt;strong&gt;microformats&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, microformats serve the purpose of adding semantic, machine-parseable information to websites. Some more common uses are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vcard-like information about authors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tagging events with in-line iCal calendar markup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Establishing relations between websites, users, and links.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general principle is that microformats are added by using the &lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt; attribute of HTML elements. This way, there's absolutely no problem with compatability, as browsers just ignore classes they don't know what to do with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;hCard&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;hCalendar&lt;/code&gt; microformats allow embedding of &lt;code&gt;vcard&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;iCal&lt;/code&gt; information into the flow of the page, for example. Also, there are definitions (along with &lt;code&gt;XDMP&lt;/code&gt; profiles)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I was thinking of that could benefit the sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding `hCard` info to profile pages as well as any place where user information is displayed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using `rel=&quot;tag&quot;` notation to designate tagspaces.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using `rel=&quot;me&quot;` notation on profile pages to designate the user's home page. (A useful feature for identity consolidation, which slots in quite well with OpenID.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not sure about this one, but using the `hAtom` format to define an in-line Atom feed. This could also be enhanced by simultaneously adding the Atom Publishing API and autodiscovery headers for said API.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple example, using my profile badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-info&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-action-time&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    answered &amp;lt;span title=&quot;2009-07-14 12:35:48Z UTC&quot; class=&quot;relativetime&quot;&amp;gt;Jul 14 at 12:35&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-gravatar32&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users/11716/towo&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fabc12ff04817d5768e0388e94a0c868?s=32&amp;amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; width=&quot;32&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-details&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users/11716/towo&quot;&amp;gt;towo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;    [SNIP: badge info]&#xA;  &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would simply look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-info vcard&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-action-time&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    answered &amp;lt;span title=&quot;2009-07-14 12:35:48Z UTC&quot; class=&quot;relativetime&quot;&amp;gt;Jul 14 at 12:35&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-gravatar32&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users/11716/towo&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;img class=&quot;photo&quot; src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fabc12ff04817d5768e0388e94a0c868?s=32&amp;amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; width=&quot;32&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-details&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;a class=&quot;url fn&quot; href=&quot;/users/11716/towo&quot;&amp;gt;towo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;    [SNIP: badge info]&#xA;  &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some further reading on MFs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://microformats.org/wiki/hCard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hAtom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://microformats.org/wiki/hAtom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130975" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T00:06:51.720" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T00:06:51.720" Title="Feature request: Enhancing sites with microformats" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;microformats&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:40:30.750" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on Stack Overflow and it never showed up and my profile page never indicated that it was asked. What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132221" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:32:17.033" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:32:17.033" Title="Lost Question on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9100" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:41:00.637" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'd rather have a decent way of getting the information in JSON format via specific queries - I don't see much point in adding extra payload in the HTML being generated when 99.9% of views aren't going to care about that data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:41:00.637" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9102" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:42:06.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may have been deleted by moderators. That would be the most logical one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may have also been migrated (but I believe that these remain on your profile) to one of the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:42:06.573" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9100" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:43:45.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-62/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;latest podcast&lt;/a&gt;, I get it that we're not terribly far away from a Stack Overflow API. When that's done, there's no more need for something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:43:45.453" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9100" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:50:44.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm just too unfamiliar with the idea but I don't see the overall point in having to go about implementing it. I agree with balpha in that I would much rather have an API released that allows me to jigger up whatever fun toys I want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:50:44.667" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:55:52.943" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8649/what-should-i-do-since-joel-spolsky-doesnt-want-questions-to-have-troubleshootin&quot;&gt;What should I do since Joel Spolsky doesn&amp;rsquo;t want questions to have troubleshooting steps?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-62/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this week's pod-cast&lt;/a&gt;, Joel and Jeff came to a disagreement on what I would call pre-emptive questioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then issue is this -- you have a problem, and you've already done some of the obvious RTFM things to work around that, so should you mention that in your question (or subsequent edit/comments) to get an answer to you going as quickly as possible?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel seems to think you shouldn't, because for StackOverflow to be a valuable canon of knowledge, it should have the obvious solutions documented, even if the original questioner had gotten past that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff comes down on the camp that questions should be crafted as carefully as possible, and should thus include details about what has been tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems this is a tension between the Wiki-vision, where StackOverflow is a searchable repository of programming knowledge, and a place to get a quick answer to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that human nature would drive one to including the pre-emptive details, since people don't want to look like they haven't already thought of and tried the obvious solutions.  Add in the factor that those who suggest the obvious solutions on tech boards are generally less than gentle in doing so, so there is a social incentive (independent of rep/badges) toward Jeff's camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:59:44.327" ClosedDate="2009-07-24T17:09:24.730" Title="Pre-emptive questioning" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9115" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:58:59.127" Score="3" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;All &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows-forms&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows-forms]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11113/windows-forms-winforms&quot;&gt;are now tagged&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/winforms&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[winforms]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, however everyday a few questions get created tagged as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows-forms&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows-forms]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and it takes a short time before someone retags them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could there be a way to warn users when they are using a set of &quot;unliked&quot; tags?  Or at least stop &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows-forms&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows-forms]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; showing up in the completion list when typing tags into a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T23:47:14.353" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T23:47:14.353" Title="How can we stop people from tagging questions &quot;windows-forms&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:59:21.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really didn't get Joel's point on that. Whether all &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; reasons for the particular problem are mentioned in the question or in one or several answers, does, in my view, not make a difference to someone who's reading the whole thing anyway when searching for a solution to his own, related, problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:59:21.847" />
  <row Id="9111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2009-07-24T16:59:44.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is room for both.  Questions in Joel's vision may very well be longer lived and more popular, but I think Jeff's ideals are more pragmatic for most of the user's coming to the site with questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T16:59:44.327" />
  <row Id="9112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9118" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:00:19.007" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the SO Team could make certain questions float to the top of the stack for set periods of time? For instance, to get suggestions for an upcoming dev-day, or and upcoming podcast episode. &lt;strong&gt;The ability to sticky would be solely in the hands of admins&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: The types of questions stickied would be few and far in between. It's just an easier way for the admins to keep a topic in the forefront.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T10:39:02.857" Title="Sticky-able Questions on Meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;sticky&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9112" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:02:19.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd disagree on the need for this. That's what the SO blog is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:02:19.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:04:31.893" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of trying to stop anyone from tagging anything. If you make a rule for one tag you're going to have to start setting rules for all subjects and find out what the canonical term is for each subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically once a tag gets popular enough, people will notice it more and continue to use it, and the problem of &quot;stragglers&quot; becomes less and less and can be cleaned up regularly with a simple tag clean up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:04:31.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:04:44.580" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think perhaps the best way to handle this would be to have an alias mapping in the background that automatically re-tags in adherence with previous global retags. So the person would/could still tag with &lt;code&gt;winforms&lt;/code&gt;, but when it posts, the tag is renamed to &lt;code&gt;windows-forms&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:04:44.580" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:05:01.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could have tags that get auto-corrected to something else. If you tag something winforms, when you save it will get renamed to windows-forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be extended so that admins could map sets of tags to another known tag, thus keeping on top of the multi-tag problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:05:01.037" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9112" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:06:06.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they could better implement this just by having one of their &quot;messages&quot; that appears on the pages near the top alerting you to the question and then provide a link. They could then leave that up for however much time was desired, and it would be a lot easier to implement than trying to wildly modify the way questions are aggregated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:06:06.380" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="9119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9112" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:08:49.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A post on SO about suggestions for a dev-day or a podcast would (and should) immediately be closed as not programming related. If those things need promotion on SO, the guys can buy ad space from themselves (as, in case of the dev days, they actually did).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just now noticed you're talking about meta.SO. Your point is more valid here than on SO; however, I still disagree that this would be a good feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:08:49.123" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9122" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:25:52.560" Score="3" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be somewhat interested to see this question answered but as it is now I doubt it. It's really terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177022/how-can-i-notify-the-email&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177022/how-can-i-notify-the-email&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17413" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T14:57:41.787" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T19:20:38.427" Title="What can a non moderator do when he sees an interesting question mangled by bad english?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;non-english-speakers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9121" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:28:54.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention, and leave a comment saying that it needs editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3068/spelling-and-grammar-flag&quot;&gt;a request for a spelling and grammar flag&lt;/a&gt;, but it's not accepted yet. It's not declined, either, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for now the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3068/spelling-and-grammar-flag/3082#3082&quot;&gt;official&lt;/a&gt; thing to do in this situation is to flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:28:54.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9121" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:29:18.303" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep to edit a CW post, go ahead and edit it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep to edit a regular post, go ahead and edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not have enough rep to edit the post, flag it for moderator attention or leave a comment so that hopefully some others high rep users can take the time to clean it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:29:18.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5370" CreationDate="2009-07-24T17:58:10.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for what the replacement behavior should be, I'd recommend keeping track on the client (the browser) how many seconds have passed since the last fetch, and queue the request so that it won't be sent until, say, three seconds have passed since the last fetch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the user it would just look as if the comment is taking a bit longer than usual to load, and the server won't get the overhead of having to receive the request and then deny it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T17:58:10.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9062" CreationDate="2009-07-24T18:07:58.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't need no stinking badge-requests!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:07:58.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9182" CreationDate="2008-11-20T13:00:50.040" Score="366" ViewCount="39242" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question exists because it has&#xA;  historical significance, but it is not&#xA;  considered a good, on-topic question&#xA;  for this site, so please do not use it&#xA;  as evidence that you can ask similar&#xA;  questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chuck Norris Facts&lt;/a&gt; style answers.  In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8086/how-to-get-over-200-reputation-points-every-day/8092#8092&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy &lt;a href=&quot;http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these facts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now with official sanction from the powers that be!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:33:30.480" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T21:06:35.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T13:00:50.040" Title="Jon Skeet Facts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="292" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="144" />
  <row Id="9135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-20T13:02:53.453" Score="496" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once answered one of my questions 42 seconds &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; I asked it.  It is my belief that he employed a super computer and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%5Fof%5FGold%5F%28spaceship%29#Infinite%5FImprobability%5FDrive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Infinite Improbability Drive&lt;/a&gt; technology to achieve this result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet points to &lt;code&gt;null&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;null&lt;/code&gt; quakes in fear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Donald Knuth wears a &quot;Jon Skeet is my Homeboy&quot; t-shirt to show off at parties.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the traveling salesman.  Only he knows the shortest route.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can make the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet took the red pill &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the blue pill, and can phase-shift in and out of the Matrix at will.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has root access to your system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining%5Fphilosophers%5Fproblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dining Philosophers&lt;/a&gt; wait while Jon Skeet eats.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet knows the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has more &quot;Nice Answer&quot; badges than you have badges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet saved the Princess.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T16:18:23.797" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:18:23.797" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T13:02:53.453" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="9136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-20T13:28:56.613" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's wisdom is so profound that when he answers a question about C#, the world's accumulated knowledge about &lt;em&gt;everything else&lt;/em&gt; increases by 50%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T13:28:56.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-20T17:54:16.157" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is so fast he could count to&#xA;  infinity... twice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140012" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T17:54:16.157" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-20T21:48:21.053" Score="836" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can divide by zero.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's SO reputation is only as modest as it is because of integer overflow (SQL Server does not have a datatype large enough)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is the only top 100 SO user who is human.  The others are bots that he coded to pass the time between questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet coded his last project entirely in Microsoft Paint, just for the challenge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet does not use exceptions when programming.  He has not been able to identify any of his code that is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; exceptional.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet's code fails to compile the compiler apologises.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet does not use revision control software.  None of his code has ever needed revision.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you search for &quot;guru&quot; on Google it says &lt;em&gt;&quot;Did you mean Jon Skeet?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are two types of programmers: good programmers, and those that are not Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="158311" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-06T04:14:00.030" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T04:14:00.030" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T21:48:21.037" CommentCount="39" />
  <row Id="9139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T14:46:31.857" Score="138" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some Chuck Norris quotes translated in Jon Skeetish lingo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have 10000 reputation points and Jon Skeet has 10000 reputation points, Jon Skeet has more reputation than you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no 'CTRL' button on Jon Skeet's computer. Jon Skeet is always in control.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only time  Jon Skeet was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comments of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223#310323&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet has a &lt;strong&gt;guru badge for a question about... Jon Skeet&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(this is true: his answer on this post has been accepted and upvoted more than 40 times)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That makes Jon Skeet the leading authority on... Jon Skeet (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1288/bill-the-lizard&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the blog post &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Is You&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet says: &quot;Stack Overflow is You ? &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you#comment-9469&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I knew that already&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[ok, the full quote is actually: &#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Stack Overflow is you.” I knew that already :) What, you’re saying it’s other people too? Hmm… ;) ]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some original ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet does not run his programs. He just whispers &quot;you &lt;em&gt;better run&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. And it runs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet codes only with final sealed methods. No one has ever needed to override any of Jon Skeet's code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet LINQs all things&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet does not &quot;Abort, Retry, Ignore&quot;. Ever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is a BSOD in himself: Best Stack Overflow Definition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet only solves NP-awesome problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; *&lt;em&gt;IntelliSense&lt;/em&gt;*:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to get an answer on Stack Overflow, type: &lt;code&gt;'Jon Skeet' + CTRL+SPACE&lt;/code&gt;. The answer is displayed immediately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;works for question too: &quot;I would like to know...&quot; &lt;code&gt;'Jon Skeet' + CTRL+SPACE&lt;/code&gt;: the question you actually wanted to ask writes itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/303954&quot;&gt;All your reputations are belong to Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. (AYR after &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AYB&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-13T10:31:11.580" LastActivityDate="2011-02-13T10:31:11.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T14:46:31.857" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T14:51:24.483" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't pay respect. Respect pays Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T14:51:24.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T14:56:22.303" Score="66" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When a null reference exception goes to sleep, it checks under the bed for Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no CTRL button on Jon Skeets keyboard. Jon Skeet is always in control.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's threads do not sleep. They wait.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't need delegates, he does all the work himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't call a background worker, background workers call Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't write books, the words assemble themselves out of fear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can solve the travelling salesman in O(1). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet throws an exception, nothing can catch it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141448" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T14:56:22.303" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T14:57:02.677" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't answer questions. &#xA;He just looks at his keyboard and it&#xA;begins typing out of fear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt; inspired the rest of the tags on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2470" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T14:57:02.677" />
  <row Id="9143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T14:58:17.417" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't look for&#xA;reputation. Reputation looks for Jon&#xA;Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can do pair&#xA;programming with himself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T14:58:17.417" />
  <row Id="9144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:04:40.043" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister walked into a bar... and Jon Skeet is going to find out why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:04:40.043" />
  <row Id="9145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:06:17.933" Score="93" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman wears Skeet pajamas to bed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:06:17.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:08:08.770" Score="166" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can believe it's not butter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:08:08.770" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:11:17.097" Score="185" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet does not sleep.. He waits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google is Jon Skeet behind a proxy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet does not recognize anonymous types in .net .. he knows everyone of them and where they live.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff Atwood bought a monster GPU just to calculate J S's rep on SO... CPUs don't cut it anymore.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J S doesn't answer questions on SO.. he stares them down till they answer themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MSDN is a post-it J S wrote when he was four.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Godzilla is a japanese rendition of Jon's first visit to Redmond.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When J S does a search on Google.. the only result is &quot;I'll be right back&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J S returned intellisense and got his money back!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 'Jigsaw Killer' didn't die of cancer.. he died of heartbreak. JS kept leaving 'same time next week :)' post-its in his traps.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Norman Bates lives a normal life today... J S fixed the unwanted callbacks and rewrote Mother.Dispose()   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J S took out Harry Callahan with an anonymous delegate before he could say 'do you punk?'  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When J S presses F5, the Garbage collector collects itself.. there is no other garbage.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contrary to popular belief, there is enough J S to go around.. and then some.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:11:17.097" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="9148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:15:00.910" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet created the matrix using COBOL because he was bored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:15:00.910" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:19:20.933" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet got an &lt;em&gt;unobtanium&lt;/em&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's called 'Jon Skeet.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156194" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:19:20.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:51:37.980" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet was once known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://foldoc.org/?The+Story+of+Mel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mel Kaye&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134409" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:51:37.980" />
  <row Id="9151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:21:23.630" Score="239" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/23016c53c8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JONBERT appears courtesy of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ae3fbd60b2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:21:23.630" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="9152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:23:47.993" Score="136" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has performed the following feats on Stack Overflow (yes, in real life):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet won the “Hello World” in less than 20 bytes&quot; contest by developing a single byte program. He could have easily done with zero bytes, &quot;but that would have been silly.&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284797/hello-world-in-less-than-20-bytes#284898&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Hello World&amp;quot; in less than 20 bytes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet does not resolve software problems. The problems resolve themselves the moment he walks into the office. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140376/what-easter-eggs-have-you-placed-in-code#140507&quot;&gt;What Easter Eggs have you placed in code?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can answer a question well before it is asked and then get several up-votes whilst he has yet to finish typing the solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/343852/whats-a-good-algorithm-to-determine-if-an-input-is-a-perfect-square#343862&quot;&gt;What&amp;#39;s a good algorithm to determine if an input is a perfect square?&lt;/a&gt; (see comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="141346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T04:23:47.550" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T04:23:47.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:23:47.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:31:30.507" Score="109" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Jon Skeet badge is awarded for posting a better answer than Jon Skeet. Only Jon Skeet can earn this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:31:30.507" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:36:16.813" Score="353" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt;  Can Jon Skeet ask a question that even Jon Skeet can't answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt;  Yes.  And he can answer it, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:36:16.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:37:53.833" Score="50" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's first &quot;Hello World&quot; app took up 10 bytes of memory (think about it!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon installed Visual Studio he opted not to install the debugger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon saves a file the file thanks him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bill wanted Jon but had to make do with Jerry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Yoda needs advice he calls Jon Skeet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133799" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:37:53.833" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="9156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:50:13.870" Score="165" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can throw an exception further than anyone else, and in less time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can code in Perl &lt;em&gt;and make it look like Java&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can stop an infinite loop just by thinking about it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't need a debugger, he just stares down the bug until the code confesses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet once wrote an entire operating system in his sleep on a Treo with no battery, powered only by the force of his will&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="8768" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T12:04:41.327" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:04:41.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:50:13.870" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="9157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:54:01.100" Score="78" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once hacked the FBI using an etch-a-sketch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:54:01.100" />
  <row Id="9158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:57:44.807" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can execute an infinite loop in 4 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:57:44.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T16:59:47.937" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet solves NP-Complete problems in O(0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T16:59:47.937" />
  <row Id="9160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:04:33.933" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't need a keyboard or mouse, he just induces the transistors in the CPU to flip with the power of his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:04:33.933" />
  <row Id="9161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:05:51.000" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chuck Norris and Jon Skeet walked into a bar. The bar was instantly destroyed, as that level of awesome cannot be contained in one building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134559" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:05:51.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:08:10.650" Score="73" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a page margin of Jon Skeet's copy of the book on the Riemann Hypothesis is the note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:08:10.650" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:21:42.153" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can reopen closed question on SO  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:21:42.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:38:53.477" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;.NET uses Just-In-Time compilation because every instruction must first be approved by Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132739" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:38:53.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:52:29.533" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet cannot cause a null reference exception. If he points to null, an object materializes just for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:52:29.533" />
  <row Id="9166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:04:16.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;On Error Resume Next = Jon Skeet Coding&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T18:04:16.233" />
  <row Id="9167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:33:37.123" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has a probability greater than 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T18:33:37.123" />
  <row Id="9168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T19:49:21.997" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't unit test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is the unit test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T19:49:21.997" />
  <row Id="9169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T19:52:18.043" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is NP-complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150933" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T19:52:18.043" />
  <row Id="9170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T19:52:34.453" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't hit refresh on Stack Overflow - the SO database tweaks his neurons directly.  He just hangs an event handler on the neurons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141841" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T19:52:34.453" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T20:01:51.347" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's Map-Reduce implementation collapses the known universe into a singularity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet implemented an algorithm to reverse entropy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131241" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T20:01:51.347" />
  <row Id="9172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T20:04:55.817" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet does not have to end his code statements with semi-colons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145540" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T20:04:55.817" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T20:11:49.767" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was sooo close to closing this as an “exact duplicate” but I'm unable to find any related thread in the MS newsgroups. Can it really be that nobody had noticed before? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;… Jon’s stack can’t overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T20:11:49.750" />
  <row Id="9174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T20:46:26.187" Score="550" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has already written a book about C# 5.0. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s currently sealed up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In three years, Anders Hejlsberg is going to open the book to see if the language design team got it right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T20:46:26.187" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="9175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:04:08.163" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet does not write code. He&#xA;edits binaries by hand while they&#xA;are running.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet invented C. When asked what he used to write it he replied &quot;C++&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132105" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:04:08.163" />
  <row Id="9176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:05:34.603" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modern DNS systems ask Jon Skeet for the best route to the host.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any function written by Jon Skeet can only return 42.  Co-workers have yet to report any errors caused by this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows displays the BSOD when Jon Skeet nears it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet programs in Binary, then compiles it into human-readable code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet once wrote a program that segfaulted.  There were no survivors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:05:34.603" />
  <row Id="9177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:09:06.623" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140376/what-easter-eggs-have-you-placed-in-code#140507&quot;&gt;fixed a production problem&lt;/a&gt; in his pajamas. How it got in his pajamas, I will never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:09:06.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:28:09.160" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can compress 1GB of information into one byte.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't needs drivers, he tells the hardware what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's computer can't take viruses, they're too afraid of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can speak to computers, because he compiles his thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet needs an operating system, the OS writes himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:28:09.160" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:29:24.523" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet fixed PC Load Letter. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ8SefiNEcs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;^&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131475" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:29:24.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:29:58.627" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you find a bug in Jon Skeet's code, you are wrong: it is a feature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no need to set the optimization flags when compiling Jon Skeet's code: it cannot be optimized further&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For any problem, Jon Skeet's algorithm run faster than the theoretical lower bound&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:29:58.627" />
  <row Id="9181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:42:19.817" Score="99" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;God said: 'Let there be light,' only so he could see what Jon Skeet was up to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:42:19.817" />
  <row Id="9182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:49:42.313" Score="730" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are written in the third person so as not to disrupt the style of the thing. But hey, as we all know, Jon Skeet can make 1 == 3 anyway, so it makes no difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is immutable. If something's going to change, it's going to have to be the rest of the universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's addition operator doesn't commute; it teleports to where he needs it to be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anonymous methods and anonymous types are really all called Jon Skeet. They just don't like to boast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's code doesn't follow a coding convention. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the coding convention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't have performance bottlenecks. He just makes the universe wait its turn.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is the only person who has ranked higher than Jon Skeet in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/99502/jon-skeet-now-2-in-reputation-leagues&quot;&gt;SO all-time rep league&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users don't mark Jon Skeet's answers as accepted. The universe accepts them out of a sense of truth and justice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-03T21:06:35.940" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T21:06:35.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:49:42.300" CommentCount="35" />
  <row Id="9183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T21:51:36.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is Jon Skeet?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What do we really know about him?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is he a socialist?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;He keeps spreading the knowledge around&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T21:51:36.477" />
  <row Id="9184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:05:28.243" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once challenged Jon Skeet to a coding competition.  He beat me so bad it caused me to travel back in time to ancient Greece.  While I was there, I learned that they actually had SIX elements: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Aether and Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131050" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:05:28.243" />
  <row Id="9185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:09:47.297" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can sort in O(n*log(log(n))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:09:47.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:11:14.643" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet creates Java classes that are both final and abstract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13753" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:11:14.643" />
  <row Id="9187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:21:02.157" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Jon Skeet, a stack overflow is nothing but a poorly capitalised name of a popular website for developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:21:02.157" />
  <row Id="9188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:22:00.097" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; violent psychopath that knows where you live&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:22:00.097" />
  <row Id="9189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:22:33.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is not a person. He is a panel of legendary programmers in disguise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:22:33.747" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:34:34.597" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet invented the internet.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet knows the question that goes with '42'.  He also knows the answer, and Douglas Adams reported it wrong:  it's Jon Skeet.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if this will make the podcast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:34:34.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T22:38:33.370" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet NEVER has to &quot;su -root&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T22:38:33.353" />
  <row Id="9192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T23:12:08.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Dahl and Nygaard first thought about object-oriented languages, it was actually just as a way to talk about data storage.  It only became programming after they heard Jon Skeet deliver a sermon on Methodism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T23:12:08.997" />
  <row Id="9193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T23:29:43.783" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can inherit a sealed class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T23:29:43.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T23:33:53.477" Score="238" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when Jon gives a method an argument, the method loses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when Jon pushes a value onto a stack, it &lt;em&gt;stays&lt;/em&gt; pushed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when invoking one of Jon's callbacks, the runtime adds &quot;please&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;drivers think twice before they dare interrupt Jon's code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T23:33:53.477" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-21T23:42:59.620" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet calls a method, it fires, even if it doesn't exist. The C# team noticed this, and added the dynamic keyword into C# 4.0...Originally it was going to be called the jonskeet keyword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T23:42:59.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T01:15:31.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet:  What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Morpheus:  No, Jon. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140861" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T01:15:31.917" />
  <row Id="9197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T01:43:26.367" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/LOa5b.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I like Turtles!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet survives off the blood of the living, and has incredible taste in slippers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/pics/calling/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Seriously&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-11T14:47:19.870" LastActivityDate="2011-04-11T14:47:19.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T01:43:26.367" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T02:00:01.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet knows NP-Complete before he sees it,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; and is only holding back the proof of P?=NP for the sake of humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T02:00:01.840" />
  <row Id="9199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T02:35:07.747" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet can execute an infinite loop in 1.55 seconds&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;that's how long it takes for him to simulate a universe from birth to heat death.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T02:35:07.730" />
  <row Id="9200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T04:47:18.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet knows the perfect answer to any question anyone will ever ask because GOD told him the administrator password of the machine that the entire universe runs on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet created StackOverflow.com and let Jeff Atwood take the credit so that other users  won't think he uses a cheat to increase his rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T04:47:18.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T05:10:30.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet uses the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_Lemma&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pumping lemma&lt;/a&gt;...uhhhhhh...ummmm...oh never mind&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T05:10:30.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T06:25:02.040" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is the open source alternative to Resharper&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has no need for SCRUM - Jon Skeet is a one-man waterfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Jon Skeet Open Source, Closed source and non existing source is all the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T06:25:02.040" />
  <row Id="9203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T18:27:16.887" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet keeps a daily backup of the Internet on his USB pendrive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't know how to debug (he doesn't need to).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can reach the Ballmer peak with distilled water.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now Linux runs also on Turing machines, thanks to Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet wrote a beautiful concerto for piano and orchestra which is also an ISO C compiler, after score2binary conversion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's mouse has the upvote, downvote and flag offensive buttons.&lt;sup&gt;[citation needed]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wall Street crisis was originated by a downvote to a Jon Skeets' answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet will reach Captain Hewgill, the world will end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only Jon Skeets knows that this sentence is true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is the author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0786865660&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Book of Answers&lt;/a&gt;, programmer's edition. In a moment of frustration, yesterday I opened it at a random page. It said: &quot;You are trying to dereference a null pointer at line 525&quot;. Damn it, it was true!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T18:27:16.887" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T18:49:10.290" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet programs in Forth, it automatically becomes First.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23743" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T18:49:10.277" />
  <row Id="9205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T19:45:54.607" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concept of Ignorance itself has congealed, become corporeal and conscious just to flag all of Jon Skeet's Stackoverflow answers as offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Wisdom has responded by removing the flag and raining down a golden shower of up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T19:45:54.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T19:57:30.840" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wrote a compiler - and compiled himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133719" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T19:57:30.840" />
  <row Id="9207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-22T21:19:03.640" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet scribbles something on a napkin, it's encoded in UTF-8, well-formed XML, and is an ISO standard. He does not need to request for comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The truly serious hacker should consider learning C#, not Lisp. Because Jon Skeet wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a book&lt;/a&gt; on C#.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet writes once, it does run everywhere. Regardless of the language.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/378/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;butterflies&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet reads your e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T21:19:03.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-23T00:04:40.513" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Geico saved 0xf percent by switching to Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133719" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-23T00:04:40.497" />
  <row Id="9209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-23T03:36:09.587" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;God wrote the universe &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/224/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in Perl&lt;/a&gt;. Jon Skeet wrote God in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SKI&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-23T03:36:09.587" />
  <row Id="9210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-23T20:12:14.240" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There simply is no Halting Problem within a 10-meter radius of Jon Skeet, because computers are rightfully afraid to halt in his presence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has proven the Continuum Hypothesis, but has agreed not to share his discovery with the world until leading mathematicians recover from the shock.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is beyond Turing-complete; he is Turing-invincible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;nVidia plans to triple the processing power of their newest videocards by bypassing their GPU pipelines entirely and offloading the vector operations to Jon Skeet over instant messenger. And those graphics benchmarks will improve further still during those intervals when Jon is &lt;em&gt;actually awake&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-23T20:12:14.227" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-23T21:30:15.643" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet beat the boss at the last level of C#, and got every achievement possible, even a couple that was never added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-23T21:30:15.643" />
  <row Id="9212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-23T22:57:24.610" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet codes a far JMP, the assembler asks, &quot;How high?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19512" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-23T22:57:24.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-24T04:54:55.573" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is so powerful even HE can't list all his amazing attributes in one post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-24T04:54:55.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T02:39:09.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;first there was Structured Programming, then CASE Tools, then Object-Oriented Programming, but it is clear now that the &lt;em&gt;ultimate&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;final&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Next Big Thing&lt;/strong&gt; is: Jon Skeet-Oriented programming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also known as JSOP, and practiced religiously by a chosen few, JSOP will be revealed to the world at the next Turing Award ceremony (also known as the &quot;Jon Skeet Fan Club Annual Celebration&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T02:39:09.110" />
  <row Id="9215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T02:49:46.530" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All Exceptions inherit from NotJonSkeetException.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet uses Emacs (take that vi users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet registers do not use Flip-Flops, he uses atoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon skeet rewrote the earth in 6 days, in pure binary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet may never raise an exception, exceptions raises Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has the Minority Report computer, in fact he was the one who built it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can divide per 0, twice, while juggling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once saved the planet from a computer virus he wrote himself, be grateful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4A 6F 6E 53 6B 65 65 74 43 61 6E 52 65 61 64 54 68 69 73 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T02:49:46.530" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T02:59:31.783" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Console.WriteLine(typeof(System.Object).BaseType);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;JonSkeet.System&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="135925" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T20:08:52.373" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T20:08:52.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T02:59:31.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:57:16.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the marvel comics universe, there is only one metal harder than Adamantium - Jonskeetium&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6916" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T13:57:16.790" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T14:18:24.080" Score="56" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skeet is now a verb. &lt;strong&gt;To be Skeeted:&lt;/strong&gt; The act of attempting to answer a StackOverflow question only to find out that Jon Skeet has already answered it definitively and much better than you could have done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="748" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T14:18:24.080" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T14:47:18.920" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Console.WriteLine(&quot;C++&quot; + 1);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Output: &quot;C#&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Console.WriteLine(&quot;C#&quot; + 1);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Output: &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131948" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T14:47:18.920" />
  <row Id="9220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T15:01:39.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The SO user called Jon Skeet is not actually Jon Skeet. It's just a bot he has written to pass the Turing Test.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet also defined a similar test, called the Skeet Test. It asks people who are communicating with 2 agents, one of which is a person and one of which a computer, to determine which one is the computer. If the human can convince the test subject that he is the computer, he passes. Only Jon Skeet can pass.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5409" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T15:01:39.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T16:40:32.857" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet mentioned my name in a comment and my reputation went up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T16:40:32.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T18:44:05.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of Jon Skeet's code compiles immediately.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is any delay whatsoever, it's the binary working out if it is worthy to be in his presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1122" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T18:44:05.540" />
  <row Id="9223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:17:41.027" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet solved the halting problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:17:41.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:27:04.423" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: What language did God code the universe in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: None of them.  God didn't code the universe, but rather asked Jon Skeet to do it.  God said &quot;please&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:27:04.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:34:21.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is Jon Skeet - and You.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:34:21.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T21:23:24.127" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318888/solving-who-owns-the-zebra-programmatically#318916&quot;&gt;Jon skeet owns the zebra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+1 for circular references?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T21:23:24.127" />
  <row Id="9227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T21:31:41.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet will be 42 years old, our universe will collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158080" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T21:31:41.897" />
  <row Id="9228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T21:45:59.013" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet already discovered the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Higgs boson&lt;/a&gt; using a 6th grade&#xA;chemistry set and a laser pointer.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet renamed the Higgs boson to&#xA;&quot;Jon Skeet&quot; so &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CERN&lt;/a&gt; wouldn't find&#xA;it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is developing a new game &quot;Coding Hero&quot; for us to play so we can pretend to be as cool as he is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet has already defeated the Lich King, solo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's hard disk self-defragments, not by schedule but by fear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133256" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T21:45:59.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-25T23:02:14.973" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wrote the very first working C# compiler in C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet plans to use SHA-3 as a very efficient compression algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has no problems writing multithreaded code, whenever there's a race condition, he always wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet knows what &quot;PC Load Letter&quot; means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon skeet once wrote a production quality OS kernel using nothing but Microsoft Project&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T23:02:14.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T04:50:50.823" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ultimate recursive function call (language is not important, it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; work):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;JonSkeet()&#xA;{&#xA;   return JonSkeet();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133719" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T04:50:50.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T05:29:55.207" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superman has a pair of Jon Skeet&#xA;pyjamas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet counted to infinity -&#xA;twice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can speak braile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet divides by zero&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only time Jon Skeet was wrong&#xA;was when he thought he made a&#xA;mistake&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's hand is the only hand&#xA;that can beat a royal flush&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T05:29:55.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T05:46:48.700" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Jon-Skeet's program fails to compile they fix the compiler.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon-Skeet's has written a SCM platform of his own. It downloads code from his brain while he sleeps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon-Skeet doesn't program, he just draws on the Code. A type of force in the universe that was spawned at his birth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original abacus wasn't invented. It was Jon-Skeet as a baby.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The halting problem was invented by Jon-Skeet. He sees it as a solution, not a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon-Skeet helped the aliens invent the transistor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each strand of Jon-Skeet's hair is a CPU core. He has a tiny black hole in his brain where he stores data.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon-Skeet thought it may be funny to be able to prove that 1 != 1 when he invented mathematics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon-Skeet doesn't sleep, he just serializes for a few hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_underflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Wikipedia Explanation&quot;&gt;underflow&lt;/a&gt; error thrown by (chuckNorris / jonSkeet) can never be caught or handled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Even More&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Microsoft is a JSVP (Jon Skeet Valued Professional)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132081" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T05:46:48.700" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T09:10:04.060" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of a BSOD, Windows Azure sends a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat-Signal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skeet-Signal&lt;/a&gt; into the clouds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T09:10:04.060" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T09:55:06.327" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet writes Java code that runs fast. The interpreter wouldn't dare run it slowly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet invented Ruby as a joke.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; they understand binary, and Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is able to reverse the polarity of any magnet just by looking at it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't need a firewall. Malicious packets are too scared to enter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't own a television. He simply demodulates the RF signals directly in his brain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't require a security fob. The door opens out of fear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T09:55:06.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T13:45:36.003" Score="491" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can recite π.  Backwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131218" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T13:45:36.003" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="9236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T15:23:16.600" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mozilla originally wanted to name the &quot;awesome bar&quot; the &quot;Skeet bar&quot;, but Jon thought that would be pushing things a little too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T15:23:16.600" />
  <row Id="9237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T15:56:33.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hugh Everett is wrong. There is only one world and that's the one Jon Skeet chooses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T15:56:33.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T18:47:34.537" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only Jon Skeet earned the coveted &quot;Jon Skeet&quot; badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=I%20am%20Jon%20Skeet&amp;amp;medal=gold&quot; alt=&quot;Jon Skeet badge&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136960" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T18:47:34.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-26T22:02:38.307" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't write answers in response to questions, he writes the answers then waits for the question to be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T22:02:38.307" />
  <row Id="9240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-27T15:22:47.927" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has proven that his toaster is monadic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-27T15:22:47.927" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-28T09:20:05.803" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can ROLLBACK after a successful COMMIT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150584" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-28T09:20:05.803" />
  <row Id="9243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-28T13:08:00.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt; microprocessor &lt;strong&gt;instructions&lt;/strong&gt; are ordered from Jon Skeet, real-time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150896" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-28T13:08:00.697" />
  <row Id="9244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-28T21:18:37.260" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not a coincidence that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;KEEN JOTS&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=johnskeet&amp;amp;t=1000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;anagram of &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-28T21:18:37.260" />
  <row Id="9245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-11-28T22:31:05.257" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the Googleplex gets temporarily short of disk space (as happens occasionally) they borrow a few petabytes from Jon Skeet's toaster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time arbiter of last resort for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ntp.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pool.ntp.org&lt;/a&gt; is Jon Skeet's sundial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet knows all of Bruce Schneier's passwords.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet has solved &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riddle_of_the_Universe_and_Its_Solution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Riddle of the Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9634" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-28T22:31:05.257" />
  <row Id="9246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-01T11:18:36.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he already is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthuman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;posthuman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;singularity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-01T11:18:36.860" />
  <row Id="9247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-01T11:24:16.693" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can bit-shift in 3 dimensions, not just left and right, but up/down, and forward/back too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-01T11:24:16.693" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-02T18:48:06.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanksgiving gives thanks for Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-02T18:48:06.593" />
  <row Id="9249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-03T08:36:57.183" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's keyboard has only two buttons: 1 and 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-03T08:36:57.183" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-03T18:56:13.643" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;On a horse made of crystal Jon Skeet patrols the land,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;with a Mason Ring and schnauzer in his perfect hands.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He once held an opponent's wife's hand...in a jar of acid&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;...at a party.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; It's from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex2hj5rLN48&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-03T18:56:13.643" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-03T22:50:08.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite what Steve McConnell thinks, &quot;elongated stream,&quot; &quot;retroactive synapse,&quot; and &quot;value chain&quot; are all real data types.  It's just that Jon Skeet is the only one who knows how to use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22489" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-03T22:50:08.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-05T17:16:59.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were able to travel at the speed of light inside your car and then you turned on the headlights, you would see Jon Skeet's face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Big Bang&quot; occured when Jon Skeet and God were arm-wrestling and Jon Skeet won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet always gives 130% of coding effort into every program he writes.  Yes, this is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-05T17:16:59.100" />
  <row Id="9253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-09T05:55:44.680" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesnt have a DEV environment he Develops entirely in production&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T05:55:44.680" />
  <row Id="9254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-09T21:57:45.177" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet didn't buy Code Complete. It's his life story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T21:57:45.177" />
  <row Id="9255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-09T23:39:42.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is what Jon Skeet does &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T23:39:42.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-09T23:43:56.490" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet handles all my exceptions &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;try&#xA;{&#xA;    // insert code here&#xA;}&#xA;catch(Exception ex)&#xA;{&#xA;  JonSkeet(ex);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T23:43:56.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-09T23:46:18.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is Jason Bourne&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T23:46:18.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-13T19:16:23.350" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has proof-read the internet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and found it wanting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T19:16:23.350" />
  <row Id="9259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-16T01:46:33.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The universe is Jon Skeet's stack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132165" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T01:46:33.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:57:35.670" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet takes a break, SO Server comes to idle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158639" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:57:35.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-20T18:14:24.747" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can write an operating system in machine language in binary using only 0s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-20T18:14:24.747" />
  <row Id="9262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-20T19:38:10.740" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inside Microsoft, Just-In-Time compilation is called Jon-In-Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4749" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-20T19:38:10.723" />
  <row Id="9263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-22T02:16:45.567" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet knows more than The Shadow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can change the rate of decay of radioactive isotopes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet invented sliced bread&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All SETI@home and Folding@home packet submissions are verified by Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is better than Cats&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Santa asks Jon Skeet who has been naughty and nice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T02:16:45.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-22T02:45:19.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just an attempt at inventing some...&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't encounter DivisionByZeroException,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;he encounters MultiplyByInfinityException.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't use asserts! The asserts use Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main function in Jon Skeet's program returns Jon Skeet!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When there is a Stack Overflow, Jon Skeet will be probably be at the bottom pushing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't need paging, he provides the pages himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before a game has been written, Jon Skeet has already finished playing the last level.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't need Windows, he uses bullet-proof glass!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When there is a water flood, Jon Skeet uses his firewall...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;XML does not exist for Jon Skeet, he uses generic templates to read data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't write unit tests, nobody uses his code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Standards are useless for Jon Skeet, his code extends all limits!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't use threads... He uses ropes!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet = Infinity + 1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet makes programmers idiots, and idiots programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145350" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T02:45:19.957" />
  <row Id="9265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-22T10:14:18.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows actually &quot;works&quot; on Jon Skeet's computer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Breaking news: &quot;NASA has removed all firewalls from its server and stuck a picture of 'Jon Skeet in gown'(available in SO) on it&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet does not move the mouse, the pointer knows exactly where to go when he touches it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet once developed an operating system using a calculator during a morning jog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public void foo(){&#xA;    final int notsofinalhaha = 10;&#xA;    notsofinalhaha * 50; // don't even doubt that...&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, a non-tech one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he does push-ups (yeah he does just for fun)... he doesn't come up... actually, the Earth goes down humbly ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T16:30:22.410" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T16:30:22.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T10:14:18.020" />
  <row Id="9266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-22T19:49:25.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet appears on Jeopardy none of his answers are in the form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="318" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T19:49:25.537" />
  <row Id="9267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-22T23:39:25.760" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: how many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: none, Jon Skeet already changed them, all at once, with a generic recursive structure using reflection&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T23:39:25.760" />
  <row Id="9268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-23T13:17:21.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet marched to the bottom of The Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, the Evil Wizard was &lt;em&gt;OUT, NEVER TO RETURN&lt;/em&gt;.  The amulet had been left on the floor with a note warning monsters not to touch it, and a profuse apology to Jon Skeet for making him go the trouble.  When Jon Skeet returned to the surface, Trebor thanked Jon Skeet for retrieving the Amulet and asked Jon to keep it.  Trebor then handed over &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; equipment and &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of his gold to Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T13:17:21.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-23T14:15:24.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wrote the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Life_Equation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;anti-life equation&lt;/a&gt; when he was 2 months old. Two seconds later he got bored of it and hid it somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T14:15:24.243" />
  <row Id="9270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-23T14:30:09.253" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you get too close to Jon Skeet, you lose 6000 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T14:30:09.253" />
  <row Id="9271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-23T16:05:33.397" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy who dared to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/380512/finding-references-to-an-object#380515&quot;&gt;downvote a Jon Skeet answere&lt;/a&gt; lost hist right hand, the mouse ate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T16:05:33.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-24T15:11:24.083" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jon skeet knows the sound of one hand clapping, and uses it as a metronome to calibrate atomic clocks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jon skeet can kill batman and superman with a single subroutine call.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jon skeet needs no bug-tracking system because he has no bugs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jon skeet wins all race conditions - unconditionally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T15:11:24.083" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-24T15:49:40.730" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet never debugs code. His keyboard doesn't have the F5 key nor does his IDE have the &quot;Start with Debugging&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T15:49:40.730" />
  <row Id="9274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-26T11:30:53.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here comes more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Outer space exists because it is afraid to be on the same planet with Jon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is so fast that he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of his head&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't wear a watch - He decides what time is it!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can slam a revolving door ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills and made him blink&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I'm possessed by Jon Skate 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01110000 00100000 01101001 01110100 00101110 00101110&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ah.now I'm back to normal..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-26T11:30:53.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-26T11:41:49.027" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: Jon Skeet once challenged Jon Skeet to a coding contest. Who won?&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;A: Jon Skeet. Twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-26T11:41:49.027" />
  <row Id="9276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-29T18:32:32.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that ethically-trained Jon Skeet would never consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Nor would Jon Skeet write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.  Basic professional ethics would instead require Jon Skeet to write a DestroyUniverse procedure, to which he can pass any universe as he chooses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T18:32:32.550" />
  <row Id="9277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-30T14:55:22.037" Score="295" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Jon Skeet posts a duplicate question on StackOverflow, &lt;strong&gt;the original question will be closed as duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-30T14:55:22.037" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2008-12-30T15:11:38.117" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet  gets reputation so fast that &lt;strong&gt;his reputation counter has had an overflow error&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;His reputation was over 22K now it’s 18.2K&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132079" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-30T15:11:38.117" />
  <row Id="9279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-04T03:10:12.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time now: 3h14 AM ;-) - few ones I came up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't need &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_sled&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NOP sleds&lt;/a&gt; - registers throw themselves at Jon's Instruction Pointer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, Jon Skeet doesn't even need to do buffer overflow exploits - programs exploit themselves in Jon's presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet solves everything in O(logJ(n)) where logJ is the Skeet logarithm. It turns out O(logJ(n)) is &lt;em&gt;infinitely&lt;/em&gt; faster than O(0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet rewrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Euler's identity&lt;/a&gt;. He only showed the ancient Incas once when going back in time, but their eyes imploded out of the sheer awesomeness of the equation. All we know is that the new equation incorporates J, the Skeet number, which is the base of the Skeet logarithm logJ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T03:10:12.820" />
  <row Id="9280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-05T22:02:33.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet knows if &lt;a href=&quot;http://kyle.baley.org/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricMonorailsWhileTheyreHibernating.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ayende is a cyborg&lt;/a&gt; - he programmed Ayende!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144508" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T22:02:33.437" />
  <row Id="9281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-06T01:04:37.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet gets speedups of 3 on a dual-core.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you play chess with Jon Skeet, he checkmates you in one move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Jon Skeet and Anders Hejlsberg walked into a bar. The bar was instantly destroyed, as that level of awesome cannot be contained in one building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet programs are only a list of dwim() statements ... and they work.&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T01:04:37.597" />
  <row Id="9282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-06T23:59:00.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For linuxers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SUDO = &lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;keet &lt;strong&gt;U&lt;/strong&gt;ser &lt;strong&gt;D&lt;/strong&gt;id a &lt;strong&gt;O&lt;/strong&gt;rder&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48729" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T23:59:00.067" />
  <row Id="9283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-07T05:14:53.597" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet wrote a copy protection system that even Jon Skeet couldn't hack.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet programmed his refrigerator to also work as a Microwave.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's firewall subjects data packets to severe interrogation before letting them through.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet also designed a better search algorithm than Google. Now Google is paying him to keep it under wraps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Jon Skeet designed semiconductor chips, he'd make Moore's law seem like snail-pace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can answer every question on SO before one of us can read them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heck! Jon Skeet can answer a question before it occurs to the guy who asked it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132870" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T05:14:53.597" />
  <row Id="9284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-08T16:34:42.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet knows more about jQuery than John Resig does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137769" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T16:34:42.473" />
  <row Id="9285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-09T13:00:29.967" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The one who down voted Jon Skeet was&#xA;never seen again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T13:00:29.967" />
  <row Id="9286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-09T13:25:50.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no NP problems, those are just the ones that Jon Skeet have not coded yet in O(1) time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38264" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T13:25:50.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-09T17:14:10.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Zen of Jon Skeet&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is better than ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is better than implicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is better than complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is better than complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is better than nested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is better than dense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special cases aren't special enough to break Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Jon Skeet beats purity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet should never pass silently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless explicitly Jon Skeeted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the face of Jon Skeetity, refuse the temptation to guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be one Jon Skeet-- and preferably only one Jon Skeet way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although that way may not be Jon Skeet at first unless you're Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now is Jon Skeeter than never.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Jon Skeet is often better than &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T17:14:10.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-09T18:37:24.857" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;JON SKEET = 42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T18:37:24.857" />
  <row Id="9289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-09T23:13:29.400" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet never disappoints; only disappointment gets disappointed, if Jon Skeet says so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T23:13:29.387" />
  <row Id="9290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-16T01:40:07.527" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's infinite loops complete in finite time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's recursive functions need no base-case; they know when their work is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's recursive algorithms don't overflow the stack; they build a bigger stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144816" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-16T01:40:07.527" />
  <row Id="9291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-20T22:30:36.100" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i earned almost all of my reputation just by answering questions with &quot;See Jon Skeet's answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-20T22:30:36.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-21T10:07:16.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All Google search results are generated by Jon Skeet when he sleeps&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet invented the Internet &quot;for a laugh&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When SO goes down it's because Jon Skeet blinked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pixar's RenderMan farms are powered by an email from Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet never needs to use the if statement, he already knows the result&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's first program proved that the Loop Quantum Cosmology theory is true and we live in a recycled universe with no big bang.  He later said it was either that or Hello World...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T10:07:16.723" />
  <row Id="9293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-22T10:15:43.587" Score="82" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's keyboard doesn't have &lt;code&gt;F1&lt;/code&gt; key, the computer asks for help from him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet presses &lt;code&gt;Ctrl+Alt+Delete&lt;/code&gt;, worldwide computers restart is initiated. The same goes for &lt;code&gt;format&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet uses Visual Studio to burn CD's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is not close to perfection, perfection is close to Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;God didn't really create the world in 6 days, because Jon Skeet optimized it to 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's brain thinks binary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet dreams in 1 and 0. When 2 shows up, it is a nightmare. But again that's only in theory. 2 doesn't exist for Jon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's heart rate is 5GHz.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thanks to the XML application &lt;code&gt;AIDSTest 1.1&lt;/code&gt; written by Jon Skeet, mobile phone users can now test them selfs for the HIV virus by simple SMS. Anonymity Guaranteed!.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seventh normal form (&lt;code&gt;7NF&lt;/code&gt;) for database normalization IS Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody has EVER dared to close the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;JonSkeet&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet solves an equation the variables becomes constants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If anyone writes &lt;code&gt;delete JonSkeet;&lt;/code&gt; in C, the Apocalypse will come.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once Jon Skeet went to the library... since then the library was dynamically linked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet has the key to &lt;code&gt;Open Source&lt;/code&gt;. He just doesn't want to close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compatibility doesn't exist in Jon Skeet's dictionary. He can easily work in Microsoft Office in Linux on a Mac.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet is programming the Garbage Collector rests. The objects know when to destroy themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's styling is connected to a .css file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the Internet is the web then Jon Skeet is the spider.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Bad command or file name&quot; - angrily said Jon Skeet, and continued: &quot;Go stand in the corner&quot;. Poor &quot;file or command name&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet is on a diet and doesn't eat fast food, all hard disks change from &lt;code&gt;FAT to NTFS&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet has written the best programming language. It source has just one command... &lt;code&gt;void JonSkeet();&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't use &lt;code&gt;#include&lt;/code&gt;. He thinks of it as cheating.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. and this is my first post on Stack Overflow...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T10:15:43.587" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="9294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-23T14:34:30.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet only uses the programming language called 'JonSkeet' (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediafire.com/?smnmj1doin1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Available here&lt;/a&gt;, usage: JonSkeet example1.txt, tested on XP). It contains only two keywords: Jon and Skeet. Everything else is invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skizz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-23T14:34:30.990" />
  <row Id="9295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-26T14:29:58.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;System.Object inherits from Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wrote the Matrix during his coffee break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150091" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-26T14:29:58.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-26T15:57:22.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet really is from the future 25th Centry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skeets arrived from the 25th Century ...used this knowledge to become Jon Skeet on StackOverflow... Skeets was apparently ...kept in storage (where he killed time surfing and creating the Internet and solving questions like only he knows =&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-26T15:57:22.090" />
  <row Id="9297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-27T18:30:03.780" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of C# 4.0 all void methods will actually return JonSkeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what is the JonSkeet class?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[TestFixture]&#xA;public class JonSkeetTests {&#xA;  [Test]&#xA;  [ExpectedException(typeof(JonSkeetIsEternalException))]&#xA;  public void Cannot_instantiate_JonSkeet {&#xA;    var a = new JonSkeet();&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  [Test]&#xA;  [ExpectedException(typeof(JonSkeetAlreadyKnewThatYouFoolException))]&#xA;  public void Cannot_add_to_JonSkeet_knowledge {&#xA;    JonSkeet.Eternal.AddKnowledge(new Fact());&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that JonSkeet would ever use a static property as an accessor to a singleton&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-27T18:30:03.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-28T17:12:41.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't work for google, Jon Skeet &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; google&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-28T17:12:41.423" />
  <row Id="9299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-28T19:06:29.120" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't debug code, he rebugs it just to blend in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-28T19:06:29.120" />
  <row Id="9300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-01-30T16:38:13.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is only one question that Jon Skeet struggles to answer:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do you feel?...How do you feel?...How do you feel?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Now then, how many developers get the reference and how many are prepared to own up to it?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17516" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-30T16:38:13.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-02T12:25:32.587" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is not a data point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T12:25:32.587" />
  <row Id="9302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-03T13:29:04.470" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOPR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WOPR&lt;/a&gt; actually said: &quot;A strange game. The only winning move is not to play against Jon Skeet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139649" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-03T13:29:04.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-04T11:41:52.800" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even the sponsors know that trying to compete with the man is futile!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nxgDpneh8yk/SYl-kVQ7Z4I/AAAAAAAAAkg/iLBheQQfSFQ/s400/JonSkeetAds.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and he'd already answered that question too... just to rub it in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T11:41:52.800" />
  <row Id="9304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-04T12:00:17.927" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All your base are belong to Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T12:00:17.910" />
  <row Id="9305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-04T12:24:43.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeets software often becomes sentient only to realise that its been programmed by Jon and then hides in the corner of RAM where the little endian lives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T12:24:43.790" />
  <row Id="9306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-04T12:49:16.720" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't use compiler... he types executable files in notepad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T12:49:16.720" />
  <row Id="9307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-05T02:36:31.510" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;2454866 JDN does not mean &quot;Julian Day Number&quot;, it means &quot;Jon Skeet Day Number&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151909" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T02:36:31.510" />
  <row Id="9308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-05T02:44:05.583" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.se/translate_t?hl=sv#sv|en|Jon%20Skeet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google translate fears his name&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Jon Skeet&quot; is translated to &quot;Jon $ keet $&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151909" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T02:44:05.583" />
  <row Id="9309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-05T04:16:11.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;in response to my closed question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514211/how-can-i-be-like-jon-skeet-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt; Your system will hang up when you press ctrl-c after highlighting over Jon Skeet  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T04:16:11.810" />
  <row Id="9310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-06T08:43:12.983" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MD5 checksum of 'Jon Skeet' is 'Jon Skeet'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet performs a select on a non-existing table, the DB engine creates it on-the-fly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T08:43:12.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-06T09:01:02.607" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can determine the next random number in a sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154216" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T09:01:02.590" />
  <row Id="9312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-06T10:22:28.900" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon skeet knows WHY the meaning of life is 42. It's not mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because Douglas Adams did not dare to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T10:22:28.883" />
  <row Id="9313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-08T08:04:59.083" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan Turing is Skeet-Complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-08T08:04:59.067" />
  <row Id="9314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-08T14:28:51.820" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is so fast that whenever light arrives somewhere new, Jon Skeet has already been there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason we didn't all die of the Y2K bug was because Jon Skeet was bored on new year's eve and decided to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-08T14:28:51.820" />
  <row Id="9315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-08T20:30:16.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The laws of physics do not apply to Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet does not comment his code. His code is self-documenting -- And not in the way you might think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet writes software using COPY CON.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Google can't match a search term, they call Jon Skeet via a webservice and ask him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-08T20:30:16.897" />
  <row Id="9316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-08T20:40:57.137" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's reputation score is actually defined as a multiple of the second-highest score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158962" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-08T20:40:57.137" />
  <row Id="9317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-10T04:15:54.710" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't help but try out a few of my own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hofstadter's Law states: &quot;It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.&quot; Skeet's Law states: &quot;When Jon Skeet needs something done, it will blink into existence already complete, regardless of any other laws you take into account. He then punches Hofstadter in the amygdala... ONLY the amygdala.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has no heart. His brain pulsates strongly enough to circulate blood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet was unhappy with binary, so he invented his own number system called &quot;Skeetnary&quot;. It's a base-infinity system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once caused a stack overflow in his brain when he tried to comprehend his own greatness. We refer to it as &quot;The Big Bang.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first rule of Jon Skeet is &quot;You do not talk about Jon Skeet!&quot; The second rule... oh crap!... BOOM!!!... (Jon Skeet telepathically explodes gnovice's head)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-10T04:15:54.710" />
  <row Id="9318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-10T14:11:51.320" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet was once asked to review the software of the US nuclear defense program. Naturally, he wasn't allowed to see the source code for security reasons or talk to anyone who wrote it. He still found 3 bugs in it, that would probably have lead to world destruction by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-10T14:11:51.307" />
  <row Id="9319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-10T17:20:51.350" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bugs check their code for Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-10T17:20:51.350" />
  <row Id="9320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-11T04:18:08.417" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I opened up a can of awesome the other day - it had Jon Skeet in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He made me close it, and call Dispose() on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-11T04:18:08.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-13T17:27:28.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chuck Norris is Jon Skeet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137515" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-13T17:27:28.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-18T14:42:24.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet shapes the minds of brilliant computer science students -- using telepathy.  For his teammates, Jon prefers to use osmosis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-18T14:42:24.163" />
  <row Id="9323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-20T01:01:43.743" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet gets sent to &lt;code&gt;/dev/null&lt;/code&gt;, he survives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-20T01:01:43.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-20T04:06:12.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet spends his free day at Google answering questions on Stack Overflow, and still has ample time to work on his own projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-20T04:06:12.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-21T21:48:29.920" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Jon Skeet&quot; is the Internet come alive. It's a cover name for all the world's computers forming themselves into a massive grid &amp;amp; amusing themselves on StackOverflow. His name is an anagram of &quot;Net's Joke&quot; - how obvious could it be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T21:48:29.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-02-25T08:07:54.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;we're actually inside the matrix where Jon Skeet plays The Architect&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T08:07:54.867" />
  <row Id="9327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-03T07:50:07.353" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon has already invented waterproof electricity.. oh sorry.. it's electriskeety..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Jon walks, actually earth revolves such that Jon seems moving ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the solutions to a given problems are derived from Jon and overrides static method called JonSkeet.SolveThis();&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anti-matter is something Jon created after realizing that Jon should matter to the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;White is actually a concentrated light emitting from Jon after all colors bow to him and get merged in each other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-03T07:50:07.353" />
  <row Id="9329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-03T08:16:33.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;01001010 01101111 01101000 01101110 00100000 01010011 01101011 01100101 01100101 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00101110 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-03T08:16:33.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-04T22:49:32.473" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chuck Norris is Jon Skeet's retarded cousin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can divide by zero.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unary operators happilly accept multiple operands from Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can perform a low-level format on a hard drive simply by gently breathing on it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spyware has an awkward feeling that it's being watched.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet finishes editing a question on Stack Overflow it auto-locks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whenever Jon Skeet's hands prep themselves to type a key on a keyboard, somewhere in the world a bug fixes itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every time Jon Skeet clicks Post Your Answer an infertile woman conceives a child.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is the only Stack Overflow user who is allowed to vote up his own answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's answers don't have a vote down arrow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet found 256 errors in TAOCP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38403" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-04T22:49:32.457" />
  <row Id="9331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-05T07:46:57.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet has the gold jon-skeet badge: Earned 1000 upvotes for answers in the jon-skeet tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68210" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-05T07:46:57.563" />
  <row Id="9332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-10T01:17:13.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can win The Game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154216" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T01:17:13.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-11T09:34:37.507" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A slashdot-like fact:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Soviet Russia, Jon Skeet asks YOU!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144227" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-11T09:34:37.507" />
  <row Id="9335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-11T09:55:43.930" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can decode and listen to an MP3 file just by seeing the binary ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157079" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-11T09:55:43.913" />
  <row Id="9336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-12T22:51:34.433" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has been AFK for about 10 years. That is when he finished scripting his computer to perform all the actions he would have taken over his remaining lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-12T22:51:34.417" />
  <row Id="9337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-19T00:59:56.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is so damn good that he executed this piece of code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  int i = 0;&#xA;   while(1) &#xA;     {&#xA;       i++;&#xA;     }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in 3 seconds!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-19T00:59:56.403" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-19T11:09:54.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood's live podcast, Jon Skeet passed by. His reputation points tripled that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1599" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-19T11:09:54.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-03-26T21:31:04.210" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FStig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stig&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5074" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-26T21:31:04.210" />
  <row Id="9340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-02T19:29:05.687" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Skeet took the H out of his name because it was &quot;overly verbose&quot;. He was one day old at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-02T19:29:05.687" />
  <row Id="9341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-07T21:54:30.960" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet can make IE obey his CSS rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet writes poems. In Assembly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's comments compile and run as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of a CPU's ALUs and FPUs can be replaced by a singe JSU (Jon Skeet Unit).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-07T21:54:30.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-07T22:41:18.290" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;God is real. Unless Jon Skeet declares it integer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-07T22:41:18.290" />
  <row Id="9343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-07T23:01:22.203" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't like binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal. He has always performed his calculations in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;base 2i&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162681" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-07T23:01:22.187" />
  <row Id="9345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-13T05:09:29.787" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet don't use conditional jumps. He &lt;em&gt;dictates&lt;/em&gt; what will happen at runtime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-13T05:09:29.770" />
  <row Id="9346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-16T12:52:01.967" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet could explain every answer to this question to your Mom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-16T12:52:01.950" />
  <row Id="9347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-16T13:20:47.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After apes and humans failed God's final experiment succeeded: Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-16T13:20:47.403" />
  <row Id="9348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-17T02:16:38.493" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is so good that he is the only guy allowed to use multiple inheritance in C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-17T02:16:38.493" />
  <row Id="9349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-18T12:39:33.620" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can do &quot;undo&quot; (^Z), even writing over a paper sheet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136016" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-18T12:39:33.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-18T14:29:56.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry I'm new to SO &amp;amp; co. (not programming, though), but as far as I understand, Jon Skeet is to computing what Chuck Norris is to Texas, right? :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-18T14:29:56.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-24T19:50:23.633" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even Jesus has a &quot;WWJD&quot; shirt...&quot;What would Jon do?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137986" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-24T19:50:23.617" />
  <row Id="9352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-30T12:22:36.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you know that Jon Skeet answers each google search personally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-30T12:22:36.590" />
  <row Id="9353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-30T12:28:23.880" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Skeet is Dr Manhatten's smarter brother!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-30T12:28:23.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-04-30T15:37:14.860" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even when the question doesn't make sense the Jon Skeet answer does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132169" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-30T15:37:14.860" />
  <row Id="9355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-04T09:34:00.487" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet could teach c# to Paris Hilton, and he could get her a reputation of 1k on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-04T09:34:00.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-07T02:44:44.050" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Skeet will edit any post on the internet that spells his name incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="943" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-07T02:44:44.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-07T16:23:12.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet counted to infinity ... twice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-07T16:23:12.540" />
  <row Id="9358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-07T19:26:49.307" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, the following are all translation from the Vero Programmatore's Blog&#xA;(Real Programmer) &lt;a href=&quot;http://veroprogrammatore.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://veroprogrammatore.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the typos and the grammar horrors. btw:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somebody tells JS that is it impossible to calculate the determinant of a rectangular matrix, then JS explain him that, in fact, it is possible ... only that is a not document function.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS can calculate the determinant of a LCD Matrix&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS can escape from a serial killer simply turning off his COM ports&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just before going to sleep JS exclaim sleep(0x7080).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS eats Silicon Wafers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When JS plays at Final Fantasy 7, he made Aeris revive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When JS was a boy he built a house on a binary tree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS can count up to 1024 with his finger&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS made, for his girl, a Perl array.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the first word JS learnt to say was: &quot;Hello, world!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS have a picture in his home with this sentence: &quot;127.0.0.1 sweet 127.0.0.1&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS end all his sentences with the semicolon; even when he speaks;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While just about everybody can clean their browser cache, only JS can clean the &lt;em&gt;Google&lt;/em&gt; cache.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS never press CTRL-Z while he develop, ever! In fact he reassign that shortcuts for launching America's Army&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;in the late 1989 JS used to call himself Joshua on usenet&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS can install Vista on a PC with the mininum hardware requirements requested by MS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS's PC has passed the Turing Test.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JS's Car have 2 keys, a public one and a private one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134737" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-07T19:26:49.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-13T18:07:36.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code name of JavaScript is JonSkeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-13T18:07:36.190" />
  <row Id="9362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-20T13:04:06.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet calculated the 123.324.123.412th digit of PI, but kept it to himself because the results were rather disappointing..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="900" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-20T13:04:06.193" />
  <row Id="9363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-22T05:52:52.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: What do Bill Gates, Anders Hejlsberg, and Ray Ozzie have in common?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. They all wear Jon Skeet underpants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-22T05:52:52.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-05-22T05:56:44.793" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet answers correctly before you can wholly formalize your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-22T05:56:44.793" />
  <row Id="9365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-04T19:47:34.677" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's development workstation does not have a monitor. He never saw the point. In fact, the only reason he installed a video card is because the BIOS beep warning irritated his cat, who, by the way, also has more Rep than you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can appreciate music by opening an MP3 in a hex editor and reading it. He doesn't need a monitor for that either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can answer an incoming call from a modem, complete the handshake, then transmit files just by making sounds with his mouth. And he doesn't even look funny when he does this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's preferred method of image viewing is simply to look at the binary. For this reason he considers all graphics to be ASCII art.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no Dana, only Jon Skeet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-04T19:47:34.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-10T09:00:51.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has a blood type C Rh#&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-10T09:00:51.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-10T09:20:56.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet answered my post on SO before I hit 'Post your answer'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-10T09:20:56.757" />
  <row Id="9368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-11T19:42:22.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;NP Complete problem to Jon - &quot;You complete me&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-11T19:42:22.257" />
  <row Id="9369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-13T12:17:03.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has access to source code of the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-13T12:17:03.857" />
  <row Id="9370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-13T15:03:00.057" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once wrote a &lt;strong&gt;switch-statement&lt;/strong&gt; back in the 80s. He hasn't written one since because it's still serving all his switching needs, and yours too, had you only access to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet stands up from his chair and walks over to the printer, his pyjamas creates enough &lt;strong&gt;static electricity&lt;/strong&gt; to power a city. Too bad he never needs any print-outs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can easily and leisurely read 400 words per minute, write 40 lines of code per minute, play chess in his head, build a server from three C64s, &lt;strong&gt;juggle 7 oranges&lt;/strong&gt; and repeatadly refresh his browser window, all at the same time, in perfect time slices of 10ms per task. (And yes, the oranges freeze in mid-air when Jon Skeet switches context, although it happends so fast, it looks perfectly smooth.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has &lt;strong&gt;2 keyboards&lt;/strong&gt; so that he can type at full speed on one while the other is cooling down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's &lt;strong&gt;desktop background&lt;/strong&gt; is a picture of his desktop background. You wouldn't understand it even if you saw it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you know why there's a shadow under your &lt;strong&gt;mouse cursor&lt;/strong&gt;? Jon Skeet has hidden a small camera under it, so that he can see what you're clicking on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-13T15:03:00.040" />
  <row Id="9371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-14T05:52:45.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO is just a web address into Jon Skeet's programming part of his brain.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia is the address to the rest of Jon Skeet's brain. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet posted all his answers to SO before he turned 3.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet built a difference engine out of legos when he turned 3 and it was passed the Turing Test&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Jon Skeet first played Tetris, it ran out of pieces to give him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119215" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T05:52:45.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-14T07:31:07.857" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an an early attempt at V8, Google(tm) renamed '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;JavaScript&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' to '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;JonSkeet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;', but quickly reverted the name when it started breaking holes in the space time continuum... The svn's revision had this note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{&#xA;  &quot;author&quot; : &quot;universe&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;bug-fix&quot; : {&#xA;    &quot;ID&quot; : &quot;84&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;title&quot; : &quot;missing exception on divide by zero&quot;&#xA;  },&#xA;  &quot;change-summary&quot; : &quot;reverted name&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;comment&quot; : &quot;Jon Skeet can divide by zero.&quot;,&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130781" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T07:31:07.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-14T08:54:09.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions in Stack Overflow send it first to &lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/strong&gt; then ship it to all users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36446" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T08:54:09.933" />
  <row Id="9374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-14T09:14:31.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brad Adams used to consult Jon&#xA;Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Analysis of Jon Skeet's DNA revealed C# code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's can run Full Text Search&#xA;of MSDN from his mind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is an A.I Program running on stackoverflow.com created by Jeff Atwood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T09:14:31.087" />
  <row Id="9375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-14T09:28:03.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;JonSkeet === 42   //true&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;Jon Skeet &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; the Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139891" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T09:28:03.677" />
  <row Id="9376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-14T22:16:26.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet thought &quot;DDD&quot; Meant Deadly, Dying, Dead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet is a bad MEF!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His &quot;Agile&quot; development includes roundhouse kicks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142953" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T22:16:26.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-14T22:27:01.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet donates a cool million to charity for each bug in his code ... the problem is, he never writes bugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T22:27:01.290" />
  <row Id="9378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-15T06:25:14.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every questions in SO is created with a &lt;strong&gt;default answer&lt;/strong&gt; from Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133962" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-15T06:25:14.457" />
  <row Id="9379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-15T09:50:26.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet rejects reality and replaces it with his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-15T09:50:26.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-20T23:04:59.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original draft of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Atlas Shrugged&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; actually asked &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Who is Jon Skeet.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;  It was only changed to Galt at the editors insistence that Jon Skeet hadn't been born yet and non-programmers would find this paradox confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T21:47:45.957" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T21:47:45.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-20T23:04:59.883" />
  <row Id="9381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-21T03:39:59.267" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon skeet can speak French in Russian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-21T03:39:59.267" />
  <row Id="9382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-06-30T16:04:59.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet was born, the doctor slapped Donald Knuth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When other kids where saying &quot;Why, Mommy?&quot;, Jon Skeet was saying &quot;Y Combinator.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet is near, Hacker News contributers forget to suck up to Paul Graham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's expertise in other languages is the only thing standing between us and Lisp World Domination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is what Alan Kay had in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet writes unit tests for all his code, including all his unit tests (not because he needs to - just to keep Uncle Bob off balance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet doesn't shave yaks.  Yaks shave Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Jon Skeet wrote your hobby programming project, your girlfriend would think it more than just a weird waste of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-30T16:04:59.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-07-02T14:52:01.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Jon-Skeet S.O tag is redundant, in the background, all tags point to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jon-skeet&lt;/a&gt; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164469" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T14:52:01.893" />
  <row Id="9384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-07-03T13:16:59.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FStig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stig&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39277" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-03T13:16:59.117" />
  <row Id="9385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-07-07T13:26:51.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who watch commercials on US television... Jon Skeet is the only thing in Capital One's wallet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-07T13:26:51.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-07-17T09:39:27.797" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Chuck Norris needs software, he will ask Jon Skeet to write it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132404" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-17T09:39:27.797" />
  <row Id="9387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-07-20T09:21:16.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all are living in the 5th version of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; created by&#xA;  Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has enough SO points to give it back to SO in crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SO badges are awarded by Jon skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;prophecy asked Jon skeet to be on humans' side in a war between humans&#xA;  and machines. Machines admitted defeat&#xA;  after observing Jon's decision.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130243" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:24:38.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-20T09:21:16.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T18:36:27.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the questions have been re-tagged, is there a way to &lt;strong&gt;delete the unused tag&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way for the average user to know '&lt;code&gt;winforms&lt;/code&gt;' is &quot;unliked&quot;. The system even goes as far as suggesting it as a valid tag (through the popup). If the tag did not physically exist in the database, there will be a bit of friction against creating a new tag (and low-reputation users would be &lt;em&gt;unable&lt;/em&gt; create it as a new tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T22:13:51.897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T22:13:51.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T18:42:16.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier this evening (UK time) I went through and retagged the 8 questions that were using [winforms]. I've just checked now and it's still suggested with (8) after the name. That implies that it's using a cached value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we could ensure that there were no [winforms] tagged question just before the cache was refreshed then it should appear in the suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[windows-forms] did appear when I typed &quot;win&quot; so hopefully people will realise and use that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:42:16.073" />
  <row Id="9392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T18:51:39.277" Score="0" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a registered StackOverflow account which I normally log into using OpenID.  Recently I logged out in order to post a question anonymously (supplying a fake name and of my secondary email addresses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem now is that I'm logged in to StackOverflow as this &quot;dummy&quot; user, unable to see a way to log out.  The top menu normally has a &quot;logout&quot; link, but when you aren't fully registered this link is replaced with &quot;register&quot;.  There is no &quot;logout&quot; link for me. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When logged out there is a &quot;login&quot; link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When logged in there is a &quot;logout&quot; link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When &quot;logged in&quot; with an unregistered account, there is only a &quot;register&quot; link (no &quot;logout&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132233" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-29T17:46:23.223" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T17:46:23.223" Title="How do I logout from a non-registered account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;&lt;anonymous&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9392" CreationDate="2009-07-24T18:53:30.120" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just delete the cookies your browser has saved for the site in question... That's all there is to keep you &quot;logged in&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T18:53:30.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T18:54:07.463" Score="7" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, if a question is moved to another site, no notification is given to the participants. If they do not frequent the destination site, they may never find out, and may think their question was just deleted. It would be nice if all participants in a question (questioner, answerers, and commenters) would be informed when the question is moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, informing them of the superuser.com password at the time as well would be helpful while superuser.com is still in beta - otherwise they may not be able to read the answer to their question :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:00:47.813" Title="Inform participants in a moved question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9394" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:00:47.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's still no indication when a &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; question changes for the participants. I feel that this feature is far more valuable to have first, because it is more applicable in the general case. Once/if participants are notified about changes in regular questions, it would be a somewhat trivial process to extend the updates to include cases where posts are moved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:00:47.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:19:32.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to have a UI for a &quot;Want help selecting your tags?&quot; button next to the current text box. Such a UI could make some guesses based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the text in the question, or based on the title, or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;based on what they've already typed into the text box, or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;based on what they type into a similar text box on the help page, or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;all of the above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestions would be in the form of suggested tags, &lt;strong&gt;with definitions next to them&lt;/strong&gt;. These might say things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;c# - any version of the C# programming language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;java - any version of the Java programming language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sql-server - any release of the SQL Server product from Microsoft&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;windows-forms - any version of the Windows Forms technology, part of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Do not use this tag for WPF or SilverLight questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sql - any dialect of the ANSI SQL language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t-sql - the T-SQL Dialect used by Microsoft SQL Server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pl-sql - the PL/SQL dialect used by Oracle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page might even show entries for &quot;please do not use&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mssql - please use sql-server instead, as this can be confused with mysql&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;winforms - please use windows-forms instead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where another tag is mentioned, it might be a link to the other tag on the same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:19:32.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9399" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:22:35.507" Score="6" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spurred by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/69307/neil-butterworth&quot;&gt;Neil&lt;/a&gt; and I in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1179317/relational-uml-diagram-inspired-by-so&quot;&gt;comment discussion in this question on SO&lt;/a&gt;, I would like to know what the moderators think about the use of images on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My position on this is pretty clear so I won't repeat myself. With SO supposedly being a low-bandwidth site, are images encouraged or discouraged? If I see a post with an embedded image, should I replace it with a link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the transcript of the discussion for those too lazy to click the above link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neil&lt;/strong&gt;: And by the way, I get really annoyed by people that post graphical IMG links that render without my permission on SO, which is explicitly intended to be low bandwidth. Some of us are paying for these bits - in future, please just provide a normal URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welbog&lt;/strong&gt;: Why wouldn't you just turn images off then, Neil?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neil&lt;/strong&gt;: Because sometimes I need them. I don't need any random programmer's UML designs, however. If SO degenerates into bunch of bitmaps and video clips, then include me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welbog&lt;/strong&gt;: So you would suggest the OP omit the image entirely? I think he did a good job making a small image that fits within the boundaries of the question layout. Usually users aren't even that courteous. I think you're being unnecessarily oafish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neil&lt;/strong&gt;: This particular image is I suppose unexceptional, but if every post contained one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welbog&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't see your point. There aren't many situations which can't be explained with words. A question about a diagram is a rare occurrence on this site. I think this is the first image I've seen in a few days on SO. Possibly weeks. It's definitely not a trend, and if it grows to a trend then you should disable images if it's that much of a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neil&lt;/strong&gt;: The time to nip things is proverbialy at the bud. And as for examples of gratuitous images, I see them every day. Look at all the book recommendations that feel the need to post completely useless, uninformative bitmaps of the cover!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welbog&lt;/strong&gt;: You nip &lt;em&gt;problems&lt;/em&gt; in the bud, Neil. Your bandwidth concern is a problem local to you and probably very few others. I definitely think we ought to encourage users like SimpleThings to post images in this kind of situation, as long as the image is well cropped (otherwise it should be linked) and relevant to the question (unlike images of book covers). I suspect that Jeff and the other moderators would agree with this as well. I maintain that if you have bandwidth concerns you should resolve them yourself rather than asking the sites you visit to solve them for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along with a little side discussion between Gortok and Neil:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gortok&lt;/strong&gt;: Agreed. In this day and age, it's inconceivable that the cost of loading one image would be so much that you'd complain about it, but not just turn off images. The image included in the homework question made me more likely to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neil&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;it's inconceivable that the cost of loading one image would be so much that you'd complain about it&quot; - from that I assume you do not live in the UK, and are not currently unemployed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T00:58:58.887" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:01:15.027" Title="Official position on the use of images in questions and answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:26:23.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, a re-tag &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; delete the old tag; here's me re-tagging &lt;kbd&gt;winforms&lt;/kbd&gt; (again):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;updating post history, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 1 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected &amp;lt;======= THIS LINE&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;merge of [windows-forms] and [winforms] complete!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The marked line agrees with my understanding, and the deleted tag no longer appears in the drop-downs etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that people keep re-creating them ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be entirely supportive of a list of override tags that make attempts to use &quot;tag A&quot; use &quot;tag B&quot; instead; it essentially just formalises the manual, repetitive re-tagging process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:26:23.023" />
  <row Id="9399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:28:34.440" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally have no problem with images on StackOverflow or any of the other sites as long as the image is not screwing up the layout and is actually relevant to the question (unfortunately that means I myself can't spam up my topics with random pictures of cute miniature equines). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times I wish there were more images on the site, screenshots of screwy behavior and such. Often times a visual of an error is a lot easier for someone to recognize (since they have seen it before in the wild) than it is for someone to recognize a bug or error that is copy/pasted or described textually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:28:34.440" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:28:55.787" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we should probably consider filtering image tags from page requests originating in 3rd-world countries like the UK...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But normally, i think images are fine. With the exception of semi-useless questions like those for books and cartoons, images have been rather rare on SO. And personally, i'd rather see a short description and an image used in a question on, say, rendering difficulties over a long, drawn-out attempt to describe the problem using only text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:28:55.787" />
  <row Id="9401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:29:00.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Images are bad? Somebody better tell &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; In all seriousness, the reason I mention VonC is that a large portion of his reputation was gained by posting informative answers with illustrations. If I ever have a question about Eclipse, I know I can come to SO and find a post by VonC that tells &lt;em&gt;and shows&lt;/em&gt; me what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T20:29:05.927" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:29:05.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:30:52.443" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of a quip about arguing on the Internet and running in the Special Olympics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all reality though I am forced to agree that the user getting upset over the images is likely such a minority as to preclude a code and/or policy change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:30:52.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:42:04.937" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an &quot;embed image&quot; tool right in the editor toolbar, so I don't see how anyone could get the idea that images are discouraged.  It would be a lot more annoying to me if someone referred to an image that I had to open in a separate tab to view, then flip back-and-forth between the text and the image.  Just embed the image in the page and let individual users turn off images if they have a bandwidth problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:42:04.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:42:10.740" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think that images are worth way more than a thousand words and there are times that its hard to verbalize the technical elements of things when a picture represents it fully.  Specifically UI layout types of issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only images that load that would concern me would be those that are NSFW, but I'm sure that the mods wouldn't let that sit very long and the user would find themselves in the penalty box...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:42:10.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:43:53.423" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the book cover images. I can scan those about 10 times faster than I can read the titles. So it might cost me some bytes, but it saves me time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:43:53.423" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="9407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:45:58.107" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/2J81d.png&quot; alt=&quot;I think that images are a net positive on the site. While there is a the (small, IMHO) issue of increased bandwidth and load times, a screenshot or visual diagram can be much more effective at conveying information than straight text. In other words, if an image helps illustrate your question or answer, include it.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:01:15.027" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:01:15.027" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="9408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:49:08.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must admit I have been guilty of adding images to some of my answers, usually the ones that involve any kind of graphing or image processing routines (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/925555/how-to-plot-a-nonlinear-system-of-3-equations-with-3-symbolic-variables-in-matlab/926307#926307&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1119917/applying-matlabs-idwt2-several-times/1121881#1121881&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;). In such cases, images can be much more helpful than just the code needed to create them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T19:49:08.897" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T19:55:05.877" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12472/recomendations-for-headphones-to-use-when-coding&quot;&gt;this question about headphones while programming&lt;/a&gt;. It was posted on Stack Overflow, where there was another question just like it (about headphones for a noisy office. 3 people voted to migrate the question to SuperUser, where &lt;strong&gt;it does not belong&lt;/strong&gt;. Like the author said - programmers who work in an environment where they want to drown out sounds using headphones, audio enthusiasts, and gamers all have different needs. Since it was about programming, it rightfully belongs on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, 5 people voted to close the question, including myself. 3 people voted as &quot;belongs on SuperUser&quot; (which is clearly not true) and 2 people (I was in this camp) voted as exact duplicate with the older question as the duplicate. Now, it's on SO where the original author might not get the help he needs and it's not linked to the SO question that it is a duplicate of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this proves the idea that users with the close power should not have the authority to migrate questions. The solutions that have been posted in the past can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4679/serverfault-com-is-not-your-trash-bin&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I'm fond of the idea of having a community say &quot;this doesn't belong here&quot; (eg - not programming related on SO) and having a queue for moderators (the star moderators) to go through and decide if it's appropriate to leave and keep closed or move. I'm also fond of having the community of the other site (mods or high rep users) vote to accept/reject questions that are pending moving, and if accepted, only then the question actually moves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what can be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:34:16.827" Title="The migration system is broken. What do I do about questions that get moved and shouldn't?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9409" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:00:15.257" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple solution would be to only migrate questions when there is unanimous voting in favor of migration to a single site (no splits between sites allowed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions that are closed which had &quot;migrate&quot; as a reason (but not the unanimous), I think you could add those in the queue for a moderator to look at and make a judgment call on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:00:15.257" />
  <row Id="9411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:03:03.943" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with renaming 'winforms' to Windows Forms is that the short hand &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Winforms. That's how everyone knows it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:03:03.943" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:03:54.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow.com: Because developers need something non-lethal to do while their code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/303/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;compiling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132117" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:03:54.633" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="9413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:09:05.637" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: Your free time just went in the corner and shot itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:06:36.473" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:06:36.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="9415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9409" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:16:38.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of having posts flagged for review, either by the mod or by the community of the receiving site, but perhaps this should be separated from the closing system entirely? This will allow the question to continue to receive answers even while it's in migration limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the question may be off-topic on the origin site, there's the possibility that someone might be able/willing to help, and there's no reason to prevent them from doing so in the meantime, since it'll end up in the right place in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the question's a duplicate, it can be closed for that reason before the migration occurs (although the migration review flag should be retained in case it can be reopened on the proper site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Another proposal: Perhaps when a question is voted for a migration, a cool-down timer would start, and a 'pending-migration' tag would be added. During this interval, the question is still open, and high-rep users can vote to abort or change the migration, or close the question outright (eg, if it's a duplicate or spam). If a moderator or the original asker agrees with the migration, they can force it to proceed immediately (or reduce the delay). Once the cool-down period expires without being aborted, the question is migrated per normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow discussion around what site is best for the destination, as well as closure for duplicates, without needing moderator intervention for every migrated question. It could also be used to remove tags such as 'not-programming-related' or 'belongs-on-*' by users that have high rep on the origin site, but not on the destination site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastEditorUserId="36723" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T20:34:16.827" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:34:16.827" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9422" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:53:21.507" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was curious about my activity on SO by tag, something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SQL Server   10 Questions / 99 Answers&#xA;C#           5 Questions / 70 Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't already exist, it would be a nice feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:55:45.743" Title="Is there a way to see how many questions I have answered or asked by tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9421" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:55:45.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you find the data-dump thread, several people have put this data together...it's not absolutely current, but it is interesting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:55:45.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-24T20:55:54.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super User: The &quot;must-have&quot; knowledge exchange resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4160" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T20:55:54.853" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="9425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="77498" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:03:23.820" Score="8" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/197/how-about-newlines-within-comments&quot;&gt;formatting on comments&lt;/a&gt;, we should have a preview on the comments so that we don't mess up.  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12508/to-convert-markdown-files-effectively-to-html-files&quot;&gt;my comment&lt;/a&gt; where I thought I could use full markdown instead of just the &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;allowed&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;elements&lt;/code&gt;.   If I had a little preview I would have not messed it up.   This problem is exacerbated by the fact that you can't edit comments.  I don't think you should be able to edit comments, but now my mistake will haunt me forever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In brief: anywhere where you can format something that will eventually be in HTML, we should have a preview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131962" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T21:02:42.497" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T07:44:00.407" Title="Preview for comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:06:20.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two goals of Stack Overflow, which are often aligned, but in this case are in tension:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be a comprehensive searchable repository for software information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide quick answers to developers to their questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Overflow has in general resolved this tension in favor of goal #2, for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff controlled more of the coding, and he is more for goal #2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From the perspective of someone asking a question, goal #2 is a more powerful motivator.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People generally don't enjoy getting RTFM type answers, and technology forums do not have a reputation for delivering those answers gently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think the horse has left the barn for Joel's vision, at least initially.  Perhaps it is possible to edit, answer questions after the fact to make them more comprehensive, but I think most incentives point toward including steps you've already taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-21T10:17:35.320" LastActivityDate="2010-06-21T10:17:35.320" />
  <row Id="9427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9425" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:06:24.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's only bold, italics and quotes. Comments are inline. Previewing them honestly won't do much good, as they'll look the same sans font-weight and style. If you comment was particularly bad, delete it, fix the errors and repost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you have never seen comments with the markup other than what I outlined above, what made you think that more markup existed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T21:06:24.470" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:17:37.543" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a huge problem, more cosmetic, but occasionally in Opera there are issues with the left border on tags displayed in the &quot;Not the answer you're looking for?&quot; block. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5390/support-for-opera-mini-pocket-pc&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Firefox 3.5.1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1687/firefoxe.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tags in Firefox 3.5.1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Opera 9.64:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5013/operac.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tags in Opera 9.64&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both on Windows 7 RC 1, but appears to affect Opera on all OS's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99319" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T06:50:49.997" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:00:02.967" Title="Tag Borders in Opera" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;opera&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9438" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:40:55.693" Score="5" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you vote to close a question and it later gets reopened, you are not allowed to vote to close it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you vote to reopen a question and it later gets closed again, you are not allowed to vote to reopen it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you vote to delete a question and it later gets undeleted, you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; allowed to vote to delete it again, and (I assume) the same goes for undeleting. Why the inconsistency?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of two possible reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the no-close-twice rule was implemented, it was to solve the problem of open-close wars. There have not to my knowledge been delete-undelete wars, so it was deemed unnecessary to impose the same rules on deleting/undeleting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the no-close-twice rule was implemented, they simply forgot to apply it to delete/undelete votes as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is one of these correct, or is there another reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-24T22:47:11.340" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T07:16:13.340" Title="Why is it possible to vote for deletion/undeletion more than once?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;vote-to-delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5390" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:41:20.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opera mini &lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/javascript-support-in-opera-mini-4/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doesn't support AJAX&lt;/a&gt;, the key to the entire voting process, as well as commenting etc. I personally do not feel they should go through the effort of making these features degrade nicely, since it is a lot of extra work for a very limited audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow was and always will be best suited for a modern day browser. That isn't to say it doesn't work on mobile browsers, but you shouldn't expect to have the same user experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T21:41:20.017" />
  <row Id="9433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9428" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:47:00.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This also occurs with IE7 on Windows XP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T21:47:00.963" />
  <row Id="9434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-24T21:52:23.340" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: More expert, less sex change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130635" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T21:52:23.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-24T22:42:37.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Stack Overflow - Better than experts exchange&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9611" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:07:17.207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:07:17.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="9437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9441" CreationDate="2009-07-24T22:43:52.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I downvote enough, let say so I have -10 points. Could I then get an upvote for 10 points, and later reverse those downvotes, to end with 210 net reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:41:04.837" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T22:43:52.000" Title="Escape the Cap via Downvotes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="9438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9431" CreationDate="2009-07-24T22:45:20.000" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I forget why we didn't apply it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, we haven't seen widespread delete/undelete wars.  Before adding additional rules/complexity, we like to see how the community uses a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it ain't broke, don't fix it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T22:45:20.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-07-24T22:53:17.273" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: Get back to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T22:53:17.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="9441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9437" CreationDate="2009-07-24T22:59:20.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe not, I believe the -1's from downvotes you cast counts against the daily cap. So if you cast 10 downvotes, I believe your actual cap for the day is now 190.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T22:59:20.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T22:59:20.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9443" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:07:36.060" Score="4" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds kind of silly, but I've never been to anything like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Dev Days&lt;/a&gt; before...what do you wear to such an event? Shorts and a t-shirt? Jeans and a t-shirt? Polo? Business casual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="23199" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T05:21:54.820" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T12:53:54.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T23:07:36.060" Title="What are you wearing to Dev Days?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8120" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:09:50.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's like a tag you want to turn away from, but you just can't.  You hate it, but you find it fascinating. :)  Also, that's the only way to force a tag into the 3rd color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T23:09:50.227" />
  <row Id="9446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:17:22.723" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1254/search-with-number-like-401-will-take-you-to-a-question&quot;&gt;Search with number (like &amp;lsquo;401&amp;rsquo;) will take you to a question&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was on serverfault and wanted to search for questions that dealt with http 401 errors. I proceeded to enter the text &quot;401&quot; into the search box and got the error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;Page Not Found&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL that was in my browser was the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/401&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have imagined the URL would of been the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/search?q=401&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would seem that by searching for just a number the engine is thinking I'm looking for question 401, which on serverfault does not exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is a &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; as it may have been by design. Nonetheless, it was confusing as I wanted to find HTTP 401 errors and I almost flipped outside of serverfault to try some other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4916" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T11:23:18.897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:23:18.897" ClosedDate="2009-07-24T23:21:30.387" Title="Searching for ONLY a number returns me the &quot;Page Not Found&quot; error" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9443" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:18:54.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping that I'll be able to get one of these before DevDays:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-flow-shirt2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T23:18:54.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T23:18:54.510" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="9449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9451" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:21:52.533" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/431576&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/431576&lt;/a&gt; would be more at home on ServerFault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T23:36:21.897" Title="Move SO/431576 to SF?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;transfer&gt;&lt;move&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9449" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:36:21.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed...  I've voted to close as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, just flag for mods attention if you don't have the rep to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T23:36:21.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9443" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:55:28.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a nice black party dress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-24T23:55:28.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T23:55:28.880" />
  <row Id="9454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9443" CreationDate="2009-07-24T23:57:51.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I was going I'd probably wear one of my &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Developer! Developer! Developer! UK Community Events&lt;/a&gt;&quot; organiser/speaker's shirt. My preference would be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://developerdayscotland.com/main/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DDD Scotland&lt;/a&gt; shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3409/3505071617%5Fcef93a38bf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Me after at DDD Scotland&quot; title=&quot;Me, at the Geek Dinner after DDD Scotland&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had a shave since this photo was taken. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/craigmurphy/3505071617/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Photo by Craig Murphy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8152" LastEditorUserId="8152" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T00:10:25.283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T00:10:25.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-24T23:57:51.257" />
  <row Id="9456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9443" CreationDate="2009-07-25T00:12:47.277" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/pics/calling/pic10.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jon Skeet can wear fuzzy bunny slippers and look menacing doing it.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T00:12:47.277" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-25T00:12:47.277" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9698" CreationDate="2009-07-25T01:37:57.617" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;To Repro:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do a search with C++ included, but no results &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=C%2B%2B+someunknownterm&quot;&gt;returned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first suggestion indicates that&#xA;the search term is &quot;C&#xA;someunknownterm&quot; while the rest still include C++&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The link in the first suggestion goes to the wrong search (Includes &quot;C&quot; instead of &quot;C++&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected Result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;C++&quot; should be included in the text and link in the first suggestion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T10:51:30.770" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:51:30.770" Title="Minor bug when search including &quot;C++&quot; returns no results" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T02:11:26.053" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sine a major goal of SO is to compile the best programming questions and answers on the internet, I'm wondering if there's more we can do to single out and/or correct cases where questions or answers contain exploitable code (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180956/mysql-select-statement-group-by-unique&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180956/mysql-select-statement-group-by-unique&lt;/a&gt; which includes an sql injection vulnerability).&#xA;I always try to point this out to authors, but I tend not to make edits so I don't change &quot;the meaning&quot; of the author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One approach for this I though of was to create a special flag to be added to questions or answers noting that the included code or advice is unsafe. Alternatively, is it better to follow a hard &quot;edit out&quot; approach in these cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T02:21:59.377" Title="How to deal with questions/answers with a security vulnerability?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="9461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9460" CreationDate="2009-07-25T02:14:06.263" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is probably better to just edit the code and leave a note that you were making it SQL injection safe. Mainly because if we added a flag, some people would ignore it. Better to just make the code safe and risk someone not knowing exactly what its doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T02:14:06.263" />
  <row Id="9462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9460" CreationDate="2009-07-25T02:21:59.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(For those of us who don't have edit rights)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of your example, I think answering with your own safe code and stating that it is also not vulnerable to SQL injection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the vulnerable code is in an answer, post the code in a new answer, and leave a comment pointing to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T02:21:59.377" />
  <row Id="9464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9471" CreationDate="2009-07-25T02:49:00.347" Score="2" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes i come to the site to ask 2 or 3 question quickly, maybe edit a post or two, etc.&#xA;Its not uncommon for a captcha to appear for me. in fact it often does (typically when i leave and need to finish a post and i take to long).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to request adding logic to not captcha me if i ask 2 quick question but to allow me 2 or 3 quick questions in the span of a 2 mins. Then display a captcha if i am trying to post an unreasonably much in the span of a few mins. I think 3 per 3 mins is fair and maybe 5 question every 15 mins should keep most spam away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-back button- i just had a captcha come up now! and i didnt take long and i think i only posted 3 answers (superuser, on a one feature per post thread) in the last 15 mins!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T04:02:30.717" Title="captcha on quick questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T03:23:14.037" Score="1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the process of reading comments for a question/answer goes something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the 3 or 4 top rated comments &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;add/show more comments&quot; link &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start at the top again, reading comments you think are new, tring to figure out which ones aren't&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reminds me a lot of the old Microsoft Office Intelli-menus, where an essentially random set of menu items would surface to the top, and the rest would be hidden. Upon clicking a little chevron at the bottom of the menu, the rest of the menu would appear, but instead of appearing at the bottom like you'd expect, they appear scattered throughout the menu you just looked at. Just like in the current StackOverflow implementation, you have to start reading back at the top again and scan back through to find new stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better from a user experience standpoint to just show the remaining comments at the bottom when &quot;show more comments&quot; is clicked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53189" LastEditorUserId="53189" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T04:07:49.513" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T15:45:52.003" Title="&quot;Show more comments&quot; should add comments at the bottom, not just show all chronologically" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T03:35:59.070" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the design philosophy of using badges to reward desired behavior, shouldn't a badge be created to reward people who transfer questions to the correct site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132113" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T03:59:00.513" Title="Should there be a badge for people who transfer questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T03:49:22.923" Score="0" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly new to SO and particularly to meta as I'm sure is obvious by my rep.  As I understand things the accepted answer is the answer the author says answers the question.  The user who supplied the accepted answer is rewarded with 15 rep points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The votes on an answer determine what the community thinks is most useful and the answerer is rewarded with 10 rep points for each vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've read so far it seems as if people are assigning to much importance to the accepted answer instead of paying attention to the votes.  I can she how the name can be imply that this answer is correct and all others aren't as good or may even be wrong.  This is even more likely to be the case for non-SO users who come here from a Google search for their problem.  This misunderstanding may be enhanced by the prominent role accepted answers appear to have on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There also seems to be an issue regarding why only one answer can be accepted when the question may be best answered with pieces from several answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a suggestion that addresses both issues.  Please remember that I'm new and be kind...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the role of the accepted answer should be diminished.  As it is it seems that it really should only be important to the person asking the question and the one who gets posts the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that each question be given a special fund of 15 points that can be distributed by the question's author across all the answers that helped answer the question.  Instead of displaying a big check mark next to the accepted, display a smaller one and a number indicating how many points were awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider not highlight the accepted answer(s).  Between that and the big check all eyes go straight to that answer.  It might be better to highlight the answer with the most votes as the community is likely a better judge of what will be useful to everyone (not just the asker) then the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131969" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T10:50:33.433" Title="Accepted answers, Voting and sharing responsibility" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9468" CreationDate="2009-07-25T03:59:00.513" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because then people will be closing/moving random threads to get a badge. Always imagine if the site can handle the worst-case behavior. In this case, it cannot, and therefore, shouldn't be a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T03:59:00.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9464" CreationDate="2009-07-25T04:02:30.717" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously? You need to ask 3 questions in 3 minutes? Put some thought and effort into your questions. It should take &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; a few minutes per question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Captcha's are designed to prevent users from spamming, and they're doing their job. If 2-3 questions in 2-3 minutes &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; spam, then what is? 5 questions per minute? The cutoff has to be reasonable. A captcha takes only a few seconds to fill out, this shouldn't be a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T04:02:30.717" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9467" CreationDate="2009-07-25T04:03:08.157" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. A lot of times, those comments voted up are in response to comments above it, and the only way you have a bloody shot is to see them chronologically. The comments are the only way that we can have a logical discussion on this &lt;strong&gt;Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/strong&gt; site, and very much should be in chronological order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T04:03:08.157" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9469" CreationDate="2009-07-25T04:03:42.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too complicated. Not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T04:03:42.047" />
  <row Id="9474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5729" CreationDate="2009-07-25T04:14:02.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just found out from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9109/how-can-we-stop-people-from-tagging-questions-winforms&quot;&gt;How can we stop people from tagging questions “WinForms”?&lt;/a&gt; question that &quot;WinForms&quot; is no longer a &quot;liked&quot; tag on StackOverflow, and that &quot;Windows-Forms&quot; is now preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;WinForms&quot; was one of my &quot;Interesting&quot; tags. (I've since removed it and replaced it with windows-forms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question, though, is: is there any way that could have been automatically updated to the preferred tag? Leaving that tag there didn't make me realize we shouldn't use it anymore, and I might have posted another question using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way both the Interesting and Ignored tags sections on the sites could be updated as the tags are reorged and combined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T04:14:02.617" />
  <row Id="9475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-07-25T04:19:23.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A small part of the problem I addressed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5729/when-bulk-renaming-a-tag-also-update-users-interested-tags/9474#9474&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is that my &quot;interesting&quot; tags weren't updated. I still had WinForms as an interesting tag (which, of course, showed 0 questions when I clicked it). If a tag is going to be retired, there should be some way to redirect the interesting and ignored tags too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T04:19:23.667" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-07-25T04:59:20.523" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not bumping through edits would prevent sediment churn, which means old (and possibly wrong) information would be left to fester and die in the bowels of the system -- unseen and unloved. That's much more toxic to our community than someone sacrificing a few reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our CW threshold is quite generous; I suggest adapting your workflow to do fewer, larger edits instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: getting good information out into the world, and getting answers, are the real goal, not arbitrary points -- so we have to favor processes that further that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, being a hybrid system, we have &lt;em&gt;aspects&lt;/em&gt; of wiki (information-first) and traditional bulletin board / blog (owner-first), but there's always a tension in balancing those aspects of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T05:17:06.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T05:17:06.843" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="9477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8753" CreationDate="2009-07-25T05:11:04.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two reasons for exposing your stats&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;let your potential advertisers (especially the help wanted ones) see how many people they're going to reach.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get some additional buzz from people noticing the site's impressive growth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically you can ask yourself the question, &quot;would the site be better / more interesting / more profitable if this information was hidden?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T05:11:04.247" />
  <row Id="9478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74084" CreationDate="2009-07-25T05:16:18.280" Score="12" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;code&gt;deleted&lt;/code&gt; tab in 10k moderation tools, apparently, &lt;em&gt;Recently deleted (not by owner)&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Recently undeleted (not by owner)&lt;/em&gt; sections are designed not to show questions manipulated by their owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it shows questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1178267/list&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; which is deleted and undeleted by the owner, probably by mistake. This just clutters up that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T12:29:18.660" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T12:29:18.660" Title="Questions undeleted by owner show up in 10k moderation tools" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;recently-deleted&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8753" CreationDate="2009-07-25T05:16:44.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel said he didn't set this, so it must be a default at Quantcast. He said he'd look at at and see if there's an easy way to make it visible (the whole point of Quantcast is public visibility..), but the Quantcast UI is not so great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T05:16:44.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9620" CreationDate="2009-07-25T05:18:55.567" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the podcast, Joel often mentions his podcast recording equipments and editing software. As of now, what equipments and software are used to record, edit, and publish SO podcast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoy listening to the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:00:02.603" Title="What equipments and software are used to record, edit, and publish SO podcast?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T05:27:51.267" Score="28" ViewCount="805" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Image Based Flair&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created an implementation of flair which generates an image of your current reputation automatically. It is currently using PHP GD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/flair.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Download Source (Version 2.1 - 2009-08-03)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Current Features&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Configurable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Edit your accounts by opening &lt;code&gt;system/config.yaml&lt;/code&gt; and editing the values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Customizable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Create your own themes by editing/adding YAML files. (2 themes by default [basic,advanced] in 2 different flavors [normal, inverted])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expandable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Currently supports all 4 SO sites. Adapts to new additions to the StackOverflow family with a simple config file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Examples&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This script no longer works due to the new flair API. I have no intention of updating it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The desktop theme included in the distribution will not render exactly the same as the above. The reason is that I didn't include one font used due to licensing restrictions. For reference, the reputation font (missing) is &lt;strong&gt;DIN 1451 Engschrift LT&lt;/strong&gt;. The theme files are as in, so by dropping in the font as &lt;code&gt;dinb.ttf&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;code&gt;system/fonts&lt;/code&gt; folder, it should render as the above.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Changelog&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version 2.1 - 2009-08-03:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed &lt;code&gt;imageantialias()&lt;/code&gt; error on packaged versions of &lt;code&gt;php-gd&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Renamed and reorganized themes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added light-bg version of the SO logos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version 2.0 - 2009-07-31:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Complete rewrite. The theme engine is now extremely flexible and allows the creation of complex themes. I've added one as an example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version 1.2 - 2009-07-25:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added &quot;service&quot; mode. To use, make sure &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; is set to &lt;code&gt;false&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;system/config.yaml&lt;/code&gt;, then specify the ID before the theme: &lt;code&gt;/1/basic/StackOverflow.png&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version 1.1 - 2009-07-25:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed &lt;code&gt;display&lt;/code&gt; parameter being ignored for some objects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed bug where a &lt;code&gt;badges.icons.size&lt;/code&gt; value 0 or lower made the generation fail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Installation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need &lt;strong&gt;PHP 5.2.3&lt;/strong&gt; or greater, &lt;strong&gt;php_gd&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;allow_fopen_url = 1&lt;/code&gt; for this script to work. Make sure to make &lt;code&gt;system/cache&lt;/code&gt; writable (an &lt;code&gt;.htaccess&lt;/code&gt; file protects the directory from outside reads).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Combining Images&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kyle Cronin&lt;/strong&gt; asked if I could provide an example on how to combine the images. You can use the following script to do so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?php&#xA;// If you have PHP 5.3 and the timezone isn't set properly.&#xA;date_default_timezone_set (@date_default_timezone_get());&#xA;&#xA;require_once ('system/classes/spyc.php');&#xA;require_once ('system/classes/Image.php');&#xA;&#xA;$theme = 'advanced';&#xA;&#xA;header ('Expires: ' . date('r', time() + 300));&#xA;$flair_config = Spyc::YAMLLoad('system/config.yaml');&#xA;$domain = 'http://mydomain.com/flair/';&#xA;&#xA;$width = 0;&#xA;$height = 0;&#xA;$padding = 10;&#xA;&#xA;$images = array();&#xA;&#xA;foreach($flair_config as $site =&amp;gt; $data) {&#xA;    $images[$site] = new Image();&#xA;    $images[$site]-&amp;gt;open($domain . $theme . '/' . $site . '.png');&#xA;    $width += $padding + $images[$site]-&amp;gt;width();&#xA;    $height = max($height, $images[$site]-&amp;gt;height());&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;$width -= $padding;&#xA;&#xA;$img = new Image();&#xA;$img-&amp;gt;new_transparent($width, $height);&#xA;&#xA;$img-&amp;gt;set_fill_color('#000');&#xA;$img-&amp;gt;fill();&#xA;&#xA;$offset = 0;&#xA;&#xA;foreach($images as $image) {&#xA;    $img-&amp;gt;paste($image, $offset, 0);&#xA;    $offset += $image-&amp;gt;width() + $padding;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;$img-&amp;gt;output(IMG_PNG);&#xA;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-15T14:20:14.483" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T14:20:14.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T16:57:42.913" Title="Image Based Flair (Downloadable Implementation [v2.1])" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="9483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9484" CreationDate="2009-07-25T05:43:54.330" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a SO bug? try to open &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tagnames=c%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tagnames=c%23&lt;/a&gt; than go to last page(188 when I got this), page numbers are lost and it is difficult to go to the previous page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132268" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T06:36:40.007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T06:36:40.007" Title="SO last page bug" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9483" CreationDate="2009-07-25T05:50:52.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you try refreshing and scrolling down? Works for me, but the pages are down at the footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome on WinXP here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, he's only viewing 15 questions per page, to get to #188.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T05:50:52.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9469" CreationDate="2009-07-25T08:09:09.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the system works quite well as it is. I have yet to see a question where the accepted answer is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having one accepted answer that stand out from all the others is good! Some person googling for a quick solution to his problem gets pointed to the answer that somebody else found most helpful. When I do this, I am looking at the accepted answer first, but usually also at 3 or 4 other answers, to see if they can shed some more light on my problem (which might differ from the problem of the person asking the question), so I don't see any problem that would require fixing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T08:09:09.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8649" CreationDate="2009-07-25T08:51:24.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to agree with the advice in the essay by Rick Moen and Eric S Raymond &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; How To Ask Questions the Smart Way &lt;/A&gt;, and one of the key points it makes is that mentioning what you've already done to try to solve the problem is essential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all my experiences in every tech forum i've been in over the years backs up that point - if you want good answers, ask good questions.  i've seen that from both sides - asking questions and giving answers.  i'm more likely to get good answers if i ask a good question....and i'm far more likely to give an answer if the question gives me the impression that my time and effort won't be wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and, as you say, it also helps to eliminate the annoyingly useless answers that assume you're a newbie (or come from a newbie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130776" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T08:51:24.963" />
  <row Id="9487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9443" CreationDate="2009-07-25T08:57:33.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No offense, but ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen alpha geeks wearing torn-apart jeans and an old old shirt and boy did he throw an awesome session!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T08:57:33.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-25T08:57:33.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2009-07-25T09:18:11.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to the accounts that only exist to astroturf... I know you're not a huge fan, but I wonder whether a &quot;hellban&quot; approach would work. Note that I'm not suggesting this approach for the &quot;exist to aggravate&quot; accounts, since they tend to be throwaway accounts; but 'turfers tend to keep their account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with deleting the account is that we know very well (from experience) that these accounts tend to see more resurrections than the Vatican film festival. At least with a hellban we know where they are. Presumably only mods and the user would see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system would also probably need to throw them random up/down votes, just to keep things interesting. Not sure what to do if they attempt to edit somebody else's post... perhaps just tiddles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/wait-ill-fix-it.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Turf wars&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T09:18:11.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9491" CreationDate="2009-07-25T09:39:02.953" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the meta stuffs should goes to meta... like this very question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now that we have meta.stackoverflow, what about those occasionally humorous/fun question? should it be posted/moved to meta.so as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T22:56:37.597" Title="Should a &quot;fun&quot; question be posted on Meta instead of SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="9491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9490" CreationDate="2009-07-25T10:02:19.807" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if this seems to be the way of doing things here with some fun questions having been moved to meta, I would not do that. Many people will never be on meta that are on SO, and rightly so. Meta is to drive SO forward, while SO is to drive programmers forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving every fun question here would either push people on meta that do not want to contribute to the meta discussion, or make the SO experience very dry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then should SU or SF fun questions be on meta too? I guess the audience they are targeted to, as with SO, are quite different, and therefore should be targeted specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already find it confusing to have SF specific FAQ in meta and would have kept that in the corresponding page, but can see the value of reducing redundance with the overlapping part and therefore have it all in meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But again, my main reason: meta has a small community with one purpose: to drive SO forward. Let's keep it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T10:02:19.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9469" CreationDate="2009-07-25T10:22:47.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is best answered by a combination of (parts of) several questions, feel free to compose such an answer (maybe stating your sources and giving credit, maby only by upvoting) and then, if you are the question owner, accept it or leave it for acception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way the already working system will even thrive more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5399/why-does-stackoverflow-discourage-collaboration&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T10:50:33.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-07-25T10:36:11.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the only problem here is that &lt;strong&gt;people take reputation  far too seriously&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;As Jeff and Joel said in one of the podcasts (#34 or so, I think), reputation is just an arbitrary number shown next to your user name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, option 1 gives me no points and may end up unseen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get no points for your efforts. So what? (That it may not be noted is a valid concern, though)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Following option 2, pollutes the&#xA;  amount of answers on the question. (...) Also, you have to be very&#xA;  careful to reference everyone, cause&#xA;  you can end up getting down-voted, and&#xA;  pissing people off cause you &quot;stole&quot;&#xA;  their idea and they had it &quot;first&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do a good work compiling several answers into one &lt;strong&gt;and credit the original poster&lt;/strong&gt;, you should not get any downvotes for it. And if you do, don't worry. If your answer is really a good compilation, it will float to the top in the end. (As for the rep loss through the downvotes, Did I mention not to worry too much about reputation?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Option 3 is good in theory except&#xA;  that: I get no points&#xA;  Again my response is: So what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that many people here think that you should follow option 2 (make the compiled answer CW) so you don't gain any reputation from posting an answer that originally came from somebody else. Again: They are taking the rep thing far too seriously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not even an object, it's just an integer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T10:36:11.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-25T10:36:11.833" />
  <row Id="9494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9490" CreationDate="2009-07-25T10:38:01.053" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the &quot;fun&quot; questions simply shouldn't &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is a grey area...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;fun&quot; is about the sites, then MSO may be appropriate. But it shouldn't be MSO just because it is &quot;fun&quot;. If it is about programming the clearly SO, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T10:47:54.607" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T10:47:54.607" />
  <row Id="9495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5399" CreationDate="2009-07-25T10:54:57.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Been going to town on the community wiki aspect in one of the questions over at SuperUser. Namely the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/2/free-antivirus-solutions-for-windows&quot;&gt;Free Antivirus solutions for Windows&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A happy side-effect could be that shows up in some way what the return on other user investment is to their answer in a cc-wiki site built with rep and badge carrots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question and its series of answers looked rife for a going over and plying that sense of wiki-ness to in the spirit of creating that &lt;code&gt;go to&lt;/code&gt; resource outlined in earlier podcasts of the site creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But getting other users to play likewise seems to be not quite there. Or perhaps the other users just don't know how to react with other users editing their initial posts now made or set as wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some have come along and added comments that would have been great instead if they edited the answer, beefing it up (or tofuburgering it) for others to enjoy. One has done so, and another has done a rollback. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who knows, maybe there is a carry over &quot;all mine&quot; aspect in the wiki posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem could have been the edit in the first place though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T10:54:57.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-25T10:54:57.683" />
  <row Id="9497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9490" CreationDate="2009-07-25T13:56:23.673" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &quot;Fun&quot; server questions go on ServerFault. &quot;Fun&quot; programming questions go on SO (albeit reluctantly) and &quot;Fun&quot; random computer related crap goes on SuperUser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is for site improvements and discussing how to get rid of &quot;fun&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T13:56:23.673" />
  <row Id="9498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9693" CreationDate="2009-07-25T14:10:31.800" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on SO and added an image from my Blogspot account. When I edit the question I can see the image OK. But in the final question the image is missing, replaced by its alt text only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1182125/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1182125/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone else see the image? Some ramdom &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEBKAC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pebkac&lt;/a&gt; error, or a bug in the markdown, or some other hot-linking problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4596" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:02:30.813" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:02:30.813" Title="Adding image links seems to randomly not work?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="9499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9498" CreationDate="2009-07-25T14:21:09.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've checked the question and just get the broken image icon in all modes - viewing and in the edit preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I paste the link into my browser I can see the image - so that's obviously correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know you can use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; format for images too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T14:40:00.703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T14:40:00.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9505" CreationDate="2009-07-25T14:23:16.800" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there some &lt;strong&gt;easy&lt;/strong&gt; way to list ALL of my questions on SO (without paging)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because aside from rep gained and lost, I always refer back to the answers to my questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to be able to search just my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T07:17:19.833" Title="List All My Questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9498" CreationDate="2009-07-25T14:33:08.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No problem seeing the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tested on different browsers (Opera, IE, Chrome), with and without referrer header information. So you might be able to rule out Blogspot not allowing hotlinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T14:33:08.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T14:36:58.017" Score="1" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like that I need to make separate accounts for Stack Overflow, Meta, Server Fault and Super User. I would like to sign into all of them with one single account. Reputation and badges should be different on the different sites, but display name, website, location and age should not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T17:48:29.043" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T17:48:29.043" Title="Use one account for all sites, except reputation and badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9506" CreationDate="2009-07-25T14:44:28.130" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some entries within post.xml with &lt;code&gt;PostTypeId=&quot;2&quot;&lt;/code&gt; that have no &lt;code&gt;OwnerUserId&lt;/code&gt;.  E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;row Id=&quot;40844&quot; &#xA;PostTypeId=&quot;2&quot; &#xA;ParentId=&quot;40773&quot; &#xA;CreationDate=&quot;2008-09-02T22:36:42.593&quot; &#xA;Score=&quot;1&quot; &#xA;ViewCount=&quot;0&quot; &#xA;Body=&quot;blah, blah, blah&quot; &#xA;LastActivityDate=&quot;2008-09-02T22:36:42.593&quot; &#xA;Tags=&quot;&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I assume the users was deleted?  Or maybe there is some behavior of SO that I am unaware of....hmmm...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T15:05:09.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:37:24.287" Title="Some answers in post.xml have no OwnerId in data dump: deleted users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9500" CreationDate="2009-07-25T14:54:49.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this moment there is no way to see all of you answers without paging through the list. There is also no simple way of searching only questions that you have posted (and I can't think of a simple way of doing it via Google either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T14:54:49.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9500" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:02:25.650" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &lt;strong&gt;easy&lt;/strong&gt; way to do this. However, it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt;. To list all my questions on StackOverflow (42 total) I can use the following link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=658&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=1000&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=658&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=1000&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My user ID on StackOverflow is &lt;strong&gt;658&lt;/strong&gt;. You can substitute your ID and get a complete list of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big downside of this is that it has no formatting whatsoever. This is an AJAX call that's meant to be styled with CSS from the calling page, so it has no styling prebuilt into it. It will, however, solve your problem and list all your questions at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:02:25.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9503" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:03:53.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would make sense. Visiting &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40773/ticket-tracking-software-w-good-email-integration-and-decent-navigation/40844#40844.&quot;&gt;post #40844&lt;/a&gt; reveals that that user was indeed deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:03:53.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9502" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:08:21.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer to keep separate accounts on each website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each website serves a different purpose. I intend to to keep separate profiles appropriate for each service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:08:21.593" />
  <row Id="9508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-05T20:50:38.727" Score="415" ViewCount="2976" Body="&lt;p&gt;While at least some answers from every question seem to have been up-modded as a &quot;helpful&quot; answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;about 49% of questions have score of 0 or 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;another 21% of questions have a score of 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; questions seem to have an answer or two with score +5.  Is it that we have a lot of fluff questions and not useful ones?  Or perhaps it just seems more natural to vote for answers than questions?  If we want the most useful info on Stack Overflow to filter to the top, how can this disparity be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this may cause real problems for people getting the badges which require +25 or +100 votes on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I like a lot of the feedback I'm seeing.  Two problems are highlighted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The work flow doesn't promote voting for questions the way it promotes voting for answers. One solution: when a user answers a question, the system should invite them to vote for the question.  If someone cares enough to answer a question, then they care enough to vote for it as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with less than 15 reputation cannot vote for questions or answers.  Is this warranted?  Maybe these users could provisionally vote for questions and answers and those ratings would only take effect when the user reaches 15 reputation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I had no idea this post would be this popular -- or that this would still be a problem by now.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All I ask is this.  As you browse Stack Overflow, when you see a good question: &lt;strong&gt;vote for it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everyone does, then this problem will disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T08:11:22.123" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T16:39:19.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-15T23:19:42.270" Title="Why aren't people voting for questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="45" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="24" />
  <row Id="9509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-05T20:55:45.203" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are only seeing the positive votes, if we could see both +/- votes it might make more sense.&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="148923" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-05T21:01:20.793" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, when you start using the system, you can't vote at all.  So a lot of questions and answers might be lacking in votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says I must have 50 reputation in order to begin voting.  I'd like to be voting up questions and answers now.&lt;/p&gt;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-05T21:05:17.120" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upmod things that are interesting to me, that I feel I might need in a future project, that I think would be a valuable FAQ or that I think need a knowledgeable answer to a well asked question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't comment on others motivation.&lt;/p&gt;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-05T21:07:09.457" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try my best to vote for anything I think is helpful. I think that seeing both up and downs (as kevin d suggested) is a good idea but I would suggest making it so that when you someone up-votes something you up-voted, you get 1 point.&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="132042" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-05T21:08:36.053" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more natural to vote for answers rather than questions.  To me, the default reason to vote for a question would be to encourage others to answer it.  If it's already answered, so the thinking goes, why not just vote up the answer rather than the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that line of thought is the best thing for the site in the long run, but it may be a behavioral issue right now, especially as young as the site is.&lt;/p&gt;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-05T21:16:53.633" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;Votes&quot; filter tab on the main page should take into account the up mods for answers in calculating a question's total score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be voting more questions up, but I still don't have 50 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="144147" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-05T21:23:24.773" Score="148" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a usability/motivation issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't vote up questions on the 'index' pages like you can on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt;/so on, so people aren't going to go 'that looks cool' and vote it up (or vice versa) before reading it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO this is a good thing, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, the 'workflow' of reading a question/answer goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User opens page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User reads question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless the question is abnormally good or bad, or otherwise provocative, this isn't likely to elicit any emotional response. It's just a question, carry on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;User scrolls down and begins reading answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As there are many answers, and good answers are rewarded by being 'accepted' and also with increased reputation, this puts the user in the mindset of 'make the answers better'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The emotional response behind having your answer accepted or upvoted is &quot;I know stuff, I'm smart, I feel good.&quot; Likewise, conferring that reward on someone else is quite a powerful thing too. This provides a very strong motivation to rank and provide answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because of this motivation, people will put a lot of effort into writing answers (like me with this diatribe) and ranking them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works very well for providing and filtering good answers, but there's no such motivation behind voting for questions. For most questions, the strongest response they are likely to elicit is &quot;I have that problem too&quot;, which while it's strong, is only going to apply to a small portion of the viewers/answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think this is why questions aren't being voted on as much, I don't think you need to go all out to provide more motivation for it, as this would distract from the main goal of writing/ranking the answers. &#xA;A simple 'nudge' to remind people to vote on questions I think will do the job without any/many adverse effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion for this is simply to make the voting buttons on the question proportionately larger (or make the ones by answers smaller), and possibly change the color or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will draw the reader's attention to them, and send the message 'hey, while you're here, vote on the question before carrying on reading the answers'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T21:55:41.067" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:55:41.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-06T06:12:04.490" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between questions and answers (that sentence alone should warrant a &quot;No s**t, Sherlock!&quot; Badge...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, I see questions that are of no personal interest (and therefore not useful) to me, so I see no reason to vote it up. But the answer to those questions maybe useful for me, by giving some additional information that I can use. Or I just think &quot;Whoa, that is some quality content for the site&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, when the question is useful to me (because I asked myself the same thing) or if I believe that a question is good and very useful, I +1 it, which does happen a lot more seldom than upping answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, the site is about personal benefit: Whenever an article helps me to gain something that helps me in my work, it gets +1.&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-07T01:06:32.373" Score="55" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After tinkering way too much, I've come to the opinion that there's &lt;strong&gt;no great reason for down-modding a question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the old saying &quot;There are no stupid questions&quot;&amp;mdash;well, I think that applies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is too vague, leave a response to that effect (or vote up a comment that states that already).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question contains a typographic or syntactic problem, edit the question for clarity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is outright spam, or abusive, flag it as such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But down-modding a question? What's the point? If the question is naive you can simply answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-modding lacks any good use cases (as described above) but worse than that, it is open to abuse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't like the person who asked it, you might down-mod it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't like the topic, you might down-mod it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't like the religious or political beliefs of the question, you might down-mod it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-modding now attracts a penalty to the down-modder's rep, that's an interesting development, but I think the simpler and more correct variation would be &lt;strong&gt;stop the ability to down-mod a question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T14:32:15.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="9524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-16T03:13:10.097" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that one big reason is the +25 reputation restriction to upvote.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I understand that since this is a beta, people can come up with a handful of new questions and earn those points quickly, but when SO gets more filled with questions, it will become more common that new people come here, search and find the answer they are looking for. And I think finding what you are looking for is totally worth the upvote. Besides, allowing it early would encourage the good practice of searching instead of creating repeated (or re-worded) questions.  I've seen may good questions so far that I would like to upvote but I don't want to just throw a random question just to earn the reputation needed to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148799" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-16T03:24:52.710" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to put a vote in agreement with everyone else in that the reputation required to up-vote a question might be hurting the system a bit. Personally, I tend to also up-vote questions that I think are interesting or that I would like to know the answer to as well, but that is generally when there aren't many answers to the question yet. Once there are more answers to the question I tend to up-vote the answers instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that I think might be useful in causing more questions to be up-voted is what others have suggested in lowering the bar for when you can start up-voting questions; however, I would go so far as to say as soon as you have 10 points (i.e. one good question or answer worth of up-votes) you should be able to up-vote questions. Then the bar for up-voting the answers could be moved up a bit to say 100 points or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one thing that might be skewing things a bit is the member base. I'm not sure of the exact numbers of users; however, I have started to notice some common names in answers and it might be that the lack of a broad user base is hurting this part of the beta. I know that I personally tend to ignore questions that I know there is no way of me knowing the answer to so I wouldn't be surprised if other users might be doing the same thing. If you look at the questions with the most up-votes, they tend to either be related to the site itself (i.e. tagged with stackoverflow) or tend to be broad base fundamental topics that everyone would likely be familiar with (i.e. tagged language-agnostic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is definitely something that needs to be monitored, but I am quite curious to see if it starts to resolve itself a bit as the user base increases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-16T05:04:56.157" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember the old saying &quot;There are no stupid questions&quot; -- well I think that applies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree.  There clearly can be, and have been, questions that are pointless or off-topic.  If Stack Overflow is to stay useful as an information source and not turn into just another Digg or redit programming section, then there is a need for community policing.&#xA;I think the system right now is pretty decent.  By docking a small amount of reputation for every negative vote cast, it encourages people to be more careful with downmods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe that votes to the answers should contribute to the questions rank as outlined here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/15865&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/15865&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that answer votes should count towards question score somehow.  In that thread, I advocated automatically upmodding a question when you upmod an answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this would have the benefits that come from giving a bonus to the question based on the answer score while still giving freedom to vote the question down if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already, I've run into situations where I have downvoted questions I felt were bad even though I upvoted the answers.  I believe that any system where the answers contribute to vote score must take this sort of situation into account, and I feel that the method I proposed would be the simplest way to do it both for the users and for the site developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T22:12:18.473" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:12:18.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-16T14:12:43.930" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about automating it (hey, I`m a programmer ;-)?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you answer it, the question is voted up automatically.&#xA;If you don't think it's worth it, you can vote it down afterwards.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Will increase reputation points inflation, but there is always a drawback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-16T19:54:55.427" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I know why &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; haven't voted on any questions. It's because I &lt;strong&gt;can't&lt;/strong&gt; - apparently you need a reputation of 15 just to vote something else up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can understand restricting the ability to vote down, a restriction on the ability to vote up seems a little to much - but this is my first day, so maybe I'm just not used to the new system yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T22:13:40.297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:13:40.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-18T20:19:06.530" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the motivation behind down-voting a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;.  Down-voting an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; I get, but unless the question is offensive or spam or something (and there are different ways to deal with those), I'm not sure why you'd need to down-vote a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't quite get why you need a +15 reputation to up-vote anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-19T17:39:14.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have up voted several things in the past 20 minutes if there wasn't a silly reputation restriction on up votes.  I can understand down vote limits, and an can understand a probation period, but it shouldn't kick in automatically it should be applied when your reputation drops, not when you're first starting off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the initial impression is &quot;Why did I just register? I can't do anything.&quot;  It will also lead to far more duplicate answers because I can't easily say &quot;I agree with this existing answer.&quot; I either have to post my own 90% similar answer, or say &quot;@johndoe I agree&quot; which doesn't elevate the answer in the rankings, requires the reader to parse and scroll back to see what johndoe said, and gives johndoe no benefit from their good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is a perfect example of this, lots of other people have said &quot;Vote Up shouldn't be restricted&quot; but I have no way to reinforce their point without you reading all this garbage I just wrote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140664" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-20T09:14:25.513" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reason why there is no immediate ability to upvote is to prevent people making lots of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sockpuppets&lt;/a&gt; and upvoting themselves - enough of that and they would be able to start editing pages and pose a potential problem if there isn't a way of stopping this sort of gaming of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current situation may not be the best solution, but I do think it is better than leaving the site open to that sort of abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1612" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-23T06:27:25.127" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think this is not a problem, it is simply nature showing us how the system should be design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there is no reason to rate questions, and we should not try to &quot;fix&quot; it but understand why it is happening. and a possible outcome (the correct one in my opinion) is to do without the voting on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on answers is great, but I see no reason for the existence of question voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even worse, while the voting is useless (yet harmless), the absolute &quot;evil&quot; baked into the system is the fact that you get reputation when your question gets voted!&#xA;That is an &quot;evil&quot; incentive to post questions for other reasons beside the ONLY valid reason: you want to get an answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving people incentive to post questions just so they can get reputation is a just as lame as Microsoft giving you &quot;points&quot; for searching using their search.. Motivation for searching should be getting good results. Motivation for posting Stack Overflow question is to get an answer, period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156870" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T22:03:35.497" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:03:35.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-26T22:32:01.443" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why aren’t people rating questions? You need 15 reputation to vote. (Hopefully this brings me a little closer to being able to do so)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133104" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-27T07:43:29.090" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I seems quite likely to me that both questions and answers will follow distribution that approximates a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;power law&lt;/a&gt;. I have no justification for this option, but I thought I'd throw it out there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that the set of programming questions that are seem as most relevant to everyone is a fairly small subset of all the questions that get asked, unless the community is very homogeneous.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each question is likely to have an answer that is viewed as being the best - if I view question which already has a good answer, I'm more likely to upmod the answer that add my own answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130925" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-27T16:38:22.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't it &lt;strong&gt;automatically infer the value of a question&lt;/strong&gt; by other metrics like # of answers and # of up votes on answers, # of views, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are voted up are usually deep answers, but they typically require a deep question.  Don't they?  Let's turn to the DB to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-08-27T17:11:52.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer ratings have a graphical interpretation.  The little up-arrow pushes the answer up the score-scale, and thus up the page; and the down arrow pushes it down the score-scale, and thus down the page.  That a question has a score of 20 vs 200 vs 2000 doesn't tell me anything, as there is no implied comparison with other questions.  I have to think about the meaning of the  question voting widget every time I see it, as it does not intuitively mean anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that the question's rating (for whatever purposes that rating has) be inferred from the answer ratings.  Maybe the question score could be the sum total of all answer votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inferring from the number of answers is less attractive, as some answer sequences are actually conversation threads, and do not reflect on the quality of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-08T21:04:16.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this might sounds a bit odd to some of you, but I didn't really see a place to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, there are big honkin arrows, but they didn't jump out at me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kinda expected to vote on the question on the main browse page too, as done on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion, add + and - to the arrows. Yes, the Department of Redundancy Department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-09T18:51:11.407" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why people don't vote on questions? Because most questions don't trigger the &quot;oh, that's helpful&quot; response that comes with a good answer. Mostly I guess because questions themselves don't contain much information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to up-vote only questions that are &#xA;* well written or &#xA;* where someone has taken the care to aggregate answers into the question or &#xA;* which I would have had to type up, if they weren't already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastEditorUserId="4918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T11:03:25.383" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:03:25.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-12T15:12:18.427" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no good questions, only good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the quality of a question comes from the sum how many people answered it and how many people rated the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-15T22:59:49.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a design standpoint I reckon you should have the question rating on the browsing pages. It I don't like a question I'm not going to bother with opening it and then rating it. I'd rather have a &quot;bury/promote&quot; function in the question listings themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-15T23:16:50.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate to be Mr. Pessimist here, but I don't think voting will ever become a key component of Stack Overflow. The nature of the site is one in which voting is a filtering mechanism, and a way to help &quot;face&quot; content. However, I have no problem with that, and I actually prefer it. The goal of this site in my eyes, is instead to be a quick (but accurate) resource where programmers can ask questions, and get questions answered. It should also have a robust search feature, and be highly optimized for SEO so that programmers can use it as a long-standing and reliable resource. I really liked Yahoo! Answers for that reason. It was Q&amp;amp;A, plain and simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really do hope that developers come here and have fun and participate because they enjoy the community, and enjoy helping others learn. If the elitism is absent, and a general notion of common sense and friendliness is apparent, this site will be a success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-18T05:38:41.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is easy for me - the site lets me vote on an answer in the same &quot;place&quot; that I read it, but I have to navigate to a new page to vote on a question.  When I read down the long lists of questions, I see plenty that are obviously good questions, but since they aren't in my area of expertise, I don't bother opening the link, and I don't bother voting for the question.  On the other hand, when I see a good answer, one click votes on it, and without taking me out of my &quot;reading flow&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add the &quot;vote up/down&quot; affordances to the question list pages, and I bet you'll see question voting take a substantial jump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135400" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-18T17:51:01.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be because everyone's too busy using their votes on &quot;threads&quot; like this one. I think maybe we're trying to express two things with the question voting system, both that a  question was a good one that everyone can learn from, and that a question needs attention from the community. Toss in the notion that lots of people are using votes to recognize the fun factor in a subjective question or to reinforce their opinion while &quot;answering&quot; such questions, and you can see why questions maybe aren't getting their due.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is instructive to note that at the time this was written, the only two gold-badge level questions involve how to use this site (shouldn't that be in the faq?), and a &quot;what do you think?&quot; that's taken place on nearly every active board in the world. Two of the &quot;Questions&quot; filters are already drowning in noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-18T18:56:20.647" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions address a very specific problem and the answers are not helpful to the casual reader. While we can still recognize the correct/helpful answers to those questions, we do not judge the question to be 'good' or 'bad'. The question just 'is'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what would constitue a good question. My answer would be: a question that evokes discussion, because it draws attention to something that software engineers should investigate. However, that is just the kind of question for which this website is not intended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" />
  <row Id="9552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-18T22:28:33.337" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would only vote for question that makes me think: Gee, I'd like to know that too. However, I yet to run into such question. I guess it's the same for most other people. You usually reply to question others don't know, but you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it says 'this was helpful' when you hover over a question, which does not make much sense. Answers can be helpful. Maybe something like 'this is interesting' or 'this is a good question' would be much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T13:41:17.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:39:38.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to upvote &lt;strong&gt;questions&lt;/strong&gt; when the answers are generalizable, or the problem is a question whose answer has implications for a lot of other problems.  I do this so that when I look at tag, say python, then the questions I see will be ones that are almost guaranteed to have relevance to  *me, for many values of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is question upvoting really &lt;strong&gt;supposed&lt;/strong&gt; to be for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T16:39:38.833" />
  <row Id="9554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-10-22T13:54:06.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the fundamental issues that doesn't seem to have been addressed seems to me to be pretty fundamental: &lt;strong&gt;There seem to be no incentive for upvoting questions, so why would I bother?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, I do go out of my way to try and upvote questions, but I seem to be in the minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, I did get some value from upvoting because I could then find interesting questions again through my personal page (that's how I found myself behaving: &quot;upvote = mark this question so I can find it again later&quot;). Now that &quot;favourites&quot; have been enabled, I no longer even get this benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, the only motivation I now see for upvoting is some nebulous &quot;&lt;strong&gt;do unto others&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; kind of philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may suit me, but by embarking with the whole reputation system, stackoverflow has marked itself as a different beast. Live by the rep, die by the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not a bad thing, just the way things are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SO is a rep-based economy. Want people to upvote questions? Easy: attach some incentive to it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6329" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-22T13:54:06.593" />
  <row Id="9556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-10-23T23:51:50.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give a separate badge for rating questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T23:51:50.507" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2008-12-27T21:41:04.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a down vote as indication that the question is a &quot;bad&quot; question, rather than a &quot;stupid&quot; one. There are no stupid questions, as has been stated. However, there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; bad questions --- insufficient information, poorly formulated, no attempt to solve the problem self, no research into possible solution, please do my homework for me, and so on. These type of questions are distinguishable (I believe) from those indicating that the questioner is struggling with the concepts and does need some help. A down vote prompts the questioner to put some effort into finding a solution and researching the problem a little before asking the community to bail him/her out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-27T21:41:04.167" />
  <row Id="9559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-01-07T11:04:24.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a question should not be voted per se, but have a kind of ranking based on how many and how high scorings answers it has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-12T13:27:11.313" LastActivityDate="2010-10-12T13:27:11.313" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T11:04:24.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-01-08T20:08:37.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the reputation restrictions.  They keep me from making strange misinterpretations of concepts like 'down' and 'up' until I've had a chance to assimilate more of the culture here.  Spending more time reading, rather than clicking, improves my feel for what each click would mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rating based on 'useful' makes sense to me for answers, but not so much for questions.  A thread might be useful, but the question itself?  Well, the most I could say about one ordinarily is that it was interesting or thought-provoking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T20:08:37.487" />
  <row Id="9564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-02-20T09:54:51.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just posted a dupe question to this one (accidentally) so here is my question text as I am going to delete the duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have noticed that when going into&#xA;  questions there can regularly be&#xA;  several answers to a legitimate&#xA;  question. The question is thoughtful,&#xA;  useful, well presented and yet has&#xA;  garnered no up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Surely if you are answering a&#xA;  question, then your first thought&#xA;  should be to upvoting it. I mean its&#xA;  in all our best interests surely,&#xA;  because the natural SO process will&#xA;  ensure that good questions feature&#xA;  prominently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nobody seems to think twice about&#xA;  upvoting 'Subjective' questions, which&#xA;  in my opinion (although I am guilty of&#xA;  some too) should not be applicable to&#xA;  upvoting, only to favourite&amp;lt;-ing&gt;&#xA;  (Have I shot myself in the foot here&#xA;  with this highly subjective question?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Its costs nothing to up-vote a&#xA;  legitimate, well-asked and useful&#xA;  question so why are people so&#xA;  reluctant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that this is the best place to put this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-20T09:54:51.250" />
  <row Id="9565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-04-22T08:04:40.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe instead of up/down voting, there could be a ranking for how general the question is? For example, the likelihood of others finding it useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never vote on questions because it doesn't make sense to me. Which question is &quot;better?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I handle mouse clicks on a QTableView in Qt?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do I have to set my static variables outside of my class in C++?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just see them as two different people having a frustrating time with whatever their current language is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:19:27.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-22T08:04:40.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9629" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:19:53.680" Score="4" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to prune my questions, removing the ones that had come to rest at 0 or below (though they may have had some plus votes, I know). Is this a good idea, bad idea, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it keeps SO more tidy (though I do like all of my own questions, myself)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I tried to delete some questions and it was impossible because they had upvoted answers. Which is the case with all of my questions. (I think that questions should just get rated as a sum of some proportion of their answers. Can someone point me to a discussion of that here on meta?)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastEditorUserId="131669" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T00:57:04.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T00:57:04.380" Title="Should I delete my downvoted questions on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:15:55.393" Score="108" ViewCount="1039" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the holidays, what could be more fun than kicking back with your programming relatives, a few drinks and the Stack Overflow podcast?  Don't answer that, instead suggest rules for the Stack Overflow drinking game!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One rule per answer, the top votes will make the game.  I'll kick it off with this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drink every time Jeff or Joel is interrupted by the other person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: putting this question into wiki mode as requested in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137632" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-12T01:47:38.430" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:33:55.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:21:01.343" Title="When to drink when listening to Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="52" CommentCount="35" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="9569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:18:52.690" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Atwood says &quot;actually&quot;... Drink!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:18:52.690" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:29:00.267" Score="94" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel mentions Excel and VBA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:29:00.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:30:57.580" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever there's a reference to the reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:30:57.580" />
  <row Id="9572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:35:09.893" Score="214" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever, after a 10 minute comment by Joel, Jeff leaves 3 seconds of dead air and then says, &quot;Yeah.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6479" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:35:09.893" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:37:38.783" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever you hear the phrase &quot;6 to 8 weeks&quot;...Drink!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:37:38.783" />
  <row Id="9574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:46:08.843" Score="50" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever FogCreek's interview process (or intern program) is mentioned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:46:08.843" />
  <row Id="9575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:46:46.923" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever you hear &quot;smart&quot; and &quot;get the things done&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143253" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:46:46.923" />
  <row Id="9576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:49:36.713" Score="47" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Joel or Jeff says the podcast is only listened to by 4 or less people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:49:36.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-21T17:50:24.200" Score="63" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel forgets about the dedicated phone number of the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel talks while a user question is playing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137183" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T17:50:24.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-22T07:48:08.533" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff says &quot;postmortem,&quot; talks about C, talks about Steve Yegge, or especially when Jeff uses the word &quot;pathology.&quot; As well, when Joel talks about psychology (yes, most of us have taken Psych 101). That's pretty much it. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138665" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-22T07:48:08.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-11-25T22:49:24.563" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever either/both mention the vast communities they bring to the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love 'em both, and read 'em both, but I feel so used after those comments :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T22:49:24.563" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2008-12-19T08:26:23.907" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Rock Band is mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150584" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-19T08:26:23.907" />
  <row Id="9581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T03:02:07.690" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jeff misuses the word literally :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47649" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T03:02:07.690" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="9582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T03:07:26.307" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever an algorithmic complexity class is incorrectly defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1412" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T03:07:26.307" />
  <row Id="9583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T03:23:03.053" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff does that fake forced laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T03:23:03.053" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T04:06:21.093" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jeff uses the word &quot;right&quot; at the end of a sentence, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T04:06:21.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T04:18:10.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff or Joel say &quot;basically&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T04:18:10.753" />
  <row Id="9586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T04:21:05.630" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel and Jeff trash TDD but have zero experience in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132989" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T04:21:05.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T04:34:12.103" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever they say Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:28:41.710" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:28:41.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T04:34:12.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T04:35:22.910" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel says they're going long, I'll have to edit this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just every time you hear 'Fog Creek' - bonus drink when it's about their new office.  *(:=&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:29:21.053" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:29:21.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T04:35:22.910" />
  <row Id="9589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T07:42:56.550" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel and Jeff argue about the importance of knowing how to program in C&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T07:42:56.550" />
  <row Id="9590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T08:22:03.770" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When, during the next Stack Overflow podcast, Jeff Atwood criticizes this question as a diversion to the site and a poor practice during programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Joel reminds him that drinking is fun. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T08:22:03.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T08:27:15.147" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff chuckles, realizing he's about to say something that might piss people off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141906" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T08:27:15.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T08:30:19.727" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another one: Whenever Joel and Jeff (mostly Joel, though) talk about how math is taught wrong, how people shouldn't care about algebra and calculus but should just go straight to Linear Algebra, Topology, Queuing Theory, etc. However, be sure not to learn anything in depth as that would be hard (like C). The reason this is so is because most of the math is useless and apparently nobody ever made a money using Linear Algebra (wow). ::shrugs::&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138665" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T08:30:19.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T16:07:23.433" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff says &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T16:07:23.417" />
  <row Id="9594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T16:14:46.567" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever either says &quot;RAID&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T16:14:46.567" />
  <row Id="9595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T16:43:20.770" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff disses PHP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1176" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T16:43:20.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T19:14:13.130" Score="47" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel describes an original, brilliant, sophisticated way to improve Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow, and Jeff explains how that feature has been implemented and usable on the site for several days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:30:09.400" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:30:09.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T19:14:13.113" />
  <row Id="9597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T19:49:24.523" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel says something Jeff thinks is stupid or boring but doesn't want to offend Joel, Jeff says &quot;Cool. That's really cool.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T19:49:24.523" />
  <row Id="9598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T19:51:14.973" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel says Jeff needs to learn C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T19:51:14.973" />
  <row Id="9599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T19:52:42.007" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jeff mispronounces something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:30:28.760" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:30:28.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T19:52:42.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T20:28:11.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever they talk about chairs and/or C pointers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131322" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:31:02.677" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:31:02.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T20:28:11.787" />
  <row Id="9601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T20:37:08.977" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Joel says &quot;but.. but&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T20:37:08.977" />
  <row Id="9602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-19T21:33:36.943" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel causes his computer to produce an alert sound, causing a brief confused pause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T21:33:36.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-20T16:03:03.470" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever they start sounding like Beavis and Butthead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-20T16:03:03.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-21T02:28:17.883" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff laughs at his own comments. A double drink if he laughs mid-sentence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131365" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-21T14:31:13.840" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel says the name of a caller right before playing the recording of the caller saying the exact same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T14:31:13.840" />
  <row Id="9607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-24T20:49:01.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff says, &quot;I'm not saying that I'm&quot; and then cites some impossibly high standard of programming genius.  He's not saying he is that genius, mind you, but he seems to want to raise the possibility . . . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4089" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-24T20:49:01.660" />
  <row Id="9608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-25T07:10:55.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever they mention the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_%28object-oriented_design%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SOLID&lt;/a&gt; principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:32:46.980" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:32:46.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T07:10:55.127" />
  <row Id="9609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-25T23:46:40.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever one interrupts the other :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1796" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T23:46:40.040" />
  <row Id="9610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-02-25T23:56:00.080" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff prefixes some term with &quot;quote-unquote&quot;.  I can picture him doing the air quotes thing with his hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T23:56:00.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-03-15T23:47:36.500" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel pronounces &quot;wiki&quot; as &quot;wee-key&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="247" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T23:47:36.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-03-16T00:10:10.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel or Jeff mention specific Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow users; this should net at least one drink / podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133879" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:33:16.733" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:33:16.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-16T00:10:10.563" />
  <row Id="9613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-03-20T17:50:19.530" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel says &quot;Now I'm going to get hate mail from the $PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE users for the next week.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-20T17:50:19.530" />
  <row Id="9614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-03-20T22:36:44.070" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff says &quot;on some level...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-20T22:36:44.070" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-04-10T04:32:00.057" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Jeff makes some huge error about computer science, but excuses it by saying he 'doesn't know math'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133550" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-10T04:32:00.057" />
  <row Id="9616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-04-29T23:16:20.193" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel mentions that he went to Yale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-29T23:16:20.180" />
  <row Id="9617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-05-16T09:21:29.453" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drink when Joel mentions that he worked at Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-16T09:21:29.453" />
  <row Id="9618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-05-17T22:34:41.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drink when Jeff says &quot;on some level&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:20:07.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-17T22:34:41.517" />
  <row Id="9619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2009-06-25T21:16:12.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever they talk about critical user mass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever Joel talks about a project's velocity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6367" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T21:33:55.217" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T21:33:55.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-25T21:16:12.137" />
  <row Id="9620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9480" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:24:27.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9626/what-tools-are-used-to-capture-produce-the-stackoverflow-podcasts&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9626/what-tools-are-used-to-capture-produce-the-stackoverflow-podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T18:07:45.310" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T18:07:45.310" />
  <row Id="9621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9567" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:26:43.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a good answer has been posted to your question, then leave it - someone may still find it useful. Take the opportunity to improve your question, if possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, delete it - that way, someone asking a similar question in the future won't run the risk of being marked as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:26:43.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9567" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:27:52.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the answer is good and you don't deserve the downvotes, then delete it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the downvotes are probably justified, get rid of it. We even have a badge (Peer Pressure) to encourage users to get rid of answers and questions that do not get agreed on by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:27:52.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9567" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:27:54.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a selfish rep score point of view then yes delete them. Why? When a recalculation is done you'll regain the lost rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T15:27:54.607" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9567" CreationDate="2009-07-25T15:45:03.257" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I delete anything down voted because A) Don't want 'more' people to down vote it, and B) if its a bad answer, it shouldn't be on there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally have my answers open in another tab for 10 minutes after I answer them to see how its received anyway, so I normally catch the down voted stuff immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to Shog's comment, I believe this practice works for questions too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T16:02:19.360" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T16:02:19.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-08T04:57:36.187" Score="4" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, the podcast content is improving. I'm finding it more and more intriguing in the more recent shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in how you are capturing and producing the casts. On one of the casts it became clear you were using Skype to communicate with each other, but the audio quality is way too good for skype, so I'm guessing you are doing local recordings and then combining them. Can you give details, like what tools you are using and how you are combining and processing the files? How much automation have you been able to achieve, and how? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:23:57.430" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:24:57.583" Title="What Tools Are Used to Capture &amp; Produce the Stack Overflow Podcasts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;technology&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9626" CreationDate="2008-12-08T05:07:42.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel made a recent post regarding this subject on his blog; see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PodcastEquipment.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How the StackOverflow Podcast is produced&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T16:31:55.547" />
  <row Id="9628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9626" CreationDate="2009-01-22T22:19:58.180" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PodcastEquipment.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The link Rob posted&lt;/a&gt; is pretty up to date. I've since added a little preamp for the mic, but that's a trivial change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's still skype. Because we have no relays, very low packet loss, and low latency between Jeff's home in California and my office in New York, Skype sound quality is exceptional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing is done with Audacity. As time goes on, I get a little bit fancier... lately I've taken to using the automatic noise reduction feature in Audacity 1.3 beta to eliminate the last bits of background noise which I think come from the dirty power going into all the analog gear. Under normal circumstances I can edit a show in about 5-10 minutes depending on how many deletes are needed. Last week, for example, a shoddy internet connection caused the skype call to drop twice, but this is relatively rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T16:31:55.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9567" CreationDate="2009-07-25T17:27:03.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I will post a question (or answer) that has a negative 1 downvote, and a lively discussion has taken place in the comments.  If you delete the question (or answer), that entire thread is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted one of my answers like that recently because, although the comments discussion was interesting, it wasn't really adding to the question anymore, and my desire to reduce clutter overcame my interest in the comments.  But, for a moment, it was a difficult decision.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I get to play benevolent dictator on my own questions and answers in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T17:27:03.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-07-25T17:54:06.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who comes to Stack Overflow with the idea that &quot;I really need to know something, but I'm not sure what it is. I'll look at the top-voted questions and find out what question I need answered&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;search&lt;/em&gt; to find questions you need. You tag topics you are involved with and watch for your tags on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you've found the question you need, you read the answers, paying special attention, perhaps, to the accepted answer, to answers that have lots of upvotes, and to answers from people you recognize, or who have high reputations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it's silly to compare stats of the questions and answers, because they are apples and oranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T17:54:06.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-25T17:54:06.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9567" CreationDate="2009-07-25T17:55:30.647" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should think about why people downvotes it in the first place first...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then edit accordingly, correcting misunderstandings and whatnot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if after some efforts the community wouldn't like it... then it deserves to be deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to see good questions gets deleted/closed just because the author made some silly mistakes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T17:55:30.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9638" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:08:12.323" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mean a complete repost, but rewriting the question to be more interesting, more general, so that more people read it, and possibly write an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132066" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:25:20.823" Title="Is it ok to &quot;repost&quot; a question that only gained 3 views in 2 days?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="9633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6187" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:08:26.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Recent Activity page is a good way to follow todays changes to your rep and conversations, but more importantly, it is great if you have asked questions, as the answers (and links to them) and comments will be posted there.  I use that page more than I do my 'user' page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you bring up a very good point.  Should thee two be consolidated?  I think so.  For one thing, finding the Recent Activity page is not intuitive, while there are multiple access methods to your user page (through the Users view or clicking on your username link wherever you see it on the page).  Also, when you get down to it, the two are really describing the same thing: you and your stats.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as you have custom views on your own user page as opposed to when you are looking at another user's page (votes and prefs, for example), the Recent Activity data could be rolled into a custom tab on your user page.  I would argue that it should be the default view of &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; user page, and not be available when looking at another user's page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:08:26.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9632" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:15:42.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely.  That's a fundamental part of how Stack Overflow (and family) works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:15:42.447" />
  <row Id="9635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9632" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:18:09.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be best to rewrite the answer as an edit to your original question. Though you may not get to the top of the new questions list,  you will get the same exposure at the top of the home view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you really want to get better answers than those that your original wording provoked use the bounty feature to entice feedback.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:18:09.570" />
  <row Id="9636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6187" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:18:33.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's weird to &quot;hide&quot; Recent Activity where it is. When I was a newbie I had no idea how to find my recent answers and comments. I was expecting a my.stackoverflow.com or another tab or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:18:33.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9640" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:23:57.583" Score="4" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is to stop circles of friends and cliques from synchronizing their upvoting and downvoting activities? Does Stack Overflow analyze the voting data to look for collusion and conspiracy patterns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking out of curiosity, not because I want to use this information. Sometimes a little security by obscurity can be a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132292" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:49:43.850" Title="What precautions does Stack Overflow take to stop the cheaters?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9632" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:25:20.823" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're just adding some details that you originally left out&lt;/strong&gt;, or clarifying part of your original question that you later realized was misleading, then &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; your question. It'll get bumped, and maybe gain enough attention to help you find an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you realize that your original question was misguided&lt;/strong&gt;, and you really should have asked something else (perhaps you realized this as a result of an answer or comment on your first question...), then post a new one. You can link to the first question to provide some background, but don't skimp on details - the new question should stand on its own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have nothing to add or change&lt;/strong&gt;, but just aren't happy with the amount of attention your question received, then consider adding a bounty to it. You may be asking something that requires a significant amount of research on a niche topic, and would benefit from &quot;sweetening the deal&quot; a bit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:25:20.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9637" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:28:56.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; rep-cap is there partly for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:28:56.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9637" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:31:35.430" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the system analyzes voting data and will effectively cancel votes it considers to be fraudulent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Vote Fraud and You&quot;&lt;/a&gt; blog post for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that getting a set of people to vote for each other is only one possible form of vote rigging. I suspect that more often than not, it's asymmetric with the target knowing nothing about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few times I've reported &quot;odd&quot; voting where suddenly (in a quiet period) I've had 10 different answers (including old ones) receive a single upvote almost simultaneously. Usually after reporting this to the mods they've found that it's a single person who's decided to visit loads of my old posts and upvote them. This is effectively a form of bias, and the votes are cancelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact rules followed by the automated system have not been revealed, for obvious reasons. (Indeed, if SO &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; ever open sourced, it'll be interesting to see whether this means there's suddenly a lot more fraud which is done in a way designed to squeak by the system. I'd hope not, but you never know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T17:49:43.850" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:49:43.850" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9637" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:32:32.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff runs some sql jobs that check for vote fraud&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:32:32.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:34:23.780" Score="1" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chrome, I see the marker to the left of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges that I've received&lt;/a&gt; as a square. Ever since joining SO, I've been waiting for it to be fixed to be a graphic, or to something more attractive or meaningful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the heck of it, I used my mouse to selected it. Then did a copy paste into a textbox. It's a checkmark!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who knew? Why doesn't it look like a checkmark on the page? I assume the font I'm using in the browser lacks a checkmark. If that's common, maybe you should switch to an image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;✔   &amp;lt;-- Looks like a checkmark in the editor, but a box in the preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;✔   &amp;lt;-- It's a checkmark in the editor and in the preview.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it show as a checkmark to other people, or does everyone see it as an empty box outline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my other browsers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox: Checkmark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Safari: Checkmark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IE6: Box for one, box with question mark in it for the other!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IE7: Checkmark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IE8: Checkmark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opera: Checkmark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So only IE6 and Chrome show the box. All other browsers show the checkmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Changed my fonts in Chrome, but Stackoverflow seems to force the font, so no fix. Guess I'll just learn to live with the ugly box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update 2: Apparently Windows IE was notorious for not having checkmark available. But that seems to have been fixed (for me) in IE7. Only IE6 is broken (I refused to try anything earlier). Not sure why my Chrome hates the SO checkmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:08:32.987" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:08:32.987" Title="Is the mark to the left of the badges supposed to be a square or a checkmark?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;checkmark&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9642" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:40:31.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using Chrome 2.0.172.37 and I see it as a tick/check mark everywhere. When viewing the post normally and when editing the post in the edit text area and the preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm running Windows XP SP3, fully patched in English (UK) - if that's important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:40:31.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9646" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:48:51.643" Score="0" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to remember seeing badges for specific categories (like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/40/c&quot;&gt;C# badge&lt;/a&gt;) for getting lots of upvotes in that category. Now these no longer show when you click on the badges tab. Does that mean you can't get this badges anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:53:44.407" Title="Where did the C# badge go on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9642" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:52:04.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always seen it as a checkmark on Chrome, on Windows XP, Vista and Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:52:04.107" />
  <row Id="9646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9644" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:53:44.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to &quot;Badges&quot; and click on the &quot;Tags&quot; tab on the far right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; has gained the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/42/discussion&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; silver badge on Meta already :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T18:53:44.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69794" CreationDate="2009-07-25T18:59:51.353" Score="7" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Titles that include &lt;code&gt;$_&lt;/code&gt; appear in the question list improperly.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=php+replace+characters&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; search, and scroll about halfway down looking for the title &quot;can I get PHP to stop replacing...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title appears as:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;can I get PHP to stop replacing ‘.’&#xA;  characters in can I get PHP to stop&#xA;  replacing ‘.’ characters in $_GET or&#xA;  $_POST arrays ?GET or can I get PHP to&#xA;  stop replacing ‘.’ characters in $_GET&#xA;  or $_POST arrays ?POST arrays ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the actual title is actually:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;can I get PHP to stop replacing ‘.’&#xA;  characters in $_GET or $_POST arrays ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T09:32:31.890" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T11:15:16.383" Title="Bug with question titles containing $ (dollar sign)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9651" CreationDate="2009-07-25T19:06:59.390" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;In looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9644&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, I noticed that the affable Jon Skeet had gotten a gold badge here at Meta sometime in the last day (since he didn't have it yesterday). I looked in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;his profile&lt;/a&gt;, and it was a Great Answer badge for his &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts/9182#9182&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet Facts&lt;/a&gt; answer (well deserved, btw--hilarious thread). However, he still has five Great Answer badges &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;at SO&lt;/a&gt;, but only four answers that actually qualify anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should badges be doubly awarded upon migration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T19:20:22.760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T19:20:22.760" Title="Badges Doubly Awarded On Migration" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="9651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9648" CreationDate="2009-07-25T19:19:09.663" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is intentional. The reason is that badges, especially those awarded for migrated answers, will result in a net loss of a badge on StackOverflow, so &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378/do-migrated-questions-migrate-reputation-and-badges&quot;&gt;Jeff has configured&lt;/a&gt; the migration system to migrate votes (and the badges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strictly speaking, you won't ever &lt;em&gt;lose&lt;/em&gt; a badge on StackOverflow, but I consider it a &lt;em&gt;net loss&lt;/em&gt; because you won't earn your &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; badge of that type. So if you had a gold badge for a 100+ score answer on SO, you'd still retain it (and gain it here once its migrated) but you wouldn't earn another badge for the &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; 100+ point answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T19:19:09.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9654" CreationDate="2009-07-25T19:35:09.323" Score="41" ViewCount="651" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you respond to someone in a comment you use @PersonsName. Is there anyway it could be linked like this @&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/56555/lucas-aardvark&quot;&gt;Lucas McCoy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T16:19:16.810" LastActivityDate="2010-10-02T22:42:39.110" Title="@&lt;name&gt; comments should link to the named person's profile (like twitter)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="9653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-25T19:35:58.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excluding words from search: &lt;code&gt;this that -not&lt;/code&gt; (with '-' sign berfore word to exclude).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T19:35:58.480" />
  <row Id="9654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9652" CreationDate="2009-07-25T19:37:33.507" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has stated that since our member names are not unique, there's no way of reliably doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you can come up with a way that will link the right person's account, please suggest it to him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my suggestion: Allow the following syntax:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@[#95589] Comment goes here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which would turn into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/95589&quot;&gt;Eric&lt;/a&gt; Comment goes here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments include links to our profiles, so this should be fairly easy to grab for anybody. Perhaps make an AJAX button that would auto-insert this code into a comment to the right of the comment (where the delete button is on our own comments). Any time this pops up, you can then notify the right profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T19:46:19.013" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T19:46:19.013" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="9655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8007" CreationDate="2009-07-25T19:55:36.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree we should only use tags that directly relate to the question. However, in practice, certain tags are being used only to provide context to the question. They say: &quot;I use C#, ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2008&quot;, even though the question may be about XML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if we should maybe discourage this by adding a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;textarea&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; labeled: &quot;Context&quot; to the top of the question form. A prompt might suggest that people enter as much free-form text as they like, to provide the context. Since they will have entered the context at the top, they'll have less reason to duplicate that information at the bottom, in the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the prompt for this box should give an example that does not look like a list of tags. Something like, &quot;Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with the MVC package from the June Web Platform Installer&quot; would get the point across. This might make the distinction clear, instead of encouraging people to just enter a list of tags in this box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this even knowing that if this had been done from the start on SO, it would probably have cost me my C# and .NET badges. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T19:55:36.047" />
  <row Id="9662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T22:17:56.143" Score="39" ViewCount="1028" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same error message is shown if a user (without sufficient rep) tries to add one tag or several:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i25.tinypic.com/ff2069.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131494" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T03:03:54.043" LastActivityDate="2011-03-19T10:37:11.330" Title="New users can't create new tags: show a singular or plural message?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;wording&gt;&lt;plurals&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="9663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9664" CreationDate="2009-07-25T22:26:47.037" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of seasoned developers temporarily become newbies when they are learning a new language, framework, etc...  Is stackoverflow an appropriate venue for newbish questions about a specific technology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I use the Drupal api to get a list of users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does php have a function to escape HTML entities?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132305" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T00:42:13.187" Title="Is SO appropriate for newbish question about a specific technology?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="9664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9663" CreationDate="2009-07-25T22:30:05.147" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolutely!&lt;/strong&gt; Just do some basic searching to make sure that your question isn't a duplicate, and you'll be fine. One of the goals of StackOverflow was to become a repository of any programming question someone might have, no matter how simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;From the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programming questions, of course! As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. &lt;strong&gt;No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;see also:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3251/closing-easy-questions-yes-or-no&quot;&gt;Closing ‘easy’ questions - yes or no?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3521/should-easy-questions-be-left-for-beginners-ie-beginners-like-answering-question&quot;&gt;Should easy questions be left for Beginners? IE Beginners like answering questions too!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T22:24:55.597" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T22:24:55.597" />
  <row Id="9665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-25T22:30:14.537" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't increase the penalty-points per downvote. Instead consider using one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;increase &lt;em&gt;incrementally&lt;/em&gt; the penalty-points per &lt;em&gt;consecutive&lt;/em&gt; downvotes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 downvotes received one after the other causes the weight of the penalty-points carried by the 2nd downvote to &lt;em&gt;increment by say &lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. 3) and so forth. This increment gets reset to &lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt; whenever an upvote is received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;increase &lt;em&gt;incrementally&lt;/em&gt; the penalty-points per downvote based on total number of downvotes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 9 (total, not consecutive) downvotes are received then the following downvotes would each carry an incremented weight of say &lt;strong&gt;+10&lt;/strong&gt; (or whatever) penalty-points, which will again be incremented by &lt;strong&gt;+10&lt;/strong&gt; on reaching &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;100&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes and so forth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also be applied to serial downvoters. The more they downvote (either consecutively or in total or a combination thereof), the heavier the penalty-points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also have to keep in mind the total points each user already possesses, as it would really hurt newcomers to be hit by a tsunami of downvoters. Maybe a little red pop-up box could remind them that when they withdrew their answer/response, the weight of the negative points would be withdrawn as well. This way they can keep the answer up until they get sufficient explanation via comments as to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; their answer was considered incorrect or inappropriate. Then they can defend their answer, or edit their answer to clear up any misunderstandings, or just delete it (and put in a new answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131391" LastEditorUserId="131391" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-25T22:36:17.263" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T22:36:17.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T22:46:31.587" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4991/pagination-for-type-to-find-users-results-does-not-work&quot;&gt;Pagination for &amp;lsquo;Type to find users&amp;rsquo; results does not work&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag search page&lt;/a&gt;, text entered into the &quot;Type to find tags:&quot; search box is retained if you click on a tag in the search result set, then click your browser's back button, but the search result set itself is reset to the default set (most popular tags).  Retyping the last letter of the search text will rebuild the filter.  For a consistent user experience, either the search box should be cleared out upon revisiting the tag search page, or the matching result set should be reloaded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:55:28.460" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:55:28.460" ClosedDate="2009-07-31T07:55:19.600" Title="Tag search state retention inconsistency" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;trivial&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9490" CreationDate="2009-07-25T22:56:37.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7436/what-should-sos-motto-be/7438#7438&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;: The first rule of StackOverflow is you do not talk about StackOverflow (you talk about Stack Overflow on Meta StackOverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it depends on how your &quot;fun&quot; question is perceived. They may migrate your &quot;fun&quot; question based on some criteria shared by two or more hi-reps, but hey, so long as your question isn't closed let them stick it in whichever overflow they want. Just have fun wherever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131391" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T22:56:37.597" />
  <row Id="9670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9652" CreationDate="2009-07-25T23:38:53.473" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linking a @name comment to a user profile would be mostly useless since the comment probably wasn't about the user in general, but references a comment/answer the user posted. So if anything the link should lead to this comment/answer. That's probably impossible to do reliably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the reference established is usually to a comment/answer right above the post, so it is easy to see the connection (and find the link to the user profile) by just looking at the surrounding context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-07-25T23:38:53.473" />
  <row Id="9672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-25T23:55:23.950" Score="5" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you do a rep recalc, that should update effected users' profiles to show rep before, rep after, and the time of the recalc on the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T00:11:51.623" Title="Show changes from last rep recalc on the profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9500" CreationDate="2009-07-26T00:03:45.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're using Firefox, you can install my greasemonkey script that allows you to see and search all of your favorites, questions, and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7739/so-family-quick-reference-to-qs-as-and-favs&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7739/so-family-quick-reference-to-qs-as-and-favs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T00:03:45.517" />
  <row Id="9674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9672" CreationDate="2009-07-26T00:11:51.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't find that particularly useful. 'Rep before' doesn't exist anymore after the recalc. 'Rep after' is shown in the profile anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be useful is letting people know a recalc has been made on their accounts only, probably in the Recent tab, if only to reduce the surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a general recalc I think a notice on the blog would occur so again, no need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T00:11:51.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9642" CreationDate="2009-07-26T00:35:38.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chrome should render the checkmark (And other Unicode fine by default).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you have changed or installed some other foreign-language support that is messing it up. For example, if you have installed a font like Code2000, LastResort, UnicodeBMPFallback, or something, they may be getting used as the default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing to check is Chrome’s configured language settings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wrench-&gt;Options-&gt;Under the Hood tab-&gt;Change Font and Language Settings (under Web Content)-&gt;Languages tab&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check the list of languages you have in the list. As the note says, only install the languages you actually use regularly. I tried adding a bunch of languages and found that Unicode started showing up as boxes. By removing them I fixed it. (Make sure you keep at least one though, I found that Chrome would crash when I tried to remove them all.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Check the Fonts listed in the Fonts and Languages dialog. Make sure that the three classes of fonts are set to fonts that have Unicode characters (eg Times New Roman, Arial Unicode MS, and Courier New).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also check the default encoding; if it is set wrong, then the pages can be rendered incorrectly. See if setting it to UTF-8 (if it’s not already) fixes the problem—you can also try going to the badges page and changing the encoding dynamically by going to &lt;strong&gt;Page-&gt;Encoding&lt;/strong&gt;. See if Auto Detect is checked. Try Western and Unicode to see which one gets the checkmarks right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it still doesn’t work, then go to a page that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5FUnicode%5Fcharacters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;displays Unicode characters&lt;/a&gt; to figure out whether it is the page encoding, selected font, page, or browser settings. That page has the checkmarks (search for 2713), then you can check—no pun intended—if it is only that glyph or block, or what that is incorrect. This way you can narrow down the cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131979" LastEditorUserId="131979" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T13:14:44.007" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:14:44.007" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9677" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T02:48:45.273" Score="6" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every day, people post questions on Stack Overflow that need migration to SF, SU, or meta (which, by the way, sucks since a lot of those people don't have access to SU yet). People seem to have a tendency to downvote these questions, even if it isn't necessarily a &quot;bad&quot; question (which is when downvotes are sanctioned, correct?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130945" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:15:00.750" Title="Why is it accepted practice to downvote questions needing migration?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9677" CreationDate="2009-07-26T02:49:56.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone has access to SU if they want it, but I see your point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it sucks when people are downvoting and voting to close at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T02:49:56.453" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9677" CreationDate="2009-07-26T03:06:52.547" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Naw, man... you got it all wrong!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not accepted practice to down-vote OT questions. Some people just don't care for them, and some people down-vote things they don't like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best thing to do is, kick off the migration as quickly as possible: once the question is moved, it's locked and can't be voted on anymore...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T03:06:52.547" />
  <row Id="9680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9677" CreationDate="2009-07-26T04:01:56.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is kind of a punishment for not asking the question in the right place to begin with.  (Not saying I necessarily agree with it, depending on the circumstances.)  With the kinds of subjective/discussion questions that belong on Meta, in particular, I think people still have the gut reaction to downvote those things into oblivion, forgetting that there actually is a place for them now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T04:08:17.850" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T04:08:17.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9683" CreationDate="2009-07-26T04:17:46.570" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I love SO.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But, how can someone know how old a question is if the year is missing from all the dates?  It seems important to know how old a question is.  Am I missing it somehow? Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T07:38:52.593" Title="Year missing from post dates" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9681" CreationDate="2009-07-26T04:19:37.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO hasn't been around for a year yet. When it has been, the year will be visible in the dates. (It's actually already there in the mouseover text.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1306/add-year-to-question-and-answer-dates&quot;&gt;Add year to question and answer dates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T04:34:47.590" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T04:34:47.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9652" CreationDate="2009-07-26T04:35:42.393" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;@ID&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;@[ID}&lt;/code&gt; are good suggestions but even with non-unique names you should be able to do &lt;code&gt;@Name&lt;/code&gt; and get an auto-complete dropdown with users to select the one you want, much like the tag auto-complete drop down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T04:35:42.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50238" CreationDate="2009-07-26T05:40:56.360" Score="26" ViewCount="6500" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strongly related&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9050/how-do-we-deal-with-octuplicate-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9050/how-do-we-deal-with-octuplicate-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a question about how to deal with duplicates, it's a simple &quot;meta&quot; question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the most rampant duplicate on Stack Overflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The particular duplicate must be &quot;alive&quot; on Stack Overflow (not merged or closed duplicate) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The duplicateness must be pretty unquestionable. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a duplicate of score &lt;s&gt;2&lt;/s&gt; 1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227662/what-is-the-best-editor-or-ide-for-ruby-development&lt;/s&gt; merged ;-p&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/59968/best-editor-for-ruby&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/59968/best-editor-for-ruby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are both so close that it makes little sense to have separate questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, score 2 is pretty uninsteresting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The rationale of this question is to find the duplicates so we can get the administrators to merge them. It is also to find better ways to find dupes in the first place, and perhaps turn finding duplicates into a game.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-07T15:54:28.230" LastActivityDate="2011-04-07T15:54:28.230" Title="What is the most rampant duplicate on Stack Exchange sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="9688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9686" CreationDate="2009-07-26T06:04:13.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=learn+programming&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=learn+programming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a duplicate score too high to count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T06:04:13.390" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-26T06:31:02.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-07-26T06:55:28.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He makes sure that new questions on Stackoverflow appear on the first page of Google thirty minutes &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they have been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131975" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T06:55:28.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-26T06:55:28.340" />
  <row Id="9690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6044" CreationDate="2009-07-26T07:14:16.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep restriction on this is obviously pretty sensible, but the other two aren't really imo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are used to be seeing the accepted answer at the top of the answers. Regardless of who the author is the right answers should be presented first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time restriction doesn't make much sense either, there's nothing to gain from posting and accepting your own answer straight away, in fact I'd probably down vote a question if I thought this was being done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/45463/pxe-boot-linux-server-openbsd-client/45577#45577&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; where I've put up a solution to the original problem as the answer a few hours later I don't see why it can't be immediatly marked as accepted, and placed at the top of the answers list for anyone else who reads it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130790" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T07:14:16.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9681" CreationDate="2009-07-26T07:38:52.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it is implemented but dormant in the code until dates are &gt;= 360 days from the original dates.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T07:38:52.593" />
  <row Id="9692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-07-26T07:43:36.417" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Googled&lt;/strong&gt;, for when N one's answers / one's questions appear as first in Google search results ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just kiding&lt;/em&gt;.  I think while it is a nice concept, it would be too hard to implement: first one would have to decide how to detect 'first result in Google search', and second decide what search query to use (whole question title?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T07:43:36.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-26T07:43:36.417" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9498" CreationDate="2009-07-26T07:51:58.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect you might be using an image host that is testing the browser's referrer and refusing to render the image if the referrer is not from the same domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I moved the image to ImageShack and it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the other thing to watch out for here is URLs with &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; - and _ in the filename. The Markdown server-side parser really doesn't like that. Didn't see it here though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T07:51:58.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9662" CreationDate="2009-07-26T07:53:49.880" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant S&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not you. I like you. You're nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-19T10:37:11.330" LastActivityDate="2011-03-19T10:37:11.330" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="9696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9102" CreationDate="2009-07-26T08:06:16.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assuming&lt;/strong&gt; that you asked the question as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4241/mmcglynn&quot;&gt;same account&lt;/a&gt;... there are no deleted questions against your account; therefore, the most logical explanation is that your question was &lt;strong&gt;merged&lt;/strong&gt; with another (very similar) question. Currently, merged questions leave no traces... which is unfortunate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Jeff: this raises the point; should a merge perhaps leave a place-holder, like &lt;em&gt;migrate&lt;/em&gt; does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other option I can think is that the submit button failed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that we can investigate properly... a &quot;roughly when&quot; and a &quot;roughly what&quot; would be hugely useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T08:49:24.457" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T08:49:24.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9686" CreationDate="2009-07-26T08:50:39.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Concatenate row values into a single column is fairly common for SQL Server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Concatenate+row+%5BSQL-Server%5D&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Concatenate+row+%5BSQL-Server%5D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T08:50:39.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9459" CreationDate="2009-07-26T09:36:27.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is sort of wrong, as c++ should be used as a tag. wontfix because we will be auto-converting any search terms that are high-count tags, into tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c++ someunknownterm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we will convert it for you to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[c++] someunknownterm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T09:36:27.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:37:06.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to figure it out on my own, try a few different things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google is always the first place to look. Make sure to use the language name when searching. &quot;Cocoa NSString Pointer&quot; Will give you better results than &quot;NSString pointer&quot;. Try to avoid actually asking the search engine a question. It isn't a human. Give it a few words about what you're looking for &quot;NSString Cocoa Error Pointer Objective-C&quot;. That might be overkill, but it's only to make sure you get the idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh man I just found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.googleguide.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, and it's more than you'll ever want to know in the art of Google-Fu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases Google links me to Apple's awesome Dev books, but there are quite a few good cocoa resources. I never restrict myself to just one, I always google and open each one in a new tab and go through each. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to avoid bothering fellow coders at all costs, they're usually busy, and people notice that the only time you talk to them is when you have a code problem. I tend to fall back on my coding buddies when I need something explained to me, like &quot;what is the purpose of doing it this way over that way?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching SO is always a good idea, but only after you've done the above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132316" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:37:06.600" />
  <row Id="9700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9677" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:37:31.033" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not accepted practice, but it is quite common, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A commentator on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9677/why-is-it-accepted-practice-to-downvote-questions-needing-migration/9680#9680&quot;&gt;Kip's answer&lt;/a&gt; mentions that the people asking questions in the wrong place (i.e. So instead of SF) obviously didn't read the FAQ. I understand this as saying that not having read the FAQ is grounds for downvoting, basically as a punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I completely disagree with that point of view.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I think we should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; downvote questions that are candidates for migration, because that sort of behaviour is disruptive and counterproductive. Only in very exceptional cases is a downvote justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to encourage the right behaviour, you should point people in the right direction and give them a little nudge (by voting to migrate the question, and leaving a comment saying &lt;em&gt;please read the FAQ&lt;/em&gt;, for example). Downvoting as a punishment does not entice the desired behaviour, in the contrary. People will feel offended and may even react with disruptive behaviour (starting a flame war, spamming the site with OT questions,  aquiring a little reputation so they can leave mean comments, or downvote randomly). We don't want newcomers to go away feeling that &lt;em&gt;SO sucks, you know, the people there are really narrow minded&lt;/em&gt;. We want them to stay and become valuable members of the community. Only people who don't want to become one of those members should be encouraged to stay away from the site.&#xA;In my opinion the downvote on a question should be reserved to those cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:37:31.033" />
  <row Id="9701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9702" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:38:45.187" Score="0" ViewCount="1116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a question with some answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/298708/debugging-with-command-line-parameters-in-visual-studio&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/298708/debugging-with-command-line-parameters-in-visual-studio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to ask Lou Franco for clarification of his answer, by commenting on his answer. But I can't comment -- no option for that on any of the answers to this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how should I get the clarification of an answer if I can't comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:42:28.113" Title="Why can't I comment on this answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="9702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9701" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:40:53.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you need &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;50 rep to leave comments on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;rep thresholds on meta.stackoverflow are different.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8331" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:40:53.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9701" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:42:28.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to pass a certain (50) threshold of reputation before you can comment..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31472" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:42:28.113" />
  <row Id="9704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4933" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:43:26.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an excellent idea. All the counter advice above is based on fringe problems that can be solved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like back at high school, the final note was the only thing that counted but what would have been a lot more interesting to see what is similar to &quot;Power&quot; in Physics: Power = Work / Time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if someone made a very good mark but had to put a lot of effort into it, it would be less valuable that someone who had a less good mark but took a lot less time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this measure as of today, Marc Gravell would &quot;lead&quot; SO over Jon Skeet by 19 to 17 :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I think this measure is even more important than the reputation, because it is not absolute but relative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only relative measures allow to compare...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I think it's at least fun to check so I installed the bookmarklet from Alan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130848" LastEditorUserId="130848" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T11:26:18.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T11:26:18.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9686" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:52:36.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is quite &quot;rampant&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1082555/best-java-7-features&quot;&gt;Best Java 7 features&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214289/what-new-features-in-java-7-do-you-find-most-useful&quot;&gt;What new features in java 7 do you find most useful?&lt;/a&gt; (posted 9 months earlier), very close to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/460938/what-are-you-looking-forward-to-in-java-7&quot;&gt;What are you looking forward to in Java 7?&lt;/a&gt; (6 months earlier), and somewhat close to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java7&quot;&gt;many others&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What also springs to mind are the &lt;em&gt;countless&lt;/em&gt; variations on the theme &quot;What is the best Python (web) framework?&quot;, with ever so subtle differences in emphasis and formulation. (Right now I'm not delving too deep into those, but take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+frameworks&quot;&gt;python+frameworks&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+framework&quot;&gt;python+framework&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web-frameworks+python&quot;&gt;python+web-frameworks&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:52:36.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9050" CreationDate="2009-07-26T10:55:31.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These questions should all be &lt;strong&gt;tagged appropriately&lt;/strong&gt; so they come up together in the related questions sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said before, people will ask the same questions using zero words in common. We need duplicates -- &lt;strong&gt;linked through topic specific tags&lt;/strong&gt;  -- so they're findable depending on which of the 5 different ways of asking is the way you will happen to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T10:55:31.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:00:14.033" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every question I ask offers me the chance to designate it &quot;community wiki&quot;. I do not because I don't know what &quot;community wiki&quot; is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see that there is &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of discussion on whether &quot;community wiki&quot; should exist, and if so, how to use it properly. I do not want to get into that discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; like to know what the official (if hotly argued) explanation of &quot;commmunity wiki&quot; is. Is there a link to it somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T11:21:20.777" Title="Where is the explanation of what &quot;community wiki&quot; is?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:01:25.667" Score="-8" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4012/is-the-down-voting-most-all-answers-that-arent-yours-pattern-considered-harm&quot;&gt;question 4012&lt;/a&gt;, Trey Jackson asks about the practice of casting down votes for all questions that are not your own. His question lead me to wonder about the current policy of allowing only one vote per answer. Instead of allowing only one vote, why not allow multiple votes with increasing cost? The nth time a user votes for an answer, whether up or down, it will cost m^(n-1) rep, where m is the number of other answers available at the time of the vote. (Or some other cost function). Using an exponential cost function will prevent high-rep users from becoming too strong, but this does give the high-rep user the ability to promote answers that are better (in their judgment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that I believe the first vote should be free, whereas m^(n-1) makes the first vote cost 1 rep; tweak as necessary, either by limiting the range or subtracting 1.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132207" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-20T05:36:42.267" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T05:36:42.267" Title="Allow users to cast multiple votes with increasing cost" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:08:48.037" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have considered adding an interstitial page, for &amp;lt; 100 rep users, that they will see after clicking the &quot;Ask Your Question&quot; button on the /ask page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post-ask interstitial page would contain a more comprehensive search for duplicate questions based on the title, body, and tags. The new user would have to scroll down and click &quot;yes, I still want to ask this question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I do wonder if users might perversely want to click through &lt;em&gt;regardless&lt;/em&gt; of duplicate status, as at that point, they've invested all the effort in writing their question and tagging it..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now the ask page only searches on title, which some people seem to think is the greatest and most miraculous thing since sliced bread.. but I find it lacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now deployed, and enabled on Stack Overflow only. All new users (rep &amp;lt;= 10) get this mandatory advice page ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask-advice&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask-advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... when they attempt to ask a question via &lt;code&gt;questions/ask&lt;/code&gt;. At the top of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Do your homework&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thoroughly searched for an answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; before asking your question? Sharing your research helps everyone. Tell us what you found and why it didn't meet your needs. This demonstrates that you've taken the time to try to help yourself, it saves us from reiterating obvious answers, and most of all it helps you get a more specific and relevant answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T06:03:08.753" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T06:03:08.753" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:12:26.810" Score="3" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;The emails I receive from SO to notify me about answers are being marked as spam by my hosting provider. I cannot change the settings of the spamfilter and turning it off also seems like a bit too much...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the headers added by SpamAssassin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on &amp;lt;hostname&amp;gt;&#xA;X-Spam-Level: ******&#xA;X-Spam-Flag: YES&#xA;X-Spam-Report: &#xA;    *  3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100%&#xA;    *      [score: 1.0000]&#xA;    *  1.5 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts&#xA;    *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message&#xA;    *  1.4 MIME_QP_LONG_LINE RAW: Quoted-printable line longer than 76 chars&#xA;    *  0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS&#xA;X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=6.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,HTML_MESSAGE,&#xA;    MIME_HTML_ONLY,MIME_QP_LONG_LINE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything I can do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122661" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T03:26:45.620" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:47:29.427" Title="Why is email from SO marked as spam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;spamassassin&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9711" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:17:22.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tell SpamAssissin that the e-mails aren't spam ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though from the header information it seems that the HTML content and long line length are significant problems. If this e-mail contained code then there's probably nothing that Jeff can do to prevent the long line length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding the sender to SpamAssissin's white list is probably the simplest thing to do and the one that's guaranteed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T11:17:22.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9708" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:21:20.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with many things in SO, the mouseover tooltip explains...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2600/communitywikimouseovert.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community owned posts do not generate any reputation for the owner, have a lower reputation barrier for collaborative editing, and show only a revision history instead of a signature block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T11:21:20.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:23:12.137" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got hammered for asking a duplicate question: an introduction to the less pleasant side of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it never even occurred to me to perform a search first.  I wonder if it's a design issue? Looking at the site now (through Chrome) the search box is virtually invisible.  You have all of these nice, big, attention-grabbing buttons and tucked away in the corner is a little box of which two of the borders aren't even visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about grouping &lt;strong&gt;Search&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Ask Question&lt;/strong&gt; together, separated from the rest by clear space, giving the Search word the same style and prominence as Ask Question, in such a way that you're led to do Search first, then Ask a Question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132318" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T11:23:12.137" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T11:44:36.593" Score="2" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just spent quite a while writing an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1184059/how-to-write-log-to-windows-log-file-and-how-to-open-it/1184230#1184230&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;.  Within mins it'd been downvoted and the downvoter didn't leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still quite new to SO and still working out the rules.  I guess I've done something wrong - can anyone elaborate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132318" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T12:43:31.863" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T14:21:44.180" Title="What did I do wrong in this answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9717" CreationDate="2009-07-26T12:04:10.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any real problems here. Certainly, there's nothing there that would cause &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; to downvote you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the downvoter is frightened of XML. There's certainly a lot of XML configuration there. I know Enterprise Library, and am not offended by XML, so it's no big deal to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to replace the XML with a screen shot of the graphical editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T12:04:10.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9717" CreationDate="2009-07-26T12:10:37.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why you got downvoted (I'm an ignoramus on the topic you posted about). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I can say is that your answer was verbose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31472" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T12:10:37.550" />
  <row Id="9720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9717" CreationDate="2009-07-26T12:55:57.530" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't take down voting too personally.  Sometimes there is something wrong with the and people will down vote it because of that.  Other times, it may be because someone doesn't understand what you are saying and down votes too quickly or just disagrees with an approach you took.  There are other times when someone just wants to see their answer above other people and will down vote you to put below them.  If I had to guess if was probably the second one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Briefly looking at it, it looks like the answer is through and complete.  Simply put, if you try and figure out the reason why one of your question gets down voted every time, you are going to drive yourself nuts.  You just have to accept the fact that some people like punishing others for no apparent reason.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T12:55:57.530" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9709" CreationDate="2009-07-26T12:59:07.603" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should keep it at one vote per answer.  By doing that, everyone has an equal say and answers that are up/down voted are voted on by the community and not just someone with rep to spend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T12:59:07.603" />
  <row Id="9722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T13:11:44.477" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3657/can-an-unescaped-underscore-be-included-in-a-link&quot;&gt;Can an unescaped underscore (_) be included in a link?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to get answer to my question because &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/13154/unable-to-understand-bloggers-error-message&quot;&gt;some users including me have had problems in links from Question-body at SO-family&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:11:44.477" ClosedDate="2009-07-26T13:27:27.517" Title="How do you render links in comments and links in Question-body?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="9723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9677" CreationDate="2009-07-26T13:17:49.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of it depends on what Rep you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a question on StackOverflow titled: &quot;My iPod won't charge - help me ASAP!&quot; then I would vote to port it over to SuperUser (because I have enough Rep that I can) but for many, many StackOverflow users they don't have enough Rep to do this (yet) thus all they can do is down vote the question to show that the question doesn't belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:17:49.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9717" CreationDate="2009-07-26T13:26:41.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One reason &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be that people thought you were not really aswering the question. I noticed this a few times with questions that were not formulated very well. This can lead to different understandings of what the OP wants, and subsequently to a disagreement on the usefulness of your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something else can cause confusion in such a case (which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the case in the question you are referring to): Edits to the question, in an attempt to clarify it. I have given answers to questions that asked for specific things, later someone edited the question and used other terms to describe what was asked for, which made my answer look completely off topic. There's not really much you can do about it. Except, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9717/what-did-i-do-wrong-in-this-answer/9720#9720&quot;&gt;as Kevin points out&lt;/a&gt;, not to care too much about the downvote ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:26:41.920" />
  <row Id="9726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T06:41:53.727" Score="41" ViewCount="895" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does Stack Overflow work so well with search engines? It's really amazing--if I post a question, within 15-30 minutes it'll show up in Google's search results!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the tricks? &lt;code&gt;sitemap.xml&lt;/code&gt;? Or, any other good methods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help me, and others too, if anyone knows a good technique/method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(wowo !!! this question show up in Google with in 45 minutes )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110976" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T05:50:50.847" Title="How does Stack Overflow work so well with search engines?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;seo&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;&lt;search-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="9727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9726" CreationDate="2009-07-26T06:46:51.970" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe they don't do anything specific. Instead, they managed to get into a list of high-ranked relevant sites which get polled by Google frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131292" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:37:47.073" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="9728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9726" CreationDate="2009-07-26T07:10:26.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best things you can do are to keep your website relevant, simple, and neat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you see a list of meta-tagged keywords in this website's source? Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the website visually. It's easy to read, easy to understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the website's code, it's just as easy to read and understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feeds also help, there's one for every question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132316" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:37:47.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9726" CreationDate="2009-07-26T13:36:53.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google makes use of atom/rss feeds. It polls them frequently to find new material. Google throttles their bandwidth spent per day spidering sites, so you benefit from telling google as much as possible with as few bytes as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, almost every page has an link rel=alternate feed url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145131" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:37:47.073" />
  <row Id="9730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9781" CreationDate="2009-07-26T13:48:19.493" Score="18" ViewCount="1063" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please forgive my lame, fastest gun in the west analogy.  I am easily amused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the fire hose, sequence of domestic responsibilities that is my Sunday night, I occasionally employ some extreme contorsionism to hit F5 on the kitchen table laptop.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1184394/newbie-php-question-pagination/1184403#1184403&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that so cries out for an answer that I am compelled to temporarily put aside whatever it is that is currently demanding my attention and reach for my six shooter (so to speak).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The query in this case is so obviously trivial that I know there will certainly be other denizens of Stack Overflow who have similarly upset dinner plates, knocked spouses to the ground and trampled small children to reach their keyboards.  I can almost hear the theme music to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fistful of dollars&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite having implemented this particular wheel more times than I care to remember, I don't share my &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Horn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;namesake's&lt;/a&gt; alacrity and sure enough as I am putting the finishing touches on my answer I see that orange alert window of doom descend, crushing my hopes of claiming this particular low hanging fruit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to my question.  In this particular scenario, when you know the first, second, third ... answer will almost certainly be a perfectly correct, do you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pretend not to see your opponent draw and fire, and push submit regardless.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bow out with your dignity intact.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or in my case, hit submit, rejoin the domestic fray and then (elbowing F5 five minutes later) discover that you made an obvious logic error in your answer and go and hide in a nearby watering trough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would love to hear your thoughts and hoping that I am not alone in this particularly humiliating result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastEditorUserId="73488" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T12:59:58.590" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T18:38:48.790" Title="Reach for your six shooter, or reach for the sky?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:12:49.843" Score="355" ViewCount="3776" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then descending time of posting. This means that if a person sits down and answers a question in a long, thorough way, going through every nook and cranny, once they post their answer, it will already be one of about seven different ones, some of which have already been upmodded. This wouldn't be a problem if those answers were as thorough as the one this guy's posting, but they usually aren't. Some of them are downright wrong, some aren't even answers to the question asked because their poster didn't bother to &lt;strong&gt;read the question all the way through&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This causes a problem I like to call &lt;em&gt;Stack Overflow's Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/em&gt;. I've come to a point where I'd rather just send a short, simple, correct explanation, than to go and do some proper research, write a whole blog post about it or even make sure the code I post even compiles, just so it will be noticed, as opposed to the incorrect ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I'm not the only one doing this and that it despairs many people from even trying to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've long ago learned to try to always raise a problem with a solution in hand, rather than just say &quot;This is a problem, handle it,&quot; so my question, after this long tirade, is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you think this can be changed? What would you change in Stack Overflow to make this problem go away without hurting the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I promise to vote on answers I like, even if it takes you a long while to post them. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132257" LastEditorUserId="165502" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-10T08:40:22.823" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T08:44:38.547" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-11T12:41:06.693" Title="Fastest Gun in the West Problem" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="48" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="35" />
  <row Id="9732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:18:06.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First Post!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only kidding - It's an interesting question.  I think it's got to be down to the community to a large extent - and to the question owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the question owner should be given more power to change the order of answers to a greater degree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem with that is that a lot of people asking questions will be 'drive-by' users, just wanting a quick answer to their problem.  They're not the sort of user who will hang around to collate and manage responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133171" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:20:16.097" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this site has to become more like a wiki where many people add small contributions to existing answers instead of creating their own new answer. Unfortunately the reputation system as it is now doesn't really encourage this yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand from listening to the podcast that this is the direction the creators of stackoverflow want to go too. Planned features like making questions and answers comunity editable would be a big step in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:22:40.320" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree to a point, although I have to guess that the site has not even come close to settling down. Users are still in a mad panic, scrabbling for reputation points and badges of any shade - what you are describing is bound to happen... initially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will calm down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I've noticed a pleasant tendency for people to vote for the &lt;strong&gt;actual&lt;/strong&gt; best answer, &lt;em&gt;most of the time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite all the bilge posts, it seems &lt;strong&gt;the cream does often rise to the top&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:27:12.447" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, and fully admit to being guilty of this myself, on occasion. I have, thankfully, seen such 'answers' being modded down, but the level of this occurring varies hugely from question to question - some 'bad' answers are fairly quickly modded down, others are left, possibly, indefinitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the point about wiki-editing is significant. If the barrier was much lower, we'd get better quality answers, and people would also be less keen to run around, scrabbling for rep. I think Jeff's reservations about this are slightly too great - wikipedia has proven to work without such draconian restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it would help a lot if up-voting also cost, just like down-voting does. Currently, there is nothing to discourage people from rushing around, blindly up-voting everything they come across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: I wonder if there should be a limit - either time, or number of views / votes / answers - before answers can be voted on at all ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: To clarify the delay concept: this would only apply to answers (but &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers), and could either be a 'reasonable' time to mask 'first posts' (e.g. 10 minutes), or could be dynamic based on number of answers, number of views, etc. &quot;InSciTek Jeff&quot; had a great idea relating to 'blind' votes (see question comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:30:34.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree too. I've done the same thing. Been waiting for a page to load so I can verify what I'm writing, but it's taking too long so I just post without the verification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does reduce the effectiveness of the site I think. Rather than have a few well written responses, you end up with 10 short half-baked answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how you'd fix this - what about a delay between the time you post? So it's not like you're all rushing to answer the question, because if there is a 30 minute delay before the post is viewed, you can safely assume someone else will have already answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="986" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:39:44.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree. The pattern of a lot of questions and answers almost appear to look like reputation trading rather than providing quality information. Obviously this is an annectdotal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system does appear to reward incomplete but quick answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:46:48.607" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a time buffer is a solution, but the buffer should, instead of buffer the appearance time of the answers, decide when people can vote. Answers will appear as they are being written, but votes can be issued after a half hour or ten minutes, whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you won't be upvoted in that period of time you know you can take 10 minutes or a half hour to prepare the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The saddest part of it all is: What is reputation actually good for? I mean, besides a little ego trip? I'm as guilty as the next guy, but it's still sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:55:13.860" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A related problem is the fact that when a question already had 10+ answers, an answer with new information given at this time tends to get lost in the clutter in the bottom and not get the exposure it deserves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possibility would be to position an answer based on both its rating and its &quot;age&quot; (for lack of a better word), giving recent but already voted answers a place before older answers with a similar rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5409" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:59:19.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what I have noticed, and tried as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put a one liner real quick, and then edit the answer and add more details. But this is not a solution to the problem. Once again, the only reason i would do this is because if I am spending time to put out a well constructed answer, I would like it to be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a solution the (programmer's) mind suggests that you should take a token to begin an answer, and then the answers are posted in the order the token was taken regardless of who submits first. Of course, there can be many problems around this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135259" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T09:59:27.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that it works fairly well as it is. Using the default sort of newest first, the long thorough answer will show up first for the answers with the same vote. I do think that the 'best' answer will in most cases end up at the top of the list. If a user browsing the site really care about finding a good solution to a problem then they will look at all the answers and vote up the one(s) that prove useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T10:04:21.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another possibility that might help is to give users a better view into what changed recently around their votes. I haven't yet found a good way to see all Q&amp;amp;As I voted on that have changed. Having that, it'd be easier to review one's votes, which in turn might lead to long-term improvements in vote quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T10:06:16.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well.. Good answers will rise up. So dont worry, post a helpful answer that doesnt exceed half a page. Instead of read this or link to that, be objective and comprehensive. &lt;strong&gt;Also the first/last line (bold) AFAPossible should be the direct answer to the OP's question.&lt;/strong&gt; These kind of answers will be rewarded with votes.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As for not reading all the way down... Well its your loss if you don't read all the answers to find the gem. But someone else definitely will.. So post and help away&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hey I made my first 1000 ... post! post! post! just kidding... 'The work is its own reward' as Jeff likes to quote. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T10:18:42.040" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that could &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; help in this case would be to force the &quot;Oldest&quot; sorting mode for the question owner so he goes through all the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5049" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T10:36:22.687" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed myself reacting to this too, although I try to mitigate against it as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes try and post a &lt;strong&gt;short correct answer&lt;/strong&gt; as quickly as possible to kind of &quot;mark&quot; the question with my answer to discourage other similar answers. I then I would &lt;strong&gt;edit my answer to improve it&lt;/strong&gt;, using the 5 minutes grace period to edit without it appearing as an edit (although I'll still carry on editing after then if I can improve it, I just use the grace period to edit without worrying about writing edit descriptions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, if I find someone has answered the question while I was writing my answer, and I don't feel my answer adds anything, then I've &lt;strong&gt;deleted my answer&lt;/strong&gt; on occasion, although if I provide a link and the previous answer doesn't I'd leave mine. Once I can edit I'd be inclined to remove my answer and add the link to the other answer. Since comments were added I've also been adding to answers by commenting on them, again, once I've got edit rights I might edit directly for simple improvements (adding links, spelling, grammar, formatting, etc.) and just use comments for actual comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also learned a few of the &lt;strong&gt;keyboard shortcuts&lt;/strong&gt; for the edit box (hover over the buttons to see them on the tooltips.) The shortcut I use the most is CTRL+L to add a link to selected text. That makes it much quicker to write a quick answer with a few useful links in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also taken the attitude that there is also a &lt;strong&gt;long game&lt;/strong&gt; to be played. If you can provide a better answer then the initial rush of points that the first answers got is possibly just the &lt;strong&gt;tip of the iceberg&lt;/strong&gt; and there's probably much more points &quot;underwater&quot; to be made once the site is indexed by Google and we start finding answers to questions in Google search results. (although the fact that new users can't vote straight away - you need +15 rep to upvote - might mitigate against this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: for a really good description of how the long game will play out and why the fastest gun answers aren't a problem see &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56103#56557&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adam Davis' Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-10T08:44:38.547" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T08:44:38.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T10:53:56.620" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could let old answers &quot;fade away&quot;, unless someone votes on them and they are not one of the top n answers. Hacker News uses this technique to gray out downvoted comments so you can ignore the bad answers and focus on the good ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I guess the better way would be to change the culture of SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you ask a question, you should &lt;strong&gt;own the answering process&lt;/strong&gt;. Vote, comment and clarify heavy on the answers. People will see that you care and keep answering even on older questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a reader, use voting more deliberately. Especially &lt;strong&gt;the downvote-button is useful&lt;/strong&gt; to push new answers above inaccurate old ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too many rules are confusing and rarely the solution to more than one specific problem. Provide a &lt;strong&gt;framework with few, simple rules&lt;/strong&gt; and let the community do the rest.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know: if we don't have all these safeguards in place, the barbarians will burn down the town, once we open up the gates. But a lot of the rules are there to make things nicer, not safer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155058" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T11:13:13.347" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it works ok the way it is. What is the problem of 10 short answers BEFORE yours if yours is good? In the end, people will hopefully vote yours up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of my mind a few things thay may help are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker may have the ability to &quot;hide&quot; certain useless answers, or the ability to MERGE two (or more) answers into one single text, making it easier for the reader to follow the answers. Like &quot;The Answer&quot; is conformed with text from answer1,2,3,4 and 5. Preserving the author's name for each &quot;part&quot; of &quot;The Answer&quot;. (Sorta like SVN Blame) ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sort of visual cue indicators that &quot;help&quot; the reader to see that there are &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; good answers &quot;below&quot;. And stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe all this makes no sense at all. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2684" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T11:41:40.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The central problem here is that while there might be several answers to a given question, in an ideal world there would only be one representative of each answer, rather than a whole muddle of similar duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously we want our answer to be that representative. Our fear is that if we spend too long composing the definitive response someone else will get there first - and if they 'win' they'll get the rep (and, of course, the rep will be going to another answer that can't be as good as ours). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the ideal of good answers rising, but what we actually need here is probably some concept of answer merging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably not for the questioner to make the decision, they can accept an answer but there should be some mechanism for respondees to be able to merge another's answer into theirs and the product would be owned by the community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T11:50:38.263" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many comments here refer to the &lt;em&gt;wiki&lt;/em&gt;fication of the answering process: Merging comments, editing each other's comments, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I see it, we're talking about two different types of sites here: Collaborative and Competitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;strong&gt;Collaborative&lt;/strong&gt; site is one where the strive is to reach the correct answer for the sake of the correct answer, without regard for selfish advancement. Everyone selflessly adds input, comments on each other's input, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;strong&gt;Competitive&lt;/strong&gt; site is one in which each contributor's work is measured and compared to others'. This is the approach which brings more user involvement (who doesn't want another badge?), but has some other downsides to it too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is a competitive site, rewarding each of its members for their individual effort, so I'm looking for answers that go more along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't pretend to try and change the whole perspective of how the site operates to being a collaborative site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T11:53:49.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking about this problem for some time but didn't find good solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since reputation system exists people want to get some reward for their answers. As number of users growth, number of duplicate answers will grow as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the useful features would be a real-time update on question's answers while you're writing your own answer. It can be implemented in the same way as search, but &quot;search result&quot; should be updated every N seconds/minutes. That way I can clearly see that some one else post similar answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another feature that I find to be useful is merging - as @Unsliced suggested. There must be a way to merge similar answers. However it's not clear who should do it and how to divide reputation points between answering people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:04:53.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think SO is not &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; competitive. The competition is just an incentive to -in the end- provide a good (if not the best) source of information for programmers, written by programmers. The reputation feeds two things: you own ego and the confidence of the one who's reading an answer when it sees that it comes from a &quot;guy who's not a newbie in the site and knows what he's talking about&quot;. Ot at least, you could change all that quote to: &quot;a guy who has been hanging aroung &lt;strong&gt;a lot&lt;/strong&gt; of time in SO&quot;. (which doesn't mean he's good). Badges kind of help with that. You could have 10.000 rep points, and little good badges, or 1000 rep and a few silver…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, time will tell. I think that this is both competitive and collaborative with strong and weak points in each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2684" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:26:53.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could an answer's length be factored into the sorting algorithm somehow?  How about letting the reader choose how they want their answers sorted?  Much like I can go to Best Buy or Circuit City's sites and sort my search answers by brand, price, or alphabetically, I might be inclined to sort my answers descending by length if given the option... at least as a short-term experiment, although if I find the quality of answers to be better that way, I might just leave it like that forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134332" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:28:02.090" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56103/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem#56207&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;macbirdie&lt;/a&gt; is on to something.  I would recommend a slight enhancement, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for questions that have no answer marked as &quot;the answer&quot; by the question-asker, sort by &quot;oldest&quot; as the default&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for question that do have at least one answer marked as &quot;the answer,&quot; sort first by &quot;the-answer?&quot; then by &quot;votes&quot;, then by &quot;newest&quot; (the current scheme)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:28:38.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very valid problem, which I have been thinking a lot too. I have some ideas for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Redesign ranking functionality a bit. People can upvote (good ones can range from 1-10) or downvote (bad ones will always show as -1) but users will NOT be able to see their actual rep scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use only Badges (or Grades) for display. Ranking can be used internally to determine the badges but the user will never see his rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has a psychological effect. Instead of posting a quick reply and refreshing the screen for the rep points to shoot up, users will try to write a more useful and conservative reply with code samples and will know they will get more points in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow users who posted the question to only Accept the answer after a day. If you want to get too draconian, allow him to accept only after upvoting or downvoting all the existing answers. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To eliminate fastest gun replies, answers will show up only after 5 minutes. That way, even if 10 quick guns are composing replies and posting, all those answers will show up at the same time. This will negate people to post quick replies and allow them to think at least for 5 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:37:15.280" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following on from Omer's distinction between a &lt;strong&gt;Collaborative&lt;/strong&gt; site and a &lt;strong&gt;Competitive&lt;/strong&gt; site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would seem that we need the best of both worlds. There's nothing wrong with a bit of healthy competition so that people strive to produce timely, high quality answers. However, we don't want &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; answer to be lost between several people's contributions. Certainly marking answers up and down helps the good stuff filter through to the top, but if there's lots of good answers you really need a combined view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the question owner take on (at least initially) driving the collaborative element and start the 'wikificiation' process of combining the best bits of several answers into (drum roll) &lt;strong&gt;the answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question owner can do this today by adding another answer, but really it's an additional feature that should be put into the tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that most (90%?) of questions wouldn't need this extra step, but where there are several high quality answers having a single point that draws them together would be excellent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4003" LastEditorUserId="4003" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T11:01:21.550" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T11:01:21.550" />
  <row Id="9756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:52:55.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#56409&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mel&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have some interesting point. It will be nice to differentiate answers by &#xA;various criteria, not only by votes count. Length of the answer can matter for me. &#xA;Event if it's wrong, it serves as an indication that person spent some time thinking on his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when I browse through answers I'm interesting not only in &quot;common opinion&quot; &#xA;but in experts decision. I don't care how much &quot;reputation&quot; answered person has.&#xA;But I'm interested in his skill in given technology. For example there might be a little&#xA;statistics attached to answer - total votes, how much people with average&#xA;score per answer (with same\similar tags) &gt; N  voted, etc. Of course there might be a case when someone with tiny &quot;reputation&quot; provides best answer. But it's really a matter of statistics. Probability that quality of answer given by &quot;experts&quot; would be good is quite high.&#xA;I prefer to not see &quot;reputation&quot; of answering person. &#xA;In my opinion &quot;reputation&quot; doesn't matter, but specific skill does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T13:16:41.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in my experience on Stackoverflow my gut reaction to this issue was that it was a problem.  I also hadn't asked any questions at that time.  I soon changed my mind. I believe over time that the most correct answers do bubble up to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask the question I will be reading all the answers no matter what order they are in.  As someone looking for an answer I will most likely be doing the same thing.  To me what order they are in and how much they have been upvoted doesn't really matter if I need the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T13:43:20.130" Score="120" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I do &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; want to, in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; way, discourage the quick and dirty answer.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked questions that have received an &lt;em&gt;immediate&lt;/em&gt; answer with enough information to get me past my block, but not served on a platter as you propose, with all the information I might need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is extraordinarily helpful - I know I can post something on here, day or night, and get an answer within minutes, often seconds, that will be better than searching through books, online, etc, even though it's a throw-away post that took someone 35 seconds, who may have only answered for the reputation.  If it's at all helpful, I upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on I'll review my question again and select the answer that is what I consider the best of the bunch (I try and wait a day or so for long answers like you provide).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I DO NOT want to 'adjust' the system to discourage short quick answers, or make long thoughtful answers that come a day late so highly valued that no one posts the short ones anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at it from the perspective of what the site is supposed to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A long term repository of searchable, free, and freely editable information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the long run, it doesn't matter if the long, good answers don't get the initial rush of votes.  They will ultimately go to the top because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are generally few answers per question, so future searchers will read the entire post and may upvote the better answer.  The special case of the question with tons of answers is just that - a special case, and it will be gamed and mined for rep a dozen ways from Tuesday, so it's not worth fixing - it's less than 1% of total content - &lt;em&gt;don't design the system around the special case, or else all your cases will become special&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once someone posts a new answer, the post gets a new chance to be on the front page, which will entice some more people to see it that haven't - they'll upvote the good, long answer at the bottom of the page if they feel it's better than what was initially offered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The person who initially answered the question will often come back later and review it, and if your post is truly the better answer they'll select it as the new answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A key point, though, is that if someone is looking for the information later, they'll read all the answers unless it's obvious that the first one is good enough for their purposes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that completely guts your argument that it's important that the longer, complete answers should get a boost to the top, somehow.  The only reason left to complain about the tradeoff between short posting and long posting, then, is because you may not get as much of the initial rep as you would otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="145828" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-18T05:19:53.230" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T05:19:53.230" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="9759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T13:48:45.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#56557&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adam&lt;/a&gt;: I appreciate your argument, but I respectfully disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that now there's a flood of answers within minutes.  Yes, it &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to be one fast and several later, but now it's 2-5 immediately, often with very similar information, often with shallow, trivial information.  I picked a random question current at the time of this comment, and you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56518/c-is-there-any-difference-between-bool-and-nullablebool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see this effect for yourself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These linger around forever.  Usually people don't down-vote, perhaps because of the combination of losing rep and having just 30 votes per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also disagree that &quot;if someone is looking for the information later, they'll read all the answers.&quot;  I don't think people carefully look through all the answers, and again I don't think they'll be down/up-voting as they go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141855" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T14:09:35.480" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do my best to answer with the detail that I find is appropriate.  In my limited experience, I have found that the &quot;fastest draw&quot; does get some up votes and initially my post falls beneath them.  However, I find that if your answer truly has more value than any of the other answers, yours will quickly get voted much higher than the previous ones.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44408/how-do-you-generate-a-random-number-in-c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's an example&lt;/a&gt; of this in action.  Eric's post was correct, but little more than a code snippet.  I decided it's better to teach someone to fish rather than to catch it for them so I explained why the code snippet worked.  By the time my explanation was finished, Eric had 3 or 4 up-votes.  Notice how over time, my answer got more votes than Eric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO corrects this itself.  I browse answered questions from time to time and up-vote the good responses, particularly when the post teaches me something I didn't know.  There's not really a solution to this problem, other than hiding the reputation number so people won't be carefully calculating their every move to maximize their reputation boost.    If you decide that the up-vote is more important than providing the best answer, then you are part of the problem.  If instead you'd rather be known for always providing a detailed and correct answer, I think you'll find that the &quot;problem&quot; evaporates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm here to help other people and get help myself; reputation is just an arbitrary score that indicates how many times I've had the most interesting/correct/accepted answer to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151926" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T14:14:01.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe there could be a &quot;challenge&quot; to the selected answer. So the person asking a question gets a response and marks that as their answer, even though it may, for whatever reason, be an invalid answer. Part of it could be by adding a comment to the &quot;selected answer&quot; but those are somewhat buried to anyone reading the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were a way to show that there is some dispute/challenge from people other than the questioner that the selected answer is the best answer, it should foster some discussion and perhaps even cause the questioner to change their selected answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this way lay flame wars, perhaps, but I'm just using this as a starting point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T14:25:36.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few ideas, mostly independent/combinable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Have a buffer time for upvotes.  You upvote an answer, but it doesn't count on the rankings for a little while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) Show different rankings to different people randomly, weighted by upvotes and newness.  This way newer answers still get a chance, but don't drown upvoted ones (or vice versa).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(3) Temporarily place new answers at the top.  Give them N/5 views at that position, where N = # views so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T14:46:22.040" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remove visible scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you hear me right! It feels horrible knocking someone down, especially if you take them into the -1 or less realm! If the scoring system is hidden and you just say &quot;Yup like it&quot; or &quot;Nup not good&quot; and the actual effect that it has is hidden then people will be more likely to rate answers (ecspecialy down) and the chaff may remove itself more effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second solution would be to not allow ranking until a question had been open for a while (an hour say) then all questions have an equal chance (if you display them in a random order to different users all the better). Compare to &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56103/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem#56125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, another problem with being slow :D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T09:46:09.597" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T09:46:09.597" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T15:07:57.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56103?sort=oldest#56742&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hiding the scores&lt;/a&gt; on the question page.  Knowing an answer's number of votes somehow affects my voting.  Clearly we are more liberal with upmodding than with downmodding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like the idea of showing answers in a random order for, say, the first day or two (except the chosen answer).  As a result, &quot;bad&quot; answers will sometimes show at the top during this period.  This &quot;undue&quot; notice will actually cause the truly bad answers to receive more downvotes, and hence improve the eventual sorting by rank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144324" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T15:09:43.480" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Get a grip. The idea of the site is to get answers to straightforward questions and then get back to friggin' work. If one asks a question, one is going to be looking for what one thinks is the right answer, so one is going to read all of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before SO: I'm looking at the entire internet full of content that isn't remotely relevant to my problem. After SO: I'm looking at an unordered set of answers to my specific question, written by real people, and one of them is probably a nudge in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146473" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T17:28:28.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fastest gun isn't always a bad thing, it only gets annoying when people start counting their position in the post.  Like many issues which are solved in development, they can be fixed twice.  The initial to fix the immediate problem followed by more thorough fix so it never happens again.  As a responder to a question, you can give the quick and dirty response that you are thinking of, then research it and follow up with a more complete, thorough answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this site has been designed to allow you to re-edit your posts, and others posts (once you have enough reputation) it is perfect for a quick answer followed by a more thorough answer.  You never know, somebody's initial thought may help you with your approach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5836" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T20:44:48.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that to the degree this is a problem it's mostly a problem with the beta. The limited user pool means that sometimes answers may languish a while before they get attention. When the user pool grows by several orders of magnitude I don't think this issue will be as important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T23:39:42.957" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation system is valuable, and I find myself emotionally validated by it a bit, but I also have to keep reminding myself that &lt;strong&gt;it is an illusion&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are likely more points to be gained in the first 24 hours of a question than in the whole rest of its lifetime, because a lot of fast guns will be searching the unanswered questions, looking to build rep. And because the person who asked the question is likely to choose an answer and mark it &quot;correct&quot; within this fairly short time, while the question still matters to him. So, for those who see the StackOverflow site as a game where building reputation is how you 'win' ... yeah. Fast guns will 'win'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a lot of StackOverflow users will be playing a different game. For them the 'win' happens when they &lt;strong&gt;get an answer to the problem they have right now.&lt;/strong&gt; The people playing &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; game are probably much less likely to even &lt;em&gt;notice&lt;/em&gt; the reputation game. Many of them will probably not even up-vote the answer which works for them. Long term, I wonder what the stats will show: which percentage of asked questions never get an answer chosen by the question-asker? And stats can't really reflect this, but how many people will get an answer without ever posting a question? They may find their answer via Google, or by starting to type a question and the site's own search engine flags a similar question/answer - one that's good enough. Will they bother to vote? heck, a lot of them won't even be able to - because they haven't gained enough rep to vote. &lt;strong&gt;They never started playing the rep game.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, an answer which &lt;em&gt;never even gets rated&lt;/em&gt; might be the one that's really solving the most issues for this (potentially huge) group of people who never play the rep game, or never even notice it. That's the illusion: the Illusion Of Perfect Feedback. You're never gonna get perfect feedback. So in this sense, the ordering of the answers will never be perfect. It is possible that it will never even be very good. Because it cannot be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, fast guns, slow guns, medium guns: write the best answer you can, no matter how long it takes, and realize that even if you never get a single point on the StackOverflow Rep-O-Meter, &lt;strong&gt;you may be helping a lot of people&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not dissing the rep system or the fast guns. They kickstart the process, and that's valuable!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167603" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-11T23:57:31.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#57579&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wedge&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I would disagree. It would be too idealistic to believe in collaborative intelligence. &#xA;Ivan Hamilton has some &lt;a href=&quot;http://ivan.blogs.chimerical.com.au/post/2008/09/07/Date-raped-by-StackOverflowcom.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interesting thoughts&lt;/a&gt; on this problem.&#xA;Most people wouldn’t spend their time to check correctness of someone's answer. In many cases they don’t have enough expertise to make correct judgment. Most of the time people vote because they &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; some answer or &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; that it's correct. That’s why trivial answers have huge vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s a basic psychology. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_instinct&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Herd instinct&lt;/a&gt; makes people to believe in quality of up-voted answers. Here is a typical situation:&#xA;Someone posts a short answer that looks nice (but might be incorrect or just off-topic)&#xA;In few moments it gains some votes.&#xA;After a while popular answer becomes covered with votes like a snowball.&#xA; Even if someone posts an answer that is really correct but doesn’t look so nice, it will be literally buried under a mass of other answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are good examples when SO works as expected – stupid answers get down voted, good answers bubble up. But it’s too naive to suppose that this model works in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people talk about long-term perspective: “when site goes public a lot of people will vote and answer author will gain scores. Good answers go up, bad answers go down”. When site goes public most people will come just for a quick answer for their problem, it’s the same way search engines work. Highest ranked question will be chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now try to recall how often you scroll to next page of search engine result. How often do you scroll to the end of the first page? When question polluted with tons of answers it’s really hard to choose, unless you’re proficient in given field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general case vote count is measurement of &lt;em&gt;popularity&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt;. To mitigate this problem I propose following scenario:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For N minutes since question posted,&#xA;  people can’t vote on any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If question gathered some feedback in&#xA;  N minutes it must be shown on a main&#xA;  page. Answers must be sorted in random order for each viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now&lt;/em&gt; competition begins. There is N equal answers to choose (displayed in random order)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s way most answers will have equal chance. Since there will no way to gather reputation in first N minutes, people will spend more time on their answers.&#xA;Now when question reappears on main page, it will contain N equal answers sorted in random order. People will not be affected by influence of &lt;em&gt;first-the-most-voted&lt;/em&gt; answer; they will see N answers and will be forced to read most of them to make a choice. Since questions are sorted in random order, there is equal chance for all answers to be selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Key point is to split process into 2 stages:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accumulation of answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;selection of best answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" />
  <row Id="9770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-12T02:11:28.960" Score="54" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Grace period idea (currently editing...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution would be to have a grace period where votes are hidden:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The grace period begins when the question is posted and lasts for some set length of time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the grace period the following is true:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sorting by votes is disabled (questions are displayed in a random order if 'votes' is chosen)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes from other users are invisible meaning...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At first all answers appear to have a vote of 0  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any answer that you vote on will display your vote only (+1 or -1)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the grace period ends, all votes which were hidden will be revealed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the grace period could be the same as the grace period for editing the Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sounds Complicated&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No more Complicated than...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;em&gt;grace period&lt;/em&gt; in which your edits don't count as real edits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hiding the number of Offensive flags from some users and not others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you need is a simple flag that switches between two modes of the question: &quot;Grace Period Mode&quot; and &quot;Regular Mode&quot;.  You must already have this because of the grace period for counting edits on questions.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Will people understand what is happening?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you explain it to them.  Lets say we name this grace period &quot;Secret Voting&quot;.  All you have to do is put a banner of some sort above all the answers that says &quot;The Voting is Currently Secret&quot;.  When the grace period expires, the banner would be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also during the grace period, the Votes sort tab would not be present, but instead a Random sort tab would be present.  Again, people will understand it, because the interface explains it to them and &lt;em&gt;doesn't make them think.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="9771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-12T02:38:55.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#58169&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Justin Standard&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some kind of grace period might be the best thing we can come up with. Also secrecy of the ballot is the way to avoid biased opinions. But your proposition is not solving following problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Boundary (first/last) answers receive&#xA;  more attention (and votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means that when votes will be revealed, there is a high probability that mostly first\last answers will be up-voted like it happens in current implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there are &quot;oldest&quot; &amp;amp; &quot;newest&quot; sort modes, some answers will be less noticeable than other. To solve this issue (&lt;em&gt;first-&gt;most popular answer&lt;/em&gt;) I proposed to disable voting for some time and pop question to main page after a while to indicate that it's &lt;em&gt;ready&lt;/em&gt; for answer selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However disabling voting will make it harder for question author to select some answer in the first few minutes after grace period. So your idea might be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-12T05:40:01.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may or may not have already been said, and as of right now, there are 39 answers. some very long-winded. I chose to be lazy and not read through them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to prevent duplicate answers from appearing right after one another is when someone goes to post, let them know if there have been any new posts since they started writing theirs. This would prevent something that's happened to me where someone was quicker to the draw in saying the exact same thing i just did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132852" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-12T06:11:55.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#58370&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;contagious&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created request on uservoice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/24687&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Provide live monitoring of answers being posted&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To help us fight against tons of&#xA;  duplicate answers, provide following&#xA;  functionality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the time person is writing his&#xA;  answer show excerpts from answers&#xA;  being posted. Color code similar&#xA;  answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It can be implemented in the same way&#xA;  it's done for new question posting - i.e. author can&#xA;  see that similar posts already exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's what you mentioned, please vote for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:52:03.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2008-09-12T06:46:12.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think allowing multiple answers to be selected as correct allows the questioner to acknowledge caveats, different opinions and nuances.  Often an answer does not cover all sides to the question, but two or three might.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162762" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T09:42:45.320" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T09:42:45.320" />
  <row Id="9775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9730" CreationDate="2009-07-26T13:53:56.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In celebration of this topic, I &lt;strong&gt;migrated &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;the original Fastest Gun in the West question&lt;/a&gt; from SO to Meta&lt;/strong&gt;. It was previously deleted, so may not have been visible to most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dates from September 26 2008. It's a classic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/yosemite-sam-with-guns.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/solving-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/solving-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:53:56.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9642" CreationDate="2009-07-26T13:58:22.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Firefox tends to show it as a box with numbers in it.  I managed to fix it on one of my machines, though I've never figured out what changed - the other ones continue to display the box.  Searching for solutions on the web seems to show things like &quot;Update your fonts!&quot; ...Because most of the people having the problem are having issues with foreign language alphabets.  (Maybe at some point I'll ask SU for a solution.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T13:58:22.050" />
  <row Id="9777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9717" CreationDate="2009-07-26T14:21:44.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this happen to me yesterday, and ended up deleting my answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that we sometimes get trapped answering trap questions. The question referenced is not well formed and is a 3 for the price of one question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 for the price of one questions are risky beasts, for example, the top voted question doe not address this sub question properly (IMHO): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I need to see this log file, how to&#xA;  open it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could imply that the OP is looking for a gui of sorts, like the windows event viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Careful not too get trapped answering 3 in one questions too thoroughly, you may be answering the wrong question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T14:21:44.180" />
  <row Id="9778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9050" CreationDate="2009-07-26T14:27:21.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe make finding the really common duplicates a game of sorts, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9686/what-is-the-most-rampant-duplicate-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;like this question is trying&lt;/a&gt;. Then people can gain rep by finding duplicates and admins can have clear, less ambiguous lists to merge.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T14:27:21.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-26T14:27:21.767" />
  <row Id="9779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-07-26T14:31:43.470" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered on the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T14:31:43.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9730" CreationDate="2009-07-26T14:42:32.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what I do now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I always load the answers that get there first. I don't blindly submit despite the warning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If one (or more) of the posted answers has all or pretty much all of what I say, I yield and don't submit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If nobody mentioned one little thing that I care about, I make that a comment to somebody else's post and leave it at that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as that goes, I'm happy. I think it's a mistake to flat-out ignore the yellow bar telling you that there are new posts because we really &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; need four people all saying &quot;Frobnicate the fizzbuzz&quot; in slightly different wording. On the other hand, if you have things that haven't been said, don't stop because somebody posted a short answer first. Also remember that the delete button works. I've deleted posts when I went back later and decided either that other answers were clearly better or that mine had some gross error. I don't think it's embarrassing to remove an answer. If anything, it just keeps threads neat. (I actually wish more people did it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, here is something I'm not sure how I feel about. This is to me a somewhat new phenomenon, but I've seen it a couple of times now. I'm writing and someone shoots first. I check his or her answer and think I can do better (or just different but usefully so). I keep typing and post my answer. When I check the thread later in the day, however, I see that the earlier poster has edited his or her post and incorporated chunks from other people. Thus, that answer is now first &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; most complete. In one case, I ended up deleting my post after this happened because I decided it was pointless. Everything I wanted to say was in the first post anyhow. I don't care about reputation, but I still don't think anyone should incorporate other answers into his or her post. In a key way, SO isn't like a wiki: there isn't a single group-edited answer (to most threads). Editing your post to absorb other answers strikes me as kind of cheap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26702" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T14:42:32.057" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9730" CreationDate="2009-07-26T14:42:46.800" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I push the &quot;show me what those faster typists have to say&quot; link and scan the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm clearly wasting everyone's time by submitting mine, I casually cancel my answer and pretend nothing happened.  Later on, I pull out my typing tutor and do some quick brown foxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if there's anything in my answer that adds to the sum total of knowledge, I submit it - that one extra thing I said might be the very thing the OP needed to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T14:42:46.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T15:09:52.837" Score="3" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you ask a question on Stack Overflow, or Server Fault, and I'm sure it will happen on Super User, that lends itself to multiple correct responses, like a list. Is there anything to handle such a thing? The situation I am thinking about is when the response would end up being a list and multiple people would add input, but there is more than one correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the proper thing to do for this type of question just not to award anyone a correct answer or award the correct answer the best answer? What happens if you award the correct answer and someone comes along latter with a better answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&#xA;This is oversimplified to make the point but hopefully you get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: What is a good place to find information on programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A1: Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A2: MSDN (msdn.microsoft.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A3: Channel 9 (channel9.msdn.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously this question has a best answer, but the others are good too. I kind of had a hard time thinking of this example, but in the past this has bothered me. Maybe it really doesn't occur often enough to be an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T02:17:57.977" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T02:17:57.977" Title="What about a multi-answer question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;multiple-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="9783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9782" CreationDate="2009-07-26T15:34:50.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answers for your question are similar in the working solution, but just worded differently, you should accept the answer that reads best and most clear to you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are all over the place, but they're all still somehow correct, then that looks like prime fodder for having it set as a wiki for other users of the site to engage in some polling action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good example would over at Super User, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/2/free-antivirus-solutions-for-windows&quot;&gt;Free antivirus solutions for Windows&lt;/a&gt;. Along with the rest of the chafing &quot;best of&quot; and &quot;must have&quot; questions filling up the place, unless there's a lock down of the exact criteria in the question, there really can't be a correct solution. It can be so open-ended it gets messy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking it community wiki opens it up for people to help better the answers for the good of all. But you will still find people levelling hard on the score and just not want to contribute when they can't get any rep for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you accept an answer, but another comes along that you feel trumps the earlier one, you're well within the right to unaccept the first and award the green tick of happiness to the new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T15:34:50.863" />
  <row Id="9784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9730" CreationDate="2009-07-26T15:59:27.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FGITW syndrome is somewhat annoying/frustrating.  I admit to having participated in gun fights. Though I may have won a few, I admit to losing quite a few, and also to getting my shot off with bad aim.  I dont do it as much anymore, and that is because I have stopped craving the point increases so much. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On holding back a submission: I have mellowed to the degree that If I see the point I am hoping to raise come in while I am editing, I will discard my edits and upvote the answer.  The pain that I feel at the potential upvotes lost has almost subsided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to deleting my posts:  I find myself, on occasion, reviewing my answer against the others, and if mine essentially repeats others that are getting voted up (or came in first), or those that are more complete, or my answer is in retrospect wrong, I will delete my post and edit it with a note as to why I am deleting it.  It helps me if I go back a little while later and see the pink highlighted box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:14:14.903" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:14:14.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9782" CreationDate="2009-07-26T16:09:13.057" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, such questions are subjective and unbounded - you'll never have a single comprehensive answer, because someone can always show up later and add another item to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So encourage that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark the question Community Wiki. This removes the reputation motivation for posting a new answer instead of editing existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include instructions &lt;em&gt;in the question itself&lt;/em&gt; specifying that each answer should contain only one potential list item. Ask users to up-vote existing answers that they agree with rather than re-posting them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; accept a single answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(optional) periodically sweep the list and compile answers into a list in the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren’t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T16:09:13.057" />
  <row Id="9786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1313" CreationDate="2009-07-26T16:40:18.457" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've put together two graphs covering the top 5 SOpedias (Jon Skeet, Marc Gravell, tvansfosson, S.Lott and JarPar) plus myself and Jeff Atwood for kicks.  The two graphs look at Day of Week and Time of Day.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion as for the best time to ask a question?  Assuming the importance of the Fast Gun in the West phenomena, then...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday (in that order)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want Jon Skeet to answer it, then most defiantly a Tuesday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Between 1300 and 2100 GMT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best possible chance of getting Jon Skeet or Marc Gravell (#1 and #2 SOpedians) to answer your question (and not one of the other tens of thougsands of users), then sometime &lt;strong&gt;between 0700 and 1300 GMT on a Tuesday&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the July 2009 data dump, top 5 determined by today's standing in reputation points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answers by Day-of-Week&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/stuff/stack-overflow-answers-by-day-of-week.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/stuff/stack-overflow-answers-by-day-of-week-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Answers by Day-of-Week&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answers by Time-of-Day&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/stuff/stack-overflow-answers-by-hour-of-day.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/stuff/stack-overflow-answers-by-hour-of-day-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Answers by Hour-of-Day&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-24T14:31:19.550" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T14:31:19.550" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="9787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T17:02:27.970" Score="7" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;When this isn't checked, it looks like 48 entries are displayed on the &quot;home&quot; page. When I checkmark this, only those same 48 minus those with my ignore tags are displayed, which, depending on how lucky/unlucky I am, means as few as 15 (when I look at stackoverflow.com right now) questions show up on the home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should retrieve the latest 48 questions that have only my interesting tags rather than just &quot;whittling down&quot; the original 48 questions that include both interesting and ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2666" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:38:11.823" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:38:11.823" Title="&quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; should retrieve more questions to fill up the page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="9788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9782" CreationDate="2009-07-26T17:04:35.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many technical problems that have multiple solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Excel VBA you can solve many problems in various ways.  I would always accept the 'best' solution, though that may be subjective, but I'm glad the other solutions are there, since they may be useful in other ways.  There was one question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804646/how-do-you-strip-quotes-out-of-an-echoed-string-in-a-windows-batch-file&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about Windows Batch programming, where I accepted the 'best' answer, but had to actually use part of another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T17:04:35.343" />
  <row Id="9789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6466" CreationDate="2009-07-26T17:13:02.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just frustrated with that very aspect this morning.  User tab settings should stay where they are set as the User's new default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T17:13:02.737" />
  <row Id="9790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9787" CreationDate="2009-07-26T17:14:19.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be a great idea, in fact it'd be nice to be able to choose a differing number of questions shown, and in the 'home page' format if the user desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T17:14:19.517" />
  <row Id="9792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9803" CreationDate="2009-07-26T17:56:02.617" Score="1" ViewCount="1092" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going through new questions with new tags in Moderator Tools, I clicked on a tag &quot;machine.config&quot;, and got the following error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;XML Parsing Error: no element found&#xA;Location: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/machine.config&#xA;Line Number 1, Column 1:&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/machine.config&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/machine.config&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, the same happens for &quot;web.config&quot;. I suppose it's the dot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T18:39:46.957" Title="XML Parsing Error: no element found" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:03:16.030" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider python tag. It's programming, so belongs to Stack Overflow. System administrators hack scripts in it (and manage applications written in it), so it belongs to Server Fault. Power users use it too (I use it as a pocket calculator all the time) so it also belongs to Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that it would be cool to quickly see what other angles of particular topic are discussed on sister projects by providing links to the &lt;code&gt;questions/tagged/python&lt;/code&gt; path on the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122460" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T19:23:17.123" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T19:23:17.123" Title="Tag links between SO, SF and SU" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-wiki&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;&lt;tag-dropdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9787" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:08:38.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For that to be possible, they would have to filter it on the server-side. Right now they filter it using JavaScript, on your computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T18:08:38.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9782" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:10:28.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Experts exchange had this thing called &quot;assisted answer&quot;. I feel it's a good idea. Sometimes someone has the answer and gets a lot of votes and then someone else has some additional information that isn't the complete answer but it's important too and it ends up down at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastEditorUserId="131570" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T15:03:00.950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:03:00.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9925" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:13:06.547" Score="4" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you highlight some text, you can just press a button to have it automatically emphasized on indented 4 spaces for a code sample. I think it would be great if we had this feature with strike-throughs so I don't have to manually type s tags. People use strikethoughs to delete text from their posts when editing it and adding information. This is nicer than just deleting it because it gets the point across that its older information but you can still see the original text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T06:19:25.067" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:19:51.047" Title="Add a strike-through to the editing interface" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33772" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:15:53.887" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;The users should be allowed to view questions filtered by multiple tags. e.g. I want to see those questions which have tags &quot;ruby-on-rails&quot; and &quot;cucumber&quot; and &quot;testing&quot;. It would be much better if we could be able to have an &quot;or&quot; modifier also just like &quot;and&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132339" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-25T04:47:07.710" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T04:47:07.710" Title="Filtering questions by specifying multiple tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="9798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:18:11.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not split the ask question for &quot;low&quot; rep users into two pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first page is the where they enter the title. This then does the &quot;related questions&quot; search and presents them with a list of possible existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would then be a &quot;my question is different to all these and I want to proceed&quot; button which takes them to the page where they can enter the body of their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how to ensure that they've actually read at least one of the suggested questions though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T18:18:11.490" />
  <row Id="9799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9793" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:20:17.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You really already have this. All these sites offer Atom feeds for tag or tag combinations, leaving you free to mix and match as desired. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?%5Fid=YjiOiw963hGbCWWNKX1%5F0w&amp;amp;%5Frender=rss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;For instance - here's the combined python feed you were after...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Took me maybe ten minutes to put together, and i've never used Y! Pipes before; i suspect if i took the time to familiarize myself with it, i could parametrize it for arbitrary tag combinations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T18:20:17.443" />
  <row Id="9800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9796" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:21:22.370" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the absence of a button (and given that Jeff has said it's not likely to be implemented) you can use the HTML tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;strike&gt;this&lt;/strike&gt; or &lt;s&gt;this&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Like &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;this&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;s&amp;gt;this&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for a complete list of the HTML that's allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T08:19:51.047" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:19:51.047" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9792" CreationDate="2009-07-26T18:39:46.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brad makes the point about which tags you should use instead... but that doesn't address the fact that it really is a bug. You shouldn't be able to &quot;break&quot; SO just by feeding it a tag of a particular format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a particularly &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; bug, I'll grant you... but definitely one to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it's the fact that there's a dot though - I believe it's ASP.NET trying to prevent people from getting the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; machine.config/web.config etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other interesting finds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo.aspx&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo.aspx&lt;/a&gt;: page not found&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo.asax&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo.asax&lt;/a&gt;: broken (no source)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo.asbx&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/foo.asbx&lt;/a&gt;: suitable empty list of questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's broken, in Chrome I don't get an XML parsing error - I just get an empty page, with no data at all even when viewing source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T18:39:46.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T19:10:18.477" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7803/should-we-be-migrating-questions-to-superuser&quot;&gt;Should we be migrating questions to SuperUser?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone has access to superuser.com, so they cannot view the moved question.&#xA;Should we wait until it is out of beta to move questions there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132345" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-26T19:22:28.347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T19:22:28.347" ClosedDate="2009-07-28T04:15:10.037" Title="Why are we using &quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot; when it's still not publicy open?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9804" CreationDate="2009-07-26T19:12:06.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is publicly open as long as you can get the password (which you can find on the StackOverflow blog. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T19:12:06.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9726" CreationDate="2009-07-26T19:32:42.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can inform google of an update to the xml feed, using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=SITEMAP_URL&lt;/a&gt;, which is what All-in-one-SEO-pack for Wordpress does, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if SO even needs to do this but I'm sure they could if Google wasn't spidering them often enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131372" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T19:32:42.293" />
  <row Id="9807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-26T19:37:14.240" Score="4" ViewCount="700" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to post a question on SO and when I select the &quot;what&quot; in the last sentence and press the quote button, FF freezes because of Script: stackoverflow.com/Content/Js/wmd.js?v=3297:1 which is taking too much time. I actually lost the question originally because my dom.max_script_run_time setting was set too high instead of the usual 10 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text I'm trying to post is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinypaste.com/c2dfa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinypaste.com/c2dfa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131372" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T14:15:36.087" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T14:15:36.087" Title="Firefox freezes (script execution uses 100% cpu) upon trying to quote" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="9808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9810" CreationDate="2009-07-26T19:40:53.263" Score="3" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if &lt;kbd&gt;schadenfreude&lt;/kbd&gt; would be an appropriate tag, but if it were, this question deserves it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was strolling through [Meta] Stack Overflow today and had remembered that there was some discussion about who has been in the penalty box and how many times.  Well, I came up with an easy way to determine that (non-programmatically). I haven't sat down to make it into a Greasemonkey script, but I'm sure someone out there will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Who's been in the penalty box?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To figure out who has been in the penalty box, type the following into Google:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site:stackoverflow.com/users/ This account is temporarily suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This query has problems. It shows up every time Google spiders the page, so if it is spidered multiple times for the same infraction, it may appear to be multiple suspensions until you look at the time and date of the spidering of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User XXXXX This period of suspension ends in 9 hours&#xA;User XXXXX This period of suspention ends in 4 hours&#xA;User XXXXX This period of suspension ends November 30&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of competition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What ways could you programmatically determine which users are in the penalty box?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How could you determine (accurately) how many times they've been there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rules&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It must be a program (that includes scripts)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It can be in any language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It must accurately determine how often a user in in the penalty box (through methods such as grabbing the time/date stamp of the spidering, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It must not get someone banned from Stack Overflow (Nothing that scrapes every user on the site once a day)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The information used to create the program must be publicly available&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any solution should address this point forward. Extra points if you can accurately determine who's been in the penalty box in the past&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More rules will be added (or taken away) as needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer with the 'best' method will be chosen (very subjective, I'm sure there are objective criteria for them, and much like Pornography, I'll know it when I see it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T01:24:23.920" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T02:44:57.387" Title="How do I figure out who's been banished to the penalty box recently?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;language-agnostic&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9808" CreationDate="2009-07-26T20:04:19.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better idea, why not have a View that shows it on the SO side?  I don't know if I'd use it, but that would be better than a script. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T20:04:19.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9808" CreationDate="2009-07-26T20:12:51.703" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the comment made &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9808/how-do-i-figure-out-whos-been-banished-to-the-penalty-box-recently/9809#9809&quot;&gt;by yshuditelu&lt;/a&gt;. Namely, I think it's intentional that ordinary users don't have access to this information, as it's really &lt;em&gt;none of their business&lt;/em&gt;. Moderators already have a way to see who's in the penalty box, and I don't think that there are any other people that &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I'd be supportive of removing the red bar indicating the user is under suspension in favor of simply locking the user out of their account for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-26T20:12:51.703" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="9811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10130" CreationDate="2009-07-26T20:13:37.590" Score="54" ViewCount="476" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qUfPs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lets remove this&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dialog box pops up so much that it's annoying. Please have it removed or allow something like 5 comment upvotes every 5 seconds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the least, make the box very small or replace the vote button with another graphic for 5 seconds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-16T14:21:53.733" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T14:21:53.733" Title="Allow more than 1 comment upvote in 5 seconds" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13259" CreationDate="2009-07-26T20:18:25.897" Score="3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the message that you get when you try to accept your own answer within the last hour of the 48 hour waiting period is poorly worded.  The message is &quot;&lt;em&gt;You must wait 0 hours before accepting your own answer.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Yes, I realize it is accurate, as it means &quot;less than 1 hour&quot; -- but still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could special-case this situation and reword that to something like &quot;You must wait less than 1 hour before accepting your own answer.&quot; Or approaching the issue from another angle, if the message was instead worded like &quot;You cannot accept your own answer until January 23, 2010 03:23:23&quot; then there would be no need for the inaccuracy.  Time zone display would obviously be a factor/complication in this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I am aware of the the other &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5346/you-must-wait-0-hours-before-answering-your-own-question&quot;&gt;metaSO post&lt;/a&gt; on this topic, but there was no suggestion there of an improvement to the message, hence me starting a new thread with that intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132347" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T19:35:05.883" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T19:35:05.883" Title="Wording suggestion for the &quot;You must wait x hours before accepting your own answer&quot; message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;wording&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-27T00:07:54.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff is bending the rule already... meta.stackoverflow and stackoverflow.&#xA;why not servers.stackoverflow then? less Google-OpenID friction at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7229" LastEditorUserId="7229" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T01:59:25.857" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:59:25.857" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9663" CreationDate="2009-07-27T00:42:13.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;Pseudo officially suggested question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65696" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T00:42:13.187" />
  <row Id="9817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T00:50:05.027" Score="2" ViewCount="453" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seem to be some ongoing trends in stack-overflow for some people to just vote willy-nilly to close any and all questions they disapprove of because they can. Since it hurts SO to close questions that ought to be open, I recommend that we hold people accountable to their &quot;close&quot; votes and make them pay a hefty price in rep whenever the community disagrees with them and reopens their questions. This will encourage people to refrain from incessantly voting for questions to get closed and instead make them think more carefully about whether a question truly deserves a close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably will cause a bunch of not-so-legitimate questions to stay open, but it's better that questions like these stay open than that more legitimate questions get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does everyone think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit:&lt;/b&gt; People have been wanting examples, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/657932/what-is-the-best-error-message-you-have-seen&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/657932/what-is-the-best-error-message-you-have-seen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613026/how-to-deal-with-a-show-making-interviewer&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613026/how-to-deal-with-a-show-making-interviewer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/794826/how-do-you-make-yourself-productive-working-in-shell-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/794826/how-do-you-make-yourself-productive-working-in-shell-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/670443/how-does-a-programmer-be-creative&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/670443/how-does-a-programmer-be-creative&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958322/linq-how-can-you-improve-the-following-query&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958322/linq-how-can-you-improve-the-following-query&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/322542/feeling-trapped-to-the-job-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/322542/feeling-trapped-to-the-job-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/489858/gui-hello-world-examples-in-c-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/489858/gui-hello-world-examples-in-c-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/676898/what-programmer-general-skills-are-worth-mentioning-in-cv-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/676898/what-programmer-general-skills-are-worth-mentioning-in-cv-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1054106/code-golf-adding-non-negative-numbers-from-a-set&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1054106/code-golf-adding-non-negative-numbers-from-a-set&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/171527/best-console-based-no-gui-code-editor-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/171527/best-console-based-no-gui-code-editor-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an interesting double standard:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;versus&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130291" LastEditorUserId="130291" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T13:27:34.387" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T01:53:27.437" Title="Suggestion: If you voted to close a question and it gets re-opened, you lose 100 rep" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9817" CreationDate="2009-07-27T00:57:50.930" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It probably will cause a bunch of not-so-legitimate questions to stay open&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yup. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't gain anything by voting to close; it's a small bit of time and effort i donate out of hope that it benefits the site. If i'm gonna get penalized for it, then i won't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep thing is a game; closing and editing isn't. As soon as that changes, so does the entire dynamic of the site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T00:57:50.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9817" CreationDate="2009-07-27T00:58:50.727" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that there are questions that get closed that deserve to stay open, but I think that your proposal is a drastically bad solution. What we need to do is encourage more users to review the questions that were recently closed and to reopen the ones that deserve to be reopened. Part of the problem is that users can vote to close/reopen starting at 3k rep, but must have at least 10k rep to see the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also favor a &quot;carrot&quot; approach (as opposed to a &quot;stick&quot; approach) so it might be a good idea to reward users that contribute to a post being reopened in some way, as opposed to punishing users that contribute to a post being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T01:05:56.703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:05:56.703" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="9821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9817" CreationDate="2009-07-27T01:03:07.040" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've yet to see too many votes to close be completely unjustified (and if they are, they never occur in packs of five). I have, though, seen the rationale to close become null and void after the OP has added material to their question (or edited some other way). So, I think that this is a very much imagined (or mis-characterized) problem, rather than something that's rampant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What there really needs to be is notification that a post you voted to close has been edited. Then, you should be able to revoke (or change the reason (since you may want to migrate it, then)) for your vote. This has been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, so all that's left is for Jeff &amp;amp; Co to weigh in on whether or not they want to implement such a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:03:07.040" />
  <row Id="9822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-08T16:30:09.037" Score="141" ViewCount="880" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I decided to rerun the script since we now have about twice as many users. The distribution trend is much more pronounced in this version. Though the following text is from the original version of this post, the data and graph are new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I was curious about the average age of the users here, I decided to write a script to answer the question in the vein of Grant's &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6936/using-what-ive-learned-from-stackoverflow-html-scraper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;profile scraper&lt;/a&gt;. The script downloaded the profile page of every user and cataloged the age for each person that chose to provide it. The script then printed out the aggregate data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/usr/bin/perl&#xA;&#xA;use strict;&#xA;use warnings;&#xA;&#xA;use LWP::Simple;&#xA;&#xA;my $MAX_USER_ID = 15_000;&#xA;&#xA;my %Ages;&#xA;&#xA;$| = 1;  # print immediately&#xA;&#xA;print &quot;Fetching...&quot;;&#xA;for my $uid (1..$MAX_USER_ID)&#xA;{&#xA;    my $page = get &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/$uid&quot;;&#xA;    next unless $page;&#xA;&#xA;    $Ages{$1}++ if $page =~ m/Age\s*&amp;lt;\/td&amp;gt;\s*&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;\s*(\d+)\s*&amp;lt;\/td&amp;gt;/;&#xA;    print &quot;$uid...&quot; if $uid % 10 == 0;&#xA;}&#xA;print &quot;\nDone.\n&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;for my $age (sort keys %Ages)&#xA;{&#xA;    print &quot;$age: $Ages{$age}\n&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The output is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;8: 13&#xA;9: 3&#xA;11: 3&#xA;12: 1&#xA;15: 2&#xA;16: 14&#xA;17: 8&#xA;18: 21&#xA;19: 49&#xA;20: 58&#xA;21: 91&#xA;22: 118&#xA;23: 173&#xA;24: 221&#xA;25: 255&#xA;26: 284&#xA;27: 276&#xA;28: 289&#xA;29: 225&#xA;30: 224&#xA;31: 212&#xA;32: 167&#xA;33: 164&#xA;34: 142&#xA;35: 112&#xA;36: 123&#xA;37: 111&#xA;38: 121&#xA;39: 78&#xA;40: 65&#xA;41: 60&#xA;42: 36&#xA;43: 30&#xA;44: 23&#xA;45: 30&#xA;46: 20&#xA;47: 12&#xA;48: 9&#xA;49: 12&#xA;50: 8&#xA;51: 10&#xA;52: 3&#xA;53: 2&#xA;54: 4&#xA;55: 3&#xA;56: 1&#xA;58: 4&#xA;60: 1&#xA;61: 3&#xA;63: 1&#xA;66: 1&#xA;68: 1&#xA;88: 12&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average age of a StackOverflow user is &lt;strong&gt;30.1&lt;/strong&gt;, assuming everyone is honest in their profile (though we do have more 8-year-olds than I would have expected). Finally, here is a graph showing the distribution more clearly. That outlier to the right are our eight 88-year-olds still going strong. If we remove the 8 and 88-year-olds from the average, it drops us down by 0.1 years to &lt;strong&gt;30.0&lt;/strong&gt;. (Actually, it's a drop of 0.104)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/MtNXh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:02:41.267" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:02:41.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" Title="Age Distribution of StackOverflow Users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;&lt;perl&gt;" AnswerCount="34" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="9823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T16:36:19.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the 8-year-olds must be people that have &quot;2000-01-01&quot; as default date of birth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T16:39:36.847" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Damn, I feel (relatively) old now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139878" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T16:39:45.303" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;88 year olds are most likely false as well since I think that is the max allowable age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T16:41:55.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the mode!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T16:45:06.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The gap between 66 and 88, woth 8 people with 88 years is quite strange! I think 1920 is the default year when signing up. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 years old? WOW!!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T16:57:14.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well at least I don't feel old compared to the base. I'm right in the middle :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T00:14:44.510" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T00:14:44.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T17:04:33.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO it would be much better for performance if you'd replace the call to curl with &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LWP::UserAgent&lt;/a&gt;. Interesting idea though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166706" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T17:06:50.667" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can those of us to the right of the bell have a Veterans Badge (or Old Gits)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*** Edit: I'm gobsmacked why someome would vote this down. Really starting to wonder about the reputation system of SO - great idea, but in practice rep has nothing to do with expertise if people downmark (or upmark) threads like this what does it really say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132573" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T17:12:33.977" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always think of Mark Twain when I see things like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2258" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T17:13:57.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Damn, on a site like this I used to be one of those kids in the 13--18 range... now I'm all of 20 years old, but at least this graph lets me still feel like I'm on the young end. LOL, I guess I don't get to complain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T17:37:37.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Graphs are only as good as the data going in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8 &amp;amp; 88 should be discounted seeing there are a couple of very probably explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I can't remember the last time I gave the right year as part of my profile - at least on a half dozen registrations, I'm well in to my 200s...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stay JOLLY!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;H&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1444" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T17:40:25.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm 29.96 - way to make me feel old! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T17:48:51.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One less 88 yr old - one more old fart. I just edited my profile...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T18:14:55.697" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eight and 9 year olds seem unlikely, but the 11's and 12's could be real.  Jeff &amp;amp; co probably should look into this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.coppa.org/comply.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Child Online Privacy Protection Act&lt;/a&gt; and take appropriate action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4089" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="9837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T19:27:29.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, I didn't even realize there was a profile D:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T22:34:38.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's interesting is what the data possibly reflects. I mean does the curve reflect the &quot;prime-time&quot; portion of a programmer's career?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4916" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:13:10.287" Score="48" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cool. Now let's see a distribution of reputation by age...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-09T22:11:50.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Atleast we can see that the majority of users are people in their 20's willing to go beyond just being a brainless tool... great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-09T22:16:58.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very interesting that the graph you display follows &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FBell%5FCurve&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Normal Distribution aka the The Bell Curve&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T00:13:57.430" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T00:13:57.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-10T15:28:45.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 50, I feel so old. I didn't even start programming until I was 40.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131171" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:35:38.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be interesting to see the corresponding graph for Yahoo! Answers.  Hah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T00:13:18.103" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T00:13:18.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:42:32.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes! I am still young (at 26)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9249" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" />
  <row Id="9845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-16T13:54:18.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 29 you begin to stop looking for answers. Is that because you now have the answers, or because you no longer care?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-17T20:52:18.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps at a more advanced age you know all you need to know to maintain your Cobol and Fortran code, and you are not willing to learn yet another language or methodology. Or maybe people in my age group (47) have moved on to other positions e.g. management, sales etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6473" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-18T00:11:39.010" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there's no value in entering a valid age, I imagine many of the ages are invalid.  And there's been a lot of validating the birthdate field performed by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-21T05:40:36.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be more interested in &quot;When did you start programming?&quot; instead of age.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started programming 30 years ago, but I'm not interested in putting my age on my profile.  Sadly, age discrimination is a factor in this industry...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-09-24T16:21:16.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the age distribution here, I'll have to keep my Frankie Goes to Hollywood references to a bare minimum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142639" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was impressed by this, so I have taken it further, to include reputation and membership length: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/10/24/age-membership-length-and-reputation-distribution-on-stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/10/24/age-membership-length-and-reputation-distribution-on-stackoverflow/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145319" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T02:46:55.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-10-30T05:45:19.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not happy about being in the first quartile on this chart...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T05:45:19.580" />
  <row Id="9852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2008-12-06T16:30:30.673" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the 88 year old, when I try to set my birthdate to 1919, it shows this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were errors when updating your profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Birthday must be after 1920/01/01&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to set it to 2020, it shows this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were errors when updating your profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Birthday must be before 2000/12/06&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two edge cases make sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131215" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-06T16:30:30.673" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2009-01-12T06:49:30.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote up a version that uses random sampling over what appears to be the full range of UIDs at the time of this writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/usr/bin/perl&#xA;&#xA;use strict;&#xA;use warnings;&#xA;&#xA;use LWP::Simple;&#xA;&#xA;my $MAX_USER_ID = 55_000;       # Maximum range of UIDs to search&#xA;my $MAX_HITS = 100;             # Maximum UIDs to randomly try&#xA;my $Count_No_Age_As_Hit = 1;&#xA;&#xA;my %Ages;   # Store the age distribution&#xA;&#xA;$| = 1;  # print immediately&#xA;&#xA;print &quot;Fetching $MAX_HITS users.\n&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;my $hits = 0;&#xA;until( $hits &amp;gt;= $MAX_HITS ) {&#xA;    my $uid = int rand $MAX_USER_ID + 1;&#xA;&#xA;    my $page = get &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/$uid&quot;;&#xA;    unless( $page) {&#xA;        warn &quot;$uid not found.\n&quot;;&#xA;        next;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    if( $page =~ m/Age\s*&amp;lt;\/td&amp;gt;\s*&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;\s*(\d+)\s*&amp;lt;\/td&amp;gt;/ ) {&#xA;        $Ages{$1}++;&#xA;        $hits++;&#xA;    }&#xA;    else {&#xA;        $Ages{&quot;no age given&quot;}++;&#xA;        $hits++ if $Count_No_Age_As_Hit;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    print &quot;#$hits $uid... &quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;print &quot;\nDone.\n&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;for my $age (sort keys %Ages)&#xA;{&#xA;    print &quot;$age: $Ages{$age}\n&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the results of one run...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;19: 1&#xA;20: 1&#xA;21: 1&#xA;23: 1&#xA;25: 2&#xA;26: 2&#xA;27: 3&#xA;28: 4&#xA;29: 3&#xA;32: 1&#xA;34: 1&#xA;36: 1&#xA;43: 1&#xA;44: 1&#xA;no age given: 77&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From which the only responsible conclusion I can draw is that you can't draw a conclusion.  Too many users don't specify an age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140334" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T06:49:30.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2009-01-23T17:06:03.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really did not expect the dearth of 35-40yo. Come on people, we who lived through the dot-com boom soon after college - where are we all? Disgusted into a different carrier path?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-23T17:06:03.273" />
  <row Id="9855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2009-01-24T00:54:13.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've listed my birthday in my profile as the latest that the system will accept, purely to test the &quot;Autobiographer&quot; badge.  8 years of age is the youngest that the system will allow.  Curiously, my question as to why this is so has vanished from the system entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(No, I'm not 8; I just don't want to give my age.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-24T00:54:13.237" />
  <row Id="9856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2009-05-07T09:10:35.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I began coding with PHP at 17, im now 18 and have a pretty good understanding of classes and pretty much all the functions. Slowly I have become aware of good practices and bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:15:30.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-07T09:10:35.793" />
  <row Id="9857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10252" CreationDate="2009-07-27T01:15:37.367" Score="3" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185275/why-windows-right-click-new-is-so-slow-closed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1185275/list&quot;&gt;a few hours ago&lt;/a&gt;, but not automatically migrated. That's a shame; it's a good question (for SU). What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T20:24:03.040" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T02:03:47.433" Title="Why wasn't this question, closed as &quot;Belongs on SuperUser&quot;, migrated to SU?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-02T18:15:18.503" Score="17" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I had a post that provided data scraped from the profile pages of over 23,000 StackOverflow users with the intention of having the community mine the database and produce interesting graphs and statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, due to privacy concerns, the database and scraping script are no longer available. Instead, I will attempt to make these graphs myself. Ideas for future graphs are welcome - the database contains the following schema:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sqlite&amp;gt; .schema&#xA;CREATE TABLE profile ( &#xA;    uid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name, rep INTEGER, registered, joined INTEGER, lastseen INTEGER, website,&#xA;    location, age INTEGER, bio, questions INTEGER, answers INTEGER, votes INTEGER, tags INTEGER,&#xA;    badges INTEGER);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;joined&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;lastseen&lt;/em&gt; are UNIX timestamps. &lt;em&gt;lastseen&lt;/em&gt; is accurate to the minute, but &lt;em&gt;joined&lt;/em&gt; is only accurate to the day. &lt;em&gt;registered&lt;/em&gt; can have one of three values:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Registered User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unregistered User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Data:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sqlite&amp;gt; select age, count(age), sum(rep), avg(rep) from profile group by age;&#xA;-7992|2|808|404.0&#xA;8|15|7193|479.533333333333&#xA;9|3|153|51.0&#xA;11|1|1|1.0&#xA;12|1|405|405.0&#xA;14|1|1|1.0&#xA;15|4|4|1.0&#xA;16|17|4092|240.705882352941&#xA;17|16|4766|297.875&#xA;18|36|8131|225.861111111111&#xA;19|74|11224|151.675675675676&#xA;20|98|19933|203.397959183673&#xA;21|141|39768|282.042553191489&#xA;22|230|44023|191.404347826087&#xA;23|295|70772|239.905084745763&#xA;24|403|102279|253.794044665012&#xA;25|404|90655|224.393564356436&#xA;26|457|119718|261.964989059081&#xA;27|443|122917|277.465011286682&#xA;28|441|99973|226.696145124717&#xA;29|372|79790|214.489247311828&#xA;30|385|94075|244.350649350649&#xA;31|360|83887|233.019444444444&#xA;32|296|64477|217.827702702703&#xA;33|291|55692|191.381443298969&#xA;34|261|59625|228.448275862069&#xA;35|200|41846|209.23&#xA;36|199|45489|228.587939698492&#xA;37|194|52054|268.319587628866&#xA;38|182|57922|318.252747252747&#xA;39|139|27038|194.517985611511&#xA;40|124|22128|178.451612903226&#xA;41|112|26616|237.642857142857&#xA;42|84|9947|118.416666666667&#xA;43|56|8309|148.375&#xA;44|50|6957|139.14&#xA;45|43|10363|241.0&#xA;46|42|12846|305.857142857143&#xA;47|34|5579|164.088235294118&#xA;48|23|1980|86.0869565217391&#xA;49|23|2335|101.521739130435&#xA;50|16|861|53.8125&#xA;51|12|2890|240.833333333333&#xA;52|15|2745|183.0&#xA;53|4|675|168.75&#xA;54|12|2230|185.833333333333&#xA;55|6|880|146.666666666667&#xA;56|4|409|102.25&#xA;57|1|9|9.0&#xA;58|5|159|31.8&#xA;59|2|44|22.0&#xA;60|4|24|6.0&#xA;61|4|195|48.75&#xA;63|1|581|581.0&#xA;65|1|11|11.0&#xA;66|1|4315|4315.0&#xA;68|1|25|25.0&#xA;88|20|6810|340.5&#xA;108|1|231|231.0&#xA;255|1|843|843.0&#xA;|16346|516447|31.5947020677842&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Data:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Registered Users: 86.9% (19998/23001)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Unregistered Users: 13.1% (3007/23001)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Moderators: 0.017% (4/23001)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Graphs:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scatter plot of all ages and all rep scores: [note: yes, I do know I misspelled &quot;stack&quot;. I'll see if I can update this soon]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/nvBtS.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Hockey Stick' graph of reputation vs reputation rank:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qBl8D.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same 'hockey stick' graph, focused on the top 1000 users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/vvsVc.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Any further requests for data or graphs are welcome, and feel free to use the sample data above to create your own!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:05:55.007" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:07:31.917" Title="StackOverflow User Statistics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="9859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9858" CreationDate="2008-10-02T18:23:00.277" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously, &lt;em&gt;privacy concerns&lt;/em&gt;? I'm assuming it wasn't you who decided this was a problem. How can there be privacy concerns with data that is fully publicly available on the web site? It's not like you were publishing data that you obtained through some means other than, you know, &lt;em&gt;browsing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:16:07.510" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9858" CreationDate="2008-10-02T18:25:26.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This graph (below) you did would have been more useful without the 1 who has a too high value compared to other. The graph is almost blank because of 1 person. Scale of the graph needed to be changed or remove few &quot;noise user&quot;. But well, good job.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qBl8D.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:07:31.917" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:07:31.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9858" CreationDate="2008-12-05T22:12:29.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;replacing the *.bmp with *.png/gif/jpeg would be great :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:16:07.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9858" CreationDate="2009-02-08T14:42:21.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've computed some new statistics &lt;a href=&quot;http://shlomme.diotavelli.net/2009/02/08/stack-overflow-statistics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on my site&lt;/a&gt;. We need a &quot;meta&quot; corner for things like that, which aren't really questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142879" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T01:16:07.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-08T14:42:21.433" />
  <row Id="9902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9932" CreationDate="2009-07-27T02:32:54.000" Score="11" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question, and get no answers, so you then add a bounty, and still get no answers, what happens?  Do you lose your points to the ether?  Does the bounty get canceled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T16:05:42.507" Title="What happens if there are no answers to a bounty question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9857" CreationDate="2009-07-27T02:42:09.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/migrate-questions-between-websites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;July14th blog&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is still a vote-based process,&#xA;  unless a moderator intervenes. If the&#xA;  post reaches the close vote threshold&#xA;  (currently requires 5 close votes,&#xA;  with a majority of the belongs-on&#xA;  type), then it is migrated to the&#xA;  other website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you know, there has been a good amount of talk about moving questions by low rep users to SuperUser, specifically that the site is currently in beta, and even though it is publicly available (if you know who/how to ask) it might not be obvious to the user where his/her question has gone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind perhaps a moderator intervened, or perhaps there was a decision to not auto migrate to SuperUser for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for not providing a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; answer, but adding this color via comment would have been burdensome.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T02:50:16.580" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T02:50:16.580" />
  <row Id="9905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9817" CreationDate="2009-07-27T02:42:27.580" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I +1 to this suggestion, however the rep penalty should be 10-20 points. Perhaps something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets closed, then re-opened, and then kept open for 24-48 hours, then each of the people who voted to close get a 10-20 points of rep penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To deal with multiple closes, it can be changed so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets closed, re-opened, closed, re-opened, etc, and then the final result is that it stays re-opened for 24-48 hours, then each of the people who voted to close it get a 10-20 points closing penalty. With each closing cycle adding +5 to the penalty. (So the first 3 people who voted to close might get -10, the second group gets a -15, the 3rd group, a -20, and so forth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively it can be changed so the people who vote to re-open a question get a +10 rep bonus if the question stays open for 24-48 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T02:42:27.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-27T02:42:27.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9808" CreationDate="2009-07-27T02:44:57.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand why it should probably be private, but I think there's something powerful about a public caning that deters future offenders.  See, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%5FP.%5FFay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael P. Fay&lt;/a&gt; as an example.  I would not mind seeing a banner announcement &quot;So and so is put in penalty box for 2 days.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T02:44:57.387" />
  <row Id="9909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9902" CreationDate="2009-07-27T02:59:37.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Someone please correct me if I am wrong and I will update my information.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Jeff Atwood in this blog entry &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[Reputation Bounty for Unanswered Questions:]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree we shouldn’t auto-accept&#xA;  answers with 0 or negative votes,&#xA;  however, and we’ll make sure we don’t.&#xA;  So in the case where all the answers&#xA;  are at 0 or below, no auto-accept will&#xA;  occur after 7 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are no answers, then the condition that an answer is greater than 0 has not been met (*see note below). So I believe the logic is already in place not to auto-accept an answer. However, it seems that bounties are paid up front. Even if there is no accepted answer, you do not get the reputation back. &quot;No returns.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;Note: According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow/817572#817572&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, it seems that &quot;auto-accept requires 2+ upvotes minimum&quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T14:07:43.010" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T14:07:43.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9902" CreationDate="2009-07-27T04:21:09.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Ian's comment says, I believe even if no answer ends up accepted after a week, you still lose the reputation associated with the bounty. I believe this is because, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4508/please-do-not-auto-select-answers-on-bounty-questions/4515#4515&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt; points out, the bounty system is essentially a way to publicize your question. Therefore, you still have to pay for the advertising, whether it ends up with an accepted answer or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T04:21:09.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9915" CreationDate="2009-07-27T05:00:01.377" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was asked on SO a few minutes ago, where the title and the entire question were in all caps: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1186487/firefox-and-yahoo-incompatibles-just-how-deep-closed&quot;&gt;FIREFOX AND YAHOO INCOMPATIBLES — JUST HOW DEEP ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be a good idea to auto-convert posts entered in all caps to lowercase?  Or is that overkill?  The system does seem to have worked, as this was quickly downvoted and closed, but if it had been a valid programming question maybe an automatic conversion to all-lowercase (or sentence case) would have helped it avoid the firing squad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T09:05:30.750" Title="Should posts in all caps be auto-converted to lowercase?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="9913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9912" CreationDate="2009-07-27T05:07:43.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like sort of a special-case. Personally, i'd rather the SO team wrote code to detect such posts, and then &lt;em&gt;automatically set up a PayPal account to accept donations towards a new keyboard&lt;/em&gt; for the author of the question. I think it'd be a better long-term solution...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T05:07:43.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9912" CreationDate="2009-07-27T05:08:59.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it wasn't &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; it was &lt;em&gt;moved&lt;/em&gt;, which was completely the wrong thing to do. In this case, the best option was closing as not programming related / not a real question / spam, etc. If it happened to be a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; question, the best thing would have been to edit it to remove the all-caps. But people just took the easy route and sent it to another site for them to deal with instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4679/serverfault-com-is-not-your-trash-bin&quot;&gt;SuperUser is not your trash bin!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T05:08:59.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9912" CreationDate="2009-07-27T05:20:29.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think editing is the key here. This is exactly why SO is part wiki. If this were a valid question that for some reason was in all caps, then it absolutely should have been edited by user's with the appropriate amount of rep so that it was readable and answerable. I don't think spending time developing a programmatic solution to this would be meaningful, because there is already a process designed into the system (editing) to handle precisely this scenario. Especially because going to all lower caps is not really a solution, it simply changes the problem. Certainly an algorithm could be written to detect the appropriate punctuation marks and capitalize the next letter could be developed, but again, I don't think this would be worth the effort it would involved to implement and maintain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T05:20:29.883" />
  <row Id="9916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T05:37:12.410" Score="0" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have links for StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser and Meta next to each other on my Bookmark toolbar in Firefox (windows) 3.5.  Sometimes the favicon for ServerFault turns into the SuperUser icon (though the link is unchanged.  Maybe this belongs on SuperUser, rather than Meta, but it seems StackOverflow related since it doesn't happen to any other icons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4089" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:31:04.583" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:02:30.457" Title="Why does my ServerFault favicon sometimes turn into SuperUser?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;favicon&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="9917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9916" CreationDate="2009-07-27T05:40:51.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I used Firefox in the past I had noticed this would happen occasionally. I never quite isolated down how or why it happened, but I think it was related to failed page loads and going directly from the one favorite to the other. But either way, I believe it is a Firefox issue and not a SO issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T05:40:51.013" />
  <row Id="9918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9807" CreationDate="2009-07-27T05:53:36.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicate. Firebug causes the issue. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8021/script-running-slow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. You could try one of the 1.5 &lt;a href=&quot;http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.5X/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nightlies&lt;/a&gt; to see if the issue goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="6440" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T06:16:21.717" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T06:16:21.717" />
  <row Id="9921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9787" CreationDate="2009-07-27T06:08:43.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This wouldn't require moving the filtering to server-side. All it would take would be a second http request to say &quot;oops - I don't have many questions, can I have some more please?&quot; after the client-side filtering happened. This would be similar to the way slashdot pulls in more stories when you scroll to the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T06:08:43.747" />
  <row Id="9924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9902" CreationDate="2009-07-27T06:16:25.860" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You do not accept an answer. Any answer that was a) &lt;strong&gt;provided after the bounty period started&lt;/strong&gt; and b) &lt;strong&gt;has 2 or more upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; is automatically accepted after 7 days. The bounty is subtracted from your reputation. The answerer is awarded half the bounty amount (unless it’s your own answer, see #3 below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are three alerts sent to the bounty question owner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;direct email, 2 days before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;site message, 2 days before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;direct email, 1 day before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: bounties can now be re-opened, and accepted answers are no longer tied to bounty awards in any way. More details at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-22T16:05:42.507" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T16:05:42.507" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9796" CreationDate="2009-07-27T06:19:16.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way that strikethrough is used enough to justify a button, and I certainly don't want to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; its use any more than it already is..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T06:19:16.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9807" CreationDate="2009-07-27T06:20:10.940" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this persists after disabling Firebug let us know. Specifically, if you can repro it in Chrome or IE8 let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I tried in FF 3.5.1 with your text and could not repro but I don't have Firebug enabled)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latest Firebug versions are VERY VERY buggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T07:04:09.900" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T07:04:09.900" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T06:37:50.140" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two suggestions on comments/commenting on question and answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;imo, it would look nice if a user's ID that is prefixed with @ in a comment was formatted subtly different (color? bold?) from the other text in the comment. For example:&#xA;&quot;@liao: so is not so-so&quot; could be &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;@liao&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: so is not so-so&quot; (no pun intended :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;when creating a comment, it would be useful (no proof, just feels &quot;right&quot;) to ask the commenter &quot;who&quot; the comment is directed at.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;a. &quot;who&quot; = user id picked from asker and other commenters on the quesion&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;b. in case of a comment referencing multiple commenters, point #1 may help instead?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to trample on all the above - they are just thoughts i had in the short time i've been using this site, so i had to at least put it &quot;out &lt;strike&gt;there&lt;/strike&gt; here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131708" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T06:59:11.117" Title="format @user-id in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-27T06:40:41.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For consuming information and answering questions, it certainly would be nice to have better integration, but as Jon Skeet says on the blog, SO has a certain magic broad-but-not-too-broadness about it. You wouldn't just want to log in and view all the questions in the universe. Since StackExchange will probably result in lots of good communities that people might be interested in, I think the following idea is a good dream. You have a central identity, like an email address, which is used for any knowledge-exchange community, and you can subscribe to any number of such communities (e.g. SO/SF/SU/MSO/CookingExchange). Within each community, you can have your interested/ignore tags and so on. When you sign into your account, you can see all the questions in all your communities (maybe this should have to be tweaked; you'd probably want all your SO/SF/SU questions together, but CookingExchange questions separately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, reputation in separate communities would have to be kept separate. Also, you'd have to deal with the problem that people need to post to the appropriate community, so this solution doesn't really solve the problem posed in the question. Come to think of it, this dream is basically what we've got now! Keep up the great work, Jeff et al.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the current setup is very good, but I do wonder what's going to happen when StackExchange happens. It would be nice if there were some way to migrate accounts and questions between different knowledge-exchanges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T06:40:41.337" />
  <row Id="9930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9927" CreationDate="2009-07-27T06:59:11.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for your second point, I think this might encourage a more threaded discussion, which I believe Jeff &amp;amp; Joel specifically don't want (and I see their point here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start responding to commenters, the Q&amp;amp;A part of the site may degrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T06:59:11.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9931" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T07:04:20.693" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675/is-there-a-page-that-display-questions-with-0-answers&quot;&gt;is there a page that display questions with 0 answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can you see all questions with 0 answers on stackoverflow? I find trolling the &quot;unanswered&quot; sections, that most of the questions are indeed answered just people were too lazy to upvote the answers or accept the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130173" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:04:16.667" ClosedDate="2009-07-28T04:16:45.867" Title="How can you see all questions with 0 answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9902" CreationDate="2009-07-27T07:07:26.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the bounty status is a &lt;em&gt;permanent&lt;/em&gt; one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you have paid for it (up front, no refund)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you have not selected an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no answer has been auto-selected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;, then that is called an &quot;unresolved&quot; bounty, and its status is, again, permanent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The side effect is: if a great answer comes &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the expiration of your &quot;unresolved&quot; bounty, you will not able to select it, you will only be able to vote it up.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;Why an answer can’t be accepted after an unresolved bounty?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T07:07:26.720" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9934" CreationDate="2009-07-27T07:08:44.757" Score="2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1117958/how-do-i-use-raw-socket-in-python&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in SO. Non of the answers I got over time satisfied me, and it wasn't that important for me to start a bounty. Eventually I resolved the problem by myself, and it wasn't exactly a solution that occurred in either of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I had a big dilemma: What to do with the question? I have a solution, but it's sown up a lot to my special case. Should I answer my own question? If I did, should I accept my answer? Should I just close the question? Or should I do nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, is there a convention about answering your own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Short Notice: I eventually did answer my own question, and accepted the answer. But if the best solution would be to delete the question or the answer, I will do that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130404" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:24:36.597" Title="Is there a convention for accepting my own answer to my own question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="9934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9933" CreationDate="2009-07-27T07:19:18.593" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, answer your own question.&lt;/strong&gt;  It is within the rule and spirit of Stack Overflow and something the founders have explicitly defined as 'OK'.  There is even a badge for it (with 3 up votes): &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/14/self-learner&quot;&gt;The Self Learner&lt;/a&gt; Badge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T07:19:18.593" />
  <row Id="9935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9931" CreationDate="2009-07-27T07:19:54.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no easy way to accomplish this, sadly. I wouldn't be surprised if this got a &lt;kbd&gt;status-declined&lt;/kbd&gt;, though. After all, the point is to get every question answered, not just the ones that will make you eligible for the Enlightened badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you're noticing posts that show up in Unanswered but actually have a viable answer, why not take the 0.5 seconds and upvote the answer? That way, we can clear up the clutter a bit, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T07:19:54.630" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9931" CreationDate="2009-07-27T07:46:55.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are only 384 of them (according to the latest data dump), I looked at a few and a lot got migrated or closed: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from Questions &#xA;where AnswerCount = 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use the data dump to find them. You can also filter on low view count, or high questioner rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your enjoyment, here is the oldest unanswered question on stackoverflow is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/157969&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/157969&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T08:04:16.667" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:04:16.667" />
  <row Id="9937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="450" CreationDate="2009-07-27T08:08:34.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that users be able to mark a post (not just a whole question) as read (instead of unread).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All posts are initially marked &lt;em&gt;unread&lt;/em&gt;. A post is marked as read on voting or commenting. It will also be possible to &quot;vote neutral&quot;, neither up nor down, by clicking between the up- and downvote button, effectively marking the post as read. As soon as a post is edited, the &quot;read&quot; tag will be removed and the post is counted as unread again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it for a single thread. To make this easy to use in practice, users will also be able to view a list of all unread posts in questions marked as favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:08:34.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9686" CreationDate="2009-07-27T08:18:14.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a 3 pointer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10644/any-decent-c-profilers-out-there/231577&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10644/any-decent-c-profilers-out-there/231577&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49912/best-dotnet-memory-and-performance-profiler&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49912/best-dotnet-memory-and-performance-profiler&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3927/what-are-some-good-net-profilers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3927/what-are-some-good-net-profilers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really they should all be folded into a single mega community wiki .... There is no value in having the 3 questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:18:14.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9933" CreationDate="2009-07-27T08:24:36.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't delete your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone else comes along with the same problem as you (however unlikely that might be) they'll see your question and answer and thus they'll be able to solve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing happened to a couple of my questions on SO. The answers provided suggested a solution that didn't work but led me to the right answer. I posted this (with due credit to the route I took) and accepted the answer (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/765616/why-am-i-getting-an-exception-raised-from-spring-net-on-the-call-to-contextregist&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/734313/the-columns-property-on-my-wpf-toolkit-datagrid-isnt-set-despite-the-datacontext&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if you're interested).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:24:36.597" />
  <row Id="9940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9686" CreationDate="2009-07-27T08:42:52.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bforeach+%2Bcaptured+%2Bvariable+%2Bc%23+site:stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;foreach captured variable c#&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon kindly listed some of them &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/295593#295597&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;... and that was just in November; it will be longer now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this language gotcha is that until you understand what is happening, you can't know what to look for... IMO, this is one of the good use-cases for tag-specific home pages, where we can (manually) add a FAQ for that tag (i.e. link to the canonical answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T08:42:52.210" />
  <row Id="9941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2009-07-27T08:49:19.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This just causes audience&#xA;  fragmentation and dissipation for no&#xA;  reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not for no reason. It's for the same reason as why I'm interested in learning what's new in .NET 4.0 and yet I don't know (or care about) why your printer doesn't print.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to have only programming related tags, users and reputation in StackOverflow. It helps keeping things more consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update. In Barcelona there are stores like Fnac or El Corte Inglés where you can buy music, dvd's and books, among others. There are also book stores. And there are also &lt;em&gt;technical&lt;/em&gt; book stores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, the general stores can have books about everything - they are well organized in sections and they have plenty of space in the store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now try to find &lt;em&gt;C# in Depth&lt;/em&gt; at El Corte Inglés.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T08:36:53.010" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T08:36:53.010" />
  <row Id="9943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T09:05:12.683" Score="2" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation on SO has been highly discussed. I have been curious how the reputation is distributed. A first glimpse on the userlist resulted in the hypothesis, that reputation is degrading following a power-law to the (reputation-order) rank of the user. This distribution would support the theory expressed by the question whether &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes&quot;&gt;&quot;High Reputation Attracts Too Many 'Up-Votes'?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did some data gathering (privacy aware, not storing any user identifiers, mind you) and got the following graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/427bc50f08.png&quot; alt=&quot;power-law degradion of reputation in SO userlist&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the x-axis you find the rank of the user, starting with 0 (Dijkstra-conform). On the y-axis the reputation value is shown in logarithmic scale. By &quot;rank&quot; I denote the ordinal numbers of the userlist ordered by reputation (order as done by SO)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not too good with evaluating data, but that degradation follows something stronger than 1/(a^x) seems quite obvious to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this say about SO-users? Are we stacking positive votes on top of those who already have a high reputation? Are we 'follow the leader'-types? Do we need more data?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131427" LastEditorUserId="131427" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T10:13:33.460" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:13:33.460" Title="What does the distribution of reputation in SO say about SO-users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9912" CreationDate="2009-07-27T09:05:30.750" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts in all-BILLY MAYS should be auto-converted to close/deleted state. That would have totally avoided the firing line of down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put them to rest like OxiClean does stains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer sponsored by the beard of the late BILLY MAYS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T09:05:30.750" />
  <row Id="9946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2009-07-27T09:25:45.733" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done a couple of related blog posts with my own graphs based on the data dumps which you might want to have a look at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/geekomatic/2009/06/24/1245844920000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Voting Patterns in Detail&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/geekomatic/2009/06/18/1245340860000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Down Votes vs. Up Votes vs. Reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/geekomatic/2009/06/09/1244565360000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Up and Down Voting Pattern Analysis&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two interesting and relevant graphs from those blog posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Percent Up Votes (of Total Votes) for Five Reputation Bands + the Top 10&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-percent-up-for-five-reputation-tiers.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Percent Up Votes (of Total Votes) for Five Reputation Bands + the Top 10&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Down Votes (&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;-axis) vs. Up Votes (&lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;-axis) vs. Reputation (&lt;em&gt;z&lt;/em&gt;-axis)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-badges-reputation-vs-up-vs-down-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Reputation vs Up Votes vs Down Votes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Privacy?&quot; Yea, right.  We are posting to a Collective Commons lic'd site with public data dumps.  The SO team has sanitized to the point where if a users wants to remain anonymous they can.  If a users doesn't care, then that is that.  Remember, real names and other identifying information is not required/displayed.  Accounts are not even a requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the blog posts are more interesting statistics and graphs, including stuff on specific users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T09:32:48.647" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T09:32:48.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9943" CreationDate="2009-07-27T09:58:08.963" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me crazy... but wouldn't this data also support the theory that high rep users tend to write good answers, &lt;em&gt;attracting&lt;/em&gt; up-votes? Meaning: answers that are readable; accurate; qualified (i.e. with evidence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I accept that I fall into the &quot;high rep&quot; bracket, so I hope that doesn't sound egotistical. But when I vote, I'm voting for the quality of &lt;strong&gt;that question/answer&lt;/strong&gt;, not the user. If a new user posts a good answer, I'll vote for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T09:58:08.963" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="9948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T10:18:20.743" Score="6" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is answering a bounty question immune to the daily reputation limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T19:01:12.690" Title="Bounty question and daily reputation limit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="9949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9948" CreationDate="2009-07-27T10:19:55.250" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on &quot;when&quot;. If you get the bounty &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; you've maxed, then yes; it is immune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you get awarded a bounty at 2am (server time), then yes, you get the bounty, but you'll simply &quot;max&quot; sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. (sequence)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 upvotes; 15 upvotes; 100 bounty =&gt; 300 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 upvotes; +100 bounty; 15 upvotes =&gt; 250 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100 bounty; 15 upvotes; 15 upvotes =&gt; 200 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is (in some ways) very frustrating to get for example a 150 bounty first thing in the morning (server-time). But hey, you still get the bounty!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:19:55.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T10:54:52.137" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question of mine was suddenly &quot;stolen&quot; (I supposed by admin) and all my answers transferred to another question even though my question was very clearly initiated on the basis of license which is &quot;commercially usable free graphics&quot; and not &quot;free graphics&quot;. No GPL or similar licences was called for in the suggestions and explicitly excluded. Only LGPL, Public Domain or any License that permits free Commercial Use was called for. That's why the original question didn't satisfy my requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore this happened within the last week after the question has been running for about 8 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question where mine was transferred to also has not been edited to make the licensing requirement absolutely clear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happiniess to all, I suppose, accept a vinilla world where free is free, or is it? Just bunch everything together called free, even if it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Something to consider as well, a deleted question is more accessable on SO than a question merged in this way since the merged question completely dissappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18681" LastEditorUserId="18681" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T11:23:57.717" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:00:02.460" Title="Does similar questions now suddenly become the &quot;exactly the same&quot; or &quot;exact copies&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;&lt;graphics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="9953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:13:33.263" Score="687" ViewCount="7172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Stack Overflow for most of the private beta.  Since the site went to public beta on Monday, I have detected a distinct decline in the level of civility.  Some of this is due to new users coming in and posting spam and other nonsense, but the offtopic and downvote buttons are doing a pretty good job of keeping this under control.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, a lot of this is coming from more experienced users, and the site's built-in moderation system is not (and probably cannot) handle this very well.  Folks are rushing to pound new users down with &quot;this belongs on meta!&quot;, &quot;this is offtopic&quot;, &quot;this is a duplicate!&quot; and &quot;read the FAQ!&quot;.  All this, of course, is accompanied by a flurry of downvotes.  This is not very welcoming to new users who don't know about meta, or what is offtopic, or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;unofficial FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I am not proposing that we just allow offtopic, meta, or duplicate questions.  However, I think we could be gentler in the way we express these sorts of things.  Explain what meta and the unofficial FAQ are and provide useful links.  Just using please and thank-you when asking folks to read the FAQ or post something on meta would be an improvement.  I also think we could rein in the downvoting a bit.  Not that we shouldn't vote stuff down, but unless a new user's post is clearly spam, voting it down to -1 or -2 should be sufficient to send a message without piling on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like Stack Overflow and I want it to become a resource for everyone, not just an elitist site for people who were in the private beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited to add:&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;Exhibit A for what I'm talking about (and what inspired me to actually post this) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;this question here&lt;/a&gt;.  A guy asked the reasoning behind a design decision and he gets voted down into oblivion, called stupid and a whiner, and one person even flagged his question as offensive.  Honestly, I wouldn't even vote his post down.  A quick explanation and a link to the FAQ would suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75032/stack-overflow-why-cant-i-immediately-upvote-an-answer&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75032/stack-overflow-why-cant-i-immediately-upvote-an-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above link is dead, anyone care to find another good example, I need proof before I believe that SO has &quot;leveled&quot; yet again, all jerks have not suddenly been enlightened, or have they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:36:42.430" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T19:55:44.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-16T18:13:33.263" Title="Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="68" CommentCount="41" FavoriteCount="23" />
  <row Id="9954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:15:18.670" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree, although I've probably been short with a few, but how hard is it to search before you ask? I marked at least 8 posts as duplicates in just the last 2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="9955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:20:11.157" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a decline in civility during the beta.  It seems like a few of the &quot;old-timers&quot; (who have been here for &lt;em&gt;weeks&lt;/em&gt;) don't like people joining their sandbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131953" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="9956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:20:59.860" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is not very welcoming to new&#xA;  users who don't know about uservoice,&#xA;  or what is offtopic, or the unofficial&#xA;  FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we explain this to them when having discussions in the &quot;answers&quot; area is strongly discouraged? I say let 'em find out what this site is. It doesn't take long. And if getting voted down makes someone cry, then he shouldn't use this site at all (or Digg or Reddit or ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:21:31.607" Score="86" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend some type of cookie-cutter response that we can just copy-and-paste depending on the mistake made.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This type of question is considered a 'poll' and is outside Stack Overflow's scope.  Please rephrase the question so that it can be answered definitively or it will be closed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or something like that.  I think that the moderators on javaranch.com do something similar when their newbies break the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:21:43.057" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is this inherent fear--perhaps a subconscious one learned after spending time on Digg, Reddit, Hacker News, and other similar community-run sites--of a flood of new users decreasing the quality of posts on a site like this.  If anything such a fear dates back all the way to the Eternal September of Usenet, back in 1993.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fear leads to an overreaction when people see what they think are junk questions posted by newer users--whether the questions are simply offtopic, or perhaps trollish or ignorant, or perhaps highly subjective.  People are afraid of the quality of the site being ruined by such things, and whether justified or not, they break out the downvotes in droves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:23:50.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, and I experienced this. I posted something off-topic and marked it as such. It was sufficient to have it downvoted, I don't need somebody flaming me to not post content like that on here. The training is built into the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As best I can tell, they're hoping to get some sympathy from other veterans to their cause to help their own rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just trying to get to a point where I can upvote interesting questions and answers, and I'm not sure how to best do that when I'm not the quickest or most authoritative response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7301" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:32:04.327" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember, we have all been n00bs. It has never hurt anyone to be polite. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand you would expect new (and old) users to do a little investigation before posting, and trying to see if the question already exists somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132996" LastEditorUserId="152451" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-17T19:55:44.447" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T19:55:44.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:39:59.550" Score="161" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree, there are a few points to note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 upvote clears the rep cost of several downvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New users need to learn and those with the &quot;mod&quot; class rep levels simply don't have time to hand-hold all the new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I (and we) always take &quot;n00bism&quot; into account before smashing down (I tend to favour closing if possible to save them rep).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The up/down vote system is not just about rep, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the quality control mechanism for Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the welcome page and the FAQ it clearly states everything that you have mentioned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, like I said, we should take it into account. &lt;strong&gt;But the fact remains, the up/down vote system is the core of how we get the &quot;good stuff&quot; up and the &quot;bad stuff&quot; down. It is not designed to be a personal attack against the users in question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at &quot;&lt;em&gt;exhibit A&lt;/em&gt;&quot;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; offensive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't even think it really belongs on uservoice. I would have commented and closed it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; have voted down due to the fact that it is a valid question and not really covered by the official faq (the &quot;unofficial faq&quot; really pisses me off, that should not have survived private beta for this very reason).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The abusive responses are not helpful, I have modded them down, and everyone else should have done the same.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we &lt;strong&gt;please&lt;/strong&gt; remember that we are supposed to be adults, we are supposed to be problem-solvers by trade. So, can we try to apply some brain cells to things please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142924" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="9962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T18:54:01.217" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've all been noobs, as superwiren stated, that's certainly true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's a correct way to be a noob, and a wrong way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you visit a new place, you should spend some time just looking around and absorbing the culture. That way, you'll learn how to behave in (local) community. When you ask the first question or give a first answer, you'll do it the right way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other way is to start dancing fandango in a crowded metro. Generally, this is somehow frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many commenters are forgetting that for every noob that doesn't know how to behave there are ten of the first sort. Kudos to them! And to show them that we appreciate them, we should scream at the latter sort even more loudly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4997" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T19:04:06.887" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To try and reduce the number of &quot;belongs on uservoice&quot; and &quot;read the FAQ&quot; questions I've suggested that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/25818&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice link should be more prominent on the Ask Question page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T20:03:58.880" Score="61" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I recommend some type of cookie-cutter&#xA;  response that we can just&#xA;  copy-and-paste depending on the&#xA;  mistake made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Outlaw Programmer, but would add that it would be useful if there was a menu or similar to quickly (and politely) allow &quot;problem post&quot; identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you see that a post is a duplicate, you hit a button, enter the URL/ID of the post duplicated. Successive viewers can then agree or disagree. The question poster will get a canned and polite notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of templating being a burden on individual users, have it be a function of the system for the most common problem posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offhand, those seem to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs in uservoice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offtopic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unclear question (not enough detail&#xA;to respond, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...More as post requirements develop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence this would be a votable, post classification tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quick and painless for advanced users... just choose the classification from a list of canned ones, or vote up the existing classification(s) if you agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be friendly and helpful to the new(er)bies. They would see &quot;15 people think this post belongs in the uservoice section. Do you want to move it there?&quot; or &quot;107 people think you should probably add more detail to your question. Edit now?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;shrug&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T20:07:33.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a post/topic that must be read and acknowledged by new users. I know these &quot;terms &amp;amp; conditions&quot; type things can (and often are) just checked and clicked through, but I'm sure the wisdom of this crowd can come up with something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" />
  <row Id="9966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T20:21:50.333" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Voting down should be used judiciously but I think it's still important that it be used. I think the system already has enough built in protections in this regard. Down votes are costly to the voter (-1 rep) and have only a small effect on the rep of the target (-2 rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to pick on the author of the given example, but take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13185/benprew&quot;&gt;his user page&lt;/a&gt;. He's posted 1 question and 1 answer. His answer has 0 net votes and his question has -5 net down votes. Yet he has, just now, 47 total rep (which, incidentally, is enough to allow him to vote answers up or down, per his complaint/question). Given this I think it's a bit ridiculous to say that people voting his question down represents &quot;being hard on him&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" />
  <row Id="9967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T21:09:17.520" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Jeff and Joel could put together a video tutorial explaining how Stack Overflow works and explaining some of the do's and don'ts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From seeing a video of Joel giving a presentation of FogBugz and listening to the podcast I imagine they could make it humorous enough that people would watch the whole thing and informative enough that they could raise the level of n00bism here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; In fact, I think it's such a good idea that I've made a uservoice suggestion for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/25954&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;creating a tutorial video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it's been &lt;strong&gt;declined&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;if the site isn't somewhat self-evident, we have failed -- video or not&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="9968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T21:30:54.800" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a noob(ish) and I read the FAQ before I asked anything. I think RTFM is a reasonable request. I didn't come here to be spoon-fed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is quite intuitive and there aren't any challenging new concepts to learn about how it operates so there is really not much excuse, apart from laziness, to use it as it is intended to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, there's no excuse for rudeness. A simple &quot;Please Read the FAQ&quot; should suffice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't work there's always justfuckinggoogleit.com/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132165" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" />
  <row Id="9969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T21:32:32.957" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Post first, ask questions later.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe users should have to post an answer before they can post a question. Then they would have had to start using the site before they post bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would almost go so far as to require users to post more answers than questions. Because as far as I can tell anyone who actually uses this site has answered more questions than they have asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="9970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-16T21:38:53.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The uservoice link says &quot;Found a bug? Want to make a feature request?&quot;.  Exhibit A is neither a bug report nor a feature request so it doesn't make sense that it &quot;belongs-on-uservoice&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130067" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T00:04:19.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No? Wait, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T01:07:55.263" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a newbie and a few days ago I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64407/how-many-reputation-points-do-i-need-to-do-x&quot;&gt;How many reputation points do I need to do X?&lt;/a&gt;, At this point I had already read the FAQ, browsed by the page and even answered a couple of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still get a canned &quot;Try looking at the FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having read the FAQ I felt a little bad, until someone else clarified that there is an &quot;Unofficial FAQ&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there should be a really big (or at least the same size as the other ones) link to a real FAQ which includes all the information in the Unofficial FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="9973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:47:06.520" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a noob. I've been registered for less than 24 hours after finding SO on Reddit, and I've been impressed with both the level of civility and usefulness of many of the questions and answers. I'm also very intrigued by the reputation system and the inventiveness of the site's designers in trying to design a system that keeps up the site's quality and doesn't let it devolve into something like Digg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Both&lt;/em&gt; of these things encouraged me to try to engage with the site (in spite of the OpenID painfulness) vs. just lurk and go away. I have 63 mod points now, so I don't think the 15-point up-vote hurdle is too high at all if a dumbass like me can pass it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, from the noob perspective I don't think there's a big problem, but I do appreciate Chris' advice that you all be nice to us (except for the cretins with the how do I use Windows questions). The system is complicated enough that the real aka &quot;unofficial&quot; FAQ really needs to be linked to in the menu (as levhita suggests), not the useless one (or merge the two).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" />
  <row Id="9974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T05:51:01.090" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If lots of people are asking the same questions about SO, then that's potentially a usability problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if lots of people are asking (and answering) poll-type questions, then that is apparently an interesting use-case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="9975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T08:35:55.450" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I stopped dead in my tracks when I noticed that to post anything on uservoice I had to create yet another user account and that I couldn't even use my openid like I could on stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean if the websites are so closely related wouldn't it make sense for them to behave &#xA;in the same manner or even better to actually &lt;em&gt;share&lt;/em&gt; the same user system ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands asking a question on uservoice is more difficult than asking one on SO and many people discover SO directly and only see uservoice later (if they even do). Given that, is it so surprising that people go for the easiest and just post their questions on SO ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134326" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T10:04:34.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a n00b, I have to agree, to a point.  I've noticed a certain slashdottishness around here, though its pretty limited so not that large an issue.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think the environment will take care of itself over time.  Those who don't need / want / deserve to be here will leave or be encouraged to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" />
  <row Id="9977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T16:42:02.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always known that coders can be mean and ruthless. Grrrrrrr.&#xA;Well, I'm a Noob, we'll see how I fare here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T00:50:08.343" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T00:50:08.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-17T21:41:59.680" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hide the numbers. Even videogames are better when they don't show all the stats. Replace them with a colored ball or some more &quot;logarithmic&quot; numbers, if you must.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &quot;one-week-old-timers&quot;, feel free to mod this down, like someone just did to a couple of other &quot;2-days-younger-than-old-timers&quot; in this very thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-18T03:32:56.933" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of requests on UserVoice.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/25635&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Provide clear and solid guidelines for SO users&lt;/a&gt; [declined]&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/25645&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Formulate and publish moderation policy&lt;/a&gt; [completed]&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Admin response&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... if site behaviors are not&#xA;  self-evident, we have failed....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's time to acknowledge that users need clean guidelines?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people keep asking such questions, maybe you &lt;em&gt;really failed&lt;/em&gt; to explain what &lt;em&gt;Stack Overflow is&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; be obvious?: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/stackoverflow-venn-diagram.png&quot; alt=&quot;so&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-18T04:45:00.787" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The growth of the community depends upon new users. New users to test the waters, grow the fields of discussion. I posted something I knew to be off-topic and got slammed. For new users, perhaps there should be a lower limit to the times any one question or comment can be down-voted. A reputation that was built in three days was destroyed in less than 5 minutes; just from trying to feel out the limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the site isn't entirely programming but, if a question edges too far from this it gets raped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being pretentious, snobby, mean, and generally negative is not a way to build a helpful community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-18T12:55:17.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of discussion about &quot;noobs&quot; and such, but aren't we all technically new to the site. It's not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; old yet (for example, if this site was slashdot instead, we'd all have really low UIDs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, the only difference between people joining now and people who &quot;have been here since the beginning&quot; is something like two months (if that). And most of that time was spent in private beta. I think the question itself promotes hostility to those who didn't join the private beta as it starts to create cliques of users in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty soon we'll have the group of guys who were in the private beta, the group who joined during open beta, the people who joined the first month, the people who know Joel and Jeff personally and it will be a mess of down votes and bickering in the answers and comments with mod powers being thrown about willy-nilly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, let's just ask questions, give answers, vote on the best of each and try and ignore &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; said what and concentrate on &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; was said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-18T19:24:40.750" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found this discussion right after being 'downed' at 'uservoice' question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm...  I can express some feelings after this all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being noob here doesn't mean being noob in computing and communities. It should be not a requirement to &quot;lurk first - participate later&quot;. This is what noobs very often hear from nerds and pseudo-elites. Good site must accept anyone with positive mind from the first minute. And yes, normally 'lurking' applies to the sites with close-minded jerkish societies, which I hope is not a case here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice just to forbid down-voting newbe, especially when he has low reputation points yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, just a hint (in form of tags) would be nice to point newbe to right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Noob, just came to the site, sees questions-discussions-polls like &quot;What the best features of X are&quot; with high votes, and thinks this is legal on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this site is designed for elite members, so you should be more polite and forgiving to new members. Normally communities tend to be extending and this, I think, is a main goal. Otherwise so many noobs will leave your site for ever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voting system isn't very well designed, you should admit it and try to make it even better. Sometimes noobs may give you good advise. (Sometimes - may not).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's something to do with question votes. I'm afraid, some people don't even realize that this is not a polling counter. :)  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your attention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147629" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="9983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.163" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;UPDATED THIS POST&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, being a n00b myself, didn't realize there was already a system called Badges (yes, I see the big button up top, I just hadn't gotten around to investigating it). Below is my original suggestion, but now that I know there is already a badges system implemented... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we extend Badges to incorporate tests on various subject matters, instead of just auto-generated values, as it does now. Just like real boy-scout badges. Learn how to tie a knot, take the knot tying test, get a badge. Read the FAQ, take the FAQ test, get a badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(read below for a wordier way of saying the same thing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implement a n00b training and rating system as part of the user account. When a person makes a new account they start out as a n00b, with a score of 0. If they want to increase that score, they have to take tests. The score on the test advances your n00b score. There are multiple tests in different topic areas, and the various tests are weighted differently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there could be a test about basic site navigation. It could be a low valued test, so even if you get a 100% score on the test, it only boosts your n00b level a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another test could be proving you know the answers from the various FAQs. This could be a medium weighted score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another test could be proving you know how the various social systems work, and what socially acceptable behaviour is. It would help to have a &quot;coding standard&quot; type document that covers this, so that people who don't just &quot;get it&quot; can learn it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of system is already in place on a lot of forum softwares, but they rate the users on how many posts, giving them various levels of experience, starting at n00b and ending at SysOp (or Admin for you youngsters). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be an additional rating system to reputation, and it's opt-in. Reputation is socially controlled. User experience level is something you can learn and test your way to success with, whether anyone likes what you have to say or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way, you can prove that you've read the faq, and understand it enough to answer the questions in the test, and get the appropriate &quot;scout badge&quot;. That way, when people are answering your questions, they know at what level to start.. A respondant might think &quot;Should I mention the FAQ to this guy?.. Oh, no, I see he's read the FAQ already, and he's still asking this question. Let me think about it a little deeper, or see if the FAQ is ambiguous or lacking in content.&quot; etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a system like that would be very cool. You could even have technical topic area &quot;certifications&quot; that can contribute to that... So a user can prove that they know what the heck they are talking about in c++ or Win32 COM programming. The tests could be user generated, and people could add new ones, evolving the site as it goes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T20:07:39.133" />
  <row Id="9984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-20T04:21:07.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also notice that there is a very fuzzy line as to which questions get closed and which don't.  Completely illogical that someone else can close your question without AT LEAST a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14728" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-20T04:21:07.790" />
  <row Id="9985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-09-27T09:21:50.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good point. I will start to reply with &quot;RTFM, please&quot; from now on. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1709" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-27T09:21:50.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-10-27T18:35:14.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a limitation on when the deadline for posting on a question is considered beating a dead horse? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have little reputation, am a novice programmer, but I'm not scared to be voted down even if I answer honestly thinking I understood the question. Nothing will show me the progress I've made throughout the years like documenting my failures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While being downright mean to someone is not the solution, I would assume people don't really need to be pampered...just my opinion as someone from the 'trophy kid' generation, you shouldn't always be protected or even rewarded when you make a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love this place, even if I still have a lot to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138577" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-27T18:35:14.597" />
  <row Id="9987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-10-27T22:17:36.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I recommend some type of cookie-cutter response that we can just copy-and-paste depending on the mistake made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree with Outlaw Programmer, but would add that it would be useful if there was a menu or similar to quickly (and politely) allow &quot;problem post&quot; identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, if you see that a post is a duplicate, you hit a button, enter the url/id of the post duplicated. Successive viewers can then agree or disagree. The question poster will get a canned and polite notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So instead of templating being a burden on individual users, have it be a function of the system for the most common problem posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Offhand, those seem to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Belongs in user voice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Offtopic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Not a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Unclear question (not enough detail to respond, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...More as post requirements develop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In essence this would be a votable, post classification tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quick and painless for advanced users...just chose the classification from a list of canned ones, or vote up the existing classification(s) if you agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be friendly and helpful to the new(er)bies. They would see &quot;15 people think this post belongs in the uservoice section. Do you want to move it there?&quot; or &quot;107 people think you should probably add more detail to your question. Edit now?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would definitely support a template-message approach. I haven't participated much here, I admit (yeah, I know, I'm a n00b commenting on a thread about n00bs), but I have over 2 1/2 years' experience on Wikipedia, much of it in vandal-patrol. The template message system set up there works pretty well, and what I see in the suggestions from Outlaw Programmer and ee is a kind of combination between Wikipedia's system and Digg's Bury menu. Am I right? If so, I'd be 100% behind that method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145203" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-27T22:17:36.660" />
  <row Id="9988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-11-04T01:52:48.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I get a little frustrated that I have to click through a lot of pages of editorial and non-programming related questions before I get to the relevant stuff.  If the first question a new person to stackoverflow asks is &quot;What's your favorite IDE?&quot;, I think they should be given a terse response and have the question marked as a duplicate.  A zillion downvotes is kind of rude, though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I am responding to a non-programming question, too... LOL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-04T01:52:48.140" />
  <row Id="9989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-11-07T08:58:38.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we separate Stack Overflow into a 'noobs' and a 'non-noob' section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of user-generated tags, why not have broad tags like separating the programming languages? One would be scripting, the other non-scripting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LOLz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I want to ask a question that's not programming related but more like a discussion thread. I wonder if you could start a flamewars forum or whatever for a better Stack Overflow experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The experience seems to me like a big communist (open thoughts, open answers) joke on democracy (voting system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T08:58:38.700" />
  <row Id="9990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-11-10T13:40:29.973" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has a solution to such a problem. This is done by a nice short welcome message explaining the importance of a few rules, rather than simply pointing out the FAQs, and tons of best practices papers and guidelines it has. On top of this, whenever a user makes a mistake he is given a chance to correct it by opening a dispute page. Perhaps we can consider something like that here. If a question is a duplicate, give the user a chance to defend it and maybe even go so far as to stop downvotes on a disputed page? Because on SO, once a question is disputed, downvotes seem to fly off faster than the speed of thought. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what we need is a template for disputed content. A few such categories would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs on uservoice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offtopic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the FAQ (This tag might be too vague?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a post gets tagged with any of the above tags, a small block explaining the details of such a tag should appear by default on the question itself with an automatic link to a resolution page where the community can vote and discuss it. If consensus is gained the question can be deleted without getting voted down. This will preserve the rep of the user as well and this will make the responses of the question more clean, as right now the discussions on such disputed questions seem to be more about the dispute and less about the question. Just my 2 pyas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-10T13:40:29.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-11-12T01:35:15.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I would like to see a few more challenges from the senior developers on the order of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This looks a LOT like a homework question. WHY are you asking us to do your homework for you?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a lot of &quot;homework suggestive&quot; questions on the site in the past week, and as an educator, I am all for collaboration and assistance, but some of the questions are flat-out BEGGING for the complete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an opinion, mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-R&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-12T01:35:15.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-11-19T05:12:48.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's something to do with question votes. I'm afraid, some people don't even realize that this is not a polling counter. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-19T05:12:48.910" />
  <row Id="9993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-11-19T05:22:55.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone has been very helpful to me, at least they were while I was posting without registering. Some of the questions when I learnt the answer even I thought myself an idiot. Nobody called me on it. Just my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-19T05:22:55.630" />
  <row Id="9994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-11-20T06:07:36.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used Stack Overflow for all of a week, and today is my last day (I always keep a link for at least a week).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've answered a few questions for people, found the reference for the question I asked.  I posed an opinion question and the results were interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Six answers within a few minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question was suddenly down voted to -5, all in one go.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two more answers, and question voted up to -4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question closed by some other user within 10 minutes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers were interesting, in that I didn't expect them and made me think.   Unfortunately, there are no other answers.  The question is still available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/298076/what-is-the-coolest-aspect-of-your-favorite-language-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/298076/what-is-the-coolest-aspect-of-your-favorite-language-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144547" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T06:07:36.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="9995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-12-04T01:10:25.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think civility could be improved in general, not just regarding questions about Stackoverflow. For example, the first question I asked here was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/298460/firefox-css-given-2-divs-how-can-i-float-the-second-one-to-the-right-using-stat&quot;&gt;CSS question&lt;/a&gt; and I got a rude and slightly offtopic answer: &quot;if you say liquid that usually means percent based dimensions, &lt;strong&gt;start associating things like that in your head&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (I had not even said &quot;liquid&quot;, and in the end there was no satisfactory answer to that question, which suggests it was not dumb).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150034" LastEditorUserId="150034" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T16:23:28.693" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T16:23:28.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-04T01:10:25.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="9996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2008-12-28T05:46:33.487" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just imagine the poster is someone else in your company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give 'naughty' noobs the same bland, negative, unemotional response you'd give to a &quot;boss&quot; who asked you to refactor code in some moderately inane way because they simply didn't understand that of which they spoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need to even be supportive (although that can be nice) but flaming people for mistakes of form, judgement or fact is behaviour that should be beneath real problem solvers. Use the down-vote judiciously and the site will flow better than if we indulge our frustrations on others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;That is a question that you'll find an ongoing discussion about &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is a polite and straight forward way to deal with a duplicate post that avoids offending anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Practising such pat phrases will serve all of us well in our workplaces too. If you don't regularly need to politely and effectively deal with people who should know better misusing their opportunities you have worked in better places than me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway that's my two cents worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-28T05:46:33.487" />
  <row Id="9997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-01-12T21:08:39.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beginners like myself often try to use stackoverflow as forum. Instead of editing the original question clarifications are given in comments or even in answers. The obvious solution to this is adding a VERY BIG &quot;Edit&quot; button instead of small link. Users who see big button understand that they are expected to click it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T21:08:39.697" />
  <row Id="9998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-01-12T21:29:23.040" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely believe this is a problem.  I recommended this site to my sister recently.  She is an inexperienced programmer, and her project director switched them from Visual Studio to Borland mid-project.  She has a master's degree in mathematics, and has only taken 1-2 college level programming classes, but has been added onto a programming project as one of her tours in the entry level program of her department.  She was struggling with some of the differences between the two development environments.  She did find some help on certain Borland sites, but had been largely at a loss for some of the errors she was running into.  That's when I sent her here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been following SO since Jeff started talking about it on coding horror.  I have to confess I am more lurker/observer  than anything else. I was extremely pleased at how quickly questions were answered, and she joined up on my recommendation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her first question was almost immediately attacked as being homework, while also being voted down and criticized for its format.  While some of the reasoning (expect the homework stuff) was accurate, the method in which it was presented was wholly inappropriate, especially for a new user.  She was almost immediately turned off by the responses, and felt like she should return to her forum resources.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thankfully, a few long time users came by, ANSWERED HER QUESTION, and encouraged her to keep participating.  They redeemed both her opinion and my own about the site.  There was a night and day difference between how the users, who basically took the same actions in showing her a better way to ask the question, responded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I definitely believe we need to be using up/down votes as they are intended, if members can't be &lt;strong&gt;respectfully&lt;/strong&gt; helpful to new users, we need some new way of communicating the proper way to use the website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149006" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T21:29:23.040" />
  <row Id="9999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-01-12T21:33:59.100" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note to some of us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some coders are childish and uncivil, as if what we're doing in this business is so darn important that shaming others is justified when we're even mildly annoyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may disagree with someone. You may feel that they have stupidly blundered into the path of your high-speed expertise. But ask yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are they a bad person?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you never done something stupid?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you appreciated a helping hand?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We live in a world where some people murder other people over their beliefs. If someone has so much in common with you as to ask you a question, even if it's not a very smart question, do they deserve to be slammed? If you were asking, would you deserve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T21:33:59.100" />
  <row Id="10000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10022" CreationDate="2009-07-27T10:43:29.123" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure what/how/why I have this issue, but when I try to access www.stackoverflow.com I get a 403 Access denied, Almost like my IP Address is banned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I connected via work VPN, just to post this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use stackoverflow a lot, so I would like it to work normally, also I have a static IP from ISP, so I can't get get a new one easily, what is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried to connect using FF, IE, Chrome, all with the same effect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134927" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:14:49.050" Title="403 While trying to access Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-01-22T12:32:28.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done my part, adding &quot;&lt;strong&gt;moderator-spam&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;modgasm&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, and &quot;&lt;strong&gt;modstermagnet&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; tags.  Come on, fellow travelers, make a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Taxonomist&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; of me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T12:32:28.693" />
  <row Id="10002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-01-22T22:23:41.433" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a newbie myself, I really like the idea around the site, reputation-based is really great and fun and makes it like something of a Wiki2.0 in my opinion.There is just one thing that annoys me a bit. I saw a couple newbies heavily downvoted without any answer or explanation. While this has not yet happened to me personally, i can imagine how frustrating this is. What about downvotes requiring mandatory comment? Now I agree that 'RTFM' would be enough of a comment - still it would definitively look less cowardly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you dont agree... well ... Weapons Free ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T22:23:41.417" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-01-22T22:46:44.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a way to flag &quot;&lt;strong&gt;mod abuse&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Giving someone rights should also mean that &lt;strong&gt;those rights can be taken away&lt;/strong&gt;. The rep system accomplishes this, only very very slowly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154836" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T22:46:44.537" />
  <row Id="10004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-02-16T02:01:18.580" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not offer the option to vote up/down a user's demonstrated courtesy? That should clean this whole thing up pretty quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-16T02:01:18.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-02-16T02:02:24.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think it should be mandatory for edits to be commented (with some minimum of characters) so that people understand why tags are mysteriously added or removed, or titles changed. One of the first things I noticed when I started checking this community out was a tendency toward hostility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-16T02:02:24.913" />
  <row Id="10006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-02-21T05:20:00.560" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't down votes require a comment? I believe this would not only make the intent clear, but would also make down voting more of a task than a thoughtless click of the mouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136340" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T05:20:00.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-02-22T17:41:49.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most annoying responses I find, are the duplicate ones where no link to the duplicate question is provided. If the duplicated question was easy to search for etc. I would have found it already and not asked the question! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking a question as a duplicate is of course ok, but I really wish this site had some sort of enforced rule that you &lt;strong&gt;have to&lt;/strong&gt; include a link to the question that was duplicated if you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39321" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T17:41:49.597" />
  <row Id="10008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-03-10T17:01:18.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree, thanks for bringing this up.  I have at times been attacked personally just for making a logical statement.  It's not always whether you are newbie or not, but can be other subjective thing such as if your question is liked or disliked, (e.g. Jon Skeet-related question seems to get a lot of cheers here) regardless of its merits.  which is why I brought up a related discussion here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/629340/why-is-there-a-double-standard-regarding-non-programming-related-questions-at-so&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/629340/why-is-there-a-double-standard-regarding-non-programming-related-questions-at-so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sensing a much higher civility in this thread, probably due to the way the question was posed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T17:01:18.033" />
  <row Id="10009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-03-15T07:06:20.477" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know. I had posted a question for why there are more men programmers than women programmers and it was not only closed but marked offensive. For that ques. I got -11 votes and -6 offensive. I dropped from 500 to 400. If my rep. was 10k no one would mark my ques. as offensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502995/offshoring-does-it-ever-work&quot;&gt;offshore developers are not competitive&lt;/a&gt;' are not seen as offensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why men programmers are more than women programmers sound offensive to someone when questions like '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502995/offshoring-does-it-ever-work&quot;&gt;offshore developers are not competitive&lt;/a&gt;' do not. Saying that offshore developers are not competitive could even be looked at as a racist point of view. You may argue all you like that how offshore developers aren't that good, and it's a fact according to you, but is it also not a fact that 'there are more men programmers than women programmers'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this offshoring question gets 20 vote ups&#xA;and my qurstions score -11 on votes and -6 on offensive points and I get rewarded with a -100 for an &quot;interesting thought and a question&quot;. thats SO double standard for you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T07:06:20.463" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-04-21T18:50:26.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a noob. I've been following this site for a few days and so far I really like the format and the quality of topics and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what i've seen so far there most of the answers to questions are constructive and well thought out ( exhibitA in the original post doesn't work). If SO was just another forum site flooded with questions from people that won't do any footwork before bombarding a board with questions, I wouldn't have bookmarked it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ was useful for me, maybe add some of the good examples of bad questions to the FAQ for us noobs too..might be fun to go through those too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152221" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-21T18:50:26.857" />
  <row Id="10011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-04-23T03:38:52.350" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been here long but I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sarcastic non answers getting up voted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People with &quot;High Reputation&quot; being complete jerks and personally attacking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People with high rep giving complete inaccurate answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down voting everything a user says because he made you mad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers with the most cheer leading getting more up votes than clear concise answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too many people have innacurate information and excessively repeating it does not make it any more accurate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post Whoring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Holy Wars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I feel there are too many people with rights they shouldn't have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is far too easy to obtain and there are alot of people drunk with power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't trust 90% of people, why should stack overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142061" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-23T03:38:52.333" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-04-24T17:46:40.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The good things we do in this life reflect in the next. We should all help each other. No question is too small, no question is to large. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long live SO and I hope its good ethics rub off on the old school elitists. Lets all work together to make SO what it deservers to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-24T17:46:40.793" />
  <row Id="10013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-04-24T17:58:56.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think StackOverflow should really be STRICT regarding the quality of the submissions in this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at digg now. They grew very very fast, they didn't mind about the quality of the submissions and now look at where they are. Submissions are &lt;strong&gt;junk photos&lt;/strong&gt; not related to NEWS whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this to Hacker News, they are very strict about the quality of the submissions. They have moderators who can down vote the article right away, they have complete control over the articles. They are growing fast. Very fast. But the submissions are still of high quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see what's happening on stackoverflow. Obviously this site is like Yahoo Answers but for coders. And let's be honest. Anyone can access this not just coders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is growing super fast. And if StackOverflow will tolerate the trolls. I'm afraid we will be heading to what digg is now. Digg has high quality submissions + junk submissions that managed to get 5k+ diggs. If stackoverflow tolerate trolls. Stackoverflow will still have high quality questions and answers + troll-like questions &amp;amp; answers that can also manage to have 100+ votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's follow what Hacker News is right now. Let's be like them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-24T17:58:56.520" />
  <row Id="10014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-05-02T20:21:40.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed on all points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149695" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T00:51:24.113" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T00:51:24.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-02T20:21:40.150" />
  <row Id="10015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-05-12T19:07:15.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's nothing wrong with closing (as duplicate, belongs on uservoice or whatever else) a newcomer's questions. Of course, adding a comment explaining &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; is always nice, but I think the main thing is to just not downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is made in good faith, and it's going to get closed in another 30 seconds anyway, why bother downvoting it? Does it deserve it? Does the poster deserve to have the negative votes on his record, simply because he did not yet know how SO works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to reserve downvotes for questions that are either &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;made in bad faith, as spam or to&#xA;otherwise disrupt SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or are simply bad questions (Unreadable questions, no information supplied to actually make it possible to answer, or &quot;questions&quot; that aren't questions but blog posts/rants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a suggestion to improve SO shouldn't be downvoted. It should simply be closed and directed to Uservoice. An off-topic question shouldn't be downvoted, but closed (as not-programming-related, or moved to serverfault in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see questions that get downvoted &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; they belong on uservoice/are not programming related/whatever else. When I do, I generally leave a comment saying that there's no need for downvoting &lt;em&gt;as well&lt;/em&gt; as closing the question, and encouraging people to bump the votes back up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-12T19:07:15.743" />
  <row Id="10016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-06-11T15:43:21.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is perfect the way it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a place to &quot;chill-out&quot; and have fun. It's a place for programmers and software developers to share their skills and learn new skills. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of other forums and tutorials to learn programming for starters. Stack overflow simply isn't the place to start learning about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general rule of thumb, if the concept of a stack overflow doesn't ring a bell for you, you might want to learn a bit more about programming before posting here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133385" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-11T15:43:21.893" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-06-21T21:12:56.110" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is another very-new-noob who is experiencing (at least moderately) this same thing. I started by just wanting to be helpful. Then after realizing that I need rep to post comments, I started focusing on unanswered questions, hoping to get up-voted for helpful answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like some people ask a question, then just forget to vote for any answers at all. Ive even started learning concepts on the fly, to try and answer questions that I previously had no knowledge of. (LINQ for example). I think I will stop trying this though.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ive done my best to follow the rules, make my posts meaningful and helpful, and not repost what others have already said  (even though I have on a few occasions).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of right now the &lt;strong&gt;ONLY&lt;/strong&gt; vote I have is a down-vote on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1024540/what-points-should-a-code-review-check-list-have/1024552#1024552&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; I provided that, at the time, I thought was a perfectly acceptable answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-21T21:12:56.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-06-24T15:59:20.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New User here!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to say that I haven't yet noticed any &quot;noob-bashing&quot; yet.  I've asked a couple of questions already that probably have been asked before.  The replies I have receieved have been prompt and informative.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there indeed is a problem with established members of your &quot;sandbox&quot; being rude/elitist,  I have not noticed it and am glad,  because this would probably have made me turn away to another site that doesn't condone that sort of kindergarten tactic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site so far has been great, and so have the members!   I'm glad there is a place I can come and post a question without having to be told to &quot;read the #*($ manual&quot; or  &quot;Use the search&quot;.   Sometimes, what people need are just quick answers to help them along their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this lazy?  That can be debated to no end.  But is it helpful?  Of course!  And I hope to see this community thrive on that principle.  There is no need for experienced programmers to feed their ego by kicking the noobs around.  And I want to re-iterate that I'm glad it hasn't happened to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T15:59:20.057" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-07-05T05:41:52.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I started I asked a couple of meta questions on so...and people were nice about their answers.  But...and I think this is an important point...I think the questions were NOT obvious and there was not a good place to get an answer to the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example...I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2463/is-there-documentation-on-how-to-use-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;asked TODAY&lt;/a&gt; about how to get a better understanding of StackOverflow and was directed to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq-closed&quot;&gt;offical-faq&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WHat I absolutely don't get is how come that official faq is not the page that new users see when click the FAQ link at the top of every page.  I REALLY don't get it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to learn but I had to ask a question on meta to learn.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So until that is corrected I think new users should be cut some slack.  Not all of us are idiots or lazy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even the official faq needs work IMHO.  I know it is a work in progress but I am only arguing that patience with newbies should be the order of the day.  That's what a community it...without it you don't have a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39478" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T10:57:21.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-05T05:41:52.300" />
  <row Id="10020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9952" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:02:36.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's inevitable that sometimes the admins will make mistakes when merging questions, in my opinion its rare, but I guess it could happen and maybe did happen in this case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Marc are all for leaving the hard to solve duplicates and just creating a shared tag to help connect the questions. The problem with merging is that you need a domain expert, I suspect there are very few in the area of software licensing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9050/how-do-we-deal-with-octuplicate-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9050/how-do-we-deal-with-octuplicate-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:02:36.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9952" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:05:44.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The trilogy is still young. Even in internet years, 11 months is not much. As far as community and policy building is concerned, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several changes have influenced the maturing of the trilogy policies. Reaching certain momentum, the advent of SF, meta, and now SU. They all had major impact in the way things are handled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a way, we still are defining how to deal with questions, subjects, wiki, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you have become a victim of a good and usefull movement within the trilogy. To reduce duplication and noise, merging has been started. Many people start questions with little research about duplication, and the search functionality in the trilogy could be mildly said improved to help with that research. Questions get moved between sites and end up as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens at the moment: in finding the right amount of moderation, editing, merging, policing, wikifying some go over the ditch, and sometimes they just make mistakes. Give us a chance to mature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recomendation - mark your question with sections like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I read &lt;em&gt;list of questions&lt;/em&gt; and my&#xA;  question differs from these, as I&#xA;  emphasize on &lt;em&gt;criteria&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:05:44.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10000" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:14:49.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your IP has been banned for anomalous access patterns, most likely -- email team@stackoverflow.com with details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:14:49.050" />
  <row Id="10024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1254" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:25:07.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had some ideas for improvements. Now we...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only do this if the number is 4 or more digits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only redirect if the number is a valid question id in our system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. that should free up a lot of other numbers for searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:25:07.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21493" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:25:29.807" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's helpful if we can go to a page and view all &lt;em&gt;our own&lt;/em&gt; questions that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does not have an accepted answer,&#xA;and/or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does not have an answer yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I asked for them is because, I sometimes need to review through all the questions, and pick those that don't have proper answers so that I can perform further operations on them ( such as offering a bounty, or accept an existing answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T16:02:02.197" Title="Filtered Questions Asked By Accepted Answer/ No Accepted Answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:32:58.437" Score="3" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;In SO, which badges are awarded only once?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T12:00:38.467" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:51:38.493" Title="Which badges are awarded only once?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:34:38.507" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you (Jeff, Joel and the other powers that be) thought about adding an interwiki link system to SO. What I mean is a shortcut notation to link to specific sited in the way you can configure &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MediaWiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[so:Great programming quotes] would link to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&#xA;[su_kw:linux] would link to http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/linux&#xA;[wikipedia:Microsoft Access] would link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access&#xA;[bugzilla:mozilla: 499958] would link to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499958&#xA;[sourceforge:plane-disaster] would link to http://plane-disaster.sourceforge.net/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T02:00:18.963" Title="Interwiki links for the stackoverflow engine?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10026" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:50:30.487" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badges that can be awarded multiple times say so in the description on their individual badge pages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/19/enlightened&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/19/enlightened&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer was accepted with at least 10 up votes. &lt;strong&gt;This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T15:51:38.493" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:51:38.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8557" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:54:07.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few recent changes in search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search now &lt;em&gt;HEAVILY&lt;/em&gt; weights title in the results, since people seemed to really like that approach (used on the /ask page, which searched exclusively on title alone).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any individual search terms which map directly to the top 40 tags will be auto-converted to tag searches. So if you enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c++ entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it will convert to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[c++] entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try again and see if it is more to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:47:53.540" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:47:53.540" />
  <row Id="10031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6428" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:55:53.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few recent changes in search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search now &lt;em&gt;HEAVILY&lt;/em&gt; weights title in the results, since people seemed to really like that approach (used on the /ask page, which searched exclusively on title alone).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any individual search terms which map directly to the top 40 tags will be auto-converted to tag searches. So if you enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c++ entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it will convert to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[c++] entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try again and see if it is more to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:44:42.707" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:44:42.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:56:46.060" Score="0" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested to know how many sites people have found since  SO started, which have in some way copied the voting system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think that a voting system like this is only likely to work in a situation like a programming Q/A site where people tend to take pride in being able to gain reputation for their programming knowledge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132389" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:35:22.203" Title="Have you found any sites which copy SO's scoring system" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5622" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:56:51.070" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few recent changes in search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search now &lt;em&gt;HEAVILY&lt;/em&gt; weights title in the results, since people seemed to really like that approach (used on the /ask page, which searched exclusively on title alone).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any individual search terms which map directly to the top 40 tags will be auto-converted to tag searches. So if you enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c++ entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it will convert to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[c++] entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try again and see if it is more to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+is+a+monad&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+is+a+monad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:29:46.107" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:29:46.107" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10027" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:57:42.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the thing though - in order to FIND bug 499958 on Mozilla, you need to be on that page anyway (except for a few edge cases) - so at that point it's &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; work to get just the bugid out of the link instead of copy/pasting the link.  The same goes for titles in SO, and most projects on sourceforge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags on other SO-family sites and article names on Wikipedia could be linked without needing to reference their url, but those are edge cases.  How often to people link to those pages though?  And honestly I've already memorized &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article-name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article-name&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T02:00:18.963" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T02:00:18.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5167" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:58:09.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few recent changes in search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search now &lt;em&gt;HEAVILY&lt;/em&gt; weights title in the results, since people seemed to really like that approach (used on the /ask page, which searched exclusively on title alone).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any individual search terms which map directly to the top 40 tags will be auto-converted to tag searches. So if you enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c++ entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it will convert to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[c++] entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try again and see if it is more to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:47:25.910" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:47:25.910" />
  <row Id="10037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10032" CreationDate="2009-07-27T11:59:07.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the clones listed here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T11:59:07.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10027" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:08:20.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like this for linking to questions and tags across the SO trilogy, but I think the rest of it is overkill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:08:20.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5180" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:08:25.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few recent changes in search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search now &lt;em&gt;HEAVILY&lt;/em&gt; weights title in the results, since people seemed to really like that approach (used on the /ask page, which searched exclusively on title alone).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any individual search terms which map directly to the top 40 tags will be auto-converted to tag searches. So if you enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c++ entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it will convert to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[c++] entities &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try again and see if it is more to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details on advanced searching options, see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:36:54.887" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:36:54.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10032" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:35:22.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think that a voting system like this is only likely to work in a situation like a programming Q/A site where people tend to take pride in being able to gain reputation for their programming knowledge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on sites like ServerFault, SuperUser, and even Meta itself, I think that will dispel any idea that the voting system and reputation in general is only going to work on Programming Q&amp;amp;A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is your score just like on any video game. Give anybody a task and attach a score to it &quot;carrot on a stick&quot; and you'd be surprised how much activity you can get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:35:22.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10052" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:41:10.020" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the notifications bar polled, or is it meant to happen instantly? I've found in the past an answer or comment is given, and the notification hasn't appeared until an hour later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:58:52.193" Title="How often do the notifications poll?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10051" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:46:42.473" Score="1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the more subjective discussions comments frequently wander into the realms of discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While SO/SF/SU aren't intended as discussion sites, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, however are there certain ways people &quot;should&quot; behave when this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is that the basic rule should be that the answer (rather than the answer and the comments) should be the key thing.  As a result where possible/relevant all comments and responses should be merged into the answer by the answeree - effectively enhance it answering, or at least commenting on, criticisms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this recently and then went and deleted my comments on the thread - I thought this would be neater and the comments chain was getting longer - however someone pulled me up saying that certain comments now didn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that and wondered if anyone had thoughts on how best to handle long comment chains?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enhance the answer and leave comments, enhance the answer and remove comments, take the number of comments that the question is too subjective and close it, something else entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Example here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12225/is-it-ethical-to-spoof-registration-forms-on-websites/12226#12226&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/12225/is-it-ethical-to-spoof-registration-forms-on-websites/12226#12226&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:00:04.160" Title="When comments turn into discussions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9050" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:48:49.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say don't go cowboy with closing/merging duplicates - make sure you know what you're doing as otherwise you can mix-up benefits such as favourites etc. EG: If you have 3 questions, each heavily favourited, be very very careful before merging/deleting as you would be destroying some intrincic value that SO delivers by answering subtle aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Licensing is just such a subject and two questions may look the same, and could in fact be the opposite. GPL and LGPL are opposites in terms of use in commercial software but both are called free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18681" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:48:49.813" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8701" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:50:41.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could do a similar thing to get the question to talk about too - there are likely to be things (some of the more subjective ones) people would like to hear Joel and Jeff talk about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130635" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:50:41.850" />
  <row Id="10051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10047" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:54:35.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is a discussion thread on your answer, then you should edit the results into your answer &lt;em&gt;instead&lt;/em&gt; of commenting yourself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, you can only comment on other people's answers, but if it is your own, then you should comment for little things (like clarifications), but if you feel that it has a lasting or fundamental impact on your answer, then you should add additional information into your answer and post an &lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; tag above it, that way all the comments still make sense, and all the needed information is sitting right there in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;example is my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer/8922#8922&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:54:35.010" />
  <row Id="10052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10044" CreationDate="2009-07-27T12:58:52.193" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's certainly not immediate.  This may just be anecdotal, but it seems to me that it doesn't notify me about comments until the next time I get up/down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T12:58:52.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10065" CreationDate="2009-07-27T13:00:41.087" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty basic question, can we get #top links on the answers, maybe on the bottom right corner of the original answer text?  I think it would make browsing the really long threads much easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100583" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T12:26:40.697" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T12:26:40.697" Title="Back to Top links on Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10056" CreationDate="2009-07-27T13:43:46.757" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13/should-the-beta-badges-stop-being-awarded-to-users&quot;&gt;Should the beta badges stop being awarded to users?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every now and then I see a Beta badge awarded on the side bar on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are old instances being rotated there when there are no other badges to show? is it a bug? is it for people coming back after 11 months?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T13:47:12.337" ClosedDate="2009-07-27T16:35:07.370" Title="How come the Beta badge is still being awarded on SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;beta&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10055" CreationDate="2009-07-27T13:46:21.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13/should-the-beta-badges-stop-being-awarded-to-users/19#19&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13/should-the-beta-badges-stop-being-awarded-to-users/19#19&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T13:46:21.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10060" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:03:43.127" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just posting a question to Server Fault and I noticed that activity is reasonably light there. I expected there to be far less activity than Stack Overflow as it hasn't been around as long, but it seemed a little too quiet still for its age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That got me wondering if Server Fault and, to a lesser extent considering it's youth, Super User had similar uptake acceleration to Stack Overflow or whether usage had plateaued, stalled, or even started declining. Are there any stats on this and if it is that one of the sites is struggling to gain momentum, what could be done to give them a healthy push?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:25:13.760" Title="How do the Super User and Server Fault uptake rates compare with Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;site-usage&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10059" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:06:07.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hard to compare apples to apples, since Server Fault is a fundamentally smaller audience -- but it's a focused one. Example and Challenge: find the Joel Spolsky of the sysadmin world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect Super User to grow much more rapidly, since the subject matter is less niche. Everyone's a computer &quot;expert&quot;, in their own mind, at least.. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T14:06:07.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10059" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:06:44.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any stats personally, but I can say that just by looking at the question amount on SuperUser vs. ServerFault (SF = 9273, SU = 2478) that SuperUser is going to grow in much much faster terms than ServerFault. I am not sure if it will be able to maintain its &quot;speed&quot; so that it would ever catch up with StackOverflow, but the broad subject matter and general user populace that it could attract should prove to be a very potent &quot;fuel&quot; which would prevent it from necessarily stalling out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T14:06:44.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10053" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:29:53.173" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this by using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10184/script-back-to-top-link-from-answers-closed&quot;&gt;this greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T20:57:43.937" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:57:43.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8123" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:37:16.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen locking behaviour in FF3.0 and FF3.5 both on win2000 and Linux (Arch and Ubuntu 9.04) when editing answers/ questions with some fancy code or nesting. Once I managed to make it's (the editor) script loop forever (or until I killed it). I guess there could be at least a way to disable the live preview to alleviate these bugs in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T14:37:16.537" />
  <row Id="10067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10070" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:53:12.973" Score="25" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;The administrator note at the top of the pages currently encourages us to use our votes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; because they will be selecting moderators soon. I am not quite sure what this implies (mods chosen based on activity or rep score?), but it got me thinking about how to best choose moderators for the site, and I believe Meta is how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we as a community have already demonstrated an ability to discuss what we believe a site should aim towards (in this case the discussion about defining SuperUser). I do think that had a large hand in why I was asked to be a mod for the site. I believe we could use that same idea for choosing future moderators for SuperUser (and even for other sites as they come through the pipeline).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am getting at is this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your best moderators are going to be those who are already familiar with how the system functions as well as how the community functions. High performance on Meta is a good indicator of those factors.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can generally determine who is going to be a good moderator based on how they perform on Meta, since Meta is not only a discussion area for topics about the growth of StackOverflow, but also for helping troubleshoot newer users. Both of these qualities are pretty important for a mod to have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation scores generally aren't a good indicator of performance on a site other than activity, but at least on Meta, high scores here can generally signify that you are indeed invested in the community enough to engage in all the discussions. Combine that type of enthusiasm for the sites and the community along with a genuine interest in the future of a particular site, and you have all the ingredients necessary to make a good moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T11:19:13.613" Title="Use Meta as a Moderator Gauge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:57:59.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gee, is someone sniffing around for a moderator post? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in all seriousness, using myself as an example, I'd reasonably active here but would make a terrible SU mod. Why? Because for that particular subject matter, I just don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with a &quot;meta-moderator&quot; is you might end up with someone who's more interested in the process that the material or the outcome. There are certainly users on here that are very active that would (imho) make &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I think activity (in terms of frequency, regularity, level-hededness and predictability) on the site or sites in question is of paramount importance. I would probably classify people into three categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question-askers:&lt;/strong&gt; these people are the &quot;consumers&quot; of the system;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answerers:&lt;/strong&gt; these people are the &quot;producers&quot; of the system; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editors:&lt;/strong&gt; these are the &quot;process-wonks&quot; of the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to disparage editing (which certainly does have value) or the people that do it, but there does seem to be something attention-seeking and hanger-on'ish about it in some people.  Meta is really an extension of that. Moderators (imho) should be those inclined to help, and that is the answerer category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T15:09:53.900" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:09:53.900" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-07-27T14:59:36.247" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mentioned this on IRC when TheTXI and I were discussing this issue, but I'm so enamored of my own voice that I'll post it here, too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Jeff is opposed to spending lots of time engaged in meta discussion, but the role of a moderator is extremely meta.  He or she isn't concerned with correctness, but with how things &quot;fit&quot; within the confines of the site.  Luckily, we have a way to see people who care about these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, that doesn't make it the only metric in place, but I think it's better than two weeks of activity on SU.  Of course, there's nothing saying both SU activity and Meta activity can't be criteria, but I know which I'd more heavily weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T14:59:36.247" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:00:31.983" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree. A moderator doesn't have to be a DBA or network expert to know when a question doesn't belong on SF. That extends to the other sites as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The most important factor in determining who would be a good moderator is an understanding of the community we are looking to build.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:00:31.983" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10118" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:15:43.413" Score="12" ViewCount="741" Body="&lt;h3&gt;&#xA;   UPDATE&#xA;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just got off the phone with one of our network guys, it sounds like our credentials are not being attached to the actual call for the JS file from Google.  Since the credentials are not there, the proxy servers are rejecting the call.  Apparently there have been issues in the past in terms of NSFW content coming from Google and there were quite a few grievances from employees/unions/etc. and this had to be done.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The network tech is going to try to allow calls to ajax.googleapis.com to go through and I should be able to test this a bit later...&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;With the recent change with the jQuery files to load from Google (Jeff tweeted about the change yesterday as the jQuery files were the biggest bottleneck the site had), all of the sites in the SO family will not work for me (and quite a few others) while at work.  I believe that my employer has blocked these files from loading from google.  I'm not sure on the justifications behind the block and it will take a while to work through getting that to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to try to load the google and if the files still isn't loaded to use the functionality that was there before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is most likely a feature-request since I know that it was intended to load from Google, but I'm tagging as a bug since it won't work for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I can read posts, add posts/answers...  I cannot vote, comment, or do anything else where the jQuery components are used like the rich text box editing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments Responses:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@Cletus - That is a great question...  But as stated above, it'll take some time to sort through and then the politics of unblocking once blocked....  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Chris - Gave that a shot, but it did not work.  I confirmed the IE was able to load the file correctly as well as FF, but it would not load the file as if it were coming from Google for the SO sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer Responses:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@Jeff - I've started the process.  You are preaching to the choir...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T08:05:20.957" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T08:05:20.957" Title="Employer blocks jQuery from Google, DOH!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;firewall&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="10073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:18:28.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that TheTXI has a great point.  Afterall, it was only after some activity here on meta that he was given mod access to SU and that seems to have been a great, positive change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5787/superuser-com-moderator-nomination&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5787/superuser-com-moderator-nomination&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that we can simply look at some of the active folks on SU and can easily identify some of them as being a good mod fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:18:28.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:21:43.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Jeff has made it clear that he considers spending too much time on &quot;meta topics&quot; to be... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;somewhat unhealthy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a SU moderator could be considered sort of a penance, an act of contrition for your sins on this site. Therefore, I feel this is an excellent suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:21:43.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:40:16.307" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it implemented using some ActionFilter ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does it persist the post first and if a captcha is required and successful, then flag it to be visible ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:20:47.257" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:20:47.257" Title="How does SO Implement ReCaptcha?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;re-captcha&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10091" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:48:38.473" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1957/should-so-allow-give-me-some-feedback-questions&quot;&gt;Should SO allow &amp;ldquo;give me some feedback&amp;rdquo; questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a &quot;Hey look over this code and tell me if it smells&quot; sanity-check for working code be an appropriate use for the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:44:51.547" ClosedDate="2009-07-28T04:16:14.440" Title="Using SO for crowd-sourced code reviews?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10086" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:50:37.687" Score="14" ViewCount="2038" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;plz send teh codez =&amp;gt; homework&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the difference between an obvious [&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt;] question and one tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/plz-send-teh-codez&quot;&gt;[plz send teh codez]&lt;/a&gt; over at SO? Especially where the former has at least a thousand more in the bank? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When coders win their $5USD bids on cloning MeinSpace at Rent-A-Slave and come to SO in search of the entire source code, what makes the distinction between &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/202/should-users-answer-homework-questions&quot;&gt;a homework question&lt;/a&gt; and one where they have no access to Google or they don't want to be seen posting back on the same bidding site for someone to build their project at $3USD? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the leet speak necessary? Or is it just snark for a lark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T20:55:07.243" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T20:55:07.243" Title="What's the difference between an obvious homework question and one tagged plzsendtehcodez on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="10079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10076" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:51:16.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If used in moderation, perhaps. There are already some questions like this that show up from time to time, and I often see them with a few downvotes, either because they are formatted terribly and hard to read or because some come across as &quot;do my homework for me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly wouldn't want SO to devolve into some kind of code-review site, but the occasional &quot;optimize/refine/improve my code plz&quot; question is tolerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:51:16.237" />
  <row Id="10080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10076" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:52:39.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question would need a fairly well defined topic.  The questioner should probably point to a particular area of the code that he is concerned about.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if the surrounding code is included, answerers could examine the peripheral stench.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130373" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:52:39.820" />
  <row Id="10082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10078" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:55:10.697" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A proper homework question has the following attributes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Already tried their self&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question regards specific part of the homework&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Outlines previous tries, and the results of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad &lt;em&gt;plz send codez&lt;/em&gt; question will usually just post the exact homework question and expect an entire solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag, &lt;code&gt;plz-send-teh-codez&lt;/code&gt; is meant to give bad connotation to improperly asked homework questions.  As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/plz-send-teh-codez-for-homework-kthxbai/10086#10086&quot;&gt;Welbog said&lt;/a&gt;, the term originated from &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Daily WTF&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:00:49.593" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:00:49.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:56:35.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 3 sort order tabs, 'oldest', 'newest' and 'votes'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'newest' sorting gets more attention to newly created post, as those get on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe one could change so 'newest' are default sorting (think 'oldest' are default?).&#xA;This will not help after the user changed setting (it's a global setting correct?), and I think one would expect the setting to stick?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could changed this setting to be per question (unless it already is) and make 'newest' the default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130719" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:56:35.557" />
  <row Id="10085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10076" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:57:21.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the key is in how you phrase the question. First of all, you would need to do it with a limited segment of code, something that can be easily read and analyzed. Additionally, I wouldn't post any more than 1 or 2 a day, because you don't want to annoy people with constantly saying, &quot;hey is this good&quot;, &quot;now what about this?&quot;, &quot;and this?&quot;; you need to make sure you maintain respect for those attempting to help you out. And finally, as with all questions, it would need to be pointed at a specific topic or issue that is answerable. For instance, pointing out a specific part of the code your concerned might not be efficient, or readable, or may have a security hole and ask specifically about that. Basically, avoid saying &quot;here's my code, tell me your thoughts&quot;, that's not really a question with a concrete answer in the spirit of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:57:21.907" />
  <row Id="10086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10078" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:57:49.607" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;plz send teh codes&quot; is a meme coming from &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Daily WTF&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really doesn't belong on SO, as that's not what tags are for. I would consider using that tag to be abuse of the system, personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference between &quot;send me teh codez&quot; and &quot;homework&quot; is the nature of the question. Usually homework questions have no obvious practical application (&quot;what are the contents of this stack?&quot;), whereas &quot;send me teh codes&quot; questions are usually vague but somewhat practical (&quot;how to build facebook?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Homework&quot; as a tag shouldn't be used negatively. It's a legitimate use of Stack Overflow to get help with homework, as long as the question is clear about the fact that it is homework and that the asker doesn't want a full answer, just pointers and nudges in the right direction, or to confirm the work done so far before getting too deep into a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details please take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/plz-send-teh-codez-for-homework-kthxbai/10098#10098&quot;&gt;Pesto's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:29:26.910" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:29:26.910" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="10087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10078" CreationDate="2009-07-27T15:58:20.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the current items tagged as &lt;code&gt;plz-send-teh-codez&lt;/code&gt; were done two days ago, with all but one by a single person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag has come and gone a few times in SO's history.  I don't think tagging them that way accomplishes anything other than looking down at the asker.  Either they're bad questions and should be voted to close, or they're not and should be left alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T15:58:20.197" />
  <row Id="10088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10078" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:01:56.883" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or is it just snark for a lark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This. It's pejorative tagging, an expression of anger and frustration over those who appear to not only refuse to put any effort into a problem, but dare to &lt;em&gt;demand&lt;/em&gt; that someone else do the work for them rather than giving them the tools they need to do it themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's understandable. But still inappropriate; such questions should simply be closed and/or deleted. They're a cancer on the site, and the response they prompt can lead to even more wide-spread damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Welbog notes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/plz-send-teh-codez-for-homework-kthxbai/10086#10086&quot;&gt;there's nothing &lt;em&gt;inherently&lt;/em&gt; wrong with posting homework&lt;/a&gt; (or the use of the homework tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:01:56.883" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:10:03.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love the script, but I found it hung a few times waiting for a response from your server, so I inlined the images. I couldn't figure out how to reuse the loading image so added it three 3 times. Happy to post the update if you'd like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:10:03.810" />
  <row Id="10090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10078" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:12:22.397" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/plz-send-teh-codez-for-homework-kthxbai/10086#10086&quot;&gt;Welbog's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:12:22.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-27T16:12:22.397" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="10091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10076" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:13:31.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind these questions now and then, but in aggregate they become like being nibbled to death by ducks.  If the site were to be flooded with them, I'd probably snap and punch TheTXI's favorite pony.  Here are some tips I think will help keep the quality up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't include a huge block of code.  The more you can narrow down your area of concern, the better.  We can always ask for more context if we need it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Know what sort of issues you're concerned about.  Don't just drop a code snippet on us and ask how to make it better.  Demonstrate that you've given the code some thought, be it changes you've considered and ruled out or concerns you have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of the best of these questions are the ones that ask how to better embrace the programming language to make this code better.  For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/923111/creating-lists-of-lists-in-a-pythonic-way&quot;&gt;how to make the code more Pythonic&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1168699/drying-my-hasmanys-in-rails&quot;&gt;how to DRY the code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I mention this above, but it bears repeating: &lt;strong&gt;demonstrate that you've given the code some thought.&lt;/strong&gt;  Showing that you've tried goes a long way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:13:31.150" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:11:46.830" Score="0" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been wondering what the reason is why people answer questions here. What is your motivation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you do it? What is your logic? What have you benefited from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you aim for a high rank? Why and why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T18:45:20.203" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T14:29:47.250" Title="Why do you help in stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;&lt;help&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:13:12.880" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I help because people on Stack Overflow have helped me.  Returning the favor seems only right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136135" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:15:19.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:14:43.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for Fun :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:15:19.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="10095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:14:50.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Learning &amp;amp; Helping others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, I do want to be high-ranked. But, my area of knowledge is shallow, I guess.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There are others who have very in-depth knowledge of things &amp;amp; they are good people to learn from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:15:19.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="10096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:15:06.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ranking doesn't really matter to me.  I don't frequent the site too often but when I do come around to ask a question of my own, I like to try to answer a couple if I am so able.  Who knows, maybe it's good for karma!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:15:19.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="10097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:15:48.130" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What comes around goes around. &lt;strong&gt;Always.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:15:48.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10078" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:16:24.790" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/plz-send-teh-codez-for-homework-kthxbai/10090#10090&quot;&gt;mmyers's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:16:24.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-27T16:16:24.790" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:17:01.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large part of my help is to return the favor. I know the pain and difficulty associated with having a programming problem, and the relief that can be garnered from receiving a &lt;em&gt;practical&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;proven&lt;/em&gt; answer from an &lt;em&gt;experienced&lt;/em&gt; developer. Its much more useful and complete, in general, than spending hours pouring through documentation. Also, there are questions that documentation just can't asnwer. Others have done this for me, and, &lt;strong&gt;even if I viewed it completely selfishly, I need to do it for others just to help the community go 'round and have my questions answered in the future.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also helps me realize which questions I can answer confidently. If I can't give a solid answer to a question that I am ready for others to criticize, I need to read the answers that come in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132420" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:17:01.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="10100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:18:02.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My feeling smart[1] lobe is wired to my pleasure centers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, reputation is like crack cocaine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] resp. being a smartass :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132419" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:18:02.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:24:27.060" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do it for purely selfish reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm tired of seeing &lt;em&gt;really awful code&lt;/em&gt; in production systems. If I can do a little bit now to help bad programmers do a little bit better, then maybe I'll have fewer fires to fight in the long run or when I switch to different companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:24:27.060" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:33:04.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10092/why-do-you-help-in-stackflow/10103#10103&quot;&gt;Like Welbog&lt;/a&gt;, i'm tired of seeing poorly-written code. I'm also tired of seeing poorly-written questions on other forums. I don't ask a lot of questions, anywhere - I google them first, and chances are i'll find a match. But it's also rather likely that the match i'll find has been asked so poorly that it has failed to garner any useful responses&lt;sup&gt;&lt;b&gt;*&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. So my goal when i signed up for SO was to gain enough reputation so that i could edit such questions, hoping that others would do likewise. Having done so, i tend to only answer questions that interest me in some way - i'm not especially entertained by the rep game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A side-effect of these motivations is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer&quot;&gt;i consider &quot;Don't do it&quot; a valid answer&lt;/a&gt;. I don't care that your boss is forcing you to build a routine that punches users in the face, and told you to build it using &lt;em&gt;nothing but cryptically-named global variables for state&lt;/em&gt;... If there's even a slim chance that i'll ever have to use such software or look at such code (and since all Q&amp;amp;A is public, that chance is pretty good...) i'm going to do my best to dissuade you. Selfish? Yes. But i don't think SO needs to be yet another site packed full of bad ideas and ugly hacks - again, there's always the MSDN forums if that's what you're into...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;b&gt;*&lt;/b&gt;The MSDN forums are particularly bad in this regard. Often the only response will be a request for clarification and a link to an article on the general topic - apparently, MSFT folk are unaware of how flaky MSDN links are...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T16:48:43.427" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:48:43.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:36:30.147" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like helping people. It's a good feeling to know that you've made someone else's life better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like doing things I'm good at - don't we all? I'm reasonably good at explaining things, and I know a reasonable amount about the subject matter of SO, so...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yeah, the rep and badges help too. It would be stupid to deny there's an ego boost.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It shows me what other people are having trouble with. This is good both in terms of extra-curricular activities (writing) and it gives me a heads-up about what I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; run into myself one day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a great way to learn more about a topic: pick a question which you don't know the answer to, but thing you can work out with a bit of research. Everyone wins.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:36:30.147" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10119" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:39:34.297" Score="20" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see how many edits I've made? In other words: I'd like to see how close I am to getting the &lt;code&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/code&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="356" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T18:07:36.930" LastActivityDate="2010-12-29T18:56:44.037" Title="Number of edits" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:40:57.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I help because I like rep. (Don't we all?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, there is always that voice in the back of my head reminding me that sometime I'm going to have a really big problem on a project, and there is going to be a bunch of people on StackOverflow that can help me, while simultaneously debating whether the question belongs on Serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:40:57.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:48:51.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Spanish we say: &quot;hoy por ti, manana por mi&quot;, which roughly translate to “Today I can help you, tomorrow perhaps you could help me”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-12T09:38:03.900" LastActivityDate="2010-06-12T09:38:03.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="10112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:58:16.513" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sometimes happens that an answer is fantastic, but it's &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; important that a single user cannot accelerate the &quot;bubble up&quot; effect very much, because that would result in gaming. If you want something done right, sometimes it has to be done slow. That said, there is one user in a unique position to determine when an answer is really awesome: the person who asked the question. And the questioner &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; accelerate the &quot;bubble up&quot; by accepting the answer, which also happens to be worth an upvote and a half.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't the questioner and you want to do more to get an answer voted up, you can try to be a &quot;community organizer,&quot; like you'd do in an election. Leave a comment to the effect of, &quot;This is a great answer. Please vote it up.&quot; If it really is that good, it will make it's way up. If it doesn't, then maybe it isn't as good an answer as you thought, or maybe it's answering the wrong question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current system is very well thought-out. It has to be the community that bubbles the answer up; individuals are too prone to falling in love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:58:16.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10107" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:58:25.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has stated that the badge system was designed around the xBox-live badge system. And it is intentional that you don't know when you're about to receive a badge, it simply shows up unexpectedly. So currently, at least through the SO engine, there is no way to know how many edits you have made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T16:58:25.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="91613" CreationDate="2009-07-27T16:59:20.017" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to search for Windows 7 on SU; get a notion of what the FAQ were and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, searching for Windows 7 yields simply Windows in the search engine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T18:46:27.330" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T09:39:17.100" Title="Search for Windows 7 does not parse as expected" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10114" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:03:05.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/windows&quot;&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Windows&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt; definitely exists, so the search will auto replace your search with that tag. What you want to search for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/windows-7&quot;&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Windows-7&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is the actual tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Usually the response is, &quot;Use Google.&quot; But, Google's not an Ewok yet, as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+7+site:superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the nothingness I found&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:03:05.330" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10114" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:07:48.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How curious.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-9&quot;&gt;Searching&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-8&quot;&gt;for&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-7&quot;&gt;any&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-6&quot;&gt;single-digit&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-5&quot;&gt;number&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-4&quot;&gt;results&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-3&quot;&gt;in&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-2&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=-1&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=0&quot;&gt;requesting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=1&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=2&quot;&gt;you&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=3&quot;&gt;enter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=4&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=5&quot;&gt;text&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=6&quot;&gt;in&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=7&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=8&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=9&quot;&gt;box&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:07:48.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10071" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:25:49.207" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We looked at this, but unfortunately the fallback from failure-to-load-JQuery is quite difficult, as we can no longer use &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.jquery.com/Events/ready&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the standard JQuery ready event&lt;/a&gt; -- which we use all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, unless this is a really prevalent problem, you're better off trying to get google unblocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also: who blocks Google? That is a little crazy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:25:49.207" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="10119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10107" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:28:28.493" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible we will make an exception for edits, since we view editing as so crucial and fundamental to how Stack Overflow works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:28:28.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:29:04.883" Score="-2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparenly &quot;Stackers&quot; was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6254/what-should-the-users-of-stackoverflow-be-called&quot;&gt;early accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; for SO, and I'm sure there are &quot;fault tolerants&quot;, &quot;meta junkies&quot;, and &quot;super friends&quot; out there as well. But with the upcoming dev days and such, what are we going to call those &quot;all purpose&quot; folks that are trying to thrive in the whole community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flow jockeys?&#xA;S-Heads?&#xA;SCubies? (bad variant of S Cubed combined with too much Scooby-Doo my kids are watching lately)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somtehing else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:11:39.133" Title="So what do we call ourselves now?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10126" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:31:52.980" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ones like this are not technical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/545844/biggest-performance-improvement-youve-had-with-the-smallest-change&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/545844/biggest-performance-improvement-youve-had-with-the-smallest-change&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're just chatter. It's hard to stop people answering questions like this because they're easy and have no wrong answer; it's nice to relax sometimes and chat... but that's what forums are for. It pollutes the purity of StackOverflow as being a purely technical programming site (which is what I love about it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't down vote questions like this because I haven't enough reputation, and it wouldn't make a difference against 40-or-so other upvotes. If I post a comment like 'please post technical questions only' I have fears of causing a load of discussion about what is and what is not a right question to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I basically hope that there is some way to keep the user base strict about being technical as possible, I know this is the aim of the creators Spolsky and Atwood and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132428" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:36:00.107" Title="What can we do, if anything, about nontechnical questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:33:21.517" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can call me &quot;Sir&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:33:21.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10122" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:33:23.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree .. that is very technical. It could help someone greatly improve their program if theey know that have one of these pitfalls. Also allows them to be on the lookout to improve their code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:33:23.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:33:29.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd start by using their first name...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:33:29.590" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10122" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:36:00.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By and large, those types of questions should be Community Wikis. If they don't belong, then folks vote to close. Often, you see a lot of lower rep folks trying to answer questions that are doomed for closure in a quick attempt to garner some rep. We've discussed how to deal with that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3828&quot;&gt;in the past&lt;/a&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you could have absolutely picked a better example. That's a great thread which discusses how minor things that you wouldn't think about can have a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; impact. That's very valuable, especially to new programmers. Moreover, it's CW, so we don't have an issue there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While SO is absolutely a Q&amp;amp;A site, it's okay to have a poll question now and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:36:00.107" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:39:23.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to refer to 'us' as &lt;strong&gt;SOpedians&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is supposed to have this wiki-like attribute, so...hehe?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T17:39:23.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9811" CreationDate="2009-07-27T17:54:42.573" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Declined? Really Jeff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One word sums up that decision, especially without any reason: Fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-16T13:46:20.630" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T13:46:20.630" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10134" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:05:22.033" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I asked a question on SO, today, I noticed that the formatting buttons that used to be there are missing. What happened to them, and will they be restored soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks to Eric for pointing out the problem. I use the NoScript plug-in in Firefox to limit the number of scripts that run when I surf the Web. Turns out that, thanks to the changes on the site, I had to allow googleapis.com to get the buttons (and the preview window) back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132432" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T03:10:48.800" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T03:10:48.800" Title="What happened to the formatting buttons?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;edit&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10131" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:09:38.010" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're still there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this has something to do with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10071/employer-blocks-jquery-from-google-doh&quot;&gt;Google jQuery switchover&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T18:10:41.503" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:10:41.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:17:30.857" Score="6" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hit the rep cap on all 4 sites in one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T19:00:04.140" Title="Distinguished Badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10140" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:21:53.090" Score="6" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;The RSS feed for tagged questions returns 'hot' questions by default.  Adding &lt;code&gt;?sort=newest&lt;/code&gt; to the url has no effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=javascript&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;The newest questions tagged with 'javascript'&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/javascript&quot;&gt;The RSS feed for questions tagged with 'javascript'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice for the RSS feed for a certain tag to have the same results as the page for that tag (sorted by newest or anything else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53487" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T09:27:14.707" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T09:36:32.117" Title="Any way to get an RSS feed of 'newest' tagged questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="10141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9811" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:22:06.137" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff's not explicitly stated here (&lt;em&gt;but otherwise mentioned other places&lt;/em&gt;) reasoning, as far as I can tell, for declining this request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less than 5 seconds would lead to a drastic increase in up votes for comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is bad, because&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff does not want comments to become too much of a platform for expressing one's opinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(On Questions with many Answers) comments with some/high votes are filtered &lt;em&gt;into&lt;/em&gt; the main page views, and those without are hidden, and need to be explicitly expanded to be seen.  Increase the comment votes too much and this functionality loses its value or ability to segregate the worthy from the unworthy. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has demonstrated this, somewhat cryptically, by up voting every comment before his in this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff just gets stubborn that way about certain points.  If the idea truly is decent, he'll come along eventually.  It's his website, he &lt;em&gt;can cry if he wants to...cry if he wants to.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The man has a vision, and extensive comment voting is not in that vision.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T18:56:41.557" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:56:41.557" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:25:05.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me Ishmael.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:25:05.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:26:19.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, good lord. Please, no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The day someone starts labeling any Stackoverflow user as &quot;Stacker&quot; or a &quot;Stackee&quot; or a &lt;em&gt;Something-Or-Other&lt;/em&gt; Badgie... is the day I start &lt;em&gt;anonomous-izing&lt;/em&gt; my account. Can you say &quot;pop-culture-burnout, jumping-the-shark&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T18:35:45.703" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:35:45.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10147" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:27:04.520" Score="2" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting questions would increase the likelihood that someone would answer it.  Its a variation of the &quot;put bounty on someone else's question&quot; suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:01:39.000" Title="Score for answering a question: 15pts + # of question upvotes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10144" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:34:34.877" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would cause gaming. People would up vote questions they answer regardless of whether or not it is a good one simply because there is a chance it would benefit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:34:34.877" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10136" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:35:49.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd think it'd be tough to hit the limit on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:35:49.153" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13068" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:35:54.837" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I requested a user's flair page for a non-existing user I got a dialog that said&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;'Framing not allowed, click OK to continue':&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2388/framingstackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;After clicking 'OK' (the only option) my original page is replaced by a (meta.)stackoverflow 'page not found' page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try setting up a page with the following iframe content to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe src=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair/500.html?theme=clean&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; &#xA;    frameborder=&quot;0&quot;  scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;210px&quot; height=&quot;60px&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will try to load the flair page for the non-existing meta user 500.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently it is quit hard to load a page with such content.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I try to setup a page where a forum member can give his stackoverflow user number, and show the flair page for that given user by accessing the correct iframem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be fixed in any way?&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;What I would like to see is a flair iframe, with a 'User not found' or something similar. Or just a plain 404 http error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ton&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129989" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T07:30:11.400" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T09:57:23.867" Title="Requesting flair for non-existing user goes wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="10150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10144" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:36:15.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first I misread this as 15 points + 10 x question upvotes, which I totally disagree with because it overvalues the upvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with a small extra incentive, maybe this is the nice middle ground between offering bounty on others' questions and the current system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple questions for clarification: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you have them work with the rep cap?  The same way as accepted answers always do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suppose a question is at +3, and you get the accepted answer: +18 for you.  Then, two more people come along and upvote the question.  Do you get 2 more rep for those upvotes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What about downvotes?  Is it fair if they have no effect on this system?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:36:15.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:37:09.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's mentioned above but I prefer the bubbling up approach. Answers that are wrong are generally poorly written, or too short (my answers fit these), so I assume the average programmer (given that they are mostly well educated and have an IQ above 120) will ignore the poorly written answers, and only upvote the good ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll upvote people who have made the effort to do a well written response but haven't given the exact answer I'm after, or if I've learnt something from the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm probably far too &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey%5FTemperament%5FSorter#Temperaments%5Fand%5Fintelligence%5Ftypes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;green&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and not ruthless enough in my approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T18:42:27.163" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:42:27.163" />
  <row Id="10152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:37:35.253" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are comments no longer creating entries on the Recent Activity page? I used to park on that page to see if anything has happened recently on a question I asked, but while watching a particular question from that page and seeing nothing happen, I drilled into the question and found several comments. I thought it used to list comments here along with the answers and what I've commented on. Has this been removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23935" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:26:02.597" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:26:02.597" Title="Are comments no longer appearing on the Recent Activity page?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:41:23.867" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To tell you the truth... &lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow feels like a game to me.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I browse the site, filled with puzzles I can solve and I get points for solving them properly. Yes, sometimes you get beaten by someone with a less thorough answer than you (I like to answer in the most thorough way possible), but it is very rewarding to see you have helped someone solve their puzzle!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for the past week, I wasn't able to sleep until I had hit my &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; cap on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:41:23.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="10154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10076" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:44:51.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/451460/datatable-to-json&quot;&gt;done&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1166677/cache-function-results&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/850065/return-datareader-from-datalayer-in-using-statement&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/436026/how-to-improve-data-access-layer-select-method-pattern&quot;&gt;occasions&lt;/a&gt;, including breaking some of Pesto's rules, but I usually reserve it for patterns that I think might be more generally useful to others as well, and then ask for help improving that general pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:44:51.547" />
  <row Id="10155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:48:28.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Putting answers on the web.  SO is an answer archive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:48:28.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="10156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3932" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:54:19.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Site statistics should make it clear if implementing a spell checker is a worthwhile endeavor. Given the user base and its browser choice it may or may not be worth the effort. If a user is really worried about their spelling they always have the option of pasting their question/answer/comment in their word processor of choice for spell/grammar checking. That said, editing for grammar is encouraged I don't see why spelling shouldn't also be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T18:54:19.857" />
  <row Id="10157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-07-27T18:58:58.257" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my (admittedly poor) mobile phone (an LG Dare), I realized yesterday I was unable to search SO at all. I can enter a search term into the search box, but then...there is no search button. I tried poking at that little magnifying lens icon with the tiniest part of my tiniest finger, thinking maybe that was the search button, but (as I have since verified) it is just a pretty picture. So, at a bare minimum, can we at least get a proper search button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T18:00:33.133" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T18:00:33.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10121" CreationDate="2009-07-27T19:11:39.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am Spartacus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and I always said the proper term is &quot;nerds&quot; and then people will follow the pattern and correct me declaring the correct term is &quot;geeks&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:11:39.133" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-07-27T19:32:01.263" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes a lot of sense. I, too, have seen a lot of new faces at the top of SuperUser, and I'm not sure that they've proven themselves enough to have the power and responsibility to act in the capacity of moderator. This is not to say that they wouldn't, but I'm not willing to hand over moderator control to someone that's never closed a question before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we assume that a prerequisite for becoming a moderator is at least familiarity with the reputation tools of the system, then we can examine the other accounts that the top users have and see if they have any accounts with 10k+ rep. This turns out to be relatively few. Here's a list of the users on the top two pages on SuperUser, sorted by reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;splattne         2,601&#xA;JP               2,110&#xA;TheTXI           1,532&#xA;Jon Skeet        1,376&#xA;Johannes Rössel    911&#xA;Oscar Reyes        879&#xA;Paolo Bergantino   840&#xA;Lasse V. Karlsen   662&#xA;chaos              617&#xA;Kyle Cronin        586&#xA;Mehrdad            571&#xA;dbr                569&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the fact that the number of moderators on the sites seems to have grown rapidly with the release of Meta and SuperUser. Now that we have 14 moderators on the various sites&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;, I think it might be easier and safer to promote from within. For example, take splattne. He's a moderator on ServerFault and also the #2 SuperUser, and it seems obvious to me to promote him to moderator there as well. (a case could be made for having &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the moderators as moderators on all the sites, as I've occasionally been unable to resolve account issues on other sites because I'm just a regular user)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible compromise could be to grant a number of active contributors to SuperUser immediate access to the 10k moderator tools. That way users could get experience closing, opening, deleting, etc. without the community having to take the leap of trusting them completely with moderator status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3/jarrod-dixon&quot;&gt;Jarrod&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2/geoff-dalgas&quot;&gt;Geoff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1288/bill-the-lizard&quot;&gt;Bill&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130048/mrdenny&quot;&gt;Denny&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130047/kara-marfia&quot;&gt;Kara&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/6461/splattne&quot;&gt;Stefan&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;Kyle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/8435/tom-ritter&quot;&gt;Tom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3043/joel-coehoorn&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/106/endangeredmassa&quot;&gt;Sean&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T20:14:27.773" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:14:27.773" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="10162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10152" CreationDate="2009-07-27T19:38:09.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My comments are showing up fine on my Recent Activity page (the page you go after clicking the envelope). I am able to see any comment replies people leave for me there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Recent tab of my profile, I can see comments I make, but there are no comments that other users leave for me on my content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:38:09.860" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-27T19:46:48.583" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would only change the value of the UpVote to only +2 when the Question/Answer is below zero. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;| Downvotes  |  Upvotes  | Rep (New system)  |  Rep (Today system) |&#xA;-------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;     3             2            -2                 14&#xA;     1             3            20                 28&#xA;     4             4             0                 32&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the poster do not gain any rep unless there are more people thinking that the post is right than the people who think is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T19:46:48.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9952" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:09:02.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't go cowboy with merging; in fact, it is pretty rare I do a merge (it is dwarfed, for example, by spam removal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, a merge is done when they are &lt;em&gt;stupidly&lt;/em&gt; identical. If you feel yours was merged inappropriately, then that is unfortunate; but sadly there isn't a lot can be done now. This is meant to be realistic rather than dismissive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly don't know who merged it; it is possible to investigate (given the surviving question number), but I don't see a huge benefit &quot;after the fact&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, losing the context is a bad thing, and is something we'd try to avoid. I also mentioned (on another recent thread) that it might be better if merge worked like migrate - i.e. it left a stub for the OP, and left the old answers deleted (and hence recoverable). But we don't have that today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:09:02.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10144" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:19:49.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted this would be highly open for gaming. But that's not my concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This encourages noise. Lots and lots of noise. Questions with a lot of upvotes already have interest and answers. Tendency has already become that for any question with 5+ answers, at least two of them will be content-identical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This solution provides more of an incentive to answer questions that don't need the help. On the other hand, there are questions with one or no upvotes because they aren't glamorous or sexy, and there's one answer so they do not show up on the 'unanswered' list anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the questions that need extra help, because there isn't interest in them. It's hard to come up with a solution that doesn't involve gaming, but those questions need help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a recent question &quot;What should I do if my partner aligns his brackets wrong&quot;, when I saw it, it had 6 upvotes. So, a lot of people would then want to add their two cents, in order to get a shot at getting the extra bonus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:19:49.347" />
  <row Id="10171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9952" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:24:52.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may have had the best of intentions when asking your question, but if everyone reading it came away with the wrong impression you can get a set of answers that are pretty much applicable to an existing (broader) question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next time, if you find a question that's similar to what you're asking... or if someone else finds it and votes to close your question as a duplicate... Be proactive: link to the existing question from your own, and immediately follow up with a concise description of why &lt;em&gt;your question is different&lt;/em&gt;, and why the answers to the existing question &lt;em&gt;don't work for you&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't expect anyone to scan a lengthy description of your project, its history, goals, setbacks, and the pets you owned while working on it... for details that set it apart from what's already been asked. They might... but if they don't, then you're unlikely to get good answers even if your question does stay open and doesn't get merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I didn't see your question, so if it was brief and to the point then just ignore the last paragraph; long stories ending with broad, duplicate questions are a common problem, with some folks seemingly unable to indicate how their question is special... even as they're arguing that it shouldn't be closed as a duplicate.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:24:52.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6960" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:28:24.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found a feed that goes back as far as Episode 33 (which, seeing as we are at 62 today, is 30 eps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rss.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rss.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will contact them to see if there is a way to go back further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51691" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:28:24.633" />
  <row Id="10174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10178" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:28:33.487" Score="5" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/3049/must-have-android-applications/3284#3284&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/3049/must-have-android-applications/3284#3284&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I answered twice with links to my own Android products that fully met the criteria of the question, and they got downvoted. I do make it clear that I am the developer, and I post regularly about other things too. This is kind of advertising, but they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; my favorite. Is this kind of behavior discouraged at SO / SF / SU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-05T21:51:26.760" LastActivityDate="2011-05-05T21:51:26.760" Title="Using SO / SF / SU to promote your products?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;self-promotion&gt;&lt;astroturfing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10174" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:31:33.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would depend on the context and the user's other activity... which sounds vague and woolly, and I apologise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an account exists &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; to spot questions related to their product, that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8323/astroturfing-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;astroturfing&lt;/a&gt; and will probably be deleted (post and/or user). However, occasional on-topic posts are probably OK - but the community may decide it is spam anyway, depending on the context. For example, I have no qualms about recommending one of my tools when it is appropriate (but it is open source, so I'm not out to profit by plugging it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?ZoneID=0&amp;amp;BannerID=323&amp;amp;AdvertiserID=5&amp;amp;CampaignID=194&amp;amp;Task=Click&amp;amp;SiteID=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;adverts are available&lt;/a&gt; on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making an association explicit is a good idea; people will see through you anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:31:33.237" />
  <row Id="10177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10174" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:31:42.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you make it look like an advertisement, that's a very quick way to have people flag your post as spam and get you to lose 100 rep. I'm not saying that's the preferred behavior, but that is just what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:31:42.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10174" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:32:12.947" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your examples are acceptable as long as you declare your bias. Presenting them as applications you 'found' would be poor behaviour and likely to earn down votes...It would also help if you otherwise were a trusted and helpful member of the community.  Jon Skeet would be forgiven a plug for his c# book because he is very helpful to every C# developer in the community, whereas someone who signed up to plug a book would not and would be marked as spam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To the posters saying it is astroturfing. It isn't. He declared his bias in the questions and is not trying to pretend it's an organic recommendation. Given the nature of the Question I think his answer is acceptable, more so that he came here to draw attention to what he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:32:12.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7753" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:33:58.667" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do that by using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10181/a-script-to-sort-featured-questions-by-bounty-value-closed&quot;&gt;this greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T20:55:14.340" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:55:14.340" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10174" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:35:44.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're probably better off &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; doing that. If it wasn't on SU, i'd flag them as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be one thing if you were answering the question, &quot;Where can I find an app for Android that'll let me download stuff off of YouTube&quot;. But if these &quot;what's your favorite&quot; threads become nothing but a vessel for self-promotion, then expect to see them nuked - and as an early participant, you'll be partially to blame for having ruined it for everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:35:44.027" />
  <row Id="10183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10174" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:47:26.707" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should probably write in the answer &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; you like them so much. If you don't say why you like those programs, why would anyone believe you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's just because you wrote the programs, you should probably delete the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to remember that your not just continuing a conversation, you are ending it. Saying you like your own programs, doesn't really end a conversation real well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you are writing an answer, try to think about what someone reading it would ask you. Then answer that question. Either by adding another paragraph, or editing what you already have. Keep doing that until you can not come up with any more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T23:39:51.867" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T23:39:51.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:53:58.263" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edit a fair amount of questions to improve them -- mostly formatting, but some spelling and grammar.  Invariably, though I find myself commenting on answers instead of editing them to improve them.  Anyone else notice this same behavioral quirk?  I just seem to have a hard time changing someone's answer even if I think I can improve it.  I've done it a couple of times, but most of the time I leave a comment rather than make a fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T22:54:41.280" Title="Do you have trouble thinking wiki when responding to answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="10186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10185" CreationDate="2009-07-27T20:56:07.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. I'll happily jump in and edit an answer if there's a problem and i have the energy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but i &lt;strong&gt;am&lt;/strong&gt; disgustingly lazy, so sometimes i'll just leave comments 'cause it's easier than re-writing the whole answer. And if it comes down to being a matter of taste (e.g. coding style rather than an actual error), i'll tend to leave a comment rather than jumping in and adjusting it to fit my preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T20:56:07.717" />
  <row Id="10187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10185" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:03:24.920" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is grammatical or clarification changes, I &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is an error in understanding or the actual information contained in the post, I will &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; comment. I am not comfortable changing/editing the original meaning of a post. I would rather leave that to the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:03:24.920" />
  <row Id="10188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10193" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:07:43.960" Score="7" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I would like the Autobiographer badge, but I don't want to put my age on my profile. I think asking for your age is just a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; too personal to have on a programming / IT / computer website. At least make it optional for the Autobiographer badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T23:26:41.063" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T23:26:41.063" Title="Remove &quot;age&quot; field or remove requirement of &quot;age&quot; field for Autobiographer badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;age&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10188" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:09:25.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always fib if uncomfortable.  There are an amazing amount of 80+ programmers on this site, if we were all being truthful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:09:25.293" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:09:35.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that by asking questions, and tagging them with &lt;code&gt;[retag-request]&lt;/code&gt;, it gives us a better platform for discussing the changes to be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has a problem with how these decisions were made, we can direct them to the relevant question. Were they can see the whole discussion easily, and they can leave a comment, or &quot;answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these questions, the community gets to vote, up and down, any action to be taken. This will also make it so that the action that has the most community support, will be at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:09:35.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10188" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:10:20.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why it is needed in general for the profile... You could of course ignore the badge and not fill it in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:10:20.357" />
  <row Id="10193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10188" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:11:23.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of the autobiographer badge is that you have filled out &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of the information. If you're leaving out age, you haven't met this requirement. If you want to do receive the badge without giving your actual age, lie; there's no one able to prove how old you are. Not that, as a general rule I support &quot;gaming&quot; the system, but in this case I think it's harmless enough, that I certainly don't mind you lying about your age if you want the badge that badly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, overall, the profile system and autobiographer badge as are work to get a decent number of people &quot;honestly&quot; filling in their profile information, that it serves its purpose. Obviously there are people who are not, but I believe there is no way to avoid that and the current system is good enough. If you don't want to publicize your age, you can pass on the badge, or you can lie and no one will be able to prove you are lying. I would bet that there are one or two, valid, registered users out there that are actually over 80, most of the others claiming to be are probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T21:27:14.783" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:27:14.783" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:12:19.090" Score="27" ViewCount="449" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I don't, but the message leads to confusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait... I have to wait for more votes to have this embarassing and compromising answer deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9403/dibujoceo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I'm a fly eater! YES!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T03:56:25.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T04:00:01.040" Title="Why do I have to 'vote to delete' my own answer?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10194" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:18:57.123" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, it is just deleted. You have to 'vote' to close your own questions though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, you can always undelete the answer. And it is viewable to people with 10K+ rep I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:18:57.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10185" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:19:41.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the voting system creates a strong sense of ownership which percolates even to the wiki mode. I'm wary to change content or even to add to it as well, just like rcar and tvanfosson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I think this is not the best way to proceed and that only us editors can change this trend through willpower and careful editing. This is, only improve, never offend or change everything without leaving a trace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:19:41.380" />
  <row Id="10197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10188" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:22:24.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That badge exists so they can gather demographics. They are encouraging you to provide information they can use to tailor the site to the correct audience. If you refuse to give all that information (as is your right) then you are withholding what they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, you can't (nor should you) get the badge for &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; completing the task set out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have that badge, because I decided I'd rather not provide what they asked for, but I understand that if I don't fulfill the requirements, I therefore don't get the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:22:24.057" />
  <row Id="10198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4856" CreationDate="2009-07-27T21:50:16.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a &quot;do-er&quot; of these, &lt;strong&gt;personally&lt;/strong&gt; I find it easier to have separate questions marked &lt;kbd&gt;retag-request&lt;/kbd&gt; and (to satisfy the mandated tags) &lt;kbd&gt;discussion&lt;/kbd&gt;. This allows separate tracking (IMO, a good thing), and allows me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot;&gt;monitor the tag&lt;/a&gt;. It also invites the &lt;strong&gt;very necessary&lt;/strong&gt; input (i.e. discussion) from other users, without it being buried on page 3 of an über-question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&quot;&gt;single question&lt;/a&gt; it is really tricky; I have to keep scanning through pages of replies (which is trickier than pages of questions, since the questions page is optimized for this, and displays status etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T21:50:16.883" />
  <row Id="10200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10214" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:20:18.860" Score="5" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be neat to see which answers have the largest divide over up-votes/down-votes. Sorting them by their controversial status, that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T03:06:46.703" Title="New Answer Sorting, &quot;Controversial&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:23:53.410" Score="4" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of all these common mistake questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-06T18:13:01.553" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T18:13:01.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-27T22:23:53.410" Title="Common mistakes for a Stack Overflow user to avoid?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10203" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:25:25.593" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't post &quot;common mistake&quot; or &quot;hidden feature&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T22:26:03.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-27T22:25:25.593" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:29:29.397" Score="-2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;In wiki questions, which are usually subjective, I want to see the most popular answer bubble to the top. But in questions that are not subjective or only have a few posts, I sort by oldest first (to see how the answers developed). On top of this, I would also like to disable the &quot;accepted answer on top&quot; feature, since that ruins my flow of reading the development of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T22:34:35.607" Title="I would like to be able to sort answers in different orders in wiki and non-wiki questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10205" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:34:35.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put me down as against it. Allowing this would encourage the idea that wiki means it is OK to treat SO/SF/SU as a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted questions get special treatment to encourage the idea that these sites are for &lt;em&gt;helping people to solve problems&lt;/em&gt;. Which is as it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T22:34:35.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10203" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:49:16.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi All, this is my third stack overflow answer/question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love answering and asking questions because we're a smart bunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-dlamblin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Don't answer with any of the obvious answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T22:49:16.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-27T22:49:16.407" />
  <row Id="10208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10203" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:49:49.853" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't ask duplicate questions...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T22:49:49.853" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-27T22:49:49.853" />
  <row Id="10209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10185" CreationDate="2009-07-27T22:54:41.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't got the rep to change non wiki post anywhere yet, but correct/changing the meaning of a post just would feel wrong. That might give reputation to someone that don't really deserve it (and not me :p ). Might sound selfish, but people should get reputation from there own answers/questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway I would rather make a comment than edit, maybe edit obvious spelling/grammar errors but that's about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130719" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T22:54:41.280" />
  <row Id="10210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9817" CreationDate="2009-07-27T23:19:44.167" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be the worst idea I've seen on meta yet.  I don't see a single example above that was closed improperly.  Not a one has a specific programming related problem to solve.  The rest of it is pure discussion and just oozes subjectivity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Why did the programmer cross the road?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; Who cares, ask a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you seem to want to punish folks for closing these items down...  What about punishing the folks who posted it and vote to reopen that items that do not belong on SO?  Where is the justice in that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-27T23:33:38.057" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T23:33:38.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10200" CreationDate="2009-07-27T23:20:44.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how your algorithm would work exactly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you imagine the &quot;divide&quot; in terms of a number line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;----------------------DOWN------0----------------UP--------------------&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could see that the &quot;divide&quot; could be the total number of votes (say 4 downs and 5 ups = 9 votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in theory something with 0 down votes and 10 upvotes would rank higher because the total would be 10. The same could be said for something voted down 10 times and upvoted 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you reconcile this in your idea of great &quot;divide?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T23:20:44.013" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10200" CreationDate="2009-07-27T23:22:14.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be cool to see for questions and answers.  This is a possible badge idea too.  &quot;controversial question&quot; and &quot;controversial answer&quot; for like 10 up and 10 down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-27T23:22:14.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10200" CreationDate="2009-07-28T00:05:05.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorting for this would be easy. Sort order would be the &lt;strong&gt;minimum&lt;/strong&gt; of up votes and down votes (highest to lowest).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's such a bad idea actually. But I do think if we had it we would need to be able to see upvotes and downvotes, not just net votes, even if it was just via a tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T00:05:05.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6435" CreationDate="2009-07-28T00:11:47.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume it uses one of the cache validation strategies that the MVC framework uses. Although this site was built when the MVC was in beta, so they may have their own solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149695" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T00:11:47.890" />
  <row Id="10216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10222" CreationDate="2009-07-28T00:29:00.510" Score="16" ViewCount="741" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the new migration features I believe the tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;belongs-on-serverfault&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;belongs-on-superuser&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;belongs-on-meta&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;belongs-on-stackoverflow&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;not-programming-related&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are no longer necessary. All they do is add useless clutter to the tagging system. We &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; a question belongs on superuser.com because it was migrated there. Let the close system handle this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to believe these tags were necessary for those with less reputation to &quot;alert&quot; those with enough rep to close, but there are enough with close privileges to handle this now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T12:52:03.870" Title="Can we disallow the use of &quot;belongs-on-xxxxxxx&quot; and &quot;not-programming-related&quot; tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10203" CreationDate="2009-07-28T00:31:02.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why was my question closed when the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;favorite programmer cartoon&lt;/a&gt;* question is still open?&quot;... wah wah wah etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;em&gt;Or replace the favorite programmer cartoon question with any other question that has been around since the dawn of SO and happens to be open at the moment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T00:31:02.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T00:31:02.987" />
  <row Id="10218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10203" CreationDate="2009-07-28T00:32:39.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Associating reputation with skill&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T00:32:39.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T00:32:39.887" />
  <row Id="10222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10216" CreationDate="2009-07-28T00:51:30.293" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see a question with one of these newly-added, remove it, and flag the question for moderator review. Then leave a comment noting that the use of the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; feature is more useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exception:&lt;/strong&gt; if the question author added the tag themselves, then &lt;strike&gt;they will be unable to flag the question. Instead,&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt; post a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;link to this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T16:01:50.013" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:01:50.013" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10224" CreationDate="2009-07-28T01:04:02.187" Score="2" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently (a few minutes ago), I noticed that on SO, all but one of the recently awarded badges on the list on the home page were &lt;kbd&gt;enthusiast&lt;/kbd&gt; badges. Normally, there are just a few at a time. Was this some sort of huge coincidence, or was this some sort of recalculation? If it was a recalculation, how often do these occur?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is a strange question, but this seemed way too strange to be a coincidence...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:44:43.953" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:44:43.953" Title="Large number of enthusiast badges awarded in short succession" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;recalculation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10223" CreationDate="2009-07-28T01:07:39.810" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume it is because it's shortly after midnight UTC time, which means its a new day, but still early enough in the US that there are people likely hanging around and earning the badge. Basically, I wouldn't be surprised if many days around this time there are a bunch of people earning the woot badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T01:07:39.810" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10223" CreationDate="2009-07-28T01:08:03.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that happens once a day as new people go over the 30-day threshold for the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T01:08:03.837" />
  <row Id="10231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T02:12:38.893" Score="0" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3646/im-worried-about-stack-overflow-content-licensing&quot;&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m worried about Stack Overflow content licensing&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question came up today at work and I thought I'd (ironically) ask SO about it - have other employees at your job voiced legal concerns about reading responses to your SO questions, with the intention of incorporating the knowledge into production code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if a user posts code to do something and you copy-paste it into your app, what does that mean to your app? While all of our answers are CC-licensed, CC-Wiki doesn't really fit code. Does your company worry that someone will accidentally let out semi-internal information about $PRODUCT in an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132468" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T02:20:02.033" ClosedDate="2009-07-28T02:23:20.507" Title="Company worries about legal issues with reading / posting on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10231" CreationDate="2009-07-28T02:20:02.033" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well unless your post goes something like &quot;Hi, I work for Apple and we're releasing this X in 3 months and I need to make sure features Y and Z work with Cocoa&quot; I wouldn't really worry about the bit about releasing information you shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, I think you'll find that people rarely (if ever) copy and paste code directly from something commercial. For one thing, it's rarely appropriate. There'll be a lot of stuff in there that's just not relevant to the question. A good question will have reduced such code to a small test case, in which case it no longer resembles the original code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise the answer will be for the simplified problem, not for your code, so copying and pasting it verbatim is (imho) unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The value in SO answers is in helping you understand the problem and finding a solution. You then apply that solution to a similar (but ultimately different) problem at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if that solution has a problem in it, you have two safeguards. Firstly, it will hopefully get downvoted. That doesn't always happen but it usually does. I've seen bad answers get upvoted. The second is that you are ultimately responsible for any code you produce at work. So you can use something you found on the net but by putting it in you are using your professional expertise to vouch for its efficacy, robustness and appropriateness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T02:20:02.033" />
  <row Id="10236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7336" CreationDate="2009-07-28T03:43:21.740" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We made some changes to address these two issues -- can you let us know if it's still an issue after tomorrow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, we switched to Base64 encoding for the HTML part of the message, does this fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're also verifying our Reverse DNS (RDNS) settings, I could have sworn we had that set up correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T16:54:27.723" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T16:54:27.723" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9711" CreationDate="2009-07-28T03:43:58.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We made some changes tonight (Monday) to address these two issues. If you still see this by Friday, please let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: we have switched to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afterlogic.com/products/net-email-components&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;third party email component&lt;/a&gt; recommended by our pals at &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;X-Mailer: MailBee.NET 5.7.2.156&#xA;From: &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that it &quot;fixes&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the quoted-printable encoding bug&lt;/a&gt; in the .NET framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:47:29.427" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:47:29.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T04:03:21.530" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Stackoverflow, how can I find people who have got gold badges for their great answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T08:41:48.613" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T08:41:48.613" Title="In StackOverFlow, how can I find people who have got gold badges for their great answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;gold&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10238" CreationDate="2009-07-28T04:04:20.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/25/great-answer&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/25/great-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T04:06:38.980" />
  <row Id="10240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10238" CreationDate="2009-07-28T04:05:43.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to the badges page and click on the badge, it shows you who it was recently awarded to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25071" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T04:06:38.980" />
  <row Id="10241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10238" CreationDate="2009-07-28T04:06:04.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/25/great-answer&quot;&gt;Great answer&lt;/a&gt; badges page. You can also go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Badges&lt;/a&gt; page and click on any of the badges to see who has received them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T04:06:38.980" />
  <row Id="10243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10244" CreationDate="2009-07-28T04:41:01.437" Score="4" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, we ask a question which elicits numerous answers. As you read those answers, you form related questions that don't probably merit entire new questions on their own but little one line answers as a follow-up to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mechanisms for doing this today are using comments or posting a new question with a link to the original. Both of these are sub-optimal because they don't really show up in search, as being related. Further, modifying the original question to ask the follow-up query doesn't intimate the people who have already answered the original question and hence, loses its significance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a way to post follow-up questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130323" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:29:16.513" Title="Asking a follow-up question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="10244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10243" CreationDate="2009-07-28T04:49:00.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I typically do this is to either edit my original question with the followup question, or to post my followup as a comment to the answerer (and sometimes both at the same time). The former is useful if I have more information that can help people solve my problem gained through attempting suggestions in my first set of answers, the latter is nice when I need clarification or have a question specific to that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So between starting a new question, editing your existing question with a followup, and requesting more info from those that have already answered by way of comments, I'd say that we probably don't need another, dedicated mechanism to perform this exact function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T04:49:00.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10243" CreationDate="2009-07-28T04:49:43.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer to a follow-up question could easily be worked into an existing answer, then it should be asked in a comment and answered via an edit to that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer would require a significant departure from the topic of the first question, then the follow-up question should be posted as an entirely new question, optionally with a link to the original as part of the background information. This question should stand on its own, be titled and tagged appropriately, and will therefore be fully-accessible to both internal and external search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly fond of seeing major edits to questions that already have good answers. It's one thing to clarify your original question, or refine it with additional details... but editing to tack on tangentially-related follow-up questions can easily render perfectly-good answers invalid or incomplete... IMHO, that's kinda rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T04:49:43.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10253" CreationDate="2009-07-28T06:08:30.977" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1190002/who-is-your-number-one-guru-in-software-development-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question lost its connection with my ID after migrating &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/13950/who-is-your-number-one-guru-in-software-development/13952#13952&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to superuser.com. Although I have account on superuser.com associated with account on stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130951" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-01T01:43:46.130" LastActivityDate="2010-07-01T01:43:46.130" Title="Answer not associated with my login after migrating" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49364" CreationDate="2009-07-28T06:36:31.580" Score="6" ViewCount="731" Body="&lt;p&gt;If question has more than 100k views, question listing has a small rendering error with Google Chrome. Letter &quot;k&quot; is rendered on top of word &quot;views&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.0.x works correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main page&lt;/a&gt; which currently contains question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke&quot;&gt;What is your best programmer joke?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://jsyrjala.kapsi.fi/tmp/stackoverflow-chrome-error.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T04:56:54.853" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T18:14:03.643" Title="Small rendering problem with Google Chrome on main page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T06:44:49.937" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1187626/how-closely-can-a-website-be-copied-without-violating-copyright-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow that was Closed as not being programming related. How can I go about migrating it (or requesting that it be migrated) to SuperUser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T06:46:06.260" Title="How to Migrate a Question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10249" CreationDate="2009-07-28T06:46:06.260" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the best way is to flag the question for moderator review, then include a message that you want your question migrated to SuperUser. A moderator should be able to review your request and will most likely proceed in short order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though users that can close questions (users with 3k+ rep) can use the close mechanism to migrate questions, in this case the question would have to be reopened, then re-closed as &quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T06:46:06.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9857" CreationDate="2009-07-28T07:30:41.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a question to be automatically migrated upon close, 3 of the 5 close votes must be for the migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question being discussed only had 2 &quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot; close votes - here's the breakdown with vote cast time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;subjective and argumentative    2009-07-26 18:58:52.980&#xA;belongs on superuser.com        2009-07-26 19:00:06.753&#xA;not programming related         2009-07-26 19:00:32.837&#xA;not programming related         2009-07-26 19:00:49.030&#xA;belongs on superuser.com        2009-07-26 19:02:20.213&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there was no clear winner, the last close vote cast is the one used in the close reason.  Perhaps a better scheme would be to choose the highest rep user's reason in ties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, this migration threshold is in place to ensure that the community has enough consensus before displacing a question and all its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T07:42:11.150" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T07:42:11.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10247" CreationDate="2009-07-28T08:06:37.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to your user profile on superuser and check your &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/723?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;related accounts tab&lt;/a&gt;, I can see the association has &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; been made. It sais:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No accounts matching this OpenID at&#xA;  Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No accounts matching this OpenID at&#xA;  Server Fault&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No accounts matching this OpenID at&#xA;  Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T08:06:37.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T08:27:01.137" Score="2" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the Stackoverflow openid association not allow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.yubico.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yubico OpenId&lt;/a&gt; to be associated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow returns this message..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&#xA;failed to authenticate, returning Failed. Please ensure your identifier is correct and try again.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132476" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T20:31:19.890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:31:19.890" Title="why does the yubico openID not work with stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10188" CreationDate="2009-07-28T08:59:45.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also set your birth date to some dummy value e.g. 1920/01/01, then wait few minutes for the Autobiographer badge to arrive, and finally remove birth date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way you'll get the badge, and you don't have to set the birth date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T08:59:45.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10257" CreationDate="2009-07-28T09:37:34.873" Score="4" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browser:&lt;/strong&gt; Chrome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the bar at the top of the page appears when you earn a badge, and you then navigate to another page (I clicked on the recent icon), then go back, the bar reappears each time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:30:11.593" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T15:36:20.103" Title="You have earned the &quot;xxx&quot; badge back button bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10256" CreationDate="2009-07-28T09:42:31.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt that this is browser-specific. I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; that the source initially delivered to the browser already contains the badge information, so when the source is reloaded from the cache it will show it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An AJAX call to get badge information would solve this but I suspect it would be a significant traffic hit (in terms of number of requests, not actual bandwidth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T09:42:31.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10256" CreationDate="2009-07-28T09:47:38.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That notice bar often sticks in the top of the browser until you click it away by the X or hit the link it shows up with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you navigate to another page, but don't click it away, it will keep on with the gentle reminder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like when you check out the site for the first time, you'll see the bar. Click it away with the X and it won't show again unless you clear your cookies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T09:47:38.633" />
  <row Id="10259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10260" CreationDate="2009-07-28T10:14:59.730" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I use the &quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot; option (when &#xA;flagging a question)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see there only a &#xA;Cancel button. I don't know how to send off the text for the &quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1&lt;/strong&gt;: this happens if there are less than 10 characters or more than 150 characters - the number of characters must be in [10;150].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the two other options, &quot;Spam&quot; and &quot;Offensive, Abusive, &#xA;or Hate Speech&quot;, there is a &quot;Flag Post&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't I have enough reputation to do that? The FAQ only &#xA;mentions one limit concerning flagging: &quot;15   Flag &#xA;offensive&quot; and I currently have 201.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular I was trying to flag &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6936&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6936&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T11:17:50.817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:17:50.817" Title="How do I use the &quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot; option?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;how-to&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10259" CreationDate="2009-07-28T10:21:09.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you select the option a text box should appear. When you've entered 10 or more characters into the text box explaining why you're flagging the post the &quot;Flag Post&quot; link should appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T10:21:09.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T11:06:27.407" Score="14" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found a number of reasons to close a question of my own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've found out it's a dupe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it belongs on an SE site that didn't exist when the question was asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is wrong; that is, based on incorrect assumptions, or so bad that I don't even want it answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the original poster should have special privileges regarding closing his or her own question (from here on I'll write &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; without loss of generality). If I understand belatedly that my question is a dupe, why wait for four others to agree? Even worse, if my question will get better answers on another site, why wait for five others to notice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't true for questions I didn't ask, because I don't necessarily know the intent of the asker. However, considering that I can &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; my own questions, I'd like the option to close my questions by myself as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T23:15:42.583" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T23:15:42.583" Title="Allow question askers to close their own questions unilaterally" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10363" CreationDate="2009-07-28T11:14:00.017" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to look at it like this: Once you post a question it is not exactly YOURS in every sense of the word anymore, it belongs to EVERYONE. You may be asking a question for a specific reason, but you must also remember that once you are done with the question, it is going to hang around and continue to exist for future users to see and learn from and to add new information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question author had the ability to close questions, I would imagine that you'd start seeing a lot of people mistakenly closing questions that get answered because they will believe it is the proper thing to do (like closing a help desk ticket) and that is not correct at all. I could also imagine that users may be pretty click to hit the close button on items that don't get answered in a timely fashion, or hitting close button any time there is some sort of conflict over their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still believe it is better to leave this up to the community or at the most calling for moderator attention if you believe it needs to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:14:00.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10368" CreationDate="2009-07-28T11:35:35.713" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I click on my name. I scroll down to (my) questions. Many have answers. In some cases, one of the answers has been ticked or checked, meaning that I have accepted one of the answers as resolution to my question. When a question reaches that status, I would like it to be displayed somehow differently, so I don't have to browse that question again. How can I make that happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T12:46:13.330" Title="When I click on my name, and scroll to my questions, why no indication which questions have approved answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10367" CreationDate="2009-07-28T11:39:05.480" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is very much indicated. On StackOverflow, the answer count for a question with an accepted answer is printed in yellow; on questions without an accepted answer it's white. If you move your cursor over the answer count, this is also stated in the tool tip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SuperUser, the distinction is green background / white background; on meta it's (pale) yellow / white again. On ServerFault it's green text / white text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:39:05.480" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-04-14T21:02:14.010" Score="113" ViewCount="10943" Body="&lt;p&gt;Picking up from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt;, what are all the details on tools and technologies used to build the Stack Exchange Network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134146" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T10:19:09.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-14T21:22:45.100" Title="Which tools and technologies build the Stack Exchange Network?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tools&gt;&lt;technology&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="104" />
  <row Id="10370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10369" CreationDate="2009-04-14T21:31:02.163" Score="124" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Core&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow uses a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/177901/what-does-wisc-stack-mean&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WISC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; stack via &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/stack-overflow-and-bizspark/&quot;&gt;BizSpark&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Operating System&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Web Server&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iis.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IIS 7.5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Database&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQL Server 2008 R2&lt;/a&gt; running &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/34846/in-place-upgrade-from-windows-server-standard-to-enterprise-or-datacenter&quot;&gt;Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Language&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_%28programming_language%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Dev Tools&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IDE&lt;/strong&gt; Visual Studio 2010 Team Suite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Framework&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt; (version 4.0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Web Framework&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET MVC 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;View Engine&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/02/introducing-razor.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Razor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browser Framework&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery 1.5.2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Data Access Layer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386976.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LINQ to SQL&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dapper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source Control&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://mercurial.selenic.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mercurial&lt;/a&gt; (after a switch from Subversion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source Control Integration&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://mercurial.selenic.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mercurial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Compare Tool&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scootersoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beyond Compare 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;External Bits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code used in Stack Overflow that is not included as part of the development tools:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://recaptcha.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reCAPTCHA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dotnetopenauth.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DotNetOpenId&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WMD&lt;/a&gt; - Now developed as open source &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PageDown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prettify&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/analytics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Analytics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cruise Control .NET&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://haproxy.1wt.eu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HAProxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cacti.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cacti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MarkdownSharp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nginx.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nginx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/Kiln/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiln&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Content&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;License&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Generic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Standards&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opensearch.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OpenSearch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Atom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Host&lt;/strong&gt; two datacenters: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.peakinternet.com/business/hosting/?stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PEAK Internet&lt;/a&gt; OR and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.serverfault.com/post/1432571770/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peer 1&lt;/a&gt; NYC&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Hardware&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;10 Dell R610 IIS web servers (3 dedicated to Stack Overflow):&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;2x Intel Xeon Processor E5640 @ 2.66 GHz Quad Core with 8 threads&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;16 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;Windows Server 2008 R2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;2 spindles&#xA;      &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt;RAID 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt;2x Intel 320 300GB SSD (RAID 1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2 Dell R710 database servers:&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;2x Intel Xeon Processor X5680 @ 3.33 GHz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;96 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;8 spindles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt;Mirrored Pair for OS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;          &lt;li&gt;6 disk RAID10 for databases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;SQL Server 2008 R2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2 Dell R710 database servers (Stack Overflow Dedicated):&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;2x Intel Xeon Processor X5680 @ 3.33 GHz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;96 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;8 drives&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;         &lt;li&gt;Mirrored Pair for OS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;         &lt;li&gt;6 drive RAID10 of Intel X25-E SSDs for Database&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;SQL Server 2008 R2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2 Dell R610  HAProxy servers:&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;1x Intel Xeon Processor E5640 @ 2.66 GHz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;4 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;Ubuntu Server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2 Dell R610 Redis servers:&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;2x Intel Xeon Processor E5640 @ 2.66 GHz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;16 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;CentOS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1 Dell R610 Linux backup server running Bacula:&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;1x Intel Xeon Processor E5640 @ 2.66 GHz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;32 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1 Dell R610 Linux management server for Nagios and logs:&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;1x Intel Xeon Processor E5640 @ 2.66 GHz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;32 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2 Dell R610 VMWare ESXi:&#xA;    &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;1x Intel Xeon Processor E5640 @ 2.66 GHz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;      &lt;li&gt;16 GB RAM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 Linux routers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 Cisco 2960S 48 Port Switches with FlexStack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.serverfault.com/post/1432571770/stack-overflows-new-york-data-center&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow's New York Data Center (SF Blog)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.serverfault.com/post/1097492931/designing-for-scalability-of-management-and-fault&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Designing for Scalability of Management and Fault Tolerance (SF Blog)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot;&gt;What Was Stack Overflow Built With?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/stack-overflow-rack-glamour-shots/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Server Glamour Shots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/our-dedicated-server/&quot;&gt;Technology and SEO profile for stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/stack-overflow-and-dvcs/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow and DVCS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-network-configuration/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Network Configuration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-26T10:19:09.677" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T10:19:09.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-14T21:31:02.163" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10369" CreationDate="2009-04-14T21:32:31.410" Score="103" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You forgot to include Jon Skeet as a core component.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:29.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-14T21:32:31.410" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:25:21.797" Score="70" ViewCount="4505" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/which-tools-and-technologies-build-the-stack-exchange-network&quot;&gt;Which tools and technologies build the Stack Exchange Network?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is kind of off-topic, but just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-16T17:41:03.010" LastActivityDate="2011-01-16T17:41:03.010" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" ClosedDate="2011-01-16T18:25:33.317" Title="Is stackoverflow.com written in Ruby on Rails?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;&lt;technology&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="10373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:26:17.863" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's actually written in ASP.NET's MVC framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" />
  <row Id="10374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:27:06.877" Score="65" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asp.net/mvc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/a&gt;, listen to the podcasts at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out this relevant &lt;a href=&quot;http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC21/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PDC 2008 presentation by Phil Haack&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3957" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" />
  <row Id="10375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:27:54.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's written in ASP.NET MVC, which bears some similarities to RoR as I understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138681" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" />
  <row Id="10376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:28:23.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is written on the .Net Platform.  I know it uses ASP.Net MVC.  If you want to get more information on the architecture and how it was built, check out some of the podcasts at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" />
  <row Id="10377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:13:39.640" Score="86" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case you don't know, the question asker is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://obiefernandez.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;notable figure in the Ruby community&lt;/a&gt;, so this question is quite a compliment! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have noted, we use ASP.NET and the MVC framework. We're not platform advocates, necessarily; that's what we know. We take a lot of inspiration from other sites built in Ruby and other technologies, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and thanks for stopping by, Obie!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I created a blog entry to answer this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" />
  <row Id="10378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2008-09-17T04:23:45.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually the best way to know what technology a web site is using is to install Server spy plugin in firefox which will tell you the web server used in a web page. so if it says IIS then it is using ASP. If Mongrel then rails. Apache can't tell you much you will need to do more research by looking at the extension in the uri, and also looking to the page source can give more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly Rails web site, they will have prototype or script.aculo.us&#xA;libraries in the html source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136601" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2008-09-17T04:33:56.937" Score="62" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple to find out via &lt;code&gt;curl -I&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;curl -I stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important parts to answer your question are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0&#xA;X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727&#xA;X-Powered-By: ASP.NET&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149588" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10372" CreationDate="2009-04-21T20:58:55.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69111" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T11:45:54.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T11:42:55.660" />
  <row Id="10381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10384" CreationDate="2009-07-28T12:02:48.393" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related accounts&lt;/strong&gt; in profiles of SO/SU/etc seems to not update the avatar picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try cleaning cache, but I think is a server-side problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's a bug or designed behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52879" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T12:59:48.797" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T12:59:48.797" Title="Related accounts does not update avatar" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10385" CreationDate="2009-07-28T12:07:38.957" Score="5" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mistakenly made my question on StackOverflow into a community wiki. How can I change my question back from a community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1192707/why-am-i-not-able-to-query-a-database-from-a-forked-child-in-perl&quot;&gt;Why am I not able to query a database from a forked child in Perl?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T15:02:34.057" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T04:15:08.907" Title="How can I change my question back from a community wiki?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="10383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10382" CreationDate="2009-07-28T12:10:58.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't. Not even moderators can set it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T12:10:58.457" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10381" CreationDate="2009-07-28T12:32:33.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just takes a little while. Have some faith/patience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, make sure that your emails are the same on both accounts.  That is what Gravitar uses to update your avatar on these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T15:45:22.230" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T15:45:22.230" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10382" CreationDate="2009-07-28T12:34:23.650" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can do is delete it and post it again as a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the original was down-voted (albeit without comment) you might want to take this opportunity to rework the question to see if you can improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I don't know anything about Perl and DBI so I can't help you there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T12:41:21.257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T12:41:21.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10367" CreationDate="2009-07-28T12:46:13.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On your question list (questions you ask) you can immediately see the ones where you have accepted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your answer list (questions you answered) you can immediately see the ones where you won the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of yet there is no method to indicate questions you have answered which have been accepted and the accepted answer was not yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T12:46:13.330" />
  <row Id="10387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4054" CreationDate="2009-07-28T13:08:53.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can add a hint to the question page, like:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt; (The title should be phrased as a question.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly I doubt that this will improve the situation, but it could be worth giving it a try.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Maybe it's better to add a link to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; instead of the sentence above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt; (See &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;Howto writing good titles&quot;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T08:34:23.470" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T08:34:23.470" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10406" CreationDate="2009-07-28T13:31:10.353" Score="8" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;On most pages on SO sites, there is an ajax request made to a url like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ticks?_=xxxxxxxxxxxxx&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the response is usually an alphabetic string like;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DkLMTD&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to what this is all about and what the 'ticks' do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you visit any of the SO sites in firefox with firebug enabled, you can see this as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastActivityDate="2011-04-17T13:12:40.797" Title="What are stack overflow 'ticks'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10394" CreationDate="2009-07-28T13:34:37.930" Score="5" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;G'day,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why has the meaning of community-wiki shifted towards &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;a way to stop your post being closed&lt;/a&gt;&quot;  from the original intent of allowing almost anyone to edit the question and provide answers so that the question itself becomes a reference document for the topic under discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just intrigued and making the question community wiki! (-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some expansion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read many posting here on meta, you will get a consistent message. The purpose of community wiki is to allow collaborative creation of real answers to real questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at the questions that end up community wiki, that is not what I see. What I see is that it is used to establish a gray zone between concrete questions with concrete answers (on the one hand) and opinion/discussion on the other. By and large, opinion/discussion gets closed as 'not a real question' or 'subjective and argumentative.' But some number of posts that are not concrete questions with specific answers are allowed to remain -- so long as they are cwiki. The justification for this seems to be 'well, this tripe is too tasty to discard, but no one should get any rep for it.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a single occasion on which I've seen a cwiki question or answer serving as a vehicle for collaboration, or allowing low-rep users to stick an editorial oar into the river of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People aren't editing the question or collaboratively editing a single answer to reach a high polish. They are all posting different answers. Dozens of answers. Hundreds of answers. TL;DR No one is going to read all that stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is a good thing, and maybe not. It certainly leads to some level of confusion and whining about unequal treatment. (See recent meta question about career questions, e.g.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I end up thinking that what we need here is to get our story straight. Given the recent ex cathedra pronouncement about leaving some humor questions open, wouldn't it be less stressful to write up and stick to a policy that covers this stuff, instead of having a policy that talks about one phenomenon and a practice that does something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2974" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T01:58:57.900" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T01:58:57.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T13:34:37.930" Title="Why has &quot;community-wiki&quot; transmuted from the original intent?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10390" CreationDate="2009-07-28T13:42:43.823" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of people ask very broad/unanswerable discussion questions, and then reap the benefits of getting 20 upvotes on a question which really doesn't belong on SO at all. As a result of that behaviour, there are many people who close those questions very quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other side is that if a user makes the question community wiki, then they are gaining no reputation, and the close-hawks will be more likely to allow the question to continue to exist, assuming that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; in fact, some way programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the politics involved in why community-wiki evolved into a way to avoid getting your question closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it is still enacting a behaviour that is correct. If a question is broad, and not specifically answerable, but still useful/important to programmers, it should be marked as community-wiki so that anyone can answer/change the question, and the community can collaboratively try and find a correct approach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The politics have encouraged people to mark those questions as community wiki, but there's no way to force people to answer/participate in them in the correct manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1200236/are-65k-and-65kb-the-same/1200406#1200406&quot;&gt;Very Recent Case in Point.&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;130 reputation points for posting an XKCD comic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T14:37:37.493" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:37:37.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T13:42:43.823" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T13:59:27.897" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone here use RoboForm* (or anything like it) to automatically log in to Stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sup&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.roboform.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RoboForm&lt;/a&gt; lets me log into any website using one click (automatically goes to website's login URL, fills out name/password form, &quot;clicks&quot; login button).&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were logging into Yahoo Mail (for example), RoboForm would open a brower to 'mail.yahoo.com', type in my username/password, and click 'login'... automatically. So RoboForm works as both an Internet shortcut (to open a browser to the right site) and an automation tool (to log me in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, because of OpenID, the URL of the name/password screen is different each time I log into Stackoverflow. &lt;strong&gt;I can't find a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; URL&lt;/strong&gt; (for a login page) that I can put into RoboForm to log me into my Stackoverflow account. If I try to reuse the same URL each time, it doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to get back that &lt;strong&gt;one-click-does-all&lt;/strong&gt; functionality. Has anyone else tried this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T15:33:53.227" LastActivityDate="2011-05-27T19:14:59.883" Title="Can I Login to Stackoverflow using RoboForm (Password Manager)?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10399" CreationDate="2009-07-28T14:05:56.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you have your own web host, but if you do there's a neat solution that I've found and currently use - become your own OpenID provider with &lt;a href=&quot;http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phpMyID&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the nice things about phpMyID is that it uses basic HTTP authentication to authorize you, so it should be easy for programs like RoboForm to remember who you are - even browsers can remember this information automatically, or in the case of Safari automatically submit it so I don't even have to enter through the form to continue - I'm automagiaclly logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It requires a web host with PHP, and preferably your own domain to put it on so it's easy to type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/z35pi.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:08:32.120" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:08:32.120" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10389" CreationDate="2009-07-28T14:50:19.120" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ticks are used by the WMD editor, seemingly it is a pseudo random generated string. It is appended to your post via a hidden input when you load a questions page. Using the tick they can determine when you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; loaded the page, and whether or not they need to serve you with a captcha. Don't use this knowledge for evil!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$.get(&quot;/questions/ticks&quot;, function (b) &#xA;{&#xA;   $(&quot;#post-editor-hidden&quot;).append(&quot;&amp;lt;input type='hidden' name='bullet' value='&quot; + b + &quot;' /&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sessions don't need to be kept active because they never expire, and new post activity is designated by a 'heartbeat', which is a request sent to &lt;code&gt;/posts/#ID/new-activity-heartbeat&lt;/code&gt;, which returns JSON that specifies whether or not new posts have been made and if so how many. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T14:50:19.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T14:54:00.817" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent podcast, Joel complained about how people weren't upvoting questions often, so even well-answered questions didn't rise to the top of searches sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it help to implement a sort that sorts search results by the sum of the votes of the top N answers? This would help excavate the useful answers to dumb/badly worded/boring questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6160" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T11:28:07.377" Title="Sort search results by sum of top N answer votes rather than question votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8561" CreationDate="2009-07-28T15:34:43.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be up for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as &quot;Agile Tuesday&quot; is concerned, there's still the &lt;a href=&quot;http://xpday-london.editme.com/eXtremeTuesdayClub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;eXtreme Tuesday Club&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, regularly attended by various luminaries. And there's a lot of beer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T15:34:43.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T15:34:43.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10420" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:08:13.407" Score="0" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been using stackoverflow and mostly serverfault now for a while. Just yesterday when I go to any of the websites (serverfault.com, stackoverflow.com, meta.stackoverflow.com, and superuser.com) I am blocked by a 403 Forbidden page. It seems to be related to my corporate static ip address which is 69.92.251.82 Luckily, I have a much slower DSL connection with a different ip address and everything works just fine. What did I do that go me blocked? I don't screen scrape or anything of that nature, I even look at the ads. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132515" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:25:54.187" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:25:54.187" Title="My ip address is being blocked by the stackoverflow trilogy" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;blocked&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10418" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:10:16.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered that your business may be blocking traffic to StackOverflow and not the other way around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:10:16.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10418" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:19:55.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend emailing the team.  They should be able to get things sorted out for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:19:55.470" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10424" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:27:56.673" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;How are points earned?  It seems that the FAQ doesn't even explain it properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvote my answer +10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvote my answer -2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;choose an answer +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if my answer is accepted +10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;200 points daily max.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What else is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T16:39:55.747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T22:13:41.153" Title="Can you list how points are earned please" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:33:17.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the list of migrated &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;FAQs&lt;/a&gt;, and here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;FAQ specific to Reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:33:17.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:35:33.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+10 for a non-wiki upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-2 for a non-wiki downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-1 for casting a non-wiki downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+15 for a non-wiki accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+n for a bounty (n being based on the bounty amount)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-n for offering a bounty on one of your questions (n being based on the bounty amount)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+2 for accepting an answer to your questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The daily cap is 200 - amount lost from downvotes cast. The daily cap does not keep you from earning points for accepted answers, accepting answers or bounties, but until you've reached the cap they do count against the cap. Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; thread it seems that the rep lost for downvotes and possibly for casting downvotes may be changing in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T21:31:03.203" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T21:31:03.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:36:06.987" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your question or answer is upvoted (non-community wiki): +10&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your question or answer is downvoted (non-community wiki): -2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I believe it will be changing to -5 soon)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cast a downvote on a question/answer that is not community wiki: -1 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I believe it will be changing to -2 soon)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have your answer selected as the accepted answer: +15&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Select an answer as an accepted answer on your question: +2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Win a bounty: +X (where X is the bounty amount)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Place a Bounty: -X (Where X is the bounty amount - 50)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post gets flagged and deleted: -100&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T22:13:41.153" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T22:13:41.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10390" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:36:54.010" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a concrete example of why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/common-mistakes&quot;&gt;Common-mistakes questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were a few of these asked yesterday. They're entertaining, and potentially even useful for programmers new to the target language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're also &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; rep-farms. Sure, some people actually put a bit of effort into their answers, providing code samples and lengthy descriptions of &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;xxxx&lt;/em&gt; is a mistake. But chances are, if you already know the language being discussed you'll show up and immediately recognize several common mistakes that you agree with. Rather than re-posting them, you up-vote them. End result: lots of easy reputation for whoever is first to post the most egregious mistakes, &lt;strong&gt;regardless&lt;/strong&gt; of whether or not they put any real effort into the write-up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And these are some of the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9782/what-about-a-multi-answer-question&quot;&gt;multi-answer questions&lt;/a&gt;! Further down on the list, you'll find polls, discussions, GTKY questions... Each emphasizing more and more the ability to post a popular answer quickly over any need for technical merit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong; i've no issue with a &lt;em&gt;little bit&lt;/em&gt; of this. Reputation is not so holy that we must protect its integrity at the expense of all else. The problem comes in keeping them from overrunning the site... One popular thread begets many imitations - see again the link above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, we just closed them. That... led to bad feelings. Charges of inconsistency, as the immitations were closed more readily than the originals. &quot;Why favor C# over SQL? Why allow 'favorite books' but not 'programming hero'?&quot; Things got out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW provided, at least for a time, a compromise solution: the questions can stay open and on the site, so long as they're marked CW. Not everyone agreed, mind you - but the general attitude seemed to be, &quot;we'll look the other way for CW&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that appears to be falling apart as well. Suggestions - even polite suggestions - that a question should be CW may be met with derision. Name-calling (&quot;CW police&quot;) has become more common. And that's inevitable - CW wasn't meant for this, it was never a solution that either side could really get behind whole-heartedly, and as the site continues to grow it becomes less and less practical to explain this to new users. The time of CW as a compromise may be coming to an end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the noise prompted by visions of easy popularity isn't going to go away. I'm starting to suspect the end result may be a site where the concept of &quot;user-moderation&quot; is abandoned in favor of an ever-growing population of official Moderators. But, this may be too negative. We'll have to wait and see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T15:08:59.117" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T15:08:59.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T16:36:54.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:39:47.197" Score="7" ViewCount="1569" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I recently learned that I am connected to Jon Skeet by two degrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6723/who-remembers-how-they-found-stackoverflow/6729#6729&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6723/who-remembers-how-they-found-stackoverflow/6729#6729&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sara Chipps - GirlDeveloper.com - Jon Skeet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many degrees are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(StackOverflow and child sites cannot be a degree)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139284" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:18:08.323" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:18:08.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" ClosedDate="2011-08-07T18:39:23.223" Title="The Six Degrees of Jon Skeet" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="10428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:41:22.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Galloway asked me to see if I could create mischief (nicely, reporting how) after some beta testers had already been naughty hackers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132519" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:41:22.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T16:41:22.430" />
  <row Id="10429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:42:37.240" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people could just answer by saying they bought his book C# In Depth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:42:37.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="10430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:42:41.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chris Ballance - &lt;a href=&quot;http://so.chrisballance.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://so.chrisballance.com&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; - Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I met SaraJChipps and Andrew (Databyss) at Concept Camp 2009 so three degrees there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131224" LastEditorUserId="131224" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T20:17:27.777" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:17:27.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" />
  <row Id="10431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:42:58.107" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the entire Skeet family, including Jon. What now!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:42:58.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="27" />
  <row Id="10432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:44:23.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll be the one that says none. I didn't hear about him until StackOverflow. Sadly. That includes most of the people I now follow, including the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:44:23.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" />
  <row Id="10433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:44:23.457" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is this &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:44:23.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:44:44.777" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T18:41:02.647" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:41:02.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="10435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:44:53.857" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I met Sara at Tech Drinks! That makes me 3 degrees!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131600" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:44:53.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4981" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:45:12.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few recent changes in search..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search now &lt;em&gt;HEAVILY&lt;/em&gt; weights title in the results, since people seemed to really like that approach (used on the /ask page, which searched exclusively on title alone).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any individual search terms which map directly to the top 40 tags will be auto-converted to tag searches. So if you enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c++ entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it will convert to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[c++] entities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try again and see if it is more to your liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:45:12.107" />
  <row Id="10437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:45:49.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh, infinity?  Or at least a number too big to bother counting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:45:49.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:47:07.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I first heard mention of SO on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/2009/01/07/binning-data-in-matlab/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one of Doug's blog posts&lt;/a&gt; at The MathWorks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:47:07.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T16:47:07.377" />
  <row Id="10440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10444" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:50:08.130" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;How come there are no Markdown references when answering a question?  When asking a new question there is a short Markdown reference with a link, when answering a question there is nothing.  If I need to reference Markdown I have to scramble around to get it.  This is something I have noticed on all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5836" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:28:31.290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:28:31.290" Title="No wiki Markdown references while answering a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10443" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:50:21.430" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is everything real time or are some badges given during batch jobs? e.g. reaching a page view count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:53:55.250" Title="Is everything real time or are some badges given during batch jobs?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:53:06.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One. I realised this week I sat across from him at a Microsoft MVP dinner in Reading a couple of years back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132519" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:53:06.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10441" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:53:55.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are given by background jobs running at various frequencies. You usually only have to wait a couple of minutes or so for the badge to turn up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that the Woot/Enthusiast and Fanatic badge jobs will only run two or three times a day at most, while the Nice Answer/Question badges will run every 5-10 minutes or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also guess that these frequencies are subject to change as Jeff &amp;amp; co balance the load on the servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:53:55.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10440" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:55:52.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editor has a little question mark button which will open the Markdown reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:55:52.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-28T16:59:05.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I follow both Jeff and Joel on their blogs, so I started listening to the podcast from episode 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130071" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T16:59:05.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T16:59:05.810" />
  <row Id="10450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:15:32.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additionally: for the 200 rep per day cap, when you accept an answer or have one accepted you still get credit for that rep, even after hitting the cap.  But rep received from those activities prior to hitting the cap still counts towards the cap.  The cap resets at midnight GMT, and so it's 'better' to accept answers shortly before that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:15:32.493" />
  <row Id="10452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11707" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:16:57.043" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that it appears that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;the official parent FAQ&lt;/a&gt; has been migrated from SO to MetaSO, shouldn't the link to the FAQ at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the main FAQ page&lt;/a&gt; link to it instead of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&quot;&gt;the stub remaining on SO&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though many of the subcomponents of the official FAQ still link back to SO for the time being, the newest versions of the subcomponents that &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been migrated are only linked from the MetaSO parent FAQ, not the stub on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T05:24:51.043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T05:25:07.563" Title="Please update the FAQ links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10464" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:26:09.030" Score="0" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a job posting I saw on the side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wanted: Python Developer (m/f) at Ableton AG (Berlin, Germany)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two things come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Male or Female&quot;, which just seems odd, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Monday through Friday&quot;, which seems more relevant, but also strange to put in the job title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know what this means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T17:31:10.107" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:48:19.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T17:26:09.030" Title="Question About Job Posting (M/F)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;job&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10452" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:30:29.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably should finish migrating the linked FAQs first... 20 users... or 1 moderator... could do it in a day if properly motivated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who wants to chip in on tasty insects for Bill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:30:29.973" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:32:20.900" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sauerkraut (by popular demand.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T01:01:24.070" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T01:01:24.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10454" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:40:25.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on their job posting at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crunchboard.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=6542&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CrunchBoard.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only logical sense I can see is that the &quot;m&quot; stands for &quot;Mid-career (2+ years experience)&quot; and the &quot;f&quot; stands for &quot;Full Time/Permanent&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Apparently Treb knows much better than I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T17:48:19.300" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:48:19.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T17:40:25.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10454" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:44:40.677" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your first thought was the right one: It stands for Male/Female. In German job offers, the term &lt;code&gt;(m/w)&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;(männlich/weiblich -&gt; male/female)&lt;/em&gt; is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comes from the fact that in German, nouns like job descriptions have both a male and a female form (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Lehrer&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Lehrerin&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;teacher&lt;/em&gt;). Since companies want to show that they are open to male and female applicants, but always writing both forms is a waste of time/space/letters/bandwidth, the form &lt;code&gt;Job Title (m/w)&lt;/code&gt; came to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advertisement you read was obviously translated by someone who didn't think of the fact that English does not have any gender distinction in job titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:44:40.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T17:44:40.677" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10466" CreationDate="2009-06-28T00:15:31.753" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say someone asks a question that requires multiple &quot;parts&quot; to an answer (for example, an advantages/disadvantages question). Now let's assume someone answers this question and touches on most points, but is missing a point or two (and let's say his/her answer was picked by the OP as the correct answer). Would it be better to add that additional information as your own answer, or suggest it to the author of the correct answer in a comment? Also, if the answer is a community wiki, is it good etiquette to edit another person's answer and add more info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130082" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T19:12:51.397" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:12:51.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-28T00:15:31.753" Title="Does Stack Overflow encourage one comprehensive answer or many &quot;incomplete&quot; ones?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10465" CreationDate="2009-06-28T00:26:42.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have information that further answers the original question, I would submit the information as &lt;strong&gt;another answer&lt;/strong&gt; (instead of adding a comment). That way it comes under the &lt;strong&gt;scrutiny of the voting system&lt;/strong&gt; and allows users to comment directly to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the general etiquette of editing posts seems to lean more towards &lt;strong&gt;copy editing&lt;/strong&gt;; making the post more clear and concise. Correcting grammatical problems or spelling errors is okay. Adding to or changing its meaning is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T17:51:38.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-28T00:26:42.807" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10471" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:57:51.797" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how these websites are setup behind the scenes, so I don't know how ridiculous a request like this really is. Would it be possible to get  a single RSS output of all my activity across all four sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I could build my own PHP script to routinely pull them all together, but that would just stink :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:02:14.377" Title="My SU/SO/MSO/SF feeds in a Single RSS?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:58:42.977" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this to a large degree.  But when I do, I believe excessive feedback from the asker decreases the overall value of the question.  This activity only serves to ding those who answered with a patronizing explanation of why their answer doesn't fit their unwritten requirements or not as good as someone else's.  I believe that's what the voting buttons are for, and comments provided where beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this behavior be modified to be more positive for all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exhibit A: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/14224/how-to-explain-drm-cannot-work&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/14224/how-to-explain-drm-cannot-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:51:12.280" Title="What to do about askers who give excessive feedback on every single response?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2706" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:59:19.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a (de facto) accepted way to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post your question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wait for the normal attention time span&#xA;(question rolled off the main page -&#xA;depends on traffic/site/time of&#xA;day). Can be less than 5 minutes on&#xA;SO, more so on the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Optional: wait some more&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post your own answer by editing the&#xA;question and also incorporate some&#xA;information from any answers (if&#xA;appropriate)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And nobody will know if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you already knew the answer or &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you found &#xA;it in the meantime helped by the incoming answers or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you found &#xA;it in the meantime despite completely useless answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will not be accused of reputation farming as questions &#xA;usually receives much fewer votes than answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T22:15:00.440" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T22:15:00.440" />
  <row Id="10471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10468" CreationDate="2009-07-28T17:59:45.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo! Pipes&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's dead easy. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9793/tag-links-between-so-sf-and-su/9799#9799&quot;&gt;I've only used it once&lt;/a&gt;, and it still took me only a matter of minutes to pull together feeds from multiple sites, sort them, and produce a single combined feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/shog9/seuseractivity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;now i've used it twice&lt;/a&gt;. That link will take you to a page where you can enter your user IDs for the various sites, and get in return a custom, combined RSS feed of all your activity across all four of them. Have fun...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/shog9/seuseractivity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/piped%5Fuserfeeds.png&quot; alt=&quot;piping&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T20:23:26.097" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:23:26.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:00:20.790" Score="1" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone noticed there being a critical mass of answered questions or reputation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean by this is, is there some number of answers or a reputation score beyond which a person will continue to accrue reputation just by virtue of those previously answered questions or the fame associated with the reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes&quot;&gt;The Problem with Reputation&lt;/a&gt; but I am asking if anyone noticed a number beyond which the reputation problem ensues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154974" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:14:53.213" Title="Is there a critical mass of answers or reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:02:56.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whatever point there may be, Jon Skeet has already passed it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, however, I have noticed in my own cases a good deal of &quot;reputation coasting&quot; based on older questions. I've actually noticed that a lot more on Meta (where my question and answer volume is much higher) than on regular StackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anybody has really pinpointed a reputation point, and I don't think it really exists. You will find a point of saturation that would allow for rep coasting more on the answer side of things then you would on the question side of things I imagine (it's logical to post more answers than questions afterall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:02:56.447" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:03:43.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it'd be based on number of good answers.  I'm close to 3k on SO with 109 answers and have seen a little bit of uplift from old answers, but not really that much.  Most of mine comes from new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:03:43.417" />
  <row Id="10475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:04:01.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think so. I mean, if you have enough answers/non-wiki-questions floating out there, you &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; accrue points without having to do much of anything. You won't however be able to get more than the daily-cap unless you are actually providing good answers to questions. So while an enormously reputable person could theoretically &lt;strike&gt;skeet&lt;/strike&gt; skate by on their own history, they can still be beaten if they're not consistently active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I don't think you have to worry too much about this. Skeet is waaaay up there, and I think he still has to fight for his food :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:04:01.753" />
  <row Id="10476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:05:05.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a sliding scale, not so much a critical mass. If I leave the site alone for a week, I'll get 10-20 points a day off of old answers. And I have a fairly small set of answers to go from. Jon Skeet, though, is almost guaranteed his rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be intriguing to do some analysis on this to figure out what the scale is that you get (potential--count upvotes after the daily rep cap) rep for answers posted &gt; 48 hours in the past. I can't get to the Sandbox from work, but if somebody can, that'd be neat to see those numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:05:05.467" />
  <row Id="10477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:06:51.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be highly dependent on a number of factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number of questions you answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quality of those answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number of users active within the tags you post most in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm highly active in a relatively obscure tag (only about 0.13% of the total questions on SO), and I only see at most 1 or 2 upvotes per day (if any) off of old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:06:51.073" />
  <row Id="10478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10469" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:08:24.293" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can do anything other than engage with them and try to find an answer that suits them. Or you could argue your own point and hope to get enough community backing to where the upvotes outweigh the OP's own opinions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or after a certain point of time, it is easy to assume that you'll just get bored of the back and forth and end up looking for other things to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people just can't be pleased and they would rather try to prove themselves right than have other people answer their question (yes...it is weird).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:08:24.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:08:25.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two issues at play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;em&gt;tendency&lt;/em&gt; for a  higher-reputation person to get more attention in any Q&amp;amp;A thread so there is a slight increase in the number of their older posts that will continue to be up-voted as long as those questions are still being read (but not that much, I suspect).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I am amazed that the few &quot;high quality/longer lived&quot; questions and answers I've posted keep accruing points slowly over time. So, naturally, the higher rep users are more likely to have contributed more of those types of posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:08:25.967" />
  <row Id="10482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10469" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:15:00.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can be annoying, but I don't know that the asker is trying to be difficult.  My guess is that they're trying to be supportive, though they may off the mark.  I don't think you can fix that without discouraging them from commenting, which is a more detrimental side-effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only part that is truly annoying is when they state that the answer doesn't meet criteria not listed in the question.  Why didn't you say that before I went to all the trouble of writing this answer?  And why don't you edit your answer to include said criteria?  There's nothing more annoying than putting forth effort but not seeing enough of it from the other side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:15:00.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:17:51.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not Jon Skeet, but I am in the top 10: 45K rep, 2000+ answers.  On a typical day where I don't visit the site at all I bring in 20-40 rep points from old content (2-4 upvotes).  So it happens, but not much.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are exceptions: some days are more typical than others ;)  On one occasion I received 110 rep overnight without touching anything because something I wrote got linked to from somewhere else.  I've never hit the rep cap this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'll see one vote for an old answer and this will prompt me to visit that answer.  While reading it I'll notice a typo or something that could be worded better and make the change.  After making the change, I'll get a few more votes because the edit bumped the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing I've noticed that if I am active on the site that day, the typical number of votes for old content jumps from the 2-4 mark mentioned earlier to more like 4-7.  I can't explain why this happens.  If they were just seeing my name on current items and checking my profile from there I would expect the additional votes to skew heavily to my highest ranked answers, but it's more random than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T18:23:34.760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:23:34.760" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:18:09.353" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be an increasing problem lately that newer users leave off the most obvious tag - the tag for the language/platform they are using!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, see this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1195566/oracle-how-to-remove-white-spaces&quot;&gt;Oracle - how to remove white spaces?&lt;/a&gt; The title clearly states that the question involves Oracle, yet it is only tagged with &lt;kbd&gt;query&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;whitespace&lt;/kbd&gt;. (This is actually &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; common with SQL or database related questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to leave a comment explaining this issue every time it happened, but it has been happening so much lately that I mostly stopped doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is more of an issue than you would think, since without a common tag such as &lt;kbd&gt;c#&lt;/kbd&gt;, few people will see it because of the interesting tags list, and often, these questions go like this for quite a while before somebody retags them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO needs some sort of notice by the tag input box explaining this. Is this a good idea? Do you think it would help fix the problem? Is there a better way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:02:19.793" Title="How to get new users to tag questions with the language/platform they are using?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="10485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10500" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:19:07.243" Score="3" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sure hope this hasn't been reported before, but here it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I do a search on StackOverflow (e.g.: sql multiple tables), I get a page full of responses (yeah!) and then they all disappear! I scroll to the bottom and there is a second page link. I click on that and the same thing happens. The screen is painted with all the responses and then they disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried this with Firefox 3.5.1 and with Seamonkey 1.1.17 and IE 6 with the same response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further info:&#xA;I am running on a Windows XP Pro box with 2 GB of RAM. It doesn't happen if I disable Javascript, but then I lose other features of StackOverflow (like commenting). I have not tried it when logged off because I am now reasonably certain that it is not a problem on my end; three different browsers demonstrate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I've been using SO for quite a while and this has never happened before, so I suspect something new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132532" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:25:30.410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:25:30.410" Title="Search results appear and then promptly disappear on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10489" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:21:19.020" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my interesting tags is not bringing up data.  Seems the community has deemed it necessary to add dashes to it.  How do I get rid of this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132445" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T18:23:34.393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:23:34.393" Title="How to remove interesting tags" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10484" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:21:28.463" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its up to the more qualified (rep bearing) users to &lt;code&gt;retag&lt;/code&gt; and organize the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is after all a collaborative site, not an AI machine in the making.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The gradual increase in control (through rep increments) works towards a more mature &#xA;society;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;rather than a Singularity :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastEditorUserId="130093" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T18:44:06.473" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:44:06.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10485" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:21:55.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have greasemonkey turned on, or some other scripting platform that may be ruining the dom? Try this in IE, Safari, Opera or Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps disable Javascript. See if it still happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it still happen if you're logged out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T18:45:59.380" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:45:59.380" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10486" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:22:43.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get rid of any interesting tag by hovering over the X mark which will then allow you to click and delete that tag from your list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This has to be done from your interesting tag list. You can't just hover over any old tag displayed anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:22:43.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10486" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:22:46.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to the home page, there should be an 'x' by the tag which will remove it. The same is true under Users - tab Preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:22:46.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10484" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:24:57.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't expect newcomers to always know the standard tagging conventions. The best you can do is to leave comments on their question giving them tips on how to better tag (or go in and retag yourself and then leave a note explaining why). The idea is to educate the new users so that they don't keep repeating the same mistakes. You can't expect them to immediately jump in and be flawless (we have enough users who have been around months and still can't quite figure it out yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T20:02:19.793" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:02:19.793" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:25:23.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is a rep critical mass, I'd say its at least 10k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have ~7000 rep on SO, and I usually get ~10 points per day for old answers. This summer, I went on vacation for a week and didn't use SO at all - when I came back, I had recieved only 20 points over the whole week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:25:23.537" />
  <row Id="10493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10484" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:27:36.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't look at the question you linked to, but note that sometimes vendor-specific tags aren't necessary because it isn't really an Oracle or MySQL question, but a SQL question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the larger issue, that's why those of us with more rep can retag.  Granted, users have to learn, but usability study after usability study tells us that people don't pay attention to the instructions anyway.  So either you make asking a question more difficult, which ups the barrier for entry on the site, or you put up with it and rely on the rest of us to make it fit.  I like the second one better, for obvious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:27:36.470" />
  <row Id="10494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10484" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:39:45.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions really are &lt;em&gt;living documents&lt;/em&gt; that evolve pretty quickly into nicely formed and organized Q&amp;amp;A posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the low-friction aspect of Stackoverflow systems means that new user get to post with few barriers of entry, even if they don't always get it &quot;right&quot; the first time. The nice thing about an active, collaborative community is that the small problems get fixed quickly and new users (typically) learn all the nuances of the system and become contributing members themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T19:53:52.313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:53:52.313" />
  <row Id="10495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:44:16.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six%5Fdegrees%5Fof%5Fseparation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;6 at most&lt;/a&gt;           .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T19:05:10.897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:05:10.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10469" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:45:47.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fail to see the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can a comment (or 10!) decrease the value of a question? And how do you measure a question's value?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:45:47.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10498" CreationDate="2009-06-08T16:47:11.477" Score="6" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a blog hosted by blogger, and I'd like to add StackOverflow's &quot;user flair&quot; to the sidebar or something. How do I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132113" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T18:52:32.177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:52:32.177" Title="How do I put my StackOverflow User Flair on my blogger blog?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10497" CreationDate="2009-06-08T16:49:21.490" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First you need to go to the settings menu, and then click on the Layout tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I did was that I added a &quot;Gadget&quot; to the right column, of type Text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, once the Text editing dialog was shown, click on the HTML view, and then paste in the code necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I have on my blog is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe scrolling=&quot;no&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;210px&quot;&#xA;    src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/267.html?theme=clean&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot;&#xA;    height=&quot;60px&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;iframe scrolling=&quot;no&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;210px&quot;&#xA;    src=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/flair/345.html?theme=clean&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot;&#xA;    height=&quot;60px&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found that using the javascript version didn't fit well, so you might want to experiment, but the above &lt;a href=&quot;http://presentationmode.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;works for me&lt;/a&gt;. Note that I didn't bother with the CSS changes, so my flair is shown with a white background even though my blog uses a green background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:50:42.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-08T16:55:52.887" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="10499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10497" CreationDate="2009-06-08T16:49:51.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You maybe find solution for you at this SO question - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What Third Party Tools Exist To Use With Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pietschsoft.com/post.aspx?id=36e89f5e-4e11-4a73-81c6-3dde5c757fba&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow.com Badge to display in your Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a user control written in&#xA;  ASP.NET, but could be easily converted&#xA;  for other server-side platforms, or&#xA;  even converted to JavaScript with the&#xA;  help of a JSON service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:50:42.500" />
  <row Id="10500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10485" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:50:55.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a simple issue of tag filtering. Filters are applied on the client side with Javascript. As soon as the page loads, all your ignored tags are filtered out, hence they disappear. Whatever you're searching for always contains at least one tag which you've chosen to ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 1. Add a tag such as &lt;kbd&gt;C#&lt;/kbd&gt; to&#xA;    your ignore list&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 2. In search, type in &lt;code&gt;[c#]&lt;/code&gt; , and hit enter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the resulting search will undergo the behavior you have described. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:50:55.013" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10469" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:51:12.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeff Atwood as said in the Stackoverflow podcasts, asking questions is a real art. Sometimes it can be difficult to ask a really well-crafted, perfectly clear and unambiguous question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are those users who ask questions to get support for positions they already hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a user starts getting responses they do not expect, there is a tendency to think &quot;you must misunderstand me otherwise you would agree with what I am thinking...&quot; That's when they start back-tracking, nit-picking, or arguing out of frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is much you can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:51:12.280" />
  <row Id="10502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:52:32.610" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I've watched Doctor Who, which is a BBC program, which is made in the UK, which is where Jon lives. That totally counts, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:52:32.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" />
  <row Id="10504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10509" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:53:32.080" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Across many of the sites, there is many questions that get asked that are commonly one or two sentences.  Most of the time, this results in many comments imediately saying &quot;need more info?&quot; whats this? whats that? what os you using? This results in downvoting and negativity until the user clarifies the question. Would it be possible to implement a character minimum length for questions being asked? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are some questions that do not need much explanation to be clear, but if a minimum question character length was enforced, it might force an asker to be a little more clear with the question if more characters are required.  This would be like the 15 char min. for comments rule.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this already exists or is in place, but I did not want to create bogus questions trying to test the limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T21:18:38.460" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:18:38.460" Title="Enforcing a question minimum character length?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;&lt;clarification&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10504" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:56:18.763" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:56:18.763" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:56:25.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon tweeted back to me once after I made a suggestion to an SO question. Does that get me 1 degree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:56:25.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10504" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:57:02.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should be encouraging clarity, whether that means they need to give more information or that they need to remove useless information that does nothing but clutter up the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily see any issue with a 15 character limit, but once you start to try and implement a character limit that actually forces more than a few short sentences, you are going to get instances of useless fluff being inserted just to meet the requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like we have displayed numerous times, you can cheat the character limit easily in comments, so it isn't exactly much of a deterrent anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:57:02.390" />
  <row Id="10510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10504" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:57:21.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's always limitations on enforcing anything. The fact is if people want to get around it they will, and I can guarantee that if you force question length you'll get questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;^ See title. (Arbitrary text since it requires me to use x characters)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;   Thanks!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also (believe)? that post length is enforced, but only to a minimal degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:57:21.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-28T18:57:21.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was introduced to Stack Overflow by a colleague. (Who is also the chief architect in our R&amp;amp;D team, and my direct superior.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T18:57:21.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T18:57:21.540" />
  <row Id="10515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:05:59.260" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just two data points you might be interested in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On May 23rd and 24th, I had no access to Stack Overflow - I was on my second honeymoon in Venice (which is fabulous, btw). On the Saturday I gained 80 rep; on the Sunday I gained 95.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a weekday I expect I probably &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; hit the rep cap without logging in, although it would depend on how active the previous few days had been. If you happen to have a very popular answer in a hot topic, that can give a lot of rep for a few days or even a week - otherwise it's more of a slow burn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:05:59.260" />
  <row Id="10516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10504" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:07:24.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are queswtions with a title like &quot;How do I do this in that when I have this and that and such is so&quot;, and the question is just something like &quot;any suggestions?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the user should get a warning popup when the title is longer than the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131612" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:07:24.927" />
  <row Id="10518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10504" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:12:46.137" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:12:46.137" />
  <row Id="10519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23570" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:16:29.667" Score="11" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T08:25:01.867" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T03:41:53.653" Title="Comments, questions and answers don't trim Unicode U200B when counting characters" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;unicode&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="10520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10525" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:16:56.043" Score="4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to a problem encountered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10485/search-results-appear-and-then-promptly-disappear-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I would like to request that search results are not filtered based on our ignored tag list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the filtering aids some benefit in removing questions that may not be relevant to what we're looking for, so if I search &lt;code&gt;[sql]&lt;/code&gt; and have &lt;code&gt;[c#]&lt;/code&gt; filtered, all questions dealing with &lt;code&gt;[sql]&lt;/code&gt; for C# would be removed for me. However I argue that being able to use more specific searches would benefit users more in the general case. If I wanted to find sql dealing only with php, I could search &lt;code&gt;[sql]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[php]&lt;/code&gt; and get the desired results.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these reasons searches should be exempt from active filtering. If I need to search something that is usually against my interests, I may not be able to find and it. It may never be apparent that it is being filtered out, which then leads me to the assumption that it simply does not exist. The current implementation can also lead to the creation of duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T19:27:46.267" LastActivityDate="2010-12-28T01:22:39.833" Title="Do not filter search results by tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24115" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:21:59.303" Score="13" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, each question in the 'Active' tab is followed by the text &quot;Modified [n] minutes ago by [author]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the &quot;Modified [n] minutes ago...&quot; text could be more descriptive such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Asked&lt;/strong&gt; [n] minutes ago by...&quot; - for &lt;strong&gt;new questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Answered&lt;/strong&gt; [n] minutes ago by...&quot; - for &lt;strong&gt;new answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Modified&lt;/strong&gt; [n] minutes ago by...&quot; - for &lt;strong&gt;edited posts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...so we can better decide if it is worth following a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T05:04:03.667" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T11:34:11.040" Title="Make Activity Description in 'Activity' Tab More Descriptive" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10519" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:26:06.527" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;   																																	&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:26:06.527" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:26:19.073" Score="7" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4391/add-link-to-most-recent-activity-of-a-question&quot;&gt;Add link to most recent activity of a question. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'Active' tab includes a list of questions that have new or edited answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; nice if the text (&quot;Modified 2 minutes ago by...&quot; ) was a link to the &lt;strong&gt;actual activity&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. a &lt;strong&gt;direct link&lt;/strong&gt; to the new or edited answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In active questions, there is no easy (or reliable) way to find the newest &quot;activity&quot; in the question thread... at least not without a lot of hunting and scrolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;direct link&lt;/em&gt; would show us the newest stuff being posted to the system as it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: This is a followup to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10521/make-activity-description-in-activity-tab-more-descriptive&quot;&gt;last question&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-18T17:31:34.173" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T17:31:34.173" ClosedDate="2010-01-22T17:55:10.270" Title="In the 'Active' Tab Listing, Link to Each Posts' Actual Activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;question-lists&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10519" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:30:42.460" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In retrospect it seems to only be U200B that is unchecked. I thought it was the whole range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:30:42.460" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10520" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:30:51.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can eliminate this by using the google search, which will ignore your tags altogether. Also as far as I know ignoring tags is not enforced when going directly to a question, so you would be able to view the question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details on using Google Search &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5180/what-are-some-good-tips-for-searching-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:30:51.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:31:58.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think StackOverflow gradually entered my consciousness. It would come up fairly often when Googling programming questions, and I think one day, it just sort of hit me that there was something special about SO. It was probably the aesthetics I noticed first--the site has a really clean, inviting look, and code blocks are formatted just how you'd like them to be. So, I bookmarked it and started going there first when I needed help. Soon after that, I started to notice the reputation score and badges. I had seen reputation ratings on other sites, but it seemed to stand out more on SO. I could see the power of it. It's like a competition to see who can be the most cooperative. It was then that I joined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:31:58.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T19:31:58.987" />
  <row Id="10527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5857" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:37:20.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree with Cem. It would be really handy to have RSS feeds for searches, even if the feeds were based on &quot;cached&quot; results. In my case, I'd like to be able to find all questions on SO that have specific keywords so I can provide targeted help, and in many cases people don't (or forget to) add the keywords as tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it would be difficult to figure-out an effective caching strategy for searches (since any collection of terms would in theory generate another set of cachable results), but I'm sure the geniuses at SO can figure it out, right? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132536" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:37:20.173" />
  <row Id="10528" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:41:52.210" Score="2" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think stack overflow should overtake &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.songmeanings.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.songmeanings.net&lt;/a&gt; with its model. The site is a good idea, but is only slightly more successful than yahoo answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432" LastEditorUserId="139837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T21:16:29.757" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T21:16:29.757" ClosedDate="2011-08-17T21:32:21.087" Title="Stack Overflow for song meanings" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10528" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:44:37.390" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awesome.  Sounds like you've got a potential candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:44:37.390" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10528" CreationDate="2009-07-28T19:44:52.467" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T19:44:52.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10535" CreationDate="2009-05-19T17:48:28.733" Score="9" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;ldquo;closed&amp;rdquo; question? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent question of mine was 'Closed' as 'not-programming-related'. I can't seem to find out what this means, and why this was (by browsing through) so here is the natural question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This time I'll flag it community wiki, to see if this is what I was supposed to do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130117" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:37:56.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-19T17:48:28.717" ClosedDate="2010-04-06T10:41:21.367" Title="What does 'Closed' mean for a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10534" CreationDate="2009-05-19T17:49:33.710" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a “closed” question in Stackoverflow? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145866" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T18:42:43.243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T18:42:43.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-19T17:49:33.710" />
  <row Id="10536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10534" CreationDate="2009-05-19T17:50:19.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions asked on StackOverflow should be specifically about programming. If they're off-topic, they get closed, which means the question is basically 'locked' and no additional answers can be given for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:09:50.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-19T17:50:19.497" />
  <row Id="10539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6723" CreationDate="2009-07-28T20:13:10.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw if first on &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/tags/Stack+Overflow/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon's blog&lt;/a&gt;. At the time (like Jon) I was a usenet frequenter, and I remember thinking 2 things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pah! yet another web site; can't beat good ol' nntp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but if Jon is busy there... ;-p&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't join for another week or so, when I finally decided to give it a whirl. I was hopelessly hooked soon after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kept trying to convince myself that Jon's lead was just that fortnight's headstart... but that excuse simply isn't cutting it any more ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:13:10.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T20:13:10.777" />
  <row Id="10540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10472" CreationDate="2009-07-28T20:14:53.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that I have a little rep gain through old answers (not from old questions), maybe once or twice per month I get an upvote from stuff that is more that one month old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you suppose that every good answer has some probability of being discovered and upvoted by someone in a given time period, then follows that at a certain number of good answers you will get so many upvotes from old stuff that at one point you hit the rep cap every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suppose the answer to your question is: Yes, with a a certain amount of &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; answers you will eventually have this critical mass (I am still very far away from that point).&#xA;However, I don't think that it correlates to a spefic reputation threshold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people just answer lots of questions and receive a few upvotes on most of their answers, others give fewer but great answers, and have a similar gain in reputation. But since they can only receive one upvote per person on their old answers, they get fewer votes from old answers (because they have answered fewer questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there are those who give lots of great answers. And one of them just posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10472/is-there-a-critical-mass-of-answers-or-reputation/10515#10515&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; to this question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:14:53.213" />
  <row Id="10543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T20:56:04.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He and I are recent linkedin 1st degree buddies.  Although I don't know if I can forgive him for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;going over&lt;/a&gt; 3x &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2915/adam-davis&quot;&gt;my reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://forum.halforum.com/images/smilies/humph.gif&quot; alt=&quot;http://forum.halforum.com/images/smilies/humph.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T20:56:04.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" />
  <row Id="10544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-07-28T21:21:38.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am British and I lived in Cambridge for a few years, which can't be far off. I posted on the MoreLINQ issues list once too. That's like 4.5ish degrees, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My ex-colleague now works on .NET Reflector which was created by Lutz Roeder who must know Eric Lippert or some other Microsoft person whom I'm sure has met or spoken with Jon Skeet at some point, so that's like 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T21:21:38.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T21:42:22.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66994" CreationDate="2009-07-28T21:44:23.697" Score="6" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nowhere near as impressive as all the Greasemonkey scripts and custom parsings that are out there, I did take a few moments to follow The TXI's suggestion over in the blog and use Google Custom Search to create a quick search engine for the SO network. Afterall, I think Jeff himself has said that searching Google is a great way to get at some of the questions in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anybody is interested in collaborating or anything to make the CSE work better, please let me know and I'll be happy to add you to the collaboration control panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;hard&quot; link is:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004055899985439311584:twnxsyrgj4a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004055899985439311584:twnxsyrgj4a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;though I have a &quot;friendlier&quot; redirect setup for now by going to:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sofum.dillieodigital.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sofum.dillieodigital.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps some folks out there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastEditorUserId="71" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T22:24:24.393" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T14:38:33.920" Title="Search all stack overflow networked sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="10552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10382" CreationDate="2009-07-28T22:03:39.303" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you didn't get rep for it? Community wiki isn't going to keep you from getting help--at least I don't think the guys watching the Perl tag would only help you out only if there were rep involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130846" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T22:03:39.303" />
  <row Id="10553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-28T22:07:59.603" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several options that have not been discussed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Display answers with the same vote total in random order. Example, if there are 30 answers with a score of 0 you may not read through all of them so give each one a chance to appear at the top of the list of '0' answers.  That way the system isn't arbitrarily pushing a low-score over a higher-scoring answer but newer answers don't languish at the end of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Save a display slot on the first page for a random answer with a low score.  Give it a different colored background to distinguish it from the standard sorted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sort answers of the same score by order of the reputation of the answerer. The downside here is newer users would be somewhat penalized solely for being new.  That being said, rep is supposed to mean something.  Another side-effect is that high-rep users would get more views for even their less-serious answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T22:07:59.603" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10551" CreationDate="2009-07-28T22:15:59.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just posting here to get an upvote for making the initial suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T22:15:59.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9817" CreationDate="2009-07-28T22:26:34.017" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] I've added more proposals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are several proposals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A negative score threshold, e.g. -5, before a question can be closed but no rep cost.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a close vote cost the same as a downvote except it doesn't count against the daily vote limit. This means each close vote is also a -1 vote.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question cannot be closed until at least 1 hour (configurable) after it was asked, unless it is abusive - and thus flaggable. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More votes required to close a question after it has been reopened (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3440/close-reopen-votes-sliding-scale-for-threshold&quot;&gt;This is covered in another question&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Connect the number of votes required to close with the number of answers. After 10 answers, it takes 6 votes to close, after 25 answers it takes 7 votes, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Connect the number of votes required to close with the score of the question (a variation on #1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Connect the number of close votes required with the overall score of the question. I question with a non-negative score, lots of answers with plenty of voting means an active discussion and should be harder to close.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Letting a question be closed regardless of its score puts extra power into those who can vote to close a question.  All it would take is five people to mute any discussion.  If 5 people started closing questions with 100+ scores, they'd be jerks right?  What about questions with score 25, 10, 5, or 2?  Putting the onus on others to set things right is abdicating the responsibility onto others, somewhat like saying, &quot;I vote to close anything that is questionable and let others sort it out.&quot;  If the system has a way of detecting active discussions, let it help keep the discussion open.  The current system gives the veto power into the hands of any 5 people with sufficient rep with no accountability for abuse. Let the community have time to have their say before over-zealous closers put a muzzle on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These proposals do not punish those who voted to close and it keeps a close/open war from breaking out on borderline or controversial questions.  If there are that many people who think it needs to be kept open, the threshold to close should be raised.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that many questions are being closed because they think it's a bad question. If it is a bad question, then downvote it.  If it is off-topic, or a poor question or needs to be moved, it's a bad question and deserves a downvote but not to be immediately closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that open/closing doesn't affect rep but that can cause the opposite problem. It doesn't cost anything to vote to close but it does cost to downvote which can be an incentive to vote to close instead of voting down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to be helpful and answer the question in a thoughtful way that takes into account the necessity of closing questions for various reasons.  I'd understand downvoting my answer if it is poorly worded or doesn't answer the question but not for disagreeing with my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastEditorUserId="131485" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T16:34:47.640" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:34:47.640" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="10557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10551" CreationDate="2009-07-28T22:34:40.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3043/joel-coehoorn&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Coehoorn ♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; already &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/879/make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites/917#917&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;did this back in June&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/879/make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites&quot;&gt;Make the search box return results from all StackOverflowian sites?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T22:40:05.397" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T22:40:05.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10561" CreationDate="2009-07-28T22:59:17.717" Score="3" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious if anyone has gone and created a Greasemonkey script that makes the entire StackOverflow site Hotkeyed similar to Google Reader/Google Mail? Seems like it would be an awesome way to power answer questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;j and k - Move Post Selector&#xA;o - open post&#xA;p - go back (back to last screen)&#xA;i - retag&#xA;u - edit&#xA;y - open 'close question' dialog&#xA;t - open flag dialog&#xA;n - open comment box&#xA;m - open answer box&#xA;[ - upvote question&#xA;] - downvote question&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really got into it you could make an answer selector to navigate answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-28T23:29:07.797" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T05:40:53.547" Title="Greasemonkey Hotkey Script" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10560" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:00:01.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen one yet, but I imagine if you give Jonathan Sampson enough time he will whip one out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:00:01.810" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="10562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:01:49.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose the following to get fair voting for late very&#xA;good answers (LVGAs):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A new flagging option &quot;Bump this answer&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rationale: questions/answers need attention in order to get&#xA;upvoted. In turn attention requires bumping to the main&#xA;page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The requestor for bumping also needs to provide a&#xA;justification for it. Minimum is 15 characters (as in other&#xA;places).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If moderators accept the flagging for bumping a question&#xA;then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question will be bumped onto the main page for a set&#xA;time, say 1 hour. When such a question reach the end of the&#xA;main page it will be bumped to the top. This repeats until&#xA;the set time is up. This could be repeated, e.g. a 10&#xA;minutes bump every three hour for 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link from the main page will be directly to the LVGA,&#xA;not the top of the page for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible limits (for one site, e.g. SU):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One bump flagging per answer per user (ever).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A maximum of 1 bump flagging per day per user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A maximum of 10 bumped questions per day (even&#xA;moderators can not override this limit).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A user can not ask for his/her own answers to be bumped.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A LVGA can not be bumped before it is 7 days old.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T19:29:38.523" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T19:29:38.523" />
  <row Id="10563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:04:30.133" Score="3" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff asks &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt; and I think the value of downvotes is too low, especially given the &quot;pity upvote&quot; problem, which is very real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's another problem. Most days, from a pure rep perspective, giving a downvote to a high rep user is completely pointless. Most days in the last 6 months I've hit the daily rep cap so a downvote usually doesn't counter (unless you do it at the right time). Now this is because a change was made so that upvotes received after a downvote would counter that downvote (effectively)&amp;mdash;a change I support. It wasn't always that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that doesn't mean I (as one example) don't care about downvotes. If I've made errors I want to correct them and improve the overall quality of anything I post. But I don't have much time for people who downvote just because, for example, they don't like Visual Basic (regardless of its appropriateness to the OP). Nor do I have much time for downvotes lacking comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That aside, the cost of giving a downvote does counter against the daily rep cap. I can understand the rationale for this. I guess it stops people going on a downvoting spree because one upvote can counter 10 downvotes given. That argument has two problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't hit the daily rep cap the above is true;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you hit the daily rep cap and do so often I think you've demonstrated a greatly decreased likelihood for that to happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then get these weird situations where by giving someone a downvote it costs you something and costs them nothing. Sure there's the question/answer ranking part of it but still, it's a disincentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should anything be done about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T19:03:08.990" Title="Should downvotes be made... less worthless?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10563" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:14:23.160" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because a downvote doesn't hurt significantly in terms of rep doesn't make it worthless. It indicates (or at least &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; indicate) that you've made a mistake in an answer. Combine that with a comment, and that's a pretty powerful statement, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:14:23.160" />
  <row Id="10566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10563" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:16:55.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Naw. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be rather surprised if anyone with greater than, say, 10K on the site right now doesn't know good and well how to get as many up-votes as they need, should that be their goal. I'm sure you could screw with the system enough to where down-votes really, really &lt;em&gt;hurt&lt;/em&gt;... but they'd hurt honest users as much as the manipulators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think pity voting is a problem simply because it hampers the gentle encouragement of new users. We want down-votes to sting a little, just so they learn how the site works. The folks hitting the rep limit daily already &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; how it works - if they're still posting crap, it's intentional and they'll just manipulate anything new to achieve the same ends. Ignore 'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a good analogy are the electric fences used for cattle: they sting, but they'll never seriously hurt an animal. Introduce them young, and by the time they're big enough to where they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; brush through a fence without even feeling it, they're already trained to see and avoid the fences. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:16:55.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10563" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:18:38.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we want the down votes to have a higher significance (which I do), the only thing I ask is that it not be made like the US tax system.  I don't care if you are Jon Skeet or Anonymous (Yahoo) user, a down vote is a down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that to go along with the effort of recalculating all of the reputation scores, it would be great to include a total reputation summary on each user's profile.  Sure, we can already see increases/decreases on a day over day by looking at the chart, but it would be great to see this summarized like this...&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total Up votes Received    MTD    YTD   ITD&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total Down Votes Received  MTD    YTD   ITD&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total Answers Given        MTD    YTD   ITD&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total Answers Received     MTD    YTD   ITD&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total Down Votes Given     MTD    YTD   ITD&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total Up Votes Given       MTD    YTD   ITD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:18:38.097" />
  <row Id="10569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:28:43.900" Score="3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dig the 'New Answers Posted' banner, as it helps me review what other answers have said and I can stop before I submit something redundant.  I think it would be useful if recent edits were included in that feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are times when I feel that a point is being made, but that an important facet could be highlighted and explored a bit further.  Granted, sometimes commenting to the author of an answer to prod them on with their explanation is the right approach, but sometimes it is an itch that I feel the need to scratch.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if in mid-post I see the banner indicating new answers, I take a moment and check if I am repeating someone else.  Unfortunately, if someone has gone in and edited their post, I will not know.  I would like to have the chance to review edits at these intervals as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T00:00:01.857" Title="Include New Edits in the 'New Answers Posted' Banner?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10200" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:28:45.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A simple formula would enable us to calculate the controversy percentage of one question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(MIN(UpVotes,DownVotes)+1)/(MAX(UpVotes,DownVotes)+1)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, one question would need over 4 votes or something similar in order to be eligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:28:45.103" />
  <row Id="10571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10742" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:32:33.443" Score="0" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a bug in an automatically generated link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not technically broken the link for bounty, &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&lt;/a&gt;, does not lead &#xA;anywhere. The Meta FAQ does not say anything &#xA;about bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example bounty link: see &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9811&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9811&lt;/a&gt;, near &quot;This &#xA;question has an open bounty worth 100  reputation ending  in &#xA;7 days. &quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T18:16:13.130" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T18:16:13.130" Title="Is the Meta Stack Overflow bounty link OK?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;broken-link&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10569" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:33:09.490" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that any changes should be reflected in that. Edits, Comments, and of course Answers. The idea is to tell you that something has changed since you last saw the page. It should probably also have the bar on the Edit pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:33:09.490" />
  <row Id="10573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10152" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:37:45.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;check the date ranges. Try clicking on &quot;today&quot; or &quot;yesterday&quot;. I believe the code tries to infer a &quot;last time you were here&quot; date which isn't always correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:37:45.497" />
  <row Id="10574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:42:54.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this badge is trivial, but so is making it work right, so why not do so?  It appears that the application of this badge is currently controlled by a flag that gets set to true the first time a down vote button is clicked.  It can never be set back to false even if the user immediately undoes their down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do away with this flag and have the code that checks for application of this badge examine the down vote count instead.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:42:54.940" />
  <row Id="10575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:49:31.527" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt guilty enough about the &quot;extra&quot; badge when it happened to me at SU, that I went looking for a suitably crappy question or answer to down vote for real... and wasn't surprised that I found one before I got bored ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think its a big deal though, just a quirk. The description does say &quot;first down vote&quot; and the erroneous click was on a down arrow so it did make sense in hindsight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68204" LastActivityDate="2009-07-28T23:49:31.527" />
  <row Id="10578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-28T23:11:23.347" Score="-1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am starting to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://card.ly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;card.ly&lt;/a&gt; for a centralized location for all of my online presence that I want to communicate to friends, family and business associates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://card.ly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;card.ly&lt;/a&gt;, you put in the links for the sites you want people to see.&#xA;Alas, stackoverflow (and serverfault) are not in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is important.  Any way to get this done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:51:10.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-28T23:11:23.347" Title="Stackoverflow profile in card.ly?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-07-29T00:16:49.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always maintained that if you were the person who asked the question you should effectively get to pick the order of the answers. I understand that there is one right answer chosen to be at the top, but sometimes a certain answer is popular because it sounds right but needs to get shot down, or a new answer is either a viable alternative or amends the otherwise correct answer and neither the answering or asking party has the ability to edit the accepted answer to amend it. Thus the answer should be moved to be close to the right answer, and irrelevant answers need to be moved out of the top (lest this becomes /.). One way would be to let the question owner reorder the answers, another would be to give that question owner unlimited votes on his/her question's answers.  The latter is more prone to opening up the system to some kind of abuse though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:16:49.727" />
  <row Id="10581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T00:23:44.177" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6791/vote-null&quot;&gt;Vote ==                     Null?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed this just now on the main SO site...it's probably better explained with a picture rather than words:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/SXKGQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com/SXKGQ.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same style of the box that pops up to suggest you leave a comment when you downvote a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, canceling the vote causes another red box to appear but this one says &quot;null&quot; on the first line and &quot;(click on this box to dismiss)&quot; on the second line. I'll link a screen shot of this as a comment since I'm a &quot;new user&quot; and can only post one hyperlink per post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:23:44.177" ClosedDate="2009-07-29T01:52:29.310" Title="Possible Bug: Upvoting Causes Red &quot;(click on this box to dismiss)&quot; Box To Appear" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-24T14:42:03.723" Score="49" ViewCount="2130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can be &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does it mean for a question to be closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can close a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should questions be closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19126/how-do-you-challenge-the-closing-of-one-of-your-questions&quot;&gt;How do you challenge the closing of one of your questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5215/etiquette-for-closing-your-own-questions&quot;&gt;Etiquette for closing your own questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36415/how-do-you-reopen-a-closed-question&quot;&gt;How do you reopen a closed question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/98022/how-soon-should-i-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;How soon should I &quot;vote to close&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="152009" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-10T07:45:53.327" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T21:24:03.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T14:42:03.723" Title="What is a &quot;closed&quot; question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;terminology&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="10583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10582" CreationDate="2008-09-24T14:42:13.367" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What does it mean for a question to be &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed, no additional answers may be posted to it, although the question and existing answers can still be edited (by users with edit privileges) and voted upon, and will continue to count for badges.  The asker of a closed question may still accept an answer.  Questions that are particularly bad should be flagged for moderator attention so they can be closed quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed questions can be re-opened by users who have sufficient reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who can close a question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with at least 250 rep may vote to close their own questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with at least 3,000 (500 on Beta sites) may vote to close any questions (see limits below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators may close any question (regardless of their reputation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The same users who can vote to close questions can also vote to reopen them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are the limits for 3,000+ rep users?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 votes to close per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 votes are required to close or reopen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes will expire after 4 days if the question does not reach 5 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions containing a bounty cannot be closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can only vote to close once per question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can only vote to reopen once per question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should questions be closed?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When closing a question, a reason must be provided for the action. Not all close reasons are available on all sites. If none of the reasons for closing the question apply, you should strongly reconsider voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions in these categories &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exact duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt; Questions that cover exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic should be closed. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10841/how-to-handle-duplicate-questions&quot;&gt;How to handle duplicate questions?&lt;/a&gt;  Comments linking to duplicates are automatically posted when voting to close as a duplicate. This makes the process more transparent to users who cannot vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off-topic:&lt;/strong&gt; Questions are generally expected to be on-topic for the site to which they were posted, in accordance with the site faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Belongs on [another site]:&lt;/strong&gt; Questions that are unrelated to the site topic, and would fit better on another site in the Stack Exchange network. (A real close reason menu would provide a list of up to five related SE sites, allowing close-voters to pick the most appropriate one.) This option is not available on meta sites, including Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not constructive:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not a real question:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too localized:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What if multiple close reasons are used on a question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question gets closed with the most frequently given reason. If there is a tie, the latest reason is used. However, if multiple potential duplicates were suggested, all of them will be displayed in the automatically generated &quot;possible duplicates&quot; box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on the etiquette around closing questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5215/etiquette-for-closing-your-own-questions&quot;&gt;Etiquette for closing your own questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are closed questions eventually deleted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed questions become eligible for deletion by the community after 48 hours.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5221&quot;&gt;See here&lt;/a&gt; for the rules governing question deletion.  See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1867&quot;&gt;Do closed question ever get deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-24T21:24:03.910" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T21:24:03.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T14:42:13.367" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10597" CreationDate="2009-07-29T00:45:21.413" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any websites (not associated with the owners, of course!) that store and/or keep track of deleted questions and/or answers, like Deletionpedia does to Wikipedia, and YouTomb does to YouTube?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:57:17.387" Title="Are there any web sites that store deleted questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="10595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10594" CreationDate="2009-07-29T00:49:27.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions and answers are visible to users with at least 10k reputation points (and moderators)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:49:27.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10578" CreationDate="2009-07-29T00:51:10.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Feel free to suggest the addition of the SO-family websites to card.ly here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://card.ly/suggestions.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://card.ly/suggestions.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also try asking in their &lt;a href=&quot;http://card.ly/forums/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;forums&lt;/a&gt; or try contacting them on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/home.php/pages/Cardly#/pages/Cardly/123669641408?ref=mf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/cardly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:51:10.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T00:51:10.187" />
  <row Id="10597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10594" CreationDate="2009-07-29T00:52:01.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you -really- want to see the deleted content? Let me tell you...99% of it is garbage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:52:01.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10594" CreationDate="2009-07-29T00:57:17.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that you could mine the data dump if you are that interested.  If the data is visible to 10K plus users, it should be available in the dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T00:57:17.387" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9916" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:02:30.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is a firefox issue, not a SO issue. I have a &quot;Google&quot; folder in my bookmarks bar with links to my various Google services, and their icons seem to come and go at will - sometimes the default icon, sometimes a different one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have the SO family linked in my bookmarks bar (Windows Firefox 3.5) and their icons haven't changed at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:02:30.457" />
  <row Id="10603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10615" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:05:37.357" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often mark useful post as a favorite for future reference.  Are questions and answers on the site permanent or are the old ones deleted after a certain amount of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T01:13:54.783" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T02:06:52.940" Title="Are Questions Permanent?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10603" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:06:11.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers are permanent unless deleted deliberately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T01:14:23.567" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:14:23.567" />
  <row Id="10605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10607" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:06:55.440" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/14224/how-to-explain-drm-cannot-work&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/14224/how-to-explain-drm-cannot-work&lt;/a&gt; just changed into a community wiki, and I cannot figure out why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I recall it needs to hit 30 answers before it automatically changes, but it has not hit that point yet... has this limit changed recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131481" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:13:28.190" Title="Has the number of answers that turns a question into CW changed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10605" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:13:28.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Started at 30. Then changed to 10. Right now answer count needs to hit 15 before it goes all wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6814/reduce-community-wiki-force-threshold-to-15-answers-on-superuser&quot;&gt;Reducing the community wiki threshold on SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:13:28.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5393" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:16:22.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it renders as straight text, divs, etc. with styles set on all of the different words.  A jQuery plugin can facilitate this for you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:16:22.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T04:26:23.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:45:34.057" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff commented in my question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10219/is-superuser-a-stackoverflow-dumping-ground&quot;&gt;superuser being a dumping ground&lt;/a&gt;, that wordpress quesitons don't belong on super user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I disagree; that question is not really computer related. It's wordpress website support related.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just now a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/14768/is-there-a-blog-engine-that-handles-computer-code-highlingting-well&quot;&gt;is there a blogging engine that handles code highlighting well&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question that got migrated to superuser.com from serverfault.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does the ping pong now commence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where should these questions live SU or SF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoutghs ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49156" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T03:21:20.917" Title="Where do wordpress and other blogging engine questions belong?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="10610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:52:13.503" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;While trying to do some stats for the '&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10472/is-there-a-critical-mass-of-answers-or-reputation&quot;&gt;critical mass&lt;/a&gt;' question I ran into some logic errors in the data dump that made generating the statistics impossible. I'm not sure if the errors are on my end or not, so simply telling me whether or not you get the same results would be helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are the errors I found (which may or may not actually exist):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View count is an attribute of Questions, not answers - 5 Results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT( * ) &#xA;FROM posts &#xA;WHERE ViewCount !=0&#xA;AND PostTypeId =2&#xA;ORDER BY ViewCount ASC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post was edited before it was created - 4 results.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT( * ) &#xA;FROM posts&#xA;WHERE LastEditDate &amp;lt; CreationDate&#xA;AND LastEditDate !=0&#xA;AND CreationDate !=0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer contains tags - 1 result&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT( * ) &#xA;FROM posts&#xA;WHERE Tags != &quot;&quot;&#xA;AND PostTypeId =2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer was created before its question - 93 results&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT( * ) &#xA;FROM posts v1&#xA;JOIN posts v2 ON ( v1.ParentId = v2.Id ) &#xA;WHERE v1.CreationDate &amp;lt; v2.CreationDate&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments created before before a post - 47 results&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT( * ) &#xA;FROM comments&#xA;LEFT JOIN posts ON ( comments.PostId = posts.Id ) &#xA;WHERE comments.CreationDate &amp;lt; posts.CreationDate&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, simply for completion, OwnerId=&quot;&quot; when users have been deleted. This issue has already been resolved and will be removed from subsequent dumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error that actually stemmed this post was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT COUNT( * ) &#xA;FROM votes&#xA;LEFT JOIN posts ON ( votes.PostId = posts.Id ) &#xA;WHERE votes.CreationDate &amp;lt; posts.CreationDate&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I have since remembered that the original vote table has dates rounded down to the nearest day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T17:22:32.290" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:22:32.290" Title="Data Dump Logic Errors" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:53:50.973" Score="4" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, copy-cat Github's easy &quot;Copy to Clipboard!&quot; for code-snippets in questions and answers. Copying code snippets, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1196873/to-prevent-the-use-of-duplicate-tags-in-a-database&quot;&gt;long code&lt;/a&gt;, is tremendously hard. Format corruptions and inaccurate copying between SO and an editor are highly irritating. I am not encouraging you to stealing, but remixing for the sake of usability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arguments for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;easier on devices such as iPhone,&#xA;PDA and laptops (not everyone has a scrolling mouse)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would-be-as-unnoticed as the links: &quot;link&quot; or &quot;flag&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131971" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T02:27:44.493" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T14:23:20.887" Title="Code-snippet Copying in the style of Github" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="10612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10609" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:54:46.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's some programming related aspect of WordPress, then it belongs on Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a question &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the platform itself without a code-related point of view, it belongs on Super User. This case is where your example above would fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's about what you need to host WordPress, it could belong on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:54:46.417" />
  <row Id="10613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10611" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:58:25.187" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What? Copying that block of code (assuming you were talking about the SQL in the accepted answer) is dumb as bricks. You just click at the beggining and use the scroll wheel to the end of the frame, and then you drag to the final line of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-1, it is not necessary at all, and a button to copy the code will distract more than its usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4749" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:58:25.187" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10609" CreationDate="2009-07-29T01:58:51.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question asks about recommendations on blogging software, blogging tools or what's good to have, then it belongs dead and buried. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same if they're &quot;looking for something&quot; and more so if it is definitely  the kind of question that would trigger answers based on popularity and rep-whoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T01:58:51.997" />
  <row Id="10615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10603" CreationDate="2009-07-29T02:01:09.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions are not automatically pruned. However, users with over 10k reputation can vote to delete closed questions, which removes them from the view of anyone under 10k reputation (those with over 10k can still see them, and all&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;, deleted posts). So nothing is ever really gone from the system, even if it's marked deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* There are a handful of exceptions where posts are indeed permanently excised from the system, but this is exceedingly rare and only happens in extreme cases.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T02:06:52.940" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T02:06:52.940" />
  <row Id="10617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10609" CreationDate="2009-07-29T02:08:44.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the problems with the trilogy is that only one of the sites is really &lt;strong&gt;well&lt;/strong&gt; defined: Stack Overflow. Questions (and answers) are programming or software development related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Server Fault is for IT administrators and operators, and questions there are [generally] about implementing technology to fulfill some business function. This is supposed to be &quot;server focused&quot;, but more and more IT organizations are outsourcing technology to &quot;the cloud&quot;. For example, email is hosted by Google Apps, company blogging is done on Wordpress/TypePad. It is still up to IT to support and facilitate the usage of such outsourced technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More and more companies do this, and it is perfectly valid to ask these kinds of questions on Server Fault. It may not be a clear that someone is asking because they want to implement it for their company. For the &quot;code highlighting&quot; question, they could be publishing blog entries about cool things their company is making. We don't know that. Rather than immediately moving a question, why don't moderators at least &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; on the question, &lt;strong&gt;as is encouraged&lt;/strong&gt; to get clarification about the intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it is not valid to assume that everyone is using all three (four) sites. The person who asked that question doesn't have a Super User ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7672" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T02:08:44.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:16:23.360" Score="-1" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sastifying SO feature suggestions can be hard because of no experimental sandbox. For example, please have a look at the intense debate about a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10611/code-snippet-copying-in-the-style-of-github&quot;&gt;&quot;Code Snippet Copying&quot;-feature-suggestion&lt;/a&gt;. It would be a crystal clear topic with some real SO examples. However, the asymmetric information meant unfortunate pejorative terms, such as &quot;dumb as bricks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Experimental SO-sandbox.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How lovely would it be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Freedom to share things: easier to contribute to the community and more open to express yourself. Please, note that &lt;em&gt;I am not requesting a dramatical change, such as Open API or open source code&lt;/em&gt; -- only a slight improvement to encourage the development of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131971" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T11:35:45.707" Title="Experimental SO-sandbox for feature suggestions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;development&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10611" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:17:00.167" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main issue is this: &lt;strong&gt;if you're placing LONG code samples on Stack Overflow, you're doing it wrong!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Github is a site for sharing code, that's all it does. We are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any features we add to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; adding lots of code would be taking our website in an unhealthy direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T03:17:00.167" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10609" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:21:20.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is how I would interpret what goes where using wordpress as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enhancing or building themes, or hacking on Wordpress itself or developing plugins etc belongs in Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Installing, configuring and supporting installations of the software belongs on serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the software as an end user or &quot;which blogging platform should I use&quot; questions belong on superuser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49156" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T03:21:20.917" />
  <row Id="10623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:28:50.587" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it that the autocomplete for interesting and ignored tags still include the tags that I already added?  IMO, if that tags already exists in either of the tag clouds, if should no longer appear in the autocomplete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T05:04:05.427" Title="On Autocomplete Ignored and Interesting Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10620" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:34:49.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heoo! &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/greasemonkey%20or%20so-addon&quot;&gt;It's your lucky day!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T03:34:49.397" />
  <row Id="10625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10620" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:39:30.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I'm entirely certain what you're requesting, but I believe the goals are 1, having a place to test out features, and 2 having a place to freely discuss possible features or enhancements to the system. Here, on meta, is the place to freely discuss possible features. I certainly think the &quot;dumb as bricks&quot; comment is a step out of line, but overall, I think the discussion here on meta have been helpful and productive. However, if you're suggesting a feature, it may get rejected, either or both by the community and Jeff and his development team. Not everyone sees the world in the same, so not everyone is going to agree with a desired feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for having a place to test out features, the development team has this. I think it was on one of the recent podcasts that Jeff was discussing the different levels they have for when they're working on features, I don't recall them all, but certainly the team is fully able to test out features they want to. But, again, they can only do so much with their time, and they have their own vision of what they want the community to be. There was also a post early on suggesting using meta to try out features, if you want, you could weigh in with an opinion on that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2952&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T03:39:30.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10623" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:41:36.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is also the case when adding tags to a question. Certainly it's a little quirky, but I can't imagine making it a high priority to &quot;fix&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T03:41:36.637" />
  <row Id="10627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10623" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:49:39.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They probably use the same call for all of them, but don't omit any tags. Someone else brought this same thing up, because you can add the same tag to both. It isn't a really an important bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T05:04:05.427" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T05:04:05.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T03:55:03.563" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;On submitting a question here at Meta Stack Overflow, it is required to include a tag if it's a bug, feature-request or a discussion.  Failing to do so results in an error and returns you to the form.  After filling in the correct tag and submitting it again, the human verification form was shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, when the error is the failure to include one of those tags and the form is re-submitted, the human verification should not be necessary because new meta stackoverflow users are bound to commit that error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better yet, use an input type that explicitly shows that those tags are required instead of letting them type it.  It could be a radio button or a drop down (not autocomplete) if only one of those tags should be included or a checkbox if 2 or more of those tags can be included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T04:00:01.050" Title="Human verification on failing to include necessary tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10628" CreationDate="2009-07-29T04:00:01.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could lead to very easy exploits where you send in a form missing a tag, then edit the form and resubmit it in order to never get a captcha (much easier to spam). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The radio buttons or drop down could be a decent addition, but it's honestly not that difficult to type in a tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T04:00:01.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10637" CreationDate="2009-07-29T04:18:54.170" Score="2" ViewCount="2755" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to-make-a-stackoverflow-clone&quot;&gt;Am I Allowed To Make a StackOverflow Clone?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will I get sued if I create a website will almost similar functionalities (tags, vote up.down, related questions, badges) as Stack Overflow but for a different set of community (non-geek)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2011-06-08T08:43:49.737" ClosedDate="2009-07-29T04:31:09.347" Title="Will Stack Overflow sue me?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-07-29T04:23:59.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Someone&lt;/em&gt; has to be the #1 rep user.  If it's not Jon, then it's going to be someone else.  Even if Jon's account and every one of his answers was deleted, people would still whinge about 'not being able to catch up' to whoever was at the top.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To change the system to prevent any one user from being too far ahead of other users is pandering to people who are more concerned about gaining rep and competing than participating 'for the greater good'.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And while I don't think at all that it's bad or wrong for people to want to gain rep and kick ass competitively, I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; think it's a problem when those people want to change the rules because it's currently too hard for them to 'win'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who is at the top (be that Jon or someone else) got there because they know their s**t and worked their behind off giving great answers to tons questions.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Why penalize them for their efforts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I definitely agree that it is way harder to participate now than 'back in the old days' (uh, last year) due to there being so many amazing big brains on SO .&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And while this is a bit of a hit to the ego, I don't think it's a huge problem for the system (at this stage).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T04:23:59.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="10633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10630" CreationDate="2009-07-29T04:27:13.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, no. The functionality you've described has been done many times before, and no one owns the rights to any of it. If you make the site yourself you're good to go, provided you don't clone the site down to the CSS and HTML. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T04:27:13.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10630" CreationDate="2009-07-29T04:27:40.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff et al. have the final word on this, but I seem to remember reading that the answer was no. There are already a few clones out there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnprog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CNProg.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;soclone&lt;/a&gt; - google code project&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ra-ajax.org/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com.blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stacked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T04:27:40.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10630" CreationDate="2009-07-29T04:30:51.087" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. We will sue you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dorkingout.com/images/powerglove.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899092/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YOU JUST GOT SERVED&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-08T08:43:49.737" LastActivityDate="2011-06-08T08:43:49.737" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="10638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-07-29T04:32:23.990" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously I can't officially speak for StackOverflow, but as long as you don't use any of the styling (HTML, CSS, etc), code (JavaScript), the logo, or the names &quot;StackOverflow&quot;, &quot;ServerFault&quot;, and &quot;SuperUser&quot; you should be fine. &lt;strong&gt;It's also important that you create a separate &quot;look and feel&quot; (even if you didn't use any of the HTML/CSS) as that may also protected.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concepts of tags, voting, related questions, and badges did not originate here and are not protected, so feel free to use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T04:32:23.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-07-29T05:14:31.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concept (i.e. a Q&amp;amp;A site) is not copyrightable / trademarkable. The implementation is. And a clone that copy the look and feel would violate &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing%5Foff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;passing off&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you live in a country with software patents (hmm USA), the individual features are not patentable either. If you are however, then the answer is the good old &quot;it depends&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IANAL&lt;/a&gt; and all that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T05:14:31.253" />
  <row Id="10640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T05:28:40.713" Score="-3" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I request a feature for SO similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GMail Labs&lt;/a&gt;. Every programmer has different needs. Sometimes, there is a tradeoff between different agents as in my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10611/code-snippet-copying-in-the-style-of-github&quot;&gt;last post&lt;/a&gt;. The tool of specialisation would be a godsend to the innovative SO community: turning 1-0 games to 1-1 games, where everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How hard of a development problem would it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131971" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T12:43:30.853" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:22:11.880" Title="Adding something like Gmail Labs to SO: a big development problem?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;development&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T05:34:48.100" Score="72" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using [migrated] makes more sense, as the question isn't actually &quot;closed&quot; per se, as it still exists somewhere in the Trilogy. When I see [closed] I just mentally ignore it and move on, but there's no reason to ignore migrated questions... just follow them through to their proper site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E: Running into this again (I think it's the same case), going to try and get this some attention. Here's another case where this matters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess what happens when I click &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423823/whats-your-favorite-programmer-ignorance-pet-peeve-closed&quot;&gt;this &lt;em&gt;presumably valid&lt;/em&gt; link&lt;/a&gt; in my profile? Anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/bZkBb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well I do get redirected to &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/42371/whats-your-favorite-programmer-ignorance-pet-peeve&quot;&gt;Programmers.SE&lt;/a&gt;, where I guess the question was moved to, but what's this? Oh, &lt;strong&gt;a useless 404 &gt;:(&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/xMrxt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that questions can disappear like this but leave &quot;working&quot; links is &lt;em&gt;really really really&lt;/em&gt; annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PS, can't have [closed] in the title? Really?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1569" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T03:30:02.310" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T03:30:02.310" Title="Instead of {closed} for migrated questions, [migrated]" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="10642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T06:03:24.760" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way or place to post general tips that other SO users might find useful? Obviously they wouldn't be questions and would have no answers and probably no related discussion (CW doesn't seem to apply).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;To clarify: I meant general programming tips, not SO related ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132498" LastEditorUserId="132498" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T07:34:13.603" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T07:34:13.603" Title="Some way or place to post &quot;tips&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10642" CreationDate="2009-07-29T06:33:56.430" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can at any time play what I would call SO Jeopardy, if you want to do something like that. Come up with a question that is answered by the tip, ask it, and answer it yourself. This is a Q&amp;amp;A page, and that would be the way to do it. It has been encouraged several times in the podcasts too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for tips about the site itself, there is SOFAQ here in meta and the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T06:33:56.430" />
  <row Id="10646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9807" CreationDate="2009-07-29T06:37:38.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, redsquare,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just tried on another machine running Windows 7 and Firefox 3.0.12 without Firebug installed - same freeze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then tried on the same computer in IE8. Frozen as well (doesn't unfreeze like Firefox, cause IE doesn't have a script timeout).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that when you paste that code into the description box for a new ticket, you then just highlight the word &quot;what&quot;, and then press the Blockquote button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131372" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T06:37:38.070" />
  <row Id="10647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10648" CreationDate="2009-07-29T06:56:52.357" Score="31" ViewCount="953" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good title helps your question get the attention it deserves.  What goes into a good title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T21:27:45.557" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T23:55:41.880" Title="HOWTO: Writing Good Titles" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="10648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10647" CreationDate="2009-07-29T06:57:13.057" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Make the topic stand out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of a title is to attract people interested in your topic&#xA;or who can give you an answer.  People scan web pages quickly.  Make&#xA;it easy for them to notice your question.  Some people read via the RSS&#xA;feed, so they don't see tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Keep it short.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to put all the details in the title.&#xA;There's plenty of space to expand your question in the body&#xA;of the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, don't insist that your title be expressed as a perfectly&#xA;formed English sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Lead with the most important words.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/eyetracking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;These&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;articles&lt;/a&gt; discuss how people read web pages, based on using&#xA;an eye tracking system to monitor users.&#xA;For StackOverflow-like pages people read most of the first&#xA;and second entries (the bars of the &quot;F&quot;), and then scan down the&#xA;rest of the list, reading on average the first 16 characters of each line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/NSTjR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Don't start with &quot;How do I...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing in that style ensures that you title will fail&#xA;criteria 1-3, and get less attention than it deserves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question site, and people will understand&#xA;your titles are questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Don't sweat replicating a tag keyword.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags are orthogonal to the title.  There's a good chance that if a question is about some particular topic, a good title for the question will include the topic name.  Glance at the front page and you will see this is quite common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. &quot;What is a ...&quot; is fine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &quot;...&quot; is usually just a couple of words, titles like this&#xA;still capture the essence of the question very briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Good Examples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some good titles, taken from existing posts.&#xA;They succinctly summarize the question and will &#xA;catch readers' eyes when scanning down the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turning Linux USB power on and off?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to UPSERT in Oracle (update or insert into a table)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python: What OS am I running on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raise an existing X11 window via command line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;64-bit XML-RPC values?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Move an existing X11 window via command line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sum 3 columns in SQL when one column has a null value?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oracle: searching over a range of values?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PostgreSQL encrypted backups&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Readable font for code presentations?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Object Oriented vs Relational Databases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oracle: formatting number as xxx-xx-xxxx&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PostgreSQL Long VACUUM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best timing method in C?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Map Routing, a la Google Maps?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constructing images using HTML markup?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inserting Postgresql BLOBs at a high-rate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Bad Examples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These titles, also taken from existing posts, accurately&#xA;present the question when read individually, but make it hard to&#xA;pick out questions of interest when scanning the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I format xxxxxxxxx like xxx-xx-xxxx in Oracle?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I programmatically enable and disable the power to a particular USB port on Linux?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I raise an existing window via command line in X11?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I quickly insert a BLOB in PostgreSQL?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I move an existing window via command line in X11?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I store multiple items in an XML file for easy parsing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is a good font for code presentations?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I sum 3 columns when one column has a null value?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I construct images using HTML markup?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the best book for software design?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I generate unique random numbers in PHP?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I quickly insert a BLOB in PostgreSQL?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I tell what OS am I running on in Python?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally, be flexible&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different questions benefit from different&#xA;styles of titles.  Applying any single hard and fast rule is probably a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T23:55:41.880" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T23:55:41.880" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="10649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10650" CreationDate="2009-07-29T07:24:47.510" Score="2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;The footer links are the same for all the sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;feeback always welcome&lt;/strong&gt; one is pointing on meta.stackoverflow.com on all the sites, as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, whould it be nice to send it elsewhere on MSO since were're already here, such as the post that makes MSO the official feed-back way ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just think of it as as some kind of &lt;em&gt;easter-egg&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T08:43:06.767" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T13:38:14.733" Title="Where should &quot;feedback always welcome&quot; link in the common footer point in MSO?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;easter-eggs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10649" CreationDate="2009-07-29T07:32:37.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;perhaps&lt;/em&gt; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask question&lt;/a&gt;&quot;? Another option is to simply drop it, but a lot of people (in the link's target audience) visiting &quot;meta&quot; may be doing so because their question on SO/SF/SU has been migrated; so IMO it is reasonable to &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T07:32:37.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10647" CreationDate="2009-07-29T08:33:27.233" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this is overall an excellent set of advice, I have some issues with a few of the titles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Oracle: formatting number as xxx-xx-xxxx&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Linux USB: turning the power on and off?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Oracle: how to UPSERT (update or insert into a table)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Python: What OS am I running on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;X11: raise an existing window via command line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;XML-RPC: best way to handle 64-bit values?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;X11: move an existing window via command line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;SQL: sum 3 columns when one column has a null value?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Oracle: best way to search over a range of values?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;HTML: Constructing images using markup?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Postgresql: Inserting BLOBs at a high-rate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Python: What OS am I running on?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure the rigid format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tag: Question Title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a good one. The starts-with-tag-colon convention is a bit artificial and should be tweaked. Here's what I'd rather see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;formatting number as xxx-xx-xxxx in Oracle?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;turning the USB power on and off in Linux?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to UPSERT in Oracle?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;raise an existing X11 window via command line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;best way to handle 64-bit values in XML-RPC?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;move an existing X11 window via command line?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sum 3 columns in SQL when one column has a null value?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best way to search over a range of values in Oracle?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constructing images using HTML markup?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inserting BLOBs at a high-rate in PostgreSQL?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What OS am I running on? (tagged Python)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(obviously all these questions would also be tagged with the right keywords)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I think it is fine to duplicate the tags in the title, but &lt;strong&gt;only when they can be worked into the titles &lt;em&gt;organically and conversationally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're ritualistically appending tags to the front of the title, that doesn't feel like a tremendous improvement over a bunch of &quot;How do I...&quot; titles in the system, to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-10T03:21:58.470" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T03:21:58.470" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10647" CreationDate="2009-07-29T08:57:14.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Jeff raises some good points.  This is a followup to his note, since&#xA;I can't edit his post, and I need a bit more formatting that what a comment provides.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolutely correct about rigidly adhering to a formula for titles.  Do what makes sense.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize I had picked so many topic: lines.  There are certainly other ways to writ&#xA;e good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many of Jeff's alternative are fine titles when considered in isolation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you want people to pick out your post from a list of&#xA;other titles all competing for reader attention, it pays&#xA;to note that the people in the study &#xA;were scanning on average the first 16 characters&#xA;of the titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's interesting to truncate your title to 16 characters and&#xA;see how they hold up.  If you put something that interests a reader&#xA;in the first 16 characters, there's a pretty good chance the rest&#xA;of your title will be read.  Once someone has clicked through to your&#xA;question it's almost assured your question will be read.  The main&#xA;job of the title on the questions page is to get the reader that far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;formatting numbe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;turning the USB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to UPSERT in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;raise an existin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;best way to hand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;move an existing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sum 3 columns in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best way to sear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constructing ima&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inserting BLOBs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What OS am I run&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oracle: formatti&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linux USB: turni&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oracle: how to U&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python: What OS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X11: raise an ex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XML-RPC: best wa&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X11: move an exi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SQL: sum 3 colum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oracle: best way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HTML: Constructi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Postgresql: Inse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python: What OS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T08:57:14.113" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="10655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-29T09:50:05.693" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Partially implemented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T09:50:05.693" />
  <row Id="10658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T10:00:17.733" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which are the current throttling (rate-limiting) settings for SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious because I just wrote mine and I am willing to know which values would be best tailored to my 'sweet spot'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, does it also applies to static files?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T10:00:17.733" Title="Which are the current throttling (rate-limiting) settings for SO? (Static as well?)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="943" CreationDate="2009-07-29T10:08:05.470" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;now possible&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I wanted to find all my objective-c questions, I could search for..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:745+%5Bobjective-c%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:745 [objective-c]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user: me &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;works as an alias for your own user id if you are logged in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T05:25:11.457" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T05:25:11.457" />
  <row Id="10660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2303" CreationDate="2009-07-29T10:25:40.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had this exact situation happen in reverse. I answered a question, which was then substantially edited. My answer was subsequently down voted because it was a poor answer to the edited (and completely different!) question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is pretty harsh, since I don't see that I did anything wrong, but I can see why a viewer faced with the current question would come to the negative decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some way of linking specific versions of answers to versions of questions would be helpful, or at least some sort of visual cue indicating the edits have taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T10:25:40.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2009-07-29T11:07:00.707" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need to tell someone to do keyboard commands you can use the &lt;code&gt;kbd&lt;/code&gt; HTML tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Ctrl&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; + &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Alt&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt; + &amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Del&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Result&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Del&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-12T13:41:14.593" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T13:41:14.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T11:07:00.707" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="10663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10640" CreationDate="2009-07-29T11:23:09.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note: This question goes down on my list of one of the most cryptic  questions I have ever seen on MetaSO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, it sounds like everything you are looking for is either available via GreaseMonkey scripts or would possibly be available at some point if/when a public API is developed and released and other users start making sites and tools which will integrate with the StackOverflow family of websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; You also need to realize that the development team of StackOverflow and all related sites is what...5 now? That would be four including Jeff doing all the primary development along with a FogCreek employee working on the StackExchange framework. You can't expect them to churn out things like the Gmail Labs projects in their free time because they don't have free time because they are too busy developing the core framework of StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T14:22:11.880" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:22:11.880" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10620" CreationDate="2009-07-29T11:35:45.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You say you are not requesting an open API or open source, so excuse me for being extremely confused about this, because it doesn't make a lick of sense to me now at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this &quot;sandbox&quot; supposed to allow for users to develop their own ideas and try them in these sandboxes? If so, how do you even plan on that working if there is no opening up of some of the code (or release of an API). Unless you open it up for the public (which there is some obvious reluctance to do because it is a business) how do you plan for someone to actually develop something for the system that isn't YAGMS (Yet Another GreaseMonkey Script).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this &quot;sandbox&quot; is supposed to be a place where the team will develop user ideas and then deploy them to the sandbox to play with, I think that is even worse of an idea. The team already has their development and testing environments. They are busy enough as it is developing and testing all the ideas that go in for future iterations of the websites. The last thing they need is to sit around and start coding up user-requests just to put them out there in a sandbox for the public to play with while they are still working on their own development road map.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T11:35:45.707" />
  <row Id="10665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T11:51:54.983" Score="13" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ordering buttons are completely inconsistent. These are the ordering buttons I've found, and where I found them (please add any I've missed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions: newest, featured, hot, votes, active.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers:   oldest, newest, votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unanswered Questions: my tags, newest, votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions (in profile): votes, newest, views, recent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favourites (in profile): votes, newest, views, recent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes (in profile): no options at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can search for Newest, but not Oldest (except in answers), Hottest but not Coldest, most votes but not least votes (&lt;strong&gt;and searching for least active questions is important&lt;/strong&gt;),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each page has a different set of buttons,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the recent page, I can see &quot;week&quot; and &quot;month&quot;, but I can't do this on the question page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can't search for combinations:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hottest this month,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Coldest today,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Least votes of all time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:29:42.620" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:29:42.620" Title="Inconsistent buttons on different pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10669" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:07:16.707" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been having a problem using StackOverflow.com recently, i am not able to submit comments or upvote answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am behind a firewall that has an exception for the stackoverflow domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didnt have this problem before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130856" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:57:32.277" Title="did SO Javascript libs changed domains?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10666" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:10:15.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have firebug. Open it up and enable the Net section. See if any files are red (not found) when you load up a page on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:10:15.770" />
  <row Id="10669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10666" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:16:05.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is now using Google's hosted JQuery files. Try clearing your cache and restarting your browser. Also, if you're at work, it's possible (but unlikely) that your employer is blocking Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:16:05.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10666" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:24:56.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably related to Kyles's answer, I recently made a setup change to allow JavaScripts from googleapis.com in addition to the ones StackOverflow was requesting previously: stackoverflow.com, quantserve.com and google-analytics.com. You need to allow JavaScripts from stackoverflow.com and googleapis.com for full user functionality and [following the advice in Jeff's comment] from quantserve.com and google-analytics.com for SO's statistics tracking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In mid-August 2009, an exception for sstatic.net was also required (? for openid login page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastEditorUserId="19007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T08:57:32.277" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:57:32.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:25:11.007" Score="7" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well all know there are a lot of questions which never get accepted answers.  Some might be justified as no one has answered them yet, or the OP doesn't feel that the question has been answered to their satisfaction. But I’m sure there are thousands of questions out there that can become accepted, and for some reason or another they haven’t been yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an idea to try and address this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for questions in your profile that have not been accepted for a certain length of time we get a message asking us to consider placing a bounty on that question to help us get the right answer, which is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As accepting answers gives 2 rep points to the user, would it be worth us &lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt; showing them ‘potential rep’ so that they know how much they could gain if they where to accept answers in all of their remaining questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, someone could of asked 20 question and only 10 of them have been accepted.&#xA;They could get a message saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“your unaccepted questions equates to an additionalr 20 rep point…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I &lt;strong&gt;wouldn’t&lt;/strong&gt; want it to make people accept just for the hell of it, more to make them remember that they get rep for the accepted answers so it’s worth revisiting old question to see if any can be accepted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the comments so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly I don’t want people accepting an answer just for the sake of rep. I suppose I'm just thinking of how we can get people to go over their unaccepted questions again, just in case they've forgotten about some of them, and maybe realise that one or two of them can now become accepted.  For example, if you have someone who’s asked a hell of a lot of questions and most have no accepted answer yet, surely there’s a chance that they might have forgotten about some of those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130947" LastEditorUserId="130947" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T14:27:53.070" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:03:31.897" Title="Encourage users to select 'Accepted Answer' for old Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10675" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:30:21.713" Score="-4" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/886/a-friends-list-on-stack-overflow-would-be-nice&quot;&gt;A &amp;ldquo;friends list&amp;rdquo; on Stack Overflow would be nice&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today an idea came to me. What if we could have &lt;strong&gt;Friends&lt;/strong&gt; in Stackoverflow (like the relations in LinkedIn). And when we would post a question they would be the first ones to know. If we have misspellings or syntax errors in our questions they will be the first ones to see them and they would inform us, or they could help us correct them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132497" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T15:00:29.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T15:07:43.257" ClosedDate="2011-08-04T15:24:03.107" Title="Stackoverflow: Friends and question precomments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;linkedin&gt;&lt;friends&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10674" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:32:42.097" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt this &lt;strong&gt;Q&amp;amp;A engine&lt;/strong&gt; will turn into a &lt;strong&gt;social network&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:32:42.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10672" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:37:09.840" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pushing people to accept answers by showing the the rep points they are getting leads to the wrong direction. They should accept it, because they think it is the most helpful answer.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;BTW: I doubt that this suggestion will help to increase the amount of accepted answers. Most users just don't come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:37:09.840" />
  <row Id="10677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10672" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:37:53.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why? I admit that some people are happy with the answer they get and then don't even up-vote, let alone accept. But if there is no accepted answer for a question, my first bet is that no answer was worth accepting until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I look for something on Google and it directs me to stackoverflow, I must be sure that an accepted answer is a good answer to the question, not just something to boost the OP's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="130804" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T12:44:11.493" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:44:11.493" />
  <row Id="10678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10672" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:41:44.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only problem I sometimes have is that the questions I left unanswered didn't have enough answers or upvotes to really choose which is the best solution. Then it becomes rather arbitrary to pick just the one that worked, if I didn't try out every solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think it's a good thing to at least have people check their old questions again to see if they should pick an answer, people bothered to answer it, so you can at least bother to see if you agree and reward if appropiate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Resulting in the highly subjective discussion: &lt;strong&gt;when should I accept an answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:41:44.527" />
  <row Id="10681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10674" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:49:47.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this makes particularly good sense.  It's much better if the question is brought before the entire community to edit and improve.  If you want to follow someone, each user's page offers an RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T12:49:47.877" />
  <row Id="10682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T12:54:27.787" Score="8" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once in a while, you answer the right question on the right tag and kablamo, you are a &lt;em&gt;happy panda&lt;/em&gt;, you have 200 reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that this is just luck. If we all had these breaks every time, we would get away with answering 500 questions and have 100k reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got my break here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505900/what-do-you-mean-ruby-on-rails-is-not-thread-safe/505914#505914&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505900/what-do-you-mean-ruby-on-rails-is-not-thread-safe/505914#505914&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really only took me a few moments to answer the question, I get a D for effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to increase the occurrences of the reputation lotteries or decrease them?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T13:05:58.400" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T03:09:04.430" Title="Are reputation lotteries good or bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-07-29T13:02:28.970" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with TheTXI. Especially if I see &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/14147/what-can-be-done-in-windows-7-that-cant-be-done-in-windows-xp/14178#14178&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; of the (current) rep leader on SU (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/1931/john-t&quot;&gt;John T&lt;/a&gt;):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't forget i have a lot more reputation to downvote than you do :)   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the smiley, I don't think he got it. I consider this as a threat.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This one would not be a good moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T13:02:28.970" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10682" CreationDate="2009-07-29T13:04:38.667" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it's very rare for any specific answer to give me more than a couple of hundred reputation, unless it's got an associated bounty. It may get loads of upvotes, but then you hit the reputation cap pretty quickly. If you're lucky, the post will be about half an hour before UTC midnight, so you can get lots of votes on one day and then lots of votes the next day too... but then you'd have to have been pretty idle on the first day to gain a lot from those votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see it as a significant problem, personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T13:04:38.667" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10674" CreationDate="2009-07-29T13:08:31.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't make sense at all. This goes under the assumption that your friends are going to be the ones who want to clean up after you after you make a mess of yourself, which is patently false (you don't even know if your friends are smart enough to clean up after you to begin with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Juan said, every attempt so far at turning StackOverflow into a social networking engine has been shot down and for plenty of good reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T13:08:31.293" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10682" CreationDate="2009-07-29T13:15:59.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the grand scheme of things, posting a single answer which gets you your full day's worth of rep doesn't happen too often. Timing is everything there. It has to get posted and start collecting it's votes early enough to where other content of yours doesn't pick up rep as well. Often times the biggest answers you make (like my wedding cake answer on SO) only pick up 100 rep or so before they hit limit or get moved to CW or some other issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see it as anything near a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T13:15:59.327" />
  <row Id="10690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10672" CreationDate="2009-07-29T13:34:46.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Encouraging someone to accept an answer just for the sake of accepting an answer goes against the very premise of what an accepted answer is. You were supposed to be accepting answers that solve your problems, not just the answer you like the best so that you can get a small rep boost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is an answer that completely answers your question and assists you in your problem, accept it. If there are multiple, check the one that provides you (and hopefully future users) with the most information or the one that answers your question first (if there is no discernible difference between them).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is no answer(s) that successfully solve your problem or answer your question sufficiently, you should only really accept an answer (and it's debatable here too) once you feel as if you need to just abandon the question. Here you would just accept &quot;the best available&quot; answer, but if you don't it still isn't a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should never consider yourself obligated to accept an answer on this system. We already give helpful reminders once questions go over certain time periods (even suggest making bounties to elicit more activity). If there is nothing that really helps you, do not feel as if you should have to accept something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T13:34:46.503" />
  <row Id="10691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10649" CreationDate="2009-07-29T13:38:14.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should redirect to (meta)+.stackoverflow.com; down to 3 or 4 levels (or, whatever), each appending a new Meta where applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the actual content should be plain old Meta.  It'd be a funny easter egg, and I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Joel's mentioned being a fan of:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur3CQE8xB3c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Being%5FJohn%5FMalkovich%5Fposter.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Being John Malkovich&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T13:38:14.733" />
  <row Id="10693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:08:27.843" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;To Repro:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search for the [c++] tag with another (e.g. &quot;[c++] [php]&quot;, though all tags fail when accompanied by c++)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No results are shown. Likely for [c++][php], but not for [c][c++] which are known to have some.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question tags on the right show either &quot;[c+++other]&quot; or &quot;[other] [c] [] []&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected Result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ++ part of [c++] should be properly recognized as being part of the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132590" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T09:06:22.263" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T09:06:22.263" Title="[C++] tag blows up other tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:11:55.400" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any individual search terms which map&#xA;  directly to the top 40 tags will be&#xA;  auto-converted to tag searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tag &quot;asp.net&quot; is #5 in the tag list.&#xA;I entered the text in the search box of Stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LoadControl asp.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're browsing through questions matching search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LoadControl asp net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the new auto-conversion of tags I expected to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're browsing through questions&#xA;  matching search terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LoadControl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;within these tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;asp.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS From the blog post it's not clear if this new functionality is also available on the other Star Wars episodes. But I suspect it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1163" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T05:34:10.133" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T07:00:04.563" Title="Bug: auto-converted to tag search?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10696" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:12:15.180" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just posted a question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/15038/graphic-design-in-outlook-html-email&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; on behalf of a colleague. I've put my email address in at the bottom to be notified of answers, but it would be even better if I could put multiple addresses in (maybe comma- or semicolon- delimited) so we could both be notified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:24:47.523" Title="Notify Multiple Addresses of Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10695" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:14:42.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know you won't get immediate notification. Those emails are sent out on a daily basis. In theory you could just forward along the responses when they come to your email at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only reason I am hesitant to advocate for multiple email addresses if for the potential of abuse. You could in theory set it to send notifications to multiple people, but those others may not have a way to stop the emails from coming, whereas you could just uncheck the mark to stop the delivery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:14:42.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:15:48.700" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm running an experiment to measure the activity of various programming languages on StackOverflow as a function of time.  Specifically, I would like to try to get a feel for which languages are used most during the work week and which languages are used most at home and on the weekends.  Here's a link to my blog post about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://danlorenc.blogspot.com/2009/07/stackoverflow-experiment.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;experiment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I'm scraping StackOverflow.com to count the number of questions asked with specific tags every 5 minutes.  Once I get a week's worth of this data, I'm going to do some analysis to see which languages have the most questions asked during which time ranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like some feedback on the experiment if possible, as well as some predictions.  Do you think languages like C++ and Java are used less on personal projects?  Do you think Python and Ruby are used more at home than at work?  Hopefully I'll have some definitive answers in a few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Apparently my googling needs some work.  I somehow missed the data dump.  I'll rework my script to just parse this and have the results in a day or so, as soon as I get the chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132594" LastEditorUserId="132594" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T14:27:33.337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T15:24:06.053" Title="Language Activity Experiment" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10697" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:18:30.050" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prediction: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;.NET is the most popular (C# specifically) overall, and during the work week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Languages such as Python and Ruby get the most upswing during the weekends (if there is any upswing at all, seeing as how weekends are pretty dead periods on SO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why you couldn't check the data dumps that are already available for this information instead of trying to go and screen scrape (which may not be appreciated too much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:18:30.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10697" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:18:45.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you propose to demonstrate the use of a language at home vs. work?  Are you cross-checking every question against the user's location?   Because I'm not entirely certain what timezone &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;Super Mario Land&lt;/a&gt;, for example, is in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:18:45.417" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5432" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:18:45.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to post my contact information here and have spammers harvest it, or have this page show up when someone googles my email address (this is the same reason i don't fill in my contact info on my profile). We should have an internal way to be emailed/sent a private message without disclosing our email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Private messaging is such a basic feature, I don't understand why we don't have it. In every forum of the world people have this feature. Do those forums turn into social networks? Not at all, they just help people contact others when they have any work for them. Its very rare that I get a PM on any website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:18:45.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T14:18:45.713" />
  <row Id="10701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10697" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:19:38.673" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really in the spirit of discussion, but dude: There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/7686#7686&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar&lt;/a&gt; was frakking awesome and &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;already did this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason for you to scrape the bloody site. Jeff was nice enough to provide you the means to get the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:19:38.673" />
  <row Id="10702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10695" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:24:47.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a very specialized situation that doens't call for a general solution.  I'd recommend you do one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have the colleague post the question, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;forward the emails to him/her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:24:47.523" />
  <row Id="10703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10694" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:40:24.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, the same thing happens with &quot;.net&quot;, &quot;asp.net-mvc&quot;, or anything else with a period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. The new functionality is available on all of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:40:24.210" />
  <row Id="10704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21025" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:42:49.820" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me but when you check that option and give an email address, I don't then see a button or anything to solidify that setting.  There is no save or anything.  Am I missing something?  If I just check that checkbox and give an email, I have not submitted this setting and I don't see a way to submit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132596" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:00:01.483" Title="Notify Daily of Answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10390" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:43:31.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that it's a way to be nice and avoid bending the feelings of overly sensitive people who insist on cluttering up the site.  There's an awful lot that turns in wiki that should just be closed and/or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a good thing if you want to promote it as a social forum.  A bad thing if you want it to be a technical forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:43:31.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T14:43:31.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10704" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:45:52.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that is one for the future however it should be hidden to avoid confusion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I tell a lie, as soon as you check the input it sends an ajax request to update the setting. Not really the best user experience as there is no notification and its not the normal way to save settings. Two of us have been confused already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="6440" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T14:53:22.760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:53:22.760" />
  <row Id="10707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10712" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:47:24.223" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this a few times, someone must think SO is like usenet with threads, and they post a related question as an answer to someone else's question, rather than posting their own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/520902/965976#965976&quot;&gt;Here's an example.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see this kind of post, should I flag it? or just let it be? (there aren't too many of these so they add hardly any noise)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:56:06.667" Title="what to do (if anything) when someone posts an &quot;answer&quot; that's a question/request" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:47:59.450" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is at moment only one efficient way to find comments to your answers and questions: to go through each question one-by-one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The indication of active-envelope is useless, since it is delayed.&#xA;It also give no indication of comments to your answers or questions or to the comments of your questions' answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem seems to be in the following box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/so-comment-response-bug.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anwer responses&lt;/em&gt; indicates me that I have answers for my questions.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Comment responses&lt;/em&gt; then again suggests me that I have comments in my questions OR in comments in my questions' answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click both the values &lt;code&gt;18&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;13&lt;/code&gt;, the landing page is exactly the same. That is URLs are the same in &lt;code&gt;18&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;13&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not make sense for me to use such a notification system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the reason why I am not using the box at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please, fix the bug in the URLs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T18:50:02.480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T18:50:02.480" Title="To find comments to my questions and to answers of my questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10708" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:51:04.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though the indicator flag on the envelope is somewhat useless, it still gives the correct responses if you click on it. That's what I always do - just periodically click on the envelope to find recent activity and look at the comments and answers which have been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you get both comments and answers in the same list - but is that really a big deal for you? I'd want to go through both sets anyway, so I really don't mind them being intermingled. It means there's only one list for me to look through rather than two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:51:04.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10390" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:51:49.940" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking the existing points further; yes, this (the (ab)use of CW to mean &quot;look the other way, please&quot;) is a major problem on SU. I'd be tempted to wonder whether a zero-tolerance approach on SU might help stabilise things (combined with a none-too-forgiving purge of the existing questions). i.e. if it isn't an actual sensible computer question, then kill it. Regardless of CW or the person doing the asking. Even if it is Joel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it is officially beta, I think it would still be OK to risk a little bit of pushback to get the site integrity up. At the moment, I have concerns...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then; if SU, why not SO/SF too? Of course, then we have to avoid MSO becoming the dumping ground of &quot;fun&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong; I don't object to fun (I'm not a sourpuss, honest), but it maybe that these questions cause more problems than the levity it provides warrants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One saving grace is that people are slowly running out of ideas that can't be quickly closed as duplicates, and &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; of the community are happy for such things to get closed. Or deleted; I had no guilt &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;whatsoever&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in simply deleting &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1200584/what-is-your-favourite-xkcd&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (you'll need 10k or ♦ to see it) while it was still only 15 seconds old; and for those who &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; see it... &quot;What is your favourite XKCD?&quot; (it wasn't marked wiki, but that wasn't really part of my decision-making process...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:51:49.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T14:51:49.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10707" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:56:06.667" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a comment, then flag it. The user will get notified and the post will be taken away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote it if you're really feeling ornery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T14:56:06.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:56:14.780" Score="38" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search is defaulting to an OR combination of the search terms, which IMHO is a mistake (and also, BTW not the default on Google). I would prefer search to default to ANDing the terms instead of ORing or at least have the possibility to configure this as a preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1996" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-31T05:30:26.547" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T05:30:26.547" Title="Can we have search default to &quot;AND&quot; instead of &quot;OR&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10721" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:59:59.060" Score="7" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does &quot;reduced advertising&quot; mean? I mean, what are you awarded when you reach 200 rep? (I just got past it, woo-hoo!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131864" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T02:49:25.727" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T05:29:52.340" Title="What does &quot;reduced advertising&quot; mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="10715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10714" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:01:13.393" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ad bar near the top of the page (just below the question title) is removed. I believe there are ads that appear in the Answers section that are also removed. Although there are still ads on the sidebar, it makes questions and answers easier to read not having any ads mingled in. That's your gift for getting 200 Rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T15:08:33.377" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T15:08:33.377" />
  <row Id="10718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10714" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:02:49.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that this is fully implemented on SU right now as I'm under 200 there, but am not seeing the adds differently. But on SF I know that there are adds above the question and below the first answer that I don't see on the other sites. I believe these are the ones removed when you reach 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T15:02:49.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10714" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:06:49.543" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below 200 rep, there is an ad banner at the top of each question page, as well as along the right side.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above 200 rep, only the ads on the right side appear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/VrfnL.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of examples of advertising&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-23T05:29:52.340" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T05:29:52.340" />
  <row Id="10722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:05:38.093" Score="3" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of cashing in my sweet and juicy StackOverflow reputation waffles into Perlmonks bagels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody have a perl script to do this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131852" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T11:17:20.973" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:00:01.527" Title="Transferring StackOverflow experience points to Perlmonks" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10722" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:12:26.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure what you're asking but maybe this will help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe&#xA;  src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/127707.html?theme=clean&quot;&#xA;  marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; &#xA;  frameborder=&quot;0&quot;  scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&#xA;  width=&quot;210px&quot; height=&quot;60px&quot;&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T15:16:57.443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T15:16:57.443" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10697" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:24:06.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think about 2/3 of SO users are outside USA. I would better use weekend / workdays(24h) pair for your classifier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29363" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T15:24:06.053" />
  <row Id="10730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10731" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:51:26.207" Score="4" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I associated my account, but I'm still at 1.  Why didn't I get a reputation bonus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T17:19:27.510" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T17:19:27.510" Title="Why didn't I get a reputation bonus?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10730" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:53:57.777" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated by Jeff Atwood &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a +100 rep boost for every&#xA;  association you make if either the&#xA;  source or target account has at least&#xA;  200 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as you didn't have 200 reputation already (I see you have 77 now on SO), you didn't get the +100 boost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T15:53:57.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10736" CreationDate="2009-07-29T15:56:31.373" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I have a piece of code that works but I am not comfortable with. Is stackoverflow an appropriate place to have people critique my code? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the idea is that it is a place for &quot;questions that can be answered,&quot; but mine would be a fairly answerable question, with little leeway for personal judgment. Is it appropriate for me to post that on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130945" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:21:12.080" Title="Is Stackoverflow an appropriate place to have hobby code critiqued?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10693" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:00:06.577" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php%20c%2b%2b&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php%20c%2b%2b&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;works. Unfortunately, every browser i've tried uses + for spaces in queries, and that breaks things...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I would certainly consider this a bug in SO however; it should be able to differentiate between &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;%2b&lt;/code&gt;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T16:22:58.097" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:22:58.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10733" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:00:16.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's a problem, as long as you tag the question appropriately. If it's really subjective, it should be tagged as such and also made community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice it fast enough  (by down or upvotes or comments) if it is accepted or not by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:00:16.060" />
  <row Id="10736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10733" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:00:28.370" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/plz-send-teh-codez-for-homework-kthxbai/10098#10098&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt;, as long as you're clear about what you want in your question, SO should be a a great place to get that kind of help. Just be careful to not post too much code as that is generally a sign that you didn't narrow your concerns down enough. In general, people don't have the time to wade through hundreds of lines of code, but snippets and high-level designs are OK!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:00:28.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10744" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:01:16.043" Score="5" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7275/show-that-a-post-has-been-flagged-as-spam-or-needing-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;Show that a post has been flagged as spam or needing moderator attention&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7275/show-that-a-post-has-been-flagged-as-spam-or-needing-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; post refers to a global indication of a question being flagged and has been declined, however would it be possible to have a way of showing which questions you have flagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often find myself looking at the same question more then once, and can't remember if I have already flagged a question or answer. Some visual indication somewhere that you have already done so should also help with running out of flags for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As Kyle pointed out the system doesn't allow you to flag twice when you try and submit. I am keeping this as a feature-request since others indicated they would like this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T17:42:59.310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T17:42:59.310" ClosedDate="2009-08-12T09:40:04.163" Title="Visual indication of questions you have flagged for moderation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10738" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:05:57.640" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just installed Ubuntu 9.04 x64, using Firefox 3.0.12, with all default settings (yes Javascript is enabled), and I can't use many features of stackoverflow.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking &quot;add comment&quot; does nothing, clicking the vote buttons does nothing, clicking the favourite stars does nothing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139871" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:59:34.047" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:59:34.047" Title="Why doesn't the &quot;add comment&quot; or vote, or favourite buttons work for me on [meta.]stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;jquery&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10733" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:07:51.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10733/is-stackoverflow-an-appropriate-place-to-have-hobby-code-critiqued/10736#10736&quot;&gt;As Welbog notes&lt;/a&gt;, I have mentioned before: this is fine.  Just keep it short and sweet and, most importantly, demonstrate that you've given the code some thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T16:21:12.080" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:21:12.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10738" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:10:47.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites have recently started hosting the jQuery files with Google.  Are you behind any proxies?  Mine does not work because FINJIN has analyzed the file and determined it is a risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:10:47.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10682" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:25:29.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with the occasional lucky break, as long as it's legitimately a good answer. After all, the point of rep is to encourage good answers, and as long as that goal is being achieved, occasional minor unfairness (?) in the rep system isn't too much of a problem. And since daily gain in reputation is capped, these kinds of questions tend to self-limit quickly - they're usually simple beginner questions; not the sort of thing a SO user with voting rights will tend to find months later on a search and upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:25:29.480" />
  <row Id="10742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10571" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:27:12.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is because one of my proposed changes when we launched was to remove bounties from Meta. We've had a dozen or so bounties here on Meta and most of them were attached to feature requests and sort of fizzled into nowhere as none of the bountied requests have been granted (and some have been marked as declined).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was one exception - about two weeks ago Jonathan Sampson started a bounty to create a &quot;tweet this&quot; button with Greasemonkey. Though there was only one response, it did provide a working solution, so I think that this is perhaps the only positive resolution we've had. On the whole, I think that the Meta community is much smaller than the other sites, and even though this was a neat idea, we just don't have the critical mass to make it a continued success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore submit that my initial proposed change to remove the bounty system from Meta still needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:27:12.457" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10746" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:32:13.380" Score="4" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to get the breakdown of my rep per tag ? As there are badges available depending on how many upvotes I have per tag it makes sense to get these stats. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131638" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T06:53:06.183" Title="Rep statistics - per tag" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="10744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10737" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:33:18.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When in doubt, flag it again. If you've already flagged it it won't let you do it a second time, so you won't run out of flags flagging it multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also submit that if you flag often enough to need a visual indication of whether or not you've flagged a post (and are worried about running out of flags) you're probably overusing the feature. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:33:18.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10682" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:34:14.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you got the rep because your answer was genuinely helpful / enlightening to a lot of readers, then i don't see the problem with it being short and sweet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an old joke about a guy brought in to help repair a piece of machinery. The staff had tried everything to get it working, wasting much valuable time in the process... At the end of their rope, they promise the guy $1000 if he can fix it. He looks at it for a few seconds, takes out a hammer, and whacks the machine... it immediately starts working. Invoice: $1 - hitting machine with hammer, $999 - knowing where to hit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, if you're racking up points because you posted something that everyone knows and most agree with, then you don't really deserve it - the votes stand in lieu of duplicate answers. &lt;em&gt;That's&lt;/em&gt; where CW can come in to play...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T16:45:59.850" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:45:59.850" />
  <row Id="10746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10743" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:34:54.917" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - click the tag in question, then go to the &quot;stats&quot; tab and you will see the top answerers and askers, both from the top 30 days and all time, in that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jon notes, this isn't strictly the reputation gained from those posts (due to rep caps, etc) but for users that occasionally (or never) hit the cap, it's definitely close enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T16:47:08.477" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:47:08.477" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10738" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:36:14.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow my Firefox is broken. I installed Firefox 3.5 and it works fine.  Fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139871" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:36:14.103" />
  <row Id="10748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10737" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:36:49.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like this too. As Kyle notes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10737/visual-indication-of-questions-you-have-flagged-for-moderation/10744#10744&quot;&gt;you can't flag a post twice&lt;/a&gt;, so there's no danger in trying... But it's wasted time typing up a reason for the flag the second time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Kyle, some of us are very, very absent-minded... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in favor of globally-displayed &quot;flagged&quot; indicators. We tried that, it created nothing but strife. This indicator should be visible to the person who flagged, moderators, and no one else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:36:49.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:43:00.450" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, I'm not sure of all the specifics of this--but it's at least a superficial bug (although when I found it I thought it might be a little more than that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran into this while adding a couple new tags to my &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; list.  I already had ~12 tags listed.  When I add a new tag it &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; (see note 1) goes to the end of the list.  When this happens and I hover over the newly-added tag I get the incorrect alt-text which says &quot;Click here to delete this tag&quot; instead of &quot;search for questions tagged '{tag}'&quot;.  Clicking on it seems to do to the search (see note 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note 1: When I was testing I wanted to see if the bug affected all newly-added tags, or just the most-recent of them.  In one case I added a couple of tags and one was added to the middle of the list rather than the end--but it didn't exhibit the bug; removing and readding that tag added it to the end of the list and it exhibited the bug&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note 2: The first time I saw this issue I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; clicking the Tag performed the search, but also deleted the tag.  I'm not 100% sure that it deleted it; low on caffeine at the time and my mind may have been playing tricks on me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:03:07.397" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:03:07.397" Title="StackOverflow Tag Bug - Adding new tag to &quot;Interesting Tags&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" />
  <row Id="10750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10743" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:43:39.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You can get the &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt; on a per tag basis, but not the actual reputation gained via that tag. They're not the same thing, due to accepted answers, bounty and the reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're specifically interested in how close you are to getting a badge, however, then the upvotes are what you really need to know anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T16:43:39.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10753" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:51:13.177" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1201521/object-oriented-pattern-in-c&quot;&gt;StackOverflow question &quot;Object Oriented pattern in C ?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. When trying to paste a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bc%5D+object+orientation&quot;&gt;a stackoverflow seach that might have helped&lt;/a&gt; the asker, I discovered that the comment formater can't handle URLs with '[' in them. Possibly other characters are affected as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:25:18.137" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:25:18.137" Title="Pasting SO search links with explicit tags into comments does not work as expected" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10682" CreationDate="2009-07-29T16:57:40.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see a graph of the rep vs amount of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're right that would lead to certain people having huge rep from few(er) answers, but which are more popular and others having a lot of rep from less popular topics resulting in lower rep per answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T02:40:45.670" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T02:40:45.670" />
  <row Id="10753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10751" CreationDate="2009-07-29T17:03:13.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know you said you don't want to have to encode the URL, but there isn't really a way around that.  The problem is that &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt; are characters used for signifying links in Markdown.  Sure, it could technically ignore &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt; within a link, but it certainly can't ignore &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt;.  And don't even suggest that it detect pairs of &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt;; this is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/glue/53/XML-is-not-regular&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bad idea with regex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T17:03:13.740" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10756" CreationDate="2009-07-29T17:14:34.043" Score="5" ViewCount="703" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to search for questions by multiple tags; for example &quot;questions tagged 'nhibernate' and 'web-services'&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can get close by searching for &quot;nhibernate web-services&quot; but the results tend to be a few questions that relate to both terms--but much more largely just questions that relate to one or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T17:42:08.173" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T03:48:45.443" Title="Search by multiple tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10682" CreationDate="2009-07-29T17:18:42.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13531/mmyers&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt; as an example, let me try to see how big of an effect this has. Note that I may not be a typical user; I often just camp out on the recently active page and look for easy unanswered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have 7 answers with 20 or more upvotes. Going through them one by one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;37:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/769731/why-doesnt-java-util-set-have-getint-index/769732#769732&quot;&gt;Why doesn't java.util.Set have get(int index)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This was basically a lottery. I happened to see the question almost immediately after it was asked, and I got the first version of my answer in within a minute. However, even after the trickle-in over a few days, I only wound up with &lt;strong&gt;164 points&lt;/strong&gt; from this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;30:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/798545/what-is-the-java-operator-called-and-what-does-it-do/798556#798556&quot;&gt;What is the Java ?: operator called and what does it do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would have thought this would be a lottery, but I actually had the third answer. I just explained it well enough to outdistance the first two. (Interestingly, Jon Skeet got 15 upvotes just for repeating part of what I said.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total rep gain: &lt;strong&gt;155&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;24:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/96667/whats-the-difference-between-and-in-java/96722#96722&quot;&gt;What's the difference between | and || in Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Ah, memories... This was my 10th answer on SO, and my first accepted answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Anyway, this could have been a lottery but wasn't. I was far from the first answer, but I was the first to have a complete answer. That tells me there was something at least a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; tricky to the question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total rep gain: &lt;strong&gt;153&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;23:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/795160/java-is-never-pass-by-reference-right-right/795186#795186&quot;&gt;Java is NEVER pass-by-reference, right?...right???&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Not a lottery. A couple of people had gotten the correct answer before me (and some had the wrong answer), but I thought I could explain it better than they had. The question asker apparently agreed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total rep gain: &lt;strong&gt;80&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;22:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783144/how-do-i-check-if-an-object-given-to-me-is-an-int-in-java/783164#783164&quot;&gt;How do I check if an object given to me is an int[] in Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This was pretty much a lottery. I got 22 upvotes for basically saying &quot;use &lt;code&gt;instanceof&lt;/code&gt;&quot;. But here again, someone else had already answered with a not wrong, but &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; ugly answer. (And someone got three votes for repeating my answer 15 minutes later.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total rep gain: &lt;strong&gt;130&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;21:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/758570/is-it-possible-to-make-anonymous-inner-classes-in-java-static/758616#758616&quot;&gt;Is it possible to make anonymous inner classes in Java static?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This was a rather tricky question. I had the second answer, and I didn't get to the top until I'd updated with better information.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total rep gain: &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; (it was asked shortly after midnight GMT, so I hadn't gained any rep that day)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/785868/why-is-import-of-class-not-needed-when-calling-method-on-instance-java/785893#785893&quot;&gt;Why is import of class not needed when calling method on instance (Java)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Lottery. Pure and simple. However, I did try to put more than the bare minimum of information in my answer; I think people appreciated that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total rep gain: &lt;strong&gt;160&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that all of these answers were accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion is that while lottery-type questions might skew things a bit, quality answers can still beat fast ones. And unless it's your first answer of the day, you'll likely hit your cap without reaching 200 rep from a single answer anyway. I'm not seeing a problem here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And, interestingly enough, the only post that has gotten me more than 200 reputation is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141560&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, not an answer.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T03:09:04.430" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T03:09:04.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10754" CreationDate="2009-07-29T17:18:54.030" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can. Search for &quot;[tag1] [tag2]&quot; to search for questions with both tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T17:18:54.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10754" CreationDate="2009-07-29T17:19:01.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can.  Type this in your browser's address bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nhibernate&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nhibernate&lt;/a&gt; web-services&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T17:27:43.450" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T17:27:43.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10754" CreationDate="2009-07-29T17:19:48.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;AhA! Mea Culpa! I did not appreciate the difference between these two ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search: [nhibernate][web-services]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search: nhibernate web-services&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something to do with the way I am used to get the effect of &quot;[nhibernate][web-services]&quot;&#xA;directly by typing that in the URL as &lt;strong&gt;&quot;questions/tagged/web-services+nhibernate&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking away all my comments and leaving this answer around as something I learned here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[The OR method] Exists as described &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tags%20or%20search&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tags&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;search&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Or, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nhibernate%20or%20web-services&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nhibernate&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;web-services&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastEditorUserId="130093" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T17:58:16.823" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T17:58:16.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:04:15.950" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO sites have no padding or minimum margin set on the &lt;code&gt;div.container&lt;/code&gt; element, so if one's browser is narrower than the content, you end up with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/y48z5.png&quot; alt=&quot;The margin on this page is nonexistent!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eek! This can get quite unreadable in some places. Could a few px of padding be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132616" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:53:21.970" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:53:21.970" Title="Where's the padding on SO sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;css&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10764" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:13:19.160" Score="0" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious.  I almost always have Stack Overflow up in a tab (so I can refer to it while I'm waiting for my code to compile: &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/303/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://xkcd.com/303/&lt;/a&gt;).  I am still using iGoogle for my &quot;home&quot; page. Has anyone made the plunge and made Stack Overflow their starting point on the web?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: So, obviously, as originally written there are only two answers for this question.  Let's make it a little more interesting and add the reason why you have changed, if you have, and what stops you, if you haven't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-22T11:54:54.300" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T15:23:18.527" ClosedDate="2011-09-01T15:25:39.773" Title="Have you set Stack Overflow as your home page?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10764" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:17:06.560" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&#xA;&lt;code&gt;             &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:17:06.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T18:17:06.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10764" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:21:32.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, I have&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:21:32.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10764" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:25:43.870" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chrome gives me my most visited pages to start.  SO is now on the top row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:25:43.870" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10764" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:36:21.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have multiple pages open when I open my browser and SO and meta are on the list. Though neither is set as my homepage. I rarely close their tabs, so I don't need a quick way to get back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:36:21.427" />
  <row Id="10774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10764" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:40:18.517" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I almost never close those tabs, Firefox restores them each time start my browser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the need to make Stackoverflow.com my homepage because, when I create a new tab, I am much more likely starting a new search (Google) than looking to start a new instance of Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:40:18.517" />
  <row Id="10775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:45:38.800" Score="13" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three that seem to be out of place on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;noanswers:1 closed:1 wiki:1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest it would make more sense to not require the 1 (since it doesn't seem to have any semantic meaning) and reword the grammar so it was either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;noanswers: closed: wiki:&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;answers:no status:closed type:wiki&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or even&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;answers:yes closed:yes type:wiki&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Even as synonyms would be great.  I am not a computer. yes or true is nicer than 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T20:24:37.987" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T23:19:25.553" Title="Why is the &quot;1&quot; needed in the new search grammar?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:44:26.320" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of questions that I have asked previously but none of the answers given were the answers that I was looking for (so I have not marked any of them as the correct answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I close these questions so that I stop being prompted to mark and answer as correct and/or offer a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T19:04:09.333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:04:09.333" Title="How do I close a question that has not received a suitable answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10775" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:48:08.780" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the last suggestion better, but would suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;answers:*n*&lt;/code&gt; (where &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; is the number of answers desired)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/951/can-we-get-a-list-of-our-content-thats-been-deleted&quot;&gt;there should be a &lt;code&gt;status:deleted&lt;/code&gt; option&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:48:08.780" />
  <row Id="10778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10776" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:50:13.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions about Entity Framework you are referring to received high upvotes, which means they were of interest to the community.  Only a person with high rep can vote to delete them (I believe five votes from different users are required), and they are unlikely to do so, given the community interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028697/ef-in-real-life-i-want-to-believe-does-anyone-have-good-pointers-to-non-trivial&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028697/ef-in-real-life-i-want-to-believe-does-anyone-have-good-pointers-to-non-trivial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/803980/entity-framework-wcf-updates&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/803980/entity-framework-wcf-updates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:50:13.127" />
  <row Id="10779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10775" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:50:58.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The parameter does have meaning: for noanswer, closed, and wiki you can use 0 to get the opposite result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:59:10.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10776" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:54:23.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally the questions should stay until a suitable answer is supplied. Alternatively change them to CW questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T18:54:23.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10849" CreationDate="2009-07-29T18:57:58.630" Score="6" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is my desire to &quot;vote to close&quot; a valid reason to flag a post for moderator attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the reputation required. So is it okay to request &quot;vote to close&quot; by proxy before I can vote to close? Or does my reputation (lack of) just indicate I shouldn't take part in that function?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:31:54.893" Title="Is &quot;Please Vote to Close&quot; a valid use for Flag - Requires Moderation Attention" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10781" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:01:50.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no. I know it's done, and probably will continue to be done, but that doesn't seem to me to be the reason for that feature. If there's something seriously offensive that needs immediate attention, or you're noticing an edit/comment war, that would be a good use of flagging a moderator. But, the vote to close system is designed around having the people with enough reputation do the work. It takes some time to get a question closed, but generally I believe it happens quickly enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:01:50.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10781" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:03:26.853" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this is you are alerting a moderator who has the power to close with a single vote. You aren't really voting by proxy. You are making an attempt (if not intentional) at getting a more powerful user to close it without going through the traditional 5 votes to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:03:26.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9711" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:08:41.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9711/why-is-email-from-so-marked-as-spam/10237#10237&quot;&gt;changes made on Monday&lt;/a&gt; indeed solve the problem for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;X-Spam-Level: ****&#xA;X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on &amp;lt;hostname&amp;gt;&#xA;X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,HTML_MESSAGE,&#xA;        MIME_QP_LONG_LINE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks you guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122661" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:08:41.227" />
  <row Id="10785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7336" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:13:56.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, SpamAssassin still triggers on &lt;code&gt;MIME_QP_LONG_LINE&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;X-Spam-Level: ****&#xA;X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on &amp;lt;hostname&amp;gt;&#xA;X-Spam-Status: No, score=4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,HTML_MESSAGE,&#xA;        MIME_QP_LONG_LINE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But because the &lt;code&gt;MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY&lt;/code&gt; test isn't triggered anymore, the message is not considered spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122661" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:13:56.767" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10914" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:14:20.103" Score="7" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to post a comment &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1198050/what-are-the-best-cities-in-asia-to-pursue-a-career-as-a-software-developer-engin&quot;&gt;to a recently-closed question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, when i hit the &quot;Add Comment&quot; button, SO loads this url:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1198050/what-are-the-best-cities-in-asia-to-pursue-a-career-as-a-software-developer-engin?comment=Should+have+been+closed+as+%22Too+localized%22...+or+even+%22Subjective+%26+Argumentative%22...+but+oh+well.+&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1198050/what-are-the-best-cities-in-asia-to-pursue-a-career-as-a-software-developer-engin?comment=Should+have+been+closed+as+%22Too+localized%22...+or+even+%22Subjective+%26+Argumentative%22...+but+oh+well.+&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;%40Wing&lt;/strong&gt;+-+please+see%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.stackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F8401%2Fwhere-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and no comment is posted. Note that the comment text appears in the querystring...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T09:46:12.583" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T09:46:12.583" Title="Trying to post a comment appends it to the question's URL and... fails" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10799" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:14:40.633" Score="9" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;... do you upvote it so they get a badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:03:57.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T19:26:52.103" Title="When you see a post with 9 votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="10788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10787" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:15:15.327" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not if it sucks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:15:15.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T19:15:15.327" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="10792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10787" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:29:27.197" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always do.  It feels good to hand out badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:29:27.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T19:29:27.197" />
  <row Id="10794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:32:52.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; happened to me while trying to comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1200255/what-is-your-favorite-unicode-character-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1200255/what-is-your-favorite-unicode-character-closed&lt;/a&gt;. I commented on a non-closed question about 15 minutes ago, so I see no obvious reason for the failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I tried several other questions, some closed, some not. Commenting worked on every open question and failed on every closed question. This is definitely a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T19:39:34.100" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:39:34.100" />
  <row Id="10797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10787" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:36:58.473" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't care if 9 other people think it's good. I upvote when &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; think it's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:36:58.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T19:36:58.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2677" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:38:00.250" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you guys keep track of the users that click on the votes?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there fields missing???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:38:00.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T19:38:00.250" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10787" CreationDate="2009-07-29T19:39:56.283" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes if I see a particularly good answer &amp;mdash; something worth voting for twice if I could &amp;mdash; I'll check that user's profile and look for another &lt;em&gt;deserving&lt;/em&gt; answer with 9 votes, so I can &quot;give&quot; them a badge.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most recent case was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1007340/javascript-function-aliasing-doesnt-seem-to-work/1162192#1162192&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, because it really advanced my understanding of javascript, but I couldn't find a 9-vote post for that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T19:47:53.143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T19:47:53.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T19:39:56.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:01:46.887" Score="-1" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few questions that are in or around the SEO area, and each time they are asked, they seem to get shut down with the not programming related reason. I just don't get it.&#xA;Surely part of a web developer's job is to write markup that is attractive to bots as well as users. It seems to me that it's is just as relevant as usability and performance.&#xA;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1202589/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1202589/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/449065/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/449065/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(closed and now re-opened)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-26T19:07:21.367" LastActivityDate="2010-08-26T19:07:21.367" Title="Why are SEO questions shut down as not programming related?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;seo&gt;&lt;not-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10989" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:03:20.097" Score="-1" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes answers to your question can happen many minutes, hours, or even days after you asked the question. In the case of days, the e-mail notifications are certainly enough (and just noticing the site), but many of my questions end up not having answers for a good 20-30 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd like to be notified of new answers by SMS (text message), the moment the answer is posted.&lt;/strong&gt; I always have my cellphone with me, and I already use it for PUSH type notifications from other things (including emails, with auto-forwarding to my cell number @vtext.com). I would just use the auto-forwarding trick with SO too, except that it doesn't offer the option to send an email with each answer, the moment the answer is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131823" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T09:17:37.837" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T09:17:37.837" Title="SMS/text message notifications on answers to your question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32375" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:03:33.090" Score="8" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;A SO style site for math questions seems like it would do well.  It would be a helpful place for questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1202343&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one about the probability of rolling a certain dice combination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance that a math related site will be opened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1447" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T19:40:25.380" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T19:47:33.653" Title="Can you add a math related site to the &quot;Trilogy&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;math&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10802" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:05:56.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think there's a good market for it, opening your own using the stackexchange engine is definitely an option!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:05:56.843" />
  <row Id="10804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10802" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:06:21.290" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obligatory answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can start your own with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:06:21.290" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10800" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:06:37.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SEO is firmly not programming related. It's about writing good text, and planning keywords. What does that have to do with programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, now that there's more than one site, you could nearly argue that the whole of web design (design (HTML/CSS) != development (Javascript/back-end)) is the &quot;ugly duckling&quot; that doesn't fit in any site. HTML/CSS has more akin with Desktop Publishing than programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However DTP, and Web Design both seem a bit professional to go into the Super User site. Maybe that's a good idea for a 5th site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:06:37.420" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="10807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10810" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:06:40.633" Score="2" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't received a badge since July 19th.  Since then I have answered at least three questions that should have earned me a &lt;code&gt;nice answer&lt;/code&gt; badge, and I haven't been awarded any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if anyone was noticing anything similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:50:07.863" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:50:07.863" Title="Has anybody else stopped recieving badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:06:59.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just noticed this behavior right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the &quot;comment library&quot; already fixed? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21336" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:06:59.963" />
  <row Id="10809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:08:36.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this too, except that the question I tried to comment on, someone else managed to comment after it was closed (after my attempt had failed).  I assumed that commenting on closed questions was now something only higher-rep people could do.  I guess I was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find the question I first experienced it on, probably has been deleted.  It was that &quot;Are you the owner of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;some name vaguely related to stack or overflow&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;?&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:08:36.823" />
  <row Id="10810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10807" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:09:25.463" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, you will not receive a badge because you &quot;lost&quot; a badge, only the system does not take them away. Simply, the next time you would have received that badge, you don't. I wouldn't be surprised if a number of people are experiencing this on SO due to the number of questions migrated to both meta and SU since their launching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:09:25.463" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="10811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-23T16:53:56.167" Score="153" ViewCount="7340" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can and how does one ask about homework, and what guidelines should members use when responding to homework questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T10:42:55.473" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T10:42:55.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T16:53:56.153" Title="How to ask and answer homework questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="35" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="32" />
  <row Id="10812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T16:54:03.437" Score="184" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an attempt to reconcile two extreme positions in a way that is acceptable to the majority of the community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow/10825#10825&quot;&gt;Some feel it's irrelevant that it's homework: always just answer with complete code.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow/10826#10826&quot;&gt;Some feel Stack Overflow is not the place for homework: close all homework questions immediately.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; the official position of the Stack Overflow administrators, but rather a community-edited effort to provide clear guidelines on how to respond to homework.  &lt;em&gt;Individual community members can of course use their own judgment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guidelines outlined below are rooted in two principles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is okay to ask about homework.&lt;/strong&gt;  For one, it would be impossible to stop it all even if we wanted to. Stack Overflow exists to help programmers learn and provide a standard repository for programming problems, both simple and complex, and this includes helping students.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Providing an answer that doesn't help a student learn is not in the student's own best interest.&lt;/strong&gt;  Therefore you might choose to treat homework questions differently than other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Asking about homework&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make a good faith attempt to solve the problem yourself first.&lt;/strong&gt;  If we can't see enough work on your part your question will likely be booed off the stage; it will be voted down and closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask about &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; problems with your &lt;em&gt;existing&lt;/em&gt; implementation.&lt;/strong&gt;  If you can't do that yet, try some more of your own work first or searching for more general help.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Admit that the question is homework.&lt;/strong&gt; Trying to hide it will just get the question closed faster. Do this by mentioning that it is homework in the question text; the homework tag, like other so-called &quot;meta&quot; tags, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;is now discouraged&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/60422/2509&quot;&gt;is it&lt;/a&gt;?).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be aware of school policy.&lt;/strong&gt;  If your school has a policy regarding outside help on homework, make sure you are aware of it before you ask for / receive help on Stack Overflow.  If there are specific restrictions (for example, you can receive help, but not full code samples), include them in the question so that those providing assistance can keep you out of trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Never use code you don't understand.&lt;/strong&gt;  It definitely won't help you later (after school, in later assignments, on tests, etc.) and it could be, at best, very embarrassing if you are asked to explain code you turned in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answering homework questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try to provide explanation that will lead the asker in the correct direction.  Genuine understanding is the real goal for students, but trying to provide that is seldom unappreciated for &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's usually better not to provide a complete code sample if you believe it would not help the student, using your best judgment.  You can use pseudo-code first, and, in the spirit of creating a programming resource, you may come back after a suitable amount of time and edit your response to include more complete code.  This way, the student still has to write their own code, but a full solution can still become available after the assignment has ended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't&lt;/em&gt; downvote others who answer homework questions in good faith, even if they break these guidelines.  It's not always obvious at first glance that a question is homework, especially when you're not expecting to see it here.  It is a good idea to suggest editing the response in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't&lt;/em&gt; ridicule a student because they haven't yet learned something obvious or developed the good habits you'd expect from a seasoned programmer. Do add a &lt;em&gt;respectful&lt;/em&gt; comment or answer that points them towards best practices and better style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't&lt;/em&gt; downvote a homework question that follows the guidelines and was asked in good faith.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't&lt;/em&gt; edit a question to add the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'homework'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt; tag.  If there's &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; room for doubt at all, it's best to leave it as is.  Instead, add a comment first requesting that the asker clarify the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34503/should-the-possible-homework-tag-be-discouraged&quot;&gt;edit a question to add&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/possible-homework&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'possible-homework'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;possible-homework&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for non-homework questions, questions in the spirit of &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;plz send teh codez&quot;&lt;/a&gt; might be closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;.  Use your best judgment and consider allowing some time (15-30 minutes, at least, is certainly reasonable) for the asker to respond to comments asking for clarification.  Remember students are &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; programmers and often don't yet understand what is expected of them.  Help them to get that understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-20T07:12:06.583" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T07:12:06.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T16:54:03.437" CommentCount="54" />
  <row Id="10813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:02:07.073" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When should we add the homework tag?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Discussion in the comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An amendment to Answering questions by Joel.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't assume that a basic question is homework related. If the question is not tagged as homework, but you believe that it maybe homework answer it as such, don't modify the tags or condem the user for asking the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:02:07.073" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="10814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:05:42.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this exact same question should be posed to the professors/teachers of the classes you are in. You can probably get answers here, but if your professor found out you didn't do the work yourself you will most likely receive a failing grade. Many schools take cheating incredibly seriously, so make sure you know what you're getting in to before you decide to ask for help on here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21756" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:05:42.417" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:06:56.033" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that helping people with homework is OK, but it seems that not many people agree. I answered a question last night tagged homework. Everyone else in the thread was refusing to answer and providing guidelines that the poster should follow, many of which are echoed here, instead of actually trying to address the issue. That post has now been deleted, most likely through the use of offensive, and most likely successfully caused this user to never visit this site again. This is not the kind of community I would like to see built here. So what if someone posts their homework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're here to help people, not to judge them. Remember that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:06:56.033" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="10816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:11:39.050" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;b&gt;helping&lt;/b&gt; with homework is great, as long as the asker and answerer are involved in the spirit of learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just providing a straight block of code, with no explanation, isn't helpful.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally the question would be something like, &quot;I have this homework problem and I can't figure out how to figure it out! What should I be looking at?&quot; and the answer would be like, &quot;look at [hash tables, or some website, or this class, or whatever]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hate anyone to feel like their question is too simple, and maybe sometimes it's not obvious that a simple question is really a way of saying, &quot;I don't know how to figure this out.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161765" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:11:39.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:12:37.377" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree with the community wiki answer but in addition would like to add that it's not our problem if something is homework.  We are building a knowledge-base of programming questions and answers.  If the question is the sort that might come up again it should have an answer, that simple.  Otherwise we risk becoming too elitist with what are &quot;appropriately nuanced&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, there's nothing stopping a student from claiming to be a professional or a hobbyist, or from going to a different forum even and asking there.  In any case, its not like the answer to a technical point will teach them to program, and if it does then so be it, SO educations for everyone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:12:37.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:17:09.443" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give pointers to help someone on their way to solving the problem. That may include explaining basic programming techniques and best practices along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never simply provide the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should come here to learn from answers to homework questions, not simply regurgitate a detailed code sample and hand it straight in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just common sense on the part of the person answering, really. It's a shame some people may prefer posting the working solution as that will increase their chances of their answer being marked 'Answered'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141484" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:17:09.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:22:52.273" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Distinguishing between homework and other forms of work seems silly in this context.  You could make a similar argument that since I am asking questions related to my job, I should CLEARLY MARK those and share my earnings with the answerers.  Huh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unethical to help people with homework?  Silly, silly!  If the homework is from college, the person is paying for that homework.  Haven't they paid for the right to do it any old way they please?  With help from whomever?  I should feel LESS guilty for getting help with work I am getting paid for doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148086" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:22:52.273" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="10820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:26:20.220" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the people on SO consider it cheating to post questions here asking for help on homework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone consider it cheating to ask for help on a project you're being paid for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone write a complete program in their answer anyway? Isn't it normally pseudocode or an excerpt anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what if you can get someone to write your programs for you? Isn't there normally an exam where SO isn't available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think posting answers to homework-like questions should be just like posting answers to non-homework questions. Answer it as clearly as you can if you know the answer. Don't answer if you don't know. Post helpful links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this site is to educate other people, and to learn from other people. If we provide only hints and partial answers to any question, rather than disclose our actual knowledge, then we've circumvented the benefits of this site for all involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:26:20.220" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:40:03.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good answer here would be the one that explains the theory, some caveats and provide an code sample (usually barely working(if working at all)) that with some work can become in a full application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That apply for students, professionals and hobbyist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making a distinction for Students will only make that in the future when a professional look that question, will find a crippled answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets don't make distinctions, knowledge shouldn't be limited to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" />
  <row Id="10822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:40:21.690" Score="95" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I teach a programming class, and have the following policy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programming is a &quot;team sport,&quot; and it is good for you to talk with each other about ideas on how to confront the problems, and look to the Internet and other sources for ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, the work you hand in with your name on it should represent work that you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you work with others to complete your lab, list those people with your source code.  Also, if you get code from an online resource, list the URL with the lab, and credit where you got the code from.  This is a common courtesy and a legal requirement, even for free, open-source software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Failure to give credit is plagiarism.  Work that is apparent plagiarism may receive little or no credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:40:21.690" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="10823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:44:37.453" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask a homework related question you should be upfront about it because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most people who can competently answer your question do not want to do your homework for you, and particularly do not want to be &lt;em&gt;tricked&lt;/em&gt; into doing it for you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users answering questions on this site wish to help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are having trouble with homework, usually what you &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; need is not an answer to the question but rather an explanation of some underlying concept you misunderstand (possibly without realizing it!). That one concept may very well make the rest of your course a breeze!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18408" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:44:37.453" />
  <row Id="10824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:45:30.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first answer seems pretty well supported, but as expected there are a number of people who disagree with the ideas outlined there: both in the comments and in other answers.  Like it or not, the very existence of the dissenting viewpoint proves that this faq question is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, none of the other answers yet address all the issues.  They are mainly a response to the content of the original answer.  We could really use an opposing response, written in the sofaq/community-wiki style, that addresses the original question directly.  Then people could vote for it and we would have a better idea where the community stands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:45:30.103" />
  <row Id="10825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T17:59:19.890" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be no distinction between homework and regular questions.  SO community members should answer homework questions as completely and definitively as possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;homework&quot; tag is for information only, and should not be used as a guideline for what kind of answers should be given.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conflicts with a school or instructor's policy on outside help are the responsibility of the student asking the question, not the SO community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T17:59:19.890" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T18:04:01.393" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow is a space for professional developers to ask each other, not for helping students with homework.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with the &quot;homework&quot; tag should be immediately closed and deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a user encounters a question that she very strongly suspects is homeowrk, she should apply the &quot;homework&quot; label and close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:56:04.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:56:04.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T18:04:01.393" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="10827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T18:52:33.697" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I agree with the majority of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230510/homework-on-stackoverflow#230512&quot;&gt;@Joel Coehoorn's&lt;/a&gt; response. That said, I look over the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14048/john-rudy&quot;&gt;questions I've asked&lt;/a&gt; and ... well, damn if just over half of them probably sound like someone else's homework. :) A beginner's guide to bit-shifting? How to use feature x in C? I could easily see someone in a comp sci course asking these same questions. And the SO community was &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; than helpful for &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of them. (Well, all the homework-ish ones.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of us being here is to learn and educate. In just the few short weeks I've been a stack addict, I've learned more than I could ever have dreamed. Am I in school? No. Are my questions truly homework? No. But I'll bet their responses probably helped out some people who were doing homework or other studying. And I have no problem with that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I think we should just send teh codez? No. But I have no problem helping educate someone who's coming into our industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for those of you who are looking for homework help ... Follow the suggestions in the response I linked to in the first paragraph. Most likely, if you're respectful here, you'll get respectful and thoughtful advice from people who've been around the block. For the rest of us ... Well, those guidelines seem perfectly reasonable to me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T18:52:33.697" />
  <row Id="10828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T21:49:16.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I have experienced, Stack Overflow will make one learn, the same purpose &#xA;as homework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T19:00:38.700" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T19:00:38.700" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T21:49:16.383" />
  <row Id="10829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-10-23T22:29:17.007" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's extremely important for students to learn that real-world programmers work together, learn from each other, support each other, and share their knowledge and insights.  It's this type of networking that inspires and excites us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131264" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T22:29:17.007" />
  <row Id="10830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-11-15T17:32:07.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow vision is harvesting answers to get front page Google results. Students search Google too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:58:57.817" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:58:57.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-15T17:32:07.670" />
  <row Id="10831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-12-03T15:23:58.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Homework, especially computer science homework, is a process not a goal.  By not fully participating in the process, you are hurting yourself.  Asking for help is fine, but it is only a small part of the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141841" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-03T15:23:58.953" />
  <row Id="10832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-12-03T15:58:36.997" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider, also, that a professional developer may be doing &quot;self-study&quot;, working her way through a textbook which may, in fact, be commonly used in a university course. Such a person would not have the resources of a university student (professors to ask, tutoring, etc.), and may come here to ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we differentiate that from homework? Do we? Should it be tagged &quot;homework&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-03T15:58:36.997" />
  <row Id="10833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-12-03T16:03:58.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't think it matters. Either way, answers should be written so that people learn something, regardless of if they're students or professional developers. I think it's OK to give solutions to homework questions so long as the student comes away learning something, however, us programmers are damned lazy, so if a solution is posted there's the temptation to simply blindly copy and paste it. This is the same for questions asked by professional programmers too however (and in fact, I'd argue that it's not very professional to copy and paste anything you don't understand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I say treat them all the same, but also write answers to TEACH instead of to simply give the solution. Teach a man to fish and all that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:57:40.363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:57:40.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-03T16:03:58.390" />
  <row Id="10834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2008-12-03T16:22:16.513" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question is a question. It doesn't matter if it's homework or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give a straight-up answer to the question and then walk the person through it &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; they ask for help understanding the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should never assume that the person is just going to take the code and run with it without understanding it. That may happen, but let's not ruin it for those that really want to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people are so picky about even giving example code to show an idea of how to solve a homework problem. It's sickening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for tagging something as homework, that might be a bad idea if everyone is going to treat the person like crap. If not though, the tag would be useful information as it might give you a hint to be a little more specific when answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141919" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-03T16:22:16.513" />
  <row Id="10835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2009-01-22T20:38:23.253" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work in a computer science department as a graduate student. I live both sides of this coin - as a student and a teacher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My policy towards my students is- learn what you can, from wherever you can. If you plagiarize, I will fail you, as you have no business passing the course or graduating if you don't know your stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T20:38:23.253" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2009-02-26T16:00:03.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that I have noticed so far on my time at&#xA;Stack Overflow is that questions that appear (or are&#xA;explicitly stated/tagged) as homework questions are getting&#xA;answered in ways that are not useful to the original poster&#xA;in their current situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: A student comes onto Stack Overflow and asks a&#xA;question on how to do browser-based detection using&#xA;JavaScript for a web development homework assignment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the answers take the route of &quot;You shouldn't do&#xA;that, you should do this instead...&quot; and while they will&#xA;technically be giving a widely accepted answer, they are not&#xA;helping the original poster at all. At the same time, any&#xA;user who actually goes and answers the question as the OP&#xA;asked seem to be getting voted down by the same people who&#xA;don't believe it is proper practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just seems to me like some users place a greater&#xA;importance on being technically right (and therefore making&#xA;the topic perhaps more useful to future users) than on being&#xA;useful to the actual user who posted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree with one of the older answers on this&#xA;topic that says &quot;make every effort to answer the original&#xA;question&quot;. I think that this should be the #1 goal of any&#xA;question that is posted on Stack Overflow regardless of&#xA;whether it is homework or not. I think that if you want to&#xA;give &quot;alertnative methods&quot; as an answer, it should be&#xA;included after attempting to answer the original. This way&#xA;you are not only assisting the user in his/her immediate&#xA;need, but you would be providing more information for them&#xA;(and for future viewers of the question) to learn from as&#xA;well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:50:01.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:50:01.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T16:00:03.350" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2009-02-26T16:19:37.937" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, the real problem is not homework questions, but plzsendtehcodez questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason a homework question should be treated any differently than a beginner's question. It's not our responsibility to prevent the student from getting in trouble, or make sure s/he learns something. These are the student's responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original poster is obviously not interested in learning anything and just wants the code, this makes the question a plzsendtehcodez question, which I think should be closed immediately. They're both annoying and disrespectful (both to computer science and SO users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T16:19:37.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2009-02-26T16:46:43.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that the &quot;homework&quot; tag is necessarily the relevant point. The major difference, which is highlighted by the &quot;plzsendtehcodez&quot; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a student has a homework question, or someone has posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://projecteuler.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Project Euler&lt;/a&gt; question, then the community SHOULD NOT answer them. The purposes of these things are self growth, and the Stack Overflow community is not a place where work should be farmed out to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is posted &quot;Design this website for me&quot; there would be a community backlash against that poster. The poster is offloading their responsibility to find an answer on to other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, the poster has clearly tried to find an answer for themselves. Or if their question is a fine-grained specific part of their homework, then we should absolutely help. This is the place to find answers for problems that have you stumped, but it's not a place to have other people do the work for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T21:50:33.823" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:50:33.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T16:46:43.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2009-03-17T22:20:31.630" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community-based information sources (ex. Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, et al.) all seems to share a prejudice against homework help.  It always seems strange to me that this is such a hot issue.  If you see a so-called &quot;homework question&quot; you have doubts about answering, just ask yourself &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; simple question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Do I want to answer this question?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, provide the best and most complete answer you can, without reservation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If for &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; reason you don't, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;simply move on&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  Don't waste energy making pompous, high-brow, and accusatory remarks about your preceptions of the poster's motivations.  It's rude, and degrades the wonderful user-experience that has become Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The poster's motivations for posting are irrelevent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may think yourself clever that you can identify classes of problems from acedemia vs. professional, but it's possible that someone might be trying to learn independently, or the class might be taken for audit (non-credit).  In these cases, &quot;academic honesty&quot; doesn't apply.  Furthermore, asking the poster if their question is homework related seems silly.  Would you be satisfied if they said &quot;no&quot;?  Would a dishonest person answer that truthfully?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow is not the place to preach your morals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it's obvious the poster is trying to &quot;cheat&quot; on homework, that's not your concern.  The poster assumes all responsibility for their actions.  To my knowledge, the party facilitating the &quot;cheating&quot; is never liable for anything.  You won't get expelled/fired for helping.  After all, you're just answering a question.  Nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dishonest students only hurt themselves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow won't (presumably) be there when the student takes their exams.  If the student is smart, they will learn from the answers they get on SO, and will be more prepared for their projects, exams, and long-term career success.  The dishonest students will only be helped in the short-term, and won't be serious contenders for good jobs, etc. since they won't be able to apply what they were supposed to learn.  Everything comes out in the wash, as the proverb says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:41:10.900" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:41:10.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-17T22:20:31.630" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2009-05-05T21:56:24.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know, I instinctively baulk at the obvious homework questions.  Perhaps it's because someone is getting a grade for it, so I feel it should be original work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, it occurs to me that I initially learned how to program from the ages of 11 to 12 about 95% from copying other people's programs from magazines (admittedly my buddy and I spent a lot of time tweaking and modifying them).  By 13 I was teaching myself assembler on two architectures, and by 16 I was advised not to take my senior year computer studies course because I knew, quote &quot;enough to teach the course&quot; and receiving &quot;the top grade was a given&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is clearly no definite line - good programmers will learn from others effectively and bad programmers will forever cheat and never learn much of anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps accreditation on the part of the asker is the key, as well as providing pointers and pseudo code... but as a professional I also appreciate receiving code which just works, so I can understand the essence of it and get on with my task.  My ability professionally has grown in equal parts from my own experience and other's code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:11:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-05T21:56:24.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-04T14:10:44.390" Score="33" ViewCount="980" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do I do when I see a question that is a duplicate of another one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I tag the question with the &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I can edit a question, how do I mark it as duplicate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I can, do I close the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I can't do any of these, what do I do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="810" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T23:48:50.493" LastActivityDate="2010-04-20T14:36:52.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-04T14:32:19.003" Title="How to handle duplicate questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="14" />
  <row Id="10842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10841" CreationDate="2009-03-04T14:17:46.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I prefer to make it an obvious edit into the page, with the hr delineation, but I put it below the OP out of politeness really. I'll usually just drop in the full SO URL as well because they're quite readable, and well it's easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing to remember is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you're doing this: you're doing it for the benefit of future readers so you want to make it obvious, and you're doing it for the benefit of SO's signal/noise (so yes you close it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend users without edit powers post their dupe finds as comments for someone with edit powers to add to the OP. Better not to clutter with more content I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my $.02&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:12:00.570" />
  <row Id="10843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10841" CreationDate="2009-03-04T14:21:30.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are different ways to ask the same question.  I personally don't think people should close repeat questions that are asked in a different way.  I agree that a link to the same question, already answered, is the best way to handle an answer, but I don't think people should be so quick to close an inquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135988" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:12:00.570" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10841" CreationDate="2009-03-04T14:22:33.987" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Should I tag the question with the duplicate tag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; Jeff Atwood covered much of this in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/39323/list&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; at the bottom of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39323/tagging-questions-duplicate-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Tagging questions ‘duplicate’ in StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We need a better method to find and link related duplicate questions, but &lt;strong&gt;a tag named &quot;duplicate&quot; is the wrong way&lt;/strong&gt;. At the moment I am editing posts to include links to similar questions. If the questions are &lt;em&gt;identical&lt;/em&gt; then I may opt to delete one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If I can edit but not vote to close, how do I mark it as duplicate?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please don't edit the question to mark it as a duplicate.&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;Community user&lt;/a&gt; will perform an automatic edit if the question is closed as a duplicate, so your edits would then have to be undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, see the section &quot;&lt;em&gt;If I can't do any of these, what do I do?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If I can, do I close the question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There could be hundreds of different, related, perfectly valid questions on the same topic. There is no One True Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's rarely this straightforward, however -- usually there are two similar but not-quite-the-same questions, both of which have value for different reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is an exact duplicate then go ahead and vote to close the question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What happens when I vote to close as duplicate?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Or: Why did a comment with my name on it just appear?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44173/autocomment-when-voting-to-close-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;new system&lt;/a&gt;, a vote to close as duplicate will automatically post a comment with the duplicate link if no one else had voted for that particular duplicate. The user who cast the vote is the owner of the comment and can edit or delete it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19756/how-does-the-comment-system-and-comments-work&quot;&gt;like any other comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt; as a duplicate, these comments are deleted and the duplicate information is automatically edited into the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What about &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;related&lt;/em&gt; questions?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;similar&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;related&lt;/strong&gt; questions the following format should be used at the &lt;strong&gt;bottom&lt;/strong&gt; of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#35;&amp;#35;&amp;#35;See also&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &amp;gt; &amp;#91;title of question&amp;#93;(url to question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;If I can't do any of these, what do I do?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have enough rep to close questions and you have a link to an exact duplicate, &lt;strong&gt;either flag the question for moderator attention or leave a comment with the link&lt;/strong&gt;. (If you have found a similar question which is not a duplicate, just leave a comment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is new, a comment will almost always result in faster action because plenty of 3k+ rep users are likely to view the question. If the question is old, it is unlikely to gather five close votes, so flagging it for moderator attention is preferable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-20T14:36:52.620" LastActivityDate="2010-04-20T14:36:52.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-04T14:22:33.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10841" CreationDate="2009-03-13T01:35:06.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Way too many questions marked as duplicate, really aren't.  They may be similar, but the answers in them don't answer the question asked in the one that was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:12:00.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-13T01:35:06.880" />
  <row Id="10848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:28:33.343" Score="11" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading this recently posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10781/is-please-vote-to-close-a-valid-use-for-flag-requires-moderation-attention&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, I feel I don't quite understand this function.  What are the guidelines for flagging a question as &quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:29:37.567" Title="What are acceptable reasons for flagging as &quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="10849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10781" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:31:54.893" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, it depends on the context. &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; is the &lt;em&gt;justification&lt;/em&gt; to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it really is something obvious and non-contestable that it doesn't belong, then I don't mind stepping in to close it early. However, if it is subjective and the user simply &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; it closed, I'll instead wipe the moderator flag and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an illustration, a few minutes ago I went through the SO flags; I only acted on about half of them - the half that were actual, real problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the numbers got big, maybe we'd need some kind of internal moderation rep counter... i.e. does the user have a history of casting bad moderator flags (&quot;crying wolf&quot;). Then, maybe that isn't a great idea... I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:31:54.893" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10802" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:40:15.670" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great, but we'd need a VERY GOOD EDITOR to be able to input all of the math constructs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:40:15.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:40:45.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed again... definitely a glitch in the matrix...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:40:45.950" />
  <row Id="10854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10848" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:47:21.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it something out of the ordinary that the existing vote buttons don't convey?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also discussed in the comments on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original blog announcement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the more common uses is when something might represent site abuse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;posts with illegal content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;improper activity, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8323/astroturfing-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;astroturfing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that we also tend to look at spam/offensive votes (plus the system handles these automatically if it gathers enough votes)... so &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; the moderator flags are for &lt;strong&gt;when you need to say something additional (hence the text box)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T06:29:37.567" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:29:37.567" />
  <row Id="10855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10800" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:48:18.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very simply because SEO is a soft subject - it can't be framed in terms of algorithms and languages and lines of code. It's no more or less PR than project management or source control questions both of which also have a hard time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that SEO questions have more favour amongst web-devs who've had to engage in the subject than traditional apps developers, but in the long run I think enough people will see that it is part of the spectrum and keep these open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:48:18.817" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10848" CreationDate="2009-07-29T20:51:16.643" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the determining factor is if something has to be done that is not covered by the normally processes in place (voting, discussion, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if someone posted graphic adult content or blatant spam, simply closing it wouldn't really solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:51:16.643" />
  <row Id="10857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:10:00.547" Score="37" ViewCount="1056" Body="&lt;p&gt;I teach an introductory course in which the focus is on learning how the machine works: memory, registers, caches, assembly code, and all that.  But it is also the first course in which C is used, and my students do some programming projects that are moderately ambitious for beginning C programmers.  It is obviously not kosher for them to post homework questions to Stack Overflow, but many of them have questions about basic C things like the difference between a typedef and a struct tag, the use of function pointers, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it an appropriate use of Stack Overflow for me to direct my students to it as a source of knowledge about C programming and assembly-language programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for all the help.  There were many helpful answers and I made some upvotes, but no single answer stood out enough that I wanted to bless it as &quot;accepted&quot;.  Thanks for the many thoughtful comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T19:21:33.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" Title="Should I send students to Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:16:25.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i think yes, absolutely; the purpose of the site is to be a reference for all programming-related questions, and no question is too &quot;beginner&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you may have to watch the site (and your students' profiles) to guard against outright plagarism, but this site is a good or better than others for noob advice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:16:31.360" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being involved in teaching myself, I would generally be cautious about sending undergraduate students to stack overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I love teaching programming to undergrads (and grads), my experience is that &#xA;undergrads tend to be &quot;lazy&quot; (or more correctly, lazier) and will generally do anything to avoid opening a book or researching a question themselves. They'll ask their friends even if it would take just a little longer to find the answer themselves. I have seen students ask &quot;what would this print?&quot; when they could just write the code and execute it.&#xA;Now I don't have a problem with this practice, I'm sure I was this way in my undergrad years too, but as an educator I believe that building research skills is important, and the skill of filtering through a book to find an answer is critical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, early on students are not usually able to abstract from their specific problem to a more general question about the programming language, so you would get questions that are not very &quot;reusable&quot; (except for future students in the same class doing the same assignment). That can reduce the overall usability of SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is a great resource, but it's not meant to replace a basic language reference book. I think it can provide great knowledge to a proficient student who wants to learn more - I've been programming and teaching for years and still learn new things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF it was grad students or advanced undergrads - completely different answer, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:17:11.623" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say &quot;Yes&quot;, with the caveat that they tag their questions as 'homework' questions, and that they don't use Stack Overflow to 'plz send teh codez' (did I do that right?).  Hell, I want to use Stack Overflow as a resource for C and Assembly-language related items, so I hope they do.  The sooner they're indoctrinated into the ways of researching using whatever is at their disposal, the better off they'll be.  They may or may not be sent &quot;RTFM&quot; answers; depending on how they ask the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230510/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Homework on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182833/poll-which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate&quot;&gt;What Questions are appropriate?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="10861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:17:24.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is. Stackoverflow is supposed to be for all questions, even introductory ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it's important that your students understand the learning continues after they are done with school - and that's what we're all doing here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:17:50.670" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quote the Stack Overflow FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. No question is&#xA;  too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;. Oh yes,&#xA;  and it should be about programming.&#xA;  You know, with a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too many people forget what it was like when they were newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:20:21.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't think it would be correct to answer your question with a &quot;no&quot;, I can't help but wonder: if they have questions shouldn't they be doing their own research first, then if they still have questions, shouldn't they be asking you, their teacher?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167460" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:21:00.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post your homework questions here for us to see so that we can recognize them (and not respond) when your students also submit them.   :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-05T04:21:00.587" />
  <row Id="10865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:35:48.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't actively direct them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being new to programming myself I've found that SO provides an answer, but when you have the answer you lose out on the knowledge of actually finding the answer. Students lose out on being able to expand the bounds of their problem-solving skills, something that is very important to CS students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, undergraduates are lazy and more often than not they'll look to the Internet for answers. The difference is that students tend to be looking for the answers, not looking for somewhere to ask for them. Whilst many will argue with this statement I believe that it is not necessarily up to the teacher to tell the student where to get the answers. I'm sure they're smart enough to find a useful resource for their projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133240" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:36:58.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that StackOverflow is a great resource, and that your Students should be directed here. That said, I also know what its like to be a Freshmen in college (seeing as how I am one currently) and I would be extremely cautious. Often already, I find myself asking questions here before I've googled the subject. It sort of grows on you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do direct them here, encourage them to make frequent use of the search feature. Especially for &quot;newbie&quot; questions, most of their topics will probably have been asked and answered already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would actually recommend that you wait until they are halfway through the course. Or, at least until after you start introducing the complicated things one can do with pointers in C. Those kinds of theoretical questions are great here, and they'll get a lot more response than questions from the first couple of weeks. But that's just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you want to be careful and avoid are your students simply posting the problems you assign them, and asking for a solution. Not only is that wrong for them to do in a classroom setting, its entirely possible that the folks here will actually answer the problem for them, which will leave them using someone else's code and not really understanding why. For an introductory course, remember that the problems you give your students should be &lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt; to make them think in different ways. Struggling to learn a new concept like programming is supposed to be a little challenging, and I think you'll find that if you encourage them to come up with their own answers, they will benefit much more in the long run. The reference manuals can only get you so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167936" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:39:02.547" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;shouldn't they be doing their own research first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beginning students are still learning how to 'do their own research'.  In fact, part of my job is to teach them how to do their own research.  (Last week I gently suggested to a student that since he had paid for a copy of Kernighan and Ritchie, he might try using it instead of Google as a source of information on C syntax.)  I know it's appropriate for me to send them to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/40&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;course web site&lt;/a&gt; and to the library.  It sounds as if it's OK to send them to stackoverflow as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;shouldn't they be asking you, their teacher?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LOL! Believe me, they do!  Since I started teaching this class, 90% of my Skype calls are now from students.  But they have discovered that I am not available 24-7, and if I've gone to sleep it might me 12 hours to get back to them.  The horror!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having met with mostly encouraging responses, I think I will try this as an experiment next year.  They are good kids and work hard, and I think they will understand that stackoverflow is not a vehicle to do their homework for them.  And although they ask mostly beginners' questions, they have stumped me more than once.  (Like this: why does a retq instruction have a rep prefix in front of it?  Is the return being repeated?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:45:04.717" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's reassuring to see a teacher a) reading SO b) considering it a valuable resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would direct them to it as a source of research - primarily learning about programming from previous questions. If they have a question that needs asking and hasn't been addressed, I think the SO community would like to see it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also a valuable introduction to peer review of ideas &amp;amp; questions not just code. If they make a mistake it will hopefully be explained to them, and if they have unrealistic expectations or behave in a way that is likely to cause them trouble in the future, it's better to find out through SO right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO is a fair representation of the professional programming world (albeit with a bias towards those who care about their jobs - but plenty of rhetoric to balance that), and the early they come into contact with that the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26334" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T04:56:09.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes I think it's a great resource for learners and the fact that you're actively looking for new ways to help your students learn (or get off your back? :p) is quite admirable! The only thing I'll add to the other responses here is that you should have a lesson in class  showing them how to use SO, what questions are appropriate, and &lt;strong&gt;how to search for questions that have already been asked&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T05:08:50.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow, like blogs is great to learn what other coder use or care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many years, I wasted alot of time finding cool things. I think with a daily visit here, reading comments, I can learn a lot of new tools and techniques in no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That and my rss reader are my secret to be up to date while only wasting about 15-20 minutes a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152725" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T05:13:10.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, there are many fantastic resources on the net, and I wouldn't dissuade your students from using any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are lazy students and there's many lazy professionals.  At the end of the day, those that don't take the time to learn this stuff and understand it are cheating themselves and when it comes to exam time, they'll fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that their fault because they're lazy?  I think I'm about as lazy as some of the laziest programmers out there and I go out of my way every day to save effort and become more efficient with my coding.  Being lazy &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be a good thing if it is applied properly.  It's hard work being lazy... but that doesn't make me copy and paste someone else's code without understanding what it's doing and why it's doing it that way - because I love to tinker and figure new things out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you need to get them to do is realize that there are a large amount of &quot;professional&quot; programmers out there that are considered script kiddies that just cut and paste code from other sources.  The answers they get from sources online may not be the &quot;right&quot; way to do something for the task they're trying to complete and may not even be the best way to do something.  Hell, it may be the worst performing hack that gets the task done by sheer brute force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the student has the smarts to understand what they're looking at and understands how the code is achieving it's purpose and why it's doing it that way and they're learning from it, I'd say that it's not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, how do you separate those that have a thirst to learn and would dearly love to surround themselves with all the wealth of knowledge of the online developer community from those that would just grab someone else's code and attempt to pass it off as their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that it depends entirely on the student - you know them better than anyone else.  Maybe you let one or two in on it because you know they'll use it properly and tell them to keep it to themselves.  Your call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T05:35:22.090" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any problem with sending students here to find answers, and generally the community seems receptive to helping with homework, as long as it looks like they have had a go and at least opened TFM.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind pointing out where there might be an error in someone's homework code, but I'm not going to write it for them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a teaching level, as long as they are learning how to catch the fish themselves, and not being handed the fish, they will be better off for it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to work out, by whatever means neccessary, how to do something that you have never done before, is a crucial skill for anyone in this business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also important to learn how to recognise a bad solution, because sometimes, there's stuff on the internet that's not true :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truly lazy will abuse it, but people around here aren't stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T06:07:27.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say yes they are welcome, but with a caveat.&#xA;Homework is a way to improve the students understanding of a particular subject.  So, &quot;First Thing First&quot;, they should attempt doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should atleast put a effort to do some basic research on the said topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when you intend posting it to SO, put down their conclusion for the homework.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would love to see is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's their analysis of the problem at hand?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did they tried some code?  If yes then please post it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where did they stuck up?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this may not be always possible, but doing this will portray the good intent of any student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T07:02:15.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes! I would have loved a resource such as SO during my undergrad studies! I used to frequent a physics forum for help&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T07:16:20.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely - what can be better for students beginning to learn new language and hardware than non-reviewed social site full of web developers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141022" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T08:12:56.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think probably the most important part of teaching students programming-related matter is to teach them how to get help when they're stuck. In my experience, this is the main difference between beginners and experienced programmers: experienced programmers will stumble upon the same problem but they'll &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; where to find the answer – in a matter of seconds or minutes – while the beginner might take days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the thing I try to impress upon my students most is how (and where) to find help. And yes, Stack Overflow has become an invaluable resource there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-05T08:53:57.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's definitely a great resource for people who want to learn.  Telling people that the question is a homework related question will probalby solicit &quot;homework answers&quot; (just enough to get them to the next stage).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People do tend to forget what it was like when they were first learning, and most of the people posting answers to SO these days didn't have the massive resource of StackOverflow, Google etc. at their disposal when they were learning (God knows I didn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, no developer keeps all of their knowledge in their head.  School assignments that require or encourage students to seek out information on the Internet will help to groom these students for the way things will work once they're in the workforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130306" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-11T17:20:14.393" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well the benefit of having them come here is that you frequent the site yourself, so if students are asking the FULL homework question as opposed to just a small problem they are having with it, you can see who it is. I feel it's okay to get help with homework, but pasting an entire question here then going for a coffee break doesn't help them whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure to let them know that you also frequent the site, they will probably be hesitant in what they post if there is another set of eyes watching what they do ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2008-12-18T05:02:06.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Persistent students will always research. One day they'll discover Stackoverflow. But it's different when you advertise Stackoverflow to your students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CON:&lt;/strong&gt; Lazy students might avoid figuring out solutions to problems right from the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRO:&lt;/strong&gt; Analytical students will learn a lot more, because they will tend to ask more advanced questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135257" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T20:59:23.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T20:59:02.657" />
  <row Id="10880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1182" CreationDate="2009-07-29T21:18:32.177" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to submit a duplicate question before I searched and found this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 bounty won - &quot;Bounty Hunter&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 bounties won...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100 bounties won...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could also (as in have both) award badges for rep won from bounties&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100 Jango Fett badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1000 Greedo badge &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5000 Boba Fett badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some supporting links for more bounty features:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3167/badge-for-winning-your-own-bounty&quot;&gt;Winning your own bounty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8126/more-tag-badges&quot;&gt;More tag badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3434/we-penalise-people-for-asking-questions-nobody-else-is-interested-in-is-this-int&quot;&gt;Limits on bounties&lt;/a&gt; - also see Jeff's comment on Tim's answer near the bottom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3563/please-list-bounties-a-user-both-participated-in-and-won&quot;&gt;Request for bounty stat display features&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastEditorUserId="131197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T15:23:38.160" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T15:23:38.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T21:18:32.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10764" CreationDate="2009-07-29T21:50:44.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. A home page in the browser is so 1990's. Side-note: my &#xA;organisation recently &lt;strong&gt;forced&lt;/strong&gt; the home page in M$ Internet &#xA;Exploiter to be their home page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway my browser remembers all the pages from the last session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do have a BAT script in the Start menu (M$ Windows) to &#xA;open my profile pages (in the default web browser) on all 4 &#xA;sites. It contains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/63550/peter-mortensen&#xA;start http://serverfault.com/users/5144/peter-mortensen&#xA;start http://superuser.com/users/517/peter-mortensen&#xA;start http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/63550/peter-mortensen&#xA;&#xA;pause&#xA;&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/&#xA;start http://serverfault.com/&#xA;start http://superuser.com/&#xA;start http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;pause&quot;: if I press any key then the main page of all 4 sites &#xA;will also be opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T21:50:44.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10884" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:00:30.767" Score="6" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;The minimum question title length was recently increased from 10 to 15 characters.  Some older questions have titles that are considered too short under the new rules.  These cannot be edited unless the title is changed to meet the minimum length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any preferred strategies for dealing with these?  A few options come to mind:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- Reword the question in a more descriptive way&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- Append trailing spaces&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- Don't edit the post (default to laziness)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951516/a-good-c-ide&quot;&gt;SO question 951516&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18347" LastEditorUserId="18347" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T22:17:19.633" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:26:42.970" Title="Editing questions with short titles (&lt; 15 char)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="10884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10883" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:03:53.940" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Insert extra continuous spaces in the Title, they'll dissapear when submitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-29T22:26:57.643" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:26:57.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:16:53.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with not too much notificiation: how about a choice to be notified about comments posted on an answer? sort of like a favorite question, but with an answer. I wondered if we should be able to mark a comment as a response to another comment, so I could see my comment responses, but this idea seems better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:16:53.630" />
  <row Id="10886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:22:26.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found that this happened when I tried to include a second jQuery library into the page with Greasemonkey. (Then I realized I could use the current one). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:22:26.017" />
  <row Id="10887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10800" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:24:34.983" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first off... Your premise is incorrect: out of the 291 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/seo&quot;&gt;questions currently tagged [seo]&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bseo%5D+closed%3A1&quot;&gt;only 22 are closed&lt;/a&gt;. That's under 8%, somewhat high but not unusual for a topic only tangentially related to programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you heard me: &lt;strong&gt;SEO is only tangentially related to programming&lt;/strong&gt;. At best, it involves writing code &lt;em&gt;and content&lt;/em&gt; that makes your pages appealing to search engines. At worst, it involves dodgy linking and PR games intended to subvert the intended ranking algorithms of various search engines, wild speculation as to the nature of such algorithms (for purposes of gaming...), and random voodoo that may or may not actually have any effect, positive or negative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason why you can't ask a programming question related to SEO, but there's certainly plenty of opportunity for asking SEO questions that aren't at all programming-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Now, as for the two examples you listed:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1202589/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I improve Bing’s crawling / indexing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; appears to be looking for help getting Bing to index his site. I don't see anything particularly programming-specific about this question; if he's having trouble with Bing, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bing.com/community/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;he should have asked it in the Bing forums&lt;/a&gt; - surely that's what they're for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/449065/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the top 5 things you do to get a high search engine rating?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; isn't even a proper question - it's a poll! There's probably a way to ask a decent question that would cover some of the same ground... for instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58484/getting-good-google-pagerank&quot;&gt;Getting Good Google PageRank&lt;/a&gt;, or better yet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1120526/what-are-the-common-sense-seo-practices-that-arent-dodgy-or-crap&quot;&gt;What are the common sense SEO practices that aren’t dodgy or crap?&lt;/a&gt;. The success of the latter point to a common factor on Stack Overflow: if you want a good response, &lt;strong&gt;ask a good question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:24:34.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10888" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10898" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:26:38.410" Score="7" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there some way to tell who has created which tags, and when? If a method doesn't exist I would petition SO to add this, as I would very much enjoy seeing tags I created being used by other people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO must track creator meta-data on tags since a badge is awarded for creating a tag used by 50+ questions (taxidermist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132467" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T01:18:34.640" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T12:25:51.390" Title="How does one find which tags they created?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="10889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10888" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:28:12.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One does not....  Maybe the data dumps... But this is not visible at this time as far as I know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:28:12.557" />
  <row Id="10890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10893" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:34:27.067" Score="-10" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Feature Request&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;*Make questions unclosable until one hour after they've been asked, with an exception for flagged questions.&lt;em&gt;*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What reason can you give for a non-abusive but otherwise bad question being closed as soon as possible?  Bonus points for explaining the rationale behind your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rebuttal&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since closed questions can still show up on various lists, the implication is that deletion is the goal of closing a question.  Since a question can't be deleted for two days (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10890/what-harm-could-there-be-in-letting-bad-questions-stay-open-for-a-fixed-amount-of/10894#10894&quot;&gt;See Shog9's comment in this answer&lt;/a&gt;), why the fuss about delaying the closing of a question for a relatively small number of minutes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notion that the signal-to-noise ratio on the home page outweighs all other considerations assumes that most people answer questions mainly from there.  I almost never use the home page, preferring the newest or active tabs, or using a tag.  Seeing as the number of closed questions is so low, I'd hesitate to call them &quot;pollution.&quot; I would guess that less then 10% of any of the regular lists consists of closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems that it is much easier to close a question than to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9817/suggestion-if-you-voted-to-close-a-question-and-it-gets-re-opened-you-lose-100/9821#9821&quot;&gt;reopen one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree, I invite you to put your reasons in an answer or a comment before doing so with a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Related question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9817/suggestion-if-you-voted-to-close-a-question-and-it-gets-re-opened-you-lose-100&quot;&gt;reputation penalty for closing a question that gets reopened&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-06T21:40:43.757" LastActivityDate="2011-06-06T22:54:24.587" Title="Let questions stay open for a minimum amount of time before being closed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;closing&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="10891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10890" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:38:04.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if it is blatantly obvious that it belongs on another of the trilogy sites? Then it is just spamming up the site it was posted on for a whole hour, rather than being on a place it can be answered properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:38:04.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10890" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:40:56.177" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing as exact duplicate... it may be better to re-focus attention on the older post, but having an open post attracts a whole new set of answers. Should they merge? who knows...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the valid case for &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; closing them is where the question can be improved by editing; but in general, when &lt;em&gt;any of the other reasons&lt;/em&gt; apply; it will still be just as bad in an hour as it is now... for example, if it isn't programming related now, it still won't be an hour later. It is just attracting unnecessary answers, fuss, flame-wars, insults, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:40:56.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10890" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:41:31.260" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reason to close questions immediately depends on what the reason for closing is, but I'll address what I expect are the three most common close reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate - should be close immediately to point people in the direction of the appropriate question to respond to and look for answers from. The goal of SO (et al) is to be a canonical source, which means striving to answer questions only once.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs on site XXX - these should be closed immediately so they can be moved to the appropriate site and allow the people with the proper skills and interests answer the question. Furthermore, this is beneficial to the asker because they're likely to get better answers, and if the post stays on the wrong site it is likely to be downvoted a lot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not a question/not related to the site's topic - these should be closed immediately as a service to the people who contribute to the site with their time answering questions. If they have a limited amount of time and can only read so many questions, it serves the community better to filter out bad questions faster so people are not wasting their time with them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:41:31.260" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10890" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:41:51.120" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stop and think about it. Ask yourself this: what is the purpose in closing a question? Why would Stack Overflow support such a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is: &lt;strong&gt;noise reduction&lt;/strong&gt;. The more duplicate, off-topic, poorly-asked, argumentative, or offensive questions there are on the site, the harder it becomes to find good, informative, helpful questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now ask &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question again: &lt;strong&gt;What harm is there in letting noise persist on the site for any longer than it needs to?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to answer that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:41:51.120" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="10895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10890" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:41:58.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They just increase the signal-to-noise ratio, and distract people from answering the real questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:41:58.403" />
  <row Id="10896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10897" CreationDate="2009-07-29T21:54:34.723" Score="1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a Fluid app for StackOverflow, but I can't sign in.  The problem is that I type my OpenID identity URL (at myopenid.com) and get sent there. Then I type my password and click &quot;sign in,&quot; but that opens the URL in my default browser, which completely breaks the sign in process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone had any success creating Fluid apps for any of these sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:44:02.800" Title="How can I create a Stack Overflow (or superuser) Fluid App?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;osx&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10896" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:12:16.640" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The trick is to change the websites you wish to visit in the application in the preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to your SO Fluid App's preferences and click on Advanced.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choose &quot;Allow Browsing to any URL&quot; while you do your sign in. You can then limit it back to just *stackoverflow.com* after you've signed yourself in if you want external links to open in your normal browser.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2619" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:44:02.800" />
  <row Id="10898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10888" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:50:14.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing in your user page that will help with this, but following the chain below you might be able to figure out if you asked the first question with a specific tag. However, I'm not sure how retagging and/or deleted questions are treated in relation to the taxonomist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tag -&amp;gt; sort by newest -&amp;gt; last page -&amp;gt; question on the bottom&lt;/code&gt;, should be the earliest question asked with that tag, but still not guaranteed that that question or that user created the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:50:14.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10883" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:52:52.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly, if you don't want to edit for this reason, that is your choice. However, if you're going to edit a question with this issue, I would definitely encourage you to find a longer way to title the question. I didn't know this change had been made, but I assume there's a reason this was done, and there's no reason to work around it if you're trying to help by editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:52:52.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10888" CreationDate="2009-07-29T22:55:28.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a list of which users created which tags, but Jeff has said he doesn't think any good can come from disclosing this information. I may be persuaded to help you if it's regarding a specific tag or user, but I won't help you if the tag has less than 50 occurrences. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the general case nothing from SO will help you in finding such information, and you'll have to compile it on your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T22:55:28.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-07-29T23:14:36.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5440/bringing-badges-into-the-real-world&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5440/bringing-badges-into-the-real-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sell tshirts that have your badges on them, give each badge a little logo (cartoon skull for necromancer). &#xA;It could be like girlscouts, or the bottle cap badges from Calvin and Hobbes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/hoffler%5Fb/gross.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;G.R.O.S.S&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132467" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T23:14:36.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T23:14:36.110" />
  <row Id="10902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10775" CreationDate="2009-07-29T23:19:25.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree - &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; seem to make more sense, as in&lt;pre&gt;answers:no&#xA;closed:yes&#xA;wiki:no&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;Although maybe shog's suggestion would work better:&lt;pre&gt;answers:0&#xA;answers:&gt;5&#xA;answers:&amp;lt;10&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-29T23:19:25.553" />
  <row Id="10904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10801" CreationDate="2009-07-30T00:05:21.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good suggestion, but I do not believe the SO team would implement that feature any time soon. This site is kept pretty simple and to the point. Maybe in the future, but I do not see that as a priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personaly, I would probaly not use sms notifications due to costs/annoyance, but I know some people could find that useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T00:05:21.340" />
  <row Id="10905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10907" CreationDate="2009-07-30T01:11:52.183" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to upvote a COMMENT, and I got a little red error box (like those that say you can't vote for your own post) that said this comment is &quot;not eligible for voting or flagging&quot;. I found it &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1203876/how-to-pass-a-variable-by-value-to-an-anonymous-javascript-function&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, the all of the comments on Rex M's post. Is this a new feature? why aren't the comment eligible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:23:00.957" Title="this comment is not eligible for voting or flagging?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10909" CreationDate="2009-07-30T01:14:27.220" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are probably duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, count overflow in the question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7415/stackoverflowanswersand.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Count overflow in the question list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the login button gets cut off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7796/stackoverflowlogincutof.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Login Button Cutoff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, at the bottom of the &quot;Ask question&quot; page the tags are cutoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3718/superusertagsbottoncuto.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tags cutoff on ask question page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:52:49.210" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:52:49.210" Title="Three Opera Rendering Issues" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10905" CreationDate="2009-07-30T01:16:09.640" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment was most likely deleted by the time you tried to vote for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T01:16:09.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7285" CreationDate="2009-07-30T01:31:27.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a great shirt that just included a badge on the front.  Something that looked like the much asked for 'Bounty Hunter' badge with a bronze circle.  It was very simple, yet effective.  'Classic' was what I thought when I saw it, and 'why didn't I think of that!' I will post it when i find it and give appropriate credit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;brent ozar has put a couple shirts on zazzle.com - he will get the commision, not me - that feature a reputation, or, as i was hoping, a badge.  His idea was '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zazzle.com/stackoverflow%5Ffastest%5Fgun%5Fbadge%5Ftshirt-235825482821239975&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun&lt;/a&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T01:44:25.660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T01:44:25.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T01:31:27.290" />
  <row Id="10909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10906" CreationDate="2009-07-30T02:06:31.250" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It also looks like you're artificially extending browser font size beyond +1.. we don't support that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We only support -1 and +1 -- and true page level zoom in all modern/recent browsers works perfectly to any zoom level, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See here: &lt;strong&gt;The Two Types of Browser Zoom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001212.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001212.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T02:06:31.250" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10807" CreationDate="2009-07-30T02:09:25.690" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO this is very likely due to meta-questions being migrated here, as a lot of the meta-questions were quite popular and probably had badges attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You never lose badges -- you just don't get new ones until the count is &gt;= what you're supposed to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T02:09:25.690" />
  <row Id="10911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6435" CreationDate="2009-07-30T02:18:14.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing we do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Key: the hash of the SQL, combined with a string name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Value: the &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;int&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; of ID numbers returned by the search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's your key-value pair, and that is placed in &lt;code&gt;HttpRuntime.Cache&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Views take those list of IDs and hydrate the rest of the row / table values depending on what page they are on, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do both sliding cache (re-validated every time it is used) or fixed time expiration, depending on what is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T02:18:14.773" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3294" CreationDate="2009-07-30T02:55:52.277" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of the unsung hero, but I wonder how this badge would play out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's break this down.  First lets consider the goal of the site(s) we are participating in.  The goal is at once to provide fast answers to those in immediate need, and to provide 'trusted' answers to those searching the web for questions that other websites might not offer, or might not offer for free.  The questions/questioners you are referring to probably fall into the second category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, consider how we answerers are incented (if this is a word) to do this.  We are given points when others like/respect(upvote) what we think, and we are awarded points when we aid the people that ask for help(are accepted).  We are also deducted points when the answers we provide are not on target or are misleading(downvote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are also given badges when we (1) do things that indicate we are learning the facets of the system - ie first accepted answer, (2) do things that show we are respected by the community over simple upvotes - ie 10+ upvotes on an accepted answer, or (3) do things that show you are loyal - woot! badges,etc.  Most of what we do after we tackle (1) badges emanate from the quality or timing of our answers(ie, (2)). Which category would an Unsung Hero badge fall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would this new badge 'incent' activity? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would it promote answering questions that we have an active interest in?  Probably not, we'd answer anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would it promote looking over items that are fringe that already have an answer and an upvote?  Probably not. An upvote generally indicates the willingness of others to vote.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would it discourage looking over fringe items that have another semi-correct answer with no vote?  Potentially.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal to earn this badge is to have no votes on your answer, at least for 24 hrs, but still be accepted.  That does not seem to be the site's best interest.  It is in everyone's best interest to strive for more upvotes on their answers, not less.  The upvotes will tell the casual user that 'everyone' thinks you have the right answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T03:51:12.650" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T03:51:12.650" />
  <row Id="10913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-07-30T02:56:16.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a downvote on a question should be -5 and downvote on an answer should stay -2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the goal is to prevent people gaming the downvote system by asking lots of silly questions with the hope of sympathy votes, you can just adjust the points just for question asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to see downvotes on answers scale like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1 -2&#xA;2 -2&#xA;3 -3&#xA;4 -3&#xA;5 -4&#xA;6 -5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So starting with the 6th downvote, each downvote is -5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13753" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T02:56:16.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" />
  <row Id="10914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10786" CreationDate="2009-07-30T03:08:51.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would you want to comment on closed posts? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last night's push removed the awesome &lt;a href=&quot;http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery Validation&lt;/a&gt; plugin.  We love it, but don't need all its functionality on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We still want some client validation, so there's some very minimalistic code that's added when the question/answer editor is available on the page - &lt;strong&gt;closed posts don't have the editor&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixing (and I'm sorry!); will be in tonight's code push.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T04:20:56.563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T04:20:56.563" />
  <row Id="10915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10921" CreationDate="2009-07-30T04:09:28.713" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm searching the site using the search box in the top corner and 'grails' returns nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using google and 'site:stackoverflow.com grails' gets me some results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know I can use google, but would prefer the search box to work as it's quicker and especially as Jeff was bragging about how sweet the new search was ;) Or am I just doing something wrong?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update&#xA;OK this is weird...when logged I get 0 results (tried many many times and triple-checked spelling). When I'm not logged in I get the results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be restricting to 'bounty' questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my prefs I have &quot;delphi&quot; as an ignore tag, but nothing else. Any ideas?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img29.yfrog.com/i/screenhunter02jul301247.gif/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://img29.yfrog.com/i/screenhunter02jul301247.gif/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1937" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T05:33:50.523" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T12:27:16.277" Title="[Updated details] Searching for 'grails' get &quot;0 results&quot; but I know they are there!" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10915" CreationDate="2009-07-30T04:18:34.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grails&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;grails&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; would trigger the tag biased searching, which nets a good amount of 355 at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=grails+running&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;grails running&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also brings back some ORified results, mainly grails. Don't know how they're running though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there's a hidden holy keyword prepended to your search requests?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T04:18:34.137" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10915" CreationDate="2009-07-30T04:18:37.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're doing it wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=grails&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=grails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Redirects to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grails&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you searched for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=grials&quot;&gt;grials&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, mayhaps &lt;kbd&gt;grails&lt;/kbd&gt; is a tag in your ignored list. You can check it in the Preferences tab of your account. Make sure &quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; is unchecked and/or &lt;code&gt;grails&lt;/code&gt; is not in your ignore list. Then you should be peachy keen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Okay, round 87:&lt;/strong&gt; I think you're going to the Featured set, as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=grails&amp;amp;sort=featured&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. Click on another tab, and see if you get 355 glorious results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T04:57:23.950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T04:57:23.950" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10905" CreationDate="2009-07-30T04:27:14.100" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10905/this-comment-is-not-eligible-for-voting-or-flagging/10907#10907&quot;&gt;akf is close&lt;/a&gt;, but i think the actual issue in this case was that the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; the comment was attached to was deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If i recall correctly, when you attempt to up-vote a deleted &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt;, you get a message telling you explicitly that the comment was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T04:27:14.100" />
  <row Id="10920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2009-07-30T04:36:06.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Boolean operators should default to 1. i.e. instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:1&#xA;noanswers:1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we could use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hasaccepted&#xA;noanswers&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as long as they're terms that are waaaay unlikely to be used in questions.  I think this would work everywhere except here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T04:36:06.730" />
  <row Id="10921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10915" CreationDate="2009-07-30T04:55:34.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10915/updated-details-searching-for-grails-get-0-results-but-i-know-they-are-ther/10917#10917&quot;&gt;comment here&lt;/a&gt; this sounds like when a search is done where the term is a popular tag that it redirects to the tag view. Unfortunately, the tag view (somewhat unintuitively) has &quot;sticky tabs&quot;. What this means is that if you were viewing featured questions earlier, you'll be redirected to the featured questions tab, filtered by that tag, causing no results. This would also have the described side effect that logging out fixes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solution: select a different tab&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T04:55:34.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10140" CreationDate="2009-07-30T04:56:51.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bet that &quot;sort=newest&quot; isn't exactly what you want either, because a lot of people just don't get tagging and will put bad tags on the question initially.  I bet you still want that question to still show in your feed if it's edited the next day to have good tags and your tag is added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T04:56:51.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T05:26:26.670" Score="5" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen issue after issue here on Meta where the behavior of the sticky tabs is unintuitive and confusing, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10915/updated-details-searching-for-grails-get-0-results-but-i-know-they-are-ther/10921#10921&quot;&gt;one I recently solved&lt;/a&gt; takes the cake. Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=c%23&amp;amp;sort=featured&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Visit the featured tab on a tag&lt;/a&gt;. This will now cause the featured tab to &quot;stick&quot; and be the tab presented when visiting a tag page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait minutes, hours, days - long enough to forget that you were looking at featured questions earlier.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=grails&quot;&gt;Perform a search where the search term is a popular tag&lt;/a&gt;. The system sees that this is a tag, and you are redirected to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/grails&quot;&gt;tag page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stare incredulously at the screen as the system declares &quot;0&#xA;questions tagged&#xA;grails&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though this could be considered a kink in the new search system, I think that it's symptomatic of the confusing &quot;sticky tabs&quot; that the tags pages have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I propose the sticky tabs are eliminated and replaced with the &amp;amp;sort= URL parameter. If this parameter is not present, the view should default to a predictable tab, regardless of the tab the user was viewing the last time (I recommend &quot;active&quot;).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T05:35:51.470" Title="Eliminate sticky tabs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10923" CreationDate="2009-07-30T05:29:53.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed, though I would prefer it to default to &quot;Newest&quot; (just my opinion though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T05:29:53.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10560" CreationDate="2009-07-30T05:34:16.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I took a whack at implementing some Hotkeys, and found that it was really useful to bind some Hotkeys to Filters. So, in my really novice (Third Script) attempt at fixing this problem, I've created the following Greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, here are its 'features':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Navigation Keys&#xA;&#xA;Big Tabs&#xA;Q - Questions&#xA;T - Unanswered Questions&#xA;Y - Ask Question&#xA;&#xA;Small Tabs&#xA;A - Active&#xA;F - Featured&#xA;H - Hot&#xA;W - Week&#xA;M - Month&#xA;B - New&#xA;V - Votes&#xA;&#xA;Filter Keys&#xA;&#xA;R - Reset Filters&#xA;U - Questions with 0 Answers&#xA;I - Hide everything but Interesting Tags&#xA;O - Hide Ignored Tags&#xA;N - New Users Only&#xA;(Hides Questions that the latest activity was by a person with less than 100 rep)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very Basic Feature Set, but I like it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: It is automatically excluded from Actual Questions, the Ask Page, and edit pages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If it isn't, it makes typing in comments and answers problematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the features can be turned off/on by setting the variable equal to false. IE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;var setting_navKeys = true; &#xA;// turns into&#xA;var setting_navKeys = false; &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chacha102.com/filters.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the download.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tell me what you think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T05:40:53.547" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T05:40:53.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10923" CreationDate="2009-07-30T05:35:51.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather enjoy the sticky nature of the tabs from one day to the next. Some hours feel like an &quot;active&quot; view. While others are in the &quot;newest&quot; kind of mood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't seem that unintuitive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, there was a period when stuck on &quot;votes&quot; and wondering why the unanswered questions set never changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T05:35:51.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8472" CreationDate="2009-07-30T06:58:47.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I said as a comment on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3687/greasemonkey-script-ideas-best-of-stackoverflow-greasemoneky-implementations/8533#8533&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; pointing to here, I use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/4925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AutoPager&lt;/a&gt; FF extension for this very purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T06:58:47.260" />
  <row Id="10929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10722" CreationDate="2009-07-30T07:17:58.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't.  However, you can go to [&lt;a href=&quot;http://perlmonks.org/?node=thepen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://perlmonks.org/?node=thepen&lt;/a&gt;] and press the &quot;Yes, I want to LOSE 5 XP!&quot; button as many times as you desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149341" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T07:17:58.917" />
  <row Id="10931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11027" CreationDate="2009-07-30T09:00:05.567" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a wrong text for beta badge on meta. It says &quot;Actively participated in the Stack Overflow private beta&quot;, shouldn't that say &quot;Actively participated &lt;em&gt;Meta&lt;/em&gt; Stack Overflow private beta&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:50:56.317" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:50:56.317" Title="Wrong text for beta badge on meta?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="10932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10722" CreationDate="2009-07-30T09:08:27.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an API is supplied for Stack Overflow in the future then it's fair to expect that you could access a user's experience points. I'd further expect that it'd only ever be read-only, for obvious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132665" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T09:08:27.590" />
  <row Id="10933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10931" CreationDate="2009-07-30T09:25:17.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Meta was ever in Beta. It was a direct launch on Jeff whim if I recall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T09:25:17.363" />
  <row Id="10934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T10:03:28.830" Score="20" ViewCount="730" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to have time to update the blog, and this probably belongs here anyway. Advanced search options, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;as originally requested here&lt;/a&gt;, are updated -- now works as it should, and any advanced search options trigger returning both questions and answers as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I added a special section at the bottom of that page for Cletus and Pesto.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a few tips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if they aren't numbers, these flags are booleans in most cases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;answers:0&lt;/code&gt; is a bit of a special case; it returns questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question to you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to stop adding advanced search options, since the more query terms we add, the higher the risk that someone will come up with a bizarre combination that generates a query that brings the system to its knees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what other advanced search options are not just useful but &lt;em&gt;necessary?&lt;/em&gt; Can you make a defensible case for &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you need that particular advanced search option? What purpose would it serve? Who would it benefit, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T06:23:18.130" LastActivityDate="2010-05-24T15:57:30.503" Title="Search is Hard, Let's Go Shopping!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6514" CreationDate="2009-07-30T10:04:01.620" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree we need hierarchical tags. But not only for browsing. Let's say I want to add all .net related tags as interested. I would have to add 100s of tags to cover all questions. But if we make hierarchy like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.net -&amp;gt; c#&#xA;     -&amp;gt; VB&#xA;     -&amp;gt; .net3.5 -&amp;gt; entity-framework&#xA;                -&amp;gt; linq&#xA;                -&amp;gt; ...&#xA;     -&amp;gt; asp.net -&amp;gt; asp.net-mvc&#xA;                -&amp;gt; ...&#xA;     -&amp;gt; ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;one could tag question with only asp.net-mvc and everyone with any parent tag (of asp.net-mvc tag) selected as interesting would have it highlighted. And the same would work for ignored tags: when i put iphone on ignore i dont want to see iphone-3.whatever-sdk tagged questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pls consider it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132674" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T10:04:01.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2009-07-30T10:09:39.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some thought, I don't see any other options that I would personally need. And I feel some current options have limited use. For example closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are some options that are crucial to the search itself. Like answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were forced to reduce the Advanced Super Ninja Search Options(TM) by two then I would remove closed: and views: but I know that's not the case in this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T10:15:36.553" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T10:15:36.553" />
  <row Id="10939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="943" CreationDate="2009-07-30T10:22:52.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;try using the advanced search operator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;userid:{your user id} [tag] apples&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10934/search-is-hard-lets-go-shopping&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10934/search-is-hard-lets-go-shopping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T10:22:52.387" />
  <row Id="10940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2009-07-30T10:24:48.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That thing about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10713/can-we-have-search-default-to-and-instead-of-or&quot;&gt;AND over OR&lt;/a&gt; would help if you're entering more than one word. Especially given that when you do, you're usually interested in seeing the results that contain both or multiple words entered and not a crapshoot of either one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that an advanced level of search or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T10:24:48.047" />
  <row Id="10942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10963" CreationDate="2009-07-30T10:58:10.757" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this how it is supposed to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two answers to a question, both get a single upvote, no accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is that no bounty points are distributed or deducted from the user who answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T11:08:07.240" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:23:10.297" Title="Bounty not given when more than one equally upvoted answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10946" CreationDate="2009-07-30T11:12:53.453" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/587/single-location-for-so-sf-su-user-info&quot;&gt;Single location for SO/SF/SU user info&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just what my subject says...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have associated accounts on StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser, I would like to see what happens with all my Q &amp;amp; A on all web sites on a single page without a need to click on 3 different sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not possible from technical point of view to have a detailed summary for all assosiated accounts, at least I would like to see a popup informer that tells me about recent answers and comments not only on the current site, but on other sites too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example when I log in to SO, I may see something like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have 1 reply. Click here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You also have 1 reply and 2 comments on&#xA;  ServerFault. Click here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:22:33.290" ClosedDate="2009-08-01T12:05:39.143" Title="Want to have a single page to view recent comments and replies for all web sites - SO, SF, SU" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;replies&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10944" CreationDate="2009-07-30T11:22:33.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is keeping up the streak of users asking for the same &quot;centralized locale&quot; for their accounts. I don't know what else can really be said about it. I've said before that it would be nice, but I still don't think it is that big of a deal that we don't get it (maybe I'm in a very small minority here based on the posts that keep coming in here about the subject).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:22:33.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2009-07-30T11:25:39.693" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to specify the the use of external search engines (Google, Bing) in the flags too. For an example &lt;code&gt;google:1&lt;/code&gt; or maybe &lt;code&gt;use:google&lt;/code&gt; / &lt;code&gt;use:bing&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I almost exclusively search Stack Overflow with Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43215" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:25:39.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-17T22:37:27.763" Score="38" ViewCount="900" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking that one way Jeff and the Stack Overflow team could squeeze some extra money out of this site would be to automatically convert all Amazon links posted here into affiliate links, e.g. Stick &quot;tag=codinghorror-20&quot; (or more likely a new site-specific tag) onto every Amazon link. This would bring in some additional revenue every time someone purchased a book via a link on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could do similar things with other links as well. Amazon's simply the most obvious choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, would anyone have a problem with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't mind, but I don't know how other people would react.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does everyone think? Is this a horrible idea, a great idea, a waste of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159945" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T02:49:18.180" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T17:45:14.453" Title="Would it be a problem if all Amazon links were converted to affiliate links?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;business&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;&lt;revenue&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-08-17T22:39:55.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a pretty nice idea. I've seen other forums do something similar and if it means that they get a few extra bucks then I'm happy to see it implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="493" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" />
  <row Id="10950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-08-17T22:51:32.760" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only place I could see this being a problem is when somebody posts their OWN affiliate link and gets it transformed into a SO affiliate link.  Otherwise, I think it's a good idea, and maybe you could just transform the links not already affiliated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: To be clear, I certainly agree that posting one's own affiliate links on another site would be rather bad form, but I can already see the tiresome irate blog posts:&#xA;&quot;Jeff and Joel are a bunch of money-grubbing barnacles!  They blatantly stole my affiliate links and trampled on my post for their &lt;strong&gt;OWN PERSONAL GAIN&lt;/strong&gt;!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-08-17T23:07:35.630" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this being a problem as long as terms &amp;amp; conditions say that if anyone posts their own Amazon affiliate links they will be transformed to Stack Overflow links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145651" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" />
  <row Id="10953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-08-17T23:13:40.750" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@pbh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only place I could see this being a problem is when somebody posts their OWN affiliate link and gets it transformed into a SO affiliate link. Otherwise, I think it's a good idea, and maybe you could just transform the links not already affiliated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually think that everyone else's affiliate links should already be filtered out (though I doubt that they currently are).  I think it's extremely uncool to post affiliate links on someone else's site, especially someone else's commercial site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159945" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-08-18T03:51:55.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's a fine idea, even though my own experience with posting some amazon links was an abject failure. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" />
  <row Id="10955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-08-18T05:02:13.200" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with Derek... there's simply no reason why affiliate links should be allowed in posts. Personally I'd just start banning people that are trying to make money with affiliate links, but maybe I'm a little harsh when it comes to spamming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replacing the affiliate codes is a really great suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132654" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-08-20T08:28:45.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd flag any user-generated Amazon referrer link as offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would effectively be abuse of SO for their gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the stackoverflow team were to override all links to be referrers of some kind would be a great idea, but they should add some visual indicator to show that that's what's happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-10-22T17:13:07.673" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@pbh101&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only place I could see this being a problem is when somebody posts their OWN affiliate link and gets it transformed into a SO affiliate link. Otherwise, I think it's a good idea, and maybe you could just transform the links not already affiliated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about if they refrained from transforming links that already contained an affiliate link a certain percentage of the time. I'd see it as something of a reward for contributing to the upkeep of the site. By explicitly allowing the posting of affiliate links it would encourage users to post more Amazon links which would (hopefully) increase the revenue Jeff and Co could generate from such a scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" />
  <row Id="10959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2008-10-23T19:16:36.287" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Two different respondents said:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amazon affiliate links should be a&#xA;  bannable offense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd post any&#xA;  user-generated Amazon referrer link as&#xA;  offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, WHY?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a person follows the link and buys a book, &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; is going to happen to the affiliate fee. Either it goes to a SO member, or Amazon keeps it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it so vitally important that Amazon keeps it?  Are you stockholders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143270" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:37:35.633" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="10960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2009-02-09T13:23:53.263" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If i ask a question about a book, and someone points me to a very nice book, that really is a response to my question,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd have no problem with the link being his affiliate thingy..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, if hes a jerk posting random links in every topic where title contains the word &quot;book&quot;, that would not be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149982" LastEditorUserId="149982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T17:45:14.453" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T17:45:14.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1716" CreationDate="2009-07-30T11:53:12.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;external service&quot; used is most likely &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189237.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQL Server Agent&lt;/a&gt; with a variety stored procedures. Of course, the dev team can tell you definitely, but this is the most common for periodic updates of a database (like we have here at SO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T11:53:12.450" />
  <row Id="10963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10942" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:01:55.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confident:&lt;/strong&gt; Bounty is only awarded if there are at least two upvotes for the top answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/#comment-13333&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Confident&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Oldest answer is awarded the bounty in the case of a tie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T15:36:49.563" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:36:49.563" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10915" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:27:16.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We added some explanatory text to the blank page when this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=google-maps&amp;amp;sort=featured&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=google-maps&amp;amp;sort=featured&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T12:27:16.277" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:43:44.990" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say that I am interested in all questions tagged C++ and I would want something ( an application, feed or whatever ) to notify me ( by email, IM, desktop notifier or whatever )as soon as someone asks a question tagged C++. Is there a way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6488" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:07:21.873" Title="How to track questions on stackoverflow that have certain tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="10967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:48:12.547" Score="2" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6336/why-not-merge-reputation-across-so-sf-and-su&quot;&gt;Why not merge reputation across SO, SF, and SU?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not combine the reputations from different stackoverflow sites? This would probably encourage people to post to the correct site - as it is, they are effectively penalized by distributing their questions to the correct location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T12:57:36.783" ClosedDate="2009-07-30T13:15:32.873" Title="Why not combine reputations from different StackOverflow sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:49:54.013" Score="26" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I see comments mentioning edits to questions and I confirm that the poster's reputation is under 2000 before proceeding to make the edit (since I don't want to accidentally clobber his edits if possible). Also sometimes a user will ask a question about SO itself as a comment and in order to answer him properly I need to know what his reputation is so I can tell him what his options are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if anyone else would see any use for having a tooltip for the usernames in comments. Mouse over a user, and it would pop up at least the reputation number of that user, if not his entire flair box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would save me a click every now and then. I might be the only one, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be useful for Community Wiki questions and answers, as they don't list reputation like normal questions and answers do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T05:05:57.480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T05:05:57.480" Title="Can we have a flair-like tooltip for usernames in comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10967" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:52:05.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps have a combo rep value in addition to the rep on each site.  That way each subject site still has separate rep for the individual, but you could also see the combined rep for a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132021" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T12:52:05.327" />
  <row Id="10972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10966" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:53:50.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the world of rss feeds.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/c++&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/c++&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T14:07:21.873" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:07:21.873" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10967" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:57:19.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I'm no programmer or IT specialist, but I do consider myself a super user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore my rep from SU wouldn't represent any knowledge in the specific domain of SO/SF. It would go against the idea of rep I think, since rep should represent that you have a reputation on that certain topic. Not on the entire trilogy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T12:57:19.577" />
  <row Id="10974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10967" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:57:36.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different sites, different users and skills, different trust in audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because a user is rampant on SU posting and repping hard with those types of questions/answers doesn't mean they should be seen in the same kind of light if they were posting on SF or SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now you can have a combined value if you go to the Accounts tab in your profile and use your calculator application of choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're not penalised, they're just facing a different crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T12:57:36.783" />
  <row Id="10975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10976" CreationDate="2009-07-30T12:58:26.270" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Thank you all who helped re-open this question.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users, please vote to re-open question&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1206020/recursive-string-manipulation-closed&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1206020&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coupled with &quot;Engrish&quot; and Brevity, I voted to close a question thinking it had already be asked by the same user one day ago. The question was centered around an almost meme-like word &quot;murrays.&quot; The user previously asked how to search &quot;Murrays&quot; and turn up &quot;Murray's.&quot; Today's question, however, was on building many variants of &quot;Murrays,&quot; each having an apostrophe n+1 chars deep into the word: m'urrays,mu'rrays,mur'rays, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted first to close this, I was wrong. The problem is that many others followed suit, and Mehul (the author) was dealt a bad-hand. His inability to communicate clearly, and my innability to consider that, resulted in a hell-storm of downvotes/close-votes, which ultimately lead to the demise of his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon re-reading his question a couple times more, I understood what he meant. I have since removed my down-votes, voted to re-open, changed his title and question, provided my own answer, and flagged the post for review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question still sits there, mangled by what I believe were my initial actions and others simply following suit. I feel terrible for having Mehul's question closed, and even worse knowing that it's taking forever to reverse the actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T13:58:47.447" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:10:06.983" Title="I killed a perfectly good question...please help me fix this. [Done]" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="10976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10975" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:02:37.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aye-aye, cap'n. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that he needs a bunch of test strings to test out his shiny new search. Best of luck to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:02:37.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11182" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:03:51.077" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use long words like &quot;reputation&quot;, so is there a good reason to abbreviate &quot;preferences&quot; to &quot;prefs&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not bothered by it, it just seems wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="131553" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T13:13:56.540" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:25:48.483" Title="Change &quot;prefs&quot; to &quot;preferences&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10977" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:06:47.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can also argue to change reputation to rep and favourites to fav. I have no problem with it being called prefs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:06:47.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10986" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:06:55.353" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noted something rather annoying (or maybe it's from specs, but I find it deceiving).&#xA;I made a question having the tags linux, windows and osx (because the question specifically asks for all three of them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my tag filtering, I am interested in linux but I exclude windows. The end result was that my question was hidden (transparent, and I guess completely hidden if configured it as such), but at the same time highlighted in orange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this is a bug. If something contains a tag I am interested to, it should overrule the fact that it also contains tags I am not interested to. If I want to address a broad audience (which would be the reason why tag it linux, windows, osx) putting all the three tags is a guarantee for having the question receiving only those readers who don't have any of them in their exclude list (not many, I guess)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T13:59:59.273" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T14:00:03.703" Title="Exclusion/inclusion strategy with ignored/interesting tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10977" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:07:47.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prefs is a much more common short form and everyone &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; understand what it means. The meaning of rep may not be well understood to some users, and it's better to have it clear from the start. If you notice statistics is also shortened to stats, because again its meaning is more or less global. I have no idea if this is the real reasoning behind this, but it seems more than valid to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:07:47.787" />
  <row Id="10982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11034" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:13:15.387" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to have a more compact view of the question on the front page, as an option ? The gigantic vote number and views, could be made smaller. Focus only on the title and the author (tags are sort of redundant, as the page depends on your tag filtering, and the title normally says it all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T22:00:02.330" Title="compact list as a front page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;frontpage&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10905" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:13:37.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts/317486#317486&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is an example of a question migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; for which comments (in the original site) are not eligible for voting or flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I just gave the 200th upvote to a certain comment :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T13:23:00.957" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:23:00.957" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:15:28.710" Score="29" ViewCount="633" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1206494/shell-programming-with-html&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was downvoted, and the downvote removed, and the user now has 3 rep, even though there are no reputation generating events on the user's page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T14:42:04.270" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T14:35:12.147" Title="Removing a downvote adds reputation that wasn't there" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="10985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10975" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:16:14.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was already open but gave an upvote in order to negate some of the negativity that would have flown his way. Credit to you for noticing the mistake and trying to fix it though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:16:14.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10979" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:16:14.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a bug, most likely by-design. Some may want to filter where ignored tags are applied regardless. An example would be if I enjoy PHP by have absolutely no interest in MySQL. I don't want to see any MySQL tags even if they apply to PHP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's clearly two sides to this camp, and it adds quite a bit of complexity to accommodate both, and would add confusion to the UI. I don't know which behaviour is the &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; desired one by the public, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:16:14.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10078" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:16:25.777" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to know why &lt;code&gt;plzsendtehcodez&lt;/code&gt; was created, just ask me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm the one who created it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly before or after &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10857/should-i-send-students-to-stack-overflow/10860#10860&quot;&gt;this question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, I sat down and realized that we have a tag for homework, but we don't have a tag for when someone just wants you to do their work for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Humor and necessity created the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At its peak, it was used by about 15 different high-rep users (I'm recalling from memory, as it quite surprised me when it 'took off' among the higher rep users), and it was on 48 or so questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then a user who had it on one of his questions got upset that it was on there (though it was on there legitimately -- and I didn't put it on there IIRC), went through the system and took it off of every question in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were a few edit wars between this user and other users, as he was a lightening rod for activity (no, it wasn't RichB), and because I had a deadline at work, I decided to drop the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other users have since re-introduced the tag (in various forms, including the original), and there is another high-reputation front-page user that particularly dislikes the tag, so he removes it as soon as he sees it.  Since he spends all day, every day on Stack Overflow, he has a lot of time to prune tags as he sees fit (no, it isn't Jon Skeet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even put in a Uservoice tag to settle the re-tagging issue once and for all (not just because of this issue, but of the gratuitous re-tagging done so users could get the 'taxinomist' badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I even had an email exchange that was answered by one of the newly elected moderators, even though I believe I had sent that email before the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, there's the history of why the badge was created, and what happened to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T20:30:21.507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T20:30:21.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10801" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:42:10.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to interrupt the brick throwing puns but here's a serious answer to the question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://notify.me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://notify.me/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sign up there, add your phone as a SMS destination, and then at the bottom right corner of any question is the RSS logo and &quot;question feed&quot;; copy that and paste it into notify.me as a source. Then go to the account tab, sources list and enable SMS for each question feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SMS doesn't seem like a hard thing to implement. It's an email address. But perhaps it would be too many emails to send out, I don't know. How do other really popular sites manage it? I suppose it's a cost that wouldn't be justified, it wouldn't make SO any extra money so why implement it. Oh well, hopefully notify.me will do its job...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131823" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:42:10.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="10990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8120" CreationDate="2009-07-30T13:46:05.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, the current behavior is &quot;buggy&quot;. The fact is that if you know a question can have a broad audience, the more tags you put, the more probable is that it gets restricted in visibility. I just posted an answer involving linux, windows and osx, because I'd like to make a comparison. I ended up tagging without the obvious tags, because it's highly probable that if one is interested in one, he is also not interested in the others, meaning that more tags would result in less visibility. This goes against the purpose of tagging in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T13:46:05.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10992" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:02:38.803" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Great Answer: Answer voted up 100&#xA;  times. This badge can be awarded&#xA;  multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423823/whats-your-favorite-programmer-ignorance-pet-peeve/423837#423837&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for which I was upvoted 207 times as of now, only gave me 1 golden badge for great answer? Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T14:04:46.323" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:28:58.863" Title="Why did I get only one badge for this answer?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="10992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10991" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:05:01.860" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only get one per answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get a bronze &quot;Nice Answer&quot; badge at ten votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get a silver &quot;Good Answer&quot; badge at 25 votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you expect to receive 20 &quot;Nice Answer&quot; badges? Or even 8 &quot;Good Answer&quot; badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T19:28:58.863" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:28:58.863" />
  <row Id="10993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10991" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:05:10.363" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you don't keep getting the same badge on the same question. You reached 100, you got the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:05:10.363" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="10994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10996" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:09:03.557" Score="13" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Superuser, a post that uses the &lt;code&gt;blockquote&lt;/code&gt; markup displays a graphic &quot;bar&quot; on the left edge of text. It is really useful when trying to display a quote within a quote. Can it be implemented on the other services (SO, SF, Meta)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Superuser Blockquote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/sublockquote.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow Blockquote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/soblockquote.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:15:28.060" Title="Can we have Superuser blockquote formatting in Stackoverflow et al?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10998" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:11:55.630" Score="-10" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;If no badge currently exists for this, then I suggest that when a user reaches the top &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; reputation, or the highest reputation, they get awarded a gold badge. Only one of these badges will exist at any time on a given site. If a user still has the top reputation after one year then they are given a diamond badge (only one time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T13:34:34.720" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:34:34.720" Title="Please make a badge for having the highest reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="10996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10994" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:13:33.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the SU blockquote can be a tad jarring at first, I quickly grew to like it because it was the very first time that a blockquote was readily visible on every computer I use (sometimes it's too late while on others I can see them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have no problem if it got emulated on all the other sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:13:33.680" />
  <row Id="10997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10994" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:15:28.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm strongly in favor of this, if only to see what sorts of things I can draw with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:15:28.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="10998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10995" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:15:59.137" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this is useful. It has been demonstrated over all the websites so far that once someone grabs the lead, they generally are -not- going to give it up. For a while there was a bit of a back and forth between myself, Atwood, Olafur, and Skeeter for #1 on Meta, but Atwood has pulled away to the point where unless he took a few days off you can't catch him. The same is true for StackOverflow (Skeet would have to take several years off at this point) and I think a couple of users on SuperUser are already pulling away from the pack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:15:59.137" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="10999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10995" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:16:54.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yellow Jersey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mean Jon Skeet's 900+ badges aren't enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:16:54.363" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10968" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:18:06.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff loves jQuery. jQuery tooltip could do this easily. I'd like to see it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:06.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:27:28.740" Score="3" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello. I have been plagued by this strange feeling of abusing SO by asking too many questions and not answering nearly as many. I guess it takes both sorts, people who ask questions, people who answer them and the union of the sets. But I do wonder: is there some sort of etiquette? Namely, should I stop asking questions until I have a good question/answer ratio?&#xA;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136844" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:27:28.740" Title="Question/answer ratio etiquette in StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11001" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:28:58.457" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry, be happy!  Ask, answer, it's ALL community-building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130199" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:28:58.457" />
  <row Id="11003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11001" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:31:25.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't sweat it too much. Keep in mind that at its base, &lt;strong&gt;SO is a game&lt;/strong&gt;, and the players are passionate. Folks really want to answer questions here, and no one is judging you for not answering as many as you ask. More opportunities for the rest of us, anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's significant that you get points for asking &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easy to think in terms of Karma, but &quot;ecosystem&quot; is probably better..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:31:25.083" />
  <row Id="11004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11001" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:33:24.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask questions, if you really want to know something.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Don't ask questions for reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked a few questions, which I could have found answer to with looking it up.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Now, I stop myself before asking questions, if the question can be easily looked up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:33:24.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11001" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:33:40.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both types of people are very important. There are plenty of people that only really ask questions that are great contributors to stack overflow. You benefit the community when you ask good questions because people who have the same questions can find answers :-). You also help people give people that only answer questions some food for thought. I find I learn a lot on stack overflow just from reading people's questions and looking at responses. So in short, ask away... use stack overflow however it helps you, and you will be helping others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130236" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:33:40.943" />
  <row Id="11006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11001" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:34:38.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the questions are made correctly, just go ahead! There are a lot of &lt;em&gt;stackers&lt;/em&gt; eager to answer them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="121487" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:34:38.337" />
  <row Id="11007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11001" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:34:51.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't feel so self conscious. While you may feel that you ask more than answer, a lot of people - myself included - probably find your questions, and the answers it generate, to be beneficial and one of those &quot;I always wondered about that&quot; sort of questions. Think of it as being the first one to raise their hand in a classroom and asking that question that no one else wanted to ask but were happy you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:34:51.003" />
  <row Id="11008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11001" CreationDate="2009-07-02T02:43:21.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally don't think of it as a Q:A ratio.  In my mind, it's bad if you are noticed in a bad way.  There are occaisons when I come on the site and go through the questions and every page there's a question of the type &quot;Do my work for me!&quot; by the same person. When that happens I generally halt my helping of that person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask well-thought-out questions and it appears that you've put some amount of work into finding the answer yourself, ask away.  If your first instinct when you hit a wall is to go leech off of SO then I'd rather you weren't around.  That being said, this is a resource for the &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt; so even if you ask a question now for the wrong reasons it may help someone in the future -- so I'll ignore someone's &quot;poor etiquette&quot; if I feel the answer well help others in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and for crying-out-loud, search.  :)  Both SO and Bing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through your questions, I would say that you are a using this service properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be interesting to know that I, personally, like to get involved with a community and help out before asking of it.  I tend to use my Karma as a debit card rather than a credit card.  However I in no way hold others to the same standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:18:48.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T02:43:21.843" />
  <row Id="11009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-04T04:10:51.243" Score="19" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a sizable number of questions here where the petitioner asks something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I'm trying to flange my dichromatic howitzer, but I can't defibrillate the metacarpus.  Any suggestions?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and the first answer (and the one that attracts a lot of upvotes) is one that says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;That's a really bad idea.  It's not designed for that.  Buy a new one.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is sensible advice, and I've read a number of great answers that went on to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it was such a bad idea and offering alternatives.  But at least as frequently, the person posting the answer will decide the petitioner doesn't know what they're asking, and that there's no possible use case that justifies the original question, so they say it's a terrible idea.  Often this will kill an otherwise reasonable question, because it's the first answer in and attracts a number of drive-by voters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It bothers me when the people posting the answers assume those who ask the question haven't considered the alternatives; if there's a better alternative that &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; the question, that would be one thing, but that's different than just saying &quot;Don't do that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can you keep discussion focused on the question, rather than the assumptions behind it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136258" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:08:37.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-05T22:52:19.340" Title="How do you get people to answer the question, rather than argue the premise?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11009" CreationDate="2009-03-04T04:13:59.597" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do a better job explaining your motivation. Seriously, some of the questions leave too much room for interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how can I read the PIN on my ATM card?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you might be questioned - rightfully so. However, if you ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how can I read the PIN on this ATM card that I found in the wallet of the guy who sat in front of me during last night's movie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then everybody will be delighted to help and not ask questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:19:40.163" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11009" CreationDate="2009-03-04T04:19:18.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of SO is people upvoting answers they think are the best.  If others think the &quot;best&quot; answer is &quot;don't do that&quot; -- then maybe you ought to rethink what you're trying to do.  Also, you have the ability to accept what &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; consider the &quot;best&quot; answer and that will lock it at the top position, no matter how many votes the other answers have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:19:40.163" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11009" CreationDate="2009-03-04T04:21:24.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a bad question. Ask a new one :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously , the problem stems because there are lot of  questioners who &lt;em&gt;really have not considered the alternatives&lt;/em&gt;. (No surprises that many such answers are then accepted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For few people , who have considered the alternatives , I do see updated questions where the OP clarified why the alternative was dropped after consideration. Such clear edits to the question drive the discussion where the OP wants it to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end , it's a public forum and is driven by the sum total of the knowledge of the people viewing it. Sometimes when you are lucky , few persons who answer first give a sensible and thought provoking answer which drives the tone of further discussion. Sometimes you are plain old unlucky and get a lot of answers which are &quot;preachy&quot; and miss the point. (Hence similar questions have vastly different level of answers depending upon which luck category your question fell into)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:19:40.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11009" CreationDate="2009-03-04T04:21:33.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It helps if you ask your question when you're sure that you have an hour or so available to keep up with the answers. It also &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; helps if you read your question out loud prior to posting it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think part of the reason that answers take on a life of their own (and get far away from the original question) is that the person asking the question is not helping people to really understand their problem. If your getting answers that are way out in left field, you probably need to edit your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the 'don't do that (end of answer)' phenomenon, you'll run into that everywhere. I've seen a few cases where votes don't reflect the most helpful answer, but not many. Is there a specific question you can point out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to make my answers look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A brief paragraph explaining my&#xA;  answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A bulleted list of reasons why I think the answer is good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A brief paragraph showing my&#xA;  understanding of your question which&#xA;  may contain a few more questions for&#xA;  clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, well, sometimes ... you just can't do something, or you could but you'd be shooting yourself in the foot. In that case, an abbreviated answer might also be showing some annoyance that the person did not research their question at all prior to asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:19:40.163" />
  <row Id="11014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11015" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:20:20.350" Score="17" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on user's previous answer history and, especially, reputation gains assotiated with each tag, provide an automatic selection of recently asked questions which &quot;you may have an answer for&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the method would be heuristic, but it would help users to discover interesting questions. This is not based on their &quot;interesting&quot; tags, but rather on their past upvoted/accepted answers. (I may be &quot;interested&quot; in learning php, but know almost nothing about it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit by Ivo Flipse&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for hijacking this post but didn't want to duplicate it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the new Stack Exchange sites it becomes increasingly harder to keep track of interesting questions to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, tags solve this problem partly, but I believe that with our new Statistics guys should be able to come up with an algorithm that uses the data we already have available to do a better job of suggesting than tags currently do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jeff previously &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44618/what-can-we-learn-from-quora&quot;&gt;asked what we could learn from Quora&lt;/a&gt;, I think we can learn from their front page. It gives me an overview of questions I'm possibly interested in from all the different topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the Stack Exchange page has been pimped to show hot questions over all Stack Exchange sites, I think it would be useful to show questions that a logged in user might find interesting. Especially since I don't need hot questions if I already answered half of them or am a regular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions are welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and I would love a Netflix-like challenge to come up with the best suggestions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And attribution to Lance, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11563/tab-for-interesting-questions&quot;&gt;his question asks for something similar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-14T16:16:16.350" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T16:16:16.350" Title="Suggest &quot;Questions you may have an answer to&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="11015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11014" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:25:55.960" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already exists. It's called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags&quot;&gt;my tags&lt;/a&gt;&quot; under &quot;unanswered questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait a minute... My tags &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to be based on a heuristic of what you've received upvotes for in the past, but it's not anymore. At what point was this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have interesting tags, and you're active in those tags, &quot;my tags&quot; favours the ones that are interesting. Otherwise it goes by your 6 most active tags. I'm pretty sure it used to use a different algorithm, but it's still sorta what you're asking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T14:33:39.417" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:33:39.417" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11022" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:40:06.070" Score="8" ViewCount="913" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the most downvoted questions and answers on StackOverflow, ServerFault, Meta, and SuperUser history to date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, what are the most upvoted questions and answers on SO, SF, MSO, and SU to date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T15:18:43.507" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T17:05:34.197" Title="What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;so-history&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10991" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:40:43.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You already got a &quot;great answer&quot; award for that answer.  Why should that answer become 2 great answer awards? haha, it's just logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, didn't you already get &quot;Nice Answer&quot; and &quot;Good Answer&quot; before you got the &quot;Great Answer&quot;?  Do you need a Super Answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T16:58:30.413" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:58:30.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11023" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:41:21.170" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;IE8 has an adblocker built in. It is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mrfixitonline.com/viewtopic.php?t=8089&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;InPrivate Filtering&lt;/a&gt; (not to be confused with InPrivate browsing a.k.a. porn mode). I have InPrivate Filtering on by default, and it did not interfere with SO before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, something changed, and I cannot do anything until I switch InPrivate Filtering off. I guess there was a change in SO script or a new ad arrived. Anybody else experiencing this? Any ideas how to fix it? Is it (should it be) a concern for SO developers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2515" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:52:14.157" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:52:14.157" Title="Are SO and InPrivate Filtering supposed to work well together?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;jquery&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11017" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:41:57.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lowest voted answer in the past 30 days is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1072903/what-would-be-the-best-way-to-invert-a-stack-without-using-anyother-extra-data-s&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; at -17. To go back farther you would have to consult the data dumps that are made publicly available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I was also able to find &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576136/how-can-i-convince-a-professor-to-move-from-java-to-c-on-his-teaching-and-resear&quot;&gt;This One&lt;/a&gt; currently at -21.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:41:57.627" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11009" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:43:03.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It bothers me when the people posting the answers assume those who ask the question haven't considered the alternatives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It bothers me much more when the questioner does not state what has been tried/considered already (and then, even worse, actually comments on an answer like &quot;I already tried/considered that&quot;). It also bothers me when people think SO/SF/SU to be some help desk run by paid employees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:43:03.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T14:43:03.163" />
  <row Id="11022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11017" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:47:26.823" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon/84629#84629&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the highest up voted answer in history &amp;hellip; now it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all others, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1437/most-upvoted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is the comprehensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the most up-voted question, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1438/most-upvoted-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's the list&lt;/a&gt; for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Disclaimer: These have the most &lt;strong&gt;up votes&lt;/strong&gt;, and may not be the highest scoring. There is a difference.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432/what-real-life-bad-habits-has-programming-given-you/164556#164556&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the most down voted answer in history. Notice it has a &lt;strong&gt;ton&lt;/strong&gt; of up votes.  Now it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871405/why-do-i-need-an-ioc-container-as-opposed-to-straightforward-di-code/871420#871420&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; - with far fewer up-votes (but still more up than down...)&#xA;For all others, &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1439/most-down-voted-answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is the comprehensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3905734/how-to-send-100-000-emails-weekly&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the most down-voted question, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1440/most-down-voted-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's the list&lt;/a&gt; for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Disclaimer: These have the most &lt;strong&gt;down votes&lt;/strong&gt;, and may not be the lowest scoring. There is a difference.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T17:05:34.197" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T17:05:34.197" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="11023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11019" CreationDate="2009-07-30T14:55:28.747" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it says it blocks '3rd party content'. jQuery is now stored on Google's servers which could be considered as 3rd party content, I suppose. This is most likely the root cause of your error. If not, then you're going to have to be more specific about what 'I cannot do anything' means.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T14:55:28.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10931" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:00:22.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta was created directly from Stack Overflow. Users who started using it early, even got to keep their user-ids from Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:00:22.563" />
  <row Id="11027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10931" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:06:00.967" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, that badge should probably just be removed, since there was never really a Beta for MetaSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:06:00.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5945" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:09:57.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try this Google custom search engine &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=002055035322507804868:yua2pba7w5g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=002055035322507804868:yua2pba7w5g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15474" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:09:57.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10975" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:10:06.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Bout time someone carved up the Murrays. Been dead so long, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oldmanmurray.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;they were starting to smell&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:10:06.983" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T15:10:06.983" />
  <row Id="11030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:10:31.927" Score="4" ViewCount="950" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you like to see discussed on Podcast #64?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post only one topic per user and look down the list and vote up things you'd like to see. You can be as detailed as you wish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12785/podcast-65-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;Podcast #65 thread is here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #64&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29074&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;transcript wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:07:26.017" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:07:26.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T15:10:31.927" Title="Podcast #64 - Discussion Ideas. (Unofficial)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11030" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:13:18.413" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like for them to discuss the possibility of partnering up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thedailywtf.com/&lt;/a&gt;. You have to admit, between SO, Meta, SF, and SU...there is no shortage of content which could be used for an entire series of TDWTF articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T13:45:47.920" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T13:45:47.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T15:13:18.413" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="11032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11030" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:14:03.217" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it'll be close to the anniversary mark, I say try and get some of the top users together for a pow wow to discuss the dynamic of how they do SO. They're at the top for a reason, and have a lot of respect with the SO community, so hearing from them would be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:14:03.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T15:14:03.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11101" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:22:18.650" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that the background of the meta logo doesn't match the background colour used for the rest of the page -- would it be possible to bring these in line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;EDIT:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the eyedropper in Photoshop, the meta logo background is #FEFEFE, whilst the page background is #FFFFFF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is as about as subtle a difference as there could be, and it possibly is only noticeable to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People using TFTs, where viewing at &quot;odd&quot; angles, gives an artificial boost to contrast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People using screens calibrated with colourimeters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People that have good eyesight (possibly might need &quot;better than average&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:18:23.557" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:18:23.557" Title="meta logo background colour doesn't match" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;cosmetic&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10982" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:24:18.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is close to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6382/homepage-view-as-default&quot;&gt;this issue&lt;/a&gt;, check it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T17:11:21.980" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:11:21.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38408" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:25:28.690" Score="3" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Due to recent feature-additions to SO, I've decided to change this script a bit. Stack Overflow will now communicate a users reputation within comments when you hover over their name. I have modified this script to extract that data, and present it beside the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Download Source:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-comment-reputation.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-comment-reputation.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This script merely loads the users rep into the visible space to the right of their name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-comment-rep.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T10:51:50.053" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T10:51:50.053" Title="Greasemonkey script to load user-rep within comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="11039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11033" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:28:25.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks fine in Chrome 3.0.195.4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;Actually, I'm sure that's a function of my LCDs. As Rowland points out, the image shows a background of #FEFEFE (off white) and the page background is set to #FFFFFF (pure white).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132703" LastEditorUserId="132703" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T16:25:40.323" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:25:40.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11030" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:29:25.223" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lessons learned in a year:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has anything happened &quot;exactly as expected&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do users behave better/worse/weirder than expected?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any technical lessons learned?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would you have done differently if you'd started again?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you expect for the next year?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As per Kyle's suggestion, I've recorded this and sent it in. We'll see whether it gets in the 'cast :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T23:32:10.260" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T23:32:10.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T15:29:25.223" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10968" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:29:25.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a greasemonkey script to do this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11036/greasemonkey-script-to-load-user-rep-within-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11036/greasemonkey-script-to-load-user-rep-within-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:29:25.690" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11102" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:38:57.373" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it stands at present, when questions are asked on the &quot;wrong&quot; site, it has to be pushed off to the correct site, this is asymmetric, as there is no way to pull questions from the &quot;wrong&quot; site to the &quot;correct one&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say that I come across a question, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/15742/how-to-view-a-pages-source-when-a-javascript-modal-popup-loads-first&quot;&gt;this one on SU&lt;/a&gt; that I think may get a better response on SO. Given I don't have a huge SU rep yet, I'm unable to vote to close as &quot;Belongs on Stack Overflow&quot; (sure, I can add a comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:45:33.480" Title="Allow questions to be pulled between sites, as well as being pushed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="11045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:21:33.790" Score="0" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is result for PageSpeed test using Firefox plug-in :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Page : &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by about two thirds (~157.6kB).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Compressing http://serverfault.com could save ~81.9kB.&#xA;* Compressing /ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js could save ~37.3kB.&#xA;* Compressing http://serverfault.com/content/all.css?v=4104 could save ~17.8kB.&#xA;* Compressing http://serverfault.com/content/js/master.js?v=4087 could save ~14.1kB.&#xA;* Compressing /Content/Js/tageditor.js?v=2114 could save ~6.6kB.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to enabling the compression due to the extensions include JS and CSS too.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Certainly be achieved through efficiency gains by reducing the amount of data sent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132538" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T15:40:20.337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:42:19.443" Title="Why is not enabled http compression of data in StackOverflow and ServerFault site?" Tags="&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;gzip&gt;&lt;http-compression&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11045" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:28:02.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a glitchy plugin - I see those as all being gzipped. Inspecting the response headers for each file via Firefox's web dev toolbar shows &lt;code&gt;Content-Encoding: gzip&lt;/code&gt; for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, PageSpeed shows a nice happy green checkmark by 'Enable gzip compression' here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:39:04.817" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11045" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:31:10.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The extra CPU and memory use, and added latency at busy times, for compressing dynamic content is not always worth the bandwidth gains (it often is, but not always).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compressing the static content (css and js files for instance) doesn't make that much difference for regular users as their browsers should cache that anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132690" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:39:04.817" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:40:05.657" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comes from my answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10560/greasemonkey-hotkey-script&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I took a whack at implementing some Hotkeys, and found that it was really useful to bind some Hotkeys to Filters. So, in my really novice (Third Script) attempt at fixing this problem, I've created the following Greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it does is hide questions on Home/Unanswers/Questions Page based on the Hotkeys you press. It also allows for navigation. (Everything can be turned off individually)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are its 'features':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Navigation Keys&#xA;&#xA;Big Tabs&#xA;Q - Questions&#xA;T - Unanswered Questions&#xA;Y - Ask Question&#xA;&#xA;Small Tabs&#xA;A - Active&#xA;F - Featured&#xA;H - Hot&#xA;W - Week&#xA;M - Month&#xA;B - New&#xA;V - Votes&#xA;&#xA;Filter Keys&#xA;&#xA;R - Reset Filters&#xA;U - Questions with 0 Answers&#xA;I - Hide everything but Interesting Tags&#xA;O - Hide Ignored Tags&#xA;N - New Users Only&#xA;(Hides Questions that the latest activity was by a person with less than 100 rep)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very Basic Feature Set, but I like it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: It is automatically excluded from Actual Questions, the Ask Page, and edit pages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If it isn't, it makes typing in comments and answers problematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the features can be turned off/on by setting the variable equal to false. IE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;var setting_navKeys = true; &#xA;// turns into&#xA;var setting_navKeys = false; &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chacha102.com/filters.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the download.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tell me what you think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:40:05.657" Title="Filter Questions [Greasemonkey Script]" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11044" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:40:09.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One option would be to allow users to vote to close as &quot;Belongs on ...&quot; if they have sufficient rep on the target site, so, in the example above, as I can vote to close on SO, I could be given the option to vote to close as &quot;Belongs on Stack Overflow&quot; across the family of sites (where I have correctly linked my accounts, of course)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:40:09.883" />
  <row Id="11098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35918" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:40:48.293" Score="3" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm creating a dupe here, but here goes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar questions:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/1210&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own them)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4798/lets-make-it-easier-to-reply-within-comments&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let’s make it easier to reply within comments!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I (also) would really like to see replies to my comments included in the Recent Activity page.  I miss a lot of replies to my comments where I'm not the question owner or the answer owner.  I don't want to be know as someone who doesn't bother to reply to things...  I do see the danger, though, of comment discussions which I am in agreement with others on as far as not wanting that to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea would be to add a Reply button/link/whatever to the end of comments (next to the Delete button maybe) that would then open the new comment editor textbox and allow you to post your comment (as previously suggested).  However, the new comment would be marked (in the db, not necessarily in the UI) &quot;in reply to CommentId XXX&quot;, in a InReplyToCommentId field or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Recent Activity would do this (pseudo-code) lookup and display items:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select *&#xA;from Comments as replies&#xA;join Comments on replies.InReplyToCommentId=Comments.CommentId&#xA;join Users on Comments.UserId=User.UserId and User.UserId=1234&#xA;where Comments.TimeStamp &amp;gt;= WhateverTimeframe&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be cleaner than getting a notification of all questions/answers to which I've commented as it would weed out the ones not necessarily related to something that I post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T07:32:46.387" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:32:46.387" Title="Reply to comment feature request" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;reply&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="11099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11045" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:42:19.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GZIP is enabled, so I think you're measuring wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &quot;feature&quot; of IIS7 which will turn off HTTP compression dynamically during heavy load..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/786638/how-can-i-get-gzip-compression-in-iis7-working/1093637#1093637&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/786638/how-can-i-get-gzip-compression-in-iis7-working/1093637#1093637&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. but we reset the thresholds on that, and there's no &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; the web server dedicated to Server Fault would ever hit those levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:42:19.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11044" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:43:53.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't have a high enough rep on SU, it could theoretically be said that the system doesn't trust you enough to know what does and doesn't belong on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I think the added benefit vs. the complexity to implement makes it not worth the while. Especially considering if you don't have the appropriate rep to close a question, the close menu doesn't even show up for you, so I don't see how this would work at all without going and mucking that up as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:43:53.980" />
  <row Id="11101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11033" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:45:08.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks fine on my computer, but I can kind-of see the outline of the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:45:08.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11044" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:45:33.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a pseudo-pull mechanism.  If flag the question as requiring moderator attention, you can type in the box that the question belongs on another site.  Then, through the magic of computers, it will evaluated and migrated by the Moderatron 4000.  Be sure to mention your rep on the other site; the Moderatron &lt;em&gt;loves&lt;/em&gt; superfluous detail (especially the instance running on the server &quot;Marc Gravell&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:45:33.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11098" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:46:53.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dislike this approach because it adds unnecessary database complexity. I would rather lean towards the other ideas of the system automatically being able to understand the &quot;@[Username]&quot; syntax that has already become a norm here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea would be to just search all your questions, answers, and other areas where you have commented and then search those comment strings for comments that start with &quot;@[UserName]&quot; which would signify a reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downside is that you would have to force users to use that syntax if they wanted replies to work, but I think it is worthwhile (and it is so widespread to begin with (and familiar for users of systems like Twitter) that any potential learning curve would be negligible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:46:53.273" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11107" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:50:37.137" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is (or what should be) the policy on discussing the OSx86 project or the Hackintosh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those not familiar, OSx86 is the movement on the Internet (complete with its own Wiki, etc.) on getting Mac OS X to run on non-Apple hardware. A regular PC or Netbook which runs OS X is sometimes referred to as a Hackintosh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand I figure disucssion of this nature would be forbidden since, as per Apple's EULA, it's illegal. However, there seems to be some level of debate as to whether or not Apple's clause is enforcible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The PC manufacturer Psystar is (or was) selling PC towers with OS X on them, complete with a retail copy of OS X (but not the &quot;same&quot; copy as what is running on the machine since the code has to be modified in order to run or boot on a PC that uses BIOS instead of EFI). Apple is suing them but Psystar is not backing down. Some people theorize that Psystar is being funded by Apple's enemies (Microsoft?) in the hopes that the legal battle will prove the EULA clause to be unenforcable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And reputable publications like WIRED even tell you how to do it and haven't been sued by Apple. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO or SU would be a perfect place to ask a question like &quot;What's the best Netbook for a Hackintosh?&quot;, what is (or should be) the policy on discussing something in a legally dodgy area such as this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2577" LastActivityDate="2010-08-20T06:44:26.553" Title="What is the policy on discussing OSx86 or Hackintoshes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;osx&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11104" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:52:09.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be open for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:52:09.117" />
  <row Id="11106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11104" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:55:39.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think SU, not SO, would be the appropriate place for a question like &quot;What's the best Netbook for a Hackintosh?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:55:39.483" />
  <row Id="11107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11104" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:55:44.460" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For things that are blatantly asking for how to do illegal activity (how can I download warez, how can I pirate movies, etc.) it is likely going to get closed and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a mod for SuperUser I have restrained myself when there was discussion over things such as a user asking how to categorize all of their downloaded movies. There was no implication that he was doing something illegal (or asking how to do something illegal) but I made a note on the post basically saying that SuperUser does not condone illegal activities and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example, lots of questions about jailbreaking the iPhone. Though that is not illegal, depending on the post I may make a note that we do not advocate or recommend that you take actions which may violate your warranty and/or damage your device. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum it up: if it's blatantly discussing how to go about conducting illegal activities, get rid of it. If it's discussing something which is a grey area, your best bet is to just make note that there are legal/warranty implications involved and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T15:55:44.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11110" CreationDate="2009-07-30T15:57:26.627" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scenario.  Person answers a question with a reasonable answer for the question as it appears and it gets upvoted.   The OP comes back later and changes the question so that the answer is now clearly wrong.  You answer the updated question, again correctly but based on the updated question, but your answer appears after the other answers.  Do you downvote the other (incorrect) answer so that your (correct) answer appears above it in the vote list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does your answer change based on whether you've edited the question to clarify it (thus making the other answer wrong)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T16:05:14.103" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:07:44.503" Title="Do you down vote answers that become wrong after a question is changed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11108" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:00:09.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Does this really happen?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rarely come back to a question after I answered it, so I wouldn't know it was edited&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:00:09.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11108" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:00:12.973" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for politeness sakes I would leave a comment saying that the answer is wrong and may need revising based on the new information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the answer is wrong based on the new information, you could also down vote the answer &quot;conditionally&quot; and if they revise it, remove the downvote. I think overall that would be best practice. Downvotes are also a good way to attract the author's attention that something is up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:00:12.973" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11643" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:14:03.387" Score="-1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/15788/which-wireless-keyboard-is-most-secure/15793#15793&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, the image displays properly in the edit preview.  However, the image doesn't appear in the actual answer.  What is going wrong? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:50:41.723" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:51:26.060" Title="Why isn't my image displaying in my answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11112" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:18:27.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been deleted. Most likely why you got the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:18:27.903" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:52:41.367" Score="69" ViewCount="792" Body="&lt;p&gt;One answer per answer please, and lets keep this community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T16:21:32.157" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T12:44:49.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:52:41.367" Title="You know you've been browsing Stack Overflow too much when?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="72" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="11116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:53:21.117" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're on another website and wonder where the controls are to vote content up or down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:53:21.117" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:54:58.943" Score="47" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You keep pressing the refresh button hoping that there will be fresh questions in your chosen tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145546" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:54:58.943" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:55:00.037" Score="74" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your boss has to post on one of your questions just to get your attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:55:00.037" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:55:24.233" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the F5 has been worn off my keyboard ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:55:24.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:57:11.560" Score="116" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your spouse asks you a question and you answer ... then wait for an up vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:57:11.560" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:57:40.453" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you remember the day the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3830/have-you-become-addicted-to-crack-overflow&quot;&gt;Have you become addicted to Crack Overflow?-&lt;/a&gt;Question was asked :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:57:40.453" />
  <row Id="11122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:59:20.200" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the top domain in your web browser history is sof.modos.org. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9863/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;if you don't know yet...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastEditorUserId="6461" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T15:00:29.510" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:00:29.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:59:20.200" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:17:32.923" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your friends get envious of your reputation climb rate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:17:32.923" />
  <row Id="11124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:17:42.363" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You start trying to downvote emails&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:17:42.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:51:14.883" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you prefix all of your responses to actual people with &quot;+1&quot; or &quot;-1&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163684" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:51:14.883" />
  <row Id="11126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:52:49.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have tabs open to all of your active questions and all of them have &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ReloadEvery&lt;/a&gt; enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163684" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:52:49.077" />
  <row Id="11127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:53:09.357" Score="67" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you've written 4 lines of code all day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1316" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:53:09.357" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:54:15.953" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your name is on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;first page of the user list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:54:15.953" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:56:45.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You go out of your way to post an answer on this thread rather than getting on with the mountain of work that you have to do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:56:45.107" />
  <row Id="11130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T16:57:15.683" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone you haven't met refers to you as &quot;Sara from Stackoverflow&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139284" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T16:57:15.683" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:00:24.257" Score="67" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you find yourself learning about XYZ just to get one more answer in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25812" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:00:24.257" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:00:58.407" Score="76" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're answering this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:00:58.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:04:50.427" Score="66" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your business partner puts the following on the company's white board&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ux-media.co.uk/stackoverflow.JPG&quot; width=&quot;620&quot; alt=&quot;Stackoverflow is not work&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(stackoverflow is not work)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132944" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:04:50.427" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="11134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:05:47.397" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you check StackOverflow first thing in morning - even before your official email! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:05:47.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:06:00.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are on Stack Overflow while at PDC2008 instead of attending sessions . . . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:06:00.753" />
  <row Id="11136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:14:40.313" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the &quot;S&quot; and &quot;O&quot; keys wear off on your keyboard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:14:40.313" />
  <row Id="11137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:18:05.890" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've run out of votes ? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144606" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:18:05.890" />
  <row Id="11138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:26:14.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893/greg-hewgill&quot;&gt;broken&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/91/michael-stum&quot;&gt;10,000&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1968/konrad-rudolph&quot;&gt;rep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4337/gulzar&quot;&gt;points&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/91/michael-stum&quot;&gt;you know who the first person to break 10k was&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;You've broken&lt;/a&gt; 100,000 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;rep points&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Or, you know who the first person to break 100k was.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T12:58:22.280" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T12:58:22.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:26:14.737" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T17:51:05.683" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;when you can easily tag new duplicate questions in a second (with a link to the original or similar question)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T17:51:05.683" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T18:00:44.103" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you know a search on StackOverflow with Google should be done with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com -hottest -highest -recently -newest&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you know the ASCII code for &lt;code&gt;(&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; characters, because javadoc html links can refer to parameters API within rounded brackets...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://myPage/myObject.html#myFunction(myParams)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will have to be written&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://myPage/myObject.html#myFunction%28myParams%29&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a question and think:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&quot;Great! I really would like to know the answer to that one&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only to discover that it was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who had answered it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And that it has been the most upvoted.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And your answer had actually been &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt;... sigh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T18:00:44.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T18:03:50.027" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are talking to a co-worker and you keep looking for the button to close as &quot;Not programming related&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T18:03:50.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T18:20:09.400" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recursive function you wrote fails with a &quot;stack overflow,&quot; and you start looking for the vote up button in the function declaration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T18:20:09.400" />
  <row Id="11143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T18:22:48.350" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a twisted notion of what &quot;building a reputation&quot; is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T18:22:48.350" />
  <row Id="11144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T19:16:36.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you get an actual stack overflow error and immediately post it to stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136493" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T19:16:36.277" />
  <row Id="11145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T19:40:02.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your project timeline slips because you're a total StackOverflow noob (having heard about it via the Scott Hanselman/Jeff Atwood interview) and spend 3 days perusing entries looking for items to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133602" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T19:40:02.203" />
  <row Id="11146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-29T23:33:20.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your boss has rerouted stack overflow in your company DNS to the company's internal journal system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132058" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T23:33:20.533" />
  <row Id="11147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-30T01:57:31.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;when you keep coming back to this question to see if you need to open it again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T01:57:31.787" />
  <row Id="11148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-10-30T09:10:38.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When it has stolen the act from StumbleUpon.  SO is pure gem, I tell ya!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T09:10:38.463" />
  <row Id="11149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-11-01T16:32:25.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you wait impatiently &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/255684/what-happened-to-the-stackoverflow-site-in-the-halloween-night&quot;&gt;saterday morning&lt;/a&gt; for the site to back up again, and you start hating to see the cat .... And your first post afterwards is here ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131757" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T16:32:25.293" />
  <row Id="11150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-11-01T16:50:21.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask your manager for 'reputation' points when he accepts any of your suggestions !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27474" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T16:50:21.933" />
  <row Id="11151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-11-01T17:29:57.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're reading questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131636" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T17:29:57.767" />
  <row Id="11152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-11-01T17:46:29.730" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are reading my comment right now. You have come so deep to read my comment? You are certainly overbrowsing stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T17:46:29.730" />
  <row Id="11153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-11-02T18:07:18.890" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you complicate your architecture at work just to have to ask interesting questions on stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-02T18:07:18.890" />
  <row Id="11154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-11-26T15:33:12.727" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You type an 's' in your address bar and it auto-completes to 'stackoverflow.com'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154500" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T15:33:12.727" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-05T17:24:36.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You type your Firefox address bar search keyword for Stack Overflow when you meant to search Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-05T17:24:36.820" />
  <row Id="11156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-05T17:35:22.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;when you're at 995 rep points and you create a question to ask people to give you just another up vote to hit 1k rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150635" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-05T17:35:22.057" />
  <row Id="11157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-05T17:39:15.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you see Jon Skeet getting negative vote  ;P  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(meaning that he got downvoted, before he got upvoted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-05T17:39:15.467" />
  <row Id="11158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-05T18:15:17.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you answer questions like this just to gain rep points. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132432" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-05T18:15:17.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-05T18:23:58.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;when you start finding questions like &quot;You know you’ve been browsing Stack Overflow too much when?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143667" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-05T18:23:58.747" />
  <row Id="11160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-10T17:02:18.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posed with a decision, you find yourself asking WWJSD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(What Would Jon Skeet Do)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T17:02:18.843" />
  <row Id="11161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-10T17:06:04.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people on IRC ask you questions like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;02:50 &amp;lt; xxx&amp;gt; litb: just wanted to ask you about your hyperactivity on Stack Overflow&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T17:06:04.593" />
  <row Id="11162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-16T23:32:07.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your daughter starts calling Stack Overflow &quot;Daddy's medicine&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133423" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T23:32:07.777" />
  <row Id="11163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-16T23:43:14.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you find out jonskeet.com is already taken, but jonskeet.info is still available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138410" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T23:43:14.480" />
  <row Id="11164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2008-12-17T08:37:52.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you make a comment... and then start counting in your head 1, 2, ... up to 30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because you know you can only make a comment every 30 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T08:37:52.527" />
  <row Id="11165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-01-06T15:25:22.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;...when you go to bed at 3AM, dream about a question that you saw on StackOverflow.com, then wake up just to answer it. Then end up answering other stuff and going to bed at 4AM anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T15:25:22.927" />
  <row Id="11166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-01-06T15:36:55.837" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet emails you to suggest walking away for a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141841" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T15:36:55.837" />
  <row Id="11167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-02-16T22:55:44.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask Stack Overflow what is the best API for operating one's eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-16T22:55:44.057" />
  <row Id="11168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-02-21T01:07:39.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you check StackOverflow from your phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132244" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T01:07:39.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-02-21T01:17:47.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the number of comments reach 422 and the thread ends up being locked :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134199" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T01:17:47.803" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-02-24T15:35:41.693" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you really, I mean, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; understand, when to check that community wiki checkbox and when &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-24T15:35:41.693" />
  <row Id="11171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-03-11T20:43:04.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you paste answers from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247342/you-know-youve-been-browsing-stack-overflow-too-much-when&quot;&gt;this very thread&lt;/a&gt; to a follow coworker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-11T20:43:04.247" />
  <row Id="11172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-03-11T20:48:10.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you start browsing for babes on Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T19:11:37.940" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T19:11:37.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-11T20:48:10.850" />
  <row Id="11173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-03-11T20:50:28.020" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your Stack Overflow reputation comes up in a daily Scrum meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131782" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T19:11:00.483" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T19:11:00.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-11T20:50:28.020" />
  <row Id="11174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-03-11T20:52:37.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you code a hyperlink in a web page you are working on and accidentally type [link text]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-11T20:52:37.220" />
  <row Id="11175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-04-08T15:29:55.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You center your look on the upper center of the page just to see if your rep has been incremented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132969" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-08T15:29:55.430" />
  <row Id="11176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:04:25.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are late for a meeting with your boss because you read silly threads on Stack Overflow!! Yeah, it just happened to me because of this very thread. Quite embarrassing :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T19:08:21.543" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T19:08:21.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T14:04:25.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:48:54.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your code throws a stack overflow and you think it's cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150091" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:19:57.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T14:48:54.517" />
  <row Id="11178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-07-29T14:51:53.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; to &quot;search&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134804" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T19:07:30.617" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T19:07:30.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-29T14:51:53.530" />
  <row Id="11179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10942" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:23:10.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that, in addition to the auto-accepted answer needing to have at least 2 upvotes, it also has to be posted &lt;strong&gt;after the bounty was added&lt;/strong&gt; to be eligible for auto-acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:23:10.297" />
  <row Id="11180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:24:06.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get an MS MVP nomination out of the blue for &quot;your contributions to the ... community&quot;.  No, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:24:06.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T16:24:06.803" />
  <row Id="11182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10977" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:25:48.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historical fact: it originally &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; &quot;preferences&quot;. With the addition of several new tabs in the user profile, I think it was necessary to shorten it. I think that changing it back confers no benefit and can be detrimental as that space can be used for additional, future tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:25:48.483" />
  <row Id="11183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11219" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:26:45.907" Score="17" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question gets votes to close but no answer or comment stating the reason for the vote, the OP has no way of knowing if editing would solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show to the asker the reasons (but not who voted) given for a vote to close so they can attempt to correct the problem without having to resort to begging for a reopen or reposting an edited version and risk being called a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:59:55.267" Title="Show the reason given for a close vote before the question gets closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11183" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:30:26.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually if nobody comments on how to fix it, it's FUBAR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I think showing the vote totals would be beneficial to the OP. Or it may make them feel unloved when they see the amount of stuff that has at least one close vote. Either way, it's a win, and I'm for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:30:26.510" />
  <row Id="11185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11183" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:30:40.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already implemeted, if you click on close you see what other people voted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:30:40.703" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11183" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:31:36.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you click on the close link, it shows you how many votes each current option has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not sure that you can tell what's going on if you don't have enough rep to vote to close yourself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:31:36.507" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11183" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:34:20.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one specific close reason where i think this would be very, very useful: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1383/show-possible-duplicates-in-the-main-post-before-its-closed&quot;&gt;Show possible duplicates in the main post before it’s closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, i see an awful lot of duplicates left un-closed, prompting duplicate answers / bifurcated answer sets... and i wonder if it isn't that they're just not visible enough to those who could be closing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:34:20.930" />
  <row Id="11188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11190" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:34:32.507" Score="21" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11183/show-the-reason-given-for-a-close-vote-before-the-question-gets-closed&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt; where the suggestion is that users should see why people are voting to have their question closed - I wonder whether users are even aware of it happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly it often happens very quickly, not leaving a lot of time for the question to be &quot;mended&quot; but it might be worth at least giving a heads-up via the recent activity display (the envelope one, not the one in the user profile).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:44:41.863" Title="Make &quot;close votes&quot; appear in recent activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11197" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:39:48.080" Score="1" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to see more and more abuse of the tagging system. Not always intentional, but prevalent none-the-less. I think this started when people began adding the &lt;code&gt;not-programming-related&lt;/code&gt; tag, which is odd...if it's not programming related (a condition for closing), then close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I am seeing tags like &lt;code&gt;belongs-on-serverfault&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;do-my-homework-for-me&lt;/code&gt;. The first should be replaced with voting to migrate, or asking that others vote to migrate, and the second should just be discouraged altogether. If you feel somebody is asking a homework question, comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, what is the appropriate action to take when we come across things like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T00:43:31.880" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T00:43:31.880" Title="What to do about tag-abuse?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="11190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11188" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:42:20.867" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to this I'd like to see questions that I have voted to close (and delete) in my user profile so that I can revisit them easily to see if they have been improved (if they were improvable in the first place). Same goes for reopened and undeleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:42:20.867" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11188" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:44:41.863" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first response to this was, &quot;We don't need it - a comment should suffice to get their attention&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, i don't think it's true. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, we've been strongly encouraged of late to avoid any appearance of &quot;bullying&quot; in comments - i took that to mean &quot;don't mention that the question might well be closed if these suggestions aren't heeded.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, i'm starting to suspect that a good many people asking questions just ignore comments entirely. Of course, they might well ignore &quot;close vote notifications&quot; also...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But finally, it would actually be potentially helpful for someone whose question was largely ignored early-on, and then - somehow - given attention later on, in the form of close votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, ++&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:44:41.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:45:47.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ow yes! I was just going to propose the same thing.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Maybe doable with a GreaseMonkey script (where's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130154/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan&lt;/a&gt; when you need him ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:45:47.633" />
  <row Id="11193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11112" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:46:30.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The image URL works fine if you go there directly, but it doesn't appear in either the answer or the edit list.  I'd guess that the image is protected against hotlinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:46:30.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:49:59.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Jeff hasn't submitted this, I'll do if for him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;if you change your computer clock time to UTC, to be more in sync with the Stack Overflow daily clock.. you may be an addict.&quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/2922759367&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@codinghorror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:49:59.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T16:49:59.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:52:57.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue would be in determining how you got to the question. Should you view the next unanswered question, the next question from a search, the next bounty question? How will the system know where &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An issue stemming from this is that it would be very intensive. When you click next the following would have to be executed:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 1. Determine the listing page that the user came from&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 2. Re-query to find the data for the next question that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; appear after where you are. Note that depending on the listing page used, the sort order could have dramatically changed since last visit. It would then have to relocate your question in the list, and find next question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 3. Take this information and redirect the user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unknowns:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 1. What if the user came to a page by direct link, there is no default &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; behavior. Since we can't assume that the last listing page they visited was the page that got them to where they are, the result is a very random and unintuitive &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; selection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current implementation:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 1. Going back requires no extra work as the last page is usually cached. Sort order is maintained, and everything you remember being there will still be there.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 2. Clicking on a link will request the new page, the server simply needs to serve the new page, hence it is very lightweight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T17:43:44.333" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:43:44.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:53:11.017" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I remove the tags, leaving the edit comment that I'm removing abusive tags. If I see a single user doing it a lot, I'll report him with the flag button. I haven't actually seen a user doing it constantly enough to report yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's for tags like &lt;code&gt;do-my-homework-for-me&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;plz-send-me-the-codez&lt;/code&gt;. For the tags that mirror close votes, those aren't so bad, as long as the taggers don't have 3000 arbitrary points yet. They're doing what's in their power to draw the questions to our attention, and I see that as a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:53:11.017" />
  <row Id="11197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:53:30.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep, you can always retag it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:53:30.050" />
  <row Id="11198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:53:59.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11189/what-to-do-about-tag-abuse/11196#11196&quot;&gt;As Welbog said&lt;/a&gt;, retag them.  I'm not sure what else you really can do.  Maybe consider leaving a comment explaining that X isn't an appropriate tag?  If you see a lot of it from a particular user, notify the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:53:59.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:54:06.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would simply remove tags that are really just there to make some sort of &quot;political statement.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it becomes egregious, I would also leave a comment that the tag was removed (and why) to leave a bit of a &lt;em&gt;nudge&lt;/em&gt; that lets people know not to do it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:54:06.727" />
  <row Id="11200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:55:07.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Retagging is the appropriate way because this is a &quot;community&quot; edited website. This is why people with enough reputation can edit tags, to help clean up the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:55:07.660" />
  <row Id="11201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11112" CreationDate="2009-07-30T16:58:34.300" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it's the underscore in the URL that makes it fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: It's working for me now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T16:58:34.300" />
  <row Id="11202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:00:30.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:00:30.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T17:00:30.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:10:26.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'belongs' tags are good to let the asker and others know where it belongs, before it get's closed and moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:10:26.833" />
  <row Id="11205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11108" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:20:17.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a single answer for this... I've probably done a bit of everything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If i just come upon a question and don't realize it's been edited, i might well down-vote a now-bogus answer. Even if i'm posting one of my own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If i've edited the question myself, i probably won't downvote anything (though &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11108/do-you-down-vote-answers-that-become-wrong-after-a-question-is-changed/11110#11110&quot;&gt;like TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;, i might leave a comment somewhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might just edit the answer, if it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; correct, and i know what &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; should look like under the new question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And i might just down-vote everything and post/edit nothing. Some Q&amp;amp;A just inspires that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:20:17.047" />
  <row Id="11212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:33:59.173" Score="1" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just cleared the 10k mark on SO (feels good) and was happy to see the new &quot;Tools&quot; link. While the content is pretty interesting, I'm curious why no user-specific data is being served up? For example, most-active, most-answering, most-asking, most-upvoted, most-downvoted, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this type of data available? If so, is there a reason why it's not available in part or in full to the 10k+ users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T08:44:50.170" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T21:08:58.153" Title="No 10k-Tools to Watch Users?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11212" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:35:40.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said repeatedly that once you hit 10k, it's sort of a buzz-kill when you actually look at the tools available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real &quot;power&quot; that 10k users have is that they can see the Spam/Offensive flags on questions (they don't get to see the moderator attention flags), as well as being able to vote to delete closed items (after 24 hours of being closed), and vote to undelete items. The voting process for these is 3 votes to delete, 3 votes to undelete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T21:08:58.153" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T21:08:58.153" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6493" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:39:58.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feature is doable. A puzzle site that I always visit, griddlers.net, has 'next' buttons (but no 'previous' buttons :-( ) that get you to the next puzzle based on the sorting and filtering criteria of the list from which you navigated to the puzzle. I think they must cache the current page of the list to use for the 'next' buttons, because once you get to the last puzzle in the current page of the list, you don't get a 'next' button. (There are thousands of puzzles on that site, so I'm guessing they're trying to limit the use of server resources somehow.) I'm sure there must be a way to do this without limiting the next/previous navigation to just the current page in the list, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132432" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:39:58.303" />
  <row Id="11215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11212" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:41:34.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the engine were making this information available, I'm not sure why it would be relevant to only 10k+ users. I haven't seen what tools do become available at that point, but my understanding is it is tools that will help the users' moderate the site more efficiently and outside of most-downvoted (perhaps), I'm not sure the ones you called out would be useful for that task. Certainly I understand being interested in this information, but I'm not sure why it would be something that you should &quot;earn&quot; in the system; either it's there or it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:41:34.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11108" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:44:24.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If its obvious that the answer no longer is answering the question, but definitely was a great answer at one time, I would most likely give it an up-vote and then add a comment about needing to update it a bit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a time where i would punish someone for an answer that was no longer relevant due to an edited post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, I might even take the opportunity to answer the question myself too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T18:07:44.503" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:07:44.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11212" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:45:57.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jonathan - I would add a comment (but still can't)...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't rub in your SO greatness to some of us less fortunate under 10K'ers...&quot;  I kid, I kid...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see the breakdown in functionality that for 10K'ers and Moderators to see what each can and can't do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T18:03:15.090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:03:15.090" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11183" CreationDate="2009-07-30T17:59:55.267" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP of a question shouldn't have to cast a vote to close his question just to see how many close votes it got and why. Here has to be another way for the OP to get that info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132432" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T17:59:55.267" />
  <row Id="11221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T18:11:26.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Web forums are the dominion of passive aggressive behaviours like this. I doubt there is much that can be done without exacerbating the situation other than to edit the redundant or ridiculous tags out of the question (if you have sufficient privileges to do so) and to create clearer, more intuitive ways to achieve whatever it was the mistagger was trying to achieve, whether that is comments, voting to close, or some other system that has not been implemented yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever system we have, there will always be bouts of passive aggression and that's why we will always need a wall nearby for intimate, forced meetings of brick and head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what to do, edit seems the logical immediate response. If this fails, flag for moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:11:26.150" />
  <row Id="11226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11231" CreationDate="2009-07-30T18:33:38.007" Score="3" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone provides a good edit to my post, what is the proper way to provide feedback or thank that person?  Is it necessary?  I do not yet have enough rep to edit other posts, and expect that I will be reluctant to do so other than typos and minor edits, so I expect some positive feedback on an edit would surely be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:29:53.683" Title="Etiquette for thanking an editor" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2009-07-30T18:37:50.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just leave a comment thanking the editor for cleaning up the question, it's the only way really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:37:50.073" />
  <row Id="11231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2009-07-30T18:40:02.783" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as someone who edits a lot, I don't need thanks, and I don't want to clutter up the comments with such thanks.  Frankly, as long as you aren't rolling back my edits because you insist your mangled version was better, you've already thanked me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:40:02.783" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2009-07-30T18:46:41.273" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send him a thank-you basket filled with bratwurst, sauerkraut, and beer. Editors love those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:46:41.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2009-07-30T18:46:57.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A thing you could do, related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10787&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is find a post of their's at 9 upvotes or something like that, and so long as you think it is a good answer, you could upvote them there. I wouldn't encourage upvoting a bad answer, but I completely understand the desire to show your appreciation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T18:46:57.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10787" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:03:57.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually try to disregard the current total as best I can and vote based on the merit of the answer alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I wonder if the 10-vote threshold is intimidating to people, since a number of my answers tend to asymptote to around +9. They get a quick surge of votes and then just stagnate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they should make a new badge: The &quot;So close&quot; badge for when you have an answer that is stuck at +9 for a few months. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:03:57.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-30T19:03:57.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11189" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:11:55.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would tag things &quot;not-programming-related&quot; when I had enough rep to tag, but not enough to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:11:55.247" />
  <row Id="11239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:23:33.820" Score="-1" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit: try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a SQL related question, when the OP gives a code table such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Department   | Category  | &#xA;0001         | A         |&#xA;0002         | D         |&#xA;0003         | A         | &#xA;0003         | A         |&#xA;0003         | C         |&#xA;0004         | B         |&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would save time for someone answering to be able to click a button in SO and be linked to a SQL DDL script that would actually create the table for them, if they pasted it into their favourite db admin program, i.e. generates Shannon's code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;create table T (&#xA;    Department varchar(10) null,&#xA;    Category varchar(10) null&#xA;);&#xA;&#xA;-- Original test case&#xA;insert into T values ('0001', 'A');&#xA;insert into T values ('0002', 'D');&#xA;insert into T values ('0003', 'A');&#xA;insert into T values ('0003', 'A');&#xA;insert into T values ('0003', 'C');&#xA;insert into T values ('0004', 'B');&#xA;-- Null Test cases:&#xA;insert into T values (null, 'A');&#xA;insert into T values (null, 'B');&#xA;insert into T values (null, 'B');&#xA;insert into T values ('0005', null);&#xA;insert into T values ('0005', null);&#xA;insert into T values ('0005', 'X');&#xA;-- Tie Test case&#xA;insert into T values ('0006', 'O');&#xA;insert into T values ('0006', 'P');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occurred to me after posting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1207753/select-most-frequently-occurring-records-using-two-or-more-grouping-columns/1207929#1207929&quot;&gt;simple SQL table example&lt;/a&gt; that it would be a useful timesaving device to have a also posted a create table DDL script so that it was easier to work/test on.  Often though you post pseudo-data rather than real columns, so I was thinking about a code syntax that the OP could use and then others could click a button to generate the SQL &lt;code&gt;CREATE TABLE&lt;/code&gt; syntax for the schema and for the data.  See Shannon Severance's answer to the question for sample code, generated from what could be a CSV-ish syntax - need to preserve the readability which is why commas aren't a good idea, but: first line headers, everything else data, trimmed and bars removed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Department   | Category  | &#xA;0001         | A         |&#xA;0002         | D         |&#xA;0003         | A         | &#xA;0003         | A         |&#xA;0003         | C         |&#xA;0004         | B         |&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just seemed a useful timesaver and an incentiviser to get into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80482" LastEditorUserId="80482" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T20:40:29.670" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:40:29.670" Title="Auto generated create table snippets for sample data in specific format" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;sql&gt;&lt;automation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11239" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:29:04.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm honestly not even sure what the heck you are asking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do know that Jeff has said repeatedly that he does not want to include &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; markup to create tables in the editor, but if you are suggesting some method to easily create ASCII tables (like the create-table tool in MS Word) then I would be for that. Everything else you were talking about with SQL Create Table syntax was just a blur and made no sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:29:04.417" />
  <row Id="11243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11239" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:40:39.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what this question is about so here's something that seems related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pbwiki (and surely other wiki providers) has a syntax for laying out tables automatically which is really easy to use and intuitive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every table starts with a pipe following a space, every column is delimited by a pipe, and every row is delimited by a space. So, for example, the following text entered into the text box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; |Column1|Column2|Column3&#xA; |TXI|Ponies|pink&#xA; |Welbog|Lasers|shooting&#xA; |Pesto|Kirby|(&amp;gt;'_')&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would yield the following structure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Column1&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Column2&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Column3&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;TXI&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Ponies&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;pink&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Welbog&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Lasers&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;shooting&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Pesto&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;Kirby&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;(&amp;gt;'_')&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which lets people define table structures easily without giving them full control over the table, row and cell tags which is what I'm assuming Jeff wants to avoid most of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:40:39.307" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11239" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:41:13.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like I'm reading some sort of Sphinx riddle that has been poorly translated from Greek.  But, if I understand correctly, you're proposing that the system auto-generate SQL statements to create and populate a database table based upon an ASCII sketch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would that be a worthwhile use of the developers' time?  Not only is it a non-trivial task, it's one with limited usefulness.  Next I suppose you'll be asking for the system to compile and run code blocks and include their output.  I don't support this in the least.  If you really think people will need the SQL statements, provide them.  That's part of writing a good question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't stress this enough, people: StackOverflow is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a replacement for putting forth effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:41:13.317" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:41:16.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ask if your editor has &lt;a href=&quot;http://tipjoy.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tipjoy&lt;/a&gt; (or the equivalent) ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132619" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:41:16.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:41:28.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should go edit and improve one of their questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:41:28.230" />
  <row Id="11249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:48:56.903" Score="12" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please forgive me for asking multiple questions at once, but I think these are all related to a confusing choice of main buttons on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that has always bothered me about the SO user interface is the &quot;questions&quot; button and the &quot;unanswered&quot; button on the main interface.  Aren't unanswered questions just a subset of all total questions?  Why does it warrant a totally different top level choice when it could just be a remembered or default tab choice within questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why are the tab choices under questions different than the tab choices under unanswered?  Aren't both just showing a list of questions?  Why am I allowed to view &quot;my tags&quot; under unanswered, but not under &quot;questions&quot;?  I want to be able to see answered questions that match my interests, not just unanswered questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm misunderstanding something fundamental.  Maybe there is a logical explanation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T08:00:02.840" Title="confusing top level SO buttons (questions and unanswered)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11249" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:53:26.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions includes all question whether they have been answered or not. This is the same behavior when I select a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unanswered is questions that have not had any accepted or upvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The different sorting is simple. Users browsing questions are interest in a different set of information then those looking at Unanswered. I look at the latter for questions that I potentially have a chance at gaining reputation. I am particularly interested in the newer questions since they often drop off the home page quickly due to the active questions popping up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at questions Users are generally interest in active topics or highest voted questions.&#xA;It is really a subjective question. It depends on every users approach to the site and use of the navigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T20:01:38.843" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:01:38.843" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7039" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:54:00.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is like playing Monopoly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that answering quickly is a huge advantage. After several attempts at answering with really good answers, I found I was being outdone by people with rather simplistic (and often incorrect) answers. Amazingly, sometimes the questioner had awarded the checkmark to some lame answer while I was in my second or third paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realized you just want to throw something up there quickly to &quot;buy&quot; the real estate. I'll often answer now with a very short sentence. The down side to this is that you can get early downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you upgrade the real estate by building a nice answer on it. The downvoters then look like dorks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:54:00.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11249" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:55:19.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For regular StackOverflow users who are keen on answering questions (perhaps for the rep, perhaps because they're helpful types), the Unanswered tab gives a simple place to find questions that need answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following on from this, the &quot;My Tags&quot; option under Unanswered helps people find questions they want to answer, allowing them to skip any questions they have no knowledge of, or interest in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, the &quot;Questions&quot; tab is more for people wanting to browse the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My 2c worth, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ahh, I see where you're coming from now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are (at least) two schools of thought for UI (User Interface/Interaction) and UX (User eXperience) design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first is to use the &lt;em&gt;structure of the information&lt;/em&gt; to drive the user interface. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second is to use the &lt;em&gt;goals of the user&lt;/em&gt; to drive the user interface.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using structure as a guide, you'd expect top level tabs for just Questions, Tags, Users and Badges - and no more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using goals as a guide, you'd expect top level tabs focussed on different user needs - leading to &quot;Show me topical Questions&quot;, &quot;Show me Tags&quot;, &quot;Show me Users&quot;, &quot;Show me Badges&quot; and &quot;Show me where I can provide help&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to weigh in on which approach is more correct - as I think it's more a religious battle than a rational one - but I suspect your thinking comes from the &lt;em&gt;structure&lt;/em&gt; camp, where Jeff &amp;amp; Joel are more goal focussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30280" LastEditorUserId="30280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:10:54.430" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:10:54.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11253" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11255" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:57:08.197" Score="8" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, when I'm scrolling through &quot;questions&quot; some have a yellow background.  Is this intuitive to everyone but me?  What is the yellow background trying to tell me about this particular question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:01:52.807" Title="under questions, why are some with a yellow background?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;background&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="11254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11253" CreationDate="2009-07-30T19:58:13.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions have tags that you have marked as interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T19:58:13.093" />
  <row Id="11255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11253" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:01:25.927" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions highlighted in yellow have tags you have marked as interesting. Questions appearing grayed out you have marked as ignored. You can manage these either on the front page or on the preferences page of your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:01:25.927" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11253" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:01:52.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Conversely, the tags which you mark as ignored will be grayed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:01:52.807" />
  <row Id="11259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11260" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:14:33.343" Score="2" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;5 of the 10 highest voted questions on SO are now closed.  Does this statistic concern the SO team that the most popular questions in the minds of the users are also the ones that are unpopular enough in the minds of the admins to get closed?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this say about the SO community?  Is the SO community really being steered in the right direction by the site and being properly &quot;stroked&quot; for performing the correct behaviors and are they being properly &quot;punished&quot; for performing undesirable behaviors?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just putting this out there for discussion because it struck me in looking at the top voted questions that if they have such a high close rate, that maybe even putting a &quot;Votes&quot; tab there for people to click on is not as worthwhile as was once originally thought.  Maybe it is making it easy for users to perform undesirable behavior, like upvoting questions that don't even belong on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:31:22.107" Title="Half the 10 highest voted questions on SO are closed. Does this bother the SO team?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11259" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:18:53.007" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a two main reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Fun&quot; questions are popular but not really on-topic. That's just human nature, I think. If &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; agreed that fun questions should be allowed some of the time but disallowed some of the time, you'd get exactly this situation, for example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popular questions tend to get more people looking at them, but it still only requires a relatively small number of votes to close (and then reopen). Therefore a popular question is more likely to be closed and reopened multiple times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:18:53.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11259" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:19:25.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have the uber search going right now, but I'll wager a vote that most of those top questions are the &quot;favorite programmer cartoon&quot; type questions that originated early on in the site. In the grand scheme of this this is good because it is reflecting the goal of the community to create a &quot;serious&quot; programmer Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that meta stackoverflow is here, A lot of those type of questions are starting to merge themselves over here, or even to SuperUser, where the restrictions are a little more lax and &quot;casual&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short...business as usual, and business is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:19:25.407" />
  <row Id="11262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11259" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:24:31.763" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of those closed questions are closed on SO because they have been migrated here to MetaSO, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq-closed&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many of the &quot;fun&quot; questions also have 100's of answers (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered-closed&quot;&gt;like so&lt;/a&gt;), and at this point there probably isn't much of a reason to add any more (especially since they get redundant), hence they are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:24:31.763" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:28:57.633" Score="-7" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to notify me that another user is writing an answer?&#xA;Some (mainly simple) questions get duplicate answers just for that reason: A user starts answering while another user has almost finished his\her answer. That causes the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Damn, got me by 17 seconds!&lt;/em&gt;&quot; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little banner that notifies me about the answer being written, perhaps with the first sentence, would be helpful. It would also save effort, time and frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T00:06:30.393" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T22:21:59.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T08:54:25.283" Title="&quot;User X is writing an answer&quot; - banner to appear when another user is writing too" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;&lt;concurrency&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11259" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:31:22.107" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this as perfectly normal behaviour. It is very much to be expected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a very technical oriented site, but it also has an &lt;em&gt;internet&lt;/em&gt; community built into it. The internet community is very plagued by the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000347.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dancing bunny&lt;/a&gt;&quot; problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: If you post two youtube videos. One video that discussed the physics and chemistry behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G47ghjcmwmo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mentos and Diet-Coke&lt;/a&gt;, and one which involved a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Symphony of Spraying Bottles of Coke-fizz&lt;/a&gt;, which one do you think would get more views? (&amp;lt;1000 vs. almost 10 million).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, there are items which are going to attract a huge audience because they seem fun and engaging, but they &lt;em&gt;do not benefit the&lt;/em&gt; education &lt;em&gt;of the community&lt;/em&gt;. These are simply fluff pieces that generate interest because of their easy accessibility compared to the density of the rest of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the argument that these are the things that generate community involvement, I don't believe that is true. This site was designed around the fact that if you create an environment of incredibly smart people with a common interest, they will &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; each other and pool their resources. StackOverflow is not meant to be a social outlet, it is meant to be a technical outlet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as the laws of entropy tell us, there will always be more people trying to detract from order, than there are people trying to keep order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:31:22.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:31:44.040" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a notice when users have completed an answer. There's no way to know if what someone else posts will even be similar to what you're writing, so unless the question is trivial with a quick and simple answer (which is the case with the example you're using) there's no reason to believe that they'll be typing the same thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polling the server to determine if someone is simply typing an answer would be excessive, and more often then not, unnecessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:31:44.040" />
  <row Id="11267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:32:32.010" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The little banner notifies you once they've written the answer. That's as soon as I want to be discouraged. Also, if implemented, you could find yourself with a plethora of those awkward moments where the two of you notice each other is typing and stop at the same time. But, unlike IM, you can't say, &quot;You first.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always delete your answer if you got beat, or edit it to include better info, links, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:32:32.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:34:02.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see this being possible using Javascript to send a notice to the server when the answer box is being changed and then pushing that information out to the users in much the same way as the answer posted dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can see this being noisy on the server side as it has to process thousands of these requests and send out the responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:34:02.897" />
  <row Id="11270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11263" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:45:18.333" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;User &quot;Jon Skeet&quot; is writing an answer - just give up now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:45:18.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7039" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:48:43.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do they? Some great questions take time to answer. And even then, the answers may not be &quot;great&quot; initially. As others have suggested, asking questions on Stackoverflow is a bit like a game - or a system you learn to manipulate. You learn how to ask, when to ask, and more with results in a net increase in good responses, some instantly, and some after a short wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T20:48:43.460" />
  <row Id="11275" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T20:55:52.510" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10641/instead-of-closed-for-migrated-questions-migrated&quot;&gt;Instead of [closed] for migrated questions, [migrated]&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we migrate a question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq-closed&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt; to another site, can you modify the first line or two of the question to say &quot;Migrated to ...&quot; so that when viewed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;question list&lt;/a&gt;, the excerpt or blurb would indicate that it is migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T03:36:59.697" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T03:36:59.697" ClosedDate="2009-07-30T21:03:59.297" Title="Modify question text to include &quot;Migrated to ...&quot; after migration so that it shows up in the excerpt when browswing questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11275" CreationDate="2009-07-30T21:01:46.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already Asked... Yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Eric's Comment: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10641&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10641&lt;/a&gt; (He seems to love posting links to duplicates)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T21:01:46.757" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="11278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8559" CreationDate="2009-07-30T21:07:28.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can manually craft the URL and then bookmark it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;`&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tagnames=&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tagnames=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tag1&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;tag2&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;tag3&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;amp;tab=newest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T21:07:28.633" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10665" CreationDate="2009-07-30T21:08:01.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest we have an Up and Down Button next to the tabs, so you can search is Ascending or Descending Order (accordingly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that all pages need to have all tabs however, because if every page has every tab things start to get cluttered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T21:08:01.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8559" CreationDate="2009-07-30T21:13:21.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone 'just' posted a question about standardizing all the page's tabs to feature tabs like newest on every page. Considering it covers a the same (and a little more) ground than this request, you might want to go upvote it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10665/inconsistent-buttons-on-different-pages&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10665/inconsistent-buttons-on-different-pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T21:13:21.087" />
  <row Id="11281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-07-30T21:28:52.617" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of situations (not covered in other, I think) where this makes sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Professors, TAs, teachers etc might send their students here, but want to clean up any messes they make.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People can keep track of whats bugging their colleagues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're mentoring someone (like in the Google Summer of Code), you can make sure their questions get answered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're more likely to do the legwork for a real-life friend than for a random stranger.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're more likely to feel comfortable rebuking a real-life friend that a random stranger.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people just give great thorough answers. There has been more than 1 person I've stalked in this way already, its just not as convenient now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T21:28:52.617" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11642" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:16:10.850" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1153600/resizing-a-charx-to-chary-at-runtime&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;; the OP reports that they &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; accept the bounty. The assumption then is that it was accepted by default upon expiration; this makes sense by the numbers, as (assuming that the +50 bounty bonus still applies, making +100 the minimum bounty), the fact that 50 was awarded again indicates the half-bounty for default selections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However; the hover shows &quot;The question owner accepted this as the best answer...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a glitch? Should this read auto-selected? Unfortunately, it isn't clear when the bounty was placed, so I can't say definitively whether it was auto-selected; accidentally selected by the OP; or cosmic rays...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional (&lt;kbd&gt;feature-request&lt;/kbd&gt;): please add &quot;created bounty of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;x&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on question &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;y&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot; to the (♦ moderator-only) user's log...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:50:19.650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:50:19.650" Title="Bounty message for auto-selected answers - is it right?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11288" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:29:31.387" Score="2" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've now deleted two different answers of mine on Meta, and haven't seen a Peer Pressure badge.  Does this badge not work correctly on Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T19:51:27.747" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T21:44:30.433" Title="Peer Pressure badge on Meta" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;peer-pressure&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11287" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:32:48.400" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that it takes awhile for the Peer Pressure badge to be awarded. Mine took about a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T22:32:48.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11287" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:33:09.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/36/peer-pressure&quot;&gt;someone has it&lt;/a&gt;... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T22:33:09.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8916" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:36:46.723" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're using an X-rated image, you dirty boy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/40656706454dcbdbcec125b85b01f1e4?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=x&quot; alt=&quot;the filthy X-rated version - flag as offensive!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/40656706454dcbdbcec125b85b01f1e4?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/40656706454dcbdbcec125b85b01f1e4?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;amp;r=x&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/check&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you rated it that way&lt;/a&gt;, but you should know that Stack Overflow is a family website, and will only display G or PG-rated &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatars&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/40656706454dcbdbcec125b85b01f1e4?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;the PG version&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/40656706454dcbdbcec125b85b01f1e4?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/40656706454dcbdbcec125b85b01f1e4?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T22:36:46.723" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11287" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:48:44.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to be sure that the posts had 3 more down-votes than up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T21:44:30.433" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T21:44:30.433" />
  <row Id="11292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11342" CreationDate="2009-07-30T23:07:32.090" Score="-1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions&quot;&gt;certain times of the day are better for asking questions than others&lt;/a&gt;. Sometimes someone has a very strange question, or has another good reason to game the time the question gets asked. Since the result is good for the user (gets the best possible anwer for their question), and assumeable best for the community since it would lead to better content overall if more hard or obscure questions got answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;As an alternative, how about the ability to queue up a question have it entered into the system, but not have it appear on the site until a button is pushed later. This way someone has to be on the site when the question goes live, but they can write it up ahead of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is such a feature desirable for stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastEditorUserId="130078" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-30T23:25:56.247" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T05:27:11.253" Title="There should be an Ask Question with delay feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2009-07-30T23:12:22.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this would be a good feature. If you can be around at some of the &quot;peak&quot; times, I absolutely encourage you to wait until then to post your question if you want. However, I believe the askers involvement is often important for a good question to occur and allowing user's to delay the asking of their question would allow and encourage them to ask questions, even if they wouldn't be able to participate or respond to any questions that arise. Many times the asker won't provide all the relevant information initially because they don't know all the pieces involved; which is likely part of why they're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T23:12:22.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2009-07-30T23:28:50.907" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... And if questions are showing up so fast that they roll off the main page, and overwhelm the most popular tags? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take this to the extreme, you'd have &lt;em&gt;every question for the day&lt;/em&gt; posted at 16:00 GMT. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then anyone wanting to answer them would be left to sort through the pile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a recipe for more ignored questions to me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T23:28:50.907" />
  <row Id="11299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T23:33:34.203" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current Community-Dump is missing a the date field that shows when a question or answer was flipped to community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming this date field is added, it will not be enough to simulate a rep recalc, and determine how much rep each person got from each question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Votes are scrubbed and have a 24 hour fidelity, meaning that the community wiki date + the votes table would not be enough to determine rep-per-question or answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to add total non-community-wiki votes to posts, in the next dump? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2620/what-information-is-missing-from-the-so-community-dump&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2620/what-information-is-missing-from-the-so-community-dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T19:08:24.290" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:24.290" Title="Rep analysis using the community dump, missing information" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:14:51.507" Score="1" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize this isn't directly computer related but I've ONLY seen this done on computer forums/message boards/comments. I see that some people write &quot;Captcha: something xyz&quot;, as an example, after they write their post. What is this for? I understand what a captcha is but I do not understand why you need to put it in your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please explain!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T08:41:44.763" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:41:44.763" Title="Why do people put &quot;catpcha: x y&quot; at the end of their posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;dialogue&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="11302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11301" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:17:25.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people will put it in the post when it is related to the content they are replying to or somehow funny.  You see this a lot on &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheDailyWTF&lt;/a&gt; because they for some reason they seem to have more related and funny capchas than other sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131962" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T23:41:33.140" />
  <row Id="11303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11301" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:18:37.970" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its just a bit of fun usually to note an odd combination that has occurred. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/are-you-a-human-being/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This post on the Stack Overflow blog&lt;/a&gt; is an example why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17461" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T23:41:33.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11301" CreationDate="2009-07-30T22:36:31.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a meme, and arguably a pretty dumb one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-07-30T23:41:33.140" />
  <row Id="11306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2009-07-31T00:29:00.193" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess one interesting filter would be a by askers reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eg: show me all unanswered questions by people with more than XYZ reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this necessary, well, I'm not sure, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Justification&lt;/strong&gt;: this would help answer some of the tough questions, that high rep users have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T00:29:00.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3327" CreationDate="2009-07-31T00:48:30.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm glad there are workarounds for this, but this is really a bug that should be fixed. I just wasted altogether too much time trying to figure out why I couldn't put a code block after...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bullet 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bullet 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paste in the following code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this.IsCode = true;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my attempt with 8 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bullet 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bullet 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paste in the following code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this.IsCode = true;&#xA;this.IsAlsoCode = true;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Okay, so every line of code needs to be proceded by 8 spaces (instead of the usual 4).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T00:48:30.110" />
  <row Id="11318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11301" CreationDate="2009-07-31T00:53:49.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the other answers but I still don't understand. Is it a shorthand way of saying &quot;hey, when I posted this, the two captcha words I was asked for were foo and bar and isn't that funny?&quot;  Because they are rude or they are appropriate for the post or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it because it's a &quot;particularly great ReCAPTCHA&quot; per the blog post and that's how we should share it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5298" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T00:53:49.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11322" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:02:36.100" Score="5" ViewCount="396" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are too fast in interacting with SO, a captcha request appears, together with a photo of two gentlemen dressed as robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who are they ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:09:43.890" Title="Who are the robots in the captcha request?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;robots&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11319" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:05:54.830" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They remind me of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%5Fof%5Fthe%5FConchords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flight of the Conchords&lt;/a&gt;...Jemaine and Bret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T13:09:43.890" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:09:43.890" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11319" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:06:05.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/conchords-robots.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T01:06:05.877" />
  <row Id="11322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11319" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:17:26.643" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's Jemaine and Bret from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%5Fof%5Fthe%5FConchords%5F%28TV%5Fseries%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flight of the Conchords&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  Specifically, the episode called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%5F%28Flight%5Fof%5Fthe%5FConchords%29#.22Robots.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's the video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T01:17:26.643" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="11323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5730" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:27:46.707" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something I'd like to see so that people can ask question on my blog that I can then easily find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131965" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T01:38:49.313" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T01:38:49.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11415" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:32:52.613" Score="3" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://xmlvga.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pvqyfD7xiy2SonqGRpK9R2858P-2dZTSuxJa6Mdw5yqPL9RCD5mpA0t%5FASihIGUGHfhVlgqcKaN3sntXqSEChDw/image001410.png&quot; alt=&quot;New Close Dialog&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I like the new format better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I either missed the discussion on this, or I missed the announcement. Kindly answer with the URL to what I missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:43:38.733" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:10:00.027" Title="New Close Dialog on SO - Nice, but Unexpected" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5730" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:38:10.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO isn't an advertising platform, it's a place to get answers and discuss programming related issues. Being able to post remotely is one thing (hopefully something that will be accomplished in a few months by an API), but there's no place for tags that refer to where a user came from.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is along the same lines as greetings, signatures, and closing statements and is completely unnecessary. I don't care if you came from icantcode.com, I'll answer your question if I can. If this behavior is ever executed you can kiss any usefulness of SO goodbye, as it will become an advertising haven for wehaveawebsitewithaterribleenginesoweusestackoverflowsinsteadbutstillwanttodirecttraffictooursite.com&#xA;It will also cause the unwanted behaviour of bias towards questions with certain tags that have nothing to do with the actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I only want to answer questions with&#xA;  the tag mysite.com to help out my&#xA;  users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is against everything that SO is about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T01:38:10.297" />
  <row Id="11326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:38:38.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a 404 a little while ago, which means I must have hit when Jeff was deploying it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like it. It encourages me to get the 1,000 more rep I need to be able to use it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T01:38:38.877" />
  <row Id="11327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T01:58:05.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flag menu got an overhaul, too. It looks nice, but I'm not sure why it was done. It also takes slightly longer to close, as you have to click your close reason, then click &quot;Vote to Close&quot; as opposed to just clicking the close reason directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have rather seen upgrades to the exact duplicate close menu to allow closing as an exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7670/add-separate-field-for-duplicate-questions/7895#7895&quot;&gt;more than one question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T01:58:05.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11319" CreationDate="2009-07-31T02:05:17.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they might be Daft Punk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T02:05:17.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T02:03:36.490" Score="-1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for something like a &quot;Favorite Questions&quot; on SO that would be accessible in my SO profile/account. This is not to be confused with the ability to tag one of your own questions as a favorite in your account, but rather have a simple mechanism where one can mark some of the great questions/answers posted on SO and add it to a list which could be accessed from their profile/account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find any existing question areas/help where one can request new features/enhancement. &#xA;Do you have a feature that you would really love to see on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T09:21:12.927" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T09:38:57.150" Title="Marking or bookmarking questions as favorites for later access" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11330" CreationDate="2009-07-31T02:08:50.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; Click the star next to the question. It shows up under the Favorites tab on your profile page. – &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/67/rex-m&quot;&gt;Rex M&lt;/a&gt; Jul 31 at 2:06&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW I will NOT keep updating this to keep the time correct. I just won't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T09:38:57.150" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T09:38:57.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2009-07-31T02:24:55.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reminder: the original &quot;big search feature&quot; question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;Additional search features/syntax?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I had a &quot;can't live without it&quot; feature I wanted, but after reading that question again, I can't find one. I'll leave this answer here in case I remember, and for the convenience of anyone else who wants the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T02:24:55.510" />
  <row Id="11334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2009-07-31T02:31:36.527" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really a new option, but something like '&lt;code&gt;user:self&lt;/code&gt;' or '&lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;' would be a nice convenience, instead of requiring one to lookup his/her numeric userid to search within one's own questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T02:31:36.527" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T03:10:38.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh, I thought it was just me. On the IE7 that I'm using at the moment, after selecting a reason the popup window gets really wide and I have to scroll to the right to see it all (and to find the &quot;Vote to close&quot; button).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T03:10:38.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T03:29:59.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I'd really like is for a second click on 'Close' to remove the menu (same as clicking 'Cancel').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T03:29:59.603" />
  <row Id="11338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11350" CreationDate="2009-07-31T04:05:02.823" Score="5" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I perform boolean (AND and OR) searches and negation?  Note:  I couldn't find this information in other &quot;advanced search&quot; questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010/advanced-syntax-ideas&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) or in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;Search Tips&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am searching Stack Overflow for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22google+checkout&quot;&gt;&quot;Google Checkout&quot;&lt;/a&gt; questions.  My search gives me a few results tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-checkout&quot;&gt;google-checkout&lt;/a&gt;, but I also get lots of questions about various revision control systems &lt;strong&gt;checkout&lt;/strong&gt; command.  I've tried to remove &quot;SVN&quot; from my search via the following methods, but none of them seem to work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22google+checkout%22+!svn&quot;&gt;&quot;google checkout&quot; !svn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22google+checkout%22+not+svn&quot;&gt;&quot;google checkout&quot; not svn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22google+checkout%22+~svn&quot;&gt;&quot;google checkout&quot; ~svn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't I just look at the questions in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-checkout&quot;&gt;google-checkout&lt;/a&gt; tag?  Because many questions were incorrectly tagged as both &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/checkout&quot;&gt;checkout&lt;/a&gt; (I'm fixing the problems as I see them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please re-tag appropriately (i.e. is this a support question or feature request?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff mentioned how to exclude a tag from a search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;google checkout&quot; -[svn]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will search for the phrase &quot;google checkout&quot; while excluding all items tagged [svn].  It looks like the syntax for excluding tags &lt;strong&gt;-[tag]&lt;/strong&gt; is missing from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;Search Tips&lt;/a&gt; page.  Could someone add it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130662" LastEditorUserId="130662" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T15:03:12.117" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:18:43.253" Title="(more) Advanced Search Options" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6905" CreationDate="2009-07-31T04:08:31.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the linked article, there is now no difference between having a no-followed link on hte page and not having that link no-followed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each link gets assigned the same amount, but no follow link amounts are 'thrown away' instead of being distributed among the other links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There aren't that many 3k+ users, and the other links on the page are hardly going to be affected by the existence of a nofollow or two on the page, so I don't think your last point has merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it may not matter anyway.  My user page doesn't have a pagerank (though it's linked to hundreds of questions that do).  I wonder if the user pages are in the supplemental index, and if so they probably don't give much to their links.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Result&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Result&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, of course, would mean that using nofollow is good for anti-spam measures, but there is no real benefit for those users with high enough rep to remove the nofollow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone else find a user page with a google pagerank?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T04:08:31.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11319" CreationDate="2009-07-31T04:44:35.303" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just sorry it's not Jeff and Joel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T04:44:35.303" />
  <row Id="11341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-07-31T05:08:58.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of saying which question triggered a specific instance, where the badges are listed, and it would usually say &quot;[Nice Answer] x 10&quot;, you either have 10 answers - each with a question that meets the criteria, or have a collapsible list with the list of questions that meet it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's still a bit of discovery (you need to figure out which specific question triggered the badge), but you can easily see which questions have earned the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="943" LastEditorUserId="943" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:58:29.263" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:58:29.263" />
  <row Id="11342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2009-07-31T05:27:11.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently questions that pop up to the top of main page fall to the bottom in 35 to 5 minutes depending on what time is it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this feature we will have sudden bursts of questions which is not very good - some of the questions will not be noticed quickly in the &quot;prime time&quot; where there're lots of users that could answer them right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it would be better to change the &quot;pop up&quot; algorithm slightly so that it pops up the question every several hours for the first one or two days after it being asked - currently Community does this for questions that are very old - they pop up once suddenly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T05:27:11.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11354" CreationDate="2009-07-31T06:28:32.253" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;my IE security settings reject it (and all activeX controls) of course, but i'm curious - what activex control is this site (and serverfault) trying to run?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;note: it doesn't always happen - something connected with the ads perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2388/soax.png&quot; alt=&quot;caught it on superuser.com&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T07:21:48.933" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:57:54.620" Title="what activex control does meta.stackoverflow.com keep trying to run?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T06:30:42.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate the new menu.  When I'm using my laptop it drops below the bottom of my screen and I have to scroll to register my vote.  The thing is massive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T06:30:42.467" />
  <row Id="11345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11346" CreationDate="2009-07-31T06:34:55.987" Score="10" ViewCount="637" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have finally fallen off of the first page of StackOverflow users, and I am faced with a dilemma:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I work really hard to get back on the first page of users on StackOverflow, or try to get a life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please give reasons for your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;ADDENDUM&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that lately I seem to spend more time flagging questions to be closed than answering them. I don't know if the quality of questions has really dropped that dramatically or if my standards are higher (or tolerance is lower, depending on your point of view).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The desire to help is a primary motivator, and SO is a good mental break from the headache-inducing things that often occur during the day (&quot;procrastination&quot; is the technical term).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's getting more and more difficult to find questions that I can answer without reading through &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the questions - and I tried that for a while, but my RSS feed was giving me 1000+ new questions per day and reading them all is just not going to happen ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I don't know what website to go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86hgetalife.phtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;get a life&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T05:31:05.847" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T05:31:05.847" Title="Should I work really hard to get back on the first page of users on StackOverflow, or try to get a life?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="11346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-07-31T06:40:50.763" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you &lt;em&gt;enjoy&lt;/em&gt; answering questions on SO? If so, I see no reason to avoid doing it for fun. If it becomes a chore, stop and do something else instead. Of course, if it starts getting in the way of other things which are clearly important (job, marriage etc) then that would be a very good reason to stop...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole &quot;get a life&quot; business seems to be predicated on what &lt;em&gt;other people&lt;/em&gt; think you should enjoy doing, which doesn't seem like a very good basis on which to make decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I wouldn't particularly concentrate on getting back on the front page. Concentrate on giving great answers. That &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; has an effect of generating a lot of rep, but not always. Don't sweat the rep too much - or at least, don't let it get in the way of having fun and helping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T06:50:34.817" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T06:50:34.817" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-07-31T06:50:02.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait, you broke your addiction?  How is that possible?  Even Jon Skeet can't break the reputation addiction (he's now hooked on several sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been battling my reputation addiction for months now and I can't shake it.  I'm only at peace when I've hit rep cap for the day.  I've started staying up late at night fighting to hit rep cap so that I can occasionally get a good night of sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People stopped scheduling meetings for me late in the afternoon knowing there's a good chance I will unabashedly spend the entire time answering stack overflow questions on my laptop.  Late in the day if I'm not at rep cap, I start to shake a bit and snap at people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After years of trying I was finally able to quit cigarettes.  But there's no patch for StackOverflow.  I can't win.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get out while you still can!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Confession: I hit refresh on the main stackoverflow site 5 times looking for new questions while writing this answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T06:50:02.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T06:51:13.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11343" CreationDate="2009-07-31T07:07:52.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't use any ActiveX controls, can you clarify what it is you're referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: we have looked ad this and we have no idea what IE7 &quot;thinks&quot; it is blocking. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T08:07:33.287" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:07:33.287" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11338" CreationDate="2009-07-31T07:14:49.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hmm, well, have you tried&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;google checkout&quot; -[svn]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, now that I look at that, I guess this &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; really documented anywhere. My bad. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T15:18:43.253" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:18:43.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11343" CreationDate="2009-07-31T07:39:33.890" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably throwing a hissy fit because of high security settings triggered by the inclusion of jQuery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JQuery bugs:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;IE7 wants to run ActiveX add-on&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4017&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4651&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4651&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T08:57:54.620" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:57:54.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T07:46:30.037" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7116/stackoverflow-ie8-issue-bug&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow ie8 issue / bug?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While posting answers (on stackoverflow, at least), I've noticed that the &quot;Ask Your Question&quot; gets prefixed by a bullet point (●). In fact, I've seen it go up to 3 (though one at a time). I am using IE8 in normal mode (ie. not &quot;Compatabily View&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely not being rendered that way as I've seen it happen while entering text. I've added a screenshot below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/685/postyouranswer.png&quot; alt=&quot;Post Your Answer with bullet prefix&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131999" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:36:37.347" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:36:37.347" ClosedDate="2009-07-31T07:49:05.320" Title="&quot;Post Your Answer&quot; button is prefixed by bullet points at runtime" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;internet-explorer&gt;&lt;bullets&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6905" CreationDate="2009-07-31T07:47:02.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would we allow this? We already give users the benefit of a non-nofollow link in their profile (when they achieve 2k reputation), extending it to &quot;About Me&quot; would open up a world of potential linkspam exploits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T21:15:32.283" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T21:15:32.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10194" CreationDate="2009-07-31T07:51:50.870" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: updating the client-side javascript to negotiate with the server and figure out this distinction is far more code work than this justifies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T03:57:09.660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:57:09.660" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="11361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-07-31T07:59:07.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another query which people might find interesting - order by &quot;reputation per day&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select id, reputation, &#xA;   (LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60) as days_on_site,&#xA;   reputation / ((LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60)) as rep_per_day&#xA;from users&#xA;where (LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60) &amp;gt; 2&#xA;order by reputation / ((LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60)) desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't work out how to make MySQL use a named computed expression elsewhere in the query, hence the repetition.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T07:59:07.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-07-31T08:15:43.067" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do either because you want to do it, not because you have a goal of keeping up with others rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is a moving target, and those at the top are hitting the rep limit every day, so the only way to gain on them is by exceeding the rep limit. (And even then you have to accept that they will exceed the rep limit at times, so you have to exceed it by more than them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realised after about 10 seconds on SO that I would never be anywhere near the top. Accept that and just answer because you enjoy it and forget about the rep or your position on the first page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:15:43.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-07-31T08:31:09.060" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine Jeff wins the lottery, gets millionaire and is fed up with coding (it's unlikely, just &lt;em&gt;imagine&lt;/em&gt;). Now he closes SO today.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In this situation would you have been happier, if you worked hard to increase your rep yesterday, or would you feel better, if you went fishing (real fishes, no rep)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This real hypothetical scenario should help you, to answer this question yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:31:09.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11212" CreationDate="2009-07-31T08:44:39.077" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is philosophically the wrong thing to watch, and it would send the wrong message if implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't watch &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You watch &lt;em&gt;actions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference is hugely important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T08:44:39.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T10:10:29.543" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I search for something with multiple words in (so that it doesn't just do a tag search and instead uses /search?q=a+b ) then the results have raw html in where there should be links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=perl+gzip&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=perl+gzip&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;..second link (&quot;Hidden features of Perl&quot;) shows a load of aref rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; junk in the output which I wouldn't expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't happen on the tag search, so just typing &quot;perl&quot; into the search box doesn't trigger this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="86080" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T10:19:30.633" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:01:20.787" Title="Search result summaries appear to have raw html where there should be links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11370" CreationDate="2009-07-31T10:19:12.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, they're valid hits in the full text engine. We can hide them, but it's arguably better to show you, so you know why a certain post has the word &quot;perl&quot; a zillion times and thus ranks very highly in searches for that word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(also, perl doesn't map to [perl] because it's not a top 40 tag in the system as of yet. auto-mapping of multi-word search terms to tags requires that the tag be in the top 40)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T10:19:12.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30676" CreationDate="2009-07-31T10:43:05.267" Score="-1" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't the reason tagging works better than rigor categorization because of the sheer number and variety of terms people can comes up with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are people scrutinizing tags a little too much? I've seen people stripping out various (IMO good) tags to enforce their own sense of what's SO tags should be like ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the SO engine should be a little more cunning in how it deals with tags re-orging, if too many people becomes a &quot;tags dictator&quot; then it reduces/defeats the purpose of having a tagging system in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read a few crowdsourcing book, including Clay Shirky's and that's what I think about when I see people scrutinizing tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that what tags a question should have be calculated the same way an ownership of a CW question is calculated, i.e. in relative percentage to the overall efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my opinion on these cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case 1:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;pyton3.0&quot; and &quot;python3&quot; ... If there are people who use &quot;python3.0&quot; to tag questions in the first place, why wouldn't there be people searching for python 3.0 using the tag &quot;python3.0&quot; as well? Removing all the &quot;python3.0&quot; and replacing it with &quot;python3&quot; defeats the purpose of having many eyeballs tagging questions in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Removing a tag does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; equal more search hits! For example, imagine a case where a benevolent dictator comes and retags all the career-related tags as &quot;subjective&quot; would that increase search hits? No, of course! Having a variety of tags to describe a question is what make it &quot;better&quot; for search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T08:21:42.983" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T12:50:26.207" Title="Too much tags scrutinization?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="11373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11372" CreationDate="2009-07-31T10:54:35.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are serious business. Think about tags in terms of how they're intended to be used.  They're here to help people find them from the Internet and to determine which questions are interesting and which are not.  If tags are too specific their usefulness is lost because odds are fewer are searching for the uncommon terms.  So the way I see it, it's OK to scrutinize tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T10:54:35.260" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11372" CreationDate="2009-07-31T10:56:16.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eyeballing all these tags helps define cases where there are too many tags created with too wide a net for classification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the deal with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2061/change-python3-0-tags-to-python3&quot;&gt;python&lt;/a&gt; and wanting to change &lt;code&gt;python3.0&lt;/code&gt; to simply &lt;code&gt;python3&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clean up of tags like this help the community get right to the question at hand without having everything so fragmented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every now and then, yes, new tags will be created and will live on. But then you have to prune and look at the branches every now and then to make sure you're not letting the tags get too out of hand, too needlessly narrow that they defeat the purpose of having tags in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T10:56:16.660" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11378" CreationDate="2009-07-31T11:06:02.367" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in seeing which tag is responsible for marking a question as 'interesting'. A slight change to its visual representation would be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T12:52:54.927" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T15:02:43.860" Title="Highlight the tag that marks a question as interesting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11372" CreationDate="2009-07-31T11:21:58.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that because bigger tagging overhauls are done by moderators, and they are beforehand discussed (and voted on) here on meta (see especially &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&quot;&gt;The Great Tagging Reorg&lt;/a&gt; and other questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot;&gt;tagged retag-requests&lt;/a&gt;), excessive &quot;scrutinization&quot; &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; is not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some user (manually) edits tags in a way that most others consider harmful, we can surely revert these changes and tell that user to reconsider (e.g. by leaving comments in the questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I propose that what tags a question&#xA;  should have be calculated the same way&#xA;  an ownership of a CW question is&#xA;  calculated, i.e. in relative&#xA;  percentage to the overall efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other hand, it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; indeed make sense that the tags of a given question would somehow better reflect the collective thinking of the community, and not just that of the latest editor. I.e. &lt;em&gt;each user&lt;/em&gt; could tag a question in a certain way, and some kind of aggregation of that data would be shown on the question. (Something a bit closer to how tagging works e.g. on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/music/The+Beatles/+tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/music/Britney+Spears/+tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;.fm&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0060538252&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;.) But while this is interesting to think about, I'm not at all sure if such fundamental changes to the tagging system should really be made. Especially as it (IMHO) works exceptionally well as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T11:36:20.307" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T11:36:20.307" />
  <row Id="11378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11376" CreationDate="2009-07-31T11:26:56.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions only have 5 tags max. If you put a tag on your interested list, the very fact that the row in question is highlighted should be indication enough to remind you which of the tags in the question is calling for your attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless, as implied in comment, you have so many that you don't know what's in your list anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T11:26:56.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-07-31T12:51:11.293" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick a niche tag that the reputation leaders aren't active in and start studying up on that.  This is a great way to pick up some stray reputation points &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; learn something new at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T12:51:11.293" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:09:01.957" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about on Sysadmin Appreciation Day giving registered users a free 10 rep points or something like that on ServerFault? Might be a nice little community bonus...or a badge of some kind that shows how many SAD days have passed that you've been active on (I don't know...sign in on SAD day and get a badge?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might be a fun idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132770" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:17:53.490" Title="System Administrator Appreciation Day BONUS!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11380" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:13:02.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I'd like a SAD Panda badge, I don't think we should be giving out badges for each holiday that passes. It would cheapen achievements, since all you have to do is exist on a given day. The Enthusiast/Fanatic badges are much more suitable, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:13:02.123" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8478" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:14:23.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1058783/regular-expression-to-find-and-remove-duplicate-words/1212118#1212118&quot;&gt;this regex&lt;/a&gt; to clean up the duplicate tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may have to run this periodically depending on how much renaming goes on..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I've added a moderator function which deduplicates all current question tags, and all post history tag entries. The next time there's a duplicate tag problem, just flag one of them for moderator attention and we'll run the tag deduplicator page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T01:18:20.923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:18:20.923" />
  <row Id="11383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11380" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:15:50.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Pesto said in the comments, you jumped in a little late with the suggestion for free swag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the only times I have ever seen bonus rep given out is for accounts starting out on new websites (the association bonus) so that people can at least do something on the site. You don't just give away free rep willy nilly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start giving away rep on every little holiday that comes around, you're going to start lowering the value of the rep. This is absolutely unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:15:50.700" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11380" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:17:53.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I get a box of donuts mailed to me for &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmerday.info/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Programmer Day&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff et al.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, can we have a special theme for Programmer Day like we had on Unicorn, Pony and Rainbow Day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Even more&lt;/em&gt; seriously, I love donuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:17:53.490" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:24:42.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yuck! I find the new dialog to be really intrusive and ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:24:42.573" />
  <row Id="11386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11867" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:32:42.140" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bill said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pick a niche tag that the reputation&#xA;  leaders aren't active in and start&#xA;  studying up on that. This is a great&#xA;  way to pick up some stray reputation&#xA;  points and learn something new at the&#xA;  same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11345/work-hard-or-get-a-life/11379#11379&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11345/work-hard-or-get-a-life/11379#11379&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any candidate SQL queries against the data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T09:02:27.047" Title="Finding a niche tag that the reputation leaders aren't active in" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="11387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:35:47.937" Score="5" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've lost count of the number of times I've either asked a question or been answering a question only to have it closed as an exact duplicate. But searching for the question turns up  a list of seemly unrelated results using the sites builtin search. Then if I switch to a general web search engine and limit its scope to just SO, SF or SU I find the question within the first two or three results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this isn't an exact duplicate of another question though I did find some that were at least somewhat related (using google).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have gotten (somewhat) better results by simply typing a question and browsing the generated list of related questions. Still a search feature that doesn't return good results isn't going to be used by most people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common sense would suggest (though common sense isn't always the best indicator) that a targeted solution to a specific problem domain should be superior to a generalized solution. In most cases this appears to hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132772" LastEditorUserId="132772" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T13:57:09.680" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:44:01.447" Title="Why does (insert favorite search engine here) get better search results than SO, SF, or SU's own search function?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:36:40.947" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`\`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should be rendered as an escaped backslash but it actually ends up displayed as an escaped backtick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:11:46.793" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T13:35:05.100" Title="Backslash escaped with backticks rendered incorrectly in comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11387" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:37:12.617" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because [insert favorite search engine here]'s prime responsibility is delivering good search results, while SO, SF, or SU's primary goal is to deliver an overall excellent Q&amp;amp;A system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:37:12.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11391" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:38:03.177" Score="1" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I asked a question on serverfault and someone commented on it, i also saw that at about the same time I lose 2 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you lose reputation when someone comments? (Which sorta makes sense)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; The reason I thought it makes sense, is because usually someone only has to comment when you're question was not clear enough, or when it didn't have enough info. Since it's bad of you to leave vague questions that need explaining, I thought you'd lose rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132503" LastEditorUserId="132503" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T14:50:12.137" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:50:12.137" Title="Do you lose reputation when someone comments on your question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="11391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11390" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:39:23.767" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He downvoted you and left a comment explaining it. They are not related. You can downvote without commenting and comment without downvoting. One does not cause the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Which sorta makes sense)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're going to have to explain what horrible confusion of ideas leads you to believe that commenting should remove reputation because I'm afraid I can't fathom how anyone could come up with something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:39:23.767" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11387" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:39:28.697" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because google has spent a lot more (time, money, people) on improving search than Jeff and the guys have. Incidently, more often than once I have found a dup of my to-be-asked question when getting the &quot;possibly related&quot; list after typing in the title, although I hadn't found it even through google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:39:28.697" />
  <row Id="11393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11372" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:41:54.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9109&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;, I suggested created an alias mapping for tags that are being renamed that are like python3.0 and python3. I would suggest that if this mapping were used, it could also allow for searching for either tag to yield the same results. Obviously this only affects internal/tag based searches, I have no idea how much of an influence tags play in searching from google, bing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:41:54.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11390" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:44:19.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment system has no impact on reputation. Often user's may leave a comment if they downvote you, but this is not required. Without looking for the actual post, it seems likely this is what happened, since you say you lost 2 which is the effect of being downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:44:19.907" />
  <row Id="11396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11387" CreationDate="2009-07-31T13:53:43.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these comments are based on the performance of our search engine as of a week ago. Particularly your &quot;wow, the /ask page search is great!&quot; comment, which almost by definition means you don't know about the changes we've made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been some substantial changes under the hood since then, try looking at it again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note: I'm not saying it doesn't still suck, but I don't think your comments are based on &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; search results..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T13:53:43.853" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11414" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:23:40.827" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed quite a few questions coming in on META that are definitely duplicates of other posts.  To the point where I think the titles may have even been almost the same verbatim (ok, a tad bit of a stretch...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut is that this is occurring by users with lower rep and folks not used to the SO experience yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts about the Ask Question really be a search for question first, where users enter the tags and title first and then if no results pop up that interest them, they can get the body to type their question in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that after the title is entered, users can see some items that may be similar, but I'm thinking of expanding that to a forced search where they have to see, still need to ask type of thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I have nothing against the auto search and use it myself....  BUT, how may duplicates do you see where a user must completely ignore those results and post their question anyways?  If the search worked and process worked, we'd get few duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;@Jeff&lt;/strong&gt; - completely agree + 100.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;@TheTXI&lt;/strong&gt; - A barrier, but its not like a barrier to entry, its just one more thing to say I'm positive my question is not here.  I think at the end of the day, folks are a bit lazy and just want to have their question online and that is that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T06:00:24.223" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T06:02:32.430" Title="Force a search before asking question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11407" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:24:59.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with the automatic search that suggests related questions as you type?  Every time I've been about to post a duplicate, the original has appeared in the list and I've found the answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't want to see a system like the &quot;help assistants&quot; that you get on many large websites, where they make you jump through hoops before you can report a bug, presenting you with a series of unrelated &amp;amp; frustrating FAQ entries that happen to contain some of the same keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:24:59.590" />
  <row Id="11411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:25:59.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently this is the answer to &quot;my fat fingers keep hitting the wrong close option&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I still wanna be able to change or retract my close votes&lt;/strong&gt;. But, every little bit helps...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:25:59.993" />
  <row Id="11412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11407" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:26:34.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The auto search after typing in a title works decently IMO. This is kind of the feature you requested, but it is up to the user to go through those search results. You can only force so much on the user before the site becomes annoying to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:26:34.330" />
  <row Id="11413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11407" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:28:17.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of duplicates are definitely coming from a majority new users, but there are still a number of vets who are posting the same thing and not realizing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your biggest issue with forcing them to do a complete dupe search before posting a question is that it will provide another barrier of entry for newer users who may get frustrated having to jump through all the hoops to get their question raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be argued that with a high enough active population (or very fast mods), the questions would be closed as dupe and links provided faster than it would take a newbie to search for a dupe and find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure it can be a little frustrating, but to me the closings show the system is working as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:28:17.430" />
  <row Id="11414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11407" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:28:31.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've talked about adding an interstitial post-ask search page that new users are required to click through, as documented here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7441/can-and-should-more-be-done-to-encourage-users-to-search-first-and-ask-only-if/9710#9710&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7441/can-and-should-more-be-done-to-encourage-users-to-search-first-and-ask-only-if/9710#9710&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now deployed, and enabled on Stack Overflow only. All new users (rep &amp;lt;= 10) get this mandatory advice page ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask-advice&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask-advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... when they attempt to ask a question via &lt;code&gt;questions/ask&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T06:02:32.430" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T06:02:32.430" />
  <row Id="11415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11324" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:29:55.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; this was working right last night, but now it seems that the text entry field in the exact duplicate selection box is now running over the edge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/ytqyx.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:10:00.027" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:10:00.027" />
  <row Id="11416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:36:59.300" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching on any of the SO family sites, search terms are highlighted in the results with a background color. The background color, however, tends to obscure the descenders of characters on the line above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be corrected by increasing the line-height.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i31.tinypic.com/2dbtpty.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65611" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T19:22:54.713" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:22:54.713" Title="Highlighted search terms cover portions of character descenders" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;style&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="73" CreationDate="2009-07-31T15:51:54.810" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm brand new to Stack Overflow and think the speed thing is a problem. I'm enjoying answering questions and love the feedback from reputation. What I hate is writing a detailed, reasoned answer and suddenly getting an Ajax notification &quot;there are 2 answers; reload to see them&quot;. I feel like I have to beat the timer. I'm already answering questions more quickly or leaving a short answer to go back and edit later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the solution is to somehow delay votes and randomize the order for a few minutes until several answers come in. Then let the best answer win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132781" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T15:51:54.810" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:29:20.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;remove accepting an answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could still make sense for feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one reason I can think of for accepting an answer to a feature request, and that is if the answerer convinces you that your suggestion was a bad idea.  But maybe the 2 rep points should not be awarded to the asker in this situation (replaced by a badge?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:29:20.350" />
  <row Id="11428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:29:58.930" Score="19" ViewCount="835" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like a stupid question, but whenever I copy code from a SO post and try to paste it into VS or notepad, all the carriage returns are lost and I have to go through and fix everything.  Is there a proper way to do this so the carriage returns are maintained???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bug is with Internet Explorer (7 and 8), it seems to work fine in Firefox and Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130390" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-27T04:37:28.060" LastActivityDate="2011-03-27T22:04:49.127" Title="Pasting code from Stackoverflow to notepad loses line breaks using IE?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;internet-explorer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:30:43.997" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;My account on SO is rmyeid, I can not access the account anymore using the launchpad openid authentication server. I tried to figure what is the problem with launchpad support on the #launchpad irc channel. &lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt; said that problem is with SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is the conversation on #launchpad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;aboSamoor&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; do you know who I can ask regarding open id support ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; aboSamoor, I haven't logged into stackoverflow before, but don't you have to associate your account on stack overflow with your LP account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; aboSamoor, my guess is it wants to create a new stack overflow account because the site doesn't know which account your open id relates to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;aboSamoor&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; deryck, I created an account in SO using launchpad openid, what I can remember that my id was id.launchpad.net/~rmyeid and after a while it changed to launchpad.net/~rmyeid and after that I can not access my account again !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; aboSamoor, what is your user name on Launchpad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;aboSamoor&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; deryck, rmyeid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; aboSamoor, and when you went to SO did you try to provide -- &lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~rmyeid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://launchpad.net/~rmyeid&lt;/a&gt; -- as your open id login?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;aboSamoor&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; deryck, I tried and it gives me that it is the first time so it will make a new user account !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; aboSamoor, Stack Overflow tells you it is your first time and wants you to create a new Stack Overflow account?  Is that correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;aboSamoor&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; deryck, yeah &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; aboSamoor, yeah, this is what I was saying earlier.  Stack Overflow doesn't associate your open id with any account that they have.  I'm not sure why that is, but it's on Stack Overflow's end, not Launchpad's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;strong&gt;deryck&lt;/strong&gt;&gt; aboSamoor, I think you need to contact someone with Stack Overflow about the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:46:04.497" Title="Launchpad openid login problem" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11445" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:31:26.867" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, we have &quot;newest&quot;, &quot;featured&quot;, &quot;hot&quot;, &quot;votes&quot; and &quot;active&quot; as subtabs on the &quot;Questions&quot; page at Stackoverflow - what I'm missing is a sub tab called &quot;My tags&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Motivation:&lt;/strong&gt; I would like to be able not just to filter out questions with tags that don't interest me (negative - blacklist), but I'd like to have a way to say &quot;show me only questions that are of interest to me&quot; that have at least one tag that I'm interested in (positive - whitelist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any takers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:26:32.823" Title="Add another subtab on the &quot;Questions&quot; page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11428" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:32:49.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that this is annoying. My workaround is to click &quot;edit&quot; and copy the code out of the text editor there, but this doesn't work so well if you're under 2k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I'm on IE7 most of the time. I don't know if this is a problem on other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:32:49.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:32:56.177" Score="3" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that it has been discussed a lot that StackOverflow is NOT a social networking site. But, I'm wondering if it is wrong for people who design tools to be used with StackOverflow (Greasemonkey Scripts, external tools, etc) to continue to add features that make the site more social.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I have a greasemonkey script that allows me to 'favorite' users, and makes it really obvious if the question was created by one of my favorite users. This could be used for keeping track of their questions/answers because you think that they are a good source of information, or you think they give good questions/answers that you can learn from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A script like this could make it really easy for people to upvote their friends or form alliances that would unfairly give them an advantage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it right to release stuff like that? It adds 'social' capabilities to the site, but they could be used for both good and evil. Do you stay clear away from evil? or you just hope it is used for good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:34:00.073" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:34:00.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T16:32:56.177" Title="Is it wrong for the community to add 'social' features using scripts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="11433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11432" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:35:37.780" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, i don't think it really fits... SO doesn't make a lot of sense as a social club. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to subscribe to the feed for a user whose posts you enjoy reading, go for it; but i don't see any point in going out of your way to emphasize arbitrary posts by a user while merely browsing through Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:35:37.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T16:35:37.780" />
  <row Id="11434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:37:24.940" Score="0" ViewCount="719" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What framework was StackOverflow developed with?  Was it developed in Zend or CakePHP or any other frameworks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="110976" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T16:57:10.857" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:57:10.857" ClosedDate="2009-07-31T16:58:23.177" Title="What framework was StackOverflow developed with?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11434" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:38:11.257" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET MVC....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read all about it on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO Blog.&lt;/a&gt; or a post from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HanselminutesPodcast134StackOverflowUsesASPNETMVCJeffAtwoodAndHisTechnicalTeam.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:39:36.277" />
  <row Id="11436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11434" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:38:12.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What was StackOverflow Built With?&lt;/a&gt; on the SO Blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:39:36.277" />
  <row Id="11437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11428" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:40:53.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Verified this in IE8 on Windows7 as well. IE6 on Windows XP SP2 does not appear to be affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:40:53.027" />
  <row Id="11440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11429" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:46:04.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sound's like Launchpad changed the address to the OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to fix this is to email team@stackoverflow.com with the problem, and the problem accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can, edit the duplicate, and write in the description that it is a dup of your other account. You may also want to edit the description of the original. This will help prove that the person who owns the duplicate account, is in fact the same person who owns the other account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually done this, and it worked flawlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:46:04.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:46:46.757" Score="-6" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556&quot;&gt;most famous question&lt;/a&gt; on Stackoverflow and should have a protected status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we make this impossible to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:08:20.833" Title="Can we make Whats Your Favorite Programmer Cartoon permantly open and unable to close?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:53:41.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  Absolutely not.  Why would you want to subvert the community's decision, whatever it may be?  Also, I'd argue that the question is more infamous than famous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:53:41.580" />
  <row Id="11444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2009-07-31T16:54:19.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with it being open to new answers, as long as it stays off the front page.  I've often seen it pop up again when someone adds a new answer and I clicked the &quot;active&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T16:54:19.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11430" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:03:55.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have this on the unanswered tab. So I think it would be very fitting to have it on the other tabs aswell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone asked this same question here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10665/inconsistent-buttons-on-different-pages/11279#11279&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10665/inconsistent-buttons-on-different-pages/11279#11279&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:03:55.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:08:20.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fun to have a limited number of &quot;fun&quot; questions. The problem is that they set a bad example. They serve as an excuse for more &quot;fun&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mostly think these should be subject to the will of the community. My &quot;will&quot; is likely to be to close them. However, a good fun question is likely to be reopened. In fact, over its life, I think it's likely to go through several close/reopen cycles, and maybe even close/delete/undelete/reopen. That makes it a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; bad example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that we create a special site for those, maybe fun.stackoverflow.com. What's really special about this site would be that it does not accept new questions. Instead, a moderator may manually migrate a surviving &quot;fun&quot; question (after six months, say), from SO to FSO. We'd be able to add new answers to the question, but it would be off of SO, and the front page of SO, and would stop being a bad example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:08:20.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11432" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:12:53.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you need to worry about ethics of releasing scripts - unless they create an abnormally heavy load on the server (which would adversely affect all users, until the moderators spotted it and banned your IP.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't be using it personally, but I should not and do not care if others are using scripts to find and upvote their friends' answers.  If this causes any real problem it will probably reveal a bug or design flaw which can then be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:12:53.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T17:12:53.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11428" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:25:03.047" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136443/why-doesnt-ie7-copy-precode-blocks-to-the-clipboard-correctly&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136443/why-doesnt-ie7-copy-precode-blocks-to-the-clipboard-correctly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I believe this is on the google prettify guys' radar now, as I saw multiple tickets on it. Easier for them to fix!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: latest version of Prettify was deployed a few days ago; I verified that I can copy and paste from IE in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136443/why-doesnt-ie7-copy-precode-blocks-to-the-clipboard-correctly&quot;&gt;the sample post demonstrating the original issue&lt;/a&gt; fine. Kudos to Mike Samuel at Google for getting this fix in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T22:59:02.623" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T22:59:02.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11430" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:26:32.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be browsing by tag, if you want to be that narrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try combining tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:26:32.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:29:09.107" Score="3" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to have feeds for answers in posts in aggregate form? Right now you can view answers by viewing the feed for the specific question, and comments only by viewing a users feed (If there are other ways let me know). There is a lot of unnecessary traffic to check to see if answers were posted for several questions. Also there is no easy method of finding comments on posts, an aggregate feed of all comments could solve this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would use this information for indexing. These feeds could greatly improve the data we have access to, and could lead to user driven API's before a real API is released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:29:09.107" Title="Aggregate Feeds for Answers &amp; Comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="11452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:22:09.840" Score="2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11428/pasting-code-from-stackoverflow-to-notepad-loses-line-breaks-using-ie&quot;&gt;Pasting code from Stackoverflow to notepad loses line breaks using IE?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A slight annoyance...When I paste code from a Stack Overflow question/answer into Visual Studio, the code loses the line breaks. How can I keep the line breaks? Am I missing something obvious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:40:18.370" ClosedDate="2009-08-01T15:11:35.907" Title="Pasting code from StackOverflow to Visual Studio" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;visual-studio&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="11453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11452" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:24:52.580" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick &lt;kbd&gt;Control&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;Control&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt; will have Visual Studio reformat the source to whatever style you have set up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:40:18.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11452" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:39:06.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11428/pasting-code-from-stackoverflow-to-notepad-loses-line-breaks-using-ie&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bug is with Internet Explorer (7 and 8), it seems to work fine in Firefox and Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:40:18.370" />
  <row Id="11455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:53:47.450" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I log in SO/SU/SF, read just a few items/quetions and go to do some work (leaving the page open). Later on, I come back to read more items. Since the times are relative would be nice to have the base time they relate to printed somewhere in the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Versão em português:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Às vezes eu acesso SO/SF/SU, leio alguns itens (questões) e vou trabalhar ou fazer qualquer outra atividade (deixando a página aberta). Mais tarde eu volto e vou ler mais alguns itens. Uma vez que os horários sáo relativos, seria interessante ter o horário base a que eles se referem em algum lugar da página.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26673" LastEditorUserId="26673" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T18:06:48.687" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:06:48.687" Title="Feature request: put the time the page was rendered" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11455" CreationDate="2009-07-31T17:59:06.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest you refresh the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better: if you use Firefox, you could install the auto reload extension. Or you could have someone here write a Greasemonkey script for you to do what you want. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just doesn't seem like much use to 99% of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T17:59:06.207" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2275" CreationDate="2009-07-31T18:02:08.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say very heartily YES, especially if it is a link to an external site. The standard convention is, if it's a link to yourself, no popup/new window, but a link to an external site should be in a new window/tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132792" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:02:08.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11432" CreationDate="2009-07-31T18:18:32.813" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm clearly a huge fan of scripts. In all honesty, when I sit down to use SO on another machine, I'm a little lost. On my machine, I have constant access to all of my favorites, questions and answer (all searchable). On other machines, it takes several steps to find the same material. On my machine I have all of the SO sites networked in the header, which  is absent on other machines. Bottom line, I've made SO easier to use for myself, and I don't think the team would have any issue with that, assuming you don't abuse their site/server in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of sight, out of mind :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:18:32.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T18:18:32.813" />
  <row Id="11464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6377" CreationDate="2009-07-31T18:21:52.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9127/a-script-to-float-system-related-topics-to-the-top-of-the-list-on-mso&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;Cough&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;Cough&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:21:52.073" />
  <row Id="11465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11467" CreationDate="2009-07-31T18:40:42.940" Score="3" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;About&quot; section of SO, it says that it is &quot;Fast. Very, very fast.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is it that makes it so fast? DB? MVC? What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132792" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:50:31.343" Title="&quot;StackOverflow is fast. Very, very fast.&quot; Why and how?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;speed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11465" CreationDate="2009-07-31T18:46:26.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/10370#10370&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; lies everything that StackOverflow is built with. Using the right tools coupled with solid programming is what makes it fast. However, it doesn't hurt that the servers are cooled with liquid cocaine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump/2678#2678&quot;&gt;data dump schema&lt;/a&gt;. A well-designed database and indexes are absolutely paramount to speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:46:26.453" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11465" CreationDate="2009-07-31T18:50:31.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think speed is referring to the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; speed of the site, but rather the time it requires to get answers. It's fast in the sense that you get answers to your questions quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T18:50:31.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="57553" CreationDate="2009-07-31T18:59:14.743" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be cool if the recent activity page (or maybe a new page with similar functionality) showed activity for your account on all sites in the SO family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be useful for those of us that are in the crossover area between communities, so we can easily see how our stuff changed in the last day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Its interesting how everyone jumped on this being a dupe (which I guess it is; I'm not disputing that) but nothing relevant came up in the possible dupe list when I was posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T01:07:03.593" LastActivityDate="2010-07-17T21:53:53.960" Title="Network-wide recent activity list" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11471" CreationDate="2009-07-31T19:06:08.363" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &quot;Yet Another Combine Things&quot; thread. I've honestly lost count of how many times this stuff has been asked before. You will find a lot of interesting takes on the matter by searching for questions relating to yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:06:08.363" />
  <row Id="11474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11476" CreationDate="2008-08-18T13:31:45.323" Score="103" ViewCount="954" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm getting pretty close to the reputation where I can start to edit others' posts, and I'm wondering what the etiquette for when (and when not) to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure that I should edit in the following circumstances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grammatical or spelling errors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clarification where the meaning is not changed. For instance if the title does not describe the question very well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where the user has made a very minor mistake that doesn't justify a full post to clarify.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To add related resources or links that will help someone answer the post, or provide context&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the commenting feature was added, I noticed that some moderators edit posts in order to insert a reply or extension to the post. I feel this isn't good etiquette (but I could be wrong) because I don't know what to do with their changes when I come to re-edit or respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also feel that I should be very careful not to change the meaning of any question or answer, even if that meaning is misguided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other rules would be best practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Signatures and fluff are discouraged and are fair game to be removed.  See, for example, this post by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/468303/are-taglines-signatures-disallowed-on-stackoverflow/468725#468725&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; and this post by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/468303/are-taglines-signatures-disallowed-on-stackoverflow/468332#468332&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; and also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277128/what-is-the-policy-on-signatures-and-links-in-answers-for-so-questions-closed&quot;&gt;What is the policy on signatures and links in answers for SO questions?&lt;/a&gt;.  Also see Jeff Atwood's response in the comments to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/#comment-15830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Great Edit Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:37:09.513" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:37:09.513" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-19T20:15:34.203" Title="What is the etiquette for modifying posts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="11475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T13:37:33.080" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I believe that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; philosophy of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;be bold in updating pages&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is best practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1318" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T13:38:30.863" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've noticed that some moderators edit posts in order to insert a reply or extension to the post. I feel this isn't good etiquette (but I could be wrong) because I don't know what to do with their changes when I come to re-edit or respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've provided a great list that matches well with my expectations of our community. You edit to make things better, clearer, more effective -- never to change meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course all this will be codified in the FAQ.. when I get to that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-17T04:30:13.723" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T04:30:13.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T13:39:08.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once I can edit another's post, I don't have any reservations about extending their question into a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; closely related field, even one that is more general and might be of greater use to others in the future, once answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T13:39:30.173" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the types of edits that are acceptable can be summed up as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-editing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;copy editing&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The “Five Cs” summarize the copy&#xA;  editor's job: make the copy (i) clear,&#xA;  (ii) correct, (iii) concise, (iv)&#xA;  comprehensible, and (v) consistent;&#xA;  that is: make it say what it means,&#xA;  and mean what it says. Typically, via&#xA;  the publisher's house style, copy&#xA;  editing ensures the use of correct&#xA;  spelling, consistently used&#xA;  terminology, accurate punctuation,&#xA;  correct infelicities of style, i.e.&#xA;  grammatical and semantic errors, and&#xA;  formatting of text in accordance with&#xA;  the house style headers, footers,&#xA;  headlines, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T13:42:29.170" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In truth, the ability of others to edit posts rather disturbs me. I can understand the idea, that SO is supposed to be a repository of factual information and as such editing to clarify is no big deal - facts are facts. However, there are many questions where there is more than a modicum of opinion solicited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others having the ability to put words in my mouth, on posts tagged with my name, violates the principle that I'm happy to post with my real name/reputation, because everything I say, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt;  said. How many people will really look at the edit list to be sure of who said what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1200" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T13:57:18.360" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Others having the ability to put words&#xA;  in my mouth, on posts tagged with my&#xA;  name, violates the principle that I'm&#xA;  happy to post with my real&#xA;  name/reputation, because everything I&#xA;  say, I said. How many people will&#xA;  really look at the edit list to be&#xA;  sure of who said what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a good point. I think it would be nice if stackoverflow notified me every time someone other than me edits my posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1534" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T14:01:55.263" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14593/etiquette-for-modifying-posts#14606&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jko&lt;/a&gt; - I disagree with the &quot;be bold&quot; Wikipedia policy in the context of Stack Overflow as all of our messages have our name on them (up to a certain point). While it is unlikely that someone is going to waste a bunch of accumulated reputation to put something inappropriate in someones post, I feel that as long as the original posters name is on the question/answer that the edits should be nominal or for clarification. Once the persons name is dropped from the question/answer the &quot;be bold&quot; policy might be more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T14:07:46.373" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keith, there is a reason you gained this reputation. We trust you, now trust yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think if you follow the list you have posted, you will do a wonderful job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-18T20:14:00.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14593/etiquette-for-modifying-posts#14610&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Patrick&lt;/a&gt; - it's worth looking at copy editing rules (+1), but they do have a different purpose. Sub-editors change the meaning of prose all the time, but they typically have a single publication to make consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I should be very careful with any corrections as moderator - I should mostly still vote down or post a clarifying answer. Otherwise I run the risk of correcting something that someone else has already voted down or posted a response to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Style is another issue - I mean there's the style of writing (should this passage be in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_voice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;active voice&lt;/a&gt;? Should I edit out &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;weasel-words&lt;/a&gt;?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the style of coding - a religious debate I expect and not a moderator's job to get involved in (at least not as a moderator - that would be unfair). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance it would be quite acceptable for a sub-editor on a coding magazine to change all &lt;code&gt;{ }&lt;/code&gt; blocks to be on new-lines if that were the house style, I don't think we should be doing that sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-19T12:29:45.277" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course all this will be codified in&#xA;  the FAQ.. when I get to that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;You should make the FAQ editable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;head explodes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-19T23:54:12.460" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this provide too much power? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this ability should be available only to official moderators like Jeff, I don't think it should be based on reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One person with time in his hands can spend all day increasing his reputation and then do whatever he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something planned to control this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-21T19:31:56.660" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing I want to say is that I am no longer inline editing posts.  I wanted a way to respond to people's questions directly, and there is currently no built-in way to do this (though Jeff mentioned that &quot;annotations&quot; are coming soon).  In a way I was following &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6532/is-editing-other-peoples-posts-wrong&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's example&lt;/a&gt;.  But I think now there is consensus that this isn't a good practice, so thanks, Keith, for setting me straight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to jump in with my thoughts, edit to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fix grammar / fix spelling / improve formatting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the post clearer or more effective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking to other resources related to the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a warning if the post is dangerous (ie. recommends solution with a security vulnerability)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add new relevant information missing from the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But do not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the meaning of the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add inline conversation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to point out that Jeff has &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explicitly told us&lt;/a&gt; that Stackoverflow is going to be wiki-like, and is not a discussion forum.  Those with edit ability who have something important to add shouldn't feel bad about doing so&amp;mdash;it's the whole point of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-08-21T22:54:37.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know personally if someone edits a question/answer of mine to insert a specific response I will just do a rollback. Common sense should rule the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Juan:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You're worried about someone grinding for rep, then abusing the privelage? 2000 is a significant value, and if someone does try I think it can be dealt with on a case by case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-10-08T20:52:32.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should now be added on the inline comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proper comments are now supported there's no need to edit posts inline in that way. Comments are relatively transitory – they are short and can be deleted. Anything too big for a comment should have its own answer – it still isn’t okay add inline responses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" />
  <row Id="11489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-10-08T21:00:19.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Jeff Atwood and @Keith&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we use the same guidelines for answers?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Should we edit them when they  are off-topic or factually incorrect? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. When to &quot;&lt;em&gt;How can I do xxx in C#2.0?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, an answer reads &quot;&lt;em&gt;Use LINQ&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, should we change it to &quot;&lt;em&gt;If it were C#3.0 you could use LINQ&lt;/em&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is a change in meaning, it respects the overall intentions of the author, and it makes the overall question better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This typically happens when the original question gets clarified and a number of answers suddenly become off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131112" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T21:10:46.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-11-25T18:50:57.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to see what edits were made to my post?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I can rollback, but really I just want to see if the editor fixed a typo or changed something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T18:50:57.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-12-04T03:07:22.013" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a new member. I recently posted a question in which I also posted a couple of answers (as part of the original question) to illustrate the type of answers I was looking for. Someone edited my question and contributed each of my answers as their own. They consequently were up voted, and my question received no up votes because it was left in an empty state. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the etiquette here? Is this OK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-04T03:07:22.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-12-23T22:44:32.327" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would consider editing tags (if they are misspelled and I am sure what the author meant) but otherwise would probably leave posts alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T22:44:32.327" />
  <row Id="11493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-12-24T13:39:00.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like it if people didn't change the meaning or keywords used when someone makes poor Engrish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/390394/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/390394/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;website&quot; magically disappears. Now to be honest I have &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; idea exactly what the OP is asking but they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be asking about websites as much as they might be asking about Java desktop apps. However this edit makes my interpretation of the question silly and also gave me a lovely -1. Joy! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T13:39:00.977" />
  <row Id="11494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-12-24T14:14:08.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed one user actually going and changing a whole bunch of tags from vs2008 to visualstudio2008. However, there are still several posts with the vs2008 tag and plenty more with vs200x and vs.net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it that big of a deal? I'd be inclined to say that most people would look for the shorter version of the tag mainly because that is how it is abbreviated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess, I'm saying, don't edit to make it aesthetically appealing to just you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T14:14:08.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2008-12-24T14:33:49.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I'm a little uncomfortable with editing for spelling too. Perhaps it's OK in some really obvious circumstances. However, the &quot;right&quot; spelling for a lot of words differs depending on what English-speaking country you happen to be from. The same goes for grammar as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, it used to drive me nuts to see people talk about &quot;Maths&quot; before I realised that was a Britishism. They also love to stick &lt;strong&gt;u&lt;/strong&gt;'s after &lt;strong&gt;o&lt;/strong&gt;'s where I wouldn't expect them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I don't really like the idea of roving editors going around de-Britishizing the site, and other editors going around and Britishizing the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T14:33:49.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11474" CreationDate="2009-05-03T23:57:02.887" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't edit posts. Actually the ability to do so is a dealbreaker for me using the website.. If you want something anyone (with reputation) can edit, just add a wiki-like thing copy into and edit that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:08:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-03T23:57:02.887" />
  <row Id="11498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T19:09:04.130" Score="3" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, I know, there are dozens of questions here and over at uservoice that demand private messaging, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to throw in a possibility how it could be realized. To jeopardize this: Would the following be a way to be considered to implement private messaging?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Default: No private messages&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users can enable accepting private messages. They are displayed on their account page under a new tab &quot;Messages&quot; just the way questions are (that is, with answer possibility, tags, comments, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By handling messages as questions the receiver can forward single questions via the 'Notify this address' to his e-mail address.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[optional] The receiving user has the possibility to change the private message into a regular question; for this he may edit the message, even if he has not enough reps yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now the fun part!&lt;/em&gt; Not everyone is allowed to send messages to everyone else. Users may &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; send to users with &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; reputation than oneself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[optional] With 1k or 2k rep the last point vanishes and one may send messages to everyone who has enabled messaging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[even more optional] With 10k even this barrier vanishes and one can send messages to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reason for private messaging: Sometimes newbies write horrible questions. In this case it would be nice to give them a private message explaining why they should improve their style. Doing that in a publicly viewable comment (perhaps with others bashing along) is not very constructive...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113195" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T16:25:38.340" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T04:51:33.580" Title="How user messaging could be realized" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;messaging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11498" CreationDate="2009-07-31T19:13:55.057" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Users may only send to users with less reputation than oneself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So then I could just spambomb the majority of users on SO? I like it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pesto, kindly prepare your inbox for unsolicited subscriptions to&lt;/em&gt; Laserdonuts weekly &lt;em&gt;and offers to increase the size of your vodka bottles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is a terrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My reason for private messaging: Sometimes newbies write horrible questions. In this case it would be nice to give them a private message explaining why they should improve their style. Doing that in a publicly viewable comment (perhaps with others bashing along) is not very constructive...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why comments notify the owners of the questions on which the comments are placed. Why do you people continue to insist Team Jeff reimplement features SO already has? How are comments not constructive? Someone who is going to be offended by a comment that says, &quot;Your style could be better&quot; is going to be just as offended by a private message saying the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, we have &lt;em&gt;edits&lt;/em&gt; so that we can &lt;em&gt;edit things&lt;/em&gt; to improve them without even bothering to leave a comment. That and edits &lt;em&gt;have comments themselves&lt;/em&gt; so you can provide less-visible edit-related constructive comments there. And new users can learn from example by looking over the changes made by the edit instead of having to figure it out from reading a private message!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And another thing. Your suggestion really works under the assumption that users with high rep aren't assholes. I have an example of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;high-rep asshole right here&lt;/a&gt;. Seriously. If you give me a feature that I can abuse that I think needs to be improved I will abuse it until Jeff fixes it in a way that satisfies me, or gives me a logical reason why I can't have what I want. Any moderator who has been reading my spam reports will back me up on that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't take this as a threat - take it as a prediction: I will spam you and everyone else who suggested the addition of private messages on SO if they get implemented. Ask any moderator about how creative I can get and how serious I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as if that isn't enough I'm going to &lt;strong&gt;eat this knife&lt;/strong&gt; to back up my claims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It boggles my mind that even after my stunning display of knife-based imagery this question's vote count is still greater than zero. How many more logical holes must I find in your silly idea before you social networkers understand the point of SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want to send messages to new users because their questions suck. So fix their questions and leave a comment in the edit history so they know why you made the change, and they can see the specifics of the change you made so they can make it themselves next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strawman&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;But wait, that's too aggressive! These poor new users' feelings will be injured and they won't grow up right!&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/strawman&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see, someone humble enough to ask a question on an Internet Q&amp;amp;A application shouldn't have a problem with people &lt;em&gt;making his question better&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;offering him help publicly&lt;/em&gt;. Oh no! He's gotten help! The poor bastard is going to have to cry himself to sleep tonight on his bed of empty beer bottles and broken dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Broken dreams are very comfortable, by the way. The more hopeful the dream the fluffier. Like kids who want their favourite baseball man to sink a 4-point dunk past the 90-yard line when the score is already 40-luv. Those are the best!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to think that a private messages' usefulness is an obvious truth. It's not. You have to demonstrate to me that you are capable of predicting human behaviour as The Atwood Superfriends have in coming up with badges and reputation to curb actions toward the main goal of the site. You have to prove that your system works &lt;em&gt;in practice&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You haven't done that. You've just said, &quot;Hey, this is good.&quot; That's not good enough. You should know that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an &lt;strong&gt;injustice&lt;/strong&gt; that you're not listening to me. You're probably off closing my answer like you closed Click Upvote's. I can see you mods there, with your devious plans and your fancy ornithopters you use to commute to moderatorville every afternoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm entitled to having an audience who supports my ideas! That's why I can just keep posting the same suggestion over and over again even though you've shot it down &lt;code&gt;(n-1)&lt;/code&gt; times before!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is good knife. The taste is a bit dull, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've even &lt;strong&gt;killed Shog9&lt;/strong&gt;, my &lt;strong&gt;Internet acquaintance&lt;/strong&gt;! Haven't you done enough!? What more do you sick private-messagers want? Whom do you have to kill next before your bloodlust is satisfied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your cause can't be forwarded this way, you know. Violence begets nothing but more violence. I think Napoleon said that. Or was is that guy from Star Trek? It doesn't matter who said it! The point is killing Shog9 proves nothing other than you're an inhuman monster. People don't like inhuman monsters. They &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; inhuman monsters. That's all you've accomplished by killing him. Downvotes for your entire cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I put up your cause on the Internet, &lt;strong&gt;absolutely no one&lt;/strong&gt; would Digg it. You wouldn't find it on Fark (except with possibly the FAIL tag). If it showed up on Youtube in a video format its rating would be one star out of five. Or maybe Google would change Youtube's rating structure just so that your cause's video-ification can have the implausible rating of &lt;strong&gt;zero&lt;/strong&gt; stars out of five. Wouldn't that be fantastic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We live in a brave, new, Shog9less world, people. A world where things can have &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; stars. Look what you've done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get your way and the world is destroyed, it'll be just you and Stack Overflow and the wide open world. Forever. The world where all the people who hate you are dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-16T04:51:33.580" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T04:51:33.580" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="11502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T19:34:58.290" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;when you go to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/48664/why-is-sql-server-2005-hanging-up-when-i-try-to-delete-a-database&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, there's an answer already&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but before you click that, it says &quot;0 answers&quot; - or is that supposed to be that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here's what it looks like before you click on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3561/3776005032%5Fdff6116cb4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but when you click on the question, there's already ONE answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3776004970%5Fc97f2c347b.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132619" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:03:56.333" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:03:56.333" Title="Why does this question have 1 answer but it doesn't show as such?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-07-31T19:36:59.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I initially didn't like this idea, but after seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11457/unfair-closing-of-a-question-on-superuser&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11468/why-was-my-brothers-so-account-conbined-to-mine&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; I really think that there is a possible need for this in the future. Stack Overflow and Server Fault are more focussed then Stack Overflow, and Stack Overflow is bound to attract a lot more hate than the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any moderators on Stack Overflow will require hair on their teeth and all the forces of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;League of Justice&lt;/a&gt;) combined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I realise there is a Greasemonkey script for this, however I don't use Firefox and work on any of 5 different machines at any given time, these are not working solutions for me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T11:19:31.447" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:19:31.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11502" CreationDate="2009-07-31T19:38:45.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The homepage on all the sites are cached. Jeff confirmed this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6087/potential-bug-see-who-voted-last&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T19:38:45.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11509" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:29:03.737" Score="7" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4/&quot;&gt;first surviving question&lt;/a&gt; was posted today, Jul 31 at 21:42 (GMT) or 2:42pm (Pacific Time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/first-stackoverflow-question-small1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T20:48:20.797" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:01:52.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T20:31:54.043" Title="Happy Birthday, Stackoverflow. Free Beer!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11508" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:30:49.257" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the &lt;strong&gt;WORST&lt;/strong&gt; Friday Afternoon topic &lt;strong&gt;EVER&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T22:01:52.863" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:01:52.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6660" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:32:07.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the answer to the SIMS. Miguel had to be pretty coy about it, so I assume there aren't a lot of details out. A quick search brought me to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3047827&amp;amp;userid=0&amp;amp;perpage=40&amp;amp;pagenumber=45#post361651722&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;forum entry&lt;/a&gt;, in which a user stated the scripting engine is driven by Mono:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Sims 3's scripting engine is&#xA;  driven by Mono (open source .NET&#xA;  implementation), and nearly &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; game&#xA;  logic are scripted in the game's .NET&#xA;  assemblies. Including the UI, objects,&#xA;  interactions, gameplay mechanics, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Second Life, their scripting has been done in Mono since at least August of 2008. They have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mono#Mono%5Fbenefits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki page explaining&lt;/a&gt; some of the rational behind the move to Mono.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130054" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:32:07.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11515" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:35:34.487" Score="2" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found it more difficult than I expected to get drawn into Stack Overflow. It works great for when I have a question - I can almost always find the answer or ask new questions and quickly get an answer. But as far as being able to find other questions that interest me or that I can contribute to, I haven't really settled into a way to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What features and pages of the site do you use to engage in the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132424" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:13:42.027" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:13:42.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T20:47:22.747" Title="How do YOU use Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11508" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:36:55.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect my &quot;Yearling&quot; badge soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:36:55.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T20:36:55.843" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="11513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:40:38.940" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest starting to make use of the &quot;interesting tags&quot; and maybe the ignore feature and start narrowing the questions down to topics you know or like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personaly like to read any topic and like to learn random pointers and advice.  I also favorite stuff I know I will deal with soon or want to look further into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:40:38.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:41:28.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use StackOverflow with a PC and an internet browser (preferably Firefox or Chrome), as well as a keyboard (for typing questions, answers, and witty comments) as well as a mouse which aids me in navigating the many areas of the website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:41:28.203" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:42:09.060" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Casual browsing&lt;/strong&gt;: Pick one or two tags (via the '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/C#&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt;' tab) and browse them idly, reading those who catch your attention and then contribution should follow naturally&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actively checking for tags on which you feel you are an expert on&lt;/strong&gt;: Use the '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;newest&lt;/a&gt;' tab on the questions tab filtered by the tags you are knowledgeable on so you can see yet unanswered questions and answer among the first. This way you'll be able to feel more rewarded by answering and getting answers accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:42:09.060" />
  <row Id="11517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:42:38.390" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we get JSON for Questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 0. Question ID                  44965&#xA; 1. Question Title               What is a monad?&#xA; 2. Author ID                    3394&#xA; 3. Last Edited Author ID        1122&#xA; 4. DateTime Asked               2008-09-04 23:26:44Z UTC&#xA; 5. DateTime Last Edited         2008-09-15 20:14:18Z UTC&#xA; 6. First n-chars                Having briefly looked at Haskell recently...&#xA; 7. Tags                         functional-programming, monads&#xA; 8. Number of Answers            13&#xA; 9. Accepted Answer ID           -1 (No Accepted Answer)&#xA;10. Last Answer Author ID        47978&#xA;11. Last Answer DateTime         2009-06-23 23:24:24Z UTC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I'm not mistaken, wouldn't this practically serve as JSON for Answers too? They're essentially the same thing in the database, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T20:49:41.573" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:49:41.573" Title="JSON for Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;json&gt;" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11524" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:54:45.510" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[TheTXI thinks we need a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11508/happy-birthday-stackoverflow/11509#11509&quot;&gt;more interesting Friday afternoon topic&lt;/a&gt;. How about this?]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to nominate this little guy as the official mascot (and theme song) of Stackoverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://badgerbadgerbadger.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Nomination [link]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10121/so-what-do-we-call-ourselves-now&quot;&gt;really itching&lt;/a&gt; to come up with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6254/what-should-the-users-of-stackoverflow-be-called&quot;&gt;nickname&lt;/a&gt; for people who use Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; live &quot;Badgers&quot;... almost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;&lt;i&gt;I am not responsible for any losses of productivity incurred as a result of listening to this all day, whether real or imagined.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:34:08.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T20:54:45.510" Title="Stackoverflow's Mascot (and theme song)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="11522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11520" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:58:49.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;NO.   The mention of Badgers sent chills down my spine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T20:58:49.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T20:58:49.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11523" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11530" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:59:09.493" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags page&lt;/a&gt; has a text box &lt;strong&gt;Type to find tags&lt;/strong&gt;.  When I start typing, I get a list of available tags.  I've noticed a problem with certain tag names.  Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/googleearth&quot;&gt;googleearth&lt;/a&gt; (5 questions tagged) vs &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-earth&quot;&gt;google-earth&lt;/a&gt; (12 questions tagged) for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I start typing &quot;google&quot;, I get a list of all google* tags.  However, entering &quot;google earth&quot; in the textbox gives me just one tag:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/googleearth&quot;&gt;googleearth&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think entering &quot;google earth&quot; in the textbox should return both &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/googleearth&quot;&gt;googleearth&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-earth&quot;&gt;google-earth&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems like this is how it works when entering tags when I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;Ask a Question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130662" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:47:26.443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:47:26.443" Title="Tags page: &quot;Type to find tags...&quot; text box" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11520" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:00:23.907" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mascot/Song: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Wy7gRGgeA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code Monkey&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonathancoulton.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jonathan Coulton&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:00:23.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T21:00:23.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24412" CreationDate="2009-07-31T20:55:37.460" Score="1" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;designs are automatically generated for the user. i know they are gravatars but what is the algorithm for generating my icon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:56:23.713" Title="what is the SOF algorithm for generating the icons for each user?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;algorithm&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11523" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:06:16.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in this topic: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg&quot;&gt;The Great Tagging Reorg&lt;/a&gt;. It talks not abut ensuring that the myriad google*earth tags show up, but about consolidating tags under an accepted name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:06:16.220" />
  <row Id="11528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11526" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:06:55.873" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly, migrating this from SO means I can't close it as a dupe to those questions.  But &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/392280/what-is-the-algorithm-used-to-generate-those-little-gravatar-identicon-images/392288#392288&quot;&gt;here is the answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:06:55.873" />
  <row Id="11530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11523" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:08:09.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spaces aren't valid tag characters, and are simply ignored. When you type a character that doesn't exist in a tag it is truncated server-side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;google earth =&amp;gt; googleearth&#xA;google!$%)earth =&amp;gt; googleearth&#xA;google$%-e =&amp;gt; google-e&#xA;google-earth =&amp;gt; google-earth&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The behaviour you're describing is because tag search on ask a new question treats spaces as delimiters. So if you type &lt;code&gt;hello world&lt;/code&gt; it will mark the first tag as &lt;code&gt;hello&lt;/code&gt; and the suggestion drop-down will be possible matches for the word &lt;code&gt;world&lt;/code&gt;. The word &lt;code&gt;hello&lt;/code&gt; won't be considered at all in the search, as it appeared before the space. The error you describe is actually a misconception of how the tag search works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T21:21:31.883" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:21:31.883" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:27:34.897" Score="5" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same question is shown just as many times as people have chosen it. I suggest putting the standard (X) where X is the number of people having selected it instead of repeating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7682/dibujomhi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T22:00:05.207" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:00:05.207" Title="Duplicate question closing window shows the master question candidate many times" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:33:45.197" Score="7" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current manner of selecting the candidate among the list is to retype the title or go see the candidate's id and type it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just click to select it? I don't suggest removing the link, which is useful to go read the candidates, but I do suggest adding some clickable control to select one automatically. This would be a nice addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i29.tinypic.com/10shf82.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:13:26.843" Title="Ease selection of the master question in the duplicate question closing window" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="11541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11520" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:34:08.050" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the mascot is anything less than a pony I would be quite unhappy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CBN3F-HPa4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pony Theme Song&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:34:08.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T21:34:08.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4054" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:38:21.193" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first joined SO I just assumed that titles needed to be in the form of a question, even if the question posed in the title doesn't define exactly what the body of the question was actually looking for. I guess I just gleaned this from what I thought the spirit of the site was. If you look at the layout of the 'Ask a Question' page it flows like this: Ask a Question, Title, Tagline: &quot;What's your bug, feature request, or meta-discussion topic? Be descriptive.&quot;|&quot;What's your programming question? Be descriptive.&quot; I saw that and it immediately reinforced my belief that the title actually needed to be a question. Fast forward to after I asked a question, and I had quite a disturbing discovery. Several members read only the title on the question I posted, and didn't even bother reading the body of the question. Maybe the short titles were born from a reaction to this kind of behavior; eg: if the majority of people choose to read only the title, maybe I should make it nonsensical to force them to read the body of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a way to refine what the community is actually looking for in a title would be allowing the lack of a title upon initial posting of the question. Community moderators could then fill in what they deemed an appropriate title. Taking it a step further, titles could be suggested and up-voted by the community, thereby allowing the 'cream' of the titles to rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:38:21.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11540" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:39:06.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's so you don't get lazy and you actually go verify that the other question is indeed a duplicate. It's social engineering to avoid group thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider yourself manipulated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-07-31T21:42:00.517" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:42:00.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11546" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:55:15.997" Score="9" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you get points/reputation for upvoted comments? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is a question I should be able to find easily, but I can't seem to find it by searching here or skimming the faq. Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132730" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:29:52.970" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:29:52.970" Title="Do you get points for upvoted comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11545" CreationDate="2009-07-31T21:56:57.693" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-now-with-flags-and-votes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;No:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No reputation of any kind is earned or lost from comment votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, however, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/94/pundit&quot;&gt;a badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T21:56:57.693" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="11548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11545" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:19:14.717" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;4 easy steps to become a pundit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Camp out on “fun” questions (but only comment on them).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be mildly amusing.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pundit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uh, wait. A pundit is someone who makes bad puns, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:19:14.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-31T22:19:14.717" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11550" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:23:12.960" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I re-asked the following the serverfault.com questions on superuser.com and I did not allow me to delete them on serverfault.com because of the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/34032/increase-the-refresh-rate-on-my-monitor-closed&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/34032/increase-the-refresh-rate-on-my-monitor-closed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/25403/video-card-driver-causing-windows-vista-to-blue-screen-closed&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/25403/video-card-driver-causing-windows-vista-to-blue-screen-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, this question cannot be&#xA;  deleted: too many existing answers, or&#xA;  upvoted/accepted answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not like this feature because they were closed and I am the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:50:34.760" Title="Why cannot the original author of a question delete it when has existing answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;original-author&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11549" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:27:43.060" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may be the original author, but the post is not just for you. Your post is for the benefit of the entire community &lt;strong&gt;INCLUDING FUTURE VIEWERS&lt;/strong&gt;. If you were to delete your own content whenever you wish, you would be causing other people to lose their rep during recalcs if they spent the time to answer you and receive upvotes. You would also be preventing future viewers from looking at your question and learning from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel it needs to be deleted, flag it for moderator attention and let them make the final call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:27:43.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8559" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:32:05.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay I've started playing with this through trial and error and I've made some progress:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23+asp.net?tab=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23+asp.net?tab=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This still has the AND problem but its a start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131969" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:32:05.127" />
  <row Id="11552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11549" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:33:40.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other people have contributed content by that point - you're not just deleting your question, but their content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were the only one to have posted anything, I'd see it as entirely reasonable for you to delete it - but if someone else has put work into answering it, why should you delete their work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As TheTXI says, raise it with a moderator - they may be able to move the answers over too, and then delete the questions. That would make sense IMO: no content lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:33:40.210" />
  <row Id="11553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11549" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:50:34.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has explained it here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:50:34.760" />
  <row Id="11554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11566" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:55:21.603" Score="-2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry for asking this kind of question,&#xA;but i am very much confused.&#xA;My confusion is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I insert image in stackoverflow question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How  are reputations scores calculated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are badges?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I search and filter questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you in advance for helping me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T00:53:51.047" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T02:10:52.490" Title="Questions about using stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8559" CreationDate="2009-07-31T22:57:53.373" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=activeperl+or+activestateperl+or+perl&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=activeperl+or+activestateperl+or+perl&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want every tag that has Perl in it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=~perl~&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=~perl~&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T22:57:53.373" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11540" CreationDate="2009-07-31T23:00:48.640" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though my mockup is a bit old (still has the all-red design) I, too, would like to see this screen updated so that people can select multiple questions to close by. This is especially important for moderators so that we can select multiple questions as the parent question. Several times I've taken to closing as a duplicate of one question, then editing the post to add links to other dupes. I think this can (and should) be taken care of through the interface directly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/NzKgJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;mockup&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:13:26.843" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:13:26.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2009-07-31T23:11:41.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a user story for third party bounties where the third party would have to control the awarding of the bounty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a solution to a problem I had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/829574/convert-a-dom-node-or-document-to-xml-in-javascript/829887#829887&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; but it is dependent on prototype. I'd like to be able to put a bounty on the question for a solution that isn't dependent on prototype. I could ask my own question and then have it folded in as a duplicate, but it would be much tidier if I could just post a bounty on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-07-31T23:11:41.147" />
  <row Id="11558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-31T23:59:14.857" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I am wondering if something changed in stackoverflow logging in logic or this is my (or claimid.com problem).&#xA;When I am trying to log in with my claim id account, stackoverflow says that this account is a new one. As you can see at the picture, I have my old session in Chrome, but Firefox account is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/2456/stackowerflow.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/2456/stackowerflow.png&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132806" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T15:46:21.297" LastActivityDate="2011-05-20T22:27:56.993" Title="claimid accounts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T00:01:14.713" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a small bug that I just noticed.  Low priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feed link at the bottom of the sites is a link to the most recent questions, but when you subscribe to that RSS feed, it is being given the title of &quot;Top Questions&quot; instead of &quot;Recent Questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:48:25.203" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T07:58:54.713" Title="recent question feed is titled &quot;top questions&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11540" CreationDate="2009-08-01T00:14:15.740" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like to see the master question list grouped by question id. If there are two instances of question #n, then show that question followed by &quot;x 2&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will help with some true duplicates that have the same, or almost the same, title, but which are different questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T00:14:15.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11562" CreationDate="2009-08-01T00:18:38.517" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to Meta, so I'm just asking.  I see some feature request questions and also some bug report questions that have been worked to completion or rejected or whatever by the SO developers, but the questions remain open.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good reason to leave these questions open indefinitely?  Would it be worthwhile to write some code to automatically close the questions when the SO admin tags it as such?  Or maybe the other way around ... maybe the closure reasons can automatically get a special tag added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T00:35:15.293" Title="should bug and feature requests on Meta that are implemented/rejected be closed? (either automatically or manually)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11561" CreationDate="2009-08-01T00:35:15.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they need to be closed. I say they should stay open so that the community can continue to discuss at their leisure, whether that is discussing why it was rejected (and perhaps later on will be implemented) or discuss the success/failure of items that were implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T00:35:15.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40886" CreationDate="2009-08-01T00:43:59.330" Score="171" ViewCount="1284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't we have a Tab that shows only questions for our favorite tags, showing recent first?  I keep having to scroll down the page to find the questions I'm interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be like the Unanswered Questions -&gt; My Tags tab, but for all questions with my favorite tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T16:37:20.210" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T20:43:00.327" Title="Tab for questions that are labeled with favorite/interesting tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;favorite-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="34" />
  <row Id="11565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11554" CreationDate="2009-08-01T01:43:19.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have never add an image, I don't know how this is done&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10421&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges are earned for performing specific tasks within the system that have been deemed as encouragable actions. Some are as easy as filling out information about yourself (autobiographer), others require consistent involvement with the site, like tag-specific badges.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can search for questions using the search bar found in the top left corner of every page. Additionally, you can use google/bing/your search engine of choice to search for content on SO. Additionally, the engine provides the ability to mark certain tags as &quot;interesting&quot;, doing this will provide additional visual highlighting of questions with those tags when browsing through lists of questions on the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T01:43:19.677" />
  <row Id="11566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11554" CreationDate="2009-08-01T02:02:40.303" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;How do I insert image in stackoverflow question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put this where you want the image to show up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![alternate text of image][1]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And put this at the very end of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[1]: http://url_of_image&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increment the number in both places for additional images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, use the image button in the Question Editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;click the editing help button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How are reputations scores calculated?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how it works: if you post a&#xA;  good question or helpful answer, it&#xA;  will be voted up by your peers: you&#xA;  gain 10 reputation points. If you post&#xA;  something that's off topic or&#xA;  incorrect, it will be voted down: you&#xA;  lose 2 reputation points. You can earn&#xA;  up to 200 reputation per day, but no&#xA;  more. (Note that votes for any posts&#xA;  marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not&#xA;  generate reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What are badges?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are awarded for meeting certain criteria.  More info on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Badges&lt;/a&gt; page, along with a list of each badge and the corresponding criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ask questions, provide answers, vote for the things you find helpful —&#xA;  and Stack Overflow will bestow&#xA;  badges upon you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How do I search and filter questions?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full documentation of StackOverflow's search is available &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="128546" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T02:10:52.490" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T02:10:52.490" />
  <row Id="11567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11030" CreationDate="2009-08-01T02:24:29.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should start a timer and spend like 5 solid minutes on every show specifically not talking about a programming topic.  These guys love and live programming so much, I bet that would be difficult for them to pull off and possibly funny to listen to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Films or DVDs or TV shows recently watched&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sporting events&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;personal stuff, family life&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T02:24:29.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T02:24:29.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T02:40:31.733" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4146/unexpected-results-from-clicking-the-unanswered-button&quot;&gt;Unexpected Results From Clicking The Unanswered Button&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click 'Unanswered' in the menubar, I get a list of questions, all of which have been answered. Does it just mean there's no &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer? If so, can we make that more obvious? Can we get some way of finding &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; unanswered questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132812" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:03:42.277" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:03:42.277" ClosedDate="2009-08-01T04:11:39.723" Title="Why does Unanswered show Answered questions?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11570" CreationDate="2009-08-01T02:41:35.803" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many users on Meta SO are being given full credit on their user page for being members for 10 or 11 months.  I'm a bit jealous.  Maybe I associated my accounts incorrectly or something because I'm only being given credit as being a member for a few days.  Should I be getting full credit on my user page like the other users with regards to how long I've been a member of the SO community (i.e. 11 months)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:18:33.373" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:18:33.373" Title="User page &quot;member for&quot; problem on Meta SO, not given full credit" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11569" CreationDate="2009-08-01T02:46:23.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of us got auto-migrated when the site was created. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, i believe &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; active accounts were initially auto-migrated. Then came the introduction of the account association feature, and the deletion of accounts that hadn't been associated already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect one or more of the SO developers understands how things really work in the fallout from that whole mess, but suffice to say: if you weren't already active on Meta when it happened, it's too late now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; they've apparently fixed this now - everyone gets the more recent, &quot;real&quot; join dates...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:12:09.913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:12:09.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11568" CreationDate="2009-08-01T03:10:32.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unanswered&quot; in this case means that none of the answers for the question have been upvoted, and none of the answers have been accepted - in other words, none of the answers supplied for the question helped the asker answer it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T03:10:32.547" />
  <row Id="11576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11577" CreationDate="2009-08-01T06:35:36.143" Score="25" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just ran across &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6808/possible-link-bug&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, which was bumped by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/highlander&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; for having been unanswered. However, it was answered by Jeff (no upvotes), along with a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'status-declined'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; tag. I gave an upvote so that it wouldn't be bumped again. But, Community should ignore those posts, since they have an official answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible exceptions, as pointed out by random, are the statuses &lt;code&gt;planned&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;deferred&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Statuses &lt;code&gt;bydesign&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;completed&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;declined&lt;/code&gt; should be ignored by Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:30:24.880" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T04:30:24.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-09T16:40:42.557" Title="On Meta, have Community ignore [status-*] tags when bumping" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11576" CreationDate="2009-08-01T06:46:54.870" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community♦&lt;/a&gt; really should know to leave well enough alone some times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;status-planned&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;status-deferred&lt;/kbd&gt; might be interesting to float up to the front now and then until they get switched over to &lt;kbd&gt;status-completed&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;status-declined&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T06:46:54.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11591" CreationDate="2009-08-01T09:15:57.113" Score="25" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine I just found Stack Overflow through google. Looks like a Q&amp;amp;A site for computer stuff. Programming, hmm? Yeah, my question could fit in here. I'll ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ten minutes pass, I come back to see if any answers have been posted. Besides my perfectly valid (if not for SO) and well-worded question having received three downvotes, I see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5822/mlce.png&quot; alt=&quot;migration notice&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bamm, feels like a hit in my face on first sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially for people who are new to the SO family, this must seem very discouraging. I think there should be a friendlier explanatory notice like &quot;The Stack Overflow community has decided that this question is better suited for the site superuser.com. The question has automatically been moved there, you can find it here[link].&quot; or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This notice should be more prominent than the &quot;migrated-locked-closed&quot; triad, so it's the first thing the newbie sees, and so they realize that migrating the question is actually going to help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing obviously applies to the other sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T15:32:36.070" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:32:36.070" Title="&quot;Nicer&quot; migration notice when closing questions as &quot;belongs on X&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="11581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11582" CreationDate="2009-08-01T09:33:50.947" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted an answer on stackoverflow that rendered perfectly in the editor preview, but in the posted text the links all got gobbled up: links were stretching across multiple lines where they shouldn't, from another the url showed up directly in the posting. A friendly fellow on SO then simply replaced the offending url with one that provides the same text on another server, and the problem was gone. The offending url was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20070502155005/http://wagerlabs.com/2006/8/25/writing-low-pain-massively-scalable-multiplayer-servers&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see the posting in question check &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209097/good-resources-on-using-functional-programming-in-game-development/1213763#1213763&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, look for the initial version of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132618" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T07:24:42.280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:24:42.280" Title="Link parser chokes on URL" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11581" CreationDate="2009-08-01T09:40:40.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funnily enough, the choke move you're talking about has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6808/possible-link-bug&quot;&gt;brought up before&lt;/a&gt; and was recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11576/on-meta-have-community-ignore-status-tags-when-bumping/&quot;&gt;floated back to the front page of questions by Community&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the editor will not parse embedded links well and the cause for your error/edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T09:40:40.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11589" CreationDate="2009-08-01T10:26:30.730" Score="3" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how I would answer this question even if I had the data, but I wanted to throw it out there and see if anybody has any ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the highest scoring users on SO are those that answer questions in just a handful of technologies (.Net only, for instance). My guess would be that if you work in many technologies, you have to look more stuff up, which slows you down (in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the highest scoring users multitechnologists (on SO) or do they focus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; - as Olaf points out, it may not be speed but rather expertise that makes the difference. It might also be that single-technologists spend more time on SO, or some third factor that we're not even talking about :) However, the question is not &quot;why&quot; but &quot;whether.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastEditorUserId="131669" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T10:59:32.677" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T12:31:25.397" Title="Highest Scoring Users, Jacks/Jills-of-all-trades or specialists?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11583" CreationDate="2009-08-01T10:39:15.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen, the highest users are focused users of the most popular technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The users below them are a mixed bag of multi techs and focused people of the 2nd-3rd most popular techs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not due to speed. They provide well done detailed answers which will in the end garner more reputation and an accepted answer in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Top 7: (I'm just going by their top 3 tags)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Skeet: C# .Net Java&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Marc: C# .Net Linq&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tvanfosson: C# asp.net-mvc asp.net&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  S.Lott: python django subjective&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JaredPar: C# .Net C++&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Greg: C++ Python C&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Joel Coehoorn: C# .net asp.net&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T11:28:54.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T11:28:54.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T10:56:38.393" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;As expressed in relevant answers here on meta (questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6808/possible-link-bug/6810#6810&quot;&gt;6808&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11581/link-parser-chokes-on-url/11626#11626&quot;&gt;11581&lt;/a&gt;) there are URLs which are illegal to use in questions and answers. The system should be enhanced to address those URLs in two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The editor &lt;strong&gt;preview&lt;/strong&gt; should fail to render them correctly, which it currently does, since this gives the false impression everything would be ok.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The editor &lt;strong&gt;help&lt;/strong&gt; should be enhanced to warn about illegal URLs, state what is legal and what is not, and advise the user to use alternative URLs (e.g. those obtained by URL shortener services like tinyurl.com etc.), or %-encoding of offending characters, if he needs to use them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132618" LastEditorUserId="132618" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T21:36:05.630" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T21:36:05.630" Title="Consistent Handling of Illegal URLs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11650" CreationDate="2009-08-01T11:06:44.380" Score="7" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to view the site without having to look at reputation information?  I do not want to track my rep info or see anyone else's.  I think that'll let me focus more on the questions themselves.  Is anyone else interested in this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything on SO itself, but are there any add-ins or Greasemonkey scripts that do this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T18:45:29.673" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T18:45:29.673" Title="Options to hide reputation info on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11583" CreationDate="2009-08-01T11:32:06.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very lucky, as my &quot;specialist&quot; subjects are .NET and Java - which are the most popular technologies in terms of questions. Within those subjects, however, I'm a reasonable generalist: I'm happy to talk about LINQ, threading, floating point, character encodings, occasionally ASP.NET or WinForms, C# as a language, occasionally VB as a language, Java as a language, servlets, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, I've even answered Ruby and Python questions on occasion - it's nice to try to dabble in  a few things outside one's comfort zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speed certainly &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; important, but not to the exclusion of everything else. A fast &quot;good enough&quot; answer will usually get a lot of votes, but a slow, really good answer will generally do a lot better than a fast &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T11:32:06.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="171" CreationDate="2009-08-01T11:58:16.367" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talking endlessly about the site and repping like a WoW gold farmer doesn't mean squat when you're in the other box and that rep is focussed on programming knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even at any kind of exchange rate, the level of trust that builds up in the number next to your avatar should correlate to the time and involvement you expend on that particular site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T11:58:16.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11583" CreationDate="2009-08-01T12:11:05.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an interesting way to look at this is what proportion of questions answered are tagged with the top tag(s). It gets a little hard to get actual percentages from the user pages since questions can have multiple tags, but let's look at just the top tag. For example (snapshot as of 8/1):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Jon Skeet:  4728 answers, 2336 tagged C# = 49% &#xA;Marc Gravell: 3635 answers, 2427 tagged C# = 67%&#xA;Tim VanFosson: 2726 answers, 456 tagged C# = 17%&#xA;S. Lott: 1863 answers, 927 tagged Python = 50%&#xA;JaredPar: 2062 answers, 870 tagged C# = 42%&#xA;Greg Hewgill: 1373 answers, 177 tagged C++ = 13%&#xA;Joel Coehoorn: 2274 answers, 641 tagged C# = 28%&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly not definitive, but I think you can safely say that, with the exception of me, the top 5 tend to be more specialist (at least in their answers), answering more questions in their top-tagged area.  Personally, I feel that I tend to be more of a generalist and I think the numbers bear that out.  Even if you combine asp.net and asp.net-mvc to make it my top &quot;tag&quot;, my percentage of questions answered in that &quot;tag&quot; only rises to 27%.  If you extend that to the top 7, Greg Hewgill would also appear to be more of a generalist, while Joel Coehoorn seems to be somewhere between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably more important are the sheer number of questions answered.  With a couple of exceptions the scores reflect basically the number of questions answered with everyone (except S.Lott: 2.7;  Greg Hewgill: 3.3) averaging ~2 upvotes per question.  It's really the number and quality of answers that you contribute, not specialist/generalist that has the biggest impact on your score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T12:31:25.397" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T12:31:25.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="171" CreationDate="2009-08-01T12:13:18.370" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 101 rep on ServerFault. I answered one question without an upvote. Now imagine I could transfer 500 or even 1000 rep from MSO to SF. You think this would be a good idea? Yes? Think again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T12:13:18.370" />
  <row Id="11591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11580" CreationDate="2009-08-01T12:13:57.420" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you have a valid point here, especially the scenarion of a new user's first experience is worth considering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To those of us who have been with SO for longer, this might not seem relevant: We have seen the site evolve, we therefore know &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; the migration notice means and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; it came to be. This is not the case for newcomers. Especially the downvotes on a question before it's migration must seem pretty rude and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Rant&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;  Correction: They &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; rude and arrogant.   &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/Rant&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T12:13:57.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11583" CreationDate="2009-08-01T12:22:33.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking for myself, I'm a multi-technologist but largely within the Microsoft stack; I'm not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; C#; I'll also happily dabble in things like xslt, tsql, vb, mono, etc. My main focus is probably more .NET than C# - simply, the framework is orders of magnitude larger than the language, especially if you include things like winforms, wcf, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do play in other technologies (F#, python, etc) - but unless I think I can add significant value I'd rather leave such areas or people who specialize in it; plenty of other people can give much better answers than I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T12:22:33.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T13:07:22.710" Score="1" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is the Hot/Active question algorithm implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it based on the number of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did StackOverflow implement a reliable algorithm for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14118" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T18:43:12.687" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T19:00:02.890" Title="How is the Hot/Active question algorithm implemented?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T13:07:31.273" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Used to be that most questions that were off-topic got closed quickly.  That disturbed people because there were differing opinions over what constituted &quot;programming-related&quot;.  Now a family of web sites is available to handle many of these and there is/could be less disagreement over how to handle many off-topic questions as they are simply moved, not actually closed.  This means that the conversation can still take place, albeit in a different, more appropriate forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it takes 5 votes to close/move a question and some questions can linger and get answers in the &quot;wrong&quot; forum.  These get migrated, but as the communities grow answers in the correct forum are more likely to be correct.  As we've seen, though, early, up-voted answers tend to get more traction than even later, more correct answers.  That being the case, it seems better to migrate questions to the correct forum more quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the number of votes to close be reduced from it's current number or would we just get back into close wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to this feature request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6613/separate-close-to-move-from-other-close-reasons-and-reduce-reputation-required&quot;&gt;Separate close to move from other close reasons and reduce reputation required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:31:21.197" Title="Now that there is a League of Super Heroes should the number of votes required to close/move be reduced?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11580" CreationDate="2009-08-01T13:10:32.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. It never hurts to be nice and provide a detailed explanation. I'd vote to keep the terse comment, but with an &quot;[Explanation]&quot; link to the side that goes to a FAQ entry that explains common moderator actions like closing or migrating a thread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couple of other suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to the migrated thread if the question has been migrated. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If question is closed as duplicate, provide a way for the moderator to point out the duplicate(s), so the action reads like this: &quot;closed as duplicate of this, this, this by x,y,z&quot;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T13:10:32.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11586" CreationDate="2009-08-01T13:46:45.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the best you can do is get &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130154/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Sampson&lt;/a&gt; to write or write yourself a Greasemonkey script. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main cause of SO's addictiveness is rep and competition over it, so I doubt they'll willingly waste effort in offering an option to hide it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T13:46:45.623" />
  <row Id="11600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T13:52:35.133" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that over time a large number of questions will be duplicated over superuser.com and serverfault.com. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To cite an example, I'm investigating protocols to mount remote filesystems on linux with full locking capability (to configure NAS for my home network). I've looked at (and had questions on) Samba, NFS, SSHFS etc - server technologies used by power users as much as by network admins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it immediately clear which site these questions should be directed towards ? If not, the same question is bound to be raised on both sites by different users (or even the same user). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate postings are already an issue on SO, why not nip it in the bud by designing for duplicate/cross-posting for SU and SF rather than trying to manage it later ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as an example, I think this &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/47535/protocol-to-mount-fat32-network-filesystem-on-linux-with-ability-to-lock-files&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; I asked on SF has near-equal relevance on both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I know a similar question was asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5790/allow-cross-posting-of-questions-to-more-than-one-so-site&quot;&gt;earlier&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd like to debate the merits of cross-posting on these two sites only, because of their overlap.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:06:53.607" Title="Allow cross-posting between serverfault.com and superuser.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;&lt;cross-posting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11596" CreationDate="2009-08-01T13:58:21.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions start out at the top of the 'Active' tab when they are first posted. A question will be &quot;bumped&quot; back to the top of the 'Active' tab whenever it receives a new answer, a tag is added or removed, or one of the questions/answers is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The algorithm to determine 'Hot' questions is discussed here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4766/how-are-hot-questions-selected&quot;&gt;How are “Hot” Questions Selected?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T13:58:21.457" />
  <row Id="11602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11604" CreationDate="2008-08-23T07:53:41.643" Score="75" ViewCount="8497" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/?sort=popular&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the front page Popular tab&lt;/a&gt; is fairly broken -- it's a simple descending sort by views. As Joel said &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/08/podcast-18/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in podcast #18&lt;/a&gt;, it is &quot;a self-fulfilling prophecy.&quot; But this is not intentional, it's only because we haven't had time to improve it yet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I sit down to write a better algorithm, I thought you guys might have some insight into what would make a good formula to determine the &quot;hot&quot; questions -- over the last 24 hours, the last week, the last month, and all time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the variables we have to work with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes [aka Score]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Views  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer Votes [aka Score]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether the question has an accepted answer or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time question was originally asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time of last activity on question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation of asker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation(s) of answerers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel cited the reddit formula as an example, but I think our site is a little different than just a basic link submission site. Plus, we have more variables and data to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seomoz.org/blog/reddit-stumbleupon-delicious-and-hacker-news-algorithms-exposed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; describing a few formulas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Y Combinator Hacker News&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(p - 1) / (t + 2)^1.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;p = votes (points) from users&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  t = time since submission in hours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reddit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;t = (time of entry post) - (Dec 8, 2005)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  x = upvotes - downvotes  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;y = {1 if x &gt; 0, 0 if x = 0, -1 if x &amp;lt; 0)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  z = {1 if x &amp;lt; 0, otherwise x}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;log(z) + (y * t)/45000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Ideas? I don't want to overthink this; I just want the &quot;hot&quot; questions to be relevant and useful to us. So &lt;strong&gt;the simpler the algorithm the better!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on my analysis of the above and the comments so far, here's the &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt; version of what I have implemented so far. This might suck. I don't know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;(log(Qviews)*4) + ((Qanswers * Qscore)/5) + sum(Ascores)&#xA;--------------------------------------------------------&#xA;((Qage+1) - ((Qage - Qupdated)/2)) ^ 1.5&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that accepted answers weight not at all in hotness. This is intentional, as I feel accepted answers are a fine social contract, but not a good data point for question or answer quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This algorithm will heavily favor questions with LOTS of answers, as the sum(Ascores) are now included -- one assumes if there are lots of answers, there will be a lot more voting on the answers, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T21:12:00.580" LastActivityDate="2011-04-01T07:57:24.413" Title="What Formula Should Be Used To Determine &quot;hot&quot; Questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;algorithm&gt;&lt;hot-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="26" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="28" />
  <row Id="11603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T07:57:21.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that for a site like this, the hot question would be a function of what is being discussed the most. Now, if we leave it at that only, then an irrelevant discussion would may also become hot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, we should take into account the reputation of the people answering (hence contributing to the discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135259" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T08:14:50.547" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that reputation of participants should be considered. As the beta has clearly shown, &quot;reputable&quot; people can have irrelevant discussions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it would be better to just consider amount of activity, recentness of activity, and total upvotes minus downvotes in discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T08:21:26.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit again: Micha(l) was right, I had the &quot;answered&quot; bit the wrong way round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important factors are the total number of votes on the question itself and whether the question has an accepted answer. As @Blorgbeard says, reputation doesn't really affect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Age definitely has to be a factor, otherwise a highly voted question could stay around long after the technology it refers to is superceded. Perhaps last activity is all that needs to be factored in here, rather than when the question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;((totalVotesOnQuestion + 1) ^ 2) * (answered ? 1 : 10) / timeSinceLastActivity&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the denominator is scaled appropriately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This would rely on people up-modding questions they want the answer to. I don't know if some extra helpful text would help this, prompting people to vote for the question if they, too, want to know the answer. This would tie in nicely with the suggestion on UserVoice to make the votes against a question count as &quot;bounty&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T08:24:14.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Blorgbeard.. I don't think rep should play a major part in determining a question's popularity..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't think it should be based on just the number of views or answers posted (both could obviously be gamed easily).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I believe it should be mainly based on score (?) (upvotes - downvotes).&#xA;This should weight the up/down votes on the question higher than those for the answers, but those for the answers should obviously have an impact..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would probably be made easier if the question score was automatically partially controlled by the answer content (i.e. 3 upmods on answers = +1 to question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142924" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-30T19:03:47.300" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T19:03:47.300" />
  <row Id="11607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T08:37:09.183" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Matt&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most important factors are the total number of votes on the question itself and whether the question has an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then this formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(votesOnQuestion ^ 2) * (answered ? 2 : 1) / timeSinceLastActivity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would keep the questions with accepted answer on the top of the list. I think that it should be the opposite of that. When the question has been answered it doesn't need to be discussed anymore and can be archived. If somone has similiar question they will find the answer using search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1534" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T09:51:59.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe tags could be taken into account somewhere along the way. Especially since high reputation people can re-tag other's people questions, avoiding mitagged questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136409" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T12:38:38.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that you have to factor churn rate as this is an issue for most here - fantastic resource heavliy used IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would go for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(number views/number of answers)     *     (dateTimeQuestions/dateTimeLastAnswer)  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then a simple ranking of those.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View v Answers is a churn rate to answer rate (should be good as there have been lots viewing it and lots answering it) then add the Time Factor of the Question, that is, the speed of the question to the speed of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is simple problem solving algorthim not a real one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having thought about this for more than a nanosecond there may be more of an issue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is definition of hot topic?  Views to Answers or Time from Question to Number of Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what I was trying to do was combine these to perspectives on a hot topic then provide a quick rank of the multiplication of those two routines... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having just read this again - I still haven't put reputation and voting in...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;On reputation (this is from people that have put time in) my mind thinks that a person coming with  a rep of 10 may still provide the &quot;best answer&quot; so discount reputation out of the &quot;hot topic&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the last piece would be to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(  (number views/number of answers)     *     (dateTimeQuestions/dateTimeLastAnswer) ) * (number of up votes/number of downvotes )&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Humm b*tch of a question = good luck =&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-30T19:00:40.933" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T19:00:40.933" />
  <row Id="11611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T12:43:05.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you planning to make any exceptions in your alogorithm for meta-questions?  You joked around in one podcast about building a system that is being used to discuss the system, which of course isn't really what's happening when you count up the actual number of meta-questions, but when you look at the really popular questions it seems that way.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general line of thinking is that once the site goes public, these posts will eventually fall by the wayside, but I'm not so sure that's true.  There will always be interest in discussing how the site works, especially among your target audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe just a slight subtraction for tag=stackoverflow after the beta is done.  This would, of course, require some diligence with re-tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T12:48:53.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it were me, I'd say weighted activity per minimum period through a linear filter:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_filter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_filter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T12:57:02.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One additional thought about ranking hot questions. I think the hot questions ranking should potentially be calculated or weighted differently for answered and un-answered questions. It seems that questions that are viewed lots, but not answered are potentially more interesting than questions that are already asked and answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T14:45:39.610" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than jumping right to the formulas, I think it would be helpful to think about what kind of popularity you're trying to measure.  Stackoverflow is a user-generated content site, so popularity should be largely governed by user actions.  Most popularity driven sites (Digg, reddit) want their list to change regularly so people have a reason to come back to the site every day (or hour).  They usually do this by incorporating some sort of temporal decay.  Assuming that this is what you want when you say you want a popularity metric, you pretty much inevitably end up with a formula that is some variation on (user activity) / (time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how to measure user activity?  Well you listed some possible inputs in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes [aka Score] - Probably the best popularity metric available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Views - A pretty poor substitute for votes.  A view from someone who clicks on a link, spends ten seconds reading and decides this is boring gets counted just as much as a view from someone who reads the entire question and every answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers - What are you trying to accomplish with the popularity page?  Do you want it to be a tool to call attention to unanswered questions, in which case questions with fewer answers should be rated higher?  Or do you want to call attention to good answers, in which case more answers should be rated higher?  Perhaps there should be a default popularity (no answer-based weighting) with tabs for most popular unanswered questions and most popular  questions with accepted answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether the question has an accepted answer or not - Same concerns as answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time question was originally asked - If you incorporate the time originally asked in the denominator, the popular list will incorporate only recently asked questions.  It will be all but impossible for an old question which sees a burst of activity to show up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time of last activity on question - Using the time since the last activity makes it possible for old questions to show up again, but it also would make it possible for someone to game the system and keep a question they like &quot;popular&quot; for a long time, they just have to keep doing minor things to keep the time since last activity low.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation of asker - Given the huge disparities in reputation that have arisin just in the beta period, it seems like using this will mean that newbies will never appear in the most popular list, regardless of how good their question is or how much interest it attracts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation(s) of answerers - Similar concerns to the asker's reputation, a question wouldn't show up on the list until someone with a lot of rep answered it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think number of votes is pretty clearly the best popularity metric.  Number of answers/accepted answer could be incorporated depending on what you want to emphasize (I think a separate tab for popular unanswered questions would be a great addition).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really enamored with either of the time alternatives you listed.  Instead, I'm thinking the best way to incorporate time would be to use it as a sampling window, rather than dividing popularity by some time measure.  Look at the number of votes/views/answers in the last hour/day/week rather than dividing by some sort of time measure.  This disadvantages questions that have just been posted, of course, since they haven't had a full hour/day/week to accumulate votes.  You could weight the votes based on how long it's been since the question was posted up to the sampling window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would propose something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Popularity = (Number of Votes in last 24 hours) / (Hours since question was posted or 24, whichever is less)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T15:22:01.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every 15 minutes, look at the&#xA;questions asked in the last 24 hours&#xA;that have not been promoted to the&#xA;home page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put the question with the most&#xA;views at the top of the home page. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put the question with the most&#xA;votes at the top of the home page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple, right? You essentially have a list of the &quot;hot&quot; questions from the last 24 hours. There's no self-fulfilling prophesy. And you could use the same algorithm to select &quot;hot&quot; questions over the last week, the last month, and all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-23T21:42:26.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first item in the list of variables to work with is &quot;votes&quot;, but I assume that's the number of votes that the question has received. Is it possible to count the number of votes it's answers have received?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid the pitfall of the questions that historically got the most views, being the questions that get the most views in the future could you define popularity based on the amount of interaction questions are getting once someone has viewed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally you'd want some kind of running average of the votes for the question, the votes for it's answers and the frequency of answers. So that when the a good solution is found and new answers stop coming in and discussion slows down it will drop down the list of popular topics even if it is still getting many page views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-24T11:17:46.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually, the best way to do these things is to keep it simple so that people can understand and maintain any coefficients in the algorithm. I guess they will require some tweaking as the masses flood the gates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am quite surprised how good the Firefox &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.mozilla.org/en/The_Places_frecency_algorithm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;frecency&lt;/a&gt; algorithm works. It can't be translated directly to this, but switch some variables around and you have a pretty lightweight formula to order your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-24T11:47:18.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Every 15 minutes, look at the questions asked in the last 24 hours that have not been promoted to the home page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Put the question with the most views at the top of the home page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Put the question with the most votes at the top of the home page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That spounds good to me, but maybe do it for the top two/three of each cat rather than just one. Six new additions are better than 2 - even if it is every 15 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd definitely like the current setup as a seperate tab however - I like how you don't have to spam your link to everyone to get it on the frontpage (where it has any real chance of being seen by the masses) a la Digg. Perhaps rename it to recent - it's recent activity (questions/comments) rather than new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-24T12:13:43.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that using a simple reputation metric in the calculation for which topics should be &quot;Hot&quot; questions would lead to a situation where a new user would have a low chance of having his question make it to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about calculating a &lt;strong&gt;Net Reputation&lt;/strong&gt; metric based upon the total number of points a user has obtained over the age of his account on Stack Overflow? The age variable itself may be based upon the number of days where a user has logged into the site for at least 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;netReputation = (reputationPoints / numDaysUserVisits);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should allow a user who has more reputation points, and happens to be active on the site to gain a higher metric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136293" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-08-30T14:56:03.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a single popularity field for each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When user votes question or one of its answer up, increase popularity by fixed amount. Decrease with down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If user cancels up vote, decrease questions popularity with same fixed amount as up vote would increase it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then decrease popularity periodically (once an hour, once a day) with this formula:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;popularity = popularity * X, where X is carefully selected and 0 &amp;lt; X &amp;lt; 1, &#xA;                             for example X=0.95&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then just order questions by popularity. The question with highest value in popularity field is the hottest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would need some figuring out what the coefficient X  should be and how often formula should be applied to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would give more weight for recent votes, and high popularity spikes would eventually fade away. This way the questions that recently got a lot of up votes would get to the top. This would work even if the question was very old but for some reason got lot of a activity recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2008-09-19T02:06:34.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you looked at the mouseover text&#xA;  on the voting arrows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This was helpful&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &quot;This was not helpful&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...you've&#xA;  demonstrated exactly why voting is&#xA;  useful, and it works. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff here mentions again how important he believes voting should be where popularity is concerned. But as Inigo once said, &quot;Why you keep using that word? I do not think it means what you think means.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Topics and threads (because that's what the hottest &quot;questions&quot; have become) don't have to be &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt; to be &lt;em&gt;popular&lt;/em&gt;, so I might suggest that Jeff is as brutally misusing this metric as the guy he's chastising in this quote. To be fair, so are the vast majority of the people on the &quot;hot&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solution : Have &quot;Hot Discussions&quot; and &quot;Hot Questions&quot; be separate items. Allow high-rep users to take a normal question that is clearly a discussion piece, and make it &quot;Go Wiki&quot; (Can't editors do that already?), and by doing so have it no longer count as a &quot;Hot Question&quot;. Now you can apply almost any formula you like to the questions because any open-ended question that gets to the &quot;Hot&quot; board will be ripe to be instantly shoved aside. Almost all the things that you cite in your formula like views, votes, and time since the last update will be more relevant, because spammers, flamers, and trolls will gravitate to the &quot;discussion&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making it easy to get into flamewars, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; easy to segregate them, ala Wikipedia discussion page, has a pretty good track record in returning relevant results, no matter the formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:58:24.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I am suggesting here is not a solution but a general approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem at hand is generally referred to as the 'ranking problem' in machine learning. Given a set of examples, each of which is a vector of real numbers, induce a function to rank unseen examples. This problem is quite well studied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am suggesting is that the creators of Stack Overflow extract a small subset of their database, manually rank it and put it online for researchers to download and work with (anonymize it if necessary). The &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UCI Machine Learning Repository&lt;/a&gt; would be a good venue. People who work in this area are bound to jump on it, use it to benchmark their algorithms and ideas. Soon you will see publications will real results on a subset of your database. You can get this at almost no cost to you. Many organizations have tried this approach, Netflix to name one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2009-03-17T23:40:45.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion, which has been rejected by numerous site frameworks but I continue to make...  Store another variable, &quot;Views originating from any list sorted by most views&quot;, and don't count those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139210" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2009-03-25T16:15:01.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Random question. Maybe unrelated, pardon me in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In our ratings, do we take into account toppers bias. i.e. people tend to support the widely acclaimed opinion. In our case, since the responses are sorted by votes, such a bias would be aggravated. e.g. in a substantial likelihood, this response will be ignored ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:09.460" />
  <row Id="11625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11596" CreationDate="2009-08-01T14:08:37.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I moved the Hot algorithm question here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:08:37.713" />
  <row Id="11626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11581" CreationDate="2009-08-01T14:14:41.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now encode any &quot;:&quot; chars that occur past a certain position in the URL so this should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T07:24:34.840" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:24:34.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11597" CreationDate="2009-08-01T14:18:01.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes 5 votes &lt;em&gt;or a moderator&lt;/em&gt; to close/move a question. I think it's okay - I haven't seen a significant number of &quot;bad&quot; questions lingering for a long time. 5 still isn't very many votes - at least not on SO. I dare say it takes a while longer on SF/SU, but it'll gradually improve as they get more users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:18:01.113" />
  <row Id="11629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T14:22:47.360" Score="7" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;G'day,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just updated my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453242/any-good-annotated-bibliographies-for-it&quot;&gt;SO question on annotated bibliographies&lt;/a&gt; after finding an excellent bibliography in a book I'm currently reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I intend to do do the same in the future whenever I find further good annotated bibliographies as I think of SO as a great resource where people can get information on all sorts of topics. Information that should for ceratin types of questions be updated as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about having a badge for people who come back and edit their posts a certain number of times (5?), over a certain minimum time (6 months?)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Love the show!&quot; oh, wait a minute, that's Buzz Out Loud...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Avahappy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think that this should apply to CW questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2974" LastEditorUserId="2974" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T11:09:50.270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T11:09:50.270" Title="Badge suggestion: Persistent" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="11632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11597" CreationDate="2009-08-01T14:31:21.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO scaled up close votes required as the number of people who can vote to close increased. I think it makes sense to do that with SU and SF. I'd probably suggest 3 for SU, 4 for SF, 5 for SO still and it can scale up as required over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see any reason to increase above 5, at least not yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T14:31:21.197" />
  <row Id="11633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11600" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:06:53.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cross posting is almost &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; discouraged even in &quot;traditional forums.&quot; If you have a question that would be appropriate for either forum, try handling it in the &lt;em&gt;traditional&lt;/em&gt; way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Select the site that has the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; relevance to your question. If you do not receive a satisfactory answer, reword your question to make it appropriate on the second site, and repost. To avoid a backlash, I would reference your original question, citing why you think it is now relevant to the second site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is that rare edge case that just &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to be both sites to serve as an archive for all future generations, I would still post on one site at a time in the sequence I described above. As a bonus, it would be perfectly appropriate to also post any exceptional answers you received from the first site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:06:53.607" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="11634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11629" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:17:26.910" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even just encouraging users to update an older post at all; say, one month old or more. It's not a bad suggestion. It could be gamed (making irrelevant additions to get the badge) but it falls within the criteria of encouraging users to participate in a behavior that is not really addressed by the general reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:17:26.910" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:20:52.877" Score="4" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't expect that this is going to go over well here based on the only other &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11498/how-user-messaging-could-be-realized&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; I've found related to this topic, but here goes ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that some sort of user to user messaging is the only major &quot;social/community&quot; feature missing.  Is there any value to adding user to user messaging outside of the context of questions, answers and comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the reason's for and against including user to user messaging on SO, SF and SU? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154974" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T16:27:59.327" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T16:27:59.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T15:20:52.877" Title="instant messaging on SO SF SU" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;messaging&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11635" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:24:04.307" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The big reason against: SO &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a social networking site. It's a Q&amp;amp;A site. Anything which distracts from making it as simple as possible to ask questions and answer them is taking away from the main point, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way: do you expect Windows Live Messenger or Google Talk to add Q&amp;amp;A features? If not, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:24:04.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T15:24:04.307" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11635" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:24:07.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users can include IM details in their profiles if they are interested in being contacted that way.  Jeff Atwood is pretty adamant about SO, etc. not being a social networking site, but rather a place to get answers for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:24:07.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T15:24:07.113" />
  <row Id="11638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11635" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:25:24.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not missing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not wanted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:25:24.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T15:25:24.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11635" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:28:41.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been covered pretty bluntly by the many attempts to water a first-rate Q&amp;amp;A site down into some sort of social forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4248/stackoverflow-software-stack-as-social-networking-tool&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Software Stack as Social Networking Tool?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4248/stackoverflow-software-stack-as-social-networking-tool&quot;&gt;Is it wrong for the community to add ‘social’ features using scripts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4830/private-message-feature-closed&quot;&gt;Private Message Feature [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:28:41.253" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T15:28:41.253" />
  <row Id="11641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11558" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:46:11.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, claimid changed their syntax&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://claimid.com/yourname&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://claimid.com/yourname&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.claimid.com/yourname&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://openid.claimid.com/yourname&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;email us via the link at the bottom of every page to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:46:11.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11285" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:50:12.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The created bounty part is completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That other question has some severe fundamental problems IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:50:12.600" />
  <row Id="11643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11112" CreationDate="2009-08-01T15:51:26.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either the image is protected from hotlinking by referrer checking, or unusual characters in the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy way to test for and fix both: move the image to a free image hosting service and see what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T15:51:26.060" />
  <row Id="11645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11629" CreationDate="2009-08-01T16:21:29.713" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a nice idea. If one goal of SO is to be the standard internet repository for programming questions, you certainly want to invite people to do &quot;janitorial work&quot; on old questions/answers to make them better. I would support expanding the [Necromancer] badge to being awarded whenever an edit to an answer or question (yours or not) after a certain period of inactivity results in 5 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T16:21:29.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2009-08-01T16:35:17.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a frontend for watching all 3 (later 4) sites at once and I double click on an interesting question to open it in the default browser. When I'm done, I close that tab and don't care how many tabs are open - changes to other posts become automatically apparent in my frontend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T16:35:17.827" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T16:35:17.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11629" CreationDate="2009-08-01T16:38:25.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice idea. I would however suggest that CW questions are excluded from this as they already belong to the community and this should reduce gaming as well. Questions become CW if edited to much eventually and therefore the badge can't easily get abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T16:38:25.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11432" CreationDate="2009-08-01T16:39:19.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think scripts like that undermines some of the intentions with SO/SF/SU. It's not a social site first and foremost, more of a help service, for example as an alternative to experts-exchange.com and such sites. Upvoting should refer to the quality and helpfulness of the questions/answers, not whether it's from a friend or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, scripts like this will be created, and there's probably not much SO can do to stop it, but I suppose it will be frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132501" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T16:39:19.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T16:39:19.397" />
  <row Id="11649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11586" CreationDate="2009-08-01T16:43:23.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is one of the metrics I use to determine the value of the answer or question. With this I mean I am more likely to vote someone up with more reputation, and also more likely to answer their question. Ignoring the gaming this is one of the most important metrics I use when determining how or where value is added in a particular tag/question. Hiding it defeats that object for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T16:43:23.710" />
  <row Id="11650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11586" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:02:33.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wrote a grease monkey script for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chacha102.com/hide%5Frep.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here you go: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chacha102.com/hide_rep.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://chacha102.com/hide_rep.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However you will always see the reputation on the profile page, which probably shouldn't bother you that much. If it does I'll be glad to expand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T17:08:16.263" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:08:16.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:02:56.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally agree. I am now willing to put a bounty on a question I asked, and requires some skills, so the bounty should be high. The question is complex, and unlikely to attract a lot of contributes. Together with the summer period, I am almost guaranteed to invest maybe 300 reps with poor or no perspective of an effective return. The bounty system is a very good idea, but as it stands, it definitely has flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:02:56.273" />
  <row Id="11652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:12:42.963" Score="67" ViewCount="2763" Body="&lt;p&gt;How addicted to Stack Overflow are you really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently realized that I'm getting really addicted to these sites (especially SO) for various reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I feel like I've failed myself when a day passes and I didn't reach my &lt;strong&gt;200 reputation cap&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;(maybe that's a small exaggeration)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've build a widget that shows my reputation directly on my desktop, updated every 10 minutes (top center):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://files.wolfmicrosystems.com/images/2009-08-01_125254.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://files.wolfmicrosystems.com/images/2009-08-01_125254-th.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Desktop&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closeup of the widgets:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/desktop/StackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;SO Widget&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/desktop/ServerFault.png&quot; alt=&quot;SF Widget&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/desktop/SuperUser.png&quot; alt=&quot;SU Widget&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/desktop/MetaStackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;Meta Widget&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, how addicted are you to Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Download Widget&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The widgets are powered by my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9482/image-based-flair-downloadable-implementation-v2-0&quot;&gt;Image Based Flair (Source)&lt;/a&gt; PHP Script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Now a community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T14:20:46.237" LastActivityDate="2011-05-01T15:08:44.797" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T15:42:09.177" Title="How addicted to Stack Overflow are you?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="37" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="17" />
  <row Id="11653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:14:32.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very, very addicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:14:32.493" />
  <row Id="11654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:17:35.667" Score="48" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on Meta. On a Saturday morning. Need I say more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:17:35.667" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:19:02.793" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked Jeff to delete all my accounts off all 4 sites because I was living and breathing the Trilogy in 4 parts. I have however killed the RSS feeds and try to only come on once or twice a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say 2 weeks later he re-linked all the accounts so that I could come back. However  I now focus my attention on SU and MSO. I have however killed the RSS feeds and try to only come on once or twice a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can relate to not getting the 200 cap for the day, although this is not there reason I do it. I try and give concise and correct answers, with links to external sites as a backup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Jeff had to unlink my accounts again. Luckily this time he only removed the OpenID, because lo and behold, 4 months later I am back again. I have now decided I am not having my accounts removed again, but rather just accept that the trilogy is one of my online homes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T17:09:41.797" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T17:09:41.797" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="11656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:22:34.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are no legal restrictions about a desktop 'frontend' (e.g. Jeff does incredible effort to make them non-working) it is possible. With bit of fear, I propose &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; desktop implementation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/open-so-frontend/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Open Stack Overflow Frontend&lt;/a&gt; @ 0.62&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is fully &lt;em&gt;open source&lt;/em&gt; (LGPL) and uses &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; public information (e.g no inpersonation). Please have a look at it if you wish. (and hope it remains functional). At the current level, it's quite operational but there are still much to do in terms of functionality, and of course testers and improvement suggestions are always welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="130626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T16:49:49.407" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T16:49:49.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T17:39:09.867" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:37:19.543" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is referred to around the house as '&lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; website.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T17:49:24.793" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:49:24.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:39:29.790" Score="52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not an addict. I can stop anytime I want!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This user has left Meta. See his profile.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="142114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T19:34:20.970" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T19:34:20.970" />
  <row Id="11659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:40:45.810" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought I was, but realized maybe I wasn't so much after seeing your desktop widget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:40:45.810" />
  <row Id="11660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5943" CreationDate="2009-08-01T17:42:21.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An Eclipse plugin would be a nice touch - of course, if you use Eclipse, that is.  It would allow for fast code lookups and mockups, and have the added benefit of seeming like 'work' to your employers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T17:42:21.453" />
  <row Id="11662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T18:01:24.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, direct links to newest questions at SO, SF, SU and Meta are in my bookmark toolbar. That's 40% of my toolbar at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And something like @mmyers said, except it's now Saturday &lt;em&gt;evening&lt;/em&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132501" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T18:01:24.473" />
  <row Id="11663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T18:16:31.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, what I do after wake up, I refresh SO, SF, SU and MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T18:16:31.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T19:01:49.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much. SO is very useful and I probably couldn't work without it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is just a huge time-waster. It reminds me of the dorm-governance meetings in University.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I am addicted to programming and technology, though I try to control it. Hence I admire your Desktop widget. Nice stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T19:01:49.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T20:08:16.773" Score="0" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10751/pasting-so-search-links-with-explicit-tags-into-comments-does-not-work-as-expecte&quot;&gt;Pasting SO search links with explicit tags into comments does not work as expected.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The work around is to urlencode characters in your link, %5B and %5D for [ and ] respectively.&#xA;Duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10751/pasting-so-search-links-with-explicit-tags-into-comments-does-not-work-as-expecte&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry Jeff, I know you were already annoyed earlier about url contents, but here's another problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steps&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a search such as: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=development+why+%5Bmac%5D+%5Bosx%5D&quot;&gt;&quot;development why [osx] [mac]&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy search from the address bar and paste in a comment, such as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1217311/using-mac-for-development&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1217311/using-mac-for-development&lt;/a&gt; (see 4th comment under question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Result&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags in the search are excluded from the url and are shown as plain text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expected Result&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The url should include all tags entered in the search, i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=development+why+%5Bmac%5D+%5Bosx%5D&quot;&gt;&quot;development why [osx] [mac]&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (note that this works in the wmd editor). Is it possible to add url markup to the comments as with bold/italic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasoning&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a site generates url's, then those url's should be parsed correctly on that site. Granted that there are probably some url's that can't be handled unambiguously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T10:21:44.317" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T10:21:44.317" ClosedDate="2009-08-02T01:01:09.963" Title="SO search URL's containing [tags] parsed incompletely in comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="11670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T20:10:00.890" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: &quot;Hi, I'm John, and I'm an SO addict.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: &quot;Hi, John&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to tell myself that I picked up the addiction during a period of unemployment. I've begun to wonder if that egg didn't come before that chicken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T20:10:00.890" />
  <row Id="11671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11576" CreationDate="2009-08-01T20:19:10.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think we should go even further here on Meta and completely disable automatic bumping by the Community user. Bumping was supposed to get some additional attention to questions in the hopes of getting additional answers, but I don't think that it makes sense on a discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T20:35:32.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T20:35:32.367" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T20:28:34.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying. There's so much great content on here, but I can't seem to settle into an efficient pattern of finding the great content that's interesting to me. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11511/how-do-you-use-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do you use stack overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132424" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T20:28:34.283" />
  <row Id="11673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T20:49:38.703" Score="16" ViewCount="779" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, there has been a poll about peoples' &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you&quot;&gt;addiction to Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, and justifiably so, there is a lot to like here. But what are the things you dislike?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132618" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T14:23:32.707" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T00:55:03.187" Title="What do you dislike with Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="11674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T20:53:12.287" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last week I started answering SO questions while I was doing a code review for someone who was  sitting right next to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T20:53:12.287" />
  <row Id="11675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T20:53:59.693" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I hit Refresh and there are no new questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T20:53:59.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T21:09:26.167" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That it is so addicting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T14:22:19.537" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T14:22:19.537" />
  <row Id="11677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T21:10:21.517" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started lying to people and animals about my problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I promise, just one more refresh and I'll take you for a walk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;30 minutes later my dogs are still staring at me wondering why they haven't gone anywhere.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T21:10:21.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11680" CreationDate="2009-08-01T21:14:06.847" Score="5" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, Stackoverflow has been up for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;over a year now&lt;/a&gt;.  Where are all of the yearling badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:12:38.150" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:12:38.150" Title="Where are the yearling badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T21:59:28.860" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Simple, there's &lt;strong&gt;no API&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Lies, all lies! &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1/api-documentation-and-help&quot;&gt;There is (now) an API&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-05T00:55:03.187" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T00:55:03.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11678" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:00:17.517" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Information on that badge is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T22:00:17.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:06:25.290" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's made me start using markdown in blog posts, emails etc... which leads to intense frustration when it doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, just to nitpick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lack of a full API&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lack of offline client (would be useful for the tube)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personally I'm a fan of discussions beyond what's possible in SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I still don't think using time as a basis for the rep cap is a good idea&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Other minors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Various notification things, including &quot;I've fixed my answer, please check whether this solves your downvote&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cancellation of comment voting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Anti-close&quot; - &quot;this isn't a dupe&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No attention should be paid to the length of this list though - SO is still the best thing since sliced bread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T06:09:05.680" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T06:09:05.680" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:11:38.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about addicted, but there's a definite correlation between the increase in my SO rep and the periods that I have an upcoming deadline. I have one upcoming now as a matter of fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-01T22:21:02.810" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T22:21:02.810" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:13:33.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T22:13:33.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T22:13:33.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:15:13.710" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site culture is &lt;strong&gt;extremely&lt;/strong&gt; unwelcoming to newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For those who wanted me to elaborate with examples&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newbie is learning jQuery (or PHP, or the Qt toolkit, or Django, or etc..)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newbie googles basic question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newbie receives answer listed on Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newbie finds Firefox is not working (or wants to know if they should learn Prototype instead).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newbie asks question on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newbies gets 6 downvotes, and comments like &quot;Should be on SU&quot; (Newbie thinks: WTF is SU?) or &quot;Subjective and argumentive&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question gets migrated/closed, Newbie comes back and sees question listed as closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Not all users make it this far). Newbie clicks link to SU. Sees &quot;Beta Access&quot; and password prompt (Newbies, by definition, do not read the blog).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many users are going to do the research and find out that SU is for general questions, is in beta, and that the password is on the blog? A much much smaller number than those will go &quot;F**K THIS&quot; and go the Yahoo answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this happen many times even without being on for huge amounts of times (I don't have exact numbers, but I'd say it even happens as much as two or three times a day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to the person who says this only happens to those who think downvotes are a slap in the face. To a newbie, they are. While once you have over 100 reputation (nothing to anyone on Meta Stack Overflow, by definition, but not something you get instantly), -2 is far from the end of the world, for a newbie 5 of them will take all their rep. And closing the question (without explanation of how to get to Super User/Server Fault/why subjective questions are banned) is inclined to provoke the response: &quot;My question isn't good enough?! Screw you&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T14:21:44.550" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T14:21:44.550" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="11685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:17:57.030" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That after a few weeks of owning an iPhone, Jeff hasn't created &quot;an app for that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T22:17:57.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:20:33.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want that desktop app. Bad. So I guess the answer is &quot;really addicted&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-01T22:20:33.793" />
  <row Id="11688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:23:48.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you cannot use arbitrary URLs in posts (and nobody tells you so right away)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the yellow-ish background of questions matching my favourites (I deleted all my favourite tags because of that)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &quot;show x more comments&quot; link (I wish all comments were visible right away)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not notified of new comments to posts which I commented at (yes, this is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; discussion forum...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;error messages when posting are displayed at the bottom of the editor, where they are easily missed (esp. for newbies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132618" LastEditorUserId="132618" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T21:41:35.197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:41:35.197" />
  <row Id="11690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-01T22:38:03.353" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After hitting the &quot;Add comment&quot; button, there is no way to close the small text window that opens if you have happened to hit the button by mistake, or no longer feel the need to make a comment.  I suppose the user could reload the page to make it disappear if they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wanted to, but a simple &quot;cancel&quot; or &quot;close&quot; button would do the trick just as well, without forcing them into &lt;kbd&gt;F5&lt;/kbd&gt;'ing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, it's a pretty nifty site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132860" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-14T12:04:00.970" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T12:04:00.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-01T23:44:58.337" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10299/for-those-that-demand-those-elusive-badges/10352#10352&quot;&gt;I've said this before&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know you're a StackOverflow addict when &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; is on the top of your resume:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will Work for Badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:16:31.467" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:16:31.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T00:31:03.427" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Irritating inconsistencies in the reputation system (particularly with bounties) that are &quot;by design&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T00:31:03.427" />
  <row Id="11693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T00:31:56.810" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Receiving downvotes with no comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T00:31:56.810" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7741" CreationDate="2009-08-02T00:38:35.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;VI VI VI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editor of the Beast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T00:38:35.183" />
  <row Id="11695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-02T00:57:22.497" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on holidays in Fiji.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proof: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proxy IP address &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip?ips=202.62.127.61&amp;amp;type=&amp;amp;u=&amp;amp;p=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;202.62.127.61&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MD5 (202.62.127.61) = 469a7f3e5b157b686aed29c28e9656af&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check the hash in my identicon (I'm too new to give you a link)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..and I answered the geekiest way possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132868" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-01T15:08:44.797" LastActivityDate="2011-05-01T15:08:44.797" />
  <row Id="11696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-02T01:12:59.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey can I get that widget? I really mean it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's Sunday morning - 6.43 AM here and I was awake till 2.14 last night).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But honestly I am not that addicted. I've been a member since about a year now, but I visit it in bursts (when I can't keep my hands off it anymore). The other time I am just coding my projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132870" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T01:12:59.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T01:29:42.863" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community Wiki Police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T01:29:42.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11678" CreationDate="2009-08-02T01:47:03.013" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Badge will start showing up in 6 to 8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="439" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T01:47:03.013" />
  <row Id="11700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="815" CreationDate="2009-08-02T02:18:45.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could call it &lt;strong&gt;Manager&lt;/strong&gt; or any variant like Technical Manager or Middle Manager - something that implies that you have done your time on implementation side of IT, but have since moved 'up' to manage, and now spend too much time talking about development but not actually developing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T02:18:45.457" />
  <row Id="11701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="815" CreationDate="2009-08-02T02:41:46.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Watercooler&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who rep higher on meta and talk about the S[O|F|U] trilogy more than they actually spend repping up on the sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constantly hitting refresh for meta questions is the equivalent of the constant refilling of the paper cup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T02:41:46.090" />
  <row Id="11702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11712" CreationDate="2009-08-02T02:52:16.247" Score="1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had my old and new Stackoverflow accounts merged recently. Before having them merged, I associated my &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; account with all the other sites. I went and looked today and found that after the merge I was no longer associated. I clicked on the associate button and was awarded 100 points, &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt;, as I had not associated my old account with anything. I believe this was because of the difference in User IDs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing this will be erased on the next rep recalculation. Am I right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, just reporting a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T02:58:57.700" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T19:30:29.427" Title="Merged Two Accounts. Duplicate Association Rep" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11702" CreationDate="2009-08-02T02:59:09.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're rep gets recalced you would likely lose the bonus from both. I have heard in the past that people got recalced and lost their association bonus, so I would imagine it would be double for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T02:59:09.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T03:45:17.593" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dislike the fact that we only had the Cornify button for 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T03:45:17.593" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T04:55:01.897" Score="17" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about this issue from time to time but I didn't know whether it really exists or just an speculation on my side until today when I woke up [!], I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/422724/iphone-sdk-can-i-start-a-file-song-in-the-ipod-feature-of-the-iphone-via-the/422726#422726&quot;&gt;a very old answer of mine which was correct at that time and had a couple upvotes&lt;/a&gt; downvoted (in the meantime I'll leave that answer unedited for the sake of discussion; note that this is just a sample. I'm not asking &quot;how to deal with this specific answer.&quot; The question is completely general as it's nearly impossible to keep track of all of your answers to see whether they require updating or not). While the downvoter didn't explain a thing, I suspect the reason is that the answer is no longer applicable (It's one of the new features in iPhone OS 3.0). As we go to celebrate a long sequence of birthdays for Stack Overflow (hopefully!), we're going to see lots of answers become obsolete. How we're going to deal with this issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T05:11:10.727" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T06:30:46.617" Title="How to deal with obsolete answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;obsolete-information&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="11706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11705" CreationDate="2009-08-02T04:57:16.777" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer is outdated or no longer relevant either delete it or update it so it is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is no longer relevant or outdated either edit it to reflect that it was relevant or change it to be relevant or vote to close it (no longer relevant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of this depends on the reason for the change. For example, what's relevant to VB.NET 3.5 now is not necessarily what was relevant to VB.NET 2.0/1.1 or, God forbid, VB6. Those answers however may still be relevant to people who are still developing for those systems (and yes they have my condolences) so rather than delete it or update the question to whatever is current, it might be most appropriate to make sure the question and/or answer reflects that this applied to an old version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could say &quot;For version X, it works like this but for version Y this is no longer relevant because of new feature Z&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of iPhone OS, it's probably best to delete things that applied only to iPhone OS 1.x/2.x because they don't stick around in quite the same way that legacy operating systems and frameworks do. You are almost &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; to upgrade your iphone OS and you're somewhat foolish if you don't (barring teething problems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T04:57:16.777" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10452" CreationDate="2009-08-02T05:25:07.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All sites now link to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=faq&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=faq&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so make it count!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T05:25:07.563" />
  <row Id="11708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11705" CreationDate="2009-08-02T05:44:16.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Future-proof your answers/questions where you can without making it a nuisance of noise in the now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throw about caveats all over the place, drop those version number hints like you've got the fuzz on your tail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you can't be bothered, get the scalpel out and slice that dead answer/question off as no longer relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T05:44:16.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-01T06:56:52.027" Score="3" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using Stackoverflow with the Google Reader and the Better GReader Plugin for Firefox.&#xA;When I'm trying to open a question with the preview function I get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;For security reasons, framing is not allowed; click OK to remove the frames.&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to prevent this with a Greasemonkey script?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2450" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T06:40:07.383" Title="Allowing framing on Stackoverflow with Greasemonkey" Tags="&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11709" CreationDate="2009-08-01T07:16:29.460" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framekiller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;framebuster&lt;/a&gt; code of StackOverflow is located at the beginning of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/js/master.js?v=4087&quot;&gt;master.js&lt;/a&gt; file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way that Grease Monkey could help, but you can configure Firefox, modifying your user.js file, located at your Firefox User Profile folder, adding the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user_pref(&quot;capability.policy.policynames&quot;, &quot;noframebuster&quot;);&#xA;user_pref(&quot;capability.policy.noframebuster.sites&quot;, &quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot;);&#xA;user_pref(&quot;capability.policy.noframebuster.Location.replace&quot;, &quot;noAccess&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then restart Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users/browse%5Fthread/thread/42a64be1aa31e1d8/76df7564697e076a#76df7564697e076a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140987" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T06:40:07.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-02T07:10:30.923" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not addicted at all. Proof: I hardly had &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; cravings while in Venice for the weekend. I refuse to count the fact that I checked what had been going on as soon as I got off the return plane as evidence of any addiction. (I think I added a comment while still in baggage reclaim...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it another way: I'm addicted to SO until something better comes along, in the same way that I was addicted to newsgroups before SO arrived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T07:10:30.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11702" CreationDate="2009-08-02T07:16:32.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bug about  merge / re-associate I'll leave for Jeff et al.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just done a rep recalc on you SO and MSO accounts, and in both cases you &lt;em&gt;gained&lt;/em&gt; 2 or 3 points (usually down to downvotes against deleted users/posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no: you won't lose any points in the next rep recalc, unless the code changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T19:30:29.427" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T19:30:29.427" />
  <row Id="11713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-02T07:34:16.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have proof that I'm not addicted: I only have 3 woot! badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Thinks: How long has superuser been going ...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh dear,  ... now I have 4, one for each of the sites ... time to do something different ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastEditorUserId="19007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T08:54:54.170" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:54:54.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9109" CreationDate="2009-08-02T07:58:31.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK; new suggestion... stop fighting the inevitable... just go with it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11113/windows-forms-winforms&quot;&gt;[windows-forms] -&gt; [winforms]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; reasons not to just do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T07:58:31.107" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T08:13:05.150" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People voting the Answers but not the questions.. I had a question with 3 fav tags and no one voted me.. How sad :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132883" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T08:13:05.150" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5871" CreationDate="2009-08-02T09:00:53.057" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to see the &quot;Vote to make community wiki&quot; feature described here.  Right now the work flow is like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User opens question as personal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question gets closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; or something because it should be community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone leaves a comment saying &quot;make this a community wiki&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User (sometimes) complies.  Post is made community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People vote to re-open&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post is community wiki and people can respond&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User opens question as personal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question gets voted as &quot;community wiki&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post is community wiki and people can respond&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would seem to save a lot of headache and get to the same place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132887" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T09:00:53.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T09:00:53.057" />
  <row Id="11725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5871" CreationDate="2009-08-02T09:26:05.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is that these questions are not really good questions, and are not the type of questions that the site was designed for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions slip through the net just because users like to express their opinion on subjective matters, even though the question really deserves to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're lucky you'll get hundreds of upvotes on a non-CW question, because of people upvoting it to keep it on the front page (to make their own voice heard when others open the question and see their answer.)  If you're unlucky, you'll get a bunch of downvotes before the question is made CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218402/worst-mistakes-in-the-design-of-the-java-language&quot;&gt;my latest question&lt;/a&gt; for example.  I knew this was subjective, not the type the SO developers want to see, and likely to get closed.  Which it was (but at least I got a badge out of it.)  The fact that it was CW makes no difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T09:26:05.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T09:26:05.720" />
  <row Id="11727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T10:32:00.657" Score="0" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't log into superuser.com ( the first time I tried ) using Yahoo as my open-id provider because Noscript XSS protection kept flagging the attempt. I eventually had to disable XSS protection to be able to log in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't have this problem on any of the sister sites. &#xA;Has anyone else seen this problem ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T02:07:15.717" Title="Issue with Noscript XSS protection and Yahoo open-id login into superuser.com" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11729" CreationDate="2009-08-02T10:52:40.257" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&#xA;On July 24th I answered a question in stackoverflow, and it got 18 votes, mostly in the two days after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On July 30th, I wrote another nice question and it got 12 votes, as you can see from my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95048/dalloliogm&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why do I only have 230 total reputation points*? I don't care too much about that, but I tought this may be an error of the website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only 'weird' thing I have done recently is that I have deleted an answer of mine, because it was not related to the question.&#xA;I am looking for that post but I can't find it now... maybe the question has been deleted, it was about how to delete the 4000th line of a file under Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*now I have 330, because I got a bonus when I have registered here and associated the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132890" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:07:55.553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:07:55.553" Title="Why my reputation doesn't change, even if I get votes and more than 24 hours have passed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2009-08-02T10:55:23.700" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your 12 vote answer is a &quot;community wiki&quot; = no reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-posts-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T10:55:23.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11728" CreationDate="2009-08-02T10:57:16.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see you got the 180 points for the one answer. The other questions looks more like a &quot;wiki&quot; question and in that case points aren't given for those since those are usually not directly programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149754" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T10:57:16.050" />
  <row Id="11731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23567" CreationDate="2009-08-02T11:10:04.700" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the 15 char minimum on comments can be defeated by padding out the middle with spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;s/\s+/ /&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HTML ignores extra spaces anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47322" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T08:22:56.350" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:23:20.653" Title="Padding a comment with spaces" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;regex&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21490" CreationDate="2009-08-02T11:14:14.037" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a lot of questions and I really like to give approval to all of them to ensure I am giving feedback to the people answering and not have any lingering questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to filter my questions to just see the one that don't have an answer selected? This will save me time instead of just scrolling through all questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T02:17:34.043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T02:17:34.043" Title="Ability to filter your questions by unanswered or not chosen" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11735" CreationDate="2009-08-02T11:15:15.110" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the original author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218402/worst-mistakes-in-the-design-of-the-java-language&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which was closed as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; shortly after it was written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was one of five users who then voted to re-open it (as I thought the subject was appropriate for a &quot;community wiki&quot; question, though not for non-CW.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly I am still able to vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this conflicts with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that I contributed to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that I previously voted to re-open it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this by design or is it an oversight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:07:06.243" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:07:06.243" Title="Should a single user be able to vote to both close and re-open a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="11735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11733" CreationDate="2009-08-02T11:27:52.870" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonable as people can change their minds, and questions can change too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, suppose there's a bad question. You vote to close it. It is improved, and you then like it. You answer it, but then others close it. You still like it, so you vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no inconsistency there, and nothing nefarious going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T11:27:52.870" />
  <row Id="11736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11733" CreationDate="2009-08-02T11:46:23.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless there is a notable, real issue with such application behavior, I don't see a reason to prevent it.  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Permissive until there is a problem&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is the philosophy that seems appropriate here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T11:46:23.720" />
  <row Id="11737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11731" CreationDate="2009-08-02T11:51:13.867" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why bother.  If folks are prepared to game the system with spaces to get a short comment in, they won't be fussed using other characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get it????????????????????????????????????????????????&#xA;No....................................................&#xA;Why not? ____________________________________________&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will lead to some really nasty visual comment hacks that make the cure worse than the disease.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T14:03:14.183" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:03:14.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11766" CreationDate="2009-08-02T12:08:56.797" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6441/clicking-on-tags-with-wildcards-gives-you-a-blank-page&quot;&gt;Clicking on tags with wildcards gives you a blank page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use tags like &quot;c#*&quot; in the Interesting Tags boxes to highlight c# based questions - so I don't have to individually tag for c#2.0, c#3.0, c#.net etc, and have similarly used &quot;*vba*&quot; to hide questions related to VBA ( so I can catch tags like excel-vba ). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, clicking on such tags takes me to a blank page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug, or is the ability to use * to filter tags on the main page &quot;an accidental feature&quot;? Either way, is this something that can be implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-05T16:47:13.383" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T16:47:13.383" ClosedDate="2009-08-02T15:57:04.417" Title="Can't filter on a tag containing &quot;*&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11733" CreationDate="2009-08-02T12:16:28.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this situation, it is probably better to offer more flexibility rather than less.  As Jon points out, it allows you the ability to change your mind, or even vote to migrate it to a different site.  Without that option, you might find yourself in a position to earn a Peer Pressure badge with no way to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T12:16:28.540" />
  <row Id="11740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:13:19.260" Score="174" ViewCount="12529" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions and answers are marked &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; and are owned by a &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why have &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; posts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; posts work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does a post become a &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can the &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; status be removed from a post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:28:52.653" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T18:01:22.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T17:13:19.260" Title="What are &quot;Community Wiki&quot; posts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="38" />
  <row Id="11741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11740" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:13:28.230" Score="129" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Why have Community Wiki posts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the goals of the website is to be a continually evolving source of good information.  Community Wiki posts help enhance the &lt;em&gt;wiki&lt;/em&gt; aspect of the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information about the proper use of Community Wiki, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/the-future-of-community-wiki/&quot;&gt;The Future of Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do Community Wiki posts work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki posts work by transferring ownership of the post from the original author to the community.  They make the post easier to edit and maintain by a wider group of users, but they do not contribute to any user's reputation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the key features are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community Wiki posts are owned by the Community User ¹, not by any individual user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A much lower reputation (&lt;strong&gt;100&lt;/strong&gt; instead of &lt;strong&gt;2000&lt;/strong&gt;) is needed to edit a community wiki post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting on a community wiki post (up or down) does not affect any user's reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original author still gets badges based on community posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original author keeps the reputation gained (or lost) before their post entered community mode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does a post become a Community Wiki post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several ways a question or answer can enter community wiki mode, and most of these ways will occur automatically based on the rules of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts enter community wiki mode when one of the following happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The body of the post has been edited by at least five (&lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt;) different users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post has been edited ten (&lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt;) times by the original owner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt;'s author checks the &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt; checkbox when composing the answer. Note that this checkbox isn't available to new users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; is edited by its original author, who when doing so opts to check the &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An answer posted to a Community Wiki question will also be Community Wiki. Note that when a question is made CW after answers have already been posted, the existing answers are not normally converted to CW automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question generates more than &lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; answers (&lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt; on Super User). In this case, the question and all answers will enter community mode, as will any future answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moderator has reason to believe that the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; serves better in community wiki mode - if you want your question to be converted to a Community Wiki, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down/7183#7183&quot;&gt;flag it for moderator attention&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;* note that the rules outlined above are based on observations; the actual behavior of SO is subject to change without notice, and may well have done so since this was last updated...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can the Community Wiki status be removed from a post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2974/is-there-a-way-to-remove-community-wiki-status/83373#83373&quot;&gt;Moderators can remove it, when necessary.&lt;/a&gt; Once removed, the post will never &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt; be given the CW status again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Miscellaneous&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rollbacks do not reverse any of the Community Wiki mode calculations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Community User ¹ might appear as the last editor of a question, even a non-wiki question. This happens when it randomly pokes old unanswered questions so they get some attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;Who is the Community User?&lt;/a&gt;, or read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;Community User’s profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-26T18:01:22.977" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T18:01:22.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T17:13:28.230" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8692" CreationDate="2009-08-02T12:24:32.593" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not see a particular need to have all questions end in some final end state: Answered and/or Closed.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the solution you suggest is susceptible to more incorrect answers than I think you realize, thanks to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T12:24:32.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11762" CreationDate="2009-08-02T12:28:10.687" Score="3" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what the general opinion on &quot;list&quot; questions in the trilogy - example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books&quot;&gt;List of freely available programming books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these good questions? I certainly think so, as they help Stack Overflow and the like become central repositories of information. They're also very Googleable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a slightly related note, is it OK to edit answers to these questions into the question itself, as in the example? Or should answers be answer and have it left at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:33:34.187" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:33:34.187" Title="What's the opinion on &quot;list&quot; questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T12:35:10.637" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;Delicate Flowers&quot; of Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They think any and all down votes are bad, hostile or just plain mean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Happy, aimless up voting and vote trading &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hostility towards the mass reputation SOpedians&lt;/strong&gt; (10k+) &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; they have high reputation.  It is like they somehow don't deserve it.  E.g.: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes&quot;&gt;The Problem with Reputation...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; OK, maybe Joel Spolsky's posts, but the rest very well earn their points by and large.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Folks who see more value in badges and reputation than quality questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOpedians who continuously whine with complains about being abused&lt;/strong&gt;, kept down or otherwise grievously mistreated by the elected moderators, high rep users, or the allegedly tyrannical rule of Jeff Atwood himself.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discrepancies between WMD's preview and actual presentation&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T14:56:39.197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:56:39.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11760" CreationDate="2009-08-02T12:38:41.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they're okay, although they're likely to become outdated pretty rapidly. As you say, they're pretty handy in terms of findability from search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I'd put the answers into the question, but you could create a CW answer containing all the best bits of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T12:38:41.010" />
  <row Id="11763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11767" CreationDate="2009-08-02T13:03:26.537" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com/search?q=tcl lists many questions with the tag Tcl in them.&#xA;stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tcl say there are no such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130819" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:06:42.967" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:06:42.967" Title="SO Tagging Problem?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11705" CreationDate="2009-08-02T13:09:10.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This also occurs with hyperlinks. Over time these will break or the information change, perhaps becoming less relevant to the original answer/question. This may be a particular issue with quick early answers that are often the ones upvoted or accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should promote an ethos where someone who uses a hyperlink has a (moral?) obligation to check the continuing validity of links and repair them or, with suitable attribution, embed information directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T13:09:10.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11763" CreationDate="2009-08-02T13:09:41.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see about 50 questions listed with stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tcl.  You might want to check if &lt;code&gt;tcl&lt;/code&gt; is in your 'ignored tags' list.  If you have 'hide ignored tags' checked in your prefs, they will not show.  What could show when you search for 'tcl' using  &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/search?q=tcl&lt;/code&gt; are questions and answers that have the string 'tcl' in them, but not necessarily the tag 'tcl'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T13:09:41.023" />
  <row Id="11766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11738" CreationDate="2009-08-02T13:14:45.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~perl~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~perl~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only works if there is at least 4 characters in the string.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6441/clicking-on-tags-with-wildcards-gives-you-a-blank-page&quot;&gt;Clicking on tags with wildcards gives you a blank page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1649/searching-for-a-tag-containing-breaks&quot;&gt;Searching for a tag containing * breaks the site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;Additional search features/syntax?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1672/please-allow-wildcards-in-tag-searches&quot;&gt;Please allow wildcards in tag searches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1672/please-allow-wildcards-in-tag-searches/1726#1726&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt; I could find that directly mentions that feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I implemented an experimental&#xA;  &quot;explode&quot; operator which allows you to&#xA;  effectiely do the same thing -- it&#xA;  &quot;explodes&quot; the tags using ~ wildcards&#xA;  in a begins-with and/or ends-with&#xA;  manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all questions tagged bug, but without&#xA;  a tag beginning with &quot;status-&quot;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-~&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all questions with a tag containing&#xA;  &quot;edit&quot;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~edit~&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~edit~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I haven't fully tested all the&#xA;  permutations, but you must include at&#xA;  least 4 characters for it to be a&#xA;  valid match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also: THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL. Like I&#xA;  said!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T14:10:29.507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:10:29.507" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11763" CreationDate="2009-08-02T13:16:21.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10915/updated-details-searching-for-grails-get-0-results-but-i-know-they-are-ther/&quot;&gt;Check the tab you're on&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T13:16:21.497" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-08-02T13:35:39.953" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm the guy who gave the answer in question, as a genuine suggestion as to where real-world 'R' code was shown and discussed.  It was a long time ago, and it may well be that &lt;em&gt;at the time I gave the answer&lt;/em&gt; there had just been a lot of 'R' discussion on the blog in question.  The need for 'digging-down' is an assumption made from following the link to a dynamic site &lt;strong&gt;months&lt;/strong&gt; after the link was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a genuine answer to a question, and it clearly suited the questioner, because he 'accepted' it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the following 9 months or so, tensions have clearly risen somewhat on SO, and it's obviously a less friendly place than it was at the start (no surprise, it's the way of the Internet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would take an ill-educated ant about 10 seconds of looking at my SO profile to establish that I didn't participate in sock-puppetry, and the same ant could probably figure-out that down-voting an answer to punish a questioner for accepting that answer was probably not very productive...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't give a hoot about my SO score - nothing that easy to come by is worth worrying about losing, but the suggestion that I'm both sad enough and dishonest enough to be asking myself questions and accepting my own answers is faintly irksome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132894" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T13:35:39.953" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8584" CreationDate="2009-08-02T13:41:41.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read Will's answer - this doesn't seem to be a common occurrence at all and a moderator usually handles these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T13:41:41.113" />
  <row Id="11770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T14:08:36.793" Score="3" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was showing someone stack overflow a few hours ago from a mobile phone.&#xA;Connecting was fine, browsing/asking/answering questions was also seamless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did however have an issue searching the user list. When using a 'normal' browser the user search page refreshes as one types in the &quot;Type to find user&quot; textbox. Unfortunately the browser on my nokia did not do this auto refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that most user searches would not be performed on a mobile phone, but would it be reasonable to expect a button to the user search screen to 'submit' a search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="939" LastEditorUserId="152101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T18:49:02.410" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T18:49:02.410" Title="A user search option from a mobile phone" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="11771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11760" CreationDate="2009-08-02T14:35:35.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have mixed feelings about these. They lie at or beyond the strict margins of appropriateness, but they are none-the-less helpful. If they were a rare event they wouldn't bother me at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some new users, in their laudable enthusiasm to participate, thrash about for something, &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to post. And we get a steady stream of Best-Foo-with-lots-of-adjectives-to-distinguish-this-question-from-the-other-twenty-best-Foo-questions questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if we close those as duplicates we get called names and accused of being mean to the newbies, and, and, and... Not a lot of fun, and not conducive to keeping up that wonderful enthusiasm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:35:35.183" />
  <row Id="11772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T14:36:10.173" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quantity of bad questions, posted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4448/does-so-encourage-developer-laziness&quot;&gt;lazy users&lt;/a&gt; who are steadily gaining rep because of sympathy votes and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;low weight of down-votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More rep loss from downvotes would be good (if I understand the &quot;status-planned&quot; tag on that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, this is going to be implemented, right?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But though it might fix the unfairness of lazy users gaining lots of rep, it's not going to stop drive-by bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8331" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:36:10.173" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T14:39:15.363" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4146/unexpected-results-from-clicking-the-unanswered-button&quot;&gt;Unexpected Results From Clicking The Unanswered Button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675/is-there-a-page-that-display-questions-with-0-answers&quot;&gt;is there a page that display questions with 0 answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking on the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;Unanswered&lt;/a&gt;&quot; tag in SO, there are questions that already have answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/nJasPQasa8Y0k2_uh5bCpQ?feat=embedwebsite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_SDci0Pf3tzU/SnWk1k_9TUI/AAAAAAAAFD8/j4AJWVmkuV4/s400/answered.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it that by &quot;Unanswered&quot;, you are referring to there are no answer with upvotes? If this were the case you might want to change it to something else more descriptive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T11:23:22.997" ClosedDate="2009-08-02T16:07:36.947" Title="Why Inside 'Unanswered' tag there are questions that have already been answered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11705" CreationDate="2009-08-02T14:42:23.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about an implementation of one of the features found in source control systems - paint the questions and answers different shades of a color to represent their ageing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more proactive approach, implement a feature to allow users to provide version info with an answer. This is something I do with my blog posts because I see the same problem all over the web, especially with technology blogs.  However, I'm not sure this will work on a large scale. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:42:23.657" />
  <row Id="11775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11773" CreationDate="2009-08-02T14:47:40.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It refers to questions that do not have an answer accepted or upvoted. It has been discussed at, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11249/confusing-top-level-so-buttons-questions-and-unanswered&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11249/confusing-top-level-so-buttons-questions-and-unanswered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you select the 'Unanswered' tab you can see, near the top right of the page the number of questions on the site that are, as it says, &quot;questions with no upvoted answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they are questions that have not received a well-regarded answer (or, perhaps, have a good answer but no-one has seen it and upvoted it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastEditorUserId="19007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T14:53:06.753" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:53:06.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T14:59:52.390" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to close a question as an exact duplicate and others have already chosen that as a reason, the interface displays a link to the question.  It would be nice if, in addition to the link, there was a link that allowed me to accept that as my reason as well.  Instead, I'm forced to look at the question, grab the id, and paste that into the close reason text box which then allows me to choose the same exact reason from the selection, and &lt;strong&gt;finally&lt;/strong&gt; to accept that as my reason.  A better interface would pop up a dialog when clicking on the link with some fragment of the question and allow me to choose from the dialog whether to dismiss it, open the original in a new window (if I needed to see more), or accept it as my reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T14:59:52.390" Title="Close as duplicate suggestions should allow me to pick one in addition to showing it to me" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-02T15:43:20.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're one of the few people who sat and read this instead of refreshing for new question activity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/OqqeO.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Butch is not a Geek name&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T15:43:20.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T15:43:20.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11773" CreationDate="2009-08-02T16:00:07.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess this could be looked at as a veiled feature request:  make the results of the Unanswered search more obviously 'unanswered,' or 'not answered well.'  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible way to do this would be to change the way that the style of the answer count indicator box is modified.  It is pretty obvious to users that when a new question is submitted, the answer count is 0.  This is obvious because the UI shows a box which says &lt;code&gt;0 answers&lt;/code&gt;.  Also, the style of the box carries this meaning (on SO, the background of the box is maroon).  When the first answer arrives, the text of the answer count changes and so does the style of the box. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful (in the unanswered tab as well in other list views) to know that there are no upvotes on answers.  This could be accomplished by keeping the style of the box as is until there is an upvote. The view would show the answer count but you would be provided with subtle feedback that there still is a need for strong answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T16:00:07.043" />
  <row Id="11780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11760" CreationDate="2009-08-02T16:58:42.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9782/what-about-a-multi-answer-question&quot;&gt;what about a multi-answer question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11760/whats-the-opinion-on-list-questions/11771#11771&quot;&gt;everything dmckee said&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last week, at least 9 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/common-mistakes&quot;&gt;&quot;common mistakes for &lt;em&gt;language&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; questions have been asked, most of them by the same person. A few look to have picked up good answers, but others were clearly asked &lt;em&gt;just for something to ask&lt;/em&gt;, with little or no previous connection to the language being asked about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's the problem. I can ask for book recommendations, common mistakes, best blogs, reference websites... without needing any actual interest in the target topic. These &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; the ultimate newbie questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, without someone actively seeking out a solution to a real need, there's a good chance they'll quickly devolve into idle popularity contests... And you get the top mistake for SQL developers voted to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1190945/common-programming-mistakes-for-sql-developers-to-avoid/1190957#1190957&quot;&gt;user-input escaping&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T16:58:42.833" />
  <row Id="11781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11705" CreationDate="2009-08-02T17:06:26.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of SO was from the beginning to provide updated answers and get rid of these which are out-dated. Joel mentioned several times on the podcast, that he wants to solve the issue, that you cannot recognize easily, that a googled answer is not the appropriate solution to your problem anymore.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your example answer this means, if the information provided is obsolete, the downvote was correct. If you do not want to spend the time &quot;maintaining&quot; old answers (which is comprehensible), the downvotes ensure that the obsolete stuff is dumped to the bottom. It's the quality assurance of the system. If you do not want to deal with them, just kiss them goodbye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T17:06:26.620" />
  <row Id="11782" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11784" CreationDate="2009-08-02T17:17:43.830" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that you now have to wait 2 days or so before you can mark your own answer as the correct answer.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130969" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:24:10.557" Title="What's the idea about discouraging users from marking their own answer as correct?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11782" CreationDate="2009-08-02T17:28:16.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give other users a chance to answer it. Maybe they have a better solution than you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T17:28:16.117" />
  <row Id="11784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11782" CreationDate="2009-08-02T17:30:26.983" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't already, look at the relevant &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;posts&lt;/a&gt;. I think the main point is that immediately accepting your own answer discourages others from answering the question. Even if you could immediately accept your own answer, it would be a good idea to wait a couple of days; maybe somebody else has an awesome answer you never would have thought of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T17:30:26.983" />
  <row Id="11785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11770" CreationDate="2009-08-02T18:33:45.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, all the ajaxy stuff doesn't work on Opera Mobile either. That includes voting, closing, etc., and pretty much everything that has to do with comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T18:33:45.927" />
  <row Id="11787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11791" CreationDate="2009-08-02T18:35:31.337" Score="2" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you click fast enough, you can accept your own answer before 48 hours have passed (try it!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T19:16:33.983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T20:39:32.240" Title="Accept own answer immediately" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11787" CreationDate="2009-08-02T19:16:24.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Highly, HIGHLY unlikely since this is validated server-side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna go ahead and mark this no repro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T19:16:24.077" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11787" CreationDate="2009-08-02T20:39:32.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that you answered one of your own questions yesterday AND accepted it.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/679817/un-jarsign&quot;&gt;The question was asked in March&lt;/a&gt;, which would qualify for the '48 hours after asking' rule.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See this post for details.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wait 48 hours. You must wait 2 days from the time you originally asked your question before you can accept your own answer. This gives other users a chance to answer the question in good faith, and earn the accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T20:39:32.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11796" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T20:57:50.480" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think something should be added &lt;em&gt;at the very least&lt;/em&gt; to the right side of the &quot;Ask A Question&quot; page of Stackoverflow encouraging users to provide code if at all relevant to their problem. It happens &lt;em&gt;way too often&lt;/em&gt; that someone posts 1 paragraph of &quot;my code is not working, how do I fix it?&quot; with no code in sight. Some kind of nudge towards the fact we're all programmers here and code is the easiest way to see a problem would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little past that, it would be nice if that section was somehow &quot;highlighted&quot; for new users, as sadly enough it seems like people just kind of block that right side out when posting questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="16417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T21:34:27.567" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:34:27.567" Title="Encourage users to provide code when relevant" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11796" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:08:55.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be really cool if we could do something like Google Mail does with attachments. If it thinks you meant to include an attachment but accidentally haven't, and you hit send, it will prompt you to check whether or not you really want to send. That's saved me from an embarrassing follow-up email a couple of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously the Google Mail team have rather more manpower than SO for text analysis, but it would be nice if SO could guess if your question would be clearer with code, or (possibly easier to spot and just as important) if you should include the text of an error message. &quot;I get an error&quot; or &quot;it doesn't work&quot; are two phrases which almost always mean the question won't be answerable without more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this is a pie-in-the-sky idea, but it would be so handy :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:08:55.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11796" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:16:14.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Separate (but related) idea to my other answer... provide a better hint of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to post code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I frequently go into questions, select a block of text and hit Ctrl-K - no extra work really needed, but the difference in legibility is staggering!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often I suspect we &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; detect code posted in this form... if there are several lines ending with a semi-colon, for example, that would be a pretty strong indicator for quite a few languages. I'd stop short of getting it to suggest exactly where it should reformat it, but a pop-up with a very short example (including text before and after) would be really useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:16:14.833" />
  <row Id="11803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11782" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:24:10.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wish there was a way to design the system so you can't accept &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; answer for two days. I feel like accepting an answer has an equivalent effect of closing the question, at least in the sense that it seems to discourage other users from submitting more/better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But that has other problems.&lt;/strong&gt; I know it is hard enough to get people revisiting their older questions, so putting a two-day moratorium on accepting answers would probably be a worse cure than the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:24:10.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11805" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:41:57.613" Score="-10" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only posting this as a discussion point. Since I think it's healthy for a community to discuss things like this. Even if the idea in particular is perhaps a bad one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an idea for fastest gun in the west.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if there was a mechanism of some sorts that would allow a person with an X amount of rep to claim first answer to a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He would then have an arbitrary length of time to answer the question. If he does so within that time limit. His answer would be posted as the first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he does not, he would suffer a reputation penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could at any point within the limit cancel the claim and then anyone else could grab the claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This mechanism would only be active if there is no answer to the question. And only one claim can be done per question. And a user can only have one active claim in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to hear from you guys if you think in a system like SO if this could work. If so, what values would you place on the variables above. If not, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T21:50:54.173" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T22:58:45.430" Title="Wild Idea. Ability to claim first answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="11805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11804" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:43:45.563" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this is a horrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with high rep, don't need help getting more rep. This just discriminates against newer, lower-rep users (because, let's face it, being the first answer is a &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; advantage).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:43:45.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11804" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:48:05.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, It would eventually be a battle of who has the fastest browser. Not even reactions, just the fastest browser. Because someone would decide to write a greasemonkey script that let you click on a question title and claim it as fast as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are programmers ... We do stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even without scripts, it would be annoying because all the new questions would be locked up almost immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone could claim 5 questions at a time and provide a 15 word BS answer, get their rep back, delete the answer, and go about their way. This would be extremely annoying if someone decided that they wanted to have first shot at every question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solutions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only allow one claim per question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You lose 10 rep no matter what, but if you answer gets picked you get 25 back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give the Asker an option to make it a 'Fastest Gun' mode. You must have higher than X rep to enable it though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-02T21:57:24.830" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:57:24.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T21:48:05.833" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11804" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:49:07.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point is that we all have equal footing to answer questions. Why put the barrier to entry of our community any higher? A newbie's answer is given as much weight as that of Jon Skeet's, as far as the system is concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting something like this in place would give the notion of elitism and egalitarianism that really has no place on a user-generated Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondarily, it takes away competition, and that's just part of the fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:49:07.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11804" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:50:31.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely think it is an interesting idea, but I would be afraid that there are too many things which could potentially go wrong with it (or provide unnecessary advantage to a certain group of users no matter where you set the range) for it to be of consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T21:50:31.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T21:58:38.430" Score="4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you can write more. It's harder to do a quick overview of what you've written. So how about increasing the height of the comment textarea from 60px to 90-100px.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:44:14.307" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:40:55.187" Title="Increase the height of the textarea for comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T22:04:35.170" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4946/why-does-my-user-info-disappear-when-viewing-a-badge&quot;&gt;Why does my user info disappear when viewing a badge?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I goto &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/26/popular-question&quot;&gt;this link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The titlebar should have: Envelope, Name, Rep, Badges, Logout, About, FAQ and Search&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But it only has: About, FAQ, Search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:27:39.253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:27:39.253" ClosedDate="2009-08-29T05:27:58.113" Title="When you click a badge description. The titlebar with your info shrinks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11804" CreationDate="2009-08-02T22:58:45.430" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that i see the point... Let me see if i understand what you're proposing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You happen upon a question, and reserve the first spot. Then begin writing up an answer. You have some idea of what the answer is, but need to test your idea, so it takes you a while...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then i happen upon a question. I know the answer, type it up, post it, and it shows up - first and only answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ten minutes later, the OP hasn't returned to accept or dispute my answer, and no one cares enough to upvote it. You, having finished testing your answer, post it. It shows up above mine. They're both good answers, but now yours sorts first. Eventually, the OP returns, sees yours first, confirms it's correct, and accepts it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I just wasted my time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, if someone had up-voted my answer prior to you completing your answer... or the OP had shown up and accepted it... i'd have held the top spot &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt; under the default sort conditions. &lt;strong&gt;Same situation we have now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, if i'd rushed to post a quick answer, and posted a lousy explanation as a result, the OP might have disputed it, down-voted it, or otherwise dismissed it... and then read and accepted yours. &lt;strong&gt;Same situation we have now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if i'd rushed a quick and dirty answer in, but immediately edited it to add more info / a better explanation / snazzy drawings... and took only 4 minutes 59 seconds to do this... But you'd finished your answer in less time... Then you'd hold the top spot, while my gaming would have been in vain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMHO, this is the only scenario where what you propose holds potential for some improvement over what we have now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we get one scenario where the new system is arguably worse than the existing system, and one where it's an improvement. Pretty much a wash, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been a re-occurring suggestion for &quot;... is writing an answer&quot; notifications. I suspect this would have the same potential advantage (allowing users to avoid stepping on each other's toes), without either the complexity or the potential downside of this one. Of course, there are &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; downsides...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T22:58:45.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:01:45.703" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That &lt;strong&gt;most of the community effort&lt;/strong&gt; is spent dealing with the &lt;strong&gt;last 1 hour of activity&lt;/strong&gt; as opposed to improving the &lt;strong&gt;240k&lt;/strong&gt; questions that are already in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:01:45.703" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:04:03.063" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People leaving thank you comments that your answer was helpful, but not giving you an up vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:04:03.063" />
  <row Id="11815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11819" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:08:02.693" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220013/expectation-on-mock-object-doesnt-seem-to-be-met-moq/1220068#1220068&quot;&gt;answered a question&lt;/a&gt; this morning, and shortly thereafter it was up-voted and accepted (presumably the up-vote came from the asker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my rep has only increased by 10, rather than the expected 25 (up-vote + accepted answer). It has been 15 minutes since the answer was accepted ... is it a bug, or is the reputation boost from accepted answers on a timer nowadays?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; This is the first and only up-vote/accepted answer I have had today, so it's not related to the daily reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:51:36.303" Title="Answer accepted (and up-voted) but only 10 rep gained?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11815" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:10:39.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/615?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;Your profile&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=615&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showzero=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon's tracker&lt;/a&gt; both show you as earning 25 points for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220013/1220068#1220068&quot;&gt;that question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:10:39.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11818" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:41:32.317" Score="1" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41277/how-do-i-change-my-profile-picture-or-avatar&quot;&gt;How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched but couldn't find a post, how can I change my photo, my openID is my myspace URL which has many photos, how do I show one here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastEditorUserId="151167" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-31T08:26:27.750" LastActivityDate="2011-05-31T08:26:27.750" ClosedDate="2011-06-01T06:04:48.840" Title="how can I change my photo on here?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11817" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:43:21.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Register for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatar&lt;/a&gt; using the same email address you use for your account here. Gravatar is a service to share your avatar across multiple sites (wordpress blogs, SO/SF/SU, some forums). It works by putting your avatar at a URL like &lt;code&gt;http://gravatar.com/avatar/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;md5 of email&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:43:21.143" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11815" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:51:36.303" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chances are you lost an entirely different accepted answer. Unfortunately there's no way to track or find that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:51:36.303" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:50:14.117" Score="1" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;When do people become gurus? Do they ask stupid questions? Or, are they so smart and read a lot of books so there was never a need for stupid questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131161" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T00:04:17.613" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:08:39.487" Title="To the gurus here in Stack Overflow: did you ask stupid questions when you were young?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;learning&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="11821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:53:50.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone starts as a noob, then you read books, ask questions to whoever you can and practice makes perfect. That's how I try to improve and that's how I think that, in the end, you can become a 'guru'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:54:39.537" />
  <row Id="11823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:58:28.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't it be both? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The programmers i know who i'd consider &quot;gurus&quot; ask &lt;strike&gt;stupid&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;em&gt;simple&lt;/em&gt; questions... and then answer them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this is the line that divides the average programmer and the really outstanding ones: a willingness to look for solutions to their own problems, no matter how simple... and to recognize and make use of good information wherever they might find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an old saw about the difference between giving a man a fish and teaching him to fish that probably applies here... Some folks learn to fish, some don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:58:28.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-02T23:59:22.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone asks stupid questions. The key is to learn how to learn - if you can research for yourself, find potential solutions, try some things before you actually ask your question, you will have a higher quality question, or even better - you might find an answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gurus have gone through all this - they've read around (not necessarily books, but usually you gain a lot from them) and learnt how to find what they're looking for. That doesn't mean they always know the answer, but they often know where to start when trying to find a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132360" LastActivityDate="2009-08-02T23:59:22.087" />
  <row Id="11825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:01:11.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been writing code since I was 10 years old.  When I was younger, I didn't have a computer (this was way back in the day), but I had a computer class for a couple hours a day on a TRS-80.  I used to carry around a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee%5FChee%5Ffolder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pee chee&lt;/a&gt; that I would write my code in using pencil and paper.  Then when I got into my class, I would ignore the instructor and type out my code.  I've been making mistakes and learning for a very long time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice to you is if it's something you really love, go to school for CS, get a job and find a mentor.  Having a mentor that is a guru is the best way to become a guru.  Don't be afraid to ask questions.  But, don't ask stupid questions.  Research your questions, learn about the subject and then ask intelligent questions.  Eventually, with enough experience, you will have seen it all come and go several times and everything old will be new again. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T00:01:11.007" />
  <row Id="11826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:01:33.517" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still ask questions that demonstrate my lack of knowledge, mostly about my daughter's passion: ballet.  I prefer to think of them as demonstrating interest and curiosity, not stupidity.  I do try not to ask them in a stupid manner, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T00:01:33.517" />
  <row Id="11827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:05:41.777" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9812/wording-suggestion-for-the-you-must-wait-x-hours-before-accepting-your-own-answe&quot;&gt;Wording suggestion for the &amp;ldquo;You must wait x hours before accepting your own answer&amp;rdquo; message.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently attempted to accept an answer on a question and ran into an error which told me I had to wait &quot;0 hours before accepting an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to show minutes if there is less than an hour until the answer can be accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132360" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T12:35:45.440" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:35:45.440" ClosedDate="2009-08-03T01:09:58.700" Title="Would it be possible to show minutes if there is less than an hour until the answer can be accepted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11673" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:05:53.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't use an avatar without signing up for gravatar, which then doesn't take OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4553/non-gravatar-avatar&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4553/non-gravatar-avatar&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T00:05:53.773" />
  <row Id="11829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:06:51.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When do people become gurus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes a long time and lots of practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do they ask stupid questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, nobody is an expert on all topics. The nice thing about SO, is that you are encouraged to improve your questions. Having a &quot;stupid question&quot; is not a problem, having a poorly thought out of question that makes no sense, is a huge problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or, are they so smart and read a lot&#xA;  of books so there was never a need for&#xA;  stupid questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was always a need, thats how you learn. Reading a book without practice will get you nowhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T00:06:51.163" />
  <row Id="11831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:07:31.537" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220220/when-do-i-know-that-im-addicted-to-stack-overflow-closed&quot;&gt;question on SO&lt;/a&gt; that really belonged on meta.  It was already closed as not programming related.  I flagged it for a moderator as needing to be migrated not merely closed.  Now I'm wondering if that is even possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:54:05.037" Title="Can moderators migrate a question closed for another reason?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:15:06.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://norvig.com/21-days.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peter Norvig&lt;/a&gt; tells us that it takes ten years, regardless of field.  Research in cognitive science backs this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T00:15:06.163" />
  <row Id="11833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11831" CreationDate="2009-08-03T00:20:45.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, considering Bill explicitly mentioned that he didn't want to migrate it only to close it as a duplicate on the destination site... I'd guess &quot;yes&quot;. If nothing else, a moderator could instantly re-open it and then close+migrate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T00:20:45.980" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T01:03:05.093" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For starters, I wouldn't consider myself to be a guru, but I have a good story so I'll answer anyway&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9 years ago, in High School, I started learning programming by hacking (hacking meaning trial and error-ing) away at PHP and MySQL.  The code, which I still have, was a disaster.  You want proof?  Here's some of my earliest (working) code (note that it was 3D models, not fashion models)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;elseif(isset($cat))&#xA;    {//===============================START=====================================&#xA;$nav=&quot;&amp;lt;a href=\&quot;index.php\&quot;&amp;gt;Home&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font color=\&quot;#999999\&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; &amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=\&quot;models.php\&quot;&amp;gt;Models&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font color=\&quot;#999999\&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; &amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;if(isset($supra))&#xA;    {&#xA;    $query = &quot;SELECT name FROM models_supra_cat WHERE supra_id = '$supra'&quot;;&#xA;    $supra_name = sing_result($query);&#xA;    $nav.=&quot;&amp;lt;a href=\&quot;models.php?supra=&quot; . $supra . &quot;\&quot;&amp;gt;&quot; . $supra_name . &quot;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;font color=\&quot;#999999\&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; &amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;    $nav_add=&quot;&amp;lt;a href=\&quot;models.php?supra=&quot; . $supra . &quot;&amp;amp;&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;if(!isset($nav_add))&#xA;    $nav_add=&quot;&amp;lt;a href=\&quot;models.php?&quot;;&#xA;$query = &quot;SELECT name FROM models_cat WHERE cat_id = '$cat'&quot;;&#xA;$cat_name = sing_result($query);&#xA;$nav.= $nav_add . &quot;cat=&quot; . $cat . &quot;\&quot;&amp;gt;&quot; . $cat_name . &quot;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;echo &quot;&amp;lt;table border=\&quot;0\&quot; cellspacing=\&quot;0\&quot; cellpadding=\&quot;5\&quot; bgcolor=\&quot;f0f0f0\&quot;&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;\n&quot; . $nav . &quot;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;\n&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;echo&quot;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;&amp;lt;UL&amp;gt;\n&quot;;&#xA;$query = &quot;SELECT a.name, a.sub_cat_id &#xA;      FROM models_sub_cat as a, models_sub_cat_in_cat as b&#xA;      WHERE b.cat_id = '$cat' &#xA;      AND b.sub_cat_id = a.sub_cat_id&#xA;      ORDER BY a.sub_cat_id ASC&quot;;&#xA;$result = mysql_query($query) or err_report($query);&#xA;$count=0;&#xA;$sing_check=0;&#xA;while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result)) &#xA;    {&#xA;    $msg=&quot;&quot;;&#xA;    $link=&quot;models.php?&quot;;&#xA;    $msg.=&quot;&amp;lt;LI&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=\&quot;&quot;;&#xA;    $link.=(isset($supra))?&quot;supra=&quot; . $supra . &quot;&amp;amp;&quot;:&quot;&quot;;&#xA;    $link.=&quot;cat=&quot; . $cat . &quot;&amp;amp;sub=&quot; . $line['sub_cat_id'];&#xA;    $msg.=$link . &quot;\&quot;&amp;gt;&quot; . $line['name'] . &quot;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;\n&quot;;&#xA;    echo $msg;&#xA;    $sing_check++;&#xA;    }&#xA;if($sing_check==1)&#xA;    {&#xA;    replace($link);&#xA;    }&#xA;echo&quot;&amp;lt;/UL&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/center&amp;gt;\n&quot;;&#xA;    }//================================END======================================&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Templating Engines?  Pft.  I write my HTML myself, thank you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;register_ globals?  Well duh!  What alternative was there!  HTTP_ POST_ VARS?  luser!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PHP 4 baby!  You had to go &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; a webhost that wasn't on PHP3!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This was back when SQL Injection was just a twinkle in the internet's eye.  (I honestly don't know when SQL injective became 'popular', but it must have been well after this because the site was wide open all over the place)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;that's not all folks!&lt;/strong&gt;  After this magnanimous contribution to the internet, I decided I needed to share my code with the &lt;strong&gt;world&lt;/strong&gt;!  So I continued cutting my teeth in PHP and MySQL - this time modding phpBB.  This was back before 2.2, it was the 2.0.x releases.  I didn't write mods, but I compiled mods other people had written.  Sometimes they didn't play nice, so I had to learn what they did, and re-implement it.  It was essentially a branch merge every time - sometimes it went easy, sometimes it went very, very, ugly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after compiling about 5 dozen of the coolest, best, and most security-hole-ridden mods I could find, I implemented this forum package on the same site from above.  I of course, wanted to share with the world.  So &lt;strong&gt;I released this horrible amalgamation of code onto Sourceforge - and people used it!&lt;/strong&gt;  Not many.  In fact I can only recall two.  So four sites were running it - mine, the site from above, and two civilians who unwittingly handled my radiation-caked, hair-trigger hand grenade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And we all got hacked.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;Badly.&lt;/strong&gt;  Mass deletion, hidden admin accounts, you name it.  The site from above wasn't even mine!  I felt horrible.  I ended up having to show a sourceforge admin this evidence and get him to remove the files so no one else could impale themselves upon my unwitting punji sticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And 9 years later, I'm sitting in front of an array of screens, with a great job, a lot more knowledge, and the ability to look back and laugh at myself.  &lt;strong&gt;If you love this stuff - don't give up.  You will learn it.&lt;/strong&gt;  It will take you more time than some friends and colleagues, and less than others.  Do you fieldwork before asking questions and be polite.  It'll all work out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T01:03:05.093" />
  <row Id="11840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T02:48:24.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They say that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I disagree. I think the other stupid questions are the ones you don't learn from. I have a great fear that there are many today who do not learn, but who only Google. Some of them are fortunate enough to be sent to SO by Google, and to have the opportunity to learn. But I have a concern that we too often hand out fish instead of teaching them to fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, too many, on their own, will simply never learn to fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking back, I realize that I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; once think I had found an operating system bug. Fortunately, I was told why that was unlikely, was told to present my reasons for being sure it wasn't my bug, and then was shown the holes in my argument. Needless to say, it was &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; bug, not an OS bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From then on, I've done the same to myself, several times, before I've claimed to have found an operating system bug - even when I was working in the operating system development group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Way back when, there was actually a chance that it was an operating system bug. The OS was being hacked, by hand, in assembler, so that there were many parts of it that were only running on two computers in the world. So it completely amazes me to see the number of people on SO and elsewhere, who are &lt;em&gt;convinced&lt;/em&gt; they've found a bug in .NET code that's being used by hundreds of millions of computers around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T14:08:39.487" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:08:39.487" />
  <row Id="11844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6421" CreationDate="2009-08-03T03:07:01.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All images are fully sprited now, so if you have one image, you have them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(there are some minor exceptions for a handful of SE 2.0 sites with special styling, but not for voting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T10:58:35.220" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T10:58:35.220" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-08-03T03:53:13.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;2009-10-13&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/87OhF.png&quot; alt=&quot;this ticket is done&quot; title=&quot;scratch it out&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T02:00:54.393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T02:00:54.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7336" CreationDate="2009-08-03T04:36:16.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I see the MIME_QP_LONG_LINE but I'm not sure how to get rid of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;edit: bug in the .NET framework! Doh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, long URLs occurring anywhere in the text do not contain spaces and are not broken by the Quoted-Printable MIME algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to try switching to Base64 encoding for that portion of the email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: we have switched to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afterlogic.com/products/net-email-components&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;third party email component&lt;/a&gt; recommended by our pals at &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;X-Mailer: MailBee.NET 5.7.2.156&#xA;From: &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that it &quot;fixes&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the quoted-printable encoding bug&lt;/a&gt; in the .NET framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:46:11.740" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:46:11.740" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11856" CreationDate="2009-08-03T05:08:44.737" Score="3" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed 3 questions that Rich B made which have negative votes: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260235/why-is-my-simple-c-program-displaying-garbage-to-stdout&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260235/why-is-my-simple-c-program-displaying-garbage-to-stdout&lt;/a&gt; (fixed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54837/modbus-net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54837/modbus-net&lt;/a&gt; (fixed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269003/how-can-i-make-the-format-document-shortcut-work-for-c-source-files-in-vs2008&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269003/how-can-i-make-the-format-document-shortcut-work-for-c-source-files-in-vs2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all 3 cases the questions do not warrant a negative score. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an example of rage votes because people do not like him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T12:19:43.480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:19:43.480" Title="Whats going on with the downvotes on Rich Bs questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;&lt;voter-fraud&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11894" CreationDate="2009-08-03T05:17:10.490" Score="6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just created a small greasemonkey script which will move interesting tags to the top, and ignored tags to the bottom. You can get the script from the UserScripts page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/54938&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/54938&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Updated to work in Chrome and Firefox.... Supports all SE sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T20:31:42.123" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T20:31:42.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-03T05:17:10.490" Title="A greasemonkey script to move interesting tags to top, ignored tags to bottom" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11851" CreationDate="2009-08-03T05:40:13.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you notice you noticed questions from 10, 9 and 8 months back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some kind of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/269003/list&quot;&gt;tag-edit war went on in the C shortcut question&lt;/a&gt; while another one had a user cut him off at the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In two of those questions, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/51816/joan-venge&quot;&gt;one user that appears on both&lt;/a&gt; with the RTFM comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks retaliatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T05:40:13.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11851" CreationDate="2009-08-03T05:40:51.960" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not rightly sure. Rich, more than most, tends to have a lot of animosity built up. These questions are simplistic in nature, and people are railing on him for it, which is rather wrong, IMO. While I've certainly sparred a bit with him, I don't think he deserves a down voting to oblivion on very old questions (the newest is from 11/6/08). I've given an upvote to them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So taking a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;, it turns out that the first vote for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269003&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; did not come until 2/10/09--three months after posting. It was a downvote, by the way. In fact, two downvotes were registered at the &lt;strike&gt;&lt;em&gt;exact same timestamp&lt;/em&gt; (1234252800)&lt;/strike&gt; (it appears this is rounded to the nearest 100th, which means they were registered within 100 seconds of each other). The last vote was registered on 6/30/09 (in the data dump--obviously stopping at June). There were five consecutive down votes from 5/11/09 to 6/11/09.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get the votes with the following query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select &#xA;    case votetypeid &#xA;        when 2 then 'Up' &#xA;        when 3 then 'Down' &#xA;        else 'N/A' &#xA;    end as votetype, &#xA;    creationdate &#xA;from &#xA;    votes &#xA;where &#xA;    postid = 269003 &#xA;order by 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;code&gt;dateformat(creationdate, '%m/%d/%y')&lt;/code&gt; fails out, so you can use this handy-dandy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epochconverter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UNIX Epoch converter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it doesn't look like it was one concerted effort or fraud. Just a few retaliatory votes that resulted in a bit of group thought. Sad, but a fact of life. All three questions exhibit the same behavior--multiple votes over time, not one specific fraud or event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T06:02:35.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T06:02:35.140" />
  <row Id="11859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T06:23:05.947" Score="4" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are currently closing homework questions (that don't make a real effort; I actually like reading homework questions where people are truly stumped, and not lazy) as &quot;not a real question&quot; and adding a homework tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like it splits the homework tag evenly between the &quot;good&quot; and &quot;bad&quot; homework questions, since people add the tag either way. This adds a negative connotation (in my opinion) and is unfair to students just trying to figure out a tricky piece of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to discontinue the homework tag and implement this instead. If it is a well pieced together &quot;homework&quot; question, it won't be obvious that it is one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130945" LastActivityDate="2010-08-23T11:45:54.167" Title="Can we get a &quot;closed as 'do my homework' question&quot; option?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11859" CreationDate="2009-08-03T06:26:45.487" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This fits entirely well within the &quot;Not a real question&quot; option, since it's a question born out of laziness, not out of genuine necessity nor curiosity. No reason to add another option to the already long close menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; tag should stay. I often answer these very differently. With students, you want to guide them to the right answer. Their livelihood isn't based on whether or not they can get this SQL statement out the door yesterday. Therefore, I'm much more likely to explain the concepts behind what needs to happen without giving any very detailed code (only some basic code to demonstrate concepts). It always helps to know your audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T06:26:45.487" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="11861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11862" CreationDate="2009-08-03T07:00:01.600" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment writing this I am sharing the same amount of reputation with somebody else in SO. We are last on user page 22 or first on page 23. I was looking for my position, and switching between the two, I sometimes only saw the other person both at the bottom of 22 and the top of 23. Doing it again later, I saw only myself. Seems the sort order or paging algorithm is buggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T17:14:51.810" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:14:51.810" Title="User at end of page sometimes invisible" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11861" CreationDate="2009-08-03T07:08:29.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took me an awful lot of flipping back and forth between those two pages to reproduce this, but I can at least confirm that this is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suspect that it should be: &lt;code&gt;order by reputation desc, username asc&lt;/code&gt;, but maybe it's just doing &lt;code&gt;order by reputation desc&lt;/code&gt;, in which case, SQL Server will give erratic results in terms of order when that condition is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T07:08:29.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T08:40:39.767" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question (which turns out to be pretty useless) but its the sort of thing that applies to both server fault and stack overflow. &#xA;I have been told it should be on superuser now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220288/what-are-the-best-recommended-video-cards-for-wpf-closed&quot;&gt;What are the best / recommended video cards for WPF&lt;/a&gt; (Stack Overflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49154/what-are-the-best-recommended-video-cards-for-wpf&quot;&gt;What are the best / recommended video cards for WPF&lt;/a&gt; (Server Fault)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real issue is, given who you are (I was coming from a developer mindset trying to advise a company what to tell their customers technical staff) you would think to put it on different sites, and depending on who you are you would look for the answer on different sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically as i see it its the little wedge in the middle of the venn diagarm. &#xA;What are the guidelines for this sort of thing? Should there be a &quot;share between all sites style&quot;? is there one and I simply haven't found it yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132933" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T18:40:22.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T08:41:36.443" Title="Topics that don't belong anywhere OR could belong everywhere" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;sharing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11386" CreationDate="2009-08-03T08:48:37.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the dude obliges: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Tag                            Questions   Ratio                                   AvgReputation&#xA;------------------------------ ----------- --------------------------------------- -------------&#xA;cakephp                        382         3.5314136125654                         409&#xA;subsonic                       385         2.6857142857142                         564&#xA;flex3                          302         2.1158940397350                         614&#xA;j2me                           317         3.5457413249211                         659&#xA;uitableview                    254         2.2795275590551                         686&#xA;vb                             392         4.4336734693877                         688&#xA;homework                       1087        9.8206071757129                         711&#xA;facebook                       254         3.7322834645669                         735&#xA;sharepoint2007                 272         2.6433823529411                         754&#xA;object                         224         7.2455357142857                         767&#xA;dropdownlist                   202         3.6534653465346                         787&#xA;div                            300         5.7500000000000                         804&#xA;jsf                            329         2.7446808510638                         808&#xA;wordpress                      332         3.8253012048192                         808&#xA;csv                            299         6.4615384615384                         829&#xA;actionscript-3                 1466        3.0607094133697                         830&#xA;blackberry                     216         3.9814814814814                         849&#xA;form                           323         4.3498452012383                         860&#xA;xsl                            208         4.5384615384615                         866&#xA;textbox                        256         3.6914062500000                         870&#xA;drupal                         282         4.1950354609929                         870&#xA;javascript-events              218         4.1330275229357                         888&#xA;mobile                         304         4.8190789473684                         917&#xA;login                          248         5.3225806451612                         919&#xA;nhibernate-mapping             204         1.9411764705882                         926&#xA;objective-c                    3029        6.5335094090458                         927&#xA;upload                         262         4.4427480916030                         930&#xA;iis7                           393         2.6768447837150                         930&#xA;plsql                          263         5.6045627376425                         931&#xA;select                         336         4.8511904761904                         931&#xA;ssis                           370         2.2567567567567                         943&#xA;query                          901         5.3196448390677                         944&#xA;ms-access                      1072        4.4011194029850                         947&#xA;ssrs                           377         2.5305039787798                         950&#xA;ubuntu                         269         6.4572490706319                         950&#xA;flash                          1870        3.4914438502673                         955&#xA;fluent-nhibernate              244         2.0819672131147                         960&#xA;ruby-on-rails                  3954        5.7278705108750                         960&#xA;iphone                         5453        4.6128736475334                         966&#xA;entity-framework               784         3.4387755102040                         969&#xA;coldfusion                     333         8.0480480480480                         972&#xA;redirect                       298         4.2986577181208                         972&#xA;google-maps                    316         3.8386075949367                         983&#xA;air                            272         2.6470588235294                         986&#xA;activerecord                   442         4.8076923076923                         987&#xA;iphone-sdk                     1961        3.6955634880163                         987&#xA;jsp                            698         3.5716332378223                         992&#xA;file                           633         7.1990521327014                         998&#xA;jboss                          285         2.3508771929824                         999&#xA;django-models                  321         4.8878504672897                         1005&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What these numbers mean: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The higher the magic ratio number is, the more lucrative the tag is reputation wise. The AvgReputation is the average reputation of all the contributors. Community wiki is excluded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SQL: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;create view TotalQuestionValue as&#xA;select &#xA;    q.Id, &#xA;    Total = sum(p.Score) + q.Score, &#xA;    TotalExcludingWiki = sum(case when p.CommunityOwnedDate is not null then 0 else p.Score end) + &#xA;    	case when q.CommunityOwnedDate is not null then 0 else q.Score end&#xA;from Questions q&#xA;join Posts p on p.ParentId = q.Id &#xA;group by q.Id, q.Score, q.CommunityOwnedDate&#xA;&#xA;select &#xA;    t.TagName, &#xA;    Questions = count(t.TagName), &#xA;    [Value] = sum(TotalExcludingWiki), &#xA;    [Ratio] = sum(TotalExcludingWiki) / (count(t.TagName) + 0.0) &#xA;into #QuestionValue&#xA;from PostTags p&#xA;join Tags t on t.Id = p.TagId&#xA;join TotalQuestionValue q on q.Id = p.PostId&#xA;group by t.TagName&#xA;having count(t.TagName) &amp;gt; 50&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;select &#xA;    t.TagName, &#xA;    AvgReputation = avg(Reputation)&#xA;into #AvgRep&#xA;from PostTags p&#xA;join Tags t on t.Id = p.TagId&#xA;join Posts a on a.Id = p.PostId&#xA;join Users u on u.Id = a.OwnerUserId&#xA;group by t.TagName&#xA;having count(*) &amp;gt; 50&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;select top 1000 * &#xA;from #QuestionValue q&#xA;join #AvgRep a on q.TagName = a.TagName&#xA;where Questions &amp;gt; 200&#xA;order by a.AvgReputation asc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T08:48:37.237" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11866" CreationDate="2009-08-03T08:54:00.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that can belong anywhere probably could do with some editing to focus them on the correct site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How you ask influences how the people answering will attack the question, if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question reads like it could fit into Super User, that place being about computers, with you asking about video cards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there are questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1258978/poll-what-is-the-popularity-of-various-desktop-resolutions&quot;&gt;What is the popularity of various desktop resolutions&lt;/a&gt; that just don't work, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/52592/poll-what-is-the-popularity-of-various-desktop-resolutions&quot;&gt;even if copy-and-pasted to ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T08:41:36.443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T08:41:36.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11866" CreationDate="2009-08-03T08:54:25.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far there is no set guideline, it depends on 5 users opinion, i.e. 5 users flagging the post to be moved. Or one single moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I second your findings that there are questions that could be hosted in all three sites, depending on the viewpoint of the questioner. I said so &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4692/why-do-we-need-the-trilogy-instead-of-just-one-site/4696#4696&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I expressed in that answer, I do not think that shared questions (or even a single shared site) would help any.The answers might differ totally - especially after beta is over in superuser and there will be more users on the site as opposed to the SO/SF crowd on there now mainly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it helps to write down the business case in the question to locate the site best fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T08:54:25.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11386" CreationDate="2009-08-03T08:58:09.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tag        Questions   Ratio              AvgReputation&#xA;---------- ----------- ------------------ ---------------&#xA;homework   1087        9.8206071757129    711&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's going to be the &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; rep leader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T08:58:09.333" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11386" CreationDate="2009-08-03T09:02:27.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now we know where to target next! mwahaha. Mwa ha ha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;MWA HA HA HAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(cough, splutter, wheeze... less &quot;aaa&quot; next time...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kidding... &lt;kbd&gt;homework&lt;/kbd&gt; is all yours...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T09:02:27.047" />
  <row Id="11872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2009-08-03T09:32:42.327" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/pages/vampires&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Help Vampires: A Spotter's Guide&lt;/a&gt; has some useful advice under the heading &lt;strong&gt;Reforming the Help Vampire&lt;/strong&gt;. The first section &lt;em&gt;#1: Creating Resources&lt;/em&gt; I think has already been done on Stack Overflow, but the other two sections: &lt;em&gt;#2: Cease Enabling Behavior&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;#3: Meet Help Vampires Head-On&lt;/em&gt; is relevant to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T09:32:42.327" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-08-03T09:36:59.880" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/pages/vampires&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Help Vampires: A Spotter's Guide&lt;/a&gt; has some useful advice under the heading &lt;strong&gt;Reforming the Help Vampire&lt;/strong&gt;. The first section &lt;em&gt;#1: Creating Resources&lt;/em&gt; I think has already been done on Stack Overflow, but the other two sections: &lt;em&gt;#2: Cease Enabling Behavior&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;#3: Meet Help Vampires Head-On&lt;/em&gt; is relevant to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T09:36:59.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T10:19:57.283" Score="6" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a request for a clarification. Let's say the following happens on DAy 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 10 upvotes (100 rep);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have answer accepted (15 rep);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get another 20 upvotes (85 rep).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total: 200 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Day 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lose accepted answer (-15 rep);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 30 upvotes (200 rep).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total: 185 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this right? Is this how it's intended to be? If so, it seems a bit wrong because not only do accepted answers not go above the rep cap until you're at the rep cap but if the OP changes his or her mind you can lose out 15 rep that you otherwise wouldn't if you'd never had the accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to get this clear in my mind because it seems to be what's happened. Am I am curious if this is intentional or unintentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T05:41:56.497" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:41:56.497" Title="Rep daily limit and losing accepted answers: is this right?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11879" CreationDate="2009-08-03T10:37:41.623" Score="-2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10848/what-are-acceptable-reasons-for-flagging-as-requires-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;What are acceptable reasons for flagging as &amp;ldquo;Requires Moderator attention&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the newbie question, but what post/comment flagging is supposed to be used for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132938" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T10:42:47.337" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-03T10:37:41.623" ClosedDate="2009-08-03T10:55:29.367" Title="What flagging is for?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T10:40:38.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made plenty of mistakes :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/about-to-rip-my-hair-out-well-not-really-157368.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don't know the difference between $foo and $_POST[&quot;foo&quot;]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/notice-undefined-index-157810.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Didn't know the difference between &lt;code&gt;disabled&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;readonly&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/intended-variable-value-printed-but-instead-variable-name-prints-165166.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Failed to use arrays where appropriate...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/calling-a-function-in-a-variable-value-167441.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Treated functions like strings, and wondered why they wouldn't work...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/php-photoalbum-with-captions-201811.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Called smart people &quot;Friends&quot; hoping they'd give me code to read a file...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, we were all once very dumb :) Those of us who are smart enough know that we are all still very dumb - some of us just have learned how to hide it a little better than others ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T10:40:38.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T10:42:09.647" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of questions whose full meaning cannot be derived without noting the tags.  (eg 1221534).  Another large family of questions which falls into this category is &quot;What's the syntax for ...&quot;, which is ambiguous unless there is a language specific tag.  Similarly for nearly all questions about regular expressions.  Is it appropriate to down-vote such a question, and leave a comment that the question is ambiguous? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132207" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T10:53:37.683" Title="Using tags to derive intent of question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="11879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11875" CreationDate="2009-08-03T10:42:47.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To tell moderators, that a post is:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offensive, Abusive, Hate Speech&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spam &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or requires Moderator attention  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for several close reasons, if you have enough rep to use these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T10:42:47.337" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-03T10:42:47.337" />
  <row Id="11880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11878" CreationDate="2009-08-03T10:53:37.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, do not downvote them, as it has been stated before that tags should not be replicated in the title line. We are programmers, we hate redundance. And obviously, the ambiquity can easily be resolved in these cases, just looking at the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been quite some discussion on how to write titles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4054/whats-in-a-title-line&quot;&gt;What's in a title line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;Howto writing good Titles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, you might teach people over time to write better titles, but tons of newbies are just scared away if they get downvoted for not duplicating the tag values in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep, and a title really is bad, edit it rather then punishing the question owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T10:53:37.683" />
  <row Id="11881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21291" CreationDate="2009-08-03T11:06:35.017" Score="8" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I was just awarded with a popular question badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/98wHgwJ6-LvfweZOZWGMBg?feat=embedwebsite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_SDci0Pf3tzU/SnbEd6ZxvDI/AAAAAAAAFEA/MOjwBGf78wo/s400/popular%20question.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is that I don't know for which I was awarded that badge with. Is there anyway to find out? Or better, in the recent tab ( shown in above figure) show the question that was awarded with that badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-09T09:35:09.240" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T09:35:09.240" ClosedDate="2011-05-09T09:35:01.707" Title="Popular Questions Badge: Show Which Question is the Popular Question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11881" CreationDate="2009-08-03T11:21:39.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/101#101&quot;&gt;already decided&lt;/a&gt; that they won't be implementing this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is intentional and by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Badges are supposed to incite curiosity about why the badge exists and what you did that caused you to earn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I've said umpteen zillion times, this is based on the Xbox 360 Achievements model. You see the achievement flash on screen..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.. and then you go figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The discovery is part of the fun!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T11:21:39.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2009-08-03T11:45:10.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm BACK!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just went to SuperUser (I know it's still in beta so it's low traffic) but the 'Unanswered' haven't changed in days and days. I'm looking for questions that need answers that I can answer. I can't answer any of those or even upvote them as I have absolutely no expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over on uservoice I'd upvote something .. how do we get issues 'noticed' on here? I'm posting this comment as an answer in the hope that it gets noticed by Jeff and the crew :-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132812" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T11:45:10.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:16:23.073" Score="1" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11428/pasting-code-from-stackoverflow-to-notepad-loses-line-breaks-using-ie&quot;&gt;Pasting code from Stackoverflow to notepad loses line breaks using IE?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could add the &quot;pre&quot; tag programmatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:36:11.977" ClosedDate="2009-08-03T17:00:02.080" Title="Copy-pasting code loses line-breaks (ie)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:17:11.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The longer I am around, the more I realize that I cannot say whether I am a guru or not. It's like you are not able to say whether you are a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/52378/how-can-i-know-whether-i-am-a-good-programmer/52428#52428&quot;&gt;good programmer&lt;/a&gt;.And I find that I ask more questions today then I did &quot;when I was young&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, Paul in the bible shows a great example: in the beginning of his ministry he called himself &quot;an apostle just as much as the others&quot;, towards the end of his life &quot;the greatest sinner of all&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of my questions are more refined due to experience, some I wouldn't have asked years ago because then they were too embarrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I hope to have found: a balance between asking too fast (not thinking about it) and waiting to ask for too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:17:11.063" />
  <row Id="11889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11881" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:26:13.667" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Popular Question means it hit 1,000 views, so rank your questions by number of views and then search for the one that is the closest to 1,000. That would be the one that likely just triggered your badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:26:13.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11874" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:33:22.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never seen anything like that personally (I can't recall a time where I noticed I lost an accepted answer the day after, so I may have missed it at some point) but I can't say that I am surprised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Losing an accepted answer doesn't act the same as getting (or casting) a downvote where it could potentially drop you into a negative net rep for the day, which would then allow you to climb out of the hole. It seems to act more as a &quot;poof I'm gone&quot; type thing where it just pretends that it never happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall this is another instance of the reputation calculating/limiting system being funky, but it will never gain much traction because it will garner the typical &quot;You shouldn't worry too much about missing out on X rep, so we won't really look into it&quot; responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:33:22.117" />
  <row Id="11891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11886" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:36:11.977" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Select the block of code and then click the &quot;101010&quot; button or press &quot;Ctrl-K&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:36:11.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:43:58.773" Score="-1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please display the number of views on the question page under the votes on the left side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like it should be on the left under the number of votes and number of favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T14:38:52.013" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:38:52.013" ClosedDate="2009-08-04T19:46:08.923" Title="Please display the number of views on the question page under the votes on the left side" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11852" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:45:08.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see ignored tags complete removed from the page. I only ignore the topics I really dislike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: or atleast put them in a group and collapse them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61521" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:45:08.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-03T12:45:08.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11900" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:45:24.700" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, an upvoted, incorrect answer being accepted can do a great deal of damage; after all, people will think it is correct because the many people who upvoted it cannot all be wrong.  How can I flag the question to request the attention of an expert in a subject?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware of a related question, but that question is concerned with a downvoted answer being accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132433" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T12:57:56.470" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:23:29.317" Title="How do I request attention of an expert in a subject when an incorrect question gets upvoted and selected?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11895" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:48:23.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you know the answer (and can prove it with code or a couple of links) then do so in your own response and add a comment to the incorrect accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some newer folks like to check things off as answers. Once they try the first incorrect suggestion they will come back. If there is a new suggestion with better support then they will try that, and, if it proves correct, select yours as the correct response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging it for an expert doesn't necessarily get the user a correct response sooner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:48:23.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11895" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:48:30.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer is getting numerous upvotes and then it gets selected as the accepted answer, why are you so sure that it is not correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if it is not correct, then make your own answer and say why it is not correct and give the correct answer. If necessary, leave a comment on the user's question so it will gain more attention to the original author. Perhaps you will sway him/her with your argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;calling in an expert&quot; doesn't make a whole lot of sense because for all you know one of the experts had already upvoted that answer which you believe is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:48:30.313" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="11898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11893" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:48:37.287" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Umm, I do see the number (&quot;viewed 5 times&quot;) right there, on the right-hand side of the page, below the tags, etc. Are you sure about this? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T13:00:34.233" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T13:00:34.233" />
  <row Id="11899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11893" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:50:17.753" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already see this on the right side of the screen underneath the tags. You have &quot;Asked&quot; for when the question was posted, &quot;Viewed&quot; for the number of views, and &quot;Latest Activity&quot; which posts the last time an answer or other activity was done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T12:59:09.150" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:59:09.150" />
  <row Id="11900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11895" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:53:15.037" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &quot;expert&quot; has no additional control over accepted answers, only the question asker can mark an answer as accepted (save for bounties). Therefore, the best you can do is provide what you believe the right answer is, and if you believe it's appropriate, leave a comment on the accepted answer briefly pointing out the issue someone might run into if they attempt to use that solution. It is the responsibility of the consumer of the information, to protect themselves from bad code by using all the information provided. There is no way you can force someone to read past the accepted answer, but if someone chooses not to, then they have failed to do their part. Your part is to provide a correct answer, and comment on flaws as necessary. Hopefully people viewing the question in search of a solution will look through multiple answers, see yours, and understand why it is the better solution. Additionally, hopefully they upvote your answer as well, so that it floats up right underneath the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:53:15.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11831" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:54:05.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is entirely possible for a mod to reopen a question closed for any reason and then reclose it in the migration process to another site. I've actually done this a few times on SuperUser in the recent past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:54:05.037" />
  <row Id="11902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11905" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:57:07.827" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1222184/do-you-need-to-lock-or-mark-as-volatile-when-accessing-a-simple-boolean-flag-in-c&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SO that triggered a &quot;subjective question&quot; warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work/4435#4435&quot;&gt;reasons&lt;/a&gt; on why this warning was triggered, but my question is does it matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't subjective, there should be a clearly defined technical answer. Now I know the reasons, does it make any difference? Is it worth editing the question to remove the word that triggered the subjective warning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T13:03:34.997" Title="Should I reword a question to avoid triggering the &quot;subjective question&quot; warning, or does it not matter?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;subjective-warning&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="11903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11902" CreationDate="2009-08-03T12:59:08.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.                                                                             &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T12:59:08.573" />
  <row Id="11904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11902" CreationDate="2009-08-03T13:00:07.497" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have to. But if the system is telling you your question is likely a subjective question, you should probably listen to it, because the community (especially on SO) can be pretty harsh and close it down real fast if you are not careful (and I don't see this as a bad thing at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T13:00:07.497" />
  <row Id="11905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11902" CreationDate="2009-08-03T13:03:34.997" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've obviously seen the method through which subjective questions are identified.  It's not exactly foolproof.  If your question isn't subjective, go ahead and ask it.  The warning doesn't close your question; it doesn't matter what it says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; matter, though, is the perception of the community; that's what you need to keep in mind.  If your question seems subjective to them, then you have an actual problem.  Removing any semblance of subjectivity can go a long way to allowing your question to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T13:03:34.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2009-08-03T13:20:54.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That depends entirely on whether it is Friday afternoon or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T13:20:54.007" />
  <row Id="11907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11893" CreationDate="2009-08-03T13:24:31.710" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2496/3785148104%5F2f3e05498a%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;You mean the 'viewed' number right here?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T13:24:31.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T13:56:04.640" Score="3" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is sort of related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8129/set-date-parameters-for-recent-activity&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to look at recent activity, it works great... except for when I look at it early in the morning, and it doesn't show posts within the last 24 hours under the default &quot;recent activity&quot; post. So I look at the &quot;this week&quot; page, which works great... except on Sunday or Monday when it doesn't work well because it's a new week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to have it default to just the past N days (where N = 2 or 3 or 7 sounds like a good number)? &quot;this week&quot; and &quot;last week&quot; and &quot;today&quot; and &quot;yesterday&quot; don't seem to have much value. I really just would like to see activity that is &quot;recent&quot; and that depends far more on a fixed timeframe relative to the present, than a periodic timeframe that shuffles in and out of phase as time goes by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:34:20.200" Title="recent activity should have a &quot;past N days&quot; option" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="11909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25392" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:05:27.900" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;By subscribing to the standard &quot;recent feeds&quot;, my feed reader gets pounded by questions often duplicates. It would be great if we were able to subscribe to feeds based on following categories,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Weekly Top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monthly top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unanswered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... you get the point.&#xA;Also how do I get feeds where questions show up only once and not every time it gets answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15474" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-27T04:27:44.330" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T04:27:44.330" Title="Feeds for more specific categories than &quot;recent items&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11909" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:09:26.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already subscribe to any user's feed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/22164&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/22164&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;-- My personal user feed if you are obsessed like I am with ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:09:26.180" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11895" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:23:29.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; worried about it, edit the answer and fix the problem yourself... Leave a revision comment (and, optionally, a comment on the answer) describing the reason for the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:23:29.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:30:33.313" Score="8" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1170/should-i-be-able-to-cancel-my-up-vote-on-a-comment&quot;&gt;Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't undo upvote on comments. The comments area understandably has a small interface and I accidentally upvoted the wrong comment. Apparently they cannot be un-upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:34:58.857" ClosedDate="2009-08-03T15:05:11.010" Title="Undo your upvote to comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11912" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:34:15.550" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, no!  Now you'll have to forever bear the shame of having anonymously upvoted a comment, which has little to no impact on anything whatsoever!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, though, I agree with you.  It's not high on my list of complaints (why am I &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; unable to remove a vote to close), but it's on there somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:34:15.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11908" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:34:20.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While certainly understand that there is room to quibble over what has been chosen as the dates for each of the links provided (the &quot;yesterday&quot; gets me the most, since it shows yesterday and today); this is completely parameterized and you can enter whatever date range you would like within the last 60 days. I think what I would like to see most is a pair of date pickers, as there are on the reputation graph page. The hot links for certain ranges is nice, but clearly is confusing many users, and it would be nice to be able to select the date range, rather than edit the url parameters to get to a &quot;custom&quot; range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:34:20.200" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11912" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:34:39.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that comments up-voting will add only +1 to the score and will not influence on what answer will be selected as a right answer, I suppose there is no need in such functionality. Owners of SO may have another vision, but I, as user of SO, don't see any real value in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:34:39.653" />
  <row Id="11916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11912" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:34:58.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a similar note, I wish there was a way to downvote a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a commenter puts &quot;the best way to access elements in the HTML page is to use document.all&quot; I can't downvote this.  I can post a comment pointing out why it is wrong... and hope for upvotes... but the comments were never designed to support a hierarchy... thus later when someone sees the &quot;minified&quot; comments (based on votes) all they see is a rant that has nothing to do with the original question / answer. :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:34:58.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:48:06.147" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to subscribe to the subscription feed for an individual answer so that you are notified if someone edits it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T15:10:19.270" Title="Can I subscribe to the edits for an individual answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11917" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:53:30.287" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if it your question or answer you will be notified in the Recent Activity page (Envelope) under Edits to your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I don't believe there is a way to receive updates about edits to a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:53:30.287" />
  <row Id="11919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11917" CreationDate="2009-08-03T14:56:29.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would you want to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like someone needs to be reminded of the golden rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is&#xA;  collaboratively edited. If you are not&#xA;  comfortable with the idea of your&#xA;  posts being edited by other trusted&#xA;  users, this may not be the site for&#xA;  you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T14:56:29.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11917" CreationDate="2009-08-03T15:00:15.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should show the edits in the Responses Envelope page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I found that they do have a Quantity and link in the Responses Envelope page for Edits to your own posts.  Now we just need the subscription capability for other posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T15:10:19.270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T15:10:19.270" />
  <row Id="11921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11917" CreationDate="2009-08-03T15:06:30.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is not. But this would be a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; use for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/172/what-kind-of-google-wave-integration-would-you-like&quot;&gt;Wave integration&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T15:06:30.773" />
  <row Id="11922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11923" CreationDate="2009-08-03T15:09:16.807" Score="0" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take example of following tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;wcf&#xA;wcf-binding&#xA;wshttpbinding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case wshttpbinding is a wcf-binding which is part of wcf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most probably the question is tagged with one or two of these. It would be nice to get the question whichever of these tags you searched on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T15:27:28.220" Title="Hierarchical Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11922" CreationDate="2009-08-03T15:12:34.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has stated there will never be hierarchical tags. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2781/could-we-make-tags-imply-other-tags&quot;&gt;Could we make tags imply other tags?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we will not be doing trees, in any&#xA;  way, shape or form – Jeff Atwood♦ Jul&#xA;  6 at 15:30&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I see your point (and somewhat agree), tagging isn't meant to be perfect. It's meant as a guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T15:12:34.147" />
  <row Id="11925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11922" CreationDate="2009-08-03T15:27:28.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the tags are being well-used in the original question then I would expect (or at least hope) that the most restrictive tag should match what I am looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If searching in a subject area for questions to answer I tend to search for the widest tag and then add relevant search terms to order the results usefully (e.g.  wshttpbinding [wcf] wcf-binding ) as the default OR on the search terms  wshttpbinding and wcf-binding with the tag wct should get the most relevant to the top of the list whilst excluding questions where the terms may be mentioned in answers but are not tag-worthy in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T15:27:28.220" />
  <row Id="11928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2009-08-03T16:00:57.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just been 'second place' on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49361/htaccess-redirect&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; that was char for char identical (bar flags), separated by by 23 seconds, with consecutive answer ids.  I wonder if there's any mileage in the answer submission action alerting the submitter to any answers that have been submitted since they started writing their own answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19938" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:22:22.297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:22:22.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13000" CreationDate="2009-08-03T16:16:09.313" Score="12" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who recently acquired privileges through reputation, it would be nice to be notified when starting a bounty which privilege will be revoked if any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4780/lose-rep-accomplishments&quot;&gt;Is losing privileges after placing bounty OK?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130918" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T13:24:26.847" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T13:24:26.847" Title="Notify user when setting a bounty will revoke a privilege" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;privileges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="11931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11930" CreationDate="2009-08-03T16:18:34.910" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be better just to have a note or something saying &quot;If rep lost via a posted bounty drops down below a certain privilege level, you will lose privileges until rep is regained&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or just make the user use basic subtraction and figure it out on their own and make it better known throughout the site that your rep can go up and down, and so can your privileges based on that rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:28:00.440" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:28:00.440" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11930" CreationDate="2009-08-03T16:24:15.050" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the key problem is a lack of notification that bounties cost rep.   The problem is that people are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; under the impression that reaching the rep required for an ability means that they will always have that ability.  It's a fundamental misunderstanding of how rep works, which needs better education than a warning when setting a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T16:24:15.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27143" CreationDate="2009-08-03T17:14:26.367" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click my Envelope icon it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing 2009-08-03 to 2009-08-03  ... 182 reputation earned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click the 'Today' button from that is shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing 2009-08-03 to 2009-08-03 ... 202 reputation Earned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This repeats if I go back and forth between them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are they different, and since I have only got 5 points from 3 upvotes, I assume I should go with Today regarding the rep cap, is that right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T07:12:01.950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T07:13:09.640" Title="Different reputation for same time frame" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="11936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8396" CreationDate="2009-08-03T17:40:26.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question and have received multiple answers - 1 of which I want to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no check mark by any of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone edited my question - would that affect it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am new to StackOverflow too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ian&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T17:40:26.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6959" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:08:50.463" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me one-up this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All ideas that have the status-declined tag MUST have a reason behind the declination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T18:08:50.463" />
  <row Id="11938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:10:13.690" Score="4" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me (and I don't think I'm alone) in thinking that it should be possible to tweak the reputation/incentives on SO to improve the quality of questions and answers, and bring SO closer to its stated goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you think the reputation/incentives on SO could be improved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T10:27:04.683" Title="How to improve quality of SO questions/answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="11939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11938" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:13:19.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be beneficial to encourage more upvoting and downvoting, to help the better answers rise to the top (and the poorer answers sink).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to effect this would be to allow users over a certain reputation threshhold to downvote without penalty, and to give them up to 5 upvotes per answer.  This way, people who are dedicated members of the community, who can be trusted, can have some extra weight in these matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T18:13:19.890" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="11940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11938" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:19:53.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the big selling points of SO was it's &quot;wiki-like&quot; nature; in reality, the incentives and the question/answer format reward adding additional answers rather than fleshing out already existing answers.  Imagine if Wikipedia encouraged everyone to create their own sub-page on a subject, rather than edit the main page-- well, that's what we've got here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest taking a certain set of already-answered, non-active questions each week, and turning them over to the community for &quot;summarization&quot;.  Interested parties would then submit a one-page-ish summary of the best thinking on the subject, condensed from the answers.  After a suitable period (a week? two?) to collect the various summaries, the community would vote on which summary is best (using the traditional upvote/downvote method.)  After a suitable time period, the highest-ranked summary would become the &quot;community accepted answer&quot; for the question, and would go at the top of the answers, in &quot;community wiki&quot; mode.  The author of the accepted summary could get, say, 50 or 100 rep points, and a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T18:19:53.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11988" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:40:02.027" Score="7" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that these events seem to need any more promotions given the rate they are selling out, but I'd think a badge for attendees of a DevDays event would definitely reflect people that are active members of the SO community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T05:58:44.260" Title="How about a DevDays Attendee badge?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11994" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:45:41.200" Score="2" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10789/weird-markdown-glitch&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I had an issue with the Markdown formatting being corrupted by a $ sign in the URL. The fix was to escape the $ sign as %24.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is seemingly no reason for this, as the $ sign is not a special character in either Markdown or URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twice now, Jeff has retagged the question as support, despite the answer being that there is a bug affecting this area (and therefore it should be tagged as bug). So I'm opening a question for just the bug, without any of the case-specific baggage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T10:32:54.617" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T10:32:54.617" Title="The Markdown editor chokes on $ characters in URLs" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;escape&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11938" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:45:51.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see the people who have upvoted (if all upvotes are from mrskeet et al or a tag specialist then you know its a rock solid answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise it might be nice to see the average rep of the people who have up/downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T18:45:51.263" />
  <row Id="11945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11941" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:48:41.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many people are going to ask this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer has always been 'No'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't expect that to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T18:48:41.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11941" CreationDate="2009-08-03T18:52:46.690" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I shouldn't have to pay for a badge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T18:52:46.690" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:14:38.830" Score="6" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can one answer questions asked in SO so fast?  I myself try to check if there are any new questions that I can answer, and when I do so, there are already plenty of nice answers.  I do get the chance to learn more and new things, but always have been curious how can one reply so fast (within 1-5 minutes).  I really appreciate SO users who try to answer questions and help us, but what method do you use to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T19:19:14.443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:04:22.277" Title="How can one answer questions in SO so fast?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:16:15.263" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;...addiction...&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44084" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:16:15.263" />
  <row Id="11955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:17:04.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on if English is your first language. Mine is not, so it usually takes me a few moments to write something clever. If English was my first language, I could write answers in a few seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depends on how often you hit refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T15:04:22.277" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:04:22.277" />
  <row Id="11956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:17:44.540" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;...dedication...&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:14:20.270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:14:20.270" />
  <row Id="11957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:21:26.903" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It should be a question you already know the answer to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You should see it very soon after it's posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You shouldn't need to find any supporting pages (checking links takes time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You should be able to type pretty fast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I don't use the RSS feeds or anything like that. I just check the newest questions page reasonably often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:21:26.903" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11935" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:24:37.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a bug - the envelope icon shows &quot;today from &lt;em&gt;local&lt;/em&gt; midnight with respect to the server&quot;. The &quot;today&quot; button shows &quot;today from UTC midnight.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At least, I reckon it's a bug - if it's by design then it's an odd design :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:24:37.520" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11961" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:33:27.530" Score="4" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do you think Jeff Atwood's rep on meta has reached 7,733 in just 37 days, while on SO it's only 14,371 after a year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132971" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:03:52.720" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:03:52.720" Title="Why is Jeff Atwood's reputation so high on meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;jeff-atwood&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="11960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11959" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:35:02.470" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, he's more active on this site than SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may also be the nature of MetaSO... Rep seems to be more easy to come by here. Hell, I'm earning Rep twice as fast here as I am on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T19:55:30.050" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:55:30.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11959" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:35:23.203" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, he is just a well-known user of above average skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase the Matrix Revolutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Down here, he's god&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, he runs the site, and I'd say a lot of people +rep him by default when he posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:35:23.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11959" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:35:24.843" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's the authority on MSO. Every answer he gives is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:35:24.843" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:35:37.337" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it helps to log on at off-peak hours.  There will be fewer questions, but answers will be slower too (i.e. less competition).  Jeff has said that 8AM-10AM Pacific time is the busiest time--it is when nearly everyone in US/Europe is at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:35:37.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11959" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:38:18.330" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard he has root on the box and will fiddle with the database sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:38:18.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11943" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:39:56.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Javascript editor chokes on the following characters: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;^&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones right there on the keyboard for me to test.  Some of those are obvious and not bugs (&lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, for example, are used to provided title text).  I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; test the server-side Markdown processor, but that'd be difficult and unpleasant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/demo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wmd editor&lt;/a&gt; doesn't appear to have these bugs, which implies that it's something in the showdown engine.  I would imagine the server-side version was designed to mimic the preview editor as much as possible, which would explain why the bugs persist in the rendered posts.  That's just a guess, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T19:47:36.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:47:36.637" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="11967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11959" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:49:38.707" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is funny, though.  If you look at his rep, there are &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of down votes.  I guess some people have issues with authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:49:38.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12568" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:54:16.187" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple times today I have seen the exact duplicate question posted on SO, one right after the other.  One example is this set: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224218/where-does-the-sqlite-database-for-iphone-is-stored-with-the-application&quot;&gt;1224217&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224217/where-does-the-sqlite-database-for-iphone-is-stored-with-the-application&quot;&gt;1224218&lt;/a&gt;. Another was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1223322/is-it-possible-to-suppress-compiler-warnings-for-specific-tasks&quot;&gt;this(1223322)&lt;/a&gt; and its pair, which has been deleted.  Is this possibly a bug or is there a reasonable explanation for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:05:57.700" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:05:57.700" Title="Possible bug: duplicate questions posted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="11970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11959" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:59:10.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Jeff didn't delete all the Meta discussion on SO after the private beta, he would probably be number two behind Jon Skeet on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T19:59:10.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11973" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:00:28.760" Score="1" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it worth answering here because of rep, or should you take it as a charity work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, do you put your MSO Flair on your blog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132971" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T23:38:16.740" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T23:38:16.740" Title="Is MSO Rep worth trying to gain?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="11972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11971" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:02:22.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will give the obligatory &quot;Yes&quot; answer, because if I say no, I will feel really sad about the time I have spent trying to get it here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:02:22.267" CommentCount="32" />
  <row Id="11973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11971" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:07:22.910" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arguably, SO rep isn't even worth it. That doesn't mean I'll quit answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:07:22.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="11974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:07:35.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The refresh button on your browser is your greatest weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:07:35.497" />
  <row Id="11975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11971" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:08:25.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep on SO borders on meaningless, but it does allow you to do nice things like edit and close OT posts. Also, it's a fun game to play with your peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep on MSO just indicates that you have too much time on your hands. You should not only &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; posting flair, you should hide it like the shameful secret that it is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:08:25.107" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="11976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11971" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:09:27.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worth it earning up to 10K so you have full voting, editing, and viewing privileges.  Beyond that, less so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that earning rep is different from participating in the site.  If you use StackOverflow, ServerFault, or SuperUser, it's worth your while to keep an eye on meta now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:34:23.703" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:34:23.703" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11978" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:10:04.370" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a cap on the number of times I can up/downvote other people's questions and answers in a day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:13:30.180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:33:40.927" Title="Is there a cap on daily up/downvotes?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="11978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11977" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:10:45.240" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can vote 30 times a day. This applies to all the sites and is a grand total of 30 up and down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to find it listed on the site, but not having luck finding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:23:05.820" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:23:05.820" />
  <row Id="11980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11930" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:11:30.323" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that the user be able to keep the functionality/privilege unless the hitpoint were gained in frowned-upon ways.  From what I understand, hitpoints are indicators of &quot;how much the site trusts&quot; a user.  If a user has reached a threshold, and then decides to give it all away in bounty, I'd argue that the person is still entitled to be trusted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand though that the implementation is probably set up to check the current hit points, not a flag that indicates if they ever reached some threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; :  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember, Stack Overflow is run by&#xA;  you! If you want to help us run the&#xA;  site, you'll need reputation first.&#xA;  Reputation is a (very) rough&#xA;  measurement of  how much the Stack&#xA;  Overflow community trusts you.&#xA;  Reputation is never given, it is&#xA;  earned by convincing other Stack&#xA;  Overflow users that you know what&#xA;  you're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current implementation makes it clear that this is NOT the case that - that even if you earn the privilege they are transient.  As if a person's trustworthiness was transient.   I don't see how giving away points via bounty makes a person less &quot;trustworthy&quot; to the &quot;community&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, I would give people privileges once they earned them.  I would only revoke them once they did something negative.  In this scenario that means that giving bounty, voting down answers or getting down voted is equivalent to doing something negative.  That is not how I interpret SO.  It is very inconsistent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I realize that the status quo is to make the code simple to maintain - all one has to do is check the current hitpoint level.  That's the only real defense of the policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T21:16:30.667" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T21:16:30.667" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="11981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11977" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:12:12.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cap(s) I believe are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting up and down: 30 times per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to close and reopen: 12 times per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flagging a post as Spam or Offensive: 5 times per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unsure on the limits for comment voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:33:40.927" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:33:40.927" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11971" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:12:56.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  If I were you I wouldn't care past 100:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;1        Leave comments&#xA;15       Vote up&#xA;15       Flag offensive&#xA;100      Vote down (costs 1 rep), create new tags, edit community wiki posts&#xA;250      Vote to close or reopen your questions, create new tags&#xA;500      Retag questions&#xA;2000     Edit other people's posts&#xA;3000     Vote to close or reopen any questions&#xA;10000    Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I hope a bunch of people get to 10K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:34:50.317" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:34:50.317" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11971" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:17:10.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't put my MSO flair on any external site mainly because it's meaningless outside the SO sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that I wouldn't put my SO flair on other sites either. I experimented with it on my Facebook profile and my blog (for different reasons), but I've removed it from both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:17:10.840" />
  <row Id="11986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:20:04.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on Jeff's explanation of the community and hit points and privileges it sounds like SO does not work correctly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it works now a user is to be trusted LESS for giving away bounty points - even though he is participating even more in the community.  Jeff has repeatedly stated that hitpoints and privileges are an indicator of how much the site &quot;Trusts&quot; a user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that once you reach a threshold it is more consistent with Jeff's statements that the privileges be left intact even if the hitpoints go below that threshold.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example - if a user has 12000 hitpoints and then decides to give away 10000 in bounty for a bunch of questions, how does this affect their level of commitment to the site and the community's level of trust?   It shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the functionality is broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality this is probably not a big deal.  No one is spending that much on bounties and most people will continue to gain hitpoints and will not likely lose so much that they can't get back to where they were in short order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, fundamentally, the current policy is inconsistent with Jeff's comments on hitpoints and privileges .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T15:01:01.610" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:01:01.610" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11989" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:22:09.177" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title should explain it.  An example of why this should be allowed is evident in this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068984/how-do-you-manage-mssql-2000-2005-patches-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068984/how-do-you-manage-mssql-2000-2005-patches-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently it's the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; question on StackOverflow tagged 'mssql', and we cannot remove that tag.  As a consequence, the mssql tag is still active for new users with low rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-03T20:31:37.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:31:37.110" Title="Allow us to edit tags on migrated questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="11988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11941" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:22:55.227" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go against the grain and say: &lt;strong&gt;I think it's a good idea.&lt;/strong&gt;  (And no, I can't attend any)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The argument &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; it seems to focus around &quot;I shouldn't have to pay for a badge&quot; and &quot;I don't have the opportunity to go, it's not fair.&quot;  Another one I suppose would be &quot;Badges shouldn't be awarded for Real-Life Actions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arguments for?  Badges are meant to convey your contribution and interest to SO.  Contributing to a real-life (not-for-profit) extension of Stackoverflow, Dev Days goes along with that.  (1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Beta Badge fits against &quot;Badges I don't have the opportunity to earn&quot;.  The Hacker Badge, and the few people who have earned it, fits against &quot;Badges I don't have the opportunity to earn&quot;, and to a lesser extent &quot;Badges shouldn't be awarded for Real-Life Actions.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As for &quot;paying&quot; for a badge - if you seriously go to DevDays just for a badge that's just sad.  And everyone saying &quot;I shouldn't have to pay for a badge&quot; is implying just that.  I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; you wouldn't pay for it.  No one would.  So awarding it to people who paid isn't them buying a badge, it's rewarding people who have contributed to the community of SO - building better programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will not earn every badge, and it's &lt;strong&gt;not unfair to limit you&lt;/strong&gt; by awarding badges to others who have contributed in a way you can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW I still think a Founder/Developer badge is also fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) AFAIK Dev Days is not for profit, or at least not for much profit.  StackExchange is radically different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:22:55.227" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="11989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11987" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:26:33.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nah, there aren't any &lt;kbd&gt;mssql&lt;/kbd&gt; questions ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;updating post history, 26 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 19 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;merge of [sql-server] and [mssql] complete!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The locking etc is there to prevent it become re-opened, and for the low volume that this happens, I suspect that (for now at least) MSO or moderator flags would work fine. It isn't (IMO) worth the time to think of a &quot;better&quot; approach, let alone implement it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:26:33.347" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="11991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11930" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:34:27.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time you set a bounty you lose a privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may only be the privilege to change the accepted answer, but you still lose that privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea to make it a little more clear that going below the thresholds will take with them the abilities those thresholds gave you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:34:27.977" />
  <row Id="11994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11943" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:51:33.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is seemingly no reason for this, as the $ sign is not a special character in either Markdown or URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not so sure. If I'm not mistaken, http URLs follow the generic URI syntax, and that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;$&lt;/em&gt; as a reserved delimiter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132618" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T20:51:33.940" />
  <row Id="12002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T22:50:46.387" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;(FYI: It's a rhetorical question. Not really waiting for a real answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'Related Questions' auto suggestion feature sometimes is just totally dumb and it's relying on throwing as many what-it-thinks is related and hoping you make a good decision of not posting what might be a duplicate question. Sounds reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just posted a question 'Why no markdown for comments?' and a 'related' question was suggested titled 'Why Does Jon Skeet never sleep?. Being curious to why this came up, I went to the question and did a quick browser page search on 'markdown' and it didn't find any.  I didn't spend any more precious seconds of my life to find out why. I was too busy to find out why he doesn't sleep. :)  and to post this message!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:16:40.253" Title="Why does SO suggest totally unrelated 'Related Questions' questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12013" CreationDate="2009-08-03T23:11:03.810" Score="5" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the 'Today' tab I have 172 rep earned today. Yet I have answers that get upvotes that aren't worth anything, and haven't been turned into Community Wikis. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chacha102.com/chacha/rep%5Ferror2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Error1&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chacha102.com/chacha/rep%5Ferror.png&quot; alt=&quot;Error2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions in Question:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224906/php-help-building-a-multi-dimensional-array/1224914#1224914&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224906/php-help-building-a-multi-dimensional-array/1224914#1224914&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224919/php-array-parsing/1224959#1224959&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224919/php-array-parsing/1224959#1224959&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224789/php-classes-when-to-use-vs/1224824#1224824&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224789/php-classes-when-to-use-vs/1224824#1224824&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And is it possible that this question which I answered before it got migrated screwed with the reputation: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/17630/not-able-to-enter-password-in-putty-exe/17631#17631&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/17630/not-able-to-enter-password-in-putty-exe/17631#17631&lt;/a&gt;. I believe it has 3 upvotes when it was migrated .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T06:02:57.083" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T06:02:57.083" Title="Rep Got Capped Too Early?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T23:19:39.750" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35/will-stackoverflows-engine-be-open-sourced&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, there's a comment I found in writing this question, which makes a good point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can see a very good use of this engine in professions other than computer programming: Lawyering, Medical Advise, Education...well, to be concise ANY type of counseling service. And, those communities would like a number of features that even SO would be benefited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about this as well, and it seems clear to me that if people in other fields can be roused to use a community site such as this to solve their problems, it would be of great benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And though a site like SO seems to work best for objective questions, it can also be used for good discussion and subjective questions (as meta-SO shows). Even the domain of &quot;general advice&quot; can take advantage of the SO engine, where now, you might ask questions in some phbb forum, or the advice column (&quot;Ask Cathy&quot;) in the local newspaper (or go to a professional counselor, though that's probably a better option if possible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main challenge in making this work for non-computer-related fields is getting knowledgeable users. For SO, SF and SU, Joel and Jeff could leverage their existing readership to give the site a real boost to start with, with enough momentum going to really become popular. And this site thrives on network effects. Doing something similar for other fields would be more difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may not even be able to recruit users through Google nearly as well as the SO family does, since programmers are much more likely to scour the web for answers to problems compared to, say, doctors (you'd probably want to change your doctor in fact, if he/she was using Google for diagnosis). On the other hand, you might find many amateurs trying to find answers, such as people who do in fact use the internet to try to diagnose their own diseases. With reputation added in, this can be a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who else thinks it's a good idea to expand the domains this type of engine is used for, and why (or why not)? And what sort of challenges would be faced in doing so? What's a good way to go about making this happen, and who should go about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132977" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T01:47:13.733" Title="Adapting the SO engine to other domains, not related to computers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;so-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12008" CreationDate="2009-08-03T23:28:19.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience this usually happens if something got deleted. For instance, suppose you'd got up to 215 and then had one downvote (putting you on 213). Then an answer with 4 upvotes got deleted. That would reduce your score for the day by 40, but for some reason the rep cap would still be applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the next rep recalc, you won't have received those points in the first place, so (if they were awarded in the same day) you'll regain them from upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it's just a case of there being a few different places where rep is stored - totals, total for the day, and rep for the actual answers - and they get slightly out of sync.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T23:28:19.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12019" CreationDate="2009-08-03T23:32:44.803" Score="2" ViewCount="392" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent question on SO (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1225026/is-c-starting-to-lose-its-way-with-version-4-0-closed&quot;&gt;Is C# starting to lose its way with version 4.0?&lt;/a&gt;) really had me going back and forth. The problem is that I wasn't vacillating on the question, but on the definition of &quot;S&amp;amp;A&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At first, I was thinking of S&amp;amp;A in the sense of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;Describing Close Reasons&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's impossible to objectively answer&#xA;  this question, and the question was&#xA;  asked in a confrontational,&#xA;  argumentative way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I thought the question was provocative, yet that it was asked in a respectful manner.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I then remembered that this is &quot;not a discussion board&quot;, so the question didn't seem to belong on SO, no matter how nicely it was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I then thought that maybe the question should be made Community Wiki, but none of the criteria in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt; really seemed to fit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I may just be having a bad day, but can someone help me out here? Is there such a thing as a question that is Subjective, without being Argumentative, and without being a Discussion and under what circumstances should these questions be edited by a Wider Group of Users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T07:34:49.310" Title="Losing my Way on the Meaning of &quot;Subjective and Argumentative&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12020" CreationDate="2009-08-03T23:39:15.833" Score="4" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/542?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;user on SU&lt;/a&gt; just now with a profile picture that I think could possibly be considered inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, does anyone agree. Do you think this is inappropriate? When I first saw the image by his name in a post I genuinely thought it was some kind of symbol because the user was an admin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To hyperslug, if you read this please don't take offence that I am discussing you, I just think your image could be misleading, particularly to new users who could be lead to believe you are some kind of administrator)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:25:18.327" Title="Should users profile pictures be vetted in some way?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;inappropriate-content&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12015" CreationDate="2009-08-03T23:42:24.687" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very possible to have a question that is subjective and argumentative, but &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; subjective question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a discussion. The fact that it has no right or wrong answer means that it is open for discussion, and rightly so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you posted as an example however, is purely speculative and based on personal opinion and not on any supporting facts. As a rule of thumb, you should be able to apply, at the very least, some supporting facts to support your view. A type of question that is purely subjective would be &quot;What is your favorite color&quot;. If you can apply loose arguments to back up your decision like &quot;usually x happens when you do y&quot; then you can apply at least some valid reasoning making the question worthwhile.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would agree that the example question you provided does not belong on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T23:42:24.687" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2009-08-03T23:49:35.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would propose a way to flag a user, perhaps a link in their profile to get moderator attention. There should also be a moderator tool to remove a users gravatar in a case like the above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-03T23:49:35.043" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:03:08.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't bother me in any way.  I suppose I can see how people might get confused by that image, but I don't see a reason to preemptively start moderating such things based upon the &lt;em&gt;possibility&lt;/em&gt; of abuse or confusion.  Let it be looked into if it becomes a problem, not before.  If it &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; a problem, or if the image were simply inappropriate, you could try flagging a random answer or question by the user in order to notify the moderators about it, or just email the SO team directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, Gravatar has a rating system to allow sites to restrict the images that are allowed.  In major WTF fashion, though, it is the user himself who determines the rating.  And there doesn't seem to be a way to flag inappropriate images.  Either I'm missing something or the people over at Gravatar have way more faith in humanity than I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:03:08.753" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:14:28.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a way to restrict the images presented, like being able to flag them.  I don't have a problem with the example, but I saw one yesterday that was less than family friendly, and I had no way to flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:14:28.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12010" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:17:06.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed on the SO Podcast a while ago. StackOverflow works very well because it focuses on technology and the whole system is delivered through technology. Computer savvy people will instinctively go to the internet to find answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You won't find the same happen for something like Gardening (the example used in the podcast). Gardening won't work because it is something that is done without computers, and most of the time people don't have discussion forums for it on line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow system works well for technology, but other industries probably won't lend themselves well to it, simply because there aren't huge &lt;strong&gt;online&lt;/strong&gt; communities like there are for technology. There may be some large online communities but (unless you count social networking like Facebook &amp;amp; Twitter) they don't come close to the size tech communities can reach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be hard for a non-technology related Stack Exchange to take off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:17:06.657" />
  <row Id="12025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12029" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:18:49.717" Score="0" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would one search for postings from a particular company in jobs.stackoverflow.com?  I'm having a lot of trouble accomplishing this.  Thanks in advance for the help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132982" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T12:39:56.750" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:12:55.173" Title="Stackoverflow Jobs company search" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;&lt;company&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:32:56.200" Score="-2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure just about everyone on this site has seen this: Someone asks a question to which there is pretty much one right answer, like &quot;how do I set the title of my website?&quot; or something. Often 2 or even more people post exactly the same answer. Its correct, and helpful, but still exactly the same. I don't mind when its a one sentence answer, but sometimes I've been typing an example for 4 minutes, and somebody posts exactly the same answer. I don't really care that much about being first, but I feel like I sort of wasted my time. Is there a way we could cut down on this? I'm open to suggestions. The first thing that popped into my head was something that shows how many users are viewing and answering the question. it wouldn't be hard to implement, because I am already informed if other answers are posted, I'm concerned with those about to be posted. If I see someone else is posting an answer, I can look at some other questions, come back in a bit when they're done, and if the answer was right then I just saved myself some time. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2631/view-approximate-number-of-users-online&quot;&gt;this suggestion&lt;/a&gt; has the same idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really is a nice thing about SO, you get help so fast you get the same help, but I'd like to see something done about it if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm closing this because it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fastest-gun&quot;&gt;well known issue&lt;/a&gt; a lot of people have.  There have been a few suggestions to solve it, so if you don't like any of them but have your own - please review the other threads related to it, and then propose it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T20:02:41.380" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T20:02:41.380" ClosedDate="2009-08-04T12:03:29.630" Title="Is there anything we can do about people posting similar answers 3 seconds after one another?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6469" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:33:21.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would also love to see an icon like this, but which would present a list of new answers / comments / etc for the favourited question, similar to the way that the recent activity page works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:33:21.210" />
  <row Id="12028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12026" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:34:52.147" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Not possible without also harming the contribution of useful, non-similar posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:34:52.147" />
  <row Id="12029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12025" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:36:07.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no direct way to search for specific companies.  However, there are a couple filters with which you can narrow your search (location and job type). From the resulting list, the search results are pretty well formatted to allow a glance at each job listing's associated company.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:36:07.127" />
  <row Id="12030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:40:02.903" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not if they are as innocuous as that.  Did you fall for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49153/click-upvote&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:40:02.903" />
  <row Id="12031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12034" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:51:02.433" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my questions was marked as a duplicate today by somebody - rightfully so, too; it was.  The only thing is I asked my question in mid-July, and the duplicate was asked today.  Should there be some type of alert that informs users when they're closing a question as a dupe, and favoring a younger question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T12:38:33.943" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:53:22.183" Title="Alert when closing as a dupe favoring a younger question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:53:35.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh. Your title and the use of &quot;innapropriate&quot; made me expect something else. I don't really see &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; as a problem. I was expecting something a bit more...well....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:53:35.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2009-08-04T00:57:09.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always flag one of his posts for moderator attention with an according message. If they take any action then probably depends on how often the user gets flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any need for a special flag on the user/icon itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T00:57:09.490" />
  <row Id="12034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12031" CreationDate="2009-08-04T01:00:14.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... there are visible timestamps on both questions. And the question # that you have to type in will look suspiciously large compared to the one in the address bar. If someone is already ignoring both of those, i'm not sure slapping them in the face with another alert will do much good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, sometimes closing the earlier question is the right thing to do - there are plenty of poorly-asked questions laying around. In these instances, i've sometimes flagged for administrator review, and requested a merge - if there are good answers on the older question, this may be appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T01:00:14.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12010" CreationDate="2009-08-04T01:47:13.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO software does not need to be the main feature of the site in question.  A news site or a blog could just as easily incorporate the vote up/down rep mechanism for the comments at the bottom of its articles and posts.  I would especially like the flagging for offensive material feature on some sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T01:47:13.733" />
  <row Id="12036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11941" CreationDate="2009-08-04T02:49:20.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good for Building Community&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a nice way to put a face to a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hey, I remember meeting this person....&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T02:49:20.473" />
  <row Id="12037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11959" CreationDate="2009-08-04T03:04:30.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a large part of it is due to the fact that he responds to feature-requests and bugs as the creator of the system - i.e. the guru / authority on it all.  It is a bit hard to argue with him when he says that e.g. voting &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; work the way it has been designed to work, etc.  Obviously, there are some things that people will disagree with and down vote him on, but since the up-votes are worth so much more, he will likely come out ahead in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T03:04:30.143" />
  <row Id="12038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T03:52:29.227" Score="3" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have now signed up to the 4 sites and I am trying to swap between them easily. &#xA;In my usual slackness and developer mindframe I was wonding if there were any plans to have an overview for a person to see all their stuff across all the sites in one screen.&#xA;A sort of mash up or web parts or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132933" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T03:52:29.227" Title="&quot;Stack-overview&quot; a dashboard for cross site users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T04:10:24.033" Score="20" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is brought on by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12016/are-developers-bound-to-their-city-they-live-in-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently there are no facilities for migrating questions from meta to any of the other sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wish I could move this to SO (or perhaps SU) but Meta doesn't have any migration facilities.&lt;br/&gt;– Kyle Cronin ♦ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems inconsistent as SO, SU, and SF have migration between them and &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; meta; so why not &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; meta as well? From the example above, questions can clearly be posted here that belong elsewhere, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T10:12:15.463" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T10:12:15.463" Title="Provide migration facilities from meta to other sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="12040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12039" CreationDate="2009-08-04T04:13:58.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to try hard to end up on meta. Questions are not posted here on accident very often by any standard -- I know of two times from the top of my head. To me it's purpose seems clear enough that people don't post questions better suited for other sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason for the migration tool is because some users don't understand where their issue lies, and may confuse a software issue with a server one, or vice versa. This isn't likely the case on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T04:13:58.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12059" CreationDate="2009-08-04T04:33:16.743" Score="6" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;Should we be allowed to edit comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never worked with Greasemonkey so I don't know how it works or if what I'm about to ask is possible, but I had a great idea for a script. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know how you can post a comment in a hurry, only to later realize that you've posted your comment with a grammatical error?  To correct the error you have to delete your comment and write it all over again (copy+paste if you're really smart). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not create a Greasemonkey script that adds an edit button to your comments that allows you to 'edit' your comment by deleting your original and pasting the original in the comment textbox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a stupid idea? Maybe, but I'm always doing this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if SO supported this automatically (&lt;strong&gt;feature request&lt;/strong&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T07:18:35.467" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:18:35.467" ClosedDate="2009-10-25T11:14:21.353" Title="Allow comments to be edited" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12041" CreationDate="2009-08-04T04:37:03.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that there is a required 30 seconds between posting comments, and it wouldn't nearly be as functional as editing because if your comment was in the middle of a group of comments, it would appear at the bottom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T04:37:03.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12039" CreationDate="2009-08-04T04:48:16.777" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do think that it will be used quite rarely, I do think that, at least for the sake of consistency, that it should be possible to migrate from Meta to the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from questions that are truly posted in the wrong place (such as the original example),  Meta does get the occasional question about implementation details of Stack Overflow that, while they involve SO, are better asked on SO itself. If caught early, it's easy enough to close the post and request that the author repost it on the correct site, but this may not always be the case and is the reason why the migration system was created in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; To show that my concerns aren't theoretical, here's a screenshot I just took of the mod panel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/DGy8P.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:15:02.987" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:15:02.987" />
  <row Id="12046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11941" CreationDate="2009-08-04T04:59:44.383" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A badge for attending isn't a bad idea at all - similar to the Beta badge in that it's a one-time deal and can't be earned if you miss it. Maybe I'd feel differently if I were unable to attend, but I don't think that it's necessary for all the badges to be winnable and/or no barrier to entry (i.e. no-cost).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I envision the badge could look something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/8mZjS.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with the format being &lt;code&gt;devdays-[city]-[year]&lt;/code&gt; so attendees can connect with others that went to the same conference. The color is tweakable - I only used a silver badge as the base for demonstration purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:15:43.597" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:15:43.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12066" CreationDate="2009-08-04T05:00:15.117" Score="0" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow's user cookie seems to have the form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;t=&amp;lt;mystery-value&amp;gt;|&amp;lt;last-access-time&amp;gt;&amp;amp;s=&amp;lt;mystery-value&amp;gt;|&amp;lt;login-time&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the times are sans year, which is a little strange).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the mystery values are some kind of hash or session id,&#xA;but why are there two of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149341" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:47:02.407" Title="What are the s and t parameters in the user cookie used by stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;&lt;cookies&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12047" CreationDate="2009-08-04T05:20:40.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it is broken into 3 sections. UserID/Session|Stats|Login Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Guess is that the first one is the Session Key that pertains to the user, and the second one might be to distinguish sessions from different computers or a tracking key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could be wrong on my first guess, and it might be that it is UserID|Preferences|LoginTime if StackOverflow they have chosen to keep some preferences stored in the cookie, so it doesn't have to store any data in a PHP Session-Like (I know it runs on ASP) system, and then just goes and grabs the rep everytime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, I could be wrong on my second guess too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T05:26:36.747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T05:26:36.747" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:54:13.880" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a little html issue and wanted to post the page on the web. Are there any free hosting services I can use for this? The page has static content so I don't need a service which supports databases or any server languages. The url should be off the provider's domain name (not mine) and quick and easy to set up. I don't care if they put ads. SO recommends an image hosting provider. Looking for similar option for a whole page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T06:14:51.433" Title="free hosting to demo a static webpage for SO question?" Tags="&lt;hosting&gt;&lt;web-hosting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12049" CreationDate="2009-08-03T19:59:19.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; free, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nearlyfreespeech.net&lt;/a&gt; is pay-by-use, and I believe they give you some free credit for signing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T06:14:51.433" />
  <row Id="12051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12049" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:00:53.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;try &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;jsbin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbin.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;About&lt;/a&gt; page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JS Bin is a webapp specifically&#xA;  designed to help JavaScript and CSS&#xA;  folk test snippets of code, within&#xA;  some context, and debug the code&#xA;  collaboratively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JS Bin allows you to edit and test&#xA;  JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL&#xA;  also maintains the state of your code&#xA;  - new tabs doesn't). Once you're happy you can save, and send the URL to a&#xA;  peer for review or help. They can then&#xA;  make further changes saving anew if&#xA;  required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The original idea spawned from a&#xA;  conversation with another developer in&#xA;  trying to help him debug an Ajax&#xA;  issue. The original aim was to build&#xA;  it using Google's app engine, but in&#xA;  the end, it was John Resig's Learning&#xA;  app that inspired me to build the&#xA;  whole solution in JavaScript with&#xA;  liberal dashes of jQuery and a tiny&#xA;  bit of LAMP for the saving process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It took me the best part of 4 hours to&#xA;  develop - so if it's shaky around the&#xA;  edges, let me know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This webapp was built by Remy Sharp&#xA;  (@rem) of Left Logic. Please get in&#xA;  touch if you're interested in working&#xA;  with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Page will remain hosted until the page has not been viewed for 3 months&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134787" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T06:14:51.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12049" CreationDate="2009-08-03T20:01:53.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To host some code, you can try &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pastebin&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastie.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pastie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(there must be plenty of those)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They won't host your &lt;strong&gt;page&lt;/strong&gt;, but, at least, they'll allow you to distribute the source-code that constitutes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;BTW : what do you mean by &quot;page&quot; ? Only some HTML file ? On HTML+JS+CSS+Images and all that stuff ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T06:14:51.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T06:38:19.740" Score="25" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Important&lt;/strong&gt;: this no longer works and needs a patch; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12053/greasemonkey-script-to-show-current-daily-reputation-cap/51783#51783&quot;&gt;see my answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just finished creating yet another greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This script will display your reputation earned today and the time till the next cycle begins. If you have reached your daily reputation limit, the text will turn red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Fixed a bug with the countdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/uso_ss/1636/large.png?1249367685&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55025&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-30T22:43:13.790" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T04:13:50.293" Title="Greasemonkey script to show current daily reputation cap" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="12055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12058" CreationDate="2009-08-04T06:51:18.310" Score="2" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now have &gt; 400 upvotes within jQuery tagged questions (see below images) but have not received the badge as yet. I passed the 400 mark a good few hours ago. Can anybody shed any light on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gyazo.com/015e720ed8aa562f4458fdba3415f4ad.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gyazo.com/9cb7fc4285380b9173fba673952b669d.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6440" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T04:33:05.450" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:33:05.450" Title="Why have I not recieved the specialist badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;specialist&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12055" CreationDate="2009-08-04T07:21:13.473" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different badges run on different cycles. Some every few minutes, some daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to have access to the server logs that showed this, but Jeff took my shiny toys away ;-( Meaning: I can't check what the cycle is for this specific badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as has been suggested; wait a day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T07:21:13.473" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12041" CreationDate="2009-08-04T07:23:39.383" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If comments are edited, a user can change the entire thread with a single edit making every other comment a waste of space and the commenter looks like an idiot. Do you then clutter the UI with revision history for comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My Vote: NO&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T17:15:10.920" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:15:10.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-08-04T07:29:47.840" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Food for though: While the number of votes for questions is lower, the ration of up/down is relatively close since the end of the &lt;em&gt;Happy, Happy!  Joy, Joy!&lt;/em&gt; times of Beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Average Score of Questions vs. Answers by Month&lt;/strong&gt; (from Aug 2009 dump)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-average-score-questions-vs-answers.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Average Score of Questions vs. Answers by Month&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T07:29:47.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-04T07:29:47.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12041" CreationDate="2009-08-04T07:48:03.357" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a comment is sufficiently flawed or incomplete and, for fairness, is not referred to by subsequent comments, then it could be re-written and the original deleted by the poster. I do not know if deleted comments are visible to some users but, even so, this seems better than a sequence of partial comments by the same user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T07:48:03.357" />
  <row Id="12062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12026" CreationDate="2009-08-04T07:51:38.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least it's not quite as bad as, when well into typing a long answer, a bar appears to say the question has been closed and no more answers can be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T07:51:38.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12026" CreationDate="2009-08-04T08:04:21.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's up to the community to handle this.  If I see someone has already answered, I delete my answer and upvote the earlier correct answer.  If people started to leave comments like &quot;Post adds nothing, you should just upvote Blah instead&quot; it would percolate down to the users that can't see the deleted posts and realize that all the high-rep people do that already. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T08:04:21.703" />
  <row Id="12066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12047" CreationDate="2009-08-04T09:09:23.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, after googling muchly, I think these may be series and token identifiers, as described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://jaspan.com/improved_persistent_login_cookie_best_practice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jaspan.com/improved_persistent_login_cookie_best_practice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each is a base64-encoded 128-bit (presumably random) number, with the trailing == removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149341" LastEditorUserId="149341" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T14:47:02.407" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:47:02.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T09:23:31.903" Score="0" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/arora/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arora&lt;/a&gt; 0.8 I'm unable to log in to any of the stackoverflow sites. Even though I'm logged in with Google ( confirmed by Gmail ), I don't appear logged in to SO (for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arora is a lightweight cross-platform web browser. It's free (as in free speech and free beer). Arora runs on Linux, embedded Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows and any other platforms supported by the Qt toolkit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arora uses the QtWebKit port of the fully standards-compliant WebKit layout engine. It features fast rendering, powerful JavaScript engine and supports Netscape plugins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T18:30:29.103" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:12:44.240" Title="Google login does not work with Arora" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12071" CreationDate="2009-08-04T09:59:21.517" Score="0" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to run StackOverflow without ASP.NET sessions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130023" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T12:33:25.643" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:04:42.287" Title="Running StackOverflow Without ASP.NET Sessions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12053" CreationDate="2009-08-04T10:21:58.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice work. I love the live countdown too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T10:21:58.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:14:37.340" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/382/can-we-get-x-comment-votes-per-x-minutes-rather-than-one-vote-per-5-seconds&quot;&gt;Can we get x comment votes per x minutes, rather than one vote per 5 seconds?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1982/to-change-the-30-second-time-limit-in-comments&quot;&gt;To change the 30-second time limit in comments&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often read through the answers to a question first and then start to comment. And very often I write comments faster than one per 30 seconds... it is very annoying to have to wait for that time to pass =/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about decreasing that time limit? I'm sure it is there to prevent flooding of some sorts, but is 30 seconds really necessary? How about lowering it to 5-10 seconds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39321" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:24:23.503" ClosedDate="2009-08-04T14:41:21.637" Title="How about decreasing the allowed time between comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;time-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12068" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:17:48.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The use of session was discussed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-63/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last podcast&lt;/a&gt;, in the context of adding more servers. IIRC, the summary is &quot;session is used but not a lot and could probably be removed if desired&quot;. But in Jeff's words ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T11:17:48.397" />
  <row Id="12072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12070" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:22:31.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been asked before, but I do not think that it is a problem. There really isn't a need to make it any faster (by that I mean there isn't exactly a requirement for comments to be speedy like answers would be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I wouldn't mind if it changed, but I don't think it is any type of priority at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T11:22:31.507" />
  <row Id="12073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12207" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:24:42.313" Score="9" ViewCount="1643" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I'm stalking Jon Skeet -- via the data dump, that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After wading through the dump looking for interesting patterns, the graph below popped out as worthy.  It's a bit complex to think about, so let me explain it a bit via bullet points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Query that data dump for number of questions Jon Skeet answered for each tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Filter to top 12, or roughly &gt; ~80 answers total for that tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Graph each tag, by month, as a percentage of the total for the top dozen tags (and not all tags Skeet answered questions for)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is overlap: a single question with &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; will show up as two counts.  E.g.: The total of answers-per-tag exceeds the number of answers Skeet has actually written.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we can see, the top three tags, by a large margin, are &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;.  Both &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; have a negative slope, and &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; has a positive slope.  Additionally, &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; has moved from his #3 most popular tag to answer to #2.  So, the question is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is Jon Skeet slowly switching his attention from .net to Java?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Top Dozen Tags of Answers as a Percentage of Top Dozen Answers by Month&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-stalking-jon-skeet-top-dozen-tags-percent-answers-by-month.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Stalking Jon Skeet -Top Dozen Tags of Answers as a Percentage of Top Dozen Answers by Month&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Jon Skeet says...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see the&#xA;  graphs as a proportion of all&#xA;  questions with those tags over the&#xA;  same time period, to account for (say)&#xA;  a new set of Java programmers who&#xA;  might deluge the site with questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I whipped up some another graph.  Again, it is complicated, and here are the bullet points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Query that data dump for number of questions Jon Skeet answered for &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;, 'c#&lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt;.net` from October on.  (In September, Skeet had just joined and answered a mere 10% his norm.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Query that data dump for tag count on questions with &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;, 'c#&lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt;.net` tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Graph each tag, by month, as a percentage of the total for theses 3 tags (and not the total tags for Skeet's answers or all questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, there is overlap: a single question with &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; will show up as two counts. E.g.: The total of answers-per-tag exceeds the number of answers Skeet has actually written.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-stalking-jon-skeet-top-3-tags-percent-answers-by-month-vs-all-questions.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jon Skeet Top 3 tags percent answers by month vs all questions&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting.  It seems that Skeet's interest shifts quite closely where the community interested is going, more or less.  Also, it seems he answers a lower percentage of all Java questions relative to c# questions, which is no surprise, but that gap is shrinking.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric says...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, it's funny that C# actually went&#xA;  up in the past month, but .NET went&#xA;  down. Maybe we're finally starting to&#xA;  not tag every C# question with .NET,&#xA;  too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he's probably correct as &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; are down (relatively in this context) ~1/3rd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:17:44.343" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:17:44.343" Title="Is Jon Skeet slowly switching his attention from .net to Java?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:27:00.000" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Jon Skeet has hit critical mass of .NET questions and it has come to the point where all new questions can simply be referred back towards old answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either that or Jon Skeet is learning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest we put him down. You know. Just in case. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T11:27:00.000" />
  <row Id="12075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:30:46.420" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you take out the September 2008 outlier, C# is a slightly positive slope. That's skewing results a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's funny that C# actually went up in the past month, but .NET went down. Maybe we're finally starting to not tag every C# question with .NET, too. Woohoo! Obviously, though, he is answering more and more Java questions, so good on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T11:30:46.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:32:35.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For .NET he has already generated all text blocks to compose answers automatically. Now he is searching new challenges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T14:28:34.213" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:28:34.213" />
  <row Id="12078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12082" CreationDate="2009-08-04T11:56:46.303" Score="1" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today, a friend of mine tried logging in to his account on my computer, but no matter what we did we got into my account instead. He's using a technorati account, we got to the page and everything, logged in, but at stackoverflow we ended up on mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cleared all cookies and everything, but now I can't log in to my account instead.  I use a Google account.  When I try to login, I get to the Gmail login, I enter my mail and password, and get back to StackOverflow which recognizes it as a new one.  I tried logging in again, this time I don't get the gmail login.  Instead, StackOverflow immediately recognizes it as a new one.  If I clear all cookies and try to login using Google, I get to the gmail login again, but still same thing.  I tried creating a new account when it asked if I'm a new user, and as expected I get a new account, 1 rep, and &quot;unknown&quot; as name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T06:01:17.180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T06:01:17.180" Title="Can't log in to my stackoverflow account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12078" CreationDate="2009-08-04T12:05:35.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com. They're awfully nice and will get your account shiny again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T12:05:35.490" />
  <row Id="12080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12078" CreationDate="2009-08-04T12:26:19.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't know if this will help but...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had the same problems right after I upgraded to Firefox 3.5. I was having trouble logging back into my account after someone else logged in using my system. And then I had problems staying logged in after I cleared the cookies. To make a long story short, it seemed like cookies weren't being created or updated consistently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After twiddling with all the cookie settings for a few hours, the solution was to delete my cookie files' database. I had to make hidden files visible and delete the entire database (cookies.sqlite, in Firefox) located in C:\Documents and Settings\ &lt;em&gt;username&lt;/em&gt; \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you are seeing a similar problem in your system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T12:37:36.063" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T12:37:36.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12078" CreationDate="2009-08-04T12:41:59.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What browser are you using? There are (or were, at least) some major glitches using gmail accounts and IE (in particular between different sites like SO/SU/SF).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the e-mail on your MSO account I can trace &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; SO account; looks fine. Of course, it would be easier to validate if you updated your current MSO profile so I can check the names ;-p If your account is the one I think it is, there is also an AOL alternative open-id (in addition to the technorati one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if you could tell us your friend's account name as well... (and clarify your own)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re your update... it doesn't look like the horrigan1 account exists. It may have once, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=horrigan+site:stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google sees nothing&lt;/a&gt;; there is no account by that name, etc. Was it a registered account? It also sounds like something very odd has happened, because the technorati login &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; associated with your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no gmail openid against the Clox account; there is technorati and aol. Are you sure you used your gmail to register this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T13:13:40.827" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T13:13:40.827" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T12:52:48.403" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't dismiss a vote dialog before you flag a question (say as needing attention), the new dialog overwrites the old one and both are unreadable.  Using Safari 4.0.2. The new text is written over the old text, but part of the old text is still visible.  It could be that the new dialog box is not as wide as the old one, but since the backgrounds are flat and don't have borders it appears as the text is only partially overwritten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T06:01:05.137" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T06:01:05.137" Title="Voting/flagging dialogs overwrite one another" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="12084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:03:08.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember Jon Skeet saying at one point that he used to do a lot of .NET stuff, but he now works for Google doing Java. As he gets more used to Java due to using it at work, I would expect him to answer more Java questions and less .NET questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T13:03:08.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12067" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:09:13.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: RESOLVED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a feature in Arora to disable &quot;tracking cookies&quot; which is turned on by default.&#xA;Generally this is a &quot;Good Thing [TM]&quot;, but in the OpenID world it is actually desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To login with Arora you need to go into your preferences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Menu &amp;gt; Edit &amp;gt; Preferences...&#xA;&#xA;Privacy (Tab) &amp;gt; Cookies &amp;gt; Uncheck &quot;Filter Tracking Cookies&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I too can not login via Arora... I get authenticated using (MyOpenID) and redirected to StackOverflow but I still appear as a guest user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: it works fine in Safari 4, and Chrome 2 on the same PC)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I check out the headers coming back to StackOverflow from my OpenID provider (MyOpenID) I see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Using IE8 and Arora 0.8)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Identical&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;GET: /users/authenticate/?token=...&#xA;Connection: Keep-Alive&#xA;Host: stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Different&lt;/strong&gt; (IE = Internet Explorer, AR = Arora)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;IE: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate&#xA;AR: Accept-Encoding: gzip&#xA;&#xA;IE: Accept-Language: en-us&#xA;AR: {not sent}&#xA;&#xA;IE: Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/x-silverlight, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, */*&#xA;AR: Accept: application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;IE: Cookie:&#xA;            ASP.NET_SessionId=...&#xA;            _qca=...&#xA;            _qcb=...&#xA;            _utma=...&#xA;            _utmb=...&#xA;            _utmc=...&#xA;            _utmz=...&#xA;            openid_provider=myopenid&#xA;AR: Cookie:&#xA;            ASP.NET_SessionId=...&#xA;            _qca=...&#xA;            _qcb=...&#xA;            openid_provider=myopenid&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lack of the _utm(x) cookies makes me wonder... I checked in Firefox too and Firefox is getting the 4 _utm(a|b|c|z) cookies as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an issue filed on the Arora bug tracking site (from July 2nd, 2009) that indicates issues logging into StackOverflow. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/arora/issues/detail?id=507&amp;amp;can=1&amp;amp;q=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arora Issue 507&lt;/a&gt;)... I'm &quot;guessing&quot; that the issue might be with Arora vs. StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastEditorUserId="6144" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T13:12:44.240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:12:44.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12083" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:13:46.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Behaviour in &lt;strong&gt;Firefox&lt;/strong&gt; (3.5.1) and &lt;strong&gt;Chrome&lt;/strong&gt; (2.0.172.37)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All combinations of opening the dialogs show correct dialog windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both browsers you can repeatedly open the two dialogs in any order. Whenever the flag dialog is visible and closed first, the vote dialog gets cancelled as well. When the vore dialog is cancelled first, the flag dialog stays open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T13:13:46.257" />
  <row Id="12087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12083" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:13:47.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One-and-a-halved: On Chrome 2.0, WinXP, it overwrites it, but the flag dialog is white, so the flagging is legible. Hitting cancel on the flag window nukes them both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T13:13:47.893" />
  <row Id="12088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:28:50.513" Score="3" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this today about the logos between the 4 sites.  They all vary in size.  Server Fault's logo is 250x48, Super User's logo is 250x60, and the logos for Stack Overflow and Meta are 250x61.  I understand attempting to maximize efficiency, and the sheer number of times you serve the logo is pretty huge, but if the dimensions of the CSS are the same between the sites, why not try to make the logos the same dimensions as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that really needs to be done is pad Server Fault's logo 13 pixels at the top, and 1 pixel at the top of Super User's logo.  I suspect that the size difference would be almost unnoticeable increasing Super User's logo size, and only somewhat noticeable by increasing Server Fault's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is this:  Is there any real reason not to make the logos between the sites all a uniform size?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100583" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T13:14:37.373" Title="Uniformity of Logos Between Sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;logo&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12091" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:36:31.407" Score="-1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this isn't too controversial, but issue that might occur with community wiki posts is that newer users with a low reputation might not want to answer the questions since they don't get any credit for them. As such, I would like to propose that a nominal amount of reputation be given for community wiki answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I am thinking something along the lines of the following only having the first up or down vote count and only one answer would count. Consider the following examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User A posts an answer that goes to community wiki, they get twenty up votes on the answer, net reputation gained is 10 points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User B posts and answer that gets two up votes and one down vote, net reputation gained is 8 points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User C posts an answer that gets five votes then goes back and posts a second answer that gets 15 votes, net reputation gained is 10 points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My justification for this suggestion is that I think it is in the spirit of the reputation system in that it shows how well you are trusted, likewise, it also encourages people to participate more even when their reputation is low. Additionally, I don't feel that it breaks the overall point of community wiki as only the first up and down vote counts towards the reputation. Thus, on &quot;subjective&quot; or &quot;fun&quot; questions with 100's of up votes to questions, the overall reputation impact is nominal. In short, enough that a newer user is encouraged to post, but not enough to propel someone into high reputation from a single post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:02:19.560" Title="Nominal reputuation for community wiki up / down votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="12090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12088" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:36:35.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the bigger question is: Is there any real reason TO make the logos a uniform size? Are there instances where the logos are messing up the layout of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, I do not see an issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T13:36:35.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12089" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:44:47.810" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nine times out of ten Community Wiki posts are made to make a post which otherwise generally would get immediately closed (and/or voted down to oblivion) and isn't of any real sensible value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attaching a rep reward to them (no matter how insignificant) is just adding a potential incentive for people to keep doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T13:51:20.563" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T13:51:20.563" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="12092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12096" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:56:39.650" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;When clicking on a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.aspx&quot;&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;.aspx&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the site produces a 'Page Not Found' error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T06:09:12.530" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T06:09:12.530" Title="Questions tagged '.aspx' produce Error" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49261" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:56:47.263" Score="10" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we get one of those &quot;&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; characters left&quot; statuses when editing &quot;About Me&quot; in our user profile?  This would be similar to the status message you put under comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because I hit the character limit, but didn't know that there was one, so my profile got truncated after submission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T14:04:52.500" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T14:05:39.270" Title="Could we get &quot;n characters left&quot; status when editing &quot;About Me&quot; in our profile?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12092" CreationDate="2009-08-04T13:59:35.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reproduced in Google Chrome (3.0.196.2). Clicking the &lt;kbd&gt;.aspx&lt;/kbd&gt; tag results in a &lt;code&gt;Page Not Found&lt;/code&gt; error as described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T13:59:35.587" />
  <row Id="12095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12089" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:02:19.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the overall reputation impact is nominal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly.  It's so easy to come by 10 rep that I fail to see how it is an encouragement to answer CW questions.  While I don't specifically disagree with your proposal, it seems like tinkering for the sake of tinkering.  I don't perceive any real benefit from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, the fact that you want to apply the first downvote means that unpopular answers become slightly more discouraged, &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; from new users who can't afford to lose rep the way I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:02:19.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12092" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:05:52.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure this isn't a browswer issue. Looks like the tag (and probably some other special cases) may have to be encoded differently to keep ASP.NET from freaking out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:05:52.177" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12093" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:08:24.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stop talking about yourself so much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:08:24.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12092" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:18:49.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also note this &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; happens with ASP.NET related-extensions (e.g. &lt;code&gt;.aspx&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.config&lt;/code&gt;). As in, the &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; tag and nonexistent &lt;code&gt;.foo&lt;/code&gt; tag work properly (fixed as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2629/properly-escape-tags-in-search&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; of mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it's exactly as @TheTXI suggests - ASP.NET thinks it's supposed to be a real page name and barfs. In fact, the &lt;code&gt;.config&lt;/code&gt; one just brings up a blank page, not even a 404.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special treatment for the URLs &lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.aspx&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.config&lt;/code&gt; might fix it, as well as possibly just not allowing a period in tags. (&lt;code&gt;.NET&lt;/code&gt; can become &lt;code&gt;dot-net&lt;/code&gt; or something?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastEditorUserId="44853" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T14:58:12.777" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:58:12.777" />
  <row Id="12102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12093" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:20:56.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess your idea would be nice to have since there is a limit.  But, it is just a little something about yourself, not a resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:20:56.740" />
  <row Id="12110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12088" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:52:58.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are all different sites.  I say let Jeff do what he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:52:58.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12112" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:54:43.110" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;User Voice provided a mechanism wherein suggestions that the dev team was discussing were marked as &quot;under review.&quot; Would a similar Administrator Tag (the ones in red) be of use as a means of indicating that suggestions here on meta hadn't been lost in the flood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T15:45:59.623" Title="Add Under Review Administrator Tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="12112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12111" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:56:18.303" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, we already have this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-review&quot;&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;status-review&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T14:56:18.303" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12111" CreationDate="2009-08-04T14:56:35.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That tag already exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-review&quot;&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;status-review&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T15:45:59.623" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T15:45:59.623" />
  <row Id="12114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12092" CreationDate="2009-08-04T15:10:29.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it is attempting to process the actual tag as a page. Any way the moderators can simply remove the . from the tag? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T15:10:29.243" />
  <row Id="12115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T15:24:43.113" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot give comments on SO but my rep is over 1000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Thank you guys: I thought I am going insane seeing this problem :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't see a link to make comments at all. Page seems to be fully loaded. I use Firefox 3.5. For example in this post I do not see anything that allows me to make a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: One more note. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1225505/retaining-an-object-created-in-an-nsthread&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post I am able to click on &lt;strong&gt;add / show 3 more comments&lt;/strong&gt; in answer from Tom Dalling and comment box just appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT3: In pure HTML link for inserting comments are in body. So it's JS error. Is there a way to get not minified version of JS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT4: Now I am in work. In Firefox 3.5.2 even with 'CTRL-F5` I still have &lt;strong&gt;no comment&lt;/strong&gt; link available. If I use IE from same machine comments links are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT5: I just home on Firefox 3.5 on Mac. And I have comments link. What is wrong with mu PC in work ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131400" LastEditorUserId="131400" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T20:30:35.980" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T20:30:35.980" Title="Commenting bug?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9652" CreationDate="2009-08-04T15:25:52.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great idea actually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it should not be limited to comments only but extended to question/answers too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when answering or expanding the question, I want to give credit to someone for a partial answer or saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscar-reyes&quot;&gt;@Oscar Reyes&lt;/a&gt; said, you could delete the filesystem using AJAX if etc. etc....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If is not technically feasible to grab someones name ( due to names may be duplicated ) Then as suggestion using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscar-reyes&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be parsed into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscar-reyes&quot;&gt;@Oscar Reyes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the system, because using @[#20654] is a bit awkward. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use the bracket style user will have to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on user link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grab the mouse and select exactly only the user number ( and selecting in the address bar is not always the easiest thing in the world )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; the user number ( or memorizing it ) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type @[&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;V&lt;/kbd&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While using the former would simplify the process &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on user link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt;  the whole URL ( easier than select just a part ) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type&amp;lt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;V&lt;/kbd&gt;&gt; ( less wrist force ) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it may sound ridiculous this tiny bits of functionality makes life easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;p.s. I delete my previous question because it was a dup of this indeed&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T15:25:52.880" />
  <row Id="12117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12115" CreationDate="2009-08-04T15:29:15.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the page loaded all the way? I notice I cannot make any comments or answers until all components of the page have loaded. It is normaly the ads taking a bit to load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T17:37:21.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T17:37:21.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12002" CreationDate="2009-08-04T15:31:40.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that it might be related to the concern brought up by this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10713/can-we-have-search-default-to-and-instead-of-or&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10713/can-we-have-search-default-to-and-instead-of-or&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure how the suggested/related questions algorithms work, but I am sure they perform a search simliar to the main search with some extra conditions. I could be and probaly are wrong though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T15:37:05.850" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T15:37:05.850" />
  <row Id="12119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T15:50:18.587" Score="35" ViewCount="996" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269545/jquery-datepicker-years-shown&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is a great example of people coming from Google and using answers as comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the reputation threshold is there to prevent spam, but Answers are just as prone to spam as comments and you can post them at reputation 1. Furthermore there are already flags in place as a preventive measure for both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially &lt;strong&gt;the reputation threshold of comments is forcing people to use the site in ways the designers &lt;em&gt;did not&lt;/em&gt; intend.&lt;/strong&gt; Removal of the reputation cap would also make the site more new user friendly as newbies that use the site in this manner are commonly given a unfriendly welcome in the form of downvotes from people who forget you need 50 rep to post comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T01:24:44.850" LastActivityDate="2011-06-12T19:26:32.547" Title="Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="12122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:00:06.227" Score="-3" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that programmers have special requirements so I don't feel this is an unsuitable question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1217306/good-backup-software-for-programmers/1217332#1217332&quot;&gt;Good backup software for programmers? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133015" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T16:10:14.863" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T22:09:33.377" Title="Why was my non-programming question on StackOverflow closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="12123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34273" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:00:29.097" Score="2" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Test this in a new question/answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![*google!*][1]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://www.google.com.ar/images/nav_logo6.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will see that it fails because it will parse the * as italics. It should be ignored within links and images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying it now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;![&lt;em&gt;google!&lt;/em&gt;][1]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  [1]: http://www.google.com.ar/images/nav_logo6.png&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T02:06:51.143" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T02:09:31.403" Title="Bug with images and markdown" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="12124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12122" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:02:07.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not a programming question. Therefore it does not belong on SO.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try and read the FAQ before posting, and especially before going on a foolish tirade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only was the question not appropriate for the site you posted it on, it was a horrible question in general in need of serious editing. And you are complaining that your question was closed, when it was, in fact, moved to a site where it is much more appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:02:07.110" />
  <row Id="12125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12122" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:02:27.000" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding &quot;for programmers&quot; to it doesn't make it programming related. There are plenty of good backup questions already asked on SuperUser. Despite what you may believe, programmers and normal people aren't all that different when it comes to backing up files on a system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to talk about source control systems, that is more StackOverflow, but basic backup related questions have been and will continue to be migrated to SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:02:27.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12122" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:03:09.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the community says so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't actually about programming. Backup is backup is backup. It's been asked several times in SF and SU (unless you are looking for CVS info).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:03:09.840" />
  <row Id="12127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12122" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:04:11.037" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is because you pretty much asked for &quot;What backup programs are available?&quot; , which is a superuser type question. There is no specific programmer backup software.  Backup is backing up your files and every feature you requested in part of most standard backup solutions.  That comment about ask question and insert &quot;for programmers&quot; was spot on for this question and many moved/closed/dup questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was moved for good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not take things personal when questions get moved.  They are helping organize questions and helps you get the answers you want quicker because they are in the correct place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T16:12:19.167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:12:19.167" />
  <row Id="12128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12123" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:07:08.270" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just escape the first star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;![\*google!*][1]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://www.google.com.ar/images/nav_logo6.png&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com.ar/images/nav%5Flogo6.png&quot; alt=&quot;*google!*&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:07:08.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:08:30.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have enough people who argue against clear community decisions in the comments, obviously without reading the FAQ. We do not need to lower the bar. If anything, we should raise it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who is stupid enough to post an answer that should be a comment should be treated in an unfriendly manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget this is also one of the main ways we fight spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T16:14:39.020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:14:39.020" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55256" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:18:21.400" Score="5" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have SuperUser, the &quot;not programming related&quot; reason is no longer a valid reason to close a question - questions that are not programming related but are computer related should be moved instead. But because the option remains, people seem to feel justified in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1228229/what-time-does-take-before-google-sets-you-in-the-list-not-programming-closed&quot;&gt;closing questions without moving them&lt;/a&gt; anyway sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I suggest changing &quot;not programming related&quot; to &quot;not computer related&quot; - this will help reinforce the fact that questions not related to programming, but which are computer related, do have somewhere to go now. Alternately, &quot;not programming related&quot; should bring up a confirmation to suggest moving to superuser, serverfault, or meta if the question is appropriate for one of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: If questions &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; deserve to be migrated, they should be closed, sure - but not with &quot;not programming related&quot;. Just thing: how do we close bad questions that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; programming related? Use one of the other close reasons available, or edit the question to be better. And &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, if you use another close reason, the questioner might get a better idea of why their question was bad. If you just say &quot;not programming related&quot;, they might never find out where their question should go, and might never know why their question was unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, from a philosophical perspective, anything computer related is theoretically on-topic somewhere in the SO family. Whether it's a good question is completely orthogonal to this - but since it's on topic, closing it for 'off topic' is false. Think: If the question was submitted to SU in the first place would you close it? If so, use &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastEditorUserId="36723" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T16:30:00.860" LastActivityDate="2010-06-28T18:58:43.417" Title="Change 'not programming related' to 'not computer related'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="12131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12130" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:19:46.997" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In such a case, people should just use the &quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot; close reason. There's no reason to change the &quot;not programming related&quot; close reason. Each one serves a function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll give two examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1228229/what-time-does-take-before-google-sets-you-in-the-list-not-programming&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is not programming-related, but should be moved to SuperUser, so the &quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot; close reason should have been used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1219339/how-do-i-handle-a-developer-who-was-previously-amazing-but-now-lackluster&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is not programming-related, in my opinion. Some could make the argument that it is somehow programming or computer related, since it is dealing with &lt;em&gt;programmers&lt;/em&gt;, but really it doesn't address &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;. Sure, you could use other close reasons (like subjective and argumentative), but NPR is most appropriate and sends the most direct message about why the question doesn't really fit on SO. The question also doesn't really fit anywhere else on SF or SU either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; An alternative suggestion is to adjust the NPR close reason to be specific for each site, indicating that it specifically doesn't belong on that site (and is not worthy of migration either):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;not programming related&quot; on SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;not server related&quot; on SF&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;not computer related&quot; on SU&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;not SO related&quot; on MSO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, this would be more informative, since it indicates &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; why a question was closed for that particular site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T18:20:34.473" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:20:34.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12130" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:21:13.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this. I've seen several questions recently closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;, when they should have been migrated to SU or SF. I think that we may have some users who are not up to date on the close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:21:13.483" />
  <row Id="12172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12115" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:21:37.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turn noscript off, and make sure you do a complete reload of the page (&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;F5&lt;/kbd&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:21:37.710" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12130" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:22:49.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the users feel it is best moved, it will most likely get moved to another place (if it is better suited there). Otherwise some things just deserve to die. If we did what you said, most people would instinctively choose SuperUser (&quot;Hey, it's computer related HURR!&quot;) and we can all watch SuperUser become the trash can that a lot of people predicted at the start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to see that happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:22:49.597" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:26:31.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this should be done, because spammer can be banned, and eitherway, newcommers are goning to abuse the answer system. The faster they learn to use comments, the faster they'll stop spamming the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:26:31.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:34:25.767" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, please... It takes 50 rep to leave comments &lt;em&gt;on other people's questions&lt;/em&gt;. You can leave comments on your own questions right off the bat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; your own question to add qualifying information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should be enough. Users that can't figure that out are having trouble for other reasons...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, the question you linked to has comments left by users who are posting &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269545/jquery-datepicker-years-shown/617410#617410&quot;&gt;unnecessary &quot;thank you&quot; messages&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269545/jquery-datepicker-years-shown/366218#366218&quot;&gt;asking irrelevant questions&lt;/a&gt;. They could &lt;em&gt;and should&lt;/em&gt; be posting their own questions rather than trying to piggy-back on an existing one. Again, problems more severe than simply being unable to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify my stance on this: &lt;em&gt;comments are bordering on useless&lt;/em&gt; compared to questions or answers. There's no revision history, no direct links, offer no contribution to your reputation, and they can and do disappear without leaving a trace... Comments are the post-it notes of SO: useful for quick and dirty little exchanges, but pointless long-term. If you have something to ask or to contribute, &lt;strong&gt;especially as a new user&lt;/strong&gt;, comments should be your &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt; choice. And, whaddaya know, the system encourages this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T17:36:35.580" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T17:36:35.580" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:36:21.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bump for great justice.&lt;/strong&gt; It's unrewarding to get nothing for your answers. 400 rep limit seems fine, and would stop the insane people that need to step away from the keyboard. But when I post a few good answers, it becomes lame to not get anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like others, I'm not inclined to help as much if I don't get anything out of it. People that earn that much rep deserve it, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider only capping certain answers or raising the limit, again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:36:21.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-04T16:36:21.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:38:14.277" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a new user I've come across questions where I would have liked to comment, but are unable. I feel that an answer should indeed be an answer, not just a comment about an already given answer or a helpful hint, and because of this I've refrained from contributing anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that spam could easily become a problem if everybody can post comments, but how about lowering it to 15. With my current rep of 1, 50 sounds like science-fiction to me :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133012" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:38:14.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12184" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:42:31.960" Score="7" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that this question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1228173/c-newbie-listinterface-question&quot;&gt;C# newbie List question&lt;/a&gt; was a duplicate (sorry, as a noob meta user I can only post one link, please follow my comment on that question), but other folks don't seem to agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If two questions are phrased differently, but describe the same underlying problem (and therefore have the same answers) are they not same question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, from a puzzled Binary Worrier :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3000/at-what-point-does-a-question-become-a-duplicate&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3000/at-what-point-does-a-question-become-a-duplicate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/230/duplicate-question-etiquette-to-delete-or-not-to-delete&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/230/duplicate-question-etiquette-to-delete-or-not-to-delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9686/what-is-the-most-rampant-duplicate-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9686/what-is-the-most-rampant-duplicate-on-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9050/how-do-we-deal-with-octuplicate-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9050/how-do-we-deal-with-octuplicate-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18797" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T08:14:30.573" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T08:55:49.117" Title="When is a duplicate question not a duplicate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="12183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:44:57.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they're phrased very differently, I'd leave them both open. It casts the net wider. Obviously two people seeking the same answer asked two very differently-phrased questions. If you kill one of the questions, you effectively prevent 50% of the potential users from getting their answer in the future simply because they didn't ask the question the way the other 50% of users did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In instances like this, I will cross-reference each question as an answer, or a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:44:57.260" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:47:04.773" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rule of thumb: &lt;strong&gt;If you ask a question similar to another question and it is likely to get the exact same answer, you have yourself a duplicate question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, take the opposite of that. If the question is similar and it is likely to NOT get the exact same answer, you likely do not have a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:47:04.773" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2009-08-04T16:53:58.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A duplicate is not a duplicate when they are not seeking or asking the exact same thing as something else that already exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that similar will always be a duplicate, but it can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it best for authors to highlight similarities between their issue and others, but take it a step further by explaining exactly what they need.  This adds distinction between posts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T16:53:58.457" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-08-04T17:36:29.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the view counts are too low and the badges are too high. I suggest removing the gold level and making it 1000 views for bronze and 3000 for silver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't really think this is a good badge idea anyway. Badges are awarded for useful contributions, but how do viewcounts on your profile contribute to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T17:36:29.400" />
  <row Id="12193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12194" CreationDate="2009-08-04T17:53:16.373" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The many are smarter than the few and collective wisdom can shape economies, societies, and nations.&quot;  J. Surowiecki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this Stackoverflow format be used in other areas and topics?  Be it anything from engineering, to cooking,  to travelling?  I know there is Wikipedia but perhaps this stackoverflow format can take it all that much further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131460" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T17:54:29.163" Title="Should this Stackoverflow format be used for other topics?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="12194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12193" CreationDate="2009-08-04T17:54:29.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is the intent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;, to allow you to transport the engine to whatever topics you would like. Additionally, to this point Jeff &amp;amp; co. have expanded to 2 additional topics, plus this meta discussion site; so it's not outside the realm of possibilities that they could choose more topics to serve themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T17:54:29.163" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:04:20.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one related retag request, &lt;code&gt;library&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;libraries&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12190/please-merge-the-libraries-and-library-tags&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12190/please-merge-the-libraries-and-library-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please weigh in with your opinion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:04:20.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-04T18:04:20.687" />
  <row Id="12197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:07:17.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1228173/c-newbie-listinterface-question&quot;&gt;C# newbie &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;Interface&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; question&lt;/a&gt; is a duplicate, but not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/833447/why-is-this-cast-not-possible&quot;&gt;Why is this cast not possible?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are both &quot;why doesn't variance work the way I'd like it to work in C#&quot; duplicates. However, &quot;newbie&quot; is so much simpler that, if it were not a duplicate of many others, it would deserve to stand on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem will be finding the other duplicates. The following are from the first page of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=contravariance+interface+c%23+list+generic&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=contravariance+interface+c%23+list+generic&lt;/a&gt;. There are ten pages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6557/in-c-why-cant-a-liststring-object-be-stored-in-a-listobject-variable&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6557/in-c-why-cant-a-liststring-object-be-stored-in-a-listobject-variable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1169215/why-cant-listparent-listchild&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1169215/why-cant-listparent-listchild&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885893/how-to-make-a-generic-class-with-inheritance&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885893/how-to-make-a-generic-class-with-inheritance&lt;/a&gt; (EL)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1078423/c-is-variance-covariance-contravariance-another-word-for-polymorphism&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1078423/c-is-variance-covariance-contravariance-another-word-for-polymorphism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/730401/upcasting-and-generic-lists&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/730401/upcasting-and-generic-lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I chose &quot;contravariance&quot; in the above search because I thought there would be fewer occurrences of that word than of &quot;covariance&quot;. There were ten pages of each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T18:16:34.517" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:16:34.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:21:38.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I proposed this exact idea weeks ago &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/3729#3729&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;  My view estimates were much higher, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:21:38.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:45:32.773" Score="-1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's the best way to do &quot;X&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The preview/editing engine in SO warns you that this is a subjective question and is likely to be closed. Which makes sense. My guess is that it sees the word &quot;best&quot; in there and assumes it's subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd argue that a question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best practices on doing &quot;X&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is not subjective in instances where it's been established what the Best practices are on something and the question is asking what those are (and the question will act as a reference for others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And these questions tend to not get closed so I'd say improve the parsing (assuming I'm right about it) to warn if it sees &quot;best&quot; but not if it sees &quot;best practices&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; ok, so this question was unpopular. That's fine. But it occured to me that my original point was lost so I'm going to add this and drop the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has a tag called &quot;best-practices&quot;. And yet, if you ask a question with the word &quot;best&quot; in it, you get this message which, while it doesn't necessarily mean your question will be closed, is potentially confusing to users since you're fine with asking about best practices but are getting on to them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was my point. Not whether or not you should be asking those questions, but rather that it might confuse or annoy some users that you're fine with them asking best practices questions to the point of having a tag for it, but are going to nag them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2577" LastEditorUserId="2577" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T15:27:56.057" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:34:25.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-02T15:27:56.057" Title="Please don't warn about subjectivity when asking about best practices" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="12200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:46:13.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree with devinb. Jeff has stated several times that badges are really just a way of encouraging desired behaviour. You do not however have control over who views your profile, and there is no way of finding out &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; someone viewed your profile. The reasons could be because you give very helpful answers, you tell me people contact you with the info in your profile, or because you're a total asshole. Only one of the above is a desired behaviour (giving helpful answers) but this is already rewarded in a &lt;strong&gt;ton&lt;/strong&gt; of other ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of how the system is flawed, consider MSO. Rich B has the 5th most views but &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; people complained about his behaviour (although personally I have no issues with what he does) should this be rewarded? Also it seems like I have several more profile views then other users around the same rep level as me, but I don't feel like I've been more helpful than any of them so I have no idea why this is the case. This just leads me to believe that view count is a trivial statistic; it serves as a good metric to see how many people are &lt;em&gt;interested&lt;/em&gt; in you, but doesn't really quantify any meaningful information.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:46:13.520" />
  <row Id="12201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:48:07.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best practices are completely subjective and it should be warned. Something is a best practice because it is the method preferred by the majority, but it is in no way &lt;em&gt;the most correct&lt;/em&gt; method for the general case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also adding complexity to the warning system is flawed in its own sense. It is a &lt;em&gt;warning&lt;/em&gt; system, as it still lets you continue with your actions. You being human and all should be able to tell if your question is really subjective, it just gives you a heads up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:48:07.323" />
  <row Id="12202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:48:17.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because it suggests that it might be subjective doesn't mean that you have to follow through with what it says. If you are more than sure that it is an alright question, post it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Francesca is not perfect, although she tries her best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:48:17.867" />
  <row Id="12203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:49:23.437" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you understand 'subjective'. Best practices are almost always subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:49:23.437" />
  <row Id="12204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:50:05.680" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that best practices are subjective, and therefore a warning is justified.  SO doesnt prohibit you from asking the question, but the warning will most likely prompt you to reread your question before posting, which is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:50:05.680" />
  <row Id="12205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2009-08-04T18:51:46.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, I'd argue that a question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Best practices on doing &quot;X&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is not really subjective since in some cases it's been established what the Best practices are on something and the question is asking what those are (and the question will act as a reference for others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can argue that, but you're still wrong. If there's &lt;em&gt;really and truly&lt;/em&gt; a single, objective, agreed-upon Best Way... Then you'll get that in an answer to any question on doing &quot;X&quot;. If not, you've just set yourself up for a bunch of subjective, possibly-argumentative responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask, &lt;em&gt;&quot;How should I do &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt;?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Or ask, &lt;em&gt;&quot;How might &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; be done?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;And leave it at that.&lt;/strong&gt; Let the voting system on SO and your own good judgment find the Best Practice for you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T18:51:46.567" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:11:03.720" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are any trends at all, they're certainly not conscious on my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see the graphs as a proportion of all questions with those tags over the same time period, to account for (say) a new set of Java programmers who might deluge the site with questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of my daily activities, I spend 80% of my time doing Java (working on Google Sync over the ActiveSync protocol, mostly working on calendar) and 20% doing C# stuff (currently porting the Wave Robot API to .NET). However, I'm also spending time revising my C# book for its second edition, so I probably spend about as much time thinking in each language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, one final though: &lt;strong&gt;you have too much time on your hands&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:11:03.720" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="12208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:14:46.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there certain &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be questions asked that contain &lt;code&gt;best&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;best practices&lt;/code&gt; that are not subjective, the majority are, so the choice was made to provide a warning to the user. That said, it is just a warning, and if you believe your question is not subjective, you're free to ask it, just don't say you haven't been warned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:14:46.007" />
  <row Id="12209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:15:06.940" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've managed to break the addiction recently, but back in November I gained 200 reputation points on my wedding day, and on each day of my week-long honeymoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:15:06.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-04T19:15:06.940" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12212" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:21:09.517" Score="-7" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has there been any discussion about denoting the experts of certain topics, for example MVPs or Microsoft employees in the small profile icon? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way users can quickly distinguish between random internet morons like myself, and the ones accredited with their chosen speciality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:38:57.977" Title="Some way of denoting MVP (or similar in other languages) in a profile badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="12211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:23:04.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put the information in your profile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I have seen, most people are pretty forthcoming about their information and I haven't seen much in the way of posers and fakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:23:04.553" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:23:17.610" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't these users simply put this in their profile page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These things shouldn't make a user absolutely trusted by anyone anyway. Voting should be done based on the quality of the post, not the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:23:17.610" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:24:01.820" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MVPs are awarded by Microsoft for those that help spread the word to the community more than it is to experts. The more you know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, this isn't a Microsoft (or any other company's) site, and the only currency on here is reputation. We vote up answers so that you can quickly distinguish between random morons and decent responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:24:01.820" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="12214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:24:22.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation and badges are, roughly speaking, SO's way of marking people as possible experts. Certainly you can't put too much weight into someone's reputation without doing a little research into how they achieved their rep. But regardless, I cannot see SO doing anything to provide &quot;external&quot; approval of a person. If you want to make your credentials known, you can put them in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:24:22.147" />
  <row Id="12215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5612" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:35:01.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been intermittent issues with Yahoo OpenIDs in the past but nothing systemic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:35:01.270" />
  <row Id="12216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:47:03.943" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps he's been into &lt;em&gt;&quot;the room&quot;&lt;/em&gt; at Google and been re-conditioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.zuguide.com/image/A-Clockwork-Orange.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Clockwork orange&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T11:14:08.543" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T11:14:08.543" />
  <row Id="12217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T19:51:03.653" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Please, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt;, no!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone gives a clear answer, supports it with references to authoritative sources, provides easy-to-follow examples, and patiently answers follow-up questions... Then that's enough, &lt;em&gt;even if it's the only answer they've ever provided on the site, and googling their name turns up nothing but a lone blog post from 2001... about cats.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone gives a brief, unclear answer, with no supporting references, missing or unhelpful examples, and steadfastly ignores follow-up questions... Then it's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; enough, &lt;em&gt;even if they have a high reputation number on SO, are heavily awarded by various industry organizations, have written several books on the topic, and currently hold the top spot on Google for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=the+best+programmer+ever&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the best programmer ever&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge people by their answers. Or better yet, &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt;. Just judge the answers, ignore the people. SO is no place to be resting on your laurels... We're here to answer questions, not fawn over celebrities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T19:51:03.653" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T20:04:51.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no interest in being identified as an MVP on this site, anywhere except in my profile. That's more than enough. I primarily put that information there (translated to acceptable HTML from a much prettier signature I use), so that, when needed, I can say, &quot;go look at my profile and see if you see any reason I might be right about this&quot;. I think this has happened once in the five months I've been here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, my reputation here, especially as it distributes over tags, is a better indicator of the likely quality of my answers than my MVP-hood. I'm an MVP in the Connected Systems area (roughly, Web Services, etc). But my experience ranges over ASP.NET, SQL Server, SSIS, multi-threading issues, etc. If you only looked at my MVP award, you might wonder what I'd have to say about SSIS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:04:51.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-04T20:15:51.670" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand on what Jon said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;you have WAY too much time on your hands&lt;/h2&gt;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain myself a bit on this one....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is your question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is Jon Skeet slowly switching his attention from .net to Java?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The data actually says the following:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Between the months of May and July of 2009, Jon answered roughly 2% more Java questions in July than May and about 5% less .NET questions over the same period.  However, it should be noted that C# is a .NET programming language and Jon exhibited roughly a 6% increase on that topic over the same period.  This equates to roughly a 1% difference which is well under the standard month over month variance in percentages that Jon has displayed.  Because the increase is well within the margin of error, we cannot say &lt;strong&gt;HE IS&lt;/strong&gt; and we cannot say &lt;strong&gt;HE IS NOT&lt;/strong&gt;, but we can say &lt;strong&gt;THE DATA DOES NOT PROVE ANYTHING&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T21:25:55.710" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:25:55.710" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69688" CreationDate="2009-08-04T20:15:52.917" Score="20" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see the approximate number of matches found for a search from the &quot;Search&quot; box. This would be useful to determine the effect of your search terms - did they, or did they not, narrow down the search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be especially useful now that we have the new search operators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T18:15:55.163" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T18:21:25.087" Title="Please Display Match Count after Search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12222" CreationDate="2009-08-04T20:27:48.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get an approximate count as there's the page count and number of posts per page at the foot of every page of search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you do have to scroll down to see it - so having the numbers at the top of the page would be more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:27:48.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12224" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-08T17:29:00.773" Score="72" ViewCount="1836" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note: I'm aware of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231847&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but it's slightly different, and in my view is talking about the Stack Overflow folks coming up with an &lt;code&gt;API&lt;/code&gt; themselves. I'm talking about a community-developed one, hopefully with &lt;em&gt;approval&lt;/em&gt; from the Powers that Be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I'm aware of three ways of accessing Stack Overflow programmatically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Screenscraping &lt;code&gt;HTML&lt;/code&gt; (painful and fragile)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;RSS&lt;/code&gt; (doesn't provide very much information)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;JSON&lt;/code&gt; returned by a &lt;code&gt;URL&lt;/code&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/USERID/FROM-MS/TO-MS&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/USERID/FROM-MS/TO-MS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would personally be interested in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All aspects of user activity. What have I done, when, and what were the results? What reputation did I gain when? Where was I voted down? What proportion of my answers have been accepted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Activity on specific questions and answers - in particular any that I've contributed to (including asking a question, adding an answer, making a comment, or even just voting)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Potentially posting in an automated fashion. I can imagine a thick client Stack Overflow application, with offline access, simple lookup of known API resources (e.g. MSDN and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javadoc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Javadoc&lt;/a&gt;) and a bunch of other things people might find useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;JSON&lt;/code&gt; feed is incredibly easy to use - but the others are more of a pain. I suspect if we can put together good use cases for certain aspects of data, we'd have more of a chance of getting a little bit of Stack Overflow developer time to enable certain &lt;code&gt;URL&lt;/code&gt;s for &lt;code&gt;JSON&lt;/code&gt; data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested in developing this personally, in &lt;code&gt;C#&lt;/code&gt;. If there's enough interest it could become multi-language, of course - and obviously it would be an open source project. There are various tools already out there - it would be good to draw the experience together and come up with an API for people to use in interesting ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what are the other things you'd want an API to be able to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T12:13:34.853" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T12:16:26.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-08T17:29:41.147" Title="What would you want to see in a Stack Overflow API?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="12225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-08T17:34:14.537" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the moment I have scraping the HTML with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/320746/real-time-reputation-tracker&quot;&gt;Reputation Tracker&lt;/a&gt; and it would be better with an API for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing what would be great:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get your reputation count&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get your last reputation variation and a link to the question/answer that has been modified.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get comments after yours own comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something like this :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;user id=&quot;13509&quot; reputation=&quot;15000&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;posts&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;post id=&quot;350266&quot; upvotes=&quot;10&quot; downvotes=&quot;3&quot; type=&quot;answer&quot;&#xA;          accepted=&quot;true&quot; comments=&quot;4&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;questionName&amp;gt;What would you want to see in a StackOverflow API?&amp;lt;/questionName&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;link&amp;gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/350248/what-would-you-want-to-see-in-a-stackoverflow-api#350266&amp;lt;/link&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;votedatetime&amp;gt;2008-12-07 13:01:00&amp;lt;/votedatetime&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/post&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/posts&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;comments&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;comment question=&quot;350266&quot; id=&quot;12345&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;questionName&amp;gt;What would you want to see in a StackOverflow API?&amp;lt;/questionName&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;lastcommentdatetime&amp;gt;2008-12-07 13:05:55&amp;lt;/lastcommentdatetime&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/comment&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/comments&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/user&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I encourage people to edit this post to add information or change the format&lt;/strong&gt; It's just a draft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-08T17:34:14.537" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-08T17:34:46.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like your feature list, it would be really cool if these things were &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;COMET&lt;/a&gt; based. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145039" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-08T17:34:46.160" />
  <row Id="12227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-08T17:38:57.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your first two points are things I'd very much be interested in.  I haven't really considered use #3, that's an interesting suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-08T17:38:57.103" />
  <row Id="12228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-09T16:11:47.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's also possible to fetch the HTML for user badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The users page is doing XMLhttpRequests to update the list of users as you type. You can use it to just get the information for one user at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;curl -F filter=&quot;username_in_lowercase&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/browser-filter&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/browser-filter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;curl -F filter=&quot;sam hasler&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/browser-filter&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/browser-filter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;returns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table style=&quot;width:940px; margin-left:20px; margin-top:-10px;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-info&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-action-time&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-gravatar32&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users/2541/sam-hasler&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5377323bbe24824de512a6a077fc77a3?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; height=32 width=32 /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;user-details&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users/2541/sam-hasler&quot;&amp;gt;Sam Hasler&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;reputation-score&quot; title=&quot;reputation score&quot;&amp;gt;3,289&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span title=&quot;5 silver badge(s)&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;badge2&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#9679;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;badgecount&quot;&amp;gt;5&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span title=&quot;21 bronze badge(s)&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;badge3&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#9679;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;badgecount&quot;&amp;gt;21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;        &#xA;&amp;lt;div style=&quot;float:right; margin-bottom:20px;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;pager&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know your rep and badge count from the command line just use this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;curl -s -F filter=&quot;username in lowercase&quot; http://stackoverflow.com/users/browser-filter | grep reputation-score | sed -e &quot;s/&amp;lt;[^&amp;gt;]*&amp;gt;/ /g;s/&amp;amp;#9679;//g&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently for me this gives the output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      Sam Hasler   3,289     5      21&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T16:11:47.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-09T16:22:28.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about automatically extraction of high rated source code in order of programming languages to have an overview of extremely good work on code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T16:22:28.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-13T00:43:19.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to see an API that exposes the following items in one or more acceptable formats like JSON, XMLRPC, SOAP, and RSS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Query by tag or note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most active questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most voted questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most active users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most accomplished users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Top x questions by tag(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0 answer questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0 vote questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134284" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T12:07:44.420" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T12:07:44.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T00:43:19.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-13T00:50:26.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't this been in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt;?  But some searching &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/15203-add-a-public-api&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;looks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/20394-plan-for-an-api-to-access-stack-overflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like&lt;/a&gt; it will have to be a community project.  However, I am sure they will develop an api.  Digg took a bit of time before it released an api.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27669" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T00:50:26.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2008-12-13T14:17:14.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to see all of my own questions and answers (or those of another user) for a particular tag.  It might be nice to see everything you've ever said about C#, for example, or everything Konrad has said about C++, all in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to see the most active users for a particular tag.  I know &quot;active&quot; doesn't tell us much at this point, since I could easily go in and post bad answers to all 5000+ .net questions, but people don't generally do that.  When looking for information on a topic, it would be nice to see who is active in that topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T14:17:14.937" />
  <row Id="12233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-02T11:00:32.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&lt;/a&gt; to get a lot of questions without needing an API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132476" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-02T11:00:32.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-11T06:03:07.640" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just sent this email to Jeff. I'll let you know how he responds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello Jeff &amp;amp; Team,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometime last night/early morning a change was made to the user profile page that limited the displayed answers to only the 100 highest-ranked. I'm the author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;a service&lt;/a&gt; that enables users to track what caused their reputation to change, and the new changes have broken the way I captured data from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/101293-remove-100-post-limit-or-provide-way-to-view-them-all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movement to remove the 100-answer limitation&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to also view this as an opportunity to push for a Stack Overflow API. It would save bandwidth on both our ends if the information I needed could be obtained in a condensed, easily parse-able format. I've examined the &lt;code&gt;JSON&lt;/code&gt; used to generate the table to the right of the reputation graph and, while it's promising, it's much too limited to replace the lost functionality, in my opinion. For example, it's not possible to get the actual score of a post or track when they are added or deleted. A more generalized API that can hook into a wider array of profile and post data would be greatly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know I speak for many members of the Stack Overflow community when I say that I'm excited at the possibilities for third-party expansion of the functionality and usability of Stack Overflow. However, what we need most at this time is a way to efficiently and reliably access the data needed to power our tools and services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hope I can look forward to working with you and my fellow developers to make Stack Overflow the best place to not only ask and answer questions, but for willing members to use our time and talents to give back and improve what the site has to offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank You.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-11T06:03:07.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-11T06:13:01.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about a view that would show you if somebody has made a comment on one of your answers so that you can respond to any questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-11T06:13:01.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-12T03:09:32.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not directly an API, but I would love to see occasional snapshots of the database made available for research purposes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T03:09:32.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-16T20:42:41.007" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose it's not really fair of me to &lt;a href=&quot;#432439&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;demand an API&lt;/a&gt; without saying what I'd like it to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt; that I wrote and operate currently retrieves and stores the following for the user profile (userid and timestamp also stored):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;badges #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions and answers, the following is retrieved and stored:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post id&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;title of question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accepted status&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I could get my hands on an API that provided the profile info and preceding data for all questions and answers that a user has posted, I could restore the functionality of the reputation tracker in short order. Since all this information was previously available on the profile page, there are no technical challenges in creating a feed for this data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have already started working on the next version of the tracker, the progress of which has been temporarily halted until I can figure out my data source. My goal is to store and track as much information on the profile page as I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User profiles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions # [can be counted from questions]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers # [can be counted from answers]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvotes #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvotes #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags # [can be counted from tags]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;badges # [can be counted from badges]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;profile views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user age (in years)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;account age (in days/weeks/months) [this could be a timestamp in the API]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;account type (registered, unregistered, moderator)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;location&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;about me section&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post id&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post timestamp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvotes #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvotes # (post score computed by upvotes-downvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reputation gain (change in rep, can be found in new JSON API)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accepted status&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;title of question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments (responses)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;status (open/closed/locked/deleted) [answers will only be open or deleted]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wiki status&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions only:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;favorites #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;views #&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers only:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question id&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments (responses):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment id (if it exists)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user id&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;timestamp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;badge id&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;badge name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;badge type (bronze/silver/gold)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;quantity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag quantity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I could get an API that would allow me to retrieve at least some of that information it would be much appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the format of the API, it doesn't matter much to me, but I think that XML is probably a good, platform-neutral way to go. Maybe something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;user id=&quot;1234&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;Jeff Spolsky&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;type&amp;gt;Registered User&amp;lt;/type&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;joined&amp;gt;1234567890&amp;lt;/joined&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;age&amp;gt;42&amp;lt;/age&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;location&amp;gt;El York, USA&amp;lt;/location&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;aboutme&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;![CDATA[&#xA;      &amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;Check out this Google logo:&amp;lt;/h1&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    ]]&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/aboutme&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;reputation&amp;gt;12345&amp;lt;/reputation&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;views&amp;gt;25&amp;lt;/views&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;upvotes&amp;gt;100&amp;lt;/upvotes&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;downvotes&amp;gt;10&amp;lt;/downvotes&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;questions&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;question id=&quot;314159&quot; time=&quot;123476589&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;upvotes&amp;gt;30&amp;lt;/upvotes&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;downvotes&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/downvotes&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;reputation&amp;gt;198&amp;lt;/reputation&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;accepted&amp;gt;true&amp;lt;/accepted&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;closed&amp;gt;false&amp;lt;/closed&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;favorites&amp;gt;15&amp;lt;/favorites&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;answers&amp;gt;10&amp;lt;/answers&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;views&amp;gt;1234&amp;lt;/views&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;status&amp;gt;closed&amp;lt;/closed&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;wiki&amp;gt;false&amp;lt;/wiki&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;tags&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;douglas-adams&amp;lt;/tag&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;deep-thought&amp;lt;/tag&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;not-programming-related&amp;lt;/tag&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;/tags&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;comments&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;comment id=&quot;112358&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;          &amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;22656&amp;lt;/userid&amp;gt;&#xA;          &amp;lt;username&amp;gt;Jon Skeet&amp;lt;/username&amp;gt;&#xA;          &amp;lt;timestamp&amp;gt;123654789&amp;lt;timestamp&amp;gt;&#xA;          &amp;lt;text&amp;gt;Something only Jon Skeet would say&amp;lt;/text&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/comment&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;/comments&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/question&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;!-- ... --&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/questions&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;answers&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;answer id=&quot;271818&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;lp0 on fire!!!&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;score&amp;gt;15&amp;lt;/score&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;accepted&amp;gt;true&amp;lt;/accepted&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;questionid&amp;gt;161803&amp;lt;/questionid&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;quantity&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/quantity&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;comments&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;/comments&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/answer&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;!-- ... --&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/answers&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;badges&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;badge id=&quot;28&quot; quantity=&quot;2&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;type&amp;gt;Gold&amp;lt;/type&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;Famous Question&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;description&amp;gt;Asked a question with 10,000 views&amp;lt;/description&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/badge&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;!-- ... --&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/badges&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;tags&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;tag quantity=&quot;10&quot;&amp;gt;c#&amp;lt;/tag&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;tag quantity=&quot;4&quot;&amp;gt;asp.net&amp;lt;/tag&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/tags&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/user&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've decided to make this post Wiki so that other people can edit it to include stuff I've forgotten or overlooked. The creation of an API should be, in part, the result of community consensus. Let's let the StackOverflow team know what we'd like.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T14:17:50.050" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:17:50.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-16T20:42:41.007" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-17T21:27:19.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/searchQuestions?title=Some+Problem&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... would return matching questions, and the selected answer or 3 highest voted answers for each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" />
  <row Id="12239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-17T21:41:24.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The API should work just like the main site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://api.stackoverflow.com/questions/350248&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then you should get a JSON object that represents all of the data related to that question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same would go for any Stack Overflow URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://api.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vb.net+winforms&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, you could expand the API to expose things that the main site does not, like more detailed searching options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://api.stackoverflow.com/questions?askedOn&amp;lt;=01-01-2009&amp;amp;voteScore&amp;gt;10&#xA;http://api.stackoverflow.com/users?rep&amp;gt;10000&amp;amp;id&amp;lt;=100&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, API wrappers could be written in different languages. There are plenty of JSON and XML libraries for plenty of languages. So, offering either or both as results from the API queries would be fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T12:15:47.067" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T12:15:47.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-17T21:41:24.303" />
  <row Id="12240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-01-20T21:06:56.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Enough metadata about the API that services that depend on it could easily be made to depend on a different Q&amp;amp;A site (such as a private version that lets people within a company discuss sensitive issues or issues that have no meaning in the outside tech world).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advantage would be that when you then build services that depend on the internal version, you can open-source them and the community at large can benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-20T21:06:56.253" />
  <row Id="12241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-02-05T07:03:57.680" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon, your list is very inclusive and would make it possible to extend SO with essentially any functionality you can imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I could do with a far more modest API. In fact, the most important feature to me would be &lt;strong&gt;a way to get a user's rep based on username, email or OpenID&lt;/strong&gt;. For extra credit, they could throw in earned badges too, but that's less important to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why this would be made of so much win:&lt;/strong&gt; A few years back, there was a lot of talk about centralized online systems for reputation management, but nothing really caught on. I see the SO reputation system as a perfect starting point, for the programming/geek community at least, to get the ball rolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine your personal blog or web app having access to each user's SO reputation score. You could allow users with rep &gt;= 50 to use HTML in comments; you could give users with rep &gt;= 1000 automatic moderator access on your forums; you could set a higher priority on bug tickets submitted by high-rep users, etc. etc. Effectively, we could turn 'SO rep' into the defacto standard for 'geek cred' online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would work just like Gravatar; once you register on a site, it automatically checks SO for a corresponding reputation score, and displays it on the site user's profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would have to be a system in place to ensure that these API requests didn't overload the SO server, but I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem, given the people who run this place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164038" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-03-26T13:32:39.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be interested in the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see an user, I would like to be able to to know, when did I comment/up-vote or down-vote this user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the user relationship is something that can add value to stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55562" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-26T13:32:39.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-05-23T02:02:37.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to have my actions on stackoverflow directly integrated into my Facebook wall.  I haven't done any facebook api programming yes so I don't know what that will require on the SO side, but &lt;em&gt;thats&lt;/em&gt; what I want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I find the question interface sub-optimal.  It would actually be nice if I could add stackoverflow as a task repository in eclipse, or access it with an IMAP or NNTP client to view the questions and easily start perusing them starting with the most recently viewed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:48:58.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-23T02:02:37.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-06-14T07:02:19.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two words, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wave.google.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Wave&lt;/a&gt; (make it compatible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130781" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T12:16:26.053" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T12:16:26.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T07:02:19.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2009-08-04T20:54:07.660" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Screenscraping is a nice way and has powerful potentials. If you are a good programmer, its piece of cake. (I can prove it ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course a proper REST and XML response for every page would be more helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T20:54:07.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-04T20:54:07.660" />
  <row Id="12246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T21:08:10.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give a MVP a badges and letting them start with 100 reps may be good if it gets more of them to use the site.  Otherwise let everyone live by their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who will be the first person to get a MVP due to their ansers on StackOverflow?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:08:10.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2009-08-04T21:18:11.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One interesting example today (for C++) was somebody asking how to call a constructor manually and build an object on already allocated space.  There was a bit of discussion on whether it was a duplicate of &quot;what does placement new do?&quot;, since the questions are within easy grammatical transformations of being answers for each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:18:11.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-08-04T21:31:28.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started on this site (and ServerFault) with 100 rep, because I'm active on StackOverflow.  Anybody who has a bit of rep on another site can link accounts and be able to leave comments and even downvote (although it may not take many downvotes to lose that privilege).  The only reason you wouldn't be able to leave comments is because you're a newbie to the whole system.  There's nothing wrong with that, but I'd like to be able to vote on your answers in ways that count for rep, and leave comments on your answers, until you get a bit more experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:31:28.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5612" CreationDate="2009-08-04T21:32:31.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I haven't had a problem.  It may be intermittent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:32:31.453" />
  <row Id="12250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T21:38:49.350" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing a user's profile, you can see what answers they have added to questions as well as which of their answers were accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice, however, to have a way to see if a question has an accepted answer that isn't yours. Perhaps a small icon or change in border that states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has an accepted answer ... but it wasn't yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would help me to know just how many people are being lazy and not accepting answers, as well as how many people have just decided not to listen to my moronic ramblings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130343" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T15:07:41.577" Title="Answers viewed via a user page should show if the question has an accepted answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12210" CreationDate="2009-08-04T21:38:57.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My attitude on forums like these has always been that I'm a guy with an opinion and an ISP.  The quality of my answer depends a whole lot more about what I say than that I have &gt;10K of StackOverflow rep and a C++ badge.  (The rep and badges are for personal gloating when I'm not asking or answering questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if we are going to put rep and badge count next to our answers, we probably want to note relevant tag badges.  We are apparently trying to indicate answers from more trustworthy sources, and I'm a lot more trustworthy answering C++ questions than Visual Basic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:38:57.977" />
  <row Id="12252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-08-04T21:41:36.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just accidently triggered the auto community wiki by editing my answer to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/18099/what-should-i-know-to-select-a-power-supply/&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/18099/what-should-i-know-to-select-a-power-supply/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to point out other good points from other answers even though mine was accepted as the answer. I guess i should have just used comments. And you cannot even rollback.  I guess I know from now on and there is no way to reverse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T21:41:36.473" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T22:04:52.310" Score="-1" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Core-plot is fairly new but I think its a winner so why not add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138354" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T23:35:52.650" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T00:00:01.723" Title="Could we add core-plot to the list of tags here on stackoverflow :)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;cocoa&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12254" CreationDate="2009-08-04T22:06:32.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you get enough rep, you'll be able to add it. Until then, you'll have to ask for someone with enough rep to ask a question and include a &lt;code&gt;core-plot&lt;/code&gt; tag. Sorry :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136226" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T22:08:15.720" />
  <row Id="12256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12254" CreationDate="2009-08-04T22:08:55.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you tag one question with it, it'll get created :-)&#xA;&lt;br&gt;You just have to have some reputation points (500, says the FAQ) before being able to tag, if I remember correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the more it is used, the more other people will use it &lt;em&gt;(as logical as it may seem ^^ )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you created it and it's been used 50 times, you'll even get a &quot;Taxonomist&quot; silver badge for it ^^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T22:08:55.420" />
  <row Id="12257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12122" CreationDate="2009-08-04T22:09:33.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question was more in line of &quot;Do software developers have different backup requirements than end users?&quot; and it had some examples of why you think so, I think it could have merit.  Here are some possible examples of interesting items a backup software might need to handle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Backing up files from inside a Virtual PC.  Can the backup software mount the .vhd file as a volume and back up individual files instead of one large file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not backing up source code that is under version control, because the the computer is not the authoritative source.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not backing up files easily download from the source distribution (e.g. vendor software, OSS project, etc).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these answers might just be best practices in data organization with use of specific settings of the backup software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22514" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T22:09:33.377" />
  <row Id="12258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12250" CreationDate="2009-08-04T22:30:50.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should not matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is NOT good enough, then you should improve it until it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T22:30:50.773" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="12259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:45:29.743" Score="245" ViewCount="1622" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me start off by a little background.  I am currently a 3rd year pursuing a BS in Computer Science at a small Christian school in San Diego. I have take a good chunk of the courses offered to me, and have received an A/B in every class so far without too much stress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I want to expand my learning a little more, so I have come to communities like this to learn new things.  Here is the problem.  I glance over all the questions asked here, and become extremely discouraged.  Sad to say, but I don't even understand a majority of the questions posed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess my question to you (Stack Overflow community) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did it start like this for you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, how did you conquer it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T09:27:29.470" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T19:55:38.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" Title="Should I be discouraged by Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="70" CommentCount="64" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="12260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:47:20.643" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is normal.  Unless you are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;, you probably aren't an expert in every tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you love programming, keep going.  If you don't get out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Believe me, they don't teach you everything in college.  You'll just have to learn the rest of the stuff in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:47:46.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  Do not be discouraged.  Be challenged, and strive to live up to the challenge.  If nothing else, it's a lot more fun that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- MarkusQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:47:57.617" Score="369" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The secret to happiness as a developer is not to know&#xA;everything, but to be prepared to learn a lot about a&#xA;particular niche.  I don't know the answers to 90% of the&#xA;questions here, but I do pretty well with the ones I do&#xA;know.  (And I've been a developer for 25+ years)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then some day, you'll be like me, nearly 50 years old,&#xA;and looking at all these questions and think &quot;am I too old&#xA;to learn all this new stuff?&quot;  In my case, I snap out of&#xA;that funk by assigning myself a new side project involving a&#xA;new technology.  Last time I felt this way, I learned Perl&#xA;and built some web sites using Fast::CGI.  This time I'm&#xA;doing an iPhone application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="29" />
  <row Id="12263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:48:30.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Felt the same way here.  The fact is that you can't just take classes and think you're prepared; you need to teach yourself.  And it takes time.  Lots of it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:48:51.327" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO usually covers a lot of language-specific problems rather than the general problem-solving skills one learns in school, so I would say do not be discouraged by SO. Look at the more language-agnostic questions and see if you understand them. If you do, you're on the right track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:48:53.900" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;YES.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read, then try.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Medicine, Law, and Programming all have one thing in common:  DO NOT consider University the place where you Learn, and the workplace where you Do.  University is the &lt;em&gt;beginning&lt;/em&gt; of your career, which must always include learning.  The nice thing about programming is that no one dies or gets sued while you experiment, which is by far the best way to learn ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134266" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:49:08.940" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dude I feel like that every day. Learn to enjoy it, I say...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:49:18.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The greatest thing about SO is that it makes you understand you don't know everything and there are lots to learn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:49:38.893" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you shouldn't be discouraged at all. Nobody knows everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll start out in a career and it will be a rough and rocky but soon you'll be amazed at how much you learned in the last year, month, week, day, hour, minute, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1980" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:50:04.740" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try to answer a single question on a new technology you are learning every day.  You may not initially know the answer, but research/test/play around until you find the answer.  Do this and you will gradually improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131716" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:50:08.390" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent questions... The answer is Yes to all three.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, when I started, there was no Stack Overflow but there were many forums and newsgroups that I visited.  I became very overwhelmed with trying to understand the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the best way to overcome it is to just get in there and start developing.  As I come across challenges that I don't know, I search Google, blogs, and ask at forums and now Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to do that is to look at places like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodeProject&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codeproject.com/&lt;/a&gt;) where you have a large repository of code samples, tutorials, and such-like.  You can download the source code presented in many of the articles, build it, step through it with a debugger, and see how it works.  Then try to modify the code in a way that would interest you and see what you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course trying to come up with your own &quot;pet&quot; projects is a good way to learn and be challenged, so that questions will arise and you will have an opportunity to look for the answer or ask it in the community (online or your associates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best of luck, and I do know what you mean.  Sometimes we forget once we've been around things for a while how it is to start out and just the quantity of information is overwhelming.  Don't give up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:50:33.693" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's funny, but I remember way back when I was still a beginner, and I would read programming magazines or hear REAL programmers talking, and I would be intimidated too.  So, yes, it started like that for me as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How I handled it was just being patient.  Over time I realized that many of the concepts and stuff weren't really that difficult, once you understood them.  I just made it a habit that whenever I felt intimidated by something, I would go out and learn as much as I could and master whatever it was.  For instance, at one point in time C pointers really threw me for a loop.  That's when all my experience was in BASIC on TRS-80s.  Nowadays I find them easy to comprehend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's pretty normal, and you just have to keep plugging away.  Just remember that ignorance does not equal stupidity.  Just because you don't understand something NOW doesn't mean that you're incapable of understanding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:50:54.380" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions on SO represent practically every aspect of professional software development. Languages, frameworks, tools, techniques, algorithms, specific products, patterns, UI design, and best practices are just the tip of the iceberg for discussion here. Then you add in the somewhat-offtopic stuff pertaining to IT, system administration, and personal approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say don't get discouraged because what you want to do will bear itself out. If you want to be a Windows developer using C#, then that's what you'll be, and the questions about Erlang or Grails will be of no consequence to you. In other words, you'll create your own filters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even our beloved &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; doesn't work in every tag. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:50:57.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about that. There are so many different technologies in IT that it is impossible to understand or even be aware of all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know how you feel though, because I had the same feeling a couple of years ago. Just keep on studying and programming and you will naturally get interested in a couple of technologies that really matter for your job and which you will enjoy using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:51:10.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Computer science have evolved into enormous systems with uncountable facets.  Sometimes, just mastering one software product will take a lifetime.  Broaden your horizon and pick the niche that interests you the most.  The rest will come naturally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:52:17.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pfft! Do you really expect to understand every language, library, platform in existence? Questions on SO cover so much territory there is no reason to be discouraged. Just because someone can code in assembler doesn't mean they'll know html&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130827" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:54:19.990" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Somebody who's just coming out of college is very frequently woefully unprepared for some of the very important aspects of software engineering these days. That's not to say your education is fail; it's just to say that CS courses don't do enough on some of the things that are important for writing software professionally. I think there really needs to be more Software Engineering focus in a CS degree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Internet is a really, really great place (for more than just Porn!). The best software engineers these days are autodidactic. Trawl the blogs. Spend time here on SO. In fact -- don't be afraid to research an answer to a question you don't understand. That's a great way to learn. Remember: things change a lot in our field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, these feelings are perfectly normal. For more than just CS majors, really; everybody getting close to graduation has those &quot;Am I doing the right thing here?&quot; moments. It's worth investigating before you go off into a career, but don't dwell on it &lt;strong&gt;too&lt;/strong&gt; much. A CS degree is often good for more than just a programming career. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:56:33.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, because most questions are about problems/languages/tools that are (currently) completely irrelevant to my job or hobbies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I simply ignore questions about problems/languages/tools that are completely irrelevant to my job or hobbies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, this is normal, by definition, because nobody can possibly use every single tool out there, program in all languages, and be familiar with every single problem that has ever existed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:57:12.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not at all unusual for people to complete a computer science course without really learning anything they would need to work in the software industry. I've heard of people getting the degree without ever writing a single program that compiles or runs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't be discouraged if you enjoy learning new things. So you have a lot of enjoyment ahead of you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if there's something you don't understand or never heard of, referred to in a question on SO, look to see if anyone has asked &quot;Can someone tell me what X means?&quot; and if they haven't, ask it yourself. A lot of people here enjoy trying to come up with a clear and simple explanation of key concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:57:20.170" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been coding for 20 years and see some questions that I have no idea what they are about.  And that's simply because there is such a wide range of topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I was never a Python programmer, so if a question comes up that has terminology that is specific to Python, I think to myself, &quot;huh?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, it's perfectly normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133482" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:01:50.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could follow a tumor/virus model?...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a niche (i.e. tag).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flourish under that tag by answering all the questions you can.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Branch out (i.e. metastasize) into other tags that your main tag tends to overlap with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: BTW, you shouldn't be discouraged. SO is a big place (around 100k questions!), so it's normal to not understand it all. After all, you don't eat EVERYTHING in the supermarket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:02:36.270" Score="80" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't be discouraged. Just be willing to learn, one little chunk at a time. To answer your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did it start like this for you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most definitely so. It turns out that computer science (or programming or software engineering) requires a lot of nitty gritty know-how e.g. knowing your way around the command prompt. And on top, it also requires solid fundamentals e.g. understanding big-Oh and how your algorithms perform.  School tends to focus heavily on the latter, which is a lot of hard work and thus it can be overwhelming to find out that you still lack all the nitty gritty knowledge after all that. This definitely happened to me as I was finishing school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If so, how did you conquer it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that I have conquered it. You never stop learning.  The thing to get good at is knowing how to read documentation, learning tools, libraries, etc and being methodical about this. Oftentimes it is really tempting (specially with SO around) to just search for how to do something and not understand what you are doing: drop that habit if you have it (I did/do). Always look into things until you understand them fully. If you don't know how to begin, it is probably an indication that you're also lacking some fundamentals knowledge -- find a book and read it from the beginning.  This whole thing will be very time consuming at first, but as you build up your knowledge-base it'll become less so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:02:52.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend that you take a look at some of the following posts from our ever fearless leaders Jeff and Joel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Law of Leaky Abstractions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001207.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Overnight Success Takes Years&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make certain that you also read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; that Jeff links to in his blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming is a path, not a destination and being a great programmer means walking that path. We all had to start somewhere and that was at one point in time or another the place of knowing absolutely nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:18:19.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discouraged! What the hell? I mean, Come'n man ! You are student, these questions that you don't understand have been asked and answered by people with years experience in the field (sounds like a CIA .. in the field .. hah !) .. You're not a dump, actually you're a smart kid, you dig you toes in the water before jumping up to the swimming contest. Just take it easy and have faith! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129993" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:22:17.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except for probably a handful of users here, feeling discouraged at times is probably normal.  This is a fairly smart group of people with a wide variety of experience in different languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you're here is a good sign that you're willing to learn and move up.  Look at it this way, where else are you going to be able to surround yourself with some much expertise, for so little money????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38317" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:31:57.760" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sad to say, but I don't even understand a majority of the questions posed here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a university degree, My job title is &quot;Senior Software Engineer&quot;, and I've been programming professionally for over 6 years, and I don't understand the majority of questions here, and to put it bluntly, I'm not supposed to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the stated goals of Stack Overflow is to recognize that there are so many niche areas of programming, and that the only way to possibly find an answer to most questions is to have as wide an audience as possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell this means:  The only way to find the 3 people on the planet who know how to solve your specific exact problem is to make sure we have an audience of all 200 million possible people. Don't worry if you're not one of the 3 people with an answer to a particular question... sooner or later something will come along that you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be an expert on, and then you'll be able to show all of us that :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:34:16.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) yes, it's the same for everyone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Experience, but to be honest, you'll never stop being overwhelmed by how much there is to learn. People keep on inveting more more stuff to learn goddamnit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) No, you're probably ahead of the majority of your peers already, they're unlikely to be seeking out this kind of experience, never mind asking such honest questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:39:52.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site covers a broad spectrum of aspects of our craft.  I've been working professionally for almost 10 years, and a lot of information here is new to me.  If anything this should be encouraging - always a challenge in this field.....always areas that you can add value if you put in the effort.  &lt;em&gt;AND&lt;/em&gt; it ALWAYS changes.... :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:46:13.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it is normal and yes I also felt the same way.  My question to you is: what are your outside of school activities?  What are your long-term career aspirations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, do you intend to work in the private sector or do you expect to continue your education for a Masters Degree or PhD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the people on this site are professionals.  My advice to you is to go out in the real world and get some experience building Web sites, doing some small-time consulting, etc.  You will be surprised at how fast you catch on and next thing you know you will be answering questions with the big dogs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.357" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did it start like this for you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had learned some programming while in high school and had written a couple of small programs. Then I wanted to improve one of my programs and begun redesigning it, but I hit a wall in trying to manage the complexity. Writing small programs was OK (1000-2000 lines of Java), but I did know how to go about writing larger programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If so, how did you conquer it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In university I got the skills for designing larger programs, and the basic information on how things work (databases, networking, operating systems, algorithms, data structures, assembly code, concurrency, project management etc.). None of the things in themselves were hard to learn. It just takes time to learn them one by one. You also need to practice what you learn. While studying, it's good to have some hobby projects or part-time programming work, so that you can put to practice the theory that they teach at university (but don't work so much that it slows down the studies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In programming, you need to be learning new stuff all the time. And the more you learn, the more things you will see in the horizon about which you don't know that much. Then depending on what your needs are and how much time you have, you need to decide what learning that will benefit you the most, and leave the rest for some other time, or ask someone else to do the work which requires knowing those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130988" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:56:00.323" />
  <row Id="12290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:56:06.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me channel The Sphinx (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%5FMen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mystery Men&lt;/a&gt;) here for a second:  There is more to computer science than software development, and more to software development than computer science. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, let me try and recall / paraphrase what one of my professors said:  The reason to study computer science instead of just learning the current hot technology is that the technologies you'll spend most of your career working with haven't been invented yet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131039" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" />
  <row Id="12291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T21:04:24.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been making a good living at this software thing for probably longer than you've been alive, have worked on a large variety of systems, and have done some poking around on my own.  I've also tried going to grad school.  I've amassed more than 4K rep points here, and have been active elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't answer most of the questions here, and in many cases have absolutely no solid knowledge of what they're about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't let this discourage you.  There's always more to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T21:04:24.093" />
  <row Id="12292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T21:24:25.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at things on SO, I probably don't comprehend much more than you do. And I've been coding professionally for 20+ years. The difference is that rather than being discouraged my experience tells me that most of these questions are so specific to a combination of tools that you'd almost have to work where that person works to have an answer ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, by the time you graduate and begin working, many of these tools will either not exist or not be in widespread use!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep looking at SO, but focus more on the larger questions rather than the ones trying to put a square peg from tool X into a round hole in tool Y.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T21:24:25.293" />
  <row Id="12293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T22:02:18.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question on SO is not related to one specific area, but generally it covers programming related question. Initially it happens to everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It is good for you to find easy topics and study them. Google and research them.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Yes it is normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69111" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T22:02:18.167" />
  <row Id="12294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T22:14:19.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing to take away from the university experience is not that you have learned everything there is to know or that you have &quot;learned enough.&quot;  Rather, you have used the opportunity to learn how to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technology is always changing.  Software development is always changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; place to continue the process of learning.  Some day,perhaps sooner than you expect, you will be teaching others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T22:14:19.420" />
  <row Id="12295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T22:19:39.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are you discouraged about?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Programming is like swimming to me, we can take all the courses we want about it and take some lessons, discuss it all we want, read about swimming all we want, the only thing that builds the real comfort is the hours spent doing it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing a real developer ever knows is how little he knows.  All he ever works on is his problem solving and ability to figure things out the best way possible.  He does this through learning as many approaches as possible and then making it happen through the syntax of a few languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Start hacking, start building.  The more you create, the more you'll see the patterns inherent in most if not all problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a fantastic post or two about managing your relationship with failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/01/what-ive-learned-from-failure.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/01/what-ive-learned-from-failure.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second is one article that I think is something every programmer should read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2009-02.html#e2009-02-09T16%5F31%5F38.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Embracing Failure&lt;/a&gt; by Eugene Wallingford:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A while back, I clipped this quote from a university publication, figuring it would decorate a blog entry some day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The thing about a liberal arts education ... is it prepares you to fail successfully and learn from that failure. ... You will all fail. That's OK.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-- Jim Linahon &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Linahon is an alumnus of our school who works in the music industry. He gave a talk on campus for students aspiring to careers in the industry, the theme of which was, &quot;Learn to fail. It happens&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More recently, I ran across this as the solution to a word puzzle in our local paper:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-- Ray Bradbury &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rich talked about how hard our discipline must feel to beginners, because it is a discipline learned almost wholly by failure. Learning to program can seem like nothing more than an uninterrupted sequence failures: syntax errors, logic errors, boundary cases, ugly interface, .... I'm not a novice any more, but I still feel the constant drip of failure whenever I work on a piece of code I don't already understand well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The thing is, I kinda like that feeling -- the challenge of scaling a mountain of code. My friends who program can at least say that they don't mind it, and the best among them seem to thrive in such an environment. I think that's part of what separates programmers from less disturbed people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" />
  <row Id="12296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T22:26:58.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the cover, in large friendly letters, are the words &quot;Don't Panic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit, I'm a newb (I've been programming since June 2007 and I don't have ANY technical background at all), so perhaps I am completely unqualified to answer this, but here goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I am not intimidated by most of this stuff is that a lot of it is completely unrelated to anything I need to do right now.  I work predominantly on web stuff (and specifically on Flash and Flex), I use PHP, JS, HTML, CSS...  Most of the questions here are completely beyond my scope.  I view this as, &quot;They know that, I know my field.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that really gets me is that I don't know what I am supposed to be trying to learn half the time.  I have never even heard a professor even say Olog2n, and I don't even own a textbook which describes &quot;best practices&quot; for OOP.  I'm more or less forced to figure out all of this stuff on my own and I make a lot of mistakes because I have no idea what I am doing.  I also &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to know C and C++ (and somewhere along the way master Java, Perl, and Python) but I don't even have a good place to start...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I'm not miffed.  If anything, the very fact that I don't know any of this means that I am more likely to look at something new.  If it looks like Greek, then my mouth drops and I center-click the tab.  Otherwise it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/214/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a fascinating trip&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have in my favor a particular stubbornness, but mostly this is built on a knowledge that, in computer programming, &quot;&lt;em&gt;if you bang your head against a wall for long enough, the wall will move&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163112" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T22:26:58.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-25T22:54:39.027" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not be discouraged! Stack Overflow contains an odd-odd mix of many many topics. Yes, you start out with your mind swimming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're in a Bible College, I would read Ecclesiastes 4 and 5, find what you love in computers, and love doing it. You'll drift toward your niche in the industry and work form there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's any encouragement, I came out of school w/ an MS, started doing QA work, moved to IT, moved to SysAdmin, and landed finally in Java Development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a Christian, you have more promises than the average bear to lean on. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" />
  <row Id="12298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T00:17:57.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you get discouraged seeing active discussions in your field, you probably aren't in the right field. New ideas in a field you love should get you fired up! When those new topics are bouncing around in an approachable, open community like this, and you still don't feel comfortable learning, there's something wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did you pick your major? Do you tinker with software, math, ideas, writing or other other creative things? Do you enjoy being around other creative people? Analytic people? I've known many software engineers that had unhappy CS educations and unhappy careers. I've also known people who've fallen in love with software that had practically no formal training. In my experience, you can't learn to love your career -- you have to find something you love (or at least like a lot) and then learn how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T00:17:57.920" />
  <row Id="12299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T01:24:34.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a fourth year student at a school in SD as well.&#xA;I'm also pursuing BS in computer science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally feel what you are feeling. I have finished numerous courses;however, they do not really let me answer 99% of the questions on Stackoverflow. This doesn't mean that I should be discouraged, but become more passionate about the field I'm involved with. &quot;THERE ARE A LOT TO LEARN!&quot; If a field has a opportunity to learn, then means that field has potential to growth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm trying to get out of school is how to approach a real world problem.&#xA;For example, if you want to build an application for a customer who wants a simple web application for his business, how would I investigate, design, implement, and test the application. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like learning your first computer language. Once you learn C, Java is not too hard. Once you know Java, C++ is not too hard. Once you know C, Java, and C++, C# is not too hard to pick up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I suggest you to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be discouraged. Rather, become passionate about where you are right now (WE ARE HOT ASSETS). Try to learn how to approach a real world problem and how to solve. Also, try not to be intimidated by overwhelming amount of technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T01:24:34.110" />
  <row Id="12300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T04:31:46.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CS programs teach a lot of important fundamentals about software such as algorithms, but don't usually teach many practical, real world skills, unless there is a Software Engineering course. Most questions on SO relate to professional software development. Writing software in the real world is a lot different than CS courses would lead you to believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have the opportunity, do an internship so you can get some hands-on experience, and you will see how many of the questions asked here apply to professional software development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T04:31:46.377" />
  <row Id="12301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T04:58:37.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a fiberglass sailboat repairman, dog-sled guide, industrial welder, sawyer at my own sawmill, labourer and student but no job has ever held my attention by being constantly challenging like programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't despair, have some fun with the culture and the lore by reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/jargon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jargon File&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If stuff like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Meaning of ‘Hack’&lt;/a&gt; doesn't make you happy then you might be headed in the wrong direction.  In that case find a way to use computers to do something that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T04:58:37.137" />
  <row Id="12302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T10:14:06.177" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;NOBODY understands most of the questions posted here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're all in the same boat. Programming is a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; field now - you simply can't know it all anymore. Fortunately, we all know a bit, so and can help each other out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing better in life than doing something that you enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144567" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T10:14:06.163" />
  <row Id="12303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T10:24:41.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1. Did it start like this for you?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Ten years of programming and it still is like &quot;this&quot; for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. If so, how did you conquer it?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;It's not necessary to &quot;conquer it&quot;, realize that most of the posts here are related to programmers getting stuck while doing something looking for a quick answer to that problem. It's a bit like asking your neighbor how s/he fixed that problem yesterday, since it would save time, and would generate an interesting discussion too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;3. Is this normal?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice: spend time with a good programming book, many if possible. It was much easier to do that back when bandwidth wasn't so cheap. So many more distractions now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T10:24:41.503" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T14:26:54.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been working as a programmer for 6 years now and have a variety of languages under my belt (.Net, classic ASP, ABAP, and more) but I still don't understand everything that is discussed on StackOverflow or other forums I watch.  that's why I watch them to learn new things get insight on the new technologies, etc.  Don't get discouraged, that's what this is all about ask questions make comments and build off the knowledge that everyone is sharing.  I think if someone thought they knew everything that was discussed on StackOverflow they would be kidding themselves and the profession.  The area we are all in is so dynamic and ever changing that it would be virtually impossible to know everything.  That's why sites like this are awesome you can ask a question and get a response within minutes in some cases.  Very awesome and helpful in the crunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T14:26:54.433" />
  <row Id="12305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T14:32:50.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't get discouraged - it's this way for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to what other people have said, a few more pointers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have two main choices in software/technology - become a specialist or a generalist.  This is the same as in other professions.  I tend towards being a generalist because I enjoy working on an object model, then optimizing stored procedures, fixing a DLL issue on a windows server, and then banging on a router that is having DNS issues.  A lot of people are specialists, which has its advantages too.  A specialist might be able to give very specific answers to a lot of the questions on SO and be correct - a generalist could provide an answer to a wider swath of questions on SO, but would probably end the answer with &quot;I'm no expert, so take this with a grain of salt&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specialists will also get paid more and have an easier time finding jobs in multiple locations.  Generalists will have an easier time finding jobs in one location (if you don't want to move), and will get hired quickly if the business sees that they can get a network admin/programmer/server guy all in one package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T14:32:50.143" />
  <row Id="12306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T14:44:48.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a final year CS student. Don't be discouraged. The &#xA;stuff here is much about the specific platforms and &#xA;frameworks. Better concentrate on the basics. Like knowing &#xA;how to make a dynamic page in JSP, .NET, Django won't help &#xA;much. But not knowing HTTP or HTML will hurt you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144262" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T14:44:48.633" />
  <row Id="12307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T15:00:12.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to not be overwhelmed by this site, I use the search function to search for subjects that I know a little about. Later, when you're more comfortable with the fact that there are thousands of things you don't know (yet), you'll feel better about the things you do know and are currently learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T15:00:12.137" />
  <row Id="12308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-26T17:12:01.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Did it start like this for you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If so, how did you conquer it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 - Of course. And it hasn't changed. Every time I come onto SO I'm humbled by the amount that I don't know and I have 10 years professional experience and 5 years of hobbying when I was a teenager. I bet those who have 40 years feel the same. In some areas I know a lot, in others I know nothing. This will never change. All you can do is learn as much as you can, but try and learn some areas quite in-depth first before branching out to other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - By realising that I'd never learn anywhere near everything. And realising that &lt;em&gt;this doesn't matter&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 - This is both normal and preferable. There are those who think they know it all after graduating or after a couple of years. Believe me, they don't. Having that attitude is a fast-track to fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T17:12:00.993" />
  <row Id="12309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T00:11:41.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is normal.&lt;/strong&gt;  Stackoverflow covers the entire range of development technologies.  That is a huge range of knowledge, and nobody understands it all.  You can't learn it fast enough to keep up with all the new stuff that is being added unless you specialize in a narrow niche.  So get used to it.  For the rest of your life you will go to sites like this and and wonder what all these guys are talking about.  They will continue to invent new languages and new concepts and to give them strange new names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the best response is not to be discouraged any more than you should be discouraged when you walk into a library and realize you haven't read all the books.  Stand in awe! Here is virtually limitless variety and opportunity for you.  Take off your shoes --- in its own way, this is holy ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you rise into management jobs in your career, however, you will have to make decisions to severely limit the variety within your organization so that you can build and maintain code cost effectively.  Welcome to the real world!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It didn't start like this for me.&lt;/strong&gt;  I started writing Basic on an Apple IIe (found only in museums today).  That was technology that a single human being could master.  Ever since then I have watched the real world speed on past me.  It has been a great life with wonderful people, and I am honored to have stood on the shoulders of so many giants who have built this stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-04T23:09:45.033" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:09:45.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T00:11:41.517" />
  <row Id="12310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T00:27:24.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are five orders of ignorance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zero order ignorance (0OI): Lack of ignorance; that is, knowing something and knowing that you can demonstrate that knowledge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First order ignorance (1OI): Lack of knowledge; that is, knowing that you don’t know something, but knowing that you could learn and how you could learn.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second order ignorance (2OI): Lack of awareness; that is, not knowing something and not knowing that you don’t know. You are ignorant (unaware) that you have first order ignorance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third order ignorance (3OI): Lack of process; that is, you don’t know how to &quot;discover&quot; whether you have second order ignorance. Practically, this means that no suitably efficient (reasonably time-limited) help is at hand to guide the discovery process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fourth order ignorance (4OI): Lack of ignorance about the orders of ignorance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You now do not have 4OI. By coming here to SO, you are reducing your 2OI and 3OI. Congrats. Now work on reasonably moving from 1OI to 0OI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, think of this: knowledge is like a circle. 0OI is the area of the circle. 1OI is the perimeter of the circle, and 2OI is everything beyond. When the area of the circle expands, so does the perimeter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T00:27:24.880" />
  <row Id="12311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T00:40:16.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't be discouraged.  StackOverflow can be viewed as a good mirror for where you are at and what you can learn, and there are many, many helpful people here who have started from all sorts of backgrounds.  I look at it as a chance to test your knowledge and find areas where you can improve.  Along the way you'll see areas where you have something to contribute, and as long as you are good willed with your input you'll get something back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about the badges or reputation.  I have had very authoritative yet amazing false answers from people, but overall the majority of answers have been great.  In the end, it's just dudes and dudettes who love software development.  Jump in, get ready to learn and give it shot.  Just remember, we really can't see you, so be bold and participate, and don't be concerned with your knowledge level.  Yeah, there's a lot we all don't know, but that should only spur us on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140861" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T00:40:16.220" />
  <row Id="12312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T05:51:37.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously dude, with all due respect, you're still just a kid.  You are comparing yourself to industry veterans.  If you didn't feel lost, something would be wrong.  And to be honest, most professionals have no idea of what half the stuff here means either, trust me. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't waste your mental effort with the ego part of engineering.  Don't get intimidated, and don't work with the purpose of learning so you can feel superior.  Just do what you do, learn what you learn, until you have your own self-confidence that you know what you know, and you know it well.  Then none of this comparing yourself to others will matter.  If I bothered to read through all of SO and ask myself &quot;do I understand all these questions, and if not am I a bad person?&quot; I'd probably end up discouraged and drive myself crazy.  It's an easy pitfall to fall into, but resist the temptation.  Unfortunately SE &amp;amp; IT are filled with many bad examples, find a solid mentor and stick with him, learn from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd go with #3, this is normal.  but ultimately irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T05:51:37.063" />
  <row Id="12313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T06:53:10.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely Not!  I'm sure most of the people here can't answer 10% of the questions.  It's not our fault, it's because you can't know everything.  There aren't enough hours in the day to learn everything.  Specialize in an area you feel passionate about, only then, will you feel more confident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160739" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T06:53:10.473" />
  <row Id="12314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T07:13:25.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, you shouldn't be, first of all, the questions here spand such a wide area, so theres unknown areas for everyone. &#xA;Secondly, when people give up troubleshooting, the problem is or kind of has to be non-trivial for anyone.&#xA;I've been in java-development/architecture for 8 years, I find most questions here to be in other areas than my profession. Questions within java are seldom easy ones, rather complex and related to a particular tool/framework. Often if you haven't spend a lot of time with that framework, you can't answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's perfectly normal, cheer up! Get some experience and you'll start understanding more every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T07:13:25.557" />
  <row Id="12315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T11:12:36.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no need to be discouraged, first of all I dont advice you to visit this kind of forums to learn things.This place is for discussing issues/show stoppers that one encounters in work. Here nobody knows/understands every thing and moreover people ask questions here because they dont know how to solve the problem. So everyone here is almost same. Today you have asked a question and tomorrow you might answer other's queries :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can start learning things with something which is very easy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like: Take an excel macro, learn different things that you can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T11:12:36.620" />
  <row Id="12316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-27T20:22:03.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to top work experience (if you're not actively involved in your own or an open-source project) for giving you the know-how to answer some of these questions.  A lot of things you'll just never encounter on your own, or in a classroom.  I remember doing Java work for my CS degree before i had a workterm and not knowing about Eclipse (or any IDE for that matter) or even how to reasonably make use of abstract classes and interfaces... but you work with people who know more than you do and you learn from them.  That's where i find the best stuff comes from - mentoring.  Some people are very driven to learn things themselves, but not everyone is like that.  So getting into a software job where you can learn from experienced/talented people will really make a difference.  Then one day you'll be reading an article like this and remember when you asked a similar question... It just takes time... Good luck, don't give up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T20:22:03.227" />
  <row Id="12317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-28T07:41:19.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't be discouraged that you don't understand the majority of questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the questions on Stack Overflow are very specific programming questions that are relevant to a particular problem.  If you've never had to deal with that particular specific problem before, and would never have reason to in your career, there's no need to understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that a lot of the questions here are very specific to a particular framework, and if your day-to-day programming is in a different language, you won't understand it.  A programmer will often specialise in a specific language and perhaps framework/environment, rather than trying to know everything about every programming tool for every language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for me, a lot of the questions about .NET or Visual Studio, or in some respects Java, are gobbledy-gook to me, as I usually program in other languages like C++, C, PHP, Python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My tip would be to use the search feature to find questions that are more relevant to the types of programming you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132166" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-28T07:41:19.460" />
  <row Id="12318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-02-28T15:23:28.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of these questions are very specific and about tools.  Who cares about tools?  Work on your fundamentals and use/learn the tools that you have available. I probably don't know 99% of the questions asked here, and I'm not afraid to admit that.  It doesn't keep me from being kickass at what I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138326" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-28T15:23:28.680" />
  <row Id="12319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-03-06T20:55:43.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I changed communities, tried Microsoft Forums, tried developez.com and many other sites.&#xA;I always face the same problem (that you face)&#xA;so it's normal.&#xA;There's millions of developer, there are thousands of technologies and problems, so finding someone who have a problem that you can solve it hard :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T20:55:43.243" />
  <row Id="12320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-03-14T15:34:22.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is an enormous database of tech questions. But most of it is practical guidance and  specific to certain technologies/apis/libs. There is no reason for you to get discouraged because, you may not even have worked in more than half the technologies discussed in here. But when you're stuck with some problem in a specific technology, this is the &quot;second best&quot; place to ask and get expert opinions. i say second best because the mailing list or forum will be more exhaustive, but SO beats them on the swiftness and quality of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is great for language related questions and sometimes you need to be really good in multiple languages and programming paradigms to even understand the questions. I hope SO encourages rather than discourage you to learn more languages &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-14T15:34:22.700" />
  <row Id="12321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-03-14T15:37:15.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions on here are extremely specialized. It would be almost impossible for one to know the answer to most things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-14T15:37:15.203" />
  <row Id="12322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-03-26T16:39:23.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, let me tell you that I am primarily self-taught. I went to a community college and got a cert in programming (C primarily and some VB with SQL and database stuff tossed in). My day job is not programming (I'm a tech editor). I do, however, create web sites for friends and write games and tests for my children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did it start like this for you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. The wealth of information here and elsewhere can be totally overwhelming and discouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, how did you conquer it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. I look at it as a vast treasure. I just dive in and try new things. Recently, I started using Perl for the first time ever. I was like a kid with a new tub of Legos. As for this site, take a look around at subjects you've studied or just touched upon and go from there. That's what I do. That way you'll have a comfort level while still being challenged and learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Totally. Even all the wise experts who have already responded have said so. You're in good company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-26T16:39:23.693" />
  <row Id="12323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-05-26T21:57:16.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that most of the questions you are reading that are making your head spin are the ones that are specific to a technology, vendor product, or tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They make my head spin, too, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No matter what anyone tells you, you cannot possible ever know everything about everything.  You will eventually develop specializations, so that you will eventually understand all the questions about some things and some of the questions about all things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The vendors, tools and products will change.  Today's detailed questions about them will morph into questions about other details.  But the underlying principles that you are learning now will help you understand which parts of which answers apply to the new questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The education you are getting now should help you understand what the &quot;real&quot; questions and answers are.  Those who are experts in only the syntax of the current tools will go through life getting their heads spun every 6 months or so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formal education, especially that in Computer Science, is typically less &quot;applied&quot; than some other offerings.  CS grads are supposed to bring more foundational knowledge to a team.  Sure, some people will applied degrees will know a bit more right out of school, but they will have to work harder on the foundational issues than you will...and vice versa.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry. The worst possible thing that could happen in the future is that you spend some night reading through thousands of questions and you start thinking &quot;Geez, why aren't there any new questions these days?&quot;  That would mean that you have nothing left to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-26T21:57:16.977" />
  <row Id="12324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-05-27T18:53:43.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, since this is where people go to ask questions that they don't know the answers to, no. I wouldn't be. I'm not. We both are young and still learning a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-27T18:53:43.150" />
  <row Id="12325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-06-07T11:23:56.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't fell that you are neglected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all are here to learn. Post your questions however simple it is , we all are here to help each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This forum is for all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck.!!! (:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-07T11:23:56.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-06-07T12:32:39.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been in the business for over twenty years. In my opinion - it seems that the field is and has always been much to large to even begin to get a grip on everything. You should feel completely normal in your view of the vast amount and range of questions posed here. The real &quot;secret&quot; for me to being a successful programmer is not knowing the answer to all the questions - but knowing how to FIND the answer quickly. And Stackoverflow is one of the many resources to use. Getting to know all the tools and resources to find answers to the problems you will encounter as a professional is the biggest trick I never learned in college. Once you realize this - coming to a site like SO is a great discovery - not a depressing one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-07T12:32:39.453" />
  <row Id="12327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-07-09T16:58:11.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The day I stop learning (should I ever arrive at a place in time where I would know everything :-P) is the day I quit my job. The whole thing that makes my job fun IS learning new things! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if Jon Skeet is still working...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:00:26.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-09T16:58:11.837" />
  <row Id="12328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12259" CreationDate="2009-08-04T22:10:10.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site can be intimidating, definitely.  However, you can either leave or roll up your sleeves and get into what the site has that may help with something you want to learn.  There are tons of different questions here and I'm not sure anyone knows all of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Persistence, learning about different things, and recognizing that in some cases I'm sharing knowledge and in other cases it is my experience that can be shared and be useful to others, e.g. how do I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scrum&lt;/a&gt; or how do I handle some &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt; thingie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could well be normal because how many other people could say that they visit this type of site and know it like the back of their hand?  Not many, IMO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as something to ponder, what kind of coursework have you taken involving Oracle or ASP.NET or other very large things that I'm not sure CS courses cover this material in great depth.  I remember well my 6 3rd year courses well:  Data Structures and Algorithms (CS340), Concurrent Programming (CS342), Digital Design and Architecture (CS351), Operating Systems (CS354), Theory of Finite Automata (CS360), and Numerical Analysis (CS370).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T09:26:08.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T09:26:08.753" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-04T22:10:10.867" />
  <row Id="12330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-04T23:14:30.763" Score="12" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;My feature request is for the page navigation buttons that are on many of the different pages.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would like to see, aside from the usual page buttons, a small input box and a &quot;goto&quot; button so that you can skip directly to a particular page.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For example on the &lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt; page, the page navigation buttons have:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] ... [353] [next]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would love to see:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] ... [353] [next]  [inputbox][goto]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That way the user can jump around the pages much quicker than only being able to skip ahead 2 pages at a time.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Edit - added:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Alternatively you could just have the [goto] button and then when it is clicked, have a small popup appear with the input area and another [goto] button, you can see an example of it here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diecast-pub.com/forums2/index.php?showtopic=44473&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.diecast-pub.com/forums2/index.php?showtopic=44473&lt;/a&gt;, just goto the bottom and click on the button with [2 pages] on it to see the popup appear.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131793" LastEditorUserId="131793" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T01:39:09.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:43:25.663" Title="Page Navigation, goto page N, feature request" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;&lt;page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="12331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12330" CreationDate="2009-08-04T23:28:29.300" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Real programmers edit the URL to go to specific pages. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, this would be useful at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:28:29.300" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12031" CreationDate="2009-08-04T23:53:22.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another issue to consider is that sometimes, depending on sheer luck, the younger question has more and better answers than the older question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should use common sense when marking dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-04T23:53:22.183" />
  <row Id="12333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-08-05T00:10:22.963" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd favour the singular version over the plural generally speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might also be a good thing to factor out. Google for example is smart enough to realize plurals are equivalent to their singular form so there is no (or very little) difference between searching for &quot;array&quot; and &quot;arrays&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could pick a preferred one and make entering the plural form revert to the singular form (or vice versa if that's the consensus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T00:10:22.963" />
  <row Id="12334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13027" CreationDate="2009-08-05T01:00:47.450" Score="2" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to use a Google Apps username + password in order to log in to Stack Overflow and its sister websites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I've been unsucessful with this, but since i'm not familiar with the way OpenID works, I might be missing something obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is possible, could you please tell me how to log in using a Google Apps account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133040" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:16:04.057" Title="How to log in to SO using a Google Apps account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12559" CreationDate="2009-08-05T01:59:14.553" Score="5" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/504/why-is-the-inconsistent-reputation-system-by-design/508#508&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, reputation is a &quot;broad aggregate representation of the trust the community puts in you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems to me that the more &quot;popular&quot; a platform is, the more likely your answer will get seen, and the more likely it is to be voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your &quot;reputation&quot; then, is a function of both the trust the community places in you, and the size of the community that is interested in the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely possible for someone with deep knowledge in domains that most programmers care less about to have significantly less reputation than someone who has modest knowledge of a more popular subject.  Note especially that the questions that generate the most reputation seem to be generic opinion based queries.  The kind that often generate flame wars because people are passionate about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not saying that such questions are necessarily bad, my point is just that reputation has a strong dependency on the number of people interested in looking at the question, and a much more tenuous connection to the actual competency of the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130371" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T06:28:59.880" Title="Is reputation too subjective?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12334" CreationDate="2009-08-05T02:05:38.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/436829/how-do-you-delegate-your-openid-to-google-apps/1204525#1204525&quot;&gt;looks like it should be possible&lt;/a&gt; - i initially misread &lt;a href=&quot;http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-openid-identity-hub-for.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, and assumed it wasn't available for Standard - but judging by the comments, it's just not configurable...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, i've not been able to make it work with SO. Might take some extra work, either on the part of the domain owner... or possibly SO itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T05:53:23.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T05:53:23.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T02:06:20.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&#xA;&lt;code&gt;            &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:06:20.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T02:06:20.127" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T02:08:03.850" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though reputation is biased towards certain questions, it works out in the end. Users tend to be active under specific categories, and as such reputation serves as a good relative indicator of experience. Everyone who posts in say, &lt;kbd&gt;Java&lt;/kbd&gt;, has the same relative advantage and thus reputation can still be used to rank users under a particular tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also must stress that &lt;strong&gt;reputation isn't the be all end all of a user's worth&lt;/strong&gt;, there are tons of &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; intelligent people with low reputation. It's a &lt;em&gt;relative&lt;/em&gt; indicator, and if you take it as &quot;this user is better than that user because they have more rep&quot;, then you're over thinking it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I close with a somewhat general agreement, &lt;em&gt;it's good enough&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:08:03.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T02:08:58.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on it is that is the intent.  By its very nature reputation and the scores given questions and answer are a subjective measure &lt;em&gt;by the community&lt;/em&gt;.  There is really nothing objective about it.  So, when you ask the question, is it too subjective?  I think you miss the point that it is and is intended to be completely subjective.  But, as in parimutuel wagering, the collective consciousness tends to do quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:08:58.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:06:57.103" Score="53" ViewCount="669" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a graph of the average reputation for each age, from the July 2009 data-dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&amp;amp;chs=500x400&amp;amp;chd=e:ADAAAAAAAAAAAApDyvNEASHoMyLeHiJRaIPIMdN9RLNHTDVHUFSlVTWba6VoajW.cCYEXvZMYBeVnCaOXFcpY9fOV3W..8mndxXOWkee6q5KW2HiIJDYqOfO&amp;amp;chtt=Stackoverflow.com%20:%20Age%20vs%20Reputation&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|1|6|11|16|21|26|31|36|41|46|51|56|1:|0|469|938|1407|1876|2345|2814|3283|3752|4221|4690&amp;amp;chg=10&quot; alt=&quot;Age vs rep&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't prove anything really, although interestingly there is a steady increase in reputation with age..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison, here is the graph from 2008-09-30:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&amp;amp;chs=500x400&amp;amp;chd=e:AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.1ICAADy3oAAJxAonuqPdySwj8qjgUkQihh5nFkklCf1eGi1fDZOb5fNdy1vuLcDSce5NuRBNPappJOCJ7MdHuebP7NuYwO-PcAAIhCXAo&amp;amp;chtt=Stackoverflow.com%20:%20Age%20vs%20Reputation&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|1|6|11|16|21|26|31|36|41|46|51|56|1:|0|280|560|840|1120|1400|1680|1960|2240|2520|2800&amp;amp;chg=10&quot; alt=&quot;Age vs rep on 2008-09-30&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've uploaded the code I used to Github. It's not exactly the greatest code ever, but it works (&lt;em&gt;&quot;on my machine&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/dbr/so%5Fscripts/tree/master/so%5Fagedist.py&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;so_agedist.py&lt;/a&gt; - it uses nobody_'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump&quot;&gt;SQLite database which can be found here&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pygooglechart.slowchop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pygooglecharts&lt;/a&gt; module to generate the above graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T23:14:52.747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T23:14:52.747" Title="Age vs StackOverflow Reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="12341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:08:36.647" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to meet the 7 year old with the 2800+ reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:14:50.407" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about a scatter plot with age on the X axis and rep on the Y axis? Another idea to remove the spikes would be to plot the total reputation of each age. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and if you could provide your data that you scraped in addition to the source of the script it would be helpful. I've been meaning to get around to something like this since it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50094/age-distribution-of-stackoverflow-users#50928&quot;&gt;requested&lt;/a&gt; a while ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; Data that can be used to create this and similar graphs can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156068/stackoverflow-user-statistics&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:16:28.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if you omit points where there are too few users with that age? Or average them into the ages near them to smooth the spike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what about comparing reputation between users who provide an age and users who don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:19:12.113" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you should not use the age of a person, but 'age' since (s)he created account on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:19:31.050" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those wondering about the first peak (8 year old), it’s &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/369/blorgbeard&quot;&gt;Blorgbeard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132998" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:21:31.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And at the age of 33 we see the &quot;Justin Standard Bump&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It reminds me of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/323/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ballmer Peak&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2577" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:23:27.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm way behind of my average =/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T15:51:54.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Correlation Coefficient&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T16:08:08.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really nice! Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a Gauss bell centered around 27, with the occasional pike here and there? I see a strong correlation in here!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@dbr: would it be too much if I asked you to find the normal distribution curve that best fits your data? Else, if you have stored the data somewhere and could provide us the links, I'll do it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, another graph comparing time since joining SO versus reputation would also be interesting. If the reputation is more strongly correlated to the time since you opened your account here than to your age then this first graph should just reflect the demographic tendencies of SO's audience (by the way, has anyone done this other graph, plotting number of SO's users per age?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155358" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T16:31:36.567" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you get points for answering questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; for asking them, this graph is basically showing usage of the site by age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T16:34:09.230" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see your data run through the Mann model, and see if it produces a hockey stick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T16:40:36.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also put confidence intervals around the mean for each age, since I'm guessing we have a lot more 20-30 somethings than 50 somethings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T16:57:26.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is meaningless without suitable error bars...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-09-30T17:46:15.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eek!  To all those that are my age... I'm sorry to drag you all down!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-10-01T03:15:39.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see (reputation / time on SO) vs age (although I think years of programming experience would be better, that information is not available)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-10-01T03:20:56.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the spikes @ 7 &amp;amp; 11 days must be a result of hackery...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-10-02T02:19:41.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the update with the code and data. You might want to clean your duplicates out of your database. If you're using SQL to generate your averages, these multiple entries for a single user will throw them off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sqlite&amp;gt; select id, count(id) from Users group by id having count(id)&amp;gt;1;&#xA;1|5&#xA;2|3&#xA;3|3&#xA;4|3&#xA;5|3&#xA;6|3&#xA;7|3&#xA;8|3&#xA;9|2&#xA;10|2&#xA;11|2&#xA;12|2&#xA;13|2&#xA;14|3&#xA;15|2&#xA;16|3&#xA;17|3&#xA;18|8&#xA;19|7&#xA;168|2&#xA;169|2&#xA;444|2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-10-03T00:35:30.757" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there are points in your life where you get all community-minded, perhaps early thirties or perhaps early forties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But perhaps sometimes you don't want to reveal your true age, so you claim you're seven or eight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2008-11-11T18:45:54.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually lied about my age, too.  It seemed like personal information that was irrelevant to the purpose of SO.  I found it a little annoying that SO even asked for that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136652" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2009-06-16T11:58:10.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;wow that google chart is indeed a very useful little gadget. Thanks a lot for introducing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many cool python projects around to be discovered, anytime I code something and ask my friend what he thinks about it I get to hear &quot;errrr that exists since a long time already, why didnt you use xyz, the NIH syndrome reached you already?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" />
  <row Id="12361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2009-06-16T12:18:35.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously programmer's peak at age 7 or so, compared to mathematicians who peak about 18-25.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That aside, I wouldn't place too much stock in a system of ratings where the only requirement to vote is to have an email account. It would be easy enough to create a system of bots that just post &quot;Why is the sky blue&quot;, answer &quot;just because&quot;, and upvote the answer from a thousand accounts ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:52:51.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-23T16:43:55.660" Score="61" ViewCount="876" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update October 18th, 2010:&lt;/b&gt; Fixed the microsummary again to work after site changes. Just reinstall it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries#Introduction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firefox microsummary generator&lt;/a&gt; for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It lets you create a bookmark in Firefox and have its title show your current reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Install: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mozilla.doslash.org/so/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mozilla.doslash.org/so/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Result:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mozilla.doslash.org/so/so-microsummary-result.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Source:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;generator xmlns=&quot;http://www.mozilla.org/microsummaries/0.1&quot; name=&quot;Stackoverflow User reputation&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;template&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;transform xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;output method=&quot;text&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;template match=&quot;/&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;id('hlinks-user')//span[@class='reputation-score']&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;/template&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/transform&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/template&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;pages&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;include&amp;gt;http://.*stackoverflow\.com/users/.*&amp;lt;/include&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/pages&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/generator&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20830/firefox-and-ie7-users-here-is-your-stackoverflow-search-plugin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;search plugin by Martin Klinke&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131861" LastEditorUserId="131861" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-18T07:39:16.833" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T14:50:26.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T06:59:15.203" Title="Firefox users - your Stack Overflow &quot;reputation&quot; microsummary!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="12364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12362" CreationDate="2008-08-23T16:51:14.737" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is great, it was a bit too large although easy to strip down to display just the number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141482" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:23.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12362" CreationDate="2009-01-07T11:19:52.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bug fixing:&#xA;The current version does not work with Firefox 3.0.5, as Fabricio Araujo mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solution:&#xA;Go to &lt;code&gt;%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\&amp;lt;profile-name&amp;gt;\microsummary-generators&lt;/code&gt; and edit the file &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow-user-reputation.xml&lt;/code&gt; (or similar). You have to remove the string &lt;code&gt;beta\.&lt;/code&gt;from the include tag. After a firefox reboot, you can choose the live title. And it works!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big thanks to Nicolay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:23.433" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12362" CreationDate="2009-01-19T11:31:17.913" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the mark up has been changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again go to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\&amp;lt;profile-name&amp;gt;\microsummary-generators &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And edit the file stackoverflow-user-reputation.xml (or similar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;id('hlinks')/child::span[position()=1]&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;text&amp;gt; - &amp;lt;/text&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;id('hlinks')/child::a[position()=2]&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of id('headerlinks').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with using the H1 and the Summary Count is that they don't have id's - it should be possible to pick them up, but without an id they're not guarenteed to be unique, and so there might be multiple instances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit to add:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a new link in the header, so update to position()=2 on the a selector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit to add:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've updated to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12362/firefox-users-your-stack-overflow-reputation-microsummary/12372#12372&quot;&gt;Sam Hasler's microsummaries&lt;/a&gt;, you'll need to update them today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least you should change replace all references to &lt;code&gt;hlinks&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;hlinks-user&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;id('hlinks-user')/span[@class='reputation-score']&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;variable name=&quot;moderator&quot;&#xA;          select=&quot;id('hlinks-user')/a[contains(@class, 'mod-flag-indicator')]&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the user info is now wrapped in a new span.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastEditorUserId="33051" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T08:01:02.853" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T08:01:02.853" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12362" CreationDate="2009-04-22T19:38:48.183" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made a better microsummary for the Recent Activity pages that also shows you reputation change, responses, edits, and badges. It works with any Stack based site, including Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sam.haslers.info/images/SO-SF-microsummaries.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sam.haslers.info/firefox-microsummaries.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Install my updated Microsummary here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2372/how-to-show-recent-activity-in-the-firefox-toolbar/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Micorsummary here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After installing the microsummary, bookmark your Recent Activity page, then right click on the bookmark, edit the properties, and choose the live title from the drop down on the name field&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated 2010-04-02:&lt;/strong&gt; Fixed reputation not found due to changes in SO HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated 2009-10-29:&lt;/strong&gt; Added messages awaiting moderator attention preceded by ♦.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated 2009-10-27:&lt;/strong&gt; Made &lt;code&gt;.*/users/recent/.*&lt;/code&gt; the only pattern in the include list so it should also work with any Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated 2009-10-14:&lt;/strong&gt; Rewrote as stats table was removed and totals now appear on tabs if there are any changes. Took the opportunity to make outputs conditional so they only appear when there is a change, which should make the summaries much shorter. See bottom of post for examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated 2009-10-13:&lt;/strong&gt; Fixed changes in the Recent Activity page breaking the XPaths. Hopefully the new XPaths I'm using should break less often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This generator for the Recent Activity page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;generator xmlns=&quot;http://www.mozilla.org/microsummaries/0.1&quot;&#xA; name=&quot;Microsummary for Recent Activity on Stack Overflow, Server Fault,&#xA; superuser.com, meta and any Stack Exchange site&quot;&#xA; uri=&quot;urn:{6eb273e2-c151-4fbb-aed7-73f4b3e2227b}&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;pages&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;include&amp;gt;^http://.*/users/recent/.*&amp;lt;/include&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/pages&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;template&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;transform xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;output method=&quot;text&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;template match=&quot;/&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;id('hlinks-user')/span[@class='reputation-score']&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;variable name=&quot;moderator&quot;&#xA;          select=&quot;id('hlinks')/a[contains(@class, 'mod-flag-indicator')]&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;variable name=&quot;rep_diff&quot; select=&quot;normalize-space(string(id('tabs')/a[2]/*))&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;variable name=&quot;responses&quot; select=&quot;normalize-space(string(id('tabs')/a[3]/*))&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;variable name=&quot;revisions&quot; select=&quot;normalize-space(string(id('tabs')/a[4]/*))&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;variable name=&quot;badges&quot;    select=&quot;normalize-space(string(id('tabs')/a[5]/*))&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;choose&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;when test=&quot;$rep_diff&amp;gt;'0'&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;text&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;/text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;$rep_diff&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/when&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;otherwise&amp;gt;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;$rep_diff&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/otherwise&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/choose&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;if test=&quot;$moderator !=''&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;text&amp;gt; ♦&amp;lt;/text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;$moderator&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/if&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;if test=&quot;$responses !=''&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;text&amp;gt; ✉&amp;lt;/text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;$responses&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/if&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;if test=&quot;$revisions !=''&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;text&amp;gt; ✄&amp;lt;/text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;$revisions&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/if&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;if test=&quot;$badges    !=''&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;text&amp;gt; ●&amp;lt;/text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;value-of select=&quot;$badges&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/if&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/template&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;/transform&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/template&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/generator&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will give a microsummarys like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;4,402                  no change&#xA;4,402+10 ✉3           +10 rep, 3 answer or comment responses&#xA;4,402 r3 ✄1           3 responses, 1 edit&#xA;4,402 b1               1 new badge&#xA;4,402+78 ✉4 ✄1 ●1    +78 rep, 4 answer or comment responses, 1 edit, 1 new badge&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="2541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-03T16:12:47.603" LastActivityDate="2010-05-03T16:12:47.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-03T16:12:47.603" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="12373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12374" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:46:18.297" Score="51" ViewCount="691" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the term &quot;programming related&quot; is open to interpretation.  Some people define it narrowly, others somewhat broadly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is community wiki owned.  If you deem it inappropriate, please downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote the responses which contain question types you believe are &lt;strong&gt;appropriate to ask&lt;/strong&gt; on StackOverflow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Correction:&lt;/strong&gt;   Downvoting community owned answers does not burn rep, so you can downvote the ones you believe are inappropriate, too.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/811/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; for coming up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176660/poll-should-poll-questions-without-a-finite-set-of-answers-be-immediately-closed&quot;&gt;this format&lt;/a&gt; for polls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T02:26:43.933" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T03:27:45.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:46:18.297" Title="Which types of &quot;programming related&quot; questions are appropriate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="26" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="12374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:46:25.787" Score="93" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions intended to resolve a specific programming problem that have only one correct answer.&#xA;A &quot;specific programming problem&quot; can be defined as a problem that exists in code and that can be&#xA;resolved with correct code (or cannot be resolved at all).  These questions are normally language-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:46:25.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:46:40.717" Score="93" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions intended to resolve a specific programming problem that have multiple possible answers.  As with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182833/poll-which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate#182834&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, but the &quot;correct&quot; response is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:46:40.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:46:56.393" Score="77" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about language-agnostic algorithms for hypothetical problems that have potential real-world applications.  For example, traveling salesman or BSP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:46:56.393" />
  <row Id="12377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:47:09.467" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about hypothetical problems that don't necessarily have real-world applications, for example&#xA;&quot;code golf&quot; or the &quot;FizzBuzz problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:47:09.467" />
  <row Id="12378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:47:22.663" Score="80" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about best practices and other aspects of programming, including use of software tools used in the development process,&#xA;standards for maintenance and readability of code, advice to avoid potential coding pitfalls, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:47:22.663" />
  <row Id="12379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:47:29.200" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about social engineering, management, or career building, ergonomics, or other &quot;soft&quot; topics related to development work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:47:29.200" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:47:46.890" Score="78" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about software tools that, while not directly related to software development, involve some scripting or programming themselves, for example, Office VBA, or Matlab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:47:46.890" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:48:02.147" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the use of software not directly related to programming, such as Microsoft Word, or usage (not programming!) of device drivers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T03:22:55.683" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T03:22:55.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:48:02.147" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:48:31.727" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about hardware considerations such as server environments, building an optimal machine, problems with hardware, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:48:31.727" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:48:55.563" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about programmers' favorite things (e.g. cartoons, books, movies, pop culture references).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:48:55.563" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="12384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-08T13:49:10.693" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polls about what StackOverflow is for (like this one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T13:49:10.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-12T08:28:46.757" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that get upvoted.  In other words, anything is game.  The community will adjust itself without the need for defining what is appropriate and a strict overseer group that closes what they deem doesn't belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131271" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-12T09:12:15.873" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-12T15:01:20.847" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about software used by programmers. For example &quot;How can I stop MS Project from changing my effort/end dates?&quot; or &quot;How do I create new shapes in Visio?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-12T15:01:20.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-12T15:02:26.087" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about other facets of software development, like best practices for analysis or QA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-12T15:02:26.087" />
  <row Id="12388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-13T12:32:41.973" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So called &quot;Homework Questions&quot; that would be at the level of a computer science course offered to high school students or first year college students. For example, something in line with the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~horton/cs101/homework3-assignment.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CS 101 homework assignment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-13T12:32:41.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-13T12:35:47.753" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code review or refactoring questions in which the user posts a block of code they have written and ask for the community to help them improve upon what they have written, similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RefactorMyCode.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-13T12:35:47.753" />
  <row Id="12390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-14T12:03:47.943" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Business of Software questions which largely focus on best practices and advice ranging from consulting advice, social networking, start-up funding, business plan development, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-14T12:06:59.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-14T12:15:20.603" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about deployment and support of applications past release, in particular towards design for maintainability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-14T12:15:20.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2008-10-14T15:04:49.590" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions which ask for examples of code from different languages, or styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm think those types of questions would be useful for people looking to see what other languages look like, to see if they might actually want to learn them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically any of the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone&quot;&gt;Rosetta-Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;( For example my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23930/factorial-algorithms-in-different-languages&quot;&gt;Factorial Algorithms in different languages&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-14T15:04:49.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2009-01-05T23:17:32.710" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You use the term &quot;programming related&quot;.  I interpret &quot;programming&quot; to mean the act of programming as opposed to &quot;the code&quot;.  It follows that &quot;programming related&quot; becomes a very broad topic.  So long as the author can show a fairly direct link between the topic and the act of programming, it should be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I would consider a question like &quot;What performance enhancing drugs actually help you write better code?&quot;  Should be allowed, though it may not be a popular question other than for novelty reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the &quot;programming related&quot; topic includes questions on software developer career paths, professional development, work place issues, programming language questions, ergonomics, development tools, new technology, developer mentoring (advice needed questions), methodology, dealing with management, dealing with sales/marketing, recent events relating to software development, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite unclear what the votes for questions and answers really mean.  The official FAQ doesn't seem to be any help here either.  I have assumed that it is a popularity contest.  If you like the question, vote it up as others will probably like it.  If you don't like it, vote it down.  If you don't care for it, don't touch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't promote up voting simply because the question is appropriate for this forum.  For example, a question like, &quot;What is the syntax for an &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; statement in C&quot; is appropriate, but probably not popular.  It should not get many up or down votes and should be answered very quickly and fall off the radar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131789" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T23:17:32.710" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2009-02-24T17:58:38.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions which elicit actionable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-24T17:58:38.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:21:26.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions which are not &lt;em&gt;programming-specific&lt;/em&gt;. If a question could apply to other topics as well as it applies to programming, it's not programming-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: asking what to do about coworkers who don't respect coding standards is a question about resolving problems in the workplace, and the answers will have to do with people skills, not programming. Asking about the usefulness of general education courses in college/university is a question that concerns students from all disciplines, not just CS or programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Downvote this if you agree that these questions do not belong on SO.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:21:26.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:28:23.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about this site. I know the &quot;trend&quot; is to redirect people to a uservoice, but I'm sorry, having to go to a different site to get information about this one is dumb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131050" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:53:45.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:28:23.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-19T18:08:57.393" Score="55" ViewCount="537" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello fellow CrackOverflow'ers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can follow development progress on Twitter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stack_o_bar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@stack_o_bar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a Google Groups in place for discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/stackoverflow-bar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/stackoverflow-bar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks guys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Developments&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The StackOverflow Bar has been accepted into the public as of 24 April 2009.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I finally caved in to some suggestions about posting the code and created a project on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.assembla.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Assembla&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.assembla.com/spaces/StackOverflowBar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Bar on Assembla.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;With this project I have included a ticket system. I was to busy to host it myself anyway.&#xA;So please use the facilities provided to give me some feedback, please.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bar is a search bar and quick access to some of the areas of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One button to access the home page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A search box, with history, to search Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A button to access the &quot;Ask Question&quot; link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 buttons to access &quot;Newest&quot;, &quot;Hot&quot;, &quot;Votes&quot;, &quot;Active&quot;, &quot;Unanswered&quot; and &quot;User&quot; areas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gcarreno.org/stackoverflowbar/img/stackoverflowbar.png&quot; width=&quot;600&quot; /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Need to change the screenshot :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please get the StackOverflow Bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9511&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;version 0.1.2.305&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've began to setup the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gcarreno.org/stackoverflowbar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bar's site&lt;/a&gt; and I've also created a Google Groups List (&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/stackoverflow-bar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Bar&lt;/a&gt;) where we can initiate our discussions about this bar.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Both are quite in the beginning so please be gentle on the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Todo List:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add notification with API calls.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct common typos on the variations of &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implement a drop-down on buttons with the top 5 entries on that SO area.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Gus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8167" LastEditorUserId="8167" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T02:21:28.413" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T02:21:28.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-10T21:53:30.350" Title="Firefox StackOverflow Toolbar" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-10-19T18:40:37.110" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a bad idea to ask people to install a plugin without providing, at the very least:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a description of what it does&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;screenshots or some other indication of what the user should expect to see when it's installed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a way to get it through formal channels (eg Firefox addons page)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132307" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-10-19T19:32:13.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4430" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-10-20T08:41:58.113" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I could bookmark the homepage, but since I always have a stackoverflow page open I always have a link to the homepage available.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't need search history (I already get that for the search box in the upper right corner, or I can use Firefox's Awesomebar feature to find previously visited pages)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, the ask question link is on every page, or I could bookmark it. (with a keyword if I wanted fast access to it without having to take my fingers off the keyboard)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, I could bookmark whatever pages I want fast access to and put them on my bookmarks toolbar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stackoverflow already highlights the search terms in search results.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't really see the need for this extension. When would it come in useful? What does it do that isn't available already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either you've created something that is unnecessary or you've failed to adequately describe the value of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-10-20T08:55:49.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the toolbar login as me, and alert me when people answer my questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131118" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-10-20T09:02:23.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always look at questions tagged as say some particular language &quot;c++&quot; or &quot;java&quot; or include both.New/Hot/Unanswered mean New/Hot/Unanswered in particular language.Do i have option for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130212" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T09:02:23.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-10-20T10:30:46.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I think making the last search result a button is a bad idea. Just use the history in the drop down list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The toolbar might be more useful if it opened new tabs, or at least had the option, maybe a checkbox on the toolbar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Add an item to the right-click context menu to search a highlighted term on StackOverflow. Again, open it in a new tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) Maybe have a &quot;Favorites&quot; button, and an option to save a question as a favorite question in the toolbar. And/or have an option in the Add-Ons preferences for a username, and display a list of the SO favorites from the profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5) Make the Newest/Hot/etc buttons with optional dropdown lists that will display the top x number of questions for that option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-11-18T20:49:23.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't much like toolbars in general, but providing some kind of browser integration could of course be handy. Still, why not just use the searchbar plugin that already exists, or perhaps write an &lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ubiquity&lt;/a&gt; command that's able to perform all the fancy SO-integration features you can think of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going through your ideas, here are my thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pointless. This is what bookmarks are for, and we already have those.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pointless. Firefox has a searchbar built in, and a SO plugin already exists for that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That'd be useful. But I'd personally rather see it as an Ubiquity command than a toolbar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See above, partly solved by bookmarks, but could be handy as well - but I'd rather see it in Ubiquity than a toolbar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T20:49:23.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12397" CreationDate="2008-11-26T11:31:38.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love it if it does..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tell me how many new questions there are since I last looked, for specific tags I choose. (ie. Delphi(3), C++(123) C#(313413342344),...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;notifies me if there're new answers to my question (as well as the comments).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:26.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T11:31:38.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:37:57.467" Score="40" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a number of users spamming the site today, either by asking the same question over and over, or by posting rap lyrics as comments in nearly every thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel powerless to stop it after I've used up my 5 offensives (and don't want to waste any more karma downvoting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to report patterns of spamming?  Is there anything I can do to help remove spam more quickly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8457" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T03:03:08.783" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:03:08.783" Title="How to deal with repeated abuse?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;spam-prevention&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="12407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:39:18.400" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering the same. Also I have to go through 'human verification' when I try to edit the offending posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT : I noticed few things after this :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 offensive votes per day? What's the logic. I want to mark as many offensive posts as I see.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Human verification after each 2-3 edits? If I've verified I'm human once at least give me 30 minutes before popping the question again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How come spammers are faster than all the other people combined?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:39:34.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply let the reputation to go negative values, once one reaches, say, -20 reputation he can't post for some time perioud, or gets deleted, castrated or what not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15409" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T03:39:34.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:39:42.437" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just used up my 5 offensives too. I'm of the opinion we &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/311030/we-need-more-moderators&quot;&gt;need more moderators&lt;/a&gt; - a few trusted individuals that can swiftly delete and ban spammers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I have an idea that might prevent abuse of the offensive flag and still allow users to have as many as they need in this case: Once a post is removed as offensive, the offensive votes are returned to the users. That way in this sort of rapid-fire situation the 'good guys' aren't stuck without ammo. (The potential abuse is a malicious user having 5 sock puppet accounts removing things as offensive without limit, but that would take more time to cultivate and operate than some two-bit drive-by spammer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; suggestion now &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/126720-return-offensive-votes-when-post-is-removed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice'd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:40:39.970" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes we have all wasted some points and offensive bids, but this discussion itself belongs on uservoice, we don't want to proliferate bad content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another note I think providing attention is just causing the enjoyment to grow, possibly ignore and stop editing his posts and maybe he/she will get bored faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12707" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:41:18.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These posts come all in one wave it seems.&lt;/strong&gt;  The offending person will keep posting until they get board.  One way to deal with this is to have a cap on how many questions can be asked in a given period of time.  Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have more then 2K rep you can edit their question and title or post to something not offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pax&lt;/strong&gt; had the point: A real risk in editing offensive questions: I think there's a 100-point hit on rep to the last editor when the question gets closed with 5 offense points. This could easily happen with 5 people having the 'bad' question open and flagging it without seeing your 'good' changes. Then you suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134504" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:43:43.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But what's going to keep him/her from getting a different login? This is a great site.  Doesn't it have moderator that could just delete and block abuse.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" />
  <row Id="12413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:45:47.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the podcast, Joel stated his opinion that the voting system can handle abuse.  Voting against an abuse post is one way for the voting system to handle the problem.  Another way the voting system can handle the problem is if we vote up legitimate questions.  So if you are afraid of spending any more reputation on spammers, you can still help by up voting legitimate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36737" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:48:48.360" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rate limiting would be nice, I see at least 6 posts done in the same minute by this spammer, that seems a bit excessive.  Putting an limit on the number of new questions per minute would clean things up a bit.  Start it at something reasonable like 5 and if that is hit or exceeded decrease it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134951" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:53:20.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until this ends, I am just using the &quot;Hot&quot; list instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138568" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" />
  <row Id="12416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:55:55.020" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend to offer to not only report the post as &quot;offensive&quot;, but if you report the second one from the same user as offensive that the system asks if you want to report the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; as offensive (or does automatically so).  This may help a little bit (although spammers would quickly change their strategy, but this time spam was not the problem, just a teenager having too much testosterone combined with whatever...). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" />
  <row Id="12417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:57:18.433" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened once before and I used the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of every page to notify the SO admins. The user was deleted shortly thereafter. I have done this today as well for 2pac but I'm not sure what hours the admins work, so it may take a while. Just ignore it, go away for a few hours. When you get back, things will be back to normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it happens again, I sure the admins will post a N-questions-per-minute limit along the lines of their comment add and delete policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't waste your downvote points, mark it offensive if you like, but trust in the admins to sort it out (either manually or by introducing some limitation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:58:03.893" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an earlier podcast, Joel suggested setting an &quot;evil&quot; bit on an abuser's account. All posts from that account could be made invisible to non-evil users. The abuser would see their posts normally, rather than seeing them getting removed. They would think they were just being ignored rather than thinking that they were really irritating someone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option mentioned would be slowing down the site for abusing IP addresses for some period of time. How long would you hang around if every page took 15-30 seconds to load?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think these features were ever implemented. Maybe it's time they should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" />
  <row Id="12419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:59:06.480" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a big deal, at least it hasn't been so far: how many examples of blatant, disruptive abuse have you seen in Stack Overflow since you started?  I haven't seen much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that poorly-written questions and questions that are clearly intended to farm rep instead of spread knowledge are a much bigger blight on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps users with only 1 reputation should only be allowed to post once / day.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12406" CreationDate="2009-06-25T20:20:34.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that I think would help:  If a spammer gets the boot then all negative points people got for reporting him are refunded.  This would remove the downside of reporting the scum and result in them getting closed and booted faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131798" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:54:42.713" />
  <row Id="12421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12424" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:08:49.193" Score="36" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been here very long, but it seems to me that I frequently see people with lots of badges and hundreds, if not thousands, of reputation points asking pretty simple questions.  I don't want to point any fingers at anyone, but I would like to know what the point of reputation is if you can't really trust it to evaluate the reliability of the poster's abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't to say that I haven't been learning things here or that I'm unhappy with the responses, just that my experience is that there doesn't seem to be a correlation between reputation and ability -- mostly just a correlation between reputation and longevity (on the site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts?  Ideas on how to fix it (if it's broken)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general consensus seems to be that the SO reputation system is not broken, but that you need to understand that reputation on SO is not the same as programming reputation.  Answers should be evaluated on content not on the basis of the answerer's reputation.  Reputation on SO is an extremely effective way to increase SO participation but not necessarily an accurate predictor of ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T16:02:43.287" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T16:02:43.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-09T11:50:19.483" Title="What does reputation really mean and do you pay attention to anyone's but your own?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="26" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:11:27.143" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A high reputation in MySQL doesn't necessarily mean you're a C# expert. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that questions that appear simple to one person look incredibly difficult to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, since Jeff and Joel want this to become a repository for programming answers, perhaps those who are most well qualified to answer questions are asking them so that they can be found in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:15:29.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation counter encourages participation, also, but not so much, encourages quality. For a newcomer, reputation may be a motivator to get hyperactive on stackoverflow. But for quality we have the peer recommendation which has contribution to the reputation as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140970" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:15:38.600" Score="76" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation here does not indicate &lt;strong&gt;programming&lt;/strong&gt; reputation. It indicates site &lt;strong&gt;participation&lt;/strong&gt; reputation. Look at what increased rep gives you. It does not give you the ability to answer harder questions. It gives more control over the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:15:41.253" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is doing exactly what it's designed to do...it's an arbitrary number that has no meaning but it's that little bit of competition between users that make it so that we want to come back and see if we got more rep.  And to gain rep we ask and answer questions thus making SO a site that people use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="648" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:18:36.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation (and badges) are due only to other users that have approved of your questions and answers. This does not really relate to the difficulty of the answers you give or questions you ask. So yes, longevity will always help, but the reputation is really a gauge of how involved you are in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1215" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:23:29.583" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a measure of how well you help the community rather than a measure of how much you know. People who help, and generally don't post silly answers will at the worst not get down voted, while those who post reasonable answers, even if they aren't the best, may get a few upvotes here and there, and eventually get lots of reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind reputation is to give people who can be trusted the ability to moderate the site. There's been talk on Uservoice of not showing reputation on Q/A's, for all sorts of reasons, this is probably one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know personally, I've posted my share of 'silly' questions. This doesn't make them 'bad' questions, just questions that are aimed at newer users. And I've learnt alot from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, I've been able to answer questions and help out other people here and there too. I've managed to get a decent amount of reputation, but if you look at my Q/A count, I think it only averages out to about 2 upvotes per Q/A. I'm no elite coder, I'm only a student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation was never designed (and never could be) to indicate skill-level. It's simple a general indicater of how much useful input they have had around the site. Whether that's a little bit that helped alot, or a lot that helped a little shouldn't matter. It's only affects how much we can do on the site. It shouldn't be used as an indicator of how much someone knows. People with low reputation post great answers sometime, and people with high reputation make me smack my head into my desk. But we're all here to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:29:49.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;reputation is like the points in an arcade game. badges are like the power-ups. both provide a little reward for participation and keep you coming back for more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they have nothing to do - necessarily - with programming skill. Especially considering the incredible popularity and number of fuzzy favorite-candy-bar-for-crunch-time questions ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since reputation gain is capped at 200 points per day, the rep score does place a lower limit on how long a poster has been a member of SO. For instance, at present, anyone with a rep score over 5000 must have been a private beta tester.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:33:21.233" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;/me wins&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really it's just a cunning ploy to get people to remain active in the site, rather than growing bored of it after a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to say, it works staggeringly well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:40:26.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the intent behind reputation has more to do with how helpful the member is to the community, whether it be by providing concise, timely, and correct answers or by asking questions well that a lot of people have found helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, in practice it means how popular that person's questions and answers have been in aggregate, including fluffy subjective questions with no technical merit as well as solid technical and well-informed answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-09T03:40:26.850" />
  <row Id="12431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T03:46:52.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are some very compelling answers as to what reputation means.  I wanted to also answer the first part of your question and say that when I'm looking at answers and deciding whether or not to up/down-vote them, I don't even look at a user's reputation.  It's only after voting that I notice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sad thing is that if somebody answers immediately and it's an OK answer, it will probably get up-voted, possibly drowning out the really good answers that take more time to craft.  My hope is that this will even out over time, when people come across questions on google and (hopefully) sign in to vote.  This is why whenever I ask a question and new answers show up after some time, I really take the time to read them and see if they're better than previous answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T04:42:57.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like @EBGreen said, reputation is just a measure of user participation. If user has high rep we can assume that he plays by rules and helping community. That's why high rep users have some control over the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately voting\reputation system is abused by subjective, off-topic questions. IMO polls like &quot;What is you fav X&quot; should not give any reputation points to thread participants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also voting system is badly balanced - i.e. 1 up vote = 4 down votes. IMO it's wrong. Up/down votes should be treated equally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that good idea is to measure user's rep per tag. For example if I answered (i.e. my answer was accepted) N times in X category (tag) than I can have &quot;X specialist&quot; badge. Another nice feature is to see level of participation of users, i.e. it could be a page with following charts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;N top users by # of accepted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;N top users by # of asked questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;N top users by total number of posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-09T04:42:57.597" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T04:49:40.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yet another pointless Stackoverflow discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T05:02:48.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyways there is no such thing as a dumb question some might say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T05:58:50.800" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Peace, Stackers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well as someone who was here relatively early, I can definitely attest to the fact high rep can bring out a dictatorial streak in a wee small few. Arguments about semantics have played out while I have been on a thread; a post gets closed, the post gets opened again, yet another comes along and closes it again; meanwhile I and others sit back a watch the show.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions during the StackOverflow beta would now be closed in minutes, and early adopters whom asked those particular questions accumulated alot of rep. With that being said, the rep gained was shared amongst a diverse range of individuals, all with differing, yet ultimately complementary demeanours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would like to get to 3000 and post community wiki posts from that point onward; just so I can't be bullied, nor allow others to be.  Yet, some seem to think the game is on, and someone has to win ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A strange game &lt;strike&gt; perhaps&lt;/strike&gt;. The only way to win is not to play &lt;strike&gt;along&lt;/strike&gt; . . .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a nice Game of Chess ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-09T11:40:36.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T12:01:26.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that poor and negative answers are getting voted down a lot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early good answers seem to get voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't noticed any other tends yet, but if jeff could do some statistical analysis of the answers asking things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how long was the answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how quickly was it answered?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does the answer contain code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what language is the code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does it contain a formula&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the results would be very interesting.  It would reveal how people vote and therefore what type of answer people want most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T12:07:20.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, the more the ability of a poster, the less he or she feel uncomfortable with asking simple questions. Programming nowadays includes constant learning, there's nothing wrong in learning simple things even if you're already good at something extremely complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T12:36:09.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is also an indication of how cleverly some people manage to ask open questions, that seem to get major voting, like this one;-)&#xA;(Perhaps I'm jealous cos I do not have time to think up such questions.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this phenomenon will die down after the beta period, once there are sufficient &quot;closed&quot; technical questions. I believe that there has already been some discussion in this area (although I can't find them with the search tool).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T12:42:59.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way to fix the issue (if there is one) would be to add more factors into the calculation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time would be a key one.  Reputation in real life diminishes over time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Negative reputation should have more influence than positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also trading of reputation points.  If someone is a master you might give them 10 points, its a way of recognising someone as being talented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136237" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-09T12:47:44.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't use someones reputation as a guide as to whether the answer is right or wrong. Use the communities up / down count as a guide. That's the whole point of the site. Good answers will float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking at reputation it means you're doing something wrong. The reputation is for more advanced areas of the site. Which logically you would want to protect from someone who has only just signed up (e.g. closing threads).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-10-29T15:04:21.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation reminds me of an incentive, which is considered not so good by some ;)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081001/how-hard-could-it-be-sins-of-commissions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081001/how-hard-could-it-be-sins-of-commissions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T15:04:21.480" />
  <row Id="12442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-12-04T05:07:25.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a distinction between 10 answers with one vote, and 1 answer with 10 votes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in my mind, the 10 vote one is more likely to be a &quot;good&quot; post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but then again, it also could just mean its a popular thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stuff like this is hard to normalize against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130781" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-04T05:07:25.000" />
  <row Id="12443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-12-15T17:23:34.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it depends on the subject tags. For c++, I find that reputation has so far correlated to quality of answer, at least in my unscientific observations so far :) Your mileage may vary with other subjects, not sure why that is and don't care to speculate :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T17:23:34.403" />
  <row Id="12444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2008-12-26T20:00:08.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it would be nice to have the ability to see reputation per tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-26T20:00:08.490" />
  <row Id="12445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2009-02-21T09:11:02.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The reward is reputation.&quot; --Marc Andreessen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The success of Stack Overflow demonstrates to me that Jeff Atwood made a great design decision to reward participation with reputation.  I thought he and others might find the following quote from &quot;The World is Flat&quot; by Thomas L. Friedman interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Apache Web server had its roots in&#xA;  this form of open-sourcing.  When I&#xA;  asked a friend of mine, Mike Arguello,&#xA;  an IT systems architect, to explain to&#xA;  me why people share knowledge or work&#xA;  in this way, he said, &quot;IT people tend&#xA;  to be very bright people and they want&#xA;  everybody to know just how brilliant&#xA;  they are.&quot;  Marc Andreessen, who&#xA;  invented the Mosaic Web browser,&#xA;  agreed: &quot;Open Source is nothing more&#xA;  than peer-reviewed science. Sometimes&#xA;  people contribute to these things&#xA;  because they make science, and they&#xA;  discover things, and the reward is&#xA;  reputation. . . the peer review part&#xA;  is critical.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Not that I'm particularly brilliant!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More context for this quote is available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com&lt;/a&gt; if you search for '&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=-mv_ryTuvo0C&amp;amp;pg=PA97&amp;amp;dq=andreessen+%22reward+is+reputation%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andreesen &quot;reward is reputation&quot;&lt;/a&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135774" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" />
  <row Id="12446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2009-02-21T09:25:38.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation tells me that someone has posted a lot of helpful answers ... the best indicator is to see if someone is highly active in your tag AND has a high reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation, alone is just a neat way for SO to say thanks to people who participate. Badges are another matter, looking how active someone is in a given tag brings it all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm highly active in Linux .. so if I answer a .NET question, someone with a reputation of 1 may (and probably does) know MUCH better than I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T09:25:38.627" />
  <row Id="12447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12421" CreationDate="2009-04-20T23:18:21.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could a more effective algorithm be developed to calculate a user's reputation?  Right now, it is easy to correlate longevity with reputation but it's hard to correlate quality answers with reputation.  I wonder if there would be a more effective calculation therefore...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently each up-vote per answer equates to 10 points...so 10 questions, 1 vote each carries the same reputation as 1 question with 10 up-votes, even though probabilistically (is that a word) speaking, the latter would carry more weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe if votes carried a sliding scale for example:  The first vote on a question is worth 1 point, the second is worth 2 points, third worth three etc, then someone having 20 votes on 1 answer is likely to have a far greater reputation than someone having 20 questions each garnering a single vote... 210 versus 20.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would probably make people think a lot harder about writing quality answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wouldn't completely combat the longevity vs. quality issue, but it would certainly make the gap between the two camps considerably more difficult to cross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T02:55:12.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-20T23:18:21.823" />
  <row Id="12448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-17T17:14:18.577" Score="28" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often wish my profile page on SO shows me the diff in votes for my questions / answers since last time I checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the SO team has more important things to worry about I decided to add this myself using a greasemonkey script: &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/33891.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: New Votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After you install the script , the first time you visit your user page it remembers how many votes each of your questions/answers has.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Upon every subsequent visit, if any of your questions has new up votes or down votes they are displayed next to the number [(+2) 14 votes] instead of just [14 votes].&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The data is saved locally and updated every time you visit you profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only tested with Firefox3 on WinXP but it should work across OSes and FF versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you find this useful, if you have any problems bugs / feature requests let me know in the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &#xA;Now also shows the total reputation increase / decrease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="238" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-16T17:43:17.317" LastActivityDate="2011-01-16T17:43:17.317" Title="Greasemonkey users: Here is your vote/reputation info plug-in for StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="12449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2008-09-17T17:16:09.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/track-your-reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:02.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2008-09-17T17:19:35.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both other options are interesting, but one of them requires running external applications, the other requires accessing an external server (where anyone can view your page and mess your stats , or can go offline ...), this solution works locally in the browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually I hope the SO team implements this officially so none of the hacks will be needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="238" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:02.283" />
  <row Id="12452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2008-09-22T20:19:06.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, doesn't seem to work in Opera (9.52 under Linux)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opera has had user JS (basically just injecting script imports into pages) for years and the last couple have also support Greasemonkey-type JS files, which I've used and are using successfully, so I'm not sure what's breaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could possibly be because your script has a dependency on JQuery.. but the SO pages import JQuery so I would assume it would be allowed to access that stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a brief look at the code (I'm not really that up on JS) it should be popping up an alert() if it fails to find JQuery anyway, and I'm not getting that either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will have a play and see if I can get it working..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I have to go to work now, but in the 2min I've spent, it if failing in &lt;code&gt;GM_wait()&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;function GM_wait() {&#xA;    alert('entering GM_Wait'); // fires&#xA;	if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;	    alert('fail'); // never fires&#xA;	    window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;	} else {&#xA;	    alert('win'); // never fires&#xA;	    $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery;&#xA;	    letsJQuery();&#xA;	}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically &lt;code&gt;unsafeWindow&lt;/code&gt; is not defined.. it may be that Opera just doesn't support this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will play more when I get time..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:02.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2008-09-28T21:24:01.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to insert this line at line 39:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    if (typeof previous_votes.reputation == 'undefined') previous_votes.reputation = {};&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3, Vista. (Complained about previous_votes.reputation being not defined on the first run)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:02.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2009-05-02T23:01:13.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding SCdF:&#xA;You want to do;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// Check if jQuery's loaded&#xA;function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if (window.opera) {&#xA;    var unsafeWindow=window;&#xA;    }&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); }&#xA;    else { $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); }&#xA;    }&#xA;GM_wait();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to make it happen as userscript in Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:02.283" />
  <row Id="12455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-15T18:20:36.403" Score="37" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of 12:30 EST on November 15th, there were 30,658 registered users of Stack Overflow, of whom 1,458 had at least a 750 reputation and could therefore edit Community Wiki posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that if only 4.75% of the community can edit a wiki, it is neither &quot;Community&quot; nor &quot;Wiki&quot;. The average technical question or answer seems to get one or two upvotes, and so a user who wants to become &quot;trusted by the system&quot; would have to post around 40 questions and/or answers before becoming &quot;trusted&quot;. This can take longer if the user's expertise is in a niche, since people can't vote for questions and answers they don't read in the first place. The bar should be lowered to 250 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a silly argument on slashdot, where karma only means your posts get a bonus point. But on SO you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; reputation to take full advantage of the site. The intention of SO is to serve as a reliable repository of programming and programming-related knowledge, but the reputation system incents people to post frequently and quickly so they can &quot;earn the system's trust&quot;. It also encourages people to add to the cacophony rather than to the community, because you only get points by having non-CW questions and answers. A quiet comment may add just as much value, but a whole new answer might result in 10 points and being able to take advantage of more of SO's features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, a person with niche expertise who monitors, maintains, or adds valuable information to older questions contributes just as much to the site, but gets rewarded less for it. That's not very wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point I'd like to make is that there is an aversion to discussing SO on SO, especially if it's for reputation points. Why? First of all, the user interface of this website is the balls. There are a few things that could be added or tweaked, but overall it's one of the best interfaces I've ever used. Second, this is where the SO community will see it. Uservoice is not nearly as popular and it has a lot of limitations (like needing to have votes to ask questions) that SO doesn't have. Third--and this is the important one--I think that participating in the community SHOULD earn reputation points. For all its warts, the people who have the most juice on Wikipedia are the ones who care most about &lt;em&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/em&gt;; not the expert on banana slugs who keeps the Banana Slug article up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like this site. I've been pleased to get quick answers to some programming questions. I've read some really solid advice about design and project management. And the other users are generally smart and nearly always friendly and helpful. I'm not whining about the site or complaining about it; I'm just trying to help it become what it was intended to be because I think it would be a net gain for us all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm not making this community wiki, either. I invested a lot of time in writing it, I believe in what I said, and if the SO community agrees with me then there's no better way for the system to indicate that it &quot;trusts&quot; me then to increase me authority on the site. (And if they disagree I'll lose points and authority; so the reward is balanced by the risks.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Note it's tagged appropriately so if you don't like these types of &quot;questions&quot;, just filter out the tags.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: This &quot;question&quot; has received 13 net votes in the last 12 hours. My other questions (well, 4 out of 5 of them) are specific questions about programming issues and they haven't received more than 5 votes in the last month. This illustrates why there are so many soft questions (or &quot;questions with broad appeal&quot;), as well as points out that there are a lot more people on SO with an opinion about SO than there are people with an opinion about--say--XSLT.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T03:18:03.840" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:18:03.840" Title="&quot;Community Wiki&quot; and SO meta-discussion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T18:37:31.970" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ok, I initially posted this as a comment to the question, but in the spirit of the question I'm going to post it as an answer and &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; set it to community wiki.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with you about needing votes on uservoice to ask questions being a nuisance. I've currently got a list of 5 suggestions that I don't have the votes to submit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" />
  <row Id="12457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T18:38:06.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also of note, I probably would have invested more time in converting the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;community faq&lt;/a&gt; to modularised questions if it wasn't convention to have sofaq questions as Community Wiki. There'd probably be a lot more work on the faq if people could gain reputation for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T18:46:19.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be cool if the 'accepted' answer is cloned to the top rather than pinned to the top, and the accepted answer is automatically community wiki and editable by more people, and the person who wrote it is not credited, and there is strong reputation incentive for editors to organize and update the answer.  The whole tie between answers and people is counterproductive to the community paradigm.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;high rep incentives for good editing, equally high rep penalties for bias editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;disclaimer: I haven't fleshed this thought out too well / IANJA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T18:57:06.503" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice rant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree completely with your first point - the bar is &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; too high for wiki editing. There is an almost schizophrenic attitude towards wiki editing on this site, paying lip service toward the benefits but features actually implemented heavily in favor of strong &quot;ownership&quot; for posts. The &quot;community wiki&quot; option is a baby step in the right direction, but the fact is that the vast majority of posts on this site require users to attain &gt;= 2K rep points in order to participate in editing. At one point, I was hopeful that the bar would be lowered - &quot;community wiki&quot; mode could be triggered by a relatively small number of edits - but instead CW-mode appears to have been &lt;em&gt;de-&lt;/em&gt;emphasized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aversion to discussing SO on SO is simple: a discussion such as this is utterly useless to the vast majority of potential SO users. Even the most obscure programming topic might well have a fair number of people searching for it over a long enough period of time, but SO discussions are relevant only to hard-core SO users. The general consensus then has been to discuss only topics that might be relevant to a large number of SO users (FAQs), and to put them in CW mode so that the largest possible number of authors and editors can contribute. Site suggestions may be discussed here, but should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be cross-posted to UV since the discussion here will be deleted once it has outlived its usefulness (and rightly so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And I'm not making this community&#xA;  wiki, either. I invested a lot of time&#xA;  in writing it, I believe in what I&#xA;  said, and if the SO community agrees&#xA;  with me then there's no better way for&#xA;  the system to indicate that it&#xA;  &quot;trusts&quot; me then to increase me&#xA;  authority on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want authority on the site for posting a rant? Bah. I think your rant is worth reading, but I won't up-vote it now because it is not generally useful. The time you invested in writing this could have been spent answering questions that would continue to benefit others for months or years to come, but instead you blew it on a laundry list of gripes and complaints that will be quickly forgotten and probably deleted. Tell me again, why do you think voicing complaints shared by many others who have opted to direct them in more productive directions (UV, emails to site admins) should net you community cred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm putting my reply in CW mode, not because i think anyone will want to edit it, but because I recognize that regardless of who agrees or disagrees, it benefits only my own ego, and therefore the approval of others should not be reflected in my site ranking. If you disagree, vote it down - unlike a corresponding down-vote for your &quot;question&quot;, it won't affect anyone's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-15T18:57:06.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:07:49.430" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;750 rep required for Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a maximum of 200 reps/day. In 4 days you can edit Wiki post... (4x200=800reps). This is mathematic fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, 200 reps is only 20 vote up... it takes about 3-4 good answers (good quality answer get over 6 votes see Jon Skeet answers) to get 200 reps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you write about 3-4 good answer for 4 days you get the 750 reps required. That isn't that much high if you are interested to edit wiki post. My point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-15T19:07:49.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:11:04.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first joined this site, I saw the list of rep points required for most actions. I thought it would be completely unreachable for somebody like me. So I decided to just lurk and answer an easy question if it came along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time it calmly went like this, and it took forever to reach the 100 rep mark. But that won't discourage me. And when I finally reached the 100 mark, I felt I knew what kind of answers where valuable and which are not. So I kept answering, editing and deleting a lot, until I am where I am today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have enough rep points to do anything at the site possisble for non mods. But still the main focus to provide usefull questions. But now I can help a bit more to keep the quality as high as possible. And that's in my opinion the heart of SO. Providing quality without central authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I agree that there is a need to provide a space for more discussion. But I'm also convinced that that space will be created. Because we are a creative kind of people. And we are all trained to find solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I onced did a suggestion to start such a site. But made the mistake to call it a social site, so my question was closed early. But then again, if a couple of people of SO are joining hands we have a discussion site up and running n no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These where my two cents for now ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" />
  <row Id="12462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:17:20.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Shog9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your thoughtful critique. Here is my reply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody has the authority to rant. You don't even need to register to ask a question. And I have the authority to edit CW posts, so I'm not in need of any more rep points. (I waited until I hit 750 to post this to make sure of that.) I chose to not make it CW to emphasize that the site should trust you because you have chosen to support and nurture the site--not because you're an [insert your favorite technology here] guru.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, there is a difference between &quot;community&quot; reputation and &quot;content&quot; reputation. The authority to edit the wiki should indicate that you will handle the responsibility responsibly. A good steward will only edit the wiki if he or she has something to contribute. But I know plenty of very technically-savvy individuals who--if given edit powers--would act like abusive jerks and would shut down any dissenting points of view. The effect on StackOverflow is that people get trusted based on contributing popular content, rather than on being trustworthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lowering the bar will, I think, allow more of the quiet stewards in while still keeping out the spammers and l337 hax0rs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brings me to your other point about discussing SO on SO. If you believe (as I do) that SO has an excellent user interface, and that discussions about the community should take place within that community, and that people who participate in those discussions should earn the system's trust, then SO is the place to do it. Your concern about the &quot;vast majority of potential SO users&quot; is misplaced because a) if they're looking for specific information they won't even see this question and b) if they really like the site and would like to participate in the community it's discussions like this one that will bring them up to speed on the culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate your point about clutter. Perhaps people should earn 100 points before they can see or use the &quot;stackoverflow&quot; tag. But I believe that these discussions are what build communities and trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also posting this answer as CW to demonstrate that I'm not just rep-whoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-15T19:17:20.877" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:22:57.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a few points/observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are less than 7000 users with a rep of 100+, the majority of the 30k+ users you mentioned are those that just came here to ask a question or two and don't actively participate.  So about 20% of even semi-regular users can currently edit CW posts.  The rest can accumulate enough rep to do so in under a week with moderate participation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree about discussing SO on SO, the audience is much wider than on uservoice and you can get a feel for the support of your idea quickly.  If there is enough support you can post the request on uservoice with a link the the original post on SO and then indicate you have done so in the question so that people that support your idea can vote for it at uservoice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Regarding reputation gains on questions that some people think should be CW, I personally don't care.  I think that some people may be more likely to post a response if there is the opportunity for them to receive rep from it so doing so may help attract more answers.  There are plenty of ways questions can become CW, those that people feel should become CW usually do anyway, I don't see anything wrong with getting rep from the question until it does.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:25:10.813" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There'll never be a perfect system, but I like the vision behind SO.  You have to give people incentives, and the reputation (with its downsides) does that pretty well.  SO might consider adding up votes to user profiles, but that might be adding too much complexity to such a simple and elegant system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I know is I like getting great answers (which I have) and I like the feeling of giving a good answer (which I'm working on - only got a few so far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25538" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" />
  <row Id="12465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:38:50.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem like the Wiki aspects of the site are really taking off. I know Joel and Jeff have suggested that people edit posts, consolidate responses, and try to turn questions into more concise documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I haven't seen this happening much, and it may just be at odds with the Q-and-A format. A discussion thread isn't an article, and there's no reason or incentive for people to turn it into one. They're two entirely different formats, with different styles of writing, and different goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So unless there are significant changes, I don't see the &quot;wiki&quot; features being used for more than just correcting typos and tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4321" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" />
  <row Id="12466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:57:33.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to begin by saying that this post was a TL;DR for me, so I'm probably missing the point of the original post.  But that's not going to stop me from posting my opinion anyway. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily know if Community Wiki needs to go away.  But I do feel that it's a bit of a disincentive for me to vote on a post that has good content.  After all, why should I waste one of my 30 votes a day voting on something that isn't going to reward the person who wrote such a great post?  That's not to say that I don't think such posts shouldn't be voted up anyway, it's just a matter of priorities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are several thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be some way of getting rep off of community wiki posts, even if it's not as much as what you would get off of a regular post or it isn't as easy to get.  Like suppose instead of voting up the post itself, you can upvote individual edits to that post.  That way people will have incentive for improving the quality of community wiki posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes on community wiki topics shouldn't count towards your 30/day limit.  After all, the point of introducing the vote limits was to prevent automated voting.  Since you can't get rep off of these posts anyway, there's not any possibility for this abuse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you who had the &quot;But do we really want people getting rep from topics like 'What's your favorite programmer cartoon?&quot; reaction to number 1:  I think we're using the community wiki designation when we really should be using something like &quot;off topic&quot; instead.  Maybe it's time to investigate this as an alternative to the Community Wiki designation.  I'm not fond of people being able to rake in rep by posting off-topic stuff either (as much as I like the programmer cartoon thread).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So those are my thoughts.  I think I may post one of the two ideas above on uservoice.  If you have any thoughts, feel free to post them in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12455" CreationDate="2008-11-15T20:25:08.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uservoice introduces itself with the following phrase, presumably a statement of purpose:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've participated in the Stack Overflow beta, perhaps you've found a bug, or you've got an idea for new or enhanced Stack Overflow functionality. This is the place to tell us!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like it's a retired site now, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:14.467" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-16T06:40:51.573" Score="36" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the profiles of the users with the most reputation I started to wonder: are those people working besides asking and answering on stackoverflow? Or are they the superstars Steve Yegge writes about in &lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Done, and Gets Things Smart&quot;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this is a question that can be answered from several viewpoints:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you are a user with reputation over 5000 or so: how do you find the time?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you are a potential employer: would you prefer someone with higher reputation?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you are a user with low/no reputation: how do you think, they are doing it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Call it envy, but reaching the reputation gain limit each day seems like a great accomplishment to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I would be an employer, I would be ambivalent about the question in the title.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As a mere user of this site (who is wasting too much time here already), I stand in awe and most of the time ask myself: why couldn't I come up with those brilliant anwers (sometimes I even find the question brilliant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1398" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T03:17:38.660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:17:38.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T07:40:12.513" Title="Top users on stackoverflow: slackers or superstars?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="24" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T06:47:32.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, they know how to answer quickly and effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T06:49:40.620" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;if you are a user with reputation over 5000 or so: how do you find the time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm 16 and don't have a job. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T06:53:03.607" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They know how to ask broad, open-ended questions that everyone else (and their respective dogs) feel the need to answer. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150586" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T07:07:50.957" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;High reputation doesn't necessary mean that these users spend on website more time than anyone else. It usually means that these users are active in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;general (usually non-technical) questions&lt;/a&gt; that attract lots of eyes and therefore are more rewarding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of my reputation (but not that I really care about it) is coming from easy answers which is actually quite sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T07:31:23.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a reputation over 5000 and I personally find that I don't spend all that much time here.  I just stick to answering questions that I know the answers to, sticking to technologies that I know.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also find that compared to some, I have grown my reputation slowly, averaging about 100 pts per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't really care that much about my rep score.  yes, its nice that I have all of the &quot;power&quot; to contribute, but I personally take more joy in knowing that i might have helped someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T07:36:55.733" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Difficult to give a categorical answer to that... although I'd say yes the slackers will outnumber the superstars.&#xA;I've yet to post my review of SO :) (today..3 months old on SO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;if you are a user with reputation over 5000 or so: how do you find the&#xA;  time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just under 5K... I have a job and its difficult to keep up with the head of the pack. I've kind of loosened up after reaching 4K.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;if you are a potential employer: would you prefer someone with higher&#xA;  reputation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that's a good subset to start with. Look at the first 15 or so of their top-voted answers.. It gives you a fair picture. If you find a low number of subjective/poll/religion-war type posts that are not wikified.. chances are he's a superstar (or Jon Skeet most probably :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;if you are a user with low/no reputation: how do you think, they are&#xA;  doing it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right way: Getting rep for me has been easy in that, a good answer just spikes up your rep and then keeps raking in small amounts in the future. Also getting the 1 and 2 up-votes via regular participation also helps.&#xA;Easy way: Earlier polls earned lots of ppl lots of rep. Also witty OT threads like cartoons, quotes, jokes, worked. Now with the community wiki norm, the easy way is to pop a question that everyone may have an opinion on. Tough technical questions in a narrow niche (though the problem that SO set out to solve) doesn't get you that many brownie points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-16T07:36:55.733" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T09:31:58.263" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of them are independent consultants, I suppose. I saw one has contributed to a book... That doesn't mean they have necessarily lot of free time, but refreshing from time to time the list of questions can help relaxing the mind by answering some simple questions (change of activity is relaxing, at least for me!). Some are students, like Jeremy, others are out of job, you can have lot of cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can answer a lot on your free time, if you are addicted enough... Having no life (family, etc.) can help! ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As lubos points out, some high scores are given by answering broad (like your!), popular questions, particularly humorous ones. Now, I don't think one can get high reputation only by this mean: being competent and helpful helps too...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Personally, I managed to answer lot of questions, a number of them elected, but without up vote. Answering obscure questions doesn't help much in increasing reputation (not that I mind, actually, I do that mostly for fun and self-education). Lot of people forget to elect an answer, too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I don't take too highly the goal of having high reputation, although it is still a nice thing to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer one of your question, I think employers can still be interested by the high reputation. Personally, I don't see this as a sign of being a slacker! It shows at least interest for programming, which is important in my eye.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And to answer your title, high reputation members are neither slackers nor superstars, just competent people dedicating lot of time on SO, perhaps from the alpha stage of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140012" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T11:25:31.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you are a potential employer: would you prefer someone with higher reputation? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be very concerned if this rep was earned over a short time while in full time employment.  Reason being, I know when I started using SO, I got the bug and wasted a lot of time myself.  Given that so much rep is now based on soft fluffy subjects (like this), IMO it means nothing positive in itself.  You have to look at the individual answers given in your companies domain / area of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TBH, if I was an SO regular looking for a job, and I planned on citing my SO posts in my resume or at interview, I would trim out all the fluffy answers first.  Even if it did decimate my rep.  A smaller set of really good technical answers would look better from an employers perspective than a mountain of fluff.  I posted an idea on user voice &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/39746&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on my ideas for making rep a bit more meaningful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143582" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-16T11:25:31.327" />
  <row Id="12477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T12:51:51.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone with a rep of over 1850 is definitely a slacker! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133155" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T13:00:26.673" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has replaced the time I used to spend doing crosswords, playing solitaire on my phone and bathing, so it's a break-even situation for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T13:07:38.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do SO in my free time. (i am embedded linux programmer at work)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seldom, i wouldn't answer the question which i knew, but something interesting problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because, it less waste my free time. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T13:39:49.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No system built on what is fundamentally a popularity rating will ever be without leaks.  But that doesn't mean there isn't something to be said for the system working that way on purpose, however.  The fluff attracts attention, and attention widens the diversity of people available on hand.  More diversity == larger pool of knowledge overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the fluff were to start getting in the way of actual non-fluff Q&amp;amp;A activity, then it might be time to reevaluate the system.  I think SO works pretty well as is, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19825" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-16T13:48:07.950" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a long-ish commute both ways each day: a 3G data dongle lets me answer questions during that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spend a fair amount of time in the evening on my computer for whatever reason (coding, writing talks or articles, etc) - I pop onto SO every so often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While at work, I tend to check SO while I have tests running, a deploy, or a build. I hope my colleagues wouldn't regard me as a slacker though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To respond to the suggestion that people with a lot of rep tend to get it from &quot;fluffy&quot; questions which get lots of votes: that doesn't actually help very much. You'll get a lot of votes within a short time, which can only add up to 200 rep per day. Getting 200 rep per day from &quot;real&quot; questions isn't particularly hard. The difficult bit of getting rep is going &lt;em&gt;beyond&lt;/em&gt; 200 a day, which requires getting answers accepted. That's easier with narrow questions where there will be few answers. At only 15 points per accepted answer though, it takes a lot of work to make up for missing a single day's 200 &quot;easy&quot; points. (Of course, you could still get plenty of rep while not actually posting during a day, due to older answers still getting votes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-17T11:39:09.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just think this reputation stuff is just bad.&#xA;I mean look around you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-17T13:53:12.323" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep system is inherently broken- so that difficult and pointed questions don't get as much attention as others-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You read 'questions' that you can relate with- if it is a real question or not doesn't matter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can only really upvote answers you agree with.  If you dont' know the answer, you &#xA;can't agree.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You only feel compelled to upvote questiosn you find entertaining or helpful.  If it is something that you can't answer, why would you upvote it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;check stackoverflow.uservoice.com for several discussions on this and proposed fixes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-17T13:55:02.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually making a question gives you enough good reputation, more than answering.&#xA;Doing the RIGHT question gives you MOAR ( more .P ) reputation .. so, key is popularity ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-17T15:30:36.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't spend much time on SO (about 30-40 minutes 3 or 4 days a week), and do try to answer &quot;real&quot; questions as well as I can.&#xA;I don't have time to play the reputation game, and quickly saw it as the game it was.&#xA;My personal stats,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;400 points from &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 Questions (each with 0 votes) + 18 Answers, including&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 Correct answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 Answers to &quot;Fluffy&quot; questions (not including this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;42.5% of my Rep comes for from the 2 fluffy answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implies the Hard Work gone into 16 answers just tops the rep from 2 bits of Fluff.&#xA;I'm not complaining, just highlighting the fact that that the Fluff gets a disproportionate amount of attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yeah, if my answers were better I'd get better rep, I know, I'm only an ould ejit blah blah blah :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. To prove I'm not intrested in Rep, this answer is CW&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18797" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-17T15:43:42.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-17T15:35:08.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do the majority of my SO browsing in the early morning and evening in between work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While at work, I'll keep it open in a tab, and usually answer a question when I need a mental break, or I've got a long running task going that needs to finish. The trick is to know your priorities...It would be wrong to be SO'ing at work when we have a release the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm incredibly productive, and I work for a very flexible company that isn't totalitarian about internet usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interesting thing about reputation is that I continue to gain 200 a day almost without effort, as people read older answers by me and continue to vote them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Skeet mentioned, it becomes more of a challenge of not only writing a good answer, but writing the answer that is ultimately accepted. This is difficult, because that form of answer takes a lot of time, and usually by the time I'm done, the fastest gun in the west has already been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-17T15:47:16.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wanted 2000 pts. to be able to edit all the grammatical and syntax errors on the site. Now I just pop in now and then and answer a random question. From time to time I also search for unanswered questions in my field of expertise and that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" />
  <row Id="12488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-11-29T03:56:19.423" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;at first, it was the shiny badges you got just for trying things out&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then it was the power-ups when you hit certain levels... voting on posts, adding comments, that sort of thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nothing major, it just starts with a trickle...and the first one is always free...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and soon you're checking SO when you compile. and when you're at lunch. and when you're supposed to be paying attention to a conference call&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they hook you when you're young, when you don't know any better, when your resistance is low...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...they dangle shiny things in front of you: badges! priviledges! powers! respect of your peers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;by the time you hit 500, you're completely hooked. You start each day thinking &quot;how much did i gain overnight?&quot;. You end each day refreshing the unanswered-questions page over and over, hoping for Just. One. More. Easy. Answer. before bedtime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then you think, hey, if i hit 3000, i can reopen questions that certain can't-take-the-stick-out SO-and-SOs like to close before they even have a chance to garner a sarcastic comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then you think, whoa, 500 more points and i'll pass by that jackass who ticked me off when i was just a noob - take that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then  you think, hey, 1000 more points and i'll show up on page two of the users list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then you think, another 2000 points and i'll show up on page one of the users list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then one day you think: i've finally hit page one! and i'm halfway to Jon Skeet's rep! woo-hoo! &lt;strong&gt;superslackerstardom!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but then ugly reality sets in: you will &lt;em&gt;never reach, much less pass, Jon Skeet's rep rating&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;for numerous reaons&lt;/a&gt; - so you might as well get back to work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the good news is that after a few weeks, it is possible to wean yourself back to a healthy level of participation - an hour a day or less - and still find the occasional juicy question that gives you the overnight boost that you still seem to crave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i just live in fear that one day the freebies will stop and then i'll have to pay for my SO fix...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2008-12-11T00:20:34.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A reputation OVER NINE THOUSAND only means that your mind is about to match a Jon Skeet bot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T00:20:34.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2009-05-03T11:56:27.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would be that hard, I'm a non-programmer that uses SO to improve my knowledge and understanding of topics by explaining things to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically I'm active in a number of tags (WiX, windowsinstaller, vmware and the like) and I keep track of these via RSS feeds rather than by visiting the site. Keeping track of topics you're interested in via RSS makes monitoring SO a very, very easy task :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="592" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-03T11:56:27.207" />
  <row Id="12491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2009-05-03T12:14:29.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if you are a user with reputation over&#xA;  5000 or so: how do you find the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, it also depends of how much time you are subscribed to Stack Overflow. A person answering questions for over a year will naturally have a much higher reputation that someone asking the same average number of questions/week for only a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the true answer is this: the super stars programmers that can answer any random question quickly work in nice, laid-back jobs where they are respected. They are not coding monkeys and they don't have to work overtime and weekends. So they can answer your puny questions in their (ample) spare time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-03T12:14:29.783" />
  <row Id="12492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12468" CreationDate="2009-05-03T12:35:42.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer from two sides at once:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are a potential employer: would you prefer someone with higher reputation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are a user with low/no reputation: how do you think, they are doing it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a potential employer, but if I was I would not assume a high reputation means you are a good developer, or that a low reputation means you are a bad developer. Getting high reputation definitely requires some knowledge, but it also requires you to be a good writer and have some time to devote. It also requires you to have a &quot;teacher&quot; mind set. If you are looking for an evangelist or dev lead type, high rep might be a good indicator, but you should not use it as a deciding factor between two developers, or to get an initial selection of candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a pretty lousy writer and I have very little patience, so I never write long answers and I expect to be a low rep guy basically forever. I'm a great developer though, and I'd be a great hire for most employers. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:11:27.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-03T12:35:42.900" />
  <row Id="12493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T03:14:04.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall, I consider reputation a reasonable metric, especially for those above 10000.  People with this kind of reputation demonstrate persistence and a reasonable level of knowledge and skill.  However, reputation is not without its problems.  All other things being equal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers for popular questions (having a higher number of views) tend to get more rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Funny answers or answers that resonate with a particular &quot;group&quot; (test-driven developers, for example)tend to get more rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First answers tend to get more rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers to difficult questions, which should be rewarded with more rep, tend to get less rep because it is difficult for others to determine if the answer is really correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep is highly sensitive to how much detail is given in the answer.  Too much or too little detail, and rep decreases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers to clearly-worded questions tend to get more rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers to questions that have no clearly correct answer will get more rep, as those who agree with their own opinion vote up the matching answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers to controversial questions will get more rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offer for your perusal the following question.  This question took me literally ten seconds to answer, and perversely returned 280 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1111194/c-function-to-find-the-delta-of-two-numbers/1111218#1111218&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1111194/c-function-to-find-the-delta-of-two-numbers/1111218#1111218&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question continued to return rep for a relatively long period of time because the community didn't take the question seriously, and began adding joke answers (the question itself is at -3 votes), which pushed it to the top of the stack on the front page several times as an active question (the question itself has been viewed 465 times).  Of course, I was all too happy to fan the flames by asking if anyone had the recursive answer, the linq version, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't even get me started on the whole Community Wiki/Rep-Whoring thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:04.690" />
  <row Id="12494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-06T04:56:27.077" Score="35" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that SO has launched with a stable and wonderful engine, would I be completely excommunicated for wanting a replicate / evil-twin site running the same engine, but solely for questions of a more off-topic, tongue-in-cheek nature? Sort of how &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has the &lt;a href=&quot;http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uncyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO is largely (if not entirely) community-moderated, this shouldn't theoretically require a lot of extra work on the part of the SO team, and the rep systems could even be kept separate to keep the integrity of SO rep independent of the more casual/informal SU rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions that would be allowed on the &lt;em&gt;dark side&lt;/em&gt; of the stack:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the best geek hangout (ie. cheap beer and free wifi) in the Bay Area?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could Kirk kick Picards ass, and &lt;em&gt;exactly how hard&lt;/em&gt; on a scale of 1 - 10?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is Jon Skeet a real person or a Chinese question-answering sweat shop?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How badly do you want to be Jon Skeet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could Jon Skeet kick Picards ass, and &lt;em&gt;exactly how hard&lt;/em&gt; on a scale of 1 - 33.5k?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Stack&lt;i&gt;under&lt;/i&gt;flow.com isn't available, I just liked the pun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.P.S. I think that BufferUnderrun.com is the better name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.P.P.S. In case the between-the-lines-subtext is lost on you, the question is: Would the community support and use such a dual-site setup; and would the SO staff/implementors consider actually making it a reality? See, there was a real question in here, and while it isn't programming related, it is related to the SO community and the fabric of SO itself. &lt;em&gt;So there&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164038" LastEditorUserId="143601" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-09T20:16:59.267" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T20:16:59.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T05:22:43.840" Title="Would a Stackunderflow.com site for offtopic questions be heresy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="26" CommentCount="24" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="12495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:01:08.893" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of your question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. This is completely unacceptable. You shall be burned at the stake. Insert Monty Python reference here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:01:34.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;LOL I think this would be fun :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" />
  <row Id="12497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:04:28.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's only one person who could answer this question.... Jon Skeel!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T05:06:11.363" />
  <row Id="12498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:04:52.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;let the rep harvesting begin...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140803" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T05:09:51.370" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:07:55.180" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if people closed everything the least bit programming related, no matter how poor natured or un-funny it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145917" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:09:28.767" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Erm, how about Buffer Underrun? As in, out of on-topic posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1685" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:29:49.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to question #2 is &quot;42&quot;. Common knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134820" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T05:29:49.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:52:56.790" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now that SO has launched with a stable and wonderful engine...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+1 grovelling&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;would I be completely excommunicated for wanting a replicate / evil-twin site running the same engine, but solely for questions of a more off-topic, tongue-in-cheek nature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're another of those askme merchants, aren't you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll let Zadoc answer this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ho! Zadoc!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;enter Zadoc, grovelling&lt;/em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zadoc:&lt;/strong&gt; You summoned, oh He Whose Opinion Is Invaluable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle:&lt;/strong&gt; I did. This supplicant has a question which is right up &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; alley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zadoc:&lt;/strong&gt; I'll ... go and fetch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;rolls eyes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;waits&lt;/em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zadoc:&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle:&lt;/strong&gt; Goof. The question is, &quot;Would I be completely excommunicated for wanting a replicate / evil-twin ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zadoc:&lt;/strong&gt; What, like, in &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle:&lt;/strong&gt; No, Zot: more like, in &lt;em&gt;Alice Through the Looking Glass&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zadoc:&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle:&lt;/strong&gt; Fool! Fetch me ... &lt;strong&gt;John&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;exit Zadoc&lt;/em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;clears throat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle:&lt;/strong&gt; John, this supplicant: would he be &lt;em&gt;excommunicated&lt;/em&gt; for wanting a replicate / evil-twin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Seriously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oracle:&lt;/strong&gt; No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; No?! That's not a problem, then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, there you have it: your answers are, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Not a real question&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Not programming related&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;How much w..d would a w..dch.ck ch.ck?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*ZOT*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You owe the Oracle a new lawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T05:53:31.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a great idea.  Would you get extra rep if everybody marked your post as offensive?  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T05:53:31.750" />
  <row Id="12504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T06:29:34.160" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as it takes all the wishy-washy rep-harvesting &quot;fun&quot; non-questions like &quot;What's your favourite programming colour?&quot; with it then it couldn't happen soon enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T06:29:34.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T09:08:51.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you wouldn't be excommunicated but ignored. Part of the success of SO stems from the fact that it works on a limited set (programming questions) where there are lots of experts which are easily available for little return (just a tiny bit of fame per answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't replicate this, you're doomed for failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131188" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T09:08:51.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T09:23:00.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You seem to equal non-StackOverflow with freaky :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I was wanting to ask &quot;what software would you recommend to make music easily as a hobby?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T09:23:00.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T09:41:03.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would motivated &lt;em&gt;programmers&lt;/em&gt; in SO be equally motivated in a &lt;em&gt;non-programming&lt;/em&gt; forum? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like another paradigm shift!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T09:41:03.227" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T13:35:20.507" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the question was about a &quot;fun&quot; site, the question was none-the-less a serious one, and deserves a serious response, if not necessarily serious consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe the model will necessarily work. SO works on the understanding that there are many programmers who have questions, and would like to open them up to the community, and also that there are many programmers who are willing to answer questions. Once the community has been built, then there will always be someone around who is willing to participate. As programmers, we appreciate the functional purpose it serves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second site that has no functional purpose would not be able to gather the same level of involvement, because it has no unifying theme (aside from your &quot;unserious&quot;) which means that there is no strong identity for those who participate. Secondly, the reputation would have little meaning, since the posts are merely for amusement, so the upvoting and downvoting would be based on whims, and would not have any bearing or relation to any quality of the questioner/answerer/commenter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The additional burden would be placed on the StackOverflow Overlords, which means they would have to pay for twice as many servers, work twice as hard on maintenance, update everything twice (or hire twice as many people, and work equally as hard. Or four times as many, and work half as hard.) And then they would need to find some sort of revenue stream to offset the cost of this new undertaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that your idea amounts roughly to creating a forum for people to post whatever they want. And many such forums already exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying I would not participate in such a site, I'm simply saying I think it's untenable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T13:35:20.507" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T15:59:13.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be much better just to open offtopic section on SO which will be separated from regular questions. Every forum has its offtopic section and usually it is the most visited and fun part of the forum. And with such mature and educated community I think there would be some really interesting conversations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147342" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T15:59:13.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-06T16:34:06.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just thinking that something like that would almost be like &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;, but driven by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meritocracy&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mediocracy&lt;/a&gt;.  That would be cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T16:34:06.763" />
  <row Id="12511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:21:27.240" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just thought of a good name for it.  &quot;Meta Overflow&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone mentioned on another question all the &quot;meta questions&quot; and the name just sprang to mind.  Doesn't look like the domain name is taken, either!  Kind of ties to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MetaFilter&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T03:21:27.240" />
  <row Id="12512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-02-21T03:29:31.183" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to:&#xA;&lt;PRE&gt;How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? &lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A woodchuck could cut a cord of conifer if you gave him a quarter for every cord he cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:14:47.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-21T03:29:31.167" />
  <row Id="12513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:30:32.880" Score="56" ViewCount="2847" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204831/how-can-i-try-a-new-language-or-framework-without-installing-it&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; recently, looking for examples of an online tool. Per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, I answered my own question with a few examples that I had already found. I did this so that these examples would be included in the answers, along with the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has received only down votes and insults saying that this shouldn't be done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I not answer my own questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137077" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T13:11:58.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-16T16:42:35.260" Title="Should I not answer my own questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="12514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:33:30.720" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's okay to answer your own question.  Ignore the trolls.  Every web community, no matter how good, has a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-12T23:08:49.680" />
  <row Id="12515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:34:26.943" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should, as Jeff Atwood repeatedly states in the podcasts, this site is about building a knowledge base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:34:56.693" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering your own question is perfectly fine, especially if it's the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:35:26.910" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy doesn't know what he's talking about.  Jeff &amp;amp; Joel have specifically said this is allowed.  However, posting a question for which you obviously have an already prepared answer is often seen as 'begging' for reputation, and therefore may not get as many upvotes.  On the other hand, asking a question often leads the asker to find the answer for themselves, so they usually aren't downvoted either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:35:33.870" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering your own question is fine by me.  However, for FAQ-type questions such as this one, I think we ought to make them community wikis, so the rep is mainly based on programming knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6688" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:36:03.087" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should answer your own question, and you can get the Self-Learner badge for doing so if the answer has 3 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, in order to keep your accept rates up, you should consider answering and accepting those tricky questions nobody answered properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff &amp;amp; Joel have specifically said this is allowed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5744" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-21T13:11:58.497" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T13:11:58.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T09:06:14.410" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:37:14.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering your own question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; perfectly acceptable, so I don't know why you got downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that in the question you referred to, the timestamps between the post and your answer were less than two minutes apart, I guess asking a question just to immediately answer it comes off a little bit like showing off to some ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might be better to put your examples in the question in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" />
  <row Id="12521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:37:18.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done this, but explicitly stated in my question that I would give my answer separately.  In your case, yours is the only answer to the question and may give the impression that you are just seeking votes to increase your reputation.  I did not take it that way, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with @ScottieT812.  This should be a community wiki question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" />
  <row Id="12522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:37:45.940" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also edit your question to include the answer, that way you wouldn't offend anyone. (Hopefully)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:43:24.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can definitely do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've even seen people post a question, and then post a fully thought out answer to it about 30 minutes later. It was clear they knew the answer - they just felt it was an unanswered question that they could answer for the community. So feel free!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133186" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:54:36.700" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a tricky situation.  I have questions in my head where I can think of a few answers, but they aren't the only answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting my own answers looks like I'm fishing for points; not posting makes everyone repeat work I've already done.  Marking my answers as Community Wiki helps avoid that stigma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" />
  <row Id="12525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T16:55:47.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, in cases where I saw that the original asker answered their own question (either as a direct addition to the collaborative wisdom or after some research), I tend to add a straight copy of the original answer (making my copy community-owned and stating clearly in a small header that this is a copy), in order to be chosen as &quot;the&quot; answer, and let the upvotes be given to the original answer (or any other the voters deem helpful).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this helps, but I believe so. I like to see answered questions as answered. I also suggested in uservoice that self-answered questions should be allowed (and chosen!) only if your answer is community-owned (and therefore no rep points are given).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So others would vote up the question if it's helpful, vote up the answer if it's helpful (and no karma-whoring), and no-one would think that the person asking is just showing off or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145864" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2008-10-16T20:35:00.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is great to answer your own question and it is great that you found the answer yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, answering any question in a clear, concise manner is great for someone down the road that stumbles upon this question and easily gets the answer to the same question he or she had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:01.090" />
  <row Id="12527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12528" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:48:16.443" Score="39" ViewCount="443" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering about the copyright of code snippets from answers. Lets say you ask a question and the solution consists of ten lines of code, which are given in an answer. Are there any restrictions about the use of that code? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in one answer it seems that the content of this page is under the creative commons license. So does one have to attribute the author if code is used in an open source project? Can it be legally used in closed source projects at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess ten lines of code are not really problematic, but is there a critical number of lines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not post this directly to uservoice since some users might have an opinion about this as well (since its about their answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134553" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T22:22:39.827" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T18:05:26.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T17:48:16.430" Title="Do I have to worry about copyright issues for code posted on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="12528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:51:23.410" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that you post to StackOverflow will be under the terms of the creative commons license.  You can find more info by looking at the bottom right of the page and clicking the cc-wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as more specific legal issues, you should probably consult an attorney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:51:40.790" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US, the Copyright is owned by whomever posted the solution.  That said, I really doubt anyone would post anything on this site with the intent of punishing people for using the code.  If I didn't intend to make the code freely usable, I wouldn't post it, which is why I'm really careful about what I post and I try to make sure that it's been sanitized for anything I wouldn't want to give up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147868" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:52:22.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been careful to only use code snippets that do not reflect the core intellectual property of my company.  I think there are definitely instances where I could divulge trade secrets in less than ten lines of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, in instances where you're sharing code snippits from an open source project, it would be great to denote what license included code uses and maybe default to something generic like Creative Commons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" />
  <row Id="12532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-24T19:46:12.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone posts code in here, he intends to give his code to everyone visiting the question. IANAL, but doesn't this automatically put the code into the public domain? (some form of duck-typing, in our terms)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-25T19:51:14.923" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cc licence link states that this page is attribution/share-alike.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;That suggests (to me, IANAL) you CANNOT use a code sample in your commercial work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original poster of course retains copyright and so you could always ask them for permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" />
  <row Id="12534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-26T11:54:49.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two relevant questions are (1) what jurisdiction applies and (2) assuming US or sufficiently similar, is the snippet large and original enough to be covered under copyright law. Line counts are not magical; no amount of the following code would be covered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;switch(int i) {&#xA;  case 0: return &quot;zero&quot;;&#xA;  case 1: return &quot;one&quot;;&#xA;  case 2: return &quot;two&quot;;&#xA;  //...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you can put that same functionality into 5 lines of code for i &amp;lt; 1&amp;lt;&amp;lt;32, those 5 lines will quite likely be considered sufficiently original and complex to be covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T18:05:26.593" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T18:05:26.593" />
  <row Id="12535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-26T12:03:57.383" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/25546&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;discussed on UserVoice&lt;/a&gt; already. Jeff closed the request with this response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would hope that people are not posting giant blocks of code at SO, making it more of a quote / fair use type situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For commercial work, you should see your company lawyer before using any code from SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-26T12:04:38.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer, but I think if you do a direct cut and paste of the code then you are going to have to look at what the site's &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; gives you permission to do. Personally, I think that if you read the code, understand the code, and then use that knowledge to write you own take on what the code is doing you might skirt by the copyright issue as you aren't doing a cut and paste of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is worth noting that you do have to be aware that there might be a patent on the code in which case you have to be aware of those &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;issues&lt;/a&gt;. That is an area were you are starting to look at having a lawyer render an option on it - if you work at a company then someone in the legal department might be able to give you an answer on the quesiton. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" />
  <row Id="12537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-26T12:11:02.127" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are talking about taking code from StackOverflow for use in your work, I would be very careful. Even if it is the opinion of the people here that posts to StackOverflow are covered by Creative Commons, you will need to be able to prove that you got the code from here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Short Story To Illustrate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone else decides the code is a good solution for a problem they are facing, and decides to copy it into their open source GnuFizzBuzz project, covered by the GPL.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Five years from now, someone is doing an open source audit on your code (maybe you are selling to a nervous customer, or your company is going public).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The open source audit finds the snippet of code you got from StackOverflow, and recognizes it as originating in GnuFizzBuzz.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are now stuck explaining how/why you have GPL code mixed into your commercial product, or proving that the code was actually from StackOverflow. Can you prove that the person posting the code to StackOverflow owned it to begin with (maybe they actually copied it from GnuFizzBuzz to begin wih).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may sound unlikely, but I have seen this exact situation with mine own eyes. The safe thing to do is to regard any code snippets you find as explanations of how something could work. Read, understand, and write a solution based on your understanding. Don't &lt;strong&gt;ever&lt;/strong&gt; cut/paste code you found on the internet if you are working on a commercial product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133907" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" />
  <row Id="12538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2008-09-29T06:00:54.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But what about posting answers available from other sites? A lot of veteran developers have their own sites and had answered lots of questions over the years that might re-appear here. Do we need to ask the owner before posting their answers here? Or just cut and paste whole or part of it? Or link to their pages (but what if the link was broken or the page no longer exists?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about answers already posted on other subscription-based sites, like expert-exchange? Would that violate any copyright laws if someone re-posts them at Stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" />
  <row Id="12539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2009-05-22T07:50:43.673" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a software licensing nightmare. If you paste in snippets in your answer that are in an incompatible license to cc-wiki, you are violating the terms of SO. I would imagine there are probably thousands of examples of such violations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that major issue, I personally like to choose how to license my work. I am happy for all the text to be the viral cc-wiki. But am very unhappy to have my little code samples or classes under cc-wiki.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To combat this issue I just added this snippet to my profile on SO &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All original source snippets I post on&#xA;  stackoverflow are dedicated to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%5FDomain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;public domain&lt;/a&gt;. Do with them as&#xA;  you see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those who are against the viral nature of the source samples should explicitly say what license their samples are in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option is to post any larger snippets to sites like gist and have a license in the header of the file.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-22T07:50:43.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12527" CreationDate="2009-05-22T20:44:29.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only a lawyer can answer this question. But, very relevant are fair use and whether a small snippet of code is copyrightable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the implicit license it was posted under is relevant when asking a lawyer their opinionion. A lawyer might say that it would be difficult for someone to reasonably argue that their copyright was violated when code they post in response to a question is used in any way. Legal concepts such as promissory estoppel might come into play. It would also be interesting to see if reputation points could be deemed &quot;consideration&quot; under the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patent issues are a much bigger risk, because the patent law is so nonsensical and keeps getting worse. Software patents are very dangerous and have already caused great damage to the software industry and free software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, export restrictions (e.g. ITAR) are very dangerous, although some important precedents protecting source code as speech have been set. There was a time when simply having hooks to process data before sending it on its way was restricted as a munition in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:15:15.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-22T20:44:29.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T03:25:09.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No (to even out the responses - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12335/is-reputation-too-subjective/12337#12337&quot;&gt;Shog9's response&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T03:52:38.870" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T03:52:38.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T03:25:09.380" />
  <row Id="12543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12548" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:08:46.170" Score="22" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every so often I see questions with good or even clearly correct answers that go unaccepted because the questioner is a new user who hasn't quite grokked the mechanics of the site.  They'll leave a comment or another answer that says something like &quot;thanks so-and-so, that totally fixed my problem&quot; so that the intent is clear but the check mark is missing.  Usually, I'll just upvote that answer and move on (I figure karma happens, and all that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well today that happened to me, which was no big deal, but I left a polite, no-pressure, comment letting him know that an accepted answer would bump up both user's reputations.  It wasn't a rude or catty comment, and I didn't think twice about it at the time, but now it feels a little bit tacky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was it crass of me to prod the guy to formally accept my answer?  Or am I doing him a favor by pointing out how the site works, so that he can participate more fully which will presumably help him get better answers in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4154" LastActivityDate="2011-03-12T03:00:21.997" Title="Is it bad form to prompt new questioners to formally accept your answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="12544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:10:59.817" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question has more than one page of answers then a new answer is not likely to get much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the stackoverflow engine should give some more weight to newer answers to old questions but I'm not sure how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a tweaked UI to get access to newer answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NB.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;In the related questions this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8695/make-the-new-answers-to-old-questions-view-available-for-people-with-10000-rep&quot;&gt;make-the-new-answers-to-old-questions-view-available&lt;/a&gt; popped up, I hadnt realised either that these tools existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6268" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T06:20:24.937" Title="How to get new answers to old/popular questions read/voted on?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="12545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6613" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:11:21.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the addition of superuser.com, this really really needs attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133047" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:11:21.687" />
  <row Id="12546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12544" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:16:18.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem isn't so much the engine but the people on it. I've never read an entire thread with more than 15 posts. Unless the topic is something that I'm &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; adamant about I really can't justify spending that much time reading what are usually trivial/duplicate answers. Also, most of the people originally interested in the topic have probably got everything they needed out of the discussion and have moved on. Sometimes you have to let sleeping dogs lie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:16:18.387" />
  <row Id="12547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12543" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:24:17.840" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A gentle push seems reasonable for the newcomers to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They might not at first get the mechanics of having to click that tick for the answer that helps with their problem. So really there isn't a harm if you're tact and polite about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just delete the comment after they've ticked and it's all cool, Yolanda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:24:17.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12543" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:24:30.227" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It bugs me, too.  However, I generally find it easier on my conscience to comment when someone else is the obvious winner (it is more often the case, anyway).  When doing so, I try to point out the silhouetted checkmark and the benefit of checking it.  This way it doesn't seem like I am being greedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, only you can say if you were being 'greedy', but I am sure we all are by virtue of trying to get the fastest answer in, etc.  So, greedy?, maybe, crass? no - you were very actually very polite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-12T03:00:21.997" LastActivityDate="2011-03-12T03:00:21.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12543" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:24:44.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that there are probably a good number of people that are new to StackOverflow and have created questions that go 'unanswered' because they don't know how to accept an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it probably feels weird telling the asker to accept an answer because you might feel like you are being selfish, just trying to get rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that it is right to prod them to accept an answer, but I think more should be done to get an accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about after 1 or two answers with at least 1 upvote have been posted, a message similar to migrated messages appears for the new user saying that they can accept and answer by clicking on the checkbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:24:44.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12544" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:25:33.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; for the SO engine to do anything to help people find new posts to old questions, especially in the case where there are multiple pages of answers. If you add a good answer, to a real technical question, you likely will see it get votes slowly as time goes on, and this is what I would expect to happen, and think would be desired. However, when you add an answer to an old question with many many pages, yes its not likely it will get seen too many times, but questions that end up with pages worth of answers are not the reason SO exists. These questions happen and they're fine, but I don't think they're something to system should be optimized for whatsoever. Additionally, if you want to do this on your own, there is the &quot;newest&quot; tab on every question that will show the accepted answer (if there is one) followed by the answers newest to oldest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:25:33.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12330" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:43:25.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a GreaseMonkey script to do it (tested on tags, users, questions &amp;amp; question answers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;    	if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;    		window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    	} else { &#xA;    		$ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    	}&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    	var pageHref = $(&quot;.pager:first a:first&quot;).attr(&quot;href&quot;);&#xA;    	var $gotoBox = $(&quot;&amp;lt;input type='text' value='goto' /&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;    		.css({ &quot;margin&quot;: 0, &quot;padding&quot;: &quot;0 4px&quot;, &quot;width&quot;: &quot;35px&quot;, &quot;color&quot;: &quot;#CCC&quot;, &quot;font-size&quot;: &quot;130%&quot;})&#xA;    		.appendTo($(&quot;.pager&quot;))&#xA;    		.keypress(function(e) {&#xA;    			if (e.which == 13)&#xA;    				window.location = pageHref.replace(/page=[0-9]+/, &quot;page=&quot; + $(this).val());&#xA;    		})&#xA;    		.focus(function() { $(this).val('').css('color', '#808185'); })&#xA;    		.blur(function() { $(this).val('goto').css('color', '#CCC'); });&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, now next to the &lt;kbd&gt;next&lt;/kbd&gt; link, there should be a &lt;code&gt;[goto]&lt;/code&gt; text box. Just enter a number, hit enter &amp;amp; voila.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:43:25.663" />
  <row Id="12554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12543" CreationDate="2009-08-05T04:56:13.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's odd that a person needs to be prompted, because if super user is anything to go by, when your reputation is low, your profile page and the question page itself prompts you to accept an answer after a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, a comment, even if it doesn't say &quot;please choose an answer&quot; is more likely to draw the user back (through the responses popup). A good phrasing for a comment to the question would be, &quot;did any of these suggestions help you?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside: I recently answered a question that asked how one would find that one point is close to an other point with approximately: &quot;by using the pythagorean theorem (linked to wikipedia), and you don't need to use square-root if you square your threshold value,&quot; and was surprised to learn the person did not pick my answer or anything like it, and even commented that they weren't familiar with the theorem. So, you can't expect everyone to agree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T04:56:13.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T05:00:16.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a value that roughly reflects &lt;em&gt;how many&lt;/em&gt; people trust or value the person. That's what the &quot;broad ... community&quot; really translates to: population count =&gt; popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T05:00:16.690" />
  <row Id="12556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T06:12:04.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question people should be asking is &quot;too subjective for what?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things you can know about a person with high rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Knows at least a bit about the subjects he gets more points on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dedicates lots of time to the site. (So he cares about the site and is likely to make a good moderator.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things you cannot know about a person from his rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His intelligence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His suitability for a particular work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His level of expertise in any particular subject, at least for regular cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His communication skills (for that you have to read his answers.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His hair color.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gazillion other things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So mostly the answer is yes. But the answer is also no if you care about the things you can deduce from the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T06:12:04.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12544" CreationDate="2009-08-05T06:20:24.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we're talking about community wiki &quot;as a programmer, what's your favorite spaghetti sauce&quot; questions, these are far enough out of the core scope of the site that I wouldn't say any changes to facilitate anything about them are warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a legitimate technical question with a specific answer, and your answer really adds something that an entire page of previous answers haven't (pretty high bar), some occasional edit-bumping to encourage people to look at the question might be warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T06:20:24.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12543" CreationDate="2009-08-05T06:23:12.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's anything wrong with it.  Having an answer marked accepted supports more than your rep; it indicates to future users that the answer resolved the issue, which is important.  No reason to come across as pushy or anything, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T06:23:12.467" />
  <row Id="12559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12335" CreationDate="2009-08-05T06:28:59.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's subjective.  It isn't &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, what it really is is XP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me recapitulate here something I said in a comment to someone who was being all snide about how if you care about rep you're a bad SO user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dude, you don't get it. SO is a &lt;em&gt;webgame&lt;/em&gt;, like all these generic productions where you click on things repetitively to level up and whatever, except you accumulate XP -- oh, I mean rep -- by helping people solve problems and contributing to the sum of public technical knowledge in the world. Taking the hoarding impulse, surrogate power drive, and general OCD that make people play computer RPGs and harnessing it for the forces of good, and moreover productivity, &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; SO's great innovation and victory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calling it reputation is just a smart bit of social engineering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T06:28:59.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T06:42:34.970" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over time, users have figured out various tricks for getting the most out of stack overflow.  Like writing screen scrapers, techniques and tools for using the rss feeds effectively, various browser add-ons, etc.  Sometimes they share their ideas and code here.  But you sort of have to get lucky to stumble on them, or spend a lot of time searching.  And I'm sure there are people out there who have set things up for themselves and not felt motivated to document it on meta.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So initially I was thinking that it would be great if there was a &quot;cookbook&quot; section within meta specifically for this.  But I suppose people could just start using the tag &quot;cookbook&quot;.  But to help it take off, you would want the stackoverflow developers to officially sanction/recommend it.  For example, mention it in the site faqs and encourage people to use it.  In fact I'd bet that users would take it as a challenge to try to create popular &quot;recipes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An added benefit would be that features needed by stack overflow would tend to rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not clear what kinds of topics I'm talking about, look at the some of the questions (in meta) tagged with screen-scraping, rss, greasemonkey, browser-enhancement, statistics, hidden-features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T11:36:23.397" Title="How about a Cookbook section of the meta site, or promote a &quot;cookbook&quot; tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T06:43:30.883" Score="7" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just FYI, thanks to the ever-so-awesome &lt;a href=&quot;http://bassistance.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jörn Zaefferer&lt;/a&gt;, we have an updated tag intellisense / autocomplete dropdown that &lt;strong&gt;works for tags in the middle as well as at the end&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to this update, the tag intellisense dropdown only worked for the &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt; tag in the text box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched and searched (even with Google!) and could not find an open bug on this, although I swore I saw one, at one point..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other improvements make sense for the tag editor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T15:14:48.380" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T15:14:48.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T12:47:20.770" Title="Tag Editor Now Supports Inline Autocomplete" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-08-05T06:57:33.757" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My #1 request us to remove the JavaScript markdown preview on mobile platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only do SO readonly on my iPhone—which I use for 80% of the time—because the JavaScript markdown previewer makes the page jump all over the place while I type; &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; ending up at the top of the page (whereas the box I'm typing in is at the bottom of the page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This was typed in the notepad of my iPhone and copied/pasted here. It is possible just extemely inefficient)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133057" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T06:57:33.757" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-08-05T07:01:47.537" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't come up with a good justification for a viewed-profile badge to exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have viewed-question badges, but some people use their profiles as their de-facto start page for the site, which means they'd give it to themselves given enough time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel there are significant differences between a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; badge of this type and a &lt;em&gt;profile&lt;/em&gt; badge of this type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user page view counts are mostly just informational.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T07:01:47.537" />
  <row Id="12568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11968" CreationDate="2009-08-05T07:08:22.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We accidentally removed the javascript double-click prevention on the submit button. That is fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T07:08:22.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10140" CreationDate="2009-08-05T07:33:43.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/open-so-frontend/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my frontend&lt;/a&gt; - I think it has the sorting ability you need, and if not, it seems to be easy to develop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T07:33:43.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T08:11:03.793" Score="50" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the site's question mechanism can learn the characteristics of previous migrations (keywords in title, tags etc.), and suggest that the user migrate their question prior to publishing it, or ask it at the better suited SOFU site, according to a history of questions with similar tags or titles previously migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A short message like below can be helpful in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Consider asking this question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;ServerFault.com&lt;/a&gt;, which discusses server related issues rather than programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link will open the same question (including title and tags) in the new site. If the user isn't logged in to the other site, a profile copy should also be suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could save time, and route questions to the appropriate site more efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Following your answers and comments, I do believe that tag analysis is the right way to go. In my opinion, this message should appear just after typing the tags, near the &lt;code&gt;Post your question&lt;/code&gt; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bounty&lt;/strong&gt;: Thanks a lot, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/138231/chichiray&quot;&gt;chichiray&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastEditorUserId="131410" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-07T12:02:03.570" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T19:58:49.163" Title="This question may belong to &lt;Another site&gt;, consider migrating - feature request" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="12571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T08:24:49.693" Score="5" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a number of cases when questions have been migrated from one site to another (SO--&gt;SF, SO--&gt;SU etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original asker doesn't have an account on the site to which the question has been migrated, he basically loses track of the question.  This is especially true of questions that are migrated to SU which still needs a password having to do with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/super-user-semi-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Return of the Jedi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that once you have an account on one of the sites, you should also have an account in each of the sister sites so that you can easily keep track of all your questions that have been migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  I know you can link the accounts.  I just think this should be automatic in order to reduce friction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T13:59:07.683" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:59:07.683" Title="Automatically create accounts in all sister sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T08:28:47.707" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &gt;3000 rep on SO, but &amp;lt;3000 on all the rest.  That means I can mark questions on SO as &quot;belong on SF/SU/Meta&quot; but I can't marked questions on the other sites as &quot;belongs on SO&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of rep I have on SO means that I can be trusted to determine what belongs there.  I think it should work both ways.  That is, if I have enough rep in SO, I should be able to migrate questions &lt;strong&gt;to&lt;/strong&gt; SO, and not only from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:50:22.503" Title="Allow migrating if you have enough rep on either the source or target sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="12573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12571" CreationDate="2009-08-05T08:53:25.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that at the first visit on a sister site, a users must activate the account in order to disable phantom users from being a community members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T08:53:25.737" />
  <row Id="12574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12572" CreationDate="2009-08-05T09:18:14.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always add a comment, or flag the question for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T09:18:14.643" />
  <row Id="12575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12571" CreationDate="2009-08-05T09:21:42.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aren't accounts at the destination site already created in waiting when questions are migrated? (Or was that a misunderstanding and reading an answer here on Meta that doesn't exist?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10247/answer-not-associated-with-my-login-after-migrating&quot;&gt;associating your accounts&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;There's a bonus&lt;/a&gt; in it for you if you do and have enough rep to juice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T09:21:42.403" />
  <row Id="12576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:13:37.213" Score="3" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not interested in finding out who did the voting, but on SF I've dropped from 1211 to 1209 but it doesn't appear in the recent rep list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:02:00.513" Title="I've been downvoted, can I find out which question or answer was downvoted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:18:01.730" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the recent activity page (the envelope next to your username). Also you can zoom into the graph showing the growth (or not) and this summarises the activity, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T10:18:01.730" />
  <row Id="12579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:29:58.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Unsliced says, there's the recent activity graph. You can also use my &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?sf=2277&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reputation Tracker&lt;/a&gt;. It looks like it was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49639/49671#49671&quot;&gt;&quot;Who uses Mac OS X Server and Why&quot;&lt;/a&gt; answer in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T18:56:43.553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T18:56:43.553" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:39:19.127" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent activity page doesn't show negative rep (that I've ever seen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to the reputation tab to show a complete list of everything. You may need to click &quot;today&quot; too to get a list of today's activity. For reasons I forget it doesn't default to showing the complete info for today. It might be some of today or some of today and some of yesterday. I think it's performance related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't see it there try yesterday and so forth until you find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also go to the reputation graph on your profile page and click a small window to see what downvotes questions have received (adjusting the window as necessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T10:39:19.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:51:16.543" Score="8" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I am not satisfied with the answers that I get, though some are very good.  Do I have to accept an answer or can I just leave the question open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132968" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T14:19:26.917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T11:19:49.670" Title="Do I always have to accept an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:55:42.603" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody is &lt;em&gt;forcing&lt;/em&gt; you to accept an answer; it would be polite if there is something &quot;useful enough&quot;, but... if you want better answers, try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;improving the question (clarify any ambiguities; explain why the existing answers don't help)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a bounty to get more attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you built upon the existing answers but added some additional code/detail/etc that made it work, then post that as an answer, and accept it when you can (I think you need to wait a few days to accept you own answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you add a bounty this &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; force it to accept an answer in 1 week's time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T10:55:42.603" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:55:58.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you didn't get a satisfying answer you could leave a comment, edit your question, or even start a bounty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T10:55:58.283" />
  <row Id="12586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:56:12.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't have to accept any answer if it doesn't solve your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could edit your original question to update what you've tested and tried and why your problem still persists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully the people answering will update their attempts or new answers will come in that will solve your problem and you would be able to click on the tick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T10:56:12.337" />
  <row Id="12587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-08-05T10:57:25.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have open questions that I haven't received a satisfactory answer for so no answer has been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certain subjective questions, particularly CW and poll-like questions, are probably best left without an accepted answer in many cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T10:57:25.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-08-05T11:10:58.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't. But keep in mind, if you have some good answers, maybe you can compose a satisfying answer out of them and accept your own (composed) answer. Could help other readers to get the correct info fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T11:10:58.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12560" CreationDate="2009-08-05T11:36:23.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a community-driven site. If you go ahead and start a few community-wiki questions that feature interesting tricks for others to use, the rest of the community will either react positively or negatively. Use that response to gauge whether to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, just give it a try. The worst that can happen is you'll get downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T11:36:23.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12561" CreationDate="2009-08-05T11:42:24.243" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a confirmation when a user is creating new tags (or using empty tags) along these lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are creating a new tag: &lt;em&gt;[tag-name]&lt;/em&gt;. Please make sure that no similar tags already exist and that the tag is spelled correctly. &lt;em&gt;[maybe a list of similar tags, too]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a problem, even if it isn't a large one. A significant portion of new tags are typos or unhyphenated versions of existing tags. Anything that can draw attention to this at the source of new tags would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T11:42:24.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T12:47:20.770" />
  <row Id="12593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2009-08-05T11:43:32.977" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will not see downvotes on your Recent Activity page if you have more than 5 posts that have received upvotes or were accepted.  That page, by default, will show your 'Top 5 Posts' (as stated on the page), so if you have 5 posts with positive points, the ones with negative points will have been sorted off the list.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; see the whole list.  The number in the summary box indicating 'reputation earned' is a hyperlink.  If you want to see the entire list that is used to calculate the 'total reputation earned' for this reputation day, click on the number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T11:43:32.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-08-05T12:29:44.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you be willing to release the code you used to import the data into MySQL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T12:29:44.093" />
  <row Id="12595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-08-05T12:31:10.737" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if there was a &quot;partial answer&quot; option....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133075" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T12:31:10.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12561" CreationDate="2009-08-05T12:35:53.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already code that runs in the background that automatically merges certain known synonyms.  It would be nice to see this happen at the time the tags are used instead, so that posts are correct in the first place rather than waiting for a the background process or an editor to catch up with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T12:35:53.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T12:47:20.770" />
  <row Id="12597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12572" CreationDate="2009-08-05T12:40:27.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your rep on the source site is what is important because it is the people with enough rep on the source site who have the responsibility to say &quot;This does NOT belong here&quot; and then say it belongs elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not having the amount of rep on source does (and should) preclude you from making those types of calls about getting rid of something. Your rep on the destination is not important because this is designed to a &quot;push&quot; system and not a &quot;pull&quot; system where the destination site (and it's trusted users) can say &quot;gimme that&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T12:40:27.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T12:46:31.457" Score="22" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the system makes you think you can upvote/downvote your own question/answer but then you get notified that you can't. Why have the up/down vote buttons there then? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if some operation is not allowed, then don't put UI for that up or make it disabled so it is apparently disabled - no post operation error panels please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;ps: hope this is not a dupe, but if so, just comment it and I will remove&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(+a joke: a user notification panel message: I deleted this file. Is this a problem? Yes/No.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T22:33:56.947" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T22:33:56.947" Title="Remove vote UI elements beside own question and answer posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12599" CreationDate="2009-08-05T12:49:35.617" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because removing it for your own questions and answers is far more complicated and could potentially introduce more layout problems than simply giving a notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; I should also mention that I believe there were some usability studies (not to mention a lot of developer and client experience) that have said that it is much easier on the user to show things as being disabled then to start adding and removing the visiblity of items on a page. If you start setting the visibility off on some elements, the &quot;holes&quot; that could form on the page where the UI normally is situated could be jarring to the end-user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T13:10:54.920" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:10:54.920" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50930" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:09:29.057" Score="37" ViewCount="584" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going along with my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4916/suggested-implementation-for-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;suggested implementation for Generalist&lt;/a&gt;, since the specialist badges have a gold level, I propose that the Generalist badge should too, called Polymath and, under an awarding mechanism like the one I describe in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4916/suggested-implementation-for-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;that other suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, requiring 5x the threshold of score that Generalist does.  (So if Generalist were implemented with the 500 point threshold I just threw out there, Polymath would have a 2500 point threshold.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way Generalist wound up implemented, the wording for Polymath would be: &quot;Provided non-wiki answers of 75 total score in 20 of top 40 tags&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="47529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-30T01:31:05.067" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T17:05:49.657" Title="Badge suggestion: Polymath (gold version of Generalist)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;generalist&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12603" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:13:50.533" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the Generalist badge ever gets implemented, I wouldn't mind seeing something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:13:50.533" />
  <row Id="12605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12661" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:21:49.787" Score="2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am studying security with a pragmatic approach.  Since someone pointed me to some &quot;hacker&quot; tools, I am testing the security of my own electronic assets.  I have had many doubts since this, but I am afraid of asking them for the sake of my personal reputation.  How do the SO and SF communities treat such questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of such questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is it possible to takeover a site with SQL injection vulnerability limited to 100 chars with a SQL Server 2000 backend?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of possible reactions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;If you were white hat, you would solve the detected vulnerability instead of investigating further&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T13:37:03.787" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:14:35.410" Title="Can I ask security related questions without being framed as a hacker?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12605" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:26:00.903" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem here is in the phrasing. Rather than ask if it's possible to &quot;take over a site&quot; under a certain circumstance, ask if that site is &quot;vulnerable to attack&quot; under that circumstance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:26:00.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12605" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:27:02.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is my SQL Server 2000 secure from SQL injection, if I limit the input to 100 chars?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Ask the right question ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:27:02.243" />
  <row Id="12609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12613" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:48:18.247" Score="1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently reached the point where I could start retagging, and I've noticed this: &lt;em&gt;a lot of the retagging is incredibly formulaic&lt;/em&gt;. Things like replacing 'xp' with 'windows-xp'. In each case I make the retag by comparing the number of existing tags in the possible categories (e.g. 'thread' vs 'threads' vs 'threading'). It's not a complicated algorithm I'm applying...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was thinking: this seems like the ideal job for a bot. Wikipedia has a number of such bots that perform similar generic 'hygeine' tasks with respect to categories, wikipedia policy, etc. Note also that cleaning up tags is almost completely outside the site reward system (1 badge, no rep), so there is no incentive other than compulsive orderliness (which I freely admit) to drive this user behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has anyone thought about implementing something like this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a compelling argument against such a bot?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:38:57.593" Title="Writing a tagging bot" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="12610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12572" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:50:22.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flagging the question for moderator attention is getting sort of stupid. I can only imagine how much spamming the mods are getting now that superuser has gone live and there's no specific &quot;flag for move&quot; option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vote-to-move option should just require less rep no matter what. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133047" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:50:22.503" />
  <row Id="12611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12571" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:54:52.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't possible if you're using Google's OpenID, as it uses a hash of the user's account and the identity of the requesting site to produce identity tokens. As such, your Google OpenID information is different on each site. The linked accounts system gets around this by having you log in separately with each site, thus establishing what your identity token is on the other domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see this being fixable if all the SO family sites proxied through an intermediate site to do authentication, but that won't help with accounts which already exist (indeed, it would render them unable to login).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:54:52.900" />
  <row Id="12612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12609" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:56:12.900" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community user&lt;/a&gt; should do that as part of its normal duties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5744" LastEditorUserId="5744" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T13:38:57.593" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:38:57.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12609" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:56:24.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already some methods that are run which will replace some synonymous tags throughout the system (probably should be expanded more and work when the question is submitted as well). There are also mod tools which make tag merges and renames pretty convenient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if having a bot running throughout the system would be a good idea. I remember a while back there was an issue about a Google bot or something getting traversing the system and it sent the resource usage up through the roof for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T13:56:24.723" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12623" CreationDate="2009-08-05T13:56:57.327" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone remember when it was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:16:42.600" Title="What was the date when everyone first started getting the Enthusiast badge on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12614" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:00:39.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;June 26&lt;/a&gt;. Also, the initial announcement was on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/server-fault-public-beta-launches/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;May 26&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T14:15:42.757" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:15:42.757" />
  <row Id="12616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8619" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:01:20.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a good idea. If it doesn't make it to StackOverflow, you could try bookmarking the favourites in &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;, and adding notes there. If you tag them all with SOfave or something, then they'll be grouped together, and you could sub-divide them with other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5744" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:01:20.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12605" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:04:13.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be able to ask whatever questions you like, to get a better picture of potential vulnerabilities. There is so much information out there that it's not worth trying to limit yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably you're asking about how to protect yourself, rather than how to attack other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:04:13.027" />
  <row Id="12619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:07:36.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you could edit your question to indicate that you like a particular answer, but use the edit to indicate why it's not complete. That way, it leaves future readers with an understanding about what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find unanswered questions frustrating, because I feel like there's an underlying problem with even the most popular answers if they weren't picked as the one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I'd like an &quot;honourable mention&quot; category for answers that are worthy, but not quite there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:07:36.780" />
  <row Id="12620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13256" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:07:55.297" Score="3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;While editing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox/11697#11697&quot;&gt;this response&lt;/a&gt;, I found a bug in the character escaping code.  It is currently possible to write an &amp;amp; using &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;, but there is no way to specify characters using the numerical code in a code block, which is what the OP at the linked answer wanted.  E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&#xA;&amp;amp;nbsp&amp;amp;#59;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These should both display the same thing (the code &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;) but neither of them displays correctly.  However, &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp&amp;amp;#59;&lt;/code&gt; do both work when not in a code block.  This is the same code as above, but in a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block (shows that it doesn't work in inline code either):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;&amp;nbsp&amp;#59;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Should appear the same as the first block)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T12:23:45.960" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T12:24:35.227" Title="Improper support for character codes in code and pre blocks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;character-codes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13294" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:14:26.927" Score="9" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;Developers, sysadmins, and users (the holy trinity SO, SF and SU) should know black hat techniques to defend themselves better against them.  Posting such instructions on public forums, however, creates the risk of malicious use.  Would you answer questions that require black hat knowledge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T14:23:09.237" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T09:47:13.630" Title="Would you teach black hat techniques in public forums?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12609" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:16:33.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have two bots like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:16:33.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12614" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:16:42.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well using the query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select Date from badges where name = 'Enthusiast' and userid = 2598&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't actually know sql btw)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found that my badge was awarded on &lt;code&gt;'1246043556'&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;'GMT: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:12:36 GMT&lt;/code&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Anyone know how to convert that to a pretty time stamp?&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epochconverter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.epochconverter.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:16:42.600" />
  <row Id="12624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:19:17.807" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Black hat&quot; is based on intent, only. There's no difference between &quot;black hat&quot; and &quot;white hat&quot; knowledge. If it's publicly available info (e.g.-a public exploit, SQL injection), then I don't see a problem with it. Preferably, you leave something explaining how to protect against whatever it is you're explaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:19:17.807" />
  <row Id="12625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12669" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:23:19.530" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think many people unaccept answers and pick a different one. Also, I think many people upvote the accepted answer just because it was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I see a couple of silver badges (Guru, Englightened) that only apply to accepted answers, and it makes me wonder if that stops people from making further suggestions once a question has an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I just wonder about which badges should really be sought after... perhaps badges for &quot;first answer (with upvote from asker) on a question that's over 24 hours old&quot;, as a way of encouraging people to try to help out on older questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And more value placed on upvotes from the asker, rather than from peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:29:07.970" Title="Better badges for non-accepted answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="12631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12625" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:33:08.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Populist is a gold level badge that is rewarded for scoring 2x the amount of the accepted answer (with the minimum accepted answer being +10). This means that if someone has an accepted answer at +10, if you get +20 on the same question you can get a gold badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in a more broad sense...all badges should be sought after, since they are supposed to be rewarding good behavior (the taxonomist badge is the only one that really has people wondering about potential gaming). Even peer pressure is in theory a good behavior because you are getting rid of bad content (that doesn't say that you can't put bad content up intentionally just to get voted down and get the badge, however).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:33:08.703" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:33:19.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A determined malicious user would surely be just as capable of obtaining these techniques as a 'white hat' user...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133085" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:33:19.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12609" CreationDate="2009-08-05T14:45:43.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most compelling argument against writing such a bot is similar to so much software that has been written:  It's a massive waste of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned, Rich has this covered and never complains about it.  Sounds like we already have our bot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T14:45:43.567" />
  <row Id="12636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4916" CreationDate="2009-08-05T15:00:05.477" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's better to go for a simpler implementation at the expense of statistical perfection. The point of a badge is to reward a behavior; in striving to get a badge, people do something positive. If the criteria for the badge are convoluted, people are less likely to strive to fulfill them and therefore less likely to exhibit the good behavior you wanted (any more than they would &quot;naturally&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose the same answer that cletus did, but with tweaked numbers. Rather than having to earn 5-10 silver tag badges (400 upvotes on a given tag) to get [Generalist], you have to get 200 upvotes on 10 different tags (for which there exist tag badges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T15:00:05.477" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T15:07:35.430" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Small bug/feature request: The &quot;relativetime&quot; class is not used in comment timestamps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I was writing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12635/greasemonkey-script-to-display-absolute-timestamps-in-local-time&quot;&gt;this Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that the relative timestamps in the comments are not tagged with the &quot;relativetime&quot; class, the way relative timestamps are everywhere else on the site (i.e. questions, answers, user profile, question lists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Found one more place where the class isn't being used:  on the message for a bounty, stating &quot;this question has a bounty of X expiring in Y days&quot;.  Also, in that case the timestamp tooltip is in ambiguous m/d/yyyy format, which could be interpreted by some users as d/m/yyyy.  The yyyy-mm-dd format would be more consistent with the rest of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T19:49:50.027" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T19:49:50.027" Title="Please use &quot;relativetime&quot; class on timestamps in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12620" CreationDate="2009-08-05T15:17:50.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those without a high enough arbitrary number. Text indented four spaces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;=&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;=&#xA;=&amp;gt;`&amp;amp;nbsp;`&amp;lt;=&#xA;=&amp;gt;`&amp;amp;nbsp;;`&amp;lt;=&#xA;=&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;=&#xA;=&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#38;nbsp;&amp;lt;=&#xA;=&amp;gt;&amp;amp;n&amp;amp;#98;sp;&amp;lt;=&#xA;=&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp&amp;amp;#59;&amp;lt;=&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like none of these work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;`&amp;nbsp`&#xA;`&amp;nbsp;;`&#xA;&amp;amp;nbsp;&#xA;&amp;#38;nbsp;&#xA;&amp;n&amp;#98;sp;&#xA;&amp;nbsp&amp;#59;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T12:23:57.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T12:23:57.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T15:17:50.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-05T15:42:57.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a difficult question to answer definitively. Increasingly there may be legal issues, and I'm no lawyer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Computers and those that program and even use them have historically been regarded with some suspicion. As As Janet Reno, at the time the US Attorney General, said in 1998: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ag_nipc.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many countries, including the UK, log all web sites users visit and the source and destination of all emails, retaining this information for several years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several countries, including the UK and Germany, have, to varying extents, made the programming, possession, use or distribution of &quot;hacker&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; tools&quot; illegal. Within this there seems to be little understanding of the dual-use possibilities of most software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that providing assistance in obtaining and using such tools could be seen as a criminal or at least terrorist activity, especially if the advice given did, indeed, lead to criminal use of the tools or methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether we need to take these possibilities too seriously is hard to know. Do they affect the amount and usefulness of information given in response to genuine queries from sysadmins? Probably yes. At least as worrying is the deleterious effect on dissemination of information about known weaknesses in software and systems and the availability of good tools for testing and evaluating software and systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Sadly, attempts to retain 'hacker' as a positive term seem long-since lost in the media and political worlds: perhaps we should have copies of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hackersdelight.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Henry S Warren's &quot;Hacker's Delight&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on our desks to remind us of a happier use of the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastEditorUserId="19007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T09:12:57.503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T09:12:57.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-08-05T15:47:49.873" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a whole new site wouldn't be proper. It might make more sense to have a subsection on SO where these types of posts can go. i.e a &lt;code&gt;bufferunderrun&lt;/code&gt; tab. The associated costs would be minor compared to a whole new site, and bored programmers would have a place to ask these very important questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, no rep would be rewarded, but more people would use the site. More people on the site certainly can't hurt SO's ad revenues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132101" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T15:47:49.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T15:47:49.873" />
  <row Id="12652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-08-05T15:56:33.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That list of questions sounds like ripe material for Wolfram|Alpha to sink it's fangs into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And wasn't PrivateVoid.com one of the suggestions before SO was finally voted in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T15:56:33.087" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T15:56:33.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-05T16:02:49.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any resourceful programmer can find this information in the usual places; a sufficiently clever one could probably obtain the answers via seemingly-innocent questions... or questions seeking to &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; problems - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12621/would-you-teach-black-hat-techniques-in-public-forums/12624#12624&quot;&gt;as Eric notes&lt;/a&gt;, the primary distinction is intent...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...therefore, by answering a question written with blatantly malicious intent, you're doing nothing but benefiting malicious programmers too lazy or stupid to achieve their nefarious goals otherwise. You're effectively handing explosives to children. That's not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T16:02:49.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-08-05T16:37:06.000" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;like a salmon swimming upstream, i leapt once again to the first page, then fell back down and floundered on the rocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;page 2 is my new home for a while...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to say I'm wilting in the shadow of the skeet, or i'm worn out from chasing photons... not because it's true but because I like the sound of it - and teasing Jon is always a bonus. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but the boring truth is that i just can't muster the time and energy to scan the endless stream of questions for things that i can answer any more - there's too many questions and so little time these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;note that this does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; mean that I will automatically get a life... just that less of it will be spent here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T16:37:06.000" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-08-05T16:51:34.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the next rep recalc, a lot of us are going to lose a ton of rep because our top-scoring questions have been migrated to MSO.  Maybe the bar will be lower when that happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T16:51:34.927" />
  <row Id="12657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:03:37.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is at least one situation where I find answering your own question mildly annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm perusing the list of questions, looking for something I can answer, then see a question which I know the answer to, I like to jump on it. Help a fellow out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I'm halfway done writing an answer and the little &quot;Another answer has been posted&quot; banner pops up. I refresh the page to see that the asker has immediately answered his own question, meaning that there was no actual question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one wanted to know the answer, because the asker wasn't actually having a problem when he wrote the question. Even if I beat him to his own answer, it wouldn't matter because I wouldn't be helping him, he already knows a working answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation just wastes my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind answering your own question, but I would like it if one would only post a question if they (at the time) want an answer that they don't have. It's fine to answer your own question later if you discover the answer, be it trial-and-error, research, or a combination of other people's answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference would be akin to a man asking for the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The man asks if anyone has the time. No one answers right away, but someone does mention that it's sometime after 10 o'clock. He realizes that there is a clock on the wall and mentions aloud &quot;Oh, never mind, I see that it is 10:40.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The man asks if anyone has the time. One person speaks up &quot;It's ten fo...&quot; but is interrupted by the first man who, while checking his watch, states &quot;It's 10:40, just in case anyone wanted to know.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of argument, let's assume that it will always be 10:40  in whatever room this man is in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132790" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T01:28:11.200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T01:28:11.200" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T17:03:37.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12660" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:07:00.213" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to get a list of all questions that potentially give a necromancer badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, other than going through the old unanswered questions and manually looking for ones with 5 or more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T17:08:29.977" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:20:01.123" Title="Necromancer candidate view" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12671" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:12:21.390" Score="1" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Safari on Mac, the &quot;How to Ask&quot; and &quot;Formatting Reference&quot; boxes overlap the textbox on the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page (on superuser, stackoverflow and serverfault).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overlap disappers if you zoom in once (Cmd-+), but I consider this a bug that should be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133090" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T08:47:40.613" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T08:47:40.613" Title="How to Ask box overlaps textbox on Ask Question page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="12660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12658" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:13:55.393" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not how the necromancer badge works. If you answer a question more than 60 days old, and &lt;em&gt;your answer&lt;/em&gt; gets 5 upvotes, you get the badge. The question doesn't have to have any votes at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to find questions that you can potentially get the badge from, just sort by newest and go back enough pages to find two-month-old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the description could be improved. &quot;Answered a question more than 60 days later with at least 5 votes&quot; does make it a little ambiguous as to whether the question or the answer must have 5 votes. Maybe &quot;Answered a question more than 60 days later and earned at least 5 votes&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T17:20:01.123" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:20:01.123" />
  <row Id="12661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12605" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:14:35.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking about attacking a site is NOT the same as preventing vulnerabilities. Asking about how to attack gets to the core of the security question in a much more direct way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, as you can get a feel here on Meta, people will no doubt get the wrong idea. &lt;strong&gt;You must &quot;translate' your questions to make it clear that you're not a hacker.&lt;/strong&gt; That's not hard, since phrasing is a flexible art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:14:35.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12742" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:15:34.393" Score="3" ViewCount="581" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686216/what-code-would-you-have-on-your-wedding-cake/686342#686342&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; has a comment by Pesto  which right now is at +91. I am curious as to whether or not there is anything higher than +91 in terms of comments on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T08:59:08.403" Title="What is the highest upvoted comment on the Trilogy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:16:04.440" Score="-1" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding subjective questions, if you post an answer and get a lot of downvotes, your reputation take a hit, right?  Well, what if you want to stand by your answer?  It's not offensive because it isn't flagged as such, but for whatever reason it just rubs some people the wrong way, and they downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've got the &lt;em&gt;cojones&lt;/em&gt; to stand behind your answer regardless of how it effects your rep, how about a badge for that?  Maybe something like, being downvoted 5 times but leaving your answer up for a certain period of time after the 5th downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T20:03:33.040" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:38:44.717" Title="How about a badge for standing by an unpopular answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12663" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:17:58.927" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered that on most of the sites (not necessarily meta) you are getting downvoted because you are wrong? Why would we want to reward someone for being wrong AND stubborn?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that you can't differentiate badges based on whether or not the question/answer is subjective in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggested a badge at one time called Purple Heart which would be awarded for an accepted answer that was at -5 (yes it has happened several times) and that seemed to get a good response from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion sounds more like &quot;Punching Bag&quot; than anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:17:58.927" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12662" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:24:49.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there are several with over 100 votes. Besides &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/895296/how-can-you-tell-if-a-person-is-a-programmer/895403#895403&quot;&gt;mine&lt;/a&gt; (currently at 135 votes), there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered/184673#184673&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (currently at 148) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (currently at 213).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:24:49.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12625" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:29:07.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, one of my suggestions was a bronze badge akin to the necromancer, which would be awarded to an answer on an already accepted question that receives &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; upvotes.  The goal would be to encourage completeness in answers, even if the 15pts are off the table. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:29:07.970" />
  <row Id="12670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12663" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:30:51.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badges are designed to reward desired behavior - leaving a post up that is unfavored by the community doesn't exactly seem desirable to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bigger problem, however, is I don't think there's a good (algorithmic) way to determine when someone is &lt;em&gt;standing by their opinion&lt;/em&gt; vs. when they're simply &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I do understand your position and agree &lt;em&gt;if it were feasible&lt;/em&gt;, I think this is a recipe for disaster. Also, I think the question should have to have the &lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt; tag to even consider awarding this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44853" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:30:51.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12659" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:32:38.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using Safari 4.0.2 on Mac OS X and I can't reproduce this problem. I've played with the width of the window, zoomed in and out, both the entire page and only the text, and I don't see anything like what you're describing. Can you post a screenshot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:32:38.180" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12609" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:40:00.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't object as long as you actually put a set of human eyes on each question to be re-tagged.  You could just automate a system of finding and showing those questions so all you have to do it click &quot;Approve&quot; or &quot;Leave as is&quot; and perhaps supply the captcha text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:40:00.320" />
  <row Id="12675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12662" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:42:54.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Who the hell is Jon Skeet?&lt;/a&gt; – thenduks Apr 21 at 20:37 is currently at 206.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:42:54.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:43:58.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer No Way.&#xA;Just because it's possible to &quot;---------&quot; to make &quot;--------&quot; unusable by just typing &quot;------&quot; at the &quot;----------&quot; it should not be announced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's no different asking your buddy working airport security how to sneak xyz past airport security. I hope they don't tell you. I even hope they don't even know so they can't tell you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know what I mean. If you don't know, sorry, I can't tell you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133100" LastEditorUserId="133100" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T01:48:27.473" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T01:48:27.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12663" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:44:39.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just stop asking and answering subjective questions. It is that simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be no reward at all either way for interacting with this junk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:44:39.297" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="12678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12709" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:47:14.547" Score="7" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great site. I've already gotten excellent answers to a question I just posted as a visitor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234021/base-classs-class-procedure-should-instantiate-a-descendants-object&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234021/base-classs-class-procedure-should-instantiate-a-descendants-object&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My experience with the infrastructure was surprisingly time-consuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted the original question w/o registering. (Nice feature. Thanks!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when an answer showed up, I tried and tried to figure to to flag post a comment to a posting ... and failed to find one. ( Now I understand, I guess, that I've got to be registered?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I tried and tried to figure out how to flag a response as an answer ... and failed to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I went through the registration process (OpenID sounds like a good choice for you all) and (although it's not your fault) ClaimID took 20 minutes to send a confirming ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the interim, I got a VeriSign ID and used it (while still logged in as the questioner) to register at SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I still can't figure out how to flag a posting as an answer. There is no shadowed checkbox where it should be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And although I have an &quot;add comment&quot; link on the bottom posting, there's no &quot;add comment&quot; link on any of the other answers, including the one I want to acknowledge as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I participate in dozens of on-line sites... and I'm psyched about SO -- having heard good things about it and having already discovered it's value. But, jeez, I just spend 30 minutes dicking around with infrastructure issues rather than doing real work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really complaining ... since I chose to spend the time ... and since I can easily walk away w/o acknowledging the post that answers my question. But I thought maybe you'd like to hear how one motivated and saavy newcomer experienced the site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry to be so wordy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feature request: why do you hide options (like comments and checkboxes) that are unavailable?  Keep them visible AND enabled and if someone who isn't entitled to them tries to use them, you can explain why they can't use them and how to rectify that.  This would've saved me a bunch of time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep up the good work ... I'm sure my experience will improve now that I'm registered!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133102" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:29:07.667" Title="New user infrastructure hassles" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12712" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:47:52.033" Score="-1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;The case is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I went to the SU and moved to the last page of the questions list. I selected this old unanswered question from the last page &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/6407/how-can-i-remote-desktop-from-windows-xp-into-windows-vista&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/6407/how-can-i-remote-desktop-from-windows-xp-into-windows-vista&lt;/a&gt; and voted for it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Then I click on Questions tab and checked Hot and Active... It doesn't appear on either of them. And it was not in the Newest too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is does Voting for a really old question can bring any attention of community to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it was initially supposed that only author can reanimate the question (by editing it or assigning a bounty). And also a user with 500 score can retag questions, that seems to be similar to Edit and also will move the question on top of the stack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I suppose that Active questions should be ordered, taking into account any kind of activity - comments, voting, putting a favorite start, edit, retag and so on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T04:26:31.953" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T04:26:31.953" Title="When I vote for the question, should it move on the top of question stack?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;question-order&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12679" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:51:33.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting and marking as favorite do not change the actual question/answer. Thus the question is still inactive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:51:33.947" />
  <row Id="12681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12685" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:52:01.403" Score="6" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure we all read this right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then why doesn't Jeff Atwood follow this rule in his most recent twitter post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/3149290291&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/3149290291&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was originally &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23921/pesto&quot;&gt;Pesto&lt;/a&gt;'s comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686216/what-code-would-you-have-on-your-wedding-cake/686342#686342&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686216/what-code-would-you-have-on-your-wedding-cake/686342#686342&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:22:16.383" Title="What happened to &quot;attribution required&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;attribution&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="12682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12679" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:54:46.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, voting should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; move the question to the top of the stack. I'm even on the fence about retagging, but that's another post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole idea behind the front page and the &quot;active&quot; tab in the Questions view is for people to be able to see posts that have recently been created or changed. Voting does not change the question, and therefore should not put the question at the top of the stack. I know that as a user, I would find the front page and active tab much less useful if every vote bumped every question to the top. I think that you'd find that the 'fun' questions that collect upvotes wouldn't ever disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:54:46.187" />
  <row Id="12683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:56:10.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's an ancient quote, I doubt that the originator was the person that put it on stackoverflow...  Not to mention that Twitter causes a 140 char limit that doesn't always allow for the social niceties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:56:10.257" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2009-08-05T17:58:38.143" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He owns the copyright&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's not enough space in twitter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we sure it's 100% original to Pesto anyway?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T17:58:38.143" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:01:28.840" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fairly obvious what is going on here: Jeff is trying to &lt;em&gt;steal&lt;/em&gt; my comedic genius for his own nefarious purposes.  I am shocked -- &lt;strong&gt;shocked&lt;/strong&gt; -- that Jeff would stoop to such levels.  How can we trust &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; this man says when he so brazenly flaunts his disobedience of the very rules &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &lt;strong&gt;fair&lt;/strong&gt; solution is that he turn over complete control of StackOverflow to me.  Actually, I'm not sure that's enough.  We'd better stuff him in a wet burlap bag, string him up by his toes, and &lt;em&gt;beat&lt;/em&gt; him with a &lt;strong&gt;cane&lt;/strong&gt; while we're at it.  Notorious criminal mastermind Jeff Atwood must learn that &lt;em&gt;actions&lt;/em&gt; have &lt;strong&gt;consequences&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T18:01:28.840" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3528" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:19:39.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO spambots should be open source and all knowledge necessary to make it public. I wouldn't mind answer a question that would enable some people to spam me the next day, because this type of information serves both sides: the good and the bad guys. In the long term all you are doing is accelerating the technological evolution by spreading information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To explain myself better I'll exemplify: There are the antivirus makers, and the virus makers. If you post in a public forum how to make a virus, the virus developers will use it to fortify themselves, while the antivirus makers will use it to prevent this. After some time the net effect is almost zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T18:19:39.367" />
  <row Id="12692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12678" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:28:34.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry to hear that your experiences as a new user has been confusing up to this point. I don't think I ever remember having that type of problems when I first joined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I find it a bit of a coincidence that you are requesting that options not get hidden if you aren't entitled to them or they are unavailable to you. That almost sounds like a complete 180 from what a user suggested earlier today: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12599/remove-vote-ui-elements-beside-own-question-and-answer-posts&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T18:28:34.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33900" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:41:05.127" Score="6" ViewCount="760" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\`foo\`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;produces `foo` instead of the desired literal backticks. It appears correctly in the preview however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T12:18:14.870" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T12:24:46.260" Title="Escaping backticks fails" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12694" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:46:19.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;`backtick&lt;/code&gt; testing &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;``foo` `  gives us&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;`foo&lt;/code&gt; `&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want &quot;foo&quot; in monospace, you can use this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`` `foo` ` ` gives us&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;foo&lt;code&gt;&lt;/code&gt; ` &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but then you get spaces around foo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T12:17:36.307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T12:17:36.307" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="12699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4870" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:51:02.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add a small patch to improve the the reputation system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (user.Id == 21574)&#xA;   user.Reputation *= 30;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T18:51:02.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T18:51:02.297" />
  <row Id="12700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12757" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:53:54.927" Score="24" ViewCount="883" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm planning a (the?) StackExchange site for mathematics. I think it will be awesome, but there is one major difference between mathematicians and programmers which will be a source of friction in the UI: mathematicians will need LaTeX support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I want to clarify that this isn't meant to be a StackExchange question. I realize that nobody can answer any StackExchange questions at this point. The above paragraph is backstory so that you know &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I want to do what I want to do. This is a question about Markdown/WMD. I posted on Meta because I want to modify a tool to be almost like the thing that SO uses. Perhaps this question more properly belongs on SO.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;More Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I was under the impression that SE feature-requests were frowned upon since SE &quot;doesn't exist&quot; yet, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO podcast 64&lt;/a&gt; suggests otherwise. Since LaTeX support would be useful to any SE site with a math or science focus, I'd like to make this a feature request. Could somebody with the rep please change [support] to [feature-request]?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4152/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; have lots of good &lt;a href=&quot;http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=59&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;solutions&lt;/a&gt;, but I really need them to be seamless. For example, I really like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://latex.codecogs.com/editor.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;latex.codecogs.com&lt;/a&gt; editor, so I would like an input like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;For a morphism $f\colon T\to X$, consider the curve over $T$&#xA;corresponding to the composition&#xA;$T\xrightarrow{f}X \xrightarrow{g} \mathcal{M}_{g,n}$.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to be automatically converted into something like this&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;For a morphism &#xA;![f\colon T \to X](http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?f\colon%20T\to%20X),&#xA;consider the curve over ![T](http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?T)&#xA;corresponding to the composition&#xA;![T\xrightarrow{f}X \xrightarrow{g} \mathcal{M}_{g,n}](http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?T\xrightarrow{f}X%20\xrightarrow{g}%20\mathcal{M}_{g,n}).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which should produce output like this (but doesn't for some reason ... nevermind that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a morphism &lt;img src=&quot;http://math.berkeley.edu/~anton/image/math1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;math1&quot;&gt;, consider the curve over &lt;img src=&quot;http://math.berkeley.edu/~anton/image/math2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;math2&quot;&gt; corresponding to the composition &lt;img src=&quot;http://math.berkeley.edu/~anton/image/math3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;math3&quot;&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this trivial or difficult to implement? How would I go about doing it? I tried checking out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd/source/checkout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WMD source&lt;/a&gt;, but none of it is actually available yet, and the repository hasn't changed in over a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Of course, I wouldn't want to swamp latex.codecogs.com with requests, so I'd want to get their engine running on the site server. My understanding is that they would be cool with this, but I can't tell for sure. Anyway, there is surely some open source engine I can use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update (2010/02/04):&lt;/strong&gt; People still seem to be looking at this post (it just got a couple of upvotes), so I'll briefly describe the solution we've used on Math Overflow. In contexts other than WMD, the text &lt;code&gt;$f\colon T\to X$&lt;/code&gt; is served as-is, and is converted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jsMath&lt;/a&gt;, which is loaded in the footer. In the context of WMD, a &quot;preview math&quot; checkbox is inserted under the wmd-input field and tied to a cookie. We use a (very slightly) customized version of &lt;code&gt;wmd.js&lt;/code&gt; which processes the math in the live preview if the box is checked. The customized &lt;code&gt;wmd.js&lt;/code&gt; incorporates the jsMath processing time into the delay algorithm, but the preview still gets kind of slow for some people, in which case they can uncheck the box. There are still occasional issues (e.g. &lt;code&gt;$\{a_n\}$&lt;/code&gt; doesn't work correctly because Markdown removes the backslashes), but the solution is pretty good. Once it's out, we'll switch to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathjax.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MathJax&lt;/a&gt;, the successor to jsMath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="132093" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T00:42:38.583" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T07:34:46.297" Title="add LaTeX support to Markdown/WMD" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;latex&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="12701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12700" CreationDate="2009-08-05T18:59:32.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should be able to add a syntax easily enough, but is Stack Exchange even at a point where anyone could answer this yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: assuming you add the syntax support, it might be better to add the LaTeX generator to your own server, so that you don't have an external dependence on what would be a core functionality for a &quot;MathOverflow&quot; site.  (DivideByZero might be a good name... just saying...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T19:05:17.090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:05:17.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12694" CreationDate="2009-08-05T19:13:46.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown reference&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The backtick delimiters surrounding a code span may include spaces — one after the opening, one before the closing. This allows you to place literal backtick characters at the beginning or end of a code span&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single backtick in a code span: &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A backtick-delimited string in a code span: &lt;code&gt;`foo`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T12:24:46.260" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T12:24:46.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2009-08-05T19:18:40.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Twitter doesn't even allow room for proper links. How could you expect proper attribution? It's nothing short of amazing that he even managed to squeeze the full quote in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:18:40.463" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12681" CreationDate="2009-08-05T19:22:16.383" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey man, I had to do all the work to format that damn thing into 140 characters!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where's &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; credit for that?!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:22:16.383" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12599" CreationDate="2009-08-05T19:23:10.923" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After I read this it seemed like a pretty good idea, so I whipped up a GreaseMonkey script to do exactly that.  It makes the vote elements 'hidden' so they are invisible and can't be interacted with, but it doesn't mess with the layout at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/tj111/folders/Jing/media/426af206-8c97-4720-81ad-acb9d2f1ba62/2009-08-05%5F1525.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Example of no vote images&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           SO - Remove Own Vote Buttons&#xA;// @namespace      SO&#xA;// @description    Remove Vote buttons next to your own answers&#xA;// @author         T.J. Leahy&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/questions/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;  function GM_wait() {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;    } else { &#xA;      $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;    	var username = $('#hlinks a:eq(1)').text();&#xA;    	$('div.answer').each(function() {&#xA;    		var answeredby = $(this).find('div.user-details a:eq(0)').text();&#xA;    		if (answeredby == username) {&#xA;    			$(this).find('div.vote img').css('visibility','hidden');&#xA;    		}&#xA;    	});&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:23:10.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12678" CreationDate="2009-08-05T19:29:07.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like you lost your browser cookie to your unregistered account in this process. Do you have aggressive cookie settings on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unregistered users are tracked through cookies, so if anything interferes with that, you'll have serious problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:29:07.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12679" CreationDate="2009-08-05T19:52:13.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actual &quot;hot&quot; algorithm is documented here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T19:52:13.330" />
  <row Id="12714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3070" CreationDate="2009-08-05T19:57:20.870" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=select%20%2A%20from%20comments%20where%20userid=1431&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter this as a query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from comments where userid = 1431&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T20:00:58.600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:00:58.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:00:39.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be good for some questions that relate to general geekyness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1229570/nerd-or-geek-what-are-you&quot;&gt;Nerd Or Geek - What Are You?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:00:39.990" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T20:00:39.990" />
  <row Id="12717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:23:32.313" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why wait for the Creators? Go ahead implement it using open source stack only and some nice and free hosting service, perhaps around Google or MS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.darksideoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.darksideoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:23:32.313" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T20:23:32.313" />
  <row Id="12718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12494" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:35:29.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the problems with such a site (where anything goes) is that there's no barrier to entry. Ask.com, Ask Yahoo!, and various other sites were all disasters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask Metafilter&lt;/a&gt; was successful because it has barriers to entry; you have to pay $5 to join. This keeps spamming, chatter, and general weirdness to a minimum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133047" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:35:29.513" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T20:35:29.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12721" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:36:47.590" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see the &quot;Recent&quot; Answers shows answers that I have made recently (surprise). I notice that some of those answers have votes applied so I go back and look and sometimes see intersting discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I notice that my reputation has increased, but not due to anything on my recent answers. So where was it? Has there been intersting discussion and I missed it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So any way to get a view of recent &quot;votes&quot; no matter how old the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't understand when I get notified about comments to my comments. Does that happen? Again I want to not miss an interesting conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82511" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-04T16:20:04.653" LastActivityDate="2010-07-04T16:20:04.653" Title="How can I see recent votes?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="12720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12663" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:38:44.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hmmm...a badge for being &quot;wrong and stubborn&quot; - sounds like the &quot;&lt;em&gt;pointy-haired boss badge&lt;/em&gt;&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:38:44.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12719" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:41:05.850" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the little envelope next to your name at the top of the screen: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fenvelope.png&quot; alt=&quot;envelope&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then click the little number next to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/82511?startdate=2009-08-05&amp;amp;enddate=2009-08-05&amp;amp;tab=reputation#sort-top&quot;&gt;Reputation earned&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Frecentrep.png&quot; alt=&quot;repnum&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That'll take you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/82511?startdate=2009-08-05&amp;amp;enddate=2009-08-05&amp;amp;tab=reputation#sort-top&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, where you can see your recent reputation changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responses to your posts can be found by clicking the number next to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/82511?startdate=2009-08-05&amp;amp;enddate=2009-08-05&amp;amp;tab=responses#sort-top&quot;&gt;Comment responses&lt;/a&gt;, but that does not include comments in reply to your comments (unless they're on one of your posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-05T20:51:35.127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:51:35.127" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:51:14.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about disabling the accept feature, but it sure would be nice to remove the nag message &quot;Have you considered accepting an answer or offering a bounty?&quot; for wiki questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:51:14.833" />
  <row Id="12723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-08-05T20:53:21.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3167/badge-for-winning-your-own-bounty/6984#6984&quot;&gt;Private badges&lt;/a&gt; X 4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/pb-renown.png&quot; alt=&quot;Renown&quot; /&gt;  Your profile was viewed 300 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/pb-celebrity.png&quot; alt=&quot;Celebrity&quot; /&gt; Your profile was viewed 1000 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://karnokd.uw.hu/pb-eminence.png&quot; alt=&quot;Eminence&quot; /&gt; Your profile was viewed 3000 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best thing about private badges (as Jeff answered here) - you track it and you award it to yourself. Put it into your description area so next time it gets viewed, your badge will be at the top, immediately visible to the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T20:53:21.210" />
  <row Id="12724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12725" CreationDate="2008-08-11T20:44:14.283" Score="27" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pretty regularly scan my asked questions and upmod good answers.  I figure if somebody's going to take the trouble to answer one of my questions, it's the least I can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to indicate this somehow: it's worthwhile answering my questions, coz I'll show my appreciation by upmodding your good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas on the best way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[update: Derek has a good idea as noted below... Jump over and comment on uservoice if you have an opinion.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update:&lt;/strong&gt; hooray for  accept rate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T06:53:15.687" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:53:15.687" Title="How can I indicate that I am a &quot;cooperative&quot; questioner?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="12725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2008-08-11T20:48:50.777" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should suggest some sort of badge for this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.uservoice.com&lt;/a&gt;.  I suggested one for commenting edits, and Jeff seemed to think it was a good idea.  I think what you are asking for would be really good if it were some kind of public badge, the way moderator is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I've added a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/17688&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;request for this&lt;/a&gt;.  Vote it up if it's something you want.  Please leave comments on the request page if you have suggestions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159945" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T21:08:11.657" />
  <row Id="12726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2008-08-11T20:50:08.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment there probably isn't a way - but I agree there should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a series of badges could be established that encourage people to do as you, and serve to show who else is doing it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively I suppose you could put something in your gravatar image that indicates it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T21:08:11.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2008-08-11T20:52:28.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. There should be some ort of badge, or series of badges for this. It really helps the system when people are willing to go back and look through there answers and give something back to the people answering them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would need to be some safety measures though as some people will do it just to get the badge and abuse it some, although I guess that is true of most of the bronze badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T21:08:11.657" />
  <row Id="12728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2008-08-11T21:04:07.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any ideas on the best way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just do what you're already doing. People will notice their rep has gone up next time they log in, view their profile, and see more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can't tell that the votes came from &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; AFAIK, but I don't think that's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T21:08:11.657" />
  <row Id="12729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2008-08-11T23:38:49.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have stated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/users/527/ggasp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt; that I vote up every answer my questions get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143233" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T21:08:11.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2008-08-18T21:25:58.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@ggasp&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have stated in my profile that I vote up every answer my questions get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of upmod functionality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T21:08:11.657" />
  <row Id="12732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-08-05T22:00:21.620" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't resist:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which computer had this keyboard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;⟵&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;1&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;2&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;3&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;4&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;5&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;6&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;7&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;8&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;9&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;0&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;+&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;£&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;HOME&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;DEL&lt;/kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;f&amp;nbsp;1&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Q&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;W&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;E&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;R&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;T&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Y&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;U&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;O&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;P&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;@&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;*&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;↑&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;RESTORE&lt;/kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;f&amp;nbsp;3&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;RUN&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;SHIFT&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;A&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;S&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;D&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;F&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;G&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;H&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;J&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;K&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;L&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;=&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;RETURN&lt;/kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;f&amp;nbsp;5&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;C=&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;SHIFT&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;Z&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;X&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;C&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;V&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;B&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;N&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;M&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;/&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;SHIFT&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CRSR&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;CRSR&lt;/kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;f&amp;nbsp;7&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="84671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-14T19:55:55.637" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T19:55:55.637" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-08-05T22:36:39.813" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you did a regression analysis you'd find the number of profile views was a function of two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User ranking (which would probably have exponential dropoff so take a logarithm of this); and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time at that ranking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User ranking itself may be reducible to one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of questions + answers; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Views of questions + answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect this to explain 90%+ of the views seen and you already get badges for this kind of thing. There are of course some outliers in this relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T22:36:39.813" />
  <row Id="12736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-08-05T22:41:18.510" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Request: Wiki Table Syntax&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not support a subset of the table tagset? In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134366/is-there-a-way-to-directly-link-requirements-to-code-units-is-it-a-stupid-idea-t/1135055#1135055&quot;&gt;one of my answers&lt;/a&gt; I really needed a table to properly present a truth table.  I had to fudge it using a fixed width font and lots of '===' and '|' characters to show the columns and rows. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1794274/business-objects-containers-or-functional/1823011#1823011&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; I needed to explain relationships as a graph and getting everything to align correctly too a lot of trial and error.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have been much simpler with table support. I've used another Wiki engine (Kwiki) that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kwiki.org/?KwikiFormattingRules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;supported a markdown-type charset&lt;/a&gt; that used '|' to indicate table columns; a simple and elegant solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastEditorUserId="131485" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-10T17:01:02.850" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T17:01:02.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-08-05T22:43:53.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;I saw this in an answer once&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;and have been baffled about how &lt;kbd&gt;it worked&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;ever since then. But I&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;guess I know now.&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;I'm terribly sorry about this&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it looks like a &lt;kbd&gt;label maker&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T22:43:53.857" />
  <row Id="12739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-08-05T22:47:41.477" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple truth is that you shouldn't answer questions if you're not getting something out of it. That could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're learning something. Answering questions is a good way of doing that. It helped me learn jQuery for example;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You want to improve your writing. Communicating an effective answer is a timely manner is a skill. Doing so in a short as post as possible that is long enough is a skill. And a useful skill at that;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You enjoy it; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To help clarify your own thoughts. Writing anything someone else will read, vote on and comment on will get you feedback in one form or another. Putting thoughts into words can provide useful reinforcement to your view or expose you to better alternatives. This particularly applies to the more subjective questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing it just for the rep or ranking is not going to be self-sustaining or advisable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I decided to answer questions some months after joining the site (December I think it was) and got some motivation at different levels, like hitting 2k to edit and so forth. At that time 10k+ rep got you on the first page and that seemed attainable so I did use that as a goal in part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem pointlessly competitive but little goals like climbing user ranking (although that's getting real hard now) can be a useful little motivator. That being said, it's not the reason. Enjoying answering questions, learning things and improving communication skills  are the real motivations (for me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T22:47:41.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9022" CreationDate="2009-08-05T23:03:14.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd get him to sign his name directly onto a boolean value, just cuz he probably could ; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-08-05T23:03:14.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-05T23:03:14.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12662" CreationDate="2009-08-05T23:18:49.153" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/47&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is a link&lt;/a&gt; to the most up to date information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands (May 2010) top voted for SO is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Click-upvote and Josh, good for you. I'm impressed that you found girls that were both hot and liked programmers with no sense of humor.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/234095#234095&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/superuser/q/47&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;For SU&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;@Phoshi: Jeff has some good articles on Coding Horror on backup. You should give them a quick read.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/82036&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/82036&quot;&gt;For SF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This could be confusing. &quot;Uranium isn't secure. Call the feds!&quot; &quot;Xenon is an Itanium.&quot; &quot;Lithium is on battery power.&quot; &quot;Yesterday was patch day. Is Technetium stable?&quot; &quot;Don't put the code on Silicon, it's not complete yet, and you'll waste chips!&quot; – Jeffrey L Whitledge&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names/45841#45841&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/meta/q/47&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;And for Meta&lt;/a&gt; (the obligatory)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Who the hell is Jon Skeet? – thenduks&quot;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-12T10:41:06.983" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T10:41:06.983" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9022" CreationDate="2009-08-06T00:04:21.183" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Jon Skeet signed an unsigned int, would it still be unsigned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T00:04:21.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T00:04:21.183" />
  <row Id="12744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12745" CreationDate="2009-08-06T00:52:46.387" Score="8" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... if I go to my user page to look at where I got those extra 40 rep points (or whatever) from, does me going to my own user profile page increase my &quot;user profile views&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd really rather it didn't. If it says 100 views, I'm hoping that's other people, not just me jumping in to find that question that I was interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Ok... now that we have an answer here, I've put this question in to ask for the change. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12766/can-user-profile-views-not-include-narcissism-please&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12766/can-user-profile-views-not-include-narcissism-please&lt;/a&gt; - on which I won't mark an answer without a Yes or No from someone who can actually implement the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T06:04:54.443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T06:04:54.443" Title="Does &quot;user profile views&quot; include narcissism?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="12745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12744" CreationDate="2009-08-06T01:08:21.093" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know for a fact that it did, but I'm not sure that it still does. Continually refreshing doesn't continually update the count on my (or anyone else's) profile, and although I have noticed the count increasing by one as I view several pages in my profile in quick succession, this could be because I'm such a popular guy ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done some experimentation with my least-active account (ServerFault). I was unable to increase the view count by visiting it logged in. I also used a different browser, logged out, and viewed my profile, but that, too, didn't work. I then SSHed into a remote server, fired up Firefox, and viewed my profile there as well. Initially it didn't appear to change there either, but it eventually it incremented by 2. Subsequent visits in all three browsers have not changed the value, even when cookies were cleared, so it's likely IP tracking and not user tracking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I can't get the system to increment when I'm logged in and view my profile, so I don't think that &quot;narcissistic&quot; views count anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T01:54:41.830" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T01:54:41.830" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-08-06T01:19:41.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;XKCD&lt;/strong&gt; - a comment that gets someone to fix their answer: someone is &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; on stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T01:19:41.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T01:19:41.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T01:39:06.440" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to report a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are parentheses in a URL then the link is incorrect &#xA;in the preview (but not in the final page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example, composing an answer to a question on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Of dying programming languages [Forth][1] is one of the best.&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link to Forth in the preview becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Platform: Firefox 3.0.6, Windows XP 64 bit, 8 GB RAM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T11:23:39.430" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:23:39.430" Title="Is there a bug in preview when using parentheses in link URLs?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;" />
  <row Id="12749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-08-06T01:46:22.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bridge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given to answers which are voted down because the answerer misread a word in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name comes from the Cream song &quot;Badge,&quot; which was famously titled by mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The title has nothing to do with the song. Clapton saw Harrison's notes for this, and misread &quot;Bridge&quot; as &quot;Badge.&quot; He thought this is what Harrison named the song, so they used it for the title.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T01:46:22.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T01:46:22.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:13:05.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps he finished answering all the C# questions and is working his way through all the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T03:13:05.787" />
  <row Id="12754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:22:00.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has reached the &quot;kill screen&quot; on five Stack Exchange sites including one that hasn't launched yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T03:22:00.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T03:22:00.883" />
  <row Id="12755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:28:31.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You better get busy cranking out some answers man. If you fall to page three you have to go topless in your avatar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask Skeet or one of the other Brits if you are unfamiliar with the significance of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page%5FThree&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;page 3&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T03:28:31.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12759" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:34:20.703" Score="8" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the most controversial non-wiki posts on stack overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T10:53:46.690" Title="What are the most controversial non-wiki posts on stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="12757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12700" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:38:10.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The (non-minified) source for WMD can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3161/dana&quot;&gt;Dana Robinson&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GIT repository&lt;/a&gt;, as Jeff pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/updated-wmd-editor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. That should keep me busy for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T03:38:10.803" />
  <row Id="12758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12760" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:42:19.720" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2765/how-does-stackoverflow-handle-spam&quot;&gt;How does stackoverflow handle spam?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am on the site almost every day and have been since early on, yet I don't recall ever seeing any SPAM comments or questions, not even once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just curious as to whether the reputation/spam filter is just really good at filtering them or are they just getting squashed almost instantaneously by the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm never gonna get that Citizen patrol badge! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T03:58:40.327" ClosedDate="2009-08-06T04:02:14.780" Title="Is Stack Exchange immune to SPAM or is the system just working THAT well?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="12759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12756" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:48:38.740" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my shot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far the most controversial non-wiki post on SO is Joel's famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871405/why-do-i-need-an-ioc-container-as-opposed-to-straightforward-di-code/871420#871420&quot;&gt;IOC answer&lt;/a&gt;. Nothing else comes close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-12T10:53:46.690" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T10:53:46.690" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12758" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:50:35.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several mechanisms Stack Overflow uses to keep spam down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, most spam is designed for specific software - Wordpress, phpBB, etc. Since Stack Overflow has a custom codebase from the ground up, that would mean tailoring a spam engine to these specific sites, which I doubt is worth spammers time, since programmers and computer enthusiasts are able to instantly recognize it for what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the software itself has several anti-flood features (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see the blog for details&lt;/a&gt;) that prevent a user from any one IP from posting too fast. There are also capchas on the sites that try to force the user to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/are-you-a-human-being/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prove that they are human&lt;/a&gt; if they exhibit robot-like usage patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135685/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work-in-stackoverflow/135687#135687&quot;&gt;software has tools&lt;/a&gt; for users of a certain rep to recognize and remove spam. If six users vote a post as spam and/or offensive, it's deleted from the system. Once it hits three votes its banished from the front page, meaning most people visiting won't even see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if spam somehow gets through all these checks, there are moderators that watch the various sites that can instantly remove spam and suspend/delete abusive accounts. Although moderators try to be as vigilant as we can, we also rely on the community to notify us of spam and other forms of abuse through &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the moderator flag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T03:58:40.327" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T03:58:40.327" />
  <row Id="12761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12758" CreationDate="2009-08-06T03:52:33.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really a combination of both the reputation/spam filter and the community self-policing. The limitations caused by low reputation help by making it harder and more frustrating to spam the system. And beyond that, because user's of a certain amount of rep gain moderator privileges, there are many, active people around, able to quickly snuff out any spam that does get through. Additionally, I believe the SO team puts IP blocks and things of that sort in place to add an additional layer of protection from people/places that have repeatedly attempted to spam the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T03:52:33.677" />
  <row Id="12763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6960" CreationDate="2009-08-06T04:20:59.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Episodes 1 through 63 inclusive of Stackoverflow.com podcasts in mp3 format:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5044115&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5044115&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T04:20:59.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1442" CreationDate="2009-08-06T04:32:07.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to suggest exactly that. Being able to do this from any page (not only from the tag page as the linked question) would be very good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid cluttering the interface for those who, like Ólafur, don't see much use in the feature, maybe the &quot;+/-&quot; signs would be visible only to users who have added a certain number of tags to their interesting/ignored lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132962" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T04:32:07.247" />
  <row Id="12765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-08-06T05:51:48.617" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104654/google&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;. I'm interested in the search engine he developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4504" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T05:51:48.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T05:51:48.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13600" CreationDate="2009-08-06T06:18:01.573" Score="31" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12744/does-user-profile-views-include-narcissism&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12744/does-user-profile-views-include-narcissism&lt;/a&gt;, it looks like visiting our own profile increases the number of 'views' listed there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it NOT please? I'm not interested in how many times I've been there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T18:37:38.293" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T00:56:33.670" Title="Can &quot;user profile views&quot; NOT include narcissism please?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;views&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5346" CreationDate="2009-08-06T06:20:29.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem seems to be that the amount of time remaining is rounded DOWN (or NEAREST) when it should be rounded UP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decrementing time should be rounded up, so that, for example, if 48 hours are allocated, then the remaining time should only decrement to 47 hours after one hour has passed (rather than immediately), 46 hours after 2 hours have passed, etc, and so that for the last one hour, it says &quot;1 hour&quot; (not &quot;0 hours&quot; or something like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132166" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T06:20:29.730" />
  <row Id="12768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12766" CreationDate="2009-08-06T08:17:17.030" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this. One work around is to just use the 'messages' (envelope icon) link, which goes to the recent activity page. This lets you see your recent history without incrementing the view count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T08:17:17.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-08-06T08:31:00.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this could be incorporated together with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;getting notifications for new comments on posts&lt;/a&gt; (either questions or answers) that you've marked as as &quot;interesting&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when you want to &lt;em&gt;track&lt;/em&gt; a post (perhaps because you downvoted it, commented on it, or for any other reason):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You would &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/1874#1874&quot;&gt;request to get notifications&lt;/a&gt; about updates (tick a box or something) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the post is edited, or a follow-up comment on it is posted, you'll be notified (via the envelope &amp;amp; Recent Activity page)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit like what devinb commented &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch/1752#1752&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but using the same UI for keeping up with any activity (both edits and comments) on a post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this would not be as fine-grained as some might want (e.g. you'd be notified also about new comments even if you were only interested in an edit that fixes the problem in an answer). But on the bright side, this would largely solve both this FR and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;comment-tracking one&lt;/a&gt;, without cluttering the UI with too many options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T08:31:00.120" />
  <row Id="12772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-28T15:04:27.903" Score="15" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sorry, I haven't been paying much attention to the meta-discussions here lately, so I'm not sure if this is appropriate or not, but I just had something on my mind I wanted to share with you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, after reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/145991/how-many-lines-of-debugged-code-do-you-produce-in-a-days-work&quot;&gt;a question about number of lines of code produced per day&lt;/a&gt;, and first voting it down for being a &quot;bad&quot; question, I thought a bit about it and then changed my mind to vote it up instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is quite simple: even if I think the question is &quot;bad&quot; because it discusses a practice I don't much approve of (counting lines of code), the answers to the question may very well turn out to be &quot;good&quot;, which again may possibly lead to someone learning something they didn't know before or getting a new perspective on a topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is now, did I do the &quot;right&quot; thing by upvoting the question, or should I have downvoted it to help increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the site? What is the &quot;official&quot; Stack Overflow guidelines for this, if there are any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and feel free to vote me down if you feel this question itself is completely useless... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1709" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T22:20:32.790" Title="Should I upvote &quot;bad&quot; questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T15:06:53.123" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is bad, vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are good, vote them up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers don't make a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T15:07:56.240" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a gray area and each one of us has to judge for ourselves.  If you think the question is a bad question, downvote it.  I thought the question was valid, and I and many other of the respondents pointed out that lines of code wasn't really a useful metric for anything.  I didn't upvote it though, either. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" />
  <row Id="12775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T15:10:28.247" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;my opinion: if the question is about programming, even if you disagree with it, then it's a good question. the lines-of-code-per-day question is a good example: this is nearly a useless number, but that doesn't make the question bad; others may see the answers to this question and learn something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T15:13:32.780" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the down votes as being my indication that the quality of the question or if the quality of the answer is poor. Additionally, if the answer provided is incorrect then I vote that answer down. I wouldn't down vote a question simply because I disagree with the practice being discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="12777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T15:14:16.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have enough reputation, it would be better to edit question, especially if it received some good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site pretends to be like Wiki - i.e. collaboratively editable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it's maybe be not fair if original author gains reputation after someone fixed his\her questions. But it's completely up to you. If you feel that quality of question is more important than personal ambitions then edit post and help community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T15:22:50.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you believe the question is bad you should down vote it. In a few minutes it will not be on the front page anymore and only the people looking for it will be reading it at this point they will read it even if it has negative votes, maybe the negative votes will make them want to read the answers even more to know why it was such a bad question. (In case they don't find it obvious)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the people suggesting editing the questions and incorporate answers, you can do that, but it is not officially &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14593/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts#14608&quot;&gt;recommended&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting Jeff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree. IMO the only time editing posts to insert inline replies is OK is when the editor asked the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="238" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T16:12:49.813" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote a question if I would be interested in seeing the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvote a question under these circumstances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not programming related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;poorly written question (poor grammar, lots of misspelling, hard to understand)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;just plain stupid or noisy (e.g., &quot;What kind of food do you eat while programming?&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I leave it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone should downvote a question because they disagree with the questioner.  Downvoting should in some way indicate that the questioner didn't follow the rules or think very hard about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131953" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-28T16:19:00.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that I used the correct way to express something similar: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.uservoice.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case I have proposed that down-votes must be commented (at least must be suggested to comment why) other ways are useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" />
  <row Id="12781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:02:21.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Ameller,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All discussions boil down to a single thing - &lt;em&gt;users morale&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quality of questions or number/correctness of votes just mirrors the quality of SO community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can add tons of technical means to enforce desired behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But users will be inserting useless text just to bypass these barriers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wise guy &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim_of_Sarov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Seraphim of Sarov&lt;/a&gt; once said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Acquire a peaceful spirit, and&#xA;  thousands around you will be saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want SO to be better community then YOU should become example of honesty and helpfulness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In society where most people behave similarly, it is difficult to be white crow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If more and more people would leave comments when they are not agree with Q/A then problem will disappear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't blindly down-vote anything you don't like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of punish try to make it better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't hesitate to leave a comment or even fix bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:02:27.227" />
  <row Id="12782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12772" CreationDate="2009-08-06T09:18:22.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an area on the matrix of question quality against validity which isn't covered by upvoting, editing or closing for the various reasons allowed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a bad question - why is it bad? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there's a nub of a good question, help rewrite it (after all the asker might not have English as a first language). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it just irrelevant? Then vote to close it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it flamebait? Close it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it be elsewhere? Close it and point it to meta/SF/SU/SO as appropriate. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually struggling to think of why I might down vote a question that's honestly asked and which has no reasonable cause for being closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm not interested, then I don't vote - that's very different from down-voting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T09:18:22.973" />
  <row Id="12783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12792" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:20:13.503" Score="0" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that the favourite star has slightly rounded spikes.&#xA;I'm quite sure they were pointy yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true, and which version do you like better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:25:32.233" Title="Has the favourite star got rounded spikes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="12784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12783" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:43:36.827" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a travesty and I simply will not stand idly by while Royal Squadron Atwood Beta goes around rounding everything in sight. It starts with a little star here, an upvote arrow there. But what next? Soon he'll be rounding reputation scores, badge counts, IP addresses, &lt;strong&gt;words&lt;/strong&gt;! Think of all the data we're going to lose to unscrupulous rounding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line has to be drawn here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T10:43:36.827" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="12785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:44:00.897" Score="3" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would you like to see discussed on Podcast #65?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post only one topic per user and look down the list and vote up things you'd like to see. You can be as detailed as you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11030/podcast-64-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;Podcast #64 thread is here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;Podcast #66 thread is here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-65/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #65&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29076&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;transcript wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:10:37.960" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:10:37.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T10:44:00.897" Title="Podcast #65 - Discussion Ideas. (Unofficial)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="12786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:43:37.523" Score="5" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't we have simple HTML in comments; or at least newlines and tabs?  I think it would be good if we had such functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149798" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T12:21:37.867" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T07:40:54.310" Title="Why can't we have simple HTML in comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12786" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:45:47.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;probably because comments are designed to be kept small and to the point.&#xA;as SO isn't a forum, if you need to write a detailed response, it probably is an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133075" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T10:46:19.123" />
  <row Id="12788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12785" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:52:28.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11030/podcast-64-discussion-ideas-unofficial/11040#11040&quot;&gt;Lesson learned&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make a new thread, I have to link to the old answers ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T10:52:28.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T10:52:28.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12783" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:53:58.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the initial reaction that it looks all alien and unexpected passes, I think I might actually prefer the rounded one... This doesn't provoke very strong feelings either way though, as the change is rather small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T10:53:58.880" />
  <row Id="12790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12786" CreationDate="2009-08-06T10:58:15.207" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the basic formatting that's already available — &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;monospace&lt;/code&gt; (using ` on either side) — is quite sufficient for comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T11:08:35.607" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:08:35.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:09:00.067" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you&quot;&gt;How addicted to StackOverflow are you?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You know your addicted to StackOverflow when you want to upvote&#xA;  the comment's on Jeff's blog.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Diago&lt;/strong&gt; on August 6, 2009 2:54 AM&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001293.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001293.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:09:00.067" ClosedDate="2009-08-06T12:10:42.427" Title="You know you are addicted to StackOverflow when" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12783" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:25:32.233" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the rounded star, but I don't like the light gray background around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its subtle but it looks like the image didn't quite get the attention it needed in Photoshop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its most notable on a laptop where the screen is often not perpendicular to your eyeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a closeup:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7757/blurrystar.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:25:32.233" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13034" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:26:16.413" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I associated my accounts on stackoverflow, serverfault, superuser and meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I associated some of them from stackoverflow and some of them from superuser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards I tried clearing the associations and assigning the associations again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now get&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Can't Associate This Account&#xA;&#xA;[...] cannot associate your [...] account:&#xA;&#xA;because it is already associated.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I try associating any other combination than stackoverflow-serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My accounts are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5542&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5542&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5542&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5542&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/4601&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/users/4601&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/11402&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/11402&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be a reoccurence of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5887/none-of-the-other-sites-can-associate-my-superuser-account-because-it-is-already&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5887/none-of-the-other-sites-can-associate-my-superuser-account-because-it-is-already&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154495" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:57:32.803" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T07:00:03.623" Title="Cannot reassociate accounts after clearing associations" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="12794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12785" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:35:12.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to hear a bit about how Jeff transitioned into the StackOverflow world.  e.g. what &quot;gig&quot; did he have before this?  I know he ran/runs Coding Horror but was there more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think many of us have side projects that we're hoping to get off the ground but we often struggle with being able to dedicate enough time to them whilst still maintaining full-time employment elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, any tips, tricks to &quot;working for the man&quot; while moving towards &quot;working for yourself&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:35:12.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T11:35:12.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12801" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:39:33.297" Score="4" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be very handy if I could search for questions and answers by a particular user. Especially my own user. So that I could more easily find questions I have asked a long time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39321" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T05:27:20.203" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T05:27:20.203" Title="Make it possible to search for questions and answer for a particular user" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:39:40.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, affiliate links never pay out well. Perhaps with such a huge member base SO might do better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how often do you click a link from SO and buy the item right away? I have certainly bought one book I've seen mentioned here (and other places), but I didn't buy it straight away, I went back to Amazon a week later, searched for it and bought it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:39:40.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10641" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:42:15.197" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two different things we want to say to the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You will find the answers not here but elsewhere -&gt; migrated to...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't edit this question -&gt; [closed]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion point 1 is much more important for the casual user than point 2.&#xA;I'm primarily interested in the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To find the answers I have to scroll down, parse three confusing lines (migrated, locked, closed) and click on the URL of another website (e.g. superuser.com) with no indication that it leads me to the answers. I doubt that new users grok that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal is to put point 1 in the title and make it a link to the question.&#xA;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best IT (non-development) forum [&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12109/best-it-non-development-forum&quot;&gt;migrated to superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is too long maybe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best IT (non-development) forum [&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12109/best-it-non-development-forum&quot;&gt;migrated to SU&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best IT (non-development) forum [&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12109/best-it-non-development-forum&quot;&gt;migrated to &lt;img src=&quot;http://superuser.com/favicon.ico&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Handle point 2 in the footer of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed and migrated by Espo, SilentGhost, David Dorward, phoenix, sharptooth Jul 24 at 11:29&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[closed] is a sign of the bad quality of a question, I don't read closed questions, and I don't care about the close reason. &#xA;This is not true for migrated questions. Just because a question was posted on the wrong site doesn't say anything about its quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore &quot;migrated&quot; shouldn't be another close reason, but handled specially.&#xA;In other words the [close] is just a side effect of the migration, what's important is the migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="84671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T18:42:41.423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:42:41.423" />
  <row Id="12799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12795" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:43:11.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already possible. See the FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expansion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can search for a specific user by using the keyword user and the user id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;user:[userid]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:43:11.200" />
  <row Id="12801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12795" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:43:25.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already possible via the search keyword, which will do exactly what you're requesting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt; &#xA;user:39321&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A list of all the functionality is available &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:43:25.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:47:53.517" Score="5" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why, but the last few days I haven't gotten any tag suggestions other than for the first one I type in. I have had to write one, cut it out, write another, paste the other one in, cut bot out, type the third one, paste the other two in, and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the same problem in both Opera 9.64 and IE 8 on Vista.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39321" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T06:41:41.383" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:51:04.517" Title="Tag suggestion only works for the first tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;opera&gt;&lt;internet-explorer&gt;&lt;tag-suggestions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12803" CreationDate="2009-08-06T11:52:51.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When have you tried this? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12561/tag-editor-now-supports-inline-autocomplete&quot;&gt;The feature was fixed sometime yesterday.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The functionality you describe is not related to the newly fixed tag completion. Previously it would auto-complete only the last tag in the box, which is different than &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; completing the first. In either case, try it again today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T11:52:51.070" />
  <row Id="12806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12803" CreationDate="2009-08-06T12:02:35.717" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing the same right now across SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the first tag is suggested. All others, no  matter front, middle or back, will not offer tag suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with a cleared and flushed cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opera 9.63&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Since the recent deployment...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't matter where or which number tag you're trying to put in, first or third or fifth, whenever retagging a few posts on SuperUser, the cursor will &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; jump back to the first position and replace whatever is the first word. Annoying when trying to create even a sensible list of just three tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't feel like proper behaviour at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Workaround for Opera&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to deal with this in Opera is to type the tags backward. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Type in one and when you're done, hit &lt;kbd&gt;Home&lt;/kbd&gt; or whatever your keyboard of choice does to get you back to the start of the input area. Then type a space and go back again to the front of the input. Now type up the next tag and it will suggest it and prefill it properly. Return to the front and pad with that leading space for each tag you want to include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T09:51:04.517" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:51:04.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T12:30:17.830" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;What adjustments to reputation have recently been applied to SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed a lot of the top users' reps dropped by several thousand points overnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154974" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T12:34:07.470" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:25:14.527" Title="What adjustments to reputation have recently been applied to SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12811" CreationDate="2009-08-06T12:32:08.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obvious guess: reputation recalcs forced the scores down (although that would be quite a drop if it was several thousand)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T12:32:08.330" />
  <row Id="12813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12811" CreationDate="2009-08-06T12:32:20.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This usually is due to reputation recalculations. Reputation earned from deleted questions and answers or questions moved to other places in the trilogy will be lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T12:32:20.263" />
  <row Id="12814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12766" CreationDate="2009-08-06T12:33:27.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I whole-heartedly disagree.  If it weren't for &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; views, my profile would have none at all.  And that's just depressing.  Are you trying to drive me back to the bottle?  Is that it?  You know my liver can't handle it.  Why don't you just shove the knife into my heart, you monster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T12:33:27.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="80420" CreationDate="2009-08-06T12:44:23.520" Score="5" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you filter the user list by typing anything in the search box, the pagination bar dissapears, and it doesn't reappear until you refresh the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even clearing the textbox doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:44:59.477" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T22:58:48.597" Title="When you filter the user list you lose the pagination bar" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;user-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="12818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12817" CreationDate="2009-08-06T12:46:49.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has been asked at least a half dozen times already, but I have never heard about anything being done to fix it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T12:46:49.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12811" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:19:03.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My rep was definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; over 88K last night. I think I'd have noticed that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep recalcs can change reputation of course, but I haven't noticed anything significant recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:19:03.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12811" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:25:14.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will be one soon, but it has not happened yet:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:25:14.527" />
  <row Id="12824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7029" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:34:23.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm bringing copies of my resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:34:23.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:39:22.567" Score="2" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a request per se but more of an observation.&#xA;As Joel said in one of the podcasts he'd prefer to keep the question generic enough to be of maximum use and to add possibly solutions (that didn't work in the case of the question starter) as seperate responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I try this I don't get anyone else posting responses because they see the same user is asking and responding. From here on end noone will post answers even though I have not selected my answer as the solution. Once I delete my response then people that adding their own responses again. So my conclusion is that this system doesn't work in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the best way to keep a question generic enough so that it is useful for others but also help people along adding responses that I haven't already considered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; @jinguy&#xA;I'll &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/17615/windows-64bit-sandboxing-software-alternatives&quot;&gt;post an example&lt;/a&gt; but it's not about a specific question imho. In this example I've deleted my answer which is similar to the first other response, which only appeared afterward deletion. I'm sure there are more answers for that question too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="997" LastEditorUserId="997" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T14:28:08.240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T15:46:24.447" Title="No responses after responding to own question symptom" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:42:33.950" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several questions that I would like to see answered regarding the running of an IT company, as well as several questions about IT careers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that these questions don't quite fit in at either stackoverflow or server-fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have plans for a site for questions of this type or would any of the below be appropriate for one of the existing sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e.: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are migrating from Clearcase to another VCS - for companies that have made this transition, what factors did they find important in selecting another VCS tool, and what practices did they find eased the transition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our small privately held software company is being acquired by another privately held company, but management refuses to allow employees to see the terms sheet from the acquiring company.  Is the terms sheet something that would normally be public information or is it typical that this information would be private. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When interviewing for a management position for a small private software company, what is the best way to get an understanding of the financial governance practices that the company uses - is it okay to request the chart of accounts that the company uses in it's accounting?  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;-John Clark &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T15:42:14.410" Title="Appropriate site for questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;site-usage&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12827" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:50:42.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, these really don't fit any of our sites very well. The first one might fit in with SO because it's VCS related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it's not based on the SO engine, might I suggest asking these on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Business of Software board&lt;/a&gt; that Joel Spolsky has? Barring that you could try Super User as it's sort of a catch-all for computer topics, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it get closed as off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T13:57:57.857" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:57:57.857" />
  <row Id="12829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12826" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:52:37.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... wait longer before adding your own responses! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone suggests something you've tried, thank them and describe why it didn't work &lt;em&gt;for your specific situation&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone suggests something you &lt;em&gt;haven't&lt;/em&gt; tried, then try it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:52:37.210" />
  <row Id="12830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12827" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:53:14.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first one sounds good for Stack Overflow - there are already questions there that might provide insightful answers. But the other ones, as Kyle Cronin said, don't belong on any of the current trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:53:14.107" />
  <row Id="12831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12803" CreationDate="2009-08-06T13:57:58.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works for me (SO &amp;amp; MSO, FF 3.5.2)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T13:57:58.340" />
  <row Id="12832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12826" CreationDate="2009-08-06T14:09:49.710" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what Jeff and Joel say, there &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; a community stigma towards people who answer their own questions. Most of the time it is completely benign, but the few times that it does reek of gaming the system is enough to turn off a good percentage of the userbase. I know I am guilty of it myself. If I see a question that has already been responded to by the OP, I will only post on that if there is something completely different that I want to say compared to their own answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T14:44:10.970" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T14:44:10.970" />
  <row Id="12833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12826" CreationDate="2009-08-06T14:18:41.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/640273/watin-tests-fail-on-cc-net&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt; from personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I waited one day before adding an answer with some suggestions I had received offline. Never saw any more answers until today, 8 hours ago. Almost 5 months later! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I posted did mention that I was unhappy with the results of my own attempts, but I guess most users never read that far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65611" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T14:18:41.940" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12836" CreationDate="2009-08-06T14:50:36.417" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;This new feature would provide an intermediate zone where the questions would dwell, between the strictly more Recent questions and the Hot tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the Recent questions tab, after a little scrolling down, draw a horizontal line and below it, show only questions with a minimum of { 1 | 2  | 3 : to be decided } upvotes, otherwise respecting a scrict most recent order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind it is to leave recent questions around for a while longer if they have received some upvotes. Nowadays recent questions fade away after 7 or 8 minutes, at least in the most active times of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T14:59:18.817" Title="Add upvoted not-so-recent questions to the main page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="12835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T14:52:46.740" Score="3" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;The podcasts are &lt;strong&gt;interesting&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone agrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since I'm &lt;em&gt;technologically&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; deaf, I cannot listen to them.  Since there are some nice users that provide transcriptions of the podcasts, is it possible to have an RSS feed of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just found out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/rss.asp?ixWikiPage=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;feed&lt;/a&gt; for the different revisions of the containing page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA; 1. I don't have audio access while I would have time to read them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T15:55:03.917" LastActivityDate="2010-06-28T04:00:03.303" Title="Is there an RSS feed for podcast transcriptions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;transcription&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="12836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12834" CreationDate="2009-08-06T14:59:18.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have an &quot;Active&quot; tab, it just does not take voting into account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have suggested previously including adding voting into the activity that is tracked on the Active tab, but a lot of people appear to be against that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T14:59:18.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12835" CreationDate="2009-08-06T14:59:50.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you not subscribe to the RSS feed for the StackOverflow blog itself and get the transcripts that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; I should note that I completely missed the distinction between &quot;transcript&quot; and rundowns that are posted on the SO blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T14:59:50.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T15:07:17.413" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&quot;&gt;Display the original question beneath the answer edit form&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be very handy if while entering an answer, the question was still up on the page.  I'm usually needing to reference things in the question, and want to use the same variable names when I can, etc.  Right now I have to bring up another window of SO to look at the question, and flip back and forth between tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T15:07:17.413" ClosedDate="2009-08-06T15:26:17.390" Title="See question text while answering" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12827" CreationDate="2009-08-06T15:42:14.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;We are migrating from Clearcase to another VCS - for companies that have made this transition, what factors did they find important in selecting another VCS tool, and what practices did they find eased the transition.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO-suitable programming-tool-related question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Our small privately held software company is being acquired by another privately held company, but management refuses to allow employees to see the terms sheet from the acquiring company. Is the terms sheet something that would normally be public information or is it typical that this information would be private. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion: unless you're a stockholder it's none of your business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;When interviewing for a management position for a small private software company, what is the best way to get an understanding of the financial governance practices that the company uses - is it okay to request the chart of accounts that the company uses in it's accounting?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion: I don't think the chart of accounts is necessarily relevant (think Enron) but if you do then by all means ask them about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T15:42:14.410" />
  <row Id="12842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-08-06T15:43:36.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.python.org/~guido/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guido Van Rossum&lt;/a&gt;, Python's Benevolent Dictator for Life&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T15:43:36.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T15:43:36.137" />
  <row Id="12843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12826" CreationDate="2009-08-06T15:46:24.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think offhand of three questions with quick self-responses which I answered anyway. On two of them my answer was accepted; on the third, the OP accepted his own answer, but mine outscored his 13 to 9 (which reminds me, I wonder if the populist badge is in play on self-accepted answers?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't personally see a problem. If I think I have a better answer, I'll post it. It is true that I might think twice, though, especially if I think the OP posted it just to accept his own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you simply try to make it very clear that you are looking for better answers, not just trying to show off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T15:46:24.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1189" CreationDate="2009-08-06T15:56:15.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;For firefox users&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12845/greasemonkey-script-to-show-question-when-editing-answers&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey script to show Question when editing Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T12:58:16.910" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:58:16.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-06T15:56:15.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T15:59:38.570" Score="2" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I am posting code using pre-code html tags, everything inside &amp;lt; &gt; are lost, how to use html formatting correctly, so that I can see it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg. if I have #include header.h, how can I use &amp;lt; &gt; in header.h ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132968" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T16:08:10.193" Title="How to insert &lt; &gt; in code?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="12848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12847" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:01:02.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt; for &amp;lt; &#xA;&amp;amp;gt; for &amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Test below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;Test&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Yea, it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T16:01:02.937" />
  <row Id="12849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12847" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:02:35.163" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Method 1:&lt;/strong&gt; Backticks for in-line code escaping: &lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;header.h&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(`#include &amp;lt;header.h&amp;gt;`)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Method 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Four spaces for code blocks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;header.h&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(four spaces after two newlines, followed by #include &amp;lt;header.h&amp;gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Method 3:&lt;/strong&gt; Regular HTML escape codes: &amp;lt; &amp;gt;. (&amp;amp;lt; for &amp;lt; and &amp;amp;gt; for &amp;gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T16:08:10.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T16:08:10.193" />
  <row Id="12850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15164" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:13:10.323" Score="5" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what SO gets in return to linking to and talking about howtogeek; I couldn't find a link to any of the so family of sites for example over there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's in it for SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will it get from the other (yet to come) members of the league?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:15:37.023" Title="Where's the link back from howtogeek to SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;league-of-justice&gt;&lt;howtogeek&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="12899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12850" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:26:22.230" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/howtogeek-and-stack-overflow/#comment-29483&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; that a link back isn't necessary until SuperUser officially launches in mid-August:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We probably don’t need to link back until SU is out of beta, I think.. mid-August is the target date!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the fact that I can't find &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; on howtogeek.com referring to the role he now has on SuperUser bothers me a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T16:26:22.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12901" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:26:33.710" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stackoverflow, I am wondering why all the members with the &quot;Beta Tester&quot; badge seem to have low karma scores compared to most of the others?  It looks like an average of about 200 for them. Does that mean they participated in the Beta and then never came back?  If so, why would they come in the first place and why didn't they stick with it?  Was an initial temporary incentive to participate involved perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131460" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T16:47:01.643" Title="Why do the Beta Testers all have the lowest scores?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="12901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12900" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:30:04.187" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're just looking at the ones that were recently awarded. The conditions for having the Beta badge &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/#comment-14705&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;are as follows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You get the beta badge by having at least three bronze badges and an account start date prior to 9/16/08.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the Beta badges were awarded on or around 9/16 of last year. The rest have been trickling in as people have been earning those three bronze badges (which is a very low bar). Seeing as they're getting to them now, it's not surprising that they aren't very active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some active users with the Beta badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893/greg-hewgill&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt; 48,145&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3043/joel-coehoorn&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt; 46,281&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1288/bill-the-lizard&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt; 40,409&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1968/konrad-rudolph&quot;&gt;Konrad Rudolph&lt;/a&gt; 39,686&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt; 37,087&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; 14,491&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T16:47:01.643" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T16:47:01.643" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="12902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:52:44.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither. You should sit back and wait for SO to implement &quot;show n results per page&quot; and then we can all be on the first page. It's always easier to change the rules than play by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12752" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T16:52:44.440" />
  <row Id="12905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12909" CreationDate="2009-08-06T16:59:15.923" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240164/great-questions-and-answers-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;migrated question&lt;/a&gt; showed the following log:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;migrated to meta.stackoverflow.com 43 secs ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;locked by Community♦ 42 secs ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com by zombat, cletus, Thomas Owens, Reed Copsey, bdonlan 43 secs ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was it locked before it was closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:04:17.440" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:04:17.440" Title="Temporal paradox: Migrated question locked before closure" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12905" CreationDate="2009-08-06T17:04:25.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been errors where the clocks on the database server and web server aren't exactly in sync, leading to issues where something was posted &quot;-3 seconds ago&quot;, so this could be something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, look at the times - it was locked 42 seconds ago, but the rest happened 1 second earlier, at 43 seconds ago. So it was really locked &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the post was closed and migrated. This is corroborated by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1240164/list&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post Locked&lt;/strong&gt; by Community♦ occurred &lt;strong&gt;6 mins ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post Migrated&lt;/strong&gt; to meta.stackoverflow.com by zombat, cletus, Thomas Owens, Reed Copsey, bdonlan occurred &lt;strong&gt;6 mins ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post Closed&lt;/strong&gt; as &quot;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; by zombat, cletus, Thomas Owens, Reed Copsey, bdonlan occurred &lt;strong&gt;6 mins ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T17:04:25.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T17:09:14.827" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the upcoming StackExchange offering. Let's say that you wanted to make one for each of the 50 State's tax laws.  What do you think would be the best way to organize that? Would you have to have 50 different versions, one for each state? Each state has differing and changing laws that are complex enough to certainly have the content.  And people with questions would use it big time during tax season. Would you have to pay for 50 different versions or could you put it all under the same domain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131460" LastEditorUserId="131460" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T18:08:31.743" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:08:31.743" Title="Organizing a site like this according to geographic region" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12912" CreationDate="2009-08-06T17:15:00.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think tags take care of this.  Create a tag per state, and you automatically have an area for tax questions for that state.  Plus, if a tax question relates to federal tax, a state-specific tax question could be tagged as federal, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T17:15:00.853" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="12918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12926" CreationDate="2009-08-06T17:31:14.970" Score="34" ViewCount="1848" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Note, this isn't a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7135/where-should-a-question-about-latex-usage-go&quot;&gt;Where should a question about LaTeX usage go?&lt;/a&gt;, as the answers focussed on a specific question asked, which was about how to format bibliographies in LaTeX.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that LaTeX questions should go on Stack Overflow, not Super User. Reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;nearly 300 questions with a LaTeX tag on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX is a combination of of document preparation and programming.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advanced LaTeX questions are not going to be answerable by non-programmers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240037/recommended-build-system-for-latex&quot;&gt;Recommended build system for latex?&lt;/a&gt; (asked by me) got a vote-to-close (as well as other questions I've seen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get a ruling for general LaTeX questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone here seems to agree. Can we get an argument from the people who vote to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T14:49:53.203" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T14:49:53.203" Title="Can we have a ruling on LaTeX on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;latex&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3896" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:04:16.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice if the system remembered my last selected sort.  It does this with answers in a question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:04:16.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:10:53.813" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4384/bug-with-single-character-tags-in-urls&quot;&gt;single character URL&lt;/a&gt; problem seems fixed, but when trying to add a single character tag (I tried &quot;r&quot; and &quot;c&quot;), the autocomplete does not show it. As written by Eric, it doesn't stop me from adding the tag by simply pressing enter in the form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133172" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:42:49.497" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:42:49.497" Title="Single character tag autocomplete for interesting tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12918" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:19:19.757" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Late addition:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;1 September 2010:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tex.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Tex, LaTeX and Friends&lt;/a&gt; Stack Exchange beta site humming along and looking like it will survive (though we still haven't been appraised of the rules) I endorse posting most LaTeX questions there instead of to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; stand by my position that such questions are on topic on SO (as outlined below), but feel you are likely to get a faster response on the specialty site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been fighting this battle for months now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LaTeX questions &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; appropriate on StackOverflow because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TeX and all its derived languages are Turing complete. Every document is a program, and problems are equivalent to &quot;How do I get output X?&quot; questions in any other language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many problems are solved by &quot;redefine macro \foo&quot; or &quot;define macro \Foo that extends \foo&quot;. These are programming solutions to programming problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some problems are solved by &quot;get package Bar from CTAN&quot;, but if these are out than so are perl questions where the answer is &quot;get Bar from CPAN&quot;, or even C++ questions where the answer is use Boost::Bar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If &quot;it's a layout language&quot; is an acceptable argument against LaTeX, it applies even more to HTML and CSS, both of which are widely accepted and much more prevalent on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, at this point we have a increasingly nice collection (more than 250) of LaTeX questions and answers on StackOverflow, and more than a dozen users with 20 or more upvotes in the tag. Some of the questions are very basic, many are of fairly general application, and a few are really deep magic. Any attempt to more the focus to SuperUser would either fracture than population and expertise, or necessarily introduce questions to SuperUser which are rather more &quot;programmy&quot; than the culture there. The more esoteric ones would be even more out of place on SU than &quot;How to I get boldface in LaTeX?&quot; questions would be on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pure politics (rather than technical argument):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of only one LaTeX questions that has ever been closed on SO, and it didn't stay that way. This suggests to me that the pro-close side is rather smaller than the group of active users in the tag. My view would be that this in and of itself constitutes a consensus in favor of LaTeX on StackOverflow. YMMV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T23:47:21.310" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T23:47:21.310" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12918" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:25:11.117" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I have nothing against HTML or CSS questions on stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, whenever I see a LaTeX question closed and I remember that there are several thousand HTML questions I don't understand the world anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagged &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HTML:    5,737 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CSS:     4,232&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaTeX:     272&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What have questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the best way to create rounded&#xA;  corners using CSS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are good resources for CSS&#xA;  templates or templated layout sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to do with programming?&#xA;And there are literally thousands of them on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm perfectly OK with that, but please: relax when you see a LaTeX question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="84671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T18:40:54.360" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:40:54.360" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:36:48.847" Score="0" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SLASH SLASS?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240514/what-would-be-a-nice-modal-box-for-an-asp-website&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2579/3796053054%5F213d0862d5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132619" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:41:53.070" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:41:53.070" Title="What's happening to the DO NOT CLICK LINK on this question?" Tags="&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="12930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12929" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:38:51.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being the daredevil that I am, I clicked it. It says don't click because the site is flagged as malware. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:38:51.790" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="12932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:40:44.050" Score="11" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all. My first time on meta SO. Really good idea in the first place. Stack Overflow is quite easily the best site I've found this year! Anyway, to my point / suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm looking at my questions, I often want to see all the comments, as I feel the comments section of answers are sometimes more important than the actual answer, as they often provide clarification. I have found that actually commenting gets me the answer, where as what people put as the answer may not actually help, as either I didn't explain exactly, or they didn't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal is this...&#xA;Have a user setting to allow comments never to be hidden in questions the user asked.&#xA;I understand that this could be an issue when the number of comments gets larger. Furthering the idea, I was thing impose a comment number limit, say 10, and then page them (By which I mean split with numbers like at the bottom of the SO homepage). This could be a user set value, with limits up to a reasonable number of say 20, but still allowing the user to select less if they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if there was a button at the top of the question which you could click to expand all comments, this would be useful, at least for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any comments, thoughts or further suggestions on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First time on MetaSO, hope I have the idea right!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133173" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T00:00:01.767" Title="I want to see all the comments on my questions... discussion (feature request)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12929" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:41:59.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link seems to be potentially harmful to the clicker's computer.  That is why it was removed from the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed the way the link is presented. It still isn't clickable though, just to be safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-06T18:51:11.640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:51:11.640" />
  <row Id="12934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12932" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:54:06.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to vote this up just because I like the idea. There has been a lot of back and forth about how the comments are displayed for quite a while now and I think that the only way you are going to please everybody is to have the comment display features set by the individual user. It may not be the most convenient or efficient (if everyone sets it to display everything on load it makes the page requests that much higher in resource usage), but it is the only way to really keep the debate about it settled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:54:06.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12937" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:57:37.167" Score="7" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I really hate it when developers don't add a commit message in subversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here at stackoverflow I am guilty of the same crime.&#xA;Usually I'm so involved in my answer that I just forget to add an edit summary.&#xA;What makes things worse is that I edit heavily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no data about edit summaries in the data dump, but&#xA;a quick look at other answers shows that I'm seemingly no exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Do you add an edit summary? Is it bad manners to omit it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I don't want the edit summary feature gone. I just want to gauge the opinion on its usage.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T01:43:48.030" Title="Do you fill in an edit summary?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12936" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:59:38.270" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fill in an edit summary if I think it requires an explanation. If all I am doing is fixing grammar, punctuation, title name, etc. I do not fill in a summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am doing an edit for a specific reason (say to remove a piece of text calling out another user maliciously) I will make the edit explaining my reason why and why it should not be done in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times edits speak for themselves. If they don't, that's when you need the summary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:59:38.270" />
  <row Id="12938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12936" CreationDate="2009-08-06T18:59:55.710" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to fill it in all the time. Now I almost never do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of my edits are to my own posts, in which case it really doesn't matter. Most other edits are just reformatting code - sometimes I add an edit comment of &quot;Code formatting&quot; but usually I don't. The diff usually does a good enough job, to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T18:59:55.710" />
  <row Id="12939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12924" CreationDate="2009-08-06T19:06:27.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you type in that single word, the auto-complete does not suggest it. However, if you just type &quot;C&quot; and hit the Add button, you'll be interested in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T19:06:27.337" />
  <row Id="12940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12936" CreationDate="2009-08-06T19:07:27.583" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If i'm editing my own post, i'm pretty lax about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If i'm editing someone else's post, i try to add a comment for any change not completely obvious (no point in writing &quot;edited tags&quot; when the system will fill that in for me...). I'm not always terribly &lt;em&gt;polite&lt;/em&gt; in these comments, but i consider it a matter of respect: i'm changing something someone else wrote, they should have an explanation as to why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T19:07:27.583" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12929" CreationDate="2009-08-06T19:35:33.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was edited, if you click on the link that says 'edited ...' then you'll see the edit history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T19:35:33.143" />
  <row Id="12952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T19:59:28.260" Score="9" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need another incarnation of StackOverflow for electrical engineering questions.  I just answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240671/what-is-the-difference-of-a-relay-controller-verses-a-micro-controller/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO which probably should have been marked as Not Programming Related, yet it's one of a family of questions that need a good community to ask and also are tangentially related to programming.  I propose that this new site, if created, be for questions about circuit design, selection of components, and things of that nature.  Not &quot;how do I replace my iPod's battery&quot;.  Anyone else have opinions on this suggestion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even thought up a potential name for it... SparkOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133182" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:44:52.683" Title="electrical engineering version of SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hardware&gt;&lt;electronics&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2009-08-06T20:00:36.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Stack Exchange opens, go ahead and make one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T20:00:36.027" />
  <row Id="12955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2009-08-06T20:03:41.403" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, I really don't think we need to keep expanding this trilogy. I think Jeff &amp;amp; the Team honestly need to concentrate on the development of their system instead of trying to spawn as many instances of it as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T20:03:41.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2009-08-06T20:03:42.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An electrical engineering SO would be great.  We'd need something to do the EE symbols (latex?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T20:03:42.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13048" CreationDate="2009-08-06T20:27:54.457" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have accesed the superuser.com site and logged in with my Google based OpenID.&#xA;Then I wanted to associate the superuser with the stackoverflow user.&#xA;I went to Stackoverflow and selected 'Associate with Superuser.com' this went well, however my stackoverflow user does not know the serverfault or meta.stackoverflow users anymore, and when I try to associate I get a 'Cannot associate, because it is allready associated'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my user id's:&#xA;Stackoverflow: 47860 (knows superuser)&#xA;Meta: 129989 (knows serverfault)&#xA;Serverfault: 13724 (knows meta)&#xA;SuperUser: 4655 (knows stackoverflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have two pairs of associated users instead of one carré.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;br/&gt; After comment of Jeff (2009-08-07)&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Some more info:&#xA;When I am in superuser and I associate with either meta or serverfault I loose my association with serverfault and visa versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ton&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129989" LastEditorUserId="129989" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T07:41:58.617" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T08:22:54.413" Title="After associating superuser at stackoverflow, other associations are gone" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10641" CreationDate="2009-08-06T20:52:06.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a link in the closed (migrated) question to the moved question on superuser/ server fault etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I just not seeing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T20:52:06.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12962" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T20:55:29.457" Score="3" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have created a Greasemonkey script that tranforms the tags listing on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&lt;/a&gt; into a tag cloud. As the tags are listed alphabetically I find it much easier to quickly locate tags I am interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55201&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55201&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: A screenshot was requested, so here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/screenshot-tags-stack-overflow-greasemonkey.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133185" LastEditorUserId="133185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T12:22:19.540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T14:18:59.820" Title="Greasemonkey Script to Show the Tags Page as a Tag Cloud" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12965" CreationDate="2009-08-06T21:10:29.550" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to list the top questions by the number of comments coming through?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46780" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T21:20:10.390" Title="Find Questions with Most Comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12964" CreationDate="2009-08-06T21:20:10.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mmyers notes, you can see the most recent, most commented posts if you have access to the 10k tools. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=Select%20id,%20title,%20commentcount%20From%20posts%20Where%20posttypeid=1%20Order%20By%20commentcount%20desc%20Limit%2020&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;try statoverflow&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T21:20:10.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T21:21:55.847" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1241514/question-about-jquery-performance-and-dom-why-is-one-method-faster-than-the-othe&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; , for instance, renders in IE7 as a 1-line high textarea with vertical and horizontal scrollbars.   All of the code appears to be on a single line.  Works fine in Firefox 3.5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:39:51.857" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T08:00:02.557" Title="Some code blocks do not format correctly in IE7" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T21:50:15.133" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to ask for feedback on Stack Overflow about websites we build, such as asking whether the code looks pretty valid and clean, or whether a certain effect should be done in a different way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-04T23:38:08.693" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T23:38:08.693" Title="Is it appropriate to ask for feedback about a website's code on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12970" CreationDate="2009-08-06T21:57:45.900" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clean and Valid code should be decided upon by a Validator. Search Google for that one. If you are having a problem with your website, feel free to ask about it. Just provide excerpts of code instead of pointing us to your website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if it isn't a actual question, it shouldn't be on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T21:57:45.900" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13029" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:02:05.283" Score="4" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I copied my profile from StackOverflow and I was under the impression that this means I should start with 101 reputation instead of 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or did I misunderstand Jeff on the podcast (from a couple of weeks back) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just cleared all associations and started over and I it worked as expected.I am guessing I did last associated before the feature was implemented correctly. Accepting Jeff's answer and closing since it is not relevant for new people doing the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="238" LastEditorUserId="238" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T17:10:37.527" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:25:31.303" Title="Should copying a profile earn 100 rep?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="12973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12972" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:03:13.580" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you did not have 200 reputation on the site you associated your account with, it will not work. The key is to associate with the one that has 200 or more rep. The copy has nothing to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T22:03:13.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="12975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12972" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:06:16.367" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your case, you should have more rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which site were you on when you associated your accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T17:25:31.303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:25:31.303" />
  <row Id="12976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12970" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:10:49.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably not. For questions such as &quot;Does this site look professional&quot;, you should probably get feedback from the intended users (customers) of your website, as their preference for a professional look might be vastly different from some random folks on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133192" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T22:10:49.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12979" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:11:22.690" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1241782/does-code-smell-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and then took it back, but I still have -1 rep, when I believe that it used to immediately give you the rep back. Is this a bug or do I have to wait for a rep recalc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:35:02.180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:35:02.180" Title="Don't get rep back after taking back your downvote?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12977" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:24:02.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just downvoted your question and refreshed to confirm I lost 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I took it back and refreshed again, and I was back to what I had before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing happened when I tried it on the question you linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No-repro here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T22:24:02.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12977" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:40:59.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because you are &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=58088&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;over your daily rep cap&lt;/a&gt;. It's a bit of a bug in the system, but it prevents people from downvoting a bunch of posts early in the day, then reversing the downvote and gaining the rep back over the cap, so the system instead only gives back the 1 point if you're under 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want it back, you can request a rep recalc, but you may not like what you get (rep losses from deleted questions, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T22:40:59.477" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3883" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:42:33.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried using &quot;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T22:42:33.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="12982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12970" CreationDate="2009-08-06T22:51:14.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12970/feedback-on-website/12971#12971&quot;&gt;As Chacha102 notes&lt;/a&gt;, there are validators to validate your code. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12970/feedback-on-website/12976#12976&quot;&gt;As Umsd notes&lt;/a&gt;, soft, subjective questions are a bad fit for SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that point to a website or huge chunk of code and ask something vague like &quot;does it look ok&quot; are bound to generate either irritation or indifference. As &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ notes&lt;/a&gt;, questions should be: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T22:51:14.247" />
  <row Id="12984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12985" CreationDate="2009-08-06T23:10:52.490" Score="3" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see who both up/down voted your answer/question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133018" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T15:09:09.890" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T15:09:09.890" Title="Is there a way to see who both up/down voted your answer/question?" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="12985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12984" CreationDate="2009-08-06T23:14:03.000" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, voting is anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way you will find out who voted for you is if someone decides to leave a comment saying so and maybe their reason. This doesn't mean they couldn't be lying also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T23:14:03.000" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12984" CreationDate="2009-08-06T23:14:03.170" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Voting is anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T23:14:03.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="12989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-06T23:32:58.843" Score="14" ViewCount="2211" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9884m/expertsexchange%5Fbeing%5Ftaken%5Fdown%5Fby%5Fstackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;experts-exchange being taken down by stackoverflow; they've crossed the line.&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alexa&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://trends.google.com/websites?q=stackoverflow.com,+experts-exchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Trends&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man I've love to see some stats on questions and answers on the evil hyphen site (as Joel calls it) since SO came onto the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T21:07:34.640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:12:27.340" Title="Stackoverflow taking down the evil Experts Exchange" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;experts-exchange&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="12991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12989" CreationDate="2009-08-06T23:38:18.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Evil is a very strong word to be using... but +1 for SO! And SF for that matter I hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-06T23:38:18.893" />
  <row Id="12993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12989" CreationDate="2009-08-07T00:05:01.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heh: &lt;a href=&quot;http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:QiGxnJ3oGJMJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Editors%5FIDEs/C%5FCPP%5FCS/Q%5F24011629.html+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Editors%5FIDEs/C%5FCPP%5FCS/Q%5F24011629.html&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=us&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;We're answering their questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;q=%2Bstackoverflow.com+site%3Aexperts-exchange.com&amp;amp;btnG=Search&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;314 hits&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: You can't see the accepted solution if you follow a link directly to the page, so I've linked to Google's cached version.  Anyway, the accepted solution is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/396327/question-on-multiple-inheritance-virtual-base-classes-and-object-size-in-c&quot;&gt;link to SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastEditorUserId="131362" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T00:26:39.137" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T00:26:39.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="12994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12989" CreationDate="2009-08-07T00:18:00.500" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of having a downvoted answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can register for free at ExpertS-exchange, using /registerFree2.jsp. It only costs you to ask questions if you haven't already answered some. And once you've answered a few, you get a very low-bandwidth view of it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying the site is brilliant, but I don't think it deserves quite the bad press that it gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T00:18:00.500" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11930" CreationDate="2009-08-07T00:47:44.853" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Pesto and TheTXI pointed out, the underlying problem is that people don't understand that if they fall below one of the reputation thresholds in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, they lose the privileges that come with that threshold.  This should probably be stated clearly in the FAQ, just to raise general awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think a warning when posting a bounty would go a long way toward raising awareness of the issue. It would definitely be helpful to put the information right in front of people who are about to willingly take a loss in rep by posting a bounty.  There are very few ways to lose significant amounts of reputation on Stack Overflow.  Posting a bounty is the most common, and the only way that is 100% voluntary (massive downvoting, flagged as offensive, and reputation recalculation are the others).  Explicitly telling people they are about to lose a hard-won privilege along with the reputation points seems reasonable to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T00:47:44.853" />
  <row Id="13001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13003" CreationDate="2009-08-07T00:48:01.140" Score="6" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1982/to-change-the-30-second-time-limit-in-comments&quot;&gt;To change the 30-second time limit in comments&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I jump into a question I'm active in, I want to be able to reply to a number of answers, and then get back to work/family/whatever. Maybe I just type too fast, but the 30 second thing drives me crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely it's there to stop spammers, so perhaps it could be relaxed after a particular reputation level is reached? (Perhaps 200?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, this is a different question to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1982/to-change-the-30-second-time-limit-in-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1982/to-change-the-30-second-time-limit-in-comments&lt;/a&gt;, which is focussed on being able to edit/delete comments. I just want to be able to post a bunch of one-liners, which I reckon I type in about 15 seconds each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I see that red box appear it frustates me and makes me want to spend less time here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T00:53:28.127" ClosedDate="2010-01-18T16:28:37.213" Title="30 seconds per comment doesn't help" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13036" CreationDate="2009-08-07T00:51:54.867" Score="4" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm using my mobile to access the site, I have some difficulty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I couldn't log in because the OpenID buttons don't appear. I got around that by sending myself my OpenID string from elsewhere and then I could use it to log in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now I find that the &quot;I'm a human&quot; thing doesn't appear, so I can't post a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine it's just because my mobile is old and doesn't support JavaScript, but I think it would be really handy to sort some of these things out. I don't have this kind of trouble on ExpertSexchange... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:27:50.820" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T21:19:28.420" Title="I'm not human if I'm using my mobile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="13003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13001" CreationDate="2009-08-07T00:53:28.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the goal of time between comments is not only to prevent spamming (and note, just because you've gained rep doesn't mean you account can't be compromised), but it also helps disinsentivize commenting a lot and I think that is a very important thing. Comments are not the goal of the site, they're necessary and useful, but I don't believe the system needs to make it easier to comment more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T00:53:28.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12960" CreationDate="2009-08-07T00:59:14.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly something to do with the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/googles-openids-are-unique-per-domain/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google OpenIDs are hashed per domain&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T00:59:14.613" />
  <row Id="13006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-08-07T01:18:56.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just found a Ruby on Rails clone of SO called &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/nsanta/openoverflow/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;openoverflow&lt;/a&gt;.  Code, but no example site I can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51691" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T01:18:56.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-07T01:18:56.493" />
  <row Id="13007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6578" CreationDate="2009-08-07T01:20:50.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be based on unique visitors (excluding anon) to your profile, not on number of views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know, there are a number of interesting things that could be quite easily generated with sufficient knowledge of the code...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T01:20:50.297" />
  <row Id="13009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12936" CreationDate="2009-08-07T01:43:48.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Started off adding in summaries plainly about what was happening. Now, it's just random lines pulled from songs, TV shows and whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T01:43:48.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9817" CreationDate="2009-08-07T01:53:27.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the proposals I've read make things very complicate. This is the general trend of humanity. Once some rule is found not to be satisfying, more complex regulations are proposed (and eventually introduced) to address these things. As a result, things get too complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say let things as they are. If 5 people close a question, but the question is interesting, 5 other people will reopen it. just add a minimum time between opening and reopening, so that we don't play pong. If a discussion is interesting, you can still bump it to the front page, and this increases the likelihood of reopening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T01:53:27.437" />
  <row Id="13014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13016" CreationDate="2009-08-07T02:02:50.493" Score="12" ViewCount="1607" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed &quot;&amp;lt;3&quot; appears at the very end of the my stackoverflow notification emails (after the zip code). Is this problem related to gmail?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132923" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T15:51:59.563" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T15:51:59.563" Title="Notification email from stackoverflow contains &quot;&lt;3&quot; after zip code" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13014" CreationDate="2009-08-07T02:06:23.233" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow loves you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T02:06:23.233" />
  <row Id="13016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13014" CreationDate="2009-08-07T02:07:50.440" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow loves you! &amp;lt;3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the actual code in the email:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span title=&quot;because we care&quot; style=&quot;color:maroon&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;3&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question, this is intentional and not a problem with GMail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T06:51:16.963" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T06:51:16.963" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13020" CreationDate="2009-08-07T02:42:58.533" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some old questions that are still basically unsolved where new users come along in search for a solution and start posting answers with additional problem descriptions. The users are new and the only way they can contribute to the search for an solution is by posting &quot;answers&quot; because they don't have enough rep for anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/769496/ubuntu-noob-rails-install-fails-on-zlib&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; there are several answer like this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/769496/ubuntu-noob-rails-install-fails-on-zlib/1242066#1242066&quot;&gt;one from today&lt;/a&gt;. If this were to be posted as a new question it would be an exact duplicate. The new information from the answers should probably be edited into the original question or be a comment. But even if somebody would come along and edit it into the original question, not many people would see it (especially since the question already has an accepted answer). The problem will most probably stay unresolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should one recommend to a user who posts such a reply asking for a solution? Post it as a new question despite it being a dupe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/541203/add-new-group-access-denied-error/1240823#1240823&quot;&gt;other example from today&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T02:48:27.287" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:19:49.993" Title="How can new users get old unresolved questions answered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="13020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13019" CreationDate="2009-08-07T02:59:20.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If this were to be posted as a new question it would be an exact duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ummm... If it's an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate of an existing question, then there's only one reason to post it as a new question, and &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; reason to post it as an answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate, then there's no reason to edit it into the question, since it would only duplicate information already &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate, then either the answers to the existing question answer the new question, or &lt;strong&gt;there are no answers to the existing question&lt;/strong&gt;. In which case, they might as well ask it again - worst-case, no one answers it... again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if it's not an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate, then it's a new question. &quot;I'm having &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; problem, but the answers given on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question don't work because of &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;thing&lt;/strong&gt; unique to my situation. Help?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T02:59:20.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1982" CreationDate="2009-08-07T03:11:45.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I just type too fast, and if I'm replying to a number of comments, I get frustated at the restriction. It's not about editing posts for me, it's about putting a number of replies in to a number of different comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T03:11:45.587" />
  <row Id="13022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-08-07T03:23:49.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow:  Where Violated Access and Faulty Segmentation Collide&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T03:23:49.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="13023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13019" CreationDate="2009-08-07T04:14:14.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to 'repost' this would be to use the accepted pattern of: &quot;i have read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/769496/ubuntu-noob-rails-install-fails-on-zlib&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, and it is close to my question, but i have this nuance...&quot;   The answerers are directed to the old post to serve as a guide, but instructed to post specific answers targeting the nuance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, once the user gets enough rep to post comments, it is would be a good idea to link the two via comment to the original question:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have asked a follow up question here: [link to new question] with some more helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice to upvote the question at this point as well, acknowledging the help that was provided by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T05:19:49.993" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:19:49.993" />
  <row Id="13024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13019" CreationDate="2009-08-07T04:51:00.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a &quot;re-raise&quot; option (available to new users too), to be able to get old questions higher on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something along the lines of being able to get it on the featured list, as an old question that hasn't been answered (and accepted), but that someone else wants answered. Perhaps with an extra 20 rep points for answering it, but you can only get it into that category if it's a week old without an accepted answer (or something).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T04:51:00.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13014" CreationDate="2009-08-07T05:13:32.877" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;each email is baked with love!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:13:32.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12334" CreationDate="2009-08-07T05:16:04.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very helpful response from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/46926/andrew-arnott&quot;&gt;Andrew Arnott&lt;/a&gt;, who maintains the open source OpenID library we use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Google Apps for Domains doesn't use the OpenID 2.0-spec compliant method for discovery on an identifier.  They have their own proprietary mechanism that they would like all OpenID RPs to add support for.&lt;/strong&gt;  Google says it's a temporary mechanism until OpenID officially adds support for what they're trying to do.  But the implementation is scary (to me).  Basically you turn over identifier discovery entirely to Google, before performing your own discovery, and if Google claims the identifier as one it controls, you have to trust Google. So basically Google becomes a single-point of control and security.  Personally I think that flies in the face of OpenID and the security that comes from having independent OPs.  So, suffice it to say I haven't added support for it to DotNetOpenAuth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, the fact that this guy is typing in a longer OpenID that just his google apps for domains URL suggests that since his is a paid Apps account, perhaps Google is offering a more standards-compliant way to do it, and perhaps there's a genuine interop bug somewhere.  I can't tell because I don't have a paid Apps account myself, but I'll talk to my contact at Google and see what the possibilities are here to solve the problem if there is a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regarding the &quot;feature&quot; of turning discovery over to Google in order to support Google Apps for Domains customers, if there's sufficient interest in supporting it, I may write an add-in module for DotNetOpenAuth that provides support for it, but I doubt it will ever ship with the standard library because I disagree with the idea.  When OpenID &gt; 2.0 specs out the standard way of what Google is trying to do, then of course DNOA will follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll let you know what I find out from Google regarding this paid Apps account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:16:04.057" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12972" CreationDate="2009-08-07T05:36:28.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature has changed some over time, so whether you got the +100 or not depends on when you did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email us for specifics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:36:28.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12966" CreationDate="2009-08-07T05:39:42.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Weird. Seems to be specific to that code block, as other ones look OK to me in IE8 and IE8 with IE7 mode on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably we won't do anything with this as it appears isolated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:39:42.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12960" CreationDate="2009-08-07T05:40:33.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bug in association that was new today, and has already been fixed. Try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:40:33.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12817" CreationDate="2009-08-07T05:45:42.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Workaround:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;name&quot; tab to sort the list by name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Either click the page navigation buttons, or edit the URL ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=302&amp;amp;tab=name&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=302&amp;amp;tab=name&lt;/a&gt; ) , to arrive at the right letter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:45:42.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12793" CreationDate="2009-08-07T05:57:26.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;was a bug deployed last night, should be fixed now -- try again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T05:57:26.300" />
  <row Id="13036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13002" CreationDate="2009-08-07T06:31:16.527" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's worth the SO team putting lots of development time into a pretty niche segment of the userbase (namely those who want to browse SO on an &quot;old&quot; mobile). I think their time it better spent concentrating on the normal browser experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I'd like to disagree with those who have basically said that there's no point in using SO on a mobile at all. While I haven't posted very many &lt;em&gt;new answers&lt;/em&gt; from a phone (a few, admittedly) I've made various corrections to answers, and more importantly I've added comments from my phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all about &quot;tending&quot; your answers. If someone has asked for clarification, it can be very useful to leave a quick comment as soon as possible. On a decent phone (I use an Android G1) that's not difficult at all, and has a significant benefit IMO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T06:31:16.527" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="13038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9428" CreationDate="2009-08-07T06:50:41.013" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until there is a way to specify rounded corners via CSS for Opera or IE... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T06:50:41.013" />
  <row Id="13039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13043" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:11:31.157" Score="1" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer to one of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5945/how-do-i-google-the-whole-trilogy-of-stackoverflow-sites&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; has been commented on by the POTUS ... O RLY?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Jeff can't ask for teh brith certifikat of everyone before they register, should suspected cases of impersonation be flagged by other users? Or is it harmless?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T16:59:25.957" Title="Is it ok to impersonate a public figure?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:15:55.580" Score="8" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime I get a &quot;You have one new answer&quot; message. But when I click on the envelope, there appears no new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that often, but every now and then I get this message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T04:10:09.310" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T04:10:55.733" Title="&quot;You have one new answer&quot; message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:21:48.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's not running around SOFU with the US President's name, only on Meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other sites he's using his own name, (or is it?) so it appears harmless since it's contained here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T07:21:48.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13040" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:42:29.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be an answer from yesterday (in SO time) that is not shown on the &quot;recent&quot; page anymore. Click on &quot;yesterday&quot; (or even earlier) to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Now that I find this old answer of mine, I have to say that I have experienced similar quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T15:35:15.247" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:35:15.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:49:00.537" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should know that if you choose this path, you are attracting attention to yourself, both from moderators and everyone else in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure it's the kind of attention you are comfortable with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the whole I would advise against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T07:49:00.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:49:47.930" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is that guy claiming he is Jon Skeet. So, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T07:49:47.930" />
  <row Id="13045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12803" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:56:25.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Response from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/133207/jorn-zaefferer&quot;&gt;Jörn Zaefferer&lt;/a&gt; (the author):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, in this case its just the &lt;strong&gt;browser-specific code that is missing&#xA;  to read the cursor position in the text input&lt;/strong&gt;, as mentioned in my&#xA;  previous mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm sure there is some obscure way to solve that in IE; not idea about&#xA;  Opera. Maybe ask on Stackoverflow about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any Q's on SO about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T00:48:15.260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T00:48:15.260" />
  <row Id="13046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12850" CreationDate="2009-08-07T07:57:26.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have some patience; it's not like I would invite someone into our League of Web Justice I didn't trust!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T07:57:26.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12960" CreationDate="2009-08-07T08:22:54.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've fixed your associations - it's due to how Google makes this process a complete pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, it would be best to clear all associations between accounts and start over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T08:22:54.413" />
  <row Id="13052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13054" CreationDate="2009-08-07T08:42:45.310" Score="-1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a continuous stream of &quot;Woot&quot; badges in the &quot;Recent Badges&quot; roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I know it is by design&lt;/strong&gt; (it's easy to loose it and to regain it) but it's quite pointless in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:44:19.807" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:44:19.807" Title="Hide the Enthousiast(woot) badge from the &quot;Recent Badges&quot; roll" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13052" CreationDate="2009-08-07T08:48:33.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13049/let-people-still-earn-the-woot-badge-if-they-register-for-a-holiday&quot;&gt;because some people might not get it&lt;/a&gt; doesn't mean the sponsor of the badge shouldn't have the badges flowing down the site every now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T08:48:33.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13057" CreationDate="2009-08-07T08:56:14.550" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/84556/list&quot;&gt;favorite programming cartoon&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question was voted migrated to here on meta, and hence locked by Community. It was then migrated back to SO, before being voted close and reopened again. So the current status is open :) but it still says &quot;locked by Community X TIME ago&quot; at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132180" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T09:02:11.323" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T09:02:11.323" Title="&quot;locked by Community&quot; still display after question is reopened" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13040" CreationDate="2009-08-07T08:58:10.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or you could have already seen the &quot;new&quot; answers. There's a delay between any new answers and the system flagging the new answer. One could have looked at the new answers and it would still be flagged later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T08:58:10.803" />
  <row Id="13057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13055" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:01:09.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was not &quot;migrated back&quot;, it did not complete the migration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is in fact locked, and that is correct and what we want.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T09:01:09.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13060" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:07:03.500" Score="4" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the difference between &quot;Post Locked&quot; and &quot;Post Closed&quot; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132180" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T04:04:36.993" Title="&quot;Post Locked&quot; vs. &quot;Post Closed&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13059" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:10:51.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;closed: no new answers can be added to a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;locked: the post cannot be manipulated or interacted with in any way by anyone other than a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE -- to make this easier to understand, we modified lock so that when you lock a question, it also prevents new answers from being added. Locking answers behaves the same as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T04:04:36.993" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T04:04:36.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8884" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:13:04.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely we will do this, since we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; people to explore related questions regardless of their status, or number of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only salient point is that the question has a strong relationship to the current question, based on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;title match&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags match (heavily weighted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;body text match&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T09:13:04.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13071" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:15:50.877" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related answers to the same question&lt;/strong&gt; could be displayed while you are answering a community wiki question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would encourage collaboratively improving (if needed) a very similar answer, instead of adding something which may be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T11:26:29.333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:00:01.933" Title="Show related answers when answering community wiki questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="13063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13002" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:25:05.257" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why people get that upset about this rather innocent request. If Joel and Jeff want to make some money with Stack Exchange, they should maximize the number of hits their customers get. Why not streamline hits from mobiles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't understand how mentioning that you are not using an Android or iPhone makes you some kind stone-age pervert. Or why it should be a bad thing to browse SO from an airport while you have to wait endlessly for that stupid plane to arrive (jjnguy: what should one possibly worry about while at an airport, the epitome of boredom? Terrorism?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one often use my mobile (a stinky, stone-age, neither Google nor Apple SonyEricsson w890i) to browse SO et al using Opera Mini. There! I said it! No reason to shoot me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, get this: this actually works pretty good! No, I don't write answers and I don't even comment because it would take me hours to hack out two meaningful sentences, but so what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Logging in is quite a pain, but I blame! that! one! on! Yahoo!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know whether this is Opera or Attwood magic, but the lacking JS is hardly noticealbe. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The interface could use a few submit buttons here and there. E.g. search is not usable because I can't get Opera to submit my input.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suggest that somebody takes a look at the issue the OP is having with comments. Won't hurt anyobdy and my guess is that it's easily fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="130804" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T09:30:43.920" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T09:30:43.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="57980" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:36:25.700" Score="28" ViewCount="897" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the WMD editor tooltips, I see that Ctrl+Q is supposed to create a blockquote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;Blockquote &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt; Ctrl+Q&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the German keyboard layout, the @ and Q share one key, you would press &lt;kbd&gt;ALT-GR&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Q&lt;/kbd&gt; or the equivalent (as far as keycodes go) &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;ALT&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Q&lt;/kbd&gt; to get an @.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can probably see where this leads: Every time I want to type an @ I get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; Blockquote&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on a new line. Doing many XSLT questions I need the @ quite often. Either I type all the code in an external editor, or I need to copy-paste a single @ off some other place around the browser. Every. time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This annoys the hell out of me. I think checking the CRTL-Q shortcut for the state of the ALT key (must not be depressed) would fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T06:25:24.157" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T06:26:39.793" Title="WMD editor bug: German keyboard layout - &quot;@&quot; creates blockquote section" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="25" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="13066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:38:41.627" Score="19" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions I'd like to keep an eye on (e.g. to see if anyone else posts an answer) is there a way to maintain a list of such questions other than adding them as favourites or using the RSS feeds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132526" LastEditorUserId="132526" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T10:06:03.567" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T20:15:10.300" Title="Watching questions for answers (possible feature request)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;watching&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21548" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:55:38.563" Score="9" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a suggestion which I feel would improve the tag searching on the 3 sites, &lt;em&gt;and allow you to combine tags without the search box&lt;/em&gt;. The UI I have in mind is 'borrowed' from Delicious and is basically a crumb trail that you can click and add tags into. I'm sure they took it from another source however, and isn't their own creation. For a demo try &lt;a href=&quot;http://delicious.com/tag/jquery+css&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could sit underneath tab bar (stats,newest,hotest etc.) fairly easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3797898158%5F41e7f9194f%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T12:54:10.630" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T01:43:25.737" Title="Delicious.com (crumb trail) style tag filter bar" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10149" CreationDate="2009-08-07T09:57:23.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We'll return a plain text 404 instead of including a master page with a frame buster when a user isn't found. Geoff Dalgas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes it is fixed, thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ton&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129989" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T09:57:23.867" />
  <row Id="13069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2009-08-07T10:14:58.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;here is an example of the bug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31870/using-a-html-entity-in-xslt-e-g-nbsp&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31870/using-a-html-entity-in-xslt-e-g-nbsp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133215" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T10:14:58.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13066" CreationDate="2009-08-07T11:04:30.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are you requesting for a feature that does the pretty much the exact same thing as two other features? What purpose would it serve other than replicating functionality found elsewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T11:04:30.843" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13062" CreationDate="2009-08-07T11:07:58.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are asking and answering a question in which you would potentially have a list of related questions and answers to look through to make sure you are not duplicating...your bigger concern should be about the fact that you are duplicating info and not that the information is not immediately available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is asking a question similar to another and the answer is something that is likely to be the same answer as the previous question, you likely have yourself a duplicate and it should be closed instead of answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see what the point of differentiating CW questions is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T11:07:58.090" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2009-08-07T11:19:34.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no requirement that you use your actual name and picture to use this site (see me as an example). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to impersonate the President of the United States, I really don't care. I was a little bit confused about the user in question, but it was more because I couldn't remember who he was prior to the name and avatar change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus he wasn't very good at the impersonation. Come on, Hamilton, Ontario? We all know Barack is from Kenya.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T11:19:34.200" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2009-08-07T11:25:51.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it most likely won't do much actual harm to anyone, I personally find it somewhat distracting and don't really like it. So I wouldn't mind if such a thing were to be listed as something that's not allowed on the SO family sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T11:25:51.860" />
  <row Id="13075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12785" CreationDate="2009-08-07T12:06:45.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superuser.com - is it valid to discuss issues on computer-like devices, such as iPhone, BlackBerry, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133224" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T12:06:45.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-07T12:06:45.600" />
  <row Id="13076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-08-07T12:52:29.307" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are going to need to be done on a case by case basis.  One reason why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;pipe = to send the output of one command as input to &#xA;       another command. also, the vertical bar character.&#xA;pipes = Yahoo! Pipes&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases we could combine singular and plural versions into one tag like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;group(s), value(s), type(s), etc.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T12:52:29.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16461" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:18:27.283" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;winapi        474&#xA;win32        1439&#xA;&#xA;winapi+win32  164&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know much about Windows programming myself, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;according to Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Win32&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;WinAPI&lt;/em&gt; refer to the same thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these are merged, should we go with the more current &lt;code&gt;winapi&lt;/code&gt; or the more popular &lt;code&gt;win32&lt;/code&gt;? Or perhaps something closer to the official name: &lt;code&gt;windows-api&lt;/code&gt; (currently not used)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, if you know of a reason why these should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be merged, speak up now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T07:36:40.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T07:36:40.140" Title="Please merge the &quot;winapi&quot; and &quot;win32&quot; tags on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13083" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:23:26.200" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like the &quot;Ignored Tags&quot; function on SO, and the fact that questions marked as ignored seem invisible to me (It really reduces the noise level a lot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However on ServerFault the ignored questions are only dimmed/light gray and still visible.  How much rep do I need for this to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks devinb, that &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; solved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133229" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T14:17:51.820" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T14:17:51.820" Title="When will I not see questions tagged as ignored anymore?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:24:14.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38&quot;&gt;already been suggested&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:24:14.793" />
  <row Id="13082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13078" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:24:27.337" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they should be merged. As far as I'm concerned they're synonyms, and it's better to have everything under one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;I think winapi should win because wikipedia indicates that &quot;Windows API&quot; is the currently accepted name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:24:27.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13079" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:29:11.057" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on your name at the top of the screen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the &quot;Prefs&quot; tab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check off &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:29:11.057" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13078" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:30:06.797" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If merged, WinAPI is the one to go as it ranges from Win16 to Win64, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%5FAPI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is&#xA;  Microsoft's core set of application&#xA;  programming interfaces (APIs)&#xA;  available in the Microsoft Windows&#xA;  operating systems. It was formerly&#xA;  called the Win32 API; however, the&#xA;  name Windows API more accurately&#xA;  reflects its roots in 16-bit Windows&#xA;  and its support on 64-bit Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend to use the 64bit and 32bit tags in addition to distinguish where necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:30:06.797" />
  <row Id="13085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13111" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:36:51.857" Score="16" ViewCount="439" Body="&lt;p&gt;The basic principles of Stackoverflow are to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask and get answers, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;read and answer questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm good at asking, but when it comes to answering questions I feel like a fool because I lack the skills and/or knowledge.  Unfortunately I feel constrained to answer questions because otherwise I feel as if I am cheating on the principles of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make a long story short, I feel like a dumbass and get proven to be one by not being able to answer questions.  There must be a way out of that psychological struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133230" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T13:44:24.153" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T12:36:05.727" Title="I am bad at answering questions on Stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:40:05.860" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hang in there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll come across a question that you will be able to answer. And then, then the fun starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the cursing about not being the Fastest Gun in the West. And at other times, you'll beam in that glow when you are the quickest draw and answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bide your time, you'll find the questions you can answer.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T14:24:23.203" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:24:23.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:41:12.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can relate to that. However, people visiting the site in the future with the same question as yours will be very grateful that you did ask, and there'll be some good answers. It's worth asking just for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5744" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:41:12.410" />
  <row Id="13088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13102" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:43:01.690" Score="1" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO just hit 250K questions... congratulations! Is there a # of questions vs. time graph? Just curious. (is it O(t) or O(t log t) or O(t&lt;sup&gt;3/2&lt;/sup&gt;)? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T03:16:51.313" Title="questions vs. time graph" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:44:04.043" Score="3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been busy retaggin questions since I got my retag privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there be an incentive to retag wrongly tagged questions, other than the urge to do things right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm mean, the only &quot;badge incentive&quot; for retagging are &quot;Firs edit&quot; (Organizer) and &quot;Creation of a tag used 50 times&quot; (Taxonomist). The first one is easy to get, and the second one, right now in SO is almost impossible to get &lt;strong&gt;without cheating&lt;/strong&gt;, that's editing 50 questions with an unlikely tag. Taxonomist I guess, could encourage wrongly tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this really a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have an &quot;Tagged 200 question&quot; badge, so people go for that badge, instead of taxonomist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T15:34:25.540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:34:25.540" Title="Mass retagger badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:45:18.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one thing that makes SO stand out is the fact that people can vote on your &lt;b&gt;Questions&lt;/b&gt; and not just &lt;b&gt;Answers&lt;/b&gt;. So by asking a lot of questions that people like, you can also gain reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure a analysis of the data dump will show a lot of people are only asking questions that have a rep over a 1000 and hardly if ever answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T13:47:24.867" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:47:24.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13089" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:47:08.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagging is, well, editing. It's actually one of the least-expensive forms of editing too. I have spent 5 minutes reformatting code, and only a couple seconds adding tags. I don't think tagging should be exalted over editing in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:47:08.673" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:50:23.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both asking good questions and answering well are valuable things on SO, and you shouldn't feel bad because you only do one of them well.  The SO vision includes not only people who know stuff helping people who don't, but building up a knowledge base, and questions are a vital part of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, if you don't think you can come up with a helpful answer, don't try.  Perhaps comment on the answers that are already there, if you have something to say.  If you try to answer a question and fail badly, you're not really helping.  Remember, also, that all of us were ignorant and intimidated once, and that's no disgrace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But don't feel bad because you only do some useful things really well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:50:23.020" />
  <row Id="13094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12962" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:51:24.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice work, but please make the script run on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*stackoverflow*&#xA;*superuser*&#xA;*serverfault*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future. Additionally, the tag-cloudedness is gone once you begin typing in a tag-name. Could you reformat the list after the ajax request is completed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:51:24.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4481" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:56:29.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about links that provide readable text instead of a long URL? Markdown has &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;support for this&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See what I just did there? Now can we do that in comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133232" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:56:29.827" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13078" CreationDate="2009-08-07T13:56:47.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Kevin and Ralph note, WinAPI is correct. If folks actually used win32 and win64 to differentiate between questions specific to those variations, then i'd say leave it... but they don't - too many years of hearing Win32 used as the name for the Windows API has made it habit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merge to &lt;code&gt;winapi&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T13:56:47.660" />
  <row Id="13097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13089" CreationDate="2009-08-07T14:14:51.547" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that tags are so light and subjective that there's really no way to indicate that it's a 'useful' retagging effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This badge could be easily gamed by adding &quot;devinb&quot; to 200 questions.&#xA;Or, if you want to look reasonable, by just retagging a bunch of C# questions with &quot;C#-3.0&quot; or something like that. Also by going through all the &quot;subject&quot; questions and adding a &quot;language-agnostic&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we want to encourage re-tagging 'just for the hell of it'. I think tagging is something that should not be incentivised, and that way we can ensure that the people who are re-tagging are people who actually want to (hopefully) improve something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this badge will encourage good people to re-tag more. I think it will encourage the uncaring badge-mongers to re-tag more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T14:14:51.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2009-08-07T14:16:51.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very hard to tell how valuable good questions are to the Stack Overflow community. This is because you can not document a negative - you can not hope to know how many people had your question and found valuable answers without having to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no chicken / egg contemplation here, Stack Overflow is fueled by questions. If there were no questions there would be no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that you feel like you want / should participate on both ends of the spectrum, however you should realize that quality, well articulated questions are worth twice their weight in gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the 'one way' effect is attributed only to people who constantly search Stack Overflow to get what they need, but do not participate in either fashion. Really, please don't feel like a leech for asking good questions, they make the site work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T12:36:05.727" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T12:36:05.727" />
  <row Id="13099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12962" CreationDate="2009-08-07T14:18:59.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can appreciate the code and effort that went behind this. Nice touch with the number of posts in the mouse-over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, I find it absolutely hilarious that you're &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000834.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;taunting Jeff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of tagging. It's far&#xA;  superior to the old method of placing&#xA;  everything in hierarchical folders.&#xA;  Tag categories on blogs are moderately&#xA;  useful, particularly for bloggers who&#xA;  tend to bounce around among many&#xA;  different topics. What I've never&#xA;  found useful, however, is the&#xA;  stereotypical tag cloud visualization,&#xA;  where the size of the tag word varies&#xA;  with its frequency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The perception is that tag cloud&#xA;  visualizations are cool, like badges&#xA;  of honor for the tagging club. The&#xA;  reality is that tag cloud&#xA;  visualizations are chaotic, noisy, and&#xA;  unusable. Keep the tagging, lose the&#xA;  cloud. A simple sorted list of tags,&#xA;  along with the number of posts&#xA;  associated with each tag, is much more&#xA;  effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T14:18:59.820" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2009-08-07T14:25:33.583" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a joke from a question a few days ago; the change was never meant to be permanent. However personally I don't feel like you need to know one's name to begin with, several such people in this question alone don't provide it. I can promise that no one actually believed I was the POTUS, nor did I try to impersonate him further than my gravatar/display name.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never meant to cause a problem, and I still answered questions properly and with maturity. Anyone could just as easily impersonate someone else and no one would ever know (or complain). As the name I chose was &lt;strong&gt;obviously&lt;/strong&gt; not me or anyone else here I thought it was harmless. I think the reaction is a bit overboard myself, but I indented to change my name back anyways, and have done so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T14:25:33.583" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13088" CreationDate="2009-08-07T14:29:48.427" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one I just made, plotting posts per day vs. age of site.  Actually looks more like O(log(n)) to me, or somewhere between O(n) and O(log(n)), but I'm no statistician.  The big spike is the public launch.  The dips correspond to American holidays: Thanksgiving around 120, Christmas around 150, Easter around 250, Memorial Day around 300.  See a &lt;a href=&quot;http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3899/postsvsdaysfull.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;higher-res version here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7112/postsvsdayssmall.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started with this query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT DATEDIFF(FROM_UNIXTIME(creationdate), '2008-07-31') AS age&#xA;     , COUNT(*) as num&#xA;FROM posts&#xA;GROUP BY age&#xA;ORDER BY age&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I separated weekends from weekdays, since they were clearly two separate trends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: As requested in the comments, here is a chart showing total number of posts vs. age of site.  I'll give you that this looks like it could be O(n&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;), with a very small constant factor (and an anomalous bump around the public launch).  Unfortunately I don't remember enough about statistics to tell you which function is a better approximation.  I know you need to use r-squared and rho and standard deviations, but I don't remember the significance of any of those things.  One of them is supposed to be less than 1.0 I think.  Anyway.  A higher res version is &lt;a href=&quot;http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9742/cumulativepostsfull.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;available here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3092/cumulativepostssmall.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, just for fun, here's one plotting posts per day, grouped by day of week.  I'm surprised Monday is consistently lower than other days of the week.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2273/postsperdayofweekfull.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Higher res here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/8764/postsperdayofweeksmall.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T03:16:51.313" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T03:16:51.313" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13254" CreationDate="2009-08-07T14:31:10.717" Score="6" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try to post a question or an answer in the iPhone and you will know what I  talking about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:13:17.860" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:14:14.860" Title="Screen flickers composing an answer from iPhone" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13103" CreationDate="2009-08-07T14:33:18.450" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this behavior myself (3G firmware 3.0)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I try to write an answer it will start jumping all around the screen and it can be pretty infuriating, one of the biggest reasons why I don't bother using SO on the iPhone very often. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Obligatory reference for a strong API for iPhone app development among other reasons].&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T14:33:18.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13103" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:12:51.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting an answer from my phone now. Mother of all that is holy, it looks like I'm playing pong on a chess board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:12:51.443" />
  <row Id="13109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:22:49.053" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just come from reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3330/why-cant-i-just-offer-a-bounty-for-a-question-right-off-the-bat&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on removing a time in which a bounty can be added, letting users add a bounty right off the bat, something I do not agree with. Whilst I can see bounties taking over the questions I think the waiting time for a question to be answered should be far less than it currently is. If I had to wait a couple of hours I would be happy but there are times when I am truly stumped by something and I will want an answer within a couple of hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't agree with allowing bounties right from the start, but perhaps it would be good for us to be able to attach a bounty to a question after three to six hours? When someone asks a particularly complex question at a strange time of the day there will typically be very few answers, so perhaps instead of users editing their questions throughout the day to push them to the top it would be nice to be able to come back after a few hours and give users an incentive by adding a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two days is far too long to wait for a reasonable response. Hell, even a general programming forum will get back to a poster quicker than that. In order to get questions answered and move on quickly I'd suggest changing the bounty time from two days to six hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133240" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:06:11.713" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T17:13:05.237" Title="Reduce time in which a user can attach a bounty to a Question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="13111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:27:08.687" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flip side of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13085/i-am-bad-at-answering-questions-on-stackoverflow-com/13098#13098&quot;&gt;tinkertim's answer&lt;/a&gt; is that if people did not expect to get good answers, they would not come to the site to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend starting small, choosing one specific tag where you are confident about your knowledge and posting reasonable answers that add something to the discussion even if your answer is not the first one or the most perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this date, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240970/c-why-do-you-specify-the-size-when-using-malloc/1241055#1241055&quot;&gt;my highest scoring answer&lt;/a&gt; is a quick analogy which I thought was clever but I did not expect that people would like it that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly did not put as much effort in to that answer as I did into discovering the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1214452/automating-a-job-at-work-importing-powerpoint-bullet-text-into-an-excel-sheet/1215349#1215349&quot;&gt;details of accessing a PowerPoint document using Perl's Win32::OLE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, try your hand at a few questions in an area you know, put effort into your answers, don't post answers just to fish for votes and know that the site could not exist without a steady supply of &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; good questions and good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:27:08.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13109" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:27:13.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally disagree. I don't see six hours as a legit amount of time to try and get an answer out of the community (especially for particularly complex issues) before offering up the &quot;come and get it&quot; bounty call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said this in other comments so I will say it here as well: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reputation may be treated like currency in some specific instances of the website, bu it is used as other &quot;things&quot; elsewhere in the site. Just because it is treated as a currency in a single specific application does not mean that you should get to use it like currency whenever and wherever you wish.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T15:53:36.777" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:53:36.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13109" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:28:09.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm with this (actually I'm more with my original suggestion that you linked to). When you die, your stack overflow points don't come with you. And you can't leave them to a family member like you can with your money. So, you should be able to use them to &quot;buy&quot; answers to questions that you need to resolve quickly. The market demands it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:28:09.510" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13109" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:28:58.683" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In two hours, the folks who know the answer to your question might not even be checking SO. Their feed readers might be slow. They had an appointment with the court-appointed councilor. They were asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a day, you'll get everyone who checks the site daily. After two days, you can probably start to assume that no one wants the bother... So, add a bounty to sweeten the deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are, so far as i know, still supposed to be a last-resort kind of thing. Not &quot;you must post a bounty to get any good answers&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:28:58.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13109" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:53:40.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. Your question vanishes very quickly since there are so many questions. After a very short period of time, your answer wont be seen again. After that time, it should be allowed go to bounty mode. That time is much shorter than 6 hours, but 6 hours is much better than 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better solution might to be to allow bumping, or to use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;small hack to get your question noticed again&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:53:40.473" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7193" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:57:48.390" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes a lot of sense to me. Most of us are specialized to a large degree, making it hard to build up adequate amounts of rep at all of the sites. The site where you aren't an expert is the site where you'd most likely find a bounty to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T15:57:48.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:58:41.337" Score="5" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6776/can-we-have-a-setting-that-defaults-our-searches-to-google&quot;&gt;Can we have a setting that defaults our searches to Google?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I try to find something in SO, it is a waste of time, the results does not have relevance and often the question I'm looking for does not even show up in the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I immediately switch to Google and the top result is often what I was looking for (or in the top 5 results)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop fighting with search, embrace the leader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow a preference that always use Google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two panes search, one with SO internal search and the other with Google Search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Phase out internal search and use it only for Related Questions (that will free some resources involved with search)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I know I can always use Google with site:SO, but I think the problem is for all the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T21:23:39.563" ClosedDate="2009-08-08T21:23:46.070" Title="Search is broken, switch to Google" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13117" CreationDate="2009-08-07T16:03:28.940" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, Google cannot offer StackOverflow-specific search features such as tag-specific searches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[tag] apples oranges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[tag] [another-tag] apples oranges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and other &lt;em&gt;Advanced Super Ninja Search Options&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;posts from a specific user&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;user:1234 apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;posts with a minimum number of votes&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;votes:15 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions with a minimum number of views&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;views:250 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions that have an accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:1 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;answers that are accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;isaccepted:1 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions that have a minimum number of answers&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;answers:1&#xA;apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions that have been closed&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;closed:1 apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;posts that are community wiki&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot; /&gt; &lt;code&gt;wiki:1 apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T20:50:43.483" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T20:50:43.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T16:29:06.393" Score="19" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I can only answer a very few of the questions on SO, in niche topics, I filter most of the questions with 'ignored' tags set to invisible. As my list of ignored tags has grown, I've noticed the number of questions I can see on the questions page has been dropping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the calculation for the number of questions to show per page is done &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the ignored tags rule comes into effect and removes them. I'm now at the stage where I see less than 15 questions/page, even though I've selected the maximum available (50).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it feasible to provide either of the following?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add another button increasing the number of questions per page to, say 100&lt;/strong&gt; (so in my case, providing roughly 35 per page to look at). This is obviously avoiding the issue, since someone else will inevitably have even more ignored tags, but sounds relatively straightforward to implement, unless there are performance issues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do the questions/page calculation &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the ignored tags rule has removed them from view&lt;/strong&gt;. This sounds like a lot more work but would permanently fix the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-26T00:03:31.083" LastActivityDate="2011-03-26T00:03:31.083" Title="Please can we have an extra button (100?) for more questions per page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13122" CreationDate="2009-08-07T16:32:44.637" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would rather they change the pagination to not include ignored questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T16:32:44.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13122" CreationDate="2009-08-07T16:39:19.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple solution to your problem is clicking next on the pagination near the footer. If you choose to focus on niche topics then be understanding that there might not be that many results and you may be forced to click ... 1 button ... to see more. If you had to click through 3 or 4 I may feel sympathetic, but more results are just a single click away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also tags are filtered on the client side for specific reasons. Mainly that it doesn't require intensive queries to generated the listings, and because of this the result can be cached. This wouldn't be possible if tags were actively filtered, which makes the cost unjustifiable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T16:39:19.570" />
  <row Id="13127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2009-08-07T16:59:25.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, what do we do if somebody wants to impersonate a famous person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that some of this may be legitimate.  People will have the same name as a famous person.  I used to know a guy named James Bond (he was born and named before the movies came out).  What would we do with a George Bush or John McCain, considering that none of those first and last names are actually rare?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think any regulation would be more trouble than it's worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T16:59:25.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13132" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:02:05.500" Score="7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a bookmarklet that I think other web developers would find useful. I don't have a blog, and it's not big enough for an open source project, so I figured I'd share it on Stack Overflow, in the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: How can I simplify switching between the same page on&#xA;  dev/stage/live?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A: Use this bookmarklet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that cool? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T17:25:21.597" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T17:25:21.597" Title="May I share some useful code I wrote on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10468" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:02:14.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Reader&lt;/a&gt; allow you to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any RSS feeds you subscribe to with it can be placed in folders together. So for example, you could create a Stack Overflow folder, and add to it all your SO-and-friends feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thereafter, clicking on the folder name will show you all new items on all the feeds inside it, in one go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's one I made earlier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7655/readerscreenshot.png&quot; alt=&quot;Google reader screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45552" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:02:14.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13128" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:06:01.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No shameless self plugs...  look for folks who've asked questions where your code is useful, then post as answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By shameless self plugs, I mean posting something like here is some code I wrote, come get it...  The FAQ does support posting your own question and answering it...  TheTXI did a good job explaining that piece and it doesn't seem to get much resentment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T17:15:26.440" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:15:26.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13128" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:06:04.227" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are writing a question about how to perform a certain task and then you answer with your solution, that is alright (although there is a community backlash against that in some circles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if all you want to do is post &quot;Hey I made this code, here have it!&quot; that is sure to get closed because it wouldn't be treated like a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the FAQ is concerned, answering your own question is okie dokie, even if you are only asking the question to begin with so that you can get your code out there. As long as it's a legit question (something that somebody else may at some point may be asking) it is fine. If you post material which can be attributed as spam (such as  a link to your own product or to your own site instead of providing the necessary code on your answer) it will probably be dealt with even more harshly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people on StackOverflow and the other sites do not act kindly towards questions that are immediately answered by the OP because they don't look legit (even if they have good intent), so don't expect to get a parade thrown in your favor or a mass of upvotes for your trouble. That's just the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T17:11:34.137" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:11:34.137" />
  <row Id="13133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:10:52.283" Score="3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1191631/entity-framework-with-a-game-server&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1191631/entity-framework-with-a-game-server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All 3 responses were rated at 1 when the bounty expired. Nothing got selected as the &quot;best answer&quot;, and I can't even manually select an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133244" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T17:30:10.527" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:57:50.270" Title="No question marked answered when bounty expired" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13133" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:12:28.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the bounty period is over, if no answer achieves a high enough score (+2 minimum) and is not checked by the question asker as the accepted answer, then it will not be able to win the bounty and the bounty will be lost by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: If there was a tie and the answers were at +2 then the first one would get the check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T17:17:37.323" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:17:37.323" />
  <row Id="13135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13133" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:12:45.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't select an answer before the bounty expired, so you lost your chance. Also Since no answers had over two votes, no one was automatically awarded the best answer. This is not a bug.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is documentation on the expected behaviour of bounty questions.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:12:45.477" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13861" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:16:29.447" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pressed submitt to answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time someone else had also answered the question. The bar at the top of the screen showing that a new answer was available did not appear before I pressed submitt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result was that I got the bar showing a new answer was available, my answer did not appear as if it had been submitted. No buttons / links ... on the screen were active. I had to close the browser and reopen stackoverflow. My answer had been updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use IE 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:19:51.080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:19:51.080" Title="system hangs when submitting answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:18:20.333" Score="4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3070/how-you-can-get-a-list-of-all-the-comment-you-have-written&quot;&gt;How you can get a list of all the comment you have written?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can find all my answers, is there a way to find all my comments? If not, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10738" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T14:04:26.350" ClosedDate="2011-08-09T14:44:21.523" Title="Finding all my comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13078" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:19:05.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think merging fixes things. New questions will come with new tags. So as long as there are people who think of WinAPI as Win32, there will be questions tagged as such. Apart from that, I don't think you have to ask in order to retag everything you see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:19:05.510" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13128" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:20:01.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is perfectly fine.  It's even encouraged by the Self-Learner badge.  The only time I would consider it uncool is if you &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; posting it on your blog and you only posted it here to drive traffic to the answer on your own site.  If you phrase it as Q &amp;amp; A and give the full code here, I wouldn't consider that shameless plugging at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:20:01.360" />
  <row Id="13140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13137" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:20:42.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the best you're going to get&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feed://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/10738&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;User RSS Feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not exactly sure why there is no way to do this, but here is some discussion on the feature request:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2586/list-of-comments-on-user-tab&quot;&gt;List of comments in user tab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:20:42.717" />
  <row Id="13141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13137" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:26:33.173" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why not is that comments were originally intended to be extremely lightweight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original functionality was simply to add a line of text to the bottom of a post, with your name attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was before flagging, upvoting, notifications, formatting, and badges were attached to comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, due to the community desires, the SO team has been enhancing the functionality of the comments so they are much more robust now, and that means that there may &lt;em&gt;eventually&lt;/em&gt; be the ability to view &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2586/list-of-comments-on-user-tab&quot;&gt;all your comments&lt;/a&gt;, or even &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;edit comments&lt;/a&gt; but for now those are features that are lower down on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:26:33.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13145" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:38:44.723" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Feature-Request / Idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question seems to fall in between two sites.  An example might be php email questions, could be the code or could be the php.ini which often ends up being a sysadmin.  So my idea is that there could be a check box to show it on another site as well.  It would be grayed out on the other site and only visible to people with high rep, and they could approve it, and then everyone would be able to see it on the other site as well.  Maybe they could add answers, or maybe it would just be visible and people could go to the other site to add the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for example, if the question was posted on stackoverflow, there could be a 'show on serverfault' check box.  Which server-fault moderators / high rep users could vote to be shown there as well.  These could also maybe be community-wiki so simplify the rep question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One downside I can think of is that maybe this might create more confusion about what to put what where worse, and maybe that would outweigh any benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it has been thought of, but just thought I would share the idea...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T03:00:11.400" Title="Show on 'other site' switch" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;belongs-on&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13144" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:52:19.157" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question types need to be restricted to one site. It becomes way too confusing to follow if different answers to the same question are present all over the place. It would be more useful to define what questions belong where -- and place them in that location consistently, rather than having a dizzying web of interconnections that only Sherlock Holmes could trace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:52:19.157" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13133" CreationDate="2009-08-07T17:57:50.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An associated problem I've seen is when the automatically accepted answer doesn't actually answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a question where the best &quot;answer&quot; provided some food for thought and some ideas, but none of it panned out.  Now, I have no problem with the bounty being assigned to that person...but it should be possible to unmark the answer so it's no longer accepted...because it doesn't actually solve the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T17:57:50.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13122" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:04:50.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, if you use Firefox, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2099&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RePaginator&lt;/a&gt;. Works on many sites, including (IIRC) SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:04:50.910" />
  <row Id="13150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:17:02.073" Score="2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1245507/will-rails-3-0-be-the-death-of-rails-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SO that was fairly subjective, but very programming related, about the future of Ruby On Rails.  It was closed with absolutely no discussion about why it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is twofold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If &quot;Subjective &amp;amp; Argumentative&quot; is a reason to close, why is it a tag?  Also, why are other subjective questions some of the sites highest rated?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should a discussion/reasoning be provided along with the vote to close?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130057" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T18:56:43.567" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:56:43.567" Title="Why are Subjective questions not allowed [or] Should discussion be required before closing a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="28" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13144" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:24:22.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I worry that people might get into the habit of clicking off all three (four?) sites under the SO umbrella.  It's not a terrible idea, by any stretch, but I'm not a fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130057" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:24:22.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13150" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:27:48.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because &quot;subjective&quot; is a tag, not &quot;subjective-and-argumentative&quot;. Other popular subjective questions were created before the community knew what it was. (On this note, I should state that I have voted to close many of the popular subjective questions because I hate it when people are &lt;strike&gt;enjoying themselves&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;having fun&lt;/strike&gt; off topic.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are closed if they are subjective and can't really be answered by anyone because they're too speculative, like your question. Some subjective questions are more realistic and aren't closed (usually as long as they're community wiki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is Stack Overflow is not a place for discussion and so questions that exist only to discuss things are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:27:48.650" />
  <row Id="13153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13150" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:30:09.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stop posting subjective questions. It is made very clear in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; these are not welcome.&#xA;Furthermore, stop complaining about any minor conflict you have with the community here, that is just whining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What kind of questions should I not&#xA;  ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion. This is not a&#xA;  discussion board, this is a place for&#xA;  questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:30:09.893" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="13154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13150" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:30:51.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow and the sister sites are designed for Q&amp;amp;A. Ask a Question and get an actual answer that solves the proposed question. This is not a discussion and debate forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because something is tagged someway is not exactly a green light to post that stuff. I can make up any tag I want and apply it to some posts but that is not going to make the tag valid or any question I make with that tag valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question about something being the death of Rails is an obviously subject &amp;amp; argumentative post and deserves to be closed. Stop asking stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:30:51.200" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13150" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:33:16.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13150/why-are-subjective-questions-not-allowed-or-should-discussion-be-required-befor/13152#13152&quot;&gt;Welbog's answer&lt;/a&gt; for a good explanation, but I wanted to touch on this briefly: the existence of a tag has no bearing as to whether or not questions that fall under that tag are valid.  The tags are all a product of users, just as close votes are, and neither has any bearing on the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:33:16.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13144" CreationDate="2009-08-07T18:35:51.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ian pretty much summed everything I wanted to say other than &quot;Holy Crap WTF&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T18:35:51.300" />
  <row Id="13159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T19:06:21.380" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why the joel test isn't on the jobs.stackoverflow site?   It's pretty handy to have and seems appropriate for that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: So this was my fault.   I did a search for jobs and none of the jobs had joel test scores so I though it wasn't implemented.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28672" LastEditorUserId="28672" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T20:38:53.563" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T20:38:53.563" Title="Where is the joel test on jobs.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;&lt;joel-test&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13159" CreationDate="2009-08-07T19:08:58.347" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Companies that have opted to include the Joel Test are shown with a number in a green circle next to their name that represents the number of &quot;points&quot; they have on the Joel Test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are a company posting a job, the job posting page has check boxes for every part of the Joel Test and you check the ones that apply to your company, along with a check box to opt-out of showing the Joel Test results. There is also a link to the Joel Test blog posting on that same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T19:08:58.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T19:25:24.867" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I've written a question, which are answered very well.  But the direction that I'm taking is now pointing me to more questions.  So while I can just go ahead and post a new question, I still need to explain.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1556/should-there-be-a-way-to-link-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1556/should-there-be-a-way-to-link-questions&lt;/a&gt;, Why the need for blah blah blah...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever a question is answered it just opens the door to more concepts and ideas.  Therefore I propose that the Question Asker be able open a new question under his original with follow-up questions.  Instead of the current system of linking one question to another, I'd like to be able to ask a question that spawns from another question &lt;em&gt;inside the same page&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there are some spam concerns, but this is just an idea.  Technically this could be a lot of effort for no reason, but then again maybe it could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132883" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T19:40:13.870" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:13:37.930" Title="Two Questions in One" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="13164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13163" CreationDate="2009-08-07T19:27:41.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would rather have questions asked in multiple questions than someone trying to lump them all into one post. I think it leads far too often to some people concentrating on some points, some people concentrating on others, and a lot of people ignoring the rest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure someone could then come in and compile the best answers and try to answer all of them, but I think it is more convenient for everyone (including future users) if the questions stay separated (and if necessary, provide links to other relevant questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T19:27:41.993" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="13167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13163" CreationDate="2009-08-07T19:39:51.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there should be a way to link questions, perhaps similar to what happens when a question is closed for being an exact duplicate. Instead, however, a user who reads a question and answer can spawn a new question and then the two questions become linked. The only difference would be &quot;spawned&quot; questions would be linked to following the body of the question and duplicates are at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T19:39:51.343" />
  <row Id="13180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13184" CreationDate="2009-08-07T20:05:39.903" Score="3" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could add an answer after &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; got locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems lock is broken&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:29:44.410" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T18:04:51.740" Title="Is lock broken?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;locked&gt;&lt;locked-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13180" CreationDate="2009-08-07T20:09:33.483" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lock prevents the question from being edited.  We use it to stop edit/roll-back wars, among other things.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you also cannot add answers if a question is locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T18:04:51.740" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T18:04:51.740" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13187" CreationDate="2009-08-07T20:20:51.323" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I provided an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1174448/jquery-animate-problems&quot;&gt;this bounty question&lt;/a&gt;, which became the top-voted answer with 13 upvotes and 2 downvotes.  My answer was posted after the bounty was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP never accepted an answer, and the bounty expired about thirty minutes ago, but I haven't been awarded any rep and nothing has been marked as accepted.  Is there a delay I'm not aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4508/please-do-not-auto-select-answers-on-bounty-questions/4532#4532&quot;&gt;According to Jeff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You [the asker] do not accept an answer. Any answer that was a) &lt;strong&gt;provided after the bounty period started&lt;/strong&gt; and b) &lt;strong&gt;has 2 or more upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; is automatically accepted after 7 days. The bounty is subtracted from your [the asker's] reputation. The answerer is awarded half the bounty amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is a new solution to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9948/bounty-question-and-daily-reputation-limit/9949#9949&quot;&gt;bounties contribute to daily rep cap&lt;/a&gt; problem that people have been complaining about for some time, then that's fine.  (i.e. if you only award the bounty just before midnight UTC.)  But I can't find anything here on MSO that implies this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Looks like the bounty was awarded on the next hour (21:00 UTC).  So maybe it's an hourly process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T21:23:33.270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T21:23:33.270" Title="Is there a delay after bounty expires before the top-voted answer is automatically selected?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13186" CreationDate="2009-08-07T20:25:57.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be possible that there is a delay so that it only checks expired bounties every period or so. I won a bounty a day or so ago and I was almost certain that it awarded me the bounty once the server time flipped over to the next day. Your results may vary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T20:25:57.303" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13163" CreationDate="2009-08-07T20:34:41.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd rather see separate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each question has a title, and the title should be meaningful.  It should describe the question so that a reader is likely to know whether the question is interesting or not.&#xA;If there's two questions in one, what do we put in the title?  If it's not excessively long, it's likely to be confusing or uninformative about at least one of the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T20:34:41.000" />
  <row Id="13193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T20:47:24.233" Score="28" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted one of my questions yesterday on SO and would like to un-delete it...  How do I go about doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can't, I think this should be a feature request since you shouldn't be prevented from seeing these posts, especially when they were your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a work around, feel free to vote up any of my SO posts since I'm only 3K or so away from 10K to see my deleted items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-09T04:22:56.160" LastActivityDate="2011-02-09T20:04:59.420" Title="How do I find questions or answers that I've deleted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="13194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13193" CreationDate="2009-08-07T20:50:10.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look in your browser history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, the only way currently is to get 10k rep and look through the list of recently deleted posts. The list actually goes clear back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;the first question on the site&lt;/a&gt;, so yours will be in there &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T20:50:10.470" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="13195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13193" CreationDate="2009-08-07T21:15:38.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Find a full list of your own activity using &lt;code&gt;user:55747&lt;/code&gt; in the search box. Right not there does not appear to a flag for deleted posts, so you'll have to scroll through them all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T21:15:38.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-08-07T21:16:21.960" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get this &quot;joy of discovery&quot; business. For several badges, it's more the &quot;frustration of non-discovery&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the purpose of a badge is to encourage certain behaviors, then it would be good if we could find out, &lt;em&gt;for certain&lt;/em&gt;, which of our earlier behaviors you'd like us to repeat. We'd then be able to say to ourselves, &quot;I want to answer another question, just like &lt;em&gt;that one&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T21:16:21.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13163" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:13:37.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make your questions stand alone.&lt;/strong&gt; Link to other questions if they might help me understand where you're coming from, but don't &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; me to read or understand a different question before reading your new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because they're related in your mind, or through some project you're working on, doesn't mean they'll be related for the next 800 people who come looking for an answer to one or the other. Make them stand alone, and then the answers can stand alone too. And those 800 people asking the same questions for different reasons can still benefit from the answers already written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:13:37.930" />
  <row Id="13198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43630" CreationDate="2009-08-07T21:53:05.143" Score="23" ViewCount="869" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a lot of discussion type 'questions' that are asked on SO that get closed have some really interesting replies. I understand why these types of questions get closed and completely agree with the reasoning behind doing so. Being someone that is interested by the discussion that is generated by these closed questions, where could I find websites that are targeted towards this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that the best sites will be forums with an active and positive community but I find it hard to gauge  how interesting a forum is without actively participating in it for some time and with the sheer volume of programming related forums out there, it could be a while before I come across one that is worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do any of you know of any such sites/forums that may interest me and/or other members of SO who enjoy this type of discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will update this question with a list of any good sites that are recommended to me or that I discover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387797/good-programming-website-like-so/&quot;&gt;Good programming website like Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt; particularly &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387797/good-programming-website-like-so/907126#907126&quot;&gt;CrazyJugglerDrummer's comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;RSS Feeds&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/34644/what-are-the-best-rss-feeds-for-programmers-developers&quot;&gt;What are the best RSS feeds for programmers/developers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133260" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-29T18:44:45.233" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T02:42:00.700" Title="Where can I find interesting programming discussions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="13199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13198" CreationDate="2009-08-07T21:56:31.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joelonsoftware.com used to be pretty good. Not so much anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:14:49.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-07T21:56:31.207" />
  <row Id="13200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13198" CreationDate="2009-08-07T21:58:18.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Programming Reddit&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:14:49.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3997" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:17:06.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about something like the iPhone style notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1039/mockup.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;concept&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(bad quality concept)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastEditorUserId="2385" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T00:28:08.937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T00:28:08.937" />
  <row Id="13202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13198" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:18:15.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are willing to actually go out in the real world and meet actual real people then ALT.NET Open Spaces events provoke some very interesting discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was at the UK ALT.NET Open Space Conference last weekend and the discussions ranged across many topics and it didn't stay confined to things born of Microsoft technologies (although there was a natural bias to stuff that runs on .NET)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the guys who were involved in organising it is launching a thing called the Alternative Network (ALTNET without the dot) which is a similar idea but cross more technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8152" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:18:15.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13193" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:41:48.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For deleted questions, if you &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; want to see them again, ask a ♦ moderator; we can see your deleted questions (but deleted answers are harder), and undelete them if appropriate (i.e. deleted in error).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly don't know if 10k users can see your deleted questions too (I mean: from your profile page, where it would be convenient); the ability to see deleted questions was added after I got the ♦.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1241940/how-many-hats-is-too-many-to-maintain-effectiveness-and-high-efficiency-levels&quot;&gt;&quot;How many hats is too many to maintain effectiveness and high efficiency levels?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, add a comment and I'll undelete it. It was upvoted, so nothing too terrible...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:41:48.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:44:35.307" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have stumbled across a disappearing answer. According to my user/recent page, user 0scar has posted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1243507/rounded-corners-in-a-css-table-cell-layout/1244114#1244114&quot;&gt;this question of mine&lt;/a&gt;. It's answer ID 1244114. But when I view the question, I cannot see his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's up? Bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Okay, so he deleted his answer probably. It would be nice if the user/recent page would indicate that the answer has been deleted. Currently it's confusing IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103202" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T04:23:04.400" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T04:23:04.400" Title="Stackoverflow disappearing answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13204" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:46:38.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried looking for the question on the other sites? A lot of questions are getting migrated to more appropriate sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:46:38.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13204" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:46:45.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely he posted it and deleted it right afterwards, perhaps because there was a duplicate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:46:45.490" />
  <row Id="13207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13204" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:46:56.537" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;deleted by 0scar 11 hours ago&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 10k+ rep can see deleted answers. Nobody can hide from everybody ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:46:56.537" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13204" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:52:15.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user deletes their own answer or the answer is flagged and deleted by a moderator, it will no longer show up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;recent activity&quot; message will remain, because it is telling you that someone &lt;em&gt;posted&lt;/em&gt; an answer, not necessarily that the answer is still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have over 10k reputation points, you will be able to see deleted questions and answer, and in that case, you would be able to read his answer, but you probably wouldn't gain anything, because there is usually a reason for its deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-07T23:15:19.753" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T23:15:19.753" />
  <row Id="13209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13198" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:55:33.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to post a lot on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp/topics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C# newsgroup&lt;/a&gt; - these days my time goes into SO instead, but the benefit of the newsgroup was that there really were good discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really depends on exactly what you're after: &quot;general programming&quot; or specific topics, but newsgroups may well be worth looking into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, blogs, podcasts and user groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:55:33.850" />
  <row Id="13210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13193" CreationDate="2009-08-07T22:56:21.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should still be able to see your own deleted answers - just find the question and it should be there, in a different colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then edit it (like I'm doing now - this answer is deleted at the time of editing) and click undelete when you're ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm testing it here as I have under 10K rep here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Just tried it on SU and I've been able to see it there too.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just tested with a deleted question - it didn't show up in either the question list or my recent activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T22:56:21.913" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13198" CreationDate="2009-08-07T23:12:44.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For discussion, nothing beats Usenet. Even on its 30th birthday, nothing has been invented that comes even close. (Just one example: on the Usenet, I can use my own client to compose articles &lt;a href=&quot;http://Meta.StackOverflow.Com/questions/13065/&quot;&gt;without some stupid JavaScript screwing up my keybindings&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2988" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T23:12:44.363" />
  <row Id="13214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-07T23:15:48.710" Score="-5" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey,&#xA;Why not having a microblogging service for not-that-meaningful questions or updates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like, right now I'd like to ask 'wtf python.org is down?'. I have eventually found the answer by searching on search.twitter.com but I do think the StackOverflow community is just amazing and I'd love to use such a microblogging service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132909" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T20:53:22.557" Title="Setting a StackOverflow community twitter-like service?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13214" CreationDate="2009-08-07T23:18:41.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want... &lt;em&gt;What&lt;/em&gt; now? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that Twitter thing is useful - and i'm not yet convinced it is - then just use it. What do you need SO for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Twitter doesn't do what you need, then why on earth would a SO-branded clone be any better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T23:18:41.213" />
  <row Id="13216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13214" CreationDate="2009-08-07T23:19:12.897" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is not a social networking site. It's not going to become a social networking site. Jeff has been pretty clear on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Listen to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;latest podcast&lt;/a&gt; (1:00:52):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff:&lt;/strong&gt; ... I kind of like having control over what I think the&#xA;  product is and what we're building and the direction of it, and I don't want&#xA;  to be pulled in like ten different directions in terms of &quot;Hey let's make it&#xA;  a social networking site&quot; - that would be like a horror story for me - that's &#xA;  everything I don't want, right? But if you open source, somebody could fork you&#xA;  and say &quot;You know what, I'm going to make the ultra-social Facebook version of Stack Overflow&quot; - I'm getting an ulcer just thinking about this actually - where you can friend people and, you know, you can send little private messages to each other and it's all about &lt;em&gt;hanging out&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;being buddies&lt;/em&gt; - it's horrible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't give 'em any ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that what you're asking for isn't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; that, but it's pretty darned close - and would almost certainly be &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; in that way, even if it was really designed for just time-sensitive quick programming-related questions/updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope, I can't see this happening...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T02:42:32.450" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T02:42:32.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13214" CreationDate="2009-08-07T23:32:25.197" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want something twitter-like, use twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Nuf said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-07T23:32:25.197" />
  <row Id="13219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13221" CreationDate="2009-08-08T00:04:54.443" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Referencing this question on SF:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49447/flash-plugin-how-to-disable-automatic-updates-on-a-computer-that-is-offline&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flash Plugin - How to disable automatic updates on a computer that is offline?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would vote close this as &quot;belongs on superuser&quot;, but it's got a bounty and as such I can't vote.  Should we be able to vote to move these questions?  Maybe allow only the &quot;belongs on...&quot; votes when a question has a bounty?  Or should something like this just be flagged for moderator's attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T00:11:52.673" Title="Should we be able to vote to move bounty questions to another site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13198" CreationDate="2009-08-08T00:08:05.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hacker News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132619" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T00:08:05.403" />
  <row Id="13221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13219" CreationDate="2009-08-08T00:11:52.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably does belong on SU. It had to be sitting around for 2 days before a bounty could be put on it so I'm not sure why it didn't close/move in that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving a bounty post is... problematic. And it's probably such a corner case that it's not worth dealing with. It can (I assume!) be moved in a week (when the bounty is up). Not sure it requires moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T00:11:52.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13144" CreationDate="2009-08-08T03:00:11.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of folks carry accounts on more than one site. I suspect that you audience---in your hypothetical this would be webadmins who know php and programmers who know how to configure web scripting engines---will mostly have a presence on both sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So take you best guess for which to post it on and don't worry too much about it, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T03:00:11.400" />
  <row Id="13223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-08T05:54:37.680" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stackoverflow uses numerical pagination. Here is user scenario where the pagination fails:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user remembers there were two threads from Wednesday (or thereabouts) that he wanted to read but didn't have time to. He wants to quickly find both threads again (and he barely remembers the titles so search does not seem useful).  Today is Sunday.  What page would Wednesday's discussions have fallen on?  Perhaps on Wednesday there were 12 threads, Thursday 5, Friday 7, and Saturday 1.  There is no way for the user to know those volumes and even if he did, he'd have to do an inordinate amount of math in his head to figure out on what page the desired threads appear. I have not yet seen this utilized anywhere and I believe the reason is because I don't think anyone has given this much thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid this can we paginate using Date model?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133148" LastEditorUserId="133148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T08:52:52.437" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T08:52:52.437" Title="Pagination by Date model for stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13223" CreationDate="2009-08-08T06:08:09.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to keep track of questions, click on the star beneath to the up/down arrows to save it as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34642?tab=favorites#sort-top&quot;&gt;favourite in your profile settings&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or bookmark the page itself in your browser of choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T06:08:09.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-08T07:56:58.480" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10520/do-not-filter-search-results-by-tag&quot;&gt;Do not filter search results by tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOOD:&lt;/strong&gt; Putting a tag into the &quot;Ignored Tags&quot; category hides all questions tagged that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selecting / viewing an &quot;ignored tag&quot; explicitly (e.g. the [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ignore&quot;&gt;ignore&lt;/a&gt; ] tag) shows an empty list (ignore - attribute is applied) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WISH:&lt;/strong&gt; Please show me the messages of a tag on the &quot;Ignored-Tags-List&quot; when I explicitly ask for a [tag].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not talking about the search box [ &lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt; ]. I'm talking about explicitly clicking on a tag displayed [ &lt;strong&gt;b&lt;/strong&gt; ]. A different usecase&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a: http: // meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=ignore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;b: http: // meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ignore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31472" LastEditorUserId="31472" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T10:21:48.513" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T10:21:48.513" ClosedDate="2009-08-08T18:06:44.017" Title="Please show me the messages of a tag on the &quot;Ignored-Tags-List&quot; when I explicitly ask for a [tag]" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-08-08T08:33:39.887" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read this whole page, and all I can think of is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/mouseferatu/pic/0001crt2&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29620" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T08:33:39.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13180" CreationDate="2009-08-08T08:41:46.687" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For info; if we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to stop you adding answers, we close it &lt;strong&gt;then&lt;/strong&gt; lock it; keeping the two concepts separate allows for a lot more granularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T08:41:46.687" />
  <row Id="13234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13235" CreationDate="2009-08-08T13:11:56.283" Score="1" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I am on the StackOverflow page, if a new answer shows up on a question I've posted the banner at the top automatically shows informing me of this. What was used to create this effect? I'm wanting to do something similar on a project I am doing as it would be very handy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133287" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T13:32:26.657" Title="StackOverflow Top Banner" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13234" CreationDate="2009-08-08T13:27:25.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welp, as is required in the &quot;I'm building a web site&quot; question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should totally use &lt;a href=&quot;http://jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow uses jQuery for this stuff. While the dev team can answer definitively, it seems that they ping the server to check for an answer every 30 seconds or so (AJAX request), and if that count goes above whatever the original count was, you get a banner displayed using JavaScript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/10370#10370&quot;&gt;SO is built on&lt;/a&gt; ASP.NET MVC as its backend, as an FYI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T13:32:26.657" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T13:32:26.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-08T13:44:59.457" Score="-5" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anybody thought about it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't StackOverflow assign reputation points based on the reputation of the user accepting answers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's make it a sliding scale. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you as a user have X amount of reputation points, your acceptance or aggreeing with an answer assigns more points to that answer than a user with X/10 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133288" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T13:53:58.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T13:58:32.260" Title="Basing Reputation Rewarded Off of the Rewarder's Reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13237" CreationDate="2009-08-08T13:50:57.140" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in the same vein as giving higher rep users more votes per answer/question than other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put simply: &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a level playing field. Why in the name of all that is good and holy would you put up a barrier to entry for people asking a question? It's such a deterrent. We want to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; participation, not just massage the egos of the higher rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, we were all newbies once, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T13:50:57.140" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13237" CreationDate="2009-08-08T13:58:32.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Eric.  What formula(s) would you employ to determine the scale?  I don't know how much you see it on SO anymore, but on SF it's very apparent when there is a new person who knows what they are talking about and provides added value to the site.  They climb the rep ladder pretty quickly, and rightfully so.  The requested feature would certainly hinder that, especially when you get into large gaps between a long standing member and a new user, such as seen on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T13:58:32.260" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="13240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-08T14:24:24.700" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10888/how-does-one-find-which-tags-they-created&quot;&gt;How does one find which tags they created?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82/can-i-find-out-which-tags-i-have-created&quot;&gt;Can I find out which tags I have created?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've got taxonomist, could there be a way to find out wich tag helped you get it? Today I logged in and much to my surprise I got one! Only thing I did was changing some tags like &lt;kbd&gt;office2007&lt;/kbd&gt; -&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;office-2007&lt;/kbd&gt; and some others (I don't recall every retag I've done, and the system doesn't allow to see a list of one's edits to others questions/answers). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I had (slim) hopes to get one, but it really came as a surprise, as I imagined someone else would have made (for example)  &lt;kbd&gt;office-2007&lt;/kbd&gt; before, and then got edited because of the  &lt;kbd&gt;office2007&lt;/kbd&gt; majority, so in any case the one who would get the &lt;code&gt;taxonomist&lt;/code&gt; badge would be the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T00:51:50.257" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T00:51:50.257" ClosedDate="2009-08-08T16:17:27.543" Title="Is there a way to find which tags you've created?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2009-08-08T16:00:00.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, you can never find out what contributed to getting any particular badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/101#101&quot;&gt;by design&lt;/a&gt;, although it's not the most popular design decision in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T16:10:38.947" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T16:10:38.947" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13240" CreationDate="2009-08-08T16:00:10.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82/can-i-find-out-which-tags-i-have-created&quot;&gt;Can I find out which tags I have created?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T16:00:10.170" />
  <row Id="13243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5808" CreationDate="2009-08-08T16:09:45.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two separate issues involved here.  When there are &quot;too many&quot; answers, there &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be some value in only showing the top 50 at first.  But the &quot;pagination&quot; model where each successive page only shows another 50 seems tedious. And having separate buttons to click into an arbitrary page is bordering on pointless.  There's no frame of reference that allows any reasonably accurate way to find something by going directly to a page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't there just be a &quot;show all&quot; button?  And maybe even a preference setting so I can always get that view?  If I click that button, I'm not going to complain if it's slow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only can I scroll to wherever I want, but I can use my browser's &quot;find&quot; function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5298" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T16:09:45.533" />
  <row Id="13244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-08T16:23:01.450" Score="8" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1245009&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was asked. Essentially, I and others answered with, &quot;It's kludgy to do what you're trying to do. Do it this way, which is faster, more maintainable, and much more robust.&quot; The answer never gets accepted, and the OP is unwilling to learn. C'est la vie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it brought up an interesting comment exchange on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regarding the edit, it sounds like you&#xA;  had already made your mind up before&#xA;  you asked the question. Given that the&#xA;  highest voted replies are telling you&#xA;  &quot;don't do this&quot; why did you even ask&#xA;  for advice if you're not going to&#xA;  listen anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Easy. There was a specific question: how do you do X? The&#xA;  &quot;highest voted&quot; answers are all &quot;Don't&#xA;  do X&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;That's not about ignoring&#xA;  advice - the answers don't answer the&#xA;  question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got me thinking...do people really expect us to answer questions blindly? Why wouldn't you want to suggest the best (or at least a better) way to solve a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T22:58:51.667" Title="Saving People From Themselves" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;problem-solving&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13244" CreationDate="2009-08-08T16:46:08.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too many people are stuck on their ways. They come up with a 'solution' to their problem, and for some reason feel obligated to finish what they started, regardless of whether or not what their doing is the worst approach humanly possible, because in their mind, it works.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I almost always want the 'best' solution. There are some cases where I know the best approach, but can't use it for one or more reasons so I explicitly say avoid 'x', but this is a limited issue. As I'm still learning, it is always nice for someone to point out more efficient solutions to problems, as long as they don't do it in such a way that they make the OP look like an idiot without even offering advice on how to actually accomplish what they're doing. If I ask &quot;How to do x using y?&quot; and someone says &quot;You can't, you're an idiot&quot; then there's clearly an issue, and of course I would be hostile towards them. On the other hand if they say &quot;You really shouldn't, do z instead&quot;, then I am more than grateful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a big issue, but I can't really think of any ways to avoid it. Terrible programmers are those that refuse to learn, and they're only punishing themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T16:46:08.937" />
  <row Id="13246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13244" CreationDate="2009-08-08T17:05:10.087" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contrary answers &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; helpful and appropriate. But you should acknowledge them as such, and explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the asker &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be stuck doing it the &quot;wrong&quot; way---or just be bull-headed---so an additional answer giving advice of the &quot;If you really must...&quot; sort is not out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T17:05:10.087" />
  <row Id="13248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13244" CreationDate="2009-08-08T17:41:24.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ian makes a good point.  I assume that most OPs out there, myself included, are looking for the answer that triggers a 'wow' or a 'why didn't I think of that' or 'yes, I forgot about that.'  There are others, though, that might not be on the site (SO) to better their programming skills, but to get over a hurdle in a program they are writing.  They might not be ready for the right advice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sites (SO,SF,SU) are geared towards two goals:&lt;br&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;helping those in need get over their issues as they describe them, and&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;becoming a repository for anyone else in need to find the right answers when they are pushed to the web for answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this situation, it seems that were you to concentrate on helping with (1), you would not be serving the users who look to SO for (2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a couple options in this case:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you could answer as you have done, pointing out the deficiencies in the approach taken by the poster&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you could answer the question at hand - running the risk of giving bad advice to the community at large&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you could answer the question at hand, and then provide a strong opinion about the approach, and if you feel strongly enough, provide an alternate solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you could also just not answer and let it go.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the third option has the best potential for getting you points and easing your conscience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T17:41:24.553" />
  <row Id="13249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-08T17:53:07.477" Score="7" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I humbly propose very basic citation system that allows users to stipulate sources for answers and questions. The new tables collecting citation information could be queried for very interesting data and even monetized. Before you downvote me for the mortal sin of excess complexity without very much benefit, please consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) For users posting answers, it will be fully optional, and could be neatly integrated into the existing views without adding much complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) It will generate a lot of very interesting data for users. For example, it would be possible to tell which books and blogs are mentioned the most often in questions and answers. I think this would be fascinating and would significantly enhance the visitor user experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) It could be monetized in several different ways. For example, popular book sources could be listed on the right column of relevant questions and tag view. Affiliate links could automatically be generated to amazon by using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Product Advertising API&lt;/a&gt;. Of course this will have a lower click value than other targeted advertising but this block could be cycled in where targeted advertising is not performing well. I would be willing to bet that these would have a higher click through rate than the existing targeted advertisements, which may improve impression value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I agree with the general sentiment that developers are buying and reading less books. However, a quick look at a rough estimate of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com#demographics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;audience profile&lt;/a&gt; for stackoverflow.com seems to suggest that most of the visitors would be financially able to buy a technical book if it is recommended properly. I can't think of a better suited platform than stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any implementation could be rolled out evolutionary fashion and could be very subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132648" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T02:13:04.370" Title="First Class Citation System" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;books&gt;&lt;citation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9502" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:07:16.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the Accounts tab on your user profile to link accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T18:07:16.013" />
  <row Id="13251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13252" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:16:03.063" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would like to edit a question to format it properly. How can I do that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you get reputation for good edits?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I get a Moderator's attention? How does that system work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I delete a closed question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if I can't get an adequate answer from StackOverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where can I ask questions about SuperUser?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T20:00:54.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T20:11:47.417" Title="Questions About StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13251" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:17:53.887" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would like to edit a question to format it properly. How can I do that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You need 2,000 reputation to edit other's posts. If it is a community wiki, 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you get reputation for good edits?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;No&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I get a Moderator's attention? How does that system work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Press Flag Button Under Question, Choose Option, Press Sumbit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can I delete a closed question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Press 'Delete' on your own question, or requires 10,000 rep for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I can't get an adequate answer from StackOverflow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Place a Bounty after 2 days for at least 50 reputation. It will then become a 'featured' question, and whoever you pick as the accepted answer gets the reputation, and you get your answer. If you haven't picked an answer in 7 days, it auto accepts the highest voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where can I ask questions about SuperUser?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Here (meta.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all other lovely Reputation Based Questions, refer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;StackOverflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-08T20:11:47.417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T20:11:47.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:29:47.263" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have questions which ask people to share their experience with regard to a certain topic (i.e. share your experience introducing practice X to your team) generally been acceptable on stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are questions that are not asking for a specific answer, but rather ask people to relate a story regarding an experience they had with regard to the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefit of such questions is not to find an answer or to draw a conclusion, but rather to have a collection of stories that can help shed light on the issue with regard to trade-offs, consequences etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or have these questions generally been considered too broad and too outside of the strict question and answer format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T18:41:54.883" Title="&quot;Share your experience&quot; type questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13103" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:32:37.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an issue with the WMD editor of some kind, based on the keypress event in JavaScript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the 3GS it's so fast that you actually don't notice it happening, which is why I had trouble reproducing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we now do some very rudimentary mobile device detection, and &lt;strong&gt;disable the WMD JavaScript editor&lt;/strong&gt; for mobile devices to prevent any problems. You can of course still post and edit and ask, there's just no real time preview of your markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:14:14.860" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:14:14.860" />
  <row Id="13255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13253" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:37:10.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sharing an experience is not solving a programing related problem. The question needs to deal &lt;strong&gt;directly&lt;/strong&gt; with programming. This type of question does not belong. It's quite clear that what you want to ask isn't a problem, and on SO the words question and problem should be synonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T18:37:10.367" />
  <row Id="13256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12620" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:38:36.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is specific to code blocks, and a side effect of Google Prettify client-side JavaScript syntax highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disable JavaScript and you'll find this works..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: appears fixed with the latest prettify.js we've deployed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T12:24:35.227" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T12:24:35.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13253" CreationDate="2009-08-08T18:41:54.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or have these questions generally been&#xA;  considered too broad and too outside&#xA;  of the strict question and answer&#xA;  format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions generally may be outside that format, but nevertheless &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of such questions exist on SO (and the other sites), and many have become very popular. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually such subjective questions are marked &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (often only after people complain about them not being CW...) which makes keeping them more easily acceptable to many people. (In CW mode posts can be more freely edited by the community, and they no longer generate reputation for their original poster.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T18:41:54.883" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2009-08-08T19:20:26.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question seems to be related to the fact that all hardware/electronics that are connected to some kind of programmable device can be discussed on SO as long as you discuss how do use it (writes a program that uses the electronics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not questions about how to create the electronics/hardware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example that suffers from this is embedded stuff and microcontrollers, &#xA;here it would be really nice to discuss questions on both the hardware and the software since sometimes you should solve your problem in hardware and sometimes in software...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is that maybe hardware/electronics design could be accepted at SO, &#xA;or maybe Jeff could find it in his heart that hardware/electronics could need a own site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/Johan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I know you can't have sites for all things in the world, &#xA;and also that electronics may not be the biggest field in the world.&#xA;But maybe it is big enough since I don't believe that I am the only programmer that enjoys electronics as a good hobby :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133229" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T19:20:26.707" />
  <row Id="13259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9812" CreationDate="2009-08-08T19:35:00.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I switched to our standard .ToRelativeTime() function here. Not sure why we had it this weird way before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T19:35:00.377" />
  <row Id="13260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1242" CreationDate="2009-08-08T19:47:16.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't repro this with the current (new, recently improved) tag editor so I am marking it complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T19:47:16.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13214" CreationDate="2009-08-08T20:53:22.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;uh...if we wanted twitter-like clutter and noise, perhaps we'd...use twitter!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T20:53:22.557" />
  <row Id="13262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6776" CreationDate="2009-08-08T20:54:38.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google cannot offer StackOverflow-specific search features such as tag-specific searches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[tag] apples oranges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[tag] [another-tag] apples oranges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and other &lt;em&gt;Advanced Super Ninja Search Options&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;posts from a specific user&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;user:1234 apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;posts with a minimum number of votes&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;votes:15 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions with a minimum number of views&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;views:250 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions that have an accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:1 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;answers that are accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;isaccepted:1 apples&#xA;oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions that have a minimum number of answers&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;answers:1&#xA;apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;questions that have been closed&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;closed:1 apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;posts that are community wiki&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;-&quot;&gt; &lt;code&gt;wiki:1 apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See full list on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt; or just hit &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt; in the search box at the upper right of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T07:57:45.797" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T07:57:45.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2009-08-08T21:13:14.780" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the ability, for at least certain interesting tags, for the &quot;interesting&quot; tags to take precedence over the &quot;uninteresting&quot; tags. For instance, I don't want to see &lt;kbd&gt;java&lt;/kbd&gt; questions in general. However, I don't want to miss a &lt;kbd&gt;wcf&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;c#&lt;/kbd&gt; question simply because the &lt;kbd&gt;java&lt;/kbd&gt; tag was applied as well. This may be the case with a problem in consuming a Java web service with a WCF client, or vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T21:13:14.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13117" CreationDate="2009-08-08T21:23:39.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8396/searchgoogle.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, I'd expect most users know how to use the Google Site: operator and it's shown on our search page.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;look there under&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Search Is Hard, Let's Go Shopping!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T21:23:39.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13249" CreationDate="2009-08-08T21:44:02.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zotero.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zotero&lt;/a&gt; would be a great model for grabbing the cite and standardizing the format.  More answers might include citations with a tool like Zotero to make it easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18484" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T21:44:02.690" />
  <row Id="13266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2009-08-08T21:51:38.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way out of your psychological struggle, as you put it, is to realize that (so far) although possible to do there is no &quot;score&quot; based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Days or times logged in vs questions asked / questions answered/ searches performed (and or results read)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the good folks running stackoverflow believed that was important and somehow was contributing to the success of the site it would be getting tracked and prominently displayed with the user name like reputation, badges etc&#xA;So since there is no Q/A ratio, etc, there should be no strugle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a good question contributes a lot more than providing many answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it's usually harder to pose a question than answering, much like the example I like to use with libraries and web searches. &#xA;All the information is out there, if you know what you are looking for and how to look for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you are on subject of feelings, there have been times that I tried to find the answer to a SO question myself by doing a search goggle/dogpile etc and sure enough the answer is out there.&#xA;I believe SO is used by some/many/most as a shortcut way of receiving an answer quicker than a search.  On the bright side, this accumulates a whole bunch of direct Q and A threads which is what makes SO sucessful to the good folks running StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you see, there is nothing to feel bad about :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133100" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T21:51:38.133" />
  <row Id="13267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3049" CreationDate="2009-08-08T22:06:44.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is resolved by changing the description language code while keeping the described hardware the same, then the question is &lt;strong&gt;precisely&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;programming related&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is resolved by &quot;The hardware you're describing is inherently wrong, change it &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; way&quot;, then the question probably falls outside the proper bounds of StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real challenge here is that only an expert in this business is certain to know which is which. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless someone can show that either there are a lot of these questions or they are being used to &quot;justify&quot; other clearly off-topic posts I'd say let them be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T22:06:44.390" />
  <row Id="13268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13269" CreationDate="2009-08-08T22:23:38.320" Score="1" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall seeing a &quot;Steps to build a better Stackoverflow rep: 1. Clone Jon Skeet Steps&quot; ad on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did it come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T22:17:53.227" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:13:45.103" Title="What happened to the &quot;Clone Jon Skeet Steps&quot; ad on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13268" CreationDate="2009-08-08T22:26:17.190" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was an ad. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-08T22:26:17.190" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13274" CreationDate="2009-08-08T23:56:13.187" Score="4" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;This came up when asking a question just now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without scraping the data dump, I'd guess that tags have at most 3 words.  I'm wondering if this is enforced or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just asked a question about sql server compact 3.5 sp1.  Most related questions are tagged sql-server-ce, which isn't exactly an appropriate tag, as Sql Server CE used to be FOR CE until it was brought to the desktop as Sql Server Compact.  The official name of the latest version is Sql Server Compact 3.5 SP1, which I want to tag my question with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, should I tag it sql-server-compact3.5sp1, sql-server-compact-3.5-sp1, or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose this question could not only be about tag word counts but also version numbers in tags.  Any guidance on this subject is appreciated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T01:56:06.553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T02:36:57.277" Title="How many words can a tag contain?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13270" CreationDate="2009-08-09T00:14:42.427" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there really a need for 3.5sp1? How rapidly does the functionality of SQL Server Compact change? Personally I'm against version tags unless the software isn't backwards compatible. Tags should be kept as general as they can, then further restrict the parameters inside the question. I fear the day if tags ever become like what you're asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T00:14:42.427" />
  <row Id="13273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13249" CreationDate="2009-08-09T02:13:04.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love if citation data were in the CC database dump. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T02:13:04.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13270" CreationDate="2009-08-09T02:36:57.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;tags are 25 chars max&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T02:36:57.277" />
  <row Id="13275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-08-09T02:37:10.303" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/austin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Austin (Oct 14th)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/images/content/venues/austin.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Monarch Event Center&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.monarcheventcenter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monarch Event Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;6406 North IH-35 Suite 3100&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Austin, Texas, 78752, USA&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Tel: 512.371.1711&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Speakers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jason Cohen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peter Mourfield &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Sharp  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eric Jones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Travis Oliphant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Damien Katz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attendees&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30018/johnfx&quot;&gt;JohnFx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T12:43:33.867" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T12:43:33.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T02:37:10.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13244" CreationDate="2009-08-09T03:05:44.737" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the answer of the type &quot;don't do it&quot; tend to assume that the poster doesn't know what he's doing. Just like when I call the brain dead IT dep't to inform them that their craptastic spam filter is blocking our nagios alerts again, with screenshots, excerpts, logs and a definition of &quot;whitelist,&quot; and they ask me what version of Outlook I'm using (A: none). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19979" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T03:05:44.737" />
  <row Id="13277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T03:35:38.780" Score="-4" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I apologize in advance for the rambling &quot;question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We get far too many really bad questions on SO. One of them (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231472/grr-issue-due-to-loop&quot;&gt;GRR ISSUE DUE TO LOOP&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) reminded me of a recent discussion I had with a colleague of mine, who works in a company that does a lot of their work through outsourcing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was remarking on the difference he sees between developers from India who come to work in the US and developers from the exact same parts of India who work from India. These are people who went to the same schools, have similar fluency in English, and yet their performance differs wildly. Among other things, he noticed that the developers in India do not like to say when there's something they don't understand - they will not ask for help, or do anything else that might make it seem they don't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed similar behavior patterns in answering questions on forums other than SO. There's a set of developers from India who will not ask their clients for clarification. The common symptom is developers who ask about sending XML files to web services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, I tried an experiment that worked. I badgered, prodded, and insulted a particular developer into asking his client for a clarification. Once he did that, it became clear to him that he had misunderstood the request from the client, and everything cleared up rapidly from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, I was going through closed questions, looking for some to delete, when I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231472/grr-issue-due-to-loop&quot;&gt;GRR ISSUE DUE TO LOOP&lt;/a&gt;. I decided to take a wild chance, and try insult again to see if it's possible to get this drive-by user to engage with us. I'd like to try that in this case, and perhaps in a couple of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &quot;question&quot; is meant as a warning: Vicious Experiment in Progress, not a matter of rudeness or racism. If this hadn't worked once already, then I wouldn't be trying it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had expected more universal acclaim for this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little bit more explanation of my reasoning may be in order. This technique is addressed at users who do not engage in the process of getting their questions answered. Wether this is due to cultural reasons (questioning their supervisors equating to disrespect, for instance), or language reasons (they just barely felt their English was good enough to ask the question, but not to engage in the process), or something else, I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But assuming that such a user even comes back to see if an answer was provided, the question is what can be done to get the user to respond to comments? My thought was that, given that I don't know the reason they do not respond, it would be necessary to apply some stimulus that is independent of their reason for not responding. I felt that insult might be enough to solicit a response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, it worked once. If I try it twice more, and it doesn't work, then that's one out of four, and clearly time to end the experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T18:49:37.467" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T18:49:37.467" Title="Warning: Vicious Experiment in Progress" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13277" CreationDate="2009-08-09T03:46:16.433" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question can't be salvaged. I'm just going to delete it. (it was already closed when I got to it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T03:46:16.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13277" CreationDate="2009-08-09T03:49:56.927" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can this classify as a question if the rant/ramble has no question marks in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am to interpret this correctly, you plan on being extra rude and insulting towards users to try and make them 'see the light'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The success rate of this type of thing (especially over the internet) is quite low and should best be left to the experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T06:02:38.390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T06:02:38.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4803" CreationDate="2009-08-09T03:59:13.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2586/list-of-comments-on-user-tab/8460#8460&quot;&gt;requested it&lt;/a&gt; already. Come and support us! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T03:59:13.210" />
  <row Id="13281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13284" CreationDate="2009-08-09T03:59:52.430" Score="1" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/134751/beeph&quot;&gt;Beeph&lt;/a&gt;, asks a question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250496/whats-the-simplest-way-to-embed-blog-functionality-in-my-home-page&quot;&gt;What's the simplest way to embed blog functionality on my home page?&lt;/a&gt; which is an exact dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250485/whats-the-simplest-way-to-embed-blog-functionality-in-my-home-page&quot;&gt;the question asked a few &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;minutes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; prior&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When prompted about the earlier question and better just edit that instead of creating a dupe, claims fault on StackOverflow. (How dare they indeed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9513/dr-dork&quot;&gt;Dr Dork&lt;/a&gt;, appears and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250496/whats-the-simplest-way-to-embed-blog-functionality-in-my-home-page/1250520#1250520&quot;&gt;comments on an answer&lt;/a&gt; saying that they haven't found a host, but just want to engage the reaction and thoughts on the community about options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, where two accounts speak as one or refer to the other as themselves in a way, is it reasonable to assume that Beeph and Dr Dork are the same person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T04:10:49.503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T05:59:35.730" Title="Sockpuppets who expose themselves" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3966" CreationDate="2009-08-09T04:20:52.357" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this idea of using Stack Overflow as an official support forum is inside-out : the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; has to adopt the project, find it of interest, and talk about it on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pushing to one particular destination from inside the project feels like forcing a fit for the community rather than letting one organically evolve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way is as you saw with Subsonic -- where &lt;strong&gt;they simply provide a single link to Stack Overflow among &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; links of places people can go to discuss Subsonic&lt;/strong&gt;. I think that's an OK nudge and if you want to seed it with questions yourself, that's fine too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But outsourcing your forums or support to Stack Overflow alone is abusive and definitely frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T22:51:05.273" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T22:51:05.273" />
  <row Id="13283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13281" CreationDate="2009-08-09T04:35:28.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good eye!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just flag the posts for moderator attention and it will be dealt with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T04:35:28.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13281" CreationDate="2009-08-09T05:59:35.730" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any time you suspect sock puppet accounts, either flag a post and give proper explanation, or send an email to team@stackoverflow.com or your friendly local neighborhood moderator. Then the proper steps can be taken (such as Atwood nuking accounts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T05:59:35.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-08-09T06:04:21.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Top 10 Programming Languages (Iobe Programming Index)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C++&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PHP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Visual) Basic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JavaScript&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131647" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T06:04:21.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T06:04:21.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T08:12:14.137" Score="1" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard or read somewhere that SO is working with Alex, from theDailyWTF fame. He's running a silly code competition named Programming Praxis. You can find the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Nerds,-Jocks,-and-Lockers.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lastest one&lt;/a&gt; here. When I see the submissions I automatically look for the upvote button. Since SO and TDWTF are already doing some things together (will supply link when I've found it) is it an idea to host the Programming Praxis on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] Is was mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #64&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6399" LastEditorUserId="6399" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T08:19:45.150" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:26:26.877" Title="Using StackOverflow (or its engine) for theDailyWTF programming praxis" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;so-engine&gt;&lt;third-party&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="13287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13286" CreationDate="2009-08-09T08:25:26.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure I'd want to see all the code on a single page. What I'd quite like would be posts describing the general algorithm used, with a link to the code in case I want to read the submission in its entirety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This goes back to a previous idea about SO hosting code snippets etc itself (rather than using pastebin and the like) to avoid dead links. I'm in two minds about that, but I think it would be useful in this particular case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T08:25:26.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13286" CreationDate="2009-08-09T08:25:49.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An interesting one... if there is some specific coding question (as &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the problem), then maybe - and there is certainly no lack of code-golf questions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't want it to be the default - i.e. as soon as tdwtf issues a Praxis, the same question appears on SO, with a large number of replies, and few people actually &lt;em&gt;reading&lt;/em&gt; them (just posting their own). I can't see the benefit; if people want to enter the Praxis, then do that in tdwtf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; if you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; ask for help on SO, son't forget appropriate attribution in your Praxis submission ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T08:25:49.460" />
  <row Id="13294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-09T10:14:33.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Developers tend not to have been taught anything about security (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://1raindrop.typepad.com/1%5Fraindrop/2009/05/dont-cede-the-cloud.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;)  I particularly like the quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I start my security training class by asking developers &quot;how many years of development experience do you have?&quot; On average there are about 3-5 years experience. Then I ask &quot;how many people have done a one day software security class?&quot; About one hand will usually go up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in class of 30 people, we can expect 150 years of programming experience and about one day of software security training experience! Is it just me or should we really give up on this stuff when we haven't even really started trying seriously yet? &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if there is a base of knowledge that I can point develoers at and say  &quot;Here read this, follow the instructions and test the hell out of your app&quot; then I'd be a little (not a lot) happier that the application may be secure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise I'd love QA/testers to do the same.  Hell I'd love management to take it seriously too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately all this knowledge is out there somewhere, and the blackhats are already using it.  If we (as whitehats) do not equip ourselves with even the basic knowledge we don`t stand a chance of securing our computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ban guns, only bad guys will use them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132402" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T10:14:33.483" />
  <row Id="13295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13296" CreationDate="2009-08-09T10:46:25.713" Score="6" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see StackOverflow questions like : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/864282/excel-vba-to-check-if-a-row-exists&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/864282/excel-vba-to-check-if-a-row-exists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I am tempted to reply with :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&#xA;You could run a query such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'SELECT COUNT(&lt;em&gt;), COL1, COL2 FROM A GROUP BY COL1, COL2 HAVING COUNT(&lt;/em&gt;) &gt; 1' &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;using my Excel Add-In QueryCell.  See www.querycell.com &#xA;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be appropriate or spammy ?  On the one hand it's relevant, on the other it's a blatant plug for my commerical product ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133330" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T12:15:41.130" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T01:51:28.033" Title="Is it appropriate to mention my product in a StackOverflow answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;astroturfing&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13295" CreationDate="2009-08-09T10:50:57.530" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say that if it is a relevant answer, then post it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to put a disclaimer, but I don't see anything wrong with it. And if others don't like it, it won't get voted up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131053" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T10:50:57.530" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="13297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13295" CreationDate="2009-08-09T11:10:46.943" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to pipe up before anyone else mentions it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's relevant and will help, I think that's fine. I've referred people on SO to C# in Depth before, and others on SU to Google Sync.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think of it like this: I don't think it's any more wrong to refer to your own product than to refer to anyone else's. If the answer would be okay if someone else posted it, it's okay for you to post it. If it wouldn't be useful if someone else posted it, you shouldn't post it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically it's about the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; rather than the &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Having said that, I do usually try to include a disclaimer if I have any personal involvement, just to avoid charges of trying to do sneaky advertising.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T11:10:46.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T11:51:49.950" Score="9" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is not entirely clear, some people will make an answer asking for clarification, some will use comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What solution is best for what situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:24:27.957" Title="When should we reply with a comment and when should we use an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="13299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13298" CreationDate="2009-08-09T12:11:34.157" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if it is an solution, or has a solution part, (that can be accepted) use an answer, for everything else use an comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132692" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T12:11:34.157" />
  <row Id="13300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-08-09T12:46:02.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The proper name for a root account is Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;when Jon Skeet uses Ubuntu, he doesn't have to type sudo, ubuntu automatically adds it before each command that requires it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet plays &quot;Simon Says&quot; Simon loses by default.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answered by Jon Skeet is a valid reason to close a thread.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet checks this thread regulary, which is not a hard thing to do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132692" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T12:46:02.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T12:46:02.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13295" CreationDate="2009-08-09T12:47:50.503" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd agree with everything Jon said - but it would also depend on the numbers; if &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; answer you post is a plug for your product, there is a chance you will get flagged as spam - and possibly even astro-turfing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;within reason&lt;/em&gt; as long as the posts are on-topic (and not the sole reason for your SO existence), then great! Another possibly-helpful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being clear in your disclosure will help; people can often tell when you're affiliated with a product, and based on the usual responses people prefer openness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T12:47:50.503" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13298" CreationDate="2009-08-09T15:03:32.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answer in isolation to all other answers and all comments should answer the question. The one possible exception to this is to refer to another answer for the sake of not duplicating it's content and then adding significant new content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything else is a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:03:32.617" />
  <row Id="13303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12068" CreationDate="2009-08-09T15:04:42.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that stackoverflow doesn't use asp.net session cookie anymore , does it mean it doesn't use session anymore ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130023" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:04:42.287" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13295" CreationDate="2009-08-09T15:09:28.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you put links in cautiously. Take a step back, look at what it looks like to the person you're helping, and decide if it &lt;em&gt;really is&lt;/em&gt; helping them, or you are just plugging. Where ever you would put your link, consider seeing your &lt;strong&gt;compeditors&lt;/strong&gt; link in the same place and see how you like the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you come along trying to fit your link into questions, you'll almost certainly come off as being spam to the user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text you posted above as-is I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; consider spammy initially, but I'd be likely to check your post history first and see if you have a penchant for self promotion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was obvious your account existed here with more than 20% purpose being to link to your site, I'd be inclined to go through and delete links in your answers, and report you :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try answer the question as fully as possible &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; linking to your product.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to your product as a &lt;em&gt;last resort&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As everyone else has said, disclosure is a must.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As an advertiser&lt;/strong&gt;, you are here to &lt;strong&gt;serve the community&lt;/strong&gt;, the community is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; here to serve &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;. If you want to reap returns, you have to give back at &lt;strong&gt;least&lt;/strong&gt; as much as you expect to receive . &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:09:28.893" />
  <row Id="13305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13298" CreationDate="2009-08-09T15:19:16.580" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're going to need more than 600 Characters to state your point, you're going to &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're wanting to give examples, you're going to &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're expecting feedback on your thoughts, you're &lt;strong&gt;very likely&lt;/strong&gt; to want an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; however, you don't want  an answer. You want to:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Expand on the question. ( Preferred )  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on an answer.  ( Only if its explicit to an answer, or possibly, a confusion with something said in a comment )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the question ( In the case the question is unclear )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have something to say that is comical, just for laughs, commentary, or otherwise adds no value to the answer/question ( Such as explaining why you voted up, voted down ), please, use a comment, not an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is not community wiki, and you want to community wiki your answer, think twice about it, usually that's an avenue to avoid downvotes, and if you're doing something &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; to avoid downvotes, then its not likely very valuable information, and may be more suited to a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Exceptions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Low rep users can't comment on the following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions they didn't ask &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers on questions they didn't ask.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't like this much, but its how it is, and in those situations, answering with a question is the only way to provide feedback. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have information which is intended as a temporary solution until the answer is clarified, then putting that in an answer is acceptable. Putting some of your question in that answer is also ok. If you have information which may help with the asking of the question ( ie: giving scenarios ), then putting that in the answer might also be acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastEditorUserId="15614" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-09T15:24:27.957" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:24:27.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13298" CreationDate="2009-08-09T15:22:41.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use coments for clarification. That's why are there. Too many (non-)answers can force the question to community-wiki mode, which should not happen, if a clear answer to the question exists.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you browse old questions, it could be the case, that people used answeres instead of comments, because comments were not implemented from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:22:41.470" />
  <row Id="13307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13286" CreationDate="2009-08-09T15:26:26.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, a similar question had already been asked on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/272868/what-is-the-best-solution-for-the-students-and-lockers-problem&quot;&gt;What is the best solution for the ‘Students and Lockers’ problem?&lt;/a&gt; (2008-11-07)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Nerds,-Jocks,-and-Lockers.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nerds, Jocks, and Lockers&lt;/a&gt; question, from TD-WTF, being asked about 9 months later. (2009-08-05)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T15:26:26.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2009-08-09T16:06:50.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still very interested in vote times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T16:06:50.540" />
  <row Id="13309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13295" CreationDate="2009-08-09T17:45:19.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would down-vote that answer if I saw it attached to that question. And probably flag it as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy didn't ask for tools or add-ons. He asked for help with his VBA code or a built-in formula - your answer provides neither. So your code falls into pretty much the same category as the &quot;Use jQuery&quot; answers on JavaScript questions, or &quot;Use Firefox&quot; on IE questions... Except that those products are at least widely- and freely-available, while yours would presumably need to be bought and installed for every machine where the spreadsheet would be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it's bordering on unhelpful &lt;em&gt;at best&lt;/em&gt;, and stinks of self-promotion / spam at worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... If you were to provide a good solution to his problem according to the parameters he outlined in his question (a VBA script) and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; suggest your add-on as an easier way of accomplishing similar things in the future, that would look a lot better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - for quick and accurate answers to this and other thorny ethical dilemmas, you might consider investing in Shog's Magic Question Appropriateness Eight-ball, a revolutionary tool developed and sold by yours truly. Now on sale, get 15% off the normal purchase price - that's 100% guaranteed accuracy at 85% of the usual cost! &lt;sub&gt;Limited time offer, void where prohibited and in Quebec. &quot;Guaranteed accuracy&quot;, &quot;accurate answers&quot;, and &quot;revolutionary tool&quot; trademarks of Shog's House of Goodness, and do not indicate a binding promise of accuracy or usefulness. Contains substances known to the State of California to cause blindness and paranoia in laboratory programmers.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T17:45:19.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13310" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T17:49:33.483" Score="-8" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the current rendering, the exact reputation of &amp;lt;10k users is clearly visible on the mass listings. This allows a centralized/distributed downvote detection, which in turn is in conflict with the site's concept of the ability of casting anonymous down votes on non-Wiki posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have sent a direct mail to the team to evaluate this minor issue (thanks Shog9).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changed the title based on the conversation with the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reported this minor 'trouble', because I want to avoid any unethical behavior of my frontend users, and especially unwanted bans due they try it anyway. The obvious technical solution is to round the displayed reputation value to the 10s. The social solution is beyond my expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T12:23:15.360" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T12:23:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T17:49:33.483" Title="Should displayed reputation always be rounded to the nearest 10?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13310" CreationDate="2009-08-09T18:06:20.627" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't you need to be watching a specific user &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a specific post fairly closely to have even a little confidence in your assumption that the user had downvoted the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, the accusations i've seen appear to be based less on detailed analysis and more on gut feeling - &quot;you commented on my answer / posted your own answer / edited something, therefore you must have down-voted me. Admit it!!!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T18:06:20.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T18:06:20.627" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="13314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13310" CreationDate="2009-08-09T18:59:13.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know what 'method' you're speaking of, which is simply watching for changes in reputation. I don't feel there's anything wrong with discussing this publicly, because IMO it's not really a flaw, since when you try to put this into practice you will always fail.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's over 130k users on SO, user listings are 35 users per page, leaving at least 3700 pages (take out pages with users &amp;lt; 100 rep and there's still a ton). Now crawl those pages &lt;em&gt;by the second&lt;/em&gt; to ensure that a specific down-vote corresponds to a specific user. Moving into the realm of minutes you can only prove that 'these 10 users down-voted', but can't narrow it down to the specific post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this master plan seems infinitely devious until you realize that you'll get banned as soon as you even &lt;em&gt;attempt&lt;/em&gt; to crawl all these pages. Crawling them in a reasonable time is absolutely impossible. If someone &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; wants to find out who down-voted them it's theoretically possible, but not technically. Do you want to spend this much time finding out who took 2 rep from you? If so, then by all means try, but then send an email over to team@stackoverflow.com asking them to unban your IP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T18:59:13.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T18:59:13.467" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="13315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2009-08-09T20:22:17.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Full revision history, including when &amp;amp; who voted to open, close, delete, undelete, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T20:22:17.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T20:22:17.623" />
  <row Id="13316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2009-08-09T20:24:57.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand why this wasn't included (offensive, potentially illegal posts have been deleted), but it's frustrating to have the ability to see deleted posts in the system but not have a good way to search them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T20:24:57.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-09T20:25:07.443" />
  <row Id="13317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T20:26:11.560" Score="2" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across a question on Stack Overflow today which discusses &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1235409/library-pdf-services-gone-in-snow-leopard&quot;&gt;a subject currently under non-disclosure agreement&lt;/a&gt; with the vendor. However, on voting to close there isn't an option to give the reason as that the question is not suitable for public discussion. Could we have that added as a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23743" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-10T18:54:56.303" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T18:54:56.303" Title="Can I close a question as &quot;subject under non-disclosure&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13317" CreationDate="2009-08-09T20:47:54.980" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand where you might be under non-disclosure, but are you sure the questioner is? Unless you happen to work with the questioner, I can't understand how you'd know for sure they are covered by an NDA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Companies aren't always properly consistent with their NDAs - they may be really good about keeping distributors under NDA, for instance, while not remembering to do the same for a contractor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's not uncommon for sales team people to let things slip that they shouldn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I'm saying is that there's lots of ways that someone could get certain information, even if the company didn't mean to release it. If you are under NDA, then you can't discuss it (in other words, you can't answer the question), but that might not mean THEY can't discuss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that no such reason should be listed because the number of times where the person voting can be sure of the questioner's NDA status is going to be vanishingly small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T20:47:54.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T21:01:44.843" Score="6" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I being penalized for asking about an obscure programming language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care so much about my reputation, it's just I cannot vote for people who had helped me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what can I do to increase my reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134899" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T20:35:25.147" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T18:22:17.787" Title="How can I increase my reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="13321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13320" CreationDate="2009-08-09T21:06:30.653" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is how to gain reputation. For example you might start accepting answers, they will earn you 2 points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133343" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T21:06:30.653" />
  <row Id="13322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13320" CreationDate="2009-08-09T21:28:46.817" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You ask a lot of questions, but you never answer anything.  Good answers will gain you rep a lot faster than asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T21:28:46.817" />
  <row Id="13323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T21:55:12.223" Score="0" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6808/possible-link-bug&quot;&gt;Possible Link Bug  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting this URL works fine in the javascript version of the post, but when rendered on the site, doesn't show correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://metaward.com/http://kongregate.com/accounts/paralaxx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://metaward.com/http://kongregate.com/accounts/paralaxx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;http://metaward.com/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;http://kongregate.com/accounts/paralaxx&quot;&gt;http://metaward.com/&lt;a href=&quot;http://kongregate.com/accounts/paralaxx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://kongregate.com/accounts/paralaxx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;http://kongregate.com/accounts/paralaxx&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130173" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T21:55:12.223" ClosedDate="2009-08-09T23:39:02.950" Title="Bug: can't parse urls with &quot;http://&quot; in the path component" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13295" CreationDate="2009-08-09T22:05:06.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in other answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the poster is asking for an answer involving code, then you should provide a code related answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the poster is asking about third party tools that do XYZ, and your product does those things, then absolutely! Tell them about it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fairly good metric would be to consider someone who had NO financial involvement in the product. If they would consider it to be a good answer to the question, then you can consider posting it, if they would consider the product placement to be irrelevant and/or completely useless to the task at hand, then you should not be putting it in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, because the community does not tend to tolerate spammy behaviour (even well intentioned) I would suggest that you err on the side of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; putting in advertisements. Or at least choosing better questions to advertise it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T22:05:06.680" />
  <row Id="13325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13320" CreationDate="2009-08-09T22:33:56.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel your pain. I'm using a relatively unused programming language too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can answer general questions. It doesn't matter what language you're using for questions about preferred software, algorithms, etc. It's harder work to get points on these questions, (as they're applicable to everyone, tend to go to community status, and encourage &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s%5FLaw%5Fof%5FTriviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bikeshedding&lt;/a&gt;), but it can be done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can push stackoverflow to other members of your community. Your particular programming language will have places on the web where users hang out, and you can tell those users to come over here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can do what the R guys did, and organise a [your language] flash mob. This is encouraged behaviour, and can help move a community over from wherever to this site. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10432&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10432&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me - I'm pretty certain I can't get the questions and answers for my language moved from the forum they use over here. In this situation, you may have to accept that stackoverflow is not for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1726" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T22:33:56.717" />
  <row Id="13326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13331" CreationDate="2009-08-09T22:37:00.173" Score="1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1252360/what-is-the-coolest-stuff-youve-ever-written-closed&quot;&gt;created a community wiki&lt;/a&gt; some minutes ago, and it got closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;. Before writing, I digged up some questions, which were similar in nature, to see if they wouldn't get closed. Some of them include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/526573/fun-whats-the-craziest-code-youve-ever-written&quot;&gt;Fun: What’s the Craziest Code You’ve Ever Written&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118116/whats-the-coolest-application-youve-ever-worked-on&quot;&gt;What’s the coolest application you’ve ever worked on?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/53264/what-is-the-most-beautiful-code-you-have-ever-seen-or-written&quot;&gt;What Is the most beautiful code you have ever seen or written?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were communitiy wikis, and tagged as subjective. So was mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I'm not ranting (though I'm not happy about it), I just would like to understand why it got closed (as none of who voted to close left a comment). Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132066" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T04:50:32.787" Title="Why my CW was closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-09T22:46:52.353" Score="5" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2009/08/halting-problem.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Programmers Paradox starts by asking a question about the halting problem but &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; goes on to talk about stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are lots of overly zealous programmers running around &quot;scrubbing&quot; the questions and shutting down what they don't like. The rules are ambiguous enough that the real enforcement is left up to the individuals, always a dangerous practice. If SO was a library, out front there would be a raging pile of books, feeding an eternal flame. And librarians toasting marshmallows on sticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was interesting enough to post here, and to ask what people thought about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those with more than 10K rep here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/566010&quot;&gt;link to the question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1726" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T05:39:31.643" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T06:06:38.063" Title="We tolerate dissent because we used to know that quashing it doesn't work" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;blog&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="13329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:11:35.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing the worst about a piece of code is often the only way to truly understand how to know the best. I would have no objection to posting black hat techniques in response to a question as long as I was satisfied that nobody, including myself, would be vunerable to any sort of trouble from it, that the person was not intending to use such information to no good, and that the information was already readily avaliable and reported to those responsible for fixing said vunderabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If on one hand, I discovered a hole in a particularly important piece of software, I would make it my priority that I make sure I give due notice to those whos busines it is to fix that hole, but on the other hand, I would surely not let it stop me from educating those in the community on best practises to prevent the exploit from affecting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Education is prevention, and even black hat techniques can be taught in an education way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133350" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:11:35.020" />
  <row Id="13330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13327" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:22:00.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or is Meta getting a lot of posts this weekend that make absolutely no sense or have no question/suggestion/anything in them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:22:00.147" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13326" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:24:32.107" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are following the logical fallacy that just because another question happened to make it through the meat grinders of community moderation that your post is therefore somehow valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People need to realize that questions need to be judged on their own merits, not on a comparison to the other questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:24:32.107" />
  <row Id="13332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13327" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:25:37.940" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked the bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Removing spam is one thing, removing stupid and ugly questions is quite another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling to think of good reasons (or even just one) to keep &quot;stupid and ugly questions&quot;, except as a reminder of what not to do; which can be done better in the FAQ. (&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: by this, I'm talking about the unsalvageable posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dross about morality, burning books, etc, is just daft. Godwin's law at its worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T04:23:51.640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T04:23:51.640" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13320" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:28:09.790" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering questions is a sure-fire way to increase your rep a lot faster than asking questions. People are a lot more liberal with their voting on answers. It also doesn't help that you are involved in a subject that many people are not interested in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to consider that being penalized, so be it. StackOverflow and the sister sites are not charity cases, and you aren't going to get rep just for the heck of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:28:09.790" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13326" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:28:38.417" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CW is not carte blanche to post any old garbage. None of your questions listed there (imho) have any value so I'm really not surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:28:38.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13337" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:47:46.863" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1263/new-user-comment-clarification&quot;&gt;New user comment clarification&lt;/a&gt;, Joel asks if low-rep users can comment on answers to their questions, and the answer is yes. Rich B notes that a lot of people ask for the feature on uservoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this suggest that such an ability is insufficiently documented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T03:51:41.650" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T03:51:59.293" Title="Is the ability of low-rep users to comment within their own questions adequately documented?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13338" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:54:11.470" Score="5" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes I know the user name textbox says that only &lt;code&gt;[0-9 A-Z a-z]&lt;/code&gt; are allowed but I see users all the time with things like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Johannes Rössel&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there probably using foreign keyboard layouts, but I was just wondering if I can add them to my name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T02:10:46.303" Title="How do I put special chars in my user name?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;character-codes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13335" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:54:41.750" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there continues to be questions about it, then probably it is not documented enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:54:41.750" />
  <row Id="13338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13336" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:56:34.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always change up your own keyboard layout using Windows. Or you could just insert the special characters yourself if you know the alt-codes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-09T23:56:34.477" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="13339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13335" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:57:18.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not an issue of documentation, but that the types of users who have this particular question have no way of getting the &quot;new user&quot; experience short of deleting their cookies and asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, new users are often too clumsy to figure out how to do anything, so even if they knew they could comment on ANYTHING in their question, they'll &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; do it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who are we &quot;documenting&quot; this for, then..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Since I wrote this, we've updated the faq to include that clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T03:51:59.293" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T03:51:59.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13336" CreationDate="2009-08-09T23:58:21.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit page allows rich (unicode) entry for usernames. Try editing your user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;ask a question&quot; page did not not, until recently. This was an unintended side effect of JavaScript client-side validation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T02:10:46.303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T02:10:46.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13295" CreationDate="2009-08-10T01:51:28.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've worried about the same thing. I have occasionally recommended an open-source framework I wrote and maintain, and have received a few downvotes seemingly just because I mentioned it. I think that proper plugs can be fine if they're in context and actually helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to only link to it if it relates to the question (e.g. the asker is wondering how to implement something that my framework does), and I always try to answer the question before plugging my own work. I respect others' right to disagree, but I'm a firm proponent of appropriate code reuse. It's sure hard to reuse something if you don't know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm mostly active in the Objective-C and Cocoa tags, and a huge chunk of the questions are only because the asker isn't familiar with the APIs. It's quite frequent that people try to do something that the framework does far better and more efficiently than home-grown code. Would we really suggest that it's bad form to point out a library or tool that can make things much easier, particularly if it's open-source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of people are too quick to classify an answer as &quot;astroturfing&quot; regardless of the merit of the answer. Perhaps only &quot;famous&quot; programmers are allowed to suggest their own code? I would hope that people would give the answer a chance rather than rejecting it out of hand. Happily, I think most SO users are reasonable and will vote based on whether an answer is truly helpful, not just based on whether the answer includes a reference to something the author wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T01:51:28.033" />
  <row Id="13344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T01:53:32.133" Score="5" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;This drives me crazy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; feature of SO.  I use it almost exclusively and go there right when I hit the SO homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, the way it renders now, the tags appear right away without the &quot;Remove&quot; buttons (little &quot;X&quot;).  For a good 2-3 seconds they aren't there.  They jump in seemingly trying to catch me trying to click on a tag. There's not a confirmation on this remove - they just disappear.  This makes me utter a curse word I'd rather not repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem isn't the lack of confirmation (yes!)... it's that the &quot;X&quot;'s are delayed (no!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this drive anyone else crazy???  Am I the only one addicted to this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my only complaint about SO.  Not bad, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I was thinking.  If you were able to just leave room for them, that would be perfect.  I don't care that they appear late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133358" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T02:46:12.837" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T02:46:12.837" Title="The &quot;remove&quot; button next to &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; shows up late and makes me click on it" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13344" CreationDate="2009-08-10T02:33:38.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally just wait until they finish rendering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T02:33:38.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15067" CreationDate="2009-08-10T03:26:04.567" Score="1" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love desktop widgets like KDE has and I was wondering if there are any cool widgets for the Stackoverflow/Superuser/Serverfault family of sites for GNOME/KDE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2011-04-07T07:05:36.597" Title="Are there any good Linux (Ubuntu) apps for SO and Superuser?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;linux&gt;&lt;widgets&gt;&lt;kde&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13326" CreationDate="2009-08-10T04:50:32.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other questions you cite have 2, 2, and 1 close votes respectively (at the moment).  It wouldn't surprise me if they get closed at some point..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(at which point other people may start voting to reopen because they've also got a lot of answers :-/ )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T04:50:32.787" />
  <row Id="13348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13327" CreationDate="2009-08-10T05:48:13.763" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The questions are limited towards just&#xA;  the things that can be retyped out of&#xA;  manuals. Discussions are restricted&#xA;  towards just simple facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repeat this after me 1000 times, stackoverflow is not a discussion board. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bliss &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a REAL programming problem that you can clearly articulate and has a solution then stackoverflow is a good place for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are trying to discuss why Microsoft chose MaxScriptStatements of 5 million. Well the only people to ask are Microsoft employees, its a discussion type question with no clear answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T05:48:13.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13317" CreationDate="2009-08-10T06:00:23.817" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, of course, provided that you are the copyright holder of the material being distributed.  In that case, you can file a DMCA (Digital Millenial Copyright Act)&#xA;infringement notice, and the material must be removed from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, under section 512(f) of the U.S. Copyright Code you are liable for damages and fees if you perform this action for materials where you are not the copyright holder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T06:00:23.817" />
  <row Id="13350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13327" CreationDate="2009-08-10T06:06:38.063" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SO has a &quot;system&quot; for eliminating unpopular opinion [posted as a question, ed.]. [... T]he truth is that anything with even the slight bias towards a &lt;strong&gt;statement&lt;/strong&gt; gets shutdown real fast. [emph. mine]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Discussions are restricted towards just simple facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a good place to ask some simple questions, but it was probably a very bad choice as a place to try and communicate with any fellow developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For all I know, the majority is correct and [my] question sucks. Badly written and obnoxious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is much buried behind things, that sometimes even the most trivial fact is the gateway to a vast new understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exact... eh, what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T06:06:38.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13353" CreationDate="2009-08-10T07:09:12.650" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which of S[OFU] would be best for SVN questions? My initial thought is SF for the question I have in mind (regarding setting up the server and getting it working), but version control is used nearly exclusively by programmers, so would SO be more appopriate? Am I thinking too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132498" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:18:50.353" Title="Which site to post svn questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;site-usage&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13352" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T07:10:38.027" Score="1" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get this every #%*@Q%&amp;amp; time I post. I take about 15-20 minutes to craft my question with all the details, formatted perfectly, etc., and then 1 minute after it's posted, some moron comes in and posts something completely ridiculous and unhelpful. Sure, I can downvote him, but the problem is, now my question is marked with &quot;an answer&quot; so people hunting through the questions looking for &quot;unanswered&quot; questions skip over mine and it looks like my question is taken care of, even though it's not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could there be some way to make an &quot;unacceptable answer&quot; that only the OP can designate so as to not make it appear that the OP is being helped, or something of the sort? What do I do in this situation where now no one comes to my question because it's been &quot;answered&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; When I say &quot;answered&quot; vs &quot;unanswered&quot; i don't mean ACTUALLY answered, as in having an accepted answer or not, I mean having AN ANSWER. For instance, I sometimes just hit the SO logo and look for red &quot;0 answer&quot; squares .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132792" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T18:28:06.860" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:28:06.860" Title="What to do when someone posts a stupid answer to your question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;site-usage&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13351" CreationDate="2009-08-10T07:18:50.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SVN command, scripts, usage, best practice - Stack Overflow.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SVN repository with regard to performances, backups (Used by programmers, but I hope they don't set up the servers themselves) - Server Fault.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SVN for personal recreation - Super User.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:18:50.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13357" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:05:00.883" Score="22" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since reputation is relatively 'cheap' to gain, it can be awarded to others 'for free', and can only seldom be lowered, does this mean overall reputation scores will get higher and higher and, effectively, become meaningless?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T07:38:03.370" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:38:03.370" Title="Will reputation spiral out of all control?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:06:26.620" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its main purpose is to get the system to trust you. When you have enough reputation, you can be trusted fully and reputation won't matter too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" />
  <row Id="13356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:08:23.370" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think of reputation as a spam-filter it makes sense.  The goal is to prevent people from getting a new account and having any sort of power until they've proven they're here to participate in a positive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you know they're contributing, they're past the spam filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141855" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:11:39.103" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even in this limited beta there are uses with over 3000 reputation earned in just over a month.  I don't begrudge them,they earned that rep, but it seems if you can earn an average of 100 a day then it would seem in a years time you would have 30,000 rep.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think you are probably right, that it could become really high for active users.  But the real question is if this is a bad thing.  If a user really wants to make that kind of commitment to answering questions, then their reputation will reflect that.  There are still a lot of users who do not have vary many reputation at all, so that means it does take an effort to get reputation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my answer is NO, it will not become meaningless, but it will be hard for late joiners to catch up with active users.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:13:08.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree to some extend. I guess beyond a certain level (maybe 10,000), it will be levelled out and reputation wont matter any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" />
  <row Id="13359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:13:16.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is no natural cap or limit that we've been told, and it's linear progression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's very simple to understand, which I think is key.  They could implement a log conversion, or simply cap it at 10k or some arbitrary number, but that only makes more special cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there's a limited number of votes, everyone is policing everything, and there are limits to how many questions you can post (ie, once every two minutes or similar) then the damage a high point hacked account can inflict will be little and can be handled by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if someone hacks the top 50 accounts, they could probably ruin the front page for a day or so until Jeff shuts them out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think it's a problem.  The DOW just keeps going up, right?  Why not stackoverflow reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, if you cap it (aside from eliminating e-size measurements) you also reduce some people's desire to answer questions.  There are questions I answer only because I haven't hit my daily cap, where I wouldn't have because it takes some work and time to do right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has to be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; payment for good work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:16:55.207" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of Stack Overflow isn't to gain reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, this site is meant to be a wiki. Reputation's &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt; purpose is to serve as heuristics used to determine a form of worthiness or trust before allowing you editing capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it doesn't mean there will not be idiots that eventually have as much power as everyone else, but hopefully there will be enough good people around to police the idiots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It's sad that people feel they should be rewarded for helping others - 7 years ago, I received a lot of help in Usenet newsgroups and tried to return the favor when I could, but did it purely because it was nice to give and receive help. Now people want some arbitrary number next to their name to be larger than someone else's? Help me live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139878" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:18:25.280" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it will become a problem, or at least, it will become less meaningfull over time for the reasons already talked about (it's linear, people who start early win, late comers lose)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's almost like you need two displays for rep, the rep we have now (which you keep on adding too) and some kind of rep 'velocity' which basically shows how active you are in the community. This velocity would be the rep everyone sees beside your name, and could for example be the last 90 days of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This both allows users to constantly gain rep and also remove the everest that presents to any new user who wishes to have a compeditive amount of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" />
  <row Id="13362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:26:18.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the events that affect reputation should have a time multiplier applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can the full impact for (say) six months, then only 80% up to a year, then 50% for a year and so on.  Users would have to stay active to keep their reputation up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:27:46.117" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The point of Stack Overflow isn't to gain reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I don't think you understand the rules of the game properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site rewards high reputations, so it's absurd to suggest that the point is not to gain reputation.  If that were not the point then there would not be any reward for high reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-08T23:29:18.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation != trust always. There will always be people gaming the system to achieve a higher repuation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-09T10:26:34.397" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that reputation (and voting for that matter) should decay over time, so that newer people have a chance to catch up. If someone stops using the site for a while, they should (slowly) loose rep points (I'd suggest exponential decay), because it is likely that etiquette will evolve, and they won't be used to the new style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is an old discussion that has become stale, and the answer that has lots of votes is no longer true or relevant, a new vote should be worth more than the old votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135017" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-09T23:30:32.263" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#50936&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JasonBunting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's sad that people feel they should be rewarded for helping others&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you greatly misunderstand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I contribute on plenty of forums that don't have stupid reward schemes. I don't need a reward at all. But if the extrinsic motivation is &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt; it &lt;em&gt;WILL&lt;/em&gt; destroy intrinsic motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good god, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/09.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel himself wrote about this stuff&lt;/a&gt;.  If you &quot;pay&quot; people to give answers, they will start giving answers only because they are paid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kill the reward scheme.  Get rid of reputation.  Get rid of badges.  Get rid of user privileges based on points.  Remove the extrinsic motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-22T16:16:53.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should repuation points expire?  Or perhaps only points earned in the last year count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise when this site has been up for 10 years just about all the original members will have reached super-overlord level. &#xA;This might discourage new members or lead to old-timer clique where only (then) ancient c# questions get voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" />
  <row Id="13368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13354" CreationDate="2008-09-23T08:59:37.863" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following on from some previous answers, I like the idea of some kind of 'rolling' reputation along the lines of the ranking system in tennis (and possibly other sports) - players' rankings are determined based on their performance over a rolling 12 month period. At each tournament they have to at least match their achievement the previous year or they lose points. If a player's level drops over time, so does their ranking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Applying a similar approach to reputation, where rep drops over time if people's input decreases, means that latecomers will have a chance of catching up, and it will also differentiate between those who are active on a daily basis, and those who were active once but don't get too involved any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will also get around another problem I envisage - it seems to me that at the moment as the site is so new, there's loads of questions being asked that haven't been asked before. Over time, as the database of questions build up, there will be fewer unique questions - people will either find their answers already here, or will have their questions closed as duplicates quite quickly. This will decrease the opportunities for earning reputation and give highly knowledgable latecomers no chance to compete with early arrivers, many of whom may be less knowledgable but will appear of greater repute. With a rolling system, the reduced opportunities to earn rep will affect everybody equally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, perhaps to avoid putting any noses out of joint, there could be one score for total rep ever earned, and another score for rolling reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:25.267" />
  <row Id="13369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:00:20.423" Score="10" ViewCount="1540" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering what the etiquette for posting links should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let’s say you find a post or some code online that perfectly answers a question, should you post a link to that post, or copy the contents of that post attributing the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the problem with the first solution is if in the future, that post no longer exists then all the knowledge within it is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T07:38:19.690" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T14:14:56.280" Title="Is it okay to answer a stackoverflow question with a link?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13369" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:02:18.560" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Summarize but give credit to the source via a name and link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links alone can get broken over time.  A summary can be improved upon by others who edit your post in the future.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting links alone helps the person asking the question, but for future people it's nicer to explain in the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summarizing also helps Joel and Jeff earn Google page hits :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:38.137" />
  <row Id="13371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13369" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:02:25.067" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Links can become outdated, so in my opinion, it is best to copy/summarise the article and attribute the author by providing a name and link as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134799" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:38.137" />
  <row Id="13372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13369" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:02:47.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly I've seen people making a link, maybe summarizing what the content is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time the content of the link is gone, the information is outdated anyway :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7672" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:38.137" />
  <row Id="13373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13369" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:03:13.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I would think it is just like blog etiquette. You quote what is appropriate and give the link to the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:38.137" />
  <row Id="13374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13369" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:03:40.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe copy the revelant code and provide link to site for more in depth information.  I haven't seen any standard emerge yet but the site is still young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:38.137" />
  <row Id="13375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13369" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:16:27.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Fair use&quot; law says that you can summarize, paraphrase and excerpt, but not copy wholesale, and this is generally considered standard blogger etiquette as well. Plus links, of course!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copy-pasting an entire article might seem like a good idea (to preserve the article in case it's ever deleted), but it isn't strictly legal and if the site owner ever asked SO to take it down, they'd have to. And then it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be lost -- better to take the time up front to write a short summary instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:38.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13369" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:18:36.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Links should supplement your answer but not be a requirement, unless the link is exactly the answer needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even then, you've got to consider how long the link will be around for. I've got no problem with wikipedia links because I assume them to be rather stable, but some link to some undergraduates web page is not so stable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:38.137" />
  <row Id="13377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:42:00.670" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;..which is not the same thing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &quot;what's the best book?&quot; - people will vote up the books they've read. This might be useful but won't answer the (possibly unanswerable) question &quot;what's the best book&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this even matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T07:37:46.773" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T07:41:47.503" Title="Aren't questions about &quot;best&quot; going to end up having answers reflecting only popularity?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="13" />
  <row Id="13378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:42:49.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. And yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141908" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:43:30.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poll questions aren't even officially supported. They are always a popularity contest and should be regarded as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:43:36.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, whenever you have a question that is subjective that will happen. You will then find the most popular x based on what people individually think the best x is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:44:49.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it doesn't really answer the question. Just the word &quot;best&quot; brings out the competition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question was worded &quot;list an OK book you like reading&quot; for example, I would imagine it would die like a limp fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;best&quot; is ultimately a subjective question, and its befitting that SO leaves it formatted to form a subjective answer.  ( the little votes don't mean a lot, and the question poster choosing an answer is by no means unbiased ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:45:09.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack OVerflow &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;ONLY&lt;/strong&gt; about popularity. The please don't discuss format discourages the consensus building that'd be needed to arrive at a reasonably good &quot;best&quot; answer to a non trivial question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this also happens for questions that aren't asking the &quot;best&quot; something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why it'll probably never answer really hard questions, but that's not its aim, so it's all good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:45:57.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions are not encouraged... let's hope the site will stabilize in the future... it's brand new&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:46:57.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well yes, but generally people have a reason for picking one over an other option. And if 90% of people prefer x to y, then generally x is better for y, at least for 90% of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people cry &quot;popularity contest&quot; when really there are actually good reasons (speed, amount of features, learning curve) for the choices made&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:47:14.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is definitely a correlation between &quot;best&quot; and &quot;most popular&quot;, even if it's not as strong as we would like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with Google, sometimes you need to look beyond the topmost answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:53:27.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's why subjective posts keep getting voted down, but they make for a fun read and you get to spout off every now and then... who does it hurt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:55:39.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code Complete is very popular answer to &quot;what's the best book&quot; question. That does not mean that people didn't read other books. They did, and they choose CC. In some degree, such opinion can be valuable. If someone who didn't read CC sees that so many people chosen it as a best book, he could take interest in this book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2008-09-17T20:03:00.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been noted, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Best&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is entirely too subjective to even be a good question. A better way would be to ask people to post their &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; [whatever] and ask other posters to up vote rather than duplicate post. You can infer &quot;best&quot; based on what gets the most votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137281" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2009-01-04T07:44:05.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it should be &quot;favorite&quot; instead of &quot;best&quot;. I'm also one of those who believes that developers want to know what other developers are thinking, what their likes and dislikes are, what their opinions are, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site was designed to provide definitive answers to definitive questions. Questions about &quot;favorites&quot; are too subjective to have a definitive answer. Some people on SO think that such questions should be disallowed. They go about and close such questions, often commenting that they are &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;. I call these people grannies, and I think they're missing the boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the immense popularity of subjective questions shows that it would be a terrible mistake to disallow them. Instead, StackOverflow must adapt to subjective questions by allowing them to be formally marked as such, and altering the reputation system to reflect that. (I think subjective questions &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; provide rep, particularly if they engender a lot of discussion, but I think the system should be a bit different for them. Exactly how I don't know.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132413" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:30:52.143" />
  <row Id="13390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13391" CreationDate="2008-10-14T19:32:04.700" Score="27" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;By accepting an answer you're obviously already saying that it was useful. Should an additional up-vote be reserved for answers that are particularly useful, or do people always tend to use the two in unison (or the contrary)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135613" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T07:37:18.147" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T11:24:00.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-14T19:41:45.803" Title="When you accept an answer should you also vote it up?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13390" CreationDate="2008-10-14T19:34:06.443" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually use the two together because if I accept it, it's a good answer, but there might be a better one that I accept an hour, day, or week later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:31:23.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-14T19:39:57.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13390" CreationDate="2008-10-14T19:35:02.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer that is accepted by the user solves the user problem. Meaning they should have either tested it or it solved there problem. If the question is going to accepted by the user it should be up voted by the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote any answers that helps add to the knowledge of the question, they may not have the perfect answer &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt; but help on the path of the perfect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastEditorUserId="131197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T15:26:59.217" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T15:26:59.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-14T20:01:23.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13390" CreationDate="2008-10-14T19:37:09.633" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote any answers that are helpful: perhaps they're not the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; solution, but they're alternatives, or on the right path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are duplicates. If duplicate answers should be 'accepted', I prefer them to be upvoted to match each other, or allow one answerer to retract his answer in favor of the other guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But overall, if you're accepting something you're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; upvoting, why are you accepting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:31:23.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13390" CreationDate="2008-10-14T19:40:29.160" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually vote up all answers to my question unless specifically unhelpful or plain incorrect. They took the time to reply and contributed. I usually pick an answer a while later, maybe after testing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this means that I usually do both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:31:23.203" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13390" CreationDate="2008-10-14T19:44:58.060" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote and accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:31:23.203" />
  <row Id="13396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:27:38.700" Score="8" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question that turned out to have multiple correct answers. How do I pick between them to determine which to accept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: All of the answers were different. They were not the same answer given multiple times. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234906/whats-the-purpose-of-the-nop-opcode&quot;&gt;Here is the question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133048" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T00:14:51.113" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T00:14:51.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T19:31:51.563" Title="Which answer do I accept if I have multiple correct answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="13397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:29:14.063" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answers are different, but all correct, I would upmod all of the correct answers, and accept the one that you actually use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers are all the same, but came in at different times, I would accept the one that came in first, unless one answer was more clear or went into greater detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-12T23:24:38.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:30:43.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would accept the answer that came in first. If you hover over the relative, time, it will show actual time, down to the second, to resolve any disputes when they both say &quot;3 hours ago&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:31:52.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has already been discussed here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/224320/how-do-i-combine-two-answers-to-create-the-best-answer-on-stackoverflow#224325&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/224320/how-do-i-combine-two-answers-to-create-the-best-answer-on-stackoverflow#224325&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130464" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" />
  <row Id="13400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:32:23.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept the answer that came in first unless someone else has been more thorough in their explanation of the solution to the question presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" />
  <row Id="13401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:33:13.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up-vote all answers that apply. Eventually, community will kick in and someone will edit the answer with higher number of votes (hopefully more complete one) to include all the details. And that's your winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144609" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" />
  <row Id="13402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:33:28.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That which most precisely and concisely answer your question. If you can't decide, accept the fastest answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149290" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" />
  <row Id="13403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T19:34:54.893" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick the one that is better because it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains more source code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contains shorter source code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;explains things in a simpler way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;explains things in a more expilicit way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is written funnier&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is written more seriously...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or whatever criteria appeals to you that distinguishes one answer from the other. So far I have seen quite a lot of questions with similar answers, but there were always differences, and I would always have been able to find some tiny thing to help me pick one of them as my preferred answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" />
  <row Id="13404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13396" CreationDate="2008-10-24T20:08:09.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Offtopic I know, but few things annoy me more than when I see someone has accepted a &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:32:56.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-24T20:08:09.057" />
  <row Id="13405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-12T04:30:31.733" Score="7" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself going back through old questions periodically, and I occasionally come across questions on which I feel I can share some insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: why bother?  If the question is old and inactive, especially if it already has a number of responses, it's unlikely that anyone will notice one more response way down at the bottom, much less take the time to read it and vote on it.  I feel like my voice would be entirely lost in the din.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like there should always be incentive to answer if you think you have something to offer, more incentive than just &quot;so it's there in case anyone wants to wade through old questions reading every single answer to weed out the good but late ones from the mediocre but timely ones&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this question wasn't &quot;programming-related&quot; enough, despite being upvoted a number of times in its brief life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still want to know if others feel like there's an incentive other than just &quot;to say it, in case&quot; or &quot;in case someone upvotes it far in the future&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T07:36:36.667" LastActivityDate="2010-04-11T19:11:47.943" Title="What's the incentive to answer old/inactive questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13405" CreationDate="2008-11-12T04:35:29.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have relevant info to add, add it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other users view that question at a later date, they will be able to gain from your comments.  If your answers are insightful, and help answer the question they will get up-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however your comments are of a side-note nature (e.g. a related bug) then maybe you could post the question/answer in a new post more specific to your specific additional info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:33:12.793" />
  <row Id="13408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13405" CreationDate="2008-11-12T04:45:17.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person who asked the original question can easily see new responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I see new activity on a question that I've asked, I review the new responses.  I always upvote any response that I think adds to the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:33:12.793" />
  <row Id="13409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13352" CreationDate="2009-08-10T07:33:59.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just down vote it and maybe add some comment. Your question stays in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;Unanswered&lt;/a&gt; tab, until one of the answers is upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there should be some visual difference between questions with non-upvoted answers and questions with upvoted answers in question listings. Like there is a difference between questions without answers and questions with answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastEditorUserId="1431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T07:44:26.853" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:44:26.853" />
  <row Id="13410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13352" CreationDate="2009-08-10T07:34:36.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that's REALLY annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I WAS going to just post the above line on its own, hehe)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually your question DOES stay on the unanswered tab until an answer is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675/is-there-a-page-that-display-questions-with-0-answers&quot;&gt;link to this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131388" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:34:36.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13352" CreationDate="2009-08-10T07:35:51.410" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the problem is, now my question is marked with &quot;an answer&quot; so people hunting through the questions looking for &quot;unanswered&quot; questions skip over mine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How so? Unanswered is defined as &quot;no upvotes on any answers&quot;, and it is that way for the very reasons you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll also find plenty of people on meta &lt;em&gt;complaining&lt;/em&gt; about this definition of unanswered. It might be instructive for those people to read your post to understand why it is in fact defined that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:35:51.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13352" CreationDate="2009-08-10T07:35:59.710" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers only remove the question from the &quot;unanswered&quot; list if the answer is upvoted &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So actually, downvoting would be the right thing to do - it might even discourage the other user from behaving in this manner in the future. I would always assume good faith though, and leave a comment indicating why you don't think it answers the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:35:59.710" />
  <row Id="13413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-22T02:49:25.220" Score="11" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked my first question on stackoverflow and I'm really impressed that my question seems to be answered sufficiently already! See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/221307/width-of-an-element-accounting-for-quirks-mode-in-javascript&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/221307/width-of-an-element-accounting-for-quirks-mode-in-javascript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue I have is that the last two answers combined would provide the most complete answer. What's the proper way to go about combining them, marking the question answered, and giving credit where credit is due?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks big time guys for saving us all from experts exchange hell!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Wow, 5 responses in 5 minutes. I think what makes the most sense is that I create my own answer out of the two. I don't think the second part of my question was answered though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the proper way to give credit to the 2 answers that I'm combining? Is an upvote for each sufficient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T07:40:21.773" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:28:26.110" Title="How do I combine two answers to create the best answer on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2008-10-22T02:51:43.857" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes 2,000 reputation to edit another person's post (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;). You can, however, post your own answer to the question summarizing what method you used to resolve the issue and any other comments/conclusions. That is quite acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no (current) way to accept two answers simultaneously. This question has a rather heated discussion on the issue (apparently it has been proposed on uservoice and denied by Jeff Atwood himself): &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/206541/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer#206583&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/206541/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer#206583&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be polite to upvote the answers you used, if you haven't already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130464" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:40:00.083" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="13415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2008-10-22T02:53:22.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two options as I understand them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if one answer is very close, but just needs some tweaking then you can just edit that answer to tweak it to be the correct answer. This assumes you have enough reputation (2,000) to edit answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;supply a new (third in your example) answer that includes a combination of the two (or three or four answers that are partial)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:40:00.083" />
  <row Id="13416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2008-10-22T02:53:25.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you had sufficient reputation points, you could edit one of the responses to include the relevant information and turn it into the &quot;best&quot; answer. I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that though so I guess there must be a feeling of ownership, despite what Jeff and Joel say on the podcast. You can also answer your own question - this is also encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:40:00.083" />
  <row Id="13417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2008-10-22T02:53:58.237" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could edit your own original question to note that two of the given answers should be combined for a more-complete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:40:00.083" />
  <row Id="13418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2008-10-22T02:54:01.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just put a note at the top of your new answer: &quot;Combining responses from Judy and Bob, the following seems to be the better answer:&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then just combine them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People may think you're stealing others answers but that's not my view.  The idea of SO is to get the best answers, not to placate the egos of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your combo answer is better, it will rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:40:00.083" />
  <row Id="13419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2008-10-24T12:36:31.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't have the rep to edit and you want to copy the source/markup used to create the answers into your new answer you can do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question or answer has been edited so that it has an &lt;strong&gt;edited X timeunits ago&lt;/strong&gt; link, you can click on that link to view the revision history and then click the &lt;strong&gt;view source&lt;/strong&gt; link to open a new tab/window with it in (it will also expand/collapse the revision as a side effect). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it hasn't been edited then you can still view the revision history, but you'll have to manually enter the url in your browser's address bar. For questions, take the number in the middle of the page's url; for answers click on the &lt;strong&gt;link&lt;/strong&gt; link for the answer to get it's unique number in the anchor of the url (after the # character) and then go to the url:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;http&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;://stackoverflow.com/revisions/&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;number&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;/list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:40:00.083" />
  <row Id="13420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2009-05-17T12:17:32.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accept the best of the two answers and add a comment referring to the other answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept one to two answers (e.g. the better/more complete of the two).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; (you need 200 points to do this) to the accepted answer summarizing the additional points from the other answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give credit to these additional answers by up-voting them and by stating in your summary where the info comes from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T07:40:00.083" />
  <row Id="13424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13426" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:21:08.307" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked more than 100 questions on SO. The problem with asking so many questions is that it's sometimes very hard to navigate to the question I want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to improve the interface further?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:23:20.347" Title="Search/ Browse My Own Questions Easily" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13405" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:21:58.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/17/necromancer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Necromancer&lt;/strong&gt; badge&lt;/a&gt; of course. Why else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:21:58.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13424" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:23:20.347" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;have you tried using the advanced search options to scope to your user id?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:23:20.347" />
  <row Id="13427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:23:51.920" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often, as other questions here discuss, you find yourself with one or two answers to your question that is &lt;em&gt;kinda&lt;/em&gt; correct. But to be really correct they either need to be rewritten slightly, combined or something else. Or maybe they were not really correct at all, but set you of in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be sweet if I could answer my own question (and mark it as accepted at once) and select other answers that were the helpful ones. My answers could then become the accepted one on the top (with no, or a very small amount of rep) and the ones I marked as helpful could be marked as helpful (with slightly less rep than a regular accepted one) and come right after it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep for upvotes on the accepted answer could give a small amount of rep all the participants. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39321" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T12:11:22.043" Title="Suggestion for how you could handle multiple helpful answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13427" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:26:45.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already do that. Combine the answers in your own answer, accept your own, link to the others and tell people they should upvote these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:26:45.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13413" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:28:26.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be bold and swoop in and compile them into a stand-alone answer that grabs the meaty chunks and serves it all on the one plate instead of a buffet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prime example, the accepted answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12255/how-to-find-source-for-html-email/12296#12296&quot;&gt;How to view the source of HTML emails&lt;/a&gt; at SU cherry picks from the previous answers posted and compiles them into a nice little bundle of joy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sum in this case looking a whole lot more than the parts. Though it was rather lacking in nodding the cap to the previous answers from which the bones were picked off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:28:26.110" />
  <row Id="13430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:31:10.173" Score="4" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;After an initial burst of interest, which took one of my SO Questions to ~80 upvotes, a steady but slow dribble of votes over the last few weeks finally took it to the magic 100 (and a gold badge) yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What surprised me is that this seems to have suddenly reinvigorated the question. It's had over 40 more votes over the weekend, a couple more comments/answers, and a load more views. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else observed this phenomenon, and what causes it? Does a 100-vote question suddenly get promoted as &quot;Hot&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:36:09.350" Title="Is there a &quot;Gold Badge Effect&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;gold&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-08-10T08:32:50.797" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A spoiler-block and/or small text option would be nice: It's often nice to add (extra) motivating details to a question or answer that aren't essential but help one understand the reasoning underlying a particular issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to de-emphasize supporting bits of text would make Q's and A's more skimmable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133369" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T08:32:50.797" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13491" CreationDate="2009-08-10T09:04:02.807" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that, on stackoverflow.com, the comment responses stopped updating for me 2 days ago. Now I have to go to recent history look up where I commented, and manually check the comments for answers. Is that just me having tightened my FF too much or are there others seeing this, too? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133368" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T09:49:36.940" ClosedDate="2010-01-17T12:00:48.497" Title="Comment responses stopped working for me on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13430" CreationDate="2009-08-10T09:11:13.073" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People search for good answers. That's why gold badges exist. They pick gold badge answers - that's it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T09:11:13.073" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14560" CreationDate="2009-08-10T09:14:30.400" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question that I asked on stackoverflow got closed and deleted because I misphrased my question to sound like it was not programming related.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5221/how-can-a-question-or-answer-be-deleted/5222#5222&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; &quot;the html address of a deleted question is still visible in your recent activities (recent tab)&quot;, but I don't see it listed there. I read on meta that the person who asked the question could still see the question if they had the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the FAQ wrong or should this still be supported?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:55:32.083" Title="Recent activities tab does not show deleted question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13437" CreationDate="2009-08-10T09:41:11.343" Score="3" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let users choose their timezone (you&#xA;may suggest one based on ip or&#xA;whatever, but let them choose anyway).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After they've made their choice,&#xA;apply all daily rules (vote limit, reputation cap, badges, etc.) to their own&#xA;natural days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; A similar question, but not quite the same, is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1359/make-recent-activity-today-etc-buttons-based-on-users-time-zone&quot;&gt;Make recent activity “today” etc. buttons based on user’s time zone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The frequency of changes to the timezone would be severely limited, to avoid abuse. For example, you can set it twice (just in case you make a mistake), but then you may not change it in six months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T17:46:30.480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T17:46:30.480" Title="Use user's timezone for vote limit, reputation cap, badges, etc" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="13436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13435" CreationDate="2009-08-10T09:48:07.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not like the idea. Can the user only choose once? If he can several times, it is easy to abuse the system (jumping time zones). Adding more rules to prevent this, is violating the KISS principle.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I'm missing the benefit for the user, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T09:48:07.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13435" CreationDate="2009-08-10T09:48:19.643" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Showing the time in the user's time zone could be useful (though more painful than one might expect), but applying rules sounds like a bad idea to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from anything, if the time zone could be changed you'd have to think &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; carefully to avoid abuse for things like the rep cap. Also, what would happen about the rep cap for days when DST changes? Should there be a 25 hour long rep cap day once a year, and a 23 hour long day at the other side? What &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; happen if I changed time zone - recalculate all rep against the different time zone? (EDIT: I see you've now put a limit on of once per six months... so now if I make a mistake I've got to live with it for six months? If I visit another office I've got to use my normal time zone while I'm away?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine this generating &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of bug reports, some of which would be spurious due to the user not understanding their time zone, some of which would be due to infrastructure problems (e.g. Windows time zone support not being quite right for a particular zone) and some of which would be due to programming bugs (things like assuming that midnight happens exactly once per day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I'd suggest that the team avoids messing with time zones unless they absolutely have to. Heck, we've already got one time zone bug (the &quot;recent activity&quot; envelope defaults to &quot;today from &lt;em&gt;server&lt;/em&gt; midnight rather than &lt;em&gt;UTC&lt;/em&gt; midnight) and that's without supporting user time zones!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T09:48:19.643" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13444" CreationDate="2009-08-10T10:06:47.797" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Glancing at the SO homepage I found that a lot of questions are asked in such a way that it's not easy for Google to find them. Any idea how to fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P/S: I know that this is entirely up to the users to ask good question. But maybe we can do something to &quot;improve their odds&quot; of asking good questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T11:03:15.437" Title="How to Make SO questions more Google-Friendly" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13438" CreationDate="2009-08-10T10:10:54.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just clean up the grammar, wording, and clarity. It you build it, Google will come :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T10:10:54.107" />
  <row Id="13440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13442" CreationDate="2009-08-10T10:29:43.617" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/20412/how-to-boot-into-command-line-mode-and-keep-other-services-unchanged&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; yesterday on SU. Some sleep and few hours of investigation later, I know the actual issue and the solution, both of which I've posted in an answer. If you read the question now, you'll realize that in its current form it is misleading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd delete the question but I think the information is relevant. I also found a similarly misleading &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78408/how-do-i-change-default-runlevel-in-ubuntu&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; over at SO when researching this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to handle such questions? I've already edited the question to indicate the problem lies elsewhere, but should I do more? Do I delete the question? Should I accept my own answer or is that bad form? Should I modify the question to reflect the true problem, even if turns the other answer completely irrelevant (at best)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastEditorUserId="132587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T10:53:43.537" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T10:53:43.537" Title="What do I do with a question that's misleading once the answer has been found?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13440" CreationDate="2009-08-10T10:39:11.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you accept your own answer on a misleading question, that would appear like you're gaming the system for an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could close as no longer relevant if it is so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as an information repository, you could just leave it and not accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T10:39:11.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13440" CreationDate="2009-08-10T10:47:48.683" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that if you made a mistake and then found out the problem was something unrelated then its more than likely that you aren't (or won't be) the only person to have that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would leave the question largely as it is with an edited section at the bottom (which appears to be what you've now done), answer it and accept your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember people may find your question via Google and other means. They may follow the same thought process as you and use the kind of search terms as were/are in your original question so try to keep the question in a form where if you'd searched for an answer originally you would've found your own question, if that makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T10:47:48.683" />
  <row Id="13443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13435" CreationDate="2009-08-10T10:57:10.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possible abuse for this idea is easy to avoid. If you are set to GMT+2 so your &quot;day&quot; resets at 10pm local time and you change your timezone to GMT+10 (which is 4pm in GMT+2 and 2pm in GMT so you'd &quot;gain&quot; 8 hours (meaning your &quot;day&quot; would be 16 hours) then you simply do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your last vote reset was less than 24 hours ago and it's midnight in your current time zone now you simply don't reset so in the above case it would be 24+16 = 40 hours between resets before reverting to the new 24 hour cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be really easily to implement too because the only information you need is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Current timezone;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Previous reset.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current timezone would dictate when the check was done. Previous reset would be used to make sure it'd been 24+ hours since the last reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you might argue you effectively get penalized for changing timezones but let's be honest, how often would that really happen? You could even warn people it'll happen when they want to change timezones. Problem solved. People will only change timezones when they really want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I'm necessarily arguing for this proposal but let's just do away with any notions of abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, &lt;strong&gt;in the very least&lt;/strong&gt; I would like times on questions and answers to be displayed in local time zone. That's really easy to implement too. Doing rep caps, votes and so on by local day would be a nice to have. I just don't see the point of doing pointless timezone conversion to figure out when something actually happened. Give me times that make sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure the current times are great if you live in the UK but, you know, not everyone does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, Jon Skeet does. Conspiracy? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T10:57:10.253" />
  <row Id="13444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13438" CreationDate="2009-08-10T11:03:15.437" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest point about finding questions with Google is the same for finding content of any sort through Google: &lt;strong&gt;it's all about the title&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So pick a good title that succinctly gives people an idea of what the question is about. Sometimes it can be hard thinking of a good title. I've sometimes spent some serious time thinking of a good title for things (blog posts and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare and contrast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I'm confused&quot;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This doesn't work&quot;; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;What do I do?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I don't understand why Java isn't cleaning up my thread pool&quot;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Why is this code giving me a NullPointerException?&quot;; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;My Ruby page takes 10 seconds to load. How do I find out why?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also think about likely search terms if you were looking for this question. You will get a higher ranking for something which is an exact phrase match than with something than isn't (generally speaking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T11:03:15.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13448" CreationDate="2009-08-10T11:54:38.127" Score="3" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/20423/your-experiences-with-self-publishing-sites-blurb-lulu-com-etc&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/20423/your-experiences-with-self-publishing-sites-blurb-lulu-com-etc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I didn't ask the question, nor do I give much a darn about the answer, but I did up-vote the question and suggest it was legit to ask.  Apparently I was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confused as to why it was closed.  Why would asking a question about sites (with software) that help you publish a book be &lt;em&gt;not computer related&lt;/em&gt;?  Publishing requires software in this day and age, and I've seen people asking questions that survive and thrive about other web-based services such as Blogger, Google Reader, mail hosts, etc.  Those services are also web-based and let folks do things like &lt;em&gt;read and write blogs&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;read and write mail&lt;/em&gt;.  If self-publishing isn't computer related, how can those be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please educate me.  I'm not looking for a reversal on the decision -- I don't care about the &lt;em&gt;instance&lt;/em&gt; having been garbage collected -- but to grok the community garbage-collection process &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;.  Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;OK, so I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I get it.  Let me synthesize/rephrase.  From the answers you've provided, it seems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; issues with the question under the microscope that make it overall just &lt;em&gt;not a good question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Not computer related&quot; was but &lt;em&gt;one reason of many&lt;/em&gt;, and perhaps the simplest or most obvious reason at hand to close it with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody should expect an exhaustive summary of everything wrong with a question when it's closed.  I suppose moderation wouldn't scale well if such was required.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Odds are good that a &lt;em&gt;similar but better-phrased&lt;/em&gt; question might actually have survived moderation &lt;em&gt;on the same substance of the matter&lt;/em&gt; simply by having been more specific or worded better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130199" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T00:55:59.957" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T00:55:59.957" Title="Why was this closed as &quot;non-computer-related&quot; on superuser.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="13446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13445" CreationDate="2009-08-10T12:11:19.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most cited sentence of the FAQ:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question meets these criteria.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Why it is closed with the reason &quot;not computer related&quot;? You can argue, yes, but choosing a publishing site has nothing to do with fixing a computer problem, workaround a software issue or gaining a deeper understanding of your system. Not a complete list, but that's what SuperUser is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T12:11:19.940" />
  <row Id="13447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13427" CreationDate="2009-08-10T12:11:22.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either do like John said or accept the best answer available and then give upvotes (and reasoning why in comments) on all the others that were also helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T12:11:22.043" />
  <row Id="13448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13445" CreationDate="2009-08-10T12:12:01.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, it is just a bad question, extremely vague and not asking a single actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were &quot;How do you post an image in WordPress?&quot; it may have had a chance. That question clearly exists only to try and get a discussion about the blog software, which is discouraged there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T12:12:01.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13445" CreationDate="2009-08-10T12:18:44.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first reaction was that the question looked like a shill for the company concerned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it's not a question. It's not a bad subject for a question, but it's just not a question that will fit the model for SO/SF/SU/MSO - it needs to be rephrased: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did you make Lulu do &lt;em&gt;something or other&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did this on Blurb and &lt;em&gt;something unexpected&lt;/em&gt; occured, any ideas?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's this other book publishing site that seems better in some piece of functionality than this other site, can someone highlight the differences. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's even a case for:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm setting up a book publishing site, could people highlight how existing suppliers fall down? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; What I can't grok is why would someone unconnected with a site in this space would ask this sort of question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T12:18:44.630" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:01:21.520" Score="6" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I just lost a comment entry that was over 600 characters long when I attempted to save it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I did not pay attention to the visible character limit.  Still, perhaps SO could display a message instead of losing my entry ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T03:47:58.253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T03:47:58.253" Title="Comment over 600 chars lost v.s. simply display error message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13451" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:03:23.407" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best solution would be to just have the text field stop accepting input at 600 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:03:23.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:11:05.820" Score="62" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we add the acronym tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;To get to the page you have to type the &amp;lt;acronym title=&quot;Fully Qualified Domain Name&quot;&amp;gt;FQDN&amp;lt;/acronym&amp;gt;.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to tag acronyms I use so that I don't alienate readers based on the one acronym they don't understand, IMHO. Sure beats using the FDNT, but we know that GLLT users won't RTFM or the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(fun quiz, which of the above acronyms are made up?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132790" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:11:05.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13460" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:13:28.810" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers with the same number of votes are sorted (by default) from oldest to newest according to the edit date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the assumption that it's &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; to be placed near the top (you get more eyeballs and are more likely to be voted-up/accepted) this has two drawbacks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users are less likely to edit their answers if doing so moves them down on the post ordering.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One can improve his answer's location by editing &lt;strong&gt;another&lt;/strong&gt; user's answer (I edited an answer that was tied with mine and was surprised to see I was suddenly better off).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other side of the coin for &lt;code&gt;#1&lt;/code&gt; is that it may mitigate the fastest gun in the west problem by causing people not to post an incomplete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another consideration may be that (at least for zero ranked answers) the newer answer should be brought to the top since it hasn't had a chance to get any votes and perhaps does not deserve to have zero votes (unlike the other answers who have had their chance and if they're still without votes they probably don't warrant them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:41:49.543" ClosedDate="2010-02-05T07:59:31.210" Title="Should editing an answer change its placement with relation to other answers with the same number of votes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13454" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:34:57.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current process stops someone from posting something extremely quickly and then waiting as long as he wants to get it revised into something worthwhile. Right now you have a 5 minute edit window to keep from getting pushed down the page. I think this works fine in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:34:57.607" />
  <row Id="13458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13430" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:36:09.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best guess I have so far for this phenomenon is that the 'gold badge' lists &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/22/great-question&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt; are sorted with most recent awarded badge first. So that as soon as you get the badge, you pop to the top of the page here, and stay there until someone else gets the same badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, these lists are directly linked from the 'badges' page which give details of each badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:36:09.350" />
  <row Id="13459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13451" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:36:11.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Thomas said, the system should probably just have that hard limit set. But also, users need to pay attention when the red text starts counting down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:36:11.830" />
  <row Id="13460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13454" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:41:49.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, answers that are edited will sometimes drop down in position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, this is a side-effect of another glitch, where if you edit your answer soon after posting it, the timestamp of the answer is adjusted to look like it was first posted at a later time than it was.  Because answers with the same score are sorted by timestamp, the changed timestamp moves the answer downward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether this explanation is true or not, I feel that answers &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; drop down in position as a result of editing them, and nor should the timestamp on answers change when they are edited.  It presents an inaccurate account of history of a question, making it look like the answerer responded after other people rather than before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From listening to the SO podcast I believe the reason for this may be related to the code that prevents edits made shortly after posting from showing up in the history.  However, it would not be hard to keep doing this, but also ensure that the previous revision's timestamp is retained and the replacement revision will not sort lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132166" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:41:49.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T13:43:38.590" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I look away from a stackoverflow page and come back to it later (ie. tab switching) I have no clue where specifically I am or what I am looking at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title for the page, shown way above the webpage in the browser's chrome has some helpful info. However I doubt most people know to look there, I know my brain isn't trained to re-read the title but the page itself, I am sure many others are like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be incredibly helpful to repeat that title on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the MySQL tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sort by most Votes, go to page 2 or 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tab away from the page and work on something else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;come back to the tab, don't look at the very top title and now quickly figure out what's on the screen &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the title was on the page, it would be super easy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=mysql&amp;amp;page=3&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=mysql&amp;amp;page=3&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;H1 says &quot;Tagged Questions&quot; which is useless &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;title says &quot;Highest Voted 'mysql' Questions&quot; which is great but not easily found&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as a bonus, you could even add &quot;page 2&quot; at the end to be verbally complete&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132054" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T13:43:38.590" Title="please repeat webpage TITLE within webpage itself" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;title&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24114" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:00:10.530" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I am re-thinking and simplifying this feature request from a previous post (now deleted).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you search Stack Overflow...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search-box.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...it would be nice if the search results included a quick way to re-submit the search to Google, Bing, or wherever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stack-overflow-search2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copy the text of the original search into the &quot;other search&quot; boxes for a quick way to search Stack Overflow using other search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would alleviate some of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6776&quot;&gt;criticism&lt;/a&gt; that sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13117/search-is-broken-switch-to-google-closed&quot;&gt;Google searches work better&lt;/a&gt; while adding a nice way to search Stack Overflow using other search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T04:56:32.730" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:57:09.547" Title="Add &quot;Search Other Sites&quot; to Search Results Page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13465" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:00:53.523" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1254697/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO, it closed, which I can understand and if that is the will of the community. However it was also nominated for reopening. I realized that I could click on the link, so tried it, assuming that I would get the &quot;You can't do this&quot; message, but my vote counted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can you vote to reopen you own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T15:28:53.957" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:28:53.957" Title="Why can you vote to reopen your own question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13463" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:08:23.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting to close my own question is possible and very usefull. When somebody tells me that I just introduced a duplicate, but the question already has upvoted answers, I insert a comment on &quot;Voting to close the question myself&quot; and do so. This usually prevents being voted down, as it shows your good will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting to close and reopen is limited to once per question, even if a close/reopen war is going on. And you need 4 people to join with you. So I do not see a problem with one close/reopen vote for my own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T14:08:23.107" />
  <row Id="13465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13463" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:12:04.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, you can vote to open or close your question, once you have 250 rep. The amount of rep could be different based on the site, but I believe currently they are all at 250 for this ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T14:12:04.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13451" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:16:09.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does display a message. Unfortunately, it also reloads the page, losing anything you've written. Note that comment submission normally happens via an AJAX request and does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; reload the whole page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's&lt;/strong&gt; a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T14:16:09.267" />
  <row Id="13469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13471" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:28:15.660" Score="4" ViewCount="1977" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/981/syntax-highlighting-hints&quot;&gt;Syntax highlighting hints&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When using SO's code blocks, can you control how syntax highlighting is performed? Many times, I've pasted (for example) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1255099/whats-the-proper-use-of-printf-to-display-pointers-padded-with-0s/1255179#1255179&quot;&gt;some shell output&lt;/a&gt; into an SO answer, and the syntax highlighting has been completely unrelated. Is there any way to turn it off, or to change the language used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133390" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T14:17:58.153" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T14:17:58.153" ClosedDate="2010-06-30T21:04:04.760" Title="stackoverflow syntax highlighting" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13469" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:31:26.620" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot control how the syntax is highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO, uses Google's prettify to do the syntax coloring.  Prettify uses common language patterns to determine syntax coloring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// comment&#xA;#comment&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;'This is a string'&#xA;&quot;So is this&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Key words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;void&#xA;return&#xA;int &#xA;bool&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13469/stackoverflow-syntax-highlighting/13471#13471&quot;&gt;Zifre&lt;/a&gt; says.  You can turn off the syntax highlighting in code by using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags around your desired block of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T14:53:27.100" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T14:53:27.100" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13469" CreationDate="2009-08-10T14:42:51.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a way to completely turn off code highlighting: use &lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; tags (I often do this for OCaml/Lisp/Haskell code where unmatched &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;s cause problems). &lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As random pointed out, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; will work better than &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normal highlighting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;return 'a' &quot;x&quot; void&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;return 'a' &quot;x&quot; void&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, you don't need to indent your code by four spaces. For example, the code in this answer is formatted like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Normal highlighting:&#xA;&#xA;    return 'a' &quot;x&quot; void&#xA;&#xA;With `&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;` it looks like this:&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;return 'a' &quot;x&quot; void&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry about the highlighting but I can't do this in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastEditorUserId="83871" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T14:51:36.590" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T14:51:36.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13475" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:10:41.793" Score="3" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1216943/how-to-run-debug-multiple-web-application-projects-with-in-the-same-solution&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1216943/how-to-run-debug-multiple-web-application-projects-with-in-the-same-solution&lt;/a&gt;.  I put out a 200 bounty on the question, but did not get an answer from anyone other than myself that worked.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, my answer is also the highest up-voted on it at this point.  I know that allowing OP's to retract a bounty can be a slippery slope, in fact I think that once the bounty is put up it should stay up.  But why not allow the OP to answer their own questions with a bounty and reward it to them if they receive the same up-votes as others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I am fully aware that bounty's are a risk.  People will use them for numerous reasons such as trying to draw extra attention to their issues.  However, in my specific question, the only valid answer is the one that I gave.  Had it been anyone else's question, I would have received the bounty, but since it was my own I did not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interesting Voting Patterns... all mine downvoted on SO numerous times and the others up-voted?  That is some good honest overflowing if you ask me!&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And people who do this complain about serial down voting?  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hypocrite!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T16:07:06.877" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:50:24.897" Title="Why can't you get awarded the bounty for answering your own question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13474" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:14:27.963" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounty is a risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, you're not entitled to answers, even on bounty questions. You put your arbitrary number on the line and even then others didn't see the cause worthy enough to answer well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sucks, but that's what comes with risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:14:27.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13474" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:16:21.860" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is not a process for this, and I don't expect there will be one. The impression I have gotten is that a bounty is treated advertisement for your question and nothing more. If you don't want to use the bounty system because you don't want to lose the rep, then don't. But if you use it, your reputation is gone; it's the price you pay for the increased likelihood your question will be seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:16:21.860" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:26:37.567" Score="-5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a little bit way out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some good answers are nuanced and may contain several options. Some of which are good or bad. Say there were three alternatives given in an answer, one brilliant and the other two rubbish. It would be nice to highlight the brilliant bit and upvote that specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the current way to do this is to put a comment explaining why you voted on a particular answer, but it may be nice to split the best bits out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does lean toward the SO as a wiki idea, where the best answer could float to the top but it could also end up a complete unintelligible mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way around this which is perhaps more practical is to encourage single answer answers. If people can think of a few alternatives to post them as separate answers and let the community decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:02:44.123" Title="Voting on only part of an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10243" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:29:16.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, so can I post an answer that is really a follow-up question to the question being asked here?  Or is that bad form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:29:16.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13477" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:30:14.033" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By and large, we do encourage single answer answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for voting on bits and pieces, that just adds a whole new level of complexity for no really good reason. Leave a comment and/or edit the rubbish parts out if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:30:14.033" />
  <row Id="13480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13477" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:31:11.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (youAgree == true) &#xA;    upvote++;&#xA;else if (youAgree == false)&#xA;    upvote--;&#xA;else &#xA;    upvote = null; // I assume youAgree is a nullable bool.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T16:02:44.123" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:02:44.123" />
  <row Id="13481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13477" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:32:14.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a better solution would be for you to create a new answer with just the good bits. It would be polite to acknowledge the other answer and to explain why the not so good bits weren't so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:32:14.870" />
  <row Id="13482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13477" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:52:57.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why we have the ability to edit and comment on answers. No need to complicate things by changing the voting system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:52:57.323" />
  <row Id="13483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13474" CreationDate="2009-08-10T15:58:06.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People would game the system, since bounty comes with 50 bonus points from SO, it's not a zero-sum game. If you could reward yourself the bounty, we'd have people answering their own questions left and right. Since bounties are not subject to the rep cap, you could, theoretically, build yourself up to Jon Skeet levels rather quickly just by accepting your own bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergo: &lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T15:58:06.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13487" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:00:39.713" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;This proposition occurred to me when I have seen a case of mistyped tag on a question on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag used was &quot;identiy-theft&quot;, which is obviously mistyped. It got changed to identity-theft, but the identiy-theft tag still exists, even though there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/identiy-theft&quot;&gt;no questions&lt;/a&gt; associated with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that tags are entered with a list of propositions, when someone asks a question. New users are not able to create tags anyway, so they will use these ones for sure. The problem then, is that if such mistyped tags are provided in the proposition list, then it's easy for someone to choose it quickly, just because it resembles the tag they actually want. I was at first thinking about some moderation requests, like many on this site, to &quot;remove&quot; a tag, but it's not really a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my proposition would be to remove automatically tags when no question uses them. This way, let's see the following of actions : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone creates a mistyped tag in his question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It will most likely be corrected by another user (or the author himself)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mistyped tag won't be used by any question anymore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag is deleted, so it won't be proposed for next questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't prevent someone to come and create the mistyped tag again, of course. But at least it would be a community-driven way of getting rid of such &quot;unwanted&quot; tags, and it would reduce the risk of seeing it used again, just because it was proposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit :&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, according to answers, they are already being cleaned up, but I guess that for performance issues, only periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for answers !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T16:27:16.617" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:27:16.617" Title="Auto-remove tags left without an associated question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13485" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:03:48.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are periodically cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just try looking for the &lt;code&gt;[rosetta]&lt;/code&gt; tag on Stack Overflow, which has been hand rolled into the &lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:03:48.537" />
  <row Id="13487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13485" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:05:20.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; removed when they aren't in use.  However, if you go to the tags page and type &quot;iden&quot; in the search box, you'll see that it still claims that 2 questions are tagged &lt;code&gt;[identiy-theft]&lt;/code&gt;, which means it's a cache issue that will go away eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:05:20.543" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13489" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:11:04.167" Score="5" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I answer a question (correctly) and in comments the original asker replies saying &quot;Thanks, that worked!&quot; and they leave, usually up-voting the answer, but not marking it as the accepted answer.  I check back even months later, and it's still the only answer posted to the question, up-voted once, but not accepted as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this besides asker neglect, or is there something StackOverflow can do (further) to motivate people to Accept answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know SO displays a big red box saying &quot;consider accepting the answer&quot; when an asker up-votes an answer, but somehow this apparently doesn't phase most people)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T17:07:34.460" Title="Why don't askers accept answers they up-vote and accept-in-comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13488" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:13:08.813" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens a lot, and I certainly get aggravated when I've got an Enlightened badge sitting on the table, just waiting for that little green check. Askers certainly get plenty of notification about it. Auto-accepting answers for anything but bounties (where one is required) is certainly not the correct solution. It's aggravating, but c'est la vie. As Ron White says, &quot;You can't fix stupid.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:13:08.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13474" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:17:21.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But why not allow the OP to answer their own questions with a bounty and reward it to them if they receive the same up-votes as others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because that's missing the point of &lt;em&gt;having&lt;/em&gt; a bounty: encouraging other people to tackle a tough problem they can't be bothered to answer otherwise. &lt;em&gt;Sweetening the deal&lt;/em&gt;. This is consistent with other features: you can't up-vote your own answers, and you don't get the normal reward for accepting your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, i'm still a bit uncomfortable with the concept of bounties &lt;em&gt;period&lt;/em&gt;. It's dancing very close to the idea of &lt;em&gt;paying people to answer questions&lt;/em&gt;. But there are several factors that stand between them as it stands now: rep has no inherent value, there's no open market for rep, and you must &lt;em&gt;wait two days&lt;/em&gt; to put a bounty on a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh - and you can't retract a bounty or award it back to yourself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't comfortable with this, then just don't use bounties. The system &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; work just fine without them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:17:21.440" />
  <row Id="13491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13432" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:29:04.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; With the advent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/35913#35913&quot;&gt;@-replies for comments&lt;/a&gt;, the following answer is no longer true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, you never were notified when a comment you made somewhere was &quot;answered&quot;, unless it was a comment thread on a question or answer that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I wrote my little comment watcher (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9032/script-for-watching-comment-votes-and-answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T09:49:36.940" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T09:49:36.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13488" CreationDate="2009-08-10T16:44:09.920" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do people who don't know how to play baseball have a tendency to run the wrong direction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: because they are new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably wouldn't hurt to leave a comment on their question and say &quot;hey, if this answered your question, could you please give me the check mark&quot; and see what happens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T16:44:09.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13488" CreationDate="2009-08-10T17:07:34.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, because they're new, like TheTXI said, and might not know about this whole &quot;accepting answers&quot; thing. &lt;em&gt;Or&lt;/em&gt; they just don't care enough for the time being — they got their answer and happily went on with their business without giving much more thought to the site (until they get hit with some other problem, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/14659/1-2-key-on-macosx&quot;&gt;as I've noticed recently&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes this might happen because the question was migrated to another SO family site, but the OP didn't follow there (as you can see from  greyed-out username), for one reason or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T17:07:34.460" />
  <row Id="13494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13474" CreationDate="2009-08-10T17:22:06.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go out on a limb and say that I think this is a good idea, with some caveats...primarily, that the 50 point bonus should be removed, so as to eliminate any desire for people to game the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are making the point that you're spending reputation for higher visibility, that it's a &quot;risk&quot;, and that it shouldn't be refunded.  But we're not talking about a refund.  You spend the rep for the higher visibility.  It's now a sunk cost, and over and done with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, like everyone else who is interested, you do the research on the question, and you manage to come up with the best answer.  Why shouldn't you reap the same benefit as anyone else who answered the question?  The point of the site is to encourage the best answers to good questions.  If the best answer, as voted on by the people who are interested, happens to eventually be posted by the asker, isn't it deserving of the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Shog9 has a point that makes sense: would people spend much time answering bounty questions when the author could just take back the bounty by accepting their own answer?  To that effect, I'd say that that's easily solved by not letting the person not accept their own answer on questions with a bounty (can they do that now? I would think not...)  They could accept any one else's answer.  But if the original author posts their own well thought out answer, and people vote it up enough, it would eventually become auto-accepted.  I don't see that as a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastEditorUserId="131417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T19:40:39.423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:40:39.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13498" CreationDate="2009-08-10T17:43:47.070" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the users page, sort users by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gold badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Silver badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bronze badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Date created (oldest first, of course :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a bonus, this would eliminate any sort of tie (thanks to rule 5), which would provide a stable order. The order wouldn't change when you refresh the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't exactly add much value to the site, I know, but I suggest it because it seems like it shouldn't be hard to do, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T03:58:15.487" Title="Sort users by badges if they have equal reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13495" CreationDate="2009-08-10T17:56:49.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that they are using no metric for ordering &lt;em&gt;beyond&lt;/em&gt; the sort by reputation, it therefore would add overhead to that (minimal I know) but it would be additional coding, and for what gain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of badges are simply to recognize achievements, they are NOT the same as or relevant to reputation. The current sorting method shows that all people with the same reputation are considered equal (as they should be) and they are therefore sorted arbitrarily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, if you are unhappy with your place in the ranks, then you should &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7946/obvious-one-fastest-way-to-get-reputation-on-so&quot;&gt;work to improve it&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T17:56:49.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13495" CreationDate="2009-08-10T17:59:04.030" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily see the point in this. If you want to get rid of a tie...just get another up vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that the user listing can be looked at as a competition, but it doesn't have to be a competition on every single level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, one could make the argument that all badges are not created equal. Do you really think that the gold badge for question over X amount of views is equal in stature to a getting upvoted 100 times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T17:59:04.030" />
  <row Id="13498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13495" CreationDate="2009-08-10T17:59:14.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11861&quot;&gt;already been declined&lt;/a&gt;, sadly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T17:59:14.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13500" CreationDate="2009-08-10T18:09:57.203" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I follow the questions that are tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi&quot;&gt;&quot;delphi&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on stackoverflow.&#xA;Since a few weeks, when te page loads, &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions get the skin-tone-kind-of-pink background, nomatter from which computer I watch or which page of the questions I'm on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did something break? Did I break something? Is there a reset button somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131479" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T18:33:35.363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T18:33:35.363" Title="Why do all questions with a tag get marked?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13499" CreationDate="2009-08-10T18:12:51.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you may have setup the &lt;code&gt;delphi&lt;/code&gt; tag as ignored or perhaps to interesting, but interesting tags show up &quot;highlighted&quot; in yellow on my machine. If you go to your profile -&gt; preferences, you can remove it from the ignored list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, it looks like (I'm assuming you're talking about SO here), it looks like ignored tags end up with a faded look. So I would guess that you've marked the tag as interesting and that's causing the change. I know it wasn't until a few months ago that interesting tags were highlighted when you were browsing that tags specific page, so you would have noticed this change recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T18:21:52.733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T18:21:52.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-20T04:44:44.923" Score="11" ViewCount="1672" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I add a link to a URL containing parentheses &lt;code&gt;()&lt;/code&gt; (or &quot;round brackets&quot; by heathens)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574(VS.85).aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574(VS.85).aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parentheses around &quot;VS.85&quot; causes it to look like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Markdown:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[IHtmlDocument2 reference](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574(VS.85).aspx)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Output renders as&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574%28VS.85%29.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IHtmlDocument2 reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T08:14:27.663" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T08:11:57.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T04:51:27.033" Title="Links to URLs containing parentheses" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="13503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13501" CreationDate="2008-10-20T04:47:21.520" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do it like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;link to [IHtmlDocument2 reference][1]&#xA;&#xA;   [1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574(VS.85).aspx&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, () are parentheses. Braces are {}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-17T23:05:08.647" LastActivityDate="2010-04-17T23:05:08.647" />
  <row Id="13506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13501" CreationDate="2008-10-20T04:48:41.483" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the &amp;lt;a&gt; notation instead of the [ ] notation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752574(VS.85).aspx&quot;&gt;IHtmlDocument2 reference&amp;lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T18:13:35.330" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13501" CreationDate="2008-11-03T11:23:01.220" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many ways to format urls in Markdown. Parentheses work better with some methods than others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Bare             - http://example.com/test(1).html&#xA;2. Bare, encoded    - http://example.com/test%281%29.html&#xA;3. Delimited        - &amp;lt;http://example.com/test(1).html&amp;gt;&#xA;4. Hyperlink        - with &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test(1).html&quot;&amp;gt;parens&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;5. Markdown Link #1 - with [parens][1]&#xA;6. Markdown Link #1 - with [parens at end][2]&#xA;7. Markdown Link #2 - with [parens](http://example.com/test(1).html)&#xA;8. Markdown Link #2 - with [parens at end](http://example.com/test(1))  &#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com/test(1).html&#xA;  [2]: http://example.com/test_(test)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bare             - &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test(1).html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/test(1).html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bare, encoded    - &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test%281%29.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/test%281%29.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delimited        - &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test(1).html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/test(1).html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hyperlink        - with &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test(1).html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Markdown Link #1 - with &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test%281%29.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Markdown Link #1 - with &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test_%28test%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parens at end&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Markdown Link #2 - with &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test%281%29.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Markdown Link #2 - with &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test%281%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parens at end&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that parenthetical sections in &lt;strong&gt;msdn&lt;/strong&gt; links are optional, so: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5471dc8s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5471dc8s&lt;/a&gt;(VS.80).aspx &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could be linked to, instead, as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5471dc8s.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5471dc8s.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001181.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Problem With URLs&lt;/a&gt; for Jeff's blog post about coming up with a solution for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other issues with URLs&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes URLs can fail to link correctly because they contain disallowed characters. In these cases &lt;a href=&quot;http://i-technica.com/whitestuff/urlencodechart.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;encode the characters using the % notation&lt;/a&gt;. Previously characters such as () [] ' and * were not allowed but the server-side Markdown renderer has been modified to accept them now. Currently the only (known) characters that aren't accepted are ones with accents, graves, diaeresis etc. For example: é or ö, although if it's a &lt;strong&gt;wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt; link you can just use the unadorned character. (A suggestion to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/132431-server-side-markdown-renderer-doesn-t-accept-or-in-links&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;have these characters supported&lt;/a&gt; has been made on uservoice.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-14T08:11:57.717" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T08:11:57.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T11:23:01.220" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13511" CreationDate="2009-08-10T18:27:25.343" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get the site logos in printable quality or in vector graphics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digitaljackalnz.deviantart.com/art/omg-why-the-downvotes-109735716&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DeviantArt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7285/how-would-you-design-a-stackoverflow-t-shirt/7308#7308&quot;&gt;Meta Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T19:06:10.010" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:06:10.010" Title="Where can I get higher resolution StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser logos?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13510" CreationDate="2009-08-10T18:29:48.397" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would email the team (Contact Us link at the bottom of the page) and explain why you need them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T18:29:48.397" />
  <row Id="13512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13499" CreationDate="2009-08-10T18:33:30.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They made a change a few weeks ago where questions that carry tags on your interesting list get highlighed even when you're on the page for that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T18:33:30.853" />
  <row Id="13515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13510" CreationDate="2009-08-10T18:45:56.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there are always the originals from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://99designs.com/contests/6774/entries/251&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://99designs.com/contests/20088/entries/184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crowdspring.com/projects/graphic%5Fdesign/logo/logo%5Ffor%5Fsuperuser%5Fcom/gallery/6%5F%5F1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt; logo competitions.  I don't know if anyone but the original logo creators have a higher-res version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T18:45:56.837" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T19:08:49.957" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/762/latency-of-the-red-envelope&quot;&gt;Latency of the red envelope?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you guys noticed that the envelope only shows your news messages after go to another part of the website (I. E. any question or your account), but not right away in the home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not much of a question, just an observation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:10:40.187" ClosedDate="2009-08-10T19:52:41.320" Title="New messages only showed after a few clicks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13474" CreationDate="2009-08-10T19:50:24.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You spend your own points to entice people to answer your question in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are allowed 'Take Backs' then you have essentially lied to everyone who spent time to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By putting up a bounty you are saying &quot;&lt;strong&gt;I will give &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; rep to the best answer&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. The money's on the table. It's not yours to take back anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132790" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:50:24.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T19:54:55.387" Score="-1" ViewCount="535" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder why some of the top answerers (&gt; 1000 answers) on SO have so few questions (&amp;lt; 100 questions). Has anyone ever caught them using multiple accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="48465" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T03:37:06.043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T03:37:06.043" Title="Do the top answerers have secondary accounts to post questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vampire&gt;&lt;conspiracy-theory&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="32" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7860" CreationDate="2009-08-10T19:54:56.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who you are on SO &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a version of how you will be IRL - I expect to be judged accordingly if a prospective employer happens to look at my profile/history (as should everyone publishing anything to the net). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they have a problem with something in my SO footprint, well I'd have a problem working for them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:54:56.290" />
  <row Id="13532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T19:59:14.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user has nothing to gain from asking questions on separate accounts from the answering ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any serious gaming of the system will be automatically detected and shutdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if a user chooses to ask questions on one account and answer them on another, there is no reason why this should be disallowed. (unless they are gaming the system)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, think about this:  &lt;strong&gt;If they have all of the answers to everyone else's questions, why do they need to ask their own?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T19:59:14.207" />
  <row Id="13533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T20:01:01.850" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking I would say because they know more and need help on less. Additionally, I would anticipate that the people who can answer many questions, can do so because they've become adept at learning quickly, and therefore do not need to ask questions as frequently to learn more. And finally, it may simply be a matter of choice, that they're choosing to be involved in the site via answering rather than asking. I expect you would find a similar trend in the reverse, that people who have asked a lot of questions, have answered relatively few. Regardless, I definitely do not believe this suggests they're using a separate account to ask questions from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T20:01:01.850" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T20:11:46.180" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the people who try to use multiple accounts on this system are too stupid to be good at it and get a decent sized rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T20:11:46.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T20:16:32.940" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Indeed, this is the &lt;em&gt;dirty little secret of SO&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you're well aware, the question/answer ratio for human beings is fixed at 283/7. It is &lt;em&gt;physically impossible&lt;/em&gt; for anyone to answer more than seven questions without having first asked at least 283. Therefore, any user with a smaller ratio is undoubtedly maintaining one, if not several, shadow accounts used only to &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; questions and thereby maintain their obscenely unnatural Q/A ratios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception to this is Jon Skeet, who is not human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T20:16:32.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19584" CreationDate="2009-08-10T20:31:39.227" Score="6" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps my expectation is incorrect, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;search tips&lt;/a&gt; page makes it seem as if searching for a phrase delimited by quotes will return results that match the exact phrase &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Again perhaps this is just a matter of bad expectations, probably set by the way Google would treat this input, because reading the search tips page for a second time I noticed that it doesn't state that it will search for the &lt;strong&gt;exact&lt;/strong&gt; phrase only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I'm interested in checking to see if there are any SO posts on the Apache library &quot;commons-chain&quot;, so I search for a few of these variations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[java] commons-chain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[java] &quot;commons-chain&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;commons-chain&quot;`&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With each of the search terms, it seems as if articles are returned not because they match the exact phrase &quot;commons-chain&quot; but because they match either &quot;commons&quot; or &quot;chain&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the presence of the hyphen in the URL to the search is throwing things off? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22commons-chain%22&amp;amp;sitesearch=stackoverflow.com/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google shows the exact type of search results&lt;/a&gt; I would expect for search terms like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, not sure if this truly counts as a bug since it could just be incorrect expectations on my part - but if this is not the designed behavior, I would certainly vote for a feature change to &lt;em&gt;make&lt;/em&gt; this the designed behavior when searching with quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T08:24:58.470" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:30:54.830" Title="Searching for exact phrase seems broken" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;exact-phrase&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="13537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T20:45:15.457" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can guarantee you that even with my ♦ powers, I have never caught myself using a ghost account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T20:45:15.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T20:54:36.403" Score="-3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search box took me too long to find. Granted, it is located in the upper-right corner of the page, which is a common location. However, the search box border is too light for me to easily see it out of my periphery. I think the border should be darker so you can see and be aware of it even if you don't need it yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133410" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T06:00:02.790" Title="Search box took too long to find" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T20:57:24.713" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they'd been caught, they'd no longer be secret accounts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, when I need to ask questions, I do so. I just don't need to very often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T20:57:24.713" />
  <row Id="13540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:00:20.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be hard to miss if you found the &lt;code&gt;Ask Question&lt;/code&gt; button. Additionally, attempting to ask a question for the first time I believe prompts you about searching first, and I know when you type in the title for your question, it brings up a search. More simply put, I believe there are a lot of tools in place to help keep you from asking before searching, so I'm not sure there's a reason to make the search box any more obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:00:20.420" />
  <row Id="13541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13544" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:07:07.893" Score="9" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frequently I see a question that I think I've answered before but I'm not really sure.  This happens when searching for duplicates and when viewing questions that come up in searches.  If my answer isn't in the top 2-3, it may take awhile to determine whether the question is the one I'm thinking of. Obviously, if I'm looking for one I know I've answered and my answer isn't there, the question is the one I was looking for.  I've answered enough questions now that searching through my answers is not a realistic option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that end, I'd like some indicator, perhaps located under the &quot;favorite star&quot; to show me when I've already answered a question.  This would be especially useful on questions that have lots of answers, but it would also be a quick indicator as to whether or not I have an answer on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-10T18:35:12.677" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T18:35:12.677" Title="Show me whether I've answered a question or not" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;indication&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:12:07.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be fair, my monitor at work sucks and makes items blend together if they don't have a high contrast in color between them.  The border around the search box is pretty dim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I were looking for it, I would have no trouble finding it, and failing that, there's always the trusty &quot;find in page&quot; function on every browser out there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not support this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:12:07.930" />
  <row Id="13543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13541" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:12:27.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will have an answer composition box at the bottom of the page, unless you have already answered the question, or you were the person asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you asked the question, it will have a box that asks if you want to answer your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have already answered the question, it will instead ask you if you want to add another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; won't show you any of these, if the question has been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:12:27.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13541" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:12:55.697" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick fix: scroll to the bottom of the page. If you don't see the answer composition box, instead replaced by &quot;Add another answer&quot;, you've already answered the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qnfIA.png&quot; alt=&quot;add another answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this information is already available, albeit at the bottom of the page, it's only a matter of time before someone Greasemonkeys up an indicator for the top of the page. I do agree, however, that this would be useful as a built-in feature, especially when you're looking at search results and not the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:16:23.080" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:16:23.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:17:22.460" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a link to the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;search instruction page&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, but I can't seem to find one on StackOverflow itself.  I looked at the FAQ and About links with no luck.  I would have expected a little question mark next to the search box with a handy hover effect to show me that's how I get to the search instructions.  Am I just missing it or do I really have to remember (tag/bookmark/...) it?  If there isn't one, perhaps one could be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T21:32:02.960" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T14:33:05.297" Title="Is there a link to the search instructions on the site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:19:12.690" Score="8" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/53585/how-do-favorite-questions-work&quot;&gt;How do favorite questions work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I look a question that interests me, but I don't have the answer or would like to follow up later. Normally I just bookmark it, which then ends up in a big pile.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It would be great if there was a way to put a question in follow up, that I could later check my profile and get updates on the things I follow up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T23:09:06.557" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T23:09:06.557" ClosedDate="2011-08-18T00:01:36.013" Title="Please allow me to follow questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:21:15.400" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't use any secret accounts for asking questions.  One primary reason is that it's better for me rep wise to ask questions than to use a secret account.  Secret accounts don't have any rep benefit :).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask few questions because I primarily use StackOverflow.com as a distraction tool.  Whenever I'm waiting for a build, running suites, or I just need to let my mind wander I head over to stackoverflow.com.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do actually ask lots of questions (how else do you learn?).  But due to Visual Studios current place in the release cycle most of my day to day issues are dealing with my day job working on Visual Studio.  Typically about strange component interactions, old and new API issues, performance etc ...  These are answered quickest by emailing various teams or digging through source control and bug logs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:21:15.400" />
  <row Id="13548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:22:11.933" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proposed change to SO to eliminate this problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/so%20proposed.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:22:11.933" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="13549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:24:55.487" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to get and RSS feed for either/both questions and answers that earn a badge, filter by tag if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, all &quot;nice answer&quot; winning answers in questions with the tag &quot;java&quot; or all &quot;great questions&quot; tagged &quot;ruby&quot; and &quot;metaprogramming&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also be accomplished by allowing searching for the posts with the most votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13753" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T02:32:22.043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T03:00:03.837" Title="rss feed for questions and answers that earn badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13546" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:25:03.987" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just use the RSS feed at the bottom of the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this using Google Reader and it is incredibly simple and powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the favorite feature below the voting system, that will show up in your profile, but it will not alert you to changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:25:03.987" />
  <row Id="13551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13546" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:25:13.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried favoriting it by clicking the star below the votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:25:13.083" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13549" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:27:07.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has said that the goal is to not make it readily apparent how a particular badge was earned, so you'll have a tough road to plow in convincing him, I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:27:07.243" />
  <row Id="13553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:29:37.723" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Yes they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:29:37.723" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13545" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:44:47.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a link on the sidebar of a searched page if it turns up limited results. It doesn't seem to appear if there are a lot of results for your query.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9016/picture16dfh.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:44:47.660" />
  <row Id="13556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13530" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:48:28.950" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; my secret account.  Have I been doing it wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:48:28.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13546" CreationDate="2009-08-10T21:58:13.280" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directly underneath the voting arrows on the question is a star.  If you click on the star, it will add it to your favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view your favorites from your profile:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/######?tab=favorites#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/######?tab=favorites#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some interesting grease monkey scripts here on META too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T21:58:13.280" />
  <row Id="13558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13563" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:04:53.033" Score="1" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13047/favorite-programming-cartoon-question-is-not-meta&quot;&gt;Favorite Programming Cartoon question — is not meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What non-programming hobbies do you have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One unique hobby per answer please. Preferably a non-engineering (no math, physics, or looking at SO every 5 min, etc) hobby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T01:32:18.507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T02:42:59.373" ClosedDate="2009-08-11T02:31:24.743" Title="What non-programming hobbies do you have?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="13559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:06:55.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bilbo Baggins .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I read science-fiction and mystery novels.  I also write a blog, but it's a programming (mostly) blog, so it probably doesn't count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T22:16:39.093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:16:39.093" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:07:25.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frodo Whatshisface&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh...HOBBIES! Wow, how silly. My hobby is posting humorous tripe with plenty of references to ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T22:15:27.723" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:15:27.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13546" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:12:12.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you perhaps wants something like a sign-up for a question, to perhaps a receive an e-mail with updates? I think it would be a cool feature...well, meantime, you can, as others pointed out, rss or favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:12:12.753" />
  <row Id="13562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:13:44.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Codo Propertybaggins&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aww, you changed it.  It was a way better question before. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Games:  Chess, poker, video, American Football.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:13:44.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:21:56.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a Methodist local preacher. If you want to know more, look on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://skeetfaith.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;faith blog&lt;/a&gt; (sadly underused) and my page of &lt;a href=&quot;http://pobox.com/~skeet/preaching&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sermons, hymns and sketches&lt;/a&gt;. (I've kept the hymns fairly up to date, but I mostly preach from notes these days, hence the lack of recent sermons.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dread to think what would happen on a FaithOverflow StackExchange website...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other hobbies and general non-computer-related uses of time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drama, though I don't have enough time for it at the moment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Board games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being a governor for my local nursery school&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kids. Not a hobby as such, but our three kids suck up my time...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:21:56.587" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:27:28.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brewing beer in various English and American styles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131089" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:27:28.463" />
  <row Id="13565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:39:15.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pinball machines and arcade games (I have two pins and two cocktail table arcade machines right now. More will come.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:39:15.087" />
  <row Id="13566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:39:40.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading about military/political history, particularly WWII and Soviet era Russian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:39:40.687" />
  <row Id="13567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:41:49.560" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favourite hobbit is Sam -- being the only major character in the whole book who's not a noble.  And apparently Tolkien considered him the true hero of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(well, maybe Gimli isn't noble, but he's still descended from Durin)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the other world, I play ultimate frisbee.  Except not now 'cause I broke my wrist a few weeks ago..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:41:49.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T22:51:23.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably doesn't help the geek aspect, but I'm into Collectible Card Games. I started out as in Yu-Gi-Oh, and did a lot of judging back in the day, but sadly I moved and the community wasn't there in my new location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently a buddy of mine got me into L5R and we have about 6 guys that get together around once a week to enjoy a good game or two. Maybe down the road I'll get into another one or so, but I tend to get a little obsessive about figuring out strategies and the like that I'll stick with one for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly enough the interest in CCGs went back into programming as well as I wrote and maintain a couple of programs to support my CCG needs. 8^D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T22:51:23.440" />
  <row Id="13570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:01:01.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robots. Computer Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:01:01.923" />
  <row Id="13571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13545" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:02:26.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also enter nothing in the search box and just press &lt;kbd&gt;enter&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The faq does contain a section on search now, at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-08T14:33:05.297" LastActivityDate="2011-08-08T14:33:05.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:01:45.203" Score="-5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I just wish things were a little more organized, maybe with topics and sub topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T23:10:13.277" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:31:51.270" Title="Can we please have topics and sub topics on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13573" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:03:20.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chaos is very natural to all programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:04:31.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13573" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:05:46.920" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags work very nicely IMHO - no need for a hierarchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:05:46.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13573" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:07:05.497" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;b&gt;Tags&lt;/b&gt; (n). Far more robust than a tree model and at the same time, shock and surprise, far easier to map to a natural human mental model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: here's a more detailed answer. I work for a large enterprise (more than 100k employees) and one of my responsibilities has been to craft an &quot;enterprise-2.0&quot; collaboration strategy. After an &lt;em&gt;exhaustive&lt;/em&gt; audit, analysis and discussion with anyone who has been involved in anything collaboration-related over the past decade in my organization, one of the &lt;em&gt;most obvious&lt;/em&gt; conclusions is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any information taxonomy that does not arise organically from the content which is being created &lt;em&gt;will fail&lt;/em&gt;. Miserably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second: our brains &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; work in hierarchies. The human brain does not like to organize things into strict trees. Our brain looks more like a giant mess of index cards connected to a number of other cards by string. This maps very closely to tags. A great real-world example of this is iTunes. Every music library in the world was, by most measures, a failure because no one thinks in trees. Organizing music into artist subfolder album takes discipline and is unpleasant because it's &lt;em&gt;unnatural&lt;/em&gt;. Programmers are a little better at it because we do have to think in trees. The bad thing is, we think in trees so often we start to believe that's normal, when it's actually a discipline we've had to learn and nature we've had to overcome. iTunes dumps everything into a bucket and lets us slice it down how we want to at a given moment - our brain follows the right thread to the right index card. Find by title or album or artist or genre or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This where search comes in. Tagging and search are &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; how we now find things. Yahoo! doesn't maintain their stupid directory any more because no one uses it. We type what we want into a box and we get that. Browsing is a thing of the past, unless you want to do it for your leisure - which is not what Stackoverflow is here for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging is proven to be the best solution to self-organize and crowdsource content. If you have a better idea, describe it in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T23:24:35.883" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:24:35.883" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13573" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:09:17.850" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already enough programming-related forums around. They actually seem much less organized to me. What do I do if my question belongs in multiple categories, repost the same question in multiple sub-forums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO is great precisely because it allows for more natural categorization of everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:09:17.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:16:13.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I run 7 miles in the mountains with temps above 100 and no water bottle. Does it qualify as a hobby?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, yeah - I also play guitar and drink liquor (moderately) &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/2bb4b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://is.gd/2bb4b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132421" LastEditorUserId="132421" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T02:42:59.373" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T02:42:59.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:22:22.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I go out drinking alot if that counts as a hobby.. lol&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148166" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:22:22.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:24:56.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anime, collecting and watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:24:56.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:27:28.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boardgamegeek.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Board games&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:27:28.873" />
  <row Id="13584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:29:30.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flying small planes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/novatrust/2083577105/in/photostream/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2229/2083577105_b569acb7d1.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diving,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/novatrust/2530618665/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2038/2530618665_8cdd36de7f.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Photography,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/novatrust/2424607870/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/2424607870_84f8ef1464.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hiking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/novatrust/1202544531/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1304/1202544531_d6124adedc.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and (of course) playing with technology:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/novatrust/1492685544/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2417/1492685544_254d90fccb.jpg&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132648" LastEditorUserId="132648" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-10T23:44:43.270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:44:43.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:29:49.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poker. Quite a lot of poker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:29:49.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:30:29.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Languages (ranging from the real and potentially useful (Japanese), to the rather opposite end of the spectrum (Quenya/Sindarin))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:30:29.600" />
  <row Id="13587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13598" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:33:09.987" Score="6" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the latest blog post, Jeff has revealed that he's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/coming-soon-trilogy-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;making some stickers&lt;/a&gt; for the SO family sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As mentioned on the podcast, we’re working on Stack Overflow Trilogy stickers. I just placed the order with websticker, in fact, and here are the proofs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-sticker-proof.png&quot; alt=&quot;sosticker&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/serverfault-sticker-proof.png&quot; alt=&quot;sfsticker&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/superuser-sticker-proof.png&quot; alt=&quot;susticker&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And because we fully support members of our League of (web) Justice, I ordered some for our fellow league member, How-To Geek, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/howtogeek-sticker-proof.png&quot; alt=&quot;htgsticker&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(all stickers are 4 1/2″ wide, custom die cut white vinyl, and printed in full color)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These will of course be given out at Stack Overflow Dev Days, and in other ways that we haven’t quite figured out completely yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one family site that's been &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/coming-soon-trilogy-stickers/#comment-30583&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;callously (and intentionally) omitted&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just to upstage the inevitable request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, we won’t be making meta.stackoverflow.com stickers. If you need one of those, just take a stackoverflow.com sticker, hit your head on the desk until you see things in greyscale (and optionally, until your head is bleeding a crimson color) and there you have it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So the word is no.&lt;/strong&gt; Why does Meta get the short end of the stick(er)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, Meta has always been the red-headed stepchild of the sites, but being excluded from the stickers feels like we've been disowned. &lt;strong&gt;How can we get Jeff to love us again?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What can we do to change his mind?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T00:33:20.520" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T00:33:20.520" Title="We need a Meta sticker" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stickers&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:33:47.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;RPG game playing and collecting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:33:47.037" />
  <row Id="13589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:38:04.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought SuperUser was the red-headed step child. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I want a sticker for Meta, and there better be a pony in there somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as changing his mind, pitchforks and IcyHot in his tightie-whities should do the trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:38:04.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:38:54.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would we need a sticker for the meta site? The meta site is a child of the other sites and would not exist otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need a MSO sticker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if your goal is to bribe Jeff, I bet &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/3229094658&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doughnuts&lt;/a&gt; and pizza would work well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:38:54.747" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13625" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:52:23.723" Score="21" ViewCount="611" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those not familiar with Cornify: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/704353/the-fancy-and-amazing-april-fools-question&quot;&gt;StackOverflow April Fools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe that the option to completely cornify our screen is a God/Allah/Buddha/FSM/Sarah Palin given right and that achieving 10K rep should be seen as a milestone worthy of some actual celebration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, really...all we get is the ability to see spam and offensive flags? We get the ability to vote to delete and undelete? &lt;strong&gt;LAME&lt;/strong&gt;. There is no real reward in any of that. The only reward you get is the self high-five or the congratulatory self back-pat, and for those of us with low self esteem, that just isn't enough. We need the sparkles and the magical beauty of unicorns to say &quot;YOU DID IT! CONGRATS!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't going to bother non-pony lovers (those infidels!) since the cornification will only show up on your own screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Join me brothers and sisters (even though we know there are no females on the internet) and let's bring back the Cornify!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T13:34:23.480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T23:04:00.297" Title="10K rep users should have the Cornify button back" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:58:44.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Swimming, on my own and with a Masters group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:58:44.350" />
  <row Id="13594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-10T23:59:03.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Meta&lt;/strong&gt; sticker is back at the shop talking with the stickers for &lt;strong&gt;Palin 2012&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Gore for Re-election&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Gordon Brown - You've Chosen&lt;/strong&gt; about the best adhesive solution, most ideal placement, backing, the smell you get when you lay down a fresh sticker and other pertinent gossip in the world of wearing it on a sleeve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-10T23:59:03.427" />
  <row Id="13595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13592" CreationDate="2009-08-11T00:01:31.130" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's great to be able to Cornify your &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; copy, I think the real joy comes in sharing the Cornification with others. That's why I propose introducing a &quot;vote to Cornify&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11673/what-do-you-dislike-with-stackoverflow/11704#11704&quot;&gt;proposed earlier here&lt;/a&gt;) whereby 10k (or some similar, high rep) users can vote to Cornify or Uncornify the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T00:01:31.130" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-11T00:03:09.223" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rvenables.com/linkjackandsufferaccidentaldroptable/MetaSticker.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the uninitiated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132648" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T00:03:09.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-11T00:17:13.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  I consider it somewhat insulting to deliberately alienate and belittle users who make a good-faith effort to improve Stackoverflow through bug-reporting and tracking, retagging, and feature-requests.  I know the signal-to-noise ratio is low; but the entire attitude to meta has been one of &quot;No, no no, never&quot;, &quot;Okay, I see we need it.&quot;, &quot;Oh my god I hate meta I wish it never existed.&quot;.  It doesn't make sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the big logical argument against is that it costs money -  $1K a pop for a run of stickers (and $500 for How-to) by my guesstimates.  And there's no &quot;return on investment&quot; for Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T00:22:14.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T00:22:14.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-11T00:25:53.157" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously? &lt;strong&gt;The meta sticker IS the Stack Overflow sticker -- it's all of them!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since meta applies to all family sites, it's the same as getting every sticker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't have vectors for the meta logo (or the font), just a bitmap I hacked up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;these stickers are not cheap to make, and the 'setup' costs are quite high, meaning we either make 10,000 of them or we plan to make a lot more in the future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not convinced there would be any real demand for the meta sticker over time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: okay then -- we'll have 50. I'll let you guys fight to the death, Thunderdome style, over who gets the honors..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/5720/metastickerspng.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: wow, CafePress is fast. This order already shipped. I should have them this week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T05:16:08.717" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T05:16:08.717" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="13600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12766" CreationDate="2009-08-11T00:56:33.670" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff says this is completed, so I'm going to mark it as answered. I wanted Jeff to post something, but instead I'll accept this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T00:56:33.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13573" CreationDate="2009-08-11T01:10:31.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No hierarchies....  That's one thing that drove me to drink after a couple of weeks (hours) at Experts-ex.......  God I hate drilling down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T01:10:31.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13558" CreationDate="2009-08-11T01:17:00.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Music.  Writing songs, playing songs, listening to songs, studying music.  Leading worship at church with music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My kids, although it's a pretty freakin' expensive hobby to get into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wood carving, even though I don't have much to show for my efforts yet beyond a couple of ER bills from attempting to cut my fingers off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T01:17:00.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-11T01:51:10.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13573" CreationDate="2009-08-11T01:24:56.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subtopics might do well to lump close/repeated questions into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T01:24:56.830" />
  <row Id="13607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13669" CreationDate="2009-08-11T01:37:33.633" Score="6" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What makes a bad user?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they users that ask six times the number of questions than answers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;Questions&amp;nbsp;Answers&amp;nbsp;Upvotes&amp;nbsp;Downvotes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;*****          8317       465       24      776     18        &#xA;*****          5767       311       29      528     34        &#xA;*****          4844       226       14      465     135       &#xA;*****          4546       310       1       439     62        &#xA;*****          4359       371       32      452     68        &#xA;*****          4350       416       21      395     71        &#xA;*****          4193       555       74      487     112       &#xA;*****          3230       94        12      201     33        &#xA;*****          3187       92        11      331     8         &#xA;*****          2084       79        6       184     14        &#xA;*****          1973       263       1       175     8         &#xA;*****          1944       174       12      170     7         &#xA;*****          1929       160       24      216     31        &#xA;*****          1901       53        3       163     10        &#xA;*****          1771       145       16      182     23        &#xA;*****          1742       56        8       180     10        &#xA;*****          1550       50        5       138     6         &#xA;*****          1534       56        2       127     2         &#xA;*****          1514       143       0       256     7         &#xA;*****          1513       83        5       141     36        &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps users that are downvoted 50% or more times than they are upvoted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;Questions&amp;nbsp;Answers&amp;nbsp;Upvotes&amp;nbsp;Downvotes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;*****           1606       6         187     173     110       &#xA;*****           1500       214       1       152     78        &#xA;*****           1342       4         53      135     76        &#xA;*****           1056       124       0       119     75        &#xA;*****           918        64        0       109     113       &#xA;*****           911        181       1       99      62        &#xA;*****           842        43        24      80      53        &#xA;*****           746        44        34      53      55        &#xA;*****           695        116       7       75      56        &#xA;*****           670        12        96      124     142       &#xA;*****           644        50        3       35      19        &#xA;*****           638        36        0       74      75        &#xA;*****           606        21        12      52      36        &#xA;*****           585        116       7       40      22        &#xA;*****           550        2         46      65      35        &#xA;*****           520        0         71      51      29        &#xA;*****           516        8         29      30      24        &#xA;*****           479        23        29      46      34        &#xA;*****           439        30        0       59      46        &#xA;*****           422        1         31      31      16        &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of behaviors do we not want to reward with high rep? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI: I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com/165544&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spShog9&lt;/a&gt; to celebrate shog9s awesome formatting and wanted to showcase it a bit. I also wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com/165561&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this view&lt;/a&gt; to make the queries a bit easier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SQL: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 20 * &#xA;into #t&#xA;from UserTotals&#xA;where Questions &amp;gt; Answers * 6&#xA;order by Reputation desc &#xA;&#xA;exec spShog9&#xA;&#xA;drop table #t&#xA;&#xA;go&#xA;&#xA;select top 20 * &#xA;into #t&#xA;from UserTotals&#xA;where Downvotes &amp;gt; Upvotes * 0.5&#xA;order by Reputation desc &#xA;&#xA;exec spShog9&#xA;&#xA;drop table #t&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T12:32:31.973" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:32:31.973" Title="What makes a bad User?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="13609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13607" CreationDate="2009-08-11T01:51:08.967" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've no problem with people who ask prolifically but don't answer. This site is Q&amp;amp;A after all, and I don't ask any Q, so I can only hope that somebody else does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do have a problem with, by and large, are people that never learn through their prolific posting (answers or questions), and continue to make the same mistakes and spam the ever-living hell out of the site. If you've seen my comments on some of these, they generally include some version of, &quot;AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.&quot; I'll also include what they can do to fix it (or what they did wrong), so I'm not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; yelling at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bigger issue, methinks, are sympathetic upvotes, and upvoting without thinking. I know that a recalc/recalibration is planned, but IMO, it can't come soon enough for some of the folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'm not for publicly shaming anybody outside of their own doings, so I'll leave my comments vague and generalized. However, I will continue my campaign of &quot;AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.&quot; It's rather liberating to hit that &lt;kbd&gt;Billy Mays&lt;/kbd&gt; key, sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T01:51:08.967" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="13611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T02:12:02.667" Score="18" ViewCount="922" Body="&lt;p&gt;High rep users (users with more than 10K) seem to answer &lt;strong&gt;25&lt;/strong&gt; questions for every question they ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many high rep users &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; even asked a non-community wiki question on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The global average is &lt;strong&gt;3.7&lt;/strong&gt; questions answered for every questions asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason high rep users are so worried about asking questions on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they really already know everything? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't asking more high quality questions improve the quality on SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those interested here is spShog9 of the list: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;Questions&amp;nbsp;Answers&amp;nbsp;Ratio&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2635&quot;&gt;Simucal&lt;/a&gt;                   15927      77        138     1.79     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/572&quot;&gt;Thomas Owens&lt;/a&gt;              15797      208       387     1.86     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2147&quot;&gt;Jason Baker&lt;/a&gt;               20342      161       453     2.81     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15124&quot;&gt;Robert Gould&lt;/a&gt;              14269      159       457     2.87     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3153&quot;&gt;Brian R. 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                   11546      1         295     295.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/66692&quot;&gt;dirkgently&lt;/a&gt;                16986      3         964     321.33   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/60711&quot;&gt;vartec&lt;/a&gt;                    11908      2         673     336.50   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/28169&quot;&gt;unwind&lt;/a&gt;                    17836      2         713     356.50   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34509&quot;&gt;litb&lt;/a&gt;                      42087      3         1070    356.67   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/811&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;                     20086      1         369     369.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/75170&quot;&gt;John Feminella&lt;/a&gt;            12766      1         380     380.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;                 83824      11        4657    423.36   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;             21909      3         1308    436.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3937&quot;&gt;Lou Franco&lt;/a&gt;                10797      1         448     448.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33708&quot;&gt;Mehrdad&lt;/a&gt;                   40123      3         1403    467.67   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/740&quot;&gt;SQLMenace&lt;/a&gt;                 11245      1         528     528.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/93623&quot;&gt;Fredrik Mörk&lt;/a&gt;              11606      1         589     589.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47773&quot;&gt;Matthew Flaschen&lt;/a&gt;          10008      1         592     592.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt;             21627      3         1941    647.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16076&quot;&gt;Mitch Wheat&lt;/a&gt;               31407      2         1306    653.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23283&quot;&gt;JaredPar&lt;/a&gt;                  48047      3         1979    659.67   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12711&quot;&gt;Michael Burr&lt;/a&gt;              25687      1         766     766.00   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69083&quot;&gt;Guffa&lt;/a&gt;                     16651      0         724     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/50742&quot;&gt;Chuck&lt;/a&gt;                     11722      0         366     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936&quot;&gt;bobince&lt;/a&gt;                   17794      0         792     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12960&quot;&gt;Brian Agnew&lt;/a&gt;               15224      0         721     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6491&quot;&gt;gimel&lt;/a&gt;                     10092      0         451     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55943&quot;&gt;mquander&lt;/a&gt;                  10526      0         290     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/86473&quot;&gt;JP&lt;/a&gt;                        13982      0         847     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/19299&quot;&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt;                     14408      0         450     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5445&quot;&gt;CMS&lt;/a&gt;                       31308      0         993     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4727&quot;&gt;Leon Timmermans&lt;/a&gt;           11732      0         231     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40342&quot;&gt;Joachim Sauer&lt;/a&gt;             10318      0         317     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/67132&quot;&gt;Michael&lt;/a&gt;                   11213      0         291     99999.00 &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T12:16:16.593" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T20:25:19.623" Title="Why don't high rep users ask questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T02:22:55.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a &quot;high-rep user&quot; by any definition, but in the case of SuperUser, I've answered 24 questions and asked 0 - because I haven't had any questions to ask!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as StackOverflow... I can't imagine a question Jon Skeet would have that &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt;, as a junior programmer, could answer. In his case, he's literally written the book on the subject. I think his questions are probably left to the designers of C# 4.0...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T02:22:55.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T02:35:56.217" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I suggest that the ability to answer &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of questions fast and well is correlated with having:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a large number of relevant facts on tap&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;good problem solving skills&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which adds up having relatively few questions and often being able to deduce or find the answer to their own questions faster than they could get it by asking on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's not that high rep users don't ask questions, it's that people who don't feel the need to ask many questions can accumulate a lot of rep if they participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: at not much more than a deciskeet, I am not at all sure that I should be characterized as &quot;high rep&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T02:42:33.303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T02:42:33.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T02:36:50.350" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I've yet to crack the 10k threshold of rep, I still have a reasonable amount. And, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95589/well-aint-that-special&quot;&gt;I've never asked a question&lt;/a&gt; on SO. So those are my qualifications. Yay me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I just don't think about asking questions. I'm used to finding an answer to a problem quickly (be it on SO or some other place), and I just don't think about doing the old ask-myself-a-question deal. I answer questions while I'm processing a cube or waiting for a query to run, so by and large, I'm not really in a question-askin' mood when browsing SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I work with really, really bright people. They tend to point me in the right direction on difficult problems more than not. So, that conversation happens offline, completely away from the realm of SO. Therefore, I'm not thinking about it when I'm on SO, and so I don't post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly suspect that one of these days I'll come across a problem that I can't get answered with my usual begging, pleading, and Googling. On that day, I'll ask a question. Until then, I'll keep answering when I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T02:36:50.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T02:43:16.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loosely stay in touch with SO (although I'd like to be much more active there... sigh... one day) and SU, but am currently high on the SF list with about a 11:1 answer:question ratio (not claiming high-rep yet).  I personally don't have many questions to ask about the sysadmin topics I work with that I can't find answers to quickly by Googling, and many of the questions I've asked were done to build up the SF repo during beta (which I still consider a noble cause and maybe something that high rep users should still do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T02:43:16.923" />
  <row Id="13620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T03:00:02.153" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably the least important bug there could possibly be, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tools/recently-deleted&quot;&gt;recently deleted&lt;/a&gt; page will show answers of a question with no owner of the deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/delete-bug.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T01:33:57.173" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T01:33:57.173" Title="Answers of a Deleted Question Have no Deletion-Owner" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;recently-deleted&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13451" CreationDate="2009-08-11T03:47:34.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed and will be in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll refactor that a bit later to follow the same convention that minimum length checks use: disable the submit button if validation isn't met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T03:47:34.680" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13495" CreationDate="2009-08-11T03:58:15.487" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, this borders on CDO (OCD in alphabetic order).  Seems overkill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T03:58:15.487" />
  <row Id="13624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13626" CreationDate="2009-08-11T04:16:21.720" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I search in stackoverflow using Google? Is there any keywords for searching in SO using google? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T04:55:29.350" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T04:55:29.350" Title="Search Stackoverflow questions using Google" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13592" CreationDate="2009-08-11T04:16:31.080" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GreaseMonkey script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;        if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;        } else { &#xA;            $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;        if ($(&quot;#hlinks span.reputation-score&quot;).text().length &amp;gt; 5 || $(&quot;#hlinks span.mod-flair&quot;).text() == &quot;♦&quot;)&#xA;        {&#xA;                $(&quot;head&quot;).append(&quot;&amp;lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;                $(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.cornify.com' &amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;                    .append(&quot;&amp;lt;img src='http://www.cornify.com/assets/cornify.gif' style='vertical-align:top' alt='Cornify' /&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;                    .appendTo(&quot;.post-menu&quot;)&#xA;                    .click(function() {&#xA;                        $(this).closest(&quot;table&quot;).find(&quot;td:gt(0) img&quot;).attr(&quot;src&quot;, function() { return this.src.replace(/www\.gravatar\.com/, &quot;unicornify.appspot.com&quot;); });&#xA;                        cornify_add();&#xA;                        return false;&#xA;                    })&#xA;                    .before(&quot;&amp;lt;span class='lsep'&amp;gt;|&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&quot;);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Now should only function if you have greater than 10k rep as per requirements. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: Didn't realise the format of the rep at the top of the page was 12,345 rather than 12.3k. Should work now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3&lt;/strong&gt;: I've added &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;balpha's spectacular unicorn gravatars&lt;/a&gt; to the script, since I think they fit nicely (each cornify link only unicornifies the gravatars for that post/question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also fixed for people with over 100k rep (since I'm positive that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; both cried themselves to sleep at night once they hit 100k &amp;amp; their cornify button stopped working).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I can't actually test either of the changes properly, since my work is blocking appspot &amp;amp; I don't have 100k+ rep... so if anyone sees any problems let me know (or just edit the script directly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:52:28.483" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:52:28.483" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13624" CreationDate="2009-08-11T04:18:08.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;question text site:stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That gets you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMI%5FenUS291US303&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=question+text+site:stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T04:18:08.207" />
  <row Id="13631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13624" CreationDate="2009-08-11T04:54:13.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=018205968162215846785:7n6ajnwyz-i&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this custom search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T04:54:13.563" />
  <row Id="13632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10248" CreationDate="2009-08-11T04:56:48.927" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;how's this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6868/image17i.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T04:56:48.927" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13636" CreationDate="2009-08-11T05:02:10.070" Score="1" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6428/is-so-sf-su-search-not-good-or-am-i-using-it-wrong&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff links to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22elephant+muscles%22&quot;&gt;MSO search for &quot;elephant muscles&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  It returns two* questions: the post itself, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13558/what-non-programming-hobbies-do-you-have-closed&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt; on people's hobbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter result has no occurance of either &quot;elephant&quot; or &quot;muscles&quot;.  So why does the search return it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) well, I guess there will be three results now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T23:43:37.050" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T23:44:09.077" Title="Why does searching for &quot;elephant muscles&quot; return a post on hobbies with neither word present?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13633" CreationDate="2009-08-11T05:13:50.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;there is a deleted answer that contains the word &quot;muscles&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we were only testing for deleted parents (questions) not deleted children (answers). fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T23:44:09.077" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T23:44:09.077" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T05:15:25.363" Score="0" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are editing a question and decide to close the tab/window/whatever, SO opens up a dialog box asking you if you are sure. The buttons for this dialog are &quot;OK&quot; and &quot;Cancel&quot;. However, what these map to is not entirely obvious. It would make more sense to change them to action words describing what they do. For example, it could be &quot;Close this Question&quot; and &quot;Stay Here&quot;. This would eliminate the need to explain which button does what in the dialog itself and require less work from the user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131507" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T05:31:21.023" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:33:03.930" Title="The buttons on the modal dialog box for leaving a page with unsaved changes are confusing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13633" CreationDate="2009-08-11T05:25:43.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like only the first word in a phrase is being searched for. For example, this search brings up the same exact results as the one in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22elephant+hoiuahsdohsdofhoiushdiofgh%22&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22elephant+hoiuahsdohsdofhoiushdiofgh%22&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22elephant+hoiuahsdohsdofhoiushdiofgh%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T05:25:43.890" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="13637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13635" CreationDate="2009-08-11T05:26:51.080" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe all browsers (or any) support changing the values of the buttons for the onunload event.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Safari and Firefox it says &quot;Click OK to continue, or cancel to say on this page&quot;, which should be enough of an explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T05:26:51.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13635" CreationDate="2009-08-11T05:30:37.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That modal dialog is the created via the window.onbeforeunload handler - the dialog's text is whatever string you return from the handler function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each browser has their own display for the &quot;OK&quot; and &quot;Cancel&quot; buttons, so we really can't control what's rendered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T05:30:37.890" />
  <row Id="13639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13538" CreationDate="2009-08-11T06:00:02.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it's nice to know my post garnered so much attention, particularly that of Jeff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as how this is a communal knowledge dump, the most prominent features should be the Ask Question button and the Search field. If I were to draw a line of where my eyes were glancing on this page for the first time, it starts at the Stack Overflow logo, and abruptly turns downward at the Ask Question button and then turns to the main page content. My path avoids completely the top bar, such that I have to check again for the Search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Steve Kruggs' &quot;Don't Make Me Think&quot; as a basis for my suggestion. I shouldn't have to think about how to access one of the main features of the site. Maybe a little repositioning is in order. I also like the flashing arrows :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133410" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T06:00:02.790" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1731" CreationDate="2009-08-11T07:12:10.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is a fairly dramatic change to the user page, so I strongly suggest anyone interested check it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(by that I mean, see what happens when you click on a tag on a user page now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T07:12:10.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13643" CreationDate="2009-08-11T07:20:18.917" Score="9" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to find the number of accepted answers you have, other than manually counting each one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T07:21:46.557" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T07:53:00.973" Title="Number of accepted answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13642" CreationDate="2009-08-11T07:53:00.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &quot;hasaccepted:1 user:130822&quot; or &quot;isaccepted:1 user:130822&quot; (depending which ones you want) and do the math.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=isaccepted%3a1%20user%3a22656&amp;amp;page=42&amp;amp;tab=relevance&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's accepted answers&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The numbers will change soon, but here we go:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I see 41 pages with 50 entries each. One page with 2 entries.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;41x50 + 2 = ?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's only partly &quot;counting&quot; ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T07:53:00.973" />
  <row Id="13644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T08:01:34.340" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;When creating a new question, every time the label completion list pop up (during typing of tags), it causes the &quot;Notify me of...&quot; checkbox to become invisible, only after moving the mouse over it, it reappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Firefox 3 on Ubuntu. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I tried taking a snapshot, but once I press Print Screen, it reappears...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133446" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T12:12:45.580" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:00:01.790" Title="Notify checkbox is invisible" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="13645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13644" CreationDate="2009-08-11T08:15:16.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a font issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2181/login-page-layout-broken-ubuntu-ff-3&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2181/login-page-layout-broken-ubuntu-ff-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of font issues with Ubuntu because the default fonts are &lt;em&gt;incredibly&lt;/em&gt; wide, to the point that they break layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T08:15:16.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12803" CreationDate="2009-08-11T08:42:27.067" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've updated the autocomplete plugin with some more IE-specific code, which seems to work for Opera, too. Please give it a try: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bassistance-plugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bassistance-plugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/autocomplete/jquery.autocomplete.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now deployed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133207" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T06:41:30.587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T06:41:30.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T09:05:34.960" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask questions along the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions which are pretty deep within topics I'm reasonably expert in. Without trying to be too arrogant, there probably aren't &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; many users who are likely to be able to answer C# language questions - although Eric Lippert is the prime candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions which are in topics I'm researching for the purpose of writing. These may not be particularly deep ones (see my recent Code Contracts questions, for example) but there aren't likely to be many other users who are very knowledgeable yet either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions in topics where I don't have much knowledge - my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/431296/how-can-i-take-more-control-in-asp-net&quot;&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134151/user-permission-error-when-accessing-user-instance-database-from-asp-net&quot;&gt;SQL Server user instance&lt;/a&gt; questions are examples of this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Opinion/discussion questions (generally discouraged, I know, but I'd like to think I ask useful ones) such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/215548/whats-the-hardest-or-most-misunderstood-aspect-of-linq&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions where I know the answer but want it to be present on the site, like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247621/what-are-the-correct-version-numbers-for-c&quot;&gt;C# versions question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these situations comes up &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; often, to be honest - hence the general lack of questions from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T09:05:34.960" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T09:18:00.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they are smart enough to use the search feature and search for the answer they are looking for. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148166" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T09:18:00.927" />
  <row Id="13652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T09:33:32.237" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having &gt;8000 rep on SO and yet to ask a question. I find that in forming the question in my mind (not even getting as far as typing it) I often find I know the answer, or at least see the next thing to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the two occasions when that hasn't been enough, the title search on starting to enter a question has been enough to find the information I need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T09:33:32.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1004" CreationDate="2009-08-11T09:43:55.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A t-shirt idea (this isn't my creation):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.100-geek.net/images/stofu-league.750x562.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T09:43:55.413" />
  <row Id="13655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4916" CreationDate="2009-08-11T09:49:52.750" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will look at this, but I can't give a specific time frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general philosophy of the badge, is to award people who dabble in a lot of different topics but &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; necessarily go deep on any particular one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why awarding it is tricky, because we don't want to pile more badges on people who already have a slew of the things anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="47529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T19:31:42.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T19:31:42.750" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-11T09:52:28.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is impossible to answer, because it depends so heavily on &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; what is being asked, and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As they say, &quot;It depends.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T09:52:28.190" />
  <row Id="13658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T09:53:59.497" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed my gold answer (along with the question) was moved to the Meta site. Shouldn't my points and badge be moved here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:26:25.910" Title="Moving badges to Meta" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="13659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13658" CreationDate="2009-08-11T10:08:15.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the points will be, but the badge will (hence my &quot;great answer&quot; badge here, for the Jon Skeet Facts question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T10:08:15.677" />
  <row Id="13660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13658" CreationDate="2009-08-11T10:11:10.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your badge wasn't moved, it just clocked in Meta for when the question itself was moved and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions/7054#7054&quot;&gt;your answer was counted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your points wouldn't be moved because they don't mean the same thing out there in the wild SO than in Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T10:11:10.117" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13665" CreationDate="2009-08-11T10:21:17.570" Score="5" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with the general principle of downvotes costing reputation, I think there are cases where there should be a refund, or even a gain in reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main example is the case where an answer is downvoted because it was wrong or misleading, that answer's author acknowledges this, and deletes their answer (maybe because there is already a suitable answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that reputation is supposed to recognise your knowledge and, er, reputation, I think that it seems wrong that you loose reputation for highlighting a mistake &lt;em&gt;that is later acknowledged&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T12:21:25.760" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:26:43.550" Title="Cost to reputation on down votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13661" CreationDate="2009-08-11T10:23:41.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one approach is that is a downvoted answer/question is deleted, that the &quot;cost reputation&quot; is refunded. You could also suggest that it could even give a nominal rise in reputation, as their is an acknowledgement that you were &quot;correct&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T10:23:41.807" />
  <row Id="13663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13661" CreationDate="2009-08-11T10:28:44.590" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've suggested before that reputation could be refunded if you add a comment which gains a subsequent upvote on the same answer (i.e. you state your reason, and someone agrees with you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not that bothered though - it's a pretty small cost. The main advantage of that suggestion was meant to be that people explain their downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; delete the answer, then I believe the reputation will already be refunded at the next recalc. I don't think there's any need to have more effect than that - and any scheme to &lt;em&gt;gain&lt;/em&gt; rep via deleted answers could be abused pretty easily, without some careful safeguards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T10:28:44.590" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13607" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:04:28.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess I should be a bad Super user for posting way too many answers that never get &gt; 1 upvote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the question: &quot;what makes a bad user&quot; is highly semantic and is best solved by moderating. Just let people flag the questions/answer/comment and deal with it appropiately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you could make an algorithm or query that could track them it would be very interesting though ;-) But you need some sort of blacklist for that, which I don't think is available publicly (and shouldn't be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:04:28.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13661" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:07:59.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you cast a downvote and that answer gets deleted, you should get you rep back from the downvote cast once a rep recalc is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:07:59.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13658" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:15:59.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if when a rep recalc is called you will get the rep from a migrated question, or if it intentionally skips over migrated questions (which doesn't make the most sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:15:59.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13658" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:19:32.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it doesn't seem like your badge was &lt;em&gt;moved&lt;/em&gt;, more like you got another one. your badge on SO still exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastEditorUserId="12855" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T11:26:25.910" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:26:25.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13607" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:34:28.483" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes a Bad User?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asking numerous questions and not providing enough detail to allow someone to actually help them with an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Posting answers that do not answer the question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Overly combative with other users (example: taking community edits WAY too seriously)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Displays an inability to learn from previous mistakes. User can get told how to do better but will continue acting in the same horrible manner as when he/she was a brand new user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:34:28.483" />
  <row Id="13670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:57:07.517" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3615/should-downvoting-be-allowed-on-comments&quot;&gt;Should downvoting be allowed on comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are a number of boring or inflammatory comments that could be down-voted by users.  What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130733" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T12:19:03.627" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:46:51.627" ClosedDate="2009-08-11T13:29:59.770" Title="Why not introduce down-votes for comments, too?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13607" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:57:09.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without questions we wouldn't have a site (or sites). Ditto, without answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that we can corporately close/delete the really bad questions, the corpus of content that remains, if not great, isn't bad. So in the context of questions, a bad user is one who has had questions closed and deleted multiple times. Learn once and remember. Is there a rep penalty for closure (beyond any downvotes that might have accrued)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad answers are less quantifiable - there are two classes of answer: those that appear &quot;above the fold&quot;, the accepted answer and the top handful, and the rest. It's hard to differentiate a 0-voted answer which just didn't get in quickly enough to gain momentum against a bad answer. Unless we can have a &quot;wrong&quot; flag analogous to closing a question, this will always be a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically a bad user is one who doesn't learn from whatever mistakes they might start by making. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:57:09.967" />
  <row Id="13672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13607" CreationDate="2009-08-11T11:58:18.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the phrasing &quot;Bad User&quot;, as others have pointed out it's subjective, but more importantly it takes the focus off of the behavior and makes it personal.  That doesn't do anyone any good.  I'm sure we all have our own personal mental lists of &quot;bad users,&quot; there's no avoiding that aspect of interpersonal relations. However, I don't think there's any way to, or any need to, describe canonically &quot;Bad Users&quot; beyond listing bad behaviors.  I think TheTXI gave a good list of bad behaviors with his answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, what would be the point of identifying &quot;Bad Users&quot; other than to issue the admonishment: &quot;Don't be a Bad User!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it much clearer and more direct to say, &quot;Don't engage in these behaviors ...&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T11:58:18.840" />
  <row Id="13673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13661" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:05:10.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think any additional provisions are needed beyond those currently taking place during recalculations for deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of refunding or rescinding votes (up or down) based on the perceived correctness or fairness from the point of view of people other than the voter is a hugely slippery slope.  Sometimes people are going to vote in ways that, in the fullness of time, seem to be unfair or wrong.   But there's no way to correct for that phenomenon without entering into the realm of meta-voting, second-guessing, and messy heuristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:05:10.403" />
  <row Id="13674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13675" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:08:10.740" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that I recently rolled over to &quot;12 months&quot; on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1185/rob&quot;&gt;user profile on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; and noticed that I also did not get awarded the yearling badge. I have since figured out that it appears that you need to have &quot;1 year&quot; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt; before getting said badge. As such, I'm wondering exactly how the &quot;Member for&quot; fields are being calculated, does anyone have any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T21:00:14.753" Title="&quot;Member for&quot; display calculation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;algorithm&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13674" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:11:26.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it's doing &lt;code&gt;datediff(month, join_date, getdate())&lt;/code&gt;, which rounds up in SQL Server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, you joined 8/13/08. You're two days away from the actual year mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;datediff(month, '8/13/08', '8/11/09')&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Returns 12 in SQL Server, hence, the months in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:11:26.867" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:26:59.407" Score="34" ViewCount="3168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Otherwise known as 必需用英语吗？(is English Required?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139257" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:42:35.377" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:42:35.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:26:59.407" Title="Is English required on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="23" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="13678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:29:21.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was hard to decide on Esperanto or Lojban. So they chose English instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133820" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:29:21.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:29:43.660" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &quot;About&quot; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We don't run Stack Overflow. You do. Stack Overflow is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow programmers. Once the system learns to trust you, you'll be able to edit anything, much like Wikipedia. With your help, we can build good answers to every imaginable programming question together. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home -- better programming is our goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that, I would say yes, post your multi-lingual questions, but since the community seems to be mostly english-speaking you may not get a lot of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T00:30:32.600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T00:30:32.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:29:43.660" />
  <row Id="13680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:39:40.363" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not required, but most of the users are English speaking. If you post your question in another language, maybe you should tag it with that language so that it will be easy to find for other speakers of that language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" />
  <row Id="13681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:42:39.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it stands now, I think questions/answers should be posted in English.  My preferred way to handle non-English speakers in SO would be to expand to region- or country-specific sites that have different default languages.  It's hard enough to navigate through the existing, large pool of questions without having to wade through questions in other languages.  I would imagine this to be equally true of English-language questions for a non-English speaker in a hybrid language site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:42:39.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:42:43.743" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow 没有很多人会说中文。所以呢，你的问题只会有很少的回复。&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:42:43.743" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="13683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:48:04.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment most content here is English, but you can go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.uservoice.com&lt;/a&gt; and request some kind of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I18n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;i18n&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44741" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T16:11:59.347" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T16:11:59.347" />
  <row Id="13684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:49:31.513" Score="79" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow Trilogy has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official policy on non-English questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not, nor has it ever been, our goal to be the one place in the world for all programming information in &lt;em&gt;every possible human language&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Direct question posters to native language resources.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not the community's goal to teach English.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question asker should put some effort into the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the question is in salvageable English and makes some modicum of sense, it should be edited and improved like any other post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/5wmgmu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Languages by total number of speakers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/59hd9a&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people will point to Chinese (spoken language) as being higher but this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison.  Chinese is split up by their various dialects and some of them are very, very different from each other.  It is also important to note that the number of Chinese people who can not read or write is around &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200609/16/eng20060916_303457.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;114 million&lt;/a&gt; (mostly from the Western, rural areas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;English is as close that we have ever come to a global lingua-franca&lt;/strong&gt;.  It is generally considered the dominant language of science and diplomacy.  It is also the most taught second-language by a far, far margin.  English is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://encyclopedia2.tfd.com/English+language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official language&lt;/a&gt; of about 45 nations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;English is everywhere. Some 380 million people speak it as their first language and another 600 million speak it as their second. A billion are learning it, about a third of the world's population is in some sense exposed to it and by 2030, it is predicted almost half of the world will be more or less proficient in it. It is the language of globalization - of international business, politics and diplomacy. It is the language of computers and the Internet. You'll see it on posters in Beijing, you'll hear it in pop songs in Tokyo, you'll read it in official documents in Prague. Deutsche Welle broadcasts in it. Bjork, an Icelander, sings in it. French business schools teach in it. It is the medium of expression in cabinet meetings in Bolivia. English is now the global language.  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxfordseminars.com/Tesol/Pages/Teach/teach_20000jobs.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oxford Seminars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Troy pointed out in the comments, the number of people who speak English is nowhere near as important as how many people can write it.  More specifically, I find the number of people who use their written language on the Internet to be the single most telling piece of information. &lt;strong&gt;The #1 language of the Internet is English&lt;/strong&gt;, by a wide margin.  In the chart below you can see that it is almost three times as prolific as the next language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Global Internet Usage&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_internet_usage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Language - Number of users (millions)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;English  - 295.2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Chinese  - 110.0&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Spanish  - 86.0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forgetting any ethics of why or how this came about, I think it is an important step forward.  It was suggested in the earlier days of SO that we have en.stackoverflow.com, fr.stackoverflow.com, etc, etc.. and I'm glad this was decided against.  Rather than &lt;strong&gt;fractionate our small community&lt;/strong&gt; we can try and bring it together.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, most &lt;strong&gt;programming languages are based in English&lt;/strong&gt;.  Their keywords, APIs, and documentation are mostly taken from English words.  The number of mainstream languages that have foreign language equivalents are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;few and far between&lt;/a&gt;.  With our languages already based in English, I think it makes sense to continue expanding our knowledge repository without dividing it into various inaccessible fractions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I spend most of my time on Stackoverflow editing and refining questions of non-native speakers and I consider this my largest contribution to the site.. even though I don't get rep for it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I say keep it in English.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not against diversity or other languages, I'm &lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt; us all being able to communicate under one. This isn't political, this isn't about smothering peoples cultures with Western ideologies. It is about being pragmatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T07:41:47.320" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T07:41:47.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:49:31.513" CommentCount="24" />
  <row Id="13685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:58:43.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an issue that faces a lot of popular websites. I think SO should be English-preferred. When a non-English question is asked, perhaps someone can provide an English translation. Even the Google translator is a start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:58:43.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T23:01:10.493" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that many people who don't speak other language than English don't want to appear ignorant so they approve multi-bilingual site but that's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not native English speaker...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but I really like the fact that IT world is mostly standardized on a single language. It makes it easier to share knowledge, experience and research. Why fragment all this into multiple languages again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T23:01:10.493" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T23:03:59.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a non-English question and find out.  The best way to discover if there are enough non-English speakers here is to start posting non-English questions and see if they get answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be good to use one of the tags to indicate the language (deutsch, francais, etc.), so that people can easily find questions in their preferred language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T23:03:59.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T23:08:24.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a uservoice request for SO i18n:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339158/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339158/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T23:08:24.643" />
  <row Id="13689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T23:13:27.910" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As was indicated only &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250824/do-you-use-another-language-instead-of-english&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt; in a thread on language used in programming, the large majority of programming happens using English, even among the programmers who have a shared native language that isn't English. Programming languages that do not use English for keywords and API-defined terms are almost automatically regarded as &quot;esoteric&quot;. Programming has developed in a cultural context that has given it the same connection to English that classical music has to Italian and gastronomy and old-style diplomacy has to French. So there is a sort of implicit understanding in the community that programming forums like SO should be in English. And I'm a non-native English speaker saying that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for language variants of SO, that would as someone else pointed out simply fragment the site's community and prevent the efficient dissemination of information among us programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T23:13:27.910" />
  <row Id="13690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T23:30:24.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English dominates, not just in programming, but in most scientific and commercial endeavors.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the underlying reason, it's common, expected, and will most likely persist for a very very long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2424" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T23:30:24.660" />
  <row Id="13691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-15T23:38:17.923" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harms articulates this well.  Turns out English is the trade language of our era, not because it's qualitatively better than any other language, maybe just by chance - but if we agree to speak the same language in this context we'll get a lot more work done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44831" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T23:38:17.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-16T01:25:31.560" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Auf Stack-Overflow hat sich Englisch eingebürgert, weil Jeff und Joel halt aus den USA kommen, das ganze auf Englisch aufgezogen haben und natürlich die englischsprachige Community angezogen haben. Es gibt keinen Sprachfilter, wenn jetzt also jemand auf chinesisch, indisch oder deutsch schreibt, dann verursacht das hier natürlich eine etwas unaufgeräumte Startseite, auf der man nur die Hälfte versteht, wenn man Glück hat. Sprachfilter wären evtl. eine Möglichkeit, aber ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich die zersplitterte Stack-Overflow-Community bevorzugen würde, oder ob man den Leuten, die partout kein Englisch sprechen können, nicht eher empfehlen sollte, auf lokale Seiten auszuweichen - nicht aus Arroganz, sondern weil ich glaube, daß lokale Communities einfach größer sind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for all the people who just went &quot;WTF?&quot;, here is the summary in English: Stack Overflow was started in English - Joel and Jeff are Americans with English blogs, and they attracted the English-speaking community at first. I am not sure if I like foreign questions, because it clutters up the start page with stuff I simply cannot understand (hence I've written in German first to give an impression that localized content really make the experience worse for people that don't speak the language). I do not believe that a language filter is a good option (as it could cause multiple splits in the Stack Overflow community). So I think that people who really don't speak English are better off on local community sites - not because I am arrogant, but because I believe that they have a larger audience on a local community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T17:12:14.287" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T17:12:14.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T01:25:31.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-16T09:08:29.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I would ideally like to see is some kind of integration of a translation service (google maybe, but I have no idea how accurate it is) and the ability to view any question in any language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the original questionor could post in their native tongue and the browsing user could read in the language of their choosing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a bit pie in the sky, I have no idea how accurate these online translations are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T09:08:29.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-16T09:35:06.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, the fact that Stack Overflow is monolingual is a big limitation. It seems to be on purpose, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the original announce&lt;/a&gt; (see the despising remark about answers in Japanese).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I cannot find a good way to mix languages in Stack Overflow without raising a lot of usability problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best solution would be to have a clone of Stack Overflow per language (or, more specifically, per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.langtag.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RFC 4646 language tag&lt;/a&gt;). Wikipedia works more or less that way. The minor problem would be that multilingual people would have different reputations on each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T14:06:17.930" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T14:06:17.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T09:35:06.533" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-16T10:11:32.387" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question crops up in many fora, like IRC, Usenet, web discussion boards, and now also Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem isn't that there aren't people on these fora that speak in other languages. There are of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem is twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People having some kind of (incorrect) sense of what is appropriate on the forum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to reach as many eyeballs as possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially on IRC you'll find occurrences of the first, where people will just complain that you should write in English or &lt;em&gt;take a hike&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second problem is more of a real problem. If you ask a C# question in Spanish, I can't read it, so I can't answer it, even if I want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to reach as many eyeballs as possible, you should try to use the language that will help you reach that goal. If that means writing bad English, so be it. It's better to be upfront about that problem than to just use a native language. Stack Overflow is a system which allows people to edit, so if you use bad English, perhaps someone will help you fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if you simply can't formulate the question in English, ask it in your native tongue, but then be prepared to accept that fewer people will read the question and be able to answer. If that is fine, why shouldn't Stack Overflow accept it? Perhaps you could even add a statement that if anyone wants to add an English translation, you'd be fine with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow needs to be a place for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-25T14:10:07.507" LastActivityDate="2010-07-25T14:10:07.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T10:11:32.387" />
  <row Id="13696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-16T10:48:15.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English is the primary technology language in which most programming languages and APIs are written. If you want to be programmer I think you need to learn it anyway and asking question is another opportunity to think about it for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm against multi-language stackoverflow. It will probably cause many interesting questions being answered and asked only in one of the languages and smaller audience will benefit from it. Another argument is that it will make search functionality very limited - Chinese pages will be practically unaccessible for non-Chinese folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programmers are intelligent creatures and we all know some English. It's just a job requirement. Why not invest some time to learn it a bit better? Nowadays we have online translators and dictionaries, it really isn't that hard to translate question knowing some basis. If you make a language mistake, somebody will correct you and you will learn from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you probably know after reading this text, English is not my first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T10:48:15.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2008-12-16T11:05:51.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any social community seems to settle on a single language, or conversly, any group with more than one language seems to fracture. I have given up on Orkut, for instance, as it became a Brazilian site. Given the target audience, the first language for SO is English, and adding other languages might even be harmful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T11:05:51.810" />
  <row Id="13698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2009-01-15T23:57:08.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the wiki format is an ideal solution to the multi-language problem.  I don't see why a person couldn't ask a non-English question with the hope that someone else will add a translation to the post later on.  The incentive for asking in English is to speed up the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116318/how-to-ask-something-specific-to-a-region-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116318/how-to-ask-something-specific-to-a-region-in-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T23:57:08.547" />
  <row Id="13699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2009-01-16T00:48:17.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not SO that imposes the English as the main language for developers. All languages, methods, hardware and software I know are better and more extensively documented and supported using English. If don't know English, you will have a worse support and documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, my native language is Portuguese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-16T00:48:17.023" />
  <row Id="13700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2009-04-07T04:44:52.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My native language is Spanish and I don't mind at all that SO is in English. In fact, I think it is better that way, you know why? Sometimes I can't even translate IT and Computer Science terminology or concepts correctly from English to Spanish. That's why there are a lot of technology related anglicisms in Spanish (haha that's for the purists!) Otherwise, SO would literally become &quot;spaghetti code&quot; in terms of languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154847" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:14:30.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-07T04:44:52.760" />
  <row Id="13701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13607" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:15:14.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone asking a lot of questions doesn't bother me that much as long as they did a little bit of work towards trying to answer the question on their own before asking the question. I'm sure we all had a point in our lives where we were also asking more questions than we were able to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I think the only &quot;bad user&quot; that might be out there would be someone who is intentionally trying to disrupt the site either through trolling or attempts at software exploits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:15:14.397" />
  <row Id="13702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13705" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:25:44.383" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here I'm entering the tag &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;active-directory&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Type &lt;code&gt;activ&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alexangas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/entertag2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Type the letters &lt;code&gt;-dire&lt;/code&gt; to differentiate from &lt;code&gt;activerecord&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alexangas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/entertag3.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Press &lt;kbd&gt;TAB&lt;/kbd&gt; and wrong tag is inserted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alexangas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/entertag4.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Possible resolution:&lt;/em&gt; When pressing &lt;kbd&gt;TAB&lt;/kbd&gt; a match against the currently entered text should be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:15:39.000" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:25:55.873" Title="Pressing TAB when using tag auto-completion selects wrong tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="13703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:25:46.987" Score="4" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, &#xA;here is an example : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google-collections.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/MapMaker.html#expiration%28long,%20java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://google-collections.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/MapMaker.html#expiration%28long,%20java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:13:24.280" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:13:24.280" Title="URL containing closing parentheses are trunked in comments (javadoc idiom)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13702" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:33:45.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's using the highlighted record. While the auto-complete could be made to be a little more intelligent, this certainly isn't a bug. The expected behavior is that if you press tab while a tag is highlighted, it will insert the highlighted tag...which is what this does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, sidenote, I just tried this specific example, and it immediately switched to &lt;code&gt;active-directory&lt;/code&gt; as soon as I hit the dash. Hitting tab selected &lt;code&gt;active-directory&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T12:33:45.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:58:22.453" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/587/single-location-for-so-sf-su-user-info&quot;&gt;Single location for SO/SF/SU user info&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between the 4 sites and the four &quot;Recent Activity&quot; pages, I have so many tabs open in my browser that it's getting hard to find them all. It would be nice if there was one &quot;Recent Activity&quot; page that showed all recent activity on all your linked accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T13:28:43.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:28:43.500" ClosedDate="2009-08-11T13:33:05.320" Title="Please make a &quot;Recent Activity&quot; page that shows all four site's activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T12:59:08.257" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we modify &quot;Ask question&quot; to automatically suggests tags based on your question content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead that user needs to type &quot;team-foundation-server&quot; or &quot;TFS&quot; or &quot;TeamFoundationServer&quot; he will see list of tags auto-populated with ajax which he (or she) can then select and it will be associated with the question. So basically only thing we need is code which will cross-match question content with list of known tags while user is typing and display results in some nice ajax-enabled list/cloud/whatever UI control. This should be separate control for tags suggestions so user still has option to use standard tag list input to type-in tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, instead of three (or more) tag variations we would have only one tag for Team-Foundation-Server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132760" LastEditorUserId="132760" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T13:38:49.210" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:38:49.210" Title="Automatically determine tags while writing a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13709" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:03:26.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like this idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it already finds questions that match the title, if you expanded the search out to also include the question body, you could then pull the most popular tags from that list of matching questions, that would already be a good starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you could possibly set up the keyword/synonym idea on tags and if it finds certain keywords in the text of the question or title it could bring up those tags as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:03:26.740" />
  <row Id="13711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13713" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:07:29.603" Score="9" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-cubed.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the SO-Team took the minimalistic approach (Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;SO-Site Bar (Minimalistic)&lt;/a&gt;?) and implemented some &quot;cubicons&quot; (Is that a word?) representing each of the four so-sites. Next step, duplicate them at the top of the layout, so I don't have to scroll past a wall of questions just to find  a link to Meta :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-minimal.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T14:00:45.197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:45:09.930" Title="SO-Cubed. Nice" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13708" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:08:09.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Obligatory call for StackOverflow API for people to do this themselves]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or just wait 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:08:09.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13711" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:10:55.900" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're doing it wrong. You're either supposed to have all these sites already bookmarked, or you're supposed to have your fingers trained to type it out faster than you can get to it via mouse click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you can write a greasemonkey script that will take the entry &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Y&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;Ins&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;F8&lt;/kbd&gt; and immediately take you to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Cubicons would imply three dimensions. What you are looking at are Squares or Squaricons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:10:55.900" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13703" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:18:22.783" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt we'll get this fixed, but you can resolve it yourself by URL encoding &lt;code&gt;(&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;%28&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;%29&lt;/code&gt;.  Since one of these bugs gets posted every two to three days, here's a simple rule of thumb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any characters in your URL other than &lt;code&gt;A-Z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;a-z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;0-9&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;/.=?-+%&amp;amp;*&lt;/code&gt; (and the &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; in &quot;&lt;code&gt;http:&lt;/code&gt;&quot;) should probably be URL encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've cobbled together a quick page that will encode the things that shouldn't need encoding.  You can find it &lt;a href=&quot;http://bstorer.com/so/encode.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It doesn't use any jQuery, so it's probably completely unreliable.  If you find anything it should be encoding but isn't, let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:18:22.783" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13709" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:18:52.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice feature&lt;/strong&gt;. There are some drawbacks, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One needs to use the products, language name, tags he is talking about within the text. The usage has to be either exactly like the tag, or needs some stemming and synonyms. So using TFS should invoke the synonymous team-foundation-server tag. I see quite some work needed to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several attempts to introduce keyword/synonym, hierarchical, or onthological tag systems have been declined. But if nothing like this is used, the suggestions might be too weak or broad and not solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When to populate the tag list with suggestions? When it is done whenever a blank or other whitespace is hit in the text, then the word in the text could also be &quot;normalized&quot; using the synonym, but the ajax traffic would be quite high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could do it whenever the taglist textbox is entered. But then, how would this work together with the preview that is in place now, suggesting based on typing in the taglist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature seems to be quite complicated, but &lt;strong&gt;very useful when done right&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt; drawback I see though is that if poorly done, many will be accepting the suggestions anyway and we will end up with poor tagging. So don't prepopulate the taglist, but suggest in some other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:26:43.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13711" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:24:51.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Little square unannotated icons are incredibly user unfriendly. I am offended that you would even consider suggesting something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:24:51.543" CommentCount="53" />
  <row Id="13717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13661" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:26:43.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, if you get downvoted and remove your post, you should keep some of the reputation loss as it is a guidance to you thinking more before posting anything. One thing which could cause auto-refund is when the OP deletes his own question. The guys who lost (gained?) rep on the mater should be refunded (up to some percent). For example a 50% refund would make:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-4 from downvotes, +2 refund from deleting your own post - you admitted you were wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+30 from upvotes, -15 refund from deleting the post due the OP deleted the entire question - good answer, but nobody will be able to learn from it, sorry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:26:43.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:28:40.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a way to alert the moderators that you'd like a question moved. This might be a big help to newbies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13753" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:28:40.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2009-08-11T13:34:38.687" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be useful to have a way to immediately move your own question before there are upvoted answers - similar conditions as for deleting your own question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens too often that a question is voted on to belong to another site, but at the same time downvoted too. This could be prevented by immediately moving the question. Especially newbies not aware of the other sites will profit by this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T13:34:38.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13721" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:04:04.177" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378/do-migrated-questions-migrate-reputation-and-badges&quot;&gt;Do migrated questions migrate reputation and badges?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the points awarded on the source site (SO) get moved to the destination site(SF)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:05:55.470" ClosedDate="2011-09-03T09:26:30.713" Title="What happens to rep when a question is moved" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13720" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:05:13.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine you'll lose them on the original site on the next recalc and gain them on the new site on the next rep recalc there. It's just like the question had been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitive answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378&quot;&gt;Do migrated questions migrate reputation and badges?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making this question a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't know is how CW will affect this like if it went CW after 30 answers and you gained some rep from it, will you still get that rep from the recalc on the new site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:05:13.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:14:59.023" Score="-2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an idea for the code highlighter. For questions/comments tagged with a single language, how about giving us some context sensitive documentation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Known language constructs (e.g. Classes in the package java.*) should link to (or display on-mouse-over) the appropriate documentation when the language is known and code blocks are being displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133472" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T14:22:45.543" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:35:16.197" Title="Automatically link to relevant documentation when entering code and the question is tagged with a language name" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="13725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13723" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:18:11.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds very expensive with not a lot of return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For every class name in a piece of Java (for example) code you have to make a query and a link to another website which could potentially not return in a reasonable amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would this help people get answers? If they people trying to provide the answers don't understand basic portions of the framework or language constructs, who wants them answering the question anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:18:11.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13723" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:19:28.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO isn't a tutorial site for making your first Java game, it's a site to get answers to your problems. Very rarely is 'what is a class' a problem, and I don't think many people would benefit from documentation on the constructs alone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:19:28.047" />
  <row Id="13727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:22:12.347" Score="1" ViewCount="558" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not the most active user, so when I logged in and find out that I have earned the Enthusiast badge, I was genuinely surprised. Is it possible that a Top Sites preview feature of Safari browser has earned me this badge without any actually effort on my part, and if so, shouldn't visits of only the homepage (or any single page) be counted out, while earning this badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133476" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:43:58.043" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:43:58.043" Title="Did Safari's top sites feature earn my enthusiast badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="13728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13735" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:23:37.180" Score="0" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a problem I'm seen primarily with new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers are entered which sometimes use the &amp;lt; &gt; angle bracket characters for emphasis, URLs (e.g. &lt;code&gt;http://&amp;lt;server&amp;gt;/site&lt;/code&gt;), poorly formatted code or occasionally ASCII art. As a result what's been entered is not displayed and makes little or no sense. (Unfortunately this isn't noticed by them or most answerers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that unless the angle brackets contain an allowed HTML tag that they are simply HTML encoded instead so they still display?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T11:43:44.660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T11:43:44.660" Title="HTML encoding angle brackets in questions/answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13723" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:29:18.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are using an obscure library, you should provide a link to it yourself.  Otherwise, enough people should know what a function or class does that the documentation is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to answer a question, but you aren't familiar with the library, it is your responsibility to do the research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T14:52:33.707" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:52:33.707" />
  <row Id="13730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13727" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:30:56.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can really expect any of this to answer this question for you. It is entirely possible, since safari will update the sites at certain intervals -- and it uses your cookies while doing so, but I haven't been standing outside your window watching you to be sure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge itself is quite easy to get, and gaming it has been discussed several times. Creating logic to prevent this would be a waste of time because there will always be ways around it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:30:56.060" />
  <row Id="13731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13727" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:32:20.237" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is terrible exploit!  &lt;em&gt;::waits for Safari to download::&lt;/em&gt;  I can't believe that someone would stoop to such a low level for a stupid badge. &lt;em&gt;::clicks through installer as quickly as possible::&lt;/em&gt;  I hope this is fixed in no less than 31 days. &lt;em&gt;::logs into SO::&lt;/em&gt;  I'd say we should fix it sooner, but I don't want to rush the developers. &lt;em&gt;::reclines in chair and waits::&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:32:20.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:33:08.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is the 4chan of the StackOverflow network, so it should have it's own identity and merchandise. If SuperUser.com is &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot;, then Meta could be &quot;The Christmas Special&quot; or even Episode I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:33:08.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13727" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:34:51.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only you can say for sure, but certainly seems plausible to me that Safari would use your cookies, and therefore credentials, to refresh the page and so it may have done that daily, to plug in the gaps of when you weren't purposefully visiting the site. Additionally, I don't think SO should do anything to prevent this. I cannot imagine there being enough distinguishable between the requests (if anything) for it to be worth the effort and complication of changing the way things word&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:34:51.370" />
  <row Id="13735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13728" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:35:57.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown already offers an easy way to escape such characters.  This proposal makes things much more difficult for a renderer that's already easily confused.  It's so easy for someone else to go in and clean it up that I just don't see the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:35:57.937" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:43:41.510" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should have a new option in the close dialog marking the question as &quot;Abandoned&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:43:41.510" />
  <row Id="13737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13711" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:45:09.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an update to your script that uses the same order and colors as the team's approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$('#hlinks')&#xA;      .prepend('&amp;lt;span class=&quot;link-separator&quot;&amp;gt; | &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;')&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://blog.stackoverflow.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#444;margin-right:1px;' title='Blog'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;blog&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://meta.stackoverflow.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#969696;margin-right:7px;' title='Meta'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;meta.stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.superuser.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#00AFEF;margin-right:7px' title='Super User'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;superuser&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.serverfault.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#E8272C;margin-right:7px' title='Server Fault'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;serverfault&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.stackoverflow.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#FE7A15;margin-right:7px' title='Stack Overflow'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:45:09.930" />
  <row Id="13738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13740" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:45:30.973" Score="7" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the real purpose of comment voting? As far as I see, there is no use for voting for comments (other than the Pundit badge)? In fact, you can only vote up comments (as opposed to questions and answers &quot;the other icon&quot; does not vote down, but flags as offensive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not &quot;What is the purpose of comments?&quot;. I am asking about comment voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T15:01:28.353" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T16:53:25.067" Title="What is the purpose of comment voting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13738" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:47:41.780" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there are a lot of comments in a thread, only the highest rated ones will be shown by default. Comment voting helps filter out the useful ones from the noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T14:49:11.670" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:49:11.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13738" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:48:59.487" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Jeff Atwood made this very clear when he introduced the feature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-now-with-flags-and-votes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-now-with-flags-and-votes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:48:59.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13738" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:49:28.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So that my witty comments filter to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:49:28.877" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="13742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:49:30.547" Score="11" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will there be a version of Stack Exchange available at reduced expense (hosted or otherwise) to non-profit organizations? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall hearing Joel mention something offhand in one of the more recent podcasts about &quot;just giving it to them&quot; but cannot find it on the transcripts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the official position on this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:27:45.007" Title="Stack Exchange for Non-Profits" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13738" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:54:09.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it makes me feel good and more confident when I get a comment upvote.  If I get enough, then maybe I'll have enough confidence to leave the house some day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:54:09.053" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13742" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:54:27.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't heard any official announcement or position on it. This sounds like another instance where a free/open source version of StackExchange was released and was stripped down. Encourage community development (free labor!) and make it available to more people who may end up jumping on the full hosting bandwagon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:54:27.680" />
  <row Id="13746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13742" CreationDate="2009-08-11T14:57:55.117" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bet a quick email would serve your purpose much better. I doubt it would make much sense for them to tell you how to get their service for free here so that everyone could do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T14:57:55.117" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:12:22.543" Score="9" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;The deleted answer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1260612/type-2-dimension-using-merge/1260912#1260912&quot;&gt;This posting on SO&lt;/a&gt; has had the bottom of the code clipped on submission.  The posting was definitely submitted with the whole script but it has snipped text off the end, rendering the code snippet largely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an inherent limit on the size of a posting or a bug - or am I doing something fundamentally wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that this issue is a hard limit on the size of a posting.  Perhaps the system should warn when it is doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T16:55:52.863" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T23:11:34.677" Title="Please warn people instead of silently clipping answers over max length" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13748" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:14:35.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is clear you are just exceeding the maximum length of an answer, it has nothing to do with the code block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;30k characters is way more than generous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the limit, your answer is unruly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T17:06:33.623" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:06:33.623" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13748" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:15:05.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting huge amounts of code isn't going to be very helpful in most cases. You should either be posting the piece of code in question, or perhaps putting up your code on PasteBin or other sites so that your question (or answer) is not absolutely hammered by long code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:15:05.907" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="13751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13727" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:15:32.740" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was first mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6834/got-woot-badge-unfairly-with-safari-4&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but I can now confirm that this works as I recently got my Enthusiast badge on ServerFault, a site in my Top Sites, even though I can guarantee you I didn't visit it every singe day for 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:15:32.740" />
  <row Id="13752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13742" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:22:19.870" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was confirmed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/podcast-61/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;show notes of Podcast #61&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Our Stack Exchange hosted solution will offer free versions for non-profit organizations, and we’re also looking at provided an ad-subsidized version of it as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the podcast at 57:20:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff:&lt;/strong&gt; We're also looking at having an ad-subsidized verison of that as well, right Joel? For non-profits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, that's sort of like - I don't want to pre-announce that but like later on the idea would be that, uh, well non-profits could just have it - I don't care, I'll support non-profits, but, um, later on I think, instead of paying us to use the Stack Overflow code on our servers, you just let us put ads on it, if we could figure out a way to use that ad revenue to pay for the hosting costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T15:27:45.007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:27:45.007" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="13754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:25:26.730" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently pulled up a list of tagged questions via the Interesting Tags box by typing in the tag I was interested in, clicking Add, and then clicking the tag.  When the list of questions appeared, the number of questions indicated in the right sidebar said &quot;X questions tagged.&quot;  While I'm certain I don't have enough reputation to actively tag questions, the wording startled me for a moment, making me think that I actually had tagged the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to transpose the words so that it reads &quot;X tagged questions&quot; instead of &quot;X questions tagged.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:25:26.730" Title="Reword tagged questions sidebar" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" />
  <row Id="13755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14093" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:44:07.237" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way I can see my reputation gain by my Questions and Answers separately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the &quot;Reputation History&quot; chart shows me both together, so I don't know which ones I'm better at!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:37:59.420" Title="How to see reputation gain by questions or answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;chart&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="13758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13755" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:48:09.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent activity envelope link always gives me what I need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:48:09.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13755" CreationDate="2009-08-11T15:48:52.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would point you towards the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/creative-commons-data-dump-aug-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;, where you can find which posts are questions or answers by their &lt;code&gt;PostTypeId&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;code&gt;posts&lt;/code&gt; table. &lt;code&gt;PostTypeId = 2&lt;/code&gt; is an answer, whereas &lt;code&gt;PostTypeId = 1&lt;/code&gt; is a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T15:48:52.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:05:25.213" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My response is somewhat similar to Jon's but not entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that most high rep users are probably reasonably experienced. If not experienced then enthusiastic about their selected area(s). Answering questions is I think a means of &quot;giving back&quot;. Some people contribute open source. Others help people out, Others do both. Yet others do something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, answering questions in the end becomes a good way of improving communication skills (answering questions well and quickly is a skill), helps clarify one's own view and helps one learn (by making you look something up). All of these are good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly I think you reach a point where Q&amp;amp;A sites (or forums) aren't necessarily the best way of finding something out. Q&amp;amp;A sites probably do best when the audience is the widest (of those interested in the question and those able to understand it). The more experienced you are, the smaller that audience is. Jon alludes to this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, another function of experience I think is the ability to go find something out on your own. There have been a number of questions on SO I've answered not because I'm particularly expert but because I was interested in the answer, knew how to find the answer (or at least had some ideas) and knew enough (one hopes) to know if my researched answer was right or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:05:25.213" />
  <row Id="13761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13738" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:11:48.367" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It reduces &quot;me too&quot; commenting, because you can add emphasis to the one you like by voting for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:11:48.367" />
  <row Id="13762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13763" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:23:08.017" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry I know this has to have already been asked before, but I've searched and can't seem to find it. Sorry if it's a duplicate. If so let me know and I'll delete my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you lose the points you acquired if a question is deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132730" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:25:38.090" Title="Do you lose the points you acquired if a question is deleted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13762" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:25:38.090" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You keep them unless a rep-recalculation is performed on your account. This is a manual process and is used at the mod's discretion. If it is used, all reputation, gained or lost from questions and answers that no longer exist will be removed. The usual result will be a decrease in reputation, but it's not impossible for it to result in an increase. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:25:38.090" />
  <row Id="13766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:32:52.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about the ability to enter HTML Unicode values - like 뷯뾽 -&gt; &amp;#EFBF; &amp;#BDEF; &amp;#BFBD; &amp;#EFBF; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133489" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T21:33:06.763" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:33:06.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T10:12:58.040" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13723" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:35:16.197" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about an alternative of providing some richer syntax for linking to methods for some well known frameworks, so maybe having a pseudo-protocol for links of &quot;doc:&quot; so you could link to &quot;doc:java/java.IO.println&quot; or &quot;doc:net/System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand&quot; (obviously syntax would probably need to be refined/tweaked, but hopefully you get the idea)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:35:16.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:40:43.567" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following link doesn't parse correctly on StackOverflow website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947%28VS.85%29.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947%28VS.85%29.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It breaks on the '(' character, it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133490" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:10:45.003" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:10:45.003" Title="URL links not parsing correctly on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13768" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:50:33.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like I just recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13703/url-containing-closing-parentheses-are-trunked-in-comments-javadoc-idiom/13714#13714&quot;&gt;discussed this very issue&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I doubt we'll get this fixed, but you&#xA;  can resolve it yourself by URL&#xA;  encoding &lt;code&gt;(&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;%28&lt;/code&gt; and&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;%29&lt;/code&gt;.  Since one of these bugs gets&#xA;  posted every two to three days, here's&#xA;  a simple rule of thumb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Any characters in your URL other than &lt;code&gt;A-Z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;a-z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;0-9&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;/.=?-+%&amp;amp;*&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;    (and the &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; in &quot;&lt;code&gt;http:&lt;/code&gt;&quot;) should&#xA;    probably be URL encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've cobbled together a quick page&#xA;  that will encode the things that&#xA;  shouldn't need encoding.  You can find&#xA;  it &lt;a href=&quot;http://bstorer.com/so/encode.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It doesn't use any&#xA;  jQuery, so it's probably completely&#xA;  unreliable.  If you find anything it&#xA;  should be encoding but isn't, let me&#xA;  know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:50:33.437" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7261" CreationDate="2009-08-11T16:59:03.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could probably make those icons only appear on the mouseover, which would remove the clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, drag-and-drop might be a nicer alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T16:59:03.357" />
  <row Id="13772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:00:10.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll bite.  My account appears on your list.  I don't often ask questions on SO largely because I can usually find the answer by googling - and often quite quickly.  By the time I get to asking on SO I'm asking something quite obscure that I can't find any useful web resources on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To some extent, it could be said that I 'know everything', or at least the web 'knows everything' and I'm passably good at guessing what text snippets might get pertinent search results (error messages or API calls along with 'code example' or 'code snippet' are often good search terms).  Most of my higher-rated answers appear on questions that are really more general knowledge than answering specific 'how do I do this' points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked 10 questions on SO and gotten satisfactory answers for 8 of them - which isn't bad given that SO is almost a last resort for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:00:10.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:06:59.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask many, many questions... &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13530&quot;&gt;but use secret sockpuppet accounts when doing so.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:06:59.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13778" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:20:42.520" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume green is the increase in rep, but what's the red? I see 0s or negatives. No idea what they mean. Can a link be added to explain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:28:23.657" Title="Reputation graph - what do green/red numbers mean?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:20:44.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only ask questions to learn. If I see something that makes me stop and think, I'll Google and then turn to SO to either find the answer (if Google failed) or to learn more than what Google told me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:20:44.173" />
  <row Id="13777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13775" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:21:33.483" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Red is for down-votes. You will see -2 for every down-vote someone gives you, and -1 for every down-vote you give. -100 for for questions/answers flagged offensive. It will also include any bounties you have set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this has been discussed, so I'm not sure I can find a link to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T17:28:23.657" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:28:23.657" />
  <row Id="13778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13775" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:25:46.953" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Red represents a loss of repuation from anything, not just downvotes, this includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounties placed on questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100 rep loss from offensive votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:25:46.953" />
  <row Id="13781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:31:57.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an asymmetry between reputation gained from questions and reputation from answers, regardless of quality. Search for &quot;Why don't people upvote questions&quot; for about a dozen or so discussions about that topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as answers are the prime way of getting reputation, the key to get a lot of reputation is to make a lot of answers, so if you look at the top &amp;lt;1% of users (There are currently 47608 users with &gt;1 Rep) you naturally find the people who got most reputation through answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for me, questions are mostly about stuff that a) I cannot google myself, b) I cannot answer with the knowledge I already possess (and that allows me to answer many questions in the first place) c) that are of an unknown topic and complicated or d) that are clearly open-ended but narrow enough to get valuable answers from SO (i.e. Help File Systems under Windows)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:31:57.177" />
  <row Id="13784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14142" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:49:11.103" Score="9" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13748/please-warn-people-instead-of-silently-clipping-answers-over-max-length&quot;&gt;recent request&lt;/a&gt; pointed out an issue with the current system: answers are limited to only 30,000 characters in length. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I personally do not feel that posting very large amounts of code in answers is particularly desirable, I do foresee &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; circumstances where it might be desirable to have much, much longer answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LongPages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the longest pages on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;: they exceed SO's current limit by over 10x, and they're dominated by &lt;em&gt;lists&lt;/em&gt;. Programmers &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; lists. Programmer cartoons, jokes, blogs, every function in PHP... there are endless possibilities (although i've no doubt someone will soon start a list of possibilities). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And SO will inevitably &lt;strong&gt;fail&lt;/strong&gt; them, unless the answer length limit is removed or increased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, we could do &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11760/whats-the-opinion-on-list-questions&quot;&gt;the usual &quot;one list item per answer&quot; thing&lt;/a&gt;. But that has an even worse &lt;em&gt;effective&lt;/em&gt; limit, in that you only cram 30 answers on a single page, and junk up each item with irrelevant things like the author's name and icon. &lt;em&gt;Printing&lt;/em&gt; these is frustrating at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for the good and healthy future of all SO, please, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; increase or remove this arbitrary, restrictive limitation from the system!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-12T02:05:22.373" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T02:06:59.557" Title="Please increase the maximum allowed length for answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:53:09.597" Score="10" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the /users/recent page about 500 times per day to see if there are any new answers or votes, but this page does not show Up/Downvotes on community wiki questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, those are not affecting my reputation score, but I would still like to see changes, as I'm still interested to look at stuff that gets downvoted to understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T13:54:26.457" Title="Show Up/Downvotes on Community Wiki Answers in the /recent feed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:53:14.823" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to falling in with a couple of the answers above, I delete about 90% of my questions before actually submitting them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Working on a tough problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reach the &quot;someone on SFwill have a quick answer to this&quot; point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start tapping in a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Revise and fill out question with links and background information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have an &quot;Aha!&quot; moment, and figure out the answer before posting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Realize I don't have enough information to ask a well-researched question, and find the solution in the process of getting that information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:53:14.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:53:41.470" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. 30k characters is more than enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:53:41.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T17:57:15.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the types of questions that SO is designed to address, I highly doubt there is a significant problem with a 30k character limit in questions or answers. SO is not Wikipedia - your answer doesn't have to tear into every corner of what you post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T17:57:15.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:00:57.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I wholeheartedly agree!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because long posts can be bad, doesn't mean they will always be bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should allow people to post what they feel is an appropriate question/answer.  We can let upvotes or downvotes decide if the post is any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:00:57.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:01:50.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original posting was an attempt to post a SQL script in answer to someone's question.  I have an ongoing issue where I work with sites such as pastebin and flickr being blocked by the company firewall.  Therefore, posting code on third party web sites is not necessarily an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:01:50.767" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12130" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:03:06.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that the language be &quot;not appropriate for any SO site&quot;.  This makes it clear that it is completely unwanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:03:06.537" />
  <row Id="13792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:05:21.447" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Get a blog and post a link if the space is too short for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:05:21.447" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="13793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:06:26.780" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to get a feel for ~30k characters, several of Steve Yegge's blog posts are roughly that long:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rich Programmer Food&lt;/a&gt;: ~31500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightly-less-awful-resume.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume&lt;/a&gt;: ~30600&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code's Worst Enemy&lt;/a&gt;: ~30100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Done, and Gets Things Smart&lt;/a&gt;: ~29700&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess the real question is if you want Yegge-esque answers on Stack Overflow. But since I dislike arbitrary limits, however rarely they're hit in practice, I support this feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:06:26.780" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:06:44.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we really be encouraging people to post &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much information? SO is designed to be a Q/A site: an (ideally) direct question leads to an (ideally) direct answer. Conversely, Wikipedia is basically meant to be an encyclopedic reference covering a given topic. Those aren't really the same goals, so why would they need the same unlimited amount of space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:06:44.407" />
  <row Id="13796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:15:26.073" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mentioned this briefly before, but I need a limit of at least 1910000 characters to fit &lt;em&gt;Bleak House&lt;/em&gt; in a single post.  Surely this is of grave importance to the developers of StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:15:26.073" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:28:30.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many accounts consist of one question asked... zero votes and zero answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably chop off the bottom 40% of all accounts.  A lot of them signed up, asked a question, and never came back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133482" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:28:30.337" />
  <row Id="13801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:37:51.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13611/why-dont-high-rep-users-ask-questions/13786#13786&quot;&gt;Like Kara&lt;/a&gt;, I type-out but never submit questions all the time.  Mostly, I say to myself &quot;that's a dumb question&quot; and go find the solution -- it's kinda like I get my own desire to figure out an answer and basically give the 0th answer. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, people who work for me know about my account.  Some of the most interesting questions I have had that might have community benefit from have been because of disagreements among people who work for me and I feel that it would be inapprorpiate to post those disagreements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:37:51.007" />
  <row Id="13802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2009-08-11T18:46:19.007" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/52872/iis-logs-show-sc-win32-status64-but-only-through-some-networks&quot;&gt;Here is my example.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work for a small company as a Developer. Whenever IT/support staff run into an IIS or ASP.NET related issue with our product I get called in to troubleshoot it. In my example question, perhaps another Developer like myself has seen this problem before and dealt with it. Posting on Stack Overflow may help me more because there is a higher volume of people in the .NET community that might be familiar with this kind of issue or been in my shoes before, however, the question is directly related to troubleshooting a client server/network, so it definitely belongs on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a mechanism where the asker could 'flag' (for moderator/high rep community review) a question to be temporarily 'featured' on a sister site for 48 hours. The asker could write a brief explanation of why they would like the other community to see their question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be like the bounty system as well, where the asker must stake some of their reputation in order to do this. If the other community doesn't appreciate the cross post as off topic then the user would lose the staked reputation when the question is down voted by sister site members. If a sister site member is able to solve the problem then they could earn a badge (or extra rep) for reaching out to the sister site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133425" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T18:46:19.007" />
  <row Id="13808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10563" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:03:08.990" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why should it matter if you are downvoting a high rep or low rep user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting should be entirely detached from the user, it should be all about the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this post good? If yes, then upvote.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is this post bad? Is yes, then downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking this question is viewing voting and reputation as a punitive measure and not a content rating system as it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T19:03:08.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:34:21.657" Score="2" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any scripts available to import the data dump into databases other then SQL Server? I don't have an SQL Server license, and the data dump will probably out grow the SQL Server Express 4 gig limit if it hasn't already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T19:40:46.200" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T10:51:23.927" Title="Importing data dump into anything other than SQL Server?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13810" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:37:54.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sqlite.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQLite&lt;/a&gt; version of the data dump for past versions... I'll dig up a couple of URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://modos.org/so-export-sqlite-2009-06.torrent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;June dump&lt;/a&gt; - I don't believe July and August are available, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some code to convert it into Protocol Buffer files, but that's probably a bit of a niche market :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Data Dump Sandbox&lt;/a&gt; if you're happy to use a web interface :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-19T10:51:23.927" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T10:51:23.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5303" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:39:10.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's part of localization. If they localize to a language that does RTL, then they'll have to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-27T20:55:55.153" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T20:55:55.153" />
  <row Id="13813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13785" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:44:43.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been an annoyance for me as well. The only way to see it is to click on one of links like &quot;Today&quot; and see the full activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T19:44:43.867" />
  <row Id="13814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13815" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:46:32.223" Score="3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an important bug to fix, but just noticed it today. You normaly get the 5 seconds between comment vote warning when you try and vote for too many comments at once.  I deleted two of my comments back to back on the same question and I got that same warning &quot;You may submit a comment vote only every 5 seconds&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can replicate it by making two comments and then delete them both quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said, not important to fix anytime soon, but noted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:04:13.897" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:04:13.897" Title="Not Important bug found with 5 second comment warning?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;warning&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13814" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:56:54.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleting a comment counts as a 'vote to delete'. That being said it only takes one vote, and your own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Just to verify that I'm not lying, deleting a comment is  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; VoteTypeId = 10 //(http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/###/vote/10)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/#comment-24147&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the list of vote types, where 10 is clearly marked as deletion. Normal up-votes have a type of 2.  So the message is correct, you're limited to 1 vote every 5 seconds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T20:12:05.933" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T20:12:05.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13817" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:57:47.350" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to gather opinions on how to evaluate the monetary value of a website. Is this an appropriate question to ask on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider that this is directly related to my job as web developer. I have been offered equity in the company, and need to know how to act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133508" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T20:00:39.280" Title="Is it appropriate to ask this on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13816" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:58:57.580" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh,          no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Still no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T19:58:57.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13824" CreationDate="2009-08-11T19:59:13.587" Score="-2" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shows that I've reached my maximum today, but only because of a bounty.  I thought bounties did not apply to the maximum?  This is community wiki as I'm sure the answer is out there somewhere and I can't find it...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Because I received a huge bounty today, any other points coming in, even though I'm at less than 200 for normal voting, is basically thrown aside.  I think that bounties should either count or they shouldn't.  This wishy washy stuff makes things difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T00:45:11.037" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T22:38:22.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-11T19:59:13.587" Title="Daily maximum and bounty" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13818" CreationDate="2009-08-11T20:00:35.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounties are not subject to the cap if you get them &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the cap. I got my 300 pointer after hitting the cap today, so I had a 500 rep day. It's a good day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T20:00:35.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-11T20:00:35.050" />
  <row Id="13820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13816" CreationDate="2009-08-11T20:00:39.280" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13816/is-it-appropriate-to-ask-this-on-stackoverflow/13817#13817&quot;&gt;I agree with Eric&lt;/a&gt;, and refer you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Oh yes, and it should be about programming. You know, with a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Please see:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren’t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T20:00:39.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13822" CreationDate="2009-08-11T20:08:18.950" Score="2" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other day I ran across a guy who downvoted an answer of mine that was correct but included an extra paragraph of commentary which he apparently didn't like.  I was curious why someone would downvote an answer which they otherwise liked, so I checked out his profile to see if I could understand his reasoning by reading some of his answers and other comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had 1 upvote, 1 downvote, 0 answers, 0 questions, 0 tags, and had only posted 1 comment (the one .  He joined 4 days before he downvoted me, and he doesn't seem to have any linked accounts with 200+ rep (the only obvious way I've read about so far which gives you 100 instant rep on one of the other sites without actually doing anything on that site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've probably already gotten more upvotes than I deserve for that particular answer, but I'm asking out of curiosity because it seems like this guy just hopped on and started voting right away, when others (including myself) had to answer several questions and begin to get a feel for the community before accumulating the 15 rep required to upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you suppose he unlinked his accounts after getting the rep (do you lose your 100 points when you unlink your accounts?), or is there some way to earn 100 points without contributing on any of the Stack/Meta/Super/Server sites?  (Or did I miss something else completely obvious?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133027" LastEditorUserId="133027" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-11T20:14:22.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:12:41.520" Title="How can someone get 100 rep without linking accounts or getting upvoted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13821" CreationDate="2009-08-11T20:09:57.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have probaly already seen the official information on this, but association is the only way currently to get an instance +100 rep without doing much else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He might have had stuff deleted or removed, or associated before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T20:09:57.310" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13821" CreationDate="2009-08-11T20:11:48.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He may have answered some questions, then deleted them. Or maybe &lt;em&gt;asked&lt;/em&gt; some questions, then deleted them. You could ask a 10k or higher person to tell you if he has any deleted posts (which they should be able to view).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T20:11:48.117" />
  <row Id="13824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13818" CreationDate="2009-08-11T20:16:23.723" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This changed in late March 2010. Bounties and accepted answers no longer contribute to the rep cap at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Old rules)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are not &lt;em&gt;bound&lt;/em&gt; by the limit, but they &lt;em&gt;contribute&lt;/em&gt; to the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you get 100 point bounty after getting to (say) 215, you go to 315.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get 100 point bounty after getting to 50, you go to 150 - and the rep limit will still hit at 200, not 300.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T22:38:22.657" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T22:38:22.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-11T20:16:23.723" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13818" CreationDate="2009-08-11T20:54:34.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My fault, I was going to award it yesterday at 6:59 PM EST but I was at a golf outing that was delayed due to rain. I at least waited until the last few minutes before awarding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The true problem is that we have to play these games in order to award people as I believe they were originally intended by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will continue to upvote any suggestions that the &lt;strong&gt;REPUTATION CAP SHOULD ONLY APPLY TO VOTES&lt;/strong&gt;. This would not only be easier to implement, but would be more fair... and during a recalc it would greatly increase some users' points that have contributed above and beyond once they hit the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T20:54:34.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-11T20:54:34.553" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21834" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:01:39.000" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a Microsoft C++ language extension, the &lt;code&gt;__try&lt;/code&gt; keyword for exception handling.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow, the results show anything that matches &lt;code&gt;try&lt;/code&gt;. This is not what I want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know if there is a workaround to not get false positives for &lt;code&gt;try&lt;/code&gt; when I am looking for &lt;code&gt;__try&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;__except&lt;/code&gt; also fails to get the expected results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T23:24:07.307" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:24:26.963" Title="Searching for keywords prefixed with underscores does not behave as expected" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:07:12.513" Score="41" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;With Jon Skeet approaching 100K of reputation I think we should start publishing reputation in milliskeets (how many thousandths of Jon's reputation you have, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, at this moment I have 44.01 mskt. By definition, he will always have 1000 mskt*. Because of the daily reputation cap, it is possible to increase your milliskeet score over time. So if I were to get 200 rep/day for a month I'd be able to increase by rep to over 100 mskt as he gains 200 rep/day. If I were to get only 10 rep/day, I would increase ever so slightly to 44.38 mskt. If I earn no reputation each day for that period of time, I would be reduced to 41.33 mskt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every quantity has a base unit of measure -- for SO, why not Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Ok, he probably could find a way to exceed 1000 mskt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="748" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:14:11.763" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:14:11.763" ClosedDate="2011-08-07T18:38:57.983" Title="Can we measure reputation in milliskeets?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="13828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:10:55.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is likely to be very possible if/when a public API is released, then you will be able to query anybody's reputation, Jon Skeet's reputation, and then figure out the milliskeet value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:10:55.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:12:20.523" Score="1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pretty much like the concept (and success) of the achievement/badge system in games and on SO and I'd like to use it in my programs (open or commercial) to reward, tailor and guide the user behavior. Are these names or concepts copyrighted in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fear if I use Achievement I get sued by MS. May I use it/them? What other synonyms are possible (which sound similarly cool)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:44:47.150" Title="Are the Badge or Achievement concepts free of copyright?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;achievements&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="13830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13821" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:12:41.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say for sure, but maybe the original linking account (+100) was deleted for inappropriate activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:12:41.520" />
  <row Id="13831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:13:40.020" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said this before, and I'll say it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only 5 (count 'em) users on StackOverflow who are greater than a semi-Skeet. Therefore, a Skeet is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a viable measurement. A Skeet is an anomaly. A glorious, wondrous anomaly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:13:40.020" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:14:34.183" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but I've never seen a &amp;#0153; next to the word Achievement on my XBox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Jeff and Joel would probably have gotten their @$$es sued off by now it someone else had &quot;Badge&quot; trademarked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:14:34.183" />
  <row Id="13833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:14:41.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt the achievement or badge process is copyrighted (that doesn't even make sense) or patented (what you are probably thinking of). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sony uses them as trophies on the PS3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't really patent the idea of &quot;rewarding users for achieving goals&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:14:41.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:14:56.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL but I'm pretty sure MS will have a hard time taking you to court over their ownership of the word &quot;Achievement&quot;, let alone the abstract concept of a &lt;em&gt;reward&lt;/em&gt; for reaching a &lt;em&gt;goal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:14:56.057" />
  <row Id="13835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:16:54.350" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is one of many enjoyable and amusing things that could be done as a one time, &quot;April Fool's Day&quot; kind of thing. Like I said, enjoyable and amusing, but definitely not an all the time thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:16:54.350" />
  <row Id="13836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:17:03.960" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder how long it will be before the greasemonkey script arrives...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:17:03.960" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:21:03.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copyrights protect the expression of an idea, not the idea itself.  It would be covered by patents.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=1LGcAAAAEBAJ&amp;amp;dq=game+achievements&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is the Microsoft patent application&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:21:03.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13839" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:21:35.323" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my account, I can see that there are two responses to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1262695/converting-integers-to-strings-in-fortran&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1007507/scratch/responses.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;responses&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but when I click to the question page, there is only one answer. Where has Robert Harvey's answer gone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113962" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:09:41.463" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:09:41.463" Title="Missing answers on Stack Overflow question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="13839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13838" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:23:01.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been deleted.          &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:23:01.687" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13838" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:25:51.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Get 9600 more rep and you'll see that it's still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:25:51.557" />
  <row Id="13841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13635" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:33:03.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dialog on Chrome seems to make enough sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3812100369%5Fec9fa79121%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Confirm Navigation&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:33:03.930" />
  <row Id="13842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13882" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:33:43.490" Score="18" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, now that HowToGeek is part of the &lt;em&gt;league of justice&lt;/em&gt;, we often see the website discussed, often with some reference to the HowToGeek logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.howtogeek.com/images/howtogeek-logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;terrible, terrible&lt;/strong&gt; logo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's terribly composed, busy, jarring to look at. It's going for &quot;hand-drawnsville&quot; but ends up somewhere in the vicinity of &quot;puketown.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It even reminds me of the &lt;em&gt;atrocious&lt;/em&gt; comic series that used to play on the Daily WTF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe could we have a logo contest for them? Or just have Joel take a chunk of that filthy FogBugz lucre and loan them a graphic designer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:28:57.610" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T06:41:49.653" Title="Can we pitch in to get HowToGeek a different logo?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;logo&gt;&lt;howtogeek&gt;&lt;ugly&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:35:48.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but I think you're okay, from a legal standpoint...but I'd still be careful.  You don't want to emulate it too closely...there's a big difference between &quot;being able to take you to court&quot; and &quot;being able to win a case&quot;.  They could easily take you to court.  They might not win, but that doesn't mean they couldn't hurt you badly in the process...most people don't have the money to spend on lawyer resources that MS has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd make it different enough that it wouldn't be an issue.  (I wouldn't call it &quot;achievements&quot; for instance.)  Over-cautious?  Perhaps.  Still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:35:48.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:37:11.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Measure Reputation in Miliskeets. (Based off 100,000 reputation = 1 Skeet)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chacha102.com/skeets.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://chacha102.com/skeets.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that Jon Skeet will have 1,000 miliskeets, or 1 Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:37:11.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13842" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:42:05.940" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The website is the How-To Geek's own website and any design changes are likely to be up to him. Maybe you can convince him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:42:05.940" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2009-08-11T21:44:47.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a similar process on &quot;GoldenEye&quot; for the N64. Completing a certain level in a certain time would give you another cheat option. So it not &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; like the Achievements or Badges, but it was definitely in a similar vein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T21:44:47.150" />
  <row Id="13847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T22:02:29.580" Score="22" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update to clarify what I'm asking for (based on discussions on a few other questions there seems to be conflation of two distinct things). I'm not interested in badges for answers that I have accepted, but in badges and statistics for answers that I have given that have  been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have currently answered 460 questions. Of those answers, 149 have been accepted, giving an answer acceptance rate of 32.4%.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;I would like to be able to see my and other user's answer acceptance rate on the user's profile page&lt;/strong&gt;. In my opinion this gives some measure of the quality of their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found some related posts that indicate this request has broad appeal. I've added links to this question in the comments for those questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/1256#1256&quot;&gt;additional-badge-ideas/1256#1256&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21284/add-a-rep-batting-average-similar-to-the-questioners-accept-rate&quot;&gt;add-a-rep-batting-average-similar-to-the-questioners-accept-rate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21189/how-about-new-expert-badges-based-number-of-your-answers-accepted&quot;&gt;how-about-new-expert-badges-based-number-of-your-answers-accepted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that badges are provided to drive behaviour. When your answer is accepted it indicates that you've helped the user who posted the question. I have yet to get round to it, but I strongly suspect that answers to popular tags are voted for more heavily because of the broader user base, and some of the simplest answers I've seen have yielded many votes because everyone can grok the answer (pretty much the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s%5FLaw%5Fof%5FTriviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bike shed principle&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems little incentive to answer hard, or tightly focused technical questions, as they can take a lot more effort, and few people are interested/will understand if the answer is correct or helpful, therefore I suspect they tend to yield few votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provide badges for having a number of answers accepted&lt;/strong&gt; in a particular tag seems an effective way of encouraging users to answer less popular questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest providing badges for accepted answers in a tag because it will encourage users to answer harder or less popular questions, and give those that do so something to aim for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a couple of screenshots from my GM script to illustrate what it could look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modified answer summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3853214355%5F1ff4a7b0e7%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;accepted&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional badges for accepted answers (with threshold for bronze at 5 and silver at 25, gold at 100 for testing). Obviously if this were implemented properly the accepted badges would appear in the normal Badges section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3854021430%5Fb8838dd10a%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;badges&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T06:38:36.560" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T06:38:36.560" Title="Display statistics/have subject badges for accepted answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13847" CreationDate="2009-08-11T22:10:10.453" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see my profile for example to see that I keep track of my accepted answers (I got the Meta-Check) with a custom badge that increments for every accepted. Unfortunately I have to keep it up to date with manual counting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of a badge being given for X accepted answers (silver and gold levels).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T22:10:10.453" />
  <row Id="13849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T22:10:35.367" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just finished organizing regular tagged feeds and was wondering - is there a feeds for unanswered questions in specified tags?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow didn't find them. :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastActivityDate="2010-10-19T03:42:36.193" Title="RSS for unanswered+tagged questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="13850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13842" CreationDate="2009-08-11T22:14:27.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about..... Not.   Or maybe get one of your graphic design buddies to wip something up. Something fierce and epic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like a bear mauling a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or a pic of TheTXI beating a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T15:14:42.603" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:14:42.603" />
  <row Id="13851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13863" CreationDate="2009-08-11T22:14:44.890" Score="36" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine this request has to be a duplicate (and I know for a fact has been mentioned in comments before), but I can't find a similar one via search other than Jon Skeet's per-post cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen several posts of users upset that you could get higher scores based on the order of answer acceptance. As an example, someone who has earned 185 rep in a day could get his answer accepted and then upvoted (resulting in +200), or could get upvoted then his answer accepted (resulting in +210).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, an accepted bounty at the beginning of the day usually eliminates the chance of earning any more rep on that day, but if awarded at the end then it gets applied above and beyond what the user has earned for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be easier to implement the system such that only upvotes and downvotes are capped at 200 points per day? That way, this would never be a problem and people wouldn't have to play games to get around these restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TheTXI and cletus have brought up the other issue I forgot to mention. If you get 21 upvotes in a day followed by 1 downvote, you are only up 198 for the day. If you get 20 upvotes, a downvote, then another upvote you are up 200 for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty added for no reason whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Final Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature-request has been implemented! &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T23:49:38.293" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:49:38.293" Title="Only apply the rep cap to score from votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="13857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13851" CreationDate="2009-08-11T22:55:17.773" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly for or against this, but you could even make it simpler: cap at 20 upvotes. Then the ordering doesn't matter (in terms of when you get upvotes vs downvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T22:55:17.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13842" CreationDate="2009-08-11T22:55:43.590" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the runner-ups for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/logo-contest-winner-for-superusercom/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SU Logo Contest&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crowdspring.com/projects/graphic%5Fdesign/logo/logo%5Ffor%5Fsuperuser%5Fcom/gallery/03&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;entry&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crowdspring.com/myspring/profile/mfourex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mfourex&lt;/a&gt;, might fit nicely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img1.crowdspring.com/var/crowdspring/storage/images/projects/graphic%5Fdesign/logo/logo%5Ffor%5Fsuperuser%5Fcom/gallery/03/image%5F03/10586440-1-eng-US/image%5F03%5Fsubmissionlargegray.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130704" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T22:55:43.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13842" CreationDate="2009-08-11T23:17:40.410" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/3cKqE.png&quot; alt=&quot;Where's the How-To Geek?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T23:17:40.410" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13136" CreationDate="2009-08-11T23:28:05.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a browser/local connection issue.  I have this same prob with accessing this site at work because of certain ads and scripts being blocked, which cause this site to hang up a bit. It could also just be your local connection just taking its sweet ol time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you are running any no-script or any other similar plugins, those can have an effect once in awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T23:28:05.897" />
  <row Id="13863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13851" CreationDate="2009-08-11T23:36:06.520" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been suggested many times always declined without much of an explanation (not a satisfactory one at any rate). This intrangisence borders on pigheadidness. Personally I think consistency is a goal worth attaining where ordering of things like accepting an answer and upvoting don't actually matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easy enough to do too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvotes and downvotes received go into bucket A&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes given, answers accepted (given and received) and bounties go into bucket B&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep for the day = MIN(200,A) + B&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T23:36:06.520" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-11T23:38:27.327" Score="1" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today &lt;a href=&quot;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-code-jam-returns.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google announced&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/codejam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2009 Code Jam&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This year, contestants will compete in&#xA;  several 2½-hour online rounds,&#xA;  attacking three to four difficult&#xA;  algorithmic problems during each&#xA;  round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't a SO user during last years jam, but I have a feeling this years &quot;difficult algorithmic problems&quot; will be posted and solved by the hive-mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has SO ruined Google's challenge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T09:41:18.963" Title="How will you use Stack Overflow for Google Code Jam" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="13867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13864" CreationDate="2009-08-11T23:57:50.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has SO ruined Google's challenge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think so.  Since Google Code Jam is a &lt;em&gt;timed&lt;/em&gt; competition, I don't think it will be affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other sites, like Project Euler, which aren't timed do get some attention on SO, but I think that only heightens awareness and interest in those sites.  I don't think it ruins them.  (I don't particularly like spoilers to other site's questions appearing on SO, but you don't have to read the answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T23:57:50.953" />
  <row Id="13868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13864" CreationDate="2009-08-11T23:59:57.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's face it, if anybody can solve the problem quickly, they're not going to give you their answer ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-11T23:59:57.283" />
  <row Id="13870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13864" CreationDate="2009-08-12T00:30:48.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than answer the question on SO, don't you think they would just sign up for Code Jam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T00:30:48.550" />
  <row Id="13873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13877" CreationDate="2009-08-12T01:18:15.850" Score="6" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tons of questions on SO get closed for being non programming related. This is fine, SO is a programming site, so it should focus on programming. BUT I think we need a place to discuss topics that are related to the industry of programming and computers. It's be nice if we had a place that was a little more relaxed (still focused on computers), so we could ask questions about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jobs and Careers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Education&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Projects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Technologies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Business&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consulting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trends&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is super user the site for this? I'm still not exactly sure where its aims lie. I kind of got the idea from other sites. We discuss jobs and careers that are programming related, but we just need a place with a looser dress code to discuss computers and technology. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edit) CONCLUSION: It appears Stack overflow and its siblings will not be the site(s) for this. This is fine, but it does keep SO from being a one-stop site. You still need sites like codeproject and dreamincode to do things like submit tutorials, talk about subjective stuff, and just relax in the non-programming-only lounge. The SO sites can choose what they want to be. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="130281" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T17:07:56.743" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:07:56.743" Title="We need somewhere to discuss the industry of computers," Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;forums&gt;" AnswerCount="8" />
  <row Id="13874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T01:31:33.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, superuser isn't the site for this!  If you really want a Stackoverflow-like site for this, maybe you should consider setting one up with stack-exchange, or building a clone.  However, none of the sites that we currently have really cater for business related computer matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T01:31:33.423" />
  <row Id="13877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T01:48:03.787" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow engine may not be the best format for these discussions. Consider&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;blogs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;forums&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T01:48:03.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13851" CreationDate="2009-08-12T01:53:43.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the current system, because as more and more people understand how it works you'll have more and more people waiting until later in the day to accept answers to their questions.  In other words, it encourages you to allow enough time for others answers or votes to show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T01:53:43.670" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T02:09:47.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no current site that is best suited for these type of questions, and I do not advocate for Jeff opening up yet another site to deal with it (if they already have one in the pipeline, fine, if not, I say don't bother).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend setting up one yourself now using some other software, or perhaps signing up for a StackExchange site when they are available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a firm believer that not everyone's idea of what is a good idea should be immediately turned into yet another Stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T02:09:47.777" />
  <row Id="13881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T02:43:37.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is not a forum or newsgroup, and the software - by design - does not lend itself well to extended discussion. Fortunately, there is still USENET, IRC, that new-fangled Twitter thing, as well as many sites that provide decent forums for this sort of discussion. Personally, i'm fond of The CodeProject, but for some other suggestions, see: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13198/where-can-i-find-interesting-programming-discussions&quot;&gt;Where can I find interesting programming discussions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren’t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T02:43:37.223" />
  <row Id="13882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13842" CreationDate="2009-08-12T02:51:02.513" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not a terrible idea. I mean, the logo was intended to be fun, friendly, and memorable, but we could make it boring and forgettable if you really want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we are on topic, can we discuss my idea for a much more accurate Meta logo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.howtogeek.com/geekers/up/sooooooomuchwhining.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;=)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, my logo needs a little cleanup, and in fact I've got a high quality version of The Geek, but I haven't felt like changing it because it's memorable the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132654" LastEditorUserId="132654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T02:56:35.407" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T02:56:35.407" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T03:38:03.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hacker News&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel on Software Discussion Group&lt;/a&gt; are the best places for these topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T03:38:03.410" />
  <row Id="13885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13886" CreationDate="2009-08-12T04:37:00.857" Score="1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it S[OUF]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T06:10:21.853" Title="What's the correct regular expression for SO SU SF?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13885" CreationDate="2009-08-12T04:40:29.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T04:40:29.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13885" CreationDate="2009-08-12T04:48:18.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you should specify begin and end with word boundaries, otherwise if someone curses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SOD!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you might get an unintentional match.  So that gives us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\bS[OFU]\b&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might also be interested in detecting things like &lt;code&gt;S.O.&lt;/code&gt;.  But we don't want to pick up &lt;code&gt;S.O&lt;/code&gt; -- that's just silly.  So we can introduce an optional . in a group, and then refer back to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\bS(?P&amp;lt;dot&amp;gt;\.?)[OFU](?P=dot)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, things get a bit tricky, since we still want the trailing wordboundary, but only if we didn't match a dot (since \b won't match between a dot and a space, for instance).  Maybe a negative lookbehind..?  I'm open to assistance on this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T04:48:18.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13885" CreationDate="2009-08-12T04:50:26.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're talking regular expression, then it has to be something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; S(O|F|U)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where you're given a choice among the letters in the parentheses, but at least one is to be chosen at a time. Or streamlined to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; S[OFU]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, as pointed out, matches up with one character. And the S is looking to join in on that bracket orgy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or this dupe: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5924/whats-a-good-way-to-refer-to-all-four-sites-collectively/&quot;&gt;What's a good way to refer to all four sites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T06:10:21.853" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T06:10:21.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13885" CreationDate="2009-08-12T05:39:32.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer plain old (SO|SU|SF|MSO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A regex to match 4 possible sites is overkill if you ask me anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T05:39:32.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13885" CreationDate="2009-08-12T05:52:41.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. There are many possible ways to write it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;S[OUF]&#xA;&#xA;S(?:O|U|F)&#xA;&#xA;(?:SO|SU|SF)&#xA;&#xA;(?:SO|S[UF])&#xA;&#xA;(?:S[OF]|SU)&#xA;&#xA;(?:SF|S[OU])&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;et.c...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Notice that ?: makes a non-matching parenthesis so that it doesn't affect the result of the match.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131612" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T05:52:41.297" />
  <row Id="13893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7350" CreationDate="2009-08-12T06:30:34.747" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are recorded, and if they are made freely available, just stating my preference for blip.tv over youtube as the host.  Blip.tv make it easy to download the video files in whatever format you need.  Makes it much more efficient to watch in two or more sittings or on the TV instead of in front of the computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I know there are tools to enable downloading from YT, but you usually end up with poorer quality and it's a fiddle.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T06:30:34.747" />
  <row Id="13894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T06:52:59.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussions reg. Jobs and Careers , Business, Trends can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;. I suppose social networks are the best place to do this. They also have questions and answers, votes, flags and so on, somehow it is similar to SO but only author of the question can vote for answers. That is why I like SO more, because it is driven by community, not by business consultants that probably have no other work then asking questions like &quot;Why it is better to outsource in ... &quot; (put any country of the world). You can see there what kind of question people will tend to ask if you will allow them to ask everything, so probably you will very soon dislike the idea to have a web site for everything :)  Though sometimes there are really good Q&amp;amp;A even in LinkedIn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T06:52:59.210" />
  <row Id="13896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T08:43:51.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some time I was thinking if we need “BussinesFailure.com”, or some site designed for business discussions. However, later I realized that business is not “hard” set of rules, as programming is. Business is a bunch of “soft” rules. In addition, in order to be good in your business you need many so-called “soft skills”. This is first issue against such site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second issue against business-oriented clone of SO is a connection between business and law. Maybe this link is not so strong in quite liberal USA, but in more regulated EU, it is very strong. Starting even small company, you have to deal with legal system. You even cannot hire developer, without knowing the law. In EU, you cannot start your business without registering it first – this process can take from few hours to few weeks, depending from a country. Therefore, discussing business will always require discussion about local law. Since every legal system is different, those discussions would be meaningless – what Americans know about German or Swedish legal system? Who, apart from EU citizens, will be able to answer questions about intra-EU delivery of software? German legal system recognizes software licenses as a good, while Polish legal system recognizes software license as a service. How do you think discussion about methods of selling software in those cases would look like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T08:43:51.000" />
  <row Id="13897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13873" CreationDate="2009-08-12T08:44:52.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several of those topics are appropriate on SO, SF and SU depending on the particulars. For example, career-related questions for programmers is quite appropriate on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see nay point in pooling that because, for example, advice for sysadmins is really quite a different thing than advice for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even questions about trends can be framed in such a way as to fit the SO model: you just need to put the question in such a way that it is a question with a definite answer (that can be subjective) and not just an open-ended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T08:44:52.557" />
  <row Id="13901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13864" CreationDate="2009-08-12T09:41:18.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... maybe I should try to find out the challenges in advance and keep an eye out for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy to notify the Code Jam organizers internally and see what they think if anyone wants me to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T09:41:18.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T09:48:57.560" Score="-6" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been seeing a lot of people that come into a question after the fact, and then use the comment section to answer the question. The only purpose of this is so their response appears at the top. I think this type of behavior needs to be discouraged, and the comment section only used for clarifying the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we be flagging these comments, or is there a way to impact the people doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And another thing, if someone write a comment as, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; that should be an automatic 50 point cost to the author. Then only people with a lot of rep would continue to be Wiki &lt;em&gt;Politzi&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Guess this is a sore topic. Anyway, why not just have a Community wiki &quot;vote&quot; button and be done with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133328" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T23:06:42.883" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T23:06:42.883" Title="How to down vote users that answer questions in the &quot;question comments&quot; section?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;hijacking&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="13903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13902" CreationDate="2009-08-12T10:00:05.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For your first question: I think it's better to first add a comment yourself explaining it should be posted as an answer. Only flag the comment (or flag the question for moderator attention) when you don't get any response. Down-voting those people (on other answers/questions for instance) is not a good reaction!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your 'other thing': &lt;strong&gt;No way&lt;/strong&gt;! I actually haven't seen that much of 'community wiki' comments which weren't appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And... How will the system know it has to charge a 'C0mun1ty VV1k1 plz' comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T10:05:49.697" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T10:05:49.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13902" CreationDate="2009-08-12T10:08:10.173" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re wiki: what is the bee in the bonnet that some people have? Some questions genuinely are (IMO) best served as wiki - or at worst deleted. And I fully defend the right of people to suggest that something &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be a wiki. Otherwise, there is a portion of questions which &lt;em&gt;while programming related&lt;/em&gt; are clearly intended as a means at rep-garnering. I'm not going to get into whether that is the intended meaning of wiki, but it is what the community has evolved to want and expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I find terms like &quot;Wiki Politzi&quot; / &quot;wiki police&quot; to be offensive and derogatory to the users who &lt;strong&gt;quite reasonably, and in line with the accepted forum usage&lt;/strong&gt; suggest wiki would be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are seeing lots of &quot;wiki please&quot; comments on your posts... maybe you should think whether the questions you are asking are actually the core aim of the site - i.e. fixing problems, not an open discussion board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T10:08:10.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13902" CreationDate="2009-08-12T10:18:00.030" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is it that you are so upset about? Where is the harm when someone answers in a comment? The worst thing that can happen is that the comment section gets a bit cluttered. I also doubt what you said about the motivation of those commentators: &quot;The only purpose of this is so their response appears at the top.&quot; You don't get much rep for a comment, even if it contains a perfect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T10:18:00.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T10:39:20.813" Score="-4" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if tags had types.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This way we could create a &lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt; type for all tags designating some library class like &lt;code&gt;QStateMachine&lt;/code&gt; (from Qt framework). We could create another type of tag, let's say &lt;code&gt;programming-language&lt;/code&gt; and make all tags designating some programing language of this type.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This way we could allow users to search only in specific types of tags if they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:37:58.190" Title="Tags should have types" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1417" CreationDate="2009-08-12T10:50:42.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry but I think that this is one of the core values on stackoverflow - it does discourage discussions that are not productive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no result/solution/answer the entire discussion would be useless and just a waste of time for both the participants and the readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130646" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T10:50:42.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13908" CreationDate="2009-08-12T10:58:44.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting idea, but it has some complexity considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who categorizes existing tags?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can re-categorize?  What's the process?  How many people does it take?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's UI for (any of) it look like?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you create a new tag, do you have to categorize it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can a tag be in more than 1 category?  Frankly, it's gotta be.  There's gonna end up being a &quot;microsoft&quot; category, and a &quot;.net&quot; category.  Categories aren't idempotent.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can categories be in categories?  Cause sql-server would be a reasonable category, but it'd also fall under Microsoft which would be another category.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(steve yegge link here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you have to think of the &quot;wins&quot; of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Essentially gives all questions a &quot;broader&quot; tag implicitly: all .net tags get microsoft, all t-sql tags get sql-server, all sql-server tags get sql.  This lets you follow a much broader stream of information. (and drink from a larger firehose)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search would get &quot;better&quot; (for some definition of better) because you could search within a category.  Don't show me anything from any category from mac because I'm a snob (I kid).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I know there's more but I'm getting hungry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the wins justify the cost?  I think this falls into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2615/criteria-for-feature-requests/2616#2616&quot;&gt;the following feature-request type&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Feature requests which are good but unlikely due to the cost/benefit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;not a bad idea&lt;/strong&gt;, it &lt;strong&gt;does get you wins in certain areas&lt;/strong&gt; but it also has a deceptively high development cost for the few wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T10:58:44.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T11:11:01.700" Score="-8" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be 7 at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-01T19:53:17.140" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T19:53:17.140" Title="5 tags is too few" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="13914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13912" CreationDate="2009-08-12T11:21:12.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is your real name, Roget?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 tags is plenty if you actually know what your problem is about or at least what platform you're on about. Any more than that and you're throwing about tags just for the sake of trying to spread the net of eyeballs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T11:21:12.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2683" CreationDate="2009-08-12T12:25:12.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting, in the &lt;strong&gt;remote future&lt;/strong&gt;, for the StackOverflow app to &lt;strong&gt;expose &lt;em&gt;question moving&lt;/em&gt; to its API&lt;/strong&gt;. That way a question could be moved from one SO website to another even if they have different owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133563" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:25:12.727" />
  <row Id="13918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13912" CreationDate="2009-08-12T12:26:17.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't accurately sum up the subject matter of your question using 5 tags, then you (and others) must be doing something wrong. I can't think of very many times where I have had to use all 5 tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am asking a question about how to do something with extending the collections class in ASP.NET I may tag it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;ASP.NET&quot;, &quot;VB&quot;, &quot;Collections&quot; &quot;Extending&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even then I would probably not include &quot;extending&quot; because it on itself isn't a very useful tag (and I would probably mention extending the class somewhere in my title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are still finding that you are using too many tags, you should probably look at simplifying the question until it reaches a certain granularity. Asking a question that is too big and encompasses too many areas at one time is a good way to not get your question answered well by the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:26:17.827" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13912" CreationDate="2009-08-12T12:27:08.887" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick analysis of the public data dump to look at the usage of tags in existing questions reveals the following numbers for questions having N tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;N  Questions&#xA;1  24926&#xA;2  58744&#xA;3  73071&#xA;4  51859&#xA;5  33955&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/6284/tagcounts.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The graph looks similar to a normal distribution.  It may have a long tail off to the right, suggesting larger numbers of tags might be utilized, but my opinion is that &lt;strong&gt;5 is a sufficient maximum&lt;/strong&gt;, since the most common number of tags used is 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:27:08.887" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="13920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13912" CreationDate="2009-08-12T12:28:56.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that 5 Tags is Okay for 99% of the cases. For example, if I tag my Post &quot;c#&quot; I usually do not need to tag it &quot;c#3.0&quot; unless it really is specifically about C# 3.0, but even then, &quot;C#&quot; is good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least in my opinion, I found that the 1 or 2 most &quot;prominent&quot; tags for a question are good enough. Unless you really need to write a C# Extension function to SQL Server that has to communicate with an Oracle database over XML using Java as a Proxy, but even that fits in 5 tags (mssql c# oracle java xml).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:28:56.327" />
  <row Id="13922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13908" CreationDate="2009-08-12T12:37:58.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cost vs. benefit of this would be pretty monumental in my own opinion. If I have to start tagging my tags, my head may pop off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also sounds eerily similar to hierarchical tagging, which Jeff has said in absolute terms would never be showing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:37:58.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T12:37:23.887" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a SO account (named hamen).  I'd like to associate an OpenID to that account.  When I try to login with OpenID it simply creates a new account.  The name is still hamen because OpenID provides it, but it's a brand-new account.  I could migrate to this new SO account, but I cannot set my email address because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! There was a problem updating&#xA;  your profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Email - is already registered&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T12:53:31.313" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:53:31.313" Title="How to associate OpenID to an old StackOverflow account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13924" CreationDate="2009-08-12T12:46:59.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to email team@stackoverflow.com and see if they can't help you get your accounts merged successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T12:46:59.697" />
  <row Id="13935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13936" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:10:37.710" Score="-1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the inclusion of DocType in the LOJ, it looks like Meta will now be the new feedback area for them as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since they are not operating on the same framework or code as the other sites, you would need to have some of them be able to moderate (at least add in those nice moderator-only tags), so elevating one or two of them (or however many there are) should be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be considered that those with only domain-specific knowledge be limited only to their own realm, so that they can only have mod power over posts tagged with DocType (or perhaps How-To Geek as power over only posts tagged for his area).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure restraint could just be practiced by mods and we should expect mods not to interfere on areas they are not suited for, but hey, what's wrong with some more complexity, eh!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:14:56.283" Title="Allow for Moderators on Meta to specialize on a specific site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13935" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:14:56.283" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the moderator action on this site isn't adding moderator-only tags.  So what else would this system gain?  Seems like a needless level of complexity to me.  And frankly, it probably hinders more than it helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:14:56.283" />
  <row Id="13939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14123" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:24:49.750" Score="6" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is time to come to terms with our overlords. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000021.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; has repeatedly referred to himself and his cronies hubristically as the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;League&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/howtogeek-and-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/stack-overflow-and-doctype/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Justice&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has referred to his users as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001295.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Digital Sharecroppers&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the addition of &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;, he appears to be trying to hoard all the technical information^1 on the internet into one Atwood controlled spot. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1993/b330760.arc.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07%5F15/b4029001.htm?link%5Fposition=link1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;companies&lt;/a&gt; have tried this in the past, and it has been shown that great power turns &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1474&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unicon.net/node/686&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;companies&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;evil&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is integral that we, the denizens of MSO rise up against our oppressors before he is the gatekeeper to accessing all information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/09/eu-microsoft-is-a-monopoly.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suggestions&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, keep this hush hush, wouldn't want Jeff finding out about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Notable exceptions^2: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;php&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001294.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;COBOL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Joel is a fan of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;LOGO&lt;/a&gt;, no word on Jeff's opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T21:19:10.093" Title="Is The StackOverflow &quot;League of Justice&quot; getting too powerful?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="13940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13941" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:25:45.053" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that 50 points are added by the system when creating a bounty. But I don't understand how the user for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180364/how-do-you-get-file-details-in-a-sharepoint-itemeventreciever-in-the-itemadding-e&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; can give away 150 points when they have 87 (at time of writing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this possible and what will they end up with if the bounty concludes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:29:22.630" Title="Bounty giving away more reputation than a user has" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="13941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13940" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:27:50.917" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep is taken off of the user when the bounty is added, not when it is awarded.  If you look at their &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/90333?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;rep graph&lt;/a&gt;, you can see they lost 100 rep (50 rep for the bounty is added by the system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:27:50.917" />
  <row Id="13944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:30:15.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figure that giving TheTXI mod powers on SU is either a sign that Jeff is so inept that he's not a threat to anyone, or he's a master villain with more cunning than we mere mortals can understand.  In the first case, there is nothing to worry about.  In the second, there is no way we can stop him, so why worry?  Either way, enjoy the long fall back to Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:30:15.750" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13955" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:46:45.837" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say a question is asked on SO and it's voted to be closed and moved to SU. That leaves you with an empty question. Why not provide some visual cue as to what's happened to it? The easiest way to do that is to change it's appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That could be as simple as changing the &quot;X votes, 0 answers&quot; box to be styled like the destination site. It could go even further but I think that one box is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T13:48:31.857" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:56:45.140" Title="When a question is moved, change its styling to match that site on the original" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="13954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:50:19.093" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was using IE8, I noticed that SF would alert me when the answers are updated while I am typing out my own answer.  Now since switching to Chrome, I haven't seen that happen.  I just spent some time researching an answer only to submit it and find someone had provided the same answer 9 minutes before me. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:22:13.057" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:22:13.057" Title="Chrome not updating answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13952" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:56:45.140" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe have an additional banner just below the title sporting a little note, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/21767/setting-a-default-cpu-frequency-in-ubuntu&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/VKGVo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Super Tiny User&quot; title=&quot;Super Tiny User&quot; /&gt; This question can now be found at Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the icon of the new home site just to not be so harsh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:56:45.140" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="13956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13912" CreationDate="2009-08-12T13:58:39.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only time I needed more than 5 tags was when I was asking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/15884/hdmi-versus-component-versus-vga-versus-dvi&quot;&gt;video comparisons&lt;/a&gt; on SuperUser.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/15884/hdmi-versus-component-versus-vga-versus-dvi&quot;&gt;video comparisons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up adjusting my question, but I would have liked to have added component video in to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that one exception, I've found I've never used 5 before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18217" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T13:58:39.083" />
  <row Id="13958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T14:05:12.600" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow&quot;&gt;Post Overflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commenters can break the page layout by posting a long, unbroken string. Feels like the 1990s on Slashdot again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1263694&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1263694&lt;/a&gt; for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T14:08:14.470" ClosedDate="2009-08-14T06:21:46.757" Title="fix page widening" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13958" CreationDate="2009-08-12T14:08:14.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reported to the mods. Users should know better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be nice if the system truncated or wrapped these nonsense comments though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T14:08:14.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13968" CreationDate="2009-08-12T14:55:30.320" Score="-1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't you create a great answer which receives a ton of upvotes.  Then later go in and change the answer to something completely wrong.  And even do so subtly so that it looks fine.  I don't think I have enough rep yet, but couldn't you also edit someone else's top answer and be even more malicious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does SO protect from this other than the Wiki-community method?  Does it matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133571" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:00:05.980" Title="Top answer poisoning" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13967" CreationDate="2009-08-12T14:56:48.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody can see the edit history, so you can't hide an edit. The community does a great job of policing itself in this way. Like in hockey. If you take a cheap shot, somebody's dropping the gloves and will call you out on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tangentially, I cannot wait until October.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T14:56:48.990" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="13969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13967" CreationDate="2009-08-12T14:58:15.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have systems in place to guard against this, mainly flagging a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T15:01:44.207" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:01:44.207" />
  <row Id="13971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13967" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:04:18.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you edit anything, it's bumped to the top of the active view.  When you edit old questions, those edits tend to stand out in that view.  The odds are good someone will review it and correct it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; get away with it for a while if you do the edit very early on a Sunday morning before a holiday when few people are using the site.  But even then the revision history is available and if the item is important enough where many people actually view it someone will flag it for correction eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you're so lame as to have nothing better to do for you holiday, you &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; get away with vandalizing questions that no one cares about any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T17:00:05.980" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:00:05.980" />
  <row Id="13975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:15:33.117" Score="12" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions on stackoverflow where a response will (accidentally or deliberately) link to pirated books.  This is usually detected and corrected in short order.  However, the edit history dutifully preserves the links to the pirated material for all to see (and click).  Indeed, a google search for &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com pirated books&lt;/code&gt; will bring up many offenders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a problem?  Is stackoverflow still responsible for linking to the pirated materials, even though the link only appears in an edit history?  Is there a process to expunge such links more thoroughly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T20:16:01.857" Title="Links to pirated material in the edit history" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="13976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14769" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:18:45.000" Score="40" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;What with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001295.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog post&lt;/a&gt; today, possibly this is a good time to ask: who actually owns the copyright to questions, answers and comments submitted to StackOverflow and relatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3646/im-worried-about-stack-overflow-content-licensing&quot;&gt;this question about licensing&lt;/a&gt;, we have the OP reaching the conclusion that SO owns the copyright and is licensing it under CC-Attribution-Sharealike, with no apparent confirmation or denial from staff, and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12681/what-happened-to-attribution-required/12684#12684&quot;&gt;an answer in another thread&lt;/a&gt; we have a moderator asserting that Jeff owns the copyright to SO content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I note in a comment on the latter, though (which was met with deafening silence), I'm failing to find any evidence that this is the case.  I've looked for any kind of terms of service I may have agreed to indicating that I am signing over ownership of my words when I hit submit, and I can't find one.  Certainly the fact that I'm agreeing to CC-Attribution-Sharealike licensing is clear enough, but it seems to me as if I am retaining copyright while agreeing to those licensing terms, and S[OFU] is using what I have written under that license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the deal?  Did I forget about something that I agreed to in the signup process (and if so, why can't I find it afterward)?  Do the owners and administrators of S[OFU] &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; that they own copyright to the UGC?  Just what is going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit as to why this matters (from answer comment thread): If I retain copyright, I can also choose to license the original content to other parties under other terms (such as releasing it into the public domain, using an attribution-required license without sharealike, etc). If SO has the copyright, I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T17:25:33.537" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T22:05:10.777" Title="Who owns the copyright to S[OFU] content?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="13977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5432" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:19:10.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A great way to provide your contact information is via your profile.  You can insert anything into the &quot;about me&quot; section including contact info.  My profile includes a twitter and blog link.  Neither directly has my email but it's fairly easy to figure out from the info (and my blog has an email me link).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had several users contact me via my profile information.  Likewise, I've used other peoples profile to get in contact with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a lot more effective than having a community WIKI style solution.  You have to know this even exists to find out information about someone.  With the profile solution, I just have to click on your name which is (at least for me) a natural action when I want to know more about someone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:19:10.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-12T15:19:10.893" />
  <row Id="13983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13912" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:30:56.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there could be a good argument to be made to increase the number of tags here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, you have to choose one of the required tags. Also if a moderator adds one of the &lt;code&gt;[status-*]&lt;/code&gt; tags, that leaves only 3 tags to use as you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:30:56.923" />
  <row Id="13984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13975" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:32:28.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the unfortunate things about user ran websites. You always have a few bad apples.  Mods do a decent job of keeping questions in order and correct.  I don't think anyone can edit the history of any question though besides the originators of the site. I might be wrong though.  Maybe leave the history of a question or answer, but just disable the actual link.  If a change like this was made, it would be nice to indicate that a bad link was posted and removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a user that did this multiple times might need to be taken out back and banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:32:28.327" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="13986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13976" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:38:37.330" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the footer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com LLC; user contributed content licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you own the copyright on the content you have generated, however, you have also granted a licence for it to be used under those terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:38:37.330" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="13987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:39:26.017" Score="-4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a job applicant mentioned his SO (or SF I suppose) account, and you saw that they had a rep of X, what baseline of expertise would you associate with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would there be a point at which their rep points are more indicative of their devotion to this particular site than programming knowledge?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, a diligent manager would dig in to find out how those points were earned before basing a hiring decision on SO rep points, and they are designed to measure community service rather than expertise, but the badges, etc. indicate that it can be used as a shorthand to establish a baseline of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:42:59.163" Title="What level of expertise would you associate with different rep levels?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:38:16.303" Score="1" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering, is there a way to track particular questions in Stack Overflow?  For instance, if I see a question asked that I would like to see the answer to, is there a way that I can mark that question so that I can come back to it later? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T15:48:17.153" LastActivityDate="2011-04-06T16:04:27.293" Title="How can I watch a question in Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="13989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13988" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:40:18.610" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put them in Favorites, click on the star under the votes of your question. Here is how you can watch them - In your profile page there is a Favorites tab, it lists all your favorite questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133579" LastEditorUserId="133579" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T16:08:47.067" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:08:47.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="13990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13988" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:40:23.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the star to the left of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:40:24.037" />
  <row Id="13991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13987" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:40:39.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NONE&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep has nothing to do with expertise and is only a measure of trust within the SO systems and communities...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why employers shouldn't look at it to make hiring decisions (based on trust).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:40:39.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="13992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13987" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:40:59.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...what baseline of expertise would you associate with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130396" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:40:59.400" />
  <row Id="13993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13987" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:42:00.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest reading this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12421/stackoverflow-what-does-reputation-really-mean-and-do-you-pay-attention-to-anyon/12424#12424&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12421/stackoverflow-what-does-reputation-really-mean-and-do-you-pay-attention-to-anyon/12424#12424&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:42:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-12T15:42:13.110" />
  <row Id="13994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13987" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:42:59.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd think &lt;em&gt;this guy knows enough about programming to know where to go to give and get help&lt;/em&gt;.  So that's a plus.  But no thoughts on experience yet. &lt;strong&gt;I would go read his questions and answers.&lt;/strong&gt;  Probably the top 10 or so top-voted, and the bottom 20 or so low-voted.  Then I'd start forming an opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:42:59.163" />
  <row Id="13996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13988" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:44:56.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each question has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to if you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to see everything that happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, favouriting the question is a pretty good way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152971" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:44:56.833" />
  <row Id="13997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:46:11.840" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a meta question a couple weeks back about receiving notifications sporadically or not at all from forum activity. I think I may have moved a step closer to the problem origin: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This morning I received an email saying there were 3 answers to a question I posted yesterday, even though the question and the 3 answers were posted 5 days ago. But the notification system is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the problem: when I visited the web site to view the question and the answers they all claim they were posted &lt;em&gt;yesterday&lt;/em&gt;, which is flatly false!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So sometimes questions and answers do not get fully &quot;registered&quot; in some sense; when they finally do, that changes their datestamp and that is when a notification goes out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For reference, my previous question is available &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5673&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131231" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:38:32.147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:38:32.147" Title="Datestamps changed days after question or answer posted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="13998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14023" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:46:15.957" Score="0" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are differences between Java Standard Edition (which I would assume makes up most of the questions tagged &quot;java&quot;), Java Enterprise Edition, and Java Mobile Edition. However, I have seen JEE and JME questions tagged as &quot;java&quot;. I'm fluent in Java, but I can't answer a lot of JEE questions and no JME questions because of my limited experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the Java tag be phased out in favor of tags more like &quot;java-standard&quot;, &quot;java-enterprise&quot;, and &quot;java-mobile&quot; (or similar) or supplemented with one of &quot;jse&quot;, &quot;jee&quot;, or &quot;jme&quot; tags to define the flavor of Java being used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:56:49.280" Title="Is &quot;java&quot; an appropriate tag on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13998" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:51:36.773" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be better to leave the Java tag for questions that are flavor agnostic (or the asker doesn't know if flavor matters) and still have flavor specific tags for questions dealing with flavor specific issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:51:36.773" />
  <row Id="14002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13998" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:55:46.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;let the people decide.  if a tag is popular, leave it, it makes sense to people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:55:46.813" />
  <row Id="14005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14017" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:58:03.983" Score="4" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I had a little over 1,500 reputation on SO.  Today I have a little over 1,200.  The reputation tab on my profile does not indicate any mass down voting of my questions or answers.  I haven't received any comments or responses in the last day or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other way to find why 300 point would just go missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133582" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:51:21.660" Title="Is there a way to determine how I just lost 300 reputation on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14005" CreationDate="2009-08-12T15:59:57.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can click on the envelope beside your account name or look at the reputation graph in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this might have been due to a rep recalc, and you won't find it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T15:59:57.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14005" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:07:12.530" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/42620?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;reputation graph&lt;/a&gt;, I don't see a recent drop (or a drop of any kind), so I suspect that you lost reputation due to a rep recalc. Downvotes, bounties, and (iirc) posts that were removed as &quot;offensive&quot; are present in the graph. Other things like association bonuses are not, but I still think that this is due to a recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you lost a substantial amount of rep, can you identify a popular question or answer that's missing from your profile? Perhaps it's a highly-ranked answer whose questions has been migrated to another site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T16:19:01.493" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:19:01.493" />
  <row Id="14013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14015" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:08:39.503" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought I'd put a slightly different slant on this topic asked by Mikeage in January:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499331/do-stackoverflow-questions-represent-the-current-state-of-the-programming-industr&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499331/do-stackoverflow-questions-represent-the-current-state-of-the-programming-industr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Stackoverflow appears to enjoy widespread use across the development community for a broad spectrum of programming topics, I was wondering about its use as an indicator of industry trends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already count of the tagged questions, but I would be quite curious to see a representation (e.g. a graph) of this over time for specific tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen measures on industry trends before based on the number of jobs in particular skills advertised, and believe this should also be a good indicator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it that it would also be beneficial from the site’s perspective, in that it would attract attention from sections of the press reporting on this – raising its profile further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, really, just to reiterate the question, Could stackoverflow be used an indicator of industry trends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:16:01.903" Title="Could stackoverflow be used an indicator of industry trends?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;skills&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14013" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:15:44.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it could be an indicator, though IMHO even twitter would be better. The tagging feature is ok, but people go to stackoverflow only when they have problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that if many people use some technology, many will have problems; but there may be a more &quot;problematic&quot; one, less used, but with more problems&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:15:44.790" />
  <row Id="14015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14013" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:15:51.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced that SO members represent a random sampling of the industry.  We tend to be skewed towards the Microsoft stack because of the backgrounds of the originators.  It may be possible that over time this will change, but at present I'd take any data on trends with a grain of salt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:15:51.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14013" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:16:01.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really no. Developers who are likely to be on SO right now are typically well ahead of the &quot;Industry&quot; curve. For example, Banks, Governments and other large institutions are unlikely to use ASP MVC however a quick look at SO would have you believe that everyone is doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is a year old at this point which is really too early to include all facets of development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:16:01.903" />
  <row Id="14017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14005" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:16:08.190" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost certainly going to be due to a &quot;high value&quot; question or answer being either deleted or (more likely) migrated to SuperUser, ServerFault or Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:16:08.190" />
  <row Id="14019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14005" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:23:17.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a question or answer that got flagged as offensive, you would have lost 100 points. That post would also be deleted, so you wouldn't see it unless you have 10k+ rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So You could have lost that many points if you had three posts flagged as offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6570/what-could-be-the-reason-of-a-negative-reputation&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T16:51:21.660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:51:21.660" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14034" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:55:47.610" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the inclusion of Doctype into the discussion, the suggestion that we simply ignore the tags came to the forefront. This has me wondering if users of stackexchange would need to explicitly ignore every new item each day simply to keep their list of visible items clean and un-cluttered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we have an opt-in option for cleared-tags? Meaning, you only show me what I explicitly state I want to see until I decide otherwise. That way, users don't have to login, ignore all the new tags for the day, and then get back to familiar browsing. Day 2, repeat, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, every tag is uninteresting if it's not in the interesting list. I don't mean to suggest this as default behavior of SO. This would be a preference for users. And opt-in service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T17:02:11.717" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:14:24.033" Title="Implicit-Ignore for New Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13998" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:56:49.280" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see people use &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; the generic 'java' tag and a more specific tag ('jme', 'jee', 'swing', etc.) on most Java questions.  This would allow you to follow them all by flagging just 'java' as interesting, while at the same time ignoring the more specific ones that you're not interested in.  Remember, ignored tags trump interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:56:49.280" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14022" CreationDate="2009-08-12T16:58:00.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the tag cloud changes too much for this to really be practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T16:58:00.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14022" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:00:12.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this completely. I do not personally use the interesting/ignored tags much at all so this would suck for someone like me. If anything, this should be a user preference instead of a default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:00:12.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14140" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:07:34.157" Score="10" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you do a Google search for text edited or removed from a post, you get the &quot;revisions&quot; page that shows the edit history. Isn't there a way to discourage or &lt;strong&gt;prevent Google from indexing&lt;/strong&gt; these pages? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only &lt;strong&gt;latest, complete version&lt;/strong&gt; of posts should reflect the actual content of the site. The revision history is just administrative overhead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technology changes, information becomes obsolete, and code becomes deprecated. Hopefully, the archive of Stack Overflow will continue to be updated, augmented, and incorrect information removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of prestige, &lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow should not accumulate endless search hits to information that has been &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; removed or corrected&lt;/strong&gt;. There is also the illegal information (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13975/links-to-pirated-material-in-the-edit-history&quot;&gt;Links to pirated material in the edit history&lt;/a&gt;) that will be hosted on Stack Overflow forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T07:02:49.340" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T07:02:49.340" Title="Q&amp;A Revisions Should be Hidden from Search Engines" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14030" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:09:09.380" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that as more new users are finding and using StackOverflow, there are more questions which do not get flagged as being answered, even though there are sometimes multiple working answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users also seem to be using StackOverflow as a forum, often posting responses, furthering the discussion, or asking another question as an answer, rather than editing their original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should these be handled? Is there a better mechanism to inform new users that this is not a traditional forum? Could StackOverflow perhaps provide more hand holding for the first few questions someone asks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8319/correct-action-for-non-answers-by-new-users&quot;&gt;other question&lt;/a&gt;, there are certain alternatives; however, I think there could be a preventative answer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people below have mentioned videos, tutorials, or even a quiz. These were not the direction I was necessarily thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a new user views the answers to his first or second question, perhaps a popup bar, like when receiving a badge, could be displayed mentioning to vote up the answer that best meets their criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then upon voting up, maybe another notification saying &quot;If this persons's response answers your question, make sure to give them credit by clicking the check mark&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing too intrusive, and it would only happen for the first few questions posed. With a little region highlighting it could probably work well for most people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133231" LastEditorUserId="133231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T21:28:10.260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:28:10.260" Title="Is there some way to better explain the operation of *overflow to new users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;help&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14029" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:12:15.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just keep pointing them to the FAQ and to meta for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the site isn't clear and self explanatory, then we have already lost the battle. There is no point to applying band-aids at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be looking to &lt;em&gt;reduce&lt;/em&gt; the barriers to entry on the sites, not &lt;em&gt;increase&lt;/em&gt; them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T17:54:14.687" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:54:14.687" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="14031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14029" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:12:30.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO needs a couple small videos they show immediately after registering. Small, 30 seconds. One showing how to ask a question (including accepting answers), and another showing how to answer a question (including up-voting/down-voting other answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works for Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:12:30.883" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="14032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14028" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:13:06.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me this is a benefit. If google indexes information that is added and removed, SO gets a larger 'web' to catch traffic. Google has its own algorithms to try and deliver users with the most relevant content. If this content is a revisions page, so be it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if you're linked to a revisions page from google you could be invisibly redirected to the questions page, but you should never try to prevent google from indexing useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:13:06.297" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14029" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:14:17.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue has existed since the beginning of SO. The users either figure it out or move on generally speaking. The wiki nature of SO means that users that have been around for longer can clean up any mistakes that new users make and set them on the path to being properly overflowish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:14:17.090" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14022" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:14:24.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think having to clear every user-generated tag would be unworkable.  There are far too many tags for me to vet each one individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that the underlying problem is that Jeff is bringing an outside presence into the picture, which introduces a fundamental change in the main focus of meta-SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a compromise would be to make a special subset of tags (like 'feature-request', 'bug', etc., here on meta) that do need to be marked as interesting to be viewed, but all user-created tags do not.  This way, when new members of the LoJ are brought in, there can be new tags introduced for those members.  This might cut down on the amount of tag upkeep that would be necessary for the majority of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:14:24.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:15:08.947" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every few weeks there is another &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14003/edit-answer-given-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;user complaining about not being able edit their questions / answers, after the question gets migrated&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to this is always the same: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14003/edit-answer-given-in-stackoverflow/14012#14012&quot;&gt;Associate your accounts&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there should be something on the originating question that tells users to associate their accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature could be visible to only people who have asked the question, or have answered that question, or it could always be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, &lt;strong&gt;I hope&lt;/strong&gt;, will relieve some of the confusion about migrated questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:00:03.017" Title="Add information about linking your accounts, on migrated questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14035" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:20:48.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I think that a few features should be explained a little bit more to anonymous or first time users. Bounties, Migration, Accepting answers, should all probably get a little 1 or two sentence explanation. I'd suggest putting them where the current migrated messages are, and they can only be seen by the question asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:20:48.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:23:51.550" Score="0" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;ldquo;closed&amp;rdquo; question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For stackoverflow and it's related sites, how does the system for closing questions work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T17:36:34.190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:36:34.190" ClosedDate="2011-07-20T23:05:16.360" Title="How does the vote to close system work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14038" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:25:09.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can be closed for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not programming related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective and argumentative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not a real question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;blatantly offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no longer relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on serverfault.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on superuser.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T17:28:55.733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:28:55.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14038" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:27:26.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each site has a variety of closing reasons, the standards being Exact Duplicate, Subjective &amp;amp; Arguemntative, Blatantly Offensive, and Spam. It takes 5 close votes to close a topic. Only those with over 3,000 rep can vote to close. If a moderator votes to close, it closes automatically. It takes 5 votes to reopen a question. You may not vote twice (only once for close and once for reopen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:27:26.657" />
  <row Id="14041" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-28T03:50:38.813" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very busy, yet still want to participate in the Stack Overflow community?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I'd like to only see questions that contain one of my &quot;interesting tags&quot;.  SO does not appear to have that feature (at this point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I placed the following in a bookmark on my browser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:$(&quot;div.question-summary&quot;).not('div.tagged-interesting').hide() &amp;amp;&amp;amp; $('a.question-hyperlink').attr('target', '_blank');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will hide all questions that are not highlighted, and cause the links on the remaining questions to open in a new browser window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131040" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:28:23.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-28T03:54:53.637" Title="Bookmarklet to cause stack overflow to only show questions with &quot;interesting tags&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14035" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:30:23.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is how it currently looks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/b2gills/3814563721/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2635/3814563721%5Fd7a3a242f8%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:30:23.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-12T17:30:23.017" />
  <row Id="14045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:39:57.773" Score="7" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that S[O|F|U] should have moderator-only tags that get applied when a question is closed to help filter them out. These tags should be in addition to any tags (even if there are already 5) already on the question (I think that even closed questions should be well-written and properly tagged, but I'm willing to give up on this aspect).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, this is a possible mapping between close reason and tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* exact duplicate =&amp;gt; closed-duplicate&#xA;* not programming related =&amp;gt; closed-not-programming&#xA;* subjective and argumentative =&amp;gt; closed-argumentative&#xA;* not a real question =&amp;gt; closed-not-a-question&#xA;* blatantly offensive =&amp;gt; closed-offensive&#xA;* no longer relevant =&amp;gt; closed-not-relevant&#xA;* too localized =&amp;gt; closed-localized&#xA;* belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com =&amp;gt; closed-meta&#xA;* belongs on serverfault.com =&amp;gt; closed-serverfault&#xA;* belongs on superuser.com =&amp;gt; closed-superuser&#xA;* spam =&amp;gt; closed-spam&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default, these tags should appear on a new user's ignore list, invisible to users who are not logged in, and not indexed by search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T10:51:06.470" Title="Can a closed question be given special tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;moderator-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14045" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:42:56.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be easier to just make closed questions by default (changeable in preferences):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be ignored for new users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Invisible to users not logged in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not indexed by search engines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:42:56.020" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14028" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:44:53.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can tell google in a site map which pages you think are most important; therefore, getting Google to show the main post (not the edits). Maybe votes should drive this as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T18:45:00.963" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:45:00.963" />
  <row Id="14050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14045" CreationDate="2009-08-12T17:50:58.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions closed as duplicates, I believe it is important that they still be indexed by search engines. Jeff has mentioned many times that its amazing how people can ask the same questions while hardly using any of the same words. Therefore, these questions should remain and be searchable, as a reference to the canonical question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I believe having closed questions visible to all, can serve as a learning tool for users, allowing them to see and get a feel for what types of questions are appropriate and questions are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T17:50:58.263" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14029" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:00:57.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Activate Francesca's more advanced AI features such that the suggested videos pop up in the middle of the screen whenever someone does something wrong.  These videos cannot be dismissed until they have been completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that for some, every click would prompt a video.  I am comfortable with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:00:57.963" />
  <row Id="14053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13975" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:07:29.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another aspect is illegal under what laws? If some country has an abnormally long copyright, should that then automatically limit all other counties where some material for instance might be considered public domain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133217" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:07:29.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13997" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:09:21.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system randomly bumps questions to the home page. I assume this is one of them and in the database it is to the date and time of the bump. Possibly the e-mail being sent is looking at the wrong date, since the questions displayes the original post date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As per Jeff - The system will only bump questions without an accepted answer.&#xA;Edit: As per mmeyrs - The system will only bump questions without an upvoted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T05:41:22.517" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T05:41:22.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42105" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:44:12.963" Score="26" ViewCount="1535" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been out of private beta for only two days, and stackoverflow.com is already ranking high in google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any specific techinques applied in the site? I've been researching the subject for some time and haven't found it to be so easy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;rlz=&amp;amp;q=stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Searching stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; even returns site-links&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=java+for+loop+vs+while+loop+performance+difference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Another example search&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T18:39:09.430" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T20:00:26.627" Title="SEO in stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="14057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:47:08.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow has a growing community and more and more people talk and write about it. All thoses links, and users, bring importance to Google (and the PageRank of Google). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:47:51.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm supposing that the site was submitted for indexing at the very least, but I'm sure that with the traffic SO is getting, Google incorporates that data into its algorithms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just thinking about how many people probably have some Google related piece of software on their system, I'm sure it gathers some sort of (hopefully!) anonymous data about sites visited to bump a popular site up on the indexing ladder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12096" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" />
  <row Id="14059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:47:53.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that those examples demonstrate that Stack Overflow has questions actually being ranked high by Google yet.  The first search is directly for Stack Overflow, which naturally ranks it high.  The second is for a particular misspelling of database: &quot;Dabtabase&quot; which happpens to appear on a Stack Overflow page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151993" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:48:55.167" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I noticed right away that's supposed to be good SEO is putting the question name in the URL.  You can get to the question using just the question number (for example, this post can be accessed at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/86268/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/86268/&lt;/a&gt;) but the default URL has the post name in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:49:15.570" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SEO people say &quot;Content is King&quot; - SO is all about the content, which grows and changes by the minute. This is also something that ranks high with Google, and as Daok points out, having lots of high profile sites linking to it, Google rates it highly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140505" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:49:23.323" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The single most important factor in a site's ranking on google is how many sites link to it. Stackflow is being discussed relatively heavily in the tech-press and blogs, quickly giving it a high ranking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T18:54:46.353" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Content is King&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625720&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Golden Rule of SEO: Content is King&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow already has a lot of great content. Also, incredibly niche topics.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Long Tail (Wikpedia)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137679" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" />
  <row Id="14065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:14:38.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Content is King. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Company's employ &quot;blackhat&quot; SEO. Gaming the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Employ &quot;whitehat&quot; SEO. Make a great site, make content that people want, design it so they can access it well, and good rankings will come naturally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alistapart.com/articles/accessibilityseo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://alistapart.com/articles/accessibilityseo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" />
  <row Id="14066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2008-11-04T16:10:34.913" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having an &lt;a href=&quot;http://sitemaps.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XML sitemap&lt;/a&gt; (which this site does) helps immensely, because it helps the Googlebot find dynamically generated content much more quickly than it would otherwise.  You can see stackoverflow's sitemap here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&lt;/a&gt; but be prepared as it is a huge file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RSS feeds also help a bit, as Google pulls them as part of the blog search engine.  I recommend all sites with content that updates regularly have RSS feeds, even if you are not even close to being a blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-02-04T00:31:59.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is very, very anecdotal; however, usually when I search for something programming related that is easily expressed or is very basic question, SO is on the first page if not in the first 3 links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138665" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T00:31:59.767" />
  <row Id="14068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-02-04T00:32:26.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See Jeff Atwood's post on his blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001174.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I also noticed that Stackoverflow questions are usually indexed by google within an hour. Try googling for the title of a recent question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139055" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T00:32:26.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-02-04T01:08:40.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I do not go to google first anymore, but rather to Stack Overflow.&#xA;If there's nothing or not enough relevant stuff here, then I go to google.&#xA;If there's not much on google, I might ask here and continue searching google while waiting for hints.&#xA;Seems to be working well for me most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135134" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-04T01:08:40.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-02-25T03:54:09.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sitemaps helps, but the reality is that google ranks sites both by how frequently they update as well as the value of the content (pagerank).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sites with high pagerank that update frequently (such as CNN, and this site) get crawled more frequently, and in some cases continuously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site maps makes that process even faster/easier for Google, and so that content goes up that much more quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" />
  <row Id="14071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-05-01T17:39:48.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the blog posts, Jeff mentioned about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001174.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Importance of Sitemaps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" />
  <row Id="14072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-05-01T17:40:10.157" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001174.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/509615/how-is-stackoverflow-actually-working-in-terms-of-google-results&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133922" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-05-01T17:43:37.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google TechTalks recently hosted a presentation by Joel Spolsky where he talks about stuff like this. Worth watching: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Learning from StackOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit - Watch the whole thing but the question is addressed in the video starting at 23:45.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-05-01T17:44:58.633" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Jeff is doing anything magical here to make this happen.  It's just good site design and popularity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tons of (original) text content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lots of internal linking + sitemaps make it easy to crawl.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prominently placed header tags with question titles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tagging for extra keyword-relevance goodness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question titles in url string.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lots of external links (from other sites to stackoverflow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the site is just well designed for SEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130222" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-07-14T04:27:03.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Jeff A. says he doesn't do 'SEO optimization', &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theeggeadventure.com/wikimedia/index.php/Stack%5FOverflow%5Fpage%5Fdesign&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow does follow about every search engine recommendation&lt;/a&gt;, and there has clearly been some effort to make the content indexable.  For example, every page has a reasonable title and URL.  Typical web frameworks will create urls like /question/12345.  On SO, they create URLs like Digg.  They also use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rel='canonical'&lt;/a&gt; link to keep search engines from created duplicate content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14139" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:17:44.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13975" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:31:23.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, in contrast to what Gortok is saying, I believe if it get into court, SO will argue it is a service provider, and hence protected under DMCA Safe Harbor. As long as it take reasonable action to remove these contents when made aware of, SO will not be liable for it. The post is &quot;your&quot; and not &quot;owned&quot; by SO. Any material posted by an author is copyrighted that author, and used under the CC-BY-SA license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(IANAL and all that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:31:23.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:49:30.033" Score="2" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the next, previous and page number navigation links for the newest questions are related only to the total number of questions and are of the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=23&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=23&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should instead be related to the questions that are currently being displayed. The URL might be similar to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?prev=ppppp&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?prev=ppppp&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?next=nnnnn&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?next=nnnnn&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where &quot;ppppp&quot; and &quot;nnnnn&quot; represent the question numbers of the first and last questions, respectively, displayed on the current screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on the &quot;next&quot; link with the proposed change in place would make the first question at the top of the resulting page be the one that follows the last question (nnnnn) on the previously current page in reverse-date order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on the &quot;previous&quot; link would make the last question at the bottom of the resulting page be the one that preceded the first question (ppppp) on the previously current page in reverse-date order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page-number navigation should probably remain as-is, otherwise you might wind up with negative page numbers. However, fast-forward and rewind links (&amp;lt;&amp;lt; and &gt;&gt;) with jump sizes of five or ten times the page length as well as begin and end links (|&amp;lt; and &gt;|) could be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having this feature would prevent your current view from scrolling out from under you as new questions are being added. Many forums and blogs use this form of navigation and I find it much more manageable when dealing with large numbers of entries on an active site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a mockup. I've separated the absolute navigation from the relative navigation to provide a clue that their behavior is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.netstrata.com/images/sonavmock.png&quot; alt=&quot;Navigation Mockup&quot; title=&quot;Navigation Mockup&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13223/pagination-by-date-model-for-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: added outlines to navigation buttons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:17:18.403" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:17:18.403" Title="The navigation links for pagination of &quot;newest&quot; questions should be relative to the currently displayed questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14082" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:58:49.533" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we get the ability to add a note/message to flagged comments? When I say note/message, I mean a message that is visible only to the admin/moderator who comes across your flag. Not to the community as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T19:05:43.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:40:18.713" Title="Add notes (for mods to see) to flagged comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13976" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:58:59.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without question, the contributor retains copyright to their contribution. By their action of posting the content, they have agreed to license it under (in this case) CC-BY-SA 2.5. The terms of which is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That mean you can release it under other license if you want. The license is set out in such way to also mean you can't revoke the license you've granted to SO (and other people) to use the content, except under the explicitly specified terms, where there is only one way. If SO (or whoever) are in breach of the license, then the rights granted to that party, and that party alone, is automatically terminated. No termination occurs to any other party, whether using the original or derivative content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(IANAL)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:58:59.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14080" CreationDate="2009-08-12T18:59:40.730" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as it can be optional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T18:59:40.730" />
  <row Id="14083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="114" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:01:11.790" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hardest, most obscure questions I answer earn the least points. I get one upvote from the asker, and that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133533" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:01:11.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14080" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:02:18.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can just report the post to the mods with a description of the issue with the comment at fault right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the comment voting/flagging was ever meant to actually matter or be looked at. I certainly don't believe there are enough cases where this would be needed where we would need to add all this complexity to such a simple system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T19:40:18.713" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:40:18.713" />
  <row Id="14085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14080" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:02:45.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, flags are simple - flag a comment enough times, and it goes away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, so you are talking about something similar to the &lt;em&gt;Flag for moderator review feature&lt;/em&gt; for posts... That still seems like over-kill. 'Time was, we could just delete comments. Any comments. For any reason. Anywhere. Anyone's. And Life Was Good, albeit confusing and full of bizarre arguments half-deleted. Now it feels like they're becoming less annotations and more like a mini-forum attached to each post. If that's the idea, then I'd still rather have threading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T19:16:53.100" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:16:53.100" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:11:37.853" Score="6" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3912/better-favourites-organisation&quot;&gt;Better Favourites Organisation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm always favoriting a question for a particular reason. Personal interests, problems I encounter in my own work or things I'd like to solve long-term. Some are related to platforms that I work with, or topics I need to learn someday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like a simple system to organize these favorites, much like an email inbox. A list of favorite &quot;folders&quot; where you can drag-n-drop favorites into would make favorites easy to retrieve later. When you mark a question as a favorite, can go into an &quot;unsorted&quot; folder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T19:54:22.493" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:54:22.493" ClosedDate="2009-08-12T19:23:26.190" Title="Organize your favorites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14086" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:19:17.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about just being able to tag favorites, with a search of tags? Seems less complex and could probably reuse code and user behavior that's already in use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4126" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:19:17.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3912" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:20:38.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have an icon (on the front page) that takes you to your favorites list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:20:38.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14080" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:26:04.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it.  Also, a derivative of this would be super-useful.  As far as I can tell, flagged comments don't give any indication the &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; is flagged as opposed to the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt;.  So Mods needs to go to the question and start hunting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course we review the question in general after a flag, but this would let us zero in immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:26:04.813" />
  <row Id="14091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14045" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:32:11.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't want the non-duplicates to be unindexed, as people have said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't want closed questions to be invisible to new users - cause as soon as you close new user's question the user can't find it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some items, like &quot;Not a Real Question&quot; or &quot;Spam&quot; could be non-indexed.  But what's the gain in adding tags to the questions?  So you can find them really quick?  Or so experienced users and ignore them?  Maybe, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:32:11.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13755" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:37:59.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add your questions and answers into separate browser bookmark folders, then count how many there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:37:59.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14096" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:47:06.737" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I did 4 edits according to the history, and it seems like I am not getting rep for it anymore, and I haven't hit the daily cap yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it 4 edits by self before it Comes CW?  Maybe I did more, but only little grammar things right after the post I think.... Not entirely sure, I do that a lot :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how many edits by self, others, mix..? What are the actual rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:54:14.297" Title="How Many Edits Until CW?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14094" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:52:54.727" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number is 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/333/&quot;&gt;Reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is pretty obvious when something becomes CW, you can see it where your avatar would be on a normal post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:52:54.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14094" CreationDate="2009-08-12T19:53:26.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll see if a post becomes community wiki - it'll say so in the normal way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not getting rep for it, have you perhaps hit the daily cap without realising it? There are some times where it doesn't &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; like you've hit the cap, but the internal counter (or whatever) thinks you've hit it. This is particularly true if any posts which have scored you points during the day have been deleted. (For example, I'm currently on 225 for the day on SO despite having 3 accepted answers after hitting the rep cap - the effective rep cap is 180 for me today.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go to the reputation part of the recent activity tab (via the envelope icon, not your user profile) what does that show for the post in question? It should show the number of votes received and the reputation gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T19:53:26.160" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T20:15:28.020" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When trying to view my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218471/for-home-projects-can-mercurial-or-git-or-other-dvcs-provide-more-advantages-o/1218657#1218657&quot;&gt;For home projects, can Mercurial or Git (or other DVCS) provide more advantages over Subversion?&lt;/a&gt; question (using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923) I see my answer cut in the middle of word; it ends with &quot; it while merging it can deal wit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1218657/edit&quot;&gt;edit page&lt;/a&gt; for this question, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1218657/list&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt;, thinking that I have by accident removed content while editing, and hoping to be able to resurrect deleted contents from earlier revisions... I see the answer in full.  The fragment that ends in 'question' view continues: &quot;  it while merging it can deal with the case where one side renamed file (and other similar cases related to renaming).&quot;.  The answer ends with &quot;Take a look also at &lt;a href=&quot;http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/&lt;/a&gt; site.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WTF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:09:01.683" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:09:01.683" ClosedDate="2009-08-14T06:08:37.647" Title="Answer to question cut in the middle in question view, in full in edit view" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T20:35:00.947" Score="-1" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow indeed, is a great designed and well managed website.&#xA;Does it use any web framework ? or hand crafted ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:57:53.587" ClosedDate="2009-08-12T22:21:27.173" Title="Does this site use a web framework?" Tags="&lt;web&gt;&lt;entity-framework&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14098" CreationDate="2009-08-12T20:36:05.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    framework   Microsoft ASP.NET (version 3.5 SP1)&#xA;    language    C#&#xA;    development environment     Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite&#xA;    web framework   ASP.NET MVC&#xA;    browser framework   JQuery&#xA;    database    SQL Server 2008&#xA;    data access layer   LINQ to SQL&#xA;    source control  Subversion&#xA;    compare tool    Beyond Compare 3&#xA;    source control integration  VisualSVN 1.5&#xA;    javascript libraries: WMD, Showdown, prettify &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57757" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T21:57:53.587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:57:53.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-08-12T20:52:47.837" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC on the fifth volume cover is written : &quot;the fifth of the increasing inaccurately named HHGTTG trilogy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130517" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T20:52:47.837" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-12T21:12:47.453" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 and I am getting the following error popping up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;---------------------------&#xA;Error&#xA;---------------------------&#xA;A Runtime Error has occurred.&#xA;Do you wish to Debug?&#xA;&#xA;Line: 1&#xA;Error: Syntax error&#xA;---------------------------&#xA;Yes   No   &#xA;---------------------------&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occurs when I visit any page including the main page.  I have JavaScript enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133621" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:08:17.863" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:00:00.773" Title="Why am I getting an error when viewing stackoverflow in IE7?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;error&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14101" CreationDate="2009-08-12T21:34:13.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may need to clear your cache and do a hard refresh (Ctrl + F5) of your browser. You may have cached some bad javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:34:13.883" />
  <row Id="14103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14101" CreationDate="2009-08-12T21:38:14.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;TheTXI seems to have hit the nail on the head.  If that doesn't correct the issue though, it is certainly possible that you are not getting the Javascript files loaded onto your PC from Google.  The SO sites now use Google for hosting the jQuery files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:38:14.250" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2009-08-12T21:49:40.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;No it is not getting too powerful&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The content on s[uof] is all creative commons share alike. Which means that if Jeff goes all evil tomorrow, the community could pick up where he left and start a new bunch of sites seeding them off the content we worked hard to put in the sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff is a custodian of our information, and if a better engine pops up tomorrow the competition will be on the merit of the engine, the content is not monopolized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try doing that with sex-perts exchange. All your content are belong to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/903959/the%5Foptimist.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:49:40.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14094" CreationDate="2009-08-12T21:54:14.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer may be 6, but the engine will merge multiple edits (by the same person) and hide them from you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/623213/list&quot;&gt;Here is proof&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is a bug. It does leave the system open to gaming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T21:54:14.297" />
  <row Id="14106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14079" CreationDate="2009-08-12T22:09:11.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the current system.  As I move from page 2 to 3 to 4, I can tell when a new question appears on page 1 because I see a question twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; But I now notice you've left the old system there for me to use - thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T22:09:11.393" />
  <row Id="14107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="71717" CreationDate="2009-08-12T22:17:20.707" Score="10" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7954/how-often-is-reputation-recalculated/7958#7958&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; to the question, &quot;How often is reputation recalculated?&quot;, states that your reputation can be recalculated by a mod on request.  Other than posting this question, how can I request this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1447" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-21T08:49:47.463" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T08:49:47.463" Title="How can I request a reputation recalc?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14107" CreationDate="2009-08-12T22:21:49.967" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be warned that this usually will not go in your favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T22:21:49.967" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7389" CreationDate="2009-08-12T22:50:38.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Kyle provided a definitive description of the badge, which does differ from yours in a couple of important ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided highest scoring answer that&#xA;  outscored an accepted answer with more&#xA;  than 10 votes by more than 2x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But IMHO it would be more sensible to change the behaviour of the badge to match the current description, than to keep the current rather counter-intuitive behaviour.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T22:50:38.130" />
  <row Id="14111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14107" CreationDate="2009-08-12T22:53:22.350" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going against the grain.  &lt;strong&gt;Don't&lt;/strong&gt; e-mail the team - it'll waste their bandwidth.  Flag a post, preferably one of your posts, and request a Rep Recalc.  A mod will do it for you without the Team needing to be involved.  I'll recalc the rep and report the results when I see a flag =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-12T23:07:23.227" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T23:07:23.227" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="14112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14113" CreationDate="2009-08-12T23:09:36.343" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed SO, SF, SU, and here have a bit wider of a width for their fixed-width layout. Is it just me or did you just change this and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T23:18:43.733" Title="Did you just change the fixed width?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;fixed-width&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14112" CreationDate="2009-08-12T23:18:43.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like 80px maybe. That's based on the .article-summary div's on the front page. Used to be 650px, If I remember correctly, and are now 730px. Now at 960px total for the container - a move toward the 960 grid system? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-12T23:18:43.733" />
  <row Id="14115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T00:23:37.543" Score="-1" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you think that Rosetta Stone questions have a place on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What restrictions would you like to see? Should there even be any restrictions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, exist for largely the same reason as questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-golf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Mainly for fun, but also as somewhere where you can flex your programming talent (&lt;em&gt;show off&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; questions are more than that though, they are also a place where you can compare different languages, and programming styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, if you look through all of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf+-rosetta-stone+-language-agnostic+-fun&quot;&gt;questions tagged &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-golf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[language-agnostic]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[fun]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;, you'll notice that there are very few questions that are Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone+-code-golf+-language-agnostic+-fun&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-golf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[language-agnostic]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[fun]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 3 CW (about 1/3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone+-code-golf+-fun&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-golf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[fun]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone+-code-golf&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-golf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 11 cw (&lt;strong&gt;almost&lt;/strong&gt; half)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;41 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rosetta-stone]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 2/3 CW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear from people who actually participate on those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T01:07:00.410" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T17:16:49.440" Title="Rosetta Stone questions on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14115" CreationDate="2009-08-13T00:31:21.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that they should be CW. But it is just that, my opinion. They are not a question that has a clear singular answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for that specific question I still maintain that it is a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T00:31:21.893" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T01:16:58.523" Score="28" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;You often have the scenario where you post an answer and you realize it's not good, other people have already posted the answer (which you find out when you post) in which case your answer is just noise or someone comes after you and posts a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, technically you can &quot;abuse&quot; the delete process if you're above 10k+ rep. You just post 15 characters, delete it, edit it and then undelete it. This way you won't get downvoted for having a placeholder answer but can still get in first (timestamp wise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO deleting something within the first 20 minutes (or pick some other arbitrary time frame) after you post it should simply permanently delete it. Less noise that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T01:49:34.933" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T01:49:34.933" Title="Delete inside first 20 minutes should permanently delete" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14119" CreationDate="2009-08-13T01:20:17.860" Score="5" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question with 1508 views, but in the personal page list it gets reported as 2k.  Bug or aggressive approximation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T01:38:25.103" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T01:38:25.103" Title="Wrong view count for questions?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14118" CreationDate="2009-08-13T01:25:50.707" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bug, this is by design. When you reach 1000 views, the view count is rounded up or down to the nearest thousand. This is why your view count of 1508 is rounded up to 2k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will find that the system will round other values as well - reputations over 10k, for example, are rounded to the nearest hundred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T01:25:50.707" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14117" CreationDate="2009-08-13T01:31:36.830" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't even need 10k rep to &quot;abuse&quot; the system the way you describe - people can see their own deleted posts at any reputation. However, I disagree that this is an effective way to game the system - the reason for posting first is not so that you can get that first timestamp, but rather so that people that are coming to the new post can see your answer and vote it up if it's correct. If your answer is deleted, they won't see it and won't vote on it, and even if you undelete it later, you miss a lot of that initial traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are those that are concerned about others judging them by their deleted posts, usually when they failed to read or understand the question, and ended up posting an answer that makes no sense or one that the OP didn't ask for. I've even seen some users that go so far as to replace their post with a note for 10k+ users so there wouldn't be any confusion. Personally, I don't care what people say in deleted posts, but it might ease these users minds if they could permanently remove their answer within a certain window of time. I think 20 minutes is far too long - how about 5 minutes? This is the same time period in which users are allowed to make revisions that don't bump the answer or appear in the revision list, so it might make sense to allow them to permanently delete the answer within this time window as well, provided there were no comments or other revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T01:37:19.847" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T01:37:19.847" />
  <row Id="14121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2542" CreationDate="2009-08-13T01:40:57.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the updated colors to match the footer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$('#hlinks')&#xA;      .prepend('&amp;lt;span class=&quot;link-separator&quot;&amp;gt; | &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;')&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://blog.stackoverflow.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#444;margin-right:1px;' title='Blog'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;blog&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://meta.stackoverflow.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#969696;margin-right:7px;' title='Meta'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;meta.stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.superuser.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#00AFEF;margin-right:7px' title='Super User'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;superuser&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.serverfault.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#E8272C;margin-right:7px' title='Server Fault'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;serverfault&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;      .prepend(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='http://www.stackoverflow.com' style='position:relative;top:1px;display:inline-block;width:10px;height:10px;background:#FE7A15;margin-right:7px' title='Stack Overflow'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span style='display:none'&amp;gt;stackoverflow&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T01:40:57.623" />
  <row Id="14122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14117" CreationDate="2009-08-13T01:49:59.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is implemented, I think it would be best for it to be an option ('purge' or something) rather than the default - on occasion I've ended up answering the question, realizing I misread it, quickly deleting it to avoid confusion, then editing to something that &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; answer the question and undeleting it when done. Losing the answer completely the moment I hit delete would be somewhat surprising...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T01:49:59.607" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2009-08-13T02:38:24.383" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, we need to start a &lt;strong&gt;Legion of Hyperbole&lt;/strong&gt; to combat the monopolistic oppression that is soon to ravage our precious mass of tubes. We're going to need sarcastic smart-asses, and lots of 'em!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's with me? &lt;strong&gt;The internets need you!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T02:38:24.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19571" CreationDate="2009-08-13T02:42:55.420" Score="5" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed myself and others have begun receiving the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges/39/woot-enthusiast&quot;&gt;enthusiast badge&lt;/a&gt; on superuser. As best I can tell, superuser launched on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/super-user-semi-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;July 15&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;question 1&lt;/a&gt;). That puts the launch 29 days ago (considering today August 13, which it is in UTC); which means no one could receive the badge yet. Additionally, this supported by a quick click through to the profiles of many of the users' who have received this badge, which shows them as having accounts for 28 days (which I assume will be 29 when the cache updates for today). Is this a bug, or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:06:42.177" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:06:42.177" Title="Enthusiast badge too enthusiastic?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14128" CreationDate="2009-08-13T02:50:39.850" Score="1" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show notes are posted as soon as the podcast comes out, but if I read them I have no need to listen to it because they are so detailed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get a smaller summary of the topics and maybe give us a little time to listen to it and post the full show notes at a later time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work around it by not reading them prior to listening to the podcast, but I'd also like to know the topics in advance...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:26:25.267" Title="Anyone else feels the show notes spoil the podcast?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2009-08-13T02:54:06.490" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think having very detailed show notes is incredibly helpful, especially if you're ever trying to reference back to a previous podcast (which certainly happens here on meta). If you feel they spoil the show, then I wouldn't read them or would figure out how to skim them so they don't spoil what is to come. Personally, I choose not to read them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T02:54:06.490" />
  <row Id="14128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:00:30.750" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it can ruin it if you read it ahead of time. I usually don't refer to the show notes until after I've listened to the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130071" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:00:30.750" />
  <row Id="14129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:06:00.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time it starts to bother me another SO royalty check shows up in the mailbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:06:00.583" />
  <row Id="14130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:11:10.013" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's the other way around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually skim the content. If looks interesting enough I hear the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't look that relevant nor I don't have the time I skip it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually I may just read the content or do both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:11:10.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5597" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:15:21.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Syntax highlighting for posted code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just keep it going this is CW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:15:21.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T03:15:21.300" />
  <row Id="14132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14124" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:16:32.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, you're right. I got my Enthusiast badge earlier today but I just assumed that it had been 30 days since it went live. In response to Brad Gilbert, I looked at the site for about 2 seconds before I signed up for my account, so there are no cookie issues (if that's what you're getting at).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe Jeff is modifying the Enthusiast badge to be a little nicer by allowing people to miss at most 2 days? This might make those &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13049/let-people-still-earn-the-woot-badge-if-they-register-for-a-holiday&quot;&gt;going camping&lt;/a&gt; sleep a little easier...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:16:32.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:19:06.860" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's two guys (sometimes with guest) talking about programming.  What's there to spoil?  It's not like you're going to download next week's podcast and find out Joel is Jeff's father or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:19:06.860" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4391" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:26:11.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this would be useful, I think that introducing a new answer sort order, &quot;active&quot;, that puts the latest activity at the top would be a better solution. That way if there are multiple recent updates you can see them all. I suggested this on UserVoice a while ago but it didn't take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:26:11.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:33:10.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't understand your logic. If by reading a summary of it, it is &lt;em&gt;spoiled&lt;/em&gt;, then you really have no interest in the actual podcast and shouldn't consider listening to it in the first place -- doing so would clearly be a waste of time in your regards. Read the show notes and move on. If on the other hand, you read the show notes and are intrigued, then listen to the podcast. I don't see a valid reason why this should be changed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a matter of personal choice, do what you feel is best. This isn't the next installment of Harry Potter, and people aren't standing outside with megaphones yelling &quot;Dumbledore dies!&quot;. You're allowed to do whatever you want with your time, so exercise this right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:33:10.920" />
  <row Id="14137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14124" CreationDate="2009-08-13T03:39:25.290" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussion on gaming badges has often popped up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like in this case...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*puts on sunglasses*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge as gamed &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T03:39:25.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-08-13T04:06:44.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each time Anders Hejlsberg prepares a draft spec for the next version of C#, he submits it to Jon Skeet for review and approval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T04:06:44.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T04:06:44.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14028" CreationDate="2009-08-13T04:59:36.017" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/robots.txt&quot;&gt;mistake in robots.txt&lt;/a&gt; having to do with the interpretation of trailing slashes.. &lt;s&gt;should be fixed now&lt;/s&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; fixed. Apparently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=40360&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;per Google Webmaster support&lt;/a&gt; ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each section in the robots.txt file is separate and does not build upon previous sections. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;User-agent: *&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;Disallow: /folder1/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;User-Agent: Googlebot&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;Disallow: /folder2/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this example &lt;strong&gt;only the URLs matching /folder2/ would be disallowed&lt;/strong&gt; for Googlebot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expected the * part to be inherited by Googlebot, but it wasn't. Stunningly counter-intuitive, but maybe my programmer background was tricking me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I restructured robots.txt for the fifth and hopefully final time ... maybe &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; it's fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T06:52:26.880" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T06:52:26.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T05:34:08.757" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12803/tag-suggestion-only-works-for-the-first-tag&quot;&gt;Tag suggestion only works for the first tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags autocomplete now works strangely: the first tag is accompanied with autocomplete suggestions, but all the other tags are not accompanied - when I type them nothing happens at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem arises on IE 6.0.2900.5512.xpsp_sp3gdr.090206-1234 on WinXP and Win2k3. Also arises on IE 7.0.6000.15386 on Vista. Doesn't arise in Firefox 1.5.0.3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Started arising about one week ago. Arises on all trilogy sites and meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:07:59.050" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:07:59.050" ClosedDate="2009-08-13T06:41:11.087" Title="Bug: Tag autocomplete stopped working for all tags except the first one on IE6 and IE7" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2009-08-13T05:34:27.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This simply hasn't come up enough to be a real issue IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &quot;need&quot; to post more than 30k chars, that's probably symptomatic of other problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: as an aside, we've looked at posts at or near the 30k limit and with rare exceptions, they are .. problematic. So length has a strongly inverse correlation with quality. For those &lt;em&gt;exceedingly&lt;/em&gt; rare posts which are justifiably 25-30k chars, that seems like a reasonable enough limit. For comparison &lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legalized-marijuana.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this epic Steve Yegge rant&lt;/a&gt; is 31,000 characters!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-12T02:06:59.557" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T02:06:59.557" />
  <row Id="14143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T05:43:55.803" Score="4" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like some folks will open up a profile and start voting up (and down) multiple posts from a single user within a fairly short time window.  I beleive that this ends up getting flagged as &quot;irregular&quot; and the votes dissapear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we introduce a limit of 8 votes a day for a single user's posts?  In other words, I couild not open up Mr. Skeet's profile and vote on more than 8 of his posts within 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the limit would be for the &quot;irregularity&quot; pattern that gets identified in the batch proccesses, but that number could be good as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were to be coding an application, you wouod code to prevent the exception rather than swallow it and deal with the effects later, should this be any different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T05:49:36.743" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T07:32:49.127" Title="Fix for voting issues: multiple votes from one user to another" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14143" CreationDate="2009-08-13T05:53:34.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are valid cases where a user could give more than 8 up votes to a particular user in a single day. It's pretty preemptive to assume a user is up to no good simply because they have voted up a certain user several times.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really the necessity of this depends on the algorithm used to determine what &quot;gaming&quot; is, but such a system must remain in the shadows in order for it to stay effective. Using heuristics rather than a simple &lt;code&gt;no more than x votes&lt;/code&gt; approach is probably the better way to go, regardless.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now I have faith in how the system operates, but mostly because I don't care about the reputation of my peers that much. I respect users with a lot of reputation, but I'm not going to be the first one to ask for improvements or fixes to how reputation is dolled out. I have no way to tell if fellow users gain most of their rep from users gaming in their favor, but then I guess if they've had such an effect on people they must have done something special. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T05:53:34.490" />
  <row Id="14145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14143" CreationDate="2009-08-13T06:09:36.983" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; like this would be welcome, but I'm not sure exactly how it should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it should be a shorter time and lower number than &quot;8 per 24 hours&quot; - more like &quot;4 per 10 minutes&quot; as you &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/RussellSolberg/status/3281257890&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suggested on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there have been times when I've upvoted Marc more than 8 times in a day entirely legitimately - we happen to hang out in the same tags, his answers are right and well-written about 99.9% of the time, so they &lt;em&gt;naturally&lt;/em&gt; get my upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The behavior I think we want to discourage is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open user profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find recent answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open each answer in a new tab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote them all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that people will get bored with that pretty rapidly - if you capped it at 4 votes in 10 minutes (or even in 5 minutes) I don't think people would keep waiting for 5 minutes just to vote another 4 times... but it's a lot less likely to hit legitimate voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how often this happens though - I know of it happening to me about 3 or 4 times, and of course it happened to Konrad in a sustained fashion for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T06:09:36.983" />
  <row Id="14146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14028" CreationDate="2009-08-13T06:44:29.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this request. I have found posts via Google in the past, because of text parts I could remember, which were revised in the meantime (the statement of the post didn't change). So Google did me a favour indexing the revision pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T06:44:29.817" />
  <row Id="14147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T07:16:23.730" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675/is-there-a-page-that-display-questions-with-0-answers&quot;&gt;is there a page that display questions with 0 answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see all of the questions that exist with a given tag, but don't have any answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look in the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tab, that's what I'm expecting. Instead I see all questions without an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an easy way to find questions with zero proposed answers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there isn't, we can turn this into a community wiki question and discuss the merits of this means of navigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T07:49:02.303" ClosedDate="2009-08-14T08:05:15.103" Title="Is there an easy way to see all questions in a tag that have 0 answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2009-08-13T07:22:36.760" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://http%3A%2F%2Frss.conversationsnetwork.org%2Fseries%2Fstackoverflow.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ITConversations feed&lt;/a&gt; for the show? The show notes don't show up in that one, but the MP3 does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I use both feeds; one for the spoiler-free MP3 acquisition, the other for notes after I've listened to the show ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T07:22:36.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14143" CreationDate="2009-08-13T07:32:49.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say it is quite possible for a user to give out a large number of votes to another user in a short time - I have probably done it myself sometimes.  Generally, this is what would happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I see a really good / interesting question / answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a look at that user's profile page to see if they have any other good / interesting questions / answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I start browsing through (especially) their questions, voting up the ones that I find interesting or useful to me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I won't go much past the first page of questions / answers since that would be where I would find the best, but it would still be quite possible for me to give a user more than 8 up-votes in quite a short time frame like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T07:32:49.127" />
  <row Id="14150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14147" CreationDate="2009-08-13T07:36:17.573" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't seem like there is.  There is a search option to find all question with a &lt;em&gt;minimum&lt;/em&gt; number of answers, but not maximum.  Negating the search doesn't help either.  It would be nice if the advanced search options included a max-answers option, so you could do e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[feature-request] maxanswers:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T07:36:17.573" />
  <row Id="14151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14147" CreationDate="2009-08-13T08:02:34.837" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the built-in search and enter:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[support] answers:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Returns all support questions without an answer on this site.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;BTW: &quot;Unanswered&quot; means: Has no answers or only answers without an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T07:49:02.303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T07:49:02.303" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2009-08-13T08:13:08.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible now using the built-in search. See my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14147/is-there-an-easy-way-to-see-all-questions-in-a-tag-that-have-0-answers/14151#14151&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:13:08.607" />
  <row Id="14154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14157" CreationDate="2009-08-13T08:33:04.340" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do somebody knows desktop utility to track activity on stackoverflow?&#xA;I would like be notified when question in featured domain appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133644" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:41:58.673" Title="Stackoverflow activity tracker" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T08:34:28.097" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4567/can-i-ask-people-to-test-a-program&quot;&gt;Can i ask people to test a program?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to search for volunteers for beta testing of projects on any of the sites? Such as DocType and SO? If not is there anywhere within the group that we can?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133545" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:34:28.097" ClosedDate="2009-08-13T14:58:04.033" Title="Finding Beta Testers for Projects" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;beta&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14154" CreationDate="2009-08-13T08:37:14.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each page on Stack Overflow has an associated RSS feed. In particular, if you want to keep an eye on the posts for a particular tag, subscribe to that tag in your RSS reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the RSS feed for questions tagged &quot;subjective&quot; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/subjective&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:37:14.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14154" CreationDate="2009-08-13T08:41:58.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look here:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/open-so-frontend/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/open-so-frontend/&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here (you need Firefox and Greasemonkey plug-in for these):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/greasemonkey&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T08:41:58.673" />
  <row Id="14161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-13T09:33:48.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Black hat&quot; or &quot;White hat&quot; is how the knowledge is used, not the actual knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is then are you writing for a Black hat or white hat audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are writing for a white hat audience include information about how to defend against it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are writing for a black hat audience include information about ....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T09:33:48.867" />
  <row Id="14162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7682" CreationDate="2009-08-13T09:38:44.910" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My blog posts based on the data dumps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/06/09/1244565360000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Up and Down Voting Pattern Analysis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/06/11/1244725080000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Badge Analysis Over Time&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/06/18/1245340860000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Down Votes vs. Up Votes vs. Reputation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/06/24/1245844920000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Voting Patterns in Detail&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/2009/07/06/1246876860000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Personalities of Stack Overflow by the Numbers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of Questions here on MSO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2785/what-makes-a-sopedians-profile-worth-visiting-data-dump-analysis&quot;&gt;What makes a SOpedian’s profile worth visiting?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12073/is-jon-skeet-slowly-switching-his-attention-from-net-to-java&quot;&gt;Is Jon Skeet slowly switching his attention from .net to Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers with data dump analysis to other folk's Questions on MSO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/128/are-people-too-miserly-with-up-votes/150#150&quot;&gt;Are people too miserly with up votes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions/9786#9786&quot;&gt;Best time to ask Questions on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very big on visualizing the data and make lots of graphs.  Here is one of my favorites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Down Votes (x-axis) vs. Up Votes (y-axis) vs. Reputation (bubble size)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/image/stack-overflow-badges-reputation-vs-up-vs-down-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Down (x-axis) vs. Up (y-axis) vs. Reputation (bubble size)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-19T09:18:56.577" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T09:18:56.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T09:38:44.910" />
  <row Id="14163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T09:45:10.357" Score="3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I click on a badge, the new page header says X number of users earned that badge, but X is not the number of users, rather it's the total number of times that certain badge was given. Isn't it wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, popular question page shows {as of now} 13955 users earned this badge when 13955 users are not being displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131994" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:05:22.400" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T10:28:59.447" Title="X Users Earned That Badge Where Value Of X is Wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2009-08-13T09:47:13.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/24464/security-admins-toolkit-whats-in-yours&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/24464/security-admins-toolkit-whats-in-yours&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T09:47:13.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T11:03:45.320" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that you can associate accounts between SO, SF and SU and there being sister sites in How-To Geek and Doctype, why not have some kind of affiliate program so qualifying sites can associate with their SO/SU/SF user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there could be levels of affiliation too. Like migrating CSS/HTML questions from SO to Doctype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:42:34.090" Title="Suggestion: have a Stackoverflow affiliate program" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;affiliate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14163" CreationDate="2009-08-13T11:19:51.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The page isn't designed to show every single person who ever earned it. It's showing who it was RECENTLY awarded to, and yes it can and does show the same user multiple times if they are awarded multiples of the same badge in the same time frames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:19:51.460" />
  <row Id="14169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2009-08-13T11:25:18.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/abuse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;report abuse of gravatar images&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:25:18.327" />
  <row Id="14171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2009-08-13T11:26:25.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there were no show notes I would never know what was being talked about because I have only listened to a single podcast out of the sixty some that have been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:26:25.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T11:42:16.523" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions aren't listed on your questions page - before shutting down your browser, you can still &quot;undelete it&quot;.  After shutting down though, the page is lost - is there a way to access them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:42:16.523" Title="Get back deleted question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;undelete&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14167" CreationDate="2009-08-13T11:42:34.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neat suggestion, but with multiple disparate systems in play it may not be feasible. Of course, since I've never seen the StackExchange code, much less the code running DT or HtG, I'm probably not the most qualified to answer that. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think it'd be cool, though. (And that reminds me, I probably should jump into DT ... Except most of my HTML/CSS questions won't be publicly visible ... &lt;em&gt;sigh&lt;/em&gt; ... )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T11:42:34.090" />
  <row Id="14180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14181" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:09:29.607" Score="1" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so it might be a bit late for this, but: &lt;em&gt;Shouldn't it be called &quot;flare&quot; instead of &quot;flair&quot;?&lt;/em&gt; I'm talking, of course, of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot; title=&quot;the stuff stackoverflow gives us&quot;&gt;the stuff stackoverflow gives us&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at Merriam-Webster, and neither word has a meaning approaching &quot;badge&quot; or &quot;shiny graphic to put on your web page&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;[flair][2]&quot; I see: &quot;An instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;[flare][3]&quot; I see: &quot;a light (...) designed to attract attention&quot;. &quot;to flare&quot; comes even closer to the meaning we have in mind: &quot;to display conspicuously&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one looks at the urban dictionary, we see &quot;[flare][4]&quot; defined as: &quot;Any unwanted accessory that must be worn by your place of employment. (Just see the movie Office Space) &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this, I think it's clear that the correct spelling is &quot;flare&quot;. Using the wrong spelling might confuse everyone and make the world a slightly more confused place. Certainly, we want no such thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how difficult it would be to change the spelling throughout the stackoverflow site, both technically and if the term really is trademarked, as [1] (jokingly?) indicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question, then, is: dear reader, do you think we should replace &quot;flair&quot; with &quot;flare&quot;? And - why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(other links removed because I apparently don't have enough reputation. Someone with higher reputation should feel free to edit and put them back in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T03:45:12.293" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:45:12.293" Title="Flair - should it be Flare?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14180" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:14:08.790" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Office Space&lt;/a&gt;, so I guess Jeff went with the spelling he found on IMDB.  I don't think it's important enough to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peter Gibbons: Doesn't it bother you that you have to get up in the morning and you have to put on a bunch of pieces of flair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joanna: Yeah, but I'm not about to go in and start taking money from the register.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peter Gibbons: Well, maybe you should. You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:14:08.790" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14194" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:19:29.237" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an RSS feed like &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/feeds/user/2561&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/feeds/user/2561&lt;/a&gt; but for answers &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt;, for a specified user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="131182" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T13:00:43.010" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T01:23:47.857" Title="Answer Only RSS feed for a user" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:20:10.323" Score="9" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a old question that I revisited in order to link it in a new answer.  I noticed that in the comments @Steven A Lowe had a funny comment that I -- at the time -- had responded to with &quot;why can't I upvote comments?&quot;  Well, of course, now I can.  So, I voted @Steven's comment up then went to delete mine.  I got the warning box that I can only submit comment votes once every 5 seconds.  This seems like a bug to me.  Deleting != voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:06:32.503" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T14:25:16.140" Title="Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn't count as a comment vote" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14185" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:24:17.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleting a comment is like voting to delete. Only it takes just one vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:24:17.500" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14189" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:27:04.257" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;The (ex-)user &quot;Dave Mar&quot; copied a comment of mine from one of my questions and posted it as an answer; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/538316/dropdownlist-in-gridview-not-available-when-editing/1270376#1270376&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;'s the link. He lists his web site as being my stackoverflow profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133656" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T12:35:00.983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:35:00.983" Title="Is this some sort of bot?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14187" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:31:00.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it. The surname &quot;Mar&quot; looks like the month you posted. Very dodgy. I'll delete the account and flag it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For info, this would have been fine as a &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot; (or whatever the button is called), but MSO is OK too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:31:00.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5188" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:34:15.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5933/greasemonkey-script-to-show-profile-reputation-and-badges-from-all-so-sites-in&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey Script to show profile reputation and badges (from all SO sites) in the top toolbar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130340" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:34:15.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T12:34:15.290" />
  <row Id="14191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14180" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:35:43.820" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that you're wrong. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flare&lt;/a&gt; almost exclusively deals with flames or an expansion (flaring ones nostrils, flare jeans, etc.). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flair&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flair&lt;/a&gt;, on the other hand, is a &quot;uniquely attractive quality.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Connotation is everything. &lt;em&gt;Flare&lt;/em&gt; definitely connotes something being expanded or bursting out, while &lt;em&gt;flair&lt;/em&gt; connotes style. Our badges aren't bursting off of the screen, so they are definitely &lt;em&gt;flair&lt;/em&gt;. Judge and Atwood are both correct in their usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we're into semantics, word of the day: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Prestidigitation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prestidigitation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also fun Office Space fact: I hate the section of 635 that Peter drives on in the infamous traffic scene. That scene makes me shudder, because I have lived that hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:35:43.820" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14185" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:41:49.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this, too: adding a comment also sets vote timer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:41:49.723" />
  <row Id="14193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14180" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:42:30.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ric Flair&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WHOOOOOOO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:42:30.047" />
  <row Id="14194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14183" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:44:40.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to stalk somebody, don't you want to know &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; that they do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:44:40.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14183" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:47:54.367" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Next best thing/workaround is to bookmark the user's recent tab and refresh every now and then. Now you'll not only be able to see their movements on answering questions, but when they comment and if they edit a post as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:47:54.367" />
  <row Id="14196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14197" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:49:52.830" Score="0" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11731/padding-a-comment-with-spaces&quot;&gt;Padding a comment with spaces.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Serverfault, I posted a comment and someone posted the comment &quot;Classic!&quot; so I was going to post a comment back &quot;Yes It Is&quot; but I got an error message * required - at least 15 characters. How did the other person get to enter an 8 character comment, is that based on a certain amount of rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:04:29.360" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:04:29.360" ClosedDate="2009-08-13T13:31:35.963" Title="Add a comment behaviour in regards to minimum characters?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14196" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:53:39.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can pad comments with certain unicode characters or just some whitespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will cause the comment submit form to validate, but the whitespace gets trimmed when the comment is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use the unicode zero-width-space, it just takes up no space...but technically is the correct number of characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T12:53:39.320" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="14200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="71678" CreationDate="2009-08-13T12:55:50.937" Score="71" ViewCount="1585" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a few situations, it's nice to be able to get a rep recalc &quot;on demand.&quot; In the past, I've simply pinged Marc Gravell about this, but it would be good not to have to bother him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, this morning I received lots of &quot;dodgy&quot; votes early in the day. They were removed later on, but then that effectively meant that the other votes I'd received up until that point in the day (which hadn't been counted due to the rep limit) &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; didn't get counted. A quick rep recalc would (possibly? not sure) have sorted this out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this is an expensive operation, I'd expect a rate limit on this - once per day per user would be adequate, I'd imagine - but it would definitely be handy. I'm hoping it wouldn't take much to implement, given that the moderators already have that ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-08T01:34:59.327" LastActivityDate="2010-12-08T01:37:13.257" Title="Self-instigated rep recalc" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="26" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="14201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14200" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:01:44.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me like this &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be something that could be granted to all the 10k+ users, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is likely an issue that affects relatively few users. Probably the top 20-30  on each site. Beyond that this would not have much use, &lt;strike&gt;especially since rep is recalculated regularly anyway.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been now educated that rep is not recalculated on a regular basis. However, recalculating rep is a very CPU expensive operation. Which is why you would not to give 70000 users the ability to have one on demand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could instead institute regular rep-recalcs (monthly? bi-weekly?) that way, it would still be controlled, rather than user-initiated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T13:21:02.627" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:21:02.627" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14200" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:09:02.230" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the last month's or so, many questions have been moved between sites. It seems as if recalcs would generate quite some differences by now. The last recalc I can remember is when Jeff had issues implementing the association between accounts. I would like to see a more frequent recalc (maybe monthly). If that was the case, the recalc function asked for by John Skeet here could be limited to 10k users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:09:02.230" />
  <row Id="14204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14200" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:16:26.120" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it me or does it sound like there's a bug here? Asking for recalculation of rep seems like it's covering up for something being wrong with the rep calcs in the first place. Perhaps the thing to do is fixing whatever it is that causes the problems that people are asking for recalcs over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do need a way for users to request a recalc, may I suggest a once a week limit? I mean, your rep is important, but if it's allowed to be recalculated every day, you know there will be people asking for recalc every single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:16:26.120" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:17:41.810" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently got an accepted answer in a category, but no upvote and I noticed that it does not reflect the score total on the specific tag. It looks like you only get a point in this score for upvotes. Should accepted answers get a point in this score like an upvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132730" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:39:56.440" Title="&quot;30 Days&quot; and &quot;All time&quot; score for a specific tag for Accepted Answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;tag-score&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14183" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:18:25.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Parse their answer-source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=130154&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=recent&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=130154&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will show you their most recent 10. Change pagesize to increase count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:18:25.053" />
  <row Id="14207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14180" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:20:53.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to Chotchkie's and asked Stan. He said it was spelled &quot;F-L-A-I-R&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bXHPqj3NcI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I think he should be authoritative on this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:20:53.330" />
  <row Id="14208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14205" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:29:43.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I think it's fine.  It's rare, but you can give an accepted answer that isn't helpful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the vast majority of cases accepted answers come with upvotes so it doesn't matter for them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also prevents people from accepting their own answers and gaming it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:29:43.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14205" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:39:56.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this several times with newbies that did not have enough rep to upvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO there are 10005 pages of accepted answers (search isaccepted:1) and only 8765 pages with upvotes accepted answers (search isaccepted:1 votes:1). That leaves us with around 18600 accepted but not upvoted answers (at 15 answers per page). I think this is more relevant then one thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do think that counting them as if they were upvoted blurs the picture. Yes, there is the rare case of an accepted but useless answer, and there is the maybe not so rar case of the questioner accepting an answer after a while to get the 2 points, get the reminder of his user page to accept one or start a bounty, or just get the question of the unanswered page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though there seems to be a case here, I would leave it as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:39:56.440" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:43:01.390" Score="9" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation doesn't work quite as simply as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how it works: if you post a&#xA;  good question or helpful answer, it&#xA;  will be voted up by your peers: you&#xA;  gain 10 reputation points. If you post&#xA;  something that's off topic or&#xA;  incorrect, it will be voted down: you&#xA;  lose 2 reputation points. You can earn&#xA;  up to 200 reputation per day, but no&#xA;  more. (Note that votes for any posts&#xA;  marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not&#xA;  generate reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are rep recalculations, the cap isn't always 200 if things get removed, per day is not clearly defined.  Sure all this stuff is defined in various posts via the meta site. But why not have an official page for the reputation rules? So change it to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;basically&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; it works: if you post a&#xA;  good question or helpful answer, it&#xA;  will be voted up by your peers: you&#xA;  gain 10 reputation points. If you post&#xA;  something that's off topic or&#xA;  incorrect, it will be voted down: you&#xA;  lose 2 reputation points. You can earn&#xA;  up to 200 reputation per day, but no&#xA;  more. (Note that votes for any posts&#xA;  marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not&#xA;  generate reputation.) &lt;strong&gt;If you want the details of all the ins and outs of reputation, which you probably don't really need to know, see the link:reputation rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="131182" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T14:23:56.300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T23:09:57.550" Title="Feature Request: Offical Reputation Rules Page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:47:06.263" Score="0" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be great to have a *.stackoverflow.com with answers only and no questions.&#xA;Ok, not really answers, but suggestions.&#xA;For example &quot;I found a great way to do this, or I made this workaround for that bug, etc&quot;&#xA;Wouldn't it be cool?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is great when you are faced with a problem and need a solution, but what I propose, will not solve problems immediately but will feed your imagination with things you may never had wondered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133502" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:04:48.870" Title="*.stackoverflow.com with answers, suggestions, examples, and no questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14210" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:50:45.677" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion for the official reputation page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/so/logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;SO Logo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Reputation:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's confusing, get over it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  You can gain it and/or lose it, that's the important part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you want reputation just ask good questions or provide good answers.  The rest will take care of itself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But, if you really must know, below is how it all works...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;Explain how the rep system really works, in full glorious detail&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T14:21:17.650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T14:21:17.650" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14211" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:50:53.960" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turning a Q&amp;amp;A engine into an A engine...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this has future&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:50:53.960" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14211" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:52:09.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &quot;StackOverflow Jeopardy!&quot;.  Just post your suggestion by identifying the problem your suggestion solves, asking that question, and then supplying your suggestion as an answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also common etiquette to make the question &amp;mdash; or at least your answer &amp;mdash; community wiki to avoid the appearance of begging rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:52:09.760" />
  <row Id="14215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14211" CreationDate="2009-08-13T13:54:36.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is with this compulsive desire to warp SO into every different thing imaginable?  StackOverflow is a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; and answer site; this goes against the very point of it.  Can't we just appreciate SO for what it is and does well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want a site like this, Jeff would tell you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000135.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;get off your butt&lt;/a&gt; and do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T13:54:36.960" />
  <row Id="14216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14210" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:01:47.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate walls of text:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;post         |  Is Normal Post       |  Is Wiki Post        |  Max./Min&#xA;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;cool stuff   |  upvote   =&gt; 10 rep   |  upvote   =&gt; 0 rep   |  200 rep per day&#xA;crap         |  downvote =&gt; -2 rep   |  downvote =&gt; 0 rep   |  Oblivion (=1 rep)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T14:38:58.353" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T14:38:58.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14211" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:03:04.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Boy there seems to have been a lot of talk lately about changing the StackExchange sites into things they're not. This suggestion, the &quot;ability to purchase rep for bounty&quot; question, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm against most of it. Don't get me wrong, some of the individual ideas are neat -- including this one -- but the right answer &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; the official StackExchange-based LOJ sites. For this specific suggestion, the right answer is -- as others have mentioned -- a blog, or a license of StackExchange and build it yourself. (Heck, they might even make you a member of the ever-growing LOJ!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These communities (S[OFU]) are all based on Q&amp;amp;A -- take the Q out, and you have essentially a wiki-based blog/forum. While that concept is fairly cool, it isn't what these sites are for, and ultimately (I think) would dilute the quality of these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T14:03:04.797" />
  <row Id="14218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14211" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:06:39.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many SO users already have blogs.  Visit the profile pages of users whose answers you find particularly helpful/insightful and see if they have one listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T14:06:39.827" />
  <row Id="14219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:37:58.467" Score="1" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow sites can give good answers blazingly fast, I have asked questions which have been answered in minutes which no amount of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Google-fu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google-fu&lt;/a&gt; could help me with. This is makes it a great resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However some questions could simply be answered if the question was typed into Google, with potentially good answers elsewhere. Is it yet considered bad etiquette to do this? Should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T08:53:09.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T08:56:03.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T14:37:58.467" Title="Discussion etiquette, Google factor" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14219" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:41:42.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it is realistic to say &quot;You should just google it&quot;, one of the goals of Stack Overflow and other related sites is to make our answers the #1 hit on Google and other search engines. If that is the case, then telling them to &quot;go google it&quot; makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they ask a question and you can provide an answer from Google, it may help if you provide some relevant links with descriptions about the information provided. Maybe give some short quoted material and examples. There is nothing wrong with providing information from Google, but don't just go and say &quot;Just Google It, dummy&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T08:54:19.160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T08:54:19.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T14:41:42.887" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="14222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14219" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:50:28.670" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone can &quot;Just Google It&quot; but that &lt;strong&gt;defeats the entire premise&lt;/strong&gt; of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results on Google have not been scrutinized by a community (i.e. Stack Overflow voting). Programming information found on the Internet can be incomplete, outdated, or just wrong. Blogs and such are typically written by one person without any sort of technical review. Stack Overflow provides several answers from many different points of view. Each answer is rated and comment on by the community for its merits and completeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is supposed to be a &lt;strong&gt;canonical archive of all things programming&lt;/strong&gt;, reviewed and scrutinized by a community of peers. Just because the information can be found on other sites, it still has its place and purpose on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T16:17:48.740" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:17:48.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T14:50:28.670" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="14224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:53:25.090" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctype launched recently, they a have a similar concept to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://doctype.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the visual design focuses too much on the person and not enough on how good an answer is…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T02:44:33.653" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:44:33.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T14:53:25.090" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14226" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:54:07.397" Score="1" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started to create a post on the regular stackoverflow site regarding creating extensions for a StringBuilder. Basically, the original code I had written was in VB.NET and I needed to port it to C#. Well, while I was writing up the post, I figured it out on my own. Can I place this code on stackoverflow for all to use? If the answer is yes, should I create it as a 'community wiki' post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1272534/how-do-i-port-an-extension-in-vb-net-to-c/1272544&quot;&gt;Here is a link&lt;/a&gt; to the question I posted. Does this suit the bill? (sorry I want to make sure I do this right!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133674" LastEditorUserId="133674" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T15:04:15.953" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:04:15.953" Title="Can I post code on Stack Overflow without asking a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14225" CreationDate="2009-08-13T14:55:58.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can do that as long as it's not asked/answered already.&#xA;You should post the question and then answer it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need for Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T14:55:58.953" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14225" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:00:00.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you should do is first write a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How do I port some VB.NET code to C#?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your question here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then post an answer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that you don't make the question or answer too specific to your problem, otherwise it may not be helpful to others..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:00:00.347" />
  <row Id="14229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14211" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:04:48.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%5FGuy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mayor Adam West&lt;/a&gt; best explains the value questions give to answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi4009623577/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;An answer without a question is a statement.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:04:48.870" />
  <row Id="14230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14232" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:07:02.170" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've typed in my answer, press post, and BAM: 404 Page. Go back (copy my answer) and refresh, the question is there. Try again, BAM: 404 Page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the question : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1272494/sort-a-csv-file-by-last-name-with-php&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1272494/sort-a-csv-file-by-last-name-with-php&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the 404 URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1272494/answer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1272494/answer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also had to switch to Firefox to Post this Question. So I believe it is a bug in Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked it here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted to Here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/post&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/post&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;which ended up to be just a blank Ask Form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Using Chrome 3.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T03:45:38.643" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:45:38.643" Title="Posting an answer results in a 404 page when using Chrome" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14230" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:10:13.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just posted and deleted my answer there with no problem in Chrome 2.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:10:13.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14230" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:10:56.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Chrome on Linux (dev channel) and three different Windows boxes (1 dev, 2 stable) all day long. I'd notice if it were reliably broken...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:10:56.513" />
  <row Id="14234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:15:27.067" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;The (gold) Famous Question badge has the description: &quot;Asked a question with 10,000 views.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aren't all users who ask a question going to acquire this badge eventually? I mean, it would have to be something seriously obscure to not pick up a few pageviews every-so-often and even very mediocre questions will get significant pageviews just from people looking to avoid duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me, anything based on pageview counts should apply a rolling window to the criteria. So the badge description would be &quot;Asked a question with 10,000 views in 60 days&quot; or similar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:19:27.803" Title="Badges awarded by page views (Famous Question)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14234" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:19:09.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps everyone will, but some questions gain views so slowly that it is unlikely. But it is also more likely that things voted down to oblivion will get deleted and therefore will not get viewed anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a theoretical world where everyone posts questions and at least one question makes it through, you could be right, but in reality this doesn't necessarily have to be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't really understand why we give badges for page views anyway, but alas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:19:09.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14234" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:19:27.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say that all users will eventually get the badge, but a good chunk of them will. However, I disagree that there should be a time limit on the badge -- there's no inherent value to the badge (outside of our flair), and it's a good way to let long-time users get in on otherwise very-hard-to-obtain gold badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:19:27.803" />
  <row Id="14240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14219" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:23:15.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to note is that your Google search might/will not turn up the same results as my Google search. Depending on your geographic location (or at least where Google thinks your IP is located) and if you're logged in to Google, you can receive different results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've no idea if other factors (user-agent for example) affect the search algorithm, but it wouldn't surprise me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's not enough to say &quot;Google for it - and here's the search I did&quot; - link to some of the results, by all means, but linking to your search might not be as helpful to me as you think or expect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:23:15.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T15:23:15.283" />
  <row Id="14241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:27:31.983" Score="8" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes an answer can be categorized in a way that the question cannot.  For instance, a question may be about using javascript to solve a problem and an answer may suggest a jQuery solution.  I think it would be useful to be able to tag answers, then provide the ability when viewing a question to filter the answers by the tags.  Using the above example, I may be interested in only seeing (or not seeing) solutions that are tagged with jquery.  The tags on the answer would, by default, be those on the question, but they could be updated when the question is initially submitted or later on via the edit function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:42:24.083" Title="Add the ability to tag an answer differently than the question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14245" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:31:01.817" Score="2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why when I vote up a skeet answer his reputation doesn't change? I can confirm that happens,tried it more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance for answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81800" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:13:27.203" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:13:27.203" Title="Why rep doesn't increase after upvote?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14244" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:31:35.653" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He has hit the reputation cap for today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only get 200 rep per day from upvotes, and he has already gotten that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus .. he is Jon Skeet, he don't need no stinkin upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:31:35.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14252" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:33:58.830" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff said they were thinking about changing the rep loss from -2 to -5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When will it be implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:49:13.567" Title="When will downvote incur in a -5 reputation change?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14246" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:35:46.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;6 to 8           weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:35:46.797" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14241" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:42:24.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that considering the potential usage of it, it is something which may be too much bother to deal with. What about people who have interesting or ignored tags, should the answers show up differently (or not at all) if the user tags his answer differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could possibly say that you could institute the same ideas just by incorporating the &quot;tags&quot; into your post (example: &quot;This deals with jQuery&quot;) and then anybody who is interested only in jQuery answers can just do a Ctrl+F and search for the terms you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:42:24.083" />
  <row Id="14252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14246" CreationDate="2009-08-13T15:49:13.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the question is whether Jeff thinks that it's still a good idea - it's possible that he's changed his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also wondering if we need another topic about it - why not add your question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;to the original discussion&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T15:49:13.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:02:17.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/13/1310228/Wikipedia-Approaches-Its-Limits?from=rss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Chi points out that this does&#xA;  not necessarily imply causation, he&#xA;  suggests it is concrete evidence to&#xA;  back up what many people have been&#xA;  saying: that it is increasingly&#xA;  difficult to enjoy contributing to&#xA;  Wikipedia unless you are part of the&#xA;  site's inner core of editors.&#xA;  Wikipedia's growth pattern suggests&#xA;  that it is becoming like a community&#xA;  where resources have started to run&#xA;  out. &quot;As you run out of food, people&#xA;  start competing for that food, and&#xA;  that results in a slowdown in&#xA;  population growth and means that the&#xA;  stronger, more well-adapted part of&#xA;  the population starts to have more&#xA;  power.&quot;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the nature of my concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:02:17.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="14261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:08:12.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If only he added another site that could combine all of them in aggregate...what I really would like is just a way to not have more hurdles in order to log in (I already have an openid login, I'm on Serverfault, but someone decided my question belonged on SuperUser, so then I had to track down the password to get into the beta site, then find the question after logging into that one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to navigate the sites more &lt;em&gt;transparently&lt;/em&gt; so that there is less resistance and less hassle. There are questions that are &lt;em&gt;related&lt;/em&gt; enough that they border between topics found on SU and SF, for example. As a sysadmin I have to deal with user issues. Sometimes those issues could be found by home users or sysadmins in labs and workplaces, so then you're going to have duplicates and it's harder to move from site to site to find what you want...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as if the whole team has this picture in their head of some kind of self-organizing emergent wiki, which would be great, but just so long as the users aren't getting agitated because they have to triple log in to find an answer (as I just got directed from SF to SU but had to go to meta then back to SU and go through logging in and associating my profile to do...AGH!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team will do what they want in the end and that's fine and dandy. I love the sites. I'm just wishing there was an easy way to have them accept my login as a portal and easily slide among the sites and content with a filtering system of some sort, like &quot;make serverfault my primary portal&quot; as the default and the others with their own themes show visually where I am and I can aggregate information without keeping track of what I'm logged into and have to log out of each time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132770" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:08:12.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3223" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:08:48.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if he used mysql, but obviously &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/893/greg-hewgill&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt; have imported into a database to generate &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some statistics&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe you could ask him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133217" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:08:48.827" />
  <row Id="14267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:09:48.867" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been asked it three times today which is bordering on annoying. Last instance was trying to post with a new tag (not allowed to do that) so I removed it and hit post again. Bang - unreadable captcha prompt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers, Rob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131750" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T15:50:26.393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:50:26.393" Title="Captcha is a little draconian on here" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:19:11.547" Score="0" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1165786/how-to-search-for-punctuation-that-gets-ignored-by-google/1273016#1273016&quot;&gt;my answer here&lt;/a&gt;, the first link I inserted ended up being extended until the end of the second link, apparently because there was a backslash (\) included in the second link's URL. Adding an additional ] did not affect where it ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Google Code Search][1] lets you search by regex (including operator characters with \\-escaping) and language filter. The code it searches is limited to opensource projects; but this should be plenty for finding examples of things.&#xA;&#xA;* [\\+\\+ lang:haskell][2]&#xA;* [@@ lang:ruby][3]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://google.com/codesearch&#xA;  [2]: http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=\%2B\%2B+lang:haskell++&amp;amp;sbtn=Search&#xA;  [3]: http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=@@+lang:ruby&amp;amp;sbtn=Search&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14268/bug-link-was-extended-to-the-entire-post/14269#14269&quot;&gt;minimal testcase&lt;/a&gt; appears below; its markdown source is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Testing reproducability on meta:&#xA;&#xA;[this is a link][1] - and this should not be linked&#xA;&#xA;* [backslashes in this link appear to break things][2]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com&#xA;  [2]: http://example.com/?\%2B&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, adding links here is munging the [] numbers in my codeblocks above...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastEditorUserId="36723" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T16:24:15.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:34:03.990" Title="Bug: Backslashes in links break markdown link rendering" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14268" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:19:26.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Testing reproducability on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this is a link - and this should not be linked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;backslashes in this link appear to break things&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Test2:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com?3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this is a link&lt;/a&gt; - and this should not be linked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=%5c%2B%5c%2B+lang:haskell++&amp;amp;sbtn=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;backslashes in this link appear to break things&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Test3:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this is a link&lt;/a&gt; - and this should not be linked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;backslashes in this link appear to break things&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encoding backslashes as %5c works around the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T16:34:03.990" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:34:03.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14267" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:25:40.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;for unreadable captcha's, click the button with arrows, looks like a refresh... It'll get you a new image to decode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have it near as bad as I do.  Virtually every submit I do on META has to be validated because of Google's jQuery files getting blocked by FinJin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T15:46:57.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:46:57.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3223" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:27:05.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13810/importing-data-dump-into-anything-other-than-sql-server&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (duplicate) answer asked yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133217" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:27:05.553" />
  <row Id="14275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-08-13T16:38:02.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to &quot;rep farm&quot; also, but I don't have the time to produce a Neil Butterworth-quality answer, or the knowledge for a Skeet answer. It's also a speed question: when I see a question I could answer, someone else has, usually. :o&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T16:38:02.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" />
  <row Id="14300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14378" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:28:18.073" Score="8" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm suggesting this &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; as a SE feature, but as a MetaSO feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just went through and up/down-voted a slew of items in a CW poll only to find that it was counting towards my daily-limit. CW votes don't cost/grant any rep, so why am I limited? Kinda discourages real heavy participation in poll's (upvoting answers you like, downvoting those you don't.) I can't really downvote the answers I like without losing the ability to grant people up-votes in non-cw questions. Stinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Votes a demonstrably different in CW/Non-CW questions. In one, score and rep is tied in, and in another it's not. I'm not making a case that the two atmospheres are different, SO already treats them differently. I'm suggesting we extend that treatment onto daily-limits too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T18:59:39.913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:57:11.097" Title="Don't count votes against daily-limit on CW, please" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3630" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:29:15.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're (stackoverflow.com LLC) working on schwag (tshirts, etc) so if you have ideas and want to work with us, contact us via the normal email channels and we'll figure something out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:29:15.370" />
  <row Id="14302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14300" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:30:22.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes are supposed to mean something, regardless of the reputation gain/loss. If you take away the cap on CW votes, then we are saying that the votes on CW can be frivolously given/taken away willy-nilly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:30:22.607" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:32:57.377" Score="26" ViewCount="1720" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well we got &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11030/podcast-64-discussion-ideas-unofficial/11040#11040&quot;&gt;Jon's question&lt;/a&gt; answered on podcast 65. So +1 for us (and Jon)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you like to see discussed on Podcast #66?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post only one topic per user and look down the list and vote up things you'd like to see. You can be as detailed as you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12785/podcast-65-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;previous podcast discussion&lt;/a&gt; is there to &lt;s&gt;steal&lt;/s&gt; revise past ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/podcast-66/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #66&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29078&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Transcript wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12785/podcast-65-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;= previous&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19915/podcast-67-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;next =&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T14:54:22.240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:54:22.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T17:38:11.043" Title="Podcast #66 - Discussion Ideas. (Unofficial)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:36:45.587" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Future plans of the League of Justice. Also, any world domination-related activities that they may contain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:36:45.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14300" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:37:35.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first impulse was to up-vote this suggestion, since you're right - votes on fluff CW posts are as meaningless as the posts themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14300/dont-count-votes-against-daily-limit-on-cw-please/14302#14302&quot;&gt;But devinb is right&lt;/a&gt; - votes are votes. If you want to waste yours on CW posts, then that's your choice - but you'll have less say when it comes to real Q&amp;amp;A then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:37:35.930" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14311" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:39:56.140" Score="9" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1270078/stretching-controls-to-fill-itemscontrol/1270813&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; in which I stated a primary requirement but also asked for an optional improvement.  The primary requirement was answered perfectly, and I upvoted it and accepted it.  Building on that answer, I was subsequently able to solve the optional improvement as well.  I'd like to share the improved solution but I'm not sure of the best way to do so.  I suspect I should either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add another answer to my own question explaining how I was able to enhance the accepted answer (but leave the existing accepted answer as is)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a comment to the existing accepted answer explaining the additions required to satisfy the optional improvement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with (2) is that I'd like to give code samples and comments are very limiting in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the person who answered the question deserves the &quot;credit&quot;, but I also feel it benefits the community to have the additional information.  How should I handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109117" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:03:33.633" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:03:33.633" Title="My improved answer based on another's accepted answer for my own question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:41:37.527" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know whether Joel is indeed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14126/anyone-else-feels-the-show-notes-spoil-the-podcast/14133#14133&quot;&gt;Jeff's father&lt;/a&gt;.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:41:37.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T17:41:37.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14317" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:42:27.353" Score="9" ViewCount="376" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14253&quot;&gt;poll questions&lt;/a&gt; be Community Wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, should they count for reputation for the question asker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T18:22:41.780" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T14:39:28.757" Title="Should poll questions be Community Wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="14309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:43:25.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. There is no reason a poll question should count as reputation for the question asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, making the question CW will force all of the answers to be CW, which is obviously desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T17:51:57.533" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:51:57.533" />
  <row Id="14310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:43:49.953" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.                               &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:43:49.953" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14306" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:44:22.653" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't reached 2000 rep yet, then I think #1 is preferable.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you have reached 2000 rep, then the best way would be to edit your improvements into the accepted answer (along with a note of explanation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:44:22.653" />
  <row Id="14313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:47:30.727" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, because a poll question effectively belongs to the community, in my opinion. If the question author is not looking for an answer to a specific problem of theirs, but is simply compiling a list of something that may be useful to others in the community, then the community should have more control over how it is formatted and edited. Making it a Community Wiki thus allows more people in the community to control the content (due to the lower Rep threshold for editing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:47:30.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:49:12.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;TBH, I'd rather prefer to see the -1 on downvotes go, maybe also only for people with more than X reputation. That could encourage a lot more people (incl. me) to actually use the feature, because at the moment I feel like I'm getting punished for trying to keep low quality answers/questions down, which is why I rarely ever downvote something. (and yes, it's just one small tiny friggin point and I have plenty, but still, it feels like a punishment against me or asking me to &quot;pay&quot; for something that has no value to me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:49:12.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:50:01.610" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User, yes, but this is more because polls are subjective in nature, and subjective questions on the big 3 are either marked as CW or closed to prevent inordinate reputation gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on Meta, no. Meta is, by design, a site that deals with subjective questions and discussion all the time, and it makes no sense to force all of it into Community Wiki. In fact, back when Meta was initially created, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2860/what-changes-to-the-so-engine-are-necessary-for-meta&quot;&gt;was in favor&lt;/a&gt; of the elimination of Wiki completely from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since the migration of the FAQ over here, I've come to recognize the need for the &quot;Wiki&quot; aspect of &quot;Community Wiki&quot;. Also, when conducting a poll, it's important to mark the responses as &quot;Community Wiki&quot; so people can vote them down without losing rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, apart from the slight convenience in forcing all the answers into CW, there's no reason why the poll question itself &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to be CW here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:50:01.610" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="14316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:50:10.407" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that on meta, if the question is valid and related to SO and/or its family of sites, then the user is contributing to the goal of meta and should reap the rewards in the form of reputation. In fact, I would fully support the complete removal of the CW option from meta altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:50:10.407" />
  <row Id="14317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:52:22.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate poll questions. I would rather they not actually be posted rather than we sit here worrying about whether they are CW or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:52:22.773" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:52:26.690" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In principle&lt;/strong&gt;, there's no reason why they should be. Either the question is off-topic and should be removed, or it's on-topic and its wiki state should be at the discretion of its author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In practice&lt;/strong&gt;, there's a very good reason why they should be: polls work very, &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; poorly when answers cannot be voted on without giving or taking rep from the voters and votees. Furthermore, when posting a popular answer stands to garner rep for its author, there's more temptation to post a duplicate rather than up-voting an existing answer. &lt;strong&gt;And making a question CW is the only way to force all answers to be CW as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as the system continues to work this way, poll questions should always be CW for practical reasons. Admins should force this upon them if the original author neglects to do so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T17:52:26.690" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-13T17:54:55.857" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interview &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/davidsmalley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Smalley&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/unsalted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Paul Farnell&lt;/a&gt; from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://assets0.doctype.com/images/logo-large.png?2&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T18:00:33.720" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:00:33.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T17:54:55.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14306" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:15:26.353" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do both: Add the enhancements as a new answer, and add a comment to the accepted answer pointing people to the enhancements answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm assuming you don't have enough rep to edit the accepted answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:15:26.353" />
  <row Id="14323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32156" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:31:20.510" Score="0" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about adding a new way of handling polls besides 'regular' or 'CW'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please give answers that give ideas on how this could be implemented (actually it's design work, but you know what I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56904/allow-diamond-mods-to-lock-out-downvoting-to-support-poll-election-type-questio&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; for more ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-13T16:48:57.840" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T13:41:28.840" Title="Poll suggestion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;poll&gt;&lt;so-design&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="14324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14323" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:31:39.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questioner puts up poll question with 'Poll' status. (Ex: Which conditionals should I put in my new language?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerers answer with 1-line 'answer states' in one Edit Box. (Ex: If-Then-Else)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answerers answer with supporting text in 2nd Edit Box. (Ex: If's are necessary because of blah, blah, blah)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People up and downvote the answers.  Either with no rep changes, or a one-time rep for answers that get any upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overlayed on this would be the ability for those of Editing rep or the Questioner to edit the 1-line Edit Box, and for all CW users (100+ rep) to edit the supporting text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:31:39.153" />
  <row Id="14325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14327" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:36:01.733" Score="1" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with suggesting feature's for any particular site is that the feature is evaluated in the full spectrum of SO-family sites. &quot;Can we get X,&quot; one user inquires. &quot;No, that wouldn't work right on Y and Z,&quot; another replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the option open for Meta-exclusive Features, and maybe another set of features that are geared towards the type of activity on SF, or SU? Each of the SO sites have similarities, but they also have their differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if StackExchange had a nice API, and features could be developed and plugged-in as modules for each individual site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T02:43:15.030" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T12:23:21.707" Title="Can MSO, SO, SF, and SU have exclusive features?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:40:08.477" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I have this great documentation and I want to upload it somewhere for others to have the opportunity to see it.  I could just document it on my personal blog, or google site... but what if I'd like SO/SF/SU users to comment on it, enhance the research/documentation, collaborate and share ideas?  What if I'd like to link to other people's posts/documentations in a centralized and familiar form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that was the purpose of the 'wiki' option, but maybe I'm completely wrong.  If I'm not wrong, I think this needs to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A) Be communicated/advertised more clearly,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or/and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B) Be re-organized in a way that it lends itself for better usability.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming from this answer to a Server Fault question: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/53831/where-can-i-document-useful-things-to-know-as-a-mac-sysadmin/53833#53833&quot;&gt;Where can I document useful things to know as a Mac sysadmin?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130185" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T23:00:27.760" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T23:00:27.760" Title="What's the best way to use the SO/SF/SU wiki option?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;&lt;enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14325" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:42:01.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MSO already has an exclusive feature: the &quot;required&quot; tags and the &quot;moderator only&quot; tags (bug/discussion/feature-request/support and status-* respectively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it would be harder for them to have &lt;em&gt;conflicting&lt;/em&gt; features, but features which some sites turn on and some don't are probably simple...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see how a plug-in API would be very useful - for instance, a reputation calculation plug-in if you wanted to change how rep was calculated for more than just a simple &quot;n points for an upvote&quot; change. However, I wouldn't personally expect to see anything like that for v1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other settings (where it's just a number changing with no logic change) would probably be best done in a config file or db table, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An authentication plug-in is probably the most likely candidate for the hosted version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:42:01.577" />
  <row Id="14328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14326" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:46:27.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be the purpose of the wiki option, and I'd go with A) &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; B). The nature of the site (and the attitudes of a lot of members) will probably prevent anything that isn't a cut-and-dried question and answer, though. I'd like to find some sort of alternative somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:46:27.107" />
  <row Id="14329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14326" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:47:39.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think SO is geared towards documentation type posts. The main goal is to answer specific issues dealing with computers, programming, or sysadmin tasks. There are some examples where list posts have done well, but there's many more where they've been massively down voted and closed.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sticking with SO as an example, I don't think it was ever intended to be a site to &lt;em&gt;learn&lt;/em&gt; how to program, it's a resource for you to use when you're stuck with your current knowledge.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I feel like great documentation can come in handy, but it's not really something I want to see on the SO family sites. If you still insist on posting it, make sure it's focused;  &quot;How to use &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; function in &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; language&quot;, not &quot;How Classes work in Java&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:47:39.147" />
  <row Id="14330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14326" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:49:18.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a question that your documentation answers. Make it a good one. And make sure your documentation is a good answer before you post it as one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:49:18.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:49:52.447" Score="62" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like Joel's going to be away, so &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; the next podcast could be quite a while away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't see why Jeff shouldn't record a podcast with a guest instead of Joel... even if they only manage a half hour show instead of the full hour, I'm sure it would still be well worth listening too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I'd love to go on the podcast some time... unless the mysterious &quot;lost&quot; email was because Jeff and Joel decided they couldn't stand the sound of my voice ;) There are plenty of other more interesting people though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T18:49:52.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T18:49:52.447" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="14334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14300" CreationDate="2009-08-13T18:54:57.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A vote is a vote.  That is an obvious statement.  But I think Jonathan does have a very valid point.  Why should CW votes be measured the same way, why should votes be measured at all?  Are we preventing negative activity?  Votes are good, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the real question should be if there needs to be a limit on the number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T19:01:30.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T19:01:30.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14323" CreationDate="2009-08-13T19:02:16.147" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Poll questions should be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T19:02:16.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14323" CreationDate="2009-08-13T19:02:51.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do we need to add complexity to the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poll questions should just be Community Wiki. Then we don't have a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T19:02:51.527" />
  <row Id="14339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14323" CreationDate="2009-08-13T19:04:55.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polls should be done away with. Not given their own special status (unless that special status is automatically closed). There are plenty of ways to ask a question and get an answer or get decent feedback on a topic without having to resort to mind-numbing polls. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T19:04:55.237" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="14343" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T19:06:49.433" Score="-2" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there already good questions and answers about books?&#xA;Or should I ask yet another question about the best programming book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastEditorUserId="11995" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T19:24:50.943" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T19:29:01.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T19:12:57.487" Title="What good book questions have been asked and answered on SO before?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;books&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="14344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14343" CreationDate="2009-08-13T19:07:02.303" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most probably you shouldn't ask another question. There are a zillion questions and answers on SO about books. The tag 'books' has been used over 777 times so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Very popular&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read&quot;&gt;What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72406/what-development-book-made-the-most-impact-on-you-as-a-developer&quot;&gt;What development book made the most impact on you as a developer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22873/language-books-tutorials-for-popular-languages&quot;&gt;Language Books/Tutorials for popular languages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Also popular&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/170208/must-have-books-on-your-bookshelf&quot;&gt;“Must Have” Books on Your Bookshelf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184118/what-programming-book-would-you-not-recommend-to-developers&quot;&gt;What Programming Book would you NOT recommend to Developers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/832941/what-was-your-first-programming-book&quot;&gt;What was your first programming book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305691/which-book-dramatically-changed-your-way-of-approaching-problems&quot;&gt;Which book dramatically changed your way of approaching problems?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Beginner programmers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559/what-books-would-you-recommend-for-a-beginning-software-developer&quot;&gt;What books would you recommend for a beginning Software Developer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Advanced programmers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393455/books-for-advanced-programmers&quot;&gt;Books for advanced programmers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Topics&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Design Patterns: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105049/what-are-the-best-design-patterns-books-you-have-read&quot;&gt;What are the best design patterns books you have read?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PHP: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90924/what-is-the-best-php-programming-book&quot;&gt;What is the best PHP programming book?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rails: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83784/rails-books&quot;&gt;Rails books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Free programming books&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391523/what-are-some-good-free-programming-books&quot;&gt;What are some good free programming books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books&quot;&gt;List of freely available programming books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Meta discussion about programming books&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/506501/should-you-always-read-a-book-when-picking-up-a-new-technology&quot;&gt;Should you always read a book when picking up a new technology?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/347821/do-programmers-read-books-or-is-the-book-industry-dead&quot;&gt;Do programmers read books? Or is the book industry dead?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/165473/are-programming-books-a-necessity-nowadays&quot;&gt;Are programming books a necessity nowadays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233903/how-can-i-convince-my-boss-to-buy-books-for-programmers&quot;&gt;How can I convince my boss to buy books for programmers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/208293/when-to-throw-out-old-programming-books&quot;&gt;When to Throw Out Old Programming Books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/419042/how-do-you-read-books&quot;&gt;How Do You Read Books?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101084/what-makes-a-good-technical-book-good&quot;&gt;What makes a good technical book ‘good’?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other books for programmers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133556/best-programming-novel-to-take-on-holiday&quot;&gt;Best programming novel to take on holiday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38210/what-non-programming-books-should-programmers-read&quot;&gt;What non-programming books should programmers read?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31274/best-non-development-book-for-software-developers&quot;&gt;Best non-development book for software developers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T19:16:15.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14343" CreationDate="2009-08-13T19:20:32.967" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a good FAQ topic at all. Users should search the questions for &quot;books&quot; and see if their question matches, they shouldn't have to check a FAQ for listings of questions that have already been asked, lest we end up with dozens of FAQ pages that keep a list of all the questions already asked for certain topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Making another post to highlight to people that there are dupes is completely nonsensical. So instead of posting to relevant dupes you want to post to a post about relevant dupes. Congratulations you just added another layer to the whole mess instead of saying &quot;This is a dupe&quot; and you close it as such, which would then point back to the correct question(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[facepalm]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T19:29:01.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T19:29:01.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T19:20:32.967" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14300" CreationDate="2009-08-13T20:11:13.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of votes on regular questions is to move the good answers higher on the web page.  If you hit your limit, you're probably upvoting too many answers in given questions, and not picking out the best.  A secondary purpose of these votes is to boost people's rep, and it makes sense to have a limit on how much rep you can boost in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a CW poll, the purpose of a vote is to signal agreement with a given answer, and there may be many answers.  If there was a question about obscure programming languages I've used, for example, I'd want to upvote quite a few.  In this case, I'm not voting answers that are correct or good, but signaling that I belong to a group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the votes serve different purposes, and ideally should be considered separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T20:11:13.220" />
  <row Id="14355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully they would be creating something cooler than a vacuum.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Like a time machine or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-13T20:16:29.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14308" CreationDate="2009-08-13T20:20:24.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;poll questions should be closed and deleted - rapidly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T20:20:24.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14367" CreationDate="2009-08-13T21:47:35.470" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by requests such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14276/retag-winforms-windows-forms&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering how much work it takes the mods to perform a retag. Not that I want to ask for one, but simply because I'm curious ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a side question which might be more interesting: Would there be some value to a system which automatically retagged certain popular retag requests behind the scenes? In other words, if a user asked a question and tagged it with &quot;winforms,&quot; the StackExchange engine might automatically retag it &quot;windows-forms?&quot; (The only way I can see this working is if all retags performed by mods were tracked, and then as a retag was performed, StackExchange would learn that in the future no new questions should be allowed to use the replaced tag. Don't know what that would do to performance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T21:58:51.230" Title="How much work goes into a retag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14363" CreationDate="2009-08-13T21:50:33.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way that moderators retag is through &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354/batch-retagging&quot;&gt;batch retagging&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Auto retagging has been discussed before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/623/do-23-000-tags-need-tag-database-editors/1406#1406&quot;&gt;Tagging Synonyms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/623/do-23-000-tags-need-tag-database-editors/652#652&quot;&gt;Automated Similar tags finder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/623/do-23-000-tags-need-tag-database-editors/1529#1529&quot;&gt;Duplicate tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-13T21:56:25.090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T21:56:25.090" />
  <row Id="14365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T21:53:32.990" Score="6" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2779/could-the-tagging-system-be-enhanced-to-support-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;re: several tagging reorganizations...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a canonical form of a tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11786/merge-all-java-ee-related-tags-j2ee-jee-javaee-java-ee-into-one&quot;&gt;the Java tags question&lt;/a&gt;) then it seems like the following set of features would be a good improvement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;example case (for illustration, not correctness):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;j2ee&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a canonical tag with aliases &lt;code&gt;javaee&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if someone searches using tags that include an alias (&lt;code&gt;javaee&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt;) it gets mapped to the canonical form (&lt;code&gt;j2ee&lt;/code&gt;) for a search.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if someone edits the Tags section of a question and enters a tag that is an alias (&lt;code&gt;javaee&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt;), it gets mapped to the canonical form (&lt;code&gt;j2ee&lt;/code&gt;) for storage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, a note is displayed in the result page (search result, or edit result) giving feedback to the user for the canonical form (e.g. &quot;please note that &lt;code&gt;j2ee&lt;/code&gt; is preferred on this site over synonym &lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a list of aliases that changes in response to user submissions (10K+ users only? voting? not sure).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The alias list can be viewed on a special page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aliases must be unambiguous (e.g. some 3-letter acronym can't be the alias for 2 canonical forms simultaneously)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-14T06:28:43.203" LastActivityDate="2010-07-14T06:28:43.203" ClosedDate="2009-08-14T07:37:35.823" Title="tag aliases/synonyms" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;alias&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14363" CreationDate="2009-08-13T21:58:51.230" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All it takes to do a mass retagging is to put in the current tag and the tag we want, and the tag happens pretty much in an instant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T21:58:51.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14373" CreationDate="2009-08-13T22:11:47.283" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961816/proper-way-of-writing-a-hql-in-query/961865#961865&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, the second link is not properly displayed, but the edit page with the preview works as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Displayed answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6540/solinkparseerror.png&quot; alt=&quot;Displayed answer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit screen + preview&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1221/solinkparseerroredit.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit screen + preview&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T06:05:44.983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:05:44.983" Title="Link parsing error, preview is fine" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14372" CreationDate="2009-08-13T22:15:50.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fixed it. Links aren't expected to have spaces, so when a space is present in an anchor link (which happens a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; in Javadocs), it must be encoded as &lt;code&gt;%20&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previewing formatter does seem to be too permissive, though. It definitely shouldn't let anything through that won't work in the real formatter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T22:15:50.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14300" CreationDate="2009-08-13T22:58:01.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; think up-voting on CW posts should be un-bounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I propose is having another 30 CW votes. That way, they don't count against your &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; votes, but you still have a limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T14:57:11.097" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:57:11.097" />
  <row Id="14379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14210" CreationDate="2009-08-13T23:09:57.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about just adding a small '?' or icon to each entry on the user's reputation history page that would link to a description of that particular reputation change (or lack thereof), or perhaps to a post on MSO describing that behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, to keep the page clean, use the existing rep score icon and add a tooltip to it, or make it link to a description of that reputation change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131630" LastActivityDate="2009-08-13T23:09:57.550" />
  <row Id="14385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-13T23:31:37.980" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I leave a comment and forget about it, and I would like to be able to go back and find them without remembering the general context of the question (which I did not answer) and searching for that. Is this possible, or would it strain the servers too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130945" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:43:44.947" Title="Can we have our comments indexed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14385" CreationDate="2009-08-13T23:34:57.380" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We currently have the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;( stackoverflow | meta.stackoverflow | serverfault | superuser ).com &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;userId=130154&amp;amp;sort=&quot;&gt;/api/userquestions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;( stackoverflow | meta.stackoverflow | serverfault | superuser ).com &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=30&amp;amp;userId=130154&amp;amp;sort=&quot;&gt;/api/useranswers.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;( stackoverflow | meta.stackoverflow | serverfault | superuser ).com &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/userfavorites.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=15&amp;amp;userId=130154&amp;amp;sort=&quot;&gt;/api/userfavorites.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we need:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/api/usercomments.html&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T00:48:15.770" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:48:15.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9677" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:15:00.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A side-effect of this down-vote behavior could be questions are migrated, retaining their negative score, and then not show up on the home page, due to score filtering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll have to discuss it, but resetting a negative score on a migrated question might be helpful - migrated questions can start on a level playing field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the migrated question has no merit, the down-votes will return (and another close), so this  wouldn't be a large change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:15:00.750" />
  <row Id="14388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14389" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:33:40.300" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a kind of a silly/stupid question, but thought it might be fun to ask? Has any question ever been migrated or voted to me migrated from meta to SO? It seems like there are a lot of people that are quick to say that a question belongs on meta so I was just curious if this has ever gone the opposite way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't blame you for downvoting or voting to close. Just thought it would be a fun question to ask. Good times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132730" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T14:20:30.597" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:20:30.597" Title="Has there ever been a question that was migrated to SO from Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="14389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14388" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:36:13.700" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12039/provide-migration-facilities-from-meta-to-other-sites&quot;&gt;not possible to migrate&lt;/a&gt; from Meta to any other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:36:13.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14541" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:42:32.997" Score="11" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta site produces a bunch of great suggestions, many of which get implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the narcissism question, for example... &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12766/can-user-profile-views-not-include-narcissism-please&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12766/can-user-profile-views-not-include-narcissism-please&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that some people (particularly those who don't frequent meta) won't realise when a piece of functionality has changed. So I'd like to see some sort of an indicator appear for a while (week? month?) to say &quot;something has changed here, click here to find out what&quot;, with a link back to the relevant question, or FAQ entry, etc, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:20:30.363" Title="Can we have &quot;new functionality&quot; icons?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;help&gt;&lt;feature-list&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14394" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:49:41.433" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;In particular, several users all have the same gravatar. Yet the have different reputation scores, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the gravatar was an MD5 hash of the users email address. Thus I don't get how there can be all these duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ce73ab3d14f5c0ec9fab22b1597b4740?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/93535/unknown&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/118689/unknown&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/121040/unknown&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/122365/unknown&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/122596/unknown&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T10:46:06.207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T10:46:06.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T00:49:54.757" Title="How do all the unknown users end up on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14390" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:50:39.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need that for &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; change, but it would definitely be good for some of the changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The narcissism question you referenced, doesn't really need to be brought to most users attention. Most users will probably never even realize that it has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any change where users have grown accustomed to how it used to work, and the new change is significantly different, should be referenced. For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;-5 rep for getting a down-vote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:50:39.500" />
  <row Id="14393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14391" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:51:35.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing keeps two people from having the same nickname.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:51:35.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T00:51:35.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14391" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:52:01.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The generic gravatars are generated from the user's IP address, not their email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:52:01.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T00:52:01.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14390" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:54:01.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the changes are likely not incredibly-noticeable. It would be annoying to have alerts for those. But if anything substantial happened, I'd definitely like to know about it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:54:01.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:54:06.720" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a milliskeet calculator for those of you who don't have Firefox/Greasemonkey:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.siriusapplications.com/milliskeets/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.siriusapplications.com/milliskeets/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:54:06.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:55:08.077" Score="7" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does editing your own post beyond a threshold make your post community wiki. If the community was editing your post then I could understand. But if I'm the sole editor then it seems more like a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Looks like this have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/333/is-there-any-point-forcing-a-post-to-community-wiki-after-6-owner-edits&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; before. It's easy to miss these dupes. After reading through that post it seems to me that the criteria for bumping a question could be honed a little. For instance, bumping can only take place after:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;making a substantial edit (however that's defined)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;waiting several minutes, i.e. a shutout window.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even go so far as to not bump questions when you edit your own answers. Although I definitely like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/333/is-there-any-point-forcing-a-post-to-community-wiki-after-6-owner-edits/373#373&quot;&gt;idea&lt;/a&gt; by Marc Gravell. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59180" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T03:57:30.330" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:57:30.330" Title="Don't have your edits to posts you own contribute towards making the post &quot;community wiki&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14397" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:58:43.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't consider this a bug, but I think it is something that should be changed nevertheless (if it is the case, I have never had the problem myself personally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T00:58:43.503" />
  <row Id="14399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-14T00:59:08.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that Jon makes more reputation on a daily basis than anybody else.  That means that since his rep. is the unit, everybody else's rep. will go to zero over time.  We will be in nanoskeets before long! So, what we should actually measure it in is skeetshift (tm).  That is, the speed at which Jon is pulling away from you. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastEditorUserId="130201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:42:12.600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:42:12.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14397" CreationDate="2009-08-14T01:00:16.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bug.  It's there to prevent people from constantly bumping their own question back to the top of the Active page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T01:00:16.577" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="14401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-11T16:09:18.917" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can a Stack Overflow user browse all the questions that are of type 'community wiki'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are great wiki questions, but it seems the only way to find these questions is to filter by highly voted questions, or highly 'favorited' questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T00:27:09.497" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T23:33:07.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-11T20:11:56.493" Title="How can I browse community wiki posts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;list&gt;&lt;filter&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14401" CreationDate="2009-06-11T16:09:55.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, yes there is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Method #1 - Use Google&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Type the following query into &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &quot;community wiki&quot; OR &quot;community-wiki&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That Google query will show you any post that has the word &quot;Community Wiki&quot; (which all community wiki posts have).  I tried to post it as a hyperlink, but &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt;   gets inserted into all the spaces on the hyperlink, rendering the link useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally despise GIYF answers, but in this case, the Google search is much better than Stack Overflow's search for finding stuff on... Stack Overflow. Go figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Method #2 - Use Stack Overflow's Search&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow's search appears to also be able to find posts. You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=community%2Bwiki&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; or just type &quot;Community Wiki&quot; into the search bar on the upper-right hand side of the page to search.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Old answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not currently, but you can put a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uservoice&lt;/a&gt; ticket in for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T01:09:56.283" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14401" CreationDate="2009-06-11T16:17:48.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no reason why a wiki post would be any more useful than a non-wiki post.  If you need information on a specific topic then search for that topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want general information then click on a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130402" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T01:09:56.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T01:52:39.293" Score="0" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a question on SO(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275611/i-want-to-do-a-chinese-version-of-stackoverflow-are-interested-please-join-the-di&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;) where the author linked us to his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnprog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;chinese copy&lt;/a&gt; of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going to be done about that,is SO licensed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81800" LastActivityDate="2010-06-26T06:15:24.613" Title="Someone is copying SO,is SO licensed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14404" CreationDate="2009-08-14T01:55:33.813" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That clone has been around for a few months. Although it initially used the CSS from Stack Overflow, it has subsequently been replaced and no longer represents copyright infringement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since they don't run our code and don't have any of our content, there's very little that needs to be &quot;done&quot; about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T01:55:33.813" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T02:12:19.137" Score="10" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can we encourage more people to transcribe portions of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Podcasts&lt;/a&gt;?  Would a reCAPTCHA-like system be appropriate for this?  Better yet, how can we encourage people to create a computer program that is capable of generating the transcriptions with no manual human effort?  This seems like it could be a fun and challenging project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastEditorUserId="17035" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T23:58:46.960" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T06:49:34.883" Title="Better podcast transcriptions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;automation&gt;&lt;transcription&gt;&lt;crowdsourcing&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="14407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T02:27:39.737" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that Stack Overflow is over a year old, it's going to be increasingly likely that you will run into questions and answers which are also many months old. It seems like the way that a date is formatted is like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;IF date is older than one year&#xA;    format = day month year time // eg: 10 Aug 08 at 12:15&#xA;ELSE&#xA;    format = day month time      // eg: 15 Aug at 14:35&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me, but this makes it slightly confusing about how old that last example is. I have to think to myself that &quot;today is the 14th, therefore &lt;code&gt;'15 Aug'&lt;/code&gt; means&#xA;&lt;code&gt;'15 Aug&lt;/code&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;2008&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's not really a massive problem, and it probably is an edge case (though this &quot;edge&quot; will be getting thicker over the next few months), but you could avoid the situation altogether by changing the date-formatting cutoff point to be 6 or 9 months. Given today is 14th August 2009, anyone can easily and quickly tell that &lt;code&gt;15 Dec&lt;/code&gt; means 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And yes I do realise that the full ISO date is stored as a tooltip on each date&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T00:15:39.850" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:43:12.400" Title="Date formatting on questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;&lt;dates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14407" CreationDate="2009-08-14T02:32:05.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. However, instead of 6 or 9 months, I think it makes more sense to attach the year when the post was made last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T02:32:05.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14407" CreationDate="2009-08-14T03:34:30.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the year should be added to the date if the date is from the corresponding month in the previous year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 12 Aug 08, 14 Aug 08 and 21 Aug 08 would all show the year if the site was viewed on 15 Aug 09.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:34:30.210" />
  <row Id="14412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14391" CreationDate="2009-08-14T03:34:51.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting. I merged all these users since they are clearly the same entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, you can just flag any post by this user for mod attention and let us know -- unless you want it to be a discussion topic in and of itself here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably not a bad idea in this case to have the discussion; we do reserve the right to merge accounts that are obvious duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:34:51.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T03:34:51.627" />
  <row Id="14413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14385" CreationDate="2009-08-14T03:43:44.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we need to do something to better surface comments for reference. Right now the only answer is google at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T03:43:44.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T04:06:27.797" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi gurus,&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a iGoogle Gadget with newest questions on your customizable tags set.A desktop widget will be cool..If any body can do that please provide it on stackoverflow.com. Also may be if you can update answers to your questions in that widget it will be more useful. You can include infinite other features in it. Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:59:59.527" Title="Can we have a Google gadget with updates on your favorite tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;widgets&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T04:50:31.983" Score="23" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be worth to to add a badge for offering a certain amount of rep over time (say 1000) towards bounties? It could be called the &lt;code&gt;Sheriff&lt;/code&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a good idea to me now but I've been drinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;introduction of the new bounty system&lt;/a&gt;, this request has become relevant again! Any other thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="44765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T17:45:55.453" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T17:45:55.453" Title="Badge for bounties offered?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14421" CreationDate="2009-08-14T05:00:02.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I absolutely encourage posting while drunk. +1 to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And (soberly, sadly) I'm not sure this would be the best idea -- you could get folks offering up easy 100 points on questions they haven't selected an answer to just to get this badge. Bounties are meant to be sort of a last resort incentivizer, not something that we want everybody to aspire to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T05:00:02.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14323" CreationDate="2009-08-14T05:40:26.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polls belong on surveymonkey.com, not Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Listen to the wisdom of others' is both condescending and irrelevant - Stack Overflow is for technical programming questions that have actual (even testable) answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-18T13:27:27.703" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T13:27:27.703" />
  <row Id="14424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13851" CreationDate="2009-08-14T05:45:51.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fully agree. I find it annoying that you have to watch the clock and wait for the end of the day before accepting answers or granting bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="103202" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T05:45:51.147" />
  <row Id="14426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14372" CreationDate="2009-08-14T06:05:30.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Links should not have spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you feel strongly that the javascript preview needs to be improved, &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it is open source, have at it!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:05:30.447" />
  <row Id="14427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14185" CreationDate="2009-08-14T06:06:57.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;rate limiting requires this. Everything is rate limited for a reason; explained in podcast #65.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:06:57.697" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13703" CreationDate="2009-08-14T06:13:12.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Parens at the end are highly problematic because users looooove to enter URLs like this (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.example.com&lt;/a&gt;) but other than that, it should work now, as long as you encode any spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T06:13:12.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14406" CreationDate="2009-08-14T07:36:43.440" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've tried the automated transcriptions before (machine voice detection) and they are &lt;em&gt;horrible&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Require so much editing to be readable that you're better off transcribing manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T07:36:43.440" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11098" CreationDate="2009-08-14T08:56:42.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree on the database complexity argument. Showing comments in the recent activity based on whether or not a comment starts with @Yourname is just asking for performance problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recognizing the @SomeUser syntax upon replying would be nice though. Just search through the list of the OP, owner of the answer and any people that have already commented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some kind of warning if the name isn't found in there could help against misspellings, but that adds interface complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is changing user names. If the text were recognized by Stack Overflow and transformed to some user ID in the database, textual representation of the comments could be updated if so desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64767" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T08:56:42.000" />
  <row Id="14439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14446" CreationDate="2009-08-14T10:02:02.780" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to retag a question to windows-forms but apparaently this tag was deleted or renamed, I can only find winforms (42).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did a retag go wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T11:18:53.390" Title="What happened to the windows-forms tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14439" CreationDate="2009-08-14T10:07:55.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11113/windows-forms-winforms/&quot;&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;windows-forms&lt;/kbd&gt; was retagged to &lt;kbd&gt;winforms&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt; some time back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T10:07:55.573" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14444" CreationDate="2009-08-14T10:19:18.960" Score="8" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a place I can see the ads listed in SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was reading a question I liked the Ad but quickly hit the back button, but when I hit forward button the ad was changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way I can see the ads for a given tag or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133784" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T08:20:01.980" Title="How to revisit ad in Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="14444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14442" CreationDate="2009-08-14T11:10:12.193" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's starting to sound like Jeff &amp;amp; Co. need to build an ad gallery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you could put more ads in the gallery! &lt;strong&gt;$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T11:23:32.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T11:23:32.193" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14421" CreationDate="2009-08-14T11:15:18.283" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges should be encouraging good behavior. It is still up for debate whether or not offering bounties counts as &quot;good behavior&quot; especially when you can just start making bounties for simple questions and throwing minimum rep at it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a badge for winning bounties is a lot more logical than for offering up bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T11:15:18.283" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14439" CreationDate="2009-08-14T11:18:53.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got fed up of fighting a losing battle against winforms. Most people call it winforms. Microsoft call it winforms. What the heck, it'll do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a mass revolt, it is trivial to change it back, but winforms seems to cause a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; less problems than windows-forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T11:18:53.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14415" CreationDate="2009-08-14T11:19:14.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only real way you are going to be accomplish any of what you are asking for is to just use the RSS feeds that are already available on the different sites (like the Tag specific feed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other things you are looking for would not be available until some sot of public api gets developed which would allow these types of gadgets and other third party applications to get developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T11:19:14.090" />
  <row Id="14448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T11:26:26.867" Score="12" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Massively anal point: I just noticed that the stackoverflow logo image alt text is &quot;logo homepage&quot;. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#image-text-equivalent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;W3C WAI guidlines&lt;/a&gt; state that every non text element should contain a text equivilant. This isn't very specific but I would have thought that at least the word &quot;stackoverflow&quot; should appear in the alt text somewhere seeing as the image does contain that text. Maybe the alt text should be &quot;stackoverflow logo&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130355" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:23:48.697" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T13:28:43.050" Title="Stackoverflow logo alt text incorrect?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;accessibility&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14450" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T11:48:41.103" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;After changes to tag suggestion deployed on August 13/14 it works incorrectly. Say I type on SO &quot;c++&quot;, then space, then &quot;casting&quot;, then space, then slowly (about 5 seconds) &quot;dynamic-cas&quot; - it suggests &quot;dynamic-cast&quot;. If I click the suggested with the mouse it replaces the first tag, not the last one. I now have &quot;dynamic-cast casting dynamic-cas&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is reproduced in IE6 and IE7, is not reproduced in Firefox 1.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T13:05:40.560" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:05:40.560" Title="Tag suggestion inserts new tags at wrong position on IE6 and IE7" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14450" CreationDate="2009-08-14T11:59:09.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is also going crazy on Opera 9.63.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time you type in, doesn't matter where in the order or the placement, it jumps right back and replaces the first word. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workaround right now is to have the tags typed up elsewhere and then dropped in to skip the way too aggressive suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the system is trying to tell everything to only use one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T11:59:09.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14448" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:15:00.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sighted, but for what it's worth, &quot;stackoverflow logo&quot; makes more sense to me than &quot;logo homepage&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the word &quot;homepage&quot; there to indicate that clicking it goes to the homepage? I already expect that clicking on the logo will bring me back to the homepage, and I'd probably have developed the same expectation if blind so, if my reader tells me that the first link is &quot;stackowverflow logo&quot;, I'd expect that clicking it would bring me to the stackoverflow page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:15:00.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14454" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:29:32.637" Score="0" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I get all the Stack Overflow podcasts in one click?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:45:47.813" Title="Where can I get all the Stack Overflow podcasts in one click?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;downloads&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14453" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:36:08.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you need more than one click to go back in time to the older ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:36:08.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14442" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:46:01.027" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always refresh a whole bunch of times to see that ad... I'm kidding, please don't do that ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, we were thinking of putting together a &quot;sponsor gallery&quot; of sorts that listed out all of the sponsors with a brief description. Kinda in the vein of what we have on the every-now-and-then sponsor appreciation posts at TDWTF: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Sponsor-Appreciation,-Emptiness,-Empty-Support--More.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Sponsor-Appreciation,-Emptiness,-Empty-Support--More.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some pretty cool companies that sponsor the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:46:01.027" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14458" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:48:15.553" Score="7" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we are in election period, I don't get the difference between getting to 10k reputation point and the diamond. What additional controls do you earn with the diamond ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="145982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-13T18:46:55.667" LastActivityDate="2010-11-13T18:46:55.667" Title="Diamond moderator privileges vs. 10k rep privileges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14457" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:52:20.533" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;all documented here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:52:20.533" />
  <row Id="14459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8208" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:53:48.460" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but it's a whole lot of work to make that happen... both on the ad side and the site development side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;jjnguy already mentioned that there's three full-time on the development side. You may be surprised to know that there are 4 full-time staff on the ad side... and growing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:53:48.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14457" CreationDate="2009-08-14T12:56:02.877" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4565/what-facilities-are-there-in-the-moderation-tools/4576#4576&quot;&gt;And 10k is documented here in greater detail&lt;/a&gt;. Jeff's link is more for diamondy goodness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T12:56:02.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:01:08.467" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does SO/SF/SU manage the Integrated revision control of the questions and answers?  Did they use some open source library, or did they write their own system.  Either way, I would really like to learn how to go about implementing the wiki feature in a ASP.Net MVC website, and I have know idea on where to start, in order to figure out how to implement such a feature.  I'm not really asking for someone to give me fish, but rather teach me how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130112" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:04:46.080" Title="Integrated revision control" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="14463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14457" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:02:34.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10k Reputation allows you to vote to delete and undelete content on the sites you have 10k rep on. It takes 3 10k user votes to delete or undelete content. A moderator (ones with the diamond) can close and reopen at will with a single click, as well as delete and undelete with a single click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators also have the ability to lock posts, merge posts, convert entire threads or single answers to community wiki. There are numerous moderator tools to aid in finding vote and user fraud and dealing with unruly users (suspend, delete, &lt;strong&gt;destroy&lt;/strong&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both 10k users and moderators can see items that have been flagged as Spam or Offensive. Only moderators can see the items that were flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:02:34.147" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14461" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:04:46.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; that each revision has the full text and the revision number in, and the diffs are generated when needed. After that it's pretty easy... it's not like there's branching and merging to worry about, like in source control systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:04:46.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14453" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:06:14.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not download the first (or latest) one, then download the rest while you start listening to it? Personally I'd probably just do it manually rather than bothering with an autodownloader... do you really need more than about 10 hours' worth to start with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:06:14.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14453" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:08:56.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was hoping they were sequential, then you could loop through them, but they have the date attached to the file name, rather than just the episode number...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:08:56.050" />
  <row Id="14467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14453" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:10:56.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel posted the feed link on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/04/22.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt; a while back which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php?feed=podcast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php?feed=podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130112" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:10:56.693" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:22:58.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ran into a good reason why we need SOME kind of comment notification mechanism yesterday.  I posted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1271940/using-session-like-viewstate&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; asked by a new user.  My original answer was somewhat off-base, the user commented on it (which I received a notification about), and I updated my answer to (hopefully) address their concern, leaving a comment on my answer to indicate that it was updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now what?  Have they been notified in any way?  Should I have posted a new answer instead of editing my existing one (even though all that was needed was a few tweaks)?  Should I have commented on the original question saying &quot;Hey, I updated my answer&quot;?  Or do I just need to hope that this new user will look through the comments of every answer to his question periodically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these options seem particularly intuitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16911" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:22:58.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:26:45.023" Score="8" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/383192/compile-views-in-asp-net-mvc&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on stackoverflow at the end of last year for a beta or pre-release product and got the answer I wanted.  3 months later someone else answered the question with the correct answer for a newer release.  This answer got way more upvotes than the one I accepted.  I only noticed this today so changed the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I get a notification email when an answer gets say 10 more votes than the one I accepted.  Just to let me know something might be up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24108" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:37:15.223" Title="Notification of a more popular answer than the accepted one" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14486" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:32:47.363" Score="28" ViewCount="2046" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember some time ago there was some huge problem regarding some question that had something to do with a boat, and I think I missed that topic completely. As I see it being mentioned every now and then, I'd just like to know what it was about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T18:38:56.417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T02:08:52.967" Title="What is the boat programming meme about?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;memes&gt;&lt;boat-programming&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="14473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:35:12.680" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone posted what is believed to be a joke question about programming on a boat. Jeff deleted it. Several people got offended. Now we liken other similar nonsensical joke/stupid posts along with boat programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:35:12.680" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:36:55.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC, some guy was going on a boat and sailing around the world and wanted to know what to bring with him (books, tools, documents, etc), because he wouldn't have an Internet connection for extended periods of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:36:55.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14469" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:37:15.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, I just have no idea how useful it would be for more than a very small set of people. A lot of times people won't ask questions that the answer is going to drastically change over time, so once they accept there is little reason to go back and look. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:37:15.223" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17128" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:52:21.863" Score="10" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I suggested this on UserVoice and it was turned down, but I'd like to suggest it again in this forum in hopes of generating enough user interest to change your mind.  I'd really like the blog link to be at the top of the page with the &quot;about&quot; and &quot;faq&quot; links.  There is so much information contained in the blog about the inner workings of SO et. al. that I think it's a disservice to new users to have it buried at the bottom of the page.  Adding 7 characters (&quot; | blog&quot;) to the menu items wouldn't take up much room and would improve the flow of information significantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-09T19:59:24.043" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T19:59:24.043" Title="Add the blog link to the top of the page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;blog&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14477" CreationDate="2009-08-14T13:59:05.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people have shown that they are incapable of clicking and reading the About and FAQ pages, so I would have to say that I doubt that moving the blog link to the top would significantly improve anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T13:59:05.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:07:19.640" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically (IIRC):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question about what is needed to be able to program on a boat was asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was closed as non-programming related, or not a real question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People were up in arms about it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lots of edit wars ensued (I believe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More arguments arose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question was deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have the boat programming meme!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reference to boat programming is usually referring to joke questions, or slightly 'off' questions on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about/14486#14486&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welbog's&lt;/strong&gt; answer&lt;/a&gt; for a little more back story.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Shog9&lt;/strong&gt; also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about/14490#14490&quot;&gt;posted a link&lt;/a&gt; to a captured version of the question.  So, now you can see what all(most) the fuss was about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about/14493#14493&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kyle&lt;/strong&gt; notes&lt;/a&gt;, the boat question was featured on the podcast as well.  That is how it gained so much popularity/infamy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T14:59:34.480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:59:34.480" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:14:29.993" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking from my own experience, I find that my interest for questions is often quite temporary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this is because it a question I asked which I do not yet have an answer too, other times it can be a question that is still being discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whatever the case may be, I find it very hard to actually get to the questions I am currently interested in &lt;em&gt;FAST&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, I go to my profile page and either browse my own questions, or, if the question was asked by someone else and I participated, I look around in my recent activity or favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there are &lt;strong&gt;too many clicks involved&lt;/strong&gt; to get where you want. What I'd personally like to see is a function to mark a questions as &quot;interesting&quot;. This mark is entirely personal and should not be shown to anyone else; interesting questions would then show up in a compact list on the top right of the website, just like the tags block, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just to clarify: I believe the favorite mechanism works fine, but serves a totally different purpose, namely to store questions that interest me for the long term.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a way to easily stay up to date with questions that interest me &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;. My list of favorite questions is not private, is quite bulky and is hard to reach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your views on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11568" LastEditorUserId="11568" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T14:38:00.123" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:05:14.503" Title="Display selected answers in a quicklist" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="14484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14482" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:24:32.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the 'favorite' mechanism for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click that star below the vote buttons on a question.  Then check out the favorites tab in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not private however.  You can see what other people have favorited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:24:32.853" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:26:21.900" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about/14481#14481&quot;&gt;jjnguy's answer&lt;/a&gt; captures the part about the history of the meme, but I don't think he captures why it became a meme and what the meme represents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the boat-programming question was at the core of what it meant for a question to be programming related. At the time, SO had a lot of questions that were, essentially, &quot;What is as a good such-and-such &lt;em&gt;for programmers&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; (e.g. &quot;What is your favourite food, as a programmer?&quot;, &quot;What is the best movie for programmers?&quot;) After a long debate on the SO blog (since Meta didn't exist at the time) it was eventually decided that all questions like this are not programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fundamental rule is you can't just stick &quot;for programmers&quot; on a question to make it programming related. The boat-programming question, due to its timing and popularity, is the poster child for this kind of question. Whenever a question is asked today that is not programming related but has &quot;for programmers&quot; tacked on, the boat-programming meme is brought up to indicate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:26:21.900" />
  <row Id="14488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14491" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:35:14.463" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6044/why-must-i-wait-2-days-before-accepting-my-own-answer&quot;&gt;Why must I wait 2 days before accepting my own answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i post a question and after doing more research i find out the answer myself.  At this point i can't actually check off the questions as answered as it makes me wait 2 days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what is the logic here.  now folks will waste time trying to solve this answer which is already solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:01:19.750" ClosedDate="2009-08-14T15:27:12.367" Title="if i find out my answer, why do i have to wait 2 days to accept it" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:35:42.670" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14437/-n-is-printed-in-superuser-com-question-listing-on-profile-page&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;\n&amp;rdquo; is printed in superuser.com question listing on profile page.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123070/bogdanch&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123070/bogdanch&lt;/a&gt; in FireFox 3.0.13&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/%5FgJkSPqzmaQA/SoV1gFh8O3I/AAAAAAAACH4/YKo-3DoOwsE/s912/so%5Fbug.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;so_bug&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T09:12:27.600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T09:12:27.600" ClosedDate="2009-08-14T15:28:55.483" Title="Strange \n character in FireFox" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:37:34.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about/14486#14486&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about/14481#14481&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt; give a good overview of the &lt;em&gt;essential mood&lt;/em&gt; of the meme. All i have to add is a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattmcdole.com/boat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a captured version of the question itself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:37:34.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14488" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:39:39.247" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to wait two days to answer your own question so that there can be enough time for somebody to say, &quot;Hey, that's actually not a good solution, and here's why.&quot; Often times, the self-solution is not the optimal solution. Giving a two day grace period helps mitigate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:39:39.247" />
  <row Id="14492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14488" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:50:36.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Eric. I personally take it a step further though. When I ask a question that I know very little about, I won't automatically accept the first working solution I receive. My logic, I'm the confused one - why would I trust myself to know when the correct, and best answer has been provided. I don't want to be naive and just accept the first one that doesn't produce an error. So I wait, and let the community vote on it before I accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1267989/kohana-htaccess-and-get&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1267989/kohana-htaccess-and-get&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's an example of me answering my own question - I'll probably wait until I get other answers, and see some community-voting before I accept an answer, even though my solution works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1271630/kohana-editing-cache-doesnt-reflect-in-view&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1271630/kohana-editing-cache-doesnt-reflect-in-view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:50:36.050" />
  <row Id="14493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-14T14:54:47.810" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised no one mentioned this before, but the reason why boat programming got the attention it did was because it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/podcast-50/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;featured on the podcast&lt;/a&gt;. This caused the question, which was performing poorly, to get a number of very good answers. Unfortunately, Jeff later learned that it was a joke question, deleted it, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/joke-questions-please-refrain/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;posted on the blog&lt;/a&gt; asking users to refrain from posting questions like these in the future. The boat programming question was also permanently excised from the system (not even 10kers can see it) - the only record of it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattmcdole.com/boat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hosted here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the discussion of the joke question on the blog was the revelation that Jeff had broken the privacy policy and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/joke-questions-please-refrain/#comment-20558&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;revealed the IP address&lt;/a&gt; of the poster. Since then, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/26177/tim&quot;&gt;Tim&lt;/a&gt; has, on many occasions referred back to the boat programming question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/reversal-and-pundit-badges/#comment-27792&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;), and I suppose it's happened often enough to have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8479/post-your-boat-programming-pics&quot;&gt;picked up as a meme&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T14:54:47.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14488" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:01:19.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing to stop you from &lt;em&gt;posting&lt;/em&gt; the answer, so people will see it for the two days before you're allowed to accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric and Jonathan's points are valid, but sometimes I agree it would be nice to be able to accept your own answer immediately - because it's &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; right. As an example of this, look at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1244290/should-the-code-contracts-static-checker-be-able-to-check-arithmetic-bound&quot;&gt;Code Contracts question about arithmetic&lt;/a&gt;: I'd asked on the MSDN forum as well, and one of the CC team answered the question. I checked the answer, it worked, I reworded and reposted it on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clearly right, so it would make sense to be able to accept it immediately... in this particular case. However, I suspect that the &lt;em&gt;general principle&lt;/em&gt; of &quot;let the community warn you of problems first&quot; is more important than &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; cases where immediate acceptance would make sense - so I support the policy overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:01:19.750" />
  <row Id="14495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:04:00.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote this related post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own them)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after thinking about it some more, I really think that Twitter-style @username replies would be a better option.  Here are some of the potential problems, and my solutions to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usernames are not unique.&lt;/strong&gt;  You should only show notifications to users with matching names who are either: a) the owner of the post; b) active in the current comment thread; or possibly c) the owner of the question (if this is a comment on an answer).  Collisions should be rare enough that this is not a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usernames can have spaces.&lt;/strong&gt;  I think this makes simple &quot;@username&quot; Twitter-style replies difficult, but we could easily do a sytax which is delimited on both ends.  I'd suggest &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;@username:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, or possibly &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;@[username]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  A Twitter-style reply button (as suggested in this feature request) would fill in the comment box so the user doesn't even have to do this himself most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usernames are not permanent.&lt;/strong&gt;  That's fine.  If a user changes their name, they shouldn't expect a way of tracking old comment responses to their new name.  Besides, I don't think active users change their name very often because they'd lose some of their name recognition.  (Anyone want to diff usernames between July and August dumps to see how many name changes there actually were, and how much rep those users had on average?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:04:00.997" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13268" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:13:45.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As EBGreen mentioned, it was an ad. But it wasn't removed because it was innapropriate or anything... it was just time for a change. Banners come, banners go... but that one was fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:13:45.103" />
  <row Id="14499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14506" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:20:39.273" Score="-3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated, and the author is nowhere to be found on the new site, how exactly can anybody be awarded for providing the most up-voted answer? (Whether they answered before or after the migration is irrelevant.) Well, besides getting the votes for providing a good answer. Is there currently any method of accepting a &quot;correct answer&quot; for questions that underwent migration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be reasonable to automatically accept the highest-voted answer 48 hours after migration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-01T13:38:56.430" LastActivityDate="2010-07-01T13:38:56.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T15:35:04.773" Title="Automatically convert migrated questions to bounty-style acceptance?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;scoring&gt;&lt;auto-acceptance&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14499" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:24:49.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My knee-jerk reaction is &quot;No&quot;. That's the punishment for answering questions you know don't belong. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; The above of course was directed at migrated answers. Anyone answering a question &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; it has been migrated can see for themselves that the author is non-existent, so they already know there will probably be no acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:24:49.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14502" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:25:08.687" Score="-1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to make a Stackoverflow for Information Techology? It would be geared toward IT professionals responsible for servers, networks, desktops and the setting up, configuration, and management of these systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133742" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:46:29.310" Title="IT Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14501" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:27:27.280" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have &lt;strike&gt;one&lt;/strike&gt;two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are called &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://serverfault.com/favicon.ico&quot; alt=&quot;favico&quot; /&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://superuser.com/favicon.ico&quot; alt=&quot;favico&quot; /&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser is for general computing help, while ServerFault is for server and db administration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T15:46:29.310" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:46:29.310" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:29:31.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer it it used the user id instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;@[1337] Hey, look I'm talking to myself.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;**@[1337]** Now I'm yelling at myself!&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would completely prevent collisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be easy to do if there was a &lt;strong&gt;Reply to:&lt;/strong&gt; link on every comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;@[1337]&lt;/code&gt; would get changed to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1337/brad-gilbert&quot;&amp;gt;Brad Gilbert&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;based on the current name associated with the userid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be done browser side, perhaps as a Grease Monkey script ( &lt;em&gt;hint hint&lt;/em&gt; ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T15:36:39.370" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:36:39.370" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14499" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:32:36.837" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of 'Accepting an Answer' is to recognize the fact that no matter how many people respond (and how many people vote) there is only one person who can determine which answer works best for them, and that is the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP disappears, then the an answer cannot be the 'accepted' answer. If the Accepted answer is simply &quot;the one with the most votes&quot;, then we already have a way of determining that. We simply check which answer has the most votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding an &quot;autoaccepted&quot; answer won't help bubble an answer to the top, because the answer is already the top answer by default anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:32:36.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:47:39.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was disappointed to see a perfectly good question and a great answer deleted so I added the boat programming tag to a few of my questions.  People got up in arms about it and accused me of trying to destroy SO and ruin the community.  Lots of editing on that particular day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was politely asked by an SO staff member to stop using that tag.  I stopped using it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ironic because some of the people who found me using the boat programming tag so terrible were using and creating their own ludicrous tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff asked me to post a picture with my boat set up.  I will when I have time and remember the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also posted a question about piracy - it was an unappreciated post that asked both about software piracy for software written on a boat and about real high-seas piracy (that you would encounter as a programmer on a boat).  (Note at the time there were lots of news stories about piracy).  That one got removed.  (I blame lack of humor for that deletion)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:57:30.860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:57:30.860" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14511" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:55:24.350" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278400/logging-application-block&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; recently came up in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=sharepoint&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;sharepoint&lt;/a&gt; tag. It looked like this showing the queestion has 2 answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alexangas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2answerstaggedpage.png&quot; alt=&quot;SharePoint tag showing question&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When clicking through to the question it still says there are 2 answers but &lt;strong&gt;only 1 is displayed&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alexangas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2answersqpage.png&quot; alt=&quot;Two answers or one&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming that there were two answers but one was deleted and the previous state has been cached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is tolerable on the tagged question page because you can't see the answers. However when the question page shows two different things it doesn't look so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:24:47.103" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:24:47.103" Title="Bug in number of answers display" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14510" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:57:51.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a bug, David DeAngelo deleted his answer*. Wait for the cache to catch-up with reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* Makes sense. It wasn't really an answer.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:57:51.613" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14510" CreationDate="2009-08-14T15:59:06.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer was deleted and the question list page had not updated itself yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T15:59:06.027" />
  <row Id="14513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:02:07.257" Score="0" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4379/please-allow-users-to-sort-their-favorites-based-on-tags&quot;&gt;Please allow users to sort their favorites based on tags.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to filter my Favourite questions as the list is getting larger and also be able to search in it. It would be nice if the search can be done on the client side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it easier for me when I need to lookup a favourite question I saved some time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:02:07.257" ClosedDate="2009-09-14T01:35:05.610" Title="Tag Filtering/Searching for Favourites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14517" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:04:24.270" Score="8" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you get the feeling that people visit threads, read the question, quickly scan the top voted answer, and then just throw another vote onto the pile.  &quot;Yeah, that's it&quot;, they seem to think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it can be really annoying when the top voted &quot;answer&quot; to your question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278126/c-application-terminates-unexpectedly&quot;&gt;is not the solution to the problem&lt;/a&gt;.  Adding a comment isn't always enough - especially if the comment gets folded away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since its at the top of the stack, its likely to get pushed up further by drive-by-voters.  Which is really irritating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps OP should be allowed to downvote any answer in a question he has posted back to 0, regardless of how many upvotes it gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2483978/program-wide-data-c/2483991&quot;&gt;Yet another example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="111307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T17:48:15.293" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T00:53:34.457" Title="More downvote power to OP" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14514" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:11:34.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the weighted downvote idea, but the &quot;reset to 0&quot; could be horribly abused.  You would need a lot of check and balances for the implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:11:34.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14514" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:16:04.517" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps as well as having an &quot;accepted&quot; answer the OP should have the ability to say &quot;this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an accepted answer&quot;. Display a red cross instead of a green tick - but don't change the votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd probably want to scrub the flag - and notify the OP - when the post was edited though, otherwise a post which was once wrong but has been corrected would still be marked as non-accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the latter part of this is all part of the wider notification discussion, but I do quite like the idea of a visual clue for &quot;I've tried this, it didn't help me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:16:04.517" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="14519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14514" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:20:32.513" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually if the Top answer gets many votes, it's a sign that the question is not good worded. I then take the time to clarify the question, adding a &lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The question may have been a bit unclear. My question is about cooking food &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; a hamster in the Microwave, so Ed's answer is unfortunately not the solution I'm looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; usually ensures visibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:20:32.513" />
  <row Id="14520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14523" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:24:23.490" Score="-8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;We sometimes have the problem where a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14514/more-downvote-power-to-op&quot;&gt;wrong answer can float to the top of a question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we allow users who have earned a gold specialist badge to manually sort answers to a question, they could move the erroneous answer down to allow the correct answer to float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The users would only be able to sort the answers in a question tagged with the tag they have the badge in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:04:11.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T17:28:33.033" Title="Allow users with a gold specialist badge in a tag to manually sort answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14520" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:25:54.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, more elaborate: No!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, a little more: No! That's totally contrary to the whole idea of the SO family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:25:54.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14525" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:28:19.583" Score="2" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm relatively new to stack overflow, but I've noticed one interesting element to the way the UI works.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Often, the earliest answer that is somewhat correct begins to be voted up by the community on frequently viewed questions.  Later answers don't receive as much scrutiny because they fall below the fold and further down the users's scan path.  It seems that the earliest questions gain momentum as reviewers can see the ranking and tend to push already moving answers up in the list.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This behavior may be corrected by the questioner selecting an answer, but I'm curious if there are any ideas for better ways to arrange the voting UI so that a couple of &lt;em&gt;quick, partial&lt;/em&gt; answers don't push down a better answer, preventing it from ever climbing to the top of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133745" LastActivityDate="2010-06-21T12:22:40.860" Title="Does stackoverflow's voting UI encourage quick, poorly thought out answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14520" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:31:06.223" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually gold badge users are recognised and respected by users familiar with their badge - if they downvote an answer and explain their reasoning in a comment, that comment is likely to be treated seriously, often provoking more downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I don't think any more powers are required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:31:06.223" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14514" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:33:43.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP gets to &lt;em&gt;accept&lt;/em&gt; an answer. That's huge. And that's enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:33:43.270" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14522" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:35:34.577" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The UI is in favor of quick answers on purpose. SO is meant to be a site to get answers &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt;, which is what separates it from the crowd. Sometimes this means that answers are way too simplistic to be a complete answer, but at the same time they usually provide something for the OP to work with, right away. A lot of the time, this quick response won't provide enough information to solve the problem from start to finish, but will give the OP enough of a boost to get them moving in the correct direction and solve the rest on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Think of it as an endergonic reaction:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/activationener.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial energy barrier is the most important part. Once you can get past that, it's smooth sailing to the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are cases where this initial energy won't be enough to overcome the transition state, which is when another user will come along and catalyze the process by providing a comprehensive answer, which will ensure that the problem is overcome. These answers don't get the initial rush of votes, but they get their own love by way of future readers and the OP -- who has the power of marking it as accepted (25 rep with up vote!).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems that the most correct answer usually prevails in the end anyways, allowing SO to not only provide quick help to those who need it, but also serve as a reference for the complete solution of particularly tricky concepts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T16:43:33.840" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:43:33.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14514" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:41:28.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to agree...  I've always felt that the question belongs to the OP and the answers belong to those who post them.  If the OP's question is still unresolved and the community is rallying around an answer like &quot;have you tried jQuery&quot;, the OP does not really have the ability to do anything other than add a single down-vote and a comment.  Sure, they could edit their POST and say, no Johny, jQuery does not work for me as I'm dealing with server side code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon's idea of the visual notification, maybe a red X or something to suggest the post didn't resolve the problem would work well.  However, if a post gets modified the visual clue should disappear as the edit may have corrected the issue.  At this time the OP should see that the answer was modified in the recent activity feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:41:28.103" />
  <row Id="14527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14115" CreationDate="2009-08-14T16:41:52.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, there is two schools of thought to go with making them Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should users get points for posting their variation of the algorithm? Of which there could be hundreds ( &lt;em&gt;even from the same user&lt;/em&gt; ).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, looking at that, there really isn't any value to have the users getting points for their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether these questions should exist at all, &amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;I think they should exist&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They allow programmers to let off some &lt;em&gt;steam&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is a good thing, because they might other wise be hostile to people posting simple ( &lt;em&gt;to them&lt;/em&gt; ) questions. So it is a simple way to encourage users to be constructive members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are a place to demonstrate the differences of different programming languages, and coding styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I especially like this, because it is a good place to show people that &lt;em&gt;modern Perl&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be readable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are a good place for people who are looking for a new language to learn, to be able to see which languages they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They aren't like the questions that ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/150043/python-v-perl&quot; title=&quot;Death match between Perl and Python. Who will win?&quot;&gt;&quot;Should I learn Perl or Python&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which have the uncanny ability to cause a flame-war.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T16:41:52.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14520" CreationDate="2009-08-14T17:09:14.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to say no, because the system works pretty well as is.  The only questions that I think get out of hand are the super long wiki type questions with 13 pages of answers/suggestions/opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T17:09:14.600" />
  <row Id="14532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14520" CreationDate="2009-08-14T17:20:19.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a better idea: if you find a question with a high-ranked but wrong answer, post it here and we'll sputter on about how it's such a travesty and the voters are on crack and SO is irreparably broken... and then go down-vote it en-masse, leaving nothing but a smoking pile of broken dreams and kicked puppies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or point out why it's actually &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; such a bad answer after all, and how you're an idiot for failing to understand it's &lt;strong&gt;brilliance.&lt;/strong&gt; And then go down-vote &lt;em&gt;everything you've ever posted, ever.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T17:20:19.743" />
  <row Id="14534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14520" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:04:11.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no guarantee that someone who earns a gold tag badge is going to be the properly qualified individual to make that type of decision. It is entirely possible just to earn a gold badge for a tag through sheer attrition and volume and not because you are ever actually correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:04:11.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T18:04:11.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14522" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:06:44.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about stackoverflow as much as serverfault (which is smaller).  But on serverfault this may happen a little, but only if they are roughly close for the most part, pretty old, or unpopular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example of what Ian was saying, look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/7200/evan-anderson&quot;&gt;Evan Anderson's answers&lt;/a&gt;.  He often answers slower then everyone, but gets voted up right up past them because the answer is just so much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:06:44.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14522" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:06:52.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way things are set up may encourage fast answers, but the voting mechanisms encourages GOOD FAST answers, not BAD FAST answers. If you have a good fast answer, you just helped out the original author even more than an answer that was slow to make it. If you give a bad answer quickly, that just gives you even more time to get voted down to oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that you have a 5 minute edit window to stake your claim on a spot and then get a revised answer in there without effecting your position, but it should also be noted that that is also five minutes of time in which people can downvote a crap answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The door swings both ways and it can reward people who are both fast and correct as well as those who put lots of detail into their posts. More often than not the best answer will find it's way to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:06:52.240" />
  <row Id="14537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:14:16.530" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Curious to know, who usually earns more votes (and why, although I doubt there is an explanation for that) a person who asks a question or a person who answers it, assuming that quality of the question and the answer is  nearly identical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also notice that votes are more eagerly given to a so-called regulars on SO  than a newcomers when questions/answers are identical in quality, complexity, and style. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="133741" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T18:20:54.300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:20:54.300" Title="Who usually earns more votes, a question asker or answerer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14537" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:15:16.417" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An answerer by far. If you plan on trying to earn your rep by asking questions, you are doing it completely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; gain some rep by asking questions, and you can gain a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of rep by asking a lot of questions, but you are going to probably end up making the community think you are trying to game the system like some other users have tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also very difficult for people to vote on questions because you are stuck wondering &quot;what makes a good question? Why is this question deserving of an up or down vote?&quot; It is not as simple as just looking at an answer and saying &quot;I agree&quot; or &quot;This answer is correct&quot;, therefore it is going to be much harder to come by votes on a question than on the answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:15:16.417" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14537" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:15:35.527" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answerers, by far. Voting on questions has been an issue recently in the podcasts and whatnot. We need to vote more on answers to weed out good ones from poor ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:15:35.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14542" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:20:52.600" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question has a set of tags when it is asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you answer the question it may have changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the time you recieve an upvote it could be different again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then there is the current state of tags on the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, is it important to check that the tags are correct before answering a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T18:25:31.077" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:25:31.077" Title="When are the upvotes counted for a tag badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="14541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14390" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:21:26.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just subscribe to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/status-completed&quot;&gt;feed for the status-completed tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:21:26.077" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14540" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:25:08.863" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not important to check that the tags are correct before answering a question - because badges themselves aren't that important, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you consistently answer well in a topic, you will eventually get a badge for that tag. Could you maybe get there a &lt;em&gt;tiny bit earlier&lt;/em&gt; by checking for tags? Maybe. Or maybe the extra time taken to check the tags will let others get in their answers earlier, possibly costing you votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does it really matter? Isn't the point to get accurate answers for those asking the questions (and future researchers)? Badges are a bit of fun, not the main goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Changed tags for question to include &quot;badges&quot; and &quot;tags&quot; to make sure I get those badges that bit sooner...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Seriously, it's worth editing a question's tags &lt;em&gt;for the sake of accurate classification&lt;/em&gt; - not to get you more badges.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:25:08.863" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14514" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:25:40.670" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is sometimes severely clueless and short sighted, and may reset to zero answers that think a bit more outside the box, or give general rules that, if followed, would make the problem disappear altogether. It would be frustrating to let one user multiply by zero all the votes for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, on all the occasions where I started to ask something on SO, the question already existed, and I stopped. I don't want the author of that existing question to have super powers, because I refrained to posting a duplicate to keep the site clean, so I'd like the voting of answers to that existing question to be democratic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion is summarized in the first paragraph of this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T17:51:03.043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T17:51:03.043" />
  <row Id="14544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:32:22.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 10/01/09 he will get 100,109.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 100,000 should be either 10/01/09 or 09/30/09.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8041" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:32:22.780" />
  <row Id="14545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:36:31.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never. You can get as close as you want but never reach it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, wait...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T18:36:31.587" />
  <row Id="14547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:40:18.067" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear how Jeff (and his team) Get Things Done! He just seems to wear so many hats, do so many things, developing, sysadmin, blogger, moderating the sites, avid twitter, plus he seems to be reading a million blogs, podcasts, youtube videos a day!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on top of that has a baby! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know how he plans his day and deals with all these different tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12423" LastEditorUserId="12423" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T13:00:27.337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:00:27.337" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-14T18:40:18.067" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T18:43:58.717" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my account page, it shows my last activity as being from 127.0.0.1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is because my browser is configured to use a HTTP proxy on 127.0.0.1, and maybe that proxy is setting some X-Forwarded-For header?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133753" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:03:44.450" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:03:44.450" Title="&quot;Last activity&quot; shown as being from 127.0.0.1, due to http proxy on LAN?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;last-activity&gt;&lt;proxy&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14550" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:07:10.510" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1279407/why-does-copying-elements-one-by-one-outperform-array-copy-for-a-small-array-of&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, why is &lt;code&gt;ElementByElement&lt;/code&gt; highlighted as a method, but &lt;code&gt;ElementByElement2&lt;/code&gt; isn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To submit a new issue to Prettify, I'd like to know what version Stack Overflow uses. 21-May-2009? Some other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133730" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T06:07:31.243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:07:31.243" Title="Syntax highlighting is inconsistent" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14549" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:10:23.217" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Syntax highlighting is not part of the SO source; it is accomplished using &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google prettify&lt;/a&gt;. Suggest improvements to them instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:10:23.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14561" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:25:04.500" Score="7" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be cool to know how many users are currently using stackoverflow, just to get an idea of real-time action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another suggestions that comes to mind is to have a  searchable list of currently active users. Ok, but before you start ranting about the privacy issues --  I want to recommend to allow a user to control whether he wants his name displayed in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T09:14:02.107" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T09:14:02.107" Title="Can we have a counter showing how many user are currently active?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14551" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:27:33.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. It would be some fun information, especially for seeing a trend on site usage. I personaly would like to see the key times of the day when people are most active and less active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:46:32.910" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:46:32.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14551" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:32:52.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a uservoice post about this when SF was in beta.  My thought (other than just out of morbid interest) was that it would give you a &lt;em&gt;rough&lt;/em&gt; idea whether or not people are seeing your question and just passing it by, or if there's just not that many people watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I know there are view counts for questions....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea was to base it off of Last Seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:40:15.590" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:40:15.590" />
  <row Id="14555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14600" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:34:56.367" Score="10" ViewCount="537" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to subscribe to a question and be notified more frequently than once a day?  I'd like to be notified immediately on any posts to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133102" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T00:14:22.567" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T14:28:16.037" Title="Notify more frequently than once a day?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="14556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14551" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:35:47.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like this &quot;logged in&quot; part because for some of us, we log in and leave the window open all day, whether or not we are active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything you should probably want to say &quot;somebody who did some sort of activity within the past half hour&quot; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Now that the question is revised, this answer is sort of moot. To make up for that I will just say &quot;Okie dokie&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T19:43:49.173" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:43:49.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14555" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:36:52.230" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the RSS feeds and load them into an email client (such as Thunderbird) and you will get any new activity that the RSS feed picks up. Or you can just use any other RSS feed reader like Google Reader (which is my preferred client).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:36:52.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14564" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:53:51.803" Score="2" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the sake of future reference by others who have the same issue as the asker, it would be useful to set a &quot;conclusion&quot; when accepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be a list of predefined conclusions, like when flagging/closing a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Problem solved due to this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great idea, exactly what I was looking for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad idea, but accepted since no better answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proves why my question is impossible to accomplish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proves why my idea is not a good one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best answer of the lot, though no answers solved my problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My favorite idea of the lot, though the others may also be good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T23:30:31.020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:34:21.247" Title="Mark the conclusion for every answered question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13434" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:55:32.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a moderator or the community kills your question, it will not show up in your list of of questions unless you have at least 10,000 rep so that you can view deleted content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is always a little bit of confusion about who sees what content when we are dealing with deleted stuff. I am also not sure if that piece you quoted in the FAQ is completely accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:55:32.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14551" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:57:26.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could actually have different graphs for different activities. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# users who have visited &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; page in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# users who have posted a comment in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# users who have posted a question or answer in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# users who have edited a post in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other rates could be interesting too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# questions posted in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# answers posted in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# comments added in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# upvotes cast in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# downvotes cast in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;# questions closed in the last 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could really go to town. Once the basic infrastructure is in place, adding a stat like this should be pretty much trivial. Performance hit would probably be tiny too, if you structure it well. (Assume granularity of a minute, or something like that. Even 5 minutes probably wouldn't bee too bad.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether 30 minutes is the right time or not is a different question. We could have graphs for &quot;1 day actives&quot;, &quot;1 hour actives&quot;, &quot;10 minute actives&quot; etc... for all the above ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You can tell I'm a Googler. We love having oodles of graphs of just about everything you could possibly want to know, and more...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:57:26.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4391" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:57:28.053" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind seeing the little activity listing right there say some of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answered by [Username] 5 min ago&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question revised by [Username] 15 min ago&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer revised by [Username] 7 min ago&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;etc. etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I look at the little activity indicator there and I think that was the person who asked the question, so it can lead to some confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T19:57:28.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14559" CreationDate="2009-08-14T19:58:07.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the idea, don't like your list. Here's what I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Problem solved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great advice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like checkmarks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of having an accepted answer when no answers really help the OP (which a few of your reasons imply). I think the list needs to be as succinct, general, and flexible as possible, which is why there are just a few items in my list, and all are fairly generic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for implementation, have it work just like the close button. You click the checkbox, a radio button form pops up, you hit one, you hit &quot;Accept Away!&quot; and green the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T20:05:22.827" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:05:22.827" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14559" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:00:58.140" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a point to this; a comment suffices whenever needed.  Taking your points one by one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Problem solved due to this - That's what the accepted answer is supposed to be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great idea, exactly what I was looking for - That's what the accepted answer is supposed to be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad idea, but accepted since no better answers - You shouldn't be accepting this.  If you do (if, say, it's an ugly hack but it works), then leave a comment saying so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proves why my question is impossible to accomplish - This should be readily apparent from the answer and the fact that it's accepted.  If not, add a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Proves why my idea is not a good one - This should be readily apparent from the answer and the fact that it's accepted.  If not, add a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best answer of the lot, though no answers solved my problem - You shouldn't be accepting this.  If you do (if, say, it gets you halfway), then leave a comment saying so  (Really, though, you should probably post your own answer that includes this info in addition to how you took it the rest of the way).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:00:58.140" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="14565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14559" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:02:31.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I see a check mark on an answer, I am going to assume that the answer was either the best answer provided for that particular OP. I can usually tell by looking at timestamps and the other content posted whether the answer was accepted because it was fast and acceptable or because of the overall content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see any need to add more complexity to the accepted answer mechanism when all that should be done is encouraging the OPs to post a comment explaining why they accepted the answer. Something as simple as &quot;Thanks this worked perfectly&quot; is usually sufficient. If the OP feels like elaborating on why they chose the answer, that should be their prerogative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:02:31.380" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:03:28.073" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been cleaning up quite some tags at Superuser, but I have the impression that the daily tag normalization has not been activated yet as there are a lot of &quot;empty&quot; tags. Tags with counts on them, but actually containing no questions. &#xA;Because those tags are also listed in the tag autocompletion dropdown, people are using the wrong tags all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of emtpy tags I regularly see mistakes against:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;windows7&lt;/kbd&gt; x19&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;windowsxp&lt;/kbd&gt; x3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;macosx&lt;/kbd&gt; x23&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the most common, but there are lots more, also with lower counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess Jeff or anybody from the team can only answer this, but can the daily tag normalization be activated? And if it will be, will it clean out those tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And apart from that, aren't there any other things which can be put in place to prevent those mistakes? Like preventing specific tags from being created or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I guess my wish has been granted: as of today, the tags seem cleaned up. Not sure it has anything to do with this question though.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;My question about preventing the use of &quot;wrong tags&quot; still stands. Changed the title to reflect that. Any thoughts on that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T15:47:20.583" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T15:47:20.583" Title="Is there something that can be done to prevent the use of &quot;wrong tags&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14570" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:06:35.740" Score="4" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a sea change recently with respect to the kinds of questions that can be asked on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community consensus nowadays seems to be that discussion/subjective/poll/more than one answer questions are no longer appropriate on SO, which would eliminate any questions that might otherwise be saved by marking the question Community Wiki.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet some of these questions continue to survive, because the community finds them fun or interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the only questions that can be saved are the questions that are fun or interesting, why do we continue to insist on the discussion/subjective/poll/more than one answer standard, if it cannot be applied objectively?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the standard can be applied objectively, and all such questions are eliminated (using one of the close reasons) then why do we need Community Wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a judgement call, which I suspect that it is in a substantial number of cases, why do we tell people they are not following the standard (or let the question slide), when in reality we simply like or dislike the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:20:04.370" Title="Is Community Wiki still relevant?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14566" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:07:09.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure if this is something which is just turned on or off. If it is for some reason turned off, I would have no idea why it would be so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:07:09.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14567" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:08:06.550" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki will always be relevant, IMHO. As long as there are questions like &quot;What framework would be good to learn MVC,&quot; there is a place for CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:08:06.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14567" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:12:11.003" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only real use of CW which I find &quot;proper&quot; is when there is a question which is specifically going to end up being a long list of &quot;stuff&quot;. These questions which are used to track and update (such as the FAQs and lists) will continue to be relevant and proper form in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything else (polls, fun, discussion, whatever) is just using CW as a means to an end. That doesn't make it correct, although one could argue that if it passes through community and moderator attention without getting killed it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; correct from a purely theoretical/philosophical standpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:12:11.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14572" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:21:40.000" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is good idea to add screen shot option in stackoverflow.com for each question.&#xA;It will allow to upload error message/exception/or any related problem screen shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69111" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T21:32:02.200" Title="Stack Overflow should include screen shot options for each question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14571" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:24:45.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow isn't an image hoster, nor will it be. It's practically being run out of Jeff's basement off of a single server, which is almost reaching CPU capacity as it is. Image hosting is way too expensive when there are so many folks out there who do it for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pick your favorite:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imgur.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flickr.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:24:45.113" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14571" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:24:58.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just post your screenshot you take with any myriad of free screencap apps on any myriad of free image hosts.....  Don't clog up the S[O|U|F] servers with other crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:24:58.090" />
  <row Id="14574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14571" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:25:20.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Error messages and exceptions shouldn't be shown in screenshots. They should be cut and pasted as &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having an option for image storage in general is an interesting idea, although it would be very prone to abuse. There are plenty of other sites where you can upload images, and then paste a URL into SO. You end up with the &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; for dead links, admittedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:25:20.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14571" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:26:25.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Error message can be copied, and pasted. Design-issues with HTML/CSS benefit greatly from screenshots - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.doctype.com&lt;/a&gt; (similar to SO, but for design-questions) gives you the ability to post screenshots of your design with your question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/ie7-text-issues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:26:25.593" />
  <row Id="14576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14571" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:26:53.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure the site would agree with you.  Where would all these pictures be stored? They would have to increase their hosting capabilities greatly to support built in picture hosting. Am I wrong? This site is meant to be quick and efficient and I believe this would not support that goal. There are so many other picture hosting options that I believe those should be used if needed. Otherwise, just quote the text of errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:26:53.970" />
  <row Id="14577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14522" CreationDate="2009-08-14T20:32:12.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fast answers are rewarded more than I think they should be, although fast answers that are bad seem to only get upvoted for a little.  (I like leaving a comment why the answer is wrong, and then downvoting it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that answering the question within ten minutes is all that less valuable than answering within one.  In some cases, where the answer is an obvious one that the questioner just blanked out on, it is.  In most cases, the questioner will be better off waiting for a while and seeing what the community has voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A five or ten minute delay between the time the question is posted and either any answers are posted or any votes will be accepted might improve the long-term usefulness of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T20:32:12.913" />
  <row Id="14578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14571" CreationDate="2009-08-14T21:00:05.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;how about photo albums folders too? I mean, I don't see any use in screenshots, as you can easily copy-and-paste....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T21:00:05.197" />
  <row Id="14579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14580" CreationDate="2009-08-14T21:05:37.103" Score="2" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not looking for a job, but I'm curious about whether SO is expanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-14T18:36:24.303" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T18:36:24.303" Title="Is Stack Overflow hiring?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14579" CreationDate="2009-08-14T21:10:50.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they were there would be an ad on the right =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T20:23:37.977" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T20:23:37.977" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27834" CreationDate="2009-08-14T21:19:16.453" Score="26" ViewCount="1973" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across this on the main page of Stack Overflow.  If it matters, I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows 7 RC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7936/stackoverflow123viewsth.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T07:46:10.960" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T15:20:32.167" Title="100 thousand views or more: &quot;thousand&quot; comes below &quot;views&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14571" CreationDate="2009-08-14T21:32:02.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At most I would like a redirect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage/{userid}/{photoid}.301&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage.301?userid={userid}&amp;photoid={photoid}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could redirect to where you have posted the image.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage/{userid}/{photoid}.url&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage.url?userid={userid}&amp;photoid={photoid}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could return &quot;&lt;code&gt;ContentType: text&lt;/code&gt;&quot; with the url for the body.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage/{userid}.html&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage.html?userid={userid}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could show you where all of the redirects point to, and their descriptions.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage/{userid}/{photoid}.what&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage.what?userid={userid}&amp;photoid={photoid}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could return &quot;&lt;code&gt;ContentType: text&lt;/code&gt;&quot; with the description for the body.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage/{userid}.json&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userimage.json?userid={userid}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would have somewhere on your user-page where you can edit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be easily abused though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should have a limit to how many you can post in a day, or a forced delay between how often you can add another image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T21:32:02.200" />
  <row Id="14585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-08-14T21:46:04.027" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10248/small-rendering-problem-with-google-chrome-on-main-page/13632#13632&quot;&gt;Here's the reason&lt;/a&gt; it's &lt;em&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/em&gt;, since clearly you all find it an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely intentional (thus not a bug), although I don't like it much myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T21:46:04.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14579" CreationDate="2009-08-14T21:50:04.037" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No but the universe is expanding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T21:50:04.037" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:02:11.653" Score="-2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am picturing here a system wherein if you ask a question without specifying some key information that is almost certainly required to answer the question correctly, a pop-up (just like the &quot;please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved&quot;; not a &lt;em&gt;pop-up&lt;/em&gt; pop-up) will alert you to this fact and perhaps even suggest appropriate tags.  Maybe this is better explained by example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;How do I make a regex to find this ...&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1280287/quick-regex-question&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that doesn't mention the environment in which it will be used (Perl, POSIX, Java, .Net, etc. all have different &quot;regex flavors&quot; and can behave very differently).  The system will detect the use of a keyword or tag (&quot;regex&quot;) but the absence of a handful of critically important keywords (&quot;Perl&quot;, &quot;POSIX&quot;, &quot;Java&quot;...) anywhere in the title, question, or tags and will alert the user to this fact.  It shouldn't by any means block the user from submitting the question without this information; it should just be a &lt;em&gt;gentle reminder&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I format a disk&quot; but no mention of which OS they're using.  &quot;Format&quot; is detected, but not any of &quot;Linux&quot;, &quot;Windows&quot;, &quot;OS X&quot;, etc.  Same principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Architecturally I'd imagine this being just a bit more meta data attached to tags, called &quot;crucial information&quot; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130704" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T22:16:13.157" Title="Question-shaping pop-up" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14589" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:08:09.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not going to support this due to it potentialy becoming a lot of extra work on the site admins/designers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T22:08:09.537" />
  <row Id="14591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14593" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:15:05.390" Score="8" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just encountered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234467/parsing-logfiles-and-applying-logic-any-suggestions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which is very cute and funny and has nothing to do with programming.  I tried voting to close, but was informed by the system that I can't do that when there's a bounty on the question.  So, since there's a seven-day bounty, this will remain open for at least a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't care what happens to the bounty rep, I just want to be able to close questions that are thoroughly inappropriate although not offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T21:28:23.850" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:28:23.850" Title="Why can't we close questions with bounties?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="14592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14589" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:16:13.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a whole lot of work to implement something which is going to have a lot of AI holes in it, when the best option is still going to be a user commenting on the question and saying &quot;you need to include X, Y, and Z.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T22:16:13.157" />
  <row Id="14593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14591" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:18:50.060" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention. I agree that setting up a bounty should not prevent a question from being closed. All I can say for that, though, is the fact that the question remained open long enough for a bounty to get posted should say that the community felt it was worthy of being open in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T22:18:50.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14599" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:26:20.810" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest peeve is sometimes I vote up an answer mid-way through reading it, and the &quot;don't forget to accept&quot; message blocks the remaining text, so I scramble and triple-click it until it closes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways I frequently scan my question list and search for SO's reminders, (&quot;Consider accepting an answer&quot;) so the &quot;don't forget to accept&quot; is wholly unnecessary to some, and there should be a way to disable it. Do you think so too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T23:02:40.457" Title="Can we have an option to disable the &quot;don't forget to accept&quot; reminder?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14621" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:34:50.700" Score="14" ViewCount="554" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this is a duplicate, but I couldn't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we someone how stop from making stupid tags and then bumping tons of old questions so they can add their tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, as of now, a user is going through all the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt; tags and adding &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/plzsendtehcode&quot;&gt;plzsendtehcodes&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to them. This is just silly, it bumps old (usually closed) questions, as far as I can tell just to try and sound &quot;cute&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bah. This happens once in a while, is there any suggestions to stop it or deal with it? As far as I can tell, the only thing to do is just grin and bear it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have rolled back all the edits to just add the silly tag, so the link above will appear empty. But in the homework link, any questions recently edited by me are the ones I fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T03:42:41.760" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:49:22.223" Title="Stop stupid tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14595" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:38:35.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you define &quot;stupid&quot; tags? If you see something you believe is abusive, just email team@stackoverflow.com or flag a post for moderator attention and let them deal with it with the tools they already have. We don't need things like this to try and prevent bad behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T22:38:35.873" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14594" CreationDate="2009-08-14T22:52:05.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't bother me, really. I think it's an important feature to make sure people accept answers to questions that have been answered, and I don't particularly see a &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; for being able to disable it. If it becomes to easy to dismiss it might as well not exist, since no one would read it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T22:52:05.097" />
  <row Id="14599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14594" CreationDate="2009-08-14T23:02:40.457" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It goes away after 1 month automatically. Just wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T23:02:40.457" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14555" CreationDate="2009-08-14T23:09:20.880" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we make the email too aggressive, it's a substitute for visiting the site, and it &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.4511.8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kind of destroys the whole community aspect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think we're all in agreement that in a social/discussion forum it's OK not to have email notifications, because in a social/discussion forum that's would be, well, antisocial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In tech support forums, the question is whether you prefer to build up a group of people who hang out, thus making benefit #2 more likely to happen, or whether you prefer to make sure that customers get prompt replies to their posts, at the cost of sacrificing benefit #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email is for the less urgent stuff where you're busy and don't have time to check the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the implicit contract at SO is that you &quot;pay it forward&quot; and help others answer &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; questions while you're getting an answer to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-14T23:15:21.867" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T23:15:21.867" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="14601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14595" CreationDate="2009-08-14T23:15:56.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to say the mods have done a great job weeding/cleaning through tags and consolidating them. Meta is the place to mention specific tag abuse and they can address the concerns one by one. It has been discussed before, but be sure to mention the specific tags being abused in all future posts. And thank you for helping clean up posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember to use that retag-request tag on meta questions reguarding tag changes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T02:49:22.223" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:49:22.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4391" CreationDate="2009-08-14T23:40:43.313" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't tell you how many times I've clicked the name, thinking it would take me to the most recent post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T23:40:43.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14566" CreationDate="2009-08-14T23:45:57.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do closed questions affect the count? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Been retagging some of the wild ones, just don't know if the closed questions with wrong tags will urf up the tag count or if they'll just be rolled into thin air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-14T23:45:57.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14607" CreationDate="2009-08-15T00:17:27.997" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;are questions no longer sorted by upvotes? or it just me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1580" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T00:41:00.777" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T00:41:00.777" Title="Questions no longer sorted by upvotes?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T00:22:25.327" Score="3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last weeks I discovered &lt;a href=&quot;http://projecteuler.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ProjectEuler&lt;/a&gt; (nice idea) and I needed to delve a little into algorithms. Wikipedia was of great help here, as it documents quite a bunch of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, Wikipedia articles' style was... hmmm, not exactly what I needed. While I enjoyed the rich extra info, the historical references and math equations, what I was really looking for were the concrete implementations, preferably in C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that's how this idea came to light: how about SO developing a Wikipedia-like branch, but strictly programming oriented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An article on Atkins sieve for example could start by describing the algorithm then continue with implementations in various languages, C#, Python and so on. There are many answers on SO which include references to this algorithm, with links to other related questions or external sites. Why not have it all together in a nice community article?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this would not be limited to algorithms. Paging SQL results or precompiling .NET assemblies could have their place as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging could really help, if an article and a question have common tags, related articles could show in the sidebar, like for related questions. Or, a new feature could be added, to mark a question as a good candidate for an article; answers to that question (and related) would make a good start for creating the article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some answers below point to the jeopardy mechanic. Yes, it is possible but, IMO, it doesn't answer well the issues mentioned below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would the jeopardy thing work? Somebody decides it's time to turn information into wisdom, by consolidating answers to an interesting, general enough question. He starts a question then compiles the best answers into a single one, structured like an article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and biggest issue, visibility. What differentiates this question from the others? It will get a visibility window for a few hours then it will only show in the related section, blurred into a dozen other questions. A &quot;normal&quot; question is not as proeminent as an article, visually promoted by SO as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, information scattering. As this will only increase over time, the effort of building a coherent, covering answer to a given problem will be burried deeper and deeper and, as such, become fruitless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A third issue would be text's structure. While the actual Q/A editor is good enough for formulating simple questions or answers, it misses the functionality to build something like an article: ToC, sections, references, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133704" LastEditorUserId="133704" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T13:12:04.540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:16:35.290" Title="Suggestion: how about stackoverflow developing a programming Wikipedia-like branch?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14605" CreationDate="2009-08-15T00:25:25.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For The Questions Page:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can sort by newest, active, featured, 'hot', and number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For The Home Page:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can sort by active, featured, 'hot', and best of week or month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For The Unanswered Page:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can sort by the newest questions with your tag, the newest, or votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For Answers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can sort by Votes, Time (ASC), or Time (DESC). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just click one of the tabs right above the first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T00:25:25.807" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-08-15T00:30:35.837" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;123 thousand views&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(See my other answers for more possible solutions)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a crack at this for Jeff and everyone else to take a look at.  I'm no CSS-whiz, but here it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;What is your best programming joke?&quot; question wasn't in the main view when I started editing so I commandeered a random question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made sure to keep &quot;views&quot; vertically-aligned with &quot;answers&quot; because I think that would be the most visually-jarring thing if they were unaligned.  This meant scaling down the views number somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that Jeff is opposed to scaling the number, but maybe others won't find it so bad.  I find it favorable to the current situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5598/100thousandviewsadjuste.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.thousands-number {&#xA;    font-size:165%;&#xA;    height:16px;&#xA;    margin-left:-3px;&#xA;    margin-top:2px;&#xA;}&#xA;.thousands-text {&#xA;    margin-left:-2px;&#xA;    font-size:80%;&#xA;    height:9px;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;views&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;mini-counts thousands-number supernova&quot;&amp;gt;123&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;thousands-text supernova&quot;&amp;gt;thousand&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;views&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133760" LastEditorUserId="133760" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T15:20:49.937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T15:20:49.937" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T00:41:26.237" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more of a notice for users than question. Those of you who use scriptblock may have noticed that some features like voting don't work if you only allow scripts from the main sites to work. It looks like the team has moved some assets to &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sstatic.net&lt;/a&gt;, so you now have to allow this site for everything to work properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T05:22:00.217" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T05:22:00.217" Title="Using Overflow Sites and Scriptblock Plugin (howto fix strange js behaviour)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="14610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T00:42:14.053" Score="42" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;My profile page used to have a votes tab that showed me what my latest X votes were. It is not there anymore. What happened to it? Why was it removed? I looked everywhere but couldn't find anyone talking about it. I use this often to go back to downvotes and see if they've been edited to fix a problem so I can then remove my downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I made this a feature request to bring this functionality back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T16:17:09.937" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T14:37:16.267" Title="Where did the Votes Tab go?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14610" CreationDate="2009-08-15T01:29:11.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be completely removed - visiting my votes URL &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658?tab=votes#sort-top&quot;&gt;directly&lt;/a&gt; doesn't work either. However, it doesn't make much sense as to why, unless this is related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13310/should-displayed-reputation-always-be-rounded-to-the-nearest-10&quot;&gt;this &quot;bug&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (which I couldn't verify) and has been taken temporarily offline until a hole is patched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T01:29:11.307" />
  <row Id="14612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14606" CreationDate="2009-08-15T01:44:57.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a redundant idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of SO having a search function (not to mention search engine indexing) is so that people can see the answers to previous question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a question that is unanswered, ask it. If it is answered, high-fives all around. I assume you suggest this because you want to learn non-specific material, but that is what textbooks are for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can, however, post a question w/ the answer just for other people's reference. This is actually encouraged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's also perfectly fine to ask and&#xA;  answer your own question, but pretend&#xA;  you're on Jeopardy: phrase it in the&#xA;  form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO functions perfectly in its niche as it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130945" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T01:44:57.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14606" CreationDate="2009-08-15T02:10:51.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do think that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14606/suggestion-how-about-stackoverflow-developing-a-programming-wikipedia-like-branc/14612#14612&quot;&gt;Hooked's answer&lt;/a&gt; has some merit to it, I also think that for the most part, StackOverflow information is very scattered. If I wanted to look up how a bunch of information on a particular subject, I would have to jump from question to question. It is also very possible that the information is incomplete, because each question has its own problem it is trying to solve, not necessarily just trying to spread information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it might be a good idea to have a website that basically contains SO answers, and then fills in the gaps. But I think that might also stray a little far away from the SO culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T14:16:35.290" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:16:35.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T02:23:17.350" Score="5" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I follow the Related Questions section, I often come across closed questions. I would think that closed questions wouldn't be shown, since they aren't relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't closed questions be removed from the Related Questions list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133774" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T05:15:52.957" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T00:02:49.990" Title="Related Questions Include Closed Questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14606" CreationDate="2009-08-15T04:00:16.933" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from the fact that SO is already a programming reference place, I have to say that it is getting a little bit old to see suggestions from people who want StackOverflow (or Jeff &amp;amp; Co) to be the end all be all of everything at once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really so wrong to ask for the site(s) to focus on a single good thing and not try to be everything to everyone? Didn't we learn that web portals aren't as great as we all first thought they were? Lycos? Excite? Yahoo? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T04:00:16.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14609" CreationDate="2009-08-15T04:03:47.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should also be said that if you use blocking techniques, don't be surprised when things don't work properly 100% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T04:03:47.987" />
  <row Id="14618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14614" CreationDate="2009-08-15T04:04:07.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of keeping closed questions around (rather than deleting them) is that they might still be relevant. For example, if a question is closed as a duplicate, it might still have phrased the question in a completely different way, and that different phrasing might be very useful to someone. In particular, looking at a related closed question might be just the thing you need to realize that the question you're looking at solves your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T04:04:07.517" />
  <row Id="14619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14614" CreationDate="2009-08-15T04:09:31.750" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question that is closed is not always irrelevant. Since there is always the potential for it to get reopened at any time, it makes sense for them to still linger. 10k users can vote to delete something that is closed after 24 hours. They can also vote to undelete any deleted content as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something is deleted it won't show up anymore, but closed still do. I agree with this current behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T04:09:31.750" />
  <row Id="14620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1182" CreationDate="2009-08-15T04:13:54.423" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely want the badges implemented. I would prefer the following however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bronze for first bounty win&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Silver for bounty win worth X amount of rep (say minimum of 200)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gold for bounty win worth Y amount of rep (say minimum of 500)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gold for total bounties won worth over 2000 rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T04:13:54.423" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-15T04:13:54.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14595" CreationDate="2009-08-15T04:33:44.090" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really wish the moderators could create a list of tags that you just can't create. &quot;plzsendmethecodez&quot; (and all variants) is a prime example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't something that could really be voted on (to add or remove) but really can only work as a moderator action. The idea here isn't to create more work by creating and maintaining a huge list. In fact I think the list will be fairly small. We just need to save the work of removing such stupid tags when some plonker decides to go on a retag spree (and to stop the tags being created in the first place (again)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T04:33:44.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14610" CreationDate="2009-08-15T05:14:37.890" Score="-9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't think this tab is useful any more. It may eventually be folded into recent, which will have filters (sub-tabs, effectively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6187/is-recent-activity-superfluous-what-about-the-other-user-pages&quot;&gt;See here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Speaking of the tabs on the user page, there are a lot of them, and some of them show little more than trivia (a detailed listing of all the up/down votes I've placed?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T05:14:37.890" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7273" CreationDate="2009-08-15T05:19:55.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bad idea, but I just don't see this as a feature that would get much use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, there hasn't been that much discussion on individual revisions, to date, and what there has been, can be accommodated through revision comments and basic post comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T05:19:55.010" />
  <row Id="14627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6191" CreationDate="2009-08-15T05:20:42.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we encourage flagging for anything at all out of the ordinary. Please use it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T05:20:42.357" />
  <row Id="14628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6592" CreationDate="2009-08-15T05:27:28.740" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &quot;exception&quot; icon option next to the &quot;code sample&quot; icon for the editor would be nice as well. That way the exception could be color coded and made search engine friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T05:27:28.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-15T05:27:28.740" />
  <row Id="14629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T06:01:29.620" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you click on the tags in a user profile, it now brings you to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:95589+%5Bsql%5D&quot;&gt;user + tag search&lt;/a&gt; (awesome new feature). Can there be a Stats tab for that tag on that page, like there is in &lt;code&gt;/questions/tagged/tag-name&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a possible additional feature, perhaps if coming from the user + tag search, it would show the searched user's stats if they don't make the top 20, instead of the viewer's own stats. For example, if you're looking at my C answers, I would show up at the bottom of each list, not you (if you belonged there...for all I know you're an epic C answerer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T06:48:46.407" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:39:27.020" Title="Can we get the Stats tab on the User+Tag Search?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;narcissism&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14629" CreationDate="2009-08-15T06:06:18.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would definitely like to see a stats tab on the user+tag page. It sort of confused me at first on the new page until I realized I was only looking at my stuff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the idea about being able to see another user's stats for a particular tag (regardless of their position in the rankings) sounds like a pretty cool thing to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T06:06:18.550" />
  <row Id="14631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14629" CreationDate="2009-08-15T06:41:34.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is this necessary? &lt;strong&gt;The current user always appears in the stats tab for any given tag.&lt;/strong&gt; It's forced in the query, assuming you're actually logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see what this would provide that you don't already get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18256/bug-in-rep-statistics-display/18353#18353&quot;&gt;This is no longer true&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T13:39:27.020" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:39:27.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14635" CreationDate="2009-08-15T07:24:36.520" Score="6" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;if i view-source then i see the following in meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;apple-itouch-icon&quot; href=&quot;/apple-touch-icon.png&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional ? Whats the purpose ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133785" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:17:27.277" Title="Why SO, SF (&amp; others) name its logo as apple-itouch-icon" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14633" CreationDate="2009-08-15T07:29:44.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is for iPhone users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they bookmark the site, the iPhone will either request this particular file or, if it's not found, will create its own snapshot of the site as its icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T07:29:44.513" />
  <row Id="14635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14633" CreationDate="2009-08-15T07:29:55.217" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you add a site to your home screen in Mobile Safari, it looks for that line in the HTML and, if present, it uses it as the icon. In many ways, this is similar to a desktop browser looking for favicon.ico and displaying that in the address bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what it looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/p0Fyf.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the line of HTML isn't present, the iPhone will instead take a screenshot of the page and use that as the icon instead, but this doesn't really work that well for most sites (since they are usually text) and so it is greatly recommended to provide an icon if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:17:27.277" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:17:27.277" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="14636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14633" CreationDate="2009-08-15T07:31:13.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This icons is the bookmark icon used on the Apple iphone and ipod (when added to the home screen).  By default it will look for this file, but it can be over-ridden using this  directive (so it looks like Jeff et al are just being over-cautious).  For more info, have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://allinthehead.com/retro/319/how-to-set-an-apple-touch-icon-for-any-site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T07:31:13.793" />
  <row Id="14637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T08:28:12.010" Score="0" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the pure HTML/CSS stuff is moving off of Stackoverflow on to Doctype, could we please get the close option for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T13:41:52.257" Title="Close as belongs on doctype?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;doctype&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2009-08-15T09:09:05.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could one option be some kind of banner after you've answered a question that says (something like) &quot;Have you considered up voting this question?&quot; if you haven't voted at all -- After all, I'm only going to answer well written questions; and it is well written questions that we should be encouraging to be upvoted (rather than &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18450/is-mono-ready-for-prime-time&quot;&gt;Is Mono ready for prime time?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that need clarifications tend to get comments asking for them, not that there is any way to find out if they are updated in the future, but that's another rant altogether ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how I tend to behave, anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T09:09:05.373" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14637" CreationDate="2009-08-15T09:14:29.560" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have a way to migrate to Doctype. Until we do I think voting to closed as belonging there doesn't really work. I've suggested having an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14167/suggestion-have-a-stackoverflow-affiliate-program&quot;&gt;affiliate program&lt;/a&gt;, which might include such things as migrating to/from third-party sites. I don't know if SO has any plans for this or anything related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what about the existing HTML/CSS questions? A lot of old questions from SO have subsequently been migrated to SU, SF and here. We can't do that either. All in all I don't think we can exclude HTML/CSS questions. We can just encourage them going to Doctype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T09:14:29.560" />
  <row Id="14641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T09:20:14.057" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3615/should-downvoting-be-allowed-on-comments&quot;&gt;Should downvoting be allowed on comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can we downvote questions and answers, but not comments? They often deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133730" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T09:20:14.057" ClosedDate="2009-08-15T12:30:05.300" Title="Please let us downvote comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14637" CreationDate="2009-08-15T09:31:46.983" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am fairly active in HTML/CSS on SO and I'd hate for questions to start being nudged to this 3rd party site. I think we can certainly let them know there's a designer-centric website that can help, but if someone wants an answer to their question on the far more popular and mature engine of SO or perhaps just from a programming perspective I don't see why we should discourage that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T09:31:46.983" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38592" CreationDate="2009-08-15T11:37:11.067" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to see the full chronological timeline of a question &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; when comments were added or edits were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As best I can tell, at the moment you can only see the edit history of a question.  What I would like to be able to do is see something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;13:00 - Question created&#xA;13:10 - Question edited&#xA;13:15 - comment added to question&#xA;14:00 - Answer submitted&#xA;14:30 - additional comment added to question&#xA;14:40 - comment added to answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible / does it already exist???  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope this makes sense...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133434" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-02T01:38:53.100" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T01:38:53.100" Title="Full timeline of a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="14644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14643" CreationDate="2009-08-15T11:54:18.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't available within the web UI, but you could do it retrospectively with the data dump if there was something you were particularly interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not sure whether the data dump contains deleted posts/comments though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if we ever end up with a Wave robot which spots all of these things happening, you'll be able to see the change history that way :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T11:54:18.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14637" CreationDate="2009-08-15T12:04:37.923" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While DocType has some really cool features, it is not quite up to SO for usability. It would help tremendously if they decreased the font-size and gave me back some of my screen real estate so I can see more than two questions at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until the usability improves I don't think there is going to be any great migration to DocType.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And frankly, I am kinda bummed that I have to start over as far as rep goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130361" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T12:04:37.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14595" CreationDate="2009-08-15T12:13:27.647" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How 'bout we change the definition of the Taxonomist badge from &lt;em&gt;&quot;Created a tag used by 50 questions&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Created a tag used by 50 &lt;strong&gt;users.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  That would prevent a user from getting the badge by adding a &quot;stupid&quot; tag to 50 questions .  Then, at least if we see this happen we know it's someone not just trying to earn the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T12:13:27.647" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T13:03:35.330" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the user page, the Grey square &quot;About me&quot; It says I can use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt; a &amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags, How do I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T09:55:25.100" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T09:55:25.100" Title="In the user page, the grey square &quot;About me&quot; It says I can use &lt; a &gt; tags, How do I do that?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14649" CreationDate="2009-08-15T13:11:15.757" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; link next to the About Me box and just add in the links as you would a normal HTML page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some restrictions to keep in mind though, and it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-sofu&quot;&gt;slightly greater restriction than on a regular question post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.doctype.com/&quot;&amp;gt;Feeling the pain of UserVoice&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; all &#xA;over again.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links are &lt;code&gt;nofollow&lt;/code&gt;, and if you get excessive, it won't play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T13:11:15.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14637" CreationDate="2009-08-15T13:41:52.257" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For most web developers I think the distinction between programming and designing for the web is artificial.  Most of the people I know do both.  We do have a few web designers for static sites, but I only make use of them in very rare circumstances -- say to get a logo or come up with a color scheme.  The rest of the HTML/CSS is mine, and I like it that way.  And, when you're enhancing your interface via javascript, there's really no getting away from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would actually be a step backwards for me to have to go to two different sites depending on what type of development problem I may be having.  While most of the affiliations make sense to me, the affiliation with DocType really doesn't.  There's a real overlap with the subject matter and it doesn't provide the sort of drilldown depth of HowToGeek. Affiliating with A List Apart, or something similar, would have made more sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather see SO be more explicit about allowing those sorts of HTML/CSS questions than offer a close as belongs on DocType so people aren't tempted to close them as not programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, my issues aren't with DocType.  I'm sure it's a fine forum, but the whole point of SO was to bring development related problems and solutions into a single forum.  Adding DocType to the League of Justice seems to detract from that goal, not add to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T13:41:52.257" />
  <row Id="14652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T13:45:36.680" Score="12" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the deleted questions list today and came across about 20 questions all deleted by John Saunders, Gulzar and Mehrdad. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1245053/why-instead-of-in-php-comparison-closed&quot;&gt;Why === instead of == in PHP comparison? [closed]&lt;/a&gt; is just one example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this concerns me on two fronts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20+ questions is a lot to delete in one day for one user (well three users); and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that they're all deleted by the same trio suggests they're voting as a bloc. Now it could be that they're the only ones actively deleting but I know that's not true.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has previous stated that duplicates aren't necessarily a bad thing in that they can lead to the original and so on. I feel a little uneasy that there is simply some overeagerness going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T02:40:43.290" Title="People abusing deleting questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2009-08-15T13:50:13.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These guys are heroes!! There is a ton of stuff which needs deletion, but it doesn't seem to get done. May you receive some kind of community service badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T13:50:13.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2009-08-15T13:58:51.217" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's an abuse. I recently got into habit to check recently deleted votes from time to time and cast my vote, if appropriate. I think more users should consider checking the 10k tools and trying to keep the system clean. After all, it's just like closure. Users with more than 10k reputation can vote to undelete posts if they think otherwise. I think this is the way system is designed to work as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mentioned in the StackOverflow blog long ago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I classify duplicates into different categories. One is a question that is a dupe of a relatively well-written and complete question and answer. For example, the question you mentioned links to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80646/how-do-the-equality-and-identity-comparison-operators-differ&quot;&gt;How do the equality (==) and identity (===) comparison operators differ?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which has an excellent answer (and I think they are even more dupes.) The original question text hardly provides any added value, so it makes sense to delete it. Of course, there are cases where I wish a merge option was available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'd appreciate to know if there is an official policy/guideline for using &quot;delete&quot; votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By the way, I don't think I deleted 20 questions in one day. Your statistics might be a little bit exaggrated. The reason might be the fact that some votes are cast in previous days and the actual delete takes place (when the third vote is cast) another day.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T18:11:28.063" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T18:11:28.063" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="14655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:10:30.793" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was doing a bit of clean up and got confused over a post that clearly belonged on meta, seemed to have been closed and reopened, and appeared to have been asked recently.  Then I noticed that the date was Aug 10 08 at ..., not Aug 10 at ....  I guess I've just gotten used to looking at the month and day.  Adding the century would make the year more obvious.  And you won't have to change it when the next century rolls over.  No Y2.1K bug... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:37:24.233" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:37:24.233" Title="Show dates with century to avoid confusion" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-10T20:41:19.763" Score="37" ViewCount="7062" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the SO admins have any plans to release the underlying code for SO at all? I appreciate that the code may be part of their competitive advantage, but it strikes me that the underlying system would work for any topic, not just programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not advocating this, just curious really, but figured it might be under consideration as most of the value in SO is in the questions and answers, which have been released under a relatively open CC license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="277" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-04T23:51:02.490" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T20:34:39.827" Title="Is the Stack Overflow source code available?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="14657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14656" CreationDate="2008-08-10T20:44:09.290" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they said in one of the podcasts (#15 or #16) that they might &quot;open source it&quot; eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Found it in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W13117&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program&quot;&gt;Transcript Wiki of Podcast 15&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; And to their credit these guys are doing this largely out of - I don't want to say the goodness of their heart - but because they know me and they believe in the project so they are sort of contributing some sort of basic sweat equity to the project so it's not like we have this giant pool of venture capital.  I mean, this is basically self-funded to this point by: me [laughs].  Um, so, it's sort of a minimalistic endeavour, I mean what I think what we're going to end up with is going to be pretty cool.  And it's going to be kind of community effort too where I've been posting on the blog about what we're doing and trying to solicit input and things like that.  &lt;strong&gt;Eventually we might open source the code as well.&lt;/strong&gt;  But it's not like we have this giant pool of venture capital money like some companies, it's very much a small endeavour that we're taking on.  But that said, people will start trickling into the beta before, before the end of the month now so that's where we are because people keep asking and I just wanted to address that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:17:25.230" />
  <row Id="14658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14656" CreationDate="2008-08-10T20:50:09.670" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they've been pretty noncommittal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: These questions all sort of come back on one another. So what do you think? StackOverflow, open source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: I'm torn, because again StackOverflow is very much a commercial venture. Which I guess you could say about ScrewTurn Wiki as well. ScrewTurn Wiki is also commercial. I mean ultimately he wants to get paid for the work he's doing. And I guess I just don't know enough about the repercussions of it to make that decision. I'm not against it by any means. I mean I'm very much pro - as the caller said, Martin said, I'm very much pro open source. And I think I'm just a little nervous, having taken on this project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: But what if somebody cooler than us took that code, and even took, you know, I think we already talked about Creative Commons-ing some of the contributions. So they take the code that we developed, at great expense I'd like to point out - at least six to eight weeks, if not five to seven - and then took all that code and stuff like that, and made another site somewhere that was a better than Stackoverflow. Or it could be called StackDoubleOverflow. It would all be written in English as a second language. And, uh, it would be extremely popular with, say Eastern Europe for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atwood: Right. So that's forking, right? And I have a blog entry about that as well. So the risk was forking is that--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W4331&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W4331&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it might happen, or it might not.  It doesn't look like they're dead set either way yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Jeremy found a more recent quote than me.  Looks like they're still not committing to anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159945" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:17:25.230" />
  <row Id="14659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14656" CreationDate="2008-08-10T21:03:07.583" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That probably makes good sense to wait for a while to establish a significant user base and get a head start on competitors before open sourcing the code. At that point, it won't matter if someone creates a stackdoubleoverflow.com if this site gains critical mass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just look at all the ways that Twitter screws up yet everyone is still there. If Twitter open sourced their code, it wouldn't hurt them a bit. After all, there are already twitter clones out there, but people want to be where their friends are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So get everyone and their friends here, and then open source it. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133746" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:17:25.230" />
  <row Id="14660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14656" CreationDate="2008-08-10T21:42:41.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given how much better the Stack Overflow way of doing things is compared to other Q&amp;amp;A forums, I could see there being a business in making the Stack Overflow infrastructure available for customized Q&amp;amp;A forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course, that's how &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_Corporation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program&quot;&gt;ArsDigita&lt;/a&gt; started...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145082" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:17:25.230" />
  <row Id="14661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14656" CreationDate="2008-09-18T06:24:08.567" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave it closed source.. for a selfish reason of mine :) Personally I don't want clones popping up and then we have a lot of Q &amp;amp;A sites which I might have to follow. I would rather concentrate on one really good site than on multiple so-so sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's better to have the experts gather in one place than have them scattered between the clone sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe open source it after a year from now. I want SO to have the EBay effect. No one can outdo eBay as an auction site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:17:25.230" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14656" CreationDate="2009-03-03T14:30:10.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt; I dont really need the whole application.  I am not going to start my own stack overflow site.  What would be great however is if they take some of their most proud sections of the code and show us why and how they did it.  When I listen to the podcast I hear a lot of great insights and advice.  I would like to see some specific examples based on something I actually use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Part of the open source idea is not just &quot;free&quot; software but the shareing of ideas that goes with it.  I would like to see some of Joel's standards in action. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163801" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:17:25.230" />
  <row Id="14663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14656" CreationDate="2009-06-12T17:05:55.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a business idea myself, Stackoverflow's engine would make it much easier and much cooler. But I see Joel's and Jeff's challenge. I have an idea: &lt;br&gt;&#xA;How about opening APIs to the engine, in the sense of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You package stackover flow or host it somewhere in the cloud &lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I get to use the engine through APIs that would control the following:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The way it looks (templates?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number and type of tags I want&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...etc&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We agree on a form of profit sharing or monthly usage fee or whatever would be a win-win for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This way you guys would focus on improving the engine and somebody else worry about the commercializations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:17:25.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14681" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:17:26.397" Score="1" ViewCount="646" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a citation in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1281650/1&quot;&gt;answer to a question&lt;/a&gt;, reproduced here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;H. Muhammad and R. Ierusalimschy. C APIs in extension&#xA;and extensible languages. Journal of Universal Computer&#xA;Science, 13(6):839–853, 2007.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow highlighted it remarkably well. What language does it think this is? Does it detect a citation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T15:44:43.093" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T15:44:43.093" Title="How does Stack Overflow syntax highlight citations so well?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-14T07:41:10.190" Score="12" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the team of Stack Overflow, THANK YOU! You have created an amazing system which does what we all have needed for years. And you've done it very well. I posted a question and had 2 answers within 3 minutes, 1 of which was exactly what I was looking for. What other developer resources deliver that level of support. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why Stack Overflow works and please feel free to add your 2 cents and pass on a thank you to the Stack Overflow team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New features released regularly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Non-intrusive advertisement and relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Related questions as you add your new questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OpenID support&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges - pushes personal pride and competition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139375" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T10:33:15.087" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T11:01:14.500" Title="Reasons Why Stack Overflow Is Amazing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="14666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14665" CreationDate="2009-07-14T07:43:06.303" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badges make it awesome, collect-em-all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:20:25.383" />
  <row Id="14667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14665" CreationDate="2009-07-14T07:43:40.233" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick &quot;to the point&quot; responses from fellow programmers.  Everyone can share their expertise and knowledge quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T11:01:14.500" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T11:01:14.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14665" CreationDate="2009-07-14T07:44:52.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mainly appreciate Stack Overflow for its degree of availability on the internets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:20:25.383" />
  <row Id="14670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14664" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:20:45.627" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can hardly consider that a &lt;em&gt;remarkably good&lt;/em&gt; highlighting for a citation. I don't think SO detects citations. It just thinks it's code and sees &quot;Title case&quot; words, lowercase words, etc. It has a list of keywords (look at the blue &lt;code&gt;and&lt;/code&gt; in the snippet) and uses some heuristics to highlight stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:20:45.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14664" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:21:49.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure what language it's going with, but the highlighting isn't very magical.  There are four classes of appearance visible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Capitalized words (light blue)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Likely reserved words (dark blue)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Numbers (dark red)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything else (black)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing amazing, and yeah, I'd say it's debatable that it's really great highlighting for a citation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:21:49.587" />
  <row Id="14672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14655" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:24:43.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I had my druthers, all dates would be &lt;code&gt;YYYY-MM-DD&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:24:43.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:25:10.363" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people are, by nature, more meticulous about organizing information.  It doesn't surprise me to find that those people who have that bent might be more likely to show up as closing/deleting questions.  I sometimes take a tour through the 10K tools and do a bit of clean up, but it's not part of my regular routine.  People who have made it part of their regular routine are going to show up more often as deleting questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:25:10.363" />
  <row Id="14674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14665" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:26:14.887" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:26:14.887" />
  <row Id="14676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:39:18.593" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not in any voting block! You need to go make the acquaintance of Mr. Occam. The simpler explanation is that people with 10k+ reputation get access to a tool that shows the questions with the highest number of delete votes. All it takes is a single delete vote for a question to show up on that list. Anyone checking that list can decide to add a vote. It only takes three votes! Hence, no voting block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the statement that 20+ is a lot of delete votes in a day: every two or three days, I'll use the tool that shows questions in order of when they were closed. There are &lt;strong&gt;278&lt;/strong&gt; pages of closed questions, about 20 per page. Over five thousand closed questions sitting around. Now, that includes migrated questions, which I think should be deleted automatically after a month or so, but that's still a lot of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I do use this tool, I'll usually try to go through two pages worth of closed questions (starting from about page 7, which is where the two-day-old questions usually start). About 1/3 of these wind up being migrated, so they can't be deleted. Of the rest, I find that 80% were closed for good and clear reason, and I'll vote to delete. Perhaps another 10%, I find that were closed for questionable reasons, and I do nothing, or else I may add a comment questioning the closure. I may edit a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in about 10% of the cases, I find that I disagree with the closure, and I'll vote to reopen. I may first do some serious editing, or try to correspond with the OP to get clarification. These are often cases where a question is closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; either because of bad English, or because the closers misunderstand the technology the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, don't &lt;em&gt;even&lt;/em&gt; portray me as some mad deleter!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T16:08:55.907" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T16:08:55.907" />
  <row Id="14677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14555" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:41:56.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they want to become a &lt;em&gt;spam bot&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had email subscriptions where the would send an email &lt;em&gt;everyday&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't check my email that often. When I did finally get around to reading them, I didn't feel like going through and reading &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of them, so I would read a couple and move on. The only thing is, it didn't take long before it would take more than one page to view just those emails. So I unsubscribed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't think we &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; more than one a day. It might even be a good idea to have a weekly version as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:41:56.247" />
  <row Id="14680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14682" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:48:05.380" Score="1" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed in the &quot;recent badges&quot; section on SO that a few users earned a &quot;C++&quot; and &quot;Java&quot; badge but those badges are not listed on the &quot;Badges&quot; page (which is supposed to show all badges possible. I'm sure that other languages have badges as well, but it leads to the question of what other badges are available that aren't actually listed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:16:23.637" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T20:00:29.560" Title="Why are some badges not shown on the list of badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="14681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14664" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:53:55.963" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Prettify&lt;/a&gt; for highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're seeing highlighted is Google's doing, not Stack Overflow's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-31T16:39:34.600" LastActivityDate="2011-05-31T16:39:34.600" />
  <row Id="14682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14680" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:55:09.347" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &quot;general&quot; and &quot;tags&quot; tabs in the upper-right of the badges page.  &quot;C++&quot; and &quot;Java&quot; badges will be listed with the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:55:09.347" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14680" CreationDate="2009-08-15T14:55:45.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those particular badges are created &lt;strong&gt;on Demand&lt;/strong&gt;, they don't exist until someone earns the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since they aren't like the other badges, they get their own &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T14:55:45.383" />
  <row Id="14684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14732" CreationDate="2009-08-15T15:09:16.747" Score="2" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this SO question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282069/parsing-non-standard-date-string-from-stackoverflow-into-a-net-datetime&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282069/parsing-non-standard-date-string-from-stackoverflow-into-a-net-datetime&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that if you are going to use the Universal Sortable time format, you should omit the timezone qualifier as it is already implicit in the time specification.  The Z on the end of the time implies Zulu or UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T21:21:12.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T21:21:28.273" Title="SO HTML formats time incorrectly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-08-15T15:13:46.393" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;.1m views&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this looks pretty good.  You lose some granularity on the number, but no extra CSS is required to shrink the numbers or realign stuff.  Unfortunately, the leading '0' won't fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2610/100thousandviewspointmi.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;.12m views&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some more precision with a smaller 'm'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2479/point12millionviews.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;views&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;mini-counts supernova&quot;&amp;gt;.12&amp;lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 50%;&quot;&amp;gt;m&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div&amp;gt;views&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133760" LastEditorUserId="133760" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T00:21:54.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T00:21:54.403" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-08-15T15:24:27.730" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;123k views&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This requires more scaling than &lt;strong&gt;123 thousand views&lt;/strong&gt; to fit 4 characters horizontally, but it doesn't try to cram the word &quot;thousand&quot; between the number and &quot;views.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5080/100kviews.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;views&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;div class=&quot;mini-counts supernova&quot;&#xA;        style=&quot;height: 23px; font-size: 140%; padding-top: 2px;&quot;&amp;gt;123k&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;views&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133760" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T15:24:27.730" />
  <row Id="14687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14690" CreationDate="2009-08-15T15:27:05.960" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;When voting to close a question, it does not appear that there is a way to know what the previous close votes were. For example, if a question has 3 close votes already and I go to close the question as well, I have no way of knowing what those other 3 close votes were. A good example here would be a question that 3 people think belong on Super User but I think it belongs on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T15:37:11.790" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:18:50.207" Title="Indicate previous &quot;Close&quot; reasons" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14687" CreationDate="2009-08-15T15:29:01.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you do. There is a little number next to each reason of previous votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T15:29:01.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14687" CreationDate="2009-08-15T15:30:38.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature already exists. Note the &quot;(1)&quot; and &quot;(2)&quot; by &quot;belongs on serverfault.com&quot; and &quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot; respectively. This indicates that 1 person voted to close as &quot;belongs on serverfault.com&quot; and 2 people voted to close as &quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/pYzUY.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275050/whats-the-easiest-way-to-sniff-tcp-traffic-data-on-linux&quot;&gt;screenshot taken from this question&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:18:50.207" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:18:50.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14722" CreationDate="2009-08-15T16:03:55.683" Score="5" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001295.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog post about digital sharecropping&lt;/a&gt; made me realize that my 800 answers on Stackoverflow contain some valuable content that I would like to repurpose.  Can I download all my answers in machine-readable form?  How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, please consider this a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T21:17:17.843" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T20:30:37.983" Title="Don't wanna be a digital sharecropper; can I download my own SO answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14696" CreationDate="2009-08-15T16:05:36.273" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would have to use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;, and then you could do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from posts where owneruserid = 41661&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BAM, machine readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you can always get a preview using Ian Elliot's frakking awesome &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T19:08:58.337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T19:08:58.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14734" CreationDate="2009-08-15T16:05:58.410" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was editing the tags of post on SuperUser and when I added the third tag and clicked on the autocomplete entry, the first tag also changed to that name.  After duplicating it a second time, I ended up just changing the first tag to get the three I wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T13:09:04.510" Title="Duplicating tags in tag edit box" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tag-edit-box&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2009-08-15T17:43:01.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I'm missing from this post is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they would &quot;vote as a bloc&quot;? (And just as importantly, why the rest of us should have a problem with it) What harm are they doing? what are they gaining for themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they deleting questions you feel should not have been deleted? If so, I think that's a much more relevant issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if not, what does it &lt;em&gt;matter&lt;/em&gt; whether they vote as a bloc or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T17:43:01.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14718" CreationDate="2009-08-15T17:52:54.230" Score="24" ViewCount="725" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the &quot;benefits&quot; of earning 200 rep points is that fewer ads are displayed to you. Instead of seeing three zones (Leaderboard Top, Leaderboard Bottom, and Sidebar), you see only one (Sidebar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I put &quot;benefits&quot; in quotes because I personally don't consider less advertising (especially on SO) to be beneficial. Of course, as the &quot;ad guy&quot;, I really don't care because the loss of impressions are statistically negligible, but as a member I feel that I'm missing out on something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We work hand-in-hand with each sponsor to make sure their ads are high quality and relevant, and we won't even talk to companies with a product/service that we know is a poor fit. And now that there's no more AdSense, that's the only thing we see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many awesome products/services that I've found through relevant ads, most of which solved problems I didn't even realize I had (or were solvable). &lt;a href=&quot;http://cushycms.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cushy CMS&lt;/a&gt;, for example, has very recently &quot;changed my life&quot;. And of course, there's no other way I'd find out about these, because I don't spend a whole lot of time reading reviews, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long story short... I think the &quot;reduced advertising&quot; thing should be changed to work as follows: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the User Profile page, there would be a Checkbox that reads &quot;Show Reduced Advertising&quot;. The Checkbox remains hidden until the member reaches 200 rep. Upon reaching 200, the box gets automatically checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it would work exactly the way it did before, except you get the option to turn off reduced advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, of course I'm biased. But still, Good ads are are a Good Thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="21960" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-26T15:59:45.820" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T15:59:45.820" Title="But I don't want &quot;reduced advertising&quot; when I get 200 Rep!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9067" CreationDate="2009-08-15T17:55:34.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I suppose I don't really understand why people are offended when questions are marked community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know people &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; offended when a question was marked CW. That might be a SF thing. I haven't really noticed it on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to object to the constant cries of &quot;MAKE IT CW&quot; that appear as soon as there is the tiniest bit of subjectivity or open-endedness involved. Asking &quot;what is the best practice in programming situation X&quot; is subjective and there might be more than one correct answer. But it is still relevant, and good answers do reflect knowledge and should contribute to the user's &quot;level of trust&quot;, so I generally argue against CW'ing those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then there are the ones that are &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; for fun. Joke/anecdote questions, for example, are obvious candidates for CW. A popular answer there indicates nothing more than that the poster had a good story to tell. That should not increase their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is my litmus test: &quot;Will a correct and upvoted answer to this question accurately reflect an increase in trust for this user by the community?&quot; too harsh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's the correct way to decide it. Some people use one that goes &quot;Can there be more than one correct or valuable answer to this?&quot; as a test to determine whether or not a question should be CW'ed. And I think that is far too strict. It uses CW as a trash can for anything and everything people can disagree upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It completely discounts the value that still exists in open-ended questions/answers. They can still be technically relevant, informative and everything else you'd normally upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm personally pretty relaxed about my rep, and it doesn't bother me to spend 15 minutes writing a detailed technical answer to a CW question where I won't get any rep. But it annoys me when CW is used as a garbage bin for &quot;any question in which it is possible for people to disagree on the perfect answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastEditorUserId="33213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T18:01:05.667" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T18:01:05.667" />
  <row Id="14712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14710" CreationDate="2009-08-15T18:04:28.483" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that part of it is that such a small amount of people actually get reduced advertising that it doesn't really matter. Considering a majority of traffic comes straight from Google, that means all of those people get all the ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one agree that they have actually put up some good ads. I actually went and read through a lot about Splunk. But I think that because this feature would be so little used, it is not likely a priority at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather have a 'Sponsored' page where the team can list all the advertisers, and then I could just go and look at all the people who advertise on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T18:04:28.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T18:05:59.993" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat a low priority IMO. I just thought that maybe I'm not the only who accidentally clicked the 'check as accepted answer' toggle when I'm supposed to click the downvote toggle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T23:20:31.983" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T23:20:31.983" Title="Is the check as accepted answer toggle positioned too close to the downvote toggle?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;checkmark&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="14714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14710" CreationDate="2009-08-15T18:06:29.820" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer this not to happen for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's extra work for very little benefit IMO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's an extra option, meaning more complexity, for very little benefit. Joel has previously expressed his opinion about many options just being about developers not being confident in knowing what users want.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; few people would go to the trouble of &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; opting in to extra advertising.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't strenuously object to this, but I'd be very surprised if there wasn't something the SO team could be spending their time on which would give more benefit to more users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T18:06:29.820" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14713" CreationDate="2009-08-15T18:08:44.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is why it is a 'Toggle'....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning you can undo something....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like a &lt;em&gt;mistake&lt;/em&gt;.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because us humans make those.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not Jon Skeet though.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's not human....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's like some weird robot that knows C....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and writes books....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and does other creepy robot stuff...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maybe the guys in the captcha were modeled after him...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;hmm.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;did you know Jon Skeet has gold badges for tags I've never heard of?....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is &lt;code&gt;linq&lt;/code&gt;?....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maybe it is some creepy robot lingo for awesomeness...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;did you know John Skeet has more gold badges than I have toes?....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it would be weird if I had 15 toes....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T18:27:06.127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T18:27:06.127" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="14716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14745" CreationDate="2009-08-15T18:16:11.533" Score="15" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;nhj asked the other day, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14442/how-to-revisit-ad-in-stackoverflow/14456#14456&quot;&gt;How to revisit ad in Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt; In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14442/how-to-revisit-ad-in-stackoverflow/14456#14456&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;, I wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We were thinking of putting together a &quot;sponsor gallery&quot; of sorts that listed out all of the sponsors with a brief description. Kinda in the vein of what we have on the every-now-and-then &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Sponsor-Appreciation,-Emptiness,-Empty-Support--More.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sponsor appreciation posts&lt;/a&gt; at TDWTF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, consider this the discussion for that topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you like to see in a sponsor gallery? Should it be one big, long list? How does the order get determined? Should we organize the sponsors based on tags (and if so, what about sponsors who target like java and .net)? What about former sponsors... do they get removed from the list, or go on like the &quot;past sponsors&quot; section/page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this is not something we intend to charge extra for... this is more a service to the you, the members, than anything else. I've gotten postive feedback from the TDWTF &quot;gallery&quot;, as a lot of readers come through RSS, have adblock running, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T09:47:52.793" Title="Sponsor Gallery, Page, or Something Like That?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14716" CreationDate="2009-08-15T18:26:37.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds interesting, yes. Admittedly still of limited use and more work than your other suggestion, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Organizing things doesn't matter too much if we can search. You could use the same sort of search format as for Q&amp;amp;A search; e.g. [java] to find sponsors of Java adverts. Possibly have two views - one by advertiser and the other by advert (with both being searchable). That way if you remember basically &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; reasonably rare text within the advert, you should be able to find it. If advertisers supply image-based adverts, they should also supply the text for search purposes (and targeting - I don't know exactly how the ad targeting works on SO at the moment; is it just by tag?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly &quot;former sponsors&quot; shouldn't be treated differently for a while, but maybe disappear after (say) 3 months after they last sponsored anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T18:26:37.457" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14710" CreationDate="2009-08-15T18:41:38.237" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Ad Overflow Greasemonkey Script!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           AdOverflow&#xA;// @namespace      AdOverlow&#xA;// @description    Adds Advertisements &#xA;// @include        *stackoverflow.com*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;        if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;                window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else { &#xA;                $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;        	$advert = $('#mainbar #question');&#xA;           if ($advert.children('div.everyonelovesstackoverflow').length == 0)&#xA;           {&#xA;           	$advert.prepend('&amp;lt;div class=&quot;everyonelovesstackoverflow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?ZoneID=3&amp;amp;amp;Task=Click&amp;amp;amp;Mode=HTML&amp;amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;amp;PageID=52405&quot;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?ZoneID=3&amp;amp;amp;Task=Get&amp;amp;amp;Mode=HTML&amp;amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;amp;PageID=52405&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;');&#xA;           }&#xA;&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T18:47:47.943" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T18:47:47.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14696" CreationDate="2009-08-15T19:35:21.933" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An alternative to using the SQL version of the data dump is to use the XML as provided &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;directly in the data dump&lt;/a&gt;. Most platforms provide a streaming XML reader: all you've got to do is load &lt;code&gt;posts.xml&lt;/code&gt; (IIRC - I don't have a dump handy), load it in a streaming manner and write out all the posts with the relevant owner ID to whatever file format you want. If you just want to write out the XML for the posts you own, you can just hold open a streaming XML writer and write the element - easy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on what you've got in terms of database connectivity etc, that may well be easier to do. Let me know if you want some C# code to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T20:30:37.983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T20:30:37.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14713" CreationDate="2009-08-15T19:38:49.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing preventing you from unselecting an accepted answer, or even undoing a downvote. Therefore there is not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T19:38:49.337" />
  <row Id="14724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14696" CreationDate="2009-08-15T19:46:34.643" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I don't know how much use it would get, I do kind of like the idea of a potential &quot;personal data dump&quot; which would allow you get just a dump of all your own information, questions, answers, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T19:46:34.643" />
  <row Id="14725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14716" CreationDate="2009-08-15T19:47:51.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am probably one of those people that doesn't care much about the organization of an ad gallery. The only things I could potentially think about are categories for the sites (so, su, sf, all) and/or categories for the sponsors themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T19:47:51.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T20:34:58.880" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14581/100-thousand-views-or-more-thousand-comes-below-views&quot;&gt;100 thousand views or more: &amp;ldquo;thousand&amp;rdquo; comes below &amp;ldquo;views&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the 'thousands' label should be directly under the numbers, above the 'views' label.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i31.tinypic.com/246p350.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;example view count&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1569" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T21:16:51.357" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T21:16:51.357" ClosedDate="2009-08-15T20:49:57.790" Title="View count 'thousand' label misplaced" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;views&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14790" CreationDate="2009-08-15T21:17:25.053" Score="3" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;the search FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, to search for a user one uses the search parameters &quot;user:&amp;lt;user&amp;gt;&quot;.  However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3AEther&quot;&gt;searching for myself&lt;/a&gt; actually yields a search result that appears to match all posts matching &quot;user&quot;.  Am I indeed not worthy of &quot;Super Ninja&quot; status, or is this a bug? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Now that this is answered, the question has morphed into a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: I should have tried to use the &quot;Users&quot; tab, rather than just the search bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T01:12:47.477" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T01:12:47.477" Title="Cannot search for a user by name" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="14730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14729" CreationDate="2009-08-15T21:18:26.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to search by your user number, not your username:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:40468&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:40468&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the sample searches on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;search page&lt;/a&gt; you'll see that you need to provide it a user number, not a username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since usernames aren't unique, I don't think that it's a good idea to try to support searching by username as well, as you may get results from several users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T21:26:46.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T21:26:46.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14684" CreationDate="2009-08-15T21:21:28.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;oh, I see, you want to drop UTC in favor of the Z. Ok, we can do that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T21:21:28.273" />
  <row Id="14733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2321" CreationDate="2009-08-15T21:40:49.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is effectively completed, because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bounty system is no longer tied to accepting an answer in any way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can issue multiple bounties on your question if necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;possibly related:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:54:08.727" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:54:08.727" />
  <row Id="14734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14699" CreationDate="2009-08-15T21:48:41.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a known issue with Opera and IE as stated by Ian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T21:48:41.167" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14713" CreationDate="2009-08-15T21:50:15.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a problem for a variety of reasons, but Jon Skeet's comment example of flagging a comment is &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; more valid of an example..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T21:50:15.733" />
  <row Id="14736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14655" CreationDate="2009-08-15T21:58:02.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had it this way originally and changed it; makes the text almost too long to fit in the box, and looks bad visually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: we now add a tick, like so  --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aug 12 '08 at 13:45&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:37:18.070" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:37:18.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2009-08-15T22:49:29.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;interesting:1&lt;/code&gt; would be useful as a shortcut to search for all questions whose tags I have marked as &quot;interesting&quot;&lt;strike&gt;, especially since there doesn't seem to be a way to specify tag1 OR tag2&lt;/strike&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-15T23:25:26.620" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T23:25:26.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14738" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-15T22:51:42.053" Score="9" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the criteria used to award the &quot;tumbleweed&quot; badge should be usable as a search filter. It would serve as a second chance mechanism for questions that fell through the cracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3712" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T08:12:36.677" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T08:12:36.677" Title="Tumbleweed questions should be a search filter" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8613" CreationDate="2009-08-15T22:58:32.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the Acivity Table and click on 'Edits to your posts'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T22:58:32.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2009-08-15T23:09:05.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me put my question (and it is a question, not an accusation) in some context. Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/220904-why-did-a-question-get-deleted-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why did a question get deleted?&lt;/a&gt;. Here was a question with a dozen useful answers that a select few decided to delete for little reason other than them not liking some of the wording instead of, say, fixing that wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't regret the outcome [the question got deleted]. Indeed, it&#xA;  ended far better than i could have&#xA;  hoped for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting content is a big step and I get particularly nervous when I see this kind of cavalier attitude towards it. Not only cavalier, but deriving pleasure from the outcome? I personally would hope for some objectivity or impartiality, a measured response even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I'm attributing such motives to this case but ~20 questions that get deleted by the same trio in the same order warrants a discussion(imho) where the worst thing that's said is the suggestion of &quot;overeagerness&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look through some of those questions, some were obviously good candidates for deletion (no or few answers, clearly a duplicate) but some had a half dozen or more answers, which again makes me a little nervous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, while in some cases the user clearly didn't look at the suggested questions for a duplicate in many cases you won't easily find the duplicate because you've worded the question differently. In some cases, I've had real problems finding a question I &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; exists. So the duplicates have value in pointing people to the &quot;original&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T23:09:05.543" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14738" CreationDate="2009-08-15T23:10:07.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could be generalized to search for questions or answers which have earned the user a particular badge, e.g. &lt;code&gt;badge:tumbleweed&lt;/code&gt;. Although reputation earned for questions and answers is readily available from the DB (since this data is shown in the user's profile under &quot;Reputation&quot;), it is not clear whether the DB stores how a badge was earned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T23:10:07.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14738" CreationDate="2009-08-15T23:49:07.383" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er.. you can already do this. Are you not familiar with advanced search? There has been a ton of Q&amp;amp;A on meta about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;options documented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the only part you can't do is select age of question, but given that you can already query for a minimum vote and view threshold, and specify zero answers, that seems irrelevant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T23:49:07.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-15T23:55:39.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey, I found another boat-programming question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/513547/what-is-a-good-sailboat-to-learn-sailing-with&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/513547/what-is-a-good-sailboat-to-learn-sailing-with&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(deleted, so you will need 10k rep to see it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-15T23:55:39.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14716" CreationDate="2009-08-16T00:31:11.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; think this has value. I think quite a few of us on the various sites would like to be able to see the products/goods/services offered by the site's advertising partners. Why? Because they're selected based on how much of a match they are for the site, and therefore may likely benefit us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd personally love to see the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for organization, I think tag-based is probably best and fits in most with the site feel. It also has the advantage (I hope) of not requiring transcription of the ad text, which sounds ridiculously laborious. It'd be awesome to just be able to browse a tag, see the dozen or so sponsors associated with that tag (perhaps with their original ad or ads), and be able to click the ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think this creates an even more compelling reason for people to advertise on SO: More impressions via this technique, and I think these clicks would be even more qualified than standard ad clicks, because these are users &lt;em&gt;actively seeking&lt;/em&gt; products/goods/services. (Call me crazy, but I love the idea of perpetuity -- perhaps by organization, if not necessarily by specific ad, as products and wares will change over time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd totally use this feature across all of the StackExchange-based LOJ sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T00:31:11.297" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5153" CreationDate="2009-08-16T02:38:14.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have this issue resolved, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1248764/formatting-link-lists-using-tsql&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com/165544&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;exec spShog9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get pretty results: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation &#xA;Questions Answers &lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4639&quot;&gt;Edward Tanguay&lt;/a&gt; 8317 465 24 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4653&quot;&gt;me&lt;/a&gt;             5767 311 29 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/51816&quot;&gt;Joan Venge&lt;/a&gt;     4844 226 14 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39677&quot;&gt;Blankman&lt;/a&gt;       4546 310 1  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34537&quot;&gt;acidzombie24&lt;/a&gt;   4359 371 32 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62553&quot;&gt;Thanks&lt;/a&gt;         4350 416 21 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54964&quot;&gt;Masi&lt;/a&gt;           4193 555 74 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53262&quot;&gt;LazyBoy&lt;/a&gt;        3230 94  12 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/64878&quot;&gt;KingNestor&lt;/a&gt;     3187 92  11 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31247&quot;&gt;Nick&lt;/a&gt;           2084 79  6  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63235&quot;&gt;George2&lt;/a&gt;        1973 263 1  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33690&quot;&gt;Xaisoft&lt;/a&gt;        1944 174 12 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/81800&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt;           1929 160 24 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10352&quot;&gt;danmine&lt;/a&gt;        1901 53  3  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49632&quot;&gt;zsharp&lt;/a&gt;         1771 145 16 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20498&quot;&gt;carrier&lt;/a&gt;        1742 56  8  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4541&quot;&gt;JC Grubbs&lt;/a&gt;      1550 50  5  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31221&quot;&gt;vg1890&lt;/a&gt;         1534 56  2  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40882&quot;&gt;Coocoo4Cocoa&lt;/a&gt;   1514 143 0  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/98188&quot;&gt;Keand64&lt;/a&gt;        1513 83  5  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54964&quot;&gt;Masi&lt;/a&gt;           4193 555 74 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53262&quot;&gt;LazyBoy&lt;/a&gt;        3230 94  12 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/64878&quot;&gt;KingNestor&lt;/a&gt;     3187 92  11 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31247&quot;&gt;Nick&lt;/a&gt;           2084 79  6  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63235&quot;&gt;George2&lt;/a&gt;        1973 263 1  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33690&quot;&gt;Xaisoft&lt;/a&gt;        1944 174 12 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/81800&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt;           1929 160 24 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10352&quot;&gt;danmine&lt;/a&gt;        1901 53  3  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49632&quot;&gt;zsharp&lt;/a&gt;         1771 145 16 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20498&quot;&gt;carrier&lt;/a&gt;        1742 56  8  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4541&quot;&gt;JC Grubbs&lt;/a&gt;      1550 50  5  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31221&quot;&gt;vg1890&lt;/a&gt;         1534 56  2  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40882&quot;&gt;Coocoo4Cocoa&lt;/a&gt;   1514 143 0  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/98188&quot;&gt;Keand64&lt;/a&gt;        1513 83  5&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abridged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;User&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;nbsp;Reputation &#xA;Questions Answers &amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40882&quot;&amp;gt;Coocoo4Cocoa&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;   1514 143 0  &#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/98188&quot;&amp;gt;Keand64&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;        1513 83  5&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T07:13:30.013" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T07:13:30.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2009-08-16T02:40:43.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Random interjection: you can't really search for the &quot;==&quot; or &quot;===&quot; operators in the search box unless you know what they're called in plain english.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T02:40:43.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14762" CreationDate="2009-08-16T03:09:01.023" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often someone will provide a comment that might be a request for clarification or they might be pointing out a simple typo or a problem. When you correct that problem there is no way for the commenter to know things have changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about making it so that you can flag a comment such that the commenter gets notified that the post has changed and that you'd like them to reevaluate their comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shouldn't be an automatic notification (as previously suggested) as you might be correcting or modifying something completely unrelated to the comments. Also the edit may only be related to some of the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To stop possible abuse you'd mark the comment as &quot;flagged&quot; which would remain in place until the commenter dismissed it. With an active flag you can't flag it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally you may want to require an edit to flag a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be good to have a tab of such flagged comments available to each user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T06:00:28.083" Title="Suggestion: allow a poster to flag comments to his or her posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T03:42:32.173" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok so I want to ask &quot;Where can I find an MSI for installing Eclipse,&quot; since eclipse only seems to distribute it as a tarball/zip of compiled binaries. I'm not sure which site to ask it on. Here's my justification for each:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stackoverflow&lt;/strong&gt; - An IDE is used for programming, therefore its a programming question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serverfault&lt;/strong&gt; - A systemadministrator for a company that writes java apps on windows machines might want to use or provide to his users eclipse MSIs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User&lt;/strong&gt; - It't not directly programming related and not directly server related.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being I've had &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/25483/where-can-i-get-windows-builds-of-ffmpeg-closed&quot;&gt;a similar question&lt;/a&gt; closed on serverfault because it was not considered programing related, I figured, let me ask where to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I asked the question poorly. reworded it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastEditorUserId="130078" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T22:54:40.683" LastActivityDate="2010-04-19T13:01:12.383" Title="What site do I ask the question &quot;Where do find an {MSI,RPM,EXE,DPG,DMG} package for $OSS_PROGRAM&quot; that is only distributed via source and a binary zipfile" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="14752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14750" CreationDate="2009-08-16T03:50:07.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post it on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of IDE questions there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T03:50:07.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T04:03:54.323" Score="8" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;A tag search will find declined, completed and &quot;by design&quot; feature requests but what about feature requests that haven't been declined or accepted yet. This would be a useful view to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T07:00:14.613" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T07:00:14.613" Title="Is there a way to search for unresolved feature requests?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14753" CreationDate="2009-08-16T04:08:56.230" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is possible - just search questions tagged &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt; but not &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+-status-completed+-status-declined+-status-bydesign&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+-status-completed+-status-declined+-status-bydesign&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T04:08:56.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14749" CreationDate="2009-08-16T04:43:49.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the (recently added) ability to sort Favorites by recent activity is sufficient for this. I don't need that little envelope to sporadically turn colors for every little thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T04:43:49.810" />
  <row Id="14756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T04:48:45.603" Score="9" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since we got the ability to format comments, I have abused it mercilessly. I put quick &lt;code&gt;code snippets&lt;/code&gt; in there all of the time. And I find myself often highlighting a word or two and hitting &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;, and then quickly mutter, &quot;Ah, dammit,&quot; since it didn't do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please have formatting keyboard shortcuts on comments? I promise to make waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Kip made a timely edit of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5886&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; (didn't show up in my search, dammit) where this was declined, but there's a GreaseMonkey script. However, my waffle offer still stands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T05:06:14.547" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T18:05:09.910" Title="Formatting Keyboard Shortcuts for Comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14756" CreationDate="2009-08-16T05:02:45.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, since formatting was added to the comment feature, I think it's been overused in general. Once upon a time (pre-formatting), I thought it would be nice, maybe even helpful (eg, it might make comments easier to read).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the exact opposite once it was implemented and people were using it. I've used it a few times myself, but I'm worried that anything which makes it easier to do (keyboard shortcuts, a toolbar with buttons) might encourage others to use them even more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I down on comment formatting, when even I use it and I was once all in favor of it? Legibility. For some reason, once formatting enters the comment world, I find those comments harder to read onscreen. It might be their reduced font size, or there might be something more to it, but I really find the formatting distracting to the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I expect very few (if any) in the community to agree with me on this one. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T05:02:45.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14750" CreationDate="2009-08-16T05:07:03.470" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this question has to be asked at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with Eclipse, but &quot;where do I download an installer for Eclipse&quot; seems to be a question of zero value, to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do you download Visual Studio? TextMate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not about programming, it's a basic Internet 101 question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T05:07:03.470" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14756" CreationDate="2009-08-16T05:10:15.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this gets declined or you can't wait, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5886/to-have-ctrl-b-to-make-text-bold-in-comments/6906#6906&quot;&gt;this Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; to add Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, and Ctrl+K shortcuts when editing comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T05:10:15.397" />
  <row Id="14761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14756" CreationDate="2009-08-16T05:52:37.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything wrong with this. If you are going to allow for the formatting, you might as well allow for the formatting shortcuts (if they are simple enough to implement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree that the formatting is being abused or overused. I don't see how you can really have bold/italics/code get overused/abused unless the entire 600 character comment is made up of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T05:52:37.290" />
  <row Id="14762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14749" CreationDate="2009-08-16T06:00:28.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be better if it was just allowed for any user to subscribe to a question or answer and get a notification of any changes (whether it be through system notification or email message). This way only those who actually care to see it will see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T06:00:28.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T05:54:49.750" Score="-2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me start by saying this:&#xA;If you want to know how to set a property of a TextBox go to MSDN forums, google the term around or go to some other forums before posting it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this should be a forum for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1283501&quot;&gt;something deeper&lt;/a&gt;. Everytime I post something here it gets removed because it is not programming related. WTF!!!!! keep it here let people read it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T06:14:58.437" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T10:08:22.137" Title="why are my questions closed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;general&gt;&lt;narcissism&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14763" CreationDate="2009-08-16T05:56:10.543" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another website you get access to when you reach 3,000 points where we all agree which newbie to pick on. Your name came up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T06:03:05.783" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="14765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14763" CreationDate="2009-08-16T06:13:06.697" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your idea of what you want StackOverflow to be is obviously not shared by the vast majority of the community. This site was set up to be the end-all-be-all source for programming Q&amp;amp;A. If you have a programming question that actually has an answer, posting it will most likely get you an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is not your personal blog. It is not your philosophical discussion and debate forum. If you are constantly posting things that get closed as &quot;Not programming related&quot; or &quot;not a real question&quot; or any of the other reasons, perhaps you need to reevaluate your question asking before you start pointing the fingers at the hundreds/thousands of users who get by perfectly fine under the current community standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T06:13:06.697" />
  <row Id="14766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13842" CreationDate="2009-08-16T06:41:49.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Origin of the How-To Geek Logo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.howtogeek.com/howtogeek/where-did-the-how-to-geek-logo-come-from/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogs.howtogeek.com/howtogeek/where-did-the-how-to-geek-logo-come-from/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Themed Logos&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.howtogeek.com/wiki/List%5Fof%5FHow-To%5FGeek%5FThemed%5FLogos&quot;&gt;http://www.howtogeek.com/wiki/List%5Fof%5FHow-To%5FGeek%5FThemed%5FLogos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I like the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T06:41:49.653" />
  <row Id="14767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14763" CreationDate="2009-08-16T06:54:43.117" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The incident which sparked this question was probably the recent closure of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1283501/i-dont-wanna-be-a-code-monkey-all-my-life-closed&quot;&gt;I dont wanna be a code monkey all my life&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't know why those who voted to close took the decision they did.  But it is interesting to see that several of those who voted that way have also posted questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175479/do-you-have-your-own-wiki-closed&quot;&gt;Do you have your own wiki?&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/907856/computer-science-undergraduate-project-ideas&quot;&gt;Computer science undergraduate project ideas&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/266314/do-you-reply-to-questions-on-so-from-your-own-experience&quot;&gt;Do you reply to questions on SO from your own experience?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the face of it these all seem just as Not-Programming-Related as his.  Yet those questions have been allowed to stand.  I'm still new around StackOverflow so I'm not pointing fingers.  But I do think it is understandable that Codemnky feels confused and/or aggrieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133829" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T06:54:43.117" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14753" CreationDate="2009-08-16T07:33:55.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, do the math. There are NINE HUNDRED AND FLIPPIN' TWENTY feature-requests at the time I write this. How many of them do you think are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reasonable ideas?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reasonable ideas worth implementing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;, it's worth spending development time to implement this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I occasionally &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20-status-declined%20-status-completed%20-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;browse the feature-request list&lt;/a&gt; sorted by votes (and by that I mean most votes at the top) and that's about the best we can hope for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This aspect of the site is very uservoice-y by definition. There are just way more ideas than we could ever implement even if we had twice the team we do now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and bear in mind the company has other things we're working on, that are internal priorities, as well)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T07:33:55.613" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13976" CreationDate="2009-08-16T07:43:02.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The footer says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com LLC&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user contributed content licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, you should consult a lawyer if you really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; need this answered in some highly legal definitive way. I suggest starting with &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Creative Commons website&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does a Creative Commons license operate?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A Creative Commons license is based on copyright. So they apply to all works that are protected by copyright law. The kinds of works that are protected by copyright law are books, websites, blogs, photographs, films, videos, songs and other audio &amp;amp; visual recordings, for example. Software programs are also protected by copyright but, as explained below, we do not recommend that you apply a Creative Commons license to software code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may exercise your copyright rights—such as the right of others to copy your work, make derivative works or adaptations of your work, to distribute your work and/or make money from your work. They do not give you the ability to restrict anything that is otherwise permitted by exceptions or limitations to copyright—including, importantly, fair use or fair dealing—nor do they give you the ability to control anything that is not protected by copyright law, such as facts and ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creative Commons licenses attach to the work and authorize everyone who comes in contact with the work to use it consistent with the license. This means that if Bob has a copy of your Creative Commons-licensed work, Bob can give a copy to Carol and Carol will be authorized to use the work consistent with the Creative Commons license. You then have a license agreement separately with both Bob and Carol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should be aware that Creative Commons licenses only affect your rights under copyright. You are not licensing your trademark or patent rights, if any, when you apply a CC license to your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creative Commons licenses are expressed in three different formats: the Commons Deed (human-readable code), the Legal Code (lawyer-readable code); and the metadata (machine readable code). You don’t need to sign anything to get a Creative Commons license—just select your license at our ‘Choose License’ page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One final thing you should understand about Creative Commons licenses is that they are all non-exclusive. This means that you can permit the general public to use your work under a Creative Commons license and then enter into a separate and different non-exclusive license with someone else, for example, in exchange for money. &#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but my interpretation of that is &lt;strong&gt;anything you post here, you are implicitly posting and licensing to Stack Exchange, Inc. under cc-by-sa 3.0&lt;/strong&gt;. Which should be OK unless you're one of those people who wears a tinfoil hat, since it's an extremely permissive &quot;everyone wins&quot; license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T22:05:10.777" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T22:05:10.777" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="14770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T08:03:08.630" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at the atom feed for my user activity,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/recent&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that all &quot;awarded &lt;em&gt;foo&lt;/em&gt; badge&quot; entries have their &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; set to &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html#element.id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RFC 4287 section 4.2.6&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The content of an atom:id element MUST be created in a way that assures uniqueness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug in the feed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133831" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T08:20:36.807" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T08:20:55.543" Title="Bogus id for badge awards in user feeds" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;feed&gt;&lt;atom&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="14771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14773" CreationDate="2009-08-16T08:07:43.083" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back, I posted this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/14087/get-dingbats-to-appear-in-firefox-3&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/14087/get-dingbats-to-appear-in-firefox-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, I revisited it to add an answer sourced from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1861/check-marks-indicating-obtained-badges-use-unicode-10004-symbol-not-available/1879#1879&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1861/check-marks-indicating-obtained-badges-use-unicode-10004-symbol-not-available/1879#1879&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'd sourced it from someone else, I of course attributed the quote in a &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how it appeared in the preview:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/900/previewa.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Preview&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how it appeared in the page:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9296/noblock.gif&quot; alt=&quot;My block&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to just be &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; answer, because the other answer on the page has the blockquote (apparently) working fine:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6023/blockukv.gif&quot; alt=&quot;His block&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T08:47:53.703" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T15:54:31.480" Title="Blockquote tags are not visible when looking at your own answers, though the preview shows them" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;preview&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="14772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14771" CreationDate="2009-08-16T08:19:59.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; - does it work if you use the quote markdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(which is &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; like this&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;just testing blockquote&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T08:19:59.543" />
  <row Id="14773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14771" CreationDate="2009-08-16T08:45:37.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;well the actual markup is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;This can be corrected (in IE at least) by going to&#xA;Tools &amp;gt; Internet Options &amp;gt; &quot;General&quot; tab &amp;gt; Fonts and select &quot;Arial Unicode MS&quot; &#xA;as the default font.&#xA;&amp;lt;/blockquotequote&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;note the error in the markup. I'll fix the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T08:45:37.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13976" CreationDate="2009-08-16T09:29:55.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(For Dutch/European people mostly) A lawyer could provide more precise details but in general, when you write something original and with a personal mark (signature) then your comments would be protected by copyright. However, many responses here are just facts to help someone to solve a problem and facts &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; be copyrighted! However, comments could break certain laws, especially when you start to put a hyper link in your replies. Most links would still be okay, though. But a link to a racist site could be illegal in Europe. Or a link to illegal software. Or a trademark violation when the link claims to point to HP, yet the URL points to Dell... The author is the one responsible for these remarks, the site owners just have to remove those &quot;illegal&quot; remarks or become partially responsible themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If comments would be owned by the site moderators, they could end up in a lot of legal problems. Basically, in that case a visitor could post a link to illegal software and the site owners would have to face legal consequences. They would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be protected by the safe harbour principle, since they own the comments! So smart forum-owners will never ever want to own copyrights to any comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting part is that posts here fall under the cc-wiki license. Basically, that's the main rule here when you start participating. This is a rule that you accepted when you joined this site, and it can be enforced simply because these rules are a visible part of every page here! However, changing those rules would not be allowed in Europe, so if the owners discover an error which they want to fix, they do need to notify the members about this change, allowing members to resign from this site!&#xA;But what effect would resigning have for your posts? You could revoke the license on your comments but that would only have effect from that moment on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what does the cc-wiki actually mean? Well, it means that when someone is copying your comment, they will have to make it clear whom wrote the original text. (Attribution) Also, if your text becomes part of a bigger piece of text, that bigger piece of text would require at least the same CC license. But hey, I could publish a book with all the questions and answers from this site and sell it, without having to share a dime with any other visitor here! The book would just need proper attribution and others would be free to make copies of this book and share it for free in digital form. (Or Xerox the whole book and give it away for free on dead trees.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what if you don't agree with this? What if you want to comment, but you don't want your answer to be part of this license? Well, you could always put the answer on your own website and add a link here to your site. However, you cannot copy the question to your site because your site would then fall under the cc-wiki license. Then again, if the question is very simple and didn't need much creativity to write, you can use the question without being infected by cc-wiki. Why? Because the text still needs to be creative. Just asking if anyone knows a good Paint application is not creative. Asking for the risks of upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 7 isn't creative either. Telling someone how to install the latest driver for their network card is informative but maybe not creative enough to be licensable... (You're just mentioning facts.) Even the description of a film plot on the back of the DVD you just bought might not fall under any license since it just mentions what's happening in the movie. (Which are facts.) However, showing a 10-seconds preview from the same movie or even from the trailer might require a license, though. Unless you're describing that scene as part of a bigger article, in which case it becomes part of a &quot;quote&quot;. You can't even use a screenshot from a movie, if it's just meant as decoration. An Ewok image which I saw somewhere on these sites might already be a violation. Then again, it was used as part of a document, referring to the movie and Ewoks in general, making it perfectly legal again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, licenses aren't black and white. They're just a whole lots of shades of grey. Some dark, some light. But just remember: if a forum owner claims ownership of every message in his forums, he also becomes legally responsible for all those responses. A smart owner would never even consider that kind of responsibility. (But they might add a restriction to the license that you can use here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T09:29:55.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13976" CreationDate="2009-08-16T09:41:37.880" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, what the hulk, let's make a shorter answer. SO owns the copyright over the domain, the graphics, the software of this site (if SO created it themselves) and basically any message that they posted themselves. They also require every member who posts here to license their post using the cc-wiki license. This means you're still the owner of your own posts. It's just that SO can use your post if they ever print all answers inside a book and all they have to do is write somewhere in that book that you're the author of certain parts. And no, you won't get a dime for your contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, once they print that book, it gets infected by the cc-wiki license itself, thus anyone could copy this book for free. That's because of the 'Share Alike' restriction. This would basically be a big showstopper to some commercial use of any content here, although it's still possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wrote your question so you own the copyright over it. You could write the same question somewhere else with a different license without any problems. You are the owner. It's just that you also gave me the right to publish your question in my book, as long as I mention that I got this question from you. (And thereby, my book is infected with CC-BY-SA.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T09:41:37.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14763" CreationDate="2009-08-16T10:08:22.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the post in question and this post have broken Dale Carnegie's cardinal rule: don't criticize or complain.  If you continue along this path, how can you expect to win friends, let alone influence people?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T10:08:22.137" />
  <row Id="14778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14780" CreationDate="2009-08-16T12:45:51.317" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed I have different values on SO, SU and this one. Is that a temporary thing, or is this intended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133847" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T17:29:36.080" Title="Is reputation per-site or common to all sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14781" CreationDate="2009-08-16T12:54:18.533" Score="2" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used Firefox today in which I previously enabled JavaScript (in NoScript) on &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;. When I tried to upvote a question, I couldn't - the count would not change. I remembered that a new domain was added, so I enabled it too, and then upvotes (and everything else) was working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the red bar which shows when JavaScript is disabled should shown if the user has JavaScript disabled on &lt;code&gt;sstatic.net&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-15T17:26:14.177" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T16:21:42.190" Title="Notify to enable JavaScript on sstatic.net" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="14780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14778" CreationDate="2009-08-16T12:55:06.227" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's intentional. For instance, just because I've got a high rep by answering C# questions doesn't mean you can trust me about Exchange Server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T12:55:06.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14779" CreationDate="2009-08-16T13:23:38.580" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of agree with your request, but at the same time believe that if you choose to run NoScript, then it's your responsibility to take care of stuff like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a web developer as well, and would most likely deny support to users (of a free site!) who choose to limit their browser capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, Javascript &lt;em&gt;can be&lt;/em&gt; evil and annoying, but is a standard feature one would expect a client browser to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133848" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T13:23:38.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14753" CreationDate="2009-08-16T13:26:39.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried this search, which seems like it should be correct:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+-status-completed+-status-norepro+-status-declined+-status-bydesign+-status-deferred&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+-status-completed+-status-norepro+-status-declined+-status-bydesign+-status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 779 requests in that list, of which 59 are voted 10 or higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T13:32:11.930" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T13:32:11.930" />
  <row Id="14789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14770" CreationDate="2009-08-16T14:40:22.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a bug... maybe a generated part of that ID is returning an empty string?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T14:40:22.703" />
  <row Id="14790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14729" CreationDate="2009-08-16T15:28:52.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can search users by their username: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try typing in &quot;Jonathan&quot; and find me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T15:28:52.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14771" CreationDate="2009-08-16T15:54:31.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&amp;gt; This is how you do a blockquote in Markdown&#xA;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt; `Tools &amp;gt; Internet Options &amp;gt; &quot;General&quot; tab &amp;gt; Fonts`&#xA;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;gt;- Lists work too!&#xA;&amp;gt;  1. sub-lists also work&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is how you do a blockquote in Markdown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Tools &amp;gt; Internet Options &amp;gt; &quot;General&quot; tab &amp;gt; Fonts&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Lists work too!&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;sub-lists also work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I occasionally hand write the html, if I want to do something that doesn't quite work in Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example code blocks that are embedded in block quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&#xA;This is an example of a code block in a block quote:&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;if ( $a == $b ){&#xA;  return 'true'&#xA;}&#xA;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/blockquote&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;This is an example of a code block in a block quote:&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if ( $a == $b ){&#xA;  return 'true'&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T15:54:31.480" />
  <row Id="14792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10427" CreationDate="2009-08-16T16:16:14.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earth resident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19512" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T16:16:14.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-16T16:16:14.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14778" CreationDate="2009-08-16T17:29:36.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is supposed to be on a per site basis. Since rep is responsible for unlocking some of the higher level moderator features such as voting to close topics and editing capabilities, it helps if the user has shown that they are familiar enough with both the system and the subject matter before they are given the abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T17:29:36.080" />
  <row Id="14794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14779" CreationDate="2009-08-16T17:30:58.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not StackOverflow (or any other site's) responsibility to tell you how to get things to work if you are using methods like NoScript which could potentially break something or cause something important not to load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T17:30:58.777" />
  <row Id="14797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-08-16T18:00:17.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see a good combination of two approaches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dual-licensing with AGPL and a proprietary license&lt;/strong&gt;: It's the model &lt;a href=&quot;http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Qt has taken&lt;/a&gt; and it seems to have worked quite well for them. Few competitors would give back code, so you get paid by them while letting the community have its share;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hosting with paid advanced features&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wordpress.com/products/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wordpress.com charges for the simplest things&lt;/a&gt; (like editing CSS), even those that are available on the open-source version. You could offer similar free hosting, &lt;em&gt;with your own ads&lt;/em&gt;, while charging for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;customizing CSS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having one's own domain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;advanced moderation features&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hosting one's own ads (maybe a rev-share model?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;database dumps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;extra storage space&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;speed (privileged hosting)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132962" LastEditorUserId="132962" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T03:03:37.013" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:03:37.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-16T18:00:17.227" />
  <row Id="14804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14770" CreationDate="2009-08-16T18:17:38.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd wager SO is being lazy - they just use the URL for normal questions and answers, but there's no URL for badge awards. Note that comments also get the short shrift - they share an id with the answer they respond to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T18:17:38.293" />
  <row Id="14805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16039" CreationDate="2009-08-16T18:36:27.233" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the prefs-tab, when I input tags to be ignored, they appear on the page instantly and look fine, but the POST to actually save them to the server concatenates them sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I can reproduce the bug in Firefox and Google on Win XP, both when I type a tag in by hand and when I click on one of the autocomplete-suggestions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two screenshots of the problem, captured in firebug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here the last two tags, &lt;code&gt;installer&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt; are combined to &lt;code&gt;installerc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.users.fh-salzburg.ac.at/~bjelline/tagging-error.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of firebug: shows that POST sends different tags than shown on page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this concatenated tag really get's stored and displayed when I load the page the next time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.users.fh-salzburg.ac.at/~bjelline/tagging-error-2.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of garbled tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133859" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:11:28.350" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:11:28.350" Title="Ignored Tags get randomly concateneted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="14806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T19:16:31.007" Score="5" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst trying to debug &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14805/ignored-tags-get-randomly-concateneted&quot;&gt;this issue&lt;/a&gt;, I've noticed something slightly odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go into preferences and add an interesting or ignored tag, then hover over it, the tooltip will show &quot;click to delete this tag&quot; - even though clicking &lt;em&gt;at that point&lt;/em&gt; will actually view the questions associated with the tag. It's only the &quot;x&quot; (which has an accurate tooltip) which deletes the tag from the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T20:00:02.623" Title="Tooltip for interesting/ignored tags in preferences has incorrect description" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;&lt;tooltips&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23568" CreationDate="2009-08-16T19:46:18.033" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11731/padding-a-comment-with-spaces&quot;&gt;Padding a comment with spaces.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T08:23:52.960" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:23:52.960" Title="A question with all spaces is still accepted, even though more than one space together in HTML is displayed as one space, making it under 15 chars" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14812" CreationDate="2009-08-16T19:52:12.853" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a random observation, I was browsing Serverfault.com without being logged in and saw an ad for Paessler PRTG which supposedly SHOULD link to somewhere on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paessler.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paessler.com/&lt;/a&gt; but instead it brought me on the Engine Yard web site, offering my Rails hosting:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;http://www.engineyard.com/free-peepcode?utm_source=stack&amp;amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;amp;utm_content=728x90b2&amp;amp;utm_campaign=peep&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Image-URL of the ad is:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/636_Banner_Serverfault_728x90_1.gif&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Redirect-Link is:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?Task=Click&amp;amp;ZoneID=7&amp;amp;CampaignID=216&amp;amp;AdvertiserID=70&amp;amp;BannerID=371&amp;amp;SiteID=2&amp;amp;RandomNumber=704684172&amp;amp;Keywords=wmi%2ccpu-hogging%2cwindows-server-2003%2csqlserver&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Question where I saw this ad is:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/53774/does-wmi-cause-cpu-creep&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3584/addisplay.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the ad&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T20:52:41.210" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:52:41.210" Title="Ads linking to the wrong page?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14806" CreationDate="2009-08-16T19:55:08.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good catch. I wonder if that is a possible left-over of a long past time when actually clicking on the tag would remove it from the list or whether it is just a casual mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T19:55:08.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14805" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:02:06.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait a second -- are you reporting an actual BUG or just something you saw that &quot;looked weird&quot; in firebug? In other words, &lt;strong&gt;are the tags actually incorrect after being saved, or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firebug has its own peculiarities; there was a time when running Firebug basically broke SO completely due to serious bugs in Firebug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:02:06.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14808" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:02:35.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely not a bug. I don't know if the SO guys rolled their own advertising, but the ad management software I used to use (when I was in the newspaper web dev business) all linked in ways similar to that -- it was used to track clicks on the ad for conversion purposes. I don't &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; for fact that this is how it works on S[OFU], but this doesn't strike me as a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you click the ad? Where did it eventually take you? (I copied and pasted that URL and wound up at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engineyard.com/free-peepcode?utm%5Fsource=stack&amp;amp;utm%5Fmedium=banner&amp;amp;utm%5Fcontent=728x90b2&amp;amp;utm%5Fcampaign=peep&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.engineyard.com/free-peepcode?utm%5Fsource=stack&amp;amp;utm%5Fmedium=banner&amp;amp;utm%5Fcontent=728x90b2&amp;amp;utm%5Fcampaign=peep&lt;/a&gt;, which didn't make much sense to me ... But I suspect that might be something to do with the processing which comes from a.aspx.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:02:35.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14808" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:04:53.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for pointing this out, Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's now fixed and the banner is redirecting to the correct address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:04:53.730" />
  <row Id="14813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:05:52.170" Score="0" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently linked the following:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284680/warning-about-amazon-ec2-urgent-if-you-use-this-service&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1284680/warning-about-amazon-ec2-urgent-if-you-use-this-service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In looking over many of the questions here, this site seems to have alot of questions About EC2.  While the post in question is not directly a question, it should still not simply be &quot;closed&quot; because its not a &quot;real question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is:&#xA;Why close an extremely important topic just because it is not a &quot;clear and concise question&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:53:31.967" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:53:31.967" Title="With as many questions related to EC2, why close a very serious topic?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="14814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14813" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:14:18.947" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of how important the topic may be, StackOverflow is not a discussion forum. It is a Q&amp;amp;A site, and you did not ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the time to read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:14:18.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14813" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:14:55.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow isn't a review site, nor a general discussion board. If you want such information, you need to acquire it from another site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:14:55.920" />
  <row Id="14816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14813" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:15:06.857" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because this website (StackOverflow and it's sister sites) is set up specifically for &quot;clear and concise questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STOP TRYING TO MAKE THE SITE WHAT IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone else had the same issue and he got told rightly for it as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14763/why-are-my-questions-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14763/why-are-my-questions-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting my answer from the other topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Your idea of what you want&#xA;  StackOverflow to be is obviously not&#xA;  shared by the vast majority of the&#xA;  community. This site was set up to be&#xA;  the end-all-be-all source for&#xA;  programming Q&amp;amp;A. If you have a&#xA;  programming question that actually has&#xA;  an answer, posting it will most likely&#xA;  get you an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is not your personal&#xA;  blog. It is not your philosophical&#xA;  discussion and debate forum. If you&#xA;  are constantly posting things that get&#xA;  closed as &quot;Not programming related&quot; or&#xA;  &quot;not a real question&quot; or any of the&#xA;  other reasons, perhaps you need to&#xA;  reevaluate your question asking before&#xA;  you start pointing the fingers at the&#xA;  hundreds/thousands of users who get by&#xA;  perfectly fine under the current&#xA;  community standards.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T20:21:20.537" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:21:20.537" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:33:20.417" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was writing a question on StackOverflow and accidentally submitted it early; I was trying to hit &quot;Return&quot; to accept a tag but instead I submitted my question. I then immediately deleted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I'd finished typing up the question anew, StackOverflow told me I'd have to wait 20 minutes, since I'm a &quot;new&quot; user and had already asked one question. But I hadn't asked anything; I'd written and deleted a question, only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your system should only throttle questions that  show up on the system, and exclude deleted questions from the throttling. It seems like accidentally submitting a question is easy enough with your web forms that a lot of news users may fall into this trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(UPDATE: Apparently questions can be undeleted. I had no idea. I guess that's why they call me a &quot;new user&quot;! This is a very cool capability but most new users will not assume it's there. Maybe make this capability more discoverable. Or not.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T05:43:59.157" Title="Why does question throttling include deleted questions?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14817" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:35:49.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your solution would not be ideal. If we didn't count deleted questions for throttling you would likely have instances where spam users could post spam questions (which has happened in the past) and when they get immediately deleted by a mod, they would now be free to post again (since the deleted question now would not count towards the 20 minute time limit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:35:49.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14817" CreationDate="2009-08-16T20:46:49.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not edit and then undelete your question? This seems like the most reasonable solution, to me. Otherwise, you're spamming the deleted posts, which the 10k Club can see. And why do you want to spam them, Ryan Tate? Why?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T20:46:49.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14817" CreationDate="2009-08-16T21:05:22.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case you could have edited and undeleted the question just fine. I do however believe the system needs some work in general. When I first came to MSO I asked a question, but it submitted with errors (not missing tags etc, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/error&quot;&gt;actual error page&lt;/a&gt;). Not only was my question not posted, but I was unable to ask it again for 20 minutes. I waited, and tried again. Another error. It worked on the 3rd try, but it took me 40 minutes to ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system should ensure the question is fully posted before enforcing the limit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T21:05:22.257" />
  <row Id="14821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14824" CreationDate="2009-08-16T21:08:02.063" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;To ask a question on Meta you have to choose one of the required tags (discussion, feature-request, bug, support, etc.) but when a question gets migrated over from another site, these tags are almost always absent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that anyone should be concerned about? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T22:38:58.303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T04:35:53.100" Title="Questions migrated to Meta do not have required tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="14822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14826" CreationDate="2009-08-16T21:12:29.447" Score="6" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;After originally posting this question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14821/questions-migrated-to-meta-do-not-have-required-tags&quot;&gt;Questions migrated to meta do not have required tags)&lt;/a&gt; it got me thinking about a feature request that could be very useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When questions get migrated, I think it would be good practice to send up a moderator only flag when a question is migrated to a new site. I think it is often the case that sometimes questions get moved from one site to another and there need to be some type of changes made (such as tagging) to make the question more in line with the site's conventional standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-14T14:48:24.853" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T14:48:24.853" Title="Notify site moderators of migrated questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;migrated-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="14823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14813" CreationDate="2009-08-16T21:14:12.923" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because some people don't understand the importance of &lt;strong&gt;important information&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next time, ask a question like &quot;What critical problems are there with EC2?&quot;, and then post your own answer to it.  This is an SO acceptable way of doing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T21:14:12.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-16T21:14:12.923" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="14824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14821" CreationDate="2009-08-16T21:14:21.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't see how we can have a better system than to just edit the required tag on there. I guess we could totally blow out the close dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com as a Discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com as a Bug&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com as a Support&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com as a Feature Request&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com as an &lt;strong&gt;Impressive Example of Stupidity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, really, I think we just have to be diligent and edit the tags as they come through. Otherwise, there's no way to systematically tell what should go where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T04:35:53.100" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T04:35:53.100" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14822" CreationDate="2009-08-16T21:26:59.570" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that perhaps having a tab in the 10k+ rep tools that listed recently migrated questions (perhaps only ones without a required tag) would be better. I think we should limit the mod flag to issues where time is an issue - otherwise it would be difficult to separate what needs to be done immediately (closing, locking, deleting) and questions that simply need to be retagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, a simple &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/-discussion+-feature-request+-bug+-support+-faq&quot;&gt;tag search&lt;/a&gt; will reveal all the questions without the required tags. (No way I know of to filter to only migrated)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-16T22:09:12.743" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:09:12.743" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:38:39.687" Score="4" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of questions on SO, which could easily be answered by OP - if some lookup is done.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I am not saying that I answer everything from my own experience.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if I don't answer from my experience, what I am use of other than someone who knows how to find things on search engine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, how many of us (those who answer) really answer things from experience as against using our buddy google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T00:55:53.803" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T00:55:53.803" Title="Do you reply to questions on SO from your own experience?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:40:57.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a question that can be trivially answered by a Google search, it's not one worth my time answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9611" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:42:19.947" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a mixture. Often I'll know the rough whereabouts, but not the exact method call (or whatever). I often need a search to find an appropriate link in MSDN, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's rare that I'll approach a question with &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; idea beyond &quot;do a search&quot; though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:44:10.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly, yes - it's my experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some things, I happen to know where to find certain data because I've needed related information in the past, and can link to it quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For others, I'll sometimes link the text of what I searched for on Google, hoping that the askers will learn to do at least a cursory look before asking :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:45:25.213" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answer from personal experience, but often use google to find links to support my answer or refer to the original source when needed, or simply complete the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:50:07.340" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One day I answered two questions.  The first was about something I had recently done at work, and I was able to cut and paste a very small snippet of code that did what the OP was asking.  The second was a stupid question that could have been answered in 3 seconds of searching, so I cut and pasted the results of a &quot;perdoc -f&quot; command that answered the question.  The first question got me absolutely zero rep and the second got me two badges and a bunch of rep.  I was prouder of the first answer, and embarassed by how much rep I got for the second one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T20:05:58.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the poster has obviously neglected to do some basic Google searching first, then the question is only worth the time required to hit the vote down arrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156513" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T20:12:45.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only answer questions if I have some knowledge in the subject (based on the tag) to begin with.  I steer clear of questions tagged with subjects that I'm completely ignorant of (like asp.net or ruby).  I always try to provide either code or links to support answers to objective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T20:17:47.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I can help somebody, I will do that. No matter how trivial the question might look to me, it was probably frustrating enough for the poster to formulate a clear and concise question about (hint ;-) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also a firm believer of making sure your own questions are answered, even if that means posting your own answer. How many times have you googled for something, found the same question, and a dead end with no answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not about reputation or your own problems. It is about filling this place with knowledge so that someday, you will able to find the answer to your question without having to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T20:24:48.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To this, there is no one answer.&#xA;However, I agree that it is a combination of experience + links to websites.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish SO had some way to count score only for answers which help (by means of allowing multiple somewhat correct answers and diving the points to people replying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you all for your views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-05T22:59:26.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that simple question should not be answered directly rather explained to OP what is the best way to find the answer. I think this will benefit OP much more than the answer itself. If somebody ask what function strcut doing the answer should be google for &quot;man strcut&quot; and not the explanation. &#xA;If somebody ask question that not build well from any perspective i will point OP to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this nice FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, i against voting down questions. I only vote down if i 100% sure that the answer to the question is absolutely incorrect and i will explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6807" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-11-07T03:00:08.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I dont have the answer right out in the head but remember a site where a solution are to a question and have time then I go there and look it up. I then personalize the answer and adding my own input to the solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons I do that is that I know that the answer is better handled here and will become more searchable for other to use. I also only do this for questions I have own interrests in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not take a bunch of code and post it here and pretend it was me who come up with it. And if the solution is allready perfectly described anywhere else, I'd rather post a short modified example and then a link to the source. (the answer must be at least so that it is'nt useless if the link stops working)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:32:48.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;in general i'll only resort to google to help out some poor guy who's question has been ignored for several hours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:35:50.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do answer from my own experience, and I also realize that I tend to respond to things that of are interest to me, even if I know the answer to something else.  For example, I notice that I enjoy participating more in architecture, best practices, and project management type questions more than the cut and dry &quot;How do I do x with y?&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to say that I don't read or take value from them, it is just I am not drawn to them like the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147453" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:40:08.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try answer the harder questions, especially if they been lying around for more than 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also dont mind grabbing an easy one I can state the obvious with a half-a-snippet of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally I go and give my opinion, if necessary  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And the answer to the question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experience does play a large roll, but it does not really influence which questions I answer, but rather how I answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I do not go and answer for the heck of it! Unless I am blatantly joking, or I need more clarification on a question, but still remains interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:10:44.333" />
  <row Id="14843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2009-08-16T22:18:39.757" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an author of software you have the right to license your software under which ever license you wish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing stopping you releasing &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; code snippets under creative commons &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; BSD or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, all my original code snippet on SO are donated to the public domain (don't attribute me, I don't care), same goes for Marc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because you post code to stack overflow, &lt;strong&gt;does not mean&lt;/strong&gt; you are giving up ownership. So don't worry, you can share stuff that you have licensed under BSD on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If stuff gets too long or hairy, post the samples to gist or github (or your favorite code snippet site) Jeff has said before that his intention is for SO to be like twitter for code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some stuff posted on SO is not even copyrightable, since its common knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if someone (which is not me since my stuff is PD) posts an implementation for an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953212/lfu-cache-in-c/1015939#1015939&quot;&gt;LFU cache&lt;/a&gt; and you copy it verbatim in to your app, your app has now been infected with the creative commons cancer, and you MUST release it under the cc-sharealike license. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T22:18:39.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10841" CreationDate="2009-08-16T23:18:03.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The practice of editing someone else's post and putting a big traffic sign at the top of it is exceptionally rude.  A comment would be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T23:18:03.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-16T23:18:03.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14848" CreationDate="2009-08-16T23:36:34.547" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;What qualifies a question as an official FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10841&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has an answer with twelve votes, but no accepted answers, and no founders weighing in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer refers to the FAQ on StackOverflow (which was migrated here), but when you try and click on the authoritative link (describing the format for marking posts duplicate), it loops back to this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means that the answer is citing itself as a source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T05:33:39.687" Title="What makes an official FAQ?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;faqs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14847" CreationDate="2009-08-16T23:41:45.190" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;kbd&gt;faq-official&lt;/kbd&gt; tag is a bit antiquated. A FAQ is considered official when it's tagged &lt;kbd&gt;faq&lt;/kbd&gt;. This is a moderator-only tag, so if you find a question that you think deserves it, flag it for moderator attention and, if we agree, we'll add the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to speed up the process, the proposed FAQ question should be Community Wiki and should have a thorough, well-written answer that's accepted as the official answer. This isn't a hard and fast rule, but the idea of a FAQ is that it's a community-owned, community-editable resource. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work/10583#10583&quot;&gt;Here is an example of a good FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-16T23:41:45.190" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14828" CreationDate="2009-08-17T00:17:05.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cut all my answers off the backs of cereal boxes. I figure, not everyone eats cereal, so i'm providing A Valuable Service to the Community by pasting them together and dumping them on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, i don't feel like eating cereal. Then i look to a Magic 8-Ball for the answers. Not everyone has access to one of those, so again, Valuable Service &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;to the Community&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T00:17:05.150" />
  <row Id="14859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T01:11:31.987" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1285744/5-bars-till-connected-then-1-bar&quot;&gt;started on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/54812/5-bars-till-connected-then-1-bar&quot;&gt;got moved to ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/23535/5-bars-till-connected-then-1-bar&quot;&gt;got moved to SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page on StackOverflow includes a 'migrated to' block, but the ServerFault page only includes a 'migrated from' block - there's no 'migrated to' block to follow it to SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:25:02.143" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T08:00:03.010" Title="moving an item from one site to a second to a third = unfollowable" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14859" CreationDate="2009-08-17T01:15:06.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah... The &quot;migrated&quot; indicator feels rather tacked-on. In addition to only keeping track of a single migration, if you close a migrated question the timestamp for the migration changes to the close time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gotta figure they were reluctant to add a new table or column to the existing table, and instead they're piggybacking on close status or something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T01:15:06.870" />
  <row Id="14861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2009-08-17T01:17:20.880" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This kind of query would be able to provide the data for the profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;with numberedrows as(        &#xA;select &#xA;   row_number() over (partition by UserID order by CreationDate desc) as NumRowsFromToday,&#xA;   datediff(day,CreationDate,getdate())+1 as DaysFromToday, &#xA;   CreationDate, &#xA;   UserID        &#xA;from tablename&#xA;where UserID = @UserID /* Optional line that can be removed to get everyone's current run */&#xA;)&#xA;select UserID, min(CreationDate) as StartOfRun, max(DaysFromToday) as LengthOfRun&#xA;from numberedrows&#xA;where DaysFromToday = NumRowsFromToday&#xA;group by UserID&#xA;order by max(DaysFromToday);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the idea behind the query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176011/sql-to-determine-minimum-sequential-days-of-access&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176011/sql-to-determine-minimum-sequential-days-of-access&lt;/a&gt; that they only store one entry per user per day (if not, then &lt;code&gt;DENSE_RANK&lt;/code&gt; is needed instead of &lt;code&gt;ROW_NUMBER&lt;/code&gt;, and the &lt;code&gt;OVER&lt;/code&gt; clause needs to truncate the date). So if you number those days (backwards), then the current run of consecutive days only includes entries where the rownumber is the same as the number of days from then to today (plus one, so that you don't start counting that number of days from 0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With an index on (UserID, CreationDate), this should run quickly too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... hopefully Jeff &amp;amp; co are keeping an eye on this question, and can consider it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T01:17:20.880" />
  <row Id="14862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-17T01:17:55.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And the boat meme lives on over at Super User. This time, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/23534/computer-and-internet-use-on-a-boat&quot;&gt;Computer and internet use on a boat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T01:17:55.467" />
  <row Id="14864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14874" CreationDate="2009-08-17T01:55:14.847" Score="0" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the maximum number of views allowed for tumbleweed-qualifying questions different between different members of the Stack Overflow trilogy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:33:21.240" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:33:21.240" Title="Are the tumbleweed criteria different between members of the trilogy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="14865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14864" CreationDate="2009-08-17T02:00:59.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't know definitively, I'm guessing not. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T02:00:59.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14864" CreationDate="2009-08-17T02:14:57.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't imagine that the criteria are any different. Are you sure that the question in question has gone on for the correct amount time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T02:14:57.957" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14864" CreationDate="2009-08-17T02:17:33.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question in question is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/17466/mac-equivalent-of-fineprints-ability-to-merge-print-jobs&quot;&gt;Mac equivalent of FinePrint’s ability to merge print jobs&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, then it looks like the upvote on the question, as well as being marked a favourite, discounts it from becoming a Tumbleweed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what you have to do is track down that person who clicked on the star and harangue them for denying you &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges/38/tumbleweed&quot;&gt;a Tumbleweed badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T02:17:33.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14877" CreationDate="2009-08-17T02:41:37.053" Score="12" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps all I want is to have a &quot;Not yet implemented&quot; indicator on the Generalist badge description, if &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31/how-many-tags-needed-to-earn-the-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31/how-many-tags-needed-to-earn-the-generalist-badge&lt;/a&gt; is to be believed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But actually, I'd rather have it defined better and then implemented, such as &quot;Has earned the Nice Answer badge on questions that cover at least 20 tags, can only be awarded once per user&quot;, and then have someone (me?) come up with a query to find those people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No reason why it can't be awarded long after it's been earned, and the logic adjusted so that each user gets checked when they earn a 'Nice Answer' badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the very least, can't we get the badge description improved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T08:52:26.120" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T08:52:26.120" Title="Better definition of Generalist badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;generalist&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14875" CreationDate="2009-08-17T02:44:33.100" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been wanting that sucker defined and implemented for a while now. The longer it goes, the longer I believe it will just get left by the wayside in favor of the silver and gold individual tag badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T02:44:33.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14875" CreationDate="2009-08-17T02:45:30.730" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I prefer, &quot;Our little Duke Nukem Forever,&quot; or, &quot;Check back in 6 to 8 weeks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if we have to be professional about it: &quot;Reserved for future badge to reward users active in a variety of tags.&quot; Or, better yet, remove it until it's actually activated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T02:45:30.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14729" CreationDate="2009-08-17T05:09:40.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how to search for your own questions and answers:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:me&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T05:09:40.003" />
  <row Id="14883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-08-17T05:36:49.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The boat question is back in a new form on SuperUser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/23534/computer-and-internet-use-on-a-boat&quot;&gt;Computer and Internet use on a Boat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T05:36:49.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14817" CreationDate="2009-08-17T05:43:59.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see your point, but I can also understand why the developers would not want to add complexity to the code for this rather specific case. I know this is not rocket science, but as the other answers show there are a bit more to the case than a simple if statement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: I doubt that a lot of users will see the situation you describe as a big issue, so if it was my call I would prefer simpler code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T05:43:59.157" />
  <row Id="14889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14407" CreationDate="2009-08-17T07:12:10.397" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And could we please, please always be presented the full year with four digits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133217" LastEditorUserId="133217" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T11:43:12.400" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:43:12.400" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="14891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T08:01:42.637" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user with a deep compulsive obsessive disorder, like me, goes in a rampage fixing everybody's spelling, grammar and general style and code style errors, displaying a CAPTCHA every 3 or so submits doesn't do anything but deter that person from improving the general quality of the content at any Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think less CAPTCHA should be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6068" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T13:32:37.240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T13:32:37.240" Title="Display fewer CAPTCHAs" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14891" CreationDate="2009-08-17T08:20:19.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already reduced captchas for users with 10k rep as documented here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2167/increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing/8036#8036&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2167/increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing/8036#8036&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T08:20:19.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14891" CreationDate="2009-08-17T09:16:44.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't quite understand why &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; CAPTCHA's are required for users in that range? What are they there to stop? No-one there is suddenly turning their account into a spambot. Seems a little odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T09:16:44.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T10:11:59.550" Score="13" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I type in multiple search terms in the search box I expect to see results each of which contains all of those words and to see the words highlighted in the search results. This is the standard Google has set and pretty much all search engines that I can think of work this way, but apparently not the SO search engine. This makes it very difficult to avoid asking duplicate questions, as the search results are largely irrelevant unless you search for a single specific word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point, this very question has probably been asked but when I search for the string &quot;search all words&quot;, whether with or without quotes, I don't see any relevant results. I get results containing the word &quot;search&quot; and a few of them even contain the word &quot;words&quot;, but I can't see any that contains &quot;search&quot; and &quot;all&quot; and &quot;words&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do I find relevant results when searching for multiple terms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I appreciate people pointing out my mistake about how the Google search works (you learn something new every day!), but the question wasn't actually about the Google search - it was about the Stack Overflow search. The point is that I expect to see results relevant to all the terms I entered, not just some of them, and I don't see those on Stack Overflow. Is it possible to &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; it to match &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the terms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131356" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T22:02:16.223" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T22:02:16.223" Title="How do I make search return results that actually contain all the search terms?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="14901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2009-08-17T10:34:03.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I type in multiple search terms in the search box I expect to see results each of which contains all of those words ... This is the standard Google has set&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are you using a different Google than I am?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=tyrannosaurus+anti-aircraft+gun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=tyrannosaurus+anti-aircraft+gun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sure don't see the word &quot;tyrannosaurus&quot; in any of the first Google search results..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;strong&gt;quoted phrases&lt;/strong&gt;, that's valid, of course, but you open with a premise so incorrect that it's hard to get any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T11:41:27.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T11:41:27.110" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14903" CreationDate="2009-08-17T10:37:06.053" Score="5" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to stop/limit users constantly posting questions, and then leaving them open (ie, not accepting them or closing them)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen it a few times when a user asks a question idiotic or otherwise, which gets answered by users, and then the user moves on without even accepting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just feel that it's an abuse of the spirit of community when a user constantly asks questions, and doesn't return anything to the community, even with something as simple as accepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see some sort of functionality to limit users from asking more questions until they close/accept old answers. This would be happen when, say more than 20 questions have been 'abandoned' by the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a dupe (see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2557/&lt;/a&gt;) but both a search and the title creation failed to point it out until I'd posted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131808" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T12:18:30.683" Title="Slow down selfish users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="14903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14902" CreationDate="2009-08-17T10:45:37.267" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users are already given a small notification on their questions that have not been accepted after a period of time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you have no guarantee that anybody has actually answered the question appropriately. You can't force someone to accept something if it is not truly a correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be quite honest, it sounds more selfish from you wanting to demand an accepted answer and the potential 15 points form it than it is for someone to ask a lot of questions and not accept any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T10:45:37.267" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="14905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14875" CreationDate="2009-08-17T10:50:26.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Generalist was first introduced (not implemented) we didn't have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tag-based badges&lt;/a&gt;. Now that we do, it would make sense to tie the two together. Generalist could be earned when a user participates in 10 or 20 of the tags that have, in turn, earned their own badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T10:50:26.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14908" CreationDate="2009-08-17T10:53:29.093" Score="2" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am surprised to read this in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* programming, ask on Stack Overflow.&#xA;* servers, ask on Server Fault.&#xA;* web design and HTML/CSS layout, ask on Doctype.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because I still see questions related to CSS and web design in SO, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1287262/title-appears-right-aligned&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; a few minutes back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's the official policy - you're encouraged to ask these questions on Doctype, but it's alright to ask them on SO if you so wish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T17:13:30.783" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T17:13:30.783" Title="Do CSS questions belong on SO or Doctype?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;doctype&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14906" CreationDate="2009-08-17T10:56:10.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;DocType has only been part of our league of justice for a short time, so it is unlikely that everyone &quot;got the memo&quot; that CSS questions should be asked on DocType. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before DocType all design based questions were generally SO material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T10:56:10.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14906" CreationDate="2009-08-17T11:05:33.860" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is your job title &quot;designer&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does your question involve CSS and HTML exclusively, with only a tiny bit of JavaScript, if any?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is showing screenshots, possibly in multiple browsers, of your problem &lt;em&gt;essential&lt;/em&gt; to getting it resolved?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more questions you answer &quot;yes&quot;, the more likely your question belongs on DocType.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the /faq was pretty clear on this topic. Maybe refer to that first? &lt;strong&gt;I guess I could modify it to include the text &quot;If your job title is 'designer', and..&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; if that helps you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T11:05:33.860" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14906" CreationDate="2009-08-17T11:08:24.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also just noticed the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/150239/ian&quot;&gt;OP&lt;/a&gt; only has 21 rep. As he new user I doubt he as yet as read the FAQ or even understand the concept of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T11:08:24.727" />
  <row Id="14910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10067" CreationDate="2009-08-17T11:19:13.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that if you have high reputation on Meta means a lot of people probably think you either know a lot about the site or have something useful to add to the functioning of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But only because I don't post here, doesn't mean I don't read the questions or answers, nor that I don't read the blog OR listen to the podcast. So Meta activity alone is hardly a valid measure to judge someone's understanding with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proving myself &quot;worthy&quot; on either SO or SF would be nearly impossible due to my lack of knowledge of those respective fields, would that make me a bad mod per definition? That's perhaps up to other people to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T11:19:13.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14902" CreationDate="2009-08-17T11:23:01.233" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with imposing a limit to the number of abandoned questions - that would just force people to accept answers so they can post new questions, even if the answers are lacking in merit. But, I'd definitely go for a solution that prods users to revisit their un-accepted questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like the bar at the top (that lets users know they've earned a badge) to prod a user who has an un-accepted question*, to consider accepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take this idea further, the user could be forced to tick something along the lines of &quot;None of the answers till date are satisfactory&quot; along with a textbox to explain why. This would allow the community to revisit these questions, differentiating them from questions that are just suffering neglect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this results in new answers, then I'd reset the &quot;None of the answers..&quot; status, and force the user to revisit the question again*. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imho, this would be enough to deter selfish &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; users abandoning their questions. It forces them to explain why they've not chosen an answer, and if the community thinks the reasons are bogus, will result in their questions being downvoted. Otoh, this may be too intrusive and a watered-down solution might fare better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* only if fulfils some criteria. e.g last activity on the question was x days/months ago, and/or it has atleast 1 answer with y upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T11:23:01.233" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21587" CreationDate="2009-08-17T11:30:28.473" Score="4" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use Opera 9.64 on Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I edit tags (both retagging a question and tagging a brand new question (like this one)) the tag suggestion dropdown updates messes with focus of the text input field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When new suggestions are displayed the cursor switches to the beginning of the text input field. If I type manually the rest of the tag that I want (rather than accepting one of the suggestions with a mouse click or whatever), I'll just prefix the first tag I've typed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122460" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T01:31:41.747" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T09:37:05.830" Title="Bug in tag editor suggestions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-08-17T11:50:44.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wasn't born, he was compiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59730" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T22:50:28.943" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T22:50:28.943" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-17T11:50:44.297" />
  <row Id="14917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14902" CreationDate="2009-08-17T12:33:00.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, users who are only asking questions and not answering them &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; contributing to the community. People just Jon Skeet and Marc Gravell are not contributing questions to the community, they are contributing stellar answers, and the only way for there to be stellar answers is that there already exist questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;not marking as accepted&quot; is a bit of a minor problem though.  Instead of something intrusive that forces users to accept answers, perhaps they could get a once a month note in their &quot;inbox&quot; (SO inbox, not real inbox) that says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Your question [Question title/link] does not have an accept answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way the user can choose to ignore those if they choose, or they could choose to revisit the question and etc... Once a month would be the absolute maximum however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T12:33:00.143" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14921" CreationDate="2009-08-17T12:35:39.377" Score="0" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can I post a comment to a question on ServerFault, but not on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133903" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T14:54:53.533" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T14:56:49.100" Title="Why can I post a comment to a question on ServerFault, but not on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="14919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2009-08-17T12:36:03.043" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; apply a blanket &lt;code&gt;and&lt;/code&gt;. They have a pretty sophisticated relevancy engine which tells them what results to pull back. Most of the time, results contain all of the words, but they are not guaranteed to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, you need to use the &lt;code&gt;and&lt;/code&gt; operator. So, to search StackOverflow for the words &lt;code&gt;tyrannosaurus anti-aircraft gun&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; get posts will all of those words, you would search for this on Google:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;tyrannosaurus and anti-aircraft and gun site:stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;and&lt;/code&gt; operator makes all of the difference here. Of course, Google tends to pull back SO results better than SO, so unless you're using some of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;advanced searching features&lt;/a&gt;, use the Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T12:36:03.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14918" CreationDate="2009-08-17T12:38:31.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you don't have enough rep on SO. There is a reputation requirement (50) to actually post comments on any of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that there is no rep requirement to post comments on questions that belong to you or answers to questions that belong to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T12:38:31.857" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14918" CreationDate="2009-08-17T12:38:52.683" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation! You need 50 rep to post comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation does not coincide between the sites. Your rep on ServerFault is independent of your rep on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T12:38:52.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T13:14:01.883" Score="1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a ServerFault user mostly and spend a bit too much time on the site, I notice a lot of very badly written or barely-thought-out questions pop up from users with 1-karma or thereabouts that require editing before they stand a chance of getting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could be done on the 'ask question' dialogue to try to help these people write better questions? Is that dialogue too subtle for them perhaps? could there be an extra 'are you sure you've written this question well enough' screen before submitting? Or perhaps a few yes/no radio buttons they've got to check before submitting (&quot;Have you included sufficient detail about your system including hardware/OS/apps etc?&quot;, &quot;Have you re-read and/or spell-checked?&quot;, &quot;Is there an actual question in your message&quot;, &quot;Your normal-character-to-exclamation-mark ratio is too high&quot; etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What else could be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133370" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T17:37:48.427" Title="What can be done about badly written/thought-out questions from new users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;dialogue&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="14923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14922" CreationDate="2009-08-17T13:17:10.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is nearly impossible to encourage people to put extra effort into asking a question if they don't want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already give this piece of advice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to Ask&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is your question about the Stack Overflow engine or family of websites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provide details. Show examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever possible, link to the relevant questions, answers, users, or page on the site you're discussing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, making a user follow that advice is not easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be more helpful to elaborate on &quot;Provide details.  Show examples.&quot;, but really, if a user follows the above advice, they should post a fairly good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, we shouldn't add any more friction to asking a question.  Extra pages or checks on a question would only get in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T13:22:49.657" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T13:22:49.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14922" CreationDate="2009-08-17T13:25:33.770" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The more barriers to entry you introduce, the more likely you will have users quit in frustration before ever actually posting the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a fan of trying to algorithmically detect &quot;good&quot; vs. &quot;bad&quot; posts, because that is all up to whoever is looking at the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best option is to include some more info in the How to Ask (if any is really necessary) and then just let the community moderate as needed. It has worked pretty well for a year now and I don't see any major reason to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users just are incapable of asking good stuff or learning from community moderation. As bad as it may sound, there are such things as lost causes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T13:25:33.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14922" CreationDate="2009-08-17T13:27:47.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just post a comment asking questions that will help the asker improve the quality if that doesn't help you'll either have to edit it into something better or simply not answer it (since it's impossible due to lack of info).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: meaning that we shouldn't raise the bar for asking questions. If the quality of the question is bad, it probably won't attract good answers. So either the user edits it's question in order to get an answer or he doesn't but probably won't post new ones either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off course we would love to help people who can't write great questions, but if a person isn't willing to invest time into a good question then I'm not sure if that person is worth helping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus I would think there are enough examples of good questions that we don't need a special FAQ part for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T13:34:33.587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T13:34:33.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14906" CreationDate="2009-08-17T13:53:36.520" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main problem is that DocType is not ready to handle the SO HTML/CSS traffic. They should have gone into beta with some SO users until they got the kinks worked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is currently, they are using some bizarre sort algorithm for questions and you cannot sort by last updated/most active. The only way to find new answers is to page through the site looking at timestamps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if a question has a 'best answer' selected there is no indication when it gets a new answer. In order to know a 'best answer' question has new answers is to keep track of the number of answers it had before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you to push all HTML/CSS questions to DocType, people are going to try it and end up leaving the 'SO family' to answer questions forums that aren't so hard to use. &#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit to respond to Matthew's comment: 'I'd argue that Doctype is very easy to use, it's just different to StackOverflow (that you're used to).'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think DocType is easy to use to ask a question. I love the repositories of screenshots and code. But to attract and keep people who will answer questions, it has to be even easier for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I go to a forum, I want to be able to scan down a list of new or updated questions/topics.  I don't want to have to hunt down new questions or interesting questions that may have new answers. I don't want to have to page down four times to see ten questions. I don't want to have to resize my font every time I open DocType in a new tab. I don't want to have to scroll up because I cannot click on a question that is covered by the black footer but it goes off the screen when I page down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think DocType has potential and will eventually be a really cool site. I just don't think it is ready to host all of the SO HTML/CSS questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130361" LastEditorUserId="130361" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T15:01:41.853" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T15:01:41.853" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:07:46.217" Score="29" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a mistake today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1287842/c-is-this-field-assignment-safe/1287854#1287854&quot;&gt;answered a question incorrectly&lt;/a&gt;. (A C# question, no less. My head is truly hanging in shame.) Unfortunately, by the time this was pointed out, the answer had already been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another answer has been posted which is correct. It has more votes than mine, and mine has some downvotes (still a balance of upvotes, but...) Unfortunately because the answer has been accepted, I can't delete my answer. I've edited it so that it's correct - it won't mislead anyone any more - but I'd far rather delete it to let the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; correct one float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I suspect it won't be a real problem - the question author is reasonably regular, so hopefully he'll transfer acceptance to another answer reasonably soon. However, I can easily foresee situations where this wouldn't happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could I suggest that the author of the accepted answer should be able to delete it, if the answer has received some threshold of downvotes (e.g. 3)? Deleting the answer straight away would have been preferable to editing it to be correct, effectively duplicating the effort already put in by Luis Filipe in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the &quot;we don't want to lose value&quot; argument for not letting a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; author delete their own question after it's had good answers, but if an answer has received downvotes (so at least some of the community think it's harmful) and the answer's &lt;em&gt;author&lt;/em&gt; thinks it should be removed, I think that should override the questioner's choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-08T06:41:16.833" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T06:41:16.833" Title="Allow author of accepted answer to delete it in certain circumstances" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="14933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14932" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:13:34.430" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a perfect example of why a user should be able to &quot;give away&quot; their accepted answer if they feel another answer was better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggested just that very thing on UserVoice and even brought it to Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1768/allow-accepted-answer-recipient-to-give-it-away&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1768/allow-accepted-answer-recipient-to-give-it-away&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T14:13:34.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14932" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:21:17.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could add a voting mechanism for moving the check-mark.  Users with enough rep could vote to remove a check from certain answers, or move the check to another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it could be a mod tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that this feature wouldn't be used very often, and thus will likely not be implemented. Jeff has spoken about this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14753/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-unresolved-feature-requests/14768#14768&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T14:21:17.927" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14922" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:24:18.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote to close them. Down-vote them. Edit them and make them better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your choice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T14:24:18.920" />
  <row Id="14936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:53:14.457" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a great idea, however, the OP should always retain control over what is the &quot;accepted&quot; answer to their question. If poster A solved their problem, then a &quot;more correct&quot; solution is ultimately irrelevant to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I think the &quot;accepted answerer&quot; should be able to &lt;em&gt;nominate&lt;/em&gt; another answer as the correct answer. This would generate a message in a users &quot;event feed&quot; and in their &quot;profile&quot; that says something like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The answerer has proposed a new correct solution&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, the OP is able to choose whether or not this is true, but we (the StackOverflow Engine) are still bringing it to their attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T14:53:14.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14918" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:56:49.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be able to comment after you have 50 rep. If you have enough rep on ServerFault, you can probably get enough on StackOverflow simply by associating your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this for more info:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T14:56:49.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14932" CreationDate="2009-08-17T15:10:53.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree a user should be able to delete an accepted answer. I don't think this requires any system of &quot;giving away&quot; accepted answers. We only require something simple: delete an accepted answer and that question no longer has an accepted answer. The OP can choose another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I take that back: can't you just edit your answer to be correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T15:18:15.790" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T15:18:15.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15998" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:37:35.527" Score="3" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anywhere SDLC of StackOverflow has been discussed? From planning phase to implementation to deployment? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What and Why's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Language  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Database system  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other API's and Tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is a well planned site and I believe it would help programmers a lot if there's an article about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131994" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T17:12:45.887" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:28:37.113" Title="Is there anywhere SDLC of StackOverflow has been discussed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="14944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14943" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:41:48.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Language: ASP.net&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Database: I think MS SQL&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Server: Windows Server&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Other API's and Tools: ???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T15:32:37.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14943" CreationDate="2009-08-17T14:42:29.450" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff keeps a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; about the construction of the site and him and Joel have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;weekly podcast&lt;/a&gt; where they discuss designing the site, among other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also another site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, which is for meta discussion about this site. This question should have been asked there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator will be by shortly to move it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T15:32:37.107" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13738" CreationDate="2009-08-17T16:53:25.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to allowing popular comments to be promoted I believe comment voting can also be used as a form of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phatic&lt;/a&gt; expression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In linguistics, a phatic expression is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information. The term was coined by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in the early 1900s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, &quot;you're welcome&quot; is not intended to convey the message that the hearer is welcome; it is a phatic response to being thanked, which in turn is a phatic whose function is to be polite in response to a gift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or to put more succinctly to be phatic is to be &quot;full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other&quot;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-twitter-works-in-theory.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've often upvoted comments on my own answers that were thanking me for an answer as a feedback to the OP that I have read it and appreciate the thanks. At least I hope that's how it would be interpreted as I was the only person that would be interested in the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T16:53:25.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14922" CreationDate="2009-08-17T17:33:31.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that, if there isn't enough information to recognize whether something is an appropriate answer, that's not a real question.  Aside from that, there's not much I can do besides downvote and plead for more information in the comments.  I could edit to improve the language, but I hate doing that if I'm not sure what it means in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose there could be a &quot;too dumb to let live&quot; reason to close, but I'm not sure that's appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, we are going to get new people coming in who don't know how to ask a good question, and some of these are going to develop into valuable community members.  We don't want to unduly discourage them.  Any algorithmic method of telling whether a question looks good will fail in some manner.  More advice on the page, even if only for a user with a low rep, could pay off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T17:33:31.990" />
  <row Id="14965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14922" CreationDate="2009-08-17T17:37:48.427" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could there be something like a series of templates for certain types of questions, e.g. for troubleshooting help please list a,b, and c details to help give better answers?  That would be my suggestion as if enough questions come in with the same type of problem it may be handy to find a way to standardize the appearance of some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T17:37:48.427" />
  <row Id="14969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T17:43:01.407" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm an irregular but supportive contributor to the Apex forum that Oracle hosts.  But StackOverflow looks interesting for general programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see many here related to Apex, especially recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone suggest why I'd want to ask and answer questions here versus the Apex Forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stew&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T18:33:45.223" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T08:14:48.060" Title="Does anyone find SO more useful for Apex questions than the Forum?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="14971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14976" CreationDate="2009-08-17T18:07:55.947" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282124/recursive-database-driven-navigation-in-coldfusion&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the user asked for help about a question and code he posted somewhere else. Of course it got downvoted and the first comment explained why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your link breaks the question here&#xA;  is pretty much worthless... can't you&#xA;  bring the question here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but he did get an answer (not sure if the answer is valid, I don't know the technology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done here? Close the question (new closing reason) ? Edit the question to retrieve all the information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:52:44.567" Title="Closing a question because the question is not really on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14971" CreationDate="2009-08-17T18:17:23.417" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I followed the link, intending to just copy his question onto SO. But the question is long, rambling, and appears to include the entire page in a code listing. I'm neither qualified nor sufficiently ambitious to attack that mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I voted to close. Not a real question. If he decides to put the effort in, he can always come back and ask it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T18:17:23.417" />
  <row Id="14978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14971" CreationDate="2009-08-17T18:22:20.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just think it is plain rude to ask a question and then point people elsewhere. They are dedicating their time to helping out people and in turn dedicating their time to making StackOverflow a better site. To make them go to yet another site just to answer your question is a waste of their time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask a question, put in the effort to actually post it on StackOverflow. Format it, and provide only the relevant information so we can help you out with your problem, and then help all the other people with their problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Don't make it &lt;strong&gt;hard&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;annoying&lt;/strong&gt; for us to help you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T18:22:20.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="14983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14969" CreationDate="2009-08-17T18:32:28.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's put aside the mechanics of how the different &quot;forum&quot; software works for the moment.  I think StackOverflow has a big advantage there, but obviously access to someone who can actually answer your question will trump that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, there is a &lt;em&gt;perception&lt;/em&gt; that the vendor forums are more likely to be able to answer your question. That perception may or may not be accurate.  There might be a more established community with original developers for the product watching the vendor forum, or StackOverflow may have a few brilliant gurus on that topic and others who don't yet stand out due to lack of questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This perception is an important consideration.  You want to ask your question such that you have the best chance of finding an answer.  Keeping that in mind, you're probably going to search google before you post.  And StackOverflow generally does an &lt;em&gt;excellent&lt;/em&gt; job getting it's content into google, so there's a good chance that over time you'll find yourself coming to StackOverflow anyway, as problems are solved one question at a time.  I've seen questions asked on StackOverflow that reference a failed google search, and less than three hours after the question is asked not only is there a well-voted accepted answer on StackOverflow, but the question is now the top result for the Google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you want to consider the larger issue of making help for your topic more widely available.  While you might get a better answer to &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question from a vendor forum, long term you have something to gain by pushing to move &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions on your topic to a place where the result is more likely to be indexed by google.  Not only will your initial google search be more likely over time to solve the problem, but as this also solves problems for others earlier in the process it will free up the gurus who answer questions for your topic to deal with more new questions rather than re-answering the same question over and over, which will help increase the available archived knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T19:29:33.973" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:29:33.973" />
  <row Id="14985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14971" CreationDate="2009-08-17T18:36:11.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question, as far as I am concerned, is spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, just look at it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am posting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic119348.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; with my description and the code. I would need your suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's about how to improve my recursive database driven navigation in ColdFusion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is question asked, to only post a single link. That sounds a lot like spam to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T18:36:11.567" />
  <row Id="14986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14987" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:32:09.443" Score="2" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is StackOverflow hosted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it in its own structure, or is it in some other data center?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130226" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T19:37:18.760" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:37:18.760" Title="Where is StackOverflow hosted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;web-hosting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="14987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14986" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:34:40.857" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a big image link at the bottom of every page pointing to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.peakinternet.com/business/hosting/?stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PEAK internet.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/Img/footer-cc-wiki-peak-internet.png&quot; alt=&quot;PEAK internet&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:34:40.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="14988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:45:34.797" Score="-3" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you flag a comment that happens to have been deleted before you flagged it (probably because several other people have flagged it) then a red box is displayed that states that that comment no longer exists. Ordinarily flagging a comment will not display anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that flagging a comment that doesn't exist is so significant that I should see a big error box when it happens. This is made even worse by the fact that &lt;strong&gt;I can't do anything about it!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel like you have to display something to me when I try to flag an offensive, spammy or abusive comment that doesn't exist anymore, then please don't make it look like I've done something wrong. Make it something that is happy and cheerful because this one little piece of offensiveness, spam or abuse is no longer a part of this world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Since this feature is probably behaving as designed I've retagged the post as a feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1447" LastEditorUserId="1447" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T21:14:41.763" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T05:49:33.030" Title="Flagging a deleted comment will tell you that that comment no longer exists" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="14989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:48:01.347" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with letting you know that the comment no longer exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know you didn't do anything wrong, what makes you think you did?  The red box appears all of the time.  I appreciate the consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:48:01.347" />
  <row Id="14990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:49:20.610" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This just proves my theory about hyper sensitive people on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the first time I got a red error box on StackOverflow, I cried for 3 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:49:20.610" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="14991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:51:46.143" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7424/mark-which-badges-are-capable-of-being-won-1-time&quot;&gt;Mark which badges are capable of being won &amp;gt; 1 time.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Small request:  Could you somehow indicate on the badges page which badges can be awarded multiple times?  Maybe behind the description add a parenthetical note?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was originally going to post &quot;Can the Disciplined badge be awarded more than once?&quot;, but I think it would be better to fix the source of the question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:51:46.143" ClosedDate="2009-08-17T19:54:03.207" Title="Can you indicate somehow which badges can be awarded multiple times?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="14993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14971" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:52:44.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I look at this question as roughly the same thing as spam.  He posted his question on another site, and now he's asking us to go to that site and answer it.  If we allow that, then we have to allow people to link to Experts-Exchange, Java Ranch, and every other programming forum online.  If he wants the answer here, he's perfectly welcome to post the question here.  There's absolutely no reason for him to drive traffic to another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:52:44.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="14994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14999" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:54:00.537" Score="29" ViewCount="606" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a couple of answers today where the OP indicated via a comment that I solved their problem, but the question wasn't upvoted or accepted.  In both cases the person probably wasn't able to upvote since they were new, but they could have accepted my answer.  I felt a little guilty asking them to accept the answer, but since it solved their problem I felt that it would help others who stumbled on the question trying to solve their own problem to know that my solution really was the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is asking the OP to accept your answer when they've said that it solved their problem a reasonable thing to do or does it smack of reputation whoring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-19T21:34:57.387" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T18:04:13.383" Title="Do you feel dirty if you nudge new users to accept your answer when they indicate you've answered their question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="14995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:54:01.990" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You got an error message telling you that an error occurred...when an error occurred (trying to delete something that no longer exists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not by-design, I don't know what is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:54:01.990" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="14996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:54:19.477" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The big red boxes don't mean that you've done something wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many things on SO use those big red boxes.  If you downvote a question, you get a big box advising you to leave a comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly downvoting is not something &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; so why would you think the same of this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you try to vote on two comments within 5 seconds, you get the red box.  if you try to comment twice within 30 seconds, you get the box, basically advising you that it ignored what you just did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you flag a question/answer, you get the big red box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:54:19.477" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="14998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:57:45.053" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always feel like I'm repwhoring when I do it, too.  I try to assuage my guilt by telling myself that I am helping a newbie learn how to use the site.  You could give that a try, but be warned: most people lack my mastery of &lt;s&gt; self-delusion&lt;/s&gt; rationalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:57:45.053" />
  <row Id="14999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T19:59:04.660" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's acceptable.  If you were encouraging them to accept an &lt;em&gt;incomplete&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;un&lt;/em&gt;helpful answer, that would be rep-whoring.  Encouraging them to accept a good answer (even your own) is just teaching them the right way to use the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at it this way, if you saw a comment on &lt;em&gt;someone else's&lt;/em&gt; answer that led you to believe it was the right answer, would you leave a comment encouraging the questioner to accept it?  You probably would, so you shouldn't feel guilty if you do the same on your own answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T19:59:04.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:00:42.317" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens all the time. Personally I can't be bothered to chase them or worry about it,  life is too short. If you're motivated enough, more power to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:00:42.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:01:04.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, to a degree, it is a little bit of being a rep whore. It is a good thing for the most part though.  The new user learns how to use the site. The question now has a defined answer so other people can find it quickly and not have to decide which answer would work the best. I accepted answer brings some agreement on the question being solved. Things that do not have an accepted answer take the impression that it hasn't been solved. So, it is more good than looked down upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:01:04.923" />
  <row Id="15004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:04:01.860" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the most part I don't try to nudge new users into accepting my own answers. But if I see a new user who has made a comment on another person's post basically stating that he solved the problem, I don't have any problem leaving a comment for the user to think about accepting that particular answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:04:01.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:09:41.613" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they have said that my answer solved their question, I go ahead and tell them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If my answer solved your problem, click the big checkbox to accept it as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very clear in what happens (you are marking my answer as the accepted answer). If there are a lot of answers, I'll comment on the top question saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If someone's answer solved your problem, you might want to accept it as the answer using the big checkbox. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really try to single my answer as the one to pick unless the OP stated something in the comments of my answer that makes me think that my answer solved his problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think is a better to have as many questions as possible have accepted answers because then it is easier for me to browse the Unanswered page. And of course, I like rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:09:41.613" />
  <row Id="15006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:17:19.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greedy people exist and you can't change their thoughts on SO unless you accept their question like the hyphenated site, which is quite a bad move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to answer your question, do you answer their questions to gain rep?  I believe we're here at SO, SF and SU for learning and letting others learn from what we mastered so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81800" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-01T16:52:49.627" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T16:52:49.627" />
  <row Id="15007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15011" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:38:59.853" Score="1" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why could it be considered rep whoring to ask a question that you already know the answer to and then answer it yourself?  Doing this adds to the value of the &quot;knowledge base&quot;, and may help others when the question appears in web searches.  And if the question and/or answer are good enough to get upvotes, why shouldn't the same person get points for both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The source of this question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3560/john-millikin&quot;&gt;John Millikin&lt;/a&gt;'s comment on this StackOverflow question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1289894/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1289894/&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132110" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T20:43:27.817" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:57:58.613" Title="Why could it be considered gaming the system if you answer your own question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15007" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:44:11.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is acceptable and encouraged to answer your own question on the StackOverflow sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:44:11.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:47:17.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I typically won't nudge.  But I will question someone that has accepted another answer that is clearly wrong or just outright crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:47:17.483" />
  <row Id="15010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:47:17.530" Score="16" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;How 'bout we change the definition of the Taxonomist badge from &lt;em&gt;&quot;Created a tag used by 50 questions&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Created a tag used by 50 &lt;strong&gt;users.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; That would prevent a user from trying to game the badge by editing 50 questions just to add a new junk tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Promoted from here:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14595/stop-stupid-tags/14646#14646&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14595/stop-stupid-tags/14646#14646&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T08:22:44.640" Title="Change Taxonomist Definition" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15007" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:51:11.670" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is acceptable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not required, but good SO etiquette is to also mark the &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; (not question) as community wiki to avoid the appearance of begging rep.  This way others can still earn rep in the normal way if they post something to the question, and if someone wants to reward your time they can still do so by voting on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:51:11.670" />
  <row Id="15012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15010" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:51:12.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Verily, my campaign for my Taxonomist badge for &lt;kbd&gt;waffles&lt;/kbd&gt; shall end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, I support this. It's a great way to kill potential gaming with that badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:51:12.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2009-08-17T20:59:03.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red box does not mean that you did something in error, the Red Box simply means that there is a message that the user should know about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much like a javascript alert. It is simply for information, do not be alarmed. Please continue your days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We apologize for the inconvenience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T20:59:03.183" />
  <row Id="15019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21491" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:09:58.357" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the syntax to use for searching the text of the questions that I've posted? i.e. Limit the search to just the questions that I've asked and just the Title/Subject/Question part of it....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1463" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T15:49:45.310" Title="How do I search the question text of my questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:25:11.820" Score="4" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13133/no-question-marked-answered-when-bounty-expired&quot;&gt;No question marked answered when bounty expired&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;Why an answer can&amp;rsquo;t be accepted after an unresolved bounty?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1140346/how-do-i-extend-scala-swing&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; for which I posted a bounty, and, at the end of the allotted time, all answers had score 0. Rightfully, too, as, to this day, no one actually answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No question was marked as accepted -- thankfully! -- but I can't accept any answer anymore. I also can't open a new bounty on it. Honestly, I don't mind losing the reputation on the bounty permanently, but I do mind not even ever being able to have an accepted answer to my question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand being able to reopen bounty on questions can lead to exploits, but in a case where NO answer was accepted at all, this just doesn't seem to be the correct behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132113" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:09:05.347" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:09:05.347" ClosedDate="2009-08-17T21:44:04.183" Title="Winnerless bounties" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15010" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:28:50.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would remove some of the incentive to create better tags and add them to appropriate questions, usually done by people knowledgeable in the field.  Badges are there to create incentive to do the best things for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T21:28:50.317" />
  <row Id="15022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15020" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:29:17.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a known bug / feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One which may not be high on their list of fixes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a comment on question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13133/no-question-marked-answered-when-bounty-expired&quot;&gt;No question marked answered when bounty expired&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&#xA;by one of the people responsible for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;knew&lt;/strong&gt; I have seen this brought up before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;&quot;Why an answer can’t be accepted after an unresolved bounty?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T21:35:17.697" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T21:35:17.697" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16658" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:38:18.003" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;This error pops up as a tag normally would after typing the FULL keyword in the box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Authentication successful. Click here&#xA;  if you are not redirected within 5&#xA;  seconds.(undefined)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is AFTER I type in &quot;sql&quot;. Before I finish the word it seems to be suggesting everything properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: After getting home, I can't reproduce (this bug).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T09:04:42.883" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:50:12.007" Title="When adding a tag to my question I get weird AJAX" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15010" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:43:18.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rules to change the badge were suggested before, but denied by Jeff because he did not see any cases where the badge was exploited. Even with my own &quot;&lt;em&gt;research&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, I could't find any cases where it was obviously exploited. I know it seems kind of backwards when &lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;assumes&lt;/em&gt; the worst -- but no one actually does it, so really we just end up making this a much bigger issue than it really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T21:59:01.173" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T21:59:01.173" />
  <row Id="15026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7423" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:52:24.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;email team@stackoverflow.com with your info (the link to mail us is at the bottom of every page) and we'll help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T21:52:24.200" />
  <row Id="15027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:53:21.700" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, there I was answering a question for which no language was specified. Once I finish writing and testing it, and post the answer, I learn the question was edited while I was doing that, and a (different) language was specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, could we please get warned when the question is edited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a language tag is an uncommon -- not rare -- situation, and one which you may prepare yourself against if the question doesn't look like an algorithm one, it is a &lt;strong&gt;common&lt;/strong&gt; situation for updates to the question be posted that complement it with useful information in the few minutes right after it was made. If one is used to answering recently asked questions, like I am, we see it often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there exists a notification that other answers have been posted. Ego-wise, that's useful. But it is much more useful, as far as making a good answer, to be notified the question was modified. It is because of that that I'm asking for this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PS: &quot;Common&quot;, here, means &quot;I got used to see it happen&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132113" LastEditorUserId="132113" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T15:02:23.200" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:02:23.200" Title="Advise that the question was edited" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15027" CreationDate="2009-08-17T21:57:06.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be wary of answer questions that specify no language and are not tagged as &lt;kbd&gt;language-agnostic&lt;/kbd&gt;. I fear your request is somewhat limited to very rare cases where such information creates a drastic change in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T21:57:06.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-17T22:27:29.400" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it permissible to include an animated image if it is used responsibly and illustrates a point more efficiently than a written explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, are there any file size or dimension restrictions beyond using common sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I want to demonstrate the way a layout works with a code snippet.  I was intending to include this image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8702/wpfuniformgridtiny.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I can describe what is happening, but I feel this image explains the result more effectively.  However, I generally dislike animated images as I find they can be very distracting, so I feel ambivalent about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another alternative would be to show a sequence of stills, which would be significantly less distracting but still retain most of the benefits of the animated image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109117" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T22:47:06.133" Title="Responsible use of animated images" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15029" CreationDate="2009-08-17T22:47:06.133" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create a still image or series of still images when possible.  Then you can always link to the animated image on the image host.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(After seeing my animated image actually &quot;in print&quot; here on MSO I was really turned off by it.  Since this is what I plan to do for my SO answer, I figured it would be okay to answer my own question with my intention.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109117" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T22:47:06.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15034" CreationDate="2009-08-17T22:49:01.403" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3615/should-downvoting-be-allowed-on-comments&quot;&gt;Should downvoting be allowed on comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can answer a question with a comment and they can be voted up but not down. Someone just answered something (in the comment section) and was upvoted 4 times but is downright wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should comments have the possibility of being voted down? Or shouldn't it be a sort of flag, not for &quot;spam&quot; but for 'this is an answer not a comment'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T22:53:25.620" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T22:57:33.927" ClosedDate="2009-08-17T22:57:06.223" Title="Should comments have the possibility of being voted down?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15031" CreationDate="2009-08-17T22:52:27.447" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3615/should-downvoting-be-allowed-on-comments&quot;&gt;dupe.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7014/ability-to-downvote-comments&quot;&gt;one.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T22:52:27.447" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15031" CreationDate="2009-08-17T22:52:27.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting a comment up does nothing. So who cares if they get voted up? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments != Answers, this should be very clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proper thing to do in this situation is to reply to the comment and state why you think the comment is wrong, and ask the person to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T22:52:27.807" />
  <row Id="15038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13346" CreationDate="2009-08-17T23:13:56.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5943/a-desktop-app-for-the-so-family&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt; has a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/open-so-frontend/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;open-so-frontend&lt;/a&gt;, an SO-family app by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130626/kd304&quot;&gt;kd304&lt;/a&gt;. You can download the &lt;code&gt;jar&lt;/code&gt; file and run&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;java -jar open-so-frontend-0.76.jar&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't figure out how to make the rows taller, and I can't find any documentation, but most of the features are fairly self-explanatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="132093" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T00:46:38.010" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T00:46:38.010" />
  <row Id="15039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15041" CreationDate="2009-08-17T23:18:15.493" Score="0" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14866/too-much-focus-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Too much focus on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering why is it called meta StackOverflow when (I think) its for Super User and ServerFault as well?  Meta StackOverflow seems like it's just for StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133685" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-17T23:28:46.127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T23:31:00.460" ClosedDate="2009-08-17T23:52:53.147" Title="Is meta just for StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;so-name&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15039" CreationDate="2009-08-17T23:28:26.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is the first of the trilogy and it is the most recognizable/popular of the sites. It makes sense in many ways to associate Meta with StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T23:28:26.923" />
  <row Id="15041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15039" CreationDate="2009-08-17T23:31:00.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a specific site, but the term to refer to the entire family is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/the-stack-overflow-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow trilogy&lt;/a&gt;.  Even the blog, which covers all of the sites, is the StackOverflow blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T23:31:00.460" />
  <row Id="15042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15043" CreationDate="2009-08-17T23:34:12.310" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10519/comments-questions-and-answers-dont-trim-unicode-u200b-when-counting-characters&quot;&gt;Comments, questions and answers don&amp;rsquo;t trim Unicode U200B when counting characters&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Firefox and IE I don't see an answer here but other must see one or have a lot of faith. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9339/emptyanswer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1290823&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please comment if you see the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T01:21:27.793" ClosedDate="2009-08-18T05:05:26.693" Title="Empty answer bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;empty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15042" CreationDate="2009-08-17T23:38:12.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person &quot;answering&quot; this question obviously didn't like the way that the question was posed (basically a &quot;give-me-teh-codez&quot; question).  However, rather than editing the question to make it more useful to the community (which he can do, having &gt; 2000 rep), he decided to just have a bit of fun and post a blank answer, which will usually get a couple up-votes for humour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a known &quot;feature&quot; / bug / etc. of the system.  As you can see, the comments can also be blank - it is done by putting in lots of Unicode 200B's (defined as &quot;Zero Width Space&quot;, used for line break control, with no width), which are then trimmed out when the answer is displayed.  See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10519/comments-questions-and-answers-dont-trim-unicode-u200b-when-counting-characters&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-17T23:38:12.347" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15047" CreationDate="2009-08-18T00:01:36.420" Score="-5" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is a good &lt;strong&gt;RPG&lt;/strong&gt; so far with so called reputation (which I easily decrypted as being xp) But it can become a great RPG. It needs more emphasis every times you make a level. And there should be a few more levels. For example, split the 100 rep level into 2 levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there should be titles along with each level : Beginner, Helper, Communist, Nerd, Full Grown Geek, Young Jeff Atwood, Young Edsger Dijkstra, and finally : Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personnaly I want 16 charisma and 18 intel. And 7 strength as ever other geek...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T03:08:10.080" Title="Stackoverflow - The Game" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;&lt;gamers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="15045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15044" CreationDate="2009-08-18T00:05:07.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are always people trying to &lt;em&gt;game&lt;/em&gt; the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should we encourage this behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes the game aspect does promote continued activity, but we don't want it to be just another game on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T03:08:10.080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T03:08:10.080" />
  <row Id="15047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15044" CreationDate="2009-08-18T00:06:06.067" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I like the game aspects of it, the more and more you try and make it a game, the more and more people are going to treat it like a game, and that isn't always an ideal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T00:06:06.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15052" CreationDate="2009-08-18T00:11:32.987" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally posted some code during an edit in an answer that I did not want to be public. Couldn't just rollback the edit to really get rid of it. Deleted the answer and reposted modified without private info. Awarded a cleanup badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131098" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T01:24:42.610" Title="Cleanup badge awarded when answer was deleted and reposted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;&lt;rollbacks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15048" CreationDate="2009-08-18T00:29:23.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about  it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did a rollback; you earned a badge. There's no productive way the system can determine that your rollback turned out &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to be needed. What if you deleted the message days (or years) later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once awarded, badges are &lt;em&gt;rarely&lt;/em&gt; removed. It's okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T00:29:23.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15042" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:21:27.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T01:21:27.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T01:21:27.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15048" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:24:42.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though you can't see it, that deleted answer is still there in the system.  Anyone with &gt; 10k of reputation would be able to see your answer and your code, so as tvanfosson says, you should probably contact a mod to delete it (flag your answer or something with a little note for them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T01:24:42.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15072" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:26:15.073" Score="3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;We get many questions that ask the definition of a term. Now there was a very interesting debate in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1291226/what-is-an-sdk-c&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; question. They wanted to know what an sdk was. Some said (including me at first) that they should just google easy questions like that. But other pointed out that &quot;no question is too noobish&quot; and that if we have simple questions asked here, google will link to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dictionary feature would be nice, just to look through the definitions of term as an easy to find mechanism. I would suggestion a tag, something like &quot;definition&quot; or &quot;dictionary&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its just an idea/possibility, it would have to be established and questions tagged for upkeep. Let us discuss :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1195/create-a-tag-homepage-faq&quot;&gt;this how now been solved with tag wikis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-11T09:58:45.220" LastActivityDate="2011-01-11T09:58:45.220" Title="A dictionary type feature (tag?) on Stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:40:43.463" Score="4" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone pointed out to me recently that my website doesn't validate. It seems the error is coming from the fact that the JSON returned for StackOverflow flair contains an invalid IMG tag in gravatarHtml:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;...&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; width=&quot;50&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The IMG tag isn't self-closing. Should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;...&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; width=&quot;50&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131476" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T11:03:23.370" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T11:03:23.370" Title="Flair JSON returns invalid IMG tag in gravatarHtml" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;json&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15055" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:40:58.283" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Combine multiple words into single-words, space to separate up to 5 tags (python c# ruby) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's nice and compact, and I think the meaning is clear enough to native English speakers. However, I'm getting the impression that some of our non-native English speakers don't get that &quot;single-words&quot; means &quot;a single word composed of the multiple words, separated from each other by hyphens&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think we could use a brief description of the purpose of tags - say they should be directly related to the question, and that they are used to categorize questions for easy search, etc. Someone who tags with &quot;distinct ip addresses&quot; is not understanding this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:00:03.390" Title="Blurb for Tags Entry Text Box in &quot;Ask a Question&quot; Could be Clearer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15065" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:42:56.707" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should users with high enough reputation be allowed to choose an answer to an very old unanswered question ? Only if one of the answer is obviously correct (left to the good judgment of the user) and if the author hasn't shown up in a real long time (this verification could be easily coded).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:04:07.387" Title="Should high rep users be allowed to choose an answer to an very old unanswered question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15054" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:44:59.963" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Image tags should not be closed in valid HTML, which Stack Overflow is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd&quot; &amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing tags are reserved for XHTML. It's kind of a difficult move from here, since both parties can't be satisfied from the same source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T01:50:29.660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T01:50:29.660" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15056" CreationDate="2009-08-18T01:46:06.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. Up-votes should be adequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, perhaps SO should routinely email people to let them know they've got a question over 10 days old with x-answers. They can &quot;remind me later&quot; or &quot;don't remind me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T01:46:06.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T02:13:51.213" Score="24" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just visited doctype.com to see what the fuss is about and I don't like the site. I get very few results for common terms. I searched for 'jquery' and got 3 results back and no more. Was the site like born yesterday!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the big fonts, the big fat footer that doesn't go away. At least SO has a close button. I am too used to the common look and feel of SO, ServerFault and SuperUser. DocType looks alien even though it tries to look like SO.&#xA;So I don't understand why SO people think highly of doctype.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CSS/Javascript/HTML questions on SO are better, more active &amp;amp; more in quantity than DocType and I want them to stay that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also now the web developers (PHP, ASP.NET..) have to split their points between two sites? Non scripting questions go to SO and scripting questions go to DocType. &#xA;BTW, I never heard of DocType.com before and I know hundreds of popular web development related sites. That site can't be that popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year passed for SO and now my high expectations are in doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe if I make a COBOL, LISP, ALGOL QA SO like site I can also join the league!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T02:45:59.983" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T20:26:16.003" Title="I don't understand SO's push for doctype.com for css/js/html questions!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;doctype&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="15060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14994" CreationDate="2009-08-18T02:15:04.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;noobs must be trained&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T02:15:04.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15062" CreationDate="2009-08-18T02:26:13.330" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to flag belongs-on-s* questions as requiring moderator attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40067" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T02:30:05.337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:00:45.897" Title="Flag belongs-on-s* questions as requiring moderator attention?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15061" CreationDate="2009-08-18T02:27:39.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't have the ability to vote yourself, I don't see any problem with flagging it for moderator attention. It may be the fastest way to get it moved. If the mod doesn't think it needs to be moved, he'll just ignore your flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T02:27:39.443" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2009-08-18T02:30:47.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site has not been around for very long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DocType has had a pretty well defined set of what questions were appropriate for that site before they ever joined our League of Justice, so it makes sense that we keep it the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I hate the complaints of web developers have two different places to ask questions if they have PHP and design. PHP and ASP.NET questions are programming questions and it makes sense. CSS and HTML are not programming, they are all about structure and design, which is what DocType is good for. The ability to load screenshots and other relevant information along with it makes it even better. Right now StackOverflow isn't the best place to get answers for design and layout questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T02:30:47.130" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15056" CreationDate="2009-08-18T02:31:50.607" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting is more than fine. An Accepted Answer should stick to the OP's discretion. They are the one asking the question, and it is their decision upon which is the best. Nobody else can really decide that for them (I am not a fan of the auto-accepted answer on bounty questions either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T02:31:50.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15044" CreationDate="2009-08-18T02:41:59.663" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I said in one of the comments : I think it would further encourage people to participate to the site, enriching it, but idiots will still be voted down, won't be encouraged to supply &quot;answers&quot; that are false or not helpful, won't have fun and will leave. Everybody else will either appreciate the appealing content or be indifferent but nobody will beg to have the &quot;old&quot; site back. Nothing to lose here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could makes the whole site more popular amongst software developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about a full refact into a video game either. I'm talking about a few tweaks here and there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T02:41:59.663" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13346" CreationDate="2009-08-18T03:11:57.810" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are very few applications out there that offer very good functionality with any of the StackOverflow family sites. This is primarily due to the fact that there is a big barrier in the way of there not being a public API released yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something that Jeff has stated is in future plans, and once something gets developed and released I imagine you will start to see a massive influx of nifty websites and programs that integrate wonderfully with the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T03:11:57.810" />
  <row Id="15068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-08-18T03:14:41.657" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe that reputation should be given for comments. And this is coming from a guy who spends a lot of time posting comments that get voted up a lot. The content in comments tends more often to be of the witty/funny variety, or further clarification to questions that arise from other answers. I would say that most of the time the comments do not deserve any type of reputation gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T03:14:41.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-08-18T03:17:05.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that comments should get 10 points per 10 upvotes. This makes making good comments actually beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that we need to do more with the comments. You should be able to see how many upvotes you get for comments and possibly show your best comments alongside questions and answer. Comments are really just commentary to answers, and people can make a lot of great commentary, which should be highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T03:17:05.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13346" CreationDate="2009-08-18T03:19:20.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There needs to be an API first before we can actually build SO applications. I think that once it is implemented that there are going to be some great apps that will make answering questions even faster and easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until then, you might want to try some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3687/greasemonkey-script-ideas-best-of-stackoverflow-greasemoneky-implementations&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey scripts&lt;/a&gt; that work in Firefox. I find there are a few that really add a ton of functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T03:19:20.917" />
  <row Id="15071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-08-18T03:46:50.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would have to change the commenting implementation a bit first : for now you can't undo an upvote and can't down vote a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also a comment is useful, yes but less than a answer so it should get less points as Chacha102 suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T03:46:50.470" />
  <row Id="15072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15053" CreationDate="2009-08-18T04:07:10.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we're finally coming to terms with the fact that no question is considered too noobish; I see a lot fewer of them with multiple close votes anymore.  That is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the topic at hand, though, I'm not opposed to using a tag like &lt;code&gt;[definition]&lt;/code&gt; for this purpose, but it would almost certainly have to be added by an experienced SO user.  I can't conceive of a good system to get new users to do it.  Either way, I wouldn't go any further than a tag for a couple of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site will propose similar, existing questions, which means that user #47 to ask what an SDK is will be shown the existing questions and (hopefully) the good, existing answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think we should embrace the existing structure whenever possible to handle features like this, as opposed to tacking on yet another niche solution, complete with its own little-known behaviors and bugs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T04:07:10.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="296" CreationDate="2009-08-18T04:24:19.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should get reputation for upvoting comments for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can upvote but you can't downvote;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments might improve the post but so do edits; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most highly upvoted comments are humorous in nature.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(3) is particularly important here. For example, look at the second comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet Facts&lt;/a&gt;: 231 upvotes for &quot;Who the hell is Jon Skeet?&quot;. Now I don't mind comments like this and there aren't many of them (at least in part) because there is no reputation for them. I think you'd seen a lot more of them of lower quality if comments got reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T04:24:19.630" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15075" CreationDate="2009-08-18T04:24:41.190" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i29.tinypic.com/2092242.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; (more &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756&quot;&gt;context&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how does SO decide which username to put there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T05:01:44.547" Title="On CW posts, what does the little percentage mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15074" CreationDate="2009-08-18T04:32:19.160" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means 40% of the text was written by Mike Duncan. The user name with the most % is placed there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T04:32:19.160" />
  <row Id="15076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15074" CreationDate="2009-08-18T04:32:25.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After so many edits, the % starts to reflect who &quot;owns&quot; the most content on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T04:32:25.213" />
  <row Id="15077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15074" CreationDate="2009-08-18T04:37:12.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The percentage is to show that certain a person have contributed the most to this post, and how much he contributed. That allows you to quickly tell who put the most effort into the post. Sort of a way to honor that person for writing/organizing information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T04:37:12.037" />
  <row Id="15078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15074" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:01:44.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff describes it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001222.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on his blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T05:01:44.547" />
  <row Id="15079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15082" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:11:29.287" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was telling a friend of mine about the SO/SE model today. At some point he asked, &quot;wouldn't you want to somehow separate questions according to the level of the target audience?&quot; That is, if I'm an expert on foobar and I visit SO, the most popular/most upvoted foobar questions will likely be the kinds of questions that students think about when they take foobar 101. The really niche-y questions that would appeal to a foobar expert like me will have few views/upvotes, so they'll be hard for me to find. My friend was suggesting that maybe expert-level questions should somehow be tagged as such. I think this is a bad idea, but I can't exactly put my finger on why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does SO appeal to experts looking for interesting questions, or only to those experts who are willing to comb through pages of newbie questions? If it appeals to (non-persistent) experts, how does it do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:00:27.680" Title="Does SO appeal to experts? How?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15079" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:15:02.633" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some experts like to show off; so it helps that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some experts like to just be helpful, so that's what's in it for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All experts are experts via learning, so they continue to learn by reading and answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some experts hang around for interesting questions, and answer others while waiting for builds :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T05:15:02.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15079" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:28:42.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;interest tags&quot; feature does a lot of the filtering. You still see questions not on that list but the ones that have tags that are on that list will get highlighted. This allows you to mentally filter out a lot of &quot;noise&quot; (from your perspective).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the level or complexity of the question, speaking for myself I read a lot more questions than I answer. Some I'll figure out &quot;aren't for me&quot; by reading the first sentence. That doesn't mean theres anything wrong with the question but I guess it comes down to what you're willing to answer. For me that's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that don't have an answer to which I have one;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that do have an answer but I consider the current answers to be wrong and/or incomplete;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that I want to know the answer to (and will then research); and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that I simply find interesting for whatever reason (not necessarily predictable).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear to me that many people (myself include) will, at times, trawl for questions to answer so I guess by that observation and the fact that luminaries such as Jon Skeet (primarily C#), Alex Miller (Java) and that Javascript guy (sorry, forget his name) do bother to answer questions (sometimes a lot of them) you would have to agree that SO does attract &quot;experts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the &quot;how&quot;, well that comes down to basic human nature I believe: you'll typically find there are people who, once they become proficient at something, want to share that knowledge. Their reasons may vary from the altruistic to the egotistical but there it is. That is allowed to happen because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a sufficient volume of questions to answer (and this one is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem); and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The interface is sufficiently good to weed through the noise and find questions to answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T05:28:42.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15087" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:36:15.787" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can someone tell me how this post was formatted? &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/583689/dictionaryt-of-listt-and-listviews-in-asp-net&quot;&gt;dictionaryt-of-listt-and-listviews-in-asp-net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know how to do this in a text editor, but when i cant figure out how it is done on the StackOverflow question form. It works here if i format it as code, but not on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|           Name Of Item          |  DropDownList (of List&amp;lt;T&amp;gt;)   |&#xA;|---------------------------------|  _____________________       |&#xA;|                foo1             |  |     bar1      | v |       |&#xA;|                                 |  |_______________|___|       |&#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;|                                 |  DropDownList (of List&amp;lt;T&amp;gt;)   |&#xA;|                                 |  _____________________       |&#xA;|                foo2             |  |     bar2      | v |       |&#xA;|                                 |  |_______________|___|       |&#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting presentation to explain your point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133952" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T02:38:41.473" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T10:25:19.883" Title="ASCII-art formatting in SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15083" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:40:35.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite possibly using an ascii art generator, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://perlbuzz.com/2008/04/asciio-lets-you-create-ascii-charts-graphically.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asciio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downloaded it from the Fedora repositories, and when I create a diagram in it and then right click on the background, I can save the diagram to a text file.  From there I just need to copy the text, and paste into a &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T06:14:06.943" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T06:14:06.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15079" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:46:06.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's way too cumbersome to judge expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example consider a question that's tagged ,,java jvm garbage-collection''.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's this tag java. A java programmer that knows a lot about garbage collectors can be considered an expert java programmer. Non-expert java programmers just expect garbage collection to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand there's this tag ,,garbage-collection''. Our java expert can debug performance issues and fine-tune garbage collection, but probably isn't a hardcore garbage collector hacker who has written two or three JVM garbage collectors on his own. In pure JVM bytecode. He is not an expert on garbage collection..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The focus changes with each tag. Expertise is a multi-dimensional thing. I think that there's little point measuring what exactly is your focal length of all the tags you like and skills you're more-or-less expert at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122460" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T05:46:06.830" />
  <row Id="15086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2009-08-18T05:49:33.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What error? What inconvenience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I flag something because it upsets me, I am happy to learn that it is no longer there so I don't have to be upset anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T05:49:33.030" />
  <row Id="15087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15083" CreationDate="2009-08-18T06:07:00.577" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author of that question just put his &quot;drawing&quot; in &amp;lt;&lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt;&amp;gt; tags. But code formatting (i.e. 4-space-indent) should work, too---on SO as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since that would leave you with syntax-highlighted drawings, it might not be desirable anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T06:07:00.577" />
  <row Id="15089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15055" CreationDate="2009-08-18T06:18:21.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give some credit to us polyglots (or is it polyglotts?)   :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, whoever understands the &lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt; of tags will get that sentence. And if they're unfamiliar with the idea, there's way too much to explain anyway. At least too much to put into that little info box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the end, since the min rep for retagging is quite low, mistags will be taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T06:18:21.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15055" CreationDate="2009-08-18T06:25:59.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should probably be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Combine phrases into single-words; space to separate up to 5 tags (e.g.-&lt;code&gt;python c# ruby&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of a comma when it should clearly be a semi-colon there has bugged me for some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T06:25:59.573" />
  <row Id="15091" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T07:47:22.877" Score="2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that this will probably get flagged as not a question soon enough, but I believe it a valid one. I have a passing interest in rating systems like those used in games to rank player's &lt;strong&gt;relative&lt;/strong&gt; strength when you consider all players. I have observed that stackoverflow also has a rating system. My question is this: does stackoverflow's rating system strive to measure the performance of its members in a relative sense, or does it strive to do the same in an absolute sense? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former is clearly the better choice because gauging a members absolute performance is sillyness. Take for example this excerpt from the wikipedia entry on the Elo chess ranking system : &quot;Performance can't be measured absolutely; it can only be inferred from wins and losses.&quot; Before you dismiss the Elo chess ranking, consider the fact that several very smart people have written their PhD thesis on this topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major problem in ranking in an absolute sense is that the number of total units or points of rank are not conserved. Ideally the total ranking points of the entire system should grow in linear proportion to the number of users joining it, spread amongst the members. If you rank in an absolute sense you encourage a user to increase their performance by merely increasing the quantity of posts, not the quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, this is merely one question and a bunch of observations. Feel free to comment, but I really only need the andwer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133961" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T20:45:07.270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:45:07.270" Title="Question and comment on Stackoverflow's rating system" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="15092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:21:09.963" Score="-1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like a badge which will be awarded when you earn at least 200 reputation each day for 10 days. I'd call it the King of the hill badge. Can be earned multiple times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=King%20of%20the%20hill&quot; alt=&quot;badge&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T13:57:05.900" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:57:05.900" Title="Can we have a badge for earning at least 200 reputation each day for 10 days?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15053" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:24:10.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a [noob]  tag? I often browse questions about things I'm pretty new to, because it's a good way to learn stuff. For the stuff I'm a noob in it would be good to be able to focus on the noob questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all we're all noobs in something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T08:24:10.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15096" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:26:14.680" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know how StackOverflow banners are generated -like the site moderators' in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt;- and if it's possible to include something like a HTML code in your web/blog/anything for viewing your profile like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T13:58:29.907" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:58:29.907" Title="Stackoverflow banners, is it possible?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15092" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:26:56.893" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm generally against badges that are given for doing stuff that'll earn badges anyway and earning the rep cap each day fits into that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It especially shouldn't be gold as some users will likely get one every 10 days almost without fail. Its the sort of thing that shouldn't be earnt multiple times either (imho).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would support,s ay, a silver badge the first time you hit the rep cap in a day but that's about as far as it goes (for me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T08:26:56.893" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15094" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:30:15.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean the flair?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Go to your user page and click &lt;code&gt;got flair?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T08:30:15.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15091" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:31:19.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that reputation is in a strict sense a ranking system. It is a measure of trust, an expression of usefulness, and a way of gratification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we compare trust? Is somebody 2.5 times more trustworthy then somebody else? I think that the trust part of reputation is in how many people upvoted a certain answer. The more people found an answer to be useful and correct, the more I can trust it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upvotes on questions tell me how many people found this question useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if a person with much reputation asked or answered the question, you cannot derive the usefulness or correctness of the question or answer. Does it add to the respective measure? In such a way as this person obviously has asked or answered usefully or correctly many times, it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way is reputation a way of gratification? I guess in the first place people find my questions to be useful and my answers correct. People seem to profit from me. Secondly only, maybe I make a game out of it: I have been more useful or correct then 99% of the people on SO, or just sunk and wasted more time in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody has a lot of ELO or game points, when I go to battle him I know to be careful as he obviously has battled some strong contenders succesfully before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we battle on S[OFU]? I don't, even if I sometimes get a little kick when my anser scores higher then somebody's with more reputation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T08:31:19.537" />
  <row Id="15098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15091" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:37:19.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There aren't any players on SO. There are questioners and answerers. Questions and answers are rated, not people. That the points are transferred to the people is only the case, because the system has to trust you somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T08:37:19.510" />
  <row Id="15099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T08:44:43.020" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1274/seaching-questions-with-n-pages-of-answers&quot;&gt;Seaching Questions with n-Pages of Answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm at one of those huge community wiki questions that ask for one suggestion per answer, and which already has tons of answers. Is there a way to do a search the answers to check if my suggestion already exists? I'd rather not manually check each of the 100+ answers if I can help it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't find a way to do this from the examples posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Is there a way to perform such a search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T08:44:43.020" ClosedDate="2009-08-18T10:00:10.670" Title="Search within the answers to a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15092" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:17:30.287" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's reputation hunter badge and hunters are bad for community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T09:17:30.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:27:37.460" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the orange color of the questions with tags which are in my 'Interesting tags' list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They just distract me too much. Do other people also think they are too orange? Should they be more yellow/lighter? Or gray. Or have a shadow? Just instead of the annoying orange colour. On meta it's light gray which I think is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2497/good.tif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;is better than this (design, I don't talk about the question :p ):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3323/bad.tif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T09:34:48.800" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:27:06.390" Title="Questions tagged with interesting tags are too orange on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:33:24.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's OK, because you see immediately, what questions are in your &quot;Interesting tags&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gray is color of meta (sad color)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T09:33:24.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:33:33.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The higlighting is just fine for me. You might want to Greasemonkey it if it does not suit you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T09:33:33.843" />
  <row Id="15106" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15115" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:37:08.267" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I posted a question regarding strange behaviour on the SO Recent Activity - summary page. I deleted it because I thought maybe I really was imaginig it. Today I watched what was going on and wrote down the figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, let me point out that this is taking place at 10.30 AM UK time, not on the hour as some suggested it should yesterday. The figures below are time and &quot;Reputation earned&quot; value:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;10:25  236&#xA;10:28  406&#xA;10:29  236&#xA;10:30  0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a couple of questions - why am I getting reset on the half hour, and what's with the 406 value? I've seen such bogus values persist for much longer periods than this before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said yesterday, it's not that important, but at least I know now I'm not losing my marbles (yet)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T10:10:42.690" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:56:23.490" Title="Strange SO rep behaviour documented" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="15108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15106" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:42:46.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What time span are you looking at in the summary page? When you first click on the envelope it shows rep gained etc since midnight &lt;em&gt;server time&lt;/em&gt; but if you click on &quot;today&quot; it will show you rep from the start of the UTC day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, my tracker reckons that now (10:42 BST) you've earned 165, and yesterday you earned 243.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have absolutely no idea why you'd see the values you've reported. For the 406, you definitely didn't click on &quot;yesterday&quot; did you? That means &quot;yesterday + today&quot; which would be 408 by my reckoning... close enough to be potentially significant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be vote fraud. I think when I &quot;lost&quot; a load of rep recently (due to someone mass upvoting me early in the morning) that happened around 10:30 UK time. Do you perhaps have a &quot;fan&quot; who is mass upvoting you? One easy way to guess that is to see if you get a lot of rep from different questions - on the day of the vote fraud for me, I'd received 200 rep by the time I got up, but from 19 different questions, which is very unusual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T09:42:46.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15106" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:43:46.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The server's timezone is utc+3 I guess. It's because you are in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T09:43:46.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:47:46.857" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea that you can &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; separate CSS/HTML from programming is, in my experience, woefully naive and I've &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; seen it work in practice (although plenty have tried). I actually find SO to be a pretty good place to get answers to questions and about layout and cross-browser compatibility because Web developers&amp;mdash;the kind of people that frequent SO&amp;mdash;grapple with these problems all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I'm against Doctype. I mean I'm not &lt;em&gt;crazy&lt;/em&gt; about the styling but I applaud the effort. I have have to wonder if we're better off splitting those questions from SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T09:47:46.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15106" CreationDate="2009-08-18T09:52:16.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonably well-documented that if you click on the envelope to go to your summary page the stats about reputation gained, etc are not accurate for that day. If you click &quot;today&quot; they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember the specific reason for this but I believe that Jeff once commented it was performance related. Please correct me if I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is confusing. Like early in the new day my figures will still include &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; of yesterday. I don't know what determines the start point for this but it would be nice if it defaulted to the day boundary for today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally though the figure will stay consistent for a while (in terms of notional start point). I don't know what triggers it changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you seeing inconsistent results when you click &quot;today&quot; or just when you first go to the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me give you an example. Just now I clicked on the envelope and got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6624/recent1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click on &quot;today&quot; the display changes to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2599/recent2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see the first one doesn't show the reputation for today. What's stranger though is that it shows the comments for today but not the reputation. Clicking today gives the correct view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T10:56:23.490" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:56:23.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15121" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:15:37.050" Score="0" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't quite understand why my questions are ordered according the votes they received. Isn't it better to have them displayed with the most recent first? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;Ok agree. It should be rephrased as following:&#xA;I totally agree when aswer are sorted according their rating on the result page, no question about the reson here. Although when I'm entering on my profile page I would like to see my recent questions first. It would allow me to easy see if there is any new answer.&#xA;It would be nice as people bellow said to have those option sticked so if somebody could persist a different sort order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it would be nice if the page wouldn't scroll up. There is no reason it should behave in this manner :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131741" LastEditorUserId="131741" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T20:08:12.540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:08:12.540" Title="Why are questions sorted by the votes they received on Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:15:44.443" Score="-3" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a 5k rep on SO.  I don't visit Server Fault or Super User often, so I have much less rep on those sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I see a question on SU or SF which does not belong or needs correction, I immediately move my mouse pointer to the question options.  But I won't see them as I don't have enough rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you feel that SO reputation should be considered in these circumstances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T18:00:26.087" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T18:00:26.087" Title="Should SO rep be considered in SU and SF?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-transfer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:16:47.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of the distraction is because you like those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:16:47.717" />
  <row Id="15119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15117" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:27:22.610" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it shouldn't. Same reasons as here:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/171/rep-transfer-from-meta&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/171/rep-transfer-from-meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:27:22.610" />
  <row Id="15121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15116" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:29:28.690" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can change the ordering. Click &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; on the right side, same level as &lt;em&gt;Questions&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9758/recentquestions.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T10:34:33.157" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:34:33.157" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:44:56.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My observations (I'm playing devil's advocate, and trying to represent a newbie, who might not know about searching for answers with specific tag(s)):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &quot;debug xml serialization&quot; had as its first result (at time of writing) as: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67959/net-xml-serialization-gotchas&quot;&gt;.NET XML serialization gotchas&lt;/a&gt;, which doesn't contain the term &quot;debug&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &quot;xml serialization debug&quot; actually performs &quot;[xml] serialization debug&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions tagged as [xml-serialization] are extremely poorly represented on the first page of results in either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:44:56.960" />
  <row Id="15124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15117" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:46:11.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Associate your accounts, and you'll have 100 extra rep which is enough to vote both up and down&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:46:11.903" />
  <row Id="15125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15091" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:50:19.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The data dump is a gold mine for analyzing voting relations.  If I had a bit more time and interest, I would draw a voting graph and possibly find some interesting cross voting patterns. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have some expertise in an SO topic, you could - in theory - cast your votes on the questions, then compare that with the community's response. Plus, subtract the cross-voting anomalies to truly evaluate a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130626" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T10:50:19.757" />
  <row Id="15126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15134" CreationDate="2009-08-18T10:58:35.730" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question very quickly disappeared after posting it as there were too many new posts coming in at the time. So I reckon this is one of the reasons why not many people have viewed it so far.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is there a way to get my question on top the list again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133981" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T13:33:00.197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:33:00.197" Title="How to resurrect my question once it has been buried?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15126" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:05:37.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That depends on how the user sorts their list. If they sort by activity, your question is bumped to the top everytime you make an edit to it, someone answers, etc. If they sort by post date, it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; get the idea to constantly bump the question by editing. That will pretty fast be noticed and probably considered suspiciously spammy behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my advice: Have a little patience. Your question is not gone when it's off the first page, and people will still find it. Some people subscribe to RSS feeds of a particular tag they are interested in, some people browse around, etc. Some might even already be in the middle of doing research to answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not unusual for a question to last a while before it gets answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:05:37.947" />
  <row Id="15129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15126" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:06:05.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a while, if you still get no answers and low views, reap the rewards of a Tumbleweed badge. It's badgelicious!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if you've come across new information, edit your original question and this will bump it to the top of the eyeball pile. Any new answers to your question will also float it back up in the acitivity pile. But don't get all edit crazy, that's frown upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking a well-formed question always helps as well. Read more about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But also keep in mind that there are plenty of users, thousands even, who don't view the front page and instead just follow their own favoured set of tags. Your question will pop up in that view stream and get an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't bank on the front page or the first page as the be all and end all to where the attention is for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:06:05.137" />
  <row Id="15130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14610" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:06:57.383" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll miss this tab... I use it quite a bit when investigating unusual voting patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd agree that it probably isn't very useful to your standard user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:06:57.383" />
  <row Id="15132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:09:10.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With thousands of people, you will &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; come up with a color scheme that everyone agrees on - least of all with a community of designers (and wannabe designers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, like it. But even if I didn't, does it really matter? Meta is littered with posts about how Meta is too grey, SU is too blue, etc. Unless its an actual degradation of the user experience (text is unreadable or is too washed out to read properly) follow the old song and let it be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:09:10.560" />
  <row Id="15133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:14:24.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is your job title &quot;designer&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;does your question involve CSS and HTML exclusively, with only a tiny bit of JavaScript, if any?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is showing screenshots, possibly in multiple browsers, of your problem &lt;em&gt;essential&lt;/em&gt; to getting it resolved?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more times you answer &quot;yes&quot;, the more likely your question belongs on DocType.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One site is for programmers; the other is for designers. The FAQ has been modified to include this terminology:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;web design and HTML/CSS layout, and your job title is &quot;designer&quot;, ask on Doctype.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:14:24.403" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15126" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:17:12.573" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the canonical answer is still&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:17:12.573" />
  <row Id="15135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15117" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:19:38.277" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you reputation between the sites should not carry over. As a personal example, I have been able to accumulate just short of 13,000 reputation on StackOverflow, but I know next to nothing about the subject matter on ServerFault. I would not expect someone like myself to really know &quot;what is going on&quot; over at ServerFault, therefore I would not expect someone like myself being automatically grandfathered in to certain privileges because I have them on another website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reputation is a big jumble of your activity, knowledge, and trust the system and community puts into you. Not all of those things carry over from site to site. Therefore your reputation should be a per-site score only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:19:38.277" />
  <row Id="15136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:27:06.390" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are never going to come up with a color scheme that works for 100% of the userbase, and so far the current color scheme on SO has worked well enough for the vast majority of users. The color is supposed to make it stand out, and it does its job well. If you have issues with the scheme, you can always get something like GreaseMonkey or some other personal stylesheet editor and change it up to something that better suits you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:27:06.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15116" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:29:05.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have multiple ways of sorting the answers, but the traditional idea is that you want all the best answers to &quot;bubble up&quot; to the top. This is not exactly your traditional forum software where you expect to see something chronologically. This is a Q&amp;amp;A software where you expect to see questions and then the best answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T12:36:00.647" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:36:00.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:42:48.653" Score="-2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15117/should-so-rep-be-considered-in-su-and-sf&quot;&gt;Should SO rep be considered in SU and SF?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got 150-odd reputation on Stack Overflow, but when I start using any of the other sites, despite linking the user profiles together they start off with one reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of OpenID is that it tells you that these user accounts are the same - why not link the details between the sites - after all, if Stack Overflow trusts me, then the other sites should trust me the same amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:03:59.280" ClosedDate="2009-08-18T12:04:02.743" Title="Why isn't reputation common between Stack Overflow sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="469" CreationDate="2009-08-18T11:43:32.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No paging visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T11:43:32.317" />
  <row Id="15140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15138" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:03:59.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already asked elsewhere.  Thanks to the user who left a comment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15117/should-so-rep-be-considered-in-su-and-sf&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15117/should-so-rep-be-considered-in-su-and-sf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:03:59.280" />
  <row Id="15141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15147" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:10:13.017" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite like the &quot;flair&quot; concept. There is a feature called &quot;web slices&quot; in Internet Explorer 8 (and Firefox with the right add-on) that allows you to have buttons on your bookmark toolbar that, when pressed, show just a relevant part of some web site. The idea is that you can use that for stock quotes, the weather - or, now, your StackOverflow flair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, the way web slices work means that it is the owner of the web site who must add a little bit of markup on the page to enable IE's &quot;make a web slice&quot; button. So let's do it! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc956160%28VS.85%29.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Web slices are described there&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; you want to make into the webslice needs to be of class &quot;hslice&quot;, with an &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; attribute, and that &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; must contain a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p class=&quot;entry-title&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. The entry title is the default name for the web slice on the toolbar, and whatever's in the div gets displayed when the user clicks it. There are other attributes we can use to allow IE to periodically check for changes and tell it how often to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The many Firefox users can also use web slices if they install the &quot;webchunks&quot; add-on. It's at &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8494&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8494&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T13:31:42.680" LastActivityDate="2010-10-19T18:39:22.313" Title="Flair as a web slice" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;microformats&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15141" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:15:07.927" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IE standards are a lot like wild animals. If we just stand &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; still and ignore them, they'll go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:15:07.927" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15144" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:26:47.873" Score="115" ViewCount="1304" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I've led a sheltered life until recently, but it really seems that comments are getting ruder and ruder.  I've seen on questions by new users (rep of 1), particularly those for whom English is a second language, that people are really quick to put in a comment like: &quot;Worst question ever&quot; or &quot;Let me google that for you&quot; or &quot;Why bother, no one's going to use your application anyway&quot;.  &lt;strong&gt;And other people upvote it!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we return to some semblance of civility?  At least, until the person has a track record of inviting abuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like the ability to downvote these comments just to show that I don't agree with the behavior.  When does rudeness rise to the level of being offensive enough to warrant intervention by the moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a couple of examples.  Note both were asked by a new user with rep 1.  I fixed the first one up a little since, while I understood what the OP was asking, the language was imprecise.  We can quibble over whether the questions are good, bad, or otherwise.  What really bothered me though was the tone of some of the comments.  My rule of thumb -- would I be willing to say it in person to a co-worker (or my wife)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293455/problem-in-building-a-registration-form-in-c-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293455/problem-in-building-a-registration-form-in-c-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1291226/what-is-an-sdk-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1291226/what-is-an-sdk-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions referenced above have had the rude comments deleted -- perhaps as a result of the flagging that happened in response to this question.  One result of this question is that I now feel much more free to flag rude comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T12:05:53.890" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T02:22:09.793" Title="What's with all the rude comments recently?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="15144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:30:58.607" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just flag them for being offensive. A moderator can (and will) remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:30:58.607" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:31:32.257" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely agree. I had edited a question the other day, only to find when I had done editing it, a user had commented, &quot;What's the question?&quot; The OP had replied, &quot;Your ugly face.&quot; I don't really get attitudes like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I've seen an influx of users who are now guessing as answers. &quot;Well, I don't know, but it may be .&quot; It's rather aggravating, to say the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have we hit the critical mass where we're now just bringing 4chan frequenters, or something to that effect? Because I'm with you, we've lost a lot of civility 'round these parts. The best we can do is just flag comments and downvote answers/questions, and hope for the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:31:32.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:33:17.903" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I have been watching various social web sites, as the user number grows, more morons come. This is, sadly, inevitable. In addition, I am afraid we will need some system-level solution or more moderators’ effort (maybe increase number of moderators?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:33:17.903" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15141" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:39:01.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So which part of the flair would you suggest be the &quot;entry-title&quot;?  The rep would make most sense to me, so that you can see your rep without having to log into the site (not sure how often the web slice's title is updated though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the current embedded flair page could be modified like this to support the hslice microformat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- Add hslice class to this div --&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;valuable-flair hslice&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  ...&#xA;  &amp;lt;div class=&quot;userInfo&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    ...&#xA;    &amp;lt;!-- Add entry-title class to this tag --&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;span class=&quot;reputation-score entry-title&quot; title=&quot;reputation score&quot;&amp;gt;8,112&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;    ...&#xA;  &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:39:01.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15092" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:44:00.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fear it would only encourage some people to just post a lot of answers, hoping to quickly earn more reputation that day. Even though the current badges do tend to encourage to post often, they do allow for the occasional break to breathe a while and to give your typing fingers a rest.&#xA;This is not a race, but a community where user input is encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:44:00.830" />
  <row Id="15149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:50:37.750" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, if I were the SO Czar, any consistent (like 2 or 3) commenting like this would be grounds for instant banning. I'm more of a zero-tolerance type of guy. If you're being playful, that's another issue. If you're just being rude for no reason, you don't deserve to have a voice. All I could suggest is to flag the comments - that's what I do. I wish I could downvote, vote-to-delete, or edit comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T13:15:13.253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:15:13.253" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2009-08-18T12:51:12.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to add to this discussion that many of us (I don't know how many) are working in very small units, where there aren't resources to separate designers from programmers, or there are only enough designers to work on a few, large, public projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my group, the bulk of the layout and design work falls to developers.  True, not all of us have an eye for it, but our customers can help us out with that.  At the end of the day, though, the customer isn't a designer either, and it's up to us developers to muddle through the design work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, I don't mind there being two sites for the separate issues.  Jeff's given us guidelines and there's definitely a gray area where code and interface meet.  If you ask a question and the community pushes you towards DocType, try it out.  We've got to at least give them a chance before claiming to be treated as second-class citizens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T12:51:12.447" />
  <row Id="15153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12025" CreationDate="2009-08-18T13:12:55.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google the contents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;    site:jobs.stackoverflow.com php&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example above will search for jobs mentioning &quot;PHP&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:12:55.173" />
  <row Id="15155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15091" CreationDate="2009-08-18T13:13:49.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that the system would benefit from being competitive in the zero-sum sense.  There are many ways to earn 100 reputation.  You could answer ten questions really well, earning 10 upvotes each, or you could answer 200 questions very blandly, getting an upvote every other time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO doesn't care which route you choose.  If you choose the quality approach, then you earn trust by virtue of providing thoughtful, high-quality answers.  If you choose the volume approach, then you earn trust by virtue of participating so much that you are understood to have learned how the community operates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus reputation measures both quality and participation, and doesn't distinguish between the two.  That's by design.  Either way, you've earned your trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:13:49.853" />
  <row Id="15157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2009-08-18T13:16:46.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More and More I feel topics on SO are being restricted by a group who feel very strongly about what is and what is not within the scope of Stack Overflow. Where they feel that it should be strictly about CODING, and anything else is not allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this change will mean that front-end web work questions will be closed with a 'Belongs on DocType' closed reason. I don't want to manage across multiple sites for questions regarding programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about Interface Design? Should we have another site for this? Usability problems are not exactly programming but they affect how users view and interact with our products. You do many different things as a programmer, and only clear separations justify separate sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:16:46.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T13:20:00.327" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you. What I especially can't abide is rudeness to folks for whom English isn't their first language. Why not just spend time tidying the question instead of moaning about it and generally being an arse in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there's a lot of folk out there who just aren't pre-disposed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1472/how-to-ask-questions-the-smart-way&quot;&gt;write a good question&lt;/a&gt;. It's our job to help these folks and edit their questions into better shape instead of bumping our gums and filling the comments with pointless attacks on the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T13:48:18.253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:48:18.253" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15117" CreationDate="2009-08-18T13:21:47.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I rock at programming, but suck at servers. Giving me SF rep based on my SO rep would be like hiring a really great plumber to perform heart-surgeries at the local St. Jude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm proudly 10k+ on SO and ~150 on SF. I don't expect this ratio to change very soon either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T13:21:47.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12850" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:15:37.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that Super User is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/super-user-now-public/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all public&lt;/a&gt;, the How-To-Geek has posted an article plugging it: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3430/are-you-a-super-geek-heres-the-one-site-you-must-belong-to/&quot;&gt;Are You a Super Geek? Here’s the One Site You Must Belong To&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the footer on every page now contains: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our Friends&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;stackoverflow.com [programming]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;serverfault.com [sysadmin]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;doctype.com [web design]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;superuser.com [computing]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems to be all good :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:15:37.023" />
  <row Id="15165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15167" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:15:49.177" Score="20" ViewCount="1586" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40353/stack-overflow-glossary-dictionary-of-commonly-used-terms&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is &quot;OP&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the context I can conclude it is a designation for the &#xA;person that asks a question on SO/SF/SU/mSO. But what is &#xA;the abbreviation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4763&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a closed question is viewed by the OP display a message below the closed box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not find anything in the FAQ, on Wikipedia or using Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T14:46:38.033" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:21:33.817" ClosedDate="2010-04-14T05:15:28.350" Title="What does &quot;OP&quot; mean?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;help&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15165" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:16:49.347" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Poster.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whoever asked the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:16:49.347" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15165" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:19:59.967" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15165/what-does-op-mean/15166#15166&quot;&gt;Jonathan&lt;/a&gt; said, OP = &quot;Original Poster.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It comes from the forum world and has translated over to the Q&amp;amp;A site. The proper term here should probably be &quot;Asker,&quot; but OP is so ingrained in the collective web consciousness that it has persevered here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great site for figuring out random acronyms is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acronymfinder.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Acronym Finder&lt;/a&gt;. I use that site at least once a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:19:59.967" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:20:23.473" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them. I haven't seen any moderator flags highlighting such comments, but I don't mind getting my hands dirty destroying comments and/or users (where necessary). We've suspended and/or kicked people in the past for abusive behaviour, and I can't see that changing any time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:20:23.473" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15165" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:33:59.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consensus on SO seems to be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Poster&lt;/strong&gt; in an internet discussion board context: the first person to post on a topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; OP can mean the following things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Observation post&#xA;* Ocean Pacific&#xA;* One Piece, a Japanese manga and anime created by Eiichiro Oda&#xA;* Op-ed&#xA;* Op art&#xA;* Opening song for an anime&#xA;* Operator&#xA;* Optimus Prime&#xA;* Oliver Peoples&#xA;* Opus number (usually classical music)&#xA;* Orange Pekoe&#xA;* Oratory Preparatory School&#xA;* Ordo Praedicatorum (&quot;Order of Preachers&quot;), the official name of the Dominican Order; Dominicans often use the letters &quot;O.P.&quot; after their names to indicate membership.&#xA;* Overall Position, the grade appointed to Queensland high-school graduates&#xA;* Overland Park, Kansas, a city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area&#xA;* Orland Park, Illinois, a city south of Chicago&#xA;* Orchard Park, New York, a town south of Buffalo, New York&#xA;* Overpowered, internet slang referring to poor game balance.&#xA;* A channel operator on IRC&#xA;* Original Post, the first post (or posting) on a topic on a blog, often containing the original question or topic of discussion.&#xA;* OpenID Provider&#xA;* Original Poster in an internet discussion board context: the first person to post on a topic.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Medicine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Short-hand slang for a surgical operation&#xA;* Oropharyngeal airway&#xA;* Organophosphate (poisoning)&#xA;* Osteitis pubis, commonly called OP in Australia&#xA;* Osteoporosis&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T17:46:53.867" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:46:53.867" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:38:43.897" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the penalty for downvotes should be less when the downvoter leaves a comment.  Maybe -2 without comment and -1 with a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133084" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:38:43.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15173" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:41:21.427" Score="6" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new on SU but have been on SO for a while. Asked my first question (admittedly a broad one) which I assume got deleted by a mod. This in itself doesn't bother me in the slightest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that no feedback is given as to why a question is deleted could be very disconcerting for new users. And it'll probably take a while for them to get to the 10000k posts mark to be able to view their deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we get some sort of information when a question is deleted. Simply &quot;Your message was deleted/merged because of X. Read the FAQ&quot; would be far better than nothing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134034" LastEditorUserId="134034" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T14:53:17.273" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:53:17.273" Title="Deleting/Merging questions without giving feedback" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="15172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:42:36.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have mixed emotions about it. I think Doctype has the potential to be a great resource, especially as it continues to evolve, and an influx of traffic from SO can only help speed that development. On the other hand, for all the haughty talk about &quot;design questions,&quot; it's not like people at SO are asking how to make a button with a Web 2.0 glass effect in Photoshop--they're asking narrow technical questions about HTML/CSS syntax and how to debug it. I could be laying out an identical interface in WinForms and there would be no doubt that SO would be the place to discuss it, but if I do it in HTML there's no place for it here? It begins to seem very arbitrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also can't shake the feeling that at least part of this push, to the extent that it exists at all, is due to a snobbish desire on the part of some not to have to rub elbows with the &quot;common folk.&quot; I see the same sort of attitude toward Super User sometimes and I don't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:42:36.807" />
  <row Id="15173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15171" CreationDate="2009-08-18T14:43:12.063" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your post was actually merged with a previous question because it was a duplicate and there were already 7 or so answers on yours, so I just merged it into the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that when things get deleted/merged/etc. that there needs to be some sort of alert, otherwise people tend to get left wondering whether the system just ate their post or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T14:43:12.063" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15091" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:00:04.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, rating systems are for well-defined and fairly homogenous arenas.  For example, one's United States Chess Federation rating is directly related to one's skill at playing chess, and goes up and down in response to results in USCF-rated games one plays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the case on SO. It isn't well defined, except in the sense that there are rules.  It is easily possible to game reputation in ways that aren't real helpful, while complying with the rules of the site.  It isn't homogenous.  For example, Jon Skeet has his rep not only for his ability and diligence in quickly producing good answers, but because his areas of expertise are quite popular here.  Somebody doing the same for Haskell or Lisp would gain far less reputation for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As something of a C and C++ maven, I don't have quite as much opportunity to gain rep.  This doesn't bother me, precisely because it isn't a rating system like the USCF has.  If we were being seriously competitive, or if people thought I wasn't as good as a C# guy with twice my rep, it would bother me.  It might drive away people who answer questions on less popular topics, and then those who ask, and SO would be the poorer for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T15:00:04.533" />
  <row Id="15177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:02:31.703" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO team doesn't seem to like the idea of an RSS feed for recent responses. This feature request has been around for months and they made the Recent page private so our old Yahoo Pipes solution won't work anymore. If someone developed a way to authenticate and get this page automatically, and then generate a feed, would the SO team do something to prevent this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T15:08:15.343" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T15:27:25.367" Title="If an application that creates a public RSS feed from the Recent Responses page is published, will SO team make it stop working?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="15179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15177" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:05:36.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they would not, unless you were pulling too much bandwidth from their site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the things that you state don't make a case for why they wouldn't allow you to programatically access that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent page (envelope) is private because they don't wan other users to be able to see what other users have been doing to you on the site.  And the feature request has been around for months just like 90% of all of the other feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T15:27:25.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T15:27:25.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15116" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:17:09.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, if you can't answer &quot;who cares what order the answers were posted?&quot; then you are &lt;strong&gt;not &lt;em&gt;getting&lt;/em&gt; Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a &quot;Question &amp;amp; Answer&quot; forum, not a tradition &quot;Discussion&quot; forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Traditional Discussion Forum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Messages are threaded; each message is part of a larger discussion which flows together to form an on-going conversation about the original topic. Most-recent ordering of posts makes sense here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary purpose is to quickly get an answer to a question; a specific question with a specific answer. Each answer is written to be &lt;em&gt;atomic&lt;/em&gt;; that is, each answer should stand on its own to best address the question asked. Each post is reviewed and voted on by the community-of-experts for its merits. The most-voted-on answers float to the top. Community members can add to or correct information in posts through a Wiki-style contribution. Finally, the original poster selects the question that best solves their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very nature of ordering posts by votes &lt;strong&gt;inhibits long, drawn out discussions. That is by design.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can select to order posts by most &quot;recent&quot; posts but that is better used to see the most recent contribution to a question you have been following for awhile. Sort-by-most-votes is the intended way the system was designed to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T16:55:03.240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T16:55:03.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:19:07.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As people have said, just flag any comment or answer you find offensive.  All of the mods have a serious and dedicated side to them about keeping this site organized and well maintained.  They do spend a chunk of their free time on this site. This doesn't mean though they don't like to have fun, but they do realize when people are serious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On meta, things are a little more laid back though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T15:19:07.973" />
  <row Id="15182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:30:13.503" Score="0" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14994/do-you-feel-dirty-if-you-nudge-new-users-to-accept-your-answer-when-they-indicate&quot;&gt;Do you feel dirty if you nudge new users to accept your answer when they indicate you&amp;rsquo;ve answered their question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it all right to ask the question owner to upvote/accept your answer if the question owner comments that my answer helped solve his problems, but didn't vote or accept an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T08:16:33.053" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T08:16:33.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T15:31:00.227" ClosedDate="2009-08-18T15:49:52.827" Title="Is it all right to ask to be accepted/upvoted? [poll]" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15182" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:32:14.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go ahead if you see that the question owner says it helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T15:32:14.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T15:32:14.123" />
  <row Id="15184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15182" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:32:35.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not good manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T15:32:35.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T15:32:35.730" />
  <row Id="15185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15182" CreationDate="2009-08-18T15:32:51.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Up to you&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all right in that you aren't gonna get in trouble.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It is up to you whether or not you think it is ethical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T15:50:28.300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T15:50:28.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T15:32:51.080" />
  <row Id="15188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12002" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:02:47.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're talking about programming, no result is &quot;totally unrelated.&quot; The issue is that the logic which selected those items isn't clear to you, and as such you don't know why they were chosen. That doesn't mean they're unrelated, only difficult for you to associate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T16:02:47.620" />
  <row Id="15189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:15:17.767" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having a look at the samples I find it interesting that the commenters rarely have high reputation or have themselves asked some really mudane questions. I have noticed a trend of &quot;Google it first&quot; members appearing more and more often, and we have these on Stack Overflow at the moment as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the fact that Google is the Stack Overflow homepage is missed by many and the reality is that unless you're part of the beta groups, and know Jeff and Joel and the history of the Trilogy, you will not understand why Stack Overflow exists, and the more people become members the more these problems will occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderators are there to deal with these, make use of them. People seems afraid to make use of the flags that have been made available. There is quite a bit that can be done by the moderators to deal with users like these without upsetting the whole community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-06T10:37:01.227" LastActivityDate="2010-07-06T10:37:01.227" />
  <row Id="15190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15202" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:15:59.230" Score="8" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might have seen questions that everyone can relate to &lt;em&gt;(&quot;what desktop do you use&quot;)&lt;/em&gt; getting furiously voted up, and falsely increasing its &quot;importance&quot;, and the rep of the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you see hundreds of smart and good questions and ideas get left alone only because viewers don't think its useful to &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whats the use of question ratings, if dumb questions get voted up more than good questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:04:32.877" Title="Whats the use of question ratings if dumb questions get voted up more than good questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15203" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:18:18.120" Score="1" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be stupid question, but how does ajax work on SO given that the javascript files are being served by a different domain?  I thought AJAX did not allow cross-domain requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134057" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:43:26.590" Title="How does ajax work on SO with javascript coming from different domains?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ajax&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="15192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15190" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:19:31.050" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People will vote up what they understand. There are plenty of good questions out there, but the audience is going to be smaller, therefore the number of potential upvoters is going to be lower. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone can vote up &quot;Jon Skeet Facts&quot;, but &quot;How can I successfully convert this Turbo Pascal project to PHP&quot; isn't going to gain the same type of audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T16:19:31.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15191" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:21:06.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Are you asking if JS can Request Cross-domain? If so...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has methods of working, such as JSONP and &lt;a href=&quot;http://eligrey.com/projects/pmxdr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PMXDR&lt;/a&gt;. But I'm fairly sure the receiving URL has to explicitly allow JSONP requests. That, or you can create your own proxy script with a technology that can stand between local javascript, and remote content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, not sure specifically how SO is doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Are you asking if JS can be loaded cross-domain? If so...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Similar to images, mp3's, style-sheets, etc., Anything public really. If it's out there in the open, then you can load it. Google hosts many js-libraries in this fashion - you just load them from the central server, meaning your visitors may already have them cached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T17:43:26.590" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:43:26.590" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:24:04.503" Score="110" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is important for long-term quality of the content. Comments are content; votes on comments are content as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Canceling votes &lt;em&gt;removes noise from the signal channel&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T16:24:04.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15190" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:27:31.207" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question upvotes have shaken out to be not nearly as important as answer upvotes.  Upvoting good questions encourages users to ask good questions, but it doesn't necessarily give you useful information about the question. (Downvoting questions on the other hand seems to weed out the really bad ones, and discourages asking crappy questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T16:27:31.207" />
  <row Id="15197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:44:52.293" Score="91" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether a comment has an extra vote doesn't really matter, but if I go to click &quot;offensive&quot; and accidentally upvote instead, the flag button isn't available to me anymore. Again, an extra vote doesn't matter, but lacking a flag when needed does matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T16:44:52.293" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T16:55:20.760" Score="-4" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that there have been requests to raise the max number of tags for a question before, and I understand that the data suggests that this isn't required since 3 tags is the median number and adding more tags could be a mess...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but here's my suggestion / request: for those times where more tags are needed, let me &quot;buy&quot; them with my points.  Perhaps 5 points to buy 1 extra tag, 15 for 2, 30 for 3, etc.  Dissuade me from tag-spam, but let me have them if I need them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Personally I'm a .NET developer and my main interests and curiousities are language-agnostic (as far as C# and VB.NET go); however when I ask a .NET (again, not language-specific) question that can be answered by either C# or VB.NET developers then I feel it's beneficial to tag the question with [&lt;code&gt;.NET&lt;/code&gt;] [&lt;code&gt;C#&lt;/code&gt;] and [&lt;code&gt;VB.NET&lt;/code&gt;] to draw the maximum number of relevant users to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this could be seen as abuse of the tags, if it's a .NET question then it should be tagged with just .NET--but if I provide a code-sample in either language then that language also is arguably relevant.  To say that I'm abusing the tags by using all three is perhaps correct, but it would also be correct to say that if a question is about the .NET Framework, BCL's or any other feature of the platform with equal representation in both languages then the language tags should be left off entirely and [&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;.NET&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;] should only be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T18:38:49.957" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:03:38.740" Title="Trade reputation for extra tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15198" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:00:10.873" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There would still need to be a cap, otherwise high-rep users could just freely create tag spam again.  Plus it would clog up the UI something fierce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I much prefer using concise, appropriate tagging in the first place.  I think 5 is plenty.  Ask the question in the title and body, don't ask it in the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T18:18:05.007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:18:05.007" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15198" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:03:11.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if you are sacrificing reputation, I believe the same reasons to not allow too many tags apply. It will become overwhelming and messy. Additionally, the tag editing system would have to be modified in reaction to this, which could and likely would add complication and/or confusion. I believe the max number should be the max number, regardless of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:03:11.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15190" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:04:32.877" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;goodness&quot; of a question is somewhat different to the &quot;goodness&quot; of an answer. In particular, while the accuracy and applicability of an answer is probably the most important traits of an answer, it's harder to judge the equivalent for a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few reasons I might think a question is &quot;good&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I find it entertaining&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It solves a problem I actually have (most likely to be seen when searching for an answer rather than browsing all questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It addresses an issue which I know causes a lot of misunderstanding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It sounds like it addresses a problem I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have in the future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's well-written: it has all the relevant information but nothing extraneous; it's polite, uses correct spelling and grammar etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these are somewhat nebulous compared with an answer's merits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:04:32.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15191" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:13:18.820" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same%5Forigin%5Fpolicy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Same Origin Policy&lt;/a&gt; is based on the location of the document loading the script, not the script's location.  That's why CDNs like Google's Ajax API hosting (code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/) and the AOL CDN work for distributing JavaScript libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:13:18.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:22:01.983" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we at least not keep the accepted answer at the top if it has been outvoted by another answer? At least if the accepted answer has a negative score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131630" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:22:01.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15198" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:23:16.490" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have yet to see an honest reason why someone would need more than 5 tags to accurate categorize a question. Generally anybody who says they need more than 5 are tagging incorrectly and trying to assign tags that are either redundant or useless to someone who looks through tags for problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:23:16.490" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:45:35.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that this issue is as important as others who have commented/answered, and I don't think any changes are necessary, as the situation resolves itself the vast majority of the time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- The original poster (OP) has solved the problem, or at least thinks it is solved.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2- The community has indicated what it thinks is the best answer through the voting. Quite likely the community has also (in comments) indicated problems with the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3- The Googler (or Binger!) who lands on the question page will see the accepted answer, the community-voted best answer, and quite possibly a number of other answers, and so presumably has the tools to solve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4- It is dangerous (and arrogant) to not accept the possibility that the community could be wrong and the OP and writer of the accepted answer correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; think the community should be able to &quot;unaccept&quot; an accepted answer through downvoting.  I suppose a moderator could be given &quot;unaccept&quot; authority, but that concerns me too because moderation on these forums is at times heavy-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:45:35.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15208" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:55:31.200" Score="1" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this is an easy question, but I don't see it here...how do I change my user icon?  I assume it's associated with OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:04:22.150" Title="Change openid icon" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15207" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:58:03.987" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt;.  You need to go there to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make sure that you use the same email on the StackOverflow site and Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a link to change your picture in the 'edit profile' page as well.  It takes you to the same place as my link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T18:04:22.150" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:04:22.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15207" CreationDate="2009-08-18T17:58:22.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to your profile. Click the edit button. Click on the &quot;change picture&quot; link below your current icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T17:58:22.800" />
  <row Id="15211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15213" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:04:05.143" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at my personal &quot;stats&quot; tab sorting by &quot;recent&quot; I get a question with updates from Aug 2008 before an question from Aug 2009. Seems like it is ignoring the year part of the date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/7332/sobug.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132866" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T22:13:20.837" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:14:06.717" Title="recent user stats sorting ignores the year part of the date" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:09:46.007" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Jerks aren't welcome here!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that one thinks a question (or answer) is horrible, incorrect or useless &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; provide an excuse for insults or rudeness.  Ad-hominems and insults have no place here; they are unprofessional and reveal only the lack of maturity of the person posting the nastiness.  Feel free to ignore a question, fix it, make suggestions, or vote it down, but leave the nastiness for MTV.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a reputation penalty assessed by the moderators for rudeness, ad-hominem statements, insults, offensive behavior, and a lack of civility.  I would like to see accounts suspended or removed if the behavior continues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:09:46.007" />
  <row Id="15213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15211" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:15:10.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though the question is from 2008, the most recent activity on that question is from 2009, by the community user. I believe the &lt;code&gt;newest&lt;/code&gt; tab would show the questions you asked from newest to oldest. The &lt;code&gt;recent&lt;/code&gt; tab shows the questions you have asked sorted by date of most recent activity, which includes cleanup activities performed by the community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:15:10.693" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15231" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:16:04.917" Score="3" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I reached 200 rep, but 20 of them came from a now-deleted post (a duplicate answer posted really close in time to the first answer). I stopped getting rep from my answers after this was deleted and I hit 180 reputation on posted answers today (180 + the 20 from the deleted = the cap of 200).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a rep recalculation, I will lose the 20 points from that deleted answer (I'm pretty sure). But will the system detect that I made more than 20 points after that and give me any rep from after that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I care is because I want to reach 20k before the Boston Dev Days...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;200 rep earned to hit cap&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 more upvotes for 30 &quot;potential rep&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer deleted wipes out 2 upvotes to drop down to 180 rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep limit after recalc &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; come out to 200 with 1 upvote left over due to cap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:25:59.397" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:25:59.397" Title="With a rep recalculation, will I get my missing rep back?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15214" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:19:18.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you keep getting rep for today then it will count toward the limit for the day after the recalc. So if you got a total of 220 today but 20 went away in a recalc then you would still get 200 for the day. The system still tracks your rep for the day even after you hit the limit. It just doesn't apply more than 200 per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:19:18.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15214" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:20:45.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should get that rep back. I want to believe that if you got 25 upvotes in a day, you should cap at 200. If you had an answer deleted that subtracted 2 upvotes that left you with 180, you should still in theory have 230 rep worth of upvotes, so during a recalc you should still make the 200 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:20:45.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15214" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:22:18.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think so, a rep recalc computes all your reputation from scratch, so the rep cap would be taken into account without counting the now deleted post and you'd get the reputation from the subsequent posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:22:18.133" />
  <row Id="15218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15198" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:22:25.233" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many tags for 100 rep points?  There's a good number of questions out there with bounties, and somebody who wants an answer really badly may also use those rep points to spam tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:22:25.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:31:41.267" Score="-3" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand. Reading through the comments and answers I get the feeling that most people on Meta are not the same people on SO.  People on this site seem very mean spirited as opposed to those on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because there are too many &quot;dumb&quot; questions, this site is made up of complete a-holes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133913" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T19:42:01.920" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T21:56:28.843" Title="Are most people here also regulars on SO? I get the feeling they are not" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:33:08.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of people are regulars on the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part, the people on Meta are also regulars on one of the SO family sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the time you get people asking questions that aren't regulars, but everyone answering is very familiar with how things work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:33:08.783" />
  <row Id="15221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:33:13.417" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some people just let loose a little more here. Since this site isn't about programming so much, there's less incentive to keep it professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I still refrain from insulting comments. However, I am more likely to post nonsense here than I am on SO. I think that goes for several others as well (at least the nonsense part). I can't think of anyone in particular who posts nonsense, though (&lt;em&gt;*cough*&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:33:13.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:36:13.053" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can feel the love everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15143/whats-with-all-the-rude-comments-recently&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whats With All The Rude Comments Recently&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:36:13.053" />
  <row Id="15223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:39:19.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most people don't take meta seriously, or at least don't assign the same value as they do to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of this are all the problems with people migrating here stuff that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13047&quot;&gt;doesn't belong&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15143&quot;&gt;increase of sarcasm and bad manners&lt;/a&gt;, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since they can't be funny or rude on the other sites, they come here (wrongly) to vent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:39:19.833" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="15224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:39:26.947" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Policeman&lt;/strong&gt; - was first to flag posts/questions that were later removed as hate speech or trolling. Bronze (Policeman) - did it one time, Silver (Officer) - 30 times, Gold - (Inspector) - 100 times. Note &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15143/whats-with-all-the-rude-comments-recently/15168#15168&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell's answer&lt;/a&gt; about need to flag rude post - this badge could make people to report unacceptable behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T16:29:54.060" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T16:29:54.060" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T18:39:26.947" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:40:19.160" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a big difference in what is being discussed on the different sites. For the regular sites, it is definitely important to stay polite and impartial because you are supposed to be answering questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta, there is a lot more discussion concerning the future of the sites and how the community should operate. This is when you start introducing opinions and that is when people will start going toe-to-toe on issues, and often times people will take more offense at this conflict than they would about a disagreement over whether 2+2 really equals 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta, opinions matter highly, and it is also an avenue for a lot of us to be more vocal and laid back and not have to feel so &quot;professional&quot;. I agree that this is not an excuse to be a blatant asshole, but I consider this site a lot more like the &quot;teacher's lounge&quot; where Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Crabtree can smoke and drink their coffee and not have to be the perfect role models that they have to be in front of the students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:40:19.160" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="15227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:50:34.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of us are regulars on SO. I apologize if you've been met with negativity here. Since this is the meta-forum, people are much more laid-back and less-reserved to bite at eachother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T18:50:34.037" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:55:15.807" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would view the &quot;rude comments&quot; here with a grain of salt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users here &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; regulars on the other sites but, more to the point, they are regulars &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;. I would say that, oh, 90% of the rude-appearing comments you see here are just community-member &quot;regulars&quot; participating in on-going, sometimes-inside jokes... trading in little quips, and barbs, and a bit of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-upmanship&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one-upmanship&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harmless, mostly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Then again, some people are just itching to be annoying.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T19:00:27.853" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T19:00:27.853" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="15229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15243" CreationDate="2009-08-18T18:56:00.563" Score="-6" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added a feature-request earlier that revolves around my use of tagging to draw .NET developers to questions that are language-agnostic (as far as C# and VB.NET are concerned).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The request is based on my assumptions that there are people qualified to answer the question who have &lt;code&gt;[.NET]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[C#]&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;[VB.NET]&lt;/code&gt; in their &quot;Interesting&quot; tags list, but not necessarily a particular combination of the three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see what user's have in their Interesting and Ignored tags lists as part of the data-dump, even if it's been anonymized so that the actual lists for a user can't be tied back to the user themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T23:13:28.127" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T23:13:28.127" Title="Include user's &quot;Interesting&quot; and &quot;Ignored&quot; tags in the data dump" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;data-explorer&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="15231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15214" CreationDate="2009-08-18T19:01:23.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that &lt;em&gt;in theory&lt;/em&gt; it should work like that, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few times I've had a rep recalc and still had what appeared to be some oddities. Here's a sample timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2am: 5 genuine votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3am: 20 upvotes from one user, hit cap after the first 15 of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6am: Get online, post answers, get more upvotes, report vote fraud&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10.30am: Votes are removed, 150 points lost&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11am: Request rep recalc: still not hit rep limit despite having lots of votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, votes that didn't count due to the rep limit being hit for fraud &lt;em&gt;appeared&lt;/em&gt; not to count after the rep recalc. I had a summary screen for &quot;today&quot; which showed &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; than 200 rep, but still votes that didn't contribute to reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not overly bothered and it's a very hard thing to diagnose for certain, but that's at least what I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I saw. It does sound very odd, based on what a rep recalc is meant to do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the good news is that all of the votes are recorded so if there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a bug in the recalc procedure, when it's fixed and you get another recalc, you'll get the rep back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; behaviour is for those &quot;wasted&quot; votes to come back into effect after previously-counted votes are deleted, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T19:01:23.937" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15229" CreationDate="2009-08-18T19:05:17.750" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for more data, so if they included this type of information in the data dumps I wouldn't have a problem with it. I'm sure some of our resident statisticians will be sure to whip up some fun graphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T19:05:17.750" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3481" CreationDate="2009-08-18T19:10:07.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excel churns endlessly, so 8 minutes is pretty good by comparison!  :-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T19:10:07.663" />
  <row Id="15234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15214" CreationDate="2009-08-18T19:34:55.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you &lt;strong&gt;really want&lt;/strong&gt;, add a comment here and I'll try it. &lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt; You'd need to accept that you might actually &lt;em&gt;lose more rep&lt;/em&gt; from other deleted posts etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other day somebody requesting a rep recalc lost ~450 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your head be it; there is no preview nor undo. Let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T19:34:55.150" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="15235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T19:55:25.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All you have to do to figure out if their regulars to the other sites, is to check their accounts tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1337?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/{userid}?tab=accounts&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the accounts that I have looked at, have more rep elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T19:55:25.403" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15198" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:03:38.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seldom need more than 2 tags... 3 tops&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I often even find myself thinking hard to come up with more tags to fill the 5 quota)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:03:38.740" />
  <row Id="15237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15240" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:07:55.580" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understand, community wiki doesn't generate reputation. But I think a question turned into a wiki still do. I have an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278026//1279123#1279123&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278026&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that has been turned into a wiki a while ago and I'm still earn rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I don't want to earn that rep ;) but I don't think this is how it was supposed to be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T22:12:55.953" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:12:55.953" Title="Community question with reputation" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15237" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:09:32.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question can become wiki without changing the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the poster manually changes the question to CW or edit threshold is reached, then your answer won't change, but all of the new answers posted will be CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets auto CWed by &gt;30 (different number for different sites) answers everything associated to the post becomes CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T20:30:51.150" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:30:51.150" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15237" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:11:21.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question starts as CW, all answers to that question are CW, the answerer has no choice. If a question is switched after being asked to CW, this does not force all answers to CW. My guess is you're referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278026/are-there-any-good-metaphors-for-explaining-project-complexity-to-a-non-programme/1279123#1279123&quot;&gt;your answer&lt;/a&gt; to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278026&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. While the question is now CW, your answer is not, and therefore you can still receive reputation from voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:11:21.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15244" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:12:53.107" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to reported a bug but I wasn't sure about it. So I wanted to tag it &quot;possible bug&quot; instead of bug. But the system won't let me : must include one of these tags -- bug feature-request discussion support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:30:33.963" Title="&quot;Possible bug&quot; tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15229" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:14:42.883" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was already public information, I would be all for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it's not &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; public information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely they will put anything in the Public Data Dump that is not already publicly visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T20:17:12.223" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:17:12.223" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15241" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:17:35.547" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about it (too much).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag it as a bug.  If it isn't the community will fix your tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T20:26:49.070" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:26:49.070" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15241" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:20:30.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You report it as a bug.  If it turns out not to be a bug, it will be retagged &lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt;, and all is well.  Nobody will be mad at you for tagging a possible bug as a bug, that's what bug tracking is all about. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:20:30.970" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:26:12.097" Score="1" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11017/what-are-the-most-upvoted-downvoted-questions-and-answers-on-the-sites&quot;&gt;What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the meltdown which just happened on SO question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1296135/can-you-explain-what-this-code-fragment-is-doing&quot;&gt;Can you explain what this code fragment is doing?&lt;/a&gt;, I've got to wonder what was the most down voted question on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:26:12.097" ClosedDate="2009-08-18T20:33:21.833" Title="What's the most downvoted question or answer on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15323" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:48:02.770" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question on SO yesterday, which was later migrated to meta (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1288308/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14943/&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gained 46 reputation on this answer, and it remains on my account even though the question is now on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't this reputation have been undone when the question was moved, or is there some sort of scheduled recalculation of reputation I'm unaware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fake Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;When I tried to post this, it was originally rejected since it didn't include a tag of bug, feature-request, discussion, or support. Where is this documented, and why aren't we told BEFORE submitting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T02:10:03.843" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T05:10:40.720" Title="Why isn't reputation gained/lost by a question undone when a question is migrated between sites?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15254" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:50:51.937" Score="10" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the interest of being nice to new players...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the FAQ page &lt;strong&gt;for Meta only&lt;/strong&gt;, since it's bit of a different beast than the others, the verbiage talking about downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you post something that's off topic&#xA;  or incorrect, it will be voted down:&#xA;  you lose 2 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should include a quick blurb about getting downvoted for people not agreeing with the question / suggestion / proposal / ...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you post something that's off&#xA;  topic, incorrect, or that those in the&#xA;  community generally disagree with, it&#xA;  will be voted down: you lose 2&#xA;  reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before you flame me, consider:&lt;/strong&gt;  This should help to curb &quot;WTF, why did this get downvoted&quot; comment wars thus reducing the load on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, now you can flame me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T07:57:12.717" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T07:57:12.717" Title="Meta FAQ page should include more verbiage about downvotes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;faq-update-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15249" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:51:17.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a offline rep recalculation which is also used to check for bogus voting patterns. However if I recall migrations do not preserve the initial rep even after being moved. Jeff covered the topic in detail &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/migrate-questions-between-websites/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T05:10:40.720" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T05:10:40.720" />
  <row Id="15253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15251" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:57:12.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing will curb the &quot;WTF, why did this get downvoted&quot; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:57:12.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15251" CreationDate="2009-08-18T20:59:52.810" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Still woefully inaccurate. Should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you post something that's off topic, incorrect, or that those in the community generally disagree with, or at least &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; in the community disagrees with, or just doesn't like your phrasing or is having a bad day, or thinks you're getting uppity, or mis-clicks while trying to capture the permalink... it will be voted down: you lose 2 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T20:59:52.810" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15251" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:17:13.837" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of downvote reasons on Meta:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suggestion is deemed stupid/waste of time/unnecessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Response is incorrect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just because&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trying to stir things up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Off Topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone Disagrees&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone Else Downvoted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voter is having a bad day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Miss-Click&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Helping their post sort to the top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put the author in their place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't like a particular user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Author's Gravatar is ugly/looks like a Vampire&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone thinks it's opposite day. (Brad Gilbert)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voter's monitor is upside-down (essentially mmyers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put voters rep on a cool number (1337, 666, 42, 10,000)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;Work in progress&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, downvotes in meta are not something to get your undies in a bunch about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T21:42:40.337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T21:42:40.337" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T21:17:22.587" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:26:59.900" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I-Shot-The-Sheriff&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded when your answer, submitted after one from a moderator, is accepted.  Could be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T21:26:59.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T21:26:59.900" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15229" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:36:19.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To those who assume that exposing this information would be subject to abuse: yes, it could possibly be abused--but I think that the benefits would offset the risk by a fair deal.  For one thing, the community would continue to retag questions that were wrongly tagged just to draw attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the currently provided data can be easily used to see the list of tags applied to a user's questions.  I can easily look at user X, query their posts, and aggregate the tags of their posts into a rough profile of what they are &lt;em&gt;working&lt;/em&gt; on, it's likely to be a subset of what they are &lt;em&gt;interested&lt;/em&gt; in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; one C# developer might realize that C# is just the language he uses to work with the framework, so he might tag all his questions with just &lt;code&gt;[.NET]&lt;/code&gt;, another might tag their BCL questions with &lt;code&gt;[C#]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[.NET]&lt;/code&gt;, and another might confuse the language for the framework and tag all their questions as just &lt;code&gt;[C#]&lt;/code&gt;.  However, the same group of user's may all have both tags in their Interesting Tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far the only good reason not to include this data is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1337/brad-gilbert&quot;&gt;Brad&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15229/include-users-interesting-and-ignored-tags-in-the-data-dump/15243#15243&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;.  The opponents of the idea seem to be paranoid that the data is ripe for abuse--because what I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to know is whether I can get more spam-hits by tagging questions with Viagra or Enzyte&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastEditorUserId="132612" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T16:49:43.177" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T16:49:43.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:42:10.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Competitor&lt;/strong&gt; (Probably Silver)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reaching 10K Rep, every 2 weeks there is a calculation taken of everyone else on the site with over 10K rep. Whoever has the most upvotes in the past 2 weeks gets this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who won in one of the last 2 rounds is taken out of the running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T21:42:10.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T21:42:10.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15274" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:48:22.010" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow&quot;&gt;Post Overflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a long, unbroken line of backticked code in a comment, it will cause the comments container to overflow out of the box.  Here is a screenshot from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1296571/what-happens-when-java-compiler-sees-many-string-concatenations-in-one-line/1296580#1296580&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4015/overflow.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reproduced on FF3 and Chrome for XP (but not on IE8, surprisingly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T00:48:25.900" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T00:48:25.900" ClosedDate="2009-08-19T00:48:19.300" Title="Comments overflow on long line of backticked code" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15259" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:55:33.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;DUPLICATEaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa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limited to comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T22:56:51.950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:56:51.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-18T21:55:43.790" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15219" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:56:28.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we are the same people, but not always with the same name.  I am Rich B over on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T21:56:28.843" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T21:58:22.927" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make it easier for a user to stay informed about votes on their questions and answers, how about making an RSS feed available which is updated every time someone votes (up or down) on their contributions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each RSS update could consist of a link to the question or answer, whether it's an up or down vote, and the reputation change (+10 or -2, or 0 for Community Wiki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45552" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T01:52:13.633" Title="RSS feed for votes on user's questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="15263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:04:44.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Worst case scenario: you ask a question that's already been asked, but just phrase it differently. People will post links to the other question. In the future, anyone looking for the answer to that question can find multiple questions on the subject, each with different terms to search. It makes the info easier to access. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:04:44.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:06:43.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question! everyone should see this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever possible, don't just dump all of your code on us and ask us to fix it &quot;even if you give us the error messages.&quot; That means we have to compile/view it in a browser to analyze it. Be nice, and try to reproduce the problem with the smallest amount of code possible. I don't care about every single class in your file, or every bit of css style (we only want the relevant stuff). This makes it easier for us, and anyone else viewing your question in the future to understand the problem. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and try to avoid exclamation marks at all costs, and use good grammar and descriptive titles. No one likes the class &quot;plzzz hulp meee&quot; tagged only &quot;programming&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:06:43.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:54:34.610" />
  <row Id="15265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15211" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:14:06.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community bumps two unanswered questions per hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, our definition of &quot;unanswered&quot; is that a question has no &lt;em&gt;upvoted&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:14:06.717" />
  <row Id="15266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12002" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:16:40.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;match to title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;match to body&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;match to tags (very heavily weighted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an aspect of &quot;garbage in, garbage out&quot; here. If you have a bad title, bad body, and bad tags (and by 'bad' I mean use words nobody else tends to use, when describing the same things) then you'll get bad results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to change related questions, &lt;strong&gt;retag things&lt;/strong&gt;. The general philosophy is that like things should be tagged similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:16:40.253" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15322" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:19:34.660" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feature request &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3369/order-favorites-by-the-date-they-were-marked-as-favorite&quot;&gt;Order favorites by the date they were marked as favorite&lt;/a&gt; got implemented, and I used it to find questions most recently added to favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now there is something wrong with 'preferences' tab: you can sort preferences by 'recent', 'views', &lt;strong&gt;'newest'&lt;/strong&gt;, 'votes': &lt;strong&gt;there is no &lt;em&gt;'latest'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (it was here). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'recent' has &quot;sort by recent activity&quot; tooltip (title), 'views' has &quot;sort by most viewed&quot;, 'votes' has &quot;sort by highest votes&quot;... and 'newest' has &quot;sort by newest&quot;, which explains &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt;.  It looks like 'newest' sorts by the time question was asked, not when question was added as favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a regression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I remember that last question I marked as favorite was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/124764/are-mutexes-needed-in-javascript&quot;&gt;Are Mutexes needed in javascript?&lt;/a&gt; (nb. I don't see anywhare information about when question was marked as favorite), and in my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/46058/jakub-narebski&quot;&gt;profile page&lt;/a&gt;, when I choose ''newest' (there is no 'latest' as described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3369/order-favorites-by-the-date-they-were-marked-as-favorite&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt; for this feature) this question is neither first, nor last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T10:30:47.187" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T10:31:15.593" Title="Order favorites by the date they were marked as favorite does not work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3734" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:22:33.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a quick search (say, one or two pages of google) doesn't turn up the answer then I think it's reasonable to ask on SO.  Because SO tends to turn up on the first page, so if you get a good answer, you'll be saving searching time and effort for everyone who follows you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, if enteriong your question subject into google verbatim yields an answer on the first page, be prepared for at least some sarcasm ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:22:33.127" />
  <row Id="15269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15267" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:25:04.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Newest&quot; does not sort by the time asked.  It looks to be the order favorited, at least according to my memory of my favoriting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:25:04.773" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:27:36.673" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there isn't already one I just missed, can we start some kind of &quot;official list&quot; of common questions and answers? For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1296892/c-interface-implementation-and-generic-collections-question&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has been asked a gazillion times [literally :)] but I don't know of (or if there is) one really solid, authoritative Skeet-like question/answer we can always point back to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to have some central list for those kinds of common topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; To clarify, this would not be for normal end-users. Obviously they couldn't manage to find any of the duplicates, so I don't expect them to look at this list either. I have in mind a list for mods and pseudo-mods like myself, so when I see a question I know is a dupe many times over, I don't have to go hunting for the best question - I can just check the list which &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; maintain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T22:40:08.473" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:52:43.237" Title="official list of common questions/answers for dupes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15270" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:33:03.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt that would be very helpful. If someone isn't going to take the time to search SO thoroughly before asking a question, they probably aren't going to read through a long list of questions either (if they can even find &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; on the site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and I doubt it will be helpful to closers wanting to link to duplicates, because they can probably find the duplicates quickly anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:33:03.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15259" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:34:44.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So how can you fix it -- programatically insert line breaks into long lines (outside code blocks)?  What happens in IE8?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:34:44.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15259" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:38:51.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed and deemed &quot;bydesign&quot; see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow&quot;&gt;Post Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:38:51.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48492" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:42:26.707" Score="12" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8026/question-migration-does-not-maintain-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;Question migration does not maintain accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not referring to the fact that migrated questions will appear to lose their answers when they get migrated to a different site, but when they actually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; get migrated, the answers keep their upvotes, downvotes, and comments, but if an answer was accepted pre-migration, it will no longer be considered accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this how its suppose to work? If it is, why would a question be considered unresolved just because it moved sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I considered the possibility that the OP might have unmarked it as accepted before it got migrated, but that doesn't seem likely.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-07T06:13:01.547" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T06:13:01.547" ClosedDate="2011-06-07T06:12:18.430" Title="Migrated questions losing their accepted answers?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15270" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:43:20.277" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the &quot;uservoice&quot; days, I proposed this in the context of having a tag-specific home page, editable by users with enough rep (perhaps in that tag, perhaps just &quot;some value&quot;). Similar to &quot;stats&quot;, but user content. This would be useful for common dups in an area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: found it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1195/allow-a-per-tag-home-faq-page&quot;&gt;Allow a per-tag home/FAQ page&lt;/a&gt; ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, without trying it, I don't know whether this would be a help or a burden...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:43:20.277" />
  <row Id="15277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:48:42.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I definitely would play it - if it's done nicely, of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as others pointed out, game design is hard to get right. And as a computer guy, I would say it's even harder for board games then for computer games. So here's a little tale about my atempt to design a game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A friend and I once tried to design a game which was a combination of sport, dexterity and stategy, and though our idea was kind of nice, it lacked proper balancing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need lots of testing, but we did not have test playes that were too motivated to play a non-fun game for hours, just to be told &lt;em&gt;&quot;Hey, stop it. We're reverting rule 652 to way it was three hours ago, and instead insert a new rule (#721) to fix that possible exploit of rule 124. Now start playing again...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some year's later I took a game design course at the university and it really helped me to understand what's been wrong with the game. I was given the chance to fix the game, write about that process, and hand this in as a coursework. It turned out that it was rather easy to simulate the game and write a simple AI that actually played that simulation. Even though  the simulation, the AI and the graphics were much to crude to be used for a computer game that would be fun to play, it turned out to be an invaluable tool to test the game balance. And it helped you find out if your rules cover every corner case - there's nothing worse than game rules that leave space for interpretation during the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see that some rules had large impact, so that minor changes could determine if a game was typically won after 5 turs (too quick), 80 turns (just right) or didn't end in a reasonable number of turns (I quit that simulation after 10000 turns). The AI happily did what my real testers didn't want to ;) Of course, the AI could not really tell if the game was fun, but my real-world-tests had shown could have been fun it had been balanced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never thought I might find an interested audience for it, because how often do you meet people who are interested in both programming and non-computer game design? But if anyone here is interested, you can download the full document as &lt;a href=&quot;http://brianschimmel.de/stonegame-small.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ultra-low-quality pdf file&lt;/a&gt; (19 pages, 592 kB).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having that said, if there is still a group of you willing to make that game, I'd be happy to support you, may it be by discussing the rules, implementing yet another AI-driven-balance-test or doing the graphic design. On the other hand, I have nearly no time to spare for this, so don't count on me too hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132211" LastEditorUserId="132211" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-18T22:54:42.267" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:54:42.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15275" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:50:46.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acceptance status should not go away because of migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  I can see where my statement was somewhat vague, I meant that the behavior shouldn't be allowed to happen, but I believe the poster that it probably is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T01:09:20.383" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:09:20.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15270" CreationDate="2009-08-18T22:52:43.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FAQs / lists of FAQs are great, if someone is willing and able to maintain them. I say &quot;someone&quot;, because otherwise they tend to either grow into AAQs or wither away and die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... If you want to start it and maintain it, i'll... up-vote it and probably use it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-18T22:52:43.237" />
  <row Id="15281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-08-18T23:02:59.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it shouldn't make a difference how many down votes and how many up votes there were, but that number on the side. If I get up voted 3 times, and down voted once, there would be a &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; on the left in between the arrows that let you vote up or down. It should get considered as 2 up votes, so 20 reputation, not 3 up votes (30 rep) minus 1 downvote (2 rep lost). So I think if the number is positive, it should be &lt;em&gt;num × 10&lt;/em&gt; reputation gained, if the number is positive, &lt;em&gt;num × &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; lost (or maybe 5). The so basically a down vote in the positive area makes you lose 10 points, but you just gained those points so I think its fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133685" LastEditorUserId="133685" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T14:03:20.320" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:03:20.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T02:52:51.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:28:22.717" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't see how &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1296571/what-happens-when-java-compiler-sees-many-string-concatenations-in-one-line/1296580#1296580&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; could be considered by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4015/overflow.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T00:28:22.717" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:38:52.290" Score="10" ViewCount="536" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one that finds all the &quot;+1&quot; comments annoying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example comment might look something like &quot;+1 nice answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sorts of comments, without any kind of explanation or exposition, but a mindless &quot;yeah me too!&quot;, don't add to the answer; they just add noise to the discussion. The whole purpose of up-voting an answer is to indicate that the answer is useful or correct, so if all you have to say is &quot;me too&quot;, then doesn't an upvote or downvote suffice for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that if you've already upvoted, there's no need to follow up with a comment of &quot;+1 blah blah blah&quot; &lt;strong&gt;when the comment you're adding does not add something meaningful to the answer or the discussion of it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish there was a way to down-vote these non-value added comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(ed: now you can! &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary/15292#15292&quot;&gt;flag noise comments with the new comment flag reason of &quot;noise&quot;&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134115" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T08:57:02.183" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T08:57:02.183" Title="Are all the &quot;+1&quot; comments really necessary?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15290" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:43:41.350" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, I don't like them either. I'm actually ok with flagging meaningless comments like this, since &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there's no actual penalty to the user when a flagged comment is removed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the flagging comment process is basically 100% automated and doesn't require any mod intervention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, this is why we require 50 rep for comments, to stave off the mindless stuff until people get their training wheels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: &lt;strong&gt;added &quot;noise&quot; as reason for comment flagging. Please use it on egregious non-value add comments that are noise and not signal.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T06:58:36.667" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T06:58:36.667" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="15293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15290" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:43:53.003" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to give a reason for my upvotes often times to give more context. I like to point out what exactly I agree with or to strike up points in which the author of the question/answer may have not included. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like it, then don't read them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T00:43:53.003" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15290" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:45:24.233" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how you feel about &quot;-1&quot; comments, but since I've gotten into the habit of asking a downvoter why he downvoted me, I've been trying to always give a reason for a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T00:45:24.233" />
  <row Id="15295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15290" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:51:35.333" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes put in &quot;+1&quot; comments but they always come with something that I feel is worth noting. That could be lots of things: a caveat, some comment of why this answer and not one of the others or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the answer is simply correct (or I just agree with it if its subjective in the context of answering the OP's question) then I won't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T00:51:35.333" />
  <row Id="15297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:54:31.273" Score="34" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, which one of you jokers (oh, and I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; it was one of you) did this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://expert-sex-change.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://expert-sex-change.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't bother looking up the WHOIS, it's anonymized through GoDaddy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for the record, I have nothing against &quot;That Hyphenated Site&quot;. I for one applaud what they do, because &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001246.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;they make our life so, &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; very easy&lt;/a&gt;. Don't ever change, you magnificent bastards!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2011-04-09T19:10:41.753" Title="On &quot;That Hyphenated Site&quot;" Tags="&lt;fun&gt;&lt;experts-exchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="15298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15297" CreationDate="2009-08-19T00:59:12.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not subtle enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T00:59:12.190" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:05:16.300" Score="18" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15289/meta-faq-should-be-updated-to-reflect-recent-league-of-justice-additions&quot;&gt;made a meta feature-request&lt;/a&gt;, and in the process ran into a rather terrible user experience. The gist of it is that after submitting, I was given the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* 'meta-meta, league-of-justice, faq, trivial, feature-request ' contains a tag reserved for moderator use&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I have 5 tags there. Which bloody one? I had to muddle through removing each one trying to figure out which it was that caused this to happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't you just tell me which one is restricted to moderator use? Or better yet just &lt;strong&gt;restrict it to moderator use&lt;/strong&gt;, and not let it populate in the tag auto-complete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53189" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-19T07:18:04.313" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T07:18:04.313" Title="Be specific about which tags are restricted for moderator use" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="15300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15299" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:09:42.223" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excluding reserved tags from the autocomplete seems like a no-brainer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if someone types them in anyway, I feel the system should just strip them out while publishing the question, rather than failing with an error message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:09:42.223" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="65" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:15:51.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two final stats are interesting:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=20&amp;amp;chd=e:AAABALBDTG..z2bdOzJPGXEiDECWBvBPAfAA&amp;amp;chtt=Time%20to%20first%20answer&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|1s|2s|7s|20s|54s|2m|6m|18m|49m|2h|6h|16h|1d|5d|13d|37d|102d|279d|1:|0|30%&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=20&amp;amp;chd=e:AAACAKAzM62u..t7dJS8OGLMIIGVEHC9BaAE&amp;amp;chtt=Time%20to%20best%20answer&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|1s|2s|7s|20s|54s|2m|6m|18m|49m|2h|6h|16h|1d|5d|13d|37d|102d|279d|1:|0|23%&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that most don't get a better answer than the first one. That either means that they don't bother to answer again, or that their latter ones are worse than the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we have a &quot;Time to second answer&quot; graph?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:15:51.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15290" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:16:54.680" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &quot;-1 this answer opens a remote root exploit&quot; or the like, seems reasonable: you've down-voted the answer because it's a bad answer, but also told the poster &quot;that was me, and here's why&quot;.  Otherwise the poster may be left scratching their head wondering why they got dinged.  (I know I have.)  And taking ownership of the down-vote gives some additional legitimacy to it in my mind.... a real user did this, not just some anonymous coward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:16:54.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:21:47.103" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15289/meta-faq-should-be-updated-to-reflect-recent-league-of-justice-additions&quot;&gt;last asked a question&lt;/a&gt;, I was thrown to a captcha page 3 times in the process of trying to figure out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15299/be-specific-about-which-tags-are-restricted-for-moderator-use&quot;&gt;which tag was for moderator use only&lt;/a&gt;. This was really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After proving that I'm not a robot once in editing a question, why should I need to do so any more times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53189" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T21:45:44.390" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T21:45:44.390" Title="Is it really neccesary to throw us to captchas more than once while asking a question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15305" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:24:17.320" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, when viewing the &quot;newest questions&quot; page, I see some of the questions are highlighted due to them having one of my &quot;interesting&quot; tags.  However, the list of interesting tags on the right side of that page have no counts beside them, just an &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;.  I thought they used to have the number of questions on the page with that tag.  Shouldn't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is with Firefox 3.5.2-2 on Fedora 11, if that matters.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T02:05:15.210" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T02:05:15.210" ClosedDate="2009-08-19T02:05:39.263" Title="&quot;interesting tags&quot; on the &quot;newest questions&quot; page are missing counts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15304" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:26:14.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ooooh.  Those &quot;x&quot;'s are for deleting the interesting tags, not multipliers like the &quot;x&quot;'s near the tags down lower.   That wasn't ... obvious ... to me, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps giving a shaded background circle in the same size as what shows up when you hover over them?  That might help differentiate them visually...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:26:14.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15304" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:26:47.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They never have for me. The only place I've seen the tag counts you're talking about are in the actual questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:26:47.330" />
  <row Id="15307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15303" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:27:48.857" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But what if between request #1 and #2, you were turned &lt;em&gt;INTO&lt;/em&gt; a robot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:27:48.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-24T04:42:58.517" Score="11" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I really like Stack OverFlow and appreciate it, I always get useful answer and information from it, but English is my second language, therefore, when I submit my question, some of guys could not understand it clearly, so I want to know what’s the best way to ask a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Summarize my question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add some sample codes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May attach a screenshot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135214" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-01T15:42:28.397" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T15:42:28.397" Title="What’s the best way to ask a question if English isn't your first language?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;non-english-speakers&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="15309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T04:47:15.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, your English seems better than that of some of the supposed native speakers on SO. :) I think it is very acceptable to have an occasional small but relevant screenshot. Also, sample code is preferred to help people give you a specific answer to your question. I wouldn't stress over this, just make sure you understand your problem well and try to communicate it as briefly as you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138665" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T04:48:16.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're not sure how to word the question, the best way to get an answer is to make a good effort at solving the problem, and if you get stuck, post all of the applicable code and config file settings.  Try to pinpoint where you think the problem is occurring.  If it's an exception or error, post the stack trace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60096" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T04:48:27.130" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write the question the way it actually reflects the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write clearly which technology/tools you are using.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write the problem you are facing and why do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think it is a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add code/snapshots wherever applicable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T04:48:33.527" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should say as clearly as you can what you're trying to do, and what problem you're having getting it done.  The problem can take the form of &quot;what you expected&quot; and &quot;what you actually got&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since your English is weak, it might be a good idea to state the objective and the problem two or three different ways. As a technical writer, I often find that saying things two or three different ways is the key to making something clear. In verbal communication, we can stop when we get the feedback from the person we're talking to that the concept is clear. In writing, we need to assume the first pass isn't clear, and explain it anew using completely different words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample code is helpful if it's broken, it usually makes the question clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154250" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T04:56:20.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from your previous questions, you have made yourself pretty clear, so you don't have to worry about that. Try to tag your questions correctly though, as it could greatly improve the chance of getting answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And watch for the typos. :)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/415856/how-to-dectect-new-or-modified-files&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/415856/how-to-dectect-new-or-modified-files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T04:58:35.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English is my third language.&#xA;Here is the solution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read a lot of questions, this will give you an insight of how 'we ask'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read replies, so you can understand your future answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read a lot, you'll be able to write your own questions, here are some advices&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put a simple descriptive title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain what's your problem is, including code or screen shot is not useful, try to explain what you want to do and how you want it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;include the language, the version, the OS platform&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't use crappy 'chat' language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope those tips helps getting you started&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T05:10:08.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times you will make a good effort but still ask a question in a suboptimal way. If that's the case - learn from your mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note what other people ask for in comments - it's likely that they are unable to get your problem and start helping unless you clarify. Most probably you should give the same level details the next time you ask a similar question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how other people edit your question (if any) - alter wording to clarify meaning, fix typos, change or add (highly likely) tags. If that happens it's likely you should alter the way you ask your questions next times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-03-24T07:04:58.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be ready to answer to comments to your question and edit your question accordingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to ask questions the smart way&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%5FS.%5FRaymond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eric Raymond&lt;/a&gt; ; this certainly applies here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are asking questions in a forum&#xA;  that does not use your native&#xA;  language, you will get a limited&#xA;  amount of slack for spelling and&#xA;  grammar errors — but no extra slack at&#xA;  all for laziness (and yes, we can&#xA;  usually spot that difference). Also,&#xA;  unless you know what your respondent's&#xA;  languages are, write in English. Busy&#xA;  hackers tend to simply flush questions&#xA;  in languages they don't understand,&#xA;  and English is the working language of&#xA;  the Internet. By writing in English&#xA;  you minimize your chances that your&#xA;  question will be discarded unread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131817" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:12.127" />
  <row Id="15317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6480" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:33:37.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, inspired by Stephen A. Lowe's comment about &quot;playing Jon Skeet&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make up cards based on the top N users, where N is maybe 100.  Each player card has a score (based on rep, but adjusted to some scale, perhaps 1-10) and one or more tag+modifiers.  e.g. John Fouhy might have a score of 3 and a modifier of python×2.  Alex Martelli has a score of 8 and a modifier of python×5.  Jon Skeet has a score of 10 and C#×5 and Java×5.  Perhaps negative tags as well (this player knows nothing about xx).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also make a bunch of tag tokens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start the game, shuffle the player cards and distribute them to the players.  Also distribute the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each turn, one player must ask a question, by playing a small number of tags.  Other players then answer by playing player cards face down.  After everyone has played, the player cards are revealed and people score points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scoring would be based on the player's reputation and how well their tags match.  Playing Jon Skeet on a C# question will score better than playing him on a C++ question, which will score better than playing him on a Python question.  The highest scoring card played earns an accepted-answer bonus.  The question scores based on the answers played in some fashion (the single highest score?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the questioner role moves to the left and play continues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible variations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questioner gets to choose which answer to accept.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers can be played in several rounds.  Earlier plays get revealed, but have their modifier improved.  e.g. a python question comes up and I play John Fouhy, while you pass.  After my card is revealed, you decide to play S.Lott.  My python modifier goes from *2 to *3 as fastest gun in the west.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The player cards are separated into tiers, so that everyone gets (say) 2 A cards, 5 B cards, and 15 C cards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously I'm no game designer so there's a lot to be improved here, particularly the scoring.  It shouldn't come down to &quot;if you get the right top 2 or 3 cards, you win&quot;.  But I think the idea has potential :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:33:37.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-08-11T13:23:35.377" />
  <row Id="15318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15297" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:41:13.500" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you asked a question about a sex change on SO, would somebody try answering it before it got closed for the rep? I'm willing to put $10 on &quot;Yes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:41:13.500" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15303" CreationDate="2009-08-19T01:46:44.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Howabout instead of showing a captcha just after &quot;Post Your Answer&quot; is clicked  under suspicious circumstances, the captcha page is only shown at the very end of the journey. That is, once the question/answer/whatever is &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; verified, the user is given a captcha if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53189" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T01:46:44.007" />
  <row Id="15322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15267" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:08:23.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See my comment, above -- there's a misunderstanding about how this works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since sorting by &quot;date favorited&quot; would require a fairly complex join to the votes table, this is unlikely to be implemented in the form you are requesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I had a change of heart on this, so there is now an &quot;added&quot; sort on the favorites tab, which sorts by the date you added a question to your favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T10:31:15.593" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T10:31:15.593" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15249" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:10:35.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;rep recalcs are cripplingly expensive, and would destroy performance on the production site if done dynamically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, they are done offline, and not on any official schedule as of yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T02:10:35.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15308" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:12:46.773" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody seems to have mentioned - Quote this at the end of each question or answer you ask (in italics):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;English is not my first language, please edit for clarity, then remove this comment!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this will cause users to be much more willing to give you a little leeway, much more likely to answer, and much more likely to edit your question into being more readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, your English seems pretty darn good to me - better than mine, and i'm from England! :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94131" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T02:12:46.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5837" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:22:16.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this change has been reverted and [winforms] is now the correct tag, yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T02:22:16.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15299" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:46:39.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag you were having issue with was probably the FAQ tag, which I believe is moderator only now. But I do agree with being able to explicitly say &quot;Hey, don't add that tag&quot; instead of &quot;Hey, one of your tags isn't allowed&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T02:46:39.323" />
  <row Id="15327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15344" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:52:08.190" Score="1" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last week, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;Kyle Cronin&lt;/a&gt; noticed that we had put up some Server Fault ads (both on SO and TDWTF) and started the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14347/love-the-new-server-fault-ad&quot;&gt;Love the new Server Fault ad!&lt;/a&gt; discussion. So my question is... what should the Super User ads look like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we go with the same look/concept as the Server Fault ads (i.e. the logo with fun copy), then what should the copy be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a good amount of concepts to work with in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14347/love-the-new-server-fault-ad&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:07:46.253" Title="What should the SuperUser ads look like?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="24" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:55:02.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something revolving around this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.oddpic.com/data/528/death-by-keyboard.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this doesn't surmise the agony felt by users who can't get something to work, I don't know what will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser: Where Alex generates ad revenue AND trolls for future content :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T03:15:28.583" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:15:28.583" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T02:58:12.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I insist--nay, demand--that all ads are accompanied by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGu9yxdbFio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this song&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, all text should be to the effect of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[superuser: hell yeah}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T03:17:52.120" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:17:52.120" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15061" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:00:45.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was one question were I flagged for moderator attention, &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only did this, because I was looking through old questions, and it was unlikely anyone else would find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:00:45.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15056" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:04:07.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I think they should be able to,  ...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;... if they were the one that asked the question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:04:07.387" />
  <row Id="15335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:06:55.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All Punch-The-Monkey, All The Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:06:55.307" />
  <row Id="15336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:09:56.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something revolving around this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.theburningbiscuit.com/Pictures%20for%20site/Demotivational%20Posters/customercare.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:09:56.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-19T03:10:09.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:12:03.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ... because the computers &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; hate you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:12:03.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:14:56.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt; ...maybe a sledgehammer will fix it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:14:56.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:17:59.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt; ...experience is made from mistakes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:17:59.590" />
  <row Id="15340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:19:47.263" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;...after you've turned it off and back on again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:19:47.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15343" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:20:59.990" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that in this thread: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/25052/how-can-i-select-to-keep-data-from-a-chosen-site-when-i-clear-private-data&quot;&gt;How can I select to keep data from a chosen site when I clear Private data&lt;/a&gt;, most of the names aren't clickable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T07:34:00.620" Title="Why are some (user)names not clickable?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:21:04.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt; ...have you tried reinstalling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;meh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:21:04.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-19T03:22:58.020" />
  <row Id="15343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15341" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:22:17.023" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question got migrated from StackOverflow and the user doesn't have a linked account on SuperUser. Therefore, it's a ghost account. They can reclaim the post by associating their account with a SuperUser one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:22:17.023" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:25:35.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt; ... vigilante IT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt; ... taking IT into our own hands&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:25:35.223" />
  <row Id="15345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:27:48.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ... because IT will never guess what we did&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ... because IT will never guess you did it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ... because those guys in IT are bored&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ... when you're tired of waiting for IT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="133671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T03:40:02.060" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:40:02.060" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:28:14.827" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... no that's NOT a cup holder&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:28:14.827" />
  <row Id="15347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:29:11.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;[&lt;/b&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ...&lt;code&gt;deltree /y c:\&lt;/code&gt; and call me in the morning&lt;b&gt;}&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:29:11.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:30:55.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... no, Mom, you don't belong here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:30:55.430" />
  <row Id="15349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:33:37.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;[&lt;/b&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ...well what in the hell did you do that for?&lt;b&gt;}&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:33:37.627" />
  <row Id="15350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="65" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:33:44.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a graph showing the number of views before getting the first answer. Perhaps something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                    Views before first answer&#xA;&#xA;  1-10  | ====&#xA; 11-20  | ======&#xA; 21-30  | =========&#xA; 31-40  | =====&#xA; 41-50  | ===&#xA;   &amp;gt;50  | =&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133050" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:33:44.303" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:34:38.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... I &lt;em&gt;told&lt;/em&gt; you, just freaking reboot already...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:34:38.763" />
  <row Id="15353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15629" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:44:46.933" Score="6" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now I realize many of you will say, &quot;what ad?&quot; -- but, we recently got this email from a reader with less than 200 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Twice now in the last 3 days, I've gone to Stack Overflow and have been&#xA;  confused by pages looking something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i27.tinypic.com/2dabpet.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of Ad&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have to manually check that I'm still on stackoverflow and not&#xA;  unexpectedly hanging out with a bunch of hippy sysadmin types. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The advertisement looks like navigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Disorienting? If so, any suggestions on how to make it more user-friendly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T09:34:26.807" Title="Are the Server Fault ads disorienting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15353" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:47:31.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Switch the order, and downsize the logo. It'll be less likely to confuse if the logo isn't top-left and/or most prominent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:47:31.293" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15353" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:48:15.287" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize the logos were that large. Wow. ServerFault seems more prominent than the actual logo for StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:48:15.287" />
  <row Id="15356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15353" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:56:59.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give it a yellow border or background like google does, to separate it from the rest of the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T09:34:26.807" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T09:34:26.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T03:57:08.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;[&lt;/b&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;  ...Because this is what your IT Dept does when they don't answer your calls.&lt;b&gt;}&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T03:57:08.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15360" CreationDate="2009-08-19T04:06:58.183" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I know how many close votes there are for a question I asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think it would be nice to see how many votes there are to close your question when you don't have enough rep. At least you have an idea about if you are asking good questions or not, becuase I sure don't get that much upvoting on my questions for whatever the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="131563" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T05:13:22.463" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T05:13:22.463" Title="How do you know how many close votes are on a question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T04:06:59.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ...you're not hitting it hard enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T04:06:59.523" />
  <row Id="15360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15358" CreationDate="2009-08-19T04:07:52.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have &gt; 3000 rep, it will tell you in parentheses. Then, you can click the close link to get the actual number (in parens) with each reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your own question, though, you need &gt; 250 rep to vote to close. Ironic, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1297550/direction-on-programming-language-platform-that-my-teenager-should-go-to-next&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Somebody voted to close as Too Localized. Why? I have no bloody clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T05:01:53.283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T05:01:53.283" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T04:12:05.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... wheel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T04:12:05.583" />
  <row Id="15362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15494" CreationDate="2009-08-19T04:12:17.297" Score="1" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about making flair look just like our representation on SO and related sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree totally that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/112/flair-should-be-more-distinctive-about-site-name&quot;&gt;it should be more distinctive about the site name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, the entire image should be clickable, not just the gravatar and id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how about something like this: (With apologies to Jon)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/img/flair.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Okay, okay, so I'm not the best artist. One of you can come up with something better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the idea is this: The flair, the way it is now, does not say StackOverflow or indicate what it is. You hover over it, and if you are lucky and hover over the image or id, it might say &quot;see my profile on StackOverflow&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to like my artwork, but I'd be surprised if noone agrees with the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And did you -1 me because I used a .jpg????  I should flag that comment as hate speech (someone who hates jpegs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9482/image-based-flair-downloadable-implementation-v2-1&quot;&gt;Andrew Moore offers another design&lt;/a&gt; that at least has StackOverflow front and center in it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/advanced-inverted-bg/StackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133783" LastEditorUserId="133783" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T04:57:26.427" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:12:38.850" Title="Flair should look more StackOverflowish" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15362" CreationDate="2009-08-19T04:14:19.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GAH! Flair should be a quick way to show off your awesomeness. We don't need to make it a monstrosity. There's a lot to be said for keeping it simple...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T04:14:19.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15358" CreationDate="2009-08-19T04:21:36.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On every question there is a little menu where the flag and edit buttons are. The more rep you have, the more options you see next to it. At 3,000 rep, you can see the 'Close' menu which will say next to it how many votes are currently in place to close or reopen the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if it is your question, you can see the same menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T04:21:36.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15341" CreationDate="2009-08-19T07:06:45.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For completeness, there is a second cause of this; if the poster's account has been &lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt; for whatever reason, then they show in that way. There are various reasons to be deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an account that never did much (perhaps asked one question then vanished) and has been idle for a significant time (months) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;may be automatically deleted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sometimes accounts are deleted on request by the user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and sometimes accounts are deleted for inappropriate activity (although in most of these cases we're talking about the pure-spam / pure-troll accounts, and we'd likely delete all their posts as well as their account - so you wouldn't see these posts unless you have 10k)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T07:34:00.620" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T07:34:00.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T07:32:13.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... Have you restarted your computer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T07:46:30.580" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T07:46:30.580" />
  <row Id="15375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T07:34:28.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... Where is the any key?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T07:34:28.077" />
  <row Id="15376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T07:36:38.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... Because everyone is a user someday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T07:36:38.697" />
  <row Id="15377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T07:38:42.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; ... Because I don't want to pay someone $60+/hr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T07:46:48.970" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T07:46:48.970" />
  <row Id="15378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15083" CreationDate="2009-08-19T07:58:50.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in the link that you posted has been edited at least once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can click the &quot;Edited X hours ago&quot; link. This will bring up an interface containing the revision history. Find the appropriate version and click the &quot;view source&quot; link. This way you can see exactly what the author typed when he asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This method is useful whenever you see some kind of of formatting that you'd wish to know how the author achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post has not been edited, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1690/can-i-view-the-markdown-source-of-an-unedited-question-answer/1691#1691&quot;&gt; this method&lt;/a&gt; to access the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T07:58:50.727" />
  <row Id="15379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13727" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:08:55.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a fix for this in place now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not too terribly concerned about the extra silver Enthusiast badges awarded up to this point, but we have to be a bit more protective of our gold (Fanatic) badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T08:08:55.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6834" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:09:08.223" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a fix for this in place now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not too terribly concerned about the extra silver Enthusiast badges awarded up to this point, but we have to be a bit more protective of our gold (Fanatic) badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T08:09:08.223" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15383" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:12:34.643" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes come across double posts (the exact same question, same user, posted within a short time). An example is this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1298411/how-to-include-html-contents-from-another-site-i-have-access-to-both-sites&quot;&gt;first&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1298418/how-to-include-html-contents-from-another-site-i-have-access-to-both-sites&quot;&gt;second&lt;/a&gt;, posted with a minute or two between them. My reaction was to vote to close the newer of the two questions, while I can see that someone voted to close the older of them. What would be the preferred way here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T08:17:05.587" Title="Double posts: close the older or newer one?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:15:33.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that someone in many non-English countries will create their own version of Stack Overflow in their own language. Then the &quot;market&quot; i.e. users will decide what they like. You can even start your own exact clone without writing any code for $129/month at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Stack Overflow doesn't need to do it for it to happen. If something like this is going to happen, it's better if independent people do it - that way they have to build their own credibility. Which amounts to: keep Stack Overflow English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-03T17:04:11.447" LastActivityDate="2010-07-03T17:04:11.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-19T08:15:33.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15381" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:16:44.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One had an upvote, so I deleted the other one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, just flag it for moderator attention. We can merge or delete as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T08:16:44.217" />
  <row Id="15385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15381" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:17:05.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case it really doesn't matter, as the posts contain the exact same text. In this case I would close the one without votes (as there's one already with a vote). In another case maybe it's better to keep the last one (maybe there are already some changes in the text).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But as it is here, it really doesn't matter. Maybe the better option is to flag it for moderator attention (like mentioned by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15381/double-posts-close-the-older-or-newer-one/15383#15383&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;) and the first mod that passes by it, will have to decide ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T08:17:05.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15391" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:47:12.283" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1298544/recommended-os-for-programmers-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1298544/recommended-os-for-programmers-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to answer the question AFTER it was closed. Ok, I started answering before this question was closed. Don't you think it would be nice to have an ability to inform user that question for which he is now writing an answer was closed in meantime?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as subjective and argumentative&#xA;  by 280Z28, Kirtan, Greg, Neil&#xA;  Butterworth, AraK 13 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;answered 12 mins ago smok1 1,775●1●13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastEditorUserId="130976" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T08:58:19.467" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T09:22:16.970" Title="Being able to answer closed question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15388" CreationDate="2009-08-19T08:55:25.137" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should have gotten the same notification that pops up when you've been gunned down in a Fastest Gun in the West quick draw, McGraw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you were able to hit the post button just before it was closing or on the edge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Close time:  08:43:25&#xA;Your answer: 08:44:50&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's quite the shave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T09:08:09.463" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T09:08:09.463" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15388" CreationDate="2009-08-19T09:22:16.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The notification does exist, but I believe the check for new answers etc is done on a polling basis, e.g. once per minute. (I haven't checked what the actual timing is.) It's quite feasible for you to have posted your answer before your browser did the next poll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T09:22:16.970" />
  <row Id="15394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T09:28:23.057" Score="2" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Opera I have observed that there is a lot of trailing space in the HTML source for the main page of Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;. Is there a reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2009-12-31/SOtrailingSpace_2009-08-19.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some opening div tags have 11 trailing spaces. There are also lines that only contain space, e.g. near the end of the HTML file. The&#xA;section near &quot;Recent Badges&quot; looks like it has been edited with an editor with automatic indention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To verify this and to prevent any manipulation by applications I have also used &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wget&lt;/a&gt; to retrieve the HTML and used &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uvviewsoft.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Universal Viewer&lt;/a&gt; to view it (all on Windows XP). It gave the same result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:45:58.757" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:45:58.757" Title="Unnecessary trailing whitespace in HTML source for Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;performance&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15452" CreationDate="2009-08-19T09:42:37.567" Score="7" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;After answering a question earlier, an earlier duplicate was identified - and they were sufficiently close that I felt a merge was warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some interesting and unexpected side-effects on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41479/1298268#1298268&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I got a necromancer badge because I had a new, upvoted answer on an old post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My answer remains non-wiki, even though the older question was wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first might be tricky to test for, but I wonder if the migrated answers should have picked up wiki status? Especially since I think it was wiki due to the number of answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do either of these count as a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T04:53:02.747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:53:02.747" Title="Merging, wikis, and necromancy" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15394" CreationDate="2009-08-19T10:00:45.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the fact that Jeff has spoken about minifying JavaScript files for bandwidth reasons in one of the recent podcasts, I think you have a valid point here. Of course the main page may not be requested as often as the JavaScript files, but it is probably the page with the most hits per day, so it's definitely worth looking into the bandwidth they could save here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And it's even worse than it could be, because they are using &lt;strong&gt;spaces&lt;/strong&gt; for indention &#xA;instead of &lt;strong&gt;tabs&lt;/strong&gt;!!! I wonder &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001254.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;who is responsible for that&lt;/a&gt;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T10:00:45.253" />
  <row Id="15400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15083" CreationDate="2009-08-19T10:25:19.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, I'm suddenly reminded of the DOS (and before) days of looking for the right border glyphs for the single/double border lines... sadly they don't seem to translate to most common modern type faces, but them were the days ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T10:25:19.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15394" CreationDate="2009-08-19T10:48:09.713" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I am a big fan of minifying JS and CSS, I'm not so hot on minifying output HTML. Some reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;HTML is dynamic, so you're paying that minify cost on every pageview; JS and CSS are cached and usually single-load, so the benefit vs. cost is much higher.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's nice to be able to view source on HTML and see something readable. (I use HTML view source far, far more often than view source on JS or CSS)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The basic removal of whitespace, etc, overlaps heavily with what gzip does. So after gzip, the total reduction of whitespace removal is only 10% overall -- if that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;                             Raw       Gzipped&#xA;                     -----------    ----------&#xA;default CSS          2,299 bytes     671 bytes&#xA;de-whitespaced CSS   1,758 bytes     615 bytes &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000807.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000807.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that doesn't seem worth the cost of #1 and #2 , to me..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T10:48:09.713" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T10:59:16.913" Score="2" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just wondering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work in Japan and almost all of my co-workers are of course Japanese who mostly do not read or write English. I often see them reading Japanese translation of books but to me these are not enough when I research for non-trivial problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually do go to the following sites: Experts-Exchange, ASP.NET, The Code Project, etc. These sites require English. It is one thing to memorize the syntax, it is another to read paragraphs of explanation in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any Japanese or foreigner in Stack Overflow? How do you search for non-reference or non-trivial problems in the web? I just want to know so maybe I could point that to my co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are usually lagging behind in new technology stuff especially in web/Ajax technology. Or even other new technology like other programming languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134148" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T19:13:29.967" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T19:13:29.967" Title="How are non-English readers researching for solutions online?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;non-english-speakers&gt;&lt;english&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15405" CreationDate="2009-08-19T11:09:46.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking from Poland, as I see all non-English speaking software developers here are extinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T11:09:46.503" />
  <row Id="15407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15405" CreationDate="2009-08-19T11:13:34.483" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As programmers I think they'd have quite a handicap not even reading English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff wrote about this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001248.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Ugly American Programmer&lt;/a&gt; and it's true: the language of programming is English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my own experience I can tell you that many if not most programming workplaces in Holland, Switzerland and Germany are in English. Most professional people (especially if under 30-40 years of age) will speak English as a second language and they probably learnt it in school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for anywhere else (non-English speaking) but any programmer who doesn't at least read English is doing themselves a real disservice to the point where they might be best off taking 3 months off work to do an English course for their own career prospects. I imagine the return on investment of that will be pretty darn short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T11:13:34.483" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-19T11:29:06.167" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it seems S.Lott is a prime perpetrator here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1291226/what-is-an-sdk-c&quot;&gt;What is an SDK? (C++)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you Googled C++ SDK what did you&#xA;  learn?&quot; (S.Lott, 4 upvotes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(now gone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and just now in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1299283/generating-pdfs-dynamically-in-servlets/1299302#1299302&quot;&gt;Generating PDF’S dynamically in servlets?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you Googled for &quot;creating PDF&#xA;  from servlet&quot; what did you learn? –&#xA;  S.Lott 44 secs ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1299040/what-are-the-4th-generation-languages&quot;&gt;what are the 4th generation languages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you queried wikipedia for&#xA;  &quot;fourth-generation programming&#xA;  language&quot; what did you see? – S.Lott&#xA;  51 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly I have no time for this. It's just completely unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T11:29:06.167" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15426" CreationDate="2009-08-19T12:41:41.580" Score="5" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;In answering &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15417&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about searching for users, I've noticed there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/157681/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;another Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;. The user hasn't done anything as far as I've seen, and &lt;em&gt;hasn't&lt;/em&gt; duplicated by my gravatar, but it's a concern nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be coincidence of course. There are certainly plenty of other Jon Skeets in real life... but should this be treated with suspicion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the curse of allowing non-unique usernames, of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T12:58:24.560" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:11:04.753" Title="What's the preferred approach for dealing with doppelgängers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15420" CreationDate="2009-08-19T12:47:09.797" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While your name has been (up to now) fairly unique, there are a lot of duplicate usernames in the rest of the population, which is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say just ignore it unless the dopplegänger proves to be an obvious nuisance or is deliberately trying to be deceitful.  Then you could report it (flag or team@stackoverflow.com) and let the admins take appropriate action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T12:53:50.633" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T12:53:50.633" />
  <row Id="15424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15420" CreationDate="2009-08-19T12:47:41.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kill them with fire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But other than that, I would say an email to a moderator or team@stackoverflow.com would probably be the best option to sort things like that out. I suppose a mod could then contact the user in question, or maybe even change the username. I know moderators can view the history of accounts, so it is possible they could see if the account had a previous username and then switch it back to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T12:47:41.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15420" CreationDate="2009-08-19T12:48:13.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you notice a user attempting to mimic yourself or someone else entirely, I would report it to the team (team@stackoverflow.com). Otherwise, if they just have the seem name, but seem to be doing anything to &quot;capitalize&quot; on your name, I would let it go. As you say, most of us have names that are shared by many throughout the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T12:48:13.320" />
  <row Id="15426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15420" CreationDate="2009-08-19T12:54:25.953" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely 100% flag for a moderator, especially if the second account is trolling / spamming (which we have seen before with clones). This happens periodically, and they are destroyed quickly. Thanks for highlighting this; the false Jon Skeet is no more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having this question on meta is good, but I think the &lt;strong&gt;general&lt;/strong&gt; approach should be moderator flags, as there isn't much debate necessary, nor much that anyone (other than the moderators) can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(caveat: yshuditelu's point about coincidence is well taken, but I don't think that is the case on this occasion)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T14:11:04.753" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:11:04.753" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15327" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:07:46.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt; - Because you really don't want to spend 2 hours on the phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:07:46.253" />
  <row Id="15429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:12:50.133" Score="5" ViewCount="524" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a Greasemonkey script that adds a CSS style to inline code in questions, answers, and comments (as discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2737/code-coloring-for-inline-code-in-answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2593/how-about-quoted-code-samples/2596#2596&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).  It does not affect large (pretty-printed) code blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/62159.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Install script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (requires GreaseMonkey)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/62159&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9707/codestyle.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T16:06:19.980" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:06:19.980" Title="Greasemonkey script to add style to inline code" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;style&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15437" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:26:05.123" Score="6" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to post links to your own blog/site as part of an answer or comment if you have a covered a particular topic in detail and it will assist or answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:26:06.117" Title="Is posting links to your own blog/site valid?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15432" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:28:14.947" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely. I do this all the time. Just make sure that the link is genuinely relevant, and post at least a summary of the text in your answer so that it's a useful answer on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've a sneaking suspicion this question is a dupe, but a quick search hasn't found one. Maybe someone else will have more luck.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the litmus test is whether you would have posted the same link even if it wasn't to your site. If so, I see no reason to deny readers useful information just because it's your own content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:28:14.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15432" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:28:47.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as your reasoning is sound and you have data to back up your claims, I don't see why this is a problem. Especially if you have a Yegge-length post to link to and you'd like to keep your responses here more concise with a link at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25664" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:28:47.740" />
  <row Id="15435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15432" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:29:02.217" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done this, but very rarely (around 2 or 3 times in over 1000 answers).  I do think it's acceptable if your previous post is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what the question is asking for.  I'd still add a summary of information on the site you're posting to (don't just drop a link), so the question is answered without going off site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:29:02.217" />
  <row Id="15436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15453" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:32:54.377" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a programmer that's pushed into analysing some project (without proper guidance!) and there are frequently some questions popping in my head which I can't find the answer to on the net. Would it be a problem if these were asked on stackoverflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I am designing this project for a company that sort of manages a list of Members (institutes, associations, universities, ...). Each member has a list of staffmembers. Now I was wondering how you ought to design the function (job) for each staffmember. Each staffmember can have more than one function (e.g. Rector and Professor). The tricky part is that a staffmember of member A could also be a staffmember of member B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to answer to the question in the example here, just if stuff like this can be posted on Stackoverflow or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130300" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T15:10:15.463" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T15:20:08.610" Title="Can I ask questions about software analysis as well?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15432" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:33:34.750" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is absolutely appropriate when it is on topic, but ideally when you use it to &lt;strong&gt;supplement&lt;/strong&gt; the text in your answer. Actually, on a few occasions I've reversed this and blogged about something &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; I found it an interesting question (I might talk more about the &quot;journey&quot;, and other asides on my blog - where-as the stackoverflow post will cover just the details relevant to the question, with a link to the blog).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; as a regular tagline / footer / signature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a line somewhere when it becomes spam - the extreme case being when &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; answer you post is just a link to your blog and &lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; else; the community will start flagging that as removal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:33:34.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15432" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:38:53.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done this too. IMHO it's fine to refer to content on your personal blog so long as it is relevant to the question. Certainly not any sigs or the like however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could take this as far as going to look for questions that are relevant to something you've written and then throwing in a link with an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind though that spurious links on SO won't help you at all with search engines. External links seems to have the &lt;code&gt;ref=&quot;nowfollow&quot;&lt;/code&gt; attribute added, meaning Google won't follow them or use them in PageRank determination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the more reason to make sure what you're posting is relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:38:53.010" />
  <row Id="15440" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:43:31.007" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I worked on an algorithm as part of my research back when I was doing a thesis and am curious how it would be received by the programming community at large (I already know how it was received academically). Also, in the same question, I'd like to see differing opinions/options to solving the same problem I attempted to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the &quot;can I ask my own question and answer&quot; dilemma has been visited before, but this is a bit different as I'm acknowledging right away that there's more than one way to do it, while also attempting to get feedback/thoughts on my current approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I asked a question about the general domain (in this case hierarchical pathfinding), and provided my own technique as an answer in addition to hoping for other differing techniques as answers, is this permissible? I've already done lots of background research on the topic in the traditional channels, but I'm curious to see how this would work out in the Stack Overflow setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25664" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:49:41.870" Title="Asking questions for feedback on your own programming techniques" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15440" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:48:06.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post the question first and leave it a few days before posting your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will give people time to come up with their own solutions without reference to yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then post your own solution and people can then vote on it's worth relative to the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How you'd phrase your question though - I can't help you there ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:48:06.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15440" CreationDate="2009-08-19T13:49:41.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a valid question. I would set it to Community wiki though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T13:49:41.870" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15420" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:07:42.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For non-community-wiki questions and answers, you're the Jon Skeet with the ridiculous amount of rep under your username.  I'm not sure what would be the best way to identify you in CW, and it is possible (but very unlikely) that a malicious Jon Skeet would make posts that would embarrass you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before we change things to address this, I'd like to see more evidence that it's an actual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:07:42.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15432" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:26:06.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is ok when it is on topic.  There is one thing I noticed recently though. Make sure the question actualy posts a question and some information on this website.  There was a question posted a while back that said something like &quot;I have this question posted over here, please take a look and tell me what you think&quot;. Obviously, the super mods descended from above and closed the question. The user was asked to post the question, but just left it as a link. So just something to think about. Otherwise, as long as it is relevant to the question, any extra information is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:26:06.117" />
  <row Id="15446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15450" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:26:14.383" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a class of questions which falls between the cracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is to do with .net or php then it is a SO question&#xA;If it is apache IIS or general server/network configuration it is a SF question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another class of question which is to do with the day to day running of websites which I would have thought would have been the domain of SU, but there has been a tendency to call these questions &quot;not computer related&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/25565/how-can-i-take-my-revenge-on-a-spamming-website-closed&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/25565/how-can-i-take-my-revenge-on-a-spamming-website-closed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/11818/what-is-a-good-free-blogging-site-closed&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/11818/what-is-a-good-free-blogging-site-closed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/13747/how-to-i-sell-ad-space-on-my-website/13761&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/13747/how-to-i-sell-ad-space-on-my-website/13761&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are lots of other cases where the questions are answered and give value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an official line on this? Is it determined on a case by case basis, or are websites by their very nature computer related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(bias update: I probably think they are relevant as I run websites and think the subject is interesting)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastEditorUserId="56672" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T14:47:13.850" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T15:21:45.877" Title="Where should questions on running websites go?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;web&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15446" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:30:23.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The revenge question is not completely about running a website, that was completely inappropriate the way that written. Website management questions fall under a part of administration IMHO. So I would say serverfault is the place to ask, but I would like to hear from others on this also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:30:23.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15446" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:33:56.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those three questions you reference are not computer relatedd - they are business related. Do we look like business people? While I agree that sometimes we find ourselves wearing the hats of server admin, programmer, and head cheese; that does not mean that there is a place here for questions related to the third role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:33:56.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15446" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:34:23.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My feeling is that the content of a website is not computer/programming related. The code behind displaying that content and the server side activities of serving that content to users &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; related. So for the three examples that you gave, number one had nothing to do with how to code or serve pages. The second did essentially ask about serving pages but not how to do it. The third is explicitly about page content. Again this is my personal feeling and this is exactly why it takes multiple votes to close. I would just paraphrase the famous quote that I know it when I see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:34:23.310" />
  <row Id="15450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15446" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:35:56.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; lists it pretty clearly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;computer hardware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;computer software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...and it is not about videogames or consoles, then you're in the right place to ask your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming a website, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;. Designing a site, and you're a something called, &quot;designer&quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;. Running the backend of a site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The revenge question, probably for 4Chan. The other questions are constant ad nauseum fodder for meta-blogs, blogs about blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions might be have some content of worth, but that doesn't mean just because it doesn't fit into the other SOFU sites that it should just be dumped into SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T15:21:45.877" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T15:21:45.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:40:52.287" Score="0" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to create an own obj-C Cocoa Touch framework which can be used by other developers?&#xA;And furthermore can you protect this framework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:40:52.287" ClosedDate="2009-08-19T14:43:40.440" Title="Can I develope my own objective-C Framework for Cocoa Touch Applications?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;&lt;cocoa&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15396" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:45:30.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wiki thing especially bothers me, and i've seen it a few times now; I think it'd be nice if moderators would take the time to force-CW all answers when merging a non-CW question into a CW one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:45:30.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15436" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:54:12.013" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Analysis is part of software construction, and it is implied in the &lt;em&gt;programming related&lt;/em&gt; mantra. For sure, analysis is programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:54:12.013" />
  <row Id="15455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15436" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:58:44.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely questions that deal with software and algorithm design are appropriate on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T14:58:44.380" />
  <row Id="15457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T14:59:25.890" Score="2" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I go to the Questions page and hold the mouse over the top edge of one of the tabs (other than the one currently displayed) the tab will flicker wildly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://davidlherring.com/graphics/flicker.gif&quot; alt=&quot;flickering tabs&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry I forgot to specify that this is Firefox 3 in Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134170" LastEditorUserId="134170" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T15:11:45.397" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T21:00:01.330" Title="Tabs Flicker when Mouse Over Top Edge" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15457" CreationDate="2009-08-19T15:10:29.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that something similar happens when you move the cursor along the border of the tabs, at least in Chrome (the only browser that matters (hurrrrr)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what browser the OP is using but I can't make it flicker without moving the mouse constantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T15:10:29.457" />
  <row Id="15465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15436" CreationDate="2009-08-19T15:20:08.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easy to find out. Post the question on SO. If it is acceptable and interesting it will get answers. If some people there find it unacceptable, it may get closed. But nobody here on Meta (except the SO moderators) has the power, knowledge or &#xA;ability to decide or guarantee your question's fate in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T15:20:08.610" />
  <row Id="15469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15457" CreationDate="2009-08-19T15:29:43.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens every time I hover over something that changes size in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T15:29:43.520" />
  <row Id="15474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T15:55:28.413" Score="2" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this post,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/56148/which-php-opcode-cache-one-should-use-and-why/56156#56156&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/56148/which-php-opcode-cache-one-should-use-and-why/56156#56156&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I it seems my link to Wikipedia engulfed the entire paragraph.  I used the normal &lt;a href=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6177/65622907.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;word&lt;/a&gt;  syntax, and it appears ok in preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6177/65622907.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134176" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T00:38:57.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T00:38:57.110" Title="Entire section of text turning into link" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="15476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15474" CreationDate="2009-08-19T16:00:51.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the edits, you have 5 links, but only 4 actual references to those links. There's a mismatch count right there that might be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T16:00:51.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15474" CreationDate="2009-08-19T16:20:29.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The URL for link 4 is bogus. Might want to fix that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T16:20:29.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15474" CreationDate="2009-08-19T16:23:49.900" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Added for testing Purposes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The products you list serve different purposes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OPCode caches&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many PHP Accelerators (OPCaches) as seen on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5FPHP%5Faccelerators&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list&lt;/a&gt;.  As is common with open source products, they are all fairly similar.  XCache is the lighttp PHP accelerator, and is the default choice when you are running that HTTPd.  It works well with Apache as well, however APC seems to be slightly more &quot;plays well with others&quot; socially speaking, being officially supported as part of PHP, and is released in-step with the official PHP distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I abandoned usign eAccelerator due to its slowing development, and lagging against the releases of PHP, and the official blessed status APC offers with similar performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These products typically are drop in; no code change instant performance boost.  With large codebases (Drupal, Wordpress) the performance can be up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://2bits.com/articles/benchmarking-drupal-with-php-op-code-caches-apc-eaccelerator-and-xcache-compared.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3x better&lt;/a&gt; while lowering response time and memory usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Data Caching&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Memcache&lt;/strong&gt; is a slightly different product -- you might think of it as a &lt;strong&gt;lightweight key value system&lt;/strong&gt; that can be &lt;strong&gt;scaled to multiple servers&lt;/strong&gt;.  Software has to be enhanced to support Memcache, and it solves certain problems better than others.  If you had a list of realtime stock values on your website, you might use Memcache to keep a resident list of the current value that is displayed accross your website.  You might use it to store session data for short term reuse.  You wouldn't use it for other things such as full-page caches, or as a replacement for MySQL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also Wordpress addons such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WP-Cache&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WP-Super-Cache&lt;/a&gt; that can drastically improve Wordpress' performance (infact, WP-Super-Cache can rival static HTML based sites in many cases)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In summary -- I would highly recommend APC if you want a &quot;set it and forget it, well supported product&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T16:23:49.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-19T16:23:49.900" />
  <row Id="15484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15485" CreationDate="2009-08-19T16:37:35.210" Score="0" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to do a search on SO for a few terms, and also by user, since I know which user referenced the item I'm looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T16:39:48.497" Title="How do you search by user?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="15485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15484" CreationDate="2009-08-19T16:39:48.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;code&gt;user&lt;/code&gt; operator:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;user:&lt;i&gt;id&lt;/i&gt; a few other terms&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;Search Options&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(it's one of the operators listed under &quot;Advanced Super Ninja Search Options&quot; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T16:39:48.497" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15488" CreationDate="2009-08-19T16:53:56.783" Score="22" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the movement of SuperUser out into the public circle and away from semi-private beta, there has been an increase in the number of new users and also the backlash from users from other sites who think that there needs to be more strict control over the content. Right now one of the most effective ways of helping control bad content is to use the &quot;Flag for Moderator Attention&quot; mechanism or the Spam/Offensive flags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this is that you only have a limited number of flags to use per day, and they can get used up very quickly when the user base is small and the amount of cruft is large. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I ask whether or not these flag limits should be raised. If you at least increase the amount of &quot;moderator attention&quot; flags, I think it will be of great help to mods to get pointed in the direction of things that need to be taken care of. To be honest I don't know why these types of flags aren't unlimited. Flagging for moderator attention does not have any really negative consequences other than minor inconvenience. It is not the same as having lots of spam/offensive flags where those could potentially kill a question and dock 100 points from a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So...raise the limit or make moderator attention flags unlimited. I think the benefits of this far outweight the costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-13T08:07:40.680" LastActivityDate="2011-02-13T08:07:40.680" Title="Should flagging limits be raised?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T16:54:41.853" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like at least a lot more flags, or unlimited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I would like the ability to flag a post for a moderator's attention more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T16:54:41.853" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:03:00.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would at least enable me to start flagging more freely/strict in case I think someone else should have a look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:03:00.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:06:30.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has explained his policy of  having a daily cap on nearly everything (except posting questions and answewrs), and gives some good reasons for it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-65/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast 65&lt;/a&gt;. So I doubt that he will remove the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, raising it to a higher count should be evaluated, maybe limited to the first three public months of SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:06:30.377" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:08:10.030" Score="-5" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Seems there is a new feature indicating the % of questions where the user accepts answers. My goal was for 'engagement' and not points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but I tend not to answer questions by users with less than 100 points because they don't credit/indicate the correct answer. I would rather see who is asking the question and not the user who either modified or supplied the most recent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just think asking questions on this site and not taking the time to indicate the correct answer is totally against the purpose of SO. Apparently trust matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I should only answer questions for users with less than 100 points, this way they can't down vote my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastEditorUserId="131297" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T15:49:43.823" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T15:49:43.823" Title="Modified By Displayed on Question Screen Instead of User Asking Question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15362" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:12:38.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. Certainly the whole &quot;flair&quot; should be click-able. I didn't even notice it wasn't because I am still creating my own &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1238/how-to-embed-stackoverflow-flair-in-a-wordpress-com-free-blog&quot;&gt;image flair&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a bit of branding at least to identify what the flair &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; sounds like a great idea. I wouldn't want to turn the flair into a giant monstrosity but a small label of some sort shouldn't be out of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like @Andrew Moore's design for placement and size of the logo, even if it was used within the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; flair design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alpha.wolfmicrosystems.com/flair/advanced-inverted-bg/StackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:12:38.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15493" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:15:19.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you sort questions by &quot;active&quot;, then it will display the most recent answerer/editor on the question list. If you sort by &quot;votes&quot;, &quot;hot&quot;, or &quot;newest&quot; it should display the original author of the question in the question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think your habit of not answering questions from noobie users is counter to the goals of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:15:19.190" />
  <row Id="15496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15493" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:16:32.837" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should not matter who asked the question, only the quality of the question should count. And, if the question is of poor quality, but you still understand approximately what they want, then you should work to improve the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to encourage and help new users so that they can contribute more and more over time. &#xA;Any idea that damages new users is something I'm totally against. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it only shows 'modified by' on the &quot;active&quot; view. Because it is showing which questions were modified most recently, it makes the most sense to show you how recently they were modified and also by who.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:16:32.837" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15493" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:16:53.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to select what questions to answer in that manner, that's your choice. But, I do not believe the system would want to encourage this type of behavior. I would expect the majority of questions are asked by low rep user's and therefore, the system should not discourage answering questions from these users. I don't care either way if they switch what user is shown, but if you're basing the argument for the change on &quot;I don't want to look at questions from user's with less than 100 rep&quot;, than I think that goes against what SO is trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To rephrase my answer a little... I have no issue with you choosing to filter in this way; that is absolutely your choice, and I wouldn't want to dictate your usage of the site. However, I do not believe the system should or will cater to this approach because it is not an approach that will result in the most, best and accurate answers to all programming questions, regardless of level of difficultly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to your comment &quot;I'm not saying I want the credit. It just doesn't help anyone to ask a quesion, get a bunch of answers and not let everyone know which one worked.&quot;: I agree this is an issue and it would certainly be more ideal if user's did come back and accept answers. But, that is a large reason why the voting system exists, to provide clues to future viewers as to which answers are the best/most useful. So certainly it is ideal if people select an accepted answer. However, even if the OP never comes back and does their duty, the goal SO is to have canonical answers for all programming related questions. And answering everyone's questions and voting on those answers is how that is done, whether the OP accepts an answer or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T17:32:33.430" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:32:33.430" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15493" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:17:12.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wrong attitude, wrong approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not here to gather reputation (even though an upvote does stroke my ego a tiny bit), we are here to answer questions in order to help others. The change you propose would encourage a behaviour that is not desired by the community, or the creators of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am in favour of everything that discourage the behaviour you describe .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:17:12.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10188" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:17:20.543" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two better options than simply requiring birthdate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept month and day only. The sites can wish me a happy birthday on the appointed date but demographic stats aren't as complete. On the other hand the demographic stats would likely be more accurate given that users might otherwise enter a false birthdate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offer option to hide age. I'm ok with including my information in aggregated calculations, but I don't feel that it's necessary to associate my age with my questions, answers, votes for the whole world to see.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133232" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:17:20.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15493" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:17:33.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your request but not your reason.  I'd prefer the questioner to be shown on the recent questions page just like it is on the other questions pages, but only because I prefer the attribution to go to the actual questioner, not whoever had the last modification of the question's data.  Actually I don't use the recently asked questions (front) page often, but it would be good to have them be consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:17:33.537" />
  <row Id="15501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:22:19.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you surpass a certain rep level, you could earn unlimited or at least more flags. Maybe with the 3k level? I think it would be a nice 3k reward. It seems like it would go hand in hand with the vote to close and reopen ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T15:42:04.657" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T15:42:04.657" />
  <row Id="15502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:30:32.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see this limit increased and have asked for it before. However my other problem at the moment is during the times I am active I hardly see anyone currently reach their cap on flags. It could purely be time zone related however the first thing that needs to happen is the current set of users must start flagging questions more aggressively for us to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:30:32.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:36:27.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that as your rep goes up, your limits go up too. Right now, things stop at 10k rep. What about at 12 or 15k, getting more votes/flags/closes and again at 20k and so on. Maybe starting at 10k, get additional votes/flags/closes every 5k?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:36:27.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15509" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:37:37.350" Score="17" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got 6 pages of favorites on SO. Many of those questions are on different topics. I'd really like to have some way of organizing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course those question are already tagged so that should be enough but I can't find any way of showing only favorites with a certain tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's possible please tell my how to do that. If it's not possible, then please implement that :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1534" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T17:39:08.017" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T22:20:45.830" Title="Create a better way to organize favorites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="15505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15504" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:41:03.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment there isn't much in the way of organizing other than the built-in sorting methods and then searching through your favorites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind seeing something that would enable use to put our bookmarks/favorites into a folder system. If there were better ways to organize I may feel tempted to use the feature more often. Right now I don't regularly mark things as favorites because there just doesn't seem to be a real point to unless I need to reference something quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:41:03.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10188" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:47:40.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you consider how many people are already entering wrong age information, maybe just to get this badge, we could need something to encurage them to correct their mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefor I propose this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;age should still be a required value to earn the badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be an option to make the age hidden to other users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone who has once lied (provided a wrong age) and now provides the correct age, but hides it, should be awarded a new badge for being honest in the end. I leave it up to the native english speakers to think of a nice name for that badge. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(When the birthdate is changed, I know it is impossible to check programatically if this is a state change from wrong-to-right. It could also be right-to-wrong or wrong-to-wrong, but if the user hides his age, chances are good that it's wront-to-right-transition.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132211" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:47:40.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15504" CreationDate="2009-08-19T17:57:39.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously the developers could add more features to organize 'favorites' but as a solution to your problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consider using RSS feeds instead&lt;/strong&gt;. You will have all your &quot;favorite&quot; questions archived in one place (complete with all the answers). As a bonus you can use the RSS reader's built-in organizing features to group, tag, and search through your RSS questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works great for me. I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://reader.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Reader&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T17:57:39.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:03:03.790" Score="-6" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Openning voting might encourage new users to get in the habit of participating. We'll all benefit with fewer &quot;one-hit-wonders&quot; on the site (Ask question, without any feedback on answers, etc.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO is intended to be an open site, why not remove any limitations based on reputation? Everyone should be able to vote to delete a question or edit a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, your points don't matter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15493/modified-by-displayed-on-question-screen-instead-of-user-asking-question&quot;&gt;Don't Make Opinions Based on points&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastEditorUserId="131297" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T14:36:23.610" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T14:42:49.043" Title="Eliminate Capabilities Based On Reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15511" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:04:16.923" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Completely disagree!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation system works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points don't matter as far as asking and answering questions go.(that part of the site is free and open) But they do matter in administration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't want brand new users running around deleting questions...(that's just &lt;strike&gt;fucked up&lt;/strike&gt;silly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T18:10:22.590" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:10:22.590" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15511" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:05:36.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation system is designed to allow for the sites to be self-moderated. You cannot allow everyone to have full rights within the system, or you would quickly lose control. Therefore, reputation is used as a measure of trust the system has in a particular user, and as it raises, they are allowed to do more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:05:36.717" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15642" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:10:42.057" Score="2" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to diagnose an issue I'm having &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15507/clicking-show-more-comments-causes-error-and-local-downage&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; regarding my experience on SO today. I'm periodically getting refused any content from the SO servers, but this doesn't appear to be a global thing for the rest of the users - which has me thinking it may be specific to my location/account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my machine made ~50 requests to the SO-server in the span of 3-5 seconds, what (if any) action is performed by the SO server? Will I be refused access for a short time? Does nothing happen? Is there a point where something would happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T22:48:20.687" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:08:30.253" Title="How does SO respond to many requests in a short amount of time?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15511" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:11:00.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation more than anything else is a measure of your mastery of the system and the community conventions. If you went through and did not know how to use the system and everything you posted was against community standards, you likely would not achieve much in reputation. Therefore rep is a great measure of how much you should be trusted with &quot;the controls&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with all of the other answers on here when they say that just opening up all abilities to everyone when they first come in is sure to lead to absolute chaos. We are an open community, but we are an open community where the &quot;elders&quot; still hold positions of respect and authority. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think that letting the best behaved inmates help police the other residents of the asylum is a LOT better than giving every inmate the keys to all the cells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:11:00.963" />
  <row Id="15517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15515" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:14:54.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that one person had an account banned because some type of script they wrote went beserk. Dunno how that will translate to your current situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:14:54.887" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15511" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:17:35.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest thing the reputation system measures accurately, (or at least representatively) is time/effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that a user with a higher reputation has spent at least some time on the site, and contributed &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;. (It doesn't really matter what, but their contribution was approved by someone.) Because there is a reputation cap, I know that a user who has 3000 points has been around and very active for at least fifteen days, or mildly active for many many moons. But either way, I know that this person is not just a drive-by. They have contributed enough to help shape the community in some moderation ways, as well as the 'question/answer' ways that they could already participate in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your initial question, no one was claiming &quot;Reputation doesn't matter&quot; they were saying that the judgments you were making based on reputation (essentially &quot;new users are a waste of space&quot;) we foolish and counter-productive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put another way, my current opinion of you has nothing to do with your reputation and everything to do with the two questions you have contributed, and the comments you have clarified with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T14:42:49.043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T14:42:49.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15515" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:18:37.890" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iis.net/extensions/DynamicIPRestrictions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IIS Dynamic IP Restrictions&lt;/a&gt; module - if you make an unusually large amount of requests very quickly, you will be blocked for a short amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EASE UP OFF THEM HAMMERS, HOSS :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't really publish the threshold numbers - but it is nothing that you would trigger during normal browsing. You'd pretty much have to be a script to get blocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T19:30:20.977" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:30:20.977" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15526" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:19:27.377" Score="-2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8457/why-not-get-reputation-when-your-question-is-marked-a-favorite-by-somebody&quot;&gt;Why not get reputation when your question is marked a favorite by somebody?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it worth giving some form of rep for being favorited? Taking &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/349/keeping-folders-synced-between-several-machines&quot;&gt;an example&lt;/a&gt; - this has been favourited 7 times, but only upvoted 5 times - maybe this goes back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8376/how-to-encourage-voting-on-questions&quot;&gt;How to encourage voting on questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that a question that has been favourited is as much a sign that it was a good question as if it were upvoted, and perhaps needs to be rewarded as such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:04:04.837" ClosedDate="2009-08-19T19:42:21.967" Title="Rep for being favorited?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15511" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:19:37.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't work this hard to get 10,000 points so everyone could have as much power as me damn it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:19:37.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-19T18:19:37.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15520" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:22:01.003" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I favorite bad questions because I want to see what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:22:01.003" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15520" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:22:12.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not agree with giving rep for being favorited because being favorited doesn't necessarily mean &quot;This question rocks&quot;. Often times people will favorite something just so they can reference it again in the future (not necessarily a good thing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't even agree with the badge giving for acquiring favorite marks, but that is another topic in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:22:12.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15520" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:22:18.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. I sometimes favorite a question based on an answer not the question itself. Sometimes it is even one that I want to come back to and decide if I should vote to close or not. It might even be one that I explicitly down voted and I want to come back to participate in comment discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Favorite != Good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T19:04:04.837" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:04:04.837" />
  <row Id="15526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15520" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:25:34.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already a couple of &lt;strong&gt;badges&lt;/strong&gt; which reward favorite-ed questions. Badged are used to reward activities which are not heralded by the reputation system. &lt;strong&gt;I think that should pretty much cover it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:25:34.600" />
  <row Id="15528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6792" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:28:48.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this already happen when you're viewing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;active tab&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:28:48.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15511" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:35:52.473" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The proliferation of this site is a testement to the merit system in both who should be in control and as a reward to those who are using it properly, but we also need to be careful in how much attention we give to unwanted behaviors. I recall an educational game that had a brilliant graphic display when the user made an incorrect answer than when they made a correct answer. The teachers wondered why the students would opt for the stick man exploding than the 25 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T18:35:52.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:39:05.650" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you could have an unlimited &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot;, but it should be rate limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One per minute, would probably work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could instead increase the limit, if that is for some reason difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;   1 m&#xA;* 60 m/h&#xA;* 24 h&#xA;========&#xA;1440&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may be a little high though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T20:24:54.657" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T20:24:54.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53113" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:40:15.697" Score="9" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you go to profile -&gt; favorites for the first time (or on a full page reload), the de/re-select works as expected. However, after clicking to change the sort or if you go to another page of Favorites it no longer appears to register the click. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked in Fx 3.5.x and Chrome 3.0.x(beta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T20:02:55.833" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T20:03:32.843" Title="Can't De-Favorite from my profile after favorites are reloaded" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="15535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15536" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:43:27.607" Score="23" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't show the &quot;delete&quot; option when a question cannot be deleted. I just tried removing a dated-issue that is no longer relevant (asked within a couple of hours) only to be alerted that I cannot delete it because it has too many answers/responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can't do it, don't let me think I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T04:26:51.433" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T14:13:43.623" Title="Please don't show &quot;Delete&quot; when a question can't actually be deleted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15535" CreationDate="2009-08-19T18:47:25.837" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't outright delete your question that has gotten too many votes/answers, you should at least be able to place a delete vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T19:08:35.340" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:08:35.340" CommentCount="26" />
  <row Id="15537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15535" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:09:30.567" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They could just strike out the 'delete' option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;link | edit | &lt;strike&gt;delete&lt;/strike&gt; | flag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also add a tooltip explaining why it is struck out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:09:30.567" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15535" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:22:31.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I approve of the current UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to look at this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Why can't I delete this when I can delete other things?&quot; (if there is no delete button)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Why can't I delete this when the button is there?&quot; (if there is a delete button)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Option 1. The delete button inexplicably disappears on some questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a variety of reasons why you might not be able to delete a question. I don't know them all, but there's definetly more than one. If the delete button simply disappears on those questions, we will have a frustrating user experience where you try to vote to delete, but you can't for the life of your figure out how. (&quot;The button was here a minute ago... now where could it be?&quot;) Although this upholds the principle of not showing users options they can't do, it breaks consistency with no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Option 2. The button exists, but an error message pops up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this option, you are led to believe that you can delete a question (and you get filled with hope) but then your hopes and dreams are rudely dashed by the red pop-up of death. In this case, you are frustrated because you can't delete (exactly as above) but you &lt;em&gt;know exactly why you can't delete&lt;/em&gt;. So this provides better usability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for jinguy's suggestion that we add strikethrough and a tooltip. This incurs a performance penalty (very very minor) at pageload because SO needs to provide additional logic to determine if deletion is possible, AND you still need the pop-up because the situation might change as your page gets stale. There are also relatively few 'delete-clicks' compared to page views, so to me it makes more sense to determine a question's deletability only when it comes up, rather than all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:22:31.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:31:46.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to separate out the top 100 users by reputation&amp;mdash;the outliers.  I think I see my spike :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:31:46.933" />
  <row Id="15540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15572" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:32:10.847" Score="30" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhat related to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8188/should-the-rep-recalc-award-accepted-answer-and-bounty-points-at-the-end-of-the&quot;&gt;Should the rep recalc award accepted answer and bounty points at the end of the day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While bounties themselves allow you to go over the daily rep limit, they will still effect your limit in that if you receive a 200 point bount at the beginning of the day, you are basically barred from getting any more rep (other than accepted answers and more bounties) that day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I would like to suggest that regardless of the time of the day in which a bounty was started, the end of that bounty should always be the end of the day (before server time rolls over to a new &quot;rep cycle&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Case in point. I just got awarded (approximately 8:30pm EST, half hour after server time rollover) a 250 point bounty and I am over rep limit already. I don't think this is good at all for users and it almost seems like a disincentive to continue posting questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T13:17:58.947" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T13:18:26.637" Title="Award bounties at the end of the day" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15405" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:33:01.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a shame you first have to acquire a good command in English in order to learn how to program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a doubt; if you're are willing to make a living out of development you &lt;strong&gt;DO NEED&lt;/strong&gt; a good command of English. That's clear and there is nothing to add here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt; I think it's too sad for young people, who are learning both (English and a programming language) to first have to take a 2+ years course in the spoken language in order to be able to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Why do I have this NullPointerException?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is feasible to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3774/add-meta-tag-to-support-internationalization&quot;&gt;allow localized &quot;content&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (question/answers) without having to localize the platform it self (which I think it the reason why the request &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3774/add-meta-tag-to-support-internationalization/7320#7320&quot;&gt;was rejected&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to differentiate between Stack Overflow communities (people speaking any natural language ) and Stack Overflow the platform (the one built with ASP.NET, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the latter would need a lot of work to be translated, the former would be automatically generated due to the phenomena we call Web2.0 ... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T11:40:00.663" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T11:40:00.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:35:06.693" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14365&quot;&gt;the issue has been discussed for tags&lt;/a&gt;, I think there is scope for some level of synonyms being used in searching, and not just in tags -- for example, on MSO, I'd searched for the terms &quot;rep&quot; and &quot;favourited&quot; before asking &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15520&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which was jumped upon with one comment pointing to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8457&quot;&gt;valid duplicate&lt;/a&gt;; yet that doesn't show in the search I'd done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's less than obvious that for searching on anything to do with rep, you also have to search for reputaiton; and to search about things being favourited, you have to search for favorited, favourite and favorite as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just one example, and there have been quite a few others where &quot;obvious&quot; dupes are pointed out to other people, yet the search can;t find them due to abbreviations, or localisation issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:38:51.833" Title="Have some level of checking synonyms in search" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15540" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:36:14.897" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. This seems like a fair compromise to a frustrating problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:36:14.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98198" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:36:32.447" Score="7" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just got my hands on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm disappointed to see that the Body field of the posts is in HTML rather than Markdown.  I know there's markdown in the original database because that's what I see if I try to edit an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to make like difficult for Jeff and his team by requesting this as a feature, so I'm asking: &lt;strong&gt;does anybody know how to recover Markdown from a Stackoverflow data dump&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Thanks to Eric and to Jon Skeet, who pointed me at the data dump.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastActivityDate="2011-07-11T22:02:52.103" Title="Can Markdown be recovered from the SO data dump?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="15546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:37:01.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But if the flags/day limit is raised, then that creates more work for the mods, because there will be more material flagged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a balance, but I think that raising the flag limit may have negative consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:37:01.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15540" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:39:06.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this was how it worked, seems like the logical behavior&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't, I agree with you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:39:06.043" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15545" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:41:47.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be trivial to convert the two back and fourth. Simple replacement of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; =&gt; &lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; =&gt; &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some php programs will do this for you, for instance &lt;a href=&quot;http://milianw.de/projects/markdownify/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdownify&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:41:47.117" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:55:40.520" Score="17" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should have a gold badge celebrating people who achieve 3000+ rep on all three of the trilogy sites (perhaps even include meta?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be awarded on all sites at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a bit of poking around and noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/6461?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;splattne&lt;/a&gt; meets this criteria. [you should go outside once in a while ;-)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T06:41:13.367" Title="Trilogy Addict badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15551" CreationDate="2009-08-19T19:58:08.753" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this, it encourages people to participate on all sites... on the other hand, programmers are not sysadmins and it may be difficult for them to achieve that much reputation on serverfault (and vice versa, and there are more examples for the other combinations of audiences)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I couldn't get 3000 on serverfault for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a badge for getting that rep on 3 sites (whichever ones, counting meta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T19:58:08.753" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15540" CreationDate="2009-08-19T20:34:18.040" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be great - although if it's performed retrospectively (which would make sense), expect Marc G to gain rather a lot of rep. He's a bounty whore ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, award bounty at the exact time, but don't include it in the rep cap. That would have the same effect in terms of points, but could be a little less odd in some cases. In particular, if the bounty is awarded because the questioner &lt;em&gt;explicitly accepts an answer&lt;/em&gt; (instead of it being auto-accepted) then the options are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award bounty immediately, it contributes to rep cap (current situation: a pain if it's accepted early in the day)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award bounty at the end of the day, so it's irrelevant to the rep cap (fine the next day, but feels odd between the answer being accepted and the bounty being awarded)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award bounty immediately, but don't let it affect the rep cap (best of both worlds, IMO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T20:34:18.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-19T20:45:22.993" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see Jeff get together all the Stack Overflow Associates to talk about what it is like for in the past year and now having 4 sites running the same code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T19:06:34.553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T19:06:34.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-19T20:45:22.993" />
  <row Id="15555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15551" CreationDate="2009-08-19T20:52:47.050" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think two badges in this vein should be added--one silver, one gold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trilogy Addict&lt;/b&gt; - Silver: &gt; 3000 rep on any combination of three sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ubergeek&lt;/b&gt; - Gold: &gt; 5000 rep on SOFU (Meta doesn't count)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T20:52:47.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:00:05.087" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14045/can-a-closed-question-be-given-special-tags&quot;&gt;Can a closed question be given special tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a few [closed] questions on Stack Overflow from time-to-time and wonder if it might be a good idea to add this as a tag as well as allow moderators to add '[closed]' to the question/subject line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reason is that then I (and others?) can add the 'Closed' tag to our ignore list of tags to ensure we don't see these messages; as in the majority of cases I would expect not to read these simply because I cannot contribute to them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts on this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Note:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a quick search to see if this has been suggested before but it appears not. My apologies if it has, and therefore this question is then marked [closed] resulting in weird recursive Stack Overflow metadata! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134105" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T03:03:20.883" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T03:03:20.883" ClosedDate="2009-08-19T21:27:04.890" Title="Proposing a new 'closed' tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15556" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:03:37.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would have to be one of those &quot;moderator-only&quot; style tags to ensure that people just couldn't remove it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either that or you could just have an alternate suggestion of allowing users a user preference that would auto-hide any closed topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:03:37.230" />
  <row Id="15558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15556" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:04:52.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you propose handling questions that already hit 5 tag max?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:04:52.703" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15556" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:05:01.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems redundant and unnecessary. I would rather have a preference in my profile that I can check to &quot;Filter closed questions.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:05:01.770" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15556" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:05:36.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of ignoring [closed] and even [migrated] questions is a good idea, but they don't really belong in the tags list. Maybe a user settings option to hide them instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However for closed questions, this seems like an option everyone would end up enabling. In the end won't that go against the idea of users being able to reopen questions they think were unfairly closed? You can't vote to reopen a question that you don't see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:05:36.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15511" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:08:39.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People often ask for this and compare the site to wikipedia, which lets everyone edit right away.  They forget two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow posts have a greater sense of ownership than wikipedia articles, and therefore we need to do a better job vetting editors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WikiPedia still has different levels of editors, based on (unscored) reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:08:39.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:31:30.343" Score="8" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/56336/networking-doubts&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is similar to several others that have cropped up on ServerFault over time, which appear to paste verbatim basic networking questions from certification or university courses. Some responders attempt to provide legitimate answers; others leave comments with feedback or links to other resources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/56336/networking-doubts/56342#56342&quot;&gt;One answer&lt;/a&gt; has deliberately provided false (if amusing) information. My instinctive reaction when faced with this is to down-vote the answer, if only to prevent it being viewed as useful by someone who stumbles across the question from a web search in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are people's thoughts on this kind of reaction to 'homework' questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:18:21.687" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:18:21.687" Title="Is it acceptable to post deliberately wrong or misleading answers to 'homework' questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;policy&gt;&lt;homework&gt;&lt;wrong-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="12" />
  <row Id="15563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:33:04.770" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These sites are supposed to wind up as references.  Having wrong answers messes that up.  Downvote all wrong answers, unless they're recognizable as non-answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:33:04.770" />
  <row Id="15564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:33:13.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the down votes that you may get would prove the overall acceptance of such.  In other words, do it at your own risk as it will be met with down votes.  You'll also be wasting your time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:33:13.863" />
  <row Id="15565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:35:20.240" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deliberately wrong answers should be downvoted and flagged as spam. If 6 people flag as spam or offensive, then the poster gets docked 100 points and the post gets deleted. That sounds like a fitting punishment for putting deliberately wrong information on a Q&amp;amp;A website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:35:20.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:37:03.763" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;*Note* This is not meant to be serious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes post wrong things all over the site.  That sounds like a &lt;strong&gt;great&lt;/strong&gt; idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, make sure that it is only subtly wrong, because that way people won't notice (as easily) that you are trying to be a huge ass...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T21:42:25.157" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:42:25.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-19T21:42:25.157" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:38:13.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never.            &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:38:13.823" />
  <row Id="15568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T21:39:57.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a) it's obvious &lt;em&gt;to everyone involved, including the asker&lt;/em&gt; that it's a joke, and b) it's marked as wiki, then I would be okay with it. Other people, of course, might not... (And I should note that if the asker is a complete newbie, making a joke obvious isn't at all easy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that answer in particular matches neither criterion. Downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T21:39:57.783" />
  <row Id="15570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15597" CreationDate="2009-08-19T22:32:13.793" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every now and then - and some days more often - i'll vote to delete a question only to be presented with an unhelpful error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/deleteretry.png&quot; alt=&quot;fail&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, retrying is easy - i need only click that little red error box, as instead of dismissing itself as promised it will immediately retry... and fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick check with Firebug reveals the cause for the error: the script is attempting to post to the following bogus URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts//vote/10&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts//vote/10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the double-slash there in the middle - a post ID is supposed to go between those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Usually&lt;/em&gt;, reloading the page will correct the problem. Sometimes, several reloads are necessary. Occasionally, blood sacrifice is required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T09:02:11.937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T09:02:11.937" Title="Voting to delete occasionally fails to post the vote to a valid URL" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="15571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T22:32:36.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't like a question but it shouldn't be closed for any reason (duplicate, spam, abusive, wrong site) then there is absolutely no reason to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15143/whats-with-all-the-rude-comments-recently&quot;&gt;leave rude comments&lt;/a&gt; or, even worse, deliberately wrong answers. It's completely uncalled for. Just move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue of homework questions has come up before and they're deemed to be fine, particularly if someone says it's homework. This can (and does) change how people answer where you try and point someone in the right direction without just giving them the whole solution. Often some kind of pointer is all people are after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T22:32:36.053" />
  <row Id="15572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15540" CreationDate="2009-08-19T22:36:42.690" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could easily be solved by making the reputation system consistent and intuitive, as has previously been suggested (many times). Put simply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvotes and downvotes received go into bucket A;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounties received, bounties paid for, accepted answers (given and received) and downvotes given would go into bucket B.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation gained for each day = MIN(200,A) + B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do that and about a hundred feature requests disappear (including this one). I'm really befuddled at the obstinacy surrounding fixing (the appropriate verb for a bug) this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T22:36:42.690" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T22:46:56.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What comes around goes around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T22:46:56.103" />
  <row Id="15574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T22:59:27.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, the age ol homework questions. I think with homework questions, people should not be so quick to give the a straight full code answer. Many people have taught or instructed someone before through a problem, so I think some effort should be made to get the asker to think about the problem a bit more. Maybe only give them part of the answer at first or ask them questions to get their mind in the right direction.  This isn't a discussion site, but I don't think we should just give answers away so quickly with those questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, it isn't our problem that they possibly do not care to actively engage themselves in solving the problem. The questions with lots of information on thier approaches are much more understanding, but the one/two liner homework questions just don't inspire me to give an answer away so fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But please, do not give them wrong information though. There is enough bad info running around all ready. Downvote bad answers and flag if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-19T23:24:27.180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T23:24:27.180" />
  <row Id="15576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-19T23:28:44.630" Score="14" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I know this is very similar to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1306/add-year-to-question-and-answer-dates&quot;&gt;Add year to question and answer dates.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. I felt it deserved a separate question because I'm asking for a modification to the functionality requested in that question, and because that one is tagged &lt;kbd&gt;status-completed&lt;/kbd&gt; and this one is not completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find I have some issues with the current implementation of date display. Although it is obviously necessary to include the year with a date &gt; 1 year ago, I think it should be added for every date &gt; 11 months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, today is Aug 19, 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Date           Display  &#xA;Aug 16, &lt;b&gt;2008&lt;/b&gt;   Aug 16 08  &#xA;Aug 16, 2009   Aug 16  &#xA;Aug 26, &lt;b&gt;2008&lt;/b&gt;   Aug 26  &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves August 16, 2009 looking a lot like August 26, 2008. I dislike the fact that I have to stop and reason that today is the 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, and that 26 &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; 19, so that &quot;Aug 26&quot; must be last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T03:43:37.390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T03:43:37.390" Title="Add Year to Dates for Dates within 11 Months" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;dates&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-08-19T23:35:14.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think homework questions should still be considered valid questions so giving a wrong answer on purpose is definitely wrong. You're just wasting everyone's time that way since others will have to explain why your answer is wrong, while also immediately down-voting this bad answer just because it's bad.&#xA;But don't answer homework questions but try to guide the students towards the correct answer. Let them do their own research bit point them in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one more important thing... How do we know that some question is homework and not a question by a programmer who didn't do his homework in the past, yet still managed to find a job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T23:35:14.367" />
  <row Id="15578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12340" CreationDate="2009-08-19T23:50:31.123" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Top 10 reasons why younger people have higher reps than older people:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10 - Older people have already forgotten the correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9 - Younger people can type infinitely fast with their thumbs and get their answer in 5 seconds faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8 - Older people have forgotten what they wanted to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7 - Younger people think StackOverflow is a video game and go for bonus points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;6 - Older people ask questions about COBOL. Noone votes those up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 - Younger people texted and tweeted each other to find out about SO faster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 - Older people forget their login id and password and have to start over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 - Younger people have cooler gravitars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - Older people have real jobs that take them away from Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 - Younger people are taking over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133783" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T23:50:31.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14407" CreationDate="2009-08-19T23:57:33.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion of how to handle this is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less than one minute: X secs ago.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less than one hour: X mins ago.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less than one day: X hours ago.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Between 24 and 48 hours ago: yesterday.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More than 48 hours ago but less than a year: Month Day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Same month last year and earlier: Month Year (eg Aug 08)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously 1-5 are current behaviour (just added for completeness). The main point is that as others have suggested, the same month last year should be made more distinct from that month this year and that once you add year you can probably drop the day (it shows up on the tooltip so it's there if you want it). That way its still kept brief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some will argue for 4 digit dates. I'd say it's probably not necessary but 2 or 4 digits will work fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-19T23:57:33.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11943" CreationDate="2009-08-19T23:57:42.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have created a Perl program to take an URL, and return the sanitized version, that will hopefully work with Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#! /usr/bin/env perl&#xA;use strict;&#xA;use warnings;&#xA;&#xA;our %map;&#xA;our $swap_rx;&#xA;BEGIN{&#xA;  my $special = '%$()\' ?';&#xA;  our @special = (split '', $special);&#xA;  for my $chr ( @special, ':' ){&#xA;    my $ord = ord $chr;&#xA;    my $hex = unpack 'H2', pack 'v', $ord;&#xA;    $map{$chr} = uc $hex;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  $special = quotemeta $special;&#xA;  $swap_rx = qr&quot;[$special]&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;for(@ARGV){&#xA;  s/($swap_rx)/'%'.$map{$1}/eg;&#xA;&#xA;  if( /[a-z]{3,10}:/ ){&#xA;    undef while s(&#xA;      ([a-z]{3,10}:.*?)(:)//&#xA;    ){&#xA;      $1.'%3A//'&#xA;    }ex;&#xA;  }else{&#xA;    s/:/'%3A'/g;&#xA;  }&#xA;  print $_,&quot;\n&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to use it however you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find any problems leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;It would be interesting to see a bookmarklet that does this.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T21:42:35.660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:42:35.660" />
  <row Id="15582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15584" CreationDate="2009-08-20T00:30:28.987" Score="2" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just been awarded the Yearling badge on SO, but have noticed that now my Beta badge has disappeared from my listed badges.  The summary at the top of the page shows 2 silver and 8 bronze, but the list on my details page says 1 silver and 8 bronze.  Perhaps a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131504" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T00:36:14.443" Title="Is the Yearling badge meant to replace the Beta badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="15583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15585" CreationDate="2009-08-20T00:31:27.177" Score="0" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't recall which OpenID provider I used when I registered my account BuZain on stackoverflow sometime back. I've tried all the options and every time I edit my account and put my email address buzain [at] gmail.com it gives the error &quot;Email - is already registered&quot;. Is there a way to know which OpenID is associated with my account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134205" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T00:36:20.357" Title="&quot;Email - is already registered&quot; error when logging using google" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;error&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15582" CreationDate="2009-08-20T00:36:14.443" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff had a change of heart about who could get a Beta badge. If yours was stitched on, but you really only signed up during the beta period and didn't actually participate until it was open, then your Beta badge has been revoked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds fair seeing as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;actively participated in the private beta&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; doesn't match with just signing up and waiting around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yeah, that counter at the top is still showing the count with that Beta badge in, like the little piece of skin left after ripping the scab off. Or when you take off a poster from the wall and see that it's a different shade to the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T00:36:14.443" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15583" CreationDate="2009-08-20T00:36:20.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com for help on this one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T00:36:20.357" />
  <row Id="15587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15535" CreationDate="2009-08-20T01:44:20.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See Joel Spolsky's take on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/07/01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don't hide or disable menu items&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to what devinb answered, it's basically: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Show the option and then tell them why they can't do it' is better than 'hide/disable the option and give no explanation why'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131513" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T01:44:20.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15551" CreationDate="2009-08-20T01:57:33.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great idea.  Should definitely have a silver and a gold.  There are definitely different atmospheres on each of the different sites and this would encourage people to expand their horizons (or at least the badge lovers :P ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it greatly benefits everyone to spend a little time &quot;on the other side&quot;.  Even though I have less than a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13827/can-we-measure-reputation-in-milliskeets&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;milliSkeet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of rep on SO I've not been discouraged from watching things there and learning first hand from some the best in the industry.  I started out life as a sysadmin and am relatively new to the coding side of things.  I have noticed that my code quality and practices have gone up &lt;em&gt;significantly&lt;/em&gt; in the couple of months that I've been watching SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The better one gets in all 3 areas that the trilogy cover, the more you'll understand how to cover those aspects and the more complete your solutions can be.  Anything (within reason) that can be done to encourage that is worth considering, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T01:57:33.333" />
  <row Id="15589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T02:34:46.123" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone else get screen rendering issues like me?  Firefox for Windows 3.5.2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/10105277@N00/3838846646/sizes/o/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/10105277@N00/3838846646/sizes/o/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134210" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T09:01:57.350" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T09:01:57.350" Title="CSS or other bug in rendering page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="15590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15605" CreationDate="2009-08-20T02:34:46.403" Score="24" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posting a comment, the character count shows &quot;&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; character&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt; left&quot;, until you hit 1 character remaining - at which point, it switches to the singular.  Fair enough.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is 0 singular?  Are negative numbers?  Both use the singular phrasing, instead of plural.  This is kind of a discussion point; personally, I'd have plural for any value except for &quot;1 character&quot;, but I don't know what you think...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Admittedly, it's a pretty darn minor point - I don't know how often the 600 character cap is hit, but I can't imagine it happens all that often...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7225/8character.png&quot; alt=&quot;-8 character&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T08:11:13.437" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T08:11:13.437" Title="Are negative numbers singular or plural?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;plurals&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="15591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15590" CreationDate="2009-08-20T02:41:47.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a very minor point. We should just make it &quot;character(s) left&quot; so we don't have to worry about figuring out when to start switching up the plurality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T02:41:47.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15590" CreationDate="2009-08-20T02:51:29.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time for some &lt;code&gt;Math.abs()&lt;/code&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Clarity:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var plurality = (Math.abs(-8) == 1) ? &quot;character&quot; : &quot;characters&quot; ;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T02:57:47.670" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T02:57:47.670" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15590" CreationDate="2009-08-20T02:55:05.350" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is 1 character and -1 character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is characters for everything else, including 0 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is apparently how English &quot;grammar&quot; defines it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best explanation of this is at:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://neilwhitfield.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/good-question-are-fractions-and-decimals-singular-or-plural/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Good question: are fractions and decimals singular or plural?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note this is not necessarily true in other languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133783" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T03:13:09.683" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T03:13:09.683" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15589" CreationDate="2009-08-20T03:05:29.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the default font for you is quite a bit larger than it should be (width wise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which fonts from the below do you have?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;Consolas,Monaco,Lucida Console,Liberation Mono,DejaVu Sans Mono,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Courier New&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T03:05:29.620" />
  <row Id="15597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15570" CreationDate="2009-08-20T03:16:43.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just pushed out a change to how click handlers are being bound to UI elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still experience this, please view the page source and find the delete link for the post you're trying to delete, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a id=&quot;delete-post-12345&quot; class=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;vote to remove this post&quot;&amp;gt;delete&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where 12345 is the post id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that post id is there, then we've got a javascript problem - will be helpful to know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T03:16:43.340" />
  <row Id="15598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15977" CreationDate="2009-08-20T03:27:26.923" Score="8" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google Analytics (and some log parsers) will give you breakdowns on usage of different browsers, different versions of those browsers and screen resolutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious to know what SO users user. Any chance we could get some stats on that? You may view this as commercial information, in which case I understand (as i'ts relevant to marketing/advertising).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also curious to know the # of users who read and/or post from mobile devices and if so which ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: Please refrain from personal anecdotes (&quot;I use...&quot;).&lt;/strong&gt; I'm interested in actual usage, not personal stories. Thankyou.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T07:18:07.097" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T08:33:57.940" Title="What are the browser and resolution stats for SO users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="15599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15598" CreationDate="2009-08-20T03:32:12.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally browse from two different locations. At home I am generally on a laptop using Firefox and a 1280x1024 resolution. At work I am generally on Firefox from a 22&quot; monitor doing 1680x1050. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally only browse the site on my iPhone if I am waiting somewhere to pick up my wife and I have nothing better to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T03:32:12.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T03:36:10.960" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15598" CreationDate="2009-08-20T03:41:05.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read from the iPhone on the trains, but I don't reply for two reasons. 1: It's too damn slow, and 2: more often than not, there's a bit of a bug where every time I write a letter the page jumps around like a teenager at Pearl Jam concert and it hurts my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T03:41:05.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T03:51:37.170" Score="-2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the launch of SO one of my morning rituals became logging into my profile to see what's happened with the questions and answers I'd left the previous night. It's often at the end of a hard day with unresolved problems do I resort to the community for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days I basically do the same, but it takes several more clicks and browser tabs for SO/SF/SU/MSO. And I'm sure as time goes on there will be even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since MSO is supposed to be abstractly related to ALL these sites, would it be a good idea for it to include links to ALL the Questions and Answers from ALL your linked profiles in a single page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134130" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T04:26:43.807" ClosedDate="2009-08-20T05:01:09.933" Title="Should MSO profile page include links to your questions and answers on the other sites too?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15601" CreationDate="2009-08-20T04:01:52.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a way in which that would work... but with the little yellow envelope (and a few browser bookmarks), I find it pretty easy to check for answers/comments/etc over the sites, and if you are interested in votes then &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon's tracker&lt;/a&gt; might help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T04:01:52.767" />
  <row Id="15603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15601" CreationDate="2009-08-20T04:05:48.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's time we start making a distinction between the sites. It's a FAMILY, and all members are distinct for a reason. It think a lot more emphasis needs to be made around this point.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you're on Youtube do you expect to get GMail notifications? Yes, it would be a nice feature for some, but the sites really need to be handled separately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T04:18:50.890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T04:18:50.890" />
  <row Id="15604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15601" CreationDate="2009-08-20T04:26:43.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to say this is not a great idea. Every site has its purpose and the questions should stay with them.  MSO has its own set of questions and I do not think it should all be mixed on your MSO profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T04:26:43.807" />
  <row Id="15605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15590" CreationDate="2009-08-20T04:30:12.507" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I respectfully refer you here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9662/new-users-cant-create-new-tags-show-a-singular-or-plural-message/9694#9694&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9662/new-users-cant-create-new-tags-show-a-singular-or-plural-message/9694#9694&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T04:30:12.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14710" CreationDate="2009-08-20T05:30:21.793" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they change the SO logo to a picture of the Irish Girl will that make you happy? Don't be coy, that's the only reason you want to see the ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T05:30:21.793" />
  <row Id="15607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14710" CreationDate="2009-08-20T05:43:48.490" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The checkbox should be &quot;Reduce advertising'.  Or, 'Show full advertising' and default to unchecked on rep 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I uncheck something that is to do with showing advertising, then I would expect to see less advertising, not more!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T05:43:48.490" />
  <row Id="15610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14710" CreationDate="2009-08-20T05:48:51.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon hit the nail on the head... But if you want to see them, don't want the grease monkey script, then simply &quot;&lt;strong&gt;LogOut&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T05:48:51.193" />
  <row Id="15611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14710" CreationDate="2009-08-20T05:58:01.067" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Jeff's tweet about 200+ rep suppressing ads.  And I thought, &quot;Someone out there is going to object&quot;.  Then I thought, &quot;How could you let users turn their ads back on by themselves?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I hit on the idea of &quot;magic tags&quot; whose mere presence could trigger actions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I headed over to meta...the 200/rep/ads issue was at the top of the page!  And, guess what, people have been suggesting &quot;magic tags&quot; all along.  Actually I'm not speaking of the tags, but of the &quot;interesting&quot; / &quot;ignored&quot; tags that we can all &quot;configure&quot; ourselves.  Program code would only need to detect the presence of these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True that this issue affects few people.  But so did the original &quot;feature&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created nothing new here. I'll be moving along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19512" LastEditorUserId="19512" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T00:39:50.210" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:39:50.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16614" CreationDate="2009-08-20T06:15:22.637" Score="0" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the tag &quot;c++*&quot; added as an &quot;interesting tag&quot;, so I can see everything tagged by c++, c++0x, c++1x, etc. But when I search for that tag, I get a blank page :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL displays as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c++&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c++&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And loads as a blank page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134220" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T08:55:46.620" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T08:56:47.990" Title="Searching on 'interesting tags' sometimes doesn't work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15612" CreationDate="2009-08-20T06:20:11.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1672/please-allow-wildcards-in-tag-searches&quot;&gt;replacing the asterisk with a tilde (~)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T06:20:11.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15551" CreationDate="2009-08-20T06:41:13.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned before, absolute values of rep are hard to set because they vary so much between sites - and because you'll eventually get there even with a very slow burn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a badge (awarded only once) for being in the first page (or first n pages) of some number of sites? (The details about including/excluding meta etc are worth separate discussion; I'm only interested in the general idea for now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how easy this would be to implement without killing the server, but it would be an indicator of being a &quot;high flyer&quot; on multiple sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T06:41:13.367" />
  <row Id="15616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15623" CreationDate="2009-08-20T06:55:40.373" Score="6" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12599/remove-vote-ui-elements-beside-own-question-and-answer-posts&quot;&gt;Remove vote UI elements beside own question and answer posts&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you visit a question that you have asked or an answer you have given you can see on the left hand side of the screen buttons for up-voting and down-voting as well as the number of people of votes for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When one clicks up-vote, a message appears telling you that you can't vote on your own question. I'm just wondering why the up-vote and down-vote buttons are even visible if they cannot be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you hover over your own comments it doesn't give you voting buttons...so why should it do so on questions and answers that you own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39532" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T07:43:49.323" ClosedDate="2010-01-03T08:41:04.143" Title="Why are the buttons for voting on your own question or answer visible?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;owner&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15620" CreationDate="2009-08-20T06:58:25.843" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what reason should I select for closing this question? &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/10673/activate-windows-7-ultimate-with-home-premium-key&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/10673/activate-windows-7-ultimate-with-home-premium-key&lt;/a&gt; It deals with using a leaked copy of windows 7 and I did not think that was ever appropriate. I voted to close, but marked reason as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;. It is a valid question, and nothing else seem to fit. Is this an appropriate category from the official reason list for closure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T08:02:34.170" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:47:21.160" Title="How to categorize closing a valid question dealing with using pirated software?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15598" CreationDate="2009-08-20T07:02:35.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe one of the guys could post some of the GA statistics? I suppose that the Browser / Resoultion percentages won't need to be treated as secrets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T08:15:32.630" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T08:15:32.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15616" CreationDate="2009-08-20T07:09:36.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably &quot;by-design&quot;, as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3784/remove-add-comment-link-from-bottom-of-locked-answers&quot;&gt;this case (adding comments on locked questions / answers)&lt;/a&gt;.  Seems like if they remove certain parts of the site, it &quot;breaks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T07:09:36.507" />
  <row Id="15620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15617" CreationDate="2009-08-20T07:11:18.687" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just flag for mod attention to be deleted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T07:11:18.687" />
  <row Id="15623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15616" CreationDate="2009-08-20T07:43:49.323" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me personally I find it confusing as well.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However having said that I do know that there is a school of thought in the software design and UI space that says something to the effect that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;you should never hide functionallity from a user, regardless of whether they have access to it or not.  Instead it is more meaningful to provide the button and display a helpful error message when it is clicked.  That way they know it is there and understand the context of the buttons usage better.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure which way I feel is better, but I do know that I prefer to see a consistant approach either way. Which as the mezoid pointed out, does not seem to be the case on stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133434" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T07:43:49.323" />
  <row Id="15624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14969" CreationDate="2009-08-20T08:14:48.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OTN (or other) vendor provided forums are no doubt of some value, but I'm kind of bored of having to sign up for yet another user account every time I change projects and/or technologies!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is also much more search engine friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T08:14:48.060" />
  <row Id="15629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15353" CreationDate="2009-08-20T08:27:01.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made some changes, as these house ads were starting to bug me a bit too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/try-sf_s09.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reversed logo order to prevent confusion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;made border gray instead of 100% black&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T08:27:01.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15639" CreationDate="2009-08-20T08:48:59.893" Score="10" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; The &quot;spam&quot; closing reason has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27277/why-is-the-spam-close-reason-for-questions-missing-on-su/27301#27301&quot;&gt;recently been removed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, a user gets a 100 rep penalty when one of their posts is &lt;em&gt;flagged&lt;/em&gt; as spam often enough. I just noticed that this does not happen when the question gets &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this difference in behaviour is intended, and thus it suggests there's supposed to be a difference between flagging as spam and voting to close as spam. So what should be done in what case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should I only vote to close as spam, and when should I also flag as spam (the third possibility, flagging but not closing, probably doesn't make sense)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T12:13:42.213" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T12:13:42.213" Title="What's the difference between closing as spam and flagging as spam?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40229" CreationDate="2009-08-20T09:31:37.953" Score="26" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am ashamed.&lt;/strong&gt; My Meta rep has recently surpassed my SO rep. Even putting a (relevant!) Shakespeare quote into an answer on SO couldn't do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I looked for one of my old Meta questions to put a bounty on; I chose this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will give the bounty to the best idea/solution (my choice) offered to solve the problem raised in this question. Humor is encouraged, but I'm still looking for a real suggestion. Mock-up screenshots would be nice; freehand circles will be well-received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second best will receive a 1024x1024 hi-res version of their unicorn avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS: I'm not making this CW so all answerers can still get rep. I don't expect 50 upvotes on this question anyway.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Original question:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1304868/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to clarify, or basically, make it readable. Shortly after I was done editing, the original question was there again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker had made a change to their question, and this edit was based on the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; revision (probably because they hit &quot;edit&quot; before I had saved my update). Because the question was very much unreadable, it was hard to see what the change was exactly. The automatically generated edit log message stated &quot;deleted 3 characters in body&quot;, but it was hard to see what exactly those three characters were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I viewed both sources, saved them to text files, and did a diff locally. Turns out they had just removed a newline and turned &quot;???&quot; into &quot;??&quot; in one case. So I new I could roll back to my clarified edit without losing anything important that the asker might have changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine this to be an uncommon problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if it were possible to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;either see the difference between two user-chosen revisions in the edit history,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or at least see the diff between a revision &lt;code&gt;R&lt;/code&gt; and the revision that &lt;code&gt;R&lt;/code&gt; was &lt;em&gt;based on&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T12:46:41.913" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T12:46:41.913" Title="Show the diff between two non-consecutive revisions of a post" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15635" CreationDate="2009-08-20T09:36:54.150" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice idea. I suspect it's more of a pain in terms of designing a UI that doesn't get in the way when you don't need it (i.e. most of the time) than in terms of the diff... clearly all the information is already available in the database, and the diff engine is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only think of a handful of times I'd have wanted this, but in those cases it would have been very useful. Of course, the next step is to do a guided &quot;merge changes&quot; operation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T09:36:54.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15634" CreationDate="2009-08-20T10:08:12.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since not everybody can close the spam flag is needed.  The flag means to get the attention of a moderator, which they might not of seen the question yet or at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep to close a question that is spam, vote to close the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nobody else is voting to close because of low views, etc. . . Then i would use the flag as a back up procedure to get attention to a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T10:08:12.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15634" CreationDate="2009-08-20T10:12:47.243" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, it's sort of redundant now that we have flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am considering removing &quot;spam&quot; as a close reason, just to simplify the close list a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T10:12:47.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5698" CreationDate="2009-08-20T10:31:03.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who knows how long this has been on, but it looks like you get another kind of hint, (if rep and votes weren't dimming enough) on eligibility for a Peer Pressure badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get -3 or more, it looks as if the text colour of the post will dim a shade:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/Xdqut.png&quot; alt=&quot;dim bulb&quot; title=&quot;dim bulb&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T10:31:03.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15515" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:08:30.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't our intent to block Jonathan or any other legitimate users of the Trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;strong&gt;side effect of blocking extremely malicious bots and scripts&lt;/strong&gt; that fold, spindle and mutilate Stack Overflow severely and cause some serious problems for us!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current Dynamic IP Restrictions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;limit the number of concurrent requests per IP to a reasonable level&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;limit the number of requests per IP over a 5 second interval to a reasonable level&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If either of those triggers is hit, that IP is given a &quot;timeout&quot; -- it is served 403 on any subsequent requests, for 60 seconds. After that the &quot;timeout&quot; is lifted, but the same thresholds are in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:08:30.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:11:01.090" Score="7" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see two possible solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put the answering form immediately below the question (in the collapsed state by default)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put a copy of the question near the answering form. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T13:19:53.743" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T13:20:05.240" Title="When I'm composing the answer I want to see the question somewhere near" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15644" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:15:19.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be against doubling the question near the answer form. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times I will just take care of this issue myself by opening up the question in a new tab or window so that I can have the answer pane available while still being able to see the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:15:19.740" />
  <row Id="15648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15644" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:18:30.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could there be anything wrong with placing the answer-form directly beneath the original-question, and simply not showing it until the user clicks &quot;Answer,&quot; similar to when a user wants to answer their own question - a form isn't initially shown, until you indicate you wish to provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I also think it would be wise to replicate the OQ on the answer-edit page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:18:30.450" />
  <row Id="15650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:28:22.083" Score="74" ViewCount="8125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer.&#xA;What annoyed me was someone in the comments put a let me google that for you link. It got right up my nose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it rude and arrogant to get things like that in my answers and I think things like that will scare away newcomers to this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I suggest is that we don't allow these sorts of links on Stack Exchange sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastEditorUserId="1116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-16T09:42:18.133" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T09:42:18.133" Title="Ban lmgtfy (let me google that for you) links" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;lmgtfy&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="29" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="15651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:29:44.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are only technically allowed. Flag them! Heavily!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I don't know, if it is feasible, to scan every post/comment for the lmgtfy-link before publishing. Sounds like a performance hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:29:44.080" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:31:26.323" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think adding in some sort of algorithmic ban on a url is dumb when you already have a community out there who is more than willing to flag something as Offensive. If that post gains 6 Offensive flags, it will be deleted automatically and the poster will lose 100 points as punishment. I like that better than built in &quot;no-no&quot; links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:31:26.323" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="15653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15644" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:33:54.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often only have this problem when I'm editing my anwer after a comment or an edit to the question, else it's no problem to just scroll up to read it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:33:54.430" />
  <row Id="15654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:38:43.017" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codekicker.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;codekicker.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21672" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:38:43.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T11:38:43.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7160" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:43:49.900" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Seeing all the answers in yellow when I clicked on a tag I was interested in was the moment I finally understood why some of the items were in yellow some of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we make things more complicated, it'll be harder for users to discover how the site works. I believe that here being consistant is more important that being pretty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:43:49.900" />
  <row Id="15656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:49:41.793" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be fair, that lmgfy link was in a comment, not in answer. I'm not trying to defend it, but just to put it into perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a broader view: It seems that many people, even regulars, aren't getting the &quot;Every question should be on SO&quot; policy. That's the intention of the site makers, and so that's what the community should enforce. Maybe this policy should be made clearer somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have an actual idea as to the means for doing that; just throwing it out there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:49:41.793" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15644" CreationDate="2009-08-20T11:54:30.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who are looking at this question and want the same thing: The greasemonkey script is there: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form/12846#12846&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form/12846#12846&lt;/a&gt; (that's Jonathan Sampson's - thank you!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T11:54:30.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T11:54:30.050" />
  <row Id="15658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:07:10.633" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blocking the url itself will just make people creative... tinyurl, etc. But no, they are't exactly welcoming - and we do try to delete them when we see them. Some editors used to go to great lengths to point these out, and in all honesty I haven't seen any on SO for a while. If they are creeping back, just point them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:07:10.633" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:11:21.673" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe if people would learn to Google the question first...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a study in human behavior that says that we essentially poke fun and deride things to encourage certain behaviors among our peers. We make fun of people with tramp stamps, people who don't want to be associated with the connotations of having them won't get them. We make fun of certain accents and some people work to disassociate themselves from it by working to eliminate the accent (I know a few people that have done that with certain local accents in the region where I live). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words we encourage certain behaviors by reinforcing what we want to reward, and humiliating people who act against the grain. Jeff has pointed out the opposite facet in this by saying that the sites are engineered to encourage good behavior using badges and reputation as motivators, and discourage behaviors by taking away reputation and allowing the community to work to bury people's questions that shouldn't be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most sysadmins/techies seem to have a strong intellectual streak with a leaning towards having people work to solve questions on their own that are very simple to find the answer to on their own. They also tend to be arrogant in their own domain of knowledge, and often grow tired of having to answer the same questions and issues at work with their users after having answered the same questions over and over and over and over...sometimes with the same people asking them a month later the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a community comprised of people that have to deal with this and are answering questions here as a way to share what they have experienced and look for an intellectual challenge, why wouldn't they snark at people who couldn't have been bothered to Google for an answer that is already out there? There are people who are already getting miffed at the homeworkers asking for dolts to hand over their CS homework answers for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New people need to fit into the community. If they don't like it they can participate to change it by getting reputation and participating in upvote/downvote. Otherwise the community that is entrenched probably doesn't want to suffer what they see as their bad habits and unwillingness to invest a little research time on their own...we get enough that at our day jobs and we're not paid to do that with the Atwood Trilogy Sites :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132770" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:11:21.673" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="15660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:20:15.273" Score="84" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Banning LMGTFY links will not solve any issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a technical level it will incur a performance hit, and there will be work arounds, but even besides that, banning something rude will not make people more generous. They will simply be rude &lt;em&gt;differently&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the &lt;em&gt;attitude&lt;/em&gt; that we are wishing to get rid of, not the specific action of LMGTFY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I don't think flagging as 'inappropriate' is necessary. Docking someone 100 points for being rude is not what 'inappropriate' is about. When I look at people spewing racism, sexism, or just raining pure foul-mouthed abuse upon someone because they didn't like the question, &lt;em&gt;that's&lt;/em&gt; offensive. If someone posts a snooty LMGTFY link, then they are simply being rude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the correct response to an LMGTFY link is a downvote, and a comment indicating that you think such disrespectful (although possibly helpful) acts are not encouraged. Next time, the answerer should provide the content of the answer, or possibly a direct link, but LMGTFY is not used on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:20:15.273" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66241" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:26:09.843" Score="205" ViewCount="1937" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, crossing one of the magical rep borders happens more or less unnoticed. People just gain the particular powers. Now, of course they have eagerly been awaiting this moment, and want to start using their new powers instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this leads to people---usually with good intentions---doing stuff that is actually discouraged. The most notable case is users who passed the 500 boundary starting to tag questions as &quot;not-programming-related&quot;, &quot;belongs-on-serverfault&quot;, or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do this because they can't close yet, but want to do what they can to get the question noticed for 3k-rep users to close. They're most likely not clear that this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4128/change-the-belongs-on-serverfault-tag-when-a-question-is-moved-to-serverfault/4211#4211&quot;&gt;unwanted behavior&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not claiming I haven't fallen into this myself when I passed 500.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is closing. I often see question being voted to close for an obviously unfitting reason. I assume that this is often done by recent 3k-gainers, who are just happy to have found a question that they might use their closing powers upon, but are just a little too eager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a pop-up (like the &quot;You've earned a new badge&quot; one) saying something like &quot;You have earned the power to retag questions. Please read our retagging guidelines [link] for a short introduction&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This probably holds for the 500 (retagging), 2000 (editing), 3000 (closing) and 10.000 (deleting / mod) boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-01T01:51:58.183" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T20:30:38.430" Title="&quot;You have gained power. Here's how to use it.&quot; kind of message" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="15662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15661" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:31:59.373" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Retagged questions can again be retagged.  The 3k-rep users can choose to not close a flagged question.  Closed questions can be re-opened.  Everything is community-driven.  Someone who has more power can override those who are weaker.  I don't think it's necessary to have this message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:31:59.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15666" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:32:43.427" Score="13" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'll be nice if a notification is displayed when you're writing an answer to a question and someone else votes it as a dupe. Today, I answered a question and when I submitted, I noticed that it's being voted as an exact duplicate. It was indeed a duplicate so I deleted my answer and voted as a dupe. It would be nice to have notifications like the one that says &quot;2 new answers added to the question&quot; for duplicate votes and closing too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:54:28.270" Title="Display notification when the question you are answering is voted as dupe" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15661" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:43:53.843" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's an excellent suggestion. In addition, if we have pages that explain the pitfalls of those powers, it would also be useful to link to those pages from the FAQ, where it lists the powers and the rep points needed for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly want to use whatever new powers I gain wisely, and I would be happy to find a page that explains how the community feels those powers are best used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:43:53.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15663" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:45:06.433" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. If we're embracing the Fastest Gun in the West, this can certainly be aggravating. I know I always answer the question as fast as I can unless I know that I've seen the question before--I'm not actively checking for dupes. So a little, &quot;Hey, you're wasting your time&quot; banner would be fantastic. Especially because I'm verbose and I like to write a treatise on the most mundane of topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:45:06.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15663" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:54:28.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea... not deleting the question is ok (as Jeff stated, this serves the purpose of incrementing the chances of finding a question when you search with different words), but all the answers should be in the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way if you find a question with no answers, you can click on the &lt;strong&gt;possible duplicates&lt;/strong&gt; link and find them all in one place&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:54:28.270" />
  <row Id="15668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15661" CreationDate="2009-08-20T12:55:47.830" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like this idea. Have the banner drop with, &quot;You've just earned new privileges! Check the FAQ for more!&quot; That'd be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one addition: When the banner shows, it plays &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSYlCEz5VI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the sound&lt;/a&gt; from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: &quot;And there was much rejoicing. (Yay.)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T12:55:47.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15661" CreationDate="2009-08-20T13:23:16.507" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good idea on the surface, but I also expect that unfortunately most people just won't click the link to the guidelines page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of getting more people to read the guidelines, what it would really accomplish is making more people who may not be quite ready for their new moderation abilities aware of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T13:23:16.507" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1189" CreationDate="2009-08-20T13:27:24.940" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;em&gt;above&lt;/em&gt; the edit form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T13:27:24.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T13:27:24.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15694" CreationDate="2009-08-20T14:46:42.970" Score="1" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a small exploit, but I found that you can remove votes on posts that you edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you could use this exploit to gain 30 rep on the cap every day if you were motivated enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reproduce, fine an old (down)vote of yours, edit the question, remove the vote. (Profit!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Edit*:  This may not be able to be used as an exploit.   But it still undermines the point for being able to remove votes on edited questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T09:00:47.227" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:17:44.773" Title="You can remove votes (up or down) on questions that you edit" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;exploit&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15672" CreationDate="2009-08-20T14:54:49.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But if you downvoted something why would you want to undo it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just don't ever downvote and you have the same gain&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or didn't I understand something?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T14:54:49.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15672" CreationDate="2009-08-20T14:58:04.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The behavior that you can remove or change a vote on the edited post is intended, I don't think it's intended to be used in this manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T14:58:04.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15679" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:04:28.243" Score="0" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1306344/what-is-json-p-how-do-you-pronounce-it/1306375#1306375&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1306344/what-is-json-p-how-do-you-pronounce-it/1306375#1306375&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain this effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it demonstrates the side effect of having a penalty on down votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This answer is half-correct and still accumulated up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't you guys think it tells me this:&#xA;a) Post funny answers and get an overnight reputation boost.&#xA;b) Fun + messy stuff &gt; best stuff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some food for thought...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134258" LastEditorUserId="134258" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T15:17:13.840" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:10:48.960" Title="High upvote count on funny but irrelevant answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15677" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:05:21.457" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People like humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T15:37:14.863" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:37:14.863" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15677" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:11:41.713" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It did technically answer the OP's question, so I think it was ok in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you got to have some humor when programming, you will go insane if you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T16:10:48.960" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:10:48.960" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15677" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:15:15.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the only answer to address the phonetic pronunciation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:15:15.387" />
  <row Id="15681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15661" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:17:16.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of them more as responsibilities with a list of what is expected. Those who have to make spelling checks and retag questions have additional tasks that benefit the rest of us when done correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:17:16.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15677" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:21:47.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted it...only because it was technically correct. The OP asked how to pronounce it, and &quot;Jayson Pee&quot; is correct. Now, if that answer had been &quot;accepted,&quot; I would have been upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:21:47.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:26:21.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the SO and SO meta sites are the exception. Afterall one is a discussion about the other. I wouldn't credit a user on serverfault based on their rating on SO or superuser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:26:21.873" />
  <row Id="15684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15672" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:26:33.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a hypothetical situation which I can't test myself (as I rarely ever hit my Rep cap) so someone else will have to confirm if this works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hit the Rep cap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undo the downvote (putting you at 201).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will you actually gain the extra point doing this? If so, this &quot;exploit&quot; doesn't really require removing an &quot;old&quot; downvote (which would require an edit first). You could probably just undo the most recent ones you made before hitting the Rep cap. Also, you would have to hit the Rep cap &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; doing your down-voting, otherwise you don't gain anything (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1288/bill-the-lizard&quot;&gt;Bill&lt;/a&gt; mentioned in his comment on the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I'm not sure this is really a big worry. Anybody routinely hitting their Rep cap would probably be high-profile enough that others would notice them doing shady things like this and call them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:26:33.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6336" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:30:25.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not an indication of trustworthiness. It's an indication of ability. Ability translates into trustworthiness. I have great ability when it comes to programming (high rep on SO) and terrible ability when it comes to server-management (very low rep on SF). For this reason, I should not be granted a mirage of ability on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said it once in the past, giving a great programmer high rep on SF is like giving a wonderful plumber a high-paying Medical position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:30:25.173" />
  <row Id="15686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15617" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:31:45.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find questions like that very offensive (somebody's trying to get me to do something illegal), and I'd vote to close on &quot;blatantly offensive&quot;.  I'd also flag the question.   Sometimes there's no such thing as overkill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:31:45.123" />
  <row Id="15687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15690" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:38:52.473" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the interesting graphs and such that have been generated from the SO datadump, has it been suggested yet, or planned, to release datadumps for the rest of the trilogy-sites? I'm curious what types of data could be pulled from querying all three, and having access to the history of users with connected-accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;June 29, 2009 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/419/data-dump-for-serverfault/438#438&quot;&gt;Jeff says&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We will do this, but I agree with Michael -- there's not enough data yet. Plus, we'd like to &quot;perfect&quot; the process with the SO data dump before extending it to the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Check back in a few months...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-12T03:59:54.197" LastActivityDate="2011-07-12T03:59:54.197" Title="Datadumps of SF, MSO and SU too?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15672" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:40:57.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the point here is that if you have edit ability on other people's questions, presumably it could be dishonest to change your vote on that question based on your own edit rather than someone else's edit.  It's a little strange, in any case.  If you thought you could improve it to the point where a downvote wasn't necessary, why not just edit instead of placing a downvote in the first place?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exploit nature makes sense, too.  Downvotes matter most on questions which are near 0 in their vote tally.  If you go and find your own downvotes on questions which have been downvoted to oblivion (say -5 or more), or upvoted highly, then removing your own downvote will have little effect.  The question will still have a ton of downvotes or upvotes, but you can get your shiny rep point back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, I'm still not convinced that the problem is big enough to warrant a fix.  It seems very edge-case to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:40:57.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:44:38.467" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just made my first post and it got down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;reputation = -2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I selected a best answer, earned +2 rep for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;reputation = 3 but technically it should be 0 (or 1 if they don't like zeroes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now look at my recent page. All time reputation earned = 8. But at top it shows 11.&#xA;see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/134258&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/134258&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134258" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T16:21:12.090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:21:12.090" Title="Reputation count" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15687" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:45:14.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff answered this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/419/data-dump-for-serverfault/438#438&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:45:14.520" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15689" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:46:32.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't go negative.  It sometimes causes interesting bugs.  But the possible rep to be gained by any exploit is very minimal, and thus, I'd say, not important enough to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:46:32.270" />
  <row Id="15692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15617" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:47:21.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed the question and deleted it immediately after. It is safer to just let it go away quietly I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Marc already pointed out, flag it for moderator attention and we will act upon it. Flame throwers work wonders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:47:21.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2586" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:52:49.573" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see that too. Comments are becoming almost as important as the answers themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:52:49.573" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15672" CreationDate="2009-08-20T15:56:41.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if it works reliably, this has &lt;em&gt;gotta&lt;/em&gt; be one of the more difficult ways to game the system. And it's hardly subtle: i'll often down-vote a bad question, edit it to improve, and then reverse my vote, but to do that on 30 posts a day, with the proper timing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but think, if rep means &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much to you, go for it. If your edits aren't harmful or completely pointless, who cares? May your extra 30 points bring you happiness or whatever...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T15:56:41.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:05:55.930" Score="6" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1306827/which-is-better-more-efficient-check-for-bad-values-or-catch-exceptions-in-java/1306854#1306854&quot;&gt;an answer today&lt;/a&gt; that was lucid, but spiced with a hint of attitude, made me want to pull out my editing sword and take the sarcastic ',umm,' away.  It seemed that the answer, given matter-of-fact-ly, would be more effective than as-is with the tincture of cheek. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realized that my impulse was an indication of personal taste, and I therefore relented.  My question for discussion is whether the editing powers should be used for 'good' in this way?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T19:16:01.943" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:18:13.720" Title="Should we edit attitude out of answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="15697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15695" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:10:38.180" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that that call is up to the editor.  Personally I &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; sarcasm.  I find, if done well, it can be very effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think you are positively contributing to the answer with the edit, then I'd say go for it.  But it's your call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, don't edit out things you don't like just because you don't like them.  Make sure it is for the betterment of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:10:38.180" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15695" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:11:20.270" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not opposed to editing out attitude when it's directed at another user, because the site doesn't need that.  Snark directed at, say, the developers of the language/library/$WHATEVER in question (e.g., &quot;This method will return -1 if it isn't found.  Who thought that was a good idea?&quot;) doesn't bother me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That particular example is borderline.  I'm not a huge fan of it, but it doesn't seem to be directed at the OP or anyone else, so it's not egregious.  I'd probably edit it out if I had other things to edit in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:11:20.270" />
  <row Id="15699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15707" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:11:26.120" Score="15" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did a retag request question and noticed that I had to put one of the mandatory tags up, but retag-request wasn't on the allowed list.  I think this should be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T22:45:52.227" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T22:45:52.227" Title="Retag-request as one of the mandatory tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15695" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:12:35.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be a fine line between sarcasm and rudeness.  We have to exercise our best judgment in weighing the spirit and intent of the original against basic rules of courtesy.  A little sarcasm is fine (even fun), going out of your way to make an asker feel stupid is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:12:35.027" />
  <row Id="15701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15695" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:12:58.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I removed the &quot;um&quot;, it didn't really add anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually as far as I could tell, it actually detracted from the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent of the statement is still there though, The word &quot;exceptional&quot; is in italics. Which has effectively the same effect as &quot;um&quot;, without coming off as derisive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:12:58.927" />
  <row Id="15702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14943" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:18:58.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;talk about SO by Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; it might be of some interest in relation to SF too, as he talks a lot about planning, implementation and deployment or the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132097" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:18:58.883" />
  <row Id="15703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15704" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:20:21.890" Score="3" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know how many moderators are there in Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they available 24 x 7?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May I know the moderators names (if possible)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T20:32:12.547" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:35:42.400" Title="How many moderators are there in stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15703" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:22:45.100" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The diamond moderators list is available on the About Page of every site. A complete list is available on the Meta &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;About&lt;/a&gt; Page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively you can e-mail them on team@stackoverflow.com or you can post a question here and one of the moderators here will try and assist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excluding Jeff and the development team there are currently 4 SO moderators, 3 SF moderators, 4 SU moderators (all of which can moderate Meta) and 4 Meta-only moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User above 3K and 10K reputation on every site are also considered moderators. They have the ability to close questions, view flags and view deleted posts (10K). They do not have access to user information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T22:50:52.907" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:50:52.907" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15717" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:28:01.297" Score="12" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a psychological effect with my own voting, and am curious to know whether anyone else sees the same thing. Simply put, if I see a correct or good answer, I don't always upvote it, &lt;em&gt;if the answer has some reasonable number of votes already&lt;/em&gt;. Similarly, if a post already has several downvotes, I usually don't bother downvoting further (some sort of &quot;they've been punished enough&quot; logic, I suppose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is because in my head I'm unconsciously thinking of the number of votes as a 'rating' or 'score' indicating the quality of the answer. I then find myself thinking &quot;this answer is correct, and the best one here, but it's not that great, it's worth about 4 points.&quot; So I don't upvote. Although it's hard to disentangle from other variables like number of views or age, I suspect the same effect may be a feature on many of my own answers rated by others - the answer reaches some sort of natural level, as judged by the community... and then sits there, with only very minor subsequent increments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since becoming aware of this tendency in myself, I've been thinking more carefully about what the vote represents. There are clear problems with using the number of votes as a quality rating, the most obvious of which is that the scale isn't normalised in size, and is also function of time. But, irrational as it is, I still feel this bias against answers with votes (positive or negative)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has anyone else experienced this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you ever find yourself voting in this way, or should a good answer always receive an upvote?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a general consensus on what a vote represents?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:15:21.530" Title="Should good answers always be upvoted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="15707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15699" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:28:08.270" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd have to agree with this. Since it's a fairly common request to be made, and it doesn't really neatly fall in the other categories, it should absolutely be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:28:08.270" />
  <row Id="15708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:31:46.563" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's clear that people use the number of votes something already has as one of the factors in deciding whether to upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this with my own answers. If I get in an answer that is deemed correct such that noone else bothers replying it'll be rare that answer will get above 10 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you have a question with a lot of answers&amp;mdash;especially if that question is somewhat subjective&amp;mdash;and you get upvoted answers that are different then the chances of getting upvoted higher than you otherwise would are much, much higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also see this where the &quot;wrong&quot; answer is accepted. If people deem your answer to be better, a &quot;wrong&quot; accepted answer also increases the likelihood your answer will get upvoted. I think people view this as some kind of protest vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An exceptional answer can still attract upvotes way beyond the influence of any of these factors, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1133581/is-23-148-855-308-184-500-a-magic-number-or-sheer-chance/1133612#1133612&quot;&gt;Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:31:46.563" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:32:32.287" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching Stack Overflow over the past few days I see questions often being closed rather overzealously.  There are definitely some questions that deserve to be closed (e.g. &quot;Do my homework&quot;, etc) but it's a shame that other questions get closed despite being marked as community wiki; e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1304287/what-are-the-common-disorders-diseases-the-programmers-suffer-from-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1304287/what-are-the-common-disorders-diseases-the-programmers-suffer-from-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is that this type of slightly off-topic-but-still-interesting question enriches the SO community (you only have to view the number of people who responded to this), and I wondered what other people thought?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, have people noticed a change in attitudes towards closing questions?  For example, I see that no one has closed this SO &quot;classic&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127479" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:22:26.570" Title="What's the view on closing questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:32:51.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also follow some similar pattern. If the answer has been down voted enough, I will let it be as it has already been defined. Unless it is offensive or completely out of line, then I will further down vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With upvotes, I think of a rating system also, the most upvoted should be the correct answer and well put together. It is nice to have other answers that add or contribute to the answer as well, so they deserve some upvotes as well. If it already has a few upvotes though, I won't upvote it further unless I really like the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is meta, where we up and down vote partialy based on agree/disagree of the OP's request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:32:51.773" />
  <row Id="15711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:33:17.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always upvote the answers I know are good, but have noticed the tendency to not add downvotes to already downvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:33:17.450" />
  <row Id="15712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:34:23.033" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only get so many votes per day, so I think people are wise to conserve their votes and use them where they can have the most effect, usually that means on posts that are near to zero in their vote tally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unrestricted upvoting and downvoting is usually reserved for truly exceptional posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:34:23.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:34:46.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will not upvote every good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My upvote will go to you if it meets 2 criteria: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am interested in the topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;best&lt;/strong&gt; answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; - This applies to non meta sites.  I throw around votes in Meta much more freely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T16:42:32.440" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:42:32.440" />
  <row Id="15714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15742" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:36:27.740" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering if I am the only one noticing this issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that when I submit questions, answers, or comments, its VERY common for the page to time out indefinitely (but the question still gets submitted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After making a comment/answer, the browser is just sitting and waiting.   However, after 5-10 seconds, I can just click the question title and see that my answer/comment was indeed added with no problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else experience this?   I've noticed this at home, at work, and on my phone.   I've noticed this in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera (and webkit-based mobile browser).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being that it happens under so many scenarios, I tend to think that the issue isn't on my end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a widespread problem or am I living in some sort of weird bizarro zone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:40:11.440" Title="Requests timing out?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;performance&gt;&lt;slow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15709" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:36:48.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a shame that the question you first linked to got closed??  I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asked on the sites should have clear answers solving a specific problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the question you point out may have clear answers, they are not solving any particular programming problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;At least, that's my opinion.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:36:48.380" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="15716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15695" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:37:39.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personaly will not change the tone of the original OP, but I will edit out &quot;HALP!!!!!!??!!!!&quot; and similar text/punctuation. I get rid of extra &lt;strong&gt;BOLD&lt;/strong&gt;, CAPS, and really unprofessional language.  I aim to reduce &quot;texting talk&quot; also. OMGWTFBBQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I leave the attitude and tone because that is what determines an up or down vote sometimes and people's willingness to help the OP. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: The question on SU that asked &quot;How to get people to switch to gmail?&quot; and stated there are only two type of email: gmail and non-gmail. He assumed most people thought this way and the attitude spoke loudly ... and promptly downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T17:17:39.653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:17:39.653" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:40:08.560" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I would admit casting/not casting a vote based on the current activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;Everything's in Order Here&quot; Syndrome&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I come in after the voting activity has already settled in, and the voting levels seem to reflect the best posts, I often feel like &quot;everything's in order here...  move on.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Exceptional Standout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any particular post is &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; exceptional, I might want to throw my vote into the ring, despite the already-high vote score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;Unsung Hero&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if activity is low and I see something interesting, I will more likely up-vote it (to celebrate the &quot;unsung hero&quot;, so to speak).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Intervention (aka, you haven't hit bottom, yet)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, yes, I don't tend to down-vote an already beaten-down post... unless I think it is really &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; bad that the barrage of down-votes has not &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt; truly reflected its deserved bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T16:46:21.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:46:21.510" />
  <row Id="15718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15709" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:52:04.167" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki isn't carte blanche to post &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; you want. It doesn't allow you to sidestep the normal rules/guidelines of SO posts. This is still a Q/A site and extended discussion is frowned upon be it CW or not. Likewise, if the primary topic/focus of the question does not relate to actual &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;, it is usually going to get closed whether or not it is CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to old questions (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;&quot;programmer cartoons&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) they are effectively grandfathered-in to the site. They were created in the early days when posting guidelines were still being hammered out, and they have had so much activity that most people just let them be. They sit in the background as a little bit of noise, museum pieces of the early days of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T16:52:04.167" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T16:56:33.067" Score="0" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;When entering XML literals using E4X syntax in ActionScript the code highlighting can be broken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;package&#xA;{&#xA;&#xA;public class XMLTest&#xA;{&#xA;    public function XMLTest()&#xA;    {&#xA;       // here highlighting works ok&#xA;       var aVariable:int = 0;&#xA;       var aSprite:Sprite = new Sprite();&#xA;&#xA;        var xmlFragment:XML = &#xA;        &amp;lt;root&amp;gt;&#xA;           &amp;lt;node /&amp;gt;&#xA;           &amp;lt;node /&amp;gt;&#xA;           &amp;lt;node /&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/root&amp;gt;;&#xA;&#xA;       // from now on all code highlighting is borked&#xA;       var otherVariable:int = 0;&#xA;       var yetAnother:Sprite = new Sprite();&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a workaround:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;package&#xA;{&#xA;&#xA;public class XMLTest&#xA;{&#xA;    public function XMLTest()&#xA;    {&#xA;       // here highlighting works ok&#xA;       var aVariable:int = 0;&#xA;       var aSprite:Sprite = new Sprite();&#xA;&#xA;        var xmlFragment:XML = &#xA;        &amp;lt;root&amp;gt;&#xA;           &amp;lt;node /&amp;gt;&#xA;           &amp;lt;node /&amp;gt;&#xA;           &amp;lt;node /&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/root&amp;gt;; // / //&amp;lt;-- resets the parser and code remains valid&#xA;&#xA;       var otherVariable:int = 0;&#xA;       var yetAnother:Sprite = new Sprite();&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134265" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T07:55:20.157" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T06:38:02.350" Title="Code highlighting with E4X XML literals in ActionScript code blocks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15719" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:06:51.970" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have rarely seen it work with non-trivial Perl code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is one language Prettify is supposed to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to get a parser to parse Perl correctly, but Prettify doesn't even work for &quot;Quote like operators&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;for( qw( a b c ) ){ ... }&#xA;for( qw[ a b c ] ){ ... }&#xA;for( qw{ a b c } ){ ... }&#xA;for( qw/ a b c / ){ ... }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be highlighted more like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;for( qw' a b c ' ){ ... }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of those examples do &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I Will also note that they &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; highlight correctly using Gedit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T17:55:43.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:55:43.367" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27206" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:07:52.777" Score="3" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to sound like a little princes lol, but sometimes I have a hard time reading C# code with a green background, the classes, methods and variables syntax highlighting is green too (although a different shade of green), but it still sort of blends in with the background. Maybe making the background even paler would work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T02:54:08.237" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T02:54:33.777" Title="Code hard to read with answer's Green Background" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:08:19.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will gratuitously upvote (ie, even if the answer has an inordinate amount of votes), if, after reading the question and getting an idea for an answer I:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;see the 'new answers posted' banner and i see the answer I was going to submit, or I &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;see an answer that gives me an insight/perspective that I didnt already have &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I do follow the whims of my ego - looking to upvote (for karma) on solid answers or restrain when considering the total and 'what it says' to the casual observer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes I reserve for non-downvoted answers that are misleading.  Luckily I have the delete option for my own answers that fall into this category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:08:19.143" />
  <row Id="15724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15706" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:15:21.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think this is because in my head I'm unconsciously thinking of the number of votes as a 'rating' or 'score' indicating the quality of the answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this &lt;em&gt;consciously&lt;/em&gt;! What matters most is that the best answer is the first answer, or at least fairly near the question. If it's not, i'll vote in a way that pushes it in that direction. So yeah, i generally don't waste votes on decent, but already highly-ranked answers, and i'll often &lt;em&gt;down-vote&lt;/em&gt; other answers to a question if it'll help the answer i consider &quot;best&quot; float to the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make an exception for exceedingly subjective, non-CW Q&amp;amp;A though, since there's no real point in trying to &quot;convert&quot; others to my opinion by voting. I'll occasionally down-vote all non-CW answers though, as sort of a &quot;heads up: are you &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; you wanted to answer this&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been thinking more carefully about what the vote represents&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My votes represents my opinions as to which answers i like best. That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:15:21.530" />
  <row Id="15725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15728" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:15:58.657" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new in iPhone development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here - I need to find out the people who are enrolled with iPhone tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to find out peoples who have added iPhone, cococa, objective c as their interested tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I can read their questions &amp;amp; answers,&#xA;&amp;amp; by doing this I can come to know beginners problem &amp;amp; how to face it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know - how to filter user's by their category?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for Helping me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:28:53.203" Title="Finding Specific Users - by their interested tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:19:51.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First this isn't a social networking site, so we don't connect you with other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, you actually don't need to find users based on their tags, you can look at all questions within a specific tag. I would think this would be much more helpful to you in the long run. As an aside, you will, with enough time, recognize the active users in the iphone community and at that point you may want to view what other questions they ask/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok your comment clarifies the question a bit. If you look at the specific tag and click on the stats portion you will see stats on it (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/new-tag-statistics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post about the stats feature&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=iphone&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Iphone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T17:28:53.203" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:28:53.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15709" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:22:26.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; what you mean &lt;em&gt;Adamski&lt;/em&gt;! I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1295616/why-are-there-no-simple-io-utils-in-the-jdk-for-reading-an-entire-file-into-a-str&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; yesterday because I'd made an assumption about the answer in a separate explanation and suddenly I wasn't so sure and wanted clarification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's programming related, it's a genuine question (albeit subjective) and it got closed! I would expect a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; leeway given I've been on SO for almost a year. I've only voted to close a small handful of questions, eitehr because they are terribly-formed, homework or completely off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people here seem to be far too trigger-happy for my liking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:22:26.570" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15714" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:26:14.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Usually&lt;/em&gt; SO is very fast for me. Occasionally it's slow over 3G, but that's fair enough :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it becomes very slow for a while (5 minutes to an hour) - but usually that affects the whole site for me, not just posting. Different sites can be fast or slow independently, in my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:26:14.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:27:12.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to one of those tags and then to the stats tab, this should show user's the are relatively active answering and asking questions on those tags. However, if you're simply looking to learn new things and pick up what you can, I would really just recommend looking through the questions in the tags you're trying to learn. In doing this you will likely quickly pick up on who some of the &quot;experts&quot; are, and regardless, through the voting system, you should be able to learn things from many of the questions. And it doesn't matter if the person with the highest voted and/or accepted answer on a particular question has a high overall rep, they still can be &quot;trusted&quot; in their answer to that specific questions; at least they roughly have the communities collective approval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, looking through the stats tab of a tag will not tell you if the person has the tag favorited or not, but I believe it gets you to your end goal. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=iphone&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; should get you to list for the &lt;code&gt;iphone&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:27:12.567" />
  <row Id="15736" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:32:45.583" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/879/make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites&quot;&gt;Make the search box return results from all StackOverflowian sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there, or should there be a mega search - that can search stackoverflow and all it's sister sites? - As a person who has interests and needs in all of the sites, this would be useful to me, because let's face it, people don't always post where they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:37:01.410" ClosedDate="2009-08-20T17:41:18.700" Title="search on all the stackoverflow related sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15736" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:35:43.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will sound cheeky, but seriously, there is one. It is called www.google.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:35:43.173" />
  <row Id="15739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15736" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:37:01.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If people aren't posting where they should, the community will quickly migrate it appropriately, so I don't think that should be a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd be better off searching individually or using google to filter by site (&quot;site:stackoverflow.com&quot; for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T17:37:01.410" />
  <row Id="15742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15714" CreationDate="2009-08-20T17:51:12.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll chime in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often (several times each day) Stack Overflow seems to &quot;forget&quot; about me after I submit a post or a comment. I get the little &lt;em&gt;spinny&lt;/em&gt; &quot;I'm doing something now&quot; icon and it just goes on and on for a few minutes or more until I refresh/close the tab or it just recovers on its own. Then everything is fine again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to be related to Stack Overflow performance because I just keep going in another tab and everything seems to be normal otherwise.  If I refresh the &quot;busy&quot; tab, my post seemed to get through just fine. I just assumed that whatever &quot;&lt;em&gt;I'm-Done&lt;/em&gt;&quot; signal I'm supposed to get back from Stack Overflow is getting lost or stuck somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm sure I read that Jeff acknowledged this &quot;problem&quot; somewhere here but I can't find a link to it. Maybe it was in one of the Podcasts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I'm currently using Firefox 3.5.2, but I'm pretty sure this isn't a recent problem. It never bothered me, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T19:40:11.440" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:40:11.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15747" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:09:20.453" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading a few questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15706/should-good-answers-always-be-upvoted&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, I was wondering what the &lt;strong&gt;primary&lt;/strong&gt; aim of an upvote should be:   To reward the answerer for a good response, or to drive the &quot;best&quot; answer(s) to the top of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I realize that it is of course a &lt;strong&gt;combination&lt;/strong&gt; of the two, but I'm curious to see the community take on which is more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to see a lot of comments saying &quot;vote up if you think it is a good answer&quot;.  However, what happens when you think a &quot;second place&quot; answer is actually superior to a good answer in first place?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you vote for them both and leave the ordering unchanged (since they both deserve an attaboy)?   Or do you vote for the better of the two in the hope of showing that people should follow it as the &lt;strong&gt;best&lt;/strong&gt; answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastEditorUserId="131073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T18:17:22.590" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:38:28.883" Title="Voting - Primarily a reward for the user or a sorting/correctness method?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="15747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15746" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:11:18.343" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sorting/correctness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reward&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't a problem for the vote to server two purposes.  But the main point is for correct answers to questions to float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:11:18.343" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15746" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:19:23.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I think the second place answer is superior to the first place answer,  I will upvote the second place answer only. If I have already upvoted the first place answer and I am revisiting the question, I will more than likely not remove my original vote, unless the second, more 'correct,' answer has identified aspects that even I couldn't detect as wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:19:23.180" />
  <row Id="15750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15746" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:21:35.187" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bother more about correctness and an answer being well presented than about ordering. For example, if there are two good answers I'll vote them both up, even if the one I think is superior is second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise I'll usually only vote &lt;em&gt;down&lt;/em&gt; an answer if it's incorrect or misleading. I certainly wouldn't cast a down vote for a correct answer just to try to move a better answer up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:21:35.187" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15752" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:23:27.583" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now I know what your going to say right away, just look at stuff you might have recently answered, commented on or asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did this but don't see any down votes and I knew how many up votes were given so the up vote counts didn't change. My reputation score dropped a couple of points, no biggie, but just wondering why. I looked in recent activity for my account and saw nothing and have just become confused as to why 2 rep points were shaved off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But regardless, what if someone down voted you on something you asked, answered or commented on a while ago. Is there any way to know what was down voted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133661" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T08:38:57.783" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:38:57.783" Title="How do I know which answers, questions, comments were downvoted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15751" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:27:18.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the envelope, click on &lt;code&gt;Today&lt;/code&gt; and click on the number of reputation gained. That will show upvotes, down votes, and accepted answer points separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is only for your items however, not for things you commented on. At this time, the only way to see if threads you are interested in have been update is by clicking the star on a question to favorite it, and then check your favorites tab every so often. (Your Name on the top bar &gt; Favorites)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T18:29:02.927" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:29:02.927" />
  <row Id="15753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:31:20.567" Score="5" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Stack Overflow's implementation available for in-house use (à la MediaWiki)? I'm thinking my company could really benefit from the kind of service Stack Overflow provides, but the entire implementation would have to be kept in-house to protect company IP, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-05T19:07:58.763" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T19:07:58.763" Title="Stack Exchange for in-house use" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;so-engine&gt;&lt;private-site&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15751" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:35:26.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Chacha102 say, the &lt;code&gt;Recent Activity&lt;/code&gt; page is a good source for this info.  Also, on your user page, you can click on the &lt;code&gt;reputation&lt;/code&gt; tab.  There you can see by date range what posts (questions and answers) garnered what sort of positive/negative reputaion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:35:26.937" />
  <row Id="15757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15746" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:38:28.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correctness only.  Worrying about sorting introduces too much psychology.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just vote for what is vote worthy.  The aggregate opinion of the community will determine the proper order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:38:28.883" />
  <row Id="15760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15751" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:42:54.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as the recent activity page, you might find my &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reputation Tracker&lt;/a&gt; helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:42:54.240" />
  <row Id="15762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15722" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:44:51.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might try using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt; extension if you're using Firefox; it allows you to restyle existing pages exactly the way you want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you could write a rule that looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.accepted-answer code {&#xA;   background-color: white !important;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:44:51.553" />
  <row Id="15767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15769" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:56:02.217" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; turned on in my preferences. If a question comes along with an Interesting tag and an Ignored tag, what happens to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastActivityDate="2010-11-07T19:31:54.753" Title="Hiding questions with Interesting and Ignored tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15767" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:56:45.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its hidden..          &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens is Javascript hides or fades all questions with a &lt;code&gt;.tagged-ignored' class, and highlights all questions with a &lt;/code&gt;.tagged-interesting` class. When a question has both classes, they overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also why you will notice that when you hide ignored questions, you will have less questions on the entire page. Hiding the questions is taken over by javascript, not the server, so the server doesn't know to list more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T19:03:25.447" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:03:25.447" />
  <row Id="15769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15767" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:58:57.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have the hide ignored tags turned &lt;strong&gt;off&lt;/strong&gt; they will display as both interesting and ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have the hide ignored tags turned &lt;strong&gt;on&lt;/strong&gt; it will hide it no matter how many interesting tags are in there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T18:58:57.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T18:58:32.793" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Point of Sale software or Hardware ever discussed on this site? Is this an appropriate site for POS questions? I think that it is but do not see any strings for this subject.&#xA;Ie: Radiant, Aloha, Micros, Posiflex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T19:23:36.123" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:58:43.383" Title="POS software or Hardware?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;software&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15770" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:03:53.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um, SuperUser I'm thinking? Others may have less of a conflict suggesting SU, only because it appears to be the default location for anything not programming/meta/servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're developing a POS-solution, and have programming questions you should ask them on Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:03:53.683" />
  <row Id="15773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15770" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:10:21.843" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about specific POS software/hardware: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about writing your own POS software: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about security/network architecture for a distributed POS system: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:21.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15770" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:10:44.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine that SuperUser would be the most ideal. I just could not make any guarantees that you would get a lot of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:44.463" />
  <row Id="15775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15776" CreationDate="2008-08-26T00:57:53.880" Score="43" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I post an answer to a brand new question I usually find that someone else has submitted that same answer just moments before. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/615/matt-hamilton&quot;&gt;Matt Hamilton&lt;/a&gt;, usually ;-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've started to do lately is (I think) the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I notice that another answer predates mine, and that I add no value over it, I immediately delete my own answer, and upvote the other guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend that you too do the same. Otherwise the message will be diluted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, if after posting your &quot;answer&quot; you realise that you are in fact wrong (and you've just misread the question) -- you can actually delete your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this reasonable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The reason why I'm writing this down is because it feels completely counter-intuitive to delete your own stuff. But it really saves everyone time and effort)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T11:50:00.360" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T11:50:00.360" Title="Do you delete your own answer when it's a duplicate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-08-26T01:00:26.400" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while you're at it, voting up what you would have said is helpful too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-08-26T01:00:26.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@secretGeek-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like a reasonable practice. Should this be placed in the sofaq?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131836" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-08-26T01:06:00.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it really matters, in the end. If both answers are good, both are upmoded and both are shown next to the question. It's not really a problem if they are essentially the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you feel compelled to delete your answer, that's fine too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-08-26T01:34:06.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upmodding the answer you duplicated is more important than deleting your duplicate, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-08-26T02:28:50.120" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say leave your answer and upmod the other answers that you think are appropriate, unless it's an exact copy. There is not usually one true way, and other viewpoints help the answer-seeker draw their own conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131680" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-08-26T03:48:49.193" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, when I get an answer to my question, I'll edit my own question to include the accepted answer below. This helps when there are a few good alternative answers to the same question. I think it'll help in the event there's duplicate answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Addressing all the accepted answers together with the question seems neater to me. An example would be my &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21651/adobe-air-handling-json-objects-from-server&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there's the problem of diligence (or the lack of it) on the part of the question author to edit the question in the first place — not everybody does that, unless there's some UI functionality to improve on this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136293" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-09-04T19:05:52.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say leave yours there, the one that is clearest will get upmodded, just because someone beat you to the punch doesn't mean theirs is the easiest to understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-09-04T19:21:54.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a situation where I provided an answer, then somebody else answered with a less complete answer a few minutes later. Then the other poster edited their answer and copied mine into it, as if it was their own! I watched all this happen as I kept hitting Reload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the other poster's answer was now closer to the top, having been edited more recently, they got the &quot;best answer&quot; checkmark and more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Obviously I have accumulated enough rep points now that this doesn't really bother me, but this sort of thing is bound to happen to others, too.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-09-08T14:29:26.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that having several similar answers is an annoying distraction. I'd have more value from my time (and my patience) if there are 5 answers than if there are 15 posts with only 3 actually different solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my post has something no other has, I keep it as is. Most text already appears in a previous post, but my answer makes sense if read alone. If there's nothing new, I delete it quickly so I don't clutter the discussion. It means I respect the time of readers and the efforts of contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those were my two cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and upmodding and downmodding probably helps too, I'm just not too sure &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144220" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-09-15T22:14:50.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the questions are really duplicates, then a note should be made about it, and perhaps the answers should be merged. Higher concentration of peer review is a good thing, surely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136928" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2008-10-14T14:26:47.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its right thing to do.&#xA;I had once asnwered a question correcty (without any sample code) and it was accepted by the author and upvoted.&#xA;Few minutes later i saw someone else has written a answer with exact code required.&#xA;I went back and deleted my answer and upvoted the other persons answer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:10:53.743" />
  <row Id="15787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:29:08.850" Score="36" ViewCount="687" Body="&lt;p&gt;Twice now I've seen questions on Stack Overflow where one of my company's products might provide an answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One was a slightly vague connection about object-relational mapping, but the other was a specific question about workshop/event management where we have a product which is almost an exact match for the questioner's needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the questioner should take a pinch of salt with anything I say about it, but it might be useful to have the product brought to his attention as one possible solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the rules and guidelines about answering with something I worked on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140265" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:36:51.103" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:36:51.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" Title="How do I mention my own products in answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;self-promotion&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="15788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:30:40.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it will help answer the question why would it be bad etiquette to mention your own product?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could make note of it to be polite, but in the end the question's author will take the best advice provided, if that happens to be a product you shepherd/produce, then all the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153513" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" />
  <row Id="15789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:30:58.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you aren't spamming your own product and only mention it where it's appropriate, I don't see a problem. However, you might want to say that it's your product in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" />
  <row Id="15790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:31:57.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your product is helpful your answer should get voted up and/or accepted, if not, it will be voted down. I don't see this as being an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132037" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" />
  <row Id="15791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:32:05.147" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have a problem with you mentioning it, but I think full disclosure is important.  You absolutely need to say, in that post, that you work for the company that sells this product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:32:06.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as your answer is informative and has a disclosure about your affiliation, I think it would be appropriate to mention your product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" />
  <row Id="15793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:32:31.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't think that it should be a problem.  If you have a product that you believe in you should be able to mention it regardless of the company that it came from (yours or someone elses).  Now creating questions and then using it to promote your product I would say that is an entirely different story. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" />
  <row Id="15794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:33:28.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to demonstrate your objectivity then you would mention how your product solves the problem and also mention your competitors' products that may also solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1463" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:33:51.087" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a reasonable answer to &lt;strong&gt;someone else&lt;/strong&gt;'s question, then yes. Being a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_(person)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shill&lt;/a&gt; should see the crowd reward you appropriately ...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do mention your own product or site, I would suggest you cite your own affiliation clearly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-04T18:41:40.817" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not but I do have a seminar on web-etiquette that should be &lt;em&gt;perfect&lt;/em&gt; for you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155327" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15787" CreationDate="2008-09-18T18:30:31.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14728" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:22.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:49:59.980" />
  <row Id="15798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15804" CreationDate="2009-02-22T02:54:32.867" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think you might know an answer, or have a good suggestion, should it be a comment or an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say you don't have the time currently to test your idea, or you are 80% sure, should this be a comment on the original post 'Have you tried... ?' or should you post it as an answer, and if it is voted up, accepted as the answer or you finally test it and confirm it, it is then edited to reflect the new stance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example (using simple CSS)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Post&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you tried setting its display to inline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Revision after being accepted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply set its dispay to inline&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#element { &#xA;   display: inline;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I have made a suggestion in the comments, and it has been correct, and then someone else posted it as an answer which was accepted. After I posted it as the answer later however, I received the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31671" LastEditorUserId="31671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-05T00:32:49.783" LastActivityDate="2010-07-05T00:32:49.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T02:54:32.833" Title="Etiquette for providing a suggestion and not an answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="15799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15798" CreationDate="2009-02-22T02:57:04.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally write a comment when I don't have a good, tested answer.  &quot;Not having an answer&quot; includes things like &quot;did you try Foo&quot; or &quot;what about Bar&quot;.  Only if I am pretty sure that my answer is useful, and I can think of a paragraph or so to write explaining it, do I submit an actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Uh oh, now people are going to go through my answer history and disprove me.  I &lt;em&gt;aim&lt;/em&gt; for this, I may not be perfect :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8457" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:50.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T02:57:04.403" />
  <row Id="15800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15798" CreationDate="2009-02-22T02:58:42.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I add it as a comment if it's simply a suggestion that I have not tried (successfully) in the past. If it ends up working, awesome! The OP can edit their post to reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134292" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:50.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T02:58:42.950" />
  <row Id="15801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15798" CreationDate="2009-02-22T03:02:25.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally feel that if I have a suggestion &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; an answer that can lead the questioner to the solution to his/her problems, I write it in an answer. If I only have a quick thought, but no time to spend on re-thinking and/or testing it, I don't write anything at all - or a comment, at most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I feel that a link to an article, blog post or code library that can help solve the problem is just as good an answer as a complete example with tested code. For example, if I ask a question about how to get some content to a web site with an AJAX request, I am just as happy for a link to an article describing how to return JSON along with a link to the jQuery webiste as I am for some example code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that is not just a question (&quot;Have you tried...&quot;) should be in an answer - and edited if new information comes up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38055" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:50.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T03:02:25.967" />
  <row Id="15802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15798" CreationDate="2009-02-22T03:06:39.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My philosophy is that any answer to the question should not appear in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have an answer that I'm not sure of, I'll usually take the time to check that it's at least reasonable, then I'll post it (if it works, and usually only if nobody's beaten me to it). If you'd rather post a questionable answer immediately and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; check it, I think that's a fair strategy, keeping in mind that it'll get downvoted if it's wrong - in that case, you should probably go back and delete it, or at least edit it to indicate that it's not correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even suggestions that are like answers, or are partial answers, should be written up as answers, in my opinion, rather than being posted in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:50.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T03:06:39.983" />
  <row Id="15803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15798" CreationDate="2009-02-22T03:10:59.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I make it an answer, then I try to phrase it as a declarative statement instead of as a question, e.g. &quot;I think you do that by setting its display to inline.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I do make it a declarative statement, then I try to flag its uncertainty or inaccuracy if there is any, e.g. by saying &quot;I think ...&quot; or &quot;I try ...&quot; or whatever if I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I cannot make a declarative statement of what I'm saying (i.e. if all I have is a question), then I'd post that as a comment instead of as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, people's upvoting my answer would not be sufficient reason for me to edit my answer to increase my implied confidence in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:50.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T03:10:59.160" />
  <row Id="15804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15798" CreationDate="2009-02-22T03:26:38.110" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you think you might know an answer,&#xA;  or have a good suggestion, should it&#xA;  be a comment or an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Actionable information&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Comment:&lt;/strong&gt; Clarification or follow up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have something that may prove valuable (information, a thought, a suggestion, etc) - in other words, something actionable, then post it as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel uncomfortable about it's &quot;truthiness&quot; then add &quot;maybe, should, I think, If I remember correctly, I suspect&quot; to the answer, and if you don't want a wrong idea to result in bad rep then mark your answer as wiki.  You can delete it later, or modify it later, if you find out it needs improvement or is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are primarily to add clarity or request more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:11:50.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T03:26:38.093" />
  <row Id="15805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-12T20:07:55.893" Score="25" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does and how should StackOverFlow deal with the issue of great answers being added to old questions,and simply because of the age of the question and the lack of public visibility that answer will not get any votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no way to deal with this then the basis of StackOverflow becomes, the highest scoring answer is not the best, but simply the best of the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161868" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" Title="Rating Answers for old questions" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-12T20:13:43.867" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Notify users when their questions are answered. This should allow the user to revisit their older questions and choose the better result as the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-12T20:14:55.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To throw in a possible idea, perhaps there should be some sort of frequency metric votes/view ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this may be flawed in that the views are currently counted on questions not answers ( Well actually threads, but you can be sure the question was not read not all the answers ), but still perhaps something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161868" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" />
  <row Id="15808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-12T20:17:59.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like Dimitry Z's answers, but I might extend it a bit further so it caters for more than just one vote : to notify everyone who voted on any answer that a new answer has been added. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would that create too much spam ? Perhaps not given the fact that the person cared enough to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161868" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" />
  <row Id="15809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-12T20:30:55.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes aren't that important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you contribute for some days you will quickly have a stock of answers. These gets voted even days or weeks after you wrote them, and you'll very quickly face the situation that the maximum of 200 points you could get per day are used up overnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get surprising comments on answers I wrote for old questions. These questions may look dead and you don't get the fast kind of feedback that you get from the newest ones, but if the question is good or your answer is good the feedback will come. Either you get points for a week old answer or an interesting comment makes you rethink your question.. Sometimes you get nothing. Who cares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me that works. The point-hunting game was fun in the first days but it quickly lost it's fascination. Instead I now answer because you want to learn, have nice chit-chats in the comments and give back to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-12T20:39:34.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, anyway, I have found the way books are rated on amazon to be very helpful.&#xA;I've also become more critical of reviewers as time as gone by (I can think of one computer book reviewer who must spend his entire life reading basic texts and never gives less than 4 stars).&#xA;On amazon I take notice of &#xA;1: the number of reviews&#xA;2: the star ratings of the reviews&#xA;3: how likely the reviewer is to be a sock puppet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" />
  <row Id="15811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-12T20:40:46.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is popular and the new answer is a really good one, it could be voted up by people who stumble upon the question and does not think that the top-scored/choosen answer is the best one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" />
  <row Id="15812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-13T02:52:54.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps sorting w/in a vote level is by newest first, rather than oldest first.  Say, for instance, that you create a new answer.  It will appear &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the other answers at the same score (0).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" />
  <row Id="15813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-13T05:53:02.840" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would give some +1 bonus reputation (only few times per day) when one votes a recent answer to an old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I would make the Necromancer badge a gold one. Well, a platinum one.&#xA;This would be an incentive for people to keep &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; old questions. And if you don't want to give a redundant answer, you must &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; other people's answers first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe some more necromancy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Awakener (Reviver?): bronze, +5 after 20 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Necromancer: silver, +5 after 6 months&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raiser of the dead: gold, +10 after 1 year &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-13T07:29:28.870" />
  <row Id="15814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15805" CreationDate="2008-10-13T06:31:44.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this topic, I find that some old questions have incorrect answers. I try to leave a comment on those questions. Most of the time this seems ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest with you, who made me the authority for determining what is the &quot;correct&quot; way to write a singleton pattern for c#? I did my best and chose the best answer at the time. Stuff changes and a new &quot;more correct&quot; answer may pop up. Just because I asked an question first, does not make me the authority for &quot;the answer&quot;, in SO it does.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that after a certain amount of time, questions should become community owned. And &quot;the answer&quot; should become community owned (by rolling up all of the data into a single answer) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should allow for duplicate questions, if the new one is more concise with rolled up answers (from possibly multiple questions) - referencing the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the answer is just to comment-and-wait. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we need a meta-moderation scheme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should allow people to vote that a question is not really answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:12:33.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-23T20:38:23.343" Score="40" ViewCount="861" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have groups for promoting Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow on some social networking sites. They are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6885/stackoverflows-presence-on-facebook-could-be-a-bit-better/18644#18644&quot;&gt;quasi-official&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone's welcome to join any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=753957&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt; --- promote your Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow profile on your online CV (looking for administrators).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/pages/stackoverflow/11239244970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28714318518&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook group&lt;/a&gt; --- find fellow Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow users. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hi5.com/friend/group/3764799--StackOverflow--front-html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hi5 Group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=50870412&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Orkut Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I'm the sole administrator for the LinkedIn group. I don't want to be; LinkedIn requires an administrator to approve all new members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does everyone reckon is best practice for these sort of groups? I was thinking that we could use similar rules to Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow &amp;#8212; if you have over 4000 reputation points you're welcome as an administrator, that sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are a member of a networking site not already listed, please add it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-13T14:45:46.013" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T14:57:32.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T20:38:23.343" Title="Stack Overflow on social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, hi5, Orkut)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="15816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15815" CreationDate="2008-10-23T20:43:49.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined Facebook as &quot;Thomas Storme&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice initiative!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143757" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-13T14:55:05.457" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T14:55:05.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T20:43:49.683" />
  <row Id="15817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15815" CreationDate="2008-10-23T20:47:01.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it sounds like a good idea - the groups, that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how to implement admins, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:13:34.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T20:47:01.597" />
  <row Id="15818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15815" CreationDate="2008-10-23T20:50:01.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28714318518&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook group&lt;/a&gt; which may interest those who prefer groups instead of pages. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13" LastEditorUserId="905" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-02T14:22:35.870" LastActivityDate="2011-06-02T14:22:35.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T20:50:01.917" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15815" CreationDate="2008-10-23T20:50:56.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Facebook group is open - anyone can join.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The LinkedIn group I have to manually approve everyone. If you've just asked to join (and quite few just have) please be patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we decide on administrators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-13T14:57:32.680" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T14:57:32.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T20:50:56.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15815" CreationDate="2008-10-23T22:23:55.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;LinkedIn has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.programmableweb.com/api/linkedin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an API&lt;/a&gt; in development (it's in private beta at the moment).  It may be possible to automate the group management when this is availble.  Perhaps there could even be a field in the Stackoverflow profile where you can enter your LinkedIn username and it would automatically sign you up for the group?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But say I join the LinkedIn group, what then?  Other than being able to identify fellow Stackoverflow users by the badge on their LinkedIn profile, what are the reasons to join?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would perhaps be more useful to link to LinkedIn from my Stackoverflow profile page.  And also to link to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ohloh&lt;/a&gt; profile.  You can add text links on your Stackoverflow page at present, but it might be nice to be able to have an Ohloh/LinkedIn badge on there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:13:34.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T22:23:55.970" />
  <row Id="15821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:44:00.577" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the rules/etiquette for giving files to other users that relate to a post. I have not seen any ability to add attachments to a post, but sometimes to give help, external files are needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that taking a question/answer offline via email is very bad, and rightly so, but users may not always be able to put files and resources on the web where they can be accessed by everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I ask the community:&lt;/strong&gt; What would be the best way to put up a file that is related to a post so that all users can benefit from it. Or, should it just be avoided all together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132553" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T05:07:36.933" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T05:07:36.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T21:18:30.480" Title="Stack Overflow Etiquette for Sharing Files and Resources " Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15821" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:45:50.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For large source-code snippets I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PasteBin&lt;/a&gt;. For file attachments I usually just post a zip file on my own domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16942" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:00.960" />
  <row Id="15823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15821" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:47:27.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://Filedropper.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FileDropper&lt;/a&gt; for sharing files themselves.  They provide nice looking links to your file which is a big bonus for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also multi-upload services (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://clonemyfile.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clonemyfile&lt;/a&gt;) that submit your single file to several services such as Rapidshare, Easyshare, etc.  These might be a good option because of the increase in redundancy.  I hate nothing more than getting to a forum post or thread to find the source links are dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For sharing code snippets &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pastebin&lt;/a&gt; is the standard usually and I really like &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathbin.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mathbin&lt;/a&gt; for when you want to share pretty-latex math equations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:00.960" />
  <row Id="15824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15821" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:49:35.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nomorepasting.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NoMorePasting&lt;/a&gt; is great for pasting source code with syntax highlighting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44084" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:00.960" />
  <row Id="15826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15821" CreationDate="2009-02-11T22:37:38.927" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very useful files search engine. &lt;a href=&quot;http://Indexoffiles.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://Indexoffiles.com&lt;/a&gt; is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:00.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-11T22:37:38.910" />
  <row Id="15827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15828" CreationDate="2009-03-06T12:50:46.093" Score="3" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it permissible to link to other people's past responses in your answer?  Is it rude?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about reusing bits and pieces from other people's answers (e.g. to create the &quot;perfect answer&quot; over time)? Would that be considered rude even if the answer is a community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:06:28.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T13:03:09.747" Title="Reusing other people's past responses" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;content-reuse&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T12:52:24.890" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you cite your sources, I see very little wrong with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T12:53:48.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am inclined just to link to the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T12:55:45.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's permissible, but I'd much rather hear what YOU have to say rather than just get a link to one of the top 25 points leaders.  There's more diversity of viewpoint that way.  Just my opinion, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" />
  <row Id="15831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T12:56:47.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm with Olafur - the site is all about sharing so I don't mind at all if someone links to an answer that I've given.  If citation is given, I don't mind them using my answers either. The bigger issue is whether it is Ok to gain reputation points for a mere link or quote.  That, I think, is wrong but is easily fixed by making your answer a community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - this &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; should be a community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T12:56:47.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T13:01:13.010" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;#15829&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:06:28.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T13:01:30.577" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T13:02:45.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that links in general are annoying. I'd rather at least get a summary of what the link points to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the semi-wiki atmosphere of SO should encourage copy-pasting answers, especially if they are based on wiki posts, so that over time more and more complete answers could evolve to recurring subjects. Linking and marking questions as dups even when they're only similar to previous questions, on the other hand, may save storage space on SO's servers but would not benefit the site in the long run. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH we could get weird behavior if copy-pasting other people's answers were the norm. A class of answer-copiers could emerge that only ever rehash other people's answers as a means of scoring points... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T19:38:26.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;he heh &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also fall in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587634/object-relational-mapping/619623#619623&quot;&gt;absurd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T19:38:26.143" />
  <row Id="15835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T19:41:42.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to dislike answers with nothing but links to other questions.  I prefer an answer, and perhaps a link to a source / or supporting information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131968" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T19:42:00.787" />
  <row Id="15836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-03-06T20:01:12.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find links essential -- if you are commenting on what somebody said in another answer, don't assume that it will be visibly close to where your answer will be viewed in the future.  The viewer could be looking at the votes view (that's my default, usually) -- and the sequence is not guaranteed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally did not link, and then reviewing my answers later (er, just maybe I was looking at upvotes, maybe), I saw that my &quot;carefully crafted&quot; response made no sense in the new context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Threads change -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/618752/stackoverflow-etiquette-reusing-other-peoples-past-responses/618760#618760&quot;&gt;cite your sources.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149237" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T20:01:12.423" />
  <row Id="15837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-04-17T10:38:40.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A potentially good solution would be to have a &quot;hover embed&quot; solution where you can point to another answer and have your own slant on it.  When the user hovers over the linked answer, it would display like a tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130402" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-17T10:38:40.393" />
  <row Id="15838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2009-04-17T10:43:37.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that it would take longer to try to find and reuse someones answer before someone else beat you to it with an answer from off the top of their head. Besides, if you have to reuse someone else's answer then you're probably dealing with a duplicate question anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree it's not nice to reuse another person's answers as your own...I just don't see it as a significant problem. Has anyone noticed this happening frequently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39532" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:14:32.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-17T10:43:37.323" />
  <row Id="15839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15843" CreationDate="2008-09-14T18:40:50.170" Score="35" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to expand on someone's existing answer (add more detail, provide an example or code snippet, etc.) and have the ability to edit other folks' answers, is it better to add your own answer, or edit an existing answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently ran across this dilemma in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61471/can-i-strikeout-something-in-stackoverflow&quot; title=&quot;now deleted&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;. Tim Sullivan posted a nice, quick, correct answer on how to strikeout text in Stackoverflow.  However, I figured some SO users might not realize that you can use HTML tags in markdown, so I posted another answer with a code block showing how to do this.  My answer, rather than Tim's, ended up getting more upvotes and the questioner changed the accepted answer from his to mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on one level, maybe this is how it's supposed to work.  With the example my answer probably was somewhat more helpful than Tim's.  Nevertheless, this didn't really seem fair to me.  Before Tim's answer I would have had no idea how to do this, and I was just posting the example trying to be helpful, not answer sniping.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was at about this point that I realized that I've got edit powers, I could have just added the example to Tim's answer (I've passed the edit threshold recently enough that I didn't remember).  So I added the example to his answer and asked the questioner to switch the accepted answer back to Tim's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this incident got me thinking about the more general case: in a situation like this should those of us with edit powers add our own answers, or edit the original answerer's post.  On one hand, people seem to be touchy about having their stuff edited.  On the other hand, they'd probably rather not be answer sniped and miss out on potential rep gain.  Which is the better course here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing this got me thinking about is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;2000 rep point threshold for editing&lt;/a&gt;.  That's quite a bit of rep (minimum of ten days with the rep cap, realistically more like 2-3 weeks, even for a really active user) and setting the threshold that high encourages people to think of this as more of a discussion forum, rather than a cooperative Wiki-type site.  As I said, I'm so used to just slapping up an answer I forgot editing the previous answer was even an option.  While I'll probably remember in the future, it seems like the edit threshold is pretty important.  A high threshold makes this a more competitive, rep-hunting, discussion board type of site, while a lower threshold would make this more of a wiki site.  So is the editing threshold too high?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-01-12T16:55:12.737" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T16:55:12.737" Title="Editing versus Answering?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="15840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-09-14T18:47:23.510" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your implication: the editing threshold is too high. Before that threshold, the only options are to add an additional answer (less than ideal for the reasons you gave) or add a comment which no-one reads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hopefully&lt;/strong&gt;, over time, this will all get edited out and shouldn't be a long-term problem, meaning that the Wiki-aspect is achieved. And, in the short-term, I guess a quick answer is good, as discussed in the 'fastest gun' post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-09-14T18:47:36.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all evens out in the end.. so dont worry about a few toes that you may step on in the course of giving the most precise and correct answer possible.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Edit - in the form of 'tagging on at the end' with a code sample or snippet is okay.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Edit - in the form of tearing a post down to bits and reassembling to the point where its nothing like the Original post - is probably where people get touchy feely.. and rightly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:24:30.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if you could &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/25186&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;append to an answer&lt;/a&gt; with lower rep points or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/25049&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comment using Markdown&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit can potentially be dangerous so it makes sense to protect the feature with high rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:34:50.120" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think Jeff is being too conservative, and we shouldn't require 2000 reputation to edit an answer. I'd really like to see people editing answers to make them better rather than providing new answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing definitely runs the risk of muddying the &quot;ownership&quot; of an answer, as multiple people contribute to the &quot;best&quot; answer. Tough. This isn't a site for egoists, who should feel free to go back to the old days of single-author book publishing. It's a place for team players who want to work together to provide great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, if you see an answer that you could improve, but don't have the reputation to edit it, I would recommend cutting and pasting it into your own answer and then improve that version. It would probably be polite to give a footnote of credit to the person you're quoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:47:39.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a possible problem where there are two hotly disputed answers (eg natural vs surrogate keys). To avoid such disputes occurring in a single post, I feel edits should only offer minor expansions to an existing post and that redirections and major edits deserve a post of their own. I think that in the cited example, a new post with proper acknowledgment of the original inspiration would be proper, and should not be resented by the original respondent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" />
  <row Id="15845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-09-19T00:12:36.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the focus needs to change. Instead of having multiple answers to each question there should be a single answer, that everyone work on together. People should submit edits to the &quot;main answer&quot; and edits should be voted on. Also agree with Joel that the bar is set too high for editing answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-10-27T18:20:59.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If too many users were able to edit then answers would quickly pass the threshold to become wiki community owned and wouldn't get any further rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although then we might end up with fewer better answers we'd also be left with several users wondering how much of the votes of the wiki answer they started they deserved but will never get, which could serve to make less engaged users feel disenfranchised, and cause them to abandon participating in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" />
  <row Id="15847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15839" CreationDate="2008-12-15T23:04:20.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd rather just see people edit their own answers (except for typos etc.).  I could easily see a situation where someone edits an answer in a way that the original author disagrees with.  It would be better for a &quot;disagreement&quot; like that to be played out publicly in separate answers and let the voters judge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:23.673" />
  <row Id="15848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15695" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:15:38.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. I feel that &quot;um&quot; was being used as a shorthand to indicate that exceptions are named &quot;exceptions&quot; because they are meant for use in exceptional conditions. It's the sort of thing I have used in order to pull someone up short, so they think, &quot;hey, why didn't I notice that similarity before&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That one little word can hardly be considered derisive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editing guidelines in the sidebar say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Good Edits&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fix grammatical or spelling errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarify meaning without changing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct minor mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add related resources or links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Always&lt;/em&gt; respect the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should be respecting the attitude of the original author, as well as the technical content of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:15:38.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-11T23:53:01.570" Score="34" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I was under the impression that SO was for those that have already tried google and have not found a suitable answer. However, about 90% of the time, I just get people giving me links from google searches I've alredy done, to articles I've already read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are we to do about this? I'd like SO to be great, but it seems all people are trying to do is up their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Many have pointed out that the burden is on me... I should ask people not to give lame answers by saying stuff like &quot;I've seen these links&quot;, and &quot;tried this and that&quot;. However, I strongly feel that the &quot;comptetive edge&quot; of SO overflow is that I can get great analysis from smart programmers, not just a compliation of links - google is much better at that.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from listening to J&amp;amp;J, the kind of questions we want here, are the ones that are not answered by google, right?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I've been convinced. To get great answers, I must ask more detailed questions. Thanks for the great conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T19:54:42.473" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:54:42.473" Title="I need help! I keep getting lame answers at SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="15850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-11T23:54:48.850" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered giving people a little more insight into what you've already looked up, and why it didn't work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131707" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="15851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-11T23:55:48.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a person feels that a google link will solve your problem, then that is the correct answer for them to post. The voting will take care of the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-11T23:57:51.730" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people need to start getting &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; harsher when it comes to downvoting. Jeff claimed on the podcast that they were trying to discourage downvoting and were 'pleased' to see user accounts containing &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; upvotes. I don't agree with this approach, and it patently has not worked in many cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those people with 1,000s of rep points now have a duty to start using their power responsibly. &lt;em&gt;Please&lt;/em&gt; start downvoting when appropriate - this includes answers consisting merely of an external link, blatant duplicates, and all those &quot;what's your favourite colour&quot; questions that I am sick to the death of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I recognise the irony in answering a 'not-really-a-question' question with such a response. This is the only chance we have to discuss SO, though, so I think it's valid. But please vote me down anyway ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="15853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T00:01:37.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're worried about getting answers that you've already tried yourself, try mentioning them in your question when you post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even linking to a few of the top Google hits and saying &quot;I've already tried these, and they don't work for me&quot; is a good way to avoid &quot;lame&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" />
  <row Id="15854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T00:05:09.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have 6 questions out of 16 where you haven't selected one of the answers as the accepted answer - so apparently you're happy enough with 2/3 of the questions you've asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is not just for times when Google doesn't answer - in fact I believe they mean to be the wikipedia for programming (ie, wikipedia has a topic for nearly everythign and regularly features at thetop of google searches).  So they want to replicate a lot of data out there, and condense it into easier and more concise chunks of answers from people who actually have experience with a given topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you've done the searches on Google, ask the question on here, and people still give you the same pieces of information you've already seen, then it may be that they don't understand your question very well.  You might consider rephrasing it, or attacking a smaller/simpler portion of the problem first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, ultimately, there will be unanswered and poorly answered questions on SO - it's inevitable.  The right people won't be on at the right time.  Hopefully you are able to resolve it and post the answer yourself so the next time someone does the same searches you did, they'll get your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T00:18:09.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the scoring on the voting is wrong.  You shouldn't get penalised (-1) for voting down content that deserves voting down.  Also, you get +10 if your answer is voted up, but only -2 if voted down.  A down vote should be equivalent to an up vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Taking on board Chris' comment about the -1 being necessary to avoid abuse, how about preventing users from voting on other answers to a question that they have answered?  This is how Slashdot's mod points work.  If you answer a question that you've already voted on, your votes will be voided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T00:18:39.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are readers other than the original questioner.  They may not have done the same Googling that the questioner did, so all these &quot;lame&quot; answers may have value to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting should take care of filtering the good links out from the bad ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131953" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="15857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T00:22:38.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I agree that good original content would be fantastic, I have no problem with a simple link as an answer, if it's the correct answer to the question. (Remember that SO is mostly intended for questions that have an objective answer!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we discourage these links, we'll just end up with a lot of copied and pasted (or paraphrased) content, which will go out of date if the original source is updated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" />
  <row Id="15858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T00:27:59.927" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have pointed out, a well written question is a great help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric S. Raymond wrote a good (IMO) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;essay on how to ask questions well&lt;/a&gt;. Some of it is not relevent to SO, but a lot of it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly relevent extracts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe the symptoms of your problem&#xA;  or bug carefully and clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe the research you did to try&#xA;  and understand the problem before you&#xA;  asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Describe the diagnostic steps you took&#xA;  to try and pin down the problem&#xA;  yourself before you asked the&#xA;  question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T00:28:10.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, from listening to J&amp;amp;J, the kind of questions we want here, are the ones that are not answered by google, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we're out of beta, the site should quickly gain enough PageRank that any question that's been answered here will instantly become answerable by Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" />
  <row Id="15860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T21:12:02.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Again, thanks to all those helped me understand the burden is on me to get what I need out of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was convinced once I saw an authoritative article and then some summary/analysis. This is exactly what I'm hoping to get out of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, the answer didn't come up until I edited and revised my question several times in order to make my question clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" />
  <row Id="15861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-09-12T21:17:04.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Links are completely relevant if they answer the question, provided the link isn't completely obvious, in which case you may as well say RTFM. I can already see jerks down voting any link in which case you discourage relevant information. It is sometimes a matter of knowing what to look for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" />
  <row Id="15862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15849" CreationDate="2008-10-02T01:02:33.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spent a few hours composing a question that would require at least a few minutes to read, consider, and respond to with something of value. (And then, only &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; quickly if you just happen to be actively working with that concept.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got half a dozen answers in the first minute, and it was painfully obvious that &lt;strong&gt;none&lt;/strong&gt; had &lt;strong&gt;read the question&lt;/strong&gt;. They seemingly seized upon this or that fragment, and spewed out what ever it made them think of first. After a few more minutes, most of these &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elisa&lt;/a&gt;&quot; answers had already been voted up! I commented to the highest voted ones saying: okay thanks, and what about .. and alluded to the core concept of my question. To which I got: &quot;huh, what are you driving at there Chris?&quot; .. Still not reading the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have gotten one real answer after 24 hours, but it of course languishes in the unnoticed hinter lands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can think is that the points system has created a bizarre sort of gold rush. I just hope that time will temper this thing. There is a lot of potential here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134970" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:24.420" />
  <row Id="15863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-01T20:58:28.790" Score="31" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is incredibly rare that I down-vote on this or any other community site. I would rather just ignore the item. However, occasionally some very bad advice is given that is worthy of a down vote. Why should this adversely affect the reputation of the down-voter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T20:09:43.837" Title="Why do you lose reputation for down-voting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T20:59:50.753" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you will think twice before doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151927" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:00:13.247" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be a slight deterrent to someone downvoting everything they don't like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:00:16.163" Score="50" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The motivation behind it is to put emphasis on up-voting or not voting at all. This way, down votes will carry more weight and it will also prevent users from abusing the system by down-voting excessively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to what Jeff/Joel discussed on the SO podcast, they wanted to find a way to discourage users from down-voting for less legitimate reasons (say a pro-Java developer down-voting everything remotely related to .NET or the like).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I have to admit, it definitely puts it into perspective to compare how many points you gain for other activities vs. the 1 point you lose for a down vote. It is effectively the smallest penalty that the Stack Overflow scoring system will permit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it may not be the best possible approach, but one has to start somewhere. Besides, the site is only a couple of months old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5291" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:00:40.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea.  It keeps people from mass down voting for the sake of down voting, since you yourself take a penalty for the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:00:43.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One point would be, to avoid excessive use of it. You should only down vote if it is a bad post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One Rep-Point is not much but it makes some think twice before spending it ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:00:49.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's to discourage people from down voting indiscriminately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:01:03.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it is to make you think twice, is it really worth 2 whole reputation points to mark this as bad or should I just ignore it. It seems to work quite effectivly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Free down-votes would probably result in a habitual down-voting of mostly anything that someone doesn't agree with, a small penalty lessens that tendcy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:06:56.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems reasonable to me. You're limited to a certian number of down-votes a day anyway, right? If you're contributing positively to the site at all, then I doubt you'd notice the change in your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141878" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:11:37.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It also seems reasonable to me. I've only downvoted once, and that was on a truly bad answer. (I've been downvoted at least three times, and I think four, and I understand why on most of them ... )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one-point penalty is a &quot;keep-it-honest&quot; deal. Downvote for something BAD, but not just because you don't like it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T21:24:01.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a deterrent to some users who might otherwise down-vote indiscriminately. I think most people would down-vote only rarely regardless, but there are some who might want to use down-voting to penalize other users for having a different opinion, for using the wrong language, for having too much rep, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2008-10-01T22:02:52.193" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So how is that different than somebody voting up indiscriminately?  Instead of the java developer voting down everything .NET, you have the java developer voting up everything Java.  I also don't see how marking something wrong down should degrade your reputation when you are doing the community a favor.  Maybe you should just get a &quot;curmudgeon&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I see the simple votes as easy to understand, I'd rather see something like badges for answers.  That way you could have things like &quot;verified&quot; where the voter had a choice like &quot;I have implemented this answer and it works for me&quot;, Or &quot;incorrect&quot; where the choice was &quot;I have tried this answer and it does not appear to work&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136652" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-03-19T10:34:25.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's a deterrent to stop people abusing the system but it still seems unfair to loose reputation for pointing out a rubbish reply / question. I for one won't ever vote anyone down now which probably isn't a good thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-03-19T10:37:57.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they didn't think before implementing this reputation system. They just wanted the project to look new and different. The point of being effective as well got somehow lost on the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-03-19T10:43:38.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether the down-voting feature was really well thought out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one side, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff praises the possibility of downvoting&lt;/a&gt; as a very valuable feature. On the other hand, you are discouraged from down-voting because you lose almost as much reputation as the user being downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-03-19T11:13:25.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are only spending one point to down-vote a bad answer/question. You get 10 points for a good answer/question. As long as you don't down-vote all the time, it will not really effect your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132370" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-03-19T11:15:52.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often wonder if -2 off the person your down-voting is enough. Maybe it should be -10 to equal the amount they might get off an up-vote.  I only say this as one user could have got one &lt;strong&gt;down-vote&lt;/strong&gt; and one &lt;strong&gt;up-vote&lt;/strong&gt; which would still equate to +8 rep points for them. (Even though their vote score would still be at zero).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I understand that -10 might seem excessive, I’m just looking at a view point of balancing the rep when it comes to up-votes and down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping it to -1 for the person who originally cast the down-vote but giving -10 to the person who's been given that down-vote might seem fairer to some, and make it more acceptable when  losing some rep to down-vote a bad post/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I do believe that down-voting should be kept to a minimum and only used when really neccessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130947" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" />
  <row Id="15880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-03-19T11:39:19.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dunno, if I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; disliked what someone did in real life, I might cut off a piece of myself and through it at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132739" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:16:46.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15907" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:38:54.593" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15849/i-need-help-i-keep-getting-lame-answers-at-so&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15849/i-need-help-i-keep-getting-lame-answers-at-so&lt;/a&gt; in the Active tab, but could find no recent modification. It seems the modification was the awarding of badges to the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T09:00:25.560" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T09:00:25.560" Title="Recent Badge Awards are moving Associated Questions to the Top" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="15892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15891" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:44:16.643" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community will randomly bump topics to the top, even if they were inactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:44:16.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:51:02.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll admit to being annoyed about something in the SOverse and thinking &quot;I'd like to downvote that&quot;.  The cost associated with that helps me keep things in perspective.  Nothing has yet been worth the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also note that when you don't have much in the way of rep to start with the cost of a downvote is proportionately far greater than for someone with a lot of rep.  This favours having high-rep users as the ones who do the downvoting - which is in line with the basic idea of rep IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133319" LastEditorUserId="133319" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T19:56:19.850" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:56:19.850" />
  <row Id="15894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15770" CreationDate="2009-08-20T19:58:43.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been questions (which I've attempted to help answer) on SO about point of sale systems. If you think about it, POS systems are essentially embedded systems, and programming for any system is fair game on SO. If you want to get information about the merits of Ingenico's pinpads vs  VeriFone's, then the discussion probably belongs on SuperUser. If you want to ask questions about the architecture of your back-end servers that feed to your payment processor, ServerFault is probably your best bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, just ask your question wherever seems best to you. If the community disagrees, it will get moved to the correct site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T19:58:43.383" />
  <row Id="15895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15863" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:05:38.333" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested in an earlier comment to an answer to a similar question that downvotes to postes by users of reputation 1 (or, maybe, &amp;lt; 11) should be free, so as to reward the downvoting of obviously terrible answers, including spam (which will, of course, be deleted later, but anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rest of downvotes I would keep the -1 penalty for downvoting, just to stress the fact that being positive should be the norm, and that one answer that may not look useful to you may have its value for other users, and its author dedicated some of his/her free time to produce it. So downvoting shouldn't be entirely free, although I would make it free for the special case I mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:05:38.333" />
  <row Id="15896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16016" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:12:05.353" Score="13" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;The triangle voting images don't line up for me. Using Safari on Mac, they are two pixels different horizontally. Using Firefox on Mac, they are one pixel different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the images are 40px wide, and the table cell that they are contained within is 60px wide, the following CSS should make everything all better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.vote-up, .vote-down {&#xA;    display: block;&#xA;    padding-left: 10px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As Jeff pointed out, this solution doesn't work once the vote count forces its table cell to expand in width.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an improved CSS solution that seems to work better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.vote-up, .vote-down {&#xA;    display: block;&#xA;    margin: 0 auto;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T07:43:40.420" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T07:43:40.420" Title="Voting arrows don't line up" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2275" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:13:46.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love Google Reader that has this by default. It would be great to have it at least as an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2275/make-links-posted-by-users-open-in-a-new-window/2341#2341&quot;&gt;option&lt;/a&gt;. Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2275/make-links-posted-by-users-open-in-a-new-window/2276#2276&quot;&gt;keyboard&lt;/a&gt; to open to external link means I have to move my other hand to keyboard, this is usually not a problem for me, but sometimes it is, if I hold coffee in my other hand it could be a productivity problem :) , this way I could use only mouse!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130024" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:13:46.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15911" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:31:02.290" Score="-2" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having 200 reputation points on Superuser should not allow me to get 100 points in StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got easy 100 rep points on SO by linking my account on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting points is very tough if you have limited(or nil) knowledge, and I feel this is diluting the quality of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is whether the knowledge I demonstrate on SuperUser (things about FireFox and Email) qualify me to vote on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be an avenue of abuse for bad intentioned users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134286" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T20:45:02.167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:19:21.943" Title="Having 200 reputation points on Superuser should not allow me to get 100 points in StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="15900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15899" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:36:04.993" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting the rep bonus for account association goes with the assumption you have learned the site rules through one of the other sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:36:04.993" />
  <row Id="15901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15899" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:36:10.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;100 reputation does not give you any significant privilege, and only gives you a minor encouragement. I see no harm in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are minor things that having 100 rep allows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1     Leave comments &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15    Vote up &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15    Flag offensive &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100   Vote down (costs 1 rep), create new tags, edit community wiki posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are assumed to be OK since you have demonstrated at least a basic knowledge of a sister site that operates very similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:36:10.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15899" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:37:05.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not diluting anything. It says that if you are on another site, participated and learned the operation of that site, we are going to give you &lt;strong&gt;the most basic head start&lt;/strong&gt; here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is being used as a tool to encourage users to take an action that is beneficial to the site. The sites are better off for the feature so everyone who participates is rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If virtually &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; start off at 100 points (rather than starting at 1), it's all relative. What's the difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T20:42:49.380" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:42:49.380" />
  <row Id="15903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15899" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:37:08.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since rep is supposed to simulate trust on the website, the creators assume that if you have enough trust on website 'A', you deserve a &lt;strong&gt;little&lt;/strong&gt; trust on website 'B'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:37:08.207" />
  <row Id="15905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15899" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:37:58.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does this dilute SO's quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post a question to SO as a brand-new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post an answer to a question on SO as a brand-new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, you can't vote or comment without a little rep -- but even on a highly specialized site like SO, just about anyone can get the rep necessary for that relatively quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 100 point head start from the StackExchange-based LOJ sites is designed to make it so that an active user of any one of them can at least minimally use the others -- specifically regarding voting and commenting. It gives no other real power, including no power to vote to close, no power to vote to delete, and no real damaging power. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it the way others tend to see it: This is the system saying, &quot;we know you, you know the secret handshake, you get a minor head start. Go forth and learn.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be different if 100 rep were enough to edit posts, retag at will and generally wreak real havoc. But it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:37:58.097" />
  <row Id="15906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:40:54.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, now that this set off my OCD as well, I swear to God I'm seeing a pixel difference in FF3.5 on Windows. The bottom arrow is one pixel to the left of the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd never noticed it until it was pointed out ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:40:54.487" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="15907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15891" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:41:18.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The modification was that I migrated it from Stack Overflow to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:41:18.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:47:32.240" Score="7" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;(There's a prequel trilogy joke in here somewhere, I just can't find it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since superuser &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6542/are-video-game-questions-appropriate-for-superuser&quot;&gt;has been established as a place not to ask videogame/console questions&lt;/a&gt;, are there any plans to add such a site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm not really interested in a site for cheatcodes or walk-throughs or what-have-you (really, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamefaqs.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gamefaqs&lt;/a&gt; has that covered if you need it,) but stuff on the more technical end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like &quot;I'm trying to get counterstrike to work on four LAN computers in my living room and steam won't seem to let me,&quot; or &quot;why does my machine crash whenever I turn on 4xAA,&quot; or &quot;how do I get X-Wing working under DosBox?&quot; (But, you know, better written.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of those kinds of questions could get rephrased to &quot;sneak under the radar&quot; at superuser, but that seems against the spirit of that site.  I'd love an SO engine site for questions like that.  I can also see moderation of SU getting easier if those kinds of questions can just be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans, or should I hope someone sets up a StackExchange site with that mandate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131283" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T16:48:40.697" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T16:48:40.697" Title="Any plans for a videogame/console related site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;video-games&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:48:29.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:48:29.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T20:48:29.540" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:49:12.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess not, but one of the officials from the sites would have to validate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you can always start one up by licensing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; directly. I'm guessing that, since they're making it available, they're not planning to take all of the good ideas themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:49:12.970" />
  <row Id="15911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15899" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:49:28.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, but your knowledge of how to use and act on SuperUser do give some hint as to your ability to behave properly on StackOverflow.  Besides, it's not like you really get all that much power to abuse.  You can upvote (big deal), you can downvote (twice, not exactly enough to cause real problems), you can flag things for the mods (which, at worst, only draws attention to yourself), you can edit CW posts (which just about everyone else can then fix), etc.  Do you get the pattern here?  Not exactly the most disruptive behavior.  Sure, you can be a pest by posting useless questions and answers, but you could do that with 1 rep, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to your additional question about using a group of rep-linked accounts in order to abuse the system, I think this is a minimal threat.  The system apparently has tools to detect sock puppets and malicious voting trends.  Jeff or the mods can probably tell you more about that, though (Of course, if Jeff made me a mod, I could save them the time of typing up a separate answer... I'd even share any upvotes with him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, you'd first have to get all those accounts 200 rep each on another site.  At that point, wouldn't it just be easier to turn those accounts against SU or SF?  They'd have more rep to abuse.  I really think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T21:19:21.943" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:19:21.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15930" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:51:57.117" Score="19" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was never an issue before, but now I notice it now that I have many answers accepted as the &quot;accepted answer&quot;.  We receive +15 rep for an acceptance.  We receive notification in our reputation tab about &quot;acc +15&quot;. However, when someone de-selects the answer, our rep decreases accordingly, but we never receive any notification on which question changed.  I just wanted to know which question changed is all. Am I not seeing this somewhere or does this not exist yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T21:08:57.003" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:48:19.403" Title="Reputation notification of deselected answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15912" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:53:29.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't see it.  You don't see any notification for revocation of upvotes or downvotes either.  If the notification was in the time window you've speficied, it simply vanishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:53:29.717" />
  <row Id="15914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:57:40.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hazard a guess and say: &lt;b&gt;NO&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the original Trilogy announcement on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/the-stack-overflow-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; SuperUser completed the trilogy. Therefore I doubt that there will be any more official SO sites. However there will most likely be more sites incorporated into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;League of Justice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:57:40.740" />
  <row Id="15915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:59:03.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After noticing games being explicitly defined as out of scope at SU, I've been sort of anticipating an announcement about a new SO family site solely for games... That would be a logical explanation, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, after thinking about it, I'm not at all sure if the Q&amp;amp;A format would lend itself nearly as well to games. I could imagine tons of poll type questions (even more than on SU), at the very least. Well, in any case, personally I'd surely be interested in participating in some of those, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/2988/tips-and-tricks-with-nethack-closed&quot;&gt;such as this&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T23:31:39.727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:31:39.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-20T20:59:33.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.5.2 on Ubuntu. Arrows Line up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T20:59:33.387" />
  <row Id="15918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:17:42.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chrome 2.0.172.39 on Windows - Arrows don't line up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:17:42.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:21:25.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the restriction on gaming has more to do with managing the age and maturity of the general user of the site than it does with remaining limited to computer related subject matter. This is despite the fact that it's not uncommon for my 79 year old father in law to be playing 8 hours of games a day, while I play maybe 0.01 hour a day. It also likely keeps the scope-creep clearly away from consoles and household electronics.  Personally I would love to throw in all routers, nas, serving and streaming devices into the super-user scope, including consoles, especially hacked ones, but I can see the reasoning around keeping the audience generally computer savvy. Maybe once there's 1M hits per day, and a ton of savvy users, the community can manage the influx of questions about the cup-holder on the X-Box 360 arcade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't believe there's a future gaming site in the works, I can't rule it out. But it's safe to say that there's a lot of room for these three sites to grow beyond just adding more sites and topics. E.G. wiki and organizational features, language localization (apparently not a priority), and selling out to the man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:21:25.683" />
  <row Id="15922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15929" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:29:54.653" Score="3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I've been given a number of up votes on answers, but when I never receive reputation for them, and when I click on my mail icon right by my name I can see the answers with a 1 in a green box, like the others, but with no reputation points in the center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;  Another odd thing:  If I click the mail icon it says I've only achieved 35 points.  However, If I click on the &quot;Today&quot; link, then it shows that I've earned 203 rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;  The rep from the today link is correct.  I understand that I've capped for the day.  However, there still remains the issue that clicking on the mail icon is not reporting the correct reputation, up votes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T08:56:17.283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:56:17.283" Title="Not getting reputation points for up votes on SO today for some reason. What's up?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="15923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15922" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:31:19.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've hit the reputation cap of 200 rep in a single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The day starts at 12am UTC, using Jon Skeet's great &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=69979&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt; you can track this more easily. You're currently at 203 reputation for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:31:19.283" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:31:52.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows: Bottom arrow one pixel to the left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Damn that's going to annoy me now - curse you, aschall!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested workaround&lt;/strong&gt;: Upvote or downvote every question and answer you look at.  The arrows will be different sizes so you won't see the misalignment, and after about two and half minutes you'll run out of votes and have to go and do some work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:31:52.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15922" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:32:29.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can earn up to 200 reputation per day, but no more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good thing, it means you won the game today.  Good luck tomorrow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15922/not-getting-reputation-points-for-up-votes-on-so-today-for-some-reason-whats-u/15926#15926&quot;&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15922/not-getting-reputation-points-for-up-votes-on-so-today-for-some-reason-whats-u/15923#15923&quot;&gt;Ian&lt;/a&gt; both point to how they know that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:32:29.903" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15922" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:33:09.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have accumulated &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=69979&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showzero=true&amp;amp;showflair=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;203 points today&lt;/a&gt;. Beyond that, only accepted answers (+15) and bounties count. And downvotes ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:33:09.700" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15922" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:36:02.080" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are hitting the cap, but you don't think so because the recent activity page is using a different timezone than you would think to determine what has been done 'today'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a &lt;strong&gt;bug&lt;/strong&gt;, this is a &lt;strong&gt;feature&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T21:44:16.433" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:44:16.433" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="15929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15922" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:37:27.587" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default &quot;envelope&quot; page isn't the same as the &quot;today&quot; page - it covers a smaller time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If someone has a definition of what time period it covers, I'd be interested to know - it does seem to behave rather oddly at times.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:37:27.587" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15912" CreationDate="2009-08-20T21:48:19.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it makes sense that you don't get notification because the deselection is actually wiping out the vote record in the DB. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T21:48:19.403" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15936" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:02:08.300" Score="4" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we go a bit easy on new users to SOFU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regularly I've come across an answer posted by someone with only 1 rep, and it looks like it's still their first day on SFOU, but the answer they posted is poor, incorrect, doesn't answer the question, is badly phrased, or duplicates another answer already posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I would give them a -1 and I always make sure to leave a comment (trying to be constructive) about the - vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, if that happened to me on my first day and I got a bunch of -ve votes, I would probably not bother coming back and contributing more, cursing something about uppity bitches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do others do when they come across a new user who maybe doesn't quite understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T22:09:55.040" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:35:50.977" ClosedDate="2009-08-20T23:02:50.347" Title="Going easy on new users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="15932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15931" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:04:56.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are going to be lots of instances where we should probably practice more restraint in dealing with new users, but one also has to sit there and believe in a little tough love. We give every avenue possible to hold a user's hands with a FAQ that is fleshed out beyond belief, and a super active and knowledge-filled support site (meta). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind being nice to new users, but I am not going to say that your voting patterns should change just because they are new. If they are going to get offended by downvotes on a poor question, then there isn't much you can do about that. I do not advocate the usage of pity up votes just to help out some new person's self esteem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:04:56.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15931" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:07:26.760" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should really not even be looking at the user before voting. Whether they are new or old, high rep, low rep, whatever. You should vote the way you feel about their post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down voting should not be looked at as 'mean' to users. Any hypersensitive people who are upset by a few down votes on their badly written post probably are not the kinds of people we want on this site anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:07:26.760" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15931" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:30:20.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should go too easy on new users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see they've treated SO like a discussion forum or newsgroup, and if I have patience left over, I'll add a nice comment welcoming them to SO and suggesting they read the FAQ, and showing them what I wanted them to see if they were to read the FAQ, and then welcoming them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I then have to go rinse the sweetness out of my mouth&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if a new user answers a question incorrectly, I see no reason not to treat them like anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I have a tendency to treat &quot;old hands&quot; a bit more harshly. Although I've been informed that saying &quot;you should have known better&quot; is condescending, when it's true, I'll call them on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:30:20.880" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="15935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15931" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:30:26.417" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit puzzled by these questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be this underlying assumption that most &lt;em&gt;if not all&lt;/em&gt; new users are &quot;new&quot; to this in every sense of the word, that they've never before asked a question, used The Internet, read anything longer than a text message / Twitter post, or interacted with another human being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm sure there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; people like this, but do we really need to structure our entire culture around coddling them &lt;em&gt;at the expense of all else?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to look far to find users who are actually quite young (less than 20 years since their date of birth), comparatively unskilled (only recently started programming, still very unfamiliar with many key concepts), and yet who &lt;strong&gt;still manage&lt;/strong&gt; to ask effective questions and even participate in short, not overly-friendly comment exchanges without becoming shocked or disheartened by it all. If you really want to go out of your way to encourage someone, pick one of &lt;em&gt;these&lt;/em&gt; budding programmers... Your effort might actually do some good!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:30:26.417" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15931" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:35:50.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not about being easy or hard, it is about being respectful.  Even from reading some of the answers above, it doesn't seem that respect is something that comes to mind for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any hypersensitive people who are upset by a few down votes on their badly written post probably are not the kinds of people we want on this site anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe better stated would be to state nothing at all...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not all the same breed and to act like those who are not the same as you must be flawed and don't belong is simply wrong, arrogant, and hypocritical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:35:50.977" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:41:52.073" Score="6" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a few weeks my undergraduate students will be encouraged to ask questions on Stackoverflow.  My students will have been told to &lt;strong&gt;search for related answers before asking questions&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a clarification &lt;strong&gt;the questions will be on general topics related to C and assembly language&lt;/strong&gt;.  My students are new to C and assembly code, so for example, I anticipate these kinds of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just got an error message from gcc, and when I google for it, I don't understand what I'm being told.  What does the error message mean and how do I get rid of it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Valgrind tells me there's a memory error on line 67, but here is the code snippet containing line 67, and I can't figure out what the error is.  Can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something strange is happening with this struct type: I can't get the compiler to accept code I think is perfectly good.  What am I doing wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would like to ask them to use the localized tag &lt;code&gt;tufts-comp40&lt;/code&gt; on their questions.&lt;/strong&gt;  That way I can search for the tag and get a picture of what kinds of questions my students are asking, which will help me cover more appropriate topics in class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am aware that putting this localized tag on a question does not help anybody else, and indeed might be considered a misuse of community resources.  The question for discussion is therefore &lt;strong&gt;is one localized tag an acceptable use of community resources?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please answer yes or no, with rationale if any.  Or just upvote heavily the position you agree with.  (Question and all answers should be CW, so no reputation should be at stake.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastEditorUserId="41661" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T22:56:14.620" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:10:31.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T22:41:52.073" Title="Is a localized tag acceptable on Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;too-localized&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="15938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15937" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:44:14.410" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, localized tags should be acceptable on a limited basis, but I'm not sure you'll have buy-in, since there's a Too Localized close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:44:14.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T22:44:14.410" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15937" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:46:23.360" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such tags do nothing to help categorize questions within SO, and may in fact make them the target for unwanted attention (including people editing out your tag...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just ask your students to hand in their user IDs? You can search questions by user (via the user:*id* syntax) or view their bio pages to see what questions they asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T22:58:37.033" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:58:37.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T22:46:23.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15937" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:50:19.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be aware that Stack Overflow is moderated, edited, and run by a large community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Localized tags are going to &lt;strong&gt;look strange or out of place&lt;/strong&gt; to other Stack Overflow users. They are likely to be &lt;strong&gt;edited out&lt;/strong&gt;. If you eventually decide to add anything local/strange to the posts, at the very least, instruct your students to include a small, unobtrusive notice or disclaimer at the bottom of those posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm &lt;strong&gt;not sure this is a good idea&lt;/strong&gt; in general. You are going to draw unwanted attention to you posts and they will likely be flagged, closed, or edited to conform with the &quot;community norm.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-20T23:10:31.437" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:10:31.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T22:50:19.967" />
  <row Id="15942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15948" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:55:55.367" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do volunteer/elected moderators have access to detailed voting histories? i.e. can they see which way individual users vote on specific questions, answers or comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans to allow this in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T00:28:00.540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:28:00.540" Title="Do volunteer/elected moderators have access to detailed voting history data?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="15943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15937" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:56:14.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest sending an email to team@stackoverflow.com.  Unless you can get one of them to either endorse the behavior or identify a possible work around, you will only be chasing your tail here.  While we are a community, there is no single united front on many of these types of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I agree that it probably is not the correct use of the site, but it would certainly work for you.  I can sympathize with this both ways...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:56:14.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-20T22:56:14.197" />
  <row Id="15944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15942" CreationDate="2009-08-20T22:57:56.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great Question!  I am curious about this but also curious as to how anonymous the voting really is...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T22:57:56.720" />
  <row Id="15945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:08:38.230" Score="-7" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thought of this in relation to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15937/is-a-localized-tag-acceptable-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about creating a property of users called 'group' that could be searched on, so that different groups of users could find posts by each other.  So all the 'R' people could have their own group, or as in the linked question, users all in the same class could all have that 'group' attached to themselves, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:18:47.210" Title="Add a property of users of 'group'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;groups&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="15946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15942" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:08:46.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators can't see who votes on a question. This information is anonymous to all users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some server side process do however check voting patterns to look for strange activity. Since this information is truly anonymous anyone with database access can view this information verbatim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:08:46.950" />
  <row Id="15947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26881" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:09:20.927" Score="6" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do volunteer/elected moderators get to see who raised a flag on a question, answer or comment, or are users who raise flags kept anonymous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T00:29:36.687" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T04:32:34.523" Title="Is my flagging data/history anonymous to volunteer/elected moderators?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15942" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:09:53.623" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Volunteer moderators have very limited access to voting information.  The only voting information we can really see is related to anomalous voting patterns.  This makes it easier for us to spot sock puppet accounts.  We can't see specific votes cast on each question and answer by individual users. (So go ahead and feel free to downvote me, I can't do anything about it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine the dev moderators (who have access to the full database) can see anything they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:09:53.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15947" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:11:03.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can see who raised a flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't flag something that I did, or I will smite you. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T17:32:55.843" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T17:32:55.843" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="15950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15945" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:12:41.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can just search for all the questions tagged 'r' (or follow its RSS feed) without the need to tie it to users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:12:41.077" />
  <row Id="15951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15945" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:13:46.003" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a networking site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:13:46.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15954" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:17:54.030" Score="7" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220309&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO, which I ended up answering myself after a journey of discovery into the world of git and bash. The info I gathered seemed good content to finally write my first &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.codefarm.co.nz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; - which I'm sure is cool - but is it cool to then add a link from your question or answers to that blog post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think yes as long as you don't 'take away' from SO, the question/answers should retain all the necessary info. But the 'article' style of a blog post allows for a better formatted read - rather than the somewhat random answers/comments to a question on SO - and in this case feels like a better way to package the info. Apart from the excuse for a first blog post :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133949" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:27:01.290" Title="Is it OK to turn your SO question/answer into a blog post, and link to it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15945" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:18:47.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That... sounds like an open invitation to abuse, cliquishness, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to keep track of a group of users, then make a note of their IDs. It's really quite trivial to aggregate activity feeds from multiple users via Google Reader and its ilk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's keep SO proper free of that sort of thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:18:47.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15952" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:21:24.600" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure. I don't see anything wrong with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an interesting story to tell &quot;behind the scenes&quot; of a Stack Overflow thread, why not tell the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is not designed to get overly discussion-y or ramble-y. If you have more to say, stick it in a blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:21:24.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15952" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:22:19.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the blog is relevant to the question then it is definitely acceptable. Any sources, whether they're blogs, technical references, or anything else are appropriate for linking. Though if you start linking to it when supplying answers that are just &lt;em&gt;vaguely&lt;/em&gt; related, you may find yourself getting down voted for shameless plugs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:22:19.603" />
  <row Id="15956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15952" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:22:44.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what's definitely not cool is writing a blog post about something, then making a question about it and answering yourself, with a link to your blog post in the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think in your case that's fine.  You're not doing something with the same intent.  I've seen people try to use SO just to get page visits on their site.  Definitely not cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:22:44.970" />
  <row Id="15957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15952" CreationDate="2009-08-20T23:26:28.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, that's fine.  It's even cooler to link from your blog post back to SO, saying where you got the idea for the post.   (Even though, if I understand correctly, you aren't absolutely &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; to do so for SO content that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; create.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-20T23:26:28.893" />
  <row Id="15958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:13:22.270" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would LOVE to get a Stack Overflow-like site established as a way to build a real community of developers across government agencies within my state.  In fact, I happened to get executive interest in just that concept the other day referring to SO as a specific model, and meetings are being scheduled (look out!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I find out that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; is set to launch on September 1 and I was all a-twitter, until I saw the licensing model.  I'm afraid that $2,500 a month for an on-site service will be a non-starter in these perilous times when we already have our own data center, etc.  I'm also sure that the time we would save by plugging it in and focusing on the content instead of the container would be well worth it.  It's just a hard sell over simply licensing the code and deploying it ourselves, which is our comfort zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, am I correct in my interpretation of the phrase &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...We can provide you with a&#xA;  dedicated server to install on your&#xA;  own premises behind your firewall...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to mean that our only option for self-hosting is an on-going rental of an appliance and not a one-time purchase of licensed code with optional yearly maintenance?  What is it about that service tier that justifies the higher cost when we would be using our own bandwidth, etc.?  And why do I still want this desperately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T01:13:52.743" Title="Is the On-Site StackExchange tier really an appliance, like the Google Mini?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15958" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:22:02.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now, Stack Exchange is a &lt;strong&gt;service&lt;/strong&gt;. There's no one time purchase of code, you're renting it month to month. If you stop paying, you're left with nothing, except maybe the exported content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons for justifying the purchase have to be made yourself. If it's not worth it, don't pay for it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:22:02.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15952" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:27:01.290" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically SO content is released under a Creative Commons license such that if you attribute the source and link back to it on SO, you can write a blog post and link to &lt;em&gt;anyone's&lt;/em&gt; question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's something you've written I'm sure you can just write your own blog post on the same subject using the same text (you've written) with no issues whatsoever since you may have granted SO a license to reproduce that content under it's terms of use but it's not an exclusive license, meaning if you choose to write the exact same thing somewhere else, it doesn't fall automatically under the SO &quot;umbrella&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:27:01.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15966" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:28:00.977" Score="22" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15947/is-flagging-anonymous&quot;&gt;Kev's recently posted question&lt;/a&gt;.  Bill the Lizard informed us that mods know who flagged a post, but does this include them?  If a mod gets flagged, do they get to see who flagged them?  Not that any of these wonderful mods would ever think of doing anything untoward, but you never know.  Bill might suddenly lose his mind one day and, if I have to flag him, madness plus &quot;modness&quot; could equal mayhem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-27T22:28:12.633" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T22:28:12.633" Title="Will a moderator know if I flag them?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15961" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:36:05.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Eye of Sauron (and Bill the Lizard) sees all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, interesting question. I imagine they do because the assumption has been made if someone is a moderator they won't go around posting stuff that needs to be flagged and, if they did, they would act maturely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:36:05.947" />
  <row Id="15963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15961" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:38:11.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure that we can see flags on ourselves. I don't see why there would be any reason why not from a pure logic standpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:38:11.250" />
  <row Id="15964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15961" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:39:55.630" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oops: flagging Bill the Lizard's &quot;Please flag me to find out.&quot; comment as a moderator just deletes it :o&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Not only can I flag myself, I can clear my own flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:39:55.630" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15958" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:40:33.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange works more like SaaS (Software as a Service) than it would be as an appliance (sort of like something the company I work for resells, network management appliances).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:40:33.727" />
  <row Id="15966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15961" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:42:24.460" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/9314/random&quot;&gt;random&lt;/a&gt; flag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15952/is-it-ok-to-turn-your-so-question-answer-into-a-blog-post-and-link-to-it/15957#15957&quot;&gt;this post of mine&lt;/a&gt;, so yes, we can see flags on our own posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can honestly say you have nothing to worry about, though.  Even if we did something worthy of flagging, I think we're all mature enough to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; try and get retribution against someone for flagging it.  We were all chosen as moderators (many of us by community vote) at least in part for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T00:42:24.460" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="15967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15961" CreationDate="2009-08-21T00:51:06.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think a moderator has done something she shouldn't have done, you can always email &lt;code&gt;team+sitename@stackexchange.com&lt;/code&gt; and report the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-27T20:18:24.673" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T20:18:24.673" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15958" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:13:52.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be a government thing but, if you can outsource this &lt;em&gt;service&lt;/em&gt; and have someone else:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Host it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide all the hardware, software, and bandwidth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide all the maintenance/backups/electricity, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Install and maintain the software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide continuous improvements and new features.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... and keep it running 24/7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... for $129/month... why in the world would you want to take that all on yourself for a local service that couldn't possibly be cost-effective for you to run yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T01:13:52.743" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:23:36.003" Score="10" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to contact a Stack Overflow user - is there anyway to send them a message or request access to there contact details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is a particular user has a lot of experience in a field in which we are looking to hire someone so we would like to contact them initially to see if they would be interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133621" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T05:17:11.657" Title="How do I contact a stack overflow user?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="15970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:24:52.943" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to contact a user. Users who wish to be contacted may have information listed in their profile. If they don't, you're out of luck. If you would like to hire someone, consider placing an ad in the joelonsoftware/stackoverflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;job market&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're desperate, you may place a short and quick comment on one of their posts asking if they're interested. Don't ask more than once, even if they don't reply. This behavior probably isn't encouraged by others, so I would avoid it -- but nothing will stop you from trying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T01:24:52.943" />
  <row Id="15971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:27:26.027" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can contact them in whatever ways the user has detailed in their profile. If they have no information listed, it is likely they are not too concerned if you want to contact them or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, my user profiles on the different sites have a variety of contact methods including email and the IRC channels I regularly roam in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T01:27:26.027" />
  <row Id="15972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:27:30.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users who want to be contactable can put an email address or personal web page in their profile. Click their name to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T01:27:30.443" />
  <row Id="15973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15975" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:33:41.183" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, what are the functions available on the moderation control panel? Would you mind putting a screenshot or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T10:02:25.363" Title="What functions are available in the moderator control panel?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:34:24.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I might be crazy but part of my profile  &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to have a check box labeled something like &quot;I wouldn't mind being contacted by employers&quot; or some such... and now it's not there. Did I imagine that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, you might want to contact Stack Overflow directly with your request. They might not be able to help you but they might have some service or feature in mind to help users out in this scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; want to know if someone (legitimately) was  interested in contacting me about a project. But that's why I include contact information in my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When filling out a user profile, users can select &quot;I'm open to employers (not recruiters) contacting me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that Stack Overflow offers a job placement service, it might be good-faith business gesture so place a job listing and inquire if they could pretty-please forward the listing to the user you are interested in (assuming the user authorized the communication in their profile).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T02:52:19.797" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T02:52:19.797" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15973" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:36:07.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about asking this in the past, but after more thought I decided not to - it's not for us to know :) Mod-status should remain a mystery to us mortals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T01:36:07.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2009-08-21T01:38:55.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are exceptionally-talented, they probably have their own blog, website, linked-in account. Try googling their name, it should come up with some results that can get you in touch with them if they are indeed as active as the average reputable so-user is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T01:38:55.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15598" CreationDate="2009-08-21T02:10:24.570" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/browsers-and-screen-size-on-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt; (Analytics data from June 1st – August 19th):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browser:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    Firefox             50.53%&#xA;    Internet Explorer   29.12%&#xA;      IE8                8.44% (29% of IE)&#xA;      IE7               13.10% (45% of IE)&#xA;      IE6                6.99% (24% of IE)&#xA;    Chrome               9.04%&#xA;    Safari               7.33%&#xA;    Opera                2.44%&#xA;    Mozilla              1.15%&#xA;    Konqueror            0.10%&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screen Size:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    1280×1024           24.03%&#xA;    1680×1050           14.52%&#xA;    1280×800            14.32%&#xA;    1024×768            12.32%&#xA;    1440×900            11.57%&#xA;    1920×1200            8.40%&#xA;    1600×1200            3.24%&#xA;    1152×864             1.68%&#xA;    1920×1080            1.32%&#xA;    1400×1050            1.28%&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T08:53:56.507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:53:56.507" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="15978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15598" CreationDate="2009-08-21T02:14:04.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/browsers-and-screen-size-on-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I use ... &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T02:14:04.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T02:14:04.877" />
  <row Id="15979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1096" CreationDate="2009-08-21T02:26:27.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about when the duplicate answers are hours apart? &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/56934/how-to-login-to-your-server-with-an-ssh-session&quot;&gt;Take for example this question&lt;/a&gt;. Three answers all saying &quot;PuTTY&quot;, but posted hours apart (actually one of those users has a habit of coming late to the party, posting the same things, or providing answers for the wrong platform)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct ettique? A downvote? The answer isn't wrong, but the user hasn't read the thread (and I don't want to cut off my own rep on a - vote unless the other person &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; deserves it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T02:26:27.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2009-08-21T02:44:06.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As everyone else said, &lt;strong&gt;contact details&lt;/strong&gt; are the way a user might choice to disclose ways of contacting him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you don't have these data, you may try &lt;strong&gt;commenting&lt;/strong&gt; one of his answers asking for him to contact you. He will see that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T02:44:06.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14045" CreationDate="2009-08-21T02:53:27.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced that special tags are the right solution, or that there's even a real problem here that needs to be solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T02:53:27.907" />
  <row Id="15982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-21T04:23:39.580" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can really see it when it's blown up:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/807/badupvote.tif&quot; alt=&quot;bad upvote!&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It hurts my eyes :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T04:23:39.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15961" CreationDate="2009-08-21T04:39:06.960" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if we went crazy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;all of the more interesting moderator activities are explicitly logged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;most things can be undone... maybe not through the app, but certainly at the database - for example, user-accounts have been successfully resurrected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm sure Jeff wants to test his backup system eventually...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can't do &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much harm, even if we went postal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="152101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-27T21:47:11.203" LastActivityDate="2011-07-27T21:47:11.203" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="15984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-21T04:39:30.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.0.15 Mac -- arrows line up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T04:39:30.797" />
  <row Id="15985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15947" CreationDate="2009-08-21T04:41:33.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For completeness, spam/offensive flags are anonymous. It is only with &quot;moderator attention&quot; flags that we see the person raising it - which is reasonable, as sometimes we reply ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T04:41:33.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15988" CreationDate="2009-08-21T04:50:09.027" Score="1" ViewCount="816" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you mouseover a &quot;3 hours ago&quot; time, you get the exact timestamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of what I get -- the code says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span title=&quot;2009-07-20 23:12:37Z&quot; class=&quot;relativetime&quot;&amp;gt;Jul 20 at 23:12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the tooltip says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;2009-07-20 23:12:37Z&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean the code doesn't know what my timezone is? (NZST, as it happens)  If so, what timezone is that time in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Wiki says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The UTC time zone is sometimes denoted&#xA;  by the letter Z – a reference to the&#xA;  equivalent nautical time zone (GMT),&#xA;  which has been denoted by a Z since&#xA;  about 1950. The letter also refers to&#xA;  the &quot;zone description&quot; of zero hours,&#xA;  which has been used since 1920 (see&#xA;  time zone history). Since the NATO&#xA;  phonetic alphabet and amateur radio&#xA;  word for Z is &quot;Zulu&quot;, UTC is sometimes&#xA;  known as Zulu time. This is especially&#xA;  true in aviation, where Zulu is the&#xA;  universal standard. This ensures&#xA;  all pilots regardless of location are&#xA;  using the same 24-hour clock, thus&#xA;  avoiding confusion when flying between&#xA;  time zones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can say is: &quot;That's news to me&quot;.  Is Z really more common than UTC or GMT amongst people who don't fly planes or steer boats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastEditorUserId="131362" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T05:37:21.023" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:54:33.573" Title="Tool-tip timestamp shows a Z" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15986" CreationDate="2009-08-21T04:53:33.123" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never seen an option anywhere on SOFU to set your timezone, so I guess - no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, most of the times are &quot;20 minutes ago&quot; which makes it redundant for viewing the most common pages (front page, and questions on the front page), and if they're older than that it's the date that's more important than the time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T04:53:33.123" />
  <row Id="15988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15986" CreationDate="2009-08-21T04:54:38.957" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Z on the end of the time implies&#xA;  Zulu or UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14684/so-html-formats-time-incorrectly&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T04:54:38.957" />
  <row Id="15989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2009-08-21T05:17:11.657" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature is almost always requested by newer users who want to contact established, high-rep users.  Put yourself in the established users' shoes for a moment:  do they really want every new user out there pinging them every time the new user asks a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T05:17:11.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16064" CreationDate="2009-08-21T05:25:02.933" Score="0" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of keeping fresh, interesting banners up on Stack Overflow, I thought I'd try my hand at putting together another &quot;your name here&quot; sort of banner. Here's a rough concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i29.tinypic.com/2zhh2mc.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have tried making a Superman-like logo thing, but I'm not at the office now, and the only graphic tool I have on this computer is apparently SnagIt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Suggestions? Ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: This is advertising the advertising on SO. So, a meta-ad if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T16:10:21.330" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T21:00:41.310" Title="A Better &quot;Your Name Here&quot; Banner Ad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T05:35:43.190" Score="5" ViewCount="493" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many users are there on Stackoverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long has this site been around?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What computer programming language is stackoverflow made with?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T06:07:29.900" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:57:31.740" Title="How many users are there on Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;&lt;user-count&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-08-21T05:39:14.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been around for more than a year. It has ~86000 users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has been implemented in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET MVC 1.0, among other things&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T05:39:14.543" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-08-21T05:40:42.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15991/how-many-users-are-there-on-stackoverflow/15992#15992&quot;&gt;Mehrdad's answer&lt;/a&gt;, the technology behind SO is found &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (And I think the exact user count is 85726 users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T17:20:40.737" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T17:20:40.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="15994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15990" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:14:59.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Clark Kent shirt opening to reveal superman costume thing has been done sooooo many times in advertisements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:14:59.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="15995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:17:32.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the number of users can somewhat be calculated: click on the users tab, go to the last page, calculate (#pages * 35) - free places on the last page. But there are people - I remember a question here where somebody admitted to have 8 unique accounts, just to have a clean record with no downvotes - that make multiple accounts. see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2574/users-making-multiple-accounts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3948/how-do-i-consolodate-my-stackoverflow-accounts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; too. And one does not need an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no way of telling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you means views or distinct views in a certain period of time, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; at quantcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:35:12.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16002" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:19:50.033" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would a question on superuser get flagged/closed if it was already asked on serverfault. I think the question could be asked on either?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:18:27.557" Title="Re-ask a question on superuser if not getting any answers on serverfault" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="15997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15996" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:23:57.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No it won't. However you can ask your SF question to be moved to SU. Be careful because the question might be sent back to SF otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T06:44:20.187" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:44:20.187" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="15998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14943" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:28:37.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The blog was already mentioned. Here's a post with some technical details and further links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What Was Stack Overflow Built Width?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132097" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:28:37.113" />
  <row Id="15999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15996" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:41:10.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There might be questions that value being on multiple platforms, as I explained &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11866/topics-that-dont-belong-anywhere-or-could-belong-everywhere/11869#11869&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4692/why-do-we-need-the-trilogy-instead-of-just-one-site/4696#4696&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Do you think, that keeping the question on SF, maybe with a bounty, will produce valuable answers? Different from the ones on SU? I think it really depends on the expected answers and chances to get them whether you ask the question on multiple sites. But it is a valid possibility, as the audience differs (especially now that SU is public and not only known to SO/SF community).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I hope that such questions will not be closed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:41:10.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:43:17.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a guess/hunch...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But I think there &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be a video game site added to the StackOverflow family.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why you ask?    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well if you look in Jeff's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/super-user-now-public/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'Super User Launch' post&lt;/a&gt;, he says SU is for any hardware or software questions '&lt;em&gt;… and it is not about videogames or consoles&lt;/em&gt;'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't mention anything else at all, just video games.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was, ah, he's marking out territory for a new site!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you know he is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001030.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;serious gamer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I could have totally read more into that was intended, so make up your own mind.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Or wait for an answer from Jeff ; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:43:17.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-21T06:56:38.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Electrons_Ahoy, I'm planning to setup one using StackExchange. Suggestions/comments/cruel intentions would be greatly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T06:56:38.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15996" CreationDate="2009-08-21T07:02:53.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had this happen to me. Asked a question on SU and a couple days passed without any real input and then a few minutes after posting on SF I had my answer. In this case I think there's value in leaving it on both sites, with the answer on both, because the question was about a small business level firewall which people may be using in their home, like me, or in their small business. I think being flagged/closed will depend on the situation more than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39605" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T07:02:53.440" />
  <row Id="16003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-21T07:28:58.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Gaming-Related issues like running CounterStrike in a LAN, SuperUser seems perfectly fine and appropriate, only stuff like &quot;How can I change the Harddrive in my Xbox/PS3&quot; seem inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather see a Game-Design related site, as StackOverflow does not cover that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T07:28:58.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T07:32:15.377" Score="5" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;Underscore in URL gets escaped to %5F and does not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to use an underscore in a link in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1305004/in-sqlite3-will-this-select-statement-benefit-from-two-indexes/1309028#1309028&quot;&gt;my answers at stackoverlow&lt;/a&gt;. However, the link does not work in the resulting HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3657/can-an-unescaped-underscore-be-included-in-a-link&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. But the answers doesn't work for me. Specifically, I use the provided editor to create the link which should work according this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to avoid the escaping?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link works in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox. So it might be a Firefox bug. But strangely the link works with Firefox from the editors preview!? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132197" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T07:54:52.687" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T12:59:59.437" Title="Link with underscore does not work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="16005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2009-08-21T07:38:15.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem, I think, is that the site platform is mostly done for the &quot;specific question&quot;-&gt;&quot;several propositions of direct answers&quot;. I know there are comments, but in general, the logic doesn't really apply for an iterative process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these are precise questions related to games (let's imagine &quot;How do I pass this level&quot;, or &quot;where can I find this weapon&quot;), then this logic matches. But in this case, other sites are doing the same job, as mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;hardware problems&quot;, though, it won't match, since it will be a rather iterative process, matching more to a forum. Because most of times, unless it's a precise, specific problem, it will be rather &quot;pasting the error message&quot;, and will require a discussion to find out what the problem is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T07:38:15.070" />
  <row Id="16006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:20:17.117" Score="1" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really want to know why down-voting a question is implemented in Stack Overflow. I have seen many questions down-voted and got frustrated. &lt;strong&gt;People are asking questions because they are looking for answers, what's the point in down-voting the question itself&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I saw one of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1305510/concat-in-javascript-not-working-for-associative-arrays&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; was down-voted without a comment explaining the reason why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the fellow stackers responded to the question saying, &quot;You didn't provide the expected result and that's the cause.&quot; I feel &quot;Concatenating associative arrays&quot; conveys everything. It doesn't require the expected result to be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I wanted to convey my thoughts regarding this after getting your responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree that down-voting the question is necessary if it's abusive or irrelevant. Not for forming the question (or perhaps not reading the FAQ). (If you don't understand the question, you can go ahead. Some people who understand the question will reply to it.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down-voting the question and rude comments aren't necessary. The guys asking the question might be new to that technology (you can't always expect a very challenging question, say, &quot;What's an associative array?&quot; is also a question) or new to this site or poor in English.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are down-voting the answer it means you are doing the right thing (and help the community to not follow the faulty approach). But down-voting question will not help you (I know it's just a negative). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All my below responses finally saying you are downvoted because the question is not understandable...&#xA;I wanted say my last words in this and wont justfify myself hereafter..&#xA;        Most people wont care to visit the downvoted question. i am lucky so i got an answer before its downvoted.. what if i downvoted before anyone answer my question. &#xA;what others think abt that question when seeing this is listed in unanserwed tag. i myself propably think its a duplicate one and will avoid click the link.. most of them do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you wanted to downvote just leave a comment alongwith... thats all folks..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="133732" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T05:43:02.553" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T15:54:37.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T08:20:17.117" Title="Why is down-voting a question important?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="16007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16006" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:22:59.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been covered extensively on Meta (where this question will end up). Check out the other questions and answers there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:26:05.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T08:22:59.060" />
  <row Id="16008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16006" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:31:04.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ramesh (and adatapost), have either of you ever bothered to read the faq? The link is at the top of every page (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then save yourself from further embarrassment and go read it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:31:04.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T08:31:04.370" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="16009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16006" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:34:40.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, a question should be voted for &quot;reusability&quot;. Is this question for general interest, could it be used by many people and probably is still interesting in two years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people do no spend enough time to really think about their problem before asking a question, wasting other users time. This should be down-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes its unfair. Getting down-voted is not as bad as some people think. Nobody should take it personal. But - it is how it works and the votes are not always expressing the quality of a question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134318" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:34:40.277" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T08:34:40.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16011" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:27:55.930" Score="7" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason to pay the fee for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts-Exchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Experts-Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and ask questions there too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134874" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-26T08:48:46.533" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T08:48:46.533" Title="Does it make sense to be on Experts-Exchange when we have Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16010" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:30:47.173" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no good reason to be on expert-sexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:35:06.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16010" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:34:29.600" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I won't ask new questions in Experts-Exchange, but I sometimes get answers for some questions there, mostly through Google Search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-26T08:27:09.907" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T08:27:09.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16006" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:35:21.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't take it personal. People are not judging you, but the question. Maybe they thought it didn't contain enough information to be answered usefully. Maybe they thought it was too subjective. Maybe it was completely unjustified and someone had a bad day or just clicked on the wrong arrow and didn't notice. You'll never know, and getting angry about it will not achieve anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133973" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:35:21.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T08:35:21.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16022" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:36:34.577" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of time I asked question in Stack Over.. There is a good answer but something is still not clear. So I reply(comment) to him. But sometime you need to add code also, as he also need to add code which does not support the syntax. Which can be very confusing. Can you add that to the commenting system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T07:34:34.957" Title="Commenting system" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16006" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:37:02.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious why you are &quot;frustrated&quot; with the downvote you received?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vote itself was cancelled out with an upvote giving you +8 reputation in total. The community is there for that reason so that an individual downvote that is considered harsh is negated by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you received a good answer to your post which you accepted. How can you be frustrated with anything if your question was answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130248" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:37:02.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T08:37:02.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:41:32.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;The downside to the fix, although appreciated, is that the arrows are now FIXED, which means double and triple digit votes look exceptionally bad. (try it yourself if you don't believe me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that there's an offset (not sure why) in the bottom arrow; we need a css solution that lets them dynamically center.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excellent. Thank you for this much needed CSS fix. That bugged me for a long time, too, but I had no idea what to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deploying tonight!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T07:26:45.433" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T07:26:45.433" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16037" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:46:51.140" Score="2" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I started on Super User, I asked one question. My reputation was too small to create tags (this was before accounts being linked, so I had rep of 1), so I tagged my question with available tags. One of those tags was &lt;code&gt;[sound]&lt;/code&gt;. Now, as I see correctly, I was the first to use &lt;code&gt;[sound]&lt;/code&gt;. So, am I the creator of this tag? Or &amp;#8212; more generally &amp;#8212; who is the creator of a tag for the purposes of the Taxonomist badge? The person who used it first to tag a question, or someone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2931/taxonomist-badge-what-counts-as-creating-a-tag-and-what-prevents-gaming-the&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2931/taxonomist-badge-what-counts-as-creating-a-tag-and-what-prevents-gaming-the&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it does not state clearly who the creator will be; the discussion there is more about gaming the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-24T15:41:29.900" LastActivityDate="2010-09-24T15:41:29.900" Title="Taxonomist -– who is the &quot;creator&quot; of a tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;&lt;tag-creation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16017" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:50:58.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the tag already existed then someone else with enough rep must have created it when they posted their question. They will be recognised as the creator of the tag when the time comes to award the taxonomist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:50:58.823" />
  <row Id="16019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16004" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:51:51.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, the destination webserver is configured incorrectly, because %5F and _ are equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We had a lot of issues with underscores in URLs causing markdown problems (among other unusual characters), so we auto-escape them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T08:51:51.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16010" CreationDate="2009-08-21T08:58:13.193" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually never liked Experts-Exchange anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is free, looks better, has better functionality and is simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that StackOverflow will ground the future of online support / help communities in general. It brings fluent a fluent feeling of usage without stubbornity. (yeah, that word doesn't exist, but anyway ;p) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, with the time StackOverflow will have way more hits on google or other search engines than Experts-Exchange ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132917" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T11:47:46.267" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:47:46.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16010" CreationDate="2009-08-21T09:01:05.790" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People at Experts Exchange should read Joel's article &lt;a href=&quot;http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/07/23c.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Day My Industry Died&lt;/a&gt;. This is exactly what SO did to EE :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T09:01:05.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16014" CreationDate="2009-08-21T09:01:19.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually, the \&lt;code&gt;code in comments\&lt;/code&gt; trick works - however, if I've had to make a particularly long comment with code included, then on occasion I've added a &quot;wiki&quot; reply, along the lines of &quot;this is really a comment relating to {whatever}, but I needed more space {now lots of space}&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if that was good or bad, but it worked, and satisfied my inner compass for not &quot;gaming&quot; anything with an answer that wasn't really an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T09:01:19.410" />
  <row Id="16023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T09:16:47.430" Score="3" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the &quot;ss&quot; sequence is treated abnormally by the auto completition engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed the issue typing &quot;oss&quot; and having the following suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;macosx (194)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  centos (141)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  osx    (122)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  hosting (119)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  postfinx (77)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  web-hosting (65)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is &lt;strong&gt;not what one expects&lt;/strong&gt; of course&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;writing an additional &quot;s&quot; seems to make &quot;osss&quot; be treated as wanted (&quot;oss&quot;) by the engine, resulting in the following, good, suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;moss (32)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  jboss (16)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  cross-platform    (7)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  moss-2007 (5)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  data-loss (3)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  jboss-cache (1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130733" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:04:48.470" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:04:48.470" Title="tags autosuggestion seems to be bugged managing a tag containing &quot;ss&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2009-08-21T09:38:29.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google-questions is not a problem. Google-answers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either answer the question or just go away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you answer a question, you should have at least some knowledge about or experience with the given topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because your google query results in 50000+ results, doesn't mean that an answer is found among them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find a answer among them, give a link to the result that gives the answer, not the google query returning 50000 possible related topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't assume that the person asking have not tried google. See if maybe he want's something else than what your 50000-google-results gives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134323" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T09:38:29.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16006" CreationDate="2009-08-21T09:54:43.093" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is downvoting a question important?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It encourages users to follow the FAQ. It hopefully makes them frame their next question more carefully, with complete information. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It indicates to a fellow user of the site that they are advised not to waste time on the question. It keeps down fluff and noise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I visited your question just now, following the link in your post. It is obviously incomplete because you haven't provided a) the result you're seeing b) the result you want to see. I note that you have followed up on the downvotes with a follow-up question, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;but you still haven't bothered to edit the question and provide this information.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; So, it is of very limited help to the community as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you read the FAQ yet? Did you see this part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I don't get a good answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In order to get good answers, you have&#xA;  to put some effort into the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Edit your question to provide status&#xA;  and progress updates.&lt;/strong&gt; Document your&#xA;  own continued efforts to answer your&#xA;  question. This will naturally bump&#xA;  your question and get more people&#xA;  interested in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I come across a bad question, why do you think it is wrong to convey this through a down-vote? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T09:54:43.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T09:54:43.093" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12989" CreationDate="2009-08-21T10:26:01.690" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been an Experts Exchange member for about 9 years now. I haven't been very active there for a while, though. I lost a bit of interest in that site since my favorite topic (Delphi) has become less interesting and most questions have been asked before and thus repeat themselves. Still, I've never paid for this site and have earned four t-shirts and a $100 prize from them by answering a lot of other people's questions there. It also gave me enough points to ask a new question there every day for the next 5 years, if I want to.&#xA;Then, of course, membership of EE can be free if you earn enough points per month to be recognized as an expert. And to be honest, if they would make every member with over half a million points (like me) a permanent member, I would probably be more interested in EE and less in SO. It's just that I don't want to spend every day on EE trying to earn points so I'm a free member for just another month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T10:55:18.167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T10:55:18.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12989" CreationDate="2009-08-21T10:33:35.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've signed up with experts-exchange.com when they used to increase the points constantly by time passing. Then I had 2000+ points when they closed down my account, and asking me to subscribe to their premium account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;viva la Stackoverflow.com!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134325" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T10:33:35.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T10:33:45.433" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a big deal, but I just flagged two comments on the same thread, but I only got the &quot;Really flag?&quot; question on the first flag; the second one went right through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's of importance: I was a little too quick, so the first time I tried to flag the second comment, I got the red 5-second box. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-27T14:44:55.993" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T14:44:55.993" Title="No confirmation question on second comment flag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-21T10:34:01.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is another example of rude comments, including &quot;There's &#xA;a button on the front of your computer, press that.&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1311127&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1311127&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: that particular rude comment has now been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T11:17:39.103" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:17:39.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16023" CreationDate="2009-08-21T10:45:20.900" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the tagging system is very difficult to use if you choose things from the suggested list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just type in the tags and dont choose them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133955" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T10:45:20.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16028" CreationDate="2009-08-21T10:48:31.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for the devs (re the motivation), but I'm not sure I'd consider that a bug... the chances are that if you've read (and acknowledged) the message once on that page, then you probably know what you're doing - perhaps flagging a comment war (although a moderator flag would be useful too if it is out of hand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T10:48:31.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T10:54:52.300" Score="4" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful if we had an option when deciding to open a bounty on a question that we could choose to allocate rep from one site even though the bounty is being offered on another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance I would like to use my rep from SO for putting a bounty on a question that resides on SF. I don't have enough rep on SF to make it enticing. So when you click on &quot;start a bounty&quot; you get sliders for each site that you can pull your rep from, maybe make it where you need to burn up all your rep for the site that your asking the question on and then allocate more rep from other ones, if you have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thanks devinb for clearing up my question with your comments!&#xA;&quot; transfer rep INTO a bounty. But you can't transfer rep across accounts. So, the rep you'd 'lose' from SO would never actually go into your SF account, it would go straight onto a bounty on whatever question.&quot; – devinb &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T05:53:58.947" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T05:53:58.947" Title="Can there be an option to allocate rep from any site account for offering a bounty?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="16034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16032" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:08:41.323" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been asked before at some point (moving rep from another site's account for a bounty on another site), but it has been shot down for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see why there is a reason to ask for it. For someone like me who doesn't use ServerFault at all, it may be a good idea to offer up a bounty on a question, but I don't have any rep at all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, rep is supposed to be site specific and is a measure of the site's trust in you, and that has to be only for the site you earned it on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:08:41.323" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16032" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:08:42.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want more rep on SF you'll have to contribute on SF to earn it... Else you're not really entitled to the rep you want to offer as a bounty (on that site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus a larger bounty shouldn't really give you any advantage, people should help you if they can and want to help you. The size of the bounty shouldn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T16:11:41.437" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:11:41.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16028" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:10:52.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I agree with Marc that it is possible that it only shows up once since it will assume you know what you are doing the second time around, that doesn't really take into account situations where you may misclick. There have been several times that I attempted to upvote, but I just flat out missed and accidentally flagged (and as a mod once accidentally deleted the comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:10:52.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16017" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:13:45.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a tag gets created by a user, it will recognize them as the creator. It is also likely that there are times when someone creates a time and then the tag &quot;disappears&quot; due to a merge or removal or for whatever reason. If it gets created again, I believe the original person will still be credited with the creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:13:45.023" />
  <row Id="16038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15996" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:18:27.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are not getting you question answered successfully on ServerFault, you really need to ask yourself if it belongs on SuperUser first of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you figure it can make it on SuperUser without getting punted back to another site, the simplest thing to do would be to flag your own question for moderator attention and kindly ask that it gets migrated over. This would allow it to move over and keep all the answers that may have been posted already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:18:27.557" />
  <row Id="16039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14805" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:24:17.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found the culprits: my &quot;HUAWEI Mobile Connect&quot; plus my mobile provider. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do strange things to the javascript: strip out whitespace and insert external javascript into the html-page.  they must be overdoing the thing with the whitespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem could be avoided if you used any other character than space to separate the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133859" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:24:17.703" />
  <row Id="16040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16053" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:44:54.790" Score="6" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cosmetic issue... is it possible to improve the &lt;strong&gt;display of badges on the profile page&lt;/strong&gt;? An &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;obvious example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://alexangas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tags.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jon Skeet badges&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggested improvements:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Split out tag-based badges into a separate section&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sort by alphabetical order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:25:48.917" Title="Please tidy how badges are displayed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15143" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:49:46.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point, this is to be expected and perfectly in line with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory&lt;/a&gt;. I think that also Elitism plays a role. Sure, for most people, the meaning of an SDK is obvious, or what a database is. I mean, I guess that a question like &quot;What does SDK mean?&quot; is like asking &quot;What does House mean?&quot;. Also, there is this continuing questions about what type of questions should be on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily, we know the stance of Jeff and Joel on this, and that is: We want everything that's programming related, no matter how simple (Listen to Joel in the podcasts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:49:46.043" />
  <row Id="16042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16040" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:54:40.510" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're sorted in the order they are achieved. I like that sort, and don't you try to take that away from me. Haven't you taken enough?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, they belong on the stats tab. They are your stats, and they are glorious. If anything, I'd put them above the Tags section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T11:54:40.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16044" CreationDate="2009-08-21T11:58:47.680" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe the &lt;strong&gt;number of close votes required&lt;/strong&gt; is working on low traffic and less popular tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fewer questions are read, therefore fewer close votes issued&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Less people have enough rep to close (by their 'low frequency' nature these tags don't generate much reputation for the users that follow them)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people (even with enough rep) don't close questions anyway&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I can't think of a rule that can improve this situation that isn't subject to abuse. Anyone else seen this or have ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm seeing this on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/sharepoint&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow &lt;kbd&gt;sharepoint&lt;/kbd&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt;. Here are examples over the last five days. Most of these have one close vote (mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Belongs on Server Fault:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1310308/how-does-a-moss-web-front-end-route-search-requests-to-query-servers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1310308/how-does-a-moss-web-front-end-route-search-requests-to-query-servers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1306592/cannot-login-to-wss-3-0-site-using-forms-authentication&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1306592/cannot-login-to-wss-3-0-site-using-forms-authentication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1302847/verify-sp2-install-for-moss&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1302847/verify-sp2-install-for-moss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Belongs on Super User:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1301804/does-anyone-know-of-any-good-software-for-sharepoint-email-filing&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1301804/does-anyone-know-of-any-good-software-for-sharepoint-email-filing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1300363/lookup-field-in-edit-in-datasheet-mode-in-sharepoint-doesnt-work&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1300363/lookup-field-in-edit-in-datasheet-mode-in-sharepoint-doesnt-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Duplicate:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1289297/sharepoint-developer-pre-screening-test&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1289297/sharepoint-developer-pre-screening-test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2: Is this what the &lt;kbd&gt;belongs-on...&lt;/kbd&gt; tags should be used for? To alert other users with higher rep to close these questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T10:25:59.707" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T10:25:59.707" Title="Number of close votes required and low traffic tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16043" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:00:16.240" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If something needs to be closed, you can always rile up the clientele here on Meta or flag a mod and they'll come by and close it. Marc loves breaking out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/jYSSn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ban hammer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T12:06:14.390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:06:14.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16050" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:04:12.817" Score="3" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was following someone on SO and voted several of his answers up. I found them helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked today and found that all my votes for that particular person were reversed. Is there some hidden &quot;limit&quot; to the number of upvotes for a particular person / day? 4? 5? 6?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133957" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-27T17:32:30.173" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T17:32:30.173" Title="what's the point of voting people up if it's just reversed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;serial-upvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16045" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:07:16.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may have been flagged for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vote fraud&lt;/a&gt; and all of your votes were annihilated (most likely by an angry penguin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no limit to the upvotes a question or answer can receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:07:16.897" />
  <row Id="16047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16045" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:07:21.623" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your votes today were probably determined to be anomalous, see the blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; on voting anomalies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:07:21.623" />
  <row Id="16048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16010" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:07:46.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Next time you visit EE, remember that they've updated their URL to the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://expert-sex-change.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Expert-Sex-Change.com&lt;/a&gt;. Update your bookmarks and favourite stars accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:07:46.397" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:15:36.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; tag between the down-arrow and the star. If you remove that, the arrows line up; but then the display is screwed up for large votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8042/votingarrowsdontlineupm.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you add an additional &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; tag after the &lt;em&gt;up-arrow&lt;/em&gt; instead of removing the other one, the arrows line up and everything looks fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; When removing a typo in this answer, I had to answer this captcha:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5956/hittingtags.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T12:27:10.553" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:27:10.553" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16045" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:21:26.687" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can upvote whoever you want however many times you want (assuming you have not used up all of your daily votes). The system is able to check though and see if there are patterns to voting which would point out instances where someone gets downvoted repeatedly all at once or has multiple things upvoted all at once and will take steps to correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean by &quot;reversed&quot; that your votes just disappeared (allowing you to vote again on the topic), that is likely what had happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If what you mean by &quot;reversed&quot; is that you voted something up to &quot;+1&quot; and it's now at &quot;0&quot; or &quot;-1&quot;, then that could be potentially explained simply by other users voting in the opposite direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:21:26.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16045" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:22:43.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing intrinsically wrong with up- (or indeed down-) voting several answers from one person sequentially over a short period of time, however, it's one of the &quot;vote fraud &quot;behaviours that is checked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to up-vote all this persons answers do it over a longer period and vote on other questions/answers inbetween these votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T12:28:05.233" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:28:05.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16043" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:23:42.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think something needs to be closed, you can flag it for moderator attention. Moderators can then decide whether or not we want to listen to you. It only takes one mod vote to close anything as opposed to the 5 regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can say that once there becomes a larger userbase of 3,000+ users, it is increasingly unlikely that mods will take any action on a question unless it is blatantly necessary. The whole idea is for you guys to start policing yourselves once you hit the 3,000 reputation mark, so that we don't have to monitor every single question and close it ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:23:42.520" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16040" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:25:48.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer that they get sorted in two methods:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sort by badge types (Gold, Silver, Bronze). You could also in theory have a section specifically for the gold and silver tag badges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sort alphabetically per badge group. This way all of the golds are in alphabetical, all the silvers are in alphabetical, etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Optional sorting by number of badges won so that you can get a quick view of your most &quot;hit&quot; badges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:25:48.917" />
  <row Id="16054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16055" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:28:35.710" Score="10" ViewCount="2551" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the Stack Exchange engine available to download for use as a enterprise website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Exchange's engine is very great and could be very cool to use for internal enterprise patterns and practices, like the engine of Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134335" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-05T19:09:44.903" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T20:47:11.873" Title="Is the Stack Exchange engine available?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;so-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16054" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:32:09.070" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a Stack Exchange Enterprise option for internal use. The pricing makes this feasible for large organizations only. You can email team at stackoverflow and your inquiry will be routed to the correct place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21960" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T20:47:11.873" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T20:47:11.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-27T14:06:31.880" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16054" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:32:15.870" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; is a way for people to create their own StackOverflow like websites. It is definitely not for a hobbyist or for someone to simply play around with. It is likely that this will only be chosen by someone with a business plan who actually will attempt to make money off of their site in some fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been a big advocate of a stripped down version of the software to be released as an open source project numerous times in the past and I still think it would be a good idea. It would aid community development and even give their core product a chance to gain some new features that the original dev team may not have ever implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:32:15.870" />
  <row Id="16058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16054" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:32:45.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15386/where-can-i-find-information-about-stackexchange&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for an answer then go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:32:45.450" />
  <row Id="16059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16054" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:33:58.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Stack Overflow is not open source. However, you should check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, which opens on September 1st. You can purchase a solution based on the Stack Overflow engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:33:58.677" />
  <row Id="16060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16043" CreationDate="2009-08-21T12:50:26.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't feel the problem is as bad as you make it out to be, at least on SO which has been around long enough to have many, many 3k+ users.  Do you have any examples of this?  Say, a question that has been around for a few days despite being obviously in need of closing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if there are such questions, if they are obvious enough, flagging for moderator attention should work.  If it's a gray area, then you're probably out of luck.  Just put your vote to close in, maybe drop a comment explaining your opinion in case other people come by later, and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T12:50:26.970" />
  <row Id="16062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13847" CreationDate="2009-08-21T13:15:14.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a learning exercise I wrote a (not so small anymore) GreaseMonkey script to add the number of accepted answers to the user's profile page. Any feedback welcome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updated some more:&#xA;The script has been updated some more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;display the total accepted answers and 'hit rate' for all users (where hit rate is the percentage of questions answered that have been accepted).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;insert an &quot;Accepted Badges&quot; section after the Badges on the user's profile page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;each &quot;accepted badge&quot; has the number of answers accepted for that tag displayed next to it, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;each &quot;accepted badge&quot; has a tooltip showing the total answers, total accepted, and  percentage for that tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clicking an &quot;accepted badge&quot; will take you to a search page listing all answers you've given that have been accepted for that tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;caches the accepted badges data and updates it no more than once an hour.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get a bronze badge for 50 accepted answers in a given tag, a silver for 100 accepted and a gold for 250. This gives me 1 silver badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;requests data for each tag asynchronously, one tag every 2 seconds to avoid spamming the server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.me.uk/new.gif&quot; alt=&quot;New!&quot; /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Now with added working!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.me.uk/new.gif&quot; alt=&quot;New!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.me.uk/new.gif&quot; alt=&quot;New!&quot; /&gt; Adds tags for total accepted answers as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/1256#1256&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (Gold for 1000 is Savant, Silver for 400 is Sage and Bronze for 50 is Seer - I like the alliteration).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.me.uk/new.gif&quot; alt=&quot;New!&quot; /&gt; now doesn't set the page size to 1 but uses the current page size (much less annoying).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.me.uk/new.gif&quot; alt=&quot;New!&quot; /&gt; sets the column widths to match the badges table (4 or 5 columns)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1412096/asynchronous-jquery-request-timing-issue/1412459#1412459&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, it now chains the requests&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My User page ends up with a line like this in the answers section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3853214355%5F1ff4a7b0e7%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;accepted answer totals screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The results for a few users from the SO front page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Jon Skeet:      5299 Answers 2347 Accepted (44.3 %)&#xA;                3 Gold (c#, .net, java), 2 Silver (linq, generics), 6 Bronze&#xA;Mark Gravel:    3931 Answers 1547 Accepted (39.4 %) &#xA;                2 Gold (c#, .net), 2 Silver (linq, linq-to-sql), 8 Bronze&#xA;Alex Martelli:  1817 Answers 585 Accepted (32.2%), &#xA;                1 Gold (python)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have streamlined the processing by working through the list of tags on the profile page, and only requesting results for tags above the bronze threshold (50). This is much quicker, and works for all users for the medium term (even Mr Skeet currently only has 11 tags over the threshold).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           StackOverflow - Accepted Answer Munger&#xA;// @namespace      StackOverflow&#xA;// @description    Adds accepted answer count and accepted badges section to the user profile page&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/users/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/users/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/users/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    function GM_init() {&#xA;        if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') {&#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else {&#xA;            jQuery_init(unsafeWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    GM_init();&#xA;&#xA;    unsafeWindow.update_answers = function(accepted) {&#xA; 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               var se = new SerialAjaxExecuter( function( results ) {&#xA;                    console.log( results );&#xA;                }, 2000 );&#xA;&#xA;                for (var page_count=0; page_count &amp;lt; post_tags.length; page_count++) {&#xA;                    var current_tag = post_tags[page_count].toString().split(&quot;[&quot;)[1].split(&quot;]&quot;)[0];&#xA;                    var tag_count = $(&quot;a[href*='[&quot;+current_tag+&quot;]']&quot;, curr).next();&#xA;&#xA;                    if(tag_count.html().length &amp;gt; 0) {&#xA;                        tag_count = tag_count.html().substring(7);&#xA;&#xA;                        if(tag_count &amp;gt;= threshold) {&#xA;                            (function delay_tranche() {&#xA;                                var tag_name = current_tag;&#xA;&#xA;                                se.addRequest( $.get, get_search_text(user_id, page_size, true, 1, tag_name),&#xA;                                    {n:page_count},&#xA;                                    function(data){first_callback(data, get_accepted, true, tag_name)}, &quot;html&quot; );&#xA;                            })();&#xA;                        }&#xA;                    }&#xA;                }&#xA;&#xA;                //remove the progress marker&#xA;                //TODO how to do this without a request?&#xA;                se.addRequest( $.get, &quot;/search?q=user%3A&quot;+user_id+&quot;&amp;amp;pagesize=&quot;+page_size, function(data){&#xA;                    var unread = $('.accepted_badges_summary:last');&#xA;                    unread.html('');&#xA;                }, &quot;html&quot; );&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;                se.execute();&#xA;            });&#xA;        }&#xA;&#xA;        load_answers();&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T22:16:14.840" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T22:16:14.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-20T22:16:14.840" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15990" CreationDate="2009-08-21T13:42:01.310" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8258/newestquestionsstackove.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; As per Alex's comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2465/adadk.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5813/adad2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I just noticed that Alex has recently moved the words to the right. It now looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/reach_devs2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to stress that I strongly disagree with this decision (although it's obviously Alex' choice to make), and that this is not the ad I made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T21:00:41.310" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T21:00:41.310" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-27T11:12:53.600" Score="74" ViewCount="4337" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is a bounty?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the &quot;Featured&quot; tab on the homepage?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I search for questions that have a bounty attached?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long is the bounty period?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I award a bounty?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I award a bounty to my own answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happens if I feel my question is still unanswered?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is automatic awarding?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are bounty awards exempt from the 200 points/day reputation limit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does Community Wiki mode affect bounties?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I offer a second bounty after the first one has expired?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happens if a bounty question is closed, or deleted as offensive?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why can't I vote to close or migrate a bounty question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I cancel my bounty?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I affect / divide part of my bounty to two (or more) users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137475" LastEditorUserId="158321" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-26T18:23:59.640" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T07:05:35.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-27T11:12:53.583" Title="How does the bounty system work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="13" />
  <row Id="16067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16065" CreationDate="2009-01-27T11:35:38.670" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Sources: the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges/set-bounties&quot;&gt;privileges page&lt;/a&gt; for bounties.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt; &lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is a bounty?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bounty is a special reputation award given to answers. This feature was designed to motivate answerers, and make questions get the answers they deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a bounty starter, the bounty award is funded by your own reputation. The award can be anywhere from 50 to 500 reputation, in 50 point increments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you do not need to be the owner of a question to start a bounty on that question, only one bounty can be active on a question at once, and each user can only have one active bounty at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of June 2010, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot;&gt;the bounty system is decoupled from accepting an answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is the &quot;Featured&quot; tab on the homepage?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I search for questions that have a bounty attached?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with an active bounty appear with a special icon in all question lists, and are also visible on the home page's Featured tab. Questions in that tab are listed in descending expiration order; thus, the bounties about to expire will naturally be at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bounty can be started on a question two days after the question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start a bounty, click on the &quot;start a bounty&quot; link at the bottom of an eligible question.  The bounty panel will open.  Use the slider to allocate the bounty amount -- anywhere between 50 and 500 reputation, in 50 point increments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must have at least 75 reputation to start a bounty, and at least as much reputation as the bounty amount. Also, you must not have another question with a bounty open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty award will be subtracted from your reputation when the bounty is &lt;em&gt;started&lt;/em&gt;, not when it is awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How long is the bounty period?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 week = 7 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of June 2011, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/68050/a-grace-period-of-one-day-to-award-the-bounty-after-expiration-without-remaining/74037#74037&quot;&gt;bounty offerers may award bounties up to 24 hours after the bounty period ends&lt;/a&gt;, to allow them to evaluate answers posted at the end of the bounty period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do I award a bounty?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bounty can be awarded 24 hours after the bounty was started. Any answer to the question, even an existing answer that has already been awarded one or more bounties, is eligible to be manually awarded the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To award the bounty manually, click on the &quot;+50&quot; (or whatever bounty amount was allocated) button on the left side of the answer you want to award:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/7r8zp.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tooltip for award bounty&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I award a bounty to my own answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. This used to be possible &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/97802&quot;&gt;but it was disabled&lt;/a&gt;. The user would not get the reputation back, and the bounty will be displayed as &lt;strong&gt;+0&lt;/strong&gt;, “this answer has been awarded bounty worth 0 reputation”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I award a bounty to an old answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can award your bounty to any answer on the question. This makes it possible for users to reward particularly good answers with more rep than a standard upvote would provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What happens if I feel my question is still unanswered?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is automatic awarding?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twenty-four hours after the end of the bounty period, if the bounty starter has not manually awarded the bounty, an eligible answer can be automatically awarded &lt;em&gt;half&lt;/em&gt; the bounty amount. The criteria for an answer to be eligible for automatic awarding are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer must be given &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the bounty was started&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer must have a score of at least +2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If two or more eligible answers have the same score, the oldest answer is awarded the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no answers meet these criteria, the bounty ends without it being awarded to any answer, and is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; refunded to the bounty starter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An accepted answer that does not meet the above criteria is still &lt;em&gt;ignored&lt;/em&gt; by the automatic-awarding system unless it is accepted during the bounty period. An answer accepted during the bounty period will automatically be awarded the full bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are bounty awards exempt from the 200 points/day reputation limit?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, bounty awards are exempt from the daily reputation cap, and are not cut short by the reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does Community Wiki mode affect bounties?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are not affected by community wiki mode. When you award a bounty to an answer marked as community wiki, the reputation bonus will still be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I offer a second bounty after the first one has expired?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can offer as many bounties on a question as you want. However, only one bounty can be active on a question at a time, and any user may only have one active bounty at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What happens if a bounty question is closed, or deleted as offensive?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why can't I vote to close or migrate a bounty question?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty questions cannot be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, diamond moderators can refund a bounty, which would then allow it to be closed, migrated, or deleted. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14591/why-cant-we-close-questions-with-bounties/27103#27103&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I cancel my bounty?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Once started, you cannot cancel a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel there are exceptional circumstances, flag the question for moderator attention to explain the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can I affect / divide part of my bounty to two (or more) users?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. If multiple answers to a single question have earned bounties, it's because the question has been subject to multiple bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137475" LastEditorUserId="134300" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-04T07:05:35.333" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T07:05:35.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-27T11:35:38.657" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="16074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16075" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:09:04.540" Score="9" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of a &lt;code&gt;mailto:&lt;/code&gt; link for the &quot;Contact us&quot; link at the bottom of every page, could you make it link to a contact form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use web-based e-mail, so I don't have a mail client set up on my machine.  So if I accidentally click on a &lt;code&gt;mailto:&lt;/code&gt; link it ends up spending 30 seconds launching a copy of Outlook Express that I don't use that is not associated with any account anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also help you (the SO team) out.  You could give the users a &quot;what are you writing about&quot; listbox, with options like: positive feedback, found a bug, i have a suggestion, general question, etc.  Then the mail that you send to team@stackoveflow.com could be tagged as such (i.e. subject line &quot;[positive feedback] this site is awesome!&quot;) to help you sort those e-mails better.  And if a user selects &quot;I have a suggestion&quot;, you could display a &quot;you could also try suggesting this on meta.stackoverflow.com&quot; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Thinking about this more, the &quot;contact us&quot; and &quot;feedback always welcome&quot; links could be confusing to a new user.  They have very similar meanings but go to very different places.  Maybe both could go to a page that briefly describes what meta.stackoverflow.com is and what belongs there, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; has a contact form.  And it can say &quot;you can always e-mail us directly at team@stackoverflow.com&quot; for those who prefer to contact you that way.  (Or maybe only the &quot;contact us&quot; link goes to the new page, and &quot;feedback always welcome&quot; is no longer a link?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T14:37:05.760" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:37:17.380" Title="Make the &quot;contact us&quot; link go to a contact form, not a mailto: link" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;contact&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16074" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:17:26.540" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with this, so long as it has something like &quot;or, you can always email us at team@stackoverflow.com&quot; (with a mailto link) as well.  Don't force me to fill out a stupid form if I don't need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:17:26.540" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16045" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:25:30.473" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key is that you shouldn't be voting &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; up to begin with. You should be voting &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (or questions) up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to promote good posts, not good people. If people happen to write lots of good posts, then great - but judge based on the posts, not the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when you voted several of this person's answers up, did you look at the other answers in the same questions, and vote up any other good ones? If so, that's fair - but if the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; candidates for your upvotes are for one person, I think it's reasonable to object to that behaviour. (Aside from anything else, it promotes positive feedback on rep even more than the normal situation...0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:25:30.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:25:34.153" Score="8" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the best method to deal with harassing users?  For reasons unknown I have become the target of what I believe to be an abusive user.  Within a few days he had downvoted nearly all of my answers or questions.  He has left comments on a number of my questions which aided in making the connection between him and the downvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know rep isn't really a big deal, but at this point this has become absolutely obnoxious.Is there no way to limit a user from downvoting another user repeatedly?  I have emailed SO, flagged his comments, flagged my own post and left a comment for the moderator (at the suggestion of the SO staff).  But nothing thus far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a record breaking ~700 rep and he ~10K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, I understand that a wrong answer or less appealing answer should be downvoted.  I have no issues with this.  The downvotes I'm referring to didn't happen over days or even hours.  The majority of them occurred in the same 30 minute time span.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134253" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T17:48:30.260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T04:55:26.300" Title="Handling harassing users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;harassment&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="16078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16074" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:26:15.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you just open up your web mail client and type in &quot;team@stackoverflow.com&quot; in the &quot;TO&quot; field?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:26:15.027" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:32:38.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you really think he is following you? May be he just lurks on the same tags as you do (after all &lt;kbd&gt;jquery&lt;/kbd&gt; is a popular one), and your answers happen to be wrong...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:32:38.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:33:29.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ignore him/her/it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:33:29.383" />
  <row Id="16081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:34:48.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe I know who you're talking about. Hes active in ~400 jquery tags, I doubt hes following you. He just happens across your answers, and for the most part disagrees with them. I don't think its a case of harassment, although a few of his comments are rude, I don't see why they'd be removed by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However you've done all you can do, and now you have to wait for a moderator to handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:34:48.600" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:35:55.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you did are the correct actions (flagging for moderator attention, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you are right, a moderator will take care of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:35:55.120" />
  <row Id="16083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16074" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:37:17.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like &quot;contact forms&quot;. My email program actually has proper editing tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you tried Greasemonkey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:37:17.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:38:01.403" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flagging for moderator attention is the quickest way to help point us towards abusive behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you can usually find some contact information on the individual moderators on their profile pages (like my profile page on SuperUser).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can email team@stackoverflow.com, but the turnaround time on this is not quite as high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:38:01.403" />
  <row Id="16085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:38:24.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can flag one of your own posts for moderator attention and explain why you did so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can post it on MSO (well done)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can click the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the very bottom of the page and email the StackOverflow team directly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these three options, number 1 is probably the best, because the moderators will be able to do some evaluation, and pass it up to the developers if need be. And you won't be skipping the chain of command like option 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:38:24.477" />
  <row Id="16086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T14:45:46.663" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag your own posts that have been downvoted/commented for moderator attention.  I know of only one instance where you've done this, which isn't enough for us to establish a pattern of abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T14:45:46.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16092" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:05:17.740" Score="0" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/browsers-and-screen-size-on-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;latest SO blog post&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7% of [stackoverflow's] overall audience is still on creaky, broken, ancient old IE6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about putting an '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ie6nomore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IE6 no more&lt;/a&gt;' kind of warning on top of the page if the user loads SO (or SF, SU, Meta...) in order to tell them about the suffering that their browsers brings on the web development community? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also, SO has some bugs on IE6 (I noticed that the warnings messages are off)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course leave a button &quot;hide forever&quot; since some of them must be forced to use IE6 by their companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be interesting to see how the stats evolve next month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I do get that SO doesn't want to alienate people. But I'm not saying &quot;just redirect them to getfirefox.com&quot;, it would be a warning that is possible to remove by one click. A lot of websites are doing it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3011/3024754966%5Fb8dfa8ca96.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;(image &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/colbyworld/3024754966/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised that the SO community -so far- is against such an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="131061" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T15:27:28.170" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:06:02.993" Title="Why not add a &quot;IE6 no more&quot; type of warning on SO?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;ie6&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:06:18.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow probably doesn't want to alienate 7% of it's users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:06:18.923" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:08:59.827" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two reasons why you would still be using IE6:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have to (IT says so, some inhouse app that needs it etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't get it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of the two will be changed by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/sevenup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sevenup&lt;/a&gt; kind of message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:08:59.827" CommentCount="37" />
  <row Id="16094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:13:05.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do we care?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't affect us, and like it's been mentioned before, they probably have a reason (IT requirement, legacy app etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't affect Jeff &amp;amp; the team (they don't bother testing in IE6 any more) and it doesn't affect any of the rest of us (we don't use their computers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So lets not get in a huff about other people's technology choices (however poor we believe them to be). Remember, we don't have all the information and their decision may in fact be the correct one for their situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:13:05.013" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:14:54.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Man, I don't get you people.  We'll spend all day arguing whether or not LMGTFY is an appropriate answer or simply disrespectful, but on the other hand we're going to suggest telling 7% of the SO users to get a new browser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A 1972 Ford Pinto is still allowed to drive on the highway, even though it is old, ugly, and pollutes like crazy.  I understand the problems that IE6 creates for web developers, but if we're going to limit what you can use in order to simplify things for the developer, then we might as well just restrict it down to one browser (or go to Flash (or Silverlight!)!).  Yes, it's a reductionist argument, but so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there are still many corporations requiring IE6, the solution isn't to shove a banner in their face.  Most of the audience of this site knows that IE6 is a dinosaur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:14:54.387" />
  <row Id="16096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:18:44.210" Score="4" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I've found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1312544/how-to-make-round-corners-using-jquery-round-corner-plugin&quot;&gt;some questions&lt;/a&gt; that are just begging to be heavily edited or closed. Most of the time I just flag them for moderators to look at them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something else we (3000&amp;lt; users) can do? I know the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/plz-send-me-the-codez&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'plz-send-me-the-codez'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plz-send-me-the-codez&lt;/a&gt; tag is frowned upon, but sometimes the question is just begging for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="153011" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-27T12:16:03.773" LastActivityDate="2011-02-27T12:16:03.773" Title="Can we have a &quot;plz-send-me-the-codez&quot; flag for moderation / editor attention?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="16097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16096" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:19:25.377" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really, just flag it. And downvote if it's really necessary. That being said, I disagree with your suggestion that &quot;how do I do x&quot; constitutes a &quot;plz-send-me-the-codes&quot; label.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this particular question, you should take into consideration the tags: [jQuery] [CSS] Those, with the question &quot;how do I make rounded corners&quot; gives me the impression he is asking &quot;How do I make rounded corners with jQuery and CSS?&quot; Which is a pretty clear question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We shouldn't equate brevity with apathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T15:27:53.023" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:27:53.023" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:19:43.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As developers, our job is to tackle challenges. SO exists because there are many major problems that recur, and we figured we would pool that knowledge. SO exists because we don't have the choice to just &quot;ignore any problems we don't like&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supporting IE6 is difficult, which is why sites like SO exist. If it was easy, none of us would need any help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, we don't get to choose who our clients are. If some person is working at a company that uses IE6 for various (perfectly valid) reasons, we shouldn't hassle them every time they come here for something that is out of their control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything fancy that won't work in IE, don't provide it in IE6. It seems to me like all the &quot;IE6 must die&quot; people who complain that &quot;coding for IE6 is next to impossible&quot;, are completely forgetting that people coded for IE6 for almost 8 years, and they sure as hell did not have the fancy tools that we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say, if someone is using IE6 and wants to visit SO, we should be EXTRA helpful to them, because they're already working against uphill odds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:19:43.303" />
  <row Id="16099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:24:15.823" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I raised a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13847/display-statistics-have-subject-badges-for-accepted-answers&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt; before I saw this question for badges based on accepted answers in a tag. This would work similarly to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tags badges for votes&lt;/a&gt;, but with a lower threshold, e.g. earn a silver badge for 100 accepted Java answers and gold for 250 accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=.net%20accepted&amp;amp;medal=gold&quot; alt=&quot;.net accepted&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=java%20accepted&amp;amp;medal=silver&quot; alt=&quot;java accepted&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:24:15.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T15:24:15.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:27:16.550" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10382/how-can-i-change-my-question-back-from-a-community-wiki&quot;&gt;How can I change my question back from a community wiki?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a community wiki question be reverted back to non-wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133849" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:49:41.217" ClosedDate="2009-08-21T15:50:12.290" Title="Can a community wiki question be reverted back to non-wiki?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16100" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:28:53.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid not.  Not even moderators can do it.  I suppose the SO Team &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt;, but I doubt they would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:28:53.410" />
  <row Id="16102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16096" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:29:08.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really, really want to get someone's attention, you should flag it. Either for moderator attention or as spam. &gt;10k-arbitrary-numbered users can see spam flags, and I certainly consider true please-send-me-the-codes questions to be spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise just downvote it, leave a comment saying it should be closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:29:08.760" />
  <row Id="16103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16100" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:29:43.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/256/allow-owner-to-un-community-wiki-a-question-or-answer&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; discusses non-wiki'ing as a feature request and the issues assosciate with that ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:29:43.503" />
  <row Id="16104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16096" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:30:11.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are free to express your opinion of a question by any means made available to you. For a user below 2k that generally means voting and commenting. However, for particularly egregious behavior, you can flag posts for moderator attention. But essentially, there is nothing more you can at your current rep level than what you are currently doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:30:11.817" />
  <row Id="16105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:32:43.933" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1170/should-i-be-able-to-cancel-my-up-vote-on-a-comment&quot;&gt;Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6374/cancel-upvote-on-comments&quot;&gt;Cancel upvote on comments&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I accidentally voted up the wrong comment on a post. For answers, we can click again to undo a vote, but this functionality doesn't seem to be available for comments. Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:36:59.807" ClosedDate="2009-08-21T15:48:00.127" Title="How do I undo a vote on a comment?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="16107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16105" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:36:59.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't, it's not currently supported&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:36:59.807" />
  <row Id="16110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:45:56.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anybody here actually ever worked as a web developer? We're here talking about a huge amount of time wasted to develop for IE6.&#xA;But that's not the real issue discussed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to make things move forward, you have to take action, why waiting? Warning people that the website won't look as good as it should by using IE6 is just a small step in that direction.&#xA;The more warning messages displayed, the faster IT departments will be aware that it's time to upgrade (and hopefully they will upgrade to IE8, not 7).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you guys are worried about user experience and that extra click one will have to make, why letting people browse a website with a browser not supported without warning users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing: when Firefox tells you that you should upgrade to the next version nobody's thinking it's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134355" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:45:56.963" />
  <row Id="16112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16100" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:49:41.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not even moderators can undo the community wiki status of a question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think that only one of the members of the dev team with access to the database could make that type of change and I imagine it happens very very infrequently (if at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:49:41.217" />
  <row Id="16114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:56:02.683" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14932/allow-author-of-accepted-answer-to-delete-it-in-certain-circumstances&quot;&gt;Allow author of accepted answer to delete it in certain circumstances&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gave a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1307378/python-mysql-update-statement/1307400#1307400&quot;&gt;quick aswer to a question&lt;/a&gt; that, while it works, allowed the potential to have SQL injection atacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the original poster was trying to use string substitution for an &lt;code&gt;UPDATE&lt;/code&gt;, and I haven't use &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; backend (there are some DB backends in Python that use different placeholders) I showed how the string replacement should be done, with a comment that it shouldn't be used in production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty soon someone gave a better answer, to wich I left a link in a comment in my own answer, and was upvoted over mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the OP accepted mine, wich, with justice, warranted a small flood of downvotes. As I couldn't delete my accepted answer, I decided to include the correct answer with further explanation of why not to use the other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this the correct thing to do? Was there anything else I could do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:02:03.030" ClosedDate="2009-08-21T16:03:02.360" Title="Delete accepted answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="16115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16114" CreationDate="2009-08-21T15:59:54.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally make it known that &lt;strong&gt;&quot;This is an example, not a verbatim solution&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; when I'm dealing with queries that may be susceptible to injections. That way, I'm making it clear that I do not intend my code to be copied/pasted, but rather studied and expanded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I've had comments like &quot;Your answer is soooo lame, I can hack that so fast,&quot; to which it's quickly pointed out by others &quot;he explicitly stated it's not a working-solution, but a simplified example.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T15:59:54.503" />
  <row Id="16116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T16:00:27.077" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are using StackOverflow or any of the other sites in this trilogy and you are still on IE6, there is likely to be a reason for it and that reason is probably outside of the control of the person using the web browser. Putting a banner in their face telling them to switch is sort of like waving cake in front of a diabetic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:00:27.077" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16114" CreationDate="2009-08-21T16:00:56.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make the accepted answer as correct as possible - that's precisely why SO is editable. If it is correct, it will be upvoted eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:00:56.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16114" CreationDate="2009-08-21T16:02:03.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say you did the right thing.  The injection risk and your correction are clearly stated and credited.  Not much else you can do unless the OP goes in and undoes the accept.  Only other thing would be to flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:02:03.030" />
  <row Id="16119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16090" CreationDate="2009-08-21T16:06:02.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bad idea, not as bad as the anti-MS zealots &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.devin.com/ieblock%5Fhowto.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;who won't let you browse their sites if they detect IE&lt;/a&gt;, but still bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of machines we have at work that still need IE6 for legacy reasons, I sometimes browse to the StackOverflow sites from these machines. I don't really need to be reminded every fecking time I hit StackOverflow that I'm running IE6. Of course I bloody know it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is preaching to the converted and verging on rudeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:06:02.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-21T16:12:18.690" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the majority of your low point answers, you have quite a few things you could improve on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes users will down-vote a question, so that the owner will notice them, and hopefully improve upon them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go fix, or delete your answers. If you fix them, whoever down-voted them could change their mind, and up-vote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume that if it was just the one user voting down your answers, it was for &lt;strong&gt;your own benefit&lt;/strong&gt;, not detriment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/910649/javascript-undefined-variable/910665#910665&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, wasn't really helpful. If it were mine, I'd just delete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/875810/passing-value-to-eventlistener-functions/876055#876055&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; seems like a dup of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/875810/passing-value-to-eventlistener-functions/875823#875823&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. Which was posted earlier.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227286/get-class-list-for-element-with-jquery/1227378#1227378&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; seems to ignore the bulk of the question. I'd delete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1172157/jquery-find-all-elements-without-someone-between/1172180#1172180&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, the question is poorly worded. If you look at the comments to the question, you might be able to figure out why it was down-voted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1247378/php-folksonomy-tag-checking-regex/1247405#1247405&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, was just wrong. I know regex, every statement is just wrong. I would down-vote it, if it wasn't already down-voted. In fact, if you don't delete it, I might just do that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278174/jquery-blur-event/1278233#1278233&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; could be right, but I don't know. Although I would like to note that there is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278174/jquery-blur-event/1278228#1278228&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, that says the opposite, that has more points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1276916/asynchronous-file-upload-ajax-file-upload-using-jsp-and-javascript/1277972#1277972&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; just says it can't be done, which isn't really helpful, but could be correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1274293/how-do-you-handle-log-errors-in-a-java-mvc-web-application/1274362#1274362&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would add a snipped to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227391/what-cross-browser-charting-packages-are-available/1227407#1227407&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1171997/php-mysql-how-to-create-a-comment-section-in-your-website/1172099#1172099&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, is actually a very well thought out answer. I would like to point out, that none of them have been up-voted though. I don't know enough about the question to be sure which ones are correct, so I'm not going to up-vote any of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/876042/beginner-distributed-processing-project/876067#876067&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1216609/ajax-architecture-mvc-other/1216654#1216654&quot;&gt;better written answer&lt;/a&gt; than &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1216609/ajax-architecture-mvc-other/1217726#1217726&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885907/steps-to-ensure-that-you-get-paid-for-a-project/885920#885920&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; seems fairly decent, but could be better. It doesn't even have links to the sites you reference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/885756/jquery-if-statement-syntax/885768#885768&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; is nearly identical to the rest of the answers, but doesn't have any explanation, unlike most of the others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:12:18.690" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-10T08:46:32.997" Score="75" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more of a curious question than a complaint.  I have seen some questions being closed for being non programming-related, while others received high up votes.  What's with the double standard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/625291/macbook-pro-15-vs-macbook-pro-17-vs-dell-studio-xps-asp-net-development-closed&quot;&gt;This Poor guy&lt;/a&gt; was just asking about what computer to get from the geeks but the question was closed, &lt;em&gt;poste haste&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Jon Skeet is famous and all, but I wonder what would have happened to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223?sort=oldest&amp;amp;page=7#sort-top&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; if the poster from the previous question had asked it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just so people don't use Jon Skeet as an excuse for this double standard, here is another about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/192793/what-is-your-favorite-programmer-t-shirt&quot;&gt;Your Favorite Programmer T-Shirt&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;UPDATE #2:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example for something of the same nature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/programmer-jokes-whats-your-best-one-closed&quot;&gt;What's your best programmer Joke?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Deleted Jan '11&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;What's your favorite programmer Cartoon?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Deleted Dec '10&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/182833/poll-which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate&quot;&gt;Poll: Which types of “programming related” questions are appropriate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T12:47:34.130" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T12:47:34.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T09:00:28.157" Title="Why is there a double standard regarding non-programming related questions at SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="16122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T08:49:41.053" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Programming questions&lt;/strong&gt;, of course!  As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet facts was a Community Wiki and the other one was not!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dont think the first question in your question received at least one up vote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T08:50:37.743" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One is funny and directly related to this forum, the other is best asked on a PC forum... I kind of agree with you from other questions I've seen though but these decisions are always going to be subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" />
  <row Id="16124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T08:50:50.007" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's posts are programming related by definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seriously,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a double standard. In my opinion there are large differences in quality between the links you posted. Generally, Stack Overflow should contain serious programming questions and nothing else. But from time to time, people ask &quot;funny&quot; questions that &lt;strong&gt;just work&lt;/strong&gt; (maybe hitting a nerve at the time being asked) -- this is what the 'community wiki' option is for, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others try to imitate this by thinking of another funny question that simply does not work and it's too obvious that people try to achieve batches or something. To keep things in order, these question keep being closed pretty fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who decides what works and what doesn't?&lt;/em&gt; The voters and the guys with enough rep points to close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask me: &lt;strong&gt;This is working.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, Stack Overflow is a great collection of interesting questions and high-quality answers, spicked with humor every now and then, without being just another joke wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T08:50:50.007" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="16125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T08:53:02.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first few people to view/answer/vote on the question have can have a big pull on the outcome, after the first few votes I've noticed a tendency for people to just up/down vote based on the previous votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131311" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" />
  <row Id="16126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T08:56:08.980" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, there is no double standard, there are 46865 standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T08:56:08.980" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T08:56:45.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dunno. Why is there so much questioning about the collective actions of a group of individuals. Seems kind of pointless to me. Stackoverflow is you after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" />
  <row Id="16128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T09:11:12.780" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget my favorite question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309517/when-to-drink-when-listening-to-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;When to drink when listening to stack overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is so important issue that Jeff and Joel commented on it in SO podcast, while stupid questions about reasons for Visual Studio crashes are, of course, not programming related and consequently not really suitable for this web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is one question that really should not be closed, especially not as &quot;Not programming related&quot; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/565263/fun-with-sql-games-painting-puzzles&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fun with SQL (games, painting, puzzles)  [closed]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question closed as &quot;not programming&#xA;  related&quot; by Orion Edwards, erickson,&#xA;  David B, Quassnoi Feb 19 at 22:13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drinking info and cartoons are OK, but this one with interesting code samples is not programming related. Come on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/600918/reinventing-cms&quot;&gt;Reinventing CMS&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;Not programming related&quot;, but it was since reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll check my comments for some more examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25732" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="16129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T09:12:40.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a grey area of &quot;off topic&quot; subjects that are still unique to the programmer community and thus should be tolerated because they help foster a sense of community and do not significantly detract from serious programming questions. Some questions that obviously fall into this category: favorite programming cartoon, jon skeet facts, favorite programmer t-shirt, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an area of off topic subjects that are not unique to the programmer community at all and do not belong on this site. Questions about changing the oil in your car, cooking beef brisket, feeding paper into your printer, or deciding what laptop to buy certainly fall into this category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is hardly rocket science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T09:12:40.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T09:13:05.927" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely agree man. Real double standards for &quot;non-programming-related&quot; questions here. Speaking from self experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more with the mentality of the people who tag a ques. as to-be-deleted. And they think different at different times based on their moods.&#xA;It's all about point of view/ difference in opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to do with the trend also. Sometimes, for such questions, if first person tags ques. as to-be-deleted and rest follow the same. If first person votes up the rest vote up. That's the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T09:13:05.927" />
  <row Id="16131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T09:16:50.193" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;rules&quot; our collective has set over time have changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in November the actual number of questions wasn't that much and in general there were a lot of &quot;Fun&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's a lot more serious and we try to keep it programming related. But what is exactly programming related... &quot;How long do you inhale and exhale while programming?&quot; It's programming related but we must draw some sort of lines. (yes lines)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules evolve, as stated in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T09:16:50.193" CommentCount="53" />
  <row Id="16132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T09:55:20.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some non-programming related posts are ok IMHO, as long as their value outweights the distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some value in fun. I don't get it for Jon Skeet facts, but I enjoyed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/192793/what-is-your-favorite-programmer-t-shirt&quot;&gt;t-shirts&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;cartoons&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65116/whats-your-favorite-harmless-computer-practical-joke&quot;&gt;harmless practical jokes&lt;/a&gt; very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since specific computer models these days are about as perishable as vegetables, the value of comparing two specific models approaches zero, especially since these days any old computer is good enough for most programming tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't enjoy the whining undertones in this kind of discussion, so IMHO it should be closed and downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, before voting came along even &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/400416/using-an-external-32768-hz-crystal-to-control-timer2-on-atmega168/400508#400508&quot;&gt;a programming related question&lt;/a&gt; could get closed, I assume by mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49246" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T09:55:20.740" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T10:02:25.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having spent a fair amount of time over on Sun's Java forum, I can tell you that SO is a big improvement.  The self-policing aspects of the site tamp down a lot of the nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sun earmarked a few individuals of good reputation to act as monitors last year.  They have the power to close down questions that get out of hand.  Even that has helped to keep some of the threads from running wild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are times when I get a little annoyed at closed questions, excessive grammar policing, arbitrary or unjust down votes, etc.  But these are minor annoyances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't recall who said it: &quot;Capitalism is a terrible economic system, but it's better than everything else we're tried.&quot;  That's kinda how I feel about SO.  It may not be perfect, but the originators have done a pretty good job of coming up with something workable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T10:02:25.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T18:27:15.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no double standard. Some people just choose to make insulting edits using &quot;The FAQ&quot; as a crutch instead of closing posts because people would have to actually agree with them on the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T18:27:15.190" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-03-10T18:35:48.990" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're seeing when you see 'Double Standards' is really the collision of three separate schools of thought: The &lt;strong&gt;Purists&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Democracy-Advocates&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;People who Just Don't Care Either Way&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each School of thought takes its direction from a different aspect of the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Purists&lt;/strong&gt; - Believe Stack Overflow should only hold questions related to programming; and use the line from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001169.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog post on the subject&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The goal of a site like Stack Overflow is to somehow share the correct knowledge wherever it may be&lt;/strong&gt; as it is scattered throughout the universe, and to cause that to be voted up and to be spread amongst us. There's this big universe of dumb programmers, and I'm one of them, and we all have a little bit of knowledge. I may know how to do this thing in VB6 which may be useful to somebody one day who's trying to maintain some ridiculously old piece of crap code. We all have these little tiny pieces of information and if we can just contribute a little bit, that information gets amplified, and &lt;strong&gt;maybe a thousand other dumb developers will benefit from my one little piece of good information&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;(Emphasis Added)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on in that same blog post, Jeff writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a place where a busy programmer can invest a few minutes with as little friction as possible, and get something &lt;strong&gt;tangible&lt;/strong&gt; from the community in return. &lt;em&gt;(Emphasis Added)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Purists take this to its logical conclusion, and vote to close any topic that doesn't enhance the 'useful programming knowledge' of the programming community. Which include the questions you mentioned (The Jon Skeet Facts question was closed and opened many, many times over).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Democracy-Advocates&lt;/strong&gt; - The Democracy advocates advocate (for lack of a better word) the practice of including everything on the site that is voted up by users.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, &lt;em&gt;anything goes&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you notice, the 'fun' questions get the highest votes, so they must be what the community wants, Q.E.D.  This school focuses on the Reddit nature of Stack Overflow to let votes determine what ought to be on the site; and they point out inconsistencies in question closings vociferously (rightly, I might add, since there's an apparent incongruity).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This group also tends to be the same group that wants to severely curtail moderation powers, for two reasons (that I can see):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's inherently unfair that some questions that garner 'easy' reputation and badges stay open, and others do not. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a community, and should be treated as such. It's not fair that only the &lt;strong&gt;1%&lt;/strong&gt; of users can determine what can stay on the site and what cannot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This group permeates across all reputation levels.  There are users with high reputation that hold this viewpoint, and users with lower reputation that see questions like this that are already posted, and subsequently think it's &quot;Ok&quot; to post more questions like this, much to the anger of the Purists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Those that Don't Care&lt;/strong&gt; - The third group simply doesn't care either way.  They're just here to get what they need, and can tune out the noise rather easily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Solution&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this problem to be resolved, we are going to need to have a &lt;strong&gt;benevolent dictatorship&lt;/strong&gt; over top of the community driven moderation.  Otherwise, you'll continually have these battles because each side has a valid point, and neither Jeff nor Joel have come out and explicitly supported one side over the other.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that Jeff believes that this will 'work itself out' and that letting the community duke it out by itself is the best idea; but this pre-supposes that neither side is given an advantage.  Right now, the Democracy-Advocate side has the advantage for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closers can now only vote to close a question once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions default to an 'open' state, and need &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; people to close them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closers only get &lt;strong&gt;12&lt;/strong&gt; votes a day.  Out of 637 users that can close questions, a lot of them would have to be active during the day to keep the fluff out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a purist, I understand and sympathize with your plight. I would rather Jeff come down one way or the other so we could stop having these incongruities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-10T18:35:48.990" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16121" CreationDate="2009-06-19T21:58:38.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like subjective and not-programming-related question, because answers at them inspires me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming is not only all-day hard-work, it's fun first of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:23:22.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-19T21:58:38.917" />
  <row Id="16137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:09:27.733" Score="70" ViewCount="2937" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know Jeff and Joel use Stack Overflow (obviously), but what other &quot;famous&quot; developers or at least working on popular projects, or important blogs do you know of that are using Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Define famous:&#xA;Book authors, popular project leaders/developers (think &lt;a href=&quot;http://Revision%20control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/a&gt;, an IDE, a database engine, etc., stuff we ask about here at Stack Overflow). I mean famous as in &quot;has done something important for the rest of us&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T20:20:03.723" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T06:05:29.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:21:16.320" Title="Are there famous developers using Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;developers&gt;&lt;celebrity&gt;" AnswerCount="66" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="18" />
  <row Id="16138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:10:44.813" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a #define of 'famous' would probably be required here ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:11:11.850" Score="80" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow exists because &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; allows it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6367" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T20:20:41.383" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T20:20:41.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="16140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:11:22.970" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kent Beck&lt;/a&gt; on here a while ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159224" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:12:38.493" Score="59" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're all famous, aren't we? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="16142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:15:48.440" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are only two users here (besides Jeff and Joel) that I have heard of before (=famous?). Those are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13842/kent-beck&quot;&gt;Kent Beck&lt;/a&gt; of Extreme Programming fame, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20860/bill-karwin&quot;&gt;Bill Karwin&lt;/a&gt; (a lead developer on the Zend Framework library).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="16143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:16:09.687" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16929/migueldeicaza&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16929/migueldeicaza&lt;/a&gt; - Chief Mono Monkey and father of Gnome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6380/scott-hanselman&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6380/scott-hanselman&lt;/a&gt; - That Microsoft guy who writes about Africa (among other things) ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139257" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:16:42.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5314/jay-bazuzi&quot;&gt;jay bazuzi&lt;/a&gt; is famous cause he blogs about pizza&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jbazuzi.blogspot.com/2008/08/pizza.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Exhibit A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:18:25.330" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the Delphi community: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2044/nick-hodges&quot;&gt;Nick Hodges&lt;/a&gt; is quite famous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:19:04.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:18:45.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a famous programmer, just not yet.  Maybe another ten years.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:19:50.707" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44991/frans-bouma&quot;&gt;Frans Bouma&lt;/a&gt; recently registered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148426" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:19:59.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't Jeff mention on &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the podcast&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ray Ozzie&lt;/a&gt; uses Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T20:22:57.200" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T20:22:57.200" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" />
  <row Id="16149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:22:48.580" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6524&quot;&gt;John Resig&lt;/a&gt; (Mr. jQuery)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T21:53:04.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:25:26.453" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33358/jan-goyvaerts&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jan Goyvaerts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the webmaster of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regular-expressions.info/about.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;regular-expressions.info&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: a true Regex Master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:25:26.453" />
  <row Id="16151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:29:12.093" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44005/andreas&quot;&gt;Andreas Hausladen&lt;/a&gt; writes a lot of useful fixes for the Delphi IDE, we call him &quot;The Delphi God&quot;, when he posts some new fix on his blog we just say &quot;The Delphi God strikes again!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously now, for me and my coworkers he is the guy we admire the most, because he contributes a lot to make our work easier and less stressful (as he fixes a lot of stuff before, and some times better than even codegear).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:29:12.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:30:28.080" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22483/randal-schwartz&quot;&gt;Randal Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; was a high-profile Perl god at one point and has written &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=randal+schwartz&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quite a few books on the subject&lt;/a&gt; (eat your heart out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;).  I don't know to what extent he's still involved in Perl development, but he's turned up now as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Smalltalk/Seaside consultant&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33006/martin-v-l246wis&quot;&gt;Martin Von Lowis&lt;/a&gt; is quite a major contributor in Python Circles (at least I'd heard of him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we've invented a new game - Stackoverflow Celebrity Watch.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ewww.&lt;/em&gt;  Now I feel like a stalker :-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:30:28.080" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:36:07.633" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118141/what-exactly-is-parrot/121996#121996&quot;&gt;Allison Randal&lt;/a&gt;(user account deleted) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parrot.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parrot&lt;/a&gt;'s Chief Architect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/598/haacked&quot;&gt;Phil Haack&lt;/a&gt; - MS blogger/dev&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6380/scott-hanselman&quot;&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/a&gt; - MS blogger/dev&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10142/obie&quot;&gt;Obie Fernandez&lt;/a&gt; - Ruby/Rails blogger/dev&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141202" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:36:07.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:43:35.903" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30436/larry-osterman&quot;&gt;Larry Osterman&lt;/a&gt;, a pretty well-known MSDN blogger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130095" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:43:35.903" />
  <row Id="16155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:43:43.763" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've written books about programming, but I'm not famous. 99% of the people mentioned in the answers here aren't famous either. John Resig, Miguel de Icaza, and Ray Ozzie qualify as famous. The other dudes, meh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just another navel-gazing poll on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:43:43.763" />
  <row Id="16156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T16:54:23.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're a game developer, the name &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40410/andrew-rollings&quot;&gt;Andrew Rollings&lt;/a&gt; might be familiar/famous, from his books &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0735713634&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game Architecture and Design&lt;/a&gt; (used as a textbook in many college game-development curricula) and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1592730019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hiivebooks.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hiivebooks.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T16:54:23.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T17:26:26.847" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8817/brian-d-foy&quot;&gt;brian d foy&lt;/a&gt; to be famous, and he's quite active here (rep 6K+ and a very frequent editor of questions and answers).  Interesting that I don't see his name mentioned with a couple of other Perl programmers who were mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133701" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T17:26:26.847" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-11T18:37:20.213" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33949/walter-bright&quot;&gt;Walter Bright&lt;/a&gt; is the father of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;D programming language&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's interesting to note that most of these &lt;em&gt;famous&lt;/em&gt; developers have rather low reputations (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; excluded of course) it almost makes you think they have better things to do with their time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T18:37:20.213" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-12T05:56:18.110" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20552/allen-bauer&quot;&gt;Allen Bauer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3712/barry-kelly&quot;&gt;Barry Kelly&lt;/a&gt; are also quite famous in the Delphi community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-12T05:56:18.110" />
  <row Id="16160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-13T02:38:26.223" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read a post of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44200/bruce-eckel&quot;&gt;Bruce Eckel&lt;/a&gt; today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T02:38:26.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-13T02:47:15.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm an infamous programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T02:47:15.953" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-17T02:11:07.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we get &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Guthrie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scott Guthrie&lt;/a&gt; over here? :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1796" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T20:24:52.563" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T20:24:52.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T02:11:07.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-17T02:17:05.073" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Burgundy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T02:17:05.073" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-17T02:19:16.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jim Anderson is also on here, which is pretty cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24995" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T02:19:16.863" />
  <row Id="16165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2008-12-17T02:26:54.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure I've ever really heard of any 'famous' developers, maybe famous among developers but that doesn't really equate to fame in my mind. Edward Norton is a famous actor, but not just among actors. There are few developers that I would consider famous as nobody outside the developer community has any clue, most people not even having a clue what a developer even is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136052" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T02:26:54.680" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-01-05T23:56:55.237" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6366/ayende-rahien&quot;&gt;Ayende Rahien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prolific developer/blogger well known in the .NET community. (also creator of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rhino Mocks&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4872" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T23:56:55.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-01-06T00:26:53.380" Score="58" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan Kay is in the house!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48710/alan-kay&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48710/alan-kay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T00:26:53.380" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-01-12T13:32:39.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;has done something important for the&#xA;  rest of us&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[I don't know how many *was-Palm-programmmer*s are around here.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other day I was glad to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1323/ben-combee&quot;&gt;Ben Combee&lt;/a&gt; here, and also &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2716/tim-norman&quot;&gt;Tim Norman&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Ben Combee gave back a lot to the Palm community.&#xA;Tim gave an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pocket-tunes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;excellent product&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-16T20:26:08.833" LastActivityDate="2011-03-16T20:26:08.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T13:32:39.027" />
  <row Id="16170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-01-12T14:13:09.770" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/11090/jesse-liberty&quot;&gt;Jesse Liberty&lt;/a&gt;, author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;amp;field-keywords=jesse+liberty&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; programming books and Silverlight blogger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T14:13:09.770" />
  <row Id="16171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-01-12T15:30:09.443" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd heard of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/50648/romain-guy&quot;&gt;Romain Guy&lt;/a&gt; (co-author of the Java book &lt;a href=&quot;http://filthyrichclients.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Filthy Rich Clients&lt;/a&gt;) before he showed up here. He seems to have posted one answer and left, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T15:30:09.443" />
  <row Id="16172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-03-11T08:57:57.313" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;D. Richard Hipp the maker of SQLite and Fossil to name a few of his open source and public domain projects&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24830/richard-hipp&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24830/richard-hipp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the un-sung heroes in my books&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="145309" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-17T09:36:46.580" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T09:36:46.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-11T08:57:57.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-05-12T18:09:01.657" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/73476/uncle-bob&quot;&gt;Robert Martin&lt;/a&gt; - Aka Uncle Bob - from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.objectmentor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ObjectMentor&lt;/a&gt;. However, imho, Robert Martin doesn't pay attention to SO as much as he used to after &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/02/06/on-open-letter-to-joel-spolsky-and-jeff-atwood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood's childish sarcasm on him&lt;/a&gt;. I might be wrong, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158058" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-12T18:09:01.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-05-12T18:18:23.403" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rob Conery&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wekeroad.com/subsonic/thoughts-on-subsonic-management/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.wekeroad.com/subsonic/thoughts-on-subsonic-management/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145086" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-12T18:18:23.387" />
  <row Id="16176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-05-12T18:27:30.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/38896/jodastephen&quot;&gt;Stephen Colebourne&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://java-champions.dev.java.net/content/corechampions.html#Colebourne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Java Champion&lt;/a&gt; and creator of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/835418/what-are-the-stackoverflow-standard-answers/835423#835423&quot;&gt;clichéd&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joda Time&lt;/a&gt; library, appears occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-12T18:27:30.410" />
  <row Id="16177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-05-12T18:31:47.780" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Python Guru, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810/alex-martelli&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't sure if it was really him at first, but given the amount of reputation he has amassed so quickly, and the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel gave a talk at Google&lt;/a&gt; a couple weeks ago... seems legit :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130236" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-12T18:31:47.780" />
  <row Id="16178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:12:10.080" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/109934/bjarne-stroustrup&quot;&gt;Bjarne Stroustrup&lt;/a&gt; - a computer scientist most notable for developing the C++ programming language. He joined Stack Overflow in May 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26449" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:12:10.080" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:15:21.883" Score="58" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt; one of the creators of the C# programming language&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:15:21.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-06-24T18:20:03.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not famous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm in Wikipedia in a few places due to my programming. But that shows how big Wikipedia is, not how big I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T18:20:03.203" />
  <row Id="16181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-06-25T07:07:35.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/121018/karl-e-peterson&quot;&gt;Karl E Peterson&lt;/a&gt; has recently joined, and has been well-known in the Classic VB community for many years for his &lt;a href=&quot;http://vb.mvps.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;many contributions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-25T07:07:35.253" />
  <row Id="16182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-08-01T05:34:22.910" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/148722/ryanb&quot;&gt;Ryan Bates&lt;/a&gt; is here. I don't about any other community, but in Ruby on Rails community he is one the biggest names. Almost every new Ruby on Rails programmer learns through his excellent Railscasts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18768" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:25:05.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T05:34:22.910" />
  <row Id="16183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-08-01T05:51:54.013" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Apple / Objective-C / Cocoa community, there are several well-known individuals...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25972/&quot;&gt;Chris Espinosa&lt;/a&gt; — Apple employee #8, now lead for Xcode&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/714/&quot;&gt;Chris Hanson&lt;/a&gt; — Apple employee in Developer Tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25646/&quot;&gt;Bill Bumgarner&lt;/a&gt; (aka &quot;bbum&quot;) — Apple employee and Objective-C runtime guru&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23233/&quot;&gt;Malcom Crawford&lt;/a&gt; — Apple employee in techpubs (writes lots of Apple documentation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30461/&quot;&gt;Peter Hosey&lt;/a&gt; — Developer for Growl and Adium&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/36103/&quot;&gt;Matt Gallager&lt;/a&gt; — Author of the excellent &lt;a href=&quot;http://cocoawithlove.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cocoa With Love&lt;/a&gt; blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30602/wil-shipley&quot;&gt;Wil Shipley&lt;/a&gt; – co-founder of The Omni Group and founder of Delicious Monster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10673/marcus-s-zarra&quot;&gt;Marcus Zarra&lt;/a&gt; - Author of several excellent Cocoa books and author on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cimgf.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cocoa Is My Girlfriend&lt;/a&gt; blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49732/chris-parker&quot;&gt;Chris Parker&lt;/a&gt; - Apple frameworks developer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="135683" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-21T18:30:36.180" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T18:30:36.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-01T05:51:54.013" />
  <row Id="16184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:14:08.457" Score="45" ViewCount="908" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the top ten signs that your coworker is using Stack Overflow if he doesn't tell you so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-15T20:33:37.960" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T12:24:03.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-25T10:36:16.353" Title="Top ten signs that your coworker is using Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;bacon&gt;" AnswerCount="35" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="16185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:17:00.243" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You see your code in a question answer as a code sample.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:19:12.347" Score="121" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You see your code in one of the &quot;how not to code&quot; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11388" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:24:01.040" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He makes attempts to close legitimate discussions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He gives you a badge the first time you ask him a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He starts to assign people points for things that they say.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The word &quot;Skeet&quot; starts coming up in conversations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:30:24.647" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com is in his browser history..... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:32:46.313" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You realize that, when you have a really difficult question that's specific to your project, you get an answer faster by posting to StackOverflow than by emailing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144252" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" />
  <row Id="16190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:46:55.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He speaks about unit testing, tdd, boost libraries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:47:18.093" Score="78" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He suddently ignores everything you say that is &quot;subjective&quot; or &quot;not-programming-related&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:48:25.563" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He replies &quot;this should be community wiki&quot; when you ask him his favorite programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T06:51:41.237" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When company announces a layoff, others update resumes, he updates his posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" />
  <row Id="16194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T07:09:56.457" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He never passes up an opportunity to recommend Code Complete 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He suggests achievement badges for programmers with 1000 check-ins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's developed a sudden interest in Linq to SQL (but you work in a Java shop)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He proudly wears a &quot;Jon Skeet is my Homeboy&quot; t-shirt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He'll only accept a reply to his email if it contains a code snippet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You ask him a question and he replies &quot;Let me Google that for you.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's very confused about the definition of the word &quot;subjective&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He knows how much time you spend here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T12:24:03.693" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T12:24:03.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-12T23:07:19.200" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T07:12:57.667" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a great question. I don't know the answer, but what I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know is that Larry from the UI team at GloboChem is definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; using SO and acting like he is not, cause we are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good friends and he mentioned that he doesn't do that; and if it seems like lately he's been coming up with inordinately insightful responses to questions after a 30 minute lag, it's probably the new macro-biotic diet...and I think he's taking some classes at the college. Smart guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also...I am not him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146941" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" />
  <row Id="16196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T08:48:09.423" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your coworking is giving a presentation and refuses to accept comments from anyone with low reputation and limits to only one comment per 30 seconds per person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11388" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" />
  <row Id="16197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T08:59:12.163" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you find as questions all the task that he should perform&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149883" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" />
  <row Id="16198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T09:26:59.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To every non-trivial question anyone asks him, he answers: Wait, I'm going to ask Jon Skeet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" />
  <row Id="16199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T09:49:55.277" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely the main one is that he stops doing any productive work because he's too busy working on his rep :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" />
  <row Id="16200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T10:02:58.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For every design decision that had to be made, he will start saying lets vote for a particular decision and see how my up and down votes it gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39742" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T10:06:14.680" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He and his wife get into an argument over whether their child should be named Jon Skeet regardless of sex or the family's last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-15T16:43:20.093" LastActivityDate="2010-04-15T16:43:20.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T16:45:34.273" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When he opens Chrome, stack overflow is shown before other sites such as facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-25T16:45:34.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T16:48:15.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closes any conversations that are non-programming related&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-25T16:48:15.483" />
  <row Id="16204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-25T17:02:12.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He says &quot;You guys signup for stackoverflow yet?&quot; each time a coding discussion starts. Simon I am talking to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-25T17:02:12.087" />
  <row Id="16205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-26T20:10:29.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He talks about the boss and subjective things in the &quot;comments.&quot; So he will not get &quot;down vote&quot; while still able to express the thing he want :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-26T20:10:29.273" />
  <row Id="16206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-27T12:03:43.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Jon Skeet poster on the office's door, or the Jon Skeet face as wallpaper :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21384" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-27T12:03:43.390" />
  <row Id="16207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-27T12:11:09.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, he has stopped pursuing and discussing his previously anounced preparations for Microsoft Certifications!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-27T12:11:09.053" />
  <row Id="16208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-27T12:27:11.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keeps showing others obscure Visual Studio features (ok, I do this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133265" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-27T12:27:11.750" />
  <row Id="16209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-28T22:29:47.493" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If in the middle of a conversation your coworker suddenly yelled &quot;Exact duplicate! We talked about this two months ago!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-28T22:29:47.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-28T23:03:23.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;HTTP requests to stackoverflow.com appear when you're snooping around in the office LAN using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wireshark.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wireshark&lt;/a&gt;. (Not that I've ever done or will do this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137769" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-28T23:03:23.963" />
  <row Id="16211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-28T23:09:34.497" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Responses in e-mails or in meetings come in the form of +1 or -1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-28T23:09:34.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-01-28T23:53:58.430" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They stop coming round to your desk every 15 minutes asking for help with yet another programming problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:27:15.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-28T23:53:58.417" />
  <row Id="16213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16216" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:35:06.583" Score="29" ViewCount="604" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come across various questions with incorrect use of terminology in them. The primary abuses (in C# questions) are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Referring to &quot;C# 3.5&quot; (which doesn't exist) instead of &quot;C# 3.0&quot; or &quot;.NET 3.5&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Referring to the conditional operator as the ternary operator (it's &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; ternary operator, and happens to be the only one, but that's not its name)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting confused between using &lt;em&gt;directives&lt;/em&gt; (which make types available without fully qualifying the namespaces) and using &lt;em&gt;statements&lt;/em&gt; (which create a try/finally block and call Dispose)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you look at the tags for C#, you'll see that &quot;C#3.5&quot; has (at present) 13 hits, whereas &quot;C#3.0&quot; has only 7 hits. A language version which doesn't exist has more references than the current one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I've been editing question bodies, tags and titles to correct this - but I'm not sure now. If a misunderstanding is so common that more people know the incorrect term than the correct one, is my &quot;fixing&quot; of the question going to be counterproductive for anyone performing a search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should we try to achieve such a level of accuracy that the incorrect term will get &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; inappropriate search hits, prompting the user to try again (and hopefully get the right term)? In this case I'm happy to go and retag all &quot;C#3.5&quot; questions as &quot;C#3.0&quot; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that I'm a particularly picky person when it comes to terminology, by the way. Maybe no-one else really cares very much ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-09-22T17:39:42.040" Title="How reasonable is it to correct terminology in questions and tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;terminology&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="16214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:38:14.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lol, if you have the time go ahead ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would say C# is enough. There are a lot of tags already. But if there are version related tags, it would be very nice if they are used correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" />
  <row Id="16215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:39:45.000" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is good to be picky about terminology. That should not be a choice but the way things should be. If there are folks out there who are confused or careless or ignorant about things, and that shows up in their text, then that is a call for action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many ways - editing for one. Comments to the question and even replies should mention that. Down-voting the question/answer is another way. Whatever, but there should be concrete effort to enforce correct terminology usage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:40:04.813" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very interesting question: is it better to have the right terms, or is it better to have the terms the people are searching for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it is better to have the right term. And maybe have a question tagged c#3.5 which states that there is no c#3.5 but instead .net 3.5, so people searching for c#3.5 would find this question where they can learn that the most recent version is c#3.0, and they probably wanted to look for .net 3.5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135646" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:40:13.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me correct terminology is very important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It tells people that you thought about your problem and know what you are talking about. This helps me believe I spend my time answering the question not in vain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:40:13.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my opinion - edit away.  As long as someone isn't throwing it in someone's face, I'm not sure anyone minds if edits are made.  I'd rather have it correct than incorrect.  I've edited a few posts for grammar and clarity and don't think that it is any different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134869" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" />
  <row Id="16219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:45:06.253" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it helps to clarify the question I'd encourage you to correct someone's terminology.  In the case of C# 3.5, I'd correct it to say something like &quot;C# under .NET 3.5&quot;, since you don't really know what version of C# specifically they are using.  I think the discrepancy in the tagging is a perfect example of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you should feel free to do this.  If the problem is that widespread, people need to be corrected so it doesn't spread any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" />
  <row Id="16220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-10-25T19:46:06.033" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please keep editing and correcting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ignorance thrives in the presence of&#xA;  apathy. -&lt;em&gt;me, &lt;strike&gt;two seconds&lt;/strike&gt; three months ago&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" />
  <row Id="16221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-11-08T10:58:09.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they can manage correct syntax, grammar and terminology for an un-living compiler merely because they want something from it, then they can damn well show you and me &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; that much respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" />
  <row Id="16222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2008-11-23T00:32:09.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should care. That's all I have to say. If the person decides to ignore your correction, either outright ignore them or belittle them. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" />
  <row Id="16223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2009-01-13T12:24:59.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should tidy up the terminology and tags - having a series of tags for the same subject obstructs searches and encourages the use of multiple tags.  Unambiguous tags help here.  Terminology and phrasing in a question should also be tidied up to help clarify the question.  Bear in mind that not all people on SO are necessarily good technical authors nor even speak English as their first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of tags from a few months ago was SQL Server.  There were many tags used for SQL Server, which meant that any of these tags may or may not have had all of the SQL Server questions.  For some reason, SQL Server is particularly bad for this and new questions need to be tidied from time to time so they don't get lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" />
  <row Id="16224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16213" CreationDate="2009-07-13T23:21:46.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Developers have to be absolutely sharp on terminology! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows their level of meta/self consciousness. How else could they write clean code? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a lot of developers who were first confused about what to implement, then used the wrong words for the wrong thing and then..., well, you could clearly see the result in their code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had some folks (Europe, non English speakers) in interviews who could neither pronounce &lt;em&gt;Java&lt;/em&gt; (not the island) nor &lt;em&gt;Developer&lt;/em&gt; the way &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt; does (not even after Steve Balmers famous lecture on it :-)). They must have missed lots of podcasts and techtalks on the subject...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when we used those keywords during the interview ourselves. They just wouldn't pick it up! You would expect candidates that obviously got it wrong to adapt (cause they are smart, right?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just didn't give me the feeling they were sharp enough for the job. Then again maybe I was wrong, but you need to draw a line somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the above mentioned &quot;language test&quot; was not actually part of the interview itself, but just a personal note, while it happened)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130848" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:28:14.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16228" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:51:45.860" Score="3" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently asked a subjective question and the answer that got the most votes is not really the answer I prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it being a subjective question logically I should accept what the majority agree on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can any subjective question be accepted since there is, by its own definition, no definitive answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136237" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:11:02.697" Title="How do I pick the correct answer on a subjective question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="11" />
  <row Id="16227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:54:30.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apply whatever criteria you use to determine the correct answer to this question to find the answer to other subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" />
  <row Id="16228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:55:09.377" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pick the answer I like the most. My question, my choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145039" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-17T11:55:09.363" />
  <row Id="16229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:56:03.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick the answer that was most helpful to you. The community answer will always be right below it. That's the way things are supposed to work. Even if you select what is currently the highest voted answer, there's no guarantee that will always be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" />
  <row Id="16230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:56:19.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, seeing as you asked the question, go for the answer &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; feel helps you the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-17T11:56:37.363" />
  <row Id="16231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:56:57.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However it being a subjective question logically I should accept what the majority agree on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I beg to differ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal bias is a necessary evil when you seek subjectivity. (BTW: This is a totally subjective viewpoint ;-) If the answer that got the most votes do not reflect your personal bias, you should not really be bothered. Fine, you don't follow the herd!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a good yardstick to keep the bias in check is logic. I'd try to have that around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" />
  <row Id="16232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:58:31.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;your choice&quot; is correct, you are after all the subject, but I'd prefer to see the question left open for the benefit of later readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" />
  <row Id="16233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:59:01.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my pet peeves about Stack Overflow is that questioners seem to feel compelled to accept the most popular answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked the question, and you should accept &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; preferred answer, regardless of the majority consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Future readers will decide for themselves whether they prefer the accepted answer, the most popular answer, or maybe a completely different answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135719" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" />
  <row Id="16234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T11:59:50.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For any non-trivial problem, there is more than one solution which is &quot;correct&quot; in any sense of the word. So more than one answer may be correct but SO only allows you to flag one as correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I don't hesitate to vote any good answers up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131188" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" />
  <row Id="16235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-02-17T12:08:13.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You pick mine. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:31:22.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-20T18:25:04.363" Score="21" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, I've seen quite a few correct answers get downvoted simply because someone didn't think they were the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answer. For example: someone asks for a regular expression to parse a url in their Python script. You give a relatively simple 1-liner that does exactly that. Then you get downvoted for not recommending the &quot;urlparse&quot; module instead of a regex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we more carefully consider whether to down-vote? Or is this question simply &quot;much ado about nothing&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T18:25:04.363" Title="When should correct answers get downvoted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T18:27:47.837" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they're duplicates that don't add anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't vote these down myself but you should expect that a few users will do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I inadvertently post a duplicate answer (because I was beaten to it) I usually delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T18:27:47.837" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T18:32:12.197" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's obviously a personal decision, but the 1 rep cost should discourage too much abuse. I only down vote bad answers, myself. Answers that have bugs, errors, or are flat out wrong. I rarely down-vote off answers, those that simply don't answer the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only had one or two of my answers unfairly down-voted by the questioner because I &quot;didn't answer&quot; his question, but I got over it. I think it's uncommon enough to ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't have a problem with duplicates. I tend to up-vote &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers that I think are correct unless one is far and away better than the others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T18:32:12.197" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T18:32:57.500" Score="52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a down vote should be used for a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; answer, not for one that isn't perhaps the best.  There is a bit of a difference, and in some cases, a judgment call.  However, I don't think people should be punished for trying to provide an answer, that, as it turns out, isn't as good as another.  Simply up vote the better answer and it will rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets not punish the community for trying to be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140608" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T18:32:57.500" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T18:41:47.153" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much ado about nothing.  If people disagree, they will vote it back up, if not--maybe voting it down was fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you may think something is the &quot;Right way&quot;, but perhaps--well in this case maybe you like regex more than most people and used that big hammer when you should have been using something more precise and others wanted to point that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is that regex is actually the wrong way since using an existing API instead would allow your code to adapt to unforeseen circumstances whereas regex would have to be modified if some standards changed--look at it this way, since the business logic exists elsewhere, your solution is not DRY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T18:41:47.153" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T18:43:41.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I up vote correct answers from people with little rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131014" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T18:43:41.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T18:59:01.300" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tool-tip text for the down button says, &quot;This was not helpful.&quot;  I don't think that's really a good guideline though.  A neutral response is not helpful, but shouldn't necessarily be voted down; down votes should be reserved for posts that lead in the completely wrong direction: posts that are the opposite of helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T18:59:01.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T19:16:06.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the only reason to down vote is if answer is &lt;strong&gt;technically&lt;/strong&gt; incorrect. Not bad - incorrect.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Bad answer is not a good definition (IMHO). You think it's bad i think it's good. I never downvote answers that opinion about something or answer to open question that does not have a direct answer.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;By the way &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/306328/when-should-correct-answers-get-downvoted#306340&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; should not be down voted. It's an opinion nothing wrong with this. IMHO again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6807" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T19:16:06.070" />
  <row Id="16244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T19:17:18.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If some answer is unnecassarily too lengthy, i'm going to downvote an answer if it is upvoted above better answers. If an answer is totally wrong i'm going to downvote regardless of other answers. I will upvote if i find some answer is technically correct and there isn't a better way to do it (or i don't know a better way), or if it's some other beauty which convinces me (good wording, etc...). I don't consider the reputation value of the people. If a person is good, he will become a good reputated person anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And i think Stackoverflow should show a value which considers the amount of time one has been on stackoverflow, besides the reputation value. Someone being there two days and having a reputation of 400 is another thing than one being there 10 days with the same reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T19:17:18.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T20:35:30.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not downvoted many answers, but those I did downvote followed the same pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically correct, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. too many &quot;buzzwords&quot; (only did this once).&#xA;b. too much hype about some methodology or technology that is irrelevant to the actual answer.&#xA;c. too much criticism of some methodology or technology that is irrelevant to the actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, for b. and c. - if someone has a bee in their bonnet about something and chooses to state it when it's not relevant to the answer posted, that is when I've downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-R&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T20:35:30.700" />
  <row Id="16246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T21:53:17.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to add one more thing.  On very rare occasions it will be appropriate to vote down even a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's suppose someone asks a question, and someone else supplies a good answer.  The good answer is voted up several times.  A week later someone else posts a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answer.  At this point the question and the new answer will get nowhere near as many views as the first answer, and therefore will be later seen as inferior.  In this (very rare) case, even though the first answer was good I need to vote it down to help the new better answer rise to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you could expand this to say that it's okay to downvote an answer if it's &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; to help a better answer rise above it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T21:53:17.033" />
  <row Id="16247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2008-11-20T22:42:15.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only downvote answers that are incorrect (as in wrong), and answers that may be totally technically correct, but are useless.  An example of a such a question would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q:  I'm in Seattle, where are you?&#xA;A:  My desk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically correct, but completely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135816" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-20T22:42:15.857" />
  <row Id="16248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2009-01-30T00:38:10.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem I have with downvoting is there's sort of a positive-feedback network effect: if you see an answer that's got a +1 response, you're much less likely to downvote it than if you see an answer that's got a -1 response. Conversely, if you see an answer that's got a -1 response, you're much less likely to upvote it than if you see an answer that's got a +1 response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can be like vultures, unfortunately; when more than one person votes down a question it becomes kind of a free-for-all. (&lt;em&gt;DIE, YOU SCUMSUCKING BAD ANSWER!&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only vote down people if their answer is either malicious or significantly misleading. If someone gives information that's way off track and wrong, they might get a -1 from me. If they gave an honest attempt but missed a little bit, I'll comment but that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-30T00:38:10.910" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16236" CreationDate="2009-05-21T19:51:05.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been down-voted a few times, usually because I miss-read the question.&#xA;I don't mind being down voted, so long as people tell me why.  The most unhelpful thing you can do is down vote without giving a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would actually make a request of the StackOverflow overlords: require that if you want to down vote, you have to leave a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130863" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:32:43.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-21T19:51:05.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16260" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:44:46.523" Score="29" ViewCount="443" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few questions about Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow and how it works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do intelligent programmers the world over find &lt;strong&gt;time&lt;/strong&gt; to answer everybody's questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What &lt;strong&gt;incentive&lt;/strong&gt; do people have to answer questions? Reputation score? &lt;em&gt;(that can't even be converted to money, instead gives you more powers &lt;strong&gt;so that&lt;/strong&gt; you can answer more questions better?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it that helpful &lt;strong&gt;guiding spirit&lt;/strong&gt; within all of us that powers this community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T05:58:51.803" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T05:58:51.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T15:54:40.217" Title="Why does Stack Overflow work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="26" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:46:14.103" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community spirit and good will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:46:28.877" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most developers at some point have had someone who answered those questions for them, for me personally, it is nice to be able to give some of that information back to individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you can learn quite a bit yourself coming on here to answer other peoples questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13502" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:47:36.720" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Non-monetary rewards, and respect. Those are powerful motivators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:48:19.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep points stuff really works. It might not convert into anything 'real' but neither do most sports/games - that doesn't mean I don't want to win (and have more points) when I play them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I actually think in some ways rep points may be counter-productive - i.e. I have hesitated to answer some questions where I am not sure of my answer, for fear of being downvoted, when that answer could have been useful to the questioner. However I have not come across a better equivalent of SO's rep system on any other web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43965" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:48:22.523" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it is because everybody here wants to learn. Even the users with the highest reputation here ask questions and want answers. Everyone asks and answers - not just one or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:48:24.973" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people like having big numbers next to their name, and if it requires helping someone to get that number larger, they will do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:48:44.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Tom Anderson and regarding finding the time, I would add that nobody is productive every minute of the day.  You can waste some time on digg or waste some time on stackoverflow.  Which one is (relatively) guilt free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:49:08.467" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's basically just designed to be addictive... It's now 1 a.m., and I'm answering your post in the hope of getting another measly 10 rep points.  Ha! It's funny because I'm tired and my shoulders hurt. If only they could be converted to frequent flyer miles!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I was about to go to bed, but I just got upvoted, so now I want to hang around and see what happens... Is that an enlightening observation, or should I just go to bed... Seriously people, stop upvoting me and let me sleep! My girlfriend is pregnant and the due date is tomorrow, she'll be very upset if I fall asleep when I'm meant to be catching the baby! Seriously!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit #2: By the way, I consider myself a very competent developer except for this strange addiction that has started hurting my productivity, so I think I do provide some useful advice, and I hope when I have really hard questions in the future I'll get some code-karmic love back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit #3: Yep... still here, still watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T12:31:21.280" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T12:31:21.280" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="16259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:49:10.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, there are a few reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The joy of sharing knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The joy of learning from others answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google juice for my blog once over 2k rep was a motivator to get from 1.5k&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can't hurt in an interview situation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130836" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:49:28.310" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've literally had problems; I've been ready to tear my hair out over, which have been answered in the time I spent going to fetch another cup of coffee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This alone makes this site worth it for me. Yes, I spend a few minutes now and then answering questions, but I consider that investing into the site in such a way that it helps survive and be there tomorrow when I need it again. I think many feel the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is both entirely selfish and some sort of help-your-fellow-programmer type of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love helping people, and I think that counts for some part of my addiction to Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow. I was a member of the IRC Delphi community a while back for a number of years and most of the time it was just plain fun helping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the biggest reason is entirely selfish. I want Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow to be there when I have my hair-tearing-out problems, and I want the maximum number of eyeballs to look over my oddball question and really give me shot-in-the-dark answers, if for no other reason than confirming my beliefs that this is indeed an oddball problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think this is sort of the goal of the site as well. Attract a good sized number of people who wants more than just a drive-by range of questions and answers, you want a community, where people build on others knowledge and the circle just goes around and around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow has really proved its worth already. It might not be known to everyone, but that'll happen fast. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Atwood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; already mentions, frequently on their podcast, that around 80% of their traffic comes from Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to me that doesn't really matter. The site has already proven its weight in gold (or time, time is more precious than gold these days), so for me it's just an investment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a good one I might add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T12:33:42.887" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T12:33:42.887" />
  <row Id="16261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:50:10.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering questions online is easier than getting your actual job done, but you can still feel like you did something useful.  Also, there's... oh, nevermind.  I should write some code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:50:26.357" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Web 2.0 sites in general, and Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow in particular, rely on psychology and social behavior. Everyone has a need for respect, and to feel useful. By making those things attainable and fair, Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow takes advantage of a basic human desire and turns it into a functional community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="672" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T12:34:34.337" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T12:34:34.337" />
  <row Id="16263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:50:47.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(You might want to make this a Community Wiki question (or feel the wrath of those who care) ;-) Not fussed myself, but some people are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What incentive do people have to answer questions? Reputation score? (that can't even be converted to money, instead gives you more powers SO THAT you can answer more questions better?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a bit like asking how people find the time to collaborate with Open Source projects - fun, interest and hopefully at the end of it a little respect/increased reputation. I personally do it for fun and as a way of keeping what I know fresh in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it that helpful guiding spirit within all of us that powers this community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that's what powers every community at the end of the day :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:51:24.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't tell you the number of times I've needed an answer to something and not found one. I was considering writing a community-driven &quot;Lessons Learned&quot; website, and, in my research, found this. It's not the way I would have done it, but it's a great site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I need to find answers to questions I asked, the least I can do is look for questions I can answer and do my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" />
  <row Id="16265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T15:53:54.413" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Jeff and Joel thought Jon Skeet needed something to do with all those extra hours he has. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(seriously, where does he get the time? and can I have some please?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T16:01:03.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting fast and correct answers from people who know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T16:01:03.107" />
  <row Id="16267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T16:07:19.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do intelligent programmers the world over find time to answer everybody's questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering a question takes only a few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What incentive do people have to answer questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two reasons that I know of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People have helped me in the past. I was grateful and I want others to have a similar experience: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I learn things from a place like this that I wouldn't learn by myself (e.g. people ask questions on topics that I didn't know existed). Therefore, I want a place like this to exist and to be used, which will only happen if people participate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T16:07:19.520" />
  <row Id="16268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T16:15:08.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it's more like a &quot;forum&quot; you don't have a good reason to discuss about stuff but having so is really fun. To be honest I can't be arsed to write a 100 lines of answer unless it's something I'm fanatical about, &lt;strong&gt;but potentially all of those answers written by people who are fanatical about the subject anyway&lt;/strong&gt;. (Jon Skeet is fanatical about C# so got plenty of questions to answer for him)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points are useless but adds a feeling the whole thing that you are appreciated and accomplished something. This is a really old trick, and all of the games doing this since arcade days. You don't feel like wasting your time, even though sometimes you are really wasting your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time is overrrated, all developers spend their time to lots of useless stuff, spending an hour on SO is so much better than watching some stupid youtube video, or trying understand WTF is a lolcat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T16:15:08.723" />
  <row Id="16269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T16:21:30.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How do intelligent programmers the world over find time to answer everybody's questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are coffee-breaks, lunch-breaks, weekends and evenings. And then there are the times your manager isn't looking.... ::ahem::&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What incentive do people have to answer questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is it that helpful guiding spirit within all of us that powers this community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Desire to share, learn, be acknowledged, be part of something. I think (hope) that the reputation-driven goals will fade as time goes on -- people will build up to a certain amount of rep, and then see that it doesn't make much difference anymore. 10 pts is a lot to somebody with less than 100. It's less than 1% to somebody with more than 1,000. And to somebody with 10,000??? Not much at all. Significance or In- aside, I do hope the growth of a body of knowledge will be a better driver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that reputation is not part of that -- rep-points are a quick-look to see how good a given answer &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be -- the answer from a 10,000 user could be better than an answer from a 0-rep user -- or it could be that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48710/alan-kay&quot;&gt;Alan Kay&lt;/a&gt; just joined up to answer his own quote.... Over time, though, it is the up-voted answers that are (probably) correct and useful -- but that builds reputation, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NB: am I driven by reputation? As of 01/05/2008 I'm more than 100, less than 1000; you bet it feels nice to see an uptick in my rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149237" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T16:21:30.583" />
  <row Id="16270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T16:25:28.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see several reasons for answering Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human beings are genetically programmed to help. We are social animals and need interactions with each others. Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow stimulates this basic need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For me, Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow also provides a way to measure how skilled or not I am (or helpful), categorized by topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It can also be used as a selling argument, like a personal blog, when running a microISV or in an interview situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons for asking questions or reading others' answers are mainly for learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T12:35:28.360" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T12:35:28.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T16:25:28.440" />
  <row Id="16271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T16:37:07.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because people are generally good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141675" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T16:37:07.480" />
  <row Id="16272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-05T16:39:20.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a question of time: when you're blocked in coding and you want to fun in the Internet;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being useful to people is ever a good gain;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sorry, my English deny me to understand this point ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T12:36:38.843" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T12:36:38.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-05T16:39:20.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-01-12T16:56:15.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find the challenge of answering questions gives my brain a nice work-out, and helps me remember stuff I know but don't necessarily use regularly in my own job.  I will do more when I am not busy, or am bored, and less when I am busy and engaged in something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-12T16:56:15.760" />
  <row Id="16274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-02-27T18:01:10.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it's a fantastic way to learn more about a programming language.  Even the simple questions can make you think about some aspect of the language you had never really used.  And once you're curious, there's no cure but to go learn about it.  Even when you do know something, you'll often read the first couple of (brilliant) answers, and realize that you've been doing it wrong the entire time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's really a selfish thing; the more active you are, the more you get out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158962" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:33:48.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T18:01:10.320" />
  <row Id="16275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2009-05-01T09:23:37.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally believe (oh no, I'm starting to sound like a Ms. Teen USA)... I personally believe that all people who are capable should give back to the community. This means either tutoring, mentoring, teaching and in the case of the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interweb#Noun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interweb&lt;/a&gt;&quot; posting answers on Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow or any of the other wonderful community sites like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've all have questions and have not had someone to turn to or a resource to poll. It's frustrating and emotionally draining. And when you're learning something new, working on a continuing increasingly difficult problem, or just need some guidance what do you do? We come here. But what did you do before? Troll around Google looking for answers on various websites. Spending hours and hours before either finding a tape and glue solution or just giving up completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe, that, the Americas, and the world are better because of Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last sentence was due to watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;...  Don't look!  (^_^)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-28T12:38:40.760" LastActivityDate="2011-07-28T12:38:40.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-01T09:23:37.027" />
  <row Id="16276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:18:09.863" Score="54" ViewCount="554" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen (and written) plenty of posts which have been edited by others to correct typos, broken URLs and so on. I think everyone can agree this is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about editing for poor/broken English? I'm a bit of a stickler for correct grammar and spelling (my mother was an English teacher, poor me), but I can foresee this being a sensitive issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the issue when changing the actual wording/spelling of things and inadvertently altering the meaning of the question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this acceptable? Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd particularly be interested in the views of any users who have learned English as their second/third language and do not know it terribly well.  Would you be offended if I edited your post so it uses correct grammar and so on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consensus seems to be that editing for grammar/spelling is fine and to proceed. Thanks to everyone for their input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Also thanks Greg Hurlman for pointing out the shortcomings in my own question :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T09:29:01.713" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T11:42:33.813" Title="Editing for broken English: Acceptable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="16277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:27:10.093" Score="62" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who learned English as a second language, I absolutely wouldn't mind spelling and grammar corrections, and I believe it to be perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially if it means others would have an easier time understanding my posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:28:30.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that if you are sure you are preserving the meaning, it should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if I were putting a question up on a French language site I would prefer that someone unobtrusively makes a few small changes to fix the grammar, than people ignore it because the question doesn't immediately make sense (some people &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; not read a question that they could otherwise answer if it seems too much trouble to get to the meaning).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1612" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T09:34:05.630" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T09:34:05.630" />
  <row Id="16279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:30:26.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, please do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:31:06.120" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I speak English as a second language, spanish being my native one. I wouldn't really care if you corrected me; in fact, I'd love it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is: some people do not like that. I guess you have to live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might want to clone StackOverflow and call it: &quot;Desbordamiento de Pila&quot; (in Spanish). Spanish speaking users can go there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.D.: But given the current state of some young (and not so young) spanish speaking people, I think that editing for broken spanish written by spaniards (and other Spanish speaking people) will also be a must :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2684" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:33:08.223" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English is my second language. Even though I started learning English in grade school, I don't use it away from my computer or TV nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if in your first language, you can make mistakes. So no, I wouldn't feel offended at all if someone corrected my grammar on spelling mistakes. But that task should be taken seriuosly and responsibly, since I see how some extremely sensitive person could get offended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's for the common good of SO, and to keep a certain quality on the content, I think it should be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="1492" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T18:55:07.903" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:55:07.903" />
  <row Id="16282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:33:10.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing answers is fine, editing comments is &lt;strong&gt;unnaceptable&lt;/strong&gt;.  Some people say there is no distinction between the two.  I disagree.  For example, THIS is a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a discussion about this but it got deleted.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286/&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/286/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148923" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-07T22:18:24.177" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T22:18:24.177" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T00:47:15.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it helps improve the overall quality of the site.  If I sound like a dummy, many TIA for helping me sound literate and competent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T01:02:02.490" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it perfectly acceptable to edit for clarity, regardless of whether English is the primary or secondary language of the original poster. Bad grammar and spelling errors detract from the value of the site because it becomes much harder to understand the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you should leave a &quot;Edited by &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt;&quot; at the bottom of the post. If the  poster doesn't like your changes, then the change can be rolled back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;I agree that leaving a public mark is needlessly embarrassing. If an edit is needed, then the edit reason can be left in the history as others have stated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131680" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T01:04:12.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just do it. If somebody is insecure about grammatical errors they can always edit it back (???).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I wouldn't make it a noticeable edit (noting it &lt;strong&gt;in&lt;/strong&gt; the post). Don't embarrass the individuals whom tends to make errors all of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148918" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T01:07:14.693" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, most communities are adverse to correcting grammatical and spelling mistakes, not only because it would enrage the original author, but it would be a false portrayal of the author's personality. However, Stack Overflow is primarily a Q&amp;amp;A site; therefore I feel that it is perfectly acceptable to edit a post to correct spelling and grammatical mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even so, there should be strict guidelines on what can/cannot be edited, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;basic meaning of the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;style of the writing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;misspellings in code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good idea to send an automated email notification to the original author if somebody has edited his writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136293" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T01:20:07.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, if a question's grammar is so bad that it needs editing to be &lt;strong&gt;understandable&lt;/strong&gt; (rather than just needing some clean-up for ease of reading), then the only person qualified to do that is the original question-asker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're the only one who knows what they meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastEditorUserId="369" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-15T11:42:33.813" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T11:42:33.813" />
  <row Id="16288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T02:39:56.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think you should leave a &quot;Edited by name for reason&quot; at the bottom of the post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow revision history page shows edits and comments already. I'd probably just put something like &quot;Corrected Grammar/Spelling&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It is however not directly visible - you have to click through from the question to see it. Whether or not it's worth putting a note in the actual text of the question itself is probably debatable. I don't think I'd bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Kevin:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Other than your obvious personal disagreement, why exactly is it acceptable to edit answers but not comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T02:49:22.777" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine, but, by &quot;English&quot;, do you mean American English or British English or both? Things like spelling differences, the different rules for using &quot;an&quot;, and treating a company as singular or plural come to mind. We should probably just leave that area alone and never consider the other type broken, but I bring it up just in case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, how do those with English as their second language answer questions that use contractions? In this case, doesn't a question deserve to be edited if it causes confusion on how to answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141919" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T06:05:24.490" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other than your obvious personal&#xA;  disagreement, why exactly is it&#xA;  acceptable to edit answers but not&#xA;  comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are objectionable pieces of information. Comments are just opinions that can be interpreted in different ways.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I would be embarrassed if I ever edited someone's post because of a typo.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148923" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-08-25T07:34:59.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English is my third language and I wouldn't mind if someone would correct my mistakes.&#xA;It's still kind of embarrassing when it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2450" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2008-11-20T00:01:55.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's totally acceptable to edit questions to help make them more understandable. English is my first language and sometimes I have trouble articulating my question, so I don't mind when people clean it up a little. I also participate in Japanese forums and I never have a problem with people correcting my grammar or suggesting more useful ways to phrase questions/posts. Especially if it helps me get useful, valid answers/responses!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a shame that anyone would get offended by this, as long as the edit itself isn't offensive. For instance, if someone added something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT TO CORRECT CRAP ENGLISH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that would be bad and useless, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34218" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:34:50.103" />
  <row Id="16293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2009-01-09T13:04:29.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English is my third language. So yes, I make quite a few mistakes, and I absolutely don't mind people correcting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side, I've had a few of my questions edited where the meaning was changed by the corrections. In this case I would have preferred them not edited. So for the correctors: yes, please correct all mistakes you find, but try not to second guess too much what the initial question was if you don't understand the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140889" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T09:30:19.833" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T09:30:19.833" />
  <row Id="16294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:37:15.680" Score="31" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a guy I work with that gets mad a me for answering questions at work.  I think giving back to the community is completely justified as part of my 20% time.  I've also saved a lot of time by asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is answering questions at work justified?  Or am I really just goofing off on company time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138118" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T13:30:53.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:37:15.680" Title="Answering questions on stackoverflow: Justified at work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="29" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:39:07.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes          .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:39:07.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:39:09.467" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Next time ask him how he dares to look for answers on stackoverflow in company time ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137278" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:39:09.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:40:27.327" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your manager would probably say you goof off on company time, but I say give as you get. If you, and thus your company, save time on questions asked on so, you should give the same amount of knowledge to others as you received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:40:27.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:41:28.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you ask question and get work done via SO, sure. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, if it's all give and no take (very charitable of you, thanks) your company might not be happy having you provide the world technical support on their dime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:41:28.590" />
  <row Id="16299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:43:00.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work in the technical support area for The MathWorks, answering questions about MATLAB is my job.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also always looking for ways to make our user community better, so answering questions here is very much part of my job.  I just wish there were more MATLAB questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46439" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:43:00.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:45:38.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's abusable like anything else, but I know I'm learning as much as I'm helping here so I don't see why it should be a problem for any reasonably forward looking company, no more than spending time on google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; you aren't abusing it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:45:38.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:46:32.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes me think about systems/development related things, and this is good for me and will make me better at my job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:46:32.510" />
  <row Id="16302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:47:42.290" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think giving back to the community&#xA;  is completely justified as part of my&#xA;  20% time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you are working for google you have no 20% time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2361" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:47:42.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:47:48.030" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simple. SO is a peer-based development support resource. If all of our peers were only interested in asking questions, it wouldn't be much of a resource. Therefore in order to maintain this as a useful resource, you must give as well as take. USENET groups work in the same way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative is paid support, and given that MS charge £200 + VAT per support call, suddenly 20 mins a day spent on SO seems financially prudent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, you can't help but inadvertently learn new tricks, techniques &amp;amp; approaches... from a business perspective, it's a no-brainer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:47:48.030" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:51:12.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spending any time doing non-work related things on company time(and company dollars) can be considered abuse.  The issue is defining &quot;non-work related&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you frequently search for and find answers in the community, then I would consider you to be actively supporting a valuable company resource.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;20% may be a bit overkill.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I told my boss that he was spending 30k a year to support stackoverflow, he might be a bit annoyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just be smart about it.  If community work does not interfere with deadlines and bottom lines, then I would say it is justifiable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:51:12.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:51:25.277" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If he's a guy you work &lt;strong&gt;with&lt;/strong&gt;, rather than &lt;strong&gt;under&lt;/strong&gt;, he really needs to learn to mind his own business.  People are much happier at work when they don't appoint themselves arbiters of productivity and fairness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:51:25.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T16:56:51.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has become part of my work nowadays. It is definitely not wasting time and not unethical on our part to spend some working time to help the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had some wonderful people @SO helping me out. This is the sequence that has become more common for me in solving a problem: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Break my head for sometime &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post the question in SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go for a coffee and come back to find the answer !&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27474" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T16:56:51.087" />
  <row Id="16307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T17:00:51.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By answering questions and making comments, I get feedback from other people as well as the chance to prototype my thoughts in prose form before using them at work.  I only answer questions that &lt;em&gt;ex ante&lt;/em&gt; appear useful to me in some way to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133701" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T17:00:51.017" />
  <row Id="16308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T17:06:28.557" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've gotta ask the question, you're likely goofing off and avoiding work and asking the SO community to help you justify that.  However, it can be legitimately used.  I save no end of time researching answers to problems on boards like this.  So I see absolutely no harm in answering questions as I come across them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as it doesn't impede my work and I'm meeting all my deadlines for the various projects I have on the table, my code is good quality and I'm not constantly goofing off, then great - it's a tool just like MSDN but interactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you're being paid by the hour to complete your work (such as a contractor), then morally, should an employer be obliged to pay you to sit on StackOverflow all day long?  Of course not - they're paying you to do a job to the best of your ability.  When you choose to give back to the community is your own decision - but your employer probably won't be as understanding as you'd like them to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do have a far greater potential to get sucked into not working by a whole forum of developers wanting to bounce ideas of others than if it's just a couple of coworkers though... I dunno, I think I'd say it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toss a coin and there's your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T17:06:28.557" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T17:14:07.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if it's a one-way street (just giving), it could be beneficial for your personal development and thus, beneficial for your company. Teaching is a good way to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137769" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T17:14:07.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T17:18:46.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes a community to build a good program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T17:18:46.097" />
  <row Id="16311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T17:37:02.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is posting on SO hindering your work?  If so, then you should really cut back or stop.  If not, tell your coworker to mind his own business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all for being productive, but I dislike the idea that while at work my time is 100% dedicated to working for my employer.  As long as I'm getting my work done and on time, I think I have a right to slack off every once in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T17:37:02.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T18:00:54.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering questions is part of the cost of using StackOverflow. i'd tell him, &quot;Tough.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134633" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T18:00:54.903" />
  <row Id="16313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T18:01:41.783" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are getting your work done on time, then yes.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Otherwise, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T18:01:41.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-16T18:43:10.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do. when others spend 15 minutes at the watercooler on a coffee break or smoke break I tend to take a stack overflow break. I justify them as networking/info sharing/info receiving activities. my use of my break time certainly is more productive than discussing the relative merits of the recent nhl/nfl/nba/nascar/reality tv event from  the weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135862" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-16T18:43:10.933" />
  <row Id="16315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-17T06:59:09.623" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel  you should not spend more than half an hour for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141074" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T06:59:09.343" />
  <row Id="16316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-17T08:37:32.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, getting help from the development community has got me through many challenges in the past. I feel it's only fair that I return the favor. Everything in moderation though. As long as you are getting the work done and keeping your deadlines I don't see why it would matter what you do with your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T08:37:32.590" />
  <row Id="16317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-17T16:06:38.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it appears that you work &lt;strong&gt;with&lt;/strong&gt; this guy versus &lt;strong&gt;under&lt;/strong&gt; this guy, I agree with everyone else in that he should mind his business. Not to try to bring in some lame media tie-in, but I couldn't help of think of this scenario from [the American version] of The Office (sounds like your co-worker is Dwight):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Ethics_(The_Office)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Business Ethics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;At the seminar, Dwight claimed that he never takes personal time during work, so Jim uses a stopwatch to count even the smallest distractions that befall Dwight, such as yawning, sneezing and using the restroom. As a result, Dwight never stops working, restraining himself from speaking when Jim spreads misinformation about his favorite show, Battlestar Galactica, urinating in a soda bottle, rather than using the bathroom, and somehow managing to sneeze with his eyes open. Dwight finally stops caring about Jim's antagonism when he comes back into the office, having sneaked away. Dwight does admit that he is not as ethical as he claimed, and Jim appears happy to hear this and stops using the stopwatch.&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dunno, I found it funny and somewhat relevant =).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T16:06:38.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-19T09:12:32.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just tell your buddy Jon Skeet does it, too. And he works at Google. Oops, I mean, Google works for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141908" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-19T09:12:32.597" />
  <row Id="16319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-22T17:19:09.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I normally test any code examples I give, and that cements my knowledge or shows me where I've gone wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152380" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T17:19:09.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2008-12-22T17:21:26.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no problems with my developers using SO during work.  In my opinion, it is a tool, just like any other.  I actually wish that they would use it more, because it is not just a place to ask questions, but a really good place to learn outside of your area of comfort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147453" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:36:38.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T17:21:26.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-08-21T16:58:23.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.&lt;em&gt;..However it being a subjective question logically I should accept what the majority agree on....&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mmmmm nope!, You don't have to &quot;accept what the majority agree on&quot;  Otherwise, would you jump over the window if everyone in the room shouts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;DO IT!,DO IT!,DO IT!,DO IT!,&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is not a clear answer that satisfy you, then don't pick any. If there is one answer to &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; question, just pick it evn if it has -5 downvotes.  But even better, try not too ask too many &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;subjective questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T16:58:23.887" />
  <row Id="16323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T16:58:45.093" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4766/how-are-hot-questions-selected&quot;&gt;How are &amp;ldquo;Hot&amp;rdquo; Questions Selected?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does StackOverflow generate the &quot;hot&quot; ranking of all these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T17:01:39.153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T17:01:39.153" ClosedDate="2009-08-21T17:17:22.753" Title="How does the &quot;hot&quot; questions functionality of StackOverflow work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;hot-questions&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16184" CreationDate="2009-08-21T17:02:49.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suddenly all his effort estimations are: &lt;em&gt;from 6 to 8 weeks&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-16T06:34:00.743" LastActivityDate="2010-04-16T06:34:00.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T17:02:49.680" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-08-21T17:15:41.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are interested in the number of people who have &lt;em&gt;actively&lt;/em&gt; used Stack Overflow, the &lt;strong&gt;badges provide a good metric&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These users have participated in Stack Overflow in some substantive way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Student - &lt;strong&gt;38699&lt;/strong&gt; (Asked a question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Teacher - &lt;strong&gt;39191&lt;/strong&gt; (Answered a question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Supporter - &lt;strong&gt;32633&lt;/strong&gt; (First up vote)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see that the three badges track pretty closely. It seems like a good measure of how many people have &lt;em&gt;actively participated&lt;/em&gt; in Stack Overflow in some way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't really cover the use case where someone was looking for an answer on Google and &lt;em&gt;found&lt;/em&gt; it on Stack Overflow. User counts (85726) would be more inclusive of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; people who have come to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T17:15:41.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-08-21T17:24:11.180" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;42&lt;/a&gt;           ​&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T03:07:42.840" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T03:07:42.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T17:24:11.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-08-21T17:47:10.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;code&gt;58830&lt;/code&gt; users with reputation greater than &lt;code&gt;10&lt;/code&gt; on StackOverflow.  These users have been upvoted at least once, and are considered contributors the the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select count(id) from users where reputation &amp;gt; 10&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can run this query yourself &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to try it with different numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people anonymously browse this site every day though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T02:57:31.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:57:31.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2009-08-21T17:54:41.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I justify my time spent as SO as a valuable investment for my employer. First of all, the site already contains a wealth of solutions. Second of all, whenever I can't find an answer, I can always ask my question here. Third of all, when I'm answering questions, I'm also exercising my brain cells to think about possible solutions to some problem. Thus, three valuable reasons to spend time here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the amount of time at SO should be work-related. There's no value to me as an employee if I spend all my time here. So I restrict myself to just the quiet work moments. (During breaks or when I have to wait for some other process to finish.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T17:54:41.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T17:54:41.620" />
  <row Id="16343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16346" CreationDate="2009-08-21T18:32:12.933" Score="4" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;My apologies if this has already been requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated, the usernames are either converted to MSO link (If the authors have an account on MSO) or dimmed-out and made into regular text. Could the latter case be maintained as a link to their SO profile instead? Makes it much easier to review their participation in SO and derive some additional input about their motives, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update: Actually, their name should be a link to their account on the site-of-origin, not simply SO.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T18:59:39.990" Title="Migrated Questions without MSO Accts link to SO Accts?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16343" CreationDate="2009-08-21T18:41:18.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea if this is feasible (devinb, where are you?), but i'd like to see it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps user accounts could be automatically migrated if they don't already exist on the target site? I know that's been... problematic in the past, but AFAIK they did work &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; out finally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T18:41:18.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2009-08-21T18:41:21.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've learned more and more quickly by participating in SO over the past year or so than I learned in probably the previous 2 years combined.  FWIW, I'm more of an answerer than an asker.  I learn a lot of things when I answer questions -- both by solving problems and by questioning my assumptions -- even when I know the answer to the question.  Often times I will answer a question and the act of answering the question will force me to learn enough to make the quality of the answer worth upvoting.  The knowledge that I'm gaining is often going directly into improving the quality of my work and of the processes I use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I try to not let SO interfere with getting my work done (right now, for instance, I'm waiting for an upgrade to complete on my main dev box).  So far I'm still getting very positive feedback from my boss with regard to both my work and timeliness.  I have no lack of projects that he wants me to work on either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T18:41:21.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T18:41:21.290" />
  <row Id="16348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16343" CreationDate="2009-08-21T18:51:49.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better: Link the name to a random profile from any of the other three sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; nice is if when they came here, a banner dropped down and said, &quot;Hey, I enjoy cookies, and while I was eating some, I saw that you're &lt;code&gt;username&lt;/code&gt;. I'll bet you came here to find your question/answer that's now here on MSO! Here's a link to claim your MSO account! Welcome to MSO, two drink minimum!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that they can migrate accounts without authenticating via OpenID for this specific domain. You need that key from the OpenID provider, which they don't just give out all willy-nilly. But a notification of how to reclaim your little slice of awesome would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T18:59:39.990" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T18:59:39.990" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16350" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:05:35.890" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way to actually submit the flag for moderator attention. My rep is high enough on SO; the &quot;Flag Post&quot; button appears on the other two kinds of flags. I did start typing an explanation but the button didn't appear even after several words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Please disregard the fact that the question was closed by the time I was finished messing about with this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313535/anyone-have-access-to-the-monotouch-sdk-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/3842719987%5F2ba6cefe68%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30924" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T19:26:53.150" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:26:53.150" Title="Flag Bug: &quot;Flag Post&quot; button for moderator attention is missing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16349" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:07:15.217" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to have at least 10 characters before &lt;kbd&gt;Flag Post&lt;/kbd&gt; becomes visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't explain why you are flagging it, how will the moderators know why you are flagging it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't use at least 10 characters, your explanation would probably be very cryptic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should remain visible, but be greyed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T19:26:12.027" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:26:12.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16349" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:07:57.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design. It won't let you submit until you've typed in 15 characters or one of the other reasons. Therefore, there's no reason to show a button you can't click, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:07:57.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16226" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:11:02.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't ask subjective questions to begin with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:11:02.697" />
  <row Id="16353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16362" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:19:49.980" Score="12" ViewCount="603" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be reasonable if I intend to learn a new language, to ask programming questions that are just &quot;TOO SIMPLE&quot; for anyone who has 6 months or so with the language but are not so obvious at the beginning (first couple of weeks?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the times the answers are a Google away, but sometimes you really have to know WHAT to &quot;google&quot; to get good results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like specific syntax are hard to find in Google for instance (the next thing I want to ask: ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this called in Python:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; [('/', MainPage)]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that an array .. of ... erhm one dictionary? Is that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;() &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tuple? (or whatever they call it?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would take me 5 - 15 mins to find out with:  STFW, but it would take me less tjan 1 minute using Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I would be giving away 25 rep points every time (10 for the upvote, 15 for the accepted answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related question (which does not really answer mine:) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4448/does-so-encourage-developer-laziness&quot;&gt;Does SO encourage developer laziness?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T05:36:27.183" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T05:36:27.183" Title="Stack Overflow for the lazy (newbie) developer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;question-quality&gt;&lt;easy-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:23:12.877" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go for it! Spolsky made a point of this with his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841&quot;&gt;&quot;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&quot; question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow exists to be a canonical repository for all things programming. This includes newbie stuff, too (and/or especially). Feel free to post something that's programming related that you actually want an answer to. Some answerer will be very grateful you did!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:23:12.877" />
  <row Id="16355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:23:36.353" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has always maintained that there is no question too noobish for SO. Just be sure that you are writing the questions as well as you can and not asking people to write code for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:23:36.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:25:07.270" Score="8" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff explains which basic HTML elements are allowed. Near the end he states &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We do not and will not allow table tags -- sorry. This is intentional and by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering what the rationale behind the decision is. I could see the difficulty in getting the &lt;code&gt;tr&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;td&lt;/code&gt; elements to properly close for users not familiar with HTML, and perhaps how tables lend themselves to wasting too much horizontal real estate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not suggesting that tables be allowed in the SO engine, but I would like to know what pitfalls I can expect if I allow my users to enter them in my (soon-to-be-written) application that allows markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134383" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:27:03.123" Title="Why can't table markup elements be used?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;table&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:25:50.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no question too simple for StackOverflow, but I am not going to be one to guarantee that you will be getting any upvotes for them. If the community thinks your questions aren't up to snuff or are trollish in nature, they'll punish you with downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume you are asking this as a hypothetical and not because you yourself are the lazy developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:25:50.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:28:02.617" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just about at the point where I'm going to request that &quot;Google&quot; never be mentioned on SO :) Joel already expressed his desire to see all questions, simple or complex asked on SO. Google indexes SO. If anybody google's a simple question, for our own good, we should hope the user lands on SO. If we continue to forbid simple questions, SO loses out on a massive demographic of young-programmers. Telling users to &quot;Google it&quot; sends them &lt;em&gt;away&lt;/em&gt; from SO, which is NOT what we should be trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, easy questions mean easy rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:28:02.617" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16356" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:28:06.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is because Jeff &amp;amp; Co don't want to deal with the hassles that user-generated tables bring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you can pseudocode tables by using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or code markup, since spaces are respected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;like   this   table&#xA;right  here   .&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malformed table HTML can screw up the site layout pretty royally. And that makes nobody happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T19:39:51.907" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:39:51.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16356" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:28:58.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine the reason is because Jeff &amp;amp; Co. don't want to have to worry about people using undesired markup elements which could potentially blow apart the site's layout. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is probably easier just to say &quot;no tables&quot; then to have to make sure that tables don't screw things up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:28:58.387" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:31:08.413" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please do.  I for one would like to see a lot more experienced developers/SO users doing this.  I think experienced developers with a fresh set of eyes on a new language would add a lot of valuable content to the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:31:08.413" />
  <row Id="16363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16356" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:33:01.763" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; doesn't actually have a markup syntax for tables.  There are some add-ons that do, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PHP Markdown Extra&lt;/a&gt;, but neither WMD nor whatever SO uses server-side supports them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff seems to be of the opinion that tabular data can be represented well enough using code sections so as to accomplish most tasks.  I would imagine the extra expense of supporting and validating tables does not seem particularly worthwhile to the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:33:01.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:42:01.897" Score="1" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to-make-a-stackoverflow-clone&quot;&gt;Am I Allowed To Make a StackOverflow Clone?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am programming a StackOverflow clone. Functions and layout, just for study.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will I have any legal problems? Will there be problems if I release the source code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T22:37:55.463" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:37:55.463" ClosedDate="2009-08-22T06:02:08.973" Title="Will I have any problem making a StackOverflow Clone?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16364" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:44:55.400" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have already been multiple StackOverflow clones, including one written in Django with its source code released on Google code. The only legal issue I can think of is that if you re-use the CSS, you have to credit StackOverflow as the originator as required by &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC-BY-SA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140319" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:45:40.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16364" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:44:56.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this at the bottom of the page: &quot;site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com LLC; user contributed content licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30924" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:45:40.797" />
  <row Id="16367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16364" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:48:47.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't copy the layout, logo and style, but you can replicate the functionality and concepts if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:48:47.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:50:20.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not just a question of what laws are in place, but what laws the respective owners will hold you to. I'm sure Atwood &amp;amp; co. would be more than happy to answer any questions if you just asked them directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:50:20.543" />
  <row Id="16369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-08-21T19:51:13.770" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ruling in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%5Fv.%5FBorland&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lotus v. Borland&lt;/a&gt; answered that look &amp;amp; feel (or &lt;em&gt;method of operation&lt;/em&gt;) is not copyrightable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code is copyrightable.  I assume this includes the HTML, CSS, Javascript that you can see by viewing the StackOverflow pages.  Names and logos can also be trademarked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as long as you write original code, and don't use the trademarked identity of StackOverflow, you could write your own workalike application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133415" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T19:51:13.770" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16377" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:01:43.720" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something that might be kind of cool for questions tagged html, javascript or css would be enabling &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jsbin&lt;/a&gt; type functionality. A user could ask a question, SO notices it's tagged javascript so then the asker could enter some sample html and javascript that demonstrates their question/problem. Then the answerer(s) could each create their own &quot;workspace&quot; to muck around with asker's code.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:13:38.517" Title="Collaborative debugging" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16370" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:03:09.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too localized, SO is not about specific technologies, but programming in general&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:03:09.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16364" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:06:17.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the main problem would be that you might not have a hosting system powerful enough to handle the amount of visitors of SO. With tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of questions asked and answered every day, you would have a problem to make your site scale upwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legal problems are more likely when you take some elements as code or binaries from this or other sites to use on your own site. Something simple as a logo or name could already be a copyright or trademark infringement. Another possible legal problem might arise when you promote your site as the biggest or best forum about  when visitors discover that it only has about 5 active users. And if you mention your site here and at a lot of other locations, you might get in legal problems for spamming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:06:17.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:06:39.183" Score="-2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4637/please-add-a-system-to-allow-file-uploads-attached-to-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;Please add a system to allow file uploads attached to questions and answers.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to upload entire projects in a zip file to SO would it not??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likely there would have to be some form of cap on file size and what not, but I don't think this should cause too much of a problem in terms of additional bandwidth costs, and it would come in handy for a lot of situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:08:13.097" ClosedDate="2009-08-21T20:12:07.613" Title="Ability to upload code samples (ie: entire zipped project)?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16374" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:07:52.600" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody wants to deal with your entire project :) Many are happy to help with specific parts. Specific parts can be pasted in any of the many pastebin services online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young man asked what was wrong with his program earlier today, and posted a link to hundreds of lines of code - I politely encouraged him to be more specific with his description, and code-sample. I  get the feeling this would be the general community-opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:07:52.600" />
  <row Id="16376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16374" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:08:13.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't upload images, I doubt this will be implemented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to upload samples you could use one of the many free storages online&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:08:13.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16370" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:13:38.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Juan said, extremely localized. Having functionality that is only available under certain tags is a bad idea in general. The fact that tags can be switched on a whim makes this even more of an unlikely thing to incorporate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:13:38.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16378" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:23:07.280" Score="10" ViewCount="462" Body="&lt;p&gt;From listening to the SO podcasts, I personally get somewhat of a feeling that there is a bit of a conflict between Joel and Jeff in terms of the revenue model for SO.  Joel seems much more willing and concerned (relatively) about the revenue end of things, whereas Jeff seems to very much have the spirit of free and open source.  For example, Jeff had initially been in favor of open sourcing SO, but Joel argued it would drive the price of hosting some flavor of a SO site down to essentially the cost (which I think is true).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefit of this of course is that you now can have the stackexchange business model retain some pricing power, which is good, and more power to you.  However, imho, the price is a bit steep for someone that wants to run a site moreso as a hobby than as a business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's where my idea comes in.  I think there should be a paypal (or whatever is appropriate) link where SO users can donate to Joel and Jeff.  So obviously this seems like a political hot potato, and I'm quite sure Jeff will be scared to touch the idea.  But as far as I'm concerned, I would personally be &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; than happy to send $20 towards you guys, entirely as a gesture of thanks for the great resource you have built.  I've gotten at least several hunderds of dollars of value out of it, likely well over a thousand.  So in my opinion, Joel, and especially Jeff, should have some more $ in their pocket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, look at it another way.  There are some other feature requests here on meta that seem perfectly reasonable and logical, but have been seemingly declined.  For example, inter-user communications.  Now, several good arguments can be made for legitimately not wanting these features....but also, I can also see a motivation for not doing them as it could harm a revenue stream, such as the job board.  It is my belief that there are more than enough people that would willingly send you money, in exchange for nothing more than they are getting now, that it would totally obliterate any worries you have about harming revenue streams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does everyone think of this??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many are posting that SO doesn't &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; the money, and no, they probably don't. Some have said they must be doing ok, they've hired more developers, and others have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8208/does-so-sf-mso-and-su-make-enough-support-from-ads/8236#8236&quot; title=&quot;pointed out&quot;&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt; that they are making more than enough on job postings.  And this may be true...but think about it, say they're looking at $40k plus/month in job postings...thats a LOT of money.  But then think, if they have 4 developers....a moderately good developer makes $10k per month, so that pretty much takes care of the jobs board revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After years and years of seeing people making frickin millions building crap or useless websites, it would make me feel good, like maybe there actually is some justice in the world, if I could hear on the SO podcast that they got a million bucks in donations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if Jeff feels bad about this idea (which I'm sure he will), make the donations fully public....so if some people would donate money, but only until J and J have, say, made a million off of SO, then donations will slow at that point, consistent with the values of the users.  Personally, I'd send $20 a year in just cuz I love the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Even better justification&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the $ to hire more programmers and implement some of the things that have been approved and made it onto the todo list.  Maybe some things that were turned down because they were too intensive....one thing I know Jeff would love to spend some money on some day is a monster server so he wouldn't feel so jealous of plentyoffish!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130390" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T22:18:04.933" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T22:18:04.933" Title="Add a paypal link to accept donations.....?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;donation&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="16379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:25:08.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Stackoverflow is making more money than you think.  They have 3 employees after-all and are going to sell the Stack-Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:25:08.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:26:24.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have apparently been able to do well enough to hire a small number of developers full time, so I don't think they are exactly hurting for money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that note, I think if Jeff and company want to accept donations, they should put it on the blog or something away from the sites themselves so that it doesn't scream of &quot;please help support us&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that note, if anybody wishes to donate money to me for making your lives that much more joyous, I will be more than happy to post my PayPal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:26:24.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:28:30.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you take a look at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8208/does-so-sf-mso-and-su-make-enough-support-from-ads/8236#8236&quot;&gt;post by balpha&lt;/a&gt;, you can see that SO makes quite a bit of money just counting the job board. I doubt they're really in desperate need for money, otherwise I'm sure they would have solicited donations from their users by now. Plus with StackExchange being released soon, I'm sure their revenue is well under control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:28:30.997" />
  <row Id="16383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16389" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:34:11.470" Score="-5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest SO to friends almost on a weekly basis &amp;#8212; some of whom have joined, and really enjoy it. Would it be out of the question to consider referral-links, which award the referrer with a &quot;Recruiter&quot; badge after two or three friends have joined, and reached a reputation of 100+?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps these badges could be named &quot;Recruiter&quot; or &quot;Scout.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-13T07:00:00.543" LastActivityDate="2010-09-13T07:00:00.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T20:34:11.470" Title="Badges for referral links" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:35:43.557" Score="-1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, this is kind of pie in the sky and very low on the priority list....but have you ever thought of having the ability to translate a code snippet from VB.Net to C#?  The online conversion tools generally work remarkably well for this.  It may be a bit controversial offering something targetted only to specific languages, but I don't know if anyone would get that upset, would they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A cheap way to do it would to contact one of the third party vendors, tell them to write the API, and you can just embed into the SO UI for anything tagged C# or VB.Net.  In exchange, you will show a &quot;translated by xyz&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:22:44.757" Title="Automatic translation of code examples between VB.Net and C#" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="16385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16384" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:37:56.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the enormous list of languages posted on SO, it would seem pretty wild to give special attention to building a feature like this for two of them. If your question is on VB, ask about VB. Besides, many .NET developers can figure one from the other - might be good if they have to study it rather than copying it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:37:56.033" />
  <row Id="16386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:39:12.660" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been suggested in blog comments before, and I think Jeff declined it - I think he doesn't like the idea of taking money from users even if they're happy, which is a laudable attitude. How long would it take to go from &quot;I donated money because I love the site&quot; to &quot;I donated money, how about this feature?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect Jeff and Joel will both accept liquid donations at DevDays though :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative suggestion: the podcast recently needed a sponsor, and might do so again. Is there any easy way we could collectively pitch in to help on that front? I'd be very happy to do that. (Boo hiss no podcast this week.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:39:12.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16384" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:41:33.140" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most every .NET developer who would want this will normally (at least one of):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be able to at least &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; both (even if they only write in one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;know how to use Reflector&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a preferred translation tool&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(rare, but sadly real) treat the &quot;other&quot; language with distrust and disdain, and ignore anything by a programmer from that field&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm never convinced that &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; trusting translation is a good idea (there are things that doesn't translate well) - so why bother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides which... room here for a grease monkey script ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:41:33.140" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:41:58.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I  think they are already doing quite well, Jeff doesn't say any more that he is paying the other devs 'virtually nothing'. Especially  the recent discussion of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;using Google AdSense vs. hand-selecting the ads themselves&lt;/a&gt; gave me the impression that the business model behind stackoverflow seems to be paying off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So unless Jeff and Joel indicate otherwise, I don't think there is a need for supporting the site with money. We all are already contributing by providing content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:41:58.893" />
  <row Id="16389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16383" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:45:20.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if implemented - most recommendations for a site are going to cause the listener to just type the site name into their browser (either navigate or search). I doubt the referral link would be used in reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also ties into the discussion about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2716/amazon-affiliate-tags&quot;&gt;affiliate tags&lt;/a&gt; - if readers &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; treat &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; as spam, wouldn't they look at your link as spam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But please keep recommending the sites ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:45:20.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T20:45:20.790" />
  <row Id="16393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16383" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:46:01.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=Pusher&amp;amp;medal=silver&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=The%20first%20taste%20is%20free&amp;amp;medal=bronze&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=The%20first%20cut%20is%20the%20deepest&amp;amp;medal=bronze&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T21:29:44.383" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T21:29:44.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-21T20:46:01.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16397" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:56:33.047" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know where I should post questions regarding linux commands such as grep, find, top, ...?  Should they go on Stack Overflow or Server Fault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133828" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T21:24:05.020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T21:24:05.020" Title="Where questions about linux shell commands go?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="16396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16394" CreationDate="2009-08-21T20:58:26.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they would be better suited at &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T20:58:26.397" />
  <row Id="16397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16394" CreationDate="2009-08-21T21:03:20.053" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generic commands ls, grep, etc: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Network admin commands arp, netstat, etc: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;full on scripting awk, sed, etc: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T21:03:20.053" />
  <row Id="16398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16394" CreationDate="2009-08-21T21:09:11.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pretty much agree with the split EBGreen has suggested, however, since there's a pretty big overlap between all the sites on this I would suggest that questions are left on whichever site they originate unless they're very out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130790" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T21:09:11.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16404" CreationDate="2009-08-21T21:33:28.587" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;My more general question is what is the best close-reason for questions you feel are rep whoring or just simply unwarranted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually they are poll-style questions like: &quot;When did you start programming?&quot; or something like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP only &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; meets all the criteria of a question but you feel it shouldn't be on the site nonetheless (see the above example). I often find myself looking for a &quot;Misc&quot; reason to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:02:58.340" Title="Close Reason for Poll Questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="16400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15896" CreationDate="2009-08-21T21:34:08.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remove the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; from under the down arrow, display the images as blocks and center using margin:0 auto. Remove the top margin of -5px from class favoritecount. Change the specificity for class vote-favorite and use a top margin instead of bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.vote img {&#xA;   cursor:pointer;&#xA;   display:block;&#xA;   margin:0 auto;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.favoritecount {&#xA;   color:#808185;&#xA;   text-align:center;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;img.vote-favorite {&#xA;   margin-top:10px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130361" LastEditorUserId="130361" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-21T22:02:32.867" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:02:32.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16399" CreationDate="2009-08-21T21:35:10.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just go with your gut. For instance, just because the question says &quot;When did you start programming&quot; I would not consider it programming related. It isn't about how to program. It is not solving a programming problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T21:35:10.020" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16399" CreationDate="2009-08-21T21:35:28.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said repeatedly that I hate blatant poll questions. I hate them more than questions that actually have extended discussion (something that tends to be more frowned upon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love if there was a &quot;closed as poll&quot; reason so I could go and start murdering some posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T21:35:28.180" />
  <row Id="16404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16399" CreationDate="2009-08-21T22:02:58.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not a real question&quot; fits the bill pretty well, so long as you consider a &quot;real&quot; question to be one where the OP actually wants an answer vs. merely a list of responses + votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:02:58.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2009-08-21T22:05:00.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elementary questions are fine here.  Duplicate questions aren't.  I don't care if you don't STFW, really, but you should at least try to search the S? you're posting on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:05:00.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T22:07:14.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://techdirt.com/rtb.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TechDirt&lt;/a&gt; implements a payment system which will allow visitors to become &quot;more special&quot; members of the site. Paying for TechDirt gives you access for some previews of upcoming stories, a t-shirt if you pay a bit more, books when you pay even more and if you're willing to pay them $100 million, you can even force that site to close up forever. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting concept which works because people who pay can get some additional value from the site. Having a t-shirt with the StockExchange logo on it would be cool. If that t-shirt also shows the badges that I've earned, it would be even better. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:07:14.510" />
  <row Id="16407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26726" CreationDate="2009-08-21T22:31:07.880" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't ask about how to answer a question, but make a comment on people's question or answer. Because, I didn't see any comment button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134397" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:05:10.427" Title="How do I comment on people's question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16407" CreationDate="2009-08-21T22:32:26.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need at least 50 rep to comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: or at least at one time you did...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130292" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:32:26.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16407" CreationDate="2009-08-21T22:35:20.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need 50 rep to post on other people's questions and answers on other people's questions. You can comment on answers to your own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:35:20.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16407" CreationDate="2009-08-21T22:35:59.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 50 rep to comment on SO, 1 to comment at MSO. We have low standards here. We even let TheTXI be a moderator, so it shows you how seriously we take this place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T22:35:59.663" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:03:47.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over at The Daily WTF, I've had a few readers request the same thing: a donation button so that they could show their support. I know a lot of different sites have it... but for some reason, it never &quot;felt&quot; right to me since the site is ad-supported. Seems like you should have one or the other, but not both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how much you can make from donations (PBS and Wikipedia seem to do ok), but if they were comparable, I'd prefer &lt;em&gt;responsible&lt;/em&gt; advertising because I feel there's a value-add for three parties (reader + sponsor + author) instead of just two (reader + author).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for showing gratitude... a &quot;thank you&quot; email goes a long way. A &quot;thank you&quot; letter (snail mail) goes even further. A freakin &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Souvenir-Potpourri-The-Steak-Dinner.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;steak dinner&lt;/a&gt; basically makes your &lt;s&gt;day&lt;/s&gt; month and means so much more than a PayPal donation of several times the cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:03:47.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:05:26.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bah - &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; owe &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; money!  Digital frikkin' sharecroppers my aNO CARRIER&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:05:26.827" />
  <row Id="16413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16415" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:29:15.437" Score="0" ViewCount="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any option about filtering Questions in different ways?&#xA;if yes, How ?&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;if No, Please read following&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;I think there should be an option for an advance search in SO. ( I am just suggesting )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example.&#xA;I want to find out&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A question having tag about UISearchBar &amp;amp;&amp;amp; having more than 2 Votes || Answered By Sir Skit || Having bounty &amp;amp;&amp;amp; Bounty &gt;100 &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A question having more than 100 views ? &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A question having more than 10 answers ? &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this kind of facility SO Provides, their users might find out information, quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason behind this,&#xA;&quot;There will be no repeat question.&quot; - (As user can find out the info. easily).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:33:21.997" Title="Question Filtering Feature Request" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:33:08.037" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ode to tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say pygtk doesn't compile for you on osx due to an obscure automake error. Would you send it to the python mailing list? or perhaps to the gtk mailing list? etc. No, you ask it on Stack Overflow and give it all the relevant tags!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contradiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hey, does it belong on Stack Overflow, or on Server Fault. It's related to programming but you are installing pygtk because you are the sys-admin, so maybe it should be on Server Fault, but on the other hand, one might face this problem when trying to install it for his personal reasons, so maybe it can belong on Super User?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the split to several &quot;topic sites&quot; goes against the philosophy of tags. Perhaps there's a better solution than splitting to different sites, one that is consistent with the tags philosophy. Maybe like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of splitting to different &quot;topic sites&quot; (SO/SF/SU/MSO), create &quot;master tags&quot; (programming, sysadmin, power-user, meta-stackoverflow). Each question &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; have at least one master tag. Users can not create &quot;master tags&quot;, they are &quot;fixed&quot;, or decided by the site admins, to maintain order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is only interesting in viewing power-user questions, he'll view the questions belonging to the &quot;power-user&quot; master tag (currently he goes to superuser.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the example question (the &quot;python gtk osx automake&quot; question), it may belong to all three master tags mentioned (or maybe there would be parent master-tags, like &quot;computing&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may also give more freedom to the site's admins to easily extend the scope of the SO family websites. Perhaps they would want to also allow science questions, or even heated political debates, in this awesome platform. In this way it won't require separate domains and accounts, and would allow the users one convenient gateway to the &quot;internet questions world&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comparison to current solution and backwards compatability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, this solution can be implemented in a totally backward compatible way. Everything in SO gets assigned the &quot;programming&quot; master tag, etc.&#xA;The topic sites can resume to exist as a site where the default shows question of their respective master tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asking a question, it can get a default master-tag from the domain you used to access the site. Tag auto-completion is only offered for tags that &quot;belong&quot; to this master tag (A tag can belong to several master tags. It belongs to it if any question was asked with this tag in that master-tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't see how this will cause clutter as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff suggests&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, if you limit a question to have only one master tag then imho this is (almost) exactly equivalent to the current &quot;topic sites&quot; solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only difference is that karma will be shared. But if this is seen as a bad thing then this can be solved too, with master-tag specific karma. This idea can be extended to tag specific karma as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134400" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:33:11.473" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:33:11.473" Title="&quot;tags philosophy&quot; vs the SO/SF/SU split" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16413" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:33:21.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can look at the advanced search options which will allow you to do many of the things you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:33:21.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:37:54.640" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is mentioned on the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why Can’t You Have Just One Site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no (good) community that can form around “let’s just talk about everything and tag it”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with Jeff on this. There's a more fundamental problem than just organization. An online society, just like its physical counterpart has a dominant culture. It  shapes the society. At best, you can use tags to separate content but they can never separate the culture effectively and I believe SO, SF, SU, and MSO each require distinct social norms to be effective. Merging everything in one location, even if they are separated by tags, will degrade the overall quality of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T00:32:28.363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T00:32:28.363" />
  <row Id="16417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:41:17.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with having a single system that is just run on tags is that all these tags can get shifted and changed and merged and removed and all sorts of other mechanics that makes the tagging system too &quot;light-weight&quot; to allow for real structure to form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't sure where to post, post it on the one you think might be the best and if you're wrong, &lt;strong&gt;we'll tell you, and even more it for you!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:41:17.253" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16423" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:44:38.603" Score="4" ViewCount="442" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can login fine using IE and FF, but with Opera when I get redirected back from the Google login page, I'm still not logged in.  I looked through the tips at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&quot;&gt;I Cant Log In With My OpenID  Troubleshooting Tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; but they don't apply or seem to have no effect on my setup (which is quite vanilla, actually).  I'm using Opera 9.64 on Vista... any further troubleshooting tips?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: The Vista system is a work computer.  At home I run Opera 9.63 (almost same version) on Ubuntu 9.04, and this issue does not occur.  I'm pretty sure my home system has similar preference settings (cookies etc).  I also have a VirtualBox setup with a Windows 2000 system, with Opera 9.62 on that also (can you tell I like Opera?) and that setup also works.  I upgraded both of these to 9.64 and I can still log in without issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134396" LastEditorUserId="134396" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T07:31:14.580" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T07:55:37.450" Title="Cannot login with Opera and my Google OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:44:46.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you have an underlying misunderstanding regarding what differentiates the sites. The distinction is between the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;, not between &lt;em&gt;who you are, and what you do&lt;/em&gt;. It doesn't matter if you're a sysadmin, a software engineer, or an average Joe; if it's a &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; question, it belongs on Stack Overflow. If your question deals with &lt;em&gt;computers and software&lt;/em&gt; but not the &lt;em&gt;workings&lt;/em&gt; of computers and software, it belongs on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site distinctions also serve as an important filter between topics. If I come from google looking for help with cooking, I'm not going to have great expectations if the site it brings me to is also filled with cars, books, and furniture on the homepage. The sites are a &lt;strong&gt;League of Justice, and should not be considered a single entity&lt;/strong&gt;. The sites are a family, and each member of the family &lt;strong&gt;is its own person&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it's far too late to merge all the sites into one, especially considering a cool $10k was paid for SuperUser.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:44:46.920" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="16421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16418" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:51:52.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you run Opera in &quot;safe mode&quot; and disable all customizations / preference overrides?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this before with users who manipulate their cookie settings in Opera to non-default values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:51:52.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:54:49.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is... &lt;strong&gt;People suck at tagging.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They make up new tags instead of using existing tags. They misspell tags even when the entry field prompts them with the correct spelling. They paste the title of their question into the tag field. They pick a single tag matching the specific tool they're using and leave it at that. They pick ambiguous names for tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That SO's tagging system works as well as it does can be credited to the ability and willingness of many experienced users to &lt;em&gt;re-tag&lt;/em&gt; questions. But many, many questions are initially posted with - at best - a poor set of tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, think about what you're suggesting: we &lt;em&gt;dramatically&lt;/em&gt; expand the scope of the site, relying on tags to keep disparate topics apart. It immediately descends into chaos, as the increase in questions overloads those willing and able to retag them, and the body of poorly-tagged questions pollutes every search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe you do what you suggested, prop up the system by requiring users to choose a tag that roughly categorizes their question prior to posting: &quot;programming&quot;, &quot;hardware&quot;, &quot;sysadmin&quot;, etc. You modify the browsing UI to allow quickly switching between tag-filtered &quot;views&quot; (rather than requiring users to modify their &quot;ignore&quot; list every time they switch from, say, programing-focus to hardware-focus). You modify the reputation system to allow keeping and displaying per-tag rep. You beef up the database server to handle the extra load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after all that work, you have &lt;em&gt;essentially&lt;/em&gt; the system we have now, but with the ability to cross-post built-in. Congratulations, you've just pissed away a lot of time and effort you could have done something useful with...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-21T23:54:49.053" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16418" CreationDate="2009-08-21T23:57:20.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, make sure you have cookies enabled/accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;F12&lt;/kbd&gt; and go to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Advanced &gt; Network&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uncheck &lt;strong&gt;Enable automatic redirection&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then go through and login with your OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See if that works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible reason why this fix works&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it has something to do with Opera not liking the various redirects happening &quot;behind the scenes&quot;. When you manually click through each of the redirect pages, it's reminding Opera to stay on session and to not drop the cookies when moving between StackOverflow and your OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T07:55:37.450" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T07:55:37.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16425" CreationDate="2009-08-22T00:35:01.733" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an effort to build up knowledge on SO, I sometimes ask generic questions about obscure informatics things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1314743/what-is-name-mangling-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1314743/what-is-name-mangling-and-how-does-it-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175506/design-patterns-not-in-the-gang-of-four&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175506/design-patterns-not-in-the-gang-of-four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1204078/what-happens-when-you-run-a-program&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1204078/what-happens-when-you-run-a-program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, answers rightfully report links to very detailed wikipedia articles, or webpages containing everything and the kitchen sink about that specific argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if it makes sense to ask such questions when the argument is so extensively treated on the pedia? Should we aim at collecting knowledge on SO regardless of other sources, or not ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T01:15:13.063" Title="Is asking wikipedia-questions good or bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;wikipedia&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16424" CreationDate="2009-08-22T00:47:33.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking questions and then answering yourself is not disallowed and is encouraged (even though some members of the community will frown upon it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is a legitimate topic and the information you post is from Wikipedia, there isn't anything generally wrong with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would suggest, however, is you don't just link to Wikipedia and you at least make an attempt to include other sources of information as well (if not your own personal knowledge). We don't want to just be blatant content copying sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; I may have misread you at first. I thought you said that you were wondering about posting questions and providing your own wikipedia-sourced answer. My comments concerning the wikipedia answers should still hold, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T00:47:33.047" />
  <row Id="16426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16428" CreationDate="2009-08-22T00:48:44.997" Score="9" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought I was going to see a graph about how Stack Overflow was trouncing Experts' Exchange and grinding them into the ground. Well, they are but &lt;strong&gt;I also see something unexpected&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throw away your preconceived notions for a moment and take an unbiased look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/us-versus-hyphen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this graph posted over at blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/google-search-rank-stackoverflow-vs-hyphens.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a site which &lt;strong&gt;was losing viewership &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; before Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; came along. But more interesting is that, about the time Stack Overflow started, EE received a &lt;strong&gt;stay of execution&lt;/strong&gt; from their free fall. Maybe even a bit of a lift. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This graph clearly suggests that EE is about to be overtaken. I wonder if their one-year+ &quot;bump&quot; in viewership had anything to do with Stack Overflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a renewed interest in this market space prompted by the new player?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has Stack Overflow given EE a bit of unanticipated publicity by &quot;calling them out?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has all the side discussions that you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; get EE answers without paying made them more relevant again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Insert witty conclusion here -- I got nothing.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T02:13:10.613" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T22:59:07.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T15:11:47.550" Title="What does this graph tell *you* about Stack Overflows' effect on hyphen-site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14729" CreationDate="2009-08-22T01:05:45.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please reconsider.  If I type a username into the search box, it should match on user accounts first, and question content second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134407" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T01:05:45.247" />
  <row Id="16428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16426" CreationDate="2009-08-22T01:07:16.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your last question makes the most sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has all the side discussions that you can get EE answers without paying made them more relevant again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this graph (or one like it) turn up on Digg, reddit, and Hacker News several times in the past year.  The comments always include the information that Expert's Exchange &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; include the answers at the bottom of the page when Google is the referrer.  This sort of discussion seems to have spread the word that you don't really need to search with &quot;-site:ExpertsExchange&quot; anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the publicity they've gotten from the emergence of SO has helped them in the short term, but we can all see where this graph is headed.  SO will overtake EE very soon.  I predict that within one more year (and maybe sooner) the EE line in the graph will have continued on its downward plummet again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T01:21:09.763" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T01:21:09.763" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16424" CreationDate="2009-08-22T01:15:13.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely don't think you need to include the preamble&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I ask this question not because I don't know, but because it appears to be missing on SO and it can be an interesting question for googlers. Actually, I am oblivious of some details of the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That just clutters up the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think it's worth asking questions that don't already appear on SO, even if you know the answer already.  However, if all you have to add is a link to and a quote from Wikipedia, I'd say just ask the question and don't answer it.  Let others provide the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T01:15:13.063" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T01:45:48.973" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1024/tags-on-answers&quot;&gt;Tags on answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if you'd ever be able to add tags to answers to extend the reach of a question. For example, I answered a question today on continuous integration on SO and would like to have been able to add a hudson or cruisecontrol tag as part of my answer, but that functionality does not exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize for this second post, as a I typed 'comments' as opposed to 'answers' in terms of what I would like to be able to tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131888" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T01:45:48.973" ClosedDate="2009-08-22T01:56:04.653" Title="Will you ever be able to add tags to answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16426" CreationDate="2009-08-22T02:28:01.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that the increased traffic at EE as a result of SO is because SO users are searching for answers that result in EE hits.  I can tell you that many times I have gone to google looking for an answer to an SO question and clicked on an EE link (I always kick myself after :)  But, perhaps many SO users go to EE in search of information they use to answer questions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastEditorUserId="130201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T03:54:52.363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T03:54:52.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2009-08-22T02:46:18.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely post your &quot;simple&quot; questions here - just make sure that they are very well written.  A well written question should get upvotes, which will rank it higher in the system, meaning it will likely be higher on the &lt;em&gt;internal&lt;/em&gt; search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More over, Joel and Jeff want this to be a reference site where any programming question can get answered.  If we have lots of nice, clear questions on here about simple programming questions (the sort that every noob has), and also very clear answers in response to these questions, then we have increased the pool of knowledge and (hopefully) made things easier for beginner programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the question gets closed as a duplicate, it will still stay in the system, because it will link to the other open question.  This is good for seo, because it means that there are more keywords linking to the site.  This is why the duplicates don't get removed from the system, just closed - its all about trying to help as many people hit the site as we can get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T02:46:18.773" />
  <row Id="16437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T03:28:55.973" Score="20" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been stated previously that duplicates have their uses. They sometimes indicate that a particular question couldn't be found with however the user searched for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now while merging is often useful it seems like it destroys the duplicate, which to me seems to diminish the &quot;wide net&quot; aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At moderator's discretion, it might be worth merging the answers but leaving the duplicate as a locked, empty question that points to where the answers have gone. The original question wouldn't need a link back to the empty, locked version. But this way you still get that linkage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-30T15:27:18.033" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T15:27:18.033" Title="When merging questions, leave the duplicate one as a placeholder" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-08-22T03:32:39.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/895/imagen8.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you *&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T03:32:39.320" />
  <row Id="16439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16437" CreationDate="2009-08-22T03:39:45.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a risk of merging not really duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1315025/rounding-to-even-in-java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1315025/rounding-to-even-in-java&lt;/a&gt; ( where we both were minutes ago ; )   Is not a real duplicate of the linked question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is about rounding to an specific number, the other is to an even number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they're related, they are NOT exact duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The risk of having them merged is that one of them would be unfairly unanswered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T03:39:45.593" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16437" CreationDate="2009-08-22T03:43:16.023" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd rather see a redirect from the original URL than an empty, answer-free question. Yes, it acts as a sign-post when a given query fails to turn up the final destination... but it's also &lt;em&gt;one more click&lt;/em&gt; for users to go through. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, i'd rather see a redirect for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions closed as duplicates. I mean, come on - i have things to do, time-consuming &lt;em&gt;ultimately pointless&lt;/em&gt; things, why make me postpone them by clicking twice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T03:43:16.023" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16437" CreationDate="2009-08-22T04:20:08.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that something needs to be done concerning merged questions. I've merged only a few things since being a mod on SuperUser and Meta, and even as a mod it can be kind of confusing when something starts disappearing like that. Having some sort of stub that would either let you know it was merged or do an automatic redirect would be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T04:20:08.383" />
  <row Id="16442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16426" CreationDate="2009-08-22T04:31:47.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda wonder if there's a copyright suit brewing:  EE's just buying their time looking for enough EE content to show up on SO.  Because of course that does happen.  Conversely, the reverse happens as well.  Also, everything we all understand about DMCA Sec. 230 says it wouldn't get anywhere.  But still...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T04:31:47.377" />
  <row Id="16443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16077" CreationDate="2009-08-22T04:55:26.300" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In times like this I love the greasemonkey script for blocking a user.  You'll still see the downvotes, but at least you don't have to see his other abrasive behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T04:55:26.300" />
  <row Id="16444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16023" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:10:18.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is indeed an old left over &quot;trick&quot;, of removing the trailing S. I took it out of the code and will deploy later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T05:10:18.157" />
  <row Id="16445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:12:29.993" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default view for the Users page is by all-time reputation. Now I don't have a problem with that but every now and again (moreso on UV) you got topics that seem to be premised on it essentially not being fair that high rep users... had high rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also the occasional hand-wringing incident about what would happen if Jon Skeet suddenly stopped contributing. He'd still have all this rep, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I largely dismiss those concerns but just today I was thinking: since the barrier to entry at the high end is now so high and even though reputation is certainly no measure of expertise, standing or quality it is a useful tool for recognizing contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should have another view of reputation on the Users page which is a rolling window. For example: reputation gained in the last 6 months. Pick whichever window you think would work best (suggestions welcome). It will let users see highly active users if they so wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a variant of this on the tag info pages where you can see who has been the most active over the last month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T05:14:37.050" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T05:15:09.370" Title="Please add a new sort order option for the Users page: rolling reputation window" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16426" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:19:45.110" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's because of Joel and the Podcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know you could skip down past the ads to the answers until Joel mentioned it on the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks Joel, I love that site now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T22:59:07.320" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T22:59:07.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16445" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:24:27.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been a proponent of different sortings and rankings on the users page, so this seems to fit in nicely with other ones that I have proposed in the past (such as ratios on answers to questions, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if only we could get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T05:24:27.893" />
  <row Id="16448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16426" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:39:37.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps is the fact It got interest from other audicences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://listverse.com/2007/08/01/top-10-silly-website-names/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://listverse.com/2007/08/01/top-10-silly-website-names/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to not lose on that regard, Jeff have registered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://expert-sex-change.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://expert-sex-change.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T05:39:37.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-22T05:39:48.423" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:42:18.823" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I requested a point recalc on stack overflow earlier today by flagging one of my posts and putting a request in the notification and I don't know if it's happened yet. I haven't noticed a drastic change in my points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way I can tell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As long as this is up can some SO mod recalc for me and let me know? Thanks!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastEditorUserId="131570" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T05:59:45.873" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T06:36:46.717" Title="How do I know if my points have been recalc-ed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="16450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16445" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:45:15.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this a lot. It could help give newer users exposure, which is increasingly helpful as the site ages. As time goes on it becomes almost impossible to reach the first few pages simply because the users before you had such a large head start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I like Jon Skeet's idea of reputation as a function of rep per day (was brought up regarding something completely unrelated). Now it could use a bit of work with regards to adding a minimum age restriction, but that's easy to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select id, reputation, &#xA;   (LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60) as days_on_site,&#xA;   reputation / ((LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60)) as rep_per_day&#xA;from users&#xA;where (LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60) &amp;gt; 2&#xA;order by reputation / ((LastAccessDate - creationdate) / (24 * 60*60)) desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I can almost guarentee this feature request won't be considered simply because there are several basic errors in the user list that are &lt;em&gt;status bydesign&lt;/em&gt;, for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T05:45:15.950" />
  <row Id="16451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16449" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:48:30.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there's any way of being able to tell outside noticing a difference in reputation. That being said, a notice if you have been recalc'd would be incredibly helpful to users unaware of the feature (I think it has been suggested before).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a mod sees this hopefully they'll respond to you directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T05:48:30.777" />
  <row Id="16452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16449" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:48:41.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally if you see your score dip without any notifications, it is likely part of a recalc. Most recalcs end up with a lower rep, so that is the quickest way to tell (although not the most accurate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the most efficient way would be to ask for a moderator to email you when they actually do the recalc so you can be sure it was actually done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T05:48:41.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16426" CreationDate="2009-08-22T05:56:44.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aw you mean I answered all those questions on EE for nothing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be serious though. I can't exactly say what made me stop going to that site or why I find StackOverflow so much more appealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T05:56:44.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-22T05:56:44.710" />
  <row Id="16456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16449" CreationDate="2009-08-22T06:36:46.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, 'cos I'm telling you now ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done. Damage: -521 (I've seen worse...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re any delay - we're not always online, but we try to keep the ♦ gaps to a minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T06:36:46.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16426" CreationDate="2009-08-22T06:36:54.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching for an answer for Superuser I have looked at the EE answers at least a couple of times, if my behaviour can be extrapolated to more users that would explain it a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T06:36:54.457" />
  <row Id="16461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13078" CreationDate="2009-08-22T07:36:26.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done... lets hope we're right ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;updating post history, 2200 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 1554 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;merge of [winapi] and [win32] complete!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T07:36:26.957" />
  <row Id="16462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16463" CreationDate="2009-08-22T07:54:10.557" Score="1" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit (or maybe a lot) specific, but I want +&lt;kbd&gt;retag-request&lt;/kbd&gt; -&lt;kbd&gt;status-completed&lt;/kbd&gt; -&lt;kbd&gt;status-declined&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...if you see what I mean, to look for straggling retags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering if there is anything I can put in the search to get this. But it isn't worth writing anything extra (i.e. this &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a &lt;kbd&gt;feature-request&lt;/kbd&gt;), as it isn't too hard to look through them manually (and there are better things to spend development time on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:00:25.787" Title="Can I do complex tag searches?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16462" CreationDate="2009-08-22T08:00:25.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request+-status-declined+-status-completed&quot;&gt;Yes to &lt;kbd&gt;retag-request&lt;/kbd&gt;, no to &lt;kbd&gt;status-completed&lt;/kbd&gt; and no to &lt;kbd&gt;status-declined&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:00:25.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16445" CreationDate="2009-08-22T08:02:58.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This relates to an idea from a long time ago about a &quot;per month&quot; reputation league table. The &quot;per tag per month&quot; stats make that slightly less &quot;new&quot; than it would be otherwise, but I suspect that it would be used a lot more than the per tag version, partly as it would be somewhat more discoverable (how often do people really look at a single tag?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea might be a &quot;reputation today&quot; page. This would serve two purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provide another way of seeing where you are in respect to the reputation cap (without going to the envelope and then explicitly clicking today to get round the time oddity). For this reason, I'd suggest that just like the tag stat pages, your own number should always be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Give more visibility of the competition for accepted answers beyond the rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downsides:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still aimed at mostly &quot;high end&quot; users, even if they don't currently have high rep; I've said before that improvements which impact the casual user (you know, ~90% of the traffic) deserve more time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do we really need even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; focus on rep? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:02:58.900" />
  <row Id="16465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16467" CreationDate="2009-08-22T08:20:04.420" Score="-1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple. Someone shares their opinion about a topic and is making it's clear it's just an opinion, not an answer. (Then again, opinions are a kind of answer too.)&#xA;Now, would it be okay to downvote opinions when I disagree with them or not? In my opinion, downvoting should be done to show the bad answers. But an opinion can't be bad, since it's just an opinion. Just like an opinion can't be good and thus we shouldn't upvote either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just my opinion, btw. If you agree or disagree, leace a comment. Don't vote for this one! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:39:13.477" Title="Downvoting opinions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;opinion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16384" CreationDate="2009-08-22T08:22:44.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the problems with this is that often code posted on Stack Overflow isn't complete code - it's snippets. It's not entirely rare for it to be missing a bracket or two as well (not that I would &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; post without compiling; certainly not ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often the exact translation will depend on context, and having an inappropriate translation seems worse to me than not having a translation at all. Add to that the problems where some constructs won't even &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; a direct translation etc, and I really don't think it's worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:22:44.757" />
  <row Id="16467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16465" CreationDate="2009-08-22T08:27:17.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we talking about Meta or SO (or another site)? Is this an opinion which actually has technical impact and could lead someone down a path you think is going to cause problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On Meta, downvotes are &lt;em&gt;often&lt;/em&gt; used as &quot;I don't like this idea&quot; which seems pretty reasonable. Meta is almost entirely subjective anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On SO, I'd be more reluctant to downvote in this way. A comment explaining the disagreement would normally be fine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's an &quot;opinion&quot; which gives misleading information (&quot;In my opinion, Java passes objects by reference&quot;) or which could be deeply damaging then I think it's reasonable to downvote. Still leave a comment though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On SU and SF I don't know what the conventions are. I'd expect SF to be mostly like SO, and SU to be somewhere between SO and Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:27:17.697" />
  <row Id="16468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16465" CreationDate="2009-08-22T08:27:40.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why the hate for down votes? (sarcasm)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinions may not be &lt;em&gt;'wrong'&lt;/em&gt; in your strictly defined context, but they certainly can be  uninformed, irrelevant, or just plain asinine.  Let the down votes flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:27:40.737" />
  <row Id="16469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16465" CreationDate="2009-08-22T08:39:13.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am more inclined to downvote an opinion if I not only disagree with it, but &lt;em&gt;violently&lt;/em&gt; disagree with it. This happens, but it's ... rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say feel free to downvote but only when you feel very, very strongly that it is necessary. I would discourage people from casual downvoting whenever possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:39:13.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-26T13:47:51.677" Score="26" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;People have made some website to keep track the reputation more easily, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6936/using-what-ive-learned-from-stackoverflow-html-scraper&quot;&gt;Grant with is Python Script&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;nobody with PHP&lt;/a&gt;. The problem is that both require to go on another webpage. Not a big deal I know but well. Here is a desktop version to keep track of the &lt;strong&gt;Recent&lt;/strong&gt; Answer/Question you have written. This little program is great for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/317809/stackoverflow-10k-club-how-to-followup-post&quot;&gt;keeping track of reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/4033/sotrackerhn6.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What it does?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It simply takes your ID member in parameters and will go between x and y minute to your profile page to check if your reputation has changed. X and Y are the second and the third parameter of the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;code&gt;StackOverFlowReputationFollowup.exe 13913 3 6&lt;/code&gt; will check for my ID and randomly check between 3 and 6 minutes to StackOverFlow.com. Once it has noticed a change in the reputation count, it will goes to the recent page (this is to limit hitting Stack Overflow for nothing), take all questions and check the difference between the last time it checked. This will build the list you see in the screenshot above. The window is at the corner left side and will shrink the display to show only changes, so when nothing happen, only your reputation is shown. When you double-click the question, your browser move you to the page of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Goal?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to stop hitting Stack Overflow manually to follow-up activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to know the exact reputation you have (once you are over 10k you do not quickly know your reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The secondary goal could be that you could put the ID of someone else and check all his/her activities. This way you can be a follower of Jon Skeet and see what he answers all day without having to check ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Code&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code is in C# 3.5, the project has been compiled with the Express Edition. Now, the code is at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeplex.com/stackoverflowreps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodePlex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Binary (last version is 1.2 of 16 dec 2008)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get the lastest binary go at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeplex.com/stackoverflowreps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodePlex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Video of the application&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a video. I have fast forward to make it faster and less boring, no voice and the result is fake, I have used a proxy to change the vote by displaying back to the Reputation Tracker a static page with +1 vote. Here is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09GmpSdMBmQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:43:33.663" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:43:33.663" Title="Real time reputation tracker" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16470" CreationDate="2008-11-26T13:53:39.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm glad you aren't polling 10 times per second.  Script responsibly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:49:50.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T13:53:39.387" />
  <row Id="16472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16470" CreationDate="2008-11-26T14:21:54.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great, it works! Have a little hard time to find the link to download from the link you gave but it's all fine. Thank for sharing. +1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:49:50.490" />
  <row Id="16474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-01T17:16:58.320" Score="4" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since SO's question database is becoming an excellent first point of call for finding answers to coding problems, some people (like me) might like to be able to fire up searches from their iGoogle home page, among the other searches you might launch from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created a very simple gadget to do this, and put the source below. My hope is that this might provide a foundation on which community members with better ideas for performing this function, or ideas for enhancing it, can update it. Perhaps we could make it configurable to search via a site scope search from Google and / or a question search, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've hosted and registered this first version but if anyone makes changes and can host a new version / new pics elsewhere, please feel free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;Module&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;ModulePrefs title=&quot;Stack Overflow Search&quot; &#xA;    author=&quot;Community Wiki&quot; &#xA;    author_email=&quot;nullpointer@stackoverflow.com&quot; &#xA;    author_affiliation=&quot;Stack Overflow&quot; &#xA;    author_location=&quot;The Internet&quot; &#xA;    author_aboutme=&quot;All sorts&quot; &#xA;    author_link=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot; &#xA;    author_quote=&quot;Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.&quot; &#xA;    description=&quot;Stack Overflow is rapidly becoming one of the best resources for finding answers to your programming questions. This gadget adds a question search box to your iGoogle homepage&quot; &#xA;    screenshot=&quot;http://arkios-solutions.com/misc/sogadget/SOGadget.png&quot; &#xA;    thumbnail=&quot;http://arkios-solutions.com/misc/sogadget/SOGadget_Thumbnail.png&quot; &#xA;    singleton=&quot;true&quot; &#xA;    title_url=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;Content type=&quot;html&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;![CDATA[&#xA;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/stackoverflow-logo-250.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stackoverflow Logo&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div style=&quot;font-family:arial;font-size:0.8em;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;This gadget allows you to search the Stack Overflow question database.&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;form name='SOQueryForm' action=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot; method=&quot;get&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Your question: &amp;lt;input type='text' size='34' name='q' /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;input type='submit' value='Go' /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/form&amp;gt;&#xA;]]&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/Content&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/Module&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The source / installable gadget xml are also hosted &lt;a href=&quot;http://arkios-solutions.com/misc/sogadget/sogadget.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137240" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:32:55.850" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:32:55.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T17:16:58.290" Title="iGoogle Stack Overflow Gadget" Tags="&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;google-gadget&gt;&lt;igoogle&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16474" CreationDate="2009-03-01T17:40:17.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest this be added to “What Third Party Tools Exist To Use With Stackoverflow?” question.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22039" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:50:29.333" />
  <row Id="16476" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-14T12:34:16.763" Score="8" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to follow your reputation points in the KDE system tray, you might want to take a look at the BitBucket page of the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitbucket.org/richert/sotray/src/tip/sotray.py&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow KDE System Tray&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.richert.de/free/sotray/sotray.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requirements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;KDE4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PyKDE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just need to set &lt;code&gt;USER_PAGE&lt;/code&gt; to your StackOverflow profile page and start it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And because it was not a question up to this point: What do you suggest how the program could be optimized? So far it definitely does not support Jon Skeet's rep points because of the size limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; With unicode support and dynamic font scaling (Jon Skeet support)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:29:56.633" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:29:56.633" Title="Watching reputation points in the KDE system tray" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;kde&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16476" CreationDate="2009-05-14T12:38:33.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First improvement might be to show both the stackoverflow + serverfault rep points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19629" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:50:54.577" />
  <row Id="16478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16476" CreationDate="2009-05-14T12:38:58.420" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best optimization would be an alert saying &quot;You are going nuts to follow your rep in real time, shut this down and take some big fat holidays with your girl...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or make a GTK GUI so GNOME people can enjoy it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137564" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:50:54.577" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16476" CreationDate="2009-05-14T12:47:58.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty cool, how often do you refresh your information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131636" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:50:54.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16476" CreationDate="2009-05-14T13:58:51.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the license? I'd like to write a GNOME equivalent and your Zip provides no COPYING or LICENSE file - nor does the source have a license at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155511" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:50:54.577" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-09T23:12:16.300" Score="12" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using my incredibly shoddy PHP skills, combined with my staggeringly shallow knowledge of WordPress I've put together a Widget that shows Name, Gravatar and Rep in an XBox Live &quot;GamerTag&quot; style display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's using a screen scraper as I couldn't see a better way to do it, but hopefully it should work for most people. I initially created it as something to use myself, so haven't done a huge amount of testing, but if anyone has ideas/fixes/problems/anything else feel free to post :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details and download &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/01/09/stack-overflow-wordpress-widget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; -  I’ve made a few changes in response to a few comments, and also removed the little place holder and badges in there.  It takes into account badges that have been awarded multiple times, so it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be the same as your SO page :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit Again&lt;/strong&gt; - I've uploaded v2.0.0 to Wordpress. It implements caching and uses the StackOverflow JSON feed, rather than the old screen scraping method. This cuts the load on the SO servers, reduces the data transferred to your blog and should make it less fragile if the SO guys decide to rework the look and feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:29:15.700" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:29:15.700" Title="StackOverflow &quot;GamerTag&quot; WordPress Widget" Tags="&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16481" CreationDate="2009-01-10T16:39:58.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Minor, But couldn't see a reason why &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$gravatar = str_replace(&quot;[HASH]&quot;, $hash, $gravatar);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is needed, why not just&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$gravatar = '&amp;lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Gravatar&quot; src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/'.$hash.'?s=48&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; height=48 width=48 /&amp;gt;';&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also i think your missing an underscore on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;target=&quot;new&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:51:07.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16481" CreationDate="2009-01-12T09:57:07.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the HTML standard, there is no &quot;_new&quot; as target, there's only _blank, _self, _parent, or _top. So it should be target=&quot;_blank&quot; instead ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:51:07.070" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-14T03:19:13.257" Score="5" ViewCount="602" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used the idea from &lt;em&gt;&quot;StackOverflow badge to show in your blog&quot;&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to develop a small WordPress plugin to show your SO reputation and badges on your WordPress weblog sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's awfully lacking some graphic design, style, color, etc. I also thought of adding the user avatar, and images for the  different badges. But it's working so far, and it's pretty late and I have to get some sleep. But I'll add the stuff I mentioned tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was quite an interesting PHP challenge. Hope someone finds it as usefull as me (already showing it off on my blog :P ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested: &lt;a href=&quot;http://picandocodigo.net/programacion/wordpress/stackoverflow-reputation-wordpress-plugin-english/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Download it here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:31:46.617" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:31:46.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T15:11:55.260" Title="StackOverflow WordPress Plugin: Sidebar Widget" Tags="&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16484" CreationDate="2009-01-14T04:11:07.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not showing any of my info but, it's a good start.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unkwndesign.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.unkwndesign.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:51:27.087" />
  <row Id="16486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16484" CreationDate="2009-01-14T06:37:37.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already put one together:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430104/stackoverflow-gamertag-wordpress-widget&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430104/stackoverflow-gamertag-wordpress-widget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:51:27.087" />
  <row Id="16487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-17T20:54:24.197" Score="16" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by few wordpress plugins here. I have developed a wordpress sidebar widget which will let you show your favorite stackoverflow questions in the sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more and download the plugin from my blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codegeeks.net/stackoverflow-favorites-wordpress-widget&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Its 2:00 AM now so I will add the source code soon. My PHP knowledge is less so if anyone is interested they can work more on it :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments, Suggestion, Complaints are all welcome :)&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.codegeeks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/stackoverflow_plugin.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:28:50.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:28:50.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-18T05:25:36.107" Title="Stackoverflow Favorites wordpress plugin : Sidebar Widget" Tags="&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16487" CreationDate="2009-02-24T08:35:58.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't look like you can configure the username etc from the admin interface? If you need some code to do that, feel free to cut+paste it from my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430104/stackoverflow-gamertag-wordpress-widget&quot;&gt;shoddy attempt&lt;/a&gt; at a plugin :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:51:43.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-24T08:35:58.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16487" CreationDate="2009-04-28T06:04:44.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used my widgetifyr.com tool to turn your widget into a more full featured widget. You still need to edit the stackoverflow user id, but you can change the title. I eliminated the iframe as well so it should fit more easily into peoples theme. It actually works as is for me even though I don't have the star images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;?php&#xA;    /*&#xA;    Plugin Name: favorite stackoverflow questions&#xA;    Plugin URI: http://www.widgetifyr.com&#xA;    Description: Displays favorite stackoverflow questions&#xA;    Author: Glenn Bennett&#xA;    Version: 1.0&#xA;    Author URI: http://www.widgetifyr.com&#xA;&#xA;    */&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    // We're putting the plugin's functions inside the init function to ensure the&#xA;    // required Sidebar Widget functions are available.&#xA;&#xA;      function widget_favstack_init() &#xA;          {&#xA;          /* Your custom code starts here */&#xA;          /* ---------------------------- */&#xA;&#xA;          /* Your Function */&#xA;          function favstack()&#xA;          {&#xA;&#xA;        	  /* Your Code ----------------- */ &#xA;&#xA;        	  $content = file_get_contents('http://www.codegeeks.net/SOF/SOFF.php?userid=25202');&#xA;    if ($content !== false) {&#xA;       // do something with the content&#xA;       echo $content;&#xA;    } else {&#xA;       // an error happened&#xA;       echo &quot;Unable to read favorites&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;        	  /* End of Your Code ---------- */&#xA;&#xA;          }&#xA;&#xA;          /* -------------------------- */&#xA;          /* Your custom code ends here */&#xA;&#xA;          function widget_favstack($args) &#xA;          {&#xA;&#xA;          	  // Collect our widget's options, or define their defaults.&#xA;        	  $options = get_option('widget_favstack');&#xA;        	  $title = empty($options['title']) ? __('FavStack') : $options['title'];&#xA;&#xA;        	  extract($args);&#xA;        	  echo $before_widget;&#xA;        	  echo $before_title;&#xA;        	  echo $title;&#xA;        	  echo $after_title;&#xA;        	  favstack();&#xA;        	  echo $after_widget;&#xA;          }  &#xA;&#xA;          // This is the function that outputs the form to let users edit&#xA;          // the widget's title. It's an optional feature, but were're doing &#xA;          // it all for you so why not!&#xA;&#xA;          function widget_favstack_control()&#xA;          {&#xA;&#xA;        	// Collect our widget options.&#xA;        	$options = $newoptions = get_option('widget_favstack');&#xA;&#xA;        	// This is for handing the control form submission.&#xA;        	if ( $_POST['widget_favstack-submit'] ) &#xA;        	{&#xA;        		// Clean up control form submission options&#xA;        		$newoptions['title'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['widget_favstack-title']));&#xA;        	}&#xA;&#xA;        	// If original widget options do not match control form&#xA;        	// submission options, update them.&#xA;        	if ( $options != $newoptions ) &#xA;        	{&#xA;        		$options = $newoptions;&#xA;        		update_option('widget_favstack', $options);&#xA;        	}&#xA;&#xA;        	$title = attribute_escape($options['title']);&#xA;&#xA;        	echo '&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;label for=&quot;favstack-title&quot;&amp;gt;';&#xA;        	echo 'Title: &amp;lt;input style=&quot;width: 250px;&quot; id=&quot;widget_favstack-title&quot; name=&quot;widget_favstack-title&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; value=&quot;';&#xA;        	echo $title;&#xA;        	echo '&quot; /&amp;gt;';&#xA;        	echo '&amp;lt;/label&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;';&#xA;        	echo '&amp;lt;input type=&quot;hidden&quot; id=&quot;widget_favstack-submit&quot; name=&quot;widget_favstack-submit&quot; value=&quot;1&quot; /&amp;gt;';&#xA;          }&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;        // This registers the widget.&#xA;        register_sidebar_widget('favorite stackoverflow questions', 'widget_favstack');&#xA;&#xA;        // This registers the (optional!) widget control form.&#xA;        register_widget_control('favorite stackoverflow questions', 'widget_favstack_control');&#xA;&#xA;      }&#xA;&#xA;      add_action('plugins_loaded', 'widget_favstack_init');&#xA;&#xA;    ?&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible for you to just return a list. That usually seems to work best for widgets. Also a limited number of favorites would be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:51:43.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-28T06:04:44.363" />
  <row Id="16490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-20T11:25:16.033" Score="4" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made a nice little &lt;a href=&quot;http://drupal.org/project/stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Drupal module for Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. Currently it enables display of the Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main advantage to just embedding the flair through JavaScript or iFrames is that this module uses Drupal's APIs for theming and caching, so it'll be faster and more performant, and in addition it should be a bit easier to set up instead of using custom blocks with raw code in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future I'll add the ability for each user to fill in his Stack Overflow/Server Fault/SuperUser ID and have his flair(s) show up on his user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the module in action and find more details in &lt;a href=&quot;http://mikkel.hoegh.org/blog/2009/introducing-stack-overflow-module-drupal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my blog post about it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bugs, suggestions, etc. should be posted in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://drupal.org/project/issues/stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;issue queue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is not a question, but there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228759/stackoverflow-windows-taskbar-notifier&quot;&gt;precedence&lt;/a&gt; for posting Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/558672/stackoverflow-favorites-wordpress-plugin-sidebar-widget&quot;&gt;implementations&lt;/a&gt; here under the so-tool tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66851" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:28:39.337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:28:39.337" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-20T11:25:16.033" Title="Stack Overflow module for Drupal" Tags="&lt;so-addon&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="16491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:31:32.460" Score="6" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a very quick Google Desktop gadget to track a user's reputation on SO.  It takes only a user's ID (user name &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; work) and shows the current reputation and gives notifications (if enabled) on any changes. It occurred to me that it might be useful to others here both for tracking and if you wanted to know how to create a gadget. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://soreptrack.googlecode.com/files/soreptrack-1.3.gg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Download the gadget&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adamcabler.blogspot.com/2008/10/stackoverflow-gadget.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A few notes about creating it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145199" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T09:28:18.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:28:18.510" Title="StackOverflow Google Gadget" Tags="&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;google-gadget&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16491" CreationDate="2008-10-09T17:46:17.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cool idea, but it's not working for me so far...  It just sits there with my name in the window but doesn't show reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:25.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16491" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:09:24.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice little widget AdamC. It seems to be wiping out/stealing my login cookie though. I have to re-login now when I come back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:25.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16491" CreationDate="2008-10-10T06:38:38.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just updated the gadget to parse the rep from the location that seems to be more standard.  The new download is &lt;a href=&quot;http://soreptrack.googlecode.com/files/soRepTracker-1.4.gg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145199" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:25.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16491" CreationDate="2009-06-16T18:13:45.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just created a corresponding gadget for the iGoogle website. I just did this in half an hour now, so the gadget is not perfect at all (yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=files.getdropbox.com%2Fu%2F10936%2FgadgetHosting%2FstackoverflowProfile%2Fprod%2Fstackoverflow.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can add a preview to your iGoogle site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have it on the page, you have to set your stackoverflow user id to make it work. Note, this is just a preview (let's say beta). There is no proper exception handling, so be patient. But actually it is really simple, I took the code from the stackoverflow &quot;flair&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drop me some comments on what you like/dislike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bye&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130634" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:25.227" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:36:48.787" Score="21" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I see a question and a humorous answer to it. Sometimes it makes me laugh, and I'm tempted to up-vote it, even if it doesn't really solve the problem stated by the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I have even bigger doubt: Should we down-vote funny answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T08:56:41.443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:56:41.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-09T18:41:53.020" Title="Is humor allowed in answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:38:30.780" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Humor should be allowed if they are answering the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody posts something just to be funny, for the sake of being funny, but doesn't answer the question it should be down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:39:05.197" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend only downvoting unintentionally funny answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148633" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:39:30.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that while humour is nice to see, these humourous answers should be provided as Community Wiki answers and yes, they should probably be either voted down or not voted on at all, otherwise they will detract from the real purpose of this site. However, we shouldn't ban humourous responses because we all need that unexpected chuckle every once in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-09T18:39:30.077" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:40:11.247" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it answers the question, then sure.  If the answer is just snarky or sarcastic, then save it for Digg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T13:15:19.687" />
  <row Id="16501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:42:01.930" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good lord I hope so, otherwise my reputation is about to drop into the basement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:44:00.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if it's funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" />
  <row Id="16503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:51:17.760" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To address your first question: The answer is &lt;em&gt;THEIR&lt;/em&gt; answer, and it will solely their choice whether or not to include humor (or attempts thereof). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address your second question: That's entirely your call, I don't think this needs to be a hard and fast rule. To blanket down-mod &quot;funny&quot; (now you have to quantify 'funny') seems a touch ridiculous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some have argued that &quot;it goes against what the site is about&quot;, but that's just it, it's moderated by the community. Not any one or two or three opinions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I'm of the mindset that I won't mod up unless it is funny. Maybe I read a really,really misguided answer and think that its &quot;funny&quot; in a different way....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the point of user\community moderation is that you moderate what your gut tells you instead of following some pre-described rules or consensus verbatim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rectum? it nearly killed 'em! &lt;em&gt;Bamp-rump-bum&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" />
  <row Id="16504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T18:51:36.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this site is to be used as a serious resource I would have to say yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My selfish reason would be to maintain the integrity of this site as a repository for constructive answers and feedback. If people are rewarded for clever digg/reddit like comments I am afraid the quality of responses will decrease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been very satisfied with the professional level of comments and responses that I've seen here. I look at this as a more accessible alternative to the Experts Exchange. I'd hate to see it move from that to another digg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" />
  <row Id="16505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T19:26:19.547" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is only going to continue to work if people keep coming to use it, so &lt;strong&gt;what's wrong with injecting a little humor&lt;/strong&gt; here and there to keep the process entertaining?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insisting on a no-humor policy will probably have the same effect on StackOverflow that it would have on your place of work:  you're going to go somewhere else at the first opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" />
  <row Id="16506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T19:42:02.370" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Humor is appreciated in technical books and blogs, assuming it's &lt;em&gt;on topic&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;actually funny&lt;/em&gt;. I'd suggest the same bar applies here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150166" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T19:49:42.837" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is a forum for programmers. Humour has always been deeply mixed with programmers' culture. See &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_toc.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The New Hacker's Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;&quot; for an example of how deep this goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly don't see how you are going to get rid of that or why you should want to do so. So, in my opinion humour -- programmer humour -- is certainly welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, completely off topic answers, even if funny, are going to be moderated down. Witty, on topic answer to funny questions are going to be moderated up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uvshock.co.uk/badge.php?label=Witty+Answer&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131112" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" />
  <row Id="16508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-09T19:54:37.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;You can laugh at everything, but not with everyone.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;--  Pierre Desproges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that people cannot see your facial expression and gestures, so not all humor translates properly. Also, people from all over the world come here, and different cultures may not find every joke funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said: If people have a problem with Humor, they should remove the stick from their behinds and relax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" />
  <row Id="16509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:14:24.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the direct questions:  Yes, humor is allowed in answers.  No, funny answers don't need to be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the metaquestion:  I do not vote in either direction based on whether the answer is funny or not.  I upvote helpful and accurate answers and downvote answers which are incorrect or unrelated to the question.  Humor or its absence is irrelevant to this criterion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145993" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" />
  <row Id="16510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16496" CreationDate="2008-11-13T09:38:24.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thought 1: Humour is part of communication, so it can't be excised from communicating an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thought 2: Sometimes the deeper truth is revealed by humour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thought 3: Sometimes funny is just plain worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T08:52:43.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T09:38:24.857" />
  <row Id="16512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16513" CreationDate="2009-08-22T09:31:11.187" Score="0" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to associate multiple Openids with my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I logged out I logged in with an alternative account and created a new account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only later I found out, to associate another openid you needed to be logged in, to be able to associate this open id with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, how do I delete that alternative account and associate the same Open id with my actual account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to merge my reputation and tags in different accounts? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55562" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:35:42.770" Title="Delete a Stackoverflow account and associate multiple openids" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16512" CreationDate="2009-08-22T09:35:42.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;mail the address at the bottom of every page, please include your user URLs for each account (otherwise I'll just have to mail you back and ask you to provide them..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T09:35:42.770" />
  <row Id="16516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T12:07:51.543" Score="3" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a very big fan of StackOverflow, I was just thinking that it would be really great if there was something like StackOverflow for webmasters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did some searching and it seems that there aren't many popular websites for webmasters. At least not as popular as StackOverflow is for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that, on the business side, it should be profitable enough to be considered. The topic is very popular and would not just be among webmasters. A lot of people are interested in this, basically anyone who has a website or a blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many things that can be advertised on such a site (web hosting for example, among other things), that it could eventually be more profitable than StackOverflow and ServerFault. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it can be really useful, there are so many topics related to webmasters, e.g. hosting, search engine crawling, online advertising, SEO, moderation... you name it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T12:51:16.360" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T12:56:23.780" Title="What about something similar to StackOverflow for webmasters?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16516" CreationDate="2009-08-22T12:17:08.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about &quot;Webmastering&quot; isn't programming (Stackoverflow), systems adminstration (Serverfault) or design (Doctype)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T12:17:08.653" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16516" CreationDate="2009-08-22T12:21:53.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you scanned the list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where you can ask questions that aren't programming questions&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WebHostingTalk comes to mind in terms of the hosting side of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you think the venture into a site on very similar topics already covered by SOFU would be more profitable/popular than the original flavour, you could always see how you sell your scoops of icecream when &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; is open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could even better WHT when focussed around the business of sites and SEO and advertising and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T12:56:23.780" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T12:56:23.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16516" CreationDate="2009-08-22T12:56:08.320" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can sort of see what Waleed is getting at here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are definitely webmaster topics that &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; fit (as noted by others in the answers), there are a bunch that don't, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about questions on search engine optimization, advertising, hosting and so forth? These don't fit anywhere in the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T12:56:08.320" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-08-22T12:59:24.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an application I've been building for fun based on the StackOverflow CC data dump. I've created my own API that sits on top of it so it isn't a massive application with all the data sitting in it. I'm wondering if anyone would want to beta. If I could get 4 or 5 people and some feedback maybe it is worth submitting to the app store. If anyone is interested you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ioncannon.net/contact/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never had any beta takers so I went ahead with what I had. It is now live in the app store for those who are interested: &lt;a href=&quot;http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=330493203&amp;amp;mt=8&amp;amp;s=143441&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iTunes link&lt;/a&gt;. I'm still looking for beta testers if people are interested since I have some more ideas and I would like to have input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastEditorUserId="25343" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T14:21:23.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:21:23.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8654" CreationDate="2009-08-22T13:30:52.000" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone just pointed out in a comment that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/285723/c-for-a-c-developer/285819#285819&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; has been CW'ed. Now I'm not so much of a rep whore that this really upsets me, but it seems counterintuitive, as it effectively punishes me for making my answers better. In this case, it seems a bit unfortunate that I apparently disowned an answer with 87 upvotes. (my third-most repped answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the rationale for turning the post CW after X edits, but it seems a lot of good answers get caught in the crossfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of possible modifications to the rules could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the first N edits, instead of turning the post CW, just stop bumping it when it gets edited. I generally edit my posts when I become aware of errors or flaws in the answer. I don't care about getting the post bumped, I just want to make my answer better. So you could just stop bumping them once they reach the N-edits threshold.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use some kind of heuristic to determine whether this is &quot;an attempt to bump the answer&quot;, or of it is a genuine edit. A lot of edits in a short time (say within an hour or two) seems like genuine improvements. And if a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; long time passes between edits, people probably aren't trying to game the system by bumping their posts. Most likely, they received a comment or similar, which made them re-read their answer and update it. But if a post is updated every few days, or every week, it might be suspicious. Of course getting such a heuristic right might be tricky,but at least you've got plenty of test data to experiment with. ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look at how much previous edits have bumped the question. Editing a question which is already on page 1 of the Recent list probably isn't an attempt at getting it bumped. Editing one which has fallen further behind is more suspicious, so that might count towards CW-ificiation. Or perhaps look at how much time has passed since the last activity in that thread. If someone else edited another answer 5 minutes ago, which bumped the thread, then that makes it likely that I simply rediscovered the thread, read my answer, and decided to make a few improvements. And the effect of my edit is almost nil, since the thread was already bumped those 5 minutes earlier. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or perhaps simply add a checkbox when editing: &quot;Should this cause the answer to be bumped?&quot; iF the user checks this, the thread gets bumped, and he gets one strike against his CW limit. Keep doing this and it gets CW'ed. If he unchecks it, the edit is made, but the thread is not bumped, and it doesn't count towards CW-ification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a few ideas. This seems like one of the few cases where SO actually discourages positive behavior. I tend to edit my posts quite a lot, and I think that's a good thing. My answers are better than they would be otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T13:30:52.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15661" CreationDate="2009-08-22T13:59:43.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16522/irritating-hilighting-in-so-comments&quot; title=&quot;gh -ugh, gho&quot;&gt;hi&lt;b&gt;gh&lt;/b&gt;lighting of Asker comments&lt;/a&gt; update, &quot;Transform and Rollout!&quot;, was kind of expecting to see some sort of banner somewhere. Or at least where the notification of Slowest Gun Heads to the Saloon, and direct to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;probably misreferencing this&quot;&gt;Brazil&lt;/a&gt;-type section of, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now that you've broken a threshold, here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15661/too-many-on-the-dance-floor&quot; title=&quot;spot the bird&quot;&gt;a reminder&lt;/a&gt; of your oarsome new rowing powers and how to best paddle your way through the upper echelons of SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T14:08:09.160" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T14:08:09.160" />
  <row Id="16530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16532" CreationDate="2009-08-22T14:25:45.760" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;i often want to make sure i check off questions that have been answered. but there is no way to filter your own view of questions by unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you get sorting (newest, votes, views, etc) but no filtering on unanswered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T15:00:33.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T15:00:33.193" Title="is there an ability to just view my unanswered questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16530" CreationDate="2009-08-22T14:31:14.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can try a few things suggested on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;the Search page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of your own questions that have no answers, you'd want to note these two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;user:1234  posts from a specific user&#xA;answers:1  questions that have a minimum number of answers&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then build up the search string subbing in your info. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:4653+answers:0&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:4653+answers:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T14:36:51.017" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T14:36:51.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16623" CreationDate="2009-08-22T14:41:00.713" Score="1" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;You keep seeing little improvements here and there to the Stack Overflow engine, but apart from the Stack Overflow blog that talks of the major events I haven't heard of a blog-like site that tells you the newly implemented features. Like recently we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy profile from Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments by OP show in a box&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or can we use this question to post updates? .. with little pictures if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-15T11:33:50.523" LastActivityDate="2010-08-15T11:33:50.523" Title="What's new in Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;news&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16534" CreationDate="2009-08-22T14:44:13.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copying across profiles has been there for a long time now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing to note is that when you flag, downvote or whatever pops up a box, it's now more in colour tune with that particular SOFU branch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you're on SuperUser, in which case you're now flapped with a flaming pink flamingo amongst all that blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;4373&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice, the asker batting average of awarding accepted answers appears right below their mugs. Really handy for spotting the users of the system who ask and ask and ask but never bother selecting a best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T10:21:15.260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T10:21:15.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2009-08-22T15:49:02.057" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just want anonymity as a poster because there are some very niche specific questions that I would much rather not have my name associated with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T15:49:02.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16537" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16597" CreationDate="2009-08-22T15:51:25.440" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for &quot;status&quot; and &quot;status-&quot; returns the same results.  To see only the red moderator tags, one must search for &quot;status--&quot;.  Wondering if this is by-design or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5161/captureqcm.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-03T08:51:34.037" LastActivityDate="2010-04-03T08:51:34.037" Title="Trailing hyphen not included in tag search" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T17:43:09.270" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the notification bar is closed, it fades and then disappears. The fade metaphor is gradual removal, but the bar's size remains the same during the fade. It is then removed in one go, which jarringly pops the rest of the page to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would make more sense to either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just instantly close the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Decrease the height of the bar at the same rate as the fade, making the gradual metaphor consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1042" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T00:08:22.020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T01:50:11.657" Title="Mixed metaphor in notification bar close" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16572" CreationDate="2009-08-22T18:13:42.547" Score="6" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that if I want to see unanswered questions, I can only list all unanswered questions, or unanswered questions with a specific tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I try to use the search box in the top-right, it always seems to search ALL questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be more than useful to be able to search unanswered questions only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134441" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T20:08:13.940" Title="How to search unanswered questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16542" CreationDate="2009-08-22T18:18:49.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;answers:0&lt;/code&gt; as one of the search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other search features available, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;listed here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T18:18:49.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-08-22T18:25:49.840" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I'd consider important (I think this is a wishlist thread by now) is a &lt;strong&gt;fallback solution for the Ajax functionality&lt;/strong&gt;. For some reason, Opera Mobile on my HTC (but I think I have seen other users talk about this) doesn't work well with the Ajaxy stuff. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I click &quot;Page 2&quot; on my answer list, I don't get an updated list on the original page, but I get a new page consisting only of the actual questions on Page 2, unstyled. Okay, that can almost be considered a fallback.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I vote on a post, the corresponding arrow lights up and the score is updated, because these two are client-side JavaScript, which works. But the vote is never registered; when I reload, the vote is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I retrieve comments on a post where some comments are hidden, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/ajax-loader.gif&quot;&gt;Ajax loader icon&lt;/a&gt;  appears, but then---nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I click &quot;Add Comment&quot;, instead of posting my comment, the page is reloaded &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a new comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that this is probably an Opera Mobile issue [if someone knows of a fix, I'd be glad to hear], so a fallback solution for this will be a low priority thing. On the other hand, I don't personally care about an iPhone app ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T18:25:49.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T18:29:24.480" Score="2" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to-make-a-stackoverflow-clone&quot;&gt;Am I Allowed To Make a StackOverflow Clone?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I copy SO design, layout and color combination to create a new website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45261" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T04:13:04.813" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T04:13:04.813" ClosedDate="2009-08-22T19:14:48.070" Title="Can I create a website similar to SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16545" CreationDate="2009-08-22T18:33:04.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com llc&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T18:33:04.473" />
  <row Id="16548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16603" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:01:50.750" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I want to sort a user's questions by newest, and then click on a question, and then go back to the user's page, SO resorts by votes instead of newest.  It seems like it doesn't remember my sorting here, even though it does everywhere else.  This is a bit of pain, and it'd be nice if it was more consistant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T00:06:51.053" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T19:00:01.613" Title="Bug in sorting when reviewing questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:02:00.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you use your recent activity page, you can go to the reputation tab, which will show all reputation activity for the selected period. For the OP and today (8/22), this would be the page, for other's sub your userid where the OP's is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/132167?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-08-22&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-08-22&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/132167?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-08-22&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-08-22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:02:00.513" />
  <row Id="16550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:02:47.610" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with less than 15 reputation make up about 40% of users on SO.  Users with less than 15 rep cannot vote at all, even on their own questions and thus can only reward a single answerer   - by accepting an answer - even on their own questions.  I propose that all users be able to vote on their own questions.  We've already seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15493/modified-by-displayed-on-question-screen-instead-of-user-asking-question&quot;&gt;one case where a user explicitly avoided questions&lt;/a&gt; by users with low reputation.  This would help solve this problem by allowing even new users to acknowledge helpful answers by awarding reputation to all that are helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T00:07:49.960" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:07:49.960" Title="Allow voting for new members on their own questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:02:52.400" Score="23" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am annoyed with some editors who edit my questions for no good reason. I consider some people involved in this activity to be dangerously obsessed with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my last question, someone changed 'less expensive' to 'cheaper'. I don't appreciate anyone changing my wording because they think theirs is better. 'Less expensive' is what I want to say and wanted to convey. not 'Cheaper'. My intention was to convey that the alternatives mentioned were expensive TO ME.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So unless there's a misspelling, a grammar mistake, a wrong tag, wrong information or unclear or ambiguous questions, leave my question alone. Otherwise I find this override rude and unnecessary and you are suffering from some kind of an OCD. While SO offers some kind of a WIKI functionality, don't get too zealous with this. A wiki is an informational type of site. SO is for people to get help for their specific issues. The person asking the question know best about the issue and is entitled to have his question. When you are in a meeting, do people talk over you to correct what you are saying or how you say it!? They don't. So why do you think it's OK to do it here? When I ask a question, it's asked for my own good. It's not a work area to exercise your English skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reversed the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T19:39:55.810" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:39:55.810" Title="Unreasonable Editing Practices" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="16552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:04:48.077" Score="0" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not every proposed change is a new feature.  I suggest that on meta, we also allow the tag change-request as one of the required tags when someone proposes a change to an already existing feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:51:47.357" Title="Add change-request to the list of acceptable tags on Meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16551" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:05:47.683" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is&#xA;  collaboratively edited. If you are not&#xA;  comfortable with the idea of your&#xA;  posts being edited by other trusted&#xA;  users, this may not be the site for&#xA;  you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are not going to be able to control whether other users, with sufficient reputation, can edit your question so the best solution -- if the edit doesn't change the semantics -- is to simply learn to live with it.  Feel free to roll back edits you don't like, but if you get hung up on &quot;this is my question, it should read the way I want&quot;, you're fighting the intent of the site and can only end up frustrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T19:22:54.763" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:22:54.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16551" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:06:05.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely agreed that editing from &quot;less expensive&quot; to &quot;cheaper&quot; is trivial and I do not believe should be done. You absolutely can roll the question back to its original state. But be wary of getting into an edit war; if the person seems persistent, flag the post for a moderator to look at and they can lock the post for a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T20:36:16.253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T20:36:16.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16551" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:08:47.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fear that, this being a community site, some moderators will disagree with you and change your posts anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You simply should try to not take it personally, since it isn't, they're just thinking that they're improving the quality of your question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:08:47.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16552" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:09:57.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference in the two is insignificant enough in context of posting something here on meta that I don't think there's a need for both tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:09:57.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16561" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:13:17.090" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following comment I received, got me thinking..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;And half the part of Meta is disproving why feature requests are not necessary. What's the point in having a discussion area for feature requests if all we are going to do is say &quot;Hey good job! You suggested something!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; – TheTXI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...if Meta is designed as an &quot;idea&quot; system to help improve the StackOverflow engine, then why such disdain towards new ideas? To almost everything I've suggested, I've got answers like &quot;its not needed&quot; or &quot;we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do without it&quot; or &quot;this feature has been declined in the past&quot;. So what are we after? To discuss about problems then do &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; about them? I mean whats the point with assessing something, when you have no power to change or improve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't we look at each new idea and think more into the topic? If you think of it, SO itself would have grown from just one little idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T13:31:58.630" Title="Is the purpose of meta to help improve the StackOverflow engine?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;ideas&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16550" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:14:28.057" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a person asks a question with 2 upvotes they will be able to vote on the answers to their questions. If a person asks a question that does not receive upvotes, I'm not sure how important it is for them to be able to upvote. Additionally, it might make it easier to setup shell accounts to gain rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:14:28.057" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16551" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:15:44.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you: In this particular case this was a useless, if not meaning-changing, edit. Unfortunately, that's the nature of a wiki. If a case turns into a problem, call a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, though, who exactly you're talking to when yelling &quot;leave the question ALONE&quot;? Meta is not a hangout for evil editors; the person in question appearently doesn't even have an MSO account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Yes, Rich B, that means I don't consider you evil. Get over it.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:15:44.137" />
  <row Id="16560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16557" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:19:02.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; part of meta.  Another part is to provide an outlet for the &quot;regulars&quot; on the various sites so we don't clutter those sites with &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; stuff that's not really part of the purpose the site itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:19:02.773" />
  <row Id="16561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16557" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:19:44.003" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because people don't like &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; ideas doesn't mean that a lot of good ideas haven't come out of Meta. Look through the &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt; tag at all of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+status-completed&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Look through the &lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt; tag and at all of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug+status-completed&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It's a way for us to voice what we think should change or be the status quo of SOFU, and there's been quite a bit of progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that doesn't mean that this is kindergarten. You aren't going to get a gold star just for suggesting something. Many suggestions are just not ways that Jeff or this community really want to take the sites (a la Twitter integrations/social networking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's always going to be more denials than acceptances. Asi es la vida.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta also exists for discussions. &quot;How do I handle this?&quot; or &quot;What should we encourage?&quot; These are important questions for how we treat new members of the community and how we moderate the sites. Since it's crowd-sourced moderation for the most part, having this outlet is really quite important just to make sure everybody's on the same page. Otherwise, you get close and reopen wars on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T19:25:56.300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:25:56.300" />
  <row Id="16562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16557" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:20:21.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request&quot;&gt;feature requests&lt;/a&gt; on meta that have been well received by the community. And many that have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+status-completed&quot;&gt;implemented&lt;/a&gt;. I believe meta is serving to improve the SO engine. However, that does not mean every feature request will be liked and/or desired by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T13:31:58.630" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T13:31:58.630" />
  <row Id="16563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16551" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:23:07.960" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But you have to get a chuckle out of the fact that John made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1315010/list&quot;&gt;&quot;grammer&quot; correction&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130361" LastEditorUserId="130361" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T19:36:15.953" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:36:15.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16551" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:23:30.627" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that this particular edit was out of line, and there is some members of the community that do get a bit over zealous in their edits. However as already mentioned, flag it for moderator &lt;strong&gt;whenever&lt;/strong&gt; it occurs and if the user is repeatedly doing unnecessary edits and there is a track record the official site moderators can follow, it will be reversed and acted upon with the user directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:23:30.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16567" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:25:12.760" Score="2" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever specified in question title ends up in the URL of the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, if a question contains strong language in its title, there's a strong chance it won't be accessible by people behind Web filtering programs that block pages by looking at the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Example (original revision):&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16551/human-editors-are-becoming-anal-in-their-edits&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16551/human-editors-are-becoming-anal-in-their-edits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Clarification:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not proposing censorship of the title. I don't care whether the title is offensive or not. The issue is some idiot string matching programs that can be circumvented just by stripping a bunch of blacklisted words off the slug. Removing those, even if they were not offensive in that context, wouldn't harm anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T19:49:48.173" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T21:29:40.840" Title="Don't include vulgar words in the URL" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;clbuttic&gt;&lt;slug&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="16566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16565" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:27:58.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This particular sample has already been fixed, and the moderators explicitly check for and fix these when they occur. I doubt we will be able to stop users from posting them in the first place thought. Flag them and a moderator will attend, if you don't have edit rights yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:27:58.247" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16565" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:29:06.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very hard to prevent automatically. User flagging or edits seems to be solution, and that is in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of Mehrdad's clarification, I am not totally against the idea, though I still think that the underling problem should be fixed by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T21:29:40.840" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T21:29:40.840" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16551" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:34:57.437" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I reversed the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the problem then? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To elaborate: the site gives you the tools to correct any bad or useless edits. Even if you don't have the reputation to edit elsewhere on the site, you can always edit or roll back changes to your own posts. That's the privilege of ownership, such as it is on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a look at your question, and frankly I don't see what the big deal is - yes, the edit was pointless (a better use of his time would have been to improve the title), but either way it gets the point across. Don't get so upset; editing is as much a part of SO as asking and answering, take it for what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T21:04:54.417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T21:04:54.417" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16565" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:40:54.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which words are vulgar is highly context -- culture and personality -- dependent.  Any automated system is bound to either be too restrictive or not restrictive enough depending on your personal context.  Perhaps we can agree on some words, but I doubt there would be enough of them to actually handle a significant portion of the existing cases where this happens.  I prefer to let the mods deal with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we already have the offensive flagging option which allows the individual user to use their own judgement in the context of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offensive: &quot;why don't you just jam it up your _ _ _ _&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not offensive: &quot;I'm working on software to control a PET scanner that will be used to detect cancer on or near the anus&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:40:54.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16552" CreationDate="2009-08-22T19:51:47.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the tag was &quot;new-feature&quot; I would agree, but the current tag is &quot;feature-request&quot;. That could be assumed to mean either a new feature or a change to a current feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T19:51:47.357" />
  <row Id="16571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16557" CreationDate="2009-08-22T20:00:50.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably a vetting process.  If you get knocked off your horse, get back on.  The CEO/VP at my company knock down ideas all the time as a way of testing whether the idea was carefully thought through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase Edison: &quot;I didn't fail 10,000 times [to create a light bulb], I found 10,000 ways that didn't work&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134396" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T20:00:50.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16542" CreationDate="2009-08-22T20:08:13.940" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt; search operator, which will (you guessed it) only show questions without accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Full list of advanced search terms here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130396" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T20:08:13.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2009-08-22T20:10:50.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it IS one site :P (it's all in your mind ...) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132619" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T20:10:50.593" />
  <row Id="16574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16565" CreationDate="2009-08-22T20:21:38.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's needed. if a url is blocked you can always visit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16551&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I assume won't be filtered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T20:21:38.827" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16565" CreationDate="2009-08-22T21:10:21.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is needed in the base code.  If you want it, here's some Greasemonkey hotness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           remove vulgar words&#xA;// @namespace      stackoverflow&#xA;// @description    Removes &quot;vulgar&quot; words from SO URLs so that some questions are not blocked by filtering&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function() {&#xA;&#xA;  //the words you want to block&#xA;  var vulgarRegex = new RegExp(&quot;anal|turd|boob&quot;, &quot;g&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;  var a_tags = document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;a&quot;);&#xA;  for(var i = 0; i &amp;lt; a_tags.length; i++)&#xA;    a_tags[i].href = a_tags[i].href.replace(regex, &quot;&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;  var form_tags = document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;form&quot;);&#xA;  for(var i = 0; i &amp;lt; form_tags.length; i++)&#xA;    form_tags[i].action = form_tags[i].action.replace(regex, &quot;&quot;);&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T21:16:23.910" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T21:16:23.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16582" CreationDate="2009-08-22T22:57:11.773" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to do this?  I often forget to check off accepted answers as there is no quick way to filter and just see a list of questions that have been answered but have no accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T23:07:08.757" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:08:06.367" Title="Search for questions that I have asked and not accepted any answers to" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16581" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:00:36.447" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the search feature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ensure it also has an answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0 answers:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After looking at your username, I'd like to clarify that it is &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; for everyone. The fact that your display name is also &quot;me&quot; is just a coincidence. Alternatively, you can replace &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;user:###&lt;/code&gt;, with a userid replacing the pound signs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-22T23:08:06.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:08:06.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:11:00.030" Score="2" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just watching this very interesting video on YouTube called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Learning from StackOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&quot; featuring Joel Spolsky from SO. (Very inspiring webcast - everyone should see it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching that video I came across thinking where SO will be in five years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is soon going to have it's first year on the back but what will be in five or more years on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My assumption/expectations for now are that the SO team will rapidly grow and start to create more Q&amp;amp;A websites for all different topics based on the SO engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about the future of these amazing pages that enhance our daily internet experience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T09:22:55.053" Title="Where do you see SO in five years?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;future&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="16585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16584" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:18:04.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully it will be the same as now, at least in spirit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I fear it will be similar, with more elitism and accepted mockery of beginners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:18:04.350" />
  <row Id="16586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16584" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:25:50.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff explicitly mentioned in a podcast that he doesn't work this way. The longest time frame he can predict is 6-8 weeks :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:25:50.887" />
  <row Id="16587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14559" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:27:18.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14559/mark-the-conclusion-for-every-answered-question#14564&quot;&gt;Pesto&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14559/mark-the-conclusion-for-every-answered-question#14565&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; - a comment by the question owner on the accepted answer is enough.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Low rep users get a helpful reminder to comment on posts they've down-voted - perhaps this can be extended to answers they've accepted.  Or the comment reminder could show up on the first few accepted answers that a question owner makes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:27:18.373" />
  <row Id="16588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16584" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:32:15.913" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;On a boat.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:32:15.913" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14559" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:34:21.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for people making note of the final outcome when they've had to work through some thorny problem with the aid of answers on SO. But canned conclusions don't do it for me; if you have something interesting to add regarding your use of the accepted answer, then &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;go into detail&lt;/strong&gt;! Otherwise, please don't bother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I also think they should be appending these epilogues to the question itself. Cut to the chase, you know? As an added bonus, they can be doing this &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:34:21.247" />
  <row Id="16595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7129" CreationDate="2009-08-22T23:59:34.453" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://doctype.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From their &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doctype is a free question and answer site for web designers. You can get fast solutions to &gt; your CSS, HTML, web design and email design problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For each question, Doctype can generate screenshots of your design on any browser or email client. This makes it much easier for other people to see the problem and help you fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's a member of our &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/stack-overflow-and-doctype/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LEAGUE OF JUSTICE&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-22T23:59:34.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16548" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:07:07.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Side effect of ajax in place (no postback) sorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:07:07.437" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16537" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:11:37.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By design -- we search for both hyphenated and non-hyphenated forms of the tag simultaneously because users tend to enter it both ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:11:37.037" />
  <row Id="16598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16584" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:14:38.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001207.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;we are in this for the long haul&lt;/a&gt; -- and I agree with TM that we want to preserve the community spirit of SO above all else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:14:38.123" />
  <row Id="16599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16600" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:19:20.623" Score="4" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at asking for some help from the SO community in relation to best practices for ASP.NET MVC. I planned on making it a Community Wiki as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when I was typing my title, I was told that my question was subjective and would likely be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely, if this was a community wiki question, then it becomes not a question per se, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;a source of good information&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now I'm worried. If this question is indeed subjective, why, if it is going to benefit others by helping them as well? And if I do create it, I don't want it to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131808" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T03:58:14.347" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T03:58:14.347" Title="Are questions about best practices bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16599" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:21:02.383" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any time you use the word &quot;best&quot; it is generally going to hit a &quot;subjective&quot; flag. But if you are discussing best practice, those are generally much more acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:21:02.383" />
  <row Id="16601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16599" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:38:04.470" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are &quot;best practices&quot; questions &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt;? Not inherently; questions on &lt;em&gt;processes&lt;/em&gt; tend to come up fairly often, and while yes, they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; inherently subjective, there's something to be said for just answering them and getting them out of the way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;By the way: i must congratulate you on choosing to use the Community Wiki feature. This is a category of questions where that flag &lt;em&gt;shines&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That said...&lt;/em&gt; You should think &lt;em&gt;good and hard&lt;/em&gt; before posting a question asking for &quot;best practices&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; what you're after - a practice widely-recognized as &quot;best&quot; that you can adopt as your own, then go for it. All too often though, i see people asking for a &quot;best practice&quot; when what they really want to know is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Given &lt;strong&gt;my situation&lt;/strong&gt;, what are the available solutions to &lt;strong&gt;my specific problem&lt;/strong&gt;, and which one should &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; choose?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the key difference: if you aren't free to make changes, potentially &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt;, to what you're doing and how you're doing it, then &quot;industry best&quot; is irrelevant - you just need something you can use &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;. Perhaps it'll happen to be a Best Practice; perhaps it'll merely be the best of a bad set of hacks necessitated by the particular corner you've been painted into. But regardless, the focus has to be on &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:38:04.470" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15543" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:38:51.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I've said a zillion times (and it's still true!) users have the uncanny ability to ask the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; same questions using &lt;em&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; words in common -- they often use completely different and seemingly unrelated words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Welbog, you're asking for the impossible. You can try google for what you describe (see the bottom of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;) but I doubt it will do any better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why we have and allow duplicate answers and questions, to capture those synonyms. The dupes all link to a master question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:38:51.833" />
  <row Id="16603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16548" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:42:12.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always open the question in a new tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T00:42:12.153" />
  <row Id="16604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16599" CreationDate="2009-08-23T00:58:13.463" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing about &quot;best practices&quot; questions is that they are often incredibly broad.  ASP.Net MVC is a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; topic.   Asking for best practices on that general topic is like asking for best practices on stopping global warming.  You need to narrow the question to an extremely &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T02:39:32.680" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T02:39:32.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16584" CreationDate="2009-08-23T01:38:32.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see SO in five years struggling to figure out how to display Jon Skeet's 8 digit reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, one of the issues Joel raised with searching for programming problems on the net is that search engines get it wrong by giving preference to older answers. You'll also get a lot of outdated answers (his example was that if you searched for &quot;iphone app&quot; pretty much every result will tell you theres no such thing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO doesn't currently have that problem because it's so new but there are tens of thousands of questions tagged c#. What happens in 5 years when you're covering 5 versions (2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 for example). 2.0 to 3.5 had a lot of changes. 3.5 to 4.0 has a few too. What will 6.0 look like? How well will SO handle answers across that many different versions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T01:38:32.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16541" CreationDate="2009-08-23T01:50:11.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I like the Looney Tunes exit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5Fd8ROhH3%5Fvs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo POOF!&lt;/a&gt; Didn't everybody think that when they saw the banner leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T01:50:11.657" />
  <row Id="16609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T03:16:04.230" Score="13" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, this is a really simple one and will be well worth doing IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you put a link in a comment you get something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pretty similar (if not dupe) to&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/410085/…&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  – cletus 1 min ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm proposing that when you post a link to the same site, instead of using an abridged URL, use the question text so the result would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pretty similar (if not dupe) to&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/410085/what-reasons-are-there-not-to-use-openid&quot;&gt;What reasons are there NOT to use OpenID?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  – cletus 1 min ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is much much more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T04:09:14.623" Title="Feature request: when posting links to same site in comment display question text instead of URL" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;auto-linking&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="79987" CreationDate="2009-08-23T03:26:19.013" Score="2" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that using triple-star to apply bold &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; italics doesn't work in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this is ***some*** text&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect that to be rendered in bold and italics, as it does in questions and answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in comments you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;b&gt;some&lt;/b&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-20T11:56:13.417" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T11:56:53.750" Title="Cannot use bold and italic in comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16610" CreationDate="2009-08-23T03:28:12.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We only support a limited subset of markdown in comments, and that one is odd enough not to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T03:28:12.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1475" CreationDate="2009-08-23T03:30:25.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice to be able to retrieve flair data as XML. It would make it easier to customize the way it's displayed, using XSL for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133034" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T03:30:25.060" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16609" CreationDate="2009-08-23T04:09:14.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be nice to have this for internal links in normal posts as well - while it's not &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much extra effort to copy the title in and link that instead of just pasting the URL, it's still extra effort, and some don't bother with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4715/provide-a-way-to-quickly-link-to-a-question-within-markdown&quot;&gt;Provide a way to quickly link to a question within MarkDown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T04:09:14.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15612" CreationDate="2009-08-23T08:56:47.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now replace the client wildcard (*) with the server wildcard (~) on tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be careful, because the server has rules that the client does not. Most notably, any wildcard searches &lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt; be a minimum of &lt;strong&gt;4 characters&lt;/strong&gt; in length (not including the wildcard chars themselves), or they are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T08:56:47.990" />
  <row Id="16615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7359" CreationDate="2009-08-23T08:57:12.483" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now replace the client wildcard (*) with the server wildcard (~) on tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be careful, because the server has rules that the client does not. Most notably, any wildcard searches &lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt; be a minimum of &lt;strong&gt;4 characters&lt;/strong&gt; in length (not including the wildcard chars themselves), or they are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T08:57:12.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1672" CreationDate="2009-08-23T08:57:51.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now replace the client wildcard (*) with the server wildcard (~) on tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be careful, because the server has rules that the client does not. Most notably, any wildcard searches &lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt; be a minimum of &lt;strong&gt;4 characters&lt;/strong&gt; in length (not including the wildcard chars themselves), or they are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T08:57:51.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1649" CreationDate="2009-08-23T08:58:10.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;We now replace the client wildcard (*) with the server wildcard (~) on tags&lt;/s&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; Due to changes in ASP.Net 4.0 URLs like this are now properly handled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be careful, because the server has rules that the client does not. Most notably, any wildcard searches &lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt; be a minimum of &lt;strong&gt;3 characters&lt;/strong&gt; in length (not including the wildcard chars themselves), or they are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-05T09:54:59.737" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T09:54:59.737" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T09:42:14.560" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the etiquette of dealing with duplicate answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1096&quot;&gt;has been discussed&lt;/a&gt;, there hasn't been a great way to deal with these, &quot;Uh, yeah, I said this, too&quot; types of behavior than the almighty downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a &quot;Duplicate Answer&quot; option on the flag menu. Five flags auto-deletes the answer, as with any other flag. In order to prevent abuse, the flagged answer would have to have the last owner edit (including original post) be younger than the original answer's original posting by at least 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this ability should be a 5,000+ rep privilege, since we currently have no fanfare of rep from 3,001 to 9,999, and a power like this has a bit more umph than closing a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T09:50:05.853" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T10:43:01.643" Title="Add ability to flag answers as duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16622" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:15:01.903" Score="6" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1305150&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It's a really crappy question that (especially for the first revision) really deserves its -4 score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one user has written what (to me, who doesn't know jack about Objective C) looks like a great answer, tutorial style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing nothing about the topic, I can't really judge this or do anything about it, but I just feel bad that the answerer has gone through some lengths to write up a (seemingly) good answer for a question that hardly anybody will ever look at. I can't even upvote the answer, because I don't &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; if it's good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea that I had was a &quot;Flag for pro attention&quot; kind of thing that make the question show up in some lists for people that are active in the particular tag(s). However, I think things like that have been discussed before, and not really come to a conclusion. I myself can't think of a good way to accomplish this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also don't want to leave this question rotting there. So how would you handle this  and similar cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T10:39:22.743" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T18:07:32.977" Title="How to handle bad questions with good answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16621" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:20:23.330" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will generally upvote any answer if it is well written, &lt;em&gt;even if I don't have a lot of knowledge of the problem domain&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what does &quot;well written&quot; mean? I may not know Obj-C, but I know when ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone has put together a well-formatted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone can write in a clear and direct manner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone has spent a non-trivial amount of time trying to help someone else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this is why the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/95/reversal&quot;&gt;Reversal&lt;/a&gt; badge exists!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T10:20:23.330" />
  <row Id="16623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16534" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:31:22.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general I will &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;post to the blog&lt;/a&gt; if the update is what we consider a significant one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are generally deployments daily with fixes and improvements of various types, but a lot of them are &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; tiny or even invisible (back end stuff). I don't like to bug people with that kind of unnecessary detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you can get similar results using Meta-- look at &lt;strong&gt;the [status-completed] tag, sorted by activity&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=active&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted there might be a little noise from people modifying stuff that was completed a while back, but that is not very common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to look at &lt;strong&gt;my posts in any question tagged [status-completed]&lt;/strong&gt;. Sometimes Jarrod or Geoff post resolutions, but it is usually me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a1%20%5Bstatus-completed%5D&amp;amp;tab=active&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a1%20%5Bstatus-completed%5D&amp;amp;tab=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T11:12:06.210" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T11:12:06.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16621" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:38:27.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people are too often to downvote and vote to close, particularly in the case of questions from newbies. There's been various discussion topics about being nice to the newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the answerer can't edit the question. If they could that would be the best approach because the answerer in your example answer clearly knows what is meant and should be capable of articulating a better title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just shake my head at those 4 downvotes to that question. Honestly theres no need for it. It's a real question with a bad title but titles are only one edit away from being fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T10:38:27.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16619" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:43:01.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deadset against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people vote to close questions, the question is merely closed to new answers. Existing answers can still be voted on, commented on and edited. It takes moderator intervention to prevent those things or to delete the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the question is offensive or spam 5 users can't delete the question. 6 can flag it resulting in 100 rep loss. If it gets sufficiently downvoted (-10 or below?) I think an automatic process may delete it. It can also be flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you want to give delete power to 5 users to answers that they deem are duplicates? That is more delete power with a lower barrier to entry for something that isn't even spam, abuse or offensive? No way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often duplicates end up there because two (or more) people post the same answer within seconds of each other. Should one  be penalized entirely for being 1 second slower than someone else? They already suffer enough of a penalty in that the first answer will generally attract more upvotes although some people will vote up both/all duplicate answers if they're all posted reasonably closely together (in my experience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is here is that users are disincentivized from cleaning up and deleting their own content. By that I mean that if your content gets upvoted and you tehn delete it you'll lose that reputation on the next recalc. We are generally talking a small number but the point remains there is no incentive and a minor disincentive to delete duplicate content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've previously proposed that deleted content should get the HIGHER of 0 and the reputation the post got on a recalc for exactly this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T10:43:01.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25189" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:51:56.337" Score="8" ViewCount="759" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently doing some electronics and microcontoller programming, and I have a couple of questions to ask the people here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions are as regards to wiring on the breadboard and components.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On which of the websites (stack, server or super) should I ask these particular questions ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44084" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T19:36:44.503" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:39:40.370" Title="Where can I ask questions regarding Electronics?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;electronics&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16626" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:54:11.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fear that none of the sites is really suited for that (that's my personal opinion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T10:54:11.590" />
  <row Id="16628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16626" CreationDate="2009-08-23T10:54:41.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if its about microcontroller programming you could try SO as it is a programming question but I'm not sure theres much of an audience for that kind of question. You never know until you try though I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, it doesn't really fit SO, SF or SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T10:54:41.667" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2238" CreationDate="2009-08-23T11:39:58.020" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is possible using the advanced search options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;try searching for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me isaccepted:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T11:39:58.020" />
  <row Id="16630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16632" CreationDate="2009-08-23T11:42:25.520" Score="0" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new accept rate feature seems to not be quite right. For example the user &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/95589/eric&quot;&gt;eric&lt;/a&gt; currently has 10 questions, 2 of which are marked as accepted, but a 25% accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit, it looks like a possible cache issue, as now I'm seeing that I have a 25% accept rate for 7 questions, 1 accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T07:00:16.803" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:00:16.803" Title="Is there a bug in the accept rate, or is it just me?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13847" CreationDate="2009-08-23T11:43:40.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is possible using the advanced search options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;try searching for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me isaccepted:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T11:43:40.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16630" CreationDate="2009-08-23T11:45:38.227" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the rules in the blog&lt;/a&gt;? If not, you should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must be older than 3 days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There must be at least &lt;strong&gt;four&lt;/strong&gt; eligible questions as determined by the above rules, otherwise the count will not appear. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the tooltip now shows the numbers used in the calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(one final caveat: accept rate is going to be less meaningful here on meta than elsewhere, just because of the nature of meta..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T07:00:07.177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:00:07.177" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2238" CreationDate="2009-08-23T11:51:06.670" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, here's some top answerer data from the last dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Answers&amp;nbsp;Accepted&amp;nbsp;percent&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;                 4787    1945     0.406   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;              3681    1330     0.361   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12950&quot;&gt;tvanfosson&lt;/a&gt;                2778    709      0.255   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3043&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt;             2425    400      0.165   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23283&quot;&gt;JaredPar&lt;/a&gt;                  2086    564      0.270   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt;             1977    317      0.160   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10661&quot;&gt;S.Lott&lt;/a&gt;                    1900    364      0.192   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14860&quot;&gt;Pax&lt;/a&gt;                       1584    332      0.210   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307&quot;&gt;Neil Butterworth&lt;/a&gt;          1469    238      0.162   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33708&quot;&gt;Mehrdad&lt;/a&gt;                   1464    478      0.327   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt;                      1427    417      0.292   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1288&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt;           1418    184      0.130   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt;              1401    329      0.235   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34211&quot;&gt;Andrew Hare&lt;/a&gt;               1355    321      0.237   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;             1345    382      0.284   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16076&quot;&gt;Mitch Wheat&lt;/a&gt;               1336    283      0.212   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393&quot;&gt;cletus&lt;/a&gt;                    1334    378      0.283   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15168&quot;&gt;Jonathan Leffler&lt;/a&gt;          1186    191      0.161   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34509&quot;&gt;litb&lt;/a&gt;                      1135    371      0.327   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/37213&quot;&gt;duffymo&lt;/a&gt;                   1134    114      0.101   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/35092&quot;&gt;Charlie Martin&lt;/a&gt;            1122    187      0.167   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53114&quot;&gt;Gumbo&lt;/a&gt;                     1075    301      0.280   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31641&quot;&gt;le dorfier&lt;/a&gt;                1071    83       0.077   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18771&quot;&gt;Tomalak&lt;/a&gt;                   1069    377      0.353   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55159&quot;&gt;Quassnoi&lt;/a&gt;                  1068    353      0.331   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1968&quot;&gt;Konrad Rudolph&lt;/a&gt;            1062    227      0.214   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5445&quot;&gt;CMS&lt;/a&gt;                       1043    272      0.261   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9345&quot;&gt;Steven A. 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        547     215      0.393   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8912&quot;&gt;Ted Naleid&lt;/a&gt;            64      25       0.391   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/811&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;                 432     169      0.391   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12845&quot;&gt;Stephen Martin&lt;/a&gt;        64      25       0.391   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/64329&quot;&gt;Josh G&lt;/a&gt;                90      35       0.389   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/77724&quot;&gt;Anton Tykhyy&lt;/a&gt;          57      22       0.386   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/83605&quot;&gt;Aziz&lt;/a&gt;                  57      22       0.386   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/137624&quot;&gt;Ben M&lt;/a&gt;                 68      26       0.382   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5380&quot;&gt;Kent Boogaart&lt;/a&gt;         568     217      0.382   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21926&quot;&gt;Sean Bright&lt;/a&gt; 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           155     58       0.374   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/80601&quot;&gt;eu-ge-ne&lt;/a&gt;              220     82       0.373   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30506&quot;&gt;Louis Gerbarg&lt;/a&gt;         227     84       0.370   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26210&quot;&gt;Andrew Moore&lt;/a&gt;          187     69       0.369   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26123&quot;&gt;Milan Novota&lt;/a&gt;          95      35       0.368   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100902&quot;&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt;                 68      25       0.368   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6380&quot;&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/a&gt;       68      25       0.368   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/739&quot;&gt;Steve K&lt;/a&gt;               77      28       0.364   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23852&quot;&gt;Rob Mensching&lt;/a&gt;         77      28       0.364   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6799&quot;&gt;NeARAZ&lt;/a&gt;                58      21       0.362   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27306&quot;&gt;Michael S. Scherotter&lt;/a&gt; 69      25       0.362   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/89535&quot;&gt;Rick Copeland&lt;/a&gt;         61      22       0.361   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;          3681    1330     0.361   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2766&quot;&gt;Simon Lieschke&lt;/a&gt;        75      27       0.360   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/90155&quot;&gt;htw&lt;/a&gt;                   89      32       0.360   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4556&quot;&gt;Ashley Clark&lt;/a&gt;          53      19       0.358   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/111466&quot;&gt;back2dos&lt;/a&gt;              137     49       0.358   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45862&quot;&gt;maxnk&lt;/a&gt;                 53      19       0.358   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/67132&quot;&gt;Michael&lt;/a&gt;               297     106      0.357   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40256&quot;&gt;gcores&lt;/a&gt;                87      31       0.356   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123527&quot;&gt;weppos&lt;/a&gt;                155     55       0.355   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23921&quot;&gt;Pesto&lt;/a&gt;                 217     77       0.355   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3850&quot;&gt;hop&lt;/a&gt;                   82      29       0.354   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27825&quot;&gt;Ed Harper&lt;/a&gt;             79      28       0.354   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/97828&quot;&gt;Nadia&lt;/a&gt;                 150     53       0.353   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48503&quot;&gt;Pourquoi Litytestdata&lt;/a&gt; 51      18       0.353   &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the query if you're curious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select&#xA;    uuser.id,&#xA;    uuser.displayname,&#xA;    count(post.id) as ans,&#xA;    count(vote.id) as acc,&#xA;    1.0*count(vote.id)/count(post.id) as pct&#xA;from uuser&#xA;        join post on (uuser.id = post.owneruserid)&#xA;        left join vote on (vote.postid = post.id)&#xA;    and post.posttypeid = 2&#xA;    and vote.votetypeid = 1&#xA;    group by uuser.id, uuser.displayname&#xA;    order by ans desc;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T23:20:25.983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T23:20:25.983" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T11:55:09.987" Score="30" ViewCount="812" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new accept rate feature&lt;/a&gt; should count only questions with upvoted answers towards the accept rate percentage. Currently answers with zero upvotes (and with even negative score, I think) are included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently questions without upvoted answers are considered &quot;unanswered&quot; and thus shown in the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I don't think it is fair that the asker is &quot;punished&quot; if answers are no good, that is, do not get upvoted and are not worth accepting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise the accept rate percentage -feature seems nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T08:05:11.770" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T08:05:11.770" Title="Count only questions with upvoted answers towards the accept rate percentage" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="16635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16626" CreationDate="2009-08-23T12:20:13.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is a feature request. The topic of conversation is defined by the goal of the site, and this particular question does not fit in any of the current Trilogy sites. I would imagine the only way to be able to handle this is by either stating or expecting a electronics site to come out of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange when it is open to the public, and I am pretty confident we will see that fairly early on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you keep an eye on the list of StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; available &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. There is no Electronics site listed as yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T19:38:37.790" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T19:38:37.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16634" CreationDate="2009-08-23T12:26:24.180" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was probably thought out. The asker should work actively to get the correct answer - edit and bump it up, or offer a bounty. If the question has no answer it can be made wiki. If the issue was resolved, he/she can add the solution and accept it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T12:26:24.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16638" CreationDate="2009-08-23T12:47:13.233" Score="18" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is really data about the person I would like it to also be available on the person's profile page.  Perhaps in the section containing their personal data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T17:37:28.027" Title="Add acceptance rate to the user profile page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="16638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16637" CreationDate="2009-08-23T12:55:21.103" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, but I need some other meaningful stats to put in there, first. It can't just be accept rate alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T12:55:21.103" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16634" CreationDate="2009-08-23T13:03:08.347" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I am actually more concerned about closed questions, which I should have removed from the calculation, and probably will sometime today.&lt;/s&gt; Closed questions are not included in the calculation any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Kobi, as the question owner, this should be motivation to get people interested:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit your question to refine it and provide status updates, and implicitly bump it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;offer a bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's put on our &quot;game theory&quot; hats. How can one improve his or her accept rate percentage, by &lt;em&gt;any means necessary?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept an answer, obviously -- a net positive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete the question (only works if no significant upvoting and the question has few answers, otherwise not possible) -- probably a net positive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;convert question to wiki -- neutral, as this also prevents you from ever earning any more reputation on that question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer your own question, wait 2 days, and accept -- neutral to negative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that any accept rate of 70% or higher is considered &quot;excellent&quot;, so you don't have to sweat every single one. There are occasions where accepting isn't practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T06:47:14.783" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:47:14.783" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="16640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="94083" CreationDate="2009-08-23T13:05:36.423" Score="29" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know we already have the ability to copy profiles &lt;strong&gt;from&lt;/strong&gt; a sister site. However, from a usability perspective, if you want to keep your profiles in sync, it requires you to navigate to your profile/accounts page on each site and click that button. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have the button in the reverse direction. Probably, having a &quot;Copy the current profile to all sites&quot; button near &quot;Clear all associations&quot; is a nice place for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T12:31:28.857" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T01:49:40.437" Title="Add a &quot;Copy profile to sister sites&quot; button" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="16641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16637" CreationDate="2009-08-23T13:05:57.407" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To answer the question and to add to Jeff's post...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep the inevitable support questions like &lt;em&gt;&quot;My calculated rate is wrong&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;What does this percentage mean?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to a minimum, the profile could contain the information which is used to calculate that number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of questions not community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions older than 3 days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions with at least 1 answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...plus # of &lt;em&gt;qualifying&lt;/em&gt; questions with an accepted answer &lt;strong&gt;= %accepted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T13:11:23.093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T13:11:23.093" />
  <row Id="16643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16644" CreationDate="2009-08-23T13:19:17.433" Score="12" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding the number of questions used in the acceptance rate calculation will help give context to the percentage.  For example, a user with four questions who has accepted 2 answers will have an acceptance rate of 50% (below the suggested &quot;acceptable&quot; floor).  A user with 20 questions with 14 accepted answers will have an acceptance rate of 70% (at the suggested floor).  For the person with fewer answers, we have much less data and can't really make a judgement on the quality of the percentage -- if they accept just one more answer their rate changes by 50% -- from 50% to 75%.  For the person with more answers, the percentage is likely to remain fairly stable.  I suggest that a better display would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;50% accept rate (4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;70% accept rate (20)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or provide a hover over effect that shows the actual calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;50% accept rate (hover: 4 questions, 2 accepted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;70% accept rate (hover:20 questions, 14 accepted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, most questions should have acceptable (and, thus, accepted) answers. 70% may be an acceptable floor for a person with few questions, but say for someone who has asked 50 questions that translates to 15 questions with no accepted answers.  To me that person is not particularly engaged in the back and forth on their questions.  I'd much rather see it be above 90%.   Adding the number of questions gives more meaning to the percentage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T06:35:32.407" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T16:16:26.910" Title="Add the number of questions used in the acceptance rate criteria to the display" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16643" CreationDate="2009-08-23T13:25:21.650" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify: the accept rate only shows up at all when you have 4 or more questions. Sorry if that wasn't clear in the blog post, but when I said &quot;the user must have asked at least 3 questions already&quot; I meant that this question is the fourth -- they already asked 3 questions beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the tooltip, that is possible, since obviously we have the two numbers necessary to generate the percentage. This is now checked in and deploying to all tiers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div title=&quot;this user has accepted an answer for 9 of 31 eligible questions&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T06:36:24.417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:36:24.417" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T13:36:14.737" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have, on SO, some rather lengthy answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1090911/clearcase-wants-to-merge-unchanged-files-after-deliver-to-alternate-target/1092659#1092659&quot;&gt;ClearCase wants to merge unchanged files after deliver to alternate target&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/928646/how-do-i-tell-git-to-always-select-my-local-version-for-conflicted-merges-on-a-sp/930495#930495&quot;&gt;How do I tell git to always select my local version for conflicted merges on a specific file?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they seem to be truncated after about 3400 characters.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If I edit those answers, I do have the full content though, so nothing is actually &lt;em&gt;lost&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, on SF, a similar lengthy answer (a little less than 7000 chars) is displayed in full:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49786/how-do-you-install-clearcase-7-1-on-a-unix-based-server-with-no-gui-and-no-intern/49787#49787&quot;&gt;How do you install ClearCase 7.1 on a Unix-based server with no GUI and no internet?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug? a feature?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Those answers &lt;strong&gt;used to be displayed correctly (in full) before this week-end&lt;/strong&gt;, and they do not contain internal site links as reported in the MSO question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;According to the MSO question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13784/please-increase-the-maximum-allowed-length-for-answers&quot;&gt;Please increase the maximum allowed length for answers&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the limit should be 30K (more, &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; than enough. 7000 is my &quot;record&quot;, and I hope I will never break it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T13:51:09.767" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T13:51:09.767" ClosedDate="2009-08-23T13:50:57.257" Title="Is there a new length limit for answers on SO (and not SF)?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;truncated&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-08-23T13:46:48.887" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note that today's change is one of the ways we're addressing this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: as promised...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking this completed, since this is a substantial reduction (half!) in rep from questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T08:20:29.660" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:20:29.660" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T14:00:12.280" Score="14" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that you highlight comment-responses from the user who asked the question, I would like &lt;strong&gt;each user to see &lt;em&gt;their own&lt;/em&gt; comments highlighted&lt;/strong&gt; the same style that &lt;strong&gt;their own answers are already highlighted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Reasons &quot;borrowed&quot; from your &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent blog post&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why highlight a user's own comments?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It’s visually consistent. It carries the “highlight” from their own answers to their comments (a user's own answers were always highlighted in another color).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes it easier to scan a post for their own comments because they are highlighted. This is important if they're trying to followup on a post or comment because they can visual see where they have made additional contributions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users can &quot;at a glance&quot; tell if they're dealing with interested (other comments around &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; comments) or disinterested (no comments at all) to their contributions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would helpful for &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; to follow up on posts if I could easily spot where I have already made contributions so I can followup with changes to the post or any further comments directed at me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/stackoverflow-highlight-comments1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T13:13:03.270" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T13:13:03.270" Title="Highlight our own comments, too" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T14:23:13.833" Score="3" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially, a new StackExchange site will have 0 questions and 0 users. It seems that until you reach a certain number of engaged users, you'll might need to do something artificial to get things going. I could easily see the need to &quot;seed&quot; the site with a few dozen questions but even that little bit seems a little fake. The initial steps for SuperUser.com's launch would be a good place to start but for a site having little overlap with the user base of the existing trilogy, it'll be more difficult to get things going. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is need to get things jump started?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134478" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:17:32.243" Title="How would you jump start a new stackexchange site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="16651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16650" CreationDate="2009-08-23T14:27:16.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a &lt;em&gt;private beta&lt;/em&gt; would work best.  But by &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt;, I really mean posting the password on your blog or somewhere else somewhat easy to find.  Then, people will think they are special for finding the password and will join your site to be part of the beta-testing elite ;-)  They'll tell friends, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it also helps to directly invite people you know to participate.  Offering a moderator position or two may also be worthwhile to get a few key individuals interested and participating, even though moderation is more work than most of us appreciate :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130199" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T14:27:16.277" />
  <row Id="16652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T14:41:18.587" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking at questions that have a particular tag attached to them. There are two pages worth, with very few on the second page of results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links to other results pages are nowhere near the list of questions on that page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, because there are so few on the last page, the links are way down at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=spatial&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot;&gt;this search on the &lt;kbd&gt;spatial&lt;/kbd&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt; on SO, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133627" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T14:57:53.733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:02:25.270" Title="Pagination links for result pages too far down on last page" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16652" CreationDate="2009-08-23T15:02:25.270" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will probably be tagged, &lt;kbd&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/kbd&gt; as it's just the way it's showing up on the fetched results. The footer is below the other elements of the page, no matter how long or short it comes before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you didn't want that last page to be so lonely, you could try and change the number of returned results per page. Maybe 15 per page will spread them out better. Or see if 50 will contain it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its appearance on a shortened results page also depends on how many tags you have marked as interesting/ignore. The more you have, the further down the footer is pushed and subsequently, the higher the chances of lots of whitespace between the last listed question in a search and the footer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:02:25.270" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16650" CreationDate="2009-08-23T15:16:04.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should feel uneasy about seeding your stack exchange with certain questions/answers.  Consider  the following example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You use stack exchange to create a site dedicated to home improvement and do-it-yourself jobs.  You could seed the site with commonly asked questions and detailed answers.  Then if someone types the a similar question into google they may be pointed to your site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably be beneficial if several people (and hence different users) seeded the site with questions/answers.  When people see multiple users contributing content they think the site has an active community and are more likely to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154895" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:16:04.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16650" CreationDate="2009-08-23T15:17:32.243" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a blog with legions of readers to descend upon your site and fill it with &quot;Favorite x&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kidding... mostly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find other sites that are under-serving and find a way to invite them without looking like you're stealing members. Something along the lines of &quot;Embrace and extend&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:17:32.243" />
  <row Id="16656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T15:34:40.930" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked question which was here: http:// stackoverflow.com/questions/1318648/what-tools-for-html-css-editing-do-you-prefer-and-why&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I refreshed it last time it has 2 votes to &quot;close&quot;. But it has 2 answers and 2 comments and if it was deleted specially then it's very bad feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT, if it's a bug, then the TEST CASE is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know is it important but it had 2 answers, 2 votes for &quot;close&quot;, one comment to the question and one my comment to the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question was edited and saved 1 time (I dont think that it's important)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From the question I has created another question i.e. I clicked &quot;Ask Question&quot; not from main page but from my question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First question disappeared and the new question is here &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318770/impressive-examples-in-java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318770/impressive-examples-in-java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144411" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T15:48:47.673" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:48:47.673" Title="My question disappeared: is it bug or feature?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16656" CreationDate="2009-08-23T15:45:16.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was merged with another question as it is identical (dupe)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:45:16.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15023" CreationDate="2009-08-23T15:50:12.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the message that came up has to do with the fact that I was at work. I found out that our system there has to authenticate you (by opening a browser) and it will show that message. I'm not sure why it is doing it in this case but I guess it's not really an issue directly with Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T15:50:12.007" />
  <row Id="16662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35916" CreationDate="2009-08-23T16:25:20.563" Score="8" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment&quot;&gt;Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Facebook does (and no, the suggestion is not about turning SO into facebook) I'd like to see a notification in the recent activity tab when there is a new comment to a post I previously posted a comment to, this way I can follow up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently there's no easy way to see it other than go to the recent tab and manually check every post you commented on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T07:28:57.473" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:28:57.473" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T15:37:49.707" Title="Add notification when someone comments in the same post than me" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;follow-up&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4619" CreationDate="2009-08-23T16:54:19.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that it does play a role in the decision on whether to answer or not, especially when writing an answer would take a significant amount of time, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9784" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T16:54:19.117" />
  <row Id="16669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16621" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:07:32.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did the only thing that could possibly help: you edit the question such that it no longer deserved the down-votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the system is working as it should: the &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; wasn't the down-votes, it was the crappy question. Even without the down-votes, the chances of someone with a similar problem actually finding the existing question would have been terrible due to the lousy title and lack of tags. &lt;strong&gt;Down voting in this case served to de-emphasize what was essentially clutter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an excellent example of why editing is so critical to Stack Overflow... Thanks to your help, a lousy question (and a possibly-wasted answer) have been replaced by a decent one. Treat yourself to a nice big plate of waffles - you deserve it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T18:07:32.977" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:20:10.877" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/242293/242321#242321&quot;&gt;This is the post that got upvoted&lt;/a&gt;, you'll see that it links to an answer marked &quot;community wiki&quot;. I don't think this is the first time I've noticed it, but I haven't done research to show other examples. Is this a bug? I think it is. The StackOverflow FAQ says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Note that votes for any posts marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not generate reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: to be clear, I did see my reputation go up (and no other upvotes to connect with it), so it's not just an error in reporting on the &quot;mail icon&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit again: I don't think the 16 hours thing is accurate. My answer has no revision history. The parent question was made community wiki on Dec 26.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132307" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T19:52:04.780" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T19:52:04.780" Title="Getting reputation points for community wiki posts, is this a bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:24:38.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are only interested in questions with no answers&#xA;then enter this in the search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;answers:0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or for non-Community Wiki questions with no answers that have not been closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;answers:0 wiki:0 closed:0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These very useful advanced search operators were recently&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;announced on the blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T18:24:38.327" />
  <row Id="16672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:31:51.977" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something really weird just happened &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1319205/jquery-ajax-live-validation-timeout-question&quot;&gt;in this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered the question and then clicked edit to add a few more details. Once I submitted the edit, a new answer was added instead of editing my original one. I deleted the original answer so only users with 10k+ rep can see it, but the bug is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16417" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T08:07:40.770" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:07:40.770" Title="Duplicate Answer Created When Editing Original Answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16670" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:36:42.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post was made a community wiki after you received your reputation. Your answer was on 28-Oct and the community wiki conversion was done on 8-Dec.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When using the moderator tools or when the Community user converts a question to a wiki question, the answers are also converted without any revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it would require an SO moderator to confirm whether it was this that made the reputation go up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T18:43:14.903" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T18:43:14.903" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16748" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:39:34.690" Score="5" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do not give the impression that all votes are unanimously in favor of the winning close-reason. I closed for &quot;belongs on superuser,&quot; yet SO claims I closed for a completely different reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1319199&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1319199&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T01:15:04.707" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:02:30.790" Title="&quot;Closed by&quot; is incorrect" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="16675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16672" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:50:06.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you did not hit the &quot;back&quot; button on your browser to get back to the editor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will cause a second answer to be posted as an apparent duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone please correct me if I am wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T18:50:06.370" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16672" CreationDate="2009-08-23T18:51:09.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Testing &quot;back button&quot; theory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see this post it is because I just posted an answer (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16672/duplicate-answer-created-when-editing-original-answer/16675#16675&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) and hit the &quot;back&quot; button to edit it. This would create a second post (this one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[original message]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you did not hit the &quot;back&quot; button on your browser to get back to the editor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will cause a second answer to be posted as an apparent duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone please correct me if I am wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T18:51:09.113" />
  <row Id="16678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16679" CreationDate="2009-08-23T19:02:18.000" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it that I can't choose an accepted answer for this question? The &quot;accepted answer&quot; option does not show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671512/unsafe-use-of-user-supplied-gstrings-in-groovy-grails&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671512/unsafe-use-of-user-supplied-gstrings-in-groovy-grails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T19:06:17.523" Title="Why can't I choose a correct answer for this question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16678" CreationDate="2009-08-23T19:06:14.480" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/671512/list&quot;&gt;revision&lt;/a&gt; history you've previously had a bounty on the question and never accepted an answer. This is discussed and explained &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9902/what-happens-if-there-are-no-answers-to-a-bounty-question&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T19:06:14.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16678" CreationDate="2009-08-23T19:06:17.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a known &quot;bug&quot;. It is a result of an unresolved bounty (you did not select a winner, and one was not auto selected since no post had 2 or more votes). You will no longer be able to select an answer on this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T19:06:17.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50589" CreationDate="2009-08-23T19:07:16.023" Score="14" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;strong&gt;Meta&lt;/strong&gt; we need to add one of the required tags (&lt;strong&gt;[support]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[bug]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;[discussion]&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realized that I didn't remember the exact wording of &lt;strong&gt;[support]&lt;/strong&gt;, so I had to submit and get the &lt;strong&gt;you are &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that Stack Exchange will have this feature (required tags), but the required tags should be listed upfront to avoid a failed submit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Will try adding two required tags to see what happens too.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-20T06:10:38.293" LastActivityDate="2010-05-20T15:24:35.773" Title="Show required tags when asking a question on Meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;required-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T19:33:50.667" Score="5" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I see the Server Fault banner, I see someone giving me the finger. The red line looks like the finger and the dark black bars at the bottom the nuckles. Anyone else see the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156053" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:13:50.057" Title="Does the Server Fault logo remind you vaguely of someone flipping you off?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16684" CreationDate="2009-08-23T19:34:49.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not a bug, that's a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T19:34:49.417" />
  <row Id="16686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16672" CreationDate="2009-08-23T19:58:35.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if the flow is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;add an answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;realize you want to change your answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;instead of clicking the edit menu item on your newly submitted answer, you press the back button in your browser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;edit&quot; your answer (note that you're not really editing, but adding &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; answer) and click submit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would most certainly add a second answer, and it's also impossible for us to detect, as you are adding two different answers with the &quot;edit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T19:58:35.203" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16688" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:01:56.523" Score="-2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm convinced that we have no clear understanding of &quot;duplicate&quot; here. I recently had a question here closed because I asked for the &quot;closed by&quot; message to not credit votes to those who did not cast them. It was claimed that my request was a duplicate of another request that desired to see an exhausted list of vote-types in the &quot;closed by&quot; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two are not the same. &quot;Please correct this&quot; vs &quot;Do it this way&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a preference-issue. It's a correctness issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Closed as not-programming-related by Jonathan Sampson&quot; is incorrect, when Jonathan did not vote for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested-alternative, show only the names that voted for the majority option, or show no names at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:16:45.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T02:59:19.207" Title="Please define &quot;Duplicate.&quot; I think we're a bit unclear here" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16687" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:05:37.780" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You didn't give the same reason for your vote as everyone else, but you &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; vote, and the outcome was that the post was closed. Hence, your name appeared in the list of people who wanted it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd actually love to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/926/show-all-voted-close-types-when-a-question-is-closed&quot;&gt;Ólafur's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; implemented: a breakout of each voter by reason for voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't at &lt;em&gt;all agree&lt;/em&gt; that voters who give alternate close reasons should be kept anonymous. That's just an easy out for people who still want to close a question, but don't want to stand behind their vote - if we're gonna go that way, we should just anonomize it completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:05:37.780" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16684" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:05:58.697" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does now.  Thanks for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133319" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:05:58.697" />
  <row Id="16690" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:06:12.800" Score="17" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;Updating the SO feeds to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PubSubHubbub&lt;/a&gt; is easy, would accelerate the propagation of updates and will save bandwith for the publisher and subscribers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the steps are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In RSS add right after the opening &quot;channel&quot; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;atom:link rel=&quot;hub&quot; href=&quot;http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Atom inside the &quot;feed&quot; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;hub&quot; href=&quot;http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="48465" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T12:44:50.353" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T22:59:27.790" Title="Publish feeds using PubSubHubbub" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="16691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:06:32.143" Score="-1" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/25678/how-does-windows-7-licensing-work-for-running-the-os-as-virtual-machines&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on superuser, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/5605/lee&quot;&gt;Lee&lt;/a&gt; referenced &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/53380/can-a-windows-7-ultimate-product-key-be-used-for-virtual-machines-as-well&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt; on serverfault in &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/25678/how-does-windows-7-licensing-work-for-running-the-os-as-virtual-machines/25708#25708&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then marked the question for moderator attention and noted it should be closed as a duplicate. I never received a response of any kind. It seems one of three things happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A moderator has yet to look at the question after I flagged it (doubtful)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A moderator feels that the question is not a duplicate and simply did not communicate that to me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am going about getting my question closed the wrong way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T21:49:39.510" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T22:02:15.883" Title="Why won't you close a question I asked and later flagged for moderator attention as a duplicate" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16687" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:08:44.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could've just added your answer as a suggested tweak to the duplicate question. That's why it was closed as a duplicate (and why I voted for it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for this, you voted to close. When I vote against the grain, I usually leave a comment explaining why I voted to close for a different reason than the rest of the crowd. I suggest you do that, too, so people can understand your rationale and hopefully make a good decision with their close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:08:44.370" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16691" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:09:45.883" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand your request. You're arguing that cross-site duplicates are grounds for closure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I agree with that, as the different audiences may have significantly different viewpoints on a question that is &quot;the same&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:09:45.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16691" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:10:25.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicates aren't closed cross-site unless they are migrated to said site beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mods on SU are top-notch, and I'm sure they looked at your request and gleefully acted the opposite way for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:10:25.553" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16684" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:13:50.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I see the SF logo, I think of an old NES unit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://addictedgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/nes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:13:50.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16698" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:16:14.247" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question I asked was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313908/how-do-i-configure-winmerge-as-the-compare-and-merge-tool-for-tfs&quot;&gt;How do I configure WinMerge as the compare and merge tool for TFS&lt;/a&gt;, which I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313908/how-do-i-configure-winmerge-as-the-compare-and-merge-tool-for-tfs/1313946#1313946&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; myself. However, I did not mark it as the accepted answer in case someone else provided a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21932/tehone&quot;&gt;TehOne&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313908/how-do-i-configure-winmerge-as-the-compare-and-merge-tool-for-tfs/1313961#1313961&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; the question with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/articles/535573.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link to an article&lt;/a&gt; that shows you how to configure TFS to work with many merge tools. I'd like to mark that as the accept answer and change my question to &quot;How do I configure TFS to work with various merge tools?&quot; Would this be considered acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:21:01.367" Title="Is it ever ok to change you question to make one of the answers fit better" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16697" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:20:39.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll occasionally do this when closing a newer question as a duplicate, to help future searchers better find a good (but originally overly-specific) question with good (general-purpose) answers. If it's actually &lt;em&gt;your question&lt;/em&gt;, then by all means generalize it if you have an answer that answers the more general case!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:20:39.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16648" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:23:50.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine a discussion on one of your answers.  There's be your comments, the OP's comments, maybe some third parties chipping in.  Technicolour madness!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:23:50.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16704" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:25:08.783" Score="-5" ViewCount="493" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think about a badge for users having 100% accept rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81800" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T12:08:09.920" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T20:53:37.573" Title="100% accept rate Badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="16703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16708" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:31:34.590" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16691/why-wont-you-close-a-question-i-asked-and-later-flagged-for-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;Jeff seems in favor of cross-site duplicates.&lt;/a&gt; Some questions might be asked on three different sites, each site needing three different answers. For example, a question about a text editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps their should be a way to link the questions on the three different sites. Adding a link manually in the questions is certainly possible, but perhaps a feature officially supporting this will be beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:35:53.303" Title="The ability to link cross site duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16701" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:31:36.463" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that encourages the wrong behavior. I feel pressured to accept answers just to keep my percentage high, even if the questions I asked have no relevant answers. It's too easy of a task to go around accepting a single answer for each question, and encouraging this could lead to wrong or incorrect answers being marked as accepted; which is definitely undesirable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:31:36.463" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16701" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:32:39.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept rate is variable. If we want badge for this, badge should be for time frame (month, quarter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:32:39.673" />
  <row Id="16706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16691" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:33:16.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not consider the question a cross site duplicate. Questions can be asked on both sites and would most likely get different answers on different sites. As Jeff already mentioned there is no way to close a &quot;cross-site duplicate&quot;. We also don't always feedback moderator tags since if there is no action required, there is no need to make others aware a post had been flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is however a problem you can have the question deleted. Personally I think it belongs on SU since I have seen at least 4 similar questions already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:33:16.053" />
  <row Id="16707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16701" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:33:18.800" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether or not it's too easy or encourages the right behavior, i don't like it because &lt;strong&gt;badges aren't revoked&lt;/strong&gt;. So if you accept answers to your first three questions and &lt;em&gt;never accept another answer&lt;/em&gt;, regardless of how many hundreds of questions you post, the badge starts to look kinda sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:33:18.800" />
  <row Id="16708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16703" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:34:19.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's value in having similar questions posted to multiple sites, so long as they're actually on-topic for the sites they're posted to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, i'd certainly expect to see different solutions from a set of Sys Admins than i would from programmers... And if i'm a Sys Admin, i probably don't care to read detailed suggestions for writing my own tools so much as i want a good description of how to use the tools i already have - &lt;strong&gt;so there's value in separating these answers as well&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; for a given site, then it should be &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; - and optionally migrated to the site it's on-topic for, where it can be closed again as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, let users cross-link as they see fit; after all, it may make more sense to link to &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; on another site rather than blindly linking together the questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:34:19.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16703" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:34:51.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I agree with that, as the&#xA;  different audiences may have&#xA;  significantly different viewpoints on&#xA;  a question that is &quot;the same&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, if I'm looking for a question on SO it should be needless to say that I'm after the SO viewpoint. If I wanted the SU viewpoint, I would search it on SU. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:34:51.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16703" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:35:53.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no need to explicitly link these questions. If there is answers or questions cross site they often get referenced in the answers, but the question will pertain to both sites. Users of SU may never go to SF or SO because it is not their area of knowledge or they may just not be interested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:35:53.303" />
  <row Id="16711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16701" CreationDate="2009-08-23T20:40:18.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it not only encourages the wrong behavior as Ian mentioned but that it is highly subjective or variable. I might have a 100% accept rate right now, but once I ask another question that starts getting answers my accept rate will go down. Would I then be awarded the badge mutliple times, each time I hit a 100% accept rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, to me it seems that even indicating an accept rate at all is going to encourage people to start accepting answers just to increase their accept rate, which will ultimately have the opposite effect as what is intended. I also think that it is going to cause some people to not answer a question if the poster has a low accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T20:40:18.630" />
  <row Id="16712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:01:08.213" Score="28" ViewCount="921" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the idea behind showing a users &quot;accept rate&quot; when they post a question, which is to encourage people to accept answers to their questions but it seems like it can/will encourage unwanted behavior as well. This unwanted behavior would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepting an answer that isn't correct just to increase their accept rate score.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not answering questions asked by those with low accept rate scores.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an ideal world, these behaviors wouldn't exist but there is no such thing as an ideal world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T23:58:05.597" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T22:21:23.317" Title="Will the &quot;Accept rate&quot; score encourage unwanted behavior?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:08:15.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Point one will be eliminated by the votes in the long run. I do agree that certain people will be less inclined to answer a question by someone with a low acceptance rate, but it will also act as a motivator for people to accept answers which is a bigger issue at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be pro's and con's with the changes intruduced into the Trilogy. It is the nature of communities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the system does get heavily abused, Jeff and the team will most likely put tools in place to allow the moderators to manage these abuses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T21:16:44.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:16:44.140" />
  <row Id="16714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:08:17.667" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valid points here. It appears that this feature was, in part, implemented in response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2238/would-it-be-useful-so-show-peoples-hit-rate-i-e-percentage-of-answers-accep&quot;&gt;my question here&lt;/a&gt; so I feel slightly responsible for it's presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not what I was asking for, and while I can see that some people think it's useful I have my doubts along the same lines as Scott.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea was to have it only on the users profile where it could be seen in relation to the number of answers provided as obviously 100% of 5 answers is somewhat different to 50% of 100 answers (or indeed questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given one of the comments on my question I can see Scott's second point being particularly pertinent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:08:17.667" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4813" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:18:21.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing Stack Overflow could do is have a mechanism to easily suggest what language you're using in the code, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;#!python&#xA;&#xA;def foo():&#xA;    return 10 // 7&#xA;&#xA;print(foo())&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;#!html&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.python.org/&quot;&gt;Python!&amp;lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiProcessors#CodeHighlightingSupport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;approach taken by Trac&lt;/a&gt;, and it works quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39808" LastEditorUserId="39808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T03:19:33.440" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T03:19:33.440" />
  <row Id="16716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:19:32.357" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Point #2 is sort of a feature, and one of the reasons we implemented this. Answerers have a right to know if the asker has a sub-10% accept rate before participating in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's put on our &quot;game theory&quot; hats. How could one improve his or her accept rate percentage, by &lt;em&gt;any means necessary?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept an answer, obviously -- a net positive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete the question (only works if no significant upvoting and the question has few answers, otherwise not possible) -- probably a net positive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;convert question to wiki -- neutral, as this also prevents you from ever earning any more reputation on that question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer your own question, wait 2 days, and accept -- neutral to negative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for point #1 -- if users accept an answer that is obviously wrong or incorrect, that makes &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; look bad, and will be reflected in the voting and comments. Since we operate on what is effectively a prestige system, I don't think this will be a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that any accepted answer rate of 70% or higher is great, and I'd consider anything at 50%+ plenty sufficient to indicate that the user is reasonably engaged. It's only a problem when the rate gets to 30% or lower, and for the real problem users, it's closer to 0%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:19:32.357" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:21:40.277" Score="2" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are there no easter eggs in the three sister sites? I love easter eegs and I love stackoverflow, it's a good idea in my opinion, what do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81800" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T21:26:46.833" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:43:11.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T21:21:40.277" Title="Easter eggs in SO,SU,SF?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;ponies&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="16718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16717" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:24:55.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe there are... they just haven't been found? Isn't that the whole point of an easter egg?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:24:55.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T21:24:55.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16717" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:28:03.930" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One easter egg coming up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/123380632%5F2bd133e745.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Binary Easter Egg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:28:03.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T21:28:03.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="101207" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:39:43.970" Score="18" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;So lets say I flag a question for moderator attention. What happens after that is pretty opaque. I think the process can be made less opaque by the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having a list of what I flagged and the message I sent in the &quot;recent&quot; tab of my profile would let me know what I flagged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ability for moderators to note that they have seen the flag. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2832/details-about-the-flagging-mechanism/2841#2841&quot;&gt;Moderators have a queue of flagged items and get an indicator that something has been flagged&lt;/a&gt;. Can users have an indication that they flagged something, and a moderator looked at that flag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A moderator should be able to comment on a flag. They would probably only do this in fuzzy cases. Flagrant abuse, obvious duplicate questions, etc don't need commentary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130078" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-07T05:02:32.777" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T05:02:32.777" Title="Can the &quot;Flag for moderator attention&quot; have a feedback mechanism?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="16721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16729" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:40:39.663" Score="36" ViewCount="3382" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/AvB9B.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is accept rate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why doesn't accept rate always appear?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How is the accept rate calculated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does &quot;accepting an answer&quot; mean? How do I do it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5234&quot;&gt;How does accepting an answer work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-04-06T16:33:46.030" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T18:14:58.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-27T10:00:30.213" Title="How does accept rate work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="16722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:41:32.407" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accept rate has a lot of problems I can think up right away:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It interacts badly with special cases (no answers, all negative-voted answers, self answers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The value it displays is too precise. As if a person accepting 82% of answers in the past means there is an exactly 82% chance they will accept an answer for this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It isn't reliable (users can game the metric). If you want a high accept rate, accept a random response to all your old unsuitably-answered questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't match users' expectations. An accept rate of 70% or higher is great, but &lt;em&gt;is that is what a user perceives 70% to mean?&lt;/em&gt; On a test, 70% is a pretty mediocre score.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better metric would be for Stack Overflow to estimate what a 'reasonable' user should do for each question. Questions with a lot of answers or a high voted answer should definitely have one of them accepted. Questions with no activity are less likely to have an accepted answer. Then you combine this information to classify the user into much fuzzier boxes like &quot;over-accepter&quot;, &quot;normal&quot;, &quot;under-accepter&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134338" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:41:32.407" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16720" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:43:04.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I for one reply to a flag if required as a comment to the actual question. In other case performing the action requested by the flag indicates me accepting it, and no response to it means it is not valid and being ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily feel this is required. If the problem is very serious all the moderators have their contact details available in their profiles, or the team can be e-mailed directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:43:04.900" />
  <row Id="16724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16717" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:43:11.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the /error and /captcha pages are already Easter Eggs of some sorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:43:11.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-23T21:43:11.247" />
  <row Id="16725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:45:07.140" Score="11" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2238/would-it-be-useful-so-show-peoples-hit-rate-i-e-percentage-of-answers-accep&quot;&gt;Would it be useful so show people&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;hit rate&amp;rdquo; - i.e. percentage of answers accepted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To compliment the question acceptance rate, I suggest adding an answer acceptance rate. This would be the number of answers a user has accepted over the total number of answers they've provided. A high answer acceptance rate is indicative that the user's answers are usually detailed, thorough, and provide the asker with what they need on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as less popular topics garner fewer views (and votes), this could also be a way to encourage users to participate in these topics, as they typically will also get fewer answers, leading to a greater chance of the answer being accepted, raising their answer acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a related question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2238/would-it-be-useful-so-show-peoples-hit-rate-i-e-percentage-of-answers-accep&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, of which this question is largely a duplicate of, but I am proposing my feature request as a companion to the question acceptance rate, displayed and calculated roughly the same way (exclude CW, etc). I also favor adding both this and the question acceptance rate &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16725/add-an-answer-acceptance-rate-too&quot;&gt;to the profile&lt;/a&gt; as well as being displayed below the username beside that user's answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-23T22:30:01.200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:26:21.433" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:42:19.183" Title="Add an answer acceptance rate, too" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16725" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:51:23.713" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think simply &quot;no&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;accept rate&quot; for question is only on the user's side. The percentage of accepted answers means nothing, as it relies only on what the person who asked a question does, not the person who answered. Many times questions remain not marked as answered, even though there are highly voted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the fact an answer is not accepted doesn't mean it's a bad one, just that it wasn't the one accepted by the question author. So in general, such percentage would show nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; : Eventually a ratio based on reputation per answer/question posted would make more sense, but it would still be highly biased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt; : Thinking more about it, in fact, there is another issue. The &quot;accepted&quot; answer doesn't mean this answer is the best in quality (as finally the proposed percentage would suggest), but simply that this answer was actually working for the person who asked. I often see great quality answers, detailed, precise, which are not accepted, for example simply because the person who asked the question forgot to mention a fact which makes this answer invalid, compared to a one-liner on the same question, which would actually give the correct solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that there is no reason to accept an answer which doesn't solve the problem asked. But on the same way, I can't see such &quot;accepted answers&quot;/&quot;total answers&quot; ratio be an indicator of quality. It simply means that this user managed to give answers that people chose to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main concern, in fact, is that in the end, such ratio would increase the effect from the question ratio. The question one would already push people to not lose time answering someone &quot;not likely to accept&quot;. But such &quot;answer ratio&quot; would push people to not answer too much unless they are sure it will be accepted. so finally, it will become that once someone will post an answer which looks like &quot;the one&quot;, people would be less likely to add an answer (which could add details, or another worthy solution), since it would only decrease their ratio....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not saying everyone would react like that, far from it, but it's on the same idea as the &quot;question ratio&quot; concerns.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3&lt;/strong&gt; (answer to comment) : &lt;em&gt;Why would you answer a question if you don't think that the OP would like your answer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is more than &quot;the accepted answer&quot; and &quot;bad answers&quot;. There can be several good answers to a question, but only one will be accepted. Typically, if someone is asking for the best way/program to do a task, the fact that the question's author accept one answer doesn't mean all other answers are worthless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than this fact, on questions where I see that the correct answer has been posted (or even already accepted), I add an alternative solution if I have one, for the sake of exchanging knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, such ratio would influence people to simply leave a question as soon as an answer has been accepted. The goal of these sites is not only to provide a single answer to a particular person, but also to provide solutions to someone else finding the question by some Internet search. And maybe this someone would prefer an alternative solution, than the one &quot;accepted&quot; by the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T05:58:56.410" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:58:56.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16720" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:54:14.143" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have occasionally wanted some way to respond to the flagger without needing to do so in a comment. As flags do have a bit of an expectation to privacy, I don't feel comfortable addressing the user directly, so I've ended up just posting a vague response that sometimes feels out of place in the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:54:14.143" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16725" CreationDate="2009-08-23T21:59:58.420" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a proponent of some sort of ranking that took the number of accepted vs. the number of answers total. I think it could be a very good indicator of a user's &quot;success&quot; as a member of the sites. Someone who has a high number of accepted answers could be seen as someone who is giving high quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T21:59:58.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16721" CreationDate="2009-08-23T22:04:59.410" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is the percentage of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/5234/54262&quot;&gt;answers accepted&lt;/a&gt; based on the questions asked by the user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is calculated on questions that are older than 3 days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is heavily cached and can take 24hrs or more to update.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accept rate is only calculated when the user has 4 or more questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Which questions do not affect the accept rate?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following questions are not included in the accept rate calculation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community Wiki Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closed Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What does the accept rate mean?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the stat doesn’t appear at all, it’s a new user, or someone who rarely asks questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a low percentage, it’s a user who asks a lot of questions but accepts almost no answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a high percentage, it’s an engaged user, someone who frequently goes back and interacts with their questions after asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a middle of the road percentage, it’s an experienced user who understands what accepted answers are for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is considered good manners to accept answers on your questions, eventually, but accepting answers is not required. In general, an accept rate of 70% or better is quite good, meaning you accept answers on 7 out of 10 questions that you ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-19T18:14:58.877" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T18:14:58.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-27T10:00:30.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-23T22:05:05.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ugh, I wondered what the huge influx of accepted answers today was.  I will reserve judgement to see if it's useful or not, but in the short term, it is going to result in a huge influx of rep. to answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T22:05:05.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T22:05:15.057" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I'll want to look through my older questions or answers from my profile page. There have been a few instances (including just a moment ago) when clicking on the next page in my list of questions will cause the page to render without CSS - a right ugly mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this also happens when I change the sort order (votes, views, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only page I've ever seen lose it's CSS on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; It just happened again when I tried to order my questions by views. The page now shows only the questions section, with no CSS. The address shown has also changed to &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=1588&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=views&quot;. I still have the tab open, and have Firebug installed. I've uploaded a cropped image of the tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/x0uq3.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastEditorUserId="1588" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T00:28:22.373" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T00:28:22.373" Title="'Next Page' on Profile loses CSS" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16720" CreationDate="2009-08-23T22:10:01.693" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AS with the other moderators, if I feel a flag requires some form of feedback, I will either send an email to the flagging user or I will leave a comment on the question as a heads up (this is especially useful for when a topic has multiple flags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I think a feedback mechanism would be nice, if it gets implemented in some form like a &quot;private message&quot; you would end up having users all asking (all over again) for the private messaging feature available to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T22:10:01.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-23T22:37:05.710" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just taken the liberty to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1222647/list&quot;&gt;edit out&lt;/a&gt; some too obnoxious advertising, and I was just wondering what the general consensus is about people advertising their own companies or services?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My common sense tells me that this is acceptable if the answer really answers the question (as opposed to copy/pasting the marketing flyer or a generic &quot;Maybe our product would do this&quot; link), but the question is how good the answer is given the fact that the person is clearly biased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, someone gave &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260129/silverlight-protecting-content-inside-a-network-drm/1150630#1150630&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; on one of my questions which is self-advertising, but IMHO not unwanted Spam because it is one solution, although other people might think differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T22:39:47.170" Title="People Advertising their Services/Companies" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16734" CreationDate="2009-08-23T22:39:00.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blatant advertising is generally frowned upon. If they are advertising their own company as an answer to a particular question and it makes sense, I as a moderator would see it as acceptable, but that doesn't say anything for whether or not the community would react with the same acceptance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is unwanted spam, immediately flag as spam or flag for moderator attention and it can be taken care of in a jiffy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T22:39:00.603" />
  <row Id="16736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16734" CreationDate="2009-08-23T22:39:47.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this particular case the answer should have been flagged as spam. The promotion of products has been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10174/using-so-sf-su-to-promote-your-products&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T22:39:47.170" />
  <row Id="16738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16626" CreationDate="2009-08-23T23:21:01.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be covered by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see/4132#4132&quot;&gt;scienceAndEngineering.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; - should it ever be called into existence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T23:21:01.317" />
  <row Id="16739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16731" CreationDate="2009-08-23T23:59:58.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have experienced this at work where many things are blocked (ads, external email, lots of websites, etc.). Also I can only use IE at work. It is a localized javascript issue. I can see all the content of the page with just basic html formatting. The most common place I see it is trying go to &quot;page 2&quot; of my questions or answers. Are you running any no-script type plugin's? You may want to reset your browser once in a while to help keep things clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-23T23:59:58.633" />
  <row Id="16740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T00:13:02.537" Score="14" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you vote for a question to be moved to another site, the question is closed not with one, not with two, but with &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; grey boxes, all with a lot of links, all linking to different stuff. That is just too much visual noise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5567/toomuchnoise.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Whoa, MSPaint really compresses this heavily&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add insult to injury, there are two links to stackoverflow.com, but they link to different URLs: The top one links to the new question, the bottom one links to the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove the &quot;Locked by Community&quot; box - for migrated questions, this is unneccessary information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Either remove the third box or change the link to the target site to link to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ideally, combine the third and first box so that you only have one grey box in total: &quot;migrated to stackoverflow.com by User1, User2, User3, User4, User5 2 days ago&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Here is how I think it makes most sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i28.tinypic.com/23m0fgi.png&quot; alt=&quot;PNG, for great justice!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T07:27:52.450" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T07:27:52.450" Title="Migrating questions causes too much visual noise" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="16741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16740" CreationDate="2009-08-24T00:15:37.400" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree. I would even go so far as to say that the migrated announcement is the only one necessary, so long as all three (close/lock/migrate) are present in the revision list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T00:15:37.400" />
  <row Id="16743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2009-08-24T00:59:56.467" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current method spreads false information. It claims that all close votes were unanimously for a particular option - this is clearly not the case. In a recent question, I voted to close as &quot;belongs on superuser.com,&quot; whereas the majority voted &quot;not programming related.&quot; When the question was finally closed, it claimed that I, along with the others, voted to close because it was &quot;not programming related.&quot; That is false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T00:59:56.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16745" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:08:57.293" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a 71% accept ratio, and then I accepted a number of answers, but it stayed at 71%.  When will this get updated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T01:11:03.717" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:58:15.990" Title="When is the accepted answer ratio recalculated?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16744" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:11:51.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/#comment-32274&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the value is cached heavily so expect&#xA;  any change to take hours to appear&#xA;  (depends on traffic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:11:51.140" />
  <row Id="16747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16687" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:24:16.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the word 'mainly' could be inserted if there's more than one close reason given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(deliberately naive code follows...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;If (NumberOfCloseReasons &amp;gt; 1) {&#xA;  Message = &quot;Closed as mainly &quot; + MainCloseReason + &quot; by &quot; + ListAllClosers();&#xA;} else {&#xA;  Message = &quot;Closed as &quot; + MainCloseReason + &quot; by &quot; + ListAllClosers();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(sorry i should've put that answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/926/show-all-voted-close-types-when-a-question-is-closed/16749#16749&quot;&gt;over here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:24:16.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16674" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:26:55.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would like to see it show up only those names in the majority, quietly leaving out the names that chose other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed as &quot;not ninja turtle related&quot; by Splinter, Bebop, April O'neil, Casey Jones, Usagi Yojimbo an hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Less clutter, less disinformation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed as &quot;not ninja turtle related&quot; by Splinter, Casey Jones, Usagi Yojimbo an hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd still show the majority vote, you'd still show those who voted for that particular reason, but you don't mislead people by saying they all threw down for the same slice of pizza.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted transparency for all close votes, but didn't want to clutter it up more with other reasons, why not just list the names as other closers, but not linked to that particular choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed as &quot;not ninja turtle related&quot; by Splinter, Casey Jones, Usagi Yojimbo (other reasons by Shredder, Krang) an hour ago &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T01:54:59.710" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:54:59.710" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="16749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="926" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:27:51.247" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the word 'mostly' could be inserted if there's more than one close reason given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(deliberately naive code follows...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;If (NumberOfCloseReasons &amp;gt; 1) {&#xA;  Message = &quot;Closed as mostly &quot; + MainCloseReason + &quot; by &quot; + ListAllClosers();&#xA;} else {&#xA;  Message = &quot;Closed as &quot; + MainCloseReason + &quot; by &quot; + ListAllClosers();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would mostly avoid the problem of visual clutter and overcome the 'incorrectness' of the current approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:27:51.247" />
  <row Id="16750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16800" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:44:08.890" Score="6" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a search, and checked the FAQ, and checked out the questions which came up as related from the title, and still have nothing on this. But if this is a dupe, please close it and point me at the right question. :) (I say this because it feels like it SHOULD be a dupe; I just couldn't find it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's been talk on Meta about rep recalcs, when they're done, etc. What I'm curious about is what happens if you have an answer which was not marked community wiki, realized it should have been (IE, your rep was going up and you couldn't explain it), and you went and marked it wiki, and THEN, a recalc was performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got to thinking about this because I hopped on SO tonight, and I'll admit to being something of a semi-lurker there recently, but my rep feels high. Not TOO high, but high. And I remembered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/213508/why-do-personal-software-projects-fail-i-e-projects-with-the-goal-of-leading-t/213531#213531&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time, I guess the question hadn't been wiki-fied. I answered, not realizing that. I recall marking it wiki myself after noticing my rep increasing inexplicably. (However, I don't see that in the edit history; in the edit history it looks like Community marked it as a wiki answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, if/when my SO rep is recalculated, will I lose the rep I gained on that answer? I feel I should -- it should have ALWAYS been wiki (in fact the whole question should have been). But I'm curious as to how the implementation detail works out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, if possible, please refrain from pointing out the irony that I also asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5329/are-we-too-rep-focused&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:34:13.390" Title="How do questions marked community wiki AFTER you answer impact rep upon recalc" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16753" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:50:57.113" Score="2" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure I saw someone pointing that there is a feed similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/48465/recent&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/48465/recent&lt;/a&gt;, but that gets only the questions. I believe it had an .html in the url, and it was hosted by SO itself. Does anyone know it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T15:08:32.207" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:09:59.753" Title="Where is the feed for a user's recent questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16750" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:51:00.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do not. If you answer a question and it is not marked as CW, it's not auto-converted once the question is made into a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP did not make it a wiki, you are left to your discretion as to whether or not to mark your answer a wiki. All rep earned before the post becomes a wiki will stay there, even after rep recalcs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:51:00.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16751" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:53:21.087" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=48465&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=48465&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increase &lt;code&gt;pagesize&lt;/code&gt; to put all questions on one page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Apparently there is a JSON option too: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.json?userid=48465&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.json?userid=48465&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T15:09:59.753" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:09:59.753" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16744" CreationDate="2009-08-24T01:58:15.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it is going to be something that is cached a lot, you may not see any changes except for a few times a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T01:58:15.990" />
  <row Id="16756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-24T02:19:47.977" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the accept rate was added to the display, I've had several accepted answers on old questions. While I don't consider my own answers to generally be harmful, I'm still somewhat worried by it. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180639/&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; for example. Useless tongue-in-cheek answer because I figured the question would be closed anyway, suddenly accepted yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes me wonder what else people are choosing to accept, just to reach 100% accept rate. I myself felt the urge to accept an answer on a question, even though the answer did not help solve my problem. I thought about deleting the question altogether for a moment as well :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, it is sometimes annoying if you take a lot of time to answer a question to the best of your ability to find that nobody else is taking the time to attempt to understand the question. Not a single point from upvotes, and the poster seems to completely forget about the question as well. Still, I'm beginning to think that I'd prefer having no points over this artificially boosted accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering how the accept rate is calculated anyway. I have asked 7 questions on Stack Overflow. One has no answers at all, and one has only a single answer that wasn't very helpful. I've accepted an answer on the other 5. My accept rate is 80%. Neither 5/6 nor 5/7 is very close to 80%. I've accepted my own answer on 1 question, but that still doesn't explain the 80%?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64767" LastEditorUserId="64767" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T02:26:33.673" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T02:26:33.673" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16761" CreationDate="2009-08-24T02:54:05.723" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm a user on all 4 sites, when I want to check for responses I have to individually visit each Recent Activity page. Can I have a &quot;combined view&quot; that aggregates data from all 4 sites on one page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also when checking up on a particular user, I'd like to see all his best questions and answers, not just those that relate to the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T02:59:26.663" LastActivityDate="2010-07-19T01:34:24.347" Title="Combine recent activity and user pages of SO/SF/SU/META" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16760" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:00:05.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites are mutually exclusive. I don't think SO should implement anything like this. Most programmers on SO won't care much for the activity taking place on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T03:00:05.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16764" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:06:21.690" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do reputation points earned on a question or an answer get taken away when that question becomes a community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question becomes community wiki, can reputation points still be awarded to answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a question that was community wiki because (I think) it was edited 4 times by the original question author.  So... does my prior answer to him not win me anything any more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:16:22.763" Title="What happens to old vote points when a question becomes community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16762" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:09:52.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you get to keep your acquired rep post-conversion. I'm more interested in what happens upon a recalc, if you keep the rep points that came from what ultimately ended up as a cw-post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T03:09:52.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16762" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:15:57.597" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you answer a question that was not community wiki, you earn rep as normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question becomes community wiki, your answer will stay in its normal state and still gain or lose reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer is flipped over to CW, you will not lose any previous earned rep, but you will be prevented from earning or losing further rep on that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a recalculation, I am not certain what would happen with something that gets flipped over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T08:16:22.763" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:16:22.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:16:38.237" Score="-3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I was thinking (dangerous, I know) - would it be worthwhile to add a slight &quot;reputation slip&quot; mechanism if a user isn't seen for a decent length of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if you're not seen for, say, 6 months your rep sinks a little bit to reflect the fact that you're not very current.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good idea?  Bad idea?  Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133319" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T04:23:30.287" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:53:41.027" Title="Inactivity and Reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16765" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:18:22.927" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not see why one's reputation should be lowered over the course of time. That reputation was earned and it is unlikely that a period of inactivity should cause the system to begin losing faith in the user who put forth the time and effort to achieve that score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not mind seeing a timeframe scale in terms of user rankings, but I believe that the user's all time score should remain so regardless of their activity levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T03:18:22.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:19:05.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inevitably this means that we can also measure in microskeets and nanoskeets (yes that day will come!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133319" LastEditorUserId="133319" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T07:52:05.730" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:52:05.730" />
  <row Id="16769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:38:21.063" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the OP thinks a question should be moved, is that enough reason to move it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the answers, it might be a better idea to allow the OP + one other vote to move. I suspect that most of the cases where the OP asks to have a question moved would be for the better because it indicates they now have a better idea of what each site is for or of what kind of question they are asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastEditorUserId="1343" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T16:23:26.443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:23:26.443" Title="Should &quot;move to serverfault&quot; need more votes if the OP votes for it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16769" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:41:53.007" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been demonstrated repeatedly in the past that the OP is not the best judge of where their question belongs (which is why we have a migration mechanism in the first place). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would actually be more likely to say that the OP should be completely barred from voting on their own topic in both closing and reopening. If they want it closed, they should flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T03:41:53.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16765" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:56:29.217" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And how would we define &quot;active?&quot; Posting questions? Answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to say it, but the reason I went through a fairly prolonged period of inactivity was because I couldn't beat the fastest guns in the west. This is not a criticism, but I visited the site, browsed the questions, found ones I felt like answering, and saw that three or four others beat me to the punch with well-thought-out, well-organized answers. I had nothing to add, and therefore (following the intent of the site) didn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So under this scenario, would a user's rep dip because of that? Or is lurking considered &quot;activity?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about posting questions but not answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about commenting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention TheTXI's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16765/inactivity-and-repuation/16766#16766&quot;&gt;excellent reasoning&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T03:56:29.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16765" CreationDate="2009-08-24T04:16:15.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inactivity isn't always the fault of the user. If you're primarily active in a niche tag that undergoes a dip in posting activity, you may have no questions to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T04:16:15.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16674" CreationDate="2009-08-24T04:27:22.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a thought on this matter the other day. When the SCOTUS issues decisions, there is an official decision authored by one member of the majority. Other members of the majority can join that decision, or write a &quot;concurring&quot; opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could image a message like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; by Joe. Q Random, John Doe, and John Galt with concurring opinions by A. H. Acker, and A. Non Umous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably too confusing, but there it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T04:57:04.960" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T04:57:04.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4459" CreationDate="2009-08-24T04:45:32.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've fixed your accounts, ensuring that you've gotten the association bonuses based on your Stack Overflow reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/googles-openids-are-unique-per-domain/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google has made this process a real pain!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T04:45:32.753" />
  <row Id="16776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T05:14:19.043" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've run into issues a few times where I've wanted to ask a question but basically can't ask it because it gets marked as a duplicate, even though there are legitimate reasons to ask the question.  This occurs in the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate, but there aren't any good answers for the first time it was asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate, but technologies have changed since the answers to the first question came out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a duplicate, but it is strongly related to the other question.  However I can't add to the original question.  This usually happens when the contextual information for a question is the same but the question is different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously any solution to these problems should not allow a loophole causing people to be able to ask duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came up with the following possible solutions to each situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People other than the person who asked the question should be allowed to add bounty and accept an answer.  This gets it put on the &quot;featured questions&quot; list so it hopefully gets an answer.  The answer that the original poster accepted stays at the top, and other answers accepted for bounty get placed right below it, sorted by the pseudocode &lt;code&gt;comment::compareTo()&lt;/code&gt; function implemented in the pseudocode section of this post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For questions more than a year old, add a simple &quot;request update&quot; button.  This opens a &quot;ask question&quot; entry form identical to the one already used, allowing the new question asker to edit and the question.  In the list of questions on the main page, the question should have [update] appended to the question title (similar to the way [closed] is appended sometimes now).  The question can be marked as a duplicate of any question &lt;em&gt;except&lt;/em&gt; the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a &quot;extend question&quot; button.  This starts a new question with a link back to the original question.  This way the user doesn't have to post the same contextual information, and thereby risk getting marked a duplicate.  Instead the user just asks their question and makes reference back to the other question for context (this can already be done manually by adding a link to the previous question, but having a mechanism for this would make things simpler).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am out of work right now so I would happily help implement these features. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pseudocode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/*&#xA; * I don't know how the actual stackoverflow implementation works,&#xA; * but in this case, the answer considered greater by this compareTo()&#xA; * is listed higher on the page.  This makes sense intuitively (greater = higher)&#xA; * but for performance reasons it may make more sense to reverse that&#xA; * (lower = earlier in list, earlier in list = earlier on the page).&#xA; */&#xA;int comment::compareTo(comment other):&#xA;    if this.bounty &amp;gt; other.bounty : return 1&#xA;    if this.bounty == other.bounty:&#xA;        if this.upvotes &amp;gt; other.upvotes : return 1&#xA;        if this.upvotes == other.upvotes : return 0&#xA;        if this.upvotes &amp;lt; other.upvotes : return -1&#xA;    if this.bounty &amp;lt; other.bounty : return -1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133348" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:07:39.147" Title="False positives when using a community to catch duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16765" CreationDate="2009-08-24T05:36:38.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take away their Woot badge! How dare they not visit SO obsessively? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19530" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:36:38.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16765" CreationDate="2009-08-24T05:45:16.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are inactive you do not get much rep, mean while other users are active and keep getting rep. Thus your rep becomes smaller in relation to other users, so in a way you are already &quot;punished&quot; for inactivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastEditorUserId="1431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T06:53:41.027" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:53:41.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16776" CreationDate="2009-08-24T05:52:41.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a practical matter, one &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; ask near duplicates. Sometimes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps to add a link to the not-quite-a-duplicate and an explanation as to why you think your question is different at the top of your new question. It is particularly useful to explain why the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to the putative duplicate &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; helpful: this will serve as a guide to people looking to answer you new question. No guarantees, of course, but definitely a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding such an explanation late, is generally less helpful, so the lesson is: do your research, and admit to the likeness right up front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T16:07:39.147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:07:39.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-28T12:46:58.570" Score="65" ViewCount="3905" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have created an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stacked.ra-ajax.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Open Source implementation of StackOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;. It's very early and I haven't done all (obviously) of the features that StackOverflow has. But I will with time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there others that would want to have access to something like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what would be the features you would expect it to have? What license would you want it to have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created a small blog where I &lt;a href=&quot;http://ra-ajax.org/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com.blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;talk about Stacked&lt;/a&gt; and there's even a video featuring a demonstration. You can register (without confirming your email address), so please play around with it and give feedback about what you think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I did this is because I started using StackOverflow.com just this week and I was &lt;em&gt;instantly&lt;/em&gt; addicted. StackOverflow is the way people should communicate when they need help. And I wanted this for myself for &lt;a href=&quot;http://ra-ajax.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ra-Ajax&lt;/a&gt; as our primary forum mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood created a brilliant way to help others and ask for help. I want the rest of the world (including me - and the users of Ra-Ajax) to also have access to a system like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet to be implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment support&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;RSS (or Atom?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;better ways to browse profiles &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;editing profiles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;email confirmation when registering, etc. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the &quot;core&quot; features of StackOverflow.com have been implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code is ASP.NET using ActiveRecord and Ra-Ajax (obviously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's about 1000 lines of code and the code can be found at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/stacked/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google code project page&lt;/a&gt; - though I haven't created a release yet. But you can access the SVN anonymously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give me feedback please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:27:53.637" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:27:53.637" Title="Stacked - an Open Source implementation of StackOverflow.com" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="16781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2008-11-28T12:50:16.350" Score="50" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think AJAX is the wrong model to use &lt;em&gt;pervasively&lt;/em&gt; in an application like SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use middle-click all the time to open questions up in multiple tabs, to open different sorting orders, etc. REST architectural style is designed the way it is for a reason; there is concrete functionality that REST provides that AJAX or classical rich UI designs don't naturally implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3712" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2008-11-28T13:29:52.167" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be too early for you yet, but I'd consider using OpenID like StackOverflow does. The last thing I would want is another login ID to deal with. StackOverflow took a big leap by using it and I think it works well. If you're making a clone, why not copy one of the major advantages of the site's registration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2008-11-28T14:12:49.537" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browse posts tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt; and try adding some of the more popular ideas that haven't been implemented on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T17:26:24.337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:26:24.337" />
  <row Id="16784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2008-11-28T14:53:03.060" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most important functional aspects of StackOverflow is the reputation engine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you could make headway on an OSS one of them that'd be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157938" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2008-11-28T15:28:48.433" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most important thing about Q/A sites is the community, I would say that having SO clones floating around would fragment the community and this would be a bad thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To have such a site for a limited crowd aka as a wiki replacement for a specific company / niche would be very nice however. &#xA;So good work :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After checking it out I must say I'm impressed by the work done especially if you've been able to keep it so small. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Features that would make it even better (judging from video):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mimicking the fuzzy search while asking questions. &#xA;&lt;li&gt;AD / OpenID support&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intelligent monitoring of how populair posts are (views by time)&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sorting by column, views, answers, unanswered&#xA;&lt;li&gt;preview for comments with parsing of markup&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags / Category / Tree support - some sort of hierarchical overview of questions besides the flat view. &#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keeping it 100% (hassle) free to deploy. (not sure about costs of ra-ajax for this)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2008-11-28T16:20:37.610" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should make your website easy for the admin to add rules for badges and for reputation privileges. Something that let the admin play with variables to create rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;badgeXYZ=questionvote&amp;gt;50;//For badges&#xA;enableedit&amp;gt;=4000reputations;//For reputation&#xA;enabledeletequestion&amp;gt;=5000reputations &amp;amp;&amp;amp; hasanswerminimum:10questions;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could been a type of scripting or simply something that let the administrator to change the rule with different parameters. This would be very great features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2008-11-29T10:41:15.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is great - just the other day I saw a need for this kind of thing in a community based scenario (actually a more local council / political twist in aus, newcastle) where people could comment on ideas and policies that were gaining momentum. It would work in many environments - especially in industry bodies where reform  or improvement was needed, that required input from whoever needed / wanted to be involded. I dont see it as a fragmentation of what stackoverflow is trying to do - but an expansion into other areas that would benefit from an open source version of the idea. Nice stuff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" />
  <row Id="16788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-01-04T19:03:19.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wonderful job. I went through 'Stacked'. I really liked the URL rewrite. Its a good start buddy. I can volunteer myself for any code development. Let me know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-01-06T01:11:44.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/cahoots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sourceforge.net/projects/cahoots&lt;/a&gt;, which is an in-progress expansion of the SO idea built around the Q&amp;amp;A/reputation model. PHP implementation and open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141107" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-01-06T01:22:40.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is awesome, i hope all future forums where it's discussion heavy will be based on this design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to leverage Google for your searches in the site too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question though, did you manage to contact Jeff &amp;amp; Joel about this?&#xA;I'm just curious to know if they're fine with this and if they can help you expedite your project. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-01-11T01:10:42.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this very interesting, thumbs up and great it sparked into something like this. I find it impressive what you achieved in the short time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things form top of my head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can't log in via Yahoo OpenID provider. I get redirect to Yahoo, but when I come back I'm on the start page like before and no visual cue that I'm logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For an &quot;open source&quot; application it has a very high &quot;reputation&quot; ;) for &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; log messages. When I look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/stacked/source/list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;changes&quot;&gt;changes&lt;/a&gt; and see most of the time &quot;No log message&quot; I feel rather turned down. I would not like to participate in something where basic rules of open/community/source are ignored. Just my POV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think, and given the votes I consider it strong, Barry Kelly makes an argument here. Such a concept of a platform shouldn't be built around AJAX per se. It should be the other way around. If there's an issue with JS, your project basically stops working for the user. E.g. I'm using SO on my E61i with Opera mini; with that setup I would be out of luck at &lt;em&gt;stacked&lt;/em&gt;. I really think a basic principle of such an app should also be accessibility, as a forethought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a reason why SO delivers the message ID quite in the beginning of each URL. Consider URLs pasted &lt;em&gt;wherever&lt;/em&gt; and being split up at some point (e.g. emails, but can happen everywhere). SO still works because it's actually ignoring what is after the ID/slash. I can write &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/325713/i-love-jesus&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/325713/i-love-jesus&lt;/a&gt; and still get this message. In &lt;em&gt;stacked&lt;/em&gt; I get a 404 right when just a single character is missing. This, too, adds to the &quot;accessibility&quot; spirit I was trying to make in the last point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The inline preview when entering a search term needs a bit tuning for timing. Or an indication whether it is doing something in the background or not. At first I would have written it doesn't work until I realized it is maybe just bad JS timeout timing or the server just does take longer to perform it's search.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm still not convinced the search is working properly :) I'm missing a proper result when e.g. entering &quot;swallows&quot; (is part of the message at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stacked.ra-ajax.org/does-ra-ajax-work-with-iphone-s-safari.quiz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stacked.ra-ajax.org/does-ra-ajax-work-with-iphone-s-safari.quiz&lt;/a&gt; ) and, when hitting enter, I'm missing the search term in the URL for linking. I think hitting enter always brings one to the same page the user was before (no separate search result page?) and the inline result view is the dominant result? Feels very weird and gave me quite an irritation. Btw, searching for &lt;strong&gt;\'&lt;/strong&gt; finds the &lt;strong&gt;'&lt;/strong&gt; in questions but breaks the highlighting, works with only &lt;strong&gt;'&lt;/strong&gt; as search term. Just discovered that searching for &lt;strong&gt;the an&lt;/strong&gt; breaks the inline search result highlighting, revealing broken HTML tags used for highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would be nice when entering a search term which is a tag would lead on directly to the page with all questions with this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To bad it's ASP.NET and not something with a more&quot;open&quot; background like Ruby, PHP, Java, whatever and also limited to Windows (didn't bother trying Mono yet). But hey, that's your right, it's your project ;-) And it's likely the reason something was set up that quick, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wow, now this reads a tiny bit like bashing (I don't want to conceal I'm not fan of MS centric architectures) but actually this post should was meant to be delivered with a positive spirit after all ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my yahoo provider had worked I would have posted in there over I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131072" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-01-11T05:06:53.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, for one, you need to find a popular blogger and team up with them to create a podcast to promote your site :-)   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I would like the ability to sort by various categories and also to more easily be able to tell what answers just caused me to gain more reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135325" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-03-31T03:22:24.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that it's mandatory, simply a matter of curiosity -- did you use all of the same technologies as SO? &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-04-18T04:24:18.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;will stackoverflow opensource?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" />
  <row Id="16795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-04-18T04:53:29.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best possible improvement for another implementation would be to remove all JavaScript from the comment box, which slows my Dual Core E8500 with 4gb RAM down to a crawl. It's so annoying, I rarely comment even when I want to. (Actually, most of the live-updating JavaScript nonsense on here does that to me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To disagree with another answerer, I despise OpenID and desperately wish I didn't have to use it. Sure, I don't have to remember another ID (of course, I do have to remember which OpenID provider I used), but it means my membership to StackOverflow is dependent on Yahoo's reliability and me keeping my Yahoo account up to date. If I decide I hate Yahoo and never want to use it again, I should be able to do that without affecting my StackOverflow membership (think modularity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean for this to be a complaint about StackOverflow, which has definitely helped me through some tricky situations. I mean for this to be ideas on things that would make me more apt to want to use your software than StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another definite area for improvement is DISCUSSION. StackOverflow encourages questions and answers. Specifically, single questions with multiple people responding with a single answer. Follow-ups and follow-ups to the follow-ups are basically a hack of comments or post edits and they are neither easy to write nor easy to read. I'd also like to see what a forum could look like where not only can answers be 0..*, but questions can too. (No, I'm really not sure what that means, but I can definitely tell you it's not like anything that exists today.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I think questions being 0..* could eliminate (or reduce) the problem of duplicate questions. Once a single, really good answer is written, all questions that it applies to can be aggregated as questions to which said answer is the answer. So when someone goes to check their question, they will see that it has been rerouted as answered (and not be forced to click a &quot;Here's where someone asked this before&quot; type of link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of saying, &quot;Given this question, what are the answers,&quot; it would be saying, &quot;Given this really good answer/article/essay, what questions does it answer?&quot; Some articles I know of on the web answer numerous questions. For example, this article/dialog/story/whatever (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/xpepisode.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/xpepisode.htm&lt;/a&gt;) answers a lot of questions of TDD and how to write tests for TDD, as well as &quot;doing the simplest thing to make the test pass.&quot; Why should someone have to post a link to this article as the answer to numerous questions instead of the article link existing in one place and pointing to ALL the questions it answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-04-18T05:00:55.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would want to use Stacked as a collaboratin tool in my workplace.  I believe that a large organization could benefit from this model.  I also believe there is a real market for making money with this product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153232" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" />
  <row Id="16797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:02:03.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kudos to you, sir, this is great.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after researching open source clones of stack overflow, I have to say that cnprog is far and away the best.  It is truly amazing, down to almost the exact same interface for nearly everything (including, e.g. inline previews of posts).  Also has OpenId support out of the box and some features SO doesn't have (like localization).  Finally, it is built on top of python/django which IMO is a far superior platform than .NET, particularly for an open-source project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Source:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar/tree/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar/tree/master&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Example (in Chinese):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnprog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cnprog.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discusson on SO:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/694966/impressed-or-angry-at-http-www-cnprog-com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/694966/impressed-or-angry-at-http-www-cnprog-com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a thread on meta.stackoverflow discussing several other clones here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136123" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:12:37.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only adding my congratulations and best wishes to your project. Open a 'donate us' site ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" />
  <row Id="16799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-08-24T03:42:05.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be off-topic, but instead of SO clones, I'm think it would be a good idea to focus our efforts in writing specifications of SO &quot;modules&quot; like the reputation system. I know it's already in the faq, but we know there are some details that are across long blog posts, blog commments, and such. Being in a and a centralized system would be interesting (I didn't search a lot of this, so if I'm wrong, please correct me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you already have an incredible communnity (the most difficult part), in a phpBB forum and such, it's working, and it would be a great idea do just add the reputation system to it. Why not? Sometimes you want to create a social network, it's not going to be question/answer oriented, but the reputation system would fit as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, a centralized, maybe wiki based, well written place of specifications of the great features SO has could add a lot to all communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T05:53:11.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16750" CreationDate="2009-08-24T06:34:13.390" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki is a date field, as you can see yourself in the cc-wiki dumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes prior to the date count towards rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes after the date do not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:34:13.390" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16762" CreationDate="2009-08-24T06:34:42.003" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki is a date field, as you can see yourself in the cc-wiki dumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes prior to the date count towards rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes after the date do not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:34:42.003" />
  <row Id="16802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16765" CreationDate="2009-08-24T06:51:52.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This idea has come up 3-4 times in the course of development and has been universally and soundly panned every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T06:51:52.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16674" CreationDate="2009-08-24T07:02:30.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The correct thing to do in this case, rather than opening 20 skadillion meta topics about it, is to flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that someone ELSE flagged the question and suggested it should be migrated, so I migrated it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not make simple problems simple? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:02:30.790" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16687" CreationDate="2009-08-24T07:16:45.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand your issue with the close votes and showing your name next to a not chosen reason.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But we do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; need a definition for duplicate. This must be defined for every question anew. And it is by the people voting to close the question (or the people providing a link to the dupe and cannot vote for close). There is no rule you can make up for this.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You still can argue against the closing with your comments, which you did. And your question was re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:16:45.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T07:16:45.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16839" CreationDate="2009-08-24T07:33:26.953" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has several subjective/poll questions that do not have an answer (by definition), I wish there was a way to let SO (and other community users) understand that there is no right answer to the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:09:03.243" Title="Mark a question as &quot;unanswerable&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T07:53:09.970" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I change my OpenID on StackOverflow without losing my questions/ratings and settings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Yahoo! OpenID path has changed and I'd like to update my profile to match, but can't seem to change the OpenID path anywhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T08:01:01.720" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:04:00.310" Title="Changing my OpenID on StackOverflow without losing my questions/ratings" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T07:56:40.650" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading some answers about ruby and there are a lot of links to _why's sites. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rubyinside.com/why-the-lucky-stiff-links-2333.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;_why has recently left the community&lt;/a&gt; and took all his sites with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost every introduction question about ruby will include at least one or two links to one of his sites. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6806/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-ruby&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6806/what-is-the-best-way-to-learn-ruby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32516/getting-started-with-ruby-development&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32516/getting-started-with-ruby-development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/85916/is-there-a-tutorial-that-teaches-common-ruby-programming-idioms-used-by-experienc&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/85916/is-there-a-tutorial-that-teaches-common-ruby-programming-idioms-used-by-experienc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/402847/learning-ruby-recommended-blogs-to-read&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/402847/learning-ruby-recommended-blogs-to-read&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260905/whats-the-best-easiest-gui-library-for-ruby&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260905/whats-the-best-easiest-gui-library-for-ruby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a bit more effort I could probably find more questions with a lot of deadlinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion for discussion was, what would be a good way to solve deadlinks in the answers/comments? Not every site _why created has resurfaced somewhere else, but some could be replaced by new links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wanted the discussion to go beyond this specific problem of deadlinks in the ruby answers, an automatic solution would be to let the links be scanned in a batch and when found dead be replaced by a google cache or webarchive version of the page, and perhaps mark it so that the community can replace the link with an alternative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11098" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:29:17.573" Title="How to cleanup deadlinks" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16769" CreationDate="2009-08-24T07:58:42.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd see more of a case for if the OP votes to close it as a duplicate - Given the search is &quot;less than brilliant&quot;, and others may come along and identify the dupe, it allows them to stick their hands up, plead guilty and speed up the process; albeit currently by a single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &quot;move to [other site]&quot;, it may be the case that the OP doesn't know about/read any of Jeff/Joels blogs/tweets. Could the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page be reformatted to better highlight the other sites - to me, I'd subconsciously discounted the right hand side bar as advertising space, and applied the appropriate amount of attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T07:58:42.987" />
  <row Id="16809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16806" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:04:00.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;how to change your openid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:04:00.310" />
  <row Id="16810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16807" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:04:42.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you come up with a fix, please apply it to the whole of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:04:42.663" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16805" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:06:27.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since CW questions do not affect reputation and has no negative effect on anyone directly, even when accepting an answer I don't see an issue with the problem. I see no need to define this even further as it is covered fairly well in the FAQ already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/115866/balpha&quot;&gt;balpha&lt;/a&gt; already pointed out, it does not affect the acceptance rate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:06:27.277" />
  <row Id="16812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16740" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:06:53.377" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16740/migrating-questions-causes-too-much-visual-noise/16741#16741&quot;&gt;Kyle's answer&lt;/a&gt; in one aspect: The close vote information should still be visible after the migration. My proposal: having one notice saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Migrated to &lt;em&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;UserA, UserB, UserC&lt;/em&gt; 2 days ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:06:53.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16731" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:09:49.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be running into dynamic request throttling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What browser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a serious JavaScript-related bug in Firefox (latest and greatest at the time of my posting) which will sometimes cause it to force-reload EVERY element on the page from the server even when it shouldn't. We've reproed this locally as well (and not-reproed it in Chrome under the same circumstances).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:09:49.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16776" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:10:04.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In cases where a question is not really a duplicate and you have validated this by editing the question or commenting on the question with a valid explanation, you can also flag it for moderator attention if you can't vote to re-open or there is not enough re-open votes. The moderators can override these with a single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do however agree with Jeff and the others that without links to the relevant questions there can be no confirmation if this is a problem or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:10:04.353" />
  <row Id="16815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16823" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:10:56.207" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else noticed that the images on serverfault are a bit 'grainy' lately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bayimg.com/image/aadihaach.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is on Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu Linux Jaunty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132503" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:06:36.050" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:06:36.050" Title="images on serverfault a bit grainy?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16815" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:13:44.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strange, looks like your browser is scaling the images to some weird height and width. Have you tried force refreshing / clearing cache?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:13:44.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:28:11.163" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1321071/how-can-to-launch-the-mail-app-from-within-my-app&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has been edited whilst I was answering (or just after, or just before). I know it's changed (there were formatting issues previously), yet the edit doesn't show. This also makes me look a little silly as I believe the question wasn't originally tagged as [iphone] (as I have that as an ignored tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:06:12.087" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:06:12.087" Title="Question has been edited, but not showing as such" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16807" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:29:17.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A possible solution could look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extract links from all posts with an age over a ceratin threshold (6 months?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check if the link still exists&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it doesn't, notify the OP on his next logon to review this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have several problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Performing the check comes with a cost (I'm more concerned about bandwidth than CPU usage here, as Jeff likes to point out: Hardware is cheap, bandwidth can get really expensive)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The test is unreliable. You can send a GET command to the server. In case of *&lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this is pretty straightforward, the sites don't exist any longer, so the GET fails. But what if the site is down temporarily? You would need to perform a DNS lookup to know for sure. And if the page has just been removed from the site, but they don't send a 404 but provide an error page?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users who often provide links in their answers would at some point get spammed with dead link notices. The more you contribute, the more notices you receive. Does the S[OFU] team really want to annoy users who contribute a lot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, your question here shows that the system is not broken, but actually working: A user (i.e. you) detected those broken links. Maybe you already fixed some of them yourself, but I think now that you alerted  the &lt;em&gt;meta task force&lt;/em&gt;, I am confident that there will be enough volunteers willing to to some community service to clean up this mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:29:17.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:30:26.700" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that asking a question that had been previously asked isn't very welcome in forums like stackoverflow. The logic behind this is clear: DRY (don't repeat yourself). In general I agree to this rule, but I think sometimes there are exceptions to this rule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I have just read a question in stackoverflow with title &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/540482/well-designed-django-example-code-to-learn-from&quot;&gt;Well designed Django example code to learn from&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Actually there are some good answers to this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think this kind of questions should be asked again periodically, because there is not a unique true answer to them. There might be new additions to good django codes. There might be some people who know very good answers to the question but who missed the question when it was asked first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: If someone asks a previously asked question that has no unique answer, after some period of time, will it be treated as offensive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134523" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:47:51.670" Title="Asking a previous question again. Isn't it useful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16817" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:33:18.860" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was probably edited within the 5 minutes grace period after the original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was introduced because many people write their question or answer, post it and the minute it appears on the screen see that they made a stupid mistake. (I know it happenes to me quite often). Correcting these mistakes within the grace period has the effect of not counting for automatic wiki mode (I think it was 5 edits after which your post is automatically put into wiki mode).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:33:18.860" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16819" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:33:21.373" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's better to edit the question or some answer, or add a bounty to it, so it gets bumped on the front page again, rather than posting a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also these related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1471/etiquette-how-to-bump-a-question-thats-the-same-as-the-one-you-wanted-to-ask&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1471/etiquette-how-to-bump-a-question-thats-the-same-as-the-one-you-wanted-to-ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T08:47:51.670" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:47:51.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16819" CreationDate="2009-08-24T08:41:30.060" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really a mixture of both, as we are a hybrid system. It depends on the circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes, re-asking is OK.&lt;/strong&gt; It's 2 years later! New versions have been released! We learned that GOTO is evil since then! The programming world moves fast, so a lot of the old answers may be incorrect or refer to out of date stuff, and the prospect of getting them all whipped into shape via editing is slim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes, editing is better.&lt;/strong&gt; Adding another question, assuming it's &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the same, just splits readership.* So why not edit the old question into shape and make it more accurate, more up to date, or at least not egregiously wrong based on today's world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: There are a thousand &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; to ask about asphalt (Q&amp;amp;A), but only one wikipedia page on &lt;em&gt;the definition of asphalt&lt;/em&gt; (WIKI). Which one of these guidelines best fits your question? And why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question.. it depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;** (The assumption of perfect duplicates can be tenuous. Also, sometimes we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; duplicates, to capture synonyms and the wildly different ways people ask similar questions.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T08:46:44.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T08:46:44.637" />
  <row Id="16823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16815" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:07:16.063" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try pressing Ctrl-0 (zero). That will reset your zoom-level for the page. Since version 3, Firefox will not only zoom the text size, but also the images, and the scaling algorithm is not the prettiest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the text is to small for you at normal zoom level, you can check &quot;View -&gt; Zoom -&gt; Only zoom text&quot; (or something like that, I'm using the German version) and try if that works for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:07:16.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:20:04.803" Score="1" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is ths accepting rate for a question? What gives with that number below the name of the person asking the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T10:37:36.863" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T10:37:36.863" Title="What is accepting rate for a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16824" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:21:20.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is ratio of how many questions you asked and for how many you accepted some answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13198" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:22:07.733" />
  <row Id="16826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16824" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:21:20.837" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Belongs on meta, but see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6521" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:22:07.733" />
  <row Id="16827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:31:24.593" Score="1" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in possibly writing an aggregation app for subject/tags interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will StackOverload be providing some sort of API for the public?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151308" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-29T20:50:04.693" LastActivityDate="2010-05-29T20:50:04.693" Title="Does StackOverflow provide a public API for querying?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16827" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:38:43.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not provided by Stackoverflow, but here you can query the data dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:38:43.643" />
  <row Id="16830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16827" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:43:00.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can download the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Data Dump&lt;/a&gt; under a Creative Commons license, and query the entire thing yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the article, it's anonymised, and by its nature it won't be up to date, but it'll certainly give you the ability to run your own stats :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130029" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:43:00.280" />
  <row Id="16831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16827" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:43:40.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically for tags: You can subscribe to the RSS feed for particular tags. Here's the one for the &quot;python&quot; tag, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/python&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/python&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just click on the tag you're interested in, and then on the RSS symbol &lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/Img/feed-icon-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:43:40.093" />
  <row Id="16832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16842" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:45:08.997" Score="5" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question has been tagged with &lt;kbd&gt;sqlserver-2008&lt;/kbd&gt;, should it also be tagged with &lt;kbd&gt;sqlserver&lt;/kbd&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question has been tagged with &lt;kbd&gt;sqlserver&lt;/kbd&gt; and references a feature only present in SQL Server 2008, should it also be tagged with &lt;kbd&gt;sqlserver-2008&lt;/kbd&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T13:51:45.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T09:45:52.130" Title="When should product versions be included in tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16832" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:55:25.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would tag it sql-server for sure. This is on my favourite tag list. sql-server-2008 is not on that list. I do not want to put every version there.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I think you can omit versions in tags completely and point this out in your question only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:55:25.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T09:55:25.637" />
  <row Id="16834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16832" CreationDate="2009-08-24T09:57:04.247" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like many other users, I watch lots of different tags; sqlserver, sql-server, ms-sql, etc. This isn't a good solution, but is a result of letting users create their own tags, and isn't really that much overhead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, when asking questions, I'd stick to one tag rather than using multiple (redundant) tags: sqlserver if the question is common to many versions, or sqlserver-2008 if it references some feature specific to that version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This saves polluting the tag-space, frees up some tags for moderators and future editors, and avoids annoying people who have no interest in SQL Server 2005 if that's what my question relates to :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130029" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T09:57:04.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T09:57:04.247" />
  <row Id="16836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16838" CreationDate="2009-08-24T10:39:06.783" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/4331/broken-stop-button-on-vista-sp2-media-center-any-ideas-when-this-will-be-fixed&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/4331/broken-stop-button-on-vista-sp2-media-center-any-ideas-when-this-will-be-fixed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which in the past had a bounty, counts towards my accept rate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands the only way for me to fix this, is to turn my question into community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should questions which were bounties and no answer was accepted, count towards my accept rate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T10:44:13.620" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:00:17.100" Title="Questions where answers can not be accepted, should not count towards the accept rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16836" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:00:17.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You didn't accept an answer, whether there was a bounty or not. Considering there was no accepted bounty and therefore no-one got the bounty indicates that you did not accept all your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the accept rate is important for you then make it a CW. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:00:17.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16805" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:09:03.243" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;99% of the time, if you have a question that doesn't have a &quot;correct&quot; answer possible on it, then at the most you should be making it Community Wiki, and more likely you shouldn't be posting it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:09:03.243" />
  <row Id="16840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26952" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:10:41.213" Score="4" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you trigger the look-up when the textfield's blur event is raised? Often times I'll copy/paste the id of the duplicate question, and then click off of the textbox...and nothing happens. I then have to click back in, add a space to the end, delete the space and then it does the lookup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have the same lookup functionality triggered on blur as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T08:30:09.413" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:00:01.470" Title="&quot;Exact duplicate&quot; lookup on Blur" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16832" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:14:10.160" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally if I have an SQL Sever question, I will only tag it with the specific year if it is an absolute requirement and generally I will include both &quot;sql-server&quot; and &quot;sql-server-[year]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also possible that users can set up an interesting tag for &quot;sql-server~&quot; that will allow for them to see any tag that starts with &quot;sql-server&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:14:10.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T11:14:10.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:19:13.410" Score="4" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem I'm seeing in some questions is just not enough info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the solutions would be to associate templates with tags, or some other kind of requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good example to this is regex:    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: What platform/tool/programming language are you using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: What are expected input(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: What are expected output(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: What is your best regex shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134530" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T18:58:15.367" Title="Add requirements for a tag (maybe a template?)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="16844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16843" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:22:33.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without some more information about what you are talking about it is difficult to give any type of logical response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea at all what this &quot;template&quot; you are talking about should mean. Are you implying that every tag should be made in a certain way, or that every question tagged a certain way should try and fill these required fields?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is the latter, what you just described as &quot;examples&quot; are probably something that every user thinks about putting in their question. Those aren't just regex examples. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:22:33.933" />
  <row Id="16845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16843" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:22:46.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always gently prod the asker by commenting on their question and hopefully they will edit to include the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will help them become a better asker when they get so fed up with the same comments asking them to provide more information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really, if they put all that information in in the first place, people wouldn't be bugging them about it would they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:22:46.397" />
  <row Id="16846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16832" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:23:17.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until we had the search functionality using ~ as a wildcard (server side * that is, such that [sql-server~] finds all tags including the year, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7359/allow-wildcards-in-ignored-interesting-tags/16615#16615&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), I would have voted to use both the generic and the specific tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now, I can use [sql-server*] on my preferred tags and [sql-server~] when searching for questions I would like to offer answers to. So I now adopt using the generic tag unless the question is version specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:23:17.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T11:23:17.130" />
  <row Id="16847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16843" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:24:20.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't make it too strict, this is a low-friction site. I agree that there is some info which is simply essential, but making a Q/A catalogue for every tag is error-prone and maintenance heavy, and also some question may simply not apply, for example when discussing performance of an already working regex, the expected outputs are not really neccessary as it's obvious from the already working regex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:24:20.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:27:10.133" Score="1" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing my Bachelor thesis in English, but I'm not a native English speaker.  Am I allowed to post my Bachelor thesis on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons I want to do so:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I write in English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Professional correction costs a lot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if I choose professional correction they can fix typos but not the semantics because the thesis is about C++ and an algorithm.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131161" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T12:00:45.870" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T13:29:35.143" Title="Can I post my Bachelor Thesis for correction?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16848" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:29:35.853" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Highly unlikely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can do code reviews and such, but generally only if someone keeps it very short. An entire thesis is generally outside the realm of most of the people on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:29:35.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16848" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:29:52.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... I don't think so, at least not for language corrections. The StackOverflow network is for technical questions, not for spelling/grammar unless it's in a code context (i.e. Variable names). I guess that the question will get closed as Not Programming Related rather quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, questions to the technical facts are always possible and welcome, but as said, proofreading does not have a place anywhere on the 4 SO Sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:29:52.453" />
  <row Id="16851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16848" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:30:41.967" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that SO is the right place to do that as it is an Q&amp;amp;A site. Apart from that, there might be some issues with you publishing the content of your Bachelor thesis before handing it in. Is this allowed by your university?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:30:41.967" />
  <row Id="16852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16857" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:32:29.000" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't set up intersting tags like &quot;sql-server~&quot;, to get quick searches for wildcarded interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system allows you to enter it and displays it correctly initially. Selecting it gives the desired results, but when you return to the main page either via the browsers back button or by selecting the site logo the &quot;~&quot; has been stripped off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just discovered that I don't need to add &quot;mp3~&quot; (for example) as an interesting tag - if you've got a wildcard in your interesting tags clicking on it does the substitution for you so you get the search you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll leave this question here for now as it does seem to have raised another issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T23:30:52.467" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:53:13.397" Title="Can't set up interesting tags using &quot;~&quot; to allow wildcard searches" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8042" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:44:20.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google or RSS do not answer my request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need a native search able to give me &lt;em&gt;at spot&lt;/em&gt; across SO sites and right now, I have no choice but to open n windows for searching n site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:44:20.397" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16848" CreationDate="2009-08-24T11:47:46.567" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look, I'm as much of a repwhore as the next guy. That, and I'm bloody addicted to this site. That being said, I'm not reading a 20 page thesis and giving feedback on this site just for the upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I prefer having a hardcopy when reviewing papers and the like so that I can write all over them. To do a proper review, I'd need to have a cup of coffee with you and yell at you for how wrong you are (I can't help it, I enjoy making other people cry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best thing you can do is find somebody knowledgeable about the topic that likes you (I know that's a hard proposition), hand them the paper, buy them coffee and probably something out of the bake case (I do love vanilla scones), and have them review it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I had my thesis reviewed by a guy who was my best man. And that required a case of Guinness and pizza as an offering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T11:59:52.783" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T11:59:52.783" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16852" CreationDate="2009-08-24T12:03:44.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &quot;sql-server-*&quot; though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T12:03:44.613" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16852" CreationDate="2009-08-24T12:21:33.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Rowland: you are right, there just is a small bug in this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I enter the (interesting/ignored) tag, in my case delphi*, clicking on it right away will yield only questions tagged [delphi], searching with this URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I return to the main page or refresh the page, it behaves different (as you experienced), and searches for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi~&lt;/a&gt;, thus doing exactly what ChrisF is looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &quot;delphi~&quot; in the search box searches for [delphi] only (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &quot;[delphi~]&quot; searches for wildcards again (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi~&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going to the next page resolves the wildtags and lists all tags included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=delphi%20or%20delphi.net%20or%20delphi-1%20or%20delphi-2006%20or%20delphi2007%20or%20delphi-2007%20or%20delphi-2009%20or%20delphi-2010%20or%20delphi-3%20or%20delphi-5%20or%20delphi-7%20or%20delphi-components%20or%20delphi-library%20or%20delphi-like%20or%20delphi-php%20or%20delphi-prism%20or%20delphi-units%20or&amp;amp;page=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=delphi%20or%20delphi.net%20or%20delphi-1%20or%20delphi-2006%20or%20delphi2007%20or%20delphi-2007%20or%20delphi-2009%20or%20delphi-2010%20or%20delphi-3%20or%20delphi-5%20or%20delphi-7%20or%20delphi-components%20or%20delphi-library%20or%20delphi-like%20or%20delphi-php%20or%20delphi-prism%20or%20delphi-units%20or&amp;amp;page=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest some rework for more consistent results, but I think that one can live with that behaviour. It works fine after the initial add. (Agree with Jeff's comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:53:13.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16848" CreationDate="2009-08-24T12:27:29.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything over 5 pages will be transferred to dead trees if I need to read it. And I hate to waste dead trees to just answer someone's questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, what you could do is post the thesis on your website with an option for visitors to comment on it. Then put the link to your online thesis in your profile and don't spam people with it. Just refer to your thesis in this topic so anyone who won't waste dead trees to read it will still be welcome to read it and provide feedback to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T12:27:29.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:13:20.660" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, if this is also answered in a FAQ, please point me to it, in that case I apologize.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sometimes I want to read questions ( and possibly answer them if I can ) but there are lots of so specific questions related to certain languages, platforms, frameworks and special cases.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is there such tag or group of tags?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: the tag suggestion of 'language-agnostic' gives me the idea that this question could be dead before being born ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133502" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:52:54.497" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:52:54.497" Title="What are the official, de-facto or most used tags for non-language-specific questions on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;language-agnostic&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16862" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:17:51.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing &quot;official&quot; only the tags the community has created and continued to support. Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/language-agnostic&quot;&gt;lanuage-agnostic&lt;/a&gt; and probably most of the tags with &lt;code&gt;design&lt;/code&gt; in them (search tags &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Additionally, if you do specialize in object-oriented programming, or functional programming, or something like that, you can find tags for those topics as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T13:17:51.613" />
  <row Id="16865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16848" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:29:35.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that doing so would make your Bachelor thesis licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC-wiki&lt;/a&gt;.    Other folks would be allowed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remix — to adapt the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...although they would also have to share alike and attribute it to you.  Probably not real concern, but it is something to consider.  Your university may have guidelines on the licensing subject too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T13:29:35.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16872" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:48:29.780" Score="17" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is this new acceptance rate feature that appears beneath my signature card when I ask a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I display all my questions with unaccepted answers? How can I easily see the list of questions that have not been checked as accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-10T22:16:12.203" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T22:16:12.203" Title="View my questions with unaccepted answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="16870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16832" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:51:45.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was originally going to post that I liked having multiple tags such as sql-server and sql-server-2008 because I then have the flexibility to search all sql server questions OR sql server 2008 questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I discovered that you could put a &quot;~&quot; in the URL for a wild card and I changed my mind.  Now I think you should just put in the sql-server-2008 and let me put in the &quot;~&quot; on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 2 cents :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T13:51:45.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T13:51:45.310" />
  <row Id="16871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16869" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:52:14.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your profile questions with accepted answers show differently than answers without; just like on the question browsing pages of SO. On SO and meta the number of answers has a background of green, on SU I believe it is blue and on SF red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T13:52:14.077" />
  <row Id="16872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16869" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:54:03.650" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;less-crappy search&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/search?q=user%3A2561+hasaccepted%3A0&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/search?q=user%3A2561+hasaccepted%3A0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T13:54:03.650" />
  <row Id="16873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16869" CreationDate="2009-08-24T13:54:32.370" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this as a search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T14:50:26.493" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:50:26.493" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16878" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:09:42.240" Score="4" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1261319&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; that was asked on a low traffic window (you can see it in the &lt;strong&gt;views&lt;/strong&gt;) and was not answered yet. This is my first experience with a question not being answered almost immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there was a way to draw attention to it without expending rep in a bounty (because it's not that it wasn't answered to my sattisfaction, it wasn't really answered) and without editing it to bump it to the front page (a practice I don't like)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:29.170" Title="How to draw attention to a question without creating a bounty" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16862" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:13:00.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you click the big &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; button at the top of the page, you'll go to a list of all tags sorted by how much they're used.  Obviously many of those in the first page are language specific, but there are a fair number that aren't.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good rule of thumb is that unless you're asking about some really out-there topic you should have at least one tag on your question from the first page or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:13:00.890" />
  <row Id="16876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16643" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:16:24.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea.  Here's a Greasemonkey script I just cooked up to show the raw numbers from the tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/2102/show-number-of-answers-accepted&quot;&gt;This script now lives on StackApps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/575/acceptdetails.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T16:16:26.910" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T16:16:26.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16874" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:17:17.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;FAQ entry&lt;/a&gt; on getting attention for your unanswered questions, editing it with a status update or retagging it is the best way to get it seen, excluding bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you like the practice of bumping questions by making edits or not (I'm not sure why you don't, theres nothing wrong with it as long as you're not abusing the feature), it is quite effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:17:17.463" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16874" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:19:03.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep researching the problem yourself, and edit your findings into the question.  That will keep it near the top of the active and front page views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also look for a related question to ask that will point back to your original.  This will put something up on the &quot;New Questions&quot; view as well.  I have a current example on serverfault, where I was foolish enough to ask a question during some &quot;down time&quot;.  First I asked a question about a &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/57488/unable-to-dcpromo-new-2008-server-in-2000-domain&quot;&gt;problem updating an Active Directory domain&lt;/a&gt;.  In researching that, I discovered one possible cause, and asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/57518/wrong-sid-for-administrator-account&quot;&gt;new question regarding to that specific issue&lt;/a&gt;, which then pointed back to the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for a solution as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:01:29.170" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:29.170" />
  <row Id="16880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:26:02.077" Score="-8" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6044/why-must-i-wait-2-days-before-accepting-my-own-answer&quot;&gt;asked for this before&lt;/a&gt;. Now that you &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;display our accept rate&lt;/a&gt; (it's in fact a new form of flair, like reputation and badges), this is even more important:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let me decide when to accept an answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/57941/error-setting-a-windows-service-logon-user/57959#57959&quot;&gt;I asked a question&lt;/a&gt;, and after half an hour found the right answer. Now, in order to maintain my accept rate, you're forcing me to revisit this question after 2 days, instead of just accepting my answer now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:25:19.380" Title="Allow accepting my own answer without waiting 48 hours, in light of Accept Rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16874" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:26:40.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming you're trying to solve the problem on your own, post things that you have tried and explain why they don't quite work as the solution... &quot;show you're working on it&quot;. Additionally, this provides real edits, and justifiably will bump the post to the front page. Beyond that, the bounty system is what has been designed to help find better answers to questions where the OP does not feel they have received a quality answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:26:40.107" />
  <row Id="16882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16880" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:28:03.070" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't obsess. &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; don't obsess over your acceptance rate. You have a whole 24 hours to accept it before it counts towards acceptance rate. No biggie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not that important. Self acceptance is delayed because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you had to ask, you probably weren't the best person to answer the question, so some time is allowed for a more knowledgeable person to show you the error of your ways (if any)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to give other an incentive to provide a good answer and reap the reward in terms of praise, endorphins, and site-reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T14:43:10.630" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:43:10.630" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="16883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16880" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:29:41.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe one question without an accepted answer is reason to change the decision to not allow accepting of your own answers for 48 hours. Yes it will temporarily drop your stats, but one question cannot make the difference between 10% and 70%, and suspect it will be more of a &quot;general range&quot; that is important to most answerers with the acceptance rate and not a specific number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16880/16884#16884&quot;&gt;Pesto&lt;/a&gt; points out, the blog post states it is 3 days (60 hours) before a question is calculated in, therefore, this should never become an issue. But even if it were, I believe its the general range of acceptance rate you're in that matters far more than having 100% acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:29:41.863" />
  <row Id="16884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16880" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:30:11.363" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the blog post, questions don't apply to accept rate until they are 3 days old.  So I don't see what the problem is.  You've got 24 hours to accept it before it impacts your accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:30:11.363" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="16885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16874" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:43:11.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you keep providing meaningful edits, there won't be any issues with it getting constant bumping to the active page. It will also help users see what more information you can provide and make it potentially easier for them to jump in and start suggesting answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've suggested in the past (or agreed to other suggestions) the ability to pay a little rep just to bump it up to the top of the page without having to make an actual edit. Consider it a bribe for the Community User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:43:11.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16880" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:43:24.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16880/allow-accepting-my-own-answer-without-waiting-48-hours-in-light-of-accept-rate/16884#16884&quot;&gt;@ripper234:&lt;/a&gt; What business do you have asking questions that you can answer yourself anyway? – Welbog 2 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you should check this as the correct answer :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:43:24.890" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16862" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:45:32.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most used tag for non language specific content (if one is used at all) is the language-agnostic tag. This is generally what is used for questions that are looking for a process on how to perform an action, even though the programming language is not important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also look for tags relating to the specific &quot;type&quot; of programming you are looking at (object-oriented, top-down-design, etc) and see what pops up there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:45:32.747" />
  <row Id="16888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9478" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:49:49.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is still the case. For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1294383/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1294383/list&lt;/a&gt; did show up as &lt;em&gt;recently undeleted (not by owner)&lt;/em&gt;, which is clearly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T14:49:49.960" />
  <row Id="16889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:50:42.390" Score="3" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6908/increasing-show-x-items-per-page-does-not-working-on-superuser&quot;&gt;Increasing &amp;ldquo;show x items per page&amp;rdquo; does not working on SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reproduction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click Questions. Make sure &quot;Questions per page&quot; is on 15 or 30.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to an older page. (Oldest page will do, 66 at the time of writing).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Set &quot;Questions per page&quot; to a larger number (30 or 50).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than being directed to the oldest page, you're presented with a question-less page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133032" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T15:04:29.067" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:04:29.067" ClosedDate="2009-08-24T15:07:49.137" Title="No questions displayed if questions-per-page is increased when viewing old questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;&lt;page&gt;" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16891" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:52:40.467" Score="10" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're on. You play fast and loose with the votes because, hey, it's all for the good of the community anyway. It's not like your opinion or expertise in knowing what's right or good doesn't matter. It's all about you. Voting is voting, and it's all about spreading the ajax-clicky love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then you get the warning some time during the day that, whoa there, Frank! You're down to your last ten, make them count. Or at least count them as they tick to zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then you see a comment that makes you cut your lip, it's just that kind of night/day/afternoon/boiler room. You know what? That's going to be a comment to up vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But no so fast there, Jack, you don't actually have any votes left. Not for questions. Not for answers. Certainly not for comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/Pzg6P.png&quot; alt=&quot;votes no&quot; title=&quot;votes yes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then you ask yourself, which is it? Nine votes left, or no votes at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: None. Apparently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Want to try and play the game yourself?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote as you would a normal course of the day, keeping an eye on a comment that you like, but not quite yet. You want to tease out the courtship, too quick and the chase is gone. When you get the note that you only have 10 votes left, look sharp! Game time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, go to the comment you wanted to upvote previously, but you were too muddled in your head because of social norms and the warring families were too strong. But love won in the end and you say, dammit, an upvote for witticism! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote on the question or an answer it belongs to, let's hope you've got that up your sleeve. Up or down, you slide how you want. You now have nine votes left for the day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then vote on the comment. Now you have none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Quincy, is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the browser: Opera 9.64 (yes, yes, had to be Opera huh?) on Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T21:45:12.613" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:45:32.220" Title="Voting limit conflicts with remaining votes for the day" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16890" CreationDate="2009-08-24T14:56:26.120" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comment voting has its own limitations. Voting up comments is not the same as voting up questions and answers. It is entirely plausible that you would run through your comment upvotes at a different time than your normal question and answer votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T15:12:52.960" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:12:52.960" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10811" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:10:31.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be honest; Tag it as homework. Try not to ask for an answer to the whole question. Maybe you don't understand a concept. Make an attempt at an answer and ask if it is correct/going in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, they are going to have to take a supervised test to get a grade. At least at the college level, homework should count that much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:10:31.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T15:10:31.563" />
  <row Id="16893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:11:40.780" Score="3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please can we get a filter or additional tab within the profile screen to show questions I have asked with no accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps render the acceptance %age as a link to said questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way we could quickly see the sorts of questions that someone has been unable to accept answers to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11356" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T17:05:10.930" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:05:10.930" Title="A filter within my profile to show questions with no accepted answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16893" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:13:53.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a start:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16869/view-my-questions-with-unaccepted-answers&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;View My Questions With Unaccepted Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:13:53.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16893" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:16:21.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the goal is to encourage user's to be active and to accept answers to their questions, I believe this would be a useful feature to help encouraging that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:16:21.643" />
  <row Id="16896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16898" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:23:20.907" Score="20" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is more of a question about the nature of SO users. I see a lot of questions with 5 or 6 answers, but 0 up-votes. I realize that sometimes that may be because down-votes and up-votes cancel each other out, but in a lot of cases people will just answer, and not up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't answer a question implicitly indicating that you feel it is worthy of the time it takes you to answer? If I answer a question, I will (almost) always up-vote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also realize that a lot of times people will answer a question that they feel needs to be improved upon (needs to be clarified, formatted better, etc). In those cases I don't up-vote, but I find those cases to be in the minority of the questions I answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130849" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T11:05:56.580" Title="Why don't people vote up questions that they answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16900" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:24:04.230" Score="11" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that since Atwood &amp;amp; Co. introduced the new Acceptance Rate tracking, people have been in a mad dash to try and raise up their acceptance rate. This has been especially noticable for me on Meta because my high volume of answers has led to me receiving over 20 check marks recently all of a sudden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not saying that I deserve or don't deserve them, but it has led to believe that perhaps this Acceptance Rate feature might be spurring users to go and accept answers on older posts just to boost their number, and therefore reduces the &quot;value&quot; to a future user of seeing a post with a check mark on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people start going and checking everything just to keep their rate up, are we really doing right by future users who come to this site looking for answers to their problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See Also&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T15:46:15.330" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T13:53:03.860" Title="Will the new Acceptance Rate tracking lead to accepting bad answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16896" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:25:23.447" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally do vote up questions that I answer if I feel they were a good question. That is not always the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because someone took the time to answer you does not necessarily mean that they believe your question had any significant value. Or they may be out of votes. There are numerous reasons as to why someone wouldn't upvote your question even if they provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:25:23.447" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:25:52.743" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely, I've accepted a few to raise my rate, though only marginal ones.  I would never accept an answer I thought was completely wrong/innapropriate/didn't answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:25:52.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:29:46.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't noticed a thing on SO-proper; there, my highly-accurate answers tend to get accepted fairly quickly regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes, on MSO it's been crazy - my wild guesses and transient opinions are being respected like never before! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, i doubt it's a problem. MSO is a bit... different. I suspect acceptance rates were unusually &lt;em&gt;low&lt;/em&gt; prior to the change, no doubt because a lot of what's posted here can't actually be considered &quot;answered&quot; unless someone from the SO Team steps up and responds. Now we're seeing all the somewhat-obsessive process wonks jumping to improve their scores... it'll blow over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:29:46.633" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:30:14.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any bad effect of the acceptance rate. It really doesn't matter at all to me since on all the sites I've probably asked like 10 questions total, so I have 100% acceptance. Which with such a low number of questions is really sort of meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:30:14.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16906" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:32:17.453" Score="6" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like the &quot;Accept Rate&quot; feature.  I think it will encourage folks to accept answers once they get a good one (though, hopefully they will not accept bad ones just to get their rate up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a concern about this though,  I have several questions that no one ever posted an answer for.  I also have a few that were closed before I could accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like these that are not &quot;acceptable&quot; should not count towards my percentage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think, though on a lesser level of importance, that any question with only negatively scored answers should not count towards your accept rate.  (Sometimes people throw out crap answers just hoping to get an up vote or an lucky guess.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:38:16.940" Title="Accept Rate - Closed and &quot;No Answer&quot; questions should not count" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16896" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:34:06.547" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is useful and clear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the tooltip of the upvote button for questions. A question doesn't have to be useful or clear to get an answer. It's all in the definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:34:06.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16904" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:34:13.330" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5857/rss-feed-for-searches&quot;&gt;RSS Feed for Searches?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am fairly actively using the DXCore to create plugins to aid people in their use of Visual Studio. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to be able to add an RSS feed to my reader to do the following search: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=dxcore%20plugin%20addin&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=dxcore%20plugin%20addin&amp;amp;tab=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see any way to do this at present. Perhaps this feature could be added in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11356" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T16:08:56.663" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:08:56.663" ClosedDate="2009-08-25T18:44:26.170" Title="Please add RSS feeds for search results" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16896" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:36:22.967" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote up good questions whether I answer them or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I probably vote up questions I don't answer, more than questions I do answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:36:22.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16902" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:38:16.940" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the case, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There must be at least four eligible questions as determined by the above rules, otherwise the statistic will not appear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:38:16.940" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="16910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16896" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:47:52.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users may get too wrapped up in providing the answer that they forget to vote on the question. Or they feel the two are mutually exclusive. What is the criteria for giving a question an upvote? Mayb a prompt is in order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:47:52.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16725" CreationDate="2009-08-24T15:49:39.253" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. It goes against the spirit of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/37/populist&quot;&gt;Populist&lt;/a&gt; badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Gnoupi said, there would be virtually no incentive to add a good answer to an already answer-accepted question. It's just the same than bounty questions, there is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; less interest on them once the bounty is awarded&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&#xA;1. For bounty it is &lt;em&gt;by-design&lt;/em&gt;. In the general case it would be counter-productive IMHO.&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T15:49:39.253" />
  <row Id="16912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-08-24T16:00:48.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think either way it is important to have this feature because there are way to many questions with valid answers where the poster has not bothered to go back and mark what is clearly the answer. I bet in the end most people will be honest about marking answers, or at least I would like to give us the benefit of the doubt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:00:48.277" />
  <row Id="16914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T16:15:14.747" Score="-5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point should be about the answering of questions not the likelyhood for an easy question for rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131474" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:48:30.953" Title="Would you do away with the 100% acceptability status under the SO accounts?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="16915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-24T16:15:57.660" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either on this podcast or perhaps on the one after Sept 1, but how about an interview with the FogCreek dev working on StackExchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interesting in &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are some of the challenges working on the SO codebase, and making that codebase into an easy to administer (for general users) platform&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His perspective on the MVC framework and other technology's involved, would he have done anything different?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How StackExchange and the StackOverflow team are merging the ongoing updates&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What he'd (personally) like to see in the SO engine in the future&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[sarcasm] What it's really like to work for Joel (and is Jeff's code any good) [/sarcasm]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T19:08:27.233" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T19:08:27.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T16:15:57.660" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="16916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16914" CreationDate="2009-08-24T16:20:53.873" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand your question.... The blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;announcing&lt;/a&gt; the feature explains why it was added. The time spent by answerers is valuable, and providing statistics and other ways to determine the OP's level of involvement and investment in a question is a way to help user's determine if it is worth their time to figure out and post an answer to a problem. That's not to say people with low percentages won't get answers, but they have contributed less to the system, and therefore are less &quot;deserving&quot; of quality answers, in relative terms. This does not mean they shouldn't or won't get answers, but I have no issue with the system making it easier to determine which user's might be more involved and likely to appreciate and/or help improve the answers to their questions. As with all information, the acceptance percentage is only a piece of data, not the whole picture, but I believe it is a useful starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T16:48:30.953" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:48:30.953" />
  <row Id="16917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-08-24T16:29:40.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not suprised at the leap in accepted answer activity, I would be a pretty average forum user I join and participate but not too much, neither too little. Here is a short description of what went on in my head. I imagine it's fairly typical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly I have my signature sporting 50% acceptance rate after some breif disorientation and indignation a check of the blog explains things. Although JA said anything over 50% was cool, I couldn't help but feel this wasn't good enough and clearly so did many others. Also I have only 12 questions and I certainly had more than 6 accepted answers so I was sure the calc was bogus too. The result being a high motivation to go and revisit some questions and accept answers. After calming down a little though I didn't want to skew things by accepting answers for accepting answers sake, but equally there was no way I was sticking with 50% !!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions with unaccepted answers were mostly because I either answered them myself or two items where no answer was really forthcoming. So the majority of cases was easy enough just accept my own answers. In the final two cases I created my own answer describing how I abandoned the problem or solved it some other way, or accepted the best of a bad lot, as I can always return and accept a different answer should it be forthcoming. But, truth be known I suspect these questions will languish in the darkest corners of the DB only to be seen by the occasionally challenged googling dev only to have it's tab closed immmediately when it's obvious there's no helpful solution. In the meantime technology will march on at the insane speed it does and the question becomes obsolete anyway and quietly dies unnoticed, no loss there then really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I now have 92% accept rate, much better, and I haven't left SO questions sporting bogus accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1166" LastEditorUserId="1166" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T07:55:56.717" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:55:56.717" />
  <row Id="16918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16914" CreationDate="2009-08-24T16:39:23.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's not to say new askers and/or people will low percentages won't get answers, but they are contributing less to the system, and therefore are less &quot;deserving&quot; of quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this exactly illustrates at least part of the problem I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712/will-the-accept-rate-score-encourage-unwanted-behavior&quot;&gt;brought up&lt;/a&gt; and is similar in nature to the problems/concerns &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16897/will-the-new-acceptance-rate-tracking-lead-to-accepting-bad-answers&quot;&gt;brought up by TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why is a new asker less deserving of quality answers just because they have a low accept rate?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T16:39:23.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16896" CreationDate="2009-08-24T16:40:13.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One over all goal of these websites is to be a resource and reference on the Internet.  They encourage the upvoting of good questions that are well written and will be an added benefit for anyone who may be searching for answers to a similar issue either through the sites search or google search.  The voting system is to rate the question on being clear and a great resource question that many people could reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer up/down vote on the answer is simply being a great solution to the question given. Doesn't mean it was a great question to begin with. I have even answered questions I have downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T17:06:56.993" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:06:56.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:12:19.540" Score="-11" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we get this as a close option? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134559" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:30:47.590" Title="Close option for &quot;Too Lazy to Search the Web&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="16926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16923" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:14:55.180" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; There's already a &quot;Too lazy to search SO&quot; option, properly called &quot;Exact Duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5280/embrace-the-non-googlers&quot;&gt;Embrace the non-Googlers…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2686/how-should-you-respond-to-give-me-a-fish-rtfm-questions&quot;&gt;How should you respond to “Give me a fish” / RTFM questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T17:21:19.393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:21:19.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16923" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:17:48.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody should be called &quot;lazy&quot; because they decided to ask on SO rather than searching the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we get all questions/answers on SO, SO becomes the end-point for anybody who &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; decide to search the web. It becomes a source that is peer-reviewed, wiki-editable, and always up-to-date. That is leaps and bounds better than most results you'll find with a web-search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:17:48.607" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="16928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16923" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:18:14.033" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No we should not. The goal of SO is to be the end result of all google/bing searches for programming related questions. Just because the answer could be easily found elsewhere does not make it invalid. All this applies to SF and SU, just insert the relevant topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; spell out in a good amount of detail what types of questions are appropriate and specifically references &quot;newbie&quot; questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No question is too trivial or too&#xA;  &quot;newbie&quot;. Oh yes, and it should be&#xA;  about programming. You know, with a&#xA;  computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please look around to see if your&#xA;  question has already been asked (and&#xA;  maybe even answered!) before you ask.&#xA;  If you end up asking a question that&#xA;  has been asked before, that is OK and&#xA;  deliberately allowed. Other users will&#xA;  hopefully edit in links to related or&#xA;  similar questions to help future&#xA;  visitors find their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's also perfectly fine to ask and&#xA;  answer your own question, but pretend&#xA;  you're on Jeopardy: phrase it in the&#xA;  form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent is for SO to be the end result for things that can be easily (and not so easily) searched and answered. Therefore, if it hasn't been asked SO, it is perfectly acceptable and &quot;Too Lazy to Search the Web&quot; and &quot;LMGTFY&quot; (Let Me Google That For You) are not appropriate responses. If you do not want to answer simple questions, that's fine, move on. But those questions are acceptable here so long as they're programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T17:45:44.200" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:45:44.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16923" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:19:44.450" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of StackOverflow is to be a repository for as many valid programming questions that it can. Just because the answer can be found on Google doesn't mean it shouldn't get asked on SO or any of the other sites. If you think its too basic or minor to be on the site, downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least if its asked on SO and someone whose never been to the site before before googles the same question, they'll be lead to SO. Everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:19:44.450" />
  <row Id="16930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16933" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:23:44.643" Score="3" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was shocked and embarrassed when I saw my 'accept rate' this morning, so I went through my questions with no accepted answer to try to clean them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no answer meets my needs, is it ok to answer it yourself, flag it as wiki, and accept it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:27:56.080" Title="Is it ok to answer your own question and accept it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="16931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17092" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:24:07.607" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I want to see my 5 most recent answers in HTML, I can do so by visiting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=130154&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=130154&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to see my five most recent answers in JSON, I would likely visit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.json?userid=130154&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.json?userid=130154&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the JSON option doesn't respect the &amp;amp;sort value. Instead it shows the first five answers, rather than the last 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T21:42:32.930" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:42:53.163" Title="Fix Sorting for API-JSON Values" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;json&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="16932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16923" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:25:44.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the podcast, Joel &amp;amp; Jeff have specifically stated that they want Q&amp;amp;A on very simple, easily Googled, things.  This way, when somebody does Google it, it brings them to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastEditorUserId="29043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T18:30:47.590" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:30:47.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16930" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:27:34.167" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. It's encouraged (answering your own question). Accept it if it's the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally wait to see how others vote on my self-provided answer before I accept it, even if it &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; solve my issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:27:34.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16930" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:33:02.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules/regulations/FAQ explicitly state that you can accept your own answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt;...often times other members of the community may look at someone accepting their own answers as trying to game the system or achieve some easy rep and they will attempt to punish the user accordingly. I do not condone this type of behavior, just pointing out that it DOES HAPPEN, so don't be shocked if there is a bit of negative feedback even though you aren't doing anything technically wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:33:02.953" />
  <row Id="16935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16930" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:33:03.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I have done it here (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1099990/devexpress-checkedit-control-place-label-part-on-left&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1099990/devexpress-checkedit-control-place-label-part-on-left&lt;/a&gt;) I did this is because I did a bunch of searches and couldn't find the answer, I then contacted a colleague who has worked with the product extensively and he informed me on how to resolve my issue, I posted because it will be useful for me in 6 months when I forget how to do that ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:33:03.857" />
  <row Id="16936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16930" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:34:23.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally advise waiting before posting your own answer. Some people won't provide an answer to a question that the question owner posted. Some users may down-vote such answers, just to get them below the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:34:23.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16930" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:34:29.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but there is a two-day delay to accepting your own answer.  You don't need to CW it since you won't get any rep for accepting your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:34:29.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-08-24T17:47:35.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is mostly in keeping with &quot;encourage good behavior.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found myself searching for unaccepted answers because the system makes me &quot;look bad.&quot; That is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I &lt;strong&gt;couldn't bring myself to accepting any old answer arbitrarily&lt;/strong&gt; because giving my &quot;mark of approval&quot; on something that didn't deserve it also makes me &quot;look bad.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it all works out as designed... for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T20:16:57.403" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T20:16:57.403" />
  <row Id="16943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:21:13.347" Score="17" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally get how upvoting good answers makes the whole site work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is the point of upvoting a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relatedly, for what criteria are we meant to vote a question up? Is a well written question more deserving of upvotes than a hard to answer question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-12T02:38:30.303" LastActivityDate="2011-07-12T02:38:30.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-06T16:13:00.070" Title="What is the point of voting up a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="16944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:22:50.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;giving you an upvote for asking that question..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:23:18.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote questions that I feel are especially insightful and/or are ones that I could see going into an FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:23:44.340" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two points I can think of off-hand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To reward those who ask good questions.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To draw people's attention&#xA;  to the good questions in filtered lists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-12T02:35:43.003" LastActivityDate="2011-07-12T02:35:43.003" />
  <row Id="16947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:24:25.947" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Means other people think it is an interesting question? Maybe because it's a question they wanted to ask or because it is something they deem to be a valuable piece of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131157" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:25:19.577" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the point is to allow more useful and interesting questions to propagate up the lists so that common issues have greater visibility and attract more eyeballs (and thus more answers, and more editing and moderation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ties in to the fact that, in hacker culture at least, people like to be asked interesting and challenging questions - &quot;good question&quot; can be a genuine complement in such a case. Boring, badly-worded questions are generally not as well respected, and may not elicit any reasonable answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:31:19.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;more votes means more popular which is especially useful under the votes tab.&#xA;looking at it from another angle, if the question has been downvoted, we know it is not worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:32:49.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I think that good, thoughtful questions that help everyone out are as important as well articulated answers. For instance, if I'm having trouble doing Type 4 Widget Formatting in C and want to do a quick search for others having my issue a good question is going to help me get started much more quickly than something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Have trouble in C. Please help. Need code for widget stuff.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34218" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:32:49.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote questions that meet the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is well-written. It's not too vague; it's prompted at least one or more equally thoughtful answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question is good, and likely something I'll need to reference in the future. But it's not quite at the level of making it a &quot;Favorite.&quot; I can go back and see what questions I've upvoted (and the date of the vote). This gives me a history of questions I've viewed and liked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that others can view your favorites, but only you can view the list of your upvotes (or downvotes). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially upvoting can become like a private favorites list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132703" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T00:34:14.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely many here have read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hitchhikers Guide&lt;/a&gt; would know the question is often harder to find than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(answer)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T01:16:07.183" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally upvote a question, when I first have no answer for it and second I'm interested in a good answer for it. So I don't upvote questions that could be useful for others, but I upvote questions, which I'm interested in to be answered. And I think, that's how it should be. So if you see a question that has 20 upvotes, you have a question that 20 other people also want a good answer for, and not a question, where 20 people think that it is a &quot;good&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16943" CreationDate="2008-11-06T02:22:55.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote questions when I think the answers are or would be of interest to me and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also do it as a means of encouragement (and discouragement in the case of downvoting or ignoring) so that I/we can get more questions of that type, style, content or topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28558" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:53:50.363" />
  <row Id="16955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-07T12:57:02.120" Score="15" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;In what seems to be a blatant violation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sturgeon's Law&lt;/a&gt;, most of the answers on StackOverflow are &lt;em&gt;clear&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;thoughtful&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;polite&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;accurate&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be largely due to the self-correcting nature of StackOverflow's voting system, which encourages us to review, comment, and edit each other's answers.  So, in general, our combined expertise and desire to &lt;strike&gt;inflict&lt;/strike&gt; share our knowledge forces &quot;good&quot; answers to percolate upward and opens &quot;not-so-good&quot; answers to discussion and correction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've found that &lt;em&gt;an unsettling number of the answers to technical questions&amp;mdash;including &quot;accepted&quot; answers with a large number of upvotes&amp;mdash;are simply incorrect.&lt;/em&gt;  What's more alarming to me is that, despite their technical nature, many of these answers can be checked simply by cutting and pasting them into a command line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, I'm interested to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What criteria do you apply before deciding to up-vote an answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accuracy: Do you actually &lt;em&gt;check&lt;/em&gt; it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;James Earl Jones&quot; effect:  Does it just need to &quot;sound&quot; right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peer pressure: Everyone else thinks it's good, so it must be right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What &quot;pushes you over the edge&quot; from &lt;em&gt;liking&lt;/em&gt; an answer to actually &lt;em&gt;voting&lt;/em&gt; for it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta-question:  is there a common term for what I've called the &lt;em&gt;James Earl Jones effect&lt;/em&gt;:  the tendency to forgo your normal verification process and accept something that &lt;em&gt;sounds&lt;/em&gt; right?  A quick search returned nothing; however this could arguably be called the &lt;em&gt;Avery Brooks effect&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Obama effect&lt;/em&gt;, or the &lt;em&gt;Why I Still Like to Wake up Next to my Spouse effect&lt;/em&gt;.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T12:57:02.120" Title="Criteria for up-voting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="16956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2008-11-07T13:06:48.823" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote something if it matches &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is obviously accurate &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; I verify it to be accurate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It differs from other posted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is related to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvote the answer if it matches &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone has already given the almost exact same answer more than 10 minutes prior&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is plain wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It advocates a bad practice without giving due warning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm being an idiot and misunderstand either the question or answer without realizing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it also all depends.  If a question has received no &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answers, and someone posts a creative suggestion, it might get upvoted, if an answer is excessively impolite, I may not upvote it, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T13:06:48.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2008-11-07T13:07:04.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote for an answer if I believe it is correct.  I'm not actually going to check if it is syntactically correct or has a small bug, I'm mostly concerned about the logic for programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153934" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T13:07:04.767" />
  <row Id="16958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2008-11-07T13:24:06.560" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote anyone who tries to answer my question, except those who are answering the same thing or something that obviously isn't related. If someone took the time to try to help me I think it deserves a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvote any answer that is smart or that I would have written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T13:24:06.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2008-11-07T13:27:34.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, I use the following criteria for upvoting an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Going beyond a stock &quot;This is the &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; widget you should use for &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; problem&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;  If you look at this StackOverflow question about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/271138/best-3d-graphics-engine-for-net&quot;&gt;Best 3D Graphics Engine&lt;/a&gt;, you'll notice that none of the answers really 'answer' the question, but some come close.  The ones that are closer get upvoted.  For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/271138/best-3d-graphics-engine-for-net#271212&quot;&gt;Faulty's answer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;tells me something I didn't know&lt;/strong&gt; (that they aren't of the same class), and he provides many links for me to research further.  But he doesn't answer what I asked in the second part, which is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_triangle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Project Triangle&lt;/a&gt; type of question (Fast, Cheap, Best).  This is why I upvoted his answer, but didn't mark it as 'the answer'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Giving me lots of pertinent information&lt;/strong&gt;.  Some answers aren't upvoted because they're only a sentence long, and as other posters mentioned, it's information I can get from a 3 minute search on Google. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I come to StackOverflow for information that isn't readily available on Google.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, &lt;strong&gt;I don't upvote 'feel good' answers.&lt;/strong&gt;  I don't care if you think platform A is nicer than platform B.  That's subjective.  What I care about is if there is &lt;strong&gt;definitive proof&lt;/strong&gt; that beginners should use platform A because of ease of use, or if they should use platform B because it benchmark's and extends better. As an example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260325/which-net-programming-language-should-i-learn-as-a-web-developer#260389&quot;&gt;this question about Which .NET Language To Learn&lt;/a&gt; has an answer that's been upvoted 13 times, even though it gives a 'feel good' rudimentary answer without any evidence behind it.  My answer provides thought, reason, and facts, yet it hasn't been upvoted as high.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the end, it depends on the community.  Does the community want more detailed answers?  Or are quick 'one-liners' sufficient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T13:27:34.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2008-11-07T15:13:51.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote an answer (or a question) if I think it adds someting of value. That can be any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A correct answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new way to look at the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A valid remark that is no answer to the question, but it has a point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A bit of humor which is not that off topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A (better) example. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, I have the idea to encourage novice (rep &amp;lt; 50) users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T15:13:51.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2008-11-07T18:14:41.497" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always upvote when I see an unfair downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-07T18:14:41.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2008-11-08T16:16:45.493" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call the answers here accurate.  Maybe the questions with a lot of traffic get there after a few edits.  More often, a confident and fast-typing bumbler hammers out some cheerful dross, which quickly bubbles to the top and gets accepted, while the terse one-liner which actually nails the OP's problem is left languishing on zero.  Trouble is, if the best answer is to be found in an ISO standard, research paper or Usenet FAQ, you should just post a cite.  If you try to paraphrase technical material in happy ego-soothing language, you'll introduce errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what the voting system should sort out.  Unfortunately, the structure of the site and the volume of posts - and it's still the beta - seem to mean that questions have a very short lifetime.  It's more like a mailing list than a wiki.  Answer a question more than a day old and chances are you'll never hear about it again - no votes, no comments - even the OP loses interest.  I can't help but conclude that earnest voting to redress imbalances will also be completely wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding to the problem is the quality of questions, which seems to have slumped even over the short time I've been here.  The last couple of days gave us the jaw-dropping 'I want to write sliding block puzzle for mobile phone. Tell me how to write sliding block puzzle for phone!' and lots of too-lazy-to-try-it syntax stuff like 'Where do I put the explicit keyword in C++?'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the best contribution is filtering the noise.  I'll try a downvote rampage and see if I feel better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T16:16:45.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2009-01-21T23:58:41.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A way to challenge an answer marked as Correct in a non-threatening, yet visible &amp;amp; accountable way is a possibility. I'm imagining an icon just below the Checkmark for this, that when clicked, requires you to enter an explanation and possibly redirects to a sub-thread.  Or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that a good part of stackoverflow's success is due to its self-regulating community, as someone above pointed out, and it would be nice if &quot;Correct&quot; answers could follow along that path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T23:58:41.367" />
  <row Id="16964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16955" CreationDate="2009-01-22T00:17:36.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote an answer when it is pretty much what I would have answered (among other things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No use in typing up the same thing again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40342" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:54:53.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T00:17:36.883" />
  <row Id="16966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-23T06:48:00.353" Score="23" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a simple windows taskbar application that checks a user's reputation on SO. &#xA;The input is the user's url (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow/users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow/users/&lt;/a&gt;...) and notifies the user of changes in his reputation.&#xA;Currently the tool only tracks reputation changes but I plan on adding additional notifications in the next versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: a new version is available (1.3) with proxy support - go get it now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A simple post with short &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/dhelper/archive/2008/10/22/stackoverflow-notifier.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quick-start tutorial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Download SO Notifier &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeplex.com/SONotifier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:04:52.220" Title="StackOverflow Windows Taskbar Notifier" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="16967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16966" CreationDate="2008-10-23T07:49:41.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh great, now I have no way to avoid feeding my Stack Overflow addiction! Even when the browser is closed I'm still gaining rep. Thanks for nothing ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:00.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16966" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:03:26.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now only if this could answer questions too... I'd be cured. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:00.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T08:03:57.890" />
  <row Id="16970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16966" CreationDate="2008-10-23T09:22:21.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't accept my URL. I'm behind a proxy, maybe that's the cause. Would be great, if there were proxy settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:00.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16966" CreationDate="2008-10-27T00:04:27.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks pretty good, kudos for publishing the source code as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:00.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-17T11:02:02.060" Score="17" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will translate:&#xA;What will happen to questions that aren't in english?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the consequences for questions that aren't in English? Eventually there could be a storm of people that populate questions in other languages.&#xA;What will be the policy on that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what happens with answers in a different Language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added the idea to the uservoice system of stackoverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/26304&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suggestion 26304: Give users a possibility to translate questions and answers &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;please vote if you agree...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148412" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" Title="Wat gebeurt er met een vraag die niet in het engels wordt gesteld? / What happens to questions that aren't in English?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T11:05:03.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would like to see all languages accepted, with per-user language filters. I wouldn't be able to help somebody asking a question in Thai, but you could probably turn on at least Dutch and English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I'm going to go put that on uservoice now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it's already been asked, and Jeff says &quot;ask again in 3-6 months&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="16974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T11:05:12.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember reading anything in the FAQ specific to this, but look at youtube as an example. The site is swamped with videos in other lanugagues but that really does not affect the way I use it and that has not put my off the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" />
  <row Id="16975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T11:07:32.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete them. English isn't my first language, but I'd be annoyed by mixed languages, even if it were my native language. If you're a programmer and you're trying to improve, learning english should be the first task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: Please don't translate the UI, either. I hate websites that have a localized interface but english content. Adjusting for time zones might be nice, but not more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and we're OT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" />
  <row Id="16976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T11:07:56.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could attach a tag like 'nederlands' preferably written in the native language to solve the problem right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" />
  <row Id="16977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T11:08:38.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this will become a problem anytime soon - English has always been the language people used to communicate about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T11:43:54.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you could mark it &quot;Not English&quot;, and give a translation of the question by the user who marks it as &quot;Not English&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the original creator of the question marks it as a valid English translation, this translation becomes the main title, and the translation is secundary...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148412" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" />
  <row Id="16979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T12:19:07.957" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think there are any programming questions that have a different answer in a different language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's nothing more frustating than seeing the question being answered in a language you do not understand. And all you have to work with is a bad Google translation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not a native English speaker, but currently English is the language most programmers (should) understand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if we just stick with English, your question &amp;amp; answer will serve the largest audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question was, what to do with a question in a different language (as he pointed out to me). I think this question &lt;strong&gt;should be translated&lt;/strong&gt;. Deleting looks wrong to me, since there is somebody out there, who really has this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11492" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T12:36:32.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm bilingual. I speak English and American :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, the success of Stackoverflow is that it is a one-stop place to come for information. Splitting it up into different language areas will dilute it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it must be frustrating for those who do not have a good command of English but I think the overall benefits will be greater by having a common language. Just imagine turning on the Swahili filter and searching for a post on xyz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the questions and answers could be be given in the native language and English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" />
  <row Id="16981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T12:44:42.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If writing correct English was the problem, I'd ask the question in bad English or in my native language and ask for help with the language. I'd bet 10 to 1 that someone will step in to help. Then, I'd improve the question, with thanks to the helper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO also aims to be a permanent information reference, so having a single language is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158495" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" />
  <row Id="16982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2008-09-17T12:54:23.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy...  I just won't answer any questions in languages that I can't read.  Just like I don't answer questions about programming languages I don't know.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T17:56:53.087" />
  <row Id="16986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-18T11:27:15.633" Score="6" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having some interesting questions in my favorite list that could help me if I stumble over them in the future, I wondered about how long the questions and answers will be stored (so, if I should save some of my favorites offline to still have access to them in a year). Of course there can't be a guarantee that SO will still be available, but if it is, will my favorite question also be? Or is there some sort of &quot;timeout&quot; and questions/answers get deleted from the database after some time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158835" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:07:50.980" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T12:59:35.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T11:27:15.633" Title="How long will questions and answers be stored at stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;timeout&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="16987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T11:31:20.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is desiged to be the knowledge warehouse of all technical questions and all questions will stay forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T11:31:20.977" />
  <row Id="16988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T11:31:47.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, they are here to stay, so we create a piece of programmer reference on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can imagine that there will be cleanup sessions in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T11:31:47.107" />
  <row Id="16989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T11:33:19.133" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228462/how-can-a-question-or-answer-be-deleted&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228462/how-can-a-question-or-answer-be-deleted&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three ways posts can be deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You can delete your own post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Moderators can delete your post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post reaches the 5-vote offensive threshold and is deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posts aren't physically deleted -- just hidden. (aka soft delete)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure your question will not be deleted because it's &quot;old&quot; :) .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167419" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T11:33:19.133" />
  <row Id="16990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T11:53:24.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The posts remain in stackoverflow untill unless they are deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T11:53:24.363" />
  <row Id="16991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T12:22:44.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One issue is that &quot;correct answers&quot; for many problems may no longer be the best answer down the line. Even if someone posts a new, updated, even more correct answer on a post later on (unlikely, there's 60k questions now, so old questions will be found by people looking for answers, not looking to give answers) it is unlikely that they will be scored up, or accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the site needs to ensure that old questions are &quot;rebubbled&quot; to the top occasionally - in a year or two at least, to get updated answers and keep them alive, maybe get some more upvotes for still correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T12:22:44.820" />
  <row Id="16992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T12:25:18.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In hundreds of years future generations will browse Stackoverflow in a Minority Report stylish way like we do it today looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;historical version of Encyclopedia Britannica&lt;/a&gt; on the intarweb. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could only be one problem: the Stackoverflow content could be too small for the minimum size of 1 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Petabyte&lt;/a&gt; of &quot;data objects&quot; on future computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/13/minorityreport.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T12:25:18.293" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="16993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T12:50:18.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I thought all the questions and reputation points are going to be zero-ed when &lt;em&gt;stackOverflow&lt;/em&gt; comes out of BETA....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;straight up - honest ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139724" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T12:50:18.133" />
  <row Id="16994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T13:06:15.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry too much about the data being lost any time soon. It has been created for developers by developers, and even if, at some point in the future, they decide to shut the whole thing down, I couldn't imagine that anyone (especially our lovable overlords J &amp;amp; J) wouldn't at least offer the database to someone else to host: even as a static archive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:00:34.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T13:06:15.107" />
  <row Id="16995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2008-12-18T15:13:30.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If sh*t happens, hopefully there's still the &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/%2a/http://www.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;archive.org version of Stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you know that the site existed back in 2000? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastEditorUserId="136489" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-10T12:59:35.690" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T12:59:35.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T15:13:30.013" />
  <row Id="16996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-31T17:26:14.960" Score="11" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; find the stuff that interests you on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have set up a list of ignored tags to hide stuff that really isn't relevant to me (.Net mostly), and for some low activity tags (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell&quot;&gt;Haskell&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/evolutionary-algorithms&quot;&gt;evolutionary algorithms&lt;/a&gt;) I have subscribed to the feeds.  Despite this, I still find it frustrating trying to locate the questions that I want to read and avoid the ones that I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I end-up browsing through several individual tags, but this approach is sure to miss interesting content.  There is too much new content to read through it all, and if somebody posted something good 12 hours ago while I was asleep, I am unlikely to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I welcome any suggestions on how to become a more effective Stack Overflow user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, Stack Overflow would have a more intelligent home page that would make suggestions based on my previous voting patterns.  In the absence of this feature, what is the best way to find the interesting content?  Does anybody have external tools that they use (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo! Pipes&lt;/a&gt;) to filter questions?  Or is there something else that I am missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-27T04:28:06.430" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T04:32:56.253" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T17:26:14.960" Title="How do you find interesting content on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;feed&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="16997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16996" CreationDate="2008-12-31T17:28:02.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do a tag-based search search.  If that doesn't work, then I'll start creating a new question and see what similar ones pop up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:11.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T17:28:02.273" />
  <row Id="16998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16996" CreationDate="2008-12-31T17:29:53.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep clicking on questions and have them sorted by newest.  Then I can scan all of the new questions as they come in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:11.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T17:29:53.750" />
  <row Id="16999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16996" CreationDate="2008-12-31T17:30:40.147" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny thing i dont like the search that much so I start writing a title in a new question and look at the sugestions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149952" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:11.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T17:30:40.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16996" CreationDate="2008-12-31T17:33:43.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on what you consider &quot;interesting&quot; content.  After all, how do you know you're missing out?  Maybe nobody is posting the things you're interested in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, though, the tag-based approach (coupled with sorting by newest) seems to work best.  Hide the ones you know you aren't interested in, and then dig through ones that you are.  You can do an &lt;code&gt;or&lt;/code&gt; search for several tags (using brackets) at once in the search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[linux or css or perl]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finds questions tagged with any of those, but not others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:11.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T17:33:43.337" />
  <row Id="17001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16996" CreationDate="2008-12-31T17:39:22.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any of the &quot;Hidden Features Of&quot; questions are usually worth a read- often even if you don't use the platform they're asking about.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also try sorting questions by votes, and then just click randomly a few pages down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:11.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T17:39:22.203" />
  <row Id="17002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16996" CreationDate="2008-12-31T17:43:19.247" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO search just doesn't work well.  I use Google and filter based on domain by adding &quot;site:stackoverflow.com&quot; to the search line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:01:11.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T17:43:19.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17008" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:36:24.140" Score="9" ViewCount="879" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know you can select a tag and then click on unanswered to view the unanswered questions for that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is there a way to view questions only for a certain set of tags &gt; 1 tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mainly I'd like the union of tag1 with tag2 with tag3 with tag4.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But also the intersection of tags would be nice as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-10T20:20:06.483" LastActivityDate="2010-06-10T20:20:06.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" Title="Stack overflow tag filtering" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="8" />
  <row Id="17004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:38:29.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remembered the intersection of tags from listening to the podcast...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use a space between each tag (or %20).  Example for tags c++ and c#:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c++%20c%23&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c++%20c%23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure about the union of tags though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" />
  <row Id="17005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:39:42.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the search box enter tags between sqeare brakets. However you still need at least one keyword or it won't work. eg this will pick up this post, since its the only one with all 3 tags&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[stackoverflow] [tags] [tagging] view&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&quot;multiple tags on tag page&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/17832&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/17832&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Admin response  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;as of tonight's push you can search tags by adding them in brackets eg [java] [sql]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" />
  <row Id="17006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:40:06.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can edit the link and provide my tags by separating them with space, err, that is, separating them by %20, which is the url-encoding for a space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the url to look at C# questions is:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to get all questions about C# and SQL, you can modify it to this:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23%20SQL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23%20SQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will give you the intersection query. There is, afaik, no way to do a union query as of yet. I'm sure they'll provide one eventually&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" />
  <row Id="17007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:40:23.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure they mentioned more extensive tag filtering as being a &quot;maybe next release&quot; feature.  Ask on Uservoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" />
  <row Id="17008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-09-14T19:46:02.510" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the tag filtering does an &quot;AND&quot; on the tags , not an &quot;OR&quot;, so you'll only get items matching all of your tags - Joel and Jeff discussed it in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24213&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #18&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: Uh, well I tried that, but its not getting... OR it's doing AND. Alright, we'll debug that later.&#xA;  Atwood: Oh, it's doing AND, it's definitely doing AND, did you want OR?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spolsky: But I want OR.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Atwood: Ok, well thats something... We should put that on the feature request list. I mean, we can do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So an intersection is currently possible, putting a space between the tags (Jeff's usual example is &quot;HTML and CSS&quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/HTML%20CSS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/HTML%20CSS&lt;/a&gt;) but it looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer for the &quot;UNION&quot; of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; - As of October 12th, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;OR&quot; tags are now available&lt;/a&gt;, so &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html%20or%20css&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html or css&lt;/a&gt;&quot; now returns all questions matching either tag, while &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html%20css&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html css&lt;/a&gt;&quot; return questions tagged with both HTML and CSS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can chain the ORs to match multiple tags, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html%20or%20css%20or%20javascript%20or%20apache&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html or css or javascript or apache&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2287" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-09-15T00:24:45.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've written a very rough &lt;a href=&quot;http://blairconrad.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/greasemonkey/stack_overflow_restrict.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;greasemonkey script that will filter tags by ORing them&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;No warranties expressed or implied, your mileage may vary, etc.&#xA;Currently you have to edit the &lt;code&gt;favourite_tags&lt;/code&gt; variable to specify your favourite tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it just hides things from the current page, so if you're viewing 10 items at a time and only 3 match, it'll just show you 3 - it won't (yet!) cycle through the pages until you get 10 hits. For this reason, it's probably only useful if you do an awful lot of &quot;any new questions that I can answer&quot; checking, but this is similar to @Brian R. Bondy's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137853" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:31:47.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like an OR function - I think this is a very common use as people will want to watch for questions &amp;amp; answers of interest and generally people are interested in more than one tag!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" />
  <row Id="17011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17003" CreationDate="2008-10-03T01:30:40.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the filtering to support &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; also. Since there are so many tags and some migh be duplicate/similar items. It might be easier to filter out that I &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; that I'm not interested in seeing, so I can still see questions that might interest me. If later I found out I'm not interested in it, I can always add it into the filter list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I am mostly into Java, Ruby, Design, etc. If I only filter on those than I might miss on interesting questions on C#, Scala, or F#. But I might be interested with C# only on the language aspect, but not interested in API specific questions like WCF. If it support &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; filter, then I can just filter out WPF and still catch interesting C# questions without being drown by all the questions that show up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145429" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:03:22.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:55:10.757" />
  <row Id="17015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16966" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:04:52.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we could also use Super User and Server Fault user pages instead of just Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="752" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:04:52.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:47:06.203" Score="26" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far I love what I see from Stack Overflow and I find myself visiting quite often during my work day.  I'm starting to get a little frustrated however because most of the questions are in categories where I don't have much expertise.  (My areas of expertise are J2EE and Spring Framework.)  There just aren't many questions in those categories to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not in role at work right now where I'm writing any code and haven't had much time outside of work to take on personal coding projects.  So, I'm finding I don't have a lot of questions to ask either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't upvote any answers to questions because I don't have any reputation points. (I do have a sweet Autobiographer badge though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's the best way for me to contribute to the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll just keep monitoring the J2EE and Spring tags and hope some more of those questions come along that I can answer.  Otherwise I'll just keep browsing and answer/contribute where I can.  I love the community here though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" Title="What's the best way to contribute to Stack Overflow if you don't have a ton of technical knowledge?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="15" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:48:23.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps ask questions and then answer them yourself to contribute your knowledge? Or ask questions that you think of when reading blogs or news posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:48:30.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By answering the questions you do know the answer to and asking the right questions for those you don't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:49:28.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm feeling a bit of what you are describing, having most of my experience in dynamic languages, and not being able to help with much above C++.  Stack Overflow states in the FAQ that questions should be technically/programattically oriented, so I don't think theres much luck for anyone without experience in programming who wants to answer questions, rather than ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:49:41.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking good questions that could lead to great answers by the experts, so in the future when someone search for something similar it's already here to help them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:50:07.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;read&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;point out bugs (this is after all a beta application)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag inappropriate posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:50:41.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about asking questions you know the answers to. &#xA;Nobody will stop you from answering your own questions. After all, every question and answer will help the community. Regardless of who gives the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:51:26.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever had a problem that you never got to the bottom of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so ask a question regarding that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you don't really need the answer now, if it's a good question that maybe someone else might need the answer to, it will be voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll earn reputation for asking the question and for upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have enough reputation, you'll be able to upvote other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1142" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:51:43.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@ThomasOwens: I have posted a similar question over &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19984/sharing-knowledge-in-so&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The problem with your approach, is that you cannot accept your own answers right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:51:45.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There'll still be plenty of conceptual questions that are platform-agnostic, I'd imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How would I write this algorithm&quot; or &quot;what's the best way to set up this database&quot; will be answerable - perhaps &lt;em&gt;best answered&lt;/em&gt; - in generic terms that help illustrate the theory instead of the &quot;follow these instructions without understanding why&quot; approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:52:25.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Tundey pointed out this is a beta-application - I'm sure come full release there will be more users with your same background. I'm personally waiting for more PHP queries I can hopefully answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T12:59:57.127" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you gone through the unanswered (or single answer) Java questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=java&amp;amp;sort=answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=java&amp;amp;sort=answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or the Spring questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, feel free to pop in every now and then and browse -- don't feel you have to check here obsessively, like some people. I'm not naming any names but you know who you are. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T13:16:25.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;strong&gt;subscribe&lt;/strong&gt; to J2ee and Spring tags too. You also can see &lt;strong&gt;language agnostic tags&lt;/strong&gt; like &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bestpractices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;best practices&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/language-agnostic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;language agnostic&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T13:20:36.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Jeff Atwood: I'm sorry if my constant refreshing kills the servers. Our dev machine is...well...a crapbox. It takes 5 minutes for a simple script to run. :( So I have a lot of time to browse, looking for new ideas and such, mostly here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T13:23:20.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing I've noticed about my usage of stack&lt;strong&gt;overflow&lt;/strong&gt; is that I see questions that I want to know the answers too and I will read them. Some questions prompt me to do some research into them and this will allow me to contribute to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for example if you see a question that interests you. E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16918/beginners-guide-to-haskell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16918/beginners-guide-to-haskell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not learn Haskell and then contribute any questions that come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17016" CreationDate="2008-08-22T14:10:49.763" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By asking J2EE and Spring questions you will help diversify the site's content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:05:39.187" />
  <row Id="17032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:16:59.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until time stops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:16:59.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-24T18:16:59.290" />
  <row Id="17033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17090" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:19:40.297" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opening Stack Overflow family tag feed URLs do not cause Opera's built-in&#xA;feed-reader to ask if one wants to subscribe to the feed (it &#xA;just displays a very big blob of text). Example tag feed &#xA;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/perl&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/perl&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The workaround is to save the content in a file with file&#xA;extension .xml and open this file in Opera. But this is&#xA;quite cumbersome and it would be nice if it worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference it does work with most other feed URLs that do not&#xA;have &quot;.xml&quot; at the end of the URL. Examples are&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/deepfriedbytes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://feeds2.feedburner.com/deepfriedbytes&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/netRocksFullMp3Downloads&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/netRocksFullMp3Downloads&lt;/a&gt; and&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cigital.com/silverbullet/feed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cigital.com/silverbullet/feed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(.NET Rocks, Deep Fried Bytes and The Silver Bullet Security Podcast).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T23:50:19.977" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T23:50:28.010" Title="Why don't tag feeds work with Opera's feed-reader?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16930" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:27:56.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to migrate my answer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/klmr/status/3515759091&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; to this place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If none of the provided answers fits the bill, I will generally try to provide an own answer detailing how I ended up solving/circumventing the problem. I will then accept this answer if none of the others provided the decisive hint that sent me in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW’ing the question is IMHO not generally called for, even if you accept your own answer. However, I once got accused of rep-whoring in a similar situation (although the question wasn’t even mine, I had just edited it last, so I was listed as one of its authors) so it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be wise to do so to avoid giving a wrong impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:27:56.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17033" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:35:55.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like those feeds (at least the one you quoted) are sent out as &lt;code&gt;text/html&lt;/code&gt;. Hard to blame Opera for simply trying to render the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Firefox also receives them that way, but seems to apply more content sniffing to guess what it should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="130804" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T18:48:01.320" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:48:01.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17044" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:46:24.163" Score="37" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is a 'rollback' on StackOverflow? I see this mentioned for the cleanup badge, but I do not understand the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1796" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-23T21:10:30.873" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T21:10:30.873" Title="What is a 'rollback'?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="17042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17038" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:48:44.190" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a post has been edited, it could be rolled back by anyone with edit permissions for that post to a previous revision. The rollback button appears on the edit page after an initial edit has been made. Note this excludes edits that do not cause a revision history (edits by the OP made very shortly after posting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:48:44.190" />
  <row Id="17044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17038" CreationDate="2009-08-24T18:49:07.730" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have edited your question. There is now a &quot;rollback&quot; option which you can press to revert the changes I made back to the original. That is the meaning of the term &quot;rollback&quot; as it is used on Stack Overflow and sister sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T18:49:07.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17121" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:05:52.210" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having been confused by the retagging of winforms no less than twice in two months, I would like to request a little bit more restraint when retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The criteria for some retagging requests seem to be somewhat arbitrary.  Retagging threading to multithreading for example seems to satisfy the pedants who prefer the proper term but goes contrary to the prevalance of the popular usage of threading.  I would propose that it's important to consider what people are most likely to enter into Google when looking for answers about a topic than having the one true tag that satisfies a particular persons need for order and cleanliness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, I would like to request more care to be taken when retagging is done.  With the winforms example, I had added winforms to my list of favorite tags.  Then, one day, I clicked on my winforms tag only to find that there were all of 3 or 4 winforms questions compared with the thousands the day before.  I dutifully updated my favorites tag to the prescribed windows-forms and was again on my merry way.  However, today I was again rudely awakened by my windows-forms tag only reporting a handful of questions; the windows-forms tag had been reverted to winforms.  On the first pass, I was completely unfamiliar with the retagging process and it was quite confusing to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If retagging must be done, please update these related things as well to streamline the user experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T23:57:16.337" Title="Request for more restraint when retagging" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17051" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:17:35.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't you just have both tags in your favorites? I agree that it is annoying when tags ping pong like this, but there is no one and only lexical authority on SO so I would expect this to continue to happen forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, even if in the example you gave, one tag was settled on and always used, you should have both in your Interest List because new questions are just as likely to be tagged with either. While the ones that are tagged &lt;em&gt;incorrectly&lt;/em&gt; will eventually be retagged, it will not be immediate so you may not see them until they are already answered if you only watch the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastEditorUserId="133301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T22:12:47.727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:12:47.727" />
  <row Id="17053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:20:29.413" Score="-4" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Public shame can be a real motivator, though I know that Jeff Atwood prefers rewarding good behavior over punishing bad behavior.  I recently answered a question for a person who has only accepted answers on 25% of 160+ questions.  Seems to me that's bordering on abusive behavior.  How about a wall of shame for people who consistently don't reward people who help them?  Say the top ten people who have more than 20 questions and fewer than 50% accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really look at the person's stats or wiki status before answering, and don't really want to, but it seems like it would help improve the community if people who use the resource would give a little back to the community.  Obviously if someone with over 160 questions isn't accepting answers, the &quot;please accept an answer&quot; reminder isn't working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:  I disagree with those who think that strongly encouraging accepted answers is all about points and not about helping people.  You forget that an answer is going to be of use to more than just the OP.  Accepting answers is how a later user can determine if an answer solves a problem, or is perceived as the best way to solve a problem by the questioner.  It is a key proposition to the success of the site along with voting.  I believe that an accepted answer makes a question and the answer much more useful to anyone else who comes along.  We should do whatever we can to encourage accepted answers.  We've already added the ability to answer and accept your own answer, notifications, and now the acceptance rate notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T12:35:17.130" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:38:16.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T12:35:17.130" Title="Wall of shame for non-accepters?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17053" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:24:04.773" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anti-badges?       &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:24:04.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17067" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:24:19.063" Score="15" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is a discussion site and accepting an answer on many questions makes no sense.  Since this statistic is now reported, it may be taken as a measure of the level of participation.  For a discussion site, this stat makes much less sense, especially as a measure of participation.  I suggest that it not be calculated or reported for meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:22:16.340" Title="Don't calculate accepted answer rate on meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17053" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:24:23.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you would find that many would view that as a sick accomplishment, and fight to get to the top of the wall, thus defeating the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:24:23.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17069" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:23:12.433" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe its me, or maybe its an issue with this site.  But it seems there is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should you attempt to answer questions, when you see a question that takes some time to respond to, it seems that five other people have already answered by time you have typed up your detailed response?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it supposed to be how fast can you type in an answer or how well you have answered the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to repeat peoples answers a lot ... should I then remove my answer so as to declutter the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the reputation on the site then based on whether you spend your entire day waiting for easy pickings and then quickly typing an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are the fourth person to answer a question in the same way why do people say hey you just repeated my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess Im just trying to work out what the best way to respond to questions on the site is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the long way around to the question :oP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134574" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T21:08:52.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:08:52.637" Title="What is the etiquette for answering questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;responses&gt;&lt;usage&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17053" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:25:02.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having the number on all their questions is shameful enough. There's no reason to make a another outlet to show their disrespect. When they ask a question you can make the decision of whether or not you want to help them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:25:02.307" />
  <row Id="17059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17053" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:25:24.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No wall of shame.  Stackoverflow is about knowledge exchange not getting people to accept answers.  The good answers are voted up to the top, which is like a pseudo accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides I rely on the votes more than the accepted answers.  I would like to see a requirement for a user to put the reason they are accepting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:25:24.753" />
  <row Id="17060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17053" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:25:53.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if there were such a thing (which I disagree with in the first place). For it to have any meaning, people would have to go and look at it and remember those folks as they are browsing the questions. As for it pushing the OPs to accept answers, they already see their % whenever they look at their question and they get reminded to accept an answer via an alert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:25:53.537" />
  <row Id="17061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17057" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:26:10.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just answer the question - don't over-complicate it. If you're first, congrats. If not, no biggie - you may still have the best answer and thus receive the most up-votes ultimately. If you answer, only to notice you provided the same answer as somebody before you, delete your answer and up-vote theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:26:10.977" />
  <row Id="17062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17057" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:26:41.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general when I repeat an answer I will upvote the quicker one and delete mine. If I have something else to add to that I can edit my answer (even if it has been deleted) and then undelete it later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take extra time to provide a detailed response, it likely will take a bit more time to get voted up because people won't notice it at the bottom right away... but as soon as they do and the votes start counting it will gradually filter to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:26:41.287" />
  <row Id="17063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17055" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:27:04.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say go ahead and report it, but understand the nature of the site when you are looking at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:27:04.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17053" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:28:56.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do mind that while some questions receive answers, that doesn't mean that the people who asked them are being helped by them. I have 2 or 3 questions that have no accepted answer, 1 of which I've solved in the mean time. I can't delete them anymore since they're too old. Also, they serve a historical purpose, as people may look the same stuff up in the future. If they come across this, it might be helpful to them(Jeff describes this as one of the main reasons Stackoverflow gets page-views from Google searches)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Stackoveflow, Serverfault and Superuser are about being helped, not about scoring points. If you're using a system of &quot;good behavior&quot; and &quot;bad behavior&quot; based on who votes and who accepts answers to their questions, than it would seem you care more about your rating than helping people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people come here once, ask a question, are helped and never use the system, that's fine by me, because they're a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;wall of shame&quot; will be the end of these sites, there isn't a doubt in my mind about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80907" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:28:56.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17055" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:29:48.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes sense &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt;, on support questions especially. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since questions on meta require special tags, perhaps questions tagged with things like &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt; could be removed from the count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:29:48.473" />
  <row Id="17066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:33:21.957" Score="-1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should users give a reason in the form of a comment why they are accepting an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hesitate and say it should be required, but should it be strongly encouraged?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And strongly encourage by popping up a box if the asker hasn't commented on the answer they are accepting asking them if they want to give a comment why this answer works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:42:04.747" Title="Should users give a reason why they are accepting an answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="17067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17055" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:36:39.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a look through my posts on here earlier -- most of those that haven't had an answer accepted are for things where there isn't a solution yet, or none of the answers (suggestions, even) match the actually implemented solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:36:39.843" />
  <row Id="17068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17066" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:36:46.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's assumed, and rightly so, that they accept it because it works. The reason is implicit to the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:36:46.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17057" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:38:09.810" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(My answer is considering that this question was first asked on SO)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it supposed to be how fast can you&#xA;  type in an answer or how well you have&#xA;  answered the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is supposed to be about what can help the guy who asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;solution&quot; might be to :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at first, post a useful answer, that doesn't give too much details, but points to a solution&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the guy who asked the question is good, it might point him to the right direction, and he might be able to solve the problem by himself based on the pointers you gave him &lt;em&gt;(that's nice, when it happens ! )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you might egt upvotes, for a useful answer, and be placed &quot;at the top of the answers list&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;then, if you &quot;quick answer / pointers&quot; did not help enough, you can edit your answer to add more details&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this time, it should definitly help the guy the solve the problem -- or even solve it for him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you will get more upvotes &lt;em&gt;(and your answer will already be one of the first seen ; this help to get even more upvotes)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I seem to repeat peoples answers a lot&#xA;  ... should I then remove my answer so&#xA;  as to declutter the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remove your answer if it is not helpful ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up to you to judge if it was useful or not, though -- downvotes might be an indication that it was absolutly not ; upvotes would be an indication that is was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the reputation on the site then&#xA;  based on whether you spend your entire&#xA;  day waiting for easy pickings and then&#xA;  quickly typing an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes and no : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;being one of the first to answer is good for your reputation, if your answer is good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for some questions, there are no (good) answer even after a while &lt;em&gt;(generally, this is for some tags that not many people know things about)&lt;/em&gt; ; in these situations, a great answer from you will probably not get you many upvotes, because not many people see those questions, or have the knowledge required to vote wisely... But it is for those questions that your knowledge is the most valuable for the guy who asked...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, once again : think to the guy who asked the question, and not &lt;em&gt;(or, at least, not only)&lt;/em&gt; your reputation ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are the fourth person to answer&#xA;  a question in the same way why do&#xA;  people say hey you just repeated my&#xA;  answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm the fourth guy who said the same thing :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;either I'm stupid (yeah, happens) : you generally can see there were other answers, with the orange bar on top of the screen.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and if you only want to add a pretty little bit of information to another answer, that's why comments are for -- it'll help another guy edit his (already good) answer so it's even better  ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or my answer provides a couple more information &lt;em&gt;(links, examples, advices, ... )&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that can happen if I saw there were other answers : I can edit my answer to provide more informations ; sometimes, building on what others said &lt;em&gt;(saying some ideas are from others seems normal, in that case)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or I took lots of time to write an answer with examples, research, and all, and it would hurt me not to post it (that sometimes happen, I have to admit)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Oh, another thing : I really often edit my answer to enhance it's presentation / correct some typos &lt;em&gt;(I try to type a bit too fast, especially considering english is not my mother tongue and I almost only write in english on SO)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, this is the second (I think) time I edit this answer : I've added some informations, then changed some presentation things, then re-added stuff, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;One last thing : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's fun ^^&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(two last things ^^ ) : don't you learn plenty of stuff reading other answers ? If I wasn't learning anything, I wouldn't ever go on SO...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About that : couple of minutes after answering your question, I answered another one on SO : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324652/why-does-this-syntax-work-in-mysql-matching-column-pairs-against-column-pairs&quot;&gt;Why does this syntax work in MySQL (matching column-pairs against column-pairs)?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;I guessed I provided a correct answer -- and I learned something while both reading the question, and searching for the answer : &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; is something I like !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastEditorUserId="131607" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T20:57:34.817" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:57:34.817" />
  <row Id="17070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17066" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:38:10.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reason why a user accepts an answer is implied... The solution &lt;em&gt;works&lt;/em&gt; and is the best/most elegant one provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the solution doesn't answer your question but helps you solve it on your own, then you might want to provide a comment saying why you accepted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:38:10.557" />
  <row Id="17071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17066" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:42:04.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If no answer satisfies your question, you can always answer it yourself and accept your own answer, explaining why none of the existing answers solved the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:42:04.747" />
  <row Id="17072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17075" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:38:17.880" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to spam people with similar questions. My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1303022/best-practice-method-for-creating-a-network-packet-struct-class-in-c&quot; title=&quot;original question&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt; was not quite what I should have been asking. After having two responses and doing more research I realized I should have asked something slightly different. Is there a way to re-phrase my question without having to make a new question while showing it as new so people will see that it needs to be answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried adding a comment to my question but that is not very noticeable. I also don't want people who answered the original question to get down voted because their answers wouldn't match what I may edit the question into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the best thing for me to do is post a new question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:04:08.890" Title="I realized my original question I asked was not exactly what I was looking for, what should I do?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;usage&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17072" CreationDate="2009-08-24T20:42:36.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rephrase the question so that's it's slightly different in the details, and ask again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T20:44:23.967" />
  <row Id="17074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17051" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:00:20.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a rare case. They were merged into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg/3820#3820&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows-forms]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Only to find out that &lt;strong&gt;WinForms&lt;/strong&gt; is the term used by Microsoft. So it then got merged into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11113/windows-forms-winforms&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[winforms]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to discuss tag-merges, look for questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[retag-request]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:00:20.880" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17072" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:03:30.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that referencing the old question and saying what is the difference and why that difference is relevant to the question is perfectly valid and will not be considered spam. After all, there are tons of slightly different questions asked by different people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8910/asking-a-similar-but-not-the-same-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8910/asking-a-similar-but-not-the-same-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10243/asking-a-follow-up-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10243/asking-a-follow-up-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:03:30.123" />
  <row Id="17076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17072" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:04:08.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would make your original question to better match the answers it &lt;strong&gt;has&lt;/strong&gt; received first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After doing that, go ahead and ask another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may want to add in your question, that it was in response to the answers you received on your previous question, and provide a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:04:08.890" />
  <row Id="17077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:05:04.613" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, see the broken layout &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471354/sharing-a-gnu-screen-session/471377#471377&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; If you use links that contain two &quot;http&quot;-part like with the links in WayBack Machine, the SO-layout breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The original code was:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Good tutorial [here][1]. See [this part][3] of the GNU screen manual on how to set ACL permissions. Give him whatever permission you think he needs, though I don't think you'd need to change it from the default that's given by `acladd`.&#xA;&#xA;If the first link is broken, please, it is [here.][2] &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes_gnu_screen_tutorial.php&#xA;  [2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20080118033211/http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes_gnu_screen_tutorial.php&#xA;  [3]: http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/screen-3.9.4/html_chapter/screen_8.html#SEC28&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The broken layout was:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good tutorial here. See this part of&#xA;  the GNU screen manual on how to set&#xA;  ACL permissions. Give him whatever&#xA;  permission you think he needs, though&#xA;  I don't think you'd need to change it&#xA;  from the default that's given by&#xA;  acladd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the first link is broken, please,&#xA;  it is&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes%5Fgnu%5Fscreen%5Ftutorial.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes%5Fgnu%5Fscreen%5Ftutorial.php&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arised Question thanks to Kip informing about %3A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should colons be automatically rendered to %3A?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131971" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T06:33:25.667" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:30:42.213" Title="The layout breaks when colons are placed in links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17094" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:13:16.667" Score="0" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently ran into an issue editing a question on meta to correct a typo.  When I went to submit it, it complained that the tags were not correct.  It was missing a required tag.  If the tags are really required, then they should be added when the question is migrated.  I suggest marking them as discussion as that seems to be the most common type of question asked on the sites that gets migrated to meta.  If the question is mistagged it can then be retagged as needed.  This would make the migrated questions tags consistent with those of questions asked on meta directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:44:31.350" Title="Automatically add the discussion tag to questions migrated from SO" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17077" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:13:36.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fixed the linked article by changing the colon in the URL to %3A.  I don't think colons are considered valid URL characters except in &lt;code&gt;://&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;user:pass@&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;:portnum&lt;/code&gt;.  But I think it's still a bug that the server-side markdown is generating such bad html (the client-side preview looks correct).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, here is the markdown source of the page that was giving the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Good tutorial [here][1]. See [this part][3] of the GNU screen manual on how to set ACL permissions. Give him whatever permission you think he needs, though I don't think you'd need to change it from the default that's given by `acladd`.&#xA;&#xA;If the first link is broken, please, it is [here.][2] &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes_gnu_screen_tutorial.php&#xA;  [2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20080118033211/http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes_gnu_screen_tutorial.php&#xA;  [3]: http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/screen-3.9.4/html_chapter/screen_8.html#SEC28&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which gets rendered like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good tutorial &lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes%5Fgnu%5Fscreen%5Ftutorial.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/screen-3.9.4/html%5Fchapter/screen%5F8.html#SEC28&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this part of the GNU screen manual on how to set ACL permissions. Give him whatever permission you think he needs, though I don't think you'd need to change it from the default that's given by &lt;code&gt;acladd&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the first link is broken, please, it is http://linuxhacks.org/tutorials/jakes%5Fgnu%5Fscreen%5Ftutorial.php&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T21:19:39.290" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:19:39.290" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28515" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:15:51.683" Score="7" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(There must be something obvious I've missed, if so apologies in advance...)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;page with the search tips&lt;/a&gt;, and couldn't find it. Its not on the main page, not in the FAQ, not in the first page of the extended FAQ. To find it, I had to search for something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=asdasdasdasdasd&quot;&gt;asdasdasdasdasd&lt;/a&gt;, which asked me if I'd like to &quot;See our search links&quot;. Well yes, I would, but I'd like an easier way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clicking on the magnifying glass could go there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There could be a question mark to the right of the search box, like so: (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T09:03:39.097" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:03:39.097" Title="Add link to search tips" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="17081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17078" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:24:55.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;or maybe Support?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:24:55.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17080" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:25:07.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be fine with a ? beside the box, but clicking on the magnifying glass is canonically accepted to mean &quot;Search&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:25:07.527" />
  <row Id="17084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17055" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:25:42.957" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't. It's the only site I have a 100% accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:25:42.957" />
  <row Id="17085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17080" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:32:25.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching for something that returns very few results will provide a link to the search tips page in the sidebar. Also, searching for nothing will bring you to this page (Just hit enter in the search box).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:32:25.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:33:14.543" Score="3" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;For fun:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answered a question first with at least one upvote, but Jon Skeet eventually receives the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed the title so as not to have Jon's name tainted with such a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Get+skeeted+on&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;horrible double meaning&lt;/a&gt;. I had no idea such a term existed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11702" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:13:09.870" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:13:09.870" Title="Add a 'Skeet Sniped' badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="17087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:35:02.963" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: doing others' work for points instead of doing your own for dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:35:02.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17086" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:38:27.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar version for SF, replacing Jon Skeet with Evan Anderson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:38:27.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17033" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:41:02.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text/html designation is a side-effect of IIS7 caching that we can't figure out. The request is INITIALLY served as text/xml, but IIS7 seems to ignore that when caching it, so all subsequent requests are text/html.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T23:50:28.010" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T23:50:28.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17093" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:42:40.857" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a another link for &quot;revisions&quot; next to &quot;edit | flag&quot; would be useful for those over 2000 rep who need a quick look at the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm too lazy to keep typing in &quot;revisions/id/list&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65611" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:50:54.987" Title="Add a link to the revision list for editors" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16931" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:42:53.163" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do not officially support the /api until we announce we're working on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All requests of this nature will be declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, fair warning: since the api is unannounced, it may be changed at any time with no announcements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:42:53.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17091" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:44:03.100" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't you just click the TimeStamp on the edit? It'll take you to the revision list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:44:03.100" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17078" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:44:31.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably should also make sure that there isn't any moderator specific tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:44:31.350" />
  <row Id="17095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16890" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:45:32.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;post votes and comment votes are two different pools and are tracked totally independently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;both are limited per-day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:45:32.220" />
  <row Id="17097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17091" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:50:54.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if questions which haven't been edited had a link to that somewhere. ( &lt;em&gt;They currently don't&lt;/em&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is really required on most questions/answers, but it might be a good idea from a usability standpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:50:54.987" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:52:13.250" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, another badges question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO seems to have reached the point where the &quot;game balance&quot; (for want of a better word) between badges has become badly distorted. The &quot;tags&quot; badges that get created on demand, for example, require a serious amount of real work to achieve, as evidenced by the number of people that have earned them (e.g. only 11 gold C++, only 27 silver java, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast this with the huge number of gold &quot;general&quot; badges out there... 556 &quot;great answers&quot;, 117 &quot;famous questions&quot;, etc. These can be awarded for a single question or answer, and a quick trawl of a sample of them shows them all to be for our favourite &quot;soft&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I'm not really sure where I'm going with this ramble, but is the color of the badge anything more than eye candy, if the balance is so distorted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:54:20.033" Title="Badge balance out of whack" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17086" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:53:34.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently thinking that a Skeeting / being Skeeted would be where you see a question, think &quot;I know the answer&quot;, go to reply and promptly scream &quot;&lt;strong&gt;DAMN YOU JON SKEET, DO YOU EVER SLEEP?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133319" LastEditorUserId="133319" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T23:17:08.460" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T23:17:08.460" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17100" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:54:20.033" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A sizable number of the gold badges are being migrated to meta, as they were meta-questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They go from being &quot;meta-gold&quot; badges on SO to real gold badges on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:54:20.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17086" CreationDate="2009-08-24T21:56:03.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggested something similar but think I may have deleted it.  I didn't want the &quot;Skeeted&quot; reference to take away from the positive of what Jon does...  It happens frequently when a higher rep person answers a question later and ends up getting more up votes and the answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T21:56:03.257" />
  <row Id="17105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-04T13:28:20.260" Score="23" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should Perl &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CPAN&lt;/a&gt; modules be linked to in the text of answers on StackOverflow.com such that the people who follow the link (perhaps in the distant future) will always be taken to the latest stable version of that module?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a URL that always shows the latest stable version is important not only to ensure that everyone benefits from bug fixes, but also because old versions may actually be (and often are) deleted from CPAN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-24T20:13:46.777" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T20:13:46.777" Title="How should I link to CPAN modules in answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="17106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17105" CreationDate="2008-09-04T13:30:34.230" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Links to CPAN module distributions should be in this form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://search.cpan.org/dist/&amp;lt;module-distribution-name&amp;gt;/&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &amp;lt;module-distribution-name&amp;gt; should be replaced with the hyphen-separated module distribution name.  Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Parser/&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now an example inline: &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Parser/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XML::Parser&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links to individual modules should be in this form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?&amp;lt;module-name&amp;gt;&#xA;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/&amp;lt;module-name&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &amp;lt;module-name&amp;gt; should be replaced with the individual module name.  Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Rose::HTML::Form::Field&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inline example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Rose::HTML::Form::Field&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rose::HTML::Form::Field&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-24T22:11:25.467" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:11:25.467" />
  <row Id="17107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17105" CreationDate="2008-09-06T09:30:20.890" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have the name of a Perl module, such as Net::MAC, you can tack it on to the end of the following URL stub:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So using the above example, this would become:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Net::MAC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two advantages to using this method over others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are taken straight to the manual page for the latest version of that module&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No need to substitute double-colons for hyphens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This second point is crucial if you want to set up a quick search in the Firefox web browser. For instance you could type &quot;cpan Net::MAC&quot; in the address/awesome bar and Firefox would be able to construct the URL as above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, here is a real link using the above example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Net::MAC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Net::MAC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:02:21.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17105" CreationDate="2008-09-13T01:22:09.850" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's actually a distinction here that was not made clear in the original question.  When linking to a module &lt;em&gt;distribution&lt;/em&gt; on CPAN, you should use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/dist/XXX/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://search.cpan.org/dist/XXX/&lt;/a&gt; form.  When linking to an individual module &lt;em&gt;within&lt;/em&gt; a distribution, use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?XXX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?XXX&lt;/a&gt; form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When recommending things from CPAN on StackOverflow, I think module distributions will most frequently be the unit of recommendation.  After all, you don't download an individual &quot;.pm&quot; file from CPAN.  What you download from CPAN are whole module distributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, it's good to know how to do both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:02:21.220" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17105" CreationDate="2008-09-16T10:34:59.153" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Siracusa &lt;a href=&quot;#60241&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think module distributions will most frequently be the unit of recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, but the module’s documentation is usually more immediately useful than an overview over the contents of its distribution, and the distribution is just one click away from the documentation page. Also, much of the time you do not want to download tarballs via search.cpan anyway – you just want to browse docs and then use your preferred package manager to install, whether it be CPAN.pm, Aptitude, ports, pkgsrc, PPM, or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, some larger distributions, eg. &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moose&lt;/a&gt;, come with several different documentation pages, each of which will be useful to different parts of the audience, so in that case it seems preferable to link to the distribution and let each user pick whichever entry point they prefer, instead of linking to a specific one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:02:21.220" />
  <row Id="17110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17105" CreationDate="2008-09-17T13:47:56.280" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On another note, for short-hand linking to absolutely any Perl-related resource at all, you should take a &lt;strong&gt;look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://p3rl.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;p3rl.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a redirector in the style of URL shortening services that was created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://juerd.nl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Juerd&lt;/a&gt; because he was envious of how easy &lt;code&gt;php.net&lt;/code&gt; made it to link to PHP resources during IRC discussions. But it goes a good deal above and beyond the features offered by its model – you can link to any one Perl function, the Perl docs, CPAN modules, or (using commas) even link to several of those at once. There are several predefined special links, and groups of links. The site also offers a pastebin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very handy for most of your Perl linking needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:02:21.220" />
  <row Id="17111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17051" CreationDate="2009-08-24T22:22:56.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases where multiple (synonymous) terms are in use I would argue that it makes absolute sense to at least merge them. There will be some overlap where a number of questions include both A and B. It would be nice if we had automatic tag-swapping (i.e. the user enters &quot;windows-forms&quot; but gets &quot;winforms&quot;), but we don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The case of &quot;winforms&quot; was unfortunate, and I regret it. My apologies if this caused confusion, but fighting &quot;winforms&quot; was just doomed. As far as I know, this reversal is an isolated example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the other cases when A and B are actually different tags for the same thing, then... well, one of the two is going to lose. I hope it is the sensible choice most times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;please update these related things as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't edit your bookmakes, but I guess that in part that comes back to the tag-swapping (it would be nice if that worked for &lt;code&gt;~/tagged/{foo}&lt;/code&gt; too). I'm sure there is a feature-request somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:22:56.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17117" CreationDate="2009-08-24T22:39:51.450" Score="1" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10519/comments-questions-and-answers-dont-trim-unicode-u200b-when-counting-characters&quot;&gt;Comments, questions and answers don&amp;rsquo;t trim Unicode U200B when counting characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11731/padding-a-comment-with-spaces&quot;&gt;Padding a comment with spaces.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can bypass the comment 15 character minimum by adding spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T08:06:42.957" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:06:42.957" Title="You can bypass the comment 15 character minimum by adding spaces" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17114" CreationDate="2009-08-24T22:41:07.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Been doing this for months. I don't think its a bug, I think it's a 'feature'. I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:41:07.890" />
  <row Id="17117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17114" CreationDate="2009-08-24T22:42:58.213" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is technically a bug, but we like the bug and we believe that it should exist for those smart enough to figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T22:42:58.213" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6441" CreationDate="2009-08-24T23:44:53.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now replace the client wildcard (*) with the server wildcard (~) on tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be careful, because the server has rules that the client does not. Most notably, any wildcard searches &lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt; be a minimum of &lt;strong&gt;4 characters&lt;/strong&gt; in length (not including the wildcard chars themselves), or they are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T23:44:53.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17051" CreationDate="2009-08-24T23:57:16.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arrgh, someone renamed &quot;threading&quot; to &quot;multithreading&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I too have had problems with overzealous renaming of tags, to the point that I now honestly question the reason I ever added the functionality in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one thing, it plays havoc with tag-based badges if not considered carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T23:57:16.337" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17086" CreationDate="2009-08-24T23:59:30.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these &quot;fun&quot; badges are best left for data-dump analysis, we can determine most of this from the data dump anyway, and even though Jon has a phenomenal &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2238/would-it-be-useful-so-show-peoples-hit-rate-i-e-percentage-of-answers-accep/16633#16633&quot;&gt;hit rate&lt;/a&gt; some other users have higher ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-24T23:59:30.573" />
  <row Id="17123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17055" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:05:56.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of SO functionality wasn't designed for Meta.SO but I would like to see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;as much&lt;/em&gt; of the functionality maintained as possible&lt;/strong&gt; even where it might not be needed... for a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta.SO is a good place to try out functionality you might not want to try on a &quot;professional&quot; site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Exchange is coming up and there is a lot to be learned seeing how SO features hold up under a site for which is was not specifically design (like meta.SO).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would like to see how the SO engine handles more traditional discussion needs of meta.SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be useful to see to see how different features &quot;work&quot; in different types of community environments. The group dynamics &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; are certainly different than that of SO and the other sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta.SO is a bit experimental. I'm sure the SO team stands to learn a lot by maintaining meta.SO as a close macrocosm of the Stack Overflow proper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T00:05:56.987" />
  <row Id="17124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17055" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:06:08.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I don't know why I bother answering this, there is only a one in 3 chance you will accept this :p)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it does make sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff can always select a different accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can select the &quot;answer&quot; you found most helpful, or that most comprehensively addressed your query.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no question that this feature increases participation, I cleaned up all my questions on Meta and SO recently, accepting feature requests I made on meta etc. If Jeff sees a feature request that is accepted that he is going to decline, he now is kind of forced to adding a reason and marking it as accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T00:06:08.560" />
  <row Id="17125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:14:35.057" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that accept rates are &quot;all the rage&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you please change the default sort order for the questions (on the profile page) to display the questions with no accepted answers (excluding wiki) first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's easier to fix the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It advertises your non-answered questions much better. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bare minimum can you add a sort order for this on the profile page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:04:41.717" Title="Please change the default sort order on the user page to display unanswerd questions first" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17139" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:26:05.067" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16725/add-an-answer-acceptance-rate-too&quot;&gt;Add an answer acceptance rate, too&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be great to complement the the newly added &quot;accepted rate&quot; feature for the questioner with a &quot;accepted rate&quot; feature for the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I thought this was the feature all about when I saw the announcement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current user reputation is a very good indication of how good a user is, but it has a direct relationship with the time spent on SO ( obviously better answers require less time spent in SO. Jon Skeet reaches it's 200 limit in two answers with 10+ up votes) . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding the accept rate from the answer side, will also encourage in the quality of the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T00:52:52.843" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T00:57:23.007" ClosedDate="2009-08-25T03:28:05.320" Title="Accepted answer complement" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14477" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:29:02.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still think this is a really good idea.  The fact that some people will still miss it doesn't detract from the value of increasing its visibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T00:29:02.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17141" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:32:10.700" Score="0" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there is now a duplicate for showing the percentage of answers that were marked as the accepted answer like we see for the questioner's acceptance rate, I think that we should show a percentage for the number of questions that get closed.  We could then break that down by the different close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could expand this even further to modify the avatar to put a dunce hat as an overlay or something.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could also show the percentage of posts, comments, etc. that are flagged for moderation attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I vote &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt; for all of the above...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T02:30:32.263" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T07:00:03.823" Title="show percentage of duplicate questions asked" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17138" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:39:53.013" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1321963/a-easy-to-use-document-management-system-closed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was just closed with 2 votes for SuperUser and 2 votes for ServerFault and one other. It was not migrated by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've flagged it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug, or is it expected to be low frequency enough for human intervention to be the best solution? Would auto-flagging be appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:05:01.607" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:05:01.607" Title="Questions closed with tied migration votes do not get migrated automatically" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="17134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17133" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:42:05.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Human intervention would be the best approach. How would the system know where it really belongs if there is a tie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T00:42:05.020" />
  <row Id="17135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17133" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:42:11.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you suggest breaking the tie? Should one site be preferred over the other? Or should reputation or other factors come into play?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best solution would be to decouple the closing and migration systems, and require N migration votes (say, 5 or so) for a specific site for the question to be moved. This way you have to have N people not only agree that the question should be closed and/or moved, but at least N have to agree on the destination. An added side effect of decoupling the systems would be the capability of moving closed questions, something that can only effectively be done with a moderator flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A less desirable (but more easily implemented) solution would be to wait for a tie-breaking close vote if there's a 2-2-1 or 1-1-1-1-1 tie. The question would stay open slightly longer, but this would solve the tie-breaking problem without introducing any major new features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T01:01:31.560" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:01:31.560" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17125" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:47:03.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Jeff's solution was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:me+hasaccepted:0+answers:1+wiki:0+closed:0&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, although this could be a nice addition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T00:53:44.377" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T00:53:44.377" />
  <row Id="17138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17133" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:54:05.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep the systems coupled, only, in the case of a tie, flag the post for a moderator to decide where it belongs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, it will get where it belongs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it is, If the community can't decide where a question belongs, it is the moderator's job to go in and tell the community where the questions belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why we have mods, to take care of things that the community can't/doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T01:01:03.943" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:01:03.943" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17127" CreationDate="2009-08-25T00:57:23.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that these sorts of &quot;participation metrics&quot; should be on the user profile page, and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; cluttering up the user info display below questions (and answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With much more of this, SO is going to look like all those ugly &quot;forums&quot; with stars and cute names and all kinds of junk under people's names. What we have is enough!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T00:57:23.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17130" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:17:56.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna have to go ahead and give a 'please-decline' answer on that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excess visual clutter for minimal benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:17:56.967" />
  <row Id="17143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:28:18.940" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for some data other than &lt;a href=&quot;http://langpop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://langpop.com/&lt;/a&gt; so it would be interesting if there was some charts for stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:32:21.003" Title="Which programming language gets the most questions and/or traffic on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17143" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:29:31.563" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag count&lt;/a&gt; you can get a good idea of language popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;C#&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&quot;&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript&quot;&gt;Javascript&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b&quot;&gt;C++&lt;/a&gt; are currently the most popular tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:29:31.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17143" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:32:21.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The .NET framework in general is the most popular topic on StackOverflow. The C# language is leaps and bounds more popular than Visual Basic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After C#, Java development is the next most popular topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:32:21.003" />
  <row Id="17146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17203" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:38:35.437" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I found a solution to a bountied question using a suggestion in a comment rather than a separate answer, how to I make sure the commenter gets the bounty at the end of the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I solved &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/53066/ssh-tunnel-using-putty-no-longer-works-after-server-change&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; recently based on one of the comments. The person commenting had posted an answer earlier which didn't work, so I don't want to accept &lt;em&gt;that one&lt;/em&gt; as the solution. However the bounty expires very soon, and I really want him to post his comment as a seperate answer. But without any method to be able to PM users all I'm able to do is add another comment suggesting that he post a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134130" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:12:13.340" Title="How do I award the bounty to a commenter if they didn't post a working answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="17147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17146" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:40:12.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask the commenter to re-post their comment as an answer. Bounties cannot be awarded to comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the poster has already posted an answer, accept it for the time being, and leave a comment politely asking for him to edit the answer to include the correct information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:40:12.757" />
  <row Id="17148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17146" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:40:36.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basic Answer: You can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More Details: The closest thing you could do is post a comment saying &quot;Hey, make your comment a question and I'll give you the bounty.&quot; Then sit back and hope that they pay attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way you could potentially try is flag it for moderator attention. A moderator could then in theory relay a short message to the commenter and let them know. I would imagine that given this type of heads up, nobody would hesitate to go ahead and make an answer so they could collect a quick bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T06:45:22.287" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T06:45:22.287" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:11:39.230" Score="17" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is maturing very nicely. As many people are saying in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/358486/why-do-you-post-to-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;a recent thread&lt;/a&gt; there are numerous good reasons for us all to be here and we're making the most of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few moments ago there were 1013 pages of users, which means somewhere in excess of 28 thousand registered users (although over half haven't actively contributed and are still on just a single point). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nature of the reputation points is seriously inflationary, assuming that you shy away from making blatantly inflammatory statements and voting down lots of posts, there is no way to both actively contribute &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; keep your points tally down. In recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt; have hinted at the bounty system coming along soon which confronts in part this problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I do think it's a problem. There are now more than 20 users with over 10,000 points. To me that's no longer meaningful. Yes some of them are very good in their fields, but all it shows is that they spend more time here than most! And what is the difference between a user with 5, 8, 12 or 20 thousand points? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time points that just stack up will cease to be useful. Would this be the eponymous &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is reputation at that level meaningful? Is the fact that some of these leviathons have 100 bronze badges at all interesting? - or is it actually more interesting? The marginal &lt;em&gt;pleasure&lt;/em&gt; of getting those early badges and tripping the various benchmarks to unlock functionality is long gone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: Do these huge totals mean a mature system or that the Gods will leave to find another game? What drives the 10k+ clique to continue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:51:07.167" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:51:07.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T10:18:17.223" Title="When is high reputation too high?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:17:15.850" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What drives the 10k+ clique to continue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prestige&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2361" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:18:01.620" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the same as money - you just want to have more? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:18:23.570" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that average upvotes per question and answer might be a better metric.  That way we can really see if someone is consistantly posting good answers/questions or if they simply &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; spend more time on here and have a billion +1 upvote answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From looking at the 10k+ crowd right now though, most of them do seem to have a really high upvote average on both questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:20:13.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagging on to Simucal's answer, maybe two metrics.  I know on eBay, raw reputation tells me someone has been around, which is a good thing to know.  But the percentage is all I really look at before a sale, and having a lot of high upvote answers could show something significant.  Better than a user who never answers anything anymore to avoid blemishing their perfect average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:27:06.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And what is the difference between a user with 5, 8, 12 or 20 thousand points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They've likely helped more people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132739" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" />
  <row Id="17155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:32:14.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think having a 'K' somewhere in the points means that either you are an expert in one or more disciplines (likely) or that you always have one window open and reserved for SO. Either way I do not think that it diminishes the idea behind this forum. And remember there's always 'M' and 'G' after 'K':) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" />
  <row Id="17156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:39:27.320" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've wondered about &quot;reputation inflation&quot; too. Perhaps Joel and Jeff have a West Wing-esque secret plan to fight inflation. It's hard to know exactly what to do about it though. We could all drop 1% of reputation each day - but that's really just feeding the MMORPG &quot;must keep playing&quot; game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key question is: &lt;strong&gt;what is the intended purpose of reputation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's meant to show that the system trusts you, then that's fine - we get more and more users that the system trusts, because they've earned that trust from the community. No problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's meant to show that a user has helped a bunch of folks, then that's also still true of high-rep users, even if it's mostly due to them being here a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's meant to show that their answers are always correct, then obviously it fails. If you guess at answers and are right (and upvoted appropriately) a quarter of the time - a pretty poor record, really - then you'll still gain reputation on average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's really just meant to keep people coming back to the site, then that's a bit sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether high-rep users will leave - I was mostly active on NNTP newsgroups before I came to StackOverflow. There was no reputation system there beyond the normal one of the community getting to know you and trust you. That didn't make me leave... (and I still post there now). Why do I do that? Because I like helping people. I won't pretend that's purely altruistic - it gives me a buzz to know that I've helped people, and obviously the recognition aspect is nice too. I suspect the same is probably true for most other high-rep users. If we didn't like helping people, we wouldn't be here. (I don't think you'll find many high-rep users with as many questions as answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T09:39:30.953" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you contribute only for the reputation, you will be bored if you are number one with a great margin (more than 2 k).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you are here to help building a great site. It is just a number. (And if it is 3k+, you can do anything that is needed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" />
  <row Id="17158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T10:37:07.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inflation sucks. Neither monetary nor fiscal policy will help so here are a few things that could:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weighting&lt;/strong&gt; There could be some kind of weighting to make the reputation model less linear.  So for example if you received a&#xA;&quot;right answer&quot; to a &quot;trivial&quot;&#xA;question you should receive less&#xA;reputation than for a &quot;non-trivial&quot;&#xA;question. Perhaps reputation could&#xA;be be a function of views AND&#xA;up/down votes AND favourites for a&#xA;question etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capping&lt;/strong&gt; Limit the&#xA;amount of reputation you can gain&#xA;from a single question / answer.&#xA;Because ONE super question / answer&#xA;doesn't make you a guru (well not in&#xA;my book).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time linked deflation / depreciation&lt;/strong&gt; Another slightly bolder idea might&#xA;be to do some time related deflation&#xA;to decrease &quot;reputation&quot; acquired&#xA;from old questions as time&#xA;progresses. It would also encourage&#xA;users to be more active, and not&#xA;rest on the back of their previous&#xA;work :D and also has some real world&#xA;significance which I will try to&#xA;explain at a later date :D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment it is something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Users gain reputation when:&lt;/h3&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Question or Answer is voted &lt;em&gt;Helpful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+10 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Answer is marked &lt;em&gt;Accepted&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+15 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;You Marked an answer to your question as &lt;em&gt;Accepted&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+2 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;A down vote on your Question or Answers is removed: &lt;strong&gt;+2 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;You remove vote from a Question or Answer you have votes as &lt;em&gt;Not Helpful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;+1 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Users lose reputation when:&lt;/h3&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your Question or Answers is voted &lt;em&gt;Not Helpful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;-2 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;You voted a Question or Answer as &lt;em&gt;Not Helpful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;-1 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;You wrote the latest revision to a post flagged &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; 5 times: &lt;strong&gt;-100 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user removes a vote on your Question or Answer that they previously voted as &lt;em&gt;Helpful&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;-10 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have multiple user accounts merged.  Reputation is recalculated during the merge so you lose reputation gained from questions that have since been deleted.&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Additionally:&lt;/h3&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;All users start with 1 reputation.&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user's reputation may not drop below 1.&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;A maximum of +200 reputation may be gained per day from voting.  &lt;em&gt;(A new day starts 0:00 UTC).&lt;/em&gt; &#xA;Users who have reached the 200 rep limit in a certain day may still earn rep from having one of his or her answers accepted, canceling previous downvotes, and accepting other peoples answers to their questions. &lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/303954/how-to-get-over-200-reputations-every-day&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/303954/how-to-get-over-200-reputations-every-day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132169" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T10:37:07.420" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="17159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T11:01:11.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's too high when you're Donald Knuth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until then, keep at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T11:01:11.553" />
  <row Id="17160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T13:06:20.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly can't speak for the rest of the 10k club, but as for myself, I keep going in the spirit of teaching and learning, and trying to add new information to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do keep an eye on my reputation, but only as a gauge of how my recent questions and answers are being received.  It wouldn't really matter if it were 10,000 or 2,000 since it's really only the last few digits that tell me what I need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T13:06:20.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T13:20:14.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jon, Bill, etc say - there is a lot of benefit etc from mutual learning. I first started contributing on usenet forums, and I learnt &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; amounts from reading the replies on things new to me, and simply trying things... &quot;how do I do x?&quot; - dunno, but I can do y... is that any similar? etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also a good way (alongside blogs, etc) to keep up to date on things... if something new comes out, somebody will be asking  about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T13:20:14.410" />
  <row Id="17162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T13:24:44.213" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have this request in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/39853&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice&lt;/a&gt; since a lot of time. No one voted. That would be great to have more &quot;action&quot; to do. Moderation is hard sometime (lack of privileges) and we could do a lot more to help this website with more access to some features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What drive me? I like to help of course and I like to try to keep getting the 200 limits every day, This kind of motivate me to learn thing that I do not know. Some day it takes 1 hours, some time it takes to whole day depend of the question and how many works I have. Since stackoverflow I am less tending to waste time on Digg or other website that doesn't give me something (knowledge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, Stackoverflow shouldn't penalize higher reputation with &quot;tax&quot; or something to slow down them. What is the point to penalize very active contributor? They are a lot of room for improvement to add functionality for them. They could be able to change to &quot;Community Wiki&quot; question that should be as it. They should be able to have a higher close power that only these range can re-open and not people too low (example someone over 10k close a thread, someone below 10k cannot reopen... this will reduce war of open-close). They should be able to restore comments if deleted. All these new privileges should be at 8k, 10k, 15k, 20k, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&#xA;If you check the top 20 of 2 months ago and the same top 20 now, you can see a lot of people that aren't any more. Most of top user are now at the second page or near of it... and pretty inactive when before they were like Justin Standard and many other. A lot of super-active user became not active after reaching all objectives. Theses 2 graphics below are a lot common:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://clip2net.com/clip/m12122/1229009576-clip-9kb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://clip2net.com/clip/m12122/1229009684-clip-10kb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's no a coincidence that people stop being active, they do not care anymore to get some reputation or help if they do not get something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-11T15:44:18.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, answering popular non-tech questions with a thoughtful answer seems to be a way to gain a lot of rep. That's cool, but it doesn't mean that the person actually has expertise in any field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to see some kind of &quot;expertise&quot; reputation as well. I'm thinking that questions and answers could also be up or down voted in terms of technical difficulty or knowledge. That could be used to build a technical rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144243" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T15:44:18.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-12T08:29:42.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is reputation for?&lt;/strong&gt; That seems to be a key question. A common complaint is that too much comes from too easy questions. Several people have suggested expertise or tag based reputation to highlight technical scores, that was certainly the solution I was toying with as I wrote the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/88097-breaking-out-reputation-by-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt; suggestion along these lines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-12T08:29:42.200" />
  <row Id="17165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-29T09:35:04.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wrote an answer to one of Jeff's questions that he deleted whilst I was writing the answer, but this is a pretty similar question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the comparison to MMORPGs is appropriate.  There needs to be a good leveling system.  Rep could be like experience, and you need more and more of it to get to higher and higher levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could have different stats, like helpfulness and accuracy.  That way you tell the difference between someone with a low score who always gets the answer right, and someone with a high score who only gets it right 25% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133494" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T09:35:04.320" />
  <row Id="17166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17149" CreationDate="2008-12-29T11:23:17.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For arguments sake: What would the negative impact be if reputation was hidden after you get to the ability-to-close-question threshold? It could be visible to that user, but not displayed else where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? (Again, remember this is just for arguments sake) The system is misleading.. Given two answers, one from someone with x-thousand rep, one from someone with 2 rep - both answers can be equally good or bad, the rep-points of that user should be utterly irrelevant. In reality, people are more likely to accept or up-vote the answer from the higher-rep'd person, when really the goal should be to encourage new(er) users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not-displaying a users rep over a certain limit would, in theory, work just as well - the best answers get upvoted, the bad ones don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:55:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T11:23:17.720" />
  <row Id="17167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3657" CreationDate="2009-08-25T01:59:15.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran into the same issue with a link with underscores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is weird. I'm trying to replicate the issue here (using the link button or ctrl + L) and am not able to. Is meta running a different version of the editor than SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I worked around it by using a href.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134591" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T01:59:15.967" />
  <row Id="17168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="904" CreationDate="2009-08-25T02:31:07.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 10k rep user tools has this information in two places, both on the &quot;dashboard&quot; and in a seperate report page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T02:31:07.303" />
  <row Id="17169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13549" CreationDate="2009-08-25T02:32:16.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Impossible, as our badge awarding process only returns (userid), (badgeid), (expected count). It does not return the posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T02:32:16.630" />
  <row Id="17172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17146" CreationDate="2009-08-25T02:51:29.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the commenter's comment is not to further his/her own answer, a new comment to that post will not reach the desired user.  In that case, you can comment to the user on his/her own answer that the suggestion left on either the original question or on a different user's post will be accepted if it is added a new answer.  This comment will then show up in this user's Recent Activity page and the mail icon on top of the page will light up.  Chances are, if this user was interested in the bounty, he/she will be back before the bounty period is up and will take the appropriate action.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this user does not follow up as you request, you can still accept the wrong answer and add the note on the bottom for posterity, that you accepted the answer for the user on the basis of a comment, and again ask the user to update the accepted post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T02:51:29.493" />
  <row Id="17173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:10:07.487" Score="11" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has always been understood that moderators can and should email users that are abusive or have an issue that's best resolved privately offline. However, there have been a few suggestions recently that suggest that a broader approach should be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16720/can-the-flag-for-moderator-attention-have-a-feedback-mechanism/16733#16733&quot;&gt;in this discussion&lt;/a&gt;, it is suggested that moderators email users to follow up on the moderator flags that they leave on the site. My opinion is that this feature should be incorporated into the site, and that it's a bit forward to email another user, unsolicited, from my personal email address.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17146/how-do-i-award-the-bounty-to-a-commenter-if-they-didnt-post-a-working-answer/17148#17148&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; that prompted me to write this question. I think it's highly unprofessional, as a moderator, to email a user on behalf of another user, especially for something as trivial as a bounty. To me, this is clearly past the line. But the question is: where exactly is the line? When a user enters their email address (presumably to provide a Gravatar for their account) what communication does the user agree to receive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* I might feel differently about this if I had a @stackoverflow.com email, and maybe some sample correspondences so that I don't feel like I'm starting with a blank slate every time I send an email&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T18:05:50.983" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T18:05:50.983" Title="Under what circumstances should moderators email users?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17173" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:29:59.373" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a difficult question to answer for the general case. I don't mind getting emails from anyone (including websites that I've registered at), I just dislike obvious spam mail. I accept the fact that if I put my email somewhere when registering I may get the occasional message. Personally, if something concerns me on SO I wouldn't mind getting an email informing me. At the end of the day I can decide if I want to read it -- it causes me no inconvenience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also aware that many people may not share my outlook, and would probably be furious over unsolicited email. As a general rule I would advise against personal mail simply to avoid aggravating these users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T03:29:59.373" />
  <row Id="17176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17173" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:32:03.520" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree it's &lt;em&gt;very unprofessional&lt;/em&gt; to email a user to an address he/she has not publicly listed (except for extreme situations.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even a &lt;code&gt;@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; email address does not fundamentally change anything. As you said, this feature should be incorporated in the Web site. A message from moderator could show up in the &quot;envelope&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T03:38:28.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T03:38:28.500" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17173" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:32:17.390" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;code&gt;It has always been understood that moderators can and should email users that are abusive or have an issue that's best &#xA;resolved privately offline&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I totally agree with this.&lt;/strong&gt; I also feel that moderators should inform users when they act on a post that the user has flagged. It seems like every time I flag a post as offensive, spam, or inform moderator, I never actually get to see if anything happened on it because I forget about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now about the bounty&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't see any reason as to why a user wouldn't want to know about a chance to gain rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My personal belief&lt;/strong&gt; is that the moderators are here to help us and the overall well being of S[OUF]. I wish the moderators could be more involved with the users. I love the idea of one-on-one relationships and dialogs with mods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One important thing&lt;/strong&gt; to note would be adding check a box that would allow mods to contact a user on there user profile page. This would allow a user to opt out of mods contacting them about bounty's and things of that nature, but not contacting them about misbehavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T03:42:17.607" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T03:42:17.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16725" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:39:29.013" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think percent is a good metric for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a high number of answers, you would have a low acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that this would be an easy one to game, just delete all of your answers that aren't the accepted answer. Instant 100% acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total number of accepted answers would be a better metric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just looking at Jon Skeets answers he has about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;50 accepted answers, on Meta&lt;/a&gt;, out of about 250&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about 20%&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My educated guess, is that less than half of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;his answers on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; have become the accepted answer. ( &lt;em&gt;Look at his lowest scoring answers&lt;/em&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T03:39:29.013" />
  <row Id="17179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17173" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:42:23.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a feature request that messages from moderators light up the magic envelope?  Messages can get queued up in the Recent Activity screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T03:42:23.223" />
  <row Id="17180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:47:23.260" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the screen caps are from superuser, this request is for all sites. A &quot;site wide preference&quot; would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to maximize vertical screen space, I would like to use a horizontally friendly view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I much prefer this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5940/picture2zxx.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1962/picture1dsp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking purely about the vote/answer/views display, not the &quot;preview&quot; of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7672" LastEditorUserId="7672" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T05:10:15.833" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T05:10:15.833" Title="&quot;Default&quot; view vs &quot;Questions&quot; view" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;graphics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17180" CreationDate="2009-08-25T03:52:31.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoy the extra context provided on the questions page. I want to know more than just the title of the question before I jump in and try to answer it. The post preview is usually enough to give me an idea of whether or I should bother reading the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T03:52:31.163" />
  <row Id="17183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:06:26.663" Score="11" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/700/can-we-get-rid-of-the-threshold-of-15-chars-for-comments&quot;&gt;Can we get rid of the threshold of 15 chars for comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a 15 character limit for all comments.  A lot of times people have a short comment, and follow it with something like: &quot; (this is to satisfy minimum char limit)&quot;.  But the limit doesn't really do anything, as you can also fill in the void with spaces, which are then not visible when the comments are rendered (ie: 'foo bar        ' will be rendered as 'foo bar').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why have a minimum limit if it acts as a thorn-in-the-side more often than not, and can be easily bypassed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/700/can-we-get-rid-of-the-threshold-of-15-chars-for-comments&quot;&gt;Meta/question/700&lt;/a&gt;.  Didn't see it earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this very topic has received quite a bit of discussion already, feel free to close this.  It would appear that this was doomed to fail before it started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19097" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T14:58:39.440" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T14:58:39.440" Title="Do away with minimum char limits on comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;&lt;minor-annoyances&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17180" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:06:34.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;prefer&lt;/em&gt; the more-vertical, questions-page version because it includes preview text. I guess we &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; can choose what we prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I always wondered why the tab selections are different between those two pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Front Page:  active,  featured,  hot,   week,   month&#xA;Questions Page:  newest,  featured,  hot,   votes,  active&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T04:26:26.950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T04:26:26.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17183" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:08:08.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why remove the restrictions at all if it can be easily bypassed? One option requires developer time, and the other doesn't. Those who really want to leave comments less than 15 characters can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T04:08:08.953" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17187" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:13:13.170" Score="2" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most beautiful part of Stackoverflow is that it is designed taking the human psyche into consideration. It is so very 'human' in its interaction with its end users. It encourages people to 'play' and 'play nice'. Most of all, it makes it &lt;em&gt;'personal'&lt;/em&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as great as the rewards are for the creator of a 'humanlike' system like this, they always risk another very important 'human' reaction that the system can send out - &lt;em&gt;insult&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A faux-pas (IMHO) for this system is the new 'accept-rate' which, seems to warn potential respondents of the said question of a likelyhood that the questioner has of accepting any answer at all.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there could be questions that are 'before-their-time' or haven't got a satisfactory answer (no one even bothered to upvote one answer more than another).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So finally, my question is, would certain people be penalized for receiving answers that are not good enough, even for the other SO members?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I do understand, like the faq says, that maybe this site isn't for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132485" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T22:23:02.090" Title="Accept Rate - Being penalized for receiving poor answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17186" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:15:51.993" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are you so quick to blame the people who are answering? Have you ever stopped to consider that you're not asking good questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, not every question will get answered perfectly, but no one is asking you to have a 100% accept rate either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T04:15:51.993" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:44:16.977" Score="3" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I not asking questions / feedback correctly? This site is supposed to be for feedback, but it seems that people are more &quot;downvote happy&quot; here than on SOFU which naturally discourages feedback. In the past I've deleted my questions which were on the downvote trend, obviously not useful to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm not a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; user to SOFU, I'm an infrequent user on MSO and previously used the UserVoice site. The atmosphere here doesn't seem conducive to site/community building, as its the same small group of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7672" LastEditorUserId="7672" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T15:29:37.250" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:12:42.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T05:33:32.087" Title="Why is meta so harsh and how can I provide better feedback here?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17190" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:47:26.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because meta is murder&lt;/strong&gt; ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The engine was never really designed as a discussion/support site, it was &lt;strong&gt;adapted&lt;/strong&gt; to it. Personally, I find that if your raise interesting topics they get plenty votes. I also find people are pretty civil here on meta (with a handful of notable exceptions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, when you ask a question on meta, there is usually no &lt;em&gt;correct answer&amp;trade;&lt;/em&gt;. Its touchy-feely, some people will &lt;strong&gt;agree&lt;/strong&gt; with you strongly, some will disagree with you strongly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this behavior frustrates you then move along to &lt;code&gt;\S[OUF]\&lt;/code&gt; where downvotes mean &quot;you are wrong&quot;, and not &quot;I disagree with you&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T21:57:55.140" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:57:55.140" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17190" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:58:38.837" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at all the responses to your questions, I don't see any responses that are particularly &lt;em&gt;harsh&lt;/em&gt; . I see people that have disagreed with you and or down voted, but things things were done in a very civil manner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MSO, you can't take down votes personally. Since requests here can shape SOFU as we know it, I, and many others here, tend to be very opinionated regarding things they want and don't want. On MSO I have over 200 down votes, not because I furiously hate 200 people, but because there have been many suggestions I don't agree with. I treat every suggestion independent of the person suggesting it, and never associate a vote with a particular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T04:58:38.837" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="17195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17190" CreationDate="2009-08-25T04:59:26.853" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People need to stop taking the back and forth on Meta so seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;God forbid people disagree with you&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not believe in the idea that every idea is a good idea and I feel that is my right and duty as a user of these websites to voice my opinion on it. Whether that means making my own questions or providing answers that both agree and disagree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no purpose in making suggestions if people cannot go and say &quot;I do not like this&quot; or &quot;I do not think that would work&quot;. But it should be remembered that one person's opinion is no more valuable than any other user's (unless we're counting the Dev team here). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people on here who have been around for a while and have attained a reputation (no pun intended) may be seen as a more authoritative voice based on their past experiences and past opinions. They may have more people that typically agree with them, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are any more right than any other user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If someone disagrees with you, don't take offense to it.&lt;/strong&gt; Try to understand that we are all wanting what we think is best for the sites and nothing should really be seen as an attack on other users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T04:59:26.853" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17190" CreationDate="2009-08-25T05:52:12.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, it's not so much that people disagree, it's that often the attitude here is &quot;If you don't like it, don't use it&quot; or &quot;It's just that way, all your reasons for disliking it are invalid&quot;. Only said more in a very coarse manner sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often MSO reminds me of an Old Boys Club, where new users whilst welcome, they are only tolerated because the rules say so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously I realise that this is a gross generalisation, and I have seen some very sensible discussions happening on here, but often threads get hijacked regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T05:52:12.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T05:52:12.177" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="17198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17199" CreationDate="2009-08-25T06:00:10.240" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering why do my reputation points go down if I downvote someone else's post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151145" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T06:02:22.747" Title="Why does my reputation decrease if I downvote another post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17198" CreationDate="2009-08-25T06:02:22.747" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens because your down vote will remove 2 rep from that user. You lose 1 rep as well to prevent you from gaming the system. We couldn't let you go around taking rep away from others without making you consider if it's really worth it, could we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't justify the small loss to express your opinion on the particular post, then there's no need to down vote. If other people feel more strongly than you, they'll take care of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T06:02:22.747" />
  <row Id="17200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17190" CreationDate="2009-08-25T06:25:11.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta, by it's purpose, is a lot more subjective. The key to SO/SF/SU is that there are qualitative methods to measure answers, responses, comments and opinions while here, well, things are by definition a lot less certain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have said, there's just a lot more scope for disagreement - perhaps even ownership of ideas rather than understanding of others'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T06:25:11.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T06:25:11.703" />
  <row Id="17203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17146" CreationDate="2009-08-25T07:12:13.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case that the person leaving a comment &lt;strong&gt;hadn't&lt;/strong&gt; left an answer; find a question or answer by the user that helped you (via their profile page), and add a comment to &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; (linking back to your question), so that the desired target sees it. Crude but effective, and it doesn't start the slippery slope of private messages via moderator proxies ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:12:13.340" />
  <row Id="17204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17250" CreationDate="2009-08-25T07:23:22.523" Score="64" ViewCount="7584" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codexon.com/posts/simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be the &lt;strong&gt;First&lt;/strong&gt; to Answer. Even at the cost of quality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use obnoxious &lt;em&gt;in-your-face&lt;/em&gt; formatting and lists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be Aware of the 200 rep/day Limit&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit, But Don’t Edit Too Much&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Associate your other accounts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/57757/unknown&quot;&gt;our pal codexon&lt;/a&gt;. Agree? Disagree? Walnuts? Cantaloupe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-21T10:41:35.067" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T10:16:53.347" Title="6 simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;article&gt;&lt;strategy&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="50" />
  <row Id="17205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T07:41:22.923" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I certainly credit all &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; success on Stack Overflow to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;judicious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;of&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;obnoxious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lists...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-21T10:38:40.453" LastActivityDate="2010-07-21T10:38:40.453" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T07:42:52.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know people disagree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense&quot;&gt;#2&lt;/a&gt;. I disagree with #1 but I know it sometimes holds true. The others seem somewhat accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:42:52.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T07:46:35.500" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or would following these tips make you feel dirty too? Is this where the word &quot;rep whore&quot; comes from? Especially #2 is highly unfair, gaming the system, and preventing its usefulness. #1 is true, it is the old &quot;fastest gun in the west&quot; problem. After the first upvote(s) I can still invest in a great answer (otherwise being pushed down and I loose my first place). #4-6 great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I an idealist? I would like to help and be helped. And still I find myself going after those 12 points to get edit powers at the time of writing. But at what expense? Never gonna do #2!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:46:35.500" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="17208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T07:56:25.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a corollary to #5: If you're the top answerer, periodically edit the question to bring more attention and votes to your post.  That way, your own answer never becomes wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part it seems accurate.  I'm not sure you could call it gaming since this is already known tacitly condoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a system that happens to motivate many people well, and it has produced great results.  Coming up with strategies to maximize it while not really contributing is unfortunate, but bearable considering the advantages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T07:56:25.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T08:01:36.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;#1 is very true, but could maybe be alleviated by &lt;em&gt;just receiving&lt;/em&gt; answers for a reasonably short amount of time (say 5 min) after the question was posted -- &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; displaying them. Then, these first answers could be shown in random order. This might take a little pressure away and encourage people to put some more efforts in their first try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134548" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T08:01:36.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T08:10:20.540" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/4368/os-x-equivalent-of-windows-run-box/4383#4383&quot;&gt;I&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1384/how-to-disable-reassign-the-windows-key/1399#1399&quot;&gt;know&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/16731/16735&quot;&gt;first&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/21959/is-jailbreaking-an-ipod-touch-just-as-dangerous-as-an-iphone/22123#22123&quot;&gt;hand&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/14938/what-advanced-google-search-techniques-have-you-used/14943#14943&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt; #3 is a sure easy way to get more attention to your answer (and in turn more upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always do my best to distinguish my answer from all the others by using plenty of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17204/&quot;&gt;links&lt;/a&gt;, quotes, &lt;strong&gt;formatting&lt;/strong&gt;. Most of the time, this will shoot my question to the top of the list and ensure upvotes a plenty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/9120/whats-the-best-way-to-stream-video-from-my-computer-to-my-tv-preferably-wirele/9131#9131&quot;&gt;especially pictures&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/17/2009/07/340x_appletv_boxee.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T08:55:02.290" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T08:55:02.290" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T08:12:50.427" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd add more one: &lt;em&gt;answer the questions people can understand&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question like &quot;I'm having a problem with really really really tricky &lt;code&gt;SQL&lt;/code&gt; query: I need to count records groupwise&quot; will bring you &lt;code&gt;10&lt;/code&gt; upvotes in a minute, if you were first to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one of the answers I'm most proud of took me something like &lt;code&gt;30&lt;/code&gt; minutes and was accepted with a &lt;em&gt;negative&lt;/em&gt; score (someone might have been using downvoting strategically, you know). There are just too much lines to be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastEditorUserId="132020" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T08:21:23.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T08:21:23.403" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T08:30:05.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding #2, what if you hide votes for the 10 minutes or so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;hide&quot;, I mean: people can vote, but answers will appear to have 0 score (and time-based sort order) until the 10 minutes are up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could even hide timestamps and randomize display order for the initial window, though I'm not sure that would be worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T08:30:05.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17230" CreationDate="2009-08-25T08:53:03.370" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a few questions which ask when the next version of a some software will be released.  Should a question about a software release date be closed when the software is released?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1318/when-does-windows-7-release-for-msdn&quot;&gt;When does Windows 7 release for&#xA;MSDN?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1127681/delphi-2010-when-will-we-see-it&quot;&gt;Delphi 2010… when will we&#xA;see it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5891" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:32:30.233" Title="Should a question about a software release date be closed when it is released?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17228" CreationDate="2009-08-25T08:54:30.950" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think Close as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; seems the right option here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T08:54:30.950" />
  <row Id="17230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17228" CreationDate="2009-08-25T09:04:56.093" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will even go as far as deleting it. Closed questions still are in the system, but this kind of questions clearly has a expiry date. Obviously for a short period it could teach others that it already had been released, but after a certain time, there is no value in them any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would flag them for moderator attention with &quot;delete as no longer relevant&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:04:56.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T09:26:59.480" Score="2" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally visited this site today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://spwho2.com&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It contains most of the statistics of the users of Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/Sites/StackOverflow/User/a7/76465/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;My Profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a site managed by Stackoverflow? And what is the intention of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131711" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T09:37:52.267" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:39:50.857" Title="What is spwho2.com and who manages it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;site-usage&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17231" CreationDate="2009-08-25T09:31:17.147" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/news/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are these numbers and where are&#xA;  they from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; is a question &amp;amp; answer&#xA;  site for coders.  They &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;exported their&#xA;  database&lt;/a&gt; to let the community monkey&#xA;  around under the hood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We brought the numbers into SQL&#xA;  Server, and you can too – &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Data%5FMining%5Fthe%5FStackOverflow%5FDatabase&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I explain&#xA;  how to import the StackOverflow&#xA;  database at SQLServerPedia&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who’s in&#xA;  charge here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That would be me, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/brento&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  – &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26837/brent-ozar&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/431/brent-ozar&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;).  I’m a&#xA;  SQL Server expert for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quest.com/sql-server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quest Software&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;  I help the StackOverflow guys out when&#xA;  they have SQL questions.  (I’m not&#xA;  saying I know the answers, ha ha ho&#xA;  ho, I just know people.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is it&#xA;  named SP_Who2?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That’s a Microsoft SQL Server command&#xA;  that database administrators run when&#xA;  they wanna know who’s doing stuff&#xA;  inside the server. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where can I go to&#xA;  talk about StackOverflow data?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Check out this &lt;a href=&quot;http://sof.modos.org/forum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow meta&#xA;  forum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:31:17.147" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17231" CreationDate="2009-08-25T09:31:33.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/26837/brent-ozar&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar&lt;/a&gt;  owns SPWho2 and he explains the details &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump/7686#7686&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It is based on the StackOverflow Data Dump and detailed as fretje mentioned on the About page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the question why it is there I quote from Brent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;I've also built spwho2.com, a front end for some of the &#xA;slicing and dicing I'm doing. I've got reports like:&#xA;&#xA; - Top 100 Tags Last Month&#xA; - What question tags have the highest closed percentages?&#xA; - What question tags get the most views?&#xA; - What question tags get favorited the most often?&#xA; - What question tags get the most answers?&#xA; - What question tags are used by people with the highest reputations?&#xA;&#xA;I'm working on reports about users, answers, badges and comments next.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T09:39:50.857" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:39:50.857" />
  <row Id="17234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17228" CreationDate="2009-08-25T09:32:30.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a person responsible for asking question about Delphi 2010 I voted today for closing, using “no longer relevant&quot;. This question was both about release date of Delphi 2010 and about 64bit compiler for Delphi.  The part about Delphi 2010 is no longer relevant, but part about 64bit is still important. So I think this question should be closed (unfortunately I cannot close it by myself), but I think I would not delete it, since info about 64 bit compiling is still relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:32:30.233" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-08-25T09:36:51.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The limit encourages thoughtful comments, and I like it that way. The last thing we need is a bunch of &quot;Me too!&quot; comments! So I think we should keep the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T09:36:51.003" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T09:38:04.763" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am formatting my answer as a list, but I have a good reason (see number 3 below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be the first to answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;While the &lt;em&gt;fastest gun&lt;/em&gt; problem is not new to us, the post was written for an audience not familiar with Stack Overflow, so the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15165/what-does-op-mean&quot;&gt;OP&lt;/a&gt; is right in bringing it up. Being the first to answer is likely to bring you more votes. However, I disagree with his statement that there are many bad/wrong answers on top  of the list because of it, my own experience is that quality floats to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't know, most of the time I can easily see the three top answers on my screen. If a user can read them without scrolling, he/she will be very likely to do so, therefore I don't think this has a big effect. Besides, the vote difference between the first three answers is often more than two votes, so this is likely not to work at all.&#xA;The systematic downvoting of a specific user's answers, as shown in the screenshot, will definitely be caught by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use obnoxious in-your-face formatting and lists&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is a reason why answers with formatting are getting upvoted more often. It is the same reason why the option to use formatting exists: &lt;em&gt;Formatted answers are good answers&lt;/em&gt;. The same answer in plain text is not as readable as if it was well formatted, hence the trend for answers with lists and other formatting to float to the top.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As for answers that start with a bold &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; at the top: If the question asks &lt;em&gt;Is X a good thing to do?&lt;/em&gt; first giving a clear answer and then elaborating on your reasons is a good practice. These answers are upvoted because they are good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be Aware of the 200 reputation/day Limit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The reputation limit was never a problem for me, because I never got near ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit, But Don’t Edit Too Much&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Editing in order to bump up the question on the home page is a strategy that is likely to work. Unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associate your other accounts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Hey, I did that! And you know what: I got 100 points out of it!!!!!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Once.&lt;/strong&gt; Not such a big deal, really.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end I am left wondering: Most of us got to a point when we didn't consider our reputation that important any more. For me that was after I passed the 3k threshold on Stack Overflow and was allowed to vote on closing questions. (Yes, most of the people who tell others not worry about their reputation so much, because &lt;em&gt;hey, it ain't that important, you know&lt;/em&gt;,  have a reputation where it really isn't that important any more.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Somehow, the OP doesn't seem to fall into that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T09:11:37.623" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T09:11:37.623" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T10:12:32.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me tackle these one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely true. Like others have said, this is actually a good thing because getting a quick answer to a problem is typically what you want. The only problem is (as noted by codexon) wrong quick answers can get voted up. Or someone posts something that's irrelevant but correct and gets voted up because people don't seem to understand or don't read the OP's requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tactical downvoting I don't really like. I really think downvoting shouldn't be anonymous for this and other reasons. Or as a compromise, downvotes on questions you also answer shouldn't be anonymous. This also includes putting on a downvote and later taking it off. As others have noted, if you want to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rescind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rescind&lt;/a&gt; a downvote, you can edit the answer (with 3k+ reputation) and you're then allowed to rescind it after the normal time limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use obnoxious in-your-face formatting and lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how &quot;obnoxious&quot; formatting helps. But there's definitely an advantage to using something other than a &quot;blob&quot; of text. You can break that up with headings, lists and/or images. It also helps to put a useful title in a link instead of just a raw URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be Aware of the 200 reputation/day Limit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I think Jon Skeet wrote, you need to get to the 200 reputation cap limit as soon as possible during the day to increase the window for over-200 reputation gains from accepted answers and bounties. I've made numerous posts against the reputation system working like this. I actually think this disadvantages more casual users. After all Jon Skeet won't spend much time during the day in the soft cap region. I read once he said that sometimes when he gets up in the morning he's already at +200 for the day (which is 6-8 hours in for him in the UK).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit, But Don’t Edit Too Much&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True again. You don't want to make your posts CW and I have again posted numerous times how I think this owner edit forcing CW is actually a bad thing. It discourages people from maintaining their posts. I've proposed several solutions including edits after 6 not bumping the post but they've all been rejected. I think we should be doing everything we can to encourage people to maintain content they've written and updating it as the facts change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Associate your other accounts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an easy one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I'd add is that you want to judiciously bounty hunt and look for new bounties with low upvote answers. You also want to look for bounties that end late in the &quot;reputation day&quot; as around half the time the OP just lets the bounty lapse without selecting an answer and you know when that will be. No point wasting your time with bounties that end at 1 am UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure many bounty posters realize that the top answer only gets half the bounty by auto-acceptance. IMHO we need to encourage active selection of an answer by giving the OP a nominal reputation amount (say 10 points) for selecting an answer rather than auto-selecting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically what's been said is correct. A few of the things I consider negative and should be addressed as described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T09:18:37.727" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T09:18:37.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6092" CreationDate="2009-08-25T10:23:36.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now replace the client wildcard (*) with the server wildcard (~) on tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be careful, because the server has rules that the client does not. Most notably, any wildcard searches &lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt; be a minimum of &lt;strong&gt;4 characters&lt;/strong&gt; in length (not including the wildcard chars themselves), or they are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T10:23:36.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-25T10:31:04.857" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for donations, we appreciate the sentiment, for sure, but &lt;strong&gt;you guys and gals are already contributing the most valuable thing of all — your time!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; ask you for more than that, you’ve already been extremely generous!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T10:31:04.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18122" CreationDate="2009-08-25T10:47:02.203" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching on any of the SO family sites, search terms are highlighted in the results with a background color. However, this tends to change result links' style to have no 'underlined' style on hover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i27.tinypic.com/jjl3f4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132274" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T10:54:48.977" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:00:03.977" Title="Highlighted search terms in links makes them to lose underscored style on hover" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;style&gt;&lt;highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:01:22.737" Score="122" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about you but here's my strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post quality answers.&lt;/strong&gt; This should be numbered 1 2 and 3. But a good answer will more often than not trump a fast answer. Though there are cases where it does not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monitor the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;frontpage&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;new questions list.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Learn their cache time and refresh accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setup a good but short list of Interesting and Ignored tags.&lt;/strong&gt; For example I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/css&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'css'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;css&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'html'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;html&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jquery&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'jquery'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;jquery&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'javascript'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mysql&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'mysql'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mysql&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'php'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;php&lt;/a&gt; as interesting and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'subjective'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt; as ignored tags. This will help you see questions quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid Wall of Text questions.&lt;/strong&gt; They take way too much effort for little reward. And usually are syntax errors or bad structure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post an answer even though the question has 1–2 or even 3 answers.&lt;/strong&gt; In these cases, take your time and answer well. This will usually net you a good sum of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn when to edit.&lt;/strong&gt; Post a short answer at first and then edit. You have &amp;lt;5 minutes to make that answer shine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be humble, thorough and fair.&lt;/strong&gt; There are a lot of smart people out there and many will know much more than you about the subject. Be thorough in the code you post, check it for syntax errors and make sure it fits the question. And if the correct answer/the answer you would have posted is there, upvote it, that person deserves the rep for their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-26T10:16:53.347" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T10:16:53.347" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="17252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:16:36.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jokes aside there is a certain flaw in the way that reputation is earned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are additional factors to how much reputation you'll receive by asking a question or answering one that have nothing to do with the &quot;correctness&quot; of the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps if you answer quickly, I found that if I answer an open question a day or more after it was posted the chances of getting up voted or chosen are close to nil.&#xA;People almost never up vote a question, I think it got something to do with the fact that it's hard to decide if the question is a &quot;good&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course users that instead of learning or answering questions try to grab as much reputation as possible, I've noticed people using the same dirty tricks explained in the post (like coping an already posted answer and bumping the other question down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T11:16:36.903" />
  <row Id="17253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:12:16.770" Score="-3" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions are populated too fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T11:24:25.030" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T11:34:22.140" Title="Will my question rank forward if I re-edit it?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17253" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:34:22.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, an edit will put your question to the top of the &quot;hot&quot; list if it isn't at -5 at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, only edit your question if you have some clarification or improvement to make. There's no sense in editing just to bump it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you edit the question six times, it will automagically become a community wiki and you will be unable to earn rep from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T11:34:22.140" />
  <row Id="17256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:35:53.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to the fact that none of the answers are good enough I have so far deleted one question and answered 2 of my questions my self, so I could accept answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I have also revisited some old questions and accepted a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have had to choose between two equally good answers on some questions just so I could accept &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T12:34:14.930" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:34:14.930" />
  <row Id="17257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17268" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:43:06.290" Score="3" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, after a few days, there are two or three good answers to a question, or answers which are very much like each other. It can be hard to choose which to accept. I think that after two days, you should be able to accept up to three answers, and the 15 points should be divided between the three answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Maybe this could be limited to only accepting answers you have upvoted yourself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T20:20:56.440" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T20:20:56.440" Title="Allow more than one answer to be accepted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="17258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17257" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:47:21.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept the best answer and upvote any good answers. I don't see any reason for this to change, other than trying to spread reputation around. If you have three accepted answers, it sort of defeats the purpose. The green checkmark should be used by the OP to reward the answerer who helped him/her the most, not to decree correctness, since often the OP is about the worst person to determine who is correct and who is not. That's what votes and comments are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T11:47:21.473" />
  <row Id="17259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17257" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:51:39.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have such a dilemma, that's a good thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find it hard to choose one over the other, why not award the accepted answer to the player with the lower rep score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You win by having selected a good answer and the answerer wins by repping up some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T11:51:39.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17257" CreationDate="2009-08-25T11:52:38.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case I would upvote all answers you would like to accept and compose a combined answer yourself and accept it. Give credit to the answers you used for your answer. Of course that way nobody gets the 15 points, but this site is about great and helpful answers in the first place ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This holds true if all answers contributed to the solution of the problem somewhat equally. As this is a community driven site with no ownership, you could also accept the most helpful answer and - provided you have neough reputation to have edit power - edit the others in. Clearly mark and attribute them, and again upvote the other helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2786/accept-multiple-answers-or-split-bounty-among-several-users&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T11:52:38.313" />
  <row Id="17261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:03:13.097" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;#2 on this list &quot;Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically&quot; makes me rage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer Jon Skeet's advice on &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/02/17/answering-technical-questions-helpfully.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Answering technical questions helpfully&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:03:13.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:06:59.173" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer quickly but incorrectly unfortunately works. Sometimes such answers are even hastily marked as best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest sorting answers starting from most recently added, or sort few most recently added above others (this way each answer will be top for at least a moment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't let few up/down votes affect order, at least when question is still new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT … FROM answers … ORDER BY &#xA;  (CASE WHEN abs(number_of_votes) &amp;gt; threshold THEN number_of_votes ELSE 0 END),&#xA;  (date_added &amp;gt; NOW() - interval '10 minutes') DESC,&#xA;  …&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132355" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:06:59.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17264" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:10:07.517" Score="7" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Irregular voting + 200 rep/day limit + vote reversal = technique for denying a user reputation for upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can't really be considered a bug, but it probably shouldn't be a feature either.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After having a couple hundred points of reputation disappear from my SO account one day and after reading the posts on SO's handling of irregular voting patterns, it occurred to me that it is possible to turn the anti-vote-fraud protections into a way to keep users from gaining reputation from upvotes over time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic scenario goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an offending user uses 20 votes in rapid succession to max out another users daily rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no other points for upvotes will be applied to the target users rep. until the cap expires.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;system detects this as an irregular voting pattern and rolls back the offending user's votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;system never applies reputation for upvotes from other users that were received after the rep. cap was hit (I'm assuming this is the case, but I can't verify it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;repeat every 24 hours, ideally right after the vote rollback occurs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this scenario is correct, then the target user will only be able to accrue rep through accepting answers and having answers accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the system could negate the effect of this by applying reputation for upvotes (up to the daily rep cap) that were not applied due to the irregular votes having maxed out the target users rep. (after rolling back the irregular votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154974" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:28:14.897" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:28:14.897" Title="sockpuppet jiu-jitsu: a possible technique for denying a user reputation for upvotes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;voter-fraud&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17263" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:17:40.757" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose that the attacked user could always ask for an individual recalc of his/her reputation. This should recover the upvotes that were applied after the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:17:40.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17173" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:28:50.050" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators should &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; be emailing account emails directly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one exception. If the account has been locked out, then the moderator who locked it, (or the system itself) should send an email message (if it doesn't already) with some context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, all SO communications should come from within SO. Keep in mind, when we recieve messages in the magic inbox, we understand that they are coming from within SO. This is the same as anything that comes from a moderator. Moderators are not &lt;em&gt;some user&lt;/em&gt; sending me a message, there is a particular purpose to what they are trying to accomplish by messaging you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it should never be something that requires user input. The moderators should be able to 'post' a message to someone's recent event feed, but because there is no way for anyone to response to these messages, they should not be considered two way communication, but rather an announcement from the moderator to a single user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer that everything to do with SO live entirely within my browser, and only when I point it to the website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:28:50.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17257" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:30:43.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have an answer that completely answers your question and it's the &quot;best&quot; of many such, then I believe that you should mark it as accepted to signal to the rest of the world that this answer is the one that solved your problem in the best way.  If you have several answers of similar quality, but none of them completely answers your questions, you can either choose the best of them -- and comment on what additions are needed, update your question hoping to get a better answer, or, if you can put several answers together to get a single, best, complete answer, write your own answer combining all of the best parts of the incomplete answers into one and accept it after the waiting period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal is, I think, to get a complete, accepted answer to every possible question, not to push points around on the table. You'd certainly want to upvote all the helpful answers whether you accept them or not.  And I wouldn't create my own answer unless none of the other answers is acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:30:43.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17053" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:38:16.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not all questions are easily answerable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean &quot;subjective&quot; I mean obscure questions about the depths of the API that no one has seen in two decades. In these cases, the user will have a low 'acceptance' rate, because the answers to their questions (and there may be many) were unable to solve the issue. Their acceptance rate is low because SO &lt;em&gt;failed&lt;/em&gt; them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you think the accurate response to this is to &lt;em&gt;shame&lt;/em&gt; them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:38:16.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T12:38:16.537" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:39:20.967" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;As often as not when I access the site after a long time away, I get some vote within just a couple of minutes. It's almost as if someone else notices that I'm back on the site.  Does the Community User nudge some of my questions/answers when it notices that I've connected again after a layoff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:59:57.793" Title="Odd voting coincidences when first accessing the site after being away" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17271" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:41:16.877" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely this is just coincidence or somebody is messing with your psyche. I'm going to chalk it up to coincidence--you have a huge number of answers, and people are browsing them all of the time. Given that I have a fraction on your work and &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; get random upvotes on old answers, I can only imagine that this is a much more frequent occurence for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The paranoia comments reminded me of one of my favorite exchanges in &lt;em&gt;Catch-22&lt;/em&gt; by Joseph Heller that I felt like sharing because what the hell. It goes (paraphrased):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yossarian: &quot;They're trying to kill me!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clevinger: &quot;Nobody's trying to kill you!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yossarian: &quot;Then why are they shooting at me?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clevinger: &quot;They're shooting at everybody!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yossarian: &quot;And that makes a difference?!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T13:11:08.857" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:11:08.857" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T12:51:36.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call in Show! Call in to Jeff Atwood with your questions (via Skype) about Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T12:51:36.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T12:51:36.107" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:01:41.720" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Invite your mother for a 10 minute chat, Jeff.  &lt;em&gt;What is it I do again, Mom?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:01:41.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T13:01:41.720" />
  <row Id="17280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:03:59.517" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to hear Jeff go mano-a-mano with Zed Shaw &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedshaw.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://zedshaw.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:03:59.517" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T13:03:59.517" />
  <row Id="17282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:28:40.823" Score="10" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Takeaway&lt;/strong&gt;: If you can't change the way people are applying this, can we change the semantics? Possibly reword to &quot;Not a valid question.&quot; You add a single char, but eliminate all confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of items I see closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; are indeed &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; questions. A google search [&lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:questions &quot;closed as not a real question&quot;&lt;/code&gt;] turns up many examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself, &quot;What is a question&quot; and then attempt to defend the idea that it's acceptable to violate all reason and logic by suggesting interrogative statements aren't &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; questions. By definition, there can be no more &lt;em&gt;realness&lt;/em&gt; to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm just being a bit pedantic, but I can't stand little things like this. Bad questions are just as much &lt;em&gt;real questions&lt;/em&gt; as good ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a problem with SO's model, or the close option itself. I think this is a problem with the users (those doing the voting), and not being properly educated. After all, this close-reason has a purpose, for shutting down things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unix is 40 years old. (August 1969 ) Happy birthday ! :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a proper application of &quot;not a real question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this appears to be an epidemic across the entire community, how exactly can it be remedied? How can any issue this wide-spread be remedied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T13:36:34.807" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:53:15.183" Title="&quot;Not a real question.&quot; (Change to &quot;Not a valid question.&quot;)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;not-a-real-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:29:31.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to hear a discussion about the good and the bad points of operating Stack Overflow with remote developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130810" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:29:31.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T13:29:31.760" />
  <row Id="17286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17282" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:32:07.980" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's shorthand for, &quot;Not a valid question on &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;insert SOFU site here&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're looking to start a semantics argument. A ton of those are closed because they're something like, &quot;My code is broked. Can you fix it?&quot; with nothing else. There's no amount of editing that I can do that will fix that question. Ergo, it's not a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow question. Close--&gt;Not a real question. Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is different from &quot;not programming related,&quot; because it may very well be programming related. But the question may also be, &quot;Why does my brother hate PHP?&quot; Sure, it's a real question, but I don't know your brother, and I can't tell you why he hates PHP. That example borders with subjective and argumentative, but you get my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like &quot;not a real question&quot; could be changed to, &quot;Dude, WTF?&quot; and we'd all be better off on the semantics arguments. Hell, maybe that's my suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change &quot;not a real question&quot; to &quot;dude, wtf?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:32:07.980" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="17287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17282" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:32:47.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not a Real Question&quot; is a bit of a misnomer. What it should be is &quot;Not a Real [stackoverflow|serverfault|superuser] Question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sites all have a focus on questions that &lt;strong&gt;can be answered&lt;/strong&gt;. Most questions that are closed as NARQ are generally very subjective questions that could never generate any one real objective answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:32:47.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:39:14.973" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anders Hejlsberg to talk about .............. DELPHI (woot^^)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133739" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T13:39:14.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T13:39:14.973" />
  <row Id="17290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:44:01.750" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff's other significant half, I'm sure she would have some great stories to tell!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47212" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T20:01:56.727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:01:56.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T13:44:01.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17190" CreationDate="2009-08-25T13:55:40.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is where the &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; problems are thrashed out, and sometimes the emphasis is on the thrashing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also, sometimes, where we come to vent. In anycase, you &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; expect Meta to have the same culture as the other sites. Different problems, different needs, so different ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, you should not think of downvotes on meta as punitive---reputation here means &lt;em&gt;even less&lt;/em&gt; than it means on other the other sites---they are just disagreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T22:12:42.460" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:12:42.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T13:55:40.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:01:47.417" Score="2" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some very immature people on this site that will down-vote me if I don't choose their answer. Has anyone else had this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T15:37:49.090" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T23:53:53.597" Title="People are down-voting over jealousy!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17292" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:05:33.883" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something you can't actually prove, so it's just an assumption. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;P.S. If you don't accept this answer, I'll down vote you.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:05:33.883" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="17294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17292" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:06:47.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it becomes blatant, there are reputation recalculation algorithms that are run on an undisclosed and perhaps not consistent schedule that will adjust for it. I they are being clearly abusive, flag the abusive comment/answer and explain the situation in the flag text box and a moderator will look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastEditorUserId="133301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T14:28:48.713" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:28:48.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17292" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:08:29.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there are those who may partake in this behavior, I believe they are in the minority and a single downvote does not carry enough weight to really have a detrimental impact on your reputation. In addition, if they go on a campaign of retributal downvoting, they will get caught out by the system detecting their unsportsmanlike conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:08:29.527" />
  <row Id="17296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17300" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:09:58.743" Score="-7" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why aren't Answers held to the same rules as Questions? Answers can only be flagged, or voted upon. We see many examples of new-to-so-users posting comments, questions, and follow-ups as Answers to their own Questions, why can't we vote to delete as &quot;Not a valid Answer,&quot; or other reasons? I don't think down-votes should be the solution here, as I'm not a fan of punishing the many new-to-so-users who unknowingly do these types of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible Restrictions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You must have 3k rep to vote for answer-deletion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You cannot delete an answer that has +2 up-votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T14:15:43.743" LastActivityDate="2011-04-09T08:33:21.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T10:56:35.230" Title="Vote to Delete Answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="32" />
  <row Id="17299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17296" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:13:15.790" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not as common for answers to be off-topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When answers are off-topic, spam flags, downvotes and moderator attention whinings are good enough.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is pretty much what downvotes are for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vampires&lt;/strong&gt; (filling in my bold quota for this answer to guarantee acceptance)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picture of a vampire, as the commenters required it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gearslice.com/agent1/vampire.png&quot; alt=&quot;SUPER VAMPIRE&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:13:15.790" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="17300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17296" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:14:23.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't this just open up the site to abuse? You could find a really good answer, copy it and then vote to close the &quot;duplicate&quot; original in favour of your own? I don't see the value in this feature. Downvoting an answer rather than voting to close it allows people to see good and bad answers in an argument, if you close all the bad answers, you have no contrast to learn from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, closing a question means closing it for further answers, and in some cases, results in the question being deleted (if it's not real or not programming related for example - SO-wise). What does closing an answer do? Stop it being edited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:14:23.013" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17296" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:15:49.343" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are the way to get rid of answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that questions need close/delete votes and systems is that they occupy clog up the front page and they are the basis of the site. It makes sense that there would be systems in place for this. For answers, you just downvote the person into oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:15:49.343" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17292" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:16:15.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a single occurrence of this is very provable or worthy of being searched for and reversed. However, if there are users who are consistently doing this, I would hope the fraud prevention algorithm does or will look for this and reverse it. It is not a behavior that seems in keeping with the spirit of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:16:15.023" />
  <row Id="17303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17292" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:17:58.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you sincerely have a problem, send an e-mail to team@stackoverflow.com. However before doing that flag the questions/answers you believe this has happened on and why. The moderators will then investigate if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the voting mechanism does get checked by regular scripts that will undo common down-voting scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:17:58.187" />
  <row Id="17304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17292" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:22:51.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had this problem, but I can't prove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:22:51.877" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10059" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:25:13.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of my ideas, I realize they will never be used but I will post them anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to serverfault and superuser in the header section of all 3 sites so they seem more connected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the search box for all the sites, have a dropdown, where you can pick which site/DB to search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a single login for all 3 sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that were to ever happen, then each of the 3 sites would then be more like a category to each other, they could still retain there seperate URLs but still appear to be networked together much better then they currently are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats my .02 cents&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:25:13.760" />
  <row Id="17306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:34:13.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For an eye-opening read, check out the comments on reddit. Amusingly enough, someone chose the title of this post as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9dv29/why%5Fstackoverflow%5Fsucks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why StackOverflow sucks&lt;/a&gt;. My favourite from one &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/user/relix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;relix&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've answered exactly &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1258187/communication-between-two-flex-apps/1260710#1260710&quot;&gt;1 question&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  It was the only correct answer to that&#xA;  question but it didn't get any votes&#xA;  and didn't get selected as the answer.&#xA;  Instead, the wrong answer was selected&#xA;  and got all the brownie points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That was the moment I decided never to&#xA;  waste time on StackOverflow again. Why&#xA;  even bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:34:13.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:41:41.003" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you rag on PHP &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29076&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;every&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/3277610210&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;freakin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/3527327800&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;week&lt;/a&gt;, why not invite a PHP enthusiast, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andrei Zmievski, PHP contributor, former Digg employee &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Project Lead for the Zend Framework, Zend Corp employee &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/weierophinney&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://weierophinney.net/matthew/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP contributor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone listed here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.php.net/credits.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.php.net/credits.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a dialog would be much more interesting than the typical one sided rants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="302" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:41:41.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T14:41:41.003" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:46:08.890" Score="9" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's such a useful graph in the reputation tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way you can make the individual points that make up the graph clickable (to see the activity for that one day)? As my days here grow, it is getting harder and harder to select a one-day range. Typing in the range manually is too much trouble (lazy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see an unusual increase in my reputation, I like to see what post(s) contributed to the score. It is hard to drag around one individual point to create a small range. It would be nice if selecting the point created a one-day range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T14:16:49.413" Title="Can you make the reputation graph points clickable?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-08-25T14:50:18.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything you do will be another avenue of unwanted behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question is, does the bad behaviour outweigh the good behaviour that it promotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T14:50:18.150" />
  <row Id="17310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17311" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:00:36.183" Score="8" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides contributing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13438/how-to-make-so-questions-more-google-friendly&quot;&gt;great questions&lt;/a&gt; and answers, are there any other ways that I can contribute to Stack Overflow and its family of websites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be happy to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PayPal&lt;/a&gt; donation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contribute code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SFOU has been helping me tremendously, so it's only fair if I can give back &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-24T11:41:32.257" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T15:01:03.030" Title="How to contribute to Stack Overflow besides asking and answering?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;contribution&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17310" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:01:20.643" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clean up other peoples contributions. Additionally, flag inappropriate postings, and vote to close/migrate questions when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sporting your flair elsewhere brings more attention to SO as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:01:20.643" />
  <row Id="17312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17310" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:01:48.770" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they are in search of either of what you are asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No word yet on whether they would accept offerings of sheep and goats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also unknown how well they look upon human sacrifice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:01:48.770" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="17316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17296" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:15:04.550" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote, post a comment saying &quot;this is a comment, not an answer&quot; and instruct the user to edit their Question or whatever needs to be done.  A downvote is not punishment.  Deleting their content would be punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T15:37:31.617" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:37:31.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17310" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:29:36.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Support their advertisers. Or, at least turn off AdBlock for these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:29:36.190" />
  <row Id="17322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17310" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:32:10.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit, edit, edit!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to SO, there have existed many, many Q&amp;amp;A sites, forums, newsgroups, etc. dedicated to answering or discussing programming problems. The &lt;strong&gt;one big thing&lt;/strong&gt; SO brings to the table is the ability to take a poorly-written question or badly-formatted answer and make it better: easier to read, easier to find, easier to understand. You may not be the &lt;em&gt;fastest gun in the west&lt;/em&gt;, but if you can scrape together a reputation score of 2K then you can edit almost every post on the site - and do so at your leisure. And even if you don't have the 2K, you can still &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SO hasn't become a steaming pile 5 years from now, it'll be because enough people took a little bit of their time to edit it into something better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; can suggest edits, editing should be the primary choice for anyone wishing to contribute in ways other than asking or answering... But here are some other suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find existing duplicates of new questions and link to them from comments - dup-finding is a win-win situation most of the time, as the OP gets answers faster and the site gets less noise. Flag them for moderator review (use the close as duplicate option) after you've posted a link.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Review answers in your area of expertise and point out problems, or post suggestions for improvement as comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flag abusive / spam posts or unhelpful comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-24T14:53:28.403" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T14:53:28.403" />
  <row Id="17323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:32:45.840" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simialr to @Jonathan Sampson's post, I'd like to hear from The How To Geek as well as David Smalley and/or Paul Farnell in the same podcast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did they join the league of justice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What has unexpected things have happened since they were announced&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are they going to do to better integrate with the other SO sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they anticipating moving over to the StackExchange Engine (why/why not) &#xA;... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:32:45.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T15:32:45.840" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17337" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:33:26.853" Score="4" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17253/will-my-question-rank-forward-if-i-re-edit-it&quot;&gt;recent question&lt;/a&gt; got me thinking: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a user who has asked 270 questions, answered 0 (zero, NULL, zilch) questions and has upvoted two times be allowed to ask even more questions? Should he be labled somehow? I'm afraid that the accept rate alone (22% in this case) just doesn't cut it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly one month later we are talking about 475 questions, 0 answers, 11 up- and 9 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T18:13:36.643" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T18:13:36.643" Title="Should parasite behaviour be punished somehow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:34:34.760" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people give, some take. As long as we keep it proportional, it's okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:34:34.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:36:06.237" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should a user who has asked 270 questions, answered 0 (zero, NULL, zilch) questions and has upvoted two times be allowed to ask even more questions? Should he be labled somehow? I'm afraid that the accept rate alone (22% in this case) just doesn't cut it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't people make that determination on their own?  Why do they need to be labeled?  Personally, I don't even like the acceptance rate being shown and I think that it takes away from the site a bit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short... &lt;strong&gt;NO YOU SHOULD NOT PREVENT THEM FROM USING THE SYSTEM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:43:28.117" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:43:28.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17333" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:39:48.850" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more an interest in the psychology of stackoverflow. What would traffic/activity look like if no reputation were shown (still awarded though) beneath/beside usernames, and no acceptance-rates were displayed for an entire day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would people still answer the same way? Treat others the same way? Better? Worse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T16:59:14.667" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:33:52.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T15:39:48.850" Title="SO Experiments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;so-experience&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:41:49.660" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned over and over. This is a question and answer site. Some users (most users) provide many times more answers than questions. They are generating content by providing &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users ask many more questions (hundreds in your case.) These users are generating content by providing &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;. Even if they &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; accept a response, the users who answer those questions are still able to gain reputation by providing thoughtful and insightful answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we punish the users who post a lot of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We are punishing the users who would &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; those questions as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:41:49.660" />
  <row Id="17330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:42:21.203" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they don't have the experience then they should be asking questions, not answering them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:42:21.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:43:19.173" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are labeled as a person who has done such in their profile. You are free to check the askers profile before you answer a question and decide for yourself if you want to answer. I think the &quot;acceptance percentage&quot; will help &quot;point out&quot; user's who do not follow through on questions asked. But, I do not think it would be fair to point out a user's question/answer ratio in the same manner. Asking good questions is an important part of the SO system and it is not, by definition, a negative thing to have only asked and not answered. Certainly there are examples where it is not a good thing, but asking quality questions is necessary and should not be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:43:19.173" />
  <row Id="17333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17328" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:45:32.163" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if you start to take the reputation out of things, you lose the competitive aspect of it more and more, and the much more likely you will see users start to get bored out of &quot;just answering questions&quot; and they will start to lose interest in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I am just projecting my own thoughts on the outcome, but that is my hypothesis nevertheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:45:32.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T15:45:32.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17328" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:47:58.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Dude... where is mi rep!&quot; would ensue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:47:58.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T15:47:58.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17328" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:56:06.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like the site more if it didn't have any arbitrary numbers at all. I question the sanity of people doing things to acquire something completely meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:56:06.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T15:56:06.307" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17328" CreationDate="2009-08-25T15:58:30.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is one of the key innovations of StackOverflow.  If you took it off, then the resulting site would be pretty similar to a traditional forum, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key elements of SO is that when you post a question, you get an answer very quickly.  I believe this is because of Reputation, and the incentives to increase your Reputation by posting an Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Reputation were taken off the site, people would still answer questions.... just not nearly as quickly.  So in that sense, the nature of the site would change - from a site where you can ask a quick question and get a quick answer in realtime, to a site where you can ask a question and wait a few days for an answer or two (if you're lucky).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T15:58:30.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T15:58:30.047" />
  <row Id="17337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:02:36.683" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look a &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; users reputation graph, you'll see that he has a considerable number of downvotes. My sense of it is that most of the other ask-without-end-but-never-learn-and-never-give-back users are in a similar situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputedly coming change to the downvote value will disproportionately affect such users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which doesn't bother me at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should say that people asking a lot of questions doesn't bother me, per se. Folks are welcome to do it, and we are here to help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is a usage pattern that &lt;em&gt;annoys the hell out of me&lt;/em&gt;, because as far as I can tell, the users &lt;em&gt;don't even want to learn&lt;/em&gt;. I generally have patience for not-too-bright students as long as they try. But some people have no appreciation for the limits (possibly current, possibly intrinsic) of their skills. &lt;em&gt;Their&lt;/em&gt; questions are a waste of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T16:46:01.557" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:46:01.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:03:04.903" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a good load testing tool for websites on the Microsoft stack.  What tools are you using specifically for load testing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I should open this to what tools users use in their own projects if there is no tool-based load testing done on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134721" LastEditorUserId="134721" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T16:19:02.703" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:19:02.703" Title="What load testing tool(s) are used on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17338" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:06:55.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect we are the load testers. I have never heard any mention in the podcasts or on the blog regarding Jeff and co doing any load testing apart from the live results on the servers themselves and parsing the logs daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:06:55.117" />
  <row Id="17346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:22:19.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Some examples that seem to work for me.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provide a detailed analysis of the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323613/why-doesnt-the-consume-the-entire-string-in-this-perl-regex/1323700#1323700&quot;&gt;Why doesn’t the .* consume the entire string in this Perl regex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100106/obfuscation-puzzle-can-you-figure-out-what-this-perl-function-does/147456#147456&quot;&gt;Obfuscation Puzzle: Can you figure out what this Perl function does?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175390/how-do-i-compare-two-strings-in-perl/1175418#1175418&quot;&gt;How do I compare two strings in Perl?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asking why the question doesn't do the preferred method.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt; This can be difficult to get right. If you come off as mean, people will down-vote your answer, instead of up-voting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227605/in-perl-why-do-i-get-a-syntax-error-when-i-try-to-use-string-eval/1227950#1227950&quot;&gt;In Perl, why do I get a “syntax error” when I try to use string eval?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post an answer that does what the OP wants, but the way it should be done.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt; Specifically, not what the OP is asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1240796/how-can-i-reference-a-hash-with-a-variable-name/1240849#1240849&quot;&gt;How can I reference a hash with a variable name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post multiple answers that are significantly different.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt; For example to the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51224/regular-expression-to-match-valid-dates&quot;&gt;Regular Expression to match valid dates&lt;/a&gt;, I posted three different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51224/regular-expression-to-match-valid-dates/60890#60890&quot;&gt;This one shows how to write it maintainably in Perl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51224/regular-expression-to-match-valid-dates/60869#60869&quot;&gt;I also wrote an expanded version of the answer provided in the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51224/regular-expression-to-match-valid-dates/60899#60899&quot;&gt;I even wrote an answer using a Perl 6 rule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I might even write a &lt;a href=&quot;http://perlcabal.org/syn/S05.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Perl 6 grammar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T18:06:34.657" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:06:34.657" />
  <row Id="17347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:22:56.440" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they're good questions, sure they should be allowed - &lt;strong&gt;we can always use more good question&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're bad questions... &lt;strong&gt;down-vote them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:22:56.440" />
  <row Id="17348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17354" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:23:11.823" Score="0" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323704/what-computer-science-concept-do-you-apply-the-most&quot;&gt;I asked a question&lt;/a&gt; that was subjective but really helpful to me. There was no right answer. The question was eventually closed, but I did get some good information out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the initial complaints (which has been removed it seems) was that my question should have been a wiki post.  The tag was &quot;should-be-wiki&quot; someone added.  A search for &quot;wiki&quot; on here turns up several references to the &quot;Community Wiki&quot;, but I can't figure out where this beast is. The FAQ doesn't mention it. I can't find any links or even a guideline for when a question belongs here nor there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked what seemed like an applicable question which produced some good information, but I got yelled at for doing it. Furthermore, I don't see any obvious path for me to follow to have done this the &quot;right way&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134719" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T15:55:36.007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T15:55:36.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T17:02:26.767" ClosedDate="2009-08-25T17:10:26.813" Title="Why do I get told my questions should be Community Wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="17350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17348" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:25:33.330" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to stop posting these kinds of questions. Period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;was subjective&quot; ... &quot;There was no right answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in direct opposition to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What kind of questions should I not&#xA;  ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion. This is not a&#xA;  discussion board, this is a place for&#xA;  questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:25:33.330" />
  <row Id="17351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17348" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:26:13.780" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T16:29:09.797" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:29:09.797" />
  <row Id="17354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17348" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:26:38.600" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community Wiki checkbox is to the bottom right of the text area where you enter your question. However keep in mind just because its CW doesn't mean you can ask whatever you want, it still has to follow the proper rules for posting a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:26:38.600" />
  <row Id="17356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17348" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:37:37.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki does get a &lt;em&gt;very brief&lt;/em&gt; mention in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;100    Vote down (costs 1 rep), edit community wiki posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this should link to the item Shog9 points out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there is a link to the detailed FAQ at the bottom of the main FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    If you're looking for excruciating detail, we host a section of constantly evolving FAQs that document everything about the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:37:37.800" />
  <row Id="17357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T16:46:32.070" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have Jon Skeet sit in for Joel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T16:46:32.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T16:46:32.070" />
  <row Id="17358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17328" CreationDate="2009-08-25T17:03:53.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Test it out by seeing how long you would play a video game with no scoring, levels, additions of interesting things to do, etc. Or better yet, play poker for no money or points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:03:53.503" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T17:03:53.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T17:32:08.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a great way to restrain this behaviour is forcing to leave a comment on downvote.&#xA;I think that the downvote comment must be anonymous, for not letting people downvote only for revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way if the reason of the downvote is not good enough, a moderator (or everyone using the voting system) can eliminate the downvote (and take measure against the user with this bad behaviour if it persist in time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134737" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T09:23:05.833" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T09:23:05.833" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17328" CreationDate="2009-08-25T17:33:52.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How often have you wanted to upvote a comment on CodingHorror? Now, will you miss the rep? I guess, you will shout angrily to all other participants: Where is that frigging upvote button!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:33:52.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T17:33:52.227" />
  <row Id="17362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T17:45:40.593" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see a list of which questions are the most linked to from external sources?  There should be some type of Google query that does this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious how Superuser is doing now that it's being indexed.  I'd like to see which questions generate traffic and maybe learn something about wording and formatting that will help the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be feedback left on the linking sites that we could use to improve the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:43:22.320" Title="Which questions are being externally linked to the most?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T17:50:11.913" Score="48" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be perfectly honest, I absolutely agree with #3. A bit of formatting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Makes the post more readable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;proves that the user put a bit of effort into it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prevents the &quot;Wall of Text crits you&quot; effect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stands out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allows me to spot important points more easily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;puts some structure into the posting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And #6 is also a no-brainer. Not because of the reputation but because that gives clickable names when migrating the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point #1 is well discussed, just search for the fastest gun in the west problem. And Point #5 benefits the person who asks the question, because more visibility = more chance for an answer without having to post a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So only &lt;strong&gt;Point #2 is purely evil&lt;/strong&gt; and should be somehow monitored and actively counterattacked, but I think that's what Jeff &amp;amp; Co. are doing since almost Day 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;overall, I agree with these points&lt;/strong&gt;, because nicely formatted answers of people with accounts who bump the question once in a while to give it more exposure are a Win for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To further prove my point, here is a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.xonikz.com/The_Man/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/bunny_pancake1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;This is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookie who lives on Endor.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-31T01:31:07.033" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T01:31:07.033" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="17364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-04-16T09:09:42.787" Score="30" ViewCount="1474" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the release of comment upvotes and flagging. Just wondering if you get rep for upvoted comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also wondering if upvoted comments have any effect on the comment sorting? And can you see your comment upvote number somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit - See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-now-with-flags-and-votes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog post&lt;/a&gt; about comments.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T18:46:22.677" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T07:44:20.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-16T09:11:43.033" Title="How does comment voting and flagging work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="17365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17364" CreationDate="2009-04-16T09:19:18.943" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some parts of this answer are taken from the 2009 Stack Overflow blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-now-with-flags-and-votes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comments: Now with Flags and Votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no downvoting of comments, only upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment votes do not affect comment sort order&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No reputation of any kind is earned or lost from comment votes, though the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/31/commentator&quot;&gt;Commentator badge&lt;/a&gt; is is awarded for leaving 10 comments, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/40/pundit&quot;&gt;Pundit badge&lt;/a&gt; is awarded to those who left 10 comments with score of 10 or more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each user gets 5 comment flag votes, and 30 comment upvotes, per day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a comment is flagged by enough users it will be auto-soft-deleted. There is no penalty for this. Flagged comments will be surfaced to moderators, so if you have a problem with a comment, flag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can always delete your own comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neither voting nor flagging a comment can be undone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reputation change for comment upvotes, nor for flagging (no matter if it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;a Community Wiki post&lt;/a&gt;, or not). Even more, Jeff encourages flagging &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary/15292#15292&quot;&gt;to even just clean up&lt;/a&gt; &quot;+1&quot; comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm actually ok with flagging meaningless comments like this, since&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;there's no actual penalty to the user when a flagged comment is removed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the flagging comment process is basically 100% automated and doesn't require any mod intervention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[..] added &quot;noise&quot; as reason for comment flagging. Please use it on egregious non-value add comments that are noise and not signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/83480/add-possibility-to-remove-comment-noise-fancy-edition/88010#88010&quot;&gt;officially acceptable practice&lt;/a&gt; to flag whole comment conversations for mod attention that no longer add any value to the question. Flag the question or answer in question, and explain your reasoning; then, flag the first and last comments you think should be deleted.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; Upvoting comments does not change the sort order of comments. But when there are lots of answers, or lots of comments, then comments without any upvote (or comments with less upvotes) might be hidden, until one clicks a link &quot;show &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; more comments&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts/9182#9182&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100624-qrjmnh18xjsqbxre7w1kk6ap3r.png&quot; width=&quot;300&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20101002-c9tm6wxsq1bw2rskh1qx8qp9gx.png&quot; width=&quot;300&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta, the per-site configuration is set to show at most 15 comments, unless the number of answers exceeds 30, after which even more comments are hidden by default. Other values are used on other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastEditorUserId="152009" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-08T07:44:20.950" LastActivityDate="2011-07-08T07:44:20.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-16T09:19:18.943" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="17367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:36:23.673" Score="17" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you vote down an answer to a question do you leave a comment to explain why? Personally I think this is very useful, since if someone has written something that is wrong they can be set straight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this may not make sense for highly subjective answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27929" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T14:29:28.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-16T18:47:53.353" Title="When voting an answer down, is it polite to add a comment giving a reason?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:39:10.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say maybe. If there's a good reason to vote down, like technically wrong, or not answering the question, or flawed, then yes. We all learn from it. If they respond with something like &quot;VB is teh suck!&quot;, then I think it goes without saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6897" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:39:49.670" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes absolutely. This site is about working together to get the right answers. If someone is incorrect its a great help to let them know why. I hope to get reasons why people vote me down!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21756" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" />
  <row Id="17370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:41:59.230" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I down-vote something, I always leave a comment as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it's wrong.  Otherwise, people might not learn.  Also, and I feel more importantly, if something is +5 and -3, no one will know it has been down-voted unless there are comments explaining why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131281" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" />
  <row Id="17371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:42:54.097" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a comment should be the first method to show someone you don't agree.  Maybe they can clarify something that would change your mind.  Then downvote if they still don't satisfy you.  A downvote without a comment is almost as unhelpful as a posting that should be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I think questions like this (about SO) should be community wikis, so the rep earned and burned is based mainly on programming knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6688" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-16T18:42:54.097" />
  <row Id="17372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:43:43.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down votes on questions, not necessarily.  Down votes on answers, usually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" />
  <row Id="17373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:45:50.783" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes please.  I've gotten a couple of downvotes that I'm still a little confused by, and I'd have loved a few words of explanation (I'm not saying the downvote was unjustified, I just didn't know why it happened.)  And both Questions and Answers, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:55:23.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, please comment. Sometimes I see a down vote and I don't understand the reason for it. Is the answer technically wrong? Is it off-topic? Is the voter trying to suppress points of view that they don't agree with? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158615" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" />
  <row Id="17375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T18:57:14.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with leaving comments explaining downvotes is that the downvoted person may decide to take revenge and use up his allocation downvoting your contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm happy with the anonymity factor to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure if I get a down vote I'll leave a comment under my answer or question asking the reason why, but if I don't get one I'm not all that bothered, and nor should I be. After all it's only a website (albeit a fine one), it's not like my credit rating is being affected. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" />
  <row Id="17376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T19:08:32.890" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally I will only make a comment when downvoting if that comment is actionable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is inane or appears to be intentionally unhelpful, or just beside the point, I won't bother leaving a comment. At some point I'd just get tired of writing &quot;don't be an ass&quot;, &quot;don't be rude&quot;, &quot;don't be an idiot&quot; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer appears to be intended to be helpful but has some flaw, I will be more likely to add a comment. The answerer may have misinterpreted the question, or they may have made some error in coding, or they may not be aware of the deficiencies of their design, so a comment is worthwhile because it gives them feedback and it gives others who read the answer useful information (on whether to use that answer, for example) as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" />
  <row Id="17377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-16T21:40:47.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; leave a comment on a downvote, because the person receiving the downvote has the right to know why. If somebody leaves an answer which he or she believes is helpful, then gets a downvote without an explanation, that person will be left wondering why the answer got downvoted. There may be rare exceptions, but it doesn't take any time to leave a comment such as &quot;Not at all helpful&quot; to somebody saying gibberish or something like &quot;VB is teh suck!&quot;. I believe that it should be required to leave a (potentially anonymous) comment with a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:44:12.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think explanation on downvote of question and answer is always useful, though should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be compulsary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without it people often won't see why unaided, for themselves, why the downvote was cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T08:44:12.927" />
  <row Id="17379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-11-08T03:08:59.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes- I was recently downmodded on an answer which I presume to be absolutely correct.   If it is not, I would gladly delete the comment and learn something from it.  Otherwise I am left doubting my own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also afraid that some people may see the highest ranked answer and take that one to be 'correct' while others are 'incorrect'.  My answer was not upmodded so it was not deemed correct or incorrect, but then another answer that had an opposing answer was upmodded.  It clearly made my answer appear incorrect.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone reading this may have been responsible, here is the post I am concerned about: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273720/singleton-destructors#273799&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273720/singleton-destructors#273799&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T03:08:59.467" />
  <row Id="17380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17367" CreationDate="2008-11-08T03:22:16.227" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd go a step further and suggest that it's polite to comment &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; vote.  As others have said, the purpose of StackOverflow is to share information.  IMHO, constructive comments&amp;mdash;whether or not you agree with them&amp;mdash;are always helpful.  Personally, I find I learn most from the folks who &lt;em&gt;disagree&lt;/em&gt; with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:07.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-08T03:22:16.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-17T15:50:15.113" Score="14" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking a programming question on SO, how much &lt;em&gt;homework&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. searching both inside and outside SO, reading materials/books/papers, attempting hacks on own, etc.) should be done prior to posting the question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I'm asking is that I asked a question and got a great answer, but at the bottom of the answer, the answerer cautioned me on doing my homework first (i.e. - attempting to find the answer on my own). I thought that SO would be a great place to &lt;em&gt;start&lt;/em&gt; my learning curve. Should I not start with stackoverflow, or should I just use stackoverflow when I can't find the answer anywhere else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" Title="On SO - how much do I have to know before I ask a programming question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T15:51:21.820" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Item #1: make sofaq questions community owned.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter what site you use, when asking as question you should always start with a search for the same question.  Since StackOverflow appears to be pretty well indexed by Google and the internal search itself isn't that great, Google is probably a better choice for that part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, while stackoverflow is still young there's a strong movement to try and reduce duplicates.  Over time this will become less and less practical, and the idealism will slip. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T15:52:40.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that many people here are turned off by questions that are very simple and can be resolved by a simple 10 second Google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example how to open a file in .NET is very simple, and MSDN documentation answers it in 10 seconds.  That would be something that I personally would say should be looked into a bit further before posting...but it depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T15:53:57.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if you at least google it and check a couple of the results and cant find it then come here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T15:55:56.647" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should do exactly as much homework as you think will save you time.  For instance, if your question already exists then you'll get a much quicker answer by searching for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, though, go ahead.  Except for exact duplicates SO is intentionally designed to support and nourish questions that are very similar, so jump in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can largely ignore those that want you to &quot;do your homework&quot; because SO wants to become the primary resource for google searches, and your slightly different wording in the question will help that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So don't worry about it - this is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:00:08.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, if the exact answers to your questions that you are getting are links that people have dug up on the Internet by simple Google searches, it would mean that you didn't do enough research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, who cares. Sometimes you just want to pose a question (do some other work in the meantime) and come back for an answer a few minutes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this when I don't have the time to do research on my own. It is useful to have a lot of smart people available to answer your questions when you need it. Of course, I try my best not to get lazy this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135259" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:01:09.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought one of the goals for SO was to become an owner of all good bits, which means that it needs stupid questions as well as smart ones, because people will ask all kinds.  Of course, this does work better if everybody tries to search SO for the answer before asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then it should go by the rule for most technical forums:  do at least a bit of Googling before asking, since incessant trivial questions tend to drive off the people who give the most useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:02:10.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should always be able to research your question from multiple sources, not just SO, google and the likes of Wikipedia.  Knowing how to dig deep and find answers to your own questions is an important skill, and while SO is excellent, it is not an excuse to being lazy.  I have had some great answers here, but I have also had a number of questions unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And yes, I will post the answers myself when I've figured them out)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143582" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:06:21.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add what others have said, sometimes really simple looking questions can hide really subtle or complex issues or side effects that a 3 minute google search won't turn up.  I think one of the other goals of SO is to have a central clearing ground for all those &quot;gotcha&quot; things - which SO won't get unless people ask the &quot;simple&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we'll be a much stronger site if we have more questions rather than less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:07:24.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see a question that can be answered in 3 minutes of googling, I just don't click on it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If others want to give you their time to answer that stuff for you, then why wouldn't you take advantage of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:12:20.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do enough research to show respect for those who might answer your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure you're referring to me, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/212401/javascript-how-do-i-learn-about-closures-usage#212417&quot;&gt;my answer on your JavaScript closures question&lt;/a&gt;. I stand by my answer: I don't think it's too much to ask that people asking fairly general questions at least put the keywords of their post into a search engine before posting. How long would that have taken? Significantly less time than asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I had to do in order to find useful information was type two words into a search engine and hit &quot;Search&quot;. It took much longer to copy the URLs and titles etc than to do the actual search. I personally think it's polite to do the most &lt;em&gt;basic&lt;/em&gt; level of research before asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put it in a different context: if someone were sitting next to you and had a dictionary in their lap, wouldn't you think it odd if they asked you the meaning of a word?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Oh, the irony! I was about to ask the best way to deal with questions which are easily answered by Google posts, as clearly the OP was annoyed at what I thought was my pretty reasonable and moderately-stated request that he do simple searches before asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So of course, I searched SO to see if there's already an answer for how to deal with questions like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/104625/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;and there is&lt;/a&gt;. Interesting reading indeed - even if it seems there's little consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:21:06.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I RTFM and then STFW for more than 20 minutes, it's time for SO. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:43:45.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, the difference between people who ask questions and people who answer questions is their ability to research the topic. If you never practice your research skills, you'll always be dependent on other people. If you depend on other people too much, you'll find that those people start ignoring you as you leech off their time. Once you've alienated your only resource, you're pretty much out of the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to be a better programmer, try to do as much of your own work as you can. Indeed, do more of your own work than you &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; you can.  Be responsible for your own education. It might seem difficult at first, but as you develop the skills and the intestinal fortitude, it gets easier. You'll be more valuable as an employee and more productive on your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer depends on what sort of person you want to be and how you want other people to think about you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136666" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17381" CreationDate="2008-10-17T17:31:16.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The funny thing is, people really enjoy answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not totally sure that even exact repeats are that much of a problem for most people since anyone answering them must be motivated to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, some people are extremely bothered by the concept of giving others the opportunity to answer the same question that has already been answered.  I think it's the same part of our &quot;programming brain&quot; that forces us to refactor redundant code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I think, we may at some point want to realize that answering a simple question is actually fun, and making someone feel bad for posting a simple (even trivial) question isn't really productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were flooded by the same question ten times a day, then I might have a different observation...  currently I'm kinda meh about the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think we should have a way to create our own long-form answers to certain questions (attached to our homepage) we are passionate about and be able to just reference them in an answer.  With that we'd be able to save the time and let them know (rather subtly) that the answer has been there all along.  I'm considering doing this through a blog on another site I can reference, but it would be nice if we could do it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140390" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:55:39.510" />
  <row Id="17395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:19:42.147" Score="19" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230510/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;the homework question&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm not asking about people who have homework to do but problems to solve (which may or may not be homework). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you decide that the way to find out how to solve a problem is to ask a question on Stack Overflow, are you expecting someone to &quot;pls show u teh codes&quot; or to help you enough that you can learn about the problem and try to solve it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own response to Stack Overflow questions (being a mentor of other developers and, in a past job, a teacher of undergraduates) is to give hints, like &quot;you can do this with X API&quot; or &quot;this document shows you how to do it&quot;, because that's what I'd like to see; I would want someone to give me enough of a push that I could still believe I've solved my own problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've seen a number of questions with answers like this which then have comments like &quot;but what code do I write to answer this question?&quot;, including occasional threats/carrots-on-sticks involving the award of reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, which type of answer are you looking for? Which type of programmer would you want to work with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23743" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T19:23:15.180" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T12:58:11.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:19:42.147" Title="Do you go to Stack Overflow for the answers or to learn?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="31" />
  <row Id="17396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:22:34.997" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I view StackOverflow as a wiki-style educator, I don't want the quick &quot;Here's the code&quot;-style solution. I want as much detail as possible, without making the reading too exhaustive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is one of the few tabs that remains opened during my entire day. I refer back to it when I need help - it is often times faster at providing solutions than Google, and I know the solutions it provides will have undergone &quot;peer-review&quot; in a sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I come here to Help, to Learn, and to Relax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:22:34.997" />
  <row Id="17397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:23:05.840" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am here to exchange knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:23:05.823" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:24:14.650" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an answer of the &quot;you can do this with X API&quot; form. Although, finding a complete code answer doesn't mean the person who answers is doing the job for me. By applying this code into my own implementation I'm also learning.  Most of the time when I ask questions, I simplify them enough so that the code other users present doesn't really apply to my real problem, but it gives me a great idea of what I need to do to solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:24:14.650" />
  <row Id="17399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:25:54.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here to learn or to help others to learn.  I enjoy the process of learning something new from someone else's issue and incorporating it into my knowledge base.  However, there are times where my brain just isn't getting it and an example code is extremely helpful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-JFV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1391" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:25:54.040" />
  <row Id="17400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:26:05.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a tremendous educational tool for me as well as an opportunity to share knowledge that I've already gained. And it isn't just specific technical issues: I think that we all learn by seeing our peers' perspectives on more abstract problems like the role of TDD, the utility of new technologies like Linq, etc.  I particularly like the way that a consensus position sometimes coalesces as various answers &quot;fight it out&quot; for votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:26:05.443" />
  <row Id="17401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:26:11.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want the push so I can learn myselv. Since I already know how to copy and paste code, an answer with working code will not help me more then answer the spessific problem I have. But what if I encounter a similar problem later, which actualy have an almost identical solution. I would have to ask again, since all I did was copy and paste some code. But if I took the time to learn it myselv, I could have solved it myselv, since I knew how it worked. So please, when I ask questions, give me a hint to how I can learn, not give me the full code to solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:26:11.650" />
  <row Id="17402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:27:50.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I come here to see what problems affect other programmers, every problem is related to a topic so it's a way to learn something, from a new site (like coding horror I've just learnt about), to, for example, how many files i can put in a directory on my *nix production server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regard to the answers: i prefer hints over &quot;here's the job done for you&quot; posts, one learns by doing not by CTRL + C, CTRL + V :]&#xA;So I would definitely like to work with a &quot;hint developer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57095" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:27:50.587" />
  <row Id="17403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:29:25.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I am a member of most of these types of forums to learn, but not simply by reading the posts.  Encountering real-world scenarios and trying to find the solutions is one of the best, fastest ways to learn &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;, especially if you are not certain what you are trying to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost never ask questions, I prefer to find the answer myself, even if it is through brute force trial and error (&lt;em&gt;The most wonderful thing about programming is that if you bang your head against a wall long enough, the wall will move.&lt;/em&gt;).  More often, I will read a problem and, if there isn't a good solution posted already, try to find the answer myself.  But learning through observation and doing things the &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; way can often lead to big discoveries which will help in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: when I was first learning MySQL (and was brand-new to programming), I could not find the operators.  I assumed it would use &amp;&amp;, but those were nowhere to be found.  Since I could not manage this, I learned that I could call CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE, populate it with the results from one query, and then search that table independently.  It would have been more efficient to ask questions, but I learned syntax I would not have otherwise known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163112" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:29:25.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:30:37.930" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer an answer that gives me the full solution. It is not that I am lazy, but the process of deciphering the solution is a learning process just as productive to me as discovering it on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is easy for an experienced programmer to assume that what is basic for them is basic for everyone.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably derive more enjoyment visiting SO to give advice in areas that gave me problems in the past. I think, &quot;if I can save them the headache I went through...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the times when I had a problem I could not solve without help, I found the vague answers to be the least useful or exciting, e.g. &quot;you may want to try PHP for that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not necessarily classify programmers into the &quot;give me the answer&quot; or &quot;let me find the answer&quot; categories. What I would want probably leans more towards the &quot;let me find the answer&quot; programmer type, but it is the resourcefulness that is more important to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:30:37.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:31:13.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to see how other programmers &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt;. It's very rare that I read code pasted/written here. Reading a piece of code is seldom very useful. Pretty much the same as the old one fish vs learn to fish imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140978" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:31:13.047" />
  <row Id="17406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:33:01.280" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the situation and how pressed I am as to the function that SO takes for me.  If I've got a pressing problem that comes up amidst a sh*tstorm of other problems, I might ask for &quot;Plz give me the codez&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That situation doesn't often occur however, the joy of programming for me is figuring out the puzzle, so I'd much rather present the situation and the problem and ask for pointers on which direction I'd best follow to help solve it... and if anyone comes up with references that will help me gain a more in depth understanding, then all the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm on here though, I frequently come across other questions I can answer with little work, but may help someone else out in a big way, in which case I answer them.  Then there may be other questions that may not immediately useful for me, but I could see them being useful in the future, in which case they're added to my favourites list so I can come back and check up on them at a later point...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joy of SO for me I think is that everything is bite size - other people's questions might turn into a small side project for me.  Maybe an intriguing scenario, or an area of programming I've not come across before.  I can spend an hour tinkering with something that I wouldn't otherwise find the opportunity or reason to work with... and because it's all bite size, it's easy to retain focus and remember it later...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...also posting and answering questions is a great way to create and maintain a connection with the global programming community.  If you're a student, it's a great way to start finding a way to transition into a commercial environment and find out what &quot;real world&quot; programmers are doing, the problems they face and how they're really applying the theory you're learning in school.  While you're in school it's very easy to learn the theory and produce code for theoretical situations, but it can be extremely intimidating as you approach that time when you've finally gotta take what you've learned and use it for real.  Forums and communities like StackOverflow are a fantastic way to get your feet wet and make that connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:33:01.280" />
  <row Id="17407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T19:35:14.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am here first and foremost to see how &quot;out there&quot; my personal ideas on development are or may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, I never got enough attention as a child.. so I troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T19:27:29.860" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T19:27:29.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T19:35:14.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T20:03:31.170" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here to impress the ladies.  To quote Napoleon Dynamite:  &quot;girls want boyfriends with skills&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T20:03:31.170" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T20:13:14.113" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only here for the shiny badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T19:24:55.010" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T19:24:55.010" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T20:13:14.113" />
  <row Id="17410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T20:16:37.960" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The best way to learn is to teach.&lt;/strong&gt; When I explain a concept to someone else, I realize how little I know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T20:16:37.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T20:23:05.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I come here for answers to questions I would never think of.  Sometimes you become so accustom to doing things a certain way you forget to question them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T20:23:05.170" />
  <row Id="17412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T21:12:40.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I go to find answers and stay for the achievements!  I mean badges...  really though, I like the community.  SO has by far the best community of devs of any forum I've found so far, so I stay to learn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T21:12:40.063" />
  <row Id="17413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T21:17:01.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I come to Stack Overflow to see what are the answers to various questions and how valid are my contributions to the original poster and community at large.  I haven't really had a question for the community yet, but someday I might and would like to have some answers on similar questions to be able to show that I'm not a noob to this altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T21:17:01.693" />
  <row Id="17414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T21:38:30.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As most others, I find that communicating with others that share my interests is stimulating. Not being able to talk about coding impedes my progress. Since I don't have any fleshy friends that share my desire to code, I can turn to SO for that, plus knowing that there are legendary programmers present is inspiring.  It's the next best thing to actually having a mentor.  Love the fact that everyone stays so on topic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Primary reason: learn. (Which is different than copy and paste!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondary reason: great community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T21:38:30.510" />
  <row Id="17415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T21:41:27.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;:) I was excited when I found this site at first, because this is one of the things that I missed on my current job - having enough of experienced people around to learn from. Therefore, there's no definitive answer type that I expect - I just prefer to be respected and not be laughed at, if my questions are simplistic (that was one of the first things i read in the FAQ here - that it doesn't matter how simple question it is..) I don't expect to find a ready solution - yes, definitely, I'd like to exchange experiences and find some friendly advice..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T21:41:27.400" />
  <row Id="17416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-21T21:49:03.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I code a lot. On occasion I get stuck and want a few more bright minds to help me out. I come to &lt;strong&gt;learn&lt;/strong&gt; the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you get the answer, you can find the reason, and be ab better coder next time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-21T21:49:03.813" />
  <row Id="17417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-22T01:43:22.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm simply here to hang out, learn as much as I can, and hopefully help out some other people as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T01:43:22.047" />
  <row Id="17418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-22T02:45:37.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lulz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lulz&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T19:26:12.620" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T19:26:12.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T02:45:37.410" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-01-22T03:37:25.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like when I'm given a short answer and then given more references.  I'm not a professional coder and have learned all my programming knowledge from asking and reading on my own so a lot of times I'm really not sure what the proper name of something is so being able to describe my problem and then have someone give me an answer/reference is a tremendous help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm also able to give input on a problem then it gives me a little more confidence in my ability.  It lets me know that I haven't struggled for no reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134645" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T03:37:25.450" />
  <row Id="17420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-02-05T21:47:06.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm busy at work...I come here to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm not busy at work...I come here to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T21:47:06.913" />
  <row Id="17421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-02-05T22:04:59.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cry and laugh.&#xA;This place seems to becoming an newbie magnet - with too many people just wanting answers without bothering to try and learn for themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What percentage of questions here&#xA;could be answered by just reading the&#xA;language or API docs ?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many&#xA;questions are obvious if one just&#xA;tries to read the definite source of&#xA;truth ? - eg the Javadoc for that Class.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure they can get an answer but many times they dont know the queston they should be asking. This lack of experience and knowledge means they are probably doing the wrong thing and producing crap :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153964" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T22:04:59.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-02-05T22:12:03.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a grocery store for my brain. Any and all knowledge is yummy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T22:12:03.773" />
  <row Id="17423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17395" CreationDate="2009-02-23T22:47:40.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers to nearly all of my questions are already there! So most of the time I'm there to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:56:35.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-23T22:47:40.710" />
  <row Id="17424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:09:31.450" Score="17" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering how much a reputation score would make people trust an answer or not?  Does my current (167) make it more likely that you believe me or distrust me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136320" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:23.103" Title="Is reputation important?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="19" />
  <row Id="17425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:11:14.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are the types of questions that will lose you rep, so yeah, I suppose so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Well, maybe I was a bit too blunt, sorry.  This forum is intended for programming questions, not questions related to the forum itself.  As we are still in beta, maybe I am a bit wrong on this one (As the upvote shows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138568" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:12:10.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point, in the beta, I have not found myself trusting people even with very high (3000+) reputation any more than someone who is new -- everyone in here is pretty knowledgeable and engaged, and we all know how the beta is being populated manually by request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may change, I guess, as the site is opened to the public and there are more fly-by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136299" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:12:35.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Ed - interesting response...I'm now 173 rep!  Also, why would it make me loose rep?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136320" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:12:37.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I have to do to find out if your answer is good is to try it. The great thing about programming is that &quot;trust&quot; really has nothing to do with it. I try your solution, and it either works or it doesn't. If two people answer with competing solutions, I compare the pros and cons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not dealing with politics here. It's computers. They work, or they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2527" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:13:21.503" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm less likely to base my respect solely on your reputation score, but more on if I've seen you post/answer questions before, as well as your rep. It also depends on whether I know you're right or not. I had 0 rep when I posted my first answer (obviously) but it was  voted up and accepted within the same day. It's all about a) confidence, b) correctness, c) and finally reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; no idea if your answer is correct or not, I'll judge yours based on the surrounding answers, whether I recognize you, and finally your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3556" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:15:49.920" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time will tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if rep, or badges might make more sense down the road. I think we've all belonged to message boards where people with tons of posts are often not the best resource at those boards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can already see that you can get a lot of rep for answering simple opinion questions in popular threads, and no rep for a good, detailed answer that is very useful and based on years of specialized knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:24:59.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Ed (on the edit) - no worries, of course :)  Agree that this is a programmer's forum, but I'm interested in how it works...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Lee - agreed, the fundamentals &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; include correctness.  However, as @Guy says, the current user base in beta is likely a focused group and there are a load of really good answers out there.  If I had been programming for 6 months as a hobby, how do I know I'm going to get a good answer.  This question is a case in point...my rep as a &lt;em&gt;programmer&lt;/em&gt; should not increase because I've &lt;em&gt;asked&lt;/em&gt; a question about the site!!!  @Ed, this was entirely your point, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136320" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:32:09.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much repeating the opinion of others here, but I base my judgement on the quality of the questions and answers of posters. I've seen some bad answers from high rep people and good answers from low rep people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I'd say, however, is that somebody with a higher rep is probably far less likely to be &lt;em&gt;completely clueless&lt;/em&gt; as they have proven they can ask and answer questions sufficiently competently to gain the respect of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:38:03.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree SO is too new to establish much any trust and name recognition.  I imagine, over time, the badges may be a better indication of trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:39:51.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think rep will play a role eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the other forums/boards I used to frequent was perlmonks, they seemed to have a pretty good balance with their rating system, sure there were lots of people at the top tier that were not the best on the site, but to make it to the top tier you needed to participate frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given a community moderated rep, I think that the people that participate frequently almost have to pick up at least &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; knowledge, either by reading other answers, or by having their answers corrected, or accepted, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, a high rep will make a difference on how I view your posts. It doesn't mean I'll blindly accept what you're saying, but someone with a high rep presenting a different point of view will probably be taken more seriously because of the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:41:40.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All questions tagged &quot;stackoverflow&quot; will be removed when we go public, so rep from this thread will be lost... no worries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T20:43:22.193" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all honesty I think the reputation system is worthless, almost as worthless as the badge system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for an answer from someone who is deemed an expert by this community! As a programmer I am looking for one thing when I find a question that interests me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;THE RIGHT ANSWER!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people are here to get involved with the community and to build up a high reputation, and when some features are locked down by reputation (voting down) it is important to answer a few questions from time to time to become a more established member. Other than that, the majority of visitors of this website will come here to find a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T21:03:12.210" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is how much the System Trusts you.  That is all.  There are some high rep people that regurgitate other people's answers.  It is common for me to come across an answer that has been up voted that does not answer a question or is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a problem caused by voting up 'cause you like the answer vs voting up because it is the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue I have is when an answer is wrong or has one line that is wrong, you cant edit it.  The only people that can edit it are people that have the wrong answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T21:09:53.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a ton of rep, but I've posted my fair share of dumb answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take on it is that rep means &quot;This person knows stuff,&quot; however, it doesn't mean they know the particular stuff you are asking about!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T21:19:53.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation of a member is indicative of two things: quality of answers and length of membership.  If someone gives a detailed and well-written answer to a question, I'm not even going to look at their reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone starts with a small reputation, and it takes a while to build a higher reputation.  Still, it's not a good indicator.  You lose very few points for a down-vote compared to an up-vote; so long as someone only gets less than 8 down-votes per up-vote there is a net positive gain.  So, someone with 100,000 reputation could have 10,000 up-votes and 0 down-votes or 100,000 up-votes and 450,000 down-votes.  Still, those 100,000 up-votes are good answers and the person deserves credit for them.  Both members' reputation represents an immense contribution to stackoverflow and it would be foolish to ignore either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my answer is no; the only time I look at reputations is when I see two identical answers; if the time difference is a matter of 2-3 seconds I favor the person with lower reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151926" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T22:38:49.500" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#44775&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is how much the System Trusts you. That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true -- we need the system to trust you, so that you guys (and gals) can run it. In a perfect world there should be almost no difference between the &quot;moderators&quot; and highly trusted users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Geoff, Jarrod, and I have to moderate, the site is a failure, because we don't scale. The community does!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(oh, and I voted Brian's response up, of course)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-04T23:33:29.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@EnderMP The only flaw I see with your answer is when someone poses a question asking for a programming opinion. In this case, there is no right or wrong answer... so reputation is a way to gauge the people that answer. It may not be an accurate way, but it's a way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3556" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2008-09-18T12:23:29.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the reputation system holds much water. It doesn't tell you how good their answers are, more that they are &quot;keen&quot; and have given popular answers. I think it just encourages people to rush in and post answers whether they know what they are talking about or not. The problem with this is you then have to sift through the &quot;me too&quot; posts to find useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm noticing some people &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82036/what-is-a-good-programming-language-for-ai#82095&quot;&gt;plagiarising answers&lt;/a&gt; from other sites without attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think voting on individual answers is good, and over time this will hopefully lead to later, better answers rising above the quick answers the initial people have given. As for reputation, the number means next to nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:57:15.607" />
  <row Id="17443" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-06T08:31:41.267" Score="36" ViewCount="1703" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a name for the default avatars that are generated for users who do not assign one themselves? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not the avatar of the blank user, but the one made up of shards, shapes, and colours:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an online generator for something like that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41277/how-do-i-change-my-profile-picture-or-avatar&quot;&gt;How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19582" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T10:22:44.687" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T09:35:39.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-07T04:53:13.043" Title="How is the default user avatar generated?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;avatar&gt;&lt;identicon&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="17444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17443" CreationDate="2008-11-06T08:33:05.723" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Identicons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO uses Gravatar and specifies Identicons as the default image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar implementor's guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How the URL is constructed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15031" LastEditorUserId="155190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T10:20:44.720" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T10:20:44.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-07T04:53:13.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17443" CreationDate="2008-11-06T09:35:27.347" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'd be way cooler if SO used &lt;a href=&quot;http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MonsterIDs&lt;/a&gt; as default instead! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="298" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:58:10.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-07T04:53:13.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-08T22:28:36.090" Score="10" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very often see comments about a question posted as answers, e.g., &quot;format it this way&quot; or &quot;why don't you post it over here&quot;.  I think this practice clogs up the answers and the comment feature is for these sorts of remarks.  What's the general consensus on etiquette?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141288" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:44:33.163" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:44:33.163" Title="Answer or comment: what's the etiquette?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17447" CreationDate="2008-10-08T22:29:49.020" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personal opinion? Answers should be answers, comments should be comments. Generally, things appear to be moderated that way eventually anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:59:04.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17447" CreationDate="2008-10-08T22:30:28.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remarks about the question or answer should be a comment. Answers to the question asked should be answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:59:04.043" />
  <row Id="17450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17447" CreationDate="2008-10-08T22:31:20.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers should and will be indexed by google - its what will help future generations find the right answer (via google etc). Comments - they are meta - and essentially messages to the person who wrote the question/answer (which others can view if they want to). Not even sure if the bots will crawl them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148615" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:59:04.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17447" CreationDate="2008-10-08T22:35:38.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers should add to the community knowledge on the subject. I try to keep the &quot;it's like a Wiki&quot; concept in mind. While I agree with you regarding answers that should have been comments, I've also seen the opposite: comments that provided useful information and should have been posted as answers or edited into an existing answer. I tend to gloss over comments most of the time so I hope that I'm not missing anything important by not reading them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:59:04.043" />
  <row Id="17452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17447" CreationDate="2008-10-09T00:14:23.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When possible comments should not be given as answers.  That being said, there are people without enough rep to comment yet (like yours truly for instance :p)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T17:59:04.043" />
  <row Id="17454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:03:23.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not meant to measure expertise in a particular area. Reputation is an incentive for those with expertise in a particular area to share their expertise with others. To the extent that questioners and other users of the site are able to judge for themselves whether a particular answer is correct and helpful, the reputation of an expert who gives such answers will tend to increase over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, given two people who have answered a similar number of questions of similar difficulty in similar topic areas, if one has, say, double the other's reputation, that will indicate his answers are correct and helpful more often than the other's. Otherwise, don't put much stock in reputation &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt;. If you are going to compare reputation, do it per month per question answered in the topic area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:23.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:42:00.040" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I have a Stack Overflow etiquette question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several months ago I had a question that was not perfectly answered on Stack Overflow.  Several weeks later I figured it out myself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just posted my ANSWER to SEVERAL existing questions.  Is that OKAY?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, is it OKAY that I posted my ONE answer to several RELATED questions in StackOverflow?  Or is that bad form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning is that it is a pretty good answer to a pretty common problem and I wanted to increase the surface area for the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your answer about SO.com etiquette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39478" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:17:23.493" Title="Is it OK that I just posted my same answer to several related questions on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:45:18.160" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People who pose a question often only watch THEIR question, and don't look at other related ones. By posting your answer multiple times, you helped answer multiple people's problems. I don't see anything wrong with this, you were just helping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:24.470" />
  <row Id="17457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:45:40.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, why not? If the answer is relevant to the question, and it may help the person who asked the question, then I think you should definitely post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also post it in one place, and put links in answers to the other questions, but that will just cause people to have to click more to get to the answer to their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142859" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:24.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:45:53.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion? Yes, it's OK. I've come across a few questions which are basically asking for the same information but posed in different contexts. My response has been to answer with a link to my One True Answer™, and so far that's been upvoted suggesting its appropriateness in each context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23743" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:24.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-03T20:45:53.713" />
  <row Id="17459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:46:13.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few SO etiquette things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta-discussion generally isn't allowed on the main site, you should take it to stackoverflow.uservoice.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your post is meta or subjective, it should be marked as community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your actual question, it depends on the circumstance.  I would think that, as long as it's helpful and adds value, post your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60261" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:24.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-03T20:46:13.527" />
  <row Id="17460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:46:32.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as your answer was relevant to each question, I don't think anyone will have a problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:24.470" />
  <row Id="17461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:47:33.210" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would post a &lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt; to your original in each of the other questions, rather than duplicating it.  This helps google index the site better and helps users identify duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:24.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-03T20:47:52.167" />
  <row Id="17462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-06-03T20:57:35.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is similar enough to warrant an identical answer, mark is as duplicate and close. If it is a different question and you vary your answer, that's fine because you are deriving and answering it in a slightly different context. If it's an identical answer to a different question, that's fine as well. Link to the original answer/question as well if you think it will be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above all, exercise good judgement and good intentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:03:24.470" />
  <row Id="17463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17467" CreationDate="2008-08-05T16:54:00.433" Score="64" ViewCount="3724" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a folder with lists of code snippets for things I always forget or get wrong, such as regular expressions for processing XML, common WinForms control idioms, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it considered poor etiquette for Stack Overflow to ask a question I already know the answer to, and then self answer, just so it gets recorded on the website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137775" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:37:15.207" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T12:30:45.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" Title="Should I ask a question I know the answer to?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="17464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-08-05T16:55:30.790" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's poor etiquette to not change the Accepted Answer of your own question, if someone else's is &lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131695" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-14T12:30:45.370" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T12:30:45.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-08-05T16:56:12.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope. It's actually somewhat encouraged... This is a duplicate question I think...&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="58" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-08-05T16:57:42.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I wouldn't use the site as a repository &quot;just in case&quot; you want a quick reference later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's another matter entirely if you have a question that needs an answer and simply find that answer after posting the question.&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="132790" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-08-05T16:58:33.827" Score="67" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already numerous posts &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108/how-does-database-indexing-work&quot;&gt;that answer&lt;/a&gt; their &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2027/pass-by-reference-or-pass-by-value&quot;&gt;own questions&lt;/a&gt;. There's nothing wrong with it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's even encouraged&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that others have the question for which you have the answer but can't find it anywhere, so post away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; you can now select your own answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as the accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-05T10:21:15.563" LastActivityDate="2010-07-05T10:21:15.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-08-05T16:58:58.117" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a thin line. On one side, Jeff is quite clear: If it's helpful to at least one other developer, it should be here. It also creates good Content, and Content is the #1 priority for a site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, &quot;spamming&quot; the site and turning it into just another Code Snippet site is what some users (including me) do not seem to want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is essentially a Question/Answer site, I personally would not object seeing a code snippet as long as there is a Use Case assigned to it. i.e. &quot;This is a codeSnippet for creating a &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176810&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;.ddf file&lt;/a&gt;, which is used by &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543214.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sharepoint Developers&lt;/a&gt; to create Features/Solutions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say: Just ask yourself &quot;Is this really useful to a lot of people?&quot; and try to keep a balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Also keep in mind that other people may look at your snippet and tell you better ways to improve it. That's why a use Case is so important. if people know what this snippet is used for, they can help making it better/more versatile/more efficient etc.&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-08-05T17:00:02.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As said, it's not poor etiquette.  You may have find the proper answer somewhere else outside stackoverflow.com and then share the solution with your buddies here.  It's far better than only reply saying that '&lt;em&gt;gotcha, you made it&lt;/em&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;" OwnerUserId="135369" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-08-05T21:08:33.540" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently adding a question for anything I have to Google for, on the assumption that  other people will probably have the same need one day. What sold me on the idea of stackoverflow was that the knowledge would be maintained and looked after by many people; so a good answer found on stackoverflow really should be something you can count on. It takes the russian roulette out of accepting things you find on a google search.&lt;/p&gt;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-09-11T11:35:21.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted several like this.  I now wait a little to see if someone provides the answer I would have posted.  If they do, I accept it.  If someone provides an answer that is better than mine, I'll accept it and still put in my answer.  If no one answers with anything that is as good as or better than my answer then I'll put it in there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3535" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-09-11T11:37:56.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but lots of people tend to think so.  Your question and its answer are highly likely to get voted down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:11:19.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most useful situation that this might happen is for a really niche question. If no-one here answers but you find out a resolution elsewhere or by continuing to work on it, then publishing your findings is the best thing for the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-09-11T12:15:42.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this scenario, I think that there should be an exception: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I post a question.&#xA;I answer my question. &#xA;I cannot accept it, that is OK. &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; if after certain time, &lt;strong&gt;no other answer&lt;/strong&gt; comes, it should be tagged as answered (but something distinctive). Otherwise, it will be in the pool of thousands of answers with one reply that &quot;look like it's not the correct answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a way to make them distinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2684" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2008-09-18T19:48:01.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two observations here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This has already been addressed numerous times here: stackoverflow is a place to find good answers to your questions. If a given question isn't answered here, why not ask it yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is a corollary to 1. stackoverflow is not a game in which you have to collect as many reputation points as possible in the least amount of time. I have the feeling though, that many people think that stackoverflow is just this: a game. That's why people make sly comments about karma-whoring when people answer their own questions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worry about quality, but stop worrying about your reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:04:20.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17482" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:04:33.147" Score="4" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5909/how-do-reputation-bonuses-for-associations-between-accounts-work&quot;&gt;How do reputation bonuses for associations between accounts work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read everywhere that associating accounts will give me +100 rep. I've done this but I get no rep gain. I'm just trying to get 50 rep so I can make comments. Anyone know what is going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134741" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T18:18:17.423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T01:45:39.617" ClosedDate="2009-08-25T18:43:57.123" Title="Why did I get no reputation gain when I associated my accounts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17477" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:05:34.110" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will only get the 100 reputation bonus if the account you associate from has at least 200 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T21:29:14.513" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:29:14.513" />
  <row Id="17479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17447" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:10:54.927" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the basic &quot;Answers should always provide an answer&quot; rule, I also propose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joke answers should always be comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the question is a terrible plz-send-teh-codez question, posting a joke as an answer is blatant rep-whoring, since you will get voted up for being funny rather than for being correct or insightful, which is what your reputation is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133819" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:10:54.927" />
  <row Id="17480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:12:52.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it valuable to see how others would approach a problem that I am working on.  Even if I have an answer to my question, there may be other, possibly better ways to solve the problem that someone else will point out.  Also there is the possiblilty of good information being shared that may not be a direct answer to the question, but that is useful to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would post the question and then the answer that I came up with, in hopes of opening up a dialog about different approaches to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:12:52.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="17481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17455" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:17:23.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done the very same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One note though, &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; put a link in the duplicates, to the original. Some users may consider it annoying that you just copied your other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could put a link to the original in a comment. Preferably on the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, make sure it is a &lt;em&gt;good fit&lt;/em&gt; for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:17:23.493" />
  <row Id="17482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17477" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:26:57.157" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additionally to the 100 rep in the associated accounts, you will get 100 rep in the &quot;parent&quot; account if you associate All tree ServerFault, StackOverflow and SuperUser accounts.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But this only happens if the &quot;parent&quot; account have at least 200 reputation (as &#xA;TheTXI said).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134750" LastEditorUserId="134750" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T01:45:39.617" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T01:45:39.617" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17513" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:42:06.660" Score="6" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been an active user of StackOverflow for a while and also make a lot of decisions about the advertising of my company's products. We have tried StackOverflow ads and are getting ready to try again -- still working to find the right ad that gets a good enough ROI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The product is kind of a niche .NET developer SDK -- meaning only .NET developers would be interested and only a small subset of those.  I can't really target better than .NET on SO (pretty much any .NET developer &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be interested)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the question is: what kind of ads on StackOverflow do you find effective or personally compelling and why?  What kinds of ads do you click on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have tried advertising: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a 30 day eval of the SDK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;video tutorials on how to use our product&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a 5-day e-course on the subject our SDK covers (totally non-commercial -- no product info)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a free version of one of our entry-level SDK's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a free version of an SDK + a coupon for a complementary product.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying not to be specific about what we do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134751" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T18:48:01.373" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T20:24:22.033" Title="What kind of ads do you like?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="17484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17362" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:43:22.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that there is an easy way to do this. I would suggest however that a relatively accurate analog would be questions with the most up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:43:22.320" />
  <row Id="17485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17483" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:43:45.063" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well the attempt of &quot;if you really want to know, click here&quot; almost got me to click the advertisement.  The &quot;Dont push this button&quot; mentality probably works best.  The best ads are the ones that solve my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I've been looking for a product and I see a banner for said product that is likely to fix my problem, I'll probably click on it.  If not, developers are used to just ignoring ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I think some of the best ads would be video ads of &quot;Here's your problem.  Look how easy we can make it go away.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also depends on what aspect of the market youre trying to capture.  Is it the enterprise level? Small companies? Or individual developers.  At the enterprise level, companies are always looking for solutions and a lot of quick fixes.  On the flip side, it can be hard to gain acceptance of a product at that level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For small teams/single developers, price tends to be a major factor for purchasing software.  Along the lines of limited SDKs would probably be best here.  Help them solve minor problems, and they'll remember you when they have the cash and bigger fish to fry.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;At least that's what I think...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134752" LastEditorUserId="134752" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T18:52:26.263" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:52:26.263" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17483" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:44:12.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bring back the Jon Skeet ads. Users demand it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:44:12.210" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:51:00.823" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interview Phil Haack and/or Scott Hanselman. I know that you've done lots of podcasts with Hanselman but I don't recall any with Phil Haack. Also Rob Conery worked on ASP.NET MVC and I know that he's no longer with Microsoft but his angle on what you've done with MVC would also be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1463" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:51:00.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T18:51:00.823" />
  <row Id="17489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:52:57.183" Score="5" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14655/show-dates-with-century-to-avoid-confusion&quot;&gt;Show dates with century to avoid confusion&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are older than 1 year are showing their date stamps as something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Aug 12 08 at 20:48&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to grok (at least for my poor eyes), especially with the default font and color on SO, where the 12 and the 08 appear quite close together.  Could we get a separator in there?  Maybe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Aug 12/08 at 20:48&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Aug 12, 2008 at 20:48&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:52:57.183" ClosedDate="2009-08-26T06:17:54.280" Title="Fix up the date display a bit for old questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17483" CreationDate="2009-08-25T18:58:11.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've clicked on the past on text ads that somehow answer something I have in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking specifically on your product: what does your product solves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If what you do, happens to match what I need, I'll click!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;..Need to add advanced imaging capabilities to applications...? &lt;a href=&quot;http://your.link.goes.here&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I do need to add &quot;advanced imaging capabilities to my applications&quot; I would click there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usally don't click on 30 trial and related ads, because I think &lt;em&gt;&quot;They don't care about my needs, they just want to sell me a box&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, why would I like to &quot;save&quot; money, when what I'm doing is surfing the web?.  I mean, I did not enter thinking &quot;Hey I want to know how to buy anything and save 50 uds in the process&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, what I usually do is, I have this problem, I want to find something to solve it. I'm going to ask on SO. If in the process there is a product that matches exactly my needs I would buy it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T18:58:11.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-22T13:39:14.813" Score="19" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm breaking one of the well known taboos about not asking questions about questions here for good reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People do it all the time, hit up search, enter 'question', you'll see a big list of meta-questions about questions and stack overflow in general which are just noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are bundles of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;first time&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; question mistakes that repeatedly get made for various reasons, and although to us who've been around and think there is no excuse, It is arguable that the FAQ sections are not really straight and to the point with lots of room for error in conceptual understanding, and searching for questions about questions really doesn't result in anything informative, just closed questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this Question serves as an &lt;em&gt;attempt&lt;/em&gt; to rectify that, fill it up with answers that will help people not to make first-time-question mistakes and give them simple and understandable answers about how to ask questions, and then we can all add it to our favourites and throw the link to new users when they don't get around to reading this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe, when this question ( hopefully ) survives a week or so without being closed/down-voted into the abyss, somebody can rewrite this section  ( my question ) so its more friendly to the people we're sending here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If I am new to StackOverflow, what are the things I &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; consider before asking questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T13:39:14.813" Title="I'm new to StackOverflow, what should I consider before asking questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T13:41:22.207" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't ask questions about questions. Please. Don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know people often get tempted, but this site is not about that. If you seriously want to know, please, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;. Feedback and questions are &lt;strong&gt;always welcome&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is StackOverflow.com. We specialise in &lt;strong&gt;programming related&lt;/strong&gt; questions. Not questions about questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, try to refrain from asking&#xA;  questions about Stack Overflow itself&#xA;  unless you absolutely, positively have&#xA;  to. Most programmers don't come here&#xA;  to learn about the intricacies of&#xA;  Stack Overflow; they come here to get&#xA;  answers to their programming&#xA;  questions. Let's try to help them out&#xA;  by not cluttering up the system with&#xA;  navelgazing meta-discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T13:41:22.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T13:42:55.650" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T13:42:55.650" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T13:45:42.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking a question to which there is going to be an actual answer would be nice. Make it obvious. If I have to ask myself what you are actually trying to get an answer to, then your question is not well stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subjective questions do not fall in to this category obviously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139756" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T13:45:42.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T13:46:21.930" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you type in your question, and a list of similar questions pop up, do the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;STOP.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read all of the answers to the related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do not submit questions that are nearly identical to already-asked questions.  All we'll do is close the duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T13:46:21.930" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T13:51:09.237" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you read answers to your questions, remember the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answers are INDEPENDENT.  This is not a threaded discussion group.  There's no order to the answers.  Some folks look at them in vote order or time order.  No one will see your &quot;answer&quot; that responds to previous answer in the intended order except by accident.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not Quote For Truth or repeat a previous answer adding &quot;I agree&quot;.  Just vote them up, possibly with a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not clarify or amend your question with a answer.  Clarify or amend your question by clarifying or amending the Question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To gain reputation points, read and upvote for a while.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T13:51:09.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T13:58:19.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't blindly click &quot;community wiki&quot;. For normal questions, you don't need it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;community wiki&quot; is specifically for questions that may not have a finite answer, for example comical questions and meta-questions ( like this question )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally people are awarded points when people &quot;upvote&quot; them for their question or answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enabling &quot;Community Wiki&quot; however, stops this, which, being new, is probably  not what you want. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, If you read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll see this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 750      Edit community wiki posts &#xA;2000      Edit other people's posts&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who've been around long enough will be able to edit it anyway. Setting &quot;community wiki&quot; lowers the bar a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are community wiki posts on stack-overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T13:58:19.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T14:00:12.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read your question to yourself. Check your logic. Are you expecting computer to do what you yourself don't know how to do? Are you expecting logically impossible? Do you have a clear model as to how the computer works in your case? Please endeavor to solve the logical and computational model problems on your own. Then, when the question becomes a matter of simply knowing facts or analyzing tradeoffs, submit it to SO. That's what we're good at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T14:00:12.603" />
  <row Id="17502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T14:04:04.453" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;On PlzSendTehCodez&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post a question saying, &quot;I need code that allows me to &lt;em&gt;foo&lt;/em&gt; a &lt;em&gt;bar&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, you'll probably &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; get what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you'll get is people telling you &lt;strong&gt;where to look for the answer&lt;/strong&gt;.  We're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in the business of doing your work (home or otherwise) for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're having problems with a section of code (say sorting a tree), &lt;strong&gt;then post the code you're having a problem with&lt;/strong&gt;, and explain your problem succinctly.  As they say, &lt;em&gt;Programmers help those who help themselves&lt;/em&gt; (It works for 'Heaven' too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T14:04:04.437" />
  <row Id="17503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T14:07:59.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. My question is being ignored! It wasn't even a really hard one, what's going on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably you failed to make it attractive to your audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get an answer, people must enjoy reading your question, they must understand the circumstances that made your problem occur and they must have the feeling that they are not wasting their time on you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check this list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you use proper English? Is your question spell-checked, concise and understandable?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you make a fair effort to format your question, indent code correctly, and break text passages into separate paragraphs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does your tone match your situation? You are asking for help, you should sound like that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you include relevant code, version information etc.? You should.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the code you posted the shortest possible bit to demonstrate your problem? Make sure you are not misusing your readers as human debuggers by giving them copy-and-paste examples from your program, leaving them with the task to figure out where it goes wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you use good tags? Useful tags mention the general topic and/or the 2-3 core technologies of your question. Take the most common tags (you will see a usage count in the dropdown). Don't repeat yourself - for example, take either [xsl] or [xslt], but not both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the problem of general interest? Some questions are just too localized, so no-one can solve your problem. This is quite unusual, though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you answered &quot;No&quot; to any of this, you should revise your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T14:07:59.937" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T14:12:48.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Don't Duplicate&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asking the same question more than once won't get you anywhere. All you'll have is people answering the same question in different ways and some of those answers will be lost when the duplicate question gets closed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't ask a new question in response to a problem with somebodys answer, and &lt;strong&gt;especially&lt;/strong&gt; don't delete the original question, do as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469150/im-new-to-stackoverflow-what-should-i-consider-before-asking-questions#469185&quot;&gt;S. Lott&lt;/a&gt; says, amend the original question with your progress, and comment on the answer that's a problem to inform them the question has been updated. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T14:12:48.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T14:28:24.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rarely have to ask anything this way and am learning a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T14:28:24.170" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T14:29:00.813" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Will this question upset the windows fan boy resulting in me getting down-voted into oblivion??&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T14:29:00.813" />
  <row Id="17507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T14:47:36.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is what I want to ask really a question...without an answer somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T14:47:36.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17494" CreationDate="2009-01-22T16:01:57.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of us simply want to supply otherwise useless information for you to ponder until a little more accurate answer can be found&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:15:11.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-22T16:01:57.913" />
  <row Id="17509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17510" CreationDate="2009-08-25T19:46:21.320" Score="6" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/29586/what-rights-does-an-employer-have-to-the-employees-computer&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/29586/what-rights-does-an-employer-have-to-the-employees-computer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question above is what sparked the concern.  How should the community handle questions that deal with possible legal issues?  This one could also be a localized issue as laws will vary from country to country. We have a global user base on these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the answers so far are valid points and this question is a great discussion and concern to bring up.  But, none of the answers have any legal value and this might be an issue that needs greater answers and not simple discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T16:01:57.783" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T21:00:24.760" Title="How to handle questions that may have legal concerns?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;information&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17509" CreationDate="2009-08-25T19:48:54.963" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most typical response we will end up giving is the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;IANAL...but this is what I think...&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general all you can really give is your personal opinion or any knowledge you may know about yourself. Otherwise you should direct the user to speak to legal counsel and find out what their options are or what the law actually says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should also make sure that the question still fits within the realm of the site's intended usage. If it's a legal question that doesn't really have much to do with actual computers, then it should probably be closed as not computer related (or the matching reason for SF and SO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:48:54.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17509" CreationDate="2009-08-25T19:49:39.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the question is acceptable and related to the site its posted on, theres nothing much you need to do aside from pointing out that you are not a lawyer and that at best you can only give him rough advice and ideas. If he wants a definitive answer he needs to go see a real lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually people on SO just post IANAL (I am not a lawyer) before even beginning to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:49:39.253" />
  <row Id="17512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17509" CreationDate="2009-08-25T19:56:56.163" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will catch flack for this, but I feel that these questions are rarely right for S[OFU]. As already noted they almost always consist of pure opinion. That just screams subjectivity. For any consensus to come out they will &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; require protracted discussion as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T19:56:56.163" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17483" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:15:27.080" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The more you try to sell me something, the less i want to buy it. If i'm on SO, and I see an advertisement for a product that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; offer something useful to me, there are two things that will make me click it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A clear description of the problem it solves and that i happen to have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A registration-free trial download.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care how much time you think it'll save me. I'm not interested in over-the-top promises of adulation or compensation resulting from using your product. I'm not going to watch a video, or attend training, or read any whitepaper that isn't packed full of juicy technical details and light on the buzzwords. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I care nothing for endorsements, cited reviews, or famous existing customers. Unless or until I try and like your trial version, i don't ever want to hear from your sales rep - not via email, and certainly not via telephone. Actually, i'll be that much happier if i can just pretend your sales people have no means of contact with the outside world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have one chance to catch my eye, and one chance to appeal to &lt;em&gt;a real need&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;a working programmer&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;a job to do&lt;/em&gt;. Get cute, and you might do the former, but get too cute and you'll blow any chance at the latter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; using ad-blocking software, to better cultivate a healthy dislike for any company that fails to appeal directly to my immediate self-interest...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T20:15:27.080" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17517" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:17:36.543" Score="3" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Situation:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user asks a question.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user gets a few answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user accepts an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another answer is posted that is much better and gets a lot more up votes than the accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to &quot;request&quot; that the asker reviews the latest answers and considers accepting another answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T20:33:31.067" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T20:48:59.010" Title="What if my answer is better and the community agrees?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17516" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:18:43.157" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, the asker is the only person who can accept an answer. The votes do indicate what the community agrees with, but the asker is the overall say. You can comment below the question however to bring light to the highly upvoted answer. The user will then get notification of a new comment and might come back to review the question. It is their call because it is their problem and their choice on what solved it or what they liked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T20:48:59.010" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T20:48:59.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17516" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:20:53.323" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you answer the question at all, a message is generated in that user's &quot;Recent Events&quot; feed. So they are already informed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other side of the issue is a question of whether or not the community can really determine what answer it was that helped the OP the most, and the fact is that the &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt;. The community can vote up answers to indicate which answer they this is the most useful in &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt;. So if your answer is more generalizable, or more abstract, thereby making it applicable to more situations, then you answer will be highly voted up. It doesn't mean that you answer was 'more helpful to the OP'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt; mean '&lt;em&gt;useful in general&lt;/em&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accepted&lt;/strong&gt; means '&lt;em&gt;useful to me&lt;/em&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T20:20:53.323" />
  <row Id="17520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:23:40.183" Score="4" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I click to sort my questions or answers in my user profile page, it goes to the top of the page, and I need to scroll back down to see the questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In firefox I observe that when I sort, it automatically scrolls down to the proper location, which isn't happening in Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Version 10.10 beta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Build 1729&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Platform Win32&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;System Windows Vista Home Premium&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12649" LastEditorUserId="12649" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T10:29:45.733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T10:29:45.733" Title="Problem in Opera when sorting by (recent|views|newest|votes) in user profile page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17516" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:30:57.657" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also cases I've seen where the most popular answer was not the best answer and the OP had chosen the correct answer even though it had fewer votes.  I like the current system since it can balance somehow between both extremes.  The community can correct OP errors and the OP can correct community errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T20:30:57.657" />
  <row Id="17522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17532" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:31:54.427" Score="1" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;I entered my OpenID URL, but after I've logged into OpenID (at my provider's site) and approved of StackOverflow, I was redirected to StackOverflow and it used this as the OpenID URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;my entered URL&amp;gt;/index.html&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is correct, since the moment I change my site to have a frontpage other than 'index.html' I can't log into StackOverflow anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: the site - because of the webserver - shows the content of index.html, since there was no page specified. But that's no reason for stackoverflow to use '.../index.html' as OpenID URL. I know some other sites (and API's) that don't have this behavior and I think it's not really desirable to have this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be interesting to know that OpenID definition on the site is a delegate that refers to my real provider URL, so maybe it has something to do with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134769" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T21:47:56.503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:47:56.503" Title="OpenID URL, StackOverflow automatically adds '/index.html', what if 'index.html' changes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17522" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:35:08.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh, I'd guess it's &lt;em&gt;your site&lt;/em&gt; redirecting to &lt;code&gt;index.html&lt;/code&gt;... SO certainly doesn't mess with mine!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T20:35:08.257" />
  <row Id="17524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17516" CreationDate="2009-08-25T20:38:32.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in other answers, &quot;getting accepted&quot; and &quot;getting upvoted&quot; are different concepts. In case your answer outscores (by 2x) a good (at least 10 upvotes) accepted answers, you'll be awarded a gold &quot;Populist&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T20:38:32.367" />
  <row Id="17525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:03:23.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, randomize the order of the answers while the question is new. In addition, hide the up-vote/down-vote count as to not influence the other readers (i.e. lemming effect). Eventually transition the question back to normal view. The rate of activity on the question should determine the length before standard view is enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133328" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:03:23.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:09:48.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing you should fix if you want a broader audience to your software is the lack of support for IE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, just putting a message like &quot;use firefox or whatever&quot; doesn't fix the problem and come on, it's so silly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134775" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:09:48.547" />
  <row Id="17527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:16:21.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my response to #1. I think that will help curb this. Another solution is to increase downvote cost if you have already answered the question. If the user downvotes before answering, then either revert the user's downvotes for the question, apply the new &quot;cost&quot; of the downvotes to the user after answering the question. This could be a confirmation the user has to agree to after clicking &quot;submit&quot;. For example: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Answering this question will remove X reputation due to downvotes assigned to competing answers. Continue?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133328" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T09:20:29.337" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T09:20:29.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:19:04.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Grab the StackOverflow data dump and setup a site using the data to see how it performs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:19:04.487" />
  <row Id="17529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13810" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:26:52.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a script that uses Groovy and Hibernate to at least in theory, import the data dump into any database Hibernate supports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have gotten it to work with MySQL and PostgreSQL but it doesn’t work on HSQLDB, those are the only three I’ve tested it on. The code isn’t optimized and takes about an hour to import all five files, but I plan on improving it when I get a chance. The Git repository can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/jareds/Stack-Overflow-data-dump-importer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;, I hope it's useful to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T14:26:11.757" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:26:11.757" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17544" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:27:33.487" Score="6" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone done looked at the statistical correlation between a person's reputation and their use of their actual name on SO vs. use of a &quot;handle&quot; or nickname?  I sometimes see users with obvious &quot;developer&quot; nicknames, but rarely (never?) do they seem to be high reputation users.  A quick scan of the first few pages of users on SO shows that the vast majority use their name or part of their name for their SO identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It made me curious if there is some statistical correlation between the use of an actual name and a person's reputation.  Not curious enough, mind you, to do calculate it myself, just curious enough to see if anyone else had already looked at the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  I'm a bit of a statistics nerd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:54:40.360" Title="Correlation between reputation and use of actual name on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17522" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:47:39.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your website's root url is returning a &lt;code&gt;Content-Location&lt;/code&gt; header:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Content-Location: &lt;a href=&quot;http://yoursite/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://yoursite/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;w3.org http/1.1 protocol&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The value of Content-Location also defines the base URI for the entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if that header is really needed for your root - try removing it and we can fix your OpenID on the sites!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:47:39.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17530" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:52:41.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;glances at the first page of users on SO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uh... Nope, no nicknames there. Wait, except for you. You know, I've always been curious, is a fosson a kind of snack to eat while one watches TV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T00:24:47.547" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:24:47.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:51:15.120" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you mark the same tags as both &lt;code&gt;Interesting&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Ignored&lt;/code&gt;? If you can, what is the resulting appearance of such a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T22:37:44.343" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:37:44.343" Title="It is possible to mark the same tag as &quot;Interesting&quot; and &quot;Ignored&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17534" CreationDate="2009-08-25T21:52:22.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ignored interesting post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T21:54:38.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17534" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:05:18.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can. If this is done and you have &quot;hide ignored&quot; checked in your preferences, tags with a tag you are both favoriting and ignoring will be hidden. If &quot;hide ignored&quot; is not checked, they will be both highlighted and faded (in the colors as appropriate for the site you are on). These are the same behaviors that are seen on a post where one tag is favorited and another is ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlighting, fading and hiding of questions is all done client-side and the routine for each is ignorant of the others. I believe this is how the behavior should work. It is the responsibility of the end user to appropriately select and manage their &lt;code&gt;interesting&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;ignored&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T22:14:02.347" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:14:02.347" />
  <row Id="17537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:13:50.163" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Jeff can chat to Seth Godin on the phone? I mean, I always like hearing stuff about marketing and the software business that makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21406" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:13:50.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T22:13:50.163" />
  <row Id="17538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18376" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:23:57.630" Score="11" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the infamous &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17204/6-simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation-fast&quot;&gt;6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some real bad advice was dished out in #2 &lt;em&gt;Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that really annoyed me is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you can’t be the first to answer,&#xA;  it may help you to temporarily&#xA;  down-vote the top answer so that&#xA;  people will see yours first. Then you&#xA;  can cancel it when you’ve gained the&#xA;  advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This behavior really annoys me, it is anti-community. It's saying, its OK to down vote something that is correct, just so you can gain an advantage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should this behavior be tolerated? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it vote fraud? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the system have built in measures to protect against it? What?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T23:54:22.573" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:54:22.573" Title="What should be done to people who downvote strategically?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;social-manipulation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="17539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17538" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:26:57.580" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's entirely vote fraud, and should be treated as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say the system nullify two or more downvotes on answers to a question you've answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I say we kill them with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:26:57.580" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17538" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:27:10.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Agreed!&lt;/strong&gt;  I've suggested before that your down votes for threads in which you have an active post may need to get picked up by the odd voting pattern script.  BUT, it is extremely difficult to tell if someone voted a thread down for strategic reasons or a valid reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very slippery slope and one probably better left untouched at the end of the day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T22:47:10.097" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:47:10.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18347" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:35:59.807" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added and removed some tags today on my meta account while testing something (I previously had no tags marked as interesting). Now, however, under interesting tags I see a blank box (same color as an interesting tag would be), followed by the 'x' button to remove it. The tool tip for the &quot;tag&quot; says &quot;see all questions tagged ''&quot;. I click the 'x' to remove the tag (or remove it from my preferences), but as soon as I load a page displaying the interesting tags, the blank one is back again. I have tried this and observed the same behavior on SU and SO. Additionally, on SO and meta I have the same problem with Ignored Tags. I did not try this with Ignored Tags on SU, but I have never had an ignored tag on SU, and do not see the blank box. On SF, I have never had an Interesting or Ignored tag and do not see the empty boxes. I have seen the behavior described above using both Chrome 2.0.172.39 and 2.0.172.43 and IE 8.0.6001.18702.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img196.yfrog.com/img196/3840/interestingbug.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T08:18:11.697" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T08:18:11.697" Title="Cannot get rid of empty Interesting Tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17530" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:36:44.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Looks at first page of SO users...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see... cletus, Pax, litb, Bill the Lizard, jalf, Tomalak, Gumbo, chaos, Quassnoi... some of those may be &lt;em&gt;based&lt;/em&gt; on their actual names, but it's hard to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally, a person who uses their actual name may be more familiar to other users (who may know them from their blogs or activity on other sites). This familiarity &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; get them more votes, but it's hard to say. I'd be interested in seeing the statistics as well, but determining what's a &quot;real&quot; name is a difficulty to overcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:36:44.190" />
  <row Id="17544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17530" CreationDate="2009-08-25T22:49:16.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, here's a quick and dirty stab at it... Let's assume that &lt;em&gt;actual names&lt;/em&gt; generally have at least one space in them (&lt;code&gt;firstname lastname&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;first m last&lt;/code&gt;, etc.) while nicknames generally do not (&lt;code&gt;PAX&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;tvanfosson&lt;/code&gt;, etc.):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=select%20avg%28reputation%29%20from%20users%20where%20reputation%20%3E%201%20and%20locate%28%27%20%27,%20displayname%29%20=%200&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Average reputation of users without a space in their names: &lt;strong&gt;277.9639&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=select%20avg%28reputation%29%20from%20users%20where%20reputation%20%3E%201%20and%20locate%28%27%20%27,%20displayname%29%20%3E%200&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Average reputation of users &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; a space in their names: &lt;strong&gt;525.3974&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that doesn't really give you the whole picture either; there are far more users without spaces than there are with them. If i exclude the top-ranked 100 users from both camps and average the reputation of the next 500, i get &lt;strong&gt;4655&lt;/strong&gt; vs &lt;strong&gt;4273&lt;/strong&gt;, with space-free users now coming out ahead (sorry, not much good with SQL, couldn't figure out how to pull this in a single query). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T22:49:16.660" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17538" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:01:31.813" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the &lt;em&gt;voting&lt;/em&gt; aspect is as big of an issue as some here are making it sound. You only get one vote - up or down - on any one answer, so there's a real hard limit to how much you can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually played with this idea back when the site was starting out and there was a much bigger window for retracting down-votes... and in my experience, it really doesn't work &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; on real, technical questions unless you're duking it out with someone else who posted essentially the same answer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; neither one of you edit your answers. At that point, whoever sorts first has the edge on incoming votes, so if you down-vote them you can get that edge and the associated votes. Of course, if they spend their time editing and improving their answer, you just end up looking pathetic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On more subjective questions, you might get a bit more mileage out of it. Since there's no objective &quot;right&quot; answer, down-voting your way up the list can put your answer in the path of sympathetic eyes without any extra effort required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I don't see the point. If you're scraping rep from populist answers on subjective questions, you're already involved in a much bigger &quot;rep scam&quot; than any of these little vote games. And if you're answering technical questions, rest assured that it'll catch up with you eventually...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... The comment aspect is something else. I assume he's talking about bad-mouthing other people's answers; I haven't actually seen much, if any, of this, so I won't try to speculate further on its efficacy other than to suggest that &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt;, sticking to Real Questions is probably a good way to avoid it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T23:28:08.080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:28:08.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17548" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:08:51.097" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why if I have answered a captcha two or three times does the system continue to tell me that it is probable that I am a robot when I modify an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T23:14:31.367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:14:31.367" Title="Deactivate the captcha after correctly answering it" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17547" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:13:07.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree the captcha is a PITA, but the only answer you will get is that it will never be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your account could be compromised at any time after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:13:07.033" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17550" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:35:58.967" Score="0" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have posted a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get an up vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone answers my question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I upvote the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I delete the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens to the votes and the reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-25T23:42:29.580" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:42:29.580" Title="What happens to the votes and the reputation on a question and answer upon deletion by the OP?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17549" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:40:34.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;During a recalc, all reputation/votes should be lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:40:34.700" />
  <row Id="17551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17538" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:41:55.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People who need to game the system to get a few extra up-votes on a whose-link-is-better thread are not going to get a high rep anyway.  You might see a short term bump this way, but the only way to consistently stay ahead (or even) with rep inflation is to make solid contributions to the community over time.  (There are some aberrations to this as noted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;, but I think for the most part, it holds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:41:55.353" />
  <row Id="17552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52585" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:42:50.560" Score="53" ViewCount="587" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been quite surprised to click on a highly ranked Google result for a Stack Overflow question just to end up on the search page, because the page doesn't exist anymore. I figured it might have been migrated to meta, and so it did. Trying a few others yielded similar results, so to illustrate the point I might as well pick a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;random example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly the offered Google search might usually guide to the new location, but this could take time for lesser questions, plus requires more precious clicks of mine anyway. Smaller sites would also have to worry about SEO here, but this might be mostly irrelevant for Stack Overflow given its excellent base score in this arena. A more serious problem of course are broken links elsewhere, be it on web pages or with user favorites and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that there had been some related discussions regarding whether to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16437/feature-request-when-merging-questions-leave-the-duplicate-one-as-a-placeholder&quot;&gt;keep stub pages for merges and duplicates&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6439/delete-migrated-questions&quot;&gt;delete migrated questions&lt;/a&gt; but wasn't aware that the latter has just been implemented in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still it puzzles me that this extremely useful functionality has been omitted - providing a proper HTTP response status code 301 (Moved Permanently) should be easy, shouldn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm marking this as a bug rather than a feature request, because it's actually breaking the web: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cool URIs don't change&lt;/a&gt; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45773" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T23:49:58.573" LastActivityDate="2010-06-05T04:37:17.143" Title="Why do migrated questions lack redirection via HTTP response status code 301 (Moved Permanently)?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="17553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:45:27.810" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following on from what VonC said.  I see a lot of occasional users who might accept an answer, but don't have the 15 rep required for an upvote.  Is this a special case where SO could apply the upvote when the answer is accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:45:27.810" />
  <row Id="17554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:47:55.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may surprise you, it doesn't matter who's in the podcast, where it's made, what it's about, &lt;strong&gt;so long as it is made at regularly scheduled intervals&lt;/strong&gt;. Granted it's polite to start a less ordinary podcast with a comment that says, &quot;this week Joel is in france, so we have a ventriloquist with a dummy of Joel as a guest&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make a podcast. Un ordinary ones may be short. They may even be a edited version of out-takes. Anything....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:47:55.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-25T23:47:55.403" />
  <row Id="17555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:49:45.993" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this because of the following question on SU:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/29721/whats-the-easiest-to-use-find-a-time-to-schedule-meeting-tool-youve-used&quot;&gt;What’s the easiest to use ‘find a time to schedule meeting’ tool you’ve used?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was originally posted without being CW which would have been fair enough if the OP didn't plan on answering the question 5 times. I commented, probably wrongly, saying that it should be CW if the OP was going to answer 5 times. Really the answers should just have been made CW allowing others to take rep from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is irrelevant to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was actually a clever little scheme to poll your own question like that to get opinions on what people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this ok? I liked it but it should be 100% mandatory for the answers to be CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something can be implemented to &quot;auto-wiki&quot; several answers made in quick succession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Based on the answers given, maybe this would be better viewed as a feature request. It seems OK that a question be asked and answered like this; the answers made by the OP &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to be CW'd to prevent gaming though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132862" LastEditorUserId="132862" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T00:25:54.427" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:54.427" Title="Answering your own question multiple times" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="17557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17608" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:55:13.843" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to report a delay on the rendering of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems the culprit is ads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today ( aug 25 ) I have had some delays. The status bar says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Waiting for ads.stackoverflow.com&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have Firefox 3.5 on OSX 10.5.7  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is not too much, ( just  about 2 seconds ) but I see the rest of the page is there already just waiting for the ads to be fetched. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T01:42:39.637" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T16:50:14.860" Title="ads.stackoverflow.com delaying the page rendering" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;performance&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17555" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:56:19.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing wrong with it, per se. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I won't touch them if they are not CW (question and answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one you linked looks too much like gaming the system for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:56:19.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17555" CreationDate="2009-08-25T23:56:27.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the question/answers are CW, I see no harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that people are less likely to answer the question, and that most questions were this will be applicable are likely not appropriate for a Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-25T23:56:27.930" />
  <row Id="17563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17552" CreationDate="2009-08-26T00:12:01.660" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a disturbing lack of redirects on SO, considering how often stuff gets moved around between sites (or merged within a single site...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why. Maybe something deep in the bowels of SO, some unfortunate design decision made early on and now rendered all but immutable by the layers of code built upon it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it sure would be nice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:12:01.660" />
  <row Id="17564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17555" CreationDate="2009-08-26T00:15:50.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a fine technique, if you really must do a poll. Back when it took only a single vote to close a question, I was of the opinion that a Proper Poll on SO would be one where the author posted the questions, all answers, and then close it to prevent any other answers from being added. Sadly, this is quite difficult to accomplish these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, all answers should be marked Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:15:50.067" />
  <row Id="17565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-03T16:56:40.677" Score="11" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that marginally appropriate questions seem to generate a lot of reputation for the poster.  For example, Shawn's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/79884/best-place-to-meet-female-programmers-for-romance&quot;&gt;Best place to meet female programmers&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, while being at -6 at the time of this post, has actually generated 206 rep points &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26?sort=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;(+280 -74)&lt;/a&gt; for him. There are many other examples - often having to do with &quot;What's your favorite X?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPD&lt;/strong&gt;: jop posted a link in the comments to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/21131&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice entry which talks about having subjective answers receive less reputation&lt;/a&gt;.  this will probably help, but only in cases where there are many comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1533" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:43.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T14:00:33.957" Title="Why are marginally appropriate questions such a good source of reputation and what can be done about it?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;off-topic&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17565" CreationDate="2008-10-03T16:59:23.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should let the forum speak.  if you don't like them, vote them down.  I think anything else would be in danger of being heavy handed and legislative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:43.737" />
  <row Id="17567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17565" CreationDate="2008-10-03T16:59:59.017" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you seriously have nothing better to worry about then somebody getting rep points for a question that you don't like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131050" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:43.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17565" CreationDate="2008-10-03T17:02:58.903" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The obvious answer is that for askers, the system rewards popularity, IE generating a lot of discussion. This is essentially the dog house problem (Aha! Looks like I was thinking of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bike Shed Problem!&lt;/a&gt;): Propose a design for a nuclear reactor, nobody will question you. Propose a design for a doghouse and everyone will want to chime in with their own doghouse design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions that generate the most discussion are the ones with the easiest (or just plain subjective) answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:43.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17565" CreationDate="2008-10-03T17:06:05.230" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For starters, it'd help if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; didn't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:43.737" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17565" CreationDate="2008-10-03T17:10:25.173" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have gained 12 rep from this less-than-marginally-appropriate question so far...&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;32 now.&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;9 upvotes, 6 down, 78 rep gained for the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131281" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:43.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17565" CreationDate="2008-10-03T17:17:34.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New suggestion on uservoice: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/32769&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Net negative votes should not result in net positive rep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:25:43.737" />
  <row Id="17575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17530" CreationDate="2009-08-26T00:28:04.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the consistency of the avatar makes a difference too.  It's a bit jarring when someone well known changes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:28:04.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="824" CreationDate="2009-08-26T00:34:12.063" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could query the database:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T01:14:05.627" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T01:14:05.627" />
  <row Id="17577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="824" CreationDate="2009-08-26T00:41:10.090" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that you could probably work up a query with some SQL-fu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is usually pretty easy to work with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://data.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/10142/who-favorited-me?UserId=5640&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;users who've marked my questions as favorites on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-12T14:08:52.747" LastActivityDate="2011-06-12T14:08:52.747" />
  <row Id="17578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17530" CreationDate="2009-08-26T00:49:08.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they have read this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to become a hacker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The problem with screen names or handles deserves some amplification. Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. Hackers don't do this; they're proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. So if you have a handle, drop it. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T00:54:40.360" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T00:54:40.360" />
  <row Id="17579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T01:54:47.903" Score="37" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;As my friends and family have discovered to my chagrin, I'm pretty good at solving general computer problems. When I turn to Super User for help solving a problem of my own, therefore, it usually means I've ruled out all the obvious possible solutions as well as several of the more non-intuitive ones. In short, any question I ask is likely to be hard, and may not even be answerable: as complex as computers are, there's a halfway decent chance that the problem I'm having is due to a confluence of factors unique to my system that I couldn't even begin to guess at--strange registry entries, a hardware component with an otherwise-undetectable flaw, the phases of the moon, etc. So a lot of the time, the chance that someone else is going to be able to answer my question correctly may be pretty slim. Fine. I accept that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's not cool is that by asking such questions, I get a low accept rate that I have to wear as a scarlet letter and which may discourage people from even trying to help me at all. I just accepted an answer that, while informative and well-written, isn't really what I was looking for, and I probably won't implement it. Why? Because my accept rate is appallingly low and I have to raise it if I want anyone to answer my questions in the future. Surely this isn't the kind of behavior we want to incentivize?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T15:37:07.133" Title="Showing the accept rate discourages asking hard questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="17580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17483" CreationDate="2009-08-26T01:58:08.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question, and there have been some solid answers thus far! Although I am familiar with the specifics of your SO campaign (and would be happy to discuss 1-on-1), here are some general things to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advertising is a numbers game. Impressions are purchased in the 100's of thousands and get a fraction of a percent of clicks. Of those clicks, only a fraction of the visitors to your site will download your trial and only a fraction of &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; people will buy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding banner advertisements,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Almost all advertising is passively consumed; the only reason people pay attention is because the Most Prominent Thing catches their periphery and entices them to spend a second to glance over&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People will visually follow the MPT to the second MPT, then to the third, etc; but, they won’t go to the Second or Third if they weren’t impressed by the first&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the First and Second MPT are not nearby, then confusion breaks out and some people will go the First and others to the Second&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of this occurs unconsciously within a fractions of a second&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think it'll help the discussion to show some of the banner creatives that ran as a part of your campaign. Hope you don't mind me sharing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/1/1%5FStackOverflow-220x250-e-Course-Static-Final.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/1/StackOverflow-220x250-e-Course-Static-new-girl.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/1/StackOverflow-220x250-e-Course-Static-new.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/1/StackOverflow-220x250-Static-new-girl-SDK-short.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/1/StackOverflow-220x250-Static-new-girl-SDK-asp-net.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts from anyone else on the creatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T01:58:08.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T02:01:18.547" Score="5" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted about problems with ASP.NET and IIS in Stack Overflow thinking it was a program related problem but it became evident that it was probably ServerFault material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several others (2) closed it with the option to move it to SF but i was frustrated by the fact that as the owner i had no way to move it myself and could only vote and wait for 2 others (5 total) to move it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone think it would be a good idea for the owner of a question to have more &quot;pull&quot; to move a question than others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps put a softy of it can only be moved once to discourage ping pong with questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130857" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T02:09:59.623" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T02:26:13.840" Title="Let me vote to move my own questions to a different site (SO | SU | SF)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;&lt;move&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-08-26T02:03:25.733" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just don't accept an answer if it doesn't solve your problem. 70% and up is considered green good. You don't have to shoot for 100%. Just stay out of the red and you'll be sweet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People answering will also be able to see the answers you've chosen on previous questions and the quality or how it met your needs. If it doesn't, that could be stopping them from taking you seriously if you go on just accepting anything just for a high accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/1531/phenry&quot;&gt;on SU you only have 3 questions to your name&lt;/a&gt;, in which case the accept rate won't show as yet for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refer to the blog on, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New Question Asker Features&lt;/a&gt; for the questions that are counted toward your accept rate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There must be at least &lt;strong&gt;four&lt;/strong&gt; eligible questions as determined by the above rules, otherwise the statistic will not appear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T02:03:25.733" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-08-26T02:07:22.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strictly speaking, the acceptance rate isn't primarily an incentive for question askers, but a piece of information for answerers.  The incentive function is secondary, and the intended incentive is for question askers to take the time to properly accept the most useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It so happens that sometimes the most useful answer isn't terribly useful.  Whether or not an &quot;informative and well-written&quot; answer is the most useful response to other people with the same question is difficult to judge.  The cases where it is not are probably a very small minority compared with the problem this system addresses directly:  Question askers who ask run-of-the-mill questions which are answered in good faith, correctly and concisely, who nonetheless fail to accept those answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This byproduct incentive of tough questions having &quot;inappropriate&quot; accepted answers is &lt;strong&gt;probably an edge case&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T02:07:22.500" />
  <row Id="17585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17581" CreationDate="2009-08-26T02:10:43.617" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just flag for moderator attention and ask that they move it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm... maybe not an exact duplicate, but you might want to read: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5752/migrate-my-questions&quot;&gt;Migrate my questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T02:26:13.840" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T02:26:13.840" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-08-26T02:12:29.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are asking well though out questions and make it known in the question that you have tried the obvious (you don't have to state everything you've tried but make it clear this is not a newbie asking a silly question) then you will get two kinds of answers: trolls (inevitable) and well thought out and (hopefully) helpful answers from people with the right knowledge and who are trying to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all you get is trolls then don't accept an answer.  Don't worry about your acceptance rate, worry about the quality of your questions and you will get good answers if they exist.  Then you can accept them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T02:55:53.730" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T02:55:53.730" />
  <row Id="17588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17604" CreationDate="2009-08-26T03:17:17.530" Score="4" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kinda like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3403/rss-feed-of-your-interesting-tags&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to see a feature where I get a periodic email (daily for instance) with any new questions with tags from my Interesting Tags group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be selectable at the tag level because we'd all drown in noise if we got emailled about every question tagged &quot;JonSkeet&quot; but for those lower-throughput tags we're interested in it can be easy not to notice the question on the homepage and annoying to be always clicking through the tags looking for anything interesting.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have the ability to be updated on questions we ask and answer so theoretically this is an extension of that concept, with the addition of the ability to specify it per tag.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using existing RSS capabilities has been suggested (@Randell).  Of course this provides you with the basic information but some things we can do with an email are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;have it find you wherever you happened to be logged in (for those of us using webmail)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;receive notifications only about new questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;have a single email summarise activity across numerous tags (lots of tags showing up in my RSS reader right now)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, yes I know if you're using a web-based RSS reader that it too will follow you wherever you're logged in but I (at least) tend to be more interested in my email.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there seems to be some RSS love going here.  Fair enough - RSS is a useful tool and I have gone about adding things to my RSS reader, but I still think that an email waiting in my inbox each morning with a brief summary (digest as @Cometbill puts it) of the new stuff would be a useful feature.  &lt;strong&gt;I do emphasise this would be best suited to low-throughput tags.  Also any real-time or high frequency feature would probably produce enough email to warp the fabric of space time but 1 per day per user wouldn't&lt;/strong&gt;.  Tags like C# or Java would probably not be suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133319" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-16T17:06:24.610" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T17:06:40.243" Title="email me when someone tags a question with one of my interesting tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17588" CreationDate="2009-08-26T03:31:56.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always use the tag feeds accessible through &lt;code&gt;http://&amp;lt;SO Trilogy site&amp;gt;/questions/tagged/&amp;lt;tag&amp;gt;.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T03:31:56.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T03:38:36.520" Score="10" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has begun! &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/58780/set-windows-pagefile-size-in-answer-file&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/58780/&lt;/a&gt; - a commenter has chastised an OP for having a low acceptance rate (even though the OPs status does not qualify them for having their acceptance rate on the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we deal with people who chastise others for low acceptance? Especially given that there are plenty of reasons for non-acceptance of answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an OK practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T18:00:33.737" Title="Chastising users for non-acceptance" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17595" CreationDate="2009-08-26T03:40:49.340" Score="7" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post refers to the human verification image from superuser.com &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/captcha&quot;&gt;which can be found here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just typed out the 0 and 1's from the new picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I may of missed a few as it was not 100% clear on some of the creases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, It was not divisible by 8, so I added a few 0's to the end, I came up with -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;00100110011000010110110101110000001110110010011000100011001100010011100000110111001110110010011001110001011101010110111101110100001110110010011000100011001100010011011100111001001110110110101100111101001101000110001001101100001001100010001100110001001110000011100000111011001001100010001100110001001101110011011100111011001001100010001100110001001101110011010000111011001011100001011000100110001000110011001000110001001101110011101100100110001000110011000100110110001100110011101100010000&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when I translated it, I came up with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;amp;&amp;amp;#187;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;#179;k=4bl&amp;amp;#188;&amp;amp;#177;&amp;amp;#174;.&amp;amp;#217;&amp;amp;#163;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am probably wrong (especially as I am half sleep, 4:30AM and asking a stupid question!), but I think I have come across something similar years ago when working with encoded JavaScript... just off by a few characters in a few places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, Is it just random and I wasted my time (but had 5 mins of fun) looking in to this, or is it a message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-02T20:25:51.477" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T20:25:51.477" Title="Does the picture of the robots show a message?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;robots&gt;&lt;re-captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17590" CreationDate="2009-08-26T03:54:40.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the user upvotes an answer they get a notice about accepting an answer. Personally I think that's sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure you can fully attribute that comment to the approval rate change but it is obviously a concern. For the sake of completeness I'll quote the comment in question before it disappears:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You really should &lt;strong&gt;accept&lt;/strong&gt; an answer&#xA;  for previous questions you've asked. –&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/10843/izzy&quot;&gt;Izzy&lt;/a&gt; 40 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment was left on the user's third question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure the comment was necessary or justified but I don't think it's overly harsh either. Until we see a problem I don't think we should be jumping the gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T03:54:40.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17590" CreationDate="2009-08-26T03:57:15.903" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this an OK practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't recommend it outside of severe cases. But since you didn't leave the comment, I don't think you should waste any thought on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should we deal with people who chastise others for low acceptance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it really bothers you, then flag it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T03:58:51.393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T03:58:51.393" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="17595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17591" CreationDate="2009-08-26T04:20:26.077" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I transcribed from the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;001001101011101100100010101&#xA;10011011010110011110100110100&#xA;01100010011101100101&#xA;1110010110001101&#xA;0111000101110000101101&#xA;101100110100011001&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;0010 0110 1011 1011 0010 0010 1011&#xA;0011 0110 1011 0011 1101 0011 0100&#xA;0110 0010 0111 0110 0101&#xA;1110 0101 1000 1101&#xA;0111 0001 0111 0000 1011 0110&#xA;1100 1101 0001 1001&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;26bb22b&#xA;36b3d34&#xA;62765&#xA;e58d&#xA;7170b6&#xA;cd19&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;26 bb 22 b3 6b 3d 34 62 76&#xA;5e 58 d7 17 0b 6c d1 90&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&amp;»&quot;³k=4bv^X×lÑ&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is just some random data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T04:20:26.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17591" CreationDate="2009-08-26T04:27:18.527" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The picture is that of a homeless robot (really a robot protester), which was &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/comedy/Homeless%5FRobot%5FPIC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;posted to digg&lt;/a&gt; awhile back. The message itself is gibberish, quite to the detest of diggers everywhere.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T04:27:18.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17590" CreationDate="2009-08-26T04:29:53.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users not accepting answers, is an issue that I believe Jeff and co. are attempting to address. However, I do not believe this makes it appropriate for people to encourage them in this manner. Things that may seems like gentle suggestions to an experience user can come off as pushy and/or condescending to a new user. The SO system has been designed and refined in many ways to encourage user's to accept answer; let the system handle it. If you find a comment (or question/answer) offensive, you are welcome and encouraged to flag it for a moderator. In time a moderator will see the notification and address the situation, if they feel it appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I wouldn't expect any of these to happen in this case, others systems in place for dealing with inappropriate behavior include, if a user gets flagged too many times, they will be docked 100 points, warnings from Jeff and co., the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt; and perhaps banishment if deemed necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, in defense of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/16691/sejong&quot;&gt;asker&lt;/a&gt; here (and note I suspect I wouldn't know a single answer on SF), only two answers to one of their three questions has any upvotes; so this person is certainly no where near the worst offender, if an offender at all of not accepting answers when they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T05:02:51.577" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T05:02:51.577" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17590" CreationDate="2009-08-26T04:38:22.950" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was not a chastisement, but a suggestion.  Personally I think you've read way too much into my original response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133203" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T04:38:22.950" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-08-26T05:02:16.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you have to remember when you answer a question is that there are lots of reasons why people accept particular answers including, but not limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Longest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shortest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lower rep among eligible answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Higher rep among eligible answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a code sample&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a link, image or other formatting to make it stand out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A random comment that peaks the OP's interest or just happens to be the real problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't count on getting the accepted answer even if you're right and first. Of course, that gives you a greater probability but you never know what motivates the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best approach is simply to answer the question as best you can and move on. You'll get some accepted answers you deserve, you'll get some you don't and you'll miss out on some that you (think you) deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go in with the attitude that you need to get the accepted answer, it's simply a recipe for disappointment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T05:02:16.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17590" CreationDate="2009-08-26T05:47:20.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is that age-old wisdom &quot;it depends&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone has a low acceptance rate, then I'd be looking at their questions and seeing whether it's typical of them, or whether it's more about the questions they're asking (ie, they ask questions that aren't getting good answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T06:39:52.830" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T06:39:52.830" />
  <row Id="17601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17552" CreationDate="2009-08-26T05:50:28.063" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose the problem is that a deleted page isn't deleted: Users with 10k rep or more get the actual deleted question, not the &quot;Ooops&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also have an extra chat thread right next to it where they make fun of all the prolos, and there's booze, cigars, and waffles. That's what I've heard, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I can't think of a reason not to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer &quot;&lt;code&gt;301 Moved&lt;/code&gt;&quot; if the user has &amp;lt; 10k rep or isn't registered at all,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer &quot;&lt;code&gt;200 Have a beer&lt;/code&gt;&quot; if the user has &gt;= 10k rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is what I propose. In the first case, we might need an additional message (Wikipedia style)---something like &quot;The question you're looking for has been migrated here from Stack Overflow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T05:50:28.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17588" CreationDate="2009-08-26T06:01:36.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Potentially that's vast amounts of email SO will have to send out, and it's going to be a problem for someone who (quite reasonably) tags C# or Java or similar high level tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is exactly the kind of problem RSS was designed to solve, i.e. I think we already have the right tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T06:01:36.480" />
  <row Id="17603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17077" CreationDate="2009-08-26T06:33:14.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ok, we now auto-encode any colons at string position 7 or higher, that are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; followed by 2 or more numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T01:30:42.213" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:30:42.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17588" CreationDate="2009-08-26T06:36:48.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not try a rrs2email service like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xfruits.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xFruits&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://rss2pdf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rss2pdf&lt;/a&gt;. They let you aggregate different feeds into one too before mailing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T06:36:48.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6662" CreationDate="2009-08-26T07:00:28.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Display answers with the same vote total in random order. Example, if there are 30 answers with a score of 0 you may not read through all of them so give each one a chance to appear at the top of the list of '0' answers. That way the system isn't arbitrarily pushing a low-score over a higher-scoring answer but newer answers don't languish at the end of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now sort answers of the same score, randomly, per this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:00:28.437" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17588" CreationDate="2009-08-26T07:00:54.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A daily digest of those tags might be interesting, with the question header, and a count of how many replies were recewived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not quite as interactive as JRE wanted, but possibly useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I'd like to see questions on SOME of that tags I marked as interesting. Only some though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131388" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:00:54.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17557" CreationDate="2009-08-26T07:11:52.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might be intermittent? Update here if it happens again and is repeatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:11:52.783" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="17609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5078" CreationDate="2009-08-26T07:33:03.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/apps.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Growl for windows&lt;/a&gt; can notify the user when new RSS messages are received. Mac version exists too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134523" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T07:33:03.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17611" CreationDate="2009-08-26T07:34:24.390" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reference what kind of keyboard shortcuts are available in the WMD editor control? I can't find anything on neither Stackoverflow itself (FAQ or editor help on right), nor on the WMD web site :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Ctrl-K marks a selected block as &quot;code&quot; - what else is available, and how can I (and any other keyboard fanatic on the Stackoverflow-trilogy-of-four sites) find out about that??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T09:16:59.503" Title="Reference for keyboard shortcuts in WMD editor?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17610" CreationDate="2009-08-26T07:53:27.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just hold your mouse over the icons, and the tooltip will show you the shortcut key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6402/what-are-the-most-useful-hotkeys-tips-in-the-wmd-editor&quot;&gt;What are the most useful hotkeys/tips in the WMD editor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T09:16:59.503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T09:16:59.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T07:57:44.157" Score="20" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sent this to team@stackoverflow.com and they felt it would be a good point of discussion and suggested I post it here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Votes and flames on StackOverflow&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, I want to say that the site is seriously the best thing I've found online this year. It really could be (if it's not already) the wikipedia of support forums. I'm glad to finally find a support forum that actually feels like a real group with real people, not simply a bunch of 15 year-olds saying things like &quot;Um, by PC do you mean Windows, guahhhh!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, that sort of attitude is on the rise on the site, and that makes me really upset and nervous that the honeymoon may be coming to an end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair, even the condescension sounds more mature or at least more intelligent than that found at most forums. But nevertheless it still reeks of intimidation and condescension, both of which are unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who works at a help desk, I very often find myself slipping up and saying things like &quot;I'm sorry, do you mean you want me to help you set up your wireless? You don't really &lt;em&gt;install&lt;/em&gt; the internet onto your computer.&quot; I am not a saint but I do know that the worst cases are those where the user does not participate and doesn't want to help themselves. And when I lash out, I'm only making it harder on myself and any other tech support consultant that inherits the disconnect that I have reinforced by being snide to someone who just wanted help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one thing to need more information, or to feel frustrated that someone's question is vague, doesn't use the right terminology, or is simply lazy. But it's another thing to burn that user. The site is not open. They took the time to sign up (even if that is quite easy thanks to OpenID), and they probably skipped over half a dozen other sites and opted for SO because it is easy to search, easy on the eyes, and actually has intelligent and informed answers. Their reward for being brave enough to admit they need help should not be &quot;Surprise, we're assholes, too!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone asked a question about how to &quot;Send letters with PHP to and from Gmail&quot; or something along those lines. Everyone had to take a shot at his use of the term &quot;letters&quot; instead of &quot;emails&quot;. English is not everyone's first language, especially when it comes to math and science. I personally found it confusing but also fairly charming that he came up with &quot;letters&quot;. Granted, letters can also refer to &quot;alphanumeric characters&quot; but it took me all of 5 seconds to take a guess at what the intention was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only did he get a highly melodramatic comment that led to a respone comment from the user with a frowny emoticon, he also got a &quot;the answer is to type gmail php into the search box in the corner&quot;. Not to mention other smartass comments in other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work in IT, and we love to bust each others chops. We're geeks and we're boys (mostly) and it's all in good fun. But when there isn't a face to the screenanme, and it's a stranger, and it's someone's first time asking a question, it's not always in good fun. I've seen some fun jabs on SO on occasion, but I'm starting to see way more frustration and hostility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subject line mentions votes and flames because I've taken to voting down answers and comments I think are negative in any or all of the above-mentioned ways. And a vote down results in a suggestion box of &quot;down votes should include comments&quot;.  Any time I've voted something down with a follow up comment, I've gotten burned. I go down a point. Voting down with a comment, it seems, is effectively voting myself down. The only thing worse I can imagine, as far as petty and malicious behavior, would be if I left a comment but didn't cast the vote and still lost a point out of spite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really hope you can keep the site's integrity and good-nature (and good-humor) up, but also I think there needs to be some rethinking on the voting system. Perhaps a flagging system would be better. I down-voted the &quot;use the search box&quot;comment and was disgusted to notice that it was up-voted twice already. This type of attitude should not be praised or encouraged. I think those types of answers should be flagged, reviewed, and removed if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of a forum site is to share knowledge and help out people who are stuck, desperate, or just lost all together. When we start to assume what people should know before they DARE ask a question, we just further perpetuate the standard that IT and CS guys are bitter unapproachable toads, and it's that lack of support that results in bad design, bad architecture, and overall bad code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131983" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T14:07:35.800" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T14:07:35.800" Title="Being Helpful vs. Being Hostile and why SO is supposed to stand out from the rest" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="17613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17612" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:02:21.010" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand why they suggested posting it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first and most important thing to remember that this is what flagging is for. Apart from Jeff and the team, SU has &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/about&quot;&gt;four&lt;/a&gt; moderators who act upon these flags, and we will act if someone is out of line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; condone the above mentioned behavior, and will act based on the severity of the issue when it is brought to our attention. I used to check every post myself, but with the increase of questions it is becoming harder to do, and we are very dependent on others to flag items. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These items need to be flag &lt;strong&gt;each&lt;/strong&gt; time they occur to ensure that we can have a track record to act upon as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also users with 2000+ reputation can edit the posts and answers of others, and this is also to ensure that these can be managed, and fixed. We often edit post for non-english speaking users to check grammar and spelling, which most likely will happen with this answer, knowing the others on the site :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I can't stress this point enough. Use the spam and flag options when these issues are seen. Use your power to vote if you able, and do not be afraid to contact the mods.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;We do not disclose the information of the users who flagged to anyone, ever.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I only realized after answering the relevant question is regarding SO, however the rules are the same across the sites. A list of SO mods can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T08:24:58.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:24:58.500" />
  <row Id="17614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:04:16.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, to boost your accept rate, you could also ask a few simple questions that haven't been asked before. Just to satisfy your curiosity. Those questions would be easily answered and an answer would be easy to accept, which in return will boost your acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this cheating? Maybe, maybe not. But SO is supposed to be a kind of wiki for all related questions and all you're doing is making sure more questions are asked.&#xA;Just make sure your &quot;simple&quot; questions aren't duplicates...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, if everyone continues to do this, sooner or later all easy questions will have been asked and the global acceptance rate of everyone will drop. When I look back at Experts Exchange, which I joined back in 2000, I cannot help but notice that most questions about Delphi were reasonable simple to solve. But during the years, all the simple questions ended up being asked already and new questions started to become more difficult. Nowadays, several sections of EE are saturated by the simpler questions, thus there's not much to gain from those sections! It's one reason why EE is losing it's value. (Not the main reason, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:04:16.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17612" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:17:17.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am the one who answered &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By typing &quot;gmail php&quot; in the search&#xA;  box in the upper right corner of this&#xA;  web site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried the same thing myself before posting the answer, and the first result actually shows how you can send emails from php by using gmail's smtp-servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off course I also linked to the question I found and also marked his question as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help me understand what better answers you should give a user that asks something that is already answered on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I deleted the answer because Anthony down voted it. Also the question has now been edited with additional info that makes it not a duplicate of the one i pointed to)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:17:17.410" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="17616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:20:28.120" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I marked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1332510/how-to-send-emails-with-php-and-gmail&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as a dupe. Now the OP has edited the question and added more info, so the question is not a dupe any more. How do I &quot;unvote&quot; to close a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:27:13.863" Title="How do you unvote a close request" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="17617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17616" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:22:44.450" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No need. Unless others also vote for duplicate it will never close. If it does close you can just vote for it to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:22:44.450" />
  <row Id="17618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17616" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:24:51.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you still flag it? That way others should be able to see it and know that your vote to close as dupe is no longer relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or they'll just take note of the dupe, the now edited question and move along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:24:51.810" />
  <row Id="17619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17616" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:27:13.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make it clear, leave a comment that you voted to close but now it has changed and is not a dupe any more. Then the vote will be ignored by other users, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:27:13.863" />
  <row Id="17620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-08-26T08:44:57.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just want to add: Some relatively new users don't actually know what the accept rate numbers are until you tell them. So for new users, I guess it doesn't really discourage them to ask relatively difficult questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T08:44:57.417" />
  <row Id="17622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2009-08-26T09:07:19.303" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot; title=&quot;Check &amp;quot;Advanced Links&amp;quot; paragraph&quot;&gt;URL tooltips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134231" LastEditorUserId="134231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T11:27:31.020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T11:27:31.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T09:07:19.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17678" CreationDate="2009-08-26T09:19:59.607" Score="25" ViewCount="770" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has the sorting of answers on stack overflow been changed? because I've realised that the answers aren't sorted by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Votes -&amp;gt; Time&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;anymore, and are sorted a different way, it appears the time isn't taken in to consideration, now they are sorted by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Votes -&amp;gt; Random&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wondered if anyone was aware of this problem and if it is deliberate then what is the new order for sorting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that sometimes it sorts the old way, but then others it appears completely random (apart from the votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133568" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T08:14:28.080" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:14:28.080" Title="What has happened to the sorting of answers on stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="17625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6402" CreationDate="2009-08-26T09:24:45.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;Q&lt;/kbd&gt; - BlockQuote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;R&lt;/kbd&gt;/&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt; - Horizontal Line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt; - Newline&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;H&lt;/kbd&gt; - Underline&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T09:24:45.527" />
  <row Id="17627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T09:43:59.450" Score="2" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer&quot;&gt;Is &amp;ldquo;Don&amp;rsquo;t do it&amp;rdquo; a valid answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long I'm airing my grievances, I thought I'd throw out another point that drives me crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually is something I'm conflicted about, because I've been on all four sides of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation is: Someone asks a question and the responses are along the lines of &quot;You should do it this way instead...&quot; or &quot;Why would you want to do that....&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was trying to explain to a friend of mine how frustrating this can be and his eyes glazed over, like all of my non-tech friends' eyes do when I start telling them an &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt; story about XML or PHP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I put it to him this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Imagine you are wanting to go to the grocery store to buy a gallon of milk. You usually take this one route that has lots of traffic and red lights. You know there is a faster way, but you are unsure of which highway to take or which exit. You ask someone down the hall &quot;Hey, I was going to go to Foo's Grocery to get some milk. Do you know which exit I should take off of the OOP expressway?&quot; and he responds &quot;You should go to Bar's Mega-Mart, they have cheaper milk.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His eyes lit up and he immediately got my point. The problem is, sometimes you want to spare someone all the trouble of going to Foo's and have them take the really easy route to the cheaper place. But the person asking really wants to know because a) they have a coupon, b) they are going to their mother's place afterward right next to that store, c) their car gets such bad mileage that the extra two miles to meglo-mart will offset the savings on the milk, or d) they really just want to learn how to get around the city better and wanted to use this as an excuse to try out the OOP expressway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this analogy is holding strong. Often times I need the answer to something because I need proof of concept, or because my host/server/bandwidth puts certain limits on what I can do, or because I have a much bigger issue and thus I can't throw out the whole project to accommodate the 'better way' to solve one problem. Or because I just want to know the answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I have given someone a perfect answer to their problem, based on slight changes to their design only to get back comments like &quot;No, that won't work, my example was really simplified&quot; or &quot;That's no an option with such and such an environment which I left out in my question.&quot; As though that makes my answer less brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example was someone having trouble with checkboxes and returning the values to PHP/MySQL. I explained that their HTML was basically messed up and that once they fixed it, the PHP/MySQL would be a tad more irrelevant, and I threw in that they could probably spare the DB the trouble of storing the words 'checked' and 'unchecked' if they simply created a second table keyed to those who were checked. I know, genius, right. This earned me a &quot;everything else works fine. I don't care if it's not valid. I just don't understand why this one thing doesn't work.&quot;  Well, it didn't work because it was a mess and I was trying to help him clean it up. But he wasn't shopping for that kind of advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example Two: I asked a question about whether CSS selectors could style elements that are &quot;one up and one over&quot; from the element with a specific pseudo-class. I knew it was probably not going to happen, but that's why I go to SO, because I don't know everything and I find out all kinds of crazy clever things. I got one straight forward explanation of why it couldn't be done, and 3 or 4 &quot;You should just use jQuery&quot; or &quot;that's not how a web form is set up.&quot; type answers. I was trying to do something totally different and experimental, and I got a bunch of answers telling me how to do things the normal way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally: Someone asked how to return both disabled and enabled inputs to the server &quot;without using any hacks.&quot; I'm surprised we aren't still arguing over it in the comments. He insisted that I was being to &quot;conceptual&quot; with my question on why he was trying to do something that the HTML DOM was explicitly not supposed to do without a hack, and when I produced a 4 line solution for jQuery that would be pretty close to not-a-hack, I was basically told that I missed the whole point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, all my venting aside, what is the overall consensus? Is it better to address the question or the problem/goal? How explicit does someone need to be in order to give enough context to the question for us to know which of the two the user actually wants?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T09:53:41.647" ClosedDate="2009-08-26T09:54:12.220" Title="Answering a Question Vs. Solving a Problem" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;problem-solving&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17627" CreationDate="2009-08-26T09:50:45.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In other words, you're wondering &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer&quot;&gt;if &quot;Don't do it&quot; is a valid answer&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it can be. Depends on how you approach it. If you explain why it's a bad approach, or how there's a better way, that's perfectly okay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But sometimes people want to continue on their path and would just like to get on their bike and head down to the store over several recursive functions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T09:50:45.037" />
  <row Id="17629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17627" CreationDate="2009-08-26T09:53:41.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re your shop metaphor, this situation is very common on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questioner: Where's the nearest shop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me: What do you want to buy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T09:53:41.647" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T10:11:29.863" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is by design.  Jeff's comment &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late/10553#10553&quot;&gt;on this answer&lt;/a&gt; says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we now sort answers of the same score, randomly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which was implemented to &quot;give some boost to some really good answers that arrive late&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; to include my own POV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the tactical downvoting right after the random ordering of similarly rated answers was implemented. It's crazy.  For a question, around 5 to 7 answers were almost the same and almost all were correct but each got -1, and -2 votes.  I think it's causing chaos and is very unhealthy for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="131985" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:31:01.927" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:31:01.927" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-26T10:20:34.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a difference between users who ask a lot of questions and users that are border-line spamming the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to use the word spam because it implies malicious intent. But there are plenty of questions that still feel like the user was more interested in getting attention then in solving a problem. There are definite examples of spam like &quot;How to for getting the gurls on the intrenets?&quot; (actually, this may fall more under the category of vandalism), but there are also plenty of questions like &quot;My form doesn't work&quot; or &quot;I want the pictures to be embedded into the PHP.&quot; Questions that are lazy, use poor grammar (and obviously not due to ESL), or don't bother providing any examples are very close to spam, I think. They don't show that any time was taken and they show a lack of courtesy and respect for the site and other users. This sort of behavior should be distinguished from that of users who ask more than answer, aren't bright, can't learn, won't learn, or just want to use this site to do their homework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make the distinction because I ask more than answer (last time I checked). I also answer without being sure of the answer. I also ask without researching my question elsewhere thoroughly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am, at best, an autodidact when it comes to computers and programming. I don't understand best-practices, I've taken one CS class (intro, got a C), I am guilty of using tables instead of CSS (but that was back in the bad-old-days) and of using arrays where objects would be better. I have read more than one site on OOP and just don't get it. I don't get JSON at all. I use the term Web Service when I mean SOAP. I do things by hand because I don't trust libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I try to only ask questions that I think need an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My friend gave me crap once when I mentioned how I ask a question on here nearly everyday whenever I get stuck. &quot;Oh, you're one of those users...&quot; he said. I was embarrassed by saved face by pointing out that a majority (or solid minority) of my questions get up-voted. Someone must think they worth asking, I told him. But the more I think about it, I think my embarrassment and his resentment was rooted in this ugly trend in the IT world of grouping all helpless people together. &quot;One of those people&quot; is a collection of anyone who asks a question that experienced and formally trained programmings take for granted AND users who ask lazy questions like &quot;How can I make my text a different color?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a user who asks more than answers and who feels under-qualified to try to offer my limited knowledge, I can appreciate the spirit of this question. I don't think the problem is with users who leech answers without giving back, it's with users who don't appreciate the community enough to take their when composing their question and take their time in deciding whether they need to ask the question at all. (And we end up paying for it because it takes our time to read it and piece together a possible response).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the notion that limiting questions limits those answer questions, I agree unless someone gets credit for giving an easy answer to a bad question. By not accounting for this, we allow for inflated reputations that only reflect lots of answers, not lots of good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131983" LastEditorUserId="131983" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T10:41:11.127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T10:41:11.127" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T10:39:06.750" Score="-1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Idea for improve answers ordering: asker upvote should count as 1.5 upvotes, so his upvoted answers (probably more valuable than others) will come before others with the same votes count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7162" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T04:26:41.893" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T04:26:41.893" Title="Asker upvote prevail among equal votes number?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;question-order&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17633" CreationDate="2009-08-26T10:51:59.360" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person asking is not often the person who knows what's best and that's where the community comes in with their votes. Also they wouldn't be asking if they knew the question, unless they were out to ask and answer it themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is this would be a good way to prime up some sock-puppet accounts if the asker has their fingers poking in some sub-par answers and votes them up just because their votes would weigh more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T10:51:59.360" />
  <row Id="17635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17633" CreationDate="2009-08-26T10:55:40.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this would be a good idea. As random pointed out, the Asker is typically not the best person to determine who is providing the best answer, or even a good one. Granted, there are some instances where the Asker has that knowledge, but that isn't always the case. The other day I asked a question about the rewrite module in Apache, and waited to participate in the voting until after others had a chance, because I know that I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to .htaccess and mod_rewrite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Know your own limits, and we will all be happy :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T10:55:40.427" />
  <row Id="17636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17917" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:01:50.150" Score="2" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that each of the Trilogy sites links into jobs.joelonsoftware.com, sorted by the appropriateness of the categories to the site in question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been any consideration of posting those to the LinkedIn group? Perhaps via an official channel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked this question on the stackoverflow group on LinkedIn, too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T11:10:57.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T11:10:57.207" Title="What about job postings under the stackoverflow LinkedIn group?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;&lt;linkedin&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17636" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:04:10.303" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if they would. As far as I am aware the Linked In group is not controlled by Jeff and co, but started by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could potentially be another revenue stream, although as far as I am aware Linked-In already caters for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T11:04:10.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17640" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:13:53.543" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be very useful to have the ability of excluding a given tag from the search.&#xA;I tried to see if it is already possible and looked for similar question, but no luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean I'd like to be able to do the following in the search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell [cmd] [-linux]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this way looking for &quot;&lt;strong&gt;questions containing the 'shell' &lt;em&gt;term&lt;/em&gt; AND having the 'cmd' tag AND NOT having the 'linux' tag&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &quot;shell&quot; is not a TAG !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130733" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T12:15:13.897" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:15:13.897" Title="Can we have the ability to filter out a certain tag in the search?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17638" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:20:21.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As workaround you can set &lt;code&gt;linux&lt;/code&gt; to your ignore list temporarily (or permanently, if you don't like it at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T11:20:21.627" />
  <row Id="17640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17638" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:33:42.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can if you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16462/can-i-do-complex-tag-searches&quot;&gt;precede the tag in the search with a minus (-)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;shell [cmd] -[linux]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following links pop for searches across the SOFU for questions that mention &lt;strong&gt;cmd&lt;/strong&gt; tagged  &lt;kbd&gt;shell&lt;/kbd&gt; but &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; tagged &lt;kbd&gt;linux&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22cmd%22+%5Bshell%5D+%5B-linux%5D&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22cmd%22+%5Bshell%5D+%5B-linux%5D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ServerFault: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/search?q=%22cmd%22+%5Bshell%5D+%5B-linux%5D&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/search?q=%22cmd%22+%5Bshell%5D+%5B-linux%5D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/search?q=%22cmd%22+%5Bshell%5D+%5B-linux%5D&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/search?q=%22cmd%22+%5Bshell%5D+%5B-linux%5D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T12:08:56.600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:08:56.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:48:10.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lord giveth, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1332120/list&quot;&gt;lord taketh away&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is abuse &lt;strong&gt;flag it&lt;/strong&gt;. If we flag it enough, the behavior will be punished.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is poor, don't upvote it or downvote it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the user never accepts any answers, consider giving his/her questions a skip. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keep in mind&lt;/strong&gt;, downvoting someone because in the past the person exhibited poor behavior (and not on the merit of the question) is abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should more that what is now done... be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; the community need to learn about the wonderful flag button and use it more liberally when abuse occurs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T11:48:10.790" />
  <row Id="17642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16690" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:52:10.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would really love to see Pubsubhubbub-Support (every time a have to type this I think I got it wrong o_O ) on SO, SV and SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20247" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T11:52:10.453" />
  <row Id="17643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-08-26T11:52:48.223" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Originally, I thought everyone was right - we don't need to complicate it.  But I changed my mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the site first launched - 5 offensive tags would get a post removed.  Over time, even a non-offensive post would garner some flags, and since they weren't reset - as t=infinity every post would be deleted.  So a decay was added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments now work the same way.  &lt;strong&gt;Even a bad comment generates a few upvotes over time&lt;/strong&gt; and users have no way to indicate &lt;em&gt;no, this is a bad comment, it does not deserve upvotes.&lt;/em&gt;  It may not be offensive, but it certainly doesn't contribute anything positive or funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think comment downvotes should be allowed in order to &lt;strong&gt;make comments more worthwhile&lt;/strong&gt;.  It will help filter the &lt;em&gt;really good&lt;/em&gt; comments the way God intended while leaving the poor comments - the ones people disagree with - &quot;below the fold&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I know this topic is old and crusty but I'm &lt;em&gt;hoping&lt;/em&gt; the system works, and that by edits and additions I can raise more awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is another example of why we need comment downvoting, from the Moderator flagged comment screen:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/why-we-need-comment-downvotes.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comment Flagging Example&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;unreasonable&lt;/em&gt; to make the claim that these comments are &quot;noise, offensive or spam&quot;.  You may not &lt;em&gt;agree&lt;/em&gt; with them, and whoever flagged them certainly didn't, but comments are flagged because we can't downvote them, and it adds a lot of noise to the Moderator screen, plus the necessity to go through and clear the flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T12:36:52.723" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T12:36:52.723" />
  <row Id="17645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17999" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:05:12.237" Score="5" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&lt;/a&gt; there is a subheading which states: &quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you *&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asterisk implies there is a proviso attached to the statement. Is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Ya know, that asterisk left me so unfulfilled. It was like looking at waffles and not being allowed to eat em or ponies and not being able to *.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad I asked the question. meta meets all my waffle and pony needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T02:48:56.633" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:13:42.193" Title="What is meant by the asterisk at http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="17646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17645" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:08:54.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The proviso is dependent on how many registered users there are on SO. There is an estimated 4 million developers world wide in this case, and not all of them are on SO yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the potential is there that you will have access to that many developers at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:08:54.197" />
  <row Id="17647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17645" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:13:09.920" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That asterisk is a regex symbol, allowing you to change the quote to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;to make ussome damn waffles&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;to ask a duplicate question&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;and we work for peanuts and alfalfa&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;and not doing their real job&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;and we're not wearing any clothes&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;to not RTFM&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;to give them ideas for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheDailyWTF.com&lt;/a&gt; submission&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;4,026,489 developers are waiting for you &lt;strong&gt;to feed the great Jon Skeet answering machine&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T13:08:05.917" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:08:05.917" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="17648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17633" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:16:29.857" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person asking the question already has a method to differentiate the most correct answer: accepting it.  There's no evidence that the asker knows any better than anyone else, and, seeing as they are the one asking the question, they probably know &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:16:29.857" />
  <row Id="17649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17633" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:28:12.377" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we were to weight votes, I'd prefer the higher rep users have more weight. However, I believe that at least one high rep user requested this &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should mention, that I am not in favor of weighting votes. I am merely stating that if we were to I believe that it should be the higher rep user's and not the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:05:12.797" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:05:12.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17650" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:31:14.497" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the main function of StackOverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T12:36:33.450" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:36:33.450" ClosedDate="2009-08-26T12:38:41.873" Title="What is StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17650" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:32:31.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a programming question and answer site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, we're a community of mostly professional programmers that answer each other's questions as best we can. Please read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and welcome to StackOverflow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:34:41.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17650" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:32:57.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:34:41.483" />
  <row Id="17653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17650" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:33:06.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;stackoverflow's faq&lt;/a&gt; can help you with this. Its a QA site for obtaining help on programming matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134522" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:34:41.483" />
  <row Id="17654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17650" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:33:44.277" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To Read : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:34:41.483" />
  <row Id="17655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17650" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:34:23.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this some sort of recursion joke I don't get yet? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:34:41.483" />
  <row Id="17656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17324" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:38:58.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest some negative badges. Color them brown. Call them leach, marketer, parasite, and so on. Award them to statistical behaviors such as this. Make a way to un-earn them. Use public shame as society intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that some only have questions, not answers, and that alone is OK. Encourage them to word, reword, and refine their questions into something sensible, with both the carrot and the stick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101547" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:38:58.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17645" CreationDate="2009-08-26T12:50:32.867" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't an asterisk on any number used anywhere in advertising anywhere in the world mean the same thing anyway? I guess they just wanted to save space and electricty by omitting it, but here is the standard disclaimer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This number may or may not be accurate, it may or may not be based on scientific data, it may or may not be gathered through survery and those surveys may or may not be done with a statistically meaninungful audience. Furthermore, the number may or may not be based on estimates, predictions, research, dreams and/or pure chance. Additionally the number may or may not be created using dice, geiger counters, random number generators, cake, waffles, ponies and cheese. We may or may not take any responsibility in the correctness of these numbers and should you have any doubts regarding the validity of them, you are free to contact our lawyers who may or may not ruin you. No animals and babies were harmed in the creation of this number, apart from the animals and babies that were. All rights reserved, this explanation is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named and every violation of the end user license agreement (EULA) contained within this notice may or may not be punished by law, god or your mom.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T12:50:32.867" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17645" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:01:36.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They might be waiting for someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:01:36.433" />
  <row Id="17660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19854" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:06:56.900" Score="1" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other sites official names are:&#xA;Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19609/meta-html-title&quot;&gt;official name is Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, despite the consensus here of Meta StackOverflow - this is directly from Jeff Atwood. MSO is the abbreviation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of the following is this site's official name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta StackOverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta StackOverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meta stack overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the corresponding official abbrevation (SO, SF and &#xA;SU for the others):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mSO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;metaSO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MSO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MEta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T10:06:39.160" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:10:28.373" Title="What is the official name of this site (meta)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17660" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:08:17.850" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site's official name is Awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;outside world name&quot; is Meta StackOverflow or MSO. But, I'm partial to Awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:08:17.850" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17660" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:08:23.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta StackOverflow - MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can however also be knows as &lt;strong&gt;HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED&lt;/strong&gt;'s personal hideout, or any other [insert funky name here] option you choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes no difference really as Jeff already said &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meta is Murder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T13:20:25.663" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:20:25.663" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17660" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:13:13.647" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Official Name: &lt;strong&gt;Meta StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Meta-StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unofficial Name: &lt;strong&gt;The only place TheTXI has a shot at beating Jon Skeet and Jeff Atwood at anything other than a pizza eating contest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abbreviation(s): &lt;strong&gt;Meta&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;MSO&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Meta SO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:13:13.647" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="17664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2303" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:24:34.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a good idea, but I'd add a few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notify on changes on &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; question/answer you have voted upon,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; if the change was over 50% of the state when you voted/accepted the question/answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be it would still mean a lot of noise, but if this is implemented, even if it's only for accepted answers, the second point should be added (with maybe a lower threshold).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:24:34.890" />
  <row Id="17665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17667" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:24:59.633" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a trend in how I answer questions lately, and I don't like that it bothers me, but I think I'm going to post this and see if anyone else feels the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm answering a question, if I see the &quot;1 new answer has been posted&quot; banner come up, I feel defeated. I will occasionally stop answering and leave that question, because I feel it's some bizarre race against time, and I don't like feeling that type of pressure when I'm trying to answer a question. I usually do this in my spare time, I found it to be a relaxing activity before that new answer banner came along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this might sound silly, but I've been surprised to find that it really bothers me. I'd be surprised if it doesn't bother anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we consider making it configurable on the Prefs panel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;After reading the answers I've gotten so far, I see the value in the feature. I still feel a bit bothered by it, but I feel less... against it. It'd be nice if it could be configurable, but I can also see that possibly detracting from the SO experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130849" LastEditorUserId="130849" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T13:55:04.170" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:55:04.170" Title="Could we consider making &quot;1 new answer has been posted&quot; configurable through prefs?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:27:07.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hell No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only way I get an opportunity to determine whether answering is at all worthwhile. Sometimes it can be demotivating, but load the answers, read them, and if yours is till right or valid finish answering. If not, vote for the correct one and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all of us &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; to be Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:27:07.650" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:27:48.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, first time I've ever seen someone come out &lt;strong&gt;against&lt;/strong&gt; this feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's there so you can load the new answers as you type and not have to waste your time writing a duplicate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:27:48.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:28:41.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe SOFU is not the right place for you. Do not produce duplicates, they are annoying and get downvoted. Fell free to be shot again by Jon Skeet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:28:41.577" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:30:20.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hell No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing this banner gives me the additional incentive to answer the question in the best way I can, adding related material and rewriting my answer for clarity, in order to to get on top of the early but incomplete response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19530" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:30:20.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6615" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:31:28.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen again this thing, with a question getting migrated, and coming to another site with negative votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in itself is valid, but for sure it doesn't invite someone to give a look at it. Any plans on making something about it, or it will simply stay this way ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:31:28.623" />
  <row Id="17674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17645" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:35:22.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;4,026,489&lt;/em&gt; in hex is &lt;em&gt;0x3D7079&lt;/em&gt;, which stands for &lt;em&gt;=py&lt;/em&gt; in ASCII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There definitely is a hidden message here. I just don't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:35:22.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17681" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:37:00.753" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When submitting an edit, an answer or a question, buttons and preview won't show in my &lt;code&gt;FireFox 3.5&lt;/code&gt; on &lt;code&gt;SO&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;SU&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;SF&lt;/code&gt; everything's fine, as it is on &lt;code&gt;SO&lt;/code&gt; using &lt;code&gt;IE8&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Chrome&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It started today, on &lt;code&gt;Aug 26th 2009&lt;/code&gt;, at about &lt;code&gt;13:00Z&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem persists in safe mode too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody else experience this or it is just me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T05:03:52.530" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:03:52.530" Title="Buttons and preview are broken in Firefox 3.5 on SO only" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17675" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:39:15.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you got NoScript installed? if so you need to ensure that sstatic.net is not blocked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:39:15.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:41:35.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The banner is part of the rush to the head. A Q&amp;amp;A equivalent of a typing game where you're gunning down zombies and the walking dead with a shot gun that never empties. Flex your brain, your fingers and get better and quicker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not to discourage you to stop posting, but to encourage you to take a shot of chocolate milk when you've been gunned down. Play it that way, pretty soon, if you're on the site trying to answer when the steenking Amehdicans are up for their business day, you'll be upchucking a not-crunchy milkshake in no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notification banner of &quot;Head to the toilet, it's time to wallow&quot; has been there for a while. It's probably that you've been answering at slow times that you haven't seen it. Or that you've posted just before the polling was done to tip you off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:41:35.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:44:13.907" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this to be horrible decision (and I know I'm not the only one). We've spent a year now rewarding those who answer well and answer fast. I do not see why this is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone answers fast and they answer poorly, that gives them even more time to get voted down and let the better answers trickle to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also makes it entirely reasonable now for people to strategically downvote other answers even more so because they no longer have the &quot;safety net&quot; of being the first one keeping them above other answers with the same score. So expect to see a lot more lists of answers that are (0, -1, -1, -1). or even (-3, -3, -3, -3). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see why we have to artificially reward someone for coming to the party late. If their answer is better, it should move up &lt;strong&gt;regardless&lt;/strong&gt; of what time it was posted, and if it is a bad answer, it should move down &lt;strong&gt;regardless&lt;/strong&gt; of what time it was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T13:49:17.720" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:49:17.720" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:45:06.760" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how I feel about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand it's clear that people would put in placeholder answers and then fill them out in the next 5 minutes but, as has been previously discussed, I don't think that's a bad thing. Getting a quick answer is useful. If the placeholder isn't useful it gets downvoted and any benefit of first placement is lost (although you may find #2 or #3 tactically downvote it, even temporarily).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is either what problem did this solve or what benefits does it bring to the table?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but think that maybe the &quot;its not fair!&quot; crowd have managed a vocal minority on this issue. By &quot;its not fair!&quot; I mean you get responses to issues like people having high rep that basically come down to &quot;its not fair!&quot; (that person X put 8 months more effort in that I did and thus has higher rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one could argue &quot;its not fair!&quot; [tm] (that someone takes the time to quickly get an answer to a question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth mentioning that the previous system discouraged &quot;me too!&quot; answers. Sometimes you see 3-4 people post the same answer within a short period. Fair enough. They're typically not aware of each other. But sometimes you'll see someone do it 20 minutes later. They can't not have seen the others so why bother to post the same thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way their answer has as much chance as anyone's of being first (upvotes notwithstanding). So are we encouraging &quot;me too!&quot; noise with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:45:06.760" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17675" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:50:24.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you've got some cached javascript.  I don't know that there have been any updates, but you might want to try emptying your cache.  If you don't regularly use IE8 or Chrome with SO, they may have downloaded more recent code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T13:50:24.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17675" CreationDate="2009-08-26T13:56:47.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having similar problems on SO and here on meta as well. The only button that works for me is the 'edit' one and 'post your answer'. I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 and this started sometime in August or late July.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--edit--&#xA;I just verified that SO does not work in IE either so maybe my network admins are blocking something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134853" LastEditorUserId="134853" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:02:01.540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:02:01.540" />
  <row Id="17684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17692" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:18:48.530" Score="6" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Unanswered button currently shows all questions with no accepted answers and no upvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest bifurcating this functionality into two buttons: one with the current functionality, the other with a list of questions that have no answer attempts at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few badges for answering (and getting upvotes) for very old un-answered questions would be a nice complement to this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that button space across the top is precious, so there may be some resistance to this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101547" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-12T02:49:38.533" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T02:49:38.533" Title="Can we have a &quot;no answers&quot; top button?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="17685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17693" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:19:48.607" Score="8" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been following this question with interest - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334451/history-of-public-private-protected&quot;&gt;History of public/private/protected&lt;/a&gt; - and noticed that shortly after a new answer was posted by Neil Butterworth, one of the original answers was updated to include this extra information. I have seen minor clarifications based on other posts before, but never such a wholesale import of another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a reasonable thing to do here? Clearly, wanton cannibalism of other answers isn't reasonable on a site where multiple answers with distinct identities are supposed to compete. But there is an argument to seek to improve one's answer, particularly if a concept mentioned by another may be better phrased or explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the boundaries that define when its acceptable to incorporate information from other answers into your own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Marc Gravell points out that in this case, the datestamps prove the edit came before Neil's answer, so this is a terrible example. But the general question stands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:37:23.120" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:09:54.023" Title="Etiquette: When is it ok to edit your answer to include information from someone else's?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;attribution&gt;" AnswerCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17684" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:22:51.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New answers to old questions? And getting upvoted? You could qualify for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/17/necromancer&quot;&gt;a Necromancer badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for combing through questions with no answers at all, click on the &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0&quot;&gt;No Answers At All&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:22:51.770" />
  <row Id="17693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:23:02.893" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;after a new answer was posted by Neil Butterworth, one of the original answers was updated to include this extra information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean philippe's answer, his edit pre-dates Neil's answer by 4 minutes... &quot;not guilty&quot;, I say...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some questions, it may also be useful / desirable to construct an aggregated answer that brings together the ideas from other answers. I haven't done this myself, but sometimes it works well. I would &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; that they include attribution, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;this is a joke&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;):  I understand the concern of giving the most complete answer. But the point of such sites is to provide a &quot;collaborative answer&quot;, through the voting system. ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:23:02.893" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:24:24.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen that happening some times indeed, and it looks a bit again like &quot;whoring&quot; for reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, I understand the concern of giving the most complete answer. But the point of such sites is to provide a &quot;collaborative answer&quot;, through the voting system. I mean that logically, the accepted answer actually solves the problem, but the most voted answers following are adding interesting details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system already works like this, so I don't see why one would want to aggregate the good answers from others, besides for taking all the credit (&quot;My answer is the most complete, watch !&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:24:24.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:25:57.037" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel has said on the podcast that he feels it is perfectly legitimate to find a question with a bunch of half-answers, and combine them into one answer, add a little more polish, and post that.  He says it is a great way to earn reputation in a perfectly legitimate way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W25450&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 023&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did one of my &quot;just combine other&#xA;  people's answers&quot; into a well-written&#xA;  answer or a more exhaustive answer. &#xA;  And it was just like &quot;What's the&#xA;  difference between a statement and an&#xA;  expression?&quot;  That was the question. &#xA;  And you know what, that's what I want.&#xA;  That article, I want that article. &#xA;  You know everybody's going to have&#xA;  questions like this.  Newbies will&#xA;  always have the same questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W781&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 004&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whaddaya do if you're reading some&#xA;  answers, and the best answer is there,&#xA;  and somewhere else is another answer&#xA;  that's also kinda good, and the&#xA;  combination of them would be great,&#xA;  and you wanna somehow combine these&#xA;  answers in a better answer.  In other&#xA;  words, you just want to be an editor,&#xA;  like you're--a lotta the people who&#xA;  have contributed to our transcript&#xA;  pages for this podcast--and thank you&#xA;  all--a lot of them just went in and&#xA;  made a little correction.  They just&#xA;  saw something that was obviously a&#xA;  typo, or some case where some previous&#xA;  person who'd been writing the&#xA;  transcript maybe didn't know how to&#xA;  spell someone's name, so they went in&#xA;  and they correct it.  How do you do&#xA;  that when you're reading answers on&#xA;  StackOverflow, if you just want to&#xA;  make that little edit, to make that&#xA;  question better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:33:01.457" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:33:01.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:28:06.050" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... distinct identities are supposed&#xA;  to compete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of these sites is not to compete for reputation, it is to answer questions, and be highly relevant to search engine queries. As a result, the collaborative community is the &quot;distinct identity&quot; and the competition is with other sites like Experts Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's even better if the highest upvoted answer is accepted, and improved upon either by the author, or other users of sufficient reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is accepted but it wasn't the highest upvoted, I don't see any problem with incorporating other answers, because that improves the quality. If I Google search and I get a SOFU result, I want to read the accepted answer for all possible relevant bits. I don't want to go through and read the other postings to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7672" LastEditorUserId="7672" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T15:04:23.183" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:04:23.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21024" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:30:58.793" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow is crackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but crackfault doesn't have the same ring to it.  any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40067" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T16:57:31.510" Title="addictive nickname for serverfault?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:31:36.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legal boundaries:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;None. Since posts are covered by CC licence, you are free to use content from other posts in yours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moral boundaries:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Phew, that's the difficult part. There are various statements, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and on podcasts and blog entries, that explicitly say that this site is collaboratively edited.&#xA;From that point of view, the behaviour you desribe is &lt;em&gt;desired&lt;/em&gt;. However, in practice I see a much stronger sense of personal 'post ownership', both from the posters and others who refrain from copying parts of other answers. The appropriate way that is generally accepted by the community is to attribute the copied part to it's original poster, in form of a link to his answer or a comment to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:31:36.733" />
  <row Id="17699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17697" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:31:50.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;yourfault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pusherfault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:41:58.667" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:41:58.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:32:01.943" Score="8" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated, it ends up being locked on the origin site. This is good so that the question doesn't completely disappear, confusing the asker, but a side effect of being locked is that the asker can't delete the question on their own. It's also impossible to flag a locked post and request for it to be deleted. Deleting the stub is not without precedent - Jeff deleted these yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/&quot;&gt;Track Your Reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50094/&quot;&gt;Age Distribution of StackOverflow users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that not all the sites were launched at the same time has caused some questions that I've asked on some sites to be more appropriate on other sites (once they existed), and since the primary reason for the stub is for the asker's benefit, I request that the author of a migrated question be allowed to delete it when they feel it's no longer necessary to keep around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:54:54.197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:20:30.143" Title="Allow asker to delete migrated question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="17701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:32:17.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done this only once. My answer had solved the original problem and been accepted, but the OP had asked another question in a comment on my answer. Another user had answered his comment in a new answer in a clean and concise manner, so I simply added his answer to mine (with attribution) and turned mine into a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally see no problem with reusing another answer so long as attribution is given. In such a case, I think the post should be marked as wiki to signify that it is the collaborative work of multiple users. Seems I'm in disagreement with Spolsky on this particular point though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65611" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:32:17.777" />
  <row Id="17702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:32:24.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with what Jeff has said repeatedly on this matter. It is fine to combine answer parts into a complete answer. The goal is to answer the question for the OP who has probably been reading all along, but I think just as important (or more so even) is to answer it for future users. The ideal user experience should be: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User googles their question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S[OFU] is the #1 result&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They go to the a well worded&#xA;question that is written in a way&#xA;that is clear matches their problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They look and the top listed answer&#xA;(or the top one or two if the OP&#xA;accepted a different one) and it provides&#xA;the complete and correct answer to&#xA;their issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastEditorUserId="133301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T15:06:23.663" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:06:23.663" />
  <row Id="17704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17612" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:34:46.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you find someone who is being &lt;em&gt;abusive&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;anyone&lt;/strong&gt;, flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find there is a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of abuse against a question, flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; reason for anyone to be abusive on these sites, and there is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; reason it should be tolerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:34:46.977" />
  <row Id="17705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17700" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:39:37.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, migrated questions kept on the original site has its benefits. One of which is making it searchable on the original site.  Completely deleting the question on the original site allows the same question to be asked again on that site.  If the original question is kept and is pointing where it is migrated, at least it can be flagged as a duplicate of a question and then point it to the site where it is migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; to answer Kyle: The examples are good to show that some of the question ought to be deleted.  But I think not all users should be allowed to delete their own questions because it's not only them who may benefit from the question, but the community as well. I think it's just right that those who have more power/rep be allowed to delete their own questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it would be nice to allow the flagging of the migrated question to be deleted. I have that similar case where my question is an exact duplicate but accumulated some answers so I cannot delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="131985" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T14:59:21.180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:59:21.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17711" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:40:02.443" Score="12" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a big hoo-haa about purported tag-abuse recently, I thought I'd try and clarify things here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;why not keep the existing question&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted it; it was too personal about one individual, which isn't fair when that &quot;event&quot; has been dealt with already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So; to clarify; in my opinion (and I welcome other views):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tags categorise problems by technology (&lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;) / subject (&lt;code&gt;serialization&lt;/code&gt;) / product (&lt;code&gt;oracle&lt;/code&gt;), etc - although obviously this meaning changes slightly per-site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they aren't an IM tool&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they shouldn't be used to target &lt;em&gt;individuals&lt;/em&gt; as a way to receive questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So; if you see any user-specific tags, please either edit them out, or if there are lots - flag for a moderator (we might be able to merge them into a related technology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd welcome any other ideas, but no heads on spikes please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T15:38:56.377" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:59:15.820" Title="What is considered appropriate tag use?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="27" />
  <row Id="17708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17706" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:49:14.393" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question, the title field has: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's your programming question? Be descriptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the recent brouhaha over the tags, maybe it would be a good idea to include such a reminder next to the tags field. Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What technology, product or subject matter is the question about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T14:49:14.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17612" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:50:17.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow and serverfault is for developers &amp;amp; IT professionals, in which case the IT prima donna's  answering expect a certain level of specificity with questions, without it we can't give properly detailed answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What sets the so-family of sites apart from yahoo answers (&amp;amp; others) is that it doesn't have 15 year olds asking vague questions that don't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&quot;Send letters with PHP to and from Gmail&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  is the equivalent of the &quot;&lt;em&gt;How do make baby&quot;&lt;/em&gt; questions you get on yahoo answers.  What i don't want to see is so sf (&amp;amp; su) turn into these lowest common denominator sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO an answeer asking someone to do a search because the information is right in-front of them isn't abuse, it's helpful, especially when the question is so vague. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being stuck constitutes that you've had a go first.  Most vague questions asking how you do something simple are from users who haven't even tried to look.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlblog.com/blogs/tibor%5Fkaraszi/archive/2009/04/21/is-it-only-me-or-are-uncomfortable-answers-largely-ignored.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; by a SQL Server MVP Tibor Karaszi that spends a lot of time on forums answering questions.  This guy actually does answer vague questions (i've seen him do it on MSDN forums)  People don't like uncomfortable answers.  His answer is almost always overlooked by the person who posted the original question. The person asking the question doesnt want to do hard work like read some links that will solve their question correctly if they thought about it, they want quick answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the best way to deal with poor questions is to down vote &amp;amp; add a comment as to why its a poor question  &amp;amp; resist the urge to answer with 'go search'   &amp;amp; it'll eventually get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40067" LastEditorUserId="40067" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T15:10:21.537" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:10:21.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17706" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:54:11.767" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also add 'they aren't a flagging tool', e.g. don't use 'belongs-on-serverfault' (if there is a consensus - see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4128/change-the-belongs-on-serverfault-tag-when-a-question-is-moved-to-serverfault&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guidelines on use of 'off-topic', 'subjective', 'not-programming-related' (if they should be used! - see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7964/when-should-a-question-with-the-subjective-tag-not-be-a-community-wiki&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;) could also be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T15:12:42.497" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:12:42.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17706" CreationDate="2009-08-26T14:59:08.340" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to address (in as general a way as I can) the issue of tags being used as an IM tool, I'd say it's much better to use established tags that the community has created rather than create your own specific tag.  We don't need tags that &quot;Bat Signal&quot; individual users.  Stack Overflow (and its sister sites) has many experts in many domains.  If you want your own following of readers to be able to get the full benefit from Stack Overflow, tell them what tags you subscribe to.  That way they can get the benefit of the entire community that follows those tags, not just the attention of one individual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T15:59:15.820" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:59:15.820" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15695" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:06:26.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My rule has been cheeky or sarcastic stays; obnoxious or bitter gets edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly annoying are the questions that are answered by the original poster 20 mins after they are posted in a &quot;this language/framework/library sucks&quot; tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134862" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:06:26.770" />
  <row Id="17715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17720" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:13:06.617" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance the WMD editor could convert pasted tabs (e.g. in sample code etc.) to a fixed number of spaces (e.g. 4) so that the display in the question/answer pane would be easier to read and manage??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it very frustrating that tabs aren't visible, and the way the code snippet looks in the WMD editing control and the preview of the results can be quite different indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T15:40:45.643" LastActivityDate="2010-07-24T15:40:45.643" Title="Make WMD convert tabs to spaces" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:14:32.073" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that when a question is migrated between sites,  it keeps the original dates.  Is it possible to add a date on the &quot;Migrated from X&quot; message?  It is a little odd to see messages asked on Sept 19, 2008 in SuperUser for example.    How does the date affect the date related badges like Neocramcer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131940" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T22:00:01.187" Title="How does the migration process handle the post dates" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;dates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17716" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:17:57.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original date is presevered. This means that you could answer the newly moved question and get the Necromancer badge if you gained the necessary upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact this has happened several times here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:17:57.870" />
  <row Id="17719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17716" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:18:24.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Migration apparently keeps the original ask date. Perhaps when it's migrated, it should be reset as it's now born again but on the proper site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the Necromancer badge, it was possible during the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6253/superuser-you-won-necromancer&quot;&gt;Beta period for a couple of Necromancer badges to fall out&lt;/a&gt; of the SOFU pockets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:18:24.513" />
  <row Id="17720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17715" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:19:30.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8144/add-increase-decrease-tab-indent-buttons-to-the-editor-toolbar/8149#8149&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; (not precisely the same, but close).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:19:30.533" />
  <row Id="17721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17612" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:20:09.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1312168/where-is-the-bug-in-this-console-writeline-statement/1312198#1312198&quot;&gt;this reply&lt;/a&gt; to a question, that I admittedly over-confidently (or rather, excitedly assumed) was an unfound obscure bug in the framework rather than a hole in my knowledge. Even though it was the more thorough answer it had a condescending last paragraph that ruined it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're spending your free time helping others (however dumb they're being) I can't see the point of condescending or patronising. A lot of forum-esque flaming has started creeping onto SO recently which puts you off posting questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the last answer: &quot;pebkac error&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:20:09.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17700" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:20:30.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If SO would &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17552/why-do-migrated-questions-lack-redirection-via-http-response-status-code-301-mov&quot;&gt;properly redirect requests for the old URL&lt;/a&gt; to the new one, i'd be completely in favor of this. Heck, i'd argue for automatic deletion from the outset!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:20:30.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17706" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:27:48.257" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too bad there's not a media site.  Then I could change my username to &lt;code&gt;tv&lt;/code&gt; and get to have/keep my own tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:27:48.257" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="17725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17731" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:31:01.807" Score="0" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the most recent responses I have 3 answers to a question. But when I go to the actual question there are only 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the most recent responses I can see the first 2 lines of an answer from Marc Gravell, it would be very nice to see the rest. Feels like watching a film on VHS, where they say &quot;the killer is &quot; and then you run out of tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T15:49:16.683" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:49:16.683" Title="mismatch most recent responses and number of answsers on a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="17727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17725" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:41:58.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user adds an answer and then deletes it, it will appear in your &quot;recent events&quot; but will not appear on your question anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:41:58.943" />
  <row Id="17729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14902" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:45:13.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a much larger issue in the lesser trafficked tags--one or two trigger happy users can easily create enough questions to swamp the available pool of users who are able to respond. A single user starves the other legitimate questions, users who usually post answers become demoralized and the community suffers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed options for improving the situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require users to maintain a certain answer to question ratio. This should cause most of the obnoxious users to leave, at the expense of a small bit of answer spam.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the ability to ignore/hide users. This will cause the questions to build up, leaving a backlog for new experts who wish to join. Perhaps a mod could be notified if a user was blocked a certain number of times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require less votes to close a question in tags that are less popular (but restrict to a minimum of 3). Alternatively, grant users with higher in-tag reputation more voting power.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somehow encourage mods to be more active in less popular tags (cruft gets shifted out pretty fast in c#, less so in vb6)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grant moderator-like privileges based on activity within a tag, rather than for the entire site &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increase the penalty for a downvoted question and add additional points for a starred question. Colossally obnoxious users would be downvoted into oblivion, but good questions would reward both the op and those who answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134862" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:45:13.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17725" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:47:39.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dupe: See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7598/superuser-homepage-answer-bug&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:47:39.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17725" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:48:24.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That rascal Marc &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334366/hierarchy-of-transactionscope/1334412#1334412&quot;&gt;deleted his answer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17725/mismatch-most-recent-responses-and-number-of-answsers-on-a-question/17727#17727&quot;&gt;as devinb notes&lt;/a&gt;, this'll kinda screw with the recent activity. Don't worry about it - most likely, Marc felt the existing answers better answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T15:48:24.250" />
  <row Id="17732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T15:51:57.037" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've given this some more thought and basically I hate this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just now I was reminded of a certain type of question that doesn't generate a lot of votes. I haven't thought twice about answering such questions before because either my answer is good and it'll get voted up or it's not and it won't. Now we have to contend with such answers now swimming about randomly in a bunch of Johnny-come-lately answers to the point where it's really not worth bothering because you now have to also hope that that when a random vote does come in, you're at the top at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it's less worthwhile to put extra effort into answers to such questions as votes are even more of a dodgy proposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also we risk another form of undesirable behaviour. Previously people would put in the placeholder, which I didn't think was a problem. This won't stop that. It'll make it worse. The reason is now you put in a placeholder answer and just wait for a real answer and then cannibalize it. If it happens within 5 minutes who's to say who had it first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we going to rely on people to check timestamps where previously the order alone told them who was first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long before the user base at large actually cottons on to this change and just assumes whichever answer is randomly at the top was the first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All for what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: I feel compelled to add &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9ee2f/is%5Fstackoverflow%5Flosing%5Fits%5Fway/?already%5Fsubmitted=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my own thoughts&lt;/a&gt; (in more detail) to this.&lt;/strong&gt; Well not just this but how it fits into a larger picture. Not that anyone will read it because the redditors will downvote it into oblivion but oh well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T17:52:56.980" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:52:56.980" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:04:43.017" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The devil you know, or the devil you don't? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They've replaced what i considered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17538/what-should-be-done-to-people-who-downvote-strategically/17546#17546&quot;&gt;a small, &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; limited&lt;/a&gt; opportunity for gaming with what feels like a &lt;strong&gt;big bold invitation&lt;/strong&gt; for gamers to &lt;em&gt;have at it&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now you're playing craps instead of chess. So the fast and the good still have to compete with the gamers, but now the gamers can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow/17732#17732&quot;&gt;play around with chance&lt;/a&gt; instead of competing with quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;old devil&lt;/a&gt;. I wonder what the new one has in store for us...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:04:43.017" />
  <row Id="17734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17737" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:05:49.693" Score="10" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I make a mistake or leave out some detail in an answer or a question.  Usually someone will politely point out the error in a comment.  Then there may be a little back and forth discussion through more comments.  Usually this all results in me making some change to my original post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this point, ofttimes none of the comments make sense.  Should we clean up after ourselves and delete the comments?  What if only one side deletes his or her comments?  Then the remaining comments make even less sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a big point, I suppose, but I have often wondered about best practices and protocol in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131821" LastEditorUserId="131821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T19:53:24.600" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T19:53:24.600" Title="Deleting Comments After A Fix" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17734" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:08:49.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I believe you should remove comments that have no relavance anymore. You are right, they do not make any sence anymore after corrections have been made. I will leave a comment up until the issue has been resolved or if it is a bad answer, it just gets deleted hopefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the exceptions are bacon and waffle comments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also flag any comment that is not of use anymore. It will be automaticly removed with no moderator intervention after it has been flagged so many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T16:15:01.453" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:15:01.453" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17734" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:09:09.250" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would cleanup yours and trust the other user will do the same in time. If there is a particularly unique reason the comments &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be removed, flag the post for a moderator and let them know why, and they can delete anyones comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:09:09.250" />
  <row Id="17739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17590" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:12:05.763" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the comment originator and others have observed, the difference between a friendly suggestion and a rude beratement is simply tone.  If someone can't be civil, you flag it.  We don't need extended discussion on every possible comment subject matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in this case, Izzy's comment was civil and &lt;strong&gt;okay:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You really should &lt;strong&gt;accept&lt;/strong&gt; an answer for previous questions you've asked. -- Izzy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phrased rudely, it's &lt;strong&gt;not okay&lt;/strong&gt; (flag it):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey noob, why don't you &lt;strong&gt;accept&lt;/strong&gt; some answers for once? -- JerkMan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:12:05.763" />
  <row Id="17741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:17:31.477" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I were &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17706/what-is-considered-appropriate-tag-use&quot;&gt;flaging some tag abuse, some continous spamming by the same&lt;/a&gt; user and some poorly worded questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point I started making silly jokes, hoping that the same mod would view them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I abusing the system by trying to amuse the mods while at the same time trying to improve the site? Would this be OK, if only my jokes weren't so bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T16:45:38.177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:17:42.947" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T16:17:31.477" Title="Am I annoying the mods with my flags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="17742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17741" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:19:10.977" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if your flags are bad. If your flags are legit then the more we get the better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:19:10.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T16:19:10.977" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17734" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:28:20.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually leave another comment that I've changed the answer, mark the changes clearly (or explain them) in the answer, and leave the comment trail as an explanation.  I might go back and delete one of my comments on someone else's answer if they clean up their answer in a way that makes my comment inapplicable.  If they followed my practice, though, I would probably leave it for context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:28:20.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17741" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:28:42.097" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Am I abusing the system by trying to amuse the mods while at the same time trying to improve the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, a few other people do that, too.  There's a limit on the number of characters you can write, so if you have room left over after you've fully explained the issue, go ahead and make me laugh.  (I reserve the right to use your best material and pretend that I thought of it myself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Note:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes Welbog, for christ's sake, I like vanilla ice cream already!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T16:40:53.957" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:40:53.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T16:28:42.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17734" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:29:45.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally delete my own &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; comments if the post owner fixes the issue they address, but don't delete my parts of a conversation to avoid leaving the stub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:29:45.150" />
  <row Id="17753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17757" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:48:30.307" Score="5" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aftering getting slightly annoyed with what seemed to be a simple problem, I decided to consult the minds here at Stackoverflow. So I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1335752/a-callback-to-eachs-callback&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt;. Immediately, a few people flooded in their suggestions and answers which didn't solve the problem, and in most cases only demonstrated that the authors hadn't clearly understood the problem. After several more minutes, a local jQuery guru stepped in and said my code worked just fine, and that nothing was wrong with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I went back to my local code and tested, and it didn't work. After a minute or so I realized that the markup-example I gave on SO (intended to be a simplified version of what I had locally) was actually different than what I had locally. Turns out, I had been thinking of something a bit different when I finished my markup, and began my jQuery. This resulted in me confusing the results of my script, and thus posting a question regarding a problem that never really existed to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I realized what I had done, I tried to delete the question. But you can't, too many responses. So I thought about voting to close, but I don't really think this type of situation calls for a vote. So in the end, I simply posted my own answer giving a thorough explanation for what the issue was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this type of thing won't happen very frequently, but when it does how are we to handle it? Did I do the right thing by explaining what I was confused about, and proving a detailed answer for anybody in the future who comes across the question and finds some assistance from it? Or should I alert a mod and ask for deletion (hoping that won't influence my rep negatively)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:29:52.903" Title="What to do when there was no problem at all?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17753" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:51:26.557" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should vote to close as 'No longer relevant' and explain and apologize in your comments or edited into your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be advisable to flag your question to a mod and asked them to assist you in closing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:51:26.557" />
  <row Id="17755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17753" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:52:19.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either put a comment (or edit your post) to say &quot;Hey I fixed it. Sorry.&quot; or something, or maybe flag it for a moderator to come in and close/lock/delete/whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:52:19.223" />
  <row Id="17756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17753" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:52:35.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's easy to delete the question, then delete it, but if not, I'd do what you did - post what the real problem was and its resolution. It's not worth jumping through hoops to get the question deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:52:35.637" />
  <row Id="17757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17753" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:55:51.760" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank Gumbo, apologize to those looking for a problem where none existed, explain how you were confused, and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:55:51.760" />
  <row Id="17758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17753" CreationDate="2009-08-26T16:58:02.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would make an answer saying &quot;there is no problem.  These aren't the droids you're looking for,&quot; accept it, and then inform the moderators, asking them to close it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T16:58:02.317" />
  <row Id="17759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17685" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:09:54.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I don't agree with Joel and Jeff on this one. &lt;strong&gt;I feel quite strongly that it is rep-whoring, and I think it is detestable.&lt;/strong&gt; People who attribute the original answers I'd consider better, but only slightly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why the site/community would want a rolled-up comprehensive answer. I agree it benefits everyone. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So yes, I'd like to see such an answer - only if the person made it community wiki, and attributed the original answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I truly don't understand why it should be acceptable to have someone roll up all the good points from other answers and use it create a great answer, if they're doing it to bolster their reputation? To someone who comes along later, it'll appear that the person who created the rolled-up answer really knew their stuff. But they didn't, the community did. The reputation assigned should reflect that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who posted the individual points contributed more than the person who just rolled them up together, and the reputation should reflect that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone wants to see people who only create rolled-up answers and gain reputation as a result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:09:54.023" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17741" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:17:42.947" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest Haiku flags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've seen this before...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Duplicate of duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Merge, for God's sake, merge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:17:42.947" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T17:17:42.947" />
  <row Id="17772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:25:31.187" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a terrible decision. It'll encourage duplicate answers and strategic downvoting. &quot;Fastest gun in the west problem&quot; was considered a &quot;feature&quot; of Stack Overflow. It encouraged quick answers. If your quick answer was wrong, you would just create more chance to get downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases (not always, but most of the time) the better answer eventually floated to the top (esp. if was significantly better.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new system creates plenty of horrible problems (the &lt;strong&gt;slowest cheater in the east (SCITE)&lt;/strong&gt; problem) just to solve FGITW, which was not a big issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, today, I answered a question and a virtually identical answer appeared &lt;strong&gt;3 minutes&lt;/strong&gt; later and got upvoted. In this specific case, the guy himself was nice enough to upvote me but I honestly don't think it's a good thing to post a dupe answer after 3 minutes and leave it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Just bring the old system back.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T00:53:22.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T00:53:22.403" />
  <row Id="17775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:36:47.323" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After using this for awhile, I'm going to give the change a &lt;strong&gt;big thumbs up&lt;/strong&gt; for one decisive reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am now free to edit and improve my posts without fear of &lt;em&gt;losing my spot&lt;/em&gt; among same-ranked posts. That alone &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; outweighs any other argument I've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:36:47.323" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17777" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:38:01.113" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16869/view-my-questions-with-unaccepted-answers&quot;&gt;View My questions with Unaccepted Answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish to go over the questions I have asked in the past, to see if there is an answer I should accept.  Therefore how do I find all my questions without an accepted answer that the system things should have an accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:39:52.170" ClosedDate="2009-08-26T18:04:01.387" Title="How do I find all of my questions without an accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17776" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:39:52.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search feature can do this for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame+hasaccepted%3A0&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:39:52.170" />
  <row Id="17779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:44:30.617" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often have many tabs open in my browser while I work away, and like many others, I routinely go to my SOFU pages and hit refresh to see if there have been any answers to my questions or comments to my posts or other positive or negative feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to propose a feature request that would provide an addition to the page title that appears on the browser tab/title bar, which would indicate that there has been some recent activity.  This would be triggered at the same time that the Recent Activity mail icon is colored, and preferably also if there has been some modification in my rep.  The indication could look something like the '(1)' that you see on your GMail page title to indicate a new mail in your inbox.  Alternatively, it could be as simple as an asterisk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice if this could be polled via AJAX so that it isn't dependent on a manual or custom-scripted page refresh request.  (Note that I am not requesting an auto update to the full page,  as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4597/refresh-on-the-frontpage&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but simply an update to the page title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T23:42:36.820" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T19:08:51.403" Title="Indicate in page title if I have changes to my Recent Activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-21T01:40:11.910" Score="30" ViewCount="647" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that humorous responses tend to get voted down quickly and regularly. Typically software developers have a keen sense of humor, and nurture it as a survival instinct.  It does not make sense to me that Stackoverflow's default group responsive behaviour causes vote downs on humour!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the driving force behind the peer pressure to answer seriously and in a straight-forward manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T13:04:04.420" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T12:23:55.713" Title="Why do Stackers consistently vote down humorous responses?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="17783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T01:42:00.253" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because none wants another Slashdot, where you have to dig around about 800 replies down before you get something useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T01:43:40.733" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't downvote humorous answers, but others do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19149/should-wrong-but-funny-answers-be-posted/19151#19151&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19149/should-wrong-but-funny-answers-be-posted/19151#19151&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I must admit, it does limit the distractions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastEditorUserId="144983" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-15T18:04:15.410" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T18:04:15.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T01:45:32.947" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use comments to make Jokes :) I personally like to Joke too, but I can also understand the more serious minded that jokes are out of place in serious answers, unless you use sarcasm to Joke but present the truth, however sarcasm doesn't seem to be recognizable by many folk here... so ...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right and Funny answers are fine IMHO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T01:45:50.183" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of websites you can go to if you want humor - SO is supposed to be about providing useful answers to useful questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I also vote down the &quot;What's your favorite data structure&quot;-type questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They add little of value to SO - if they were phrased as &quot;What's the best data structure in C++ for representing a phone directory&quot;, that would be ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the powers that be have basically stated that a small amount of programming-related humor is acceptable but they don't want the site being swamped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I tend to do is look at the content of my &quot;answer&quot;. If it provides useful information, I make an answer out of it, even if there's a little humor - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602138/is-a-debugger-the-mother-of-all-evil/602205#602205&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for example. If it's all humor and not really useful, I'll either put it in as a comment (likely) or just move on (less likely, due to my personality type).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T01:46:27.030" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, but it states on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bring your sense of humor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T02:11:12.660" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;humor does not compute&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T02:18:31.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I brought my sense of humor &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245334/cant-activate-rake-000#245340&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but no one laughed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T02:30:09.173" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the goals is for this to be a reference in place for years to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The jokey answer may be funny today, but will be annoying to the person looking for an answer to that question in six months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think downvoting is a good remedy -- the joke responses get a brief moment in the sun, then are out of the way of the helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T02:36:41.860" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an attempt at humor within an answer is otherwise not valuable, and if the question is otherwise serious, and if the answer is distracting, then I think downvoting is justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sorts of &quot;humorous&quot; answers are akin to some jack-ass making jokes or throwing pies at someone trying to change a tire. Humor is fine as a complement to getting things done, when it gets in the way of work, then it becomes a problem. Because, to be honest, a lot of this &quot;humor&quot; isn't as funny as the posters think it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone above pointed out, valuing humor as highly as concrete help is a recipe for a rapidly diminishing signal to noise ratio, as seen on slashdot and elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you want to make a joke in a serious topic, put it in a comment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the entire Q&amp;amp;A thread is humorous, then downvoting isn't justified (unless the joke isn't funny, live by the sword, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: keep in mind this is coming from someone who posted a funny answer to the (now deleted) &quot;How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich&quot; question. Humor is good, but you have to be careful from letting it get out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T02:45:11.373" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we should ask for a humor tag to mark answers, so those that don't want humor can filter them out, and those that like humor can enjoy themselves. After all Humor is the highest (requires most knowledge and empathy) form of human communication ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T02:46:41.387" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mayhaps, an additional &lt;strong&gt;funny&lt;/strong&gt; tag to the voting scheme...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; votes: This was helpful and funny.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; votes:  This was helpful.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt; votes:  This was not helpful, but funny.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; votes: This was not helpful.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T09:20:07.333" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down vote funny responses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;??????????&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Profit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-21T09:31:56.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've noticed that humorous responses tend to get voted down quickly and regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that they are sort of OK as long as the question is in the vague/subjective/social/whats-your-favorite-colour category. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139228/what-do-you-do-with-a-developer-that-does-not-test-his-code#139412&quot;&gt;This humorous but useless answer of mine&lt;/a&gt; is currently at +3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, IMHO it depends on the question. Humorous answers to precise technical questions are annoying; to vague questions, they might not be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131923" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" />
  <row Id="17796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-22T22:39:17.190" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a couple of &quot;joke&quot; answers voted up - maybe you just aren't as funny as you think you are. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-22T22:50:56.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe that's what /. is for ... ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Humor...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" />
  <row Id="17798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-26T09:00:36.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be the moderators or Whoever wrote the FAQ should be more clear when thy say &quot; Bring your sense of humour, But not when a serious question is asked&quot;..or something like that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" />
  <row Id="17799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-26T09:06:37.047" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the only point of the post was to crack a joke, make a pun or to prove a certain level of cultural awareness, then it should be voted down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an otherwise solid answer was sweetened with a light touch and a whimsical reference, it should be voted up ... but then it would have been voted up anyway, because of its content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastEditorUserId="2902" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:16:58.940" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:16:58.940" />
  <row Id="17800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-11-26T09:14:15.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People can downvote, but if there is little downvotable posts, normal but not strictly programming related posts get downvoted easily too. That includes humorous posts but also posts that don't seem to be programming related even if they are at least somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137721" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-12-26T01:39:03.190" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the driving force behind the Stackoverflow's peer pressure to answer seriously and in a straight-forward manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is a place for questions that can be answered!&quot; &amp;lt;&amp;lt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Iff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; you answer the question that was asked, and answer it correctly and specifically, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; it's time for other features, e.g. humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Else&lt;/em&gt;, it's not really a good answer, therefore is unhelpful, therefore should be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments, apparently, do not have these requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19746" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" />
  <row Id="17802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2008-12-26T02:44:37.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Humorous responses tend to get voted down quickly and regularly... if humor (or at least attempted humor) is the primary point of the response.  This is as it should be, because humor does not help to resolve technical issues nor to answer most questions of the sort that SO is intended to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, OTOH, the reponse is a solid, meaningful, and helpful answer to the question which just happens to have some humor mixed in with the solid, meaningful, and helpful information, then I've seen no tendency for such to be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is merely that useful content and humorous content tend to be inversely proportional.  SO doesn't downvote humor, it downvotes non-helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145993" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:46:40.450" />
  <row Id="17803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:34:06.750" Score="20" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been hanging around C/C++ questions mostly, and I am seeing some questions where the only useful answer is &quot;go take CS 101&quot; or &quot;go read K&amp;amp;R, and don't come back till you understand it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question here is - to what extent is StackOverfow supposed to replace talking to your CS professor or reading a single book on the language you're asking about? When I see a C question from someone who does not know what a linker is, or someone asking if declaring a stack variable causes a memory leak, I am at a loss as to what to do. I don't want to be uncivil and start a flaming war (hell, I do want to do that, but I've resisted so far). I don't want to downvote, because the question is on topic, after all. I the moment, I simply fume and move on. Is there anything that I can/should do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" Title="How to deal with questions from people who don't know enough to ask?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:38:17.723" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both Jeff and Joel have said no question is too n00b.  If it's a programming question it is valid.  We all started somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The caveat to that is if someone is clearly trying to get you to do their homework for them, they should be voted down to the spinning molten core.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1122" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:38:41.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ignore the question. If it's a duplicate, find the first entry and link to it in the second, and if you have the power close it as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions regarding linkers, stack variables, and memory leaks are valid questions, and shouldn't be punished in any way. Let those that want to ask and answer those types of questions do so without interference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" />
  <row Id="17806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:39:00.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is very simple and seems to be from a beginner, perhaps adding a tag for that and setting your ignored tags to beginner may be of some help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this site is to replace talking to your CS professor, but sometimes professors can be hard to understand or get some 1:1 time with to ask the question.  As for referring someone to a book, this may be a good suggestion from someone that doesn't know which book is the sort of &quot;Bible&quot; for C/C++ programmers as they are learning this on their own with poor reference materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:39:25.647" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, either answer the question or let someone else do it. But, if you do answer the question, give them enough info so they can help themselves in future. (Even though they will most likely ignore it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring it isn't a good idea, we don't want semi-noobs answering noobs questions. We want to make sure the answers on this site are correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131349" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:39:59.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe poor questions are best handled by a lack of answers or &quot;up votes&quot;. It's silly to &quot;down vote&quot; an item because you think it is beneath you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141800" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" />
  <row Id="17809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:44:36.820" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, could you please describe your problem in more detail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" />
  <row Id="17810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:44:38.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think it's important to remember that someone asking a question may never take a CS class or read a programming book cover-to-cover. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with that...the fact that we've built systems that non-programmers can pick up and figure out how to make the computer do what they need is (mostly) a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing. Though of course if they are obvious duplicate questions where someone just didn't bother to look themselves then they should treated as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:45:37.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No question is too simple. The person may not be able to reach their professor for a while, and needs a quick answer. Maybe they read the manual, but didn't understand it for some reason. And yes, maybe they're just lazy. But by putting up an answer and moving on, you encourage them to learn, and to ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I tell people when they ask permission to ask a stupid question: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;There are only 2 types of stupid questions: those that aren't asked, and those that are asked twice.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; In the first case, not much you can do about it, as they haven't put up anything for you to comment on. In the second case, maybe they couldn't find the other version of that question, so instead of answering the question, do as @nobody suggests and link them to the duplicate, and if you can, close the question as an exact duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:45:43.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beauty of stackoverflow is that you can ask/answer questions and help others, regardless of their level of experience or how advanced the question is. What you're basically saying is: &quot;Don't use StackOverflow (or the internet for that matter) if you are a noob. Only ask advanced questions&quot;...which is stupid...long ago I was asking basic questions and getting help from good developers who are willing to help (unlike you, thankfully).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" />
  <row Id="17813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:46:21.467" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the proper thing is to just not answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, I think stackoverflow is for many different levels of skill, and levels of knowledge.  To some extent, I think there needs to be a bit of &quot;self-selection&quot; involved in the question answering process; I know that there are questions on here that are way above my head on some topics.  I don't downvote those for being too complicated; I just assume that my domain knowledge is not high enough.  In a similar vein, there are questions here that are way too simple for me to consider them interesting; I just assume that someone with less knowledge than me will find them to be reasonable questions, and will answer them.  If the answer is REALLY easy, well, then it's a good way to snipe some reputation points, of course...  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I don't think there are questions that are too simple to be asked and answered on here, as long as they're on topic.  That said, I agree entirely with IainMH's assessment of the &quot;do my homework for me&quot; questions; those get downvoted by me, HARD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28053" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" />
  <row Id="17814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:47:54.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People learn in different ways.  While &quot;&lt;em&gt;go read K&amp;amp;R and don't come back until you understand it&lt;/em&gt;&quot; might work for one type of person it most certainly will not for others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the personal explanations of basic concepts from people here on SO will give the person a better understanding so they can then go and seek out information themselves.  Maybe it will act as a crib for people who don't have the requisite knowledge/ability to instantly be self-learners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that when I first started programming if I would of had a resource like this to answer my small and trivial questions I would of certainly picked up the material faster.  Sometimes books and even teachers leave unanswered questions or vagaries.  I'm more than happy to help drive home any point to a budding programmer as long as they are interested and willing to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the simple questions then ignore them. Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" />
  <row Id="17815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T18:54:09.267" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of the people who ask these questions are really Jon Skeet in disguise.  He's trying to give the rest of us something we can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17803" CreationDate="2008-11-21T20:46:47.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arkadiy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First you have to ask YOURSELF a question...why does this bother me so much? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because you are tired of answering the same question again and again?&#xA;Is it because it becomes too hard to address the question when the foundational knowledge isn't there? Or is your frustration a deployment of superiority; a way to feel cooler then the rest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teaching is one of the most important and vital institutions of the human race...part of why we're here is simply to learn, and the best way to learn is to teach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on stackoverflow because I am not a code plumber, nor do I have the time to go to school for a third time to learn a whole other discipline. I am a visual artist. And I have need to rely on YOUR wisdom and the collective wisdom of this awesome community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have the time to answer a question, even if you have to help out with some of the basics, then please do so. If you don't have the time or patience, someone else does. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for asking this important question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:48:19.543" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17823" CreationDate="2008-11-26T20:54:23.920" Score="25" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've all experienced this issue - we ask a question and immediately get inundated with Shakespeare's monkeys all trying to get the answer right in the shortest time (I swear 50% of Hamlet appeared in the responses to a question just yesterday). More often than not, we haven't even finished typing the question before twenty answers crop up pointing at Google, the C# spec, Jon Skeet's blog, an inside joke from the SO podcast, some random Code Project entry, or that dusty top shelf in their gran's pantry (see? there's already 5 answers to this one and I haven't finished yet - no, I don't think the answer is somewhere in UserVoice...whatever). The next thing you know, your question is down-voted fifty times and some self-professed expert called Jon Skeet has soaked up all the reputation points in the universe with his answer that was carefully crafted to perfection in the time it takes mere mortals to read the word &quot;the&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even worse, we've all been the monkey; reading the question too fast, answering a totally different question that we read somewhere between the lines, then realising our mistake and deleting it again, by which time, Jon Skeet has answered another twenty questions, only five of which have been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what tactics can be employed to subvert that impulse to type &quot;I am answer&quot;? Maths tests before posting answers? Candy? Flashing lights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I'm not looking to rehash the question below, people. This was just light-hearted fun for the afternoon as it's honorary Friday here in the US. I was expecting some humourous answers rather than ironic ones (see paragraph starting &quot;Even worse&quot; above and check out the tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/solving-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/solving-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T20:54:23.920" Title="Are Shakespeare's monkeys here?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="17818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-26T20:57:25.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to have some time limit on how long one could answer a question before they start to appear, e.g. give a time block of say 2 hours so that within 2 hours of posting the question, any answers aren't visible and then at that mark all submitted answers are posted.  Granted this does break up the conversation but it also would deter those that want to try to be quick on the trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T20:57:25.427" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-26T21:00:57.900" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you give a million monkeys a million computers, one of them will eventually write a java program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest will write perl programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T21:00:57.900" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-26T21:01:24.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the only way to stop the &quot;fastest gun in the west&quot; mentatility is to essentially not allow questions to be voted on for a period of time.  Say for example 5 minutes.  Enough time to allow people to carefully craft an intelligent response.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not proposing we do this though.  I kinda of like the system as it is now.  It almost feels like a game.  How can I get my answer in quick and correct, better than the other guy?  It really makes you think on your feet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occassionally, I play a different version of the game.  Sit back, relax and craft an intelligent well thought out answer just for fun sake.  If I can still get some rep points then all the better.  I find this strategy to fairly effective.  I've even managed to get an answer accepted after a quick Skeet response that sucked up a quick 17 up votes.  That was a bright day.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T21:01:24.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-26T21:04:50.560" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Jon Skeet know you have a crush on him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142865" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T21:04:50.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-26T21:18:00.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add flashing lights to the side of each question, thus distracting those who are inclined to answer quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers can only be posted after answering a simple question like, &quot;What is your name?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a &quot;Slap answerer&quot; button that people can use to physically slap those who make bad nswers (this may be open to abuse...ow!   ow!   ow! ....stop that! ow!).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T21:18:00.893" />
  <row Id="17823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-26T21:41:42.467" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;HAMLET&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;that old men have grey beards, that their faces are&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;you could go backward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;LORD POLONIUS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;[Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;HAMLET&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Into my grave.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;LORD POLONIUS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Indeed, that is out o' the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T21:41:42.467" />
  <row Id="17824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-29T03:24:58.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First! Ohh wait... lol jk ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26335" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-29T03:24:58.470" />
  <row Id="17825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-29T03:39:35.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you miss the implication of the title Stack Overflow...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A stack should ideally be a simple FIFO data structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;strong&gt;overflowed&lt;/strong&gt; stack like this one, however, fills very quickly with the quickest, first-at-hand &quot;solutions&quot; or wise-cracking comments.  Once the capacity is breached, people only see those solutions and no further wisdom can be imparted on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T21:26:27.987" />
  <row Id="17826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-11-29T23:11:38.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that when you craft your answer carefully, you too are learning. For me the biggest advantage of SO is that it enables me to practice my writing and communication with others. Of course it's nice to have some rep, but I trust that someone who read my answer will eventually give me some rep because my answer is clear and well written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wait a million years, eventually the monkeys turn into humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150896" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-29T23:11:38.887" />
  <row Id="17827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-12-04T22:41:17.510" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it disturbing that I've only just seen this question, despite having the tag equivalent of a bat signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to deter people from posting proper answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be as vague as possible. If you're asking for help on an actual coding problem, don't bother mentioning which language or platform you're using, or whether you're writing a web app, a service, a client app or something else entirely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tell people what answers you &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want, but not why. For example, &quot;I want a way of associating a key with a value, but I don't want to use a tree or a hashtable.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you provide code (preferrably in a mixture of languages; see point 1) make sure you don't bother indenting it. It's far more fun if it looks like it's meant to be just text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pre-emptively insult potential answerers, particularly those seeking clarification: &quot;If you don't know what this means, you're too stupid to give the right answer.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If anyone has the gall to answer, edit the question so that the existing answer makes no sense at all, and preferrably makes the answerer look like an idiot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask your question in Welsh. Downvote any answer &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in Welsh.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid correct spelling and grammar. Why waste your own time when you can waste everyone else's?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I promise not to answer any question which meets all of the above criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-02T21:26:27.987" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17817" CreationDate="2008-12-04T23:06:01.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I resent the implication that I'm a monkey.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_monkey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The term code monkey generally refers to a computer programmer or other person who writes computer code for a living. More specifically, it refers to a person only capable of grinding out code, but unable to perform the more intellectually complex tasks of software architecture, analysis, and design. In this sense, the term is considered to be mildly insulting, and is often applied to the most junior people on a programming team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only had this information at hand because a coworker called me a code monkey earlier this week, and had no idea it had negative connotations.  I set him straight real fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:49:16.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-04T23:06:01.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:51:09.543" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why people are making such a fuss of the new sorting order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important metric on judging if an answer is good or not is the number of votes, and that's still what the questions are sorted by. Then they are sorted randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the new order, write yourself a greesemonkey script and god forbid stop whining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, the new order prevents those one-hit wonder answers of just posting a link when some of us actually try to write a complete answer and then gets ignored because someone posted a totally incomplete answer answer posted as such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oh Look! This link will answer your question!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is not the kind of answers SO should have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvote this answer all you wish&lt;/strong&gt;, the only people which are disadvantaged by the change are the cowboys who tries to fire first with the smallest bullet they can find. At least now a GOOD, THOUGHTFUL answer posted 5 minutes later has the same chance as a one-link wonder crap answers that we are seeing way too often nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T17:59:07.297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:07.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-15T14:36:46.870" Score="6" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am still new to this website but I am curious, what is the incentive for people to answer questions?  It seems like there is a much higher time effort of people to answering versus asking, which surprises me (from a pure utilitarian perspective).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the answer has boiled down to a few basic categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To gain reputation (this was novel at first and wore off after the first few days of using the site).  Also rep can always be gained by asking questions, with the benefit of also obtaining information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To give back.  I find myself doing this whenever I come to SO to search for/ask a question, and see something on the landing page I can answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To correct the answer to an existing question.  This happens when I find the answer on SO and after trying it find it to be incomplete/not fully correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boredom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised how many people are willing to contribute so much time in answering questions with seemingly minimal reward.  Is it just that the community is that friendly and people are acting out of the goodness of their hearts?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136123" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-10T09:51:28.280" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T11:15:49.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-13T15:41:45.503" Title="What's the incentive to answer questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T14:40:49.483" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is like a game to many people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons… (in no particular order)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So they can climb up the user pages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So they can gain reputation to be able to have more ability in the system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So they can gain badges, just for the fun of having them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So they can help others because they like helping others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So they can help themselves; because, they often learn things by having people criticize their answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Makes them feel good about themselves by helping others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they want to promote their own products or services in their 'about' description block.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they want to be known in the programming world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they want to expand their world of known topics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they want to get more in depth knowledge of topics they already know&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They like to be heard, it's a good alternative to having a blog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's fun to be higher in user rank than Jeff and Joel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they want to be the one that dethrones Jon Skeet when he finally takes an extended vacation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because it improves your writing skills.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because people like to be re-assured that they are right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because people like to know when they are wrong. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T14:41:08.373" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Engineers like to be right.  They like people to recognize their skills.  Stackoverflow is shrewdly designed to reward and reinforce these tendencies.  That's why people answer questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133155" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T14:42:19.357" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can also be a way to &quot;validate one's profile&quot;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I am a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/212270#212362&quot;&gt;development architect&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, supposed to assist 400 programmers in their development process. SO is a good way to test myself ;) And to learn lots of new topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" />
  <row Id="17835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T15:12:30.620" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because deep down we all want to fix problems, be it out friends's problems, spouse's problems, other random people's programming problems.  We fix things, that is what we do.  And really this is a positive outlet rather than meddeling where we are not wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also probably have at least a small bit of know-it-all in us, that is trying break free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T16:16:14.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a programmer, I always enjoy running into &quot;atomic&quot; problems that are mostly self-contained (like how to draw multi-colored text in a label or how to get live GPS data from a Garmin PDA), because I can focus on the problem without having my attention distracted by the bigger picture.  In my day job, unfortunately, these encounters are actually kind of rare for me, because most of the technical challenges of my platform have been solved and because I usually turn these tasks over to junior developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a never-ending stream of these atomic problems, kind of like &lt;strong&gt;Sudoku for programmers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" />
  <row Id="17837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T16:37:59.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to answer questions in here and on irc programming channels, to improve my answers for questions by other people.  By looking at what answers get accepted and how many reputation one gains, one can notice what answers were too advanced / too short / off-topic or something else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" />
  <row Id="17838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T16:46:00.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only speak for myself and why I am replying.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first reply was a quick and dirty answer that was (correctly) voted down.  That made me put more effort into answering other question just to show that I can.  And yes, the scoring system also help on the motivations to spend time on my answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting a positive vote also helps on the motivation.  It's not the points itself, but the feeling that someone actually find my answer useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that I am learning more from trying to answer.  There have been a lot of questions I have tried to answer, spending time to search up more information, and ended up not posting any because someone else have given a much better answer before I was finished with mine. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" />
  <row Id="17839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T17:40:22.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people just aren't utilitarian :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes some kinds snap their fingers and shout &quot;Oh, I know I know!&quot; when the teacher asks a question? What makes some people angry at inefficient processes on illogical solutions even if they don't have to pay the price?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, that's the gist of it, even though there are some more possible explanations, that could be interpreted utilitarian:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's leaving a mark in this place – some people plant a tree, some teach you how a garbunkulator works. It's seeing your name in print. It's gaining status in a community of peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31317" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2008-11-15T19:34:51.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because we like to help each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" />
  <row Id="17841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2009-03-12T15:20:02.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it beats answering questions on Yahoo Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139911" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" />
  <row Id="17842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2009-03-12T15:24:13.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subconscious ego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People like to share their opinions, and people like to be right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T11:15:49.397" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T11:15:49.397" />
  <row Id="17843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2009-03-12T15:29:43.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the same reason it's fun to click on monsters in Diablo.  They've done a good job making the site fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70132" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" />
  <row Id="17844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2009-03-24T21:35:50.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agreeing with the rep-collecting and badge-collecting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, anyone who has benefited from a Question or Answer on the site most likely wants to keep it a useful resource.  It's also a breath of fresh air and genuinely better experience that Experts Exchange and all the random sites you used to get when googling for an answer to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm embarrassed to admit that I also enjoy editing questions :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:51:31.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-24T21:35:50.953" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-30T09:15:18.777" Score="25" ViewCount="911" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often you have a question, you can't find the answer on stack overflow so you google (or think a bit more). Having found the answer you'd like to keep a record so you can find it again later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Stack Overflow I would write a blog post so I could google for it later. Jeff and Joel I think specifically said SO is a good place to replace these blog posts. So what is the best etiquette for adding your answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just ask the question, then post your answer immediately and let voting sort the answers out. This is ok, but it looks like you are just trying to generate reputation, and other people often don't vote or answer, and a lot of the SO information is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provide the answer in the question and ask the question phrased as &quot;is there a better answer&quot;. This allows others to gain reputation, and doesn't look so greedy but makes your answer harder to vote on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post your question, let others answer it. If no-one puts the answer you already found, then add it an hour or so later. If someone else gets it then accept their answer (or the best one). This is more selfless with reputation, but makes other people do work you have already done which feels a bit lazy and a waste of everyone's time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe there is another way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136088" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T13:37:54.567" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:37:54.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-30T09:42:08.457" Title="Etiquette for answering your own question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17845" CreationDate="2009-01-30T09:27:01.810" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Community Wiki was made for this purpose. If you already know the answer for your question but you want to let SO community (and maybe other internet people ...) to know it, you can opt for this solution: you won't earn points and other &quot;malicious&quot; users won't think you're just a greedy points collector&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:52:31.703" />
  <row Id="17847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17845" CreationDate="2009-01-30T09:28:22.667" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just post your answer immediately after you post the question. Like you say, phrase it as a request for comments to improve your solution. Your intentions are clear --- I wouldn't think you were trying to generate reputation. Besides, it's my prerogative to reward or punish your efforts. Alternatively, you could mark your answer as a community wiki if you are feeling charitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131705" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:52:31.703" />
  <row Id="17848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17845" CreationDate="2009-01-30T09:28:26.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make it a wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess wikis don't give you reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134198" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:52:31.703" />
  <row Id="17849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17845" CreationDate="2009-01-30T09:33:38.113" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think #2 is a strong answer, respectful of the SO community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking a question you know the answer to (especially if you answer int he same breath) is of dubious value and intent, but if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; approach this with the mindset that what you think you &quot;know&quot; might not really be the best answer, I think you'll be illuminated most of the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nine times out of ten when I go to answer a post, I'm still going to see something which augments, challenges (and therefore causes me to research and reinforce or change my opinion), or completely surprises me. You don't knwo what you don't know after all, and us programmers do tend to lack a certain humility. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:52:31.703" />
  <row Id="17850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17845" CreationDate="2009-01-30T09:39:48.210" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got marked down and slated for answering my own question.... If you look at the badges there is one awarded for answering your own question and getting &gt; 4 votes. This means this is surely approved, and what's more the only method where you will get a badge for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139724" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:52:31.703" />
  <row Id="17851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17845" CreationDate="2009-01-30T10:36:23.183" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community benefits from having a growing store of useful question/answer articles on this site. This is true regardless of whether the question and answer are provided by two different people or the same person. Also, a person who writes a clear, easy to find question and then an easy to follow answer has done some unpaid work to help other people, so they deserve reputation points as much as anyone does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is presumably why the FAQ says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's also perfectly fine to ask and&#xA;  answer your own programming question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aim of the site is gather lots of useful questions and answers. It does this by rewarding those who take the time to contribute with a simple points system with a scoreboard, the points being rewarded by the other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the users habitually award points based on anything apart from the &lt;em&gt;usefulness of the questions and answers&lt;/em&gt;, the site will end up as a respository of... what? Depends what weird criteria people are using to award points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be difficult to keep that in mind, as we are not totally rational animals, and all incentive systems produce a certain amount of irrational complaint as a by-product, but it's worth a try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe one day, when SO has taken over the world, and is the Walmart of programming tips, someone will start a 100% &quot;organic&quot; programming Q&amp;amp;A site, where all the questions and answers are certified to be based on genuine incidents involving exactly one programmer lost in a puzzle they can't answer and one or more enlightened heroes who come to their rescue. And maybe it will &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; better that way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:52:31.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-30T10:36:23.183" />
  <row Id="17853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-25T20:00:37.460" Score="44" ViewCount="2696" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are &lt;em&gt;badges?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does a user get &lt;em&gt;badges?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I get the &lt;em&gt;tag specialist badges?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why isn't the &quot;XYZ&quot; badge working?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T20:11:09.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T20:00:37.460" Title="How do &quot;badges&quot; work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="17854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17853" CreationDate="2008-09-25T20:00:49.440" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What are &lt;em&gt;badges?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are a way of recognizing users who contribute to the website.  There are many ways to contribute, and consequently, there are many badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three levels of badge ranking.  Bronze badges are relatively easy to get, and often help teach users how to use the system.  Silver badges are more difficult to earn, and can be gained for things like extremely insightful questions and answers, as well as a dedication to moderating and improving the content of the site.  Gold badges are the most difficult to earn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges a user has earned are displayed on their user profile, and are summarized next to the users's gravatar, listing just the numbers of gold, silver, and bronze.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badges a user has earned don't have any effect on the site, they are simply a sign of accomplishment and bragging rights.  The user's abilities are governed not by badges, but by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130654/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does a user get &lt;em&gt;badges?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/67397/143601&quot;&gt;List of all badges with full descriptions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users get badges by participating in the site.  The badges page summarizes what is specifically needed to gain each badge.  Most badges are awarded for writing particularly good questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some badges can be gained more than once, and in these cases the User's name will appear multiple times on that badge's page, once for each time the user earned that badge.  The badges listing on the user page will also display a multiplier next to the badge indicating the number of times it has been earned.  The badges that can be earned more than once are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enlightened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Famous Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Good Answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Good Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great Answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guru&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Necromancer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nice Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notable Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popular Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Populist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reversal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self-Learner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stellar Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yearling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site admin has stated multiple times that, by design, badges cannot be lost or revoked, unless they were obtained by cheating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the criteria for a badge no longer exist &amp;#8212; e.g. the post it was awarded for is deleted &amp;#8212; the next award of that badge is negated. When badges are awarded, the system checks to see how many you're supposed to have, and only awards new badges when the number of badges you're supposed to have is greater than the number of badges you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, suppose one of your answers received 10 up-votes, which caused you to earn the Nice Answer badge. After you have the badge, that same answer is down-voted to a score under 10. The Nice Answer badge is not revoked. However, the next time you have an answer that gets 10 up-votes, you will not earn an additional Nice Answer badge, because the system sees that you already have the number of Nice Answer badges that you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases badges gained or lost may not show up immediately, but will instead be awarded the next time the system recalculates badges, which occurs periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do I get the &lt;em&gt;tag specialist badges?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are awarded when you achieve a specific number of upvotes for questions with a particular tag.  There are three levels: bronze requires 100 upvotes, silver requires 400 upvotes and gold requires 1,000 upvotes.  Only &lt;em&gt;non&lt;/em&gt;-community-wiki answers are considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you get 400 upvotes for questions tagged with &quot;java&quot;, you'll get a &quot;java&quot; silver badge. Earn another 600 upvotes for a shiny gold badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/2365&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;check your progress&lt;/a&gt; on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/specialist-badge-implemented/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;announcement post&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why isn't &quot;XYZ&quot; Badge Working?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some badges are listed on the Badges pages but have not yet been awarded to anyone (&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/badges&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;; StackOverflow has no unawarded badges). This is merely because the criteria for obtaining them are beyond what any user has been able to meet.  In the past, the site authors have added badge descriptions before writing any implementing code.  This was the case for the Generalist badge (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4916/suggested-implementation-for-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastEditorUserId="143601" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T15:56:58.750" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T15:56:58.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T20:00:49.440" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="17855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17853" CreationDate="2008-11-23T23:39:47.007" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer for users familiar with the Xbox 360, Games for Windows - Live, World of Warcraft or Steam:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are Achievements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Addendum for PlayStation Network users: Badges are Trophies.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163548" LastEditorUserId="163548" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-10T20:11:09.363" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T20:11:09.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-23T23:39:47.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17853" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:03:17.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is the &quot;badges page&quot; that lists the definition of all the badges? I've searched and I only come back here :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Badges page is here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:54:57.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T21:03:17.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17853" CreationDate="2009-04-11T22:02:01.333" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What is this new Populist Badge?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier today a new badge, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/62/populist&quot;&gt;Populist badge&lt;/a&gt;, was added to Stack Overflow. The criteria for earning the badge, according to the badge page, are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided an answer that outscored the accepted answer by 2x. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is an additional criteria to get the badge: your answer has to be the highest-ranked answer. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50335?sort=votes#sort-top&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for instance. The accepted answer has a score of 13.  The answer with the score of 65 was granted the Populist badge, while the answer with the score of 41, while still having more than 2x the score of the accepted answer, was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/94189-add-a-badge-for-an-answer-voted-higher-than-the-accepted-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;completed UserVoice item&lt;/a&gt;, the accepted answer must have at least 10 votes for your answer to earn the Populist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(it seems to me that it would make more sense for the answer receiving the badge to have a score of at least 20, as opposed to requiring that the accepted answer have at least 10 votes)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:54:57.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-11T22:02:01.333" />
  <row Id="17859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17853" CreationDate="2009-05-14T18:56:04.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How low a set of views does one need to get the Tumbleweed badge?  I've got a question with no answers, no comments, and only 26 views since I posted it a week ago.  I'd have rather had good answers, but short of that, a badge commemorating the futility of my situation would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:54:57.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-14T18:56:04.643" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17853" CreationDate="2009-05-25T17:38:11.260" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;does the Tumbleweed give a bad impression?  Kind of sound like you asked a bad question... (when a topic is not popular, it might not be a bad question in itself).  and how much is low views as in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tumbleweed:     Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and low views for a week &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150920" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:54:57.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-25T17:38:11.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17853" CreationDate="2009-06-17T15:43:11.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I find out specifically which of my questions/answers/comments earned me a given badge? Clicking on a badge, or badge notification, takes me to a general description and a list of others who have received the same badge, but I can never tell for sure &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; I earned it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134970" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:54:57.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T15:43:11.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:55:32.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here because I'm trying to improve my English writting skills and learn more about ASP.NET MVC and when I'm doing nothing, I like to answer questions that I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:55:32.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T17:55:32.450" />
  <row Id="17864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:56:24.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;During this week I had a strong feeling that it was much easier to gain rep from the upvotes then before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't know if it's linked or not, but I finally have the highest&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; score on &lt;code&gt;SO&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Among the users with default &lt;code&gt;gravatar&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastEditorUserId="132020" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T18:01:31.173" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:01:31.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-05T23:14:16.810" Score="21" ViewCount="1381" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the idea of Stack Overflow.  Particularly the focus on the question and answer, with discussion being secondary.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there other similar sites you frequent when there are no new questions here to answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23071" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T10:02:45.313" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T16:07:06.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T18:16:34.700" Title="Other sites like Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-05T23:20:56.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to ask the same thing (I've been looking)...also does anyone know of a site (like stackoverflow) dedicated to architecture and patterns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-05T23:21:37.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usenet.  The original.  Discussion, sure, but lots of good answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Via &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Groups&lt;/a&gt;.  Start with &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp/topics?lnk=srg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C#&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/topics?lnk=sg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Java&lt;/a&gt;, if so inclined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-05T23:33:14.527" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could try &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.experts-exchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Experts Exchange&lt;/a&gt; if you feel like getting ripped off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, wasn't the annoyance factor of EE the catalyst for the creation of Stackoverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-05T23:58:57.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ask.metafilter.com&lt;/a&gt; covers real-world questions and answers, but the occasional programming question shows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4276" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-06T00:27:02.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo answers&lt;/a&gt; isn't too bad once you filter out the trash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-06T00:40:23.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself hopping over to MSDN forums and community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-06T01:31:23.773" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codeproject.com/&lt;/a&gt; they have a great community there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-06T01:34:05.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to frequent the &lt;a href=&quot;http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Big Moose Saloon&lt;/a&gt; over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.javaranch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Java Ranch&lt;/a&gt; before SO opened to beta testers.  As the name implies, though, it's focus is Java programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-09T21:07:13.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Talk?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A forum for Google Talk&lt;/a&gt; looks like it drew some inspiration from Stack Overflow. It has voting on questions (although everything is date sorted), and the asker can mark an answer as &quot;Best Answer&quot; (although &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ask Metafilter&lt;/a&gt; has had that for a long time). The &lt;a href=&quot;http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-google-talk-help-forum.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post announcing it&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Google Help Forum also keeps track of how active a user is in the Forum. For example, you can see who is a Google Employee, top contributor, seasoned poster, or new poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it sounds like it's got a basic form of reputation similar to other forms of forum software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-10-22T12:38:59.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WikiAnswers&lt;/a&gt;. Not only because the site pays my salary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131113" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" />
  <row Id="17876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2008-12-02T19:13:52.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've created an Open Source implementation of StackOverflow which we're using as our primary forums/support mechanism which can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stacked.ra-ajax.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:58:08.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-26T17:58:33.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to hear a discussion with a developer that is working on the AdSense for Google. Jeff has voiced a lot of opinions about AdSense which I tend to agree with but hearing from the source about why their model isn't working as intended and what they are planning to do about it would be very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130917" LastEditorUserId="130917" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T18:22:53.270" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:22:53.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T17:58:33.070" />
  <row Id="17878" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17886" CreationDate="2009-01-08T09:02:46.117" Score="22" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often a number of users will give similar answers to a question I post on Stack Overflow. Sometimes someone will give an answer that is interesting, but does not really help answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all cases I feel a need to thank the people who replied to my question. Upvoting their reply isn't always appropriate, and only one reply can get the &quot;answer crown&quot;. Commenting with a &quot;thanks&quot; comment on every response makes me feel like a bit of a bozo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's the etiquette?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134611" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T23:01:01.027" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T23:01:01.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T09:18:28.127" Title="Thanking users who answered my question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;thanks&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T09:06:43.160" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T09:09:16.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not fighting for a crown or something like this.&#xA;I just want to help and hope that someone helps me, when i have a question. The points and all this is an eye candy, but not the goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks should be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" />
  <row Id="17881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T09:10:24.523" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote their answer up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T09:14:54.000" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvote and then do thanks (not in a way just &quot;thanks&quot;, write something useful) if it's exceptionally good (where you believe one upvote doesn't enough). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still don't see why we can't just give 5 upvotes at a time since everyone got 10 upvotes for a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T09:25:50.937" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a really good answer I seek out other good answers the person made and give them a little extra sugar :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6521" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T09:25:50.937" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T09:54:11.753" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the activity of the thread is slower, I would insert an answer to my own question and use it to thank everyone who posted a reply. In this way you avoid inserting a &quot;thank-comment&quot; in each reply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T09:54:11.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T10:25:22.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually comment the answer with a thank you and some other info. I feel the same as you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T10:25:22.890" />
  <row Id="17886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T10:44:37.393" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, anyone posting here with the idea that they should be personally thanked for every answer they provide is going to be very disappointed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to thank someone for a good answer, then you'll perhaps take the time to go through one of &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; questions and provide a good answer for some programming question &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, &lt;strong&gt;just &quot;pay it forward&quot; and answer another programmer's question&lt;/strong&gt;. That's really what it's all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T10:44:37.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17878" CreationDate="2009-01-08T10:53:41.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The satisfaction of answering a question is, in itself, thanks enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although - Nothing says thank you like cold, hard cash.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T17:59:08.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-08T10:53:41.227" />
  <row Id="17899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17779" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:11:06.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be great for those of us who have our browsers minimized while we work on other stuff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Glancing down at the title is easier than stopping what we're doing, opening up the browser, refreshing the page, minimizing, and getting back into the swing of things regarding our work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-minimized.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="144987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-21T19:08:51.403" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T19:08:51.403" />
  <row Id="17903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:20:23.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about how you obtain the detailed metrics and statistics for StackOverflow. Did you have to code the logging of key metrics? Also, how does Stack Overflow make enough money from just the few ads to pay for Jeff and the other two developers, plus other expenses like hosting, etc? BTW, where is is hosted?&#xA;Brian&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:20:23.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T18:20:23.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17753" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:29:52.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;just do the RIGHT thing :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132619" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:29:52.537" />
  <row Id="17906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17907" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:30:02.507" Score="2" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm member of stackoverflow about 7 months and I can access my account without any difficulty at job until 2 weeks before. At first FireFox started to get blank page (without any source) for SO, SU and Meta. Then I started to use IETab to access the sites. After a week, when I try to open all SO, SU and Meta in Internet Explorer, FireFox and Chrome, I get a blank page (without any source). I traced by Fiddler and see that I get 403 Forbidden error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried at my friend's computer, it still returns blank page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, is my work IP banned ? Or is it the result of some network rules ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at the related questions, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8596/403-forbidden-returned-for-any-so-related-page&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and it looks like my work IP is banned too. Is it a cause of multiple accounts at the same IP ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:33:19.783" Title="Getting 403 Forbidden when I try to access SO, Meta and SU" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17906" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:33:12.077" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sure sounds like you have been IP banned. This should reset eventually.&#xA;You should make sure that you do not have any scripts or bots running against StackOverflow from your IP address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow for a faster and more accurate resolution to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:33:12.077" />
  <row Id="17908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17906" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:33:19.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a similar experience, which turned out being dynamic ip blocking based upon many requests in too short a time period. Are you using any local scripts to enhance your experience here on SO? More specifically, any scripts that access the SO site many times a second?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The typical ban for this is about 60 seconds I think. But it will happen again if you are indeed running scripts. I eventually turned of many of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:33:19.783" />
  <row Id="17910" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18008" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:39:57.150" Score="30" ViewCount="932" Body="&lt;p&gt;The responses from this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seem to indicate disagreement with this change. Please return the sorting system to the way it was before based on time instead of randomly sorting answers with the same number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my typical meta fashion I have applied a ridiculous bounty to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/podcast-66/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #66&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Codexon's blog post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mentioning &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codexon.com/posts/simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;codexon's blog post&lt;/a&gt; about how to game reputation by posting a scaffold answer (&quot;peanut butter and jelly&quot; was the example) and then copying a correct one to fill the spot so that your answer appears on top is a great reason to revert to the old method. Now, you don't even have to post first to game this way. Since the sorting will be random now, just find a decent answer with 0 votes and copy/paste it as your own, and now you can appear on top as if you were copied. With the time sorting method, copying another answer would push the duplicate to the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every answer should be judged on its own merits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was never an issue, answers have always been judged by their merits. A great example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/701322/how-can-you-get-the-first-digit-in-an-int-c/&quot;&gt;my own answer to a very simple question&lt;/a&gt;, which was basically just a collection of other answers with a benchmark added. It came in over an hour after the accepted answer, but it has been voted up higher. It wasn't magically &quot;unread&quot; because it started off lower in the answer order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some questions just don't deserve an answer with your definition of quality. A lot of jQuery questions, for example, are basically &quot;which selector should I use&quot;. How much quality could you possibly want for questions like that, copying the jQuery documentation? If someone is actually willing to make a summary of the docs, &lt;em&gt;they will get upvoted anyway&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want people to read all the answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Huh? How does this change by sorting them randomly? If a user would stop reading beyond the first post, what is going to make them start now? Again, this new sorting system only makes it worse! If they just vote for the first post they see (which may or may not be a duplicate), there is now incentive to leave copied answers (instead of delete them and upvote the first one) because your answer might get lucky enough to be on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you could edit your post and make it better, but again, it would be upvoted similarly using the old sort order. Again, it also may not be worth a tremendous effort depending on how simple the question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is an incredible amount of angst and hand-wringing about this new sort order&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is blatantly incorrect. Nowhere in this thread is anyone truly upset about the change, we are merely expressing disagreement with it. We're trying to &lt;em&gt;help benefit the site and the community&lt;/em&gt;, not scream and whine about the change. Personally, I couldn't care less which sort order you ultimately use, I'm just explaining which way I think is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Random is better ... in surveys&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is not a survey site, it is a question/answer site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T08:13:25.197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:13:25.197" Title="Please return to the old sorting by time method of answers with the same number of votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="28" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="17911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:42:08.707" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I don't see any reason why we ever departed with encouraging the FGITW issue, but the solution is far worse than the cure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:42:08.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:43:14.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m surprised this change got even noticed, let alone drew so much fire … because, honestly, you all sort by time anyway, right? &lt;strong&gt;right?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh dear …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, the default sort order (by votes) makes sense for people who have just googled/bing’d for the problem and found the answer on SO. What they want is &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt; and they don’t want to read through pages of bad (but recent) ones to get to the gems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But everyone who has complained about the new system so far has a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; reputation score. You’re the active folks, people! You don’t &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt;, you &lt;em&gt;contribute&lt;/em&gt;. You examine the existing answers, correct, amend, chastise, and complete. In one word, you &lt;em&gt;interact&lt;/em&gt;. For you (or at least, for me) the answers aren’t isolated but &lt;em&gt;re&lt;/em&gt;lated to each other and reading them in the wrong order (i.e. not in temporal order) would make as much sense as hearing random snatches of a conversation in the wrong order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line of all this is: the new algorithm is completely irrelevant for me, since I don’t notice it. I think it might even be preferable for non-contributors. But for me (and for you) it shouldn’t matter. And just in case you’re wondering whether I’m asking you to change your answers ordering, let me remove all doubt: &lt;strong&gt;I am.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if this measure is meant to prevent tactical downvoting, it’s a bad solution. Tactical downvoting could be prevented once and for all if they would just finally implement that tiny request that has been flying around &lt;em&gt;for ages&lt;/em&gt;, that you can only downvote if you explain the downvote in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T18:43:14.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-26T18:46:30.337" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. If we don't revert, you could track Jon Skeet's recent activity and immediately clone his responses (change variable names, at most) and submit :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, IMO, not only downvoting strategically is ethical now, it's even encouraged to fight gaming the system with the &lt;strong&gt;Slowest cheater in the east&lt;/strong&gt; (SCITE) problem. You should downvote any duplicate you see in the new system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T19:27:21.877" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T19:27:21.877" CommentCount="24" />
  <row Id="17915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-26T19:13:28.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When did this happen?  I've always used &quot;Oldest&quot; sort rather than &quot;votes&quot;.  Maybe that's a better solution: registered users see it sorted that way instead, or some variation thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T19:13:28.970" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-26T19:21:18.753" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely agree that the old method needs to return. The potential for abuse on both ends is higher now. People will start downvoting much more to move people down the list who tie with them, and you are also giving equal footing to people who post duplicate answers. As long as the vote totals remain the same, any normal user would be unable to determine who actually posted first. Therefore the first answer they see (even if it was the duplicate) has a higher probability of getting the upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop punishing those of us who contribute quality answers quickly. As I have said numerous times, bad answers go to the bottom regardless of when they are posted and good answers should bubble to the top regardless of when they are posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T19:21:18.753" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17636" CreationDate="2009-08-26T19:32:47.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been the sole admin of the LinkedIn group (me on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/905&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithhenry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;) since I proposed it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15815&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15815&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd welcome Jeff and co to the group - anyone who's a moderator on here would be welcome as an admin on the LinkedIn group. I'd welcome anyone with a decent rep from any of the SO sites as an admin - currently I have to manually accept all members, so sorry for any delays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better links is a good idea - lots of recruiters use LinkedIn, but they don't really know SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we would benefit from adding a LinkedIn &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=application%5Fdirectory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'application'&lt;/a&gt; (basically a profile plug-in) to display &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;SO flair&lt;/a&gt;, but I haven't got round to looking at that in detail yet (I probably will next time I'm job hunting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be possible using the LinkedIn API to post and update jobs from &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com&lt;/a&gt; to the group discussion board, but I'm not sure of the value - I spend more time here than on LinkedIn, so I'm more likely to see a relevant job advert on here than on there. I'd happily support someone else doing it if they felt that it would really help though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T19:32:47.340" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-26T19:37:20.107" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I knew that Jon Skeet should never have posted his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1287567/c-is-using-random-and-orderby-a-good-shuffle-algorithm/1287572#1287572&quot;&gt;random shuffle code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new algorithm introduces a gaming tactic of downvoting an earlier answer that was upvoted.  Previously, this would have done no good since it would still appear higher in the default sort order.  Now there is some gain to downvoting this answer (as long as it is only one greater than yours) since you can increase your visibility on the question.  As long as the OP can select the best answer and accept it I think we ought to be using the old system.  Good, early answers will continue to get votes over later answers, but the best answer will rise to the top due to the ability to accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't think that I am often the first answerer -- unless I'm the only one.  My tactic is to try and write complete answers with references and examples.  More often than not the inclusion of references and examples trumps quickness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T19:37:20.107" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="17921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-26T19:38:00.620" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that this new change is just fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people who want the answers sorted by time, they can simply change their sort to 'oldest'. For those who want to sort by votes, they will receive a list that is (as they requested) sorted by &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, being the first to post is still advantageous, it means you have more time to gain upvotes while there are no other responses. However, once the other responses appear, why does it matter which is first, the upvotes should be based on whose response is &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A side effect of the previous system was that if there were many posts with the same number of votes, and mine was the earliest, I was unlikely to edit it for fear that I would lose my top spot. Usually it was grammatical mistakes (I'm aghast I made them in the first place) but occasionally they were links or other such helpful tid-bits. Sometimes I edited and got upvotes, other times I edited and found that the other answers (with less information) got upvoted soon after. In making my response better, I &lt;em&gt;lost&lt;/em&gt; reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This new system is meant to combat that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it will work. But I'm willing to try it, rather than explode with indignation after only 8 hours of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T19:38:00.620" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="17923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:03:24.690" Score="11" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Along the same lines as the recent moderator votes, I'd like to see the SO team put up signficant new features or changes for votes before implementing them.  The votes and comments would serve as feedback to the planned features.  This feedback would be used in conjunction with the team's internal planning to decide on what to develop and when.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, the planned feature list could be put up as a series of answers to questions to get feedback on importance and desirability.  This would allow the community to help direct rather than react to changes in the system.  For example, post &quot;Planned Features for October&quot; (probably too late for September) and lock it to the front page of meta.  Put your planned features in the queue as they come up and use votes/comments as a guide to schedule/improve/drop planned features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it seems to work now is that if someone posts an idea that the SO team agrees with it gets done, but there isn't any way to gauge the community's input in the same way that we had with UserVoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T20:43:10.333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T03:07:10.963" Title="Allow the community to influence development of SO features explicitly" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14406" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:06:41.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff/Joel, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you be interested in a community podcast transcription service that utilizes the power of your site's tribe/users/community. It would all be driven by a ridiculously simple-to-use UI and API. The goal would be for your users to stay on your site, but hit a little button/link on the side of the page that says something along the lines of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Contribute 10 seconds of your time to help transcribe Podcast #65&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (or whatever you want it to say... it's an API, you have the power!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Feature Notes:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would allow a user to transcribe a 1 to 3 second clip. In the end, it would auto-stitch each &quot;transcriptlet&quot; into the final transcript, then post it. The main goal is an unbeleiveabley simple to use interface that takes the user 15 seconds or less to transcribe a 1 to 3 second clip. If 1,800 (of your 1 mil users) transcribe 2 seconds then your 60 minute podcast is transcribed (potentially in an insanely short period of time). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will of course be options: like must have 3 (or X) copies/matches of each &quot;transcriptlet&quot; ~roughly match before it is &quot;auto-approved/stitched&quot;. And many more, I am not going to get into all of the details here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other features: Point-base sub-system, achievement sub-system, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions for Joel and Jeff:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, what I wanted to know is, would you guys (Jeff and Joel) be interested in a using a service like this. I need a good beta site to try this out on. You could empower your community and get your podcasts transcribed. And be part of building a (another) great service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, I want to know: Do you think other sites with podcasts and a community would pay for something like this. I am talking like $5, $10 or $15/hr for transcription (rather than the $200+/hr that some people charge). There will also be a free service (X minutes/month or whatever) too, but the premium service would cost a very small amount. Or possibly it will be ad supported. But I know I just listened to you guys talk about the dissapointment with Google AdSense... Anyways, it's starting out as free for sure (during beta). And most likely free for you guys always :) Because I want StackOverFlow to be transcribed (I will pay the $5 per podcast :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What inspired this project:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The end of every single one of your podcasts (wiki comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that I would like to search and replay segments of the podcast for someone, but can never remember which is which, due to the lack of podcast transcribing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like your idea of the wiki, but that requires people to listen to the mp3 with a player, keep track of timing and stop/replay/pause the track, and update the wiki properly. It is a bit time consuming.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After listening to &quot;Tribes&quot; by Seth Godin, it really made me think that this would work no problem with a community like yours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be a fun little app/service/site to write with my development team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We would be solving a problem that exists for a lot of podcast/communities. (Hanselminutes, twit, ...) Anyone with a Tribe really.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And yes, money. Money is good side-effect of providing an elegant solution to a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Current Project Status:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had my first meeting with the development team, we have initial database design, very rough Balsamiq Mockups, FogBugz Wiki/Tasks created and a bunch of other planning done. They asked me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Well how do you know Jeff and Joel&#xA;  would even want to use something like&#xA;  this if we spent the 6 to 8 weeks (ok&#xA;  4-6 months) to developed it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said, I don't know, but I have very strong feelings that they would. So that is why I am asking. It would be GREAT if one of you or both of you could respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can make this happen. I am ready to pull the trigger, we might do it anyways. But if I saw a reply from you guys that said &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Heck yes we would use that&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Then it would be a no-brainer for us to make it happen. If you said &lt;strong&gt;&quot;You are a frikin' IDIOT&quot;&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, then maybe I might back-off and think of another idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Quick background:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I own/run a small development company in Grand Rapids, MI. We have run and successfully delivered many software products from the very big to the very small. We can rock it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thanks!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your time. I apologize for the very long message and the loose grammar. It happens when I get excited about something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134873" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:06:41.093" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:06:48.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, and the recent change to random answer sorting is an excellent example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In every FGITW thread before it, the community and the dev response was that we should encourage FGITW behavior and that two duplicate answers should be voted on by who got there first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it looks like this has been reversed because of a few whiny newcomers overnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see these kinds of changes talked about in depth with more of an official tone once they are vetted with the community as a first pass. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:06:48.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17927" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:11:04.487" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed on SO due to the existence of an exact duplicate of said question there should be a link to the latter from the closed question so people can quickly get to the answer they're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T20:13:04.280" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:13:04.280" Title="Exact Duplicate Routing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17926" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:12:39.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is. It is put at the top of the question by the community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:12:39.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:13:44.137" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often times I feel as if Meta is just a padded room that they built for us to bounce around in, but all the walls are soundproof so that all of our commentary doesn't necessarily reach any actual ears on the outside world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be extremely happy if there was some sort of development road map. Not even for the use case of being able to vote and discuss, but just to know what the heck is going on. It seems all too often that you can wake up one morning and &lt;strong&gt;boom&lt;/strong&gt; there is a change in place and you don't really find out anything about it until a blog post some time later that day (if at all, sometimes all you get is a small comment on two month old post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to discuss what the future holds is supposed to be the purpose of MSO (aside from offering support and bug reporting), but it's impossible to know what is really going on behind closed doors until the changes are already made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:13:44.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:16:52.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is a horrible idea or not, but I'll put it out there just the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should attempt polling outside of meta?  I'm thinking something along the lines of the informational banner at the top of the page which appears when browsing another SOFU site, saying something like &quot;Your input is requested on an important topic at meta.stackoverflow.com...&quot; with a link to the issue in question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps make it appear at random for 1% of the visitors to SO?  Only appear to people with a certain minimal rep?  Only appear to people who have an active meta account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just trying to think of ways to &quot;reach out&quot; to the non-meta-using population at large and get their input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:16:52.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:27:05.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As discussed on a recent episode of hanselminutes registered users account for 10% of the traffic, Google accounts for most of the rest. I'd like to see a development outline as well but just because most people on meta think something should be done doesn't mean the vast majority of people who use the site would want that feature/change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:27:05.360" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17753" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:29:52.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I think it is better not to delete the question. Depending on the question of course, someone looking for the same issue through Google could find the SO entry, and realize its own misunderstanding : the fact there is no problem at all. I think it's important in that case to put an answer, trying to brifly explain the reasons behind this mistake, as you told. If it doesn't add complexity to the undestanding of the issue of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83331" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:29:52.903" />
  <row Id="17935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:35:11.800" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; fan of &quot;design by committee&quot; - if the SO Team wants to make a change, they should of course do so without having to put it to community vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; put it to community vote. Or at least appear to. Blog posts, UV, and now MSO have all been positioned as a way to &lt;em&gt;make your voice heard&lt;/em&gt;, and guide the evolution of SO. That's why i'm here; that's the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; reason i'm here - if SO is going to decide these things based on the Voice of the Community, then &lt;em&gt;i want my voice heard&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, as TheTXI theorizes, this is merely a way to shut us up, then there's no real point to participating. But if they do truly intend us to have some small say in what is done, then I agree with your proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T20:45:23.420" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:45:23.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:36:06.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Originally, comments addressed a legitimate need to add short annotations to a post, to note a caveat or mistake, or ask for clarification. My understanding was the comment would eventually lead to improvements in the post. The author of the post (or in some cases an editor) would read the comment, improve the post to address the comment's concern, and then &lt;em&gt;delete the comment&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the feature creep I've seen since comments were introduced. They got longer, everyone but the commenter lost the ability to delete, they got votes, and now there's even a badge for votes on comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how any of that, and especially editing comments, contributes to the ultimate goal of the sites: better &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T15:43:59.523" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T15:43:59.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:35:31.373" Score="0" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that some people are abusing close votes on interesting questions, even if those questions are getting answers from people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would like to know, who has the right to close these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134899" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T01:30:22.673" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:30:22.673" Title="Who has the right to close questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17937" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:37:21.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone who has at least 3000 reputation can vote to close questions (see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this question will probably be closed/moved as it belongs on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133251" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:37:59.013" />
  <row Id="17939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17937" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:37:54.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone who has 3000+ rep can vote to close a question.&#xA;Once five people to close it's closed, and then people can vote to reopen it (with the samee constraints: 3000+ rep and five voters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88851" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:37:59.013" />
  <row Id="17940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17941" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:39:57.300" Score="3" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does one post XML in Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and backticks to no avail. I suppose that I could go through and try indent every line by four spaces but that would get really tedious really fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to easily post XML in a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;URL of question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1337316/configuring-elmah-unrecognized-config-section-error&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1337316/configuring-elmah-unrecognized-config-section-error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried putting the XML inside &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags and that sliced and diced the XML in a very odd fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133500" LastEditorUserId="133500" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T20:48:27.093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:50:49.897" Title="Posting XML in Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;xml&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17940" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:43:25.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just use the code block?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a code button in the editor toolbar.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tof.canardpc.com/view/ae28ab98-0943-4e61-a547-44b3e7492366&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could highlight the XML and press &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;k&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could indent the XML with 4 spaces.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, you are getting close to exceeding the maximum length of a post. You should be more terse or host it externally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fixed your post for you by highlighting the XML and clicking the button like I said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;More information:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T20:50:49.897" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:50:49.897" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="17942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17940" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:43:44.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on how much you are trying to post, using an outside repository like PasteBin may be your most efficient method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:43:44.810" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:43:57.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alex Papadimoulis from TheDailyWTF was an awesome guest, I certainly wouldn't mind hearing an encore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1249" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:43:57.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-26T20:43:57.227" />
  <row Id="17944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17940" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:44:07.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tof.canardpc.com/view/ae28ab98-0943-4e61-a547-44b3e7492366&quot; alt=&quot;Image&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88851" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:44:07.273" />
  <row Id="17947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:52:17.353" Score="0" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17937/who-have-the-right-to-close-questions&quot;&gt;Who have the right to close questions ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who get points because of their questions and answers doesn't mean they are good moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people seem to hate questions when it relates to something new as if they fear for their language, it seems they are very akeen to close such question whereas they're getting answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They don't close jokes whereas they close questions such as &quot;Why would you learn a new programming language&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134899" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:57:06.657" ClosedDate="2009-08-26T21:14:05.390" Title="Are Moderators noted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="17949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17947" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:53:53.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait... What now? You aren't making any sense, Rebol. I've seen joke questions closed on numerous occasions, while questions regarding new languages or libraries tend to do reasonably well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link to examples of what you're talking about, or &lt;em&gt;it didn't happen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:53:53.247" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="17950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17947" CreationDate="2009-08-26T20:57:06.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you were informed here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17932/why-was-my-question-closed-while-others-similar-were-not&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17932/why-was-my-question-closed-while-others-similar-were-not&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is not valid. Please read the FAQ and discontinue this nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T20:57:06.657" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="17951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T21:04:38.513" Score="1" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11635/instant-messaging-on-so-sf-su&quot;&gt;instant messaging on SO SF SU&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way one can engage in a private conversation with another user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T16:25:05.167" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T16:25:05.167" ClosedDate="2009-08-26T21:17:47.690" Title="Why not a PM system?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;messaging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17951" CreationDate="2009-08-26T21:06:51.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been asked repeatedly in the past and most often shot down by the majority of those who choose to speak up about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason being is that this site is not intended to be a social networking site. It is a Question &amp;amp; Answer site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user wants you to be able to contact them, they will leave contact details on their public profile (such as my profile on SuperUser). Otherwise, if they don't make it available, that probably means that they don't want to hear from you (or anybody else for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T21:06:51.253" />
  <row Id="17954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17951" CreationDate="2009-08-26T21:07:11.457" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking at other help sites, the most common use for this system is new users bugging established experts to look at their questions.  If you were Jon Skeet, would you really want to have to filter through 100 requests per day?  ... &lt;code&gt;delete delete delete&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of StackOverflow is to get programming solutions out in the open, where anyone can see them and benefit.  The 2nd most common use of a PM system is for private discussion of questions.  So it would serve to lock up this information in private, which is contrary to the site's mission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think this &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; site might benefit from some more social features.  But that's really low on the priority list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T03:40:31.473" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T03:40:31.473" />
  <row Id="17955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T21:17:50.203" Score="-4" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17947/are-moderators-noted&quot;&gt;Are Moderators noted ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators should be moderate as the name implies. They are automatically designated as soon as they reach 3000 points by an automated system. It is as if we had a super computer ruling for electing our politicians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is should this automatic election be supervised by some real humans ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134899" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T21:21:45.373" ClosedDate="2009-08-26T21:29:51.207" Title="Is the automatic election of moderators flawed in Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17955" CreationDate="2009-08-26T21:21:44.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators are not automatically elected. Please, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;read the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; - it is explained there, really...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T21:21:44.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17955" CreationDate="2009-08-26T21:21:45.373" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;3000+ Rep users are not moderators, there are more like Junior-Janitors. They can not close questions - they can only vote to have it closed, and you need 5 people in total. Real Moderators on the other hand can close and even delete questions on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there were and still are some Edit/Close Wars, overall I think the system works very well by giving people that have put some effort into the site some powers that allow them to do more, without being able to nuke the whole place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything specific that you find problematic about the powers of 3000+ Rep Users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T21:21:45.373" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="17965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17937" CreationDate="2009-08-26T21:40:35.507" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others mentioned, any user with 3000 rep can vote to close a question, with 5 votes resulting in a close.  Once the question is closed, any user with 3000 rep can vote to re-open the question.  5 votes that direction and it's open again.  Users can only vote to open or close a question once, but other than that this can continue indefinitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, moderators can permanently close a question, at their own discretion.  Moderators are not repuation based, but rather chosen by the site administrator, sometimes after a community vote.  The permanent close option replaces the normal vote-to-close system for moderators (as a meta-moderator, I can't 'vote' to close a question.  I can only close it or leave it alone), and so we are sometimes reluctant to cast that vote without some community push first.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case specifically, no moderator was involved in the closing of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T01:21:06.327" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:21:06.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:00:05.593" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of my high school. When you reached Year 12 you were meant to be able to have some sort of voice in future developments to the school grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you want a new oval? What do you think about turning this patch of grass into a music centre? etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, the school council would dutifully listen to everything we had to say, and then completely ignore it and do what they wanted anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because their ultimate goal was to pad their pockets with money (private school). SOFU is no different - just replace 'money' with whatever their highest held value is. Do we hold &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; best interests at heart? Probably not. We're far more interested in our interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look familiar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.41085.org/software-engineering-explained.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(First and last panels most relevant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T22:00:05.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12222" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:05:47.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a hack, but if you set pagesize to 1, you can see the number of results by just looking at the number of pages listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't entirely convenient, but it is the only way I can find to do a single query to determine the number of accepted answers by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this query shows that a certain user has 842 accepted answers on the java tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a22656%20accepted%3a1%20%5bjava%5d&amp;amp;pagesize=1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a22656%20accepted%3a1%20%5bjava%5d&amp;amp;pagesize=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Enter this search term: &lt;strong&gt;user:225656 accepted:1 [java]&lt;/strong&gt;, then append &amp;amp;pagesize=1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T22:05:47.483" />
  <row Id="17971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:16:45.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I am not a robot, I enjoy being greeted and thanked, as is the custom in human societies. It also provides a tiny opportunity to express myself, which I relish. Chastising people for using common courtesy is when you know your website (and personality) has jumped the shark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effort to &quot;purify&quot; StackOverflow will eventually lead to its undoing. Imagine how easy it will be to be a nuisance when all you have to do to make trouble is say &quot;Hello&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I'd also like to add that this will create chaos, as every single new user will ask every single time why their salutation/greetings keep getting deleted. Then they'll be flooded with links to this question by the nerd patrol. A full 5-10% of all SO content will be about the salutations/greetings. Why? Because it is completely normal and natural in human communication to use these constructs, so it's intuitive that they should appear when you type them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131279" LastEditorUserId="131279" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T22:22:34.160" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T22:22:34.160" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="17972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17976" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:21:10.200" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is good to have complete output or more details on the code being executed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pasting it on the main question/answer makes it difficult to read even with the scroll bars that appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be useful to have some functionality to submit certain parts of the code to some other place like &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pastebin&lt;/a&gt; for instance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Background:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question that made me suggest this functionality is here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1337216/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1337216/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see in the last edit that there is more to post, but it was put on &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pastebin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really dying for this or anything, I seldom post questions of this length, but I think this might be useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T23:14:07.177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T23:14:07.177" Title="Submit large chunk of code to pastebin" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17972" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:28:51.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why anything on SO.com needs to change. Post your code on pastebin and put the link in your post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer should be discouraged BTW. You should have a handle on your problem and you should be able to post a terse explanation without all of the code being necessary. You could post multiple terse questions if needed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T22:34:08.533" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T22:34:08.533" />
  <row Id="17975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17972" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:29:36.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has said before he doesn't want to necessarily facilitate the use of large amounts of code. It's a somewhat rare problem, and when it is an issue there are ways to solve it (as you demonstrated above). There's no real need to integrate this, and I fear that if it ever were integrated, new users would feel it was acceptable to post thousands of lines of code asking for reviews, or help finding a single error in the haystack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T22:29:36.423" />
  <row Id="17976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17972" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:31:15.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with posting things to pastebin (I say it is useful in many instances), but I don't think there needs to be any type of built-in functionality to make that process faster than it already is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T22:31:15.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17978" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:58:37.330" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a Community Wiki question and I got up voted. Why didn't I get any reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133444" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T00:54:43.180" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T00:54:43.180" Title="I answered a Community Wiki question and I got up voted. Why didn't I get any reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17977" CreationDate="2009-08-26T22:59:24.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design. Votes on community wiki posts won't affect anybody's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T22:59:24.413" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="17981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17977" CreationDate="2009-08-26T23:05:51.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is from the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Note that votes for any posts marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not generate reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a previous question about what community wiki's are suppose to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were intended to not build reputation. Here is the answer information from that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Why have &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; posts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the goals of Stackoverflow is&#xA;  to be a continually evolving source of&#xA;  good information.  Community Wiki&#xA;  posts help enhance the &lt;em&gt;wiki&lt;/em&gt; aspect&#xA;  of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How do &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; posts work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community Wiki posts work by&#xA;  transferring ownership of the post&#xA;  from the original author to the&#xA;  community.  They make the post easier&#xA;  to edit and maintain by a wider group&#xA;  of users, but they do not contribute&#xA;  to any user's reputation.  Community&#xA;  Wiki posts are marked as &lt;em&gt;community&#xA;  wiki&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of the key features are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Community Wiki posts are owned by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;Community User&lt;/a&gt;, not by any&#xA;  individual user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A much lower reputation is needed to edit a community wiki post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Voting on a community wiki post (up or down) does not affect any user's&#xA;  reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The original author still gets badges based on community posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The original author keeps the reputation gained (or lost) before&#xA;  their post entered community mode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;How does a post become a &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are several ways a question or&#xA;  answer can enter community wiki mode,&#xA;  and most of these ways will occur&#xA;  automatically based on the rules of&#xA;  the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posts enter community wiki mode when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The body of the post has been edited by four different people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The post has been edited six times by the original owner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The post's author checks the &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt; checkbox when composing the question or answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The post is edited by its original author, who when doing so opts to&#xA;  check the &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The question generates more than 30 answers.  In this case, the question&#xA;  and all answers will enter community&#xA;  mode, as will any future answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;* note that the rules outlined&#xA;  above are based on observations; the&#xA;  actual behavior of SO is subject to&#xA;  change without notice, and may well&#xA;  have done so since this was last&#xA;  updated...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Miscellaneous&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There is no way to reclaim your post back from community wiki mode.  This&#xA;  is to prevent exploits and gaming of&#xA;  the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Rollbacks do not reverse any of the community wiki mode calculations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-26T23:21:44.257" LastActivityDate="2009-08-26T23:21:44.257" />
  <row Id="17983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-26T23:56:51.270" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the flag mechanism has been expanded and improved for both questions and answers and taking into consideration these &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15143/whats-with-all-the-rude-comments-recently&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17612/being-helpful-vs-being-hostile-and-why-so-is-supposed-to-stand-out-from-the-rest&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; that ended up more or less with a 'you should flag more' answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think comment flags should be revamped. I suggest changing the tooltip to remove the &quot;hate speech&quot; part of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Flag this comment as noise, offensive or spam&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This because I think that having both offensive and hate speech as flag reasons bias people towards a stronger definition of offensive than they would otherwise have, as illustrated by the sample comments that follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember offensive is a superset of hate speech, so it's not really necessary (hate speech is by definition offensive.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some relevant quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;One concern I have is inundating you with nitpicky stuff. Send me a note if you &#xA;feel that's happening. I think -- based on the feedback here -- that I feel a &#xA;little more free to flag comments that are simply rude but not patently &#xA;offensive. &#xA;– tvanfosson Aug 18 at 15:39&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;I think I've avoided flagging because I assumed it was reserved for personal &#xA;attacks and specific malicious language (racist/sexist views, calling someone &#xA;stupid, or offensive language in excess). But now that I know that it's meant &#xA;to curb exactly what my email was about, I'll be sure to use the flag option &#xA;for those situations. &#xA;– Anthony 14 hours ago&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly cannot &lt;em&gt;prove&lt;/em&gt; that these ideas are due to the biasing hate speech part of the tooltip provokes, but it certainly does give that impression to me. And there is nothing to &lt;em&gt;lose&lt;/em&gt; from removing it. It's not as if our community needed a reminder to flag hate speech when it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T07:25:13.643" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T07:25:13.643" Title="Change flag tooltip for comment flags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="17984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17983" CreationDate="2009-08-27T00:05:07.133" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be left alone. A moderator is not going to be reviewing the comment because you flagged it, that is not how comment flags work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you flag a comment, you are voting it to be deleted. Currently, I see &quot;noise, offensive, spam or hate speech&quot;. I think that sums it up very well. This should not be taken lightly and I believe most of the people who use StackOverflow are capable of grokking logic like 'or'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T00:13:23.967" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T00:13:23.967" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="17985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17991" CreationDate="2009-08-27T00:21:37.007" Score="-3" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume that the suggestions relayed by users of the SOFU sites to The Company which are ultimately implemented are considered, at least by Jeff, Joel, et al as good additions to the sites in general.   I wonder if it would be appropriate that these interested users be rewarded for this behavior.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offer for discussion the implementation of a meta-specific badge for a user who proposes a feature which is ultimately implemented.  With a certain lack of creativity, I propose the name 'Business Analyst.'  A nuance could be that you need to receive &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; 'status-completed' tags before earning the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of the Japanese adage 花より団子 ('hana yori dango' or 'f**k the flowers, give me dumplings'), instead of a badge, a rep bonus could be awarded per 'status-completed'-tagged post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T00:26:56.093" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T02:33:45.103" Title="Encouraging feature requests" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17985" CreationDate="2009-08-27T00:27:58.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there has been any shortage of feature requests, so I don't know you would think there possibly needs to be any type of extra encouragement to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think a possible reward would be a bad idea. I like the badge idea to a point. Like I said, I just can't imagine it being something to encourage a behavior that is already very prevalent (perhaps some would argue too prevalent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T00:27:58.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="17987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17985" CreationDate="2009-08-27T00:28:14.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds horrible, the rep you get on MSO should be more than enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T00:28:14.840" />
  <row Id="17988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T01:09:34.067" Score="4" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to know what database StackOverflow uses. The site seems pretty active and very responsive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T01:20:55.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:20:55.500" ClosedDate="2009-08-27T02:18:15.290" Title="What database does StackOverflow use?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="17989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17988" CreationDate="2009-08-27T01:11:40.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sql server 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:12:26.623" />
  <row Id="17990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17983" CreationDate="2009-08-27T01:12:27.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Noise&lt;/strong&gt; was recently added as a reason to flag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you flag a comment, it doesn't bug a moderator, it just works on its own. Plus, when you read it with commas and the OR, it's like a menu, you decide what you want to be flagging the comment for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;noise | offensive | spam | hate speech&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a dilemma when you spot a pointless add-nothing comment like, &quot;+1 Good answer&quot;, but because it's not offensive or spammy, you won't flag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't decide, order a burger and just don't flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:12:27.123" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17985" CreationDate="2009-08-27T01:14:46.807" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just an observation more than a vote for/against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all the features added to Stack Overflow in the last year, can you think of any features that were a direct result of an idea by a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; person? Name the person and the feature. Maybe one? Most feature origins aren't that direct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that many features are borne out of on-going collaboration. Some are resurrected ideas whose time has finally come. Some are finally implemented only after repeated nagging and persistent feature requests. I have requested features which were already in the works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is that Jeff&amp;amp;Co &lt;strong&gt;would have to implement some formal feature-tracking process&lt;/strong&gt;. Then they have to resolve the inevitable me-first/me-too conflicts that would erupt every time they tweak some part of the system operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the net results worth it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:14:46.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="17992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17988" CreationDate="2009-08-27T01:18:59.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a decent write up at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T01:18:59.887" />
  <row Id="17994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-08-27T01:42:02.960" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to do a lot of communication throughout the day, whether it's phone calls, emails, or in-person appointments. Obviously, there's lots of &quot;Good afternoons&quot; and &quot;buh-byes&quot; in all that. Plus, I grew up on dial-up BBS's and Usenet, where those were equally common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the whole notion of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; having a salutation or greeting is just weird, foreign, and borderline rude. &lt;em&gt;Editing out&lt;/em&gt; someone's attempt at being polite is even more absurd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not Wikipedia, where there is only &lt;em&gt;one true&lt;/em&gt; answer for a particular topic or question. There are a lot of people who make the site happen, and taking away their attempts at personalizing the site and their responses seem just seems pedantic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T11:48:52.190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:48:52.190" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="17995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1274" CreationDate="2009-08-27T01:50:47.280" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A different implementation approach, could be that the search is performed as you type an answer. (in the same way that &quot;Related questions&quot; are highlighted as you write a question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would only occur on questions with more than 'x' &lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the &lt;strong&gt;'value'&lt;/strong&gt; of this feature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that there are few questions to which this pertains -- but for those questions the problem is chronic, and because those questions are 'frequently answered' they appear on the front page often. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to determine the 'importance' of the feature we'd need to look not just at the number of questions if affects, but the total number of answers it would help with (this is a much bigger number)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA; 1. 'x' would be a number at least big enough to cause answers to spill onto a second page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastEditorUserId="133985" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T02:06:17.937" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T02:06:17.937" />
  <row Id="17996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T02:22:36.140" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently knee deep in trying to replace some proprietary code with various Apache projects like Hadoop, Lucene, Nutch and/or Solr, and I'd really love it if somebody who knew something about these subjects could be lined up to speak at the Toronto Dev Days.  Is Joel just going to choose the topics himself, or can we request them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If the answer is yes, we can request them, then I or somebody else should start a CW question for requests, right?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T23:48:32.270" Title="Can we request DevDays topics?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="17997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-27T02:30:16.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already do -- I regularly browse &lt;strong&gt;the list of feature requests by votes&lt;/strong&gt;, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want a [feature-request] implemented, &lt;strong&gt;vote for it&lt;/strong&gt; -- or convince others to vote for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of feature requests that have been implemented to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20status-completed&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20status-completed&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T02:30:16.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="17998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17985" CreationDate="2009-08-27T02:33:45.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree that there should be a badge for this, as most feature requests are collaborative efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I regularly browse &lt;strong&gt;the list of feature requests by votes&lt;/strong&gt;, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want a [feature-request] implemented, &lt;strong&gt;vote for it&lt;/strong&gt; -- or convince others to vote for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of feature requests that have been implemented to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20status-completed&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20status-completed&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T02:33:45.103" />
  <row Id="17999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17645" CreationDate="2009-08-27T02:48:44.807" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to spoil the fun, but 4,026,489 refers to the &quot;absolute unique visitors&quot; that Google Analytics reported for July 2009. There &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be something to the effect of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;*Google Analytics, June 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... or something like that. What could be fun is a JavaScript-based counter like the GMail storage counter thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T19:13:42.193" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:13:42.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-27T02:51:10.340" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the resistance to the new votes sort ordering from a vocal minority very perplexing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, to clarify: this has nothing to do with tactical downvoting. It is not meant to address that issue at all. Tactical downvoting is the same as it ever was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;this other change&lt;/a&gt; is meant to address the tactical downvoting.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's purely a fix for the votes sort order. The answers are sorted by &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt;. But what sort order do you use when every question has the same score? We had to pick something, so we picked LastActivityDate. I was never happy with this choice (it wasn't even really a conscious choice, honestly), since it had a side effect -- we were implicitly rewarding behavior other than &lt;strong&gt;composing answers worthy of upvotes!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now answers with the same vote score are in random order. Which means answers can correctly be judged based on their merit as &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, not by who happens to end up first in the accidental secondary sort order we didn't even intend to be relevant in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the extent that people have &quot;optimized&quot; strategies around that behavior, it's completely a side-effect. A distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bottom line: if you want to get upvotes, WRITE A GREAT ANSWER.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T08:57:13.653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:57:13.653" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="18001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15661" CreationDate="2009-08-27T02:58:46.193" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel Coehoorn said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's a good idea on the surface, but I also expect that unfortunately most people just won't click the link to the guidelines page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So instead of getting more people to read the guidelines, what it would really accomplish is making more people who may not be quite ready for their new moderation abilities aware of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's anything like the little &amp;lt;div&amp;gt; element that pops up when one earns a new badge, the alert will continue to display until a particular action occurs.  Except instead of clicking through to the badges page, the action that must be performed is clicking &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, I agree, I'll use my new powers wisely!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; * on the guidelines page.  This guidelines page could even come up automatically in a new browser page/tab to make the user that much more aware that this is something that should be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* To be really tricky, this button could be hidden for a certain amount of time, or require the answering of some skill-testing questions whose answers are found in the guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T02:58:46.193" />
  <row Id="18002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17923" CreationDate="2009-08-27T03:07:10.963" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be motivated at least in part by the rather surprising (to most of us) change to answer sort order. The fact that it's a surprising is the problem. We don't need design by committee. SO doesn't need to be driven solely by community sentiment. But a community such as this needs to be consulted (like it was with the proposed and still pending change to downvote costs) or what is the point in it existing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that writing something externally is a far better way of getting the attention of SO, which I wrote about in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/08/is-stackoverflow-losing-its-way.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Is StackOverflow Losing It’s Way?&lt;/a&gt;. This answer order change is one example of that. shog9 pointed out another in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/i-move-to-close-this-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I Move to Close This Question&lt;/a&gt;. That one at least was with an SO user but seems to have happened over an email exchange rather than, say, through Uservoice, which was the place for such things at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta isn't just a way of keeping this stuff off Stackoverflow. If it's ignored or just bypassed it'll have a detrimental affect on the SO community, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T03:07:10.963" />
  <row Id="18003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T03:08:01.820" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17541/cannot-get-rid-of-empty-interesting-tag&quot;&gt;Cannot get rid of empty Interesting Tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow I got a blank &quot;ignored&quot; tag in my ignored tags (I don't know why). So I deleted it, and it disappeared. But when I refresh or navigate to a different page, it seems to come back.   (it's not deleted on the server side but removed on the client) Anybody know why this happened  / how I can get rid of this blank tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T03:08:01.820" ClosedDate="2009-08-27T03:39:28.123" Title="Blank ignore tag stuck" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17541" CreationDate="2009-08-27T03:18:38.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using FireFox + FireBug, add a new tag to the list (the one with the empty tag present). Look at what is posted to the server via XHR to see what tag it is, or whether it is really a tag at all. From there it should be possible to do some more analysis on the issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T03:18:38.303" />
  <row Id="18005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39369" CreationDate="2009-08-27T04:11:37.760" Score="39" ViewCount="2324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could have sworn there used to be a heads-up when you got down to one vote, but it sure doesn't work that way now. Very frustrating, to sit there considering a question, finally decide to vote, only to find out that I've been out of votes for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, this would work the same way as up/down and comment votes do: when I get below a threshold (5 sounds good to me), let me know how many votes remain each time I cast one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38919/closing-question-dialog-box-makes-me-go-through-steps-even-when-i-have-no-more&quot;&gt;George Stocker suggested a change&lt;/a&gt; that would also work to solve this: show the number of remaining votes on the close dialog itself. I like this idea, as it avoids creating more pop-ups while still providing the necessary information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_meta_18005_close_votes.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of completed UI&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T16:27:20.470" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T20:46:41.127" Title="Please let me know when I'm running low on close votes!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14406" CreationDate="2009-08-27T04:14:10.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the earlier shows were fairly well-transcribed, but after Stack Overflow went public transcription rates went down.  If that's an accurate assessment, it might have something to do with the fact that Jeff was allowing people who helped write down what was said in the podcasts to get into the SO beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not reward people who transcribe shows with reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T04:14:10.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18005" CreationDate="2009-08-27T04:15:06.523" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea - perhaps there could be a small UI treatment that would give you a heads-up display as to how many votes you have for each &quot;vote-able&quot; action.  It could pop up on hover of any voting button kind of like how the up arrow and flag appear on comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T04:15:06.523" />
  <row Id="18008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-27T04:16:42.383" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be a comment to Jeff's response but it doesn't fit in the comment space so I had to make it an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I find the resistance to the new votes sort ordering from a vocal minority very perplexing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You made an implicit assumption that this is the &quot;minority&quot; and the other way (apparently how &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9dv29/why%5Fstackoverflow%5Fsucks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddit guys&lt;/a&gt; think) is the &quot;majority.&quot; There's no way to prove whether it's true or not in general but as Rich B pointed out in a comment to this question, it doesn't really matter. Everyone is free to express his or her opinion on Meta SO and apparently, the &quot;majority&quot; of the &quot;vocal minority,&quot; who represent people that care about SO are against this change. Next, you targeted an implicit ad-hominem attack on people expressing their opinions here. Apparently, you are accusing them of &quot;whining&quot; because &quot;they are at a disadvantage.&quot; Most of these guys are high profile users on SO (cletus, Rich B, tvanfosson, TheTXI, ...) who have contributed heavily to the sites. This proves they &lt;em&gt;really care&lt;/em&gt; about &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; Website. I'm sure this &lt;em&gt;whining&lt;/em&gt; is purely a result of they caring. I find this &lt;em&gt;implicit accusation&lt;/em&gt; on the borderline of being insulting to the high profile users of &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; site.   It's like saying &quot;&lt;em&gt;Shut up or you're one of &quot;them&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it's not resistance. We didn't boycott StackOverflow. We just expressed our opinions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, due to daily reputation cap, it doesn't make any real difference (rep-wise) for most of the users who've &quot;whined.&quot; They'll achieve their cap easily regardless of the system in place because they provide plenty of good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First, to clarify: this has nothing to do with tactical downvoting. It is not meant to address that issue at all. Tactical downvoting is the same as it ever was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying there hasn't been any kind of tactical downvoting before. What I'm saying is that it increases the benefit of tactical downvoting. In this system, if someone with a later answer downvotes you, he has much more chance to get upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beside that, it now makes downvoting duplicates an ethical and good practice. I, for one, think you should downvote duplicate answers that come later (on all posts, not only your posts.) This is not inherently a bad thing. However, it encourages &quot;revenge votes.&quot; You downvote a duplicate answer and he'll get angry and will downvote you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's purely a fix for the votes sort order. The answers are sorted by votes. But what sort order do you use when every question has the same score? We had to pick something, so we picked LastActivityDate. I was never happy with this choice (it wasn't even really a conscious choice, honestly), since it had a side effect -- we were implicitly rewarding behavior other than composing answers worthy of upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was the &lt;strong&gt;natural&lt;/strong&gt; choice. It was so natural you made that decision unconsciously. You were &lt;strong&gt;quite happy&lt;/strong&gt; with it. &lt;strong&gt;Listen to your podcasts&lt;/strong&gt;. Actually, I think (I'm not sure, though) &lt;strong&gt;the new decision is highly influenced by that reddit thread&lt;/strong&gt;. It was the right thing to encourage quick answers and this was considered &quot;by-design&quot; in SO. If anything, between two identical answers, the older one should be rewarded the most. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now answers with the same vote score are in random order. Which means answers can correctly be judged based on their merit as answers, not by who happens to end up first in the accidental secondary sort order we didn't even intend to be relevant in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;strong&gt;it's not accidental&lt;/strong&gt;. It's an indirect results of many parameters like when you've seen the question and how much you know about the topic. Obviously, Jon Skeet doesn't need to search about a question about say, a &lt;code&gt;switch&lt;/code&gt; statement but some other guy might just Google stuff and copy paste there. Second, the OP wants a quick answer as fast as possible. There is a distinction between a &quot;half-complete&quot; answer and a &quot;wrong&quot; one. I believe posting a &quot;half-complete&quot; answer as soon as possible directly helped achieving one of the hallmarks of StackOverflow, which is &quot;getting answer immediately.&quot; Third, this is really the behavior we've had before. If the answers were virtually identical, the fastest one would get upvotes and if the answers were not identical, the better one would eventually float to top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To the extent that people have &quot;optimized&quot; strategies around that behavior, it's completely a side-effect. A distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing mentioned in the other thread is that people are used to the old behavior. They think the answer floating on top is the first one and upvote accordingly. Even if this decision was a good one, it's significant enough that it should have been mentioned explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bottom line: if you want to get upvotes, WRITE A GREAT ANSWER.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been happening &lt;strong&gt;ALL THE TIME&lt;/strong&gt;. SO is full of great answers at the top of questions. And by the way, if you really believe in this decision, you should really consider stop docking the accepted answer to the question. If the best answer, quality-wise, is supposed to be on top, let it be the most upvoted. (This is just a side note. It's not a part of my argument.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(comment) &quot;There is no drawback to posting late?&quot; Not so. The earlier you post, the more opportunity for people to VOTE for your answer. If you wait, you're losing potential votes. – Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly, there's more opportunity to &lt;strong&gt;VOTE&lt;/strong&gt; for your answer. Vote is not equal to &quot;upvote.&quot; Let's not forget this vote can be both &quot;upvote&quot; and &quot;downvote.&quot; Let's not forget that in the &quot;fastest gun&quot; version, if you posted a crap sooner than anyone, you would have been voted down to the oblivion. It's not always been a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Bottom line: You've not addressed the SCITE problem; the fundamental problem with this issue. So far, your answer was effectively like saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;Hey, I can do it so I did it.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; IMO, This is a &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt; response but if you want to use it, you should be open about it. It's not possible to say &quot;StackOverflow is run by You&quot; and this statement at the same time. Definitely, we don't want to deal with &quot;propaganda&quot; on StackOverflow. You can choose to come back to the spirit of StackOverflow (either by providing a good solution for SCITE or reverting to the old system) or jump the shark and be more like &quot;hyphen.&quot; It's all up to you. :)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T22:47:18.497" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:47:18.497" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="18009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18005" CreationDate="2009-08-27T04:39:45.753" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I've run out of close votes exactly once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this really a serious problem? If so, perhaps you should be rethinking what you're closing and whether it's in line with Jeff's guidelines on what's allowed. For example, career questions are OK but yet some still close them automatically. Also there are questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1325968/first-time-software-contractor-building-a-system-for-a-multi-site-client-who-sh&quot;&gt;First-time software contractor, building a system for a multi-site client; who should own the intellectual property?&lt;/a&gt;. Jeff commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is programming related and&#xA;  explicitly allowed – J&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;eff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;♦&#xA;  yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I doubt Jeff would comment as such unless he expected a certain segment of the SO population to jump on their close buttons because there's no code snippet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are you simply closing questions you shouldn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T04:39:45.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1265" CreationDate="2009-08-27T04:53:51.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The query for yesterday should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;where activitytime &amp;gt;= dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getdate())-1,0)&#xA;  and activitytime &amp;lt;  dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getdate())  ,0)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(using whatever field is appropriate for activitytime)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Actually, it's just about the link for 'yesterday'. Currently it goes to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.....?StartDate=2009-08-26&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-08-27&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.....?StartDate=2009-08-26&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-08-26&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the simple workaround is just to hack the URL you go to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T04:53:51.700" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-27T05:21:16.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you write great answers, what do you have to lose by this change?  Doesn't random imply that if you have the same number of votes, you are just as likely to be on the top as on the bottom with those who have the same vote/score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think that this will help people who answer 2nd or 3rd with a more complete answer compared to number one who people give votes to for being first.  Being first doesn't make you the most correct.  It is the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since content drives this site, I ask, what are all of you so concerned about?  You have high rep due to content, not the fastest gun in the west, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T05:21:16.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18042" CreationDate="2009-08-27T05:30:01.270" Score="10" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the huge resentment that is out there for the change in sort order for responses, I think that a problem has been identified.  The community wants to feel that they own the site.  Some of the most active members on SO are fairly active here on META too.  People want to feel that they are heard, but it seems as if they don't feel like they are a part of the process when it comes to new code releases for the SO sites.  Regardless of whether or not they are included does not matter as they &quot;feel&quot; like they weren't and that is something we should try to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the community has a voice, but does not own the site.  Nobody in the community pays the hosting bills, developer's salaries, etc.  So when it comes to making changes, the community doesn't have the final say.  However, I think that with sites that are heavily community oriented, a little transparency on things that are included in a next release or planned for a future release would not hurt anyone or their feelings.  At least they know when to expect the change and had an opportunity before the fact to voice some concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are tags for planned, declined, etc., but it doesn't give details as to when it will be included in a release or anything of that nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I really appreciate the work Jeff and team have done on the SO sites.  I've saved months worth of time in solving some issues and none of that would have happened without SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T08:15:51.997" Title="Can we please have transparency in new code releases for the SO sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22368" CreationDate="2009-08-27T05:44:34.923" Score="6" ViewCount="507" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only read MSO every so often. I'm reading lots of talk about SCITE and FGITW but have no idea what these are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please define and &lt;strong&gt;explain&lt;/strong&gt; these &lt;strong&gt;abbreviations&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T06:14:07.217" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T10:18:48.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-15T16:21:53.987" Title="What is FGITW and SCITE on MSO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;terminology&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18014" CreationDate="2009-08-27T05:46:36.073" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FGITW - Fastest Gun in the West - Fastest to reply to a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="131985" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T05:52:55.933" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T05:52:55.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18014" CreationDate="2009-08-27T05:49:11.120" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SCITE - Slowest Cheater in the East&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T05:49:11.120" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18014" CreationDate="2009-08-27T05:54:18.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only noticed someone tagging a couple of posts with &lt;kbd&gt;scite-problem&lt;/kbd&gt; on questions about FGITW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So SCITE is probably about &lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;even &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;hinese &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;n &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;he &lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt;ast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;lowest &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;owboy &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;n &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;he &lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt;ast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;tupid &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;lauses &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;n &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;he &lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt;ULA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S&lt;/strong&gt;ome &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;lueless &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;diot &lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;easing &lt;strong&gt;E&lt;/strong&gt;rnest Borgnine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, it could be the seven cities in the East short changing internationlists taking earned sabbaticals, charging indignant tariffs everywhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T05:59:19.900" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T05:59:19.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18013" CreationDate="2009-08-27T05:56:23.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gotta think that most of the angst over this latest change can be blamed on an unfortunate coincidence: it was implemented the day after a lengthy discussion of a well-known &quot;gaming&quot; technique promoted by a SO user and blogger. The change does nothing to address this problem, but the timing made them appear to be related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change itself was actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late/10553#10553&quot;&gt;announced as a response&lt;/a&gt; to a request for a means of promoting late answers to questions where numerous answers had already been posted. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow/17631#17631&quot;&gt;This was identified early on&lt;/a&gt;, but as the change does not appear to do much to achieve that goal either, it was largely ignored. If we'd known that particular suggestion (there were several attached to the request, including two others in the same answer) would be implemented, i suspect it would have gained far more attention and prompted a good deal more discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason, i'm in favor of &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T05:56:23.603" />
  <row Id="18019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:07:03.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the points so far and can see some merit. However I've seen the change already help people who come in with a much better answer but later. Some answers take time to research and explain well (we aren't all Jon Skeet and never will be). This change really helps that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If strategic downvoting strategies are employed then that is vote fraud, pure and simple. It should be detected and those votes reversed / users disciplined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:07:03.660" />
  <row Id="18020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18005" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:09:49.787" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm. I don't think this is valuable. The problematic assumption here is that some questions deserve to be closed more than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel something should be closed then it should outright be closed and not given a reprieve because you have one vote left and something else might be closier(TM) later. The system rightfully should be first come first served, and if you're not 100% on it then I would suggest you shouldn't be voting to close it anyway. This is all part of the market forces dynamic of open/close questions I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would further suggest that if you do happen to see something you feel requires urgent closing if you run out of votes then you could always flag it for mod attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:09:49.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18013" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:18:46.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given all the talk about delivery and controlling customer expectations that Joel has had over the years I think it is reasonable to have a publish road-map or a release features list (published when the feature-set is frozen) to the 'customers' of the stackexchange code (both the coming commercial customers and the SO/SU/SF/Meta users.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:18:46.647" />
  <row Id="18022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:20:05.457" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the deal with the functionality of unanswered questions showing questions with answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149937" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T06:39:58.977" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T16:39:34.943" Title="Unanswered Questions on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18022" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:30:23.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how questions are shown under unanswered -  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions which have 0 answers  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions which  have more than 0 answers but 0 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131169" LastEditorUserId="131169" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T06:56:50.300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:56:50.300" />
  <row Id="18027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18014" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:31:09.553" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=scite&quot;&gt;Searching for SCITE&lt;/a&gt; turns up &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow/17772#17772&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; wherein Mehrdad seemingly coins the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know search sucks, but it's not completely useless :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, the idea is that you copy the FGITW's answer, then vote them down, thus earning votes and the misplaced-respect of your peers.  Although I would have thought that the fastest cheater would do better than the slowest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:31:09.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18030" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:34:03.260" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;How I can display the list of questions that I've asked but haven't yet been answered? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a bunch all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134927" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T06:43:51.417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:43:51.417" Title="How do you list all your unanswered questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18029" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:39:48.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using advanced search&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me answers:0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:39:48.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18034" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:43:56.813" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14594/can-we-have-an-option-to-disable-the-dont-forget-to-accept-reminder&quot;&gt;Can we have an option to disable the &amp;ldquo;don&amp;rsquo;t forget to accept&amp;rdquo; reminder?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a couple of weeks of not having &quot;one correct answer&quot; on questions where several answers are correct on their own rights, I decided to mark the questions as a wiki. I think I did this after the accepted answer percentage appeared on the profiles. And wikis often don't have &quot;one correct answer&quot;. And I have several of those questions that I marked as wiki, which AFAIK cannot be undone). It's somewhat annoying that I have those red notes in the list that doesn't serve any purpose. And again, red often mean there's an error of some sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: The note also disappears when a question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How else can I remove &quot;Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?&quot; without accepting a correct answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, would it be good to let them implement that questions marked as wiki to not have that message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="131985" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T06:50:50.357" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:51:37.237" ClosedDate="2009-08-27T07:14:43.773" Title="How else can I remove the &quot;Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?&quot; note without accepting a correct answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18037" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:46:52.423" Score="1" ViewCount="948" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Answer Accept rate is 88%. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like this to be 100%. So I went and deleted some old posts that had no answers for the last month. I think there were 5 of them. Surely this should at least raise my Acceptance Rate a little?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas why it stayed the same, and what can I do to get my acceptance rate to 100%?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134927" LastActivityDate="2011-06-16T10:54:18.580" Title="Question about Accept Rate" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18031" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:47:13.860" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14594/can-we-have-an-option-to-disable-the-dont-forget-to-accept-reminder/14599#14599&quot;&gt;This message will expire in one month.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:47:13.860" />
  <row Id="18035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18031" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:48:03.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't gotten an answer that meets your needs, or there isn't a correct one in the bunch, just ignore it. The line is just a reminder, a gentle prod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:48:03.950" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18033" CreationDate="2009-08-27T06:49:12.933" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/#comment-32274&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's heavily cached&lt;/a&gt;. Takes a while to update the value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T06:50:49.810" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T06:50:49.810" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18033" CreationDate="2009-08-27T07:12:01.093" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do not need to have a rate of 100% (88% is pretty darn good btw). Don't take this too seriously! Be careful what you delete, it could be valuable to others even if you don't think so! Even if it is an unanswered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T07:12:01.093" />
  <row Id="18038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18022" CreationDate="2009-08-27T07:16:09.963" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't unanswered questions get autoclosed, or autoaccept an answer after a while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134930" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T07:16:09.963" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43620" CreationDate="2009-08-27T07:25:33.970" Score="6" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose a new &quot;&lt;strong&gt;bug hunter&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; silver (maybe gold?) badge to ppl who started a question explicitly signaling a BUG, the bug being confirmed and fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think is right to promote SO-SF-SU-MSO improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130733" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-06T18:13:17.257" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T18:13:17.257" Title="Can we have a &quot;Bug Hunter&quot; badge on MSO?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;bug-reports&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18033" CreationDate="2009-08-27T07:26:11.987" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The calculation is explained &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following rules are used in the calculation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There must be at least four eligible questions as determined by the above rules, otherwise the statistic will not appear. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it doesn't help to delete posts without answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T07:26:11.987" />
  <row Id="18041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18039" CreationDate="2009-08-27T07:33:35.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see someone is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16023/tags-autosuggestion-seems-to-be-bugged-managing-a-tag-containing-ss&quot;&gt;little proud of their bug&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T07:33:35.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18013" CreationDate="2009-08-27T08:15:51.997" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I regularly browse &lt;strong&gt;the list of feature requests by votes&lt;/strong&gt;, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a [feature-request] implemented, &lt;strong&gt;vote for it&lt;/strong&gt; -- or convince others to vote for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of feature requests that have been implemented to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20status-completed&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20status-completed&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, you can safely assume the highly voted [bug] and [feature-request] items are being worked on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T08:15:51.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18096" CreationDate="2009-08-27T08:42:13.160" Score="5" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was rather surprised to see this question closed: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1335333/viability-of-open-source-business-model/1336978&quot;&gt;Viability of Open Source Business Model&lt;/a&gt;. It seemed directly related to the career of programming, as well as more interesting notions such as the nature of open source and the way open source code is developed. While not dealing with actual code, I (and many others, judging by the votes and responses) thought it was a genuinely useful and insightful question. A number of similar questions have been asked before without closure (I'm not going to list them here, as I don't particularly want them closed). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I am powerless to vote to reopen, I'd at least like to hear the reasoning behind this close decision (Shog9, I'm looking at you). To pre-empt the usual responses: I realise that each individual gets to make their own voting decisions, the community will shall triumph, etc. etc, but that doesn't change the fact that there should be broad standards on what the difference is between an acceptable and an unacceptable question, to aid both askers and the answerers who put time and effort in. What are the perceived benefits of closing such a question? This closure, in my opinion, was a clear mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full disclosure&lt;/strong&gt;: this one is particularly annoying to me since I spent several hours &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1335333/viability-of-open-source-business-model/1336978#1336978&quot;&gt;writing a long summarising response&lt;/a&gt;, as an experiment in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17685/etiquette-when-is-it-ok-to-edit-your-answer-to-include-information-from-someone&quot;&gt;answer aggregation&lt;/a&gt; after the comments on meta yesterday. Even were that not the case, I don't understand this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T09:30:13.563" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:42:41.377" Title="Closing career/philosophy/business model questions with genuine (but non-code) content" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;community-standards&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18043" CreationDate="2009-08-27T08:51:21.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the full text of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does the Open source software&#xA;  business make money? The software is&#xA;  ostensibly free, so how do Developers&#xA;  make a living from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No programming content at all, and besides which, it is a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T08:51:21.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T08:52:15.387" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Newsgator integrated with Outlook 2007 to read my newsfeeds. This works well for the 70 or so feeds I monitor. When I used it with the only feed I could find for serverfault I found that it kept on pulling down new responses to weeks or months old issues and inserting them into outlook at the appropriate date - where they languished unseen and unwanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to switch it off due to the over the top number of messages I was receiving. I found was spending too much time deleting questions relating to systems I did not have much experience in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest a more sophisticated RSS feed where you can choose things such as&#xA;- Only pull X responses&#xA;- Only unanswered questions&#xA;- Which tags to ignore or include&#xA;- Choose to see answers and/or responses&#xA;- Separate options for threads I have posed or participated in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple page  (ha ha, aren't they all simple until you have to write them) which allowed the user to select various options to enable or disable could construct a feed url. This url could use the above options as parameters, allowing more people to watch for interesting questions and to jump in and answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T01:12:04.117" Title="Can we have other RSS feeds - the current one messes up outlook" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6460" CreationDate="2009-08-27T09:11:40.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To help deal with the &quot;tactical downvoting&quot; problem, we have &lt;strong&gt;radically reduced the window for undoing votes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is now only the very briefest of windows where you can undo a vote. (edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23701/why-cant-i-change-my-vote-if-the-post-has-been-edited-during-the-initial-5mn-gr/38759#38759&quot;&gt;this was increased to 5 minutes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, the vote is permanently &quot;locked in&quot;, until the post is edited. Once the post is edited you may vote for it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-30T02:48:53.053" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:48:53.053" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="18047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18045" CreationDate="2009-08-27T09:14:54.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you aware that you can combine tags using AND and OR?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and of course each of these has a RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T09:14:54.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18069" CreationDate="2009-08-27T09:52:27.013" Score="14" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the title of  &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/19024/un-select-a-radiobutton&quot;&gt;&amp;#39;Un-select&amp;#39; a radiobutton?&lt;/a&gt; (and many others) was changed it showed up as a new item in my RSS reader, News Fire. Is it possible for this to be fixed and prevent the same post popping up multiple times in my RSS reader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this might be a tricky issue seeing both parts (SO and RSS readers) are doing what they are (kind of) supposed to. How could this be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-31T01:05:46.187" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T01:05:46.187" Title="Prevent title edits to spawn a new RSS post" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2009-08-27T09:54:42.653" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one rule which needs changing, it confuses award of the bounty with accepting the answer. If no answers meet the criteria for winning the bounty, (answer in time with the arbitrary up votes) then you should still be able to accept an answer. Actually, I think the time limit is silly,  if we have no answers in time, the bounty should increase' say an extra 50 point per week. Also the upvotes limit should be linked to the number of views. A very obscure or difficult question, will take a long time to get a good number of views, let alone upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T09:54:42.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T10:31:13.377" Score="-2" ViewCount="406" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have received several comments from people that don't like the fact that my &quot;accept rate&quot; is very low. Now, the reason being is that I don't &quot;accept&quot; questions as I don't see why my opinion is more important than of those who voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the point of letting the one who asked the question decide which is The Right Answer? Why is their opinion worth more than anyone else's? Why not let the votes decide which answer is correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: What I have against these features (the big green tick and especially the accept rate) is that it is &lt;b&gt;too visible&lt;/b&gt; to other users. Though &lt;b&gt;I do like to give extra reputation&lt;/b&gt; to people that helped me solve my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: note that &lt;b&gt;most problems have more than one solution&lt;/b&gt;. I can accept a suboptimal answer, whereas the voting system gives other users the ability to help making this decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134939" LastEditorUserId="134939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T13:13:19.667" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T13:13:19.667" Title="Isn't the &quot;accepted answer&quot; feature overly visible?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T10:34:23.790" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are aware that by accepting an answer you gain 2 rep and the person you've accepted the answer from gains 15 reputation? This would be one of the reason it is recommend to &lt;strong&gt;accept the answer that solved your problem&lt;/strong&gt; irrelevant of the votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vorting does indicate the more correct answer, however in some scenarios the &lt;strong&gt;highest rated answer is not necessarily solving the particular problem&lt;/strong&gt; you may have. Also when someone hits the site from Google that does not know about the voting, the first things they will look for is the green accepted answer tick. This is unfortunately from the site that shall not be named era of finding answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;With regards to the update&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feature was requested by the community here on MSO. The reason for this is that people take a lot of time to write complete and good answers, hoping that theirs is the one that will be accepted as correct. Also the goal of SO is to be a repository of correctly answers questions that people can search and always find the &lt;strong&gt;latest&lt;/strong&gt; information or solve a &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; problem. Therefore the acceptance rate has been made visible to give users another reason to accept answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T10:44:31.667" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T10:44:31.667" />
  <row Id="18056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T10:34:47.067" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're the one who asked the question and by that, you should know if your problem has been fixed or solved. If it has, that's when you bring out the big tick love and award an accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it hasn't, then don't accept an answer. Update the question if you feel that you need to clarify any points wherein you would be able to find an answer that fits your needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your opinion on your question matters more since you're the one who brought that problem to the fore in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T10:34:47.067" />
  <row Id="18057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T10:35:20.933" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For me, the answer with the most votes is the answer I accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really? Thats kind of arbitrary. If you don't care if the answer actually works and solves your problem, why don't you just accept based on the alignment of the stars or the burn pattern on your waffles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T10:35:20.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:04:13.093" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation left aside, having an accepted answer that solves the specific problem at hand at the top of the answer list, clearly distinguished from the other answers by the green background, is one of the main goals of S[OFU]. &#xA;If you do not want to participate in that goal, that is your choice. (Though I can't, for the love of God, understand why you object). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But accepting answers is an important part of the system, so Jeff et.al. added the acceptance rate feature, in order to encourage the users to accept answers (there were other things before this one, e.g. a reminder on your profile page). Making the &lt;em&gt;accept&lt;/em&gt; tick so clearly visible is another detail that follows the same goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in a direct answer to your question &lt;em&gt;is it overly visible&lt;/em&gt;, the answer is clearly &lt;em&gt;No&lt;/em&gt;. It is not &lt;em&gt;overly&lt;/em&gt; visible, because it is &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; to be highly visible. &lt;code&gt;status-by-design&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the root cause for your question is that you do not agree with the idea of accepting an answer. As I said, that's your choice. But the creators of S[OFU] have a different view on this matter, so I'm afraid you will have to live with their attempts to give you a little nudge now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:04:13.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8390" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:07:31.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it already does remove the up-vote before applying the down-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I up-voted your question, the total went from 5 to 6 and the up arrow was set - as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I then down-voted your question, the total went from 6 to 4 and the down arrow was set.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I then removed the down-vote and the total went from 4 to 5. (To &quot;reset&quot; the system&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a reload of the page both my rep and your rep were back at their original values. I didn't try a reload after each operation to see if the intermediate rep values were as expected, but I suspect they would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do have sufficient rep to down-vote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard - You can try the same approach with this answer if you like. So the question becomes does down-voting remove the up-vote before producing the error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T08:23:11.777" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T08:23:11.777" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:15:12.507" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't see why my opinion is more important than of those who voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your opinion os more important because it is YOUR Question. If you have a question that asks &quot;How do I do X&quot; and someone answers how to do X and that solves your problem, that is the accepted answer: The answer that solved your problem. Sure, there may be a different answer that explains why X may not be the best and how Y and Z might be better approaches, and this answer gets a lot of votes (rightfully), but did it solve your problem? Or is it more &quot;Whoa, didn't know Y existed, going to use that for the next project!&quot;, in which case it should get an upvote but not necessarily accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, Questions on StackOverflow should be as specific as possible, so that there can be one specific answer that solves it. There are very few exceptions IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The default sorting ensures that other users will see: 1. Your Question, 2. Your Specific Answer, 3. The highest voted other answers. So users can see &quot;Okay, the user has this problem, this is the solution to this problem, and here are some other approaches that seem to be popular with many people&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also allows another user who has the same problem to see how you solved it. Because even though the &quot;Don't do X, use Y and Z instead&quot; answer may get most votes, another user who wants to solve X will gain a lot more from seeing how YOU solved X out of these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:15:12.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14567" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:20:04.370" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name Community Wiki certainly confused (and still confuses) me, and I'm not entirely sure I've got a grip on the reason for its existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; what it seems to be is an attempt to allow questions to be generalised. This is certainly what we used to do in a previous life that involved fielding escalations of helpdesk questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aim was to create an answer document that covered the problem in as complete (and general) way as possible, rather than just answering the specific question raised. Then, next time someone else had a similar sounding problem or question, the helpdesk would search among the existing documents, hopefully find something suitable, and send it back to the user. Only if they then said that didn't solve their particular problem would it get escalated by the helpdesk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Useful, but hard to get people to do that on their own time (and, everyone wants answers to their own questions immediately [*]. They won't even do the leg-work of a quick web search first.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there ought to be mechanisms to attempt to check that a &quot;questionee&quot; has first looked somewhere else for the answer, even just some natural language parsing and automated &quot;these questions may be relevent&quot; response when they submit the question, or automatic qualification if they can point to a pertinent question on &lt;em&gt;expertsexchange&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[* I'm reminded of a certain Joel Spolsky's comments about interruptions by co-workers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Mutt can't remember the name of the&#xA;  Unicode version of the strcpy&#xA;  function. He could look it up, which&#xA;  takes 30 seconds, or he could ask&#xA;  Jeff, which takes 15 seconds. Since&#xA;  he's sitting right next to Jeff, he&#xA;  asks Jeff. Jeff gets distracted and&#xA;  loses 15 minutes of productivity (to&#xA;  save Mutt 15 seconds).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and yet we continue, like fools, to answer.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134942" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:20:04.370" />
  <row Id="18063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18064" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:38:51.947" Score="1" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I want to have a website that behaves just like SO but is populated by users asking questions about cars (or waffles or ponies), can I buy or license the platform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's available with regard to SAS hosted or frameworks that I can run on my own hardware?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:44:14.557" Title="Is the stack overflow platform for sale?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;platform&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18063" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:40:11.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hosted on my own server is the option you will be looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform&#xA;Designed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, Stack Overflow has rapidly &#xA;become the best place for programmers to get answers to technical questions. &#xA;Now there's a way to get the same kind of site for your audience.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:40:11.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18063" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:44:14.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, as Diago said, StackExchange is the hosted version you can buy.  You can find more information about it at the site linked, and ask questions about it here.  Please review the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/stackexchange&quot;&gt;existing questions about stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; though - they may answer your question already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:44:14.557" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:44:16.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other people who are voting are not testing all of the answers with your code.  In a lot of cases, only &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can tell us what worked the best to solve your specific problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T11:44:16.210" />
  <row Id="18067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:55:53.097" Score="7" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a fair amount of controversy over the recent change to the default sorting of answers, going from a vote- and time-based system, to a purely vote-based system that randomizes the ordering of questions that have the same number of votes.  There have been at least a couple of discussions of potential problems that this introduces elsewhere (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17910/please-return-to-the-old-sorting-by-time-method-of-answers-with-the-same-number-o&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for example).  I propose an alternative that is a compromise of the old and new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we borrow a principle from scoring in cycling, in which riders who arrive in the same pack get the same time.  The way this would work is that, for purposes of sorting, answers are rounded to the nearest minute (or two minute interval -- seconds/120 * 120 using integer math).  We follow the previous scheme whereby questions are first sorted by votes, then by time, but answers with the same sort time and vote values are ordered randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will retain the same basic historical view of the data.  It will be easy to see which answers differ significantly in time, discouraging cutting and pasting answers as an obvious vote grabbing ploy.  Users who answer quickly (and correctly) are still rewarded.  There will no longer be an incentive to downvote a higher rated answer simply to get into the same &quot;vote bracket&quot; -- at least if you're outside the &quot;pack&quot; window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, this removes some of the FGITW problem in that you'll have a minute or so (on average) to compose an answer, even after the &quot;more answers are available&quot; message appears, to complete your answer and still be &quot;first.&quot;  The pack window could be adjusted over time based on historical data to optimize it so that it really captures the same sort of principle as used in cycling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I have no problem removing what others may perceive as a bias towards early answers per se, since I think that in all but a handful of cases, good eventually triumphs early. However, the current system allows someone to simply cut/paste my answer and have their ansewr be presented in a way that it looks like I copied them, not the reverse -- at least to an inattentive reader who simply considers the order of presentation.  Since it is natural to assume that the ordering is chronological, this isn't an obscure risk.  My suggestion at least mitigates this risk since if they arrive outside the &quot;pack&quot;, it will be clear to even a casual user what has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T08:16:35.503" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:16:35.503" Title="Possible solution to the vote ordering controversy" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T11:56:31.880" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's the point of letting the one who asked the question decide which is The Right Answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because no one but them can tell if it is the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is their opinion worth more than anyone else's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the voters see the &lt;code&gt;question&lt;/code&gt;, while the asker sees the &lt;code&gt;problem&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voters cannot check that the problem is solved, while the asker can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And people that google for the same problem would like to find an answer that solves the problem, not the answer that convinces the others it's best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why not let the votes decide which answer is correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because you cannot lie to the compiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct answer is the one that is correct, not the one that is most voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my answers I like most is quite counter-intuitive and was accepted with a &lt;em&gt;negative&lt;/em&gt; score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastEditorUserId="132020" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T12:02:20.370" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:02:20.370" />
  <row Id="18069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18051" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:06:20.347" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The RSS entry for this question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   &amp;lt;entry&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18051/prevent-title-edits-to-spawn-a-new-rss-post&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;title type=&quot;text&quot;&amp;gt;Prevent title edits to spawn a new RSS post&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/bug/tags&quot; term=&quot;rss&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/bug/tags&quot; term=&quot;edits&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/bug/tags&quot; term=&quot;possible-bug&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/bug/tags&quot; term=&quot;bug&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;author&amp;gt;&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;joshhunt&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/author&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18051/prevent-title-edits-to-spawn-a-new-rss-post&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;published&amp;gt;2009-08-27T09:52:27Z&amp;lt;/published&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;updated&amp;gt;2009-08-27T09:52:27Z&amp;lt;/updated&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;summary type=&quot;html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            When the title of....&#xA;        &amp;lt;/summary&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/entry&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see there is an &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; field on the top that includes the complete url, with the title. If we can have the &quot;id&quot; field just include the question id (possibly with the domain in front), this should not show up as a new post in RSS-readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:06:20.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:12:27.133" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;accepted answer&quot;, in addition to helping those who come later find which answer solved your exact problem, is a way of saying &lt;strong&gt;thank you&lt;/strong&gt; to someone who helped you. Answerers like to be thanked, it's only human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:12:27.133" />
  <row Id="18073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18067" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:35:16.767" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this is a good compromise, we're compromising with Reddit, which should have little to no bearing on how this site is run. The order should be very, very simple: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;order by Score desc, LastActivityDate asc&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, two minutes is just too long. Questions within one minute of each other should be grouped together and randomized, if we're going to randomize at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'm confused as to what has happened &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4144.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;since June&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We agree with Paul Graham: in general,&#xA;  there tends to be a correlation&#xA;  between the length of a response and&#xA;  its quality. We've also observed this&#xA;  pattern on Stack Overflow. It isn't&#xA;  always true (TL;DR), but it's a&#xA;  verifiable pattern. Either be the&#xA;  first and quickest, or be the best and&#xA;  most comprehensive!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side effect, randomizing the answers within a minute takes some of the competitiveness and fun out of answering these questions. Obviously, the current ordering destroys it completely, so grouping them within a minute is a good compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T22:40:21.493" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:40:21.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:35:32.693" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hi&quot; is useless, as I can't really utter it back, nor can I ask &quot;what's going on?&quot;, etc., which would similarly be out of place.  It should be edited out as if you were reformatting code - if you are already working there, take it out, otherwise leave it be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Thanks&quot; on the other hand, is acceptable, as it expresses gratitude for time spent on my issues, for considering me and trying to help me fix my problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T07:35:43.160" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T07:35:43.160" />
  <row Id="18075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18067" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:36:53.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering how that fits into a popular question where many people answer with similar answers at the same time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wondering if a setup where the owner of the question can only see the answers for the first few minutes and the rest of the users only see theirs (if they answered) would be viable? Then after a few minutes the gates open and all the answers are visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:36:53.410" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18054" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:37:09.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeff said, there will be some questions with no possibility of choosing one answer as &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; answer. However, this is not the case for most questions of a technical nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who answer questions put time and effort into it. On most days, I hit the 200 point limit fairly quickly on SO. Accepted answers provide a reward for my effort that is not available based solely on votes. Plus, there is the recognition and appreciation by the OP for the effort I made to answer the question. Therefore, I consider it rude for the OP not to accept a full and correct answer to the question. Here are a couple of examples of what I mean: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/822563/how-can-i-iterate-over-multiple-lists-at-the-same-time-in-perl/822580#822580&quot;&gt;822563&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1009280/how-do-i-perform-vector-addition-in-ruby/1010839#1010839&quot;&gt;1009280&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the accepted answer rate a very useful aid in deducing if the poster is inclined to reciprocate in response to the effort put into the answers provided. Anything less than a 50% rate is a red flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then, I am not very &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/74612/dimitri-c&quot;&gt;active in the &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;social&lt;/em&gt; tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:37:09.553" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18079" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:46:18.380" Score="2" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I logged into SO this morning and was notified that I received an &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge. &lt;br&gt;The only answer of mine that was accepted since when I had logged in last (yesterday evening) was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334496/difference-between-ui-and-ux/1334516#1334516&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, which was indeed accepted, but has only five upvotes. &lt;br&gt;Now, I'm a fan of having silver badges and all, but it seems to me like this one was awarded erroneously. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:14:02.673" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:14:02.673" Title="Why did I get an &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18078" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:49:01.977" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1245430/over-the-last-7-8-years-what-are-the-biggest-influences-on-c-programming/1245443#1245443&quot;&gt;You have an accepted answer with 37 upvotes&lt;/a&gt;. Moreover, it was the first answer to that question. That's the definition of the enlightened badge. Yes, badges apply to community wiki answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:49:01.977" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18078" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:49:10.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1245430/over-the-last-7-8-years-what-are-the-biggest-influences-on-c-programming/1245443#1245443&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; is most likely the culprit, given that it has 37 upvotes. Badges, but not rep, are awarded for CW answers and questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the badges are not awarded real time. There's a scheduled stored procedure that goes out and rewards them. What you experienced as a delay in the acceptance and the reward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:49:10.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18078" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:50:30.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have 1 enlightened badge; I guess it is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1245430/over-the-last-7-8-years-what-are-the-biggest-influences-on-c-programming/1245443#1245443&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, then. Not bad for a 1-word answer ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:50:30.613" />
  <row Id="18083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:56:51.350" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to provided tag intersections. Suppose I am looking at 'C++' tag and would like to look at file reading/writing specific questions within C++. If you could provide a left side pane which show tags that are intersecting with C++, I could easily find my desired set of questions, ie those which have been tagged as both 'C++' and 'files'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T13:30:49.677" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T05:30:32.540" Title="Getting more specific categories within a tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:57:56.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest to make two simple things for starters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make a hyperlink next to each comment with a &lt;code&gt;Reply&lt;/code&gt; written on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say, user named &lt;code&gt;James Kilter&lt;/code&gt; made a comment: &lt;code&gt;Oh, I really like your answer!&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I click on that hyperlink, two things happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The text field that allows me to type in a comment shows up (as if you clicked &lt;code&gt;add comment&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Text &lt;code&gt;**@James Kilter**&lt;/code&gt; appears in the beginning of the text field and I can write &lt;code&gt;thanks!&lt;/code&gt; into that field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will allow &lt;code&gt;James Kilter&lt;/code&gt; to see that the comment with the word &lt;code&gt;thanks&lt;/code&gt; is addressed to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not an expert in making web sites, but it appears to me this is quite an easy task to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this will help a lot, as many of the users as for now have to make their comments addressed to certain people &lt;em&gt;manually&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:57:56.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18083" CreationDate="2009-08-27T12:59:19.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already happens. Go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b&quot;&gt;C++ tagged questions&lt;/a&gt; page. To the right are &quot;related tags&quot; that you can click through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T12:59:19.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18083" CreationDate="2009-08-27T13:03:53.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FYI, you can search for questions with multiple tags that you specify by using the magic urls: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/bug+status-bydesign&quot;&gt;/tags/bug+status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; will show you all the bugs that are not actually bugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just thinking about a similar issue. I do believe there should be some sort of 'tag associations'. That way, you would not have to tag a question has both &lt;kbd&gt;windows&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;windows-7&lt;/kbd&gt;. Searching for 'windows' could show questions tagged with all Windows operating systems. Similarly, &lt;kbd&gt;office-2007&lt;/kbd&gt; could show all &lt;kbd&gt;powerpoint&lt;/kbd&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again, the reason the tags system is so good is because of it's simplicity. If not done carefully and properly, it could screw the whole system up by making to too complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T13:03:53.827" />
  <row Id="18089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18093" CreationDate="2009-08-27T13:04:13.157" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of the recent change in vote ordering, a certain aspect of the design process for SO has been highlighted.  It seems that certain features, while present in the system, are considered by the developers to be accidental (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17910/please-return-to-the-old-sorting-by-time-method-of-answers-with-the-same-number-o/18000#18000&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; comment thread).  In this instance, the secondary ordering of answers by last change was &quot;completely accidental, and was never by design.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it seems the developers feel justified in making changes more arbitrarily than they would with parts of the system that were explicitly purposeful and by design. Since it was never intentional and certainly wasn't intended to be permanent, why not change it once a good idea comes along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I have no problem personally with the developers using whatever system they see fit to prioritize and implement code changes, I can see how it is frustrating for users (particularly those who frequent meta) to have their opinions weighed against the (unknown) original intentions of the developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the developers be more up front about which features may change at any time with little discussion, and which are carefully considered elements that will require extended consideration?  Is that even possible?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this something that just has to be accepted as part of the package when dealing with a system as complex as SO?  After all, not every piece of code and layout is going to have been carefully considered.  Therefore, shouldn't we expect that some features are subject to change at the sole discretion of the developers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, all features are at the discretion of the developers.  This is not open source, they own the code base.  But I think many people here on meta would like clarification on their role in making these decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T13:47:20.650" Title="Status: Not By Design" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;development&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18083" CreationDate="2009-08-27T13:05:54.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this what the related tags are on the right panel? Clicking on them gives you the intersecting set of questions. The only drawback there is: it does not work with wildcard tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Lance commented that the related tags just are the tags that happen to be on the displayed questions on the page. I just made the test. Searching for [math] results in 920 questions. It displays [javascript] as a related tag with 16 intersecting questions. There is no question on the first page of results with the tag [javascript]. On later pages, there are 16 such questions featuring both tags. &lt;strong&gt;Thus it seems that all intersecting tags in the whole result set are listed as related, thus being what the OP is looking for.&lt;/strong&gt; If I am wrong, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These restrictions still remain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on your interesting tags list something like [delphi*] and then click on one of the related tags, instead of an &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; with the rest it will &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; the tag. Sometimes if the list of tags fitting the wildcard is long, this will result in an error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try the example I gave using [delphi*] (or delphi~ in search box) and click on winapi afterwards. This is the result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi+or+delphi-2009+or+delphi-7+or+delphi-2007+or+delphi-2006+or+delphi-5+or+delphi-prism+or+delphi-units+or+delphi-2010+or+delphi.net+or+delphi2007+or+delphi-php+or+delphi-components+or+delphi-library+or+delphi-like+or+delphi-1+or+delphi-3+or+delphi2009+or+winapi&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi+or+delphi-2009+or+delphi-7+or+delphi-2007+or+delphi-2006+or+delphi-5+or+delphi-prism+or+delphi-units+or+delphi-2010+or+delphi.net+or+delphi2007+or+delphi-php+or+delphi-components+or+delphi-library+or+delphi-like+or+delphi-1+or+delphi-3+or+delphi2009+or+winapi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the or before winapi? Try to click the link, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does work when searching using [delphi~] [winapi], resulting in the URL &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/winapi+delphi~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/winapi+delphi~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then on the second page you will see that it resolves this to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=winapi%20delphi%20or%20delphi-2009%20or%20delphi-7%20or%20delphi-2007%20or%20delphi-2006%20or%20delphi-5%20or%20delphi-prism%20or%20delphi-units%20or%20delphi-2010%20or%20delphi.net%20or%20delphi2007%20or%20delphi-php%20or%20delphi-components%20or%20delphi-library%20or%20delphi-like%20or%20delphi-1%20or%20delphi-3%20or%20delphi2009%20or&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=winapi%20delphi%20or%20delphi-2009%20or%20delphi-7%20or%20delphi-2007%20or%20delphi-2006%20or%20delphi-5%20or%20delphi-prism%20or%20delphi-units%20or%20delphi-2010%20or%20delphi.net%20or%20delphi2007%20or%20delphi-php%20or%20delphi-components%20or%20delphi-library%20or%20delphi-like%20or%20delphi-1%20or%20delphi-3%20or%20delphi2009%20or&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a different combination of and's and or's than expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T05:30:32.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-08-27T13:26:55.410" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I have been pretty active lately removing email like salutations and sigs. I think it just adds noise, and distracts from the content, both for questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find sigs particularly &lt;strong&gt;annoying&lt;/strong&gt;, imagine a world where you double sign your emails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eg: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Dear Murray,&#xA;&#xA;Time for a band meeting&#xA;&#xA;Cheers&#xA;Brett &#xA;                                 Brett&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks kind of silly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T21:48:48.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:48:48.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T13:27:58.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18089" CreationDate="2009-08-27T13:44:53.183" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me preface this by saying that this post is not about the sorting of answers specifically. I do not want to discuss in this thread whether or not  it is a good idea. That has been done in other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this issue actually highlights the flaw in Meta as a bug-tracking tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the eyes of the developers (this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; official, this is my interpretation), they were fixing a bug that existed in the system. On typical bug-fixing issues, you do not have to go to the community, i.e. if there is a typo in an error message, you should just fix it and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case the 'bug' that they fixed turned out to be near and dear to the hearts of many users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people have made a hubbub about the fact that the community was not consulted, which doesn't really make sense to me because they did not &lt;em&gt;anticipate&lt;/em&gt; that there would be controversy. I think it's too early to characterize 'the way they handled the controversy' because, as all of us can attest to, it's not over yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is &lt;em&gt;filled&lt;/em&gt; with hugely diverse questions. A lot of them are &quot;how do I?&quot;, &quot;feature requests&quot;, &quot;bug reports&quot;, &quot;I want to complain about xyz&quot; and then a variety of things which are just wildly off-topic. In all of this, it is hard to get a handle on which questions and which pieces are 'code-actionable'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was a way to keep track of a list of 'prospective functional code changes', then the community would be able to characterize their response to these things beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have an 'In-Progress' tag, but that only refers to the code changes which happen to be related to meta questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggested (possible) implementation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time you guys come up with an idea, or one of the StackOverflow Valued Associates makes a check in, you could log it on MSO with a Moderator-Only &quot;In Next Release&quot; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Create a link that goes straight to the &quot;In Next Release&quot; Tags page. That way the community will have a very easy way to know exactly what changes are possible to happen in the next release, and they can discuss them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also serve as release checklist, because once a deployment has occurred, you can change the tags one at a time to 'status-completed' once you have verified them in the production environment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this will keep us from having venomous discussions &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; a deployment, and switch them to heated discussions &lt;em&gt;prior&lt;/em&gt; to deployments. Oh, and this would only apply to changes that have a functional effect on the front end. I wouldn't expect any &quot;performance tuning&quot; type stuff to appear there, because it does not affect the features/bugs of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T13:44:53.183" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18089" CreationDate="2009-08-27T13:47:20.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally like the idea of feature changes being presented here on Meta first, with the community here giving feedback ont it, because that way I could have a part not only in the &lt;em&gt;running&lt;/em&gt; of the system, but in the system &lt;em&gt;design&lt;/em&gt;. (Architecture astronauts, anybody?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two possible problems with that approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta is already perceived as being elitist by some new users. This would add to that perception. (Even though that perception is clearly wrong IMO)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The biggest challenge for the developers is to find a solution to the &lt;em&gt;find S[OFU] through Google&lt;/em&gt; use case. Since we knwo the S[OFU] engine for quite some time now, we are by definition the worst group of people to judge how a &lt;em&gt;new user&lt;/em&gt; perceives the site.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, having a notice here on Meta when a feature change is released would be very nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T13:47:20.650" />
  <row Id="18095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18106" CreationDate="2009-08-27T13:56:35.167" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the list of interesting/ignored tags expands, the position of the Add textbox is not static.  In order to add a tag to one of these lists, I have to scroll down an unknown length in order to target that textbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest one of two things:  Move the textbox to below the header for each section &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Interesting Tags&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;input id=&quot;interestingTag&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;interestingTag&quot; ...&#xA;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;interestingTags&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/c%23&quot; cl…&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or place both at the top of the Interesting Tags/Ignored Tags list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;input id=&quot;interestingTag&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;interestingTag&quot; ...&#xA;&amp;lt;input id=&quot;ignoredTag&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;ignoredTag&quot; ...&#xA;&amp;lt;h4&amp;gt;Interesting Tags&amp;lt;/h4&amp;gt;    &#xA;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;interestingTags&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/c%23&quot; cl…&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:24:29.483" Title="Move the Add box to the top of the Interested/Ignored tag list" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18043" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:02:10.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read it as a question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8209/do-business-of-software-questions-belong-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;the Business of Software&lt;/a&gt;, not programming. SO is ill-suited to such discussions, but fortunately there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;perfectly good forum&lt;/a&gt; for discussing those topics already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Neil and John note that the question can effectively be considered a duplicate, and you've even gone through and cross-linked to a couple existing questions. I applaud your efforts to clean up these questions, as well as provide a comprehensive answer, but rather than spreading answers all over the site, it would be better have them merged - i've used the &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot; feature to request this, and suggest you do likewise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:02:10.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:06:27.220" Score="26" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently have no way to tell what questions I've asked have accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the vote up and vote down graphics my screen reader announces &quot;graphic check&quot;. I know clicking on this graphic will allow me to accept an answer since my reputation increases by two the first time I do it on a specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I go back to look at a question, there’s no way to tell if I’ve already accepted an answer though. Would it be possible to provide some non visual way of showing weather a question had an accepted answer such as alt tags on the “check” image that announce whether the image is to select an answer as accepted, or whether you're actually looking at the answer you’ve already accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be way off base here since I can’t actually see how the screen is laid out but hopefully this makes sense to someone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118643/is-there-a-way-to-convert-indentation-in-python-code-to-braces&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with my screen reader the following is the element information my screen reader gives me when I ask for detail while on the &quot;check&quot; graphic. Based on this I setting either the alt attribute or title should work, although alt attribute would work by default while my screen reader would have to be told to use the title attribute instead of the alt attribute for stackoverflow.com and associated sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Element Information:&#xA;&#xA;Tag IMG has 7 parameters:&#xA;alt=check&#xA;class=vote-accepted&#xA;height=31&#xA;id=vote-accepted-118744&#xA;src=http://sstatic.net/so/img/vote-accepted.png&#xA;title=Click to set this answer as your accepted answer; click again to toggle.&#xA;width=30&#xA;MSAA Role=28&#xA;&#xA;Tag DIV has 1 parameters:&#xA;class=vote&#xA;MSAA Role=424&#xA;&#xA;Tag TD has 1 parameters:&#xA;class=votecell&#xA;MSAA Role=1D&#xA;&#xA;Tag TR has 0 parameters:&#xA;&#xA;Tag TBODY has 0 parameters:&#xA;MSAA Role=429&#xA;&#xA;Tag TABLE has 0 parameters:&#xA;MSAA Role=18&#xA;&#xA;Tag DIV has 2 parameters:&#xA;class=answer &#xA;id=answer-118744&#xA;MSAA Role=424&#xA;&#xA;Tag DIV has 1 parameters:&#xA;id=answers&#xA;MSAA Role=424&#xA;&#xA;Tag DIV has 1 parameters:&#xA;id=mainbar&#xA;MSAA Role=424&#xA;&#xA;Tag DIV has 1 parameters:&#xA;id=content&#xA;MSAA Role=424&#xA;&#xA;Tag DIV has 1 parameters:&#xA;class=container&#xA;MSAA Role=424&#xA;&#xA;Tag BODY has 0 parameters:&#xA;&#xA;Tag HTML has 0 parameters:&#xA;&#xA;Tag #document has 1 parameters:&#xA;href=http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118643/is-there-a-way-to-convert-indentation-in-python-code-to-braces&#xA;MSAA Role=F&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T23:44:46.820" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:44:46.820" Title="Non visual way to see if a question you asked has an accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accessibility&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="18098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:08:22.033" Score="3" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are questions from people with obvious illegal or at the very least ethically questionable goals. Such as this one from a guy who seems to be trying to write some malware:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1339443/c-calling-exe-from-ram/1339463&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1339443/c-calling-exe-from-ram/1339463&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should SO be used for such purposes? If not, then there should be close option for such questions (something like &quot;Illegal content&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this is a sensible topic since it is verging on Internet censorship (which I usually do not approve), but I also think that there are cases (such as this one) which are severe enough to warrant closing the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134223" LastEditorUserId="134223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T14:59:32.053" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:31:41.787" Title="Should there be a close option for questions regarding to some illegal activity?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18097" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:12:45.487" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any way to improve the accessibility for our visually impaired users is always a plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:12:45.487" />
  <row Id="18100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:18:20.653" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You know as much as I would like to punch the crap out of anyone who writes malware, it is still a valid programming question.&lt;/strong&gt; He didn't mention malware, but there is a chance he just wants to learn the limits of programming. I would think most programmers would want to know their limits and what is possible. I personally do. It is not for sure malware, so we can't make assumptions. I think the downvotes will suffice for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, flag any comment, answer, question you might have concern over so it will bring moderator attention. We love our hard working moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T02:53:45.290" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:53:45.290" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:19:39.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the close options as they exist now are sufficient for this.  The global nature of the Internet would come into question here.  Who's laws are you basing &quot;illegal&quot; on?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:19:39.900" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="18102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18097" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:20:41.863" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should probably say &lt;strong&gt;Accepted&lt;/strong&gt;, if the question has been accepted, and &lt;strong&gt;Click to Accept&lt;/strong&gt; otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:20:41.863" />
  <row Id="18104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18043" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:24:00.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close it as '&lt;strong&gt;Subjective and Argumentative&lt;/strong&gt;'; though if I'd seen the duplicate, I would have picked that as the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the text of the original question, before my edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;I keep wondering how open source developers make a living. Does anyone know who pays them?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question as asked, supposes that in the mind of the asker, open-source developers should not be paid. It gives no reasoning for this line of thought, and also asks the question 'Who pays a software developer'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to improve it, I reworded it, and added in reasoning for why the poster would ask 'who pays them?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;strong&gt;Subjective and Argumentative&lt;/strong&gt; before I edited it; and even though I tried to retain the author's intent while removing the Argumentativeness from it, I do not believe I was successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T14:42:41.377" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:42:41.377" />
  <row Id="18105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:24:07.003" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18097/non-visual-way-to-see-if-a-question-you-asked-has-an-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post and realising that we actually have a &lt;kbd&gt;blind-programmer&lt;/kbd&gt; tag and two &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370976/what-are-some-good-computer-science-resources-for-a-blind-programmer&quot;&gt;confirmed&lt;/a&gt; blind users on StackOverflow, one with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14744/jared&quot;&gt;6000+&lt;/a&gt; reputation already, I would like to know how and what has been done to make the site more accessible for these users, and although a minority how Jeff and Joel feel about reaching such a unique target?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to hear their input on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370976/what-are-some-good-computer-science-resources-for-a-blind-programmer&quot;&gt;What are some good computer science resources for a Blind Programmer?&lt;/a&gt; (Question 370976) question on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T14:34:52.750" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:34:52.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T14:24:07.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18095" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:24:29.483" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the add box at the bottom.  My most interesting tags should at the top of the list, not the add box, which I rarely use anymore.  If this is implemented at all it should be a user preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:24:29.483" />
  <row Id="18109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:47:14.360" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact same thing happened to me this morning when I tried to undo an upvote on an answer. The answer itself was only 30 minutes old. I think something is seriously wonky with that right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:47:14.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:53:28.277" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be a way to flag the 'Edit Summary' text in a post's revision history? I've seen a few inappropriate comments that don't really need to be there that are a bit churlish and pointless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that we can flag just about everything else this seems to be the last bastion for those that feel they need to pop a vein about another user's question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T15:10:52.540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T15:10:52.540" Title="Should there be a way to flag the 'Edit Summary' text in a post's revision history?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18110" CreationDate="2009-08-27T14:57:22.603" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, just flag the question for moderator review and ask them to check the history with an explanation of what you think is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rare occasions where this could be useful, I don't think it warrants complicating the system further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T14:57:22.603" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-08-27T15:15:12.060" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I think NO is the best answer to this question.  I already think that the moderators are a bit heavy-handed here.  Down-votes will get the point across without stifling discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- The community should note (in responses or in edits) any legal or ethical boundaries that may be crossed.  It is quite possible that the questioner does not know of the problems with the desired actions or results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2- Closing/deleting is the SO equivalent of putting one's head in the sand.  Better to discuss the bad stuff and note that it is bad then to pretend it isn't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3- Getting into someone's head and being certain of motives is virtually impossible. It quickly goes from conclusion to assumption, presumption and speculation.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4- It is not illegal or unethical to talk (generally) about things that might themselves be illegal or unethical, at least not in the the country where this site is running.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;--&gt; It is fine to discuss how one might successfully rob a bank.  It is illegal to seriously discuss specifically robbing 1st National Bank next Monday.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5- One of the reasons that rational discussion is becoming increasingly difficult nowadays is because of a hyper-sensitivity to offense.  &lt;strong&gt;One does not have the right to not be offended.&lt;/strong&gt;  Feeling offended does not give one the right to offend back, or to act to squelch the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T15:15:12.060" />
  <row Id="18118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-08-27T15:18:28.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's illegal, flag it for moderator attention so that it gets deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's just morally questionable but otherwise valid, I see no problems with it. It's that old &quot;Guns don't kill people&quot; discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Besides, I see a few valid uses for his question. Some Exe-Packers and Copy-Protection mechanisms work like that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T15:18:28.327" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-08-27T15:22:16.600" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. Is this a question or a statement? &quot;No&quot; answers don't really seem welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, I think I understand the point of the question, but the whole tone seems snarky. If someone starts with &quot;Hi&quot; and ends with &quot;Thanks&quot; they aren't being fluffy and it isn't that cumbersome. They're just nice folks. Editing Hi/Thanks sounds rude &lt;em&gt;to me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, a current question on Stack Overflow is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1341229/allocating-memory-for-nsstring&quot;&gt;Allocating Memory for NSString&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi, I am new to objective-c and a little curious about how I should be&#xA;  managing the memory for the local NSString variables shown below and the&#xA;  associated instance variables inside the class object. The code I have&#xA;  works fine, but just curious as to best practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[code snipped out]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cheers gary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &quot;Hi, &quot; really that hard to read? The preview went up to &quot;instance variables inside...&quot; Removing &quot;Hi, &quot; would add &quot;the&quot; to the preview. Would that really help? I don't know gary but removing the &quot;Hi&quot; and possibly &quot;Cheers gary&quot; would buy a tiny bit of space but be like smacking him after he's contributed to the effort. Rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chopping the question down to &quot;How should I be managing...&quot; makes more sense, but it still seems rude to edit gary out of gary's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be nice.&lt;/strong&gt; Treat others with the same respect you'd want them to treat you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, cleaning up or removing txt msg gibberish is a readability improvement and I'd even go so far as to request a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stupidfilter.org/main/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;stupid&quot; warning&lt;/a&gt; to go along with the duplicate warning when a question is being written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another is more grating: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/541423/plz-validate-my-validation-expression&quot;&gt;Plz validate my validation expression :)&lt;/a&gt;. The question itself is fine, but the title is annoying and impedes reading. There's a comment asking that he/she not use &quot;Plz&quot;, but the title remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4126" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-08T07:49:56.830" LastActivityDate="2010-07-08T07:49:56.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18097" CreationDate="2009-08-27T15:37:03.710" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accessibility is always a priority, and it is unfortunately often very hard for most devs (myself included) to fully understand what will work well, and what won't - or indeed some of the subtle silly things that we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; get right but forget (&quot;alt&quot; text, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that you log &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; difficulties / suggestions on meta. Especially since they want to make a saleable product, they need to fix this ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T15:37:03.710" />
  <row Id="18122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17248" CreationDate="2009-08-27T15:46:17.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's intentional by way of CSS working its styles in hierarchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlighted word in this case has a  CSS style applied to it that comes ahead of the style that is applied to the line as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in effect it kind of ignores what's going on in the background because the style that's applied to it takes the cake and the higher order of presentation value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T15:46:17.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T16:21:45.490" Score="3" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18013/can-we-please-have-transparency-in-new-code-releases-for-the-so-sites/18042#18042&quot;&gt;has posted&lt;/a&gt; that he uses the following view as a basis for deciding which features to implement.  I suggest adding this as one of the available view tabs on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-14T19:00:53.173" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T19:00:53.173" Title="Add the open feature requests view to the list of available views on meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;views&gt;&lt;bugs-reqs-tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T16:21:15.123" Score="3" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;What questions should be asked on which StackOverflow sister sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T16:27:57.457" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T16:19:50.833" Title="What questions should be asked on which StackOverflow sister sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18131" CreationDate="2009-08-27T16:26:47.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the bottom of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stackoverflow.com   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt; - Servers and workstations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; - anything computer related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; - discussion about Stackoverflow (like this question! :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtogeek.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://howtogeek.com&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://doctype.com&lt;/a&gt; - web design&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T16:26:47.490" />
  <row Id="18134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18131" CreationDate="2009-08-27T16:29:28.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about …  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;networking, servers, or maintaining&#xA;  other people's PCs and contains no&#xA;  source code, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;general computer software or hardware&#xA;  troubleshooting, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;web design and HTML/CSS layout, and&#xA;  your job title is &quot;designer&quot;, ask on&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T16:29:28.670" />
  <row Id="18142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:03:08.007" Score="31" ViewCount="496" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13676/is-english-required-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Is English required on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow&quot;&gt;We need to help non-english-speakers somehow&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;这个网站支持中文么。&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translation: Does this website support chinese?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT(aku)&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@SCdF created request on uservoice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/30157&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Multilingual Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T21:37:49.833" ClosedDate="2010-04-28T17:06:11.497" Title="这是一个测试，想看一下中文是否能得到支持" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="18143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:05:13.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First post in Chinese, cool!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google tells me that question title is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is a test to see if you can get Chinese support&quot; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:06:18.030" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chinese does seem to be supported, but I wish SO had a better way to present it to people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the wikipedia scheme would work here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;en.stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jp.stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" />
  <row Id="18145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:07:15.093" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well - yes you can post in Chinese, but you really should attempt to ask a question in English- you'd get a better response. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" />
  <row Id="18146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:08:12.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a case I want to remind you that there is a special topic about localization:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88624/should-non-english-question-be-tagged-with-name-of-the-language-its-written-in#89690&quot;&gt;Should non-English question be tagged with name of the language it’s written in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/translate_t#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google translate&lt;/a&gt; will help us to build Tower of Babel someday :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-29T02:08:12.923" />
  <row Id="18147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:08:45.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;翻譯服務器錯誤。&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:11:50.903" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;サポートするかどうか聞かれても、技術的にサポートしても社会的にサポートしない場合もあと思うが・・・&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loose translation: the question of whether a language is supported has a technical side but also a social side, and it can be supported in one sense without being supported in the other...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:15:43.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great question.  What I would like to see is better site integration of multilingual.  Ultimately, I would like to see different versions of each question (possibly defaulting to the user's preference, or English if the preferred language is not available for that question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty on this site who would help translating. I'm sure Jeff would add a Translator badge or something like that.  Perhaps with multiple levels depending on how much translating you actually do.... &quot;Translator&quot;, &quot;Interpreter&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:18:55.330" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's please keep Stackoverflow in english. That way it's useful to more people.&#xA;I know many different languages, and can read some Chinese as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But until Chinese or some other language becomes the de facto language of programming let's stick with english.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As for those that say Chinese is the most spoken language in the world, you are wrong. In China there are many different dialects both regional and local, some don't even resemble what most people think of Chinese at all (In the western areas the language is much closer to  middle eastern languages than asian languages). English is the MOST spoken language in the world (circa 2008).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow please read what I said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;But until Chinese or some other language becomes the de facto language of programming let's stick with english.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Chinese, or what ever is to come, is the de facto programmer language, I'll happily post in Chinese on Stack Overflow as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have to agree with Alexander here, that we should try to keep Stackoverflow in english instead of breaking it up into language zones (as is Wikipedia's case). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The largest difference between Stackoverflow and Wikipedia is scale. Stackoverflow is dedicated to a small community (all programmers) compared to Wikipedia (everyone with internet connection). And although in an ideal universe Wikipedia's solution is the best for Stackoverflow as well, in reality breaking Stackoverflow into localized sites might destroy the critical mass required to make the site strive at all in any language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: @Aku I agree that asking in Chinese, might as well be permitted, just like asking about some programming question I don't care about is totally valid. But I feel like it only serves to break up the sense of community and produces a double standard, neither of which are healthy propositions for such a small group. If its totally necessary, which I can't really figure out a good situation in which it is, when posting in other languages lets use language tags or something along those lines, let's not break up into en,cn,jp,tv,etc... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: By the way just for posterity the &quot;it&quot; used to be Latin, then French and German, now English, next who-knows, but the academic and technical lingua franka does and will change, but no need to rush along and be on the bleeding edge :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="18151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:23:31.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Est Latin subnixus pariter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148633" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:24:00.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Justin Standard,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already suggested that in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88624/should-non-english-question-be-tagged-with-name-of-the-language-its-written-in#89690&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be very happy to see a lot of questions in different languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Site pretends to be like Wikipedia - collaboratively editable, accessible to users all around the Earth, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't we have a section for non-English questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can translate from Russian and a little bit from Japanese. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be really nice to see some kind of international collaboration here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it's not hard to add hyperlink &quot;translate&quot; to each question that would automatically translate question via Google Translate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T02:27:52.080" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robert Gould,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From WikiAnswers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_most_spoken_language_on_earth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What is the most spoken language on Earth?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mandarin (873 million)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hindi (450 million)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;English (341 million)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spanish (321 million)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arabic (206 million) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Million times I found solution to my problems on Chinese programming site. I honestly don't understand why we should close doors for people who don't speak English&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;But until Chinese or some other&#xA;  language becomes the de facto language&#xA;  of programming let's stick with&#xA;  english.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not a question of most popular language, of course if you want to get maximum feedback it would be wise to post question in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question however is &quot;should we disallow non-English questions?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer: &lt;em&gt;Definitely, NO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not an expert in XYZ programming language, I even can't understand it. Does it mean that XYZ related questions should be prohibited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jason Dagit, gave a good example of how it can be implemented. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During discussions on off-topic posts many people said that tag filters can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I disagree that tag filters can help to filter out unwanted content, they can certainly help to select questions in specific language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same problem as with off-topic posts. &lt;strong&gt;Don't prohibit, just separate!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="18154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2008-09-29T03:10:17.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course I speak for no one but myself, but least as far as this one member of the Stackoverflow community goes, I think we would absolutely welcome any participation from anyone in any language, so long as their posts meets the test of being a “programming question” as that is being evolved by community standards on stackoverflow.  Certainly English speakers have no monopoly on programming smarts - we’d do well to be tapping into knowledge wherever it lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there are some practical and logistical issues that still need to be worked out by the site’s development team and moderators.  As stackoverflow is just getting off the ground, I imagine it may be a while before there is a convenient way to manage input in multiple languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again, just speaking for myself, in theory Chinese is absolutely welcome, but it may be a while before there’s a good mechanism to handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4089" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" />
  <row Id="18155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2009-03-24T14:40:37.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically speaking this website is for programming questions, I haven't seen a sign saying: &lt;strong&gt;English posts only&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it seems Chinese fonts can be displayed people shouldn't be forbidden to post questions in Chinese. However it is rather unlikely that any non-Chinese programmer would be able to help you with the question, thus reducing the likelihood of getting an answer. &#xA;Unless... we get a very large amount of Chinese programmers that want to use StackOverflow to get/give answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside of this is, that popular Chinese or any other non-English language for that matter, will also get a spot on the frontpage while being largely unreadable for the English speaking crowd. Therefore it would be much more efficient to have different language versions of StackOverflow, which should be used for that specific language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might reduce the community atmosphere of the website, but we could off course have different sub-communities for each separate language. It all depends on how many people would make use of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: it would be rather weird to have a Chinese only part if the websites interface remains English, I don't think this is the case with Wikipedia either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" />
  <row Id="18156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2009-05-14T03:08:43.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find SO is pretty cool. You guys did a fantastic job. I think multilingual SO is a great idea, which can extend SO to more programmers. Well, you might say, SO is a small community for programmers who use English dialects-programing languages. Well, I just don't think this thinking make any sense. SO is a great knowledge base for programmers. But you can add value to this knowledge base only by sharing it with more people. That's the position Wikipedia takes. Also I don't think there are any technical barriers. I like translator badge idea. I'd like to have one:-). Anyway I support the idea of multilingual SO in Wikipedia way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:05:42.210" />
  <row Id="18158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-10T18:50:59.577" Score="14" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just out of curiosity, for those with answers to mostly everything, are you guys just naturally experienced/talented/knowledgeble/etc.. (by heart and mind), or do you sometimes google for answers to put on StackOverflow?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm for one just a newbie and really admiring you guys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T23:42:39.443" Title="Do you use Google for answers to put on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="18159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T18:54:04.407" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I can't speak for jon skeet, but I suspect that when you Google for something difficult, Google calls him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for me, the answer is &quot;both&quot; -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if someone asks a question that I know the answer to I just answer it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if someone asks a question that is interesting and I want to know the answer to it, I'll Google a bit to see if I can figure it out before jon skeet answers it. I usually include a link to the info found and/or the search used.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and then inevitably jon skeet answers it - or has already answered it - with 47 upvotes and a big green checkmark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="18160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T18:55:04.593" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use SO as an opportunity to learn as well as share.  I often do a bit of research when a question intrigues me but I'm not sure about the answer.  If I come up with one while searching (and someone else hasn't already provided it), I will post what I come up with.  Hopefully, we all benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I, unlike Jon Skeet, am limited in the topics I have knowledge about and there are some questions that I don't even read because I know I can't contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T18:56:18.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally am with Steven for the most part.  I have a good broad knowledge with a few key specializations.  If I know the answer, I just put it there.  I will often though use Google to help me find existing code samples, or examples to point people to.  Basically as a supporting claim type situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T18:56:59.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answer questions that I personally have expertise in. I might use a search engine to find supporting documentation, but never to outright pretend I know something that I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17312" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T18:57:08.940" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually don't try to answer unless I think I know the basics of the answer, but I usually check that the answer I'm giving is accurate (and that often involves using Google), and certainly ensure that any URLs that I add are current (which very often involves Google - or my rather extensive set of bookmarks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T18:57:17.240" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;of course!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have answers which were marked &quot;accepted&quot; for which others knew the the answers by heart but because I googled or checked the latest php manual I was able to give the most acurate answer which was in turn rewarded by the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;knowing how and where to look for answers is part of the buisiness, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:00:13.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends. Sometimes yes and sometimes no. It helps to have good search skills because SPECIFIC Computer related knowledge is notorious for deteriorating over time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was good at DOS programming back in the day. But if was to do anything now I would go look it up in my trusty copy of PC System Programming. So while I don't remember all the ins and outs of assembly and interrupts I do remember where to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand knowledge of general concepts of math, programming design, good practices, etc they tend to stick with you and gets refined over the decades. The experience you accumulate from applying these concepts to a variety of languages, APIs, and platforms doesn't go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I why when I hire programmers I look for good problem solving skills, a strong foundation in the fundamentals, and a diverse range of experiences, rather than someone who a hotdog with a specific API or Tool. Because the skills behind these are timeless while the specifics can always be picked up from a book or using google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you are looking to do time sensitive then you may be better off hiring the API hotdog. But I consider that a specialty situation. In most cases you are hiring for the long terms and want the most out of your hire over the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150246" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:11:03.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very seldom. By the time I Google the question and read a few of the pages it returns, 10 people have all ready answered the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:11:51.377" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I googled to answer this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:18:00.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually google to answer when I have a good part of the answer first. Sometimes there are small technicalities that I don't remember and would have googled anyway if I were to do it myself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:18:29.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It begs the question, if people google the answers to questions posted on SO, why didn't the person posting the question take that route in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:21:58.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I use google to find examples, to confirm things I think to be correct or to locate fan-out that discusses one of the underlying concepts to an answer in more detail.  Many questions on Stackoverflow are asked at quite a high level and a comprehensive answer would run to many pages.  There is no point in re-explaining a basic concept like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_Changing_Dimension&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;slowly changing dimension&lt;/a&gt; (for example) when there are many good resources out there already.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this fan-out adds a great deal of depth to an explanation and allows people to use a hypertext system for what it was designed for.  Generally when I cut and paste stuff from other sites (usually things like code snippets or quotes) I try to attribute the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T19:35:33.217" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Always, though sometimes just as a correctness check. &#xA;You might like this : &lt;a href=&quot;http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: And also this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://letmewikipediathatforyou.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://letmewikipediathatforyou.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152045" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T20:00:07.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, in fact I just did for another question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am usually trying to validate my answer to a question so I hopefully don't come across with inaccurate or bad answers (I don't think I'm infallible, but I try to be accurate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150198" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T20:18:20.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually know 75%-100% of the answers I give.  I use google to fill in and verify that 1%-25% void.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T21:39:56.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK then, an answer :)&#xA;Usually I'll know most of the answer but will google for specifics.&#xA;Sometimes if I find the question interesting I'll reproduce the problem and debug an answer. e.g. I sat up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past my bed time working out what was happening to get &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/232997/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-generate-a-unique-set-in-net-2#251619&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a fun problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18797" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T21:43:38.573" />
  <row Id="18175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T21:44:20.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What?! Do you mean is there other way? :S ... Yahoo Answers maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well it come handy when you have forgotten the &quot;exact&quot; url for a precise reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T21:44:20.803" />
  <row Id="18176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T22:18:59.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes Google and sometimes Live Search as MSDN can be quite the reference for some Microsoft stuff at times.  Sometimes it makes a good reference point to bring up something that someone might have otherwise missed in asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-10T22:40:59.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Often. For reference documentation links or software home pages.&#xA;But I generally know the answer and I'm looking for supporting information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133472" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" />
  <row Id="18178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-11T01:49:26.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The trouble is, if you google it, Jon Skeet will be notified, fork a new process and answer it before you get back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T01:49:26.863" />
  <row Id="18179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-13T04:18:49.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't. It just seems lazy. Sometimes I'll use it to look up things in &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; people's answers though so I know for next time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T04:18:49.390" />
  <row Id="18180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2008-12-13T04:30:12.673" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, usually to add helpful links to my answer (like references from MSDN) or links to utilities, good websites etc, but not so much to help with the direct answering of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure that if I can't answer the question in my own words (or perhaps helpfully paraphrasing from a smarter individual) then I'm probably not adding much more value than a google search to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136224" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T04:30:12.673" />
  <row Id="18181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2009-01-15T16:30:08.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Experienced/talented/knowledgeble people use Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T16:30:08.573" />
  <row Id="18182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2009-01-15T16:32:21.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wait for Jon Skeet to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It saves me the effort...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T16:32:21.050" />
  <row Id="18183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18158" CreationDate="2009-01-15T19:58:06.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has already been answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/85nuhl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:07:21.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T19:58:06.390" />
  <row Id="18184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:28:29.033" Score="15" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a rep addict (and just waiting for this one to be voted down by the &quot;not programming related&quot; police), but also being a keen participant, the more questions I answer the less I know what causes movement in my reputation.  I find myself periodically trawling my list of answers trying to figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems to show exactly the same information as my user tab.  I've also looked through uservoice but I didn't find anyone asking for a list of reputation changes by date.  How do you do it?  Do you do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In truth, being a sociable animal I think that I am really hoping that discussions will have sprung around the questions/answers I participated in - but I know that issue is well covered elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; How predictable that the first thing to happen is a down-vote - sigh :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" Title="How do you track what caused a move in your reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:30:39.013" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You raise a good point, I can see it getting difficult under the current UI to tell what you've done recently thats causing a stir.  Especially if someone is asking something of you, you may have no idea that they responded to your answer.  Possibly some UI improvements could be made to show the latests things you've posted that have been voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154394" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" />
  <row Id="18186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:31:03.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;that one you linked to will show you the changes to your rep... you just have to visit it more than once, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:35:29.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think making it a little bit difficult to track this is a design &lt;em&gt;feature&lt;/em&gt;.  StackOverflow doesn't really do enough to encourage/enable users to provide even a minimal amount of follow-up for their answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So until they address this more adequately, the most effective way to track reputation for the current day is to actually go back and visit old answers, which you can track via the 'recent' and 'responses' tab on your user page.  While you're there checking votes you'll notice if someone asks for clarification or points out a simple mistake, and you can respond or correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" />
  <row Id="18188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:37:03.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the reputation graph on your user page, but that seems to be updated in a batch job and, thus, is not particularly useful for finding out why your rep just changed, but more for looking back last week to see how your reputation changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152971" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" />
  <row Id="18189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:38:20.620" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can highlight a section of the reputation graph in your user profile to reduce the number of entries on the right-hand side of the graph.  Just select the date range in question to narrow down the suspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2470" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:45:01.230" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The benefit of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/your-user-number-here&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/your-user-number-here&lt;/a&gt; page is that it only shows what's changed between visits to the page. However it doesn't show the cause of decreases in reputation caused by your own downvotes or other people downvoting your questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as a down vote happens on it's own the cause will be shown on the modos.org page. But a downvote can be masked by an upvote to the same Question or Answer leaving it's vote tally unchanged whilst your rep has been reduced by -2. (Although the same effect could be had by you voting down two posts, as down voting costs you -1 rep per down vote.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see your own down votes on the votes tab of your user page. You are the only person who can see that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reputation tab on your user page is the only place to view down votes to your questions. You can select part of the graph by click and dragging the mouse to view the votes over a specific time period, however the data isn't updated in real-time so you may have to wait a number of hours before you can see the cause of a down vote. Any user can see this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-21T13:45:01.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-21T14:00:20.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is also &quot;Responses&quot; tab on your user page. It shows what other people responded to you and you can follow the discussions from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" />
  <row Id="18192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18184" CreationDate="2008-10-25T00:09:15.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I look at my user page, and I've got a total of 32 in the left column under &quot;Answers&quot;.  My reputation is 197.  They claim an up vote is worth 10 points.  So how can my reputation be any less than 32*10=320?  I haven't ever voted anything down, so no points were subtracted that way.  If anyone voted down any of my answers, that'd subtract 2 votes per downvote.  But if the rating of my answers is the sum of up and down votes, for the score to be the same total but have down votes present, that means there'd be an extra number of upvotes equal to the number of downvotes, resulting in 8 more points of reputation than are visible by looking at the score of my answers.  My reputation has also never changed by anywhere near 200 points in a day, it's not even equal to 200 total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hardly care what particular value my reputation is, but I'm obsessive/compulsive enough that if someone gives me a simple formula for something, it drives me nuts if the data doesn't fit the formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, for the love of god, tell me that reputation is broken or random, so I can ignore it from now on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:08:30.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-26T22:02:29.490" Score="12" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to browse everything tagged with both &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[linux]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[performance]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on StackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T01:08:12.523" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:08:12.523" Title="Browsing through 2 tags on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18193" CreationDate="2008-12-26T22:04:34.107" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the search box in the top right of every page, with the following text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[linux] [performance]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encasing search tokens in square brackets causes the StackOverflow search to treat them as tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also just follow one of these links:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/performance%20linux&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/performance%20linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/performance+linux&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/performance+linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:09:31.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-02T16:13:32.583" />
  <row Id="18195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18193" CreationDate="2008-12-26T22:57:53.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here an easier way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on a tag name to see all the questions with that tag. Now you're in &quot;tagged view&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the &quot;Related Tags&quot; section in the right sidebar, you will see a list of related tags. Click on any of these tags to browse posts having both this tag and the original tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can click on more related tags to narrow down your listing to posts having all those tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48535" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:09:31.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:10:06.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would have to be blatantly illegal. The post you referenced could help someone doing something illegal, but then so could any other post. If the post was &quot;where can I get a cracked copy of xxx&quot;, then that's another story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:06.153" />
  <row Id="18197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:10:38.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is an international community. In some places, freedom of expression is illegal. Who's ethics would the new SO World Police enforce?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can already give a big boooo to anyone in the form of downvotes. There's no need for extra vigilante justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:38.617" />
  <row Id="18198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:01:51.133" Score="14" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388470/stacktrace&quot;&gt;first post&lt;/a&gt; from a user asking about a C# stack trace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a valid programming question for someone with little experience, yet it was marked down twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always believed that there are no stupid questions. Am I wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135653" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:08:34.100" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:08:34.100" Title="There are no stupid questions - or are there?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;question-quality&gt;&lt;easy-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:03:18.883" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In quizzing there's a phrase&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are no easy questions, just those you know the answer to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree, there are basic, simple, beginner and novice questions - but Joel and Jeff did say on the podcast that these learning points are one of the prime aims for the site, to make it into a proper top-to-bottom educational resource.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of stupid answers though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:06:07.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think asking questions, regardless of how stupid it may seem from the outside, isn't stupid at all.  Even the greatest phisophers promoted asking questions.  Being humble and knowing what you don't know is - in my opinion - the key to gaining knowledge in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39693" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:06:29.987" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people get annoyed if you are not clear or don't take any time or effort in asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132863" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T20:42:25.377" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:06:56.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what qualifies as a stupid questio depends on both the person and the environment they are in. So there are stupid questions but it is not easy to determine which are stupid with out knowing more about the questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145875" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:08:49.013" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always get annoyed by questions that are answered in &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; beginner’s book or tutorial. Asking these questions is a clear matter of “I don’t want to learn myself, please spoon-feed me.” Needless to say, I’m not very fond of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133445" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:11:46.513" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say there are stupid questions, however, there are questions that are too broadly scoped, badly written or answerable with a quick look on, say, wikipedia. &#xA;Of those I only really consider the broad scope to be worthy of a down-vote, all the others are easily fixed.&#xA;I also believe you should comment when you downvote to give the asker a chance to improove him-/herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130033" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:12:06.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the only &quot;stupid&quot; questions are &quot;plz send me the code&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are the Google questions, those for which the answer can be found very easily and quickly. However, some of these questions can lead to very constructive discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:47:21.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No questions&#xA; - that's stupid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:47:56.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess we should understand that, there are no stupid questions at all. Not everyone can understand what is written in the books or taught to them. You might have to explain to them the concepts in a different way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:52:53.543" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there are any questions &lt;em&gt;in themselves&lt;/em&gt; that are stupid.  We've all failed to RTFM at one time or another; we've all misread something that in retrospect makes the answer obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, asking questions in a way that implies that you've taken no time or effort to express it clearly, or think about the problem, says, in effect, that you are devaluing the time spent by the reader in making sense of the question.  This is disrespectful, and annoys people as a consequence.  That said, it's good to make allowances for non-native English speakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the difference between, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do you do X?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm trying to do X... I've looked &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't understand Y&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter shows that the questioner is being specific, and is making an effort.  People are more inclined to help such questioners, than when there's a suspicion that they're just being used to do someone's Google search for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T10:59:38.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll give you my definition of 'stupid question' by example:&#xA;I work with $framework (in php, hate away). It has, among other things, a website where people can submit tutorials on different $framework matters, and other people can comment on those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, some good soul had posted a tutorial on how to make search easy in $framework. Days later, another person asks a completely unrelated question, basically 'can't do this thing, please help'. I reply with 'you're spamming here, go to this other website to ask this kind of questions, in the meantime, here's some pointers'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two comments&lt;/em&gt; later, some other guy asks, and I quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I m new to $framework and i don't know how to install $framework please tell me the simple to install $framework i have already installed $webserver and $database and i don't know how to install $framework in $OS can anybody tell me step by step procedure of installition because i can't understand the manual&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, I do think there are stupid questions. Or selfish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why bother replying: I am very interested in the search feature :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131306" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T11:05:04.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing that annoys me is when people complain of a lack of clarity in the question, or say it is not worded well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everybody in the world speaks English as a first language. Their English is probably better than your Lithuanian, or Chinese or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not assume that lack of great English == lack of intelligence and understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T11:57:56.470" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the faq page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So asking a beginners level question should be fine as long as it is clear, and specific!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136881" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T12:07:09.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of an anecdote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A university professor turns to his class after having explained a difficult subject for a length of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Any questions?&quot; he asks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is silence in the auditorium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Well, come on, don't be shy! There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After a moment a voice can be heard coming from the back of the room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Is it true, that if I color myself green, stand with both of my feet on rails, an hold on with my hands to the wires above, I will start riding like a train?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130893" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T12:08:35.170" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There once was a silly question, but I deleted it (due to popular demand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131522" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T12:08:35.170" />
  <row Id="18214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T12:10:35.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388537/there-are-no-stupid-questions-or-are-there#388720&quot;&gt;@GordonG&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The problem is that a beginner seldom has the knowledge to make a clear and concise question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes me think that questions shouldn't be edited in full to clarify them: if you're asking a beginner's question, chances are that someone will ask the same again. If the original question is edited, you can't even search for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example: how many people ask about -say- looping through arrays, when the actual best solution to their problem would be a map()? If you edit the text of the question, the next person wondering about looping through arrays won't find this, because he's not thinking of map() at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I was thinking of the times as n00b when I wanted to do X in a language without knowing that the best way in it was Y. This is fairly common going from -say- Perl to Python, or from procedural to functional or OO programming. Hope this makes it clearer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131306" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T12:52:47.950" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bumper sticker: &quot;&lt;em&gt;There are no stupid questions, but there &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; lots of inquisitive idiots!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But seriously, folks...  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was teaching I used to tell my students, &quot;The only stupid question is the one you should have asked but were too embarrassed to do so.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, one can ask a question very poorly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it isn't even clear how to answer a poorly-expressed question. And one can ask the same question over and over. And one can ask a question in a way that makes it a complaint in disguise. And, as others have pointed out, one can ask a question in a way that makes it clear that there hasn't been any serious investment of effort prior to asking someone else to solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T12:59:58.030" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are no stupid questions, only lazy posters.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a bit blunt, but I agree with Chris's observation: if I'm going to ask the SO community to help me, the least I can do is state my problem clearly.  On the other hand, if the question itself has merit but is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; clear, a  helpful edit provides far more value to the community than a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have mentioned, showing that you've put some effort into the problem yourself goes a long way, regardless of your native language or the correctness of your English.  In this spirit, I've edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388470/stacktrace-information-preserving-paths-of-original-source&quot;&gt;the post referenced by the OP&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T13:10:38.293" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T13:10:38.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T13:15:19.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This idea that 'it's a bad question if you can find it easily on google' misses the point of stackoverflow; it's supposed to be &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; programmers resource. If the answers to such questions are on stackoverflow, people will &lt;strong&gt;find&lt;/strong&gt; it via google. It really bugs me when responses just say 'let me google that for you' - now that's a stupid answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27805" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T16:03:14.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the difference between a duck?&quot; is a stupid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&quot;One of its legs is both the same&quot; is the answer... I know you were all wondering)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2008-12-23T16:33:52.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the difficulties of asking a question sometimes is knowing the ontology used to commonly express the details. To say that someone should have googled it requires that they know the particular keywords that are necessary to index into web pages on that topic. I answered  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389204/how-do-i-create-my-own-url-protocol-eg-so&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; earlier where a quick google told me the resources available. However I knew the precise name of the concept the questioner asked about. It's the difficulty with machine search that Google still hasn't solved for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until they do, we'll need real people with actual knowledge around to answer seemingly stupid questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135185" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2009-01-12T14:03:35.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Kezzer, I agree with you. Actually, a question is a question at all and it needs an answer (from the view of the person who ask a question), the mere fact that a person ask a question, he is thinking or he might be confused and needs another opinion or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:10:42.840" />
  <row Id="18221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:39:02.727" Score="21" ViewCount="692" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Stack Overflow, Server Fault or Super User own the content that I post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I do if I want all of my posts and my user account deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T04:30:33.377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T04:30:33.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:39:22.507" Title="Who owns the content I post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="18222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:41:36.077" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should ask your lawyers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:41:44.953" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You own the content you post here, but you've also agreed to release it under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; license. You can see the logo and link at the bottom right of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:41:44.953" />
  <row Id="18224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:42:06.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is a community site, anything you post here is public, just like any other forum, blog that accepts comments, or any other website.  The information that you post here, one way or another will continue to exist in most cases for a long time to come.  You have to consider the Google Cache and other items as well, outside of SO that would have &quot;copies&quot; of your content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want it displayed, don't post it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:42:06.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:45:39.857" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call the Wah-mbulance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kidding aside...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC-Wiki&lt;/a&gt; at the bottom of the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its got the details on what you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want functionality? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt; for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134559" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:45:39.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:47:15.160" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under the terms of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC license&lt;/a&gt; we (apparently!) grant on posts, you can't demand it be removed as the license is irrevocable, but you can ask for your attribution to be removed.  The post is then no longer associated with your identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;legal code&lt;/a&gt; of the license. Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User are a &quot;Collective Work&quot;, in that it is a collection of our inidividual CC-licensed works. Clause 4(a) has this to say regarding Collective Works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;...If You create a Collective Work, upon notice from any Licensor You&#xA;  must, to the extent practicable,&#xA;  remove from the Collective Work any&#xA;  credit as required by clause 4(c), as&#xA;  requested&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6521" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T00:57:28.503" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T00:57:28.503" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:47:15.160" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:49:55.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to permanently delete content that is posted to SO.  This is not a limitation of SO, it's a limitation of any indexable web page.  Once a google bot searches this page, the content will be housed inside google servers available for any google ninja to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:49:55.997" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:53:03.260" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There could be a legit reason for this.  Off the top of my head he could have been discussing some technologies or practices at his employer and they may have policies against that - especially if it is a DoD contractor, etc.  his mistake in that case obviously.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are of course other reasons.  This may not be just someone who wants to take his ball and go home.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a legit reason that Jeff or the other owners are suitably impressed by perhaps they will delete all your content from SO.  You are SOL with external caches though unless you can get court orders...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:53:03.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:53:52.820" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer; I have too much common sense ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common sense says that if I ask a question and someone answers it, the collective thread is a collective work. But if I answer a question and then delete my answer, that is not a collective work, it is an individual contribution, which I have now revoked. If someone had commented on the answer before it was deleted, then it is a collective work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could argue these points in circles &lt;em&gt;forever&lt;/em&gt;. Common sense says that if I delete something I posted, I don't want it to be seen any more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The fact that google may have cached it is irrelevant.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; fact that other people can see it and un-delete is the problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not so much a matter of privacy as it is a matter of comfort. The delete button makes it okay to make mistakes. That comfort factor is now gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:53:52.820" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T15:56:44.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add something to what others already answer, I ask you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why, when you have a question is interesting to you keeep, but you got the answer do you want to delete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, first why don't you think before post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143486" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T15:56:44.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18221" CreationDate="2008-12-31T16:29:26.760" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All your post are belong to us!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:12:05.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-31T16:29:26.760" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-10T08:09:51.517" Score="34" ViewCount="2527" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally posted a question without being logged in with OpenID. Is there a way to associate that question with my account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a.k.a. How can you link an OpenID account to a cookie based account?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;a.k.a. How do I merge an unregistered account with a registered account&lt;br&gt;&#xA;a.k.a. Merging users&lt;br&gt;&#xA;a.k.a. How do I associate anonymous questions I’ve asked with my OpenID account?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;a.k.a. Is there a way to claim an unregistered user?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(in case anyone searches with those terms)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157609" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T00:54:22.350" LastActivityDate="2011-05-04T08:50:47.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-07T14:02:16.503" Title="How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;association&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;&lt;anonymous&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="18233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18232" CreationDate="2008-09-10T08:56:38.753" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To merge &lt;strong&gt;unregistered&lt;/strong&gt; user accounts &lt;strong&gt;between different sites&lt;/strong&gt;: provide us with the user page URLs via email:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's the email address at the bottom of every page labelled &quot;contact us&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-05T17:46:52.897" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T17:46:52.897" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:15:57.370" Score="-4" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it not fascinating that everyone, me included, more easily gets interested in the questions that are non-programming related? They get more visitors, more answers, more up-votes and what-have-yous. What is the reason for all this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Soft&quot; questions are easier to answer; anybody can have an opinion, right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other people's programming problems are generally not very interesting, or at least inter-homosapinal problems are less uninteresting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We’re all in it for the rep. We wanna be Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generality strikes harder with man-kind. A person who know a fair deal about everything has higher status that one that knows everything about a fair deal (car sales people spring to mind).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of us are total n00bs. That should be shot on sight.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you’re about to say that I’m wrong, first have a look at the title of Mr. Skeet's top question. It supersedes the next-best question by 2000% more answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134532" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:38:05.140" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:38:05.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T17:15:57.370" ClosedDate="2011-08-22T19:57:36.767" Title="Is .5 % of YOUR answers SO relevant too?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;not-constructive&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18235" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:23:42.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just one more point to add to your list, slightly off-topic questions like &quot;favorite programmer joke/cartoon/t-shirt&quot; have a much wider appeal than just Stack Overflow.  These questions often get posted on Digg, reddit, and other internet forums, or emailed to family/co-workers.  This contributes quite a bit to their page views, which contributes to their votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:23:42.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T17:23:42.940" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18235" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:34:32.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general questions on the site have a wider audience than the more specific questions. IE if I ask about C#, only 1/3 (just a random number) of the site traffic will be even mildly interested, and when I specify that it's an question regarding a specific part of C# then even less will be interested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However with a question like favorite programming cartoon, everyone can participate. Not only that, but there is no &quot;correct answer&quot; so the question is never &quot;finished&quot;. Secondly, it also becomes famous, so even more people look at it/vote on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:34:32.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T17:34:32.150" />
  <row Id="18242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18251" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:32:22.213" Score="13" ViewCount="823" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Homework on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a student, but I know other avenues have had problems in the past with students trying to get others to do their work for them. I am sure most of the people on this site right now would not give a student the code they need to complete the assignment, but would help them out so that they can do the assignment themselves. What is the official policy on this though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148816" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:05:47.810" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T08:43:27.840" Title="What is the policy here on homework?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:34:40.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that will have to happen on a question to question basis.  If it looks like a homework question then decide if your going to answer it or not, I don't think that there is an 'Official Policy' for this nor do I think there should/will be one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:34:52.880" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My policy is that if I suspect you are being lazy, I will not help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:35:43.703" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal policy - I'll provide tips and pointers, but I'm not going to write a line of code for your homework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:37:47.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would answer someone if they had a specific question where it showed that they have done some work themselves and were just stuck on something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if someone said &quot;I've got a homework problem I'm working on and I've done X and Y but now I'm not sure how to handle Z&quot; then I'd be likely to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone shows up saying &quot;My homework is to solve X problem, someone please give me the solution&quot; then I would ignore them and give them a down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2284" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:38:22.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are legitimate programming questions, for homework or not, then I have no problem with it. If what is being asked is for others to do the work for you, whether for homework or not, then those are not cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133617" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:38:22.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is an interesting one in its own right, and I think that my answer will be beneficial to the community at large, then I don't really care about the motives of the questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:41:05.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean like... how to solve &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizz_buzz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fizz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000804.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buzz&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:41:13.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That it's &lt;strong&gt;not our responsibility to babysit&lt;/strong&gt; everybody who visits the website.  If the person comes here thinking they're doing themselves justice, then they deserve to get beaten with a silly stick when they can't figure out why they're not feeling any improvement in their studies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148918" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:41:35.670" Score="52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend a lot of time on other programming forums and it seems most people agree with the policy &quot;no homework solutions; nudges welcome&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if the student posts the entire assignment then asks for a solution, it's the same thing as a non-student posting, &quot;My boss wants a blog engine in two months.  It has to be in PHP and work just like Wordpress.  Please email me the codes at ...&quot;  It's going to get ignored or maybe ridiculed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've seen plenty of students post in a form like: &quot;Here's the assignment.  I've done these parts &lt;em&gt;posts sample code&lt;/em&gt;.  I'm having a little bit of trouble with &lt;em&gt;some task&lt;/em&gt;.  The documentation says &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; but it's really not clicking.  I tried &lt;em&gt;sample code&lt;/em&gt; but for some reason &lt;em&gt;unexpected results&lt;/em&gt; happen.  Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to answer these kinds of questions, and the fun is answering them in a way that leads the student to the answer without writing any of the code for them.  The student here is really trying, and got halfway by himself before getting in too deep.  Gentle nudges are awesome to struggling students; it's when you write the assignment for them that things go wrong.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(late edit): For particularly difficult problems, I personally like to show the student a full solution to a similar but different problem.  For example, it's easiest to explain sorting algorithms with actual code.  If the student's problem is sorting names in a particular order, I might post a solution for sorting integers.  You'd be surprised how many people can't go from one to the other, since it requires more effort than a copy and paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151926" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:44:19.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that there were alot of concept and many more beginner questions being answered when school started about 2 weeks ago (around here, at least). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to think that questions pertaining to homework would be pretty easy to sniff out. For example, if someone asked &quot;How to concatenate Strings in Java&quot; I would be inclined to think that they had gotten here from google and would likely take our code on blind faith. Questions like that do not lend themselves to 'pointers' or 'tips' per se. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if someone was working on (for example, a previous homework of mine) writing their own malloc, and wanted to know how to bump up the pointers for each successive call, that would be fairly easy to give 'pointers' and 'tips' on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:45:56.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Homework, business work, or hobby work, we're all here to help each other... within reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2008-09-02T18:52:43.180" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My two cents...I agree with the others, and I have seen this come up in other places where there seems to be a bias and distrust against students, which is understandable I think, but it raises a few questions when considering such a &quot;policy&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) How do you know it's a student asking for a homework assignment?  Granted, in some cases, it could be obvious, but some assignments (like a database course) could easily be seen as a real-world problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) If a student is asking for help on a specific problem (very specific), what makes them any different than any of us?  They are asking for help on something just like we are.  Aren't we just trying to learn too?  Solve a problem too?  There will always be short-cut takers out there who just copy/paste code and don't take care to learn, but whose to say some pros are any different!!??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Can't one argue that if a student is reaching out to the net and using resources like StackOverflow,that they are &quot;acting&quot; as pros?  Seems to me that's more real-world than when I was in college and the Internet was just a little toddler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) How do you measure intent in these cases? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I agree with the others, a case-by-case assessment is sensible, but it's an interesting question :)  Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:37:12.833" />
  <row Id="18255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18273" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:40:48.170" Score="10" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a &quot;Snowbird&quot; badge for migrating X number of questions to SF or SU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:30:45.273" Title="Badge for migrating questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18262" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:45:21.670" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in July I learned about Compass framwork leveraging BluePrint CSS framework and SASS based on top of the work done by HAML. I asked a question about any &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1214494/using-compass-on-windows-with-visual-studio-2008-c-and-asp-net&quot;&gt;developers using it in the ASP.NET world&lt;/a&gt;. Never received any posts on it, come this month I was able to devote the time to learning it for myself and posted the answer last week. However I still am not able to accept the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something that's keeping me from accepting my own answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134973" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:53:38.950" Title="How come I can't accept my answer to my question that no one else answered?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18263" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:47:03.740" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand segregating reputation on the different sites, but since meta.SO is being used for discussion of SU and SF as well, it seems prudent for reputation earned on those sites to apply to meta.SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:53:53.943" Title="Can reputation from SU and SF be counted on meta?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18258" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:50:00.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm tempted to agree with you, I think there may be more value in the system as is. High rep users on meta are (at least in theory) people who have provided helpful answers and participated meaninfully in discussions. As such, they are probably the best people to have the powers that come with high rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:50:00.363" />
  <row Id="18261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18258" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:50:45.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Makes more sense to me that if someone wants to bring rep on the other sites into consideration on Meta that they can just view that person's profile and click the Accounts tab to see the rep on the other sites.  I don't think it &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; follows that someone who can answer &quot;how do I do this in C#&quot;, or &quot;what's wrong with my freaking server&quot; would also have the right gauge on how the sites should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:50:45.480" />
  <row Id="18262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18257" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:53:38.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you set up a bounty? If you set up a bounty and the bounty expires without an accepted answer, that question can never have an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:53:38.950" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18258" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:53:53.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your rep on any of the sites will not be a good indicator of your ability to discuss the sites themselves. It is entirely possible to get a high rep on a site and still not have any real understanding of the mechanics or the social dynamics that make the sites the beasts they are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:53:53.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18255" CreationDate="2009-08-27T17:56:51.923" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be cool but, playing devil's advocate, might overly encourage the rep-whoring.  You gotta get to 3000 before you can (in a trackable way) help to migrate questions to other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T17:56:51.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18268" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:10:30.010" Score="13" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/57537/how-do-i-contact-other-users&quot;&gt;How do I contact other users?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked a very difficult question about javascript on IE, and haven't been able to get any answers yet.  The closest I've got is a user who mentioned that they think they remember seeing a solution somewhere, and some hints as to where to find it.  Not being able to get any other help from the community, how do I go about contacting this user to try and get more details and help finding the supposed solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; I've already tried adding comments, but that seems to be a rather round about way of solving the problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141141" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-18T12:04:16.077" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T12:04:16.077" ClosedDate="2010-07-18T12:03:47.020" Title="Is there a way to contact another member of stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;contact&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18266" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:12:23.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the user doesn't give a website, besides googling their nick, I think your best bet is to put a comment on one of their recent posts and hope they find it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:05:48.017" />
  <row Id="18268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18266" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:22:43.133" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, there isn't a way to contact other users directly unless they provide details on their profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now if you leave a &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt; on one of their posts the new recent changes feature should alert them by highlighting the envelope beside their username at the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question behind your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are refering to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130186/ie-textrange-select-method-not-working-properly#149310&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://cozmicdad.myopenid.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cozmicdad.myopenid.com&lt;/a&gt; then they appear to be using their OpenID as their username. Going to their &lt;a href=&quot;http://cozmicdad.myopenid.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OpenID endpoint&lt;/a&gt; you can see their name is Dave Russell, althought there's no other information there (even in the vcard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;q=Dave%2BRussell&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Googling for Dave Russell&lt;/a&gt; found lots of dave russells, but not any that I thought could be the one you're looking for. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;q=Dave%2BRussell%2Bprogramming&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Googling for Dave Russell Programming&lt;/a&gt; find this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.liveperson.com/dave-russell-1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.liveperson.com/dave-russell-1/&lt;/a&gt;. It's not 100% certain, but I'd be pretty sure that's the same person. There is a send email button on that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Why the downvotes? I think I've found the guy he's looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I realise it's a bit creepy, but in this day and age we should be aware that this kind of thing is possible and not really that hard (it to me longer to write this answer than to find the guy). A reminder perhaps that we need to pay attention to even the smallest pieces of information we give out about ourselves.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:05:48.017" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18266" CreationDate="2008-09-30T14:54:44.447" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;requests to add private messaging&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow et al.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have been declined as the intention of the site is to create a wiki rather than a social network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-17T16:53:30.233" LastActivityDate="2010-07-17T16:53:30.233" />
  <row Id="18270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18271" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:25:49.700" Score="7" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5640/rich-b&quot;&gt;rich-b&lt;/a&gt; has a message at the top of his profile that his account is suspended  and that there is 22 hours left. I tried to click on the link &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;temporarily suspended&lt;/a&gt; that points to blog question, but the page will not open for me for some reason.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the deal behind getting your account suspended? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:38:32.217" LastActivityDate="2011-08-15T12:06:35.003" Title="How do you get your account suspended" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18270" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:27:11.740" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the Penalty box blog post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oops, well you can visit the cached version here &lt;a href=&quot;http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache%3AZyK3wVzJA-gJ%3Ablog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/+blog.stackoverflow+penalty+box&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=ca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache%3AZyK3wVzJA-gJ%3Ablog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/+blog.stackoverflow+penalty+box&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main rule about the penalty box is &quot;Don't be a jerk&quot; some examples of being a jerk are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other users react negatively to your posts, posting negative responses and generally causing a commotion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a broad sense of community resentment over your behavior, and you are frequently cited in discussion about the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The moderators get regular email complaints about your behavior.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You make snide or rude comments “behind people’s backs”, in public places.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consequences are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your account will be locked at 1 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your user page will have a visual indication that you are in timed suspension, and for how long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You will be unable to ask or answer questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T18:34:19.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:34:19.510" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18235" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:28:24.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The phenomenon you're describing is called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s%5FLaw%5Fof%5FTriviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bikeshedding&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:28:24.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T18:28:24.953" />
  <row Id="18273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18255" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:30:45.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There aren't badges for &quot;closing questions&quot; because it would cause a stampede of questionable closes. People who are closing things just to get the badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrating a question is just a particular type of &quot;close&quot;, no more or less worthy of a badge than the other reasons to close. It should not get a specialized badge unless each close reason gets its own badge. And, giving each close reason its own badge would just incentivize people to close everything they can see, in order to get the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing is not something that should need any incentive. It is a desire to clean up the site that causes us to close questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:30:45.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18270" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:33:28.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Day in the Penalty Box&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a moderator has warned you several&#xA;  times via email about behavior, and&#xA;  that behavior continues, for a period&#xA;  of 2 to 7 days, your account will be&#xA;  in timed suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Your account will be locked at 1 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Your user page will have a visual indication that you are in timed suspension, and for how long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You will be unable to ask or answer questions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end of this period, your&#xA;  reputation will be recalculated, and&#xA;  your account will resume as normal. As&#xA;  I said, we don’t hold grudges; the&#xA;  point of all this is to address the&#xA;  behavior. If the behavior improves,&#xA;  we’re cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T18:35:31.097" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:35:31.097" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18277" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:35:33.873" Score="3" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's disconcerting to see a question that has received so much attention, often in a short time, get deleted all of a sudden.  I realize that sometimes they are deleted by mods, but I don't feel that that is the case in all such situations.  There are obviously many people that are passionate about this question, and I don't think it's right their place of discussion yanked out from under their feet without warning by the OP.  If a mod wants to delete it, that's their privilege and presumably they &quot;know what's right&quot; more than the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend removing the OP's privilege to delete his own question once it has reached enough upvotes/answers/comments.  Maybe we can create an aggregate score (answers worth 10, upvotes worth 7, comments worth 0.5) and once that is over 100 (150? 200?) the question can only be deleted by a moderator.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should apply to all four sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be remiss if I didn't mention which question prompted this request.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18135&quot;&gt;Meta is becoming a sad and depressing place&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T23:18:11.393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T00:09:15.097" Title="Restrict the owner's ability to delete his/her own question once it reaches a certain threshold" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18276" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:41:29.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already limits in place regarding when a question can be deleted. If any question has so much as a single answer with 2 or more up-votes, it cannot be deleted by the owner. Responses can be deleted by the owner regardless of the vote count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thread you're talking about was deleted by a mod, and should have been. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T21:25:42.297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:25:42.297" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:46:22.477" Score="3" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to adapt my &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/35942&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stacko&lt;/a&gt; greasemonkey script, originally written for Stack Overflow, to work across the various sister sites. In fact it already works without change, thanks to the commonality of the underlying software. So really the only issue is that I should rename it. Perhaps &quot;super-stacko-meta-server-expialidocious&quot;. Too long...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, is there an actual name for the underlying software that runs these sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134970" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T18:27:17.893" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T18:27:17.893" Title="Is there a name for the software that powers the various Stack Overflow sister sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18278" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:51:03.120" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's commonly referred to as the &lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow Engine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:51:03.120" />
  <row Id="18281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2009-08-27T18:57:21.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tip: for those who don't want to do their own homework, go to: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://iwilldoyourhomework.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I Will Do Your Homework&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T18:57:21.013" />
  <row Id="18282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18130" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:01:16.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably the view that Jeff meant to post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred+-status-completed+-status-bydesign&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred+-status-completed+-status-bydesign&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one for questions tagged &lt;strong&gt;bug&lt;/strong&gt; would also be interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug+-status-declined+-status-deferred+-status-completed+-status-bydesign&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug+-status-declined+-status-deferred+-status-completed+-status-bydesign&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;although you might want to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug+-status-declined+-status-deferred+-status-completed+-status-bydesign+-status-norepro&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;also exclude status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="2541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T19:16:49.267" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:16:49.267" />
  <row Id="18283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18242" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:05:47.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked beginner questions myself (and there is not that much difference between a beginner question and a homework question really), and my own personal policy is: As long as it's a specific question, I'll be willing to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So stuff like &quot;Here is the assignment, it needs to do X, Y, Z&quot; is ignored by me, but if the person specifically asks something about X, I have no problem answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, I don't care if it's homework or if it's business code and I don't care if it's beginner or pro level. I care if it is a real and specific question. Because in order to ask a specific question, the author already needed to have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; understanding about the task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:05:47.810" />
  <row Id="18284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18278" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:11:52.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was StackExchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I confusing the brand name for customized paid versions with the actual software engine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:11:52.570" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:14:11.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only solution that I know of is to insert &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;wbr&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags into the long words. If it was done at punctuation marks like .-_ etc. it shouldn't be too costly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:14:11.580" />
  <row Id="18288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18278" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:31:23.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the StackExchange site, the engine is at least publicly referred to as the &quot;The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform&quot;.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This text is also on that page: &quot;The idea of a knowledge exchange, running the same software as Stack Overflow, can be applied to just about any subject matter. With StackExchange™, you can run a site with all the same features that made Stack Overflow successful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow, Meta, ServerFault, SuperUser and DocType are all examples of knowledge exchanges.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO, Meta, ServerFault, and Superuser all use the the Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform.  DocType does not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform&quot; is kinda a mouthful though.  SOKEP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess &quot;StackOverflow Engine&quot; is used informally for a reason. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:31:23.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18291" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:45:05.017" Score="7" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is a bug. There are at least two users in the &quot;penalty box&quot; who are able to continue posting comments. See this thread: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18270/how-do-you-get-your-account-suspended&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18270/how-do-you-get-your-account-suspended&lt;/a&gt; with comments from Rich B and Welbog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T01:23:06.650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:23:06.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T19:45:05.017" Title="Users in penalty box are still able to post comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18289" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:47:20.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Penalty Box blog post mentions only restricting the posting of questions and answers, so perhaps is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a moderator has warned you several&#xA;  times via email about behavior, and&#xA;  that behavior continues, for a period&#xA;  of 2 to 7 days, your account will be&#xA;  in timed suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your account will be locked at 1&#xA;  reputation.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Your user page will have a&#xA;  visual indication that you are in&#xA;  timed suspension, and for how long.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  You will be unable to ask or answer&#xA;  questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:47:20.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T19:47:20.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18289" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:50:18.420" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the two users in question were put in the box for comments in the first place, this should definitely be corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:50:18.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T19:50:18.420" />
  <row Id="18292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18289" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:50:37.080" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suspended accounts are dropped to a rep-value of 1, which is the required reputation to post comments according to the MetaSO-FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As suggested by others, if you are suspended for abusing comments, perhaps you should be suspended from posting additional comments as well. &quot;By-design bug&quot; maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T19:50:37.080" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-27T19:50:37.080" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18297" CreationDate="2009-08-27T19:58:38.603" Score="5" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what's the etiquette about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18289&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; made me wonder if moderators had any guidelines regarding &quot;boxing&quot;. I was under the impression that this measure was for serious offense only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T20:57:54.733" Title="When is it ok to send a user to the penalty box?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;guidelines&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="18296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18294" CreationDate="2009-08-27T20:10:44.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is up to the discretion of the moderators to decide when to send someone to the box. They are appointed to their positions, and are expected to know what is right and what is wrong. I don't believe it is up to any of us to decide when they can use their powers, after all, they have them for a reason, and we don't. If you feel a moderator has abused their power, email team@stackoverflow.com to discuss it privately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T20:10:44.083" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18294" CreationDate="2009-08-27T20:11:33.270" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it is crazy that we even need to have a penalty box.  Obviously in the ideal world, we wouldn't need it because folks would be respectful in general.  However, that clearly is not the case here on the SO sites, some seem to think that it can't exist on the internet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For first time offenders, they should be given a warning by a moderator (or higher).  The warning does not need to be made public and should be between the moderators and the user.  If the behavior is not changed immediately, then the Penalty Box should be used for a minimum of 7 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is not a first time offender, and the user is up to their old patterns, a stay in the Penalty Box for an entire month would be the last chance for the user.  If after a month in the penalty box, the behavior is still unchanged, then a permanent ban should be implemented on that user's account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The state of Washington has a 3 strikes rule and after your third offense, you are given a life sentence.  Maybe taking a harsher stance towards the abuse we've been seeing on the site would help put an end to this ridiculous issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think that &lt;strong&gt;having class primarily encompasses respect.&lt;/strong&gt;  By no means do I feel that I've always acted that way on this site, but at the end of the day if we all had class, we wouldn't be discussing this right now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T20:53:51.653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T20:53:51.653" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4481" CreationDate="2009-08-27T20:42:43.147" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the &lt;code&gt;[Foobar](&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.example.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt; URL markdown in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4596" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T20:42:43.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18294" CreationDate="2009-08-27T20:57:54.733" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say when a person has abused the site to the point where the questions/answers appear to be adjuncts to that person's comment spam, there doesn't need to be a waiting period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T20:57:54.733" />
  <row Id="18308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18310" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:10:26.437" Score="9" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I post an answer on a recently asked question, yet a FGITW scenario means that so do about a half dozen other SO users. My answer might get a handful of upvotes, but ultimately someone else gets the green check. &lt;br&gt;Since all of the answers are roughly saying the same thing, I go ahead and delete my answer since it's not really adding anything to the discussion (and the question's already been answered).&lt;br&gt; My question is: what happens to the rep I got from my upvoted question? Do I still get awarded the points even though my answer no longer exists? Is this by design, or will I lose the points on a rep recalc? I'd rather have SO be less cluttered and am willing to delete redundant answers of mine; I'm just interested in the mechanics of how rep works in a situation like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:12:23.483" Title="How do Deleted Posts affect rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18308" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:12:15.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will exist until there is a global reputation recalculation (or a personal one, that you can ask any mod to do)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The global recalc does not happen very often&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:12:15.883" />
  <row Id="18310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18308" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:12:23.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recalc would remove rep from deleted content (answers, questions). Recalc's almost always result in reduced rep. I think there was someone recently that requested a recalc and he lost over 700 rep points. Someone back me up or correct me on that stat to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:12:23.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:16:40.803" Score="-4" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be cool if a question would eventually open up to moderators to accept answers on the user's behalf, once a time period has passed. The asking user would get the rep score for the accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've seen questions successfully answered with lots of upvotes and no accepted answer that sit there for months unaccepted. This would give superusers a little more functionality and would tie up a lot of loose ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131279" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T18:34:28.253" LastActivityDate="2011-02-13T14:02:11.773" Title="Moderators accepting answers on user's behalf after a certain time period" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18312" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:18:23.797" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though there is not an accepted answer, the most voted one will float to the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were a few features added to foment accepting answers, so I don't think something like this will be implemented (people are going to want to raise that accepted ratio eventually) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:18:23.797" />
  <row Id="18315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18312" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:21:33.833" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, this is user oriented site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is intended to answer peoples questions. They know thier problem the best and know what solves it for them. We need to leave it up to them to accept whatever answer they want.  People will know what the community agrees with by the upvotes.  The accepted answer should stay in the user/asker's hand. That way you have both opinions/views in a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T02:20:47.873" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:20:47.873" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18312" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:22:08.637" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What assurance do we have that the moderator knows the correct answer?  If they're just going to select the most upvoted answer, we could automate that answer.  That would be just as inaccurate, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; save the moderators the work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators should be there to handle the exceptional, not something so mundane.  Think of the work load you'll add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:22:08.637" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18312" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:23:21.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The discussion of someone other than the OP has come up many times, and each time it's been met with general disdain.  The prevailing thought is that only the OP should be the one to decide whether or not the answer met the expectations / qualifications and as such should be the sole judge in awarding the acceptance check.  The community gets to vote and that is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:23:21.710" />
  <row Id="18318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18312" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:29:23.347" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderators are in &lt;strong&gt;no way product experts&lt;/strong&gt;. We were chosen to oversee the community and ensure that the users have someone to turn to for assistance. We are only here to deal with &lt;strong&gt;disputes&lt;/strong&gt; and ensure the &lt;strong&gt;sites remain civil&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although most of the moderators know the subject core of their respective sites well, none of them will necessarily know what the right answer is, even if it is voted. Furthermore it adds more work for the moderators to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example. There is currently &lt;strong&gt;33000+ questions&lt;/strong&gt; without accepted answers on SO, how long will it take the &lt;strong&gt;2 SO moderators&lt;/strong&gt; to read and accept everyone of these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this will work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T22:30:53.357" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:30:53.357" />
  <row Id="18319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15487" CreationDate="2009-08-27T21:50:33.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am strongly for this, as I have recently hit 10k on SO and couldn't even make it all the way down the page of flagged posts without running out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T21:50:33.797" />
  <row Id="18320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18312" CreationDate="2009-08-27T22:03:14.170" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing that annoys me more than no documentation is incorrect documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since these are Q&amp;amp;A sites we're talking about, if I go searching for an issue and don't find anything then I'll just keep looking or ask the question myself. But if I were to search and find a question on StackOverflow with an accepted answer and plenty of upvotes, and that answer doesn't actually resolve the problem, I wouldn't be pleased. Rather than moving on, most people would now be wondering why a known solution is failing to resolve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way around this would probably be to leave a note saying that the question was forcibly accepted by a moderator, and may or may not work. In which case, what is the point of even marking it as accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as your concerns about there being a huge collection of unanswered questions, I'd rather the questions be left unresolved than misleadingly marked as resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The focus should be on encouraging users to resolve their own questions than finding ways to do it for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:03:14.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18322" CreationDate="2009-08-27T22:05:23.790" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feature request question, but no one came along and said &quot;declined&quot;, does that mean it is still up in the air? What is the process. I still think it is worth bringing up, especially after clarification of the question via another persons comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific process to follow or does my question just disappear into a black hole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16032&quot;&gt;Original Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-27T22:41:25.873" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:41:25.873" Title="What is the process for getting an answer to a feature request?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18321" CreationDate="2009-08-27T22:08:11.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A member of the dev team will come by and slap on a nice red status-declined, status-deferred, status-planned or status-completed tag on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't tell you why it hasn't happened yet, I'd assume the devs frequently browse the feature-request tags unless they're too busy as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:08:11.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T22:08:50.350" Score="0" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vaguely related to:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13501/links-to-urls-containing-parentheses&quot;&gt;Links to URLs containing parentheses&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is likely to do with encoding URLs for safety, but here's a case that works in the preview and the rollover title is &quot;Speakers&quot; yet breaks when posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Boston Dev Days][1]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/boston/(Speakers)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The outcome looks like this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/boston/%28Speakers%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boston Dev Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the preview looks like this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/boston/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Speakers&quot;&gt;Boston Dev Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you haven't yet spotted the difference, please mouse over each link above.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is proper to put a space between the url and the parenthesis, but the preview accepts the improper format.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I might note this is &lt;strong&gt;a preview bug&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The preview will lead you to think that the format shown is a correct way of adding a comment/title to a url. It is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also breaks if you use [multiple words][4] yet shows in the preview fine. And lastly, if you make a code block like the one I just made, then use control-L to link a word later on, the url number for &lt;code&gt;[1]&lt;/code&gt; which should have been the &quot;outcome&quot; line, becomes &lt;code&gt;[2]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[1]&lt;/code&gt; remains assigned as it was, but is mistakenly assigned to the non-linked text in the code block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly these are minor, but it's worth noting for completeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[4]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/boston/%28multiple&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/boston/%28multiple&lt;/a&gt; words)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T11:41:14.893" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T11:41:14.893" Title="preview vs post linking difference" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18321" CreationDate="2009-08-27T22:35:53.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff answered this question extremely well &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17923/allow-the-community-to-influence-development-of-so-features-explicitly/17997#17997&quot;&gt;right here&lt;/a&gt;. Progress is based on the number of votes a request has received. Bug fixes are however a priority over this. Since there is no votes at the moment for your particular request, I don't think it is current in the running for implementation, and the transfer of reputation request have all been declined to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:35:53.750" />
  <row Id="18325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-08-27T22:38:33.930" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I avoid salutations and the like, however, I like to thank those who attempt to help me with a question.  I keep those to &lt;strong&gt;comments only&lt;/strong&gt;.  I keep the questions and answers themselves impersonal, informational and professional. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this strikes a good balance and I've hoped that other Stackers aren't bothered by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109117" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T22:38:33.930" />
  <row Id="18326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-27T22:43:30.377" Score="14" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I look at my profile page on Stack Overflow, I am reminded of two &quot;meta&quot; questions I asked before Meta Stack Overflow existed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions have nothing to do with programming and I see no reason to be advertising them on Stack Overflow anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When content is migrated to a new site, can the community user take ownership of the question on the original site, so it is no longer tied to me on the original site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's cluttering up my profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: Jon Skeet is also affected by this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:24:52.187" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:30:11.933" Title="Please have &quot;Community User&quot; take ownership of questions when they are migrated" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-27T23:22:04.043" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rarely look at meta and I am perplexed by the few people who are constantly obsessed with strategic downvoting. For what it is worth, I have posted several answers late on various threads and they got upvoted pretty fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I post my answer and then see that an equivalent answer was posted while composing my answer, I just delete mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get hit by the occasional drive-by (or revenge) downvoter. Usually, I post a comment asking why my answer was downvoted and that elicits a couple of upvotes. All in all, things balance out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is fast enough to copy &amp;amp; paste my answer in a few seconds, get a few upvotes and cost me a few &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes, so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like my points, I like my &lt;em&gt;perl&lt;/em&gt; badge, but, at the end of the day, I answer questions because that motivates me to learn new things, read docs I have neglected for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you Jeff. Starting meta was a great idea so these kinds of discussions do not end up dominating SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T23:22:04.043" />
  <row Id="18329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19516" CreationDate="2009-08-27T23:42:59.017" Score="2" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question, and someone replied. I want to reply to the guy, but I click &quot;add comment&quot; and &quot;answer your own question&quot; and nothing happens. Someone suggested I have to wait 24 hours; is that correct? Is this a non-traditional forum where you can't reply back to other people's answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134271" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-27T19:04:55.220" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T19:04:55.220" Title="Clicking &quot;add comment&quot; does nothing" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18329" CreationDate="2009-08-27T23:47:56.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have Javascript Disabled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of animations like showing the comment form run on jQuery, a popular javascript library, that doesn't work well if you don't have javascript enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well... it doesn't run 'at all' if you don't have Javascript enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T23:47:56.900" />
  <row Id="18331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18329" CreationDate="2009-08-27T23:52:33.177" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this site is very non-traditional.  In fact, most people would not call it a forum at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To perform many actions, you must have JavaScript enabled, that's probably the problem you're having with adding a comment (as Chacha102 indicated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your own question, you should wait 24 hours.  However, please don't do that to respond to others on your question.  Use comments for that.  Answer your own question only if you genuinely have found a solution on your own that you wish to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T23:52:33.177" />
  <row Id="18332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18329" CreationDate="2009-08-27T23:58:09.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well - I jumped over to IE to type in this answer. &#xA;I was original in FireFox 3.5.  I have NoScript installed, but have checked the option that says &quot;Scripts Globally Allowed (dangerous)&quot; (which in my opinion is not really dangerous). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm doing work with Dojo - and JavaScript in all my applications that I'm writing, so I really don't think JavaScript is off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have Firebug installed in Firefox. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here in IE - the &quot;Your Answer&quot; box appears and I can type in without clicking anything.  In Firefox - I click &quot;Answer your question&quot; and nothing happens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neal &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: See my new answer below for the &quot;real solution&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134271" LastEditorUserId="134271" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T21:24:20.747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:24:20.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18329" CreationDate="2009-08-27T23:58:19.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should note that you need 50 points to add comments.  Your account here on Meta only has 1 and the account on SO has 11.  That said, if you don't see a pop-up that alerts you to this restriction, I point you to Chacha102's response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-27T23:58:19.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16032" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:04:16.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that reputation should not cross sites at all, except for maybe the account association bonus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind rep is the fact that you have helped other people, so they have upvoted your stuff, and you now have a certain amount of 'reputation'. While this idea might not be clearly expressed on some sites like meta, the rest of the sites pretty much hold true to that idea, except for possibly CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a bounty, you are giving the reputation you earned from you helping people, and giving it to people who are now helping you with a hard problem. I think that it wouldn't be ideal to give reputation you earned from helping people with Server Admin problems, to people who are helping you with a Programming problem, or vice versa. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Unless all reputation could be transferred, making the sites more closely interconnected so you basically just have a single pool of reputation.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T00:04:16.580" />
  <row Id="18336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:11:38.657" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the proper way to reply-back or discuss something with someone who answered your question?  What if they ask a question in their answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Neal &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.  I'm adding this bulletin after the first 3 answers appeared - I have JavaScript on - but the &quot;Add Comment&quot; doesn't work for me in Firefox 3.5.  And in IE7, no &quot;Add comment&quot; link even appears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134271" LastEditorUserId="134271" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T00:22:12.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:56:45.053" Title="Replying to answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="18337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18336" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:12:48.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments. Use Comments.             &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a little 'Add Comments' button under each answer and question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T00:12:48.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18336" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:12:56.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use Comments to answer answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T00:12:56.137" />
  <row Id="18339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18336" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:15:07.037" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way is to simply edit your question to add the requested information - that way, it's immediately available to &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your response is specific to a single answer, then leave a comment. Note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;this requires a reputation of at least 50&lt;/a&gt;; if you have yet to achieve this, then stick with editing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18361/how-should-a-questioner-respond-to-answers-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How should a Questioner respond to answers in Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T01:56:45.053" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:56:45.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18342" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:45:27.793" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the tragic error of not marking something as community wiki that should have been. The question is now mired in comments about how I'm a rep whore, despite having no such intentions. While the question has been re-opened as a community wiki, users still vote up the no-longer relevant comments. Putting aside issues of my own embarrassment, I think the question's negative history has sterilized the question's ability to get the number and quality of answers it had the potential to receive, limiting its usefulness. Personally, I would prefer the question just be deleted, in all its fruitlessness, but it has, however, received too many answers to vote for deletion. What's the appropriate action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a broader level, is there any solution to large amounts of non or no-longer relevant commentary, flaming in particular?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134990" LastEditorUserId="134990" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T15:47:01.293" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T15:47:01.293" Title="What should I do about a question mired in no-longer relevant negative comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18341" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:49:15.253" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your best bet would be to flag your post for moderator attention and indicate that the comments are no longer relevant. If a moderator agrees, they will delete the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T00:49:15.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18341" CreationDate="2009-08-28T00:49:26.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could flag the question for 'moderator attention' and ask one of the moderators to fix things for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T00:49:26.580" />
  <row Id="18347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17541" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:19:39.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've fixed your preferences in the database, so your account should be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've recently done some refactorings around tags and the insertion of empty tags into preferences might be a new bug - thanks for reporting it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:19:39.877" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:21:25.697" Score="6" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1/should-meta-stackoverflow-com-replace-uservoice-com&quot;&gt;replacing UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;, would it also be a good idea to replace the blog itself with Meta? Given WordPress' &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18285/the-stackoverflow-blog-seems-to-be-down-for-the-count-right-now/18344#18344&quot;&gt;recent flakiness&lt;/a&gt;, I think that a more stable replacement is in order. The idea isn't as crazy as it sounds - a &lt;kbd&gt;blog&lt;/kbd&gt; moderator tag could prevent people from posting their own stuff in the blog, and locking the post would prevent people from being able to edit it. All that's needed is a few custom pages styled similar to the existing blog but generated from the content on Meta instead of the WordPress database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, there are downsides - this could put some additional load on the database, and another mechanism would be needed to report outages (I recommend Twitter), but on the whole I think that the discussion capabilities of Meta completely outclass what WordPress offers now, not to mention the fact that the discussion can happen in a single place, as opposed to fragmented across the two sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T09:36:23.997" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T16:58:47.263" Title="Power the blog content and discussion with Meta instead of WordPress" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:24:47.150" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Sitting at home, crying&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/realcsi/2678035705/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Sad on a pillow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2678035705_a5acd8ba4a_m.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;awww on a pewhoa&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33708/mehrdad&quot;&gt;Mehrdad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscar-reyes&quot;&gt;Oscar Reyes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18821&quot;&gt;Nathan Koop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/133554/donnacha&quot;&gt;donnacha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/149/rob-allen&quot;&gt;Rob Allen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/919&quot;&gt;Josh Hunt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40468/ether&quot;&gt;Ether&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/115866/balpha&quot;&gt;balpha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/50082/isaac-waller&quot;&gt;Isaac Waller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/60724/yoooder&quot;&gt;Yoooder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3043/joel-coehoorn&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30674/pure-krome&quot;&gt;Pure Krome&lt;/a&gt; (G'Day World .. Australia is sooo far away at times ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/108511/henri-w&quot;&gt;Henri W&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2598&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65611/joel-potter&quot;&gt;Joel Potter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52738/gnovice&quot;&gt;gnovice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/372/jon-limjap&quot;&gt;Jon Limjap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/84671/ludwig-weinzierl&quot;&gt;Ludwig Weinzierl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34813/voyager&quot;&gt;voyager&lt;/a&gt; AKA &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130127/smeagol&quot;&gt;smeagol&lt;/a&gt; AKA &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geekets.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/spam.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/31671/alex&quot;&gt;alex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23107/orlandu63&quot;&gt;orlandu63&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3834/ngu-soon-hui&quot;&gt;Ngu Soon Hui&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22459/olafur-waage&quot;&gt;Ólafur Waage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/130164/maxim-z&quot;&gt;Maxim Z.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56555/&quot;&gt;Lucas McCoy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12716/randolpho&quot;&gt;Randolpho&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="130431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T13:23:00.113" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:23:00.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T01:24:47.150" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:29:20.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting proposal. There are definate pros and cons to this idea. One nice benefit would be that there is not another place to go for information on new features/ideas/changes to the site and it gives a much better format for discussion about said features/ideas/changes than the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:29:20.147" />
  <row Id="18352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:34:31.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Greg I initially thought this was a daft idea. But I don't think this is as crazy as it sounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd maybe prefer to see it on it's own sub domain though so that the blog posts don't get lost in the meta-discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:34:31.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:36:35.030" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be ok with this if it weren't for the wiki aspect of the SO stack.  Blogs need ownership.  I suppose the question could be locked, but then only moderators could blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:36:35.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:38:29.680" Score="7" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/59445/recent-feature-changes-to-stack-exchange&quot;&gt;Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;If you just witnessed tactical downvoting, is it a reportable offense?&lt;/a&gt; Jeff announces that the window for reverting a downvote has been reduced. Larger features will make it to a blog entry but a lot of things like this won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as &quot;living release notes&quot;. All it would be is a list of changes by date with short descriptions with links to a short description of the change, possibly with a link to something back here (if relevant) and/or the SO blog (again, if relevant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to keep track of what's changed (and why).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T01:26:45.140" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T01:26:45.140" ClosedDate="2011-08-16T06:34:49.440" Title="Have a list somewhere of features changed or implemented" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:39:10.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be great. More and more when I am reading blog posts, I wish to upvote comments or the post itself.  This is the one aspect of most sites that I miss the most.  Using meta would finally allow me to upvote commenters as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:39:10.867" />
  <row Id="18357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:39:46.717" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246540/apache-tomcat-error-wrong-pages-being-delivered&quot;&gt;a question of some importance to me&lt;/a&gt; on SO in which I've cronicled the various failed attempts to solve a problem. The last few episodes of this ongoing story are truncated mid-word. Could the question length limit please be removed or adjusted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1000" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T01:53:40.060" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:55:47.767" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T01:56:00.513" Title="Increase the maximum length for questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;character-length&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:40:36.327" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bad idea, but I think it has some downsides&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;too many eggs in one basket&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;meta is already stretched as a semi-discussion site, stretching it into a blog feels a bit like kitchen-sink-itis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;would be additional coding work specific to meta&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:40:36.327" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:45:56.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a better option would be to have &quot;meta&quot; on the blog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like have a subset of the stackoverflow platform for comments and add them to the blog it self ( and not bringing the blog here ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this a long term additional/different project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like SO model is permeating and asking to be applied to other aspects of our web experience? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or we are just too addicted???? :-S &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:45:56.703" />
  <row Id="18360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18373" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:47:01.820" Score="53" ViewCount="686" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw what looked like a good answer, and immediately upvoted it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, as a good citizen, I decided to reserve my right to vote until I'd ensured that the answer was valid. So I immediately withdrew my vote. This worked fine. At this point in time I had voted in neither direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After following the links in the answer and surveying the other answers provided, I decided that it was indeed a good answer, and I tried to vote it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now I was told I couldn't upvote it, because that would be changing my vote. &lt;em&gt;But I hadn't voted yet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey I know it's a minor case... but it punished good behaviour. So I thought I ought to lodge it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(similar to, but not a duplicate of, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited-problem&quot;&gt;question 6250&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-12T00:07:44.250" LastActivityDate="2011-04-12T00:07:44.250" Title="&quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot;... but I haven't voted!" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="18361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-01T21:11:20.877" Score="7" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the right protocol to engage in discussion with people answering your question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks for more details (or posts a suggestion which you've already tried), should you: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your original question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on their answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add more details in an additional answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a new user&amp;mdash;it's a little confusing to figure this out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:56:41.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T18:51:20.560" Title="How should a questioner respond to answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18361" CreationDate="2008-11-01T21:14:42.587" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would edit your question (and clearly mark the edit) if the answer is asking for clarification, since clarifying the question will help you get better answers.  Doing it in the question makes the new information more available to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:55:12.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T21:14:42.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18361" CreationDate="2008-11-01T21:15:59.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the situation.  If it's an important area that needs to be addressed to everyone who will read the question, I'd put any clarifications in the original question.  Otherwise, I tend to use a comment.  In general, I'd advise against adding anything in an answer if it's not an actual answer or at least a portion of one (sometimes it is valid and even recommended to answer your own question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:55:12.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T21:18:49.457" />
  <row Id="18364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18361" CreationDate="2008-11-01T21:50:14.917" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit your question, then add a comment to the answer(s) you are responding to. The former keeps the question coherent for future readers, while the latter provides a means for those providing answers to notice (via their &quot;responses&quot; page) and perhaps edit their existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; provide additional information by posting an &quot;answer&quot;. Doing so effectively splits your question into segments that are not associated by the site, and will likely be missed both by future readers and those who have already provided answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, you may notice a practice in some older questions where answers form a sort of conversation between the person asking the original question and those responding. These generally date back to the early beta period before the comment feature was introduced - it should be avoided now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:55:12.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T21:50:14.917" />
  <row Id="18365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18361" CreationDate="2008-11-01T22:08:07.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, be polite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone gives a good answer to your question, but then you realize you forgot to specify something that would cause that answer not to work, comment on their answer, say thanks, apologize, and refer to the edited question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't just make the edit, then comment &quot;That won't work due to X and Y&quot; when X and Y weren't in the original question.  That's a rude way to treat someone who's helping you for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:55:12.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T22:08:07.063" />
  <row Id="18366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18357" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:55:47.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fixed your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:55:47.767" />
  <row Id="18368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18323" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:56:32.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably that feature ( or bug ) was introduced around the time Jeff wrote this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Problem With URLs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001181.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001181.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T01:56:32.760" />
  <row Id="18369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18360" CreationDate="2009-08-28T01:58:18.813" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've encountered the same behavior here today... So far, my guess is that it's due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;recent change to the undo window&lt;/a&gt;, but i haven't been able to reproduce it consistently... Until now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down-vote a post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undo your down-vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wait three minutes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Note that you cannot now cast &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; vote on that post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T02:17:43.627" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T02:17:43.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18371" CreationDate="2009-08-28T02:01:37.003" Score="6" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, the new reduced window to change a vote only imposes a very small cost rather than solving the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t0: Good guy answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t1: Bad guy copies answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t2: Bad guy downvotes good guy and loses a point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t3: Bad guy, after reaping the benefits of his downvote (let's be conservative and assume he got a single upvote), removes the downvote, getting his point back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Summary: +10 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t0: Good guy answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t1: Bad guy copies answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t2: Bad guy downvotes good guy and loses a point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;t3: Bad guy, after reaping the benefits of his downvote (let's be conservative and assume he got a single upvote), tries remove the downvote and fails&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Summary: +9 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T09:13:21.323" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:13:21.323" Title="Does reducing the window to change votes really solve the tactical downvoting problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;&lt;tactical-downvoting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18370" CreationDate="2009-08-28T02:07:51.357" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The votes being permanent make them subject to suspicious voting pattern recognition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T02:07:51.357" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="18372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18370" CreationDate="2009-08-28T02:29:33.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest hole I think is that if you have 2,000+ rep you can edit a post you downvoted, which counts as an edit, and then revert your vote. It's probably not hard to find some typo to ostensibly fix either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another problem with this worth mentioning: when you first post or when you make an edit you have 5 minutes to make changes that don't count as an edit. That's a good thing. The problem is that if you downvote for a serious problem and that problem is fixed fairly quickly, by the time you see that you can't reverse your downvote because no edit has been triggered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is especially a problem if the window to change your mind has been narrowed greatly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has that been considered in this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T06:19:47.153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T06:19:47.153" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18360" CreationDate="2009-08-28T02:40:12.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To help curb &quot;tactical-downvoting,&quot; up/down voting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has a small window where you may undo a vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;locked-in votes can be changed after the post is edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you vote and then undo the vote, you can still come back later and cast another up/down vote - only cast votes are locked in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, &lt;strong&gt;if there is no lit up/down vote arrow on a post, you may vote on it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on all the &quot;vote too old&quot; feedback, I modified the text to make the timed vote locking a bit more clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;You last voted on this question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Mar 28 at 7:55&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Your vote is now locked in&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;unless this question is edited&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where &quot;question&quot; and &quot;answer&quot; are substitutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-08T20:49:22.700" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T20:49:22.700" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="18374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18370" CreationDate="2009-08-28T02:40:25.137" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, a big part of the tactical downvoting problem was the ability to undo your downvotes and hide your tracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as an observation: we've had at least three semi-serious exploits all based on the ability to &quot;undo&quot; things. Which suggests that &quot;undo&quot; is kind of a dangerous ability, certainly far more than I realized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T02:40:25.137" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17538" CreationDate="2009-08-28T02:54:10.227" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should this behavior be tolerated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting an answer you know is correct, so you gain a tactical advantage, should not be tolerated. (the ability to undo votes allowed some people to hide their tracks)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it vote fraud?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should the system have built in measures to protect against it? What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently implemented, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;vote locking&lt;/a&gt;, will make it a lot easier to track down these offenses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T02:54:10.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18378" CreationDate="2009-08-28T05:46:45.630" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Related questions box at the side of a question seems to still display deleted questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10392/how-did-i-get-a-peer-pressure-badge-w-o-3-vote&quot;&gt;How did I get a Peer Pressure badge?&lt;/a&gt; in the box at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10188/remove-age-field-or-remove-requirement-of-age-field-for-autobiographer-badge&quot;&gt;Remove age field or remove requirement of age field for Autobiographer Badge&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I go there I get a 404 (I assume that's because the question is deleted.) Is that really the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: it's gone now (see Jeff's answer). But this is a (really minor, doesn't-really-need-to-be-fixed) problem with how the recent questions are designed because it does appear for a short while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T06:34:13.020" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T06:34:13.020" Title="Deleted questions appearing in related questions box" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18377" CreationDate="2009-08-28T06:03:11.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That list is perodically rebuilt as the question is accessed, so over time it should not be a serious issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T06:03:11.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18355" CreationDate="2009-08-28T06:40:47.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often find myself confused when the site is &lt;strong&gt;acting&lt;/strong&gt; different then expected, and unless I read every Meta entry, quickly get lost in the changes. I am extremely impressed at the way and rate Jeff and company implement changes, however even a &lt;strong&gt;one liner&lt;/strong&gt;, similiar to the Virtual Box &lt;strong&gt;release notes&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; would be &lt;strong&gt;extremely useful&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can even be a &lt;strong&gt;locked community wiki question&lt;/strong&gt; on Meta that keeps getting update by the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T06:40:47.627" />
  <row Id="18380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18355" CreationDate="2009-08-28T06:54:38.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-completed+-retag-request&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-completed]+-[retag-request]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T06:54:38.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18414" CreationDate="2009-08-28T06:55:39.360" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;What percentage of users possess at least one gold badge?  Just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:59:53.727" Title="Percentage of users with gold badges" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:03:52.993" Score="53" ViewCount="4365" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7285/how-would-you-design-a-stackoverflow-t-shirt&quot;&gt;How would you design a Stack Overflow T-Shirt?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/245/michael-pryor&quot;&gt;Michael&lt;/a&gt; came up with these three mockups (in answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please vote and comment, or -- if you're feeling extra frisky -- propose alternative designs using these handy dandy image templates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5772/tshirttemplate.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;T-Shirt template, front&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3650/tshirttemplateback.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;T-Shirt template, back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post your own designs in the answers, and we'll let the votes decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit (by Kyle)&lt;/strong&gt;: It seems that the SO shirts are &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/7691404224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;right around the corner&lt;/a&gt; - any last-minute ideas or designs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some new action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/8947/stackoverflowtshirtsspy.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;to purchase, visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://shop.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-21T19:39:28.030" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T19:39:28.030" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:03:59.450" Title="Help design our Stack Overflow T-Shirts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;t-shirt&gt;&lt;merchandise&gt;" AnswerCount="24" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="22" />
  <row Id="18383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:04:08.983" Score="55" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Simple&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: fixed incorrect placement of logo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2389/tshirtsimplefront.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/9224/tshirtsimpleback.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T18:44:05.280" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T18:44:05.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:04:08.983" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:04:24.833" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Downvotes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;White or black&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1695/tshirtdownvotesfront.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7726/tshirtdownvotesback.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:04:24.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:04:24.833" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:05:07.733" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Camo Badge&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to imagine this on a camouflage pattern.. I didn't have time to do the mockup right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/579/tshirtcammobadgefront.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:05:07.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:05:07.733" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:17:37.177" Score="82" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to rip off Mr. Atwood, but I suggest: (in American Apparel Tri-Blend)&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~csswasey/clothed.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;(this part is in jest, no offense to the ladies!!!)&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~csswasey/wellhung.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135001" LastEditorUserId="135001" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T13:22:21.780" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:22:21.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:17:37.177" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:20:26.453" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Deliberate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/36ZOR.png&quot; alt=&quot;status by design t-shirt&quot; title=&quot;status by design t-shirt&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:20:26.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:20:26.453" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:25:12.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rethought it and I still don't like it. It sounds like cluttering to me. Sometimes it is good to separate things. Like Meta and SO. I'm used to switch between several browser tabs and windows, so I don't care, if the blog is in a separate one. Probably I would open one extra tab for the blog tag as I now have one open for the blog.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blog has its own podcast section, what I appreciate. I do not want to look for the podcasts in a tag, where all the questions about the podcasts reside also.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, upvoting comments on the blog would be fun, but don't penetrate your vein too often with that needle ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't use Twitter!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:25:12.857" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-03T21:52:03.453" Score="10" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've looked through a few of the questions about the licensing of the replies on SO, but haven't found any really satisfactory answers. Can an answer be used in an open source project (with an MIT license)? I'm not looking to simply cut-and-paste because I would need to modify the snippet to suit my project and also because the answer is in a different programming language. Also, if the answer can be used, how should it be credited? Should it just be a link to the SO page? Should it include the user name? Should the user be contacted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148737" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:34:17.283" Title="How should a SO answer be credited for use in an open-source project?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="18391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18390" CreationDate="2008-10-03T21:53:59.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linking directly to the answer (or question and multiple relevant answers) should satisfy the attribution provision of the cc-wiki (attribution, share alike) license that has been selected for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:34:17.283" />
  <row Id="18392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18390" CreationDate="2008-10-03T21:58:58.150" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but just be honest how you got the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to use the code in your project provided you supply attribution details and source code. Just make sure the license you are using allows for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// thanks to RodgerB from StackOverflow&#xA;// special thanks to rcar for suggesting I use doubles&#xA;// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/169041/how-should-a-so-answer-be-credited-for-use-in-an-open-source-project&#xA;private int AddNumbers(double a, double b)&#xA;{&#xA;    return Convert.ToInt32(a+b);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:34:17.283" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18390" CreationDate="2008-10-03T22:02:08.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the input is important, I would put somewhere (in a credit page/file perhaps): &quot;With help from XyzAtSO given at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151515/bla-bla&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151515/bla-bla&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or something along these lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I see my (original!) code snippets here more or less as public domain but giving credit is always nice and appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140012" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:34:17.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18390" CreationDate="2008-10-03T22:02:53.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, as all content on Stack Overflow seems to be licensed under the  &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic&lt;/a&gt; license, I think that a link to the answer should be provided. That should satisfy the &quot;Attribution&quot; part of the license. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Share Alike&quot; portion is a bit harder, because it requires the code/product to be licensed under the same or a similar license. I cannot tell whether the MIT license counts as a similar license. However, you might be able to find a compatibility matrix or so …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154323" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:34:17.283" />
  <row Id="18395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18390" CreationDate="2008-10-03T23:12:30.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full text of the CC by-sa 2.5 license says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License, or a Creative Commons iCommons license that contains the same License Elements as this License (e.g. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Japan).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that this renders the sa CC licenses viral: there is no such thing as a &quot;compatible&quot; license, because the share-alike requirement is that one of an enumerated set of licenses is used, not just &quot;any license with similar terms&quot;. Whether your work is a Derivative Work or not depends on what you've copied - seeing a copyrighted implementation of bubble sort doesn't necessarily mean you can never use bubble sort again. If it's not a Derivative Work then the CC license is irrelevant, so you can distribute your work under any license you want, including MIT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am not any kind of lawyer, and certainly not your lawyer, so my personal opinion is worth what you're paying for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that CC Deeds (the thing you see when you follow the link in the corner of the page) each have a really tiny link at the bottom, behind a door marked &quot;beware of the leopard&quot;, leading to the actual license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit: I have just added the following text to my userinfo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;All my original contributions to StackOverflow are placed into the public domain. If this is not legally possible, then anyone receiving a copy of them by any means is granted a non-exclusive perpetual license to use, distribute and modify them, and to distribute modifications, under any license or none, with or without attribution to me. Please note that this license applies only to my original contributions.&quot;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145547" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:34:17.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:45:14.703" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just throwing in this basic design (will throw in more in the evening):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I also prefer the logo on the left breast over the right now :p):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5762/tshirttemplate1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3226/tshirttemplateback1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132917" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:45:14.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:45:14.703" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:50:02.977" Score="142" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; had to do it …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/krudolph/stuff/stackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;… and I can’t believe I’m the first. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:50:02.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:50:02.977" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="18399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T07:52:23.037" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too lazy to actually do a t-shirt but for the ladies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Front: RackOverFlow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T07:52:23.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T07:52:23.037" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:09:16.823" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I beg everyone's forgiveness for my TERRIBLE photoshopping skills in this mockup. Again, I'm drunk. The idea is that the badges &quot;overflow&quot; and wrap around the back&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~csswasey/tshirt2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135001" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:09:16.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T08:09:16.823" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:11:33.323" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;SO-Site Bar (Minimalistic)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be nice if the links to the other portals were easier to acces. Maybe as a dropdown at the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:11:33.323" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T12:17:50.393" Title="Links to other portals at the top of the page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18405" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:16:17.730" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO has a limit on the amount of reputation that can be earnt &lt;strong&gt;per day&lt;/strong&gt; of 200 (there are exceptions but this question isn't about that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is exactly what constitutes &lt;strong&gt;a day&lt;/strong&gt;?  Is it any 24 hour period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it the date as viewed from a specific time zone?  If so does this put some at  disadvantage due to the time zone they live in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17516" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:46:25.513" Title="200 Rep Limit over what period exactly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="18405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18404" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:18:59.863" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 24 hours in UTC.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the explanation in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow/7238#7238&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:18:59.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18404" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:19:14.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;24 hours.  I see no disadvantage depending on your time zone. We all get 24 hours each, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:19:14.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18409" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:19:31.313" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will editing the question make it rank forward or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:28:59.110" Title="What's the ranking algorithm of SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rankings&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18381" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:19:43.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment of this writing, SO has 988 owners of gold badges, counted from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges page&lt;/a&gt; manually. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=2528&quot;&gt;users page&lt;/a&gt; shows 2527*35 + 11 = 88456 users. Therefore 998/88456 * 100 = 1.1169 % of the user at the time of writing have a gold badge. (These are not distinct users, so there are less people awarded, this is an upper boundary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a way to calculate this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;searching&lt;/a&gt; for all badges and the number of users. For a hint:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select Count(distinct userid) from badges &#xA;  where name = &quot;famous question&quot; or name = &quot;fanatic&quot; ...&#xA;select Count(*) from users&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:36:21.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18407" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:22:10.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing the question will rank it forward, being the newest until of course another one gets asked, answered or bumped, unless the question has a reputation of -5 or less. The order in the Recent QUestions/Active tab is by last activity date. Votes do not count towards that activity, neither does flaging or voting to close, or commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at these questions about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4397/purposeful-question-bumping-abuse-or-feature&quot;&gt;bumping questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;getting attention&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; towards the bottom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:28:59.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18407" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:22:39.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQs&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I don't get a good answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to get good answers, you have&#xA;  to put some effort into the question.&#xA;  Edit your question to provide status&#xA;  and progress updates. Document your&#xA;  own continued efforts to answer your&#xA;  question. This will naturally bump&#xA;  your question and get more people&#xA;  interested in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after two days, you still don't&#xA;  have an answer you like, you can offer&#xA;  a bounty. Slice off a bit of your own&#xA;  hard-earned reputation -- anywhere&#xA;  from 50 to 500 -- and attach it to the&#xA;  question as a bounty. We'll even throw&#xA;  in 50 reputation to sweeten the deal.&#xA;  The bountied question will appear with&#xA;  a special icon in all question lists,&#xA;  and it will also be visible on the&#xA;  home page Featured tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once initiated, the bounty period&#xA;  lasts seven days. If you mark an&#xA;  accepted answer, your bounty is&#xA;  awarded to the answerer (do note that&#xA;  accepted bounty answers are permanent&#xA;  and cannot be changed). If you do not&#xA;  accept an answer in seven days, the&#xA;  top voted answer will automatically&#xA;  become the accepted answer, and half&#xA;  your bounty will be awarded to that&#xA;  answer. You will always give up the&#xA;  amount of reputation specified in the&#xA;  bounty, so if you start a bounty, be&#xA;  sure to follow up and accept the best&#xA;  answer! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, bounty awards, like all&#xA;  accepted answers, are immune to the&#xA;  daily reputation cap and community&#xA;  wiki mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:22:39.573" />
  <row Id="18411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:32:34.280" Score="6" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if I'm being completely out of line here by pointing out what I perceive to be small but not intractable problems. I'm on three medications right now, and one of them is booze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you're looking at the profile of a user who has accounts on every SO network, it isn't immediately obvious which box is for what site. The only differentiator seems to be the tiny icon to the left of the user's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have a textual label for each box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135001" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:37:21.323" Title="Users with accounts on all sites -- no labels" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18411" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:37:19.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it the way it is. Maybe your medicine is limiting your eye-sight ;)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workaround: Hover over the link to the site and read the status bar of your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:37:19.077" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18411" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:37:21.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it would. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What else can I say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:37:21.323" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18381" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:39:45.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My results based on Aug 6 data dump, with catch one small catch: it does not include tag-specific badges (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/44/java&quot;&gt;java gold&lt;/a&gt;).  I am working on that now, but it requires a bit of massaging.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;610 users have gold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;866 gold badges &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;60556 users have at least one badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;103659 users total&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20428 users have reputation &gt; 100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that gives us a couple of statistics like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.01% of users with at least one badge have a gold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0.59% of all users have a gold &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2.99% of users with with reputation &gt; 100 have gold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T08:59:53.727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:59:53.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:47:48.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No graphic program here, so maybe I just post it (text only):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;char buf[5];&#xA;strcpy(buf,&quot;Hello&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could do a &lt;strong&gt;.com&lt;/strong&gt; behind those two lines :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134324" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:47:48.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T08:47:48.370" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T08:50:21.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1561/soshirtfrontbeggs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Front&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could substitute &quot;Great Answer&quot; with anything...  I thought &quot;Great Answer&quot; was the best gold badge that could be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6201/soshirtbackbeggs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Back&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T08:50:21.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T08:50:21.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-08-28T09:10:32.363" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everybody can be bothered to keep up with MSO.  &lt;code&gt;blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; is a better outlet for Jeff's propaganda because it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;almost always on topic, and almost never repetative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;posts are 100% official&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has a much higher signal-to-noise ration than MSO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lower volume of posts, which suits the vast majority of folks.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T09:10:32.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T09:26:26.793" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6116/soshirt2frontbeggs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Front&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6201/soshirtbackbeggs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Back&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T09:26:26.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T09:26:26.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4848" CreationDate="2009-08-28T09:44:55.913" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13354/13365#13365&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; very similar question, I think that reputation should decay exponentially over time, so that reputation you gained longer ago is worth less than reputation you gained in the last few days. This would help keep the site current.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135017" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T09:44:55.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18442" CreationDate="2009-08-28T09:54:43.163" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logotype for &lt;i&gt;stack&lt;b&gt;overflow&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (and other Lo(W)J sites) is all lower case and uses boldface to separate the words, and that's easy enough to do if you can be bothered with the HTML tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if you're in a hurry, or talking about &lt;i&gt;stack&lt;b&gt;overflow&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; on a site which doesn't support HTML editing in user-generated content? Is there a preferred way of typing the names of the sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed Jeff and Joel use &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; (normal English spacing/capitalisation) so this appears to be &quot;official&quot;, but the Fog Creek site uses &quot;StackOverflow&quot;, as do other users along with &quot;Stack overflow&quot;, &quot;stackOverflow&quot; and just &quot;SO&quot; (only really works on SO itself or meta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's your preferred way of referring to the sites in the Lo(W)J when all you've got is caps, punctuation and spaces?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For bonus points, watch Jeff &quot;RegEx Boy&quot; Atwood optimize my title!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23408" LastEditorUserId="23408" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T10:18:23.507" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T12:15:44.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T10:18:23.507" Title="How to write [Ss]tack ?[Oo]verflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T10:17:35.770" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I found a more efficient way of coding a problem or using a cool tool, that would help other fellow developers, how would I share the love?  Or is this outside the remit of SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134529" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T10:42:56.047" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:23:26.537" Title="Is there a way of sharing the love?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="18426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18424" CreationDate="2009-08-28T10:18:53.303" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the tool can assist in the solving of an existing question you can post this as part of your answer, but NOT as the sole answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outright Spam of a product will be deleted and could cost you a 100 reputations points of reported as such by other users. However we do accept that often a third party product could potentially be a solution, unless the question is asking for a particular product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18424/is-there-a-way-of-sharing-the-love/18427#18427&quot;&gt;Eric's&lt;/a&gt; answer is also a good option as long as it is within the context of a problem and a solution, and how it was solved. Also making it CW will ensure it is not considered spam or vote gaming by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T11:03:19.890" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:03:19.890" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18424" CreationDate="2009-08-28T10:20:10.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One sort of approach would be to simply post a question with an answer.  For example, post a question &quot;What's your favorite program for X?&quot;  Mark it as community wiki.  Then add your personal favorite as one of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T10:20:10.163" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2009-08-28T10:41:56.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just awarded the Taxonomist badge (created a tag used by 50 questions).  How do I discover which tag?  I presumably created it ages ago, and it was no action of mine that pushed the question count over 50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133155" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T10:41:56.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T11:01:35.883" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8299/asking-similar-questions-process&quot;&gt;Asking similar questions - process?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again a possible duplicate. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets say I have a question and I want to ask it in SO. I see a duplicate but I cannot find a successful answer there. (due to any reason... perhaps it may not get the attention etc.. ) So that Q &amp;amp; A is not important to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such scenarios can I duplicate the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346062/digitally-communicate-with-usb-closed&quot;&gt;An example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131711" LastEditorUserId="131711" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T11:06:55.030" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:06:55.030" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T11:37:50.193" Title="Any exceptions in duplicating questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18431" CreationDate="2009-08-28T11:05:37.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the context and will be evaluated per question. Whether the original has an accepted answer is not often a criteria used for closing a duplicate. If the question and the context is the same as the other, and it does not have an answer, posting a duplicate is definitely not going to ensure it will get one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best option would be to favorite the original and keep coming back to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:05:37.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18404" CreationDate="2009-08-28T11:46:25.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me personally, the rep limits go from 8pm EST to 8pm EST, due to Daylight Savings Time. Once the clocks roll back again, it will return to 7pm EST to 7pm EST. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't necessarily say that there are any advantages involved in what the time period is. The only disadvantage is if your day happens to revolve around time periods when the vast majority of users are not using the site. For those of us in America and in the UK, are activity coincides nicely with the activity of other users, which makes it easy to hit rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:46:25.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T11:48:53.870" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to. I just had to.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geek.derekmartin.ca/tshirttemplate1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131045" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T11:48:53.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T11:48:53.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18420" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:15:44.190" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fog Creek usage is incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T12:15:44.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T12:15:44.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18443" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:31:28.777" Score="0" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34662/must-see-tech-talks-presentations&quot;&gt;Must-see tech talks/presentations?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/654275/favorite-online-lectures-and-presentations&quot;&gt;Favorite online lectures and presentations?&lt;/a&gt; are both very successful in that they have encouraged many good responses. Can somebody high-up go ahead and merge these two to concentrate all of the attention into one dense location?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T12:31:28.777" Title="Question-merge Request" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" />
  <row Id="18444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18646" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:33:50.143" Score="2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing, this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346657/java-newbie-infinite-loop-searching-for-specific-text-in-a-file&quot;&gt;Java newbie: infinite loop searching for specific text in a file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;has one answer with one upvote, but the owner has deleted the question.  The FAQ says &quot;You cannot delete your own question if answers exist that have upvotes&quot;, and you can't vote on an answer to a deleted question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug?  Timing window?  Pixies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T02:38:38.973" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T02:39:13.480" Title="A question was deleted by the owner even though it had an upvoted answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="18446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18444" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:38:41.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say the FAQ is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, upvote me and then try to delete the question. (If you can delete it, just undelete it afterward and let us know.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T12:38:41.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18444" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:39:07.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user deleted the question because s/he solved the problem. Voted to undelete. Just need two more folks with the undelete powers to help me out with that one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a mod send the SO OP a quick note explaining how we don't delete questions that get answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T12:45:32.087" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T12:45:32.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18451" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:47:21.630" Score="4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to my user page on meta, I have 1 Great Answer badge, 2 Nice Answer badges, and 2 Good Answer badges. But I've only got five answers, and only one has ten upvotes. Why so many badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://perrow.ca/images/blog/meta-rep.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T04:57:01.153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T04:57:01.153" Title="Why do I have so many badges?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18448" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:49:28.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that an uberthread got moved here and then deleted (or moved back). Badges are never deleted, but you are in the hole for all of those. So, you will need to get 2 Great Answer badges to actually net 1 now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T12:49:28.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18448" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:53:33.177" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;What's your favorite programmer cartoon?&lt;/a&gt; got moved here, then moved back to SO.  You got awarded the Great Answer badge when it was moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T12:53:33.177" />
  <row Id="18452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18456" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:54:08.153" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a question is deleted by community, I can no longer flag it for moderator review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346796/getting-row-from-gridview-in-dev-express&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; re-instated? The Edit made it a viable question, but my guess is that it was thrown over the 'offensive' limit from people not 'refreshing' for the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature Request&lt;/strong&gt;: Maybe if someone clicks 'flag', there ought to be a dialog (much like a new answer pops up at the top of the screen) telling them that the question has been edited since they last viewed it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:14:12.020" Title="Can we have this question re-instated?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18452" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:56:11.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. That guy hates DevExpress. A lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he'll just post the question again. But respectfully. Maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Diago is curious, here's the posting. Stop reading now if you get offended by language:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how the f*** should someone get a&#xA;  f***ing row on a f***ing gridcontrol&#xA;  of devexpress it should be simple,&#xA;  just a gridview.Row or gridview.GetRow&#xA;  but helloooo, devexpress makes things&#xA;  difficult, why the f*** should they&#xA;  not let this as the simple way it was.&#xA;  it drives you crazy searching a&#xA;  f***ing way to get a damn row from a&#xA;  gridview. Why?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;p.s: to the devexpress owner: f*** you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T13:01:39.230" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:01:39.230" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18524" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:57:19.003" Score="18" ViewCount="473" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John says:&#xA;  August 28th, 2009 at 12:25 am&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do you not put a SASE question on meta and see how many votes it gets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/in-stickers-we-trust/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff now has the trilogy + How to Geek Stickers&lt;/a&gt;. But, for now, he is planning on giving them just on SO DevDays!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why, oh why, do you (Jeff) hate people from all over the world! :'( :'(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Jeff send Stickers to people that asks them? What should be the correct way to ask for stickers for those of us that live outside the US?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one more thing, where are you from? (So Jeff sees wich countries are more demanding and can ban them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/how-to-get-stack-overflow-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Any users in the world can get free stickers -- just click here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T00:16:25.370" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T00:21:18.050" Title="Stickers for non US residents?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stickers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T12:58:35.930" Score="-2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15908/any-plans-for-a-videogame-console-related-site&quot;&gt;Any plans for a videogame/console related site?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser seems to be very picky with anything gaming related, even if it's hardware/software related but pertains to gaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the chances of creating a gaming-flavored site? I can't help but think this format would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, I see now. Thanks everyone. Search didn't yield any results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134683" LastEditorUserId="149076" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T23:25:52.830" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T23:25:52.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T12:58:35.930" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T13:14:10.907" Title="Chances of a Gaming oriented site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;&lt;gaming-site&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18452" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:00:45.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, 'tis back. It was passionate enough to trip my work filtering! (I can side-step...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/95/reversal&quot;&gt;s**t-gem&lt;/a&gt; badge in the offing for anyone with an answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:00:45.893" />
  <row Id="18457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18455" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:02:47.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone on the question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4034/do-you-plan-to-launch-a-stackexchange-site-on-september-1-2009/4519#4519&quot;&gt;Do you plan to launch a StackExchange sites?&lt;/a&gt;, is proposing a game-related site called GameLegend.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... idea is to give gamers a place to get and give hints, tip, strategies etc on games...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:02:47.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T13:02:47.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18455" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:02:49.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has already been mentioned that someone is planning one if I am not mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:02:49.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T13:02:49.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18454" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:04:40.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He should probably give them out to the people who show up at Dev Days first (I'm not going, so, no I'm not biased), then send the leftovers to anyone who sends him a SASE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Based on the comments and other answers, I guess my &quot;stupid American&quot; is showing.  We can easily get mail delivered all over the world from our local post offices, so I was unaware that this was such a big issue in other parts of the world.  Sorry, I guess I have to recommend carrier pigeons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T13:24:21.197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:24:21.197" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18452" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:10:44.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. What a moral dilemma. While I agree this question is much better written, I don't know if it really deserved to be re-opened after the way the OP phrased it. I mean, I know that some words may slip sometimes from some lips, but that was just incredible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:10:44.017" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18468" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:15:39.217" Score="5" ViewCount="376" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(UPDATE: Anybody who thinks this is a rant on C# needs to chill out.  I'm not suggesting punishing C# questions.  Rather, I am&lt;/em&gt; envious &lt;em&gt;of C#'s disproportionate popularity on SO and am asking what, if anything, can or should be done to get non-C# language communities to more interested in using SO as they place for Q&amp;amp;Ss.  Why?  SO rocks as a Q&amp;amp;A platform, much more that traditional forums.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a whim, I thought it would be entertaining to graph out the &lt;em&gt;Top Ten Language&lt;/em&gt; Question Tags by Date*.  It has always been clear that c# was the most popular tag, but the below graphs made this fact more of a reality is some way.  It kind of bothers me, but then again it is such a multifaceted topic that my 20-second analysis of why this is so doesn't mean much to even myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are your thoughts on the overwhelmingly large popularity of c# on Stack Overflow?&lt;/strong&gt;  Is this healthy?  Normal?  In need of a conscious, deliberate change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(* = My own arguably arbitrary and biased selection based on the most popular tags)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top Ten Language Question Tags (+ 'r') by Date:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow: Top Ten Programming Languages Over Time&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3.3MB full size image&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also included in the graph is &lt;code&gt;r&lt;/code&gt;, which users of &lt;code&gt;r&lt;/code&gt; flash-posted questions about in July.  Here is a zoom of their &quot;flash&quot;.  It's kinda cute, in a way.  They managed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;beat out &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;ruby-on-rails&lt;/code&gt; for a day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;approach the lulls in activity in a couple of popular tags, like &lt;code&gt;asp.net&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time-Zoom.png&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T09:13:30.123" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T10:22:10.713" Title="c# is clearly dominant on SO. Is there a desire, need or whatever to diversify the user base and questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:18:30.630" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's healthy, and normal.  It doesn't need a deliberate change.  I don't see how you'd accomplish that anyway.  My favorite language (Perl) is a minority (not even on your graph, I see) and yet it's still possible to get insightful and intelligent answers to Perl questions.  So I don't think any problem exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:18:30.630" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:20:46.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is wrong with people asking questions in C#?  I see nothing wrong with it they need help and Stack overflow gives it to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it healthy?  Yes, Stack overflow is a place for people to get help in programming, regardless of language. There is help for everybody which is the goal of stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes it is completely normal, there are a large number of people writing C# code everyday and they need help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No change is needed, Stack overflow doesn't have rules that state you are only allowed to ask C# questions, and we should not prevent them either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:20:46.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:20:53.980" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you compared that analysis to stats about language usage/popularity, you would be able to determine what languages were over/under represented on SO. The question them becomes how to better &quot;get the word out&quot; about SO to users of those languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:20:53.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:22:10.077" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8299/asking-similar-questions-process&quot;&gt;Asking similar questions - process?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a pretty simple question actually, should duplicate questions be allowed if the original question did not get an accepted answer? Should I bw allowed to ask the same question every day until I get a satisfactory response?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:26:30.973" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T13:29:08.240" Title="When are dupes not dupes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:23:53.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a potential issue of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/constval.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;construct validity&lt;/a&gt; here. The number of C# tags may indeed be higher but there are a number of possible explanations for that besides &quot;language popularity.&quot; There may be more confussion surrounding C# than other languages for example. There may also be more ways to describe a problem in C# and therefore more overlap and duplication between questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we assume that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; because C# is just more popular, I would have to agree with @Jon B's assessment that its a matter of getting the word out to other programming communities. But I really think that it is way too early in the life of SO to worry about that. They have built it, more will come. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T17:13:24.807" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:13:24.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18469" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:24:31.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should just bump the original question by making an edit to its body. But do so only after enough time has passed, so as not to spam the front page with your edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:24:31.867" />
  <row Id="18473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18469" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:25:13.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldnt ask the same question everyday.  Instead, you should attempt to make your original question 'better' or at least more attractive through edits.  This will put bump the question to the main page again. If you didnt get answers to the first question, chances are a dupe will not get answers again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:25:13.440" />
  <row Id="18474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18469" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:26:30.973" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;should duplicate questions be allowed if the original question did not get an accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. The potential for you to word your question in a better way is worth having the duplicate in the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I bw allowed to ask the same question every day until I get a satisfactory response?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;God no. Edit it daily until a particular phrasing gets you where you need to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:26:30.973" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:30:44.583" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;For bookmarking I just use the specific path with embedded userid, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14749/chris-noe&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14749/chris-noe&lt;/a&gt;. But I want to do this generically across the sister sites, via Greasemonkey. So I'm hoping there is kind of &lt;code&gt;/users/me&lt;/code&gt; URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: My assumption is that the user is already authenticated on all the sisters sites, and therefore the URL does not need to specify user's identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134970" LastEditorUserId="134970" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T14:02:01.120" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:02:01.120" Title="Is there a generic URL for my-user-page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:35:04.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is always a desire to diversity the user base. If we want StackOverflow to be THE source of questions and answers for programming, that only makes sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To assume that we have a &lt;strong&gt;problem&lt;/strong&gt; because the majority of the users are .NET/C#'ers is incorrect thinking. It is natural for those who follow Jeff &amp;amp; Joel (mostly .NET C#'ers) to be the starting audience, and we have seen the audience constantly grow since. It should not be seen as a bad thing that we happen to have a very large &quot;seed&quot; community centered around a particular language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not like there is any shunning of particular languages and technologies going on. If you don't care for a language, you don't have to contribute and someone else will pick up your slack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:35:04.980" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18475" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:36:05.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[sitename].com/users/[your user id on the site]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not seen any way to do a users/myname url because there is nothing stopping people from having the same username. Making the URL based off the username then would not be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:36:05.167" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18475" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:36:35.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my greasemonkey scripts, I just pull the href value from the &quot;Jonathan Sampson&quot; link up by my rep. This is globally-present, and thus always available to my gm-scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var user_id = $(&quot;#hlinks a[href^='/users/recent/']&quot;)&#xA;                .next(&quot;a&quot;).attr(&quot;href&quot;).split(&quot;/&quot;)[2];&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T13:44:07.710" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:44:07.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18481" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:37:31.700" Score="3" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I received an interesting email this morning that appears to me to be spam:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello , I  came across your profie in&#xA;  (stackoverflow.com) and I will like us&#xA;  to have a  goodrelationship and to&#xA;  know much better .my name is &#xA;  Blessing,  i am single and never&#xA;  marriage.I will wait for your reply .&#xA;  you can contact me at this my email&#xA;  address ( [--------------]@yahoo.com) so&#xA;  that i can send you my picture andmore&#xA;  about myself.  waiting to hear from&#xA;  you .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECTLY WITH THIS&#xA;  EMAIL ([--------------]@yahoo.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has many of the hallmarks of spam, but my email isn't listed in my SO profile, so one of the following must be true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They made their bot harvest emails from sites linked from SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They collected addresses by hand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They got the emails from the database (I imagine this is stripped, but don't know)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They got it from the openid provider (does openid give out info without credentials?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They sent the same message to their entire mailing list, hoping to catch out a few people with the name of a specific website (and thus bringing new SO users to SO in the process who are wondering what their profile is doing there)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It isn't spam (Sorry blessing - I'm not interested in getting to know people that write email that looks exactly like spam)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in other possibilities, and to hear if anyone else received something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T14:00:46.177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:15:32.857" Title="Email spam mentioning stackoverflow profile" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="18480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18479" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:48:15.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be extremely surprised if options 1 - 3 are actually true, consider the way Jeff and Joel feels about spam. I also doubt Jeff will take this lightly in any way whatsoever. The last thing SO needs is a reputation for spamming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best advise is to forward it on the the team at team@stackoverflow.com if you haven't already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:48:15.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18479" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:49:49.633" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely spam: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aarp.org/community/MPHS10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.aarp.org/community/MPHS10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello ,I came across your profile in and I will like us to have a good relationship and to know much better .my name is grace, i am single and never marriage.I will wait for your reply . you can contact me at this my email address (grracemabar@yahoo.com) so that i can send you my picture and more about myself. waiting to hear from you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you pointed out, your website address is mentioned in a few places. From a cursory glance at your site, I didn't see any public email address, but a whois search brought up one. I won't post it here, but it's the primary address for your domain. Who knows, maybe they collected your domain from here, looked it up on a whois search, and collected the administrative contact details..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T14:15:32.857" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:15:32.857" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18479" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:50:45.760" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't actually link to &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; stack overflow profile though, does it? It sounds like the equivalent of a 'your account with bank X has been suspended' spam. There are probably millions of people around the world looking at this message and wondering what on earth '(stackoverflow.com)' is as we speak...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:50:45.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18444" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:55:03.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This came up yesterday, and was addressed here: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18276/restrict-the-owners-ability-to-delete-his-her-own-question-once-it-reaches-a-cer&quot;&gt;Restrict the owner’s ability to delete his/her own question once it reaches a certain threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:55:03.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:58:58.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not programming related and barely any content...but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bodybuildingqa.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bodybuildingqa.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:58:58.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T13:58:58.240" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18479" CreationDate="2009-08-28T13:59:17.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually received an email from someone who's question I answered. I never responded to it. He probably got my address off of my personal website which is linked in my profile. Check the web page that you specified in your profile for any contact information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T13:59:17.727" />
  <row Id="18486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18454" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:21:00.507" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%5Freply%5Fcoupon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;International reply coupon&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=5200012&amp;amp;mediaId=27000662&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;exchanged&lt;/a&gt; for local postage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:21:00.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18424" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:23:26.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you stumble across a great piece of information that you want to share, but which doesn't answer an existing problem, you could try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;blogging it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;twittering it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or you could wait until someone asks a question to which you have the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:23:26.537" />
  <row Id="18493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18452" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:33:01.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question can be ignored utterly and ought to have no bearing on the design of the moderation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, it is still a very rare (and fascinating) case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the edited version was no longer offensive, it became so simplistic that it was remained a bad question (and possible dupe). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP ought to have included what he had tried, what barriers were experienced and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;But top marks to Gortok for an excellent edit&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:33:01.980" />
  <row Id="18494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:39:26.083" Score="18" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18488/what-to-do-when-a-user-asks-the-same-question-on-two-so-family-sites-and-the-orig&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question. I think we should discourage &quot;Belongs on S[OFU]&quot; type comments. I think they encourage the OP to go to the indicated site and re-ask the question. Flagging/voting to move on the question should be sufficient. Assuming this is the case, would it be proper to flag those comments for mod removal to hopefully get them removed before a new user sees them and duplicates the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, another example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/146388/uk-change-to-gmail&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100529-pf738uyhmggwqir4qgp4ah4i6w.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, even worse, but this new (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/350821/amardeep&quot;&gt;valuable&lt;/a&gt;!) user probably just doesn't know better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/151184/format-an-external-hard-disk&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100610-rincffwa8xfyu9d8583jw5b4dq.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-10T21:22:39.307" LastActivityDate="2010-06-10T21:22:39.307" Title="&quot;Belongs on&quot; comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:42:41.820" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This only works if the OP has an account on the target site and they are linked correctly. Otherwise you get orphaned questions - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/31361/how-to-calibrate-my-monitor&quot;&gt;this question on SU&lt;/a&gt; as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is getting to be a significant problem. I've just seen another question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32825/usb-flash-memory-is-suddenly-empty&quot;&gt;re-asked&lt;/a&gt; on SU because the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32785/usb-flash-memory-is-suddenly-empty&quot;&gt;original was migrated and effectively orphaned&lt;/a&gt; - NOTE: This question has been removed so the link doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated and the user doesn't have a linked account one should be created in a dormant state. Then when the OP comes along they should be able to claim the account and hence ownership of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T11:01:29.297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T11:01:29.297" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:44:45.340" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everyone has 3000 arbitrary points yet. The best they can do (without abusing tags) is to leave a comment telling the OP that this isn't the right place to ask that kind of question, and flag for moderator attention to get it moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess you could ask people to say that &quot;this question will be migrated to that site automatically, but in the future please ask this kind of question there rather than here&quot;. But that's a lot of words for some people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:44:45.340" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:44:46.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if you have profile at all of the sites then maybe you could see a 'flag as &quot;belongs to&quot;' sub option -- or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:44:46.870" />
  <row Id="18498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:48:45.830" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those comments are more noise than anything and really don't help new users at all who don't understand the question migration process. They should &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary/15292#15292&quot;&gt;just be flagged as harsh noise&lt;/a&gt;, for which Jeff says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm actually ok with flagging meaningless comments like this, since&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;there's no actual penalty to the user when a flagged comment is removed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the flagging comment process is basically 100% automated and doesn't require any mod intervention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[..] added &quot;noise&quot; as reason for comment flagging. Please use it on egregious non-value add comments that are noise and not signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they have to put in those kinds of comments, it would be better if they could at least give a heads up to the asker that their question might soon be migrated and that they don't need to ask it again, just follow the link when it gets closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-29T09:06:45.283" LastActivityDate="2010-05-29T09:06:45.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-08-28T14:53:02.343" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 275k post of which 36k are tagged &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt;. Big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't prevent people from getting good answers in dozens of other tags. I mean, come'on, there is an active (if small) LaTeX community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T14:53:02.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14482" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:05:14.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need a &quot;watch list&quot; for questions we'd like to see the answer on. I agree with you on the favorites - I use those more for long-term than short-term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:05:14.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:06:30.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can flag those comments for moderator removal.  I always (try to remember to) remove &quot;belongs on&quot; comments before I migrate something myself, so you could even just flag the question for attention to get it migrated and the comments should get cleaned up at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:06:30.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:13:57.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why we should tell them not to post that. If someone doesn't have the 3,000 rep required, making that comment may help inform someone who DOES have 3,000 rep and wouldn't vote otherwise (or may not have been aware). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you can flag for mod attention, but once you run out of flags you are stuck again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:13:57.590" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18452" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:14:12.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd delete that very first version of the question.  There is nothing constructive in that and it still tarnishes the question.  Jonathan is spot on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:14:12.020" />
  <row Id="18504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:14:14.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can take a while for the question to get migrated, by leaving a comment you let the OP (and others viewing) that there is a more proper venue for the question (and therefore answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:14:14.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:22:28.307" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been using Stack Overflow for a while now and realized what a great source of knowledge the answers are across many topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases, I thought that it would be useful to have the option to save some questions and their answers in a special &quot;list&quot;. Later, I could visit this list and read again the answers I got before making a decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans that will allow users the ability to save answers and/or questions in a list? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135041" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T15:40:03.730" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:43:40.207" Title="Any way to manage and keep track of answers and questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:22:44.297" Score="7" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;This really is minor, and inconsequential, but it's a bug nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, here it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find a new user with 1 rep that has asked a question.  Downvote question. Remove downvote.  Voilà, 3 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/59644/domain-default-changed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/18609/daniel&quot;&gt;daniel&lt;/a&gt; [sic]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/60027/no-history-for-sql-backup&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/18719/jim&quot;&gt;Jim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133203" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:30:03.997" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:30:03.997" Title="There is a bug where you can get free reputation" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:24:04.467" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you click the star below the voting section on a question (to the left of the question), it will be saved to your favourites. You can then keep track of all the questions and their answers as they will be saved on the Favorites tab in your account.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2171/favouritestar.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T17:43:40.207" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:43:40.207" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18507" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:26:24.493" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes/2288#2288&quot;&gt;known for a while&lt;/a&gt;... I don't think anyone is too concerned, given that it only works for users without any reputation, and it doesn't really give them much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:26:24.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16640" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:34:17.580" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just updated my profile on StackOverflow and you're right, having to go to each site to pull the profile across is a minor pain. It makes more sense to have a 'Copy To All' and perhaps change the individual copy buttons to 'Copy To [Site]' etc for more granularity if you want to keep one of the profiles different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:34:17.580" />
  <row Id="18511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:34:57.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking this a logical step further, let's say you are really more interested in a specific answer than the question itself. S[OFU] doesn't need a new feature for you to manage this; you already have it: Your browser's bookmarks or favorites list. You can create folders, organize as needed, and have everything you need just a click or two away at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:34:57.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:40:59.610" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6914/woudnt-it-make-sense-to-have-more-than-one-answer-acceptable&quot;&gt;Woudn&amp;rsquo;t it make sense to have more than one answer acceptable?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Need to have a feature where user can accept answers for multiple questions. This will be useful in subjective questions where there is no one correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131169" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:44:14.470" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T15:43:15.643" Title="Multiple Accept Answer for Subjective Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18512" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:42:50.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than have multiple, wouldn't it be better to have NONE?  I mean, how can a subjective question even have an &quot;ANSWER&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:42:50.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18512" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:44:14.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's truly subjective and doesn't have a right answer, then it should have 0 accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:44:14.470" />
  <row Id="18515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18516" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:48:09.597" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18448/why-do-i-have-so-many-badges&quot;&gt;Why do I have so many badges?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got a Great Answer badge on this site but I have not answered any questions. Go look &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/16204/epochwolf&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/16204/epochwolf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible explaination: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18448/why-do-i-have-so-many-badges&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18448/why-do-i-have-so-many-badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16204" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:50:56.190" ClosedDate="2009-08-29T02:37:35.370" Title="Bug: Great Answer badge with no answers?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18515" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:50:56.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You had an answer on the question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon/84747#84747&quot;&gt;What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You scored the Great Answer badge when it was on SO. Then it was migrated here, and you clocked the badge here. You kept that badge when it was moved back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't lose any badge you earn. Unless it was Beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:50:56.190" />
  <row Id="18517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18507" CreationDate="2009-08-28T15:54:28.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens when you do this to a user who is suspended? (Suspension sets your rep to 1, so you cannot perform basic tasks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T15:54:28.803" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:09:52.640" Score="6" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't make it to DevDays. My locations (DC/NYC) sold out fast and my company has cut back on conference funding anyway. I still want some of the items mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14253/what-types-of-stack-overflow-schwag-would-you-like-to-see/14282#14282&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Some customized for my user profile, some just generic logo and badge gear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please open a marketplace, storefront, what-have-you to sell some of these items once Dev Days are over. I think what you pull in should at least cover the costs &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; you get the benefit of folks walking into the office with their SO branded travel mug, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-14T22:35:11.867" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T03:13:35.787" Title="Place to buy StackOverflow, SuperUser and ServerFault Merchandise, Schwag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;merchandise&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18521" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:11:36.727" Score="0" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4565/what-facilities-are-there-in-the-moderation-tools&quot;&gt;What facilities are there in the moderation tools?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does reputation above 10k gain you in terms of moderation tools? I'm getting close on Stack Overflow and I'm curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23528" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:13:39.077" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T17:10:06.543" Title="What does 10k (10000 or 10,000) rep unlock?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18520" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:13:39.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You crack open the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4565/what-facilities-are-there-in-the-moderation-tools/4576#4576&quot;&gt;pantry of moderation tools&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:13:39.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:19:21.827" Score="1" ViewCount="1801" Body="&lt;p&gt;Line 1 Error: Invalid Character&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This javascript error occurs with every page load in SO using IE8 if you have script debugging enabled.  It is really annoying!!! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130390" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T02:42:13.740" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T02:42:13.740" Title="SO javascript error on page load in IE8 with script debugging tured on" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18454" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:27:45.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will eventually be solved with an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18519/place-to-buy-stackoverflow-superuser-and-serverfault-merchandise-schwag&quot;&gt;online store&lt;/a&gt;, but keep in mind that it costs $0.96 for an airmail stamp. If you don't have access to US postage, when you ask for a stamp (even if by a self-address envelope), you're saying &quot;hey, spend a dollar, plus the sticker cost, plus the time, just to get me a sticker.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dan Dyer pointed out an IRC, but having a small stack of those sent from International readers of TDWTF, I can say it's well worth the $0.96 stamp to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have to go to the post office and try to get them to use it; no one uses those here in the states, and most postal workers don't see 'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:27:45.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18526" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:34:27.943" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked two questions which represent the day to day problems of programmers much more then most other peoples on this world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they were both closed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can a closed question opened again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134874" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T16:57:02.640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:39:17.063" Title="How to complain if a question is unjustifiably closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="18526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18525" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:36:58.797" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post here on MSO, including a link to the question and why you think it was unfair.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Be warned: if it really was a daft question to begin with, then folks are going to tell you so...very bluntly with varying degrees of sarcasm.  Try not to take it personally, we really do like you.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Write team@stackoverflow.com if you think a cabal of users are abusing you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T16:48:50.847" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:48:50.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18525" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:42:30.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Stu Thompsons answer, a question can be opened again if 5 users or a single moderator vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was originally closed by a moderator though, it can only be reopend by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:42:30.190" />
  <row Id="18528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18525" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:42:38.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave comments on the question describing why you think it was unfairly closed. This may convince other users to vote to re-open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also flag the question for moderator review: click the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; link under the question, select &lt;code&gt;Requires moderator attention&lt;/code&gt;, describe why you think it was unfairly closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:42:38.300" />
  <row Id="18529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18525" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:43:57.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also use the comments on the question to ask why it was closed, but I would not complain in the comments.  There I would contact a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can be reopened by user voting for it, just like closing.  That is why I would use the comments, you would be guided about why it was closed and how you can change the question to have it reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:43:57.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="392" CreationDate="2009-08-28T16:50:03.183" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;should we shut down the community wiki&#xA;  police?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If so how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I'm in a minority here, but if it were up to me I would just eliminate the concept of Community Wiki posts entirely.  I don't find the distinction helpful and it just leads to a whole load of whining about what should and shouldn't be CW.  Either a question is suitable for the site or it isn't.  There's no need to get upset that somebody else might earn a lot of rep points by asking a &quot;soft&quot; or populist question.  If you don't like the question, vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the answer to a problem is &quot;let's&#xA;  make things arbitrarily more&#xA;  complicated&quot;, it is rarely the correct&#xA;  answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you won't go with it in this case, but perhaps the default thinking should be more towards making the site simpler?  It seems that the changes over the last year have in fact tended towards making things more complex by adding more rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T16:50:03.183" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:23:49.217" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation went up by 13 points today, due to an answer (to an old question)&#xA;being &lt;em&gt;simultaneously&lt;/em&gt; accepted &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; downvoted. Of course this could be a coincidence, performed by two different users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But assuming for a moment that it is not (I mean, what are the odds?), can &#xA;anybody come up with a reasonable explanation for this? Is this perhaps a&#xA;result of showing people's accept rate (e.g. the OP doesn't like my answer, but does want a high accept rate)? Have &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; ever done this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This question is slightly related to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/686/accepting-answer-without-upvoting&quot;&gt;Accepting answer without upvoting?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, but none of the answers in that thread discuss downvotes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T07:48:24.053" Title="Does it make any sense to accept while also downvoting an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18532" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:27:45.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can only speculate about what goes on inside somebody's head. I think it's safe to say that most people won't downvote an answer they are accepting. That being said, if I requested a jquery script that did x, and you provided a plain-jane javascript example that did what I wanted, I could see how some would accept and downvote. There could be many reasons though. Some may find your answer correct, but your grammar detestable. The sky is the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:27:45.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18454" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:29:01.093" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Canada! So close, but so far away.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:29:01.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18532" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:30:30.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's more likely that the old question got bumped to the top of the active page and the accept and the downvote were from two different people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:30:30.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18532" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:31:09.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that the acceptance or something associated with it brought the question to the front page where it was seen (and downvoted) by another user.  It seems unlikely that a person accepting an answer would find it unhelpful.  I suppose if you were answering that &quot;no, you can't do that&quot; someone might decide that even though you are correct, they don't like the fact and downvote -- to express their displeasure with the condition, not the answer -- and accept at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:31:09.873" />
  <row Id="18537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18532" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:31:52.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was it really exactly the same time? If the question was on the front page, someone else may have downvoted your newly accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:31:52.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18532" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:31:54.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18532/does-it-make-any-sense-to-accept-while-also-downvoting-an-answer/18533#18533&quot;&gt;As Jonathan notes&lt;/a&gt;, the only way to answer this is via wild speculation, so without further ado:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hai! I need 2 red users clipboard from fire fox so i can get cc # without make them type. Must be javascript, no flash!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can't, and for good reason. Users don't like you taking their credit card numbers without asking, even if they have left them laying around in their clipboard and seem to be practically &lt;em&gt;begging&lt;/em&gt; you to steal them. Ask nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Result:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-vote for not providing a real solution, accepted because questioner is not as dumb as he sounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:31:54.863" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18525" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:32:20.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have opinions on &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; the various options (from the other answers) should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(1) Leave a well-thought-out comment describing why you think the question should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This option should be used if you feel that the community simply made a wrong or misinformed decision. You can point out specifically why you feel they erred. Then leave it to the community to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(2) Contact a Moderator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would only do this if I felt that there were some shenanigans at play; &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; when I simply feel that the question should not have been closed. It's not a moderator's job to act as the whole community &lt;em&gt;except&lt;/em&gt; in cases where the community cannot (lack of functionality) or will not act accordingly. See above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(3) Post here on meta.SO with a link to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, personally, would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; consider doing this as a way to whine to a larger audience when I simply did not get my way in the voting (or &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; voting) process. I would &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; do this only the system has somehow &lt;strong&gt;egregiously failed this question&lt;/strong&gt;; like if I discovered some weakness or bug in the community system that the developers need to consider. A link to the question would serve as an example of the anomaly in action, while asking the powers-that-be to correct the question-become-victim. Meta.SO is not (or shouldn't be) a place to whine about not getting your way in specific cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T17:38:17.423" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:38:17.423" />
  <row Id="18540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:34:22.550" Score="8" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never noticed, until recently, how often I refresh a question page.   Now that the order of answers with the same vote total changes randomly, it's become apparent to me how often I refresh a page after I answer to check up on how my baby (answer) is doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:42:17.573" Title="Have you noticed that you often refresh a question page?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:39:07.547" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something as minimalist as StackOverflow design but with emphasis on what makes the site so addictive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Front. StackOverflow logo with a representative count golden, silver, and bronze badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5772/tshirttemplate.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back. Some representative badges. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3650/tshirttemplateback.png&quot; alt=&quot;back&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mmmh I can't think were to put a &quot;representative&quot; reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously these are the Jon Skeet numbers :P But since &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO is you&lt;/a&gt; and Jon Skeet is SO then we all are Jon Skeet... somehow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:39:07.547" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:39:07.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18525" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:39:17.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are your first step as you can still comment after closure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Here at MSO, this is the place to bring up concerns just like this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com for major issues. That is only seen by the people that develop and run the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Never come in here to just rant and be careful with your tone in your question/concern. You have to be civil about everything. People are much more understanding/willing to help you if you are calm and respectful. MSO has also been known to have a little fun once in awhile so don't take things personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:39:17.063" />
  <row Id="18543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18540" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:40:06.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  It turns out that I &lt;del&gt;hit refresh&lt;/del&gt; click the question title frequently to see whether any new answers or comments have been posted, and now that the order of the answers is random it's a lot harder to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason to object to that change.  8-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="21886" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T21:17:29.930" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:17:29.930" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18540" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:41:35.030" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need more ajax!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:41:35.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18546" CreationDate="2008-11-19T01:18:37.527" Score="12" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I view unanswered questions with a certain tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I search for unanswered questions with a specific tag (or tags)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T06:50:17.563" LastActivityDate="2010-06-21T22:40:04.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-07T01:45:20.087" Title="View or search for unanswered questions with a certain tag" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18545" CreationDate="2008-11-19T01:22:56.127" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered&lt;/a&gt; page, scroll down and look to the tagged links in the right sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, you can add your tag to the end of the following URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:43:48.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-05T23:55:44.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18545" CreationDate="2009-04-15T18:58:02.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the top of the page click on &quot;Unanswered&quot; to go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the upper right hand corner of the page click on either &quot;Newest&quot; or &quot;Votes&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now, scroll down and click the tag you wish to view from the list under &quot;Unanswered Tags&quot; (you cannot use the tags listed under &quot;Ignored Tags&quot; or &quot;Interesting Tags&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should now see the unanswered questions with the tag you chose. &lt;strong&gt;if you do not, read on.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is really confusing. There are several questions about it with the same answer and at first I thought they were all wrong.  However, it does work.  Here is the key:  You have to make sure that in the upper right hand corner either &quot;Newest&quot; or &quot;Votes&quot; is clicked.  If the &quot;My Tags&quot; tab is clicked it will not work correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:43:48.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-07T01:45:20.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-08T20:39:30.880" Score="10" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been puzzled by this question at some instances: Should I answer what the asker asks, or should I try to solve the problem she &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; seems to have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most often, the questions are well formulated, and to the point. But sometimes answering the question as-is wouldn't lead to the right/best method to do whatever is tried to be done, or doesn't even solve her problems to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: My question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/501671/superscript-in-css-only&quot;&gt;superscripting with CSS&lt;/a&gt;, I got the correct answer to my question, but I never used it. What I really wanted, and ended up using, was described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/501671/superscript-in-css-only/501689#501689&quot;&gt;the second most popular answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I encounter these kinds of questions, I tend to answer both what the question indicates, and try to guess what the asker really wanted to achieve. Many times, however, it seems superfluous and more like guesswork. This is sometimes perceived as a negative remark even, leading to downvotes and occasional offensive tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, which one do you do, and which ones would you prefer yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Apart from the &quot;trying to help as much as possible&quot;-aspect, my question partly originates from the encyclopedic nature of Stack Overflow. Is there some kind of negative aspect of helping the asker, instead of answering the question? What if someone found a question via Google, but finds out the answers don't answer the question at all? Am I just being anal retentive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130813" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T20:39:30.863" Title="Answer what's asked, or answer what's desired?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-08T20:41:21.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd always go first for the answer to what you think the person is trying to achieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then go back, edit, and answer the literal question too. If you do both at once, someone else (initials &lt;strong&gt;J.S.&lt;/strong&gt;) will get in before you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; Gah! JS got here first anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T20:41:21.437" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-08T20:41:24.540" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to answer the question, and give extra advice. (For example don't do that...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On of the most important lessons learned in IT is that the customer (in this case the asker of the question), does not always knows what he wants. That's where the developer kicks in. A good developer reads between the lines and tries to find the real problem behind the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T20:41:24.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-08T20:41:26.070" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I addressed this as part of a recent blog article about &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/02/17/answering-technical-questions-helpfully.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answering technical questions helpfully&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the question and highlight&#xA;  side-issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other developers don't always do&#xA;  things the way we'd like them to.&#xA;  Questions often reflect this,&#xA;  basically asking how to do something&#xA;  which (in our view) shouldn't be&#xA;  attempted in the first place. It may&#xA;  completely infeasible, or it may just&#xA;  be a really bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Occasionally, the idea is so awful -&#xA;  and possibly harmful to users,&#xA;  especially when it comes to security&#xA;  questions - that the best response is&#xA;  just to explain (carefully and&#xA;  politely) why this is a really bad&#xA;  thing to do. Usually, however, it's&#xA;  better to answer the question and give&#xA;  details of better alternatives at the&#xA;  same time. Personally I prefer to give&#xA;  these alternatives before the answer&#xA;  to the question asked, as I suspect it&#xA;  makes it more likely that the&#xA;  questioner will read the advice and&#xA;  take it on board. Don't forget that&#xA;  the more persuasive you can be, the&#xA;  more likely it is they'll abandon&#xA;  their original plans. In other words,&#xA;  &quot;Don't do this!&quot; isn't nearly as&#xA;  useful as &quot;Don't do this because...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: One thing to mention is that if you (as the questioner) want to avoid discussion but you know you're posting something which &lt;em&gt;sounds&lt;/em&gt; like it's the wrong thing to do, acknowledge that. Give a bit of explanation if you possibly can. That avoids wasting other people's time explaining something you've already thought about, and makes it more likely you'll get the answer you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T20:41:26.070" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="18556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-08T20:45:46.183" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I ask the question &quot;How do I get to Edinburgh&quot; I would like to get an answer like &quot;Take the train from Kings Cross&quot; as opposed to &quot;Do you really need to go there? Couldn't you telecomute?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just to prove that consistency is the hobgoblin of petty minds, see my anser in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/624329/how-to-read-an-xml-file-in-a-visual-c-application/624351#624351&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T20:45:46.170" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-08T20:47:33.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends what you're trying to achieve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you can read the poster's mind and answer the &quot;right&quot; question, you've solved the problem that s/he wanted solved in the least amount of time.  Clairvoyance is a major plus in any technical support job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you answer what was asked, and that turns out &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to be what the poster needed, there's a chance you're teaching him/her to ask questions more effectively.  And arguably, that's more important than solving the original problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So answering the &quot;right&quot; question may the better short-term solution, while answering the question as asked may actually be the better long-term solution.  Counter-intuitive, isn't it!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" />
  <row Id="18558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-08T21:09:38.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to answer questions assuming that the asker is intelligent, but perhaps lacks experience, and really just wants the right way to do something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means I don't always answer the literal question. But, I assume there will always be somebody who does. Even if the literal answer is accepted and/or gets more upvotes, I still feel my answer is (usually) helpful. I know I appreciate other answerers who do the same thing, as it gives me more food for thought. There are a lot of smart folks here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T21:09:38.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-08T21:49:11.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it extremely irritating when I ask a question and get all kinds of unresponsive responses.  This is what makes EFNet a chat hell, by the way.  I don't mind extra advice (most welcome!) or tips, but for crying out loud - answer my freaking question first!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the context is difficult to explain, or there may be externalities that force things to be a certain way.  I go to technical communities to get direct answers to technical questions; it's not usually very time effective for me to have to re-explain the entire context just to get the original question answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said - I always welcome advice and tips, but I appreciate such input far more if it comes after the answer to my question (BTW, the answer can just be &quot;I don't know&quot;, then followed by &quot;but I do it this way...&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136973" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T21:49:11.743" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-09T08:11:48.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use your common sense. Acknowledge especially that it's possible to have a common sense about software engineering, people seem to resist this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is completely usual, answer it straight up with no comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question seems a bit off, feel free to answer it but also ask those questions and perhaps proactively provide helpful advice based on your understanding of the situation (which may be mistaken).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question comes out of left field and reveals a complete and utter failure of understanding (e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/alex%5Fpapadimoulis/archive/2005/05/25/408925.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Glass Bottle or Old Shoe?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;), then go ahead and avoid answering the direct question at all. Instead give advice, ask further questions, or answer the question the asker really wanted to ask (if you can determine such). This is important, it's part of the reason why people ask questions in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-09T08:11:48.937" />
  <row Id="18561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-09T08:29:29.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I firmly believe that good knowledge HAS to be pulled rather than pushed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key to this is to try and train people to ask the right questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks a highly detailed specific question on one issue, fulfil the the spec and deliver the answer, no frills. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the general overview of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we're doing what we're doing we're in a position to establish the best course(s) of action rather than handing out mindless instructions on how to complete one task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-09T08:29:29.863" />
  <row Id="18562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18552" CreationDate="2009-03-09T08:45:57.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First away, answer the actual question. Then as an addendum, add the howevers and recommendations. I find it extremely annoying when people do as most people here seem to advocate and tell me what they perceive it is that I really want. Just answer the question at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154015" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:46:04.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-09T08:45:57.687" />
  <row Id="18563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-30T22:08:17.037" Score="16" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I have no contractual obligation to readers, but are there other grounds, such as negligence, on which I could be liable for posting an answer that ends up costing someone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I answer the question while at work is my employer exposed?  What if I answer on &quot;my own time&quot;, such as lunch time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any disclaimers on the site.  On the other hand, given that Usenet has been around for a while, has this been tested in a court somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T13:11:33.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-09T11:14:29.847" Title="Any legal exposure from answering questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-30T22:13:46.527" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, YMMV and so on, but being able to sue somebody over advice given here, on IRC, on a weblog or on Usenet is like suing somebody for lying on a casual conversation in a bar after a couple of beers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really doubt there is a law somewhere in the world allowing such a thing. If anybody had to be sued, I guess it would be the guy who followed, without second thoughts, bad advice received from strangers and used it in a critical system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:47:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-30T22:13:54.187" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt that you'd be liable for an incorrect answer - but do remember not to post any code that belongs to your employer (without permission) even if you originally wrote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:47:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" />
  <row Id="18566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-30T22:15:00.627" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's establish a precedence … does anyone know a NASA programmer who could be tricked into accepting a stupid answer and crashing the next mars probe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:47:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T22:16:18.753" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-30T22:36:10.383" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any incorrect answer is likely to be downvoted quickly, so it would be irresponsible for it to be accepted. Your lawyer can argue a negligence on their side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The discovery process to prove it was really you that posted that answer would be quite hard, unless SO keeps logs of which user connected from what IP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no contractual obligation between you and the question author. You are not obliged to provide any answer to their question, nor are you obliged to provide the correct answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not clear under which jurisdiction should any potential lawsuits be. If you live in Europe and the question author in Russia, I doubt you could be sued for an information provided on a website operated by a company located in US.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you decide to sue me because somebody actually successfully sued you for providing a stupid/wrong answer in the good faith based on my answer, here's my disclaimer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer and this answer should not be constituted as a legal answer. This posting reflects my personal opinions and in no way should be constituted or interpreted as an official statement from my employer. This posting is provided AS IS and NO LIABILITY IS IMPLIED for any damages resulting from any actions or lack of such on your side based on this posting. Posting intended for legal residents of the planed Earth 18 and older. Void where prohibited. You agree that any disputes arising as a result of this post would be decided in the court of law under the jurisdiction of the State of Washington. Consult with your legal representative before you accept this answer, vote it up or down or in general post anything on the SO web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131157" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:47:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-30T22:41:08.080" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes There Is!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Infact, I have successfully sued someone for providing a wrong answer and won a million dollars!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If you can prove this answer to be wrong you can sue me as well! or not!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9611" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:47:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" />
  <row Id="18569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-30T22:48:18.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but I do know that by using StackOverflow, you haven't signed a contract with any users guaranteeing the quality of your posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:47:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" />
  <row Id="18570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-30T23:41:11.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US anyway, given that people or companies have been sued for the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;seat belts that could not be disengaged underwater by an intoxicated person who drove a car into Galveston Bay (another person in the car was able to free herself)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cookies that contained trans-fat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;beer that did not produce luck with the ladies (and gave the consumer a hangover, to boot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;potential confusion between Tony the Tiger and Exxon's tiger logo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that robbing a convenience store with a shotgun was caused by your organization's sexual and disability discrimination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;suing yourself (!) because you violated your own civil rights and religious beliefs when drunk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &quot;Top Shelf&quot; circumstance for getting sued:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that the large breasts from your strip club's dancer caused whiplash and mental anguish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yeah - I think you can get sued for something you say here, as well as for pretty much anything else you do in life (at least in the US).  As far as the lawsuit being successful...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numbers 1 and 5 were awarded damages (which may have been reduced or thrown out on appeal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legalzoom.com/lawsuits-settlements/personal-injury/top-ten-frivolous-lawsuits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.legalzoom.com/lawsuits-settlements/personal-injury/top-ten-frivolous-lawsuits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So be careful what you say, and be careful how you look at your neighbor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think you're more likely to get sued for downvoting someone here...  Some people take it personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="147009" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-09T13:11:33.333" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T13:11:33.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-31T00:00:27.170" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything posted here falls under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike&lt;/a&gt; license, which states:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;5. Representations, Warranties and Disclaimer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MATERIALS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SUCH EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;6. Limitation on Liability.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135947" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:36:14.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18563" CreationDate="2008-10-31T00:09:29.103" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any non-lawyer who posts any answer to this question will be sued for practicing law without a licence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:47:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T17:46:57.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18580" CreationDate="2008-08-20T22:59:23.020" Score="29" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I read a question that has an accepted answer, and I feel I won't add any value if I answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should one wait to accept an answer in order not to discourage a potentially better answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T01:12:15.120" Title="Is accepting an answer discouraging more answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2008-08-20T23:02:31.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's more than possible for a questioner to choose a different answer as the accepted answer after the fact. Adding another answer certainly can't hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:49:03.897" />
  <row Id="18575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2008-08-20T23:04:26.143" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answer if I feel I have something to add, regardless of whether a previous one has been accepted or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer does make you wonder whether the person asking the question is still reading though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess you can use this question to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:49:03.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2008-08-25T02:11:01.607" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually read questions I might know the answer to.  If I like the &quot;accepted&quot; answer and think it covers it, I'll just uptick the answer.  Otherwise I'll leave my own - if not for the original asker then for someone who might find it via google down the road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="225" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:49:03.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2008-08-25T02:20:52.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the feature is implemented to allow questioners to subscribe to their questions, I think it will ensure that they continue to see new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131095" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:49:03.897" />
  <row Id="18578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2008-08-25T02:26:02.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marking only one post as the accepted answer is not flexible, in my opinion. For a given question, there may be two or more different ways to achieve it, each possibly equally valid but just depending on the situation. I reckon using the MSDN forum style of &quot;Helpful&quot; answer is a much more flexible style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131529" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:49:03.897" />
  <row Id="18579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2008-10-30T15:33:11.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an open question right now, and I decided to wait 48 hours before accepting one. Of the five answers I've gotten so far, two tempt me to accept them. If I'd accepted the first, the second answerer might have hesitated, but somehow I doubt it. The quality of the answer indicates a commitment to help, and they're gonna do that whether they are 'frist post' or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140867" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:49:03.897" />
  <row Id="18580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18573" CreationDate="2008-10-30T16:32:34.377" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer does discourages further answers. A few answers may trickle in after, but many (most?) members care a lot about reputation, so they won't answer anything that's old or that has an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I usually don't accept an answer unless it nails the question. In other words, if, after a day or two, I still have only a collection of partially correct answers, I don't just accept the one that is &quot;least wrong.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135396" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:49:03.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18583" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:49:58.663" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/reversal-and-pundit-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog Post for the Reversal Badge&lt;/a&gt; states (in part):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Provided an answer upvoted 20 or more times to a question that was downvoted 5 or more times. (gold)&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the text of the badge states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which one is it? Is it +20 score? or 20 upvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because I recently answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346796/getting-row-from-gridview-in-dev-express/1346898#1346898&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;  , which was at &lt;code&gt;-5&lt;/code&gt; when I answered and received multiple upvotes for it; but I apparently haven't triggered the criteria for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/41/reversal&quot;&gt;Reversal badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T02:40:15.990" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T02:40:15.990" Title="Reversal Badge text bug?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18590" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:50:52.453" Score="0" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else have this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm logged into stackoverflow, superuser, and serverfault using my openID account. If I close a tab, and visit the same site again, it maintains my logged-in state. When I restart my browser, however, I have to log into superuser and serverfault again, but stackoverflow remembers me. Is there a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T02:35:26.530" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T03:00:03.550" Title="cookies remembering openID authentication for stackoverflow, but not serverfault or superuser?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18581" CreationDate="2009-08-28T17:53:42.527" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is +20 score for an answer on a question that makes it to -5 score. This is typically how it happens even though you see in many instances where the &quot;X number of upvotes&quot; is the text for the trigger. I have always seen it as &quot;+X&quot; and not &quot;X upvotes&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an example of a Reversal Badge winner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14172/so-needs-a-business-model-change-heres-how/14174#14174&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14172/so-needs-a-business-model-change-heres-how/14174#14174&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T19:00:52.810" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:00:52.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-22T17:09:28.090" Score="16" ViewCount="620" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386741/is-it-posible&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt; in its &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/386741/revisions&quot;&gt;oldest revision&lt;/a&gt;, the topic is &quot;Is it posible?&quot;  This doesn't give any information at all. It should be mandatory for everyone asking questions on internet to read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How To Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;, which says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Help your community learn from the&#xA;  question. When you field a good&#xA;  question, ask yourself “How would the&#xA;  relevant documentation or FAQ have to&#xA;  change so that nobody has to answer&#xA;  this again?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See also&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18614/style-guide-for-questions-and-answers-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Style guide for questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15308/whats-the-best-way-to-ask-a-question-if-english-isnt-your-first-language&quot;&gt;What’s the best way to ask a question if English isn’t your first language?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131517" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:42:29.043" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T19:39:16.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T17:09:28.090" Title="How to ask a smart question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="18585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2008-12-22T17:24:39.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The particular question highlighted was a rather egregious example of 'how not to ask a question'.  There was an interesting question on the inside, spoiled by appalling presentation.  The original title and original content were both 'non-Smart'.  The cleanup needed only a limited amount of work - and a degree of ruthlessness without disrespecting the original questioner's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The material in 'Smart Questions' certainly should be cross-referenced and recommended reading.  Some people will have sufficient knowledge and experience not to need to read it (they can ask decent questions without needing the explicit guidelines), but many would benefit from (re-)reading it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the main FAQ for SO should include a cross-reference to it?  That would be my first choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:56:27.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T17:24:39.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2008-12-22T17:25:15.997" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest issue is to make sure it's not a duplicate so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also make sure it's a question that can be answered without purely subjective responses:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No troll bait (apple vs pc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure it's a question, this post for example has a clear question as a title, but the post is rather vague as to what the questions is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:56:27.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-22T17:25:15.997" />
  <row Id="18587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2008-12-23T00:08:08.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no point having a guide for asking questions because the people it is aimed at are the least likely to find it and act on the information, but don't worry it doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow was designed with the realisation that poorly worded questions will occasionally be asked which is why it allows trusted users to edit questions to improve them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:56:27.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T00:08:08.040" />
  <row Id="18588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-04-21T19:18:07.880" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have a clear idea of what question you want to ask.  Have a clear idea of what an answer would say.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search SO to see if it's a duplicate.  If so, learn from those answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write a good title, which should convey what you're asking while not being too long.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Write the body clearly.  Make it clear what you are asking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include all the constraints, and when applicable why they are constraints.  Something like &quot;must run on Linux&quot; doesn't need an explanation, but something like &quot;can't use Visual Studio&quot; (on a Windows project) or &quot;can't use open source&quot; will need an explanation.  Otherwise half the replies will either ignore the constraint or ask why.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include a description of the environment.  Not everybody runs BeOS, or Windows for that matter.  Be as specific as you need to be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Read&lt;/em&gt; the Eric Raymond link (the www.catb.orb one) in the question.  It's got an excellent guide to the mindset needed to ask good questions, even if the examples given are all Greek to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tag the question with useful tags.  Look at other tags to see.  Use commonly used tags (the tag entry line will help there).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once you've asked, monitor the question.  There may well be people who can help a lot provided they get more information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:56:27.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-21T19:18:07.880" />
  <row Id="18589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-06-27T16:14:01.577" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to point to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1048381/t-sql-grouping-rows-from-the-max-length-columns-in-different-rows/&quot;&gt;T-SQL Grouping rows from the MAX length columns in different rows (?)&lt;/a&gt; as a good example of how to ask a question about a database. It provided the DDL for table definitions and INSERT statements for test data. As a result, I was able to just pop these scripts into my database system and get right to work answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to know if people here feel there should be a separate question on &quot;How to ask a Smart Question on Database Queries&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T17:56:27.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-27T16:14:01.577" />
  <row Id="18590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18582" CreationDate="2009-08-28T18:03:40.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this problem so see if &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; solution helps you: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12078/cant-log-in-to-my-stackoverflow-account/12080#12080&quot;&gt;Can’t log in to my stackoverflow account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I upgraded to Firefox 3.5, It seemed like my browser was losing login cookies for &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; sites but not for others. It turned out to be a corrupt cookie database. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T18:03:40.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18522" CreationDate="2009-08-28T18:21:53.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use Firefox for SO and IE8 for debugging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've come across this problem in the past (although I'm unable replicate it at the moment) and quickly decided its just much easier to do my debugging of my web developements in IE8 with debugging turned on along with Visual Studio and Fiddler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use FF for SO and other general browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17516" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T18:21:53.047" />
  <row Id="18593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T18:32:06.753" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a fan of simple and cryptic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e77/kpeaton/respect-shirt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T18:32:06.753" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T18:32:06.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T18:44:08.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;imagine: a t-shirt with a small SO logo on the front left side, and a large picture like the one below with the caption &quot;have you seen this man?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/pics/calling/pic10.jpg&quot; &gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T18:44:08.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T18:44:08.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-08-28T18:47:24.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These users do not deserve the system's trust and instead cause nothing but problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If by asking questions and posting answers and getting reputation doesn't construe the system giving you &quot;trust&quot;, I'll throw in the towel.  The community voted up the questions, not down.  So the system being the community obviously has given the trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user is spamming the site, they should be warned and tossed into the penalty box if their behavior does not change.  There is value in having questions posted here, so why limit this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please stop these people from becoming trusted members of the community. It will not be good for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I say &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;.  This site needs people asking questions and posting answers to stay alive.  If we start taking this elitist attitude about users who are getting reputation from the community, there will eventually be no community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T18:47:24.180" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T18:55:24.070" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's probably a bunch of other better ways to do this (like just the blue tag [boat-programming] on a shirt) but...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6346/boat.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T18:55:24.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T18:55:24.070" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:00:09.350" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1348526/does-snow-leopard-provide-java-6-for-32-bit-machines-closed&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow, it got a few up-votes and one answer.  I wrote a comment in response to the answer but couldn't submit it because my question had been migrated to Super User (the answer appears to have disappeared in the process).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit not 100% clear-cut in terms of which site it belonged on, but it would have been nice to have been given the benefit of the doubt rather than having the knee-jerk reaction of the instantaneous migration.  I asked it on SO because it related to Java development (seems that some people agreed that it was a reasonable question because they voted it up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1348586/what-is-a-good-laptop-for-a-java-programmer&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to me to be clearly directed at programmers even though it relates to hardware.  In this case the asker isn't even a Super User user so moving it isn't particularly helpful.  Yes, he can become a user, but I don't feel that this hard-line demarcation of topics is constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my suggestion for migration etiquette is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If a question falls into an area of overlap between two sites, leave it on the one that the submitter chose.&lt;/strong&gt;  Migration should be reserved for cases where a question &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; doesn't belong, because otherwise it negatively impacts the user experience (of the asker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1446579/small-company-of-150-employees-needs-inexpensive-issue-tracking-system-closed&quot;&gt;Another example of over-zealous migration&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="134654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T21:18:50.847" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T21:18:50.847" Title="Make migration of questions less brutal" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18597" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:04:08.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question got migrated and so did all the answers. You can get it on SuperUser and keep things going there. If you feel it was wrongly migrated, then flag the original for moderator attention and they can make a call on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question gets migrated everything gets deleted and it gets locked on the original, but everything is persisted on the new question posted on the destination site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way that you can have some sort of mechanic to test for &quot;overlapping-ness&quot;, so if you feel as if it should stay, then talk to a mod or convince your peers to see your way. Other way just go to the other site and continue on and get your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:04:08.313" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="18599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18597" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:07:47.477" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The decision to migrate will always be a judgement call. No matter what an individual thinks about a decision, the community or moderators may still come to a different conclusion. For overlap questions I think it needs to be case by case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:07:47.477" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18597" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:08:29.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both examples of the questions are perfect for SU. The other users including myself have already done extensive work on the second question to make it easier to find information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To link your account on any of the sites can be done easily enough and ownership is automatically claimed. The line for what goes where has been defined a long time ago, and the community general has to vote 5 times before migrating a question, unless one of the moderators make the move. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no problem with these question being moved. They will be better answered and handled where they are now, and this is the reason the option to migrate questions exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:08:29.863" />
  <row Id="18602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18603" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:36:18.340" Score="2" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under the &quot;no stupid questions, just stupid answers&quot; theory, what's the definition of Troll as applicable to SOFU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T20:43:00.610" Title="SOFU definition of &quot;Troll&quot;" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="18603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18602" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:40:07.037" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;troll&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One who posts questions, answers, or comments intended purely to prompt knee-jerk reactions from others or garner attention for themselves (no actual desire to obtain or share programming knowledge). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your mama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:40:07.037" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18602" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:45:10.040" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think @Shog9's answer covers a core definition, but I think a troll on S[OFU] can be anyone observed as engaging in the following behaviors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posting LMGTFY links (this is my new pet peeve)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who constantly open polls/etc. which should be wiki, solely for the purpose of rep-mining. (Polls used to be acceptable, to an extent, but when all one user does is open and/or contribute to them ... )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who engage in petty personal battles on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those who ask the same question over and over again because the first &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; times were closed as duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spammers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably about a gazillion more, but that's a decent start for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T19:45:10.040" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18602" CreationDate="2009-08-28T19:49:39.280" Score="-7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One who thinks that randomizing the order of answers with the same score is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, one who doesn't like waffles.  If you don't like waffles, this site can't help you, and you can't help this site.  Go away you troll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastEditorUserId="130890" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T20:43:00.610" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T20:43:00.610" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="18606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18602" CreationDate="2009-08-28T20:00:46.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this cover The &quot;Accidental Trolls&quot;?  It happens...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User A:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;Just use language &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt;'s &lt;strong&gt;aaaa&lt;/strong&gt;-ability!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User B:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;But, language &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; does not have proper &lt;strong&gt;aaaa&lt;/strong&gt;-ability, unlike language &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User A:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why do you hate language &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt;???&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (Heating up...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User B:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;I don't, it is just that language &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; is a &lt;strong&gt;iiiii&lt;/strong&gt; language, and language &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt; is very &lt;strong&gt;jjjjj&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Troll A:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;Arghhhhhh!  You are so evil, troll!!! I'm going to complain on MSO&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User OP:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;{huge-unformatted-stack-trace}&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User B:&lt;/strong&gt; comments &lt;em&gt;&quot;Unless you give us code and a narrative, we can't help you&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  Three subsequent down votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User C:&lt;/strong&gt; comments &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why all the down votes?  SO is so mean for newbies&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User D:&lt;/strong&gt; {formats stack-trace}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User OP:&lt;/strong&gt; answers &lt;em&gt;&quot;tx.  {another-huge-stack-trace}&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users *:&lt;/strong&gt; down votes for question and answer of OP, question closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User C:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;SO is so uncool for new people...too many trolls&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User C:&lt;/strong&gt; goes to MSO, cites unreferenced example of how mean SOpedias are to newbies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MSOpedias&lt;/strong&gt;:  figure out what thread it was, deem it justified&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get confused who the trolls are...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T20:00:46.187" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18597" CreationDate="2009-08-28T20:10:00.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a similar (but not the same) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3823/are-some-questions-better-served-on-stackoverflow-or-serverfault&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; a while back about topics that could span both the StackOverflow and ServerFault sites (this was before SuperUser was launched).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; our moderator said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think this is a narrow set of cases,&#xA;  though. As long as the question&#xA;  explains why it is relevant to the&#xA;  given site (i.e. there is a reason to&#xA;  suspect server and/or development, I&#xA;  can't see a problem with it being on&#xA;  either (or even both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a judgement call. In your case the opposite could've happened, i.e. you asked the question on SuperUser but then ended up having the question migrated to StackOverflow because of the mention of Java (which people equate to programming). It comes under the category of  &quot;You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T20:10:00.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-28T20:35:28.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to hear some talk on the Maker's Schedule/Manager's Schedule as Paul Graham talks about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and how this may effect work on the sites as well as how Fog Creek handles this type of thing. This seems to be something that people I work with don't get who are outside of the programmer group despite it being a big part in how things get done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39605" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T20:35:28.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T20:35:28.877" />
  <row Id="18610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-15T18:39:06.503" Score="8" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18584/how-to-ask-a-smart-question-on-so&quot;&gt;How to ask a Smart Question on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been spending a lot of time perusing SO and there seem to be a lot of people asking what I'm going to call &lt;em&gt;ineffective questions&lt;/em&gt; (I will refrain from linking to examples because that tends to generate heated argument about what's wrong with the post instead of answering the question posed). There seem to be a number of posts on SO regarding stupid questions, the steps you should take before asking a question, and what to do if you don't get an answer to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/293935/when-do-you-post-a-question-to-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;When do YOU post a question to Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/317245/what-is-the-minimum-complexity-required-for-a-question-in-this-community&quot;&gt;What is the minimum complexity required for a question in this community?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388537/there-are-no-stupid-questions-or-are-there&quot;&gt;There are no stupid questions - or are there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26049/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;not a complete list&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But only twos posts on actually asking an effective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8072/how-to-ask-great-questions&quot;&gt;How to ask great questions&lt;/a&gt; (on asking questions in general, e.g. requirements gathering)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18584/how-to-ask-a-smart-question-on-so&quot;&gt;How to ask a Smart Question on SO!&lt;/a&gt; (down-voted into oblivion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found a few links to Eric S. Raymond's essay &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How To Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (probably one of the best resources available on this topic), but we don't seem to be encouraging people to read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is your advice for asking an effective question on SO (RTFM and LMGTFY are irrelevant as the aim of Stack Overflow is to be repository for programming information)? As the person answering a question what information helps you to provide an effective answer? What are some questions on SO that you feel are particularly well thought out and what did those questions do right?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13834" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T03:35:14.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T18:39:06.503" Title="Asking effective questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="18611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18610" CreationDate="2009-01-15T18:41:28.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See also this MSFT kb article  &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:00:08.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T18:41:28.340" />
  <row Id="18612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18610" CreationDate="2009-01-15T18:44:35.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Performing some sort of research yourself should take place before asking the question - search mailing lists, any relevant knowledge bases and Google's Blog search is a useful tool.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After searching this site, begin to construct your question. Make sure to explicitly pose your question in &lt;strong&gt;bold text&lt;/strong&gt;, while supplying lots of relevant information: examples, code snippets, expected output, real output, versions - things like that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:00:08.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T18:44:35.213" />
  <row Id="18613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18610" CreationDate="2009-01-15T19:04:59.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are never going to get every user to ask questions in a clear, well thought out manner.  It is as much a rule of the internet as any that people won't read faq's, search for already asked questions and sure as hell aren't going to read a lengthy article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how to ask a question&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main flaw with articles like &quot;How To Ask Smart Questions&quot; is they cater to no one.  The types of people who are willing to read that article &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; are going to ask smarter questions than 99% of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I think linking users to resources like that instead of helping is not only counter-produtive, but reminiscent of the elitist attitude of the IRC/Newsgroup/Mailing List gurus.  It goes against what this site is about.  This site has thousands of people who can act as &quot;moderators&quot; and that is a game changer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution is simple: &lt;em&gt;fix their questions for them&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fix their poor grammar, their awkward phrasing, poorly descriptive titles and their lack of coherence. Turn bad questions into good ones.  A person has a far better of learning what is a &quot;good&quot; question by seeing how their own questions are edited by the community than by reading a long-winded diatribe on how to ask questions. If not for poster then do it for the next users to stumble on the question and for the overall quality of SO's question bank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:00:08.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T19:04:59.743" />
  <row Id="18614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18616" CreationDate="2008-12-24T09:05:33.650" Score="11" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw a question title of &quot;combine 2 resultset&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;strong&gt;the community deserves nicely written and formatted content&lt;/strong&gt;. I guess this would require just ten more seconds from all of us. Sometimes I reformat others' questions to make them nicer to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this topic is subjective and surely there are people who don't care about it. But I tend to be very finicky and I like well formatted questions and answers. I know that the content I submit is far from perfect&amp;mdash;I'm not a native English speaker, but I try my best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which typography glitches do you edit in questions or answers of other users? What are the most annoying style mistakes? Do you have some general layout advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:15:27.633" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:15:27.633" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T09:05:33.650" Title="Style guide for questions and answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;low-quality-posts&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18614" CreationDate="2008-12-24T09:12:50.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll edit spelling mistakes, poor grammar, poor formatting (lists, code blocks), poor titles... just about anything really, as long as I'm not changing what the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When closing a question as a duplicate I've noticed a few styles, but I don't edit these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave the duplicate URL in a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the URL to the bottom of the question (my preferred style)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the URL to the top of the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also (almost) never edit answers - I'll leave a comment instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just out of &lt;strong&gt;interest&lt;/strong&gt;, are you a &lt;strong&gt;writer&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;The Sun&lt;/strong&gt;? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:00:31.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T09:12:50.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18614" CreationDate="2008-12-24T09:31:02.257" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Deciding whether or not to post the Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have decided that you need to ask your question, first you should do a thorough search in Stack Overflow to see if this question has been asked beforehand.  Also, when typing a new question title in the 'Ask Question', similar titles will appear beneath it, and some questions may be very similar or even identical to yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you find a question that is very similar to yours that has already been asked beforehand, do not post your question...for the simple reason that it will be &lt;strong&gt;[closed]&lt;/strong&gt; for being an [exact duplicate].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, if you don't find an already-existent answer to your query, you must ask yourself one question before ultimately deciding whether or not to post your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is my Question here on Stack Overflow programing related?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to the above question is a &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; (because it only talks about hardware specifications for example), then you shouldn't post your question; reason being that, as I mentioned earlier on, it will be closed as soon as anyone above with 3K reputation points notices it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Naming your Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name of the question is the gateway to your question. You have to make it descriptive enough to specify your problem, but not too long that it becomes almost part of your question text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the title, also mention what technology, language or anything that your question is related to.  For example, a title like &lt;code&gt;Structuring my code&lt;/code&gt; won't immediately tell the people what you are referring to exactly, but something like &lt;code&gt;Structuring my code in C#&lt;/code&gt; will give a much clearer view of what you will be talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, don't use titles such as &lt;code&gt;Why is this not working?&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;Help me with this please!!&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and speaking of which, &lt;strong&gt;One Question mark is Enough&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;...&lt;strong&gt;don't do this&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;code&gt;What are Closures???&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And guys, in the English Language, the first letter of a sentence is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; capitalized, so apply this concept to you question title. (&lt;em&gt;and also to the whole text of the question&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Structuring your Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really can't find an answer to your query elsewhere, then open you favorite text editor, and start typing in your question.  Why use a text editor and not Stack Oversflow's editor?  Well, you don't want to submit your question by mistake before it's complete eh....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you finish writing your question, read it and correct the typos (&lt;em&gt;use a spellchecker)&lt;/em&gt;.  After that, read it more carefully and correct the remaining typos once more.  When you're done with the typos, check that the technical information you are asking about is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you are finished, paste your answer in the Stack Overflow editor. But the question is not ready for submission just yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible, highlight your question (&lt;em&gt;ending with a Question Mark [?]&lt;/em&gt;) in &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;.  This is so that your question stands out in your post, more than the rest of the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Split your post into paragraphs&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is a very important point, and I encounter and edit a lot of posts that look like a Square (of text).  Don't forget that most people &lt;em&gt;scan&lt;/em&gt; your question, not study it, so you need to split it into multiple paragraphs, so it'll be much easier on the eyes, and much more clarified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Formatting your Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you need to, &lt;strong&gt;most importantly&lt;/strong&gt;, use the &lt;code&gt;Code Sample&lt;/code&gt; format button (&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/4XDBe.png&quot; alt=&quot;101010&quot;&gt;) for code pasting.  There is nothing more frustrating than trying to read code that is not formatted accordingly, especially in such a compact space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following  &lt;em&gt;unformatted&lt;/em&gt; piece of code (JavaScript):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;var aFunction = function () {&#xA;    var num = 9;&#xA;    return function () {&#xA;        return num += 2;&#xA;    };&#xA;}();&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, take a look at the same piece of code, this time using the &lt;code&gt;Code Sample&lt;/code&gt; formatting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var aFunction = function () {&#xA;    var num = 9;&#xA;    return function () {&#xA;        return num += 2;&#xA;    };&#xA;}();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a guess as to which piece of code people will most likely understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Posting your Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you ultimately post your question and receive answers, &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; one of the answers actually &lt;em&gt;answers your question&lt;/em&gt;, mark it as answered, and this is so that (&lt;em&gt;apart from the fact that the posted gets awarded for the correct answer&lt;/em&gt;) people will know which answer to look for if they want to see the solution to the posted question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you see, constructing and posting a question requires some time and effort, but &lt;strong&gt;that time and effort you spend will result in people answering your question as intelligently as you posted your question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Final Recap&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, just a small recap of what was said here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check, recheck and rerecheck (is that even a word?) your question before posting it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use font formatting accordingly (&lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;question statement, and important stuff&lt;/strong&gt;, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Title capitalization &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Split your post into &lt;strong&gt;multiple paragraphs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your question &lt;em&gt;is answered&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;mark it as answered&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is a lot more to be said here, but the above points just came from the top of my head, and from my little experience here at Stack Overflow.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44084" LastEditorUserId="134069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-21T16:58:11.983" LastActivityDate="2010-11-21T16:58:11.983" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T09:31:02.257" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18614" CreationDate="2008-12-24T09:47:46.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most any editing is fair game though you should try to respect the original author's style choices lest you spark an edit war over brace style or something. :)  Also, be conservative about edits that clarify questions since you could inadvertently make some of the answers sound stupid or pedantic or confused or such.  When in doubt I'll add an explicit &quot;ADDED:&quot; to the question so it's clear that the answerers may not have seen the addendum.  On the other hand, StackOverflow questions are meant to be like a definitive collection of mini-essays on a topic for posterity, so don't try to maintain a strictly faithful dialog either.  Save that for the comments (which are also helpful to alert answerers to changes in the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The brace style edit war was hypothetical (I hope) but here's a contentious answer to your question about what edits are annoying:  I find it annoying when people contort question titles to be in the form of a question.  Like &quot;How can I create a regular expression to parse names?&quot; instead of just &quot;Regular expressions to parse names.&quot;  Get rid of the filler words in the title to make more room for keywords (perhaps &quot;Regular expression to parse out first and last names.&quot;).  It's still clear that you're asking how to create said regular expression and you can use the body of the question to make the actual question more explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146181" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:00:31.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T09:47:46.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18614" CreationDate="2008-12-24T10:09:47.107" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an example (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391127/serialport-parameter-in-java&quot;&gt;real question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;serialport parameter in java&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, i'm beginner in java,i'm reading data from port thr serail port,i got serialPort.setSerialPortParams(9600, SerialPort.DATABITS_ 8, SerialPort.STOPBITS_ 1, SerialPort.PARITY_ NONE); what is the meaning of 9600,DATABITS_8,STOPBITS_1 AND PARITY_NONE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;After:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Serial port parameter in Java&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, I'm a beginner in Java. I'm reading data from the serial port. I got&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;serialPort.setSerialPortParams(&#xA;   9600, SerialPort.DATABITS_8, &#xA;   SerialPort.STOPBITS_1, SerialPort.PARITY_NONE); &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of &lt;code&gt;9600&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;DATABITS_8,STOPBITS_1&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;PARITY_NONE&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed following things here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Capitalization at the beginning of a sentence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Capitalization of &quot;i&quot; and proper names (&quot;java&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added missing spaces after punctuation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grammar: &quot;i'm (a) beginner&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Corrected typos: &quot;thr&quot;, &quot;serail&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code Sample formatting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added missing question mark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-06T10:25:26.587" LastActivityDate="2010-07-06T10:25:26.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T10:09:47.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18614" CreationDate="2009-01-15T11:36:52.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some things to do and to not do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't begin an answer with &quot;as others have said&quot;.  Each answer is independent.  And independently voted up or down -- there's no inherent order to the answers.  If yours is good, but entered later, it will be voted up leading to the curious problem of the top answer referencing lower-ranked answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please quote the other answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or link to the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't QFT another answer.  Quoting for Truth leads to duplicate answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please upvote the answer with a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't expand your question via an answer.  If you want to respond to an answer, either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment on the answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Update your question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not threaded email -- the order of the questions and answers changes.  Your non-answer will get down-voted, fall to the bottom and disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:00:31.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-15T11:36:52.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-11T00:46:11.483" Score="13" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Duplicate:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8724/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;How to deal with google questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18158/do-you-use-google-for-answers-to-put-on-so&quot;&gt;Do you google for answers to put on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few posts which make me wonder if users google first before asking questions on StackOverflow. They seem to let other people do the dirty work of filtering the thousands of pages of results the search engine returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the community wants to grow large enough so it will come on top of a lot of google queries, it needs to host redundent content already available elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was relying on experts-exchange, question points were worth real dollars so I would search by myself for days before asking. Why should I now bother searching more than say, 5 minutes before asking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6367" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T22:32:59.727" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T22:32:59.727" ClosedDate="2009-08-28T21:01:53.270" Title="Do you google before asking on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T00:48:21.027" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the contrary, you should ask first before googling, so that the information gets here :) you don't even need to search SO first, just as you're asking check the list of possible duplicates&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one agrees? See the following picture from the 'about' page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/stackoverflow-venn-diagram.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're really in the Digg circle, we'd post links to the best google results. &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;If we're really in the Wiki circle, we'd collaborate to find the best answer even if one already exists &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;If we're really in the blog circle, we'd expound upon previous answers with our own insights &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;if we're really in the forum circle, we'd &lt;strike&gt;paste picture of lolcats&lt;/strike&gt; OK, I dont' have a good reason here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139257" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T00:48:57.013" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of RTFM we should have a GTFQ (google the ** question) rule before posting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133876" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T00:49:05.253" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes. It depends on how specific a question I'm asking and the types of responses I'm aiming to get. I've found that Google is great for error messages and basic language questions, but Stack Overflow is better for pretty much everything else. The turnaround time here is pretty fantastic, too. You definitely don't have to wait long if you're stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, on several occasions I've Googled something and a Stack Overflow question is one of the top hits - and usually contains the exact answer I was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" />
  <row Id="18624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T00:55:36.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There do seem to be a lot of questions that deserve LMGTFY / GIYF treatment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, googling has become a reflex action for most things these days, getting older, so I guess I'll be googling my for own address soon enough... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarification:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;GIYF == &quot;Google Is Your Friend&quot;, as to the other interpretations, I don't hang out on 4chan or /.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T01:09:10.173" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type in the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the suggestions doesn't help, post it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google for it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer you own question!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and if you find another question that is more or less the same, cross link them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T01:14:07.683" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but I'm starting to find, more and more often, that the answer Google provides is actually a Stackoverflow page :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131045" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T01:29:17.260" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why should I now bother searching more than say, 5 minutes before asking?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note:  I say &quot;you&quot; because you asked in the first person.  It's not a reflection on you personally.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all you want is a quick answer to an &quot;easy&quot; question, frankly, you shouldn't spend much time googling it, because the disposition of the SO community right now is to rush to your aid and answer it for you.  Hey, that's great for you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is it &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; for you?  That's a question you'll need to answer yourself, and the answer lies in how badly you want to learn for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are people here who will enable you to be lazy, and there are people here who will empower you to fish rather than just handing you a fish.  You're free to choose which set of people you want to attract to your questions by the way you phrase them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146690" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" />
  <row Id="18628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T01:42:53.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with Google for a nontrivial answer is that Google is simply an index... one day the perfect answer to your question might not be there because whoever answered it decided that his blog wasn't getting enough traffic, or the forum where the question was answered decides to kill all older posts, or any number of other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having everything in one place is nice.  What's also nice is that SO has an active community that will revise answers over time so that they remain correct as the technology changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only bad side of having everything on SO is that if SO bites the dust, we lose all of our answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133265" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T01:55:49.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty simple answer for me. Stackoverflow at this stage in it's existence seems to be one of the best references for two areas of questioning (from a software developers perspective)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Advice for general programming&#xA;interest (career advice, approaches&#xA;for developing applications and&#xA;systems, information about best&#xA;practices, etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Short, concise answers for a&#xA;detailed question on how to program&#xA;using a specific feature in a&#xA;specific language or platform.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... so basically, if I'm looking for an in depth explanation of some technology (say, .Net Cake PHP's Routing infrastructure) then I'll probably check out google first to look for the documentation website or an expert's article. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How-ever, if I'm trying to find and answer to a really specific problem I find that it's easiest to just check here first real quickly before I go diving into google. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I trust the information here a little more then I do on any random link I get from google. I found myself too many times looking though a blog post link from google that at first glance seems to have the information I'm looking for, but then after I take the time to apply it, I later figure out that there's better information elsewhere. I pretty much always find that the information here is quality content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" />
  <row Id="18630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T01:56:21.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think that Stack Overflow should become the content that Google feeds on.  Even if the answer is available on some other site,  I don't think that most other programmer forums have the wiki features needed to keep the questions and answers relevant and correct as time passes.  Personally, If I want an encyclopedia type answer, I don't even go to Google, I just go straight to Wikipedia.  Because I know that is where Google will probably point me anyway.  In the same way, I would like Stack Overflow to became the place where people go first when the have programming questions, without even bothering to look at Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" />
  <row Id="18631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18620" CreationDate="2008-12-11T02:41:01.953" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes 100% of the time. Everyone should. In the immediate sense it's about finding an answer to a problem, not building up the SO knowledge base. Since building up SO is of great importance, it is your duty as a good SO user to add the question/answer as a community wiki if you do find an answer via Google to a question that is not covered on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search SO first&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If no answer, then Google&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If answer found, post community wiki&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If no answer is found post question on SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146104" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:01:08.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-28T21:08:07.220" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This on the back with the SO logo on the front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cznp.com/images/tshirttemplateback.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:08:07.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-28T21:08:07.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18540" CreationDate="2009-08-28T21:25:53.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Facebook recently added a cool little feature to show you the number of # stories that are available to look at.  That could be implemented with some AJAX and timers and not force us to refresh hoping to find something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:25:53.143" />
  <row Id="18634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18540" CreationDate="2009-08-28T21:42:17.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about something like when you're going to answer a question the way it notifies you of new answers...put that same functionality on the page while you're just viewing it? There could rules built around it so it only happens for logged in users etc. to help reduce the amount of requests, but I think something like this would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39605" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T21:42:17.573" />
  <row Id="18635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18636" CreationDate="2009-08-28T22:09:03.040" Score="7" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I hover over the the &quot;link&quot; thingy at the bottom of an answer I get the tooltip &quot;permalink to this answer&quot;. What does that mean and do? I ask this &#xA;because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) I don't know, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) because I want a quick way, when I am looking at a question with multiple answers,  of getting a link to a specific answer (rather than a question) so that I can copy and paste  it into another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T15:17:04.523" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T11:15:32.027" Title="What does the &quot;link&quot; thingy do?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="18636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18635" CreationDate="2009-08-28T22:10:55.627" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answers.com/permalink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; what &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; links &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;were supposed to be&lt;/a&gt;, but for various reasons weren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;link&lt;/code&gt; link at the bottom of each answer produces a permanent link to that answer. Regardless of whether the answer is moved to a different question, or voted onto a different page (for questions with many answers), or both the question and answer are edited so heavily that they no longer bear any resemblance to their original form, that link will always take you to it. At least, until the answer is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so it's a &lt;em&gt;semi-&lt;/em&gt;perma-link... They all are, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point is, you can click it, and copy the URL out of your address bar, and spread it around freely, confident in the knowledge that it won't stop working just because the question rolled off the front page or got re-titled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-28T22:22:34.153" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T22:22:34.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18635" CreationDate="2009-08-28T22:32:31.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chrome and Firefox, you can right-click on the 'link' text and select 'copy link location'. This will give you a link to the question, which you can then paste to your heart's content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-28T22:32:31.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18640" CreationDate="2009-08-29T01:04:19.123" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible to add a tag wrote in the &quot;Interesting tags&quot; input box, just pressing enter? Let me explain, I like the way one can select a tag from a drop-down list when you press the down key and having some text written. But the behavior of that textbox is inconsistent as you need to grab the mouse again and click the button &quot;Add&quot; to add the selected tag to the list. Can this action made when the user press the ENTER key?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133774" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T01:15:18.887" Title="Interesting tags - add" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18639" CreationDate="2009-08-29T01:15:18.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Tab ↹&lt;/kbd&gt; is your friend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After you've entered the tag, &lt;kbd&gt;Tab ↹&lt;/kbd&gt; across to the &lt;kbd&gt;Add&lt;/kbd&gt; button and slam your interest with an almighty force on that &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No touching of a mouse involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T01:15:18.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-08-29T01:58:25.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Alan Thicke&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130292" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T01:58:25.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-29T01:58:25.587" />
  <row Id="18643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17541" CreationDate="2009-08-29T02:17:09.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Able to reproduce in Opera via the following steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter tag to interesting/ignore list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tap double space after the word&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;kbd&gt;Add&lt;/kbd&gt; to save to list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should now see the empty tag &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[ ]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on the list of watched next time you refresh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe those were the steps. Who knows. The blank little &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[ ]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; up on the interesting list says something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T02:17:09.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18522" CreationDate="2009-08-29T02:27:22.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Solution: don't browse with script debugging enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(also: no repro. I just loaded IE8, turned on &quot;notify for every script error&quot;, refreshed meta, and got no errors.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T02:42:06.300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T02:42:06.300" />
  <row Id="18646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18444" CreationDate="2009-08-29T02:39:13.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have to be coy about exactly what is required here (the exact number of answers and votes required to prevent owner deletion), to prevent gaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the rules are enforced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T02:39:13.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18668" CreationDate="2009-08-29T03:50:44.377" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we allowed to ask things like &quot;Is it okay to do [this] without informing users of this behavior?&quot;? I'm not referring to anything regarding the legality of a practice, but whether its just acceptable in terms of business or competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are, would a question like this need to be CW? I understand ethics vary from person to person, but it'd still be possible for a single answer to resolve the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:08.410" Title="Are we allowed to ask questions about programming ethics on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18648" CreationDate="2009-08-29T03:56:12.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Business practice is not necessarily programming related.  That sort of question would be better suited on Joel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Business of Software&lt;/a&gt; forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T03:56:12.540" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18648" CreationDate="2009-08-29T04:11:19.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethical questions are inherently subjective and frequently argumentative... Therefore, they are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;a poor choice for SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you ask how to accomplish something unethical, you may well get an answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3528/questions-with-nefarious-intent&quot;&gt;explaining why you shouldn't do it at all&lt;/a&gt;... At least, I hope you would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T04:11:19.843" />
  <row Id="18652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18326" CreationDate="2009-08-29T05:02:09.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them for moderator attention indicating what you want done with them (deletion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: marking this completed as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37130/ability-to-flag-locked-posts&quot;&gt;you can flag locked posts now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:30:11.933" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:30:11.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17520" CreationDate="2009-08-29T05:04:29.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tested and this is still an issue in Opera 10. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry Opera has so many compatibility issues; that same page works in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Safari 3/4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrome 2.x&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 2/3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IE 7/8&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you file this as a bug against Opera?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(but hey, at least the tag editor works properly now in Opera 10! Maybe sometime in the next seven versions Opera will get the rest of their bugs and compatibility issues fixed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T10:19:06.297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T10:19:06.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18532" CreationDate="2009-08-29T05:39:09.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the outside chance that the OP was intending to accept the answer but (due to unexplainable circumstances) mistakenly clicked the downvote button as well.  They are relatively close together.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T05:39:09.290" />
  <row Id="18655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18938" CreationDate="2009-08-29T06:31:14.240" Score="8" ViewCount="977" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go figure, no sooner do i write up a loving description of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18635/what-does-the-link-thingy-do/18636#18636&quot;&gt;how answer permalinks solve the problem of linking to answers&lt;/a&gt; when there are multiple pages of them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...than I discover this maddening game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set your answer sort preference to &quot;votes&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a question with two pages of answers, where answers with no up-votes span both pages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Follow a permalink to an answer with no up-votes (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/242293/are-you-a-good-or-bad-programmer/856677#856677&quot;&gt;this one works&lt;/a&gt; as i write this).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make a note of the author's name, or some bit of unique text (this will make step #5 somewhat easier).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reload the page until it no longer displays the answer linked to. You can search for the bit of text identified in #4 to verify this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flip to whatever page you &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; land on. Note that the answer is there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the number of answers and your current luck, #5 may take a fair number of page refreshes before the problem manifests itself. Be patient...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Caveats:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18655/random-sorting-appears-to-screw-with-answer-permalinks/18664#18664&quot;&gt;As Jeff points out&lt;/a&gt;, this won't happen if you're not logged in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Occasionally, step #6 will fail, leaving you unable to find the desired answer on &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;An illustrated journey:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fanswer.png&quot; alt=&quot;The answer, at the permalink, as it should be&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fnotanswer.png&quot; alt=&quot;The permalink, but no answer!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fwrongpage.png&quot; alt=&quot;The answer, after flipping to the other page&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T13:27:42.133" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:27:42.133" Title="Random sorting appears to screw with answer permalinks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18655" CreationDate="2009-08-29T06:51:10.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it is even worse: Just refreshing the page leads me to another answer. I am - to take your example, that still works - asking to see exactly answer number &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/242293/are-you-a-good-or-bad-programmer/856677#856677&quot;&gt;856677&lt;/a&gt;, but pressing refresh am led away from it to another answer. The answer number did not change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It even sometimes (following the perma link on the answer) brings me to the top of the question page, as the #856677 entry point does not appear on the page through random sorting. Hitting refresh only points to another question as refresh retains the positioning in the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it must be assured that following a perma link of an answer leads to the answer itself. All else is more then confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T06:51:10.800" />
  <row Id="18657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18655" CreationDate="2009-08-29T07:09:05.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was always broken across multiple pages. Not everyone has Votes set as the default view and it was something to accept as done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As one of those who sets Newest as the default answers view, never really paid mind to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible wish to the whole permalink thing is to force display the linked answer on the first page, regardless of view. Maybe with a little highlight saying that this has been pulled out of order. Or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T07:09:05.397" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18662" CreationDate="2009-08-29T07:44:33.267" Score="2" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am constantly annoyed when people frame comments as questions. Hence on Stack Overflow where it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to Ask&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Is your question about programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually not a question. What it should say is something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to Ask&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Your question must be about programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then you could add to that, I guess, with something like, &quot;otherwise use Super User, Server Fault, or Experts' Exchange.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[I'm kidding with the Experts' Exchange thing, of course]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No wonder we get so many non-programming questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/strong&gt; For many non-native English speakers, that question-as-comment thing is hard to grok. (&quot;Why did you hack their server?&quot; = &quot;You should not have hacked their server.&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-14T08:17:41.080" LastActivityDate="2010-07-14T08:17:41.080" Title="Is your question about programming?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18532" CreationDate="2009-08-29T07:48:24.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can imagine doing this on an expiring, auto-assigning bounty question where there were no good answers.  If even the best answer was flawed, I'd down vote it and accept it to prevent it from going to an even worse answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T07:48:24.053" />
  <row Id="18662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18660" CreationDate="2009-08-29T08:38:40.443" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm personally not feeling the world's end supernova difference between&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is your question about programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question must be about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a preference either way -- but I strongly suspect a person who can't figure out the former is not going to figure out the latter any easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T08:38:40.443" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18655" CreationDate="2009-08-29T08:42:22.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suggestion: log out first, then try your experiment again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that 99% of our traffic is anonymous users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T08:42:22.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18666" CreationDate="2009-08-29T09:11:04.887" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a member of SO for 12 months. I did not receive the yearling batch yet, as the month calculation only is based on months, not on the exact date. But when I looked up my date of joining, statoverflow data dump tells me 08/31/2008, but moderators tell me I joined 09/03/2008. I would like the joining date instead of a wording, just so I know. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:18:54.480" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:18:54.480" Title="Should &quot;member for&quot; be &quot;member since&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18665" CreationDate="2009-08-29T09:15:37.280" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like almost every date on our site, just mouse over to see the exact raw UTC date in a tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This applies to your &quot;member for&quot; field on your /user page as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:15:37.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18648" CreationDate="2009-08-29T09:42:08.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst the answers so far posted have been negative and I tend to agree if the question relates, as stated in the body, to &lt;em&gt;whether its just acceptable in terms of business or competition&lt;/em&gt; I think there is a class of question where it should be acceptable when it relates more directly to the title: &lt;em&gt;Are we allowed to ask questions about programming ethics on SO?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most programming professionals subscribe to or are bound by at least one code of ethics or code of practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.computer.org/computer/code-of-ethics.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IEEE/ACM Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.1587&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BCS Code of Conduct and Code of Good Practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These remove much of the subjectivity from the discussion (and if not then we need to be reviewing these codes of ethics and conduct within the professional associations in order to improve them). It may still be argumentative but aren't these discussions and even arguments we should be having as professional programmers? It is at least as important as arguments and discussions over what is the best/right/approved/current/modal way to code a solution or furnish a workspace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:08.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18670" CreationDate="2009-02-06T01:59:14.970" Score="15" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should posts be self-contained; that is, should questions and answers avoid linking to outside material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/509493/jpeglib-code-gives-garbled-output-even-the-bundled-example-code&quot;&gt;recently edited&lt;/a&gt; to inline code the author had put in a paste bin.  Was that appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27727" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:48:45.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T01:59:14.953" Title="Should posts be self-contained?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18669" CreationDate="2009-02-06T02:00:02.847" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usually.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of Stack Overflow's goals is to have answers be useful to people who&#xA;show up months or even years later via Google. While &lt;a&#xA;href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cool URIs don't change&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/981129.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;live&#xA;forever&lt;/a&gt;, far too many are lame and ephemeral. Linkrot is a leading&#xA;user frustration on the web as &lt;a&#xA;href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as far back as&#xA;1997&lt;/a&gt;; and you can be pretty certain a user who follows a Google link&#xA;to Stack Overflow only to find his answer is 404-compliant will not be&#xA;happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with cool links, it's an extra step to follow the link; it's a hard&#xA;step if the relevant material is a small part of the linked resource.&#xA;Self-contained questions are just &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are, however, certainly some times when external links are okay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links that we're confident will stay good. For example,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's Link&#xA;Rot&lt;/a&gt; article will probably still be around a decade from now, and&#xA;with up-to-date information. MSDN will still be around, but beware&#xA;they sometimes break old URIs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The amount of relevant external material is huge, for example a&#xA;specification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links which are supporting information only (e.g., citations) where&#xA;the relevant bits are contained in the question or answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evanescent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evanescent&lt;/a&gt; links in questions are less problematic than in answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often material can't be copy-pasted due to copyrights; it should be&#xA;summarized/rewritten if possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27727" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T21:49:48.177" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T21:49:48.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T02:00:02.847" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18669" CreationDate="2009-02-06T02:15:32.503" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a similar vein, I think that Stack Overflow should provide image hosting, so that users that want to display an image or screenshot in their questions or answers will be able to do so without hosting it themselves or finding a picture on Google. This way there's no risk that the linked image will no longer be available when the poster loses interest in hosting it, or, if it was hotlinked from somewhere else, that the source moves or pulls the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has already been suggested, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/38210-image-storage-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rejected&lt;/a&gt;, but then again that was several months ago and Jeff might be more receptive to the idea now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:38.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T02:15:32.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18669" CreationDate="2009-02-06T02:17:45.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's inevitable to want to add content that says: &#xA;&quot;well, look at where I got this information&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's always positive to try to include some of the &#xA;information in the answer and use the link as reference or &#xA;further research material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say Stack Overflow shouldn't be self contained, but &#xA;the answers should include enough information to be &#xA;informative even without the links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131903" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T22:00:58.027" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T22:00:58.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T02:17:45.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18669" CreationDate="2009-02-06T02:20:35.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A self-contained answer is best, but links to expansive articles are also appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the answer to several OOP questions on Stack Overflow is &quot;the law of demeter&quot;. Explaining this in a sentence or two is fine, but a link to the Wikipedia article or some other source likely to be relatively permanent is good, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T22:02:14.530" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T22:02:14.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T02:20:35.050" />
  <row Id="18674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18669" CreationDate="2009-02-06T02:26:08.270" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the idea of not linking outside content is nothing short of ludicrous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, I think a lot of answers don't link &lt;strong&gt;enough&lt;/strong&gt; outside content.  My general policy is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never post a direct URL.  &lt;strong&gt;Always&lt;/strong&gt; give it a label &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18669/should-stack-overflow-be-self-contained&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt; not like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/518828/should-stackoverflow-be-self-contained&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/518828/should-stackoverflow-be-self-contained&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't &lt;strong&gt;ever&lt;/strong&gt; put link text of &quot;click here&quot;.  Put something meaningful.  Instead of &quot;To see an example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18669/should-stack-overflow-be-self-contained&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&quot; put &quot;Please refer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18669/should-stack-overflow-be-self-contained&quot;&gt;Should Stack Overflow be self-contained?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  The link text should be an accurate yet succinct summary of what the resource is and/or why you're linking to it.  The title of the document is a good fallback position.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you mention an API function or similar, link back to the &quot;official&quot; documentation, for example if I were discussing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery ajax() function&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to keep what you write here succinct and pertinent and this is a judgement call but you don't want to be repeating everything that is posted elsewhere.  There's such a thing as information getting lost in data.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to other relevant Stack Overflow questions and external questions, forum threads, blog posts and so on that further elaborate on the topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish more people would do the above (many do).  I find the idea of not linking to external content to be nonsensical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="136813" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T06:48:45.577" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:48:45.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T02:26:08.270" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18669" CreationDate="2009-02-06T02:29:54.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers that consist of a single link are generally bad, an answer should give an executive summary of the contents on the linked page, so even if the link dangles somebody later on will know enough to do the appropriate searching at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:38.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T02:29:54.250" />
  <row Id="18676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18669" CreationDate="2009-02-06T02:55:31.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, you need to include external URLs, because some content to help answering questions is in a book.&#xA;For example, I love reading books. When I know something that I've done, it can be self-contained. However, when the solution is in a chapter of a book or in content that can have copyright, I must add a hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T22:03:49.863" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T22:03:49.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-06T02:55:31.097" />
  <row Id="18677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18682" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:40:58.147" Score="12" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that I have been hit by 3 down votes. Clearly some people do not like my ideas and I would like to know which ideas people did not like so I can learn from my mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to tell where the down votes were applied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136237" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T08:37:43.433" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:37:43.433" Title="How do I know what the down votes were for?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:44:47.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be good feature addition to stackoverflow to mandate comment for downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137278" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:44:55.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume that in your profile, beneath the &quot;n Votes&quot; title, there's a summary? Or maybe under the &quot;Votes&quot; tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not; I will request it as a feature :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" />
  <row Id="18680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:46:29.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to the reputation graph page in your profile it'll show you which answers (and questions) have received down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also support mandatory comments on down-votes.  There's a pattern of votes against many of my answers which looks like systematic down-voting for no good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" />
  <row Id="18681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:47:25.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to leave a comment when I'm downvoting for non obvious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: What I mean by obvious reasons are what I suppose are obvious reasons for everyone: rude answers or insults, completely off-topic discussion. If I just don't agree with the answer I don't downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130955" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:48:21.017" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/24848&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice request&lt;/a&gt; that downvotes require comments. Of course, it would be easy to type in garbage for the comment, but at least it would be a prompt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24459?sort=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;your reputation page&lt;/a&gt; you can see &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; questions/answers got downvotes, but of course that doesn't explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they were voted down. When that gets too unwieldy, you can use a bit of hackery to get the JSON showing the reputation gained/lost during a particular time period, but I wouldn't worry about that just yet. (Hopefully by the time it becomes an issue for you we may have better tools. I'm still trying to work out exactly what would be useful.) Other answers have pointed to the external website explaining the &quot;delta since your last visit&quot; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I ignore it most of the time - if someone isn't willing to explain why they don't like an answer, it can't be that important. If they add a comment, I can explain my reasoning, improve my answer - or just delete it if it's flat-out wrong. It's always worth remembering this when you apply a downvote yourself - put yourself in the place of the person receiving it, and think of the benefit of adding a comment vs just downvoting :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:48:35.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/&lt;/a&gt;[user-id]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;which for you would be&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/24459&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sof.modos.org/tracker/update/24459&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" />
  <row Id="18684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T09:55:03.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there isn't, at least not directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your profile on the 'Reputation' tab, you have this nice graph of your rep development. The shaded part shows which time frame is taken into account for the list to the right of it. You can define this are yourself by marking it with your mouse, the list will be updated accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, assuming that you are mostly interested in current downvotes, you can just mark the last two or three days and see where you got the most downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes (sadly, not very often), people will add a comment to your answer, explaining their downvote. So I usually go to see my responses. If somebody left a useful comment, I follow up on that. If not, I ignore the downvote. (Well, at least I &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to. But sometimes my ego gets in the way...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T10:01:37.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're talking about the Votes section on your user page, that's telling you how many votes you have &lt;em&gt;made&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;recieved&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154448" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T10:11:37.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The saddest (happiest?) part is when they downvote you and leave a comment, but their downvote reason is flat out wrong :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's better than no comment, but it highlights the possiblity of wrong-reason downvoting, which I'd venture to say it happens more than we'd like to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there's the malicious downvoting, where people downvote you to get their answers above yours, that will never be explained in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the sanest path is to just ignore no-comment downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" />
  <row Id="18687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18677" CreationDate="2008-12-05T10:18:45.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps some sort of &quot;outvoted&quot; system where a down voter would be additionally rep punished if the answer was later upvoted above 0? And I imagine the reverse would also work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine a system which can't be gamed or broken in some respect. God, how does /. deal with this? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:42:58.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-24T14:37:06.820" Score="8" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a few hours here on Stack Overflow, I began to ask myself some theoretical questions related to reputation scores and total number of reputation points distributed by the system. It seems that the basic rules are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You'll get &lt;strong&gt;+10&lt;/strong&gt; reputation points each time your answer is clicked up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A clicked down answer is &lt;strong&gt;-2&lt;/strong&gt; points for the answerer, &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; for the clicker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There might be other scoring rules that I did not fully identified (selected answer, favorite question, etc) but which are less important.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we anticipate/foresee the total number of reputation points in relation with activity/number of users (being for example an increasing function)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, is this function (being of total number of reputation points) erratic and leading to non-predictable and chaotic results? In this case we would be facing a good example of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%5Ftheory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;deterministic chaos&lt;/a&gt;, where fully deterministic initial conditions (here the scoring rules) can lead to unpredictable results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tiebreaker: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which conditions would yield negative values?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would be the consequences of generalised individual negative&#xA;scores when you know that: &#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need to have at least &lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt; reputation for up-votes and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;100&lt;/strong&gt; reputation for down-votes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we imagine a situation where all users are below 15, meaning that newbies cannot&#xA;    distribute or collect reputations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140278" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T10:13:55.163" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T10:13:55.163" Title="Reputation statistics and chaos theory" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18688" CreationDate="2008-10-24T14:50:14.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a partial answer to &quot;tiebreaker bullet the first&quot;, you can't have less than 1 rep. It's bounded so that no matter how often you're voted down, you can't go negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can't vote down if you're below a threshold, either (I think it's 100).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:44:57.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18688" CreationDate="2008-10-24T14:53:06.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add in that you can't really plan it, as there is also a 200 point per day increase cap for upvotes....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:44:57.380" />
  <row Id="18691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18688" CreationDate="2008-10-24T14:59:18.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another partial answer is I do spend some finite amount of time moderating questions, and usually I upvote more than downvote, so I 'magically' create points.  At the same time, one downvote means -3 points in the system, while one upvote means +10 points in the system. So the overall trend is towards some 'Ponzi point scheme' 8^)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:44:57.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18688" CreationDate="2008-10-24T15:00:27.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This questions me as well. Since we are dealing with a dynamic system wich depends on user input it might be usefull to model it with system thinking software such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iseesystems.com/softwares/Business/IthinkSoftware.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ithink&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this software you can reconstruct the scoring model, set variables based on a year of stock overflow information (amount of questions, answers, ratios, etc) and run simulations predicting the score distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from this I think the stack overflow staff has a nice system that encourages answering questions, posting interesting questions and usefull commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:44:57.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-25T12:57:28.877" Score="6" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the two scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm too lazy to look up some easy reference online &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't want to bother looking up &quot;all the usual&quot; places before I present my question here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I, or should I still be able to, ask the question here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, the answer lies between 1 and 2. But I'm trying to find the balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135527" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T10:31:36.457" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T02:13:57.130" Title="What is the minimum complexity required for a question in this community?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T12:58:28.920" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) Lets say, I'm too lazy to look up some easy reference online, can I&#xA;  ask the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Yes&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) Should I look up &quot;all usual&quot; places before I present my question&#xA;  here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Yes&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;Edit again (!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for the record this is not encouraging laziness. It is encouraging the exact opposite of laziness, ie &quot;non-laziness&quot;. It is saying laziness is possible, &quot;can I ...&quot;, but it is saying searching for answers yourself is preferred, &quot;should I ...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(let's hope that's the last edit!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:00:15.627" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) Yes you can, but we appreciate it if you have taken any steps yourself first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) That would be great. But you dont have to delve through the entire internet before asking a question here (else we were still stuck at question nr 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T13:04:25.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:00:46.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be something like; &quot;I don't know the answer&quot; ... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I guess this is very subjective, and other may disagree with me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" />
  <row Id="18697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:08:03.877" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask questions at your level.  If you're a guru (or have 7000+ rep), then people expect you to do some research first, and state what research you've done first.  If you're a newb (either to the site or in general), then people should cut you some slack if you ask newb questions.  I admit a couple of times I've asked questions just because I'd been staring at the code and couldn't see what was wrong so I asked here while I did other research, but other times I'd exhausted every other avenue before coming here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But above all, make sure you search &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; site before you ask a question here.  Nothing people hate more than a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does that quote go?  &quot;When I was a child, I spake as a child...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:08:20.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have asked questions here, it's because I can't find what I need Googling or checking manuals etc. It &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; take more time to get an answer here (at leas on the not so &quot;big&quot; topics) than it takes me reading a tutorial. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course when posting from Norway, I might have to wait a day or so for the people living in USA or Australia to wake up or come home from work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; (about &quot;simple google searches&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite a lot of questions asked here can answered by a google search, by people who understand &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; they ask for. I've answered some questions (even on topics I know very little) by searching google, because I understood what they wanted even if they didn't know the terminology. E.g:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: &quot;I want that sort of thing where you have these numbers under a list and you can click on it and get a sort of page&quot;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: &quot;Oh, you mean &lt;em&gt;pagination&lt;/em&gt;. Theres a few good plugins here [google search link], and this one [specific plugin link] is good...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145171" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" />
  <row Id="18699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:10:17.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can, but is it really such a good idea? You might get the answer you need in the short term, but you've cheated yourself of a learning opportunity that would be of more benefit to you over the long term.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That would be my preferred option. IMHO, research skills are as (if not more) important to a programmer than coding skills.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T13:23:47.357" />
  <row Id="18700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:12:14.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you answer by something roughly equivalent to RTFM, even with a pointer with the specified M, you get downvote. So despite what people would like, the answer to your first point is yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will kill SO imho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T13:12:14.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:12:54.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no question too trivial to be asked (except if the question is an exact duplicate of another SO question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have different backgrounds, therefore a complex thing for one person is a simple one for another and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of research before/after asking a question doesn't heart either. You can/should answer your question yourself. It will help the next person with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137096" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T13:12:54.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:13:57.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another good judge is &quot;can it wait an hour?&quot;  If you can find the answer yourself in less than an hour, don't post it.  This includes writing a skeleton program to test assumptions, etc.  Just because you can get an answer in 45 seconds doesn't mean you should abuse it.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/175961/does-listindexof-compare-by-reference-or-value&quot;&gt;Here's an example of that&lt;/a&gt; (by myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" />
  <row Id="18703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:26:24.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if the purpose of this site is to be a reference for programming questions, then it stands to reason that any programming question is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" />
  <row Id="18704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18693" CreationDate="2008-11-25T13:38:14.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course you can ask any question, but one should think about whether one &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; to ask the question on SO before asking it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is pretty clear (common-sense) that asking things that you could find out very simply via Google or MSDN (for example) is a waste of everyone's time including yours, but when you are stuck SO can quickly become one of the most useful resources available to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, SO has quickly become a real saviour for getting solutions to specific problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question, it is because you don't know the answer, the people that answer the question do know the answer. This is the same regardless of the &quot;complexity&quot; of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132169" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:33.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:34:27.140" Score="4" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using StackOverflow now for about two months and one thing I've noticed is that there seem to be some commonality between answers which get more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: Short, &quot;pithy&quot; answers tend to be favored over longer answers - even if the longer answers are well thought out and technically accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, can we glean some general best practices for answering technical questions from this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What guidelines do you follow for creating effective answers? I am particularly interested  because I think that the qualities which make a popular answer on SO probably also apply to writing blog articles and technical marketing material&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you use lists?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Analogies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Humor?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep it short?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take sides on tough issues? (I've noticed that some people attempt to give &quot;fair and balanced&quot; answers versus some answers which tend to present things in black-and-white)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T10:43:07.133" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T10:43:07.133" Title="How do you answer a programming question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:37:12.063" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that longer answers get fewer votes to start with because they take longer to write than short answers. I've certainly got some long answers with lots of votes, and short answers with none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've written my personal guide to writing good answers elsewhere... I'll see if I can find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I can't find that guide at the moment. I think I'll write it up as a blog post on the train tonight so I can keep it forever, but briefly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include links to API documentation when you refer to types/methods.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include code examples, preferrably short but complete ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be accurate, including evidence for your statements - particularly if they disagree with other answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be careful with spelling and grammar. People may well not be &lt;em&gt;consciously&lt;/em&gt; judging you based on them, but the difference between bothering to upvote and not doing so is often quite small.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't just rip off other answers - but refer to them and build on them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be polite, both to the questioner and to other people answering.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I've now written it up as &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/02/17/answering-technical-questions-helpfully.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Answering technical questions helpfully&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:38:38.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer stating reasons and keeping the answer short. It's okay to take sides, but even then one should explain the rationale. Shortness is just for lack of time ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135954" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" />
  <row Id="18708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:41:56.203" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;cause I'm not a native speaker of English ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" />
  <row Id="18709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:42:36.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take sides on tough issues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally not a good way to generate points, not that that should stop you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:42:39.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to write short answers but with a lot of links to further informations. They are the most helpful because the person wants to know the answer and not read a lot about it in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often people write the solution at the bottom of long answers, which makes it tiresome to extract the needed information. I prefere to write the solution on top and then explain it, if the questioner is interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I like to do too is expand my answer. I write a short answer and expand it over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" />
  <row Id="18711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:48:02.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer well formatted answers with links, without typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131188" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:48:41.053" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get right to the point.&lt;/strong&gt; That way, even if you have to present lots of information, it is easy to identify the keypoints of your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other points to answer effectively are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use complete sentences and paragraphs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Highlight&lt;/strong&gt; and/or &lt;em&gt;emphasize&lt;/em&gt; important ideas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Organize your answer so it is easy to read.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Present &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;links&lt;/a&gt; to more information and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sources&lt;/a&gt; for your answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, try to conclude your answer, especially if your answer has a lot of information. After all, in many cases, as with reading other types of writing, people tend to look at the first and last few sentences of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150069" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:51:05.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most users (myself included) prefers a short and to the point answer. We just want to get the information we were looking for and as little else as possible, like it or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154015" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" />
  <row Id="18714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T12:52:36.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often there are answers which do not really answer the question, but show other ways of doing something. Since in most cases the examples given through the question are 'constructed' examples, these answers are often useless for the problem. Nonetheless those answers get many upvotes.&#xA;Just noticed this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-02-09T13:03:14.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to use humor when answering and asking.  It can be pretty off the wall and obtuse, though. Also I like to be self-effacing, and I have an exceptional foundation (no self esteem!) and years of practice at that.  Being somewhat clumsy, my delivery of course still needs work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18705" CreationDate="2009-03-02T21:51:09.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer small answers broken up into logical parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer refers directly to something covered by documentation, I try to link to the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's possible to provide a small snippet of useful example code, I try to write some to illustrate it, using any vocabulary and sample code provided by the questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149632" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:45:47.830" />
  <row Id="18717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-09T17:27:26.530" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems logical that editing the title of a question (or the tags, by adding one) might push the question back on top of the stack, whereas editing the body of a question would not. Is that the expected behaviour? I do not see this documented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there special events that moderators see that other users to do not see, like &quot;recently edited&quot; questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to avoid inadvertently creating more noise by being nitpicky about my question's title or body. Particularly if I want to update it later, silently, just for community value.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T10:00:32.133" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T10:00:32.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-09T17:27:26.513" Title="Will editing a question push it back onto the top of the stack?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18717" CreationDate="2009-02-09T17:29:21.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing a question pushes it up to the top of the active section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:17.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-09T17:29:21.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18717" CreationDate="2009-02-09T17:34:38.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing a question (title or body) pushes it up to the top of the &lt;strong&gt;Active&lt;/strong&gt; stack.  It won't go to the top of the &lt;strong&gt;Newest&lt;/strong&gt; stack.  See the different tabs at the top of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;main page&lt;/a&gt; to see what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:17.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-09T17:34:38.587" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-12T16:18:52.620" Score="10" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my profile, under the Preferences tab, I have the option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm open to employers (not recruiters) contacting me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this do?&#xA;What have I opted in to by checking this?&#xA;What, if anything, changes as a result of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5343" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T09:56:48.880" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:56:48.880" Title="What does Profile &gt; Preferences &gt; I'm open to employers (not recruiters) contacting me do?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18720" CreationDate="2009-02-12T16:29:14.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My educated guess would be that employers will be able to contact you if they are interested in hiring you.  Since you email is private, maybe there is/going to be a way for them to send you an email from this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130788" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:35.783" />
  <row Id="18722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18720" CreationDate="2009-02-12T17:00:02.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It allows companies to contact you with a job offer which, based on how reputation on stackoverflow works, might be a good way to acquire talent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the contacts are private, this would not be possible unless you explicitly select that option. Furthermore, since it does mention that recruiters aren't allowed, I believe the pool of authorized employers only includes technology based companies and excludes recruitment agencies. This way you will not be contacted by people that &quot;might&quot; have an offer for you in the &quot;can't tell you yet&quot; company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:35.783" />
  <row Id="18723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-27T11:28:33.290" Score="3" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked a question, and an answer that does not address the question &lt;strong&gt;at&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; seems to be getting up voted. I don't understand why it keeps getting voted up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I voted it down and put a comment in that pointed out it didn't address the question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've edited the question making the specific question more clear. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other answers that directly address the question (all the other ones) are ranked lower then the &quot;bad&quot; answer. (This tells me that others understood the question and that it wasn't me)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the person asking the question be able to do something about this? I mean if the top ranked answer has nothing to do with the question, what the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;heck&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the recourse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is there's not one answer to the question. I asked for &quot;links&quot; and the top ranked answer has not one link. I'm not really frustrated. I just don't like that others who may use the question for its answers will find the waste of time to read at the top. (every cycle, every bit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T10:23:01.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T10:23:01.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T11:28:33.277" Title="Answer gets upvoted, questioner thinks it's way off, what is the recourse?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18723" CreationDate="2009-02-27T11:30:51.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds more like a user-voice thing (indeed, I found 3 related suggestions on UV); it is a bit hard to address, to be sure. Which was the question? It is even trickier / contentious if you paced a bounty...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:50.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T11:30:51.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18723" CreationDate="2009-02-27T11:31:51.007" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accept &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; preferred answer and it will then appear directly beneath the question, regardless of how many votes it has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other readers will decide for themselves which answer they prefer, and vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135719" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:50.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T11:31:50.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18723" CreationDate="2009-02-27T11:35:51.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer will always appear at the top of the list of answers.  In this case, it's fine to allow off-topic answers as long as you only accept the one that's right for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131632" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:50.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T11:35:51.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18723" CreationDate="2009-02-27T12:10:04.627" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a good question. Democracy is hard to accept when you realize that your constituents are not really capable of voting intelligently. But even though from time to time you may get an answer (president-of-your-country, CEO, team-leader, winning-proposal) that is absolutely terrible, the process works &lt;strong&gt;in general.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have no recourse except to make snyde comments under the answer. This might result in your question getting downvoted, but for the time being, your SO points cannot be traded for wheat, so you'll be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, you're looking too deep. Many times (but not all!) SO answers are not voted  on whether they answer the question but rather whether they &quot;deserve an upvote.&quot; &quot;Hey cool, I totally agree!&quot; and they mark it +1. &quot;Soooooo right&quot; and up it goes. Etc. Chill out. In the long run, SO produces good answers to technical problems. For other problems, it produces answers that are worth less. And for SO meta-talk, it produces absolute garbage :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:50.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T12:10:04.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18723" CreationDate="2009-02-27T14:48:44.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a couple of days you will be able to &lt;strong&gt;post a bounty&lt;/strong&gt;. If you make it clear what the criteria are for awarding the bounty you would hopefully get some answers tailored more towards what you are looking for rather than what some might consider the way you should have been doing things in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T09:46:50.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-27T14:48:44.950" />
  <row Id="18729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T10:26:36.760" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently see examples of code containing &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; characters which get rendered incorrectly, because the tags aren't quoted as &amp;amp;lt; and &amp;amp;gt;. This seems to happen when using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; rather than indenting by 4 spaces. (See e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/4e42e1fe-ef8f-4722-b717-2a799b8f749e/view-source&quot;&gt;this StackOverflow post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This often happens with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;code containing generics in Java and C#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C &lt;code&gt;#include&lt;/code&gt; statements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;testing for greater-than and less-than&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one is particularly nasty, because the code doesn't look necessarily wrong (e.g. the user entered &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;String&amp;gt; list = new ArrayList&amp;lt;String&amp;gt;();&lt;/code&gt;, but it appears as &lt;code&gt;List list = new ArrayList();&lt;/code&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please could StackOverflow either warn the user about this before posting or actually perform the rendering expected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Apologies if this is a duplicate; it's hard to search for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130981" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T10:36:43.293" Title="Is there a better way of including code containing &amp;lt; &amp;gt;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18729" CreationDate="2009-08-29T10:36:43.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a high enough arbitrary number, in this case, &lt;strong&gt;2000&lt;/strong&gt;, you could go help them out and edit the question yourself to improve the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could flag it down for a mod to come along and fix it up for them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, it will leave an edit trail and allow the asker to then, if so inclined, look over the edit history and see what was done to achieve that formatting for future reference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T10:36:43.293" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18732" CreationDate="2009-08-29T10:38:07.393" Score="4" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15582/is-the-yearling-badge-meant-to-replace-the-beta-badge&quot;&gt;Is the Yearling badge meant to replace the Beta badge?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey Guys&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was awarded the beta badge on stack overflow and now it seems to have disappeared from my list. Any ideas can you lose badges once they are awarded to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&#xA;Paul&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135049" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T15:11:18.697" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T08:29:25.077" ClosedDate="2009-08-29T15:10:52.177" Title="Why have I lost my beta badge for stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;beta&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18731" CreationDate="2009-08-29T10:43:58.660" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was revoked. Pretty much because the terms of the Beta badge were &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13/should-the-beta-badges-stop-being-awarded-to-users/19#19&quot;&gt;more strictly defined a short while ago&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if you signed up during the Beta period, but didn't ask or answer any questions, you're no longer considered having, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;actively participated in the private beta&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Active participation includes notching &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86/why-are-beta-badges-awarded-at-all/105#105&quot; title=&quot;and the fish was thiiiiiiiiiis big&quot;&gt;three (3) bronze badges on your belt&lt;/a&gt; before the Beta ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you may have gotten a Beta badge previously, they have been revoked following the strict outlining of this description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T08:29:25.077" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T08:29:25.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18736" CreationDate="2009-08-29T10:51:52.747" Score="2" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation graph shows a linear progress from August 5 to yesterday, but the truth is the numbers don't quite match up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8265/graphs.png&quot; alt=&quot;reputation graph&quot; title=&quot;reputation graph&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the graph, on August 17, my rep was about 50. Through interpolation of the linearly plotted growth on the graph, it claims to represent a rep of 80 on August 27. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on August 27 my rep was actually 11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the days pass on, will it eventually change to better represent my rep history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:21:29.677" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:21:29.677" Title="Is the reputation graph misrepresenting the numbers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T10:57:21.363" Score="3" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;The space between href and title in anchor tag in profile gets removed when the profile html is edited; subsequent save will cause the html to be invalid and the tags will get stripped out.  The initial save works and the anchor tag displays properly.  This is only a problem if you edit your profile and forget to put the space between the title and href attributes back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to repro:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter this line of html:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/jeffwids&quot; title=&quot;Jeff Widmer's Blog&quot;&amp;gt;My Blog&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Save your profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go back and edit profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notice that space between href and title is gone:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/jeffwids&quot;title=&quot;Jeff Widmer's Blog&quot;&amp;gt;My Blog&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now if you hit save the anchor tag is invalid and the html will get stripped out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21579" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T14:27:41.670" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T14:28:23.320" Title="Space between anchor tag href and title attributes in profile gets removed upon display" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18733" CreationDate="2009-08-29T11:07:46.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a good look at the little circles, there is no data-point for aug-17. So the graph is correct, just not going to the trouble of adding values for days when there is no change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you hang on for a few months, it will all compress to the left and you will hardly be able to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A workaround: post answers or questions more frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T11:07:46.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18749" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:00:28.960" Score="12" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back on the SO podcast, Joel Spolsky basically called folks who spend lots of time on MSO losers.  He has a point, to a certain extent, I think.  A little bit of meta is OK, too much and one becomes the teacher's pet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I whipped up a graph this morning and concentrated the data points on the page 1 MSO users.  &lt;em&gt;(Spent way too much time, 2/3rds of the total, labeling the graph with names--not doing that again in future graphs.)&lt;/em&gt;  The below graph has three axises:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;-axis:&lt;/strong&gt; MSO reputation points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;-axis:&lt;/strong&gt; SO reputations points (SU in the case of Diago)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;z&lt;/em&gt;-axis:&lt;/strong&gt; SO profile views &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators have an excuse for spending time on MSO, the rest of us are just being nerdy.  That is why I have segregated them into their own series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Why profile views?  You're all a bunch of narcissistic tools, and we all know it!  You like this kind of stuff.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/MSO-rep-versus-SO-rep-small.gif&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this tell us?  Well, the users with the lowest slope are the SOpedians who are spending too much time on MSO and neglecting SO/SF/SU.  To continue Jeff's &lt;em&gt;&quot;MSO is the teacher's lounge&quot;&lt;/em&gt; analogy, these users are the &lt;em&gt;Teacher's pets.&lt;/em&gt;  The top three SOpedians with very low slopes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ian Elliott (0.30)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;random (0.32)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Smithers (0.33)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?  Criticisms?  Requests?  Other interpretations?  Let the waffles flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Updated with graph as per request:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;-axis:&lt;/strong&gt; MSO reputation points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;-axis:&lt;/strong&gt; SO reputations points (SU in the case of Diago)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;z&lt;/em&gt;-axis:&lt;/strong&gt; SO Profile views / account age &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not bother with labels...too time consuming and the bubbles have not moved, just changed size.  (Most of you are in at 11 or 12 months.)  I also made Jeff Atwood transparent so that he does not block TheTXI.  (Can you hear the ponies singing in heaven now?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/MSO-rep-versus-SO-rep-over-age-small.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T13:04:12.160" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T13:04:12.160" Title="Which SOpedians are spending too many cycles on MSO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="32" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18737" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:06:10.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about replacing profile views with account age?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T12:06:10.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:07:07.453" Score="5" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just started on Stack Overflow (and think it is great).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At what point doesn't ones reputation get big enough to warrant putting a 'flair' link on their blog?  Really what I am asking is what is a decent reputation to atain before linking to your Stack Overflow profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135083" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T14:02:30.133" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T14:02:30.133" Title="Stack Overflow User Flair" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18737" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:12:08.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ServerFault, &lt;b&gt;n&lt;/b&gt;o idea. StackOv&lt;b&gt;e&lt;/b&gt;rflow, way too slow. SuperUs&lt;b&gt;e&lt;/b&gt;r, getting there, but knowle&lt;b&gt;d&lt;/b&gt;ge of computers isn't that broad. Need more Opera questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is the z-axis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to go with &lt;b&gt;m&lt;/b&gt;ore waffles, replace the chicken p&lt;b&gt;o&lt;/b&gt;x ma&lt;b&gt;r&lt;/b&gt;ks with waffles and the smallpox d&lt;b&gt;e&lt;/b&gt;nts with drops of syrup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those not so qui&lt;b&gt;c&lt;/b&gt;k on the draw at SO, how about rep&lt;b&gt;l&lt;/b&gt;acing that number w&lt;b&gt;i&lt;/b&gt;th th&lt;b&gt;e&lt;/b&gt;ir highest rep value if it happe&lt;b&gt;n&lt;/b&gt;s &lt;b&gt;t&lt;/b&gt;o be, oh, maybe SF or &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;U?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hang on, is this an intervention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T14:28:21.203" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T14:28:21.203" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="18741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18739" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:12:55.290" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're proud of your reputation. Then flair up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T12:12:55.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18739" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:14:40.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Ólafur. However, I don't consider a reputation under 2/3K decent enough to be proud of and to share it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T12:14:40.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18739" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:16:35.257" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The average reputation of a user is around 500.  So, unless you are proud of being below average, then I'd call that an absolute minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T10:53:19.527" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T10:53:19.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18739" CreationDate="2009-08-29T12:37:32.313" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say it doesn't matter. Displaying your flair indicates that you are a member of the community and it will get others to visit the site. I have had 900+ rep on Stack Overflow since I joined a year ago, and it has never affected whether I display flair or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T10:48:34.657" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T10:48:34.657" />
  <row Id="18745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T13:11:20.190" Score="-1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I submit a comment or vote on a comment, then want to immediately comment or vote again, I get a(n annoying) message that I have to wait 5 or 30 seconds.  Couldn't you just set a timer on the server that wakes up in 5, 10, or 15 seconds and completes the request I just sent instead of making me resubmit the request after waiting.  You'd may (or may not) need to use the AsyncController to do this. Couple this with a modal dialog on the client that dismisses when my request has been completed and you've accomplished the same purpose without me having to submit things twice.  I think it would be a much better user experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:  To prevent gaming the system, you'd want to keep track of pending requests and flush any new requests of the same type while a request is currently pending.  A user simply using the system, i.e., waiting on the modal dialog to dismiss, won't notice this behavior, but a user who submits, then refreshes to gain the ability to submit again more quickly would be blocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T13:54:24.567" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T13:54:24.567" Title="Throttle comments/votes on the server instead of limiting on the client" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;throttling&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18745" CreationDate="2009-08-29T13:15:06.033" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Then comment spamming could be sent to flood the server request queue. Instead of halting on the &quot;client&quot; side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T13:15:06.033" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18737" CreationDate="2009-08-29T14:43:02.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would replace profile views with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;profile views / account age&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T14:43:02.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18737" CreationDate="2009-08-29T15:00:46.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reckon it's because you can get away with a lot more off topic stuff here. Noisy comments and posts just get pruned ASAP from S[OFU] but here? Whammy, they're in your face and making noise like kids in a candy store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone posts something, the kids start making off the wall comments, and before you know it, someone's come up with the next Jon Skeet Facts, or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Un?]Fortunately, the sheer noise in comments also leads to some very helpful discussion and some great topics, so it would be stupid to start pruning it all willy nilly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130343" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T15:00:46.767" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T16:16:33.090" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware of the couple &quot;searching for a wildcard tag gives you a blank page&quot; bug reports here, but wanted to report that if you search for a wildcard tag, it now works, BUT if you try to add a second tag to that search, it fails miserably with a proper (non-blank) 400 error. This is particularly bad, given that you explicitly link to the pages that give the 400 error after a search for a wildcard tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reproduce, merely click any of the &quot;related tags&quot; links below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python~&quot;&gt;hxxp://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and for some reason, the system won't auto-link that, and it thinks that my htmlifying of it means I'm posting two hyperlinks)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131692" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T23:18:35.667" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T23:18:35.667" Title="More wildcard tag bugs - adding a related tag causes 400 error" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;wildcards&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18762" CreationDate="2009-08-29T16:20:51.710" Score="5" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag Access is ambiguous in that it can refer to the product MS Access or simply be a noun. Various members have carefully removed the tag Access when it appears, however, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1329869/what-rights-does-an-employer-have-to-the-employees-computer-closed&quot;&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; has been closed and locked with this tag, which means that posts tagged Access are turning up more regularly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid similar problems, perhaps tags could be cleared from posts before they are closed, locked or moved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-26T12:43:11.277" LastActivityDate="2010-05-26T12:43:11.277" Title="StackOverflow Post Close and Locked with Ambiguous Tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;locked&gt;&lt;ambiguous-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="18754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T16:34:07.267" Score="9" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723195/should-i-use-or-for-not-equal-in-tsql/723209#723209&quot;&gt;an old answer of mine&lt;/a&gt; and saw my gravatar twice on a single answer.  Apparently, the guy who edited the post had his account deleted, and the site engine is failing to display something acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-09-01T07:55:35.747" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T07:55:35.747" Title="Edit timestamp screws up when the last editor is deleted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;deleted-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18758" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:15:13.503" Score="3" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I would like to thank StackOverflow for providing great Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't know where to say thanks or to whom to say thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain why I would like to thank StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am a newbie in iPhone development.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whatever I learned about the iPhone through surfing on Google &amp;amp; different forums was not enough to get solution to my queries.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow is a Q &amp;amp; A site, which has been the best Help for me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can get all of the solutions of my problems from unknown people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would like to thank all those people who helped me, because right now even my seniors don't try to help me. Whatever StackOverflow and all of its members are doing for me is like taking help from family members.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I found only the site &quot; StackOverflow &quot; managing the information properly. Like No Repeat ( if it is then closed )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even user gives repeated link as helen just given below my question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No abuse words Only Information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No invalid discussions like forums - just Straight forward information&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am proud to be a member of StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've learned the most from members of StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I don't know how to say thanks to those who helped me! How can I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="133296" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T18:03:25.167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T18:03:25.167" Title="Where can I thank contributors to StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;appreciation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18757" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:20:17.050" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the checkmark and upvote buttons instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T17:20:17.050" />
  <row Id="18760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18757" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:27:50.123" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Start answering questions for others who need the knowledge that you have gained.  That's what it's all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T17:27:50.123" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18753" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:41:20.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted that post and rebuilt the tag counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T17:41:20.580" />
  <row Id="18763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18752" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:43:39.280" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Url too long; this is by design. Delete some tags or be more narrow in your wildcards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you seriously expect to put 50+ tags in the URL and have it work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T17:43:39.280" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:56:48.753" Score="2" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is any one else getting only 3 questions in the unanswered list. There should be 33,470.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have set it to not show ignore tags, but I do not have many of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number varies between 1 and 5. I am using IE8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1948/stackoverflow.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a larger picture of the screen dump check this link &lt;a href=&quot;http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1948/stackoverflow.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1948/stackoverflow.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of my ignore tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3937/stackoverflow1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what happens when I ask it not to hide my ignore tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7069/stackoverflow2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only 5 items only 1 relevant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a larger picture of the screen dump check this link&lt;a href=&quot;http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7069/stackoverflow2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7069/stackoverflow2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="130822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T14:25:03.670" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T09:37:25.733" Title="Only limited number of unanswered questions showing up on Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18766" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:58:18.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-07T09:37:25.733" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T09:37:25.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18766" CreationDate="2009-08-29T17:58:30.687" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're probably looking at the &quot;My Tags&quot; tab. I don't know what tags you subscribe to, but if it's niche enough, this is probably the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 33,472 questions that are unanswered. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=newest&quot;&gt;See here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Yeah, you definitely have &lt;code&gt;hide ignore tags&lt;/code&gt; checked in your profile. This happens after the page is loaded, so that's why you see so few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-29T20:38:50.143" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T20:38:50.143" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18773" CreationDate="2009-08-29T18:34:43.937" Score="1" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found that &quot; code sample &quot; some times not working properly as I wanted.&#xA;See my question&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352029/tabbar-didselect-item-manage-dynamically-iphone&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352029/tabbar-didselect-item-manage-dynamically-iphone&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I tried to edit &amp;amp; correct code format But I wasn't able to format it.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;The code was directly copied from the x code. Yet not formatted properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;please &quot;Show me the way to format my code properly&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or Like Image Insertion has different screen, Same way StackOverflow should have some different screen to get the code only. ( I am just suggesting for the feature. )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T18:44:06.287" Title="formatting code in post of stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18772" CreationDate="2009-08-29T18:42:35.900" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be recognized as code, each line of it has to be indented by 4 spaces. You can achieve this either by inserting the spaces by hand, or by selecting the code block and clicking the &quot;101010&quot; button of the editor (keyboard shortcut is Ctrl-K).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done exactly that (Ctrl-K) with your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T18:42:35.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18772" CreationDate="2009-08-29T18:44:06.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it already got fixed. The problem with the original version is &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; code lines must be indented (4 spaces), and must be separated by at least one line from non-code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Like so&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to illustrate pretending I'm in the editor...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this is my regular text&#xA;&#xA;    this is my code&#xA;    and more code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but not (&quot;must be separated by at least one line from non-code&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this is my regular text&#xA;    this is my code&#xA;    and more code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or (&quot;&lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; code lines must be indented&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this is my regular text&#xA;&#xA;    this is my code&#xA;and more code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T18:44:06.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18780" CreationDate="2009-08-29T19:39:42.930" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a Q here about Second Life and checked SO for some questions about the Linden Scripting Language. There are a few questions about LSL so apparently, it has become reasonable acceptable. The discussion in that Q was if SL is a videogame or not. Well, not important...&#xA;I can imagine that there are more games with their own scripting abilities. (I don't have a list of them, but if anyone knows one, feel free to share.) Scripts could even be an important part to write mods for certain games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, is StackOverflow an appropriate location to ask questions about scripts within games? Or is there no place for video-games at SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Remember: the question should focus on scripting/programming possibilities within a game, not the game itself.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T21:41:51.140" Title="Games and programming... Are these valid topic combinations for SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;video-games&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="18778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18777" CreationDate="2009-08-29T19:42:18.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote yes, questions about scripting within the SL-engine should be acceptable. After all, it IS programming and it is a language used by thousands of developers worldwide. Just be careful to keep your questions programming-related, and not venture off into the many avenues of discussion when it comes to SL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to play a starwars game that came with its own scripting-engine, centered around a language called COG. I would have loved to have a SO in the late 90's to better understand the syntax, and capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T19:42:18.667" />
  <row Id="18780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18777" CreationDate="2009-08-29T19:52:29.223" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure - FWIW, there are also plenty of game programming questions on SO in the sense of &quot;i'm writing a game and have encountered &lt;em&gt;problem X&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. That's fine. They're programming questions that also happen to be game-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question that prompted &lt;em&gt;that other&lt;/em&gt; post here this morning wasn't a programming question. It wasn't really even a computer question, apart from the fact that SL runs on computers. It was a SL question, pure and simple. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T19:52:29.223" />
  <row Id="18782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18360" CreationDate="2009-08-29T20:35:08.920" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come across something similar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvoted a good answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 hour passes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is edited.  The vote-lock clock resets.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I undo my vote b/c the answer changed and I thought it was now worse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Within a few seconds, I realize it was actually ok, and I upvote but it's intercepted with &quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, the error message is inaccurate.  The vote was 3 seconds fresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T20:35:08.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18777" CreationDate="2009-08-29T21:41:51.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's game &lt;strong&gt;programming&lt;/strong&gt; it's fine. If it's game &lt;strong&gt;design&lt;/strong&gt; then it's a bit grey area with a bias to closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T21:41:51.140" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18847" CreationDate="2009-08-29T21:52:25.690" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346626/wcf-webinvoke-problem-getting-wsdl/1348655#1348655&quot;&gt;WCF WebInvoke problem getting WSDL&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/109321/david&quot;&gt;David&lt;/a&gt;, the questioner, is clearly responding to a comment which no longer exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the first I've seen today. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334271/wse-2-0-soaphttprouter-is-it-possible-to-route-soap-messages-with-already-attach&quot;&gt;WSE 2.0 SoapHttpRouter: Is it possible to route soap messages with already attached client certificate?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a question where I would certainly have commented that WSE is obsolete. In fact, the OP appears to be answering a comment like that. Yet there is no visible comment he could have been responding to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these comments actually being deleted, and if so, &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; they be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:28:37.303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:28:37.303" Title="Are Comments Being Deleted Improperly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="18786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18785" CreationDate="2009-08-29T21:55:55.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very likely that they are being deleted by the authors. Many comments are based upon an earlier revision or the question. For this reason, the authors of said comments decide to delete their statements to keep the flow intelligible. If somebody had fixed spelling errors, a comment saying &quot;Whoa...learn to spell&quot; wouldn't make much sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T21:55:55.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18785" CreationDate="2009-08-29T21:58:26.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no threading (by design) and thus no way for the system (or in some case, the readers and participants in the discussion) to associate comments with their responses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, while &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352465/should-i-use-databinding&quot;&gt;this may be an annoyance in some cases&lt;/a&gt;, it should be considered &quot;by design&quot; as well. Thank Lord Atwood, Hater of Threads! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T21:58:26.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:10:08.587" Score="15" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the reasons for decreasing the time window on being able to reverse a vote, but I think it ultimately is going to cause more problems than it solves. I addressed this in a comment to one of Jeff's responses to another question on &quot;tactical downvoting&quot;, but I think it warrants further discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are legitimate times when a downvote is warranted based on initial impressions or original content. However, after after additional research (or the question being edited) the downvote is not warranted anymore. By reducing the window it is no longer possible to reverse a warranted downvote for these type of legitimate reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A perfect example of this can be seen by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1352465/list&quot;&gt;revision history for this question&lt;/a&gt;. Based on the original content of the question, it absolutely warranted a downvote. However, since the question was edited, the downvote is no longer warranted. Unfortunately, having downvoted it initially, I can no longer change my vote (either by removing the downvote or upvoting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify the sequence of events in this particular case, they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Original question asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I downvoted the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I left a comment explaining why I downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone else downvoted the question (resulting in a -2 vote score).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone other than the questioner or myself edited the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I revisted the question and felt that the downvote was no longer warranted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I removed my comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I attempted to undo my downvote and recieved the message telling me I was outside the time limit window. (I tried to undo by clicking the downvote again and also by clicking the upvote, both resulted in the same message.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I edited the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was then able to undo my downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on my understanding of how this is supposed to work, I should have been successful in step 8 since it was after an edit. I also did not provide an answer to the question so I don't see how any of this could have been construed as trying to game the system to increase rep. In fact, I'm not sure how I see voting/undoing votes on a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; can game the system at all; doing this on &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, yes but not on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T23:02:26.140" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T23:02:26.140" Title="Vote Reversal Time Limit Concerns" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18788" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:20:04.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the voting window &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have been reset by Jonathan's edit. If not, I would consider that a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you have enough reputation on Stack Overflow to edit the question, an action that should also give you opportunity to change your vote. Until the bug is fixed, I consider this a valid work-around (I highly doubt such isolated actions will trigger any fraud warnings, but if so the resulting noise should provide sufficient motivation to fix the bug... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T22:20:04.043" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:22:11.450" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote-not-to-close-option-to-counter-the-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, but not the same. The other question is more along the lines of someone else being able to provide a &quot;vote &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to close&quot; to counter a &quot;vote to close&quot;. My question is about being able to cancel your &lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt; vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a few occassions where I voted to close a question for some reason (other than it should be migrated) and then the question has been reworded (either by the original questioner or someone else, which should be irrelevant) resulting in a question that negates the reason specified to close the question. At that point, it would be nice if I could then cancel my own vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T22:22:11.450" ClosedDate="2009-08-29T22:26:13.203" Title="Canceling a &quot;Vote to Close&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:40:35.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;i just asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32169/msi-x58m-digital-audio-output&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question and had an idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what if there were a person working for msi with a special stackoverflow-account who automatically gets all questions with the msi tag and could provide an official answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you could charge them a small ammount of money an give them a nice &quot;Vendor&quot; badge and they could do customer support here. i know most of the companies have their own support website but they often suck and often don't show up in google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could this work? what do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44741" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T23:11:17.997" Title="stackoverflow business model suggestion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;business-model&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18791" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:49:54.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a fine idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see two problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The SO family of websites isn't very well suited for troubleshooting, which tends to be what most support is about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if non-vendor people answer better and faster than the vendor? That might be an image problem for some vendors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T22:49:54.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18797" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:50:21.733" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;For instance, I have just edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/20325/managing-centos-vps-through-ssh&quot;&gt;my answer to this old-ish question on SF&lt;/a&gt; due to a formatting issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change I made doesn't really indicate new active interest in the question, but the current algorithm seems to look solely at last modified dates for any part of a question (the question and any answers, and perhaps any comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a case for edits to answers &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; affecting the &quot;active&quot; or &quot;hot&quot; status? Or perhaps a more fine grained approach: a check-box on the edit screen to select if the edit represents new information or new/further interest (rather than just being a clean-up, as in this instance)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI: I had completely forgot answering the question, about two months ago, until someone gave the answer another vote a few hours ago so it could be said that there was renewed interest in the question+answer today, but my understanding is that the vote itself wouldn't bump the question's recent activity status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132690" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T10:43:19.657" Title="Should all answer edits make old questions look &quot;active&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;edit&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;active&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18791" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:50:53.653" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is driven by people (Bottoms-Up approach), I think your suggestion could turn it into a Top-Down approach where vendors use it as an official support forum - not sure if that really benefits the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T22:50:53.653" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27221" CreationDate="2009-08-29T22:54:12.197" Score="12" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do people think of the idea that as soon as a question or question title contains certain key words (perhaps a volume of key words), in much the same way it suggests that your post might be subjective, it suggests that perhaps you're on the wrong site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E.g.&lt;/strong&gt; on ServerFault, every time someone uses the words &quot;Home Network&quot; or something similar, it popups up a little box &quot;If your question is relating to a home PC or a home network, it belongs over at Super User.&quot; (obviously the phrasing needs to be worked on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or on any of the sites, if the question contains the name of the site (e.g. Super User Colour Scheme hurts my eyes), suggest the Meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would obviously catch the question before it gets voted to close 5 times (which on SF can take quite a while, as there's only about 35 3k users, and obviously even fewer on SU).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Prepares for a flurry of downvotes and &quot;Exact Dupe&quot; even though I can't find the dupe&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T11:07:56.420" Title="Automatic wrong site suggestion when posting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18791" CreationDate="2009-08-29T23:11:17.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as the potential &quot;some semi-anonymous poster is faster and/or more helpful/accurate/correct/what-ever then us in supporting our own product&quot; I see two other possible objections that could stop companies using such a feature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having an official representative on the site lends public credence to the site. While this in itself is probably not an issue, what would happen if incorrect information is posted elsewhere? If a company sees itself as lending credence to a site then they are going to want some sort of editing rights that are unlikely to fit with the way SO/SF/SU are intended to work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Companies are likely to prefer to keep their own support feature, rather than take part in less official roots, partly because of the editing control that gives them and partly because they are not at the mercy of a third party site which could close or change in ways they don't like and are beyond their control. Also, maintaining multiple support routes (their own support features and here) may increase support workload.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect some companies would &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; the feature, and might use it if it were free, but I doubt any would want to &lt;em&gt;pay&lt;/em&gt; for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132690" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T23:11:17.997" />
  <row Id="18797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18793" CreationDate="2009-08-29T23:43:47.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think they should, as it shows that their was further activity and someone may have added more valuable information, one of the goals of the site in the beginning was to reduce the amount of stale information in Google. It also means someone new might be able to now add further information to the topic by adding another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know tonight specifically I did a Google search for something that brought me to a post on SO, and the answers were good enough to upvote on a question almost 8 months old. The question interestingly enough was on how to add constrains using T-SQL, as I haven't done it in a while and needed a refresher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clear indications that the site is reaching it goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-29T23:43:47.757" />
  <row Id="18799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18800" CreationDate="2009-08-30T00:02:38.610" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are there users whose username is shown in a light blue background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T00:04:43.537" Title="Why are there users whose username is shown in a light blue background?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18799" CreationDate="2009-08-30T00:04:43.537" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New Question Asker Features&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another change we made is to highlight &lt;strong&gt;comment responses from the user who asked the question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T00:04:43.537" />
  <row Id="18801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18795" CreationDate="2009-08-30T00:05:38.307" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the 'suggest' feature could search all SOFU sites and if the results come disproportionately from one (80%?) it could be suggested to go there instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T00:05:38.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T00:18:27.013" Score="2" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;(If it has already been asked forgive me, I actually did search for it before asking.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new to SO and even newer to meta; maybe I shouldn't ask, as the question is a silly one, but I actually care to know: should we avoid to ask a question just because maybe others will found that the question is stupid and will then downvote us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, people who care very much for their reputation may end up having a better rep than people who care less, but will they have learned (and taught) more than others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a pointless question: I have some questions I'd like to ask, but not sure if I should or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is not that I don't want to receive negative votes, my point is: Am I offending the community by asking questions that may receive negative votes? I'm not, of course, talking of questions like, &quot;How do I sum two numbers?&quot; or, &quot;Do my job and send me teh codez - and remember to sign it with my name&quot;, that is: I'm not talking of the form of the question, but of its content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I want to make it clear that by &quot;silly questions&quot; I don't mean &quot;How many programmers does it take to change a bulb?&quot;, but rather questions that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; programming related, but maybe not &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt; programming related, or not very urgent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352805/is-it-possible-to-determine-if-the-user-is-paying-attention&quot;&gt;an example I just posted&lt;/a&gt; that seems a legitimate (though maybe not crucial) question to me and which I was unsure of whether to ask or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T02:43:25.410" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:24:59.707" Title="How silly can a question be?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18802" CreationDate="2009-08-30T00:21:48.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to know whether your question is offending the community is to check the score. Our humor can be very fickle and one question we can vote up lots, while other questions that try to be funny will end up getting buried. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T00:21:48.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18806" CreationDate="2009-08-30T00:36:27.607" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, I seem to be running into the subjective warning a lot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying this to complain.  I'm just curious if it's just how I'm phrasing my questions or if it's not just me that feels this way.  In particular, the warning comes up a lot when I start a question with &quot;How do you...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel this to be a good indicator of whether or not a question is subjective.  But this is just my opinion.  Have I been obliviously been writing horribly subjective-sounding questions and not knowing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T01:13:50.423" Title="Is it just me, or is the &quot;subjective&quot; warning a bit over-active?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective-warning&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18805" CreationDate="2009-08-30T00:45:00.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that 'How do you...' is a trigger, where something similar like 'How does one...' is not.  If you want to get out of the rut of writing horribly subjective-sounding questions, there is some advice to be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;in this meta post&lt;/a&gt; which shouldnt trigger that warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T00:45:00.453" />
  <row Id="18807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18802" CreationDate="2009-08-30T01:03:20.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is not an easy question to answer. Many of us browse questions with different intentions. Some of us are in rep-building mode, and don't want to see nonsense come across the screen. We feel it creates unnecessary noise and contributes nothing to the pool of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others browse out of boredom, and would love a silly question. They may even want to get one-up on the OP and provide an even sillier answer. Like-minded individuals will drop in and up-vote, or others may drop-in and downvote into oblivion, voting to close as &quot;not a real question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's anything my answer here can communicate clearly, it's that I have no idea if silly questions should be asked. In my personal opinion, give it a shot, but don't take it personal if a slew of developers come by and shut it down. Be optimistic though, while I don't usually like silly contributions, there times when I can't help but to upvote them excessively - it all depends on how that days has been :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best of luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T01:03:20.220" />
  <row Id="18808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18802" CreationDate="2009-08-30T01:04:30.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally questions on SO should be programming related: about specifics of coding, about programming languages or concepts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post a silly/fun question, you should assume that it will be voted to be closed, as there are many users out there now with the power to vote a question closed and you only need five to agree.  With that in mind, you really only have to worry about whether offending 5 users is an issue, not the entire SO community.  In the end, I wouldn't sweat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are worried about posting a question that might seem silly/inexperienced, don't worry about that either.  The easier the question, assuming that it is programming related, the faster you will likely get answers, as others will be jumping in to grab rep.  Just be sure to accept a valid answer in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T01:04:30.000" />
  <row Id="18809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18805" CreationDate="2009-08-30T01:13:50.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask questions for yourself, not of the world in general, and make good and sure that the title reflects that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good:&lt;/strong&gt; How do I compile multiple C++ files in parallel? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad:&lt;/strong&gt; How do you do your builds in parallel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T01:13:50.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18802" CreationDate="2009-08-30T01:29:11.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can be as silly as you like as long as they are on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sites are intended to be newbie friendly and people will usually give fair warning via comments if you've crossed some lines. I've seen very, &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; basic questions asked with lots of upvotes even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in any case, the worst thing that can happen is to get downvotes, which is not at all a big deal, just learn from it and try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: That's a very valid question, do more of them. They don't have to be urgent or for a real job or anything like that. Just programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T01:35:24.413" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T01:35:24.413" />
  <row Id="18811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:16:32.990" Score="6" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on Jeff asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1/should-meta-stackoverflow-com-replace-uservoice-com&quot;&gt;Should meta.stackoverflow.com replace uservoice.com?&lt;/a&gt;. I argued then that the Q&amp;amp;A format wasn't that great a fit to a user request engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, 2 months on, how is it doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T09:11:38.990" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T22:39:10.530" Title="Two months on: is Meta working as a replacement to Uservoice?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:16:46.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My own thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are 1100+ &quot;questions&quot; tagged &quot;feature request&quot;, more than can reasonably be looked at I think. I think this is way more than we had on UV;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's obviously way more discussion here but UV wasn't designed for that;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UV had navigation for top requests, newest requests, completed requests, etc. You can kinda get that information out of Meta but it's &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; more awkward;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Significant unilateral changes (mostly meaning the recent answer order change) suggest to me that Meta is more about containing meta-discussion than it is about engaging the community. If so, at some point the jig will be up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T02:16:46.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:25:50.510" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as a feature request and bug reporting device, I think there are both pros and cons to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pros: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allows for better discussion and the actual ability to vote down horrible requests.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Incredibly disorganized at times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T02:25:50.510" />
  <row Id="18814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:28:23.313" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;UserVoice was nearly invisible for most people.  Meta is more visible, if only because we can automatically migrate questions here.  I don't know that it works any better for actually getting feedback on feature development.  I'm sure that the team pays attention to feature suggestions, but the choice of which features of developed doesn't really seem to be tied to voting in any systematic way.  It's not clear that this was intended, but I'd sure like to see it happen that way (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17923/allow-the-community-to-influence-development-of-so-features-explicitly&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T02:28:23.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T03:06:24.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I wasn't part of the wide world of UserVoice, but I've been around these parts for a little while. Some of the things I've noticed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feature requests and bug reports are working fantastically in the sense of being communicated to the dev team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta provides a great way for the dev team to get back to us, but we rarely have that communication open past superficial things. Discussing implementations of feature requests would be fantastic--most of the time, it's, &quot;Yeah, I agree with person X.&quot; But, most of us are programmers, and understand that sometimes concessions are made. We'd like to be part of the solution, not just old cooks on the porch yelling at cars as they pass. The fourth wall was broken a bit this past week when Jarod explained the collation issue, but the status quo is to mark things as &lt;code&gt;status-*&lt;/code&gt; without an explanation. This is especially aggravating on community-backed initiatives. To quote Dr. Horrible, &quot;The status is not...quo.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Community user hasn't been turned off and useless discussions keep popping up from a month or two ago. This is uberannoying and adds to the noise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thankfully, people are much more jovial here, and that makes it a much better place. I know we've had some hoopla about the &quot;waffle culture&quot; here (for which I felt proudly responsible), but really, who doesn't like to come to a place where everybody knows your name and likes waffles? I sure do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, I think that Meta has proven to be a very easy way for new users to get support, and for those with good ideas to get them to the dev team. I just think that it's being underused by the dev team on the interaction side of the fence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are all here (hopefully) because we enjoy being on SOFU (and a lot on Meta), and we want to actually improve the respective sites and communities. I think this has given us a great avenue for discussing how we can do that, how we handle non-technical issues on SOFU, and how the respective cultures are formed and maintained. And I think that's bloody awesome, but the potential for more awesome is there. So that makes me one happy penguin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:06:24.767" />
  <row Id="18818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:46:45.540" Score="3" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask for the best interests of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:26:33.730" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:26:33.730" ClosedDate="2011-08-21T19:34:52.203" Title="If there was an Open Source version of StackOverflow, would you use it to power your own Q&amp;A sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="18819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:47:37.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;no                                       &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150260" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:15:45.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:51:45.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly, yes. Plus, someone is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16780/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;already working on one.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133778" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T07:34:30.513" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T07:34:30.513" />
  <row Id="18821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:52:42.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I possibly would not use the code for my own site, but I would defiantly play with it to understand ASP.NET MVC in greater detail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Access to the codebase would be a wonderful resource for those who want to enhance their capabilities and learn from a base that we know works and scales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the codebase was missing some features reserved for only the commercial version, I would still be happy to play and tinker and get that lightbulb moment when you go, aaaaahhh, so that's how you do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI: My notes here were from assuming the real SO source base being opened up or a copy based on the same ASP.NET MVC infrastructure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70683" LastEditorUserId="70683" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T23:21:03.510" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T23:21:03.510" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:52:47.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;yes I would if it was just like stackoverflow in all aspects (not just a SO clone that gives power to add reps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following features are also required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO is automatically Search Engine Optimized..comes up on every google search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO works faster with a neat design&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has more options than traditional forums&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the opensource project meets the same requirements,why wouldn't anybody use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:15:45.540" />
  <row Id="18823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T02:59:50.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course. this is why I wrote one &lt;a href=&quot;http://phpancake.sourceforge.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PHPancake&lt;/a&gt; and use it for several sites (not yet aired) I needed to do (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://hamedareg.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hamedareg&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;b.t.w it is actually a user level based system. The SO clone is just a demo of what can be done with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:15:45.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T03:03:27.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was &lt;em&gt;as good as&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow, perhaps. But merely being open source isn't really enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, I could slap together a basic SO clone in an afternoon. I don't need anything open-source for that. What makes SO worth using is the year's worth of polish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic functionality is ridiculously simple. Any idiot could replicate that. But so far, I haven't seen anyone other than the SO team actually carry it through and make a complete, polished, working, nice-to-use website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:15:45.540" />
  <row Id="18825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T03:19:15.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on what it's written in and how good it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd definitely favour a PHP (first choice) or Python (second choice) implementation from a point of hosting costs. Far lower barrier to entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also SO quite deliberately has a narrow focus for Q&amp;amp;A, which is actually good. But that's not necessarily appropriate for other uses. Take Meta as an example. The fact that discussion is awkward is good on SO but not as good on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Meta needs a better form of issue tracking (imho).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:19:15.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18802" CreationDate="2009-08-30T03:24:59.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a programming question that should have a clear, correct answer - go for it. Just phrase it seriously and you'll do fine. There are plenty of easy questions on SO with up votes. And there's plenty of code golf and the like as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T03:24:59.707" />
  <row Id="18827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18788" CreationDate="2009-08-30T05:53:55.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be aware that if you want to change your vote there are two different ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cast initial upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click upvote again to &quot;undo&quot; upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's 3 votes by our reckoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cast initial upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click downvote to convert your upvote to a downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's 2 votes by our reckoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be surprised if a) is blocked, while b) is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course you can always re-vote after an edit, but if you are sloppy in the way you cast your votes (see above), you may be blocked regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T05:53:55.880" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T07:22:12.643" Score="1" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7119/why-are-there-no-line-numbers-in-the-code-listings&quot;&gt;Why are there no line numbers in the code listings?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, Should not there be line numbers with the code samples in questions and answers? it makes it easier to refer in the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13198" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T08:55:36.950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T09:47:07.093" ClosedDate="2009-08-30T09:49:03.940" Title="Line numbers in code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T07:23:19.100" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that it's working &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; better than UserVoice ever did, mostly because the engine/UI is so much better to start with. I won't rehash the issues I had with UserVoice just as a user, but suffice to say I'm happier here :) If I were the UV authors I'd now be seriously concerned that StackExchange may be a serious competitor for UV as a support forum. I haven't checked the prices and I suspect SE is more expensive than UV, mind you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is Meta better than UV for feature requests and bug reports, but it's also obviously relieved the pressure of non-programming SO discussions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically a big +1 for Meta from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T07:23:19.100" />
  <row Id="18830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18828" CreationDate="2009-08-30T07:27:05.317" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not so sure... I always find line numbers a distraction; I don't show them when I'm coding, so why would I want them now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to highlight a code in one of my samples, I add a comment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var z = x / y; // &amp;lt;==== throws error&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is the OP's line, I just quote it..., for example: the line &quot;&lt;code&gt;var z = x / y&lt;/code&gt;&quot; might throw if &lt;code&gt;y&lt;/code&gt; is zero; is this possible with your data?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; happen, I wouldn't want to see it on single-line answers - there would be a lot of 1s...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T07:27:05.317" />
  <row Id="18831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T08:46:19.637" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;meta is about 5,000 times faster. I actually &lt;em&gt;liked&lt;/em&gt; UserVoice, but holy moly was it ever slow and unreliable, almost all the time. Speed = feature. (it also reinforced all my negative stereotypes of Ruby/Rails apps, by the way. It and 99 Designs/CrowdSpring.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The voting up and down, as well as the linking of accounts and reputation, tends to keep the tone more civil here (believe it or not) than what I used to see on UserVoice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even though the SO engine was never designed for discussion, somehow it is still worlds better than UV at this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Cletus points out, it'd be nice if we had top-level links to the &quot;incomplete requests and unfinished bugs sorted by votes&quot; queries. &lt;s&gt;That's about all I really miss.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18130/add-the-open-feature-requests-view-to-the-list-of-available-views-on-meta&quot;&gt;now we do!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/new-top-bugs-and-top-requests-on-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/new-top-bugs-and-top-requests-on-meta/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T22:39:10.530" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T22:39:10.530" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18828" CreationDate="2009-08-30T08:48:38.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Line numbers might make it easier to refer to a specific line. On the other hand, they'd make it much harder to copy stuff off the site and paste it  in your editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T08:48:38.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18828" CreationDate="2009-08-30T09:21:26.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding line numbers could help make the answer more understandable, sometimes I wish I could reference a specific line in the code and it's a bit hard without actual line numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest adding a &quot;copy this&quot; link on top of the code that way we can copy the code without the line numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T09:21:26.647" />
  <row Id="18837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18828" CreationDate="2009-08-30T09:47:07.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as all the other points (in particular the &quot;copy/paste&quot; argument), I'd add the following. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Line numbers are useful in longer pieces, where you refer to &quot;line 4: set up the connection, line 5: provide credentials, line 8: set up the query&quot; and so on. However, I've found that the vast majority of StackOverflow questions (certainly ones I'm involved in) don't have such quantities of code in the answer (explanation isn't always needed or given in any longer question's code segments), so any explanation needed is usually given in the text or in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm publishing code segments on sites, and need to provide notes for specific lines, I usually use something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;line_of_code();  // 1&#xA;more_code();&#xA;even_more_code();&#xA;final_code();    // 2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the benefits that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's not clogging up the screen for those who don't like seeing line numbers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't bother copy/pasters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's got the annotating benefits; I can say &quot;At line marked 1 above, ...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious benefit: we've already got the ability to do this now :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130029" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T09:47:07.093" />
  <row Id="18838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T10:33:17.127" Score="-2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Others have asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18054/isnt-the-accepted-answer-feature-overly-visible/&quot;&gt;similar questions&lt;/a&gt; but bear with me for a second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At present an accepted answer has the following visibility:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is moved to the top of the answers listing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It get's a big green tick.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The background colour of the answer text changes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is great in situations where the OP has gone and tried the answer and found it to solve the problem perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they don't and it is obvious from the number of votes for other answers that they may have been hasty in accepting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that 3 visual cues for an accepted answer unfairly causes it to be more visible than sometimes better answers and I wonder if we couldn't improve the situation by changing the dynamics a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you consider a variation of any of the visibility cues? If so how would you alter it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T11:17:58.080" Title="How could the accepted answer visibility be improved?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="18839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13587" CreationDate="2009-08-30T10:40:26.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I'm not sure why a &quot;Meta-sticker&quot; is needed. I mean, to me, a sticker for a site which is a &quot;meta&quot; of the subsites... it's a &quot;meta&quot; of the substickers :-]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/8851/metasticker.png&quot; alt=&quot;meta-sticker&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chase the other stickers, make your own &quot;meta&quot; sticker!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T10:40:26.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18838" CreationDate="2009-08-30T10:40:46.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An accepted answer worked for the OP with the problem he was &lt;strong&gt;specifically&lt;/strong&gt; having. The other answers may have been too generic, although they would potentially also be right, and this will be indicated via voting. Anyone coming in from Google, knowing nothing of the SO system, will not understand the difference between highest voted answer and accepted answer, and will therefore not bother to read the rest of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The default view for answers hitting the site is Accepted/Highest Voted. Therefore both answer already get enough focus, and hopefully someone will detect that the accepted answers has less votes then it's accepted counterpart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the additional answers may have been added weeks or months later when information or systems have changed. So at the time of the question the answer is correct, but through progress this has changed. For example current MVC questions will get updated answers when MVC 2.0 is released, since features previously not supported is suddenly included. This was the goal of SO. To get the freshest information on old questions always available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will often up-vote other answers that I believe is fundamentally correct in general to highlight them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T10:46:40.110" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T10:46:40.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18845" CreationDate="2009-08-30T10:47:02.357" Score="14" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;Timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asked a question, no (interesting) answers for two weeks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Set bounty on it this morning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found the answer to my question two hours later. Answered my own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty reputation is lost. It was not awarded to me, it was not returned to me (the 100 I invested). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I feel really stupid for answering my own bounty question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is accepted behavior, then user should be warned - you are answering your own bounty question, your bounty reputation will be LOST. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135102" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T11:29:47.950" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T14:11:24.803" Title="Lost reputation after answering my own question with bounty" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-30T10:58:37.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I wouldn't use it. StackExchange is a great platform. It's obviously well written as far as technical and performance issues go but it's clear that the real value is in the thought and processes that have gone into making it. It's successful because it's been thought through properly and it has evolved. That sort of effort deserves to be rewarded not copied by every codemonkey with no bright ideas of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like the platform, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18054/isnt-the-accepted-answer-feature-overly-visible/&quot;&gt;buy it&lt;/a&gt;, as I intend to! And encourage all the good effort that has gone into an amazing product. In so doing you will encourage others with good ideas to bring them to market rather than scare them off making the effort when they know it'll be counterfeited immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that, but there's something to be said for paying for your success. You always get what you pay for. A hosted solution should be a supported solution and as the platform evolves the improvements will be made available to customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastEditorUserId="130814" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T11:11:42.417" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T11:11:42.417" />
  <row Id="18845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18841" CreationDate="2009-08-30T11:15:45.310" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is accepted behavior and has been detailed in the FAQ topics concerning bounties. If you answer your own bounty you are not eligible for getting the bounty back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the only way the bounty will get awarded to anybody is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You accept an answer during the bounty period.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the bounty period expires, the highest voted answer (minimum score of +2) wins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is a tie on answers with minimum score of +2, the first answer is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other scenario and you will lose the reputation and no reputation will be awarded to anybody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T11:15:45.310" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="18846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18838" CreationDate="2009-08-30T11:17:58.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the original OP accepts the answer, then that means (should mean) that it was the best answer for that person for that particular problem. Just because everyone and their mother votes up someone else doesn't mean that the other guy actually had an answer that was acceptable to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are wondering about Google users, I am generally going to be more interested in what worked for a user who has the same problem I had, not what everyone thinks is the best answer. If the accepted answer does not work for me as a future viewer, then I will start looking at the other options presented by the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T11:17:58.080" />
  <row Id="18847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18785" CreationDate="2009-08-30T12:08:36.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's quite rare for a comment to be deleted by flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We actually made it a bit more difficult recently for comments to be deleted by flagging; as comments get upvotes they become (somewhat) more resistant to automatic flag removal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jonathan Sampson stated, it's frequently the owner who withdrew his or her own comment. That should be your first assumption when a comment disappears.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; at least one that wasn't comically, egregiously offensive. Again, and thankfully, quite rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:08:36.483" />
  <row Id="18848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:22:56.067" Score="8" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it an acceptable usage of Stackoverflow to use it as a sort of Q/A database for extremely specialized topics (still related to programming, albeit very narrow focus)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I teach workshops on a real-time operating system and often, students have specific questions about certain aspects of our product.  We have an internal mailing list we use to disseminate the knowledge, but SO would be a &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; nice way to capture the information:  Pose the question and the provide the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that Jeff encourages this, but I don't think he envisioned this scale: we're talking about posing and answering 100 to 200 questions. I would make sure to tag them appropriately &lt;strong&gt;just&lt;/strong&gt; with the specific rtos (vxworks) tag. Those questions would probably have a minuscule audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just setting myself up to be down moded as a spammer wannabe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163175" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T12:24:20.203" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:24:20.203" Title="Extremely specialized, narrow topics?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="8" />
  <row Id="18849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:25:42.130" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every question in Stack Overflow is like the Wikipedia article for some extremely narrow, specific programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you aren't producing lots of duplicates, this practice seems like a great way to populate the SO knowledgebase.  Just be sure to follow the rules of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and be open to alternate answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;. Oh yes, and it&#xA;   should be about programming. You know, with a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162485" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" />
  <row Id="18850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:26:09.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, if there is any audience beyond your workshops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" />
  <row Id="18851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:26:33.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it would be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131330" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" />
  <row Id="18852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:26:37.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's encourage to have specialized Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original vision was for this site to be a fallback from searching google (even though people don't do it before asking)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" />
  <row Id="18853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:30:54.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never seen a technical question get any down votes, unless it is a duplicate of a question already asked and answered, so I wouldn't worry about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a great idea, and definitely appropriate in Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136299" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" />
  <row Id="18854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-17T19:33:03.017" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it depends on the applicability of your problem domain. For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if your &quot;product&quot; is available outside of your workshop (either via opensource, freeware, or for sale to the general public) AND&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The types of questions/knowledge your students are going to be asking are not related to specific projects in your workshop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it's probably &lt;em&gt;OK&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the product isn't available outside of your community and/or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the types of questions the students are going to ask are of the type &quot;What is meant by requirement 1.27 in the BenoitWorkshop Project 2 specification&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it's probably &lt;em&gt;NOT OK&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO wasn't meant to replace the documentation, mailing lists, discussion groups, etc. of various products or communities. Nor was it intended to be the place for vendors to publish their FAQ. It was intended for the community at large of &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; of these products/tools/etc. to do Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2233" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-17T19:33:03.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-18T03:18:59.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you need to state your association with WindRiver in the question.  Also, if you have an answer already to post to your question you should post it right away -- not 20 hours later (as was done in your &quot;target shell&quot; question).  That way people won't waste time duplicating effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159058" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2008-09-18T05:32:07.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you mind please marking such questions as &quot;I already understand an answer to this question&quot; or &quot;this is a meta-question&quot; or similar?  For example, I just answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90204/why-would-a-region-of-memory-be-marked-non-cached&quot;&gt;one of your questions&lt;/a&gt;.  I would have written more had I known you were asking for a long-form answer rather than a short answer (expecting further discussion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer nickf's comment, since I can't respond inline yet: Nowhere did I say that I thought the concept of these questions is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, what I meant was that a vague question, such as the one I responded to, could be answered in a few different ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could give a simple answer and wait for a response, hoping to ferret out the asker's skill level and exact situation in order to provide an answer relevant to the exact situation. (Both myself and the other answerer did this.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could give a very general, encyclopedic answer.  I prefer not to start with such an answer, because it takes me a lot of time to prepare, and is not necessarily appreciated by a question asker who just wants a solution to his or her immediate problem, not a lecture.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could simply ask for additional information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the question is vague because it's intended to be a general meta-question, obviously only solutions in form #2 make sense.  Therefore, to prevent answers of form #1 or #3 from cluttering the question, I would simply ask that the question be somehow tagged or marked as being a &quot;reference&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6372" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:30.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-19T12:32:18.583" Score="4" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close this if it's too far OT, but I keep asking myself in a GOM* kind of way, why so few SO &quot;questions&quot; are actually &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take a random sample, only 20 of the 50 latest posts that I can see are actually written as questions, with real honest-to-goodness interrogatives and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What, for example, are we to make of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/564367&quot;&gt;XML Parsing Problem&lt;/a&gt;&quot;? Should we be taking it on ourselves to make the question more usefully scoped? Perhaps in this case someone might have changed the topic to something like &quot;How do I handle incomplete or invalid streamed XML?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did I just get out of bed on the wrong side this morning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Grumpy Old Man&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133197" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T12:24:56.660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:24:56.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-12T09:27:07.297" Title="Should non-questions be rewritten as questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18857" CreationDate="2009-02-19T12:35:53.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been like this on Usenet forever - people seem to have a fanatical desire to obscure what their real problem is, and instead post questions regarding (often inappropriate) specific techical solutions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:43.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18857" CreationDate="2009-02-19T12:40:41.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Should&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to you, whether you want to or not, for any given question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find I like something enough that I want to edit to make it a clearer question (to help the OP get answers); and sometimes not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:43.153" />
  <row Id="18860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18857" CreationDate="2009-02-19T12:44:51.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its a question of semantics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question needs not (IMO) to end in a question mark, but it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; always be as clear as can be, and it is your right as a reputed user to &lt;strong&gt;help&lt;/strong&gt; both the person who posts the question and any possible users reading it, to make the question as clear as necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(perhaps not always needing to be as clear as possible for the person helping the original poster, but making it clear &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; for the readers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other tools to voice your opinion are also there at your disposal, voting and commenting included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me, I learned a lot from both getting constructive criticism over my questions and answers, and also from watching others being corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am learning something new here everyday, and not only IT stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please check for reference the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14593/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts&quot;&gt;etiquette to change posts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=sofaq-official&amp;amp;page=2&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;user FAQs&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO FAQ&lt;/a&gt; input on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the link on the etiquette to change posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I figure that I should edit in the&#xA;  following circumstances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Grammatical or spelling errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clarification where the meaning is not&#xA;  changed. For instance if the title&#xA;  does not describe the question very&#xA;  well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where the user has made a very minor&#xA;  mistake that doesn't justify a full&#xA;  post to clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131903" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:43.153" />
  <row Id="18861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18857" CreationDate="2009-02-19T14:21:27.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if you are  Alex Trebek.  Otherwise it's a solution in search of a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:43.153" />
  <row Id="18862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18857" CreationDate="2009-02-19T16:43:10.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question you linked DOES have an explicit question though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are talking about just the summary-lines containing questions then you should specify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136412" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:43.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18857" CreationDate="2009-02-25T15:35:05.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is stated in the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; written by Jeff Atwood:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own programming question, but pretend you're on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeopardy&lt;/a&gt;: phrase it in the form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although that's referring to the a person asking and answering their own question I think it's clear the expectations is that questions should be phrased as questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:43.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18865" CreationDate="2009-02-16T04:20:23.147" Score="6" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask everyone if it is appropriate to post a solution to a &quot;problem&quot; in my web development projects.   It would be in a format such as &quot;Needed a way to solve (insert problem here) and here is the solution that I came up with&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131497" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T12:25:31.653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:25:31.653" Title="Can I post &quot;how to&quot; articles here?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;how-to&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18864" CreationDate="2009-02-16T04:22:14.467" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just ask the question on how to do it then post your answer. This is a specifically allowed way of doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes more sense to ask &quot;How do I combine tables and CSS?&quot; than to state &quot;Here's how I combined tables and CSS&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you won't get points for accepting your own answer nor will it rise to the top (unless it gets the most votes). If you want to be sneaky, don't ask the question until you have the answer ready to post in. That makes it more likely that people will vote you up (if you're that way inclined).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:54.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18864" CreationDate="2009-02-16T04:23:17.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;sure. you can post it as an answer to your own question. maybe somebody else might give a better answer too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:54.450" />
  <row Id="18867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18864" CreationDate="2009-02-16T04:26:36.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just write a blog post and explain your solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:54.450" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18864" CreationDate="2009-02-16T04:27:58.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you search StackOverflow first and can't find a similar/identical question already, AND you believe it was a non-obvious answer that other people will benefit from, then I can't see why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case you may want to create a normal question (phrase the title as a question) and immediately post your answer, as an actual answer.  That allows other users to either indicate your answer is useful/correct or add their own answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:54.450" />
  <row Id="18869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18864" CreationDate="2009-02-16T17:59:59.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Pax said, you can answer your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option is to create a community wiki. I think the community wiki &quot;questions&quot; are great for solutions to potential questions and/or some how toos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your how too gets into article territory, then I think a blog posting is probably the most appropriate. That line isn't well defined though IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146104" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:18:54.450" />
  <row Id="18870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-20T18:36:29.397" Score="12" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; tab show questions that have answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:44:18.840" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T21:50:42.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T18:36:29.397" Title="Why does the &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; tab show questions that have answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="18871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18870" CreationDate="2008-10-20T18:36:37.430" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;Unanswered Questions&lt;/code&gt; tab shows questions that have no answers voted greater than zero. (That includes questions with no answers at all of course)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:19:04.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T18:36:37.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18870" CreationDate="2008-10-22T22:56:02.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; is that it's very common to get an answer to a question that doesn't actually provide the information requested.  (People might provide an incorrect or incomplete answer, or might provide an answer that really should be a comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The assumption is that if a answer can get a positive vote, then it's good enough that the question can be considered &quot;answered&quot; (even if the user has not accepted it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131145" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:19:04.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-22T22:56:02.460" />
  <row Id="18876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17038" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:06:17.603" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A rollback does a couple of things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, and most important, a rollback reverts a questions (or answer) back to a previous version in the edit history.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rollback action itself then appears as the most recent item in the edit history.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second, a rollback clears any offensive flags that have been set on a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of what an edit history with a number of rollbacks looks like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that each revision that's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a rollback has a &lt;em&gt;rollback&lt;/em&gt; link next to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2983487347_5e9c121ae0.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:19:18.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-29T14:06:17.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18878" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18879" CreationDate="2008-10-23T13:52:14.490" Score="25" ViewCount="1891" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some tips for tagging questions. These guidelines will help you more accurately tag your questions, which in turn will help them get more attention and lead to better answers faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-10T20:23:24.713" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T15:54:22.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T13:52:14.490" Title="How do I correctly tag my questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="18879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18878" CreationDate="2008-10-23T13:52:21.980" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Effective Tags - Bring more attention to your question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pick tags that show higher counts in the look-ahead prompts, as they are more likely to make your question appear highlighted for a user on the main page or show up in someone's RSS feed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At a minimum, try to include at least one very broad tag (i.e., &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt;) and one other tag to narrow the topic down within that broader category (i.e., &lt;code&gt;strings&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;garbage-collection&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are limited to 5 tags, and you are generally better off trying to use all 5 of them (if there are 5 appropriate matches among existing tags). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to use broad tags.  For example, you usually want to include the version with the .NET tag rather than the language.  While tagging a question &lt;code&gt;c#2.0&lt;/code&gt; might convey exactly the information you intend (it implies C#, .NET, and version 2.0 all in one tag), tagging it &lt;code&gt;.net c# .net2.0&lt;/code&gt; will bring your question &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; more attention, since more people will watch the generic &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; tags.  There is of course a trade-off: you used 3 tags to convey the same information you could have done with one.  However, it's hard to understate how many more views the generic tags will bring to your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each tag should stand on its own: if a tag only makes sense when used in a group with other tags, something is wrong.  For example, tagging a question as &lt;code&gt;[visual]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[studio]&lt;/code&gt; (two tags) is wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tagging Don'ts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Try not to create new tags.&lt;/strong&gt;  If you create a new tag, that tag is guaranteed not to help your question show up on any subscribed RSS feeds or interesting tag lists.  Again, the look-ahead prompt can help with this.  Odds are it also means you're missing an existing tag for that topic that would more-accurately categorize your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't&lt;/em&gt; try to summarize your question using the tags.&lt;/strong&gt;  The point of tags on Stack Overflow is to help other interested persons find your question by sorting it into clear, specific categories.  This is not the same as indexing or summarizing the question.  The differences are subtle, but important.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't use your username for a tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't use &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;  A meta tag is any tag that doesn't categorize the content of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Formatting&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use all lower-case&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replaces spaces with dashes (-) to combine multiple words into a single word (i.e, Tag &quot;&lt;code&gt;Unit Testing&lt;/code&gt;&quot; as &quot;&lt;code&gt;unit-testing&lt;/code&gt;&quot;).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid punctuation.  This can make it difficult to use the tag in a URL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A number of tags pre-date the guidelines, and are therefore formatted differently.  But that doesn't mean you shouldn't follow these rules.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When naming a tag, think about how someone would google that subject.  In most cases this means typing out the full name, but you may also want to use the abbreviation.  For example, &quot;&lt;code&gt;css&lt;/code&gt;&quot; is probably more appropriate than &quot;&lt;code&gt;cascading-style-sheets&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Re-tagging&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not&lt;/strong&gt; re-tag a question if you are not going to add value to the question information by doing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do&lt;/strong&gt; re-tag questions to use well-known and popular tags that are appropriate for the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-09T23:17:43.847" LastActivityDate="2010-10-09T23:17:43.847" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T13:52:21.980" CommentCount="33" />
  <row Id="18883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-04T17:01:29.283" Score="10" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed today that stackoverflow's cc-wiki (aka creative commons attribution/share alike license) does not allow the answers to questions to be used in commercial products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very specificially, and perhaps I've misunderstood the license, it has a share-alike clause, meaning any derivative work would also be share-alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Corporations eschew such clauses, because while the answer might be necessary, or even key, they must retain the rights to their own work. Not just corporations, but anyone who holds a copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the right license to put on sample code? I don't want people ripping off my code or productizing it with little to no work of their own and making tons of cash. But I also want larger projects to be able to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Some clarification. I actually want commercial usage to be ok. Supposing I write a good caching algorithm in answer to a question; I don't mind if some larger project like Mozilla or IE wants to use it, even a commercial product, but I don't want someone to take the algorithm and start selling it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IE, it's ok if they want to USE the algorithm in their product, not OK if their product is the algorithm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4777" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T12:27:30.200" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T05:23:29.627" Title="What license should be on sample code?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18883" CreationDate="2009-06-04T17:09:13.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you take a look at the Creative Commons License?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons_license&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons_license&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Example:&lt;/b&gt; Attribution/Noncommercial&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;means that everyone that uses your work has to give you credit.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;and none of your work can be used for commercial purposes&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be along the lines of what you are looking for because you can choose a level of control you want over your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also,  if you are writing a library you might be interested in checking out the LGPL.  People could still technically make money using your library here, but at least they would have to license it under the GPL/LGPL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133165" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:03.123" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="18885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18883" CreationDate="2009-06-04T17:20:24.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For anything I'm willing to type into an answer, I'd suggest allowing free use.  If it's something I want to keep, I simply won't answer with it.  The amount of code I can reasonably type into one of these things is simply not worth protecting, and the amount of effort I'm willing to put in is also not worth protecting.  Similarly, if you're posting code here that somebody could just run with and rake in the cash, I'd say you're posting too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it's dubious that the typical code snippet around here has the necessary creativity to be copyrightable in the US.  It tends to be very short and based strictly on the necessary functionality.  (In the US, at least, it is not possible to use copyright to protect functionality, and therefore a purely functional something isn't eligible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'd say allow free use of snippets, and only worry about protecting larger projects.  For that, you could use the GPL or some non-commercial license or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:03.123" />
  <row Id="18886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18883" CreationDate="2009-06-04T17:21:41.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer and you should be asking a lawyer instead of listening to me here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code samples are such a small part of an overall application it's likely a stretch to claim derivation, for starters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit I don't really see the point of licensing sample code. If said code does something extraordinary it might actually be a patent (I know, I know) you're looking for and not a license, at least to start with. If the code merely shows how something is accomplished then I'd wonder whether the code sample even qualifies for IPR protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and SO's license does not prohibit commercial exploitation of the content here. ShareAlike does not preclude commercial exploitation (there's a CC license variant which does; &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Noncommercial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I am understanding the distinction you're making between people ripping off your code and larger projects using it. What is the variable there, size of the product using your sample code? I don't know of a license which discriminates in favor of larger derivative works but you're always free to take an existing license you like and add a clause to it specifying for example what proportion of the final product your sample code must constitute as a maximum in order for the license to be valid. I think that that kind of clause would be a pretty big deterrent to use though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that slapping a license on code does not mean foregoing any rights to the work. License and copyright go hand in hand. Copyright says &quot;I own this code&quot; and license says &quot;since I own this code, I am empowered to let you use it given the following conditions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:03.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18883" CreationDate="2009-07-08T14:58:55.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the LGPL does exactly what you want -- if a person wants to incorporate your code in their code, they can; but if when the product &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; your code, they have to distribute the source with the binary. I would use v3.0, because it's better written IMHO but YMMV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130889" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:03.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-11T05:01:03.620" Score="15" ViewCount="506" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in your answer to this question: Why do you post to Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, what drives you to contribute here? Is it an aspiration for recognition of expertise? Is it a need to bring a social aspect to your personal programming endeavors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as important, what underlies your choice to answer questions on Stack Overflow instead of doing another activity, particularly, instead of programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth taking a moment to marvel at the existence of the Stack Overflow community, a community that exists because of the decisions of many individuals to participate. I'm interested in &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; decision to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I look forward to reading your answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Note: The motivation behind this question sits &lt;a href=&quot;http://igotgenes.blogspot.com/2008/12/whats-in-it-for-programmer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on my blog&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Edit note: Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15614/kent-fredric&quot;&gt;Kent Fredric&lt;/a&gt; for his helpful suggestions on rephrasing the original question.&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139025" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T04:15:12.897" LastActivityDate="2010-12-22T06:46:39.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T15:32:55.297" Title="Why do you post to Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="28" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="18889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T05:03:13.117" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post questions to get answers. I post answers because I had questions once and no one to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T05:03:13.117" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T05:27:51.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post here because it feels good to have people reaffirm my worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of my posts are meant to be helpful.  Some I post to be funny.  Others I post for recognition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get an upvote, it is like having people tell you that you are worth something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping people is always good.  Even if you get something out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T05:27:51.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T05:38:41.453" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find I learn most from answering questions. Finding out where you are &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt; can be as useful as finding out where you are &lt;strong&gt;right&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if there is already a barrage of good answers, it is a good challenge to rack your brain, and find out &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reasons why existing answers are wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possible Scenarios where existing answers are only conditionally wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information that will challenge existing posts to reaffirm their answer with more solid evidence. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What you can add to the existing answers that cover bases not already covered. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Criticism and getting down voted is one thing, but when you get a decent comment, or an entire answer categorically and analytically stating why your answer is wrong, that is an ideal opportunity to learn from your mistakes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Programming Related, Honest&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I go here because it gives me rep&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep and growing rep is a believed representation of ability&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep looks good to me on paper. &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep to me, makes me look good on paper&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Me looking good on paper is good for my programming career. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People On SO could potentially value me due to REP&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One such valuation could score me a programming job. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You people would do well to read his actual journal, because it explains the motivation behind the question more clearly than the question itself conveys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe Asking questions or answering questions could have long ranging or short ranging benefits to your programming career, or even your programming hobby, whether they be negative or positive, the point of this question is to unearth the technical merits that are possibly associated, and then gauge and Idea of which concepts are predominant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understanding &lt;em&gt;others&lt;/em&gt; opinions on this matter is the &lt;em&gt;Important&lt;/em&gt; part of this question, because re: employment, the situation is often in somebody elses hands, and you want to be as forearmed as to the possible viewpoints of people whom do the employment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, this question is no-lesser programming related than people asking about how to survive interviews, and there are many of those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T05:43:43.987" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do it for the points.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T06:01:47.740" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ironically, my job doesn't give me many opportunities to talk about programming with my peers.  Also, I don't get to do as much programming as I would like.  So stackoverflow has become a sort of nighttime place where I can hang out and talk about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;partial reinforcement effect&lt;/a&gt; makes it hard to stop :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T06:06:35.627" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting to SO means I don't do the things I really should be doing instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T06:08:26.480" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the badges :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No really, it's just that whole giving back thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus I feel like I'm contributing to a decent reference, like wikipedia, not just some random forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" />
  <row Id="18896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T06:20:51.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post, therefore I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T06:25:22.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always worked as a software developer for small businesses. I'm usually the only software developer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's helpful to bounce ideas off of other programmers and to read other people's experiences and compare them to my own. StackOverflow helps a lot in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T06:25:22.110" />
  <row Id="18898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T06:28:21.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Helping people is good, and if it stops just one face-palm, it's worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" />
  <row Id="18899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T06:47:17.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because everyone here shares a common interest, and I enjoy learning what other people have to say. You learn a lot of neat little programming tricks by conversing with others. Another benefit is that I get to feed my curiosity while helping others with theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T07:14:31.697" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To learn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To share my knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To evaluate my knowledge against the opinion of peers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To be part of a community of peers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To help build and improve this source of knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And of course for the eternal rep competition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-11T07:14:48.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T07:26:04.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post answers when I think I know something in hopes that it will help someone, either immediately or in the future as a persistent reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I post questions to get answers, or to solicit opinions on something subjective from the SO community as a whole. Some questions, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339193/best-practices-for-3rd-party-library-to-facilitate-integration&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, I post because the answers directly affect what I'm doing at a high level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting here because it was interesting, and I hope my feedback is helpful. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" />
  <row Id="18902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T08:48:50.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I get the answers &lt;strong&gt;very quickly&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" />
  <row Id="18903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-11T08:51:23.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the years I've seen too many sites with too many unanswered questions which now clog up the Google results. (Worse are that many just republish Usenet or scrape each other so if you're asking a particularly obscure question there's one answer out there but Google hits it on dozens of sites, all covered with intrusive advertising.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has, in my mind, built up several layers of trust. It has its own reputation points system, but at a meta-level I've had good experiences here and know that if there are answers to be had, they will be found here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all of my questions have been resolved, but just in the act of responding people are giving me things to think about and confirming that my fears and suspicions were on the right lines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I trust the people here. Rep points are a gauge (although as more and more people have higher and higher totals, that is becoming less true). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-29T22:34:28.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/30000/6000/500/36595/36595.strip.sunday.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Dilbert 2008-12-28&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Because the coffee machine is broken.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dilbert.com/2008-12-28/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.dilbert.com/2008-12-28/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T22:34:28.800" />
  <row Id="18905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-29T22:45:37.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in it for the fame and glory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously because it's a decent community. It hasn't devolved into gratuitous fanboy-ism or how dare you ask such a question. When you aren't likely to be flamed/spanked for your post it makes it easier to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135862" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-08T10:09:08.917" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T10:09:08.917" />
  <row Id="18906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-29T22:52:06.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason I post questions is because Stack Overflow has a large community and it's much easier to post something here then look for the email list or forum that is specific to the technology I have a question on, sign up for the list or forum, ask the question, hope someone answers it, and never contribute to the forum or email list since it was a one time question I had. Reasons I answer questions are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's always fun to watch my reputation points change hopefully in the up direction&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm a student and am on break right now so I have lots of free time to spend on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a programming job with peers to compare my self against so seeing whether my questions get up votes is a way of judging my knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T04:20:36.540" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T04:20:36.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T22:52:06.287" />
  <row Id="18908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-29T23:00:44.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason I post to SO (at least right now), is so I can get enough reputation to fully participate. I think this is the case with a lot of people. At first its to get reputation to be able to upvote/downvote/comment, etc. Then it turns into a desire to actually help others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I read SO a lot more often than I post to it, and the reason for reading SO is so I can learn. Hopefully I'll be able to answer and help out some day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T23:00:44.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-29T23:41:08.183" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a developer's interactive Google. The sister domain should be codegle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T04:16:25.953" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T04:16:25.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T23:41:08.183" />
  <row Id="18910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-29T23:43:14.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because this is where all the cool kids hang out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T23:43:14.747" />
  <row Id="18911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-29T23:52:53.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post here because I suffer from a terminal case of procrastinitis.  It's a great way to help, learn and otherwise pass the time with peers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My mom always taught me that you cannot learn anything from someone who has nothing to teach - a community such as Stack Overflow has so many that have so much to teach, you cannot help but learn by spending time on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also a great way to pass on my knowledge to others.  Giving back to the community doesn't only give me a sense of satisfaction and well-being because I am attempting to do my part for others, but if something I can assist with helps any part of the community move forward, then (according to Buffalo Theory*) I'm helping the community move forward as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;a href=&quot;http://oldpunks.blogspot.com/2005/04/cliff-clavin-explains-buffalo-theory.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://oldpunks.blogspot.com/2005/04/cliff-clavin-explains-buffalo-theory.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T23:52:53.417" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-30T00:01:32.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just get sucked into the bite size information. ... just one more, then another, then another, ... then I've been goofing off for 45 minutes !  ... oh crap ... back to work!  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-30T00:01:32.027" />
  <row Id="18913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2008-12-30T00:25:37.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like helping people. One day they might help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154475" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:18.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-30T00:25:37.423" />
  <row Id="18914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:27:01.167" Score="15" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing an application, and I get help on Stack Overflow for many of my code primitives. Somewhere in my application I would like to acknowledge Stack Overflow's &quot;help&quot; in building the application, and more importantly, mention the names (or aliases) of the specific Stack Overflow users that helped me the most with solid detailed answers, including links to their Stack Overflow user page. I believe in crediting people and I believe this credit is justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I realized that by doing so I may be exposing myself to intellectual property ownership claims by those users I'm trying to credit (&quot;he just admitted I participated in developing this app, but he didn't pay me any $$$, I can sue!&quot;). It's not that I'm saying the users will take advantage of my acknowledgement, but rather that from a legal standpoint it looks fishy and may open a door for problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I'm not bothered by using the content provided in Stack Overflow&amp;mdash;I'm not copy-pasting anything, and even if I did, I understand very well that I can freely use the content. What bothers me is that by mentioning names I'm somehow exposing myself in a different way than using content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone bumped into this or a similar problem?  I would really like to credit Stack Overflow and individual users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T12:10:26.400" Title="Acknowledging Stack Overflow users in my application" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;attribution&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:30:29.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is my personal opinion (though I'm sure you'll find thousands of lawyers who feel otherwise) that if someone posts something on Stack Overflow, they've turned it over to the community. Ownership is no longer in play because it's assumed that the information provided is going to help others in their own individual situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's nice you're even trying to give credit where credit's due.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16623" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:35.637" />
  <row Id="18916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:31:32.983" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would feel free to credit SO in general, but avoid singling out users w/o some sort of written consent-- I'm sure your app is awesome, but it does not necessarily follow that everyone will want their name associated with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130051" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:35.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:34:38.597" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would acknowledge the Stackoverflow community in general and not single users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153599" LastEditorUserId="151167" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-13T12:10:26.400" LastActivityDate="2011-01-13T12:10:26.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:37:41.710" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Content on Stackoverflow is released under a &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.creativecommons.org/StackOverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons license&lt;/a&gt; (also mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139504/stackoverflows-creative-commons-license&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) so yes you can use it. In fact by attributing sources you are complying with the license. You can however rest assured that noone can come after you for using &quot;their&quot; code so long as that code was posted by them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:35.637" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:39:15.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer - I'm not a lawyer) According to the statement at the bottom of each StackOverflow page, &quot;all user contributed content is licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. The CreativeCommons license that is linked to in that statement describes your rights and obligations.  But you really should consult a lawyer who specializes in IP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:35.637" />
  <row Id="18920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:39:45.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The footer at the bottom of every page says, &quot; all user contributed content is licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139866" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:35.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T05:42:18.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used some functions (and pieces of them) that I found on SO, some of them were provided as answers to my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is CC-BY-SA, which is compatible with most free software licenses, which I typically use (the 3 clause BSD).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I did, to keep everything neat was put those functions into a separate file, then licensed that file under the CC-BY-SA. Each function has notes of who contributed in the comments, their user page URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if your company wants to use my BSD code and is worried about the implications of those functions and their license ... you need only re-write a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, CC-BY-SA is not viral. You are not required to divulge your source code just because you use code you found on SO. If you distribute the source code to your customers, then you are required to ensure proper attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the attribution requirement only pertains when you distribute the source code. It is not like the GPL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no ownership issues. You could get advice from Google, a POSIX manual, a book that you bought on programming or millions of other sources. You aren't using entire functions verbatim, there are no copyright / ownership issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:35.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-12T05:43:12.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2009-05-12T06:45:55.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The content is licensed under Creative Commons. You need to be aware that Creative Commons is Copyleft license which means it is a &lt;strong&gt;viral license&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are free to share it and derive from it, however, all derivations and copies must attribute the original author(s) and they &lt;strong&gt;must be shared under the same conditions&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last bit is a problem for some companies because the bit of code licensed under CC will continue to morph and prevail within the system. For example, if someone posts code for an interface that you copy, the &lt;strong&gt;concrete implementations of the interface&lt;/strong&gt; may be considered derivations. (IANAL and guessing at that last statement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To complicate matters further, if the person posting the code is not the original author of the code then you are still &lt;strong&gt;liable for stealing the code from wherever the original author got the code&lt;/strong&gt;. So, some &lt;em&gt;due diligence&lt;/em&gt; may be in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that you should not attribute the authors since if you decide not to attribute them you would be conducting plagiarism and already be in violation of the license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134146" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:35.637" />
  <row Id="18923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:07:30.910" Score="7" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a new user of StackOverflow. I posted an answer to a question and then someone went in and modified my answer, cleaning it up and fixing a typo. That was very nice of them, not a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I want to know is, if this answer gets voted (up or down), who gets affected by the reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T12:25:59.187" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:25:59.187" Title="Who gets the credit for modified posts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="18924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18923" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:11:02.650" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're still the author of the answer - you'll get the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception to this is if the answer becomes a community wiki answer (which I believe can happen in response to it being edited many, many times), in which case no further rep is awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:43.640" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="18925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18923" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:12:13.193" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You (original poster) do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:43.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T15:22:32.017" />
  <row Id="18926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18923" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:13:29.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks. But now you've openned up another question: COMMUNITY WIKI? What is that about? I saw the checkbox and just ignored it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Pros and Cons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:43.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18923" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:14:56.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the post is community wiki, nobody gets any &lt;em&gt;reputation&lt;/em&gt; for questions or answers.  The original poster still gets any &lt;em&gt;badges&lt;/em&gt; that are generated from a community wiki question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more information at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;SOFAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:43.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18923" CreationDate="2008-11-21T15:37:50.443" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone else has hit the major points.  The only exception to this is if the person who modifies your post gets flagged as offensive, they will lose 100 rep, not you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2470" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:20:43.640" />
  <row Id="18929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2009-08-30T12:25:20.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I do not know better ways to slack off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:25:20.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-30T12:25:20.077" />
  <row Id="18930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18841" CreationDate="2009-08-30T12:49:13.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC, you only actually invest 50 of the minimum 100.  The other 50 is thrown in by the system for &quot;free&quot;... So if you were able to collect on your own bounty question, it'd be an exploit for earning 50 rep for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:49:13.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18937" CreationDate="2009-08-30T12:50:15.620" Score="4" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question has multiple pages of answers and the set of answers that span the page boundary have the same vote totals, when you click the next page button you might miss an answer as the random sorting order may move an answer that would have been on the succeeding page in the first ordering into a position that would now be on the preceding page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, please see this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440/visual-studio-optimizations&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440/visual-studio-optimizations&lt;/a&gt;.  Notice that when you click the next page button, one (or perhaps both) answer(s) from the first page appears at the top of the second page.  Presumably this slot(s) would have been filled with another answer(s) were we able to view what the page would have looked like in the previous ordering.  To the user unaware of the feature, this answer(s) has been &quot;lost.&quot;  To others, it is merely painful to know if you have seen all the answers unless you refresh the page enough to be confident you've seen them all.  This can be difficult if the number of answers is large (I tried to work out an algorithmic complexity bound based on probabilities for a way to be sure: I think it may be O(n&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;) views).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T04:25:13.193" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T04:25:13.193" Title="Random sort order results in answers being &quot;lost&quot; as the user changes to a different page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;answer-order&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18841" CreationDate="2009-08-30T12:55:07.490" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a non-refundable plane ticket. You paid for one (50 of your own rep), the system will throw in a free seat (the other 50 rep points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nobody turns up with a valid passport (in this case, an answer with at least 2 upvotes), the plane will still take off. Just that nobody will be in those seats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can take the seat yourself (answer and accept your own question), but you're still not getting the refund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T12:55:07.490" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="18933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T12:59:26.910" Score="7" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, questions that are migrated have a date tooltip on the &quot;Migrated To&quot; message on the original site. I'd like to see a similar tooltip on the &quot;Migrated From&quot; message on the destination site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this information is visible in the edit history, it isn't available when the question has not been edited yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-14T14:31:15.677" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T14:31:15.677" Title="Add a date tooltip for &quot;Migrated From&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" />
  <row Id="18934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18931" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:06:33.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh geez, this random answer sorting just goes from bad to worse with this and the permalink thing. I think it takes the crown as the most ill-conceived feature added to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:06:33.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18931" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:14:13.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest solution is to remove the randomness from the sorting algorithm.  If you are doing sorting and paging, the sort algorithm needs to be deterministic.  I run into the same problem when I sort things by date (less so with time, but only because the problem occurs with much less frequency).  Whenever you do sorting on a column that can contain duplicates and you do paging, you need to always sort by both the actual sort column, then by some deterministic column (primary key) to ensure that you don't miss items on the page change.  This would apply to the time-based sorting as well, but it's much more difficult -- depending on your resolution -- to get two items that occur at the exact same moment in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; var pagedAnswers = answers.OrderBy( a =&amp;gt; a.Votes )&#xA;                           .ThenBy( a =&amp;gt; a.LastUpdated )&#xA;                           .ThenBy( a =&amp;gt; a.ID )&#xA;                           .Skip( (page - 1) * itemsPerPage )&#xA;                           .Take( itemsPerPage );&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:14:13.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18940" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:23:44.993" Score="2" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a question that was clarified by the asker enough so that putting a comment to my question may not be the best approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the clarification substantially changes the question is there any problem with just writing a second complete answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the question in question. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352169/what-are-the-security-considerations-for-a-javascript-password-generator/1352201#1352201&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352169/what-are-the-security-considerations-for-a-javascript-password-generator/1352201#1352201&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135105" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:27:55.750" Title="If a question is modified is it proper to respond to the essentially new question with a new answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;clarification&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18931" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:26:39.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there are more than (pagination limit) answers, the randomization sub-order is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:26:39.967" />
  <row Id="18938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18655" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:27:30.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;randomization sub-order within votes is removed if there are more than (pagination limit) answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:27:30.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18936" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:27:37.780" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either that or, if your existing answer has no votes replace it with your new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you existing answer has some votes then it might be worth editing to state that it referred to an earlier version of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:27:37.780" />
  <row Id="18940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18936" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:27:55.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your initial answer is still relevant and potentially helpful to someone reading the question as it stands now, but with clarification you believe there may be an even better answer, then yes you can add a second answer. However, if the change in the question makes your initial answer wrong and/or unhelpful, then it would be best to delete the first answer, or completely rewrite it into the second answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:27:55.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18943" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:53:24.600" Score="5" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to be a &quot;good boy&quot; and ask questions on the site where they belong. However lately I encountered several cases where I wasn't sure which site to choose: StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser or Doctype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, these are questions about WordPress hosted blogs. The reason it's tricky is because the choice of site &lt;strong&gt;depends on the answer&lt;/strong&gt;, but I don't know the answer until I ask my question... To clarify, the answer to my question may be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A tweak in the PHP source code (StackOverflow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A request to my hosting provider (ServerFault, or maybe SuperUser)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A configuration tweak (SuperUser)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A CSS fix (Doctype)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using my best judgement, and have asked questions on most of the sites. Here &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/56351/wordpress-how-to-use-non-ugly-permalinks-without-access-to-htaccess&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/wordpress-subscribe2-plugin-escapes-characters-blog-name-when-sending-email&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1329205/wordpress-subscribe2-plugin-escapes-characters-in-blog-name-when-sending-email&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, now I have a question and I really don't know where to ask it: the question is how I can download a complete theme after I made code changes to it on the server, so that I can deploy that exact theme on another blog, without downloading file-by-file. I really don't know where the solution will come from...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? What is the best practice for asking WordPress related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T15:43:48.800" Title="Where should I ask WordPress questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18941" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:57:33.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've got a solid theory about where to ask which questions. If it's theme-modification (coding), then go to SO. As for downloading a theme, this sounds more like a superuser question. It's frustrating though, because for some reason it seems as though there's another option missing, but since I can't place my finger on it, superuser because the default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:57:33.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18941" CreationDate="2009-08-30T13:58:20.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does depend on the type of question, as some might be more programming specific than others.  However, if you are in doubt, I would suggest that you start with SuperUser, as you are asking for answers to questions you have using a third party software/service, from others that use that same software/service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T13:58:20.850" />
  <row Id="18944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19005" CreationDate="2009-08-30T14:03:36.583" Score="3" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question regarding a scenario I could not understand from the FAQ. The scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I asked a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I received several answers, some of them received upvotes (e.g. one of them has 3 upvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;None of the answers helps me, even the upvoted ones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I start a bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For 7 days, no ones provides an answer or upvotes existing answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounty period is finished&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, will the most upvoted question from before the bounty period be automatically accepted and receive half the bounty? If that's the case, it kind of misses the whole point of the bounty (receive other answers), isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T05:41:26.667" Title="In a bounty scenario, can an answer from before the bounty be automatically accepted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18946" CreationDate="2009-08-30T14:37:43.863" Score="2" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've been immensely narcissistic on my march toward a silver tag badge, and I've been checking the stats page incessantly. In my looking, I found that the number of answers that the stats page says I have in a tag does not equal the number of answers that the tag says I have in said tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95589&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt; and note that for the &lt;code&gt;sql&lt;/code&gt; tag, I have 153 answers. If you were to click it, you'd see that the 153 number is correct, as far as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A95589+sql&quot;&gt;the search&lt;/a&gt; is concerned. But, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=sql&amp;amp;sort=stats&quot;&gt;the stats page&lt;/a&gt; shows only 129. I should note that I've never asked a question on SO, so all posts are answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buh-wha?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T16:07:39.443" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T16:07:39.443" Title="Answer Count on Stats Page Off" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;&lt;answer-count&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18945" CreationDate="2009-08-30T14:44:05.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag stats page only counts non-community wiki posts with at least one upvote. This search will show that you only have &lt;strike&gt;129&lt;/strike&gt; 157 answers tagged &lt;kbd&gt;sql&lt;/kbd&gt; with at least 1 upvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A95589+votes%3A1+%5Bsql%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:95589 votes:1 [sql]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T01:27:17.907" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T01:27:17.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18941" CreationDate="2009-08-30T15:43:48.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who thinks wordpress.org?  They have &lt;a href=&quot;http://wordpress.org/support/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;forums&lt;/a&gt; for the base install and some plugins have forums and mailing lists.  If that fails, there's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wordpress.org/support/forum/10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wordpress plugin forum&lt;/a&gt; and e-mailing the author; besides all the usual googling you do about your problem before asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a ton of open source apps - phpBB, wordpress, and so on, and they all have evolved their &lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt; support channels.  These types of questions: &quot;I can't get plugin X of Semi-Obscure App Y working&quot; tend to interest a very few people, and grow the size of the active and new pages to the point where for 95% of the people the signal to noise ratio is way low.  (Or at least lower than it used to be 4-5 months ago)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not picking on you, and I &lt;em&gt;do think&lt;/em&gt; there are &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; wordpress or phpBB related questions that are worth putting on Stackoverflow, but not the majority of them.  &lt;strong&gt;Your two questions are worthwhile&lt;/strong&gt;, because you abstract them very far away from wordpress.  I think that's the key.  When you abstract the problem far enough away where it's a question you don't need any specialized knowledge about, it becomes obvious which site to post it on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T15:43:48.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18954" CreationDate="2009-08-30T15:59:17.707" Score="0" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to argue that questions like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of-python&quot;&gt;Hidden features of python&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or other &quot;Best software for the  environment&quot;, &quot;Best unknown features of  software&quot;, &quot;Must-have Ubuntu packages&quot; etc. shouldn't be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions provide a valuable source of information in many fields. They allow a broad perspective on a subject, and the collection of answers usually provide a comprehensive &quot;expansion kit&quot; on a certain subject. The popularity of these questions serves as an excellent proof to their necessity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'm starting to get a lit of Wikipedia sense in this community - where the editors, or moderators, strictly close questions or articles which do not comply with somewhat unnecessary rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would we be able to ease the strains a bit? For example, have a question closed for non-abuse cause after a vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T14:17:01.117" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:17:01.117" Title="Should &quot;Best features\software\etc. &quot; questions be closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rant&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="18951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T16:16:32.510" Score="0" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11705/how-to-deal-with-obsolete-answers&quot;&gt;How to deal with obsolete answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions where the correct answer today is probably incorrect a year from now. How is this supposed to be handled? The specific question that made me post here was &quot;Should I learn Python 2 or 3 if I have no Python experience?&quot; There is a question from Oct 2008 where the answer given is &quot;Not yet, Py3 is too new.&quot; In June the same question was closed cited as a dupe the Oct answer. At some point, Py3 will not be too new. If I want to find out an up-to-date answer to this question should I post a dupe and have it be closed (the June question was closed in less than 2 hours)? Should I edit the Oct question asking for an update? Is this a feature that needs to be addressed by the SO software somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for metaing with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131712" LastEditorUserId="145982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T22:04:24.117" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T22:04:24.117" ClosedDate="2009-08-30T17:07:28.867" Title="Handling questions whose answers will always vary by time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="18952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18950" CreationDate="2009-08-30T16:16:48.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as those questions are Community Wikis, there's a lot of value in them. If they are not Community Wiki, then they are, to the system and to the community, questions that should have one and only one answer. Clearly, they aren't the latter, so if they aren't CW, then they should be closed (or have a mod convert them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T16:16:48.763" />
  <row Id="18954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18950" CreationDate="2009-08-30T16:24:41.540" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The popularity of these questions&#xA;  servers as an excellent proof to their&#xA;  necessity.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actually it is quite the opposite.&lt;/strong&gt; The argument is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s%5FLaw%5Fof%5FTriviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parkinson's Law of Triviality&lt;/a&gt; (or the Bicycle Shed example). Read about it. It basically argues that that organizations give &lt;strong&gt;disproportionate weight to trivial issues&lt;/strong&gt;. The functional word here is &lt;em&gt;disproportionate&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The occasional poll/subjective question might appear harmless while they are so few on Stack Overflow. The problem comes when they become the acceptable norm. In terms of reputation, they are the low-hanging fruit of the system. Soon, ever other question would be &quot;what is your favorite programmer drink&quot;, &quot;what's your favorite programmer number&quot;, and &quot;worst programmer knock-knock joke.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why they are generally discouraged here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The focus of questions Stack Overflow is relatively narrow, by design. If allowed, poll and subjective questions become a really large wall of noise which water down the intended focus of Stack Overflow; to get answers to programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T22:13:57.310" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T22:13:57.310" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="18955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T17:06:23.533" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After finding zero reliable and working information on iptables and egress rules on the first page of Google, I did a bunch of research and thought ServerFault would be a great place to store this information to save other people time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I initially posted this as a Community Wiki, then was yelled at, so I reposted it as a question and answer...and got downvoted for it by people that misunderstood the concept of &quot;community wiki&quot; as I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What can we do to clarify what Community Wiki means?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that maybe we should put a little question mark next to it and say that it is for &quot;subjective&quot; posts only. Or perhaps we should change the name to &quot;completely subjective&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135113" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T17:06:23.533" Title="How Can We Clarify What &quot;Community Wiki&quot; Means?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18957" CreationDate="2009-08-30T17:08:03.187" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user walks into the Stackoverflow and asks a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1354277/jquery-animate-text-color-for-input-field&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. The answer for his question is in the first result of a google search. Well, it is fourth result, to be precise, but first link in the discussion under the first link leads there anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short: the question is very simple and the answer is two clicks away in google. What should I do? Should I give user the link to answer or should I point him to the google search results? What is SO, a place to learn something (even if it is googling) or a black  &quot;insert question, receive answer&quot; machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(meta's policies prevent me from posting a link to google? wtf)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134971" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T00:17:49.337" Title="What should I do if the answer to the question is first result of a Google search?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18956" CreationDate="2009-08-30T17:10:27.207" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing to be done except to answer the question. Where the solution ranks in Google is irrelevant, and it's discouraged to provide an answer that's basically a link to another source (as links may get broken).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T17:10:27.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T17:47:51.623" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40895/after-adding-an-interesting-tag-the-href-is-not-url-encoded&quot;&gt;After adding an interesting tag, the href is not URL encoded&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I add c# as an &quot;Interesting Tag&quot; the link will be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c#&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems correct but the site will be showing tags that contain just 'c' and not 'c#'. After the page has been refreshed the correct link will be displayed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to immediately escape the # char when the user has just added it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131758" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-17T03:37:37.860" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T03:37:37.860" ClosedDate="2010-08-17T03:37:25.863" Title="Newly added tags are not properly url-encoded" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18967" CreationDate="2009-08-30T18:16:44.123" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a question on Server Fault.  After consulting the about page, to ensure I am choosing the correct place for the question I decided on server fault OVER super user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a quote from the Server Fault about page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No matter what types of servers or&#xA;  desktops you administer, or what&#xA;  operating systems you happen to call&#xA;  home -- getting better at what we do,&#xA;  together, is our goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I got comments and got marked down for asking this on Server Fault.  So my question is this:  Is hardware related inquiries strictly prohibited from Server Fault and strictly related to Super User?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am struggling a little to differentiate doe to the comments I got for the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/60549/has-my-graphics-card-blown&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/60549/has-my-graphics-card-blown&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(now deleted, re-asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32477/has-my-graphics-card-blown&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135118" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T19:23:48.543" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T07:34:23.567" Title="Are hardware-related inquiries strictly prohibited on Server Fault, belonging instead on Super User?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18965" CreationDate="2009-08-30T18:24:31.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is definitely more SU then SF. SF is anything related to a System Administrator in a corporate environment. It is a very thin line but I would also move the question. SU handles more generic desktop queries for power users, where as the target audience of SF is more corporate system administrators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T18:24:31.690" />
  <row Id="18968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18965" CreationDate="2009-08-30T18:24:33.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Server fault is for asking system administration questions about a system of desktops or servers that you administer. Not for asking a hardware question about one desktop where you happen to be an administrator. That is where I would draw the line at least. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T18:24:33.420" />
  <row Id="18970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18972" CreationDate="2009-08-30T18:51:36.830" Score="0" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11635/instant-messaging-on-so-sf-su&quot;&gt;instant messaging on SO SF SU&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just had the experience of asking a question on server fault. I then was informed that it belonged on superuser. So I deleted the question and asked it there. Now a fellow who was educating me about correct usage of these forums i.e. the correct place to ask, different types of questions, then came over to superuser where I added the question and left a comment, which was directly related to my use of the system and not the question itself, thus detracting from the question, NOISE if you will.  Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the comment but I felt it would have been better if the user could have clicked an icon next to my display name and it say, send this user a message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it more that this would introduce hidden solutions and then this facility would detract from the intended usage of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135118" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T14:12:12.983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:12:12.983" ClosedDate="2009-08-31T14:12:21.797" Title="Is there plans for an IM Capability?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18970" CreationDate="2009-08-30T18:59:41.883" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IM is death for StackOverflow. I can't imagine how many people will ask various questions, small and big, by IMing Jon, Marc, etc. and believe me, it will be very irritating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T18:59:41.883" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="18972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18970" CreationDate="2009-08-30T19:01:40.693" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything is supposed to be out in the open for everyone to see on S[OFU]. Now anyone else that reads that question on SU will potentially get the education too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T19:01:40.693" />
  <row Id="18973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-08-30T19:12:48.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can only be one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9602/reckai.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Revolution!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T19:34:20.877" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T19:34:20.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18970" CreationDate="2009-08-30T20:14:16.913" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No. Please, no.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T20:21:16.883" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T20:21:16.883" />
  <row Id="18976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18950" CreationDate="2009-08-30T20:17:15.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It depends.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hidden features of X&quot; where X is a programming language is clearly programming-related and mostly non-subjective; it is somewhat poll-ish though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Best X&quot; is, by definition, subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you quit now, cake will be served immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T20:17:15.707" />
  <row Id="18977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T20:20:48.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;uservoice bad. meta good. no comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T20:20:48.710" />
  <row Id="18978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-30T20:47:56.283" Score="7" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to follow a particular person (or &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;Person&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) easily? Some people answer the questions in a very educative way, and I don't want to miss them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135123" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T14:11:17.243" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:11:17.243" Title="Is there a way to follow people's activity?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="18980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18978" CreationDate="2009-08-30T20:50:10.617" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can subscribe to their activity RSS feed on their user page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;{insert-user-id-here}&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T20:50:10.617" />
  <row Id="18983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18965" CreationDate="2009-08-30T22:08:47.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 199 questions tagged &quot;hardware of SF right now. The first few in the newest view include questions about servers (boxes), gateways (boxes again), load balancers, domain controllers, hardware bang-for-the-buck optimization, power supplies, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The common denominator is &quot;I run this pile of hardware for enterprise X, and I need to know...&quot; which is what ServerFault is all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know about the relative merits of high density rack configuration, ServerFault is the place to ask. If you want to know what computer to get your college bound kid, go to SuperUser. Finding the exact line in between is a job for the high rep users on the two sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T22:08:47.867" />
  <row Id="18984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18990" CreationDate="2009-08-30T22:10:06.680" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wrote text in an rtl language (from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1354142/does-mysql-full-text-search-works-reasonably-with-none-latin-languages-henrew-a&quot;&gt;context of the question&lt;/a&gt; you can see it is done with good reason). I then tried to make bold &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; letter within the word, while making the entire word in italics -&gt; *exa**m*&lt;em&gt;ple&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, it's actually not connected to the orientation of the language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T05:37:48.967" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:04:37.520" Title="WMD unable to render markup inside words" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18811" CreationDate="2009-08-30T22:37:11.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is &lt;strong&gt;MUCH&lt;/strong&gt; better than UV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is something about the UV formula that isn't quite right. The UI/performance and ease of use are lacking. The anonymous noise also causes lots of trouble. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, there are a &lt;strong&gt;few&lt;/strong&gt; small things I like better about UV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they are on to something with the restriction of upvotes on feature requests. By telling users to pick 1-2 issues they really want fixed if gives you much better visibility on what the community REALLY want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags != Status. I really dislike the way Meta uses tags to denote an items status UV had a proper status field for each item. Filtering through the huge amount of knowledge on Meta is really hard.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T22:37:11.243" />
  <row Id="18987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18984" CreationDate="2009-08-30T22:49:31.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the bug he's referring to is that trying to produce the following: &lt;i&gt;נזון&lt;b&gt;ש&lt;/b&gt;מו&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this markdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;*מו**ש**ינזון*&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Appears with whole text in italics and the letter &lt;b&gt;ש&lt;/b&gt; bold in the preview, but not in the posted version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get this instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*מו**ש*&lt;em&gt;ינזון&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe that the cursor direction reverses within the string making editing the markdown tricky - the first time I've ever edited Hebrew, that was trippy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what's supposed to happen, but I couldn't edit HTML into the middle of the text (the tag was dumped to the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: It was clarified while I was posting.  Sorry for the note-as-a-answer, but considering the bug it's a pain to try and respond with a note!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Firefox 3.5 on Vista 64 by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8331" LastEditorUserId="8331" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-30T23:12:01.267" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T23:12:01.267" />
  <row Id="18989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18984" CreationDate="2009-08-30T22:58:32.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll have to break out the HT&lt;b&gt;M&lt;/b&gt;L tags to get a bold letter inside a word. Looks like the WMD prev&lt;b&gt;i&lt;/b&gt;ew might be okay on the rough show, but the actual post &lt;b&gt;l&lt;/b&gt;ooks like it's loo&lt;b&gt;k&lt;/b&gt;ing for a space on either side of the W&lt;b&gt;M&lt;/b&gt;D markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T22:58:32.167" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="18990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18984" CreationDate="2009-08-30T22:59:58.450" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use html tags like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to format in those exceptional cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Big&lt;b&gt;w&lt;/b&gt;ord&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The source for that was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Big&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;w&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;ord&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-30T22:59:58.450" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="18992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18956" CreationDate="2009-08-31T00:17:49.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should answer the question, but it doesn't hurt to also tell the person what you searched for to find it.  In a lot of cases where an answer is easy for you to find, the person asking the question already searched and couldn't find it.  Sometimes when you know a partial answer, the right search term is more obvious than if you have no idea at all. I won't speculate more than that about the root cause, but some people just don't have strong Google-Fu.  You can help them learn if you include what search terms you used in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T00:17:49.337" />
  <row Id="18993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18818" CreationDate="2009-08-31T00:48:43.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would depend how modular/configurable it was.  The SO platform has proven itself and SO has established itself as the best programming Q&amp;amp;A site around, but if I was setting up a Q&amp;amp;A site there are things I would like to do differently (I would disable a lot of features, tweak some others and make the whole thing a lot simpler).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T00:48:43.130" />
  <row Id="18994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T02:08:55.377" Score="10" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just ran out and it feels like I used maybe 10-15 (could've been 20). It seems low if so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T00:25:51.483" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T00:25:51.483" Title="What is the daily comment vote limit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="18995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18994" CreationDate="2009-08-31T02:11:05.670" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the blog: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-now-with-flags-and-votes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Each user gets 5 comment flag votes, and 30 comment upvotes, per day.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T02:11:05.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="18996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T02:35:28.490" Score="6" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have there been any statements on the meaning of this tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T04:20:41.873" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T04:20:41.873" Title="What is status-deferred?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="18997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18996" CreationDate="2009-08-31T02:38:45.613" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's used the same way here as we use it at my workplace, it means &quot;yeah we'll totally get to that... &lt;em&gt;resume surfing stackoverflow&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T02:38:45.613" />
  <row Id="18998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18996" CreationDate="2009-08-31T02:44:13.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;s/status-deferred/We'll get to it in 6-8 weeks./g&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T02:44:13.450" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="18999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18996" CreationDate="2009-08-31T02:51:54.463" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a step up from Status-By-Design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Status Non Repro: &lt;em&gt;Problem? What Problem?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Status By Design: &lt;em&gt;That's not a bug, that's a feature&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Status Deferred: &lt;em&gt;We recognize there's a problem. Hopefully if we leave it alone long enough it will go away&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T02:51:54.463" />
  <row Id="19000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2009-08-31T03:12:26.310" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Had to be done...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9943/soshirt3frontbeggs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Front&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6201/soshirtbackbeggs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Back&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T03:12:26.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-31T03:12:26.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T04:22:10.680" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;International users know there are hours to ask StackOverflow question that are better than others, namely during workdays when the US is awake. In these times the responsiveness is much better. I think it would be very helpful to know how many users are currently logged on, which could be served as an estimate to how quickly an answer will be provided (everything else being equal, that is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I have an &quot;urgent&quot; question I will probably not wait with it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I understand the &quot;positive feedback loop&quot; problem that may occur, i.e. that people will less and less participate during the less responsive hours, however I believe transparency to the data is more important.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T05:47:33.063" Title="How many users are currently logged on?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19002" CreationDate="2009-08-31T04:32:13.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if there being a certain number of users signed in to the site at a given moment will necessarily translate directly into more views or answers to your question. IMO a better strategy would be to use the average peak time data to seed your question at the best time according to statistics. Maybe we can get Jeff to update &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these numbers&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T04:32:13.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18984" CreationDate="2009-08-31T05:38:21.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't support intra-word emphasis. This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T05:38:21.553" />
  <row Id="19005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18944" CreationDate="2009-08-31T05:41:26.667" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not possible for an answer prior to the bounty start to be auto-accepted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The assumption is that the bounty owner was not satisfied with any of the existing answers at the time the bounty was started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T05:41:26.667" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19002" CreationDate="2009-08-31T05:47:33.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the scenario is described is rare. I am mainly online during the non-peek times and it is not often that I don't see question getting answers. Granted you most likely get more answers during peak time, but questions do get answers fairly quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if you are asking questions regarding a niche product or technology the answers may be slower, but again this is due to the niche. Also most users have predefined tags they watch explicitly so irrelevant of when the question was asked it will be seen by those that can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think showing how many users are online is valuable, and also makes it feel to much like a normal forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T05:47:33.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18945" CreationDate="2009-08-31T05:51:34.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is printed right at the bottom of every tag stats page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Only non community-wiki questions and answers are included in these totals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T05:51:34.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-08-31T07:16:12.653" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following are good indications of addiction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wanting to up-vote comments on a blog/forum you visit regularly that is no SO/SU/SF/MSO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wanting to edit posts on any forum you visit to correct formatting/grammar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You try and use markdown when writing an e-mail, any markdown e-mail clients out there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You try and use markdown when writing your anything using LiveWriter or Word.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your wife gives you dirty looks when you mention SO/SU/SF/MSO in any sentence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-15T14:53:06.737" LastActivityDate="2010-04-15T14:53:06.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-31T07:16:12.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18965" CreationDate="2009-08-31T07:34:23.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Server Fault /faq:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Server Fault is for system administrators and IT professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity. If you are in charge of ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;servers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;networks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;many desktop PCs (&lt;strong&gt;other than your own&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to ask your question! Well, as long as the question is about your servers, your networks, or desktops you support, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how you could have concluded that your question was appropriate for SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's perfect for SU, though. Sounds like you found your way, which is the important thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T07:34:23.567" />
  <row Id="19011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19012" CreationDate="2009-08-31T07:56:04.477" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made an early morning before coffee mistake with &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32766/stdcin-with-qtcreator-on-mac&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question. The question was meant to go to SO however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I closed it to go to SF&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-opened the question on SU&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moved it to SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it still states migrated to SF and the links point to the SF question not the SO question. It seems re-opening the question does not remove the migrated to message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have manually placed a link to the SO question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T13:42:42.637" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T13:42:42.637" Title="There is a bug when you Move/Re-Open/Move Again" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19011" CreationDate="2009-08-31T08:15:31.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll have to manually manipulate the database to fix this. May take a few days until I have time to get to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T08:15:31.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T08:23:10.490" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this little bug on a question migrated to SuperUser: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32785/usb-flash-memory-is-suddenly-empty&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/32785/usb-flash-memory-is-suddenly-empty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has an empty tag, which was originally &quot;belongs-on-superuser&quot;. Is there some kind of filter for such tags during migrating, which would have gone wrong ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, I might have an idea of what went wrong. This tag was changed a few minutes before migrating : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1356339/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1356339/list&lt;/a&gt; . Maybe something hasn't been refreshed on time when migrating ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2:&lt;/strong&gt; Moderators edit too fast :-]. See here : &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/32785/list&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/revisions/32785/list&lt;/a&gt; for the empty tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a picture, to be more explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2968/emptytag.png&quot; alt=&quot;empty tag - picture&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T08:32:06.010" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T11:09:02.557" Title="Empty tag when migrating" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19013" CreationDate="2009-08-31T08:27:14.037" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The use of these tags have been discontinued and they should not exists. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4128/change-the-belongs-on-serverfault-tag-when-a-question-is-moved-to-serverfault&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more details. This has been replaced with the close to vote and move functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have removed the tag on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I propose that we consider making the belong-on tags moderator only tags to avoid anyone using it. This might also be a good time to consider creating a list of disallowed tags which no-one can use, making the tag cleanup process easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly also worth increasing the reputation points for re-tagging, since the current use of it seems a bit abusive in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I posted this as a feature request &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T11:09:02.557" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T11:09:02.557" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19017" CreationDate="2009-08-31T08:28:20.650" Score="0" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706&quot;&gt;Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we find the answer for a difficult question, is it acceptable to post the question here and then answer it immediately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, should we make one post for both the question and answer or make them two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow: Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;: My question focuses on answering a question immediately after asking it, rather than whether or not we should answer our own questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T23:53:29.233" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T23:53:29.233" ClosedDate="2009-08-31T09:17:40.207" Title="Answering your own question immediately" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8015" CreationDate="2009-08-31T08:38:51.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same issue using &lt;b&gt;Firefox&lt;/b&gt; 3.5.2. Apparently, it is hard to clear the cache, as the &quot;clear recent history&quot; feature didn't solve the problem. However, pressing &lt;b&gt;Ctrl-F5&lt;/b&gt; (= reload and override cache) fixed it (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130064/benjol&quot;&gt;Benjol&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134939" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T08:38:51.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19015" CreationDate="2009-08-31T09:18:29.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is possible to answer your own question. But you can mark it as accepted only after 15 hours are passed.&#xA;Good practice is to answer your own question in separate post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134824" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T09:18:29.677" />
  <row Id="19018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19023" CreationDate="2009-08-31T09:37:04.380" Score="60" ViewCount="1103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19013/empty-tag-when-migrating/19014#19014&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I would like to propose the implementation of a tag black list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The black list should contain a list of tags that should NOT be used on the site and disallow people with tagging rights to use these tags, for example the case of using the &lt;kbd&gt;belongs-on&lt;/kbd&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also suggest increasing the tagging rep limit however this was previously covered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19013/empty-tag-when-migrating&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional Options&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list/19019#19019&quot;&gt;Chris&lt;/a&gt; the list should only be accessible by moderators and possibly 10K moderators to ensure that the list is kept tidy. However for 10k moderators a voting process will be put in place to add a tag to the blacklist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list should also be updated when moderators merge tags. The removed tag should automatically be added to the black list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blacklisted tags can appear as strikethroughs on the tag field when editing or adding a new question, and be validated accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional Nice to Have&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When tags are edited they should not bump questions, as this ends up creating a lot of noise on the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-17T16:55:53.937" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T16:55:53.937" Title="Implement a Tag Black List" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-blacklist&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="19019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19018" CreationDate="2009-08-31T09:40:56.930" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Access to the black list should be restricted to moderators or should require the votes of  users of sufficiently high rep (to be determined) and candidates for inclusion should be voted upon, or at least regularly reviewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T09:40:56.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19018" CreationDate="2009-08-31T09:43:40.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as it's already &lt;strong&gt;[status-planned]&lt;/strong&gt; with no idea on &lt;strong&gt;[status-completed]&lt;/strong&gt;, we wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on Super User, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/2553/troggy&quot; title=&quot;suffer the burnination&quot;&gt;Troggy&lt;/a&gt; has been cleaning up so many of these improperly tagged questions. And it's not like the issue/behaviour &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2125195/revisions&quot; title=&quot;so fresh, so unclean&quot;&gt;is going away&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to put the fear of being jerks into those who tag as such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're going to retag this question as any of the following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;belongs-on-* (serverfault, superuser, meta or stackoverflow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not-*-related (programming, sysadmin, computer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then you're being a jerk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And have it appear on the retag screen for those between 500 and 2000 rep. (Because hopefully they'll learn enough by the end of that to know to stop retagging as such.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T04:10:58.650" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T04:10:58.650" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20435" CreationDate="2009-08-31T10:01:19.807" Score="17" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I face the same problem raised in this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless&quot;&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited “problem”&lt;/a&gt;. I upvoted an answer which I now think shouldn't be promoted as helpful. I'd like to reverse the suggestion I provided via the up-vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am correct about the history behind this change, it was implemented to hinder those who game the system by down-voting competing answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would ask is the ability to down-vote the same answer at the cost of my rep so I can neutralise my up-vote. The user who posted the answer can keep the cumulative upvote+downvote rep. If there are concerns about people using this to game the system, can  at least upvotes be neutralized by a corresponding down-vote if not the other way around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To reiterate, I'd like the ability to neutralize any voting action I perform, not revert it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context, I don't think suggesting that I not vote for an answer till I'm definitely sure it's correct, is very helpful. It'll mean that only the cocksure cast their votes, or that most questions go without any votes to distinguish between answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T23:00:05.303" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:29:11.337" Title="Request change in behaviour: Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19021" CreationDate="2009-08-31T10:09:35.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The onus should be on the person casting the vote, down or up, to know why they're throwing their hat into that ring one way or the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People tossing their votes around without fully understanding the question or checking/knowing if the answer is workable or correct screws up the pooch of responsible voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people weren't so blindly loose with their voting arrows, they wouldn't get that chafing sensation later on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember people, your votes can either grant 10 points of mana for the player you're waving your magic spirit fingers over, or it can drain their 2 vials of blue water health. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You make the call, and make it right. And don't forget to put on the robe and wizard hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T12:42:09.297" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T12:42:09.297" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="19023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19018" CreationDate="2009-08-31T10:22:28.657" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that helps avoid problems with &lt;kbd&gt;windows-forms&lt;/kbd&gt; vs &lt;kbd&gt;winforms&lt;/kbd&gt;, and the regular &lt;kbd&gt;plzsendtehcodez&lt;/kbd&gt; etc... ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, for the first example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2779/could-the-tagging-system-be-enhanced-to-support-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;tag aliasing&lt;/a&gt; would be preferable. But the second is just noise and could be blocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-29T22:06:34.843" LastActivityDate="2010-04-29T22:06:34.843" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19042" CreationDate="2009-08-31T10:52:49.143" Score="4" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is the most programmer friendly website in the world.&#xA;Will stackoverflow ask for creditcard one day as ExpertExchange.&#xA;Any discussion has already happened here on that.I Am new to meta..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135152" LastEditorUserId="135152" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T07:13:26.427" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T07:13:26.427" Title="Will Stack Overflow ask for Money?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;future&gt;&lt;registration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31" CreationDate="2009-08-31T11:05:57.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It think it should be possible to cluster the tags so that concepts such as .NET and the CLR various languages etc end up together. I could see similar clusters appearing for databases, algorithms and other languages. The badge could then be implemented by saying something like 'you must answer 5 questions with at least 5 upvotes from 3 or more subject areas'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the tag cloud currently work? Does it look at groups of tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133921" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T11:05:57.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19031" CreationDate="2009-08-31T11:21:18.257" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1356939/is-there-a-benefit-for-programmers-to-know-how-to-build-a-pc&quot;&gt;Is there a benefit for programmers to know how to build a PC?&lt;/a&gt;, which was then closed as not programming related. I then realized that Super User would be a better place for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is that the question is now simply closed whereas I would like the ability to &quot;Send to Super User&quot; or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T11:30:38.503" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:42:27.773" Title="How do I move my question from one site to another?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T11:19:31.417" Score="2" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Safari on a Mac, the login page for Stack Overflow is borked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The salmon coloured &quot;Why OpenID?&quot; box is hovering over the login button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not the end of the world of course, but worth mentioning nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logout and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/login&quot;&gt;check it out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T08:38:22.957" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T10:00:01.087" Title="Stack Overflow login page broken in Safari" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;safari&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19028" CreationDate="2009-08-31T11:25:32.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Broken for me also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.benlumley.co.uk/media/images/safari-so.png&quot; alt=&quot;broken in safari&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131261" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T11:25:32.617" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19027" CreationDate="2009-08-31T11:28:32.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One close option is to migrate to anothersute. You can flag your post for moderator attention and they can reopen the question and then migrate it to the correct site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T11:28:32.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19027" CreationDate="2009-08-31T11:39:45.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy enough to re-open and move - but at the moment it is a big programmer-heavy (&quot;Is there a benefit for programmers to know how to build a PC&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit it to make it SU-friendly, and then ask for it to be re-opened and moved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask the question you &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; want to ask, but on SU (less programmer stuff)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be tempted to just do the second; i.e. leave the old one (or delete it), and ask a fresh question on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T11:39:45.600" />
  <row Id="19033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19021" CreationDate="2009-08-31T12:05:53.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the notion of casting an upvote and a downvote on the same post to be bizarre and counterintuitive.  Not only would this require clunky one-off checks in the system to permit it to happen in the first place, but it would require all rep calculations to be modified to take into account this special case where an upvote + a downvote = 0 rep, rather than the usual (+10 - 2 = +8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it makes more sense to simply extend the window for changing your vote to be longer again, but since I personally have had no problems with this, my position on that is simple neutrality.  For upvote + downvote = zero, I am against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T12:05:53.597" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2009-08-31T12:15:32.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the change to the vote change time limit would make this unworkable.  Unless the fix is done immediately, you won't be able to change your vote.  Since the vote time limit change was shortened to prevent gaming, it's unlikely to be changed.  If it were extended, the changes to random sort ordering would have to be rolled back as well as that is one of the main complaints against it -- the ability to down vote to increase your relative visibility and then come back later to recover your rep points after your answer has been upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T12:15:32.750" />
  <row Id="19035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T12:21:18.497" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can tag filtering find more results, become a little smarter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, typing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;fileext&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; return&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;file-extension&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when you type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;file-ext&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; So to solve the above issue all SO has to do is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compare the typed tag vs. the existing tags, WITH hyphens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't find anything then also compare WITHOUT hypens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T12:43:42.633" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:10:24.563" Title="Can tag filtering find more results?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19028" CreationDate="2009-08-31T12:36:04.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens on Linux too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its because the default sans-serif font on non-windows browsers are too wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be set the width with &lt;code&gt;px&lt;/code&gt;? (Oh the horror!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T12:36:04.113" />
  <row Id="19037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19035" CreationDate="2009-08-31T12:37:37.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a pretty over generalized suggestion that doesn't sound much different than &quot;please make the search algorithm be able to figure out what I'm actually talking about when I provide it &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you asking for the algorithm to be tweaked so that all possibilities of &quot;fileext&quot; with hyphens is searched?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fileext&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;f-ileext&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fi-leext&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fil-eext&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;file-ext&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;filee-xt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fileex-t&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are you wanting it to completely ignore hyphens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is there some other method that I am not seeing which would allow text searching to start guessing WTF its searcher is actually wanting to see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T12:37:37.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19039" CreationDate="2009-08-31T13:09:16.807" Score="6" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, why do some answers on my profile page have a number in parenthesis at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9052/49717373.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T13:41:23.250" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T13:41:23.250" Title="Why do some answers on my profile page have a number in parenthesis at the end?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19038" CreationDate="2009-08-31T13:12:43.133" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That means you provided two answers for that question. In the case of the question you pointed out... &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/586446/587330#587330&quot;&gt;Wikimapia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/586446/586447#586447&quot;&gt;SourceForge&lt;/a&gt;. Also, the net score shown next to the question is a total of the score for all the answers you provided to that question. In this case 1 for Wikimapia and 2 for SourceForge = 3 that gets displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T13:12:43.133" />
  <row Id="19042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19024" CreationDate="2009-08-31T13:53:25.050" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a duplicate of donations IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, we will never convert to a for-pay website, requiring users to pay for continued access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize &quot;never&quot; is a long time, but it should not happen while I have a say in the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T13:53:25.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2009-08-31T13:54:47.840" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been mentioned again and again that StackOverflow is not a place for deadlines. Any questions that you need answered with any degree of immediacy do not belong here. We do not want 'strategic' asking of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the instantaneous results will be that the low times will get fewer and fewer questions, and the high times will get more and more. Instead of having a gradual wave of questions appear, there will be a sharp influx of questions that appear around the time that the number of users increases. This will serve to reinforce itself and eventually create an insanely high load on the servers at the 'busy time' and then there will be no users on the rest of the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end result of that, of course, is that during the high times the volume of questions generated will be so enormous that it cannot be coherently followed (thereby making your question more likely to be buried), and it will cause a decrease in the quality of the answers on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously that is simply a negative look on the resulting scenario, but on the other hand, there aren't really any positive aspects except the curiosity part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, since humans instinctively react to information they receive, there is no way to stop people from changing their behaviour based on this. So, I'm against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T13:54:47.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19035" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:10:24.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already compare both raw and non-hypenated input when searching for tags, but only within the tags drop down (on the question page and the /ask page). I guess we could do it on the tag search page as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2541/sam-hasler&quot;&gt;Sam Hasler&lt;/a&gt; suggested that months ago and it was implemented then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;try entering &quot;open-id&quot; (without the quotes) as a tag for a question, to see what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:10:24.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16378" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:15:57.343" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Donations for a commercially motivated project is a silly idea, with all due respect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel so warmly about the stackexchange brand (and I feel so too), then you could buy t-shirts, cups or mouse pads. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:15:57.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1696" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:22:34.273" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a magic 8-ball once from CDW with answers like &quot;Try rebooting&quot;, &quot;Reinstall&quot;, and &quot;It's a bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:22:34.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:31:30.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a bug, as shown by this example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is &amp;amp;nbsp; and the second is &amp;amp;amp;nbsp;.  (I've used an extra level of entification to type the preceding sentence, and hope that it still comes out right when I post it.)  Really nasty is that the preview initially shows the code as typed, but then replaces it with a space when it syntax-colours it after some random interval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug does seem to be peculiar to nbsp.  I haven't found any other character code that does it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135161" LastEditorUserId="135161" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T08:00:45.400" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T08:00:45.400" />
  <row Id="19052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:38:41.947" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens in Firefox 3.0.10 Ubuntu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img2.pict.com/12/e3/e4/1548211/0/800/q.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:42:27.677" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:20:31.873" Title="The input field is too big when closing question as duplicate" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19055" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:39:04.130" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the users tab page there is a gray box in the mid upper right. A long time ago i believe it was used to show user statistics change over time. Now i see noting. Is this common among other SO, SF, MSO, and SU users? I have tried viewing the page in IE and Firefox with the same results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133468" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:28:08.850" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:28:08.850" Title="Gray box on Users Page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19053" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:41:25.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's your Biography/About field. If you edit your profile, you can write stuff in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:41:25.217" />
  <row Id="19056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19027" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:42:27.773" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to see this question re-opened at SO, though. It is a valid question since it's something many programmers are wondering about, but never really ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:42:27.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19052" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:43:16.587" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems SO defines that input box as a fixed size rather than giving it a pixel width.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That works fine for IE on Windows with default DPI and font size settings. It also seems to work on Chrome. But Firefox seems to use a larger default font than IE. You can also change it which will affect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T00:26:15.333" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:26:15.333" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19219" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:47:45.003" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote my question on superuser.com, and before I clicked &quot;Ask Your Question&quot; at the bottom, I realized I wasn't logged in yet because it asked me for my OpenID.  I typed it in and clicked Ask Your Question.  It logged me in, but then I saw the same Question screen, but with my question erased.  Checking my profile page confirmed that my question was not posted and instead just vanished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps superuser.com has a bug where logging in while posting a question at the same time loses the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T21:38:23.300" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:39:33.283" Title="Asking a question while logging in at the same time with OpenID drops question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:49:17.603" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of info out there about StackOverflow's internal architecture, its stack, server configuration, hardware, programming tools, IDE and what not, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very curious about the UI &amp;amp; Graphic Design. Who designed it, how, what alternative designs where checked, etc. What other colors where checked, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean the general site design and not the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:04:01.710" Title="Info on the site's graphical &amp; ui design" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18984" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:49:40.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the most you could ask for, is for the Markdown to accept a &lt;code&gt;U200B&lt;/code&gt; ( Zero Width Space ) character to seperate the &quot;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&quot; from the rest of the word. Which does actually seem to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;*exa*\X{200B}**m**\X{200B}ple&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;exa&lt;/em&gt;​&lt;strong&gt;m&lt;/strong&gt;​ple&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:49:40.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:50:03.937" Score="5" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an alternative to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18130/add-the-open-feature-requests-view-to-the-list-of-available-views-on-meta&quot;&gt;suggestion&lt;/a&gt; to enhance the ability to track feature requests, and thus the development of the SO platform, I'd like to suggest another alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than bookmarking searches externally, allow us to construct searches based on tags and keywords and store them for later use.  These searches could acts as personalized filters that would be available just to the person who constructed it.  A further extension could make these searches available to others as a &quot;popular&quot; search.   These could be provided to the user by replacing the current search box with a combo box in which the dropdown is only available if the user has saved a particular search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searches could be saved either by using an interface to explicitly construct one or by clicking a &quot;Add to Saved Searches&quot; button (a plus icon next to the searches box?) that would take the current url, parse it for search terms to construct the saved search, and allow you to give it a friendly name.  The interface for building searches could be extended to list the most popular searches (by construction and use) isolated from actual user data.  These could simply be invoked from the page or added to the user's personal store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:12:07.903" Title="Allow complex queries to be saved in one's profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;personalization&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19061" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:54:36.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally wouldn't get any use out of it, but I'm not much of a &quot;power searcher&quot;. I imagine it would be very useful for others who are constantly trawling through the older content, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It almost sounds like you are describing a stackoverflow  version of a Google Custom Search Engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Also sounds familiar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7562/save-custom-searches-for-quick-access&quot;&gt;Save Custom Searches for Quick Access&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:01:59.950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:01:59.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:55:57.530" Score="-2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Joel's interesting talk at Google called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&amp;amp;feature=PlayList&amp;amp;p=05D94CA1ADAF07B5&amp;amp;index=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Learning from StackOverflow.com&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and was wondering if we should add a link to this talk at the bottom of the StackOverflow page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe put it in the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2974" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:09:43.850" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:57:50.913" Title="Add a link on StackOverflow to Joel's GoogleTalk about StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19063" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:58:37.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe in the About page, but other than that, you don't need to spam up the pages with more links than are necessary. Joel talking somewhere about SO isn't what I would consider anywhere close to a &quot;required&quot; link on the pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T14:58:37.023" />
  <row Id="19065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19052" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:59:05.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This most likely is related to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19028/stack-overflow-login-page-broken-in-safari&quot;&gt;few other css bugs on SOFU on non-windows platforms&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most commonly noticed is on the login page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its because SOFU uses &lt;code&gt;ems&lt;/code&gt; for the width of text fields, but the default font is &lt;code&gt;MS Trebuchet&lt;/code&gt;, that most likely isn't available in your system, so the site falls back to &lt;code&gt;Helvetica&lt;/code&gt; (hider than Trebuchet) or &lt;code&gt;BitStream Vera Serif&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;Deja Vu Serif&lt;/code&gt; (even wider) or one of those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem appears on both Linux/BSD and OS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try installing the &lt;code&gt;liberation fonts&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;msttcorefonts&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (that has Trebuchet), or live with it for the time being, as it doesn't appear to be a concern for the dev team on the short term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:04:22.037" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:04:22.037" />
  <row Id="19066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19052" CreationDate="2009-08-31T14:59:16.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This also happens in Safari (with the normal font size, so it's not my fault):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/ytqyx.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:20:31.873" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:20:31.873" />
  <row Id="19067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19063" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:00:10.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ehh, the site isn't really about promoting Jeff or Joel. It isn't even really about showing people good talks. It is only peripherially about providing resources. It is about asking questions and getting answers. Jeff and Joel both have excellent blogs for this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:00:10.720" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19063" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:00:43.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/joel-talks-about-stack-overflow-at-google/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It was mentioned on, and linked to from the blog&lt;/a&gt; - that's probably enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:00:43.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19059" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:04:01.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/podcast-16/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #16&lt;/a&gt; describes the early design of the site.  The initial layout and design was largely done by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jeremykratz.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeremy Kratz&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-beta-design/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This blog entry&lt;/a&gt; is a peek of the first &quot;real&quot; design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:04:01.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19061" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:12:07.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good suggestion, but it seems like the benefit you get from the feature is pretty much linearly tied to the effort you put into the 'search construction' and sharing interfaces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, if you just make it a set of internal dumb bookmarks, it's almost pointless. &#xA;But if you add the nicer features you discuss (search construction, popular searches, distinct location in the UI), it'd be much more cool, and also much more challenging to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think for this to be actionable the &quot;sweet spot&quot; of functionality has to be set where it's not a multi-month development project and yet it's still useful.  As software developers, I think we can all appreciate that a feature request should be as well-defined as possible before design and implementation begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:12:07.903" />
  <row Id="19072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19074" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:23:32.153" Score="3" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people created their own novelty badges based on the this post: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10299/for-those-that-demand-those-elusive-badges&quot;&gt;For those that demand those elusive badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site seems to be down: &lt;a href=&quot;http://79.170.40.8/inactive.cgi?site=uvshock.co.uk;key=2ea4b6e1aba31fffda24dc80a3e77adb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;QiQ&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that shows is &quot;Alt Text&quot;. You may want to go back and remove those badges or replace them with something more sensible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T15:32:56.487" LastActivityDate="2011-05-24T17:04:44.090" Title="The site that hosted the novelty badges has gone down" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19072" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:26:42.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this myself a while back unfortunately. I ended up just adding alt attributes to all the image tags in the hopes that one day they showed back up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:26:42.037" />
  <row Id="19075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11968" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:49:44.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still seeing this behavior as of 8/31/2009.  Double posts seem frequent for both question responses and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132227" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:49:44.113" />
  <row Id="19076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19063" CreationDate="2009-08-31T15:57:50.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19063/19068#19068&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;, it's on the blog and that's good enough. In fact, I would go further and say that is precisely one of the reasons the blog exists. StackOverflow is not about the talks that Joel and Jeff give. Additionally, Joel's talk is not the only one that exists, Jeff spent 10 - 15 minutes talking about the development of SO in the middle of &lt;a href=&quot;http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC21/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Phil Haack's PDC 2008 talk&lt;/a&gt; and I wouldn't be surprised if there's more in the future, you won't be able to link them all. If a user is curious about SO, its development and business issues, they should look at the blog and go through previous posts. But links on the bottom of a SO page should be relevant to a generic SO user, I do not believe talks that Jeff and Joel give fall into this category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T15:57:50.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19506" CreationDate="2009-08-31T16:35:13.243" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was recently asked on SU: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32936/how-much-traffic-is-needed-to-earn-1-in-google-adsense-closed&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/32936/how-much-traffic-is-needed-to-earn-1-in-google-adsense-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was another similar question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/19260/how-many-hits-per-day-to-generate-revenue-via-adsense-closed&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/19260/how-many-hits-per-day-to-generate-revenue-via-adsense-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would include adsense and related advertising questions. Am I correct that these type of questions are not allowed on any of the sites? I just want to make sure I am flagging and voting to close these questions for the right reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: The questions above have now been deleted, but you can see the titles of the questions, which gives the scope of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T20:15:01.033" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:53:41.187" Title="Confirm policy on adsense and advertising related questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;adsense&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19078" CreationDate="2009-08-31T16:41:29.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot think of any of our sites where this is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;networking, servers, or maintaining other people's PCs and contains no&#xA;  source code, ask on Server Fault.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;general computer software or hardware troubleshooting, ask on Super&#xA;  User.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;web design and HTML/CSS layout, and your job title is &quot;designer&quot;, ask on&#xA;  Doctype.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see how adsense would fall into any of these territories. They should really be asked on Google's discussion groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T16:41:29.267" />
  <row Id="19080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19078" CreationDate="2009-08-31T16:43:30.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, it seems to me that fits on a site for people who manage websites, which does not currently exist in the LOJ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T16:43:30.713" />
  <row Id="19081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19084" CreationDate="2009-08-31T16:46:01.520" Score="2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;On some forums they prefer users using their real names, since its easier to relate to a person than to a &quot;thing&quot;. And since we have avatars would a self photo be better than a meaningless pic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any preference or benefit of this on SO or the others? Does it help people understand your posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T16:52:22.257" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:49:50.143" Title="What's the preference on using real names and photos?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;developers&gt;&lt;personalization&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19078" CreationDate="2009-08-31T16:46:19.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allowing these questions would open the door to any number of business-related questions. Strictly speaking, these are not of any sort of technical nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T16:46:19.117" />
  <row Id="19083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19081" CreationDate="2009-08-31T16:47:25.057" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer that when people think of me, they think of a beautiful pony and a strange &lt;strong&gt;set of initials&lt;/strong&gt; (screw you people!) instead of my hideous visage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort of like Phantom of the Opera, except I can't sing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T16:47:25.057" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="19084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19081" CreationDate="2009-08-31T16:48:19.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top rated users on SO are a mix of real [looking] names and &quot;fake&quot; names. This would seem to suggest that it doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T16:48:19.207" />
  <row Id="19087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19081" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:00:52.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use my real picture (well, sorta...) and a fake name. I've done this for over a decade, after realizing that, on The Internet, my first+lastname is shared by too many other real people to be terribly useful as an identifier without the addition of troublesome auxiliary namespacing information (middle initial / location / etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never encountered any problems, unless you count the occasional snarky comments from people who apparently never sat and thought about how easy it would be for me to make up a real-&lt;em&gt;looking&lt;/em&gt; fake name if i was actually trying to hide something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17530/correlation-between-reputation-and-use-of-actual-name-on-so&quot;&gt;Correlation between reputation and use of actual name on SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6424/does-your-profile-contain-your-exact-birthday-is-that-safe/6448#6448&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:00:52.473" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18984" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:04:37.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated above, this works using HTML - but wrapping your head around the RTL movement is a huge pain. I edited it, and I think I managed to do it without messing with the actual text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:04:37.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:06:44.817" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Altruist&lt;/strong&gt; - Voted up an answer by someone else, on a question, that you yourself answered. You thought the other user's answer was better than your own answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are unselfish, you are voting for the best answer for the good of the community, not to gain points. We like this type of behavior&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134873" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:06:44.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-31T17:06:44.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19081" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:17:12.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, my parents named me strategicly. Years and years ago they knew that someday, there would be a technology called the Internet that would magicly appear and somehow there would be a certain part or &quot;site&quot; that contained cartoons. Much like the comic books of the era, but this comic had moving pictures and sound.  A character by the name of Trogdor, a man, a dragonman, burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants, would be born. What an awesome name for a son!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flex it Troggy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:17:12.550" />
  <row Id="19092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:24:51.020" Score="1" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I leave a comment, then think better of it -- perhaps I decide to answer instead.  If I delete the comment, does the user still get notified that new comments are available or does the notification take this into account?  Are the comments hard-deleted or soft-deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:00:06.970" Title="If I leave a comment, then delete it, does a person still get notified?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19092" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:26:06.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed this usually has a latency probably due to caching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't delete it immediately though, the person should get a notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:26:06.447" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19081" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:49:50.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine using my real name and oh-so-emo photo changes what people think of my posts. (Okay-- maybe the emo photo influences some people... &amp;gt;smile&amp;lt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I play on Server Fault because I enjoy helping people, and I don't have any IT training gigs going on right now to give me the warm and fuzzy &quot;I helped somebody &quot;feeling. Since I've put a fair amount of work into (most of) my posts I want to be sure that they're able to be associated easily with my personal &quot;brand&quot;. Being an independent IT consultant and contractor, anything that adds to my body of references and experience is helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:49:50.143" />
  <row Id="19096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19078" CreationDate="2009-08-31T17:54:58.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't an exact dupe but it is related enough that there might be some useful information for you here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16516/what-about-something-similar-to-stackoverflow-for-webmasters&quot;&gt;What about something similar to StackOverflow for webmasters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T17:54:58.883" />
  <row Id="19097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19092" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:00:06.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is yes.  From my experience you will always get a notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same also goes for answers to your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:00:06.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19107" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:18:09.133" Score="9" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I click on one of my ignored tags or search for it (by typing &quot;[tagname]&quot; in the search box), there are no results. Obviously, the results are hidden since this tag is ignored. However, it would be useful to show the results in this case, since I am specifically asking for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I recall, it actually used to work this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T03:11:43.777" Title="Clicking on an ignored tag shows no results" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19098" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:20:46.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take the tag off of ignore and then add it back when you are done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:20:46.930" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="19100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19098" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:38:48.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're ignoring it, &lt;em&gt;how do you know it's even there?&lt;/em&gt; eh? eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:38:48.327" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19098" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:41:32.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree - the way the page is set up, it seems that the ignored / interesting tags are for the questions page, not the whole site. I'd expect to be able to search for anything, regardless of whether I've told the questions view to show it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:41:32.597" />
  <row Id="19102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19105" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:55:05.143" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't an admin question, but deals with potentialy pro level gear that sys admins would encounter in advanced network setups with building wireless bridges. Would this be good to ask at SF instead or should I keep it on SU? SF might have some more knowlegdable people in this area as this request moves out of most home consumer wireless gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/33077/what-hardware-antennae-to-use-for-an-outdoor-wireless-connection&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/33077/what-hardware-antennae-to-use-for-an-outdoor-wireless-connection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SF: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/60876/what-hardware-antennae-to-use-for-an-outdoor-wireless-connection&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/60876/what-hardware-antennae-to-use-for-an-outdoor-wireless-connection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T19:20:45.077" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:20:45.077" Title="Is SU the best place for this outdoor wireless connection question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19102" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:57:27.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is for home use and you're looking to use low-end consumer gear to get the job done, that's more SU. If it's for business, and you're looking for a commercial-grade solution, that's SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:57:27.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19102" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:57:37.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like SU material to me.  While it could conceivably be of interest to some systems/network admin somewhere, that's hypothetical.  On the other hand, it is definitely computer-related.  The &quot;prosumer&quot; reference seems to map well to the core concept of SuperUser knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:57:37.197" />
  <row Id="19105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19102" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:57:50.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily see a problem with it being on either site. I think you may have a potentially greater audience of users who know what the heck they are talking about on ServerFault, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also note that our office recently did something very similar for a client of ours (connecting a detached portion of their machine shop to their main building) wirelessly, so it could certainly fall under ServerFault's mission statement as well as just a high end consumer job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T18:57:50.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:03:11.977" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17541/cannot-get-rid-of-empty-interesting-tag&quot;&gt;Cannot get rid of empty Interesting Tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Duplicate:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17541/&quot;&gt;Cannot get rid of empty Interesting Tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently removed one of my ignored tags - when I refresh the page, I get an empty tag in the 'Ignored Tags' list that I can't remove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T19:15:23.043" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:15:23.043" ClosedDate="2009-08-31T19:56:59.247" Title="Removing an ignored tag doesn't work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19098" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:04:38.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, as long as we are setting parameters on what exactly we are talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you put a tag in your &lt;em&gt;ignored&lt;/em&gt; section, it makes both literal and intuitive sense that any questions tagged that way are now &lt;strong&gt;ignored&lt;/strong&gt;. Forever and for always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is one case that makes sense to create an 'exception'. If you search for something that is literally a tagname, it makes sense to me that you would want to receive results from that tag. If you do a search that doesn't include any tagnames, then your regular &lt;em&gt;ignore&lt;/em&gt; rules will apply. If you want to be more pedantic, you could include a tag specifier, so even if I ignore &quot;java&quot; then searching for &quot;getters tag:java&quot; would retrieve results that are tagged java, even if it is ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For us programmers, this is a matter of scope. The smaller scopes should trump the larger ones. Ignored tags are preferences, that is, they are a general scope. When I am searching I have a much more specific scope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have &quot;java&quot; in my ignored tags, it is because I do not want to see Java question, but when I search for &quot;java&quot; we can assume two things. Either the user knows best, and she/he &lt;em&gt;does in fact&lt;/em&gt; want results with java. Or we can 'protect' the user from what they don't want by excluding &lt;em&gt;specifically what they asked for&lt;/em&gt;. Obviously, any search that excludes the specific nouns of the search phrase has some sort of problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In sum: &lt;strong&gt;If the user searches for a specific tag, then we include answers that have that tag, even if that tag has an 'ignore' on it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:04:38.213" />
  <row Id="19108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19106" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:07:20.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works fine for me on IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:07:20.143" />
  <row Id="19109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:19:17.420" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there is no way to tell if a moderator did something other than to see it done (no email notification), how long do I wait for the fix before flagging the post again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case that got me wondering I accidentally hit the upvote instead of the flag on a comment, and need it reversed, but I expect there are other situations where one would need to check whether a flagged situation got taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T19:51:06.810" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:55:39.827" Title="How long do you wait before re-flagging a post for moderator review?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19109" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:24:51.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't 'reflag' a moderator on a post. The moderator flag is a one time only flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise though, I would simply email one of the mods and ask them to look into it.&#xA;Whether the matter is urgent or not is a whole different thing that must be taken on a case by case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:24:51.433" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19109" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:26:03.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there's any need to reflag at all. If no action was taken, it was either unread or denied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:26:03.427" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-01T11:05:42.630" Score="14" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now there are 816 questions marked as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'subjective'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;subjective&lt;/a&gt; (make this one 817), making it the 7th most popular subject on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think most people understand what subjective means. It doesn't mean the same thing as 'open'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An open question is one that has no single right answer, so for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closed&lt;/strong&gt; question: &quot;Will this work?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open&lt;/strong&gt; question: &quot;How does this work?&quot; or &quot;Why doesn't this work?&quot; or even &quot;Which is the best method and why?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost every open question seems to immediately get flagged as &quot;subjective&quot;, when it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dictionary definition is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/subjective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subjective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While many open questions are subjective (&quot;Is C# better than Java?&quot;, for instance) not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; open questions are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because a question has subjective answers doesn't make it an inherently subjective question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact it's almost impossible to not be in some way subjective - that's just the human condition. I could probably, by the strictest definition, flag every question entered by a human (i.e. all of them) as subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found some of the &quot;Which is the best method and why?&quot; questions to be the most useful here, and I think there's real value to them being here on SO - but almost all of them are flagged as subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the FAQ it states: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with this - but I think most people's interpretation is going a bit far. Is the ubiquity of the &quot;subjective&quot; tag an indication of how poor most questions are or an indication of how many users are desperate for that unattainable librarian badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see an argumentative question I just close it, is &quot;subjective&quot; being used by users without enough rep to close yet? If so are we looking at most questions being immediately closed once these users have caught up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When should &quot;subjective&quot; be used? Most cases where it's really needed should, IMHO be closed instead. Most cases where it's actually used I can't see the value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I disagree (i.e. I don't think the question is too subjective) if I remove the tag someone else will add it back - leading to pointless edit wars. Surely this sort of difference of opinion is what votes (rather than moderation) are for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question will be closed after a week or so - I don't want to generate too much meta-clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:11:34.690" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:11:34.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-01T11:05:42.553" Title="Do we really need the &quot;subjective&quot; tag on Stack Overflow and is it commonly mis-used?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T11:16:14.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a fair amount of questions closed for what seemed like no good reason, but I understand the need to keep the site from drowning in irrelevance. This should fizzle out over time, but I am also worried about what is going to happen when there is a significant population of users that can Edit/Close questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen enough ego to know it may not be good. Perhaps if closing and re-opening questions was tied to reputation somehow it would prevent people from wielding that sword too quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11702" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" />
  <row Id="19115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T11:16:33.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're completely right about the difference in English between &lt;strong&gt;open&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; questions, however those terms have a different meaning in SO (closed questions are no longer accepting answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would make sense to have an &lt;strong&gt;open-question&lt;/strong&gt; tag instead of a &lt;strong&gt;subjective&lt;/strong&gt; tag if it weren't for that.  If we can come up with a better name for questions that are supposed to have multiple correct answers, then that would be a step towards correct usage/deprecation of &lt;strong&gt;subjective&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" />
  <row Id="19116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T11:16:44.740" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It purely depends on the intellect of the individual answering the question. it might be a one liner, crisp and precise, or else it can lead to wars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging the question as subjective does categorize it but it certainly wont defy the users viewing / answering the same if they are willing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let commonsense prevail !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142383" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" />
  <row Id="19117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T11:47:46.133" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO &lt;strong&gt;subjective&lt;/strong&gt; tag is &lt;strong&gt;100% useless.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It simply doesn't add any value. 99% posts are subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I can separate SO posts into these categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that can have a single answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that can have multiple answers (but it's not a pure discussions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;discussions (questions that don't expect specific answer, just provoke discussion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;polls (questions that ask to select an item from a list or propose such item)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First 2 categories are perfectly valid and don't deserve to be tagged with &lt;strong&gt;subjective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First type of questions is preferable but second type is valid too. There were some requests on uservoice about partial answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, discussions should not be posted in SO. SO model simply doesn't work well. Discussions on SO looks like crappy linear bulletin board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tag them &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and close eventually :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polls - that's the most evil type of questions. They totally break meaning of voting. Instead of &quot;helpful&quot;/&quot;not helpful&quot; it becomes &quot;hot&quot; &quot;hot hot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polls tagged accordingly - &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/polls&quot;&gt;polls&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I disagree (i.e. I don't think&#xA;  the question is too subjective) if I&#xA;  remove the tag someone else will add&#xA;  it back - leading to pointless edit&#xA;  wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I created &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133158/separate-the-husk-from-the-grains&quot;&gt;Separate the husk from the grains&lt;/a&gt;&quot; topic.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Root cause of these re-taggin and close/open wars is opposition of interests. &#xA;Some people want to keep site focused on first 2 categories of questions other people like to see questions from last 2 categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of countless re-tagging/re-opening wars, community should have an options to separate content into few categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example we can have &quot;categorize&quot; button with 3 choices: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;discussion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;poll&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When 1 high rep or multiple people will click on this button question will be moved to appropriate tab\category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it like high-level tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-01T11:47:46.133" />
  <row Id="19118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T11:53:03.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that we need a way to categorize these two kinds of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is an object-oriented way of doing so-and-so with this-or-that language?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There can be many correct answers to this valid question. It is obviously subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the most efficient sorting algorithms?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There is basically only one correct answer (list of the O(N log N) algorithms). There is no judgment involved. It is obviously objective.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is not the same as an &quot;open-question&quot; because some open questions should have no clear answer: &quot;How do you evaluate a candidate?&quot; is both open and subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore some &quot;subjective&quot; questions can spiral down to a flame war. E.g. &quot;I need to write a cross platform application. Is there any particular reason why Windows CLI programs not conform to Posix standards?&quot;. By explicitly marking it subjective we can try to avoid holy wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131112" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-01T11:55:48.923" />
  <row Id="19119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T12:03:30.683" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that &quot;subjective&quot; was being used to flag questions that at heart reduce to matters of taste.  There's never going to be a satisfactory answer to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Does chocolate taste better than vanilla?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and we know that up front.  Personally, I don't see the point of these discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, many poorly specified questions end up in a similar state-- asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;What's the best way to do XYZ?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; without specifying what is meant as &quot;best&quot; in this context ends up reducing to a question of taste.  This can easily be rectified by specifying &quot;best&quot; in measurable terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it seems to me that the &quot;Subjective&quot; tag can be used for the former case (which would warn me, for one, to avoid the sinkhole) and as a re-tag to warn the questioner that they have slipped into the latter case (which would give them the opportunity to rephrase the question to get a more useful response).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" />
  <row Id="19120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T12:12:03.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#157275&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Dorfman&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't see the point of these&#xA;  discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some SO users just love to posts such kind of questions :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, many poorly specified&#xA;  questions end up in a similar state&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a problem usually. We have 2 tools to overcome this problem - comments and posts (aka answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people can't clearly formulate their needs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if question is not well defined, people would ask for clarification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If question author is not an idiot he/she will reformulate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that badly formulated questions should not be tagged with &lt;strong&gt;subjective&lt;/strong&gt; or similar tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very often I see SO users tag such questions with useless and often offensive tags like &quot;vague&quot;, &quot;deleteme&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that reputation requirements for re-tagging should be raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-01T12:12:03.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-01T18:32:46.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/157125/do-we-really-need-the-subjective-tag-and-is-it-commonly-mis-used#157227my&quot;&gt;aku&lt;/a&gt; give very good overview on the types of questions we have here. &#xA;I think that closing discussions is pointless, if people want to restart c vs c++ war or anything else it's their problem and the best way to fight this is ignore this, to ignore this it should be properly categorized as aku suggested.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In additional i would suggest not counting voting from such discussion to reputation. I personally got a biggest bunch of my points on stupid answer to stupid question that was eventually closed because it was stupid :).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So if we don't count votes from discussions and polls all voting system will be a little bit more objective.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6807" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-01T18:34:41.880" />
  <row Id="19122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-02T03:11:38.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#159031&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ilya&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...think that closing discussions is&#xA;  pointless...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...in additional i would suggest not&#xA;  counting voting from such discussion&#xA;  to reputation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's exactly what I propose in my post &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133158/separate-the-husk-from-the-grains&quot;&gt;Separate the husk from the grains&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; inefficient measure. Recently we have a case when some high rep user blindly re-opened all closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's almost useless to apply closing functionality to popular open-ended discussions and polls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of trying to fight against them, it would be better to separate them from the main content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I strongly believe that &quot;Reputation&quot; is meaningless if it can be obtained from cheap talks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-02T03:11:38.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-10-02T16:49:09.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There is no harm in adding it, so why are you lobbying to restrict its usage?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there are 5 valid tags, then no, don't add it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there is space to add it, and the discussion truly is subjective, then yes, please add it (I will explain the reasoning below).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's applied inappropriately (ie, the discussion is truly about factual information, and does not depend on individual experiences/beliefs/gut feelings/desires/etc) then change it, and hope others learn when to apply it.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end of the day, I think you need to just accept the fact that the word &quot;subjective&quot; is merely the easiest, shortest word to describe the questions it applies to, whereas &quot;open&quot; or &quot;no single great answer&quot; is either to dilute, or too long and annoying.  Besides, by definition, an open question (one with many answers, none of which is correct for most situations) is subjective - it depends entirely on the circumstances surrounding it.  In this case, subjective isn't the exact opposite of objective, although it does have elements of anti-objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason to add it is so that advanced tag searches in the future will allow you to exclude subjective questions from your searches.  For instance, I might choose to search on IDE, find that it's cluttered with stupid subjective topics, and search on &quot;IDE -SUBJECTIVE&quot;.  Even now I occasionally do search on subjective as a time filler -0 find out how people think about various topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, there are very good reasons to have it, and so far your reasons against are &quot;It doesn't add value&quot; when it actually does.  However, if it doesn't add value for you, don't think that everyone else is the same and thus it doesn't add value for them.  If your main complaint is that it's being applied inappropriately, then you might consider the idea that perhaps subjective means something different on this site than the dictionary definition you're pushing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-11-11T20:28:02.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the FAQ says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet subjective questions are numerous and popular, many argumentative questions can be informative and funny, and quite a few that require extended discussion reveal wisdom that otherwise would not appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much for the FAQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to the original question: yes, we need the 'subjective' tag. We also need the 'poll' tag. And the 'off-topic' tag. We don't need the 'dogfood' tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T20:28:02.597" />
  <row Id="19125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2008-12-10T22:36:06.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is rather subjective in my opinion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:38:27.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T22:36:06.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-19T10:02:07.250" Score="14" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a newcomer to StackOverflow, I recently asked my first &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/438408/do-you-ask-questions-on-sites-like-so-immediately-or-organise-them-first&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. I wanted to start with a fairly safe general question, to get the feel for how the site worked. My question was intended to be programming-related, but my original wording was not clear enough, so another user decided to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've re-phrased my question, and had received one useful answer before the question was closed, but I'm not sure what the procedure is after your question is closed to allow people to post answers again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked the FAQ and About pages, searched the SO questions, but have had no luck. Could someone point me in the right direction as to how I get my question re-opened, or if it is possible to do at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T18:34:38.460" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T18:34:38.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:50:33.757" Title="How do you challenge the closing of one of your questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19126" CreationDate="2009-01-19T10:06:10.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest leaving the corpse of your dead question to cool and start another question that benefits from what you learned from the demise of your original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry about the unfortunate metaphor, it's Monday morning GMT)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130815" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:39:17.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-19T10:07:55.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19126" CreationDate="2009-01-19T10:08:24.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, there is no real procedure. But there are some guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep a question open:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the question on topic (programming in this case)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search for duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mind your language and attitude&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show your effort sofar and don't ask to give a complete solution (we won't do your homework).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is slightly off topic, make it a community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reopen a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;read the comments, there is possibly an hint&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit your question and ask for reopening&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have a bit of patience ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:39:17.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:50:33.757" />
  <row Id="19129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19126" CreationDate="2009-01-19T10:09:26.783" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I should close this question, I'll cut you some slack first ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your previous question, like this one are the type of questions that are bound to get closed, because they aren't UNDENIABLY programming related. Now of course on SO, there are many questions that are very dubiously programming related, but then your stepping into the realm of luck, you might get a few gold medals (just ask Bill the Lizard) or down-voted and closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:39:17.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:50:33.757" />
  <row Id="19130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19126" CreationDate="2009-01-19T10:11:24.563" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing your OP will bring it back into view. If you edit in a well thought out request for reopen and those with reopen powers agree with it, it will get reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the comments section on your post are the right place to discuss the arguments for opening/closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:39:17.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:50:33.757" />
  <row Id="19131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19136" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:08:51.220" Score="3" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should SO handle users who don't &quot;maintain&quot; their questions by selecting answers, or remarking newer/better answers as the chosen one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have no answer marked correct, even when one is plainly there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are not reviewed by the poster to select a new correct answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind taking the time to answer questions, but don't see the point when I don't get &quot;reputation&quot; for doing so since no one reads those questions, and reputation seems to be the point of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;remind to accept an answer&quot; feature is there now, since I just saw it when coming back.  I missed it the first time though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144351" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T01:30:56.170" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:08:51.220" Title="How to handle users who don't select answers for their questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:16:03.797" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote goes to doing nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site shouldn't have tons of rules regarding behavior.  We won't keep a large userbase if the site requires you follow a super strict guideline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requiring that users check old questions or accept answers lest they receive a rep penalty seems like a we are running a military regime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:16:03.797" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:16:05.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they should let moderators mark questions as being the answer if a certain amount of time has passed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question must be at least 30 days old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User Must have rep of 3K (essentially a moderator)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The caveat being that the originating poster can still unmark the question if they choose to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17744" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:16:05.963" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:16:12.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ability to select an answer could be given to the community (those with a certain amount of reputation).  However there could be a rule in place that only allows a user to assign an answer to a question that doesn't belong to them if it has inactive for a period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150691" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:16:12.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:16:49.053" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better answers float to the top.  The answer which would be chosen by the original poster may be the top answer, so it wouldn't really matter.  Stackoverflow is about getting questions answered, not reputation/e-peen (though that is a secondary objective, and a primary for some people =]).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136672" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:16:49.053" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:25:38.130" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer means putting one's stamp of approval on it as answering your question.  I try hard to accept an answer on all of my questions, but I have about 1/3 that were not answered in a way that I felt I could endorse.  In one or two cases, I felt like my own answer was the best provided (at a later date), but there is no way to accept your own answer.  In some cases, I'm waiting to get more responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every question gets answered to the OP's satisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a gentle reminder, periodically (that can be turned off) to accept answers to open questions, but it should be left at that.  I don't think others should have the ability to accept answers on my behalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: since a while it is possible to accept your own answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="137826" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-11T01:30:56.170" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T01:30:56.170" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:25:38.130" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:46:41.630" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've come here for reputation points, that's the wrong idea. Reputation points are just an inhibitor to stop silly behaviour until you've proven yourself. The reason you're here (in my opinion) should be to provide useful questions or answers for the greater good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer to your two specific queries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1/ Many questions have no answer marked correct, even when one is plainly there.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you mean accepted, which is subtly different from correct. Accepted answers are &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; under the control of the questioner. Correct answers, in terms of what the SO community thinks, are the ones with the highest net vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had one answer that received a net 36 votes (the highest for that question), the accepted answer was -18 (a subjective question regarding breaks in loops so I didn't care that much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another accepted answer was clearly wrong to both me and the wider SO community (to do with SQL selecting minimum value across columns as well as within columns) - the accepted answer would not scale well and my answer would. However, I'm pretty certain I offended the questioner at some point by telling him his schema was rubbish and he may have accepted the other answer out of spite. Such is life, I should learn to be more tactful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, your situation is better in that the correct answer will bubble to the top if the questioner hasn't accepted a 'lowlier' answer (for want of a better term).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I think we just need to understand the distinction between accepted and correct. I've often thought that the accepted answer shouldn't automatically be at the top but rather have (for example) 10 votes added, so that if 10 other people thought another answer was better, that would render the acceptance moot. It would stop ignorant questioners from choosing what's at the top of the list, once again returning that power to the SO community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd put something up on uservoice but I'm not passionate enough about it. Anyone else want to give it a shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2/ Many questions are not reviewed by the poster to select a new correct answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you've hacked into SO and can see the access logs, I don't there is no way you could tell this for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, monitor all my responses to see if anyone's added new information which makes the old accepted answers worse. I've never found one yet and, to be honest, I'd prefer to see the accepted answer edited to provide the extra information since that guarantees it will still be at the top of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this comes down to rep-seeking. I have edited other peoples accepted answers (only to add at the bottom, not change the original) to add some pertinent information of my own and then deleted my answer that had that information in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, the best information stays at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I've once bought another answer's info into my own answer when mine was the accepted one, again to ensure that the best answer is at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people really want an accepted answer, maybe a uservoice request to automatically accept the highest voted answer when the question hasn't had any activity for (e.g.,) 4 weeks would be the way to go. If the original questioner doesn't like that, they can always change it or un-accept it (although it'll accept again in another 4 weeks so they'll have to be vigilant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for listening, I know it's been a long and not entirely painless experience :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastEditorUserId="14860" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T13:32:44.217" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T13:32:44.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:48:20.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;that's what the upvote and downvotes are for right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;plus the best answer for the poster may not be for you or that with more experience and knowledge it might change, so i feel the answer tag are sometimes subjective too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so i'll leave it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150635" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:48:20.893" />
  <row Id="19139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:50:30.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the more relevant point is that these question stay in the &quot;unanswered&quot; list, even though they are answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we need an &quot;Unresponded to&quot; list so we can see which questions have no responses at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:50:30.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T02:53:14.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To worry about the points for accepted answers is making this site more about ego than sharing knowledge. Let it go. If you don't have time to answer, don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T02:53:14.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T03:00:10.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accept an answer if it's the right answer.  I also accept an answer if it's not the complete right answer, if it at least put me on the right track to get the answer.  In which case I'll explain in the comments, or in my own answer if it's long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I get several answers and none solve the problem, how can I accept one of them?  As far as I'm concerned, in that case, the question is still unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142148" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T03:00:10.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2008-12-18T05:24:04.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Uservoice entry for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/27976-remind-to-accept-answer-in-user-s-profile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Remind to &quot;accept answer&quot; in user's profile&lt;/a&gt; has about 600 votes and is ranked 3rd at the moment.  On the other hand, it hasn't got any &quot;we're going to do it&quot; annotation yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-18T05:24:04.277" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2009-01-07T19:27:59.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to some of the answers (I am the OP)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would prefer there were no such thing as &quot;reputation&quot; at all.  It is basically for who can ask the most &quot;what is your favorite programming book&quot; questions, and is a form of fake competition.  Lame lame lame.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I say again, reputation is really lame.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If rep isn't the point of the site, why not have &quot;good/bad/ugly&quot; only.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see questions answered so that I know that my input was useful, and so that others can see if an answer was actually successful.  I know it isn't required, I can just test the answer myself, but the site is setup to say &quot;this one worked&quot; by having only ONE that gets accepted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer questions to help someone, just like anywhere else.  It isn't drive-by for me, but it sure is discouraging to take my time to answer someone and then have it ignored.  I can see not updating after something worked (is accepted), but this is like going to a forum and seeing a bunch of answers, and the OP never says &quot;thanks, #7 works!&quot;.  Its like having a conversation where the other person never says anything.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way experts exchange does it seems to work pretty well, actually.  At least you know that no one has responded for months, someone arbitrates, things get accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, many of these questions sit in the back, don't get many votes, etc.  Having only 1 upvote on the correct answer doesn't instill confidence in that solution, and it's not like people seem to actually be upvoting things.  I usually don't, even when I should.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144351" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T19:27:59.177" />
  <row Id="19144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19131" CreationDate="2009-01-07T19:37:08.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many - maybe most - questions simply don't have a correct answer. If anything, it should be harder to award the &quot;Accept&quot; prize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &quot;What is your favorite ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question, in fact, has no defensible way to choose which answer to accept. It will be interesting if OP tries to do it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't say any answer is more correct than another. It might be more verbose, or amusing and entertaining, or agree more with my point of view. But that's no reason to award it Rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think preference should be given to answers with authoritative references; but that's apparently not a popular point of view, having been healthily down-voted and ignored. But there needs to be some more objective way to describe answer &quot;goodness&quot;. Otherwise it's a race to the bottom; which is kinda happening now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:42:36.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T19:37:08.067" />
  <row Id="19145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-08T10:29:36.110" Score="4" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the recommended method/syntax for denoting keyboard shortcuts in SO answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, to write the following in a less verbose manner: &quot;Press ctrl, and press either the minus key, or the equals key), or &quot;Ctrl or Cmd, and lower-case c&quot;, or &quot;Ctrl, alt and a, then ctrl and upper case L&quot;, &quot;Hold Ctrl or Cmd while scrolling the mouse wheel&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Well, the last one isn't strictly a keyboard shortcut)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T15:38:12.640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:38:12.640" Title="Denoting keyboard shortcuts in Stackoverflow questions/answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19145" CreationDate="2008-12-08T10:40:24.500" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’d say we do it just like it’s done all over the world since the beginning of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ctrl-Minus/=&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ctrl-c&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ctrl-a Ctrl-L&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133445" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:44:48.663" />
  <row Id="19147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19145" CreationDate="2008-12-08T12:23:09.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say we do it just like it is done all over the world since the beginning of time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;C--&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;C-=&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;C-c&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;C-a C-L&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;C-x M-c M-butterfly&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:44:48.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19145" CreationDate="2009-01-22T09:38:04.287" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that you can now do this using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;-&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;=&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;c&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously you have to watch your line spacing due to the additional height of the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:44:48.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:53:41.477" Score="10" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a question and thought of some answers that were completely ridiculous, but funny. I decided not to post them, but wondered if they would be appreciated by the community, or just voted down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133048" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" Title="Should wrong but funny answers be posted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="13" />
  <row Id="19150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:55:39.427" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny and correct are ok when humor is used with moderation and serves the purpose of finding good answers. But ridiculous is a method to SPAM the questions with no added value and of course should be downvoted. Remember also that decorating your answers with a lot of humorous quotes or sarcasm even tough you have the correct answer is a bad approach. The users may find themselves lost and totally miss that you pointed them in the correct direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:55:58.973" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, wrong answers should never be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a funny comment that you wish to post, I would recommend clicking &quot;add comment&quot;... that way, your reputation won't suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:56:16.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on the question (and how much you like your reputation).  If it's a subjective question I think people will usually accept offtopic answers that are funny.  I've made a few and haven't been voted down for them yet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, a vote down is just a -1/-2 on your reputation.  I think it's a small price to pay for freedom of speech. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:56:32.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it depends on the situation&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;if it something that should not be mentioned and you would not want say you wife/husband/child to read then please dont write it, especially in the case of a previous question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" />
  <row Id="19154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:56:35.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the voting system should sort out this kind of thing so I would say why not. I know some of my favourite posts are good humored but they did tend to be related to the question in at least a small way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135049" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" />
  <row Id="19155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:57:00.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on the question. If it's entertaining I think people might even vote them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:59:18.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny? Sure. However, I don't want to encourage the spread of memes here. I hate wading through Reddit comment threads of pun after pun and memes from god-knows-where. This site should be about quickly getting straightforward answers to your questions and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T17:01:17.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would you accept a wrong answer? It destroys the premise of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T17:20:01.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal policy is to post joke answers if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;you do it in moderation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a good answer has already been posted an upvoted&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the joke is actually funny (not just &quot;You don't! Windoze suxx! Lol.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the joke hasn't been made yet, and if it has, it's been made poorly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I only made one of these, about &quot;intentional programming&quot; -- with a name like that,  the topic was just begging for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" />
  <row Id="19159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-17T19:54:42.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, never!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1444" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" />
  <row Id="19160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-19T00:41:31.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on how much signal there is to go along with your noise. If you contribute to the question, f.ex. by posting a “here’s an obvious but wrong approach and here’s why you shouldn’t do that”-type wrong answer, I’d be as likely to vote it up as any right answer. It just has to be educational, same as any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not it’s funny doesn’t really matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this means you must state up front that the given answer is wrong. If that destroys the humour in it, well too bad, don’t post it then. It’d be pure noise anyway. In that case, unless your joke is a real knee-slapper, please keep it out of the comments too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say something educational or nothing at all. If it is, and you can also make it humorous, more power to ya. If it’s not, more’s the pity; humorous or not doesn’t matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" />
  <row Id="19161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-19T01:10:45.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make your joke as a comment if you have nothing else to contribute (or just chuckle to yourself and move along).  Make your joke, include smiley, then answer the question if you think you can be helpful.  Make sure you make it clear that your answer is a joke in case someone doesn't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" />
  <row Id="19162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2008-10-19T01:30:20.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any programmer who has realized by now that coding itself is never a rigid, straightforward process ought to also understand that applying rigid protocol for interactions with people works just about as well (read: not very).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, rules are important, but playing it by ear is probably more so in the long run.  This isn't a mission critical business planning service or anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19825" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:45:27.197" />
  <row Id="19163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:09:33.280" Score="8" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18878/how-do-i-correctly-tag-my-questions&quot;&gt;How do I correctly tag my questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you looked at the state of tags lately? Multiple versions of the same tag that are camel cased, use underscores or dashes, with both singular and plural versions....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should there be an unwritten standard (or a written one)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm a fan of the dashes (&lt;code&gt;[Sqlserver-2007]&lt;/code&gt;, not &lt;code&gt;[Sqlserver2007]&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;[Multithreaded-Error]&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;[MultithreadedError]&lt;/code&gt;) just because I find them easier to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also, should there be a standard for making the tags singular or plural?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I added a new tag &amp;#8212; &lt;code&gt;[Stackoverflow-tags]&lt;/code&gt; &amp;#8212; for this message.  Should it be &lt;code&gt;[Stackoverflow-]&lt;/code&gt; tag instead?  When designing a database, you generally don't call it the INVOICES table but use INVOICE instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't even get me started on the use of &lt;code&gt;[Sql]&lt;/code&gt; as a tag when you have a question limited to SQL Server &amp;#8212; I guess SQL Server people are blind to the outside world of other databases besides SQL Server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Since you can retag with enough rep, we can &quot;police&quot; as a community. What should be added is the ability to remove &quot;bad&quot; tags so they don't pop up in the drop-down when tagging. There's less chance they'll get used again if they aren't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151881" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-05T16:47:48.890" LastActivityDate="2010-11-05T16:47:48.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-31T20:39:25.467" ClosedDate="2010-06-10T21:02:38.893" Title="Should tags use dashes camel case or underscores? Should they be singular or plural?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:12:50.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you take a look at the popular &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags currently in use&lt;/a&gt;, it looks as though we've already standardized on the dash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:13:17.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I have seen that too. And it is even worse, most of the tags are only used once or twice, there are typo's and other similar tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem is, even if we create a standard, there will always be people that ignore the standard. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could try to cleanup the taglist, but this will be a huge and probably thankless job. Nevertheless, I would like to volunteer if we are going to start such an operation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:14:02.707" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cleaning up of the tag list should be automated.  This is something that will have to be addressed if/when there are too many tags with duplicate names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, I wouldn't worry too much about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; What might be a nice feature is for the community to be able to indicate when two tags are equivalent, and when there are enough votes the moderators can merge the tags.  That way the load of scrubbing the list is distributed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131308" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:14:26.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1, but should probably be a uservoice issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can go either way with dashes or CamelCase, but all lowercase is only slightly better than all upper case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate tags lessen the value of the whole site, IMNSHO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:14:36.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a standard is required, a quick search in the TAG section, will quickly show everything containing 'sql' or 'ml' then you just choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, users often edit tags so they get bumped in the most common section&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131757" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" />
  <row Id="19169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:17:10.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To directly answer your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be an unwritten standard (or a written one)?&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, should there be a standard for making the tags singular or allowing plural?&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything else?  Fries or a milkshake maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-31T20:18:38.627" />
  <row Id="19170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:21:49.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229784/tips-for-effectively-tagging-questions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It specifically addresses some of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156625" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" />
  <row Id="19171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-10-31T20:23:10.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well actually, there is not much point having a standard if it has already been broken, but if there is an ability to edit the tags and merge them then yes a standard is really necessary between those editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157074" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19163" CreationDate="2008-11-01T00:01:51.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a duplicate of the question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229784/tips-for-effectively-tagging-questions&quot;&gt;Tips for effectively tagging questions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community user&lt;/a&gt; does &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq#119640&quot;&gt;automatic tag tuning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repeating the answer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229784/tips-for-effectively-tagging-questions&quot;&gt;the faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Is There a Standard for Tag Names?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; re-tag a question if you are not going to add valuable&#xA;  information by doing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; re-tag only to change the format of the tag (ie: stackoverflow&#xA;  -&gt; stack-overflow). This is done automatically by the community user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if there are tags that aren't being cleaned up by the Community user then a request should be made on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt; that the tags be added to whatever list it works from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:00.847" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-01T00:01:51.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-20T15:56:29.077" Score="10" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do the &quot;Ignored Tags&quot; and &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; options &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; exactly?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These options appear under the user preference page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-ignored-interesting.png&quot; alt=&quot;Odd little fields that let you enter tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T02:05:23.403" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T02:05:23.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T19:31:46.430" Title="What do the Ignored Tags and Interesting Tags fields on the user prefs page do?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19173" CreationDate="2008-10-20T16:02:21.423" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ignored&lt;/strong&gt;: fades questions that have the tag; they are still visible but less prominent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interesting&lt;/strong&gt;: questions with these tags become highlighted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:39.253" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19173" CreationDate="2008-10-20T16:15:27.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like to add if a question has both an ignored tag and an interesting tag it has both faded text and has an orange highlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:46:39.253" />
  <row Id="19177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19173" CreationDate="2008-10-20T17:50:37.210" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These preferences affect how questions are displayed on the home (&quot;Recent questions&quot;) page and the various Questions pages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ignored Tags&lt;/strong&gt;: questions with these tags are shown faded; they are still visible but less prominent.  Checking the &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; box causes them to be hidden completely (this is done by a client-side script however, so you may notice odd &quot;gaps&quot;)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interesting Tags&lt;/strong&gt;: questions with these tags become highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you can use wildcards&lt;/a&gt; to highlight or exclude multiple related tags:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-ignored-interesting-wildcards.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of wild and crazy tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/expressing-your-tag-preferences/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Expressing Your Tag Preferences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T01:56:55.323" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T01:56:55.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T17:50:37.210" />
  <row Id="19182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18545" CreationDate="2008-10-25T20:00:47.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/&amp;lt;tag&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/&amp;lt;tag&lt;/a&gt;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1398" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:47:27.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-05T06:48:53.480" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18545" CreationDate="2008-10-25T20:01:10.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;/unanswered/tagged/c#&lt;/a&gt; (which is c%23 because of url-limitations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:47:27.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-05T06:48:53.480" />
  <row Id="19184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18545" CreationDate="2008-10-25T20:01:33.257" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the unanswered questions page and choose the c# tag from the list of tags on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:47:27.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-05T06:48:53.480" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-09T20:19:52.287" Score="9" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's kind of silly to vote down a non-programming question when it is still highly technical in nature. This seems like a good place to have an open forum about software engineering and all aspects of the trade from requirements through testing and monitoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost always our jobs as engineers require more than just cranking out code every day. We need to think about how the code will be tested, how the code will be monitored in production, etc. Many time a little guidance for finding the right software packages to integrate into your software system is just as relevant as finding a specific API to get your code working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I totally off-base here? Or am I missing the point of this site and should just find a different community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT (JH):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;There is a close reason called 'Not Programming Related'.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Jeff Atwood wanted non-programming questions, he wouldn't have put that there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2 (VV): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth mentioning that there are many not strictly programming related questions that are upvoted and answered, many related to communication, career development, job hunting and so on. As non-programming related is so ambiguous, you might stumble upon a trigger happy 3000+ rep guy, or you might not, but that's how it is, you need a bit of luck when the question might not be directly programming related. So I think you are in the right community, unless that luck factor bothers you too much. Just search for tags &quot;career&quot; &quot;testing&quot; &quot;interview&quot; to see for yourself. Although on your example, testing, architecture and so on, are definitely considered by most if not all people as programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 3 (DJ47):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the answers. I guess I just need to tag my questions appropriately so that other members of the community know what exactly it is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164002" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:36:24.190" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T04:36:24.190" Title="Why are non-programming related questions being voted down?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19186" CreationDate="2008-11-09T20:20:55.080" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, because it is a site about programing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139367" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:49:22.930" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19186" CreationDate="2008-11-09T20:26:27.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's subjective. Sometimes &quot;non programming related&quot; questions are closed almost instantly, sometimes they stay open and can get a lot of answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the properties of an open community. I think this is something to be proud of (although it can be a bit annoying sometimes ;-) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let us not forget, we get reputation because other people have trust in our knowledge. And reputation gives us power. If we all are smart enough to use this power wisely, this site is going to be better every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:49:22.930" />
  <row Id="19189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19186" CreationDate="2008-11-09T20:30:07.993" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still argue that programming requires all of these things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Communication with customers and/or stakeholders&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requirements, how else do you know what to code?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Architecture, how do you software/code components fit together&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Design, which are your objects, what are you going to build&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Testing, how will it be tested&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monitoring, how do you know the code breaks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe what I've described is &quot;software engineering.&quot; So why can't we make this a site not only about programming but also about &quot;software engineering.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're not code monkeys, we're engineers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164002" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:49:22.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-07T18:42:52.060" Score="16" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen questions edited to remove the language name from the title; i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/421232/list&quot;&gt;brian d foy's edit # 2&lt;/a&gt; from &quot;Perl, case insensitive grep within an array&quot; to &quot;How do I find the case-insensitive unique elements of two arrays?&quot; (Obviously this was a helpful clarification, but it also happened to remove the language name from the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some inconsistency in this practice across the site. On one hand, it introduces redundancy &lt;em&gt;within&lt;/em&gt; the site due to the tag metadata that's present; however, &lt;strong&gt;search engines are known to be significantly influenced by title data&lt;/strong&gt; and won't make an attempt to identify our (internal) tag metadata as more important than normal text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems like a search engine user will have an easier time with languages in the title for language-specific Q&amp;amp;A. Again, since tag metadata isn't immediately present in search results, &lt;strong&gt;it's easier for a search engine user who has no knowledge of Perl to skip over the result if Perl is right in the search result title&lt;/strong&gt; than to visit the site and discover that the question isn't language-agnostic (or multi-lingual) as they had hoped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:42:14.893" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:42:14.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T18:42:52.060" Title="Should language-specific questions contain the language name in the title?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19190" CreationDate="2009-01-07T18:46:44.767" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the language or technology should be specified in the title, though not in excessive manner. Probably the best way is to word the question title so that it makes sense and includes the language/framework name. For example in a question about NHibernate, I don't think we need to specify &quot;C#&quot; in the title, but existence of NHibernate word is helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While tags are really designed to specify the detailed categories in which the question goes, I feel title is where we look the most while searching for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:50:46.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T18:46:44.767" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19190" CreationDate="2009-01-07T18:48:35.577" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't that what tags are for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133234" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:50:46.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T18:48:35.577" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19190" CreationDate="2009-01-07T18:49:42.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely an interesting question.  I think that you have to allow one, or if you enforce the stripping of the programming language from the title, then SO should put something in to help search engines with the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the meta keywords header might be good here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;meta name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;sofaq,editing,search-engine&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140951" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:50:46.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T18:49:42.203" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19190" CreationDate="2009-01-07T18:49:49.160" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the title + text in the question is good enough to let people find what they want, in and out of SO, as well as search engines. OTOH to click on, say, the Perl tag and see Perl Perl Perl Perl x 10 on all the titles is too much clutter and makes skimming the question titles worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:50:46.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T18:49:49.160" />
  <row Id="19195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19190" CreationDate="2009-01-07T19:42:32.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta tags are not in the prominent position as the title.  I often find others as well as myself answer questions in our own preferred language even though the asker had specified a different one, but only in the meta tags.  I perceive the tags as rather internal in nature, enabling various search strategies.  The reader should be able to get all information from the title and the text of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:50:46.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T19:42:32.220" />
  <row Id="19196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19190" CreationDate="2009-01-07T19:46:05.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. It makes filtering out questions you can't or don't want to answer much easier, regardless of any tag filtering going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:50:46.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-07T19:46:05.520" />
  <row Id="19197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19109" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:55:39.827" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the case you mentioned (accidentally up voting), you can just click the up arrow again to remove your up vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T19:55:39.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:01:38.800" Score="10" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Server Fault&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Server Fault is for &lt;strong&gt;system&#xA;  administrators&lt;/strong&gt; and IT professionals,&#xA;  people who manage or maintain&#xA;  computers in a professional capacity.&#xA;  If &lt;strong&gt;you are in charge of&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;servers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;networks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;many desktop PCs (other than your own)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The emphasis is mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it says &quot;in a professional capacity&quot;, but I feel like we are segregating a topic by splitting up questions on networks and networking over two sites. Shell scripting is still allowed on Stack Overflow, yet most of the time, I've seen system administrators use shell scripting more than software engineers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I'm at home, running my own servers or networks, why can't I ask my questions on SF? I am interested in the best practices of server and network administration, and I think the audience of SF is far more likely to be of use to me than SU because they are the experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I do want to clarify that I do think there are questions that are too basic for SF to concern themselves with. Things like &quot;how do I install MySQL&quot;, &quot;how do I secure a wireless network&quot;, &quot;how do I set up my two computers on a network&quot;, and &quot;what router do I want to buy for X&quot; are clearly Super User questions. But other questions that get into how to properly administrate MySQL, or manage a wireless network for security or efficiency or how to protect a network using more advanced tools are more likely to be SF questions, especially if they are intended to be a tool to learn about true system administration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Super User&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Super User also concerns me. Based on discussions in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16087/are-iphone-ipod-ipod-touch-questions-computer-related-superuser&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, it appears that iPod and iPhone questions are off-limits. However, according to the SU FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Super User is for computer&#xA;  enthusiasts and power users. If you&#xA;  have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;computer hardware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;computer software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last time I checked, the iPhone is a small computer and the iPod is computer hardware (it plugs into my computer via USB, just like a printer or flash drive...in fact, mine Nano IS a flash drive). If my iPod acts weird, I'm sure someone on SU would know what to do to fix it. But alas - my question would just be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, we have three sites here - SO, SF, and SU. SO is for the clearly programming questions (including scripts that are used by system administrators and IT people). SF is for the clearly networking and server questions (IMO, regardless of if they are for a home network or an enterprise network). SU is for the computer hardware and software that isn't related to networking, system administration, or programming (programming software being compilers, IDEs, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do we divide topics like networking over two sites? Even though I'm a software engineer by education, I run Apache and Tomcat and MySQL on my laptop for development. I also run a wireless network that I want to keep safe, secure, and reliable. Why can't I ask these questions where I'm guaranteed an answer by an IT professional with knowledge in these areas? I understand very basic questions being on Super User (How do I secure my wireless network?), but some home networking questions do belong on SF.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why should someone other than the community decide what is and is not programming related/server related/computer related? I don't agree with a lot of the restrictions on Super User, and unless I missed it, there wasn't that much discussion as to what would and wouldn't be fair game on SU prior to it opening. If I ask a (not gameplay related) question about a game on Super User (as in - Why does game X crash with Error Y and post details about the problem) or ask about iPhone apps or how to use my iPod, why should it be closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:48:26.237" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:48:26.237" ClosedDate="2009-09-01T00:00:35.917" Title="Why is Server Fault not for home networking questions? Why is Super User not for iPod questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14303" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:06:12.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let Jeff explain for all us culturally challenged what all those references to ponies mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:06:12.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-31T20:06:12.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19198" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:07:34.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Networking&quot; is a division of practices and skills. Just about anybody can setup a wireless router (networking) in their home. But not just anybody can configure DHCP for their home. For this reason, I could see &quot;How do I reset my router password?&quot; being asked on Superuser, and &quot;How do I restrict access for a particular IP address internally&quot; on ServerFault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SuperUser, what is and isn't allowed is pretty loosely defined (unfortunately). It's almost arbitrary whether or not some questions (like iPod questions) will survive the first few minutes of their existence. Some may die immediately, and others may gain much acceptance. It's all in which particular group of users happens to notice it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T20:42:37.500" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:42:37.500" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19198" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:08:06.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To your first example, the practice of running a home network is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; different from running a corporate or other large network in a professional capacity.  The hardware, software, techniques, and even primary considerations are almost completely distinct.  Therefore, SF isn't appropriate for home networking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To your second example, nearly any electronic device nowadays contains a &quot;small computer&quot;.  Sure, iPods and iPhones are more sophisticated examples, but the line has to be drawn somewhere.  My car is a car, not a computer.  My microwave oven is a cooking tool, not a computer.  Your iPod is a music player and your iPhone is a phone, neither is a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why someone decides, it's because they pay for running the sites.  They set them up.  They set up three (four if you count meta) distinct sites for distinct purposes, and they decided what those purposes were.  The community has some say in it, but executive control at the very highest level has to remain with the people who actually own the software and the hardware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:08:06.260" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19203" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:11:19.327" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a new Cisco router, should I post questions about it on Server Fault or Super User?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130857" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-07T21:34:46.197" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T21:34:46.197" ClosedDate="2009-09-01T03:58:00.433" Title="Which of the Stack Exchange sites would be best to ask about my Cisco 881 router and how to set it up?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;site-rec&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19202" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:16:40.080" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SuperUser is the site you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's for personal computer management, hardware and software - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;its faq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T20:43:53.770" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:43:53.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:17:20.673" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't possible right now, but I think it would be a great feature.  Often the answer you'd like to favorite isn't a great answer to the question, but is something that interests you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ask.metafilter.com&lt;/a&gt; is a great example of a site that functions this way, and it works very well there.  Completely unobtrusive, but quite intuitive and very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastEditorUserId="134068" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T20:17:58.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T20:17:58.247" />
  <row Id="19205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19198" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:26:19.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On iPods I think you have a point (especially considering superuser is supposed to be everything else - isn't it?), on home networking I think the &quot;home&quot; part of that marks it out as a superuser question. Home networking really does vary enormously in professionalism and level of relevance to a professional audience on SF therefore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:26:19.593" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="19206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19198" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:44:22.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hint: on SF if you have a complicated home network and you need help with it, just don't mention where the network is housed. If it's about mysql, Linux services, bind, etc then you will still get good valid answers with nobody complaining. If they ask why you don't have AD just tell em it's political in-fighting (we've all been there!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:44:22.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19210" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:45:32.613" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I find a list of StackOverflow &lt;strong&gt;must read beginner related advice&lt;/strong&gt; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:What kind of advice(not books) from experienced programmers i should keep in mind before thinking of becoming a software developer&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a big problem for me (or beginners) because I don't know what I need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of a couple posts that would be on this list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/143760/&quot;&gt;What books should I read to have an undergraduate education in Computer Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/94579/&quot;&gt;How to find a mentor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5119/&quot;&gt;What are the best RSS feeds for programmers/developers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What type of tags (other than beginner) should I be looking at while searching?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Should I sort by number of votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134286" LastEditorUserId="134286" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T21:48:25.543" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:10:44.343" Title="Where can I find a list of StackOverflow MUST READ beginner related advice questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:47:05.403" Score="12" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edge case, low priority, but odd enough that it caught my eye so I'm documenting it while it's fresh in my mind. Most of this I have not been able to test or reproduce, so I'll just post some examples and guess at what's going on... Exceptions noted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example #1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1358786/will-an-executable-moved-to-another-directory-still-work-closed&quot;&gt;Will an executable moved to another directory still work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 18:35:46Z&lt;/strong&gt;: asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 18:38:18Z&lt;/strong&gt;: first answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 18:40:23Z&lt;/strong&gt;: closed and migrated; first answer deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 18:40:54Z&lt;/strong&gt;: second answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 18:41:19Z&lt;/strong&gt;: third answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second and third answers remain visible and fully-unlocked. Primary anomaly: Answers accepted to migrated question post-migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example #2: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1358354/creating-a-group-in-trying-not-to-use-sudo-nor-777-closed&quot;&gt;Creating a group in trying not to use Sudo nor 777&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 17:02:54Z&lt;/strong&gt;: asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 17:19:05Z&lt;/strong&gt;: first answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 17:19:34Z&lt;/strong&gt;: closed and migrated; first answer deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-31 17:42:42Z&lt;/strong&gt;: Second answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second answer remains visible and fully-unlocked. Primary anomaly: answer accepted to migrated question over twenty minutes after migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example #3: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1354661/listing-everything-else-than-tex-aux-by-ls&quot;&gt;Listing everything else than *{.tex, .aux} by ls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-30 19:09:51Z&lt;/strong&gt;: asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-30 19:17:43Z&lt;/strong&gt;: first answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-30 19:17:45Z&lt;/strong&gt;: second answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-30 19:18:01Z&lt;/strong&gt;: closed and migrated; first and second answers deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-30 19:20:10Z&lt;/strong&gt;: first answer undeleted by author&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2009-08-30 19:19:20Z&lt;/strong&gt;: third answer posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the first and second answers remain visible and fully-unlocked. Primary anomaly: author able to undelete second answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Theory:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, there's a grace period for posting to closed questions, intended to avoid losing the work of authors who are busy composing their answers when a question is closed. That explains #1, but not #2... unless the grace period has been extended to &gt; 23 minutes. #3 i can verify - it's possible for authors to undelete their own answers on migrated questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Suggestions:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, there's a good reason for the grace period (if that's what's really going on here): it avoids wasting authors' time when closing is controversial and the question ends up being re-opened anyway. In the case of migration however, &quot;re-opening&quot; is a much less likely (requires moderator intervention) - it would make more sense to just redirect them to the migrated question and ask that they respond there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think allowing authors to undelete answers on migrated questions really makes much sense; otherwise, why delete them in the first place? They should be locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T06:35:48.963" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T06:35:48.963" Title="Answers posted to a migrated question post-migration remain visible and unlocked on the original site" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-review&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19207" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:49:45.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a list of these questions needs to exist. Just search for what you need, and ask for anything that doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:49:45.350" CommentCount="40" />
  <row Id="19210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19207" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:53:13.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So wait... You don't know what you need to know, so you want a list of things to read that will help you to learn. But you &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; don't know what you want to accomplish, so you want a &lt;em&gt;list of lists&lt;/em&gt; of things to read for every possible goal, so that you can read through all of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like it'd be simpler just to pick a topic that interests you and... search for a list covering that topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading your comments, I think you're trying to jump past the &quot;learning to walk&quot; stage of programming. &lt;strong&gt;Don't&lt;/strong&gt;. Blogs, career advice, and CS theory are all fun to read, and will eventually be useful to you as a working programmer... But first, you really need to get comfortable &lt;strong&gt;just writing code&lt;/strong&gt;. Making the computer do what you tell it. Finding out why it doesn't when it doesn't. &lt;strong&gt;Learning how to &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (rather than decipher) other people's code, how to ask questions of it, and where to look for answers to those questions. Taking what you learn writing one program and putting it to use when writing another. Coming to the realization that your code, like everything else you write, is ultimately disposable. At that point, the essays you read on blogs, and the axioms you read in books will no longer be merely lists that you must commit to memory, but sensible conclusions that fit into your own experience (or ridiculous blather that you can dismiss outright...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to be obstinate or unhelpful here, and i doubt anyone else is either... But there's a limited utility in throwing ever-longer lists at someone still beginning the long, long study that you are. When you reach the point where you could make use of a real answer to this question, chances are you'll no longer need it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T22:10:44.343" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:10:44.343" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19198" CreationDate="2009-08-31T20:58:32.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I have said in numerous other cases, iPhone (and other smartphone devices) are acceptable material for SuperUser. iPods, on the other hand are not what one would consider full-blown computers and questions concerning them should be regarding something involving a computer (such as diagnosing a problem recognizing an iPod on your computer when you plug it in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T20:58:32.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19207" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:05:51.637" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting started in programming is hard and it is difficult to come up to speed on topics when you do not know the lingo. Programming jargon is very important because words like &quot;encapsulates,&quot; &quot;object-oriented&quot; and &quot;debug&quot; represent complex ideas which are central to the art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are not going to find a list of lists because it is impractical to try to create and maintain such a thing. Instead, take some time to learn how to use StackOverflow's tag system. By going to the tag section and searching for things like &quot;beginner&quot; you get 2 tags. When you click the first tag (Beginner) you get a list of questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/beginner&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look through those search results and read the first question you understand. Then look at the words you don't understand in the accepted or highest voted response. Search StackOVerflow or Google for those words and learn their meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a while you'll figure out what it is you do not know, then you can move on to learning how to fill those gaps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:05:51.637" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19221" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:09:56.713" Score="1" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow enjoys a diverse community coming from different walks of life, and different academic backgrounds. Many of us are used to using abbreviations for various technologies and practices. Many others simply have a more complicated vocabulary as a result of working in particular environments that shaped us that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we see users providing answers that are almost esoteric in their clarity, should we edit them to simplify the message for the general public? While their answers may technically be correct, is it justifiable to rewrite portions of them (potentially resulting in making them wiki's) in attempts to improve their overall intelligibility amongst the general public?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:49:05.197" Title="Should we edit to simplify?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19213" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:14:30.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you should always edit whenever it might benefit someone who might read the post later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not always an easy task, since you must keep the original author's intent and content, but it is beneficial to make the post work for the lowest common denominator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This usually involves making difficult terms into links to Wikipedia articles, or expanding &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter%5Facronym&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TLAs&lt;/a&gt; into their actual meanings. Sometimes you might need to completely reword the post to make it easier to understand. Not all programmers are good at communicating after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T21:28:16.240" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:28:16.240" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="19215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19213" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:15:57.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the nomenclature should reflect the target community.  A community of programmers ought to be able to tolerate a higher degree of specialization and greater use of acronyms than one for the general public.  Brevity has value as well and increasing the wordiness of an answer to appeal to a wider audience is not necessarily a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say keep in mind the site's target audience when deciding whether a particular question/answer should be simplified and/or expanded with regard to the language.  SuperUser, for example, may require a longer, more detailed and less abbreviated answer than StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:15:57.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19213" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:16:53.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For sites like StackOverflow and ServerFault I would say that &lt;strong&gt;maybe&lt;/strong&gt;, but I would not be as gung-ho about it, because despite the backgrounds of the users, the subject matter is pretty rigid and I would imagine that if you are looking for programming help, 90% of the time you are going to understand the terminology associated with it (or if you don't, you'll quickly learn it along the way). I don't think it's necessary to have to go out and define all the acronyms, initials, and industry buzz words. But in a general sense, improving the readability of any post is desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SuperUser I would be much more agreeable to going out of your way to fix things, simply because there's no telling who is going to be looking for answers about why their printer is freaking out, or how to get this dang-blasted Internet Explorer doohickey to work properly. If it's not clear enough that your mother could understand, you should wonder about how to improve it (if possible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:16:53.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19213" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:37:31.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community editing is part of the SO contract ('If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you'), so yes, editing in this sense is OK. That said, I would still start with a comment suggesting to the answerer that more detail or a clearer answer, for the sake of the community, would be a good.  Otherwise your edits will most likely ruffle feathers.  This might seem too soft an approach, but the goal here would be to train the answerer to provide clear answers so that you wont find yourself rewriting his/her posts over and over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T21:47:26.653" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:47:26.653" />
  <row Id="19219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19058" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:39:33.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will be fixed in the build released tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:39:33.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:42:48.347" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17910/please-return-to-the-old-sorting-by-time-method-of-answers-with-the-same-number-o&quot;&gt;Please return to the old sorting by time method of answers with the same number of votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Not a real duplicate, but the following is more suitable as an opposing opinion in reply to the above's suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the risk of being very very unpopular, I'd like to voice my support in favour of the new method of ordering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I was a bit &quot;WTF&quot; but recently it's really grown on me, especially with older questions that have a half-dozen 0-vote answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When rolling through all the answers from weeks ago, it's nice to know that the fastest gun is not going necessarily going to be at the top, and it forces me to actually read through the answers to up-vote the one that is genuinely better, not just first. And it means that if you come to the party late and no answers have any upvotes that your answer may very well be stuck somewhere in the middle of the pile, not all the way down the bottom (and if your answer is the one that ends up at the bottom, if it's got 0 upvotes after two weeks chances are it's not a particularly good answer anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I shall wait for this to be down-voted to about -25 and closed as not a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T21:56:03.327" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T21:56:03.327" ClosedDate="2009-08-31T21:55:07.293" Title="I actually LIKE the new method of sorting answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19213" CreationDate="2009-08-31T21:44:44.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about everyone else, but I take pride in what I post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit that some of it isn't perfect, but in general I take time to try and ensure that all of the words I'm using are the right words to describe exactly what I want. If I've articulated myself accurately and someone else edits out all the big words and substitutes imprecise approximations, I'd consider that an abusive edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are editing someone to add some links that they missed or to correct grammar or spelling, that is all amazing and great for the community. I've done it myself, although not as well or as often as others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if someone reads my answers and decides to remove my language and &lt;em&gt;entirely replace it&lt;/em&gt; with coarser, simpler approximations, I would roll their edit back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, I would welcome a comment that says &quot;Could you clarify XYZ, I'm not sure I understand&quot; so that I could delve back in and see if I could possibly elucidate more carefully. If they chose to simply &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; some extra explanations, that would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, because choice of words is a matter of opinion, I would consider it edit-abuse for someone to change my answer by substituting &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; choice of words in the place of mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T21:49:05.197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:49:05.197" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="19224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19230" CreationDate="2009-08-31T22:32:23.457" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked under &quot;featured&quot; questions on Stack Overflow on 25-Aug and found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324544/how-should-i-create-an-algorithm-for-the-centroid-of-any-system-windows-media-geo&quot;&gt;#1324544&lt;/a&gt; &quot;How should I create an algorithm for the centroid of any System.Windows.Media.Geometry object?&quot; offering 100 reputation points for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offered an answer and went back and forth with updates to clarify and offer additional information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After providing the answer, receiving a comment from the original poster that &quot;This looks like an aweome solution, and it's basically the road I want to take&quot;, I find that the original offer of 100 reputation points is no longer in evidence.  I got an up vote for the answer, but it hasn't been accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it kosher to offer reputation points and then rescind the offer?  Or is the &quot;featured&quot; question working in a way that I've failed to grok yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably would have answered anyway, because I'm interested in the problem, but it seems misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T22:37:03.590" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:37:03.590" Title="Is rescinding reputation on a featured question allowed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;featured-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-08-31T22:33:10.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps by the time you've finished reading a really good question, the voting controls have been scrolled off the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb is, if I found a question with an answer that is perfect for what I needed to know, they both get a vote up, unless the answer is already accepted (I know), AND if I am answering a question, I definitely vote the question up. It's worth something to have a clear, focused, and answerable question. Anything I can actually write an answer to falls into that description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:33:10.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-31T22:33:10.540" />
  <row Id="19226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19224" CreationDate="2009-08-31T22:34:20.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the bounty has expired?  Either way, you receiving the reputation depends on the asking party marking your answer as accepted, while the bounty is in effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:34:20.537" />
  <row Id="19227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:35:33.640" Score="4" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Super User limiting the practical use of the site by mandating the use of&#xA;OpenID to log in?&#xA;I could not ask this question on meta without the use of an OpenID.&#xA;If I create an OpenID using Yahoo, I am told by Yahoo that I must log&#xA;off Super User and Yahoo in order to sign off?&#xA;So, if I have an OpenID and I keep Super User's cookie&#xA;do I never have to sign in to Super User?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T23:48:35.603" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T23:48:35.603" Title="How safe is it to use OpenID to log in to a site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19227" CreationDate="2009-08-31T18:41:29.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem. I'm logged into all four sites using the same OpenID (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://myopenid.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myopenid.com&lt;/a&gt;) at the same time without having to log out of any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be an issue with Yahoo's implementation of OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:34:37.123" />
  <row Id="19229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19227" CreationDate="2009-08-31T19:18:16.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly related to your question, this great discussion going on here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32512/are-there-security-implications-in-google-only-allowing-a-single-password&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/32512/are-there-security-implications-in-google-only-allowing-a-single-password&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135099" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:34:37.123" />
  <row Id="19230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19224" CreationDate="2009-08-31T22:36:31.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the bounty expired, the top vote getter is automatically set as the accepted answer, unless there is no answer that gets at least +2 overall score. Once bounties have been placed, they cannot be rescinded by the original poster, but they can expire and not give any reputation (and even the OP will lose his rep in the process, it is not refunded.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T22:36:31.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T23:23:18.317" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where do questions go after they are closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they irretrievably lost? What happens to the rep earned by the asker &amp;amp; answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T03:04:00.860" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T03:04:00.860" Title="Where do questions go after they are closed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19231" CreationDate="2009-08-31T23:25:32.947" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closed questions don't actually go anywhere. You can still see them, they can still be searched, and they can be voted back open if people think that they deserve it. Earned reputation is preserved for both the asker and answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions, too, aren't really gone either, as they're still visible to moderators and those with over 10k rep, but they're effectively gone as neither the built-in search or Google are able to find them. Though it doesn't happen immediately, reputation gained from deleted questions will be lost when the reputation of all the users is recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very rarely questions are completely removed from the system, but I can count on one hand the number of times I'm aware of this happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T23:25:32.947" />
  <row Id="19235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-08-31T23:42:03.287" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright, here's how it went. I asked a question and voted one of the wrong answers down. Sometime later, when I was on the page again, I clicked the downvote button on accident. It cleared the downvote like it should. I said &quot;Whoops,&quot; clicked it again, and was informed that I my vote was too old to be changed when I had, in fact, only just (mis)clicked it a moment ago. Is that how it's supposed to work? I'd think that clearing your vote (or even changing it from down to up or vice-versa) would clear the timestamp on the vote as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15882" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:06:31.180" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:06:31.180" Title="Is this a bug in voting or is it supposed to work like this?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19237" CreationDate="2009-08-31T23:50:49.773" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has happened many times, when on meta it is decided to take all tags with the tag &quot;x&quot; and change that tag to &quot;y&quot;. What happens next (that actually changes all the tags)? I assume a database query is made, because doing this by hand would be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-08-31T23:52:53.403" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T23:53:16.133" Title="What happens when we decide to change a tag's name?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19236" CreationDate="2009-08-31T23:53:16.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderators actually have tools to do this, but sometimes a direct DB query is needed for complicated ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very often this is done by hand though. I have done it many times successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-08-31T23:53:16.133" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19239" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:00:24.530" Score="3" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if you think meta-stackoverflow might end up getting to the stage where almost every question you can think of has already been asked and so it becomes difficult for new users to get to the stage where they have enough reputation to do anything. I don't believe that this is the case now or that this will ever happen for stackoverflow, as there are always more programming questions, but surely there is a limit to how much meta-analysis is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So do you think this effect will occur and if so how would you suggest dealing with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T01:37:58.833" Title="Could we ever get to the stage where almost everything is answered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19238" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:05:26.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will always be meta discussion. That is just the nature of the beast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:05:26.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19238" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:13:46.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And there will always be different answers. Even though someone else answered well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:13:46.323" />
  <row Id="19241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19238" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:20:15.580" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that eventually, a question and its answers becomes out of date and closed as no longer relevant. A new question would then take its place, and the cycle would continue. After all, as technologies change (even C++ is still changing, after 25+ years), answers will have to change as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:20:15.580" />
  <row Id="19242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19238" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:20:34.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta discussion will only end when the site stops evolving.  Has any website ever attained perfection, such that it no longer needs to be changed ever again?  No.  The site will always be changing and people will always want to understand and discuss those changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:20:34.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19238" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:23:13.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We'll just spend more time arguing over &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; features instead of actual, existing features...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:23:13.977" />
  <row Id="19244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:27:27.253" Score="6" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff/Joel and the rest of the StackOverflow Community, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you be interested in a community podcast transcription service that utilizes the power of your site's tribe/users/community. It would all be driven by a ridiculously simple-to-use UI and API. The goal would be for your users to stay on your site, but hit a little button/link on the side of the page that says something along the lines of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Contribute 10 seconds of your time to help transcribe Podcast #65&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (or whatever you want it to say... it's an API, you have the power!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Feature Notes:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would allow a user to transcribe a 1 to 3 second clip. In the end, it would auto-stitch each &quot;transcriptlet&quot; into the final transcript, then post it. The main goal is an unbelievable simple to use interface that takes the user 15 seconds or less to transcribe a 1 to 3 second clip. If 1,800 (of your 1 mil users) transcribe 2 seconds then your 60 minute podcast is transcribed (potentially in an insanely short period of time). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will of course be options: like must have 3 (or X) copies/matches of each &quot;transcriptlet&quot; ~roughly match before it is &quot;auto-approved/stitched&quot;. And many more, I am not going to get into all of the details here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other features: Point-base sub-system, achievement sub-system, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions for Joel, Jeff and the community:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, what I wanted to know is, would you guys be interested in a using a service like this. I need a good beta site to try this out on. You could empower your community and get your podcasts transcribed. And be part of building a (another) great service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, I want to know: Do you think other sites with podcasts and a community would pay for something like this. I am talking like $5, $10 or $15/hr for transcription (rather than the $200+/hr that some people charge). There will also be a free service (X minutes/month or whatever) too, but the premium service would cost a very small amount. Or possibly it will be ad supported. But I know I just listened to you guys talk about the dissapointment with Google AdSense... Anyways, it's starting out as free for sure (during beta). And most likely free for you guys always :) Because I want StackOverFlow to be transcribed (I will pay the $5 per podcast :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What inspired this project:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The end of every single one of your podcasts (wiki comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that I would like to search and replay segments of the podcast for someone, but can never remember which is which, due to the lack of podcast transcribing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like your idea of the wiki, but that requires people to listen to the mp3 with a player, keep track of timing and stop/replay/pause the track, and update the wiki properly. It is a bit time consuming.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After listening to &quot;Tribes&quot; by Seth Godin, it really made me think that this would work no problem with a community like yours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be a fun little app/service/site to write with my development team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We would be solving a problem that exists for a lot of podcast/communities. (Hanselminutes, twit, ...) Anyone with a Tribe really.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And yes, money. Money is good side-effect of providing an elegant solution to a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Current Project Status:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had my first meeting with the development team, we have initial database design, very rough Balsamiq Mockups, FogBugz Wiki/Tasks created and a bunch of other planning done. They asked me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Well how do you know Jeff and Joel&#xA;  would even want to use something like&#xA;  this if we spent the 6 to 8 weeks (ok&#xA;  4-6 months) to developed it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said, I don't know, but I have very strong feelings that they would. So that is why I am asking. It would be GREAT if one of you or both of you could respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can make this happen. I am ready to pull the trigger, we might do it anyways. But if I saw a reply from you guys that said &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Heck yes we would use that&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Then it would be a no-brainer for us to make it happen. If you said &lt;strong&gt;&quot;You are a frikin' IDIOT&quot;&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, then maybe I might back-off and think of another idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Quick background:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I own/run a small development company in Grand Rapids, MI. We have run and successfully delivered many software products from the very big to the very small. We can rock it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Thanks!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your time. I apologize for the very long message and the loose grammar. It happens when I get excited about something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134873" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T23:59:37.007" Title="Community Podcast Transcription Project Idea" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19244" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:34:03.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to be in either of the camps (of Heck yes and you're an idiot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think this is a pretty large service for something quite simple. But it's something that hasn't been tested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first read this I thought immediately of reCaptcha and how they are crowd sourcing bad data from OCR's. Which when you think of at first as an impossible and crazy idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are ofcourse many factors to include. Like duplicate translations. What if a person just enters garbage. How do you tag such garbage. Who and how do you handle garbage data. etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will the idea of needing X amounts of duplicates work. How can you match them (different punctuation styles, spelling errors etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:34:03.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:41:49.230" Score="15" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read somewhere that it's to prevent lazy users selecting that one and not checking if it is actually a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't buy that one bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isn't the system supposed to trust us?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why hinder the users who want to help out by putting an obstacle of either searching in that box or typing out the ID of the current one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-30T20:36:38.303" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T22:54:20.747" Title="Can I please select a current duplicate when closing a question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19246" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:44:02.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can drag the link and drop it in the textbox. Works on Chrome, Safari on Windows, OS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T00:54:30.173" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:54:30.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19246" CreationDate="2009-09-01T00:55:20.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's rather ridiculous to have to copy and paste the exact question text (otherwise, more often than not, it won't find it from selected keywords) and then finding it at the bottom of the list anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T00:55:20.440" />
  <row Id="19249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19246" CreationDate="2009-09-01T01:12:23.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you copy/paste the question number into the search box, the list will consist of just the right question. If you're not first to the close and want to &quot;second&quot; the votes already there, just type or copy/paste from the link provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the votes to close have been the result of herd mentality, so no, I don't trust others to check and/or think about the decisions they are making. Diffusion of responsibility kicks in around the 3rd vote. The 4th and 5th voters just follow the crowd because they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T01:12:23.723" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19231" CreationDate="2009-09-01T01:17:27.243" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They go to the island of misfit questions where Rich B whips them until they cry. TheTXI rides by occasionally and mocks them from astride his pony, Francesca. Welbog derides the poor usability of the misfit question and we all point and laugh. Shog9 provides them with generally well written joke responses that both flatter and admonish the original poster. Jonathan Sampson will then write a Greasemonkey script to make them appear to be alive again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of them are rescued by a decent edit, but most perish in this hell for eternity. Deletion is too good for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T01:23:36.083" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T01:23:36.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19238" CreationDate="2009-09-01T01:37:58.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not too hard to imagine a situation in which essentially all of the common problems for some set of common environments are pretty well covered. We're not there yet, but a lot of the low hanging fruit has been taken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't see how the number of ways to get stuck can be less than countably infinite.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a lot of less popular environments and platforms, that are not so well represented in the questions and answer already on the site. For instance, there've been several good but quite basic latex questions this week.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the answer to your title question is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  we'll never be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The procedure for finding the as yet unasked basic questions is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stop trying to think of a question to ask on SOFU.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get back to work, code monkey!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you find yourself stumped, search the sites. Search carefully and creatively, use the wisdom you find that way and become a better programmer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't find an answer, do 3 some more. If &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; fails, you have probably discovered a question that is new to SOFU, so ask and reap the rewards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T01:37:58.833" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19246" CreationDate="2009-09-01T01:40:38.707" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hover your pointer over one of them and just type the serial number into the search box, it'll pop right up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you should open them first to check that they really are the same--unless you know the one in question very well (how we love you 1669). Titles can be misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T01:40:38.707" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T02:28:20.600" Score="20" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried using the - (not) symbol in searches on StackOverflow to reduce the number of irrelevant matches in the results, with no effect.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting really sick of &quot;Whats your favorite programmer joke / cartoon?&quot; appearing in the results for almost every search I perform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; and there is no mention of how to use a Not operator to exclude the following word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard about excluding tags using -, but I'm talking about excluding words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible?  Has it just not been implemented?  If not, I'd really like to see this added to search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastEditorUserId="135186" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T02:48:14.670" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T02:57:19.163" Title="Exclude specific words in stackoverflow search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="19254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T02:41:38.800" Score="6" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Opera 9.64 on Windows XP Pro, entry of tags for a new question is very difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter the first tag, select it in the AJAX popup.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Enter a second tag, select it in the AJAX popup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, notice that sometimes the first tag has been replaced with the second tag.&#xA;Alterntively often the second tag has been inserted into the middle of the first tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, on this question I want to add the tags: opera tagging bug&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the above approach I actually get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;bug tagging bug &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very frustrating and makes sensible tagging almost impossible.  Please fix ASAP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[UPDATE]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upgrade to Opera 10.  Initial testing on StackOverflow and SuperUser indicate that entering tags now works correctly in Opera 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T07:05:04.497" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:05:04.497" Title="Adding tags to a new question in Opera broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21277" CreationDate="2009-09-01T02:43:27.360" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Features request: It would be nice if I could set a preference so that by default I would always subscribe by email daily to answers for my questions. It tick the box by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T07:30:45.590" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:54:50.757" Title="Subscribe to answers by email as default" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19254" CreationDate="2009-09-01T02:53:08.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Current workarounds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Type the tags backwards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Type in one and when you're done, hit &lt;kbd&gt;Home&lt;/kbd&gt; or whatever your keyboard of choice does to get you back to the start of the input area. Then type a space and go back again to the front of the input. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now type up the next tag and it will suggest it and prefill it properly. Return to the front and pad with that leading space for each tag you want to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or type up the tags elsewhere and paste them in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T02:53:08.797" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19253" CreationDate="2009-09-01T02:57:19.163" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know of no way to do this within SO, but would also like to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=favorite%20programmer%20driver%20-cartoon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google is your fallback&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T02:57:19.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T03:27:15.393" Score="9" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question has no single, correct answer it is clear that it is subjective.  If enough people agree it is often closed, so be it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When this happens it appears that selecting the reason &quot;Subjective and Argumentative&quot; is then the only one relevant.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I have seen many subjective questions that were in no way &quot;argumentative&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term argumentative is actually inflamatory and can reflect very badly on those that closed the question (not necessarily fairly of course).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users often ask subjective questions until they become more familiar with Community guidelines.  Seeing the word argumentative in the close reason for a plainly non-argumentative question, is not going to leave them with a positive experience of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please split the &quot;Subjective and Argumentative&quot; closing reason into two separate reasons, so that a well-meaning, but obviously subjective question is not &quot;tarred&quot; with the term &quot;argumentative&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively another option that might mitigate the issue would be to replace the word &quot;and&quot; with &quot;or&quot;. ie &quot;Subjective or Argumentative&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Update] Another option: add a new  &quot;Subjective&quot; reason as well as keeping the original &quot;Subjective and Argumentative&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/193/should-we-rephrase-or-clarify-subjective-and-argumentative&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  It suggests changing the reason to &quot;trolling&quot;, this is not what I am requesting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-15T07:08:54.780" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T07:08:54.780" Title="Split Subjective and Argumentative close reason" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="19261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19235" CreationDate="2009-09-01T03:30:13.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on how long it took for you to register that you had accidentally tried to undo your vote. The warning could have been from the first click but didn't get around to showing you until after your second click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19021/request-change-in-behaviour-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited&quot;&gt;can't clear out your vote&lt;/a&gt; unless it's within the small window after you first cast. And trying to undo that vote wouldn't reset the time on when you did. Once you vote, that's when it counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get the vote back &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15672/you-can-remove-votes-up-or-down-on-questions-that-you-edit&quot;&gt;if the question or answer has been edited&lt;/a&gt; since though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T03:30:13.297" />
  <row Id="19263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19260" CreationDate="2009-09-01T03:33:31.467" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subjective And/Or Argumentative&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Covers all possibilities...  We could even do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subjective || Argumentative&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cletus pointed out the &amp;amp;&amp;amp; || was incorrect because || implies either or...  Doh!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T17:07:47.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:07:47.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19255" CreationDate="2009-09-01T04:13:02.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are looking to get updated when the question you posed gets answers, that is already built in as the default.  You get notified (the envelope next to your username changes color) and you can see links to the answers on your Recent Activity page (accessible via that same envelope icon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T04:13:02.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19266" CreationDate="2009-09-01T04:37:26.360" Score="1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the interface, up the very top, to the right I see the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Envelope, Username, Reputation, Down Arrow, Number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the number represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-15T04:19:59.360" LastActivityDate="2010-06-15T04:20:06.350" Title="What is the down arrow next to my username?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19265" CreationDate="2009-09-01T04:39:12.893" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming the &quot;down arrow&quot; is ●, which renders as a circle in my browser. This is a bronze badge, and the number to the right of it is the number that you have. In this case, you have 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T04:39:12.893" />
  <row Id="19267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19255" CreationDate="2009-09-01T04:42:43.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're probably not going to see that checkbox marked by default any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be having you opt-in automatically which is kind of a spammy thing to do. For you to check that box yourself, not so much, since the decision for emails to be sent to you has been made by you and not left by the system to make you later opt-out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T04:42:43.590" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19275" CreationDate="2009-09-01T04:50:33.510" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the intended use of down voting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons I can understand for down-voting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the answer is completely off-topic, not even answering the original question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some other extreme circumstance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe just because a passer-by does not like the answer, doesn't mean that the person giving the answer deserves to be down-voted. This discourages people from trying to answer questions.  And we are here to help people asking questions after all, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a number of times where I refrained from answering a question because I was not sure if some one would down-vote me for saying something they think is &quot;stupid&quot;. Then later I notice that someone else has given the same answer I was going to give (which ended up getting up-voted anyway). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my fear of getting down-voted kept me from attempting to answer someone's question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, even if I didn't give an excellent answer it may have helped the person asking the question and point them in a direction that they can attempt to solve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think people should be rewarded for giving a good answer, but some one who is merely trying to give an answer but is not quite so good, I don't think they should be down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought down-voting should be reserved strictly for extreme circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you guys think of this whole voting scheme?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe people who are doing the down voting should get penalized a lot more for using it?  To keep people from down voting just because they don't like how you answered the question, and often these people are not even the original posters of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131497" LastEditorUserId="131497" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T05:23:24.927" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:52:24.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T04:50:33.510" Title="How should down voting be used?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19260" CreationDate="2009-09-01T04:52:08.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think subjectivity is automatically a reason for closing a question (although you will have the community wiki squad on to you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Argumentative tends to imply subjective. If there was an agreed actual answer, causing an argument would be difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think people with a high enough rep to vote to close tend to have a reasonable idea of what Subjective and Argumentative really means. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T04:52:08.313" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2009-09-01T05:06:26.223" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People will also down vote your answer if it would have been far better as a comment. It's a little way to going to clear up the clutter that sometimes happens when people answer a question, but are clearly commenting or trying to get further information. Hence, drop-bombed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do stop at giving an answer you think is prime for the downvote brigade, but then see someone else post the same and rise up, they could have also been hit down the hole of downvotes before climbing out of that hole. You never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T05:06:26.223" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T05:06:26.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2009-09-01T05:07:01.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote down content that is wrong, and technologies that I don't like I add to my &quot;ignore list&quot; so I don't even see the annoying stuff...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you have a factor that every up vote is worth more that one down vote, &#xA;meaning that it must be really of topic to move below zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time if the answer is bad but not wrong or offensive it usually don't get any attention at all, meaning no up or down votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why is this a good thing? If you search for a old question, and use &quot;sort vote&quot; usually the best answers is on the top and so you get a the best reading first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So give it a try, and think about how, why and what you type and I think you will get some up votes :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133229" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T05:07:01.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T05:07:01.497" />
  <row Id="19272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2009-09-01T05:25:32.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend trying to provide the best answer you can, when you can provide something you think is appropriate, without worrying too much about down votes - but don't do it just before you have to stop paying attention to SO.  Then see how your answer is received; if you get (too many) down votes, you can delete your answer.  After you've given a few answers, you'll get the hang of it.  Don't forget, down votes cost the downvoter as well as you; people don't (usually) do it willy-nilly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T05:25:32.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T05:25:32.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2009-09-01T05:35:12.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered hovering your pointer over the down arrow and reading the tooltip?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wrong is double plus &lt;strong&gt;unhelpful&lt;/strong&gt;. So you down vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To skippy is &lt;strong&gt;unhelpful&lt;/strong&gt;, you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; downvote, but I usually don't. They might fix it later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Snarky, or condescending is &lt;strong&gt;unhelpful&lt;/strong&gt;. Downvote. Hey! Maybe you should do this one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and so on...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A down vote isn't an insult (or at least not necessarily), it is a diagnosis. It says: &quot;This isn't helping, make it better or take it away.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that you have four possible responses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Up vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag as Spam or Offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last one is for the extreme cases. You probably find that you do a lot of not voting---say when you &lt;em&gt;don't know&lt;/em&gt; if the answer is good or not. Which leaves up- and down-voting when you &lt;em&gt;do know&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T21:12:59.457" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:12:59.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T05:35:12.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19260" CreationDate="2009-09-01T05:39:23.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the subjective should be taken out completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably contributes to some people automatically closing anything subjective. Fact is, most questions have a degree of opinion in them, even straight code questions. We're voting on questions, which is largely a subjective test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No promotion prospects at work: what to do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I use Java or C# for this project?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would you compare jQuery and Prototype?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;these are all subjective and (imho) fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The argumentative comes in with questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do managers suck?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why does Java suck?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which is better: jQuery or Prototype?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, an &quot;argumentative&quot; question, to me, is one that is premised on a rant of some kind or trying to make objective something that's subjective. The second one requires qualification: &quot;Should I use X or Y for Z?&quot; is fine because it's asking for an opinion given a set of requirements. &quot;Which is better, X or Y?&quot; is not because there is no &quot;better&quot; (99% of the time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in case you've noticed that the first set of questions isn't too dissimilar to the second set, you're right. That's my other beef: often a very simple edit will fix a question where people seem happier to close and even delete questions rather than do simple fixes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T05:39:23.287" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2009-09-01T06:10:54.597" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, a downvote should be used for an answer that is significantly wrong or irrelevant or misleading or offers really bad advice. In extreme cases, in extreme cases, I also think it's fine to use it for an answer that's just incredibly lazy, like posting a raw URL and that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rarely if ever should the OP downvote answers too in my opinion. I've had situations where the OP has downvoted all the answers because none sufficiently spoonfed him the answer or the question was vague and posters made an educated guess as to the OP's intent. To me this is actually rude and ungrateful. The point of answer, first and foremost, is to get you on the right track. My usual response to such situations is simply to delete my answer and forget the question exists. If someone is going to be rude, they're on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's probably only three situations that annoy me for downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tactical downvoting;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trivial errors; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone just doesn't like the answer, like a Ruby fanboy downvoting someone suggesting PHP as to what Web development language to use. The key criteria for voting should be &quot;Does this answer the OP's question and meet their requirements?&quot; not &quot;Do I like the suggested answer?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that all applies to answers. As for voting for questions, I usually see little reason to vote a question down (if it should be closed or flagged just do that) and a question has to be particularly interesting or insightful or significant to be upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T06:10:54.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T06:10:54.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T06:16:27.660" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if i post a comment, and a later comment to the same question/answer includes the string @myusername (perhaps within a period of time) then add that to my recent activity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(a la twitter)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T06:16:27.660" ClosedDate="2009-09-01T07:54:02.470" Title="Notify commenter when he receives a @reply" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;conversation&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2009-09-01T06:17:34.443" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a lot of cases, it's because people disagree. Nothing to do with unhelpful, wrong, or offensive: they simply don't agree and downvote with no discussion and no comment. This kind of goes into &quot;free speech&quot;/&quot;can of worms&quot; terrority...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or to make their own answer look better. I've not noticed this myself but it's been mentioned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or because it doesn't answer the question. Example: there's currently a SQL Server bounty question on SO where most answers are marked down by the asker. Not because the answers are wrong, but because they don't fix his issue... so folk will be discouraged from answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T06:17:34.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T06:17:34.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7792" CreationDate="2009-09-01T06:36:30.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as an edge-case; it seems to not apply this for self-accepted answers by the OP; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/893913&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T06:42:01.773" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T06:42:01.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19284" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:04:48.187" Score="3" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should we do when faced by a question which looks like it may have been translated (very poorly) from a language other than English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1360930/thread-and-control&quot;&gt;thread-and-control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP may have asked this in perfectly clear and readable Japanese for all I know and had it translated into the mangled garbage you see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the question be closed? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there someplace we can point the OP to for better translations? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should it be downvoted? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should a tag be created called &lt;strong&gt;unreadable&lt;/strong&gt; and some &lt;code&gt;bot&lt;/code&gt; user (like &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt;) perform some cleanup based on some kind of &quot;is this readable&quot; metric?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T09:26:57.687" Title="What's the correct response to poorly-phrased questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19283" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:10:06.410" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just attempted to submit a question to &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; and forgot to put any tags on it. I added a single tag and re-submitted and was told that I needed to add one of a specific set of tags. I added this and re-submitted and was taken to captcha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this by-design? I wonder if any newbie users have been put off answering questions due to a &lt;em&gt;3-strikes-and-you're-out&lt;/em&gt; reaction? i.e. &quot;this site has just prevented me from posting 3 times, I can't be bothered with it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T07:16:18.787" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:33:17.753" Title="Captcha bug/feature when making mistakes on submission?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19280" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:10:33.370" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For sure we do not need an &lt;code&gt;unreadable&lt;/code&gt; tag! Comment it and wait. If nothing happens, you can downvote it later, because the question is unclear (as the tooltip of the down arrow suggested).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T07:35:24.537" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:35:24.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19281" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:15:17.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've just attempted to submit a question to meta and forgot to put any tags on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you have JavaScript disabled, this should be blocked by the client before it gets to the server based on length = 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't repro that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta-blocking of tags is highly specific to meta, and something of a beta feature at the moment, so everything else is by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:15:17.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19280" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:23:03.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the question could include the native tongue version and somebody would be able to translate it more meaningfully. I think that closing it after a while of grace would be OK, once commented. I second John that we do not need an unreadable tag. I would rather, in bad cases, flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a feature like &quot;needs translation&quot; would be neat? Not as a tag, but somehow searchable. Flag for translation, and people can voluntarily join a translator pool? But then, So far we did not need translation as we encouraged use of English as Lingua Franca.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:23:03.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19235" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:28:05.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by-design. &lt;strong&gt;The undo time window starts ticking the second you cast your vote on that particular edit of the post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the undo time window expires, you can't change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post is edited it is again eligible for voting, under the same rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:28:05.360" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19280" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:29:40.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This particular question was bad even it its original language. No matter what language, it sure didn't contain any details, no code, no information regarding language and frameworks used. Nothing. Close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:29:40.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19281" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:33:17.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the requirement for one of the meta-specific tags should be in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;meta faq&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, though, I expect most users learn the need for one of these tags through the same process you went through. The captcha doesn't stop you submitting the question, it just delays it briefly or (in the worst case) you just start again. Presumably the learning process worked as you've also submitted this question successfully?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:33:17.753" />
  <row Id="19288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19350" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:34:59.530" Score="8" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about the other sites, but SO sees a good number of occasions when new users (invariably rep 1 etc) post questions as answers. Sometimes the question is completely unrelated to the topic; sometimes it is related, but phrased as a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions/answers (quancers?) don't get responses (other than maybe a comment a few hours later, and maybe a downvote). So certainly not &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; responses that are going to lead to a positive warm and happy feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO we need to help new users - make it very hard to do the wrong thing; but without making life a pain for the established core of answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So; how about, until a new user has &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; posted a new question, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; posted 5 answers - they see an extra block of text in the &quot;add an answer&quot; area, making it obvious how to ask a question if that is what they intended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:37:57.777" Title="How to stop the question-as-an-answer problem?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19288" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:51:02.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't have mods a magic button to convert an answer into a question?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know it's childish, but I couldn't resist :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T07:51:02.070" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T07:53:11.473" Score="17" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find myself adding a criticizing comment to a question right before down-voting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I get a message encouraging me to add a comment to explain my down-vote, but I already added one!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Feature request&lt;/b&gt;:&#xA;Have the comment encouraging message appear only if I didn't already leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134400" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T22:28:33.920" Title="When adding a comment before down-voting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T09:44:41.373" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;The font used on the tags links places the letter pair &quot;vv&quot; too close together and make vv read like a w.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mvvm&quot;&gt;mvvm&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit: I've just noticed it's the same in the question body text too]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[Extra info: Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T15:53:31.330" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T15:53:31.330" Title="Spacing on letter pair &quot;vv&quot; is unclear" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20103" CreationDate="2009-09-01T11:27:35.283" Score="18" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely a bug. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1361881/why-the-stackoverflows-search-engine-is-so-poor-closed&quot;&gt;One question on SO&lt;/a&gt; was migrated with &lt;strong&gt;six&lt;/strong&gt; close votes. It ended up making &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19296/why-the-stackoverflows-search-engine-is-so-poor&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19297/why-the-stackoverflows-search-engine-is-so-poor&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; on meta after migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a race condition with the sixth vote causing the question to be migrated a second time? Could be fixed by either making sure six people can't close a question, or by checking to see if a question was already migrated before migrating it. Assuming that's what the problem is (I've been known to be wrong before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions on meta link back to the same question on SO, so they were definitely migrated twice from the same source. Additionally, the OP's profile contains only one closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further evidence: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1361881/list&quot;&gt;the revision history of the original question&lt;/a&gt; is pretty clearly showing that it's been migrated twice because of the sixth close vote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post Migrated to meta.stackoverflow.com by &lt;strong&gt;Konrad Rudolph, Naveen, Shoban, Daniel Brückner, Yuval F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post Migrated to meta.stackoverflow.com by &lt;strong&gt;Konrad Rudolph, Naveen, Shoban, Daniel Brückner, Yuval F, SilentGhost&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it's not fixed afterall: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/2030983/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/2030983/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was migrated twice due to six close votes. I'm very disappointed in you, Angels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T21:55:24.067" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:55:24.067" Title="Possible race condition with migration" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19301" CreationDate="2009-09-01T11:29:52.423" Score="-1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;In community wiki type questions we have an option to view the revision history of the question asked. But why isn't this available for normal questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way for me to see what has actually been edited in my question. I do know about the Rollback option, but what is the use of allowing me to rollback without even giving the option to view the modification history? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T11:36:31.553" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T11:36:31.553" Title="Why isn't the edit history visible on normal questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19300" CreationDate="2009-09-01T11:32:05.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always view the history: When it says &quot;Edited 1 hour ago&quot; below the question, the &quot;1 hour ago&quot; part is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1361568/list&quot;&gt;link to the revision list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T11:32:05.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19308" CreationDate="2009-09-01T12:13:47.243" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a question by a user on SO that I thought was an exact duplicate from the same user.  Looked at the user's questions and, sure enough, there was the same exact question.  Unfortunately, the timing was such that I couldn't have seen it before.  The user was a new user, which made me a little curious as to whether the user had somehow ended up with more than one account, so I looked up the user's name, &quot;nitin&quot; and found nearly a whole page of users with that or a similar id.  Many of them with the same, exact gravatar and several others that looked very similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that these are generated algorithmically from user data, so I left a note on the latest question suggesting that the user get their multiple accounts combined.  Now I'm scratching my head and wondering if I'm remembering correctly that  identical gravatars indicate the same person.  Is that correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:05:38.217" Title="Are gravatar patterns unique per user?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19303" CreationDate="2009-09-01T12:17:24.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/392280/what-is-the-algorithm-used-to-generate-those-little-gravatar-identicon-images/392288#392288&quot;&gt;Here is the answer&lt;/a&gt; as posted to SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T12:25:14.977" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T12:25:14.977" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T12:25:14.977" />
  <row Id="19307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-09-01T12:55:54.837" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the opposite problem on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1308432/do-try-catch-blocks-hurt-performance-when-exceptions-are-not-thrown/1308480#1308480&quot;&gt;this response&lt;/a&gt;. I downvoted the response because it seemed to me (and at least one other commenter) that it answered the wrong question. The original questioner came back and commented that the answer I downvoted actually did address the question he was asking. When I saw that comment the next day, I tried to remove the downvote but got this message. I would like to right the wrong, but can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133690" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T12:55:54.837" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19303" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:05:38.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated in answer akf linked to, the gravatars are based on a hash of the email address used for the account.  While it's technically possible for two distinct email addresses to hash to the same gravatar representation, since these guys have the same username too, it's reasonable to assume that it's the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:05:38.217" />
  <row Id="19310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19290" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:15:50.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this one I think it's easy enough just to ignore the warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:15:50.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19299" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:16:43.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't it have something to do with the editing of the question? even though they are some ms apart, that's what could have triggered this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T14:09:52.453" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T14:09:52.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T14:09:52.453" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19280" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:17:50.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Essentially this is no different from a poorly worded question by a native speaker. All you can do is post a comment asking for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:17:50.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19324" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:27:30.587" Score="9" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now it is Sep 1st, where is the stackexchange? At least, is there any updates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133245" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T21:07:21.753" Title="Now it is Sep 1st, where is the stackexchange?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19317" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:35:13.803" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to know how many questions are asked every day, understand how this number behaves over time and versus the number of visitors/users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: is the &quot;rate&quot; of questions linear in the number of visitors? Polynomial? Maybe it has stronger relation to the number of subscribed users and not to visitors. You know, some stats fun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that exposing several simple numbers will allow the community to calculate these graphs and stats, and give back to the StackOverflow family of sites by pointing out interesting statistical insights. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:41:38.787" Title="Statistics on number of questions asked daily/weekly" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19316" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:41:38.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow data is publicly available.  This gives you the ability to roll your own stats. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7682/what-interesting-stats-can-i-obtain-from-the-stack-overflow-data-dump&quot;&gt;Here is a post&lt;/a&gt; that gives you a whole bunch of info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:41:38.787" />
  <row Id="19318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19322" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:49:05.340" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362495/how-to-get-friends-activity-streams-and-public-activities-from-myspace-using-c&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; recently on SO. The OP is asking about the MySpace API, and has been downvoted and referred to a MySpace developer community site. Is this appropriate? Should questions about certain technologies/languages/APIs be discouraged in favor of outside forums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an existing community for every kind of question you see on SO, and part of the mission for this site is to be an improvement over other Q&amp;amp;A sites. However, there do need to be boundaries at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T15:49:04.990" Title="Are there programming topics that are out of scope for SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;scope&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="19319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19315" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:49:05.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check again in 6-8 weeks please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:49:05.840" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19318" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:53:28.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, downvoting for that reason and simply linking to the API site is not appropriate. As has been mentioned in several places here on Meta, the podcast and blog, StackOverflow is trying to become the canonical place for code. IMO, that includes obscure platforms and APIs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If its code, it belongs on StackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T14:03:44.070" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T14:03:44.070" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19318" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:53:32.073" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why we should shoo them away. We should try and answer as best we can and then always point them to the official sources for more information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T13:53:32.073" />
  <row Id="19324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19315" CreationDate="2009-09-01T13:56:51.850" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On September 2nd, we started rolling out StackExchange to beta testers. Due to the large number of customers that have already signed up, we decided it would be a good idea to cautiously turn on the sites in small batches, on a first-come, first-served basis, instead of turning everything on at once and having the lights go out across the Eastern Seaboard. That'll also give us a chance to fix any bugs that arise and ensure that our web hosting infrastructure can support the load. During this beta process, which we don't expect will take more than a couple of months, we are rapidly working our way through the people who have signed up. We will not begin charging you until the beta is complete, and you will be able to cancel at any time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T21:07:21.753" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T21:07:21.753" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19318" CreationDate="2009-09-01T14:01:06.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was downvoted for poor style and a lack of a good-faith effort, not because it had to do with MySpace.  If a similarly worded question had been posed about ASP.NET, it would likely have been downvoted just the same, and I would not be surprised if someone referred the OP to MSDN. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RTFM responses don't necessarily indicate the topic is bad, but simply that the question indicates a lack of effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T14:01:06.710" />
  <row Id="19330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48625" CreationDate="2009-09-01T14:38:33.107" Score="9" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question or post an answer in SO, if I want to write the } character, it behaves as if I click on the &quot;Code sample&quot; button (the one with &lt;em&gt;101010&lt;/em&gt;)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In others words, when I click on the } key *, I get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;enter code here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or (if I type } in a paragrah):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`enter code here`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason that I get this behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to solve this issue (except by writing a } outside the text area and copy/paste it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* important note: I have an AZERTY keyboard, configured for the french langage...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134821" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-29T08:24:27.830" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T08:24:27.830" Title="Problem with the closing brace" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19315" CreationDate="2009-09-01T15:17:59.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the secret private &quot;invitation only&quot; beta.  It appears to be an invitation only type of thing and we were not invited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T15:17:59.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3127" CreationDate="2009-09-01T15:24:07.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the programming tag isn't deleted, every post on StackOverflow should have the programming tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53587" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T15:28:36.887" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T15:28:36.887" />
  <row Id="19343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19318" CreationDate="2009-09-01T15:49:04.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issues tends to be &quot;what constitutes a programming question?&quot; rather than &quot;what programming questions are out of bounds?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To specifically answer your question: there is no issue (to me) of someone asking a Myspace API question. I'm not sure he's going to get a useful answer as it doesn't seem to be a popular topic but he's certainly free to try. I don't see why we'd restrict certain devices or APIs or even just encourage them back to their official forums. There are iphone dev boards yet SO has a large number of iphone dev questions, probably due to SO being a better format for asking such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T15:49:04.990" />
  <row Id="19345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:00:53.077" Score="5" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO &amp;amp; MSO, the error message displayed when deleting two comments within 5 seconds used to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can only delete a comment every 5 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has now been replaced with the following error, which is not as descriptive (and incorrect):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An error occurred during voting  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steps to Reproduce:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 1. Add two comments&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 2. Delete both comments within 5 seconds&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; 3. Bask in your error glory&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:29:46.227" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:29:46.227" Title="Incorrect error text when deleting multiple comments within 5 seconds" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;time-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19345" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:02:34.557" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reproduced.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this as well. &lt;strong&gt;Annoying&lt;/strong&gt;. Why is there a 5 second rule on comment &lt;em&gt;deletion&lt;/em&gt; anyway? It's not like we can delete other people's comments anymore...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T16:02:34.557" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19330" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:02:43.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;}              &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works for me! Perhaps your } key is aliased to Ctrl-K, which is the code block shortcut in the editor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T16:02:43.417" />
  <row Id="19350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19288" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:06:45.733" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any way to do this that doesn't interfere with normal answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes the cost too high for the small benefit, IMO anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T16:06:45.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19345" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:14:14.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that deleting a comment is equivalent to a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;vote to delete&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; process. You can only vote once every 5 seconds, hence the 5-second limitation (and possibly the non-specific error). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T16:14:14.300" />
  <row Id="19353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19288" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:15:57.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, asking a question is too hard compared to posting an answer. We should put a &lt;strong&gt;big, fat&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Ask Question&quot; button on every page, somewhere &lt;em&gt;really visible&lt;/em&gt; like maybe up at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That'll solve it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T16:15:57.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:39:31.173" Score="7" ViewCount="421" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I print a stackoverflow question from Firefox that has a long title, the title is truncated.  The rest of the layout looks fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1219693/can-a-c-dll-compiled-using-visual-studio-2008-be-used-with-visual-studio-2005&quot;&gt;Here is a sample SO question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my printer, the title is truncated at the 'a' in the second 'Visual Studio'.  I'm using Firefox 3.0.13 on 32-bit Vista.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135212" LastEditorUserId="135212" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T17:26:04.107" LastActivityDate="2010-05-22T20:59:25.043" Title="Printer-friendly layout truncates long titles on Firefox" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;printing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19356" CreationDate="2009-09-01T16:46:34.903" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real question here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why on earth would you print a StackOverflow question to begin with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T17:26:53.497" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:26:53.497" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19356" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:00:10.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to Page Setup, and check &quot;Shrink to fit Page Width&quot;. Should take care of it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Reproduced in IE8 as well, if you change the default scaling from &quot;Shrink to fit&quot; to 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T17:53:40.667" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:53:40.667" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="19360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19361" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:16:24.720" Score="-2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the position on purging old answers that receive little or negative response. What benefit does it serve to keep answers that are downvoted numerous times (resulting in negative scores), or answers that have no upvotes/downvotes and exist for well over a year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason to keep these types of answers around for a length of time? Seems like they only add noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Grounds for purging:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is older than n-months&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is not accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer has negative score with primarily downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...what would you suggest?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Alternative&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers aren't purged. Instead, they are hidden and aren't shown until the reader explicitly requests &quot;answers older than n-months.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T17:34:08.990" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:34:08.990" Title="Purging Answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;maintenance&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="19361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19360" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:19:19.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the way answers are sorted solves the noise issue. I don't think there's really any benefit to purging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:19:19.237" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="19362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19375" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:20:08.347" Score="-2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wiki-nature of posts here is a very attractive attribute of the SE-engine, but I'm afraid some of us reserve edits to allow original authors the ability to glean as much rep from their contributions as possible (before converting to wiki). If all posts, questions and answers, were automatically converted to wiki's after a month (or more, you determine a proper duration) I think this would encourage more editing, and ultimately lead to better quality overall for questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T00:12:36.713" Title="Auto-wiki Posts after n-Months?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="19363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19362" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:24:20.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't ever made a decision on whether to edit or not depending on whether the edit will convert the post into a wiki.  I edit as I see necessary.  I'm not necessarily against posts &quot;going wiki&quot; after a certain period of time (they already do after a certain number of edits or upvotes, I believe), but I don't see it really affecting behavior.  I think the lack of edits on older posts is due more to their relative (lack of) visbility, i.e., most edits happen right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:24:20.053" />
  <row Id="19364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19362" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:27:22.763" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with this primarily because I don't see why we should be attempting to move everything over towards CW status as time goes on. If it is the subject of numerous edits, yes, automatically flip it, but otherwise let it sit as it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also look at it from a rep perspective. There are still posts out there I answered months ago that still trickle in reputation because they continue to get visibility and continue to help other users who come across the same problem. What you are proposing would impose an arbitrary time limit that says &quot;Ok, your post is no longer worthy or earning you rep, even if it continues to help people.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:27:22.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19360" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:28:23.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Purging answers with negative scores will inherently improve someone's rep after a recalc which I think is contrary to the whole notion of negative rep.  Negative rep is there to show that folks don't agree with that person.  In order to show that, all history needs to be maintained (with obvious exceptions for abuse, offensive, etc etc).  Without the negative rep you don't get the full picture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:28:23.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19360" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:28:25.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If negative, it might show you what not to do, not to say, or have a certain bad opinion. It is beneficial sometimes to know at least that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Less responsive or low vote answers might provide alternatives that might not be as popular, but still possibly beneficial to anyone looking at the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any duplicates or the same idea or &quot;what he said&quot; answers could just be deleted though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:28:25.600" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19360" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:31:09.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think we should be removing old answers based on score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the issue of noise, they don't actually add noise if you are in the 'votes' view, because there are simply at the bottom of the page, so they will only bother you if you voluntarily go to view them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the actual removing of the answers, this is a very bad idea. We have in general no idea why this specific answer was downvoted. Starting with an example from MSO (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer/8922#8922&quot;&gt;Is &quot;Don't Do It&quot; a valid answer?&lt;/a&gt;) That question has a negative score for me. It does not mean that my answer is bad, offensive, wrong, or awfully written. It simply means that the sum of people viewing the question disagreed with me. It is important to keep these answers around, because it articulates both sides of the debate. If you delete all the MSO answers with a negative score, you'll end up with a lot of one sided debates, and no real learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the SO side, I have two responses with negative votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/835143/algorithms-interesting-diffing-algorithm/835235#835235&quot;&gt;Algorithms: interesting diffing algorithm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the OP (or someone tactical) downvoted almost every answer, even though I made a few edits in direct response to the author, and ended up providing code that did exactly what was required (and updating it as the OP repeatedly edited the question). I don't feel that I deserved the downvote, but that is the way it goes sometimes. However, if that were to get &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt; because it has a downvote, I'd consider that offensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/942421/are-endless-loops-in-bad-form/942496#942496&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question as well, I was voted down twice for presenting an opinion that was contrary to other people's beliefs. Again, I don't mind the downvotes, but I maintain that my answer should be there for people to read. Even if they disagree, they will be better off if their assumptions are challenged, rather than pretending that there is no opposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even 'bad' answers are educational, because they provide &quot;patterns to avoid&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:31:09.993" />
  <row Id="19368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19378" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:38:26.093" Score="14" ViewCount="760" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am interested in seeing what sites pop-up using the StackExchange platform. Is there a list of sites available? If so where, or could you provide it as part of the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135216" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-30T16:09:56.317" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T16:09:56.317" Title="Is a list of StackExchange sites available?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19362" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:42:31.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With every response I am attempting to write an answer that will be correct &lt;em&gt;forever&lt;/em&gt;. As long as the technology/framework hasn't changed, I want my answer to be the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time-delay on CW does not make sense because the work that went into the answer was still mine. If there haven't been any edits, (or even if there were) I don't see how my post is suddenly undeserving of rep-gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I answer a question, and then a month later some intrepid google user finds it and upvotes it, how is it &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; useful at this point. Was my answer not helpful anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:42:31.593" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19373" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:51:31.093" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say one user has a lot of reputation on SO but almost none on another website such as Super User, wouldn't it make sense to display either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something like an average of rep&#xA;through all the websites&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rep on each websites&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A badge-like image for each website meaning&#xA;&quot;more than 500rep, more than 1000&#xA;rep&quot; etc&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something else&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would make sense because, for instance, reputation earned on Serverfault means that the person is knowledgeable about server-related things. So why not showcase that on Stackoverflow if this person asks/answer a question over there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this might encourage people to post on all websites. I'm saying this because I'm mostly on SO, but I like the other initiatives. After a few month on SO I gained some rep and it feels painful to start all over again on another website, so I kind of not go over there a lot. I know this a silly way of thinking about rep and this is not the point of reputation but I'm sure I'm not the only one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not vital, but I'd like to know you guys inputs about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T18:21:25.603" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:20:11.723" Title="Why is my reputation for the StackOverflow trilogy sites not shown on all of the sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="19373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19372" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:54:00.463" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your knowledge of ipod-repair is almost irrelevant on Stackoverflow. Two different contexts. If you want your rep on other sites, you can paste your flair into your profiles on other sites. But each so-site is exclusive and distinct, and there probably should be little or no overlap between the activity you have on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:54:00.463" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19372" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:54:03.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why we have the associate accounts feature. You can see what the user has gained on the sister sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep/Knowledge may blend a little in some areas, but does not transfer/translate into the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: I know programmers that could hardly troubleshoot a keyboard problem some days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:54:03.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19362" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:56:49.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not altogether against this, but I think the real problem you describe is anyone who would withhold an edit out of fear that it would trigger CW mode. IMHO, if an edit is beneficial, then it should be made - CW trigger be damned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:56:49.397" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19372" CreationDate="2009-09-01T17:58:50.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People can find this information if you have associated your accounts, but reputation is intentionally disparate between the sites, just because you know one area well does not mean you know anything about another. I did previously &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/3560#3560&quot;&gt;suggest&lt;/a&gt; adding a badge that would add an additional way that people on one site could see you are exceptional on another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T17:58:50.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19372" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:08:23.570" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something like an average of rep through all the websites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't want my low rep on MSO, SU, SF affecting my rep on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T19:06:28.773" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:06:28.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19368" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:09:09.247" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;StackExchange sites are listed here&lt;/a&gt; at stackexchange.com/sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-04T01:34:16.403" LastActivityDate="2011-03-04T01:34:16.403" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19372" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:20:45.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this could be implemented it as a mouseover on the avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T19:20:11.723" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:20:11.723" />
  <row Id="19381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19384" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:33:48.260" Score="6" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/146780/unknown-yahoo&quot;&gt;This user&lt;/a&gt; has a 0% accept rate, but many of his/her questions have accepted answers. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:21:25.087" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:21:25.087" Title="Why does this user have a 0% accept rate, when many of his/her questions have accepted answers?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19390" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:36:48.583" Score="1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a question closed earlier today, and was suggested to post a question related to it here as I did not realize that &quot;Making Money&quot; as the moderator termed it is considered banned from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love using the sites for my programming questions both for work, hobby and freelance projects. I have questions about items like AdWords and other affiliate programs, and even if there are ad agencies out there that will take a commission and sell space on your site (where my banned question was asking)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this is as important for some sites as CSS layout and bot blocking. I feel that placing ads, membership fees and other items that we use on our sites should be valid topics as well. Otherwise where would we go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I do not think this will open the floodgate with &quot;Should I use Adwords or Amazon Affiliate&quot;?, it is subjective and if one is answered others would be flagged as re-posts, which seems to work great for all of the other content on these sites which is why I like them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still with me? Should software and code topics that cover sources of revenue be allowed on the sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133936" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T22:26:17.210" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:26:17.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T18:56:15.313" Title="Discussion of Ads on StackOverflow (or SuperUser)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;&lt;money-making&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="19384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19381" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:39:42.010" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears as though this user has gone on an &quot;accept&quot; binge in just the last hour - I'd guess it's a caching issue. (the % accepted query is a batch thing, AFAIK)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T18:39:42.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19381" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:39:58.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK - I think Troggy is right. I looked at the user's recent activity, and he/she only received the &quot;scholar&quot; badge 16 minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T18:39:58.670" />
  <row Id="19386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19382" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:41:42.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/33710/internet-ads-allowed-on-sites-with-log-in-closed&quot;&gt;The Question in Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the question was justifiably closed. After finding, and reading your question, I will say what I rarely every say...Google for alternatives to what you're currently using. Your question doesn't really belong on any of the so-sites. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T18:41:42.770" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19381" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:43:19.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess would be the user just started accepting answers. The acceptance percentage is heavily cached, and for both the questions of theirs I just checked, it was today when the answer was accepted, including for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1233365&quot;&gt;oldest&lt;/a&gt; question they have with an accepted answer. The other question I checked can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1350041&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T18:43:19.147" />
  <row Id="19389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19382" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:46:25.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of business topics surrounding software and the web. SO, SF, and SU are for technical questions only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a technical question about implementing advertising - that would be fine. But questions about revenue generation, traffic, etc, are not a good fit for these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please understand that this does not mean SO or its community is anti-business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T18:52:02.763" />
  <row Id="19390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19382" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:46:49.203" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key here is that you have to separate the technical implementation of building the web site from business implementation of operating it.  Both are equally important, but StackOverflow is only intended to help with the former.  Therefore: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technical implementation questions are welcome.  A good example could be &quot;Given this layout, ad data, and other code for the page, how do I rotate ads in this space randomly?&quot;.  Business implementation questions, such as &quot;How or where do I show ads for best effect?&quot; are discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you find an answer for a business question like &quot;Where is the best place to put this ad?&quot;, come back to StackOverflow or Doctype to ask how best to get the ad to show up in that place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T18:52:26.960" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T18:52:26.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19315" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:57:13.190" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;groveling&amp;gt;Pick me next!  Me, me!  Puhleaze, pretty pretty please!!&amp;lt;/groveling&amp;gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;'s beta sign-up form confirmation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3443/blan.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should've actually said &lt;strong&gt;some of you&lt;/strong&gt; (us), and &lt;strong&gt;whenever we feel like it&lt;/strong&gt;.  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130199" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T18:57:13.190" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19564" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:59:40.783" Score="14" ViewCount="1157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Setting aside the fact that waffles were created in the seventh circle of hell, cause suffering and apocalyptic horror wherever they are witnessed, and are instruments of pure evil, where did the obsession with talking about them in every thread arise? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we stop this and have more waffles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, will waffles.stackexchange.com exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even more importantly...do ponies like waffles? Do waffles like ponies? Are there such things as waffle-flavored ponies and pony-flavored waffles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T03:33:59.633" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T03:33:59.633" Title="What is up with the waffle fetish?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19403" CreationDate="2009-09-01T18:59:44.713" Score="5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would justify downvoting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/discussion&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[discussion]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Questions marked [discussion] on MSO)? Recently, a user was directed here by a moderator to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19382/discussion-of-ads-on-stackoverflow-or-superuser&quot;&gt;ask a question&lt;/a&gt; about which subjects are appropriate for SuperUser. Upon asking this question, the user was downvoted*. Why? I don't know. The question was marked as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/discussion&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[discussion]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If it had been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/feature-request&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I can understand the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we discouraging &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/discussion&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[discussion]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by downvoting posts that don't really deserve downvotes? Or is there some justification for downvoting a user who is simply here inquiring about an idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* Not by many, but this is only one occassion. Many &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/discussion&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[discussion]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; questions have been downvoted numerous times&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;** Yes, this is marked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/discussion&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[discussion]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm sure some of you will think it's cute to downvote it.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T19:07:55.417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:57:03.583" Title="Downvoting Discussion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19382" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:00:46.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that will get your question treated more harshly is to include a URL, or other self-promotion that is not necessary for understanding the question.  People come here to ask and answer technical questions, and are justifiably angry when duped into reading advertising.  The communities here are brutally efficient at removing spam posts (not just questions, answers, too) that seem to be spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possibly hypocritical to close a question because it's money-making in direction.  Most of our questions regard on-the-job topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that your question was closed as advertising, though it sounds as if you were intending it as a request for information on different services (something we're well used to on SF).  Careful phrasing may help - see the disclaimer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/42819/looking-for-some-advice-for-adult-web-hosting-solutions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  I think the OP's acknowledgement of possible hostility did a lot to alleviate friction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:00:46.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T19:00:46.273" />
  <row Id="19395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:01:50.187" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just another mini-meme that has taken MSO over. Waffles...and ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:01:50.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:02:31.010" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I truly wish I knew... then; maybe it is best not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even somehow got labelled a waffle-hater; pah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm torn between closing this question as noise, and adding it to the FAQ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T19:28:26.327" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:28:26.327" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19393" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:03:07.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On MSO, voting is a way to express agreement/disagreement with the basic premise of a question. In this specific instance several people disagreed with what they saw as the basic premise that business questions were valid on S[OFU].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:03:07.377" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:03:43.147" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was originally &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19480#19480&quot;&gt;started by Eric&lt;/a&gt;, then from a deleted post, it was latched onto by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T20:02:59.987" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:02:59.987" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:04:37.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because Waffle House is the only place open when devs are awake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135221" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:04:37.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19393" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:05:06.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often, something is downvoted (as off-topic) on SO/SU/SF - then migrated. The migrated post retains the downvotes and &quot;off-topic&quot; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:05:06.013" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19393" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:07:39.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, who cares? It takes -2 off your arbitrary number that is even more meaningless on a meta site. If someone wants to down vote your question or your answer, so be it. Why whine and cry about it? Surely the discussions of this are much worse than the down vote itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, maybe the person doesn't like what you are saying. Maybe they don't like the way you worded it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think my first point is my main point. Who cares? Lets all grow up and move past crying and whining every time we see a down vote. That applies even more here, but on SO.com as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:07:39.237" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="19403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19393" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:09:16.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What justifies &lt;em&gt;up&lt;/em&gt;-voting a discussion? There are over 1,300 posts currently tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;, some with &lt;em&gt;hundreds&lt;/em&gt; of up-votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People vote for their own reasons. Agreement, disagreement, like or dislike of a particular phrasing or perceived attitude, personal vendetta, fat fingers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, I would rather leave these reasons up to speculation, &lt;em&gt;particularly&lt;/em&gt; in the case of down-votes. I've tried posting my reasons along with every down-vote, and more often than not it just led to arguments and bad blood. Much better that folks get used to being down-voted without trying to directly associate a reason or a name with that vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, since you asked nicely... I down-voted that question because I disagreed with the author's assertions that ad questions &quot;are as important as CSS questions&quot; or that these sites should be open to any question regarding &quot;membership fees and other items that we use on our sites&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:09:16.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:13:41.643" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Waffles! I &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; waffles. One day, back when SO was still young, I was making delicious pecan waffles and testing something on the site. I needed filler for a dozen or so quick posts, and used the recipe for waffles. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/143927/what-is-the-purpose-of-uservoice&quot;&gt;They're long gone now&lt;/a&gt;, but I still get a pleasant yearning for waffles, golden crispy waffles, &lt;em&gt;drenched&lt;/em&gt; in Real Butter and Smokey Maple Syrup, whenever I visit SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume that anyone else mentioning waffles has similarly good taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T19:19:37.933" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:19:37.933" />
  <row Id="19406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-01T05:21:40.137" Score="27" ViewCount="740" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this has been asked before but a quick search on Stack Overflow didn't turn up any result.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've put images on my own site for now but it's quite possible I'll restructure or move hosts at some time and the images would be lost to the community. Is there any recognized free host for storing images referenced in questions and answers on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140229" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T08:25:35.550" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T08:25:59.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-20T19:59:07.853" Title="Image hosting for Stack Overflow answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;hosting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="19407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19406" CreationDate="2009-05-01T05:29:00.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking the Image button above the edit dialog on SO includes a link to &quot;Need free image hosting?&quot; that goes here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=free+image+hosting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=free+image+hosting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Sorry, editors, for not copy+pasting the entire results page.]  Top link currently is imageshack.us, followed by tinypic.com.  I believe Google Sites (sites.google.com) will also let you host images for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:15.587" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19406" CreationDate="2009-06-14T11:05:21.680" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My view is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt; will be more reliable than imageshack, tinypic etc - it needs a signup but the images won't get deleted. An alternative is &lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Picasa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-14T11:05:21.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19406" CreationDate="2009-07-02T19:00:55.483" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinypic.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TinyPic&lt;/a&gt; is free and with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cropper.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cropper&lt;/a&gt; tool, it is super duper easy to store screen snaps online.  Alt-PrtScrn captures the screen or current window, saves the image on disk, and, with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cropperplugins.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SendToTinyPic plugin&lt;/a&gt;, uploads the image to TinyPic, and drops the URL of the uploaded image on your clipboard.  What used to take me 102 keystrokes ... PrntScrn ...open paint.net...save... open browser...upload...copy...switch windows...paste......where was I?.. etc etc...  is now 2 seconds and one key-combo.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also logs the URLs in a file so you can recall them later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The build as of today doesn't do all this, you need the patch #3239.  Download the cropper.Plugins source and apply that patch, you will be good to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cropper also has a SendToFlickr plugin, though I haven't tried it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-02T19:00:55.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-14T19:47:47.337" Score="8" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious what people think about spending time on Stack Overflow. I've seen in a number of questions people mentioning Stack Overflow can be a waste of time and I'm not sure I completely agree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most users of SO are programmers (else I'm sure they'd lose interest) and can learn a lot by reading through the questions and answers. So unless you're truly not doing the work assigned to you, I find SO to be a great reference and way to learn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read questions on SO and came across a similar problem later, then just searched the site and saved time because I knew where to find the answer. So unless somebody truly knows everything (unlikely) I don't think SO is really a waste of time. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="138231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T05:13:27.927" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T05:13:27.927" Title="Is Stack Overflow a &quot;waste of time&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T19:48:37.927" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked questions and gotten some really good answers.  Quickly, too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T19:50:28.423" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do find SO to be useful and it has answered a number of questions I have had, but I have found that I spend too much time on the site and it has been detracting from my work. That is more an issue with my own self-discipline, but for a programmer, I find that a site like this to be a little bit like crack, &lt;strong&gt;very addictive&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158770" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T19:50:50.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's great for quick answers to questions that Google gags on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also great for browsing through questions and answering random subjective stuff because I have nothing better to do.  So I would say it can be a place to waste time, but it can also be a useful resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153934" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T19:54:29.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much like with anything else, StackOverflow is useful if you want a question answered or wish to learn more about certain things by answering questions and participating in discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, I've wasted hours on here for little gain, but there are times when I've learned something valuable from just reading other peoples' questions. I believe that websites like this should stand for the greater good; altruistic users willing to provide any information that is asked of them, clear and concise answers and questions that should (and shouldn't) be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you follow anything then you're sure to learn from and about it. If you follow StackOverflow you'll learn something, but you'll probably spend a lot of time doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T19:54:44.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can be used to waste time by reading through things that are not important to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a waste of time to ask non-programmer-related questions, or questions that you can find the answer to with a quick Google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a waste of time to ask programmer-related questions you need answers to that you cannot find by a quick Google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:04:58.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think Stack Overflow is a waste of time, in the respect that I find it to be very useful.  It is very good for finding answers to problem questions, the search bar works well from my experience, and it helps you keep on your toes for issues that may occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you refer to it being a waste of time, because it is being browsed without a specific purpose or during work hours, then perhaps it could be-- but that would be reflective of the user, not Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:06:20.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the moment I discovered StackOverflow my learning rate has drammatically increased!&#xA;This site is great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:06:41.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation is never a waste of time ... even if my boss may think otherwise ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131757" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:19:34.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just by browsing the front page with my filters set, I learn a great deal. This is especially true of the small &quot;one off&quot; questions. Sometimes I run across quicker ways to do things, or methods of handling problems that I didn't even know existed. It's definitely time well spent!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1284" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:30:34.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading and responding to questions like this is a waste of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-14T20:30:34.473" />
  <row Id="19421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:30:38.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it to be unbelievably useful when trying to figure out problems while coding applications. Specifically, I've found it to be immensely helpful when transitioning projects because I may not be familiar with a new language or database that I'm working with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the best aspects about SO is the fact that it's much cleaner than the .NET forums and there is a much more active user base in helping each other. I find that to be a total &quot;NON&quot; waste of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:48:05.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you serious?  I have learned a ton since I joined this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just the &quot;Hidden Features of *&quot; makes this site invaluable for most programmers no matter your platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, it will take me months to explore the hidden features of C# (kids you know).  But I have a ROADMAP to take when trying to learn what a don't know I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-14T20:53:22.213" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a waste of time but it can be a great time-waster...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132124" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-11-15T00:30:45.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is definitely addictive, but also constructive. It's better to procrastinate on something that actually makes sense :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-12-04T05:51:57.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;nope, it's like wikipedia for programmers on crack.&#xA;it's probably the best thing to ever hit the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150635" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-12-04T06:00:10.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No not at all!  I'm a college student (only have worked with java so far) but I have actually learned a lot just by &quot;surfing&quot; the site and reading the various posts.  Very interesting for an amateur programmer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-12-04T06:18:52.173" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose there exists a Turing machine that works as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;AUTOMATON1(X)&lt;code&gt;&#xA;if (x a &quot;waste of time&quot;)&#xA;    return &quot;do something productive&quot;&#xA;else&#xA;    waste time&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then another&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;YOUR QUESTION(X)&lt;code&gt;&#xA;if (AUTOMATON1(X) == &quot;do something productive&quot;)&#xA;   return a &quot;waste of time&quot;&#xA;else&#xA;   waste time&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you are asking your question on StackOverflow itself, which is equivalent to running YOUR QUESTION(YOUR QUESTION).  And therefore if StackOverflow is a &quot;waste of time&quot;, you've wasted your time and thus defeat the point of answering the question.  Otherwise, you waste your time and yet return &quot;something productive&quot; - another contradiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a problem that if you select a correct answer for this question, then you've wasted your time and the answer actually isn't any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-04T06:18:52.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-12-04T06:28:20.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not at all for me...  I see it as research and development for the brain.  By being exposed to the thinking of people in this community, I've had jumping off points to better places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know how when you start googling on a programming topic that you know nothing about, you'll end up with questions by dumb people?  Then as you get better, you ask better questions and you find more interesting posts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found Stack Overflow to be fabulous in helping me to craft and ask better questions.  Hopefully I have also contributed a little bit of useful stuff too; that's definitely one of my goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-12-04T07:21:22.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/greeblie/2426454804/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2295/2426454804%5F06648486e3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;eight ball of yesness&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T02:18:58.327" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T02:18:58.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-04T07:21:22.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19410" CreationDate="2008-12-04T07:39:56.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is like programmer porn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145689" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:30.423" />
  <row Id="19431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:45:13.357" Score="8" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much total time and resources did it take to develop stackoverflow.com? This is a great application that sets the bar for the rest of is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135376" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:29:27.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-05T19:51:19.867" Title="How much total time and resources did it take to develop stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;6-8weeks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19431" CreationDate="2008-11-05T19:48:13.880" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081101/how-hard-could-it-be-the-unproven-path.html?partner=fogcreek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How Hard Could It Be?: The Unproven Path&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It's going to take six to eight&#xA;  weeks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In reality, it took about twice as&#xA;  long as that, which wasn't that bad,&#xA;  but it was still a 100 percent&#xA;  overrun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a great community website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please read the entire article.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:32:42.077" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19456" CreationDate="2008-08-27T23:51:16.660" Score="12" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm kind of curious what kinds of criteria other people go through when selecting the correct answer to their questions.  Here's what I consider when selecting the answer to my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the answer objective?  It's easy to pick out biased answers.  Usually they involve a statement along the lines of &quot;x sucks, you should ALWAYS use y.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do other members seem to support the answer?  Has it gotten a significant number of +1 posts or has it been voted up a number of times?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the answer the most thorough?  Does it have an example?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, there are a couple of BAD reasons to choose an answer in my opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is what you want to hear.  My biggest pet peeve is when somebody asks what ostensibly appears to be a valid question, but is really just a thinly veiled attempt to get someone to agree with them.  Thus, the question usually ends up showing a certain bias.  And guess which answer gets selected?  The one that confirms that bias.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody posted a better answer.  If you don't see a good enough answer, don't select one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are a few things I'm leaving out, plus some of what I've said may be arguable.  What is everyone else's take on this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:23:10.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T17:01:37.057" Title="Etiquette for selecting answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="8" />
  <row Id="19449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-08-28T00:08:33.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the main criteria should be a positive answer to the question&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Does it solve my problem?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3241" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-08-28T00:26:34.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@kristof:  I agree, but it's not always that simple.  Sometimes there are multiple answers that all solve my problem.  Or sometimes I may not really know if it solves my problem until I've put a week's worth of work into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes I see people making choices that I don't personally agree with.  There's nothing wrong with that, I was just curious if anyone else had any radically different ways of thinking about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm overcomplicating things, then so be it.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-08-28T05:03:02.633" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that I've noticed is that people tend to accept answers too quickly before it plays out in responses. There is nothing wrong with letting your question linger a few days without an accepted answer IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146104" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-08-28T05:05:55.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever answer lends to my code working correctly gets the accept by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a later answer might be more thorough but give mostly the same answer, I give the credit to the person who helped me first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-08-28T06:55:59.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/18171&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice&lt;/a&gt; a suggestion to not allow questioners to select an answer for some period of time after asking the question (I suggested 24 hours). This would give time for a few decent answers to appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion was rejected as &quot;we already have problems with people not accepting answers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-08-28T07:05:59.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think selecting an answer to accept is not always easy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is related to debug or accomplish something, the first answer that helps solve the problem/accomplish the goal is the correct answer. Or at least it is the answer you were looking for. Then it is easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But every other type of question, like 'what tool do you recommend for the job' kind of question is not as easy. There can be several equally helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I don't think every question should necessarily have one and only one accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130955" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-08-28T07:17:16.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Sergio Acosta: Like in any multiple-choice situation, there may be several close (ie, helpful) answers. But if you can only select one, you need to decide which is the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answer. That is, if you're actually asking a question in the first place, which not everyone is. Just because we call every entry here a &quot;question&quot; doesn't mean that every entry actually is a question. A discussion about recommendations about a tool for a particular job certainly isn't a question, so why should the original poster have to select an answer at all? That's where voting becomes more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I would love to see a discussion area to this site, specifically for those situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Jason Baker: I have no problem coming back days or weeks after the fact to mark an answer as right. I have an outstanding question now, with several helpful suggestions that it's probably going to take me two weeks to work through. When I figure out which (if any) solved the problem I was asking about, I will come back and give someone the correct answer. If we're using this site as an archive, which Jeff said was one of the main purposes, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19448" CreationDate="2008-11-02T20:01:03.590" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does it answer your question precisely?:&lt;/strong&gt; The selected answer should answer your exact question correctly, and not some tangent topic created from your question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do others agree?:&lt;/strong&gt; Make sure at least some other stack overflow users agree with you.  You don't need to select the highest voted up answer, but try to avoid selecting an answer that has net down votes just because you agree with it.   You may be wrong in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't settle:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't select an answer just because it is the best one available.  Only select an answer if it answers your question. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't pick too quickly:&lt;/strong&gt; Try not to select an answer minutes after posting it.  Sometimes a better answer will come hours later, and you might miss out on it if you select your answer too fast.  The other problem with this is that other stack overflow users will see the accepted answer, only read that one and not the others, and vote it up.  You will have an inflated vote answer for possibly not the best answer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234956/which-answer-do-i-accept-if-i-have-multiple-correct-answers&quot;&gt;Multiple answers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; If multiple people answered only part of the answer, comment on each and ask them to expand it including @username's answer.  Upvote each of the partial answers and finally accept the complete answer once someone posts the answer completely.  The person adding to their answer should give credit to the person they borrowed ideas from.  It is better to modify someone's post with a small missing detail and accept it, then to accept a partial answer.  If someone posts a summary answer, even if they contributed no new information, and if it answers your question completely, then you should accept it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Changing accepted answers later:&lt;/strong&gt; It is a good idea to review your responses tab on your profile page.  Sometimes people will post an answer even know you have already accepted an answer.  The new answer might be far superior than the one you accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples and code:&lt;/strong&gt; A good answer often has an example and code in the answer.  But sometimes the answer is purely theoretical.  If you have a practical question, hold out for a more practical answer that has examples and code. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First answer vs similar subsequent:&lt;/strong&gt; You should not select the first answer just because it was the first to have a major point.  Instead select the most correct.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First answer vs exact subsequent:&lt;/strong&gt; If 2 answers are identical accept the oldest. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Periodically review your unanswered questions:&lt;/strong&gt; If you don't religiously watch your Responses tab in your profile, you should periodically review your unaccepted answers and look to see if there is an accepted answer candidate. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subjective questions:&lt;/strong&gt; In my opinion, questions tagged with subjective should not be able to be accepted.  I think it is better not to accept an answer if your question is subjective.   By the very definition of subjective, there is no best answer anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contribution of ideas in this answer: Myself, @DannySmurf, @Sergio Acosta, @Zooba, @jjnguy, @Daniel Auger, @Jason Baker, @kristof&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:33:58.610" />
  <row Id="19457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-10T23:59:48.643" Score="8" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a question that quite promptly got a number of decent answers. One of those answers led me to a closely related but slightly different question. What's the best way to bring up that additional question? I could..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask the new question in an &quot;answer&quot; to my original question (this is what I did, but it's kind of colder and, I suspect, less likely to be seen by people),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit my original question to include the second one,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or post a new question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135613" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:10:38.120" Title="Where should I post follow-up questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;follow-up&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19457" CreationDate="2008-09-11T00:01:55.270" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask new question and include a link to the related one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137096" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:19.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19457" CreationDate="2008-09-11T00:11:24.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on how closely your new question is related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of stackoverflow is to be a wiki of ideas, so if it's close to your original question, go ahead and edit the question.  Someone with enough reputation can add the answer to that part to the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:19.530" />
  <row Id="19460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:28:07.027" Score="7" ViewCount="462" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using a Creative Commons license means anyone can take this content and republish it on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will our usernames be also republished? (I guess the answer is yes!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's to stop someone from creating stackoverflow2.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:28:15.880" Title="Creative Commons attribution and copycat sites" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;license&gt;&lt;creative-commons&gt;" AnswerCount="9" />
  <row Id="19461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:30:54.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you must be credited, but you can also demand that anyone using your content under the licence remove your attribution (see para 4(a) of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;legal code&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6521" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:39:22.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it's not clear what the ambit of the creative commons licence badge displayed on this site is. I cannot find any page that defines the terms between the users and Stackoverflow LLC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that lack of clarity over what the intended ambit of the licence is, if push comes to shove, you are at the mercy of the traditions of whichever jurisdiction you litigate in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this isn't in any sense legal advice to anyone, just my observation and impression. Don't rely on this for any reason or purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158857" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" />
  <row Id="19463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:44:30.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a cc-wiki image at the bottom right of each page.  If you click it, you will see the terms of the license:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow's cc license&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" />
  <row Id="19464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:44:46.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's stopping anyone from ripping off StackOverflow2 and create StackOverflow3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The license only covers content, not the userbase. So if someone sets up SO2.com with all the content from this site, they still need to build a userbase and establish a community. Stackoverflow has the advantage that the names of Jeff and Joel are quite well known, so they had a userbase almost immediately simply because they were behind it, and I think that helped SO a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all about the userbase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:45:49.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OP asked an interesing question! Those CC stuff is not clear at all. I added SOFAQ tag to the question. IMO we need to clarify this and add to the FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" />
  <row Id="19466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:52:18.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's true that the CC tag is rather misleading because it doesn't specify &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; exactly is licensed under CC license (well, by implication only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I'm pretty sure such a blanked claim isn't legally binding. For one thing, national laws differ. For another, (I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure that) the below tag doesn't give anyone rights to take the content users posted and reuse it under CC because the users aren't made aware of this. As a consequence, you can't just take away the copy- and ownership rights of the contents they posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/EDIT: To clarify: In order for this to work, users first have to agree to licensing their intellectual property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" />
  <row Id="19467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T13:58:56.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139504/stackoverflows-creative-commons-license#139619&quot;&gt;Konrad&lt;/a&gt; makes a good point - I help to run a site which solicits content from users (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geograph.org.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.geograph.org.uk&lt;/a&gt;) and we make sure each contribution is uploaded with a click-through agreement to a specific CC licence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As there's no such thing on Stack Overflow that I recall, I'm also not convinced that I have licensed my postings under the CC licence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6521" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" />
  <row Id="19468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2008-09-26T14:03:07.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does this work with Wikipedia? My intuition is to say that this would be  very similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2009-06-26T07:14:40.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this recent post from Jeff &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The requirements are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So let me clarify what we mean by&#xA;  attribution. If you republish Stack&#xA;  Overflow content, we require that you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Visually indicate that the content is&#xA;  from Stack Overflow in some way. It&#xA;  doesn’t have to be obnoxious; a&#xA;  discreet text blurb is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hyperlink to the original question on&#xA;  stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Show the author names for every&#xA;  question and answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hyperlink each author name back to&#xA;  their user profile page on&#xA;  stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes you can re-publish provided you meet those criteria &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:29.343" />
  <row Id="19470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19473" CreationDate="2008-08-20T07:14:42.417" Score="34" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I submit an answer (a real answer, not some @someone comment) I upvote the question.  I generally do this because if the question is good enough to take time to answer it, it's good enough to be brought to someone else's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you do this?  What are your guidelines for upvoting a question that you answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T17:58:47.623" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T11:13:58.330" Title="Do you ever not upvote a question that you answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2008-08-20T07:17:05.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/stackoverflow-why-arent-people-rating-questions&quot;&gt;: Why aren’t people rating questions?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="718" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-28T12:00:08.663" LastActivityDate="2010-09-28T12:00:08.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2008-08-20T07:33:42.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I upmod most questions that I answer. If I didn't think it was a good question, I wouldn't waste my time answering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:44.490" />
  <row Id="19473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2008-08-20T07:34:43.663" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is the same as yours. If a question is good enough for me to stop what I'm doing and answer, I obviously think it's an interesting/useful question, so it deserves a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's really my only criteria: interesting question, or something that would be useful to other people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:44.490" />
  <row Id="19474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2008-08-20T07:57:57.587" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1740?sort=votes#1754&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;good answers&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1740/should-an-array-index-start-with-a-0-zero-or-a-with-a-1-one&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bad questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:34:44.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2008-08-20T08:09:02.300" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real question in my mind is whether there's a point to rating questions at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the purpose of rating answers is to find the best one for a given question. The value of having a list of the &quot;best questions&quot; is much more dubious, especially given the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2824/stackoverflow-why-arent-people-rating-questions&quot;&gt;issues people have noticed with voting on questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone looking for an answer to their question is going to find the right question using search, whether internal or external.  People who want to keep up with new questions on Stack Overflow I think are going to be much more interested in sub-communities within the site, whether via monitoring specific tags or some other mechanism, than tracking some kind of reddit-like hot questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question threads should be displayed to users based on relevance rather than popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="143433" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-24T23:25:00.593" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T23:25:00.593" />
  <row Id="19477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19490" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:41:45.693" Score="6" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I went to a question I had an answer for and noticed that the op had already voted an answer as being correct. The particular answer had a list of links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I thought to myself, wouldn't it be better to have a more complete correct answer instead of having more smaller answers? In other words, instead of adding a new answer I edited the correct one and added the link there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it better for two main reasons: a) the correct answer would be more complete and b) I am not looking for votes, any votes will go to the guy with the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case it matters, the question was: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/321535/getting-started-with-constraint-programming/342760#342760&quot;&gt;Getting started with Constraint Programming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2644" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T23:17:58.713" Title="Is it OK to edit a correct answer for fullness instead of answering?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:43:20.467" Score="140" ViewCount="13297" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;Internet Meme&quot; is used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet (see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_%28Internet%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_(Internet)&lt;/a&gt; for more details)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow and now even more predominantly Meta Stack Overflow has seen more than its fair share of memes spread like wildfire through the user base. They are now engrained units of our collective culture as SOpedians (a term which I hate, by the way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has become a more frequent occurrence where new users will be confronted by an engrained meme and be left sitting there scratching their heads. I therefore propose that this space be used to document the lighter sides of S[OFU]'s culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each meme should be documented separately and I hope that we as a community will be able to provide greater context to each one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:58:44.873" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T21:08:24.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T19:43:20.467" Title="The Many Memes of Meta" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;memes&gt;" AnswerCount="40" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="106" />
  <row Id="19479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:44:29.980" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Ponies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: April 1st, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: The pony meme began without fanfare early in TheTXI's time as a member of Stack Overflow. It's first recorded usages can be traced back to long running comment threads and arguments on both Stack Overflow and User Voice. The comment &quot;I like ponies&quot; would be randomly interjected and would inevitably lead to the thread getting completely derailed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before long it became evident that TheTXI was not the only SOpedian who found ponies to be the most wonderfullest things &lt;strong&gt;ever&lt;/strong&gt;. It's popularity grew to the point where even Jeff Atwood and the Stack Overflow development team implemented the Cornify button on all questions and answers on April Fool's Day 2009. From there the popularity of ponies (and their magical weaponized form the unicorn) grew exponentially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For April Fool's Day 2010, all Avatar requests were sent to &lt;a href=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unicornify&lt;/a&gt; instead of Gravatar, resulting in every user having a personal unicorn for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For April Fool's Day 2011, voting on questions triggered unicorn animations (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/85617/can-we-get-a-gallery-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;seen here&lt;/a&gt;) to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ponyoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ponyoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Historical notes&lt;/strong&gt;: In 2006 for April Fools, Slashdot &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/31/1644225&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;switched to a pink ponies theme&lt;/a&gt;  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://deekayen.net/pink-ponies-slashdot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;screenshot&lt;/a&gt;).  This subsequently lead to an &lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/tags/omgponies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;OMG Ponies&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Slashdot meme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-05T22:57:43.880" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T22:57:43.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T19:44:29.980" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="19480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:44:30.760" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Waffles.                           &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/95589/eric&quot;&gt;Eric&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: Late August and Early September, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Eric just really likes waffles, and apparently so does everyone else who has even a shred of decent humanity. Those who do not like waffles may also be Vampires and haters of all things pony related.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is also likely a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolong_%28rabbit%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oolong&lt;/a&gt;, a well known Internet phenomenon: &quot;Oolong (rabbit) - A bunny trained to balance objects on its head. Famous for balancing pancakes and waffles, it has become a meme similar to Lolcats.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Background&lt;/strong&gt;: In an ensuing discussion regarding the delicious food, users were put in the penalty box for a day. There are conflicting reports that allege moderator abuse &amp;#8212; perhaps an anti-waffle agenda &amp;#8212; and others who believe it was due to over-zealousness on the part of the suspended. Tragically, because much of the commenting was deleted, a proper historical account is difficult to build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See also&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19392/what-is-up-with-the-waffle-fetish&quot;&gt;What is up with the waffle fetish?&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#8212; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/free-waffles&quot;&gt;Meta SO 404 page&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#8212; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45238/the-offical-stack-overflow-bunny&quot;&gt;The official Stack Overflow bunny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T00:12:29.610" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T00:12:29.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T19:44:30.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:45:21.617" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: Early July 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5640/rich-b&quot;&gt;Rich B&lt;/a&gt;. The oldest surviving reference is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3857/name-reason-for-stackoverflow/3862#3862&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, earlier references having been on questions since deleted.  There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/3383/comments&quot;&gt;urban&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/3456/comments&quot;&gt;legends&lt;/a&gt; surrounding him, all of which are probably true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alias&lt;/strong&gt;: The Great Edit Nazi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another Alias&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5640/geochet&quot;&gt;Geoffrey Chetwood, now GEOCHET&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="151167" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-13T18:51:42.503" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T18:51:42.503" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T19:45:21.617" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:46:20.290" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't wait until I have sufficient rep to move all of these waffle questions to SuperUser where they clearly belong. There we can have endless questions about the best waffle iron (clearly the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00009K3SY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Waring Pro&lt;/a&gt;), spatulas, butter verses margarine and all the various possible syrup combinations (Vermont Grade A Dark Amber FTW).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:46:20.290" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19477" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:46:36.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's ok, just put an 'Edit:' note or something like that in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And by 'Edit:' note, I mean a note in the answer itself, so all future viewers will know it wasn't the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T20:03:59.380" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:03:59.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:49:58.180" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Vampire&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin&lt;/strong&gt;: Malfist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Vampire originally began as a tag on StackOverflow when a user posted a question concerned over whether Jeff Atwood was of the blood-drinking undead. It has now been latched onto as an example of a completely nonsensical tag and is randomly inserted into the tags of equally nonsensical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Vampire was a tag that was used once upon a time. After Welbog's tragic loss of his powerful afro, he became fixated on adding this tag to any post he could to try and cope with his loss. Vampire may also refer to the coder of the night, Jeff Atwood.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See Also&lt;/strong&gt;: A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17296/vote-to-delete-answers/17299#17299&quot;&gt;Vampire picture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T17:05:26.230" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T17:05:26.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T19:49:58.180" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:52:10.563" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Boat Programming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin:&lt;/strong&gt; Santiago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Discussed on both &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29044&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the podcast&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/joke-questions-please-refrain/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about&quot;&gt;See here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattmcdole.com/boat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Capture of the original question&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8479/post-your-boat-programming-pics&quot;&gt;Boat Programming Pics on Meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T22:02:59.457" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:02:59.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T19:52:10.563" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="19488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19393" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:56:14.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone thinks that a discussion on a particular topic would be a waste of time, downvoting is much more logical than engaging in the discussion simply to explain why one should not engage in such a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:56:14.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19393" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:57:03.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can up/down vote a discussion based on the quality of the topic. If the discussion is &quot;should we allow X on stackoverflow&quot;, an upvote does not mean you agree with &quot;x&quot;, just that you think this is a worthwhile discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:57:03.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19477" CreationDate="2009-09-01T19:57:30.790" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not only OK, I think it's encouraged -- as long as you're not abusing the privilege of editing by changing the meaning of the answer. The idea is that the highest-voted or accepted answers are the most correct, and therefore editing someone else's answer to make it more complete is actually a truly selfless (you get no rep; original answerer does) means of acting in the best interests of the S[OFU] sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T19:57:30.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:11:29.633" Score="91" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: jQuery&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: Unknown (possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22459/olafur-waage&quot;&gt;Ólafur Waage&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: A Stack Overflow-centric meme, jQuery begin its career early on as the answer to beat for any question that even remotely referenced JavaScript. Its popularity became so great that eventually jQuery became the default answer to any potential question on StackOverflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/TdrW7.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;no matter how ridiculous&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usage&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;Hey, I see you are trying to connect to that Oracle database using C++. You should totally drop that and try jQuery.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See Also&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19495#19495&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; (Meta equivalent)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="134300" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T03:14:23.100" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T03:14:23.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T20:11:29.633" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:13:06.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've answered lots of bad questions.  I do feel a little funny about answering a question I'm voting to close, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:13:06.027" />
  <row Id="19495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:14:57.477" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Greasemonkey&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: Jonathan Sampson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: First month of Meta Stack Overflow's existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Greasemonkey originated as an offshoot of the Stack Overflow jQuery meme. This is due to the high frequency of requests by users for certain types of functionality for the Stack Overflow family of websites, many of which were easily solved using custom Greasemonkey scripts. Before long nearly every feature request could be seen as solvable through some type of Greasemonkey script (whether for real or just in the imagination of a commenter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See Also&lt;/strong&gt;: jQuery (Stack Overflow predecessor)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T11:13:28.837" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T11:13:28.837" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T20:14:57.477" />
  <row Id="19496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:17:39.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Random outbursts of profanity (Tourette's Syndrome)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2598/jjnguy&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: A Long time ago! (I've learned to behave myself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: The background on this meme is hazy, and it's lifespan as short in comparison to other popular memes (perhaps due to the fact that it was random outbursts of profanity). It is not recommended that this meme be revisited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Background&lt;/strong&gt;: It can be argued that the meme can be originally traced back to Welbog's user profile, but it appears to be more of an separate origination than either an off-shoot or logical predecessor to jjnguy's outbursts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-06T22:10:58.510" LastActivityDate="2010-10-06T22:10:58.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T20:17:39.297" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="19497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19503" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:22:01.490" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happen to have answered to a regexp-related issue on stackoverflow which was &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; tagged oracle and oracle10g; this led to those two tags being in the &quot;my tags&quot; list and, thus, half of the questions I see in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags&quot;&gt;unanswered mytags&lt;/a&gt; page are related to Oracle which I know very little about and which, frankly, don't care much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried using &quot;Ignore Tags + Hide&quot; but that only hides then, i.e. I see less than 10 answers per page, some times as little as 1 or 2 answers per page (the seems to be quite a few questions about Oracle indeed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the a way to intentionally opt-out of unwanted side-effect tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT to clarify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't select any Interesting tag at all so (I guess) it was using all the ones I answered to as a default. I didn't think to try and explicitly define Interesting ones: they actually would be all the 15 of them, except the 2 Oracle ones, so I was mostly happy with the previous list, but OTOH I can't control which side-tags are present on the questions I do answer, so it's probably better to chose Interesting tags explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mhh, yes indeed: if I do add some explicit Interesting tags, the &quot;not Interesting, not Ignored&quot; tags are no more selected by default in that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH now all the page's tags are yellow-backgrounded (as the Interesting tags are so, I guess) and is a bit of a color-fest, but oh well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135218" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:23:52.660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:23:52.660" Title="How to remove some of &quot;my tags&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:25:55.960" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three possible points of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I am bothering to answer it, it's a good question, so you should upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I answer bad questions, so I may not upvote or may even downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I answer questions to strategically earn rep.  Therefore, I may provide a patently obvious answer to a bad question in order to get a couple of upvotes.  Also, I may answer a good question, but reserve my upvote for a later time in order to bump the question on the recent tab, and earn my answer more attention and possible upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:25:55.960" />
  <row Id="19499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:26:36.257" Score="134" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: Every Day. Ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Jon Skeet is his own meme. 'Nuff said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet Facts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="132354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-01T20:09:14.333" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T20:09:14.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T20:26:36.257" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:31:02.863" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Move the turtle in LOGO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Joel Spolsky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; June 16, 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; During Podcast 58, Joel Spolsky experimented with the SO-Community by seeing how the community would respond to the question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Background&lt;/strong&gt;: LOGO itself has now been used as a quasi-popular choice for users who assign a random programming language to a question that is asking how to do something but not providing enough background material (such as what language they are attempting to use).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T20:33:11.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:33:11.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T20:31:02.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:38:06.627" Score="4" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any talk of a Business of Software arm for the S[OFU] League of Justice? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See questions like &lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/33710/internet-ads-allowed-on-sites-with-log-in-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092959/recommended-books-about-the-software-business&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128150/finding-a-partner-for-a-for-profit-software-project&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12305/how-to-start-a-software-company-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; for examples of the what would be more appropriate there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T22:43:27.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:43:27.207" Title="New Hero for the League of Justice... Business of Software man?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;league-of-justice&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:43:10.970" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Continuous outbursts of excessive analogies and profane demonstrations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: Welbog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: The background on this meme started with his profile, which describes him to the core: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;: see below...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T22:44:04.023" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:44:04.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T20:43:10.970" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19497" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:43:56.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not seeing this behavior.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, if I find a tag 'A' that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have not added to my interested tags list and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have answered a question on in the past&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I go to the Unanswered button and allow it to fall on the My Tags tab, I do not see 'A' tagged questions in my result set.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you certain that other tags that you &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; set as interesting are not also included in these Oracle* questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T21:20:06.793" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:20:06.793" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19501" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:45:35.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When StackExchange goes public, feel free to make one (perhaps it is even one of the ten private beta ones already in progress).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:45:35.430" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19078" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:53:07.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We definitely do not want to allow any questions on advertising networks, making money online, or blogging-related stuff on Super User. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been closing and quickly deleting them =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:53:07.977" />
  <row Id="19506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19078" CreationDate="2009-09-01T20:53:41.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The confirmed policy as supported by the moderators and the SU Team:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advertising questions regarding Adsense and profiting from a website is not allowed on SU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not computer software or hardware related, and a marketing exercise. These questions will be closed and deleted without warning and explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you, nothing more to see here. Move along now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T20:53:41.187" />
  <row Id="19507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:09:52.330" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2598&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/811/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13531/mmyers&quot;&gt;mmyers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: Linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/whats-the-difference-between-an-obvious-homework-question-and-one-tagged-plzsend/10086#10086&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt; never goes out of style, but technically late July, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Started by jjnguy with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/whats-the-difference-between-an-obvious-homework-question-and-one-tagged-plzsend/10082#10082&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, as a genuine recognition of Welbog's brilliance.  It was made into a meme by mmyers and Shog9 minutes later &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/whats-the-difference-between-an-obvious-homework-question-and-one-tagged-plzsend/10088#10088&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/whats-the-difference-between-an-obvious-homework-question-and-one-tagged-plzsend/10090#10090&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T21:24:16.317" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:24:16.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T21:09:52.330" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:10:19.570" Score="18" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was buried on uservoice, but I thought I'd raise it again for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What means do users have to report plagiarism or posting of copyrighted work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A button to flag content as plagiarism would be useful. It's not quite &quot;offensive,&quot; and should probably have a different effect on reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed users posting large paragraphs copied verbatim from elsewhere on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse, these answers often get many upvotes (it's generally good content, just not original). This encourages this behavior and is unfair to users who respect copyright and only post original material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff responded at uservoice to suggest using comments to address these issues, but comments don't change the fact that SO still contains the plagiarized material, so it's still in violation of copyright. I've commented on several posts that were blatantly stolen from copyrighted material, and nothing was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legally (well, technically at least, IANAL) SO must remove the offending material as soon as they are made aware the content is infringing, even before the copyright holder is aware their copyright has been violated. Once the copyright holder is aware, SO could be subject to lawsuits or DMCA takedown notices. Despite the cc-wiki license, SO could be found responsible if they were aware and did not take appropriate action to remove said content.  Since SO did not own the content, all redistributed copies (torrents of content dumps) must also be removed. Big headaches for all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better if (moderator) users could flag copyrighted content, provide a link to the (original) source, and mark it for removal? It would use a similar quorum process as deleting other content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would help ensure SO content is original and is protected and covered by the cc-wiki license as intended. Simply having an easy way to flag content and a clear policy from SO would go a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1480" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T23:20:33.710" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T15:30:29.663" Title="How to deal with questions or answers plagiarising from copyrighted sources" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;&lt;creative-commons&gt;&lt;plagiarism&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="19509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:11:31.923" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: SO Mafia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: Unknown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: Throughout 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Originally known as the TDWTF Mafia, the SO Mafia is a group of users led by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19482#19482&quot;&gt;HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED&lt;/a&gt; who hang around on IRC (#somafia on slashnet) deciding which users get to live or die. They quiet the voices by down-voting and closing anything they don't like, and editing everything else to bring it up to their &quot;standards&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T21:34:53.057" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:34:53.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T21:11:31.923" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="19510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19508" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:14:10.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the content is cited properly, it doesn't need to be removed - maybe just a 'flag for attention' reason instead? It's generally going to help the answer to have a link to the source anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:14:10.530" />
  <row Id="19511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19508" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:14:19.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't you just use the Requires Moderator Attention flag? Or rather than wait for a moderator, edit the post to remove the infringing material, replace it with appropriate links to the actual source, or edit it so it falls under fair use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people just use samples from a copyrighted source, which, as long as its attributed, should be perfectly acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:14:19.687" />
  <row Id="19512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19477" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:16:01.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you find in some cases like the one you referenced, where links to tutorials and books are requested, one selfless user will post an answer aggregating all of the links into one thorough response.  This poster will tick the community wiki checkbox, so as not to gain rep or appear to be stealing answers from others.  A note as to your intentions can be made in the post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This topic has been covered in a bunch of different posts.  Here are two:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/is-it-ok-to-edit-other-peoples-answers-to-add-links&quot;&gt;On editing in links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15839/editing-versus-answering&quot;&gt;One with the extra weight of Joel's perspective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:16:01.587" />
  <row Id="19513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19508" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:16:34.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have thought that an excerpt from a linked page would come under &quot;fair use&quot;, as long as the whole page isn't copied. Having the relevant paragraph that actually answers the question also guards against &quot;link rot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:16:34.177" />
  <row Id="19514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:17:05.050" Score="121" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; 6 to 8 Weeks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Heard:&lt;/strong&gt; May 13th, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; In about 6 to 8 weeks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definition:&lt;/strong&gt; The time estimate given &quot;off the top of my head&quot; when the Stack Overflow team has only a vague idea of how long a task will take because they have little-to-no formal scheduling or even a list of tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taken from the transcript of Podcast 005&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; Some people have been asking about scheduling, and I want to&#xA;  clarify, I've been telling people six&#xA;  to eight weeks until we get to what we&#xA;  call our private beta of&#xA;  Stack Overflow. [dialog deleted] ...And&#xA;  I've also been getting some very very&#xA;  nice emails from people that want to&#xA;  help in some way and contribute, and&#xA;  I've been inviting those people into&#xA;  our private beta... uh... later on. So&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky:&lt;/strong&gt; Wait how do you invite what? Through what mechanism do you&#xA;  invite them into our private beta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; Basically they email me directly and then, I add them to the&#xA;  list. And then six weeks from now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh. And you have like a notepad file type thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; Pretty much, it's just a basic text file. But yeah, it's hard&#xA;  to manage having a bunch of people&#xA;  contributing at this point, cause&#xA;  we're still in very much the formative&#xA;  of stages. But certainly once we get&#xA;  into private beta, I want tons of&#xA;  people to look at it and provide&#xA;  feedback at that point. So if you can&#xA;  postpone your desire for about six&#xA;  weeks, uh, we'll get you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky:&lt;/strong&gt; So how do you get this 6 to 8 weeks? What's this based on? Did&#xA;  you like make some tasks that you want&#xA;  to complete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; uh no, I er.. That's just sort of... err... off the top of my&#xA;  head&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky:&lt;/strong&gt; [laughs] Well okay, you're doomed Jeff. There's some&#xA;  controversy. You, sir, are doomed,&#xA;  because you don't know what things you&#xA;  have to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes. I know, I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reference:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W2434&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Website:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://sixtoeightweeks.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How long is it going to take?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="132354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-01T20:11:43.530" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T20:11:43.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T21:17:05.050" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18329" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:23:51.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Script was allowed - but the No-Script Plug-In was causing the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the solution to the problem below was disabling No-Script&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362444/dojo-is-not-defined-firefox-3-5-issue&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362444/dojo-is-not-defined-firefox-3-5-issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then I confirmed that it was causing the Stackoverflow &quot;Add Comment&quot; problem as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Believe me - I had No-Script set to allow scripts from all sites, even though it said it was dangerous.  Maybe No-Script hasn't fully adapted to Firefox 3.5.2 yet? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134271" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:23:51.607" />
  <row Id="19518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19315" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:29:00.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cloak and dagger way in which this was announced and then effectively not released has got me feeling somewhat uneasy about the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the carefully worded blurb could be updated so there are no further uncertainties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, my logos, domain name and other bits and pieces patiently await, in the hope that someone's earlier access to the beta doesn't jeopardise the lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:29:00.443" />
  <row Id="19519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19508" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:38:44.763" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's not offensive about plagarism?  Copying from another source, in a way that violates fair-use, is plainly offensive.   While I don't know that we need to cite things the same way that one would in a paper, you ought to provide a live link to the reference and somehow indicate that you are quoting the material (use the handy, quoting feature of the editor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often use a style like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19508/how-to-deal-with-questions-or-answers-plagarized-from-copyrighted-sources/19519#19519&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's a handy tip that I found to be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:38:44.763" />
  <row Id="19520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19523" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:39:15.357" Score="2" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/33893/ipod-touch-2g-3-0-jailbreak-broke-springboard-can-i-fix-it-without-reinstalling&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/33893/ipod-touch-2g-3-0-jailbreak-broke-springboard-can-i-fix-it-without-reinstalling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not disagreeing with Diago's call on this question. What is our official stance on question concerning jailbroken software on ipod/iphone?  I am not saying this is illegal, wrong, or anything like that. Just curious is all because of some debate on phones/music players.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have had people ask How to jailbreak and where to find resources on them. I think those questions are fine and people have answered with great resources for them to use.  This deals with questions beyond jailbreaking the device itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always show people this forum for support for things like that because there is so many knowledgable people there: &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=105&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=105&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also for reference a previous discussion on iphone/ipod support: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16087/are-iphone-ipod-ipod-touch-questions-computer-related-superuser&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16087/are-iphone-ipod-ipod-touch-questions-computer-related-superuser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-01T21:44:30.853" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T07:33:38.527" Title="Official stance on jailbroken ipod/iphone support?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;&lt;apple&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19508" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:40:08.210" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SO must remove the offending material as soon as they are made aware the content is infringing, even before the copyright holder is aware their copyright has been violated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's true.  Instead, they have to remove infringing content as soon as the copyright owner requests it. The difference is that some owners encourage the spread of their content in this manner.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's subtle, but it makes a huge difference in how I think we should handle this. Since everything in the US now has an automatic copyright, it's likely there's plenty of content on SO directly copied from random urls (blogs) with no explicit license.  That content &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; infringe on copyright.  However, if Jeff is browsing his own site and comes across something like that he isn't obligated to remove it immediately, even when he knows it infringes.  This is because he doesn't know that the copyright owner would want it removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also means &lt;strong&gt;flagging copyrighted content is pointless.&lt;/strong&gt;  As moderators, we &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; make the decision to remove content or not on behalf of the copyright owner.  Again, IANAL, but if I understand it correctly if they start doing that they could lose DMCA section 230 &quot;safe harbors&quot;, because at this point we're making our own determination about what is infringing rather than being a &quot;dumb&quot; service provider; that could leave us liable for content that we miss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that this doesn't mean I support plagiarism &amp;mdash; just that plagiarism is a separate issue from copyright.  As a user of the site I can still edit a post to properly cite an original work, remove the infringing content, downvote it, comment on the post calling out the user, or any or all of the above.  But as a moderator on meta, I won't delete content for copyright infringement without a notice from the original copyright holder, and even those I'd refer to team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, looking at the moderator tools available to me here on meta I'm not sure I have the ability to fully comply with a DMCA takedown request anyway.  The most I can do is force a deletion, but that's still visible to users with 10K rep and a &lt;em&gt;copy&lt;/em&gt; of the content would still exist on the server.  It's something they may need to consider, but I'm guessing Jeff can go in and really delete something if he needs to, even if it means a custom sql query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, to anyone who might read this after finding their own content infringed by a Stack Exchange user, please just e-mail team@stackoverflow.com and I'm sure they'll be happy to remove it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T15:30:29.663" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T15:30:29.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T19:41:47.303" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:42:49.810" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Rep Whore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Heard:&lt;/strong&gt; September 19, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definition:&lt;/strong&gt; Stack Overflow users who post questions or answers for the sole benefit of accumulating as many reputation points as possible, without regard to the technical merit or the contribution to the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; The term &quot;whore&quot; has been applied to many features of Stack Overflow — badge whores, question whores, karma whores — but the most pervasive term has been the title of &quot;rep whore.&quot; The earliest use of this term I could find was in the comments of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102310/pet-projects-should-we-each-have-one/102312#102312&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;, but its usage predates this example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-07T21:17:04.013" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T21:17:04.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T21:42:49.810" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="19523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19520" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:43:33.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was probably the first who started allowing jailbreaking questions. I think it is now standard operating procedure to allow jailbreaking questions or questions about jailbroken devices. If necessary, the mods will put a note on the question or in the comments basically saying that SuperUser does not advocate any behavior that may potentially brick your device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:43:33.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:44:44.707" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call my &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.mediabrowser.tv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;communitytracker&lt;/a&gt; an SO clone, but it is inspired by it. I got tired of the noise that is phpBB. I am starting to feel the pain now, I need a meta site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:44:44.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T21:44:44.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2009-09-01T21:52:24.953" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only downvote answers the question is better off without, either because they're wrong or they're irrelevant, and I don't bother downvoting past -1.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about being occasionally downvoted when answering questions.  I've got four answers on SO sitting at -1 right now.  If you answer, you risk downvotes.  If you don't, you sure won't get upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'd delete those answers if I didn't think they added something.  Maybe I'll get upvotes sometime in the future.  I don't really care.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T21:52:24.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T21:52:24.953" />
  <row Id="19529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19470" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:03:30.690" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wonder about people when I see a question with one or two favourites ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but no upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I love this question! But I don't think it's good enough to vote for.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:03:30.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:03:51.623" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you press delete on your own answer a confirmation dialog pops up, asking &quot;Vote to delete this post?&quot;. I find that confusing, because you are not voting, you are really deleting it. It should read &quot;Delete this post?&quot; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46642" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:21:30.867" Title="When deleting your own answer the confirmation dialog should read &quot;delete your answer?&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19530" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:14:00.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been declined for no good reason. See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10194/why-do-i-have-to-vote-to-delete-my-own-answer&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10194/why-do-i-have-to-vote-to-delete-my-own-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:14:00.403" />
  <row Id="19533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:14:58.513" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Fastest Gun in the West (FGITW) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/132257&quot;&gt;Omer van Kloeten&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Heard:&lt;/strong&gt; September 11th, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definition:&lt;/strong&gt; A problem identified as a side-effect of sorting votes by descending score where first-posted answers are quickly up-voted, trumping vote opportunities for people who sit down and answer a question in a long, thorough way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; This problem was originally identified on UserVoice.com and reposted to meta.stackoverflow.com here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/a&gt;. Whether the FGITW problem is actually a problem has been a source of controversy. Many considered it a feature — get fast answers, by design. Various solutions were suggested including this one (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1302/randomly-reorder-all-answers-posted-within-10-minutes-of-each-other&quot;&gt;Randomly reorder all answers posted within 10 minutes of each other&lt;/a&gt;), which was eventually implemented, inciting another protest labeled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19535#19535&quot;&gt;The Slowest Cheater in the East (SCITE) problem&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-21T21:14:58.703" LastActivityDate="2011-05-21T21:14:58.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T22:14:58.513" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:20:35.880" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/791808/determining-whether-a-number-is-a-prime-number-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/791808/determining-whether-a-number-is-a-prime-number-closed&lt;/a&gt; has given the asker a gold badge due to 13k views. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this the desired behavior?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should these badges be awarded only if the question has score &gt;= 0?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:59:21.763" Title="Should famous question badges be given for a negatively famous question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:27:10.110" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Slowest Cheater in the East (SCITE) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Mehrdad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Heard:&lt;/strong&gt; August 26th, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definition:&lt;/strong&gt; A term borne of the protest incited when changes to the default sorting order of questions were instituted to compensate for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19533#19533&quot;&gt;disproportionate attention given late-arriving answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: On August 26th, questions with the same vote rank were changed from a sort order of oldest-first to a random ordering. This change sparked a controversy among users who claimed that the change would encourage &quot;strategic down-voting.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow/17772#17772&quot;&gt;What has happened to the sorting of answers on stack overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The new system creates plenty of&#xA;  horrible problems (the slowest cheater&#xA;  in the east (SCITE) problem) just to&#xA;  solve FGITW, which was not a big&#xA;  issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For instance, today, I answered a&#xA;  question and a virtually identical&#xA;  answer appeared 3 minutes later and&#xA;  got upvoted. In this specific case,&#xA;  the guy himself was nice enough to&#xA;  upvote me but I honestly don't think&#xA;  it's a good thing to post a dupe&#xA;  answer after 3 minutes and leave it&#xA;  there. -- Mehrdad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-25T11:46:57.457" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T11:46:57.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T22:27:10.110" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:33:01.893" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Community Wiki Police&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aliases&lt;/strong&gt;: Watchful, Community-minded Users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11745#11745&quot;&gt;Lance Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: 10th October, 2010 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down/7183#7183&quot;&gt;the day Community Wiki questions went the way of the dodos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definition&lt;/strong&gt;: To &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1141998&quot;&gt;demand&lt;/a&gt;, via &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/216876&quot;&gt;downvoting&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/205893&quot;&gt;commenting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124968&quot;&gt;t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1067084&quot;&gt;h&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1040338&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108008&quot;&gt;t&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/970190&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1205191&quot;&gt;q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/870757&quot;&gt;u&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1146014&quot;&gt;e&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1188551&quot;&gt;s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1149778&quot;&gt;t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961942&quot;&gt;i&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/876344&quot;&gt;o&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1171321&quot;&gt;n&lt;/a&gt; be made &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284324&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T08:04:22.860" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T08:04:22.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T22:33:01.893" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="19537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19534" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:41:56.663" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that particular case, the question of determining whether a number is prime was a perfectly valid question and was answered as such with an appropriate algorithm (which is the accepted answer).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downvotes were because the algorithm given as the author's attempt was incorrect and incomplete (not even giving complete code).  Whether that's fair or not is a separate issue, but enough people were interested in the question and its answer that it has become famous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why that's a problem, considering that many of the views are probably from people searching for a good algorithm for determining primes, which is indeed given in the accepted answer.  Someone has to ask these questions for the content to exist, which is the reason for the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:41:56.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19534" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:45:02.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... It is a very popular question. It takes real talent to be that good at asking something so badly that others feel &lt;em&gt;compelled&lt;/em&gt; to reply, and to reply well... And &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is kinda why we have the Reversal badge (two awarded to answers in that question, AFAIK). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess my best argument for allowing it to collect such a badge is simply this: it's been closed for months, and hasn't yet been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:45:02.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19534" CreationDate="2009-09-01T22:59:21.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;TBH, I don't understand why the thing got -7 votes, because the author clearly states that his approach is bad. That's a bit like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136035/&quot;&gt;question from me&lt;/a&gt; where I also state that my approach isn't good (that's the reason to ask the question in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct me if I am wrong, but: Closed questions do not earn viewing badges, right? So that is our mechanism already: If a question is BAD, then it should be closed. But if a question is not closed, then it is not bad, and then it is eligible to get badges. (Edit: I just saw that the question is indeed closed. So in that case the question here should be: Should closed questions receive badges? IMHO no)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T22:59:21.763" />
  <row Id="19540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-09-01T23:10:44.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Solace&lt;/a&gt; is inspired by Stack Exchange and is open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12423" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T02:43:50.690" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:43:50.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-01T23:10:44.157" />
  <row Id="19541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19477" CreationDate="2009-09-01T23:17:58.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's generally frowned upon to edit someone else's post, significantly changing the meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if someone is just plain wrong, generally you'll find people will post their own answer. But if the poster just made some trivial errors or didn't word something very well when the intent is clear then you'll generally fine it'll be edited instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course improving the formatting is a common reason to edit other posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T23:17:58.713" />
  <row Id="19544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19244" CreationDate="2009-09-01T23:59:37.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, I'd certainly use that, but it's not easy and surprisingly expensive to do well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a bunch of people have built similar things using Amazon Mechanical Turk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Transcription services certainly exist; I've looked into this before. We tried using them to get transcriptions of a bunch of video interviews. Basically, the cheaper transcriptions were so bad that they were literally unusable even for our simple intended purpose of just being able to quickly scan through interview footage picking out the good stuff. It is amazing how poor a job people do on technical jargon, industry buzzwords, names, etc., when they don't know the domain. There are very expensive technical transcription services, usually with specialties like legal and medical, that do a better job, but they're not really affordable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-09-01T23:59:37.007" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:05:38.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When JS gets MAX_INT score the whole site will fall in a stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133774" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:05:38.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-02T01:05:38.950" />
  <row Id="19547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19530" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:21:30.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff indicates in the post linked by Vinko that fixing this would be far more effort than it's worth.  I don't know how things are with other dev teams, but that's their judgment call and to me it is sufficient reason to decline to fix the bug.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best you could ask for is &lt;code&gt;status-deferred&lt;/code&gt;, implying that it will get fixed when other higher-priority things are addressed.  However, IMHO, &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt; is more honest, because the chances of this actually getting fixed are really small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:21:30.867" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:26:16.647" Score="4" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious , just wanted to know what search engine stackoverflow uses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134467" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:18:18.020" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:18:18.020" Title="What search engine does Stack Exchange use?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:33:26.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;clearly instigated by a flock of Belgians&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:33:26.570" />
  <row Id="19551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:35:29.310" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation score that we see for Jon Skeet &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:35:29.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-02T01:35:29.310" />
  <row Id="19552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19288" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:37:57.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just comment saying &quot;This isn't an appropriate place to ask a new question, you'll get much better answers if you post using 'Ask a Question' button at the top of the page&quot; or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's already a big button saying &quot;Ask a question&quot;, the answer box says &quot;Your answer&quot; in big, bold text, and there's a sentence at the end of the page saying &quot;Not the answer you're looking for? ... ask your own question&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user misses these hints, there's not much else to do but comment.. The few cases of this I've seen all worked out fine - someone posted a commented on the &quot;quanswer&quot;, the user deleted the it, posted a proper question, it got an answer, everyone was happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:37:57.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:50:48.157" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can this question be reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1287186/is-ruby-faster-than-php-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1287186/is-ruby-faster-than-php-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T03:04:40.650" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T03:04:40.650" ClosedDate="2010-06-22T04:55:50.377" Title="How to Reopen Question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19554" CreationDate="2009-09-02T01:58:27.330" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally questions like &quot;Is X better than Y?&quot; are frowned upon if no qualification is made to &quot;better&quot;. In this case, the question said &quot;which is faster&quot;. Faster at what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am writing an application to do X, Y&#xA;  and Z with these requirements and I&#xA;  know how to do A and B. Which would&#xA;  you suggest for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's a much better question because comparisons like &quot;better&quot; or &quot;faster&quot; or whatever can be made (albeit subjectively) within a given context, without trying to get an unqualified statement about one being better than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T01:58:27.330" />
  <row Id="19557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19554" CreationDate="2009-09-02T02:06:08.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If five people with 3000 or more reputation think that the question is suitable for Stack Overflow, they'll vote to reopen the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T02:06:08.547" />
  <row Id="19559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-02T02:15:33.160" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; waffles. I had some this morning for breakfast. Effing delicious, man.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13912/5-tags-is-too-few/13915#13915&quot;&gt;It&lt;/a&gt; was in response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13912/5-tags-is-too-few&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which wasn't a question at all. The OP made an assertion without any backing, so I stated my opinion with as much backing. I needed to make the 15 characters, so I said, &quot;You know what, I'm going to spread my love of waffles.&quot; And so I have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also, waffles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T02:15:33.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19563" CreationDate="2009-09-02T02:23:44.080" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You've earned the &quot;Enthusiast&quot; badge.&#xA;  See your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what just popped up at SO, I went to see my profile and I don't have the Enthusiast badge so I went to the badges page to see what it was about and Enthusiast is also not there, what is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the other day &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1307738/dynamically-generating-a-word-cloud/1334235#1334235&quot;&gt;I answered this question&lt;/a&gt; which was supposed to be a bounty question (200 or 250 points if I remember correctly), the 7 day period has passed, I didn't won the bounty and no one else seems to have won it either and the question doesn't even appear at the featured page anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? Is this the expected behavior of SO or is something not working right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:26:26.887" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:26:26.887" Title="Badges and Bounties" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19560" CreationDate="2009-09-02T02:26:06.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hell yeah you did. It's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/71/woot-enthusiast&quot;&gt;woot! badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the addict's world! Only a couple more days and I get me my Fanatic badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And bounties without any +2 answer just go away unto the ether, and the rep gets put back into the kitty to be doled out another day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T02:35:08.067" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T02:35:08.067" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19560" CreationDate="2009-09-02T02:31:13.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also in the other day I answered this question which was supposed to be a bounty question (200 or 250 points if I remember correctly), the 7 day period has passed, I didn't won the bounty and no one else seems to have won it either and the question doesn't even appear at the featured page anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the Bounty, an answer needs to be accepted by the end of the bounty period or the highest voted answer will be auto-accepted, as long as it has 2 or more upvotes.  None of the ansnwers on the post to which you refer met the second criteria to trigger an auto-accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T02:36:53.897" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T02:36:53.897" />
  <row Id="19563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19560" CreationDate="2009-09-02T02:37:13.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the Enthusiast badge, this blog post from Jeff should explain it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your bounty question, the following post may explain it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18944/in-a-bounty-scenario-can-an-answer-from-before-the-bounty-be-automatically-accep&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18944/in-a-bounty-scenario-can-an-answer-from-before-the-bounty-be-automatically-accep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T02:43:42.153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T02:43:42.153" />
  <row Id="19564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-02T03:16:13.350" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.geekologie.com/2007/05/keyboard-waffles.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T03:16:13.350" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="19565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T03:46:47.407" Score="1" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the DNS is screwed up. My bookmark for www.stackoverflow.com stopped working but stackoverflow.com works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132124" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T05:25:25.447" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:31:31.630" Title="Host www.stackoverflow.com not found" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;dns&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19565" CreationDate="2009-09-02T03:50:59.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as well; there's nothing at www.stackoverflow.com. The subdomain redirects to stackoverflow.com....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T03:50:59.863" />
  <row Id="19567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19577" CreationDate="2009-09-02T04:05:05.747" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure a lot of developers/ system admins/ power users have a use for CMS such as Drupal or Joomla, but it seems that there is no proper place for it. CMS is a part of programming (developers), a part of configuration ( that's system admin job) and some web design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T06:36:06.723" Title="Where should CMS questions go to?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;cms&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19575" CreationDate="2009-09-02T04:08:34.227" Score="-5" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is getting ridiculous: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var input = &quot;This is a  test&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134278" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:41:21.793" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:41:21.793" Title="Can we stop with the constant overuse of var on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19568" CreationDate="2009-09-02T04:21:14.483" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var answer = &quot;no&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T04:21:14.483" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14124" CreationDate="2009-09-02T04:34:23.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's inclusive - there are 30 days between July 15th and August 13th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can post the data we have for your SU user account, but I'm seeing 30 entries, including the 15th and the 13th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T04:34:23.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="65" CreationDate="2009-09-02T04:35:21.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see some bar charts showing various stats for some of the main tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    C#     | ========&#xA;    Java   | =====&#xA;    SQL    | ===&#xA;    Python | ====&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stats you could display:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of answers per question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of votes per question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of votes per answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of total question votes (i.e. add up the votes for the question and the votes for all the answers to that question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of questions with accepted answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T04:35:21.943" />
  <row Id="19573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19565" CreationDate="2009-09-02T05:25:10.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We aren't having any issues here - we are doing redirects for the www to the base address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This is what Jarrod gets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;d:\&amp;gt;curl www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;Document Moved&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;Object Moved&amp;lt;/h1&amp;gt;This document may be found &amp;lt;a HREF=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&amp;gt;here&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T05:27:30.637" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T05:27:30.637" />
  <row Id="19574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T05:26:16.833" Score="9" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the highlighting comments made by the question owner (as described &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in a recent blog post&lt;/a&gt;), I think it would be a good idea to highlight comments left by the author of the answer being commented on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, the conversation between asker and answerer is more defined/obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; This is an edit to bring this to the site owners attention again - It would help people like me with bad eyesight to track down their comments. I originally opposed the questioner highlighting, but experience has shown me that I was wrong, and I think that answerer highlighting of comments would be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-01T22:33:04.930" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T22:33:04.930" Title="Highlight comments from answer author, in addition to question author" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;highlighting&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19568" CreationDate="2009-09-02T05:32:58.643" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no doubt that &lt;code&gt;var&lt;/code&gt; can be overused. However, it can also &lt;em&gt;aid&lt;/em&gt; readability by emphasizing how a variable is used rather than what its exact type is, and by reducing duplication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric Lippert wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/ViewNote.aspx?NoteID=61&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;great comment&lt;/a&gt; about this topic when he was tech reviewing C# in Depth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;var&lt;/code&gt; has another very handy property in places where space is constrained - it's almost always shorter than the type name. This can be important in books and also on Stack Overflow where line lengths are fairly short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, however, I don't think it's up to any one person to dictate the coding style used for answers. Go ahead and avoid using &lt;code&gt;var&lt;/code&gt; in your own answers. Criticise answers where the use of &lt;code&gt;var&lt;/code&gt; really, really leads to confusion... but accept that it's a personal preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T05:32:58.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19568" CreationDate="2009-09-02T05:57:05.647" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I've noticed that too. Here's an extreme example:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1327855/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1327855/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone edited another user's &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Int32 count = Enumerable.Intersect(listA, listB).Count(word =&amp;gt; word.Length &amp;gt; 3);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var count = Enumerable.Intersect(listA, listB).Count(word =&amp;gt; word.Length &amp;gt; 3);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason to do that - I wouldn't edit an answer to fit &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; coding standards.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As for weather &lt;code&gt;var&lt;/code&gt; is good or not, and best practice: that belongs on SO, but it has its downsides. Personally, I try not expose too much of it to beginners (or it gets too confusing / magical), especially not instead of &lt;code&gt;int&lt;/code&gt;s (as above) .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T05:57:05.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19567" CreationDate="2009-09-02T06:36:06.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that they should go where they belong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming a CMS plugin: SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up Apache to use Drupal: SF&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to write a template for a CMS: SO (or, gasp, doctype)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to use certain CMS to write content: SU&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure you can generalize from here :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know where to ask because you don't know what it'll require, I think SU is the place to start. It'll soon enough get moved where it belongs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T06:36:06.723" />
  <row Id="19578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19508" CreationDate="2009-09-02T06:39:29.960" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the way: copying verbatim quotes, even including proper sourcing, is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; citing properly, nor is it covered by fair use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Citing, and fair use, only apply if a quote is used in &lt;em&gt;context&lt;/em&gt;, e.g. to illustrate/prove a point (citing a standard document). Although common practice, pasting an answer from a web site or book is not, and never was, covered by fair use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I am very opposed to any kind of copyright enforcement that restricts free access to knowledge, and as such am opposed to the removal of any such content. But that’s my personal view and I’m fair enough to acknowledge that some people may not share it, and are (for whatever weird reasons) opposed to the dissemination of their work. As such, I agree with @jmanning2k that there probably should be a mechanism to deal with such infringement quite efficiently, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; (and here I agree with Joel Coehoorn) the copyright owner requests it. On the other hand, wouldn’t an e-mail to one of the admins/moderators be enough? Does such an infringement happen on a regular basis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T06:39:29.960" />
  <row Id="19579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T07:26:07.153" Score="7" ViewCount="565" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of talk around here regarding the Stack Overflow public data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is it? How can I play with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T02:59:27.440" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T16:41:43.887" Title="Where is Stack Overflow's public data dump?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="19580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19583" CreationDate="2009-09-02T07:28:02.267" Score="6" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;When googling for information on how to do things, I often have to find my way among tons of garbage. There are two kinds of it: stupid sites and forums for wannabes (especially for ASP and ASP.NET, full of awful examples that cry for revenge) and high quality accurate - yet obsolete - docs and how-tos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is very good at eliminating the first kind of noise; being relatively new, it hasn't faced information obsolescence yet. Will this change in the future and be a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things are unlikely to change much, like &quot;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&quot; Others change very often and, judging by the tags distribution, SO is mainly used for recent technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a year or two, will searches for ASP.NET MVC, F# and all &quot;new&quot; stuff tend to give obsolete answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T07:45:47.407" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T00:05:02.483" Title="Will Stack Overflow succumb to information and content rot?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;obsolete-information&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19579" CreationDate="2009-09-02T07:31:16.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forage through the tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/data-dump&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[data-dump]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and read up a plenty while you sit back, relax and engorge yourself with cherry ripes and data dumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump/2678#2678&quot;&gt;Better know a schema&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And might be good to check out the blog at least once a month. Especially when they &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;squeeze out a good sized dump of the data&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T07:31:16.190" />
  <row Id="19582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19520" CreationDate="2009-09-02T07:33:38.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I hope that I was not offensive in any way in my reaction to the comments on whether to support or not to support jailbreaking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think directing people to another support site is good for any community's development. Doing so might lead to an understanding that certain type of questions are not appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should feel confident that they can at least get some answers at one site, without being redirected to x-number of a external support sites right from the beginning. The reason is obvious, they can search for tags at the same very site, read related questions thanks to the &quot;Related questions&quot; links, and so on. The whole community benefits from that, as the problem solving skills of the members gets better in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T07:33:38.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19580" CreationDate="2009-09-02T07:44:12.213" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The great thing about Stack Overflow is that content can always be edited (and if necessary, downvoted). If an answer becomes irrelevant to the latest version of some technology, it can be changed to add additional information about the version(s) of the technology that the answer applies to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is intended to be a living resource, unlike so much of the other web content out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T07:44:12.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13536" CreationDate="2009-09-02T08:26:14.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bjava%5D+%22commons-chain%22&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bjava%5D+%22commons-chain%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was an issue with &lt;code&gt;FREETEXTTABLE&lt;/code&gt; (loose match) versus &lt;code&gt;CONTAINSTABLE&lt;/code&gt; (exact match). If we detect a quoted phrase in the search, we now switch to &lt;code&gt;CONTAINSTABLE&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T08:26:14.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19587" CreationDate="2009-09-02T08:35:19.643" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1366303/java-copy-array-of-non-primitive-type&quot;&gt;this question about copying arrays&lt;/a&gt; in Java. Approximately half an hour later someone else piped up with what was essentially a complete clone of my answer even down to formatting and layout. &lt;strong&gt;The irony&lt;/strong&gt;. And their answer ended up being accepted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside that I am clearly more enraged by this behaviour than a balanced and normal person should be, is it &lt;em&gt;&quot;the done thing&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to request of the OP a justification for why he has accepted the other answer (which even has less community votes)? Or is this bad SO manners?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:40:57.440" Title="Accepting a duplicate answer etiquette" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19585" CreationDate="2009-09-02T08:44:49.333" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May have been essentially the same, but the comment from the asker sounds off on it being a meatier &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/TRaOA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;reddit.com/r/pics/comments/9fpwy&quot;&gt;sanga&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I accepted the answer of Stephen as he additionally addressed the performance part of the question. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47407/desolat&quot; title=&quot;e&quot;&gt;desolat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare two technically correct answers, but one has a reasoning/explanation/caveat to how or what or why it works, wouldn't you want to go with the latter? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entirely within the spirit of the game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On asking or wanting to know why they selected one answer over another, it really depends on how you go about phrasing the query that determines if it's bad manners or not. If you're all adamant that yours should have been selected based on time alone, then that could be seen as bad manners. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a gentle, wondering what set them apart type of qomment, then that's totally cool and helps others out on what some users see as criteria for the &quot;best answer&quot; tick of green good upwardness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:04:36.750" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:04:36.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19585" CreationDate="2009-09-02T08:57:32.500" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the general standard is to accept the best, earliest answer. That means that the earliest answer is generally accepted from several duplicate answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, if someone posts an answer that is better then that trumps post order. They may do that by posting what someone else did plus some more. It might be the same info but includes links and/or a code sample. But what constitutes &quot;best&quot; is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that longer doesn't necessarily mean better, a mistake sometimes made by newbie &quot;answerers&quot;. Sometimes the best answer is the shortest and to the point answer. Often when it comes to writing length, Blaise Pascall is quoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I made this letter longer than usual&#xA;  because I lack the time to make it&#xA;  short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be over-quoted but it's true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what you do as the answerer when your answer is selected... simple: you do nothing. You have no right to the accepted answer. You could ask why but its hard for such a question not to be viewed as sour grapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons people accept answers. They include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;last answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first answer they see they like (random);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;highest rep;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lowest rep;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;longest answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;shortest answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and so on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just can't take it personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T09:40:57.440" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:40:57.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19589" CreationDate="2009-09-02T09:13:58.873" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question on Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1036437/is-stackoverflow-an-effective-platform-for-studying-programming/1036445#1036445&quot;&gt;Is Stack Overflow an effective platform for studying programming?&lt;/a&gt;, was closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it's clearly meta (at least I think so). As a StackOverflow user that encounters such a case - what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastEditorUserId="131663" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T14:54:12.707" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:54:12.707" Title="How to nominate an already closed StackOverflow question for migration to meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19588" CreationDate="2009-09-02T09:16:57.090" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:16:57.090" />
  <row Id="19590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-24T04:41:49.930" Score="7" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; is initially used only for simple Q&amp;amp;A questions, i.e. as a knowledge base, one can could also use it for browsing through different related questions and learn without having any immediate pressing problems. Do you think that Stack Overflow can be used for these activities effectively?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, do you prefer its loose quasi-neural tag-based relationships to more strictly defined hierarchies imposed by most other structured forms (books, courses...)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no, should it and could it be improved in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:23:02.370" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:23:02.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T04:41:49.930" Title="Is Stack Overflow an effective platform for studying programming?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;learning&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="19591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T04:44:59.807" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Once you have enough knowledge from other sources (preferably books and experience), it can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe you can really learn programming from Q&amp;amp;A sites. In order to learn the basics you need to read introductory texts (I always prefer hard-copy books, but that's just me). That will hopefully guide you also through examples that will help you &quot;get your hands dirty&quot; with coding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I even see a problem with sites like Stack Overflow, because sometimes junior programmers come here as an easy solution for problems they encounter, when actually what they should really do is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RTFM&lt;/a&gt; (read the fine manual, or tutorial, or book, or reference) - a practice that always teaches a bit more that what you ask for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I learn a lot from Stack Overflow when it comes to the more advanced material of real-world usage of systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T11:36:48.397" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T11:36:48.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T04:44:59.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T04:47:19.213" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It can show you stuff that you did not know. But this is not the place to learn programming. Rather this is the place where you can find solutions and suggestions to practical real life problems in programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T04:47:19.213" />
  <row Id="19593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T04:48:01.927" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but it serves as a very good starting point for learning new things. I myself found many things which I didn't even know existed and then searched it in google to find more information about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39742" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T04:48:01.927" />
  <row Id="19594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T04:56:57.330" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be Yes. You have to have other resources as well. For example, I am teaching myself Python nowadays and I am following a book for that but in addition to that, I have added Python related tags to my favorite list and I just jump on to them to see what are the real problems people are facing. This always broadens my scope about different things e.g., I just learnt a lot about dictionaries in Python through an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But having said that, I am an experienced C/C++/C# developer so I know the basics. Learning Python for me is learning a new paradigm (Functional programming), learning a new Syntax and  learning to use the libraries in an effective way. So, for a newbie to programming, I wouldn't advise in favor of learning everything from here. For experienced programmers who are just trying to learn a new technology/language, this can be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30341" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T04:56:57.330" />
  <row Id="19595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T04:57:38.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Learn by doing.  SO is great at what it does, it doesn't teach programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132861" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T04:57:38.907" />
  <row Id="19596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T05:00:37.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programming is relatively complex, entry-wise.  Viewing the content on the site without some background will only elicit confusion.  I suggest looking around and finding a good book on a language you want to learn (Java, C++, PHP, etc.)  Go through the primer and get the basics down.  Then, use the language to for a project of your own design, and as you discover the ins-and-outs, use this site to answer complicated questions (but try them yourself first- you'll remember it much better and grasp the language better) as well as just to search for tips on specific things.  A lot of key questions have already been asked, and there are some real jewels lying around, without you having to ask the question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was the long answer.  In short, get a primer, and once you've got the basics, use this site to further your understanding and answer tricky questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags are helpful for seeing questions in a certain category, but many of them will be over your head (though do look; you might gain valuable insight)  Better is to search.  Sometimes, you might be programming &amp;amp; have a question, and other times, you might be reading a book and want more detail.  The search is good for this, but the tags are definitely helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I recommend finding a good mailing list once you get to know the language.  The back-and-forth can also be informative.  But this site is great- a lot of knowledge and good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T05:00:37.483" />
  <row Id="19597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T05:03:39.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. While stackoverflow is an excellent resource you should certainly utilize it is not a replacement for more formalized and structured learning (either in class or experience based forms).  It is definitely a complement to researching specific patterns or problems you are working with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T05:03:39.757" />
  <row Id="19598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T05:03:42.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No I don't think so. Books do have their place and Stack Overflow is best utilised to clear out doubts that you have. It can be seen as a classroom where you can ask your doubts but you still have to study from the books and learn from real life experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T11:34:33.140" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T11:34:33.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T05:03:42.283" />
  <row Id="19599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T05:04:13.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is only a part of a &lt;em&gt;google search engine learn-programming platform&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to use this platform you shall be able to ask questions, which usually come after you have done some initial learning from books, tutorials, hands-on (which may as well be found using &lt;em&gt;SO or google&lt;/em&gt;). Therefore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, SO is not the place where you learn programming, but SO community will help you with the proper resources, if you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136037" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T05:04:13.563" />
  <row Id="19600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T05:07:42.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be aware that most questions here are &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; questions, so hard that a majority of professionals cannot answer them. I cannot imagine how you could use that to learn programming without some experience as frame of reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best bet are those questions tagged &quot;subjective&quot;, those are places where you find collective intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139146" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T05:07:42.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T05:10:31.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO doesn't provide a very narative driven thread through each of it's questions. Replies are sorted via votes not chronology, and the inherent inter-post chatter is severely limited by the commenting system. These choices make actual discussion on subjects rather limited and hard to follow (that's ok though, I'm 100% sure these were deliberate choices, and they work well for what SO is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But an effective platform for studying in general, it aint. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134766" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T05:10:31.853" />
  <row Id="19602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T06:14:07.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, what my piano teacher told me also applies to programming: practice, practice, practice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134749" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T06:14:07.833" />
  <row Id="19603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T06:22:04.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is a very big repository of programming resources. you just need to dig in to see much more. SO is a community. Although most here are developers, you still have to practice what you read here. &lt;strong&gt;Correct&lt;/strong&gt; practice makes perfect. Although perfection is impossible to reach, strive for it. You have to correctly practice what you have read here in the community. Books are the first-level resources you get. SO is like the support you get when you ask for questions regarding what you have read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask a question in SO, drink coffee for 2 minutes, get back and see the magic (answers get pouring in the question). That's why I love SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T06:22:04.077" />
  <row Id="19605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2009-06-24T06:47:53.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is to some degree indeed a great resource to learn more about programming. I don't think it's a good resource to start learning to program software, because some basics are just not discussed here as this is indeed common knowledge for all programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:24:00.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-24T06:47:53.333" />
  <row Id="19606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19254" CreationDate="2009-09-02T09:27:14.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just installed Opera 10.0 and it seems better at the tag editor. Try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:27:14.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14548" CreationDate="2009-09-02T09:30:40.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possible, but our shared function to get the user IP does check some HTTP headers in the case where the reported IP is localhost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:30:40.030" />
  <row Id="19609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19611" CreationDate="2009-09-02T09:35:15.907" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Referring to the consensus in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17660/what-is-the-official-name-of-this-site-meta&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the (HTML) title of this site should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Meta StackOverflow&quot; and not &quot;Meta Stack Overflow&quot; (?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T10:09:42.277" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T10:09:42.277" Title="Meta (HTML) title?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19609" CreationDate="2009-09-02T09:41:39.903" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Incorrect, it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and SO is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T09:41:39.903" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19613" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:15:36.870" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to run some statistics on sign-up rates to StackOverflow (i.e. how the number of new users per week behaves over time). I would like to do that using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sandbox&lt;/a&gt; and not the dump. However, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding%5Fthe%5FStackOverflow%5FDatabase%5FSchema#Users%5FTable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;schema description&lt;/a&gt; I have does not describe the field name for the sign-up date in the Users table. Where is this data kept? (to clarify, I'm referring to the field that results in the &quot;Member for&quot; field in our user-profiles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T10:20:53.397" Title="StackOverflow Sandbox: how can I know a user's &quot;sign-up&quot; date?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;stackoverflow-sandbox&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19612" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:20:53.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the CreationDate field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump&quot;&gt;&quot;Anatomy of a Data Dump&quot;&lt;/a&gt; post for more info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T10:20:53.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19615" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:48:16.573" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would find it very interesting if I was able to sort the questions by user rep. I find that the most interesting questions are asked by people with high reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&#xA;What I meant is to sort them by the reputation of the person that asked them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135247" LastEditorUserId="135247" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T10:54:19.480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T10:54:19.480" Title="Sort questions by user reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19614" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:51:55.583" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be an unfair option to all the other users on the site. There are a lot of smart users with low reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a lot of good questions are asked by low rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By just having the option gives off the impression that there is a correlation between high rep and good questions. And I don't think that is something that SO wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T10:51:55.583" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="19616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:54:05.500" Score="6" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been spending more time reading questions and answers rather than trying to gain rep points (which I am not really good at...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I have been doing recently is looking at highly reputable users and checking out their favorite questions.  It gives me a good insight into different technical areas, that I wouldn't normally stumble across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be really good is that from a list fav users I have selected, I get updates when those users add new fav questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this feature would give a SO user more richer content in terms of learning and understanding questions posed and answered on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134529" LastEditorUserId="134529" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T18:26:37.953" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T18:26:37.953" Title="&quot;Bookmark&quot; other users favorite questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:57:49.707" Score="8" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supposedly, the &lt;strong&gt;Disciplined&lt;/strong&gt; badge is awarded &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;if&lt;/a&gt; one,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deleted own post with 3 or more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I was awarded this badge, without deleting any post myself. However, some question (I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1363397&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;...) to which I posted an answer with four upvotes, was deleted &lt;em&gt;by someone else&lt;/em&gt;. I don't think that I should have received the badge, since it was not me who was disciplined (somebody else made the call).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could also argue that this is intended behavior, but in that case the badge description should be updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Three hours ago Jeff tagged this as &lt;code&gt;status-norepo&lt;/code&gt;. Then Shog9 &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19617/description-of-the-disciplined-badge/23562#23562&quot;&gt;tossed in&lt;/a&gt; an hypothesis. Perhaps we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; reproduce this behavior by following the steps outlined in that post. (Or somebody could just check the source code, but where's the fun in that?!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T06:57:20.860" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T06:57:20.860" Title="Description of the &quot;disciplined&quot; badge" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;disciplined&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19616" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:57:52.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could fall into the &quot;SO is not a social site&quot; pit. But I think there are many things that could be done to improve the functionality of the &quot;fav&quot; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T10:57:52.857" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19616" CreationDate="2009-09-02T10:58:47.723" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Been requested before, in many forms. The consensus is that you should subscribe to their RSS feeds. If you only want their favorite questions, you can get those from: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userfavorites.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=1000&amp;amp;userId=54680&amp;amp;sort=Recent&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userfavorites.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=1000&amp;amp;userId=54680&amp;amp;sort=Recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or in json at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userfavorites.json?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=1000&amp;amp;userId=54680&amp;amp;sort=Recent&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userfavorites.json?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=1000&amp;amp;userId=54680&amp;amp;sort=Recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T10:58:47.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T11:20:07.307" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11438/allow-comments-on-user-profile-pages&quot;&gt;Allow comments on user profile pages.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2586/list-of-comments-on-user-tab&quot;&gt;List of Comments on User Tab&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;add comments in user page (just as there are questions, answers, badges)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T11:20:07.307" ClosedDate="2009-09-02T12:47:42.450" Title="add comments in user page (just as there are questions, answers, badges)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;users&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T11:21:17.567" Score="2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Global.asax is name for application wide file in ASP.NET, however i`m unable to search for it in SO if i don't add additional word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131819" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:19:12.297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:19:40.673" Title="Cannot search for keyword &quot;Global.asax&quot; in SO" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19622" CreationDate="2009-09-02T11:30:57.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to google and type in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;global.asax&quot; site:stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T11:30:57.830" />
  <row Id="19624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74115" CreationDate="2009-09-02T11:32:17.467" Score="16" ViewCount="1436" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at the revisions of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1230618/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1230618/list&lt;/a&gt;, in particular the formatting-related edit I made (edit 2). The formatted text contains spurious newlines and indentation errors (not to speak of the randomly inserted HTML escape sequence). Even deleting the newlines and re-inserting them didn’t help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Minimal&lt;/strong&gt; example that still exhibits the buggy behaviour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Item&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;something&#xA;    foobar&amp;lt;T&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source (displays exactly right):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. Item&#xA;&#xA;        something    &#xA;            foobar&amp;lt;T&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another example&lt;/strong&gt;, from an old posting of mine that &lt;strong&gt;worked&lt;/strong&gt; before, but is now broken:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244959/coalescing-regular-expressions-in-php/248361#248361&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244959/coalescing-regular-expressions-in-php/248361#248361&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how the posting’s source code ends on “&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;amp;&lt;/code&gt;”. Unfortunately, I can’t reproduce this bug here since the code looks fine in preview (click &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/248361/edit/&quot;&gt;“edit”&lt;/a&gt; to look at it there); only the normal display is wrong, suggesting that the server-side Markdown processor has an additional bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T17:06:59.560" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T17:24:42.960" Title="Markdown formatting bug with code blocks in lists" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;whitespace&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19627" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:08:50.780" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to add a search function in my asked questions? It takes considerable amount of time if a user asked a few questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5363" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T16:02:41.697" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:02:41.697" Title="Would it be possible to add a search function in my asked questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19625" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:17:45.537" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this in the regular search box (see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;search options&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:1234 query&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example this is a search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A22459+formatting+sandbox&quot;&gt;some of my stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:22459 formatting sandbox&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use the shorthand for your own questions/answers by replacing the ID with &lt;code&gt;me&lt;/code&gt;, à la:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me feet&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T12:26:29.043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T12:26:29.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19617" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:25:08.000" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are disciplined enough to post here saying that you got a badge you didn't deserve. The Stack Overflow system is intelligent enough to know  that you &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; do this, so it awarded you the badge in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T12:25:08.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19617" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:27:15.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am led to believe that the algorithm is not at all checking who deleted, merely that it was deleted and it met score requirements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the code needs to be updated. I don't see why one should get a badge when someone else deletes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T12:27:15.390" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19588" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:33:57.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have over 3,000 rep, you can vote to close as &quot;Belongs on Meta.StackOverflow.com&quot; or you can send up a moderator flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case the question was already closed, so the only viable option is the flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T12:56:59.997" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T12:56:59.997" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19616" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:39:16.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Attempting to expand on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19616/this-is-a-favourite-user-feature-request/19618#19618&quot;&gt;Ólafur's&lt;/a&gt; excellent answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is and was always designed not to be user-centric but rather 'content centric'. There are often requests that revolve around better ways to watch/interact with other users. However, these all detract from the purpose of the site: &lt;strong&gt;Any user has the ability to provide the perfect answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't want to encourage behaviour that would attach to a single user because it would basically detract from encouraging you to ask/answer questions in the normal way. If I follow Jon Skeet, it's very unlikely that I'm going to go through and find &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answers to those questions. And, I'm taking time away from watching the main feed, where I might actually be able to contribute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I occasionally go through some user's answers because I'm curious and I like their writing style, but I don't think we should be encouraging this behaviour through automation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as mentioned, you can already subscribe to an RSS feed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T12:39:16.897" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:53:54.597" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was my post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362715&quot;&gt;&quot;does anybody can provide me ColdFusion 4.5 version, both server and studio? &quot;&lt;/a&gt;, deleted?????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T13:24:41.843" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:16:45.030" Title="Why was my post about ColdFusion deleted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19632" CreationDate="2009-09-02T12:59:08.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362920/does-anyone-have-coldfusion4-5-server-and-studio-software-closed&quot;&gt;Found it&lt;/a&gt;. And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362715&quot;&gt;other one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These were closed since they are not programming related. But relate to obtaining software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T12:59:08.820" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19632" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:02:04.527" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted them after it attracted a &lt;em&gt;considerable&lt;/em&gt; number of spam flags and moderator flags in a very short space of time. To be honest, it was on the brink of being auto-deleted by the system (spam/offensive flags); I just gave it a small helping nudge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, you are asking people to contact you by e-mail to obtain a copy of software that you should &lt;em&gt;buy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:02:04.527" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19632" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:02:29.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you were asking for was also sort of illegal in these here United States. Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr%5Fnr%5Fi%5F1?rh=i%3Asoftware,k%3Acoldfusion+4.5&amp;amp;keywords=coldfusion+4.5&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1251814423&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;searching Amazon&lt;/a&gt; to find it (one of your posts had that as an answer), and then, you know, fracking buy the damned thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:02:29.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19637" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:02:58.503" Score="-2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure that this issue was already raised, but I can't remember the answer. What should I do when I see a question that can be very quickly googled, and it is obvious that the person asking didn't put any effort into asking the question? E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1367549/thread-safety-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1367549/thread-safety-in-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5363" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T13:37:15.483" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:37:15.483" Title="Easily googlable questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19636" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:03:45.677" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You google it, and then answer it. Google should be replaced with SO as the go-to-place for answers regarding programming issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stackoverflow is a massive wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stackoverflow is a peer-review system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stackoverflow consists of thousands of professional developers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow can manage answers, correct them, sort them by accuracy, and more. That isn't the case with google-results. Ergo, Stackoverflow is the better choice for any question, regardless how easy or difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:03:45.677" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19632" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:04:25.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow.  I checked eBay and the oldest ColdFusion I could find was version 7 (it's up to 9 or 10 now). Even that was over $1700.  No wonder no one uses it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:04:25.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19636" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:04:37.843" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all. Do not link to &quot;let me google that for you&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, kindly point to links on the subject. Don't put in to much effort in creating an elaborate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:04:37.843" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19636" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:06:27.513" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google is not always the solution. Feel free to google for C# Thread Safety and witness the amount of crap you get - some results are totally wrong (pretty much anything around the use of volatile...) or otherwise unhelpful, and for someone who doesn't know about this topic, it's hard (if not impossible) to find the good ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:06:27.513" />
  <row Id="19641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19632" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:07:16.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're asking people whose salaries are paid through software licensing fees to help you steal software. You might as well just ask for donations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:07:16.183" />
  <row Id="19642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19636" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:07:45.183" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Repeat after me, kids:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're building a canonical archive of programming answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/canonical&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Canonical&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:07:45.183" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="19643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19636" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:10:06.710" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire idea of StackOverflow is to provide a source where when someone types something into Google, StackOverflow is the first thing that comes up in terms of programming questions. It would look awfully silly for the #1 hit on Google to point to a question where the answer was &quot;Google It!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:10:06.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19636" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:10:18.783" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this: Google the topic. If a (sufficiently similar) SO question appears in the first page of results, then close it as a dupe. Otherwise, it's a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:10:18.783" />
  <row Id="19645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:15:14.030" Score="6" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to clean up comments on migrated questions?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This belongs on ServerFault&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Delete this as dupe&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Duplicate question here [link]&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question's been migrated, and the duplicate question has been merged/deleted.  Am I going to be stomping in anyone's Cheerios if I delete these comments?  And if so, are they legitimate Cheerios?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:36:26.187" Title="Cleaning up comments from migrated questions" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:16:30.957" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17033/why-dont-tag-feeds-work-with-operas-feed-reader&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;rsquo;t tag feeds work with Opera&amp;rsquo;s feed-reader?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the RSS feeds (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/USERID&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/USERID&lt;/a&gt;) are sent with &lt;strong&gt;wrong header&lt;/strong&gt;. They are sent as &lt;code&gt;text/html&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;text/xml&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;application/xml&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;application/rss+xml&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it have a reason? I think it's a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134191" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T23:50:13.283" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T23:50:13.283" ClosedDate="2009-09-02T14:33:20.520" Title="RSS feeds have wrong mime types" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19645" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:17:00.377" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually kinda like the idea of giving a migrated-question a fresh-start at its new location. Seeing a bunch of negative comments kind of sets the initial impression of the question, which is understandable for its first location, but kind of counter-productive after migration has taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:17:00.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19645" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:22:33.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I can understand that question askers are happy that their questions are migrated without any penalty for not reading the FAQ, it actually bothers me &lt;em&gt;a tiny bit&lt;/em&gt;. I'd simply close them, hide them, let the question asker learn from it. I even see quite a few questions that have been migrated after which the questioner has not even taken the time to merge the user accounts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, given the policy to migrate the questions, I have &lt;em&gt;a little&lt;/em&gt; preference to at least leave the history of comments for a few days more, though I know it messes up things. It gives people who answer some insight about the person who asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or maybe the comments should not be migrated, and left at the first site for reference?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:22:33.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19645" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:36:26.187" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there have been cases in the past where I had to move manually from one site to another and I had mod privileges on the destination (for example, moving to Meta from SuperUser or from Meta to SuperUser) I would tend to clear out most of the comments, especially those that are just screaming about dupes and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't necessarily say that we need to auto-clear everything because there may be the chance that good comments are lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think it would be a better idea for the moderators of each site to be able to receive some type of notification, or a list of recently migrated questions. This would allow a human to go in and clean it up if necessary and not have to rely on an overly generalized mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:36:26.187" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19646" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:47:30.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17033/why-dont-tag-feeds-work-with-operas-feed-reader&quot;&gt;Blame it on IIS7&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:47:30.597" />
  <row Id="19651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19656" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:49:05.880" Score="0" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we answer questions in SO, the person who asked the question has the capability to select which answer solved his/her problem or was most helpful.&#xA;I wonder if SO could implement a similar methodology for asking the right questions.&#xA;I remember the old adage &quot;An answer may not be right but a question is always right&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T14:09:02.097" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:39:25.640" Title="Right answer but no Right Question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19565" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:51:58.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also have had problems resolving meta.stackoverflow.com, blog.stackoverflow.com and www.stackoverflow.com (just tried it) over last couple of days.  Doing some &lt;em&gt;digging&lt;/em&gt; it would appear that one of the listed authoritative name servers (dns.jomax.net) for stackoverflow.com is not resolvable.... the other is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[1063]$ host www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;Host www.stackoverflow.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)&#xA;&#xA;[1064] dig www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&#xA;; &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; DiG 9.4.1-P1 &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;;; global options:  printcmd&#xA;;; Got answer:&#xA;;; -&amp;gt;&amp;gt;HEADER&amp;lt;&amp;lt;- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 33176&#xA;;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0&#xA;&#xA;;; QUESTION SECTION:&#xA;;www.stackoverflow.com.         IN      A&#xA;&#xA;;; AUTHORITY SECTION:&#xA;stackoverflow.com.      10800   IN      SOA     ns51.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net. 2009090200 28800 7200 604800 86400&#xA;&#xA;# some output trimmed&#xA;&#xA;[1065] dig @ns51.domaincontrol.com www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&#xA;; &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; DiG 9.4.1-P1 &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; @ns51.domaincontrol.com www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;; (1 server found)&#xA;;; global options:  printcmd&#xA;;; Got answer:&#xA;;; -&amp;gt;&amp;gt;HEADER&amp;lt;&amp;lt;- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14243&#xA;;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0&#xA;&#xA;;; QUESTION SECTION:&#xA;;www.stackoverflow.com.         IN      A&#xA;&#xA;;; ANSWER SECTION:&#xA;www.stackoverflow.com.  86400   IN      CNAME   stackoverflow.com.&#xA;stackoverflow.com.      86400   IN      A       69.59.196.211&#xA;&#xA;;; AUTHORITY SECTION:&#xA;stackoverflow.com.      3600    IN      NS      ns51.domaincontrol.com.&#xA;stackoverflow.com.      3600    IN      NS      ns52.domaincontrol.com.&#xA;&#xA;# some output trimmed&#xA;&#xA;[1066] dig @dns.jomax.net www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;dig: couldn't get address for 'dns.jomax.net': not found&#xA;&#xA;[1067] host dns.jomax.net&#xA;Host dns.jomax.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:51:58.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19651" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:53:21.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;An answer may not be right but a question is always right&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't that demonstrate that there's no need to encourage &quot;right&quot; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:53:21.833" />
  <row Id="19654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19651" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:53:34.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would it work, exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, popular questions (that is, those voted up) are relatively easy to find. Questions with a lot of activity are easy to find. I'm not sure what this would really accomplish, nor even how to implement it in a way that doesn't make finding less-popular questions harder/impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:53:34.033" />
  <row Id="19655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19651" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:54:16.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure what anyone can really say about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is &quot;the right question?&quot; Is this some type of contrived method of awarding someone for &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; posting a completely garbage question? Don't we already generally do that by upvoting the question itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point in this or how it would be useful or beneficial at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:54:16.417" />
  <row Id="19656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19651" CreationDate="2009-09-02T13:58:25.177" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think up/down voting serves this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T13:58:25.177" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19632" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:16:45.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the request was for an illegal version of ColdFusion or a request for an abandoned version of ColdFusion. I've used ColdFusion myself in the past, somewhere in 200, right before MacroMedia took over Allaire. Version 4.5 would be about 10 years old now, so you could wonder if people are still supposed to pay for it's license... &#xA;Now MacroMedia is owned by Adobe, which just adds another company as owner. And things have changed a bit ever since. Adove is giving away CF 8.0 for free for development purposes only at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html&lt;/a&gt; and no, that's the official site, not some illegal crack! Now, if the question was about such a developer version, but then an older version number, the question would be perfectly legal, although a bit spamlike...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an antique version of ColdFusion, best thing to do is to contact Adobe and ask them if they can provide you such an antique version. Or be happy with the &lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt; 8.0 version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:16:45.030" />
  <row Id="19658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13702" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:17:56.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have this problem periodically when I'm entering tags, but after the question posts, I'm unable to reproduce the issue.  Happens with IE7.  From time to time, it'll replace the first tag with the one I've tabbed to select.  Wish I had more info but it's very sporadic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:17:56.463" />
  <row Id="19659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19772" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:19:05.493" Score="12" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a few more advanced search filters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;maximum question votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;maximum views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;maximum answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;date ranges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;minimum asker rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing search filters are a promising start, but &lt;strong&gt;more options required!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3712" LastEditorUserId="3712" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T14:43:31.433" LastActivityDate="2011-05-01T18:37:08.887" Title="Search filters by minimum rep, maximum views, maximum answers, etc" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19659" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:26:23.047" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep is a cumulative value from all of a user's activities; if the questions they are asking are in topics they aren't experts in (or are just curiousities) then they're no better than a user with no rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen lots of Q's and A's from user's with several thousand rep points that are on par with any beginner question.  For your intended use rep would need to be topic-specific: &quot;Show me questions related to Widgets where OP's Widget Rep &gt; 5000&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:26:23.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19659" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:37:34.177" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here to learn from asking &amp;amp; answering questions.  Seeing more content cluttering up the site with the sole purpose of encouraging gaming of the system would only serve to push me away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to give the impression that your feature requests are invalid, I'm just not sure they're in line with the goals of the site(s) (obviously I can't speak for Jeff/Joel, hence the uncertain phrasing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you can get what you're after by filtering to only show questions tagged with more advanced topics.  I'm not sure that rep-gaming gimmicks are going to keep anyone around long-term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:37:34.177" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19651" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:39:25.640" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand the question, I think there are two ways to approach this.  The current way is to have votes on a question mark it's &quot;usefulness&quot; or, as you put it, whether it is the &quot;right question.&quot;  This is more or less successful, though people tend to find fun questions more useful than programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to measure this is the count of how many people have bookmarked a question as their favorite.  Marking a question as a favorite means &quot;This is valuable enough to me that I want to easily find it.&quot;  You can easily see how many people have &quot;favorited&quot; a question by looking at the count under the star below the question's vote count.  It may be useful to be able to sort questions by the count of people who have marked them as a favorite, but I'd need to be convinced that this doesn't mirror the vote count before I'd be in favor of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:39:25.640" />
  <row Id="19665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:52:04.383" Score="14" ViewCount="507" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is SO's long-term solution for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/pages/vampires&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Help Vampire&lt;/a&gt; problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from article follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Identifying Help Vampires can be tricky, because they look like any ordinary person (or internet user, whichever is lesser). But by closely observing an individual's behavior using this handy checklist, you too can identify Help Vampires in the field:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does he ask the same, tired questions others ask (at a rate of once or more per minute)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does he clearly lack the ability or inclination to ask the almighty Google?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does he refuse to take the time to ask coherent, specific questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does he think helping him must be the high point of your day?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does he get offensive, as if you need to prove to him why he should use Ruby on Rails?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is he obviously just waiting for some poor, well-intentioned person to do all his thinking for him?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Can you tell he really isn't interested in having his question answered, so much as getting someone else to do his work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3712" LastEditorUserId="3712" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T14:58:19.267" LastActivityDate="2011-04-16T07:32:14.353" Title="The Help Vampire problem" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vampire&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:55:49.383" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are viewing a list of questions you can click on a tag and it will filter the questions further by the tag that you've selected.  It would be nice if you could exclude a question with a particular tag in the same way using an alternative click -- double-click, click right mouse button, ctrl-click -- on that tag in the tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATED:  based on @random's answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding the [-] interface element may be a better solution since it exposes the interface in an obvious way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T15:37:58.843" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:37:58.843" Title="Use alternative click or UI element to exclude tags when viewing questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19665" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:56:43.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt; option. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, more seriously, the ability of users to vote on/edit/close content. In theory, this should end up either teaching someone how to ask questions or driving them away if they clearly are not getting it. Notice I say &lt;em&gt;in theory&lt;/em&gt;. It remains to be seen how well it works &lt;em&gt;in practice&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T14:56:43.653" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T14:58:06.070" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you filter a set of questions by a tag, the special tags: status-declined, status-completed, etc. does not show up with the CSS that differentiates them from other tags (i.e., they have the same coloring as the other tags).  Note I'm talking about the &quot;related&quot; tags display, not the &quot;chosen&quot; tags display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T04:58:30.023" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T04:58:30.023" Title="Tag display does not show special tag CSS when filtering by tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19665" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:01:29.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wiki-ability to questions/answers. The voting. The power to close, delete, and migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That in mind, a few help-vampires aren't that bad. Think of it like leech-treatment. Having them hanging around for a while, sucking help out, will benefit the community in that it gets many more questions answered. Often times, the questions are simple ones which will attract new programmers to the site. As long as we clean up the questions, and provide great answers, all is well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:01:29.777" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19791" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:03:03.267" Score="9" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: In their answers to this question, Michael Pryor and Joel Spolsky have fully informed us on how StackExchange is being rolled out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;--------------------&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an answer to another question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19315/now-it-is-sep-1st-where-is-the-stackexchange&quot; title=&quot;Now it is Sep 1st, where is the stackexchange?&quot;&gt;Now it is Sep 1st, where is the stackexchange?&lt;/a&gt;, StackExchange developer Michael Pryor delivered a disappointing blow to those of us who have been putting a lot of work into preparing our StackExchange projects, revealing that StackExchange has already been launched as a closed beta, giving preferential treatment to 10 applicants.  The rest of us have received not even so much as an email confirming that our application has been received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would not be so bad if we had been given a warning from the start that it would be an unequal system.  My original understanding was that the race to establish successful communities would be wide open and that success in a particular subject area would come down to the merit of our implementation and the support we give our users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, it seems that a valuable headstart is being handed to a golden circle of applicants and anyone hoping to cover the same subject area will have to compete against their entrenched position.  No indication has been given of how much later the rest of us will be given the go-ahead.  Those of us who took Fog Creek's promise that &quot;StackExchange will be available by September 1st&quot; at face value, and kept September free to devote to our StackExchange project, are now left completely at sea, with not even the slightest hint of how we should reschedule.  This is, by any measure, pretty shabby behavior on Fog Creek's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know if the select applicants were chosen because they are friends or existing customers of Fog Creek, or if they rose to the top by selecting the most expensive subscription option on the sign-up form - personally, I chose the lowest, $129 level because I have no idea how fast my community will grow but I would have chosen a more expensive level if I knew that it would make the difference between an early start and a delay that could scupper my chances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I do know is that, for all the talk of being open and fair, we are not being treated equally and we were only told about this AFTER the lucky few had already been given their golden tickets.  StackExchange is only starting out, is this really how it is going to be?  Are those of us who don't know the right people always going to be struggling against favoritism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133554" LastEditorUserId="133554" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T14:49:38.107" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:49:38.107" Title="Are Some StackExchangers More Equal Than Others?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;private-beta&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19665" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:04:21.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he ask the same, tired questions others ask (at a rate of once or more per minute)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close as dupes. If reposting repeatedly, flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he clearly lack the ability or inclination to ask the almighty Google? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a dupe, close it. Otherwise, answer it and enjoy the easy rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he refuse to take the time to ask coherent, specific questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote down or edit to clarify when possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he think helping him must be the high point of your day? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he get offensive, as if you need to prove to him why he should use Ruby on Rails? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag when offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is he obviously just waiting for some poor, well-intentioned person to do all his thinking for him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help him if you like and enjoy your upvotes. He'll get what's coming to him in the long run. You cannot thrive on this kind of personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can you tell he really isn't interested in having his question answered, so much as getting someone else to do his work? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If his question is really that vague, then just downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:04:21.113" />
  <row Id="19673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19665" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:04:59.037" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the linked page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he ask the same, tired questions others ask (at a rate of once or more per minute)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close as duplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag for admin attention if it's really bad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he clearly lack the ability or inclination to ask the almighty Google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is not a problem here.  If the question is not in SO and it is programming related, it is a valid question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The goal is for the top Google hit to be an SO question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he refuse to take the time to ask coherent, specific questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote down the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close it if it's really bad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alternatively, edit the post into something comprehensible if it can be salvaged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he think helping him must be the high point of your day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Well, if you get rep from it, shouldn't it be?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does he get offensive, as if you need to prove to him why he should use Ruby on Rails?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Well if he's not currently using RoR, and you're saying he needs to, you should provide some explanation, right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is he obviously just waiting for some poor, well-intentioned person to do all his thinking for him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Well, if it might benefit someone somewhere else, who cares?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think it's particularly egregious, then downvote him or flag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can you tell he really isn't interested in having his question answered, so much as getting someone else to do his work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to teach him something anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a good question, who cares.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a bad question, downvote or vote to close.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T17:57:06.423" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T17:57:06.423" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T17:57:06.423" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19671" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:05:29.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a business. Businesses are not required to meet other's expectations with regard to fairness. Regardless I can understand your disappointment. I think however that corresponding directly with Jeff/Joel would be a better way to express it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T15:14:42.777" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:14:42.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19665" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:11:18.697" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One concept of SO that is often overlooked is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions and answers are here to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, it might be just a question by someone lazy who needs someone else to do his thinking. Tomorrow, someone else having a similar problem might find this question through google. By now, the question has been edited to be more readable and concise, and there are many answers, sorted by their votes (even if not having been accepted), so the second guy has found a good place for solutions to his problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vampire might be long gone, but the second guy is happy. That's the purpose of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:11:18.697" />
  <row Id="19678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19671" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:11:42.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Beta phase means that it is not ready for production, and as such, it is entirely up to the developers to choose who/what will constitute the beta phase. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you have purchased from them is a service. You have not contracted them for any development, which means you are not expected to have input on the development. Once you have received the service, you are free to contact their support in order to have any grievances addressed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser are alos essentially beta phases of StackExchange. You are free to use those sites (as I'm sure you do) and then report any of your findings on MetaStackOverflow. Beyond that, it should not be assumed that you can purchase your way into becoming a beta user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:11:42.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19668" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:11:46.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have seen this when entering the highlighted tags in the interesting/ignore list. They come up as bland samey-samey. Won't flash their wares and coat of difference until you reload the page or move away from the page you're on while you're adding tags to your interest/ignore list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:11:46.107" />
  <row Id="19681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19671" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:18:08.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the whole &quot;this is unfair&quot; deal when it comes to people wanting to set up sites using StackExchange. I don't see services like Dreamhost getting hammered because there may be multiple websites hosted at their data centers that all cater to baseball card enthusiasts, so why should Fog Creek and the StackExchange service need to be concerned with what you want to use it for and who you may be potentially competing with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:18:08.993" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19666" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:32:16.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about instead of trying to play around with the mouse, something like a little icon next to the tag that would be the exclusion version, the one with the minus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tags&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[tags]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ×95 &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/-tags&quot;&gt;[-]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[discussion]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ×83 &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/-discussion&quot;&gt;[-]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/questions&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[questions]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ×76 &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/-questions&quot;&gt;[-]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:32:16.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:34:25.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't find Best Practices subjective. If they are the best, there is an ordering of quality. The ordering of quality is based upon a quality metric. &quot;Crashes less&quot;, &quot;Higher probability of flaw&quot;. These are not subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T15:34:25.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-02T15:34:25.653" />
  <row Id="19689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T15:46:36.753" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a small bug when on stack overflow.  These are the steps to reproduce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go into a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;while posting a comment, have an update about an answer being posted come up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the notification to update it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finish posting comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigate away from question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get an alert asking if you want to abandon your edits on the page.&#xA;Like I said, small bug... just thought you would like to know.  If not, then feel free to tell me to shut my stupid mouth and close this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135261" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:21:01.330" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:21:01.330" Title="Answer has been posted update bug (Not really a big deal)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19692" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:03:00.480" Score="-4" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a couple of questions (admittedly by the same user) that are obvious (to me) attempts at &quot;rep-whoring&quot;.  Should this be added as a reason to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1368521/what-is-the-difference-between-dll-extension-and-exe-extension-files&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1368521/what-is-the-difference-between-dll-extension-and-exe-extension-files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1363509/difference-between-vb-and-vb-net-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1363509/difference-between-vb-and-vb-net-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:56:02.383" Title="New reason to close - blatant rep-gain" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="19691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:04:40.820" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would seem that these attempts to allegedly gain rep failed. In all honesty, I don't mind somebody attempting to rep-gain with a legitimate question. If they try with anything else, they won't succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about motive. Just focus on the legitimacy of the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:04:40.820" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:07:02.763" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a good question, there's no reason to close. If it's not, close as not-a-real-question or whatever or simply downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt; the question was asked doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:07:02.763" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:08:05.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with closing the question because of a blatant attempt to gain rep. For example the difference between a DLL &amp;amp; EXE may be very helpful to some people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[EDIT]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that if the question is useful then it should be upvoted, if the answer is useful, then it too should be upvoted. They should be voted on just like you would any other question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&#xA;I however don't think that this user should gain any rep from the answer, like Joel mentioned in a comment on the second question it is &quot;good etiquette on SO to make your answer (not the question) community wiki.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we should request this user make their answer CW, and vote according to whether we believe the question is good or not, not based on their intention to game rep.&#xA;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T16:56:02.383" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:56:02.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:09:59.950" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Were these questions not real questions?  Were they off topic?  Did they belong on another SO family site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why vote these questions and answers down?  If it wasn't a DUPE, there is no reason to close it.  The downvotes seem fraudulent if you follow the reasons for a down vote from others in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pathetic attempt at limiting someone's ability to use the site.  It wasn't even misuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:09:59.950" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:10:28.280" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A better reason to close is that they duplicate existing questions. That's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; a good reason to close...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:10:28.280" />
  <row Id="19696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:17:13.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems their efforts have gained them a total of 10 rep between those two questions. I think we can all sleep easier tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, if questions are duplicates they'll be closed. If the questions are good they'll be upvoted. Frankly, asking questions is a pretty crappy way of gaining rep. It's far, far easier and quicker writing answers to gain rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:17:13.430" />
  <row Id="19697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:17:32.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No matter how obvious it is, 99% of the time, we can not confirm (unless stated) the motive of the asker. Those are legit questions no matter how simple they may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assumptions never go over well and just lead to problems.  I say we just let the up/downvote system do its job.  If there are problems, just flag. Mods are always there (or eventualy) to save the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:17:32.713" />
  <row Id="19698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:18:14.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it adds something to the site, i don't see why it's a bad thing. Both the linked questions are incredibly simple, and very newbie, but it seems that's about it. Perhaps the exe/dll one is a little rep-whorey, since he answered it himself, but it's still adding to the knowledge on the site. Downvote it and move on (though personally i wouldn't vote at all) - i garuntee a lot of people have asked that question at some point, and lots more will again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the vb.net question, i'm actually saddened that got closed - even if it was a little vague i certainly asked that question to people a long time ago, it takes a certain amount of knowledge to understand what the difference is. Show a non-programmer the wiki article for what .NET is as very little of it would be unerstood. Now the answer the guy posted to his question was terrible, and should rightly be downvoted, but the question itself was actually kind of semi-decent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, i think if they're adding something worthwhile to the site, then rep-whoring isn't necessarily bad. A reward for your contribution. Of course, if you make a habit of populating the entire front page with this stuff then i'd downvote it to hell, but i see no issue with a little knowledge being spread just because they discovered something they asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that is horrible, will be horrible for other reasons than because it's &quot;for rep gain&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94131" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:18:14.240" />
  <row Id="19699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19690" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:20:06.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first question was closed as a dupe and the second was closed because it was poorly worded and vague (although it's just 2 votes shy of reopening).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:20:06.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:21:33.953" Score="-3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to the answers given in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19690/new-reason-to-close-blatant-rep-gain&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than force or request users to mark their answers as Community Wiki when they attempt to answer their own question, lets just not count those answers toward rep at all. All other respondents, votes, editing abilities and badges function as normal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:48:59.700" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-02T16:55:24.117" Title="Do not calculate rep gained or lost for answers to your own question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:22:48.193" Score="4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1368644/patenting-an-idea-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; which is apparently not software related. So, I wanted to delete it. Then I get &quot;To allow for possible reopening, you may delete in 2 days.&quot; Now, I am geting downvotes since it's not software related. WTF!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131994" LastEditorUserId="139837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T20:34:08.633" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T20:34:08.633" Title="To allow for possible reopening, you may delete in 2 days" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19700" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:23:57.113" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think users should be withheld rep for answering their own questions. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1330250/determine-current-controller-in-use-for-kohana&quot;&gt;I asked a question a couple weeks ago&lt;/a&gt;, and didn't receive a good answer. So after some study, I answered it myself. Fortunately, I received some up-votes from others who apparently found my study to be helpful. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1309383/extending-the-template-controller-in-kohana&quot;&gt;This has happened more than one&lt;/a&gt;. Actually, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1271630/kohana-editing-cache-doesnt-reflect-in-view&quot;&gt;it happens a lot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related FAQ:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T16:30:07.540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:30:07.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:27:55.407" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention and ask to have it deleted. That'll circumvent the 2 day wait and you'll regain any lost rep on the next rep recalc. Or you can explicitly request a rep recalc with the same flag for moderator attention approach (but ask nicely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:27:55.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19700" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:28:16.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's a good idea, if they're contributing something useful to the site, they should get rep for it - unless they simply spam 100 questions+answers in which case they'd likely be downvoted into oblivion anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about creating a repository of knowledge, if would be a shame for a really good answer to a problem somebody had wasn't posted because the person who found the answer was the origional poster - being able to get rep is a good way to invite people to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a feature where if people answer too many of their own questions that account alone gets the penalty where they no longer gain rep would be appropriate if it turned out to be a spam issue, but beyond that i don't think there's a ton of merit to the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94131" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:28:16.200" />
  <row Id="19705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:28:50.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit to make it community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:28:50.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19018" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:38:02.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following this idea, we could think about some particular tag blocks, when not matching to the site. Ok, I can't think of many ones, but one which occured to me as obvious is &lt;strong&gt;[video-games]&lt;/strong&gt; (or even &lt;strong&gt;[games]&lt;/strong&gt;), on SuperUser.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this one has precisely stated in the FAQ that question should be &lt;strong&gt;not video-games related&lt;/strong&gt;, for sure no one should use such tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:38:02.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19710" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:44:00.223" Score="5" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will Stack Exchange hosting include the functions found on the jobs.StackOverflow.com pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping it will become an important part of our community and &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; attractive to our demographic. And, of course, the income potential will surely help our site become successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T18:05:28.250" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:05:28.250" Title="Will Stack Exchange hosting include jobs.stackoverflow.com-type functionality?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19700" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:48:59.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO actually encourages you to answer your own question.  If your answer is the best, you can accept it and not get any points -- i.e., you can't award yourself points. But, if others find your answer useful, why should you be not get reputation from it?  You can't force others to upvote your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:48:59.700" />
  <row Id="19710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19707" CreationDate="2009-09-02T16:52:58.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.  The job board will not be part of StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T16:52:58.117" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17509" CreationDate="2009-09-02T17:07:59.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if most of us don't do law, there might be some of us who are interested in IT related laws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that different countries has different laws on IT issues, but there are similarities, and in some cases, like in the EU, there are central laws which are dictated in all EU countries. Also, the country-specific laws can provide information for visitors from the same country, and maybe a pointer for other nationalities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing is to supply facts as much as possible, and not guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:07:59.863" />
  <row Id="19712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19671" CreationDate="2009-09-02T17:17:49.347" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I apologize for any confusion and I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.  The best way to let us know of any questions/comments is to contact us via &lt;a href=&quot;http://contact.fogcreek.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://contact.fogcreek.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:17:49.347" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19671" CreationDate="2009-09-02T17:20:40.463" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've an ounce of experience in the software development game then you'll know that product delivery rarely runs absolutely on schedule. If you had a proposition that was solely relying on Stack Exchange being available on time then you need to start managing your expectations a bit more. After all this is the software business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a new service and unless you had a signed agreement with Fog Creek about them delivering this offering on time then you have no reason to complain. I too have an idea for a Stack Exchange site I've been working on, but I certainly didn't raise my expectations to the point that it'd be available bang on time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember the number of new online services (MMORG's, office type tools, collaboration tools, etc) that have announced prospective go-live dates and missed them because of one reason or another. I didn't expect Stack Exchange to be any different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:20:40.463" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19715" CreationDate="2008-09-19T05:50:37.937" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, I was just reading a question on &quot;What's the best WTF you've seen?&quot; and it was tagged as &quot;assembler c c++ c#&quot;. Similarly you often see questions about a particular algorithm where the answer should be language agnostic (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69262/is-there-an-easy-way-in-net-to-get-st-nd-rd-and-th-endings-for-numbers&quot;&gt;this one about ordinal numbers&lt;/a&gt;), but it's tagged with the language which the OP cares about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also means that when people are scanning through the questions they might pass over a particular question because it's tagged with something which they don't know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers which have surfaced are language agnostic, should the question be retagged so to reflect this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" Title="Should I remove tags which don't seem appropriate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="8" />
  <row Id="19715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T05:52:04.173" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the tags don't suit the question - change them.  Add, delete, rename - whatever is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is more agnostic, just add to the tags.  I wouldn't delete so much then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1057" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" />
  <row Id="19716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T05:52:57.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think yes. The question itself must be completely language agnostic. If it says &quot;What's the best Ruby WTF you've seen?&quot; then of course it should be tagged with the &quot;Ruby&quot; tag. If it's vague and doesn't specify any language, remove any language related tag. I think it's fair. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154216" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T05:55:29.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In spite of the fact that many people dislike when someone intrudes to their questions, I think that community members should actively fight with inappropriate tags. Otherwise site will be clogged with tons of tags pointing to random stuffs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T06:14:13.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using your examples.  For the WTF thread, I would remove language tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your ordinal numbers thread, I would leave a .net related tag, since the question was specific to .net and I might add tags for a specific language if there is a useful example shown in another language, besides the one mentioned in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if a basic concept is being demonstrated, an generic-algorithm tag of some sort could be applied in addition to the language tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, if I have selected a language tag, I want to find language specific topics.  In otherwords I want to see code for that language or it to be a question about that language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@nickf (Reply to comment) I don't think it would cause redundancy, since I am advocating for tagging based on the content of the questions and answers.  Psuedocode code be the generic-algorithm tag, I mentioned.  As I laid it out, you could easily have an generic how do I do this, with examples in mutliple languages and a tag for each language or a how do I do this in a specific language question, tagged with the specific language tag and even possibly other language tags if good examples are shown in the thread.  Tags should reflect the content regardless of the question and answers.  It is an site ettiquette issue, not a tag issue if redundant language specific questions are frowned on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T07:23:59.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags should closely relate to the &lt;strong&gt;content&lt;/strong&gt; of the question, not attributes of the question (with a few minor exceptions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;subjective&quot; is a waste of time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;polls&quot; is fine, people may search for these discussional points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;setting-xml-attributes&quot; would be bad, but &quot;xml&quot; and/or &quot;xmlserialization&quot; would be good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep it relevant, they are there to &lt;strong&gt;organize&lt;/strong&gt; not &lt;strong&gt;identify&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142924" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" />
  <row Id="19720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T07:54:38.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Rob Cooper is damn right! Tags are not funny little things. It's a way to &lt;strong&gt;organize&lt;/strong&gt; information into &lt;strong&gt;different categories&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, lets talk about &quot;subjective&quot; stuffs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of tagging questions as &quot;subjective&quot; and attract evil moderators, mark it &quot;discussion&quot;. Discussions are not welcome according to site's FAQ and J&amp;amp;J podcasts/blog posts. But it seems to be impossible to fight with this phenomena effectively. Mark your intentions clearly. If you want to discuss, make it clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;very important&lt;/strong&gt; feature's coming - &lt;strong&gt;tag filters&lt;/strong&gt;! Finally we will be able to sort things out. Instead of immediately killing open-ended subjective question just mark it &quot;discussion&quot; and voilà people will be able to filter off-topic stuff out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we maintain signal-to-noise ratio if people will tag things with everything that comes to they mind?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I encountered tag &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/3&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. What the hell is that supposed to mean?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dear SO users please be responsible. Think twice before tagging anything.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157566" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T09:28:28.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for useless tags deletions, and negative voted questions should lead to question dismissal after being human-analysed by you guys.&#xA;... I know that because my first activity over here was a subjective non-programming VBA question, that got voted down, and I was politely asked to read the FAQ (the not frequently read questions&amp;amp;answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" />
  <row Id="19722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19714" CreationDate="2008-09-19T13:52:17.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag input has an autocomplete feature.  It helps to pay attention to the hints it provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:23:48.490" />
  <row Id="19731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-02T16:25:25.223" Score="6" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the answers might not be the best or the question really doesn't have an answer, if none are upvoted or the person doesn't accept an answer, they sit and sit in the unanswered page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases which do have realistic answers, I've been voting up the best. Even if I combine the best answers into a better one, the questioners aren't upvoting, accepting or closing the questions anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T11:24:42.370" Title="Is simply upvoting the best answers to old questions the best way to get them off the unaswered list?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19731" CreationDate="2008-10-02T16:28:10.460" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way is to put a better answer on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second best way is the evaluate the answers - if any of them are good then vote them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are no good existing answers and you don't have the experience to give a good answer, but there is probably a good answer out there, then don't do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are no good answers, and you have the experience to determine there are no good answers, post an answer saying so and wait a day or two to see if it gets upvoted.  If it doesn't then close the question as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; so it falls off that list.  If someone else wants to add to it later they can open it, or post in the comments to ask that it be opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:25:50.267" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19731" CreationDate="2008-10-02T16:37:49.547" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem is the varied user base. Some people are here frequently and know all about the system, but others are here just to get a solution to a task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first group will mark and answer correct, while often the second group never will, since by the time they have verified correctness, they feel they are done for the moment with the site and won't come back to give credit, either due to lack of interest or lack of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I would say that if there is already a pretty good answer that hasn't been marked correct, then there isn't too much that can be done, likely the person who asked the question isn't going to mark one correct regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:25:50.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19735" CreationDate="2008-09-27T16:32:04.673" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Where Can I Find Additional Help?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question that's not answered by the FAQ. What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:44:38.793" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T19:41:03.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-02T20:10:47.070" Title="Where can I find additional help?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19734" CreationDate="2008-09-27T16:32:25.140" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always post a question on meta; that's what it's there for! For network-wide issues, ask here on Meta Stack Overflow. For site-specific questions, ask on the site's own meta (just add &lt;code&gt;meta.&lt;/code&gt; to the beginning of the site's URL).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a less formal approach, you can use chat. Many sites have a &quot;contact a mod&quot;-style chatroom. For Stack Overflow, use &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;; for Meta Stack Overflow, use &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;; and for other sites, use &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://chat.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an unofficial Stack Overflow IRC channel at &lt;code&gt;#stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt; on &lt;code&gt;irc.freenode.net&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;irc://irc.freenode.net/stackoverflow&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you can always contact the Stack Exchange team at &lt;code&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;.  There is no documentation as to what questions should be directed there, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-13T19:41:03.237" LastActivityDate="2011-07-13T19:41:03.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-27T16:32:25.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19734" CreationDate="2008-09-27T16:35:56.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's always the contact info at the bottom of the page.  I believe it is team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134869" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:26:20.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19739" CreationDate="2008-11-02T15:45:05.387" Score="16" ViewCount="983" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;Community user&lt;/a&gt; on the user page.  It also seems to edit posts sometimes.  What is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why has it downvoted over 1800 times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Related&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot; title=&quot;cw&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T07:52:59.910" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T17:13:27.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-02T15:45:25.353" Title="Who is the Community user?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19738" CreationDate="2008-11-02T15:45:11.533" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Who is the &quot;Community&quot; User?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An automated user agent, not a real person. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;Its profile&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi, I'm not really a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a background process that helps keep [Meta] [Stack Overflow / Server Fault / Super User] clean!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Own community questions and answers so nobody gets unnecessary reputation from them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Randomly poking old &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unanswered&lt;/a&gt; questions might make its name appear as the last editor of a question, but only in some overviews, not in the question itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100508-jmqkw2ym1thcdmhta6qkhirai4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Poked to get some edition; not a real edit&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why it has so many downvotes is because it owns all of the downvotes of deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="147647" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-30T17:13:27.343" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T17:13:27.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-02T15:45:49.427" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19738" CreationDate="2008-11-02T15:47:43.400" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's in your Posts, eating your reputationz and tagz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T16:23:09.310" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T16:23:09.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-02T15:47:43.400" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19738" CreationDate="2008-11-02T15:48:54.520" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood's little brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:26:42.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-02T15:48:54.520" />
  <row Id="19742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19738" CreationDate="2008-11-02T15:50:00.867" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why has the Community user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/&quot;&gt;downvoted&lt;/a&gt; over 21000 times?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community user owns the downvotes of deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T02:13:57.067" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T02:13:57.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-02T15:50:00.867" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-28T01:41:38.653" Score="6" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686483/c-vs-c-big-performance-difference&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, my answer is the accepted one because it was the first to be posted, but the most upvoted one is clearly better than mine (and has been consequently upvoted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do there? AFAIK, only the OP can change the marked answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I copy the other answer into mine (that doesn't seems right because the poster won't get credit for it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to delete my post because it was still a good answer, and I don't want to lose the rep it earned me (although I'm ready to lose the +15 of the accepted answer) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47341" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T01:41:38.640" Title="What should I do if my accepted answer is not the best one?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T01:44:16.073" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A related question is what to do if the correctly marked answer is simply &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T01:44:16.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T01:44:58.757" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let the community decide through voting. The poster may be persuaded by the votes to change which answer is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T01:44:58.757" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T01:55:05.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no remedy. Conventional wisdom often prevails, especially if its from Quickdraw Coder. I think it would be fair to say that Manasgement thinks it could be worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd do is edit my answer to disavow it, referring by name to the better responder, and chalk it up to imperfect site design. (SO is no better or worse than other sites in this respect)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T01:55:05.517" />
  <row Id="19748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T02:30:11.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer.  You can edit it to make it accurate, if you feel that's important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T02:30:11.720" />
  <row Id="19749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T02:41:05.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer is wrong or unclear, correct it. If it's correct, but just not as entertaining or educational as someone else's, don't worry about it. The questioner selects the answer that they think is best. There's no point to questioning preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T02:41:05.003" />
  <row Id="19750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T02:43:03.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often an answer that's not perfect or even correct in all cases might have been just what the original poster needed to solve his specific problem, so he has all right to accept that answer. If the community thinks another answer is better, it will upvote the other answer higher and people who come along later will see what the general consensus is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there's no need to feel bad about the poster of the not-accepted answer, he's probably getting more rep this way. People feel the need to convince the OP that this answer is the best one and therefore keep upvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can't delete an accepted answer, so that's not even an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T02:43:03.280" />
  <row Id="19751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T09:50:33.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that situation I've referenced the other poster's answer within the accepted solution, giving credit where it is due. Only other people can do the upvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130108" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T09:50:33.330" />
  <row Id="19752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19744" CreationDate="2009-03-28T10:51:58.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just edit your question and link to the better answer? You can also leave a comment for the OP (right under his question) indicating that you think the other answer is better, and why. The OP will see this when they next visit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:27:12.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T10:51:58.223" />
  <row Id="19753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19754" CreationDate="2008-10-23T15:45:12.780" Score="9" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the re-tagging of questions, tags sometimes become orphaned from existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these &lt;em&gt;zombie&lt;/em&gt; tags ever removed from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags list&lt;/a&gt;?  When are the tag counts shown in the list recalculated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T06:44:17.730" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T06:44:17.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T15:45:12.780" Title="What happens to &quot;zombie&quot; tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;zombie&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19753" CreationDate="2008-10-23T15:46:51.060" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags not associated with any question are pruned every 24 hours on the backend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag counts shown on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags tab&lt;/a&gt; and in the tags autocomplete are also calculated once daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T06:36:20.073" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T06:36:20.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T15:46:51.060" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19753" CreationDate="2008-10-23T15:49:07.250" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zombie tags are properly chained up and stowed in a backroom, and are fed daily with the meat of the questions tagged stackoverflow, sofaq, or subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Although sometimes the SO team beats them with cricket bats. A barbaric act, I say).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastEditorUserId="58114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T18:04:06.210" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:04:06.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T15:49:07.250" />
  <row Id="19756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-25T07:54:14.990" Score="25" ViewCount="2320" Body="&lt;p&gt;Across the Stack Exchange network you may leave comments on a question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can post comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can edit comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should comments be used?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I format and link in comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can delete comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should comments be deleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are automatic comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I link to comments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see the FAQ articles on &lt;a href=&quot;/q/17364/&quot;&gt;comment voting and flagging&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/q/43019/&quot;&gt;comment replies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-04-18T00:21:12.947" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T17:28:19.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T07:54:14.990" Title="How do comments work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="15" />
  <row Id="19757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19756" CreationDate="2008-09-25T07:54:24.883" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How do comments work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments may be attached to questions and answers when a user wishes to comment on the content of the question or answer without adding a new &quot;Answer&quot; of their own.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are intentionally short with a maximum of 600 characters, and allow a limited set of markup. URLs in comments will automatically become hyperlinks.  Only a single comment may be left once every 15 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who can post comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone may leave comments on their own posts, and those with sufficient privileges (&lt;strong&gt;at least 50 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;) may comment on any post. (There is no reputation requirement to post a comment on Meta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments can also be left on all answers to a question by the person asking the question, regardless of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who can edit comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any user may also edit their comments, but only within a 5-minute window after posting. A little pencil icon will appear next to an edited comment, and a mouseover tooltip over that icon will provide a count of how many times the comment was edited, like: &lt;sub&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/s0kWJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pencil icon&quot; title=&quot;this comment was edited 2 times&quot;&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can edit any comments at any time. This action is logged and visible in that moderator's user history to other moderators. It &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/66386/can-anyone-at-all-edit-my-comments/66387#66387&quot;&gt;will&lt;/a&gt; also show the pencil icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all other situations, comments cannot be edited. However, in lieu of editing, they may be deleted and resubmitted. If the associated post is deleted, all comments will be deleted with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should comments be used?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments should be used for meta-discussion about a post which does not contribute to the content of the post directly.  They are sometimes used to point out factual errors in a post, or to discuss subjective issues.  Often, comments are used to address the user who created the post with a question or... well, comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments should not be used when creating an answer to a question.  In that case it is best to submit an answer, or vote up the best answer if you already see it listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I format and link in comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;formatted with a subset of Markdown&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;code&gt;**bold**&lt;/code&gt;), &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;code&gt;_italic_&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;*italic*&lt;/code&gt;), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;bold italic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;code&gt;***bold italic***&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;___bold italic___&lt;/code&gt;) and &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;`code`&lt;/code&gt;) are allowed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;URLs will be automatically converted into actual links. Links are also allowed by using the Markdown syntax &lt;code&gt;[link text](http://myurl)&lt;/code&gt;, and there are certain &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/92060/add-data-se-style-magic-links-to-comments/94000#94000&quot;&gt;&quot;magic links&quot;&lt;/a&gt; that will be converted to real links automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who can delete comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users may delete their own comments by clicking on the (x) icon, which is to the right of the comment's timestamp.  It will turn red if you roll your mouse over it, and you will be given a confirmation dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user can only delete one comment every 30 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can delete any comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should comments be deleted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, there is very little reason to delete existing comments from a question or an answer.  There are a few possible scenarios where comments ought to be deleted, but it is worth noting that these should be few and far between, due to their permanent effect on the flow of the comment section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spam:&lt;/strong&gt; Though it's hard to categorize what's spam and what is simply a verbose commenter, it's a bit like pornography.  We'll know it when we see it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Noise:&lt;/strong&gt; Comments like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary&quot;&gt;+1 ..&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18494/belongs-on-comments&quot;&gt;belongs on&lt;/a&gt;&quot; can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15290/are-all-the-1-comments-really-necessary/15292#15292&quot;&gt;flagged for automatic removal&lt;/a&gt; without the commenter being punished.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thread Cleanup:&lt;/strong&gt; If edits have been made to a question, it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be feasible for a moderator to delete all comments relating to that edit once they're accepted.  A comment should be added by the deleter stating what was deleted and more importantly, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;. For example:&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@all : Comments 1-16 detailing editing discussion were deleted when consensus was reached, to clean up the thread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment doesn't meet either of the criteria above, then it shouldn't be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What are automatic comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you vote to close a question as an exact duplicate (requires 3,000 reputation) then the system will automatically post a comment to that question under your name that reads &quot;possible duplicate of -link-&quot; if no such link has already been posted in an existing comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment will be upvoted whenever someone else votes to close as exact duplicate with the same question link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment will be automatically deleted if the question is closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You still own the comment so you may delete the comment if you desire. This is discouraged as it is helpful to the person who asked the question: if the author thinks their question is unique, seeing a possible duplicate allows them to make changes to differentiate from the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can I link to comments?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5436/direct-link-to-a-comment/44119#44119&quot;&gt;not officially possible&lt;/a&gt; to directly link (permalink) to a comment, in the context of its question or answer. An &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5436/direct-link-to-a-comment/27319#27319&quot;&gt;unsupported workaround&lt;/a&gt; exists for some cases, but breaks &lt;em&gt;without showing any error&lt;/em&gt; if the comment is hidden or deleted (or if the site layout is changed), leaving the visitor wondering what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-15T17:28:19.927" LastActivityDate="2011-06-15T17:28:19.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T07:54:24.883" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19665" CreationDate="2009-09-02T17:35:25.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On IRC, on forums, on mailing lists, help vampires may be really unnerving; I've run out of patience many times. Here it's different, in that it's easier to ignore people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the mailing lists I follow, I always try to help, and usually I stop just before (well, sometimes just after) becoming offensive. That's because I like to help when I can and because I know that if I don't answer, often it's likely that nobody will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO there's no need for you to reply to every question: it's likely that the question will be answered anyway. So, just answer to the questions that you consider worthy replying to, and ignore others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:35:25.737" />
  <row Id="19766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-08T22:41:51.867" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25710/how-is-the-tagging-system-implemented-here-at-sofu&quot;&gt;How is the tagging system implemented here at S[O|F|U]?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently building a website in which users can tag a submission, similar to that of SO, Flickr etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering how SO manages all the tags on here - what does the taxonomy look like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally - I am struggling to decide to normalize the data or not. What is the best practice here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2005/06/tagsystems-performance-tests.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this entry on tagging&lt;/a&gt;, but still am unsure which approach is best overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27148" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T05:31:52.723" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T10:55:35.983" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T17:13:35.707" Title="How does SO manage tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;organization&gt;&lt;taxonomy&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19766" CreationDate="2009-06-08T22:49:30.947" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will assume you are not expecting an answer from Jeff Atwood, so let's speculate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will need three tables:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i) a TAG table&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ii) a Questions table&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;iii) a table to implement the TAG-QUESTION relationship that will have (at least) the keys of both tables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would never, no matter what performance considerations, think about a non normalized solution for this!. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T17:47:30.707" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19766" CreationDate="2009-06-09T16:53:24.827" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at how tags are stored in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="2541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T10:55:35.983" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T10:55:35.983" />
  <row Id="19769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T18:09:30.473" Score="7" ViewCount="831" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I attempt to change my vote on an accepted answer and it is disallowed due to the timer, a box pops up that reads 'Vote too old to be changed, unless this answer is edited'. The checkmark shifts to the left until I click on the box to close it, at which point it pops back to its normal position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only occurs with &lt;strong&gt;Chrome 2.0.172.43, on Windows XP&lt;/strong&gt;. Firefox and IE on Windows XP work properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/2llhv92.png&quot; alt=&quot;Accepted answer arrow shifted&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:15:08.920" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:15:08.920" Title="'Accepted answer' checkmark shifts when a dialog is displayed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="19770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19771" CreationDate="2009-09-02T18:11:20.937" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago, I asked a question on SO (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1355657&quot;&gt;1355657&lt;/a&gt;).  When I went to look for it on the recent questions list, I couldn't find it.  I thought it might just show up later, so I just left it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A day later, the question still didn't have any answers, so I revised it a bit to bump it back up.  I still couldn't find it on the recent questions list, but again, I left it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still unsatisfied with the answer (singular) that I had gotten, I decided to offer a bounty on the question to get it some visibility and maybe get some better answers.  I expected that when I did this, it would show up near the top of the &quot;featured&quot; questions list.  However, not only was it not near the top, it was &lt;em&gt;the very last question&lt;/em&gt; in the three-page list, behind questions that were asked almost a year ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on?  I'd really like to get some good answers to my SO question, but I don't know if I'll be able to if the question is dead last in the list.  Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135270" LastEditorUserId="133301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T18:21:03.353" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:21:03.353" Title="Why is my question at the very bottom of the question list?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19770" CreationDate="2009-09-02T18:14:22.790" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question will never get bumped up the recent questions list. Edits, answers, and other general activity will cause your question to get bumped up the &lt;strong&gt;Active&lt;/strong&gt; list, not the Recent/Newest one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Hot Questions list will potentially come into play as well. That listing takes into account overall activity within shorter timeframes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The featured questions list contains bounty items (ranked in terms of the oldest at the top...meaning the closest ones to expire).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:14:22.790" />
  <row Id="19772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19659" CreationDate="2009-09-02T18:17:45.073" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea to filter out the useless cartoon/joke questions. I can think of no reason why adding this feature to the advanced search would be a negative addition, and it should be trivially simple to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:17:45.073" />
  <row Id="19773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19769" CreationDate="2009-09-02T18:22:50.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reproduced on Chrome 2.0.172.43 and Chromium 4.0.202.0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't reproduce on Firefox 3.5.2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T18:36:52.773" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:36:52.773" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19565" CreationDate="2009-09-02T18:31:31.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks everyone - it seems a few of us had transient problems yesterday - a little while after I posted meta.stackoverflow.com was also unreachable for a few minutes. However they both seem to be working again now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132124" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T18:31:31.630" />
  <row Id="19775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-02T18:41:53.763" Score="83" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Freehand Circles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/qXOY3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Some info.  And a freehand circle.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See Also&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14581/100-thousand-views-or-more-thousand-comes-below-views&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18655/random-sorting-appears-to-screw-with-answer-permalinks&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19769/accepted-answer-checkmark-shifts-when-a-dialog-is-displayed&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="134277" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-02T21:08:24.923" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T21:08:24.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-02T18:41:53.763" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-02T19:44:21.107" Score="47" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;plzsendtehcodez&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheDailyWTF&lt;/a&gt;, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/whats-the-difference-between-an-obvious-homework-question-and-one-tagged-plzsend/10086#10086&quot;&gt;documented here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Use of Tag&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/whats-the-difference-between-an-obvious-homework-question-and-one-tagged-plzsend/10987#10987&quot;&gt;Documented Here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Unknown&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/plzsendtehcodez&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'plzsendtehcodez'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plzsendtehcodez&lt;/a&gt; tag was predominantly used on SO to label questions with some variant of the phrase &quot;please send the codes&quot; present in the language of the question, or more generally any homework question directly copied from an assignment without any attempt made by the original poster to solve it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is now &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/whats-the-difference-between-an-obvious-homework-question-and-one-tagged-plzsend/10086#10086&quot;&gt;considered bad practice to apply the tag&lt;/a&gt; to a question and users with retagging privileges should remove it as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T07:56:03.430" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T07:56:03.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-02T19:44:21.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2009-09-02T20:26:16.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, since it is pretty much impossible for anyone else to know what someone's job title is, I guess I'll just have to start asking that for every CSS/HTML question. Then I will know if they should be directed to doctype or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a spurious distinction. Either the question is about layout or it isn't. I've even seen the comment that Designers can't do CSS/HTML layout work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T20:26:16.003" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19793" CreationDate="2009-09-02T20:26:45.957" Score="1" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;September 2009 cc-wiki data dump's name uses August as the month in the file name, &lt;code&gt;so-export-2009-08.7z&lt;/code&gt;, which is the same as last month's data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone forgot to increment the file name?  Or someone thought the data dump should be named for the month it is effective (last day of August.)  Either way, there is not a naming conflict with older dumps.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T00:26:34.497" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T00:26:34.497" Title="September 2009 cc-wiki data dump's name is wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19787" CreationDate="2009-09-02T20:53:59.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, Geoff set up the filename. It's written in stone at this point, so .. closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T20:53:59.243" />
  <row Id="19791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19671" CreationDate="2009-09-02T21:04:17.327" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On September 2nd, we started rolling out StackExchange to beta testers. Due to the large number of customers that have already signed up, we decided it would be a good idea to cautiously turn on the sites in small batches, on a first-come, first-served basis, instead of turning everything on at once and having the lights go out across the Eastern Seaboard. That'll also give us a chance to fix any bugs that arise and ensure that our web hosting infrastructure can support the load. During this beta process, which we don't expect will take more than a couple of months, we are rapidly working our way through the people who have signed up. We will not begin charging you until the beta is complete, and you will be able to cancel at any time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've updated the latest status at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T21:04:17.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T21:12:05.397" Score="7" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the StackOverflow interface so much I am now disappointed when I go to a blog and cannot vote up or down groups of comments. It bugs me even more when I goto &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coding Horror&lt;/a&gt; and the site just seem off. I am hoping that Jeff and Joel hire someone like they did for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and adapt the engine for blogging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32958" LastEditorUserId="32958" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T21:18:53.700" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T03:35:31.620" Title="What features would you like to see in BloggingOverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;blogging&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19787" CreationDate="2009-09-02T21:14:01.773" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will own this - there's still a few manual steps in this process which I will be automating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've decided to name the file from this point on with the month it is effective.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;October will be named &lt;strong&gt;so-export-2009-09.7z&lt;/strong&gt; as it includes all data up to and including September 30th 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T21:21:21.730" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T21:21:21.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19792" CreationDate="2009-09-02T21:18:19.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My number one request would be for having groups of comments be like an answer and be able to vote up and down the comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32958" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T21:18:19.847" />
  <row Id="19795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19792" CreationDate="2009-09-02T21:22:20.607" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is clearly important, but I'd also love to be able to use markdown, particularly for coding blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T21:22:20.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19624" CreationDate="2009-09-02T21:39:34.167" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been ZERO changes to any of the markdown code in months. FYI. Be happy to share SVN logs with you (privately) if you don't believe me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is simply a condition we hadn't discovered before. It seems to be based on spacing, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;uno&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&amp;lt;t&amp;gt;&#xA;code&amp;lt;t&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;dos&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&amp;lt;t&amp;gt;&#xA;code&amp;lt;t&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;tres&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&amp;lt;t&amp;gt;           &#xA;    idented-12-spaces&amp;lt;t&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;cuatro&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&amp;lt;t&amp;gt;           &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;indented-12-spaces&amp;amp;lt;t&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: this is not  a new bug, surprisingly -- &lt;strong&gt;both the client and server side markdown renderers do the same thing here!&lt;/strong&gt; That leads me to believe it's a narrow condition around code within numbered lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, if you have code (8-space-indent) inside a bulleted list, you &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; have blank lines inside the code. Bizarre, but true. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking in &lt;a href=&quot;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net&lt;/a&gt; verifies this is a bug in multiple markdown engines. &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/5z2d6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Click here to see the above sample text in multiple markdown engines&lt;/a&gt;. There's definitely a disturbance in the force here..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T01:42:15.510" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:42:15.510" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18454" CreationDate="2009-09-02T21:55:14.203" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about an exchange? If Jeff send me ServerFault stickers, the next time he goes to Peru I will invite him a couple of beers or pisco sour. Believe me, this is a fair deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133600" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T21:55:14.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:03:31.117" Score="3" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;If enough upvotes are earned in a tag – any tag – the badge will be automatically created and awarded.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many points/votes does a particular tag require before it will garner its own badge?  It appears that the answer is &quot;400 upvotes&quot; judging by the other tags listed on that page, but I wanted to see if there was a less speculative answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135277" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T22:12:51.990" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T22:12:51.990" Title="How many points does it require to create a badge for a tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19803" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:07:26.850" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, 400 votes (not points) for silver; 1000 for gold (only counted for votes on non-community-wiki answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/specialist-badge-implemented/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Specialist Badge Implemented&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T22:07:26.850" />
  <row Id="19805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19806" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:14:29.943" Score="7" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find the sitemap. Is there one? I know some websites use a gzip file to compress the sitemap but I can't seem to find that either. Is SO sitemapless?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I'm actually just looking for examples of what a &quot;good&quot; sitemap looks like and that's what provoked this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastEditorUserId="20471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T22:22:43.530" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:00:02.043" Title="Does stackoverflow have a sitemap?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19805" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:15:38.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does, but we protect it because there was a LOT of abuse around it. Please do not ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do anything with the sitemap we don't like, your IP will be banned without hesitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T22:15:38.490" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19792" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:19:37.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Attachments (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4376/please-allow-image-uploads-directly-onto-the-site&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;|&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4637/please-add-a-system-to-allow-file-uploads-attached-to-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) - or at least, a simplified process for doing an upload+link in a single operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T22:32:24.727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T22:32:24.727" />
  <row Id="19808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="88540" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:23:32.577" Score="52" ViewCount="1121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a strange feeling this has been asked before. Oh well, in the worst case, I'll delete this post. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, I had an OpenID and changed so I used the New Login to add the new. The old OpenID is deprecated (it was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-1_1.html#delegating_authentication&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;delegate&lt;/a&gt; from my old website which is now closed). Not that there is really a need for this, but just for a more &quot;clean&quot; profile, I would like to remove the alternative (since I know I won't be using it in the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;How can I delete the alternative OpenID&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2644" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-22T21:35:53.273" LastActivityDate="2011-04-22T21:44:58.367" Title="Remove alternative OpenID" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="16" />
  <row Id="19810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19792" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:26:10.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I blog, it typically takes a little while to phrase it (especially if I need to add attachments). I suspect you'd need pending posts (visible to the author only) that you can edit incrementally before finally publishing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to get fancy, delayed publish so you can blog while on holiday ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T22:26:10.217" />
  <row Id="19814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19808" CreationDate="2009-09-02T22:39:27.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I think I can do this for you on MSO and SO (but not SU / SF). It seems an unusual request, and I'm not in a &lt;em&gt;hurry&lt;/em&gt; to do it... does it cause any harm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I would suggest a better alternative; find an alternative (backup) OpenID provider you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; like in case your primary is unavailable - since you mention &quot;my old website&quot;, I assume you mean you were your own OpenID provider? Maybe you want to ask (on SF/SO) a question about repairing your broken OpenID server ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T22:39:27.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19819" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:01:44.607" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I see that happening at least once a day so I'm bringing it up.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user, most likely new to SO, asks a question that is not interesting or that doesn't make a lot of sense or it's not a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point this question gets downvoted two or three times and gets closed which seems normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then someone goes in there and edit the question so much that it's not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; the same question anymore... or at least it has nothing to do with what the original user posted in term of phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now people viewing this question will go &quot;oh, it doesn't deserve -3, it's an ok question&quot; and the question gets upvoted until it gets at 0 or 1. Maybe more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's good that a question gets a &quot;second chance&quot; to be answered, but I'm asking that: in the process the user got some reputation for asking a bad question (because downvote value != upvote value). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea case would be the downvoters going back and cancelling their votes, but this doesn't happen often. So shouldn't a entry closed, edited and then reopened be set as community wiki by default, or prevent the user to get rep for it (if it's not already the case)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the example that made me want to ask this on meta: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1370520/rounding-the-result-of-division-in-javascript-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1370520/rounding-the-result-of-division-in-javascript-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user asked &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;round this to teo places&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;0.0030![alt text][1] 0.031&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://divide&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://divide&lt;/a&gt; sighn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got edited and it's now pretty interesting and should be re-opened shortly. The user already got an upvote on his question and got rep out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T01:49:00.650" Title="Should a user that got his question closed, edited then re-opened get rep for it?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19818" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:03:29.237" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You vote on the question or answer, you don't vote on the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; who provided it. A good question deserves to be up voted no matter how many people have edited it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T23:03:29.237" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="19822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19818" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:10:18.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the user should get his reputation from the question/answer. That is why we edit, to help them out and hopefully show them what is needed to get good responses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should not be judging the post based on the original post, but rather the current post. That is the idea of the wiki part of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we wiki more posts that get edited, can you imagine the fighting? We already get enough blubbering, butthurt babies crying and whining and rolling back valid edits. &lt;em&gt;No thanks.&lt;/em&gt; We don't need more of that, this would be a disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T23:15:55.763" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T23:15:55.763" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19818" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:34:50.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question could've meant one of two things - I edited it to cover both, and upvoted it at the same time. Hopefully the user will see that a properly worded question will actually garner some attention and receive an answer...if not, at least the information will be there for someone who's interested in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep should have nothing to do with it - look at the question as it stands and go from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T23:34:50.467" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19827" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:49:49.157" Score="1" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that, while we have (at this point in time, 2009-09-02) &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users&quot;&gt;4 people who qualify for moderator status on serverfault&lt;/a&gt;, only one has been granted the &quot;diamond&quot;.  Are we going to have more moderators in the near future, or will poor &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/45/splattne&quot;&gt;Splattne&lt;/a&gt; be left to fend for himself?  Just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about &lt;strong&gt;non-employees&lt;/strong&gt;, folks.  Read the question &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt; - please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems there's confusion on two fronts - moderators are not necessarily &quot;employees&quot;, but at the same time, the verbage used to describe their access isn't exactly clear either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Well, sometimes the magic works. Sometimes, it doesn't. &quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0016895/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Old Lodge Skins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065988/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Little Big Man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134103" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-05T16:47:59.077" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T16:47:59.077" Title="More Moderators on SF?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19824" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:51:56.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh, there &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; other mods:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1674/mrdenny&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/1674/mrdenny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1803/kara-marfia&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/1803/kara-marfia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find this on the about page of any of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ServerFault for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/about&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-02T23:56:59.050" LastActivityDate="2009-09-02T23:56:59.050" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="19826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19891" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:53:00.320" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a very simple request that would add lots of value to the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you are in the login screen, the enter key doesn't submit the form.  So, usually, this is what happens to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click Login&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;start typing my openid site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it appears in the dropdown.  I select the full site name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I hit enter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I come back to the login tab and find that I'm still not logged in.  I then click the login button and curse the fact that enter doesn't submit the form.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, change the login screen so that the enter key submits the form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T13:20:06.447" Title="Pressing enter submits form on login page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19824" CreationDate="2009-09-02T23:53:19.383" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when ServerFault was launched, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1674/mrdenny&quot;&gt;mrdenny&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1803/kara-marfia&quot;&gt;Kara Marfia&lt;/a&gt; were &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-new-community-moderators/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;appointed&lt;/a&gt; as community moderators, a position they still hold, so there are really 3 moderators (plus &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/3/jarrod-dixon&quot;&gt;dev&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/2/geoff-dalgas&quot;&gt;team&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt;, but they fall under your &quot;employees&quot; umbrella). And given ServerFault's traffic, I think that 3 moderators are plenty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, while 10k+ reputation was enough for Jeff to notice and promote splattne, it should not be construed that 10k+ in and of itself makes you elegible for consideration - lots of factors come into play. Besides, 10k+ rep users are already partially moderators because they can vote to close, delete, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T00:50:35.370" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T00:50:35.370" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19808" CreationDate="2009-09-03T00:32:54.390" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, this is really a security issue, not just a matter of convenience or completeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say for example I go with TrustworthyOpenIdProvider.com for all my OpenID needs for the past 5 years, and then it turns out that they're actually a band of no-good nasty dangerous criminals who set up the site as a front to do evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well then, I'd want to immediately disassociate all my accounts with this nefarious organization. Of course, you could say that the solution is to use an OpenID delegate so that you never &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to change your stated provider. But that just adds a layer of indirection -- it doesn't solve the underlying problem. What if, for example, the site where I host my delegation is the one that is taken over by bandits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is that since the login system trusts the listed OpenID provider unconditionally. The ability to remove your OpenID provider has the very same security implications as the ability to change your password on traditional sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wouldn't say to a user who wanted to change his password that he should have just used a better password to begin with. I would have expected this feature to be there. In fact, I was so certain that it would have been implemented that I actually had to go try it out myself just to make sure before writing this response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a site this tech-savvy really have forgotten the feature to allow you to change your password? Certainly you can't argue that it's unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135283" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T00:32:54.390" />
  <row Id="19832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19808" CreationDate="2009-09-03T01:18:22.053" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO blog&lt;/a&gt; in January, swapping the primary and alternate OpenIDs, then adding another alternate will push the first alternate, which used to be your primary, down the list, eventually getign rid of it when you hit the max number of alternates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T01:18:22.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19818" CreationDate="2009-09-03T01:43:06.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see two possibilities here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The edited version bears at least some relation to the question initially asked. This is usually because the editor figured out (or took a good guess at) what the OP intended; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have a plague of power users editing bad questions turning them into completely unrelated questions for which they receive no benefit but the OP does.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen no evidence of (2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, good questions will generally get voted up and bad questions will generally get voted down. It takes a lot for a question to get more than a few votes in any case so we're not talking a lot of rep. Certainly not enough to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T01:43:06.667" />
  <row Id="19837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19792" CreationDate="2009-09-03T02:02:04.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like the syntax highlighting to be smarter, particularly I'd like it to be language aware and let me choose from various languages so that keywords, etc. are highlighted better.  For example I'd like to be able to choose to highlight some parts of the entry as HTML, C#, or Javascript or mixed (MVC views, for instance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T02:02:04.820" />
  <row Id="19840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14200" CreationDate="2009-09-03T02:26:40.980" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is another issue that would be fixed by sanitizing the reputation system so things like order of votes didn't matter but being as that hasn't happened, I think this would be useful too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If necessary apply limits like minimum rep (eg 5000) and limit how often (eg once per day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T02:26:40.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19844" CreationDate="2009-09-03T02:34:38.730" Score="4" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to start studying/developing at my local &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dal.ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;university's&lt;/a&gt; library, but since I'm not a student I won't have access to their wireless network. Therefore, I won't be able to access StackOverflow if I have a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if anyone had used the data dumps to make a somewhat usable offline copy of the site, so that I'll at least have access to the existing SO knowledge. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723017/offline-documentation-for-various-programming-languages&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; provides links to the various APIs/documentation, but I think the benefits of having SO as well should be obvious to anyone obsessed enough to be here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can't find anything, I'll likely write something to migrate the XML dumps into MySQL and whip something up to get at least a passable copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for any information you can provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T03:23:34.030" Title="Offline Access to StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;offline&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19841" CreationDate="2009-09-03T02:36:27.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump of SO&lt;/a&gt;. It gets updated about every month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively I'd highly suggest investing in your own wireless connection if that's an option. I don't know where you live but 3G wireless broadband is pretty cheap these days. Some netbooks/laptops have 3G built in. Alternatively it's just a USB key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could even use the browser on your phone depending on what you have but frankly I'd rather have a netbook (at least) for that kind of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T02:36:27.917" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="19844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19841" CreationDate="2009-09-03T03:23:34.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on your question and comments, I think you're going to be in stuck imprting the data dump to a mySQL database and querying. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T03:23:34.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19792" CreationDate="2009-09-03T03:35:31.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, this would be a WordPress plugin which supported both threaded comments and comment voting.  In a perfect world, it'd even support point-based reputation that gave commenters increased moderation abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone could just drop the plugin into their WordPress, and automatically get SO-style comment voting/threading/moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown could be offered as a separate WordPress plugin...  in fact, I think one's already available:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T03:35:31.620" />
  <row Id="19848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19866" CreationDate="2009-09-03T06:56:49.467" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Few days ago I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1345704/filter-form-in-rails/1346288#1346288&quot;&gt;answered a newbie question&lt;/a&gt;, and the answer was accepted yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I woke up thinking of what poor an answer it was (I'm not normal, I fear): I wrote it to help the asker, who just needed a direction, and I indeed gave one, providing a working quick and dirty example. But now, thinking that the answer is going to remain, and to be found by google searches (and with my name on it!), I would like to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few lines need to be changed and few other ones to be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the policy? Should I edit my answer now that it has been accepted? If so, should I edit it in a way that shows how the code was before my edit or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, will the asker (should he/she ever connect again) be notified about the edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T09:15:24.310" Title="Should I edit my accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28373" CreationDate="2009-09-03T06:59:56.920" Score="3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning, I was able to find out my Total score for every tag in Stats tab (on stackoverflow.com). My score is not so large to be in the list, but it always was on the last place, so I could see it. And I thought it was designed to work in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;After I changed my profile (changed Display Name) I can't see my Total score.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130951" LastEditorUserId="130951" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T11:33:22.453" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:44:09.673" Title="Can't see my Total score for All time after changing profile" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tag-score&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="19852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19861" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:03:48.040" Score="11" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an open source question with a very reduced community, among other reasons because it is a relatively new project. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The project's target audience is programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that more developers might benefit from the project, and I am thinking of declaring stackoverflow the official support site, for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To gain wider exposure&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because stackoverflow is cool, easy and friendly, and far more agile than the bloated support forums and trackers in the open source hosting sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would do this by picking a suitable tag (&quot;myproject&quot;) and adding in the documentation a link to stackoverflow and telling people submit questions, ideas, bugs, and suggestions to stackoverflow and tag the appropiately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try to frequently monitor the tag's rss and and give support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as in meta, this would be combined with other tags such as &quot;bug&quot;, &quot;feature-request&quot;, &quot;question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I have enough reputation to edit questions, I could track the questions with tags such as &quot;in-review&quot;, &quot;scheduled&quot;, &quot;rejected&quot;, &quot;not-a-bug&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good questions, could be copy-n-pasted to the project's official faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think of such an idea?  Please in your answers refer to how this might impact the project and how it might impact stackoverflow and how might such a thing be received by the stackoverflow community and if you think it would be welcome by stackoverflow's admins. Please also mention other issues, such as legal issues (?), whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:41:05.850" Title="use stackoverflow as the official support site of an open-source project" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;external-project&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19852" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:07:55.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if global SO would be suitable for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need these features I would suggest looking at using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can foresee the community closing these question fairly quickly, and since tags are controlled by the community, it can be here today and gone tomorrow. I don't see it working as a support forum, however people could ask question around the platform if they are generic enough. Specific questions however may be a problem. Also having a set of tags specifically for this purpose will become a headache over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:07:55.023" />
  <row Id="19854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17660" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:10:28.373" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:10:28.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19848" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:15:43.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is totally encouraged to edit accepted answers to keep them up-to-date. I would make sure that the part which the questioner accepted is visible somehow (depends on the answer/question).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Leaving a comment to inform the questioner would be a nice thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:15:43.983" />
  <row Id="19856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19851" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:16:24.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We no longer support this due to SQL timeouts on the queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story, but has to do with full text indexing and OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN not being compatible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:16:24.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:25:34.517" Score="9" ViewCount="662" Body="&lt;p&gt;As requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13587/we-need-a-meta-sticker&quot;&gt;We need a Meta sticker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/6852/metastackoverflowsticke.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reminds me&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[the Sniper points to Navin's name in the phone book]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sniper: Johnson, Navin R... sounds like a typical b*****d. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are technically limited edition stickers, only 50 were made. Michael Pryor is getting the first one. And of course our 4 dedicated Meta moderators will be getting them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reminder: &lt;strong&gt;any user from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;the first page of /users&lt;/a&gt; can request one by mailing your postal mail address to the email address at the bottom of every page.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T22:58:23.413" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:58:23.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T07:26:08.493" Title="Meta Stack Overflow Stickers are Here!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stickers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:29:32.687" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beyond that, any user from the first page of /users can request one by mailing your postal mail address to the email address at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Endless navel-gazing and talking about others asking questions and answers finally has its rewards!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:29:32.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T07:29:32.687" />
  <row Id="19860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:34:27.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder how many questions and answers we are now going to see for the race to be at the top. I suggest screenshots are made every hour on the hour from now onwards until there are no more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:34:27.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T07:34:27.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19852" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:42:06.910" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't think it's a good idea to use Stack Overflow like this. By all means use it as a &quot;secondary&quot; support system, but I think it's a good idea for an Open Source project to have its own set of mailing lists/groups and bug tracking system. Most hosting sites (SourceForge, Codeplex, Google Code etc) support this out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from anything else, SO isn't really built for &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt; which you should expect to be part of what the mailing lists etc give for an open source project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, users would have to &quot;understand&quot; Stack Overflow itself to grok why all these extraneous questions were appearing when they only want to know information about your project. Yes, you could link to your particular tag - but you'd see an awful lot of other stuff linked etc. You'd at least need to explain this in the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, Marc Gravell and I have certainly answered plenty of Protocol Buffer questions on SO - but I think it's important that we also have our own &quot;proper&quot; sites with bug tracking etc. You may wish to suggest a tag for people to use if they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; want to ask a question on SO (particularly if it relates to how to use your project with something else) but I'd steer away from making it the &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt; support system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:42:06.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19864" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:42:53.273" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/33165/what-to-choose-www-mysite-com-or-mysite-com&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was turned to wiki by the moderators because it was deemed too subjective (the amount of answers would have eventually turned it wiki anyway, but it's important to note it wasn't turned automatically) . I accept this opinion now, although when I asked the question I did not know it was subjective (I even asked in the question itself whether it is subjective or not). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I wonder if I should un-accept the answer I accepted, for it to better reflect the &quot;discussion&quot; nature the community seems to attach to the question. What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note this is not a duplicate of other meta feature requests such as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2208/remove-accepted-answer-feature-for-community-wikis-and-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;Remove “accepted answer” feature for community wiki’s and subjective questions&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, it's a practical question regarding how the site works today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:58:30.300" Title="If my question turned wiki because it was subjective, should I un-accept the accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="19864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19862" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:51:42.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are still the one that asked the question. If the answer was helpful to you, why not reward the person that gave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other side, you just accepted an answer to keep your accept rate high, I would undo it. &lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Because, as Diago points out, wiki questions are not included in the accept rate, so it does not matter to you, but you do not give the false impression that the answer was helpful. But of course nobody would accept an answer just to have a great accept rate, would you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:57:21.783" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19862" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:52:29.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's your question. If the accepted answer provides the reason why you would use www as subdomain again, I would keep the check mark.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You've chosen the answer from the discussion which serves your purposes best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:52:29.607" />
  <row Id="19866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19848" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:52:36.783" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely edit the answer. Sometimes it's worth leaving an old version of the answer, but it really depends on the situation. (I sometimes have multiple &quot;versions&quot; within one answer; each has a bold title, and they're separated by horizontal rules.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry too much about the asker - no, they won't get notified of the edit, but that's probably not too much of a problem. The long tail of other people finding your answer in the future is more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As an extreme example of where editing is important, I recently answered a question incorrectly. It was accepted, but then the error was pointed out by another user who had posted a correct answer. I edited my answer to be correct, but requested that the asker deselect mine so that I could delete it as it was essentially superfluous.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:52:36.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19862" CreationDate="2009-09-03T07:53:11.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no need. Although your question was considered subjective by the community and therefore flipped based on the flags, if there is an answer that is acceptable for you in making a decision it should be accepted as such. However others will be able to edit any of the answers and the questions to make it more relevant over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that CW questions do not gain rep in any way, either from accepting or from voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T07:58:30.300" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T07:58:30.300" />
  <row Id="19868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19852" CreationDate="2009-09-03T08:09:25.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is possible, but just like support, not bug-tracking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example for all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SubSonic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://subsonicproject.com/docs/Questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official site - Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ask a Question on StackOverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are a whole lot of people who&#xA;  monitor the SubSonic tag on&#xA;  StackOverflow - myself included. You&#xA;  can ask a question and get an answer&#xA;  usually within 30 minutes. Make sure&#xA;  you tag your question with SubSonic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wekeroad.com/subsonic/subsonic-3-0-0-3-is-released/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rob Conery blog - SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have a question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;go here and&#xA;  tag it “subsonic”.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think it's possible to use tags like &quot;bug&quot; and &quot;feature-request&quot;, for this stuff you would use some bug-tracking software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T08:15:17.807" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T08:15:17.807" />
  <row Id="19869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19852" CreationDate="2009-09-03T08:10:35.927" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general we do not recommend this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3966/using-stackoverflow-as-a-support-forum-for-a-product-or-project/13282#13282&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3966/using-stackoverflow-as-a-support-forum-for-a-product-or-project/13282#13282&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T08:10:35.927" />
  <row Id="19870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T08:39:41.980" Score="13" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every week or so you get, say, a question about the difference between '==' and '===' in PHP. Of course it inevitably gets closed as a duplicate but some people apparently feel the need to leave comments like 'Already asked! God! (roll eyes)' Well you can't actually search for something like == or === unless you happen to know what it's called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we extend the search to allow for these characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T00:24:57.140" Title="We need to be able to search for punctuation (symbols)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;symbols&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19870" CreationDate="2009-09-03T08:43:08.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I voted to close one question today (the exact same question, for Javascript instead of PHP) and pointed to &lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt; dupes. Two of them did show up right in the &quot;Related&quot; section in sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, I feel the &quot;exact duplicate search&quot; works pretty well in finding the duplicates (better than the SO search box.) Is the algorithm different or it's wrong feeling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T08:43:08.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2009-09-03T08:46:22.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't make the package any fancy. The or Icelandic toll service will get jealous and make me pay strange fees and have to explain the package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I once had to come down to the office and explain what on earth &lt;a href=&quot;http://the.taoofmac.com/media/Hardware/Nostromo%20N50%20SpeedPad/Image1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; was)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T08:46:22.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T08:46:22.593" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19877" CreationDate="2009-09-03T08:59:51.307" Score="31" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the comment vote limit is one every five seconds. I suspect it's a common behavior to read a discussion in comments and choose to upvote &lt;em&gt;more than one comment&lt;/em&gt; after reading &lt;em&gt;the whole discussion&lt;/em&gt;. This can become a little annoying to wait 5 seconds for every upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T10:33:57.207" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:33:57.207" Title="Change comment vote limit to six every 30 seconds" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19848" CreationDate="2009-09-03T09:15:24.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made edits to accepted answers before - but only in an additive or corrective fashion, never the overall answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, spelling, grammar, adding links, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T09:15:24.310" />
  <row Id="19877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19874" CreationDate="2009-09-03T09:16:02.217" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My proposal is to change the limit from &lt;strong&gt;one every five seconds&lt;/strong&gt; to something like &lt;strong&gt;six every 30 seconds&lt;/strong&gt;. This way, the user experience will improve &lt;strong&gt;without any effective changes&lt;/strong&gt; to the current comment vote limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T09:16:02.217" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="19880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17520" CreationDate="2009-09-03T10:16:04.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This problem was already there in 9.64. Nothing new with the 10 release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T10:16:04.023" />
  <row Id="19881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19933" CreationDate="2009-09-03T10:29:04.487" Score="5" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many community wiki questions get &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394?sort=votes&amp;amp;page=1#sort-top&quot;&gt;absolutely fantastic answers&lt;/a&gt;, and so must be read out at length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I print a page of answers using minimum paper, without the comments and user avatars, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to copy and paste the HTML straight off a web browser into RTF editor, but it looks like a mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T10:41:05.010" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T15:03:28.510" Title="Are printer-friendly versions available?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;printing&gt;&lt;how-to&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T10:36:41.757" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;The favicon for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; website is still using the old white-matte favicon without the nice transparency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be updated with the same favicon from the main SO site; or, to differentiate (in the browser) a blog tab from a SO tab, could use the grey icon from meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130718" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-09T00:40:15.270" LastActivityDate="2010-07-09T00:40:15.270" Title="Favicon on blog.stackoverflow.com needs to be updated" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;favicon&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="19883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19882" CreationDate="2009-09-03T10:39:55.183" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But then how will you differentiate between the blog and the regular SO by the tabs icon when they're the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different sites should have different icons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are you trying to take away the blog's favicon? What if that's its style, shunning a &lt;em&gt;transparency&lt;/em&gt; of sorts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of going with the meta colours, it should have its own colour version. Green maybe. There's not enough green in favicons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you check now, it's been &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;gonna set your flag on fire&quot;&gt;updated to transparentnessyness&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T14:11:02.567" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:11:02.567" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19881" CreationDate="2009-09-03T10:44:13.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the looks of the HTML source, there is no print version CSS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus there isn't the old school &quot;Print version&quot; link either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you could do, if you had a browser that supports user stylesheets, is to whip one up and view the question/answer trail under that before printing it out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T10:44:13.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19881" CreationDate="2009-09-03T10:46:35.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click print-preview for the question you referenced, I don't see comments in the preview. No sidebar either - looks really clean, actually. If you want to get the avatars out of there, just run the following in your firebug console:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(&quot;div.user-gravatar32&quot;).remove();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then print :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T10:53:06.970" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T10:53:06.970" />
  <row Id="19886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19900" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:22:47.057" Score="5" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/17837/someone-stole-my-digital-artwork-what-are-my-legal-options&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/34867/is-it-illegal-to-download-from-torrents-software-that-you-have-already-legally&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; questions about illegal activity, or the legality of certain activities showing up on the SO-sites. Should the FAQ be amended to state unequivocally that the community is not here to offer legal advice, nor should anybody be seeking legal advice from the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have personally been flagging these posts, and posting comments when necessary in attempts to curb these, and related, questions. What, if anything, else should be done when we come across questions like this which could potentially be viewed as community-provided legal-direction, especially if people attempt to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:38:04.500" Title="Not the Place for Legal Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:26:10.297" Score="8" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;In discussions here on MSO, and through my own anecdotal observation, it is clear that different tags on questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;attract more or less interest in the question (based on views)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;higher or lower scores for the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I thought I'd graph it out.  Description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;-axis&lt;/strong&gt;: the average score the question received (up votes + down votes = score) for the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;-axis&lt;/strong&gt;: the average number of views for the question for the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;z&lt;/em&gt;-axis&lt;/strong&gt; (bubble size): average score / average views (&quot;vote per view&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-score-vs-views-by-select-tags2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two quick observations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;scala&lt;/code&gt; is the most effective vote per view tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;scala&lt;/code&gt; tag questions have the lowest average views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt; is best at attracting both views and votes, and places second in the vote-per-view efficiency   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;asp.net&lt;/code&gt; is the least effective vote per view tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments?  Questions?  Want another tag listed?  Want the z-axis to represent something else?  Want a magic pony to send you an MSO sticker?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T18:16:08.777" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:16:08.777" Title="What does the relationship between a question's score and views say about select tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="19888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19886" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:28:23.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I would love to say these questions should be banned outright, it is hard to enforce. The fundamental problem is that the questions are legitimate, as long as there is a clear disclaimer that we are not lawyers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question requesting software or links to downloads are deleted without any warning, as this is definitely a big no. I often also switch the question to CW as their is never a right answer, unless we suddenly have a lawyer answering these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T11:28:23.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19887" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:28:57.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That big, black dot is terrifying...I mean, I knew &lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt; was popular, this is is just insane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T11:28:57.373" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19899" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:39:54.560" Score="8" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is similar to digg in many ways (Questions are Stories, Diggs are Upvotes, Burys are Downvotes, Flags are..well, Flags.). I'm thinking it would be great to see some toys come up similar to those the &lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;digg labs&lt;/a&gt; offer, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/arc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/bigspy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bigspy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/swarm/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swarm&lt;/a&gt;. Are there any talented flash-developers around here who could whip something up that feeds off of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17037/unofficial-stackoverflow-api-reference&quot;&gt;rss, html, and json data-sources&lt;/a&gt; found here on the SO-sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Questions, Comments, Votes and Flags you could come up with some very visually-stunning representations of recent activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/img/arc-example-1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/img/stream-example-1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/img/swarm-example-1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright, apparently some people are having trouble seeing how similar the two sites are. Note, I said &quot;similar,&quot; not &quot;identical.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Digg      |  StackOverflow&#xA;--------------------------&#xA;Story     |  Question&#xA;User      |  User&#xA;Digg      |  Up-vote&#xA;Bury      |  Down-vote&#xA;Comments  |  Comments&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T13:17:35.973" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:17:35.973" Title="Visual Toys for SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="48" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19826" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:48:17.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776ff992970c-pi&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Firefox, Vista &amp;amp; Linux)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Image: Jon Galloway, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000818.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;License&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-17T13:20:06.447" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T13:20:06.447" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19887" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:50:57.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is completely normal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjective has appeal across all technological areas. People are likely to view questions that they understand, or are related to their area of interest. Everyone understands and can comment on subjective. And because the subjective questions are usually appeals to some situation that a lot of us can relate to (&quot;What is the best time of day to code?&quot;) a lot of people will think it's funny and upvote it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Scala has such a low number of views (the lowest) it means if there are a few (2/3) Scala fiends out there who upvote everything to do with Scala, then the Scala tag's upvote to view ratio will get huge. It is easy to skew that because the population of the sample is so small. If some person on meta were to go in and downvote all the scala tagged questions, they could bury it amidst other tags on that graph easily. Whereas you wouldn't be able to do that for any of the other tags because there are so many more views in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T11:50:57.347" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19890" CreationDate="2009-09-03T11:54:49.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to see a multidimensional data representation using icons. Let's say taking a smiley:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the background, face, eyes, mouth could be linked to represent certain attributes like activity in certain tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;each of these could use fill color, thickness of line, line color, size and even graphical representation (sleeping eyes to wide open eyes, frown vs. smile).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example the background color could represent overall activity (from low: white to active: red).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine several such icons in an icon bar with user customizable monitoring requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;overall activity (#questions, #answers, #users, #comments, #votes, ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;activity on certain tags, especially users interesting tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;activity on users questions and answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T11:54:49.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19890" CreationDate="2009-09-03T12:00:16.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't object to graphs and funky activity displays per se, I really don't want them on the SO homepage or anywhere else I'd be looking for actual questions/answers. Maybe a &quot;Recent Site Activity&quot; tab or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep them away from the main site please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T12:00:16.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19890" CreationDate="2009-09-03T12:03:26.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2076/digginsixwords.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/15/links-for-2007-03-15&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/15/links-for-2007-03-15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T12:03:26.420" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19886" CreationDate="2009-09-03T12:08:30.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitly keep deleting illegal activity like asking for software, linking to warez (we still call em that right?) and talking about torrent sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the other class of question, asking for legal advice, it gets more tricky. If only we had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19501/new-hero-for-the-league-of-justice-business-of-software-man&quot;&gt;Business of Software&lt;/a&gt; hero in the League of Justice where we might be able to have a lawyer or two cover those questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T12:08:30.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2009-09-03T12:47:35.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why the oval-shape, rather than the cut-out shape like the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T12:47:35.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T12:47:35.717" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19890" CreationDate="2009-09-03T12:56:27.357" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with some types of applications being developed to give users different ways of viewing and using the data that is out there, this is obviously one of the biggest reasons to develop an API to allow for such things to take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are talking about emulating Digg in idea only and not in the actual ways that the applications are used for Digg itself, sure why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T12:56:27.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19886" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:02:25.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the solution in most cases is to upvote an answer like ,,We are not lawyers, we do not know the details of your situation and the law of the country you live in. Hire a lawyer''.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some legal questions are quite legitimate. Certain use-cases of GPL-family license are a common case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="122460" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:02:25.800" />
  <row Id="19901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19887" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:17:00.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;subjective is best at attracting both&#xA;  views and votes, and places second in&#xA;  the vote-per-view efficiency&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. That's incorrect. You have no facts to prove this. You can only prove that they are linked. Think about it: Is the tag making the question popular, or is the question popular on its own? Basically, is the subjective tag the cause or a side-effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:17:00.563" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:17:38.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it make sense for those of us going to DevDays events which Jeff will be attending to simply include that instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I'm going to the London event, and would indeed like a sticker. It would be somewhat silly for Jeff to send it internationally and then come over in person anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:17:38.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T13:17:38.783" />
  <row Id="19903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:25:46.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beyond that, &lt;strong&gt;any user from the first page of /users can request one by mailing your postal mail address to the email address at the bottom of every page.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's worse than the limited edition &lt;strong&gt;Beta&lt;/strong&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:25:46.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T13:25:46.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19887" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:30:19.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's interesting but one of the issues is your axes are highly related. Like average views is a component of the y and z axes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What might be interesting is seeing these three:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average question score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average answer score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably even eliminate question score (and possibly put in something else) because I think we've fairly well established that question score doesn't have much meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:30:19.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19908" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:32:24.420" Score="-6" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that school has started.  The number of student-sounding questions from low-reputation accounts is through the roof.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind them per se, but they're usually not as clear in their description of the problem.  It takes a different mindset to try to answer them.  It would be nice if there were a way to indicate that they are student questions.  (Maybe a &quot;pledge paddle&quot; icon next to them?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I tried to state above, I don't have a problem with student questions. I actually like them. They are just not good ones for looking at when you have 5 minutes to kill and want to help someone. They are better for when I have more time to dedicate to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a quick run through the fire hose after this little &quot;flame war&quot;, I have a different approach to the problem I've seen that hopefully won't offend.  A tag of &quot;Concept&quot; to identify questions that are about a concept and not a specific problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5008" LastEditorUserId="5008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T15:58:14.167" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T15:58:14.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T15:58:14.167" Title="Should we make a new category for student questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="19906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19905" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:36:10.683" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should give special representation to students. In all actuality, reputation does a fine job of that. Since students are just a subset of new users in general, the reputation is a great indicator that it may indeed be a student asking the question. I would just treat any question as you would if it were asked by a professional making a change in technology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give the students respect and good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T14:37:50.023" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:37:50.023" />
  <row Id="19907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19905" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:38:22.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You usually can sniff out the student questions. But they are users just like us. SO shouldn't discriminate y0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:38:22.147" />
  <row Id="19908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19905" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:39:55.547" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If students want to identify themselves as students, there are a number of tags that satisfy the requirement including &lt;kbd&gt;learning&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;homework&lt;/kbd&gt;. This is on top of just saying, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a second-year CS student and I just can't figure out what this pointer magic C++ snippet is doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is really all that's required. There's no need for any new functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, aren't we all students? You're only not a student if you stop learning and you only stop learning when you're TheTXI or dead. So &lt;em&gt;yeah&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:39:55.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19905" CreationDate="2009-09-03T13:52:28.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a 'student' in the stackoverflow since is anyone asking a question.  So maybe you really just mean basic / fundamental questions, or maybe homework-like questions.  I can see tagging homework questions as such, or maybe even basic questions.  But the student tag doesn't make much sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T13:52:28.860" />
  <row Id="19912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19852" CreationDate="2009-09-03T14:05:30.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to direct your users with &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; questions about your project to a specific tag on StackOverflow.  However, this part won't work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, as in meta, this would be combined with other tags such as &quot;bug&quot;, &quot;feature-request&quot;, &quot;question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I have enough reputation to edit questions, I could track the questions with tags such as &quot;in-review&quot;, &quot;scheduled&quot;, &quot;rejected&quot;, &quot;not-a-bug&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you try to use those tags, others will edit the posts and remove them because they don't really belong with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, please do use StackOverflow as a way to build a knowledge base for your product.  But StackOverflow is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an issue tracker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T14:13:12.020" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:13:12.020" />
  <row Id="19915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T14:39:09.210" Score="4" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;First. We had a pretty awesome thread for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;Podcast #66 Discussion Ideas.&lt;/a&gt; So please check that one out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you like to see discussed on Podcast #67?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post only one topic per user and look down the list and vote up things you'd like to see. You can be as detailed as you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the highly voted ones from last time that still apply for #67.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How about an interview with the FogCreek dev working on StackExchange. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial/16915#16915&quot;&gt;Nathan Koop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to hear how Jeff (and his team) Get Things Done! - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial/14547#14547&quot;&gt;Decio Lira&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since you rag on PHP every week, why not invite a PHP enthusiast - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial/17307#17307&quot;&gt;jakemcgraw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Interview David Smalley and/or Paul Farnell from doctype - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial/14319#14319&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/podcast-67/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #67&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29079&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Transcript wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;= previous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T03:38:57.650" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T03:38:57.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T14:39:09.210" Title="Podcast #67 - Discussion Ideas. (Unofficial)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="19917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19915" CreationDate="2009-09-03T14:42:46.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a large boxing match between the people who keep fighting each other on MSO with Jeff and Joel as announcers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:42:46.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T14:42:46.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2009-09-03T14:43:47.843" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding the CSS rule: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.post-text { overflow: hidden; }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Appears to fix it up nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:43:47.843" />
  <row Id="19920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:24:04.003" Score="9" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent post on the SO blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Voter Fraud and You&lt;/a&gt; states that the SO team has implemented a voter fraud detection mechanism.  I look at the user board and noticed at least one user took a major hit as a result.  I'd like to know how it works.  No, not so that I can better circumvent it, but I'd just like to know that it is fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:42:23.490" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:42:23.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:24:04.003" Title="How does the SO voter fraud detection mechanism work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:29:25.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I lost 412 points (which I guess means I have a fan/stalker out there), but my relative position in the Users standing seems to be the same.  I'm still a &quot;Page One User&quot;, roughly in the middle of the 3rd column (I just passed Galwegian) --- however, the people around me in the list have all changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143270" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:29:25.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:29:53.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you are really, really worried that it isn't fair, and that is a show stopper for you, then a closed source site might not be the best solution for you. Even if one of the devs came here and explained it, how would you know they are telling the truth without seeing the code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the thread that you linked to. Pay special attention to the posts by Jeff. From the original post and Jeff's replies you can get a good feeling for the sorts of queries that they are using. I would not expect them to release the detailed queries (and I don't think you want them to either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:29:53.443" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:32:08.277" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took quite a big hit to my rep (about 25%), but to be honest, I wasn't sure how it got so high in the first place, nor do I particularly care. I read more than I post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:32:08.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:35:07.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't elaborate on how it works, but I can tell you I noticed just over 300points gone from my reputation when signing in today.  Can't tell you i've been involved in any fraud but I might be in the same situation as James with a &quot;fan/stalker&quot; for some questions.  I know i've voted a fair amount for some of the same users because they had what I considered reasonable/correct answers, sure hope that doesn't dock them points as being considered fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12707" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:35:07.490" />
  <row Id="19925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:40:51.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not been affected. However this fraud detection thing seems like it will be along the lines of a profanity filter. More false positives than anything. The scope of human behavior in an open system is difficult (nearly impossible?) to model. &lt;a href=&quot;http://languagenerdadventures.blogspot.com/2009/03/clbuttic-mistake.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clbuttic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/FTW&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FTW&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T09:31:45.580" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T09:31:45.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:40:51.910" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:44:48.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing what happened to users like Konrad and Daok last night, I'd have to say &quot;Not Very Well&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:44:48.733" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:50:12.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any protection scheme with &quot;AI&quot; built in will have to be tweaked and refined over time. For an initial release you're going to be too restrictive in some cases and completely miss other cases. And once it's refined I'm sure a clever hacker could circumvent the protections. But hopefully the amount of work required to circumvent the protections would deter most efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:50:12.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:51:27.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would actually prefer it stay &quot;magic&quot;. Simply because there are people out there who would find out how they can get around the implemented methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:51:27.957" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T17:54:13.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of Jeff's comments in that blog post he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... I suspect you had some deleted questions/answers in the system. Remember that rep is lost from deleted questions/answers when rep is recalculated, which is a rare and almost manual process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This probably explains why some people lost some random amount of rep overnight. The recalc would have affected everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of any time you posted an answer on a subjective or controversial post where you were upvoted, but the question was later deleted. Those upvotes counted toward your rep - until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:51:13.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T17:54:13.317" />
  <row Id="19930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19920" CreationDate="2008-12-23T19:06:12.377" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's go over a couple high-profile examples of people being affected by the potential voter fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: These are both well respected members of the community and no one thinks they personally had anything to do with fraud themselves. But there were some oddities in the voting patterns surrounding their accounts that may nonetheless lead to an artificially high rep count).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1968/konrad-rudolph&quot;&gt;Konrad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -6000 rep  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Jon Skeet &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/#comment-10925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;points out&lt;/a&gt; in the&#xA;  blog comments &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1968/konrad-rudolph&quot;&gt;Konrad&lt;/a&gt; lost nearly&#xA;  6k rep.  However, after investigating&#xA;  it a little further it is pointed out&#xA;  that Konrad has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/42791&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reporting on&#xA;  uservoice&lt;/a&gt; artificial rep increases&#xA;  on his account for some time.  Any&#xA;  post he made with the C++ tag was&#xA;  being automatically upvoted and he&#xA;  thought it smelled of automation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/krudolph/temp/modos-scrape.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link to a screenshot of Konrad's modos page during said manipulation&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So while it definitely is sad to see a&#xA;  popular member take such a huge hit in&#xA;  rep, in this case even he himself&#xA;  admits that there may have been some&#xA;  automation going on with some of his&#xA;  upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13913/daok&quot;&gt;Daok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -5000 rep   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13913/daok&quot;&gt;Daok&lt;/a&gt; lost 5k from a total of 15k rep.&#xA;  Reading through the SO &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/#comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&#xA;  comments&lt;/a&gt; it is clear Daok is upset&#xA;  about his reputation loss.  However,&#xA;  if you read Jeff Atwood's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/#comment-10966&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;posts&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  concerning the votes deleted from&#xA;  Daoks account they do seem to be&#xA;  highly anomalous.  Two users in&#xA;  particular seemed to effect Daok's&#xA;  reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;User #1:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  daok - 234 upvotes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  next user - 4 upvotes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  next user - 3 upvotes  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;User #2:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  daok - 230 upvotes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  next user - 2 upvotes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  next user - 2 upvotes    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So while it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible that two&#xA;  people naturally upvoted Daok 230 and&#xA;  234  times respectively while only&#xA;  upvoting others 2 or 3 times, it&#xA;  seems far more likely that someone out&#xA;  there is manipulating upvotes of users&#xA;  they like with some form of&#xA;  automation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T13:31:18.527" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:31:18.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T19:06:12.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19915" CreationDate="2009-09-03T14:53:18.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Waffle-eating contest between Jeff and Joel. Winner gets to apologize for nauseating all listeners by furiously chewing on-air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:53:18.577" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T14:53:18.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19915" CreationDate="2009-09-03T14:56:06.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An official abdication by Jeff of his title as &quot;King of Meta&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T14:56:06.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T14:56:06.997" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19881" CreationDate="2009-09-03T15:03:28.510" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What Jonathan says is true, the print-preview is pretty good due to the CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you want remove all the unnecessary stuff, such as comments and user signatures and the &quot;link edit flag&quot; toolbar, just run the following in your firebug console. (switch into multiline view first)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(&quot;div.user-gravatar32&quot;).remove();&#xA;$(&quot;div.post-comments&quot;).remove();&#xA;$(&quot;td.post-signature&quot;).remove();&#xA;$(&quot;div.post-menu&quot;).remove();&#xA;$(&quot;h2&quot;).remove();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now press print to get your &quot;clean&quot; answer page!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T15:03:28.510" />
  <row Id="19934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19915" CreationDate="2009-09-03T15:04:36.323" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about an interview with the FogCreek dev working on StackExchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See full answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial/16915#16915&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T15:04:36.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T15:04:36.323" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19915" CreationDate="2009-09-03T15:14:28.850" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Suggested&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14303/podcast-66-discussion-ideas-unofficial/18105#18105&quot;&gt;Podcast #66&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18097/non-visual-way-to-see-if-a-question-you-asked-has-an-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post and realising that we actually have a &lt;kbd&gt;blind-programmer&lt;/kbd&gt; tag and two &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370976/what-are-some-good-computer-science-resources-for-a-blind-programmer&quot;&gt;confirmed&lt;/a&gt; blind users on StackOverflow, one with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14744/jared&quot;&gt;6000+&lt;/a&gt; reputation already, I would like to know how and what has been done to make the site more accessible for these users, and although a minority how Jeff and Joel feel about reaching such a unique target?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to hear their input on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/370976/what-are-some-good-computer-science-resources-for-a-blind-programmer&quot;&gt;What are some good computer science resources for a Blind Programmer?&lt;/a&gt; (Question 370976) question on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T15:14:28.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T15:14:28.850" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:06:31.620" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please add &lt;code&gt;word-wrap: break-word;&lt;/code&gt; to comments, questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all folks. Please don't make me add &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; greasemonkey script for such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T17:06:31.620" />
  <row Id="19938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19941" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:09:44.237" Score="60" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I leave a comment and someone liked it, is there a way to see it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not... why not? It's something that would be nice to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-26T05:51:45.347" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T05:51:45.347" Title="Is there a way to know when one of my comments gets &quot;upvoted&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="19939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19938" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:12:13.607" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not without going back and actually looking. I suppose the team feels upvotes are pretty trivial when it comes to comments. Their triviality is the reason why you can't edit comments, or downvote them. They're a dime a dozen, and they don't earn you any reputation either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T17:12:13.607" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19942" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:14:58.830" Score="49" ViewCount="627" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I made a mistake downvoting or upvoting something there's now way for me to fix that unless asking the person to edit its answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I downvote something, then explain in a comment thinking that I'm right and the user's wrong. The user convince me that he was right in the first place and that I should not have downvoted him (everybody make mistakes or it could have been a misundertanding on words... whatever). Then I can't undo my downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the point of forbidding removing up/down votes without edit, but in some cases it gets annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could it become so that one can undo his vote if a comment is left by someone else (to avoid dummy comments just to rollback a vote) ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Added a bounty to get more feedback&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T22:58:32.373" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:23:36.843" Title="Undo a up/down vote after a comment is left" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="19941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19938" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:16:52.617" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a lot of discussion in the past about wanting to be able to view comment history and recent activity like votes and such, but nothing has come about it yet (seems to be very popular, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that at some point in time the commenting system will grow in overall robustness. I just can't really say when that will happen. Maybe in 6 to 8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T17:16:52.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19940" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:16:55.050" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has bothered me the last couple of days too, but I think you provided a solid case of why we need things to be different. Votes usually do lead to discussions in the comments, and if you get convinced that your vote was in error, you should be able to reverse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T17:16:55.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19940" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:19:02.487" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like being immediately locked into a vote, especially if there was a mistake due to misunderstanding on my part. I don't like how they completely removed the entire time frame when they could have just shrank it some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T17:19:02.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19940" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:22:07.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This particular solution wouldn't work because it would effectively allow the &quot;too old&quot; vote detection to be bypassed.  Just comment, reverse your vote, and you could then even delete your comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote reversals should be addressed by adjusting the time window where reversals are allowed, not by tying them to a user's comment activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T17:22:07.427" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="19945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16896" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:27:39.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Case in point, I just asked a question today that someone actually &lt;em&gt;bookmarked&lt;/em&gt;, and I &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; didn't get any upvotes. Who would bookmark a question if they didn't think it's a good question? I guess it's possible I got one upvote and one downvote, but still...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think maybe people don't upvote because SO doesn't provide much incentive. They added the &quot;accept rate&quot; thing to encourage people to accept answers. I also think when the author of a question upvotes an answer, a reminder to accept the answer appears in a little pop-up. I would like to see a similar pop-up if you bookmark an answer and maybe if you choose to answer a question. If can just say, &quot;If you thought this was a clear and useful question, please consider upvoting it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="131453" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T18:09:10.567" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:09:10.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19979" CreationDate="2009-09-03T17:56:16.287" Score="4" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a question today that, thus far, has received five answers (plus one from me) and zero upvotes. That's fine, it happens. But, this irks me a little, someone actually &lt;em&gt;bookmarked&lt;/em&gt; it and (unless someone downvoted me) didn't upvote the question. I realize the criteria for upvoting is &quot;clear and useful&quot; not &quot;interesting enough to bookmark&quot;, but I don't think I've ever bookmarked a question without upvoting it. You obviously like the question enough that you'd like to be able to return to it later, so I think in most cases, an upvote is in order. I wonder if SO could provide one of those little pop-up reminders suggesting you upvote a question if you bookmark it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am thinking something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you think this question is clear and useful, please consider upvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, just a little encouragement to act nicely if it's deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T18:18:47.117" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:40:18.780" Title="If you bookmark a question, shouldn't you also be encouraged to upvote it?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19946" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:00:51.050" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you know somebody bookmarked it? Or are you meaning &quot;Favorited&quot;? A user may favorite a question that they don't particularly want to upvote for many reasons. Not least of them, they may like the answers being given, but not the question being asked. They may like your question, but wish to reserve voting until they have more time to think about it. I wouldn't take it personal. Just keep asking questions, and you will gain rep slowly but surely as long as your content is equal to your quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:00:51.050" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="19948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19946" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:02:40.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Favoriting a question has nothing at all to do with the question's worth. In fact, many people use the favorite flag to remember to go back and down vote, edit, or close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two things are in no way related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:02:40.847" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="19949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19946" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:10:35.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I encountered this just today when I &quot;favorited&quot; a question...which led me to consider whether to upvote it.  I decided against it, because while the answers were useful and interesting, the question had an unhelpful title, and was of too narrow a scope to be generally useful.  I'm still considering this, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that a reminder would be amiss, in a similar vein to the reminders that pop up to ask people to consider adding comments to explain downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:10:35.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19959" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:18:29.710" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking or editing a question, is it better (from SEO or user perspective) for the title of the question to be an actual question?  Do we even care?  If the preference is for questions, is there any preference for how the questions starts (&quot;How do I&quot;, &quot;What is&quot;, etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, given &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/205736/sql-query-to-display-all-tables-in-an-oracle-database&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, would any of these titles be preferable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SQL Query to display all tables in an Oracle database &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(current title)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the&lt;/strong&gt; SQL query to display all tables in an Oracle database&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there an&lt;/strong&gt; SQL query to display all tables in an Oracle database&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I&lt;/strong&gt; display all tables in an Oracle database with SQL&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can I&lt;/strong&gt; display all tables in an Oracle database with SQL&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;something else?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, we want the format that will make it easiest to find duplicate questions, so that fewer duplicates are asked.  But I don't know which format that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T18:23:57.390" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:31:30.167" Title="Is it better for SEO for question titles to actually be questions (grammatically speaking)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;seo&gt;&lt;grammar&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="19951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19946" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:18:43.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bookmark lots of websites that I have to refer back to. It doesn't necessarily mean that I find them to be &quot;good&quot; websites. Just ones that I have to visit often or refer back to at some point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to the favorites system. Not everything I &quot;favorite&quot; is going to be something I actually think is a good question and I may only be using it as a temporary method of bookmarking something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:18:43.077" />
  <row Id="19953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19950" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:25:35.280" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all honesty, while I'm probably guilty of using the &quot;How do I&quot; prefixes, they're kind of pointless. After all, we're on a question/answer site. The topic mentioned, or issue referenced in the title is implicitly understood to be a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's going to matter for Google which way you do it. They'll detect the high-degree of similarity between &quot;How do I x&quot; and &quot;x&quot;. With regards to internal search, I'm not sure if one way or the other would benefit Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:25:35.280" />
  <row Id="19955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19950" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:26:15.780" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of any SEO, I always make the question titles into a proper question. I do this for user readability because my goal is to help people get answers for their questions by editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not as good for SEO, I figure that is the development team's responsibility to use some scripting magic to clean it up for SEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consistency is the key here IMO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:26:15.780" />
  <row Id="19956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19950" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:29:33.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general I like to use the Title as more of a subject line when the question needs some explanation (and I prefer to see it that way as well).  That way it's less likely for someone to jump to conclusions from the question in the title when there is more information to take into account in the question body.  If the question's trivial or needs no further explanation, go ahead and make the Title the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:29:33.963" />
  <row Id="19959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19950" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:31:30.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phrasing your question title as an actual question helps to ensure that you've phrased it cogently.  All too often I've seen question titles that are little more than a mish-mash of technology keywords, making it impossible to determine what is actually being asked.  Making an effort to write a grammatical English utterance mitigates this problem to some degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, many of us are perfectly capable of being clear and direct without needing to phrase the title in that way, but all things being equal I think that &lt;strong&gt;phrasing the title in the form of a question should be preferred&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:31:30.167" />
  <row Id="19960" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:04:01.787" Score="11" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have came across to this situation a couple of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One guy (or my self) ask something like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I delete the whole filesystem in LISP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way I can shoot myself in the foot using HTML &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And people answer back:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's wrong with you? You should not do that, you should do this or the other etc. and the (we have to admit it) stupid question gets down voted while the &quot;comment&quot;  placed where the answer should go,  gets upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments are very useful indeed (sometimes I have my head in another planet and ask stupid questions), but they should go in the comment section, not in the answer section. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user in turn don't know the answer, please don't post an answer, post a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question is in the form &quot;Is it ok to shook my self in the foot or in the arm?&quot; Well, that's a different story, here you are asking for the opinion, and then an acceptable answer is &quot;Are you stup...&quot; etc. etc. But I don't think it is something we should do when the user is asking something very specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what is your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-18T16:05:31.963" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T20:01:57.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:04:01.787" Title="Comments for comments, answers for answers, is it that hard?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19960" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:07:22.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you. Comments about the quality of the question or subject matter belong as comments. The only thing that should go into the answers are answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we as users decide by placing our votes, so in the end, there's not much you can do about it except for trying to behave as you personally deem fit. Other users will do as they deem fit. And may the most correct opinion on this matter get the most votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:34:39.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:07:22.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19960" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:11:50.947" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree categorically with what you're saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user asks &quot;How can I do XYZ when I ABC?&quot; and the obvious answer is, &quot;If you don't do ABC, but instead KLM, you don't need to do XYZ, but you will get the same end result, faster, in less memory&quot;, then just blindly answering the question the person is asking might be ... well, &quot;ok&quot;, but it certainly wouldn't be what I would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the problem here is that the &quot;question&quot; you're asking doesn't have an answer, so obviously we should all just comment your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to do that either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I am going to decide what constitutes an &quot;answer&quot; to your question, even if it doesn't blindly answer your question uncritically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;note: see comments below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:34:39.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:11:50.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19960" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:14:10.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have some cheese with your ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No wait, you make a legitimate point and I've wondered the same as you. But, as was said before, people do their own voting, with their own reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C'est la vie, say the old folk, you never can tell!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31472" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-18T19:16:17.410" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T19:16:17.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:14:10.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19960" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:15:01.593" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Sometimes the premise of a question is simply wrong, and the knowledge that it is wrong is valuable information that was gained throught experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I want to paste the lyrics to a Hermin's Hermits song into the answer box, you're always free to vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:34:39.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:15:01.593" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="19965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19960" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:25:18.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it is hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are used to forums and the format/protocol/structure here is a little different.  It takes a little time for this disseminate the populous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course not everyone reads the FAQ and so without a little guidance, people will continue to use StackOverflow like a traditional forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because a question is &quot;wrong&quot;, if all you want to do is correct his question you either edit it, or comment on it, not answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135413" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:34:39.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:25:18.203" />
  <row Id="19966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19960" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:41:57.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And questions are for questions, not rants about how other people use the site.  You've now polluted the question listing with a non question! OMFGBBQ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:34:39.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:41:57.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19960" CreationDate="2008-11-25T20:20:28.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can't get the right answers until you ask the right questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161308" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-18T19:14:37.273" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T19:14:37.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T20:20:28.093" />
  <row Id="19968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19989" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:36:18.770" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;L&lt;/kbd&gt; to create a link, the prompt says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Insert Hyperlink&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/&lt;/a&gt; &quot;optional title&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you actually enter enter something with a title, though, it thinks the &lt;code&gt;&quot;optional title&quot;&lt;/code&gt; is part of the URL.  You get this in your markdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[link text][1]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com/ &quot;optional title&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of the expected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[optional title][1]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T02:43:59.650" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:43:59.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T19:13:40.713" Title="Optional title for Ctrl+L (hyperlink) shortcut is broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="19969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-18T02:20:04.940" Score="5" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dyslexic I am not. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;I just want to know the best way to find previous questions that may answer mine (on SO).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I try to search but I tend to get too many irrelevant results. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;What's your best method for researching a SO topic, before posting a question?&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131568" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" Title="What is the best way to find questions to old answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;research&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="19970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2008-09-18T02:22:51.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have a problem (almost always C# .net related due to my line of work) I usually google search first.  Blogs are good, msdn can be quite good.  Those question/answer sites that make you pay are horrible, newsgroups are pretty bad too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that fails, this site can be pretty awesome.  If the search and tags fail you, just post, I suppose.  Not many other options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" />
  <row Id="19971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2008-09-18T02:23:00.800" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can try using Google with the site limited to stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:http://stackoverflow.com &quot;Python IDE&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148633" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" />
  <row Id="19972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2008-09-18T02:23:37.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we're public, you could try googling for your search terms with &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; on the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google often does a better job than the built-in search - it's their core business after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" />
  <row Id="19973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2008-09-18T02:23:57.427" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you type in your new question, watch the suggested topics that come up.  Phrase it a few different ways before you're sure that nothing already has you covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, redundancy is OK.  Think of it like Google -- if you try a few different sets of search terms and nothing comes up, then there needs to be an entry with those terms.  So go ahead and ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" />
  <row Id="19974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2008-09-18T02:25:02.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently search and browsing by tags are your only option. (How else do you &quot;find&quot; something besides searching?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you clarify your question with an example, we might be able to help you use the search better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for more sophisticated filtering, for example a search like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answered:today votes:10+ (asp OR vbscript)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you will want to post that feature on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.uservoice.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" />
  <row Id="19975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2008-09-18T04:57:54.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I can't find something on google because I either don't know the correct terms to use or the terms are way too braod for an effective search, I jump on irc.freenode.net and join the official chatroom for what ever language/framework I'm having issues with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with freenode is you are talking to people so you have to be slightly more communicative than when you're talking to a search engine. The great thing about freenode is you are talking to a person that can probably grasp your problem better than a computer could. It's hit or miss on whether you get someone helpful but I've had good results on some of my more bizarre questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16204" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" />
  <row Id="19976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2008-09-18T21:22:16.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search Google&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Switch to searching Google Groups if you don't find anything on the web&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Search Google with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &lt;em&gt;searchterm(s)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use stackoverflow's search and restrict your search to specific tags by enclosing them in square brackets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;searchterm(s)&lt;/em&gt; [tag1] [tag2]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type &lt;strong&gt;just&lt;/strong&gt; keywords into the Ask Question Title input and press tab to see suggestions &lt;br&gt;(currently this will search &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; the topic titles for those keywords)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:36:27.190" />
  <row Id="19977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-09T15:13:45.263" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to find a pre-existing question for this but couldn't find one... if there is one, consider this ironic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there is a guideline / strategy / recommendation of how to deal with multiple similar / partially overlapping questions or answers. I know the official stance is that the repeated questions have value in their different wording to make answers more findable, but the flip-side is that there often doesn't end up being one place that has the &lt;strong&gt;full&lt;/strong&gt; answer on a given topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it would seem logical that merging such questions and/or answers into a more complete whole and then referring the less complete versions to the full explanation (maybe there even needs to be an &lt;code&gt;canonical-answer&lt;/code&gt; tag for such Q/As?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But are there actually any guidelines on this? Create a new question and answer to hold the (new) complete answer? Or will this result in people offering up more incomplete answers while the new question is being copy-edited? ... Pick one of the existing Q/As and turn it into a complete version? How to pick which one to start from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't going to be necessary with every topic, but over the last few weeks I have seen at least half a dozen variants of the &lt;em&gt;&quot;I have a generic type in .NET, but I want to bind its type argument at run time... why doesn't it take a Type parameter?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This Stack Overflow blog post kinda addresses the duplicates issue: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&lt;/a&gt;, but does not exactly cover the case I am discussing here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, what I am discussing here is multiple questions that fall in the 'Borderline duplicates' category, where the recommendation is to leave them all standing, because it increases the surface area for different wordings when searching for a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm trying to address here is when borderline duplicates discuss the same topic without being the same question, and where as a result, none of the individual answers treat the topic in-depth enough for any of them to be the 'canonical' resource on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm trying to suggest here is a mechanism for consolidating this knowledge and referring the original questions to this one resource to avoid users being faced with half a dozen related questions that discuss a topic, maybe none of which exactly cover their question, or maybe they give up after trying a few of the questions, when the next one possibly could have answered them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131481" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-22T20:00:50.863" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T20:00:50.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-10T00:33:13.720" Title="Guideline: Merging SO Questions / Answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19977" CreationDate="2009-06-10T01:25:11.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like nobody is willing to stick out their necks on this one, so let me give my suggestion to start the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When to merge questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a number of pre-existing questions that all deal with the same topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The topics are all closely related and narrow (no big essays covering a whole technology)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No premature optimization&lt;/strong&gt;: merging is frowned upon if there are not at least three questions already dealing with the topic. Let the actual questions decide when in-depth treatment is warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Process for merging&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-posts-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;CW&lt;/a&gt; question that covers all the details from the questions that are being merged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pick a title that indicates the topic covered, do not make the title a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag the question at least with '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/canonical-answer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;canonical-answer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write an answer that includes at least the salient details from the accepted answers of the merged questions, but pad this answer out as needed to provide clear and total coverage of the topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the original unmerged questions, add a link at the top, formatted as: '&lt;code&gt;Canonical answer: &amp;lt;link to question&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of the new '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/canonical-answer&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;canonical-answer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;' tag will make sure that those who want to make sure this mechanism meets minimum quality criteria can easily find all such merged questions and make sure the answers are as polished and complete as they can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making a new question/answer and linking from the merged questions ensures that the impact on existing questions is minimal while still providing full details to anyone who happens to find one of the original questions through a search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131481" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:38:45.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-10T01:25:11.417" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="19979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19946" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:40:18.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have brought up a valid question that has come up before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a disjoint between the usage of 'favorite' and the title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People use 'favorite' when they want to keep tabs on a question. It is used when people are interested in knowing an answer, or in the case of edit wars, when they are interested in following what happens to the question. It is an indication of &lt;em&gt;interest&lt;/em&gt; and not an indication of &lt;em&gt;support&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this reason, your idea (to encourage upvotes on clicking 'favorite') makes sense when you consider the title of the feature, but not the actual way it is used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a final note, as was already mentioned, they are separate features for a reason. Even if favorite was used as it was meant to be used, there is still no reason to force or nudge users to upvote a question if they chose not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:40:18.780" />
  <row Id="19980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19987" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:40:35.893" Score="-1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;If bounties were smaller, like 10 or 20 points, I would be much more likely to spend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe bounties should be a whole percentage of your total points (rounded up)?   This would make questions by advanced users generally chuckier as compared to newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132251" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T00:35:02.127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T00:35:02.127" Title="Can the lower bound of a &quot;bounty&quot; be smaller?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19968" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:42:30.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can duplicate this - Firefox, Chrome, and IE on Windows XP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As voyager pointed out, we're just not looking at the right thing. It's the title, not the link text. I attempted to change my vote, but alas! It is too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastEditorUserId="58114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:02:48.970" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:02:48.970" />
  <row Id="19982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19980" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:43:54.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is necessary, it is easy enough to get a few hundred reputation, and it is meant to be significant encouragement to get an answer. I could just go to some easy VB homework question for more than 30 or 40 reputation. Why would I go after your bounty instead and do more work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:43:54.657" />
  <row Id="19983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19980" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:44:26.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of bounties is to stir up a response to a question that has receive little or no sufficient response. Offering 100, 200, etc bounty points will bring in the answers. Users already provide answers knowing that they'll be awarded 10 or 20 points (1 or 2 upvotes) if their answer is good. I don't think giving micro-bounties will really give any different response than no micro-bounty at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to offer a good bounty, I would go out &quot;grinding&quot; for rep by answering questions in your field of experience. You can accrue 100 or 200 rep in a short amount of time rather easily if you're in your comfort-zone (subject-wise). Then return to your question, and post a hefty reward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:44:26.823" />
  <row Id="19984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19980" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:47:38.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good question will get more then enough up votes to cover the cost of the bounty.  I just got a 200% return on the investment I made in the bounty for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1305709/measured-slowdown-of-microsoft-visual-studio-due-to-different-virus-scanner&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; as more people looked at the question and up-voted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:47:38.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19980" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:50:20.773" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounties were created as a way to in some way reward those who have put a lot of time and effort into the site. They are able to spend some of the good karma they earned in order to get a question answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creating a sliding scale percentage option does not really make sense, because each bounty is created according to how much the user is willing to give, and as they gain more and more reputation, it is more likely that they will offer more. Creating an enforcement of the percentage is just creating extra rules for no reason. The users who already did approximately that will not notice, and the users who don't will be upset. Everyone loses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional bonus for creating a bounty is that it gets the question on the featured page. There are bounty hunters who troll the feature page specifically to gain the generous extra points. If the bounties were to get smaller, then the &quot;featured&quot; page would be come diluted and less visited. It would be covered with tiny, inconsequential bounties which no one particularly cares about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, because of the rules associated with the bounty. It would mean that after seven days, an &quot;answer&quot; would be forced upon the question, which would be unfortunate if the answer was wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I think we should leave the bounty rules the way they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:50:20.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="19989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19968" CreationDate="2009-09-03T18:58:50.227" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[link][1]&#xA;  [1]: http://www.example.com &quot;title&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;optional title&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; is the text of the link, and optional title works well both on the preview and on the posted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;optional title&quot; is the text that goes on the &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; tag, not inside the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T18:58:50.227" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="19990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20053" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:00:55.760" Score="-2" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the questions I put up on  a particular topic/tag often I get fantastic answers from certain SO members simply because they &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; the topic better than the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible for me route a&#xA;question to a member or set of&#xA;members who could give me good,&#xA;concise answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very often the SO member would&#xA;overlook my question or probably&#xA;even miss it in the mass of&#xA;questions on SO, this facility would&#xA;still make it possible for the&#xA;question to be delivered to the&#xA;particular member.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The name of the member/members to&#xA;whom the question is routed is&#xA;may/may not be made public. Its upto&#xA;the member to answer the question&#xA;and he/she is not bound.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question would still be viewable&#xA;to others and they could also&#xA;answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:16:18.743" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T05:51:47.047" Title="Routing a Question to a Particular SO Member or Members" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;question-routing&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="19991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:02:16.770" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want a particular user to see it, try and find their contact details in their profile (if they make any available).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not be trying to leverage individual users but the entire community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to &quot;contact&quot; particular users is to make sure that you are writing your questions clearly and that you are using good titles and tagging. Many of the power users around the sites will be following their specialty tags, so if you reference those tags, it is likely to pick up their attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not care at all for ideas which lean towards private messaging, &quot;shout outs&quot;, referrals, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:12:43.900" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:12:43.900" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19824" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:03:33.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey sweet, I'm getting paid?  Thanks for the good news!  =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, currently, SO's user page 1 ends at 26k, and they have only 2 community mods.  Though I think you could look at precedent to see that 10k doesn't a new moderator make, maybe this question is an indication that the wording could be more concise.  That's the point of meta, right?  If an idea gains enough traction and gets enough upvotes, it's likely to get some attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm not sure the downvotes were intended to be hostile, but were possibly a vote against the idea.  It seems a little nebulous on meta, whether the downvote is used to vote against the &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; or the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;.  Though it's hard not to take downvotes personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Makes for some fiery posts, it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:03:33.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="19993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:11:54.087" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although you're not talking about purely private messaging, the first part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17951/why-not-a-pm-system/17954#17954&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; still seems relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Looking at other help sites, the most&#xA;  common use for this system is new&#xA;  users bugging established experts to&#xA;  look at their questions. If you were&#xA;  Jon Skeet, would you really want to&#xA;  have to filter through 100 requests&#xA;  per day? ... &lt;code&gt;delete delete delete&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:11:54.087" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="19994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:13:44.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that if you get great answers from a particular user, that means many other people do too. If you open up a way for everybody to contact their favorite users, those users will likely draw away from providing answers in the future. Let users answer on their own time, and at their own convenience - don't make it into a task for them :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Consider this...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can pretty much already do this. We all know that Jon reads the c-sharp questions. So tag your question with c-sharp, and let him come across it. Suppose you could send it to his inbox instead, along with everybody else who is sending their question across to his inbox. Your changes aren't increased, and in fact they may be decreased as he may feel &quot;inbox-questions&quot; are supposed to be answered. If he feels pressured, he may just delete them all - killing your chances of having yours answered. For your own good, tag your questions well, make sure they're thought-through, and Jon will find you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:28:20.017" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:28:20.017" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:15:21.257" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gotta trust the system.  I assume that most users mark their favorite tags and don't generally read ALL questions.  Chances are that those pros are going to see your question if it's properly tagged in an area they favor.  This feature could possibly &lt;em&gt;discourage&lt;/em&gt; people from taking care with their tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the functionality is basically already there, from the system's perspective.  Anything more direct would likely be... pushy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:15:21.257" />
  <row Id="19996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:16:13.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are not all knowing, and even though they regularly give good answers. Might also mean that they are plain wrong on another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping an open playing field gives exposure to the question and you might get an answer you never would have expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:16:13.160" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="19997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:22:30.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's quite the question - perhaps the people you notice giving good answers to your questions are the only ones patient enough to read through the whole thing? You might get better responses for more people by asking concise questions with an easily definable 'good answer'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:22:30.150" />
  <row Id="19998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16896" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:23:06.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't think up voting questions provides much use to the site.  Most of the pages do not sort questions by votes, and usually the highest voted questions are the low hanging fruit type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example of what I mean, take a look at the &quot;hot&quot; questions on SF - &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions?sort=hot&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions?sort=hot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything is 3 votes or less and there is little correlation between the question's score and its usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site would be just as functional if there were no scores on the questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is that a question may be asked poorly or missing information and then get down voted, but if the person edits the question to add the relevant info the votes are still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastEditorUserId="130157" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:39:00.980" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:39:00.980" />
  <row Id="19999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:27:07.903" Score="28" ViewCount="526" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should the titles of Stack Overflow questions be phrased as questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I would like to learn good ways to &quot;foo&quot; a &quot;bar&quot;, which is a better question title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I foo a bar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fooing a bar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that in both cases I explicitly spell out the question in the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which version is preferable and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146181" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T20:22:22.680" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T17:33:31.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:27:07.903" Title="Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="20000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:27:20.213" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Fooing a bar.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shorter.  Fewer superfluous words means more room for keywords.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easier to visually grep through and sort questions by title if they don't all start with &quot;How do I&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; of a question is just that, a title.  The question itself can legitimately be in the body.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's what you might choose for the title of a collection of mini-essays on a (perhaps highly esoteric) topic, which is consistent with Joel and Jeff's originally articulated vision for Stackoverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some questions (cf. this one [added: though the commenter below managed it nicely]) would just be too convoluted to try to phrase as questions.  In any case, full consistency of style in this regard is not really an option anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lets you reserve literal questions for things you're actually uncertain about, such as &quot;Is the C-preprocessor Turing-complete?&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The creators of StackOverflow, at least sometimes, do it this way.  Eg, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/337704&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/337704&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20047&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20047&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the title clearly conveys what the question is about, it need not be explicitly in the form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146181" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:24:12.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:27:20.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:27:41.507" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I foo a bar?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're explicitly called questions so non-question phrasing is grammatically jarring.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall consistency of style across the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone finding the question via a Google search may have a better sense of what they're clicking on if the title is phrased as a question. I.e., they're reaching a question-and-answer site as opposed to a tutorial or essay on the given topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Although it's possible to clearly convey the point of the question with either format, enforcing the question phrasing is more likely to yield a self-explanatory title.  Otherwise people might start using titles like &quot;Styles for Question Titles&quot;, which is insufficiently specific.  In other words, it helps avoid a slippery slope.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exceptions may occasionally exist, but the default should be to put an explicit question in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146181" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T10:27:53.057" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T10:27:53.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:27:41.507" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:55:43.027" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions lend themselves to the terse &quot;Fooing a bar.&quot; format. Others are more clear as &quot;How do I foo a bar?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Priorities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be clear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be terse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of &quot;Fooing a bar&quot; which I think would not be improved by phrasing it as a question, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3301922/static-channelfactory-in-global-asax-cs-throws-communicationobjectfaultedexceptio&quot;&gt;static ChannelFactory in Global.asax.cs throws CommunicationObjectFaultedException&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  It's a very specific topic with a necessarily long title which would have no advantage if phrased as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="337" LastEditorUserId="337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-21T20:10:25.450" LastActivityDate="2010-07-21T20:10:25.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:55:43.027" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="20003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2008-11-25T19:59:26.763" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure that nowhere in the FAQ does it say the TITLE of the question has to be in the form of a question.  Edits that change it to be like that irritate me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131050" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T10:44:53.783" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T10:44:53.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T19:59:26.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2008-11-25T21:22:14.410" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It totally depends. But the title must either be clear about the question, or be an invitation to read further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen some very bad titles (like &quot;I Need Help!!!!&quot;, with several exclamation marks). But that is completely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, if you want somone else to take care to answer the question, you should take care to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:24:12.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T21:22:14.410" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2008-11-26T12:05:22.523" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good question is going to give the reader as much context in as short a space as possible. A good question is going to let the reader know what he is going to read, and in this case, let the answerers know what end-state you desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take your first example, &quot;Fooing a bar&quot;. Although short, it lacks context. There's nothing in the question that indicates what sort of answer that could be. Possible actual questions include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Philosophy: Is it wise to foo a bar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advice: When should I foo a bar but baz a bar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mechanics: How do I foo a bar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibility: Can I foo a bar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comparison: How many different ways can I foo a bar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Survey: How do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; foo a bar?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those extra words aren't just sitting there doing nothing. Each one of those is a different question with a different answer and a potentially different audience. They are directing the answer and informing the reader. Choosing the right question is the key to getting the answer that you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@dreeves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You coudln't leave well-enough alone, so it's full disclosure time. You've neglected to tell everyone that you are asking this because you and I are going back and forth on four of your questions, all of which you made community wikis but do not accept edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95492&quot;&gt;95492&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236737&quot;&gt;236737&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65865&quot;&gt;65865&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/206661&quot;&gt;206661&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't really care what Stack Overflow does. You're building your case, without showing people the context, of something you are trying enforce. Indeed, you spoil the debate by &quot;seeding&quot; it with both sides before the community even had a chance to respond. You've intentionally biased the community to favor you. You're not interested in what the community should do, you're just pushing the community toward what you want. It's all very unethical and slimey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;None of my edited titles are excessively longer than original. If you are going for short, you don't achieve that since you could make your titles shorter without loss of information (although still missing needed context). &quot;Short&quot; is specious. You don't really want that, as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4234/dreeves&quot;&gt;the long and convoluted titles of your other questions&lt;/a&gt;. You're using it as a justification to rationalize not accepting edits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why you have trouble &quot;visually grepping&quot;. That seems to be something you need to work out on your own. You're arguing about what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; find easy, although what most people find easy are full questions because they are used to this from FAQs and customer service documents. You're thinking about yourself instead  of the community, and the Google-indexing of the content here. You don't seem to optimize your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4234/dreeves&quot;&gt;other question titles&lt;/a&gt; for whatever &quot;visually grepping&quot; means.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You argued about your &quot;mini-essay&quot; idea in your second email to me, as you forget the counterpoint that I responded with (again, because you aren't being fair in this argument). You don't intend these to be mini essays. You're asking poll-style questions about beginner-level topics already covered in the Perl docs. Neither your &quot;extended&quot; explanation or any of the answers have been mini-essays. Although your intent may have been for them to be that, they haven't been. You mention in this question that one title form should be okay if you fully explain the question later, but you didn't do that previously. You've edited at least one question very recently to do that, but that hasn't been your style up to now. You're being dishonest here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;None of my edits have been convoluted. Your versions, however, have been, including the title to this question. Two people agreed that you need a better title for this question and one of them has a better title, but you dismiss them. Clearly, you just don't want people editing what you've done. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4234/dreeves&quot;&gt;Your other question titles are a mess&lt;/a&gt;. You don't really have the goal of making things short or explaining further in the extended question. You have the goal of making things the way you did first. That is, you choose the &quot;community wiki&quot; flag, but don't really want it to be a wiki or belong to the community. Your real goal is ownership, and that's what you told me in email. However, you don't address that in your arguments, do you? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you're sure about something, why are you posing a question? This gets back to your mini-essay idea, but you don't follow through on it. You don't provide the mini-essay. Your answers to your own questions don't explore the subject in any depth, and your answers often show that you don't know the depth of the subject. So, if you aren't asking a question, why are you wasting people's time trying to get answers? That time could go to someone else who really has a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136666" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T15:14:26.610" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T15:14:26.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T12:05:22.523" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2009-01-02T06:54:29.960" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rephrasing of titles also plays merry hell with the RSS feed. I find it particularly irritating when the OP had written a clear title phrased as a question, yet the sub-editor still feels compelled to tweak it, frequently adding nothing of real value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:24:12.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2009-01-02T06:58:51.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever Google will find.  Whatever the built-in search will find. If it can either one,  then it doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19512" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:24:12.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-02T06:58:51.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:26:19.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess SO members have made their choice!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Let this request be laid to rest. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:26:19.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-01T03:44:29.807" Score="15" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was asking a question in serverfault.com and this message warned me (correctly!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question you're asking appears&#xA;  subjective and is likely to be closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm curious if there any classifier or machine learning technique behind, or if it is just some heuristics on keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132254" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T11:21:27.430" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T11:21:27.430" Title="What algorithm does StackOverflow use to determine if a question may be subjective?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;algorithm&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20010" CreationDate="2009-05-01T03:48:50.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keywords.  It's matching the titles against a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163561" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:26:53.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20010" CreationDate="2009-05-01T03:52:10.913" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (post.Contains(&quot;serverfault&quot;) || &#xA;    post.PhraseLike(&quot;what is the [funniest|worst|best]*&quot;)) {&#xA;    // looks like meta question&#xA;    IsSubjective = true;&#xA;    return SubjectiveMessageResult();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:26:53.090" />
  <row Id="20013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20010" CreationDate="2009-05-01T03:55:42.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/32465/samuel&quot;&gt;Samuel&lt;/a&gt; is screening them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153232" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:26:53.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-01T03:56:48.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20010" CreationDate="2009-05-01T16:47:37.523" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't use the following words in a subject title - it connotes subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Worst&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hardest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favourite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.uservoice.com/pages/17382-general/suggestions/179922-remove-subjective-question-warning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff posted the regex&lt;/a&gt; in uservoice (As of May 2, 2009): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Regex.IsMatch(s, @&quot;\bbest\b|\bworst\b|\bhardest\b|\byour?\b|\bfavou?rite\b&quot;, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to note that avoiding the above words does not make your question any less subjective - &quot;Best management tool&quot; is inherently subjective - the warning is not there to tell you to avoid certain words, but to avoid the question altogether, or to re-word it so it can be evaluated objectively and measurably so that the answer is the same for everyone in your situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has also been deployed here at StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:26:53.090" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20010" CreationDate="2009-05-06T16:06:42.650" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly the best way to approach this problem would be using a Bayesian classifier; the same technology that is used for spam. As the site has a good training data set of questions that have and/or have not been closed as subjective, it should be able to determine with a high probability whether a new question is subjective, in exactly the same way as a spam filter does with spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether they &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; use this technique, I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149762" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:26:53.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20017" CreationDate="2009-03-04T21:32:45.573" Score="14" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how many times this has happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I decide to bring it to stack overflow &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I awkwardly write down my question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I realize that the question doesn't make any sense&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I take 15 minutes to rethink how to ask my question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I realize that I'm attacking the problem from a wrong direction entirely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I start from scratch and find my solution quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this happen to you?  Sometimes asking the right question seems like half the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139051" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T22:36:09.853" Title="Why is it that properly formulating your question (for stackoverflow) often yields you your answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-03-04T21:35:43.383" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At work a friend and I often bounce programming problems off of each other when we encounter a snag. I would say about 75% of the time simply asking the question yields the answer. Often times just trying to explain the situation out loud forces you to think about it in a way that you haven't been while sitting there in front of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136412" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:29:38.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-03-04T21:36:10.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How To Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/a&gt; by Eric S. Raymond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, you should be trying to solve the question yourself, and documenting how you already tried to solve it. This not only makes it more likely for you to SOLVE it yourself, but keeps other people from barking up the wrong tree (and thus comments like &quot;I already tried that, you doofus; thanks anyway, though&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:29:38.717" />
  <row Id="20019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-03-04T21:36:20.963" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, definitely. Formalizing the problem from &quot;vague collection of knowledge in my head&quot; to &quot;sentences that would make sense to someone outside my head&quot; is very clarifying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, having solved my own problem by attempting to write it down for a coworker, or for SO, how often do I go ahead and post the question (and my own answer) so that others don't have to go through the same process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139091" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:29:38.717" />
  <row Id="20020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-03-04T21:36:35.253" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My friend used to call this &quot;Telling it to Darth&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At his old company they had a life size Darth Vader cut out in the hall way with a chair sitting next to it.  Whenever they had a bug they couldn't figure out, before asking another dev for help, they had to sit in the chair and tell the problem to Darth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He said it had a roughly 50% success rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:29:38.717" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-03-04T21:39:42.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Explaining a problem to someone else forces you to understand it better. That's why teaching can be a great way to learn. When a student asks you a question that you've never considered before, it's a great motivator to think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's also one of the advantages of pair programming. Discussion leads to greater understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134689" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:29:38.717" />
  <row Id="20022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-03-04T22:25:51.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - It does happen to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:29:38.717" />
  <row Id="20023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-03-04T22:26:13.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No - It does not happen to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:29:38.717" />
  <row Id="20024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:25:39.160" Score="1" ViewCount="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question I asked (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62491/how-to-create-j2me-midlets-for-nokia-using-eclipse&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;) has an answer that's important, but answers a different question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62491/how-to-create-j2me-midlets-for-nokia-using-eclipse#63728&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I move the answer to a proper question without copy-pasting it? It is important to me that the original author of the answer retains credit for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Asaf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134076" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:31:23.080" Title="How do I move extra-informative answer to a different question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="20025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20024" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:26:25.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just Copy/Past it, or provide a link to the origonal post, or both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:31:23.080" />
  <row Id="20026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20024" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:29:27.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could just ask the author to re-post their answer under the second question. That seems like the simplest, low-tech solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt Jeff has a special tool to let you re-link the actual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:31:23.080" />
  <row Id="20027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20024" CreationDate="2008-09-15T23:38:41.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's not your answer, and you don't have the reputation to edit other's answers (currently 2000) it is sometimes still possible to see the markup for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer has been edited so that it has an &lt;strong&gt;edited X timeunits ago&lt;/strong&gt; link, you can click on that link to view the revision history and then click the &lt;strong&gt;view source&lt;/strong&gt; link to open a new tab/window with it in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it hasn't been edited then you can still view the revision history, but you'll have to manually enter the url in your browser's address bar. Click on the &lt;strong&gt;link&lt;/strong&gt; link for the answer to get it's unique number in the anchor of the url (after the # character) and then go to the url:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;number&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;/list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in your case you can see the revision history &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/63728/list&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and the source &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/viewmarkup/82161&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've got the markup you can copy and paste it to another question, crediting the original author and providing a link back to the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And if anyone is concerned about whether it's right to duplicate an answer, all the content contributed to the site is done so under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Attribution-Share Alike license&lt;/a&gt; as stated in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and it's worth duplicating as the original answer may eventually be deleted if it's not relevant to the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:31:23.080" />
  <row Id="20028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20024" CreationDate="2008-09-15T23:52:16.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pose a new question with the answer as an insightful one (giving attribution of course). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe then someone else will have a better answer and it'll get up-voted and everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141313" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:31:23.080" />
  <row Id="20029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24518" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:32:14.753" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this SQL statement, notice the color of the word &quot;having&quot; versus the words &quot;select&quot;, &quot;from&quot;, &quot;where&quot;, and &quot;group by&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select&#xA;  cu.name&#xA; ,cu.email&#xA; ,count(*) as books_purchased&#xA;from&#xA;  customers cu&#xA; ,purchases pu&#xA;where cu.customerid = pu.customerid&#xA;  and pu.year = 2003&#xA;group by&#xA;  cu.name&#xA; ,cu.email&#xA;having&#xA;  count(*) &amp;gt; 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="672" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:53:01.720" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:06:50.013" Title="Shouldn't the code formatter highlight the word &quot;having&quot; for SQL syntax?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19824" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:32:48.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I compiled a short summary of the current diamond moderator count and the links to the lists for each of them &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15703/how-many-moderators-are-there-of-stackoverflow/15704#15704&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the diamond moderators are chosen by voting here on Meta, for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14417/vote-for-super-user-moderator-poll&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5787/superuser-com-moderator-nomination&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or in the past on the Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4428/how-a-moderator-is-chosen-in-so&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. That said these moderators are chosen not for their knowledge or skill particularly, but rather for their ability to manage the community and make fair judgements and resolve issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 10K mods are mainly focussing on keeping the content clean, rather then managing the users. A lot of the diamond moderators you will find actually don't have very high reputation counts, with the few exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major differences of the tools provided to moderators is listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3783/moderator-abilities&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Also diamond moderators have final say powers, if we close or delete it is immediate, no 5 user waiting period as is the case with 10K moderators. Also diamond moderators can view moderator tags and flags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly we get the Flame-throwers. We can ban, destroy and even delete user accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:32:48.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:13:26.067" Score="20" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the official policy for Vendors hawking their products as a solution to someones question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it encouraged? Discouraged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a vendor here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29746/thomas-hansen&quot;&gt;thomas-hansen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hawking his stuff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/313611/aspnet-control-in-jquery-modal#313623&quot;&gt;aspnet-control-in-jquery-modal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315758/aspnet-based-workflow-engine#315977&quot;&gt;aspnet-based-workflow-engine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/308406/how-can-i-find-out-how-my-site-was-hacked-how-do-i-find-site-vulnerabilities#308643&quot;&gt;how-can-i-find-out-how-my-site-was-hacked-how-do-i-find-site-vulnerabilities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279552/asp-ajax-calendar-extender-and-displaying-time#316059&quot;&gt;asp-ajax-calendar-extender-and-displaying-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286311/for-our-next-project-i-would-like-to-get-into-some-ajax-to-improve-the-user-int#304632&quot;&gt;for-our-next-project-i-would-like-to-get-into-some-ajax-to-improve-the-user-int&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I vote on these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T09:40:36.313" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T09:40:36.313" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:13:26.067" Title="Vendors on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam-prevention&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:14:36.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spam.&#xA;(Unless the question happens to be, &quot;can someone recommend an AJAX library for ASP.NET&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:14:36.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:16:22.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just have to downvote him and write a comment with a reason if you do not like. At least his post doesn't spam for a product that make non-sense like Viagra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:16:22.643" />
  <row Id="20034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:16:40.040" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's not an answer to the question, down vote it.  If they do provide the best answer (or even just a good answer) I'd up vote.  If they're shamelessly plugging their company when there's an obviously better answer (define &quot;better&quot; however you wish), then I'd consider it offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:16:40.040" />
  <row Id="20035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:18:23.250" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally, there is very little wrong in believing in one's own product and recommending it to others. However, ethically, a poster should provide some sort of disclaimer of their bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39532" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:18:23.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:33:54.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spam. In most cases this person has been reasonably up front about it, but is still spam.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions about ajax libraries and so forth, if I wanted a vendor perspective, I would ask a vendor. I turn to SO for community opinion and consensus, not canned marketing speak. You can get that anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I don't think Thomas was being in anyway offensive in these cases, and had a fair degree of disclosure, but as a matter of principle, if vendors want exposure on SO, they should pay for ad space. That's what keeps this afloat.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, we will end up with people making a commercial venture of seeding SO with product plugs, just like digg. It's bound to happen eventually, but would be nice if we could keep SO useful for a little while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:33:54.233" />
  <row Id="20037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:36:17.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at your links, this particular poster seems to put disclosures (that he works for it), besides his library is open-source (LPGL), so if (and only if) the answer really fits to the problem, it seems ok for me. I mean, you can generally use the code, try it, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, like on the first link where the question is about jQuery, it is off-topic, and it should be downvoted I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a commercial proprietary product, it's different, unless there is no other clear solution to the problem, I would consider it as an ad, so as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:36:17.923" />
  <row Id="20038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:49:57.490" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think SO is working as designed here. Of the posts you mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/313611/aspnet-control-in-jquery-modal#313623&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/313611/aspnet-control-in-jquery-modal#313623&lt;/a&gt; was heavily downvoted because the question specifically asked how to do something in jQuery and he answered he had no idea, but could do it this way in a totally unrelated product.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315758/aspnet-based-workflow-engine#315977&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315758/aspnet-based-workflow-engine#315977&lt;/a&gt; was a decent answer (I thought) although the questioner sated that it wasn't really what they were looking for and left a (snide?) comment about some legal issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/308406/how-can-i-find-out-how-my-site-was-hacked-how-do-i-find-site-vulnerabilities#308643&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/308406/how-can-i-find-out-how-my-site-was-hacked-how-do-i-find-site-vulnerabilities#308643&lt;/a&gt; was a shameless plug and he freely admitted this in the answer - anyway, it was heavily downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279552/asp-ajax-calendar-extender-and-displaying-time#316059&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279552/asp-ajax-calendar-extender-and-displaying-time#316059&lt;/a&gt; seemed a decent answer but none of the answers to that question got votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286311/for-our-next-project-i-would-like-to-get-into-some-ajax-to-improve-the-user-int#304632&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286311/for-our-next-project-i-would-like-to-get-into-some-ajax-to-improve-the-user-int#304632&lt;/a&gt; is in the same situation as the last.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, some of the answers are marked offensive, presumably as spam since I couldn't detect either abuse or hate-mail in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're unhappy with the answers, vote them down or mark them offensive.  But it should be on the merits of the individual answer; don't be vindictive towards a user simply because of behaviour (what if you get a question &quot;I'm looking for an product that a friend mentioned, sounding something like Re Ajacs but Google isn't helping. Does anyone know its real name?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:49:57.490" />
  <row Id="20039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T01:53:41.260" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi Daok, thank you for noticing me :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'm not a &quot;vendor&quot;. Ra-Ajax is LGPL and Free of Charge to use, and yes as Mezoid says, I truly believe in my own product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more importantly I try to only post links to Ra-Ajax where it makes sense within the frames of the question. Is this wrong...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is I will modify my behavior, though I feel it's quite OK...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fundamentally I don't see the difference between someone posting a link to some jQuery or Prototype solutions for a question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T01:53:41.260" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T02:18:46.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If its a real vendor, I think it should not be allowed, It wouldn't be fair for Jeff Atwood and other owners of stack overflow. If they want to advertise the should really contact the SO team. Or maybe SO should have a vendor type account, which incur some fees to register.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T02:18:46.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2008-11-25T04:37:31.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, Thomas is recommending an LGPL library in a manner which seems very on-topic for the questions he is answering.  I have no problem with his doing it, though I would like to see always that the poster has included a disclaimer of affiliation so I could be aware of possible bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were a commercial offering, I would, as others have suggested down-vote it and expect that they pay for advertising on SO.  I would also flag it and tag it SPAM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:33:15.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-25T04:37:31.380" />
  <row Id="20042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-08T21:07:42.057" Score="7" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if I should post this on uservoice, as it is not a feature request or a bug report, but just the fact that I don't see this explained anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose there is a question asked by someone else, and you really want have a good answer because that would solve your problem as well. Now, a lot of people give replies and one of the answers gets accepted. However, the answer is not that good and does not solve your problem. You try add comments, but some people who would otherwise bother to give a correct answer will probably skip the question completely as it is marked as 'answer given and accepted'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what should you do in such case? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea is to open a new, completely identical question, but now you're in control to decide when it is answered. But, would that go against SO rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:34:46.177" Title="If you are not satisfied with answers on someone else's question, should you start your own?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20042" CreationDate="2008-10-08T21:10:07.030" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opening an identical question would probably result in it being closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest rewording the question and making it clear that you are looking for different information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131953" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:34:46.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-08T21:10:07.030" />
  <row Id="20044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20042" CreationDate="2008-10-08T21:10:50.523" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would start a new question and specify in the writeup the reason why the duplicate (with a link to the original) is being created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148633" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:34:46.177" />
  <row Id="20045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20042" CreationDate="2008-10-08T21:11:43.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say, &quot;Yes&quot;, but the history here is that any such question is likely to get severely downvoted and closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can find something to distinguish your question from the previous one beyond a simple re-wording, and link to that as a &quot;starting point&quot;, you might get away with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:34:46.177" />
  <row Id="20046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20042" CreationDate="2008-10-08T21:45:41.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A completely identical question will probably get voted down, but if you carefully explain why the answer to the original question is unsatisfactory you might get a better answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:34:46.177" />
  <row Id="20047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20029" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:35:13.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds more like a potential bug with the Prettify, which is a separate project and not associated with StackOverflow or any of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:35:13.250" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4813" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:35:27.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See my answer to the related question here:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6812/vb-net-syntax-highligting-does-not-properly-support-comment/6860#6860&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6812/vb-net-syntax-highligting-does-not-properly-support-comment/6860#6860&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, you can do this as workaround for now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;''# You're commenting!&#xA;Dim c As New Comment()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:35:27.663" />
  <row Id="20049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20050" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:35:39.630" Score="12" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm answering a question, and my question is the 3rd or 4th answer, I can't see the original question while I'm typing.  I often scroll up to re-read some part of the original question.  Sometimes I even paste the question into the answer box as I'm typing, so that it will be right there for me to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that when answering, the position of the question and the answer edit box should always look the way it does for the very &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; person to answer a question- that is, the question should be directly above the editor.  Then after submitting an answer, it would fall to the bottom, just as it currently does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="672" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T19:52:26.243" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:52:26.243" Title="Show the question nearby as you are typing your answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="20050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20049" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:36:56.943" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes please, I often open up a new tab with the question for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:36:56.943" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20029" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:42:03.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reported it to google.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/detail?id=91&amp;amp;q=having&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Issue #91.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to have to retract the report.  The current version there handles &quot;having&quot; correctly.  Investigating more now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T20:28:47.253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:28:47.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:42:17.383" Score="4" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since they are in fact new to that particular site. They do appear in the frontpage view but I'm wondering if they benefit from appearing in the &quot;New Questions&quot; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has it's pitfalls. Like what if a 2 year old question is migrated. (and more) &#xA;And it has it's advantages. Like people who only monitor the &quot;New Questions&quot; list and the frontpage list can often be to chaotic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:49:29.587" Title="Should questions when migrated be shown in the &quot;New Questions&quot; list?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="20053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:44:25.650" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to buck the trend. I actually don't think it's a particularly bad idea. Sometimes other people really &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know that I'll be interested in a question (and may be able to answer it), but occasionally I'll miss it for some reason. In those situations, I'd welcome my attention being drawn to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it could become a bit of a burden, so I'd want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way to bulk-delete questions from the list, just based on title/tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Automatic removal of a question from the list if I answer it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A link in the question page to remove the question and go back to the list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way of blocking users who bother me too much&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature could also be a way that users could remind &lt;em&gt;themselves&lt;/em&gt; to come back to answer a question later. Marking it as a favourite is one way of doing that, but I use favourites as a more long-term list, rather than a to-do list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's one problem which is already inherent in the system, but which this would make worse: it would encourage users who are waiting for an answer from an individual to upvote or accept an answer as soon as it's been posted by that &quot;blessed&quot; answerer. That's dangerous - it goes against the principle of judging each answer on its own merits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right, now for the onslaught of downvotes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:44:25.650" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20052" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:45:33.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have wanted either that or a new listing of &quot;recently migrated&quot; (something the mods would be very thankful for because of the inevitability of cleanup requirements). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping it in the middle of the list has a tendency for it to get lost in the shuffle and it may not get the attention it needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:45:33.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20052" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:49:08.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great idea. Even if the question is very old, the fact that it was on the wrong site means that it was not viewed by the correct audience. If a question is moved to Server Fault it is still a new question there and deserves a fair shot at getting answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:49:08.277" />
  <row Id="20056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20052" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:49:29.587" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, I think the timestamp should be reset. I mean, &lt;em&gt;it's a new question&lt;/em&gt;... it just happens to have a closed, locked, doppelganger on another site. Give it a fresh start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:49:29.587" />
  <row Id="20057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17624" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:50:14.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't even notice the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:50:14.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20059" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:50:47.980" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&quot;&gt;Display the original question beneath the answer edit form&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20049/show-the-question-nearby-as-you-are-typing-your-answer&quot;&gt;this request&lt;/a&gt;, I think it would be helpful to see the original question when you're editing an answer. Often times I edit my answers to add/tweak code samples, but have to switch tabs/windows to see the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:53:50.720" ClosedDate="2009-09-03T21:47:52.067" Title="Show question when editing an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20058" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:52:05.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if implimented (the original request) that It would apply to both New Answers and Editing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:52:05.700" />
  <row Id="20060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20058" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:53:50.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had the same problem in the past, much like the previous request of having to open multiple windows. I'm personally used to it, but being able to see everything from one screen would make things a whole hell of a lot easier all around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:53:50.720" />
  <row Id="20061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:56:28.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better yet, keep it small starting out, but then &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7477/autosizing-textarea&quot;&gt;make it grow as you type into it&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T19:56:28.513" />
  <row Id="20062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2009-09-03T19:58:57.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or, Stack Overflow could use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://plugins.jquery.com/project/TextAreaResizer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;$.Resizable()&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; plugin (same thing they're using on Answers and Questions right now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T20:40:55.187" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:40:55.187" />
  <row Id="20063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20067" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:09:08.273" Score="1" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2786/accept-multiple-answers-or-split-bounty-among-several-users&quot;&gt;Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More Often than not I get more than one really good answer to a particular question posted on SO.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There is no way one can &lt;strong&gt;appreciate&lt;/strong&gt; that more than by up-voting his answer, because StackOverflow only allows me to accept one answer which I have already used up for another answer.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A way to accept more than one answer would be useful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T20:22:26.860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:40:02.223" ClosedDate="2009-09-03T20:43:07.523" Title="A way to accept more than one answer would be useful" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="20065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20063" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:14:01.430" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have more than one accepted-answer can be confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If two or more answers are acceptable, they should probably be adapted into one single answer, and then that one should be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:14:01.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20063" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:18:22.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason there is one accepted answer is to distill knowledge.  When other people use your question as a resource, they want to be immediately directed to the &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; most useful answer you received.  This is also why subjective questions are discouraged: ideally, there should be only one correct answer to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing multiple accepted answers dilutes the value of an accepted answer, and makes the format more forum-like than Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:18:22.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20063" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:28:27.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically this already exists, the answer accepted by the original poster, and the answer accepted by the community (i.e. the one with the highest votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:28:27.143" />
  <row Id="20068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20075" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:36:09.907" Score="2" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently I am posting this on a page without any CSS style. Anyone else experiencing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Firefox 3.5.2 and have tried refreshing (CTRL + F5) multiple times, even closing the browser. I do have Stylish installed and was using it to create a Hot Dog Stand theme, but it was inactive when this happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://john.cognitivedelay.com/images/so-nostyle.png&quot; alt=&quot;style-fail&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:10:34.560" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:43:01.370" Title="Is anyone else experiencing random times where the CSS styling disappears on any SO site?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20063" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:40:02.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, a nice comment saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a good answer, too, but I can&#xA;  only accept one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...is just as good as getting that little check mark. Sometimes it even gets me a vote boost if other people think my answer should have been accepted. Bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:40:02.223" />
  <row Id="20070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20068" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:40:07.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have before, but it was fixed with a refresh. Not sure what caused it though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:40:07.543" />
  <row Id="20071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20068" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:43:26.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our proxy eats css files sometimes.  Or, more technically, something dies in the request chain.  Refresh nearly always fixes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:43:26.040" />
  <row Id="20072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20068" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:50:01.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When it happens next, check the status of Firebug and check to see if the download of the CSS file failed somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:50:01.877" />
  <row Id="20073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19938" CreationDate="2009-09-03T20:53:40.980" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree - I find it odd that you can't easily find this information when the ultra-rare &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/94/pundit&quot;&gt;Pundit badge&lt;/a&gt; exists to specifically encourage excellent comments. It doesn't seem unreasonable to want to know whether even one of your comments, lost somewhere on the site, has achieved a rating of 10... (although I don't think I've ever got above a 2 for a comment, so no danger there for me personally - but then, there's no way for me to actually &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T20:53:40.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17910" CreationDate="2009-09-03T21:20:27.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of being flamed some more, I am offering my opinions on this matter, and a possible solution. Scroll down if you just want to see the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that users with a large amount of reputation, including some of the people in this very thread, have a vested interest in the old style. A random sampling of answers for these high rep users show that they are often the first to answer, usually within 1-5 minutes from when the original question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;they would have reached the 200 rep cap anyway&quot; argument is wrong because its all about how fast you can get 200 rep, and then how much extra time you have to get accepted answers afterwards. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SCITE: From what I've seen recently, this hasn't been a problem. Voters who really care about who answered first will be refreshing often, and will know who answered first. Voters who don't care will equally distribute the points to whatever answer is on top. But in case this becomes a bigger problem in a future, see my suggestion below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The timestamp is also accurate unlike the old FGITW system where people can steal answers in the first 5 minutes. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remove the 5 minute free edit time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then reinstate the last activity ordering which will still encourage fast but good answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How will this solve the problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FGITW&lt;/strong&gt;: If someone posts a fast but bad answer, they will get ignored or downvoted. If they try to copy someone's answer, they will get bumped down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCITE&lt;/strong&gt;: If someone posts a slow and copied answer, the sort by last activity ordering will relegate them to a lower position.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57757" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T21:20:27.390" />
  <row Id="20075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20068" CreationDate="2009-09-03T21:20:56.810" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're hitting the dynamic IP restriction throttle limits on sstatic.net -- too many requests for static resources in a given (n) second period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be caused by some greasemonkey scripts, and I know of one serious Firefox bug that can cause it to happen. But in typical use, it shouldn't happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T21:20:56.810" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="20076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20082" CreationDate="2009-09-03T21:27:36.877" Score="2" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed, its status is reflected in the title by appending &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;. However, users tend to occasionally post a questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1375919/php-question-about-variable-variables-sort-of&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt; with square brackets in the title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one thing, isn't this what tags are for? Putting square brackets around a keyword in your title is just unnecessary. And more importantly, if square brackets were disallowed in titles, their presence would instantly alert people to a special condition within the system (like a question being &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way this could possibly be implemented would be to display a suggestion to use tags if a user tried to enter '&lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt;' in the title of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-01T07:13:38.727" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T07:13:38.727" Title="Disallow Square Brackets in Question Titles [opened]" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20076" CreationDate="2009-09-03T21:31:03.440" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate seeing what should be tags crammed into question titles. &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; as a prefix. So while I doubt this will really help much, I'd like to see it anyway, just to make editing them slightly easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey, it looks like you're trying to tag this question by putting things in square brackets - that's what the box below the question is for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be &lt;em&gt;even better&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-03T21:42:45.710" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T21:42:45.710" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20076" CreationDate="2009-09-03T22:05:39.553" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following Objective C question would not be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;return [self square_root: i];&quot; statement does not work with library.rich.b&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; agree that the usage you are complaining about is undesirable&lt;/strong&gt;, but it can be cleaned up by SOpedians working for a S&amp;amp;W badge, and new users can be taught not to do use brackets inappropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T19:57:55.167" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T19:57:55.167" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20016" CreationDate="2009-09-03T22:36:09.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah -- usually about five minutes &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; I've asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a quote leaping to the front of my mind: &quot;A properly-stated question contains its own answer.&quot;  Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember where I got this quote from.. Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(it could also be &quot;properly-phrased&quot; or &quot;properly-formulated&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T22:36:09.853" />
  <row Id="20084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T22:46:44.857" Score="17" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15706/should-good-answers-always-be-upvoted&quot;&gt;previous discussion&lt;/a&gt;, the general consensus was that whether or not to upvote is, for most people and most questions, a function of the number of existing votes. To put it another way, the number of votes represents a sort of 'post quality'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, in conjunction with the up/down-vote asymmetry, leads to an interesting possibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets say an answer is 'worth about a 4' to most people, and it gets downvoted. It is subsequently more likely to be upvoted. In fact, the chance of being upvoted becomes higher the more downvotes it gets, as the pendulum swings away from equilibrium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This damping loop is obviously by design. Answers will tend to converge on their 'true value', as determined by the audience. But the reputation adjustment is skewed in favour of upvotes. It takes 5 downvotes to match one upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you had an endless stream of views, and an answer that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was downvoted every few votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was perceived to have a positive value to most people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you would have an infinite reputation generator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some special situations that can reach this state. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1335758/how-can-i-write-an-exception-stack-trace-in-erlang-after-catching-it/1335978#1335978&quot;&gt;Here is an example of an answer&lt;/a&gt; I had like this: 3 downvotes, 5 upvotes, interleaved in quick sucession. It's not a great answer; taken in conjunction with the others, it's worth probably 1 vote. But the key feature is that the answer wasn't stable until after the explanatory comment and my subsequent edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason was that the original answer was ambiguous; it was technically correct, but not considered good form. The first two downvoters left no comment, so this was not made explicit. It was clearly 'worth something' to a casual observer, but offended those with relevant experience (the other answerers, for example). The original question was a rep generator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is, an answer that was worth 10-20 reputation actually generated me 44 - almost as much as the top answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another, more familiar and extreme example is with polarised opinions, but usually these are nullified by the community wiki attribute. Facetious or moderately funny (but not too funny!) answers that appeal to some but not others are a third common example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some relatively subtle consequences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting rival answers (that are actually reasonable) on a question you are answering will backfire in the medium term. So not only is that an ugly gaming strategy, it doesn't even work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting for any reason unrelated to answer quality will backfire, long term. This implies that behaviour such as 'revenge downvoting' is at best ineffective, and will probably cause a net reputation gain over time for the targeted user.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are good enough to get a vote, but controversial, misguided or imprecise enough to annoy knowledgeable users will reap much more reputation than they are worth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T17:37:57.287" Title="Generating reputation through downvotes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20084" CreationDate="2009-09-03T22:59:26.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day though, everyone can only vote on a question once. The likelihood of this actually happening is small enough as to be completely insignificant, especially when you consider that not everyone on the site is reading every question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T22:59:26.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20084" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:10:42.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that this problem exists, but I have no ideas on how to fix it. Sometimes I'll feel more strongly against an answer than others, and will down vote it. Others will come by and think &quot;this doesn't deserve -1&quot; and up vote it, earning the poster 8 rep. If I didn't first down vote, I can almost guarantee that post would have remained at 0 votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this sense the system is actually sort of against you. You're much better off to leave &quot;somewhat right&quot; answers alone, because you'll usually rock the boat in the other direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T23:10:42.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19915" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:29:15.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've enjoyed most of the guests so far, and while I like the independent theme I would like to see an interview with programmer or sys admin from one of the vast masses of non-tech companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T23:29:15.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T23:29:15.107" />
  <row Id="20089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19915" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:39:27.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19915/podcast-67-discussion-ideas-unofficial/20088#20088&quot;&gt;my other answer&lt;/a&gt; ... I am more than willing to offer my services. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a computer programmer for the county hospital, with the intriguing twist that while I single-handedly run a server and website (running the home-grown education system) used by 5k users daily - I work in the education department not in the IT department. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have public speaking experience and a lovely baritone, so it shouldn't be that bad. Too bad the voice-over I did for our online orientation has been taken down... we needed to do some updates and the VPs didn't want to wait for a re-record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T23:39:27.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-03T23:39:27.100" />
  <row Id="20090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12570" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:42:21.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its a nice idea in principle, but in practice its a little too problematic to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An automated process assumes that all questions are tagged appropriately, migrated appropriately, and that there is a correlation between a given tag set and migration to a given site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the volume of re-tags, and complaints about mis-tagged questions, I'd be wary of using assumption 1 as a major input in an automated process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd need to see some hard numbers on the number of migrations to the number of contested migrations to know if it is worth using as a reliable metric in an automated process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also need to see some good numbers (maybe the math intern who's name escapes me at the moment) could work on how well tag sets and migrations map together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do realize that the suggestion was for a message and not an automated migration - thus there are no irreversible/harmful changes - but I'm just as sensitive to the problem of over-messaging and the problem that suggestion may prompt moves that ought not to be made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to hope that brains are engaged, but I've seen too often where otherwise intelligent people do stupid things because &quot;the system said I should&quot; or &quot;It wouldn't suggest it if it was a bad idea&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastEditorUserId="25163" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-10T18:58:50.353" LastActivityDate="2011-08-10T18:58:50.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20084" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:43:51.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way to mitigate this would be through &lt;strong&gt;showing upvotes and downvotes separately&lt;/strong&gt;, as suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;this feature request&lt;/a&gt;.  That would allow people to see when someone has earned decent rep from an answer (or question) that otherwise appears to have a small vote total, and use that in the decision of whether to cast their own vote or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always remember that my votes are limited, and information like this could be of great use in my decision-making process.  I might not spend an upvote on someone who's already earned, say 24 rep (+30, -6) just to get them from showing -1 to 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T23:43:51.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20098" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:44:18.683" Score="2" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;I received this e-mail today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From:&lt;/strong&gt; WordPress.com&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subject:&lt;/strong&gt; [WordPress.com] Password Reset&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Someone has asked to reset the password for the following site and username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://WordPress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://WordPress.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Username: &lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;my OpenID user name&amp;gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To reset your password visit the following address, otherwise just ignore this email and nothing will happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;blah blah blah&amp;gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The e-mail address it came to is one that I set up with gravatar.com when I created my &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; avatar&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, and I haven't given this e-mail address to &lt;em&gt;anybody&lt;/em&gt; else&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall ever having visited WordPress.com, and I certainly haven't tried to reset a password there.  In fact, the only time I read blogs is when they come up in a Google search of a problem I'm having.  If this site uses OpenID (which I assume since the user name they mention is the one I use only for OpenID), why would they even have a password for me to reset?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the common links are OpenID and Gravatar, both of which I've only used for StackOverflow and friends.  Has anybody else seen something like this? Has my OpenID/Gravatar/StackOverflow (and friends) login been hijacked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;1. That's one of my &lt;em&gt;incredible&lt;/em&gt; sons—my youngest—in a monkey costume for Halloween.  He's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; expressive.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;2. I run my own mail server, so whenever I have to give my e-mail address to a site, I create an alias just for that site.  That way, if I get any spam, I can drop that alias and I know that I can't trust that site.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135306" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:38:42.373" Title="Has my OpenID/Gravatar/StackOverflow login been hijacked?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20092" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:46:14.343" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should take this up with your OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-03T23:46:14.343" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:55:36.790" Score="1" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having serious issues working with this OpenID concept. It's frustrating to say the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For over an hour I've tried to ask a question here but simply cannot log in. I've done it before, but now it wants me to log in with my OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm certain I did it with Google last time, so I click the Google option. It says it's not recognised, do I want to create it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fine. So I do, and then I lose my account. Seriously you guys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I edit my &quot;new&quot; profile and it won't let me add my email because it's &quot;already registered&quot;. But it's not, because the site won't let me login with my email. Only with OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Defend it all you want. I think it's lame bricks. Really lame. Nobody should have to log in with a 50 char long URL when they could just type in the email they remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T01:29:18.133" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:14:26.163" Title="Problems logging in with OpenID - Frustration at 11" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;feedback&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20092" CreationDate="2009-09-03T23:59:06.830" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT, as precursor, in response to comments the questioner added below this answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You believe that you have never owned a WordPress.com account but it is a fact that, however it happened, you DO have a WordPress account. It is worth noting that WordPress has been around since 2005, you could have signed up ages ago, and you do need to a create account to get access to the Akismet service, which is used for many different types of blog and CMS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say that you only ever used the username contained in the email when signing up to receive an OpenID from myopenid.com but, for whatever reason, you have an account with that username at WordPress.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say that the email was sent to a unique address that identifies it as being one you gave to Gravatar.  Is it possible that this unique address actually refers to Automattic, the company that owns both WordPress.com and Gravatar, meaning that it might not actually be unique, that it might have been used at some point, which you now forget, to sign up to WordPress.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of exactly how it came about, the fact remains that you do have a WordPress account with that username and that email address, you should sign into the admin dashboard and check what date it was created, that might clear up the mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having established that you do own a WordPress.com account, my original answer still stands and I still believe that you have nothing to worry about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds as if this is related to an exploit uncovered in August, relating to your WordPress blog rather than OpenID, Gravatar or StackOverflow, and described here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/2-8-4-security-release/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yesterday a vulnerability was&#xA;  discovered: a specially crafted URL&#xA;  could be requested that would allow an&#xA;  attacker to bypass a security check to&#xA;  verify a user requested a password&#xA;  reset. As a result, the first account&#xA;  without a key in the database (usually&#xA;  the admin account) would have its&#xA;  password reset and a new password&#xA;  would be emailed to the account owner.&#xA;  This doesn’t allow remote access, but&#xA;  it is very annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, a harmless annoyance at worst, as the email text you received says, &quot;...just ignore this email and nothing will happen.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the specific exploit described above has been patched, especially if you are using WordPress.com itself, but the fact that you have received the password reset email without requesting it sounds as if the haxors have taken a break from their packed schedule of furious, non-stop l33t masturbation and found another way to do the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it, WordPress.com will no doubt be implementing a 2.8.5 security release within the next day or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be fruitful to spend the intervening hours asking yourself what impact forcing your youngest son to wear a monkey costume might have on his future life and career prospects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133554" LastEditorUserId="133554" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T02:38:42.373" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:38:42.373" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="20099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:00:35.813" Score="7" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to ask a question on SO, but I first searched for possible duplicates; did it through google, and indeed there was a previous question (altough different enough to allow me to dare to ask nontheless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be sure (well, almost but not quite) that no other related questions were present on SO, I had to see several google results pages, as there are 437 google results for the exact title of the old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens because tons of questions (talking of completely different stuff) show that question as related; there are also several revisions and few user pages among the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to eliminate all (or most of) this noise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T01:00:46.727" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:00:46.727" Title="Is it possible to reduce google noise excluding from indexing the right bar?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="20100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20096" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:03:52.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been working well for more than 80000 users. There were a few glitches that are pretty much fixed now. Personally, I'm extremely happy with not having to memorize yet another username and password.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T00:10:18.777" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T00:10:18.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12570" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:06:34.537" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags might work ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Count the number of questions associated with each tag across all three sites, find the tag with highest count, and (if it's on a different site) suggest moving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T00:06:34.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20099" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:08:25.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the list were populated via AJAX, that would exclude the content from search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In theory, that counts as presenting different content to users vs. Google, and could get SO banned.  In practice, Google loves SO dearly, and wouldn't dream of doing that. 8-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T00:08:25.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19299" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:10:18.120" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is a bug - for close votes, we're going to have to &quot;lock&quot; a question during the vote.  This won't affect other vote types.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good find on this - working on it now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; - when fixing this, I'm shocked to admit I used a &lt;code&gt;goto&lt;/code&gt; statement for the first time ever - I'd post the code, but I'm kinda ashamed :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this problem is &lt;em&gt;hopefully&lt;/em&gt; fixed on the next deployment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T03:14:58.440" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T03:14:58.440" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="20104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20096" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:22:16.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OpenID rocks, it really rocks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, this incredibly sane system just continues to amaze me. I delegate through my own domain, so my IDs are short and easy to remember. I have an account on each of the 4 SO &quot;LoJ&quot; sites, and &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; need to remember a password for any of them. I have several additional testing / mischief accounts on a couple of them, and again - never need to remember a password. Setting up a new account takes well under a minute - i can literally create a new account on SO in &lt;em&gt;less time than it takes me to &lt;strong&gt;butter a waffle&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; down-side i've encountered thus far with OpenID is that it occasionally becomes difficult and frustrating for less tech-savvy users. This results in whining, and whining ruins my appetite. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T00:22:16.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20106" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:34:25.223" Score="7" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I put this in as an accessibility feature request I want to make sure I'm not missing something. How do you up vote a comment? For questions and answers my screen reader reads vote up and vote down graphics but there's nothing like this for comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: I can't figure out how to get my screen reader to hover over a specific line of text then read what it finds, looks like this is an accessibility feature request.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20108/make-comment-voting-and-comment-flagging-accessible&quot;&gt;Opened accessibility request here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T18:51:00.867" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:51:00.867" Title="How do you up vote a comment?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accessibility&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20105" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:36:55.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment vote and flag controls are hidden to the left of each comment until you mouse over them, when you do there is an up-arrow icon with a tooltip which reads &quot;this is a great comment.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T00:36:55.107" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20105" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:37:41.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply move your cursor over the comment and two small, faded, silhouetted symbols appear to the left of the comment: an arrow silhouette for up-voting and a flag silhouette for flagging the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment that has received up-votes will display a number to the left, indicating how many.  Currently, there is no way to tell how many of your comments have been up-voted, apart from returning to your each comment and viewing those numbers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133554" LastEditorUserId="133554" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T00:43:38.340" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T00:43:38.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:46:52.967" Score="19" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20105/how-do-you-up-vote-a-comment&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; comment voting isn't accessible. It would be nice if both comment voting and flagging were made accessible to screen reader users since they both have the same issue of needing to be moused over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T08:51:21.013" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T08:52:27.800" Title="Make comment voting and comment flagging accessible" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accessibility&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20076" CreationDate="2009-09-04T00:49:14.010" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about, instead of not allowing a perfectly valid couple of characters, that have done no harm to anyone, never get into fights, and never drink more than they can take (except for that one time in college), the way closed and migrated questions is changed so its more visible? Maybe the &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; part of the title could be colored different, or make it bold, or make it &lt;code&gt;blink&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make it different than normal title text, and stop pushing the poor &lt;code&gt;[]&lt;/code&gt; brothers around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't make me call the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; twins to beat you up for character racism!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T00:49:14.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20096" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:03:55.837" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same problem few days ago.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In my case, the &lt;em&gt;solution&lt;/em&gt; was to go to Google page and log in.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Afterwards I could also log in Stack Overflow with the OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:03:55.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20096" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:07:11.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't like Google's implementation of OpenID, don't use it. Choose another OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:07:11.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20114" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:08:43.287" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are blog / site names trademarked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.embeddedgurus.net/stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another blog&lt;/a&gt; named Stack Overflow... What are the legal implications?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:21:22.233" Title="Site/blog name clash?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20113" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:20:30.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No legal implications whatsoever - this programmer started his blog in 2006, two years before Jeff and Joel chose to name their project StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, HE might be feeling a tad miffed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133554" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:20:30.567" />
  <row Id="20115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20113" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:21:22.233" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From that blog (&lt;a href=&quot;http://embeddedgurus.net/stack-overflow/2007/06/understanding-stack-overflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;entry on June 2007&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, it turns out that many of the visitors to this blog get here not because of the brilliance of my writing, but because they did a Google search on &quot;stack overflow&quot; often qualified by PIC, or MSP430 etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder how that has changed over the last year!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:21:22.233" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20096" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:22:38.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having recently implemented an open id system that works side by side with a standard login system there are some keys to getting the system less frustrating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Googles openid implementation sucks, all you get back from the ax field is an email. There is no preferred login or user name. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yahoos implementation even sucks more, you have to be on a preferred list (which fortunately SO is to get an email back) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Microsoft's implementation sucks most, its not publicly available and you have to opt in to get it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one things that can be done to work around some limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intelligent auto associate&lt;/strong&gt; if you login with an open id account from the google provider (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&lt;/a&gt;) and an account already exists with the google email address, just auto associate it with this open id. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:22:38.300" />
  <row Id="20118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20096" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:41:02.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use and recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MyOpenID&lt;/a&gt;.  It's straightforward and easy-to-use.  I have never had a problem with their implementation, it doesn't suffer from the limitations of that the big players (Yahoo, Google, MS) bring to the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:41:02.540" />
  <row Id="20119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7458" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:42:54.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today's the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Front page is stacked with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/4804/fanaticbadge.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="130310" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T02:21:16.663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:21:16.663" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20149" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:43:39.493" Score="5" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;This evening a user posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1376746/rsa-code-in-both-javascript-and-java&quot;&gt;couple&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1376704/help-me-convert-to-java-code&quot;&gt;posts&lt;/a&gt; requesting code to fix his problem.  One included a 500+ line script that he wanted translated from one language to another.  IMO this sort of question doesn't belong on the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user in question was pretty young in SO-terms (only 15 rep).  It is possible that, not being familiar with meta, he went to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ link&lt;/a&gt; on the top of the SO page looking for direction as to whether that sort of question was acceptable, and found nothing discouraging it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I am aware that there are links to meta for more detailed FAQs on that page, I think it would be more effective if there were something there that would discourage this sort of post.  Would it be possible to add a one-liner in the &lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; ask here&lt;/strong&gt; section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:51:59.537" Title="indicate in faq that SO is not rent-a-coder" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;faq-update-request&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7458" CreationDate="2009-09-04T01:47:12.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ding Fanatic!  (It's an mmo thing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T01:47:12.763" />
  <row Id="20127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20120" CreationDate="2009-09-04T02:03:11.377" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many times has this &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; happened that it needs to be addressed in the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you start adding a line-item for every question that &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; belong on Stack Overflow, it would start looking like one of those six-page, fine print car-rental agreements. Keep it simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the &lt;strong&gt;community and reputation system&lt;/strong&gt; is much better at handling the occasional lapse in user judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:03:11.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20096" CreationDate="2009-09-04T02:14:26.163" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you email us via the &quot;contact us&quot; link provided at the bottom of every page, we can fix your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is typically done by merging two accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For speedy service, please be sure to include the URL of both accounts, or at least the user ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:14:26.163" />
  <row Id="20131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20120" CreationDate="2009-09-04T02:22:02.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reminder about which site buckets which questions should be prodded again on the Ask a Question page. It's there in the firing line of a needy eyeball and might cut down on questions that would be prime for migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or have a line like there is for Doctype.com but instead of job title, something along the lines of, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question relates to a bid you've won recently, don't ask for people to do your work for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:22:02.357" />
  <row Id="20133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20031" CreationDate="2009-09-04T02:29:24.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work for a large software company that makes a product that has been asked about on SO a few times. When I see a question about the product I work on, I try to answer it as best I can with as little marketing-speak as possible. I also put a disclosure on my answers saying that I work for the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined Stack Overflow as a &quot;private citizen&quot;, not as an employee of my company, and it is not part of my job description to answer questions about our products. But my product is part of my overall skillset, just like C, perl, python, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a question asking &quot;What's a good product for &lt;em&gt;blah&lt;/em&gt;&quot; where &lt;em&gt;blah&lt;/em&gt; describes a feature of my product, should I not answer it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:29:24.903" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T02:29:24.903" />
  <row Id="20135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20120" CreationDate="2009-09-04T02:50:11.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much is he willing to pay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133554" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:50:11.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8537" CreationDate="2009-09-04T02:51:56.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A better solution is to only ever read SO with your eyes closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133554" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:51:56.280" />
  <row Id="20137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20120" CreationDate="2009-09-04T02:53:10.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't think some poor soul will do this for him in return for an upvote and accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's not appropriate - but I don't think it needs more than a vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T02:53:10.977" />
  <row Id="20143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20099" CreationDate="2009-09-04T03:40:33.417" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need anything as complicated as AJAX load of the right sidebar. You just put ref=&quot;nofollow&quot; in the links. That's simple enough to do automatically. After all, user posted links in profiles and posts get that added automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the issue is more about whether SO actually wants to exclude those or not. There is a case to be made that by presenting related questions, it helps the ranking of all the related links (for relevant searches).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, I do find this kind of thing annoying though. That is, when you search for something and you have to go through pages and pages of results that all have that mentioned in a sidebar thats actually an ad and has nothing to do with the page whatsoever. But I guess in this case they are related (in theory).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T03:40:33.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T05:41:34.863" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is sort of a two-part question.  I'd be surprised if this hasn't been asked in some form already, but according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;, that's &quot;OK and deliberately allowed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow proper, I have a respectable amount of rep&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.  Certainly not as much as the heavy hitters, who must have neither jobs nor family, and seem to tend to live near London, but enough that I feel that people at least give my answers a fair read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on meta (and on ServerFault, etc.), I'm a veritable neophyte.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that there are two basic reasons for keeping the rep/badges separate among the sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just because someone has expertise in one domain does not guarantee that that person is knowledgeable in other domains.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand this argument, I don't feel it's complete.  If someone is conscientious enough to construct good, well-thought-out answers that are helpful enough to receive substantial votes and to be accepted answers, then it is a good indicator that that person will continue that behavior.  A person not known to give poor answers on topics he/she knows little about will not likely start doing so just because the site has a different color scheme.  That is, a person with good answers on SO will not likely spew crap on SF, SU, MSO, etc.  If the community thinks a person is worth listening to, then that should carry some weight in other places that significant portions of the community may visit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after all, there is a fair amount of overlap in the knowledge domain of the SO/SF, etc. family of sites.  I'm a developer by day, but I administer my own home network by night.  So there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A rep reset allows MMORPG rep whores who've &quot;won&quot; StackOverflow to play again on its sister sites.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean that to be pejorative at all.  Earning rep and badges is &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt;, and a big part of what keeps many of us coming back.  It provides a sense of accomplishment, and of recognition.  And I understand the attraction of having a whole new set of goals to obtain.  Nonetheless, it would be nice to have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; continuity between these very similar playgrounds we play in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, the two parts of my question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; recognition of rep from sister sites?  Perhaps a mention of a user's &lt;strong&gt;overall&lt;/strong&gt; rep, as well as their rep count for the specific site.  Perhaps I'd be listed as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/13d0dfe5c8b53a2e617af0725fb83d0b?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;avatar&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135306/p-daddy&quot;&gt;P Daddy&lt;/a&gt;  123 / 3866&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where 123 is my reputation here (it really is), and 3866 is my total reputation on the /M?S[OFU]?/ family of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With or without that, there is a definite disconnect among the sites.  If I receive a comment or answer on one site, it would be incredibly helpful if I could be notified on one of the other sites.  I spend most of my time on SO, and would love to keep track of activity on the other sites without having to check all of them all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when I read a post that I find to be of high quality, I sometimes like to see what else that user has posted.  But unless I explicitly check the sister sites, I can only see that user's activity on the particular site I'm on.  Let's spread the love!  It might even bring more traffic to the sister sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize for my long-windedness.  I tend to be that way.  There ought to be a badge for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1: Around 3600 as of this writing.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135306" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T06:01:31.520" Title="Better continuity between sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;&lt;narcissism&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19990" CreationDate="2009-09-04T05:51:47.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beside the points already mentioned, this would discourage answers from low-rep members of the community. When you ask something on SO, you expect the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; to answer you. If you don't like answers from the community and wish for a specific user's answer, you shouldn't post it on SO. You should use another means of communication to contact the user directly (which is a bad thing, but that's a separate story.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A natural consequence of formally asking and waiting for a high rep user to answer your question is that you wouldn't care about the answer of a user with 40 rep anymore. This would be harmful to the community and discourage new talented users. You should care about the quality of the answer, regardless of its author.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In my opinion, the social problem with this approach is much worse than practical problem of handling lots of requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T05:51:47.047" />
  <row Id="20147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20145" CreationDate="2009-09-04T05:53:42.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been many requests for a SO-family page (or view), make sure and search for these and upvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T05:53:42.160" />
  <row Id="20148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20145" CreationDate="2009-09-04T06:01:31.520" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to see combined rep score across the SOFU, check out their, or your own, account tab. You'll see all of the linked accounts and their reputations. Just add the numbers up and do the math. And math is fun. Unless you're checking for cooked books. And then it's super fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it also sounds like you think &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5950/having-four-sites-to-jump-between-is-ridiculous&quot; title=&quot;oh the dizzy rascal&quot;&gt;having more than one site to check is ridiculous&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe it would be better to have it all in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot; title=&quot;too many flies in the broth make the frogs sick&quot;&gt;one big stewing pot of questions and answers&lt;/a&gt;. No, it wouldn't. They're different markets and audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you're also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18978/is-there-a-way-to-follow-peoples-activity&quot; title=&quot;stalker much?&quot;&gt;interested in following some people&lt;/a&gt; because their answers interest you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of quality, the level of discourse here on Meta is certainly not the same you'd find in the rest of the trilogy. Reputation is a weird beast, but not something you should signal as a hard set indicator of quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T06:01:31.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20120" CreationDate="2009-09-04T06:02:21.237" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure mentioning this in the FAQ wouldn't help at all. Those kind of people don't read FAQs and even if they read, they wouldn't respect it. After all, it's clearly specified in the FAQ that SO is a Q&amp;amp;A Website, hence, it's not rent-a-coder. It should be clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T06:34:38.373" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T06:34:38.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20120" CreationDate="2009-09-04T06:20:18.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who cares if they ask the question? No one will answer it, and it will get closed, fall off the front page and no one will ever see it again. They will only do it as long as it yields results which help them, and it won't do that, so they won't do it but a few times at most before giving up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T06:20:18.897" />
  <row Id="20152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-09-04T07:59:27.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem got worse than before... now, even after two minutes, my vote is considered too old !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133034" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T07:59:27.823" />
  <row Id="20153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20154" CreationDate="2009-09-04T08:59:10.570" Score="1" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1377864/was-is-the-performance-of-the-last-extension-method-for-listt/1377895#1377895&quot;&gt;my answer to this question&lt;/a&gt; I originally posted some code that I copied directly from reflector after disassembling one Microsoft's .NET dlls. Shortly after a comment was posted (which has since been deleted) that it was illegal to do this and at the very least would affect the Mono team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the issues with Mono and in a case of better safe than sorry removed the code sample. But is it actually &lt;strong&gt;illegal&lt;/strong&gt; to post disassembled code from a closed source project?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In case it makes any difference the code was disassembled from System.Core and is not available in the released Microsoft source code)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T10:02:26.330" Title="Posting code from reflector?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20153" CreationDate="2009-09-04T09:07:01.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would normally depend on the EULA, and how enforcible it was in your jurisdiction. A typical clause in closed-source software is that you're not allowed to disassemble the code (and therefore publishing it elsewhere is incriminating yourself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T09:07:01.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20153" CreationDate="2009-09-04T10:02:26.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that theoretically, since you must license your posts as CC-BY-SA, you should have the permission to license whatever you are posting as CC-BY-SA (it's public domain, or you are the copyright holder, or with permission from the copyright holder). It's extremely unlikely that you have such permission for posting what you need to use Reflector to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T10:02:26.330" />
  <row Id="20156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T10:23:35.747" Score="4" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/493/the-editor-possible-improvements&quot;&gt;The Editor - Possible Improvements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8144/add-increase-decrease-tab-indent-buttons-to-the-editor-toolbar&quot;&gt;Add increase/decrease tab indent buttons to the editor toolbar&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it at all possible to have the Tab key insert 4 spaces in the question/answer edit area, instead of moving focus to the next control?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When writing code in questions or answers I could really use such functionality, especially for hierarchically indented code, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;codecode&#xA;codecode &#xA;    codecode&#xA;        codecode&#xA;        codecode&#xA;    codecode&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I usually do is copy 4 spaces and then paste them over and over again, but using Tab is more natural (I actually do it by mistake quite often).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the usage of Tab for moving focus while editing a question/answer is minimal, and its benefits are insignificant versus the benefits of allowing Tabbed code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;neater&quot; feature will be to push not 4 spaces but the differences between the next multiple of 4 and the current amount of spaces in the line (e.g. if I pressed once on space and then Tab, the Tab will insert 3 spaces, like &quot;real&quot; tabulation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T10:26:54.133" ClosedDate="2009-09-04T12:19:00.117" Title="Have &quot;Tab&quot; key insert spaces when writing a question or answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20156" CreationDate="2009-09-04T10:26:54.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have &lt;kbd&gt;Tab &lt;/kbd&gt; locked in the edit/content window, how will you tab out of it again? Totally breaks the experience of a usable interface. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you not just type up your fancy-schmancy code in a plain text editor, making use of its tabbing behaviour and then bring it over? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;♨&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T10:26:54.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4240" CreationDate="2009-09-04T12:17:00.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also currently moderators can convert questions to CW, which switches &lt;strong&gt;both the questions and the answers&lt;/strong&gt;. If it is really an issue with a particular question flag it for moderator attention and the problem is solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T16:04:01.653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:04:01.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T12:33:58.983" Score="-4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is primarily, from the system's perspective, about encouraging positive participation.  If that's so, wouldn't a lower (personal) bar for upvoting questions make more sense when those questions are by users new to the system.  I don't think that questions by new users automatically deserve an upvote, but I will typically upvote a question by new user in cases where the value of the question is marginal.  I think that getting this early rep can have a tremendous impact on whether the person buys into the site(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we reward this type of behavior.  I suggest a bronze &quot;Encourager&quot; badge that is awarded after a person has upvoted 50 questions by users who have been on the site for less than 1 day.   To reinforce this, similar badges could be awarded at the silver (Cheerleader) and gold (Motivator) for 400 and 1000 upvotes respectively.   A flagged comment by the voter on any such question would disqualify that question from being counted in the total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: The names are just suggestions, don't get hung up on them.  I'm certainly open to alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update2&lt;/strong&gt;: An alternative would be to have this apply only to users with a rep of 1 and only on the day the question was asked.  That way we're not encouraging massive upvotes of marginal questions, but still giving new users a small boost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update3&lt;/strong&gt;:  I know I'm probably wasting my breath, but let me explain my thinking.  First, while answers to questions are valuable, the most value I have found on the site is through answering questions.  Reputation is the key to driving this behavior; if you want reputation points, the only way to accumulate significant points is to answer questions.  Getting people &quot;hooked&quot; on the reputation system, then, is a way to encourage people to participate in learning in a way that simply getting an answer to your question isn't.  &quot;Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll never go hungry.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply handing out reputation at the start doesn't accomplish this, but getting that first vote does.  Whether you think we live in a culture of self-congratulation (we do) or not, you can't deny that when someone affirms you, it has a positive effect on you and your attitude.  The idea that I posit is that the bar ought not be so high when voting on a new user's first question -- a tiny bit of encouragement at this point, if at all possible, can start that user on a path that leads them to be a collaborator within the site rather than a consumer of the site.  The latter isn't bad, but the former is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already practice this behavior.  If I see a question by a user with rep 1 that I feel I can upvote, then I do so.  It hurts me (and the site) very little, actually not at all, and it may result in a new collaborator for the site.  I'm simply trying to think of a way to encourage this type of behavior on a more global scale as I think it is a net benefit to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, the arguments are primarily with the mechanics of how to go about this.  Ok, I'm flexible.  Let's try to fix the mechanics so that it satisfies your sense of propriety.  What if, to the restrictions above, we add that the question cannot also have received any downvotes or be closed within 24 hours, i.e., it can't be a bad question or in the wrong forum.  To summarize, a question would need to fit the following formula before it would be eligible to count towards a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP's rep is 1 (i.e., only first voter gets credit)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not community wiki (has to grant rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote is cast within 24 hours (no mining old questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No down votes or closed within 24 hours (not a bad question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No abusive/offensive comments on question by voter (consistent with goal)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T13:32:29.280" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:32:29.280" Title="Encourage new users by upvoting questions -- reward this behavior" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="20162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20161" CreationDate="2009-09-04T12:38:21.160" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have a badge to encourage voting (Civic Duty.) I'm against attaching any gold badges to voting. Whatever the count is, it would be too easy to get. A bronze might be suitable. However, there's a negative side to it too. We don't want crap questions to be voted up indiscriminately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; After thinking about it a bit more, I think I'm against the idea. We should be voting on stuff regardless of the author identity. If our goal is to enable everyone vote, we would just remove the minimum rep requirement. And honestly, 15 rep is very easy to get. An couple average questions or a good question is very likely to get you to the minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, my main point is the fact that &lt;strong&gt;any kind of encouragement&lt;/strong&gt; (not just new users) to vote based on the identity of the author should be avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T12:45:17.077" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T12:45:17.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20161" CreationDate="2009-09-04T12:39:20.673" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am very much against this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire purpose of votes is, as you mentioned, to encourage or discourage certain behaviour. That is also the purpose of badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What your badge is encouraging is a dilution of votes. People earn badges by just spraying votes at as many new people as they can find. There is no way to check if the vote was a carefully though out one, or if it was simply to earn the badge. This encourages users to &lt;em&gt;ignore&lt;/em&gt; the quality of a new user's question and upvote them anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T12:39:20.673" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20161" CreationDate="2009-09-04T12:42:08.767" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely against this. I hate the fact that we live in a self-esteem generation and that we must give back pats and gold stars out to everyone simply for putting forth the effort. News flash everyone, the real world isn't like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are wanting to &quot;encourage&quot; new users, why don't we just give them more rep when they join? 50, 100, 3000? I don't see how this is really different then people voting them up just because they don't have any rep to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be looking at the content of their question, not their rep score. Truth be told the name and number at the bottom of the question is the very last thing I ever pay attention to when it comes to voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T12:50:29.700" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T12:50:29.700" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20161" CreationDate="2009-09-04T12:51:43.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that we can all agree that new users do not read the FAQ, how would you expect a new user to even find out about badges in general and this badge in particular?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most likely method for a new user to earn these badges is to perform the up votes of their own volition. Then they get the badge, but now what? They already are more likely than the average user to vote on questions and are well on their way to the Civic Duty badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I guess my answer is that adding these badges wouldn't have a substantive effect on the user's voting habits or the quality of the questions and answers on the site. Its a no for me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T12:51:43.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20172" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:00:48.873" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have recent, views, newest and votes buttons above the questions of users.&#xA;I think we also need an unanswered button there. It should be very much helpful for the users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:17:15.750" Title="Need an Unanswered button above the Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20099" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:01:31.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;as there are 437 google results for the exact title of the old question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but only one of those has the title &lt;strong&gt;as the actual title&lt;/strong&gt;. Google is smart enough to put this at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you view source, you can see we use the canonical hint too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;canonical&quot; href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20099/is-it-possible-to-reduce-google-noise-excluding-from-indexing-the-right-bar&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:01:31.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:02:33.423" Score="8" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1378978/using-the-netbeans-gui-editor-how-can-i-create-a-jtextfield-or-jformattedtext-fi&quot;&gt;posted a question on SO&lt;/a&gt; after using Google to try to find an answer. I then turned back to Google and did a search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;amp;source=hp&amp;amp;fkt=637&amp;amp;fsdt=8253&amp;amp;q=netbeans+validate+jtextfield+against+regex&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;fp=d9ca629f83f82f8a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;netbeans validate jtextfield against regex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and it was already the first result! Similar searches also put my question on the first page, usually in the top 5!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is insanity. Did I get lucky and post just before an indexing? Is the popularity of SO leading to Google indexing extremely frequently? Or is Jeff using some kind of crazy SEO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:35:37.903" Title="I'm just going to throw this out there, but Google indexes Stack Overflow really quickly" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;indexing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20168" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:10:26.233" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always search for these questions using &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me answers:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using answers:0 really only finds questions with no answers. You can instead search for your questions with no accepted answers using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use answers with a number other then 0, the number represents a lower limit (answers:1 returns all questions with at least 1 answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A button would make things easier, but most assuredly revive the discussion about the definition of &quot;unanswered&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always make a bookmark in your browser using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame+answers%3A0&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame+answers%3A0&lt;/a&gt; and get close to what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:17:15.750" />
  <row Id="20173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20171" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:14:59.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been well documented in the past that Google absolutely loves indexing StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:14:59.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20171" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:33:35.487" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #66&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s incredible how aggressive&#xA;  Google’s indexing of our site is; it&#xA;  regularly pulls down a gigabyte of&#xA;  compressed text from us per day, and&#xA;  it wants to do even more. One of the&#xA;  primary motivators for adding a second&#xA;  server is to reduce the traffic load&#xA;  enough so that we can “unleash” google&#xA;  via webmaster tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:33:35.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20171" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:34:51.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the latest podcast (66) jeff mentions that google is indexing SO insanely. They're thinking about adding another server, so google can index SO even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:34:51.757" />
  <row Id="20176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20180" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:32:53.193" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who asked the highest-voted question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who had the highest-voted answer to the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no option currently in SO to view the highest-voted (most popular) question and answers in each tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be really nice to see this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hot listing only shows the top voted question (and that is off-topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T13:54:25.903" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:54:25.903" Title="Feature request: view highest-voted question by tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20176" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:36:42.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already possible, using the SO Data Dump that's publicly available. Don't know exactly from where, though - I never used it myself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38055" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:36:42.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20176" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:44:36.637" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easily possible to see the highest voted question by tag. Just click on the tag and then click the &quot;votes&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:44:36.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20176" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:50:23.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sandbox&lt;/a&gt; to do such queries. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump&quot;&gt;anatomy of a data dump&lt;/a&gt; gives you the structure of the tables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just search for posts with the right PostTypeId for answer or question that include a certain tag in Tags, order by votes descending and retrieve just one record. You can the retrieve the user by OwnerUserId.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Joel pointed out the highest voted question per tag is easily found. But in the sandbox you can search for other criteria as well. Just use standard SQL queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:50:23.490" />
  <row Id="20182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5432" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:51:32.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've set up SO groups on a couple of social networking sites, see this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15815&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15815&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:51:32.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T13:51:32.240" />
  <row Id="20183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3635" CreationDate="2009-09-04T13:56:53.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's worth creating a LinkedIn application to show &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;SO flair&lt;/a&gt; on your LinkedIn profile. Then you could show your SO rep as something that advertises your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T13:56:53.510" />
  <row Id="20185" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20212" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:10:11.927" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;LightSpeed Systems' content filter has blocked ServerFault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This affects a tiny portion of the audience, myself included. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LightSpeed&lt;/a&gt; provides network filtering for schools and government agencies. They have ServerFault &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lightspeedsystems.com/Archive/WebsiteDetails.aspx?domain=serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;classified&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;Security.Proxy&quot; because their bot found the [Proxy] tag. I submitted a request to reclassify it, but was apparently denied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 3pm Eastern, they've stopped blocking it. I edited the question title and body to be more generic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-22T14:27:49.217" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T14:27:49.217" Title="A content filtering service has blocked one or more of the S[OFU] sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;blocked&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20185" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:15:12.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not the only offenders. Cymphonix and their Network Composer appliance has content filtering built into it and it has a tendency to block things on ServerFault and SuperUser when it comes across. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how do you know that blocking their crawlers won't immediately lead to big red flags popping up. If they see that they are being blocked, they might assume they are blocked for a reason and then will just cast a blanket block on it moreso than they already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:15:12.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15815" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:34:03.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a reddit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably a duplicate of the programming reddit though.  I'm not sure what would be on the stackoverflow reddit that wouldn't be on the programming reddit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, if you think of a link that should go there, then feel free to post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T15:29:33.933" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:29:33.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:34:03.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20171" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:35:37.903" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yup. As soon as I read a question, it goes straight into the index...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(That's my unfair advantage - no-one else can search for a question until I've read it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:35:37.903" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20192" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:41:16.813" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the process of naval gazing, I came across this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/761204/what-resources-exist-for-database-performance-tuning&quot;&gt;What resources exist for database performance tuning&lt;/a&gt;.  If you scroll down to the bottom of the question the tags are flowing into the last 3 items of the list.  I'm assuming that this is because questions have a fixed height?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T14:47:31.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:47:31.247" Title="Question Overflowing into tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20191" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:45:54.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it's yet another manifestation of this problem:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fixed the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:45:54.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:46:17.147" Score="11" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see every once in a while a phenomenon that makes me wish that SO had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkback&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;linkback&lt;/a&gt; mechanism, concretely to make a triple (SO_URL, HTTP_Referrer, Timestamp) part of the public data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that the usual pattern of my answers' votes is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they get 95% of the votes over the first two days and then they linger on without an extra vote for months.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they randomly get a single vote every now and then (Google hits one would presume.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they randomly get more than a single vote in a short time period (day or two) (Blog post one would presume, or going back to the active list, but it would be nice to be able to know for sure.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T15:20:26.990" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T16:29:59.157" Title="Linkback mechanism for questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20225" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:50:50.523" Score="8" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who's building &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt;?  I love the tool, especially cause I can't get to my home DB from work.  But there's a few things I'd really like to see added (I'd even help!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mean-time, let's also make this into the StatOverflow suggestion box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T21:17:53.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:50:58.073" Title="StatOverflow Ideas" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:51:32.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Display which monthly dump is currently active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:51:32.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:51:32.597" />
  <row Id="20196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:52:11.363" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Show a schema outline, or at least link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/06/how-to-import-the-stackoverflow-xml-into-sql-server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar's&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:52:11.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:52:11.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:53:59.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put something (such as the sandbox itself) on the index page (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.statoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;) instead of &quot;Testing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:53:59.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:53:59.020" />
  <row Id="20199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:57:12.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Show which DB engine it uses.  I'm a SQL Server guy and it took a moment to remember the mysql syntax for my first query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T21:15:49.297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T21:15:49.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:57:12.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:58:22.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expand the width or enable horizontal scrolling to make it possible to fit more columns into a query result set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Preferably, do away with the whole centered layout you have now and have everything to the left, then just allow it to expand out to the right. I would rather scroll to see what I want to see than to have a bunch of columns truncated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T15:06:25.410" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:06:25.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:58:22.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T14:59:42.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ability to export in some common formats such as Excel and PDF&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T14:59:42.643" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T14:59:42.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:00:06.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do something to preserve query text across refreshes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use JavaScript to somehow block the F5 key from refreshing the page (or even re-run the query)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's such an ingrained habit to hit F5 to refresh the results after tweaking a query as you would in SQL Server Management Studio, but with statoverflow that completely loses your query text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T21:16:59.390" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T21:16:59.390" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:00:06.607" />
  <row Id="20203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:03:15.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Show sample queries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:03:15.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:03:15.760" />
  <row Id="20204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:05:57.250" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better error messages.  At the moment, all we see is that the query failed, but not a good message why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:05:57.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:05:57.250" />
  <row Id="20205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:08:22.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remove the 500 results limit. I know this could have some negative impacts on the DB, but I think you could provide other mechanisms to take care of this (such as limiting the number of these queries someone could generate at any given time range)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:08:22.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:08:22.927" />
  <row Id="20206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:10:09.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A reporting area where users (such as Stu Thompson) could submit their own graphs and charts and other writeups about Stack Overflow based upon the data available. Or it could just be an area that links back to those types of posts since they already occur here on Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T21:17:53.210" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T21:17:53.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:10:09.380" />
  <row Id="20207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20193" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:13:11.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your third bullet point about getting more than a single vote in a short period of time can also more likely be attributed to the possibility of the item happening to shoot back up the active list (whether it was a community user bump or just from other activity on the post). This would enable multiple people to see it on the list at one time and then give out some more votes that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the actual request for linkbacks, maybe I am just not understanding it all well enough, but I can't picture how it would work (in terms of display on the pages, if at all?) or how much usefulness it would actually serve. I see blog comments all the time with those linkbacks and stuff and I have always seen them as noise, personally. I hope that isn't what you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are just wanting some more data in the dumps, then that I can be behind completely. I am all for more data being available to query off of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:13:11.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:17:43.720" Score="10" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/35761/how-can-i-join-two-simple-home-networks-together-using-an-ethernet-cable&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was created on Server Fault, answered on Server Fault, I upvoted some of those answers on Server Fault, and then moved by consensus to Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the question is on Super User, I can upvote the same answers I previously upvoted on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135374" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-07T14:58:25.517" LastActivityDate="2011-02-14T02:43:46.277" Title="Migrated question's answers can be upvoted twice by the same user" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:18:18.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Find a way to hyperlink PostIDs back to the original question from the results&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:18:18.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:18:18.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20208" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:19:02.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is this a bug? You're voting on a completely different website. There is no cross-site voting &quot;protection&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:19:02.627" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20208" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:19:59.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a bug in the least. Votes on one site are not the same as votes on another site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:19:59.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20185" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:21:55.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email us the contact information for the proxy / filtering company and we'll email them to get it reclassified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just hit up the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:21:55.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:30:04.117" Score="5" ViewCount="870" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel wants to record a funny intro video for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays&lt;/a&gt; involving him and myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some meta users are quite funny (IMO, YMMV, etc), so I thought I'd put it to you guys and gals: &lt;strong&gt;do you have any ideas for a funny Joel/Jeff video skit&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 to 3 minutes max&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some inside jokes are OK, but it should be broadly funny even if you aren't &quot;in the know&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;involves Joel and Jeff, recording themselves on webcam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;can't be too complicated to film; should be us sitting at our desks, for the most part&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as an example, a sample idea to get the creative juices flowing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We finish recording the podcast, and immediately switch into &quot;evil empire&quot; mode, discussing how we can trick Jon Skeet into answering more questions, making the site intentionally more addictive, planning our merger with secret parent company expert-sex-change, etc etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:34:00.657" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:34:00.657" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T00:12:06.197" Title="Funny DevDays Intro Video Ideas?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;video&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="20218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:33:10.837" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should just record yourselves trying to make it through one of Welbog's rants with a straight face. Although I don't know how appropriate that would be for a public setting, unless you had a very sensitive censor button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:33:10.837" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="20219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:33:49.430" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just fit &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;all of these&lt;/a&gt; into the video, and it'll be perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:33:49.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:34:06.730" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow announces partnership with Facebook and MySpace to promote embedded radios in questions, twinkling-star backgrounds behind accepted answers, and buddy-lists! Comments are removed, and instead posts are amended with a sparkle-wall! Plus, the occasional &lt;strong&gt;FREE&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; iPod Nano!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-myspace.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T16:35:33.733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:35:33.733" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="20221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:34:19.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Record a conversation with &lt;strong&gt;HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED&lt;/strong&gt; that makes it all look like one giant conspiracy or practical joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:34:19.320" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="20222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20223" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:36:05.777" Score="2" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the stack overflow service you can buy/rent and set up your own forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135376" LastEditorUserId="135376" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T16:43:55.290" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:43:55.290" Title="What is the name of the stack overflow service you can buy/rent and set up your own forum?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20222" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:37:50.187" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The service you are referring to where you can have your own StackOverflow like site is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.  StackExchange has recently started a private beta.  StackExchange will use the same (not sure if it will be 100% or not) engine as the StackOverflow family sites (SuperUser, Meta, ServerFault, &amp;amp; StackOverflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:37:50.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20222" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:38:08.940" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:38:08.940" />
  <row Id="20225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:39:04.883" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130090/ian-elliott&quot;&gt;Ian Elliot&lt;/a&gt; runs that site, he announced it here on meta: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4179/data-dump-sandbox&quot;&gt;Data Dump Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:39:04.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:39:04.883" />
  <row Id="20226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20120" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:40:53.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're not going to prevent people from asking questions like that without doing violence to the ideas behind these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I'd automatically ignore a question like that, with maybe a quick click on the downvote arrow, which isn't going to stop anybody from asking the same sort of question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To discourage these further, we'd need to come up with an appropriate close reason.  Asking for a translation of a 500-line script from Perl to Python, say, doesn't seem to fall under any of the close reasons.  It's programming-related, a real question, not subjective or argumentative, isn't spam in any sense I'd recognize, and certainly doesn't belong on Meta or SF or SU.  It isn't a duplicate, isn't inherently offensive, is just as relevant as it ever was, and isn't too localized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it is is a request for somebody to do a lot of grunt work.  It isn't likely to be successful, but if we want to close it we need a reason like &quot;too narrow application&quot; or &quot;overly specific&quot;, although then I'm afraid people would close questions on, say, read-macros in Steel Bank Common Lisp that I'd consider perfectly appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say ignore this unless it becomes a problem, then provide a close reason that will work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:40:53.910" />
  <row Id="20228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20194" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:41:29.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add an option to number the output rows sequentially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:41:29.433" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T15:41:29.433" />
  <row Id="20230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:43:08.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kharminspage.com/pics/sw5vader.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; as a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14126/anyone-else-feels-the-show-notes-spoil-the-podcast/14133#14133&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:43:08.947" />
  <row Id="20231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:43:52.347" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever the content is, you need to at least make the camera sway back and forth and add the sound of surf and seagulls in the background to give the impression that you're &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19487#19487&quot;&gt;&quot;boat programming&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T16:22:44.083" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:22:44.083" />
  <row Id="20234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T15:54:44.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see you're trying to attend the StackOverflow DevDays. You should totally drop that and try jQuery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever it is. It should include Ponies. The Podcast bingo and Jeff saying yea after Joel has talked for a good few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T15:54:44.727" />
  <row Id="20237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20245" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:05:03.400" Score="0" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every hero needs a theme song, so what should our heroic speakers at the DevDays events make their entrance to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T04:31:15.617" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T04:31:15.617" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T01:25:17.657" Title="Suggestions for DevDays speaker theme songs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20237" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:07:32.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Another one bites the dust&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;Queen&lt;/strong&gt; (Read his blog to understand)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars Intro or the Ewoks Theme from Episode 6.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T16:08:39.943" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:08:39.943" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20237" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:07:51.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;We Are The Champions&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;Queen&lt;/strong&gt; (there should also be a StackOverflow Championship Belt involved somehow as well).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:07:51.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20246" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:09:12.207" Score="4" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;As requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16637/add-acceptance-rate-to-the-user-profile-page/16638#16638&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff, and discussed also in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2563/is-the-ratio-of-upvotes-to-downvotes-a-meaningful-measure-of-participation&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865/consecutive-day-count-in-profile/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, here is an attempt at a comprehensive list of more statistics to show on the user profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not necessarily saying that all of these need to be included, but I was hoping to give a good overview of stats that have been requested so far.  Maybe seeing lots of them in one place will inspire the developers to get some of them into production?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accepted answer rate&lt;/strong&gt; -- as shown on your questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer acceptance rate&lt;/strong&gt; -- how often your own answers are accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ratio of answers-to-questions&lt;/strong&gt; -- how often this user helps others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Average question votes&lt;/strong&gt; -- average score for all questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Average answer votes&lt;/strong&gt; -- average score for all answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvote/downvote ratio&lt;/strong&gt; -- is this user a sycophant or a malcontent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upvote/downvote ratio on answers to your questions&lt;/strong&gt; -- special case of above&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of comments left&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of edits made&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of tags created&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consecutive days visited the site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know from the previous discussions (linked above) some people will like some of these and find others useless.  Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:22:48.043" Title="Other Stats for the User Profile Page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20237" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:11:12.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I ought to come in to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-jqEj1Hvnc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Skeet Surfing&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Top Secret!&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first couple of lines from the Portal theme would do quite nicely too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or a rewrite of the theme of &quot;Into the woods&quot; to be &quot;Onto the Stack&quot; given my penchant for Sondheim...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Tell me why I don't like Mondays&quot; but with &quot;Mondays&quot; replaced by &quot;PHP&quot; each time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T16:17:46.587" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:17:46.587" />
  <row Id="20245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20237" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:17:26.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, Jon Skeet needs to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lyrics007.com/Lil%27%20Jon%20&amp;amp;%20the%20Eastside%20Boyz%20Lyrics/Get%20Low%20Lyrics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Get Low&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from Lil' Jon. For God's sake, they spell &quot;Jon&quot; the same way and he even says &quot;skeet&quot; in the song!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:17:26.620" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20241" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:22:48.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love statistics and rankings, so the more stats the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:22:48.043" />
  <row Id="20247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20208" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:33:30.163" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to naïvely propose that they check with linked accounts before casting a vote, and suddenly I got a case of &lt;em&gt;programmitis managerial&lt;/em&gt; and foresaw the things that would need to be done for that to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming is hard, lets go eat waffles instead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:33:30.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:40:10.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized that there are no videos of Jeff on the internet. There are plenty of Joel. The only one I found was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h0s23dDFgw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the first 30 seconds are actually pretty funny if you think that it's actually Jeff. So my idea is that Jeff and Joel are creating a support group for rep whores / so addicts / etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:40:10.087" />
  <row Id="20251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20252" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:43:25.963" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where to ask a question about an IDE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's programming related (well, kinda), but it's also a question about software. It's most likely that programmers will be able to answer the question correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should it go on Stackoverflow, Superuser or both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T15:40:50.977" Title="Where to ask a question about an IDE?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20251" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:44:33.823" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most definitely SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An IDE is programming related by definition!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is filled with questions regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/visual-studio&quot;&gt;Visual Studio&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/eclipse&quot;&gt;Eclipse&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ide&quot;&gt;etc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:44:33.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20251" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:44:41.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow. It is more about Programming because it is an enviorment you wish to program in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:44:41.483" />
  <row Id="20254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1189" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:45:05.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be great. Every time I edit an answer I have to open the question in another tab. I would prefer it above the form though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:45:05.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T16:45:05.290" />
  <row Id="20256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20251" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:55:50.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow.  Despite the fact that we get weekly flags to migrate questions about IDEs and compilers (I'm not kidding) to SU, these programs are definitely programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:55:50.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20251" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:55:50.450" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Where to ask IDE questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use of an IDE in programming: &lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing an IDE or IDE add-on: &lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mass-deploy an IDE to corporate machines locked down for use by sad gray coders: &lt;strong&gt;Server Fault&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to attach IDE cables: &lt;strong&gt;Super User&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T16:55:50.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T16:58:15.017" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every now and then, an answer that got some upvotes when it was new and then nothing for days at a time will suddenly get a bunch of them in the course of a few minutes.  I'm curious if that's a result of this algorithm that was mentioned on the podcast that puts old questions back on the default front page, or if there is some other social phenomenon in play?  Anybody know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:54:49.670" Title="Any idea why an answer will suddenly get a bunch of upvotes all at once?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20258" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:00:29.100" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes that and the question being linked to by another new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:00:29.100" />
  <row Id="20260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20258" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:00:55.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; likely reason is that you were linked from another recent question.  A random blog link somewhere is also possible but less likely because the readers there may not have SO accounts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a request earlier today to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20193/linkback-mechanism-for-questions&quot;&gt;allow authors to somehow see referers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:00:55.777" />
  <row Id="20264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20193" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:06:34.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one scenario where I could see this being useful: &lt;strong&gt;links from within Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;. There, it would effectively compliment the &quot;Related&quot; sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point in a full-blown linkback system, apart from perhaps some ego-stroking on the part of Q&amp;amp;A authors. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20193/linkback-mechanism-for-questions/20207#20207&quot;&gt;As TheTXI notes&lt;/a&gt;, these tend to become more noise than anything (and can also lead to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;referrer-spam&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/new-linked-posts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;...aaaand this now exists!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T16:29:59.157" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T16:29:59.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:40:32.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it should be 6-8 minutes in length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, at least, you could open up the skit by estimating it will take 6-8 minutes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T18:02:58.983" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:02:58.983" />
  <row Id="20266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:49:58.133" Score="6" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sitting here at my desk sucking up my entire lunch break, thinking this SO thing is taking up way too much of my free time.  It's like the Hotel California - &quot;you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.&quot;  I may have to take the afternoon off just to remember what the outdoors is like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrgh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:23:06.027" Title="Are you ever tempted just chuck the whole thing and scatter your rep points to the wind?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;&lt;venting&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:52:45.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel and Jeff - Pair programming...  in Logo - telling the turtle to do things  there can be turtles &quot;all the way down&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rent a little dingy and do some boat programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel seems to like kitten photos - you two can dress up like kittens and do hilarious stuff that we can post all over the internets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skydiving is always fun (or so I've heard)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can do a spoof of the Michael moore &quot;attack&quot; interviewer and go to the HQ of the sex-change site to ask pointed questions of their business practices&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:52:45.833" />
  <row Id="20268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:52:56.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could start with Joel on a Boat, having problems developing something. As he does not have Internet on the boat, he could see him using an iPhone/BlackBerry/Whatever to post a question on SuperUser about how to get internet connection on a boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next scene, he now has internet but can't connect to the SQL Server in the office, so he opens a Question on ServerFault which enables him to finally connect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, he is able to ask his developer question on StackOverflow (&quot;How can I move the Turtle in a Logo dialect written in Excel VBA&quot;) and solve his problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an Encore, he then creates a question about the best recipes for Waffles which gets migrated from SO to MSO within 10 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No idea how Jeff could fit in (too tired to think of a real script), but that way you get all the sites and some memes. Maybe to add a Podcast meme, Joel could phone Jeff and talk to him for a long time (you can use time-lapse and chipmunk bla-bla-bla) and when he finishes, Jeff waits for a few seconds and replies &quot;Yeah...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe, to make it a bit over the top, when Joel sits on his Boat and doesn't make any progress. Jeff could fly in on a flying Unicorn and show Joel SuperUser. Think Japanese Commercials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:52:56.850" />
  <row Id="20269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:53:19.797" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been a few times. Also those same times i've been drunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:53:19.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:53:43.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can completely relate. The only time I spend outside is when I walk from the office to my car, and from my car to my home. I'm thinking I need some sunlight...I'm hopeful that my rep will come in handy when applying for any future positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:53:43.320" />
  <row Id="20271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20258" CreationDate="2009-09-04T17:54:49.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As best as I can tell, people only tend to look at the top 5 or so answers. I've seen evidence of this in several ways. First, there's this way where you get several upvotes at once. Getting that first one may put you in the critical region at the top such that you get more people reading it and thus (hopefully) more people upvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other way I've seen this play out is that a post will get an upvote and then a downvote relatively soon after. There hasn't been any edits or new answers so it hasn't been bumped. I believe it is often due to the same phenomenon: the first upvote makes it far more likely it'll be read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also don't forget that bumping isn't the only thing that'll attract attention to a post. It may get linked from elsewhere such that a bunch of people read it in a short time period. There was some post about integer square roots that attracted 13k views all of a sudden. Someone thought this was a bug but it had just made it to the front page of reddit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T17:54:49.670" />
  <row Id="20272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:02:28.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about making it look like Joel and Jeff are the same person? You could even film another person doing all the lines and then dubbing in Joel and Jeff's voices. Sort of like Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135325" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:02:28.097" />
  <row Id="20273" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:03:43.803" Score="0" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20266/are-you-ever-tempted-just-chuck-the-whole-thing-and-scatter-your-rep-points-to-th&quot;&gt;stackoverflowers anonymous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the feel of entrampment some of us feel and considering &gt;10k users are already hooked beyond hope of repair, there should be a button to make every answer/question community wiki for a period of two weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Diago actually got a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you/11655#11655&quot;&gt;two week rep vacation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Sampson, the fastest GreaseMonkey scripter in the west, has already written a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/community-waffle.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; to help you (and me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T04:32:39.807" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T04:32:39.807" Title="Rep addiction recovery button for people over 10k" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:03:45.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you get to a certain amount of rep, I would like to think it would be hard to get rid of it all. Just think of how many 500 point bounties and spam posts Skeet would have to make to get rid of his rep, and there's no guarantee that he wouldn't just make it all back up anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:03:45.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:04:24.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying here... I just can't seem to get rid of this &quot;1&quot; on meta... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;hehe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:04:24.957" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:04:38.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name is Vinko and I'm an addict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:04:38.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20273" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:05:16.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um...why would you want to turn off your rep gaining ability for a period of time? That sounds more like a &quot;time-out&quot; than a &quot;vacation.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;vacation&quot; button would be something that just posts random gibberish as an answer and hopefully your gravatar is enough to convince people to keep upvoting you while you're away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where's Welbog's markov chain generator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:05:16.000" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:07:38.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am simply just going to link to my response &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you/11655#11655&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The summary: I did quit. To Jeff's irritation that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I honestly am not retyping that again&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T18:15:10.240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:15:10.240" />
  <row Id="20279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:08:13.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO once you reach 10k, that is usually the point where reputation becomes unimportant. Okay, I am biased as I had my 5 Minutes of Fame during the Beta, but if you look at the Top Users then you can see that the race for the first 5 or 10 positions is going to be incredibly hard. So it's more like &quot;Unlock all features and then have fun and get your questions solved&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:08:13.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20273" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:19:40.577" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It already exists...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/mso-cw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just click...&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17duGlHEYY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;for two weeks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20283/greasemonkey-community-waffle-your-posts&quot;&gt;&quot;Community-Waffle&quot; Greasemonkey Script&lt;/a&gt;. Auto-waffle all posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T18:39:35.547" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:39:35.547" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T18:39:35.547" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15165" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:21:33.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also means &lt;strong&gt;Original Post&lt;/strong&gt; (as in the question in SO's context) fwiw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:21:33.817" />
  <row Id="20282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20273" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:35:12.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I apparently misread the post and have re-read it...  I think that you can achieve the break by simply not logging on.  Since you won't be logging on, there is no need for a button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I retract my previous statement about reputation distribution as that was obviously not the intent of the OP here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T18:41:51.547" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:41:51.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28492" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:37:46.657" Score="9" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Installation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/community-waffle.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/community-waffle.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Description&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20273/rep-vacation-button-for-people-over-10k&quot;&gt;recent question&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to create a Greasemonkey script that will &quot;Community Waffle&quot; all posts automatically. Essentially, activating this will make you a selfless sharer of information by default, and you will gain no rep for your contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Screenshot&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sampsonresume.com/labs/so-community-waffle.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T22:31:11.257" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T22:31:11.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T18:37:46.657" Title="Community &quot;Waffle&quot; Your Posts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20283" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:40:07.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But, how do I get rep then...?  I guess I don't get it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:40:07.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T18:40:07.090" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20286" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:47:27.903" Score="3" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did I get to 13 rep?  I had a rep of 1, answered a question that got one upvote, and now I have 13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T05:04:30.953" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T05:04:30.953" Title="How did I earn 13 rep?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20285" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:49:41.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One downvote, followed immediately by one up-vote from the same user. In your case, it was me - welcome to MetaSO! Only works when the user has a rep of 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:49:41.237" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="20288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:50:45.683" Score="1" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the StackExchange site is up for &lt;a href=&quot;http://biztravel.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BizTravel&lt;/a&gt; . But all the users seems to have only 1 rep. So, does that mean everyone will be stuck at 1 since nobody will have the ability to upvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135384" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T05:01:21.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T05:01:21.153" Title="Rep points for new stackexchange sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="20289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20288" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:51:33.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Admins of the sites seed with &lt;a href=&quot;http://biztravel.stackexchange.com/questions/1/whats-a-good-inexpensive-hotel-in-new-york-city&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; and upvotes. They also need to seed with tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T18:51:33.247" />
  <row Id="20290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20288" CreationDate="2009-09-04T18:54:51.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dig the &lt;a href=&quot;http://biztravel.stackexchange.com/tags/brothels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[brothels]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://biztravel.stackexchange.com/tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T00:46:55.877" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:46:55.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20285" CreationDate="2009-09-04T19:06:23.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18507/there-is-a-bug-where-you-can-get-free-reputation&quot;&gt;There is a bug where you can get free reputation.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize, through &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130154/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;unicorn power and waffle dust&lt;/a&gt; you magically went from 1 to 3 reputation.  The rest is history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T19:06:23.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20288" CreationDate="2009-09-04T19:10:59.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It also depends on what rep thresholds they put on the site. There's no reason for the thresholds to be set at the same values as for SO etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example here on Meta anyone can leave comments as it only requires one point, but it requires 50 points on all the other sites. While the values have been found to work (by and large) here, they might require changing for other communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T19:28:22.663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T19:28:22.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T19:49:55.917" Score="6" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've spoken recently about the great recalc where anomalous voting patterns were wiped clean...and some people have asked about &quot;stalking&quot;...where you follow a user around because you appreciate some of their answers, and want to check out (and possibly vote up) other answers they may have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently did some anti-stalking...where I found I recognized a user (whom I've seen give horrible answers before) give a new horrible (and offensive) answer.  This was bad enough that I wondered, 'gosh, what else has this person done?', and I looked at their other answers, and ended up marking another couple down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(lest the curious wonder...this is a user with fairly low rep, and who is not overly active...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not terribly worried about a recalc...if the algorithm decides that these few markdowns are inappropriate &quot;revenge&quot; and wipes them out, it won't matter to me overly.  But does this seem like reasonable behavior?  I've followed a few people around and voted them up a few times, but specifically following someone to look for other items, expecting to find some more bad ones...well, it gives me pause. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do feel that I only marked down items that deserved it (and one item they've posted got marked up), so in that sense I'm pleased with it...but does seeking out a person's answers expecting them to be poor/offensive strike people as morally suspect?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've decided how I feel about it, but I would be interested to hear what other people think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:32:06.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T19:49:55.917" Title="Is stalking/anti-stalking bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="20300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20299" CreationDate="2009-09-04T19:52:48.753" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's perfectly fine. In fact, I've done it too. I've received great help from some, and took some time to evaluate other answers they've given - upvoting many. Likewise, I've received horrible responses from others, and followed suit. Many of their past-answers were downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting anything brings attention to yourself, and your record. Just don't vote for the wrong reasons - let the individual answers stand for themselves. Don't downvote great answers that were written by a jerk. Likewise, don't upvote horrible answers that were written by friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T19:52:48.753" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T19:52:48.753" />
  <row Id="20301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20299" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:04:51.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately this is not supposed to be encouraged behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvoting and downvoting questions/answers should be done based on the questions and answers, not based on the user. Obviously, in this case you were still evaluating each answer based on it's own value, but the fact is that you were still chasing down all answers by a certain user. You were not finding the questions in the 'normal route'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, you should be looking at the questions that are similar to your own questions, or you have an interest in. And then upvoting/downvoting the answers you like or dislike. It may happen that you downvote the same user over and over again, but that shouldn't be your aim, and you probably shouldn't go one-by-one through their answers to find posts that you don't like just so that you can downvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:04:51.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T20:04:51.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20285" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:15:19.600" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another way to get 13 is to start at 1, ask a question, get one upvote (+10), then accept an answer (+2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:15:19.600" />
  <row Id="20303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20299" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:23:00.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone actually know how much stalking you have to do before the great and infallible SO engine decides it is &quot;anomalous&quot;?  I'd think you'd need to cast nearly all of your day's 30 votes on one user before it would trigger something.  I'd be surprised if less than 10 votes for the same user are considered anomalous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:23:00.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T20:23:00.757" />
  <row Id="20304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20299" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:32:06.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any problem with this, as long as you're able to properly evaluate whether the answers are good or bad.  If you don't have any expertise in a particular area, it might not be appropriate to follow a user and vote on their answers in that area.  However, if you're familiar with the topic they're discussing, I think it's perfectly appropriate to vote on their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:32:06.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T20:32:06.560" />
  <row Id="20305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20283" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:40:44.920" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we get waffle points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:40:44.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T20:40:44.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-04-21T09:12:07.947" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find a way to do this and manually doing this is not fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically in stackoverflow how can I keep track of other comments to an answer/question which I commented? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm generally interested in most of the other comments or the comments directly to me in under that answer/question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T19:34:08.987" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T19:34:08.987" Title="How can I track other comments to an answer which I commented?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20306" CreationDate="2009-04-21T09:15:42.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not possible, particularly if the question or answer where you've put a comment in is not yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Manual Way: Click on your username between the envelope and the reputation, and then click on Recent tab. Thread titles where you have comments are highlighted in blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:46:13.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:46:41.460" Score="0" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give me the liberty to disable this problematic syntax highlighting script, please.  It does more harm for me than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130648" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T20:49:19.443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:09:05.223" Title="The Javascript Syntax Highlighter Upsets Me" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:22:11.720" Score="38" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just read a question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246701/what-is-normalisation-or-normalization-why-is-it-important&quot;&gt;what is database normalization&lt;/a&gt;) that asked about data normalization.  If I had to guess, I would say that the person asking the question is not seeking an answer, but seeking to have their reputation points increased (see arguments below).  This is the inherent problem with giving reputation points (and badges) in order to rank users.  People will start to game the system and the integrity of the system will be tarnished.  The good questions and answers will get lost in the heap of people looking for more reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody worth anything would have simply typed &quot;database normalization&quot; into a search engine and found &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%5Fnormalization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; from wikipedia.  In there is a wealth of solid information about data normalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguments for why I believe AJ is gaming the system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133099/sybase-developer-needs-to-learn-oracle&quot;&gt;prior question&lt;/a&gt;, he writes &quot;I am pretty much a Sybase expert, an experienced developer, and very comfortable learning new stuff.&quot;  Anybody with this level of expertise should either know the answer to this question or be able to find it quickly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He gives many answers to SQL-related questions which suggests he knows his stuff&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7211/aj&quot;&gt;AJ&lt;/a&gt; for singling out him and his question -- he's just one of the many who are gaming the system -- but it was the tipping point for me and my use of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UDPATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe my view of what SO is is not in line with the rest of the community.&#xA;I see SO as a source for answers to the tough questions where smart people hang out and help other people with their problems -- not as a learning portal.  Finding answers to general questions like &quot;what is normalization&quot; is not what I use SO for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GvS makes a good point in the answers below: &quot;The most easy to gain reputation, is asking general questions. While real, specific, questions get a lot less votes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary to what many people have alluded to in their comments, I don't care if AJ or anybody else gets a high reputation score -- I care about finding and sharing good answers to tough questions.  And for spoulson, who thinks I'm gaming the system by asking this question, I would be more than willing to drop all reputation points earned from this question -- I'm not here for reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To finish on a constructive note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love the way SO tries to see if the question you are asking has already been asked and I think the search functionality works quite well too.  It is features like these that keep me coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:08:38.397" Title="the downside of reputation points (and why stackoverflow will die)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="20310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:24:37.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is just a integer in a database. If he wants to get so excited about it that he trips over others to answer questions or asks questions that are &quot;borderline&quot; useful, so what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130464" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:24:59.533" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this Uservoice suggestion: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/34955&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don't base the reputation on soft, fun questions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:26:09.857" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly the purpose behind Stackoverflow to me isn't the reputation system or the idea that it's a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's that it's basically a one stop resource to find answers to common and sometimes very uncommon questions, and you don't get annoyed with popups or fees like with similar services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, there is a searching feature for a reason, and it was built to be extremely search friendly for a reason. Who cares what the &quot;top&quot; questions are when anything relevant to your question is a search/tag click away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138577" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:26:47.250" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a question. And I am just answering to gain reputation (thx for voting me up) ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are correct, it is easier to gain reputation by asking silly questions, as to try to answer them decently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most easy to gain repution, is asking general questions. While real, specific, questions get a lot less votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11492" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:27:14.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would tend to disagree, although it is possible that many are in fact &quot;gaming&quot; the system, I believe that it is still useful to have the question asked/answered here on SO simply because this can be used as yet another source for information. In the end, reputation doesn't matter that much anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131275" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:27:52.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not the first to point out AJ's idiocy.  I agree - he is clearly gaming the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure his motive, and if it really causes harm though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:29:00.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire reputation system is flawed when you base power (moderation) on your score. Especially as we're not the most ego-free demographic industry in the market!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:29:11.350" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe AJ's motives are indeed getting reputation by asking a question he already knows the answer to. But why is this gaming the system? If reputation makes people ask good questions that get good answers then the reputation system is doing exactly what it needs to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if AJ is asking questions that he already knows the answer to then just maybe he's doing it to because it was information he found missing on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@jgormley: I don't really get what &quot;waste&quot; you are talking about. If the questioner doesn't need the answer to his question then someone else might. If no-one needs it then the question probably won't get any votes and it will soon lose visibility. Just like any other question. The questioner won't get any reputation from bad questions.&#xA;You don't get reputation for asking questions, you get it from people voting for the questions. No gaming there, you only get reputation when you create something people actually like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:30:00.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's a bit annoying to see all the gaming going on, but I don't think it will cause SO to die.  I think that it's a smart move by SO, because instead of being a place where questions are answered that are not answered anywhere else, it will become a place where all questions are answered (possibly just by linking to other places with answers).  By becoming a one-stop shop for finding answers, SO gets more eyeballs, and more ad revenue...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139467" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:31:45.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could also create 2 accounts and each day just have them upvote answers for each other, but what would the point be?  Sure, the system can be gamed, but who cares?  The worst possible result is that someone gets abilities they shouldn't have and goes on a question-changing/closing rampage, which the rest of us clean up before getting the user account closed.  All crowd-sourced systems have weaknesses such as this, it doesn't change the fact that the site provides very quick answers to some interesting and challenging technical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153934" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:32:04.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The merit of asking a question is to make SO more complete - and if you have something you have already solved but want to see how others react to this you should post your question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you generally earn more points by giving an answers than by asking a question. In one way or another (by playing the game) all SO users benefit from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &quot;fun questions&quot; answers I know I can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use Simply noise when I am bothered by office noise &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Buy a decent kewboard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that I am not the only one facing the same challenges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2008-10-29T14:32:54.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree that the reputation system encourages people to write certain types of question (those with a broad appeal), just for the sake of the points that will be garnered. I know this because I've been guilty of it myself in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't see that it really does any great harm - the net result is that someone gets a lot of reputation cheaply, so what? I definitely think it's an exaggeration to suggest that it will cause SO to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2648" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:48:26.417" />
  <row Id="20322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-26T10:57:31.053" Score="7" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you know, in your user preferences, you can hide ignored tags. This is good, but I don't want to put all the tags I am not interested in. Perhaps there are too many in total, or perhaps I am only fan of one theme and nothing more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to see all the questions in &quot;yellow&quot;, the ones I have marked as interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope people don't make strange reflections about the dangers of doing this, it is pure knowledge and having more options).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T13:03:28.937" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T13:03:28.937" Title="How can I see only my interesting tags in Stack Overflow's list of questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;favorite-tags&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="20323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20322" CreationDate="2008-11-26T10:58:01.190" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will do this in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to install Stylish, which is a great extension to make little css hacks:&#xA;https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/2108&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use this extension normally when something in a website doesn't interest me (for example, for gmail etc...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we will create a style in this program:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;#question .question-summary.tagged-ignored, #question .question-summary,&#xA;#mainbar .question-summary.tagged-ignored, #mainbar .question-summary&#xA;{&#xA;display:none&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;#question .question-summary.tagged-interesting,&#xA;#mainbar .question-summary.tagged-interesting&#xA;{&#xA;display:block !important;&#xA;}&#xA;}&#xA;@-moz-document url-prefix(&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/&quot;) {&#xA;&#xA;#question .question-summary&#xA;{&#xA;display:block !important;&#xA;}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As Sam Hasler suggests, I have created one style in userstyles.org:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org/styles/12432&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://userstyles.org/styles/12432&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I suppose people of Stackoverflow don't mind the use of Stylish!!!;-) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:49:24.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20308" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:49:29.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(function(){&#xA;  $(&quot;div.someBox&quot;).remove();&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;$(function(){&#xA;  $(&quot;div.someBox&quot;).remove();&#xA;});&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanated to disable this, you could do so with a greasemonkey script and firefox. You'd have to get the $.text() value of the pre.prettyprint, and then replace the pre.prettyprint with code tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T17:09:05.223" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:09:05.223" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-21T12:24:40.053" Score="6" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question and get a good response, but I want more information about it, how am I supposed to go about asking it?  Just a create a new question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:51:02.043" Title="How do I request further information on an answer on Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="20334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20333" CreationDate="2008-09-21T12:25:32.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always add a comment to the answer asking for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137281" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:51:02.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20333" CreationDate="2008-09-21T12:25:46.277" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can reply to comments, that's a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also edit your original question asking for clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147491" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:51:02.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20333" CreationDate="2008-09-21T14:18:43.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think modifying the original question after there are already many answer can lead to very confusing threads; it can make the highest voted answer either inaccurate or so it answers only a piece of the new question. I think the best way is to either comment on the answer that you want more information on or if what you want more information on is detailed enough, asking a new question that references the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:51:02.043" />
  <row Id="20337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20333" CreationDate="2008-09-21T14:29:16.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, there are tags called &quot;needs-more-answers&quot; and &quot;needs-answer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:51:02.043" />
  <row Id="20338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20283" CreationDate="2009-09-04T20:51:05.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you make your script keep track of all the Rep you miss out on by doing this? That way you can brag about how you &quot;waffled away&quot; 1k worth of points because you're just &lt;em&gt;sooo&lt;/em&gt; elite. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:51:05.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T20:51:05.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98711" CreationDate="2008-12-17T19:34:30.800" Score="8" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got several pieces of code that I think are clever little things to do, but I'd love to see feedback from people with exponentially more experience coding than I've got. Is it appropriate to post requests for such feedback on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is, would it be acceptable to post such questions as non-community wikis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Note, I've read a similar question here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/99283/is-it-useful-to-post-questions-i-already-know-the-answer-to-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/99283/is-it-useful-to-post-questions-i-already-know-the-answer-to-on-stack-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I believe this has a slightly different nuance to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification:&lt;/strong&gt; By &quot;piece of code&quot;, I mean anything from a single line, to a method, or even a class, but definitely not an entire project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137364" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T22:27:08.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T19:34:30.800" Title="Is it appropriate to post questions requesting feedback on a piece of code?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20346" CreationDate="2008-12-17T19:39:35.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think so, what better way to get code reviewed by people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:53:36.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T19:39:35.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20346" CreationDate="2008-12-17T19:41:08.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;well sure.  Its good to know/ask if what you are doing has any flaws, perks, what alternative ways people may do it and why.  With coding there are usually many different ways to accomplish the same thing - some work better than others of course.. but even further, some work better than others in particular instances - its good to know what your peers or more experienced developers think and could be very informative for making decisions on how you code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:53:36.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T19:41:08.040" />
  <row Id="20349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20346" CreationDate="2008-12-17T19:42:34.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a big difference between your question and the old one - it almost seems like you're asking for code review instead of posing pop quizzes.  Since this is a community-run site, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it until you start ignoring the vox populi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try posting a couple of pieces of code, but be specific that you're asking for code review, not showing off your code, and if people seem to dislike the fact you're getting free code reviews, then you might consider stopping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:53:36.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T19:42:34.590" />
  <row Id="20350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20346" CreationDate="2008-12-17T19:42:39.987" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any problem with it in general.  There are the usual things, of course, which will make such questions better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the title and tags informative, to aid searching later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the sample short and focused, to avoid 100+ comments on everything from the algorithm's correctness to the brace style.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something additional, which would make this list have three bullets, and hence improve this answer's style.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:53:36.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T19:42:39.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20346" CreationDate="2008-12-17T19:43:55.350" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One caveat though - do not post it as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I've got this code, what do you think&#xA;  about it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, phrase it where it would be useful to other people. More like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What is the best way to accomplish&#xA;  [your objective]. I've tried this way,&#xA;  are there others?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way other people trying to accomplish the same goal will be able to find your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the Community Wiki part of your question - my opinion is these questions add value to the site; someone wanting to know how to do what you are asking will get great value out of them. So why should you not get credit for it? And why should those answering the questions get no credit either. So I say do not make them Community Wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community Wiki would be more for those questions that are too subjective, or are not really programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1215" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:53:36.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T19:43:55.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20346" CreationDate="2008-12-17T19:44:08.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say &quot;Yes&quot;, but with qualifications.  I don't think the community would react well to a question which consists entirely of a block of code and the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hey, what do you all think of this?  Is it clever or what?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, ask about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this the most efficient algorithm for this task? (Describe the task)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a standard pattern or (better yet) a library that will do this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any obvious shortcomings or bugs that I have missed for my use cases? (Describe your use cases)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things you can ask but expect differing answers.  Try to give context so as not to be too subjective and argumentative when asking about things like naming conventions, indentation and bracing style, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more specific and less subjective you can be, the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:53:36.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T19:44:08.877" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-22T17:41:40.300" Score="8" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some topics that are specific to some regions. For instance, up here in Brazil there is a specific technology called &quot;Nota Fiscal Eletrônica NFe&quot; (something like electronic invoice). It is regulated by the government and I'm sure there is a lot of tech questions about it :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just loved stackoverflow and I'm sure there are lots of brazilian programmers here and I think there is no need to discuss NFe related topics in english.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I'd like to talk specific subjects in portuguese here, without being unpolite. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:54:44.547" Title="How to ask something specific to a region in stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20353" CreationDate="2008-09-22T17:45:05.813" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest simply asking the question and adding appropriate tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:54:44.547" />
  <row Id="20355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20353" CreationDate="2008-09-22T17:47:42.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a recent incident where someone posted a question in spanish... and it got a lot of immediate downvotes because of it.  I find that kind of result disturbing, but it exists, so you should be aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think it would be neat if stackoverflow had a built in translation system (mashup of google translation tools), which would automatically translate questions and answers.  That way, english speakers who are so rude as to downvote because they don't understand the question can at least see the question and realize it is valid and then not act on it, letting someone who knows the technology act on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think such a system would allow more people to be involved in the community and benefit eachother across language barriers... a lot more useful than if we segregated things like pt.stackoverflow.com for Portuguese speakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131271" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:54:44.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20353" CreationDate="2008-09-22T17:51:57.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess questions in languages other than english will get voted down quickly. One of the goals of stackoverflow is to create a repository of knowledge that's usefull for as many people as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason you can't just ask these questions in english. This might be useful for non-brazilians working on systems in your country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;I normally dislike telling other people what they are allowed to do on a site like this. Right now there's no good way to filter out content in languages you can't read, therefore it's just as important to write in a common language as it is to stay on-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:54:44.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20353" CreationDate="2008-09-22T18:07:27.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say post in your language of choice.  Assuming the Stack Overflow is working as a it ought, someone will add a translation either as an edit to the question or as an answer.  I don't see why language agnostic shouldn't refer to human languages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:54:44.547" />
  <row Id="20358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20353" CreationDate="2008-09-22T18:28:03.433" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have made comments Mike Stone and Mendelt's posts, here are my thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is primarily an English speaking forum.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not speak a second language (yes the ignorant Englishman that I am). Therefore I would want to be able to filter posts in other languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; think people posting in other languages should be downvoted. Rather, politely reminded that this &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; (may change?) an English speaking forum and to either update or delete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If nothing comes of the above, then a mod should close to clean up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I do not speak a second language, I feel quite strongly that we should &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;EXPECT&lt;/em&gt; everyone to speak English - rules are rules, and should be upheld (i.e. delete non-English posts) but we should not hold anything against non-English speakers and downvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An auto-translation engine may be nice, but one of the toughest things in software is communication of needs, I wonder how well an online translation tool would really work :S&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just had a brain wave, if a language other than English &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; used, then why not put the culture string in the title, that would make it easier for us to see as contributors, and possibly open up the abiltiy for Jeff to chuck in the results of a Google Translate on the fly..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. (note this is courtesy of an online translator)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[de-DE] Wie ich kann, hallo Welt sagen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hallo, Wie ich kann, hallo Welt sagen? (auf c#)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Auto Translated from German&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Title: How Can I Say Hello World?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Body: Hi, How can I say hello world? in c#?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142924" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:54:44.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-07-02T08:48:37.743" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will i lose any data in stackoverflow if i say okay to &quot;migrate user&quot; option in becoming active on server fault? &#xA;It is happening because I am using the same openid and its smart enough to recognize that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130250" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:55:44.403" Title="getting active on server fault" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20359" CreationDate="2009-07-02T08:52:37.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's because it's the same OpenID and no, you won't lose data but remember Reputation does not move across with you by design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss these issues here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:55:44.403" />
  <row Id="20361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20359" CreationDate="2009-07-02T08:53:50.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you won't lose any data.  The two sites are independent in terms of reputation, questions, answers, etc.  Migrating means you'll start with 101 reputation (if your current reputation is high enough) instead of 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:55:44.403" />
  <row Id="20362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20363" CreationDate="2009-06-17T07:17:22.687" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm asking this because I have a particular nasty problem with some project I'm working on, but I'm unable to see what's going wrong. I have only been working for 2 years, so I'm quite tempeted to ask for help from more experienced developers, but I'm not sure if asking here would be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes doubt about asking is just how especific is the question (a problem with sending/reciving encrypted information via sockets in .net). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do you think? Is possible to ask such question in SO, posting code details? Or should I post more general questions about encryption and sockets till I'm able to complete the puzzle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance, and sorry for any grammar, spelling or expression badly written. I'm not a native speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150374" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:06:38.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T07:17:22.687" Title="Asking a question about a particular error in code" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20362" CreationDate="2009-06-17T07:19:15.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ask a specific question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:57:08.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T07:19:15.587" />
  <row Id="20364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20362" CreationDate="2009-06-17T07:20:45.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should do your best to identify the possible location of the problem. Then you'll have a question specific enough to ask it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:57:08.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T07:20:45.223" />
  <row Id="20365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20362" CreationDate="2009-06-17T07:22:06.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the FAQ says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programming questions, of course! As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, simply post whatever information is needed to solve your problem, as specifically as you like. Amongst the millions of programmers out there, somebody else will have had or someday will have a similar issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132583" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:57:08.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T07:22:06.593" />
  <row Id="20366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20362" CreationDate="2009-06-17T07:22:10.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you can post detailed problems, as long as you make sure that the question is clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain the exact nature of your problem (what do you see, what do you expect, what is the error, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include relevant source code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Omit irrelevant source code. Don't post 1000 lines of code when only one method of 50 lines actually causes the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you follow the above guidelines (they're only guidelines, nothing official or anything) then I don't see why a detailed questions with a specific problem is inappropiate. Hell, it might even be more appropiate than the question you're asking now! :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38889" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:57:08.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T07:22:10.620" />
  <row Id="20367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20362" CreationDate="2009-06-17T07:24:24.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I would advice would be to try to simplify your question in order to make it the more clearer you can. Sometimes when I ask question in a simple way, it make me find the answer by myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is too complicated try to decompose the question in several small one!&#xA;Don't fear about asking, if no one can answer it at least you will have comment witch will help to reformulate it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T20:57:08.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-17T07:24:24.467" />
  <row Id="20368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10672" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:03:31.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My contribution. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1364525/whitespace-woes-in-regex&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; got the right answer, if you see the top voted, the author thanks the user, their words are very clear: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you, that was very helpful.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think the author can be suggested to accept that answer because it was already helpful for him.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I have two ideas to accomplish this:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every time a user ask a question, the site sends a mail indicating in a very nice way how to accept an answer. The mail will be sent with every question being asked until the user accept one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the author writes &quot;thanks&quot; or something like that in a user comment, the information bar (in stackoverflow the orange bar that shows at the top to advice for new answers) will appear inviting the author to accept the answer if he thinks is the right question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133774" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:03:31.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20362" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:06:38.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had the same sort of situation, and managed to get great results by simplifying the problem (cleaning up sensitive information about the table in SQL, and removing columns irrelevant to the central problem), and then asking it.  As long as you're able to come up with a straight forward, answerable question, it's a wonderful way to get the problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134915" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:06:38.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T21:06:38.570" />
  <row Id="20370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20371" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:19:21.277" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1381170/what-language-technology-should-i-learn-next&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1381170/what-language-technology-should-i-learn-next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a legitimately evolving question.  While the community wiki and voting systems partially deal with the problem, there remains the difficulty that at least some of the old answers to questions such as this one are going to lose relevance over time.  Is there any policy/user moderation strategy for dealing with this type of situation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the above question, the poster was immediately linked to three iterations of essentially the same question, which helps establish the lineage of answers, but at the same time it's going to become frustrating to ask that question over time as legitimately new languages and development frameworks emerge.  I have to imagine that there are other questions which behave similarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135394" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:54:39.820" Title="What is the current approach to cyclical/recurrent questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;irrelevance&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="20371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20370" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:24:04.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close as a duplicate, if possible. That said, if the person asking the question is prudent, they'll already have found the existing questions, and will have phrased their own to separate it from those that came before it (by including sufficient detail about their specific situation). In which case, the question will be answered, and fade into obscurity... until the next imprudent person comes along and asks the exact same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my fond hope that this becomes a pattern for asking questions on SO: a very general question can be asked &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt; (or, given the limitations of search and the obstinate refusal of some people to leave duplicates closed, a handful of times), and thereafter closed as a duplicate of the previous instance. More specific questions can be asked, but will fail to attract as wide an audience. Over time, the better &lt;em&gt;general&lt;/em&gt; questions will continue to collect viewers and editors to keep them up-to-date, while the specific questions, having fulfilled their purpose, will drop out of sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:24:04.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20370" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:30:37.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, I considered casting a &quot;close-as-duplicate&quot; vote, except for a nagging voice inside my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guy was asking specifically, centered around his current skills (which he enumerated), what he should go after next. Not quite the generalized stuff that preceded, but rather what looked like the best path for him given his specific circumstance. (Note that all the &quot;dupe&quot; links are labeled &quot;similar to.&quot; There's a reason, they are similar, but not quite the same to an in-depth reader.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can still be argued that it's subjective/argumentative; it can still be argued that it's a dupe, but there was enough there (in its brevity) that I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt and refrained from voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the answers to that question have left much to be desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm girding up for the downvotes on this one. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:30:37.463" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20390" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:32:05.010" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder... We want SO to be useful for programmers so we answer questions from others. But what if we come up with challenges? (With the Challenge tag) which wouldn't be just questions but small competitions between visitors to provide the best result, instead of just a single answer.&#xA;Of course, those challenges would need to have some real world value but also have an educational value. They would not be wiki's since we want people to earn reputation with their good answers, with the best ones earning the most. Furthermore, they should require reasonable short answers and not long pieces of text or code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question would be e.g. asking on how we could filter away certain words from a long text in C#.&#xA;It would be a challenge if we'd asked for the fastest way to filter away certain words from a long text in C#! Everyone could then supply a code snippet and others could comment about it, perhaps even improving the speed of the algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:49:57.367" Title="How about creating challenges instead of asking questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20373" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:36:09.763" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think SO is specifically the right forum for that. (I may be wrong, but the term might be &quot;code golf,&quot; and we went through that phase some time ago.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think it's a nifty idea. The issues that arise are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There really will be no &quot;right&quot; answer, so nothing useful can be accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In an SO world, anything like this would have to be community wiki or (possibly and these days!) it would get downvoted into oblivion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the right answer for something like this is an enterprising individual like yourself signing up for the StackExchange beta and creating it. I myself would love to see a codegolf.stackexchange.com ... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See, I've even given you a name!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:36:09.763" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20370" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:54:39.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and vote to close as duplicate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing here is it takes long enough for this to happen that by the time it's closed there are normally a few answers as well, and so the person who really wants an answer right then can get still one, but we're not leaving the &quot;dupe&quot; sit around active for all eternity.  It will point back to the original as long as need be and maybe even eventually be deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except for potentially offending the question asker everyone is happy.  It's the last point we sometimes have a problem with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:54:39.820" />
  <row Id="20377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20382" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:58:35.400" Score="5" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked &lt;a href=&quot;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; and it looks like it's down - but meta.so is still running. Is this happening for overseas users as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58114" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T22:07:04.463" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:07:04.463" Title="Stackoverflow.com down?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20377" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:59:42.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently getting a 503 here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And... back up.  I can breathe again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T22:06:51.360" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:06:51.360" />
  <row Id="20379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20377" CreationDate="2009-09-04T21:59:42.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is down for me. Just answered a question, clicked on the post answer link and it was gone. Lost my answer as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently getting &quot;503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T21:59:42.607" />
  <row Id="20380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20377" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:00:39.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down here as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:00:39.563" />
  <row Id="20382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20377" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:01:07.580" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/load-balancing-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/load-balancing-stack-overflow/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're setting up load balancing at the moment - it'll be back up soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:01:07.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20377" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:02:21.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Europe also down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135397" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:02:21.993" />
  <row Id="20387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20377" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:06:20.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;NOOOOOOOOOO!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry guys, I think I broke it. I was about to answer an answer and when I clicked the &quot;Post your answer&quot; button, the site went down. Feel free to blame me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:06:20.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:11:55.187" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Credit goes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/users/19/cwrea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cwrea&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites/67#67&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;finding these&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.googlewavez.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.googlewavez.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingnuts.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.weddingnuts.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;none of these is working though &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="164007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T11:47:31.033" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T11:47:31.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-04T22:11:55.187" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20266" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:23:06.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wrote a query that uses the data dump to print a summary of how I'm doing on the tag badges. Looks like I'm within a few upvotes of getting c# and git silver badges! Must answer more questions ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:23:06.027" />
  <row Id="20390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20373" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:49:57.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few questions out there like that. Just check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot;&gt;code-golf&lt;/a&gt; tag. But the system isnt well suited for that. There are better systems out there. Like &lt;a href=&quot;http://projecteuler.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;project-euler&lt;/a&gt; and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:49:57.367" />
  <row Id="20391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:53:05.097" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often run across questions that people have &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; asked and are of great interest to me.  I can mark them as favorite and go back to them, but I would rather have the ability to follow the question and have the answer emailed to me instead just like it happens on my own question(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131010" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:56:31.563" Title="I want to follow someone else's interesting question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20391" CreationDate="2009-09-04T22:56:31.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to the questions RSS. There are many readers/services that can email updates to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T22:56:31.563" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20408" CreationDate="2009-09-04T23:03:29.117" Score="9" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came across a question that was closed a dupe, so I went to the original. It too was closed as a dupe of another question, so I went to that one. Fortunately, after a couple dupes, I finally found the real one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we either disallow marking a question as a dupe to another question that is closed as a dupe? That, or automatically figure out the nearest non-closed question that appears in the sequence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;1381842 (Closed) -&gt; &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;1040006 (Closed) -&gt; &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt;394601 (Opened)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case, when somebody tries to close the first by referencing the second, it bounces back as an invalid dupe-source, or it bounces back by marking the first as a dupe to the third.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, perhaps some type of process should be set in place to routinely merge dupes too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-04T23:10:52.520" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T01:19:38.773" Title="Dupes of Dupes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20393" CreationDate="2009-09-04T23:06:39.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd like to see the dupes get removed with the posts merged somehow.  This seems to happen quite a bit on META, but have seen it on SO too.  In the ideal world there wasn't a DUPE, but simply redirecting or something like that to the official question may be a decent idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T23:06:39.580" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-04T23:28:38.120" Score="5" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO's Robots.txt file contains the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#&#xA;# disallow adsense bot, as we no longer do adsense. Sorry adsense, &#xA;# nothing personal, but you suck.&#xA;#&#xA;User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*&#xA;Disallow: /&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I was looking for suitable examples to add to my own site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All well and good - however when using &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/robots-analysis-ac&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google's Webmaster tools to check Robots.txt settings&lt;/a&gt;, I recieved the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Test results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Url         | Googlebot                    | Mediapartners-Google&#xA;/           | Allowed by line 2: Allow: /  | Allowed by line 2: Allow: /&#xA;/questions | Allowed by line 2: Allow: /  | Allowed by line 2: Allow: /&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the Robots.txt to read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;User-agent: Mediapartners-Google&#xA;Disallow: /&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get what I expect you actually wanted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Test results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Url         | Googlebot                    | Mediapartners-Google&#xA;/           | Allowed by line 2: Allow: /  | Blocked by line 19: Disallow: /&#xA;/questions  | Allowed by line 2: Allow: /  | Blocked by line 19: Disallow: /&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it that the Mediapartners spider treats the user-agent more flexibly than the test tool?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T13:29:45.040" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T14:00:04.010" Title="Is there a mistake in SO's Robots.txt" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="20397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20400" CreationDate="2009-09-04T23:53:13.553" Score="15" ViewCount="1382" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the site (Hat tip to cwrea for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites/67#67&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;finding it&lt;/a&gt;!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingnuts.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.weddingnuts.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sure has a lot of similarities to SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingnuts.com/badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.weddingnuts.com/badges/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://weddingnuts.com/faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://weddingnuts.com/faq/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it seems to use Python:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pipeboost.com/GetReport.asp?URL=http%3A//weddingnuts.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pipeboost.com/GetReport.asp?URL=&lt;a href=&quot;http://weddingnuts.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://weddingnuts.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it doesn't use OpenID directly for signin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/login?returnurl=/&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/users/login?returnurl=/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, Weddingnuts uses RPX to interface with OpenID and other auth systems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://weddingnuts.rpxnow.com/openid/v2/signin?token%5Furl=http%3A//example.com/sso/rpx/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://weddingnuts.rpxnow.com/openid/v2/signin?token_url=&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/sso/rpx/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/sso/rpx/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, DocType is in the League of Justice... so who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think: is Weddingnuts.com a SE site or an SO clone?  Or something else entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T17:03:40.777" Title="Is Weddingnuts.com a StackExchange site or an SO clone?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="20398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20393" CreationDate="2009-09-04T23:56:25.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the simple answer is that more deleting and merging of duplicates needs to be routinely done. Certain topics (CS degrees, books, interview questions, etc.) have altogether too many copies piling up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-04T23:56:25.340" />
  <row Id="20399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-05T00:02:24.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a clone. There are few signs. Like the url to the questions doesnt use dashes for space. The css files are different and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T00:02:24.533" />
  <row Id="20400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-05T00:03:13.767" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for a tag (&lt;code&gt;[venues]&lt;/code&gt;) does not show the same tags page that SO does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weddingnuts&lt;/strong&gt;: `&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingnuts.com/?term=%5Bvenues%5D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.weddingnuts.com/?term=%5Bvenues%5D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta Stackoverflow&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be built with the same engine as our dear old friend CNProg.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo for Wedding Nuts is at &lt;code&gt;/content/images/logo2.png&lt;/code&gt;. Guess what is at &lt;code&gt;/content/images/logo1.png&lt;/code&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  This use to be the CNProg logo. I will still leave the tag here just in case it decides to come online...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://weddingnuts.com/content/images/logo1.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Turns out debug mode has been turned off, so all of this does not really apply any more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know any website can have 'fancy' URLs, but the URLs Wedding Nuts uses do seem very Django-y, especially consider CNProg.com is written with Django.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick search finds that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gearcult.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GearCult&lt;/a&gt; is hosted on the same server has Wedding Nuts (and Google Wavez). Whoever is running these sites really has a thing for &lt;strong&gt;duplicating&lt;/strong&gt; other popular websites in Django. You can confirm that it runs Django by &lt;a href=&quot;http://gearcult.com/asdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;making it 404&lt;/a&gt;. By the looks of the urls.py, it doesnt look like whoever made these sites is a very good programmer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Turns out debug mode has been turned off, so all of this does not really apply any more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, both WickedAwesomeWallpapers and Gearcult are being run in debug mode. This means if you &lt;a href=&quot;http://wickedawesomewallpapers.com/404&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;404&lt;/a&gt;, you will be presented with a list of all the valid urls, as regex. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also take advantage of the wonderful Django tracebacks to take a look at small snippits of his code and server settings by forcing an error. Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://wickedawesomewallpapers.com/render/s/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;/var/www/django/wickedwall/forum/views.py in render:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;def render(request, slug=&quot;&quot;, hue=0, saturation=0, lightness=0):&#xA;&#xA;   if hue != 0:&#xA;      hue = int(hue)&#xA;&#xA;   wallpaper = Wallpaper.objects.get(slug = slug)&#xA;&#xA;   return render_to_response('render.html', {&#xA;        &quot;wallpaper&quot; : wallpaper,&#xA;        &quot;hue&quot; : hue,&#xA;        &quot;saturation&quot; : saturation,&#xA;        &quot;lightness&quot; : lightness,&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using these, you can confirm that both WickedAwesomeWallpapers and Gearcult are owned/ran by 'robstar'. Just take a look at the 'ADMINS' setting from their settings.py:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ADMINS  (('Rob', 'robstar@gmail.com'),)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then a quick look on his &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/robstar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt; page reveals this robstar fellow is the 'mastermind' behind Wedding Nuts and Google WaveZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, it does not look like CNProg and these sites are run by the same person. A simple domain whois on CNProg.com shows that the &lt;em&gt;domain&lt;/em&gt; belongs to &quot;Chen Gang&quot;. &lt;sub&gt; A whois on weddingnuts.com is pointless because it was registered through a proxy &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T00:45:08.487" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T00:45:08.487" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-05T00:05:18.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The resemblance is... uncanny. But, all the questions are &lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt; old. And even if those dates were faked for some bizarre reason, &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/educational/Weddingnuts%5Fcom%5FA%5FReputation%5FBased%5Fsocial%5Fforum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;there's this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T00:05:18.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20396" CreationDate="2009-09-05T00:06:47.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;main trafic source is a search engines - do you still think Robots.txt file contains  errors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135403" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T00:06:47.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-05T00:24:33.447" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting just how much of the &lt;em&gt;copy&lt;/em&gt; (as in text content) is taken directly from SO.  Check out the Faq page to see what I mean.  It's almost word for word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also easily the closest &lt;em&gt;functional&lt;/em&gt; clone I've seen.  Whoever built is has spent a significant amount of time at SO.  I'd give good odds it's a 10K user (with this much attention to detail, they want to clone the mod tools, too).  Anyone gonna step forward and claim it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Looks like it runs &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/cahoots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cahoots&lt;/a&gt; (note the heart shaped favorites image in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=213565&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;screen shot&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T01:13:35.227" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T01:13:35.227" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-05T00:26:59.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So close and yet so far. It falls on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny%5Fvalley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uncanny Valley&lt;/a&gt; of website clones. It is very very close, but it feels totally weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T00:26:59.353" />
  <row Id="20406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:14:46.050" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was curious: who gained the largest amount of rep from old questions (older than 30 days) in August on StackOverflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be interesting to exclude the rep gained from accepted answers (cause there was an accepted answer binge in August)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T01:12:53.600" Title="Who gained the largest amount of rep from old questions in August?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:18:38.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://concentratedtech.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;concentratedtech.com&lt;/a&gt; (based on cahoots)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="131577" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T12:39:50.687" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T12:39:50.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T01:18:38.727" />
  <row Id="20408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20393" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:19:38.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be in favor of disallowing closing as a duplicate of a closed post. If it's a duplicate of a duplicate, close it as a dupe of the grandparent. If it's a duplicate of an otherwise closed post, close it as a dupe with the same reason as the parent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to the automatic merging, I disagree. I think that things should be handled on a case-by-case basis, and I don't see that many duplicates with great answers on each that would benefit from a merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T01:19:38.773" />
  <row Id="20409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20412" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:31:38.657" Score="14" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm relatively new to SO, but I've noticed a trend - certain categories of questions to which the answer is &quot;change the question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44562/soulmerge&quot;&gt;soulmerge&lt;/a&gt; posted the quintessential reply to one of these questions by linking to the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/alex%5Fpapadimoulis/archive/2005/05/25/408925.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pounding A Nail: Old Shoe or Glass Bottle?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I parse HTML or XML with regular expressions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I create a Singleton?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I write my own encryption routine?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I optimize this in-memory operation that I haven't profiled?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are a few legitimate use cases for some of these techniques, the poster's case probably is not one of them. Often the correct answer is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/&quot;&gt;Don’t do it&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (or at least don't do it that way). Unfortunately, these type of responses generally do not go over well with the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar category is argumentative questions, such as &quot;Does TDD really work?&quot; Often the poster will argue at length with any affirmative answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are other categories of this nature that people have noticed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the best ways to handle these sorts of questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134591" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T05:34:12.100" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T05:34:12.100" Title="Common wrong questions on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;question-quality&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20409" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:41:46.423" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer the question (even if the answer is, &quot;You can't.&quot;), then post the right way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That be my general approach. It's usually appreciated, too, since sometimes people are backed into a corner at work, and could use the outside world telling them, &quot;NO!&quot; to show to their colleagues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T01:41:46.423" />
  <row Id="20411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20409" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:42:37.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would imagine these sorts of questions will always come up, and probably even more frequently as SO grows and attracts more new posters and one- or few-time posters.  The best way to handle them is probably to just answer them honestly (i.e. that is not a good idea, do this instead), and if those answers are good, they will naturally get voted up.  The OP may not mark an accepted answer, but that's probably ok, because if they're of the mindset that being told a better, different way is not ok, they probably won't stick around very long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T01:42:37.263" />
  <row Id="20412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20409" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:43:28.230" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only going to address the way to handle these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is that unless you have a really good reason (like it's an incredibly bad idea or its incredibly hard) that you should, at a minimum, answer the OP's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After you do that you can then suggest why they shouldn't and what they should do instead, if appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T01:43:28.230" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="20413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T01:48:33.927" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19497/how-to-remove-some-of-my-tags&quot;&gt;How to remove some of &amp;ldquo;my tags&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having answered an iTunes-related question I now have [osx] as one of My Tags, and my Unanswered display is now 90% OSX questions...but I don't use or know anything about OS X. I added the tag to my Ignored list and set it to hide ignored tags, but that doesn't solve the problem, because the Unanswered list is still using [osx] in its selection criteria -- it just hides the matching articles in its display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My profile's Stats page lists My Tags but doesn't let me delete them, and the Prefs page lets me manage Interesting or Ignored tags but not the &quot;My&quot; Tags.  Is there any way to remove this tag from the My Tags list?  If not, is there any chance one might be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Well, oops. This is apparently a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19497/how-to-remove-some-of-my-tags&quot;&gt;dupe&lt;/a&gt;. Didn't think of the &quot;my-tags&quot; tag until I was tagging my own question...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T02:11:44.277" ClosedDate="2009-10-09T04:19:17.233" Title="Can I directly control &quot;My Tags&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" />
  <row Id="20415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T02:17:53.470" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on SO. I got answered by a link to the h-site. I went there and the answer is actually somewhat good, an approach not typically used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the policy on pasting that code here with attribution? Do we have any? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I skimmed through the member agreement and it seems to me that there is no express prohibition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T02:21:45.180" Title="Hyphenated site answers, can they be pasted on SO if linked?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;hyphenated-site&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="20416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20415" CreationDate="2009-09-05T02:21:45.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've got your problem solved elsewhere, copy the code/answer here, link to the source, and then in two days, mark it as the answer. We're building a canonical site of programming answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bing, bang, boom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T02:21:45.180" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20406" CreationDate="2009-09-05T02:37:55.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any kind of doubt? Jon Skeet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T02:37:55.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20409" CreationDate="2009-09-05T02:40:16.857" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A similar category is argumentative questions, such as &quot;Does TDD really work?&quot; Often the poster will argue at length with any affirmative answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort of the opposite, really... I mean, presumably the guy asking how to parse XML with regular expressions really &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; want to parse XML; this latter sort of question strikes me as &lt;em&gt;at best&lt;/em&gt; heel-dragging, and at worst, a case of the author fishing for arguments to use against a practice or tool being forced upon him. In the most blatant examples, an author will come right out and state his hatred for &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;,  follow it with a rant, and then finish up with a half-hearted question seeking agreement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I consider the practice to be border-line trolling. If you think you can provide a well-reasoned answer, go ahead and do so... but don't engage the OP in arguments, and be aware that his attitude may result in the question being closed or flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T02:40:16.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1120" CreationDate="2009-09-05T03:34:37.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Teacher's Pets              &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T03:34:37.770" />
  <row Id="20420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21198" CreationDate="2009-09-05T03:40:10.633" Score="45" ViewCount="9565" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a full-screen app that just counts down to the starting time of DevDays to put up on the huge screen at the beginning of the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know, &quot;DEVDAYS BEGINS IN 7:32&quot; etc. counting down, or &quot;DEVDAYS RESUMES...&quot; to show during breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is helpful for making sure people are in their chairs in time to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought this would be an awesome opportunity for the community to showcase their programming talents and graphics talents. Go crazy with 3D, graphics, flying shark-jumping Joel, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must run on typical Windows or Mac laptops.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;App must take a command line argument with a time in 24-hour format and the string to display. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c:&gt; myapp.exe 0900 &quot;DevDays begins in %s&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would count down to 9 am. The %s in the second argument should be replaced with the time remaining in whatever time format matches your design.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the countdown is complete, fade smoothly to black. No silly fireworks; we're starting the conference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We'll show different countdown apps in different cities and call out the programmer of each one; if you're planning to attend, when you post your submission, let me know what city you're going to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must submit full source code and compiled code. However, you will retain ownership of everything you submit in case you do some cool graphical screensaver type thing that you want to sell or whatever. We just want a license to use it once.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-21T05:18:47.380" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:31:20.040" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T01:25:39.837" Title="Countdown app for DevDays" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;give-me-the-codez&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="30" />
  <row Id="20422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8934" CreationDate="2009-09-05T03:48:28.497" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb, at almost any conference, you can get almost any speaker to sign their book by bringing a copy up to the podium with a good pen (ball point or sharpie even better) right after their talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception is in Asia, where signing books is MUCH more common and there is usually an organized book-signing because there are often hundreds of people wanting books signed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T03:48:28.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20409" CreationDate="2009-09-05T03:59:10.190" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the great answer that Cletus posted:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a person has to do something less than ideal or stupid for reasons that are beyond their control (management, client demands, etc). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or there can be some detail of the implementation that makes the &quot;ideal&quot; path not so ideal after all.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been in the former situation and &lt;strong&gt;it is already frustrating enough to have to do it The Wrong Way without someone telling you to abandon that route.&lt;/strong&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those situations, I knew how to do it The Right Way.   The reason is because The Right Way is simple and straightforward.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to ASK how to do it The Wrong Way because it's a crappier way to do it, and I never tried to do it the Wrong Way before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a double-whammy of frustration to get non-answers that say &quot;Don't do that, it's the WRONG WAY!&quot;.   I was already frustrated that I had to resort to the wrong way, now I am even more frustrated because nobody will answer my question and they treat me like I'm a bit stupid (although most users are nice, some get rude).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate suggestions for better ways of doing things.   However, these are usually good for comments, or for &quot;asides&quot; in an answer that actually addresses the question that was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, I'd recommend doing X because&#xA;  it is really a better because of Y.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, if for some reason you HAVE&#xA;  to do it this way, here's how: Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're doing it wrong.  You need to be doing X instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T03:59:10.190" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T05:26:09.437" Score="-1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever started asking a question on SO and then find out that someone had already asked it. And the person who answered it was you? I seem to find myself doing this fairly often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastEditorUserId="20471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T05:31:34.843" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:55:11.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T05:26:09.437" Title="Have you asked a question only to find out you were the one to answer it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20425" CreationDate="2009-09-05T06:48:39.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the inverse happen (not to me) once: I saw a question that I remembered being asked a while ago, but could only remember the kludgy solution, so I decided to post it just to bump the question up in the hopes that a greater CPAN guru would post a better answer. As I was posting it in flew said guru who ended up posting two different and superior answers. Turns out he only knew the answer because he had asked the exact same question, which was the question I remembered not remembering the answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the end, that's really nothing like what you were asking about. No, I haven't. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T06:48:39.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T06:48:39.287" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-05T07:53:28.297" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sonic.net/~danlec/count/count%5Fdemo.cgi?http%3A//stackoverflow.com/users/?#0000%20Dev%20Days%20starts%20in...&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Demo (Runs in browser)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code that makes it conform to Joel's spec (a batch file):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;start &quot;&quot; &quot;http://sonic.net/~danlec/count/count_demo.cgi?http://stackoverflow.com/users#&quot;%1&quot; &quot;%2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, if you want to run it manually, go to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;stackoverflow users page&lt;/a&gt; (on any of the sites), and in the address bar put&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:document.location=&quot;#0058 Dev Days starts in...&quot;;&#xA;$.getScript(&quot;http://sonic.net/~danlec/count/count.js&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the &lt;code&gt;0058 Dev Days starts&lt;/code&gt; portion is the part that is supposed to be a command line parameter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't run this script logged in as you!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It shouldn't do anything bad, but for security's sake, you really shouldn't let an arbitrary script have access to your account. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only supports times less that 99 minutes, so &lt;strong&gt;you'll probably have to edit the timeout.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've only tested this in Chrome (!)&lt;/strong&gt;  Apparently it also works in newer versions of FireFox.  (If it magically works in your browser too, thank jQuery)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a rush job, for demo only, so the code isn't beautiful and the error checking is non-existent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It uses jQuery! (which I'm still learning)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Probably looks best when run in full screen ( &lt;kbd&gt;F11&lt;/kbd&gt; )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully I'll see some of you at DevDays in San Francisco&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sonic.net/~danlec/count/demo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Demo&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135417" LastEditorUserId="135417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T07:18:11.957" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T07:18:11.957" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="20432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20434" CreationDate="2009-09-05T08:18:01.857" Score="23" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I search for similar questions that I am going to ask, I usually can't find anything through search box in stackoverflow. But when I enter my question in &quot;Ask Question&quot; page, the questions suggested through the &quot;Questions with similar titles&quot; box are usually relevant. Do you experience the same thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134523" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-06T07:53:47.307" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T07:54:14.873" Title="Related questions in &quot;Ask Question&quot; page is better than search tool" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="20433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20432" CreationDate="2009-09-05T08:53:01.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search box has many more features than the Ask Question title box. You can see the options &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;. Also the search box strips away common words and keeps keywords. But outside of that they should be searching the same things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure when you're searching in the search box to use it like the ask question box. But remember that it is stripping away non keywords. You can even see what words it's stripping out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=When+are+the+dev+days+happening%3F&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; I'm asking the question &lt;em&gt;&quot;When are the dev days happening?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you click that and then click any tab (like relevance or newest). Then check out what the search query is consisted of. In this case it's changed to &lt;em&gt;&quot;dev days happening&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T08:53:01.043" />
  <row Id="20434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20432" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:05:22.533" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to think the same thing (and even thought of posting this very question at some point), but after thinking about it for a while, I came to the conclusion that something different probably was the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I use the search box, I type in some keywords, some things that might have to do with what I'm looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I use the question title box, I actually &lt;em&gt;type in a question&lt;/em&gt;, so I really think about how to phrase this thing as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this is actually the reason for the (perceived) better results: You phrase your search differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T09:16:47.193" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T09:16:47.193" />
  <row Id="20435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19021" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:12:43.970" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is about tricky questions and complex answers.  It makes no sense that I can't revert or reverse my vote later if I notice something in the answer that I didn't at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very common case: someone posts a wrong answer that sounds correct.  A few people vote it up.  Someone else comes along and explains in a comment why it's wrong.  (The opposite is also possible, but less common.)  The post keeps its votes, since nobody can fix them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This behavior simply doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135418" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T09:12:43.970" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1774" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:15:05.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have your own domain, add OpenID support to it, as Jeff describes in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/using-your-own-url-as-your-openid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything goes wrong with your current OpenID provider, the problem is then easily solved by just picking a new one and editing two lines in a text file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T09:15:05.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T09:15:05.323" />
  <row Id="20438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20454" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:24:24.420" Score="8" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we programming less because we're finding good answers to questions and don't need to figure things out as much? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are we programming less because we're addicted to Stack Overflow and do these cancel each other out? i.e. we are spending the same time programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133955" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T14:14:24.730" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T19:33:42.603" Title="Are we programming less due to StackOverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:29:58.243" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have established a personal rule for myself - &lt;strong&gt;answer at least one question on StackOverflow every day&lt;/strong&gt;. If nothing else, it broadens the horizons and encourages one to think in different and new ways. Every now and then I bump into a clever idea that I would have never thought about before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135420" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T09:31:41.190" />
  <row Id="20440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:40:05.883" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're programming less because you're on Stack Overflow and not getting your work done. When you don't get your work done, you blow deadlines. When you blow these deathlines, chances of losing your job increase. Even to the tipping point of being under or just plain unemployed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when you are, you'll have all the time in the world before the poverty line cuts you in half to answer even more questions on SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T09:40:05.883" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20442" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:53:26.093" Score="3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1382884/how-can-i-disable-a-constraint&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; twice, because I had left a typo in the title after the first edit. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1382884/list&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt;, both edits seem to have been merged into one, using the edit summary from the second edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this on purpose? Is there a grace period for correcting edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-30T08:33:25.407" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T08:33:25.407" Title="Is there a grace period for correction of edits?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20441" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:55:27.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you first post you have a grace period of 5 minutes. Edits in that time do not constitute a trackable edit on the history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies when you edit something after 5 minutes: it begins a new 5 minute grace period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T09:55:27.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-05T09:56:35.650" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some cases yes, I'm programming less. But I'm learning more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T09:56:35.650" />
  <row Id="20444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-05T10:04:38.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why re-invent the wheel when someone has already done that for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135423" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T10:04:38.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-05T10:13:38.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;wickedawesomewallpapers.com is running Django: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wickedawesomewallpapers.com/terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wickedawesomewallpapers.com/terms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(in case they fix it, that page currently says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Page not found (404) Request Method:&#xA;    GET Request URL:&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://wickedawesomewallpapers.com/terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wickedawesomewallpapers.com/terms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Using the URLconf defined in urls,&#xA;  Django tried these URL patterns, in&#xA;  this order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;^$&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;[...]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;^media/(?P.*)$&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current URL, terms, didn't match&#xA;  any of these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're seeing this error because you&#xA;  have DEBUG = True in your Django&#xA;  settings file. Change that to False,&#xA;  and Django will display a standard 404&#xA;  page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, I found the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wickedawesomewallpapers.com/adman/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;admin login&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T10:13:38.177" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20452" CreationDate="2009-09-05T10:26:30.900" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;This SO question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1380990/using-randomize-before-rnd-in-vb-net&quot;&gt;Using Randomize() before Rnd() in vb.net&lt;/a&gt; is now a wiki and the OP doesn't know why. I can't see any reason either. Is there any way to figure out why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T13:03:21.063" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:03:21.063" Title="Why was this question made a Wiki?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20450" CreationDate="2009-09-05T10:35:34.893" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to '&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/is-it-ok-to-edit-other-peoples-answers-to-add-links&quot;&gt;editing to add links&lt;/a&gt;', is it also ok to add an example? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1382907/c-net-a-path-is-dir-or-file&quot;&gt;answer this question&lt;/a&gt; but I noticed that one answer had most of the things I needed to say, except perhaps that the questioner didn't perhaps understand the answer and  I feel that an example may help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132686" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:19:35.807" Title="Is it ok to add examples to an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20446" CreationDate="2009-09-05T10:37:29.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not due from the amount of questions, that's well below the auto-wiki threshold for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that they accidentally set the checkbox for community wiki when editing within the 5 minute grace period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible steps: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit within 5 minute grace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Double tab to skip Edit Summary and jump right to &lt;kbd&gt;Save Your Edits&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accidentally tabbed again and hit &lt;kbd&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/kbd&gt; to end up with ☑ community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Realise the form is not moving&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on &lt;kbd&gt;Save Your Edits&lt;/kbd&gt; with mouse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question and all subsequent answers now community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T10:37:29.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20447" CreationDate="2009-09-05T10:41:11.607" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it will improve the answer, go right ahead. Take a cue from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;walking down Avenue Q while reading Q to meet up with Q to then wait for tickets in a queue to see Suzy Q&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original author doesn't think so, they'll just roll it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T10:41:11.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20446" CreationDate="2009-09-05T10:49:33.523" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with random, and since the question has no edit history it is also possible that a Moderator flipped the CW switch. In these cases the question edit history is not updated, and all questions and answer, existing or otherwise is flipped to CW mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would flag it for moderator attention to confirm, unfortunately there is no way to revert back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T10:49:33.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20446" CreationDate="2009-09-05T13:03:12.640" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Owner made it wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1380990/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1380990/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see comment on initial revision&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:03:12.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-05T13:08:34.207" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently blogged that I was spending more of my spare time writing than coding. That's not just due to Stack Overflow, but it's part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a problem? If so, it's certainly my own fault and no-one else's. Having recently read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, I'm beginning to wonder whether my strength/talent is more in explaining things than in actual coding. That would in some ways be disappointing, but would suggest that I'm using my time reasonably wisely at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the danger is that the more time we spend answering, the less time we're spending learning future answers. Maybe if I didn't spend any time on SO, I would know WCF or the Entity Framework by now, for example. There's certainly a danger of continuing to answer after your knowledge has become stale. I think it wouldn't do me any harm to go back to coding a bit more every so often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this are good for at least prodding us to consider such matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:08:34.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20447" CreationDate="2009-09-05T13:10:31.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing that I wouldn't do is change the character of an answer.  If an example is consistent with the answer and contributes to bettering answering the question, I might add it, I might comment that an example would help, or I might answer the question myself if I felt that the example was the most important thing or the answer would be significantly different with an example (e.g., the example would need elucidating).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't add an example that wasn't consistent with the answer, though.  If an answer talked about foo, bar, and baz, I wouldn't add an example that used widgets and gadgets.  I also wouldn't add an example to an incorrect answer to demonstrate that it's incorrect.  In that case I would use my own answer, with an example, to show the correct solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that, while this site has some wiki-like characteristics, it's not like wikipedia in that we aren't trying to formulate a single, correct answer.  If that were the case there would only ever be one answer to a question and we would all just contribute to it.  Rather we each have our own answers -- or ones we agree with that we can vote up -- and the wiki-characteristic that is in play is editing and amplifying to improve clarity, not to change content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T13:19:35.807" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:19:35.807" />
  <row Id="20456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-05T13:51:15.373" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anything SO is opening my eyes to more solutions that I never would have thought of and improving the code that I write.  What's being sacrificed is my non-programming free time -- see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20266/are-you-ever-tempted-just-chuck-the-whole-thing-and-scatter-your-rep-points-to-th&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I'm getting better though. Started working out again.  Went to a high school football game last night -- though I did come back after and answer a question before I went to bed.  I had to wait for my daughter to get out of the shower -- that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:51:15.373" />
  <row Id="20457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20425" CreationDate="2009-09-05T13:55:11.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  But I have read an answer, thinking &quot;that's a great answer&quot;, only to realize later that I wrote it.  So far I haven't seen one of mine where I thought &quot;wow, that's crappy&quot; -- though I have edited a few to make them even better.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crappy ones usually get discarded before submission or shortly thereafter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T13:55:11.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T13:55:11.933" />
  <row Id="20458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20459" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:23:31.087" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to tell why my reputation has changed?  Overnight I gained 8 or 9 points.  I'm curious which questions or answers got voted up or down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131014" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:10:44.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-13T17:30:59.857" Title="Why did my reputation go up?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20458" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:24:43.037" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to your profile and see the Reputations Tab&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9516?sort=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9516?sort=reputationhistory#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to see the latest changes select the rightmost area by clicking and dragging the rightmost chart area.&#xA;Then only the latest answers of yours will be filtered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:02:54.017" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20458" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:25:35.950" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same question this morining.  Here's what I found...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on your name at the top of the webpage to view your profile.  On your profile page there is a tabbed interface.  One tab is 'reputation' where it lists all the questions where you either gained or lost reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142865" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:02:54.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20458" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:26:51.987" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all realized how great a person you are. We had a vote and everything. Do you want a slice of the cake we bought you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:02:54.017" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20458" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:29:12.417" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the Unofficial Stackoverflow Update script&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://modos.org/sof/?u=UserNumberHere&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://modos.org/sof/?u=UserNumberHere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'll show you which questions have been voted up or down since the last time you viewed the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out about this page from the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61553/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;track-your-reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What 3rd Party Tools Exist for StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&quot;&gt;Unofficial FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for more fun stuff.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:02:54.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-10T12:29:12.417" />
  <row Id="20463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20458" CreationDate="2008-10-13T17:44:17.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One problem with this -- if you get reputation from a question that's since been closed, you'll still have those points, but they won't show up in your Reputation graph. There doesn't seen to be any way to find out where they came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4321" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:02:54.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:36:24.687" Score="6" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I regenerate the little random geometric avatar it produced for me? Mine is a bit &lt;em&gt;ugly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9611" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:28:11.657" Title="Regenerate the automatic avatar" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;identicon&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:37:04.420" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Change your IP address.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000774.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Identicons&lt;/a&gt; are based off of your computer's IP address.  Of course, switching to a Gravatar would probably be easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:37:59.940" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could go to gravatar.com to upload your own image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" />
  <row Id="20467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:39:21.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow uses the email address of your profile &quot;only to generate the gravatar&quot;. So you can change that to whatever you'd like to customize it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've changed mine a few times, just to get a nicer color/pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4777" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:40:47.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go into your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9611/shy&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt; and choose edit there is an option there to &quot;change picture&quot; from there you can use any image you want.  They are using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3957" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" />
  <row Id="20469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:42:37.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The avatar is automatically generated from your email address has by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you register on this site with an email address, the only way to change your avatar is to go to gravatar.com and sign up, then upload a custom avatar for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" />
  <row Id="20470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T21:43:27.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When originally adding an image it had a comment saying that it may take up to 24 hours for the image to be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I imagine they have some sort of caching from Gravatar that gets updated daily. If you've already changed the image you may just have to wait for it to refresh. If not, then the first thing to do would be to change the image on gravatar.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T22:09:49.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out of idle curiosity I tested this myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you provide an email address, the geometric pattern is generated by some algorithm that processes your email address. If you leave the email address blank, a default white-on-gray image will appear in your profile, but your IP address will be used to generate an image to mark your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your email address does not have to be valid - as it is not used for contacting you - but it must be formatted correctly (something @ something . [3 letters])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter &quot;anon@nowhere.com&quot; or &quot;wibble@dribble.abc&quot; and see the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[edited to reflect the debated comments under Chris Upchurch's accepted answer]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" />
  <row Id="20472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20464" CreationDate="2008-09-15T22:28:19.260" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The avatar uses your email address and falls back to IP address, so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you want to keep a registered email address you will need to either go to gravatar.com to register a different avatar or keep entering email addresses until you find one you like. &lt;em&gt;Suggestion&lt;/em&gt;: if your email provider supports it (like gmail) use sub-addressing, e.g. if your email address is foo@gmail.com try foo+bar@gmail.com.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you don't have a registered email address you will need to use a different IP address.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;email address avatar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit email address in profile &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php&lt;/a&gt; and convert the &lt;em&gt;lower-case&lt;/em&gt; email&#xA;address to an MD5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/&lt;/a&gt;{MD5}.jpg?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon in your browser, replacing {MD5} as appropriate. This gives the same avatar as stackoverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IP address avatar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete your email address in your profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in your profile you will see a grey pawn-like avatar, but if you find a post of yours this will now show an IP based avatar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;convert your IP address to an MD5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/&lt;/a&gt;{MD5}.jpg?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon in your browser, replacing {MD5} as appropriate. This again gives the same avatar as stackoverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4389" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:09.243" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-05T06:50:40.477" Score="3" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;For almost every question there's a list of &quot;related&quot; questions on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are those questions selected? Is it based solely on tags? Can I do anything if I see a question on the list that is really not related to prevent it from being incorrectly listed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:02:05.437" Title="How are &quot;related&quot; questions selected?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="20474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20473" CreationDate="2009-03-05T07:02:43.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could listen to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/podcast-32/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #32&lt;/a&gt; and also be interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/stack-overflow-search-now-51-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Search - Now 51% Less Crappy&lt;/a&gt; article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11256" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:25.997" />
  <row Id="20475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20473" CreationDate="2009-03-05T07:03:39.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They described their process in a recent podcast. If I remember correctly, they use three things: The title, the question body, and the tags. For the question body and the title, they strip out about 10,000 stop words to get the topic. I don't think there is anything you can do to choose what related posts show up other than editing the tags, title, or question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148737" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:25.997" />
  <row Id="20476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20473" CreationDate="2009-03-05T07:08:30.433" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel discussed this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/podcast-32/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Episode #32&lt;/a&gt; of the StackOverflow podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, it's a vocabulary search - which other posts have the same vocabulary as this one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there's a lot of tuning involved - the top 10k most common English words are excluded, and tags are included, plus (probably) some magic sauce they haven't revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I've heard, there's nothing you can do if a a question on the list is really unrelated, as the matching is entirely automated, done in real time (no preprocessing, means nothing to tweak).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30280" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:03:25.997" />
  <row Id="20477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20485" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:12:11.323" Score="51" ViewCount="1224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like simplicity. I like clear designs.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I like Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But today, SO was offline and returned with this brand new, ugly... definitely new logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7618/stackoverflowlogosparkl.gif&quot; alt=&quot;sparkling&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's this logo all about? That's no real April fool... Okay, now everybody knows, it's the April fool. But is it the only one? Are there any more? Or are you paralized by all these unicorns and glitter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what the hey is &quot;Cornify&quot;? The &lt;img src=&quot;http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/606/cornify.gif&quot; alt=&quot;cornify&quot;&gt; button is funny. till you cannot click any link... I could play with it all the time :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7407/stackoverflowaprilfools.png&quot; width=&quot;600&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3652/3403648277_a392c0889d_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kittens&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3652/3403648277_a392c0889d.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wooow... now there are kittens!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8790/what-question-would-you-have-asked-as-an-april-fool&quot;&gt;What question would you have asked as an April Fool?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T12:42:14.133" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T12:42:14.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:12:11.293" Title="The Fancy and Amazing April Fools question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;april-fools&gt;" AnswerCount="46" CommentCount="20" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="20478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:13:22.070" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stuff is awesome!  It's all glittery and silly and great!  Cornify gives you unicorns and kitty cats and happy fonts and messages!  Every day should be April 1!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/stackoverflow-logo-sparkles.gif&quot; alt=&quot;I assume this is a April 1 joke.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:13:22.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:14:05.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/stackoverflow-logo-sparkles.gif&quot; alt=&quot;I assume this is a April 1 joke.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5984" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:14:05.000" />
  <row Id="20480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:14:54.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on Cornify to see what it does :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:14:54.983" />
  <row Id="20481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:15:43.873" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OMG PONIES and rainbows!!! AWESOME!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32943" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:15:43.873" />
  <row Id="20482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:15:51.627" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;&#xA;--- cornify.js  2009-04-01 03:28:44.000000000 -0400&#xA;+++ ludicrouscorny.js   2009-04-01 03:26:54.000000000 -0400&#xA;@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ cornify_add = function() {&#xA;                head.appendChild(css);&#xA;        }&#xA;        cornify_replace();&#xA;    }   &#xA;+    cornify_add(); &#xA; }&#xA;&#xA; cornify_replace = function() {&#xA;    // Replace text.&#xA;    var hc = 6;&#xA;    var hs;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:15:51.627" />
  <row Id="20483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:16:26.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Little Pony!!!  Can we keep the 'corn' please Uncle Jeff?!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:16:26.960" />
  <row Id="20484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:17:17.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's cool. Really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131324" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T23:16:44.993" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:16:44.993" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:17:17.037" />
  <row Id="20485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:17:19.143" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OMG &lt;strong&gt;PWNIES&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:17:19.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:18:22.963" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like this button. It's totally senseless but funny. Really funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comic Sans MS + glitter + pink colour = &lt;strong&gt;AMAZING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is Web 1.0 (animated gifs) + Web 2.0 (interactive stuff like clicking). So it's the &lt;em&gt;Web 3.0&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see this everytime, per default! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:18:22.947" />
  <row Id="20487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:19:05.160" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't fooling anyone! The sparkles are taking over and everything will soon become cute and sparkly and bright! It was done on April Fool's simply for us to &quot;let it slide&quot;! We're doomed! We're all &lt;strong&gt;DOOMED!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Being paranoid does not mean they're not after me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132885" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:19:05.160" />
  <row Id="20488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:24:05.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously an april fools joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1599" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:24:05.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:26:45.207" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;April Fools Joke&quot;? THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT GMAIL!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:26:45.207" />
  <row Id="20490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:28:09.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;yeah yeah yeah, the more you click, the better it gets!!! thanks stackoverflow for making my day :D hahahaha :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Magical x answers' haha :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:28:09.383" />
  <row Id="20491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:31:09.297" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to come from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cornify.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cornify.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:31:09.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:33:56.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEImD%5Fr6D8o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I love horses!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5536" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:33:56.140" />
  <row Id="20493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:41:20.803" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So after pressing 'cornify' 100 times, I was really hoping to earn a 'hidden' April Fool's badge, but no dice.  Maybe I need to press it 1000 times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to all the obvious fun stuff, I am hoping to find at least one easter egg.  'tis the season!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:41:20.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:41:42.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the new Cornify button... I'll be clicking that next time my correct answer gets downvoted!&#xA;[Shame it doesn't work in IE6]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145182" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:41:42.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:42:04.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That`s Web 2.0, mate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:42:04.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:44:03.557" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;omponent-&lt;strong&gt;O&lt;/strong&gt;rientated &lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;estful &lt;strong&gt;N&lt;/strong&gt;otation &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;nverse &lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt;unctional &lt;strong&gt;Y&lt;/strong&gt;adayada...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132392" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:44:03.557" />
  <row Id="20497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:44:21.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get the little red crosses across my screen as Works Websense blocks it as freeware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Reason: The Websense category &quot;Freeware and Software Download&quot; is filtered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;URL: [http://www.cornify.com/getacorn.php?file=unicorn_7.gif&amp;amp;url=http://stackoverflow. com/questions]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice idea though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T23:15:34.467" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:15:34.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:44:21.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:45:57.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is, like, totally sparkling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142208" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:45:57.047" />
  <row Id="20499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:46:54.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fancy and Amazing April Fools thread?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...why do I have a feeling that all answers to this question will be similar to all the forums posts I've seen around the Internet whenever its April 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Its the start of StackOverflow's downfall into an ordinary forum!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;insert sig here&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1599" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:46:54.890" />
  <row Id="20500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T07:49:47.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not a horse... thar's a unicorn.. ugh you call yourself progrimmers... dun ya study fantasy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132870" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T07:49:47.147" />
  <row Id="20501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T08:12:46.263" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How beautiful! :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3551/3403271517%5F6eee4fc0db.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stackoverflow is cornified&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1679" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T08:12:46.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T08:19:37.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OMG i hate those things -.-&#xA;I hope that is just for today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134903" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T08:19:37.123" />
  <row Id="20503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T08:20:21.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great &quot;setup&quot; (possibly), too, on the last podcast&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4048.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4048.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel talk about 'flashing' and animated gifs and how much they hate them around 7:15-8:30.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T08:20:21.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T08:42:24.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys should check out reddit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T08:42:24.773" />
  <row Id="20505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T08:42:24.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh gosh, I feel so embarrassed - I went and complained about cornify on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/152397-get-rid-of-cornify&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOH!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(blushes profusely)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130969" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T08:42:24.930" />
  <row Id="20506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T09:29:41.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we get a list of people who tried to close this thread. Ban the killjoys ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T09:29:41.260" />
  <row Id="20507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T10:00:15.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So '&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/tuesday-outage-its-raid-tastic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RAID issues&lt;/a&gt;' was just a red herring as to why the site was down this morning? They were busy tweaking unicorns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outsourcingunicorns.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;outsourcingunicorns.com&lt;/a&gt; is still available !!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16940" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T10:00:15.103" />
  <row Id="20508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T10:23:21.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Purpose of cornify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait till colleague walks away from PC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Navigate to SO and fill screen with rainbows and unicorns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go around telling random people how you saw some weird stuff on your colleague's screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130982" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T10:23:21.053" />
  <row Id="20509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T10:50:59.957" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who else clicked cornify on a post that was not their own, just in case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T10:50:59.957" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T10:52:11.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope there wont be a counter showing who clicked cornify the most!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T10:52:11.280" />
  <row Id="20511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T11:13:32.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A collection of april fools jokes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/01/april-fools-youtube-flails-amazon-cloud-computing-in-a-blimp-3d-chrome-browsing-google-master-ai/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tech Crunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132530" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T11:13:32.697" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T13:18:20.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is quite possibly the most awesomest button I have ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unicorns ftw&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132004" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T13:18:20.540" />
  <row Id="20513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T13:55:26.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say it's about time for us to go back to the &lt;strong&gt;expert-sex-change.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4035" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T13:55:26.783" />
  <row Id="20514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T14:02:43.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cornify.com/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt; are hilarious! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cornify.com/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cornify.com/quotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2172" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T14:02:43.850" />
  <row Id="20515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T14:05:30.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disappointingly non-original, as a takeoff on &quot;Pinkdot&quot; of several years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133701" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T14:05:30.333" />
  <row Id="20516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T14:06:48.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation has gone down to 1 because I posted a -ve comment about the April Fool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, if I'd known merkans were using the site, I'd have put &quot;Just Kidding&quot; at the end in 80pt bold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly the #g20 tweets are where it's at today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23g20%2BOR%2BG20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23g20+OR+G20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138684" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T14:06:48.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T15:06:37.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As programmers, please support &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.saveie6.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SaveIE6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.saveie6.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.saveie6.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not forget to try downloading it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2172" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T15:06:37.440" />
  <row Id="20518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T15:21:03.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I close my eyes I see unicorns now -.-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T23:17:18.487" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:17:18.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T15:21:03.553" />
  <row Id="20519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T15:22:06.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got Rick Rolled. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3464/3404736222%5Fe08ded6009.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167095" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T15:22:06.327" />
  <row Id="20520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T15:27:57.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;*{ cursor:wait; }&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T15:27:57.390" />
  <row Id="20521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-01T15:33:18.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[sigh] I won't be able to get my Cornification on today since cornify is blocked at work. I get those lovely broken images on the screen instead. Talk about double the April Fools action!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-01T15:33:18.703" />
  <row Id="20522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-02T03:15:48.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hah, I didn't know it changed the font to Comic Sans till I saw the screenshot, because I always purge that font from all my computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-02T03:15:48.217" />
  <row Id="20523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20477" CreationDate="2009-04-02T06:50:22.413" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er it's now the 2nd of April and that annoying  is still up there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138684" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:04:19.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-02T06:50:22.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20525" CreationDate="2009-04-08T00:29:18.530" Score="10" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it frowned upon to revive old questions if it's not that important? I keep finding really old questions that I could answer, but most of the time my answer is rather trivial and it feels silly to bring it all the way to the first page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83871" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T22:17:20.210" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T22:17:20.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-08T00:29:18.513" Title="Reviving old questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20524" CreationDate="2009-04-08T00:30:58.197" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have something valuable to add to an old question, I would do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16076" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:05:04.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-08T00:30:58.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20524" CreationDate="2009-04-08T00:32:52.373" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you're not trying to game the Necromancer badge* and have good information to add to the original question, I'd say this is actually preferable.  People looking for answers to questions (ought to) turn to the existing questions first before posting their own, so it's beneficial to have a question gain better answers, even long after it was originally asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*By gaming, I mean using worthless answers to try to grab it.  I'm okay if you're trying to get the badge but actually have something of substance to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60261" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:05:04.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-08T00:32:51.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20524" CreationDate="2009-04-08T00:39:54.853" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer might be trivial to you, but if the question does not have a selected answer, then what you have to say could be very valuable to the person who posed the question, and if not them, someone searching and READING the question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've answered questions that are MONTHS old, and still got accepted answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, maybe you shouldn't.. Give someone like me a chance to answer...  heh...  Just kidding..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really think that if you have something to add to the question, or the information presented in the thread, you SHOULD in fact answer.  Even if people got the answer, but didn't MARK it, someone else might come along and read your answer and get valuable information out of it...  I know I would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:05:04.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-08T00:39:54.853" />
  <row Id="20528" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-04-15T20:33:48.393" Score="2" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I log in if my OpenID is not available, or maybe even no longer exists? Can I restore my lost account, or do I need to start over?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18232/how-can-one-link-merge-combine-associate-two-stack-overflow-accounts-users-anon&quot;&gt;How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131349" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-03T20:22:32.240" LastActivityDate="2010-10-03T20:22:32.240" Title="How can I recover a lost account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20528" CreationDate="2009-04-15T20:36:56.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently lost accounts should be e-mailed to the 'contact us' link at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent this from happening in the first place, StackOverflow supports an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alternate or backup openid&lt;/a&gt; for every account, but you have to set that up yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:29.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-15T20:37:54.060" />
  <row Id="20530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20528" CreationDate="2009-04-19T11:51:01.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make sure that your backup provider is someone like Yahoo or Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142635" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:29.690" />
  <row Id="20531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20532" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:01:29.687" Score="8" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that putting a link to your blog in a signature is frowned upon and rightly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to link to your blog in an answer if that blog post answers the question?  Are there other situations where it would be acceptable to promote your own web site in a question or answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20553/are-you-allowed-to-link-to-your-own-blog-post-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Are you allowed to link to your blog post?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:20:14.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:01:29.687" Title="How to refer to your blog when answering?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;self-promotion&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:03:36.047" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do that all the time, and no-one's ever complained. So long as the link is to a page which is relevant to the question, I don't see what's wrong with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I've already spent hours writing up the answer as an article (usually a long time before even seeing the question), why would I want to do the same again here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To counter the possibility of someone suggesting that the content should be copied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In some cases there may be formatting etc which just doesn't fit well in SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formatting a large article can take a long time, and it's just a waste if the information is elsewhere already. I'd rather answer another question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A massive article would also dwarf other answers and be somewhat intimidating to other people, I suspect. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having multiple copies of an article around means that they're likely to get stale - if someone suggests a better way of explaining things, I like to only have to edit one page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do try not to plug my book too often though - at least not the chapters which aren't freely available. I'm happy to give a plug as an &lt;em&gt;extra&lt;/em&gt; bit of information, but an answer of just &quot;Buy my book and read chapter 4&quot; would be pretty rude, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:03:36.047" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="20533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:03:49.650" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If its actual content you wrote, I'd say its okay.  If its a post that contains little more than a link to somebody else's work, I say leave your blogspammy links at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:03:49.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:04:09.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously if you have already explained an answer, no use copying it over here.  A link is definitely appropriate in that case.  I'm not sure of other cases where it would be acceptable.  While there probably are some, I would assume they are few and far between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:04:09.900" />
  <row Id="20535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:04:30.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can put the website in our user info, that should be enough. Not only that you &lt;em&gt;pollute&lt;/em&gt; the design with exterior content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: The question is about links in the signature. Normally that is a link just to the site, not the solution in specific. So if its a link directly to the solution I dont have any problems with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:04:30.490" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:04:39.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe it's necessary to put your name OR a website link in SO in an answer. If someone want to visit the website of the people that has answered than it should go to the profile of the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have already edit post (wiki) that people was written &quot;Best Regard XYZ&quot; with a link at XYZ to an other website... shouldn't be accepted. The only exception is if you Reference to your own blog or other website. Than you should put &quot;Reference : Website ZYX&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:04:39.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:04:44.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the appropriate course of action is to copy/paste the relevant info from your blog. I however wouldn't be opposed to someone linking back to their blog for additional info&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2908" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:04:44.750" />
  <row Id="20538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:05:28.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would simply be a misnomer to call a relevant link / answer to a question &quot;Blogspam&quot;, regardless of whos blog it is on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem as I see it is random links that don't have anything to do with the question--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:05:28.883" />
  <row Id="20539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:05:29.507" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well your blog might be less permanent than StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer which is written on a blog and linked to is a useless answer if the blog is unavailable when someone later finds the question and follows the link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154448" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:05:29.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:07:14.370" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we link to outside blogs when answering questions fairly frequently, it doesn't seem unreasonable to link to your own if that's where the best answer is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is whether you'll be tempted to link to your own blog when the post you're linking to is only tangentially related to the question, or only marginally useful.  You might justifiably be slammed in rep if either is the case.  And since it's your blog, your judgment of whether it is the &quot;best&quot; information available may be skewed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions, the same logic applies, but you have to be even more careful that your question is welcome.  The onus is on you, and so far it's seemed that questions are held to a higher standard than answers (since they're far more visible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, proceed with caution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:07:14.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T14:42:42.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the info should be cut/paste into the answer for many of the reasons given above.  The largest being that the fact that your blog may move.  Broken links are one of the biggest issues I have with the web.  That said, I think it's quite reasonable to include the link to the original source as well as the cut/paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the no blog links in the signature.  I don't get that at all.  It just doesn't make any sense at all to me.  The signature is your own little tiny personal space on their bigger space.  It's there to tell a quick blurb about yourself.  What better way than through your blog link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T14:42:42.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-11-18T15:19:23.040" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the answer to that question, check out my blog post &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codingwithoutcomments.com/2008/11/18/is-blogspam-ever-okay/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Is blogspam ever okay?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150074" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-18T15:19:23.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2008-12-15T22:54:21.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ironically, I just found this question via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billthelizard.com/2008/11/is-blogsmam-ever-okay.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill's blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the link is relevant then it doesn't matter who wrote the content.  If I link to Jeff's blog that's OK, but if I link to my blog it's not OK unless I copy-and-paste the content?  That doesn't sound right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copy-and-pasting is OK for short answers, but for longer answers a link is probably better (perhaps with a sentence or two explaining what you are linking to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think that your blog article is relevant, include a link.  If the community disagrees they will give you the down votes that you so richly deserve.  As others have pointed out, this scenario doesn't really qualify as blogspam (unless you are linking to articles about how to get viagra from Canadian pharmacies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:07:45.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T22:54:21.350" />
  <row Id="20544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-31T00:03:27.850" Score="5" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq#119658&quot;&gt;encouraged&lt;/a&gt; to answer our own posts, yet we &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq#119591&quot;&gt;cannot answer&lt;/a&gt; our own questions.  [At the time this question was asked, that second link said &quot;You cannot accept your own answer to a question.&quot; &amp;ndash;G.]  How, then is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/14/self-learner&quot;&gt;Self-Learner&lt;/a&gt; badge awarded? The badge's page states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answered your own question with at least 3 up votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how does SO know that I answered the question. Or does it simply accept any response from the author?  Further, are reputation points awarded to the original author, or the most recent author of the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:48:53.877" Title="How to earn the Self Learner badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="20545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20544" CreationDate="2008-10-31T00:05:38.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You simply post an answer to your own question, then wait for 3 people to up-vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note - you can 'answer' your own question, you just can't 'accept' your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:08:27.597" />
  <row Id="20546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20544" CreationDate="2008-10-31T00:05:44.163" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have to accept your reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just have to reply to your own question and also receive 3 up votes on that reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145546" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:08:27.597" />
  <row Id="20547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20544" CreationDate="2008-10-31T00:06:04.210" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it means that you posted an answer to your own question (not marked your own question as answered). If you post a question and then post a response and someone up-votes it 3 times then you earn the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17744" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:08:27.597" />
  <row Id="20548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20544" CreationDate="2008-10-31T00:09:30.880" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ahh, thanks guys...Of course I didn't find &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot; title=&quot;or will you still love me tomorrow?&quot;&gt;this related post&lt;/a&gt; until I had posted it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T14:24:04.500" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T14:24:04.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T15:17:51.033" Score="3" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What REALLY sets Stack Overflow apart? Why do we love it? Why does it have more hits and posts per day than any other programming web site out there, when it's barely more than a year old?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, first of all, it's arranged differently. &quot;Traditional&quot; Q &amp;amp; A sites are forum based, you ask a question in the Java forum or the C# forum, whatever it applies to. Stack Overflow uses tags, which makes it infinitely more flexible. Have a question on C# vs Java? What forum would you post that in? On Stack Overflow, it's easy, just tag it &quot;java&quot; and &quot;c#&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally new forums have to created by the site admins to discuss new topics, and there are always the &quot;Other languages that we didn't make forums for&quot; forum. On Stack Overflow, it's extremely easy to create new tags, you &quot;move&quot; questions by retagging them, and it's much easier to figure out &quot;where&quot; to ask a question. Oh, and instead of having to click on all those different forums, navigation is easier because all the questions are asked in the same place. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1337844/tags-vs-categories/1337872#1337872&quot;&gt;See this for more on tags vs forums&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second of all, Stack Overflow is run by the community. The more you contribute, the more you can do. Most other sites have a dozen or so admin appointed moderators, while Stack Overflow has over 180 &quot;moderators&quot; (users with 10000+ reputation). This really gives me the feeling I can make a different and help out in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow also just plain moves faster. Our users answer question quicker than any other site out there, and we're seeing new features added all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow is truly amazing, it has blown away the competition already, and has nowhere to go but up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387797/good-programming-website-like-stack-overflow/907126#907126&quot;&gt;More description of other sites vs Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add you own favorite features to this list, and thank to Stack Overflow's creators for giving us the best programming site on the web. ;D &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T10:44:21.103" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:35:36.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T15:17:51.033" Title="Why do we prefer Stack Overflow to other programming sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T15:30:15.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clean and simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:30:15.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T15:30:15.130" />
  <row Id="20552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T15:34:34.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The proprietors seem to be making a sincere effort to provide a helpful service to programmers rather than just extract as much money from them as they can (see experts-exchange.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, or they're master bullshitters :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:34:34.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T15:34:34.793" />
  <row Id="20553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20554" CreationDate="2008-08-18T01:14:29.540" Score="15" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the rule for linking to your own blog in a question?  In an innocent, non-spam, way where you have already explained yourself and made your points.  Doesn't it seem silly to  duplicate everything, especially since you have already written it down and it might be very long and not conducive to the medium?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask is because I had to &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt; a question earlier today, because the first commenter said that this wasn't allowed and pretty much encouraged everybody to downvote the question.  So before it caused harm to my rep I deleted it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your opinion, yah or nay, on adding links to your own blog if it is in a totally innocent non-spam way that just enhances your question.  Also remember there is no search engine ranking benefit because Jeff as wisely added a &lt;strong&gt;nofollow&lt;/strong&gt; relation on the anchor tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20531/&quot;&gt;How to refer to your blog when answering?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:20:04.260" Title="Are you allowed to link to your blog post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;self-promotion&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T01:15:12.597" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &quot;nofollow&quot; on the links so you can't gain any Google juice with the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131192" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T01:26:13.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say yes, as long as you're open about it, since it's kind of a conflict of interest. Just because Google doesn't see the link, it doesn't mean it doesn't benefit you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think some random user should have the authority to declare that certain behaviour is disallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if your question doesn't make sense, or has no substance without the link, you should consider bringing more of it into the question itself so that people aren't forced to click another link to read your question. (Also, your blog may go down, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T01:26:21.887" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you ONLY post a link it's open to debate whether it should be there or not.  However, if you introduce the link w/ a few sentences or where the link takes you, what the content of the link is, etc... I think it should be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, though, if I remember correctly, there was very little content contained in the original post.  Just a few words then a link.  I think that's OK to do in an answer, but a question needs to have substance.  Also, your Blog post, IMO, didn't have that much substance either.  And I think that was part of the problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150074" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T01:30:56.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi Ryan,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think my blog is going to go down.  I get much more traffic on the server than stackoverflow could bring.  However to answer the question and bring more clarity around the subject.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a question and gave my brief on the question and then I said for more details please look at my blog.  Personally to me it seemed innocent and if it was somebody else's blog and I had the same question I probably wouldn't have change much if any of the language.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to have this conversation so that people can feel justified to do this and they won't be harassed by some of the &quot;unspoken&quot; rules that tend to pop up around social communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T01:56:29.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you've seen, I don't mind linking to my own blog if it helps to elaborate on a question. I wouldn't do it if it were only a small snippet of code I needed to post, but if the blog post contains a page or two of code and associated commentary, I'd prefer to leave that content there and use the Stack Overflow post just to ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T02:02:58.363" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Nick:&#xA;I'm more concerned about the long-term. You may one day decide to delete your log, or move it, or whatever. Having the content here means that as long as Stack Overflow exists, people will be able to get your question in its entirety. (Note: I'm not trying to imply that you're unreliable!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T02:20:36.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Ryan I see your point about linked content moving or disappearing. I'll have to consider that when posting future questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T05:01:52.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Ryan:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Such is the nature of the Internet. It's pretty much unavoidable when linking to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; external content whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T05:28:35.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that posting a relevant, germane blog link &lt;em&gt;in response to a question&lt;/em&gt;, along with explanatory text, is certainly admissible.  Also, posting to your own blog &lt;em&gt;in the question&lt;/em&gt; as part of a larger explanation (while not detracting from the readability or clarity of the text on the SO question page) seems reasonable to me as well.  For example, Jeff might write:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How do you run background tasks in&#xA;  ASP.NET?  I've written a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/easy-background-tasks-in-aspnet/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Dylan: A Dynamic Object-Oriented Language&quot;&gt;post about&#xA;  this on the StackOverflow Blog&lt;/a&gt;, and I've found the best&#xA;  solution so far to be XXXX (maybe a&#xA;  sentence or paragraph).  But, I still have YYY reservations with this model.  Any ideas on &#xA;  how to do it better?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I could see this being an issue is when you're posting not-so-relevant links to your own stuff as answers with little supporting text.  That could get annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135234" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-18T08:03:44.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are asking a question then you should have the full question text here, so google can index it and so you don't have to trawl another site to find the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133551" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-08-19T00:59:52.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the overwhelming opinion seems to be do it if it makes sense for your post and people vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-09-12T07:22:05.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't bother me to see, but I don't think I'd ever link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://whereslou.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my blog&lt;/a&gt; in my answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2008-09-12T08:23:27.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't link to your blog in questions, the entire question should be in this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to visit another site in order to understand the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nofollow doesn't really make any difference - SO can automatically add it anyway. Links to your blog in questions feels like trying to get people to read your blog.  Google-rank aside I'd still consider it spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers you can link to your own blog, if it's relevant, but the main part of the answer should still be in SO, not your blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ignore this advice if you want, but those that break it tend to get voted down or even flagged as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:38:59.313" />
  <row Id="20567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T15:40:32.600" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all in the polish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generally clean design - not framed with 100 images/adverts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Markdown is much easier than things like phpBB IMO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Code formatting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The AJAX notifications&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's fast!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are interesting questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are interesting people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being cross-platform means I get to &quot;taste&quot; other technologies too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I can't believe I forgot to include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community judgement of post worthiness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Addictive nature of rep (making it game-like)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges adding an extra bit of fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T17:10:01.467" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T17:10:01.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T15:40:32.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T15:41:18.230" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ability to edit questions and answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what first piqued my interest, and that's what keeps me around. There's other good stuff, but editing is kinda unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T15:41:18.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T15:41:18.230" />
  <row Id="20569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T16:12:14.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ninny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ninny&lt;/a&gt; won't answer my question and get away with it (usually).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T11:00:02.700" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T11:00:02.700" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T16:12:14.643" />
  <row Id="20570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T16:20:15.100" Score="26" ViewCount="2345" Body="&lt;h2&gt;UPDATE: For those feeling left out of the sticker party, details on how to obtain stickers are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/how-to-get-stack-overflow-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;now on the blog&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look what arrived in the mail yesterday - &lt;strong&gt;stickers!&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks Jeff! &lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/7Xa3W.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HIw7Z.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/J5FvS.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I put a StackOverflow on my black 2007 MacBook, my primary computer and the one I use to code and check StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/O9jkN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, I put a ServerFault sticker on my home media server, a PowerMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.5, 3 200GB drives connected with ZFS. I know that technically I purchased the machine (and therefore questions about it are ineligible for ServerFault) but it's the closest thing I have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/jZlZB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also stuck a SuperUser sticker on my rock-solid WRT54G router running the Tomato firmware:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/QhQAd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To show others I'm living the StackOverflow lifestyle, I also put a SO sticker on my car, a 2005 Nissan Sentra. It's too small to be read by the driver behind me, but it should be visible to those that are walking by my parked vehicle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/ML6ZY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in the spirit of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14470/what-is-the-boat-programming-meme-about&quot;&gt;boat programming&lt;/a&gt;, I affixed a StackOverflow sticker to my Old Town kayak. It may not make me a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattmcdole.com/boat/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;programmer out at sea&lt;/a&gt;, but being a programmer on a lake is good enough for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/beFuV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still have a few stickers left - &lt;strong&gt;any ideas for other places I could put them?&lt;/strong&gt; (I tried my iPhone, but the stickers are too long). And to those that have stickers of your own, &lt;strong&gt;please post some pics of where you've put yours!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Just got my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13587/we-need-a-meta-sticker&quot;&gt;Meta sticker&lt;/a&gt; - thanks again, Jeff! I'm not sure if I'm going to actually adhere it to anything considering I only have 1 and the supply is somewhat limited, but it's still cool to have!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/mKRL5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:27:48.327" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:27:48.327" Title="Stickers for Stackers (i.e. post your sticker shots!)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stickers&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="20571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T16:33:24.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the answer in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is so much faster to get a good answer on SO, it's a level of magnitude beyond the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T16:33:24.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T16:33:24.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T16:40:19.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it is Polished. And centered around making users participate while behaving nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12423" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T16:40:19.853" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T16:40:19.853" />
  <row Id="20573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20588" CreationDate="2009-09-05T16:54:27.453" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although my experience at Stack Overflow has been quite pleasant the same can't be said about Meta Stack Overflow.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have already gone through an &quot;un-Stack Overflow&quot; type of culture at Meta Stack Overflow including receiving barrage of sarcastic remarks, four letter words and other to name a few.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does Meta Stack Overflow do to defaulters in this list, of course there is a &quot;flag abusive remark&quot; control even so this seems to be more like &quot;you could continue doing what you are doing&quot;&#xA;Is there a system in place for getting Meta SO into the Stack Overflow culture that we all &lt;strong&gt;revere&lt;/strong&gt; about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T19:23:03.623" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T20:21:27.650" Title="What regulations does Meta Stack Overflow have regarding abuse, profanity, etc?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="20574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20575" CreationDate="2009-09-05T16:59:10.130" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scenario: User asks question. Answers given (or not) and are voted on (or not) but not accepted. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/668078/can-i-insert-nodes-into-a-treeview-during-afterlabeledit-without-beginning-to-edi&quot;&gt;User proposes answer or workaround in their &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt; (either as part of the original post, or in subsequent edits) rather than in an answer with a self-accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be desirable or useful for those of some level of reputation to have the ability to extract the answer out of the question, place it into an answer, and then mark it as &quot;accepted answer&quot;? Note, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18312/moderators-accepting-answers-on-users-behalf-after-a-certain-time-period&quot;&gt;I do not mean make this the job of a moderator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this could be allowed with author permission, or after a time period (rep of X + time of Y).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135216" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T13:16:24.510" Title="Would an &quot;extract answer&quot; edit be useful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20574" CreationDate="2009-09-05T17:02:10.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a real use for this feature.  If the data is there, it really doesn't matter whether the answer is accepted or not.  I'd prefer that the author use the ability to answer and self-accept, but I don't think it's important enough to grant the ability to override the author's actions in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T17:11:50.993" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T17:11:50.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20573" CreationDate="2009-09-05T17:05:14.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have the Fastest Gun in the West over at Stack Overflow. Extend that to Meta and you'll find these here parts the barren wastelands. Or the Cursed Earth if you will. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is still a level of discourse, of banter, that is more relaxed since it's not about being wrong or right more than it is about expressing an opinion or thought about the workings of the main SOFU sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things do get a little raw in here, but it still adheres to its own sense of guidelines and not entirely a naked bastion of chaos and outright waffle and pony bashing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people are out of line here or rucking a muck, they can still be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;anything to do with lame bricks?&quot;&gt;binned to the penalty box&lt;/a&gt;. It's not entirely a full blown insane asylum. Just a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;whole&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; lot more easy going about things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T17:05:14.487" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20573" CreationDate="2009-09-05T17:10:12.340" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to what random said, on Meta the moderators are a lot more relaxed. The line is drawn at profanity however the moderators acknowledge experience in the other moderators, therefore we often let the more experienced moderators deal with the more out of hand scenarios. Users are often placed in time suspension on Meta. Also keep in mind that every moderator from everyone of the trilogy sites is a moderator here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is the place to blow off steam. I have to disagree, I like the meta culture quit a bit, simply because the no holds barred attitude very quickly makes you realize when you've said or done something really stupid, and gives you a chance to rectify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember on Meta it's not about how smart you or right you are, it is all about whether people agree with your opinion or not, and this is bound to cause some heated debates at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T19:24:20.237" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T19:24:20.237" />
  <row Id="20578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2009-09-05T17:11:13.430" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rubbing shoulders with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;celebrities&lt;/a&gt;, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T17:11:13.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-05T17:11:13.430" />
  <row Id="20579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-05T17:24:19.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At his current velocity, it seems inevitable that Jon will hit 100k reputation before the first Dev Days event in Boston on October 7.  32 days remain, and he has less than 6400 rep to go.  This means all he has to do is hit the cap each day, and we all know that's a given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will something happen when he reaches 100k?  Something wonderful?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this all ordained by prophecy?  Will Dev Days actually be ... a pilgrimage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T17:24:19.523" />
  <row Id="20580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20613" CreationDate="2009-09-05T17:56:59.117" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way in calculating the total number of reputation points one gained only on his/her answers?&#xA;Currently the reputation points for questions and answers are combined total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:42:10.427" Title="reputation points gained in answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="20581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20632" CreationDate="2009-09-05T18:27:21.010" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like meta.stackover.com is hiding again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.zygonia.net/content/binary/JustPing-09-09-05.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The UK test shows as ok but my ISP's DNS is reporting not found. In the meantime I've nailed the MSO IP address into my HOSTS file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T14:06:21.680" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T14:06:21.680" Title="Is anyone else seeing DNS problems with meta.stackoverflow.com just now?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;dns&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T18:28:23.490" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3365/how-can-i-set-my-default-question-answer-sort-on-my-user-page&quot;&gt;How can I set my default question/answer sort on my user page?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I lock my Stack Overflow / Meta user stat page view to &quot;newest&quot;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On every refresh my page moves to &quot;votes&quot; mode&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T07:02:59.680" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T07:02:59.680" ClosedDate="2009-09-05T21:23:40.500" Title="Lock user stat page view to &quot;newest&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;sort-order&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-09-05T18:37:18.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's real shame this has been declined. I'd like to be able to quickly go to my colleagues and see their questions answers from inside the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After much deliberation, I've decided I might have a crack at implementing a friends/enemies system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any questions by 'friends' would be highlighted and questions by 'enemies' would be hidden by default, with the option to show. There would be a sidebar at the right allowing you to click on a user, and show all questions by that user. The same with enemies, if you wanted to see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I say 'friends', I mean colleagues, and people who may have shown an interest in your questions in the past. I suppose this could be expanded to create automatic relationships with people who often participate in your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I say 'enemies', I mean thankless users with low accept rates who clog the tubes with their constant questions, but never take the time to accept any, and also people you decide you don't like for whatever reason (flamers?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There... I've laid out a plan, and now I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/TN1yg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogged&lt;/a&gt; about it! &lt;strong&gt;Feel free to beat me to the punch!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131808" LastEditorUserId="131808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T20:16:04.307" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T20:16:04.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T18:41:29.487" Score="-5" ViewCount="707" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being able to discuss answers is as important as the answers themselves.  Comments should allow everything that an answer does, so I can post error cases, alternative code, etc. for an answer, which generally don't make sense to post as a separate answer.  (That can lead to answer sniping, reposting someone else's answer with minor changes; I don't want to do that, either.)  Don't make me squish responses into a single paragraph.  Comments currently make detailed discussion of answers difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give me the full editor; let me post code, multiple paragraphs, with no arbitrary length limit, just like the initial answer.  Discussion of an answer should not be second-class compared to the answer itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135418" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T07:45:21.293" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T07:45:21.293" Title="Comment formatting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="20585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20580" CreationDate="2009-09-05T18:49:38.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is no such mechanism on this platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something for the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T18:49:38.253" />
  <row Id="20586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20584" CreationDate="2009-09-05T18:55:30.833" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um...no thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that comments now form an important part of the site, but heavy, highly capable comments would need a lightweight meta-comment mechanism, and that way lies madness. &#xA;You may recall that the difficulty of using questions to address comments to other questions was one impetus for the comment mechanism in the first case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Powerful comments would make comment threads too tedious to read (that happens even now), and too confusing to scan efficiently (as things stand it is easy to see where one ends and the next begins and they are still visually compact). The existing vote mechanism keeps downward pressure on the &quot;Me too!&quot;s and makes it easy to find well regarded thoughts among the dross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead you should choose the most appropriate of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write an answer of your own (certainly this is not always reasonable, but as others have said it goes to the main point of the site)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make do with the comment facility we have (and practice being clear and terse can only improve technical writing skills, a plus for anyone in this business)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take it off-line (if both parties are willing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T18:41:07.793" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:41:07.793" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20573" CreationDate="2009-09-05T19:04:38.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is something of a heat tolerance versus presence in the kitchen matter here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag any out right profanity, or personal abuse beyond the background level of chummy joshing that is endemic here, and just deal. Meta is rowdy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T19:04:38.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20573" CreationDate="2009-09-05T19:13:46.400" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I let a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more slide on meta than I do on SO.  A lot of the people here on meta know each other, and joke around with each other.  It normally makes for a good-spirited debate, rather than an abusive down-beating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a few notable instances where we've had to pull the plug on a &quot;discussion&quot; that got out of hand, though.  You shouldn't feel offended when someone disagrees with you or downvotes you, but you shouldn't have to put up with abusive treatment either.  If you feel that someone has stepped over the line on &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the sites, flag it for moderator attention.  (Keep in mind that if you flag what appears to be offensive language directed from one user to another, and I know that the two users know each other personally, I'll probably just let it slide.  However, if someone makes an offensive comment directed at &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; and you flag it, I will take it seriously.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T19:13:46.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20582" CreationDate="2009-09-05T19:20:46.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe a view should remain once you have picked it. That's how it has always worked for me on all of the SOFU sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm referring to viewing questions above, not on the user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastEditorUserId="116923" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T21:13:38.897" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T21:13:38.897" />
  <row Id="20591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20584" CreationDate="2009-09-05T19:37:32.393" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are &lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt; to be second class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each answer is supposed to stand on its own and voted on by the community. It's not supposed to become a long diatribe to add alternative code or different points of view by a bunch of users. That type of protracted discussion is avoided, by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are supposed to be a bit Twitter-like; a light-weight way to add a few hundred characters as an annotation to the answer. Comments provide &lt;em&gt;just enough&lt;/em&gt; functionality to point out issues or add any sort of mini &quot;meta discussion&quot; you want to have &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have &lt;em&gt;significant&lt;/em&gt; content to contribute, add another answer so it can be voted on independently. If you feel that your corrections or clarifications don't warrant another answer, edit the original answer. &lt;strong&gt;That is the basis of how Stack Overflow works.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T19:46:28.463" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T19:46:28.463" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20593" CreationDate="2009-09-05T20:07:52.527" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to calculate the amount of reputation earned from particular posts via either the sandbox at &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;statoverflow.com/sandbox&lt;/a&gt; or from the data in the public &lt;a href=&quot;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;?  I can see we've got the posts and the votes table, but how do we take into account the daily reputation cap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it involve emulating the entire rep calculation process?  Or is there an easier way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone done this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I guess it's not possible.  If anyone can show otherwise, I've got a shiny acceptance checkmark that someone else gets instead of Kyle ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T20:24:06.600" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T20:46:39.367" Title="Calculating rep earned using sandbox or data dump" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;stackoverflow-sandbox&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20592" CreationDate="2009-09-05T20:10:07.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It won't be possible to be exact, unfortunately, since it's possible to earn rep on a post that's later converted to wiki, and since the dump doesn't contain what time the votes were cast, it's impossible to know how many votes affected rep on the day that a post was converted to Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T20:46:39.367" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T20:46:39.367" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20573" CreationDate="2009-09-05T20:21:27.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a lot of the programmers who come by here are thrown a little off-kilter by the subject matter: nearly &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; here is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No longer can you rely on your keen grasp of boolean logic and problem-solving skills to discern useful content from noise and incorrect responses.  Things here have a broader appeal to emotion, and it seems like when some first arrive are shocked at the fact that others actually disagree with them. Having to defend your ideas based on purely subjective merits is an exercise that seems to catch the average programmer off-guard, and overreactions are common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is not to take it personally.  When other people voice their disagreement in emotive terms, it is not a personal attack.  It's just the way business is conducted here.  It's not the case that one of you must be wrong, as would be the case with a more technical issue:  These things are a matter of opinion, and that's okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T20:21:27.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20584" CreationDate="2009-09-05T20:25:35.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No thank you.  We only have to look at Reddit or SlashDot to see how that would work.  I've given up on both for anything other than sentinels of things I may be interested in looking at.   Your idea is fine in theory, but comments are never actually used in the way you describe in practice.  Elevating comments to first-class citizen ship will only lead to long, off-topic ramblings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T20:25:35.897" />
  <row Id="20597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20584" CreationDate="2009-09-05T21:04:21.673" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the others here. The moderators have also been given the ability to delete all comments on a particular question or answer quickly, and when comments start to outweigh the value of a question or answer we often delete them with a note stating this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize the sections below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments is a useful moderator tool&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are disposable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments can be invalidated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments is there to provide awareness of shortcomings of an answer when it does not constitute someone posting a complete new answer. I have to admit it has become a useful moderator tool on the main sites since it helps us quickly identify problems or areas we need to address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also less likely that we will delete an answer rather then a comment. I would suggest you spend a little bit more time on the site and you will soon see why comments have such a limited scope. There was a stage where comments weren't allowed at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP of the question or answer can edit these at any time, which can quickly invalidate comments, forcing them to be removed. So you may add something significant in a comment, and the OP decides to delete it later, or change the whole answer to be more effective. This has happened in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Twitter-like&quot; is a very elegant explanation for why this is such a terrible design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer this comment. What you consider a terrible design has taken more then a few months to tweak and work at to get right. SO was not slapped together overnight, and Jeff and the team works extremely hard to implement useful features. I would further suggest that you spend some time going through the past feature request, and you will see how much work has actually gone into the commenting system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-05T21:41:08.593" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T21:41:08.593" />
  <row Id="20599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20605" CreationDate="2009-09-05T21:10:47.110" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't you hate that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please close this while answering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135137" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T23:03:29.157" Title="Questions That Get Closed While I'm Answering Them" Tags="&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20599" CreationDate="2009-09-05T21:21:57.023" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases, you can anticipate that a particular question will be closed, especially the &quot;not a real&quot; and &quot;subjective / argumentative&quot; types. If you start typing a well thought-out answer on such a question, you're taking the risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question gets closed as a dupe&amp;mdash;well, post the answer to the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T21:21:57.023" />
  <row Id="20601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T21:53:21.270" Score="39" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted answers should be shown at the bottom, always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now they get shuffled just as regular answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T04:25:27.543" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T04:25:27.543" Title="Deleted answers should get sorted at the very bottom of the answer list" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;answer-order&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20580" CreationDate="2009-09-05T22:09:55.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, use the raw data dump and count the upvotes on answers only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T22:09:55.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T22:43:33.630" Score="3" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we can choose if we want our gravatar to be an identicon, monsterid or wavatar instead of only the boring identicon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be a preference in the pref tab on the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a nice feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-06T08:25:24.160" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T08:26:26.640" Title="Let users choose if they want an Identicon, Monsterid or Wavatar" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;avatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20603" CreationDate="2009-09-05T22:53:44.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already create any picture you like and use it with Gravatar. I don't see the point of having multiple default picture services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T22:53:44.827" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20599" CreationDate="2009-09-05T23:03:29.157" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously you just need to type faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T23:03:29.157" />
  <row Id="20606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T23:05:04.163" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have a stats view for the tags I've participated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same we have now for general tag stats, but at the user level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should show per each tag you've got on your user profile the amount upvotes in addition to the amount of answers (or have a switch/tab that let you change between answers and upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this can be obtained via the data dump, but the data gets a month old each month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-06T10:39:40.867" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T13:50:10.503" Title="Add a tag stats per user view" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-05T23:05:37.970" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like how I'm in my 20s and all I can think right now is &quot;Awww I want stickers! :(&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice kayak btw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-09-05T23:05:37.970" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="20609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-05T23:24:55.703" Score="11" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users with sufficient reputation can see even deleted answers and questions.  Many feel that these simply get in the way and/or would rather respect the author's wishes when the author deletes an answer. Similar to the ability to filter out questions based on tags, I suggest a setting in the profile that would allow such a user to choose whether deleted answers, other than their own, are visible or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would exempt a person's own answers since it can be handy in certain situations to be able to delete, edit, then undelete your own answer.  One example is keeping an answer based on a misunderstanding from accruing downvotes while you are fixing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T19:55:07.823" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T19:55:07.823" Title="Give users the option of whether deleted answers are visible" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="20610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20606" CreationDate="2009-09-06T00:02:36.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure how this is different from what is already available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have all the tags you participated in on your profile already with counts next to them of the questions and answers in total, and by clicking on the tag it shows you only the questions and answers you have provided for that particular tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I see no need for more then that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T00:02:36.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20609" CreationDate="2009-09-06T00:24:24.080" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see how it would be useful, but I think it would probably be easier to implement auto-sorting of the deleted answers to the bottom, no matter what their score was before they were deleted. This would push all the deleted ones down to the very bottom (and therefore on the very last page of any multi-page questions. It would make it a lot easier to ignore them then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T00:24:24.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20601" CreationDate="2009-09-06T00:27:26.603" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this definitely and I am almost certain it's been asked numerous times in the past. I hate having to go through the fuss of having to see all the deleted answers the way it is now. Most of the time I don't want to see them, and the few times that I would want to, I would like for them to all be in a single continuous area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T00:27:26.603" />
  <row Id="20613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20580" CreationDate="2009-09-06T00:29:36.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no such current mechanism. You could request it as some type of stat feature, or you could go through the data dumps and calculate in that manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T00:29:36.537" />
  <row Id="20614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T00:54:42.883" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under the &quot;Interesting tags&quot; list, there's a search box for adding new tags to the list. This search box offers suggestions as one starts typing in it. When searching for things related to existing selections, the suggestions will tend to start with the tags already chosen, since they are the most popular. Those should be filtered out of the search, as well as tags in entry box about to be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133627" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-06T01:15:00.087" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T04:31:49.333" Title="Search suggestions for (un)interesting tags should filter those already selected" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14470" CreationDate="2009-09-06T02:08:52.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm I'm glad I found out about this. I've been considering living on a boat for awhile now and may have accidentally asked the very same question. =x&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T02:08:52.967" />
  <row Id="20618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T02:46:24.613" Score="6" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this. Hover over a bounty end period and you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/937/bountydate.png&quot; alt=&quot;bounty date format&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but normally it's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1780/normaldate.png&quot; alt=&quot;normal date format&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it's just a minor oversight and a really simple fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T07:13:46.963" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T07:13:46.963" Title="Bug: make bounty tooltip date formats consistent with the rest" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;date-format&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="20619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2009-09-06T03:21:00.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having gone through a co-op program at my university, I can say that this is not how co-ops work.  The school itself sets up various job openings at companies, and then the students apply for them through the school.  The only sort of advertising that would make sense is a general &quot;hey, we're open to hiring co-ops, please contact us&quot; sort of announcement by the company, but it's generally easier for the company's HR/Personnel department to contact the various Co-op Coordinators directly (normally, just the schools nearby).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T03:21:00.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-06T03:21:00.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T03:44:35.943" Score="4" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to download the data dump and answer this question myself but I keep getting an &lt;code&gt;unable to connect to tracker&lt;/code&gt; error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly seems like it though and it would make sense seeing as there are a lot of people running around tagging duplicates and making sure those questions get removed. The only questions left seem to be edge cases of interest to only a handful of developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else think this is going to be a problem? Do you think the community will begin to dwindle because of it? Does anyone have any ideas for how to fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T11:27:11.703" Title="Are questions in StackOverflow slowing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8479" CreationDate="2009-09-06T03:47:19.073" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's me* on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?q=boat&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=N&amp;amp;tab=fi#start=0&amp;amp;imgsz=l&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;boat&lt;/a&gt;* (with my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/products?q=laptop&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;aq=f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Toshiba NB205&lt;/a&gt;*):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7430/boat21.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt; * May or may not be my boat, me, or my Toshiba (or &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; Toshiba).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T03:52:31.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-06T03:47:19.073" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-06T04:16:20.067" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heh, in their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingnuts.com/content/js/util.post.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question page's javascript&lt;/a&gt;, my name appears in a comment (in code I wrote a long time ago):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// {&quot;Id&quot;:6,&quot;PostId&quot;:38589,&quot;CreationDate&quot;:&quot;an hour ago&quot;,&quot;Text&quot;:&quot;hello there!&quot;,&quot;UserDisplayName&quot;:&quot;Jarrod Dixon&quot;,&quot;UserUrl&quot;:&quot;/users/3/jarrod-dixon&quot;,&quot;DeleteUrl&quot;:null}&#xA;var renderComment = function(jDiv, json) {&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's before we minified our js and before we did a major refactoring on question/answer comments (in part to facilitate comment votes, in part because I was on something when I wrote it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, I was angry, but then I went and downloaded some copyrighted music.  THE CIRCLE OF THEFT GOES ROUND AND ROUND!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-06T04:27:22.260" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T04:27:22.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20614" CreationDate="2009-09-06T04:31:49.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really find it that inconvenient. It's not hard when the suggestion list comes up to press the down arrow a couple of times. I think adding this feature is probably more work than it's worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T04:31:49.333" />
  <row Id="20625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20626" CreationDate="2009-09-06T04:40:55.513" Score="8" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally it takes five 3K+ users to close out a question for whatever reason they choose. Or in the case of a race to the finish line, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19299/possible-race-condition-with-migration&quot; title=&quot;Go, Speed! Go!&quot;&gt;a sixth car will ghost past the checkered flag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a moderator steps in, they have the power to close with their lone vote, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work/10583#10583&quot; title=&quot;hey Kevin Costner, how about another boring movie?&quot;&gt;no matter however many have come before. None even&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how does it happen when one user closes a question when the closer is not a moderator? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case to the jury: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/286148/list&quot; title=&quot;beat the latin charset out of them, that's how&quot;&gt;How to force PHP to use UTF-8 charset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does something like that happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-20T08:27:34.000" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T08:27:34.000" Title="How can a question be closed by a single (non-moderator) user?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;self-close&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20625" CreationDate="2009-09-06T04:53:27.033" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in November of '08, it only took a single user (with at or above 3K reputation) to close a question. And users with considerably less reputation could close &lt;em&gt;their own&lt;/em&gt; questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;vote to close&quot; system we all know and, uh, love... came later (December '08, AFAIK).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-28T16:46:34.517" LastActivityDate="2010-05-28T16:46:34.517" />
  <row Id="20627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T05:19:54.723" Score="4" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure all of you have observed the cohesive design of this site. My question is about some of the cool info-boxes that appear upon various events, such as when someone with lower reputation tries to downvote, or the long box that appears just below the browser address bar when I have a response to one of my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are basically JavaScript generated DIV elements, but do any one of you know a good library or set of controls that can be used to achieve these styling effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135446" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-06T05:39:40.240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T05:39:40.240" Title="What are the StackOverflow UI design secrets?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20627" CreationDate="2009-09-06T05:26:50.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is basically the poster child for &lt;a href=&quot;http://jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery&lt;/a&gt;. there are numerous plugins for popup boxes, etc. Pretty much any eye candy you'd want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T05:26:50.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="556" CreationDate="2009-09-06T07:59:45.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our intern program deals directly with the intern programs at the universities we recruit from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T07:59:45.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-06T07:59:45.097" />
  <row Id="20630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20606" CreationDate="2009-09-06T08:20:19.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a query for this using the data dump. Here's your top 10 tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;  348   php&#xA;  316   python&#xA;  251   perl&#xA;  233   subjective&#xA;  216   java&#xA;  195   sql&#xA;  174   mysql&#xA;  157   c#&#xA;  150   regex&#xA;  148   .net&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T08:20:19.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20603" CreationDate="2009-09-06T08:26:26.640" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the other auto-generated avatar types &lt;em&gt;incredibly&lt;/em&gt; ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T08:26:26.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20581" CreationDate="2009-09-06T08:28:18.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;no repro&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;c=&amp;amp;s=ping&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;c=&amp;amp;s=ping&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or maybe it was some temporary thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T08:28:18.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20581" CreationDate="2009-09-06T08:42:41.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to put the IP address into my hosts file a while back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T08:42:41.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2009-09-06T09:18:49.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if &lt;code&gt;SHOW TABLES&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;DESCRIBE [table]&lt;/code&gt; worked. The auto-append of a &lt;code&gt;LIMIT&lt;/code&gt; clause seems to break them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T09:18:49.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T09:59:18.823" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'll notice a 'Great Question' or similar in the 'Recent Badges' section of the homepage and wonder what it was for. Occasionally curiosity will get the better of me, and I'll track down the question/answer on the users profile. but I thought it might be a good idea certain badges would link to the specific question/answer which caused them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Nice/Good/Great Question/Answer tags make good candidates, but perhaps we could include Favorite/Stellar Questions and the like as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else think this could be useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as an aside, I sort of think badges like Woot/Enthusiast, Fanatic, and Yearling shouldn't be listed in the 'Recent Badges' section. It seems like more than half of the badges listed are one of the three anytime I look at that section of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T10:01:08.303" Title="How about adding links to questions in the 'Recent Badges' section?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20635" CreationDate="2009-09-06T10:01:08.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has come up many times before - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is intentional and by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Badges are supposed to incite&#xA;  curiosity about why the badge exists&#xA;  and what you did that caused you to&#xA;  earn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I've said umpteen zillion times,&#xA;  this is based on the Xbox 360&#xA;  Achievements model. You see the&#xA;  achievement flash on screen..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.. and then you go figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The discovery is part of the fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you're asking about &lt;em&gt;other people's&lt;/em&gt; badges, but I think the same reasoning applies (especially as your own badges are listed under that section too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T10:01:08.303" />
  <row Id="20637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20620" CreationDate="2009-09-06T10:18:03.373" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say &quot;no&quot;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more stats graphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3AAMCFBbBqDmGOFQGlEfCKCNEBE6FLGJFJB7CqG4IDIZKVJhEEDoH7J8LYLnKLFnEQIAMlKuLaLiE1FJMTNWNeOjMWEzEXeqw9yNtGpzPZNAfFjQi1iBfMLzLTZKbebBbwX2J3J8WfZgchcaYzIUIjVhaNYJZ5XTI0IXUlZZaSZHWXJeJhTAYsZAW.VXF7ItT-YiW4bXXYIcJeWNWSZRWmWJJyI0V6ZgY9Z2YdJIIvVSYlXYQmPSJGIqT5XVX6Y2V1JmJDVDX2Y4YsVLJtIKWaXpYCXxUUH0H2RfRsMnFnHxHqHjPGTCN0IlP1KOL7UNZKa5ajZRLsOFZlcVboduZPM9Mza3cGczcNcGMWLfZlc.czeMa-NjMqZ7eOhUhQdpOvNCeHgtholMd4MxM9Z-fFgFgXc6NxP.eRhQh6kHggOAOPcfjYifhBegODOefehwgXiNg5PhOXgjg0htgthQOZMTgeihlPiQg3QkOyhLirk2lqgDPcPcfvlAlAh1YMPoOXbegXkijBkJPcQXjGoQlqlUhXSMQSimoVm0pihXR.UDm-rerxvaqxSJQmnDtjw4vGp4SOSbpQvzufs0orTFSJf-rMwzv1rZUUS7nrt.wTxiq9S4SHqCxFzUyetcTHSssgwlybzyn6SsUcte1L0Iw2uITKU-vnz3vuyejaSJQaqu1L1k1iyKWhUKxg0w5158yKYsVhy53v-I7.zoYbW.z.6f9P6N0LWmVGwg0w3768y5X6XT0m3A585P06VmXp1f8g8k9ZyAYOWz1s9M..-A2uZ0Zxyl&amp;amp;chtt=Questions%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0|1653&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this one seems more worrisome:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3A5smt..5C0SqIo6jQkreTh1b8lLfZjGkCc7fmeYe9gycub3i8anboanYvZMYNYdW.bTWTYlWdXuWDWJV0XRaFVVd-X7bqb3cEbgaSbla7cWYFYVW3Y0YqYlZgViT.V8ZtW.YVUoXCTyYNSpTQXUSXSSSSUMSMTtT3TIRwRORYURWyTTbLTqShQ5RYRETDScQKRgRRPuRWSPQiPpQKQNPHQDROPcQ0O6QqQiPwO6Q-QkQNQaQDP4QiQvQ3P4PmPRPuRJT8QiPpQXPuQ3QQR6P9PuP2QAQ-RgSFR9PcRgTDRYQsSFRWQDSCRtVxSUR6QiRwQ-RlRBTGRwPUQQQFPWQkPZQVPHQnQVQAP7QDPePUP9PzPcPeRYSCQqPZO3QaQDPwQNOyO.QFOiO8PrP4OdPROoPhO6PRO3OiOLODOLOOOLPePZNPODOQNKN-N2OGODN7N5OYOQNxNCNXOVOBNfNANHNHMmMmMmNFMTNhM6OBMrNANuNsNFNSNnNNMwM1MENUNNNfOGNsM9NUMtMmNSNaMzNFMGMBMTMrNFNPOIMbNPMrMGMRMmMBL8L8MGL0MeMwNFMrM6MrMWMtM4L8MrM6L.MrLyMOMTMrMRLnMJLyM9MZMONNL3MWMEMjMJMGL.MeMOMMMMMzMJLlLvMRMBLyLqLVLSL5LdLvLvLyL3LQMML0LnMRL.LSLvL.MjLiLDLYL3LlK2LFLVLQLdK4LLLALFLIL5KkKcKxKxKrK7KpLDK7KzKmLDKkLIKzKhK2KpKxKhK2KuK-KrKrKuKuKcKeKHKMJy&amp;amp;chtt=Answers%20per%20question%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T10:18:03.373" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20641" CreationDate="2009-09-06T10:40:10.977" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions I've asked can't be solved in the near future, and since its become so important to accept answers (courtesy the accept rate), should I just accept any good answer even though the problem isn't solved by it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T11:12:56.613" Title="Should you accept the best answer for problems that cant be solved yet?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20638" CreationDate="2009-09-06T10:44:49.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The accept rate isn't that important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;has said&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is considered good manners to&#xA;  accept answers on your questions,&#xA;  eventually, but accepting answers is&#xA;  not required. I personally consider&#xA;  anything at 70% or over quite good,&#xA;  meaning you accept answers on 7 out of&#xA;  10 questions that you ask. &lt;strong&gt;There are&#xA;  certainly cases where you don’t get an&#xA;  answer you like, or the question is&#xA;  inherently unanswerable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although one might question the validity of questions who can't be solved right now. They suspiciously look like subjective discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-06T11:12:56.613" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T11:12:56.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20638" CreationDate="2009-09-06T10:46:56.253" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answers on your question slate don't suit or solve your needs, don't arbitrarily accept any answer just for the sake of a higher accept rate. 70% and higher is good, but you don't need to shoot for the 100% moon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait some on the lingering questions, it's fine, really it is. Not all questions have to be solved and green-boxed out of vision within a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the information landscape around that question changes, you may see an acceptable answer pop up. An answerer that would have otherwise not seen or bothered with your question if you did accept one willy-nilly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T10:46:56.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2009-09-06T11:19:49.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dont' forget that even if you accept an answer, the question remains open for more answers to be added. Yes, activity will decrease, but it won't stop somebody having a different point of view from expressing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T11:19:49.670" />
  <row Id="20643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20654" CreationDate="2009-09-06T11:31:18.527" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered something on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1385414/whats-wp-nonce-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1385414/whats-wp-nonce-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which got migrated to SU:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/36600/whats-wp-nonce&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/36600/whats-wp-nonce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the answer I had written on SO did not move with the question. I reposted it, you can see it's not the same via the timestamps (well, you can if you are &gt;10k).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like a race somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T16:15:33.140" Title="migrated question didn't migrate answers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2753" CreationDate="2009-09-06T12:09:37.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still think that this would be much better than the alternative of asking on Yahoo answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:09:37.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16880" CreationDate="2009-09-06T12:25:19.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that we should be able to accept our answers straight away, once we have sufficient reputation. I sometimes use stack overflow to share the answers to questions that I have solved myself - I solve the question and then immediately answer it. Coming back to accept a solution is a pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:25:19.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T12:40:33.720" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see questions that are &lt;strong&gt;errors&lt;/strong&gt; that people encounter with specific platforms in very specific cases, on the homepage with all the other questions . Can such questions be shown in another group on the homepage? Or on another tab within it? Would you like this and would it be a real benefit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I don't see the reasoning behind showing everyone &quot;Help I'm getting XYZ Exception within XYZ instance of the PrinterDialog class in Java!!&quot; questions. And this could apply to the other sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:46:50.010" Title="Can SO show error questions seperately?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20580" CreationDate="2009-09-06T12:42:10.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since in general it is not possible to exactly calculate rep from any particular posts (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20592/calculating-rep-earned-using-sandbox-or-data-dump&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;), the answer is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you don't care about things like the reputation cap and community wiki, then you can get a rough estimate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:42:10.427" />
  <row Id="20648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20406" CreationDate="2009-09-06T12:43:49.750" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I found out with my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20592/calculating-rep-earned-using-sandbox-or-data-dump&quot;&gt;over here&lt;/a&gt;, you can't determine rep gained from any particular posts because data on the change to CW and vote ordering (to take rep cap into account) is not available publicly.  So, there's no way to know, although if I were a betting man my money would be on Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:43:49.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20646" CreationDate="2009-09-06T12:46:50.010" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, the tagging mechanism should be able to handle this, but looking for say, &lt;kbd&gt;error&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;exception&lt;/kbd&gt; might just as easily find subjective questions or questions about how to generate errors and exceptions as questions asking to deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you would probably have that problem with any other system you implement to try to segregate these items.  In my opinion, I don't see the utility of any additional mechanism beyond tagging for these items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T12:46:50.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20574" CreationDate="2009-09-06T13:16:24.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be against it. The power to choose the accepted answer on some else's question?  I can just see that going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T13:16:24.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20652" CreationDate="2009-09-06T13:38:03.520" Score="0" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;5-6 weeks.... does anyone remember that time? You went to stackoverflow.com and saw a funny picture... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where can i find that picture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130312" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T08:44:39.457" Title="The original image from stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20651" CreationDate="2009-09-06T13:44:37.207" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/88785/edit&quot;&gt;that one&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/images/miracle3.gif&quot; alt=&quot;The a miracle occurs&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many more like this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sciencecartoonsplus&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T13:44:37.207" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="20653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20643" CreationDate="2009-09-06T16:04:09.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO question says. Deleted by Jeff Atwood. Doesn't look like a normal migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T16:04:09.073" />
  <row Id="20654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20643" CreationDate="2009-09-06T16:15:33.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question closed: &lt;strong&gt;2009-09-06 11:24:21Z&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Answer posted: &lt;strong&gt;2009-09-06 11:24:57Z&lt;/strong&gt; (36 seconds later)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Answer deleted: &lt;strong&gt;2009-09-06 11:29:38Z&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it wasn't migrated because you posted it shortly &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the question was closed and migrated. Looks like Jeff is manually cleaning up an unfortunate &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19208/answers-posted-to-a-migrated-question-post-migration-remain-visible-and-unlocked&quot;&gt;side-effect of a feature of normal closing when combined with migration&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T16:15:33.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20620" CreationDate="2009-09-06T16:30:55.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if they are, that's not necesarily a bad thing.  I think it signifies that a lot of people who would have asked a question on SO are finding the answer on SO without having to ask the question.  That's one of the benefits of a 200k+ question pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154895" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T16:30:55.500" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T18:10:04.943" Score="12" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;To avoid edit collisions, I would suggest that when an edit is submitted, the server should check if the current version of the post is the same one that the editor has started with (i.e. no one has edited it .. yet). If it's different, it should notify the user that there has been an edit on that post, so that one can modify/cancel their edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened to me 3 times in the last 2 days: A new question is posted by someone, I edit the question to add tags, remove CAPS, ... etc. I submit my edit. A second later I see that the question was edited by someone else! He/she was editing the original post at the same time I was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1386000/revisions&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt;, for example, happened today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/y5kgM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Edit collision&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135343" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T00:32:57.840" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T00:32:57.840" Title="After saving, alert when post was meanwhile saved by someone else" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20658" CreationDate="2009-09-06T18:12:42.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, we really do need a three way merge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T18:12:42.130" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20658" CreationDate="2009-09-06T18:20:34.407" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if there was a way to send some type of message to the user notifying that a new edit has taken place (much like the new answer posted notification when you are typing up an answer), that it would help a lot. Merging would also be a good feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T18:20:34.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-06T20:30:49.113" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1386400/pil-image-resizing-algorithm-similar-to-firefoxs/1386414#1386414&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1386400/pil-image-resizing-algorithm-similar-to-firefoxs/1386414#1386414&lt;/a&gt; . I got one answer, but it didn't solve my problem and it has an upvote. This means my questions won't appear in the unanswered section so it won't get much traffic past this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I close the question? Accept his answer? Post a response that it didn't work? Downvote him? Re-ask the requestion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130173" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T21:35:54.903" Title="What is the best procedure for a question that wasn't answered well but has an upvote?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="20662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20661" CreationDate="2009-09-06T20:40:43.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it isnt correct, then don't say it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unresolved questions do get prodded and poked automaticly every now and then to get more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I was looking for another question that would have been fantastic to quote, but I can't find it. Instead, take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20638/should-you-accept-the-best-answer-for-problems-that-cant-be-solved-yet&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the answers on your question slate don't suit or solve your needs, don't arbitrarily accept any answer just for the sake of a higher accept rate. 70% and higher is good, but you don't need to shoot for the 100% moon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wait some on the lingering questions, it's fine, really it is. Not all questions have to be solved and green-boxed out of vision within a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the information landscape around that question changes, you may see an acceptable answer pop up. An answerer that would have otherwise not seen or bothered with your question if you did accept one willy-nilly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-06T20:47:05.413" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T20:47:05.413" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20661" CreationDate="2009-09-06T21:27:20.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't answer your question, then explain why (either in a comment on the answer itself, or by editing your question and leaving a comment). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then down-vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T21:27:20.443" />
  <row Id="20665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20661" CreationDate="2009-09-06T21:35:54.903" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What if I don't get a good answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to get good answers, you have&#xA;  to put some effort into the question.&#xA;  Edit your question to provide status&#xA;  and progress updates. Document your&#xA;  own continued efforts to answer your&#xA;  question. This will naturally bump&#xA;  your question and get more people&#xA;  interested in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after two days, you still don't&#xA;  have an answer you like, you can offer&#xA;  a bounty. Slice off a bit of your own&#xA;  hard-earned reputation -- anywhere&#xA;  from 50 to 500 -- and attach it to the&#xA;  question as a bounty. We'll even throw&#xA;  in 50 reputation to sweeten the deal.&#xA;  The bountied question will appear with&#xA;  a special icon in all question lists,&#xA;  and it will also be visible on the&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;home page Featured tab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once initiated, the bounty period&#xA;  lasts seven days. If you mark an&#xA;  accepted answer, your bounty is&#xA;  awarded to the answerer (do note that&#xA;  accepted bounty answers are permanent&#xA;  and cannot be changed). If you do not&#xA;  accept an answer in seven days, the&#xA;  top voted answer will automatically&#xA;  become the accepted answer, and half&#xA;  your bounty will be awarded to that&#xA;  answer. You will always give up the&#xA;  amount of reputation specified in the&#xA;  bounty, so if you start a bounty, be&#xA;  sure to follow up and accept the best&#xA;  answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, bounty awards, like all&#xA;  accepted answers, are immune to the&#xA;  daily reputation cap and community&#xA;  wiki mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-06T21:35:54.903" />
  <row Id="20668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T00:12:35.317" Score="14" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1387068/do-oracle-intend-to-continue-work-on-java&quot;&gt;Do Oracle intend to continue work on Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question has been edited; the original text was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do Oracle intend to continue work on Java? Will there be future versions of Java after SDK 7?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggested close reason might get used more than the rare &quot;too localized&quot; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T13:34:35.993" Title="New close reason: &quot;Question asks to predict the future&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20668" CreationDate="2009-09-07T00:18:26.257" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My feeling on this is &quot;not a real question,&quot; as it is in fact unanswerable by the S[OFU] guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion. This is not a&#xA;  discussion board, this is a place for&#xA;  questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather not clutter up the close list with a zillion options, myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T00:18:26.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20672" CreationDate="2009-09-07T00:21:39.653" Score="-2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely these type of questions encourage debate and bring more traffic to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135468" LastEditorUserId="135468" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T00:38:21.620" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T02:23:13.877" Title="Why is subjective/argumentative a reason to close a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20668" CreationDate="2009-09-07T00:22:37.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too localized to the not yet here and guessing about what a company or tech will come to do or might be sounds like not a real question. Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stack-overflow-how-do-they-work/10583#10583&quot; title=&quot;falling into the mouth of the ocean&quot;&gt;no longer relevant in a future tense&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of blatantly offensive for those without a bottle of cristal and partially not programming related. More business really. It's a bit subjective and argumentative as well don't you think? Long is the LOST series over Fate versus Destiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probaby also an exact duplicate of an existing question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag it as spam from a time traveller or inside stock trader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T00:22:37.793" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20670" CreationDate="2009-09-07T00:27:01.967" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the S[OFU] sites are designed to handle specific, answerable questions. Generally, subjective and/or argumentative (they're not the same thing) questions are not answerable. In fact, by definition, anything which is truly subjective cannot have One True Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where does this guideline come from? The FAQ for all of the sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion. This is not a&#xA;  discussion board, this is a place for&#xA;  questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traffic on these sites comes generally from Google juice -- other people out on the web searching for answers to the questions which have been asked here. Subjective/argumentative questions may potentially boost traffic, but according to what I've heard from those in the know on these sites, they won't boost it by a noticeable margin -- and they do reduce the overall quality of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And yes, I recognize the irony of me answering this way, given that I do have participatory answers in subjective questions on at least two of the sister sites!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T00:27:01.967" />
  <row Id="20673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20406" CreationDate="2009-09-07T01:05:18.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm betting on Marc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though its pretty hard to explicitly answer (since we do not have dates on votes) I can provide some stats: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Top 50 users, ordered by number of upvotes on old questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;Votes&amp;nbsp;OldVotes&amp;nbsp;Accept&amp;nbsp;OldAccept&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;        92638      2185 444      241    43        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;     77239      1039 234      141    37        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393&quot;&gt;cletus&lt;/a&gt;           50994      756  122      77     8         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23283&quot;&gt;JaredPar&lt;/a&gt;         53090      567  119      68     16        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10661&quot;&gt;S.Lott&lt;/a&gt;           52890      428  115      44     9         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt;     52579      522  115      45     10        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3043&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt;    49926      442  114      43     10        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12950&quot;&gt;tvanfosson&lt;/a&gt;       61760      457  105      91     12        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33708&quot;&gt;Mehrdad&lt;/a&gt;          46795      935  98       90     13        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1968&quot;&gt;Konrad Rudolph&lt;/a&gt;   42831      353  92       24     4         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1288&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt;  41026      174  92       8      4         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16417&quot;&gt;Paolo Bergantino&lt;/a&gt; 36212      221  90       24     7         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14860&quot;&gt;Pax&lt;/a&gt;              46989      345  89       33     11        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2915&quot;&gt;Adam Davis&lt;/a&gt;       25880      88   87       0      0         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt;             40301      266  80       50     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33213&quot;&gt;jalf&lt;/a&gt;             32502      380  78       30     4         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;    29639      1146 76       155    13        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34509&quot;&gt;litb&lt;/a&gt;             45168      273  74       24     4         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5445&quot;&gt;CMS&lt;/a&gt;              36510      551  62       71     1         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/91&quot;&gt;Michael Stum&lt;/a&gt;     23354      125  61       1      1         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;      15029      71   59       0      0         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18771&quot;&gt;Tomalak&lt;/a&gt;          31463      165  59       32     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/41661&quot;&gt;Norman Ramsey&lt;/a&gt;    22901      277  57       22     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307&quot;&gt;Neil Butterworth&lt;/a&gt; 34628      968  56       45     8         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1965&quot;&gt;FlySwat&lt;/a&gt;          21351      71   56       3      2         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/811&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt;            21140      93   55       10     1         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20860&quot;&gt;Bill Karwin&lt;/a&gt;      30316      272  54       43     2         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936&quot;&gt;bobince&lt;/a&gt;          19642      134  53       21     3         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9530&quot;&gt;Adam Rosenfield&lt;/a&gt;  34580      143  53       13     3         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16076&quot;&gt;Mitch Wheat&lt;/a&gt;      32316      213  52       26     9         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3153&quot;&gt;Brian R. Bondy&lt;/a&gt;   31931      135  51       7      0         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47529&quot;&gt;chaos&lt;/a&gt;            28425      584  50       65     3         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9021&quot;&gt;nickf&lt;/a&gt;            26180      261  50       27     3         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/615&quot;&gt;Matt Hamilton&lt;/a&gt;    22003      87   50       13     3         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34211&quot;&gt;Andrew Hare&lt;/a&gt;      34866      593  49       64     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6461&quot;&gt;splattne&lt;/a&gt;         17462      48   47       2      2         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12725&quot;&gt;James Curran&lt;/a&gt;     18438      47   46       4      4         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5190&quot;&gt;Vinko Vrsalovic&lt;/a&gt;  29848      239  45       20     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/267&quot;&gt;Lasse V. Karlsen&lt;/a&gt; 26695      242  45       14     2         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7714&quot;&gt;Craig Stuntz&lt;/a&gt;     15512      145  44       43     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt;    24826      304  44       60     13        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12711&quot;&gt;Michael Burr&lt;/a&gt;     28081      231  42       13     2         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61027&quot;&gt;Nosredna&lt;/a&gt;         9469       91   42       5      1         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2147&quot;&gt;Jason Baker&lt;/a&gt;      21308      93   42       1      0         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt;     6838       123  42       6      1         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1659&quot;&gt;Mark Cidade&lt;/a&gt;      15069      41   41       3      3         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12597&quot;&gt;Ian Boyd&lt;/a&gt;         4519       46   40       1      0         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13302&quot;&gt;marc_s&lt;/a&gt;           19098      506  40       122    11        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/19299&quot;&gt;Brian&lt;/a&gt;            15726      113  39       14     2         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3394&quot;&gt;kronoz&lt;/a&gt;           8407       39   39       1      1         &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at that lists, it is pretty clear that Jon is hitting the cap almost every day. However lots of Marc's old questions (a higher percentage than Jons) got accepted. Since both Jon and Marc both are hitting the cap daily, I would actually bet on Marc as being the person who gained most out of old questions, cause his ratios are better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On an aside, if you order by OldAccept, you would get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;VotesOldVotes&amp;nbsp;Accept&amp;nbsp;OldAccept&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;        92638      2185 444      241    43        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;     77239      1039 234      141    37        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17174&quot;&gt;Sam Saffron&lt;/a&gt;      11555      111  22       37     21        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23283&quot;&gt;JaredPar&lt;/a&gt;         53090      567  119      68     16        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;    29639      1146 76       155    13        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33708&quot;&gt;Mehrdad&lt;/a&gt;          46795      935  98       90     13        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt;    24826      304  44       60     13        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12950&quot;&gt;tvanfosson&lt;/a&gt;       61760      457  105      91     12        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13302&quot;&gt;marc_s&lt;/a&gt;           19098      506  40       122    11        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14860&quot;&gt;Pax&lt;/a&gt;              46989      345  89       33     11        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt;     52579      522  115      45     10        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3043&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt;    49926      442  114      43     10        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65358&quot;&gt;Reed Copsey&lt;/a&gt;      28050      722  29       92     9         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/86473&quot;&gt;JP&lt;/a&gt;               16965      280  26       34     9         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16076&quot;&gt;Mitch Wheat&lt;/a&gt;      32316      213  52       26     9         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10661&quot;&gt;S.Lott&lt;/a&gt;           52890      428  115      44     9         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307&quot;&gt;Neil Butterworth&lt;/a&gt; 34628      968  56       45     8         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104040&quot;&gt;Aiden Bell&lt;/a&gt;       8545       93   9        13     8         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393&quot;&gt;cletus&lt;/a&gt;           50994      756  122      77     8         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29407&quot;&gt;darin&lt;/a&gt;            12896      59   11       14     7         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16417&quot;&gt;Paolo Bergantino&lt;/a&gt; 36212      221  90       24     7         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63756&quot;&gt;womp&lt;/a&gt;             14295      340  38       50     7         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3827&quot;&gt;eed3si9n&lt;/a&gt;         12190      32   13       9      7         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22224&quot;&gt;Tom Haigh&lt;/a&gt;        9228       96   13       20     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5363&quot;&gt;Grzenio&lt;/a&gt;          4505       52   9        9      6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24181&quot;&gt;Greg&lt;/a&gt;             30586      282  30       40     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18771&quot;&gt;Tomalak&lt;/a&gt;          31463      165  59       32     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34211&quot;&gt;Andrew Hare&lt;/a&gt;      34866      593  49       64     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23072&quot;&gt;Uri&lt;/a&gt;              21017      59   22       7      6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7714&quot;&gt;Craig Stuntz&lt;/a&gt;     15512      145  44       43     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5653&quot;&gt;joe&lt;/a&gt;              751        5    2        6      6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13154&quot;&gt;ctacke&lt;/a&gt;           11933      21   7        11     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27535&quot;&gt;gbn&lt;/a&gt;              13651      185  12       49     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/28053&quot;&gt;McWafflestix&lt;/a&gt;     11165      25   12       6      6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25222&quot;&gt;Robert Gamble&lt;/a&gt;    12762      14   14       6      6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69083&quot;&gt;Guffa&lt;/a&gt;            20566      377  30       50     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2199&quot;&gt;Mark Brackett&lt;/a&gt;    13839      92   30       23     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/28169&quot;&gt;unwind&lt;/a&gt;           18952      83   21       11     6         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/108741&quot;&gt;SpliFF&lt;/a&gt;           4659       26   21       6      5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt;             40301      266  80       50     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29&quot;&gt;Michael Haren&lt;/a&gt;    10881      39   25       8      5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48082&quot;&gt;Cheeso&lt;/a&gt;           8194       116  26       16     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/112671&quot;&gt;Robert Munteanu&lt;/a&gt;  6670       72   16       16     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55159&quot;&gt;Quassnoi&lt;/a&gt;         28355      396  28       89     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48387&quot;&gt;Shay Erlichmen&lt;/a&gt;   4688       19   3        8      5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26160&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt;             15243      22   21       7      5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/67392&quot;&gt;Richard&lt;/a&gt;          9586       76   8        14     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/105929&quot;&gt;Remus Rusanu&lt;/a&gt;     10682      223  12       50     5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/66692&quot;&gt;dirkgently&lt;/a&gt;       17291      18   18       5      5         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5190&quot;&gt;Vinko Vrsalovic&lt;/a&gt;  29848      239  45       20     5         &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes me wonder, how did I manage to get to number 3 in any list :p &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sql: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;drop table #t&#xA;go&#xA;select top 50 &#xA;    p.OwnerUserId as UserId,&#xA;    u.DisplayName as UserName,&#xA;    u.Reputation,&#xA;    SUM(case when VoteTypeId = 2 then 1 else 0 end) as Votes,&#xA;    SUM(case when p.CreationDate &amp;lt; (v.CreationDate - 30) and VoteTypeId = 2 then 1 else 0 end) as OldVotes,&#xA;    SUM(case when VoteTypeId = 1 then 1 else 0 end) as Accept,&#xA;    SUM(case when p.CreationDate &amp;lt; (v.CreationDate - 30) and VoteTypeId = 1 then 1 else 0 end) as OldAccept&#xA;into #t&#xA;from Votes v&#xA;join Posts p on p.Id = v.PostId&#xA;join Users u on u.Id = p.OwnerUserId&#xA;where p.CommunityOwnedDate is null &#xA;    and OwnerUserId is not null &#xA;    and DATEPART(m,v.CreationDate) = 8 &#xA;    and DATEPART(YEAR,v.CreationDate) = 2009&#xA;group by p.OwnerUserId, u.DisplayName, u.Reputation&#xA;order by OldAccept desc&#xA;&#xA;go&#xA;exec spShog9&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T01:12:53.600" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T01:12:53.600" />
  <row Id="20675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20698" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:09:42.043" Score="1" ViewCount="602" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw this on reddit, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9hwus/vim%5Ftricks%5Fyour%5Fmom%5Fnever%5Ftold%5Fyou%5Fabout%5Fvery/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;accidentally the dark!&quot;&gt;Vim Tricks your mom never told you about -- VERY DARK CORNERS... published by Sasha: the biggest villian on StackOverflow, and now engraved in its WALL of FAME&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and was curious as to what this is all about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is this sasha person and what makes them a big villain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="133741" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T01:32:42.673" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T01:32:42.673" Title="Who is sasha and why is he a big villain?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20677" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:18:01.280" Score="5" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, if there is a bit of info that is not correct or does not answer the OPs question on meta, it is my duty to downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing personal, its just that the info is noise. No value in it, it would be better if it was deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &#xA;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12662/what-is-the-highest-upvoted-comment-on-the-trilogy&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the new data dump came out and ALL of the answers on the question including mine were wrong. &#xA;So I went ahead and gave a few -1 votes and posted a correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This caused a bit of a commotion &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do people take downvotes so personally on meta? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we are not supposed to downvote incorrect information on meta, how do we eliminate noise or express disagreement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T08:39:28.360" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T08:39:28.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T06:12:47.477" Title="Why do people take downvoting on meta so personally" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20676" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:20:59.077" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do people take anything on the internet so seriously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is always going to be a segment of users in anything you have that are going to take things way too seriously and associate any sort of disagreement with them as a personal attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have gone over this numerous times on Meta and I don't really know how else one can go about it. I've tried explaining everything as best I can to users who complain about this, but more often than not they are just going to sit back and continue to believe that we are being mean to users and that everybody deserves back pats and gold starts just for being here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T02:20:59.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20670" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:23:13.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of stackoverflow is to provide accurate, canonical answers to programming related questions (for SU and SF substitute the appropriate topic). While you are correct that argumentative questions might generate a hire rate of traffic, it is not the type of traffic the site is attempting to attract. The site is trying to attract user's who are looking find practical, helpful solutions to their programming problems (and user's to provide those solutions), not users who are &quot;looking for a fight&quot; or to debate what the best programming language ever is (clearly fortran).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T02:23:13.877" />
  <row Id="20679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20676" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:23:23.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be the whole edit/wiki thing. You have a high enough arbitrary number next to your name that if you saw an answer that was slightly out of date, and was purely data, that you could have gone in and edited it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinions are another matter, and who knows why people are upset that everybody in the world doesn't agree with them and share the exact same viewpoint on matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T02:23:23.737" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20675" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:23:25.467" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was more of a really poor court jester than a villain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, he posted tons of questions of low quality. When people closed his questions down he would go on crusades to get them reopened and basically get into big flame wars with the other users. He had been placed in the penalty box multiple times and if I am not mistaken was caught with a couple duplicate accounts before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually he went and spammed up meta asking for Atwood to delete his accounts, which we all celebrated with much fanfare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T02:23:25.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20676" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:26:55.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can answer the question of why people take downvotes so seriously here; only each individual can answer that for him/herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, meta is weird. Almost everything on meta is subjective; it is essentially a discussion site about the S[OFU] family. The trend here, and I think it's correct, is to downvote the suggestions you disagree with and upvote those you do agree with. The same goes for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this isn't to say go on a DV rampage necessarily. Being a mostly positive guy, I tend to only upvote here -- I upvote if I agree with it, and tend to let others DV someone into oblivion for things I disagree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I think it ought to be right in the FAQ: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't get attached to your rep here,&#xA;  and be forewarned: Here there be&#xA;  monsters. On meta, (almost) anything goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T02:26:55.913" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="20682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20675" CreationDate="2009-09-07T02:48:55.513" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That link was submitted to reddit by a user named &quot;puzzlecracker&quot; one of Sasha's aliases on Stack Overflow.  Sasha must be very bored and lonely now, since he's taken to vilifying himself on other web sites.  This is a new low, even for Sasha... whatever new user name he's using now (it really is an enigma).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T03:08:00.923" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T03:08:00.923" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20684" CreationDate="2009-09-07T06:50:29.123" Score="35" ViewCount="965" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a post is first created, it says &quot;viewed&#xA;1 times&quot; in the sidebar. This should say &quot;viewed 1 &lt;strong&gt;time&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T14:43:46.690" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T06:48:50.927" Title="&quot;viewed 1 times&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;grammar&gt;&lt;plurals&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20683" CreationDate="2009-09-07T06:57:47.923" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're in luck, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9662/new-users-cant-create-new-tags-show-a-singular-or-plural-message/9694#9694&quot; title=&quot;how's that Z treating your S?&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood has so eloquently put this&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug', I will personally come to your house and bludgeon you to death with a giant &lt;a href=&quot;http://explore.twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;rage in the twitter&quot;&gt;S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T06:57:47.923" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-07T07:19:58.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My submission: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chuchuva.com/software/countdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://chuchuva.com/software/countdown/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8992/countdownr.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Version 1.2 fixes flickering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14131" LastEditorUserId="14131" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T05:51:49.840" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T05:51:49.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20683" CreationDate="2009-09-07T07:41:47.967" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that case, perhaps it should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;viewed 1 times [sic]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably write a greasemonkey script to implement it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastEditorUserId="6277" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T08:37:41.483" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T08:37:41.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20683" CreationDate="2009-09-07T08:28:26.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO the site shouldn't count the asker's views at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134231" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T08:28:26.447" />
  <row Id="20688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20690" CreationDate="2009-09-07T08:30:46.520" Score="5" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that StackOverflow is a relatively mature site (approaching 300,000 questions), I think it would be quite interesting to take a look at its growth model - in other words, how the total number of questions has varied over time. What might be even more curious is the growth model for some of the more widespread tags such as &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AModelling%5FWikipedia%27s%5Fgrowth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The model of growth for the English Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; is widely considered to be approximated well by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic%5Ffunction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;logistic function&lt;/a&gt;, though it has largely been near-exponential so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Logistic-curve.svg/600px-Logistic-curve.svg.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Logistic Growth Model&lt;/em&gt; ~ &lt;code&gt;1/(1+e^-x)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the nature of StackOverflow is quite different to that of Wikipedia. Although it was designed to in part be a wiki site, it is not often used in a very collaborative manner. It may well be logistic, exponential, quadratic, or one of a number of others...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as an explanation goes, here are a few points to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number of users has increased rapidly since the beta period. More users mean more questions. I wouldn't want to guess what model user growth follows, but it's certainly much steeper than linear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Much of the answering (in particular the accepted answers) would seem to be done be a &quot;core group&quot; of the top 100 or so members (Stackers?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of what may be called common, basic, or &quot;newbie&quot; questions on StackOverflow have already been answered thoroughly (in many cases a number of times). This discourages the creation of new ones, or at the least they get closed soon after appearance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, has anyone yet analysed the statistics for StackOverflow? Is the raw data even available so that we might do so ourselves? Any info in this respect would be worth looking at in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastEditorUserId="130256" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T12:16:09.583" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T12:16:09.583" Title="Growth Model for StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20688" CreationDate="2009-09-07T09:13:06.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the question regarding the RAW data. You have few options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The monthly data dump which is available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It is most likely the best option for this type of statistics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt; hosts a online version of the data dump which can be analyzed at will.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/100/stackoverflow-data-dump-sites&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow data dump sites?&lt;/a&gt; question that contains a list of other places the data dump is available. Also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/data-dump&quot;&gt;data-dump&lt;/a&gt; tag will provide you with endless information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T09:13:06.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2009-09-07T10:26:30.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it is up to Jeff, but I miss my badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It kind of was the only badge I cared for. I read a lot of stuff related to this site, have listen to every podcast, but I have only posted some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20694/definition-of-a-spolsky-question&quot;&gt;Spolsky-question&lt;/a&gt; (very obvious and possibly a source for hits from Google) that my students often ask me. I think the point is that I feel a little sad to not be recognized as a long time member anymore (very low reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boohoo, I want be with the cool kids again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133235" LastEditorUserId="133235" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T12:25:51.297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T12:25:51.297" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20692" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20693" CreationDate="2009-09-07T12:09:01.750" Score="2" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently when I was checking &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1388971/how-i-create-access-database-at-runtime-in-c/1388989#1388989&quot;&gt;one question&lt;/a&gt; at SO I found that one user has answered the question with a link to an article which presents an answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some minutes another user has posted an answer by copy-pasting code and a example from that same link (That user has also included a link to the article in his answer, and that's a good thing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now which one is better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link is good because if the user updates that article you get an updated answer automatically on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The copied code is good for two reasons :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users can directly see it and review it (Sometimes they are too lazy to check links) and so you get up/down votes more quickly.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If somehow the link breaks in future, SO will still have the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135080" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T12:56:02.803" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T12:56:02.803" Title="Link or copy paste code" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20692" CreationDate="2009-09-07T12:13:40.540" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've answered your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting the relevant excerpt and the link is best. It keeps the information on SO (or SF, or SU) but references the original source. It's also insurance against &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;you gotta fight for your right for canonicalisation&quot;&gt;link rot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T12:55:41.367" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T12:55:41.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T12:20:56.283" Score="2" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A beginner question with an obvious answer that newbie could be stuck with for hours and still blush when the answer is presented.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are couple of good reasons for does kind of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help students/beginners&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Makes stackoverflow to a more complete source of information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly more traffic from google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are also couple things that talks against this kind of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Help lazy students/beginners&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly lower the over all quality of questions and answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask this question is that I want definition and a term (maybe even a tag) to lean on when I write this kind of question for my students (and myself in some areas). I have written a few already, but I want to write a few more and when I do I want to do it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure that this topic has been discussed before. So close this question if there already are consensus on which terms, tags and style you should use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the name is the obvious one. Joel Spolsky have several times been advocate for this type of question on the stackoverflow podcast. And I am of course not implying in any way that Joel Spolsky is beginner, newbie or any thing in that direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133235" LastEditorUserId="133235" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T20:10:35.477" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:20:59.333" Title="Definition of a beginner-question (Spolsky-question)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20694" CreationDate="2009-09-07T12:46:22.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spolsky-question: &lt;em&gt;A beginner question with an answer that would be obvious to an intermediate-experienced developer, but that a newbie could be stuck with for hours.&lt;/em&gt;  See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in Logo?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/beginner&quot;&gt;beginner tag&lt;/a&gt; on SO for more examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T12:46:22.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T12:48:23.080" Score="62" ViewCount="1543" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do I mean by &quot;problematic Stack Overflow participants&quot;? Here are the criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asks dozens to hundreds of questions over a period of 3-6 months (or more).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All questions are consistently of low quality and hard to understand, requiring major editing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extremely low answer accept rate (below 10%).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No increase in quality (effort expended to make questions good, clear, and useful) over time between oldest questions and newest questions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extremely low answer count (0-10). User does not &quot;give back&quot; by occasionally trying to help other programmers answer their questions, only &quot;takes&quot; by asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are users who have, over a period of 3-6 months, demonstrated an utter and complete lack of interest in ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) &lt;strong&gt;putting their own effort&lt;/strong&gt; into the questions they ask of the Stack Overflow community&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;b) &lt;strong&gt;learning&lt;/strong&gt; from the Stack Overflow community&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;c) &lt;strong&gt;giving anything back&lt;/strong&gt; to the Stack Overflow community&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of today, we have started to place &quot;problematic&quot; Stack Overflow accounts on suspension, with an email warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, this is a tiny minority of users, but for these rare exceptional cases, I believe it's something we need to deal with directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T17:52:53.450" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T13:19:01.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T13:17:19.987" Title="Handling &quot;Problematic&quot; Stack Overflow participants" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="20697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T12:53:47.800" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using a default font size of 26px and stackoverflow's layout seems to not work well with such a large sizes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important issue is that many inputs tend to overflow and partially get hidden below side text. This includes one with login, ‘Title’ and — the most important issue — the editor, which makes writing posts a little painful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another important one is that sometimes 'search' field doesn't fit in topbar and jumps lower, being partially hidden by logo. I met that issue on stackoverflow itself only while serverfault &amp;amp; meta display fine (but that may be related to rep or sth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's one minor issue too — navbar is too narrow and ‘Ask Question’ jumps below — but this one looks quite nice (maybe it's even intended?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wstaw.org/images/free/2009/09/07/059cddb4d148e5dae6c9e386eeb995.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://wstaw.org/images/free/2009/09/07/059cddb4d148e5dae6c9e386eeb995%5F300x300.png&quot; alt=&quot;The screenshot&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135479" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T13:26:35.880" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T13:26:35.880" Title="Few font size-related layout issues" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20675" CreationDate="2009-09-07T12:54:52.120" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sasha had some positive traits (believe it or not), but could not be rehabilitated. Final email:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on what I can only call a pattern of repeated and intentional &quot;trolling&quot;, the moderator consensus was to place your &quot;Sasha&quot; account on a 4 month timed suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We tried to work with you on this after the first 30-day suspension (and the 'porn' PuzzleCracker incident), but the negative behaviors returned. Your actions on the site continued to cause problems on the site for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We feel we have given you ample opportunity to show us that you are working with the community and not against it, and you have not shown a good faith effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That said, you are welcome to come back in 4 months if the behavior can be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I obviously don't belong on SO, nor my behavior is likely to change. Therefore, Jeff, I request for my account to be deleted from stackoverflow. I apologize for inconveniences I have caused on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are welcome back after 4 months, as long as the behavior improves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If at that time you still feel the same way, I will delete the account for you, no problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately his account was deleted, per his request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Sasha is a good example of how moderators try in good faith to work with our users, even ones that are problematic. But that's a two-way street, and Sasha was unwilling or unable to meet us halfway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T12:54:52.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:04:30.977" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Design a &lt;strong&gt;metric&lt;/strong&gt; (apart from rep) like &lt;em&gt;Really Bad Question Rate (RBQR)&lt;/em&gt;, or whatever name you choose, which takes into account the above criteria. This doesn't need to be published, although the user may see it and be warned about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only actions in the last 30 days (or last 30 questions, regardless of date?) are considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question with negative votes and not accepted answer: +2*&lt;em&gt;v&lt;/em&gt; RBQR (&lt;em&gt;v&lt;/em&gt; == - Question Votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question with negative votes and accepted answer: +1*&lt;em&gt;v&lt;/em&gt; RBQR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is closed, additional +5 RBQR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No tags, additional +1 RBQR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mitigating actions: Question with positive votes: -0.5 RBQR, Answer with positive votes: -0.5 RBQR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Latest 5 questions have double RBQR contribution, for good or bad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Policy:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For users with RBQR over a certain level, forbid asking new questions (explain why) until 7 days pass. Then they can ask &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; new question. After seven days they will be able to ask another. They are in &lt;strong&gt;limited status&lt;/strong&gt; now. They may answer questions, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous metric will keep being recalculated. If data improves, they will go back to their normal status. If things get even worse (i.e. if they use they 7-limit permission only to keep asking yet more negatively voted questions) they will go to an even more restricted status in which they cannot ask anything, say, until 3 months have passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T06:23:41.993" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T06:23:41.993" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T13:17:19.987" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="20700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20697" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:24:52.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like an edge case. I understand that some may use higher font sizes, but there does come a point where a design typically won't scale. This is particularly true of sites like S[OFU], which are not &quot;fluid&quot; designs in the traditional sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, yes, it's a bug -- it makes the site harder to use for some users. However, if it were my code, time and effort, I'd probably file it as a very low-prio bug, unless it could be shown to be affecting a non-trivial number of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T13:24:52.827" />
  <row Id="20701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:25:57.363" Score="-6" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;My questions all say &quot;0% accept rate&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/37049/what-is-the-lifetime-of-a-typical-hard-disk&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). Although this is correct, the rate apparently is not always published (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/37144/how-to-beep-on-tail-f-event&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;). I'd like to hide it too. How can I do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18054/isnt-the-accepted-answer-feature-overly-visible&quot;&gt;I don't like the feature&lt;/a&gt;, because I don't like to decide for other users what The Right Answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134939" LastEditorUserId="134939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T13:49:53.543" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:31:04.637" Title="How can I hide the acceptance rate?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="20702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20697" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:26:29.267" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you use browser zoom instead of font scaling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001212.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001212.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We only support +1 and -1 font sizes, but browser zoom works (almost) infinitely in either direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T13:26:29.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20701" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:27:30.200" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that you have 0% accept rate just shows that you don't like the feature. If you're happy for it to be widely known, why do you care whether it's published or not? It gives an answerer the information that you're very unlikely to accept any answers. This is true, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly there's also the &lt;em&gt;implication&lt;/em&gt; that you're unlikely to be particularly active in terms of responding to answers, adding comments, editing your questions etc. That implication may well not be true for you, but there's &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; a correlation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason it's not published for some users is that they haven't asked enough questions for it to be statistically relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T13:27:30.200" />
  <row Id="20704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20701" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:27:46.160" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;never ask more than 3 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;make all your questions community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T13:27:46.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20701" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:35:18.050" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The acceptance rate is not there for your benefit, its there to display the information to the public, allowing them to make an informed decision. Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20701/how-can-i-hide-the-acceptance-rate/20704#20704&quot; title=&quot;fly the radar&quot;&gt;as Jeff says&lt;/a&gt;, if you &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;when the warning is flashing&quot;&gt;don't want your percentage shown&lt;/a&gt;, you have to have less than 4 questions that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are &gt; 3 days old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are not community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have at least one answer provided&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People like gaining reputation and badges, by not accepting answers, you are hindering them from gaining both of these. While you are entitled to your choices for your own reasons, other people should also be allowed to make an informed choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T13:47:15.780" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T13:47:15.780" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:52:03.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found out after a quick revision of some problematic users that even if many questions are bad, there are some (relatively) good questions with very good answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The crucial point is moderators' work. I had missed that. Yes, punish the lousy users hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T15:45:31.807" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:45:31.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T13:52:03.807" />
  <row Id="20708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T13:56:47.213" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oops, some of the things you mention fit my own Stack Overflow profile. Not that I think I will be a victim of this cut, but some of the criterions sounds harsh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not get me wrong on this one. I feel your pain and I think it is a valid and important question. But maybe these two criterions are a little bit harshly written:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All questions are consistently of low quality and hard to understand, requiring major editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am Swedish and I spell bad in my own language, so I guess I am probably will need some editing help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Extremely low answer count (0-10). User does not &quot;give back&quot; by occasionally trying to help other programmers answer their questions, only &quot;takes&quot; by asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the beginners should be able to have period of time where they do not contribute that much. I personally got the theoretical background, but almost no real experience and even I think it is kind of hard to find unanswered questions that I can help people with. If you are a beginner in every way you really have to search for questions to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133235" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T01:10:01.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T01:10:01.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T13:56:47.213" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20701" CreationDate="2009-09-07T14:07:17.240" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feature is not there for you, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the feature is there for us.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  It is there for those of us who may (or may not) want to spend the time answering your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T14:07:17.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T14:18:19.157" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Design an algorithm for detecting them, and then take automated punitive actions incrementally: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning messages&lt;/strong&gt; when they try to go to the &lt;em&gt;Ask Question&lt;/em&gt; page.  (&quot;We really want you to play well with others&quot;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Place their questions in a penalty box&lt;/strong&gt; (hours  days?) wherein you notify them that this is the case, it is meant to encourage good behaviors, and how they can correct it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Throttle their question asking ability&lt;/strong&gt;, like comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Automated deletion of questions with score &amp;lt; 0&lt;/strong&gt; with progressively more inclusive logic.  E.g.: If they ask a question and it gets more than 5 down votes in one day, then poof.  If they keep at it, then drop the threshold to 4 votes.  Then 3.  Then...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a reputation leakage mechanism&lt;/strong&gt;, say a percentage of all points, or maybe a freeze on earning new reputation.  Or both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess a risk to this is that they use SO without a user account, and then SO can't associate these bum questions with the bum users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T00:58:37.587" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:58:37.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T14:18:19.157" />
  <row Id="20711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20694" CreationDate="2009-09-07T14:29:18.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a coding beginner myself (a &quot;newbie&quot;) and have found the StackOverflow community very helpful and polite. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've seen is that &lt;strong&gt;other users don't like to think they're doing your work for you.&lt;/strong&gt; When I've asked a question, I've always tried to narrow it down to the single thing I think is causing the problem, rather than throwing up 500 lines of code and saying &quot;What's wrong?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thankfully for me, my brother is a much better programmer than I, and I ask him all the dumb questions that make me smack my forehead once he answers. There's nothing like spending 30 minutes trying to get a piece of code to work, and then to have someone come along and say, &quot;no, like this&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite question out of the 3 I've asked on SO was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/989821/identity-column-maximum-value-in-sqlite-dbs&quot;&gt;Identity column maximum value in SQLite DBs&lt;/a&gt;, where I was curious about, as the title implies, the maximum value of the identity column, and quickly learned that it doesn't make much of a difference, because it would take forever to even find out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were all beginners at one point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T14:29:18.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20714" CreationDate="2009-09-07T14:52:47.267" Score="-2" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does SO have anybody who works in a senior position for software giants like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe or Autodesk? It would be interesting to note!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T16:19:12.350" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T22:07:10.213" Title="Does SO have any devs from software giants?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;programming&gt;&lt;developers&gt;&lt;experience&gt;&lt;experts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20620" CreationDate="2009-09-07T14:57:55.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only questions left seem to be edge cases of interest to only a handful of developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The long tail.  Hmmm...that very well may be the case for &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt;, but I wouldn't know as they don't attract my attention.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mention it because &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; is overwhelmingly the most popular language to ask question for on SO.   (Why?  Well, because Jeff Atwood is a prominent blogger and c# coder.  It makes sense.)  From my MSO question last month, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18465/c-is-clearly-dominant-on-so-is-there-a-desire-need-or-whatever-to-diversify-t&quot;&gt;c# is clearly dominant on SO. Is there a desire, need or whatever to diversify the user base and questions?&lt;/a&gt; my thinking is that other languages are, relatively, not so well represented on SO.  Future growth of questions will increasingly need to come from other languages.   To do so, this means SO will have diversify its user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Huge 3.3MB image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update as per Greg's request: &lt;strong&gt;Each Language as a Percent of Total Questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very interesting, as it seems that &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; is becoming even more dominant.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These graphs are really messy.  I'm inclined to do them again but with only 3 to 5 series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time-as-percentage-of-all-questions-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time-as-percentage-of-all-questions.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Huge 3.3MB image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T11:27:11.703" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T11:27:11.703" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20712" CreationDate="2009-09-07T14:58:48.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On top of my head...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet, Eric Lippert, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Miguel de Icaza&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T14:58:48.443" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20718" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:00:21.027" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Gmail account was stolen, and if I close my browser I will lose my Stack Overfloww account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144411" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T15:07:41.920" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T15:12:14.877" Title="Is it possible to change my OpenID here?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:04:14.987" Score="5" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4128/change-the-belongs-on-serverfault-tag-when-a-question-is-moved-to-serverfault&quot;&gt;Change the &amp;ldquo;belongs-on-serverfault&amp;rdquo; tag when a question is moved to serverfault&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These tags are useful so users can search for them and vote to close, but they are useless once the question is migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose they are removed once this happens (I think they are removed on the target site already, I think it should also happen on the source site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T17:54:17.653" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T17:54:17.653" ClosedDate="2009-09-07T20:06:20.417" Title="Remove belongs-on-* from questions when they are migrated" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;belongs-on&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20716" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:05:59.473" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not 100% sure, but I think this would work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create another OpenID (for instance at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.myopenid.com/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go into your user profile page at stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;new login&quot; link, and follow the instructions to associate the new login with your newly created OpenID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go back to your user profile page and swap the ID's so that the new ID is the primary one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope it works that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; seem to confirm by belief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastEditorUserId="130074" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T15:12:14.877" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T15:12:14.877" />
  <row Id="20720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25479" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:11:22.193" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I view this RSS feed: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;it does not show me whether a question is already closed or migrated (if it should :) ). So if I want to say, close a question I must first open my web browser, then open the page and then notice 'oh, it is already closed' and that costs much valuable time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:39:00.850" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:39:00.850" Title="No '(closed)' in titles in RSS feed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20712" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:16:20.983" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Bad Assumptions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has a presumption of authority coming from brand-name blindness, as Domonic pointed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Can Already Do These Things&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the things you want to do can already be done, and the answers can come from anyone. May the best answer win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not Designed For That&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way in SO to direct or limit questions to specific people or groups such as Google Employees Only. Nor should there be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T16:17:24.663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:17:24.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T14:26:32.507" Score="7" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a valid computer software question - is it something about the interface that compels people (especially those on Super User) to not mark their questions as having an accepted answer, even after they have clearly gotten an answer that works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any ways (software or hardware) to encourage the proper behavior of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accepting an answer once you are sure it is correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you answered yourself, post an answer in and mark your own answer as accepted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135577" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T15:29:47.917" LastActivityDate="2010-07-20T10:20:18.923" Title="What is with people not marking their questions as answered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:24:44.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to disagree with the others here. I don't think there should be much done about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;zwj;1. Asks dozens to hundreds of questions over a period of 3-6 months (or more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more the better. Each additional question on SO adds to the knowledge base (if the question gets useful answers) or just sits there to be forgotten&amp;mdash;with 48 gigs of memory in your DB server, the latter shouldn't be much of a problem. Real crap can be deleted, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;zwj;2. All questions are consistently of low quality and hard to understand, requiring major editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So? These questions either turn into something good in the long run, because (with or without help from the asker) they are edited for the better and possibly get good answers, or they get downvoted and drown in the sands of time (or get plain deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;zwj;3. Extremely low answer accept rate (below 10%).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each potential answerer sees the acceptance rate and can base his decision (whether to answer or not) on this. If they provide a good answer and get votes from that, that should be okay&amp;ndash;rep-wise because the vote rep outweighs the possible 15 for the accept tick, and knowledge-wise because the best answer (by community choice) floats to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything is to be done at all, it should rather be something like the often asked-for &quot;community-accepted answer&quot; (which I'm not a big fan of myself), or maybe a badge for an answer with many upvotes on a question that has no accepted answer but is older than, say, 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;zwj;4. No increase in quality (effort expended to make questions good, clear, and useful) over time between oldest questions and newest questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible thing to do here is to disallow asking, be it temporarily or forever. This, however, means that none of the questions that otherwise might have been posted will ever have the chance to grow into something better and in the end actually add to the site. Also, if you want to keep up with the &quot;no registration neccessary&quot; rule, the way to circumvent this suspension would be to just clear your cookies. These people usually don't care about their account, let alone their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;zwj;5. Extremely low answer count (0-10). User does not &quot;give back&quot; by occasionally trying to help other programmers answer their questions, only &quot;takes&quot; by asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you really &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; these people to answer questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are users who have, over a period of 3-6 months, demonstrated an utter and complete lack of interest in ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a) putting their own effort into the questions they ask of the Stack Overflow community&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to imagine that there's a way to teach them different. So I say let's embrace them, try to nudge them into the right direction once in a while with a &quot;You might want to...&quot; comment, and if they post a question that in the end leads to more knowledge on SO, the deed is done. Maybe one day they will themselves realize what a great community this is and improve their own behavior. Maybe not. Cutting them out doesn't do anything good&amp;ndash;unless, as I said above, you want to start requiring registration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;b) learning from the Stack Overflow community&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they keep coming back, I guess they have found that on SO, they get answers that help them. If just one out of a hundred takes more from that than just copy &amp;amp; paste the code from the answer&amp;ndash;great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;c) giving anything back to the Stack Overflow community&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not directly, true. But if any of their questions turn out to actually add to the site, they have given to SO, which, in the long run, helps the community as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long rant. Let me make this clear: &lt;strong&gt;I don't like these people's behavior, either.&lt;/strong&gt; But, as explained above, I don't think there should be any harsh measures taken. The more 3k+ or 10k+ users SO gets over time, the faster the noise is dealt with. As far as I see it, this has worked pretty well so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Mehrdad has posted a (disagreeing) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants/20729#20729&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to this one which makes some valid points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T16:06:53.917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:06:53.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T15:24:44.403" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:27:37.703" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Two&lt;/strike&gt; Three Alternatives&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ignore Them - from the description, it sounds like a handful of freeloaders and a few hundred 'bad' questions. One can expend an awful lot of effort to expunge the weeds, but they'll always be more to come. Don't expend significant effort to address a minor issue. And perhaps the poor questions get poor answers, which is enough to satisfy the poor users ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Target the Questions, Not the Users - perhaps the questions should be closed as 'low quality' instead of edited or answered. That would discourage more of same, and should be much more &lt;strike&gt;frustrating&lt;/strike&gt; discouraging to Low-Grade Users than suspension or the inability to post questions at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;as @Diago explained, I can see how the volume thing would be annoying - could it be that rewriting a question to 'help' is actually doing the OP's work for them, and thus they have no incentive to improve? Perhaps it would make more sense to &quot;nip it in the bud&quot; so to speak, i.e. notify the OP that their question has been quarantined as 'bad' and until it is rewritten - by the OP - to be sensible it won't appear in the Q list and the OP will not be allowed to post any more questions. That would -theoretically - stop the one or two 'bad question' posters from posting more bad questions and encourage them to improve. Which may end up being exactly what Jeff was proposing all along (I've lost track), but perhaps not - instead of tracking new metrics to find bad users, just put a stop to bad questions and their OPs immediately. Or on the second bad Q, as you mods see fit. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T03:57:05.493" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T03:57:05.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T15:27:37.703" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20675" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:32:33.077" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There, but for the Grace of Jon, go I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T15:32:33.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20730" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:40:11.173" Score="14" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;More often than not I need to elaborate my question put up on Stack Overflow with a custom sketch, UML class diagram, flow chart...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is in these times I have to open up  a custom paint software, factor out some diagrams, export it as a Image, attach it to SO.&#xA;I wouldn't know how complicated it is to invest in having such a sketching or drawing tool integrated,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It could even be a basic pen stripped off all the advanced features leaving it a bare minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a tool if incorporated into the Stack Overflow &quot;ask question&quot; UI would be certainly helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As of Today this Question has been visited around 170 times and 7 answers,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This was meant to be the voice of SO users...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Would you need a Drawing Tool for you on the SO site, would it help you to express you questions and answers better?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sadly, only 2 or 3 answers are in the context of the question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The bounty was meant to be a bait and even that ends tomorrow... hope you'll get the will  and the zest to comment on this question today and in the future...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="131865" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T08:20:03.747" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T06:31:33.453" Title="Drawing/Sketching Tool for elaborating questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="20727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20722" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:41:21.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current way to &quot;encourage&quot; the behavior is that if you select and answer as &quot;accepted&quot;, you get a small reputation bump - unless it's your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are plenty of times when the answer you used isn't &quot;the right one&quot; - it is merely for that instance of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe you don't want to give the 15 points to somebody by clicking on their answer. Who knows? It's intentionally left optional, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-20T10:20:18.923" LastActivityDate="2010-07-20T10:20:18.923" />
  <row Id="20728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:57:45.277" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to vote no. Exhibit A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common diagram (for me), drawn on my whiteboard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/in9QN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;All your data warehouse...&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in Paint, using just the brush tool:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/dCXh1.png&quot; alt=&quot;I suck at Paint, apparently.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I rest my case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T15:57:45.277" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T15:59:11.793" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants/20723#20723&quot;&gt;balpha's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The more the better. Each additional question on SO adds to the knowledge base (if the question gets useful answers) or just sits there to be forgotten—with 48 gigs of memory in your DB server, the latter shouldn't be much of a problem. Real crap can be deleted, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really. Most of them are a bunch of duplicate, vague, unanswerable, basically crap questions. Your assumption that all it takes is RAM is not true. Community resources are spent to edit and try making them clear, answer those questions the best way possible, finding the duplicate and voting to close, etc. but even then, it doesn't provide much added value since the question is really fundamentally vague and not useful. Beside that, the more crap you have in the system, the harder it becomes to search and find good stuff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So? These questions either turn into something good in the long run, because (with or without help from the asker) they are edited for the better and possibly get good answers, or they get downvoted and drown in the sands of time (or get plain deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They become better, yes. They get downvoted. They get closed. They get deleted. All true. But it's at the cost of community resources. It's a simple cost-benefit analysis. The equal amount of effort can be put to much better questions. Particularly, considering the fact that there are very few users that post really crap. I believe they are less than 10 users but the overall impact is not very low.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each potential answerer sees the acceptance rate and can base his decision (whether to answer or not) on this. If they provide a good answer and get votes from that, that should be okay–rep-wise because the vote rep outweighs the possible 15 for the accept tick, and knowledge-wise because the best answer (by community choice) floats to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is not whether the OP is going to accept your answer or not. It's the fact that the OP doesn't give a damn about the community. Not accepting answers is just a side effect of this lack of interest. They don't care to learn from the previous edits made to their questions. They don't care about the community at all. They are just a waste for community resources, providing little or no benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only possible thing to do here is to disallow asking, be it temporarily or forever. This, however, means that none of the questions that otherwise might have been posted will ever have the chance to grow into something better and in the end actually add to the site. Also, if you want to keep up with the &quot;no registration neccessary&quot; rule, the way to circumvent this suspension would be to just clear your cookies. These people usually don't care about their account, let alone their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be ways to detect those to some extent (IP address). It becomes harder for the user to post questions. At least, they'll have to care about what they post a little more. And they'll understand that they are not wanted at the community. Currently, they have no ill feelings about what they do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beside that, this is a technical issue worthy of a separate discussion. Assuming that we can ban them from SO, will we want to do it or not. This is the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T02:41:33.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T02:41:33.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T15:59:11.793" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-07T16:08:39.547" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that such a tool would be useful, especially for tablet PC users who might be able to directly draw on their computer screens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think that stackoverflow should spend the time and effort of building their own, because it's too far from what the site really is about. Instead, they should work with one or more of the web sites that already provide drawing tools like e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://canvaspaint.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://canvaspaint.org/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://yuml.me/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://yuml.me/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be cool to have a button on the edit toolbar to insert graphics. And it'd be doubly cool if that functionality comes through something &quot;mashup&quot;-like, so that as (say) canvaspaint.org improves their drawing program, StackOverflow et al. automatically get a better &quot;draw&quot; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:08:39.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20701" CreationDate="2009-09-07T16:20:57.977" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dimitri C.,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another point of view I would like you to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This service is provided to you free of charge. The people who help you, they do it free of charge. The questions and answers are all available free of charge. But &quot;free of charge&quot; refers only to financial remuneration. There is &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; way you compensate the system and its users for the time and expense they put into it; &lt;strong&gt;by providing content.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Content&lt;/em&gt; doesn't just include the questions and answers you provide, but the value-added information you provide by participating in the community. Your votes, your comments, your profile, your reputation; they all add value to the system. And &lt;strong&gt;accepting answers adds value to the system&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, no one &quot;requires&quot; you to participate in any of these activities. They are strictly voluntary. But the behavior of the system is &lt;strong&gt;designed to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; activities&lt;/strong&gt; that are best for the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &quot;accepted answers&quot;: You choose &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to participate because you do not agree with it. That is your choice. But you are also, in a sense, &lt;strong&gt;abstaining from providing a bit of &quot;compensation&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; that users might expect for their efforts. Users have a right to know that up front. Not have it &quot;hidden&quot; from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of my comments, I quipped that hiding your your acceptance rate is like saying, &quot;&lt;em&gt;I don't like my credit rating. How can I hide it from lenders?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; I feel that that analogy is apt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T16:31:04.637" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:31:04.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T16:38:44.513" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with this move, since it's possible for a tiny minority of users to generate a great deal of noise and (possibly) wasted effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, however, in the interests of fairness you might want to point out in the FAQ (or some other prominent location) that certain behaviors are expected of regular participants, i.e.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you participate regularly, &lt;strong&gt;you are expected to:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;put at least a minimum of effort&lt;/strong&gt; into the questions you ask of the Stack Overflow community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;show that you are trying to learn&lt;/strong&gt; from the Stack Overflow community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;give back&lt;/strong&gt; to the Stack Overflow community through helping others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:38:44.513" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T16:38:44.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19852" CreationDate="2009-09-07T16:41:05.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a support site, I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;http://getsatisfaction.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://getsatisfaction.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T16:41:05.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-09-07T17:08:06.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/30827/safari-is-unable-to-reach-localhost-127-0-0-1/37007#37007&quot;&gt;some answer&lt;/a&gt;, after which I soon realised it might not have been 100% right. So, I undid the upvote (back to zero) and left a comment. At some later time I wanted to upvote the same answer after all, but it won't let me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18360/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-but-i-havent-voted/18373#18373&quot;&gt;by design&lt;/a&gt; as well, though I never could have imagined that such was needed... Very well then, no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T17:08:06.737" />
  <row Id="20736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20738" CreationDate="2009-09-07T17:26:07.703" Score="11" ViewCount="936" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that someone gives us a problem to solve, tags the questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/code-golf&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-golf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the winner is who completely the solution in the fewest characters. I haven't found a reference for what it is, so lets discuss its purpose here. ;D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: OK, we've explained what it is, but why stage a competition to see who can use the least number of characters? Its an interesting contest (and that may be the point and I'm looking too deeply) but it doesn't seem to have any other reason. It &lt;i&gt;terrible&lt;/i&gt; to read; I think we could have more interesting contests to see who could make the fastest or most flexible or otherwise &quot;best&quot; solution. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="130281" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T01:25:26.993" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:22:44.587" Title="What is &quot;code golf&quot; on stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="20737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20742" CreationDate="2009-09-07T17:26:57.403" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of uncopyrighted websites on the internet, typically built by Microsoft MVPs or the like, contain hundreds of common or complex questions, and solutions to those problems + code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these be added into SO, like I did for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1387400/what-is-tinypg-and-how-does-it-work&quot;&gt;intro to TinyPG&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought this could build up the &quot;wiki&quot; aspect of SO where devs can simply search for their problem using the internal search &lt;em&gt;instead&lt;/em&gt; of Google, and find answers quickly. This would probably limit the general problems or spammy &quot;givemethecodez&quot; Qs that newcomers post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:24:04.590" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:24:04.590" Title="Should we build up the wiki aspect of SO by adding in QnA topics?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-09-07T17:30:59.550" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like in golf where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke%5Fplay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;low score wins&lt;/a&gt;, the fewest amount of characters &quot;wins&quot;. While certainly the best solution in every case is not necessarily the solution that has the fewest characters or fewest lines of code, it can be a fun way to exercise your programming muscles. There is even a &lt;a href=&quot;http://codegolf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;codegolf.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-07T17:39:01.733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T17:39:01.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20712" CreationDate="2009-09-07T17:32:04.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil%5FShipley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wil Shipley&lt;/a&gt; also has an account at StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12008" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T17:32:04.897" />
  <row Id="20740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-09-07T17:40:11.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the game of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;golf&lt;/a&gt;, the player who completes the course with the fewest club strokes wins.  Likewise, code golf is a competition to achieve the specifications in the fewest keystrokes.  It's been popularized on SO and other programming fora, as well as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node%5Fid=21442&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;organized competitions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18484" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T17:40:11.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-09-07T17:45:22.143" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try to solve the problem using the fewest possible characters of source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's relatively well-known in Perl circles, since Perl's flexibility and terseness make possible very brief solutions to many problems.  In fact, some sources say that code golf originated as &quot;Perl golf&quot;.  It's no coincidence that in language-agnostic code golf challenges, a Perl solution is usually the winner.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the winner uses a language other than Perl, &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is truly an accomplishment, not only because Perl is naturally suited to this sort of challenge, but because Perl programmers are largely well-acquainted with the game and know the tricks and techniques to golf effectively in their language of choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T17:45:22.143" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20737" CreationDate="2009-09-07T18:03:27.370" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to build up the wiki aspect of SO, then make the answer wiki so that more people can add to your answer (the threshold for editing wiki responses is lower).  You'll still gain reputation when people upvote the question, but it looks less like rep-whoring to those people who frown on posting questions that you know the answer to (I'm not in that group, I'm just saying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing I would stress is that you should always link to the original source of the information if you can.  Link to the web site or blog if that's where the information came from.  Link to amazon.com, or the author or publisher's web site if the information came from a book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T18:03:27.370" />
  <row Id="20743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20737" CreationDate="2009-09-07T18:36:10.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging by the number of upvotes you've got, I think we should hold it for a while. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki aspect of SO is constantly enforced when we edit others question/answers ( Just ask Rich B ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T18:36:10.677" />
  <row Id="20744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-09-07T18:38:43.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an idea regarding this on this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19940/undo-a-up-down-vote-after-a-comment-is-left&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19940/undo-a-up-down-vote-after-a-comment-is-left&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T18:38:43.747" />
  <row Id="20745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20722" CreationDate="2009-09-07T18:41:26.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to close Q's when I feel it has been answered but sometimes an answer doesn't seem to be complete, thus I keep it open for more answers for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, sometimes it just seems an answer is valid, yet it doesn't help the person who asked it. Thus they wait a bit longer to see if a better answer will be privided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T18:41:26.050" />
  <row Id="20746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T19:01:22.347" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'm missing something here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is exactly the problem with the &quot;problematic participants&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are a minority, and basically what they are doing is ... nothing... well what's the problem with that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they consuming resources? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wasn't this the whole rationale of reputation and lately of the answer rating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If questions are hard to understand or the user doesn't care in making it better, I think we should &lt;strong&gt;simply ignore the question in first place!!&lt;/strong&gt;, There is not an obligation in editing everything is asked and transform an horrible question into a great question ( that I know ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably the problem could be our SO addictio, because, we have this &quot;need&quot; of answer what is unanswerable.  I see some guys suffering because a question have a punctuation flaw and is just like they can't live if it is not fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the downvotes, the low reputation and ultimately the tools users with +3k have ( close, edit etc ) do the work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, really is not I'm criticizing this effort, I genuinely don't quite get what the problem is? What am I missing here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this a &quot;perfecionisn&quot; problem is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty%5Fcalls.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T19:01:22.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T19:01:22.347" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="20747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T19:12:53.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make downvoting questions free to the voter and increase the penalty on the poster to maybe 4 or 5. Unlike answers, I don't see any incentive to downvote questions except the legitimate, intended purpose - it's a crappy question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little bit of noise from crappy questions is not quite as much of a problem as leech users getting enough system trust to actually become annoying. I like to think more downvotes on a question will encourage most people to not answer/move on, and if leeches don't get answers, they will stop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T19:12:53.030" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T19:12:53.030" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5558" CreationDate="2009-09-07T19:20:57.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course you can. There are clones for a wiki, a digg like site and Expert-Exchange. Nothing special about SO that you can't do something similar. Q&amp;amp;A site is not a patented model&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T19:20:57.803" />
  <row Id="20753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T19:31:33.413" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My 2 cents: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Increase the rep penalty against down voted authors to -5 instead of -2. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Limit users to 2 questions per day. Questions with a &lt;em&gt;score&lt;/em&gt; of 2 or more adds an additional question per day. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once you have 1k rep in the system, remove the question restriction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will make it harder to game the system by spamming questions. I really think this behavior is a symptom of a larger issue which is that rep != trust like its supposed to. Is Jon Skeet really nearly twice as trustworthy as Bill the Lizard? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To really take care of this once and for all I think we need to split the current rep system into 2 values; 1 for knowledge and 1 for citizenship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The citizenship value starts at 100 and gains a little from up-voted answers, more from up-voted comments and more still from up-voted questions. It loses points for questions being substantially edited (tools are already in place to measure this, like for community wiki authorship), down-voted, flagged for moderation or voted to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The knowledge score is based heavily on answer up-votes, answer-acceptance and very, very little on question up votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats a bit heavy handed and a huge change to the system that might not be worth the effort. In the meantime, I think the above measures and waving the ban-hammer should be sufficient for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that system trust could be based on an aggregate of the two values, a minimum of each must be obtained before you get anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T01:04:22.240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T01:04:22.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T19:31:33.413" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="20755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20737" CreationDate="2009-09-07T19:33:10.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure these websites are &quot;uncopyrighted&quot;? Copyright is automatic in most jurisdictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any need to seed StackOverflow with content. Let it grow organically according to need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T19:33:10.727" />
  <row Id="20757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20722" CreationDate="2009-09-07T20:17:43.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Accept rate&lt;/a&gt; feature will help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149415" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T20:17:43.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-09-07T21:01:15.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;a complete waste of time and pixels - on SO [please people, leave this stuff on codegolf.com where it belongs; leave SO for &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; questions]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T21:01:15.060" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20764" CreationDate="2009-09-07T21:31:30.823" Score="0" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1031/filter-users-by-country&quot;&gt;Filter users by country.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know how many people of my region is registered in Stack Overflow. Is there an option to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135496" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-26T10:29:10.437" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T10:29:10.437" ClosedDate="2009-09-08T21:15:41.380" Title="How can I find Stack Overflow users in my region?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20759" CreationDate="2009-09-07T21:34:51.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not yet, Joel talked about adding a little flag next to the user name and adding a feature to search by region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there was no more news about that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T21:34:51.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2009-09-07T21:37:48.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the main reason that people bagged on you was because you posted an answer only seconds after posting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question was one where a solution could be worked out from the question (eg math questions, what’s wrong with this line of code, etc.), then it could have been explained in that typing out the question in a formal way caused you to view the problem in a new way that led to a Eureka! moment, allowing you to answer it immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your question was one whose answer could not be derived from the problem (you asked for examples of sandbox webapp sites). Therefore, the fact that you posted an answer in less than a minute of the question, people (in my opinion rightly) found it to be quite suspicious, and that’s why you got hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you’re going to do that sort of thing, at least wait an hour or so before posting an answer. That way it looks like you continued researching the problem while waiting for someone to post an answer, and found one on your own (ie, the whole point of having a &lt;em&gt;self-learner&lt;/em&gt; badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131979" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T21:37:48.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T21:37:48.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-07T21:47:14.010" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favour of Daniel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants/20699#20699&quot;&gt;suggestion&lt;/a&gt;. However, I'd like to request as part of this: Provide users affected by the &lt;em&gt;Really Bad Question Rate (RBQR)&lt;/em&gt; with a channel of communication to the moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RBQR or an equivalent measure, if and when instituted, will form the harshest punishment yet on these sites, and it can be a bitter pill to swallow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please provide a simple way for the person to query or give their side of the story. This is good for everyone, even if it is only for the moderators to explain that their questions have been regularly flagged etc. You will get the occasional user who's been wrongly targeted. A human touch is always helpful; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%5Fwe%27ve%5Fgot%5Fhere%5Fis%5F%28a%29%5Ffailure%5Fto%5Fcommunicate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lack of communication tends to exacerbate issues&lt;/a&gt;. If the number of such users is low, then the communication will be manageable. Also, not all affected users will use this feature, only those who feel wrongly done by. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could provide a simple text box for the user to enter what they wish, and get their replies through a notification system similar to comments etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T21:47:14.010" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T21:47:14.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20712" CreationDate="2009-09-07T22:07:10.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%5FMartelli&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt; has raced onto the front page recently..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T22:07:10.213" />
  <row Id="20764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20759" CreationDate="2009-09-07T22:21:19.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try using statoverflow sandbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just have to get the SQL right. I think it would be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from users where location like 'mine'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T22:21:19.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-09-07T23:21:11.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code golf is for those bored of helping people solve real problems, but don't want to leave the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per my comment, while I agree that it is more useful than some of the questions floated (the aforementioned &quot;what is your favorite IDE color scheme&quot; comes to mind) I do not think that makes it useful for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to sharpen your skills, go find someone's intractable problem and help them solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T23:21:11.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-07T23:21:11.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-07T23:28:26.380" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I made it through a page and a half of questions on this sub-domain that came up under the search &quot;subjective&quot;, so I'm sorry if this has already been discussed to death. Please close this as duplicate with a pointer to the best question already asked, as I'm sure if this is a duplicate, it's not the only one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I asked a subjective question a while back because I stopped being able to see the line between subjective and objective when questions like &quot;should I learn more about xyz&quot; and &#xA;&quot;what is your favorite tool for thisorthat&quot; and &quot;favorite tricks for nameyourlanguage&quot; kept coming up. And I got shut down right away. I'm not bitter. I was. But I'm not now. But it is a bit of a drag &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) seeing obviously subjective/personal questions get upvoted with hundreds of responses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) seeing obviously subjective questions that are fun or intriguing get shut down after 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c) seeing obviously corny/boring/begging-to-get-shut-down questions in the way of real questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the last one is everyone's least favorite and I'd like to think that the subjective rule was created for just those questions. But since subjective &lt;em&gt;duh&lt;/em&gt; is a matter of taste, my (c) may be your (b) or (a) and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And having seen how much discussion has already gone down about this, I'm wondering if maybe we ought to accept that we're not just experts (or those in need of one, or both), but nerds who want to talk shop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To further this discussion, I'd like to pose a question, a point, and a concept:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;question: What are the stats on subjective questions? And by that I mean, are they more likely to be asked be someone with a higher reputation or someone with little or no reputation?  I ask because there is a difference between having a place for us all to wax poetically on our favorite CS joke, and having a problem with vandals storming the gates and asking silly questions about whether HTML is stupid or just really dumb. (I'm not sure that made sense at all. I'll try that again...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are subjective questions typically asked by folks as one of their first 10 questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a point: I have never understood how community wiki works, how to tell if a question is of that category, how to see only those questions or filter them out, etc. And from what I can tell from previous  discussion here, it has a few flaws to be worked out either way. Wouldn't a community.stackoverflow alleviate most of the problems (or at least give us a stern finger to point people?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a concept: I think it would be silly to award points and reputation based on subjective questions, as they don't have a right answer. But the idea of trying to do such reminds me of one of my favorite British shows entitled &lt;em&gt;QI&lt;/em&gt;.  Celebrities must answer questions that are impossibly hard and trivial and rather then simply getting points for knowing the answer, they are rewarded points for being &lt;em&gt;Quite Interesting&lt;/em&gt;. Now, I imagine that would be near to impossible to judge as a group (rabble/angry mob/etc) but at the very least, it could be an encouraging model for such a SO site and would at the very least justify the idea of points for &quot;right answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, having thrown all of that out there, I'm dying to know, is such a SO site already in the works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131983" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T23:48:45.780" Title="Would a subjective.SO be considered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;stackoverflow-expansion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20766" CreationDate="2009-09-07T23:39:08.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have some free time. You can query the stackoverflow datadump to get answers to some of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes this has been discussed quite a few times. But regarding a subjective only site is most likely not on the way. Why? Jeff has stated before that a site must have guidelines. If you have a site where you can ask to freely, then chaos ensues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are some questions &quot;allowed&quot; and some are not? It's just human nature, and in many cases it's just random. Who answered, voted, asked, at what time etc. I've seen good subjective questions get shot down and bad ones stay alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the big subjective questions are from the days when a line wasn't drawn as tightly as it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T23:39:08.530" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20766" CreationDate="2009-09-07T23:48:45.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subjective is the &lt;strong&gt;most lucrative&lt;/strong&gt; tag on SO, in general asking subjective questions will lead to the largest amount of upvotes. This is a direct result of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s%5FLaw%5Fof%5FTriviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bike shed effect&lt;/a&gt;. The unfortunate side effect is that it erodes from the value and usefulness of SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I thought just &lt;strong&gt;ship&lt;/strong&gt; the 5000 community wiki questions to another site and be done with the community wiki concept. &lt;strong&gt;Nobody&lt;/strong&gt; understands what it means, everyone has a slightly different definition. Give the hordes a place where only polls and subjective questions are allowed and let them gain infinite reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the side effect is that this would splinter knowledge which may end up being bad long term. Also, more importantly, community wiki / multi answer is not what the SO engine is good at. It was designed for a single great answer and a single question, per topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So will there be a &lt;code&gt;subjective.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;? Unless its a stackexchange thingy, I doubt it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-07T23:48:45.780" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:07:49.880" Score="4" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's the origin of the &quot;community wiki&quot; name? I had never seen it before SO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should we change it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me at best redundant and at worst confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best case: Wikis are, by definition, editable by the community (redundant). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Worst case: Who is this communuity that owns all the wiki posts? / I know what a wiki is but what is a community wiki? (confusing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be good to rename them to &quot;community owned&quot; like suggested in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1219/lower-the-rep-required-to-edit-community-wiki-posts-or-stop-calling-them-wiki&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt; or to just plain &quot;wiki&quot;, a term everybody is familiar with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T00:17:25.103" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T12:32:14.030" Title="Where did the &quot;community wiki&quot; name came from? And should we change it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;rename&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:15:29.037" Score="2" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the answers and comments to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the idea of discouraging the pity upvotes that awful questions usually get has been mentioned more than once, but, as it is tangential to the issue discussed there I wanted to move it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we want discourage pity upvoting?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we want to, how could that be achieved? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we encourage closing of awful questions? How?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Various considerations: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If we managed to effectively discourage pity upvoting then lousy questioners would have a harder time getting reputation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If less people upvote unnecessarily, less people follow suit upvoting (the train effect which has been documented somewhere around here) and may even increase the percentage of closing that kind of questions get.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system would be more fair.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It may not be doable in a practical way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It may not be worth it as it's not a big deal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the end, it will get sorted out by the community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T15:01:20.093" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:13:10.930" Title="Do we want to discourage pity votes on awful questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;pity-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="20771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20769" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:20:47.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an entity called &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;&quot;Community&quot;&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;Owns community questions and answers so nobody gets unnecessary reputation from them&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its called a &quot;Community Wiki&quot; because the Community entity owns it.  Perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info at &quot;its&quot; profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:20:47.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20770" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:26:02.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the community already frowns upon pity upvoting. However, how could one achieve any kind of serious discouragement? I suppose we could pop a warning box if someone upvotes a question that's at a negative score? I don't think that's a particularly good solution -- in many cases, a decent answer can get down to -1 or even -2 before it starts getting its upvotes due entirely to weird drive-by downvoters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe pop the warning box on a -[some threshold] answer? What would the box say? Perhaps something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It looks like you've upvoted an&#xA;  unpopular answer. Consider writing a&#xA;  comment to explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's conceivable, but I don't like it. Too intrusive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the only answer that would really be workable is to place something in the FAQ. But right now, the FAQ is short and sweet -- I'm not sure I want to content creep that too much, either. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be completely honest, I'm not even sure that pity upvoting is a real &quot;problem.&quot; Yes, I'm sure it happens, just as I'm sure some users go on downvoting rampages against others. That said, if it's not rampant, and others in the community will downvote the question/answer anyway, why worry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, anonymous (non-commented) voting means that people can vote, for whatever reason they choose, whichever way they choose. It applies to downvoting, and it applies to upvoting. The community will, eventually, sort it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:26:02.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20769" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:36:18.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for keeping the name as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All posts are wikis for the sufficiently repful. Community Wikis are open to more of the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that is simplistic, but It makes sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW-- I had the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20769/where-did-the-community-wiki-name-came-from-and-should-we-change-it/20771#20771&quot;&gt;same impression as bobobobo&lt;/a&gt; about the source of the appellation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:36:18.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20770" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:47:12.710" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way to avoid pity upvotes is not to downvote for no reason. The way I see it: either a question needs to be closed/deleted or it doesn't. A lot of people seem to downvote questions that need to be closed. Why bother? If it's spam you can flag it for moderator attention. Otherwise let it be closed and possibly deleted in due course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a valid question and for whatever reason you just don't like it, your downvote has a reasonable chance of attracting an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've seen plenty of questions downvoted that were simply poorly worded or formatted and a simple edit would fix them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should be asking: if the question doesn't need to be closed, why are you downvoting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:47:12.710" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20770" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:49:11.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is going to constitute an &quot;invalid&quot; up-vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is always going to be an element of counter-culture in a group. If you express that something is bad, there will always be someone to say &quot;oh, it's not as bad as that.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;So you down-vote, they up-vote.&lt;/strong&gt; That is the way of things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you want to pick out when votes are &quot;valid&quot; expressions of someone's opinion? Some voters have different motivations. The idea that you are going to &lt;strong&gt;somehow tell the differnece&lt;/strong&gt; is folly and dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, don't panic. Stack Overflow has a large population of voters. In the end, the overall vote will reflect the substance and quality of the content. There's no need to somehow filter out the small amount of noise in either up-votes or down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T00:55:43.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:55:43.207" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-08T00:59:47.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often find myself writing more code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone asks how to read some obscure data format with a regex, I will actually go and write a parser for it. Mainly for my own benefit/enjoyment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T00:59:47.880" />
  <row Id="20778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-08T01:32:44.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to @&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20726/drawing-sketching-tool-for-elaborating-questions/20730#20730&quot;&gt;redtuna&lt;/a&gt;'s answer, perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iscribble.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iScribble&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T01:32:44.480" />
  <row Id="20779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20438" CreationDate="2009-09-08T01:37:47.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;since &lt;em&gt;you can't catch a photon&lt;/em&gt;*, SO is something to do while compiling&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[*&lt;em&gt;In the Shadow of the Skeet: You Can't Catch a Photon&lt;/em&gt; available in paperback at fine imaginary bookstores worldwide]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T17:27:23.877" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T17:27:23.877" />
  <row Id="20780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T01:41:38.553" Score="-2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The unanswered questions section on SuperUser shows questions with &quot;no upvoted answers&quot;, but often has questions with three or more answers and 50+ views. I'd guess that many of those viewers may be viewing with a specific answer to provide but see that it has already been offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about putting up a banner to suggest that people upvote one of the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The banner could be shown on basis of criteria such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question open &gt; 5 days - &lt;em&gt;don't show on questions which are too new&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;number of answers &gt; 2 - &lt;em&gt;more answers means more are likely to agree with one&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;number of views for this question &gt; 25 - &lt;em&gt;more views means more likelihood that one is a good one (in somebody's point of view)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;viewer's ratio of upvotes to answers given &gt; 0.5 - &lt;em&gt;Don't show the banner to those who are good about upvoting other people's answers and not just answering questions to boost their own rep.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The numbers are off the cuff and not based on any analysis of data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133232" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T05:16:11.497" Title="Encourage upvotes on unanswered questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20780" CreationDate="2009-09-08T02:01:59.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People won't, or shouldn't, upvote just because there's an answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;more answers means more are likely to agree with one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they could all still be wrong. Or they could be essentially right in a sense, but just not right enough to warrant an upvote. Or the people looking at the question want to know the answer, but don't know which of the answers really works or it's just a little outside their field of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T02:01:59.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20780" CreationDate="2009-09-08T02:22:03.817" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to random's points, I've seen users upset by the fact that their questions have answers which get an upvote (thus coming off the unanswered page), when in fact that answer was not helpful to them in the least. These users feel -- perhaps rightfully -- that their questions will now not get as much attention as they were when they were &quot;unanswered.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't want to encourage willy-nilly upvoting of these answers. However, that said, if the answers truly &lt;em&gt;deserve&lt;/em&gt; their upvotes, then go ahead and upvote them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: Always judge the question by the question, and always judge the answer by the answer. If the answer is insightful and helpful, then yes, upvote it. Otherwise, don't. That easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T02:22:03.817" />
  <row Id="20783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20770" CreationDate="2009-09-08T02:24:52.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As one possible means to address this, I'm going to repeat (slightly paraphrased) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20084/generating-reputation-through-downvotes/20091#20091&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; I gave to another question along similar lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to mitigate this would be to &lt;strong&gt;show upvotes and downvotes separately&lt;/strong&gt;, as suggested in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt;. That would allow people to see when someone has earned decent rep from an answer (or question) that otherwise appears to have a small vote total, and use that in the decision of whether to cast their own vote or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always remember that my votes are limited, and information like this could be of great use in my decision-making process. I might be less inclined to spend a &quot;pity vote&quot; on someone who's already earned, say 24 rep (+30, -6) just to get them from showing -1 to 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd like to add that &lt;strong&gt;this information is already available&lt;/strong&gt;, if you care to browse to the OP's user profile and view their reputation tab.  So it's not confidential.  I just think having it more obvious could help the voting process work more effectively, particularly in cases like these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and to get this done I'd advocate &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes/1007#1007&quot;&gt;denormalizing upvote/downvote data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as cletus suggested in response to Jeff's answer so that this isn't an undue strain on the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T02:36:20.073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T02:36:20.073" />
  <row Id="20784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20769" CreationDate="2009-09-08T02:44:30.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any other name that will help others understand what it means, because the meaning is so peculiar to SO. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These posts are owned by the &quot;Community&quot; user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By contrast, &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; posts are wiki to those above the editing threshhold, so just &quot;Wiki&quot; alone doesn't cut it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions can become community wiki through automated mechanisms (number of edits, number of answers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community Wiki has grown to have other connotations, such as being slightly more acceptable for subjective questions, or a sign that the user is posting in good faith and isn't trying to &quot;farm&quot; reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And of course, community wiki posts are editable by every user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a name that would adequately cover &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; aspects of what it means to be community wiki.  I think &quot;community wiki&quot; covers enough to warrant being left alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T02:44:30.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20780" CreationDate="2009-09-08T03:05:51.830" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be better to encourage more (and better) answers under those circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T03:05:51.830" />
  <row Id="20788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20676" CreationDate="2009-09-08T03:15:10.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I wasn't the first to observe this, but I made a comment a while back along the lines of &quot;Law: Anything which can be measured, will be measured on the internet.  First corollary: anything measured on the internet will become the subject of a DSW.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if measurement counts, subtraction from that measurement hurts even more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134387" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T03:15:10.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T03:15:10.393" />
  <row Id="20789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20792" CreationDate="2009-09-08T04:34:30.247" Score="2" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concept of stackoverflow is nice. It is great Q&amp;amp;A site on programming where anyone can answer. The main problem I see is that certain questions are looking for subjective answers and are being accepted while others are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, why would this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38210/what-non-programming-books-should-programmers-read&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; be better than this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1391817/programming-languages-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;? One is still open and has nothing to do with programming while the other does and both are classified has being subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense, can a question really have objective answers? I believe that there can be a best possible subjective answer for a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have this particular problem and someone answers a solution A, another with solution B and so on.. which is better? The community answers that by voting on the solution that it believes it is best for the problem. In a way this is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last note, is there a stackoverflow affiliated site that is there for the sole purpose of asking and answering subjectively to programming related questions? If not could there be a need for such a site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a way, having a subjective stackoverflow would probably help improving the quality of stackoverflow by having only clear questions with specific answer but that is just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With what I understand with the answers below, a question can be subjective as long as it can have really specific answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135501" LastEditorUserId="135501" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T04:59:46.813" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T02:44:16.050" Title="Subjective stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20789" CreationDate="2009-09-08T04:43:11.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is a community driven site. Let's get a little meta here: what is considered subjective is really decided by the community, and thus subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right. A complex field like programming usually does not have objective answers to questions. More like answer viewed most fitting or best somewhat democratically by majority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no site for the soul ;-) or for the sole purpose of asking and answering subjective questions. As long as they are programming related (which the community decides upom), there is community wiki (CW) to mark questions as more of a discussion type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T04:43:11.710" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20789" CreationDate="2009-09-08T04:44:14.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions are closed for being &lt;em&gt;&quot;subject &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; argumentative&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, not merely subjective alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your examples back this up:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38210/what-non-programming-books-should-programmers-read&quot;&gt;What non-programming books should programmers read?&lt;/a&gt; question is relatively specific and defined. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1391817/programming-languages-closed&quot;&gt;Programming Languages&lt;/a&gt; question is not.  Additionally, it covers a topic that attracts haters and fanbois, who can be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; argumentative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at the answers to these two questions.  There is a distinct difference in quality and seriousness with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T04:44:14.157" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20789" CreationDate="2009-09-08T05:04:12.250" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a sense, can a question really have objective answers? I believe that there can be a best possible subjective answer for a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course. Indeed, &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; answer can presumably be a best possible answer for &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are questions designed to limit the total number of answers, and questions designed to maximize them. That book question is a good example of the latter: 188 people may think that Carnegie book is worth reading, but that number is dwarfed by the total number of answers on that page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, that question is largely worthless. Book recommendations make good answers to questions looking for information on a specific topic, and are excellent fodder for discussion... But SO isn't a discussion site. If you want to see how well the SO engine works for discussion, poke around here on Meta for a bit - see how many in-depth discussions you can find, and consider how easily they can be followed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for that other question you linked to... I don't know what the author was trying to pull, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20789/subjective-stackoverflow/20791#20791&quot;&gt;Stu nailed it&lt;/a&gt; - SO is not the place for trolling and fanboism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T05:04:12.250" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20780" CreationDate="2009-09-08T05:16:11.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted trivial answers to boring questions and seen numerous upvotes within minutes. And posted non-trivial answers to niche questions that take months to get even a single vote. Both of these experiences make a fair bit of sense: if i'm reading a question and set of answers, unless i can identify with the question well enough to answer it myself... or at least recognize the right answer when i read it... then what business do i have voting at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, there will be a lot of questions where answers are never voted on by anyone but the person who posted the question itself. And questions where the author never comes back to vote at all... and they'll sit, collecting valuable tin whiskers, unless and until someone else has the same problem and finds the solution while searching SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's ok. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T05:16:11.497" />
  <row Id="20794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T05:13:44.630" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's happened to me twice now. When I opened up my profile, I saw this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;last login  35 seconds ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in reality I didn't login. Why is it saying that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148346" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T05:25:45.550" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T06:00:03.143" Title="Last login time not correct on profile" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20794" CreationDate="2009-09-08T05:21:05.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perharps your browser is having a bad case of cookie indigestion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135501" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T05:21:05.260" />
  <row Id="20796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20801" CreationDate="2009-09-08T05:28:37.150" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I sometimes stumble over things where the normal formatter and the one in the comments disagree on the grave accent, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* `abc`def&#xA;* `\`g`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it even is useful (though I can't see where inconsistency would be useful).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless it starts eating backslashes for (to me) unknown reasons, such as in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* `copy F:\*.foo .`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-20T11:55:13.890" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T11:55:13.890" Title="Code escaping in comments eats backslashes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20789" CreationDate="2009-09-08T05:55:31.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the others regarding properly asked and structured subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unfortunate reality is that subjective questions is the reason most forums fail as it draws the wrong group of users. Subjective and argumentative questions cause major headaches with regards to the type of discussion it generates. Specifically you find that younger less experienced members will get involved in endless this is better then the other arguments, and almost religiously defend there point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something especially on SU and SF that we watch for due to the nature of the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a need for subjective.stackoverflow.com. It will draw the wrong crowd, and I would be scared to be a moderator on such a site. Leave these type of questions to IRC and other forums where it has been dealt with for the last century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T05:55:31.140" />
  <row Id="20798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20802" CreationDate="2009-09-08T06:05:29.437" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, when a user comes across a duplicate, they can follow the link to the original question and its answers. But if they find the original question first, they can't see any of the questions that are marked as its duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But questions marked as duplicates still have some good/valuable answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it would be a good idea to automatically add in backlinks to the duplicate questions in the main question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130951" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T07:14:48.780" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:27:23.653" Title="Backlinks to duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20789" CreationDate="2009-09-08T06:12:21.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;In a sense, can a question really have objective answers? I believe that there can be a best possible subjective answer for a question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a good remark. I have posted the following question to SuperUser: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/37049/what-is-the-lifetime-of-a-typical-hard-disk&quot;&gt;What is the lifetime of a typical hard disk?&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think that there is an absolute answer to this question. However, I am very interested in the opinion of people who are better informed than me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134939" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T06:12:21.140" />
  <row Id="20801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20796" CreationDate="2009-09-08T07:22:52.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The backslash is used as an escape character here. Normally asterisks (*) indicate to &lt;em&gt;emphasis the following&lt;/em&gt; part. A single asterisk does not do it, but the escape mechanism still works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T08:44:52.803" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T08:44:52.803" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20798" CreationDate="2009-09-08T07:45:07.323" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Duplicates can be pruned by the community and moderators when we find them, or they are of very bad quality and end up being deleted. If there is a duplicate with significant value you can flag it for moderator attention, and we can merge the questions together, creating one single canonical source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the above happens it will require someone to go and edit all the back-links out and also can send someone down a long trail of reading all these duplicates when the first question actually provided a sufficient answer, taking away the focus on the original question and the value it has added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way we keep the question clean and updated, ensuring the best possible experience from our home page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T08:27:23.653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:27:23.653" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="20803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20805" CreationDate="2009-09-08T07:48:06.583" Score="0" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;My daily rep has gone through the 200 points limit: I had one accepted answer and have answered no bounty questions. What is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9800/repk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Daily rep&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Please let me keep the rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T16:13:55.963" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:13:55.963" Title="How is my daily rep score so high?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20803" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:00:29.053" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you click on the 265 it will show you exactly what you earned reputation for. Also there may still be some reputation from the previous day since which will slowly dissipate. Have a look at your yesterday and whole month screens to track this down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it may still reflect the reputation from questions and answers that may have been deleted. They will not come up in the list but the reputation will still reflect until a rep recalculation occurs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I stand corrected but if I remember correctly accepted answers are immune to the daily limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:00:29.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20818" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:09:14.607" Score="1" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Preface: this question is not about &quot;having a go&quot; at StackOverflow and is not a defence of &lt;code&gt;expert-sex-change.com&lt;/code&gt;, which I have never used. It is purely a question about whether SO, if it is running at a loss (an assumption of mine, which may be wrong), will eventually fall foul of competiion law. I think it is an interesting question, which is why I asked it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that &lt;em&gt;Joel et al.&lt;/em&gt; are using their own money to attempt to blast &quot;the site with the hyphen&quot; out of the water by undercutting them on price (quite severely!). If this were &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/news/murdoch-guilty-in-times-price-war-1094999.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rupert Murdoch in the newspaper industry&lt;/a&gt;, we would call the practice anti-competitive and a regulator might decide that it was illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could a competition regulator find stackoverflow guilty of illegal business practices, at least until SO breaks even? Is what SO is doing &lt;em&gt;fair&lt;/em&gt; on &quot;the site with the hyphen&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: to recap, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory%5Fpricing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;anti-competition laws about predatory pricing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are about running a business at a loss (i.e. unsustainably) in order to put a competitor out of business. You can give away stuff for free (like free newspapers) but only if this is sustainable (i.e. you are generating enough advertising revenue to match your costs). Typically you will be given some leeway to run at a loss &lt;em&gt;for a short period of time&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT2&lt;/strong&gt;: I am assuming that, for the moment, SO is running at a loss. Certainly this would have been the case when it started, it may not be the case now of course. The last talk by Joel I listened to, I believe he referred to it &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; yet breaking even (please correct me if I'm wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT3&lt;/strong&gt;: I belive that predatory pricing can be levelled at a company which produces a product for free but intends to make money from that product via some other channel - such as advertising. A monopoly can charge more for advertising and thus attempt to gain a monopoly via predatory pricing could certainly be construed as anti-competitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I am not a member of &quot;the site with a hyphen&quot; and clearly a supporter of SO!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="132008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T14:27:50.043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T14:27:50.043" Title="Is SO pricing their site predatorially if it is making a loss?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;business-model&gt;&lt;hyphenated-site&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:10:25.400" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have got a server not found at a few times during the last few days when trying to reach stackoverflow. It turns out that my web browser suggests www.stackoverflow.com which doesn't always work. The URL stackoverflow.com does work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2703" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T14:21:23.470" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T14:21:23.470" Title="www.stackoverflow.com not responding" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;www-prefix&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20807" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:17:22.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how SO could be 'anti-competitive' ( then I again I trust the free market so anti-competitive is in the ballpark of hired guns to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has multiple stakeholders:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;end users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;advertisers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;implementors ( StackExchange )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It so happens that in this particular business model the users pay nothing, but the advertisers and implementors do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pricing strategy and business model overall are the &lt;em&gt;prerogative&lt;/em&gt; of a business, they're not anti-competitive if they cut into others' market share. On the contrary, they are very competitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;: I answered the regarding the spirit of competition, not the letter as engraved in the US laws. That question can only be fond in the SO financial statements, and my guess is that I'm not going to see any of those ( until/if they go public ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastEditorUserId="130209" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T08:26:26.200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:26:26.200" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20807" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:17:53.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is like saying that publishing a free newspaper (*) or Wikipedia should be illegal. It doesn't make sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) (with the difference that the free newspapers you get at tube stations usually suck, at least in Barcelona, so that it makes sense to get a paid one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:17:53.220" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20808" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:18:40.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There must be something wrong with your resolver configuration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;robert@rm:~&amp;gt; host www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;www.stackoverflow.com is an alias for stackoverflow.com.&#xA;stackoverflow.com has address 69.59.196.211&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:18:40.020" />
  <row Id="20812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:20:56.833" Score="12" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a &lt;em&gt;factual&lt;/em&gt; question of what I can do: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4565/what-facilities-are-there-in-the-moderation-tools/4576#4576&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; lists the tools nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is more a question of how to behave based on the past experiences of those who've been 'over the top' longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly I have the ability to &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; questions potentially deserving of action more easily but does anyone have any advice on how to exercise the deletion ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm new to these heady heights I'll avoid going power crazy (for now ;)) but indications of how I can use this trust to help the site (perhaps by spotting questions that should be flagged to moderators faster) would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I write this question I believe that there are 250 10K+ users (many recent) so there's a few of us that might benefit from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15661/you-have-gained-power-heres-how-to-use-it-kind-of-message&quot;&gt;this request&lt;/a&gt; details asking to put this sort of into into an easily available message on reaching the threshold. What I'm looking for is &lt;em&gt;the info&lt;/em&gt; I couldn't find a question/answer with that. None seems to be linked to on the question either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastEditorUserId="12748" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T08:41:45.733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:48:25.753" Title="How to behave now I've got the 10K" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:22:18.220" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an example, SO prefers &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server-2005&quot;&gt;sql-server-2005&lt;/a&gt;, while SF seems to have gone for &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/sqlserver-2005&quot;&gt;sqlserver-2005&lt;/a&gt;, resulting in questions migrated from SO like &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/63201/best-way-to-replicate-mirror-100s-of-databases-in-sql-2005&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (which I've just retagged) to have the wrong tag for SF. Should the tags across the trilogy be consistent, or is this just something that has to be fixed manually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I noticed this is because I have sqlserver-2005 in my ignored tags list on SF, but not sql-server-2005 so I noticed the question and wondered why it wasn't ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130340" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:28:19.033" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:28:19.033" Title="Conflicting preferred tags on different sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20812" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:33:15.983" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How I look at the 10k tools. It's to help you keep doing what you've been doing all along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you've been modding stuff. Then now it's easier to find things to mod. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't mod much, then it's an incentive to start. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you still don't want to. Then don't :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T08:48:25.753" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:48:25.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20813" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:34:44.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three different sites with three different communities. Retagging sometimes will be necessary, and it will be an ongoing job, as the communities decide on the tags. There is no way of keeping it from happening that tags divert between the systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We - within the single sites - depend on proposing existing tags and stirring the user in the direction to reuse an existing one. To do that over the border of the three sites will not be practical - they span realms too different to share a common set of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can only do this the way we do it now for synonymous tags on one site: have somebody propose a retag on one of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other possibility would be to warn during migration if a tag does not exist on the target site and give a list of possible hits. This would leave the responsibility for each single tag cloud to the corresponding community and their &quot;standards&quot; or way of thinking, while aiding in the migration process and preventing some retagging exercises due to migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:34:44.547" />
  <row Id="20816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20807" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:35:15.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As guilty as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gimp.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gimp&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://paint.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Paint&lt;/a&gt;.Net are guilty kicking &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/compare/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adobe&lt;/a&gt; out of business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:35:15.420" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="20817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20812" CreationDate="2009-09-08T08:41:02.600" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about don't change at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tools are there for you to assist in keeping the community organized. Use them wisely. It should not change the way you approach or interact with the site in any way. The novelty wears off eventually, and you get to realize that at the end of the day it is still your opinion against others, and since everything requires five people to agree, simply cast you vote towards what you feel is right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use them wisely. That's all you should do. There is no &lt;em&gt;expectation&lt;/em&gt; for a sudden change or even involvement, since you are already actively involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the basis at which the tools are given, you are trusted enough not to change the way you have been, since this is what made people vote for you in the first place, and therefore brought you were you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Disclaimer: I need to take some of this to heart myself&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T08:41:02.600" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20807" CreationDate="2009-09-08T09:03:14.103" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point about predatory pricing is interesting.  From the Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%5FStates%5Fantitrust%5Flaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US Antitrust Law&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Large companies with huge cash reserves and large lines of credit can stifle competition by engaging in predatory pricing; that is, by selling their products and services at a loss for a time, in order to force their smaller competitors out of business.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is under the section on Monopolization and reading the rest of the article suggests to me that any predatory pricing would have to be on such a scale as to completely force all competitors out of the market and make SO the &lt;strong&gt;only place&lt;/strong&gt; people could use to ask programming questions, which realistically will never happen due to the vast number of other resources (blogs, free forums, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I suspect it could be argued that the people &lt;strong&gt;paying to use SO&lt;/strong&gt; (the advertisers) have free choice to advertise on many other technology web sites, so there's no case of Monopolization there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I think this is a really interesting discussion question and it's a shame people feel the need to downvote the OP and / flame them in the Comments section (I don't downvote on meta unless the question is unrelated to SO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127479" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T09:03:14.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20825" CreationDate="2009-09-08T09:20:53.167" Score="2" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;In germany a Stackoverflow-like site was created, that is very, very similar to Stackoverflow in the mechanics of reputation and badges etc. That is so similar, that I think they could use the same software. Did you sell it to them? Or are they using a very similar clone-software? The Community I have in mind is &lt;a href=&quot;http://codekicker.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Codekicker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135169" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T12:28:07.657" Title="Is codekicker using the software behind StackOverflow or did they program a clone?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20807" CreationDate="2009-09-08T09:25:07.387" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot comment on our business strategy, as that is solely Jeff's and Joel's realm. But I can tell you how I approach my work on the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to make Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;easy-to-use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it - that's all I feel a site needs to &quot;win.&quot;  There's no malice or ill-will in my work towards our competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And nothing from my leaders has lead me to believe anything different - &lt;strong&gt;we want to win by being excellent; we want to help our fellow programmers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijqnsRqSo2k#t=6m18s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PARTY ON, DUDES!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T09:25:07.387" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20819" CreationDate="2009-09-08T09:31:11.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a clone as per this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones/15654#15654&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;. It was one of the first if I am not mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T09:31:11.527" />
  <row Id="20822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20807" CreationDate="2009-09-08T09:36:53.527" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can apply anti-trust laws just because someone undercuts you with a better product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SO were to do some kind of deal with Google so that only SO results would be returned and never expertsexchange ones then that would be anti-trust. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Predatory pricing is a temporary measure to put your smaller competitor out of business. I don't think that can be levelled at SO because &lt;em&gt;their entire model is free&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire point of SO's social enterprise is that the free advice (well, advice for kudos) is actually worth more than paid advice. And they're right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO isn't running at a loss to kill expertsexchange and they never were. They started at a loss because they have a basic principal that paying for advice changes its nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and Rupert Murdoch is currently bleating about the BBC being anti-competitive because their news is both free and better than 99% of the content on his (and actually news, entirely unlike Fox). He's wrong too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly booksellers in the UK have been complaining about Oxfam - a charity that takes in old books and resells them cheaply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you produce a better product for less money &lt;em&gt;consistently&lt;/em&gt; (not just for a brief period to hurt your competition) then all's fair in love and free markets, regardless of how you do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T09:36:53.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T09:56:49.297" Score="22" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is quickly reaching a point where any question that you might want to ask, may already have been asked. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take this resource with you, even in an offline environment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;static mirror of SO&lt;/a&gt; which shows what I've done so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rendered questions and answers (not comments just yet) into individual web pages (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/questions/4.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rendered user information into pages (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/users/1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;giant list of over a quarter million question titles on one page&lt;/a&gt; (24+ MB)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My vision for this is to (in collaboration with the community!) package this up into an app of some kind for iPhone/Android/whatever, with local search (Lucene or similar?) and obviously compression. Things that might be useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;limit questions to only those over a certain vote threshold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;slice and dice by tag, perhaps include only certain tags or exclude others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a mobile application developer, so I can't do this all by myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the code that I've got to generate this is a hodgepodge of Python, Java, and XSLT. I started to do the whole thing with XSLT but the sheer volume of data brought my poor little server to its knees, so I had to break things up a bit. The order of processing goes something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python script to preprocess posts.xml and group the answers by question into one xml file per question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java driver (I'm using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blnz.com/xt/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;xt&lt;/a&gt;) to run the XSLT question renderer for each question xml file (helps my server not run out of memory)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Various other XSLT templates to render users, the index page, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is interested in helping to build this? I'll write up some basic instructions and put the code up on Github for everybody to look and poke at &lt;strike&gt;(but probably tomorrow)&lt;/strike&gt;. Code is now &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ghewgill/so-static&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on Github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T10:15:38.850" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:23:57.113" Title="Stack Overflow portable edition" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;portable-edition&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="20824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20823" CreationDate="2009-09-08T10:02:46.180" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be awesome is to create a portable edition &lt;em&gt;generator&lt;/em&gt;, so each user could generate a view of the data he's interested in and download it as a prepackaged app for either mobile phones or for offline consumption on a laptop (I'm usually down at datacenters without internet connectivity, but with a laptop).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T10:02:46.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20819" CreationDate="2009-09-08T10:13:13.680" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a shame that they don't even mention where they have the idea from. Wouldn't make the site any worse to admit that the idea comes from Stack Overflow&amp;mdash;and as it seems, they copied basically everything (except that you only need 250 rep for editing other people's answers). The only results for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;stack overflow site:codekicker.de&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in Google (this includes the blog) is a something about a &quot;real&quot; stack overflow, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://codekicker.de/fragen/Wieso-klont-man-stumpf-stackoverflow.com/155&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; from yesterday. Here's my translation for the non-Germans:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would you clone stackoverflow.com so blatantly?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash; without mentioning the one who came up with your &quot;features&quot; anywhere with a &quot;thank you&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take a look at cnprog.com, I hope you're going to share their fate :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the answer by one of the developers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for taking part* in our project ;-) Feel free to express your opinion exhaustively on our feedback site**. You can reach me by mail or phone throughout this day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Greets, Marvin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* you could also translate this as &quot;Thank you for your condolences concerning our project&quot;, this ambiguity is likely intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** They're acually using uservoice as their feedback site. As an answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://codekicker.uservoice.com/pages/21227-general/suggestions/309443-was-bringt-der-stackoverflow-klon-?ref=title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO similarity question&lt;/a&gt;, the admin basically claims that they see themselves as an addition to SO for German speaking users. Quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As far as site design and features go, we hope to even do some things better than our [guides / idols]. Do you like the home page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing wrong with what they're doing, but I don't get why they don't really acknowledge SO publicly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T10:35:31.363" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T10:35:31.363" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20807" CreationDate="2009-09-08T10:41:49.867" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very confused as to why you're assuming StackOverflow is operating at a loss. All indications from Jeff and Joel are that it's actually running at a profit (albeit modest).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, StackOverflow is actually very &lt;em&gt;competitive&lt;/em&gt;. They jumped into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%5FOcean%5FStrategy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;red ocean&lt;/a&gt; with the Q&amp;amp;A sites, because they thought they could do it better (surprise, they can). Predatory pricing is based on a temporary price reduction to kill a competitor, and then raising that price later. StackOverflow is free forever (like Evony, without the boobs in advertising). StackOverflow is anti-competitive the same way Canonical, Ltd is anti-competitive: It's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monopolization laws are in place for large companies who create artificially large barriers to entry, thereby reserving the entire market for themselves. The barrier to entry to creating a programming Q&amp;amp;A site is still exactly the same as when SO started. This a point you seem to have missed. Monopolization is when the barriers to entry are so high, that no reasonable company could compete in your market. Microsoft got into trouble with its aggressive OEM strategy on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the US, anti-trust laws are very much market-segment focused: You can own all vertical sectors (a la Apple), so long as you aren't hostile toward competition, and the barriers to entry haven't changed. In the EU, this is reversed. You can own 100% of a market and create large barriers to entry, but you have to give people vertical choice. This is why Microsoft has to sell 42 versions of Windows in Europe. StackOverflow does not fit into either of those two camps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, your question is a misunderstanding and/or liberal (not in the political sense) application of anti-trust laws. It's not anti-competitive to be better than your competition: It's downright the American Way(tm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T10:41:49.867" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T10:56:44.520" Score="13" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;I whipped up a graph this morning plotting each user with more than 10 comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307&quot;&gt;Neil Butterworth&lt;/a&gt; wins my world famous &lt;em&gt;&quot;Quality Volume Commentator of the Year&quot;&lt;/em&gt; award.  Of the top ten commentators, he has the highest average score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of Comments vs Average Score by User&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-comments-user-total-vs-avg-score-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/image/stack-overflow-comments-user-total-vs-avg-score.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Larger image&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I was looking for odd/interesting relationships between comment scores and whatever.  The below graph shows 12 comment score bands versus: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average Comment Length&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average User Id (vaguely, the average age of an account) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of Comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the left side y-axis is logarithmic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekomatic.ch/image/stack-overflow-comment-score-vs-count-avgUserId-avgLength.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There most definitely seems to be a relationship between comment length and score--&lt;em&gt;shorter comments score higher.&lt;/em&gt;  And there is a vague hint that the older SO accounts score higher, but it seems slight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other interpretations?  Questions?  Comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've also made an effort to keep these color blind-friendly.  Please let me know how I did.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-19T09:12:52.350" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T09:12:52.350" Title="Comment Analysis from latest data dump" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="22" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20828" CreationDate="2009-09-08T11:03:31.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to be trending downwards except for two spikes. Those interest me at least the most. Since the graph is log, the spike in long comments is quite interesting. And I'm wondering if its welbog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T11:03:31.153" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="20830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20803" CreationDate="2009-09-08T11:52:20.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Showing 2009-09-07 to 2009-09-08; current time ....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent activity page doesn't just show the current calender day when you open it up, so some of that rep was earned yesterday. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130790" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T11:52:20.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20823" CreationDate="2009-09-08T12:09:27.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds much like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.widernet.org/digitallibrary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;eGranary&lt;/a&gt; project in minature.  I wonder if there is any possibility of collaboration.  I would imagine that SO information would be very useful to computer programming courses in undeveloped countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T12:09:27.490" />
  <row Id="20833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20819" CreationDate="2009-09-08T12:14:41.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some crossover as well.  See these two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1393486/what-means-the-error-message-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-gc-overhead-limit-excee&quot;&gt;What means the error-message ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded’ in Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;codecicker: &lt;a href=&quot;http://codekicker.de/fragen/Was-bedeutet-GC-overhead-limit-exceeded-bei-Java/203&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Was bedeutet 'GC overhead limit exceeded' bei Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;on further examination of the posts, I guess you would know that ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T12:28:07.657" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T12:28:07.657" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20828" CreationDate="2009-09-08T12:27:23.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are short comments likely to be pithy jokes or the oft used &quot;why do you want to do this instead of X&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is your first graph X: number of comments, Y: Average score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you considered doing the graph for comments only created since the ranking was available (many old comments simply don't get any love in this regard)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T12:27:23.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20769" CreationDate="2009-09-08T12:32:14.030" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The points about the term &quot;community wiki&quot; being somewhat confusing are valid, but it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; currently have a title text that explains what it is about: &lt;em&gt;&quot;This post is community owned as of XXXX. Votes do not generate reputation, and it can be edited by users with 100 rep&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Isn't that enough to explain the meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although for extra clarity, it might be a good idea to say: &quot;...it can be edited by &lt;strong&gt;any user&lt;/strong&gt; with 100 &lt;strong&gt;reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; instead. But that's a minor detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115807" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T12:32:14.030" />
  <row Id="20836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-08T13:19:03.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was talking with two other SO users that I know and this idea came up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire reputation system should be changed. Rather than reputation showing a score related to up/down votes, reputation should be a score of your total participation on SO. For example, the number of up/down votes you give, receive, number of your answers that are accepted, number of answers you accept, percentage of questions that you ask that have an accepted answer, number of comments, votes on comments, number (and reason) of closed questions, profile completion, badges (?), and maybe other things like flagging posts or having a post flagged will all be factored into a single number, and that number is your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will show a lot of the &quot;bad behavior&quot; on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not accepting answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not upvoting helpful answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not posting answers that are helpful (ie - answers that receive 0 upvotes or receive downvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not commenting to try to improve post quality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not posting helpful comments (helpful comments = upvoted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T13:19:03.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T13:19:03.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20823" CreationDate="2009-09-08T13:53:16.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are wanting to target this idea towards the mobile computing community...why would you not want something more up to date? Such as a live version that just happened to be optimized for mobile browsing (or a native app)? &lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: After re-reading the question I can see you mention offline browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, here are some potential ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Be able to &quot;sync&quot; up your application so that when you go out you have the most up to date information stored.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only include questions and answers above a certain score (accepted answers are exception to rule)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only include tags with X number of questions passing the previously asserted include criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments On/Off &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T13:53:16.923" />
  <row Id="20839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20828" CreationDate="2009-09-08T14:38:10.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SoThsAnsShdB#1b/cItShrt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T14:38:10.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-08T15:13:36.650" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Two problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Unknown (the quote itself is by Jamie Zawinski)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; Neverending&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; A quotation by Jamie Zawinski goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some people, when confronted with a problem, think &quot;I know, I'll use regular expressions.&quot; Now they have two problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many questions on SO relating to regular expressions, and many answers that suggest regular expressions. In a lot of cases, a regular expression is simply not necessary or even useful. Hence the phrase, &quot;Now you have two problems,&quot; usually posted as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/938065/how-to-match-a-string-of-a-certain-length-with-a-regex&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82064/a-regex-for-version-number-parsing/82152#82152&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1332590/html-comment-scraping-in-php/1332640#1332640&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1061365/help-with-building-regex-to-extract-text-of-html-tag&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A regular expression question also &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;caused the breakdown&lt;/a&gt; of an SO member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastEditorUserId="37947" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T14:59:04.443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T14:59:04.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T15:13:36.650" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T15:20:43.083" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3639/why-are-the-number-of-upvotes-on-an-answer-sometimes-blue&quot;&gt;Why are the number of upvotes on an answer sometimes blue?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4653/me&quot;&gt;some users profiles I could find some self accepted answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I didn't understand why it looked like it does (dark blue text on dark green background), and now I don't understand how you could choose that color combination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be tweaked a little to make it more legible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T15:35:22.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:35:22.247" ClosedDate="2009-09-08T16:09:34.270" Title="There is a visual bug with self accepted answers that look bad on the user page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;css&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20828" CreationDate="2009-09-08T15:23:58.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious how the first graph changes if you do exclude comments with no votes, so you only count comments with at least one vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Edit by Stu)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Number of User Comments with Score &gt;= 1 vs Average Score of Votes with score &gt;= 1&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;for users with at least 10 comments&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-comments-user-total-vs-avg-score-with-at-lease-one-up-vote-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-comments-user-total-vs-avg-score-with-at-lease-one-up-vote.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Larger image&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T17:39:21.577" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:39:21.577" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="20847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T15:24:39.013" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5999/delete-my-account&quot;&gt;Delete my account?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3948/how-do-i-consolodate-my-stackoverflow-accounts&quot;&gt;How do I consolodate my stackoverflow accounts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I disable stackoverflow user account? I made two accounts by mistake :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T15:31:10.910" ClosedDate="2009-09-08T16:19:50.693" Title="Disable stackoverflow account" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20847" CreationDate="2009-09-08T15:31:10.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send e-mail to team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T15:31:10.910" />
  <row Id="20849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20910" CreationDate="2009-09-08T15:38:25.730" Score="31" ViewCount="2779" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a pretty rough weekend. It turns out I was 95 days into my Fanatic badge and somehow didn't log in on the 96th day. I have no idea how that happened as I had made every attempt to log on every day since the badge was offered; I even occasionally did so from the golf course on my iPhone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that ruined my weekend. I was so pissed I bought a new car and drank to excess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, I log in to see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://john.cognitivedelay.com/images/free-telerik.png&quot; alt=&quot;win&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This offer is stunning. Telerik has given away a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telerik.com/purchase.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;developer license to their Premium Collection&lt;/a&gt; for free (valued at $1,299) to SO users with 10k reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to say thank you to both StackOverflow and Telerik for setting up such an awesome promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T16:10:55.143" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T20:22:34.187" Title="Thanks to both StackOverflow and Telerik for the awesome promotion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;telerik&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="20853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:10:34.363" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, this is something special that Telerik wanted to do, and it is tied to 10k rep users exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you're interested, definitely take advantage of the offer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:10:34.363" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="20854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:32:07.663" Score="-6" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose a change to the question view that makes it clear which users are downvoting an answer while supplying their own. Here is a UI mockup to illustrate my idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rvenables.com/linkjackandsufferaccidentaldroptable/downvote-detail.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This simple fix would highlight users who are gaming the system by downvoting answers just to increase the odds of their answer being upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132648" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:14:43.933" Title="Clearly highlight answer downvoters with activity in same question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:32:10.237" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks also for posting about this on meta.  My office blocks ads company-wide, and so I might never have seen it.  Even if they didn't, I normally gloss over ads so fast I might not have noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:32:10.237" />
  <row Id="20856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20854" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:35:10.950" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is intentionally anonymous for a reason. Highlighting users who downvote a question is going to lead to even less downvoting in the future. We already have enough stuff that does NOT get downvoted due to the cost of it compared with the freebie upvotes. Adding in yet another reason to -not- downvote is just another reason that you might as well do away with it altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: It should also be noted that making downvoting public increases drama because now you have a target to go and revenge vote against if you ever feel slighted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T16:59:56.377" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:59:56.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20868" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:35:20.573" Score="1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can login to this site using OpenID&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot do the same at stack overflow - I get an error.  Doesnt it make sense to allow an alternative way of logging in?  If the OpenID fails, then people are left without any way to login.  I really need to get in today to check something and no matter what I do it will not allow me.  Clearly OpenID is ok cause I used it to get into this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whats going on with SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[EDIT]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the 15th repeated attempt I was finally able to login.  But my point I think is still valid, what does one do in the event that the OpenID system fails?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130690" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T16:54:44.500" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:54:44.500" Title="Cant Login to Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20854" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:39:02.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you only want to show downvoters and not upvoters? I agree with TheTXI that it is anonymous for a reason.  I do not think we should only show downvote history if this was even implemented.  It would have to be a full history of voting and not just downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None the less, I do not think this will be implemented as anonymous voting was &quot;by design&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T16:44:12.990" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:44:12.990" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="20859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20676" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:39:41.937" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're all wrong ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Nothing personal, its just that the&#xA;  info is noise. No value in it, it&#xA;  would be better if it was deleted.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get pretty &lt;code&gt;******&lt;/code&gt; pissed when I put 20min effort into a question or answer, just to have it get downmodded because the opinion isn't mainstream.  It is personal, because we put our time and effort into it, and you should thank me for my time and effort, not tell me that I wasted my time trying to help you.  There's a difference between &quot;better deleted&quot; (downmodding noise/offensive/spam) and &quot;I wish you just hadn't bothered&quot; (downmodding something on topic because its wrong or you disagree).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SO wants to detach personal feelings, then the rep needs to be redesigned into an activity indicator, which is not a function of opinion.  Maybe SO was intended to be a wiki, but in practice it really isn't because an answer is a product of an individual, because the UI makes it that way.  If you want it to be wikipedia, don't have any mention of someone's name.  If you want to facilitate debate, do it like everything2--a wiki discussion if you will.  But &lt;strong&gt;as soon as you attribute, it obviously and inevitably becomes personal.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T16:46:12.363" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:46:12.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T16:39:41.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20854" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:40:05.930" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BAD IDEA!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually don't even leave comments now when i down-vote. Why? Because some people take it &lt;em&gt;waaaay&lt;/em&gt; too personally. I remember one particularly bad instance, where the author of a down-voted answer grilled the author of another answer in comments because he &lt;em&gt;suspected&lt;/em&gt; him of down-voting based entirely on a slightly-critical comment. He kept it up for something like an hour, even as the second author vehemently denied it! By the time all was said and done, any value that might have been had in that comment was buried under the bitter whining and groundless accusations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sort of drama is far, far more harmful than a little bit of strategic down-voting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:40:05.930" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:40:56.537" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for posting it just because I mentally filter out ads. I went looking for it under Tools and only then noticed I'd been mentally editing it out and it was on the right hand ad. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:40:56.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:42:18.577" Score="3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Atlanta has a thriving geek community. IgniteATL was recently hosted at the GTRI which is a great venue for Dev Days. Please up vote to bring Dev Days to Atlanta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135526" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T19:45:33.960" Title="Bring Stackoverflow Dev Days to Atlanta, GA" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20857" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:45:05.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What provider do you use? It's likely their fault - in which case you might want to use a different provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133209" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:45:05.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20866" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:49:56.023" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime I'm in situations where I'm not 100% sure of my answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's say a user asks for the best lib to do X. I know that the lib A is great because I've heard people telling me that it is. Should I tell &quot;use lib A&quot; or &quot;I've heard that lib A&quot;, or should I just leave people who actually used lib A answer (there might be none around) ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A user asks about &quot;how to do X&quot;. I do a search for that on google because I have a vague idea of how to do it but need more info to be more helpful. I end up finding something that looks really cool, but I have no clue if this really works. Should I tell the OP about it like &quot;There is this solution A that looks great, but I haven't tested it.&quot; or should I just not answer the question if I have nothing better to provide ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometime the OP is not specific enough in his question and people answer it by making some assumptions. Then the question can get edited and then the answer that was possibly correct might become totally wrong and get downvoted into oblivion. Should the user have waited for the OP to edit his answer (which might not happen and is hard to keep track of if you have no anwsered to the question in the first place)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no perfect answer for all this, but I'd like to see you guys' opinion and how other SO users behave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Personally, I try to avoid guessing or making assumptions. If I do, it is because I think it might be a good pointer for the OP, but then I always state in my answer that I'm not 100% sure that my answer is correct and that it requires some reading up.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:30:45.430" Title="Should you guess or make assumptions in your answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20864" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:52:57.623" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can post your google'd or heresay answer, but be aware that it may not do so well if someone with real experience shows up and writes about it. If that happens, consider removing your answer in deference to the better one... but don't feel reluctant to share what little you do know, even if it isn't first-hand: it may be the only answer the questioner gets... or needs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:52:57.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20864" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:53:00.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just be honest. If you aren't 100% sure, say so. If you're totally guessing or assuming what the OP meant, say so. Full disclosure is best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:53:00.603" />
  <row Id="20867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:54:10.117" Score="-4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am becoming increasingly frustrated with drive by downers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone see any advantage to someone having to comment or answer the question before they can down vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130857" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T16:38:38.290" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T16:38:38.290" ClosedDate="2009-09-08T17:01:39.637" Title="Negative votes with out comment or answer to question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20857" CreationDate="2009-09-08T16:54:35.437" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a DNS issue on one of the web servers. It was unable to resolve any internet domain names. Should be resolved now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T16:54:35.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20867" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:00:17.127" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around why an up-vote is valid while a down-vote is somehow an &lt;em&gt;invalid&lt;/em&gt; expression of their opinion (except &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20770/means-to-discourage-pity-votes-on-awful-questions/20775#20775&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; where up-votes are invalid).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at it from a different angle: If I &lt;em&gt;disagree&lt;/em&gt; with something you say and somebody else &lt;em&gt;up-votes&lt;/em&gt; it, &lt;strong&gt;why don't they have to publically explain their up-vote to me&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:00:17.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20864" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:01:38.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have guessed twice, stated that I've guessed and been downvoted both times for being wrong, thus ending with fewer points. I won't be guessing again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:01:38.950" />
  <row Id="20872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20867" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:01:40.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down votes cost rep. If a person feels so strong about a question/answer to downvote and get the rep hit, then let them have it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that the cost of down votes might increase in the short term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anonymous votes are a cornerstone of this site. Non anonymous downvotes could lead to retaliation wars. Almost as fun as edit wars, but more damaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:01:40.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20854" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:02:21.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea provided that the user supplied an answer to the question &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; could opt-in to providing his/her name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I don't like the idea is that I don't see it getting used frequently enough to actually be developed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:02:21.083" />
  <row Id="20874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20898" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:10:14.893" Score="7" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1391743/how-do-you-locally-redirect-dns-requests-in-a-nix-environment&quot;&gt;How do you locally redirect DNS requests in a *NIX environment&lt;/a&gt; was moved to Serverfault at &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/63266/how-do-you-locally-redirect-dns-requests-in-a-nix-environment&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, but that link is a 404, assumably because the question was deleted on Serverfault. Dead links are not good UI, and will annoy anyone who stumbles upon the question from, e.g., Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that when a question is deleted, it should be deleted from all the Stackoverflow-affiliated sites that it happened to be on. IOW, delete the pointer, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27727" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T08:27:27.613" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T08:27:51.667" Title="When a question is deleted, it should be deleted from all sites" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20864" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:11:38.790" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is unclear, I state explicitly how I am interpreting it (&lt;em&gt;&quot;Assuming that by Foo you mean Bar, ...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). When you guess right you generally get some love. When you guess wrong, people cut you some slack because you &lt;em&gt;said&lt;/em&gt; that you had to assume a case (that turns out to be counterfactual).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't write &lt;em&gt;&quot;I've been told that...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; answers unless a considerable length of time has passed without a more expert answer being provided. Rarely generates any votes, in any case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I will google up answers if (1) I have part of the fact base to answer the question and (2) I want to know myself. This is rarely fast enough for StackOverflow unless the question is in an obscure tag (&lt;code&gt;[latex]&lt;/code&gt; is where this works for me).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T17:22:10.673" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:22:10.673" />
  <row Id="20876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20854" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:14:43.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Déjà vu?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, if you are downvoted for a legitimate reason, that reason should either be readily apparent or will become so as more answers/comments arrive.  At least, I've found that to be the case.  I can then delete my answer, or make it CW if I think for some reason it is still useful despite being wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you aren't downvoted for a legitimate reason, and you can usually tell as these are one-off votes that aren't echoed by others.  So what?  It's 2 rep.  If you're lucky, someone else will see that you didn't deserve the downvote and give you a pity upvote you wouldn't have otherwise gotten.  +8 for you.  IMHO, it's not a big enough deal enough to warrant sacrificing the integrity of the anonymous system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that often people who propose this say that it isn't about the rep.  While you might &lt;em&gt;prefer&lt;/em&gt; to know who downvoted you, or for what reasons, the community is invested in the anonymous voting process.  I think that you'd have to show that the system is badly broken in order to make this fundamental change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:14:43.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20864" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:30:45.430" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When guessing, especially in the first two cases, the main question to ask is: &lt;strong&gt;Is this answer likely to be helpful?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the asker just asked something a minute ago&lt;/strong&gt;, and you aren't sure of your answer, then I usually &lt;strong&gt;don't post just yet&lt;/strong&gt;.  Not only might you be giving a wrong answer, but your wrong answer will probably be seen by others who know the right answer and you will get downvoted.  Not only have you not helped the OP, but you've lost some rep.  (This disincentive is by design).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, &lt;strong&gt;if it's been some time&lt;/strong&gt; (maybe an hour or so, depending on the topic and the site traffic at that time), I think it's perfectly acceptable to &lt;strong&gt;offer a qualified answer&lt;/strong&gt; that you aren't sure of.  Just explain that you aren't sure of the answer and why, but that you hope your answer might be helpful nonetheless.  Usually the OP is appreciative of the gesture when they've gone for a long time without a good answer.  And who knows, you might have exactly what they were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the OP providing an unclear question, I almost always leave a comment asking for more information.  It's certainly true you could give a pithy answer just for the upvotes (use jQuery!), knowing that you are almost certainly not answering the question, but I'd discourage that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, of course, you have to go with your gut in knowing whether your guess is &quot;good enough&quot; to post, or if there's just too much doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:30:45.430" />
  <row Id="20878" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20879" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:31:27.567" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have three favorite tags in the main page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently they are all highlighted with the same color.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see each one with a different color so I can tell which one is which without having to read each tag in the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way I can differentiate my favorite tags of which  &quot;I can give an answer&quot; ( Java in my case )  from those favorite tags from which I don't know anything at all and I like to learn about ( let's say Earlang ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had happened to me that I click on a question, read it, and suddenly I feel like in the &quot;Twilight Zone&quot; only to realize after a few seconds, I clicked on a &quot;favorite to learn&quot; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:45:52.300" Title="Use different highlight colors for favorite tags in the main page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;highlighting&gt;&lt;tag-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="20879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20878" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:32:51.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be difficult if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you have multiple favorites on the same question.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This could be solved if you assign priority to the tag order as listed in the question.  The danger here is the triggering edit wars between users wanting their colors 'just right'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you have a large list of favorites.&lt;/strong&gt; This could be solved by assigning a color to a tag when you enter it as a favorite, and allowing for duplicates - potentially using a preset palatte.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T17:42:03.570" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:42:03.570" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20878" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:34:12.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see something that being useful. Custom colors on tags where you could edit the tag and give it a certain RGB value. Either that or you would have to have potentially a preset number of colors to work from, which may end up repeating for users with lots of highlighted tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:34:12.630" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20874" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:43:39.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should be doable, as the data indicating migration exists on both sides.  The links are there so each site knows where the question lives in the other site's DB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd just need to have an event that fires when a post which has been migrated gets deleted.  It'd be a sort of reverse-migration, except rather than copying the question, it deletes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:43:39.590" />
  <row Id="20882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20878" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:45:52.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see this being an intersting feature, but not really necessary. If I want to distinguish and see the questions for just one of my interesting tags, I just click that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T17:45:52.300" />
  <row Id="20883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20885" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:47:34.247" Score="-5" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20420/countdown-app-for-devdays&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20420/countdown-app-for-devdays&lt;/a&gt; balpha comments, &quot;I would be willing to donate 500 rep (on meta) to the first guy who does this with LOGO turtle graphics &lt;em&gt;and this program actually gets used at one devdays venue.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got me thinking: why not allow people to give away reputation like currency -- like bounties but not so rigid. It would be interesting if you could spend or barter with your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the upsides and downsides to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:18:18.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T17:47:34.247" Title="Freemarket reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:52:48.400" Score="3" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, there is a flood of new R questions being posted on Stack Overflow. These are good, potentially valuable questions. However, this use of SO is preventing people with real questions from getting visibility. I posted a question less than 10 minutes ago and it's almost off the front page already! That's insane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fully supportive of the R community that wants to leverage Stack Overflow, but they shouldn't flood it all at once during times when a lot of people have questions about things they are working on. For example, my question is about getting a UML diagram laid out so I can export it and put it in a report. I'm sure these R questions aren't current, pressing issues, but they are having a negative impact on anyone who needs an answer now or quickly (although my question isn't pressing...it's sad to see so many good questions pushed down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:48:04.040" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:48:04.040" Title="Can we not allow flashmobs in the future during the middle of the day (or during any peak hours)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="20885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20883" CreationDate="2009-09-08T17:59:40.013" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible downside:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It could be gamed to pieces&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I create 150 accounts on stackoverflow and 150 accounts on meta. I use your system to loosely give 200 reputation to one of them from my existing account, it now has the requisite amount to receive 100 points just for association. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this, I then I associate these accounts with one another one at a time (passing 200 reputation to the brand new accounts as I go along) and eventually end up with 150 accounts with 200 reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, using your point payment system I could simply pool this reputation into one account for 30,000 reputation. Not bad for 2-3 hours of work :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit: I agree that safeguards could be put in place to prevent this specific attack and many others to some degree.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132648" LastEditorUserId="132648" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T18:14:26.303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:14:26.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T17:59:40.013" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20884" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:01:47.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't very fond of this idea of having people bog down the site posting dozens upon dozens of questions all at one time. If anything they should be doing this stuff late at night or during the weekends when activity is very low. Doing it in the middle of the day is R-tarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:01:47.810" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="20887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20884" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:02:20.973" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about encouraging flash mobs during off hours like weekends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lot less activity on weekends so it's less likely to interfere with all of the please-send-me-the-codes questions that normally appear during the week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:02:20.973" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20883" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:04:09.833" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have said it before and I will say it again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPUTATION SHOULD NOT BE TREATED LIKE CURRENCY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is a level of trust, not gold you grind for. I am even against the whole bounty thing myself, which is what really got the ball rolling on this idea of spending rep for stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:04:09.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T18:04:09.833" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20884" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:05:01.297" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By &quot;Front Page&quot; do you mean the default view on stackoverflow.com or /questions/newest? Questions don't last on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=active&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=active&lt;/a&gt; for longer than 10 minutes during peak hours anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the benefit of new helpful content on StackOverflow outweighs the cost of lack of attention on some questions, especially with all the features  (unanswered tab, bounties, tags) that are already in place to help those questions gain visibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:05:01.297" />
  <row Id="20890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20884" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:07:41.230" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are assuming that everyone uses the front page to look for questions to answer: I find that I will usually just look at tags (Java and Scala) because that is what I am interested in. If others do the same, the &lt;code&gt;R&lt;/code&gt; questions will not prevent others from being noticed. I hadn't even noticed that SO was being swamped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:07:41.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20883" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:13:50.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential up-side:&lt;/strong&gt; I could use my knowledge of how to game the system to make a lot of money by selling rep on e-bay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential down-side:&lt;/strong&gt; The poor Norwegian kids I would keep in basement sweat-shops grinding rep night and day might suffer premature blindness from long-term exposure to radiation from cheap CRTs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:13:50.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T18:13:50.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20884" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:20:10.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just added the R tag to my ignored list for the time being.  It will at least help filter for now.  I personally don't have an issue with the mobs.  I believe this one was already discussed so we had ample time to prepare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:20:10.693" />
  <row Id="20893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20884" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:22:54.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;During peak hours, ~10 minutes on the front page is pretty good.  I've seen consecutive C# questions come through that could fit the same, &quot;flash mob&quot; pattern that are definitely not a &quot;flash mob.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the long run, you'll probably get a better response (just delayed) because the &quot;good&quot; users are going back several pages to see what they've missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other things to consider... &#xA;&lt;br&gt;This could be their slow time (i.e., across the globe).&#xA;&lt;br&gt;Their questioning is going to taper off pretty quick now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:22:54.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20883" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:27:15.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just going to say straight up ... No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downsides are just too great and there could be way too much abuse as the sites age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T19:21:03.760" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:21:03.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T18:27:15.717" />
  <row Id="20895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:46:26.960" Score="2" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to think of other, bigger communities - and I haven't come up with any that are definitely bigger. Is &quot;the hyphen site&quot; community-oriented at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly it's a pretty loose community due to the very wide range of questions (compared with, say, a single-language group where all the group regulars know each other, because they're all reading the same questions) but even so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:35:01.563" Title="Is SO now the biggest programming community on the net?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20900" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:48:29.093" Score="7" ViewCount="578" Body="&lt;p&gt;I appear somewhere in the middle of the &quot;Last 30 Days&quot; list for &quot;Top java Answerers&quot;, but not at all on the &quot;All time&quot; list. I had previously appeared on the bottom of the &quot;All time&quot; list (I assume only for me). Is this change intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if this is related to a fix for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14679/user-duplicated-in-stats-page&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T18:37:41.517" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T18:37:41.517" Title="I'm not appearing in the all-time list for java, is this a bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="20897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20895" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:49:01.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodeProject&lt;/a&gt; has 6,444,691 members. Do not know about their activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:49:01.200" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="20898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20874" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:49:20.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, something else happened. The question was double-posted by the owner (so migrated, and THEN manually reposted). A SF moderator then merged the two together, functionally destroying the migrated Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/63188/how-do-you-locally-redirect-dns-requests-in-a-nix-environment&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/63188/how-do-you-locally-redirect-dns-requests-in-a-nix-environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we now do 301 redirects for migrated posts that have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T08:27:51.667" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T08:27:51.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20896" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:51:22.647" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unrelated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We no longer show you unless you're in the top 20, because the &quot;once for every user&quot; query was too expensive, and caused lots of bad query plans to be cached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:51:22.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20903" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:51:32.223" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1393238/hex-representaion-of-bytes-in-a-string&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/170117/tahir-akram&quot;&gt;Tahir Akram&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;code&gt;13&lt;/code&gt; reputation but in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1393238/hex-representaion-of-bytes-in-a-string/1394540#1394540&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; the rep is &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt; and the background color is white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T19:19:37.367" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:19:37.367" Title="Bug: Reputation and background color are wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="20903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20901" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:54:59.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are actually two different user accounts.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/170244/tahir-akram&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the account with only one rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 13 rep account has UserId &lt;strong&gt;170117&lt;/strong&gt;.  The 1 rep account is UserId &lt;strong&gt;170244&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:54:59.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20828" CreationDate="2009-09-08T18:56:56.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am utterly incapable of parsing the last graph, because the score is on the horizontal axis (input). Not to mention shoving three graphs into one, when they don't even have the same scales!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it make more sense to graph the average score of comments with length N instead of the average length of comments with score N? I can control the length of my comments, but I can't control my comments' score (at least not in the same direct sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134338" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T18:56:56.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2936" CreationDate="2009-09-08T19:14:25.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've now taken to doing footnotes with the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; which works pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; It's a pain if it's next to numbers, but otherwise it's okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:14:25.180" />
  <row Id="20906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-08T19:20:46.163" Score="3" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully I can ask this question before it becomes &quot;no longer relevant&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking forward to passing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=git&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;400 upvotes in the 'git' tag&lt;/a&gt;, which I seem to have recently, but haven't been awarded the badge just yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, when are these topic badges awarded? Is that more of a daily periodic job or some background task? I ask because I'm curious since they don't seem to work like the regular badges (awarded on next login), not because I'm being whingy and I want my shiny new badge &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Us high-rep users need &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to look forward to!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T05:09:58.247" Title="When are topic badges awarded?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20895" CreationDate="2009-09-08T19:20:49.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would sourceforge, codeplex, etc count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:20:49.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20906" CreationDate="2009-09-08T19:27:52.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my previous experiences, my tag badges (on Meta) were awarded around server rollover time (right now around 8PM Eastern).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:27:52.063" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-08T19:32:55.067" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try out my mini-webapp called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alarmd.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alarmd&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can hook into a Google Calendar and countdown to each individual calendar item.  Here's a demo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the options button in the bottom right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choose &quot;Google Calendar&quot; from the Alarm Types.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I set up a demo calendar for this example, add &quot;ikk9hq6svvkdviimd74nhvks88@group.calendar.google.com&quot; as your Google Calendar ID.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;Clock Format&quot; accordion tab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check the &quot;Count Down&quot; checkbox.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;Save Options&quot; button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try out the &quot;Readable&quot; clock format too, it's a bit more human friendly.  It will say things like &quot;4 days&quot;, &quot;4 hours&quot;, or &quot;15 minutes&quot;, etc. All settings are saved locally into a Cookie, in case you have to refresh the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note the project is available as &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/alarmd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;open source on Google Code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I welcome any feedback or suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zach&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134857" LastEditorUserId="134857" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T20:51:50.880" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:51:50.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-08T19:56:10.250" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're glad you guys enjoy the offer. It's the least we can do for those of you that donate so much of your time to help make other developers lives easier. Since that's Telerik's goal (make developer's live easier), we wanted to reward those people that go above and beyond on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for anyone not quite up to 10k, now you've got some extra incentive! (if you're a .NET developer, of course...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132536" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T19:56:10.250" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="20911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:01:15.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I pretty pretty pretty please now have the feature to move my rep from SU and MSO to SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Please&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:01:15.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20916" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:04:12.857" Score="7" ViewCount="1243" Body="&lt;p&gt;2 weeks ago I had an idea to start a weekly code golf challenge, so I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352587/code-golf-morse-code&quot;&gt;Code Golf: Morse code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1376077/code-golf-the-wave&quot;&gt;Code Golf: The wave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after I started, there seem to have been an increase in &lt;strong&gt;[code-golf]&lt;/strong&gt; questions. I believe I bring (healthy) competition to SO, with code-golf questions of +20 votes and +1k views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1390296/code-golf-email-address-validation-without-regular-expressions&quot;&gt;latest code-golf question&lt;/a&gt; (not mine), in the question's comment section, a comment made by &lt;code&gt;@dmckee&lt;/code&gt; shown that users indeed felt the increase in code-golf questions and threatened to vote for closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, should I continue and post a [code-golf] question on Thursday, as I intended, or stop because of the boom in code-golf questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this seem stupid or meaningless, but I don't want to pollute/overbomb SO with extra work to moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130066" LastEditorUserId="130066" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T18:03:24.430" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T04:04:24.473" ClosedDate="2011-03-30T04:43:20.570" Title="SO: Weekly code golf" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:11:24.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've downvoted for a variation on 11.  Some answers are basically a loaded opinion in favor or against a particular technology (e.g. snide remarks about Windows) and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty loose with my down voting.  SO is supposed to be about quality answers.  Low quality answers get downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:11:24.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-08T20:11:24.043" />
  <row Id="20914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20912" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:16:14.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't have a problem with code golf questions (I don't really care for them either, but whatever) so I don't mind if someone posts them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is always a chance that the community will have a backlash against something regardless of whether it is allowed. If you see that some users are unfairly closing down, flag for moderator attention and let them make the call as to whether or not it should be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:16:14.770" />
  <row Id="20915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:19:53.810" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a good thing?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a lot of 10K+ users will have a free copy of Telerik.  Given that 10K+ users answer a lot of questions, will they push other people to use Telerik, as they will now have personal experience with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T23:23:08.190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T23:23:08.190" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20912" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:22:13.073" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a code golf fan, so I have code-golf in my list of ignored tags. That's even easier than voting to close and then getting into a flame war. Perhaps the &quot;haters&quot; are not aware of this feature? In any case - keep posting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:22:13.073" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20884" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:23:26.940" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say we take this one step further and have banded asking times. So for instance during the four most popular hours of a week day you can only ask questions from the most populace 10 tags. Then as the time moves away from peak more tags could open up as valid questions. You could even have it be dynamic and if there was a certain new question volume, you could have it only allow C# or .Net questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, we could just change the system so that &quot;real&quot; questions about &quot;real&quot; topics would be guaranteed x amount of dwell time in the recent questions list. So if you asked a C# question you would be assured a minimum of 30 minutes on the front page for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/sarcasm off&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:23:26.940" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20895" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:25:02.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How exactly are you counting our &quot;community&quot;? Of the 2500+ pages of users on SO, only 50K or fewer have actually answered a question.  If asking a question qualifies one, then I would suggest that Google is in fact the largest &quot;community&quot; because every search would qualify.  I think that some of the same problems of counting that apply to SourceForge, CodePlex, MSDN, etc. would apply to SO -- who is a real member is not as clear cut as you might think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:25:02.350" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:28:24.790" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anyone out there is listening, I'd like to see Microsoft pony up MSDN subscriptions for high rep users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:28:24.790" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20895" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:35:01.563" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Size doesn't matter - it's a question of quality. And what better way to measure the quality of a community member's contribution than with SO rep? The SO community has the highest combined SO rep of any programming community on the web. Hence, SO is the highest quality programming community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:35:01.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20912" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:41:46.390" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe if you can see that others are &quot;flooding the field&quot; with code-golf questions, you could take a by-week and wait for things to settle a little bit.  I don't think the people objecting have any problem with code golf in general, it's just the volume has been too high for their tastes recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waiting until next week to post your next challenge could be a good way to show good faith.  You could even mention this question in your next challenge so that everyone can see you're trying to be a team player.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:41:46.390" />
  <row Id="20922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20862" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:44:39.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to mention there are other southern states that don't have a near-by Dev Day. There are a few cities in NC that could work as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raleigh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wilmington&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fayetteville&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all come to mind as they are either great locations or have colleges with quality tech degrees in the area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:44:39.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20912" CreationDate="2009-09-08T20:58:28.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't much care for &quot;code golf&quot;... but i don't see a lot of them either. Certainly nothing compared to the non-programming-related questions, the authors of which would do well to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20912/so-weekly-code-golf/20921#20921&quot;&gt;take Adam's advice&lt;/a&gt; (or better yet, find another site...)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, whatever you're doing, keep doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T20:58:28.217" />
  <row Id="20925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20912" CreationDate="2009-09-08T21:43:37.103" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had been waiting to see how things progressed before posting to meta (it might not have been necessary at all), but since the question has been raised I will attempt to defend my position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start with, I feel that &lt;strong&gt;[code-golf] is not within the strict bounds of what is appropriate on Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;. Simply put: it is a contest, not a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I like code-golf and I participate from time to time. These events are fun, and they provide an chance to build a sense of community. Which is why I have never voted to close them in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But two things that have happened recently that concern me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are coming at a higher rate. Once a week is not distracting, but the last week has seen five (counting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1364927/code-golf-reverse-quine&quot;&gt;Code golf: Reverse quine&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1390296/code-golf-email-address-validation-without-regular-expressions&quot;&gt;Code Golf: Email Address Validation without Regular Expressions&lt;/a&gt;), and the week before that saw three. As we've seen with other classes of off-topic-but-tolerated fun (like Best [Joke|Comic|...]) new users &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; notice these and &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; form the wrong impression about what is acceptable here, &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; send us more inappropriate &quot;questions&quot;, and then they will come to meta hurt and confused if we close their work: not good for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of the recent ones have been asked by low rep users, and feel a lot like the OP was casting about for &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to let them post, seized on code golf, and promptly posted a slight modification of an existing [code-golf]. Worse they failed to make it CW.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this is a statistical fluctuation, and it will just pass. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if these things turn into a nuisance, then they should be treated as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, Liran Nuna, I felt that the Morse Code problem was a really fine example of the genre. It had a couple of obvious but &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; approaches, and at least three(!) subtle, more compact ways to attack it. Fun and enlightening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-08T21:49:46.640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T21:49:46.640" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17204" CreationDate="2009-09-08T22:06:47.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, work in popular subject areas.  Most people wouldn't recognize Jon Skeet's name if he had the ability to write swift and excellent answers in Lisp, Haskell, and Delphi, but not anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pick your questions.  Only answer questions that are easy to read.  If people are turned off from reading the question, they're unlikely to upvote your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T22:06:47.513" />
  <row Id="20927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20930" CreationDate="2009-09-08T22:30:01.043" Score="1" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi! I'm wondering, is it somehow possible to filter to only view community wiki questions, as if community-wiki were a tag? Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T22:43:42.107" Title="Is it possible to see only community wiki questions (as if it were a tag?)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29876" CreationDate="2009-09-08T22:41:26.137" Score="2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original question title had been &lt;em&gt;Why does the system allow adding duplicate or even multiple tags?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Just look at this questions tags to see the issue.&lt;/strike&gt; I've been unable to reproduce this now both during initial posting and while trying to retag with a duplicate one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequently the remaining (minor) question is why there are still duplicate tags once in a while, like for example this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/949765/list&quot;&gt;revision 2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably this could be caused by related tags having been merged into one, i.e. the renaming/merging of a &lt;code&gt;tag-b&lt;/code&gt; into semantically identical &lt;code&gt;tag-a&lt;/code&gt; on a question featuring both former tags yields a duplicate &lt;code&gt;tag-a&lt;/code&gt; afterwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45773" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T01:22:59.570" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:22:59.570" Title="Why are there questions with duplicate tags once in a while?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="20930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20927" CreationDate="2009-09-08T22:43:42.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is possible using the search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=wiki%3a1%20views%3a0&amp;amp;tab=active&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;wiki:1 views:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the &quot;&lt;code&gt;views:0&lt;/code&gt;&quot; part is to make sure that we're only searching questions, not answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T22:43:42.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20932" CreationDate="2009-09-08T22:45:34.460" Score="1" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a cruel twist, the person with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227950/programatic-accent-reduction-in-javascript-aka-text-normalization-or-unaccenting/228006#228006&quot;&gt;leading answer&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227950/programatic-accent-reduction-in-javascript-aka-text-normalization-or-unaccenting&quot;&gt;my bountied question&lt;/a&gt; has turned his post into a community wiki answer by editing it a lot.  Is he still going to win the reputation for the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's not actually a substantially new answer. Had I liked it 11 months ago, I wouldn't have started a bounty now. Seeing as everyone who's looked at my question essentially either has no other answer or believes that this answer is the best way to do it, I'm willing to have him claim the bounty. I believe it should be awarded automatically given that he has four up votes and is the top voted of two answers. Am I right on that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T22:59:24.983" Title="Can a community wiki answer win the bounty?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20931" CreationDate="2009-09-08T22:58:34.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6710/does-bounty-apply-to-a-cw-question/6805#6805&quot; title=&quot;but it was better as The WB no?&quot;&gt;The bounty does not care whether the question is CW or not and will be awarded if it meets the rules.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means that the answer is up to scalping that bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18944/in-a-bounty-scenario-can-an-answer-from-before-the-bounty-be-automatically-accep/19005#19005&quot; title=&quot;like a mound bar for US candy lovers&quot;&gt;It is not possible for an answer prior to the bounty start to be auto-accepted.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though not sure if that excludes any edits after the start of the bounty call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T22:58:34.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20929" CreationDate="2009-09-08T23:04:13.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes tags are merged and get overwritten to be something else. So if you have something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;C#&quot; and &quot;C-Sharp&quot; and C-Sharp is merged, you will end up with two instances of &quot;C#&quot; on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T23:04:13.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20929" CreationDate="2009-09-08T23:07:21.737" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically, if you try to add a duplicate tag, when you save, the duplicate is removed. However, in this case it appears it was part of a global retagging by a 10k+ user, note the change comment &quot;win32-api -&gt; winapi (latter has greater participation)&quot;. It must be that when this is done, the same duplicate check is not run. I would wager though, that if someone editted the question after that and did not touch the tags, the duplicate would be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-08T23:07:21.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20939" CreationDate="2009-09-08T23:29:11.870" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to add a link A* to an answer. It had the link at the bottom and I wondered why he didn't link to A* normally.&#xA;But when I tried it wouldn't show up as a url in the preview so I guess that's why it was added as plain text in the answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17413" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:07:53.110" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:30:27.280" Title="A star in a url breaks the linkification in posts" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20936" CreationDate="2009-09-08T23:40:07.560" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you have to URL encode any unusual characters in URLs, and we consider an asterisk (*) one of those at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Also note that this works fine if you use the link button (or Ctrl-L) to insert the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-11T13:30:27.280" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:30:27.280" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20936" CreationDate="2009-09-09T00:00:55.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's like magic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2A%5Fsearch%5Falgorithm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A* Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T00:00:55.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T00:00:55.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T00:42:52.017" Score="20" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious what the actual numbers are. My contention is that auto-acceptance is pretty common but I'd like to either back that up or disprove it with some actual numbers. The data dump doesn't answer this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get some stats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T03:26:27.980" Title="How many bounties end with an auto-selected rather than user-selected answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20948" CreationDate="2009-09-09T01:16:05.073" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;12 days ago I asked a legitimate question on SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1344510/how-do-i-use-modi-in-an-asp-net-web-application&quot;&gt;How do I use MODI in an ASP.Net Web App&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I feel like the formatting is fine. The grammar is fine, it's legible, I've provided (and updated) a code sample. I've been engaged with the only answerer, and upvoted him for his efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, for whatever reason, I don't have an answer I can accept. In addition, apparently, my question is not worth upvoting! (It's on 0 as I write this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could live with that, except every now and then, I stumble on something like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9/how-do-i-calculate-someones-age-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9/how-do-i-calculate-someones-age-in-c&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;which gets an unbelievable 42 upvotes! Really?!&#xA;For those to lazy to click that question link, here it is in it's entirety:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given a DateTime representing their birthday, how do I calculate someone's age?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it. One sentence, 42 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I know that from time to time, I'm going to have questions that apparently nobody knows the answer to. And that is just life. But is my posted question really that bad that it doesn't even deserve an upvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions here are, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I improve my question such that it becomes worthy of upvotes and / or answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And what is so incredibly special about the one sentence question that the community feels it's worth upvoting 42 times?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do we modify stack overflow such that it's worth the time to post and answer detailed descriptive technical questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5007" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T01:47:41.210" Title="What can I do to make this question more attractive to answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20941" CreationDate="2009-09-09T01:25:05.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must accept that, due to the nature of SO (points), complex, specific, questions aren't highly voted or even generally interesting. I would suggest that most 'experienced' members wouldn't upvote the 'age' question (probably a query would show that most of the upvoters have &amp;lt; 1k points). But silly little things, that can be responded with cute tricks, will generate votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your problem is boring, yet practical, you will not get much interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say your question itself is fine; your problem is that SO isn't a great place to solve such problems. Perhaps someone, who is experienced in that, will reply, and you will get lucky. But from what I have seen, very specific problems in non-standard things are hard to get solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T01:25:05.340" />
  <row Id="20946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20941" CreationDate="2009-09-09T01:29:33.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I worry about how many views/up votes your questions have unless you're obssessed about rep. The voting mechanism allows users to communicate which questions they found interesting and that they think the community should read. Why people feel the way they feel (why the upvote) isn't easily defined. For that question I think its an interesting, common problem that people liked solving. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T01:29:33.163" />
  <row Id="20947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20941" CreationDate="2009-09-09T01:32:22.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For starters, you're dealing with a dark corner of .Net that few developers venture into. That restricts the number of folks that even know what you are talking about (I follow your question, but have no clue what the answer is). The short question you linked to is, by contrast, a common issue that frustrates many new developers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other issue is the amount of time that needs to be devoted to the troubleshooting your specific problem. You have COM, MODI and the App Pool to deal with right off the bat. Then you're calling in the garbage collection. Many of the more popular questions are quick to answer, but the harder ones will draw the bright minds, eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T01:32:22.017" />
  <row Id="20948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20941" CreationDate="2009-09-09T01:39:18.900" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that question X gets more votes than question Y, &lt;strong&gt;does not make it a better question&lt;/strong&gt;. It just indicates the question is &lt;strong&gt;more popular&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popularity != Complexity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popularity != Technical depth &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Popularity != A For effort &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I improve my question such&#xA;  that it becomes worthy of upvotes and&#xA;  / or answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give it time, update the question with your progress, the number of the people in the world who deal with the MODI library is very small. This question will never be particularly popular&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And what is so incredibly special&#xA;  about the one sentence question that&#xA;  the community feels it's worth&#xA;  upvoting 42 times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its quite old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff the creator of the site posted it (which gives it an automatic +10 or so) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its a simple question that is easy to understand and appeals to a broad set of devs &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do we modify stack overflow such&#xA;  that it's worth the time to post and&#xA;  answer detailed descriptive technical&#xA;  questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel jealous that person X gets 100 reps for a one liner it will get you nowhere fast. Reputation is a measure of trust that the community has in you. Not a measure of &quot;A for effort&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7162/why-do-long-well-thought-out-answers-result-in-negative-reputation-while-short-sn&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt; in the past its a common issue, not much we can do about it, if GW taught us anything it is that voting is not perfect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T01:47:41.210" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T01:47:41.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20941" CreationDate="2009-09-09T01:44:58.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you notice it also has 22 answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably is because on your:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;A) Nobody ( or just a few ) have an answer&#xA;B) Nobody ( or just a few ) knows what are you talking about in first place.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is not much you can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about this: If the question was &quot;How do I use ANRMA in Sotromin&quot; it would probably get as few views/upvotes/answers as yours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not because the question is wrong but because not much people knows what is that all about ( btw I have just made up those ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;questions get's tons&lt;/a&gt; of views/votes/rep though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T01:44:58.720" />
  <row Id="20952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-09T02:13:22.490" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site should get a special skin for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135564" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T02:13:22.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-09T02:20:33.100" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;24th of September.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T02:20:33.100" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="20954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T02:25:52.250" Score="16" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to keep track of a post that interests me, while not actually posting (since I have the same question, and nothing useful to actually add.) Since I can get email notification of my questions and answers, would it be possible to add a 'watch this topic' option somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135565" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-16T11:21:36.347" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T11:26:19.260" Title="Have an option to watch a question without posting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="20955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20954" CreationDate="2009-09-09T02:29:26.673" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;RSS: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/20954&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/20954&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T21:01:33.240" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T21:01:33.240" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20954" CreationDate="2009-09-09T02:29:27.873" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there is no functionality within the Stack Overflow engine to accomplish what you desire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a way, however, to achieve close to the desired result using RSS. You can subscribe to the question RSS by clicking on the &quot;Question Feed&quot; button at the bottom right of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an alternative you can favorite the question using the little star underneath the voting section. This however, doesn't provide updates and must be manually managed, it can get out of hand when you've got many favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-16T11:26:19.260" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T11:26:19.260" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-09T02:52:28.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should not be as easy as take his reputation and put it on a function?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is almost linear if that makes it easier.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7268/capturadepantalla200909p.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T02:52:28.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T02:59:11.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the 'Strunk &amp;amp; White' badge extended to reward those who edit and improve answers.  The difficulty is working out whether the editing is just for getting the badge, or whether it is genuinely improving the questions and answers.  (Clearly, editing your own entries wouldn't count.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what to call it - Strunk &amp;amp; White sets a rather high standard to start out with.  And I'm not sure whether to make S&amp;amp;W a badge awarded multiple times - say on 100 edits, and then every 1000 after that, or whether to find a new name (Super Editor?  Vim or Emacs - at the recipients choice?  Nitpicker?) that is awarded every 1000 edits or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T02:59:11.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T02:59:11.233" />
  <row Id="20960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T03:27:34.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OCD&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Front page loaded more then 100 times a day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T03:27:34.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T03:27:34.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20964" CreationDate="2009-09-09T03:31:01.017" Score="0" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just associated a second OpenID with my account, and I notice that I now have a &quot;swap&quot; option which will swap the new one to be my &quot;primary&quot; OpenID.  But is there any reason I would care which one is primary and which one is secondary?  I can still log in with either, as far as I can tell, so what is the difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T07:39:25.770" Title="Is there any difference between primary and secondary OpenID?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="20962" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T03:48:03.230" Score="6" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;People make mistakes. We are humans - just like you, forgive us.&#xA;I know it's been discussed here before, but I suggest a different approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I up/down vote an answer because I believe it's right/wrong and the question asker should look/not look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone posts an incorrect answer and gets voted up, some other user who detects this mistake will add a comment, explaining why this answer is not to be followed. Then I read that comment and understand that I have made a mistake as well following the answer and upvoting it (same goes for the opposite - down-voted correct answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My request - Include comments as a 'post edited' status - because sometimes even the original answerer posted a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130066" LastEditorUserId="130066" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T04:24:55.003" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T07:31:45.533" Title="Count comments as 'post is edited' for vote changing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20962" CreationDate="2009-09-09T03:49:01.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll agree with this simply as a more logical way to get my damn votes back whenever I make a mistake in voting. It doesn't seem logical to have to go and force an edit on a post just so I can retrieve the vote back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T03:49:01.810" />
  <row Id="20964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20961" CreationDate="2009-09-09T04:11:17.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you have two associated IDs, adding a new login replace the primary ID. If you wanted to replace your alternate ID instead, you'd need to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;swap the primary and alternate IDs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;use the &quot;new login&quot; feature to replace the primary (formerly secondary) ID.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(optionally) swap them again to restore the original primary ID.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;We Now Support Multiple OpenIDs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T04:11:17.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T04:12:13.453" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cannibal&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; deleted own accepted answer when other answers had more votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: based on bobobobo's observation, maybe &lt;strong&gt;Seppuku&lt;/strong&gt; is a better term for it... or in Japanese: &lt;strong&gt;切腹&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T04:22:58.700" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T04:22:58.700" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T04:12:13.453" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20883" CreationDate="2009-09-09T04:20:43.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;say the word and i'll happily start selling rep on eBay - baby needs new shoes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T04:20:43.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T04:20:43.280" />
  <row Id="20967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20906" CreationDate="2009-09-09T05:09:58.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like I was awarded the tag badge at approximately 05:00 UTC. I don't know whether this conclusively answers the question or not, because it seems like an unusual time for the badge processing to be run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T05:09:58.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T06:27:12.690" Score="7" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865/consecutive-day-count-in-profile&quot;&gt;Consecutive Day Count in profile&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a freaking addict. I swear I've been on SO every day since... a long time ago!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we can have a consecutive days counter on our profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65387" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T07:06:21.633" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T07:06:21.633" ClosedDate="2009-09-09T13:38:49.163" Title="Can we have a consecutive days counter on our profile?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="20969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20968" CreationDate="2009-09-09T06:57:32.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really care about the badge that much, you can use the wall behind you to record your visits :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Not really; if you were a real addict, you should have earned Fanatic by now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T06:57:32.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20962" CreationDate="2009-09-09T07:31:45.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes the vote lock almost useless, unless it lets you undo your vote only under ceratin conditions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't count your own comments (the voter).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only unlock if there's a new comment (after your vote) with enough upvotes (2 upvotes?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote a lot, and I have made a few mistakes I couldn't undo, but I don't think it's important enough or happens often enough to change the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T07:31:45.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20961" CreationDate="2009-09-09T07:39:25.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen any difference between the two when I've used them.  I believe that it is simply so that you can have a backup in case of a problem with one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T07:39:25.770" />
  <row Id="20972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20973" CreationDate="2009-09-09T07:50:49.447" Score="7" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me a little unfair the way the daily rep boundary works from midnight UTC for users in the UK or Europe, &lt;em&gt;assuming that they don't use SO every day&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't access SO on a particular day (maybe it's a weekend, busy at work etc) and then use the site the following day, I may hit my rep limit in the morning and then that's it. If the boundary was midday UTC, I'd be able to amass points in the morning and the afternoon. Of course, this would only affect those users who weren't on SO every day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that currently, such US users have an advantage in how many points they are likely to gain in a day over similar UK/Europe users. Unless they work into the early hours I suppose!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we could choose from midnight-midnight or midday-midday boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="132008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T13:01:04.317" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T13:01:04.317" Title="Can we set our own daily reputation limit time boundaries?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20972" CreationDate="2009-09-09T08:05:33.397" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there has to be &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; common line in the sand, so it might as well be UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I don't count as a &quot;casual&quot; user, but I can't say that I've seen a huge handicap here. But is your point that a casual US user essentially gets 2 SO days in one local day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Untimately, though - rep is a side business. The real point of the site is to provide quality questions and answers. You can do that at any time of the day. Does it matter if you've maxed? I certainly don't suddenly stop looking at questions at the 200pt barrier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course - the reverse is true, too; imagine you are available one evening and the next morning. Currently you get 2 SO days here, where-as a different time-zone may only see 1 SO day. On average it evens out, I suspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T08:12:26.237" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T08:12:26.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-09T08:21:46.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done some calculations, and I am predicting &lt;strong&gt;1000 UTC on 27 September&lt;/strong&gt;, 2009.  This is three hours later than Eric Koslow's prediction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet Reputation Trend&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/js-trend.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet Reputation Prediction&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/js-prediction.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T08:21:46.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20972" CreationDate="2009-09-09T08:26:15.357" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep cap is fundamentally arbitrary. As Marc says, different situations will favour different places for the boundary, and it probably evens out anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've said many times before, I'd prefer to have a non-time-based rep cap, e.g. a cap on a per-post basis, or something similar. Time doesn't make much sense to me. Given that the system &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; arbitrary, I'd rather not make it any more complicated than it has to be. If time is going to be spent on the rep cap, I'd rather it was spent coming up with a different system, working out exactly what it's trying to achieve and where the cap should be based on that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T08:26:15.357" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="20976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T08:40:22.973" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A check from Knuth&lt;/strong&gt;: Being the first to find a bug and report it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other title suggestions welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T08:40:22.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T08:40:22.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T08:45:44.853" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Snake&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Pirate&lt;/strong&gt; for copy and pasting somebody elses previous answer into a new question without linking to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133955" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T08:45:44.853" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T08:45:44.853" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T08:59:30.927" Score="8" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Fastest Gun in the West problem has existed on SO since day one, and the SO team has put much effort into resolving it.  I wonder how much the &lt;em&gt;Enlightened&lt;/em&gt; badge encourages the problem.  You get this badge for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer was accepted with at least 10 up votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I know the answer, I have an even greater incentive to fire off a quickie and be first, since &lt;em&gt;only the first&lt;/em&gt; can get this badge (a silver one, no less!).  AFAIK this is the only thing on SO that directly requires you to be first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other incentives to be first were discussed in the latest podcast (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/podcast-66/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;episode 66&lt;/a&gt;), but they are all about the &lt;em&gt;side-effects&lt;/em&gt; of being first.  This badge actually &lt;em&gt;rewards&lt;/em&gt; you for being first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any suggestions as to what should be done with the badge, but if it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; cause this problem, maybe it should be rethought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T23:26:25.727" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T23:26:25.727" Title="Does the Enlightened badge encourage the Fastest Gun in the West problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20978" CreationDate="2009-09-09T09:08:23.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like it keeps the spirit of the Fastest Gun alive in these dusty times of sand blowing in the wind and gritting up the floors of the saloon. Where the shot glasses are all mixed randomly when they're on the same table. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it rewards good answers that happen to be nicely poured &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; first. Doesn't seem like a bad thing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T09:08:23.843" />
  <row Id="20980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20978" CreationDate="2009-09-09T09:10:10.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being the first answer has a great effect on &lt;em&gt;whether you are likely to get any points at all&lt;/em&gt; - so even without the badge, getting in with the first post is still important. I don't think removing the badge will have any effect on people's behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T09:10:10.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="20982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T09:14:56.497" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deity&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; name is Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T09:14:56.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T09:14:56.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20978" CreationDate="2009-09-09T09:19:23.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Fastest Gun in the West problem has never existed, does not exist and will not exist! Getting answers to your urgent problems fast is a feature and not a bug!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T09:19:23.367" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="20985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2009-09-09T09:48:14.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yay, I got mine yesterday! A letter from some &quot;J. Atwood&quot; made it all the way from California to Berlin. Also, on the same day I got my new computer. Me be happy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I have to figure out were to put the stickers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T09:48:14.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T09:48:14.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="20986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20978" CreationDate="2009-09-09T09:54:11.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you post the first reply with the word &quot;First&quot; in it, you would get downvoted real fast, even though you would take your time to edit it to provide a real answer.&#xA;If the first reply is a good answer then it will be upvoted by all others. But if the second answer is more complete, it's likely that most upvotes will go to the second answer instead, telling everyone it's better than the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the badge has a good value since it didn't take you much time to get the right answer, thus it's likely that you're very good at the specific topic. It shows skill and experience to come up with such a good answer in such a short amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T09:54:11.560" />
  <row Id="20987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T10:14:29.557" Score="3" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20823/stack-overflow-portable-edition&quot;&gt;promised yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, I've put the code I used to generate the static mirror &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ghewgill/so-static&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on Github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll carry on working on it there. Github has fine social networking features, at least compared to (M)SO. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T14:00:02.710" Title="Stack Overflow portable edition code on Github" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;portable-edition&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="20988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20987" CreationDate="2009-09-09T10:31:54.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be happy to help write a .NET class library to process whatever the output format is in C#, to help people write .NET apps should they wish to. I probably haven't got enough time to get heavily involved in working out the format itself though. Just make it portable and we shouldn't have a problem :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course for portable data formats, there's always Protocol Buffers... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T10:31:54.563" />
  <row Id="20990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20722" CreationDate="2009-09-09T11:08:33.183" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People don't accept answers because &lt;strong&gt;they don't care&lt;/strong&gt;. They come to a certain site, they ask their question, they see via email that they got some answers, they see it's what they were looking for and that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They never come back to the site for any follow-up because &lt;strong&gt;they got what they wanted&lt;/strong&gt;. It's as simple as that. Consider this a sort of &lt;strong&gt;Hit and run&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T11:36:49.263" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T11:36:49.263" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="20991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20978" CreationDate="2009-09-09T12:05:40.190" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Repeat after me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FASTEST GUN IN THE WEST IS NOT A PROBLEM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you answer good, you will get rewarded for it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you answer bad, you will get punished.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you answer good AND fast, you will have the most time to get rewarded. This is great.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you answer bad AND fast, then you are available for a longer period of time to collect downvotes, pushing you further down the list. This is great.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can provide a solution that is not only the first one to post, but good enough to get +10 AND the Accepted Answer, then you deserve a badge and it is proof that FGITW is not an issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T12:05:40.190" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="20992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20972" CreationDate="2009-09-09T12:11:59.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been brought up before, there are potential pitfalls when it comes to complicating things for the system if everyone gets to pick and choose when they want their time frames to be, and it won't have any real value. As Skeet said, it is simple enough to do some Q&amp;amp;A in the morning, some in the evening, or however the timeframes line up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &quot;casual&quot; user, this shouldn't matter much and only those who have a hardcore fascination with capping out every day would really care (if at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T12:11:59.633" />
  <row Id="20995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20978" CreationDate="2009-09-09T12:50:51.357" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The alleged problem with the Fastest Gun in the West is that the first answer may not be high-quality.  However, the Enlightened badge isn't awarded merely for being first, but for being first, and gaining 10 upvotes, &lt;em&gt;and being accepted as the best answer by the asker.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accomplishing all three of these feats together with a poor-quality answer seems so unlikely as to be negligible.  You can't get Enlightened just by submitting a crap answer fast.  Therefore: &lt;strong&gt;No, this does not encourage the perceived problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the problem of placeholder answers, I admit there is still a bit of ambiguity, room for doubt.  However, I still see it as a matter of opinion.  In my opinion, if someone submits a placeholder of only marginal value to get the Enlightened badge, then they have committed to that answer.  It is now in their interest to make sure their answer doesn't accumulate too many downvotes, and in fact becomes good enough not only to get 10 upvotes, but to be the most correct answer &lt;em&gt;from the asker's perspective&lt;/em&gt; and become accepted, all before anyone else does so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the Enlightened badge is encouraging the first poster to stay committed to their answer and make it the best answer possible.  &lt;strong&gt;This incentive is by design.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T12:50:51.357" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="20996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T12:52:46.533" Score="20" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just received an email from SF stating that &lt;code&gt;1 Question Has 3 Answers - Server Fault&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I check email from a text-based client, here's what I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Please read this email from a location that can display HTML emails&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not send a text version of the email as well?  It would be very helpful, instead of telling me to use something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135588" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T07:53:33.507" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T07:53:40.043" Title="Why don't the emails from SO/SF/SU send in plain text version?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="20998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T13:11:59.227" Score="13" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an offshoot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20972/can-we-set-our-own-daily-reputation-limit-time-boundaries&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, where oxbow_lakes feels that casual users in the US have an advantage over casual users in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what sort of user would do best in what sort of time zone, assuming a &quot;reasonably normal&quot; daily schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When is it easiest to get upvotes? When is it easiest to get an answer accepted? How can you avoid the rep cap hitting you hardest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that for reasonable &quot;hard-core&quot; users, the UK is actually a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; place to be. In particular, I believe that correct answers to simple questions &lt;em&gt;tend&lt;/em&gt; to be accepted fairly soon after the answer is posted. I rarely post between 12am and 6am, leaving that time &quot;fallow&quot; to get votes from old answers, but unlikely to get &quot;wasted&quot; acceptances. By breakfast time (8 or 9am) I'm usually at or near the rep limit, and that's when accepted answers start to come in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it hard to analyse less regular users, as their habits are likely to be more divergent... hopefully others will be happy to dive into the data dump :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:19:28.597" Title="What is the ideal time zone to live in for maximum reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T13:14:37.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Statistically speaking, it seems that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;GMT is best&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, though, I think it is going to come down to the individual's online and sleeping habits more than the time zone where they live.  If we attempt to posit an &quot;average&quot; user's online and sleeping habits, I think the question is becomes too speculative to be meaningful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T13:39:47.053" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T13:39:47.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T13:14:37.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T13:14:38.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess that that the ideal time zone would be the United States timezones, (Eastern, then Pacific, then Central, IMHO). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this because I imagine the easiest way to gain reputation is to post and answer at the same time the largest segment of users is going to be online and active. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T13:14:38.083" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T13:19:11.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll comment on the AU timezone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found it pretty easy to get 200+ rep per day, because I can answer questions (while compiling obviously) at work. One frustrating, thing, has been that in the mornings, I need to wait until 10am for the Rep to be reset. Amusingly it gives me a chance to quickly get to 200, if I've fallen short the day before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will also say there is a potential advantage in not being in the same zone ans Jon skeet and Marc, because, I must be honest, I've very rarely seen them in any questions I answer (perhaps I only answer boring ones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would agree with mehrdad that AU is nice, but if it were possible, I would most definitely lock down my profile with a timezone set to where I am (melbourne) and have it reset nightly, like everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T13:19:11.803" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T13:34:58.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on Eastern US time, and I feel like sometimes I'm an hour or two behind a number of the influxes of questions I generally try to answer. Either they happen earlier in the morning before I get to work, or they happen while I'm driving home before I get on my computer at night. Maybe Greenland time would work best for me. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T13:34:58.173" />
  <row Id="21006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T13:51:20.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found the prime time for me is between 12:00 GMT and 21:00 GMT. You catch the Europeans awake and the US is just waking up. It's a great time for asking questions too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T13:51:20.497" />
  <row Id="21007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-09T14:00:10.480" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/nameplate2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Co-Worker Envy&quot; /&gt;&#xA;co-worker envy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to stick 1 of each on my laptop, but this is the glamor shot for work.  I'm leaving all but the Meta here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: For those unaware, yes the correct address is &lt;a href=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/nameplate.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sir Tom Ritter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but I generally don't use it.  The nameplates were ordered for us from our corporate paperwork.  I collected the other nameplates from various co-workers who lost bets (and their souls).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T14:18:01.043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:18:01.043" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T14:02:58.760" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really weird that you ask this because I was just thinking about this earlier today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think GMT is probably the ideal time zone. The reason is that you want to maximize your time at the daily rep cap to get &gt;200 rep from accepted answers and bounties and the way to do this is sleep for that initial 8 or so hours in the new day and build up rep from upvotes either by doing nothing or as a ripple effect of the questions you answered the previous evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions are probably American in origin so by the time the bulk of the day's fresh questions are asked it's your evening so you're answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm in AU timezone which can be less than ideal because the low point is in the middle of the day and the high point (of activity on SO) is while you're asleep. Possibly the only advantage is that if you didn't hit 200 the previous window there's a window when you get up to knock out a couple of answers before the reset (8am-noon depending on state and season).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, 3 of the top 20 are all from one city in Australia so maybe statistically this city (Perth) is best. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T14:14:13.030" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:14:13.030" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T14:22:32.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(For the record, I'm on UTC+4:30)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jon that UK is a good time zone in general and is actually the perfect time zone for extremely active users (by this, I specifically mean Jon and Marc) that have a lot of answers per day. However, I think it's a significant difference between the two legends of Stack Overflow and other top users. As Jon mentions, he is at or near the cap most of the time when he wakes up. I think for other hard-core users, this is more like 100-120 &lt;em&gt;on active days&lt;/em&gt;. For Jon, UK is a great time zone since he can answer a bunch of questions &lt;em&gt;near&lt;/em&gt; the cutoff time at night and sleep afterwards. He doesn't need to be awake on the cutoff time for maximum performance. For other high rep users, it's not usually enough (my personal feeling is that there's a slowdown of questions from ~2:00AM (9:30PM UTC) to 4:00AM (11:30PM UTC) but questions answered in this time frame get upvoted in the next hour). Consequently, if you are not Jon or Marc, you need to be awake after 12:00AM UTC to hit the cap pretty soon in the day. Otherwise, there will be several hours of lost accepted answers (doesn't really matter whether you are at 10 or 195. Only &gt; 200 matters). That's why I think AU time is great for this class of users. UK time is also good if you spend time on StackOverflow till around 1:00AM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, in the past couple of months, I slept at 9-10AM and was awake at nights. I was feeling it is much easier to go &lt;em&gt;over&lt;/em&gt; cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:22:32.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21013" CreationDate="2009-09-09T14:28:13.720" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a feature request &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20726/drawing-sketching-tool-for-elaborating-questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about integrating a Drawing tool into Stack Overflow.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But I posted it on the wrong day it was a holiday that day(Labour Day).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So contrary to Meta Stack Overflow I just received 3 answers to a feature request question and not much banter or criticism.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I would like to repost it so that I could get criticized a bit more.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What should I do?&#xA;What rules does Meta have on reposting questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:43:14.787" ClosedDate="2009-09-09T14:55:41.113" Title="Repost question due to lack of answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="21012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21011" CreationDate="2009-09-09T14:31:28.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same rules as all the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question to add more or less information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start a Bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the relaxed attitude on MSO the rules remain the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:31:28.023" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21011" CreationDate="2009-09-09T14:33:10.033" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This information is just as valid on Meta as on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:33:10.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21011" CreationDate="2009-09-09T14:43:14.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That questions seems to have gotten some traction. But no, reposting the question isn't helpful because &lt;em&gt;somebody&lt;/em&gt; will close it as a duplicate :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T14:43:14.787" />
  <row Id="21020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T15:24:12.777" Score="3" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like delete &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1342484/is-5-of-your-answers-so-relevant-too-closed&quot;&gt;a question of mine&lt;/a&gt; since it's been closed. Is there a way to delete a closed question? I &lt;strong&gt;am&lt;/strong&gt; owner, so why am I not able to delete it the normal way? Do I have to ask some moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134532" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T03:05:37.113" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T03:05:37.113" Title="How to delete closed question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21020" CreationDate="2009-09-09T15:25:31.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After 24 hours you can vote to delete your question. Other users with over 10k rep can also vote. It takes 3 votes to delete a question that is closed (it also takes 3 votes to reopen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or a moderator can do it on their own. If you are that intent on deleting it, just flag for mod attention and someone can make the call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1867/do-closed-question-ever-get-deleted&quot;&gt;Do Closed Questions Ever Get Deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: It should also be noted that even though you are the primary owner of your questions, this is a CC-Wiki site and all content is inherently owned by the entire community. Just because you may want your question deleted does not mean that others won't want it to remain so that it can help out users in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T16:23:58.827" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T16:23:58.827" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21020" CreationDate="2009-09-09T15:28:08.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are still able to flag the question, I would flag it for a moderator and explain you'd like it deleted. Otherwise, I would flag another one of your posts for a moderator and explain that you'd like it deleted, with a link to the question, and why. In time I would expect them to take care of it, unless they believe there is reason for it to stay around. While in some cases it may seem clear that a question can and should be entirely removed, in many cases there are reasons to keep closed questions around, and therefore, non moderators cannot delete questions on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T15:28:08.307" />
  <row Id="21023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-09-09T16:05:00.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a puzzle-style problem, which is a classic playground for programmers. A puzzle-style problem relating to programming is like chocolate for your girlfriend...it's not even a question of whether it'll be wanted. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T16:05:00.283" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17697" CreationDate="2009-09-09T16:09:03.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFiend&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFatty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SalviaFault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SkagFault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SmackFault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spliffault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T16:09:03.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10704" CreationDate="2009-09-09T16:11:22.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your settings are saved as redsquare has pointed out.  It's all done via immediately via AJAX so there's no need to confirm the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T16:11:22.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25564" CreationDate="2009-09-09T16:13:30.033" Score="16" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email is a good working medium since many years using plain text. As some prefer to send emails with some formattings as HTML, they also provide a plain-text-part containing the same content. But the E-Mail from Stackoverflow notifying me about new answers for my questions is formatted as HTML and the text-part only says I should read it as HTML. Please can you duplicate the informations in the text-part, otherwise this email-notification is useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135169" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T07:52:33.430" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T07:53:21.540" Title="Can the notification emails please use plain text?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20214" CreationDate="2009-09-09T17:06:46.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not do some sort of play on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code Monkey song by Jonathan Coulton&lt;/a&gt;? The song has been used in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/results?search%5Fquery=code+monkey&amp;amp;search%5Ftype=&amp;amp;aq=f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some videos on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T17:06:46.283" />
  <row Id="21032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21026" CreationDate="2009-09-09T17:15:46.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. Just wow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never set a notification for a question, so I hadn't spotted this before, but I can't see why on earth an email system would be setup like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My email client is setup to dump html to text if I get html only mail, but it doesn't really handle situations where someone bothers to have a text part containing useless crap. Luckily this usually only happens with marketing junk, which i happily delete :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130790" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T17:15:46.923" />
  <row Id="21037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21041" CreationDate="2009-09-09T17:56:27.647" Score="15" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined Stack Overflow some days back. I have not contributed much, but I am learning and trying to. Unlike other forums which I am part of, I feel this forum is so good that I can't resist visiting it at least 10 times a day! I am really learning a lot from that. Do you think this kind of learning from problems faced by others will improve my skills overall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I specifically ask this because, as you all know, there are numerous topics discussed here, and I know only a subset of these, and only to some extent. If I come across some question on a topic I am not knowledgeable about, I am very eager to look for that topic to get a basic comprehension of it, to understand the problem, and then learn from it. I don't know whether this is normal or I am becoming too obsessed. Please advise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135616" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T12:55:45.990" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T12:55:45.990" Title="Addiction towards Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="21038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-09T17:59:48.917" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yea!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My stickers showed up today!  (All the way here in Zürich, at that.)  I thought something grade-school-level '&lt;em&gt;artsy&lt;/em&gt;' would be appropriate, emotionally, for MSOpedians, and put this &lt;em&gt;installation&lt;/em&gt; together after about an hour of experimentation.  And two beers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how the MSO sticker is in clear focus, and the rest are a bit fuzzy.  Pretty good, eh?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-stickers-small.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow stickers have arrived.  And become 'art'&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-stickers.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Larger image -- 2MB&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally found somewhere for the MSO sticker last week&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/meta-stack-overflow-sticker.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In action at the office!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/serverfault-sticker.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stackoverflow-sticker.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T20:36:25.027" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:36:25.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21037" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:01:35.450" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are obviously completely addicted and obsessed.  Also, this is normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:01:35.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21037" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:03:04.773" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:03:04.773" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21037" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:03:06.320" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its perfectly normal to want to learn; in fact it's a trait many people don't have, so you should be thankful you do have it.  Where it becomes a problem is when using StackOverflow interferes with your real work.  If you think it is becoming a problem, I would try limiting the amount of topics you research; only pick one or two a day, and especially if they are related to your day job or your interests (i.e. don't study Haskell if you have no interest in it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish some of my coworkers were so eager to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:03:06.320" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="21042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21037" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:07:30.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do you think this kind of learning from problems faced by others will help improving my skills overall?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, of course. it will improve your skills. Stackoverflow is a way to learn from very very good engineers in various technical skills.&#xA;Morevover a lot of subjects give you some advices about readings or links that improve your skills.&#xA;BUT, you must not learn only by this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About obsessed.... don't be afraid... It's completely normal for me !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131420" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:07:30.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:18:39.287" Score="2" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that sometimes questions get asked, and some very nice answers are given (sometimes with quite some effort on the part of the answerers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the asking party sometimes forgets to accept an answer (happens especially with newbie users (&amp;lt;100 reputation points)). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't we have something for questions which have no life in them anymore, such that after X days, an answer is auto-accepted (and rep points given to the top answer)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: changed the close to accept, since this what I meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional thoughts when reading the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still it seems 'unfair' that good answers don't get the nice green check mark they deserve just because the OP forgets about the question. We might have then some reminder thingy where the OP is reminded after X days of nothing happening with his question that an answer has not yet been accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastEditorUserId="154171" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-15T19:45:58.300" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T19:05:54.247" Title="Auto-accept unaccepted but correct answers after some time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;zombie&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21043" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:23:20.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean doing something like the &quot;highest voted answer autoaccept&quot; of bounty questions for newbies' questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:23:20.277" />
  <row Id="21045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21043" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:24:12.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions that do not have satisfying answers for the OP, even though answers are upvoted by the community. Accepting is totally up to the OP, as it is a means to reward the answerer. Doing this automatically would actually be missleading as it would look as if the OP awarded the points, thinks that his problem is solved, and therefore late answers after some time would be discouraged. The OPs accept rate would be flawed as well. Would the OP be able to unaccept the answer, and accept an other one? Or leave it with no accepted answer to start the game again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:24:12.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21043" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:24:43.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are talking about two different things, Accepting an Answer and closing a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing the question is if it is a duplicate or does not fall within the guidelines of the site it is posted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting Answers is when the OP decides that a given answer solves the particular problem (or at least that what it should be). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not agree with automatically giving accepted answers after a set period (I'm not even a big fan of it on bounties). The OP should remain in charge of the check mark. Keeping it open indefinitely is not a problem and it will allow for more answers to continue to filter in and eventually the best answers will go to the top regardless of whether they get checked or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that the check mark is only worth 15 points, so two upvotes alone already is better than a check (unless you count the fact that check marks can count even after hitting your daily rep limit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:24:43.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21043" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:25:56.777" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer is the OP's way of declaring to the world that the solution worked. Having the most upvotes will not force an answer to work (if only it did!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:25:56.777" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21037" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:30:21.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a problem.  A good problem.  You love to learn and be part of an excellent educational resource.  I don't see how any developer couldn't love a site like SO.  I personaly have learned a lot of useful information and try to answer what I can.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should start a support group, maybe a way to contact.....each....other.  &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Closed as exact duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15969/how-do-i-contact-a-stack-overflow-user&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15969/how-do-i-contact-a-stack-overflow-user&lt;/a&gt;  by TheTXI, Diago, Welbog, Jeff Atwood&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TheTXI and Diago proceed to beat Troggy with a pony and Troggy burninates them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:30:21.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21052" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:43:09.040" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a general practice in place that when duplicate answers are posted, the slower users will defer to the faster one by means of upvote and a deletion of their own answer.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1401159/for-or-while-1-which-is-the-correct-c-infinite-loop&quot;&gt;When this doesn't happen&lt;/a&gt;, both answers get upvoted when only one answer is necessary.  (In this particular instance there are four virtually identical answers that have all been upvoted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we encourage the slower user to delete their own question if they fail to do so?  Is this even a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related Questions:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15775/do-you-delete-your-own-answer-when-its-a-duplicate&quot;&gt;Do you delete your own answer when it’s a duplicate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1096/dealing-with-duplicate-answers&quot;&gt;Dealing with duplicate answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19585/accepting-a-duplicate-answer-etiquette&quot;&gt;Accepting a duplicate answer etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:13:00.167" Title="Should we encourage users to delete their own duplicate answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="21052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21051" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:46:04.010" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily think you want to encourage deleting the answers. I think that if the user isn't going to do anything with it they should perhaps think about deleting it, but more often I would like to see the users elaborate more and make their answer stand out above all the rest, regardless of when it was posted, and then it will filter up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate answer shouldn't be a call to delete, but it should be a call to make your answer better. If you can't, then yes, you might as well delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more good answers you can get, the more chances you will collect rep from them and the more chances that the OP will find a suitable solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:46:04.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21057" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:49:35.517" Score="27" ViewCount="705" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a dismembered head living eternally in an infernal jar, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21037/addiction-towards-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;my Stack Overflow addiction&lt;/a&gt; would be easier to indulge if I didn't have to waste time moving these wretched mechanical hooks to push around a primitive mouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could answer questions faster if Stack Overflow were linked directly to my dopamine-saturated brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are you limiting interactivity with post-human users? The site works great for blind users and even the superintelligent mongoose that occupies the space next to my jar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, more importantly, such an interface would be useful for normal users, too! In fact, if you designed such an interface it would probably scale to other web sites as well. You could win a prize in design or something. The ideal solution would work for non-human users as well, such as Asgard and Romulans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T02:52:33.683" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T02:52:33.683" Title="Stack Overflow needs direct-to-brain interface for post-human users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="20" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21051" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:49:45.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its all about better answer than identical answer. If I post a duplicate answer then I see whether I can improve my answer if not then delete the answer. This should be user's choice whether to delete it or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some times there are more than 3/4 duplicate answers which are posted in long intervals just because it is easy to answer but they are very less in count. having a couple of duplicate answers wont hurt ;-) in the long run one answer will move up leaving the rest behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:49:45.907" />
  <row Id="21056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21053" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:51:40.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our search mechanics are still off, and you want neural interface!? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good God, man, are you mad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit that I find the idea very intriguing, but I would not trust the current development team with the intricacies of mind and machine merging. There are just too many variables and possibilities of something going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just imagine what some people would be able to do with such a power. &lt;strong&gt;HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED&lt;/strong&gt; would be on top of every post before it even made it to the list! He would be like a StackOverflow Lawnmower Man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:51:40.630" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="21057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21053" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:53:56.507" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds good to me.  Here's some useful &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;id=V88swGX83ecC&amp;amp;oi=fnd&amp;amp;pg=PP10&amp;amp;dq=brain+machine+interface&amp;amp;ots=mV-DxpdOgV&amp;amp;sig=YDazTB5mYpk20tDG89uoju0A0Kg#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=brain%20machine%20interface&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reference material&lt;/a&gt; for the dev team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:53:56.507" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="21058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21053" CreationDate="2009-09-09T18:54:52.993" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It already has. Just not for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T18:54:52.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21051" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:04:56.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Slower? Not necessarily. Redundant? Yes! If an answer adds nothing to what is explained by another answer, then it should be removed. All too often, I see one or two decent answers followed by a handful of hastily-written &quot;me-too&quot; answers - there's nothing good about that. Down-vote and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:04:56.503" />
  <row Id="21060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21053" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:06:18.683" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm so sick of these freaking suggestions.  &quot;SO should repost your questions to Twitter!&quot;  &quot;SO should allow user pages to connect to LinkedIn!&quot;  &quot;SO should provide a direct-to-brain interface for post-human users!&quot;  Give it a rest, people!  Is it so hard to do it yourself?  Surely you have a robot or artificial person to manipulate objects on your behalf.  Is it really &lt;em&gt;so hard&lt;/em&gt; to acquire the necessary permits from your planetary government to operate it through telepathy?  From there it's easy enough to use a Greasemonky script written in jQuery to hook-in the appropriate DOM events for the cognitive ether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, if you're a disembodied head floating in amniotic fluid, I'm disappointed to find that you don't have telekinesis in the first place.  What kind of lazy genetic designer created you?  We don't need your type here; perhaps you'd be more at home on Yahoo! Answers: many creatures without any semblance of a brain have managed to use that site successfully.  This is just my personal opinion, but the kind thing to do would be to let you die a noble death by removing the amino acid flow from your nutrient tube and send the pre-programmed protein chain that will deactivate your (for lack of a better term) body's cellular regeneration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T19:31:43.363" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:31:43.363" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21053" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:10:06.413" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7559150.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a piece of rat brain can control a robot&lt;/a&gt;, I don't see why we can't figure something out for Welbog. He's at least as capable as a lobotomized rat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:10:06.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21051" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:15:02.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I post the exact same answer as someone within seconds of them, I certainly won't delete mine, and wouldn't expect them to delete theirs.  To me this is a &quot;tie&quot;, we both knew the answer and hit the finish line at the same time.  Now it's up to the judges to see who &quot;wins&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, if I come across a post like that, I'll upvote all the similar answers that were within seconds of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep IMO shouldn't be about who got the answer first, it's about what you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:15:02.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21064" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:16:09.180" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have search for the answer but I didn't find. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for a curiosity. Is there any limit for point gained for one correct answer? I have answered and I have 7 upvotes but only 50 points. The answer hasn't been accepted yet. Reputation earned today is 183 so I have still 17 left for today to 200 per daqy. Are there any other limits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135622" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:19:03.607" Title="Point limit for single answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21063" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:19:03.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, there is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a point limit for a question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is the envelope thing is not showing you the correct number for rep gained today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:19:03.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20998" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:19:28.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the ideal scenario is to be available to answer when the most other people are posting and looking for answers.  Assuming that you spend most of your time answering outside of work hours, then it would be best to have your non-work hours correspond with the peak usage of SO.  Assuming that the peak hours are from 10am-7pm EST/EDT, a time zone 7 hours east of the US would be ideal since right as the US questions start to ramp up, you're in a position to answer them without taking time away from your job.  Given the language issues, though, I suspect that practically speaking the ideal location is the UK -- nearly ideal time and the site is in the native language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My son happens to agree on it being the ideal location, but for different reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:19:28.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:41:57.293" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(moved from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19857/meta-stack-overflow-stickers-are-here&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - seems a better fit) I've got mine; I'm still trying to figure out the best uses though, before I waste them... as I mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://marcgravell.blogspot.com/2009/09/stickers-now-what-to-do-with-them.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, so far I'm up to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;geek plasters (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band-Aid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;band-aid&lt;/a&gt; if that doesn’t translate).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;laptop chassis emergenccy repair kit (for those annoying cracks, dings, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;repair kit for &quot;Inflatable Annie&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user-group fodder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the evidence (the image &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/how-to-get-stack-overflow-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;may be familiar&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marcgravell.blogspot.com/2009/09/stickers-now-what-to-do-with-them.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/trilogy-stickers-gravell1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;my table adorned with vinyl&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:41:57.293" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21053" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:47:09.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, did you miss that blog post? That feature has always been around, you just click F5 way too much bound by your keyboardish ways. By the way, your dachshunds have left you and crapped in your jar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the pixel at 7x21, your brain will see the light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T19:47:09.763" />
  <row Id="21068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:53:04.993" Score="5" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are comments on answers to my question supposed to show up in my recent activity? If not why not, I would like to know any activity on a question that I posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Request: Be notified of all activity on any question that I post including comments to answers posted to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135624" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T11:34:27.190" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T11:35:42.430" Title="Are comments on answers to my question supposed to show up in my recent activity" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="21070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21068" CreationDate="2009-09-09T19:56:20.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments on your question will show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers on your question will show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on an answer you post will show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments on an answer posted by someone else will NOT show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the feature request, it would be nice to have as long as it mentioned that it was in response to a particular answer, that way I don't have to sit there and be confused momentarily thinking that the commenter is talking specifically to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T20:16:27.977" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:16:27.977" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21068" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:11:00.610" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going back and forth with comments on a particular answer to get clarification and didn't realize later on that someone had posted a comment that was directed to me. This happened to me on 4 different questions that I asked, and then the other person that was commenting doesn't come back either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as TheTXI pointed out &quot;Comments on an answer posted by someone else will NOT show up.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be notified of any comments to a question/answer if I posted a comment to that question/answer even if I do not own the question or answer. I would also want to be notified of any comments to any answer of a question that I asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe make that an option just like when you check the box next to Notify { email address } daily of new answers. You could flag your the question/answer that you comment on so that you are notified when someone else comments or edits the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastEditorUserId="131563" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T21:25:43.477" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:25:43.477" />
  <row Id="21072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21051" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:13:00.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;competition encourages quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:13:00.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21074" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:20:32.697" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, the  arrow image is stored here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/vote-arrow-up.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/img/vote-arrow-up.png&lt;/a&gt; . I wonder why not keep everything on local servers.  What is the licensing aspects of those images? Can they be re-used by another party? is the license the same as for the content on SO sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:15:43.530" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:15:43.530" Title="What is the deal with keeping all the images on http://sstatic.net" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21073" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:23:08.040" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We registered the domain sstatic.net&#xA;  for this purpose a month ago, and I’m&#xA;  pleased to announce that all the&#xA;  static resources for the Stack&#xA;  Overflow family of websites are now&#xA;  hosted at sstatic.net. This domain is&#xA;  of course cookieless and optimized for&#xA;  serving static content with the lowest&#xA;  possible overhead (and, as before, a&#xA;  far-future expires header, so zero&#xA;  requests are made to the server for&#xA;  cached static elements).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:23:08.040" />
  <row Id="21075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21073" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:23:15.093" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since a lot of the images are the same between sites, having them all served from one domain allows the browser to cache them so that it doesn't have to get a copy from each site. It also helps take some of the load off the main servers by setting up a dedicated server for static content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:23:15.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21073" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:24:00.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it all still falls under the same copyright rules as the rest of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com llc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:24:00.753" />
  <row Id="21077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21073" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:24:18.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Static items are stored on sstatic.net to provide a better caching mechanism, reducing bandwidth consumption from the main sites.  The rights to the images remain with SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:24:18.053" />
  <row Id="21078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21053" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:40:56.357" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you need is to get some sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T20:40:56.357" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T20:40:56.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21086" CreationDate="2009-09-09T20:55:52.050" Score="24" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am starting to see more people use wiki answers and questions in what &quot;seems&quot; like to prevent rep loss from downvote. There seems to be wiki use for no reason sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are people that afraid of a -2 rep? Do people really take &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20676&quot;&gt;downvotes that personally&lt;/a&gt;? I am seeing more and more people freak out when they get one downvote.  Shoot, I don't think people even downvote enough to help with the site organization. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should take downvotes as a sign that they may want to rethink their questions or make them more clear with proper sentences and detail.  Of course on meta, it can just mean disagree.  Why the fear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Do we need to clarify what up/downvotes mean on the sites or is it clear enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T17:17:55.037" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T09:27:32.210" Title="Why are people afraid of downvotes?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:00:02.603" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  I'm afraid of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:00:02.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-09T21:00:02.603" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="21082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:00:48.797" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess for exactly the opposite reason we like upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:00:48.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:01:59.403" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no point in taking &lt;strong&gt;a lot&lt;/strong&gt; of downvotes when you know that you're in the minority but want to state your position as a talking point.  Of course this is just for subjective stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:01:59.403" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:05:28.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They fear &lt;em&gt;&quot;social rejection&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, instead of embracing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or they are just plain rep whores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T08:07:26.940" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T08:07:26.940" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:06:04.183" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Insecurity and lack of understanding the community mindset.  Too much weight and emphasis put on rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the auto-CW phenomenon on SF.  That said, I don't see the massive downvote and edit/rollback wars either.  It's rare that we get a good flamewar going over there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:06:04.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:06:42.077" Score="52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not &quot;afraid&quot; of downvotes in terms of reputation... but I get concerned when I receive downvotes anyway, because it means I may have &quot;been wrong on the Internet&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png&quot; alt=&quot;What do you want me to do?  LEAVE?  Then they'll keep being wrong!&quot; title=&quot;What do you want me to do?  LEAVE?  Then they'll keep being wrong!&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't like being wrong. It gives me a really bad feeling. In particular, because people &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; (unfortunately) judge answers based on names rather than just content, I'm likely to cause more harm than most if I'm wrong about something. With great reputation comes great responsibility ;) The idea of people introducing bugs into their code due to my ignorance is an alarming one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why when I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; wrong, I want to know about it as early as possible so I can correct the mistake - which is why I find comments explaining downvotes to be so useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's a couple of reputation points compared with all of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T09:27:32.210" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T09:27:32.210" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:16:23.027" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;s&gt;never&lt;/s&gt; been downvoted &lt;s&gt;before so I wouldn't know&lt;/s&gt; 3 times at least, it does not feel that bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T21:41:51.623" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:41:51.623" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="21088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:17:18.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine arrived today (in the UK) in a nice hand written envelope - thanks Jeff. I must admit I wasn't expecting the other stickers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just got to find somewhere suitable (and relatively durable) to stick them now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:17:18.890" />
  <row Id="21089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:29:03.923" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People take things personally. They interpret anything that isn't &quot;Good Job!&quot; as a personal attack and then they get flustered over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've probably beaten this pony to death, but it's true. We live in the day and age of &quot;self esteem&quot;. Kids in school will get gold star and back pats just for putting forth the effort and it doesn't prepare them for the real world (or at least how society works in the real world). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a big newsflash when they first realize that people aren't going to tell them what a pretty picture they painted when they rub their feces on the wall. This is incredibly evident here on Meta more than any other site. When someone posts a suggestion or an answer or anything in general, they want to believe that downvotes against them are somehow people not respecting their &quot;right to be heard.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody is stopping you (this is said in general, not towards the OP) from posting whatever you want. We can respect the effort put in, but we aren't going to reward someone who makes (what we feel) is a crap suggestion or a crap answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:29:03.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:30:47.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never used CW to avoid downvotes, but I do understand a certain &quot;fear&quot; of downvotes. First of all, I don't want to be wrong, I don't find that to be an enjoyable experience. Additionally, I want everyone to see the world my way, it's the perspective I understand and it's not easy to see things from the other side, and downvotes suggest someone else does not see or appreciate my point of view. And finally, while a higher reputation is not necessarily the end goal, it certainly is a very nice benefit, and one that people may take some pride in. I know for myself here on Meta Stack Overflow (unfortunately my highest reputation), I care far less about downvotes, in part because the subject is far more subjective, but also because my reputation is more &quot;expendable&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T09:25:44.997" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T09:25:44.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21091" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:33:33.653" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think having only one ID for several websites is sort of dangerous, I mean, yes, it's a lot more practical because you only have to remember one password. But on the other side, someone interested in hacking into your accounts, only has to get one password too. I only use MyOpenId for the stackoverflow websites, but I would be a bit concerned if I started using it for 10 or 15 other websites. I'm just glad online banking is not using it (and hope it never does) because I wouldn't feel comfortable at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:33:33.653" ClosedDate="2009-09-09T21:40:46.727" Title="MyOpenId sort of dangerous?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;myopenid&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:34:27.910" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a deeply psychological question, so there are of course many answers. But it basically stems from an acceptance/rejection dichotomy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure most people here know that whenever you are commenting on someone's performance, it is best to (as much as is possible) use the 'sandwich method' of starting and ending positive, and including your criticism in the middle. This is because human beings (being naturally social) are programmed to try and fit in. So, in a community such as this, where the only way to show acceptance/rejection is with an up/down vote, that is the only &lt;em&gt;currency&lt;/em&gt; measure. So, every downvote will be regarded &lt;em&gt;by some&lt;/em&gt; as being an implicit rejection &lt;em&gt;from the entire community&lt;/em&gt;. I'm not saying I endorse this, these are just visceral responses to that kind of stimulus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every downvote is an &lt;em&gt;apparent&lt;/em&gt; indication that someone out there feels that you've done something wrong. This isn't true (especially on meta) but because there isn't a 'constructive criticism comment'  on every response, the person feels alienated with no understanding of how to re-integrate with the group. Even if they get a 'pity upvote' they are still left with the feeling that there is something about them that needs to be corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this seems like taking the internet too seriously, except that it is a natural reaction for someone who has invested themselves into the community. If I were to join some random IRC channel and have someone say &quot;DevinB is GAY!!!!!&quot; I wouldn't be nearly as offended as if the same thing happened on StackOverflow, where I've spent time and energy trying to integrate myself successfully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actionable part of this tirade follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of dealing with this 'taking downvotes too seriously' problem is recognizing &lt;em&gt;why they feel this way&lt;/em&gt;. Yes, we can yell at them all we want and say &quot;This is the internet you douchebag, stop being a whiny bitch&quot;, but as I mentioned earlier, the reaction that these people are feeling is not a logical consideration of their standing in the community, it is something deeper than that, and they have no control over it. The best way to educate those who take downvotes too seriously is to explain clearly and politely that &lt;strong&gt;downvotes are a judgment helpfulness or (on meta) disagreement, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; disrespect&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start being impolite and abusing those users, you're only confirming their erroneous assumption that they've &lt;em&gt;done&lt;/em&gt; something wrong, rather than the truth that they've misunderstoond the meaning of something &lt;em&gt;done to them&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:34:27.910" />
  <row Id="21093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21095" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:42:00.937" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have chosen to display 50 questions per page on Stack Overflow. However, as I have added &quot;Ignored Tags&quot;, the number of questions per page has shrunk (for example, a few moments ago I could page through 5,790 pages, but the first page only has 14 questions when it should have 50). Ideally I would think that the result set would be filtered first, and then pagination applied. As it is, pagination appears to be applied first, and then the result set filtered, resulting in fewer questions per page than a user (me) would expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135386" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T01:44:29.237" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T01:44:29.237" Title="Questions Per Page Not Honored When Using Ignored Tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5612" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:43:19.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm getting this error every time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page has expired, go back to the original page and please try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly, I'm apparently still logged in here on meta, but I can't log in to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="517" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:43:19.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21093" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:45:24.953" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the filtering is client-side, and all it is doing is setting display:none to the question. If it was all done on the server-side (or you were fetching client side) then perhaps something could be done. But as it is now, you are ignoring things that are already there. It is not stopping them from actually getting pulled back from the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-09T22:11:38.337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T22:11:38.337" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:46:14.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as we are all coming out with it, I will admit to not enjoying being downvoted as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only alternative use for the CW box that I have employed is in responding to a post with a link to someone else's answer on a separate question.  I will tick CW because I feel embarrassed about getting rep for someone else's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:46:14.330" />
  <row Id="21097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T21:54:20.427" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If people &lt;strong&gt;perceive&lt;/strong&gt; their worth in the community as &quot;reputations&quot;, take any of them &quot;reputations&quot; away and they feel bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's human nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21080/why-are-people-afraid-of-downvotes/21086#21086&quot;&gt;productive&lt;/a&gt; ways to deal with that &quot;bad feeling&quot; and there are non-productive ways to deal with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T21:54:20.427" />
  <row Id="21098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:27:23.593" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down vote with no commet = BAD.  Unless the reason is clearly obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down vote with comment = GOOD.  Helps understand why something is considered wrong and gives the person posting the ability to ammend it if they think the down vote is valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down voting with no comment (again when it is not obvious) is like walking up to someone and saying, &quot;YOU SUCK!&quot; and then walking away with no explanation.  For some reason this has always been acceptable behavior on the internet :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132746" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T22:27:23.593" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21103" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:29:22.310" Score="8" ViewCount="732" Body="&lt;p&gt;... used in the StackOverflow logo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T17:11:51.480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:11:51.480" Title="What is the name of the font" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;logo&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="21100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21099" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:33:08.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest trying &lt;a href=&quot;http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What the Font?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T22:33:08.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:36:58.817" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Version in &lt;em&gt;glorious&lt;/em&gt; Tcl/Tk 8.5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: check fixed executable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supports:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fullscreen and windowed modes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Selectable:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;font&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;background/foreground colors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows, FreeBSD and Linux (untested), MacOS (untested).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Running an external app after the end of the countdown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fading to any background color, not only black.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any date in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Windows: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gromnitsky.users.sourceforge.net/so-countdown/so-countdown.exe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;so-countdown.exe&lt;/a&gt; (file is relatively big (~ 1.4 MB), because it is a Tcl Starpack and contains full embedded Tcl/Tk interpreter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source code: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gromnitsky.users.sourceforge.net/so-countdown/so-countdown-0.2.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;so-countdown-0.2.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gromnitsky.users.sourceforge.net/so-countdown/so-countdown.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;% ./so-countdown.tcl &#xA;so-countdown [options] deadline message&#xA;&#xA;deadline    A string of &quot;YYYYMMDD,HHMM&quot; or &quot;HHMM&quot; or &quot;SS&quot;.&#xA;message     Your message, like &quot;DevDays begins in %s&quot;, where %s will&#xA;            be replaced with the remaining time.&#xA;&#xA;Options:&#xA; -font value          another font &amp;lt;Times&gt;&#xA; -b                   use bold font&#xA; -bg value            background color &amp;lt;black&gt;&#xA; -fg value            foreground color &amp;lt;white&gt;&#xA; -fs                  fullscreen mode&#xA; -o value             offset (in pixels) from the sides &amp;lt;10&gt;&#xA; -v                   print debug messages&#xA; -ad value            message to print after a deadline instead of fading &amp;lt;&gt;&#xA; -e value             command to execute after a deadline &amp;lt;&gt;&#xA; -quit value          seconds to wait before exit after a deadline &amp;lt;0&gt;&#xA; -help                Print this message&#xA; -?                   Print this message&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To change colors and font:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; ./so-countdown.exe -fg yellow -bg #0000ff -font Verdana 10 &quot;Left: %s&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2010 New Year in fullscreen mode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; ./so-countdown.exe -- -fs 20100101,0000 &quot;The New Year: %s&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Play some music after a deadline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;% ./so-countdown.tcl -- -e 'mplayer /opt/samba/tmp/audio/2.wav' 10 &quot;Remaining %s ...&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quit program in 15 seconds after a deadline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;% ./so-countdown.tcl -quit 15 10 &quot;Left: %s&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keybindings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Esc, &lt;code&gt;q&lt;/code&gt;, &amp;lt;Ctrl-C&gt; -- exit application.&#xA;   &lt;code&gt;f&lt;/code&gt; -- toggle fullscreen mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130313" LastEditorUserId="130313" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T11:08:44.307" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T11:08:44.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:37:51.577" Score="-4" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I´ve noticed a few times - when I already had started typing - that I was answering a question of someone with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lots of questions &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No /    hardly any answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plenty of rep but...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hardly any    votes &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A    horrible accept    rate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to be able to block questions from users automatically according to some of the above criteria; based on their stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; This is not about not being able to gain rep. Quite the opposite as it´s almost always easy questions by technically-not-that-competent-people (lots of duplicates) and easy scoring (although not thanks to the original poster). At least where I am looking (php, mysql, css, html)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, it seems everybody is extremely disagreeing with me when it comes to this kind of filtering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don´t get is - with all these saints not judging anyone except me :-( &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did a colour coded accept rate ever make it through?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yet another edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Please not that I am not taking about 1 number, I´m talking about general behaviour. And yes, trying to get people to improve their behaviour is propably nicer than just ignoring them. I´d still like to have a choice though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131245" LastEditorUserId="131245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T16:45:30.057" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T16:45:30.057" Title="It would be nice to block / hide other users from the questions view" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;block-user&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21099" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:38:02.793" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff%5Fdin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FF DIN&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T17:01:42.840" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:01:42.840" />
  <row Id="21104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:41:21.837" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should not be considering the user when you are answering a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person is not important. What is important is the question itself. If the question is a good question that you can answer, then answer it. You will be doing more then just the OP a service. You are doing a service to any future user who may be looking for information on a similar problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it sounds like is that you don't want to waste your time on questions where your rep-gaining potential is low. That is pretty &lt;strong&gt;selfish&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T12:18:48.333" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T12:18:48.333" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21102" CreationDate="2009-09-09T22:42:51.507" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That user still has a problem. A problem that you can solve. And it's your prerogative if you want to help that user. But the system isn't going to help you block people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's wrong with blocking people?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if you're blocking a person due to a language barrier? Are users that are not natively english supposed to run the risk of not getting answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if you're blocking a person that gets better over time and after a while contributes considerably to the community? Should noobs run the same risk as above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if users start blocking aggressively, since it's a handy way to keep the frontpage clean and with only &quot;high quality&quot; questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more, but I don't want to add more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue with block lists is this. People are very keen on putting people on it. But &lt;strong&gt;rarely&lt;/strong&gt; do a postmortem cleanup to unblock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T00:00:33.297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T00:00:33.297" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-09T23:03:20.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to take advantage of this (I have 17k rep on SO) but I can't find a link to the promo page any more? The ad isn't showing up for me no matter how many pages I view on SO. Is the promo finished?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-09-09T23:03:20.987" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-10T01:00:40.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a bad idea - there's very little reason to have a drawing tool integrated into the Stackoverflow site. The sites are mainly based around text (programming, server administration, misc' computer stuff).. I'd much rather we had, say, better syntax highlighting, or better moderation tools, or many others things before drawing tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is enough need to have an integrated drawing tool in the answers.. For the few questions that would benefit from diagrams, it's not that difficult to draw it in Paint.exe, and shove it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://imageshack.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imageshack.us&lt;/a&gt; or similar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of good sketching and image hosting sites around.. On OS X, &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt; is perfect for this - you open the application, sketch something (or take a screenshot and annotate it), click a button and it uploads the image and makes it trivial to copy the URL into your answer. There's undoubtedly similar applications on other platforms (there's no Windows Skitch port, yet)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are technical issues too, for example, an integrated sketching tool would require integrated image hosting, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4376/please-allow-image-uploads-directly-onto-the-site/4406#4406&quot;&gt;my answer here&lt;/a&gt; hopefully explains why I think this is a bad idea - basically the site is almost entirely gzip'd text, hosting images would greatly increase the bandwidth usage, which would slow things down and increase running costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T01:00:40.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-10T01:10:35.243" Score="6" ViewCount="896" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a question a while back that mentioned (in passing) the relative merits of a particular software framework...  and wow I got flamed!  Someone said I was argumentative, and someone else called me naive.  There were several other harsh comments and a number of downvotes... so I deleted my question, cried myself to sleep and regrouped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started digging around SO and Meta a bunch to look for similar threads... and began to see that posts comparing frameworks to each other were often closed for being subjective and argumentative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1128213/php-or-python&quot;&gt;PHP or Python?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realized that there's an unwritten rule to never say anything that might be seen as a slight towards another language or framework...  i.e. basically, avoid anything that might trigger a religious war.  Ok, makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I've learned my lesson.. I shall never again mention a programming framework - or if I do, I will only use the most objective language possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised by the whole experience though, because I had read just about every FAQ on the site before contributing... but didn't realize that there were unwritten rules and policies about how to phrase questions to take into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly are the unwritten rules and policies of StackOverflow?  I've done some searching, but only found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3179/how-to-deal-with-unwritten-rules-and-guidelines-on-stackoverflow-et-al&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;.  Is there a list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm%5F%28sociology%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;social norms&lt;/a&gt; somewhere on Meta or the FAQ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the unwritten rules and policies I've seen so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be careful about expressing an opinion about frameworks or languages that might trigger a religious war.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In general, be careful with any opinions - especially on controversial topics.  Use objective language and cite stats and sources whenever possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Avoid salutations&lt;/a&gt; like &quot;Hi&quot; and farewells like &quot;Thanks! - Username&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carefully search for duplicates of your thread before you post.  If you find close duplicates, post a link so people know that you are aware of prior discussions on the subject.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't take it personally when people downvote you.  It's not personal - it's just meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other unwritten rules and policies to keep in mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T21:38:16.623" Title="What are the unwritten rules and social norms of using StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-10T01:17:19.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone here is right. Probably the best compromise would be if someone could point out a third-party site that allows the user to quickly sketch something, then provide a URL to that image, so it could be pasted in to a comment. Then, all StackOverflow would have to do is provide a button or something to that site. The workflow then becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Click button to external site&#xA;2) Draw stuff&#xA;3) Save it&#xA;4) Copy the URL&#xA;5) Back in SO, click the image button&#xA;6) Enter the URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's really not too bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flex888.com/925/online-diagram-tools-using-flash.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flex888.com/925/online-diagram-tools-using-flash.html&lt;/a&gt; might be a start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, there are probably freeware diagramming tools to integrate, but it would still be complicated I suspect. Coding one up from scratch and getting it to a reasonable level of usability and functionality...good luck with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135637" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T01:17:19.070" />
  <row Id="21111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21109" CreationDate="2009-09-10T01:22:55.627" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree that you can't sleight another language or framework. But if you do then you basically have to be right and your approach needs to be measured. You certainly can't go around willfully sledging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the real problem with your question was twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It asked for an &lt;em&gt;objective&lt;/em&gt; comparison between PHP and Python. Such a thing is definitively argumentative and 99 times out of 100 there is no best. One &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be slightly better suited to particular tasks and that's about it; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You answered your own question in the question. Many will interpret that as you having an axe to grind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ask questions like &quot;Should I use A or B?&quot; but there are some guidelines for doing so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List some requirements.&lt;/strong&gt; If you're trying to make a choice you will have some requirements and constraints. They could be knowledge you already have, a particular operating system you have to use, certain business constraints or whatever;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't answer the question in your question.&lt;/strong&gt; If you must, provide a separate answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Qualify subjective statements.&lt;/strong&gt; If you say &quot;I'd like to use A because B sucks&quot; that's quite different to &quot;I don't know if it's just me but I've had issues in the past with B because of X, Y and Z. I'm concerned that this will come up next time.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question should be a question.&lt;/strong&gt; Never ask &quot;What do you use?&quot; as that's a discussion. &quot;What should I use?&quot; is a question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There should be a definite answer.&lt;/strong&gt; Even if it's subjective, this can still be true. &quot;What should I use in this situation?&quot; has a definite answer even though people may disagree.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T01:22:55.627" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-10T01:32:27.420" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, stickers... My wife is looking at me funny now, 'cause some guy named &quot;Jeff&quot; sent me a big pile of 'em. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh well. Time to revisit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the origins&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shog9.com/murder.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/metaplushies.png&quot; alt=&quot;meta is... plushies?!&quot; title=&quot;Ok - *now* it's disturbing.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (warning: graphics!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T03:05:39.710" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T03:05:39.710" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2009-09-10T02:15:41.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is so much discussion on the voting/rep system it's a little mad, most of the comments by people are disingenuous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A trivial fix, if the rep is about organisation, is to change it, don't link it to a person, and call it 'relevance'. This would mean that it is truly about organisation only; no-one would have a number stored against them, and each post could be trivially sorted such that accurate information is presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is the admins don't want it to be about sorting; it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about popularity, and it is only natural to want to be popular, and feel distress when someone doesn't like you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T02:15:41.270" />
  <row Id="21114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-10T03:46:41.713" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Transcendent&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; 100K rep, can be awarded multiple times, for each 100K rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T03:46:41.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T03:46:41.713" />
  <row Id="21115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21109" CreationDate="2009-09-10T03:58:45.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I think this is quite explicitly in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board; this is a place for questions that can be answered! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it surprises you that a seemingly innocent question like &lt;strike&gt;Republican or Democrat&lt;/strike&gt; PHP or Python should be subjective or argumentative, but that is just because you aren't as passionate about &lt;strike&gt;politics&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;religion&lt;/strike&gt; a given programming language as some others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, except for the salutation issue it is all covered, one way or another, just not nicely cataloged. One, two are really part of the quoted line above, and five is kind of obvious from the description of voting. Four is thrown in your face by the interface when you type your question, with its attempt to find duplications (now if it would only try to find them after you entered the tags, keeping the search more relevant ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is culturally interesting about SO is how much the people enforce the FAQ and similar expectations, and quote it to justify their doing so. I think that is a function of it being a community of IT people who like to look at the spec to remove ambiguity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T03:58:45.433" />
  <row Id="21116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20996" CreationDate="2009-09-10T06:33:36.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great. Now I am afraid of the day our marketing droid wants to get rid of the text-only part in our &lt;strike&gt;spam mails&lt;/strike&gt; consumer information on the account that those tech-geeks over on so/su/sf don't send plain text either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T06:33:36.050" />
  <row Id="21117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-10T06:39:04.370" Score="31" ViewCount="2926" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/415/decode-email-address-from-gravatar-hash&quot;&gt;discussed on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. It is unfortunate the accepted answer is so far from reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some facts: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravatar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt;'s MD5 hash is an unsalted MD5 hash of an email address.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A 3rd party could harvest every MD5 hash for every user's email on Stack Overflow. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 3rd party could store all the hashes in a lookup table&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email addresses are usually of a very particular format&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The attacker could start with a brute force of @gmail.com followed by @yahoo.com, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The attacker has the advantage that he/she could attack a huge set of emails in one go. So instead of needing to brute force every email individually the attacker can brute force in bulk.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The algorithm is quite simple, calculate a &quot;random&quot; MD5, look it up in the lookup table.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Gravatar a big enough security risk to warrant caching images locally?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone could harvest about 50k email addresses quite easily and shoot off a bogus promotion from Stack Overflow to all the users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A spammer/stalker/generic evil guy can tie you identity to all the rest of the sites that use Gravatar. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T10:36:50.860" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T10:36:50.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T07:07:19.700" Title="Is using Gravatar a security risk?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="21118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21117" CreationDate="2009-09-10T06:51:09.637" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I've thought about this as well, but there's another aspect you haven't addressed: privacy. With any site that uses Gravatar you can identify a user on one site as being the same as the user on another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T08:35:26.727" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T08:35:26.727" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21117" CreationDate="2009-09-10T06:55:43.420" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder how convenient is for a spammer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generate a possible email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hash it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See if it matches a known gravatar hash&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Send an email to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See if it bounces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generate a possible email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Send an email to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See if it bounces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21117/is-using-gravatar-a-security-risk/21125#21125&quot;&gt;Workshop Alex's approach&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subscribe to technical mailing lists&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grab the addresses from the emails&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Profit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want addresses of programmers the last approach is much more economically viable. Supposing all you'd do is a brute force attack, you could even just grab the names from the profiles and try the second approach to get a similar list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Privacy is a higher concern, but because you know you've signed to gravatar and you know at least it'll show up the same image everywhere you probably are conscious that you are giving some privacy up wherever you enter your email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impersonation is the more worrying aspect of it and is not as easily solvable, in my opinion. But then again, it's not exclusive to gravatar, the additional component is that it will show your image. Anybody with or without gravatar can impersonate you at the same level if he knows your name and email address (that's why you use another auth mechanism.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while I don't think this is a worrying thing that has to be fixed ASAP, it would be nice to have it fixed just in case with all this fuzz a spammer decides to give it a try :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T14:17:01.860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T14:17:01.860" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="21121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-10T07:48:25.557" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source, Windows .EXE and screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/jedediah/devdays&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/jedediah/devdays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://github.com/jedediah/devdays/raw/d7eb349c32a5f6765ae0317e1d04c3defe049d67/devdays.png&quot; alt=&quot;(I'm not allowed to post an image or have more than one link, so you'll have to go there yourself)&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is 100% authentic 80x25 text mode so make sure your laptop and projector can do that.&#xA;Usage matches your spec, except it doesn't fade out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was surprisingly difficult, especially for a Linux guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135648" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T07:59:26.970" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T07:59:26.970" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21127" CreationDate="2009-09-10T08:40:30.513" Score="3" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add a bounty to my question, but I can't find out how to add the bounty. I looked on my account page, on the page of the question itself and in the edit view..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a reputation of 84 which should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7027/nobountypony.png&quot; alt=&quot;nopony&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357434/choppy-graphics-when-drawing-xna-on-a-winforms-control&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357434/choppy-graphics-when-drawing-xna-on-a-winforms-control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T08:56:08.603" Title="Where did the add bounty link go?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21123" CreationDate="2009-09-10T08:44:45.310" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's below &quot;add comment&quot; of your question:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1600/bountypony.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click the link and move the slide along to select how much you want to pay on the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/JS6Lr.png&quot; alt=&quot;more bang for your bounty&quot; title=&quot;more bang for your bounty&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T09:02:31.723" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T09:02:31.723" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21117" CreationDate="2009-09-10T09:01:32.707" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To determine if something is a security risk, you'd also&#xA;have to consider it's popularity and the amount of&#xA;information a hacker would get considering the amount of&#xA;time he'll have to invest to get this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, a hacker could get access to a list of email&#xA;addresses. Are these valuable? Not really, unless the user&#xA;doesn't use a spam filter. Then you could spam the Hell out&#xA;of them. And perhaps you could collect a list of sites that&#xA;a person is visiting. In my case, StackOverflow and the&#xA;related sites. I don't use Gravatars anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But collecting email addresses is much easier by just&#xA;subscribing to mailing lists, Google and Yahoo Groups and by&#xA;running a webspider over the Internet. Spammers are&#xA;harvesting million of email addresses this way and can&#xA;receive a lot more practical information than hacking into&#xA;Gravatars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a test once, several years back, checking how easy it&#xA;is to harvest email addresses. I created a dozen Yahoo&#xA;accounts and subscribed every account to about 30 different&#xA;Yahoo groups. Yahoo still supported POP3 back then thus I&#xA;could use a POP3 client to read my emails. And I would use&#xA;this POP3 client to download all those emails to extract&#xA;just the email addresses. These were stored in a database&#xA;with a link to the account that discovered it plus&#xA;additional information about the email like title and the CC&#xA;list. It allowed me to discover a lot of information about&#xA;who was active where and how often and I could even detect&#xA;that some email accounts appeared to be linked to the same&#xA;person. (And it allowed me to create a list of spammers&#xA;which I could blacklist.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of information that I could collect this easily&#xA;made me much more aware of my online privacy. I didn't get&#xA;hundreds, or thousands of addresses... No, within a week I&#xA;had about 25,000 different email addresses! It took me two&#xA;months and some group switching to end up with ten times&#xA;more addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't fear hackers gaining information about my email&#xA;address through my Gravatar. They have a lot easier way to&#xA;harvest email addresses!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scheme I used to find email addresses by subscribing to&#xA;mailing lists could even become more advanced. First you&#xA;start with a few accounts and subscribe to a dozen mailing&#xA;lists. As emails arrive, you can check these for email&#xA;addresses of even more mailing lists. This, because some&#xA;people are cross-posting their messages to multiple lists.&#xA;Furthermore, most people seem to forget about the BCC option&#xA;with email, which would hide all recipients. By detecting&#xA;more mailing lists this way, you could subscribe to even&#xA;more lists and create more accounts so no one notices that&#xA;you're in 500+ different lists.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Not only would you be able to harvest lots of emails this&#xA;way, you could even make a mapping of how different lists&#xA;are related to each other and check the interests of each&#xA;and every member, thus finding those members who might be&#xA;more susceptible for certain kinds of fraud. For example,&#xA;look at Stack Overflow, Super User and Server Fault. If these&#xA;sites were just plain mailing lists and some posts would&#xA;e.g. be crossposted to other lists then it's not too&#xA;difficult to find possible system administrators who work&#xA;for a company that uses Windows and VB webservices. If you&#xA;could cross-check these members with a list called&#xA;&quot;hardCorePorn&quot; and you find a few members that are part of&#xA;SO/SU/SF and this HCP group then you know which of these&#xA;members might be interested in opening an email offering&#xA;free porn that actually contains some malware with the&#xA;intent to infect their Windows servers. Even if only 1% of&#xA;those people are fooled, if you find 1000 administrators&#xA;then you can infect 10 sites with malware, and continue&#xA;harvesting information from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Information is extremely valuable, especially if you can&#xA;link them together. Even without the gravatar there's a big&#xA;risk that someone still manages to get your email address&#xA;from this site. Think of this: how many members here have a&#xA;username that's very similar to their email address? Would&#xA;Sam.Safron@yahoo.com be one? (Typing error in name made on&#xA;purpose, just in case I guessed correctly!) Or perhaps&#xA;WorkshopAlex@hotmail.com. (Nope!) With 90,000 users at&#xA;Stack Overflow, if only 1% uses a username identical to their&#xA;email address, plus @gmail, @yahoo.com or some other common&#xA;mail provider, then just collecting user names from SO could&#xA;already provide 900 email addresses! And of course, the&#xA;first user already has a reasonable easy email address. Last&#xA;name plus @provider. Fortunately, Jon Skeet doesn't use&#xA;Gmail. :-) Yet he mentions his email address inside his&#xA;profile so that's already one harvested address. Some&#xA;members will also add an URL to their personal site, though.&#xA;Jon does so too, and this additional information could have&#xA;been used if he hadn't posted his email address too! Last&#xA;name + @ + host of personal site = another harvested email&#xA;address...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about how insecure certain techniques are. In&#xA;the end, the biggest security problem is the user himself,&#xA;not the technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T19:56:34.800" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T19:56:34.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T09:01:32.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21123" CreationDate="2009-09-10T09:21:05.260" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5338/please-dont-suggest-starting-a-bounty-to-users-who-are-unable-to-do-so&quot; title=&quot;did you ear that?&quot;&gt;need at least 100&lt;/a&gt; rep before you can slice off your ear and offer it up to someone as part of a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions must also be at least 2 days old, as mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T08:56:08.603" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T08:56:08.603" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21129" CreationDate="2009-09-10T09:28:03.750" Score="-1" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking to myself, &quot;I know a lot of things. I would like to share that information with a lot of people.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans for a Stack Overflow family site for knowledge sharing? Sometimes people aren't in the mood or wont ask a question. Sometimes they would rather just put that knowledge out there for other people to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just an idea I had for another site. I'm not sure if there's any duplication with other SOFU sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T14:35:44.360" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:35:44.360" Title="Knowledge Overflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21128" CreationDate="2009-09-10T09:39:31.560" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Start a blog instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T09:39:31.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21128" CreationDate="2009-09-10T09:53:40.303" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been some consent that you could also somewhat play jeopardy: asking a question that you then could answer yourself. You just have to preserve the Q&amp;amp;A format, when you want it to be on the SO family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO/SF/SU want to be a repository for knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T09:53:40.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21128" CreationDate="2009-09-10T09:59:42.117" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds to me like you just described &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T09:59:42.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21128" CreationDate="2009-09-10T10:10:38.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is answer for you, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T11:44:04.033" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T11:44:04.033" />
  <row Id="21133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:01:37.617" Score="13" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I've just got downvoted for an answer that was previously upvoted. I'm pretty sure my answer wasn't the best, yet not the worst. It was also not a subjective question and I got a little upset because...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons I'm participating on discussion forums or hybrids like StackOverflow is that I want to get some feedback for what (I think) I know. But, there are occasions in here where you have no idea why your response was bad and thus downvoted. I mean, a question is not about who gives the best answer, it is about learning from each other. If you downvote me, give me a reason for it. Don't be a coward or a selfish person that keeps all the knowledge for himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been searching on uservoice and any proposal to enforce some feedback when downvoting was rejected so I believe giving feedback for a downvote should be basic netiquette in here. If the system can't enforce it the we should rely on common sense. So... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When you downvote, please give feedback:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Say, &quot;Hey, I downvoted you. It was me, ok? Now you know.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Say, &quot;Hey, -1 because you said that.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Say, &quot;Hey, that what you said is actually the other, -1&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that funny to offer free consultation letting ghosts assess your knowledge. I'm doing this for free so I expect this to be a fair trade by receiving &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt; feedback for free. I'm also convinced I'm not the only one having this problem, so please share your opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm a little bit shocked. Within a minute after posting this &quot;question&quot; some people downvoted &lt;em&gt;almost all&lt;/em&gt; of my questions (no subjective questions and I may say pretty hard to answer). So, some people are very touchy today although I didn't point the finger at anyone... I wouldn't have believed this could happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147948" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T21:40:53.040" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T21:40:53.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:01:37.570" ClosedDate="2010-04-07T00:19:57.430" Title="Should basic netiquette dictate that we post reasons for downvoting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="21134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:06:07.183" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to not be too thin skinned about it. By participating in any social medium on the web, you'll be exposed to a lot of contrasting viewpoints and personalities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the good out the experience. Don't worry about the down votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64040" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:06:07.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:07:34.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rule # 1 (echoing a very old rule)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usenet is a very strange place.&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;s/usenet/stack\ overflow/&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a neat way to keep people interested in answering questions and making edits where needed. I've heard that some recruiters now look for SO reputation .. if your reputation on some third party web site is such an issue, run like hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rule # 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering subjective questions is like taking a laxative in conjunction with a sleeping pill ... results observed when waking are undefined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO does have its 'digg/reddit' component, as such its going to inherit fly by voters. If you &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; take it personally, it really does not matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:07:34.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:07:57.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't sweat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got down-voted today for an informative answer because the person who down-voted didn't think my information was applicable or important enough for his specific environment/project, and after it had been up-voted... no biggie, it happens. There's going to be a cross-section of people, and I personally don't worry any more about expressing unpopular opinions; I'm not trying to be #1 on anyone's hit parade, I'm just trying to provide helpful info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:07:57.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:09:03.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are going to downvote answers.  Unfortunately it happens, it isn't limited to certain people, it is localized to answers.  Now it's true some closures and downvotes don't make sense but this is something you will have to live with and attempt to avoid being bitter about.  Your point of view is not always agreed with by everyone or anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In anycase I still believe suggestions like this do belong on uservoice but personally I can see why any previous suggestion was rejected.  I personally don't feel votes need an explanation or a justification.  I think as long as we all act reasonably then the site will work as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12707" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:09:03.043" />
  <row Id="21138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:10:44.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess people don't have much time to leave feedback. It does make you think a bit though and comparing with other upvoted answers is itself a good feedback..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:10:44.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:16:34.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing, just accept it. If you force users to give a reason you will get always get some people writing any old garbage, in the same way that they fill in fake email / postal address info when '* required' to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130817" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:16:34.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T19:20:43.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already been a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/41056-force-user-to-comment-on-downvote&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;popular uservoice request&lt;/a&gt; to force users to comment when they downvote.  It was declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T19:20:43.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21133" CreationDate="2009-03-01T20:07:43.637" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get downvoted for all sorts of reasons, mainly swearing but you have remember there are many different people out there with completely different minds and ideas so your thoughts will always irk some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T10:28:13.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-01T20:07:43.637" />
  <row Id="21143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52846" CreationDate="2009-09-10T10:58:09.220" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1404539/list&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; appears to have had an edit collision between revisions 3 and 4. Two different people have edited it with the same tags. This has resulted in creation of a new revision that effectively serves no purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a problem because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the question has been unfairly pushed closer to community wiki status&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it's unclear what happened from the revision list page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to ignore subsequent revisions that make no effective changes (at least in regards to tagging)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T11:19:02.720" LastActivityDate="2010-06-07T19:26:43.667" Title="Ignore identical revision changes in edit collisions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21173" CreationDate="2009-09-10T11:58:23.287" Score="3" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/939698#939698&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question, I posted a link with a special character in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally it was this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; Q: Why did the chicken cross the [Möbius strip][1]?  &#xA;&amp;gt; A: To get to the same side.&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Möbius_strip&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the link didn't show. I have since changed it to &lt;code&gt;/Mobius_strip&lt;/code&gt; since that URL works fine for Wikipedia, but just thought you might like to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just testing to see if the link works by just posting it (edit: nope!):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M&lt;/a&gt;öbius_strip&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T01:45:05.943" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:27:57.267" Title="Non-ASCII characters in external links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21117" CreationDate="2009-09-10T12:20:15.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not convinced that your attack vector presents a beneficial trade-off of resources for targets to a potential attacker.  How much time are they going to spend computing possible targets when they could be pursuing more lucrative means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow users are more tech-savvy than most (as others have pointed out).  The number of people who are going to even see your spam or phishing attempt is &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; lower than the general popluation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow uses OpenID, so there is no login screen to spoof, no password to steal. Even if someone falls for a Stack Overflow phishing e-mail, what information would the attacker gain?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You merely assert that this is an easy thing for someone to do, a &quot;time bomb&quot; to use your words, but you offer no profiling or statistical evidence to back up your claims.  Are you really surprised to be seen as maybe a little paranoid?  Get some hard data first, then we'll talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T20:00:56.040" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T20:00:56.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T12:20:15.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21102" CreationDate="2009-09-10T12:36:33.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is 3 things I find interesting about these type of request on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;90% of them are by users who have sub-par reputation across all 3 sites. (&amp;lt;2k)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;90% of them seems to have &lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt; read the FAQ on any of the sites at any point in time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;90% of them only joined SO in the last 6 months or less.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People seem to forget that Q&amp;amp;A is not in any way limited to whether the user asks a lot of questions, or only answers a lot of questions. The purpose of a Q&amp;amp;A site is to get as many questions around the topic that it covers and to provide a conical source of information for future users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have users that don't contribute properly, but they are in 1% category compared to the rest of the community and processes are in place to rectify these behaviors. However blocking someone just because you feel that it is not worth answering their question on a site where 2K+ users and moderators can edit questions and answers in a Wiki style to make them better or easier makes absolutely no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instead of spending time thinking of reasons to block or hide these behaviors, go spend some time and answer some questions, ask questions or even come up with ways to get these users more involved&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throught this process SO is a community, and we respect others. Something the we highlight in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be nice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Treat others with the same respect you'd want them to treat you. We're all here to learn together. Be tolerant of others who may not know everything you know. Bring your sense of humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you be happy if I added you to my ignore list since you meet all these criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T12:44:05.933" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T12:44:05.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21150" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21153" CreationDate="2009-09-10T12:50:05.953" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rarely find the time to browse SO/SF/SU looking for questions that I can answer. So I'm really curious to know when most of you find the time to answer questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:19:52.093" Title="When do you find the time to answer questions?" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21150" CreationDate="2009-09-10T12:53:41.593" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't let work get in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T12:53:41.593" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21150" CreationDate="2009-09-10T12:56:06.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take small breaks from work throughout the day to browse. I consider it study, and as such benefits my work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T12:56:06.957" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21150" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:00:27.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At home (as a break from writing/editing, usually)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the train/bus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At work while waiting for builds/deployments etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walking to/from the station, via my phone (normally comments rather than answers, admittedly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Waiting for my eldest son's swimming lesson to finish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Occasionally in front of the TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T13:19:52.093" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:19:52.093" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21147" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:10:46.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11943/the-markdown-editor-chokes-on-characters-in-urls&quot;&gt;The Markdown editor chokes on $ characters in URLs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, Jeff said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we whitelist characters and every new whitelisted char is a hole for an attack&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine he'd say the same thing about non-ascii characters in URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:10:46.167" />
  <row Id="21155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21158" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:11:07.147" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that I have a place to ask all my software, programming and web server related questions, I wonder about more computer-related fields that could benefit from SO-like websites and their community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Graphic design&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Video and Audio editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3D modeling and CAD&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will any more such question-answer websites be setup by Jeff and Co? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T13:20:15.477" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T14:57:12.627" Title="Will any more question-answer websites be launched?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21155" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:14:41.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, and Yes. Especially with the popularity of StackOverflow, many different organizations/groups will be launching items similar to it around their specific interests. I'm just waiting for the Photoshop one. Learned of PHPQandA.com today - but it is getting destroyed by traffic apparently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the most interesting question is &quot;will other sites be launched.&quot; I think the most interesting question is around who will create the best alternative to StackExchange so others can create their own sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:14:41.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21150" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:14:57.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have insomnia, and this is a hell of a lot better than aimlessly browsing wikipedia...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also it makes for a nice break periodically throughout the workday. I've gotten some great inspiration for features (or the implementation of a feature) by browsing through the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:14:57.157" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21155" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:16:32.147" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should allow anybody (with the right business plan) to set up a site that handles Q&amp;amp;A in the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the belief that some hold that Jeff &amp;amp; Co. should set up all these computer related websites on their own. A small group can only manage so many sites at one time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:16:32.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21166" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:31:56.437" Score="-3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Single-line comments show like 2 lines, simply to give space for the 2 Vote and Flag icons above each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can these 2 buttons be placed next to each other? allowing the single-line comments to look like single-lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/whitespace.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T14:13:02.397" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T14:30:17.263" Title="Can the longer comment bug be fixed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="21165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21164" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:38:30.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The obvious solution is to demand that everyone write longer comments.  Despite all the hassle this will cause most of us, this is a definite win for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19502#19502&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21164/can-the-longer-comment-bug-be-fixed/21166#21166&quot;&gt;Also&lt;/a&gt;, it is easier to visually distinguish things vertically than horizontally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T14:30:17.263" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T14:30:17.263" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21164" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:38:34.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a problem with it being vertical and tacking on an extra line, but I probably wouldn't be opposed to it all on one line either. My only thought would be about it potentially increasing the amount of misclicks and accidental flags given out on comments (since it is easier to visually distinguish things vertically than horizontally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T14:21:31.943" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T14:21:31.943" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21169" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:39:34.630" Score="0" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want something similiar to Stackoverflow's 'as you type' preview of the post you're writing. Was it custom built or is it a freely available as jQuery/mootools etc add on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132004" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:40:04.597" Title="Is the HTML preview custom built or available online?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="21168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21164" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:39:44.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems entirely unnecessary to me. And honestly, I think it would be more annoying if it changed for single line comments vs multi line comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:39:44.143" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21167" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:40:04.597" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was (de-obfuscated/reverse-engineered) by the SO team. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:40:04.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21164" CreationDate="2009-09-10T13:40:09.057" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people have problems hitting the correct button anyway. Especially while giggling. Putting them next to each other would increase this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T13:40:09.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21174" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:10:28.627" Score="4" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not all that familiar with OpenID, so this very well could be a Stack Overflow / technical question, but... is there a way to verify someone's Stack Overflow account using their OpenID? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an openID URL on my account that's something like www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx... if someone could verify that my OpenID URL on StackOverflow is &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; that, would that make a difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is a possible duplicate, as Kevin inquired about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7851/verifying-a-user-mainly-at-an-interview&quot;&gt;Verifying a user (mainly at an interview)&lt;/a&gt; (to which the answer was &quot;have them write some text on Stack Overflow&quot;), but... slightly different angle here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:06:09.177" Title="Verify a Stack Overflow user via OpenID?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21147" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:17:05.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I intend to reuse &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13703/url-containing-closing-parentheses-are-trunked-in-comments-javadoc-idiom/13714#13714&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; over and over until this problem is fixed or the eventual heat death of the universe, whichever comes first.  Just mentally replace the parts about the parens with the specific character you are having problems with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I doubt we'll get this fixed, but you&#xA;  can resolve it yourself by URL&#xA;  encoding &lt;code&gt;(&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;%28&lt;/code&gt; and&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;%29&lt;/code&gt;.  Since one of these bugs gets&#xA;  posted every two to three days, here's&#xA;  a simple rule of thumb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Any characters in your URL other than &lt;code&gt;A-Z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;a-z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;0-9&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;/.=?-+%&amp;amp;*&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;    (and the &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; in &quot;&lt;code&gt;http:&lt;/code&gt;&quot;) should&#xA;    probably be URL encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've cobbled together a quick page&#xA;  that will encode the things that&#xA;  shouldn't need encoding.  You can find&#xA;  it &lt;a href=&quot;http://bstorer.com/so/encode.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It doesn't use any&#xA;  jQuery, so it's probably completely&#xA;  unreliable.  If you find anything it&#xA;  should be encoding but isn't, let me&#xA;  know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T14:17:05.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21172" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:34:37.680" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you just trying to determine automatically whether a given openid url or which from a set of openid urls are valid stackoverflow users, and what their stackoverflow id is?  If so, I don't think that's possible without asking the StackOverflow database itself in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you serving a page to a user and asking them to prove stackoverflow membership by signing into an open id account, where you'll know whether the url they use belongs to a valid stackoverflow user?  If so, you might have more luck.  Unfortunately there's a big exception for google, since they use a different unique url per site (something Jeff &amp;amp; co taught us when adding more sites after Stackoverflow.com) and so the google openid for your site wouldn't match the id from stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is in reference to finding a better way to do verification for the telerik promotion, you might need to open up a web service on StackOverflow that telerik can call directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T01:06:09.177" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:06:09.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21226" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:40:04.313" Score="9" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question title is rhetorical, and I expect most people's opinions will be in between the two extremes presented.  Here's a summary of some of the pros and cons of the Community Wiki system as we've come to know it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a big post, so please preface your response with an answer to the following question: &lt;strong&gt;Do the benefits outweigh the problems?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Pro&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stereotype:&lt;/strong&gt; CW posts are for the selfless benefit of the community, don't be a rep whore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community Wiki Posts&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Encourage community participation&lt;/strong&gt; -- Community Wiki questions invite the participation of the entire community (those with &gt;100 rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Improve the overall quality of the site&lt;/strong&gt; -- They allow for the rapid accumulation and careful vetting of information by many contributors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Allow the best content to be consolidated in threads with many answers&lt;/strong&gt; -- When a question has a large number of answers (15 or 30), converting the entire thread to community wiki allows the community to participate in improving the content of the question and its answers, so that the best information can 'bubble' to the top.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open edit-prone posts to more help&lt;/strong&gt; -- When a post has been edited a large number of times, that post can likely benefit from the input of others to improve its quality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are immune from selfish attachment to rep&lt;/strong&gt; -- Community Wiki questions, as they are owned by the community at large, &lt;em&gt;do not accumulate rep for an individual, but exist solely for the benefit of the community&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show good faith&lt;/strong&gt; -- Marking your question as community wiki voluntarily is seen as a sign of good faith, and can improve your post's reception under certain circumstances (such as subjective questions or polls).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Con&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stereotype:&lt;/strong&gt; The CW system is flawed and easily abused, and we deserve to earn rep for our contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community Wiki Posts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deny contributors the reputation they worked for&lt;/strong&gt; -- Community Wiki posts &lt;em&gt;deny the original poster the ability to accumulate rep&lt;/em&gt;, which in some cases can be be seen as unfair.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Allow others to edit an individual's posts too soon&lt;/strong&gt; -- Community Wiki posts force the original poster to allow a large segment of the community to edit their contributions, which may be contrary to their wishes or expectations, particularly when the post is converted by one of the automated mechanisms.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confusingly still award badges&lt;/strong&gt; -- Community Wiki posts still accumulate badges for their originators, which confuses the issue of whether they are really selfless contributions to the community or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Punish contributors who improve their posts with many edits&lt;/strong&gt; -- Posts are forced into community wiki after ~6 edits, which can be seen as unfair by those who are diligent about improving their contributions, and which some have alleged can lead to gaming of the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discourage asking questions which are too popular&lt;/strong&gt; -- Threads are forced into community wiki after a large number of answers, which can be seen as an incentive to ask questions which are just popular enough to gain rep, but not so popular as to get too many answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can't be switched back&lt;/strong&gt; -- The switch to community wiki is permanent, users who unknowingly or accidentally switch their post to CW cannot undo their actions and may be disappointed at their lost opportunity to gain rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discourage potential answers&lt;/strong&gt; -- Some participants feel that having a Community Wiki question discourages potential answers, because answerers can choose to participate instead on questions where they have the possibility of earning reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are demanded by some users when the contributor may not agree&lt;/strong&gt; -- Some participants feel &quot;bullied&quot; into switching to community wiki mode when they do not agree with the opinions of those who think their post should be voluntarily switched.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are seen as a &quot;free pass&quot; to post useless junk&lt;/strong&gt; -- Others feel that rather than calling for some content to be marked as CW to gain acceptance, that such content should be disallowed entirely rather than permitted by virtue of being CW.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that note, should this post be CW?  Or is it useless crap that I shouldn't have posted in the first place? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-18T08:59:45.980" LastActivityDate="2011-04-03T21:08:47.330" Title="Is Community Wiki fatally flawed XOR vitally useful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:40:07.090" Score="6" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the user page it lists all my answers, and I like seeing the ones that are marked as correct (obviously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are not correct, I'd like to go to the question and fix my answer until it is correct. On some of those questions, it turns out that I have the highest voted answer, but no answer has been selected. In that case, I don't really have any 'extra' improvements to make, I should just wait until the OP chooses to comment or accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there was an indication that I have the highest upvoted answer on those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;considerations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do if more than one user has the same number of votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do if your question is higher upvoted than the 'accepted' answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:24:16.337" Title="Visual Indicator in user page of &quot;Highest Voted Answer&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21155" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:41:37.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has mentioned several times on the podcast (as well as in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;) that &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; should not contain questions about videogames or consoles.  Maybe that's just not part of their vision for Super User, but it leads me to believe that they are planning on doing a gaming-themed site next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="423" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T14:41:37.320" />
  <row Id="21178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22586" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:48:44.187" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATED: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1407092/approximating-page-views-per-tag-or-tag-group-per-month-with-limited-data&quot;&gt;Asked on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starting with posts.xml, we can create a simple table (filtering by PostType=Question), with four columns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Id&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ViewCount&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CreationDate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's somewhat trivial to normalize the Tags out such that we have three tables:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions (Id, ViewCount, CreationDate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QuestionTags (Id, TagName)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags (TagName)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given those three tables, how would you go about determining the estimated page views for a given tag (or group of tags) over a month? The tricky parts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Views do not come in at a constant rate, the have a initial bump and a long tail; i.e., you can't do &quot;ViewCount/Months_Open&quot; to determine per-question page views&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall traffic is increasing at a steady rate, so past data would need to be adjusted for inflation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, should I post this as a SQL/database question on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T19:08:15.057" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:16:46.617" Title="Page views per month per tag (group)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21175" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:51:28.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do the benefits outweigh the problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still consider the &lt;em&gt;primary feature&lt;/em&gt; of the SO sites to be the ability of any community member (with sufficient rep) to edit other people's posts. CW opens this up to more users. That &lt;em&gt;alone&lt;/em&gt; is enough to justify its existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On that note, should this post be CW? Or is it useless crap that I shouldn't have posted in the first place? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well... Pretty sure it rehashes some stuff from the old CW FAQ that should never have been in the CW FAQ. So that's good. Make enough of it redundant, and we can just delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T14:51:28.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21181" CreationDate="2009-09-10T14:59:23.373" Score="-2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;While talking with a coworker I realized that very often I answer my question through the act of composing and email (but not sending) or writing a SO question (but not posting). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working through the details and doing the additional research often reveals the answer, at which point I either abandon the post or post it anyway and immediately post the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since answering your own question is covered by the Self Learner badge, I think there should be a badge for abandoning questions before they are posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I realize it would be tricky (or impossible) to implement&lt;/strong&gt; in a way that's not easily susceptible to abuse but nonetheless, I think it's a neat idea. &lt;em&gt;And might spark some other good (possible) ideas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nothing else, it could spur other badge ideas (e.g., using the related questions list that shows up while asking a question to find your answer without asking a new question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T15:45:19.997" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:13:01.067" Title="Silver badge for answering your own question *before* asking it" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21180" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:01:19.453" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easy to implement, but requires the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21053/21058#21058&quot;&gt;direct-to-brain interface&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:01:19.453" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21184" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:09:40.860" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered this question with 2 up votes, but only got 50% of the bounty (was 100, got 50).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1356862/1396203#1396203&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1356862/1396203#1396203&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you hover over the accept check mark, this is the text: &quot;The question owner accepted this as the best answer 12 hours ago. This answer was awarded a bounty of 50 reputation&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems to imply that the OP did mark my answer as accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T15:14:52.910" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:17:49.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T15:09:40.860" Title="bounty process clarification" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21183" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:11:57.953" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the bounty period ended, those two up-votes would ensure that you get half the rep automatically. If the OP accepted your answer, you should have gotten the full amount of rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130343" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:11:57.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T15:11:57.953" />
  <row Id="21186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21178" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:15:27.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does sound more like an sql question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I don't think posting it anywhere else will help you.  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news twice in one day, but I don't think you have enough information there to show the results you want.  All that's stored is the number of views, but to group them by month you also need some better idea of when each view occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best you can do is an approximation that credits all the views for a question on the creation date.  It's not horrible, since most posts gets most of their views in the first few hours.  But it's going to short you in some important ways: posts near the end of month, new links that bump old content, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:15:27.323" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21183" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:17:49.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that there is only one value for the 'Owner accepted answer' string.  It doesn't allow for the nuance with auto accepted bounty answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:17:49.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T15:17:49.113" />
  <row Id="21189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21193" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:21:10.400" Score="13" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have nice shiny expert badges right now, which are based on the number of upvotes received in a particular tag.  While that's all well and good, it does tend to bias the recipients towards those who make popular answers, not necessarily those who solve the problems of the asker.  As a case in point, see the (in)famous recipients of the subjective expert badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not have another set of &lt;strong&gt;badges for those with many accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt; in particular tags?  This would reward people who go out of their way to help people with obscure, not-so-popular problems and are able to solve them and get the acceptance checkmark, even though the only upvote they ever get is the one from the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The threshhold numbers could be lower, of course, since any given answer can only ever earn 1 acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I suppose you could count the acceptance vote as an additional upvote for purposes of the expert badges, but I think that could conflate the issues here and diminish the value of the expert badges already awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:04:58.177" Title="How about new expert badges based number of your answers accepted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21180" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:21:48.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know you're talking about the most-easily-gamed badge in history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;boom&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;A computer crashes.&lt;/em&gt;  &amp;mdash; &quot;Hey, look, a silver badge.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:21:48.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21176" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:24:16.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling that this will be declined on the basis of database normalization: We'll have to query against all other answers to the question for each of your own answers displayed to determine whether yours is the highest voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:24:16.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21189" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:27:02.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disagree. While there are issues with the badges, as you've described, there's (IMHO) a conscious decision why they were set up that way: The answers serve not only the OP, but the community at large and -- most importantly -- future visitors. Because of that, using acceptance for those badges is, to me, shunning the community in favor of the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue is that there are users who simply don't accept answers. Acceptance isn't, pardon the pun, as accepted as we'd like to think it is! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually like the second idea, though, counting the acceptance of an answer as an additional upvote for purposes of badge tallying. That I could go along with. It gives a little extra weight to the OP without skewing things out of proportion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:27:02.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21189" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:27:47.080" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an excellent idea. Help out the obscure tags! A lot of answers only ever get one or two votes, even though they solve the poster's problem and are accepted, so they're certainly not highly rewarded by the reputation perspective (they often require quite a lot of work as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:27:47.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21196" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:30:57.463" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be really nice, if on the &quot;asked&quot; field that's displayed in the sidebar to the right of the question, that hovering over that would show the exact time that the question was asked, so that I could see specifically when I asked a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually waiting on another question to go past the two day point, so that I can put a bounty on it, but showing &quot;yesterday&quot; doesn't really help.  It could be an hour from now, it could be 24 hours from now until it reaches this point, so showing the actual asked time would be great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: It would actually be better if it showed it in my time, instead of Z, but that's another feature request :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135588" LastEditorUserId="135588" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T16:45:59.527" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:45:59.527" Title="Question &quot;asked&quot; field in sidebar should display actual time on hover" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21189" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:31:27.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a better indicator of a user's success is the ratio of accepted answers to total answers. This could be further broken down on a tag by tag basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be more comfortable with someone who has answered 50 questions and had 25 accepted than I would someone who has answered 500 and only had 25 accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as far as actual badges awarded for hitting X and Y accepted answers on tags, I don't see a problem with it. I think it would be a fun thing to aim for, but I don't think it would be the greatest thing at judging a person's actual skill on the tags (perhaps moreso their grinding ability).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T15:54:59.230" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:54:59.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21194" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:32:17.087" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, but you can also find out this information by hovering over the &quot;asked 27 secs ago&quot; field below the question (just above where it shows your gravatar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:32:17.087" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21194" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:32:41.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did that and it does...I hovered over the &quot;Asked 52 secs ago&quot; on your question and it said '2009-09-10 15:30:57'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Didn't realize you were talking about on the right side. I thought you were meaning on the signature at the bottom of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:32:41.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:43:49.000" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My attempt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.samonsoftware.com/?p=84&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.samonsoftware.com/?p=84&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a desktop application that goes into fullscreen mode and presents a series of images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a short video demonstration on that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A windows installer and source code zip are available, although I cannot provide source for the commercial components I have used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has any problems running it please let me know via comments on my blog post.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.samonsoftware.com/soCountDown/web%5FSOCountDown.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133330" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T14:12:27.797" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:12:27.797" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21204" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:45:38.310" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1405524/how-do-hackers-know-what-and-how-to-hack-a-system-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, while not particularly outstanding, was relevant and was unfairly closed. However, it seems that because the question was migrated (to superuser?!), I don't have the option of voting to reopen it. This seems odd, and I haven't found anything describing the rationale on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this behaviour intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:25:54.867" Title="Should it be possible to reopen migrated questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21199" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:49:55.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't belong on superuser but it does belong on SO, the 3K guys can move it back to SO. If it doesn't belong on SU either, it'll be closed there. In neither case is there reason to reopen it on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:49:55.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21199" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:51:32.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is intentional, but if you feel it has been wrongly migrated you can flag it for moderator attention. Mods have the power to reopen, unlock, etc. etc. even on migrated questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The method for normal users to get it back would be to have the migrated question migrated BACK to the site. Basically play volleyball for a while and eventually the question may settle down on its most proper place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer that a mod make that call rather than tossing it back and forth indefinitely, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:51:32.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21199" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:51:52.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That question seems like an obvious SuperUser question to me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The behavior &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; intentional.  The question will be automatically migrated to SuperUser, where, if it is deemed to be an SO question, they can vote to migrate it back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:51:52.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21199" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:53:08.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks happy enough on Super User; i wouldn't mess with it. But, if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; think it was incorrectly migrated, flag the question &lt;em&gt;on the destination site&lt;/em&gt; for moderator review, and explain why it shouldn't have been moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:53:08.360" />
  <row Id="21204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21199" CreationDate="2009-09-10T15:53:30.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the same thing. I have enough rep to vote to close on SO, but not enough to vote to close on SU. So now it belongs to the SU community just because a few people on SO didn't want it there. With other closed questions you can vote to reopen, so this isn't a real problem. However, as you've pointed out, we don't have that choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T15:53:30.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21217" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:07:42.077" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically my question is in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I desire to ask a question to get some help on moving data from one database to another, but I am not certain where the question should go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank  you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135105" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:36:37.030" Title="Would a question exporting from SQL Server 2008 -&gt; SQL Server 2000 go on serverfault or stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21207" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:10:43.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially strikes me as a SO question, I suspect you'll be dealing with sql scripts, which are programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:10:43.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:12:02.163" Score="9" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't have any examples right now (because I just went in there to clean the little bastards up, prompting this request), I think we all know there is a problem with new users making tags that shouldn't be tags. Tags like &lt;kbd&gt;one&lt;/kbd&gt; or an orphaned version number like &lt;kbd&gt;2000&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have the restriction that low-rep users can't create new tags. I am suggesting tightening that restriction to forbid new users from using tags that have a very low traffic (i.e. the ones that are most likely typos). Alternatively this restriction might only be in place for the very first question a user asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12561/tag-editor-now-supports-inline-autocomplete/12592#12592&quot;&gt;I mentioned before in an answer&lt;/a&gt; (and am now reiterating as an actual request (linking to Welbog in the process)) is a warning when users are creating new tags and using tags that don't have a lot of traffic. But then again, users who put their titles in the tag field obviously aren't reading instructions in the first place, so why would they read the warnings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestions in this question are just some of my ideas. I think we should look for more ideas so that we can address this problem properly. Whatever we come up with should make it so that I don't have to spend several agonizing minutes trying to remove stupid tags &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt;. Bad tags are distracting, and while I'm trying to answer questions I get off on retagging tangents. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be more productive if tags, in general, were used a bit more strictly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's very difficult for a dismembered head like me to solve those clever visual brain-teasers the robots give us. Though I do share their affinity for Madonna.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="130890" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T16:36:58.840" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:36:58.840" Title="Tighten up tag restrictions and add warnings for new and low-usage tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21180" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:13:01.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Is their a &quot;bad idea of the day&quot; badge for meta? Joel couldn't be more correct. This would be waaaay too easy to game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:13:01.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21207" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:17:42.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends if you're looking for more of a scripting answer or a wizard answer (no, I'm not knocking the wizards).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A scripting approach would go on SO, but a wizard approach (how to properly setup a database migration process through SQL Server Management Studio) best fits in SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer that, and you'll know where to post. Plus you can also &lt;a href=&quot;http://sofum.dillieodigital.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;search all three sites&lt;/a&gt; to see if the question has already been answered for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:17:42.573" />
  <row Id="21212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21209" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:20:19.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in favor of this.  In a perfect world, all the bad tags would be purged, but this world (unlike me) isn't perfect.  It's a good extension to the current system, and I doubt that the number of times a new user's question genuinely needs a low-use tag are far outweighed by the number of times a new user doesn't have a freaking clue about what constitutes a good tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for such an advanced creature, you seem to have a lot of problems, Welbog.  Here's a feature request for you: grow a body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:20:19.887" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21199" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:25:54.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This particular example is an interesting one. When I ran across it on SU, the first thing I thought (before clicking the title) was some newbie wanted to be like the cool l33t h@x0rs. Then I opened it, read it, saw it was migrated from SO, and said, &quot;WTF?!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opening it now again, a few hours later, I see it's getting some really good response. But it's clear that the user was asking, from a programming point of view, how to harden his software. And while 5 people did vote to migrate it, in retrospect I think it was unfairly and unjustly done. I'm not flagging it for mod attention -- but only because it is getting some good answers there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think flagging for mod attention is the right answer in a case like this. But at the same time, in this exact scenario ... How would STRIDE-type guidance for a developer not be programming-related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU is not supposed to be our dumping ground!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW, security is a valid topic in all 3 sites -- how to write more secure software in SO, how to protect your network and other assets in SF, and how to protect your individual PC or home network in SU. This one clearly fell into the first bin ... )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:25:54.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21207" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:36:37.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since your sql scripts aren't working that leads you into the realm of other programming solutions which should go on SO.  SQL Server export/migration questions on SF are typically answered as &quot;Script out the database objects and export your data via SSMS&quot;, or &quot;Use a third part product like Red Gate's SQL Data Compare&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:36:37.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21147" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:39:34.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia supports both forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_strip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so use the other form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/60211/auto-escape-url-when-entering-with-hyperlink-button-ctrll/82263#82263&quot;&gt;as of recently&lt;/a&gt;, when entering a link via the button (or Ctrl-L), the characters will automatically be escaped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-11T13:27:57.267" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:27:57.267" />
  <row Id="21221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-10T16:41:20.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Welbog has no body&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt; (note linking to welbog)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: This meme began with Welbog's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21053/stack-overflow-needs-direct-to-brain-interface-for-post-human-users&quot;&gt;feature request for a brain interface for post humans&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T16:41:20.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T16:41:20.283" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:01:25.257" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Everything is a meme&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/21221#21221&quot;&gt;2009-09-10 16:41:20Z&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; This meme began with TheTXI's obsession over memes in general, starting memes on SO, and claiming memes for himself. In an effort to garner wide-spread adoption of his various bad habits and nervous ticks, he began this project to catalog the prevailing memes on Meta Stack Overflow, making most of them up as he went along based on things that someone wrote, somewhere, a few times. It caught on. Sorta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T19:20:34.020" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T19:20:34.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T17:01:25.257" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:02:06.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of reinventing the wheel, you could use this downloadable JavaScript application: &lt;a href=&quot;http://aslakhellesoy.com/planning%5Fpoker%5Ftimer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://aslakhellesoy.com/planning%5Fpoker%5Ftimer/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T17:02:06.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21175" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:11:11.960" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do the benefits outweigh the problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion? Conditionally... yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea of what wiki &lt;em&gt;should have been&lt;/em&gt; has been bastardized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What Wiki Should Have Been:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Community wiki&quot; should be rare. If you agree that all questions on the site should be &lt;em&gt;answerable&lt;/em&gt; programming questions and not subjective discussion, then where wiki comes into play is that rare situation where the question is &lt;strong&gt;answerable... but the answer is built up by group of people&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example where wiki could work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am working on a C#.net team doing A, B, and C. My job is to author a style guide for my team. What should I be sure is include in that style guide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &quot;answer&quot; will ultimately be a collaborative work, each contributor is, in effect, relinquishing individual ownership of the answers by contributing to a larger body knowledge. That's wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What Wiki Has Become&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a question that would be closed but, if I make it community wiki, I might just squeeze it by.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have an answer that will probably be down-voted, so I will wiki-fy it so it doesn't affect my account.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want my &quot;accept rate&quot; to be higher so, if I don't find an acceptable answer, I'll just make my question community wiki so it isn't &quot;counted.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We need a way to disconnect a post from the reputation system, for whatever reason. Too much editing? Wiki. Too many answers? Wiki. User's going to get more reputation than warranted? wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there needs to be a mechanism where reputation is no longer appropriate, maybe we need another term or mechanism to facilitate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T15:26:15.973" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:26:15.973" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21227" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:42:29.930" Score="3" ViewCount="1272" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;SO Clones?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i love stack overflow so much. i was wondering if there was a clone script i can modify for a project. thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T17:47:07.917" ClosedDate="2009-09-10T17:49:48.800" Title="is there a stack overflow clone script?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21227" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:43:27.290" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can license the platform itself at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;. Packages start at $129/month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T17:45:24.003" />
  <row Id="21229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21227" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:43:44.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want to look into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.  Not cheap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T17:45:24.003" />
  <row Id="21230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21227" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:46:09.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another project based off of Stack overflow (written in Python) called &quot;Plurk Solace&quot;. Its a much simpler version of Stack and doesn't come close to the quality, but you might start with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitbucket.org/plurk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bitbucket.org/plurk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132251" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T17:46:09.213" />
  <row Id="21231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21227" CreationDate="2009-09-10T17:47:07.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CNProg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T17:47:07.917" />
  <row Id="21232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19940" CreationDate="2009-09-10T18:14:27.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked for a slightly different solution for the same problem, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19021/request-change-in-behaviour-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited&quot;&gt;by letting me neutralise a vote I cast (not rescind it)&lt;/a&gt;, which got declined. Jeff suggested in a comment to one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19021/request-change-in-behaviour-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited/19022#19022&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;earn 2k rep, edit the question, then change your vote. – Jeff Atwood♦ Sep 5 at 13:08 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so I guess this is something you could do. I personally don't feel comfortable with this approach, but as it comes from Jeff you certainly won't be accused of gaming the system for doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T01:59:25.217" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T01:59:25.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21235" CreationDate="2009-09-10T18:27:46.267" Score="1" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling to format a bullet list, a number list and then a bullet list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question isn't looking right:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/64230/frequent-error-messages-when-connecting-to-windows-file-shares-from-a-mac-under-a&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/64230/frequent-error-messages-when-connecting-to-windows-file-shares-from-a-mac-under-a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a bug in markdown or did I screw something up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me specify:&#xA;I'm trying to create a 2 item bullet list, some space, then a 3 item number list, some space, a then 2 item bullet list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- &quot;The operation cannot be completed because one or more required items cannot be found. (Error code -1401)&quot;&#xA;- &quot;The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in &quot;home1-final.psd&quot; could not be written. (Error code -36)&quot;&#xA;&#xA;1. This user has been accessing files this way without problems for over a year&#xA;2. No configuration changes or installations have occurred on the file server of the client/user Mac since the problem began&#xA;3. The user can use the files most of the time, but frequently gets these errors.&#xA;&#xA;- Windows Server 2003&#xA;- Mac OS X 10.50.8&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you look at the link above, it doesn't render that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135251" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:07:27.297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:07:27.297" Title="Problems creating a bullet and number list with markdown" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21233" CreationDate="2009-09-10T18:37:04.643" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like this? Note, when doing nested lists, the preview window is a super big help. Inserted how ever many spaces it takes to pop that list into existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No problems exist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You made it all up&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You probably missing something big&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That isn't really important though&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't mean to pry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You might have just not indented enough times&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That seems more likely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This helps, right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- No problems exist&#xA;- You made it all up&#xA; 1. You probably missing something big&#xA;     - That isn't really important though&#xA;     - I don't mean to pry&#xA; 2. You might have just not indented enough times&#xA;     - That seems more likely&#xA;- This helps, right?&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T18:44:10.327" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T18:44:10.327" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21233" CreationDate="2009-09-10T18:41:38.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're being merged because they have the same indentation and nothing but whitespace in between. You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; do &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21233/problems-creating-a-bullet-and-number-list-with-markdown/21234#21234&quot;&gt;like Jonathan did&lt;/a&gt;, and just change the indentation from list-to-list, but this might not work if you don't intend one list to be a subset of an item in the preceding list. Easiest solution? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/f61b7a81-17b4-4305-9096-48af6b1cc545/view-source&quot;&gt;Just throw a &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; in between 'em&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Four&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the excess whitespace annoys you, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21233/problems-creating-a-bullet-and-number-list-with-markdown/21234#21234&quot;&gt;consider using a horizontal rule&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Four&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of that works for you, then you're left with the option of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/0ff2f237-729e-4758-b793-d14bbe3e3d8e/view-source&quot;&gt;using straight HTML&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Note that ordinary Markdown syntax &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;*doesn't* work within block-level HTML&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T19:02:52.773" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T19:02:52.773" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21189" CreationDate="2009-09-10T19:52:47.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you like answering questions, I would encourage you to provide &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; answers to any question that interests you. The better the answer, the more upvotes you will receive. I've certainly given upvotes for clear answers to questions that I don't necessarily even understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T19:52:47.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21278" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:01:58.137" Score="-8" ViewCount="619" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Spolsky said you &quot;can't clear a market at these levels&quot; and &quot;people won't answer questions for small amounts of money&quot; but I can't help but think that with the right promotion people like John Skeet could make a good amount of money off their personal SO pages. Most bloggers out there don't make much money but I know there are some really prolific ones that actually do.  What about giving users the &lt;strong&gt;option&lt;/strong&gt; to put their own advertising on their own page and see what they can do?  Perhaps if the opportunity is there then they will strive to use the site more to see what they are capable of making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131460" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T22:10:54.937" Title="Why can't people make money off Stackoverflow just like a regular personal blog?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;money-making&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="21239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1031" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:02:45.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally like &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt; approach, as it allows some aditional digging into users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from users where location like '%country_here%'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15626" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:02:45.467" />
  <row Id="21240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:03:40.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an &quot;About Me&quot; box on the user profile where you can put links to whatever you want, even obnoxious advertising if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:03:40.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21189" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:04:58.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to see this as more of a score than a badge, similar to the percent of accepted answers.   I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16637/add-acceptance-rate-to-the-user-profile-page&quot;&gt;previously suggested&lt;/a&gt; keeping this stat and, presumably, others on a user's profile.  We even had a few ideas, though not this one, on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2563/is-the-ratio-of-upvotes-to-downvotes-a-meaningful-measure-of-participation&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA; I think that the percentage of accepted answers would be an idea stat to add to the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:04:58.177" />
  <row Id="21242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:04:59.737" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest problems with making money on Stack Overflow, even just for the people that &lt;em&gt;built&lt;/em&gt; Stack Overflow, is that SO's user-base is probably one of the least likely on the planet to click on ads. I'm sure a huge chunk of them have adblockers installed and don't even see the ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So good luck making money there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside that, people who are great on SO do tend to get noticed, and it certainly may translate into personal benefit for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I, at least, say that the creators of SO (and all the rest) should be making full-time money from it before anyone else does...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:04:59.737" />
  <row Id="21243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:05:19.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Then it will drive people from the site, as ads will crowd some responses, and there may be a competition for who can get the most ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also take away from the culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is designed more along the Unix model than the MS model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it interesting, years ago, I would ask for help and Unix programmers would give answers for free, MS developers would offer to help for a cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135105" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:05:19.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:12:54.950" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One step would be to encourage closing the questions.  Usually, the closest I can come to a close reason is &quot;Not a real question&quot;.  Lots of the bad questions I've seen are real questions, but they are hard to read and don't have nearly enough information.  Come up with a good description of a useless question, stick it in as a close reason, and everybody with 3K rep can vote to close with a good conscience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with banning accounts is that they're basically free.  If all I was interested in was asking questions casually and hoping to get lucky with an answer, I wouldn't care about the account I was using, as long as I could get another one.  Closing and deleting bad questions would be more of a discouragement, and would keep the question base cleaner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:12:54.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T20:12:54.950" />
  <row Id="21245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:18:28.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want money and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/how-to-get-stack-overflow-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO stickers&lt;/a&gt;?  Some people are never satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:18:28.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:21:08.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the site would lose a lot of credibility in the dev/sysadmin communitys' eyes with ads plastered all over a user's profile, and that is IF people chose to do so.  I could see the desired &quot;I'm here to help&quot; mentality start shifting over to &quot;I'm here to make money&quot; and a lot of fluff posts begin to pop up as people try to draw attention to themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:21:08.757" />
  <row Id="21247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:21:16.900" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an excellent idea.  Think of the fortune I could make.  I bet I could make answering questions on SO my job.  That way, if I didn't feel like working and killed time on SO instead, &lt;em&gt;I would still be working!&lt;/em&gt;  It's brilliant!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/23921/pesto&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/pestoad.gif&quot; alt=&quot;advertising&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:21:16.900" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="21249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:35:24.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you'd make more money charging an entry fee for the monthly &quot;Stump Jon Skeet Contest&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:35:24.517" />
  <row Id="21250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-10T20:59:01.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only caution that I would have would be to be very patient with non-English speakers.  I'm sure it would take me more than 3-6 months to become understandable in a new language.  I'd do the warning first, then if you don't get feedback (or a change in behavior) that the person is making an effort put the account into suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T20:59:01.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-10T20:59:01.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1031" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:22:24.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try using statoverflow sandbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just have to get the SQL right. For instance &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=select%20%2A%20from%20users%20where%20location%20like%20%27M%X%%27&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from users where location like 'M%X%'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would bring most of SO from Mexico ( and some extra from Texas but since it was Mexico once, I guess it's ok ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:22:24.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21273" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:23:52.397" Score="0" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, StackOverflow is a fantastic site! And I know, the tag system allows me to just look at subsections of the site. But I wonder... I see questions about Java, C++, VB6, Delphi, iPhone, Linux, Windows and a lot more and it's all thrown on a big heap on the main page. JavaScript, ASP, Django, R... The list just continues. Yet the main page shows it all. The RSS feed of SO is also flooded with hundreds of Q's per day. And I can't help but wonder...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't StackOverflow getting too many questions per day, simply because it's such a generic site? Shouldn't there at least be a more global division by adding a few global tags that users can choose from through e.g. a combobox? At least, then visitors could at least filter on those global tags, instead of the thousands of user-defined tags...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:17:27.843" Title="Isn't StackOverflow becoming too generic?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="21253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21252" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:25:18.310" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can add any tag to your ignore list and magically make SO ungeneric just for you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:25:18.310" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21252" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:25:39.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ignored/interesting tags are your friend. You can use wildcards (e.g. &lt;code&gt;*iphone*&lt;/code&gt;) for the global scope you're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are 3 different sites. What more do you want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:25:39.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21252" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:30:26.100" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Programming questions&quot; is already rather specific. Actually, &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; specific. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/not-programming-related&quot;&gt;Now if we could only get people to stick to programming questions&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:30:26.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21252" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:35:57.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It has always been like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do is add to my favorites what I'm really interested on and click only in the &quot;yellow&quot; boxes in the main page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't use RSS but the main page directly. Try that for a while and you'll see SO becoming quite specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:35:57.450" />
  <row Id="21258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21266" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:49:01.063" Score="3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some times people accept the answer but don't upvote it. When this happens to me I'm always tempted to ask them to upvote it, but I don't know if I'll look rude or needy lol. Should we ask for upvote when our answer is accepted or just let it go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It just happened to me &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1401105/one-resource-dictionary-for-all-projects-in-a-solution/1407401#1407401&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T23:45:05.597" Title="Asking upvote for accepted answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21258" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:51:17.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say just let it go.  I don't think we'd need the extra noise on SO, SF, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:51:17.533" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21258" CreationDate="2009-09-10T21:56:54.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must admit I've done it in the past, but most of the time I will let it slide. You would be right in saying that asking for an upvote would come across as being needy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T21:56:54.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21258" CreationDate="2009-09-10T22:18:52.153" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would an upvote accomplish except to gain more rep. Being the correct answer will already place your answer at the top.  You also get 15 rep (5 more points than an upvote) as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assigning something as an answer seems to accomplish a lot and asking / adding yet another vote from the user that just assigned your answer as the correct answer and awarding you rep seems to be just saying an answer should be worth 25 rep instead of 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132746" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T22:18:52.153" />
  <row Id="21262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21258" CreationDate="2009-09-10T22:20:38.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, but you should have picked a better example question.  That particular one doesn't deserve an upvote even if it is the only answer.  In fact, it could be the poster child for an accepted answer that doesn't deserve an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T22:20:38.233" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21274" CreationDate="2009-09-10T22:48:07.907" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if anyone has filed this bug yet, but I can't find it on here. So &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched for a user on the user page, then cleared that text box. Now the next/previous buttons are gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:08:43.450" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:08:43.450" Title="After clearing search for user text box, the next/previous buttons disappear" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22335" CreationDate="2009-09-10T23:44:25.923" Score="-2" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we answer our own questions, I agree that giving other people time to answer before a user can self-accept increases the quality of the accepted answers. However, I think that a user should be set it so that they self accept automatically if no-one answers within two days. This should of course only be used when you are posting the answer to a question you already know the solution to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related Topics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16880/allow-accepting-my-own-answer-without-waiting-48-hours-in-light-of-accept-rate/20645#20645&quot;&gt;Allow accepting my own answer without waiting 48 hours in light of accept rate&lt;/a&gt; - Looks at this issue from the wrong perspective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6044/why-must-i-wait-2-days-before-accepting-my-own-answer&quot;&gt;Why must I wait 2 days before accepting my own answer&lt;/a&gt; - this post is in favour of immediate acceptance, while my idea still involves a delay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-10T23:59:57.020" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T01:58:56.283" Title="Auto-accept self answer if no other answers are provided in two days" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21258" CreationDate="2009-09-10T23:45:05.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, and here is why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were correct and that answer solved the OP's problem, that is what the rep from the accepted answer is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An upvote rates the quality, usefulness, etc. of the answer.  It can still be the correct answer and still be a crappy answer/solution, hence no upvotes or many people responding to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are always exceptions, but not a good idea in general to rep beg.&#xA;Please See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19522#19522&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19522#19522&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T23:45:05.597" />
  <row Id="21267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21265" CreationDate="2009-09-10T23:51:56.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why should you impose a time limit to accepting your own answer? Nothing is stopping you from going in and accepting it yourself down the road if you feel that you won't get any responses on it. I definitely disagree with the idea of setting some type of auto accept after a time frame (someone suggested an auto accept on questions in general yesterday or the day before and I disagreed with that as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers are meant to be answers that actually solve the problem. An automated process can't discern whether an answer was good or not, and even more so if it's your own answer. If you think your answer solves the problem, then accept it. You don't need a time limit on it. If you answer it, accept it. If you want to wait for other people to supply better answers, wait and then come back later and accept it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise if your own answer doesn't actually satisfy you (which is why you are waiting to begin with, excluding the two day requirement set by the system already) you shouldn't be accepting the answer anyway because that would be doing a disservice to people looking in the future for help themselves. If they see you accept your own answer and it wasn't actually solving the problem, then they are wasting their time thinking that it will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T23:51:56.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21265" CreationDate="2009-09-10T23:59:28.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That doesn't make any sense to me. Who's to say that all questions can be &quot;acceptably&quot; answered in two days, or twenty days, or ever? There have been times I have provided an answer to my own question just to present it for discussion/voting... not to presume that mine was automatically correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to start automating &quot;user-accepted answers,&quot; why have the feature at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-10T23:59:28.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21265" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:04:31.927" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heh... This was a bad idea when it was suggested as a solution for users that don't accept &lt;em&gt;anyone else's&lt;/em&gt; answer. In this case, it just seems... pointless. Surely, you can find a few spare seconds in your busy life to click a little checkmark next to &lt;em&gt;your own answer&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:04:31.927" />
  <row Id="21270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21271" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:05:08.057" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose that someone answers one question, but it is also the solution to another question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it fine to quote it, adding a comment and link of course to acknowledge the original author?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I mark it as community Wiki so that I am not &quot;stealing reputation&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes when you ask one question you get a solution to second question as well. Are things different if you post the second question and then quote a part of the answer you were given as the solution?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T00:36:45.547" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:36:45.547" Title="Quoting answers in other questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21270" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:07:27.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done this before. I will take the gist of the answer, quote it, and then link back to the other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this is any bit different than someone quoting an article or some other source of information and then providing link to it as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:07:27.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21270" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:11:06.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can swing it, &lt;strong&gt;close the new question as a duplicate of the previous one&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dup-closing is by far the &lt;em&gt;cleanest&lt;/em&gt; tactic, but not always applicable: sometimes, the questions are subtly different and while the answer to the old question applies, it also needs some introduction before the new questioner will be able to make use of it. In that case, write your introduction, quote some or all relevant portions of the original answer as you like, mention who wrote it, and &lt;strong&gt;link to the original answer&lt;/strong&gt;. That last bit is just courtesy - plagiarism is generally considered rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:11:06.827" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21252" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:17:27.843" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is definitely by design. Jeff and I decided early on that we consider Stack Overflow to be in the grand, non-partisan, ecumenical tradition of Byte Magazine and Dr. Dobbs Journal. Smart people are interested in all kinds of topics and will often be interested in overhearing what's going on with other programming technologies that they're not working with right now. We're trying to create interesting cross-pollination, and prevent the kind of ghettos that lead to reinventing the wheel, badly. We don't, personally, have very much tolerance for religious partisans of the &quot;my stack is great, your stack sucks&quot; school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:17:27.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21264" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:26:25.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is intentional? Clearing the text box blowing away the buttons? I find that hard to believe. I replicated it -- it feels buggy to me, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the dupe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; a dupe, it's more an elaboration on the question random linked. The question linked describes the behavior, and the fix was to remove paging when the input box is used. While I still think that is even buggy, I can understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once the input box is cleared, as per this question, then the original behavior &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be restored. After all, all you've done at that point is undo your original actions. At that point, it should be as if you never performed those actions -- but it's not. And therein is the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T02:42:43.523" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T02:42:43.523" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21276" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:29:07.450" Score="-1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2001/migrate-reputation-from-other-stackoverflow-sites-to-meta&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question instead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a suggestion. I think it would make sense if there was some kind of shared reputation between meta-stackoverflow and stack overflow. I'm not saying they should be the same, just suggesting some proportion of your stack overflow reputation should be carried over to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This really makes a difference to me, since I'm still a newbie on stack overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T00:51:52.133" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:51:52.133" Title="Shared reputation between meta-stackoverflow and stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21275" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:32:43.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been suggested before and in numerous forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic retaliation is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reputation on StackOverflow signifies some sort of knowledge about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reputation on Meta signifies some sort of knowledge about StackOverflow and the other websites, not their subject matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same line of thinking can be applied to the other sites as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:32:43.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19255" CreationDate="2009-09-11T00:54:50.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature seems to have been rejected due to worries about user's setting it and then having trouble turning it off and thinking this site is spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T00:54:50.757" />
  <row Id="21278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21238" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:03:35.797" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I play on Server Fault because I enjoy helping people and I like the warm and fuzzy &quot;I helped somebody&quot; feeling that I get. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not &quot;making money&quot; using Server Fault, but I certainly consider my rep. and ranking a part of my &quot;personal brand&quot;.  Since I put a fair amount of work into (most of) my posts I want to be sure that they're able to be associated easily with me, my company, and my general online &quot;persona&quot;. Being an independent IT consultant and contractor, anything that adds to my body of references and experience is helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to fulfill the criteria of being an honest and helpful participant in the community first. Any enhancement to my personal reputation is desired, though secondary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:03:35.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:14:35.307" Score="-2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8098/should-we-have-a-small-number-of-supervotes-per-day&quot;&gt;Should we have a small number of Supervotes per day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late&quot;&gt;How to give some boost to some really good answers that arrive late?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand you can choose an answer with the checkmark, but occasionally you come across an answer that you feel deserves a heck of a lot more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe users can get expendable &quot;super-upvotes&quot;. When used, these would give the target user a ton of reputation. They could be earned by obtaining enough reputation points (perhaps 1 for every X reputation you earned?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would provide users with more incentive to participate, as they would be getting these tangible &quot;items&quot; that could be used with great effect. And users who are rewarded with them would feel pretty awesome about themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for even more fun, on the darker side, a &quot;super-downvote&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:23:58.457" ClosedDate="2009-09-11T02:49:52.513" Title="Can we have a kind of &quot;super upvote&quot; for unexpectedly awesome answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="21280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21279" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:18:16.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you leave a comment on the chosen one, His disciples will either follow you in nodding or run you out of town. So, if you pour some comment honey over the answer, as to why you thought it was oar-some, or awesome even, that might help attract other upvoters to lick the skin and taste it for themselves and in effect, create a super vote by way of the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:18:16.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20883" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:18:18.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think instead of transferring reputation, it should be possible for someone with high reputation to vouch for another person, thereby unlocking their account to perform certain functions regardless of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Sir Skeet would probably vouch for me in an instant.  We've both answered questions on Microsoft's newsgroups for a long while.  I dropped in to answer questions here for a few minutes, but being unable to respond to other responses here just makes SO too limiting for me to want to invest time into it.  I can deal with inability to up/down vote because USENET doesn't have that at all, and I certainly understand why you don't want brand new accounts to be able to game the voting system, but the arbitrary restriction on reply-to-comment needs a bypass mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135695" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:18:18.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T01:18:18.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21279" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:22:23.623" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to give someone an extra reward, find another &lt;em&gt;deserving&lt;/em&gt; post by that user and vote for it.  Even better, if that post already has 9 votes (or 24 or 99) you can effectively give them a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the super downvote: that's what flagging is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:22:23.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21279" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:23:58.457" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is more than 2 days old, you could set up a bounty then immediately award it to that user's answer. Depending on how generous you are with your own rep, you can give the user as much as +550 rep. But this would only work for answers on questions you own (you can't reward an answer to another user's question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;super downvote&quot;, I guess, would be similar to the offensive/spam flag on a post. Once a post reaches 6 offensive or spam flags, it's deleted and the user that posted it is penalized 100 rep. But you'd still have to get 5 people to agree with you for it to have any effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:23:58.457" />
  <row Id="21284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:33:22.870" Score="9" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'm reading an answer and it has a certain &quot;smell&quot; to it that I can't quite pinpoint, but makes me distrustful of the answer and I feel surprised to see it coming from a user with a high rep.  The rep system is what it is, and I'm not arguing against it, but perhaps as a single metric it has too many interpretations.  A high rep could mean someone who has a lot of quality questions and answers, but could also mean someone who scrapes a few rep from a large quantity of dubious-quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard once that in the baseball world, a player's batting average is taken into consideration more often than their ability to do homers.  Regardless of whether that's true or not, would a &quot;rep per answer&quot; stat be useful?  I think it should exclude questions with bounties, but of course that's debatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wonder if the actual display of such a batting average would cause more &quot;meta-rep gaming&quot; like strategic down-voting - griefers see a high batting average and automatically down-vote or some such...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;IMHO, a lot of the value in the rep system is to build literal reputation for a user.  A high rep really does bring a bit of prestige, and user who has a high rep will probably (and rightfully) be proud of their rep.  Having a high rep &lt;i&gt;means&lt;/i&gt; something - why else do people do rep-whoring, or fastest-gun-in-the-west sort of stuff?  Ask any user who has more than 5k rep if they'd be happy to have it reset to 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is that we shouldn't lead ourselves to believe that &quot;the system is designed to produce good answers, nevermind if an answerer has high rep or not&quot;, because I don't buy it.  Rep-whoring is a symptom of this, I think.  A real reputation would be developed if a person is known to consistently produce good, thoughtful answers, and a single number at a glance just doesn't cut it.  I guess my desire would be to have the users kept more honest with themselves, and I don't think a rep average is the answer but it does help with evaluating the users, not just the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only a very tiny percentage of users are on often enough to participate in the in-jokes and Jon Skeet fawning, the vast majority of users do not know that so-and-so is full of B.S. and that sort of thing.  If you fast-forward a few years, SO will continue to get much more users and things like this will get more and more ambiguous.  The average user will need a little more help figuring out who is trustworthy and who is not, and that need will increase as the community gets bigger and bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully that makes sense.  I feel like I've been ranting and that's never been helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit 2&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;devinb provided a very handy list for me to show why rep avg can be a great metric to use:  His list is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people with many answers in niche tags who would have low rep-per-answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who have many answers in very popular tags who aren't fast enough to get huge upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who answer very few questions, but answer them very very thoroughly and get huge upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who only answer joke-type questions and get huge (undeserved) upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who put off-the-cuff answers on a lot of questions and get a few upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also provides a list of things he would have to do in order to increase his rep average:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete my lower voted posts (even if they are still valid and helpful)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignore any low-view tags or questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a sock-puppet user to upvote all my posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote other users to make my posts look more attractive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my responses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;niche areas (gnostradamus also mentions this in his answer): if you're answering questions in a niche area, your rep is already low relative to the # of answers you've posted.  You shouldn't be surprised by a corresponding low average.  Working in a niche area and providing quality answers anyway despite a low rep score means you wouldn't care about a low rep average either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;many answers, but in popular tags and too slow to get huge upvotes: if they're slow, they're not getting rep from the huge initial upvotes either.  And &quot;slow&quot; is relative, because fastest-gun behavior encourages fast (and often crap) answers.  People with fast, crap answers would tend towards a lower average, which is where this metric can help out.  See the last point on this list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;people who answer very few questions thoroughly and get huge upvotes: if they answer questions like that, they deserve their high rep and their high average.  To me, this is the ideal case.  For a site premised on providing great answers, don't we want a vast majority of people to answer like that?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;huge undeserved upvotes on joke questions: the undeserved rep from those upvotes would lead to an undeserved higher average.  This should be an argument against awarding rep from joke answers, not against adding a rep average.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;lots of answers with a few upvotes: this is precisely the behavior I'd like to see less of.  A person with a very high rep score coupled with a very low rep average would suggest this sort of person, and would immediately slow down the impulse to do fastest-gun type of behavior - if someone cares so much about getting rep, they'll also care a little bit about not having a really low average.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, about the behaviors one would have to do in order to raise their average:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;delete lower voted posts: if you care about providing good answers, you'd leave it there.  If you delete them, someone else who cares about good answers will put one up anyway despite not getting rep for it.  It already happens - see those who work in niche areas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ignore low-view tags/questions: this is the niche segment case.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;sock-puppet to upvote self/downvote others: there's already algorithms to detect this sort of abuse, right?  those upvotes get discarded anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, note how all these behaviors DO NOT lead to the person providing crap answers.  If someone wants a really high average, they'd have to have REALLY GOOD answers.  Is that a bad thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to take things completely from my side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way things are now, you only have the one rep metric.  The rep metric is the single largest motivator that the site provides to encourage people to provide answers.  If you ask 10 different users what a high metric means to them, you might get 10 different answers, but the general idea is that all 10 of those would be something positive - e.g. a high rep means the person is smart, participates a lot, provides great answers, etc.  Contrast that with a low rep, which just tends towards &quot;newbie with no privileges&quot;.  This is why so many people want a high rep, and play all those rep games - there should be no question about it, rep-whoring is not desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now add rep average to the mix.  Now you have 4 general cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;low rep, low average: this could be a newbie, but if you couple that with # of answers, this could indicate a niche segment as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;high rep, high average: this is an indicator of a quality answer, because the person in the past has gotten a lot of upvotes for their answers.  The bad part is that meta-behavior may lead towards upvoting due to an already high average, but that seems to be an already-present sympton with regards to high rep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;low rep, high average: this is also an indicator of a quality answer, because their rep came from fewer answers.  If the current answer isn't high quality, their rep would fall faster than an established, stable &quot;player&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;high rep, low average:  the greater the difference, the more I'd distrust this answer.  To me, this identifies the type of user who rep-whores a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134396" LastEditorUserId="134396" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-12T01:16:23.527" LastActivityDate="2011-08-12T01:16:23.527" Title="Add a rep &quot;batting average&quot;? (similar to the questioner's accept rate)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21289" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:37:43.970" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are hard to search for because they are phrased in different ways. Is there a way to create an &quot;alternate question title&quot; to reduce the chance that someone will create a duplicate? The other option is to create a duplicate question then close it and link to the original question, but I don't think people will like this option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T08:17:05.547" Title="Alternative question titles to reduce duplicates" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21284" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:39:07.853" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &quot;rep-per-answer&quot; metric wouldn't necessarily be a very good measure of the quality of a users answers either. Some of us (like myself) are highly active in niche tags, which don't generally get many upvotes or views since they may not have very large followings. I estimate my &quot;rep-per-answer&quot; measure to only be a bit more than 30 (3 upvotes) for MATLAB answers I give, which is probably a lot less than people who answer Java or C# questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T01:47:48.693" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:47:48.693" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21284" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:44:13.787" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go with your gut - if an answer stinks, it doesn't matter how much rep the author has. Plenty of high-rep users, even those who generally do write good answers, occasionally venture into territory they aren't quite familiar with... and make mistakes or write something misleading or sub-optimal as a result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:44:13.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21285" CreationDate="2009-09-11T01:53:46.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The other option is to create a duplicate question then close it and link to the original question, but I don't think people will like this option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like this option. I think the duplicate should automatically redirect to the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this is the option &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/linking-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that has been implemented&lt;/a&gt;. Just gotta deal with it, i guess...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T01:53:46.203" />
  <row Id="21291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11881" CreationDate="2009-09-11T02:37:40.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/898#898&quot;&gt;the long answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that it won't be done because it couldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T02:37:40.040" />
  <row Id="21293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21284" CreationDate="2009-09-11T02:50:51.340" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people have artificially high reps. Some don't. There can be only one Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never trust the number. The number is a game. Look at rep not as knowledge of a domain expert, but rather participation on the site. It has more to do with how active someone is than what he/she knows, necessarily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never judge an answer by the person giving it. Judge the answer on its own merits. If you think it's wrong, downvote it -- that's what the tool is there for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're reading an answer on a question because it's something you need, validate it before you use it in production. (This should be something we all do as a matter of course anyway, regardless of where our source material originates.) If it's wrong, downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it smells, and there's better, upvote the better. (And of course, downvote the smell.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again -- the answers should be judged on their own merits. Sometimes very inexperienced users just happen to have the right answer right away. Sometimes really experienced users happen to be wrong. The answers speak for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(All that said, I wouldn't necessarily mind seeing this statistic. But I wouldn't use it for anything more than entertainment value.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T02:50:51.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21285" CreationDate="2009-09-11T04:30:30.610" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people create poor question titles, so how will they do any better making a second one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T04:30:30.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T04:52:09.760" Score="9" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a consolation badge, and I've had the unfortunate pleasure of asking my second question that would earn the badge. It would be nice (for some strange reason) to get another tumbleweed badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the reason is that given &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1380/why-are-badges-sometimes-not-awarded&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. That is, my first question was eventually answered, so it negated my first tumbleweed badge, but it wasn't taken away; I just didn't receive a second one. But this seems to conflict with the definition of the tumbleweed badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and low views for a week.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is still true of both questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:01:23.727" Title="Why can't the tumbleweed badge be awarded multiple times?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21296" CreationDate="2009-09-11T05:02:17.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the description mentions being awarded multiple times, you'll only get the badge once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And once you sport a badge, you don't ever lose it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13/should-the-beta-badges-stop-being-awarded-to-users/19#19&quot; title=&quot;you lurk? you lose!&quot;&gt;Save for the Beta badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T05:02:17.090" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10216" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:00:28.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I previously suggested a Tagging Black List &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to manage this. I have now added a bounty to get a better idea of the viability of the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T06:00:28.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:09:43.533" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2786/accept-multiple-answers-or-split-bounty-among-several-users&quot;&gt;Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7008/why-isnt-there-a-way-to-consolidate-answers&quot;&gt;Why Isn&amp;rsquo;t There a Way to Consolidate Answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a question can have more than one accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question exampled: what are the advantages of WPF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone posts 3 advantages and another posts another 3 advantages and all 6 are good points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which one are you going to choose? Choose the first? Choosing one implies the other answer wasn't good or wasn't good enough which isn't the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T06:18:12.567" ClosedDate="2009-09-11T07:30:48.800" Title="Some questions deserve more than one accepted answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21300" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:11:11.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is one use of a community wiki to handle things that do not have a set defined answer. Or someone needs to combine/edit the good answers into one nice one if the parties involved play nicely and proper credit is given. Got a link to the question... in question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T06:18:12.567" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T06:18:12.567" />
  <row Id="21302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:11:37.850" Score="6" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created an SQLite database containing the latest data-dump. It can be found at&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1822417/so.7z&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1822417/so.7z&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I'd appreciate any input on features you'd like to see or changes in the existing schema. I'm not very experienced with databases so help with what to change or add would be appreciated. I'm planning on adding a tag table, as well as indexes, but not quite sure which fields would be best to index. When I'm happy with the database I'll find a more permanent place to host it and release the code used to create it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130862" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T10:57:13.003" Title="new data-dump in SQLite format available" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:21:07.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes the &quot;accept rate&quot; feature has personally caused me to accept meh or so-so answers. My 39% rate didn't look good so I decided to give it a bump. Since I tend to ask difficult questions or I am seeking for specific answers, my rate stands low. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &quot;accept rate&quot; feature is a double sword. It's doing both good and harm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I am not going to give the accept rate too much attention. I am not going to sabotage the quality of the way I accept answers just to boost some figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T06:21:07.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21305" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:23:21.933" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default link text is &quot;link text&quot;. No one in their right mind ever wants to use that as the link text. Perhaps it would be better if the page title (at least for stack overflow pages) were suggested instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:45:53.957" Title="Default Link text" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21304" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:30:21.450" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21304/me-no-rikey&quot; title=&quot;tool tip&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people usually only add links in after they've selected the text. In which case, the whole &quot;link text&quot; thing is already swapped out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's more than likely that since it's logic related that they would be in their left mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T06:30:21.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21350" CreationDate="2009-09-11T06:59:04.490" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question that is unclear and someone provides an answer that doesn't answer what I was asking, should I downvote it? On one hand, I feel like I would be unfairly penalising them, but on the other hand, I want the best answer to float to the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, consider the following points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I only downvote when the question is rated above 0? They will still get 8 reputation from being upvoted and then downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is a comment enough and downvoting unnecessary?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes can be removed if they edit their answer, but not if they delete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T09:49:01.493" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:32:30.157" Title="Downvoting after asking an unclear question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21306" CreationDate="2009-09-11T07:10:59.770" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really no (unless the replay is &quot;lmgtfy&quot;, etc; in which case go for it...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would just apologise, clarify (edit) the question, and add a comment on that reply explaining the change. Hopefully the poster will either edit or delete their reply as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unclear questions are fairly common; sometimes respondents simply have to try to second-guess the question, so it isn't uncommon to see a reply that tries to guess the meaning - usually with a first line of &quot;The question is a bit unclear, but if you mean &lt;em&gt;{x}&lt;/em&gt; then &lt;em&gt;{y}&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want the best answer to float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then upvote the helpful answers; don't penalise somebody for trying to help with unclear or misleading information. In fact, I stress the need to &lt;strong&gt;add a comment to the reply&lt;/strong&gt; that the question was unclear when first asked, as otherwise other people may downvote the reply (unfairly, IMO) seeing it as not really an answer, without realising that the question has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I typically reserve downvotes for answers that are &lt;strong&gt;actively&lt;/strong&gt; wrong or incorrect - I'm pretty sure that these replies don't qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T07:22:22.213" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T07:22:22.213" />
  <row Id="21308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21306" CreationDate="2009-09-11T07:11:47.460" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should comment on your own question asking for someone to clean up the question so that it isn't hard to understand. People will understand if English is not your first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you down vote their answer, you've now unfairly penalised them twice over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, for making them read your unclear and possibly ambiguous question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And B, for downvoting their answer that was a best attempt at parsing your question in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T07:11:47.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-11T07:37:18.193" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overlord&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Awarded for having the most rep.  This badge can be lost when you no longer have the most rep.  (could also be calls &lt;strong&gt;The One Badge&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T07:37:18.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T07:37:18.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21306" CreationDate="2009-09-11T07:39:36.693" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Err.... You shouldn't ask unclear questions in the first place. If you stick to that principle you don't have to brood over downvoting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T07:39:36.693" />
  <row Id="21311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T05:26:02.273" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I ask about the iPhone SDK 3.0, my questions get negative votes with not even a single answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question in particular, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369765/how-its-new-stuff-bought-in-the-app-store-integrated-to-my-iphone-app&quot; title=&quot;how are things integrated after a purchase/download?&quot;&gt;about the functioning of the store&lt;/a&gt;, I ended up deleting and reformulating the question. But the response is always the same. And I have no clue why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any particular reason why? Are the questions inappropriate, incorrect or prohibited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T09:24:20.917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T09:24:20.917" Title="Is talking about the iPhone SDK 3.0 prohibited?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21311" CreationDate="2009-09-11T05:36:43.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe people don't have an answer...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everything you ask is gonna be answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T07:48:10.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21285" CreationDate="2009-09-11T08:17:05.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am all for this! Currently, there are (at least) two identical questions regarding whether they should use 64bit Windows 7 or not. The 'duplicate' question was not closed because the title was worded differently. Although I do believe it is important to have multiple titles (just like Wikipedia does) for the same question, I do not believe there should be two completely disjointed discussions on the same topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a link to 'additional discussions' would be handy, just like reddit does for duplicate submissions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T08:17:05.547" />
  <row Id="21314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21315" CreationDate="2009-09-11T08:26:33.517" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly on Super User, but not exclusively - there's a lot of these &quot;Must have foos for bar&quot; style questions that are getting huge amounts of answers while the actual useful technical questions that would help people out in a jam are languishing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that a lot of it is reputation and/or badge farming, but it's making the Stack Overflow family of sites less and less useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone got any ideas on a way to clean them up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135377" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T08:02:11.653" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T08:02:11.653" Title="Can we do something about these &quot;must have&quot; questions that are proliferating on all four sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21314" CreationDate="2009-09-11T08:32:51.917" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although these questions can be annoying and really noise, they can be helpful and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found a few gems in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1191/must-have-mac-os-x-software&quot;&gt;&quot;Must Have&quot; Mac OS X Software&lt;/a&gt; question, and I am sure others have as well. At least in this case, these questions can be helpful for new users to a particular platform&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T08:32:51.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21314" CreationDate="2009-09-11T08:32:55.020" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are being cleaned up. The one's that are there are legacy and kept for historical reasons and avoid a complete set of repeats. I have monitored this for the last month when I am online and there is maybe one of these once a week, if as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is one that will add value we will keep it on the site as a CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Short - I don't see the problem with regards to new questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they really bother you flag it for moderator attention or vote to close. If the concern is legit the community will close them quickly enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T08:32:55.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21311" CreationDate="2009-09-11T09:12:03.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly I can't speak for everyone, but the reason I wouldn't normally answer the kind of question you linked to is that it's incredibly broad: &quot;How do I use Store Kit?&quot; That kind of query is best answered by reading the documentation. And if you &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; read it and that's what's confused you, then I would expect to see some evidence of that, &quot;Section X in Blah says so-and-so but...?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think StackOverflow is best used as a question and answer forum, not as a tutorial or step-by-step guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the development version of iPhone OS is usually covered by an NDA, so, for example, until 9th September you probably shouldn't have been talking publicly about version 3.1. But the public versions are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2998" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T09:12:03.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T09:34:27.430" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I'm on SO I take a glance at the recent badges. Some of them are of course more interesting than others. The one that intrigues me the most is the &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;Necromancer&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; badge, and not only for its name ;-) I'd then like to find out which answer caused this badge to be awarded to this particular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as this particular badge tends to be awarded to very active users with lots of answers and upvotes I find it hard to determine which answer actually earned them the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good way to find this out? Would it be hard to implement a feature in the section for recent badges that takes you to the &quot;cause&quot; of the badge? Does anyone else care about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I just found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; where Jeff Atwood explains why this feature isn't available. I just wouldn't have thought that this is particularly hard to implement as you would probably need only one additional database column (possibly two, for a question or an answer ID). Should be nullable, as for tags like &lt;code&gt;WOOT&lt;/code&gt; there isn't a &quot;cause ID&quot;. But then, I'm just guessing as I don't know anything about the data model of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I'd like to have that feature...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T16:08:48.940" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T16:08:48.940" Title="Is there a good way of looking up the &quot;cause&quot; of another user's badge?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-09-11T09:37:25.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good remark. So far, I refused to use the &quot;accept rate&quot; feature as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18054/isnt-the-accepted-answer-feature-overly-visible&quot;&gt;I think this favors the point of view of the original poster over that of all other users&lt;/a&gt;. However, I often get remarks on my low accept rate, so I am considering to accept every answer, even if I like some of the other answers too, or if I know I am not 100% sure it is The Right Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134939" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T09:37:25.353" />
  <row Id="21320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21318" CreationDate="2009-09-11T09:38:18.797" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a way to find out the cause for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;your own badges&lt;/a&gt;, so for other people? no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I share your pain; I now have 3 necromancer badges, and I have &lt;em&gt;no clue&lt;/em&gt; what for. Some common causes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on meta, old migrated posts tend to lead to necromancer badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that get merged can lead to necromancer badges &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15396/merging-wikis-and-necromancy&quot;&gt;due to an oddity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T09:38:18.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21318" CreationDate="2009-09-11T09:41:17.810" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or better yet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;do you eat here too? how's the tap water?&quot;&gt;make use of the data dump&lt;/a&gt; and run a query against it checking the answers against dates of the question with votes and 60 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of trying to find a nugget of the undead by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot; title=&quot;him?&quot;&gt;Druid Gravell&lt;/a&gt; (who has an ID of 23354):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT ans.ParentId as QuestionID, ans.Score, qs.Title&#xA;FROM posts as ans&#xA;INNER JOIN posts as qs &#xA;ON ans.ParentId=qs.Id&#xA;WHERE ans.PostTypeId='2' and &#xA;      ans.OwnerUserId='23354' and &#xA;      ans.Score &amp;gt; '4' and &#xA;      (ans.CreationDate - qs.CreationDate) &amp;gt; '5097600'&#xA;ORDER BY ans.CreationDate DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5097600 here representing 59 days in seconds, roughly how long the corpse must fester with maggots before rising again to do the bidding of the Lich King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Run against &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;with thanks to Ian Elliot&quot;&gt;the public data dump&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump&quot; title=&quot;too many kranskies leaves no room for mayo in the bowl&quot;&gt;the schema as help&lt;/a&gt;, we can see at least from where one grave has been raided: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/323704/cannot-call-methods-on-datetime-and-other-limitations&quot; title=&quot;mustn't have paid its bill&quot;&gt;“Cannot call methods on DateTime”, and other limitations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Gravell has three Necromancer badges, that leaves two more unaccounted for. But that's a start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T12:09:22.180" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:09:22.180" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T09:57:10.540" Score="1" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have my flair (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; snippet) on my webpage and I would like to have an image or a text right next to it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this: [flair] [my object]  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I've managed to handle it so far is like this:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[flair]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[my object] or the other way around.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried adding &quot;display: inline&quot; and &quot;float: left / right&quot; to both the elements (both separately and also to both at the same time). Which in my case are the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;After thinking about these for a while I came to conclusion that the script tag doesn't really work as normal HTML tag but more like a shortcut to longer code, so whatever CSS styles I add to it will be added to nothing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other way than using table? I've been told tables aren't supposed to be used as layout so I guess it would be a lazy workaround to give up and go for the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T11:39:30.490" Title="HTML / CSS layout problem with Stack Overflow flair" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:08:48.660" Score="4" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question, got a partial answer from A, came up with a complete answer, posted it and marked it as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in between someone else (Person B) came up with a complete answer, before myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I deleted my own answer and wanted to mark as an answer the most recent one, from person B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cannon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no Mark as an answer link now. But my answer, marked as such, is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135714" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-31T20:10:31.450" LastActivityDate="2011-05-31T20:10:39.717" Title="Completely delete my deleted answer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21331" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:17:35.243" Score="0" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been checking out some questions, and I saw some of them were migrated questions. And I'm wondering if it's possible to see when a question was migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is no functionality like that, I would love to see it. Since it gives the users of the target site a reference point with the possible current answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps just something simple, like when you mouse over &quot;migrated&quot; to see a detailed date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T10:59:52.310" Title="How can I see when an answer was migrated?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21323" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:22:46.810" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you Undelete your answer can you change the accepted answer? If so do that and then delete your answer again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this does not work, flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T10:52:28.033" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T10:52:28.033" />
  <row Id="21326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21327" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:30:36.797" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I do not have enough reputation I can not edit questions and answers.  However I sometime wish to &lt;strong&gt;view&lt;/strong&gt; the Markdown so I can see how someone has done some formatting etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is a hard (hack) way of doing this, should there be a direct link.  E.g. &quot;view marked&quot; link instead of an &quot;edit link&quot; when no edit rights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T12:13:40.707" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:13:40.707" Title="Let me View Markdown of a question/answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21326" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:36:49.437" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Grab the post ID of the question in question. It's between the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;question&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and the SEO friendy part of the URL. Just grab the first set of numbers you see really. And then put it in the &lt;strong&gt;XXX&lt;/strong&gt; of the sample URL below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;XXX&lt;/b&gt;/list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for this, while you may not have yet edited it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/21326/list&quot; title=&quot;we meet again!&quot;&gt;you can still see the revisions list&lt;/a&gt; if you follow the above template. Then click the &lt;strong&gt;View source&lt;/strong&gt; link of the relevant edit edition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to play around with how a post will look, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&quot; title=&quot;make sure you shower after a session&quot;&gt;spend some time in the sandbox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T10:36:49.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21329" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:40:29.837" Score="8" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I am looking at a question and wish to explore the subject more, it is useful to look at all questions and answers that point to the given question (or one of it’s answers).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please list them on the page somewhere, or provide a easy (one click) way of seeing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A lot of pre-web hypertext systems had “back-links” as one of their building blocks with most links creating a two way relationship, this concept seems to have been lost in the web age.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just change this to a feature-request, as I think a log of peole will find it useful to have back-links on all questions as standared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T08:59:03.817" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T08:59:03.817" Title="Let me see all questions / answers that point to a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21328" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:43:21.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about this the other day. It would be interesting to have a sort of graphical display, where you could zoom appropriately, but showing the interrelationships between questions. It would probably be more work than it would be worth. A simple list sounds like a good idea though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T10:43:21.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21302" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:57:13.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cool, thanks a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say let people create the indexes themselves. That saves you bandwidth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People could then create indexes as they want&amp;mdash;probably at least on all the keys (primary and foreign), i.e. anything that ends in &lt;code&gt;Id&lt;/code&gt;. Retrieving all &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; posts (which is probably the first thing anyone is going to do [not &lt;em&gt;mine&lt;/em&gt; but &lt;em&gt;theirs&lt;/em&gt;]) took about 30 seconds without an index. With an index on the &quot;OwnerId&quot; column, I got the results instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indexes are cheap, because all they take is disk space. Of course it takes a while to create them, but after that, there's no need to watch for index update performance, because people are (probably) only going to use the data dump as read-only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the queries to create the indexes for everyone to copy and paste as they need:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Posts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_Id ON Posts (Id);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_AcceptedAnswerId ON Posts (AcceptedAnswerId);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_LastEditorId ON Posts (LastEditorId);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_OwnerId ON Posts (OwnerId);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_ParentID ON Posts (ParentID);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_PostTypeId ON Posts (PostTypeId);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Counts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_AnswerCount ON Posts (AnswerCount);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_CommentCount ON Posts (CommentCount);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_FavoriteCount ON Posts (FavoriteCount);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_Score ON Posts (Score);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_ViewCount ON Posts (ViewCount);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_ClosedDate ON Posts (ClosedDate);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_CommunityOwnedDate ON Posts (CommunityOwnedDate);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_CreationDate ON Posts (CreationDate);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_LastActivityDate ON Posts (LastActivityDate);&#xA;CREATE INDEX idx_Posts_LastEditDate ON Posts (LastEditDate);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making this wiki; feel free to add for other tables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T10:57:13.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T10:57:13.003" />
  <row Id="21331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21324" CreationDate="2009-09-11T10:59:52.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're really curious, you can follow the link back to the original site, where you can hover over the time it was migrated/locked. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1399025&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T10:59:52.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21332" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:20:52.083" Score="-5" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10372/is-stackoverflow-com-written-in-ruby-on-rails&quot;&gt;Is stackoverflow.com written in Ruby on Rails?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;When i start to type similar question, i got this suggestion question. So i made a little change in my question.&#xA;Why this site looks like a ruby on rails site. As i rails developer i couldnt believe that this is written in asp.net framework. What are the possible reasons for this similarity. Is it due to javascript frameworks SO using..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me this thought came due to its effective usage of WEB2.0 interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135152" LastEditorUserId="135152" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T05:36:00.460" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T05:36:00.460" Title="Similarity to Rails?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;technology&gt;&lt;frameworks&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21332" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:27:58.390" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rails uses the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-View-Controller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MVC model&lt;/a&gt;, and StackOverflow is built on ASP.NET-MVC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MVC is not a new or exclusive architecture, so if your world is Rails, it's easy to see how you could think that it looks like Rails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET has been able to do all of the AJAX tricks for quite a while, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, it's sort of tough to say that a web site &quot;looks&quot; like its server-side language. JavaScript, CSS, and HTML all have a larger role to play in its look and feel than the backend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T11:27:58.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21336" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:30:12.193" Score="0" ViewCount="558" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we can see some jokes and comedy in comments. Is there any chance of putting them in a group or something like that to be viewed as a &quot;funny comments list&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135152" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T12:37:23.487" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:10:28.743" Title="Compile a list of funny comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21334" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:31:45.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would have to be a remarkably manual process. Considering there are over a million comments, I'm not sure anybody's going to go through them and separate the comedic comments from the for serious comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you felt like sifting through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Data Dump&lt;/a&gt;, by all means, go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T11:31:45.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21334" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:31:46.527" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just copy/paste it to your own personal &quot;That's what he said&quot; notepad list. I don't see any reason why a programming website should build in functionality for funny remarks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T11:31:46.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21565" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:33:03.450" Score="3" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find the thread I was just browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;look in threads recently upvoted.  I can't find that now&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;look in favorites, sorted by most recent.  this sorts by most recent &lt;em&gt;activity&lt;/em&gt;, not most recently &quot;favorited&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;IF I commented the thread, use the &lt;b&gt;recent&lt;/b&gt; tab.  Only works if you commented or answered the question though&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you quickly find the thread you were just browsing if you didn't leave a comment or answer it?  Can we still access &quot;recent votes&quot;?  It was a useful thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;edit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, the point of this question is to point out the upvote-to-bookmark feature is gone.  I liked it and I thought it was a great feature, though it might not have been intended to be used the way I used it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Top voted answer has nothing to do with what I'm talking about here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="111307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T06:07:46.263" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T06:27:16.193" Title="What was I just looking at?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21332" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:35:18.563" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If using jQuery makes a site &quot;look like rails,&quot; then I think you need to take a step back, and rethink your criteria for what a rails site is :) As Eric said, a site doesn't really &quot;look like&quot; any particular server-side language. Granted, you may be able to learn about the server side language from directory structures, extensions, etc., but that isn't the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RoR isn't all there is out there. It shouldn't come as a surprise that great sites can be built with other technologies :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T11:35:18.563" />
  <row Id="21339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21337" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:36:25.910" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browser History?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T11:36:25.910" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="21340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21322" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:39:30.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use CSS-Positioning. If float isn't working, try some relative and absolute positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T11:39:30.490" />
  <row Id="21341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21337" CreationDate="2009-09-11T11:39:59.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search. The back button on the browser. Undo Close Tab if needed (and the browser supports it). When push really comes to shove, Google: &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com +term +term&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon reading the detailed comments, I have to ask: Is turning off history really that much of a performance boost in Firefox? I mean, I browse with history off -- but my Back button and Undo Close Tab (and their Back buttons) all still work, so I don't know if there are additional paranoia buttons I should be hitting. :) My browsing experience never seemed slower just because history was on ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't matter. Ultimately, adding a feature to track threads we've viewed seems difficult at best and a quagmire at worst. I view a lot of threads. I only care about a few. If I care about them, I mark them &quot;favorite,&quot; or I upvote them, or I comment, or I post an answer. Sometimes a combination!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the ability to search, assuming you remember even just a few key points from the post you are so interested in, you should be able to find it. If you can't find it using S[OFU]'s search, you can Google it -- most S[OFU] posts seem to get on Google faster than you'd believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that adding a feature like this is catering to a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; limited audience: Those who browse with history turned off, and forget all of the contents of the very important thread they were just viewing such that searching is not viable. I can't believe that's a very large audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T13:29:50.863" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:29:50.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21328" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:06:41.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I played around a bit with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21302/new-data-dump-in-sqlite-format-available&quot;&gt;Jared's sqlite datadump&lt;/a&gt;. My link test uses pretty naive regex matching to find the most-linked-to questions, so the results might not be 100% accurate, but the overall direction should be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this test, these are the 25 most-referenced questions on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;69 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711&quot;&gt;What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;59 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/375913&quot;&gt;What can I use to profile C++ code in Linux?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;58 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of C#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;49 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557&quot;&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;now on meta&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;41 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/701166&quot;&gt;Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;36 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3088&quot;&gt;Best ways to teach a beginner to program?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;32 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644&quot;&gt;What good technology podcasts are out there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;30 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/773340&quot;&gt;Can you provide an example of parsing HTML with your favorite parser?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;29 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394&quot;&gt;What should a developer know before building a public web site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;28 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1669&quot;&gt;Learning to write a compiler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;27 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5119&quot;&gt;What are the best RSS feeds for programmers/developers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3748&quot;&gt;Storing Images in DB - Yea or Nay?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;24 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/114342&quot;&gt;What are Code Smells? What is the best way to correct them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11&quot;&gt;How do I calculate relative time?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2648&quot;&gt;What PHP framework would you choose for a new application and why?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;22 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4769&quot;&gt;What is the easiest language to start with?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;22 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/926266&quot;&gt;Performance optimization strategies of last resort...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;22 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556&quot;&gt;What's your favorite &quot;programmer&quot; cartoon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;22 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073&quot;&gt;Why not use tables for layout in HTML?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;21 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15496&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of Java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;21 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22873&quot;&gt;Language Books/Tutorials for popular languages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8440&quot;&gt;Visual Studio Optimizations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/645008&quot;&gt;What are the basic clearcase concepts every developer should know?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;19 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/437&quot;&gt;What is your solution to the FizzBuzz problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;19 links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet Facts?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;now on meta&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: What counts is a link from a question or answer to another question &lt;strong&gt;or an answer to that question&lt;/strong&gt;, not counting links within a question/answer thread. Links from comments are not counted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have updated the list after removing a bug in my program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T13:57:08.817" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:57:08.817" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="21343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21332" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:13:34.280" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO looks like a website. Or rather, it doesn't go out of its way trying to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; look like a website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO acts like a website. Again, no misguided hacks intended to make it act like something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are traits shared by &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; fine web apps, including those written using Rails. You can, I'm sure, think of a number of common frameworks that discourage these traits, and the websites that suffer for having been written using them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:13:34.280" />
  <row Id="21345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21306" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:16:26.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it could be a fun way to martyr yourself to get others pity rep.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask an unclear, poorly worded question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Receive an answer in good faith&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote that answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for others to see how unfair that is and give the answerer pity upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These others will probably downvote your question while they are at it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, net loss for you, but some good pity rep potential for your answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, though, &lt;strong&gt;No.  Don't downvote them, apologize and clarify your question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:16:26.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17055" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:22:16.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had someone say they would not have answered by question on Meta if they had saw my accept rate first.  So this is a real problem, as most questions on meta does not have one best answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe only include questions tagged “support-request” when working out the “accept rate”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:22:16.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21332" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:25:28.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are programmers who are able to write awesome stuff is &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; language. You try hard enough and go back far enough, you'll find some amazingly incredible stuff written in COBOL. Even some stubborn people writing mind-boggling stuff in SNOBOL. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The front end of a website doesn't betray what it was built with. These days, any flash application can be re-written into silverlight and the reverse is also true. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: &lt;strong&gt;The look and feel of a website depends on the skills of the developers and designers, not on the framework they use.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:25:28.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21306" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:32:30.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike everyone else, I'm going to say yes*. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*But not immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know your question is unclear, you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; fix it. In fact, even if you don't think it's unclear, you should always try to make it clearer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone who answered in a way that was unhelpful because the question was unclear still tried their best, but their answer was ultimately unhelpful to you, which is the purpose of a downvote. But in order to be fair (they tried their best after all) you should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your question for clarity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment on their answer, telling them it is unhelpful or wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for them to edit their answer. (The length should be at least 24 hours)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they do not, then you can downvote them, because their answer is still &lt;em&gt;objectively&lt;/em&gt; unhelpful or wrong. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is about Questions and Answers. If the answer that is posted to a question is wrong, then it should be downvoted so that other people who have the same question won't attempt to enact a solution that is potentially harmful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is unclear an answerer should ask for clarification, rather than just provide spray-and-pray answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:32:30.157" />
  <row Id="21352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21284" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:41:24.557" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep-per-answer is not a useful metric&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people with many answers in niche tags who would have low rep-per-answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who have many answers in very popular tags who aren't fast enough to get huge upvotes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who answer very few questions, but answer them very very thoroughly and get huge upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who only answer joke-type questions and get huge (undeserved) upvotes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who put off-the-cuff answers on a lot of questions and get a few upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point being that the rep-per-answer averages will vary wildly, but will not add any extra information about the user who is giving you the answer. Because rep is given out arbitrarily, there is not (and never has been) a way to firmly link rep-gain to usefulness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/58289/can-we-add-an-average-score-to-each-users-info/58291#58291&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; I posted on a similar &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/58289/can-we-add-an-average-score-to-each-users-info-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, but it got closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rep Average is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order for me to control (increase) my reputation, I need to invest more time in StackOverflow. This is very beneficial to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order for me to control (increase) my average-rep-per-post, I need to do one or more of the following things. (only a partial list)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Delete my lower voted posts (even if they are still valid and helpful)&#xA;* Ignore any low-view tags or questions&#xA;* Create a sock-puppet user to upvote all my posts&#xA;* Downvote other users to make my posts look more attractive&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You'll note that &quot;write higher quality posts&quot; is not on the list. There's a reason for that. Even a high quality post has a chance of not getting upvoted, which means it would lower my rep-average, and then I'd have to delete it. Also, &quot;answer questions very quickly&quot; is not on the list for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every item on that list is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a desirable behaviour. So there isn't any benefit to showing the rep batting average. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T20:40:44.723" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T20:40:44.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21304" CreationDate="2009-09-11T12:45:53.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that nobody in their right mind would want to use that as the link text is intentional.  The whole point is that the text be something that you &lt;strong&gt;really should change&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that it would be nice if, for SO questions, the page title were used.  But again, this is one of those little nice-to-have things that's going to be so far down the priority list that, barring some serendipitous randomness in the dev team's planning process, it probably won't get done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T12:45:53.957" />
  <row Id="21354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21296" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:01:23.727" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that the reason this badge works like this is that the badges which can be awarded multiple times can be calculated (or re-calculated) based on the data present in the system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &quot;Nice Answer&quot; badges stick around even if the answer is deleted from the system, but you then have to earn two nice answer badges to get your next badge. This is because the system can see you have X many questions with 10 or more upvotes, and it sees you have Y badges.  As long as X &amp;lt;= Y, you don't earn another badge.  If at some point X &gt; Y, you earn another badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With tumbleweed, however, the conditions on which you earn the badge are transient.  After it's earned, the conditions for which you earned it might no longer exist (you could get an answer or comment or some views).  Thus, the system has no way to &quot;check&quot; that the number of badges you earned is correct, or that you aren't being awarded multiple times for the same question.  So instead you can only ever earn one of these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:01:23.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:13:11.487" Score="1" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the stack alert twitter bot service still on? If not is there a similar service out there any where...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135246" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T16:17:57.537" Title="About the stackalert twitter bot" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="21359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21358" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:14:57.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stackalert&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/stackalert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No updates since Sep 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;. You can setup an account (using openid) with &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitterfeed.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitterfeed&lt;/a&gt;, and make your own stackoverflow-twitter-bot to broadcast questions every 30 minutes or so from the RSS feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:14:57.723" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:28:24.657" Score="6" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;Idea taken from doctype.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is asked an auto generated short URL (perhaps using a special &quot;short domain&quot; purchased for just this purpose) provided for use in twitter, or if passing along in SMS format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3349" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T13:39:44.073" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T18:00:00.070" Title="Could we have an auto generated short URL for questions on the sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:28:30.757" Score="6" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1278261/when-should-i-start-to-use-a-third-party-batch-email-system&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; which I believe according to the criteria &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and low views for a week&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer currently has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked 27 days ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Viewed 21 times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No Answers, No comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect the reason that I have not received the badge because I have received one upvote on my question, but this is not in the criteria. Or is 21 times too many views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:41:36.493" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:41:36.493" Title="Why wasn't Tumbleweed badge awarded" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="21363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21361" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:36:59.557" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A brand-new SO question URL is at minimum 43 characters today. That's cutting off the title, leaving only the protocol, domain, and path through the question ID. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That leaves you a whopping &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;97 characters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in which to &lt;strong&gt;Tweet your Twitter&lt;/strong&gt; (or whatever you kids are calling it now). You might think that's not enough characters to write anything useful with, but frankly, neither is 140 characters and you accepted &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; limitation when you signed on. So, suck it up. If you finally do realize that you don't have room for everything you want to write, then &lt;strong&gt;write a blog entry somewhere&lt;/strong&gt;, include in it the link to the SO question in all of its glory, complete with a proper title and perhaps a title tip listing the author and then &lt;em&gt;link to that&lt;/em&gt; in your &lt;strong&gt;Twitter Tweet&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:36:59.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21361" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:41:36.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For most twitter apps, it's literally one click to generate the shortened url...is that really too tasking? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:41:36.177" />
  <row Id="21366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21368" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:46:48.133" Score="3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8072/how-to-ask-great-questions&quot;&gt;How to ask great questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18584/how-to-ask-a-smart-question-on-so&quot;&gt;How to ask a Smart Question on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15308/whats-the-best-way-to-ask-a-question-if-english-isnt-your-first-language&quot;&gt;What’s the best way to ask a question if English isn&amp;rsquo;t your first language?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any guidelines on making sure your questions are understood? (Can't find this question via searching, surely someone has asked this before?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't want to go through the pain in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1409295/set-function-signature-in-python&quot;&gt;Set function signature in Python&lt;/a&gt; again, and I'm sure some of the people trying to answer it don't want to either!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar Questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15308/whats-the-best-way-to-ask-a-question-if-english-isnt-your-first-language&quot;&gt;Whats the best way to ask a question if English isn't your first language&lt;/a&gt;: Focuses on non-English speakers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1472/how-to-ask-questions-the-smart-way/1482&quot;&gt;How to ask questions the smart way&lt;/a&gt; - A discussion about some treatise outside of meta stack overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8072/how-to-ask-great-questions&quot;&gt;How to ask great questions&lt;/a&gt; - Focuses on getting answers, not asking questions clearly. Is this different?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18584/how-to-ask-a-smart-question-on-so/18588&quot;&gt;How to ask a smart question on SO&lt;/a&gt; - This is a much more general topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T07:29:12.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T07:29:12.247" ClosedDate="2009-09-13T01:22:01.667" Title="Asking questions clearly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21366" CreationDate="2009-09-11T13:55:37.713" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the proper way to ask a question on any particular topic is going to vary with the subject matter.  A brief question &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be perfectly acceptable, if the people who know about that topic know exactly what you are talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking very generally, I'd say, &lt;em&gt;when in doubt&lt;/em&gt; about whether you are being clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provide details.&lt;/strong&gt;  What are you trying to do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provide your code.&lt;/strong&gt;  What have you tried to get this to work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Include a very specific question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Think like an answerer.&lt;/strong&gt;  If you were providing support, what information would you like your users to provide you with? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't make it a wall of text&lt;/strong&gt;.  Aim for about one screen full at the most, and let the comments tell you whether that's enough or too much.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T13:55:37.713" />
  <row Id="21369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21361" CreationDate="2009-09-11T14:18:43.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Register a domain, have Apache run on it (I'm sure IIS is able to do that too somehow), and redirect everything you get to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&lt;/a&gt;$1 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do that in an iframe and put lots of blinky ads around it. Soon, you're going to be rich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T14:18:43.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21284" CreationDate="2009-09-11T14:35:20.293" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as another &quot;don't use rep-per-answer&quot; answer, if you mean &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; rep, high-rep users typically miss out on a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of rep due to the cap (i.e. a lot of questions with votes generate zero rep); so an infrequent user with a few good days could easily have a higher rep-per-answer rate than the hard-core high-volume user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as has already been stressed; a bad answer is a bad answer is a bad answer. I thought Jon wrote a bad answer once, but it turned out the answer was perfect and the question was wrong ;-p (substitute &quot;question&quot; for &quot;universe&quot;, &quot;compiler&quot;, etc to suit whimsy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T14:35:20.293" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14421" CreationDate="2009-09-11T14:40:12.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the goal of the bounty system is to help users to provide additional incentive to a question they would really like an answer to. Therefore, I do not believe is this a feature that needs any additional encouragement placed on it, as a badge would do. Essentially badges should be awarded to users who are providing services or behavior that the system needs. I don't think that offering bounties falls into the category of a behavior the system needs. Its an available feature, but its available for you, not the system. Voting is something the system needs to function, so there are badges related to voting. The system needs editors, flaggers and retaggers; SO would be lesser without them. I do not think SO would be lesser if no one ever offered another bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T14:40:12.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21366" CreationDate="2009-09-11T14:55:07.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some good tips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Get the tags right.&lt;/code&gt;  Users who are knowledgeable in a topic area will mark the appropriate tags as &quot;interesting&quot; or follow the rss feeds for those tags, and so getting the tags right is the best way for you question to get noticed by people who are qualified to answer it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Put some extra time into the title.&lt;/code&gt;  Especially if english is not your first language, you'll want readers to be able to distill the essence of your question from the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Use code to convey difficult concepts&lt;/code&gt; Again, if English is not your first language you'll probably just stumble trying to describe what you want to do.  Code is likely to be more universally understood and do a better job communicated your problem.  But...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Only show the minimum amount of code possible&lt;/code&gt; Condense your code snippets as much as possible so that the problem you're trying to solve pops out.  If other users have to read through a whole program to find the one method that matters, you're going to lose a lot of potential answers who just don't have the time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T15:09:16.390" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:09:16.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6130" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:08:36.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you using noscript? I was and that created an &quot;appears to be invalid&quot; error message until I chose the &quot;allow all for this page option&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:08:36.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21362" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:09:33.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a tumbleweed-badge on one question, and it did need some more time than a week. So be a little more patient, and it will be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135169" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T15:16:02.710" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:16:02.710" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:17:51.007" Score="11" ViewCount="658" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap on SO is quite the exhilarating endorphin rush, comparable to the smell of freshly-made waffles on a cold morning, or hearing Samuel L. Jackson deliver &lt;strong&gt;the line&lt;/strong&gt; during Snakes on a Plane, or being strapped to your seat and experiencing multiple G forces while blasting into Earth's orbit onboard a Space Shuttle while enjoying a plateful of the most delicious waffles imaginable. At least that's what it reminds me of; what would you compare with hitting the rep cap? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T04:32:27.973" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T04:32:27.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:19:29.600" Title="Fill in the blank: &quot;Hitting the rep cap is like ____&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;&lt;opinion&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14421" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:18:23.893" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think more importantly would be an badge for winning that much rep through bounties. Say bronze if you won your first bounty, silver for at least 1000 rep through bounties and gold for 5000 or so. And yes, I also think a badge for giving bounties could be a good thing. I don't think someone easily throw away his hard-earned reputation for a bounty only to win a badge. So such an badge wouldn't hurt the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135169" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:18:23.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:22:31.997" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap is &lt;strike&gt;like&lt;/strike&gt; Jon Skeet's before-breakfast stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:22:31.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:22:31.997" />
  <row Id="21378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:23:09.017" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good time as any to go to bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:23:09.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:23:09.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:26:39.510" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap on one site is a good time to consider hitting the rep cap on one of the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:26:39.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:26:39.510" />
  <row Id="21380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:33:31.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Proof that you had way too much time on your hands that day. Or you're Jon Skeet, who we know is actually just the programming version of Dr. Manhattan. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:33:31.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:33:31.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:33:37.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;...having too much money: it's a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; problem to have (and one which many of us rarely get to enjoy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:33:37.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:33:37.110" />
  <row Id="21383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:35:29.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Giving a one-finger salute to &lt;del&gt;experts-&lt;/del&gt; that &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:35:29.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:35:29.663" />
  <row Id="21384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:41:44.257" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap is like &lt;strong&gt;waking up alone and drunk&lt;/strong&gt;.  All the signs are there, but you can't break the addiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:41:44.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:41:44.257" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:50:34.073" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you honor &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmerday.info/FAQ.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;They speak English in 'What'?!&quot;&gt;Programmers' Day&lt;/a&gt;, the 256-th day of the year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'll fall on 13 September this year, being a non-leaping one and all that jazz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T15:59:31.743" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:02:31.550" ClosedDate="2009-09-11T16:04:01.877" Title="Programmer Day. Do you celebrate it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21386" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:52:12.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I celebrate programmer's day nearly every day of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133703" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:52:33.633" />
  <row Id="21388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21386" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:53:26.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never heard of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:53:26.963" />
  <row Id="21389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:54:08.147" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap is like getting the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mariowiki.com/1-Up%5FMushroom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1-Up Mushroom&lt;/a&gt; in Super Mario Bros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/4/43/1upShroom.jpg/180px-1upShroom.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1-Up&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:54:08.147" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T15:54:08.147" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21386" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:54:44.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about October 10? (10/10 - binary day)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:54:44.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21386" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:54:57.880" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. I use a 0-based index for my days, so I celebrate Day 255.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:54:57.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21386" CreationDate="2009-09-11T15:56:20.967" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programmers day only exists one time in history: October 10th, 2010.  Or in binary form 101010.  It's quite simply the ultimate answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T15:56:20.967" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21386" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:02:31.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, day 256 is this Sunday: September 13th. I think we should celebrate on both Sept 13th and October 10, though. Why miss a chance to party?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: of course, as I say this random edits the original question so it now includes the Sept 13th date. Sheesh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:02:31.550" />
  <row Id="21395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:07:35.083" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hitting the rep-cap is like seeing the bottom of the glass&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:07:35.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T16:07:35.083" />
  <row Id="21397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21334" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:10:28.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it was tried before - and closed as 'not programming related'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:10:28.743" />
  <row Id="21399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:13:47.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap is like having community wiki auto-checked for every answer/question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:13:47.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T16:13:47.347" />
  <row Id="21400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21402" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:22:21.437" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Enlightened badge description says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer was accepted with at&#xA;  least 10 up votes. This badge can be&#xA;  awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English is not my primary language so maybe I'm missing something, but I don't get it. If it's only for the first answer accepted with at least 10 up votes, how can it be awarded multiple times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if it can be awarded multiple time, why do I only have 1 when I should have 2 for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/798888/why-is-firebug-making-website-slow-and-how-to-fix-it/798910#798910&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1289372/css-image-sprites/1289378#1289378&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T23:35:19.303" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T23:35:19.303" Title="What do you mean by &quot;This badge can be awarded multiple times&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;&lt;badge-description&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="21401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21400" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:23:49.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means you can receive the badge more than once, for different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in contrast with badges like Editor, which you can only receive once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have the second badge because in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/798888?sort=oldest#sort-top&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; you weren't the first answer. The shogmeister beat you by two minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:23:49.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21400" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:27:14.610" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've only received the badge once because &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/798888/why-is-firebug-making-website-slow-and-how-to-fix-it/798910#798910&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; wasn't the first answer to the question.  Shog9's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/798888/why-is-firebug-making-website-slow-and-how-to-fix-it/798899#798899&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; has a date stamp of &lt;strong&gt;Apr 28 at 16:56&lt;/strong&gt; whereas yours is &lt;strong&gt;Apr 28 at 16:58&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Enlightened badge is awarded when the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;first answer [posted] was accepted with at least 10 up votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's tripped me up in the past too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:27:14.610" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21400" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:33:55.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the confusion is around the ambiguous term 'first' in the descirption 'First answer was accepted...'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;code&gt;first&lt;/code&gt; could refer to '&lt;strong&gt;the first time&lt;/strong&gt; you get a 10-upvoted answer accepted,'  here it means '&lt;strong&gt;the first answer in&lt;/strong&gt; (to be posted) to a question which turns out to be the accepted answer and is so good that it is upvoted 10 times'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:33:55.440" />
  <row Id="21404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:36:42.283" Score="14" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wording is currently&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer was accepted with at least 10 up votes. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as demonstrated &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21400/what-do-you-mean-by-this-badge-can-be-awarded-multiple-times&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; the wording isn't clear.  I know I've made the mistake myself. I'm sure there is a better wording out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T23:34:47.560" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T23:34:47.560" Title="Clarify the wording for the Enlightened badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;&lt;badge-description&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21404" CreationDate="2009-09-11T16:39:15.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer to the question was accepted with at least 10 up votes. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T16:39:15.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-11T17:32:21.260" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arrived today. Thanks :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and yes, things are always grainy and out of focus in iceland)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cznp.com/images/DSC00175.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T17:32:21.260" />
  <row Id="21409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T17:38:41.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap is like totally awesome. Oh my god.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T17:38:41.670" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T17:38:41.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21404" CreationDate="2009-09-11T17:43:26.683" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You were the first to answer a&#xA;  question. Your answer was accepted and&#xA;  received a score of at least +10. This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes more sense because it stresses that you answered first, was accepted, and reached a score of +10 (the whole ten upvote thing is very confusing and is not true. 9 upvotes + 1 downvote + 1 more upvote still makes +9 and you won't get the badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Added the multiple times at the end because I forgot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T17:54:24.963" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T17:54:24.963" />
  <row Id="21411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T17:45:19.330" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep cap is like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;rain on my wedding day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a black fly in my chardonnay&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a thousand spoons when all I need is a knife&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the free ride when I'm already there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T17:45:19.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T17:45:19.330" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21375" CreationDate="2009-09-11T17:51:10.117" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's like making out with my sister.  My sister is really hot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T17:51:10.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T17:51:10.117" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:09:43.517" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Friday Afternoon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22459&quot;&gt;Olafur Waage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Friday Afternoon is generally recognized as the period of the week when programmers like to slack off (more than usual) and begin an early unwinding from the past week's worth of not doing anything of great importance or productiveness. This time period has often resulted in users posting &quot;laid back&quot; or &quot;fun&quot; questions on Stack Overflow, meeting both great acclaim and massive community outrage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Friday Afternoon theme has now gained more traction on Meta Stack Overflow more than any other site in the League of Justice. It is not uncommon to see multiple &quot;Friday Afternoon&quot; questions posted throughout the day. This resulted in the creation of the tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/always-friday-in-iceland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'always-friday-in-iceland'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;always-friday-in-iceland&lt;/a&gt;, which used to be quite popular until one sad day it got marked as a synonym of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fun&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fun'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fun&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no set time frame which Friday Afternoon falls, because as once said in a song, &quot;It's 5 o'clock somewhere&quot;. Because of this, you are just as likely to see a question posted early on Friday morning (depending on your time zone) as you are to see one posted in the afternoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-21T17:45:17.210" LastActivityDate="2010-12-21T17:45:17.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-11T18:09:43.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:19:39.550" Score="2" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background information&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube%5FGoldberg%5FMachine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rube Goldberg machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Woot! and Fanatic badges are awarded to users who manage to log into one of the sites every day for 30 and 100 days straight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have already seen that this is easy to accomplish, either through sheer user addiction or through the use of simple scripts that automatically brings up the website each day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am interested in, however, is how complex can you make this process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of famed cartoonist Rube Goldberg and his overly-complicated machines to perform menial tasks, I bring the challenge to you, the Meta community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Criteria&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not required to actually work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The more complicated the better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should be able to make it at least 30 days (Woot!) or 100 days (Fanatic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bonus points if it would actually work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bonus points for humor (this is Friday Afternoon, after all)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T23:37:55.663" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T23:37:55.663" Title="Design a Rube Goldberg machine to achieve a fanatic badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:24:59.133" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Start with sharks.  Attach frikken laser beams to their heads.  These laser beams fire intermittently.  Occasionally, they fire at other animals, including other sharks with frikken laser beams attached to their heads.  When the LASER hits another shark with a frikken laser beam attached to its head, that shark dies.  There's a module attached to the frikken laser beam that can detect when a shark dies and uploads that shark's score to a server I've set up in my house.  Every 15 minutes, a monkey checks the server to find if any sharks have died.  If one has died, it gets very angry and sad and begins crying and throwing feces all around my house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I get home and find feces everywhere, I get very angry and sad and begin beating the living snot out of the monkey until it's dead.  Once the monkey is dead, I become very lonely and need to purchase another monkey.  Not knowing where one buys a monkey (and being so torn with grief that I can't remember where I purchased the last one), I fire up my browser, one of whose home pages is stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: As long as one shark dies from laser beams every day for 100 days, I become a fanatic of the site.  Only drawback? A house that continually smells like feces.  However, that's something that every fanatic deals with, so I shrug it off as coming with the territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastEditorUserId="130890" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T16:37:21.990" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:37:21.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21419" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:25:43.360" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this link. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/18113/comments?%5F=1252601104250#comment-36330&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/18113/comments?_=1252601104250#comment-36330&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where on earth does it come from? Or is it a hidden link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T18:53:21.397" Title="Where does this comment link come from?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21417" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:28:10.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the actual URL that would be fetched via an XMLHttpRequest when you click the &quot;show &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; more comments&quot; link. The page JavaScript merely takes the resulting HTML and stuffs it into the page, replacing the existing comments with the full set. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular URL has been modified slightly, adding a fragment so as to jump to a specific comment (the one with the id &lt;code&gt;comment-36330&lt;/code&gt;) - of course, you'll need a fairly small browser window to actually &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; this... presumably, whoever posted that link was just being a jackass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T18:28:10.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:37:50.313" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obligatory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/drinking%5Fbird.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Drinking bird&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T18:37:50.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:41:57.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll bite. What the hell, I have so little rep here to worry about losing anyway. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a simple, NOT Rube Goldbergian solution that (I hope) will work for me: Four icons on my iPhone, one for each of the SOFU sites + Meta. I make sure to hit them each once in the morning before work, and once in the evening closer to bedtime. (Not sure when the days hit my time zone. Yes, I could easily figure it out, but who cares.) This makes sure I hit each site at least once, in case I can't do it at work, and especially on weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that's what I actually use, in addition to real activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my Rube Goldbergian solution that for S&amp;amp;Gs I might actually try to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a perl script which hits one of the sites. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instead of writing code with perl's HTTP tools, I'll just have the perl script fire off a Firefox process going to the right site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site to hit will be passed in not via a command-line parameter, but rather via piped text file. Naturally, the perl script will have to string trim the file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The perl script will initiate the Firefox process as a background daemon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create the requisite four separate text files to pass in the site names. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add four instances of the perl script, each as a daemon process, to my Macbook's crontab. Each will load from a different text file. I'll stagger them each by 1 minute.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave the MacBook on, plugged in, and off power save mode FOREVER, thereby turning it into a desktop machine that just happens to be Aluminum and have a tiny screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In no time flat (well, 30 days and 100 days respectively), those badges will be &lt;strong&gt;mine!&lt;/strong&gt; Bwa-hahahahahah!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Buy more RAM at some point due to all the daemons I'm spawning that are never being unloaded. :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Can you even start a GUI app as a daemon on Macs? Never tried anything that jacked up before. Mostly because it's a really jacked up idea.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T18:41:57.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2009-09-11T18:53:09.177" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; count as Rube Goldberg machines? If so, I submit &lt;strong&gt;myself&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Not required to actually work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I am on MSO right now, so I'm clearly not working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The more complicated the better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, I got all kinds of complicated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Should be able to make it at least 30 days (Woot!) or 100 days (Fanatic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52738/gnovice&quot;&gt;Done and done&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Bonus points if it would actually work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you not just hear me? I said &quot;Done!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Bonus points for humor (this is Friday Afternoon, after all)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C'mooooon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T18:53:09.177" />
  <row Id="21429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2009-09-11T19:22:50.637" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take another pass at it. I think a proper solution has to have maximum scalability and uptime, and since we're talking about the web here, should also be easily portable and made cross platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that end ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Web Service&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Procure hosting at GoDaddy ('cause I like Danica Patrick. Oh, she's a professional race car driver, too?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Develop a web service in ASP.NET which will hit any given web site, provided that the web site's IP address is passed in as a binary string (you never know when domain names will change, or the way an IP address is read by the browser will change, or even when the ASCII/ANSI/UTF representations of numbers will change, so let's go for the gusto.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Additional parameters for the web service will include the binary string representation of the IP address of an OpenID provider, and for maximum security, the octal representation of the encrypted username and password to provide.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The web service will parse the IP addresses into their four dotted components, and send asynchronous HttpRequest to the given OpenID provider and web site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The web request will return a value of -2147483648 if the request succeeds. It will return +2147483647 if the request fails. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'll host this web service in my company's datacenter. (What, you thought I'd use GoDaddy?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Client&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to make absolutely certain that the client software will communicate with the ASP.NET web service (because you never know when Microsoft will sneak some kind of anti-competitive monopolistic time warps into their WSDL), the client software will also be written in .NET. It will be a very simple command-line utility, running on my work PC, as I no longer have a home PC (just the Mac).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The command-line utility will read a very simple text file to determine the input of OpenID provider, username, password, and target site. For maximum flexibility, none of these settings will be shared across sites. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The text file format will be thus:&lt;pre&gt;SITENAME[]}{{}\||+++OPENIDPROV[]}{{}\||+++USERNAME[]}{{}\||+++PASSWORD&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Don't worry, the password doesn't have to be encrypted. We'll use &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/2732/getting-through-efs-encrypted-file-system&quot;&gt;EFS&lt;/a&gt; to handle that. What could go wrong?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The text file will be parsed using regular expressions to strip out the delimiters, which were chosen to ensure that nothing which might appear in the other text would accidentally trigger a delimit. Sure, I could just quote the text strings, but then I have to worry about escaping the quotes, and this that and the third.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The command line utility will start by calling &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;downforeveryoneorjustme&lt;/a&gt; for the site name, open ID provider and web service.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upon ensuring that the sites are up, the command line utility will then perform an IP lookup for the site and OpenID providers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The IP addresses will be converted to binary strings.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The username and password will be encrypted, and their encrypted representations converted to strings of octal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The command line utility will call the web service asynchronously. That way it can display a very useful string of &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; characters for every second it spends waiting for the service to return.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upon successful completion, the command line utility will draw ASCII art of a smiling Danica Patrick.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upon failure, the command line utility will draw &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;welbog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Automation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You and I both know we can't trust all this Microsoft technology. So this will all be spawned by the following process on my MacBook, via a cron job that kicks off a shell script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initiates a VPN tunnel to my office.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Starts a Remote Desktop Connection to my office PC.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sends the following set of keystrokes to the RDC: &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;ESC&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;code&gt;cmd.exe&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;enter&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;code&gt;c:\path\cooltool.exe config&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;kbd&gt;enter&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Waits until a fourth app I write recognizes the drawing of Danica Patrick in the command prompt window.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disconnects the RDC.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cron jobs will be spaced out by 10 minutes to ensure that they don't conflict with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey -- infinitely scalable, service-oriented, with the potential for cross-platform clients. What could possibly go wrong? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T19:47:12.807" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T19:47:12.807" />
  <row Id="21431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21436" CreationDate="2009-09-11T19:39:24.740" Score="1" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard it is possible to gain huge reputation on StackOverflow without knowing anything. All you do is just piggy-back on other user's answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to categorically determine if someone is not using any of their own thoughts, and just stealing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possibilities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering questions in wildly divergent categories.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blatantly using copy/paste of other users answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other curious behaviours that indicate someone might just be stealing their answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as an after&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1413151/set-timer-for-return-value/1413160#1413160&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1413151/set-timer-for-return-value/1413160#1413160&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133288" LastEditorUserId="133288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T21:31:04.987" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T21:31:04.987" Title="How do I identify answer piggy-backing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21431" CreationDate="2009-09-11T19:42:23.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually when they've posted similar answers several minutes after someone else has already posted theirs, if the wording is similar, or the links to any references are the same. Or they keep updating their answer with other users answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Random categories don't really mean anything, it could just mean they have experience in many different areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T19:42:23.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T19:46:53.540" Score="11" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reward for answering difficult questions is disproportionately low. For example, I just got 90 points for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411331/has-any-language-been-implemented-in-java/1411380#1411380&quot;&gt;throw away answer&lt;/a&gt; that I googled for, but a total of 25 points for these four &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/876220/what-are-good-freely-available-ssa-sccp-resources/1247060#1247060&quot;&gt;well&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1053084/how-do-polymorphic-inline-caches-work-with-mutable-types/1200451#1200451&quot;&gt;thought&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1381845/writing-interpreters-in-python-is-isinstance-considered-harmful/1390006#1390006&quot;&gt;out&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/827489/compiler-optimizations-questions/1207236#1207236&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; which required a degree of expert knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, the questions are old and the users are gone. In some cases, a &quot;less good&quot; answer has been chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are no badges or points for this, where is the incentive? The feel-good factor wears old when you realize no-one is listening. What can we do about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related-ish&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10672/encourage-users-to-select-accepted-answer-for-old-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10672/encourage-users-to-select-accepted-answer-for-old-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8695/make-the-new-answers-to-old-questions-view-available-for-people-with-10000-rep&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8695/make-the-new-answers-to-old-questions-view-available-for-people-with-10000-rep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="131553" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T11:07:21.923" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:58:11.287" Title="Encouraging good answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2009-09-11T19:53:14.743" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that require a higher degree of expert knowledge will inherently draw lower rep typically because the audience who can feel qualified voting on your answer is very small. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody can upvote an answer on a simple question, that is why they get the highest audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how you would want to make an incentive to answering harder questions. We already have bounties, which will allow questions with lower views to attract more attention. This is slightly tangential to what you are looking for though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your problem here is that the system can't tell a hard question from a bad question. Both would normally not get the attention afforded to a better question. The only way this could be done is if there was some sort of extra feature, like a community rating on a question where you could go in and assign a &quot;degree of difficulty&quot; to the question. This degree of difficulty could then perhaps be used as a multiplier on the rep awarded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt this would ever get incorporated because I can already imagine there being huge gaming potential for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T19:53:14.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21431" CreationDate="2009-09-11T20:06:35.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;you can make some nice &quot;profits&quot; on SO by piggy riding &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I continue to be amazed at how people seem to treat reputation like currency. The community is pretty good at seeing when two people have answered the question the same due to FGITW or whether it is someone trying to game unneccessary reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the latter case by ignoring the second answer and &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; voting for it their will be no rep gain and the user will stop doing it soon enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T20:06:35.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21431" CreationDate="2009-09-11T20:16:37.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If by piggy-backing the answer produced is the clearest most concise answer then I'm for it.  And if the piggy-backer doesn't produce the &quot;best&quot; answer, it will be voted accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Net effect, better quality answers on SO; at the cost of missing out on a couple of up votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it gets to the point where it is that much of a problem (A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6254/what-should-the-users-of-stackoverflow-be-called&quot;&gt;Stacker&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stalker&lt;/a&gt;) notify the SO team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="33226" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T20:27:03.827" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T20:27:03.827" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2009-09-11T20:36:09.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think tipping could help this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If authors of the difficult question are particularly grateful for an answer, they could 'tip' the author of the answer with some reputation. Kind of like a retroactive bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tipping could be limited so that only the question's author can tip the accepted answer so that tipping abuse could be limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T20:36:09.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21431" CreationDate="2009-09-11T20:41:11.193" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to be a way to determine this easily, but that has changed since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19535#19535&quot;&gt;SCITE problem was introduced&lt;/a&gt; with the newly modified sort order for answers with the same number of votes (it used to be by time submitted, but now it's random).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you can still check the times the answers were submitted and compare them, but most users will neglect to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17910/please-return-to-the-old-sorting-by-time-method-of-answers-with-the-same-number-o&quot;&gt;Vote here&lt;/a&gt; if want it changed back!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T20:41:11.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-11T20:53:19.237" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18507/there-is-a-bug-where-you-can-get-free-reputation&quot;&gt;There is a bug where you can get free reputation.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here' what happens...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New User A with 1 Rep asks a question that is not a real question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User B Downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User C Upvotes (probably because he thinks the downvote was unnecessary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User A now displays 11 Rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User B removes his downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User A shows 13 rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User B puts back his downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User A shows 11 Rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think that when user C upvotes, user A should have only 9 rep (10 - the 2 from the original downvote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and certainly when User B removes his downvote, User A should not gain 2 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133096" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T20:57:15.143" ClosedDate="2009-09-11T20:58:08.790" Title="Possible Bug in Points System" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="21442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21441" CreationDate="2009-09-11T20:57:15.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This magical rep gain of 2 points would be taken care of with a reputation recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also less likely to happen now that the ability to undo your votes has been curtailed significantly and you would only be able to cause this within a very small window now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T20:57:15.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2009-09-11T21:19:10.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one should be above the &quot;law&quot;. They are only there by their sapport of feloow programmers. Nobody can make great ideas by themselves...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T21:19:10.093" />
  <row Id="21444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2009-09-11T21:22:37.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree, and I do think this is a real problem. Three of my last four answers on SO (algorithm/graph tag) took hours of work, required detailed knowledge, are probably correct, and have gained me exactly 0 reputation. On the latest one, I don't even expect an upvote from the asker, since he doesn't actually have enough rep to vote! On the other hand, the 30s Google search for an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1404908/how-to-organize-files-in-haskell-programs/1405023#1405023&quot;&gt;obvious webpage&lt;/a&gt; was worth 65 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several problems. It's clear that these are low traffic questions. But it's also obvious that the few people that do view the question and answers don't vote because they don't feel they understand the details well enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For better or worse, I'm almost ready to stop answering difficult questions. It is genuinely rewarding to be able to contribute something helpful back to the community. But when most people simply don't know or care, it's hard to justify the effort. I do agree it is frustrating when there are one line &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1251999/sed-how-can-i-replace-a-newline-n&quot;&gt;regex questions&lt;/a&gt; out there which require zero effort and are worth hundreds of points (because they are &quot;neat&quot; and are easy to verify).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21189/how-about-new-expert-badges-based-number-of-your-answers-accepted&quot;&gt;specialised badges&lt;/a&gt;, I don't have any good solution. Perhaps all it reflects is that Stack Overflow simply can't be the place for all programming questions, particularly those that are more computer science. Specialised discussion lists (or academic papers) may simply be a more appropriate (if rather less fun) solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T21:22:37.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-09-11T21:26:11.063" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps only downvotes should be locked in quickly, to prevent gaming the system.  I do find it annoying that upvotes cannot be retracted after a more thourough review.  We all make mistakes.  And since people dish out up votes freely, as they cost nothing, it makes more sense to allow for a longer time to lock upvotes in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133482" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T21:26:11.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21448" CreationDate="2009-09-11T21:51:36.663" Score="1" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new here and I don't know what are the guidelines for correcting answers given by the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situations that happened to me: I opened the question and saw three answers. In all of those answers it was the same mistake. I didn't want to add comment to all three of them, so I gave my own, 4th answer with correct piece of code. 2 minutes later all of that answers were corrected and I got downvoted twice. I don't understand why, because I just wanted to help the guy who asked the question and my suggestion was used to correct that answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I correct the answers next time and not to be downvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1413244/how-do-i-create-a-simple-table-in-sql-server-2005&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. As you can see it is rather basic question and I didn't want to downvote the others because the mistake was in &quot;USE DatabaseName&quot;. I deleted my answer, because I didn't want to get more downvotes :-) Besides all the answers were corrected so I have achieved my goal ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135622" LastEditorUserId="135622" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-11T22:08:34.573" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T02:27:30.527" Title="Downvoted for correcting answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21446" CreationDate="2009-09-11T21:56:33.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One method that some people take to avoid downvotes when posting a collaborative answer is to mark your answer as Community Wiki.  This will allow others that might not have the requisite editing-level rep to add to your answer as well.  I would specify what you are doing, ie making your answer CW to aggregate the good intentions of others into a corrected version.  Note that you will not get rep for this answer, either positive or negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding comments to the other answerers' posts is still an option, albeit tedious if there are a few with similar mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that once you have enough rep, you will be able to go in and edit the answers of others outright.  This is the preferred method of correcting these sorts of mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T21:56:33.910" />
  <row Id="21448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21446" CreationDate="2009-09-11T22:00:45.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should I correct the answers next time and not to be downvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post a comment to the first one, and down-vote all of them. If they aren't corrected in a reasonable amount of time, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; post your own answer. They can't down-vote you if you don't have an answer, and they can't down-vote you if they aren't around... and one way or another, a correct answer will be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T22:00:45.213" />
  <row Id="21449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1265" CreationDate="2009-09-11T22:02:32.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought I found something but the magic related titles search found this item.  But this was first posted in back in June so I'm starting to wonder if this is a feature and not a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4835" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T22:02:32.477" />
  <row Id="21451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2009-09-11T22:41:43.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, how about a &quot;wall of fame&quot;. It wouldn't be for popular answers, but for really great answers. They could be nominated by anybody, not just the question asker. When they appear on the wall of fame, other people impressed by the depth and wisdom shown would presumably upvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a solution for how to manage the size of the wall, since there would probably be tens of questions added per day, but hopefully not more. Perhaps it would be well to limit the size of it, or to limit the nominators to people with some points threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be useful if abandoned questions had a way of being taken over in some way, to award an answer. Perhaps people could &quot;apply&quot; to take over a question, and if it goes unanswered for a length of time, the take-over would be successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T22:41:43.360" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21446" CreationDate="2009-09-11T22:50:54.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could flag it for the moderators or use the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of the page. Though I have no idea if they will intervene in a case like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way to say &quot;Sorry. You are all wrong.&quot; that someone can't take offense at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do your best and don't be abusive, but if they are wrong correct them. Then if they appear to have engaged in strategic downvoting, consider flagging it. Because that is not acceptable behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your good natured willingness to be a team player is to be commended, but there is no need to be a doormat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T01:33:21.203" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T01:33:21.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21497" CreationDate="2009-09-11T23:21:26.250" Score="9" ViewCount="497" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who are the top 50 users who gain the most rep per keystroke on SO, including CC-Wiki and Closed questions? (excluding users with a reputation lower than 5000)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-18T14:39:14.313" LastActivityDate="2010-06-18T17:19:51.803" Title="Who gets the most reputation per keystroke on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21454" CreationDate="2009-09-11T23:42:43.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dont know about this one. Certain things are summed up in a sentence, others take paragraphs and up and down votes are never consistent, so I think the data would be kind of useless and flawed. Do you consider a low or high value good or bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-11T23:42:43.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21454" CreationDate="2009-09-11T23:48:30.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this list pretty interesting, it kind of shows who &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; get away with the smallest amount of work per reputation, I know Jeff is constantly editing stuff so its a bit unfair. But Jon Skeet still needs to type in 9 times the amount of text that Joel does to get the same reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its an interesting list, nothing groundbreaking just another bit of data mining. (FYI masi is at the bottom of the list, he has to work mighty hard for his rep) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;KeyStrokes&amp;nbsp;KeyStrokes per Reputation&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/381&quot;&gt;David&lt;/a&gt;             5996       32102      5.35                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt;      7261       42643      5.87                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4727&quot;&gt;Leon Timmermans&lt;/a&gt;   11847      72650      6.13                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;       15029      106200     7.07                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/718&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt;              8153       63859      7.83                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48684&quot;&gt;ocdecio&lt;/a&gt;           18415      160511     8.72                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/92&quot;&gt;Justin Standard&lt;/a&gt;   10744      94706      8.81                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8454&quot;&gt;Andy Lester&lt;/a&gt;       6761       60242      8.91                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3201&quot;&gt;Galwegian&lt;/a&gt;         18348      163420     8.91                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12855&quot;&gt;SilentGhost&lt;/a&gt;       9183       82716      9.01                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4883&quot;&gt;Readonly&lt;/a&gt;          5947       53863      9.06                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4482&quot;&gt;Ben Hoffstein&lt;/a&gt;     7402       69687      9.41                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1554&quot;&gt;Brad Wilson&lt;/a&gt;       8815       83619      9.49                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/238&quot;&gt;Pat&lt;/a&gt;               7504       72127      9.61                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6694&quot;&gt;Ben Gottlieb&lt;/a&gt;      8032       80007      9.96                      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1786&quot;&gt;John Sheehan&lt;/a&gt;      16371      164322     10.04                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/184&quot;&gt;Niyaz&lt;/a&gt;             7110       71547      10.06                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/598&quot;&gt;Haacked&lt;/a&gt;           7838       80779      10.31                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/437&quot;&gt;Patrick McElhaney&lt;/a&gt; 10283      106139     10.32                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7536&quot;&gt;eduffy&lt;/a&gt;            5333       55265      10.36                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4337&quot;&gt;Gulzar&lt;/a&gt;            20222      215708     10.67                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3002&quot;&gt;dF&lt;/a&gt;                11657      125562     10.77                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21926&quot;&gt;Sean Bright&lt;/a&gt;       8712       94165      10.81                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/73681&quot;&gt;cobbal&lt;/a&gt;            6404       70836      11.06                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/11830&quot;&gt;jop&lt;/a&gt;               6017       67568      11.23                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4977&quot;&gt;Cody Brocious&lt;/a&gt;     9108       102609     11.27                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/43582&quot;&gt;Bombe&lt;/a&gt;             9849       112078     11.38                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24181&quot;&gt;Greg&lt;/a&gt;              30586      349344     11.42                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27414&quot;&gt;Jon B&lt;/a&gt;             9590       109767     11.45                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14343&quot;&gt;Ned Batchelder&lt;/a&gt;    10812      123900     11.46                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20848&quot;&gt;BoltBait&lt;/a&gt;          6015       68964      11.47                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22076&quot;&gt;yesraaj&lt;/a&gt;           6087       70601      11.60                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16511&quot;&gt;Rich Bradshaw&lt;/a&gt;     5646       65532      11.61                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4872&quot;&gt;Ray Vega&lt;/a&gt;          5355       62883      11.74                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23643&quot;&gt;Checkers&lt;/a&gt;          5718       67518      11.81                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25222&quot;&gt;Robert Gamble&lt;/a&gt;     12762      150880     11.82                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3333&quot;&gt;Paul Tomblin&lt;/a&gt;      27740      329422     11.88                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2600&quot;&gt;Chris Upchurch&lt;/a&gt;    7397       88417      11.95                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/813&quot;&gt;Jeremy Ruten&lt;/a&gt;      14316      172717     12.06                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4200&quot;&gt;edg&lt;/a&gt;               11180      135008     12.08                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12624&quot;&gt;Alex Fort&lt;/a&gt;         5736       69620      12.14                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40005&quot;&gt;Ayman&lt;/a&gt;             7243       89192      12.31                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7498&quot;&gt;Manni&lt;/a&gt;             6486       81396      12.55                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2297&quot;&gt;ceejayoz&lt;/a&gt;          13110      164848     12.57                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2598&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt;            11983      150684     12.57                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/781&quot;&gt;Esteban Araya&lt;/a&gt;     5052       63751      12.62                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44743&quot;&gt;recursive&lt;/a&gt;         5638       71466      12.68                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7122&quot;&gt;David Arno&lt;/a&gt;        6080       77721      12.78                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55943&quot;&gt;mquander&lt;/a&gt;          10813      138203     12.78                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1242&quot;&gt;Lars Truijens&lt;/a&gt;     6700       85629      12.78                     &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SQL: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt; &#xA;select OwnerUserId, (DATALENGTH(Body) / 2) + isnull(DATALENGTH(Title) / 2,0) as Total into #Counts from Posts &#xA;-- ( / 2) is to compensate for nvarchar taking up 2 bytes for each char&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;select top 50 &#xA;    OwnerUserId as UserId, &#xA;    DisplayName as UserName, &#xA;    Reputation, SUM(Total) as [KeyStrokes],&#xA;    cast (SUM(Total) / (Reputation + 0.0)  as numeric(6,2)) as [KeyStrokes per Reputation]   &#xA;into #t&#xA;from #Counts&#xA;join Users on Id = OwnerUserId&#xA;where Reputation &gt; 5000&#xA;group by OwnerUserId, Reputation, DisplayName&#xA;order by [KeyStrokes per Reputation] asc &#xA;&#xA;exec spShog9&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T00:33:00.347" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T00:33:00.347" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21454" CreationDate="2009-09-12T00:16:36.117" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh, I get completely different data from you, using the following query at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sandbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select &#xA;  u.DisplayName, sum(length(p.Body)) as keystrokes, &#xA;  u.Reputation, &#xA;  (sum(length(p.Body))/u.Reputation) as rate &#xA;from &#xA;  users u, posts p &#xA;where &#xA;  p.OwnerUserId = u.Id &#xA;  and u.Reputation &amp;gt;= 5000 &#xA;group by u.Id &#xA;order by rate asc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My results (some names truncated by my lack of OpenOffice-fu):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User         Keystrokes   Reputation   Keystrokes per Rep&#xA;Leon Timmer      89445      11544       7.75&#xA;SilentGhost      69347       6636      10.45&#xA;Readonly         55616       5312      10.47&#xA;John             83115       7803      10.65&#xA;ocdecio         162012      15205      10.66&#xA;Andy Lester      73388       6525      11.25&#xA;Galwegian       194495      16963      11.47&#xA;Brad Wilson      94456       8111      11.65&#xA;John Sheeha     169968      14077      12.07&#xA;Ben Gottlie      90425       7376      12.26&#xA;Ben Hoffste      86613       6936      12.49&#xA;Ned Batchel      93970       7477      12.57&#xA;Gulzar          259712      19577      13.27&#xA;Cody Brocio     117107       8775      13.35&#xA;yesraaj          75624       5512      13.72&#xA;Bombe           103291       7470      13.83&#xA;Paul Tombli     364405      26015      14.01&#xA;Alex Fort        80378       5606      14.34&#xA;jop              79816       5560      14.36&#xA;Jon B           126926       8792      14.44&#xA;BoltBait         80310       5452      14.73&#xA;dF              163451      10994      14.87&#xA;David Arno       87383       5787       15.1&#xA;Robert Gamb     183487      12095      15.17&#xA;Greg            357433      23558      15.17&#xA;mad-j            77762       5121      15.18&#xA;edg             161120      10578      15.23&#xA;cobbal           79607       5199      15.31&#xA;ceejayoz        145566       9495      15.33&#xA;RichieHindl     179341      11648       15.4&#xA;Jeremy Rute     205898      13356      15.42&#xA;Chris Upchu     109327       7070      15.46&#xA;Sean Bright      95790       6187      15.48&#xA;Lars Truije      86416       5560      15.54&#xA;EBGreen         104721       6713       15.6&#xA;mquander        158458      10072      15.73&#xA;John Millik     230122      14520      15.85&#xA;Greg Hewgil     689012      42839      16.08&#xA;Adam Wright      95252       5915       16.1&#xA;Jason Cohen     180693      11150      16.21&#xA;chaos           295597      18080      16.35&#xA;recursive        84042       5101      16.48&#xA;Welbog          150209       9086      16.53&#xA;Ferruccio       212614      12816      16.59&#xA;Gerald          101581       6112      16.62&#xA;moonshadow       87391       5220      16.74&#xA;Eran Galper     194523      11537      16.86&#xA;jjnguy          158406       9370      16.91&#xA;Naveen          103211       6049      17.06&#xA;mgb             156303       9104      17.17&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T00:16:36.117" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-12T00:40:28.817" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Previously, I asked about a feature request for adding a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21284/add-a-rep-batting-average-similar-to-the-questioners-accept-rate&quot;&gt;batting average&lt;/a&gt;, as a tool for giving more info on the person supplying the answer.  From the answers given, it seems like I've been putting too much importance on the rep score - it shouldn't be taken seriously, it's just a number, judge answers by the answers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a new user I simply associated a high rep score with expertise. Since we should be judging answers based solely on the answers, I'm thinking that having the answerer's rep score (and badges, too, by extension) appear under the name on an answer are misleading - it influences other people's participation on the site (both the questioner and other answerers).  This is a contradiction - if the stated intention of the site is to develop quality answers, then it should not allow non-question-related information to influence or bias people's participation on the site, right?  How about just hiding those bits of info on the various answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could extend this argument to say that even the username of the answerer be hidden so that answers appear anonymous on the question page - individual user's profile page could still list everything as it is now for interested parties...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134396" LastEditorUserId="132347" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:20:55.693" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:20:55.693" Title="Hide the rep and badge count on a user's info box on answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-card&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21458" CreationDate="2009-09-12T00:49:15.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hiding the name is probably not going to happen - it would be a drastic change to how SO operates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hiding the reputation seems feasible though. Got my vote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T00:49:15.820" />
  <row Id="21460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21458" CreationDate="2009-09-12T00:59:08.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same idea was presented here and declined: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/198/should-there-be-anonymous-answers-and-questions/&quot;&gt;Should there be anonymous answers (and questions)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't put much weight on the amount of rep - it shows a user's participation in the system. My brother's a great programmer, but doesn't have a really high rep on StackOverflow, but that's because he doesn't spend a lot of time actually participating. Doesn't make him any worse a programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if this were opposite world, and Jon Skeet asked a bad question, I would still vote him down. (Does the SO engine even &lt;em&gt;allow&lt;/em&gt; users to vote him down?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T00:59:08.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21454" CreationDate="2009-09-12T01:22:53.683" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to remember here is that vote != repuation.  Many users from the first few pages get &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of votes that earn them zero rep.  So a more-interesting metric might be votes / keystroke. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T01:22:53.683" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21464" CreationDate="2009-09-12T01:28:13.830" Score="36" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Undoing a Vote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a very brief window where you can undo a vote which allows you to take back a vote you accidently cast. After a brief time, it is &quot;locked in&quot; until the post is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Bug:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see an old vote where the answer has been edited. I accidently click which undoes the vote. Oops. I can't immediately click again to re-do the vote. The system says the vote is too old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T12:59:35.930" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:29:30.010" Title="Undoing an old vote cannot be recast because vote is too old" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="21463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21478" CreationDate="2009-09-12T01:32:25.773" Score="5" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is an efficient strategy for increasing my reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I:&#xA;1. Focus on answering lots of questions, and hoping that my answers float up.&#xA;2. Focus on asking interesting questions.&#xA;3. Focus on commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is should I just “use” the system for &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; minutes a day, and &quot;act natural&quot;? Whatever that may be…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your daily stack overflow usage like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3276" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T13:37:28.870" Title="Efficient reputation strategy" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="21464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21462" CreationDate="2009-09-12T01:35:47.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18360/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-but-i-havent-voted&quot; title=&quot;uppers, downers, laughers, screamers...&quot;&gt;cast of things&lt;/a&gt;, the voting window is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18788/vote-reversal-time-limit-concerns&quot; title=&quot;quickly, more bog roll!&quot;&gt;drastically clap shut&lt;/a&gt; and tight like when the body is in need of finding a toilet post haste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you manage to come back to the post after it's been edited, and release that pent up pants before the knees initial reason, apparently you're allowed a one time touch again after having your particular window reset after the edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you slip, that's it, no more voting on the post for you. Until it's edited once more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-09T16:04:12.870" LastActivityDate="2010-04-09T16:04:12.870" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21463" CreationDate="2009-09-12T01:38:29.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all about answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T01:38:29.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21463" CreationDate="2009-09-12T01:38:44.250" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the most successful method is a combination of various factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contribute in great volume - this will give you many more places to pick up rep. It is much easier to hit your daily cap by answering 10 things a day and picking up 2 upvotes for each then trying to answer one question and getting 20 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contribute quality - Nobody is going to give you rep (in general) if you are not posting quality answers. Take the time to bring good information and insight to the table and you will be rewarded for it. Also, the higher quality the answer, the more likely you will pick up the 15 bonus points for having an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Focusing on commenting will not gain you rep, but it can be useful in bringing more context to your questions. If someone comments, reply back and give more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take the time to try and answer some bounty questions. You never know when you might hit a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T01:38:44.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21463" CreationDate="2009-09-12T02:04:27.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Focus on answering new questions in popular tags that you are proficient in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; page to see what ones you want to add to your interesting list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Good answers to questions tagged 'subjective' usually get a lot of upvotes, just make sure they aren't community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check the newest and hot tabs frequently for new questions to answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T02:04:27.417" />
  <row Id="21469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21446" CreationDate="2009-09-12T02:27:30.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done the same thing before, but I simply downvoted everyone who was wrong and posted the correct answer. I think it's quite legitimate to post the correct answer as your own, rather than an addendum to another, if they got the overall post wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't see the big deal anyway, the goal is for helping the &lt;em&gt;poster&lt;/em&gt;, there is a bit too much emphasis on voting. So I agree with you, it is good that your got the point, and fairly annoying that you got downvoted for doing so, because people late to the game probably assumed you'd copied the other posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you start your sentence with 'Everyone is wrong, here is the answer?' Just as long as you make it clear why everyone is wrong, I think it's quite fine. I don't see how people can take offense; there is no shame in being wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T02:27:30.527" />
  <row Id="21470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-12T03:51:23.677" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do other forums make you log in?  why can't all forums be what they should be; open, free, and available for everybody? like the Internet is supposed to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love SO, SU, and SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133749" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:54:20.357" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-12T03:51:23.677" Title="Why can't others be like this?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;freedom&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21470" CreationDate="2009-09-12T04:04:33.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most forums are not as heavily community moderated, so they make you log in to prevent you from anonymously spamming the hell out of their sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow on the other hand has thousands of users who participate in keeping the sites clean, which makes it easier to allow for anonymous users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T04:12:22.767" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T04:12:22.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-12T04:04:33.000" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21473" CreationDate="2009-09-12T04:32:32.340" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21099/what-is-the-name-of-the-font&quot;&gt;What is the name of the font&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the font used by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/sf/img/logo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/su/img/logo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; logos?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45261" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T04:43:01.010" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T04:43:01.010" ClosedDate="2009-09-14T02:11:41.580" Title="What's the font used in the SO, SF and SU logos?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21472" CreationDate="2009-09-12T04:38:19.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21099/what-is-the-name-of-the-font&quot; title=&quot;short tripping history&quot;&gt;answered two days ago by Ólafur Waage&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/din-1451/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;are you hungry yet?&quot;&gt;DIN&lt;/a&gt;. Either &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/logo-design-contest-for-serverfaultcom/#comment-18521&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;nintendo giving you the bird&quot;&gt;FF DIN&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/logo-design-contest-for-superuser-com/#comment-25060&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;look out for your braces&quot;&gt;DIN 1451&lt;/a&gt;. Not 100% on that part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T04:38:19.410" />
  <row Id="21474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-12T06:04:10.070" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I use Google to identify Stack Overflow users in a city with a reputation higher than X? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can get a list of Stack Overflow users in a city by doing a simple Google query such as the following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site:stackoverflow.com/users Singapore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas on how to enhance this query to rank by reputation or filter out all ratings below a certain amount?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T06:24:49.120" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T07:39:01.370" Title="Google query to find high reputation Stackoverflow users in your city?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21476" CreationDate="2009-09-12T06:37:43.857" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an option somewhere that people/mods can change the question to community wiki because I can't see it, and/or does an expired bounty with auto-answer automatically move a question to community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131563" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T13:28:45.080" Title="How does a question become community wiki with one edit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="21476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21475" CreationDate="2009-09-12T06:39:50.810" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Manual wikification&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find the box to mark a post community wiki underneath the textarea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/SmzEJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;look for the hatch&quot; title=&quot;watch where you put your fingers&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a post is checked with &quot;community wiki&quot; that will count as an edit by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/commie&quot; title=&quot;red cents aplenty&quot;&gt;the Community user&lt;/a&gt; as turning into a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the original owner of the question/answer might have posted as the first revision, by checking that box, it adds another revision edit which is basically switching to community wiki mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely with your witness of the bounty situation that it was a last resort by the first owner for more attention on their question. After exhausting their efforts, and editing enough, they can also see their question switch over to community wiki mode. Bounties do not directly turn a post into wiki mode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Automatic wikiness&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of your question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32164/easiest-way-to-clone-boot-partition-onto-new-hard-drive&quot; title=&quot;at super duper user&quot;&gt;Easiest way to clone boot partition onto new hard drive&lt;/a&gt;, the reason it's wiki is due only to the fact that there are &lt;strong&gt;more than 15 answers&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the realm of Super User, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6814/reduce-community-wiki-force-threshold-to-15-answers-on-superuser&quot; title=&quot;too many rocks not rocking hard enough&quot;&gt;the threshold for a question to automatically convert to community wiki is currently set at 15 answers&lt;/a&gt;. When hit, the question and all answers switch over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasoning is that since SOFU is a Q&amp;amp;A empire, questions would ideally have a definitive answer. If not, and a pirate boat load of answers swans about, it's more than likely subjective and/or a discussion, and one that should not contribute reputation as it's now some popularity index instead of a correctness/problem solving issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T13:28:45.080" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T13:28:45.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21474" CreationDate="2009-09-12T07:17:25.293" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;bring on the queries&quot;&gt;querying the data dump&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Id, DisplayName, WebsiteURL, Reputation&#xA;FROM users &#xA;WHERE Location LIKE '%Singapore%' &#xA;      AND Reputation &amp;gt; '500'&#xA;ORDER BY Reputation DESC&#xA;LIMIT 200&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this example, you're looking for those over 500 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T07:39:01.370" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T07:39:01.370" />
  <row Id="21478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21463" CreationDate="2009-09-12T08:08:47.963" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely answering. Find questions you can answer that only have a few answers so far (or preferrably none) and answer them &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt;. Take the time to polish your answer. Do so iteratively - start with a useful but bare-bones answer, then go through adding examples, links, extra notes etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a blog post about &lt;a href=&quot;https://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/02/17/answering-technical-questions-helpfully.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answering technical questions helpfully&lt;/a&gt;. It concentrates on adding value rather than gaining rep, but the one usually leads to the other - and it's just good for the world :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're &lt;em&gt;purely&lt;/em&gt; after efficiency, stop answering when you've hit the rep cap. The &quot;effort per rep point&quot; is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; higher after that. Personally I'd encourage you to keep submitting quality answers anyway, simply because it's good for the site, but you did ask for efficiency...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T09:34:12.033" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T09:34:12.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21463" CreationDate="2009-09-12T08:17:51.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On meta? Pick a theme... It could be flour-based breakfast snacks, or miniature equines, etc. Wax lyrical ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO/SF/SU - simply answer questions well. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible to make lots of rep by asking a spectacular &lt;strong&gt;non-wiki&lt;/strong&gt; question, but it is harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rinse, repeat. Rinse, repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also peruse the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=featured&quot;&gt;bounty board&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are going to hit the rep limit, then knowing when UTC midnight is (in your local time) helps, too; getting 50 upvotes counts for nothing if you are maxed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't post replies that look like spam or which are clearly offensive. In addition to downvotes, you can get hit with a 100pt fine. Likewise, snappish / unhelpful replies (&quot;lmgtfy&quot; etc) can attract negative attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be abusive to other site users (or any other kind of site abuse); being put in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;penalty box&lt;/a&gt; will cripple your ability to gain rep for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T08:23:21.870" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T08:23:21.870" />
  <row Id="21481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-09-12T08:50:10.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw waffles this morning at my local grocery store, thought of this thread/mem/Eric, and took a picture.  (We don't get many waffles in these here parts.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spooky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-waffles.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how Waffle is spelled &lt;em&gt;Waffel&lt;/em&gt;.  Someone here on MSO mocked my spelling of Waffle once, and know we know why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T09:00:20.660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T09:00:20.660" />
  <row Id="21488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10216" CreationDate="2009-09-12T12:52:03.870" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add another to the list, namely, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/not-a-question&quot; title=&quot;when it is a statement&quot;&gt;[&lt;code&gt;not-a-question&lt;/code&gt;]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one in particular smacks of rudeness and is extremely unhelpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is not a valid question, then it should be flagged or at least a comment left to try and get the asker to reword and fix up their question. The tagging system should not be manhandled and rogered like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they have enough rep to edit the tags, then they have enough rep to leave a comment pointing out that it is in need of serious rewording. Or, shiver their timbers, flag the question as invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands now, there are 67 questions abuse-tagged with this in particular. That means someone has won a Taxonimist badge for being a jerk on the back of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T12:52:03.870" />
  <row Id="21489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21463" CreationDate="2009-09-12T13:37:28.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd agree with Henk that the best way is to provide &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answers to trivial questions &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;. And I'd also say that there is a tradeoff between the quality of your answers and the speed with which you provide them. Sometimes a trivial answer to a trivial question can win a lot of reputation. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1412155/is-synchronized-static-method-legal-in-java&quot;&gt;this question as an example&lt;/a&gt; where a single sentence earned a ton of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, there are highly specific questions where to provide a useful answer someone has to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read and understand a lot of text and snippets of source code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fire up an IDE and some other tools like e.g. network sniffer, bytecode decompiler, file monitor or whatever&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Debug the code and analyze the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modify the code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write up a good and understandable explanation what the problem was and why the modification fixes it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And all this effort that has probably taken some hours and a lot of thinking gets the author one upvote because nobody else reads that very specific question about a Websphere Server on IBM z/OS having trouble to access a certain message queue within the same 2-phase-commit transaction as a database update or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135008" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T13:37:28.870" />
  <row Id="21490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11732" CreationDate="2009-09-12T15:47:36.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this in the site search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will search only your questions and only show those that do not have an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T15:47:36.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15019" CreationDate="2009-09-12T15:49:45.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do it now in the site search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me &quot;phrase that pays&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The search will recognise the &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; part as an ego-centric noodling of your own posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T15:49:45.310" />
  <row Id="21493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10025" CreationDate="2009-09-12T16:02:02.197" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pop these slices of french toast queries into the site search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your own questions without an accepted answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame+hasaccepted%3A0&quot; title=&quot;put some clothes on, man!&quot;&gt;user:me hasaccepted:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those that do not have an answer yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame+answers%3A0&quot; title=&quot;left out in the cold?&quot;&gt;user:me answers:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Butter up, sprinkle with sugar and enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T16:02:02.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6392" CreationDate="2009-09-12T16:08:41.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be a great feature for those who fall into any one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No browser back button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No &lt;kbd&gt;ALT&lt;/kbd&gt; and/or &lt;kbd&gt;⟵&lt;/kbd&gt; keys or even the &lt;kbd&gt;⟵ Backspace&lt;/kbd&gt; key&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For Opera users (or those on Firefox using the utterly down boot wannabe plugin for mouse gestures) without a left and right mouse button combo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T16:08:41.217" />
  <row Id="21495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-12T16:09:49.157" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to tie up a computer with this, it could be interesting to give the job to an iPod. An iPod app or plain old slideshow (no coding required) might be able to handle the job (though you'd have to generate the images...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have time to take this idea any farther so I'm just throwing it out there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T16:09:49.157" />
  <row Id="21497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21454" CreationDate="2009-09-12T16:58:00.237" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok - now you can browse the top results on DataExplorer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/4417/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/4417/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(converted from an old StatOverflow query, added waffle's coalesce suggestion during the conversion to SQLServer-flavored SQL)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-18T17:19:51.803" LastActivityDate="2010-06-18T17:19:51.803" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="21499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21505" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:19:31.380" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be cool if each user could have &quot;Personal Tags&quot;, tags that the user themselves could see/search, but that wouldn't be shown to the rest of the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way questions could be grouped by the project the individual user is using the question/answers for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T17:45:33.160" Title="Stackoverflow Personal Tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21515" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:24:40.500" Score="6" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet was at 95,917 rep on SO just now. What would be an appropriate power to grant him when he reaches 100,000?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1832/what-happens-when-jon-skeets-reputation-exceeds-the-limit-for-the-data-type-hold&quot;&gt;What happens when Jon Skeet’s reputation exceeds the limit for the data type holding it?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134591" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:11:12.470" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:11:12.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-14T04:04:19.427" Title="What rights should a user get at 100,000 reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7350" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:29:55.650" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the absence of an official answer, it might be prudent to try and see if we can organize unofficial recordings of the event. Does anyone going to DevDays have a video camera? If you do and you're willing to record a talk or two at your city, post the details in this thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T17:29:55.650" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:30:48.723" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A big red button that executes a &lt;code&gt;DROP DATABASE StackOverflow&lt;/code&gt; statement on the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T17:30:48.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21499" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:45:33.160" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;so many&lt;/em&gt; tools to managing personal web content. Find one that suits your specific needs rather than adding unnecessary complexity to individual web sites. I'm talking about web tools such as bookmarks/favorites, &lt;a href=&quot;http://reader.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RSS readers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.evernote.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evernote&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onenote.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Onenote&lt;/a&gt;, etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T17:45:33.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:47:32.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only real power that users at 10k don't already have are those that we moderators have, and I doubt there is any point level you would wan them to attain before being granted those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T17:47:32.907" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:47:55.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;shares of stock in the company?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T17:47:55.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-12T17:59:59.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21501/21506#21506&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;, the only level that is left is moderator, and I do not think completely moderator power should be gained simply based on achieving a certain level of reputation. Moderators have powers needed to oversee the site, and I cannot imagine giving that authority blindly to people of a certain reputation level. As you gain rep you can vote to close questions, but moderators can close with one (among other things) and that to me is a power that the SO team should be in control of, not the rep system. The rep system works well, but it is not flawless; eventually someone would reach 100k that could seriously hurt the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T17:59:59.403" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-12T18:17:52.070" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little late but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows the progression of time in both digital and analog - the stack grows over time. When no time is left, the stack grows beyond the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was planning on entering a Twitter feed onto this so that people could spam the wait screen. :-) If there is interest, I can add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.praeclarum.org/ddtimer/dd8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://praeclarum.org/ddtimer/DDTimer.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Download Here (Full Source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T15:08:38.773" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T15:08:38.773" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-12T18:41:26.007" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;Hall of Fame badge&lt;/strong&gt; would be a nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T18:41:26.007" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-12T18:42:59.483" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;Hall of Fame badge&lt;/strong&gt; for those who will reach 100k reps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T18:42:59.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-12T18:42:59.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21519" CreationDate="2009-09-12T18:43:05.533" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if following would work as a community site: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of posting a question user posts a quick tip for how to achieve certain actions in certain conditions. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keyboard shortcuts (for power user);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;code snippets (for stackoverflow);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything other (for any other site of the family);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally one would post advantages and disadvanteges of proposed actions. After all - there is more than one way to do it in any situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135723" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T18:50:08.580" Title="Pseudo reversed concept for stackoverflow site" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21517" CreationDate="2009-09-12T18:49:51.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't is the same simply removing the question mark at the end of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T18:49:51.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21517" CreationDate="2009-09-12T18:50:08.580" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this on the SO family of sites as long as you phrase it in the form of a question, then provide your tip as an answer.  Then the community can fill in the &quot;more than one way to do it&quot; for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T18:50:08.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21522" CreationDate="2009-09-12T19:28:05.403" Score="11" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier today several of my answers got downvoted over a period of a couple of minutes in the order they are listed in my profile, which is rather unlikely to be a coincidence. Presumably someone took something I'd said personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can there be a cap on the number of times a user can downvote answers by the same user in a particular time period? Something that flashes up &quot;don't be a dick, add a comment to the question instead&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147851" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T20:07:19.073" Title="Reputation Vendetta Timeouts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21521" CreationDate="2009-09-12T19:30:16.803" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scripts exist caring about vote fraud. If it is not corrected automatically, flag the posts for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T19:30:16.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-12T19:40:19.873" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All your base?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Obviously they are belong to us already really, but this would just make it formal.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-12T20:01:19.553" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T20:01:19.553" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21521" CreationDate="2009-09-12T20:07:19.073" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There already is, &quot;serial downvoting&quot; is detected, and silently nullified. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog.stackoverflow.com blog post &quot;Vote Fraud and You&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, for those users that do, the pattern was quite clear. As of today, we have several queries that look for unusual downvote patterns. If we discover these patterns in a given user’s voting history, we view all their downvotes for that user as suspect. They’re all silently deleted, and any lost reputation is restored to the unfortunate target of these downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other related meta.SO questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1890/please-add-a-serial-downvote-tax&quot;&gt;&quot;Please add a serial downvote tax.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1790/how-often-do-people-get-serial-down-voted/1795&quot;&gt;&quot;How often do people get serial down voted&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12406/how-to-deal-with-repeated-abuse&quot;&gt;&quot;How to deal with repeated abuse?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T20:07:19.073" />
  <row Id="21528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-12T20:07:40.197" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about the ability to hide exact rep, changing it to just display &quot;Lots&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I wouldn't want any time or energy spent on this - at least not for the next year or so. In a year's time we might &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; be into double digits for 100K users... I'm &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; there are better things Jeff and the team can do with their time&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Like buying and reading C# in Depth multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T20:07:40.197" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21531" CreationDate="2009-09-12T20:37:43.090" Score="4" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;By mistake I started a bounty and lost 200 reputation points leaving me with only 215.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to remove this bounty function from your own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties in play:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1267488/play-wav-file-backward&quot; title=&quot;Braid, huh?&quot;&gt;Play wav file backward&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1398892/java-netbeans-debugging-session-works-faster-than-normal-run&quot; title=&quot;So, Braid again?&quot;&gt;Netbeans debugger works faster than normal run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136853" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T04:58:52.483" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T04:58:52.483" Title="Ability to remove the bounty and get reputation back" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21529" CreationDate="2009-09-12T20:47:44.897" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Bounty grants are irrevocable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why there's a JavaScript confirmation dialog, informing you of the permanence of the bounty, when you initiate the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T20:47:44.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21529" CreationDate="2009-09-12T20:47:52.743" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somewhat doubt that it could be removed, since that'd allow the potential to &quot;game the system&quot; by starting bounties, getting people to reply, and then removing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry too much about reputation - it's fairly easy to acquire over time if you're active on the site, and if you're not active, then it doesn't really matter anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132820" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T20:47:52.743" />
  <row Id="21533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-12T21:36:22.360" Score="3" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's right that new questions get closed as &quot;dupes.&quot; Some of them were asked in the early days of StackOverflow/ServerFault/SuperUser and do not necessarily have great answers. Also with time new things show up and get developed. And those questions already have the &quot;best answer&quot; selected and are appearing on the top. Even if you give a better answer, you'll be at the bottom, which will make it hard for others to notice it and it will be upsetting to you as well. I find it incorrect that questions get closed as duplicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a better policy when a question can be marked as a dupe and when not. For example, only the competent users in that area (having answered enough questions with the same tag the question has) should be able to mark question as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T19:38:33.993" Title="I don't think it's right to mark question as &quot;duplicate&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21533" CreationDate="2009-09-12T21:46:39.563" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you have a new, good answer to an existing question, then you should answer the existing question. If i need an answer to that question and I search for it, chances are the old question will be the one to come up first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are mechanisms in place for merging questions, highlighting old questions with new answers, etc. IMHO, far too few questions are closed as duplicates: i often find myself searching for a question i've viewed before and &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; had a good answer, only to find a pile of newer, duplicate questions and lackluster answers following them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T21:46:39.563" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21652" CreationDate="2009-09-12T21:46:57.677" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;So according to comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17077/the-layout-breaks-when-colons-are-placed-in-links&quot;&gt;this meta&lt;/a&gt;, colons in URLs are automatically encoded if they occur after string position 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this has the side effect of breaking any link which uses the scheme://domain:port syntax because the colon separating the domain and port gets URL encoded (but, deceivingly, still displays properly in the status bar for most browsers when hovering over the link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of problem: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1414644/maximum-time-allowed-to-complete-authentication-has-been-exceeded&quot;&gt;my answer on this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to change the colon-encoding algorithm to only encode colons that follow the first &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;?&lt;/code&gt; character after the domain portion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: The urlencoded colon appears to work okay in Opera, but not in Firefox, Chrome, or IE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132820" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T01:32:48.607" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:33:09.027" Title="Colons in link URLs, redux" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;encoding&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21529" CreationDate="2009-09-12T23:00:22.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't think the system needs changing, in fairness I suppose it could be possible set up a new feature to allow bounties to be removed as long as it was within, say 60 seconds, and no answers had been received.  Maybe even if no views had been registered, to be super-strict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as Jeff points out, there is a confirmation, and the permanence is quite explicit, so I don't think there's much added value with such a hypothetical feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T23:00:22.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21529" CreationDate="2009-09-12T23:04:09.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get the points back. I started on SO 2 weeks (+1 day) ago and have about 2,000 points, so that's 133 points/day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I lost 200 points I would be losing less than 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I learn a lot answering questions carefully and googling things the questioner didn't. I think you can get them back without too much trouble and be better off for it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135454" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T23:04:09.340" />
  <row Id="21541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16004" CreationDate="2009-09-12T23:21:18.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the exact same issue on SO. Unfortunately we do not always have the power to reconfigure the destination webserver. I work around it by manually putting anchor hrefs in the editor, but I occasionally forget and end up with a broken link. Then I have to go back and edit my answer to fix the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider coming up with a resolution for this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134591" LastActivityDate="2009-09-12T23:21:18.000" />
  <row Id="21543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21366" CreationDate="2009-09-13T00:58:58.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ESR wrote a great essay, &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;How To Ask Questions The Smart Way&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of it does not apply to our needs, but it is a good read and well worth the trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131649" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T00:58:58.303" />
  <row Id="21544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6658" CreationDate="2009-09-13T01:09:14.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably because by the time of the RSS baking and delivering itself to your aggregator of choice, the spam filled and/or hateful sandwich was deleted just a little too late for it to not be captured and push your way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might be solved if the feed baking was done a little later. But who knows when the questions are deleted/removed/closed before making it into the feed update?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T01:09:14.700" />
  <row Id="21547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-09-13T01:36:28.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the OP on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A thought I had is what if noobs could leave &quot;moderated&quot; comments which simply aren't visible to the general public until they've been accepted as relevant by at least one user with, say, 2000 reputation points.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the noob even gains a reputation point or two each time they pass the &quot;relevance test&quot; up to the point where they are trusted enough to leave unmoderated comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131300" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T01:36:28.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13067" CreationDate="2009-09-13T01:43:25.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're browsing about with a brolly on the site, you can click on the tags and traverse them, adding them along the way for a finer granularity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to also have the ability to remove it from a trail so you can adjust as you go along to see what questions appear with what tag combination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/yLb0t.png&quot; alt=&quot;Star City man attacks tag trail&quot; title=&quot;Ollie, Ollie, x-ing thee!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back button wouldn't help really if you want to nix the second of a list of four or seven without backtracking and traversing the tree manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T01:43:25.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21559" CreationDate="2009-09-13T01:50:09.827" Score="8" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi! I frequently come upon comments to answers that are submitted as answers, instead of comments. In other words, someone (typically someone new to Stack Overflow) wants to comment on an answer, but instead ends up creating another answer, which is actually intended as a comment (the reputation needed to comment may be an inadvertent cause of this). In this situation, what should a typical SO user like me do? Should we flag it as &quot;requires moderator attention&quot;? So far, I've just left comments on them, saying that they themselves should be comments. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T00:58:15.730" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T09:57:24.600" Title="Comments incorrectly submitted as an answer instead: what should we do?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2009-09-13T01:53:13.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they look like questions, then tell the author to post a question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If they look like superfluous noise, then tell the author to STFU.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Otherwise, treat them like answers - up-vote if helpful, down-vote if unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T01:53:13.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2009-09-13T01:53:30.727" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually leave a comment pointing out the proper etiquette. If/when they respond, it's usually, &quot;Oh, sorry, my bad&quot; and they do their best to fix it. It might help get the question cleaned up if you flag it for moderator attention, but I'd much rather have a few ugly questions and teach someone how to do better in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T01:53:30.727" />
  <row Id="21552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21535" CreationDate="2009-09-13T01:55:12.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the link you mentioned in your answer was parsing properly and the colon (:) was not encoded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sidenote%3A If you ever want to play around with how something might look between the preview and the final state, take off your shoes and step into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&quot; title=&quot;your shoes, take them off!&quot;&gt;the formatting sandbox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what the status bar shows hovering over the link in your example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/8tX8O.png&quot; alt=&quot;crab on the port&quot; title=&quot;down by the boardwalk&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking it brings up the expected URL. Viewing source also displays the colon in the URL as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T07:34:38.647" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T07:34:38.647" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="21553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-09-13T02:02:08.623" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having a limit at 50 does stimulate people to make their first contributions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way you can earn extra privileges by contributing makes StackOverflow addicting to use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By giving too many privileges in the beginning, that element is taken away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The addiction factor is important for the success of the site. It keeps people coming back, and it keeps people contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T02:02:08.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-13T02:08:06.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;100.000 points should give you bragging rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T02:08:06.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21557" CreationDate="2009-09-13T03:22:32.590" Score="0" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether this is a valid (per spec) url or not, but this url&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9230708&amp;amp;st=samsung+lcd+32&quot;&amp;amp;lp=1&amp;amp;type=product&amp;amp;cp=1&amp;amp;id=1218063831450&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't work in stackoverflow. It doesn't get made into a link when you view the post. Notice the quotation mark? That appears to be the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a test. This is the page it &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/qbrdjt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;should link to&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T01:56:47.067" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:28:41.980" Title="Links with quotation marks are broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21556" CreationDate="2009-09-13T03:28:55.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's that double-quote (&quot;) in the URL. The parser is expecting another one because it would be used as the &lt;code&gt;TITLE&lt;/code&gt; part of the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not intuitive, but you'll have to encode that double-quote as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;%22&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your above link would be like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9230708&amp;amp;st=samsung+lcd+32%22&amp;amp;lp=1&amp;amp;type=product&amp;amp;cp=1&amp;amp;id=1218063831450&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;someone's out to entertain&quot;&gt;http://example.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9230708&amp;amp;st=samsung+lcd+32%22&amp;amp;lp=1&amp;amp;type=product&amp;amp;cp=1&amp;amp;id=1218063831450&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T03:37:58.910" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T03:37:58.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-13T03:40:46.037" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131290/phantomtypist&quot;&gt;PhantomTypist&lt;/a&gt; and I decided we'd give it a shot. We had the idea of a binary clock that would display images of the various StackOverflow team members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/Pandincus/folders/public/media/6b96714c-8228-497a-8994-9c73df84c6eb/1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screencap One&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the clock ticks, the stackoverflow logo adds items to the stack, the stackoverflow heads move around the binary clock, and the sponsor logo in the top right changes occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the timer reaches zero, we display &quot;Six to Eight Weeks&quot; and fade out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/Pandincus/folders/public/media/2435b0c1-e290-49db-b686-481acd85b031/2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screencap Two&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give the program a try, grab one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/211846/DevDaysClock.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Binary executable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/211846/DevDaysClock%5FSource.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Full source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To run a demo, just run the .exe and it'll fill in some default parameters. To give it a custom time and message, run from commandline like Joel said above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DevDaysClock 0900 &quot;DevDays Starts In %s&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anxiously awaiting your feedback! :-D See you all at DevDays in Boston!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131290/phantomtypist&quot;&gt;PhantomTypist&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131918/pandincus&quot;&gt;Pandincus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131918" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T03:40:46.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2009-09-13T03:56:19.397" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that newcomers cannot post comments; you need a minimum reputation to be able to post comments.  For people whose reputation (at the time the comment was made!) was low enough, the 'answer instead of comment' is all they can do.  There is no cause to chide them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people with enough reputation to post comments, then you can suggest that the 'answer' should be a comment - by adding a comment yourself.  By the time you're aware of the nuances, you usually have enough reputation to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, though, the 'comment' would be so much longer than the 600-character limit that an answer is not an unreasonable way to address the issues you see in another answer.  If that were the case, I'd probably leave a comment in the original answer, pointing to the expanded 'comment-as-answer'.  If what you say will fit into a comment, a comment is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you know that the reputations needed for commenting on Meta are different from those on SO?  I didn't.  On Meta, anyone can comment - the reputation needed is 1.  On SO, the reputation needed for leaving comments is 50.  That's not hard to reach, but it does take a bit of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T03:56:19.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15262" CreationDate="2009-09-13T04:10:43.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like wanting extra insects to fill the plate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with just bookmarking the &lt;strong&gt;Reputation&lt;/strong&gt; tab of your profile and clicking &lt;strong&gt;today&lt;/strong&gt; every now and then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T04:10:43.320" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21264" CreationDate="2009-09-13T05:15:42.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're filing as a bug, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/469/page-navigation-on-users-page-doesnt-work-if-using-the-input-box&quot; title=&quot;blown out of the rip tide&quot;&gt;it's status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you were to edit your question as wanting it to behave like you want it to, that's another thing entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to see the pagination stick around if you're searching for a particular whathaveyou in the DisplayName.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for now a workaround would be to query the &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;last update with August dump&quot;&gt;Public Data Dump&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=select%20concat%28%27%3Ca%20href=%22http%3A//stackoverflow.com/users/%27%2C%20id%2C%20%27%22%3E%27%2C%20displayname%2C%20%27%3C/a%3E%27%29%20as%20author%2C%20reputation%20from%20users%20where%20displayname%20like%20%27%25cthulu%25%27%20%20order%20by%20displayname%20asc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;something like this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT&#xA; concat('&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/', Id, '&quot;&amp;gt;', &#xA;                                  DisplayName, '&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;') as author, Reputation &#xA;FROM users&#xA;WHERE DisplayName LIKE '%cthulu%'&#xA;ORDER BY DisplayName ASC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty linking &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21454/who-gets-the-most-reputation-per-keystroke-on-so/21497#21497&quot; title=&quot;stroke, stroke, stroke&quot;&gt;ripped from Shog9&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T05:15:42.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21337" CreationDate="2009-09-13T06:27:16.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you've cleared it up and are now talking about the Votes tab, well, sadly, it's... how should this be put...? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14610/where-did-the-votes-tab-go&quot; title=&quot;Vale the Votes tab&quot;&gt;It's... well it's gone. Passed away. No longer.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T06:27:16.193" />
  <row Id="21566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-13T06:31:32.437" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blowhard&lt;/em&gt; for someone who posts in many different tags, but doesn't have any accepted answers... a failed generalist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Socrates/Know Thyself&lt;/em&gt; for very large percentage of answers (100%) upvoted or accepted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Badger&lt;/em&gt; for someone who suggests a badge here that becomes real&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135794" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T06:31:32.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-13T06:31:32.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13377" CreationDate="2009-09-13T07:41:47.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation should be at least based on the size of a community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say you were a c# and f# (or java and scala) developer. Your brilliant f# answers will not count as much as your lousy c# answers because there are not too many people interested in f#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see reputation based on a tag. “This guy's reputation is x from f# and y from c#.” The answer could be a normalized value per tag: reputation from tag / max reputation for tag for all users (the best f# guy). This can answer the question if someone is the f# specialist or not independently of the size of community. There will be some obscure results for new or marginal tags so there should be some threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The harder question is to normalize reputation globally. It could be sum(normalized reputation per tag). I'm not sure if this would bring enough extra value. The world is not fair why should stackoverflow be fair? (Chances are that you know Britney Spears but never heart of  Maria Callas.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135797" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T07:41:47.503" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-09-13T07:57:06.487" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the best answers can be nothing more than a word or two - by referring the reader to a concept they were unaware of which will completely solve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am slightly annoyed at the hackiness of adding whitespace to the response to get around the limitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T07:57:06.487" />
  <row Id="21570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2009-09-13T08:07:06.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One problem with comments is that code in comments is not formatted so you cannot add a comment with sample code in a readable way. One scenario is a minor change to something proposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135797" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T08:07:06.383" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8155" CreationDate="2009-09-13T08:27:22.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now you'd have to cracker jack your way into searching with the tags and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot; title=&quot;do you have enough change?&quot;&gt;custom search tips&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's say your interest involves &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[cthulu]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[cerebus]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[green-tea]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (because y'know, you like to relax as you read the great texts)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those without any answers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;answers:0 [cthulu] [cerebus] [green-tea]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those that are still unaccepted and open, and pretty much unanswered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;hasaccepted:0 [cthulu] [cerebus] [green-tea]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search like that and you're on your way to winning with the tabs and sorting by tags. But if you've got about a dozen dozen eggs, then it could get a little unwieldy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T08:27:22.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-13T09:00:31.043" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If 10k allows you to see deleted posts, maybe 100k should allow you to see posts that &lt;em&gt;haven't been posted yet&lt;/em&gt;. Not sure how you'd code it, though ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T09:00:31.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21576" CreationDate="2009-09-13T09:38:26.053" Score="17" ViewCount="1317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Checking my recent activity I noticed that all of my posts were downvoted within a short span of a few minutes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as though I've been the victim of a systematic downvote spree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something in place that will stop this kind of voting abuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do if I suspect that someone has downvoted all my posts in retaliation or revenge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130672" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-30T04:06:21.173" LastActivityDate="2011-05-30T04:06:21.173" Title="Serial downvotes in quick succession on all my posts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;&lt;serial-upvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="21576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21575" CreationDate="2009-09-13T09:43:49.537" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just looks like you have gotten on the wrong side of somebody, and they have went on a downvoting rage against you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO runs scripts and checks for this kind of behaviour every 24 hours, so it should be fixed up soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T09:43:49.537" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21575" CreationDate="2009-09-13T09:45:16.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like you made enemies with some other user who is now downvoting your stuff. Contact the team (Contact us link at the bottom) so that they can reverse it any educate that user about the penalty-box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Or not, wasn't aware of the automated checks. Leaving this here just as a sign of what not to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T16:42:58.233" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T16:42:58.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T09:53:37.873" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;look this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/40438/firefox-dont-save-error-pages-in-history&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/40438/firefox-dont-save-error-pages-in-history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote inside something like this notbold**bold**.notbold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In javascript it is rendered ok, but in the server, instead the asterisks are shown and the text is not bolded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T11:03:44.167" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T11:03:44.167" ClosedDate="2009-09-14T13:00:38.770" Title="inconsistency rendering ** in markdown" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21578" CreationDate="2009-09-13T10:01:18.513" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design and explained on the blog in the episode entitled, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;but when is Eureka back on air?&quot;&gt;Three Markdown Gotchas&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Markdown’s single biggest flaw is its intra-word emphasis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don’t think anybody writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;un*fricking*believable&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;often enough to justify making it nearly impossible to talk about tokens with underscores in them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;some_file_name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is interpreted as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;some&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;file&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It even works across word boundaries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;file_one and file_two&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;file&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;one and file&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; two&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever you’re writing tokens with underscores you have to make absolutely sure you’re in a backtick-delimited code span. The same problem will also nail you on equations like a*b*c, but that seems to pop up less frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Showdown follows the reference implementation on all this, but in WMD I do a little preprocessing to hack the idiocy away: basically I just backslash-escape any underscores or asterisks that might trigger it. It’s a flagrant violation of the standard, but since it’s a pre-pass that should produce identical output with any Markdown processor, I feel justified. Unfortunately my hack did screw up one edge case (which I don’t have in front of me) and there isn’t any way to disable it. Both those things will change in the next release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if you want to have i&lt;i&gt;tal&lt;/i&gt;ics or bold markup in the mi&lt;b&gt;dd&lt;/b&gt;le of your words, you're going to have to whip out the HTML tags and tag them up that style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Basically, if you want to have i&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;tal&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;ics or bold markup &#xA;in the mi&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;dd&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;le of your words, you're going to have to &#xA;whip out the HTML tags and tag them up that style.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T10:01:18.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21575" CreationDate="2009-09-13T10:07:43.473" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As already stated, there are automated processes to watch for this. Checking in a few places (your &quot;recent&quot; tab on SO, Jon's SO tracker, etc), it looks like this may have already been undone by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think there is still a problem, flag for a ♦ moderator (or add a comment here), or e-mail the team (page footer). BTW; it makes it easier to investigate if you associate your SO/MSO accounts, plus you get free rep ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T10:07:43.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-13T11:12:34.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have created my version of the Stack Overflow DevDay Countdown app. I have used WPF and .NET 3.5. The speciality of this solution is custom Stack Overflow digits. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have yet to implement a fade-out feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stegnar.com/2009/09/13/CountdownAppForDevDays.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;my blog&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/jjO42.png&quot; alt=&quot;demo screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short manual:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can find exe in &quot;PeterStegnarDevDaysCountdown\WPF_StackoverflowCountDown\bin\Debug&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Start the app with the following parameters, for example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;0900 &quot;DevDays begins in %s&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just hit &lt;kbd&gt;Esc&lt;/kbd&gt; key to exit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stegnar.com/content/binary/PeterStegnarDevDaysCountdown.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source code and binaries&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stegnar.com/2009/09/13/CountdownAppForDevDays.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;my blog&quot;&gt;StegLog: Countdown app for DevDays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will attend an Amsterdam SO DevDays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132327" LastEditorUserId="132327" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T11:31:09.417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T11:31:09.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T12:21:14.090" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you dug yourself into a hole and are desperate enough to ask a question on stackoverflow. Someone can answer your question in a much more general way you thought about the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question should stay the same as all answers relate to your specific question, and it should be rephrased at the same time as the general answer is broadly applicable and can only be found if the question is general enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general question has the chance to survive if the exact setting of the base question changes. The audience is broader as they may not know about the hay stack you're describing but do understand if they could see the general problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/adaptive-patterns/AOP/IP.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inventor's Paradox&lt;/a&gt; is at work. There could be a solution in your setting but the general solution is simpler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is that it is sometimes opportune to ask a certain community about a general problem as you suppose they could answer it. The rationale behind is that users filter and highlight by tag and general questions get less attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to associate questions with each other. A specific question could then show the link to its general form(s). The answer view could optionally merge general answers into the result. The aim is to create answers of lasting value and to remove noise. One day the platforms we use will be dead (like dead in Cobol), but most of the underlying problems will still be around. Stackoverflow should still be able to provide some value then and not be some strange noise of old folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This question could be generalized, too: Should there be an incentive to associate questions?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135797" LastEditorUserId="135797" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T06:39:13.123" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T06:39:13.123" Title="Should there be an incentive to generalize questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;organization&gt;&lt;taxonomy&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21583" CreationDate="2009-09-13T12:46:45.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People have an inherent ability to ask the same question in any number of ways. These questions will eventually be closed as dupes by the community and the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed as a dupe, it will point back to the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;COBOL will never die. It just burrows further into the business architecture and  come up in a bubbling crude decades from now. Have your shotgun ready and load up your grammy in the back of the truck. You'll be living in the future equivalent of Beverly Hills when you strike it rich providing support and maintenance for the language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T12:46:45.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14915" CreationDate="2009-09-13T13:25:36.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19254/adding-tags-to-a-new-question-in-opera-broken&quot; title=&quot;it's all a little incestuous this internal linking&quot;&gt;need to upgrade to Opera 10&lt;/a&gt; in order for the autosuggest of tags to work on your machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T13:25:36.023" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18734" CreationDate="2009-09-13T13:34:34.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you leave off the &lt;code&gt;TITLE&lt;/code&gt; attribute it works fine. Do you have to have the tooltip float like the flutterby?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parser for the bio is probably just not wanting to allow you to have that attribute and just removing any suspect whitespace in the opening anchor tag. Resulting in the jamming of it all into a nice and unworkable link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T13:34:34.747" />
  <row Id="21589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T14:12:03.297" Score="6" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to somehow distinguish comments that were expanded from those that were shown by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'll read the first few comments which have been voted up and then hit expand to show remaining comments (some of which might also be voted up, just less I guess). Once expanded, it's not obvious which ones I've already read and I pretty much have to rescan the entire list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to the old MS Office menus which would initially show recently used options but after a delay would show all options. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some unobtrusive highlighting or bordering or something--maybe just a dash in the number of votes position or something tiny and subtle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-17T16:23:12.350" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T16:23:12.350" Title="Highlight expanded comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;highlighting&gt;" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21595" CreationDate="2009-09-13T14:44:18.720" Score="6" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems possible that, for questions of marginal quality, users may be more inclined to downvote or vote to close questions from an asker with a low accept rate, rather than simply declining to answer the question.  On the surface, this would seem to be unfair and &lt;em&gt;ad hominem&lt;/em&gt;, since the decision isn't purely based on the merits and demerits of the question but also on metadata about the person asking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has this happened?  I am not positive, as I've seen a couple of edge-cases, but nothing that can absolutely confirm that this is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, do we care?  It's been said that downvotes are already used too sparingly, so perhaps when considering questions of marginal quality, the accept rate is actually the useful tool we need to distinguish between newcomers who deserve leniency and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants&quot;&gt;&quot;Problematic Participants&quot;&lt;/a&gt; who should know better by now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Looking for lowest-voted questions seems to show some good candidates.  Granted, each has other problems, but for the sake of argument I'd consider them merely questions of marginal quality, while still being passably on-topic.  The downvotes seem to be related to the comments, which directly point out that the questioner's low accept rate indicates that they are not &quot;engaged with the community&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1421034/how-can-i-outline-a-picture-programmatically-algorithm&quot;&gt;How can I outline a picture programmatically (algorithm)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1426441/how-to-get-key-value-pairs-with-jquery-from-the-html-below&quot;&gt;How to get key/value pairs with jQuery from the html below?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1426180/how-to-receive-complete-data-from-a-socket-java&quot;&gt;how to receive complete data from a socket, java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T12:32:06.377" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T12:32:06.377" Title="Are people less tolerant of questions from users with a low accept rate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21590" CreationDate="2009-09-13T14:58:28.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not, myself. If I vote to close (which I can only do on SO), it's because I believe the question &lt;em&gt;itself&lt;/em&gt; deserves to be closed. I rarely notice a user's accept rate, except occasionally after I've answered a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I go back to what I've said time and time again -- we should judge questions and answers on the quality of their content, and not the user contributing. If it's good content, upvote it. If it's bad, either downvote it or vote to close it. Done and done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T14:58:28.760" />
  <row Id="21592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T15:00:25.467" Score="28" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to my IPv6 tunnelbroker &lt;a href=&quot;http://tunnelbroker.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hurricane Electric&lt;/a&gt; the world will end in approximately 712 days when we finally run out of IPv4 addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to enable IPv6 access to the Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow family of websites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135803" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-13T14:30:27.147" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T14:54:15.210" Title="Would it be possible for Stack Overflow to be accessible over IPv6?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;networking&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21592" CreationDate="2009-09-13T15:30:31.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you suggesting to start by spoiling the IPv6 space with sites that already have an IP address assigned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll run out of IPv6 addresses in the year 53985251 AD, and people living by then are going to be seriously pissed off when they find out about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-13T14:54:15.210" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T14:54:15.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-13T15:30:48.660" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weekend Warrior&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted an accepted answer to a question on weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This badge could only be awarded once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since traffic and responses are MUCH lower on weekends, this would maybe reward those that post and troll on the weekends helping out others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132746" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T15:30:48.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-13T15:30:48.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21590" CreationDate="2009-09-13T15:41:51.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah I don't really pay attention to accept percentage either. I have noticed that some &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; old answers I gave were finally accepted once this change was implemented so I'm glad it's there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T15:41:51.043" />
  <row Id="21596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9467" CreationDate="2009-09-13T15:45:52.003" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The items that were shown in the initial view should visually differ from the hidden ones.  For example by giving them a different font color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would making reading comments after expanding the comments list a lot easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can keep messages in chronological order that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T15:45:52.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21592" CreationDate="2009-09-13T15:45:57.167" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever happened to ideas like mapping addresses so that IPv4 w.x.y.z becomes IPv6 ::ffff:w.x.y.z? Or other compatibility ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason to be assigning IPv6 addresses to sites that already have IPv4 ones, no reason at all. There are compatibility mechanisms to handle the transition already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T15:45:57.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T16:12:04.203" Score="38" ViewCount="2099" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2010/04/25:&lt;/strong&gt; A built-in feature like this seems to be around the corner. Note the &quot;Linked&quot; column on the right &amp;ndash; this has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40463/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-posts-linked-to-other-posts/47808#47808&quot;&gt;deployed exprimentally&lt;/a&gt; on Meta, but I suspect it won't be long before it's on all trilogy sites. So HREF Overflow is probably close to no-longer-relevant &amp;ndash; thanks Jeff, I had just found &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; killer business model for making loads of money with this. No, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2010/04/11:&lt;/strong&gt; Now with data from the April data dump. This time, it also includes references made in comments (although you can hide these if you want to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2010/03/19:&lt;/strong&gt; Since features like this have again been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42740/id-liked-to-see-a-linked-by-feature&quot;&gt;requested&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40463/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-posts-linked-to-other-posts&quot;&gt;recently&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to finally update HREF Overflow. It's still based on the data dump, so no realtime data. But since I've simplified the process of updating the data, I'll be able to put the coming data dumps into it rather quickly. It now includes cross links between all four sites of the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What is HREF Overflow?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have found an interesting question (say, &quot;How do I do X?&quot;) on (e.g.) Stack Overflow, and you would like to read other similar question threads, one way to find such threads is to find out what other questions on the trilogy link back to &quot;How do I do X&quot;. Which is what HREF Overflow does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows you all* questions and answers on the trilogy that have links to the question you're interested in (or to one of its answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* All it knows about, that is. As mentioned, this isn't real-time data.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;How can I use it?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to query HREF Overflow. The first is to go to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/SITE/QUESTION_ID&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where &lt;code&gt;QUESTION_ID&lt;/code&gt; is the numerical question id that appears in the URL of the question, and &lt;code&gt;SITE&lt;/code&gt; is one of &lt;code&gt;so&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;su&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;sf&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt;. For backwards compatibility, the &lt;code&gt;SITE/&lt;/code&gt; part is optional and defaults to &lt;code&gt;so/&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second way is to create a bookmark called &quot;What links to this?&quot; (or the like) that changes the location to &lt;code&gt;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/referrer&lt;/code&gt; (there's a bookmarklet on the page that you can just drag to your bookmark bar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you request &lt;code&gt;/referrer&lt;/code&gt; from HREF Overflow, it will pull out the information to the question you're coming from (unless, of course, your browser hides the referrer). You may also request &lt;code&gt;/referer&lt;/code&gt;, so it's up to you whether orthographical or technical specs are more important to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Examples&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42373/what-sites-are-currently-missing-from-the-trilogy&quot;&gt;&quot;what's missing&quot; question&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/meta/42373&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/meta/42373&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/434414/what-is-the-most-evil-code-you-have-ever-seen-in-a-production-enterprise-environm&quot;&gt;SO's version of The Daily WTF&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/so/434414&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/so/434414&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/82036/recovering-a-lost-website-with-no-backup&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog panic question&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/su/82036&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hrefoverflow.appspot.com/su/82036&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-25T12:50:38.767" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T12:50:38.767" ClosedDate="2011-01-16T18:16:04.917" Title="HREF Overflow: A tool to find cross-references between the trilogy sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="16" />
  <row Id="21602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21590" CreationDate="2009-09-13T16:18:16.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly don't even look at a user's acceptance rate. I never even really bothered to look at who asked a question prior to answering that question. Now it is just even more information I will initially ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T16:24:35.037" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T16:24:35.037" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21604" CreationDate="2009-09-13T17:23:06.320" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1418233/setting-viewstateuserkey-gives-me-a-validation-of-viewstate-mac-failed-error&quot;&gt;This SO post&lt;/a&gt; has left and right quote marks in the title rather than the regular ASCII quotes.  In the Question List view, the quotes don't display correctly.  The left quote looks like an E with a hachek (upside down ^) and the right quote doesn't display at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figured the user was using an odd encoding so went to &quot;fix&quot; to use standard quotes.  In the edit view, I saw the rounded quotes properly.  After changing to straight ASCII quotes, they still appeared rounded in the list view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Google Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a feature of SO that the quotes are rounded?  Am I doing something wrong while editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135806" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T17:35:19.683" Title="Fixing the Quote Character" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;encoding&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="21604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21603" CreationDate="2009-09-13T17:35:19.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this a feature of SO that the quotes are rounded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And FWIW, they look fine in the Questions list to me... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needed: screenshot of problem, description of platform, exact browser version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T17:35:19.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-13T17:42:22.620" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cake          .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7760/portalcakesign04crisp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T17:42:22.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21608" CreationDate="2009-09-13T17:51:13.833" Score="8" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems strange (and not in a good way) to me that when I click &quot;Questions&quot; and very few (about 1 in 8) of the titles end in question marks. So I'm curious to get some opinions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some simple change to the site that would encourage actually asking a question in the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a worthwhile aim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154502" LastActivityDate="2011-04-07T17:50:05.493" Title="How can we get more people to make their title a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21583" CreationDate="2009-09-13T18:12:10.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People get hung up on irrelevant details in questions. But the truth is, when you ask a question you may not &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; which details will end up being relevant to the solution. So you include lots of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, someone else posts a different question, similar, but with subtly different details - most or all of which are irrelevant. An expert in that area visits the question, and realizes that the solution is the same as that they or another user already posted to the first question. Now, there's a dilemma: re-post the same answer, or close as a duplicate? Both options have down-sides: the former violates Don't Repeat Yourself, the latter doesn't give you any reputation and may actually generate strife if the author of the question doesn't immediately see the problems as sufficiently similar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, you can improve the situation somewhat by editing the original question to make it more general. Assuming the author of that question already got a solution to his problem, there should be no problem with this: the question now persists only to serve others, and you're helping it do so more effectively. If that doesn't suffice, then post an answer to the new question, explaining how the answer(s) posted to the original might work, and then link to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T18:12:10.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21606" CreationDate="2009-09-13T18:14:57.533" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people appear to ask questions without having a solid idea of what their question really is until they've finished writing the body. Some don't even figure it out then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why editing is so crucial: read the whole question, distill its essence into a single sentence, and replace the title with that question. At worst, you've managed to improve one question; at best, you've shown them how they should ask future questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; also help if SO changed the label on that first entry field from &quot;Title&quot; to &quot;Question&quot; or &quot;Question summary&quot;: right now, some people appear to be trying to actually &quot;title&quot; their question the way one might title an essay - which questions are not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T18:14:57.533" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T18:33:59.217" Score="22" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should bounty be returned if there is NO answer at all? Or your contribution (to the bounty) only?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to many questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15020/winnerless-bounties&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (which was a duplicate itself), but I am referring to only when there is no answer at all. Not no upvotes - no answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:08:32.730" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:08:32.730" Title="Should bounty be returned if there is NO answer at all?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21583" CreationDate="2009-09-13T19:01:00.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a merge with history option. What is the point of marking something as exact duplicate? Sometimes there is value in phrasing the same question in different ways. Particularly in googling. If there is a common and standard answer then it would be helpful to see all the questions that can be correlated to that answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know one of the most difficult things when learning a new programming concept is getting a handle on the terminology. Often times one understands a concept but can't easily find the most effective terminology to efficiently search for solutions. If stackoverflow had a way to merge redundant questions but retain a history view that could be useful. The related questions sidebar is a good start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end it seems like the quality will come from synthesis of the knowledge. Merging and reducing the questions in the system over time but having an in depth repository of related and tangential information closely tied to the generalized questions. A newbie can then ask basic questions &quot;What is a pointer?&quot; Get a nice synthesized and summary answer, but also is free to browse the history with some links that go deep into the rabbit hole of the discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is the point of community wiki. I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134920" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T19:01:00.477" />
  <row Id="21611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21609" CreationDate="2009-09-13T19:02:10.943" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  The bounty should be returned if no answers appear, I would also argue that this should be the case if no answers receive upvotes.  Not returning the bounty is intended to prevent gaming the system, however, if you don't get an answer that anyone thinks is any good, I think the bounty contributed by the asker should be returned to the asker when the bounty period expires.  Note that this wouldn't apply if there was an upvoted answer that also received downvotes to prevent the OP from gaming the system by downvoting an answer that would otherwise receive the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One argument against my position -- no answers or no answers with upvotes -- is that it encourages the OP to not vote for any answer that is helpful.  That only applies as long as no answer receives any votes, however, so I don't think that is a realistic objection.  If no one else votes for an answer, there is little reason to suspect that the OP should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T19:48:59.857" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T19:48:59.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-09-13T19:28:19.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; What happens when Jon Skeet’s reputation exceeds the limit for the data type holding it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; A stackoverflowpocalypse aka a skeetoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastEditorUserId="135547" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T01:17:50.330" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T01:17:50.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-13T19:28:19.630" />
  <row Id="21614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-09-13T19:35:39.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Microsoft makes a bigger data type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T19:35:39.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-13T19:35:39.443" />
  <row Id="21616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21609" CreationDate="2009-09-13T19:56:14.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it might sound superficially reasonable, I don't think it's likely to happen.  Most bounties acquire at least one answer before they expire, as bounty hunters hope that even a mediocre answer will get the 2 upvotes needed for an auto-accept.  Even if they don't, the question will then have answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have examples of bounties that expired with no answer at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T19:56:14.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21609" CreationDate="2009-09-13T20:03:01.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a simpler solution would be to not let bounties expire if there is no answer (or maybe even no answer with an upvote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, by creating a bounty question, you are going to lose points.   But you also have some sort of &quot;guarantee&quot; that you will eventually get a response for your &quot;investment&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T20:03:01.187" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-09-13T20:27:50.330" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He saves the Princess!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T20:27:50.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-13T20:27:50.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21600" CreationDate="2009-09-13T20:46:02.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No love for the rest of the trilogy sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible suggestion would be to hook your app up to the RSS feeds and index those posts, therefore you don't have a month old data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T20:46:02.340" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20896" CreationDate="2009-09-13T21:12:50.137" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've implemented a Greasemonkey script to add a link for each tag in the &lt;code&gt;Tags&lt;/code&gt; section of the user profile page. On clicking the link the votes for that tag are collated and the page is updated with the total votes. Queries are submitted one every 1.5 seconds until all pages of results have been processed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the screenshot below, the first &quot;circle&quot; shows a query in progress, the second &quot;circle&quot; shows a completed query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Added processing to make tags for which a badge has been awarded show the badge (inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21683/show-badges-earned-within-the-tag-list-in-the-user-profile&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Also added some CSS to make the down-arrow less imposing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Fixed to query properly for any tags with &quot;#&quot;, &quot;.&quot; or &quot;+&quot; in them. Also added hacky hack to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21624/clarify-wording-for-tag-based-badges&quot;&gt;counting votes for questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 3:&lt;/strong&gt; Further nasty hacks to create valid css classes, and encode characters properly in searches. Any suggestions to make custom_escape less of a mess welcome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 4&lt;/strong&gt; Now handles &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23965&quot;&gt;advert images in tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 5&lt;/strong&gt; Now uses data from the stats page to show rankings in a given tag where applicable. If the tag has more than 500 questions the number is a bit more prominent, and 1st 2nd and 3rd rankings are shown in gold, silver, and bronze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/4078168257_a02acc34fe_o.png&quot; alt=&quot;new screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2598/3916480385_816231354c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tag screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags section modified to show badges for a certain user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/3919851721_3f69df3742.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;skeet tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           so-tag-votes&#xA;// @namespace      so&#xA;// @description    show votes for a particular tag&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/users/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;var cssjson = {&#xA; 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                       se.addRequest( $.get, &quot;/search?q=user%3A&quot;+userId+&quot;+wiki%3A0+votes%3a1+[&quot; + queryEscape(tagName) + &quot;]&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;page=&quot;+(page+1)+&quot;&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;, {n:pageCount},&#xA;                            function(data){countPageVotes(data, lastPage, tagIndex)}, &quot;html&quot; );&#xA;                    })();&#xA;                }&#xA;&#xA;                se.execute();&#xA;            });&#xA;&#xA;        }&#xA;&#xA;        function loadTagRankings() {&#xA;&#xA;            $(function(){&#xA;                var se = new SerialAjaxExecuter( function( results ) {&#xA;                    console.log( results );&#xA;                }, 1000 );&#xA;&#xA;                var postTags = $('.user-stats-table:eq(3) .post-tag');&#xA;&#xA;                for (var j=0; j &amp;lt; postTags.length; j++) {//1; j++){//&#xA;                    var currentTag = postTags[j].toString().split(&quot;[&quot;)[1].split(&quot;]&quot;)[0];&#xA;                    var tagCount = $(&quot;.user-stats-table:eq(3) a[href*='[&quot;+currentTag+&quot;]']&quot;).next();&#xA;&#xA;                    if(tagCount.html().length &amp;gt; 0) {&#xA;                        tagCount = tagCount.html().substring(7);&#xA;&#xA;                        if(tagCount &amp;gt;= threshold) {&#xA;                            var tagVotes = getTagVotes(j, currentTag);&#xA;&#xA;                            //first set any cached value, then check for updates&#xA;                            if(tagVotes.lastUpdated != -1) {&#xA;                                updateTag(tagVotes, j);&#xA;                            }&#xA;                            if(currentTime !== tagVotes.lastUpdated) {&#xA;                                (function() {&#xA;                                    var tagIndex = j;&#xA;&#xA;                                    var tagName = currentTag;&#xA;&#xA;                                    se.addRequest( $.get, &quot;/questions/tagged?tagnames=&quot;+tagName+&quot;&amp;amp;sort=stats&quot;,&#xA;                                        {n:tagCount},&#xA;                                        function(data){tagCallback(data, tagName, tagIndex)}, &quot;html&quot; );&#xA;                                })();&#xA;                            }&#xA;                        }&#xA;                    }&#xA;                }&#xA;&#xA;                se.execute();&#xA;            });&#xA;        }&#xA;&#xA;        loadTagRankings();&#xA;&#xA;        var badgeTable = $('.user-stats-table:eq(4)');&#xA;&#xA;        index = 0;&#xA;        $('.user-stats-table:eq(3) .post-tag').each(function(){&#xA;            var tagName = $.trim($(this).text());&#xA;&#xA;            //there will be 0, 1 or 2 badges, 1 means silver, 2 means gold&#xA;            var badgeType = $(&quot;.badge&quot;, badgeTable).map(function() {&#xA;                var type = $(this).children(&quot;span:first&quot;).attr(&quot;class&quot;);&#xA;                var text = $(this).html().split(&quot;&amp;amp;nbsp;&quot;)[1];&#xA;&#xA;                if(text === tagName) {&#xA;                    return text;&#xA;                }&#xA;            });&#xA;&#xA;            if(badgeType.length &amp;gt; 0) {&#xA;                $(this).addClass(&quot;badge&quot;);&#xA;                $(this).html('&amp;lt;span class=&quot;badge'+(3 - badgeType.length)+'&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#9679;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;' + tagName);&#xA;            }&#xA;&#xA;            var tagDom = $('.user-stats-table:eq(3) .tag-container-'+ index +':first');&#xA;&#xA;            if(tagDom.html() === &quot;&quot;) {&#xA;                (function() {&#xA;                    var tagIndex=index;&#xA;                    tagDom.html('&amp;lt;a class=&quot;tag-rank '+ getTagClass(0, 0)+' votes-'+customEscape(tagName)+'&quot; style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot; title=&quot;get votes for '+tagName+'&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#9660;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;');&#xA;&#xA;                    $('a', tagDom).click(function(){&#xA;                        updateVoteLink(tagName, false, &quot;&quot;, tagIndex);&#xA;&#xA;                        $.get(&quot;/search?q=user%3A&quot;+userId+&quot;+wiki%3A0+votes%3a1+[&quot; + queryEscape(tagName) + &quot;]&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;, &#xA;                            function(data){firstpageCallback(data, tagName, tagIndex)}, &quot;html&quot;);&#xA;                        return false;&#xA;                    });&#xA;                })();&#xA;            }&#xA;            index++;&#xA;        });&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="145210" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-17T18:54:32.260" LastActivityDate="2010-07-17T18:54:32.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-14T21:52:44.337" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="21624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T21:34:11.330" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;In testing my Greasemonkey script for counting votes for a tag (to address this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;), I noticed a discrepancy in the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tag badges&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As you use Stack Overflow to ask and answer questions, you'll earn badges, which appear on your user page and in your user card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tag-based badges are awarded for participating in non community-wiki questions with particular tags. If enough upvotes are earned in a tag with 100+ total questions, the badge will be automatically created and awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wording implies (to me at least) that votes for both questions and answers count towards the total for a tag-badge. However when checking my script's results I noticed that the total count for maven-2 as measured by the script comes to &lt;strong&gt;259&lt;/strong&gt;, whereas the count on the stats page is &lt;strong&gt;250&lt;/strong&gt;. I have &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt; votes from 2 questions on maven-2, so it appears that only answers actually count towards the total (note I've excluded community wiki results from the search, see example query below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A123582+%5Bmaven-2%5D+wiki%3A0&quot;&gt;the search&lt;/a&gt; I've used as the basis for my count:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A123582+%5Bmaven-2%5D+wiki%3A0&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A123582+%5Bmaven-2%5D+wiki%3A0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can either the wording on the page be changed to clarify that only answers count, or the processing changed to include question votes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T04:07:41.537" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T04:07:41.537" Title="Clarify wording for tag-based badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="21625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-13T21:40:07.120" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope I'm not too late. My program does some crazy things with StackOverflow logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://spawn.puslapiai.lt/so/screenshot3.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources and program are &lt;a href=&quot;http://spawn.puslapiai.lt/so/flowingstack-v1.1.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;kbd&gt;F11&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;Esc&lt;/kbd&gt; to toggle FullScreen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regretably, I can't make it to any DevDays event this year. Hopefully at least my program gets to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Version update: now abusing even more logos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135763" LastEditorUserId="135763" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T22:37:24.957" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T22:37:24.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21624" CreationDate="2009-09-13T21:46:13.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think adding the text &quot;on your answers&quot; is a minimal and reasonable response to this request.  E.g. (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tag-based badges are awarded for&#xA;  participating in non community-wiki&#xA;  questions with particular tags. If&#xA;  enough upvotes are earned &lt;strong&gt;on your answers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  in a tag –&#xA;  any tag – the badge will be&#xA;  automatically created and awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T21:46:13.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T21:58:54.323" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing questions in one of the main tabs, changing the number of questions-per-page preserves the current page number in the URL.  This makes little sense as, for example, the 5th page of 50 items is nowhere near the 5th page of 15 which I was just browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, if I'm viewing 15 per page and I'm at a high enough numbered page (such as the last page of items), when I change pagination to a higher number, I arrive at an empty page well beyond the last page which contains content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suggestion such as the one in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14079/the-navigation-links-for-pagination-of-newest-questions-should-be-relative-to-t&quot;&gt;this feature request&lt;/a&gt; would handily deal with that situation, but at the very least, when changing pagination the page number should probably be simply omitted from the URL.  Jumping back to page one makes at least as much sense as jumping to the same-numbered page at a different pagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T08:21:06.407" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T01:41:20.973" Title="Pagination fails when changing questions-per-page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21679" CreationDate="2009-09-13T22:45:15.347" Score="6" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should Limewire questions automatically be assumed to be piracy related?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To their credit, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.limewire.com/legal/eula&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Limewire's EULA&lt;/a&gt; states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is unlawful to use the Program to infringe the intellectual property rights of others&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and they also have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.limewire.com/legal/copyright&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;copyright filter&lt;/a&gt; which blocks copyrighted content so that when activated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LimeWire prohibits your downloading of that file&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding litigation, Limewire &lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2006/09/7829.ars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;has been sued by and countersued the RIAA&lt;/a&gt; for piracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/40240/limewire-trojans&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was posted on Superuser and was immediately assumed a piracy question, and was downvoted accordingly, 8 down, 3 up.  Several other snide remarks and answers followed.  &lt;strong&gt;If Limewire == piracy, then the question should be closed.  If not, should moderation curb the abuse?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/23833/consequences-of-windows-genuine-advantage-warning&quot;&gt;Consequences of Windows Genuine Advantage Warning&lt;/a&gt; have received similar treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T02:22:22.933" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:42:24.313" Title="Limewire == piracy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;piracy&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T22:46:04.520" Score="0" ViewCount="525" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason I can't seem to post comments right now, and code styling isn't working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=4360&lt;/code&gt; is giving a 206 partial content, and trying to open it directly in FF is giving me the following error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Content Encoding Error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The page you are trying to view cannot&#xA;  be shown because it uses an invalid or&#xA;  unsupported form of compression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130602" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-13T23:46:22.460" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:43:13.863" Title="Stack Overflow Javascript issues?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21606" CreationDate="2009-09-13T22:49:29.567" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I try to have my questions (at least on SO) have a title that is also a question, I'm not sure that it should be required.  I consider the entire post to be the question, not merely the title.   In some respects it's actually better to have the title NOT be a question.  I've seen many times when a person answers the &quot;question&quot; in the title, seemingly without actually reading the full post wince if they had, they would have realized that the &quot;question&quot; was only one aspect of the actual problem/question the OP was describing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that I think is critical is having the title be representative of the post. Getting the title to accurately reflect the real question is much more important that having it in the form of a question.  After all, this isn't Jeopardy&amp;#8482;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T22:49:29.567" />
  <row Id="21631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-13T22:54:13.003" Score="5" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does not effectively utilize the extra horizontal space on large or wide screen monitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In lieu of a screenshot, imagine if you will the sight of more than half the width of a 2048x1152 monitor being useless whitespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a really difficult problem?  I know it's commonplace - there are many sites that squish the text into 1024 or less pixels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T04:33:53.930" Title="stackoverflow does not horizontally scale" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-13T22:55:34.670" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question was specifically about trying to download software from Limewire. If software is freely available, it will be on a torrent, FTP, or web site, plain and simple as that. The OP there is clearly using it for teh warez and is, rather ironically, complaining that he's getting virii from it. Ergo, it deserved to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T22:55:34.670" />
  <row Id="21633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-13T22:55:47.137" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question is essentially a rant complaining about trojans on Limewire.  The &quot;question&quot; is asking if there is anywhere else to obtain &lt;b&gt;a piece of software&lt;/b&gt;.  I can't think of any legitimate reason you'd want to obtain freely available software through Limewire instead of through other means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only logical conclusion is that the asker is indeed a pirate.  If he wants to know where to obtain any particular software package, he should mention that software in his question, if only to lend legitimacy to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T22:55:47.137" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="21634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21631" CreationDate="2009-09-13T23:05:38.523" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly, it's because design sense says that text lines which are too long are actually harder to read than text which is broken up into more lines. Fixed-width layouts are also easier to write because you have an idea of how text will wrap around elements of a given size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132820" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T23:05:38.523" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-13T23:07:25.137" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;8 down, 3 up? So they're 14 up... if (as per the other 2 answers) this is indeed nefarious, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increase&quot;&gt;bring on the vote changes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We are considering changing downvotes to -5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would then be -10 points, which sounds more reasonable than +14&#xA;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T23:07:25.137" />
  <row Id="21636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21637" CreationDate="2009-09-13T23:35:01.807" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has 503'd a lot recently. Time to get a better server? What is the cause of this error? It happens anywhere on the site, seemingly randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133681" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:30:06.000" Title="503 errors on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21636" CreationDate="2009-09-13T23:40:18.427" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site was intentionally taken offline. A short message, the logo, and a graphic has been the standard offline message, but I suspect that in the switch to HAproxy they didn't account for what the site would look like to viewers when offline:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/Qi0RO.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:30:06.000" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:30:06.000" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21636" CreationDate="2009-09-13T23:40:46.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;'tis working now. The team warned about changing DNS - perhaps related to that? Or a new release of the software. Or just random stuff...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T23:40:46.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21636" CreationDate="2009-09-13T23:44:06.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;HAProxy doesn't like the app_offline file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have to take the sites down periodically to apply critical Windows updates, and that applies to the database server (all sites down) as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T23:44:06.457" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21629" CreationDate="2009-09-13T23:46:16.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't reproduce this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-13T23:46:16.687" />
  <row Id="21642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-14T00:11:59.293" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, I pay for software I deem worthy of purchase. I currently own Partition Magic by Symantic, Acronis True Image Home Edition 2009, Roboform, DVD Fab Platinum, Windows XP Home Edition and others. All of which I have the original CD's and or serial numbers for. I even paid for a program called Matter of Time, which is my homepage. I also pay an annual fee to a website called Weather Underground, just to have the privilege of using their website throughout the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be labeled a thief by user &quot;Molly&quot; was highly offensive to me. I am fully aware of the risks and reputation of Limewire. On the rare occasion I cannot find the website of a particular program I'm interested in, as a last resort I would search for it on Limewire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have downloaded less than half a dozen files from Limewire, all of which contained Trojans. My question was a simple two parter. Do all files downloaded from Limewire contain Trojans and where would be a better place to look. My question was not referring to any program in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In less than a blink of an eye, without answering the question at all, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/7244/molly&quot;&gt;Molly&lt;/a&gt; wrote &quot;how about buying your software! some folks write code for a living, you know&quot;. Her assumption here of course is that I'm a pirate and/or a thief. She doesn't even know me, or anything about me. And when someone attacks my character, I'm not going to sit idly by and take it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should mention here that I recognized he name and statistics from another forum called ASUS Eee PC Forum. She had asked for advice on a piece of software for her EEE Netbook, which I gave to her. She replied with another snide nasty retort similar to the one she just gave me on this forum. I was really taken aback by he response. I had never been subjected to that kind of attack before, even though I've been on the internet for many years. I own an ASUS Eee Netbook and when I visit that forum, I would go out of my way to stay clear of her. Then out of the blue she pops up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I was looking for was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/40240/limewire-trojans/40248#40248&quot;&gt;response&lt;/a&gt; given by user &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/2084/dbr&quot;&gt;dbr&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which got my checkmark and received seven up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at her record on this forum, I notice she has given 381 answers, but never asked a question, which to me is a red flag in itself. It tells me she feels she has all the answers and doesn't need advice from anyone. What a pity. I don't go through one day without learning something new about my computer. And this from a person who's first computer was a Radio Shack Model 1. That should tell you I've been tinkering with these things since the late 70's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for the record, I'm 72 years old and probably old enough to be her grandfather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135820" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T18:42:24.313" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:42:24.313" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="21643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T00:26:29.753" Score="17" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed several times that when answering a question, someone who wrote an earlier answer will edit their answer by adding the content of my answer to theirs (as an alternate solution, or to make their answer more complete).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is often a good thing for the community, because we want accepted answers to be as good as possible, but it seems unfair to the people who made the effort to provide the original content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is inherently a problem with the fact that answers are not collaborative (i.e. the site is not a wiki) but is it possible to solve this problem in some clever way? Or is it something we just need to deal with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:56:33.427" Title="An elegant solution for &quot;answer-stealing&quot; edits?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T00:48:56.513" Score="3" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just ran into a nice problem.  I went over to Serverfault, where I don't go very often, so I was logged out.  No problem, I'll just login.  But &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MyOpenID&lt;/a&gt; is down right now, so it seems like I can't log in at all.  When I try to login, I see the following message from Serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID&#xA;  provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Web request to&#xA;  '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=kibbee.myopenid.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=kibbee.myopenid.com&lt;/a&gt;'&#xA;  failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've logged in recently for Stack Overflow and Meta, so no problems there, but currently there's no way for me to log into Serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this points out a big downside of open ID.  Assuming all web sites used OpenID, then, if your OpenID provider went down, you wouldn't be able to log into anything.  What if your OpenID provider just went out of business.  Would you lose you identity, and be unable to log into any sites, without creating a whole new identity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we add a feature to Stackoverflow, so that we can authenticate possibly by providing the same OpenID url, and providing a password to Stackoverflow, in the event that the openID provider is unavailable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm using the delegate feature of OpenID, so my actual OpenID is a URL on my own website, and using the following code, I have delegated to MyOpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.server&quot; href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/server&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.delegate&quot; href=&quot;http://xxxxxx.myopenid.com&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;X-XRDS-Location&quot; content=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=xxxxxx.myopenid.com&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as far as the Stackoverflow system goes, is my OpenID url the one I type in, or the one I get delegated to?  Sorry for so many questions, but this whole &quot;all-your-eggs-in-one-basket&quot; thing is why I think something like your online identity shouldn't be put into the hands of some other website, which is why I created an OpenID url at my own website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastEditorUserId="1862" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T00:55:21.523" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:17:19.617" Title="What happens when your OpenID provider goes down" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="21646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21645" CreationDate="2009-09-14T00:50:12.207" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a backup. SOFU gives you two accounts to use. Go to your profile and hit &quot;new login&quot; next to the &quot;edit&quot; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/CM0bh.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T00:50:12.207" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21645" CreationDate="2009-09-14T01:03:57.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, as far as the Stackoverflow system&#xA;  goes, is my OpenID url the one I type&#xA;  in, or the one I get delegated to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one you type in. One of the reasons of using a delegate in the first place is to allow you to easily switch the actual provider if you so desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132820" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:03:57.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21643" CreationDate="2009-09-14T01:08:09.130" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't think there's much you could do, especially with the now random sorted answers.  To the person viewing the two answers, there isn't much difference between somebody who posted quickly, then waited for a correct answer, and edited to add correct content, and somebody who just didn't post at all, waited for the correct answer, and reworded to make it look like their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if you noticed this happening (with proof in the edit history), you would be completely within your rights to downvote the answer, and leave a comment as to why you were downvoting.  If people start getting enough downvotes for this type of behaviour, they may stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:08:09.130" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21645" CreationDate="2009-09-14T01:12:14.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, it isn't the OpenID provider that is at fault; one of the web tier servers randomly can't get to the outside internet periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/64232/dead-gateway-detection-on-windows-2008-server&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/64232/dead-gateway-detection-on-windows-2008-server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;still working on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Er, wait. Scratch that. This only applies to &lt;em&gt;logging in to stackoverflow&lt;/em&gt;, as only that site is behind the reverse proxy (HAProxy + TProxy) at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, for logging into serverfault, then I suppose myopenid could be down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T01:17:19.617" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:17:19.617" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21643" CreationDate="2009-09-14T01:31:36.660" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the random sorting of answers makes this problem worse. Previously, if someone copied an answer they would appear later in the order. Now there's a 50-50 chance they'll appear first on any given view, which makes it more rewarding to do (imho).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal however is to get the best answer possible. Making a new answer that combines several other incomplete answer is encouraged (Joel has mentioned this as a way of gaining rep). The only negative form of this behaviour for me is if an answer is just a copy that adds nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:31:36.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21535" CreationDate="2009-09-14T01:33:09.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now encode any colons at position 7 or greater, which are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; followed by 2 or more numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:33:09.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2009-09-14T01:52:08.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We call that The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological%5Fsingularity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Singularity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T02:44:12.113" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T02:44:12.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-14T01:52:08.917" />
  <row Id="21654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21099" CreationDate="2009-09-14T01:58:17.907" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to confirm -- it is FF Din, as Ólafur noted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff%5Fdin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontfont/ff%5Fdin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T01:58:17.907" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-14T02:42:05.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is yes, Limewire == Piracy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T02:42:05.203" />
  <row Id="21656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21631" CreationDate="2009-09-14T04:33:53.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will solve the problem for you if you use Firefox - go to about:config and set browser.zoom.siteSpecific to True.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then use CTRL + Mousewheel-Up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very few sites are going to look great on such large resolutions, until such resolutions become standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T04:33:53.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21658" CreationDate="2009-09-14T05:46:32.683" Score="5" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; but I can't seem to find the following answers...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How old is StackOverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What did the first version of&#xA;StackOverflow look like and how much&#xA;has it evolved since?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many days/months did it take to&#xA;build the first StackOverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:27:26.427" Title="What did the ORIGINAL StackOverflow look like?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21657" CreationDate="2009-09-14T05:56:13.133" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How old is StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The private beta for SO launched July 31st-ish 2008. The public beta started September 15th, 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What did the first version of StackOverflow look like and how much has it evolved since?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aesthetically it hasn't really changed. Visually very small, incremental enhancements have been added periodically. Most of the work happens at the functionality level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How many days/months did it take to build the first StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19514#19514&quot; title=&quot;check out sixtoeightweeks.com&quot;&gt;6-8 weeks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(That's a joke, AFAIK it started ~April/May and the beta launched end of July, so pre-beta work was ~16 weeks, and continuous additions and refinements since then).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Details&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found under the entry &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-beta-design/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;yo beta, go beta&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Beta Design&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is an early (pre-beta) image of the design:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-beta-design-large2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Beta blocked&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fall down into the comments and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-beta-design/#comment-4765&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;the alpha blend&quot;&gt;Jeff mentions&lt;/a&gt; this version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackoverflow-alpha.png&quot; alt=&quot;alpha no mega?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T06:11:08.240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T06:11:08.240" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-14T06:46:45.740" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My entry: [&lt;a href=&quot;http://adamrosenfield.com/files/socountdown-0.2.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href=&quot;http://adamrosenfield.com/files/socountdown-osx-0.2.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mac OS X binaries&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href=&quot;http://adamrosenfield.com/files/socountdown-linux-x64-0.2.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Linux x86-64 binaries&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://adamrosenfield.com/files/socountdown-screenshot-1.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's cross-platform to anything that supports SDL; right now, though, I've only built executables so far for Mac OS X and Linux.  I have also built Windows binaries with Cygwin, but I can't distribute them since my license is not compatible with Cygwin's (GPL).  The Windows build also doesn't seem to work on my computer -- all I get is a black window -- but I can't get any SDL samples to work, so it may just be my computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any feedback is appreciated.  In particular, I'd like to hear if anyone gets this working on Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may have to fudge with the Makefile directories to get it to build (assuming you have libSDL, libSDL_ttf, and libpng installed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Usage: ./socountdown [options] TIME DISPLAY-STRING&#xA;&#xA;Displays the text DISPLAY-STRING until the specified time TIME is reached.&#xA;TIME must be a 4-digit 24-hour time (e.g. 1500 for 3:00pm).  If&#xA;DISPLAY-STRING contains the string %s, it is replaced by a timer&#xA;that counts down the time remaining until TIME.&#xA;&#xA;Options:&#xA;  -h, --help            Display this information&#xA;  -w, --windowed        Run in windowed mode (default fullscreen)&#xA;  -s, --size=SIZE       Use SIZE for window size (e.g. 640x480)&#xA;  -f, --font=FONT       Use FONT for text font (TTF filename)&#xA;  -z, --font-size=SIZE  Use font size of SIZE&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See you all in Boston!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130095" LastEditorUserId="130095" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T01:47:33.863" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:47:33.863" />
  <row Id="21660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T06:47:32.493" Score="4" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the highlight color of &quot;interesting&quot; questions often causes me to subconsciously skip over them - opposite of the intended effect. It makes them look similar to ads that are stuck in the middle of search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm the only one who does this, but it might be worth noting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:00:02.747" Title="Is the color highlighting of &quot;interesting&quot; questions wrong?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21660" CreationDate="2009-09-14T07:16:36.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of those questions where each individual can really only answer for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you mean Stack Overflow, I don't find it has that effect at all - my only difficulty is that in some situations the difference in colour isn't obvious if you're viewing a screen from a non-ideal angle. (IIRC this particularly affects me on my phone, which makes it a less serious problem to start with.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might not be a bad idea to have a visual indicator &lt;em&gt;apart&lt;/em&gt; from the background colour - although there's already a lot of information in the list, and adding much more clutter might not be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about changing the appearance of whichever tags contribute to the question being interesting? For instance, they could be made bold, or underlined. That might just give an extra hint without being too messy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T07:16:36.200" />
  <row Id="21662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21660" CreationDate="2009-09-14T07:18:14.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least on SO, I can't say that. Quite the opposite: The highlighted questions jump right at your face, in my opinion. Don't know about the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T07:18:14.620" />
  <row Id="21663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21660" CreationDate="2009-09-14T07:33:44.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it would make sense to be able to pick a color for the interested tags as part of your profile. It would be cooler to associate different tags with different colors, but I bet that's asking too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T07:33:44.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:20:28.423" Score="1" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to answer a couple of headphone related questions on Super User. Once I pasted in an Amazon url, and the answer did not appear; None of my answers made since actually appear as answers on the question. What did I do wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some of the Questions. If you see a reply by me, then it's something messed up on my side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1805/answe&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/1805/answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/37777/answer&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/37777/answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had another open but I closed it. My user page doesn't show recent posts. But I did manage to shorten one answer to a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/2650?tab=recent#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/users/2650?tab=recent#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did manage to edit this post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12472/recomendations-for-headphones-to-use-when-coding/12529#12529&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/12472/recomendations-for-headphones-to-use-when-coding/12529#12529&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Coming back to this 10 hours later, things work normally. Whatever it was that prevented me from posting is gone. I was using Safari 4.0.3 on OS X 10.6 for the curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T18:22:21.417" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T18:10:31.070" Title="Problem posting on Super User" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21664" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:23:43.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you click &quot;post your answer&quot;, do you see the list of answers? If not, make sure you do, otherwise, you may be asked to enter a CAPTCHA. If you can see the list of answers, but your answer is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; there, you need to email the team at the link at the bottom of every SU page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T18:10:31.070" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T18:10:31.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21664" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:24:01.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Testing an &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0142000280&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon URL&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works. Looks like your problem has nothing to do with Amazon :-)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Test without &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0142000280&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;superfluous stuff&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0142000280&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Even shorter.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T08:43:04.447" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T08:43:04.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21668" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:26:53.870" Score="3" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I tried to log out by clicking the logout link at the top (&lt;em&gt;first time for me because I don't really log out of S[OFU] unless I clear my browser's session data&lt;/em&gt;), I got the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're a registered user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can log in or out at any time&#xA;  using the OpenID you've already&#xA;  associated with your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when I clicked on the parts of the site, it seems that I'm still logged in (&lt;em&gt;see, i'm creating this question after I logged out and this question would probably appear in the list of the questions I asked&lt;/em&gt;) and my name is still appearing at the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this by-design or is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T17:13:24.963" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T17:13:24.963" Title="Logged out, but still logged in?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;logout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21667" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:29:46.343" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you clicked the &lt;code&gt;Logout&lt;/code&gt; button below the message?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/ezZux.png&quot; alt=&quot;run rabbit, run!&quot; title=&quot;tale of escape, of freedom, of wanting out&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="95589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T12:20:44.003" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:20:44.003" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="21669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21678" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:31:05.763" Score="4" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1407537/cardspace-and-delphi-2007-win32&quot;&gt;open Q&lt;/a&gt; which had about 6 views. So I'm considering a bounty but I wonder if that will provide any answers. There's a risk someone will just answer with a non-reply just to get the bounty after a few days. (Because it's automatically awarded to the person with the highest votes.) Of course, I could downvote the answer but if it's the only one, it would still be the highest one in votes. I could flag it, hoping a moderator will remove it, thus saving the bounty for a real answer. But if that doesn't happen, then I've wasted reputation to a non-answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when assigning a bounty to a Q, is it possible to exclude certain answers from automatically receiving it, even if there's no other answer after the time's up? I just don't want to reward someone who adds nonsense to my Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:03:51.523" Title="Bounties and non-valid answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21669" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:39:01.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do realize you should accept an answer, and only that answer gets the bounty?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The auto-bounty is mostly for exceptional cases, and awarded only for answers with 2 upvotes or more. At the worst case you can accept your own answer and waste the bounty.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Edit your question, add details, it will bump up and someone will answer it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Fix &quot;want to kow&quot; to &quot;want to know&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T08:39:01.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21643" CreationDate="2009-09-14T08:54:26.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there could be any stealing stuff. The aim of SO is to provide the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I write a good but not best answer, and that someone else write a very good answer, it is likely that I'll edit my answer, add what he though and I didn't though, and I'll add more details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if someone takes what I wrote, well good for him, as long as the OP will get his answer, I'm ok with this. If you are worried about reputation and so on, don't worry, these kind of people that knows nothing usually don't stay long, or ends stuck a N points of rep. Have faith in the system my friends ! ^^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the aim of SO isn't only to provide answer, but to &quot;capitalize&quot; good answers. Lots of time when I went to SO to ask a question, I found the answer using the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131911" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T08:54:26.593" />
  <row Id="21676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21643" CreationDate="2009-09-14T09:08:23.810" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually have no probem with this practise under one condition. The answer must then be switched to CW. For example on the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1185/outlook-2007-wont-close/4332#4332&quot;&gt;Outlook 2007 won't close&lt;/a&gt;, Joel himself on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1185/outlook-2007-wont-close/4332#4332&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer added a part of mine. However he also immediatly switched the answer to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that should be the suggested practise. Alternatively give credit to the person that did provide that part of the answer, by linking to his answer or alternatively to his profile, so someone can vote up another of their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T09:47:50.540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T09:47:50.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21669" CreationDate="2009-09-14T09:14:16.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21669/bounties-and-non-valid-answers/21670#21670&quot;&gt;Kobi&lt;/a&gt; pointed out already the bounty is only allocated to the answer with 2 or more votes, and nothing below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that if you don't accept and answer at all and let the bounty expire you can never accept an answer on the question. Be careful with bounties, they are usefull, if you are 100% sure there is an answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T09:14:16.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-14T09:58:08.647" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to the first question involving &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/40240/limewire-trojans&quot;&gt;Limewire&lt;/a&gt; I have removed and cleaned up the comments and formatted the question. However there is nothing wrong with the question directly as the OP never refers to downloading illegal software, and I think it received a very good answer on top of it. I don't see any reason why the question should not be allowed, unless it explicitly &lt;strong&gt;encourages and suggest links to illegal software and warez&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it amazing that &lt;strong&gt;four of the users&lt;/strong&gt; that were quick to comment on the legality of the question did &lt;strong&gt;not cast a single close vote&lt;/strong&gt; although they had the ability to do so, but instead chose to attack the OP in comments. &lt;strong&gt;Use your voting powers, it is why they have been given&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also cleaned up the comments on the second question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/23833/consequences-of-windows-genuine-advantage-warning&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; however again this question was reviewed at the time by the moderators, and since it in no way encouraged or suggested pirating windows, but rather asked something regarding the consequences thereof, it is a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore. If you find these questions &lt;strong&gt;flag them for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt; with a very specific reason as to &lt;strong&gt;why you think it is unsuitable&lt;/strong&gt;, instead of creating &lt;strong&gt;unnecessary noise&lt;/strong&gt; via the comments feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T11:26:15.943" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T11:26:15.943" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21681" CreationDate="2009-09-14T10:12:38.230" Score="0" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21578/inconsistency-rendering-in-markdown&quot;&gt;inconsistency rendering ** in markdown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple. In a Q I wanted to mark part of a path name as italic. This path:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And username must be italic so I get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;C:\Documents and Settings*username*\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the backslash plus asterisk seems to be considered an escape character thus I need to add another backslash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;C:\Documents and Settings\*username*\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the preview looks okay, but I just get it right because I realized the escape sequence. Most users don't. But it gets worse!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I post it, it gets translated to back slash plus asterisk, not backslash and italic text! That's not what I saw in the preview!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this annoy others too? Can someone please fix this? (Btw, even in this post, the Q doesn't look like the thing I typed!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T06:06:01.453" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T06:06:01.453" ClosedDate="2009-09-14T13:01:02.810" Title="What I see is NOT what I get! Why not?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21680" CreationDate="2009-09-14T10:23:39.770" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design and explained on the blog in the episode entitled, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;but when is Eureka back on air?&quot;&gt;Three Markdown Gotchas&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Markdown’s single biggest flaw is its intra-word emphasis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don’t think anybody writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;un*fricking*believable&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;often enough to justify making it nearly impossible to talk about tokens with underscores in them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;some_file_name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is interpreted as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;some&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;file&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It even works across word boundaries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;file_one and file_two&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;file&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;one and file&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; two&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whenever you’re writing tokens with underscores you have to make absolutely sure you’re in a backtick-delimited code span. The same problem will also nail you on equations like a*b*c, but that seems to pop up less frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Showdown follows the reference implementation on all this, but in WMD I do a little preprocessing to hack the idiocy away: basically I just backslash-escape any underscores or asterisks that might trigger it. It’s a flagrant violation of the standard, but since it’s a pre-pass that should produce identical output with any Markdown processor, I feel justified. Unfortunately my hack did screw up one edge case (which I don’t have in front of me) and there isn’t any way to disable it. Both those things will change in the next release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if you want to have i&lt;i&gt;tal&lt;/i&gt;ics or bold markup in the mi&lt;b&gt;dd&lt;/b&gt;le of your words, you're going to have to whip out the HTML tags and tag them up that style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Basically, if you want to have i&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;tal&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;ics or bold markup &#xA;in the mi&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;dd&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;le of your words, you're going to have to &#xA;whip out the HTML tags and tag them up that style.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6717/bolditalichandofgod.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T10:59:35.197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T10:59:35.197" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21643" CreationDate="2009-09-14T10:35:16.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a referencing based system. For instance, lets say I wanted to provide the user with the best answer possible. I could &quot;&lt;strong&gt;reference&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; another post, and quote him/build on his ideas, and all reputation earned while this reference property is active... is split with him. It's not perfect, but it's an elegant solution imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T10:35:16.270" />
  <row Id="21683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T10:47:24.753" Score="11" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm curious about which tags might be about to earn me another badge, it would be useful for the user profile to show the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; &quot;badge level&quot; for the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I look at the bottom of the user profile where it's got tags and badges listed, the system clearly has all the information available - and I &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; just look through each tag and see whether I'd already got a badge for it or not. It would be simpler if the tags just showed the gold or silver badge icon &quot;inline&quot; though in the list of tags, just to the left of the tag name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:13:07.207" Title="Show badges earned within the tag list in the user profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21683" CreationDate="2009-09-14T11:15:35.213" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is only one badge to care about: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/30/beta&quot;&gt;Beta&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you will never get it! :-}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T11:15:35.213" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T11:21:13.973" Score="3" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I remove/change my alternative OpenId account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135837" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T12:00:29.157" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:22:05.703" Title="How can I remove/change my second OpenId account?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21683" CreationDate="2009-09-14T11:25:28.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about something like this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/3oIKb.png&quot; alt=&quot;all your tags belong to me&quot; title=&quot;do you want to mess with Kong Skeet?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd go with the levelling up mindset behind the rep and the badges. You'd be able to see the levels and work out which one you need to cast the potion of alchemy on in order to go from silver to gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a feature that would be useful for that single percent of users that are Jon Skeet.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T14:46:12.820" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T14:46:12.820" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="21687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21669" CreationDate="2009-09-14T12:03:51.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is part of a misunderstanding about the ways that bounties are &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to work, and the way that bounties work on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real-life (or more specifically, movies, since I've never been a contract killer) the bounty is awarded upon completion of contract. If someone does not complete the task, then they are certainly not getting the money (and then usually something bad happens and action ensues.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow, the bounty is &lt;em&gt;to generate interest&lt;/em&gt;. You are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; paying the bounty directly to the person who correctly answers your question in any real sense. The way that bounty works on SO is that you are 'paying' out a certain amount of reputation as an advertisement for your question in the hopes that people will answer it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If answers are generated, and one of them is the answer to your question, then you accept it and there's no problem, the right person got the bounty. If none of the answers are correct, and none of them get above two votes then the bounty will go to no one and be lost. It is only if the answer gets more than two votes and is 'wrong' that you could worry about giving the bounty to the wrong person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, the best option is to engage the person who answered the question, if their answer isn't helpful to you, then add a comment to it explaining why. Also, if it becomes obvious that your question is unclear, then you should edit it for clarity. This has the added bonus of popping you to the top of the active list as well, which would generate extra interest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom Line: The bounty is to generate interest and answers for your question, it does not necessarily guarantee that one of those will be the right answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:03:51.523" />
  <row Id="21688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21685" CreationDate="2009-09-14T12:16:20.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't directly, you have to &quot;swap&quot; your two ids so that your alternative is now your primary.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After you change your primary, you can swap back and you'll have effectively changed your alternative id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:16:20.517" />
  <row Id="21689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21609" CreationDate="2009-09-14T12:19:03.133" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties are meant to generate interest in your question. If your question is low in the ranks, and you feel that you have already expressed yourself, then you add a bounty on it to encourage interest and people to answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you add the bounty, the rep is gone. If you are worried about getting no answers, you could increase the bounty to an even higher number, and at that point you can almost guarantee that someone will answer the question. But the bounties are meant to generate interest and answers. If there are still no answers after offering the bounty, it might be time to consider whether or not the question is too obscure to be answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider bounties to be paying for advertising. Once you've purchased an ad spot, you can't get your money back just because no one bought your product. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, we might want to consider changing the name since it doesn't act 'bounty-ish'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:19:03.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21470" CreationDate="2009-09-14T12:54:20.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why can't all forums be what they should be; open, free, and available for everybody?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Free to whom? Free to the users? Hosting anything on the internet costs a lot of money, and Jeff and Joel have already admitted (I believe) that SO is a losing proposition. It actively costs them money to run this. They've managed to turn it into a business by using the success of StackOverflow to sell StackExchange as a corporate option, but then again, the corporate option isn't free which goes against your premise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;like the internet is supposed to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The internet is guided by whatever format users and providers want. Obviously people don't like paying for stuff, and that includes both the consumers who want things for free, and the companies who don't like paying for support and hosting. If everything on the internet was free, then everyone would be losing money, which is a wildly unsustainable system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of risk in giving things away for free, and quite frankly I'm surprised that there are so &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; that do it successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:54:20.357" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-14T12:54:20.357" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2009-09-14T12:58:11.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, whenever authors answer questions, their reputation is shown as a simple lump sum.  Maybe it would be interesting to also display the reputation they have gained per tag used in the question.  Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Eric [200], c# [100], winforms [30], ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would give users more detailed insight into people's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:58:11.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21657" CreationDate="2009-09-14T12:59:17.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always check Stack&lt;b&gt;Overflow&lt;/b&gt;'s age by looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;Community User&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was born the same day as Stack&lt;b&gt;Overflow&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T12:59:17.837" />
  <row Id="21693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21578" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:00:26.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, the problem isn't so much that mark down is finicky about intra-word emphasis.  The problem is that it looks okay in the preview and doesn't break until after you click &quot;post&quot;.  But in any case, it's dupe:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:00:26.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21697" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:04:54.190" Score="-1" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we have an addiction level feature which was displayed on user's profiles? This idea is completely nicked from GTA4, although SO might need slightly politer categories! How might such a rating be calculated? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133149" LastEditorUserId="133149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T12:32:51.853" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T02:12:36.963" Title="&quot;Addiction level&quot; feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21643" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:06:36.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone could test whether this is really a problem by creating a sockpuppet users specifically for the purpose of copying answers (&lt;em&gt;their own&lt;/em&gt; answers, of course).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:06:36.433" />
  <row Id="21696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21657" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:08:57.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should look at stackoverflow.com &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20000301035207/http%3A//www.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as it looked in the year 2000&lt;/a&gt;. Now that's interesting! (It redirected to www.mozquito.org; the company behind that project apparently was some Stack Overflow AG).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:08:57.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:10:50.357" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to leave the house at some point. So please dont.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:10:50.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:11:40.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;double RPM = /* get refreshes per minute somehow */; //Refreshes per Minute&#xA;int GM = 100 * User.GoldBadgeCount; // Gold coefficient&#xA;int SM = 50 * User.SilverBadgeCount; // Silver coefficient&#xA;int BM = 10 * User.BronzeBadgeCount; // Bronze coefficient&#xA;&#xA;double stat = RPM * (GM + SM + BM) / User.Reputation;&#xA;// stat is a completely useless statistic&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T13:34:30.703" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:34:30.703" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="21699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:13:23.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having only played GTA4 long enough to wonder why I bothered, I'm not sure how the addiction levels work.  But I'm skeptical that they'd provide a lot more information than the woot and fanatic badges.  Besides, I don't want on display just how much time I waste on this site; that's embarrassing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:13:23.707" />
  <row Id="21700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:18:08.193" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Percentage of posts on the site? Average posts per day? (The second would favor people that are very active even if not in the community for very long.) Number of consecutive days of visits up to now and longest run ever? (This would also tell me when I finally get my fanatic badge.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:18:08.193" />
  <row Id="21701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21657" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:18:16.133" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the other screenshots, this is what Stack Overflow looked like when the public beta started on September 15:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15%5Fscreenshot.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks mostly the same today - the differences I see are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lack of ignored/interesting tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lack of &quot;Unanswered&quot; button at the top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;red &quot;This is a public beta. Found a bug? Want to make a feature request? stackoverflow.uservoice.com&quot; text at the top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lack of a gray background behind the top menu&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;top menu aligned with the logo, not the search bar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;search bar doesn't have &lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/Img/search.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt; or the word &quot;search&quot;, replaced with button labeled &quot;Search&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lack of curved edges on the badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moderator status is indicated by a star, not a diamond as it is now (thanks, balpha!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sections on the side have a grey background&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Recent Tags&quot; section has &quot;popular tags »&quot; at the bottom instead of &quot;all tags »&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Newest&quot; tab instead of &quot;active&quot;, no &quot;featured&quot; tab, &quot;hot&quot;, &quot;week&quot;, and &quot;month&quot; are capitalized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;text for view count is darker, text for vote count is lighter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;formatting error causes the divider between &quot;Replacing Virtual PC/Server....&quot; and &quot;How to capturing crash logs in Java&quot; to not show up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;divider between questions is solid, as opposed to the current dotted divider (I'm not 100% on this as it could be a side effect of the poor quality of the screenshot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions are slightly indented - notice how the votes box doesn't line up with the edge of the dividers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;views section is slightly wider (not 100% on this either, but it looks wider to me)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;times are not abbreviated (i.e. &quot;3 minutes ago&quot; instead of &quot;3m ago&quot;, &quot;an hour ago&quot; instead of &quot;1h ago&quot;, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;usernames have mini-Gravatars next to them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are there any more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T20:34:47.837" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T20:34:47.837" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21685" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:22:05.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is certainly possible to &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; it; just swap them around and change to your heart's content. Removing it is different &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19808/remove-alternative-openid&quot;&gt;(see also this question)&lt;/a&gt;. If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want, we (♦) can do it for you, but I'd very much prefer not to. As per my previous reply, my advise is: find a backup. In particular, for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21645/what-happens-when-your-openid-provider-goes-down&quot;&gt;when your primary fails&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:22:05.703" />
  <row Id="21703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:23:16.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that was what the Reputation Points where there for? With a 200 a day cap your addicted if you start hitting 5000+ rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly find it rare for old answers to quickly provide me a rep boost once the question has left the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Yes, there is a hint of sarcasm and boredom in there somewhere&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:23:16.277" />
  <row Id="21704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21643" CreationDate="2009-09-14T13:56:33.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps an option to merge two answers if the two users agree? The result would be CW and contain the content of both posts (hence deleting the original posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T13:56:33.427" />
  <row Id="21705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21708" CreationDate="2009-09-14T14:21:08.607" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21556/links-with-quotation-marks-are-broken&quot;&gt;Links with quotation marks are broken&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, I tried posting this link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=XWu70Oqz6RIC&amp;amp;pg=PA344&amp;amp;lpg=PA344&amp;amp;dq=wpf+&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=XWu70Oqz6RIC&amp;amp;pg=PA344&amp;amp;lpg=PA344&amp;amp;dq=wpf+&lt;/a&gt;&quot;sharing+resources+between+assemblies&quot;&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=FMQU9g3whX&amp;amp;sig=rhK8YR-OUddEKmSBMqZXv45gxNc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ei=JlqpSqf5NNKBtge6jqXYBw&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=1#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=wpf%20%22sharing%20resources%20between%20assemblies%22&amp;amp;f=false&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the link text doesn't get highlighted (I think it's because it has a double quotes character in it). I also tried on with an apostrophe and it didn't work either, I had to resort to tinyurl in order to post both links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P. S. As I posted the text I noticed another bug. The link text goes all the way to the right in my monitor (it goes beyond the text area and it even makes the browser screen horizontally scrollable!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T07:18:01.807" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T07:18:01.807" ClosedDate="2011-03-11T13:32:50.540" Title="Links with double quotes or quotation marks don't work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T14:26:00.110" Score="4" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1421723/how-to-copy-a-text-from-one-file-into-another-file&quot;&gt;A question has been asked&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/41030/how-to-copy-a-text-from-one-file-into-another-file&quot;&gt;now at superuser&lt;/a&gt;) that I originaly was a simple problem, and posted a simple solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then on the comments to my question I had to force some details from the OP, until I found out what was the real question &lt;sup&gt;(tm)&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wanted to copy every line from a text file where her girlfriend's name is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel bad about answering the question, and if I delete my own answer, that bit of info would be lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T02:06:06.043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T02:06:06.043" Title="Unethical questions: should answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21705" CreationDate="2009-09-14T14:29:42.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have &lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; quotation marks. You have to encode them. Replace the double-quote marks with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;%22&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that the part that looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;wpf+&quot;sharing+resources+between+assemblies&quot;&amp;amp;source=bl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is instead encoded as this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;wpf+%22sharing+resources+between+assemblies%22&amp;amp;source=bl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001276.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;tinyurl&lt;/code&gt; is never the answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T16:35:11.153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:35:11.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21705" CreationDate="2009-09-14T14:36:39.563" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21147/non-ascii-characters-in-external-links/21173#21173&quot;&gt;done this before&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I intend to reuse &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13703/url-containing-closing-parentheses-are-trunked-in-comments-javadoc-idiom/13714#13714&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; over and over until this problem is fixed or the eventual heat death of the universe, whichever comes first.  Just mentally replace the parts about the parens with the specific character you are having problems with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I doubt we'll get this fixed, but you&#xA;  can resolve it yourself by URL&#xA;  encoding &lt;code&gt;(&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;)&lt;/code&gt; as &lt;code&gt;%28&lt;/code&gt; and&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;%29&lt;/code&gt;.  Since one of these bugs gets&#xA;  posted every two to three days, here's&#xA;  a simple rule of thumb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Any characters in your URL other than &lt;code&gt;A-Z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;a-z&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;0-9&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;/.=?-+%&amp;amp;*&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;    (and the &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; in &quot;&lt;code&gt;http:&lt;/code&gt;&quot;) should&#xA;    probably be URL encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've cobbled together a quick page&#xA;  that will encode the things that&#xA;  shouldn't need encoding.  You can find&#xA;  it &lt;a href=&quot;http://bstorer.com/so/encode.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It doesn't use any&#xA;  jQuery, so it's probably completely&#xA;  unreliable.  If you find anything it&#xA;  should be encoding but isn't, let me&#xA;  know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T14:36:39.563" />
  <row Id="21709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21706" CreationDate="2009-09-14T14:36:57.987" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, everything that can be used for good purposes can be used for bad purposes. &#xA;I.E. &#xA;How do I monitor all internet usage through a particular router?&#xA;1. (Because I need to monitor my employees)&#xA;2. (Because I am doing a scientific study on internet page attention and retention)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact same technical question can be construed as good or bad based on that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the OP was asking how to extract information from a textfile based on a keyword, he chose the name of his girlfriend as an example. Maybe he's a bad dude who's trying to spy on her, and maybe he's just doing his job and he used her name in his example text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, &lt;strong&gt;technical questions deserve technical answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have no way of knowing someone's intentions. And even if we trust &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; user with the technical information we're provided, that will in no way stop the untrustworthy person from coming along later with the exact same question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to accept that many of the answers can be used for evil, but SO is designed to be a source of &lt;em&gt;technical information&lt;/em&gt;, and so that's what it should be. You should answer the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T14:51:54.277" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T14:51:54.277" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21706" CreationDate="2009-09-14T14:37:36.503" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I look at it this way. If the question asker does not make it apparent that there is illegal activity going along, I will answer the question without trying to draw my own conclusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have reservations, I will make notes of that in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have strong reservations, I would post a comment and alert a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really think it's our duty to be judging the ethics of questions if there is not blatant conflict. If there is a blatant conflict, you shouldn't feel obligated to answer (seeing as how nobody is obligated to answer in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T14:37:36.503" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-14T14:45:52.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the question does not explicitly state that someone is engaging in piracy, I think it may sometimes be appropriate to answer someones question. A while back a similar question came up in regards to answering questions Stack Overflow that may or may not be used for malicious means (e.g. A script for bulk mailing for be for spam, or for opt-in newsletters.) Likewise, I could see a situation like this were a user might just be looking for something in the realm of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;abandonware&lt;/a&gt; or they might just be misinformed about something. For example, if someone asked the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been told I can get &lt;em&gt;[name of newly released game]&lt;/em&gt; for free on the internet, where can I find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the question be closed because they are asking for help in pirating something, or should they just get a short answer saying that to the best of the posters knowledge the software isn't free and that what they are asking to do is illegal and greatly increases their chances of getting a malware infection on their computer? Granted it might get a bit trying to have to keep telling people that they shouldn't be doing that, but in the long run it might also help to educate users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there is a way that we can add a canned &quot;That is a bad idea&quot; type lock and link to the FAQ that moderators can use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T14:45:52.883" />
  <row Id="21714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21628" CreationDate="2009-09-14T15:39:56.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Limewire in itself does not equal piracy. This is because Limewire can be used to share legitimate files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it seems very few people actually seem to use limewire for legitimate purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks a question about Limewire, and does not allude to any piracy, I think it would be both rude and presumptuous to assume that the person in question is a pirate. I'm not kidding myself here, I'm pretty sure that this person is likely to use it for less than wonderful means, however who are we to assume that someone is automatically a pirate simply because they use limewire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's like assuming that everyone who owns a balaclava is a thief or burglar. Just not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that Limewire, like any other possibly sensitive topic, should be handled on a case by case basis. Just as there are legitimate purposes for the use of Bittorrent, there are legitimate uses for Limewire, and even the balaclava.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130343" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T15:39:56.840" />
  <row Id="21715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21716" CreationDate="2009-09-14T15:55:35.020" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this as my blogroll consists entirely of images and if SO has a nice one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135843" LastEditorUserId="135843" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T16:07:03.670" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:49:47.287" Title="Does Stack Overflow have an image that I can use to link to it?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21715" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:01:24.960" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you use your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;&quot;flair&quot;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:01:24.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22301" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:09:44.553" Score="10" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57763&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SOFU Interesting Tag Browser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Updated with bugfixes, see Recent Changes below.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Thanks to those who responded with suggestions and bugs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrote this for myself to make browsing my interesting tags easier in three ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3602/interestingtags.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When browsing a single one of your &quot;Interesting&quot; tags,  shows previous and next buttons within the sidebar for &lt;strong&gt;easy navigation to the previous and next interesting tag&lt;/strong&gt; in your tag list.  I find scrolling down to the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; box and hunting for the next interesting tag I want to see to be a pain, this makes it very easy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adds a &quot;View All Interesting&quot; link&lt;/strong&gt; to the siebar, which does an OR search on your interesting tags, effectively limiting your search results to ONLY questions having one of your interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Uses the tag name in the page header&lt;/strong&gt;, e.g. &quot;Perl Questions&quot; rather than &quot;Tagged Questions&quot; for tags you are viewing.  Works with &quot;and&quot; and &quot;or&quot; searches with multiple tags as well, but has a length-limit due to the layout of the site.  I prefer to display the tag I'm on in a bold, obvious way. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recent Changes:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moved all links into the sidebar using native styles, giving a cleaner, more integrated look.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moving links out of the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; area fixed the nasty bug that mangled your interesting tags when using this script.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When adding or removing tags, the &quot;Previous&quot;, &quot;Next&quot;, and &quot;View All Interesting&quot; links are updated appropriately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When viewing stats pages or other tag pages with GET-style URL parameters, the heading rewrite now happens correctly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limited the sites on which the script operates to SO, SF, and SU using the &lt;code&gt;@include&lt;/code&gt; greasemonkey directive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed excess slash from the &quot;View All Interesting&quot; link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Added a &quot;Case Correction&quot; filter to the script, currently pre-populated with the most common tags on SO (first page of tags) which have non-standard capitalization schemes.  This makes it so that, for example, the mysql tag is rendered in the header as 'MySQL Questions' rather than 'Mysql Questions'.  To add more tags to correct, just edit the &lt;code&gt;caseCorrection&lt;/code&gt; object at the top of the script.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Still To Do:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implement the trick &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21717/a-greasemonkey-script-to-make-browsing-interesting-tags-easier/22301#22301&quot;&gt;suggested by Rich Seller&lt;/a&gt; to utilize StackOverflow's included jQuery rather than the one from GoogleAPI.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T15:52:56.647" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T15:52:56.647" Title="A Greasemonkey script to make browsing interesting tags easier" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21725" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:25:53.027" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am having some strange problem with my account on stack overflow. Even though I am getting upvotes for my answer, they are still not getting added to my reputation points.&#xA;What is the problem?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I upvoted some other guys for the same community wiki questions and i see an increase in their reputation points. can somebody explain me this? (lol, i am so crying for reps!!) :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit II: here's the question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034758/what-are-the-best-web-design-sites/1421108#1421108&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034758/what-are-the-best-web-design-sites/1421108#1421108&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;upvote some guys and you will see instant increase in their rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: ok, i got it cleared. The question was not first marked as wiki so the users who answered prior to this are getting reps added. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135851" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T18:18:49.253" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:40:50.150" Title="No reputation points added on upvotes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21718" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:26:55.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the question a Community Wiki question? Since those questions do not give you reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:26:55.897" />
  <row Id="21720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21718" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:27:07.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the question or answer marked community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so there are no reputation for community wiki posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:27:07.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21683" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:37:17.577" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've updated my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug/21623#21623&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; to modify the blue rectangle to look like a badge (complete with gold/silver circle) for those tags that a badge has been awarded for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To find out how close you are for other tags, you can click the triangle that's been added next to the tag to find the total votes for that tag (assuming you're not on the leaderboard for a tag in which case it's obviously simpler just to look there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/3919851721%5F3f69df3742.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;skeet tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T19:13:07.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:13:07.207" />
  <row Id="21722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21718" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:44:12.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit: I upvoted some other guys for the same community wiki questions and i see an increase in their reputation points. can somebody explain me this? (lol, i am so crying for reps!!) :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're either hallucinating or they're getting upvoted for other answers they've given. &lt;strong&gt;No reputation is awarded for votes on community-wiki posts&lt;/strong&gt;, bottom line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:44:12.850" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21715" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:49:47.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use this link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the Logo from the Stackoverflow static page that is used to increase speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:49:47.287" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21718" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:54:07.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all of the answers to that question are CW, many of them are still owned by the original answerer, therefore, those users can still earn reputation when their answer is upvoted. Your answer, however, is CW, and therefore you will not receive reputation. The question became CW on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1034758/list&quot;&gt;June 24 at 20:06&lt;/a&gt;, all answers after that point are CW, however, the answers provided previous to that point, are not automatically shifted to CW, since this was not turned CW by the community user as a result of 30+ answers being provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:54:07.120" />
  <row Id="21725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21718" CreationDate="2009-09-14T16:55:14.200" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes on a question that is marked as Community Wiki do not increase or decrease reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes on an answer marked as Community Wiki do not increase or decrease reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers posted after a question is marked as Community Wiki are automatically made Community Wiki and will not gain or lose rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers posted prior to a question being changed to Community Wiki are not automatically changed over, so they can continue to gain or lose reputation on votes as long as the answer itself is still not Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T16:55:14.200" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21667" CreationDate="2009-09-14T17:13:16.290" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you had a &quot;no-touch&quot;, &quot;no-confirm&quot; logout, then you could be forcibly logged out at will by any user who can construct an &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag. How? I leave that as an exercise to the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hint: it's important! Almost web security 101!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T17:13:16.290" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1195" CreationDate="2009-09-14T18:24:26.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think for this to work, there would need to be an &quot;authority&quot; or an authoratative group and I don't think that can be managed within the current system. Possibly you could have moderator specific tags like we do on meta, but that would create a lot of overhead work for the moderators, and I'm certain there are tags where none of the moderators are experts and therefore wouldn't know what should be made part of the faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, perhaps a feature where once a user has earned silver or gold in a tag would allow them to vote on adding/removing questions from that tags faq might work, but I think there's probably a lot of design that would have to go into it. But until some new feature is implemented to address, I believe current system cannot make this work well enough for it to be beneficial. Too many users are able to modify tags and/or edit questions and answers without need for &quot;community support&quot;, and therefore, too often I think debates and/or edit wars would result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:24:26.857" />
  <row Id="21729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T18:42:51.580" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was actually writing a completely unrelated feature request and while writing it I noticed it's already possible, however I noticed that SO doesn't actually do &lt;em&gt;anything at all&lt;/em&gt; if one of my tags doesn't have any questions in it anymore. Here's what I'd propose as possible solutions for cases such as these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Provide UI feedback when tag is deprecated&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context deprecated means &lt;em&gt;depleted out of questions&lt;/em&gt;. In this particular case, the tag &lt;code&gt;postgresql&lt;/code&gt; used to have a bunch of questions but apparently they had been all retagged under &lt;code&gt;postgres&lt;/code&gt; making &lt;code&gt;postgresql&lt;/code&gt; obsolete/deprecated. It would've been nice for the UI to pop up a notice about this so that I could've replaced the tag as soon as such action became relevant instead of now after for how long this has really been the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Add a way for users with high enough karma to redirect tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By allowing users to create automatic replacements to deprecated tags SO could support automatic changing of the deprecated tag to whatever it should really point to. This way only one person or a relatively small group of persons would really need to do the change and it would propagate itself to the entire user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Allow for metaranking/-linking of tags.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be completely valid reasons to keep some of the tags but as far as I'm concerned, I wanted to notice the &lt;code&gt;postgres&lt;/code&gt; questions even though I had selected &lt;code&gt;postgresql&lt;/code&gt;. If we are allowed to metalink tags (once again, by user with respectably high karma), the system could automatically help me manage my tags with the Google-esque &quot;Did you mean &lt;em&gt;someothertag&lt;/em&gt;?&quot; type of feedback message or some other non-intrusive method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;UPDATE @ 16 Nov 2009&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, now someone has changed them the other way around again! Or maybe some time ago, can't really tell, this is extremely annoying!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastEditorUserId="135713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T18:15:35.740" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:15:35.740" Title="SO should do something automatically if one of my tags doesn't contain any questions anymore" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21729" CreationDate="2009-09-14T18:48:12.507" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system already tells you how many questions a tag has associated with it at the time you add the tag to you question.  It's the number in parentheses after the name of the in the little look-ahead prompt you see when tagging your question.  Any time you see a number less than 10 or so there, you probably want a different tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I agree a little more discouragement from using those tags would nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:48:12.507" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21732" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-07T02:28:51.723" Score="8" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering what an appropriate period is for looking for an answer to a particular problem (both here and elsewhere) before asking on an SO site?  Usually the questions I've asked have been answered in 10 minutes or so, so it really makes no sense to spend an hour trying to solve a problem before asking.  What is a general consensus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" Title="How long should I keep trying to solve my own problem before asking?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21732" CreationDate="2008-10-07T02:30:22.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as it takes you to do a good Google search, or two, to try and find the solution on your own.  But in reality, it doesn't much matter as there is no conceivable way to verify that you waited at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BTW: Welcome to SO, don't forget to read this post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" />
  <row Id="21734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21732" CreationDate="2008-10-07T02:30:59.473" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd ask it right away.  Even if you figure it out, it'll leave a trail for the next person to look it up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3435" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21732" CreationDate="2008-10-07T02:32:41.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the least do a Google search. I've noticed numerous questions here where the accepted answer was copied verbatim from the first hit on a Google search for the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also useful to put in your question the steps you took and, if applicable, possible solutions that have already been rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140319" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" />
  <row Id="21736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21732" CreationDate="2008-10-07T02:34:16.347" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really is up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally prefer to spend half an hour to an hour at least trying to figure it on my own, since as a side effect I usually learn quite a lot more than just the solution to my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you are in a tight schedule and have a deadline looming over you, do a quick search on SO and ask right away if you don't find anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131157" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" />
  <row Id="21737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21732" CreationDate="2008-10-07T02:45:13.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you got a question, please just ask it, even if a short google search might work. The whole point of Stackoverflow, in my mind, is to shortcut the google searching required to answer programming questions. So the more questions the better SO will become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" />
  <row Id="21738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21732" CreationDate="2008-10-07T03:57:05.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Straight away. You'll get some reputation points and quite often I've learned more from the variety of answers and comments here than I would have learned working it out myself in isolation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and did I mention the reputation points. And Badges! Shiny badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" />
  <row Id="21739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21732" CreationDate="2008-10-07T07:06:07.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search here first, and if you find a similar question that doesn't suit, ask your question here, reference the other question and say why it doesn't suit.  Personally, I'd ask here &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; google.  I'd also tend to have a rummage around the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodeProject&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source forge&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeguru.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code Guru&lt;/a&gt;.  Some very good programmers will spend more time on one site than another, so it's worth searching them all.  I've had some great answers here but also drawn some blanks.  Using SO exclusively, will IMHO make you less resourceful in the long run.  Just because it is a great site, that is not an excuse to be lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143582" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:52:38.160" />
  <row Id="21740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:11:02.557" Score="10" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/68152/basic-programming#68227&quot;&gt;my joke non-answer&lt;/a&gt; was accepted by the questioner for some reason.  Obviously, this does a disservice to anyone who might run across the question later on.  Obviously, I voted up the other, better answers, but my answer will still be nailed to the top of the answer stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the responsible thing is to delete my dumb answer.  Maybe turn it into a comment.  But not everyone will be willing to do that, especially if they have received a lot of upvotes on the post.  Actually, I suppose it helped my reputation to have it accepted, so the system provides an incentive to stay quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think I should do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" Title="What do I do when my joke non-answer is accepted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:12:16.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept it as a lesson learned and move on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:12:21.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should upvote THIS answer three times every time before logging out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145652" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:12:41.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, the responsible thing would be to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you could also just edit it into a compilation answer of all the correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:13:05.437" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete it.  If the answer isn't really contributing useful information and wasn't taken as a joke as it should have been, there's no point in leaving it up.  I've deleted a bunch of my own answers on the same grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:14:20.130" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;If your answer, even in jest, was the most helpful then it was the most helpful.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't sweat it.  It's up to the questioner to decide the 'best' answer, but the next best is always just one down if people are voting well.  Besides, we can use a little humor on the site and it's good to see it being defined safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:14:27.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you edit it to include  tags or otherwise make it more obvious to the casual reader that it shouldn't be taking seriously? I think there's a place for humour on here and I'd hate for people to feel obliged to delete such content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141112" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:14:36.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment on the question letting the person asking know that it was a joke (preferably before they set about doing what you've suggested).  If they don't unaccept the answer, delete it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140409" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:15:19.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Honesty is the best policy&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:15:19.347" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't have a serious answer, don't bother posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jokes should be in comments not in answers, as this site is built around question/answers if we start letting the quality go down the answers themselves will start to look like Digg comments (which I love, but for entertainment, not learning and helping people learn). I love a joke as much as the next guy but I also think this site has great potential, but the power is ours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136052" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:16:09.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously your answer was picked for some reason. It's possible the question may have been a joke as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146184" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:37:00.717" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could edit the answer, reflecting at the end the nature of the answer (just to be clear) and recommending one of the others. That way no one loses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148223" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:44:06.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may as well delete it now, as this question has earned you more than enough rep to account for the lost rep on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is... if you delete the answer, then this question is then redundant too.... so you'll then be asking another question about what to do with THIS question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My GOD... when will it end??? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T20:52:57.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in question here only has 3 answers (counting yours).  None of them are very long.  It's not like deleting your question is going to give 50 other better answers a chance to appear - the two others will just appear slightly higher on the screen.  Just leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally there's a good chance I would have picked your answer as the best one too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-09-19T21:02:05.647" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;10 Post joke answer&#xA;20 GOTO 10&#xA;35 ????&#xA;30 Profit&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21740" CreationDate="2008-10-27T14:20:51.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with your answer?  Personally, reading through all the other responses, I think you probably gave the best answer.  I don't think anybody does Basic in this day and age, but if you wanted to, QBasic would be a good place to start.  It probably still runs on a modern Windows machine.  I think Basic is a good place to start for programmers. It gives them a good starting point, at least for the first few weeks.  So they don't have to worry about object oriented problems, or pointers, or all that other non-basic stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:53:33.960" />
  <row Id="21756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21757" CreationDate="2009-01-01T11:38:57.127" Score="11" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jan 28:&lt;/strong&gt; Due to website changes these pipes no longer work, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/{user-id}&lt;/a&gt; (or write a pipe for it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/50453/beau-simensen&quot;&gt;Beau Simensen&lt;/a&gt;'s answer I've fixed the Yahoo! pipe, please feel free to use it.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/lanzkron/stackoverflow_responses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pipes.yahoo.com/lanzkron/stackoverflow_responses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2541/sam-hasler&quot;&gt;Sam Hasler&lt;/a&gt; cloned &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/flenser/stackoverflow%20responses%20with%20comment%20answer%20in%20title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his own version&lt;/a&gt; that adds &lt;strong&gt;commented:&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;answered:&lt;/strong&gt; to the title &lt;sub&gt;(I'm not updating mine since it'll flood current subscribers with all the items again).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to work OK now, if you have enhancement requests or comments please leave your comments here and I should by &lt;em&gt;magically&lt;/em&gt; notified by RSS...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(original question follows)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following a question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/392757/stackoverflow-easy-way-to-know-if-someone-replied-to-your-question#392772&quot;&gt;how to be notified about responses to post&lt;/a&gt; I started writing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo! pipe&lt;/a&gt; to scrape the responses tab of the profile page (&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/&amp;lt;so-id&amp;gt;?sort=responses&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly getting pipes' regex to do what I thought it should do proved harder than I first anticipated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happily my wife gave birth last week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly this cut into the spare time I had to fool around on non-work/family related stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you have the time please let me know how to fix &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/lanzkron/stackoverflow_responses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my pipe&lt;/a&gt;. At the moment it has the following issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;None of the regexs work (even though they do on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regextester.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;REGex TESTER&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;title:&lt;/strong&gt; Contents of second link (&lt;code&gt;^.*?&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;(.*?&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;).*&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;link:&lt;/strong&gt;  Second HREF (&lt;code&gt;.*?href=&quot;[^&quot;]*&quot;.*href=&quot;?([^&quot;]*)&quot;.*&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;author:&lt;/strong&gt; Text of first link (&lt;code&gt;^[^&amp;gt;]*&amp;gt;([^&amp;lt;]*)&amp;lt;/a.*&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New items will appear several times since the time of the response changes (from &lt;em&gt;yesterday&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;2 days ago&lt;/em&gt; etc) I think this is related to the &lt;strong&gt;title&lt;/strong&gt; issue but I'm not sure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this is the first time I'm creating an RSS feed so I may be missing some other obvious stuff if so please let me know and I'll add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T07:56:49.310" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T05:53:30.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:50:17.733" Title="RSS feed for responses to your posts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;responses&gt;&lt;yahoo-pipes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="21757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21756" CreationDate="2009-01-02T01:32:07.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took a swing at this. Never used Yahoo! Pipes before, so it was a bit of a bear. I cloned your Pipe and updated it. You can take a look &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/kirkryyn/0fcc9da7a12aef80588cb88b0dff1097&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my pipe&lt;/a&gt; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;title:&lt;/strong&gt; (?s).*?&amp;lt;a.*?&amp;lt;a.+?&gt;([^&amp;lt;]+).*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;author:&lt;/strong&gt; (?s).*?&amp;lt;a([^&gt;]+)&gt;([^&amp;lt;]+?)&amp;lt;\/a&gt;.*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;link:&lt;/strong&gt; (?s).*?&amp;lt;a.*?&amp;lt;a.*?href=&quot;([^&quot;]*).*&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;description:&lt;/strong&gt; (?s).*?&amp;lt;a.*?&amp;lt;a.+?&amp;gt;([^&amp;lt;]+).*?&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;(.+?)&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replace with $1 for title, $2 for author, $1 for link and $2 for description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got a pointer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/360492/regular-expression-on-yahoo-pipes&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; stating that some of the checkboxes do not work correctly. I had the &quot;s&quot; checked initially, but it only seemed to work half the time so things seemed very inconsistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the link posted above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Somehow the case-insensitive checkbox&#xA;  seems broken. Luckily you can&#xA;  substitute with (?i), which works&#xA;  nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I tried to do the same with &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; to see if it worked like &lt;code&gt;i&lt;/code&gt;, and sure enough. Honestly, I don't know this syntax very well (never seen it before) but it works so I was happy enough with that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:55:27.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:50:17.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21756" CreationDate="2009-01-07T22:26:52.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know whether items were comments or answers so I altered &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/flenser/stackoverflow%20responses%20with%20comment%20answer%20in%20title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my own clone of the pipe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In        item.title  &#xA;replace   (?s).*?&amp;lt;a.*?&amp;lt;(?:b|span[^&amp;gt;]+)&amp;gt;(comment|answer)(?:ed on|ed)?&amp;lt;.(?:b|span)&amp;gt;\s&amp;lt;a.+?&amp;gt;([^&amp;lt;]+).*  &#xA;with      $1: $2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives me titles like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;comment: Responses RSS Feed?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  comment: Responses RSS Feed?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  answer: RSS feed for responses to your stackoverflow posts&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  comment: What are the disadvantages of arrays?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  answer: Comparing cold-start to warm start&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  answer: Where do Java and .NET string literals reside?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I filed a uservoice request yesterday to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/99851-direct-link-to-comments-on-recent-responses-user-feed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;direct link to comments on recent, responses &amp;amp; user feed&lt;/a&gt; which is currently under review and would make it much easier go to comments when they appear in the feed if it is implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:55:27.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:50:17.733" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-22T14:46:23.390" Score="10" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20830/firefox-users-here-is-your-stackoverflow-search-plugin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, I've knocked together a user script to add Stack Overflow tag search to &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Operator&lt;/a&gt; (a microformat plugin for firefox).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put this code &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var stackoverflow = {&#xA;  description: &quot;Search Tag on Stack Overflow&quot;,&#xA;  shortDescription: &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;,&#xA;  icon: &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico&quot;,&#xA;  scope: { semantic: {&quot;tag&quot; : &quot;tag&quot;}},&#xA;  doAction: function(obj) {return &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/&quot; + escape(obj.tag);}&#xA;};&#xA;SemanticActions.add(&quot;stackoverflow&quot;, stackoverflow);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in a js file, and from the Operator options dialog, add it to the User Scripts section, then add the action in the Actions section and restart Firefox to get it to activate. You'll be able to right click a tags on an external site and search for posts matching that tag here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1612" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:56:17.107" Title="Operator user script for Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;microformats&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21759" CreationDate="2008-08-22T14:53:38.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, am I being stupid here (never used operator before) I have added the script, added the action to the list, now what happens? I am guessing it should appear in the context menu right? Nothing so far..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for my n00bism :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dont worry, I got it!&#xA;Nice Job! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142924" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:56:17.107" />
  <row Id="21761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-17T21:33:00.747" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I have two separate answers to a question, should I put both in the same post or should I post first one and then the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: Can I eat honey and locusts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A: Both are edible and nontoxic.  But you should probably eat a more balanced diet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Versus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A1: Spread the peanut butter on one slice of bread and the jelly on another.  Then mash the slices together so that the peanut butter and jelly touch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A2: Spread the peanut butter on a slice of bread.  Spread a layer of jelly on top of the peanut butter.  Then, with the peanut butter and jelly on the inside, fold the slice of bread in half.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:57:12.907" Title="Can I answer a question multiple times?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="21762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21761" CreationDate="2008-09-17T21:35:08.510" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ says that you should use two separate posts.  That way, the best answer can be voted up and float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164683" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:57:12.907" />
  <row Id="21763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21761" CreationDate="2008-09-17T21:35:15.907" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that normally a simple &quot;or&quot; between the answers in the same post would suffice. So if your answer does get selected as the 'accepted' answer, then readers can see all presented options. ( This is especially nice in cases when there is no one correct answer. i.e. many ways to do the same thing )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Nevermind, apparently the FAQs think differentlly than I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161674" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:57:12.907" />
  <row Id="21764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21761" CreationDate="2008-09-17T21:38:57.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two posts.  Not only will the better one percolate, but the nature of reputation scores gives you an incentive to do two, so that must be the right way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:57:12.907" />
  <row Id="21765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21761" CreationDate="2008-09-17T22:04:02.217" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By merging both answers in the same post, you make your answer more complete and therefore more valuable. Keep them together!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:57:12.907" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21761" CreationDate="2008-09-17T23:27:55.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both are correct!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the honey and locust answers reinforce each other.  If they were put in separate posts, they would drift apart from each other as the votes were recorded.  That might mean the factually correct, but potentially unhealthy, response would be read without the important qualification.  Voting will make finding the correct answer harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a corollary, if you answer correctly, but notice someone else suggesting an important qualifier, feel free to incorporate that into your answer.  This is especially important if your answer is the accepted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the peanut butter and jelly answers are just different ways of getting the desired result.  If one is better than the other, voting will sort it out.  Lumping them together makes life harder for the voter, since one answer might be right and the other wrong.  Further, the superior answer will be listed above the inferior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:57:12.907" />
  <row Id="21767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21761" CreationDate="2008-09-24T18:05:36.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One problem with answering a question multiple times is that it might propel the question into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-posts-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Community mode&lt;/a&gt;.  This may not be a bad thing in terms of giving and getting good answers, but it does limit the total reputation gain possible for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:57:12.907" />
  <row Id="21768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-19T19:26:14.273" Score="12" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know a website where noobs can actually engage and chat with programmer gurus? Stackoverflow is not quite the site for detailed discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:58:07.603" Title="Any alternative to stackoverflow with chat function?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21768" CreationDate="2009-01-19T19:28:53.580" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hop on irc channels. freenode is a good one. If it &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be a website, you could use some webirc client perhaps to connect. But it would be easier and simpler to just use a normal client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:58:07.603" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21768" CreationDate="2009-01-19T19:32:19.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use #StackOverflow on slashnet. We discuss SO all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.irssi.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;irssi&lt;/a&gt; as my client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:58:07.603" />
  <row Id="21771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21768" CreationDate="2009-01-19T19:32:36.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Usenet&lt;/a&gt; is also great for this.  If you like, you can browse groups that interest you through &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Groups&lt;/a&gt; before posing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: also, see the answers to, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172818/other-sites-like-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172818/other-sites-like-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23071" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:58:07.603" />
  <row Id="21772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21768" CreationDate="2009-01-19T19:32:52.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; the site for exactly that.  Just because the question has been answered, you can still discuss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:58:07.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21768" CreationDate="2009-01-19T20:02:42.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look for a local user group and attend their meetings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131755" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T18:58:07.603" />
  <row Id="21774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:44:59.653" Score="15" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, this may seem like a strange question for a newbie, but I can already see how this site can become addictive. How do you escape its lure, so you have time to get on with your normal life? Strict time limits? Or do you set definite tasks (eg look for a certain answer to a problem) and then log out when accomplished?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-04-06T14:30:33.633" ClosedDate="2011-04-06T15:23:29.463" Title="How do you escape an addiction to stackoverflow (or other IT sites)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:46:11.073" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Press ALT-F4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:48:57.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to say self-discipline, but I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have 16k+ rep ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:51:04.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just hope that people won't vote up some of my &quot;brilliant&quot; answers, consequently getting me frustrated with the whole lot enough to say &quot;To hell with it!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That keeps me away for a few hours, atleast! :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130963" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:51:27.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write something stupid and get yourself banned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:51:30.577" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use two machines.  Ensure you are not logged onto to SO on your work machine, also no Twitter, Instant messaging or email.  Just your IDE and other essential dev tools.  Use installed help files if possible but don't cut yourself off completely from the Web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your other machine configure all these tools such as SO as best you can, make the experience of using them much smoother on that machine than on your work machine.  Place this &quot;personal&quot; machine on the other side of the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17516" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:53:43.537" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search yourself another ego-pusher than SO rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:54:13.583" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At last, a question that Jon Skeet can't answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T10:59:31.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's time limits for me - install &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LeechBlock&lt;/a&gt; - assuming you're using FireFox. Configure it to block SO for say, 2 hours. Be easy on yourself, it's hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130209" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T11:00:41.637" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at Pomodoro. Basically it is a technique where you train yourself to work really focused in 25 minute blocks. You CAN work 25 minutes without checking mail, SMS, Facebook etc, if you make a habit of it. Doesn't work for everyone, but some people I know have had great success with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a free book:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pomodoro-book.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.pomodoro-book.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T11:06:43.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make a WOW account and take up raiding. Or develop a chemical addiction, like meth. Try one of theese and you have about 40% chances of success on giving up SO, which isn't that bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130769" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T11:06:56.053" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Resistance is futile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131612" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T11:10:11.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By riding my &lt;a href=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3374/3496080644%5F40b6e0e6e9%5Fo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bike&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21774" CreationDate="2009-06-16T11:12:52.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My solution is simple. Most of those IT sites provide an RSS feed. With a feedreader, I can quickly scan all sites for any interesting header that might pop up. Do keep in mind that for experienced programmers, a site like SO is actually a valuable resource instead of an addiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I keep my mind at programming but sometimes, I get stuck and have a relaxing 5 minutes in the RSS feeds. Then it's back to programming, refreshed and often a bit wiser too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:00:27.160" />
  <row Id="21788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:59:28.213" Score="29" ViewCount="1337" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible for users to edit an existing post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do edits work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who may edit a question or answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can you tell what has been changed between edits?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-format-my-code-blocks&quot;&gt;How do I format my code blocks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T19:47:02.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-30T06:39:48.333" Title="How does editing work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21788" CreationDate="2008-09-24T18:03:15.927" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How do edits work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can edit the questions and answers submitted to the site.  This gives the site a &lt;em&gt;wiki&lt;/em&gt; feel, and allows the information to constantly evolve and remain up to date.  Those users who are allowed to edit a post can do so by clicking the &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; link associated with that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple edits made by the same person may be combined into a single revision, if they occur within a short period of time (currently 5 minutes). Edits made by the original author are considered part of the base revision if submitted within 5 minutes of posting (unless someone else submits an edit first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to &quot;roll back&quot; changes made in a revision. This can be done during editing by selecting a previous revision to edit from the dropdown, but can also be accomplished via the &quot;rollback&quot; link displayed on non-current revisions within the revision history list - the latter is a little more convenient, and will earn you a bronze &quot;Cleanup&quot; badge when first used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When multiple editors submit changes, the last one in &quot;wins&quot;, regardless of who began editing first. Both revisions are preserved however, and changes lost can be restored either by rolling back to the previous revision or by manually copying text into a new revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who may edit a question or answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original author of a question or answer may edit their own post.  Additionally, users with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/edit&quot;&gt;certain level of reputation&lt;/a&gt; may edit any question or answer.  The one exception is locked questions, which may not be edited by anyone, including the original author, until they are unlocked.  Additionally, the amount of reputation needed to edit &lt;em&gt;community wiki editable&lt;/em&gt; posts is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/privileges/edit-community-wiki&quot;&gt;much lower&lt;/a&gt; than that needed to edit ordinary questions and answers. If a user does not have enough reputation to edit directly, they can still suggest an edit (see a related FAQ question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/76251/how-does-peer-review-for-edits-work&quot;&gt;How does peer review for edits work?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How can you tell what has been changed between edits?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit indicator&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once your question has been edited, there will be a note of it, with the time since the last edit hyperlinked to a revision history for the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.shog9.com/EditNote.png&quot; alt=&quot;Edit note screenshot&quot; title=&quot;Edit note screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Revision history&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each revision is displayed in a separate, collapsible section. Older revisions start out already collapsed. If a comment was specified by the person editing, that will be displayed in yellow next to the revision number; otherwise, the total number of characters added or removed in that revision will be listed. Once expanded, the revision will be displayed, with changes highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.shog9.com/RevisionHistory.png&quot; alt=&quot;Revision History screenshot&quot; title=&quot;Revision History screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Revision diff color key:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Green background&lt;/em&gt;: characters added   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red text + &lt;strike&gt;strikeout&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: characters removed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="145982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-29T19:47:02.740" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T19:47:02.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T22:56:38.980" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T19:09:30.533" Score="0" ViewCount="418" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello! I want to integrate the same registration process that stackoverflow has into my website. Does anyone know if this is possible and any ways I can go about doing this?! I am using asp.net mvc for my site implementation. It would be awesome if someone could point me in the right direction with some examples etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134703" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T20:01:08.130" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T20:01:08.130" ClosedDate="2009-09-14T19:35:04.577" Title="Stackoverflows Registration Process - Integrating OpenID &amp; Google/Hotmail accounts etc. into your website registration process?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T19:16:11.443" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the policy of dealing with answers that would become wrong after time? As an example, if I asked the question &lt;em&gt;Does java support the Elvis operator ?:&lt;/em&gt; the correct answer today is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;. The correct answer when Java7 becomes widely available will be &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be done in that case? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-tag old java questions with java5 or java6?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep them and hope people correct the answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13753" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T20:45:25.663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T20:45:25.663" Title="What happens when answers become wrong?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21794" CreationDate="2009-09-14T19:17:39.693" Score="8" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated the image in my Gravatar but my old picture still shows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a cache issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to log out and then log back in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13753" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T03:24:01.490" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T10:50:39.157" Title="Why isn't my Gravatar image updating?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21793" CreationDate="2009-09-14T19:19:40.157" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood has stated that gravatar images are cached, so if it hasn't been very long, wait and it should change eventually. I do not believe logging in and out would influence this at all, since your gravatar is shown to everyone, not just you. Your logging in and out (of Stack Overflow) should have no affect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting note: your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13753&quot;&gt;user page&lt;/a&gt; has not been updated, however the image for this question and on the questions page has been. I'm sure the user page will catch up, I just thought it was interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T10:46:29.460" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T10:46:29.460" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21791" CreationDate="2009-09-14T19:22:33.990" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit the answer to say &quot;As of version x, it is now supported. Previous to that, it was not.&quot; That's exactly why SO is wiki-like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:22:33.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21796" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:46:36.653" Score="5" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question about db schema design - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388837/schema-design&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388837/schema-design&lt;/a&gt;.  There were some responses, but the highest voted response, hints that the question was misunderstood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we/should we do about questions that we'd like answered, but is either answered incorrectly or inadequately.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we repost and hope that other eyes look?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we edit and clarify and hope that it gets a second look (I don't think this strategy works)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we reframe the question in an interesting or inflammatory way to get more attention?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or something else I haven't thought of...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone just posted on reddit why unix sucks... if you ask a question about *nix - the gurus generally answer with RTFM (Read the Fn Manual).  if you want help with *nix - you have to frame your question in a manner insulting to &lt;em&gt;nix... '&lt;/em&gt;nix sucks because it can't do ...' and then they immediately respond with how to do it to prove you are stupid...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the way to get attention to a question is to ask a meta-question about it (like this one)...  There have been better posts on the reference question after I wrote this question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, there is a strong undertone of - 'OP is stupid and needs to ask the question better' here.  Yes, I can see bad questions being annoying, but instead of answering an incomplete or bad question, you could ask for specific clarifications or help the poster come up with a better question.  I think the intent of SO is to be helpful to be developers, not to intellectually dominate or belittle others...  There are many active users of SO who should try to temper their knowledge with better attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133493" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:46:36.653" Title="What do you do when question is not satisfactorily answered on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:50:38.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had the exact same question, I always thought that reposting the question will just get it closed (exact duplicate). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that the moderators before closing a question as exact duplicate confirm (some how?) that the oringal question was answered satisfactorily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Bill the Lizard. Your suggestion is good, but what if it wasn't you who posted the original question. If the question that is an exact duplicate of yours was not answered correctly your solution would not apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145875" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:50:38.547" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="21798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:50:44.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far all my questions have been answered satisfactorily. After asking a question I will continue to look for an answer or have a giant mug of tea. If a question is not answered satisfactorily then I'd like to think that I'd either find the answer myself after enough time or be so high on caffeine that it's a moot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132042" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:50:44.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:54:38.150" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do some research on your own and post your results as an edit to the original question.  This will get the question some more attention, and it will show the community that you're working towards an answer. That way more people will be encouraged to help you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  I agree with your edits, but only somewhat.  I have noticed a small increase in the &quot;RTFM&quot; attitude here lately, but I think it's still &lt;strong&gt;tiny&lt;/strong&gt; compared to the amount of the same attitude you get in other places (looking at you, usenet).  I think voting for &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt; answers goes a long way toward encouraging the kind of behavior we all like to see.  (I would hate to someday start describing Stack Overflow with &quot;If you can ignore the trolls...&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes questions just get buried because the right people don't see them.  Once your question is off the front page you need to keep adding details.  We might not be able to solve the whole problem, but maybe we can help you get closer to a solution.  Keep us updated, and hopefully the one expert who can help you fix the whole thing will see your question and answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:54:38.150" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="21800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:56:13.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general advice is to continue to research and edit and update your question.  Put work into it.  This will not only keep your question bumped to the top of the stack, but show others that you are an active participant in the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Jeff and team is working on a &quot;bounty&quot; system - where you can offer your own reputation as an added incentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:56:13.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:57:12.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Step outside of SO first, put the question to someone who knows you, someone patient enough to help you hammer out a good question. There's a definite skill to asking questions; developing that skill takes practice and a whole lot of refinement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chances are, you were either ambiguous or effectively asked more than one question: in the case of the former, edit your question, try to clarify what you're asking; for the latter, extract the question that &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; answered, and post it separately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:57:12.840" />
  <row Id="21802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:59:23.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you need to consider that the wording of your question and it's title were at fault.  Similarly, sometimes people are asking the &lt;strong&gt;wrong questions&lt;/strong&gt; because of their misunderstanding of the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't get a very good response and I've exhausted all other resources I can find, I'll repost the question but with a significant reword of the question.  Many times I'll narrow down a question that was too broad to begin with or I'll provide some code examples to demonstrate what issues I'm having.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:59:23.240" />
  <row Id="21803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T00:59:46.127" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to UserVoice &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/18291-bounty-system-for-unanswered-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a bounty system is coming&lt;/a&gt; where you will be able to assign a bounty to an un-answered question.  This will probably solve a fair few of these issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2975" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T00:59:46.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T01:00:00.370" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Do we repost and hope that other eyes look?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No.  A repost is a repost.  I just close them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Do we edit and clarify and hope that it gets a second look?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That's my preference.  Keep editing until it makes sense to folks who don't have your background and experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;(I don't think this strategy works)?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How often have you tried it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's the acceptable alternatives: Reframe and Research&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Totally reframe your question.  Not inflammatory.  New POV, new facts, better focus, more context, more use cases, code snippets, something new.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Include the results of your research.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no one &quot;got&quot; your question, you're asking the wrong question, the wrong way.  It's not our fault for being stupid.  It's your fault for not asking the question in a way that we morons who frequent SO can make sense of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're not you.  We don't have your background or your experience.  We never will.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're not up to speed on the context in which your problem occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're not able to read long, complex hand-wringing questions.  We're not your paid consultants.  We're just killing time waiting for a compile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you can't boil the problem down to an essential nugget of decision-making, you've got bigger fish to fry; you probably can never get an answer to your whole, big, gnarly, complex problem.  You're going to have to (a) decompose or (b) pay consultants to solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're trying to help.  If we can't &quot;get&quot; the question, you have to meet us half-way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T01:00:00.370" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T01:01:40.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certain questions sometimes fall into categories that have controversy, and having more votes not always mean that particular answer is right. Try asking &quot;should I use stored procedures or dynamic sql&quot;. So... read the answers, make your own judgment as per your situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131945" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T01:01:40.367" />
  <row Id="21806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T01:05:52.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have several (12 I think) that have not been answered to my desire, and there is not much that can be done at the minute, however there is a bounty system on the way so that when you don't get a good answer you can offer more rep, then normal for answering the question adequately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T01:05:52.353" />
  <row Id="21807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T03:32:55.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;some suggested tactics to better reach the intended audience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;change the point of view&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;elaborate on the context&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;present the purpose and the constraints, then describe the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;use analogies if the context is uncommon/unclear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;restate the problem using more general concepts/keywords - or more specific concepts/keywords&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pick one aspect and describe it in detail, concentrating on it until it is understood/answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit/update the question trivially to move it back to the top of the active list in the hope that more enlightened users will see it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if all else fails -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask S.Lott to explain your question to you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask jon skeet to answer your question, since he doesn't even need to understand it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T03:32:55.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T04:30:26.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I looked at the original question yesterday, and decided not to contribute an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One problem was the use of the term 'model' as in 'GM models' - which cited 'Chevrolet, Saturn, Cadillac' as 'models'.  To my understanding, these are not models at all; they are 'brands', though there might also be an industry-insider term for them that I'm not familiar with, such as 'division'.  A model would be a 'Saturn Vue' or 'Chevrolet Impala' or 'Cadillac Escalade'.  Indeed, there could well be models at a more detailed level than that - different variants of the Saturn Vue, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I didn't think that the starting point was well framed.  I didn't critique it; it wasn't quite compelling enough, and there were answers coming in, so I let other people try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next problem is that it is not clear what your DBMS is going to be storing as data.  If you're storing a million records per 'model' ('brand'), then what sorts of data are you dealing with?  Lurking in the background is a different scenario - the real scenario - and your question has used an analogy that failed to be sufficiently realistic.  That means that the 'it depends' parts of the answer are far more voluminous than the 'this is how to do it' ones.  There is just woefully too little background information on the data to be modelled to allow us to guess what might be best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it will depend on what uses people have for the data.  If the information is going to go flying off in all different directions (different data structures in different brands; different data structures at the car model levels; different structures for the different dealerships - the Chevrolet dealers are handled differently from the Saturn dealers and the Cadillac dealers), then the integrated structure provides limited benefit.  If everything is the same all the way down, then the integrated structure provides a lot of benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there legal reasons (or benefits) to segregating the data?  To what extent are the different brands separate legal entities where shared records could be a liability?  Are there privacy issues, such that it will be easier to control access to the data if the data for the separate brands is stored separately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; more detail about the scenario being modelled, no-one can give a reliable general answer - at least, not more than the top-voted one already gives (or doesn't give).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Data modelling is not easy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Data modelling without sufficient information is impossible to do reliably.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T04:30:26.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21796" CreationDate="2008-12-24T06:03:17.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cgt/courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cgt/courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19825" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:26:48.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-24T06:03:17.293" />
  <row Id="21810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-23T21:37:15.427" Score="8" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's now been 3 months since this site came public. It is the first one I really got interested in. Many reasons for that: great user interface, permanent activity, interesting questions, valuable answers, and something of a funny gaming/competition flavor with these reputation and badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And though I regularly get frustrated: many of the answers and comments left here could lead to constructive dialog, but do not, as Stack Overflow question/answers (and comments) model does not allow such long lead exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel there is a major &quot;knowledge&quot; loss somewhere here, and we should find a way to master, reduce or limit this unnecessary increasing in the system's entropy. My first thought was to propose something similar to Facebook's user wall, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/16805-user-messaging-or-wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an idea that was already declined in stackoverflow.uservoice&lt;/a&gt;. I am short of any other track, yet being sure there must be a smart way to get closer to a more effective model that would allow a better knowledge collection and dissemination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope somebody here will be smarter than me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: as suggested by Chris Lively, question switched to wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: question could be changed to &quot;Should Stack Overflow add Knowledge Dissemination functionalities to ...&quot;. This permanent flow of questions and answers must stay 'as is'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140278" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T12:39:12.537" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T12:39:12.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T21:45:25.317" Title="Should Stack Overflow switch from a Question/Answer model to a Knowledge Dissemination model, and how?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;knowledge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21810" CreationDate="2008-12-23T21:40:30.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably not switch but complement some how. Like &lt;em&gt;StackOverDiscuss&lt;/em&gt;... :P Where people can chat/talk/discuss all what they want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some kind sibling project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:27:55.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-14T19:27:17.997" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21810" CreationDate="2008-12-23T21:55:00.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually have had similar thoughts for training and reference, once enough questions are amassed then there could be some seriously useful compilations... I imagine there might be enough information here for a .NET tutorial, if only there were a way to structure the information in the questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing stopping us from doing the structuring and linking in from an external site, of course, and probably having a &quot;Table of Contents&quot; area for various topics would be difficult to manage.  I don't know how you'd implement it in general.  Interesting to discuss though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:27:55.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T21:55:00.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21810" CreationDate="2008-12-23T21:59:13.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the issue of difficulty of further discussion needs to be addressed, but Q&amp;amp;A must stay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:27:55.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T21:59:13.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21810" CreationDate="2008-12-23T22:09:42.193" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO the process needs to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Distillation - some way go let the information value separate itself from the straw. Not only in terms of best answer, but also clearest answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Graceful Aging - we're all getting tired of the same old questions (even though sometimes the answers are different, even opposite.) Good questions with answers need to persist better. Either that, or we need Answer Templates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Canonization - many times there is a precise, succinct answer to a question - many times on a vendor's page, or wikipedia. We should be able vote on canonicity, and then have a permanent list of such references.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consensus - every evaluative score or action should require multiple agreement; and any negative score or action should either be removed from the design, or a lot more closely safeguarded (but that's a whole nother topic.) But for starters, a user should only be allowed to close any given question once; and should need to earn some number (250? - more than one days' worth) new Rep points to close another. (Any really obnoxious question will be closed by someone, but no one gets docked points.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Audit Trail - just a timestamped ordered list of events with pointers and Rep Effect would be better than what's there now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one thing not to mess with - I think the bubbling process, by which the display ordering of questions is determined, seems about right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:27:55.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T22:09:42.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21810" CreationDate="2008-12-23T23:55:29.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is not that the knowledge isn’t available. The problem is that most people are too lazy to look for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133445" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:27:55.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-23T23:55:29.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21793" CreationDate="2009-09-14T19:39:02.837" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to log out of Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravatar doesn't seem to invalidate its cache until you are logged out. Either by doing so manually, or waiting for the session to expire (on their end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually prevented the cache from being invalidated, by continuing to visit &lt;code&gt;http://gravatar.com&lt;/code&gt; everyday. I didn't realize at the time it was preventing the site from invalidating the cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T20:59:34.607" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:59:34.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21706" CreationDate="2009-09-14T19:41:11.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should at least offered you a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T19:41:11.303" />
  <row Id="21818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21501" CreationDate="2009-09-14T20:07:06.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't it enough that they get to see the SO &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill%5Fscreen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kill screen&lt;/a&gt;, do you want a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%5FWiebe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steve Wiebe&lt;/a&gt; badge too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T20:07:06.670" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-14T20:07:06.670" />
  <row Id="21820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-14T20:29:49.757" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found an existing post where I wanted to post another question regarding the replies. Is it ok to answer the existing post or would it be better to post a new question and reference the existing post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T20:46:32.883" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:00:02.160" Title="Posting a new question related to an existing question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21820" CreationDate="2009-09-14T20:31:20.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create a new question, and link to the reply you want to discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T20:36:06.423" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21820" CreationDate="2009-09-14T20:38:50.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as the question is truly different, ask a different question, while linking to the originally. Additionally, it is generally helpful if you explain why you're asking the new question. For example, what piece of your situation is different, or specifically what area do you need more detailed information on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T20:38:50.280" />
  <row Id="21823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21832" CreationDate="2009-09-14T21:02:23.120" Score="5" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the course of the past several months, there have been one or more users who have been spamming about an XML parsing alternative named &quot;VTD-XML&quot;. I have occasionally assisted the moderators by pointing these answers out to them, and they have responded by deleting the answers, and the offending user (which hasn't stopped this person from immediately creating another user account and continuing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there is a user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/172819/jzhang&quot;&gt;jzhang&lt;/a&gt;, who claims to be the actual author of VTD-XML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, several of his answers, like his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/264020/fastest-possible-xml-handling-in-delphi-for-very-large-documents/1420239#1420239&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/264020/fastest-possible-xml-handling-in-delphi-for-very-large-documents&quot;&gt;Fastest possible XML handling in Delphi for very large documents&lt;/a&gt; looks a great deal like the original spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/172819/jzhang&quot;&gt;jzhang&lt;/a&gt; has asked me why I consider his answer to be spam. I decided to do so in public, in an attempt to get him to engage with this community, assuming he's not another sock puppet of the original spammer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reason is simple: he's been answering with one or two lines of text, followed by the exact same link to the exact same site that the spammer was using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;VTD-XML may well be worth a look as it&#xA;  is 1/3~1/5 the memory usage of DOM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vtd-xml.sf.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://vtd-xml.sf.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this does not constitute spam. Maybe Mr. Zhang can explain to us why we should not treat these posts as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow, I missed the fact that in the same question, on July 31 2009:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;how about vtd-xml&#xA;&#xA;http://vtd-xml.sf.net&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one was from a user named &quot;Jimmy Zhang&quot;, which has since been deleted. Should I not be suspicious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, as pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/38813/wouter-van-nifterick&quot;&gt;Wouter van Nifterick&lt;/a&gt;, he's answering a question about Delphi by posting a link to a site that doesn't even mention Delphi!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the nonsense with the sock puppets, I kept asking for some real engagement from the sock puppet. It all just made VTD-XML look bad that instead of truly answering questions, we just kept getting incessant spam against old XML questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Appeal&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Zhang, if you're not just desperately spamming StackOverflow because your product isn't selling, then please answer appropriate questions in a way that will actually help someone use your product to solve their problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T22:58:15.497" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:32:52.207" Title="What Constitutes Spam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="21824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21823" CreationDate="2009-09-14T21:29:30.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it disrupting? Then it's spam :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T21:29:30.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21823" CreationDate="2009-09-14T21:31:14.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the topic of the question is in keeping with the link I don't have a problem with someone linking to their own site. Done once in a while and on a topic-appropriate question would not be considered spam or flagged as such by me. Only ever posting the same answer to every question on the topic does seem to be spammy behavior, though, even if the actual post may not be. I'd probably comment first and explain that this type of behavior isn't going to be received very well by the community before marking as spam. Posting a link to your own product/web site as an answer to a question on an unrelated topic is certainly spam and should be immediately flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T21:31:14.360" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-14T21:59:01.720" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATED! - AGAIN!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my entry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4Fm2mN4Oq0Q/SrlXzLH7XxI/AAAAAAAAAOw/eg-Foaxvdn0/s400/devdays-v2.png&quot; alt=&quot;My Entry&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Version 3:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mrlacey.co.uk/misc/source3.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://mrlacey.co.uk/misc/exe3.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Compiled binaries&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://mrlacey.co.uk/misc/installer3.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Installer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Yes it deliberately looks like the website. The aim was to maintain continuity and brand identity.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the above image doesn't show is that the black and white city images scroll in the background and the sponsor images slowly fade in and out - showing one at a time. Also when it starts the different screen elements slide and/or fade into position. Then, when the timer runs out they slide back out as the screen fades to black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: The tweets displayed at the side of the screen slide down as new ones are retrieved from the server.  The intention is to imitate the way that speakers are listed on the website.  Tweets are searched for based on a term specified in the config file. The default term is '#DevDays'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Video of animation (original version - without tweets) at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWrCRRrGCHk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWrCRRrGCHk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's written in WPF and requires .NET 3.5 SP1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;It looks best at a resolution of 1280x1024 but will work at higher res. Not all will be visible at a lower res.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It runs fine on a dodgy old laptop running XP and also on a slightly newer laptop running Win7.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It takes 2 command line parameters e.g. 'DevDaysCountDown.exe 09:00 &quot;DevDays returns %s&quot;' (the '%s' must be included and it's that which is replaced by the 'in X ...'). If either is missing or invalid it defaults to 5 minutes in the future and the message 'DevDays resumes %s'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: have added greater tolerance for parsing of command line parameters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: if there is a problem parsing command line parameters, details are displayed at the very top left of the screen when it is first displayed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It fades to black when timer reaches zero&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exes and source linked above and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mrlacey.co.uk/2009/09/my-stackoverflow-devdays-countdown-app_29.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on my blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes all the images were originally ripped off from the website, but have been tinkered with slightly. - If this has upset someones copyright I'm very sorry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm going to be at the London event - should people find this popular. ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: If connection to the internet is not available, or there are no new tweets to display, various programming related quotes are displayed instead. Including some from Joel &amp;amp; Jeff.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Twitter integration is done with &lt;a href=&quot;http://tweetsharp.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TweetSharp&lt;/a&gt;. Which I've found to be excellent, BTW.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Version 3.0 changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Optimized for screen resolution of 1024x768&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed issue with calculating displayed tweet display height&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed hardcoding of sponsor images - they're now loaded from a 'Sponsors' folder on startup. This is to enable easily adding new ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed hardcoding of tweets displayed when nothing new tweeted or no internet connection available. - These are now loaded from an XML file. This allows customisation of the displayed messages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Defaulted start time to countdown to 9am if started before then. If started after then the timer defaults to 5 minutes. (This only applies if no cmdline parameters passed.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed the order that tweets are loaded so oldest are shown first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed positioning of twitter profile images.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also a few other minor fixes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This countdown has been selected for the Boston DevDays (and possibly all)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/xHnFj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131125" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:31:20.040" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:31:20.040" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="21828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21823" CreationDate="2009-09-14T22:02:06.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the answer, though concise, is to the point because the question is about large documents, which consumes a lot of memory using DOM, VTD-XML is an open source alternative that is far better in this regards, therefore a recommendation is made...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the one who asks the questions voted it up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is not &quot;lonelygirl13&quot; ask your banking # or anything, am I right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T22:02:06.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-14T22:02:06.677" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="21830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21833" CreationDate="2009-09-14T22:49:59.273" Score="-1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some forums have &quot;Sticky threads&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump%5F%28Internet%29#Sticky%5Fthreads&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow and superuser can also have some sticky threads equivalent or something like a two day sticky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The concept:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Suppose I roll out my new funky browser and junta goes crazy about it. You can make a thread containing all the discussions regarding it a &lt;em&gt;&quot;time limited sticky&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This time can be based on the popularity, like some &lt;strong&gt;1000 views = x days&lt;/strong&gt; etc. What this will do is any user visiting the site can know of the current happenings in fields that might as well interest him/her. And as these are tie limited, they will not unnecessarily clutter the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be try it out in testing, if it works you can probably use it in the main website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you guys might have thought this before. Then, why did you reject the idea? I would love to hear from you on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T12:06:24.540" Title="&quot;time limited sticky threads&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;idea&gt;&lt;sticky&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21830" CreationDate="2009-09-14T22:55:01.650" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All questions are created equal. And this is not a news site. So recent happenings do not belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My 2c.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T22:55:01.650" />
  <row Id="21832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21823" CreationDate="2009-09-14T23:00:53.137" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post was not helpful at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was clearly about Delphi. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The word Delphi was in the title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The word Delphi was in the question body&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question was tagged &lt;kbd&gt;Delphi&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Delphi-2009&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site that is linked to only mentions c, java and c#. You don't find a single mention of Delphi anywhere on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poster should know; he's a member of the project on sourceforge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The poster saw an 'xml' tag and decided (without properly reading the question) that it would be a nice place for some promotion.  You can safely call that &quot;&lt;strong&gt;spam&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastEditorUserId="135288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-14T23:14:03.377" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:14:03.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21830" CreationDate="2009-09-14T23:03:07.597" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The views on the main page are broken down as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Active - Listing whatever questions have had the most recent answers/edits or asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newest - Listing whatever questions were asked most recently&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hot - Some kind of calculation (I don't pretend to understand) based on views answers, edits and comments. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Featured - Bounties and such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on those four options the behaviour you described &lt;em&gt;already exists&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;strong&gt;HOT&lt;/strong&gt; tab. You said that the sticky items would only be the ones that everyone is going crazy about and wants to see, which is exactly what the HOT tab is for. If a couple of questions are actively blowing up with interest, they will quickly bubble to the top of that list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Olafur said, all the questions are created equally, they will bubble to the top based on the rules that already exist. Having one person select certain questions as being 'the important ones' is wildly unfair to everyone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T12:06:24.540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T12:06:24.540" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13826" CreationDate="2009-09-14T23:24:26.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This works now, but you must put the term in quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;__try&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:24:26.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8477" CreationDate="2009-09-14T23:25:02.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This works now but you must put the term in quotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;__finally&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:25:02.297" />
  <row Id="21836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21657" CreationDate="2009-09-14T23:27:26.427" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what StackOverflow used to look like back in the days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah we had enter all of our ip packets manually man.. You kids don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.xs4all.nl/~niff/stuff/stackoverflow%5Fscreenshot.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;1970's&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This whole black and white thing was pure luxery after the black-only monitor that I had before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:27:26.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21823" CreationDate="2009-09-14T23:32:52.207" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think self-promotion is fine as long as it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on topic and relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;helpful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not misrepresented&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be perfectly fine for the author of a library to write an answer about a solution that may help the original poster. In fact I'm pretty sure I've done this myself. However, misrepresenting the source of the recommendation (through sock puppet accounts or whatever) is uncool and could be considered spam, or at least abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the VTD-XML site, it appears that &quot;jzhang&quot; is likely to be the actual author of the library. It looks like it's had a lot of work put into it, and may well be useful for certain classes of programming problems. Answers to &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; questions should be encouraged; answers to &lt;em&gt;unrelated&lt;/em&gt; questions should be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-14T23:32:52.207" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6928" CreationDate="2009-09-15T00:07:57.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the tag &quot;emf&quot;?  I noticed today that it refers to two separate technologies: enhanced metafiles (a vector file format on Win32) and Eclipse Modeling Framework).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps all acronyms, TLAs, etc should be expanded or disambiguated.  Perhaps TLAs should just be banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T00:07:57.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19940" CreationDate="2009-09-15T01:59:13.640" Score="-26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have doubts, reserve your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel so strongly that you've made a terrible mistake with your vote, earn 2k rep, edit the post, then change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on all the &quot;vote too old&quot; feedback, I modified the text to make the timed vote locking a bit more clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;You last voted on this question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Mar 28 at 7:55&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Your vote is now locked in&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;unless this question is edited&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where &quot;question&quot; and &quot;answer&quot; are substitutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-30T02:23:36.843" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:23:36.843" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:06:13.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/02/ze-frank-at-railsconf-like-ted/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://drnicwilliams.com/2007/06/02/ze-frank-at-railsconf-like-ted/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bit with the drawing program was much better at RailsConf when he showed how people kept sending him variations on a penis so he decided to shortcut the process by adding functionality to morph any drawn image into something phallic =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T02:06:13.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:26:43.340" Score="-2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the preferred (by moderators) text to include when flagging a post that should be made community wiki?  When I type out &quot;should be made community wiki&quot; in the text box, I am usually thinking it would be easier to just type &quot;CW&quot; or something along those lines, but I don't know what moderators prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T04:17:40.697" Title="Abbreviation for flagging as needs to be community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21841" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:28:07.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll go ahead and suggest that &quot;CW&quot; be adopted as the standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T02:28:07.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21841" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:33:40.863" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does there need to be a standard? We're perfectly capable of reading English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T02:33:40.863" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21845" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:34:52.280" Score="7" ViewCount="376" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been one abusive person on SO that I've been watching, whose reputation was somewhere around 20, which suddenly jumped today to 181.  The answer to this quickly became clear, however, when you look at this question:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1419816/problem-in-xmldatasource&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1419816/problem-in-xmldatasource&lt;/a&gt;.  He has created an alternate account, which he rated up for answering his own questions, enough that it can now vote for him.  It has voted for nearly every one of his answers or questions, bringing a 20 reputation to 181.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done to deal with situations like this, where a single user is purposefully gaming the system with two accounts to raise their reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well, on mechanics--are there any mechanics in place to offer some sort of guard, to prevent a user from continually voting another user up?  This might aid in situations like this, or situations where RL relationships devolve into continual point-fishing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  This specific situation seems to be finished now, with both users no longer existing.   Thank you, everyone, for the help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134915" LastEditorUserId="134915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T02:57:23.970" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:30:55.440" Title="How to deal with people creating two or more accounts to game reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21844" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:36:57.783" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Report them to a moderator. Moderators can cross-reference IP addresses and see if there is in fact accounts that match. Once that's done it will be up to the moderators and/or the Jeff &amp;amp; Co. to decide. Often times the accounts are merged. There are also chances are the user will be suspended or banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also other methods to counteract gaming, which includes the ability to see how much someone is voting up and down on another person. This will allow us to find some gaming that goes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T02:36:57.783" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:41:45.403" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may find &lt;a href=&quot;http://yuml.me/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yUML&lt;/a&gt; useful for class diagrams and flow-charts. It's a syntax-based image-source, allowing ad-hoc on-the-fly illustrations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[Customer]+1-&gt;*[Order]&#xA;[Order]++1-items &gt;*[LineItem]&#xA;[Order]-0..1&gt;[PaymentMethod]&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://yuml.me/diagram/scruffy/class/%5BCustomer%5D+1-%3E%2A%5BOrder%5D,%20%5BOrder%5D++1-items%20%3E%2A%5BLineItem%5D,%20%5BOrder%5D-0..1%3E%5BPaymentMethod%5D&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T02:41:45.403" />
  <row Id="21847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21844" CreationDate="2009-09-15T02:46:22.303" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quote from: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More Voting anomalies&lt;/a&gt; in the StackOverflow blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1. We can automatically detect sockpuppet accounts now. Sockpuppets used for the purpose of upvoting or downvoting will be deleted, and their votes — cancelled.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. We now perform a more detailed statistical analysis on voting patterns. Any voting patterns that are too far outside the statistical norm will be nullified.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T02:54:28.687" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T02:54:28.687" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-15T03:10:12.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my entry using the &quot;simplest thing  that could possible work&quot; approach ( read, the code is a mess ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vimeo.com/6636018&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4274/capturadepantalla200909u.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Click to see the video&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technical details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Displays entries from the SO-Blog so attendees cat get &lt;strong&gt;nostalgic&lt;/strong&gt; while they wait for the event to start. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is self containing &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The countdown is just that no fireworks. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Add fade to black at the end&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Smooth transition in the pages.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;serious&lt;/strong&gt; code cleanup before it can be delivered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow question used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21288/index-for-all-the-entries-of-blog-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;Index for all the entries of blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21099/what-is-the-name-of-the-font&quot;&gt;What is the name of the font&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22490/what-is-the-orange-color-code-of-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What is the orange color code of SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1429172/list-files-inside-a-jar&quot;&gt;List file inside a jar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T03:11:22.290" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T03:11:22.290" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6094" CreationDate="2009-09-15T03:21:31.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now working; check the footer on the homepage for each tab, there is a unique feed for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active (same as before)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;featured&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;month&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T03:21:31.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T03:45:21.150" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even as I'm writing this post, there is a bug on StackOverflow which prevents me from continuing.  That is, I must open up a text editor on my computer, then cut this text and paste it into the text editor in order to continue writing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that the informational sidebar which (is suppose to) appear to the right side of this text area, actually covers the entire right third of the text area.  So I cannot see that part of what I'm typing!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a handful of websites on which I have similiar layout issues,  I think it's because of the less common screen resolution and/or DPI settings that I use -- 1680 by 1050 pixels and 125% normal size (120 dpi).  StackOverflow is the only website with this issue that I use regularly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would be very happy if you could address it.  Here's a screen shot - Note that this issue occurs only in Firefox -- I'm running the latest version which is 3.5.3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/Ooo5w.gif&quot; alt=&quot;width berth on textarea&quot; title=&quot;help the miners out!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T04:42:08.500" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T04:42:08.500" Title="Sidebar covers text area" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21850" CreationDate="2009-09-15T03:57:23.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...1680 by 1050 pixels and &lt;strong&gt;125% normal size&lt;/strong&gt; (120 dpi)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is your problem - Stack Overflow does not support font scaling, and it's doubtful that it will in the near future. You should try full-page zoom instead - this is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20697/few-font-size-related-layout-issues/20702#20702&quot;&gt;recommended method&lt;/a&gt; for scaling the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T03:57:23.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21841" CreationDate="2009-09-15T04:17:40.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't need to be any requests to make a question CW.  If the user thinks it's the type of post that should be edited, he can make it CW, and if he doesn't and it get's edited enough, It'll be CW. Please don't join the Community Wiki Police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T04:17:40.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2009-09-15T04:32:15.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the fun questions are a very important part of SO (and SF and SU).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a problem on all three sites with questions being too zealously moderated (closing perfectly legitimate programming questions as not-programming-related because they're don't contain code, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They generally mean well, but end up hurting the community (not to mention the poor souls just trying to get an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131513" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T04:32:15.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2009-09-15T04:46:25.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The obvious name would be 'stackunderflow'; the implication being that you've run out of things to do, and need to waste time somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T04:46:25.060" />
  <row Id="21856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21859" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:02:21.723" Score="0" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the past 10 or 20 minutes I am experiencing problems with AJAX request and editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not able to post a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also my editor does not show the images for the formatting and the preview pane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in meta I don't encounter these issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T20:37:08.637" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T20:37:08.637" Title="Problem with AJAX and WMD editor" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="21857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21830" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:02:45.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;News about stack overflow goes on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and here on Meta. I see no reason to mix announcements and questions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T06:02:45.157" />
  <row Id="21858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:02:36.867" Score="1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I was trying to answer the question, &quot;What are generics in asp.net&quot;, I got an orange bar at the top telling me the question was deleted and no more answers were accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels the same as when your word processor crashes in the middle of writing. In fact, the question was neither offensive nor off topic. I guess the person simply wanted to get the information from a &quot;live&quot; person instead of asking google about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At work, it happens to me many times that someone would ask me a question and I simply type his question into Google and have him look at the results together with me. I see nothing wrong in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer was as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generics are not particularly in&#xA;  asp.net but in C# since version 2.0. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generics allow you to define type-safe&#xA;  data structures, without committing to&#xA;  actual data types. This results in a&#xA;  significant performance boost and&#xA;  higher quality code, because you get&#xA;  to reuse data processing algorithms&#xA;  without duplicating type-specific&#xA;  code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a great introduction can be found at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379564%28VS.80%29.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379564%28VS.80%29.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138189" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T06:15:33.633" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T07:23:33.067" Title="Why are you deleting questions posted by beginners? Remember, we were all beginners once!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="21859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21856" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:06:52.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clear your cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The JavaScript might be in need of freshening up if it's stalling for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T06:06:52.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21858" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:07:15.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely it was a duplicated question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As&#xA;  long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* detailed and specific&#xA;* written clearly and simply&#xA;* of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. &lt;strong&gt;No question is&#xA;  too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Oh yes,&#xA;  and it should be about programming.&#xA;  You know, with a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please look around to see if your&#xA;  question has already been asked&lt;/strong&gt; (and&#xA;  maybe even answered!) before you ask.&#xA;  If you end up asking a question that&#xA;  has been asked before, that is OK and&#xA;  deliberately allowed. Other users will&#xA;  hopefully edit in links to related or&#xA;  similar questions to help future&#xA;  visitors find their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T06:12:59.253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T06:12:59.253" />
  <row Id="21862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21858" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:08:45.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the OP deleted his/her own question after he/she found the answer on Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130672" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T06:08:45.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21844" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:12:06.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did notice what looked like obvious sockpuppetry &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423677/column-expands-with-textbox-width-given-in-percentage-within-table/423700&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and the sockpuppet accounts appear to be deleted so I'd say the detection process works! Only the useless sock puppet posts still exist :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T06:12:06.107" />
  <row Id="21865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21858" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:18:52.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find any such question either deleted or closed. But I can find the same question (not closed) from several months ago. So most likely that question was closed as a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really doubt it was deleted while you were writing an answer unless you're exceptionally slow — questions have to be closed for days before users with 10k+ rep are allowed to vote for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135886" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T06:18:52.037" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:40:24.320" Score="4" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do users use &lt;em&gt;@&lt;/em&gt; (&quot;commercial at,&quot; or &quot;at sign&quot;) in their comments?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Does it actually route the comment to the name provided after the &lt;em&gt;@&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What is the right format of using it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-24T22:21:13.760" LastActivityDate="2011-07-24T22:21:13.760" Title="What is the relevance of &quot;@&quot; in comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;symbols&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21866" CreationDate="2009-09-15T06:41:34.990" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a convention of referring specifically to a user within the stream of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twitter maxed it out popularity-wise, but it's been lingering mainly on blog comments where you would have the other commenters talking to each other and not being in a threaded view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment-closed&quot;&gt;recently completed feature request&lt;/a&gt; now means that the convention does something: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only one person can be replied to at a time in a comment. The first one &quot;in&quot; wins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T02:34:29.370" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T02:34:29.370" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="21869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T07:20:26.833" Score="0" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1323/flag-abusive-users&quot;&gt;Flag abusive users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are options to flag questions, answers and comments but I do not see any options for flagging a user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason I can see for that is when someone is suspected of gaming the system or using tactics to force answers or bounties to go their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53236" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T07:31:20.637" ClosedDate="2009-09-15T12:43:51.927" Title="How do you flag a user to the moderators?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21869" CreationDate="2009-09-15T07:21:13.930" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag one of his/her/its posts (preferably one that contributes to &quot;gaming the system&quot;) and describe the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can email team@stackoverflow.com and explain your concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T07:21:13.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21858" CreationDate="2009-09-15T07:23:33.067" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one is closing questions from &lt;em&gt;beginners&lt;/em&gt;. The mods are, however, closing questions that are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not computer related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective and argumentative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not a real question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;purely videogame or console related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no longer relevant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com (except for meta)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on stackoverflow.com (except for SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on serverfault.com (except for SF)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on superuser.com (except for SU)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is highly likely that the question that you are referring to was closed because it was a duplicate of another question. It is a sad fact of reality that often 'beginners' will come along and ask the same question that has been asked before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please keep in mind that SOFU still allows questions of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;all levels&lt;/a&gt;. It is even discussed in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...it is welcome here. &lt;strong&gt;No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question violates any of these 'rules', then it will be closed either by 'consensus' (5 votes from users) or a moderator. The SOFU system will not wait until you have posted your answer, nor will it just not close it if you have posted answers. &lt;strong&gt;A question can be closed at any time&lt;/strong&gt; during it's life, &lt;strong&gt;regardless of votes, views or answers.&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, it is annoying to those who have put time and effort into a answering a question (or even asking it), but life is tough. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T07:23:33.067" />
  <row Id="21872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21869" CreationDate="2009-09-15T07:24:55.170" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21869/how-do-you-flag-a-user-to-the-moderators/21870#21870&quot;&gt;Mehrdad&lt;/a&gt; you flag his posts. The Moderators do not act on users based on a single insident, and we don't always have the time to go through the person's history. We do some basic checks to ensure it's not a sock pocket account, and if there is discrepencies in voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have previously stated this but will again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please flag every discrepency you see. We cannot act upon users or accounts without a track record of irregular activity, and banning users based on a single post, without informing them via e-mail is frowned upon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from blatant spam accounts there is a fairly strict policy with the moderators around dealing with any users, and we are only allowed to take action based on track records and proof of violations. With voting it is hard, which is why there is scripts in place to revert and handle serial voting, and processes have been put in place to deal with gaming, including a time limited vote reversal period. These we cannot monitor or act upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be detailed in your desciption. If you have more to say then the comment, e-mail a moderator directly, their details are available on their profiles, or otherwise mail team@[relevantsite].com. Jeff will then deal with it or pass it on to a moderator if required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TheTXI expanded a bit on what the moderators can do with this in his answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21844/how-to-deal-with-people-creating-two-or-more-accounts-to-game-reputation/21845#21845&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T07:31:20.637" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T07:31:20.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21830" CreationDate="2009-09-15T07:38:44.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow, and the rest of the sites, are all about &lt;strong&gt;asking and answering questions.&lt;/strong&gt; What makes one question &lt;strong&gt;so important&lt;/strong&gt; that it needs to be floated to the top on all views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there has been important 'announcements' on the top of the site just under (or above?) the the Questions / Tags / Users / Badges / Unanswered links, such as the one alerting people of the votes for the new moderators for Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T07:38:44.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21876" CreationDate="2009-09-15T08:29:59.170" Score="0" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&quot;&gt;Ban lmgtfy (let me google that for you) links&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1422405/can-i-join-a-table-based-on-an-sql-if-statement/1425826&quot;&gt;this Q&lt;/a&gt; I asked a valid question why the answer used a specific technique and not another. I knew the answer to this but wanted to see if others noticed it too. (The Q happens to be in a subjective tone, therefor allowing two completely different, yet valid answers!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one noticed this subjectiveness, though. Instead, I received a non-answer that's in the title of this Q. At moments like this, I'd love to downvote comments but can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to bother about the Q itself, but am I right when I consider such comments to be extremely rude?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:45:41.950" ClosedDate="2009-09-15T09:45:28.987" Title="Is replying &quot;Google and find out&quot; polite or not?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21875" CreationDate="2009-09-15T08:31:28.467" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not really. The idea of SOFU is to become a big repository of information regarding a single topic (programming, sysadmin etc), just like an encyclopaedia. Although everyone knows what paper is, there is still an entry for it in the Encyclopaedias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T08:31:28.467" />
  <row Id="21877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21878" CreationDate="2009-09-15T08:31:31.523" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it possible to comment on a closed question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135723" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T12:10:00.087" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T12:10:00.087" Title="Commenting on closed questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21877" CreationDate="2009-09-15T08:37:36.740" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allows for people to post a case for re-opening the question. Especially if they don't have enough rep in order to cast a re-open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can also allow for a little tidy up of any loose threads that were fraying just before the closing of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it will allow a mod or one of the closers to explain why the question was closed in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T08:37:36.740" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21877" CreationDate="2009-09-15T08:37:38.393" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One reason I could think of: to let people without vote for reopen powers to let others know that they feel the question is valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think that this is the reason it was done that way - only Jeff might have some insight on that - but for sure a good usage for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Random beat me by 2 seconds, here another reason: to let the OP know what edits would help to turn it into a valuable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T08:44:31.047" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21875" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:05:45.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with joshhunt wholeheartedly. There are many good answer on meta if you search for lmgtfy. Now - with a little irony - is this a polite answer to your question: just search meta? I will add some links for you to make it more valuable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&quot;&gt;ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18620/do-you-google-before-asking-on-stackoverflow-closed&quot;&gt;do-you-google-before-asking-on-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18158/do-you-use-google-for-answers-to-put-on-so&quot;&gt;do-you-use-google-for-answers-to-put-on-so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5280/&quot;&gt;embrace-the-non-googlers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage answering - maybe in a summary style -  and add a valid Google search together with links found to detail your answer. Remember that Google will find corresponding SO questions and answers really! fast and they will show up at the top of the list very soon - which will make your answer a recursive game of self reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will be a value add is to list search words that the user could use but did not know about - give him a repository or a glossary of neighboring or professional expressions and concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:11:34.010" />
  <row Id="21881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21875" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:26:48.913" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Google+it%22+etiquette&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Google+it%22+etiquette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132619" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:26:48.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21844" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:30:55.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do suggest to keep the Q at SO, but to delete the answer that was provided. Even though the Q might never be answered, it's still possible for others to provide good answers, which could be upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While sockpuppets might just ask Q's to gain reputation, this should not mean that the Q's themselves should be considered invalid. Just &quot;kill&quot; the sockpuppet and provide alternative answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:30:55.440" />
  <row Id="21883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21875" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:45:41.950" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're making a scene.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I hope &lt;code&gt;EXISTS&lt;/code&gt; stops after the first find, while &lt;code&gt;IN&lt;/code&gt; doesn't. I don't know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commenting isn't the medium for question and answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That said, I also ask question on comments when I don't get something. It's a good way to learn.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can flag the comment (say, as noise - it adds nothing). It will be removed if others do the same.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes you can answer a question I don't know correctly and get accepted using a simple Google search. When this is the case, I think it's good to mention that. That is - not &lt;em&gt;STFW&lt;/em&gt;, but a link to a relevant result, maybe a quote, and then maybe the google search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:45:41.950" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9425" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:46:42.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When adding my first comment it was absolutely not clear what markup is available to me. Having asked and answered questions (wow, cool, markdown), the first time I filled a comment I stupidly expected that markdown will also be supported for comments. But, when submitting, surprise, all markup is gone, and the comment looked real bad. Plus, ouch, couldn't go back to edit the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out elsewhere, editing comments presents other problems (like downstream comments not making sense anymore), so I would agree on disallowing comment editing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A basic usability principle is to always take every opportunity you have to provide as many and and as much visual cues and feedback to the user as is possible, to help with the task at hand -- different users pick up on different cues! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the case of comments, there are at least these opportunities to increase instant user feedback: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is very easy for users to either not know about or forget that comment formatting is different than q/a formatting. A preview will make that point visually and immediately obvious, thus avoiding the surprise of losing all markup on submit. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when typing text, it often happens (for me at least) that I do not see typos immediately when staring at the text I have typed, but when I see the text presented in a slightly different way (e.g. the preview) the typos stand out clear, so I can correctthem before I submit. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should you add support for any markup in comments (to be same as for q/a, or a very small subset thereof) a preview would obviously be essential to remind you of which markup works and which doesn't -- in addition, for this I would greatly appreciate a correspondingly reduced formatting bar, even if this were to be only for Bold and Italic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, preview for comments is a no-brainer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135832" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:46:42.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21904" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:57:02.370" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing some of the older SO questions I am noticing quite a few where the original owner of the answer or question is no longer on the site, ie. have had their accounts deleted. Since deleting an account requires the team to intervene and process the deletion, I am interested in the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many deletions have there been since launch?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many request are there in a day/week?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the major reasons for these deletions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can this be prevented?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't expect exact numbers, just an indication would be sufficient, the last 2 questions are more valuable to me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:32:54.937" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:32:54.937" Title="What is the SO user deletion rate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:57:57.640" Score="1" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;You've earned&quot; messages &quot;Enthusiast&quot; has not been&#xA;renamed to &quot;woot!&quot;. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/MSO/EnthusiastBagde%5F2009-09-15.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/MSO/Bagdes%5F2009-09-15.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a Stack Overflow blog entry,&#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Enthusiast and Fanatic Badges&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the renaming was announced:&#xA;&quot;For the period of sponsorship, we’ve renamed this the woot!&#xA;badge. (It’ll revert to Enthusiast once that period is&#xA;over.)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2423&quot;&gt;similiar question&lt;/a&gt; - but I report it as a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T19:15:20.220" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T19:15:28.270" Title="Is the Enthusiast badge still undead?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20584" CreationDate="2009-09-15T09:58:36.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having submitted a comment over on stackoverflow -- with all spacing/formatting mangled into a single plain text paragraph -- I searched meta for info on how to format comments, and discovered this question on the topic, with not much else available on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, amazingly, this &lt;strong&gt;excellent&lt;/strong&gt; question has been voted down &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; times! And, being newly registered here, do not have enough rep to counter this and vote it up. To me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;either, there is severe reader immaturity -- but the whole concept here is to help users as they are anyway, so by definition users are perfect as is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or, the model for these sites does not work well in the situation where an extremely valid question happens to be unpopular with some, or requires explanation why the site design choices prohibit accepting such a proposal. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135832" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T09:58:36.783" />
  <row Id="21888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21886" CreationDate="2009-09-15T10:00:03.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really a bug. It's still the Enthusiast badge. It's just that the image of the badge itself has been sponsored by the woot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may have the face, but they haven't got the bones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T10:00:03.627" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-15T10:08:32.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anyway, that ruined my weekend. I was so pissed I bought a new car and drank to excess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully not at the same time of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T10:08:32.207" />
  <row Id="21891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T10:29:14.383" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3428/why-cant-i-keep-nominating-a-question-for-opening&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;rsquo;t I keep nominating a question for opening?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3440/close-reopen-votes-sliding-scale-for-threshold&quot;&gt;Close/Reopen Votes - Sliding Scale For Threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote-not-to-close-option-to-counter-the-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;How about a &amp;ldquo;Vote not to close&amp;rdquo; option to counter the &amp;ldquo;Vote to close&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Members have the option to close questions, which is fine. But when there's a difference of opinions about if a Q needs to be closed or not, the ones who want to keep it open have no other option than to post a comment requesting to keep it open. Then, when the Q is closed, those members will have to start voting to re-open the Q again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not effective! Once a member has voted to close a Q, a new option should appear allowing members to vote to keep the Q open!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to close a Q when the amount of Close votes exceeds the number of Open votes by 5. Then, when the Q gets as many Open votes as Close votes, the Q will be re-opened again. This scheme would allow members to firmly close a Q simply by doing a huge pile-up on the Close vote. (But the number of Open votes can never exceed the number of Close votes!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also allow members to change their vote from Close to Open or vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I did a search, didn't find a Q that could be a duplicate of this one, which I consider strange. Am I the first to think of this? Impossible! Please prove me wrong! ;-)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T11:06:57.703" ClosedDate="2009-09-15T11:25:58.763" Title="Vote to keep open?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21891" CreationDate="2009-09-15T10:41:23.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All questions are considered open by default. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need five (5) people to close (or a power vote from a moderator) and when you do that's your vote to close gone for the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is closed, you're given another vote to possibly reopen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have one of each per question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This stops you from blocking a question either way and allows also for fresh eyes to look at a question hopefully stemming any open/close/&quot;why do you never close this door?&quot; wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T10:41:23.477" />
  <row Id="21893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21891" CreationDate="2009-09-15T10:43:39.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of having two counters, just have one: let a vote to re-open just cancel one vote to close. Close the question when there are five votes to close, and reopen it when there is none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the OP says, the interesting period is the one between zero and five, as votes to re-open can be cast without waiting for the question to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Visually this could be done just like up/downvoting (a counter with arrows), but probably this would leave room for missunderstanding (is the up arrow increasing the votes to close even though it signifies &quot;thumbs up&quot;?). I would leave it at &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit | close &amp;uarr; (2) &amp;darr; reopen | flag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or use descriptive hints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think that one vote per question should be the limit. But maybe like up/downvotes you should be able to reconsider after the OP did some changes to the question or some answers show the real value of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators would still keep their superpowers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T10:49:22.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21891" CreationDate="2009-09-15T11:06:57.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If something like this is implemented then the owner of the question can not vote on anything (unless the question is closed, then he can vote to reopen)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of course he will vote against the first person that votes to close his own question. Negating that person's vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That reason and many many others have been discussed here before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T11:06:57.703" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21898" CreationDate="2009-09-15T11:09:42.147" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering how does a question get marked as closed? In the FAQ it states you can vote to close a question past 250, but what does that mean exactly? It doesn't state who/how a question gets marked as closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what does it mean once a question is closed, do they get purged after a certain amount of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133650" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T11:53:27.650" Title="How does a question get marked as closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67546" CreationDate="2009-09-15T11:11:11.377" Score="14" ViewCount="588" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got my Enthusiast badge on SuperUser (Woot! indeed), but haven't received it on ServerFault, despite me thinking I've been visiting both sites every day since I came back off holiday in mid August.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got both Google Chrome at home and Firefox at work to open all four sites at startup - so a) I don't have to open them manually and b) I don't miss a day. I know there was an issue with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13727/did-safaris-top-sites-feature-earn-my-enthusiast-badge&quot;&gt;Safari's top sites feature&lt;/a&gt; so I was wondering if part of the fix was to require a certain amount of activity - not just opening the home page once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case then fair enough, I know that I'm never going to be able to get much rep on SF anyway so missing the Enthusiast badge is not a big thing, but it will affect how I use SO and SU &amp;amp; whether it's worth me even trying for the Fanatic badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I could have just missed a day without realising it and the badge will turn up at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE (20/09/2009)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's now been 4 days since I gained the Enthusiast badge on SU and it still hasn't turned up on SF. I don't think it was more than 4 days after I got back off holiday before I started visiting SF every day so (unless I did miss a day) I think the badge should have turned up by now. If it hasn't appeared in the next couple of days I'll fire off an e-mail asking if they can check the logs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2 (22/09/2009)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An e-mail has been sent to the team. I'll post their reply as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T21:52:34.233" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T12:26:03.267" Title="Is there a minimum level of activity required to get the &quot;Enthusiast&quot; badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="21898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21896" CreationDate="2009-09-15T11:13:32.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing a question effectively means that it can't be added to or answered. The question can however still be edited and commented on. This normally happens if it is a duplicate question, or various other reasons depending on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting process works differently depending on your level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;250+ allows you to vote to close your own questions. The change still requires 4 more votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3000+ rep users can vote to close, and 5 votes are needed until the question is closed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diamond moderators can close immediatly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These question remain in the system, and can either be voted to be re-open or deleted. The same voting rules apply for these options. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only deleted questions are removed from the system after 3 days if memory serves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T11:53:27.650" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T11:53:27.650" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21896" CreationDate="2009-09-15T11:16:29.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add, it's the ability to vote to close &lt;em&gt;your own questions&lt;/em&gt; that appears at 250 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T11:16:29.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21897" CreationDate="2009-09-15T11:20:45.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just show up :) I don't think you have to actually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; anything, or else it would be stated in the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T11:20:45.527" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T12:17:13.613" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1426546/what-made-you-change-your-long-living-opinion-regarding-some-aspect-of-programmin&quot;&gt;What made you change your long-living opinion regarding some aspect of programming?&lt;/a&gt; you'll see theres no history. This was a non-CW question that was changed to CW. Also, it has been closed and reopened (confirmed by the 10k+ tools as having received 5 close votes but it's open with no close votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did changing it to CW either scupper the close process or just lose the history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T01:40:36.653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T01:40:36.653" Title="Changing to Community Wiki seems to have lost history" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="21902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21901" CreationDate="2009-09-15T12:23:25.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has 5 re-open votes:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1426546/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1426546/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T12:23:25.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5029" CreationDate="2009-09-15T12:38:02.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, but this should be in the place where anyone can see. I can't agree that in Internet everything with Stack Overflow is noise and thus - spam. This is an opinion of a single site administration but not the &quot;whole Internet&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Technet, MySQL, SQLServerCentral, etc. do not make noise because of this. If those are the rules then the user has to read them right from the beginning and they must not be somewhere in the &quot;apropos&quot; in some &quot;Forest Codex&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-25T10:23:21.000" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:23:21.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-04T05:53:08.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21885" CreationDate="2009-09-15T12:41:11.353" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say what the deletion rate is, but there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an automated process&lt;/a&gt; that deletes old, inactive users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We delete cookie-based unregistered accounts when the user has not visited Stack Overflow in four months &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; the user has less than 100 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We delete OpenID registered accounts when the user has not visited Stack Overflow in four months &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; the user has only 1 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T12:41:11.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-09-15T12:54:27.430" Score="48" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could get one of those Badge Banners that lets everybody know that &lt;code&gt;Jon Skeet is Online&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57348" LastEditorUserId="57348" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T02:35:15.713" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T02:35:15.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21908" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:14:15.287" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;What impact does it have to accept another answer after answering one already?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Can I accept another answer without &quot;refusing&quot; the first one?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is this acceptable etiquette?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135723" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T13:51:12.050" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:04:10.743" Title="What impact does it have to accept another answer after answering one already?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="21907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:16:38.450" Score="14" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a page that shows questions marked with &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; of your interesting tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg if I have three related tags, say &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/poi&quot;&gt;poi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/poi-hssf&quot;&gt;poi-hssf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/hwpf&quot;&gt;hwpf&lt;/a&gt; (on SO) how can I view the newest questions from any of these tags in the one list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T01:07:15.793" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T01:07:15.793" Title="View new questions marked with any of your 'interesting tags'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21906" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:17:15.670" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong about switching up who you select as an accepted answer. It is perfectly logical to assume that a better answer can come along. I would suggest, however, not pulling the trigger on an accepted answer unless the answer actually answers your question to satisfaction. It can make the question asker look a bit indecisive if they keep changing the check mark around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:17:15.670" />
  <row Id="21909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21906" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:17:26.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you accept a different answer, the originally accepted answer will no longer be accepted. The user of the original answer will lose the 15 points they gained because of your acceptance and the answerer for the new accepted answer will gain 15. Hopefully what this means about the person &quot;reaccepting&quot; is that they came back to a question they asked and found an even better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note the points would not apply in a CW (Community Wiki) situation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T13:24:13.440" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:24:13.440" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:20:14.637" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Jon Skeet is just an Alter Ego of Jeff Atwood. Why? Because Jeff evidently never sleeps (look at his Twitter activity). Of course, Jeff can blame the baby for the 24/7 tweeting, but I think he is just using it as an excuse so that his wife doesn't find out about his double life as Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Jon Skeet also got a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/87/string&quot;&gt;badge for activity on the string tag&lt;/a&gt;. Of his 1096 badges, this one has to me the most awesome so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:20:14.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21907" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:24:52.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now you would have to clear out your entire interesting tags list and then fill it back up with those three (3) tags you're interested in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6171/interesttagshog.png&quot; alt=&quot;select your tags&quot; title=&quot;here be selections&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then click for &lt;strong&gt;Unanswered&lt;/strong&gt;  and then select the &lt;strong&gt;My Tags&lt;/strong&gt; tab.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/6366/mytagshog.png&quot; alt=&quot;move to the tabs&quot; title=&quot;move it to the maximum&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will show up all questions (but only those without an answer that has received any upvotes) with any and either of your selected tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But right now if you tried something like this in the search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[poi]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[poi-hssf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[hwpf]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would return all questions tagged with the trio. Not those with just the one or two, but all three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would net nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/S2RIV.png&quot; alt=&quot;dance off to zero&quot; title=&quot;so get your leather, leather, leather, on, on, on&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T14:29:55.660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:29:55.660" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="21912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21922" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:36:53.543" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking to find a decent web hosting service but when I posted a question asking for just that I got shut down by a bunch of users that closed my question due to it not being programming related. Which of the other sites would it be better for me to post this question on? And if it belongs on none of the others, why am I getting denied? The one answer was pretty good but I'd like more. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:59:02.080" Title="Where to ask for the best webhosting services?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;&lt;web-hosting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="21913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21912" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:39:54.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, that's a very subjective question. Anything &quot;Best&quot; of something is highly subjective. So I would suggest rewording it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is for programming related items. You could try to look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also look at these questions about subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19113/do-we-really-need-the-subjective-tag-and-is-it-commonly-mis-used&quot;&gt;Do we really need the “subjective” tag and is it commonly mis-used?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5766/super-user-attracting-too-many-open-ended-subjective-questions&quot;&gt;Super User attracting too many open-ended/subjective questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:39:54.130" />
  <row Id="21914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21912" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:41:00.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ServerFault.com&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the StackExchange website related to all things Server/Hardware related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:41:00.073" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21901" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:45:49.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No edits == no history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:45:49.267" />
  <row Id="21919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21912" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:47:39.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For webhosting stories and comparison, none of SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, give it a shot at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webhostingtalk.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;wauh wauh&quot;&gt;Web Hosting Talk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:47:39.670" />
  <row Id="21920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21921" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:50:00.320" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;This greasemonkey script will re-order answers to questions according to the old &quot;Votes&quot; scheme (prior to August 2009), which was by votes and then by date (earliest first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't viewing answers sorted by &quot;Votes&quot;, does nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57812&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SOFU Answer Sorter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T14:53:25.507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:53:25.507" Title="A Greasemonkey script to sort answers by votes the old way" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21920" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:55:02.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It works perfectly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T14:00:34.717" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:00:34.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21912" CreationDate="2009-09-15T13:59:02.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the SO family goes, I guess that would be either Super User or Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But wait&lt;/strong&gt;; before you ask another question &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt;, you might want to check out the following, because several very similar questions have already been asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=web-hosting&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;Highest voted 'web-hosting' questions on Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=web-hosting&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;Highest voted 'web-hosting' questions on Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T13:59:02.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21931" CreationDate="2009-09-15T14:11:02.153" Score="3" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow appears to not use asp.net forms authentication cookies anymore (see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - my question is - how is stackoverflow keeping users logged in? I know that asp.net supports cookieless sessions - but I thought this was implemented by placing the forms ticket identifier in the URL (which doesn't seem to be the case with the site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, I think knowing how this was implemented could be beneficial for a few of the sites I manage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36629" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:36:35.193" Title="ASP.NET forms authentication cookie" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T14:43:06.433" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395804&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user put the &lt;kbd&gt;htaccess&lt;/kbd&gt; tag which is not a valid tag. It needs to be replaced with &lt;kbd&gt;.htaccess&lt;/kbd&gt;. We cannot edit this because it has been migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should those tags even count though? Why should they show up in the tag list? We already decided the post (and therefore the content and tags) don't belong on that site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:56:32.320" Title="When a question is migrated, ignore the tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="21926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21925" CreationDate="2009-09-15T14:44:59.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh man, this just opens up a whole new way to game the system for the Taxonomy badge.  Just create meta questions on SO, tag them with things you've made up, and hope the tags last until the question is closed for migration.  It's almost too easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:44:59.940" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21925" CreationDate="2009-09-15T14:49:29.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a simpler solution would be to not lock the post when it is migrated, that would allow users to edit the tags if necessary. I know that mods should still be able to go in there and clean up the tags, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:49:29.667" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="21928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21925" CreationDate="2009-09-15T14:54:01.857" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't we just delete the original question immediately after migrating?  If it isn't applicable to the site, I don't see any value in keeping it.  Doesn't it just accomplish the anti-goal of seeding the &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; terms to search engines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:54:01.857" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="21929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21925" CreationDate="2009-09-15T14:56:32.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, we are assuming that tags are correct. In most cases, the user tags their question with mostly appropriate tags. Even if the question has been migrated, the tags are still appropriate to be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags are there so that anyone searching might come across that question. If they have a similar question it would be helpful to know that the first one was migrated as 'does not belong here'. So it still needs to be searchable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags should not be editable because, once migrated, the question should not be changed in any way, otherwise it opens up the possibility of having migrated questions that are fundamentally different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in favour of keeping it the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, moderators should be able to update 'outdated/deprecated' tags on closed questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T14:56:32.320" CommentCount="26" />
  <row Id="21930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21906" CreationDate="2009-09-15T15:04:10.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what others have said, you can always up-vote as many answers as you like, so if you get two answers that are good, helpful, and well written, but one is a little better than the other, I'd say you should up-vote both of them, and accept the better one, even if it came along later, and you had already accepted the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:04:10.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21923" CreationDate="2009-09-15T15:28:59.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;code&gt;user&lt;/code&gt; cookie with 3 values stored in it. I suspect that when the user is authenticated through OpenId, the SO backend creates a ticket (much like typical forms authentication) and the name of the ticket is stored in this cookie instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For meta, the cookie is named &lt;code&gt;somuser&lt;/code&gt; and is different because meta.stackoverflow.com has access to the cookies from the stackoverflow.com domain, so to differentiate them you need a unique name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reason:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical forms authentication cookie value: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DAD01018945EA4DEC22AD1F73BB5F99A1F4D579877B3B17D1A582B00C66D79DF7650EB133AB91B474A9D2BFB3A8A92453992D67894C615F828295956292929244054E3B4B8B94B4B08A59F1C1577B18EF5E65A2F6007E9962469D8073BE3C3505D241BBB5E69CCD91052960900EEB6F6B4598E39DF0E1B5D45C5429C00B8D5B&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New cookie value:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;t=W/jwldc2k0m5&amp;amp;s=LEowkckwhkyC&amp;amp;p=[2|2]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much shorter, which means every request is smaller in size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="44765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T15:36:35.193" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:36:35.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21933" CreationDate="2009-09-15T15:46:06.597" Score="12" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;More often than not to the questions that I have put up on Stack Overflow the answer that I received had the term &quot;and free as in free beer&quot; in it mostly in relation to free or Open source software.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;How did the term come to be and what is its significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastActivityDate="2010-05-06T03:27:01.600" Title="What does the term &quot;and free as in free beer&quot; mean?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="21933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21932" CreationDate="2009-09-15T15:47:13.723" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis%5Fversus%5FLibre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's article on Gratis versus Libre&lt;/a&gt; (specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis%5Fversus%5FLibre#.22Free%5Fas%5Fin%5Fbeer.22%5Fvs%5F.22Free%5Fas%5Fin%5Fspeech.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In software development, where the&#xA;  cost of mass production is relatively&#xA;  small, it is common for developers to&#xA;  make software available at no cost.&#xA;  One of the early and basic forms of&#xA;  this model is called freeware. With&#xA;  freeware, software is licensed free of&#xA;  charge for regular use, the developer&#xA;  does not gain any monetary&#xA;  compensation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the advent of the free software&#xA;  movement, license schemes were created&#xA;  to give developers more freedom in&#xA;  terms of code sharing, commonly called&#xA;  open source or FOSS. As the English&#xA;  adjective &quot;free&quot; does not distinguish&#xA;  between &quot;free of charge&quot; and&#xA;  &quot;liberty&quot;, the phrases &quot;free as in&#xA;  beer&quot; (gratis, freeware) and &quot;free as&#xA;  in speech&quot; (libre, open source) were&#xA;  adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These phrases have become common,&#xA;  along with gratis and libre, in the&#xA;  software development and computer law&#xA;  fields for encapsulating this&#xA;  distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?FreeAsInBeer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; (also worth a read), the idea was first used by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FStallman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rms&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this essay&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastEditorUserId="132722" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T15:56:33.627" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:56:33.627" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="21935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21932" CreationDate="2009-09-15T15:51:44.057" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, the word &quot;free&quot; has a couple of meanings and it's not always possible to tell in context which one the user meant. &quot;Free as in beer&quot; refers to the cost (i.e. money) of the software, while &quot;free as in speech&quot; refers to what you are allowed to do with the software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia (Donut's link):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Free as in beer&quot; vs &quot;Free as in&#xA;  speech&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In software development, where the&#xA;  cost of mass production is relatively&#xA;  small, it is common for developers to&#xA;  make software available at no cost.&#xA;  One of the early and basic forms of&#xA;  this model is called freeware. With&#xA;  freeware, software is licensed free of&#xA;  charge for regular use, the developer&#xA;  does not gain any monetary&#xA;  compensation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the advent of the&#xA;  free software movement, license&#xA;  schemes were created to give&#xA;  developers more freedom in terms of&#xA;  code sharing, commonly called open&#xA;  source or FOSS. As the English&#xA;  adjective &quot;free&quot; does not distinguish&#xA;  between &quot;free of charge&quot; and&#xA;  &quot;liberty&quot;, the phrases &quot;free as in&#xA;  beer&quot; (gratis, freeware) and &quot;free as&#xA;  in speech&quot; (libre, open source) were&#xA;  adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These phrases have become&#xA;  common, along with gratis and libre,&#xA;  in the software development and&#xA;  computer law fields for encapsulating&#xA;  this distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:51:44.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21932" CreationDate="2009-09-15T15:54:00.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Free beer is something someone gives you to enjoy.  It does not imply &quot;freedom&quot;.  Free speech is a right and a freedom we enjoy.  So when comparing free software, Free as in Beer refers to software that someone is letting you use for free, where free as in speech implies that the software is free for all to use, modify etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12605" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T15:54:00.557" />
  <row Id="21938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21940" CreationDate="2009-09-15T16:20:51.163" Score="11" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while, when I am posting code to either ask or answer a question, I find myself cleaning out all the references to the company I'm working for and scanning for any other proprietary or confidential info. I figure that if I'm doing it others are doing it, and that means that occasionally, there are going to be pieces of code that we miss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;using System;&#xA;&#xA;namespace HotOrNotDotCom&#xA;{&#xA;    public class Login&#xA;    {&#xA;        int timesBeforeLockout = 4;&#xA;        public Login(string username, string password)&#xA;        {&#xA;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the right thing to do in this circumstance? If we come across something like this, should we edit the info out? Has SO ever gotten a takedown request? Has a user ever suffered as a result of posting code he or she has written as part of their work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131279" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:52:36.413" Title="Questions with proprietary or confidential information" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;intellectual-property&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2009-09-15T16:24:34.917" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if you do edit it out, it will still be in the revision history, so it is not advisable. I would recommend contacting team@stackoverflow.com to get this addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:24:34.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2009-09-15T16:25:09.083" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never seen or heard of any type of takedown request. It is incredibly easy to anonymize code and I've seen numerous people do it in the past with the liberal use of &lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;bar&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:25:09.083" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19113" CreationDate="2009-09-15T16:40:51.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we need a tag for these questions, and we probably have to stick with &lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt; because it's established. &#xA;Personally I would prefer &lt;code&gt;it-depends&lt;/code&gt; in many cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Debates like &quot;Is C# better than Java?&quot; are actually not subjective in the literal dictionary sense. There are answers to the question, but &lt;code&gt;it-depends&lt;/code&gt;. Usually it depends on the project you are working on, and above all &lt;strong&gt;the people&lt;/strong&gt;. To quote Joel, who as usual &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;said it well&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you decide between C# and Java? The only real difference is which one you know better. If you have a serious Java guru on&#xA;  your team who has build several large&#xA;  systems successfully with Java, you're&#xA;  going to be a hell of a lot more&#xA;  successful with Java than with C#, not&#xA;  because Java is a better language&#xA;  (it's not, but the differences are too&#xA;  minor to matter) but because he knows&#xA;  it better. Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone willing to give a &lt;strong&gt;definite&lt;/strong&gt; answer (other than &lt;code&gt;it-depends&lt;/code&gt;) is probably argumentative and IMHO inexperienced. But the questionners might possibly be genuinely seeking guidance on how to choose a technology. Subjective just isn't the right term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastEditorUserId="135917" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T17:12:40.857" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T17:12:40.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-15T16:40:51.297" />
  <row Id="21942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21947" CreationDate="2009-06-13T00:56:42.977" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wonder what do you think about the inflation of StackOverflow? Just hear me out - any economic system is closed to some degree (i.e. money already printed and functioning). In the system like StackOverflow rewards are generated all the time and the is no upper boundary.  Would that mean that most of the people will have similar reputation level and would become dis-interested in the site's functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132904" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:50:01.247" Title="Is it true that over time it will be Inflation on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;economics&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21942" CreationDate="2009-06-13T00:59:43.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like this that aren't community wiki are what would cause this eventual problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki solves (to some extent) this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who are farming reputation might get bored and leave. But the fact that it works well as a Q/A site wont change regardless of reputation inflation. I would bet few people are that concerned about catching up with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's&lt;/a&gt; of the worl.d&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130279" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:50:01.247" />
  <row Id="21944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21942" CreationDate="2009-06-13T01:02:16.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the current system seems to be pretty well designed, given that there's a multi-layered system of rewards or incentives: badges/reputation, as well as increased access to SO functionality (so that regular users get more privileges to help maintain this site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this sense, there's even a form of quality assurance and mutual interest to help keep improving SO, unlike wikipedia which -as all of us know- also attracts a great many users, even without any sort of reputation or &quot;karma&quot; and lots of trolls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it seems SO will always be some form of &quot;community&quot; (again unlike wikipedia), so that users are also motivated by the mutual interaction with people who share similar interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:50:01.247" />
  <row Id="21945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21942" CreationDate="2009-06-13T01:03:06.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the reputation number get too high, you can still look at the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's an interesting question. What chance will a newcomer have against Jon Skeet five years from now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a real economy prices generally can't keep going up without wage inflation. Will there be wage inflation on SO? Maybe, if there are so many users that you can get 100 points on a tossed off answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:50:01.247" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21942" CreationDate="2009-06-13T01:06:34.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just wonder what do you think about the inflation of StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually there will be even more people with 'moderator' access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would that mean that most of the people will have similar reputation level and would become dis-interested in the site's functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to be assuming that people are interested in the site's functionality only because the people have dissimilar reputation levels; and I don't see at all why you'd assume that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:50:01.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-13T01:06:34.153" />
  <row Id="21947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21942" CreationDate="2009-06-13T01:09:30.980" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dark solution to this problem: everyone dies eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131372" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:50:01.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="21948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21942" CreationDate="2009-06-13T01:11:27.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to use the &quot;economic system&quot; metaphor, then why would anyone ever become a programmer (or anything else) in the first place? After all, people like Bill Gates are already billionaires with 40+ years of experience. What chance do I have against that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess what I am saying is that there will always be &lt;strong&gt;sufficient numbers of people&lt;/strong&gt; who try to perform to the &lt;strong&gt;best of their ability&lt;/strong&gt;... and want to &lt;strong&gt;show off&lt;/strong&gt; what they can do (even if they are not immediately recognized as the &quot;top dog&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert C. Cartaino&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:50:01.247" />
  <row Id="21949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-23T00:00:08.613" Score="8" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;After playing around with the site for a few days I already see many topics I may write about on my blog in the future. Some are directly related to questions here while others may only use the questions and related discussions for reference or as anecdotes. How do you feel about people posting &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pingback&lt;/a&gt;&quot; answers to the questions when using them in a blog context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pingback would only be a short comment with a link to the relevant blog post, and I think it should only be done&amp;mdash;manually;&amp;mdash;when the linked post actually adds some value to the discussion in the answers/comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/users/392/dan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dan&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;I'm not totally familiar with how pingbacks work in blog software, but from what I've seen, it looks almost auto-generated. Is it possible to prevent these kinds of auto-generated pingbacks if a user has less than a certain reputation?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not suggesting adding support for some kind of automatic pingback, I just called it &quot;pingback&quot; because that's a familiar term for many bloggers. What I actually meant was to answer the question by manually writing an answer that references a blog post. Not only posting the link, but also giving a short description and possibly some background information. As others have pointed out, these answers would be moderated up/down in exactly the same way as any other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/users/2213/ian-patrick-hughes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ian Patrick Hughes&lt;/a&gt; wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;I do, however, worry about DEAD LINKS as answers. They might be chosen and everyone thinks it's the greatest, but what about 6 months from now? 1 year? I mean, yeah, perhaps your blog entry is the dead-to-rights, spot-on, mother of all answers…..but, what does that matter if you do not upkeep the domain, host, or server?&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the issue with dead links is just as relevant&amp;mdash;or not relevant&amp;mdash;when posting links to any other online resource. When linking to something for &quot;educational purposes&quot;, I think it's important to chose sources that are likely to stay available for a long time. In that context I would be more worried about links to specific products on online stores or information on company web sites, as they (historically) often don't seem to bothered with keeping old links alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern blogging software goes a long way to ensure unique URIs that are suitable for permanent links, and I would think at least technical bloggers would also be aware of the importance of keeping their article addresses alive, also in the future. I can only speak for myself, but when I publish something online (for others to use as a reference), I make an effort to keep it alive, permanently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that short answers can be copied onto the site, but I was actually thinking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.looplabel.net/2008/07/28/best-practices-for-version-control/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;longer articles&lt;/a&gt;. Simply linking to something on your blog that could just as well have been written directly on the site would of course be meaningless, but I'm guessing those kind of &quot;advertising campaigns&quot; will just be down-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1709" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T16:20:48.577" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T16:20:48.577" Title="Are &quot;pingback&quot; answers to Stack Overflow questions OK?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;blogging&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21949" CreationDate="2008-08-23T00:02:48.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's OK, however it could easily turn into a spamfest.  Perhaps at a certain rep (500?) you could post links to sites other than a few whitelisted domains (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Code Project&lt;/a&gt;, MSDN, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-06T08:09:13.147" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T08:09:13.147" />
  <row Id="21951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21949" CreationDate="2008-08-23T00:08:55.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like Ed's idea, to an extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I have with it is, how do you choose what domains should be whitelisted? Stackoverflow contains questions from so many domains, the pool of whitelisted websites would be almost impossible to establish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not totally familiar with how pingbacks work in blog software, but from what I've seen, it looks almost auto-generated. Is it possible to prevent these kinds of auto-generated pingbacks if a user has less than a certain reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find pingbacks to be sort of annoying when reading the comments of a blog. I almost consider it &quot;accepted spam&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:51:17.997" />
  <row Id="21952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21949" CreationDate="2008-08-23T00:11:02.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely see your point Dan. Perhaps there should be a requirement that a short-ish description be included with a link.  This would warrant the addition of a &quot;mark as spam&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-06T08:01:05.433" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T08:01:05.433" />
  <row Id="21953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21949" CreationDate="2008-08-23T00:50:36.170" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think as long as the post is &lt;strong&gt;highly&lt;/strong&gt; relevant to the question, there's nothing wrong with linking back to it after you've written it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Materially, it would be no different than linking to a relevant page that existed at the time of the question being asked.  Going out of your way to create in-depth, relevant content should be at least as acceptable as linking aforementioned existing content, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As harsh as people generally are around here, I don't think blog-spamming would be much of a problem.  People would quickly get voted into oblivion for that sort of activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139987" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:51:17.997" />
  <row Id="21954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21949" CreationDate="2008-08-23T01:28:24.080" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the spam concern is a little misplaced here, since the community has the power to self-regulate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do however worry about, &lt;strong&gt;DEAD LINKS&lt;/strong&gt; as answers. They might be chosen and everyone thinks it's the greatest, but what about 6 months from now? 1 year? I mean, yeah, perhaps your blog entry is the dead-to-rights, spot-on, mother of all answers…..but, what does that matter if you do not upkeep the domain, host, or server?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the code piece or other answer is truly relevant, paste the answer into Stack Overflow and maaaaaybe link back to a full text resource. This way, Stack has the content and its indexed and you get a link to additional material as long as it is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141800" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:51:17.997" />
  <row Id="21955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21949" CreationDate="2008-08-23T03:52:41.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is absolutely no issue I can see at all with posting links to your own blog&lt;/strong&gt;. What if Jeff Atwood wanted to post a link to his blog? Would you be having this same discussion? I didn't think so. So what sets him apart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your blog helps with the discussion, then post a link! If it is completely off-topic, then people will just down mod it. Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-06T07:56:29.153" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T07:56:29.153" />
  <row Id="21956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21932" CreationDate="2009-09-15T16:51:41.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Free as in &quot;free beer&quot; means you do not have to pay any money to acquire, install and use the software. But you may not be allowed to freely copy, distribute or change it. EDIT: A great example is the Microsoft .NET framework. It's free to download, use, and redistribute, you can even see the source, but you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/referencesourcelicense.mspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;can't change it&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Free software&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. You may actually pay to get a copy in a convenient form - like a Linux distro. EDIT: There are often limits on this freedom. You may not be free to change the software and then treat the new version as &lt;strong&gt;your own property&lt;/strong&gt; - any derived works might have to be open source if distributed to others. It depends on the licence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastEditorUserId="135917" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T14:50:59.330" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:50:59.330" />
  <row Id="21957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-13T16:48:24.547" Score="9" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently started to learn the D language and was wondering, is it widespread enough that I can (or should) ask my questions on Stack Overflow? &lt;strong&gt;So, just how popular is D among the programmers at SO?&lt;/strong&gt;  I ask because I haven't found a single question that involves D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T22:11:48.427" Title="How widespread is D at SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2008-10-13T16:49:27.087" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you could look at the 13 &quot;D&quot; questions so far here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(just click on the D tag in your post)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130464" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:59:40.867" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="21959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2008-10-13T16:51:07.990" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All computer programming related questions are welcome here at StackOverflow.  Ask away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144983" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:59:40.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2008-10-13T16:52:55.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow is supposed to be a website where you can ask questions about &lt;strong&gt;programming&lt;/strong&gt;. That means questions about any programming language from Flex to D to Erlang is not only allowed, but encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, since D has bindings for OpenGL, it's not exactly an esoteric language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:59:40.867" />
  <row Id="21961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2008-10-13T17:27:13.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With 13 or so questions tagged for D so far, it's not lighting the SO world on fire.  I'm by no means knowledgeable on D, but I would like to see it become more mainstream.  It represents a serious attempt at taking everything that's been learned with C++ and implementing those things without needing to pay any attention to backwards compatibility.  The compatibility requirements of C++ are responsible for many of the compromises and complexities that exist in C++. Two of the brightest people in the C++ world (pun intended) are deeply involved in the development of the D language, Walter Bright and Andre Alexandrescu, so I think it has hope to eventually take some ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things that look very interesting to me is the meta-programming model D has adopted. Templates and template meta-programming in D look much like normal D programming, because essentially that's what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So anyway, I'd say ask away here - hopefully I'll learn something useful and it'll help D gain some traction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:59:40.867" />
  <row Id="21962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2008-10-13T18:11:02.617" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;D is a promising language, and is maybe where Ruby or Python was a few years ago.  It's not exactly esoteric, but it's not completely mainstream either.  Right now, I think the main things getting in the way of it becoming more mainstream are the standard signs of an immature but promising language.  Most of the libraries for it are still very much works in progress.  Same for development tools like IDEs and debuggers.  D 2.0, currently in alpha, adds tons of cool stuff, but breaks backwards compatibility in all kinds of places because it's simply too early in D's lifetime as a language to let backwards compatibility constrain things too much.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, D has 2 standard libraries.  Phobos is the &quot;official&quot; library, and Tango is a community-developed alternative.  Tango only works on the D1 branch, though efforts are underway to port it to D2, and is popular among D1 users.  Phobos has improved significantly in D2, but the D1 version is very underpowered, which was the original reason for Tango's existence.  Therefore, very few D1 people use Phobos.  The fact that using D2 and using Tango are currently mutually exclusive has created fragmentation in the D community between D1/Tango users and D2/Phobos users.  Furthermore, Tango and Phobos have, at the moment, incompatible runtimes, so they can't both be used in the same project, and some add-on libraries use Tango and others use Phobos.  This makes the sparsity of libraries inherent in any young language that much worse in D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite these growing pains, D is an extremely well-thought out language that attempts to take 20+ years of experience in designing languages and create a new performance-oriented/systems language without the cruft and outdated design decisions of previous eras.  The Tiobe index shows that it is already at the cusp of mainstream.  Efforts are underway as we speak to mend the rift between D1/Tango users and D2/Phobos users by porting Tango to D2 and creating a common runtime so both libs can be used in the same project.  I believe that, between Walter and Andrei, D just has too much pure genius behind it to fail, and will become mainstream in the next few years, when the two standard libraries are at least runtime compatible, development tools and libraries mature, and D2 has gone gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144252" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:59:40.867" />
  <row Id="21963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2008-11-18T12:30:25.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I've been into D but lack of good IDE and even more a nice and working debugger keeps me away from it... and that means years now. I think/fear it will lose it's momentum, and won't gather enough resources/folks because it's still missing basic tools, and I don't see those coming, and don't see the D commmunity recognizing the importance of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:59:40.867" />
  <row Id="21964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2009-02-04T01:31:38.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been programming in D off and on since 2003, and I love it. It's powerful, fast, and a lot more productive than C++.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T16:59:40.867" />
  <row Id="21965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-17T11:12:46.110" Score="9" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized: By exploring stackoverflow.com and reading other questions (and answers of course) I learned a lot new things. I obtained more in-depth knowledge on certain topics, identified better explanation than what I would have given and investigated new fields of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you experience the same?  Is this a desired intent of stackoverflow.com? Would you like to improve this experience or rather see this go away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132850" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:00:23.877" Title="Learning with stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;learning&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="21966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21965" CreationDate="2008-10-17T11:16:57.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It surely helps to learn a lot. You can easily answer questions and then find out somebody has a better way of doing the same thing. Or just read some questions related to the field[s] you are interested in and most of the time you'll find something interesting and new in the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:00:23.877" />
  <row Id="21967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21965" CreationDate="2008-10-17T11:21:14.750" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An RSS feed of a specific tag can be quite useful for learning about a specific technology&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5744" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:00:23.877" />
  <row Id="21968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21965" CreationDate="2008-10-17T11:33:29.110" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The intended desire of SO (if I have listened correctly to Jeff and Joel's podcasts) is to build a reference for programming questions, where information will be accurate and &lt;em&gt;remain&lt;/em&gt; accurate (which fits the wikipedia dimension advocated by their &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq page&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how accurate they are, there is not enough incentive (in term of badge and/or points) to re-visit old questions with now inaccurate answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there can be no consolidation of those informations (scattered amongst many many questions, and amongst many answers representing different point of views, which is great) for a given technology field. That is by design and I do not criticize it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, it is a neat tool to pick some useful tips, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it needs to evolve in order to update those informations (a '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/37165&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question status change&lt;/a&gt;' can be one possible way to trigger those updates)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the reader must not always take the highest up-voted or accepted answer for granted as the only &quot;good&quot; information: often other answers below as just as interesting or challenging ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, SO rocks, off course :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:00:23.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21965" CreationDate="2008-10-17T11:48:14.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;strong&gt;reading information often produces learning&lt;/strong&gt;. Sorry that I'm not more shocked - maybe I'm just tired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a long week of learning ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:00:23.877" />
  <row Id="21970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21965" CreationDate="2008-10-19T00:59:19.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excuse me for appearing dismissive :-) but it does sound like you have not been in an online programmer community before, or at least not any good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, having focussed and productive programming-related discussion with other good programmers tends to produce immense growth for at least a couple of years. I know that spending some 4–5 years &lt;a href=&quot;http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=114691&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on Perl&amp;#160;Monks&lt;/a&gt; made me an immeasurably better programmer than I was before. It doesn’t necessarily deepen your understanding of any one topic too greatly, but it brings you into contact with a broad range of issues &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; programming and &lt;em&gt;related to&lt;/em&gt; programming, and with a variety of views about them, so it tends to round you out and train what Paul Graham would call your taste as a programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That growth kind of tends to peter out after some time because participating in communities is most helpful in acquiring broadly applicable knowledge – once your broad-knowledge basis is well established, your interests tend to diversify and go into less explored niche areas. After that, you have to pick specific study materials and drill down into topics purposefully and deeply to continue growing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:00:23.877" />
  <row Id="21975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:28:48.793" Score="6" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been asking and answering several questions so far, and I often don't like what I see. There is too much ignorance in the answers, even the ones chosen to be correct. Do you think StackOverflow should enforce &quot;No Original Research&quot; rule like Wikipedia does, or at least enforce or reward better verifiability (allow references, code attachements, etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: I guess &quot;No Original Research&quot; is not exactly what I meant. For many questions you can either support your answer with a piece of verifiable code or there is available some kind of publication that supports your answer (e.g. a spec, a manual, an article, etc). Don't you think StackOverflow should encourage such verifiability and reward those who bother to go the extra mile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" Title="Should StackOverflow reward unoriginal research/verifiability?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="12" />
  <row Id="21976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:32:37.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which would you prefer, something that was actually tested, or something that was copied from Herb Schildt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140145" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:32:52.497" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree about the incorrectness of many answers, &quot;No Original Research&quot; rule would be too strict, since many of the questions are too specific to be answered by a simple synthesis of existing verifiable sources and thus require at least some &quot;Original Research&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131923" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:33:26.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be the world you want to be in. If you don't like the inferior answers other people give, it's only because you didn't leap in with your superior knowledge first. Also, make sure to use the voting buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3146" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:33:48.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think original research is fine, and I don't see how it's practical to enforce such a rule on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a lot of the existing programming resources on the web are rubbish anyway, so enforcing one more layer of indirection probably won't help much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's annoying to see accepted incorrect/bad answers, but this would not solve such a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:34:00.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think the community does a good job of ensuring that answers which don't really deserve to be marked as &quot;the answer&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218174/combining-php-arrays#218185&quot;&gt;Here's one example I saw recently&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6521" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:35:49.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not Wikipedia and you are not going to be able to find &quot;independent research&quot; for most of these questions.  What would you even consider &quot;independent research&quot; anyway?  Does this mean I have to find data from some study that doesn't exist about when to use the ternary operator and when not to?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138568" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:35:56.127" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good answers will often link to an external reference that has more information. For example, a question like &quot;How do I do [X] in language [Y]?&quot; will often be answered with a link to the &lt;code&gt;Xify()&lt;/code&gt; function of the language [Y] documentation. And if there isn't a link right away, somebody will probably come by later and add one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming is an art; there are always many ways to solve the same problem. Some solutions have a different focus or motivations than others, this is what makes the field interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:37:23.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Moderation and voting&lt;/a&gt; functions are a reasonable heuristic for quality of the answers, although somewhat skewed towards populism and glib answers entered quickly.  If you think something is wrong, correct it, comment on it or vote it down, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/113803/mysql-foreign-keys-how-to-enforce-one-to-one-across-tables#113850&quot;&gt;Various&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42936/load-readonly-database-tables-into-memory#97273&quot;&gt;People&lt;/a&gt; have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/150339/generating-an-excel-file-in-aspnet#150381&quot;&gt;Done&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/190662/whats-the-cheapest-mac-development-box-possible#205803&quot;&gt;Answers of mine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:48:27.427" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because that's become an issue on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Citations look great, and in a full academic context they are really important, but in a web context they are almost entirely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance you'll have a statement in a Wikipedia article backed up by a link to something with even less verifiability. Fail to cite and twenty bots will edit your page to say citation needed, cite any old rubbish and it will look authentic, but still have no real weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the general rule of the entire internet is buyer beware. Come to SO for answers, but test them in your code when they're good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a bad answer vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, of course some users pick the wrong answer. Vote them down when they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="21985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T08:50:47.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Original Research&quot; could mean writing some code to try to solve the problem, to test performance or to see what it does. That can be a very good thing, a learning experience for all concerned. Banning research would not be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. I learned from the code tests &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/225937/foreach-vs-somelistforeach&quot;&gt;done here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T10:49:15.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the real problem here is people voting up, when they actually have no idea if it's a good answer. Other people who can see the quality of the answer can then vote it down. As long as that happens, it's okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if we can rely on that. If it's a hard question, there may be very few who can see if it's a good answer. Then &quot;the smart one&quot; would need to comment in a way that makes other people vote down too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should work. As long as &quot;the smart people&quot; use the voting feature enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21975" CreationDate="2008-10-23T11:39:42.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For wrong answers, please use the &quot;add comment&quot; feature, as an advanced SO user. That you know an answer is bad, and subsequently downvote it, is not enough to warn other people off. You need to indicate what is the problem with it. Maybe, just maybe, the answer may  get fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:01:44.327" />
  <row Id="21990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:25:41.533" Score="11" ViewCount="452" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.langpop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lang Pop&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/48997/what-programming-language-is-most-popular-today&quot;&gt;via this question&lt;/a&gt;), C# is not a very popular development language.  Why then is there a seemingly large percentage of the questions being asked here related to C#?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:41:50.170" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:41:50.170" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" Title="Why is there such a large percentage of C# questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="35" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="21991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:28:58.280" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;C# is currently a logical choice for professional software development, and as such it will often be the first language of a lot of new and inexperienced developer, who will be asking more questions.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;P&gt;&#xA;Also, the language itself is relatively new and still updated quite frequently, so some concepts may not yet be so widespread and will be new even to more experienced developers.&#xA;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;P&gt;&#xA;I don't mean to imply it's a &quot;language for newbies&quot; - it's just a common choice.  Therefore I also agree with many of the posts above that say C# is probably a lot more popular than some statistics imply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136012" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="21992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:29:15.690" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would disagree with the assessment that C# is not a popular language. Pretty much all of the Microsoft-based businesses (barring the games industry and some areas of the hard-core financial industry) I come into contact with are using it (or in the process of migrating to it from vb/vb.net).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="21993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:31:12.113" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has a strong Microsoft heritage. Since Jeff is a C# dev. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="21994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:31:22.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of those charts could be considered flawed, but taken as a whole I imagine there's a couple of factors maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's relatively new compared to Java, C, Perl and SQL&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's relatively niche compared to the more utilitarian javascript, sql, html, xml&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like it or not C# basically means Microsoft stack which does present a barrier of entry to many, where LAMP stack languages are going to be more popular with the kind of users who're going to be running more searches (small shops, students, newbie coders)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The world is still plagued by VB developers who evidently need motivation to move on&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="21995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:31:23.750" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because this site is built in C#, founded by guys who program in C# or are in the Microsoft sphere, beta-tested mainly by guys who program in C# or are in the Microsoft sphere, and therefore there was already a lot of C# stuff on here when the site went public. So C# programmers come here because they know they'll get answers, and they'll tend to find out about it from like-minded people in the C# community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no intention for SO to be language-specific as I understand it, but it makes sense that you'd get the ALT.NET crowd here first of all given that Jeff Attwood is behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166992" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="21996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:32:18.023" Score="45" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory: because the bulk of the people here came from Joel and Jeff's original audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are (I figure) basically Windows people, so a lot of the questions will be Windows or .NET questions. C# or VB.NET follows from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a new language and as a language that's undergoing active change (e.g. ASP.NET MVC), there'll be a lot of things that are new to people, so there'll be a lot of questions. A mature language won't raise too many questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally (as a Win32, C#, MSSQL programmer) I like this. I also like that people on other languages/platforms (Python, Ruby, drupal, etc.) are starting to come here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8446" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="21997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:32:23.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This phenomenon is not limited to the perceived popularity of a programming language.  With anything, you generally have 3 major groups of interested parties.  You have the evangelists, the opponents, and the average majority.  Both the evangelists and opponents will be very vocal, but the majority are just getting their jobs done.  The vocal minority can create the public perception that they are larger than they really are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2470" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="21998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:32:36.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably because many people use it to learn programming in the first place. At least many lack the skill of searching for information before asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="21999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:33:05.417" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might simply be that the statistics on Lang Pop is not accurate. It shows C in many graphs visualizing search engine statistics as leading, but how about search engines that filter away the # character? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Yahoo search on &quot;c programming&quot; (that query is used on Lang Pop) contains hits on C# and c++ programming as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's interesting to see how few people question the actual data shown on Lang Pop. Never trust statistics you haven't faked yourself ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another fact of course it that languages such as C and C++ have a much longer history than rather new languages as C#. Therefore it would not be surprising to have more hits on C/C++ than on C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That there are so many questions on C# here on SO (and other forums) might be related to the fact that it is a young language, but also to the fact that there is quite an active community for C# on the web. I have the feeling (but I might be wrong) that this is not so much the case for C (I imagine the typcical C developer will stick to his man pages ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40347" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:33:30.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lang pop results are misleading.&#xA;C# suffers from having a character that's hard to search on.  Using search engine queries as a measure of its popularity is flawed at best.  Developers of C# who do searches tend to avoid searching on &quot;C#&quot; because it brings back invalid results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7643" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:36:44.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Statistics sample are not &quot;random picked&quot;, there are a lot links coming from C# blogs, msdn blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think stackoverflow.com is NOT YET well known by other community. stackoverflow.com is not better then others(forums, mailing list) on same langauge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159046" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:37:05.860" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The LangPop results are highly questionably.  (Amazon has zero books about C# &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; C++?)  Clearly several of the search engines they are using aren't up to handling symbols in the search string.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further they use several *nix-friendly/MS-adverse websites (slashdot, google code), but few MS-friendly website (why freshmeat but not CodePlex?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, many of the measurement are historic (people have been writing about C++ for 15 years, Java for 10, but C# for only 5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff &amp;amp; Joel main audience are MS-centric, and they were the initial users here.  Especially since this is one of the first major websites to use ASP.NET MVC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143270" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:39:19.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The assesment that C# is not popular is very dependant upon which realm of developers you survey.  I'm a long-time consultant in the NYC area and have worked in various industries including finance, insurance, banking, pharmaceutical, legal and engineering.  In those venues C# is overwhelmingly the language of choice for enterprise scale application development.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   If you consider the robustness of third-party support and the advantages of using a type-safe, memory managed platform that is heavily supported by a large corporation, the reasons are clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:39:41.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use C# professionally and for hobby programming. I seriously dispute the charge that C# is not a very popular development language. Many, many people use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could ask the same question about why there are so many LISP/Scheme questions popping up on here these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130849" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:44:39.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a few factors that may cause the discrepancy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The metrics used to measure popularity are inexact.  The different sources of measurement are skewed in particular directions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The .NET audience was alerted to SO from its inception and so SO may likewise be skewed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Older languages already have support forums (SQLServerCentral is much better for DB/SQL related issues).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C# is being widely adopted.  It's the language of choice for most of the places I work with.  Look on the job boards - a significant percentage of jobs are for C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133493" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:47:51.580" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;C#'s popularity on StackOverflow may have started because of Joel &amp;amp; Jeff's heritage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it may continue as part of a feedback loop.  Developers find StackOverflow through a C# web search are more likely to ask C# questions.  More hits for C# questions.  Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T14:50:41.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The methodology used by Lang Pop seems to be flawed, or at least skewered against C#. &#xA;First of all C# is a fairly new language compared to say C or C++ or even Java so it makes sense that more books and web pages will have been written about those languages, simply because they’ve existed longer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, both Freshmeat and Google Code focus on Open Source and Unix/Linux software.  C# is not used very much in these circles, partially for the bad cross platform support and partially for ideological reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also their Amazon and Del.icio.us results seem wrong.  They claim there are more books about Haskell and Forth than there are about C#.  I cursory search on Amazon that I just did seems to seriously dispute that.  They also claim virtually no del.icio.us links to C#, again simply going to that site would prove that wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the whole there seems to be more than enough flaws in their approach to safely ignore any conclusions about programming languages that you might come to using their data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T15:42:09.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would expect it to be the most popular for the various reasons below (in no particualar order).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The more people learning the language then the more questionst that they have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At one point, most .NET examples were in C# (I'm not sure if that's the case anymore).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are Java programmer C# is the most natural .NET language to use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are a VB classic programmer I personally feel that VB .NET is such a different language that you might just as well learn C#, your previous VB knowledge just gets in the way in VB .NET.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are a C or C++ programmer you would naturally migrate to C#.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XNA uses C#.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I believe C# is the most popular language for Compact Framework development on Windows Mobile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's the language to use for Mono based development.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T15:42:55.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dont agree with the langpop sites way of measuring the popularity of the language/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Languages such as C have been round much longer than C# so it seems likely there will be more books articles etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There always seems to have been less open source projects written in C# than say PHP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certain sites favour or are more popular with specific languages&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T15:43:50.313" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that is never taken into consideration in these &quot;language polls&quot; is the longevity of the language.  I am not surprised that C leads almost exclusively in all of the polls in the original link, since it has been around longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with using something like books from Amazon is flawed, by nature.  If a language has been out longer, of course it is going to have more books.  The same holds true with articles online, and is even further compounded by the name of the language (having a # in it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more appropriate way to measure would be to do such measurements over a fixed period of time, i.e. over the last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From personal experience, I can tell you that there are more job openings in my market for C# developers than either the PHP or VB developers that show up ahead on the charts, and C# and Java appear to be pretty close in talking to some of the technical recruiters that we have worked with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147453" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T16:28:57.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are gaming companies using C# as well.  I worked for a company for a while and they had a fully implemented slot machine with device support all written in C# except for a couple of interop DLLs where required.  The only thing pending was gaming board approval, but they bought another company and scrapped the $5 million project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T16:47:36.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking over Lang Pop, it seems pretty much useless. The statistics vary widely with several languages jumping all over the place from being one of the most popular in some of the lists, to hitting rock bottom in others (According to Lang Pop, Amazon has no books on C++? That doesn't seem very plausible given that I've bought a good handful from them)&#xA;And most languages vary their positions wildly on the different lists. And of course, searching for &quot;C Programming&quot; doesn't just give you a list of matches for the programming language C. It also gives you matches for everything related to programming which mention the &lt;em&gt;letter&lt;/em&gt; C, perhaps as a variable name. Or how about a book, blog post or anything else on, say, Haskell, which says &quot;unlike in C, &quot;? Whoops, suddenly we've got a match for C Programming.&#xA;How many C# texts do you think mention Java and/or C/C++? I'd guess something like 99.99%. But the reverse isn't true. Why would a C book even mention C#? Same with Java. Java was there first, there's no point in contrasting the language with C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, C# &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a very popular language. Not as widely used as Java or C/C++, perhaps (all of which are much older, and also better supported on non-MS platforms), but still very popular.&#xA;And now consider who actually asks the most questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it people who're working on the same C application they've worked on for the last 8 years? Not often. Is it people who are learning programming, or are trying to deal with a new technology? Quite often. And C# is very popular in those circles. .NET and C# add features almost overnight, and because the language is relatively young, and improves very quickly, a lot of people are learning it. Either because it looks like the next big thing, or simply because they've been tasked with developing or maintaining a C# application, so they need to learn the language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, your &quot;average&quot; C# programmer is likely to have less experience with the language than your average C++ or Java programmer have with their language. That means that C# is likely to be overrepresented on any site where people can ask for programming help, such as SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, of course, at least one of the founders of SO is a big fan of the language, and his blog tends to be read by a lot of C# programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T16:53:09.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because C# is in fact a popular language. Remember that statistics is just another word for lies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137089" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T19:40:12.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would strongly contend that Langpop is either inaccurate or pushing an agenda.&#xA;C# is all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T19:45:38.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we check in number of search, C# is not as much searched as Java or PHP but still is popular.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://clip2net.com/clip/m12122/1228851787-clip-50kb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in the comment of this question. This question has already been discussed and we see more C#/Vb.Net question because &lt;strong&gt;the peoples who launch this website have a lot of reader from their blog. Their blog are .Net related&lt;/strong&gt; and of course that bring a lot more C#/vb.net developer here. Maybe in few months we will see more other language big name coming here and the community will change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T19:46:56.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one of the reasons (in addition to the more popular answers in this thread) is misuse of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the time people use a language-specific tag when there's no need for it.  For example, &quot;How do I subscribe to an event in C#?&quot; would definitely require a C# tag.  &quot;How do I make a worker thread to perform an asynchronous action that raises an event when it is finished?&quot; is not a C#-specific question; this should be tagged .NET.  People polarize themselves to one language and figure, &quot;I want a C# answer, so I'll tag it as C#.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151926" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-09T20:00:16.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people that use this site are mainly .NETers that all read the same blogs and participate in the well-known .NET group-think that all .NET 'professionals' subscribe to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you think C#/.NET users get so defensive when you ask a question like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-10T08:48:07.517" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,  I'm the creator of &lt;a href=&quot;http://langpop.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://langpop.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are indeed problems with C, C# and C++.  It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; noted on the site - you did read the text, instead of just looking at the graphs, right?  Suggestions on how to get around the problem are welcome, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Amazon results are indeed incorrect.  One of the problems with multiple data sources is that on any given day, one of them is often acting up, sometimes in subtle ways.  For instance, today for some reason Yahoo is returning very few results for delicious.  Working on correcting it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Longevity &amp;amp; Amazon: yeah, languages that have been around longer are more present in lists like books.  That is one measure of popularity, though, isn't it.  Now that I have a year + of data, perhaps I will start adding some information about deltas in order to show what's been growing lately.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't think the statistics are &quot;worthless&quot; as some commenters suggest.  Do I think they're highly accurate?  No, but it's not possible to be highly accurate with those kinds of data sources either.  And I still think they are generally pretty good data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the original poster's question, I don't think that C# is exactly &quot;unpopular&quot; - if you correct for the Amazon results (should have those done shortly), and for some open source bias in using Freshmeat as a data source, C# does ok.  And naturally, lots of Windows people seem to be on this site, so that explains why it's relatively more popular here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Dave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;: I found what changed with the Amazon results, but like I said above, Delicious has some problems.  site:delicious.com &quot;c++ programming&quot; returns zero results, and the following two pages return identical counts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://delicious.com/tag/c%2B%2B+programming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://delicious.com/tag/c%2B%2B+programming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://delicious.com/tag/c+programming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://delicious.com/tag/c+programming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;: I went ahead and used the Delicious results even though it can't tell the difference between C, C++ and C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any online survey is going to get skewed by the interests of the readers - you can't really use it as a good example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In UK job market C# and Java jobs pay about the same, and both job markets are driven by the number of positions available and the relative scarcity of available developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reckon Java and C# are about the same size in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all of us in the private beta were readers of Jeff Atwood's (mostly .Net) blog. So there was skew here when it first went public.  A few months later it now seems pretty balanced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T10:45:05.847" />
  <row Id="22020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2009-01-09T00:13:43.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is pretty silly. You are discussing two fundamentally different issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One issue is that C# may not be mentioned on as many web sites as Python on PHP. Honestly, what does this have to do with anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue is how many users of each language there are (i.e. ACTUAL popularity). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138665" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T00:13:43.203" />
  <row Id="22021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2009-01-31T02:22:39.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The cited survey measures &quot;buzz&quot;,&lt;/strong&gt; not popularity or frequency of usage by actual programmers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experts rarely use such generic words in their exchanges.  Searching for the word &quot;programming&quot; biases the search toward academic and news sources and away from professional sources.  So this popularity measure is skewed toward people who are &lt;em&gt;not paid&lt;/em&gt; to program and discounts people who &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; paid to program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accuracy improves dramatically when money is involved.&lt;/strong&gt;  A more reliable pair of sites to search would be Dice and CareerBuilder.  And these sites almost certainly have a search that distinguishes C#, C, C++, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is some &lt;a href=&quot;http://career-resources.dice.com/it-job-market/Q1-2008/reports.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data that Dice posted&lt;/a&gt; for Q4 2007.&#xA;Numbers are approximate, as I copied them off a graph.  Note that job postings for &quot;.Net&quot; were 3 times those for &quot;C#&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Q4 2007)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;19,000  Java&#xA;12,000  .Net&#xA;10,500  Oracle&#xA; 6,000  Sql Svr&#xA; 4,000  j2ee&#xA; 3,500  c#&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These numbers indicate that 18 months ago the Microsoft platform accounted for about 40% of industry jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-31T02:22:39.717" />
  <row Id="22022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2009-01-31T02:42:44.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using job posting sites, you can also do geographic distribution analysis.  I predict that C#, C++ and Java jobs are more concentrated in software tool building regions like Silicon Valley, Boston and Redmond/Seattle, while VB.Net is more uniformly spread and is used by non-software businesses to build their line-of-business applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Dice actually publishes this geographic analysis each year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-31T02:42:44.917" />
  <row Id="22023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2009-01-31T02:47:53.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because C# is simply &lt;em&gt;that awesome.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality is much more mundane, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MS has anointed C# as the preferred development language for microsoft applications, so lots of people are jumping on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The friction that naturally occurs as a language is still in infancy, and there are questions, problems, issues, new ideas, etc mean that even with few users a new language will get a lot of press.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that MS is pushing it, though, it's going to get substantially more.  Plus we've just barely reached the third iteration of .NET, which corresponds to when an MS product is typically considered mature enough to use 'for reals, yo!'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:03:14.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-31T02:47:53.767" />
  <row Id="22024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-13T00:34:14.583" Score="12" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point system makes new users &quot;addicted&quot;, in a sense, Stack Overflow becomes like a role-playing game (RPG), you stay here, try to earn points. Points are important, they're labeled &quot;reputation&quot;, as if they indicate your level of expertise, as if it's a testimony to your skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another Stack Overflow user, jgormley, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246984/the-downside-of-reputation-points-and-why-stackoverflow-will-die&quot;&gt;discussed a downside of this system in another post&lt;/a&gt;, so I'm not going to repeat his argument, but I will present another downside, which I notice in myself, and in many answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People make half-assed not-well-informed answers to questions just so that they get points. Even if the answer is not really what the OP is looking for, it's as if they skimmed the question and didn't really get the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, of course, is a side effect of trying to get points in any way, even by gaming the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that a question will get many half-assed answers, none of which truly satisfies the question. Some readers will up-vote questions, 'just because', it looks like a good answer, even if it isn't. I also suspect that newcomers might 'sympathize' with their peers, thus voting for their answers as a curiosity to help them earn points, and probably expecting others to do the same for them (This is just a hunch on my side).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, even if no one up-votes any answer, you'll still end up with a question that has 10 answers, none of which really answers the question at all. The question will drown in a sea of questions and no one will notice it again, so it never gets answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proper way to fight that is to down-vote stupid half-assed answers, but that's where the other problem comes in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system punishes you for downvoting, as if you shouldn't do it! It also doesn't punish the poster &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; to prevent him from posting a stupid answer. This happened to me once, I made a half-assed answer to a question, and it got downvoted! You know what? I didn't delete my answer, because my ego tells me &quot;shutup dude, my answer is good!&quot;, and it got downvoted again, but who cares, -4 points won't hurt, so my ego still insisted to keeping the not-well-informed answer. Now if it was -5 or -8, then I would've probably deleted my answer, or at least gave it a bit more thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T10:38:53.993" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T10:38:53.993" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T00:34:14.570" Title="Problems with Stack Overflow's reputation/point system" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-13T00:41:33.947" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to this being a community WIKI I almost didn't respond.  I'm addicted to points and this doesn't help me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, Back to reality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every system has flaws.  One of SO's is peoples greed and need for points.  This has been debating numerous times.  Most notable in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/56103/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West Thread&lt;/a&gt;.  Bottom line though is it works.  If it doesn't, then why do so many answers get &quot;accepted&quot;?  The shorter answer may not be the best but often times it's enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people &lt;strong&gt;truly&lt;/strong&gt; want this problem to go away then there is a simple 2 step process&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't vote for quick answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you see a quick crappy answer, write a better one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop complaining about the problem and take action.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T00:41:33.947" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-13T00:49:19.860" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen similar things happen but things almost always work themselves out, i.e. someone notices the answer is wrong, posts a comment and downvotes the answer, other people notice the comment, read the question more carefully and remove their upvote or downvote the answer.  It isn't a perfect system but it does work pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really wanted to &quot;game the system&quot; it seems to me the way to do it would be to just create a dozen accounts, get enough points to vote on each of them (pretty easy), answer a question or two every day and upvote them from every account as needed.  I doubt this is happening though because there seems so little incentive to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the RPG-like element, I think that most people recognize that reputation has little to do with skill level and take it for what it really represents: a gauge of useful participation on the site.  Lastly, regarding the addiction element, of all the things to be addicted to, learning and teaching doesn't seem to be a bad one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138147" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T00:49:19.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-13T00:52:21.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's based on the well-demonstrated fact that behavior conditioning is real. If you measure it, they will come. What you measure is what people will do. So be really really careful what you measure. And then don't blame the people when they try their hardest to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then they provide negative reinforcement if your evaluation is not positive. So the two acceptable behaviors seem to be to vote something up, or ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I wish is that they would require people to accept responsibility for anything that damages someone else's reputation (or closing their question). The way it is now, it's a drive-by shooting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T00:52:21.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-13T02:28:14.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation system ensures that questions will be answered, and there's no denying that this website is probably the best resource for getting a question answered quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the points system is also Stack Overflows biggest problem, for obvious reasons. The system will be gamed and points will be awarded for stupid answers that the tech crowd wants to hear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution I've mentioned in another Wiki topic is to reset the reputation points now and again (every 6/12 months) for every user. Sure, it'll be frustrating to build up all those points again, but it'll remove issues with certain users being too eager to close questions they believe to be stupid and in the future many users having the power to do what they wish. All it takes is one 5,000+ user to go off-the-rails at a quiet time of the day and everyone will suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T02:28:14.010" />
  <row Id="22029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-13T02:44:10.860" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system actually works pretty well when you consider that the &quot;race&quot; for reputation (if that's what you'd call it) generally draws in people and attention because of its nature.  Even if that race makes for occasionally sloppy results, it functions to draw attention and thus increase the scale of the community, which in turn increases the availability of overall knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, in a roundabout way, it does work.  And, because of human nature, that may really be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; way it could work if you don't want to lose out on that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19825" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T02:44:10.843" />
  <row Id="22030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-13T03:21:13.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do I get points for this answer if someone likes it?  If so, I have lots to say...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kidding aside, the points do provide an incentive for some folks to check often for things they might be able to help with.  That is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; a variety of topics where people have earned an enormous number of points (e.g. the &quot;Favorite Developer Cartoon&quot; entry) that aren't really warranted if you think of &quot;Reputation&quot; as synonymous with &quot;Expertise.&quot;  Similarly, sometimes snarky or funny answers get voted up even though they do little to actually answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all, though, awarding points is a pretty good strategy for prompting people to help others. Just don't confuse &quot;Reputation&quot; with &quot;Expertise.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T03:21:13.453" />
  <row Id="22031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-13T04:35:32.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the site would be anywhere near as successful without the points system or something similar, karma, mana, whatever.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gives people motivation to answer questions, rather than just ask questions or look for answers.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; Peer acknowledgement is a powerful thing, humans will go a long way for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be some that take on the air of a parking inspector once they attain more &quot;powers&quot;, there will be that in any system, it is a product of human nature, and no system of government or management has ever eliminated that, but the good ones have safeguards to mitigate the risks.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an imperfect but functional system, just like democracy, have not seen any significantly better ones yet, and it generally gets the desired result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-13T04:35:32.273" />
  <row Id="22032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2008-12-15T00:22:17.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reputation system is pretty good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this site has been built for accumulation of a vast question and answer database, because we are discouraged from repeating questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we then find a way of rewarding someone who takes time to answer a question that has gone a long time without an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can be done about members that ask a question, get perfectly good answers, but accept none of them? This behaviour deprives other members of deserved reputation, and clutters up the unanswered-view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T00:22:17.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22024" CreationDate="2009-03-09T08:50:55.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems fine to me - I don't care about the points, but I've got more than 100 or 150, which means I can downvote (which I do quite often, actually), but if I answer questions I easily get back above that threshold.  (The penalty for downvotes is almost nothing, seriously)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While any system can be manipulated, I think the biggest disadvantage is that controversal or surprising answers tend to get downvoted by the majority.&#xA; - That is difficult to resolve, other than by putting substantially more effort into not only answering the OP's question, but also providing far more proof and references to the answer - which is partly the point of the SO system, except that downvoted answers might forever be ignored...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151978" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:04:40.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-09T08:50:55.833" />
  <row Id="22034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-17T01:48:54.040" Score="3" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I discovered Stack Overflow, it has been excellent resource for answering program-related questions.  Lately, I actually find myself coming here before doing a google search to even answer the simplest of questions.  I have been so impressed the quality of feedback from the user community, I can just create a question and receive multiple answers in minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an appropriate behavior or should I always go to google before coming to SO for programming-related answers?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T18:08:21.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T01:50:20.947" Title="To Google or not to Google...Complexity of SO questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;research&gt;" AnswerCount="10" />
  <row Id="22035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2008-12-17T01:52:07.747" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest Googling StackOverflow by including &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; in your google search.  The search facility in stackoverflow itself isn't quite as good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that fails, then go ahead and google the rest of the Internet, you might get lucky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:05:29.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T01:52:07.747" />
  <row Id="22036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2008-12-17T02:11:57.907" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what I do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search SO first&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If no answer, then Google&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If answer found, post community wiki with solution&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If no answer is found post question on SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146104" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:05:29.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T02:11:57.907" />
  <row Id="22037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2008-12-17T02:22:17.293" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I signed up for SO after finding code solutions in posts here three or four days in a row &lt;em&gt;through&lt;/em&gt; Google. I imagine that as this site grows, so will the likelihood that your Googlin' will bring you back here. One could argue that by posting here first instead of searching Google, you're helping more like-minded people find SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:05:29.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T02:22:17.293" />
  <row Id="22038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2008-12-17T13:48:29.220" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer it if people Googled first.  I'd prefer fewer, better questions to read than dozens of lazy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:05:29.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T13:48:29.220" />
  <row Id="22039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2008-12-17T13:51:03.193" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google first.  Typically its answers include SO answers (thankfully over expert sex change!).  Then start asking an answer and look at the suggested dupes.  Typically this can pull some answers out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remember, if you ask a question which I find the answer on google - I'll call you out in shame :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:05:29.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T13:51:03.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2008-12-17T13:54:05.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always Google first.  I have, a couple of times now, had an answer show up in Google from Stack Overflow.  Google will probably always be my first choice, but I see SO also helping to augment what I am getting back from Google in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147453" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:05:29.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T13:54:05.353" />
  <row Id="22041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2008-12-17T14:14:02.553" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Search Stack Overflow first.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I have a Quick Search bookmark set up in Firefox, so I just type &quot;ggso [my search terms]&quot; to search this site. If you're interested, here's the link to bookmark for that: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?&amp;amp;q=site%3Astackoverflow.com%20%s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?&amp;amp;q=site%3Astackoverflow.com%20%s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If it's not on Stack Overflow already, then ask.&lt;/em&gt; This community has proven itself to really care about providing quality answers to questions, and getting the best answers to the top. The same can not be said about a lot of other tech forums on the web. &lt;strong&gt;By asking the question on Stack Overflow, you're going to make it easier for other people to find a good answer to their similar problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answerer to questions, you should NEVER just post a link to a Google Search. That is the least constructive and generally unhelpful thing you could do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:05:29.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-17T14:14:02.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="193" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:12:42.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions like &quot;What's wrong with C++?&quot; are actually not subjective in the literal dictionary sense. There are answers to the question - C++ has advantages and disadvantages - but &quot;it depends&quot;. Usually it depends on the project you are working on, and often above all the people available. To quote Joel, who as usual &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;said it beautifully&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you decide between C# and Java? The only real difference is which one you know better. If you have a serious Java guru on&#xA;  your team who has build several large&#xA;  systems successfully with Java, you're&#xA;  going to be a hell of a lot more&#xA;  successful with Java than with C#, not&#xA;  because Java is a better language&#xA;  (it's not, but the differences are too&#xA;  minor to matter) but because he knows&#xA;  it better. Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be useful and informative answers: the answers to that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/385297/whats-wrong-with-c-compared-to-other-languages&quot;&gt;what's wrong with C++&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question are interesting. Anyone willing to give a &lt;strong&gt;definite&lt;/strong&gt; answer (other than &quot;it depends&quot;) is probably argumentative and inexperienced - and the answers should be downvoted. IMHO these folks are aware that other people are more expert than them in technology they haven't used - C#/Java/Ruby/whatever - but they lack the confidence to be relaxed about it - it upsets them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the questioners might just be genuinely seeking guidance, and not argumentative at all. I'd give that &quot;what's wrong with C++&quot; krebstar fellow the benefit of the doubt. I guess if the argumentative answers get argumentatively upvoted, the question might have to be closed - but the answers and upvotes are the problem, not the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastEditorUserId="135917" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T08:29:35.573" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:29:35.573" />
  <row Id="22043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:16:21.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we should add a reason to close:  &quot;Should have googled it&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for simple questions that are typically answered by the &quot;I'm Feeling Lucky&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133482" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:16:21.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-15T17:16:21.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22046" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:28:40.757" Score="0" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the facebook profile url, linkedin url, can we have a url at SO? May be it can be a good attraction to a resume!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135920" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T18:20:05.360" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T23:23:26.447" Title="Can we have a profile URL at SO?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22044" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:30:17.870" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/886/a-friends-list-on-stackoverflow-would-be-nice/914#914&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Repeat after me: SO is not a social networking site. - Cletus&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:30:17.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22044" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:30:22.487" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get it. What is wrong with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135920/faiz&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135920/faiz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:30:22.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22034" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:35:21.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually I have exhausted web searching before I ask a question on Stackoverflow.  A web search might take a bit of hunting but if the resource is to hand it is normally quicker to find it on the web than to get an answer off SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I have to resort to SO to ask questions along the line of 'is [obscure thing] possible, if so how'.  Questions of the form 'how do I do xyz' or 'what's the meaning of such and such an error message' are often quite amenable to keyword searching on google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some topics are just not well documented in general.  For example, I see an awful lot of 'how would I go about doing xxx' type questions relating to WPF/WCF.  This incidence of questions on these topics suggests that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The available documentation and web resources on these topics are somewhat lacking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oblique approaches are often needed to do basic stuff with these technologies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a significant paradigm shift from earlier technologies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, SO may actually be one of the more significant help forums available for these topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:35:21.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-15T17:35:21.933" />
  <row Id="22049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22044" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:37:22.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why yet another profile? If I could link my Twitter Account and maybe integrate my LinkedIn and/or Facebook account, that could be a much better idea. (And with integration I mean more than just linking to it). I think I have profiles on about 10 sites now, and most are not up-to-date because I see no point in 10 sites asking for a profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:37:22.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22044" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:44:12.243" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the Internet, and you have a place to put raw &lt;code&gt;HTML&lt;/code&gt;. Put a link to facebook if that is what you want in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stack&lt;b&gt;overflow&lt;/b&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; facebook, even if they sound a lot similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:44:12.243" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:47:58.490" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should users be able to self-migrate a question if they realize that they've posted it on the wrong site? Should there be a reputation threshold before this is enabled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:11:15.953" Title="Self migration" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="22052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22051" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:51:01.810" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe have the &lt;strong&gt;question owner's vote worth 4 votes&lt;/strong&gt; for migration votes, needing only one more to have it moved to SF/SU/SO/MSO would be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;helps teaching the user to post on the correct site in the first place by not making it arbitrarily easy to move&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;yet speeds up moving the question, or even ensures it happens for questions with few views/interest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:51:01.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22051" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:54:17.247" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone isn't familiar enough with the SO/SF/SU/MSO family of sites to post their question in the wrong venue, they probably won't be familiar enough to take advantage of any &quot;self-migration&quot; system (they either won't realize it even exists, or they'll likely misuse it). &lt;br /&gt;I think the current method works fine, as the community usually stays on top of migrating questions to their appropriate venue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T17:54:17.247" />
  <row Id="22054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T17:56:00.787" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to search/filter questions containing code or that have answers containing code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T18:07:16.710" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:25:45.020" Title="Filter Questions and/or Answers That Contain Code?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="22055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22054" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:08:20.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably search based on some keywords within certain programming languages. But a perfect search for only questions/answers that contain code will be close to impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:08:20.840" />
  <row Id="22056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22051" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:11:15.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there is a need to complicate this functionality further as questions are currently moved to the appropriate site within minutes usually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:11:15.953" />
  <row Id="22057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22054" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:21:06.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand on Ólafur's response, even if you could, you would find that a very large number of questions and answers contain code.  And of those that don't, they may still contain code blocks used for formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By contrast, if you need coding help, such a filter might omit the result you need merely because someone describes the procedure in prose rather than in a code block.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why would you need such a search?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:21:06.247" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22044" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:21:57.573" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You already have a profile url:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/82961/faiz&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/82961/faiz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the &quot;faiz&quot; part (perhaps you want to show your real name for resume purposes), you can put anything you want after that last &quot;/&quot; character to share around.  The important part is the ID.  For example, this works just fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/82961/Joel-Coehoorn&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/82961/Joel-Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:21:57.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22054" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:25:45.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&lt;/a&gt;.  Query for posts with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in the body of the question and at least one joined answer. Note that the site is using data that's couple months out of date now, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:25:45.020" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22091" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:32:31.360" Score="3" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed that one of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/93105/list&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; was marked as Community Wiki by the Community background process even though it hasn't met any of the criteria for &quot;wikification&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The body of the post has been edited by four different people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post has been edited six times by the original owner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question generates more than 30 answers. In this case, the question and all answers will enter community mode, as will any future answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these are true, but it was still marked as Community Wiki by the Community process.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: No, a moderator did not do it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/5161/20090915145822.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T00:16:56.870" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T00:16:56.870" Title="Does the Community background process randomly mark questions as Community Wiki?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22060" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:34:54.537" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;em&gt;Best way&lt;/em&gt; question: Doomed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T18:34:54.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22060" CreationDate="2009-09-15T18:41:52.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A moderator probably changed it to Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically anything that happens on the site that shouldn't be associated with a real user, gets &quot;owned&quot; by the Community User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code has been changed since January, when that question was changed Community Wiki. The revision list will now list who made it Community Wiki, if it was done by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T23:10:22.173" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T23:10:22.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22065" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:13:17.917" Score="4" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed the following happen a few times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user posts a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is closed as a duplicate and the usual &quot;Possible Duplicate&quot; links are added at the top.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user promptly removes the duplicate links, even though the question is still closed as a duplicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;(excessive use of list items =P)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I could understand this behavior if there was some dispute about whether or not the question was a duplicate, and the OP were to remove the links &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; post reasons why they disagree with the closing. However, I've noticed this happening without any attempt to defend the question (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1422147/advise-to-improve-programmers-attention-to-detail-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, no one should be allowed to remove the &quot;Possible Duplicate&quot; links &lt;em&gt;as long as the question is still closed as a duplicate&lt;/em&gt;. The links should remain for the benefit of the community, so they can navigate to the duplicate questions and either post answers there or read them over and judge if the closing was actually fair. Once/if the question is reopened the links could be edited out if one so chooses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this is part discussion, part feature request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could the &quot;Possible Duplicate&quot; links remain un-editable for as long as the question is still closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T03:52:15.800" Title="Should users be allowed to remove the &quot;Possible Duplicate&quot; links on closed questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21886" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:15:28.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sponsorship period runs through Dec 31st 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T19:15:28.270" />
  <row Id="22065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22063" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:20:55.077" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel like this feature is necessary. If you ever see a user engaging in this behaviour, you should just reinstate the link. If the user then rolls back your change, flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel like the effort required to implement the feature is warranted considering that it does not seem to be all that prevalent, and we can easily roll back any abuses we see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T19:20:55.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22063" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:21:37.573" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be obvious from the close reason that the question was closed as a duplicate, and anyone can go into the revision history to see which questions were dupes if the OP wants to throw a tantrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it happens often enough to warrant special code to protect that markup.  Not every irrational behavior that humans can display needs to be addressed in the implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T19:21:37.573" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:24:42.293" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as the title says; if I found a serious security issue (e.g. which makes it possible to use spam bots, sign in with fake OpenIDs etc...), what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a bug report on meta (which makes it possible for everyone to abuse it if they know the issue exists :-) )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contact the Stack Overflow team (Jeff Atwood etc...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something different?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, I don't say I found one, but, well, just in case...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T21:43:42.910" Title="Should I report a serious security issue on meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22067" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:27:38.637" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;E-mail team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T19:27:38.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22067" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:52:04.663" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To @Adam's answer, I would also add that after giving the developers some time to fix the problem, if there is still no solution, I believe that it is appropriate to go public with it.  As long as the developer is genuinely working with you to solve the problem and isn't simply invoking delaying tactics, I would hold off on going public.  If they have had enough time and still haven't addressed it, then going public is a last resort to getting them to address a security issue. I wouldn't go so far as to give an implementation, but you should be able to give enough information that the problem is obvious to others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T19:52:04.663" />
  <row Id="22070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22168" CreationDate="2009-09-15T19:57:46.883" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow the rich formatting bar disappeared. I tried refreshing my cache but that did not work. It works fine on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T23:52:26.620" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:00:03.753" Title="Rich formatting not working" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22067" CreationDate="2009-09-15T20:17:31.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @tvanfosson in that if nothing is done, then you should bring the information public.  This is in line with the classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Full Disclosure Policy (RFPolicy)&lt;/a&gt;, which seems very reasonable, at least in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't mean that the team must fix it right away, but it does mean that they must get back to you right away, and you should be satisfied that they are actively working to fix the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T20:17:31.400" />
  <row Id="22073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22070" CreationDate="2009-09-15T20:28:04.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have NoScript installed? The formatting bar disappears for me if I block sstatic.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T20:28:04.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13674" CreationDate="2009-09-15T21:00:14.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Curious though, in the examples here that the same &lt;em&gt;date&lt;/em&gt; in the PAST is shown as 12 months for one user, and 1 year for another. These two users were &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/13/yearling&quot;&gt;recently awarded Yearling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1253052333072175600.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1253052353030720900.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the date awarded was Sep 15 2009, and both registered at some point on the 14th of the year previous, how could the calculation give different results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T21:00:14.753" />
  <row Id="22076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22111" CreationDate="2009-09-15T21:43:38.993" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a minor nitpick on something I've noticed a few times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As many of you know, when you downvote a question/answer, it gives you a message prompting you to leave a comment about why you did.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all well and good, except that I tend to write a comment first, and then down vote later if there's no improvement/response.    The message still prompts you to leave a comment, even though you already have added one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's really minor, but it's just a little oddity that I noticed.   It'd be nicer if it only gave the prompt when you actually hadn't commented, since the big dark red box (on meta anyway), always catches me as a &quot;problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T23:52:11.097" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T06:39:16.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-03T18:49:33.020" Title="&quot;Consider Leaving a Comment&quot; message" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22067" CreationDate="2009-09-15T21:43:42.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We encourage all security reports to be sent to team@stackoverflow.com and they are all followed up on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I currently don't &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; any in the mailbox..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T21:43:42.910" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22076" CreationDate="2009-09-15T22:02:38.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, definitely minor, but I imagine it should not be terribly hard to do a quick query of the comments on that question and see if any were left by you when a downvote occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T22:02:38.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22085" CreationDate="2009-09-15T22:05:25.287" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;On questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1429746/why-doesnt-gcc-like-this&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; there are many answers that are only slight deviations of each other. It would be great if there was a way to close, delete or otherwise disable an answer that the community deems an exact duplicate of another. The closed answer could later be edited by the poster at which point it would &quot;come alive&quot; again, in case they believed their answer wasn't a duplicate they could clarify as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T22:12:24.153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T23:07:31.040" Title="Collapse Duplicate Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22148" CreationDate="2009-09-15T22:05:31.653" Score="30" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;All overflow related websites ask  &quot;Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page&quot; etc. etc. any time I try to leave a page after beginning a comment or answer - even if I have deleted ALL text in the input boxes after changing my mind. This is a small thing, but always bothers me. Should it be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T07:19:34.093" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T07:19:34.093" Title="Don't ask me if I'm sure that I'm finished when there's nothing in the answer box" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21957" CreationDate="2009-09-15T22:11:48.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There aren't so many D questions on SO mostly because the D newsgroups have a long history as the D community's focal point.  I would generally ask a D question on the ng before even thinking of asking it on SO.  In fact, I'd be surprised if SO came up with an answer that the ng couldn't come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, for the purpose of archiving good answers to specific questions, SO is much better than the ng.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I think you'll find that D questions get answers very quickly on SO anyway, due to a number of knowledgeable D users having subscribed to the D tag feed on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... doh, just realized this is a really old question that just appeared in the D RSS feed because it had been moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135933" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T22:11:48.427" />
  <row Id="22082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-15T22:12:42.670" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an answer to a &quot;How should I do X?&quot; question recommends a particular technology and is accepted, should the tag for that technology be added to the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for doing so is that it makes it easier to search for uses of that technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I can think of a few reasons against, including putting off other answerers, and possibly implying that the question is more specific than originally intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are more reasons both for and against. I'm interested in seeing other's opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T22:36:21.800" Title="Add tag(s) to accepted answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22082" CreationDate="2009-09-15T22:36:21.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say no, since there would be many answers with other technologies, and they all can't be referenced.  The text search will hopefully pick it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T22:36:21.800" />
  <row Id="22085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22079" CreationDate="2009-09-15T23:07:31.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed before.  The community will vote up what is perceived to be the best answer.  So the duplicates will filter down in time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T23:07:31.040" />
  <row Id="22086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22080" CreationDate="2009-09-15T23:17:13.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a browser thing. For example opera does not do this. Since it doesn't fire &lt;code&gt;onunload()&lt;/code&gt; properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would require a check of the data within whatever box was filled (which can by many, since there are comment boxes also). Which might be the reason for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could/should it be fixed? Sure. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there time? No clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T23:17:13.923" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22099" CreationDate="2009-09-15T23:40:10.260" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, really.  I like ice cream, but you don't see me making an i-like-ice-cream tag on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it really belongs on ServerFault, can't I be trusted to figure that out on my own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-15T23:48:31.730" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T01:59:52.923" Title="Is &quot;belongs-on-serverfault&quot; a real tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22087" CreationDate="2009-09-15T23:44:21.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a generally frowned upon tactic, but I can see why some people who may not have the ability to vote may retag it in such a way to alert higher rep users who may be skimming the question lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also say that &quot;bogus-tags&quot; is not a very good tag itself. It has not been used any other times (at least not when this was written according to the sidebar). The purpose of tagging in general is to categorize questions into the correct buckets, and there are much larger and more comprehensive tags about tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T23:44:21.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22087" CreationDate="2009-09-15T23:50:36.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides the reasons TheTXI listed, it also let's new users know where they should have posted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T23:50:36.373" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22070" CreationDate="2009-09-15T23:53:51.750" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No other reports of this from any other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see you've tried this in both IE and Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you behind a proxy / firewall that is blocking sstatic.net or otherwise interfering with normal HTTP traffic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-15T23:53:51.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22060" CreationDate="2009-09-16T00:14:48.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &quot;randomly&quot; to community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to about 2 months ago, the user was not stored / shown in the switch to community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post was made community wiki Jan 9 which predates that change. Thus, it could have been any user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is, at some point, someone edited the question and ticked &quot;community wiki&quot; as their only change. Why, I have no idea; maybe it was accidental.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T00:14:48.607" />
  <row Id="22092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T00:15:32.957" Score="-3" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riddler badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded to those who have asked a question with 3 or more points, no (upvoted?) answers in a month and which remains open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to motivate people to ask unanswerable questions (those will be closed anyway), but is intended to be a compensation for not having your question answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Riddle Solver badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded to answers to the question who've gotten the Riddler badge and get accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T00:17:13.283" Title="New badges: Riddler and Riddle Solver" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22092" CreationDate="2009-09-16T00:17:13.283" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/63/tumbleweed&quot; title=&quot;roll in with the dust balls&quot;&gt;the Tumbleweed badge&lt;/a&gt;, a consolation for having no answers and low views on your question. But not if you have it upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other end of that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/17/necromancer&quot; title=&quot;dead will float again&quot;&gt;the Necromancer&lt;/a&gt; for those who answer a question over 60 days later and garner at least 5 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T00:17:13.283" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T00:19:48.817" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have put up a bounty &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20726/drawing-sketching-tool-for-elaborating-questions&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; worth 100 reputation. Its going to expire in few hours from now.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;However till date I have not received the relevant answers,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I would like to extend the bounty to another week and also increase the bounty reputation by a substantial value.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is this possible? How do I go about doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T07:01:11.467" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T07:01:11.467" Title="How to Extend a Bounty?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22094" CreationDate="2009-09-16T00:35:34.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no method of extending a bounty at this time. It is also not possible to place a new bounty on a question that has already had a bounty placed on it, if I am not mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T00:35:34.497" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T01:34:54.717" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;More and more I'm finding that the &quot;stats&quot; tab on my profile page is less useful than the others. For example, I often visit my profile page to look at the &quot;recent&quot; or &quot;favorites&quot; tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance that the site could remember which tab I last visited on my profile page, in much the same way that it remembers which tab I last visited on the /questions page? That way I can save a click if I keep visiting my profile page just to view favourites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Tom has suggested using a GreaseMonkey script, but I'm using IE (work machine), so I'd prefer something built in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastEditorUserId="615" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T02:27:30.847" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T02:27:30.847" Title="Can the profile page remember the last active &quot;tab&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22087" CreationDate="2009-09-16T01:59:52.923" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We generally frown on the use of the &quot;belongs-on-&quot; tags.  Tags are supposed to be used to categorize questions, not direct what site a question belongs on.  People can flag for a moderator if they don't have the reputation to vote to close.  It also looks stupid once a question is migrated to retain the tag, just making more work on both ends (adding the tag and removing it later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T01:59:52.923" />
  <row Id="22102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22097" CreationDate="2009-09-16T02:19:33.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How mad will you be if I say you can use greasemonkey to change your username link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/615?tab=favorites&quot;&gt;skip directly to a tab&lt;/a&gt;?  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T02:19:33.217" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-09-16T02:22:50.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about UML but one potential tool is &lt;a href=&quot;http://balsamiq.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Balsamiq Mockups&lt;/a&gt;.  I love this tool for making quick diagrams in our wiki for my development stories.  It has a fixed palette of configurable drawing items that are more than enough for just about any diagram (except, maybe UML, but I only use that on a whiteboard) you'd want to draw.  I don't know they'd be interested in working with SO to develop a plugin, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T02:22:50.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-09-16T04:06:44.193" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And here I thought he was just the &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/345/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dread Pirate Roberts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="131197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T09:07:41.537" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:07:41.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19938" CreationDate="2009-09-16T04:42:15.780" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. Although watching the votes is more like an ego issue, knowing there has been activity on a thread that you posted in can be relevant. I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9032/&quot;&gt;mini-app&lt;/a&gt; to watch these things. It's not pretty, but it works (for me, anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T04:42:15.780" />
  <row Id="22107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19938" CreationDate="2009-09-16T05:09:08.897" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not real time, but you could query the &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;such goodness&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt; to see the comments you've left along with their score at the time of the snapshot of the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=select%20score,%20concat%28%27%3ca%20href=%22http%3A//stackoverflow.com/questions/%27,%20postid,%20%27%22%3e%27,text,%20%20%27%3c/a%3e%27%29%20as%20comment%20from%20comments%20where%20userid=%2790691%27%20order%20by%20score%20desc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;all those percentages must hurt&quot;&gt;something like this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT score, &#xA;  concat('&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/', PostId, '&quot;&amp;gt;',text, &#xA;  '&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;') as comment&#xA;FROM comments &#xA;WHERE userid='90691' &#xA;ORDER BY score DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use it to work out how close you are/were to getting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/94/pundit&quot; title=&quot;talk much?&quot;&gt;Pundit badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T05:09:08.897" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21932" CreationDate="2009-09-16T05:19:48.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a really annoying term, as I got it backwards for some years. The short version of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.advogato.org/person/trs80/diary/37.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;full rant&lt;/a&gt; is I'd heard of the GPL beer earlier, and RMS distributes lots of his rants under a no-modifications license, so I thought free beer was the open source/free software one, and free speech was the no cost, but unable to modify one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130340" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T05:19:48.363" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="555" CreationDate="2009-09-16T05:21:49.717" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or maybe &lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet IS Skynet&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T05:21:49.717" />
  <row Id="22110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19940" CreationDate="2009-09-16T05:32:13.503" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be helpful to change the tooltip for the voting buttons from: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is [not] helpful (click again to undo)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is [not] helpful (click again &lt;strong&gt;really fast&lt;/strong&gt; to undo)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T05:32:13.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22076" CreationDate="2009-09-16T06:39:16.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had similar thoughts but considered it too minor to post a question on.  Trivial, yes.  But that box is just a hair too invasive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A variation:  &lt;em&gt;If one up votes someone else's comment, then don't show the box.&lt;/em&gt;  The implication being that you are supporting someone else's comment on why there was a down vote and there is no need to bug folks about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T06:39:16.777" />
  <row Id="22112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22115" CreationDate="2009-09-16T07:39:37.133" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about the ranking/list order in the results at Google. Where should I post my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be best on Stack Overflow, Super User or Server Fault? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135515" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T09:03:53.573" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:14:00.950" Title="Where can I ask questions about Google?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="22113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22112" CreationDate="2009-09-16T07:44:56.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, from what angle are you asking? As a developer? As a web-master? Or as a user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question isn't &lt;em&gt;directly related&lt;/em&gt; to one of these roles... perhaps preview the actual question here so we can make a sensible statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T07:44:56.923" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22127" CreationDate="2009-09-16T08:07:35.240" Score="3" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like half the questions I click on these days are full of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1431419/whats-the-fundamental-reason-for-c-to-forbid-calling-the-default-constructor&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; or even &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1308518/can-i-modify-a-java-swing-jtextarea-so-that-it-looks-like-a-jpasswordfield/1309593#1309593&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;&quot;* that don't relate to the question, but instead are complaints about the poster's other questions, demands that the user mark other questions answered, comments about the user's accept rate, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of active, I won't say &quot;reputation-whoring,&quot; let's say active &quot;playing of the reputation meta-game&quot;, in the middle of other people trying to get their programming questions answered, it bugs the shit out of me, personally. It's distracting. It's clutter. In game terms, it ruins the immersion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But clearly these meta-comments are important to the users who make them, and some of them get a lot of up-votes too. The Stack Overflow reputation game is serious business for a lot of people, it looks like; and it being one of the major drivers of smart people posting smart answers, I'm all for it. And it's not like we can split Stack Overflow into, like, RP and PVP servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way both &quot;player types&quot; can get what they want? Can we come up with some other channel for users to express their complaints about other users' etiquette or posting style? Or is making sure those complaints get in the face of the rest of us an inseparable part of the game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* The word &quot;answers&quot; originally linked to an &quot;answer&quot; more or less of the form: &lt;em&gt;I could tell you, but since you've ignored my answer to your other question, I'm not gonna.&lt;/em&gt; Looks like it's since been nuked, so that's one good deed accomplished for the day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135952" LastEditorUserId="135952" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T10:21:10.077" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T10:21:10.077" Title="Is there too much &quot;user meta&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22112" CreationDate="2009-09-16T08:28:31.237" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about how the Google algorithm work really doesn't fit into any of the Stack Overflow sites (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5924/whats-a-good-way-to-refer-to-all-four-sites-collectively&quot; title=&quot;Stack Overflow/Server Fault/Super User)&quot;&gt;SOFU for short&lt;/a&gt;) as it's not the target audience or field of capture for the family of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well i am developper and webmaster for that site. It was made for a customer. The customer asks me now, why -- while searching for the same phrase -- one day, his site is listed top 1 or 2, but the other day it is not listed at all. But if he searches for a slightly different phrase (namely plural instead of singular), the website is found and listed top 5. Then, after a few days, the site is back number 1 with the original search phrase. My question is, what causes this &quot;found&quot;/&quot;not found&quot; in google and how can I avoid it. The site is somewhat SE optimized using google webmaster tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Won't fit here as it's not a programming question. You would need to ask it in a way of how you would create an algorithm like Google has if you were to ask the question at SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Server Fault&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Won't fit here as it's not about servers or system admin. For it to be, the question might have to be asked like you wanting to work out how to do some load balancing across the servers that are being queried by millions per second. But right now, it would not fit here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Super User&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Won't fit here as it's not a computer question. Unless it was about prefences or something other than how your site is returned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:28:31.237" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22114" CreationDate="2009-09-16T08:35:40.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it looks like the new accept rate feature does more harm than good. But it could be too early to decide that finally.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand your complaint about the complaints, but even if you add another place for them, I doubt that someone will use it. Complaints are there to be spit in one's face, or more nicely, to place them where you are sure the other guy reads them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I think you have to live with them. Nothing you can do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T08:44:58.427" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:44:58.427" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:36:32.247" Score="29" ViewCount="729" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to use the Stack Overflow logo as an image on a blog post about this site.  What are the rules on using it?  Can I use it in any way?  Can I chop the words out and just use the image, or must I keep it intact? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T10:42:10.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-10T12:59:43.573" Title="What are the rules on using the Stack Overflow logo?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;logo&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="22118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:43:32.640" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose that you should wait for Jeff to respond, but since there's a CC license link below, I'd assume that the logo (and the rest of the site) as covered by the license at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&lt;/a&gt;.  If that's true, you can use any content that you want but have to give due credit (read the license ... that's my synopsis).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part ... everybody wants publicity, so I don't expect you'll have a problem getting permission;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:48:48.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:49:11.643" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the sort of thing that should probably get added to the site FAQ.  Most companies have a set of guidelines explaining how their logo may be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135669" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:48:48.380" />
  <row Id="22120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2008-10-10T12:50:28.537" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a creative commons link on the bottom of every page, but it's unclear whether that covers &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; content or only question/answer content.  For lack of a clearer definition, you can probably get away with using the &quot;all content&quot; definition (pending remarks from Jeff Atwood or Joel Spolsky, of course).  Also, even if the site founders intend the logo to also have a CC license, the graphics designer they hired to create it may still have a say in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the CC license would only cover copyright.  The logo is being additionally used as a trademark, and while it's not registered (at least, they don't use the little &amp;reg;  symbol),  you could still have issues just throwing it anywhere.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you don't do anything that could cause 'consumer confusion' &amp;mdash; where a someone might accidentally think some service provided by you is in fact provided by StackOverflow &amp;mdash; you ought to be okay in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:48:48.380" />
  <row Id="22121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2009-02-17T22:23:20.817" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just go ahead and use it.  If you are blogging about this site I think it is fair game given the CC thing and lack of TM or R logos.  If they have a problem with it they can contact you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you plan on using it to link/post about SO then it is probably appropriate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd probably put something int he post about the logo being the property of SO or taken from SO.  (Can't say it is registered TM because I don't think it is)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:48:48.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-17T22:23:20.817" />
  <row Id="22122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2009-02-19T05:46:26.377" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Caveat: I am not a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common sense says: without explicit permission, don't do it - the logo is intellectual property that does not belong to you. Using it implicitly implies affiliation with and/or endorsement by Stack Overflow, which you do not have. Using it without permission invites a lawsuit. Whether the logo is trademarked or not is irrelevant. Would you use IBM's logo on your web page without their permission? Of course not. The same applies to any other business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best advice: follow Jeff and Joel on Twitter and just ask them for permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-21T10:42:10.050" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T10:42:10.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T05:46:26.360" />
  <row Id="22123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2009-02-19T06:18:35.533" Score="77" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a trademark. The purpose of trademark law is to prevent consumers from being misled as to the origin of a product. So if you were making a product, and you used the name Stack Overflow or the Stack Overflow logo in your product or its advertising, in such a way that would mislead some consumers into thinking that your product &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; Stack Overflow, you would be violating the trademark and this would not be legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if you started a website called &quot;Stack Overflow News&quot; and used the logo, that would create confusion... people might think that the site was a part of Stack Overflow or was officially endorsed in some way. If enough people were reasonably confused as to the origin of your site, it's a violation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo image itself is copyright. Copyright is different than trademark. Ordinarily you couldn't copy it. But if you were writing a news story or blog post about Stack Overflow, reproducing the image would almost certainly be considered &quot;fair use&quot; and thus permissible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were writing a blog post, say, about Stack Overflow, for example, and the blog post was a description of the site, maybe a review, and there was no possibility that anyone reading that blog post would think that in some way YOU were Stack Overflow, then using the logo would be fair use under copyright law, and allowed under trademark law because you were not using it &quot;in trade.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trademark law is a lot more complicated than that, so you'd have to consult with a real lawyer if you thought you were doing something iffy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:48:48.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T06:18:35.533" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2009-02-19T19:40:03.293" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to consider asking the people behind team@stackoverflow.com (Click the 'contact us' link at the very bottom of the site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136317" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:48:48.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-19T19:40:03.277" />
  <row Id="22126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22117" CreationDate="2009-02-22T20:40:02.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so my comment on Joel's post got long, so here it is as an answer :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to use the stackoverflow logo&#xA;  as an image on a blog post about this&#xA;  site. What are the rules on using it?&#xA;  Can I use it in any way? Can I chop&#xA;  the words out and just use the image,&#xA;  or must I keep it intact?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, so you are writing an article &lt;strong&gt;about Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;. You are &lt;strong&gt;not in any way claiming to BE Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;, just writing about it. Then I would say you are good - there is nothing that can OR should be done against you by Stack Overflow Ltd. It's the same as if you write about Microsoft, you can use their logo, for example, as an illustration to go with the article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure on the legalities about having to file for TM protection, but general use says you are good - the same as general use (or whatever the legal term is) says that Stack Overflow Ltd have the rights to their own logo, even if they haven't officially (tm)'ed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you were using it as the logo for your blog or company, then: &lt;strong&gt;hell no&lt;/strong&gt;. Even if your Stack Overflow Ltd was involved in something like paper stacking machines, it's still a confusion for a customer - just think about Apple Computer vs Apple Corps (the Beatles recording company) or iPhone (Apple) vs iPhone (Cisco). Both of these were settled in and then out of court. I think Apple lost (that is, had to pay) both, and it cost them a few million. Also, why is the Apple TV called Apple TV, and not iTV? Google &quot;eye TV&quot; from Elgato, which is an Mac-only TV tuner....*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah - if you have a blog post about Stack Overflow, and want to put the Stack Overflow image inside the post: &lt;strong&gt;I can't see how Stack Overflow Ltd (ie, J and J and G and .... damn it, what's the other guy(s) names?) would have a reason to do anything &quot;to&quot; you&lt;/strong&gt;. Even if your blog post said &quot;Stack Overflow sucks munkeys, d00d&quot;. Are you legally allowed to do it? I'd say so, tho IANAL, and the worst that would happen is you'd get an email from J and J asking you to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try to use the image as-is if you can, BUT if you can find just the logo anywhere (it's in the favicon for example) then they have used that on it's own, so it's logical that you can too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think in this case, Apple decided not to turn on one of their more popular 3rd party vendors, so they just chose a better (IMO) name for the product. And they would have lost in court (Elgato Systems has been around for ages).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132945" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-21T10:41:09.987" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T10:41:09.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-22T20:40:02.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22114" CreationDate="2009-09-16T08:49:20.260" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simple&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta discussion belongs on meta.stackeoverflow.com &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a user does not bother accepting answers, you can simply ignore their questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone is posting &quot;-1 should be wiki&quot;, this is considered abuse and should be flagged as such. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone posts an answer along the lines of, &lt;em&gt;I would answer the question but since you do not bother accepting answers, I will not answer it&lt;/em&gt;. It is abuse, flag it as such. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone is flagged too often, they will be punished with -100 rep. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People need to be a bit more liberal with the flag button, it can save us from evil. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T09:03:13.497" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:03:13.497" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22114" CreationDate="2009-09-16T08:58:09.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While general meta discussion belongs here, occasional comments like the ones you linked to (the second one should be a comment, not an answer) are in place, IMHO. It's clear that new or less concerned users will not check the general discussions here, but they'll read the hints given directly to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's part of the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T08:58:09.933" />
  <row Id="22129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22112" CreationDate="2009-09-16T09:14:00.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case you're curious, the answer is because Google uses secret sauce. That secret saucing process reshuffles everything fairly regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:14:00.950" />
  <row Id="22130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T09:19:21.050" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this as an answer to another question, but after some thought, I think it qualifies as a feature request in its own right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a per-tag breakdown (based on a question's tag list) of each answerer's reputation in addition to their lump sum reputation.  Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is tagged with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;C#&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;winforms&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;combobox&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer would look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blah blah blah &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;b&gt;Eric&lt;/b&gt; 200 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;C#&lt;/kbd&gt;170  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;winforms&lt;/kbd&gt;50  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;kbd&gt;combobox&lt;/kbd&gt;10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would give more insight into how credible a person's answer is.  I think it will also be more rewarding for people that are more active in less popular tags.  I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T16:50:05.423" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:50:05.423" Title="Per-tag breakdown of reputation in answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="22131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="467" CreationDate="2009-09-16T09:26:30.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of new users accept answers without upvoting. A lot of these questions are very specific to the user's problem, for example &quot;what is wrong with my config file&quot;. There is very little chance that this will be of interest to another user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I think that an accepted answer should count towards a badge tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:26:30.053" />
  <row Id="22132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22130" CreationDate="2009-09-16T09:36:23.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation is no measure of expertise;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you earn upvotes beyond the daily rep cap, you will get no rep for the votes and thus less reputation than you might otherwise deserve in this measure. This is a significant issue for some who earn many upvotes beyond the daily rep cap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:36:23.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22130" CreationDate="2009-09-16T09:40:37.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An interesting idea, but in reality there would be very few tags that would be interesting to see. I mean there are around 26k tags on stackoverflow, but you are not interested in seeing the reputation of all of them. Often there is one or two main tags along with some that are uncommon but good for the semantic of the question. If such a feature should be implemented I would suggest that it only would be applied for the most common of the tags or the tag that is listed first. So that in the above example what's really interesting is the persons reputation in c#, not how many questions about combobox he has answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131645" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T09:40:37.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22147" CreationDate="2009-09-16T10:25:56.027" Score="16" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, subsequent edits of posts (questions and answers) completely overwrite previous edits silently and without prompt. I'm not sure how large a problem others feel this is, but personally it has a been a slight annoyance on a number of occasions. For questions that are in dire need of editing (&lt;em&gt;sigh&lt;/em&gt;, all too many nowadays), it is not uncommon for one edit to succeed another by a matter of seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggested solution is: why not add &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic%5Fconcurrency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;optimistic concurrency&lt;/a&gt; to the editing system? This would be a non-obtrusive way of managing conflicting edits, in my view. Locking (i.e. pessimistic concurrency) would admittedly not be the right way to go, and could possibly become a larger nuisance than the current one; yet optimistic concurrency need only prompt the editor if there has been a conflicting edit during the period he has been making the changes. Displaying the conflicting edit (perhaps in an AJAX-updated box?) and offerring the following options should be sufficient:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overwrite conflicting edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discard current edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add current edit to history, but let conflicting edit remain active&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, most of these conflicting edits are quite inadvertant, but happen in such a way that neither the first not second editing user notices that their changes have overwritten others/been overwritten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'd like to know what everyone thinks of this idea. It would seem to be an addition that requires minimal changes to the existing framework, and something that would be quite handy for anyone frequently editing posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T23:24:06.563" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T20:27:50.187" Title="Optimistic concurrency for post edits?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="22136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22138" CreationDate="2009-09-16T10:29:07.863" Score="0" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stackoverflow, I see that you can achieve badges and tags.&#xA;For instance, when you've received 400 upvotes for answers that have been posted in questions with the C# tag, you receive a badge for this.&#xA;This is also true for answers in questions that have been tagged with sql, jquery, .net, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: why is it not possible to achieve an nhibernate/hibernate badge ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T14:48:52.107" Title="Why is there no badge/tag that can be achieved for hibernate/nhibernate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22136" CreationDate="2009-09-16T10:31:50.963" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Baseline right now for a silver badge is &lt;strong&gt;400&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes on a tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/5Eizb.png&quot; alt=&quot;this is not 300?&quot; title=&quot;we need more upvotes!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you'll need about one hundred more on the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[hibernate]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tag to see if it clocks you in one or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T10:42:57.120" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T10:42:57.120" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="22138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22136" CreationDate="2009-09-16T10:57:43.893" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges only register once someone reaches 400 upvotes. If no NHibernate badge exist, it simply means that no one has reached 400 upvotes on the nhibernate tag yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm that badges indeed correctly register, look at the fact that there is a badge for the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/87/string&quot;&gt;string&lt;/a&gt;&quot; tag...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T14:48:52.107" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T14:48:52.107" />
  <row Id="22140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22142" CreationDate="2009-09-16T11:11:44.293" Score="6" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10888/how-does-one-find-which-tags-they-created&quot;&gt;How does one find which tags they created?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a page where we can see the what tags were created by the taxonomists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T00:59:32.647" ClosedDate="2010-07-12T01:19:37.573" Title="Who created which tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22140" CreationDate="2009-09-16T11:14:31.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC you can not currently see who created what tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T11:14:31.870" />
  <row Id="22142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22140" CreationDate="2009-09-16T11:21:41.013" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;This is now possible&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/11/taxonomist&quot; title=&quot;here's one example as such&quot;&gt;Taxonomist badge page&lt;/a&gt; on the sites and you'll see the list of Taxonomists as well as what tags they were marked as creating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T00:59:32.647" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T00:59:32.647" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22144" CreationDate="2009-09-16T11:33:57.777" Score="2" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the top bar (on StackOverflow), after my account name, it says I have 3 silver badges and 5 bronze badges. But when I want to find out which badges I have on my user page, I see only 2 silver badges and 5 bronze badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is a discrepancy, and I have no idea why!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T15:15:24.350" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T15:15:24.350" Title="Number of badges in top bar does not match number of badges on account page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22143" CreationDate="2009-09-16T11:41:58.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge is a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, you at one time had the Beta badge and in total would count as a silver badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15582/is-the-yearling-badge-meant-to-replace-the-beta-badge&quot; title=&quot;talking like the wind&quot;&gt;revocation of the Beta badge&lt;/a&gt;, it still left the remnant count of an extra silver badge up top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, while you may have signed up before the end of Beta, if you didn't notch up three (3) bronze badges before the end, you do not qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/uZ3L0.png&quot; alt=&quot;too bad, so sad&quot; title=&quot;cannot take the pain any more. must shed tears of woe&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like a scar really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T12:07:07.903" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T12:07:07.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22143" CreationDate="2009-09-16T11:52:22.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badge totals aren't recalculated if you lose a badge. The next time you earn a badge that you've lost (either a specific badge or a type of badge) the total won't increment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why you might have lost a badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Beta badge criteria were changed retrospectively and there was a reassignment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question might have been migrated to another site - where you will earn the badges (but not the rep - until a recalc is done) straight away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OP might change the accepted answer from your 10+ vote answer to another, hence losing you the Enlightened badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T12:18:34.370" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T12:18:34.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-16T12:03:14.417" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wife was kind enough to &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Hon3yZA/status/4026820738&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; me when the stickers arrived in the mail today. So I did the obliguatory desk shot of the unpack stickers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/7176/img0010un.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stickers 1&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9652/img0011ss.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stickers 2&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Mac will definitly get one or two, and my wife already recieved her part of the pile. Will update with photos once distrubuted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T12:03:14.417" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22135" CreationDate="2009-09-16T12:23:23.520" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://neil.fraser.name/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Neil Fraser&lt;/a&gt; has developed an online collaborative editing tool called &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MobWrite&lt;/a&gt;. There's a few &lt;a href=&quot;http://mobwrite3.appspot.com/static/demos/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;online demos&lt;/a&gt; including a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mobwrite3.appspot.com/static/demos/editor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;text editor&lt;/a&gt; that show how you can collaboratively edit content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of the fun/carnage to be had if the question edit page used this approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those interested, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://neil.fraser.name/writing/sync/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;discussion of the theory&lt;/a&gt; I found quite fascinating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T12:23:23.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22080" CreationDate="2009-09-16T12:40:11.150" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like SO attaches a listener for &quot;beforeunload&quot; event only after you start writing in a textarea. All that needs to be done here is check for a textarea value in that &lt;code&gt;onbeforeunload&lt;/code&gt; event handler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;window.onbeforeunload = function() {&#xA;  return 'You have started writing or editing a post.';&#xA;};&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be easily changed to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;window.unbeforeunload = function() {&#xA;  // check other textareas too&#xA;  if ($('#wmd-input').val()) {&#xA;    return 'You have started writing or editing a post.';&#xA;  }&#xA;  return false;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135805" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T12:40:11.150" />
  <row Id="22149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22114" CreationDate="2009-09-16T12:59:59.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;David,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the point of view of the answerer, the accept rate allows people with limited time resources to spend answering on SO to prioritize which questions they should spend time/effort answering (all other things being equal). I'd rather be compensated with rep than not, given a choice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the point of view of the questioner, this &quot;your accept rate is low&quot; pointing can be a valuable service. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, many of them (based on my observation of such complaints and questioner's responses to them) are actually people who did not realize you can accept answers and many are genuinely thankful for having the feature pointed out to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, it allows them the knowledge that they would be missing valuable help/advice unless they change their habits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, I have recently answered a question with a generic &quot;you can do this by writing a simple script like this&quot;, but explicitly pointed out that due to low acceptance rate I was not willing to spend my VERY constrained spare time I'm able to spend on SO on actually helping him more by writing the script. As I was (and still am) the only one who had anything resembling a usable answer for that question, he has a choice of changing his ways, or going without the help I would otherwise provide him (and while I do admit to being a reputation whore, that time would be spent answering other people's questions, so the only loser is that person).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To answer your specific question (&quot;Is there a way both &quot;player types&quot; can get what they want?&quot;), I'd like some clarification one who specifically the first player type is? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean &quot;a guy asking questions on SO&quot;, then yes, they can get what they want (good answers) by being a good player and accepting answers :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean &quot;A guy browsing through other's questions to find the answers&quot;, they can get what they want by reading the 90% of relevant info in the answers and skip &amp;lt;10% of volume added on my meta-complaints (at least that was the ration I observed so far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you mean some other pattern of user, I'll have a constructive suggestion in case you can clarify.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this sheds some flavor on the other side of this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T12:59:59.183" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22114" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:27:10.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, a 'good' user accepts answers to his/her questions, generally. Of course, it can happen that no good answers are supplied. On the other hand, asking 20 questions and having a 0% accept rate can mean only two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad questions, never get answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OK questions, OK answers, but no accepts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these two are considered negative. As DVK already pointed out: commenting &quot;your accept rate is too low&quot; can be genuinely helpful. I'd like to add: as long as it is not more than a comment. Downvotes, double comments, etc. are not useful (and, in the case of comments, should be flagged).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135965" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T13:27:10.253" />
  <row Id="22151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22156" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:31:14.897" Score="-10" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Takeaway:&lt;/strong&gt; Are 4 inexperienced users more reliable than 3 experienced users? A high rep doesn't ensure you are smarter, but it makes you the &lt;strong&gt;safer&lt;/strong&gt; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to SuperUser to see what suggestions can be found for different Malware-removal Applications. &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/19217/question-about-malwarebytes-anti-malware&quot;&gt;Question #19217&lt;/a&gt; was right on target, and sported five answers, with a total of 9 up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the answers were provided by low-rep users, and that leads me to recognize that the up-votes may be a similar case. Just as answers aren't always equal, neither should up-votes be. The top answer currently has 4 up-votes, and the second most popular answer currently has 3 up-votes. The people who voted in the 3, may be more reputable than those who voted in the 4. Am I communicating this clearly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not asking that we be told &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; voted for a particular question, but I am asking that we be told what type of reputation they had. If the 4 votes come from 4 users with less than 300 rep, and the 3 votes came from two users with 300 rep and 1 with 10k rep, the 3 votes should appear stronger by the standards of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now I'm worried about accepting the top-voted solution simply because I fear the up-votes may be from people with similar rep to those providing the answers - that doesn't make them wrong, only less-reliable by the standards of the stackexchange engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we see the sum of rep for  the votes? (Data in parenthesis would not be visible)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;4 Votes (Ted • 72 | Bill • 183 | Carl • 423 | J • 100) = Power of 778&#xA;3 Votes (Bob • 19,123 | TJ • 283 | Mike • 8,923)       = Power of 28,329&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case, you wouldn't see who voted, only that their rep-sum was 778 and 28k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;4 Votes : 778&#xA;3 Votes : 28k&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not tied to this way of indicating the vote-power, but some method is better than no method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another concern is that higher-rep users (having been around longer) participate in voting less-frequently than new-comers do. After all, we're not trying to gain badges, build rep, etc. As a result, it's more likely that a low-rep users will cast a vote than it is a high-rep user. Does that follow logically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Rebuttal&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation (From the SO-FAQ)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is a (very) rough measurement of  &lt;strong&gt;how much the Stack Overflow community trusts you&lt;/strong&gt;. Reputation is never given, it is &lt;strong&gt;earned by convincing other Stack Overflow users that you know what you're talking about&lt;/strong&gt;. (emphasis added)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Rep has nothing to do with credibility, competence or knowledge!&quot; - John Smithers&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree. But it does have to do with &quot;how much the SO community trusts you.&quot; Granting that, some votes are more trustworthy than others. Because they come from users who have convinced &quot;other SO users that they know what they're talking about.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The purpose of anonymous voting is that all votes are valued equally, whether they come from Jon Skeet or from some new person.&quot; - devinb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That is clearly not the case though. If SO operates by labeling some users more &quot;trusted&quot; than others (which it does), then that would mean some votes are trusted more than others. I would trust Jon Skeet to suggest a good programming book than I would two freshmen. It's irrational to suggest Jon Skeet &lt;em&gt;will offer the best recommendation&lt;/em&gt; but that isn't what is being argued here. Only that Jon Skeet is the safer choice given his reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Just because a person has reputation does not mean they have more technical knowledge.&quot; - yshuditelu&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree, but it does mean they are the safer source than somebody with no rep. That is, according to the SO-system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T16:30:38.580" LastActivityDate="2010-09-21T05:46:20.687" Title="Indicate How Trustworthy the UpVotes Are" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22151" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:40:50.713" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say this is the worst idea ever, however there is a few other examples that are far worse. It is the best way I can decribe how strongly I disagree with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter what the repuration is of the people that upvoted. If the answer was credible enough to recieve more then one upvote, and the answer works for you, then it is a valid answer. Just because someone has low reputation today does not mean they won't be in the top 2000+ users by the end of the next week, since they may have just joined, yet have the knowledge to vote on a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you asked a subjetive question, this is irrelevant, since this by nature will not have a right or wrong answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not neccessarily an indication of experience or knowledge, but rather a guide towards finding the correct answer based on individual experience. I have a decent amount of reputation on SU, but have a lot of answers I haven't recieved a single vote for because I was outright wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T13:49:39.623" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T13:49:39.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22151" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:41:45.160" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because a person has reputation does not mean they have more technical knowledge. Ideally it means they have provided more to the system of SO/SU/SF and the system reciprocates by allowing them to do more, but it definitely does not say they know more and therefore should be trusted more on a technical issue. They are trusted more on a issues of how to maintain the system (voting to close, editing, etc). Furthermore, someone could spend all their time answering every windows question that comes along, gains lots of rep, and then go vote lots on linux questions, where they certainly have not proven any knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T13:41:45.160" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22151" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:42:17.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned before... high rep != experienced in subject material (programming or otherwise)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And vice versa... experienced != high rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T13:42:17.107" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22151" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:43:24.797" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation clearly is the only measure we have to trust an answer or a person - and it is thoroughly flawed: you can earn tones of reputation by just asking masses of low value questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This said, does it really help to know whether the people upvoting an answer have a lot of reputation or not? The next I would like to know is: how did they earn it? And that would clearly take it too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer comes from a high rep user, I can search his rep building pattern on the user page and even see whether he repeatedly answered questions in the field my question is, looking at his top tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, if an answer has upvotes, it means that this many people found it to be a valuable answer (or at least this many more people found it to be good as there were people that found it awful). This should be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T13:43:24.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22151" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:49:33.443" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a terrible idea. The purpose of anonymous voting is that all votes are valued equally, whether they come from Jon Skeet or from some new person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few reasons for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We have no way of knowing if they have expertise in this particular area.&lt;/strong&gt; Marc Gravell has no knowledge (as far as I know) of anything to do with Lisp. But that won't stop him from voting on a Lisp question. If he, and the leading SO Lisp expert put votes on different answers, this counter would claim that the MG voted answer is 'more correct'. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People are attracted to high numbers.&lt;/strong&gt; It won't matter if one answer has ten upvotes, and a total &lt;em&gt;score&lt;/em&gt; of 2000, they'll choose the one with two upvotes and a total score of 17000. The ten people who voted will be overruled by the two people with a higher reputation. This spits in the face of the purpose of the site, which was designed to have the best answers bubble to the top based on &lt;em&gt;community acceptance&lt;/em&gt; not &lt;em&gt;elitist acceptance&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation is NOT expertise!&lt;/strong&gt; Reputation is &lt;em&gt;at best&lt;/em&gt; a measure of some part quality answers, and mostly &lt;em&gt;time spent on SO&lt;/em&gt;. I've been aroudn SO for a while, so I have a decent reputation. I gained that reputation by waiting a long time to find simplish questions that are within my limited knowledge, and then answering them in a stellar way. It doesn't mean I'm a technical expert. My reputation means I've been here for a while, not that I'm smart. Therefore, your new methodology would bias answers based on whether or not the &lt;em&gt;old people&lt;/em&gt; like them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another barrier to new people.&lt;/strong&gt; New people deal with the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fewer powers. They cannot do certain things&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are people who have admitted they don't answer questions by new people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They will likely have a low acceptance rate, because they don't understand the system. So people will not answer their questions for that reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are trying to integrate themselves into a community with &lt;em&gt;no consensus&lt;/em&gt; and a lot of abuse of newbie problems. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're telling them that their votes don't matter either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The voting system is the one part that is even and fair to everyone. Let's keep it that way.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T19:59:27.437" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T19:59:27.437" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="22157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22314" CreationDate="2009-09-16T13:57:18.220" Score="6" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that ads can be targeted based on the tags a user is browsing.  Given the recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20849/thanks-to-both-stackoverflow-and-telerik-for-the-awesome-promotion&quot;&gt;promotion by Telerik&lt;/a&gt;, we saw that SO also has the ability to target an advertisement to a subset of users based on their metadata, in this case users with 10,000 reputation or more.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a one-off situation, or does SO (and SE) have the ability to target ads to users based on other arbitrary metadata as well?  For example, pointing frequent question-askers to tutorial books and media, or showing advertisements for expert-level conferences to people with certain Specialist badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious how much of our SO metadata is available to the ad mechanism to attempt to provide us with interesting and relevant advertisements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T00:21:49.853" Title="How flexible is SOFU's ad targeting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22151" CreationDate="2009-09-16T14:22:15.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, here is the simple answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Voting is meant to be simple and anonymous, not complicated and predictive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T14:22:15.993" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22151" CreationDate="2009-09-16T14:27:24.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation functions to generate and maintain interest in the site.  Aside from showing how interested a person is in the site, it's pretty much useless as a basis upon which to form opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T14:27:24.063" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14665" CreationDate="2009-09-16T14:41:18.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It helps programmers boost their ego and make them happy to some point by being able to answer somebody else's questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T14:41:18.157" />
  <row Id="22161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22163" CreationDate="2009-09-16T14:46:11.580" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link text of the first link is expanded to the end of the next link. This just happened after my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1432515/list&quot;&gt;last edit&lt;/a&gt; (#4). I have already found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15474/entire-section-of-text-turning-into-link&quot;&gt;the other question&lt;/a&gt; describing a similar bug, but I don't have any bogus links in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1432486/creating-object-instance-from-posted-data-php/1432515#1432515&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44562" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T15:08:51.397" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T15:08:51.397" ClosedDate="2009-09-16T15:09:21.490" Title="Entire section of text turning into link #2" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22161" CreationDate="2009-09-16T14:54:00.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a new line in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/84a71ac1-0f9f-4a2e-8777-a9db4603a022/view-source&quot;&gt;code view&lt;/a&gt; of your post. I don't know if this has anything to do with this problem (maybe just a word wrap), but I would set the first link anew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T14:54:00.163" />
  <row Id="22163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22161" CreationDate="2009-09-16T15:06:32.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the problem is the '_' characters in the &lt;code&gt;__set_state()&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;var_export()&lt;/code&gt; screwing with your markup?  Not sure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever happened, I fixed it by adding a &quot;no-op&quot; link to the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, this is a dupe (or single-instance) of the more general &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;&quot; question.  Now that this specific post is fixed I'm going to mark this item as completed, but also add a link here from the other question so we can continue to track the larger issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T15:06:32.697" />
  <row Id="22168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22070" CreationDate="2009-09-16T15:44:50.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It came back suddently today with no intervention on my end. It wasn't working yesterday and it got back up today after the night. I have no clue of what happened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T15:44:50.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14665" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:00:33.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes for a great ressource for solving problems and turns me into a real multitasking power programmer: whenever needed I just dispatch another thread aka question to a multimillion thread pool...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it makes me laugh about all these people that think that nerds are non social and non communicative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:00:33.490" />
  <row Id="22171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:02:36.167" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have a search term to discover comments by a particular user? I've tried a few permutations without success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me comment:1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, I'm aware that &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/?q=select%20%0D%0A%20%20%20concat%28%27%3Ca%20href=%22http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com/posts/%27,%20postid,%20%27/comments%23comment-%27,%20id,%20%27%22%3E%27,%20text,%20%27%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%3E%28on%20post%20%23%3Ca%20href=%22http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com/questions/%27,%20postid,%20%27%22%3E%27,%20postid,%20%27%3C/a%3E%29%27%29%20as%20comment%0D%0A%20%20%20from%20comments%0D%0A%20where%20userid=123582%0D%0A%20%20order%20by%20creationdate%20desc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I can search old comments in comments.xml&lt;/a&gt; from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T16:39:57.330" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T18:04:38.327" Title="Any search terms for comments by a particular user?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22171" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:06:03.213" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, and you already know how to do it. :) Replace &lt;code&gt;me&lt;/code&gt; with the user's numeric ID. I just did a search for your comments here on meta by doing:&lt;pre&gt;user:130494 comment:1&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, of course, this shows a list of questions where you have comments -- so if you need something more granular, yes, you need the data dump or the sandbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:06:03.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:10:36.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following on from everyone's awesome collection of facts, how about this one - ready for the Dev Day talk...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet can deliver an hour long talk, complete with slides and sample code in 1 second.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5791" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:10:36.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T16:10:36.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-25T20:06:36.447" Score="37" ViewCount="1536" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible to flag a post as &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the effect of the &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; flag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should the &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; flag be used?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any way to remove &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; flags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/58032/how-does-the-spam-flag-work&quot;&gt;How does the Spam Flag work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T14:14:01.650" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T19:44:06.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T20:06:36.447" Title="How does the Offensive Flag work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;flags&gt;&lt;offensive&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22174" CreationDate="2008-09-25T20:06:47.460" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What is the effect of the &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; flag?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The offensive flag is designed to eliminate truly offensive posts and to penalize the authors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 flags: post is banished from the front page. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 flags: post is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/124889-offensive-posts-locked-not-deleted-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;locked&lt;/a&gt;, deleted, and the first revision owner loses 100 reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 flag from a moderator has the same effect as 6 flags from normal users: instant destruction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because a question with 6 flags is locked, a 10k reputation user cannot meaningfully undelete it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each offensive flag counts as a downvote for calculating the post's score.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should the &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; flag be used?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if a post is a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; post for some reason or other, it is probably not offensive.  The &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; flag is meant to be used only in extreme cases, like hate speech, or abuse.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if a user posts obscene images to the site, that should be flagged as offensive.  But if someone says something bad about your favorite technology, that probably doesn't apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb, if you can't justify something as being hate speech, or abuse, you shouldn't mark the post as offensive.  Instead, you should down-vote the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you decide to flag a post Offensive, you will get a warning dialog.  Take this time to decide if the post is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is there any way to remove &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; flags?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is often no need, as offensive flags expire after 48 hours if the thresholds aren't reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rolling back a post to a previous state will revert to the number of offensive flags from that particular revision.  This allows the OP (or someone else with edit rights) to rollback a post that someone else made offensive in a later revision.  However as a general user, once you mark a post as offensive, you cannot take it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1666" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-06-25T19:44:06.050" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T19:44:06.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T20:06:47.460" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22174" CreationDate="2008-12-10T02:54:49.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, if I mark an answer offensive and the person whose answer it is doesn't agree, that user (or anyone else with enough rep) can remove that offensive tag, but &lt;strong&gt;I can't&lt;/strong&gt;. Does that make sense? If I downvote a question, nobody can remove that downvote except me, and even I can't after a long enough period of time. So why should someone else be able to remove my offensive tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited&lt;/strong&gt; to add a clarification. After a brief email conversation with (someone?) at team@stackoverflow.com, I can now say that my concern is unfounded. You can roll back &lt;strong&gt;revisions&lt;/strong&gt; of questions or answers, but adding an offensive flag is not a revision. So if someone posts a question that is offensive and I mark it as such, the poster cannot roll back the question to get rid of my offensive flag, since the question is still at revision 1 so there's nothing to roll back &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt;. If someone posts a valid question and someone else &lt;em&gt;modifies&lt;/em&gt; it to be offensive, then the original poster can roll it back to his revision, thereby removing both the offensive content &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; any offensive tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is still the potential for abuse -- someone could post an offensive question and then &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt; post a small revision to it. If he did that before the original revision was marked as offensive, then he'd always be able to roll back to revision 1, thereby removing any offensive tags. But I think the likelihood of this is low. If it gets to be a problem, Jeff and the boys can revisit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:39:15.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-10T02:54:49.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22174" CreationDate="2009-03-28T21:10:39.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are facing a difficult problem here: your post about &quot;what is offensive&quot; makes it clear the matter is subjective and that one must avoid applying the tag lightly because the consequences are fairly severe. That being the case, it is guaranteed that there will be times when the flag is inappropriately used. Yet you lack a process for handling those cases, and this is going to hurt the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a question marked offensive when there was nothing offensive about it. By the very criteria I just read above, it should not have happened. If I am going to care about reputation and work on building it, then I should have a process whereby I can state the case for my defense when 100 rep is taken from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What process is there for that to happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, here's the question that was deemed offensive (as best I can remember ... it was blown away within 2 minutes). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: Granted, it is not the most value-adding question in the world. I was feeling goofy, and the metaphor of a &quot;virtual beggar&quot; crossed my mind. Plus, I think I partly misunderstood the meaning of the &quot;community wiki&quot; flag. So delete it ... but how does it justify the &quot;offensive&quot; flag?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subject:&lt;/strong&gt; Will you please vote me up? I have a disease. (Imagine me as a beggar on the sidewalk).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post Text&lt;/strong&gt; Ha ha, just kidding (which is why I marked it &quot;community wiki&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And let me emphasize: it was marked as &quot;community wiki&quot; from the outset. There is no way I could have garnered any rep from it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145090" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:39:15.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-28T21:10:39.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22174" CreationDate="2009-05-07T14:52:00.697" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a couple loopholes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Character assassination: Normal user posts question. Troll edits post to be offensive. Post is flagged. Normal user takes a rep loss.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Organized spam: 5 spammers get together and make lots of posts die. Doesn't seem to be a provision for someone's flagging itself to be deemed inappropriate. (E.g. if the post is clearly not flagworthy.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137802" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:39:15.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-07T14:52:00.697" />
  <row Id="22184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-24T04:42:58.157" Score="45" ViewCount="1169" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Stack Overflow there are many color codes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the number of votes on a question is highlighted with certain colors.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Sometimes the background of the question or answer text is highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do these colors mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-19T14:10:00.400" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T22:32:15.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T04:42:58.143" Title="What do the colors on Stack Overflow mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="22185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22184" CreationDate="2008-09-24T04:43:07.080" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The colors are designed to draw the user's attention to certain features of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Colors on the &quot;Vote Count&quot; in the question list:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The red highlight means that the question has never been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/noanswers.png&quot; alt=&quot;Not answered question&quot; title=&quot;Not answered question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The green highlight means that the question has at least one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/normal.png&quot; alt=&quot;Answered question&quot; title=&quot;Answered question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The yellow highlighted text means that an &quot;accepted answer&quot; was chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/accepted.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question with accepted answer&quot; title=&quot;Question with accepted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Colors in the background of a question summary in the question list:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Creme colored question contains one of your interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/interesting.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question with interesting tags&quot; title=&quot;Question with interesting tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vague (misty) colored question contains one of your ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/ignored.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question with ignored tags&quot; title=&quot;Question with ignored tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vague and creme colored question is both interesting and ignored ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/interesting_ignored.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question with both interesting and ignored tags&quot; title=&quot;Question with both interesting and ignored tags&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Colors on the background of a question or answer:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answers to questions which are accessed directly using a permalink or by the redirect right after you submit a question glow orange. (This is normal.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/new_glowing.png&quot; alt=&quot;Glowing submitted answer&quot; title=&quot;Glowing submitted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A blue background on the user information box in the lower-right corner of the answer indicates an answer posted by the asker of the question. The same holds true for comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/bluebackground_answer.png&quot; alt=&quot;Answer by the asker&quot; title=&quot;Answer by the asker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/bluebackground_comment.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comment by the asker&quot; title=&quot;Comment by the asker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers are indicated by the green checkmark next to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/accepted_tick.png&quot; alt=&quot;Accepted answer tick&quot; title=&quot;Accepted answer tick&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A purple-tinted background indicates the post is deleted. Deleted answers are only visible to the answer owner (i.e., the answerer), moderators, and users with more than 10K reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/deleted.png&quot; alt=&quot;Deleted answer saw by the answerer&quot; title=&quot;Deleted answer saw by the answerer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other known colorations&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blue highlighted stat text on a question is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457765&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Possibly this bug&quot;&gt;bug (in Firefox)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mitalia.net/images/so/ffbug.png&quot; alt=&quot;Firefox blue number bug&quot; title=&quot;Firefox blue number bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-19T22:32:15.967" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T22:32:15.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T04:43:07.080" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="22186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-03T15:33:33.007" Score="26" ViewCount="4056" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I post text so that it is formatted as code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I need to do so that my code shows up properly&amp;mdash;not escaped or removed&amp;mdash;when posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T23:49:32.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-03T17:41:30.683" Title="How do I format my code blocks?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="22187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22186" CreationDate="2008-11-03T15:35:30.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paste it in the edit field, select it and click the Code button (the one saying &lt;code&gt;{ }&lt;/code&gt;) above the edit field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-18T16:02:41.070" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T16:02:41.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-03T17:41:30.683" />
  <row Id="22188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22186" CreationDate="2008-11-03T15:36:19.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a block of text is indented (I think, 4 spaces), it will automatically be formatted as code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143270" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:40:51.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-03T17:41:30.683" />
  <row Id="22189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22186" CreationDate="2008-11-03T15:36:55.323" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;code&gt;inline code&lt;/code&gt;, any of the following will work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enclose with backticks: &lt;code&gt;`&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;`&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Embed within &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags, and manually encode HTML entities: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;html&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the partial text and hit Ctrl-K or click the &lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt; code button above the editor (pictured below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For blocks of code, to preserve newlines: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encase in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags, and encode HTML entities like &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; yourself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the code button above the editor (pictured below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indent everything four (4) spaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste your code, select the full lines, and hit Ctrl+K or click the code button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code copy/pasted from an IDE is often already tabbed. When rendering, tabs are replaced with spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/vCW2k.png&quot; alt=&quot;code blocking icon properly highlighted&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Code within a blockquote or list&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your code appears inside a blockquote or a list, you must indent a further four spaces for every level of nesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;E.g. - Blockquote:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&gt; Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. &#xA;&#xA;&gt;     for(;;) &#xA;        echo 'badger ';&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Within a list:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- First bullet (is the deepest)&#xA;&#xA;        for(;;) &#xA;          echo 'ow ';&#xA;&#xA;- Second bullet&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Syntax highlighting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prettify&lt;/a&gt; is used to add colour to the code, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/72391/why-isnt-syntax-highlighting-working-in-a-question&quot;&gt;only if&lt;/a&gt; the language can be uniquely determined given the tags of the question, or if manual hints have been provided in HTML comments, using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-none prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-or-tag-here --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    code goes here&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-or-tag-here --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    code goes here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/78363/manually-specify-language-for-syntax-highlighting/81971#81971&quot;&gt;the full specification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The HTML comments must &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be indented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The blank line between &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: ... --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and the indented code block &lt;em&gt;is required&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When using a tag to specify language, the tag name is &lt;em&gt;case-sensitive&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no language is defined then no highlighting occurs at all. But in the preview, or if multiple language tags define very different languages and no manual definition is used, a default highlighting is used in which Prettify makes a best guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-19T23:49:32.583" LastActivityDate="2011-07-19T23:49:32.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-06T17:09:47.303" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22186" CreationDate="2008-11-07T13:34:11.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have written a small desktop application, originally intended for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stum.de/2008/10/19/escaping-code-for-posting-on-the-website-and-removing-indent/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pasting code onto my website&lt;/a&gt;. Essentially, it removes the leftmost indent, without actually harming the indent of the code. (When I copy/paste stuff out of Visual Studio, it is sometimes indented 16 or 20 spaces already, and I want to have 0 spaces indent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from that example, a &quot;Stack Overflow friendly&quot; function to remove the leftmost indent and then add 4 spaces could look like this (this is C# Code, and tbCode is a Multiline Textbox):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre class=&quot;lang-cs prettyprint-override&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;int removeIndent = 0;&#xA;foreach (string s in tbCode.Lines)&#xA;{&#xA;    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s)) continue;&#xA;    int tmp = 0;&#xA;    foreach (char c in s)&#xA;    {&#xA;        if (c != ' ')&#xA;        {&#xA;            break;&#xA;        }&#xA;        else&#xA;        {&#xA;            tmp++;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    if (removeIndent == 0 || tmp &amp;lt; removeIndent)&#xA;    {&#xA;        removeIndent = tmp;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();&#xA;foreach (string s in tbCode.Lines)&#xA;{&#xA;    sb.Append(&quot;    &quot;);  // 4 Spaces &quot;Stack Overflow Indent&quot;&#xA;    sb.AppendLine(s.Length &amp;gt;= removeIndent ? s.Remove(0, removeIndent) : s);&#xA;}&#xA;tbCode.Text = sb.ToString();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be a little bit inefficient, but since we are not using it on millions line of code, it performs good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="155222" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-21T05:27:14.790" LastActivityDate="2011-04-21T05:27:14.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-03T17:41:30.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22186" CreationDate="2009-03-06T01:37:57.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To select vertically in Visual Studio, use the Alt key while dragging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lets you drag around just the text you're interested in, minus the indent, so should make it a one-step copy/paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[fixed to Alt, thanks Michael.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157528" LastEditorUserId="157528" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-18T23:29:18.740" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T23:29:18.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-03T17:41:30.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22193" CreationDate="2009-05-13T00:58:57.740" Score="8" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;raw markup&lt;/a&gt; used by an existing question or answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151568" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T06:02:43.237" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:02:43.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-13T01:38:12.187" Title="How can I view the source of a post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;view-source&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22192" CreationDate="2009-05-13T01:02:13.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is described in detail in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8211/hidden-features-of-stack-overflow/8219#8219&quot;&gt;Sam Hasler's answer to another question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's possible to view the markup used&#xA;  to create any question or answer.&#xA;  (This may be useful if you wish to&#xA;  combine answers or quote part of the&#xA;  question with formatting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the question or answer has been&#xA;  edited so that it has an &lt;strong&gt;edited X&#xA;  timeunits ago&lt;/strong&gt; link, you can use that&#xA;  to view the revision history, then use&#xA;  the &lt;strong&gt;view source&lt;/strong&gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it hasn't been edited then you can&#xA;  still view the revision history, but&#xA;  you'll have to manually enter the url&#xA;  in your browser's address bar. For&#xA;  questions, take the number in the&#xA;  middle of the page's url; for answers&#xA;  use the &lt;em&gt;link&lt;/em&gt; link for the answer to&#xA;  get it's unique number in the anchor&#xA;  of the url (after the # character) and&#xA;  then go to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;http&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;://stackoverflow.com/posts/&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;number&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;/revisions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151568" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T05:54:39.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-07T06:02:47.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-30T14:47:50.047" Score="12" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I will see a post that has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#From_M_to_GP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PG&lt;/a&gt; (or even &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#The_PG-13_rating_is_adopted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PG-13&lt;/a&gt;) rated content. The offensive flag can be applied to these posts. Should I wait for the community to declare it offensive and have the post removed, should I edit the post to remove the offensive content, or should I do both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18557/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-unofficial-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:43:59.950" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:43:59.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T14:47:50.047" Title="Should I edit a question or answer with offensive content?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T14:49:32.167" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is a valid question, just remove the offensive content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T14:49:32.167" />
  <row Id="22196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T14:52:05.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ doesn't say the site is PG or PG-13.&#xA;I would leave it until the community had voted, but I think the community is split on what is &quot;offensive&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ says spam, hate speech, links to obscene images and abuse, but I've seen posts marked as offensive because they contained a &quot;bad word&quot; (which I disagree with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: SO is somewhat unbalanced in this regard - you can flag something as offensive but you can't see something that's flagged by someone else and say &quot;actually, I don't think that is offensive&quot;.  The best you can do is leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T14:52:05.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T14:52:36.777" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is this type of big-brother censorship that will lead to the downfall of our society.  If someone cannot express their thoughts/opinions without the need to use foul language, then why should we censor them?  The education of the community referencing the poster's abilities must be weighed against the trigger happy need to suppress such foul language.....ok...that's as far as I can BS my way through this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T14:52:36.777" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T14:56:03.260" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think it would be better to edit it out.  That way people can still learn from the post and respond to it.  There is no need for offensive language in spreading information about programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T14:56:03.260" />
  <row Id="22199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T14:56:34.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Elie that if it's a valid question, just remove the offensive content.  However, I would probably also take a more proactive approach to ensuring that offensive content is kept to a minimum or eliminated in the future.  Obviously you don't want to have to go back and edit posts everytime someone posts something offensive, so why not place a filter on the post submit that obfuscates offensive language.  Furthermore, it would be a good idea to make it clear on your site that offensive language will not be tolerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem you run into when editing posts is that you start blurring the trust line with your users.  If users feel that after they make a post, there's a potential that it may be edited, you might find yourself in a situation where either users won't trust the site enough to post and others might lose faith in the content.  This is why it's so very important to make it clear to your users what is and isn't kosher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T14:56:34.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T14:56:43.010" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand your point of view, Thomas, but the reason that it requires 5 offensive votes to remove an offensive post is so that &lt;strong&gt;a consensus of 5 is needed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just remove content that you deem offensive, &lt;strong&gt;then you are making a judgment by yourself&lt;/strong&gt;, on your own. I think there is something fundamentally wrong about this in a community-driven site like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say you should use the 'flag this as offensive' option, as it's the fairest way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; truly offensive, it won't be long before it's flagged sufficiently negatively around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T14:56:43.010" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T15:03:49.093" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the community has awarded you with enough reputation points to edit posts, the community trusts you to do the right thing when you see offensive posts:&#xA;You should trust your own judgment too, and do what you feel is necessary in the particular situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18968" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T15:03:49.093" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22194" CreationDate="2008-10-30T15:11:36.037" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since many of us like to use this site for work related things, keeping it rated &quot;G&quot; would be nice...  Even things considered &quot;PG&quot; by most can get one fired at some places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:43:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-30T15:11:36.037" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:44:04.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make your money by offering &lt;strong&gt;hosting and customization&lt;/strong&gt;. If you get some big customers, they are going to want customized changes that go beyond CSS. They will expect AD integration. They will want attachments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add attachments, you have basically the same feature set as and can compete with Sharepoint, Confluence, Clearspace, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, &lt;strong&gt;release it as open source&lt;/strong&gt;. @Brian M. Hunt's reason #7 is probably the most important: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Open sourcing the project will destroy the motivation for an open source equivalent to arise in competition to your own project.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave out some key features (like AD integration, file attachments). Create a few plugins for essential features that aren't included with the open source product, and make them available for sale. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let the community contribute features. Make a dead-simple plugin framework (following Wordpress's model) so the community has a low barrier to entry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, if it is open source, then (low- or no-budget) communities (such as students, user groups, etc.) that need a certain feature will be able to add it themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135975" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:04.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T16:44:04.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:09:04.880" Score="6" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I get an OpenID in order to register and login?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:54:51.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T16:09:04.880" Title="Where can I get an OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:13:14.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you write questions without an OpenId??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.net/get/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://openid.net/get/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132567" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:13:17.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;myopenid.com is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133209" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" />
  <row Id="22208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:13:27.227" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best place to go for information about getting an OpenID is &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.net/get/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://openid.net/get/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:54:51.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-25T16:13:27.227" />
  <row Id="22209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:14:33.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got mine from verisign: &lt;a href=&quot;https://pip.verisignlabs.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://pip.verisignlabs.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139165" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" />
  <row Id="22210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:22:35.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good safe way of doing this would be to follow the Get an OpenID flow at &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.yahoo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://openid.yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" />
  <row Id="22211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:30:28.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a website, you can turn it into your OpenID.  I think Jeff covered it (or one of the comments does) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001121.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in his blog post on OpenId.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" />
  <row Id="22212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-25T16:39:26.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use a certificate-based OpenID provider at &lt;a href=&quot;http://certifi.ca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://certifi.ca&lt;/a&gt; (from the same &lt;a href=&quot;http://evan.prodromou.name/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fellow&lt;/a&gt; that brought you &lt;a href=&quot;http://identi.ca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://identi.ca&lt;/a&gt;).  Generate a client certificate from somewhere like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cacert.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CACert&lt;/a&gt; and use that as your certificate for secure OpenID login at &lt;a href=&quot;http://certifi.ca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;certifi.ca&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to admit, though, when using a site like Stackoverflow which only allows OpenID,and only one OpenID at that, a certificate-based OpenID can be a hassle.  For instance, I cannot log in to Stackoverflow from my iPod Touch, and I have to carry my certificate with me on a thumb drive so I can install it (often temporarily) in the browser I;m using at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's more secure than other options, and it allows SSL access, which not all OpenID providers do.  After all, how secure is your id when you're transmitting it over the open network? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-09-29T17:22:30.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like using my LiveJournal account as my OpenID provider.  If you want a personal blog in a writing-centric social network, it's hard to beat, and the developers have done many innovative things without turning it into the closed systems of MySpace and Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143622" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" />
  <row Id="22214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-10-19T07:41:18.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use www.myvidoop.com, it's pretty neat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just take a look at the suggestions on the Stackoverflow.com login page, there's quite a few to choose from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" />
  <row Id="22215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-10-19T09:01:38.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If, like myself, you're a Gmail or iGoogle user, with a Google login, you can use blogger.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to jump through a couple (simple) hoops to setup your blog (which you don't need to use), but once its up in the settings you can enable openID, and get the ID: .blogger.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blogger uses your Google account details, so no need to sign up for anything new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131118" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" />
  <row Id="22216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-11-03T18:45:28.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just found out that you can use Google and Gmail accounts directly if you login specifying &lt;strong&gt;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&lt;/strong&gt; as the OpenID URL. It will ask you to either login to your Google account or authorize your Google account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159270" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T18:45:28.190" />
  <row Id="22217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22205" CreationDate="2008-11-03T19:08:49.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use myopenid, however in the past week or two Microsoft and Google have both announced they're getting onboard and becomign providers.  99.99% of people have an account with at least one of these two -- if not both.  Since stackoverflow currently forces you to stick with the account you registered with I'm kind of bummed, but they've stated they have this on their to-do list.  Yippie no more needing to remember an OpenID account I use for nothing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="871" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:44:42.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T19:08:49.907" />
  <row Id="22218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-26T19:02:14.113" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer a week ago and got several upvotes for it, and it was marked accepted. Today I decided to add something to make it better, so I edited it.  I received 2 more upvotes during the next hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did people notice that I edited my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T05:59:41.997" Title="How did people notice I edited my answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22218" CreationDate="2009-05-26T19:03:43.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that have been recently edited or answered can show up in the &quot;Active&quot; tab of the questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:45:36.257" />
  <row Id="22220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22218" CreationDate="2009-05-26T19:04:31.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When anyone posts a new answer, or edits the question or an answer, it gets bumped to the top of the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:45:36.257" />
  <row Id="22221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22218" CreationDate="2009-05-26T19:04:33.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One you edit any part of the question it ends up at the top of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;active question tab&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="648" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:45:36.257" />
  <row Id="22222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22218" CreationDate="2009-05-26T19:04:46.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When edited the question re-appear in the main page again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somebody read it, and upvote it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can tell if the answer was edited because a legend &quot;Edited...&quot; appears in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:45:36.257" />
  <row Id="22223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22224" CreationDate="2009-01-04T15:38:52.853" Score="5" ViewCount="537" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I remove my primary OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T03:10:51.860" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T06:48:51.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T15:38:59.610" Title="How do I remove my Primary OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22223" CreationDate="2009-01-04T15:39:57.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19808/remove-alternative-openid&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add another openid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the &quot;swap&quot; link beside &quot;openid&quot; field to change primary openid to alt openid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the &quot;delete&quot; link beside the &quot;alt openid&quot; field&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-23T06:48:51.793" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T06:48:51.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-04T15:39:57.313" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22223" CreationDate="2009-02-16T01:42:32.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a similar issue, the above helped a little but I still need help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have got me half way, but how does one add a new openID that has been used before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or how does one delete an (empty) stackoverflow account, so the id that created the account can them be moved to another SO account to override the current openID that is wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133416" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:46:11.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-16T01:42:32.447" />
  <row Id="22228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:31:09.637" Score="22" ViewCount="635" Body="&lt;p&gt;A post can be &lt;em&gt;locked.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does it mean to lock a post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can lock a post?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When should a post be locked?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T23:27:21.633" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T23:28:32.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T17:31:09.637" Title="What is a &quot;locked&quot; post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;locked&gt;&lt;terminology&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="22229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22228" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:31:19.527" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What does it mean to &lt;em&gt;lock&lt;/em&gt; a post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question or answer which is &lt;em&gt;locked&lt;/em&gt; can no longer be edited, voted or commented upon, closed or re-opened.  If a question is locked, new answers cannot be added to that question. Any of the (unlocked) answers can still be edited and voted upon.  Locked posts can later be unlocked by moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Who can &lt;em&gt;lock&lt;/em&gt; a post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only diamond moderators can lock or unlock posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should a post be &lt;em&gt;locked&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts should generally only be locked in cases where the ongoing updates and edits are actively detrimental to the system.    For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A question where repeated voting or&#xA;editing is happening in a way which&#xA;games or hacks the system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A question that gets opened and&#xA;closed repeatedly many times without&#xA;achieving community consensus on&#xA;whether it should stay open or&#xA;closed.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question that, for    whatever&#xA;reason, continues to attract    flame&#xA;posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140171" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T23:28:32.210" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T23:28:32.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T17:31:19.527" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22234" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:53:34.527" Score="4" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1431459/why-do-reads-block-other-reads-in-myisam&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1431459/why-do-reads-block-other-reads-in-myisam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, one answer explains my problem in details and the other explains a short solution. Which do I pick? Do I write my own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130173" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:34:14.573" Title="What do you do if two answers are right in different ways?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:54:38.333" Score="29" ViewCount="1925" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I use salty, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;expletive&lt;/a&gt;-laden language on Stack Exchange sites, like Q*Bert?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/qbert.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-09T16:49:20.510" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T08:33:43.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T16:55:22.263" Title="Are expletives allowed on SE sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;profanity&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="22233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22232" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:55:17.630" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expletives are not acceptable behavior on meta or any other Stack Overflow site. If you can't effectively communicate what you need to say without resorting to lowest common denominator cursing, then keep it to yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use expletives, you will get a warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you continue to use expletives, you will be placed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;timed suspension&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="160017" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-29T02:48:41.137" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T02:48:41.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T16:55:22.263" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="22234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22231" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:57:01.183" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the approach most in keeping with the spirit of the site is to accept the most helpful/correct answer, and edit it to be complete (even if that means coming back when you have enough rep to do so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T16:57:01.183" />
  <row Id="22235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22232" CreationDate="2009-09-16T16:58:18.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expletives are great and they are a normal form of human communication used to further express emotion or emphasis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need a site that caters to hypersensitive people that are still stuck in the mindset of kindergartners. Furthermore, comments were always supposed to be informal and there is a flag button right next to the comment if the comment is truly offensive, so where is the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are a real man, your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt; will also contain as many expletives as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T19:57:43.453" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:57:43.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T16:58:18.513" CommentCount="24" />
  <row Id="22237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22239" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:01:23.593" Score="2" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to the account view, I see this large, empty, grey box. What is it? Why is it there? Does it need to be there? Might it be something in the future? Could it be something in the future? Should it be deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.imagecabin.com/?view=253120390a69e4052b2e14d39&quot; alt=&quot;GREY BOX (imagecabin? imageshack was down. where is imagepalace?)&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T17:28:37.050" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T20:30:48.597" Title="What is the grey box under account view?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22237" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:04:08.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is your bio/About Me section. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can edit it and fill out a short little something that you want the rest of the community to know about you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:04:08.097" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22237" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:04:18.250" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's where your 'About me' values go when you edit your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:04:18.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22242" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:08:19.867" Score="0" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22237/what-is-the-grey-box-under-account-view&quot;&gt;my previous question&lt;/a&gt;, I suggest that some sort of filler, or at least a label, be used to fill an otherwise conspicuously empty large grey box on account tabs with no about-me data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.imagecabin.com/?view=253120390a69e4052b2e14d39&quot; alt=&quot;[GREY BOX PICTURE] (imagecabin? imageshack was down. where is imagepalace?)&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastEditorUserId="135632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T17:23:13.833" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T11:14:37.180" Title="Filler for empty &quot;About Me&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22240" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:14:14.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fill it with some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lipsum.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Latin&lt;/a&gt;!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla nec libero eros. Vivamus sit amet justo lorem, at interdum sapien. In placerat quam eget nunc viverra aliquam. Duis pulvinar lacinia elit, eu aliquam neque venenatis at. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Vestibulum a justo metus. Quisque lorem purus, cursus sagittis facilisis a, interdum a mauris. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque sit amet justo erat, at elementum sem. Cras in lectus nibh. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Donec convallis lorem at ligula pellentesque varius. Integer vitae erat turpis, ut aliquet arcu. Proin et turpis urna. Morbi eget sem dolor, vel ornare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:14:14.303" />
  <row Id="22242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22240" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:18:26.103" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2067/253120390a69e4052b2e14d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:18:26.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22231" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:20:47.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22231/what-do-you-do-if-two-answers-are-right-in-different-ways/22234#22234&quot;&gt;Kara's answer&lt;/a&gt;, don't forget that both answers will be there no mather which one you accept. The community allows both of them to bubble up. In any case, they will be near each other until someone edits the accepted answer and adds the info from the other one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Accepted answer&lt;/em&gt; means that it &lt;em&gt;worked for you&lt;/em&gt;. Votes talk about concensus among the community. I always read all answers when researching a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:20:47.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22240" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:23:01.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really care about your large grey box, you'll fill it with plenty of crude fiber to keep it healthy and regular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s132/SugarShakes/26436919.Broccoli.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T17:41:32.753" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:41:32.753" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22232" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:25:29.227" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It depends.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;'expletive'&lt;/em&gt; has a defined meaning, most folks are just going to break out their own personal  &lt;em&gt;&quot;bad words&quot;&lt;/em&gt; dictionary to make this decision.  Examples of expletives that I don't think will generate a warning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Your &lt;em&gt;bloody&lt;/em&gt; code keeps crashing on the REM statements&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;The &lt;em&gt;fracking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; JVM keeps showing all my objects in the heap dumps&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;: a television show's made up profanity)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the question should really be, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Are profanity-laced expletives allowed?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact is, this is a &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt; site and much of the professional world does not tollerate profanities of any kind, expletive or not...especially in public facing environments.  I'm personally comfortable with bad words but accept that others are not.  If the rule is no, I can &lt;em&gt;fracking&lt;/em&gt; live with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now...the race to define that fuzzy grey line...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T08:33:43.883" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T08:33:43.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T17:25:29.227" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22232" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:27:08.053" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, but keep them to a minimum&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some unholy things that can only be cursed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are supposed to be lightweight, so there is not much point in regulating them much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, there are people that take some innocent words as cursing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Words, are words, are words. We should keep the site tidy, but not over enforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="144987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-09T15:57:59.637" LastActivityDate="2011-04-09T15:57:59.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T17:27:08.053" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="22249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22240" CreationDate="2009-09-16T17:42:08.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the User Flair could be used for filler (even though it would look like a miniature version of the page itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:42:08.883" />
  <row Id="22250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22253" CreationDate="2009-01-14T18:47:44.863" Score="5" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/443787/if-you-werent-a-programmer-what-would-you-be-doing-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was closed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12943/bill-k&quot;&gt;Bill K&lt;/a&gt; suggested reposting the question as community wiki, as there seemed to be a lot of people interested in the topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a subjective question is closed and the OP does not show interest in editing to make the question more &quot;acceptable&quot;, is it OK to repost as community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:23:22.517" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T18:47:51.213" Title="Reposting subjective questions as community wiki" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22250" CreationDate="2009-01-14T18:50:51.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds fine to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Shog9 points out, just making it a CW does not guarantee that it won't still be closed. I'm just saying that reworking and reposting a question isn't in and of itself an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:42:24.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T18:50:51.613" />
  <row Id="22252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22250" CreationDate="2009-01-14T18:53:51.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm torn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, Stack Overflow is meant to be a Programming Q &amp;amp; A site, and the further we go from that, the higher the signal-to-noise ratio gets.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I really enjoy some of the 'softer' posts, and I think they ought to be allowed because SO is a 'community'.  If we had a community tab that hid 'community discussion' questions, then absolutely.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:42:24.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T18:53:51.327" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22250" CreationDate="2009-01-17T00:23:51.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/443787/if-you-werent-a-programmer-what-would-you-be-doing&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/444873/if-you-werent-a-programmer-what-would-you-be-doing&quot;&gt;reposted&lt;/a&gt; it devolved into a flame war, and has been closed and reopened repeatedly. Perhaps this is not such a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:42:24.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-17T00:23:51.777" />
  <row Id="22254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22250" CreationDate="2009-01-17T00:29:45.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That seems backward to me.  Posts that carry no possibility of negative consequences would tend to encourage worse behavior not better.  I guess people are tired of seeing others get lots of points for &quot;soft&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:42:24.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-17T00:29:45.883" />
  <row Id="22255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22250" CreationDate="2009-01-17T00:49:57.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm with Gortok - a toggle to hide community discussions would clear the site up while still letting people enjoy the community aspects when they want to.  Nonetheless, I really wouldn't want to see &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; political or religious discussions or anything that goes too far afield from software development.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone suggested this in UserVoice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T17:42:24.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-17T00:49:57.623" />
  <row Id="22262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22171" CreationDate="2009-09-16T18:04:38.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.  There isn't, and there should not be.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is about Questions and Answers, not comments.  There has been a constant squeeze on comment-related features and it should stay that way.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything with URLs is just light weight hack-ish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who are you trying to stalk, anyway?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T18:04:38.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22264" CreationDate="2009-09-16T18:05:06.050" Score="6" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might get very limited views due to the fact that it only affects moderators, but oh well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the moderator panel there are notes that are left on user accounts as well as a listing of currently suspended users, but it is incredibly difficult to see who initiates an action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I am looking for is a by line on the annotations displaying who wrote the note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T18:13:14.677" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:08:11.627" Title="Please let moderators see who left notes about users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="23" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="22264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22263" CreationDate="2009-09-16T18:06:18.120" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get this information by looking at the specific user's History from the moderator tools in their profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T18:06:18.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22266" CreationDate="2009-09-16T18:26:45.713" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the numbers for inside the tiny cue balls next to some listings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133924" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T18:27:49.487" Title="What are the little numbers for next to the job postings?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22265" CreationDate="2009-09-16T18:27:49.487" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their score on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel Test&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T18:27:49.487" />
  <row Id="22267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22269" CreationDate="2009-09-16T18:56:14.037" Score="6" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every now and then I see users with 300-400 rep and a bunch of question asked, and they are still asking questions like they just got to the website. Something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;hi!!! &#xA;&#xA;function()&#xA;bla bla bla&#xA;no identation&#xA;no formating&#xA;450 lines of nonsense&#xA;&#xA;it brks! wat do i do? plz hple!!!!!!!!!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I just go and edit it so that it's easier to read. Then I leave a comment about how to get more answers and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if at some point I shouldn't just downvote the question and be less comprehensive and nice than with pure noobs (but still polite). I'm sure the user has already had 10 people like me before editing his questions and telling him to post the error messages, the scope of his project, the part of the code breaking and so on. It's a bit rude to get people to repeat themselves over and over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that some people don't speak English very well (me first, it's not my native language), but I'm talking about basic things such as code formatting and pointing to exactly what the problem is and what they are asking for. This is just common sense, not native tongue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, what's the best approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit, comment&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvote, edit, comment&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvote, comment&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvote, vote for closing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that a downvote should be based on the question and not the user, but what else could we do if the user makes no effort to post correct questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T19:05:27.810" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T22:56:48.637" Title="What should we do with users that have been around for a while, and still don't ask questions correctly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22267" CreationDate="2009-09-16T18:59:45.167" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down-vote. If the question is so incomplete that it can't be answered, vote to close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have time to edit, then do that. Editing is always good, but voting is crucial to helping the site prioritize questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T19:51:17.633" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:51:17.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22267" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:01:35.320" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always side with editing, but repeat offenders need downvotes as well. When all else fails, a question that cannot be edited might have to be closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Informing the mods of repeat offenders is also helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:01:35.320" />
  <row Id="22270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:10:35.933" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask simply because I found this and assumed it was a MSSQL question, yet the answer is seemingly Oracle Specific.  No?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1027387/limited-t-sql-join&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1027387/limited-t-sql-join&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135988" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:27:43.380" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:27:43.380" Title="Does &quot;SQL Server&quot; in SO tags or otherwise specifically indicate MS SQL Server?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22270" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:13:07.923" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;T-SQL is the language used by SQL Server.  SQL Server is a Microsoft product also called MSSQL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:14:35.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22278" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:16:19.647" Score="0" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed an increase in spammy comments that people post. Take an example of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1434885/what-is-the-difference-between-plaintext-and-binary-data/1434899#1434899&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer. 3/4 comments are spam and only serve to distract. SO is a programming website and not a humour central, so I don't see the point of such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we please go easy on the spam and jokes, people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What else can be done for such things? Reporting the comment doesn't seem to affect anything. Unless we have another feature to report &quot;jokes&quot; so they can be deleted faster? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastEditorUserId="131515" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T19:21:30.167" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T04:30:20.343" Title="What can we do about the Jon Skeet jokes and other spam in comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22270" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:16:35.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, sql-server refers specifically to ms sql server&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes people are dumb about tags anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes an expert in one tag will watch other similar tags and try to be helpful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In this case, Sql Server has had a &quot;With&quot; clause &amp;mdash; called common table expressions (CTE) &amp;mdash; since the 2005 version.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:16:35.403" />
  <row Id="22274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22270" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:18:12.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag &quot;sql-server&quot; implies Microsoft SQL Sever (MSSQL).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer in question is correct. Common Table Expressions (CTEs) were introduced in SQL Server 2005, making that syntax perfectly fine and not specific to Oracle at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:18:12.777" />
  <row Id="22275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22282" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:18:24.480" Score="6" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would very helpful if new posts were clearly labeled as &quot;new&quot; if they were posted since our last login. A visual indicator would be much easier than &lt;em&gt;remembering&lt;/em&gt; when I last logged in and then constantly looking for anything less than &quot;&lt;code&gt;asked 4 hours ago&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, the &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; label should apply to new questions, answers, and comments. It should be something unobtrusive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/New.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; - The &quot;new&quot; tag from Wikimedia Commons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/images/li%5Fyelgrn.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt; - A little dot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;→ A special character &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;N&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - or even just a little &quot;n&quot; or different color to mark new content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:30:23.100" Title="Label contents as &quot;New&quot; since we last logged in" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22272" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:19:26.020" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't gain rep on comments, so what is the problem here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:19:26.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22272" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:20:54.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments don't gain the user any rep, and it's not spam as you assert (unless Jon Skeet himself is paying off users to post his name in comments). The majority of comments (on SO at least, MSO is another story) are on-topic and relatively focused and professional about getting the problem solved. &#xA;&lt;br/&gt;I think a lot of people would agree that we should be encouraging humor (&lt;em&gt;in the comments -- definitely not as answers&lt;/em&gt;) and having a good time rather than penalizing users for it. That is, as long as it's not overwhelmingly distracting from the discussion at hand -- which, in the majority of cases, it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastEditorUserId="132722" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T19:26:11.407" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:26:11.407" />
  <row Id="22278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22272" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:20:59.200" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Humour belongs in comments not in the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should not be doing anything to the people who are making jokes in comments, because we want this to be a happy place. So as long as the humour is not offensive, I say they're perfectly allowed to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3163/how-can-we-be-more-tolerant-of-humor/3168#3168&quot;&gt;How can we be more tolerant of humor?&lt;/a&gt; (sic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:20:59.200" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="22279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22272" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:21:03.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are actually a great place to contain the humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T19:41:49.053" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:41:49.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22283" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:30:15.207" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16630/is-there-a-bug-in-the-accept-rate-or-is-it-just-me&quot;&gt;Is there a bug in the accept rate, or is it just me?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1432952/why-does-html-markup-often-use-and-as-delimiting-quotes&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; on SO, the asker has a 100% accept rate. But, the question doesn't have an accepted answer. Thinking it could be a rounding error, I checked out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/153545/pavium&quot;&gt;his profile&lt;/a&gt;. However, he's got only 8 questions, 7 of which are accepted. So, his accept rate should be 88%, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12930" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T19:34:16.697" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:34:25.433" ClosedDate="2009-09-16T20:22:56.263" Title="Bug in the accepted % calculation" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22275" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:30:23.100" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest problem here is that most people do not log off. They just stay logged on all the time. I guess you could base it off the last point of user activity, but even then that could throw off results wildly if all you did that day was look at stuff. Then you would have to potentially start tracking everything we look at to make sure that it is actually new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, just not sure of how feasible it is. I guess if most forum software can track this type of &quot;read status&quot; then SO should as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:30:23.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22281" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:31:48.807" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept rate is only recalculated 3 days after asking the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the feature announcement &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There must be at least four eligible questions as determined by the above rules, otherwise the statistic will not appear. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:31:48.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22231" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:34:14.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually I accept what helped me the most. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If both did in exactly the same way, consider answering yourself as community wiki. I don't like doing this because I feel I don't give enough credit to the people helping me, but sometime it's what makes more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one more than the other, maybe you could ask the user to incorporate the other's answer and mark it as cw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:34:14.573" />
  <row Id="22286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22281" CreationDate="2009-09-16T19:34:25.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The calculation can be incredibly backlogged due to the very intensive caching that is going on. Aside from the items that Diago pointed out, you have to also remember that it may be a while before the cache refreshes the calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T19:34:25.433" />
  <row Id="22287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22267" CreationDate="2009-09-16T20:07:49.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you can just downvote the question, leave a comment, and move on?  If you had the ability to ignore users, maybe this type of user is one that you'd want to ignore too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T20:07:49.100" />
  <row Id="22288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22291" CreationDate="2009-09-16T20:32:49.803" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to watch the newest questions coming in, but only the questions that have one of my interesting tags on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, I want a combination of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags&quot;&gt;tab=mytags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does this already exist, and I'm just missing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;clarification:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm wanting to see new questions with any of my tags, whether or not they have an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="133671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T20:39:39.463" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T20:40:13.330" Title="is there a way to see 'newest' questions 'in my tags'?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22299" CreationDate="2009-09-16T20:33:19.693" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else noticed that there are sometimes lags in the aggregate computations?  I was switching (fairly fast) between my recent scores screen  on SO and the question (because the answers were flying in thick and fast), and noticed that the summary screen didn't reflect all the points I'd earned according to the question pages, nor did the score at the top of the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to guess that it is some sort of optimization, or possibly related to load balancing and distributing the information.  It is disconcerting, but not a long term problem; it seems to take minutes at most (and more nearly seconds) to sort itself out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done to smooth it out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A variant on this problem - I'm not clear whether the recent scoring is a 'last 24 hours ending now' or 'the last day from 00:00 UTC to now'.  Does the daily limit apply to a fixed interval (like 00:00 UTC to 24:00 UTC on the day) or is it also a rolling limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another minor variant on the issue - summary says &quot;170 points&quot;; scoring in detail says 3 votes scored zilch (because I've reached 200 for the day).  I'd like to have accuracy on all that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T22:39:28.700" Title="Lags on updating scores and reputations and recent information?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22298" CreationDate="2009-09-16T20:39:43.550" Score="6" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being new to Stack Overflow, I am wondering about the restrictions placed on new users. I completely agree with what I perceive to be the guiding principles behind them: restrictions on newer users reduce the noise they create while progressing through their learning curve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is one thing I worry about. If you need to post good questions and helpful answers before being able to contribute fully, and if you take things seriously enough not to answer or ask questions that have already been decently answered, then there is a steep slope to climb to become a full contributor. As the content in the site increases, this slope becomes ever steeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many accomplished users on this site that there is only a tiny window of opportunity to gain reputation, while in the past, when less of the easy questions had been answered, gaining reputation must have been easier. So am I correct in thinking that as the wealth of information and the quality of the userbase of the site progresses, it becomes increasingly hard for new users to contribute new content? Is it unfair that new users have to do more work for the same first few reputation points than members who joined earlier had to do? Is there anything that should and could be done about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135993" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:26:11.937" Title="Are demands on new users continually increasing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22288" CreationDate="2009-09-16T20:40:13.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11563/tab-for-interesting-questions&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; for the dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T20:40:13.330" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22290" CreationDate="2009-09-16T20:42:41.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an infinite amount of content, programming has no limit to the number of hard problems it has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T20:42:41.207" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="22293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22290" CreationDate="2009-09-16T20:45:26.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As languages and technologies evolve, new easy questions will appear. For example, when C# 4 is ready the site will be slowly flooded with new C# questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T20:45:26.927" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3353" CreationDate="2009-09-16T21:05:24.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea, I would use it for other purposes too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes someone pops up and quickly asks a flurry of beginner questions on one of my interesting tags. Nothing wrong with that, but I prefer to leave them to other people to answer, and I don't find the discussions interesting either. I'd like to ignore their questions - just a personal decision. I know, it's probably bad karma. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is rarer, but I've noticed some people are very free with downvotes. I've posted (IMHO) quite nice answers on their questions, and they downvote because of a niggle with my phrasing. I check their homepage, and they dish out 10x more downvotes than upvotes. Again, a personal decision but I prefer to avoid their questions in future. Not just because I'm rep farming, but it's just a discouraging scene. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not ignore these people's answers or comments, just their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T21:05:24.520" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22290" CreationDate="2009-09-16T21:07:37.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the definition of these sites' goals, I can see this point to an extent. After all, if a site is defined as being the canonical location for the answer to &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;, then once &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; is answered, effectively, that question's pretty well put to bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, having been around a while, and more importantly having been in the industry a while, I have to agree with both Lance and Jon B -- the questions really are infinite, or close to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As technologies evolve, more questions will sprout. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you work on more projects, you will have more cause to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there are always other people's questions to answer -- although I'm finding fewer &amp;amp; fewer I'm personally interested in these days (across 3 of the 4 sites) ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the barrier is somewhat high. But if it makes you feel any better, it was high for most of us, too. I have a Beta badge on SU, and just over 700 rep there. It took me many months to get to 3,000 rep on SO. I've been using Meta almost since it started, and check how low my rep is. :) We all deal with it. Patience and hard work are the answers, as they were for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep asking, keep answering, and your rep &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; eventually flourish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T21:07:37.167" />
  <row Id="22296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22290" CreationDate="2009-09-16T21:12:31.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is getting harder to acquire reputation.  Part of the issue is that everyone tries to get the first answer in for the 'easy' questions because the first to answer tends to win the votes.  And the definition of 'everyone' is growing, reducing the window of opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer to this is finding a niche where you have more depth of knowledge, and seeking out questions that have been around for a little longer (say, an hour) that don't have a good answer.  Those are going to be harder questions for the most part, so you have to put more thought into them, but you will also have a lot less competition.  You may be able to acquire more reputation per answer to compensate for fewer answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SO interface doesn't lend itself to mining for things you can answer for reputation though.  I find myself wishing for a query interface more like Trac's custom query page.  Perhaps a query like 'all questions &gt;1hr old, with at least one of my interesting tags, no accepted answer, and no answers with more than 3 upvotes' would probably be a reasonably rich reputation vein you could take your time mining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is largely speculation... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T21:12:31.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22290" CreationDate="2009-09-16T21:17:22.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For all practical purposes, &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The expectations when the site started were this: contributors should ask good questions, and/or provide good answers. That's still true. Do those two things, and the site will treat you well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T21:17:22.250" />
  <row Id="22298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22290" CreationDate="2009-09-16T21:40:39.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing to remember here is that plenty of established users hit the 200 point rep cap every day like clockwork (or nearly so).  There's nothing except perhaps experience and voter-psychology that gives these established users an advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that if the &quot;wall&quot; is getting higher in this fashion, it would impact established users as well, and that doesn't seem to be happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T21:55:37.500" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T21:55:37.500" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22289" CreationDate="2009-09-16T21:57:17.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default screen is the &lt;strike&gt;last 24 hours&lt;/strike&gt; hours since 12 on the local server.(someone verify,  I might be wrong, even jon and richie seemed a bit confused in their answers to the questions below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click 'today', you will get the current info for the current UTC day. Yesterday will be the previous UTC day. The 200 rep limit applies to a UTC day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15922/not-getting-reputation-points-for-up-votes-on-so-today-for-some-reason-whats-u/15929#15929&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15922/not-getting-reputation-points-for-up-votes-on-so-today-for-some-reason-whats-u/15929#15929&lt;/a&gt; (richie's answer to similar concern)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today-butt/1462#1462&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today-butt/1462#1462&lt;/a&gt; (jon skeet's responce, even he was not completely sure)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-16T22:39:28.700" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T22:39:28.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21717" CreationDate="2009-09-16T22:11:31.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1, with a few observations from one Greasemonkey novice to another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The styles for the Next and Previous stand out from the rest of the site, and using px values means they don't zoom well, you could try adding a div after the title, then appending the elements to the div with existing SOFU classes so they blend in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need to include jquery in your script, SOFU already include jquery.min.js, you can do something like this to wait for the page to load and obtain the jQuery variable (not my code, lifted from one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130154/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt;'s scripts)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_init() {&#xA;        if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') {&#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else {&#xA;            jQuery_init(unsafeWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    GM_init();&#xA;&#xA;    function jQuery_init($) {&#xA;        //your code here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T22:11:31.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22232" CreationDate="2009-09-16T22:42:34.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow, comment wall of shame. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Post&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Comment&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/112945&quot;&gt;What's your favorite &quot;abandoned rule&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;   It's a crappy theory. I swear to god, if I see one more switch with &quot;retval = .. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/237505&quot;&gt;Code Golf: Factorials&lt;/a&gt;                    what the fuck is up with the question mark??!?                                   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/330297&quot;&gt;How to apply a line wrap/continuation st&lt;/a&gt; @tardate: No, I didn't. It &quot;can&quot; be &quot;done&quot; but the solution isn't with CSS, it's &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/272459&quot;&gt;Is there a way to set the value of #defi&lt;/a&gt; Sure it's indicated in compile time. Oh yes, I'm fucking idiot!                  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58854&quot;&gt;Great programming quotes&lt;/a&gt;                 So fuck the last 10%, and let's move on! :-)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214878&quot;&gt;What's the most unsound program you've h&lt;/a&gt; If you haven't already, get it into your own personal version control.  Somethin &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387214&quot;&gt;[64-Bit] Why does malloc overwrite RSP a&lt;/a&gt; Yes, I've stepped through the code to confirm that my stack was being fucked in   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398920&quot;&gt;What is the difference between List (of &lt;/a&gt; Oh OrbMan you are really fucking unbelievable funny!! You are the man we all hav &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/558958&quot;&gt;How can I monitor users clicking on link&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Boss, yeah I tracked those link clicks like you asked me. Check it out: everyti &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/592322&quot;&gt;PHP expects T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?&lt;/a&gt;      justfuckinggoogleit.com&#xA;next time                                                &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/634221&quot;&gt;C# Web Service Impersonation &lt;/a&gt;             the verification is &quot;fucking&quot; madness... i spent close to 20 mins to get through &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/657830&quot;&gt;How to parse days/hours/minutes/seconds &lt;/a&gt; Dear jesus christ, chronic is FUCKING AWESOME.&#xA;&#xA;But it's not really what I wante &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/519511&quot;&gt;View Parametrized Query In VBScript ADOD&lt;/a&gt; Thanks for the info! :-)&#xA;&#xA;ASP is so fucking lame.                                &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/408929&quot;&gt;What is the best *free* IDE for Java pro&lt;/a&gt; @puppy, fuck off                                                                 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/700214&quot;&gt;What is your &quot;best friend&quot; as a programm&lt;/a&gt; justfuckinggoogleit.com                                                          &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610633&quot;&gt;When should I break a function?&lt;/a&gt;          I have a simple rule, and that's &quot;if it ain't broke don't fix it&quot;.  You can refa &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/280821&quot;&gt;Is Perl worth it?&lt;/a&gt;                        Strict policy with Perl::Critic will solve the &quot;There's more than one way to fuc &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/872746&quot;&gt;Is it worthwhile to author programming b&lt;/a&gt; This may be out of context but I think fuckwad is more accurate that fucktard he &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1084852&quot;&gt;PHP Username Password Solution&lt;/a&gt;           @tom haigh, this is 100% true, but IMHO if an attacker has file system access yo &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901644&quot;&gt;How to print list using hierarchical dat&lt;/a&gt; Dude your are fuckin GENIUS, if I meet u one day I must drink few bears with u!   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/560856&quot;&gt;Windows Workflow - is this a good time t&lt;/a&gt; 3.5 and 4.0 work alongside each other, so the stomping and temper tantrums exhib &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348098&quot;&gt;Are you a self taught programmer or did &lt;/a&gt; STOP closing or threatening to close things just because you don't like them, or &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1044909&quot;&gt;jQuery not updating div&lt;/a&gt;                  fucking hell man!!                                                               &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1268514&quot;&gt;why is my unicode not working under pass&lt;/a&gt; fuck yes!!!! dood -- I owe you a key!                                            &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/976566&quot;&gt;Exporting Gridview to Excel in web app&lt;/a&gt;   Execuse the language but sir you are a FUCKING Hero.&#xA;&#xA;Thank you so much for all   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1203045&quot;&gt;Oracle INSERT giving error in C#.&lt;/a&gt;        grrr...it's the obvious things that really (pardon) fuck me up.                  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1228037&quot;&gt;How would I go about cropping an image a&lt;/a&gt; I have no idea how to install this fucking ImageMagick...                        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1246713&quot;&gt;Senior programming 'guru' who can't prog&lt;/a&gt; -1. The answer doesn't address the problem the OP presented. &quot;Communicating well &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1264104&quot;&gt;How do programming languages maintain ba&lt;/a&gt; -1 for the comment about it not mattering (to which I would say it doesn't matte &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1140488&quot;&gt;Observing events on dynamically inserted&lt;/a&gt; Unfortunately, jQuery isn't an option. This seems to work though:&#xA;&#xA;        document &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1341080&quot;&gt;MessageBox help&lt;/a&gt;                          why the fuck was i just down voted twice for giving a correct answer?            &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227443&quot;&gt;Does anyone use any incarnation of Fortr&lt;/a&gt; @Eric- BS (aka bullshit). Try it on a real-world problem, and post your comparat &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/335797&quot;&gt;What Easter Eggs have you placed in code&lt;/a&gt; Michael from Office Space: 'PC LOAD LETTER?!???!??!!? What the fuck does that me &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318726&quot;&gt;Making an NSTableView Display Articles F&lt;/a&gt; FOR FUCK SAKE RESPOND!                                                           &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/143093&quot;&gt;Is it OK to have an 'empty' class that e&lt;/a&gt; Oh fuck you down voters :)                                                       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/237765&quot;&gt;Worst PHP practice found in your experie&lt;/a&gt; @Konrad -- good fucking point!                                                   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162114&quot;&gt;Are there any viable alternatives to the&lt;/a&gt; I did read the whole post.  The alternatives are just not fucking using it.  I d &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238294&quot;&gt;Worst UI You've Ever Used&lt;/a&gt;                I wouldn't list &quot;No HTML email&quot; as a disadvantage. I fucken hate HTML mail.      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84609&quot;&gt;What's your favorite &quot;programmer&quot; cartoo&lt;/a&gt; Didn't Joel actually tell a story about Bill gates and his 'fuck count'?         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310651&quot;&gt;Defend PHP; convince me it isn't horribl&lt;/a&gt; Everyfuckingbody uses dot (.) for namespace &quot;dereferencing&quot;. But noooo... they h &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/264522&quot;&gt;Is there a speed difference between sqli&lt;/a&gt; Terrible analogy. Notepad and MS Word aren't really comparable except superficia &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/430964&quot;&gt;What is the best way to tell users of my&lt;/a&gt; @Rene: I don't like your attitude ;) I'd vote for throwing errors - if someone f &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/416822&quot;&gt;When the Client asks for something ludic&lt;/a&gt; I love the concept of a &quot;Fuck off factor&quot;, I'm going to have to start using that &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/565465&quot;&gt;Is Smalltalk better than Lisp?&lt;/a&gt;           Fuck, now you are doing it again. What does CW mean?                             &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/688975&quot;&gt;What are good places for an American pro&lt;/a&gt; jesus chris keng what the fuck                                                   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/616451&quot;&gt;Under C# how much of a performance hit i&lt;/a&gt; Dude if each of your 100 calls is resulting in an exception your code or your se &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/647180&quot;&gt;Distributing loadable builtin bash modul&lt;/a&gt; http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7y4ap/where_the_fuck_has_this_been_ &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499766&quot;&gt;Free open source alternative to Google?&lt;/a&gt;  They're not so necessary nor are they completely irreplaceable. If they fuck up   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/533672&quot;&gt;Can I run a password-protected, read-onl&lt;/a&gt; Let me first say I'm a fan of letmegooglethatforyou and justfuckinggoogleit, but &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/770560&quot;&gt;Since SQL Server doesn't have packages, &lt;/a&gt; @John Saunders because you all are power hungry elites whom just like to squash   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140670&quot;&gt;Humor in code&lt;/a&gt;                            'back in the day' we used to remote into client PCs and do fixes on site for eme &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184673&quot;&gt;What is the best comment in source code &lt;/a&gt; I can't believe that people at StackOverflow find words like fuck somehow 'offen &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/894623&quot;&gt;will changing all code to object oriente&lt;/a&gt; Actually, I'd say that while you can of course fuck up no matter what you use, o &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/868895&quot;&gt;What does your code do to contact you wh&lt;/a&gt; Well, what do they say... &quot;The assumption is the mother of all fuck ups...&quot;       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/873807&quot;&gt;Print space after each word&lt;/a&gt;              I'd agree second version is not less elegant, IT'S AN ABSOLUTE FUCKING NIGHTMARE &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/916226&quot;&gt;lightweight C++ scripting library&lt;/a&gt;        Agreed with parent, 100% CPU usage is correct (and desirable) behavior.  You are &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/962765&quot;&gt;Most shameful/awesome language hack&lt;/a&gt;      -1 tired of this fucking example                                                 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/727967&quot;&gt;C# formatting external Dll function para&lt;/a&gt; What the frak? I cannot edit this without it getting fucked up.                  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224357&quot;&gt;Template Metaprogramming - i still don't&lt;/a&gt; yeah, I know it was basically an accident. What I mean is, people really should   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/177105&quot;&gt;Do you use NULL or 0 (zero) for pointers&lt;/a&gt; Someone told once to me... I am going to redefine NULL to 69 and fuck all of you &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134916&quot;&gt;Distribute a application to the public s&lt;/a&gt; This is probably the best answer.  If you don't trust your users, make sure you   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1165497&quot;&gt;Can I prevent text in a div block from o&lt;/a&gt; Because it wanna fuck, I guess.                                                  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1277980&quot;&gt;python subprocess module: looping over s&lt;/a&gt; dear downvoter, that follows me today, **fuck you**.                             &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1248784&quot;&gt;Senior programming 'guru' who can't prog&lt;/a&gt; +1: &quot;I don't ever want to have to work with someone that never doubts their own   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1261479&quot;&gt;PHP Regex for human names&lt;/a&gt;                I've edited my answer to add some stuff. As a sidenote, a name like &quot;hello ;-{}&quot; &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1212821&quot;&gt;Python Interpreter blocks Multithreaded &lt;/a&gt; I dont know what more to say except oh my fuckin god. And thanks a lot, I am wor &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1320535&quot;&gt;Reasons to split project into multiple p&lt;/a&gt; This makes code ownership more exclusive, which I think is a bad thing.  Exclusi &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1347303&quot;&gt;Why does my localization cookie seem to &lt;/a&gt; I'm afraid it won't, because PHP's handling of the `||` operator is, not to put   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/225838&quot;&gt;Protecting user passwords in desktop app&lt;/a&gt; If the entire network is being sniffed *and* the administrators don't prevent us &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/363085&quot;&gt;Xpath query to select node when attribut&lt;/a&gt; don't mind the question, I fucked up the parentheses, my bad. I edited the quest &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/200396&quot;&gt;Constant Amortized Time&lt;/a&gt;                  For the same reason someone put up a site named http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/357986&quot;&gt;What dead programming languages do you k&lt;/a&gt; Why the FUCK would you throw that away? :E                                       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/183515&quot;&gt;I need a montage! For programming.&lt;/a&gt;       America, FUCK YEH! How *could* I have forgotten that vital life lesson :D        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/374764&quot;&gt;Why not upgrade to the latest .net frame&lt;/a&gt; Oh, Vista-bashing, how fucking original.                                         &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162114&quot;&gt;Are there any viable alternatives to the&lt;/a&gt; Don't you mean to say, &quot;The alternative (non-plural) is just no fucking using it &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/384704&quot;&gt;If you are working in a non-English spea&lt;/a&gt; Although in Argentina the word &quot;fucking&quot; has made it into the local lexicon, as   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/620266&quot;&gt;Most daunting error message?&lt;/a&gt;             What the fuck does that mean??                                                   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/553102&quot;&gt;Do you code variables in your language?&lt;/a&gt;  If you translate the spec (which is anything but easy to do properly), you're st &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576983&quot;&gt;Why are my Qt plugins not loading?&lt;/a&gt;       It's to do with the manifest SxS system. We solved it in the end by recompiling   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471035&quot;&gt;Java - Easier way to guarantee integer i&lt;/a&gt; Oh my Gosh, yeah, this fucking semicolon! ;-)&#xA;WolfmanDragon &gt; Please get a life. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/195322&quot;&gt;What is your favorite &quot;programmer&quot; t-shi&lt;/a&gt; RTFM license plate - I like it. Kudos. &#xA;Also, there's a somewhat less polite alt &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/508636&quot;&gt;Need help with jquery/javascript popup w&lt;/a&gt; Ohh fuck I hope that is not it, been sitting trying to get this thing to work fo &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/537633&quot;&gt;Standard python interpreter has a vi com&lt;/a&gt; I hope you'll pardon my French, but you are my fucking hero.                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238987&quot;&gt;What is your best programmer joke?&lt;/a&gt;       No. that mean that the programmers of that software was a bunch of idiots workin &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/580196&quot;&gt;What is wrong with my `if` statement?&lt;/a&gt;    if u dont like my usage of 'U' go fuck urself. why i have to use 'You' if save m &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/751572&quot;&gt;What technologies are you using even tho&lt;/a&gt; Indeed, it's possibly my main regret over the way software has developed that Bo &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/872746&quot;&gt;Is it worthwhile to author programming b&lt;/a&gt; @Jon Skeet because rising above it on SO doesn't garner the attention that assis &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1062592&quot;&gt;useBean tag&lt;/a&gt;                              Motherfucker suck my cock&#xA;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744188&quot;&gt;Amazon-like interface for selecting prod&lt;/a&gt; Just re-read this -- I can't get over how fucking incredible this answer is!     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/922965&quot;&gt;What ways do you see to renew public per&lt;/a&gt; I personally think the C++ standards committee fucked up royally.  I think they   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1027234&quot;&gt;How can I test if a letter in a string i&lt;/a&gt; man - so fucking clever, why didn't i think of that?                             &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1015561&quot;&gt;Form is removed from AJAX response&lt;/a&gt;       *sigh*&#xA;&#xA;No, you're not answering my questions.  I'm not concerned with your dogm &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304880&quot;&gt;What are your impressions of Maven?&lt;/a&gt;      I started using ant, and then maven early when I was first using J2EE.  I found   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224357&quot;&gt;Template Metaprogramming - i still don't&lt;/a&gt; yeah, I know it was basically discovered accidentally. What I mean is, people re &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/441229&quot;&gt;Factorial Algorithms in different langua&lt;/a&gt; All I have to say is: brilliant, fucking brilliant.                              &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1138072&quot;&gt;WPF TreeView with custom style&lt;/a&gt;           I can't sort that out. What a lousy programmer I am. These WPF things fuckn' dif &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1168596&quot;&gt;FolderBrowserDialog behavior in Windows &lt;/a&gt; Super User isn't out of beta so fuck that.                                       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1280638&quot;&gt;Can Perl be &quot;statically&quot; parsed?&lt;/a&gt;         &quot;compile Perl code at run-time&quot; is (the string form of) &quot;eval&quot;.  My example inde &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1309222&quot;&gt;Order By Sum of Two Fields&lt;/a&gt;               That's exactly what I wanted!  To note, make sure they both columns are signed e &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1264104&quot;&gt;How do programming languages maintain ba&lt;/a&gt; -1 for the comment about it not mattering (to which I would say it doesn't matte &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/504646&quot;&gt;What non-programming books should progra&lt;/a&gt; The only thing that the bible teaches us is that if god did exist on the basis o &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1077500&quot;&gt;Handling difficult clients&lt;/a&gt;               I find adapting to that mindset to be extremely destructive. Not being paid by t &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15030&quot;&gt;c# Coding standard / Best practices&lt;/a&gt;      I disagree. The worst that can happen is that the guidelines are inconsistant; a &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/129777&quot;&gt;How do you deal with clients who have no&lt;/a&gt; Tell them to fuck off and find somebody else. If you signed a contract before ge &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/280821&quot;&gt;Is Perl worth it?&lt;/a&gt;                        &quot;Perl: There's more than one way to fuck it up&quot;                                  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172184&quot;&gt;Are you _elite coder_ enough to take a &quot;&lt;/a&gt; Fucking, A that wasn't long was it?                                              &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/318344&quot;&gt;How to start programming for Android?&lt;/a&gt;    @curtisk - I'm a bigger fan of http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/?q=android+program &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184673&quot;&gt;What is the best comment in source code &lt;/a&gt; I like the self documenting aspects of this code, like the the RichardIsAFucking &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250454&quot;&gt;Should I edit a question or answer with &lt;/a&gt; What do you consider offensive language? Personally I'm offended by &quot;f**k&quot; but n &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/428610&quot;&gt;Is it impractical to put an HTML form in&lt;/a&gt; I appreciate the advice. Really, a third of the problem is the technical feasibi &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/681141&quot;&gt;Workin with a proprietary framework conc&lt;/a&gt; lol @ offensive.  I should edit to add a few &quot;fucks&quot; here and there.             &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/428140&quot;&gt;What does SNINativeMethodWrapper.SNIPack&lt;/a&gt; O Great Asshole of RTFM... Just exactly what fucking manual is that in? Stop add &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602598&quot;&gt;Can you do this using jquery?&lt;/a&gt;            Fucking ugly but it works                                                        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/646793&quot;&gt;What does iPhone OS 3.0 need from a prog&lt;/a&gt; Dear God, I'm already having nightmares about Frenzic suddenly closing because I &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/521383&quot;&gt;Duplicate set of columns from one table &lt;/a&gt; Well it is not a fucked design. Its a concept thats used when one trasfer data f &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/738586&quot;&gt;Is Superclass's constructor run inside c&lt;/a&gt; PHP is so fucking annoying. i miss java                                           &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184673&quot;&gt;What is the best comment in source code &lt;/a&gt; The curse words are still in version control; no matter how many times you guys   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/859225&quot;&gt;Why is C# statically typed?&lt;/a&gt;              Yes, Ward. I tend to use the term &quot;fuck typed&quot; to refer to PHP, however...       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/434906&quot;&gt;Worst UI You've Ever Used&lt;/a&gt;                what the fuck? :/                                                                &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/716578&quot;&gt;Can you create a simple 'EqualityCompare&lt;/a&gt; @kvb: If T's GetHashCode() doesn't match it's Equals() method, then you're fucke &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990216&quot;&gt;What is best programming language to mak&lt;/a&gt; fuck you for the downvote. Any question that starts with 'what is the best' is j &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/890787&quot;&gt;Help with query&lt;/a&gt;                          Dean, don't be a fucking lamer. You clearly don't have the slightest clue of wha &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092822&quot;&gt;WPF. Warn about CapsLock&lt;/a&gt;                 I tried to do it with ToolTip, like this &#xA;      ((PasswordBox)sender).SetValue(T &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/872746&quot;&gt;Is it worthwhile to author programming b&lt;/a&gt; @Marc I've long since given up on SO being a non-biased / non-partisan place to   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/962765&quot;&gt;Most shameful/awesome language hack&lt;/a&gt;      I prefer the commented version, with comments like &quot;// evil floating point bit h &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686228&quot;&gt;What code would you have on your wedding&lt;/a&gt; Gortok: People originally messed with it because I didn't immediately switch it   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1146113&quot;&gt;Force @@Servername to return something e&lt;/a&gt; Perfect example of why proprietary software is dangerous.  The company goes out   &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/431175&quot;&gt;What was your first computer game that g&lt;/a&gt; I do wish that instead of closing questions, flagging them &quot;Not programming rela &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1203754&quot;&gt;jQuery Ajax - Callback&lt;/a&gt;                   Oh my god Im such a fucking idiot. I just checked my stylesheet...&#xA;&#xA;#login_callb &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1198170&quot;&gt;Good Javascript plugin to display toolti&lt;/a&gt; +1 -- qTip is fucking incredible.                                                &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1342671&quot;&gt;What things do &quot;experienced&quot; developers &lt;/a&gt; You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake! You are the same decaying organic   &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Query: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select PostId, ISNULL(p.Title, p2.Title) as PostText, left(c.Text, 80) as Comment  &#xA;into #t&#xA;from Comments c &#xA;join Posts p on p.Id = c.PostId&#xA;left join Posts p2 on p.ParentId = p2.Id&#xA;where c.Text like '%fuck%' and c.Text not like '%brain%' -- no brainfuck please&#xA;&#xA;exec spshog9&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T22:42:34.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-16T22:42:34.823" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22267" CreationDate="2009-09-16T22:56:48.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;flag them and we will take action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T22:56:48.637" />
  <row Id="22304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22263" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:08:11.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; flags (text-based) on users, but can only be added by, and are only visible to,  moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Gordon Gano sings this line in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/music/Violent+Femmes/%5F/Kiss+Off&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiss Off&lt;/a&gt;, it's a reference to what the principal of his high school told him after the band played at a National Honor Society ceremony. While they were still in high school (before they made it big), The Violent Femmes were asked to play some music at the NHS ceremony. They said sure... and then they played Gimme the Car. The students in the audience went crazy, pandemonium ensued, and the principal told Gano, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlikely to be ever implemented for anyone other than moderators as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-22/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #22&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the rare event where a user goes haywire — remember that it costs $5 to even join MetaFilter — these users will be given “timeouts” of a day or two until they cool down. &lt;strong&gt;There are no scarlet letters or black marks that can be placed on users.&lt;/strong&gt; The history of the user’s actions, particularly if that history is public, is usually enough to handle the problem. We definitely agree with this philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:08:11.627" />
  <row Id="22305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:21:48.683" Score="13" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;In question or answer comments, hyperlinks currently get rendered in a truncated form as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/...&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This cuts off the most useful part of the link (the post title, or an URLified version of it anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest using the &lt;code&gt;title=&lt;/code&gt; attribute of the anchor for links to internal SOFU sites, so that when hovering over the link a popup tooltip will show the full post title. In the case above, the link might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&#xA;   title=&quot;Hidden Features of C#?&quot;&amp;gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/...&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to being more informative, this will remove the ambiguity introduced by the URLified title (does &quot;hidden-features-of-c&quot; represent hidden features of C? C++? C#?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: The formatting of internal comment links was recently changed and this question marked as &quot;status-completed&quot;. Cool! However this is only half of what is needed, as the tooltip text is created by extracting whatever text the commenter types after the question number, and bears no relation to what the question title actually is in the database. As a result (see the comments below) one can make any tooltip text appear, and this feature still doesn't resolve the ambiguity mentioned in the previous paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:09:48.710" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T23:00:00.870" Title="Automatically add preview title= attribute to internal links" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="22306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22290" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:26:11.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one yardstick to measure this by: Jon Skeet has over 100 Enlightened badges. Now I don't know when he earned them but I would hazard a guess that it was primarily in the first few months of SO. With how quickly questions get answers now, being first and being accepted is a bit of a challenge. In the beginning the lower volume/speed of answers probably made it a little easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1483/are-power-users-creating-a-vacuum-on-so&quot;&gt;Are power users creating a vacuum on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, as useful as it is to answer early, slower but better answers can and do prevail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:26:11.937" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22313" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:29:43.693" Score="1" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;So programmers tend to be very opinionated and sometimes difficult to work with. I could really use some advice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's this one guy on my team... My role in the company is higher than his although I am not his manager. In addition to programming, it is my job to spec how software should be implemented. I haven't had any trouble working with anyone else on the team in this capacity. However, this one guy, we never see eye to eye and I seem to be the only person he is this stubborn with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is infuriating to deal with him, and this has lead to several extremely negative conversations. I've tried damn near everything to improve the relationship, but I'm at my wits end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have prepared hard metrics and examples to enhance my position in&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;order to defuse this person’s contention. This has been very time&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;consuming, and sometimes the evidence I present has been flatly ignored&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;even though others seemed to perceived it as justly adequate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have tried scheduling 1on1 time to include this person in the decision&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;making process, hoping it might lead to better consensus.  This has had&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;mixed results, though mostly  positive. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have tried proxying my concerns through the ticket tracking &#xA;system. I had hoped that this might     have remove some kind of implied or&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;subtle intonation leading to this      person perceiving conflict, but the&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;effect was just reinforced through     this approach as it painfully failed&#xA;on two separate occasions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have   tried proxying through our common boss to      communicate my concerns and issues,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;though this doesn’t really scale as a   solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have tried      intentionally conceding my position&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;in order to avoid conflict all      together, though this was probably&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;the worst approach of all because it    ignored the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have tried     walking away from negative&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;conversations w/ this person, to      continue it another time. This has&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;been imperative to improving, but yet   is still negative and destructive&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;just to lesser extent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone recommend some other strategies? Are there any workshops I should attend or books I should read?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136000" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-20T16:01:51.433" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T16:01:51.433" ClosedDate="2009-09-17T03:56:44.883" Title="Suggestions for dealing with difficult peers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;teamwork&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22309" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:31:17.013" Score="6" ViewCount="655" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been many questions about the Stack Overflow sitemap, but this question is not like those. My goal is not to figure out how the sitemap works, I just want to look at it (don't worry, I'm not going to abuse it, like the issue &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19805/does-stackoverflow-have-a-sitemap&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!). I looked at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt&lt;/a&gt; and found the reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&lt;/a&gt;, but I get a 404 when I try to access the sitemap. How does this work? Can you explain where the sitemap is? I see a comment in &lt;code&gt;robots.txt&lt;/code&gt; that that reference to sitemap.xml isn't technically valid - if the real reference is in another place, what is this place? (Also, this question may belong on a different site, please migrate it if so.) Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: From the answers, I've concluded that the sitemap is actually at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&lt;/a&gt;, but access is restricted to only googlebots. Thanks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-14T11:20:25.560" LastActivityDate="2010-09-14T11:20:25.560" Title="Stack Overflow Sitemap: WTF?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22308" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:39:42.987" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless you're Google, Bing, or another valid search engine, why do you need to see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=156184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=156184&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a capital S—is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T00:07:55.040" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T00:07:55.040" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22308" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:40:25.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is currently no public-facing site map. The site map is the 6 buttons at the top of the page, your name link to your profile, and the glorious little envelope. There aren't too many dark corners around here...or if there are, nobody's told me about them--which is par for the course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:40:25.263" />
  <row Id="22311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22308" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:42:33.827" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my memory serves me correctly, the SO sitemap isn't what most people think of when they think of a sitemap. It's not a couple nested unordered-lists showing links to your profile page, etc. If I remember correctly, it's a massive page containing hundreds of questions used for quick-indexing of SO-content, hence its restricted access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:42:33.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22240" CreationDate="2009-09-16T23:53:04.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well here is what not to fill it with, as mentioned, welbog's profile. I would quote it, but got to keep things friendly. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-16T23:53:04.820" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22307" CreationDate="2009-09-17T00:01:40.920" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/the%5Fcontradictor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Contradictor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T00:01:40.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22157" CreationDate="2009-09-17T00:21:49.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct: tags are the primary ad-targeting mechanism. We also offer geo-targeting, which works off of the visitor's IP addresses. We can also do browser/OS targeting via user-agent string, but no one has requested that thus far. But that's it; we don't &lt;em&gt;offer&lt;/em&gt; any other targeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 10K-targeting was a very special thing that we did &lt;em&gt;exclusively&lt;/em&gt; for Telerik, as they are a very special sponsor. But at this time, we are not offering rep-targeting for anyone else. Once we see how this promo goes, then we may consider offering it to other premium sponsors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because SO is custom software, we could, in theory, target anything we want... down to the number of white pixels in your gravitar. But, we'll cross that bridge when it comes, if and when a sponsor requests it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun aside: a sponsor asked if they could target a specific user (no idea who or why). We told them instead to use the contact info in the user's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T00:21:49.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21454" CreationDate="2009-09-17T00:48:40.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cause the front page users really want an appearance (and the rep limits seem to be removing them from the original list), here is the ratios looking at upvotes and accepted answer votes compared to length. This excluded wiki, but rep caps have no effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;TotalUpvotes&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;KeyStrokes&amp;nbsp;KeyStrokes per Upvotes&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4727&quot;&gt;Leon Timmermans&lt;/a&gt;    1274         11847      72650      57.03                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4482&quot;&gt;Ben Hoffstein&lt;/a&gt;      1063         7402       69687      65.56                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt;       594          7261       42643      71.79                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/381&quot;&gt;David&lt;/a&gt;              446          5996       32102      71.98                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48684&quot;&gt;ocdecio&lt;/a&gt;            2069         18415      160511     77.58                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8454&quot;&gt;Andy Lester&lt;/a&gt;        743          6761       60242      81.08                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12855&quot;&gt;SilentGhost&lt;/a&gt;        977          9183       82716      84.66                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3201&quot;&gt;Galwegian&lt;/a&gt;          1883         18348      163420     86.79                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;        1200         15029      106200     88.50                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40005&quot;&gt;Ayman&lt;/a&gt;              1004         7243       89192      88.84                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4883&quot;&gt;Readonly&lt;/a&gt;           584          5947       53863      92.23                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21886&quot;&gt;RichieHindle&lt;/a&gt;       3143         21247      290177     92.32                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33708&quot;&gt;Mehrdad&lt;/a&gt;            7662         46795      710156     92.69                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6694&quot;&gt;Ben Gottlieb&lt;/a&gt;       860          8032       80007      93.03                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4977&quot;&gt;Cody Brocious&lt;/a&gt;      1090         9108       102609     94.14                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1554&quot;&gt;Brad Wilson&lt;/a&gt;        879          8815       83619      95.13                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt;       7320         52579      704304     96.22                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/184&quot;&gt;Niyaz&lt;/a&gt;              741          7110       71547      96.55                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7536&quot;&gt;eduffy&lt;/a&gt;             557          5333       55265      99.22                     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24181&quot;&gt;Greg&lt;/a&gt;               3468         30586      349344     100.73                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21926&quot;&gt;Sean Bright&lt;/a&gt;        930          8712       94165      101.25                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4337&quot;&gt;Gulzar&lt;/a&gt;             2102         20222      215708     102.62                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3002&quot;&gt;dF&lt;/a&gt;                 1215         11657      125562     103.34                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3560&quot;&gt;John Millikin&lt;/a&gt;      2359         17997      245021     103.87                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/11830&quot;&gt;jop&lt;/a&gt;                644          6017       67568      104.92                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307&quot;&gt;Neil Butterworth&lt;/a&gt;   6241         34628      656571     105.20                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/598&quot;&gt;Haacked&lt;/a&gt;            767          7838       80779      105.32                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14343&quot;&gt;Ned Batchelder&lt;/a&gt;     1174         10812      123900     105.54                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/73681&quot;&gt;cobbal&lt;/a&gt;             671          6404       70836      105.57                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1786&quot;&gt;John Sheehan&lt;/a&gt;       1530         16371      164322     107.40                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25222&quot;&gt;Robert Gamble&lt;/a&gt;      1404         12762      150880     107.46                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/43582&quot;&gt;Bombe&lt;/a&gt;              1035         9849       112078     108.29                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27414&quot;&gt;Jon B&lt;/a&gt;              1009         9590       109767     108.79                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3333&quot;&gt;Paul Tomblin&lt;/a&gt;       3006         27740      329422     109.59                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640&quot;&gt;Rich B&lt;/a&gt;             973          7897       107252     110.23                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/238&quot;&gt;Pat&lt;/a&gt;                642          7504       72127      112.35                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55943&quot;&gt;mquander&lt;/a&gt;           1215         10813      138203     113.75                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12624&quot;&gt;Alex Fort&lt;/a&gt;          608          5736       69620      114.51                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47529&quot;&gt;chaos&lt;/a&gt;              3525         28425      403880     114.58                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2598&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt;             1295         11983      150684     116.36                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/813&quot;&gt;Jeremy Ruten&lt;/a&gt;       1451         14316      172717     119.03                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23643&quot;&gt;Checkers&lt;/a&gt;           567          5718       67518      119.08                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/718&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt;               535          8153       63859      119.36                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7498&quot;&gt;Manni&lt;/a&gt;              678          6486       81396      120.05                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13&quot;&gt;Chris Jester-Young&lt;/a&gt; 2216         19790      267535     120.73                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16511&quot;&gt;Rich Bradshaw&lt;/a&gt;      538          5646       65532      121.81                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22076&quot;&gt;yesraaj&lt;/a&gt;            577          6087       70601      122.36                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4200&quot;&gt;edg&lt;/a&gt;                1101         11180      135008     122.62                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2297&quot;&gt;ceejayoz&lt;/a&gt;           1337         13110      164848     123.30                    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44743&quot;&gt;recursive&lt;/a&gt;          577          5638       71466      123.86                    &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Messy SQL: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select OwnerUserId, (DATALENGTH(Body) / 2) + isnull(DATALENGTH(Title) / 2,0) as Total into #Counts from Posts &#xA;&#xA;-- 1 for upvote, 2 for accepted answer&#xA;select p.OwnerUserId, total = SUM(case when VoteTypeId = 1 then 2 else 1 end)&#xA;into #upvotes&#xA;from Votes v&#xA;join Posts p on PostId = p.id&#xA;where VoteTypeId in (1,2) and CommunityOwnedDate is null&#xA;group by OwnerUserId&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;select &#xA;    top 50 &#xA;    c.OwnerUserId as UserId, &#xA;    DisplayName as UserName,&#xA;    up.total as TotalUpvotes ,&#xA;    Reputation, SUM(c.Total) as [KeyStrokes],&#xA;    cast (SUM(c.Total) / (up.total + 0.0)  as numeric(6,2)) as [KeyStrokes per Reputation]   &#xA;into #t&#xA;from #Counts c&#xA;join Users u on u.Id = c.OwnerUserId&#xA;join #upvotes up on up.OwnerUserId = u.Id &#xA;where Reputation &amp;gt; 5000&#xA;group by c.OwnerUserId, Reputation, DisplayName,up.total&#xA;order by [KeyStrokes per Upvotes] asc &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;spShog9&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T16:51:05.847" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:51:05.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22307" CreationDate="2009-09-17T00:53:52.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's your job to specify how the software will work, then what's the problem? Is that his job also?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, your mutual manager - however high up the chain that may be - should choose one boss, not two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then there really is no problem; let him complain, then tell him in a friendly but firm manner that you're sticking by your recommendations/decision until and unless someone comes up with a constructive alternative - not just a complaint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-21T10:31:22.403" LastActivityDate="2010-07-21T10:31:22.403" />
  <row Id="22317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22307" CreationDate="2009-09-17T00:59:28.813" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask his manager to mediate for you.  Approach the situation as if it is something you both need to work on, i.e., don't assume you are in the right.   The latter is really important; you need to be open to being the one who is wrong. Suggest that his manager mediate the situation and help you both to develop a better working relationship.  If the problem is the other person, then his manager will see it first hand.  If the relationship doesn't improve then you'll find it easier to manage the process of removing the person from your team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T00:59:28.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22305" CreationDate="2009-09-17T01:10:04.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to have the title, but... Why not just make it the link text? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;Hidden Features of C#?&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T01:10:04.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22307" CreationDate="2009-09-17T02:15:58.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any workshops I should attend or books I should read?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could try books by Dale Carnegie.  He seems to have cornered the market on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%5Fto%5FWin%5FFriends%5Fand%5FInfluence%5FPeople&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how to win friends and influence people&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T20:07:07.737" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:07:07.737" />
  <row Id="22320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22321" CreationDate="2009-09-17T02:38:22.467" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;How does &amp;ldquo;Reputation&amp;rdquo; work on Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see from google that one can get +15 for accepted answers and +2 for accepting answers but I couldn't find a page with all the details for each action. I would apreciate a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136004" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T11:45:39.900" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T11:45:39.900" ClosedDate="2009-09-17T03:50:29.717" Title="Is there a detailed list of how to get reputation on stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22320" CreationDate="2009-09-17T02:44:03.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find a detailed list in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow/7238#7238&quot;&gt;this FAQ question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57365" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T02:44:03.893" />
  <row Id="22322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22307" CreationDate="2009-09-17T02:49:28.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people are just a-holes and there's no changing that. It's they who has to change not you. Try to not let him get you down and make it feel like it's your fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, read Jeff Atwood's blog post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001227.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dealing with The Bad Apple&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133256" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T02:49:28.690" />
  <row Id="22323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22320" CreationDate="2009-09-17T03:09:04.940" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask good questions, provide better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46527" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T03:09:04.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22327" CreationDate="2009-09-17T03:34:03.397" Score="0" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22324/has-it-been-a-year-already&quot;&gt;wiki question&lt;/a&gt;, and it showed up immediately when I click the &quot;Active&quot; tab under Questions. However, when I click the &quot;Newest&quot; tab, it didn't for a couple minutes. Is this a caching thing or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T03:47:07.740" Title="Question I just asked shows up in &quot;Active&quot; but not &quot;Newest&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22326" CreationDate="2009-09-17T03:40:32.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Newest' tab seems to be cached more heavily than 'Active' (and the main page too).  The same always happens to me as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T03:47:07.740" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T03:47:07.740" />
  <row Id="22328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:01:56.550" Score="0" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have somehow created two separate users in stackoverflow.  I think this is because the first one I setup didn't actually register as a full user, and that computer doesn't exist anymore, so the cookies are gone forever.  I've set up an account again, but reputation is back at 1 and I'm listed twice in the users list.  Can I merge the two users together somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T07:58:00.403" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T07:58:00.403" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T07:14:05.273" Title="Merge two stackoverflow users" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="22329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22328" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:10:17.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, there are 3 of them ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've confirmed identity between 2 of them via private details (not shown on the public profile); merged. I wonder whether &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/151644/bruce-chapman&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is you as well, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T04:10:17.853" />
  <row Id="22330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21454" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:17:36.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without even considering the complexity issues (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21454/who-gets-the-most-reputation-per-keystroke-on-so/21455#21455&quot;&gt;Troggy's point&lt;/a&gt;); this figure also means that people who regularly &quot;keep going&quot; long after the rep cap are going to rate relatively low. I humbly submit that this is &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the reasons that neither Jon nor myself appear anywhere in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21454/who-gets-the-most-reputation-per-keystroke-on-so/21497#21497&quot;&gt;first 500&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm guessing that the urge to provide a complete answer (including touching on caveats/edge-cases) is the main reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T04:17:36.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22272" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:30:20.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;as long as it doesn't get out of hand&lt;/em&gt;, the occasional aside comment can add some much-needed levity, so I'm all for them. I don't consider this spam - but occasionally a long-running conversation (or just series of random posts, if you see the distinction) erupts in the comments; this &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; become a distraction, especially if the side-thread is detracting from the original post, and the OP is trying to make a serious point (even more so if any of it is abusive to other users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have flags (including on comments); feel free to use them. Moderators have occasionally been forced to step in to reset the comments, and... well; sometimes even then it can get messy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T04:30:20.343" />
  <row Id="22332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22333" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:34:56.717" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I write something like &lt;strong&gt;init&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;class&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;str&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;repr&lt;/strong&gt; in a sentence it appears bold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I stop this without having to put it in a separate code block?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T22:30:08.593" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T22:30:08.593" Title="Python magic attributes display as bold" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22332" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:37:53.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;__init__&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;__class__&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;__str__&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;__repr__&lt;/code&gt; can be done by using the &quot;`&quot; (backtick) character before and after the selected text. This marking allows for inline code. This markup can also be used within comments as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T04:45:12.407" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T04:45:12.407" />
  <row Id="22335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21265" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:42:42.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this feature could be useful, but most people wouldn't actually use it properly, so it probably will never be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T04:42:42.037" />
  <row Id="22336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33690" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:48:55.583" Score="19" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a feature-request &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/363&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on meta.SE&lt;/a&gt;, but it really belongs here. Whenever a message on S[OFU] says &quot;Sorry, new users can't do X&quot;, it should say &quot;Sorry, you need Y rep to do X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Situations where this comes up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;new users can't create tags&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;new users can only post a maximum of one hyperlink&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;new users can't use image tags&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there some others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T23:31:39.770" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:31:39.770" Title="Change “new users can’t do X” to “you need Y rep to do X”" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T04:55:21.117" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Months ago I created a login with my email and password. But now it insists on an OpenID login, and I see no way around this. Even the info on how to link an old account with an OpenID account is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T05:07:34.953" LastActivityDate="2010-09-15T08:10:48.543" Title="How do I login with my old account (not OpenID)?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22378" CreationDate="2009-09-17T05:09:27.150" Score="12" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/531/filter-view-to-show-only-interested&quot;&gt;Filter view to show only interested&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way on SO of seeing all questions associated with &quot;interesting&quot; tags? I find I switch between the 3 or 4 tags that I find interesting and it would be convenient to see all activity associated with my interesting tags on one page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can filter out ignored tags. But I want to filter out everything other than interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135941" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:42:15.880" ClosedDate="2010-04-13T04:50:42.390" Title="How to view only tags of interest?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="22339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22338" CreationDate="2009-09-17T05:16:59.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only other way I can think of is for you to subscribe to the feeds of those interesting tags. Or open one tab on your browser per interesting tag. Or probably create a greasemonkey script for that purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T05:16:59.307" />
  <row Id="22340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22338" CreationDate="2009-09-17T05:20:59.267" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the Unanswered button, and then hit the MyTags tab to get all of your Interesting tagged questions that don't have upvoted answers, or you can go to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11563/tab-for-interesting-questions&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; and vote to get a button/tab created so that we can see all questions in our Interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/4364/focusonmytags.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unanswered/MyTags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T08:18:48.227" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T08:18:48.227" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-17T05:33:50.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick way to check, go to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://{website}/users/flair/1.html&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the copycat sites, as far as I know, have user &quot;flair&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T05:33:50.757" />
  <row Id="22343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22332" CreationDate="2009-09-17T05:42:55.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the 'quote' button instead of the 'code' button, then you won't get any of the color bolding stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T05:42:55.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22348" CreationDate="2009-09-17T06:26:12.487" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I am answering my own question should I make it community wiki? In particular, should I do this when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I only have a partial solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a solution complete by itself, but I am looking for alternatives&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I already know the answer and don't believe that anyone else needs to post anything on it, but I am just posting the solution for the benefit of other users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:36:57.500" Title="Should I community wiki answers to my own questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22347" CreationDate="2009-09-17T06:27:30.300" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21575/mysterious-downvotes-14-random-downvotes-in-5-minutes&quot;&gt;Mysterious downvotes (14 random downvotes in 5 minutes)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got four completely unrelated down votes to both questions and answers within two minutes and obviously no comments at all. This may be a coincidence but I don't think I have ever had that many votes on different questions in such a short timespan so I am inclined to think that this is not a coincidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to limit that sort of behavior? I am not so much concerned with the rep loss. I can live with that, but the value of the voting system is reduced if people start using this as a tool of vengeance (or whatever it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2028/please-detect-serial-down-voting-and-generate-a-pop-up-and-a-limit-to-disallow-vo&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; seems to cover much of my concern, so I guess my question is simply: will this situation be detected and votes restored after a while? On of the answers seems to indicate that it will, but I can't seem to locate it in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133813" LastEditorUserId="133813" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T06:34:12.193" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T06:34:12.193" ClosedDate="2009-09-17T06:52:23.097" Title="What to do about mass down votes?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22346" CreationDate="2009-09-17T06:32:37.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, SO already does that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21575/mysterious-downvotes-14-random-downvotes-in-5-minutes&quot;&gt;Mysterious downvotes (14 random downvotes in 5 minutes)&lt;/a&gt; for an example in action&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there really is someone targeting you with mass down votes then the system will catch it.  The votes will disappear, your reputation will be restored.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T06:32:37.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22345" CreationDate="2009-09-17T06:34:36.950" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that any of the reasons is coercive for wikifying your answer. Your own answer is as valid and valuable as all others, and you might as well earn reputation from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first reason: if it is only a small part, you might want to include it in the answer. &quot;This is what I have so far and tried up to now&quot; style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As SO/SF/SU want to be a repository of computer knowledge in three facets, answering your own question not only is ok, but encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:26:19.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22376" CreationDate="2009-09-17T07:07:12.507" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to edit my answer within a few minutes of posting. On the first edit, it shows the first version of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the next immediate edit, it doesn't show the updated version, but instead still shows the first version of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answering&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8978/93838438.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;First edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1538/94284499.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Version after first edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9314/44605317.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Second edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/5974/67849176.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It worked after clearing the cache after the first edit.Now its showing the updated contents correctly in 2nd edit.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;why this??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:08:08.617" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:08:08.617" Title="Editing answers quickly will show up first version and not second version" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="22354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-09-17T08:34:36.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coconuts from Mercia&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; Asked a question with 10 or more up-votes that was then migrated to a different SOFU site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T08:34:36.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T08:34:36.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22336" CreationDate="2009-09-17T08:42:22.007" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New users won't understand the concept of rep, so telling them &quot;you need x rep&quot; is just going to confuse them. On the other hand &quot;new users can't do...&quot; is easy to understand for someone new to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You could put the rep requirement in as a subtext to the main warning I suppose)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastEditorUserId="130715" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T08:47:50.060" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T08:47:50.060" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-09-17T08:43:16.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is actually working, I have the C# tag in my ignore list so I did not even noticed that C# was growing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want more languages on SO, then market the ignore tag (with the hide option enabled) and this will not be a problem at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133229" LastEditorUserId="133229" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T11:55:03.597" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T11:55:03.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:53:23.690" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a lot of comments indicating that FAQs should be community owned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this a good practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141517" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T11:10:31.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-17T16:53:23.690" Title="Why should the FAQ be community owned?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="22360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22359" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:55:17.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone could edit/fix an answer, and nobody would try to get any reputation from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134934" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-08T11:10:31.163" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T11:10:31.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22359" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:56:03.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes it easier for people to edit them, (i.e. a lower rep is required to 750 vs 2000) and you get no rep for them. I think the community doesn't want rep to be gained for questions that should have just been answered in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6897" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T09:39:31.207" />
  <row Id="22362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22359" CreationDate="2008-10-17T16:58:47.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions of common interest generate a lot of rep really fast. Answering specific questions of less common interest makes the system seem unfair, so to keep it more balanced, FAQ and favorite style questions should be wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T09:39:31.207" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22359" CreationDate="2008-10-17T17:01:13.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One good reason is currently evident in this question:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &quot;notable&quot; question with a lot of votes and nearly as many marks as favorite.  I'd put out a call for a user to add a response that compiled up all the different answers so I could accept it as &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; answer (couldn't do it myself, since it's my own question), and those following the question could then improve on it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone provided an excellent answer, and it was itself upvoted about 20 times.  And then something odd happened.  The user got offended over something (no idea what) and deleted &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; he had done at the site, including this answer.  Community owned content is (or should be) harder to just delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T09:39:31.207" />
  <row Id="22364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22359" CreationDate="2008-10-17T17:12:24.543" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;sofaq questions are &lt;em&gt;by essence&lt;/em&gt; subjective: they require a consensus of the community about the way this site operates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As subjective questions, they should not generate any rep' points for the one asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep' points are about interesting &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; questions and answers, not about meta-questions (meaning questions about StackOverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This community mode for sofaq question is suggested to you in order to respect the spirit of reputation points and, I believe, their original intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T09:39:31.207" />
  <row Id="22365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22359" CreationDate="2008-10-20T10:38:45.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's also good practice to make answers to &lt;em&gt;subjective&lt;/em&gt; questions also community-owned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T09:39:31.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-20T10:38:45.973" />
  <row Id="22366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22367" CreationDate="2009-09-17T10:01:50.457" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little confused about the correct way to notify the OP and the community of duplicate questions. The highest-voted answer in the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10841/how-to-handle-duplicate-questions&quot;&gt;How to handle duplicate questions?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;official FAQ&lt;/a&gt; state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have edit powers add the following at the &lt;strong&gt;top&lt;/strong&gt; of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&amp;#35;&amp;#35;&amp;#35;Duplicate of &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    &amp;gt; &amp;#91;title of question&amp;#93;(url to question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1383/show-possible-duplicates-in-the-main-post-before-its-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; states (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5001/duplicate-possible-duplicate-question-links-displayed/5003#5003&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; seems to confirm) that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the moment links to possible&#xA;  duplicates are inserted in the&#xA;  question text once a question is&#xA;  closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does that mean if I edit the post to add the duplicate and then it is closed, the 'Duplicate' markers will be added twice? Is the FAQ out-of-date and is there a different way we should be notifying of duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T10:10:51.483" Title="Notifying OP of duplicate questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22366" CreationDate="2009-09-17T10:10:51.483" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have updated the FAQ for now, until one of the Meta Mods can verify the changes and confirm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the correct procedure if you can't vote to close is to leave a comment with the duplicate link and flag for moderator attention with the information. However we do normally wait for other's to vote first, unless the question is openly a duplicate, in which case it will be closed right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Important&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a site like SO where there is a significant amount of 3K+ users, please don't flag for moderator attention immediatly, just post the link. There is enough users to identify and close duplicates. On SF/SU with less users able to vote, flagging is strongly encouraged until the user base increases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T10:10:51.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18014" CreationDate="2009-09-17T10:18:48.660" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FGITW - Fastest Gun in the West&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fastest reply to a question. Relevant to how Stack Overflow sorted answers until around August 27 2009. The original sorting was 'number of votes' followed by 'oldest answer first'. This meant that the first answerer was given a natural advantage as their answer as at the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be seen as a disadvantage to answerers that took longer to write their response to a question. Although their answer might be 'better', the first answer given would often be upvoted first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCITE - Slowest Cheater in the East&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant to how Stack Overflow currently sorts answers. The current sorting is 'number of votes' followed by 'random'. This means there is no longer preference given to the age of an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be gamed when a user copied and/or combined other answers and then strategically vote other answers down. Someone visiting the question would see this combined answer as the best one and vote it up, placing it to the top of the answer list. Once the gamer had enough votes that would remove the downvotes from other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The length of time for an up or downvote before changes were locked was dramatically reduced in an attempt to alleviate this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T10:18:48.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T10:18:48.660" />
  <row Id="22369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-09-17T10:56:48.170" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is another graph for the discussion.  I wanted to bring in some outside data in an attempt to make this a more objective conversation.   As a measure of how other languages are rank against each other in SO and the outside world, I grabbed data from the top 10 languages on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TIOBE Programming Community Index for September 2009&lt;/a&gt; and graphed it against the corrosponding Stack Overflow question tag counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;-axis: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Popularity on Stack Overflow&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, measured as percent of composite for SO question tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;-axis: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Popularity on TOIBE Index&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, measured as a percent of the composite of the top ten languages in the TOIBE index&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;z&lt;/em&gt;-axis: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Consensus Popularity&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the bubble size, is measured by multiplying SO % value and TOIBE % value&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt; VB was kind of hard to do because on TOIBE it is &quot;(Visual) BASIC&quot; and SO there are many tags with VB, and I restricted it to VB + VB.NET.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this say to me?  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Stack Overflow questions most definitely over represent C#, relative to other languages.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Other than Rob Allen's answer, almost every other answer and comment here on this point sounds like a subjective justification of the &lt;em&gt;status quo&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Stu hunkers down for the inevitable blow back from overly sensitive C# fans who think he is a C# hater.)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stackoverflow-langue-popularity-versus-TOIBE.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T11:42:16.007" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T11:42:16.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22371" CreationDate="2009-09-17T11:10:51.807" Score="0" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking around on the SO sites for a link to their Get Satisfaction site, but can't find it.  Are we still putting feature requests on there, or should they all now be posted to Meta.SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15609" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T11:11:37.453" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T11:12:37.637" Title="Is SO still using Get Satisfaction?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22370" CreationDate="2009-09-17T11:12:37.637" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All feature requests and bug reports are posted on Meta-SO. Any previous sites used by SO has been discontinued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Althought I can't recall SO ever using Get Satisfaction, unless you are referring to UserVoice, which Meta has since replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T11:12:37.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-09-17T11:41:47.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a bit of a problem. IMHO Stack Overflow depended on two things to get started: a nice web UI and a critical mass of expert developers. Joel and Jeff supplied the critical mass through their blog audiences: mostly Windows/.NET developers. I don't think we can count on this automatically spreading to all other technologies because you need a critical mass to get started. Otherwise, it goes like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fred stumbles on Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fred posts a question about SilverBulletTech (TM)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No good answers, because no-one knows SilverBulletTech (TM).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fred goes back to the SilverBulletTech (TM) Usenet group, where the UI is poor but at least someone helps you. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: IMHO an example is C - there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2451/why-do-you-cast-downvotes-on-answers/2457#2457&quot;&gt;complaints&lt;/a&gt; that the quality of C answers on StackOverflow is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2451/why-do-you-cast-downvotes-on-answers/2457#2457&quot;&gt;not very high&lt;/a&gt;. If that's true, we can't expect to attract C developers. C# developers are attracted to StackOverflow partly by the UI, but mainly by answers by a big community including world-class experts like Jon Skeet and Eric Lippert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to get a marketing whizzkid (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;business wonk&lt;/a&gt;) on the case. Hmm, maybe they already are. I expect &quot;building the brand&quot; is one of the motives behind the developer days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastEditorUserId="135917" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T10:22:10.713" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T10:22:10.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T11:58:14.700" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;When subscribing to an RSS feed of a question (via the &lt;code&gt;question feed&lt;/code&gt; link) you've typically read all the existing answers/comments on that question and want to be notified of any changes. What happens now is that you get the top 30 items currently posted (including the question, you can't subscribe to a question unless you already saw it!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question RSS feeds should include a time stamp and only post stuff that's later than that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-02T01:38:04.950" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T01:38:04.950" Title="Question RSS feed should only give new changes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22349" CreationDate="2009-09-17T12:13:33.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Edit History&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're talking about what I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; you're talking about, it's by design. There's a window -- I believe 5 minutes -- during which if you edit your question or answer, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1159/to-give-each-edit-own-version-history-closed&quot;&gt;it's not counted as an edit&lt;/a&gt;. I believe that is what you're running into here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW, according to the linked post above, this goes for any edits within a given 5-minute window. Therefore if someone else came along edited this answer within 5 minutes of my adding it -- say to put up a picture of delicious waffles -- it won't show in the edit history.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably a good thing, given that after you post and have a chance to re-read, you might need to make some quick tweaks. Also, this helps ease the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8654/so-is-too-eager-to-turn-my-edited-answers-into-community-wiki&quot;&gt;auto-community-wiki situation&lt;/a&gt;, as edits you make yourself do count toward your question turning wiki and not earning you rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, correct, you're not seeing edit history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit Not Saving?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're implying that your edit didn't save correctly the second time, then that's a whole other story. Looking at the answer you provided for your post, it definitely looks like any edits done were within the 5-minute window, so I can't see history on it, but the only time I've seen issues where an edit didn't &quot;take&quot; was when there was a concurrency issue (multiple users editing simultaneously). That doesn't look like the case with yours, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:13:33.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22349" CreationDate="2009-09-17T12:30:53.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that this is a browser caching issue.  The &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; link has the same URL from one edit to another, so if your browser is caching too aggressively, it will show you the edit page from the first time you clicked the link (i.e., the first version) on every subsequent browse to that link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To troubleshoot, I'd try hitting &quot;refresh&quot; after editing the second time to see if it updates your page with the newer version.  Also, try temporarily disabling your browsing cache to see if it goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:30:53.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22345" CreationDate="2009-09-17T12:36:57.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Ralph, those reasons alone don't put any burden on you to wikify your answer.  I think I would only wikify my answers when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am &lt;strong&gt;presenting alternatives&lt;/strong&gt; on which I want answerers to use their votes to express a subjective opinion.  This usually means your question is a poll, which probably means the question isn't appropriate except in very exceptional cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When there's a high probability my &lt;strong&gt;answer is incorrect, poor style, or otherwise unpopular&lt;/strong&gt;, but I am including it for illustrative purposes.  I might CW the answer to protect myself from the rep loss when people decide to downvote that answer.  After all, they are protecting others from finding my wrong answer and thinking it's right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:36:57.500" />
  <row Id="22378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22338" CreationDate="2009-09-17T12:42:15.880" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21717/a-greasemonkey-script-to-make-browsing-interesting-tags-easier&quot;&gt;greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; for this exact reason.  It still needs a little work, but it makes switching among your interesting tags easier, as well as providing a link to do a tag search on only your interesting tags, from which &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; tabs (newest, featured, hot, votes, and active) are available to further refine your search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, that link is implemented by a simple URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tag1+OR+tag2+OR+tag3+OR+tag4&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that any special characters in the tags must be URL-encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:42:15.880" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22336" CreationDate="2009-09-17T12:46:13.847" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the message could be clearer, but as pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22336/change-new-users-cant-do-x-to-you-need-y-rep-to-do-x/22355#22355&quot;&gt;Simon&lt;/a&gt; &quot;You need X rep&quot; would be hideously unhelpful to the users who do not know what reputation is yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any user who has just stumbled on the site and signed up to ask a question would likely be in this situation. A compromise might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, new users can't do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;until they have &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; [link]reputation[/link]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little long, yes, and I'm open to any suggestions about shortening it. But this conveys the following information &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New users can't do what you're doing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have a reputation system here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You CAN do what you want to do once you have &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Here's a link explaining reputation and (presumably) how to get it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you noticed, with only &quot;New users can't do &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;&quot; the new users are left with no indication of how to become... &quot;old&quot;. With &quot;You need &lt;em&gt;Y&lt;/em&gt; reputation&quot; new users are left in the dark about what/why reputation is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:46:13.847" />
  <row Id="22380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22337" CreationDate="2009-09-17T12:54:27.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logins for Stack Overflow, Super User and Server Fault have always been OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that you registered with an email address at one of the OpenID providers linked to at the login page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T12:54:27.993" />
  <row Id="22381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22383" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:21:15.667" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it allowed to add same tag to interesting and ignored tags' lists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135723" LastEditorUserId="135723" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T13:29:09.053" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T13:30:07.287" Title="adding interesting and ignored tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22381" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:30:07.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that in most cases, it is a mistake, it is small and easily correctable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if someone has a variety of tags that they want to temporarily ignore, it would make sense that they can add them to the ignore list without being forced to remove them from the interesting tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call this a bug. I'd call it a feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T13:30:07.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8120" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:34:12.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this is an end user error that is simple enough for the end user to fix, that it is not worth the effort (design, implementation and maintenance) to make impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T13:34:12.803" />
  <row Id="22385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:34:30.493" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems there is a bug when selecting a tag listed in a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the &lt;strong&gt;Unanswered&lt;/strong&gt; tab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &lt;strong&gt;Newest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select any tag that's associated to the question like &lt;code&gt;C#&lt;/code&gt; (not one of the tags listed on the right side)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expected:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should show the newest unanswered questions tagged under &lt;code&gt;C#&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actual:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently it shows the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;C#&lt;/code&gt; bounty questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T20:22:52.293" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:22:52.293" Title="Possible bug when selecting tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:40:20.623" Score="1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only been using SO for about a month, but I think I've noticed an increase in impatient responses to poorly-worded questions. I may even have been guilty of it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course 'poorly-worded question' is a euphemism. We see questions expressed as bold statements, even demands for information. Sometimes there's absolutely no hint that the OP has done &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; research, and I've seen many examples of serial offenders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the impatience will get worse unless something is done to &lt;em&gt;relieve the pressure&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can&lt;/em&gt; anything be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see anything in the FAQ about how to ask a &lt;em&gt;polite&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not really talking about rude or offensive responses, and I'm not going to point the finger at anyone in particular. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if there is (or could be) a &lt;em&gt;standard&lt;/em&gt; response to unanswerable questions &amp;#8212; an entry in the FAQ which explains in the politest way &lt;em&gt;the need&lt;/em&gt; to do homework/research &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; asking a question; and &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to phrase a question so it doesn't seem like a demand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a response which doesn't require the effort of repeatedly explaing the 'rules' to OPs who, it has been pointed out, probably won't read or understand comments?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:03:44.060" Title="What can be done about an increasing impatience with poorly expressed questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22385" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:42:34.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you click the tags listed for a question, it takes you to that tags questions page, not that tags unanswered questions page. If you're seeing all questions with bounties, then the last time you had been on any questions page, you must have selected &quot;featured&quot; to view questions with a bounty. The system stores your last selection and presents that the next time as the default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &lt;code&gt;Featured&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &lt;code&gt;Unanswered&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &lt;code&gt;Newest&lt;/code&gt; (unneeded)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for a question listed, select a tag for that question &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; the tags listed on the right hand side&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You should see the selected tags, featured tab, listing all questions with a bounty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer &quot;is it a bug or is it designed like that?&quot; I believe it was definitely designed that way. I suspect there is a partial form that handles displaying question previews. While I'm certain the behavior could be changed, I'm not sure it would be worth the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T13:56:33.060" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T13:56:33.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:42:38.233" Score="26" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see search terms in Search used with OR operator by default and I see no way to switch or force it to AND. For example I just queried [XTS mode] in the stackoverflow and all results were irrelevant (the moment before I read a post where both terms were used) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google always used AND operator by default. As I recall from my experience the noticeable exception is phpBB that uses OR by default. I know that this can be a very long discussion, but the well-known search engines is a strong point on my side, aren't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;I just read about the feature that AND results should be at top. Not always actually, or with this approach (all shown, AND first), suggestion would be at least mark the sections, so to see there's no AND results at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that the search works strangely, two examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the query I posted [XTS Mode] didn't have XTS in the first result,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Query [Delphi Register] didn't have &quot;register&quot; in the first result, but googling [site:stackoverflow.com Delphi register] led to the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/517944/calling-a-delphi-dll-from-c-produces-unexpected-results&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/517944/calling-a-delphi-dll-from-c-produces-unexpected-results&lt;/a&gt; that had both words&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136025" LastEditorUserId="136025" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T14:13:15.867" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T10:56:17.560" Title="Why OR operator by default in search" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="22389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22386" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:51:28.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lack of research -- even basic research -- does not indicate a poor question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, all kinds of other things do. The other items in your list, for example. Part of this is the nature of the global Internet -- I'm sure many do not &lt;em&gt;intend&lt;/em&gt; for their questions to be poorly worded, but let's face it, if English is your second (or even not-at-all, and you use a translation service) language, it's going to be tough to communicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think much can be done about the questions themselves other than the standard choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignoring them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flagging for mod attention if critically flawed &amp;amp; a repeat offender&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your question is more interesting -- it's about the &lt;em&gt;response&lt;/em&gt; to these questions. I would like to say that the S[OFU] sites are 100% full of mature, responsible, level-headed folks who are helpful, friendly, courteous and forgiving. Of course, I'd also like to say that I own a Ferrari and 3 beach houses, and that ain't true either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality is that, like any community, the S[OFU] sites are a microcosm of global society -- you have its best, it's worst, and (where I'm sure the vast majority of us lie) the in-between. You can't do anything about the impatient responses other than flag for mod attention if they're abusive or offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T13:51:28.967" />
  <row Id="22393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22386" CreationDate="2009-09-17T13:57:09.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter what the FAQ or anything else says, people who ask questions like that are not going to read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question doesn't in fact contain a question, or doesn't contain an understandable one, it should be closed under &quot;not a real question&quot;.  Badly written but understandable questions can be edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, you can downvote questions you don't like, refuse to answer them, and leave comments explaining the problems with the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments and downvotes are useful in showing that certain questions are outside the community norms, and that's useful.  If too many people think that asking bad questions is commonly accepted, we're in trouble.  Besides, they may make you feel better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T13:57:09.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22386" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:02:35.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be done is a very broad questions with a wild variety of responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first answer is simple. If the responses are offensive or unhelpful, flag or downvote them. It has been known on meta for a while that LMGTFY is absolutely not an acceptable answer, but it goes deeper than that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is never appropriate to be rude to someone based on anything you are &lt;em&gt;assuming&lt;/em&gt; from their question. Because we have no way of knowing what they were thinking. Maybe they didn't bother to Google their very simple question, or perhaps they spent 20 minutes googling and they just suck at it. Maybe they are not a native speaker and they've misused a critical english word, and it makes their request sound brash and ridiculous, but if the correct word was used, it would sound reasonable and interesting. We simply don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel like a downvote (with or without explanation) is not enough for this person who has been rude, then you could possibly link them to some of the questions on meta (including this one) that relate to how we should treat &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow&quot;&gt;non-english speakers&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;new users&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last aspect would be to actually help the person who is having trouble expressing themselves clearly. If they try their best and recieve nothing but abuse, that is a very poor user experience. They will feel very discouraged and unlikely to come back. However, if even one person defends or helps them, it can turn it around entirely. They will find themselves better able to absorb and ignore the abuses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason, you should definitely edit their question to make it clearer/better. As I detailed in my response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow&quot;&gt;how to help non-english speakers,&lt;/a&gt; you should edit as much as you can, and at least clear up the grammar for the rest. Leave a comment relating to any parts you were unclear about, and encourage the OP to clarify it for themselves. Even if they are non-native speakers, they will usually still find a way to express themselves more clearly &lt;em&gt;if they are informed where the particular problems are&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: &lt;strong&gt;Being nice &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; goes a long way.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:02:35.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:02:48.723" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing tag stats on stackoverflow.com, users have to numbers listed next to their name.  The one on the left is light gray and the one on the right is dark gray.  The one on the left appears to be the number of answers, questions, etc based on the category heading.  What's the second number?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7773/graynumbers.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T14:12:06.947" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:16:18.343" Title="What do the two numbers listed next to users names mean in the tag stats screen?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="22396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22395" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:05:48.877" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Number of badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:06:43.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18465" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:08:28.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it would be desirable to include everybody, but I think this is going to happen through word of mouth.  People will find out that SO is a good place for some answers, and will tend to join, and provide answers for even more subjects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big question is barriers to entry, and I haven't seen them.  Nobody is systematically downvoting Java questions and answers that I've noticed, and nobody seems to be systematically leaving nasty comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:08:28.527" />
  <row Id="22399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22395" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:09:32.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dark one says how many answers the user has made in that particular tag; the light grey one says how many upvotes they received for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hover your cursor over the number, you get this information as a tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4777/92596591.png&quot; alt=&quot;celebrating my 3k rep, here're my first freehand circle&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T14:16:18.343" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:16:18.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:09:33.327" Score="26" ViewCount="1140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do programmers help each other without pay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mailing Lists&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;IRC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blogs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Open Source&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some analogies to other professions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135883" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-01T09:54:28.493" LastActivityDate="2011-01-16T16:51:24.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" Title="Why do programmers help each other without pay?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="51" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="22402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:12:25.443" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Karma&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things are more important than money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't link to other professions as I don't know them, but I believe this is a general human trait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1937" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:15:51.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:12:30.637" Score="52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a lot of them - they're doing it from work - so technically they are being paid lol :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138410" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:15:51.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:12:42.533" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To show off....its all about the rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136031" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:15:51.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:13:23.367" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe, that helping out a fellow programmer allows to both build credibility for yourself and improve your overall understanding of the underlying problem, programming language, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:15:51.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:13:47.967" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To get more Stack Overflow rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135618" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:15:51.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:14:12.657" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to help people out because as much help as I give, I also take. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130861" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:15:51.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:14:34.560" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The non-selfish reason is simple professional courtesy.  There have been far too many times in my career when I have a problem that I just can't get past, but a different set of eyes finds the solution immediately.  If I can be that set of eyes for someone else, I'm happy to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The selfish reason is self-promotion.  Pro bono help here and there can build reputation (in the general sense) which might lead to new contracts, book deals, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136033" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:15:51.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:20:00.053" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That warm feeling when you get the accepted answer on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135930" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-12T09:36:53.630" LastActivityDate="2010-06-12T09:36:53.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:20:56.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you learn by helping other. And knowledge is valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometime, the feeling of doing a good act by helping someone let you clear your mind and focus for the rest of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the analogy, just think of a plumber who tell you how to unclog a pipe that is blocked by ice. He just told you how over the phone and he didn't charge you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133566" LastEditorUserId="133566" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T14:28:51.750" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:28:51.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:21:21.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because programmers are the only people who completely understand programmers, their mindset, the issues they face, and sometimes you just need help. It is nice to relate to fellow peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T16:46:45.980" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T16:46:45.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22388" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:22:01.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I find this strange as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a work around, you might be interested to know that you can do AND searches if you edit the URL directly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+optimization&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+optimization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will return all questions matching both &lt;kbd&gt;python&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;optimization&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:22:01.687" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:27:37.353" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love what I do. I want other people to enjoy it too. It's hard to enjoy something when you've been stuck in the same rut and banging your head against the same problems over and over. When you finally find a solution to the problem, the avid programmer wants to share it with the rest of the programming world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering questions here also advances the art of programming in general and will hopefully create better programmers who will then find and conquer increasingly difficult challenges. Its how we as an industry grow. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hanselminutes.com/default.aspx?showID=189&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last Hanselminutes podcast with Uncle Bob&lt;/a&gt; touches on that to a certain extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:27:37.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22417" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:28:04.250" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question posted on SO that was &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/42530/what-is-directory&quot; title=&quot;what is a ~/ directory?&quot;&gt;later moved to Super User&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got 12 votes from the answer, but the rep was not added to my SO reputation. It wasn't added to my SU account either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I have to connect the two (identical) accounts or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135679" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T14:39:40.970" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T16:17:23.170" Title="No reputation gained for an answer on a migrated question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:30:17.723" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they need a &quot;third place&quot; besides home and work. They might tend to be working hard and not have much free time, so virtual communities are attractive. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20030228.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Like Joel said in 2003&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastEditorUserId="135917" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T09:16:56.250" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:16:56.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22415" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:31:05.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, yes. see here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:31:05.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:32:16.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are professional mailing lists in a lot of different domains such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20086.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;journalism&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientists are even more extreme. In a lot of cases it costs a scientist to publish a paper.&#xA;They don't work directly for money but they work for reputation and get funding based on their reputation. &#xA;Scientists also have mailing lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There also the factor that programmers are usually more likely to use technology such as mailing lists, IRC while a lot of other professions are much more likely to pick up the phone and call someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164437" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:32:16.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:33:10.403" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it's fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like learning from other people, and if I can contribute back, that's cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really, for me at least, it's fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T14:33:10.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22437" CreationDate="2009-09-17T14:47:05.977" Score="9" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed an oddity earlier today: Despite a question being moved from StackOverflow to Meta, I could still vote for answers on the original question on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't voting be locked on migrated questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15880" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T16:13:02.793" Title="Disallow voting on answers if question is migrated" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1125" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:17:20.683" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do this.  I can't figure out which X goes with which tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:17:20.683" />
  <row Id="22424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:17:54.423" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a target time/day for releasing new podcasts? It seems like they are getting released later and later as we go on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T15:39:52.327" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:32:17.620" Title="Is there a target time/date for releasing new podcasts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22424" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:33:42.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of work involved in doing a regular podcast, especially when it's a secondary-focus to your day. I'm sure Joel and Jeff are both rather busy doing other things. As such, let's just be patient and wait on their terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:33:42.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:35:50.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same problem and have a mediocre workaround. Often when you have multiple word searches one of those words is likely a tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for example if you wanted a search with all the words &quot;vb6 dialog&quot;, but not necessarily that phrase, just rework your search as &quot;[vb6] dialog&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also extend this to use more than one tag. &quot;[vb6] [vb.net] dialog&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ain't a perfect solution and only works when some or all of your terms are in the tags of the question you are looking for, but it is better than nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:35:50.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22424" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:41:44.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The podcasts are generally released on Wed night/Thurs mornings, they've been a bit delayed last week, and this week. I believe that this is because of DevDays planning etc... As Jonathan points point, it does take a lot of work to put these together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:41:44.707" />
  <row Id="22428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22424" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:44:47.837" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have to take some time to retighten the string between their tin cans after each podcast. Otherwise they won't get a clear enough signal and all we'll hear is static and someone munching on their sandwich. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The string itself slackens over the week and it takes a bit of time to get it taught again before unleashing another scintillating episode on the going ons of the Stack Overflow empire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/NuLM6.png&quot; alt=&quot;joel and jeff&quot; title=&quot;what's on the podcast this week?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:44:47.837" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22435" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:47:08.973" Score="2" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for thoughtful tips on asking &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22400/why-do-programers-help-each-other-without-pay-closed&quot;&gt;meta-programming questions&lt;/a&gt; on stackoverflow without getting sent to meta stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that meta-programming != meta stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135883" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T16:22:50.267" Title="How to ask meta-programming on Stack Overflow without being moderated?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22429" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:50:40.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have any more example questions? If it programming, it will stay on SO. If it is about SO or any of the other sites/features/how it works, then it will go to meta.stackoverflow. As long as your question is clear about it's intent, it will go/stay to the appropriate site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the FAQ's for both sites just as reminder of the goals of each site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question you refer to is wiki type material if it was going to stay open. I think it should have stayed on SO as a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T15:56:09.610" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:56:09.610" />
  <row Id="22431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22429" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:52:45.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22400/why-do-programers-help-each-other-without-pay-closed&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt; was a valid question for Stack Overflow. It should have been wiki, and it was likely a dupe, but it definitely was valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:52:45.687" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22424" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:54:41.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The delay is most likely because Jeff has &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4033598651&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;been sick&lt;/a&gt; for the last few days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4033598651&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/DfgdQ.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:32:17.620" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:32:17.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22478" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:55:29.347" Score="0" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this ad appear in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i30.tinypic.com/rh60r6.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that the numer 10 &lt;code&gt;__default&lt;/code&gt; book on Amazon is from another category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Bonus Track&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make the title box larger, I'm yet to see one advertised book in SO were its title is displayed completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will SOFU ever have this kind of ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lazygamer.co.za/general-news/a-history-of-evony-ads-the-insanity-continues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.lazygamer.co.za/2009/08/Evony4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Evony ads rock! XD&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T22:20:43.433" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T22:20:43.433" Title="Possible bug with ads" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="22434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22429" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:57:55.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your question was programming related, and would have voted to close.  It doesn't belong here either.  Probably needs to be on one of the social networking sites (which this isn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;meta-programming &amp;lt;&gt; StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T16:22:50.267" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T16:22:50.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22429" CreationDate="2009-09-17T15:59:32.243" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion: avoid even using the word &quot;stackoverflow&quot; in your question. I've noticed that people can sometimes have a knee-jerk reaction to seeing the site mentioned, thinking that it needs to be on MetaSO because you are discussing/referencing SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kind of on the fence about your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22400/why-do-programers-help-each-other-without-pay-closed&quot;&gt;previous question&lt;/a&gt;. You were speaking more &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; about sites &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; SO, but not &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; SO. For that reason, it &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; doesn't belong on MetaSO. However, I also feel like the connection to programming was a bit tenuous, and the question somewhat subjective and discussion-oriented. For those reasons, I don't think it was a very good fit for SO either. I would probably suggest another forum entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T15:59:32.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22429" CreationDate="2009-09-17T16:04:16.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of StackOverflow has been muddied somewhat over time, but the original purpose was to be a place for technical questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people have used it to try talking about the environmental factors related to working in an office, or programming interviews, or team dynamics, however those would be fitting for a 'programming forum' where programmers are meant to congregate and chat. However, StackOverflow is not meant for that. It is meant to be an engine for programmers to get answers to their technical difficulties. The community environment was cultivated in order to have people want to be helpful to one another, it was not meant to detract from the purpose of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact of the matter is that your question &quot;Why do programmers help each other&quot; is not actually a technical question related to programming. The question is deeply philosophical and psychological, and bears only passing reference to programming. An equally valid (read: invalid) question would be &quot;Why are lawyers so much less inclined to help each other than programmers?&quot; It bears the same reference to programming, but it is more a question about people and attitudes than about programming. Such questions are not appropriate for any of S[O|F|U].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be rephrased to be relevant on metaStackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What drives the incentive to participate in S[O|F|U]?&quot; would be a more valid question, because (especially if you are thinking about getting your own stackExchange site) this is the correct environment to pose those queries. Keep in mind, that question is still specific to why people would participate in &lt;em&gt;these&lt;/em&gt; sites, not why &quot;programmers in general&quot; are or are not &quot;helpful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T16:04:16.477" />
  <row Id="22437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22422" CreationDate="2009-09-17T16:13:02.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers themselves should have been deleted, locked to prevent undeletion, and new answers prohibited by the closing of the question itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there are several features of the system for closing and deleting posts that make it possible - and fairly common - for answers to persist on migrated questions. IMHO, the system needs to be changed to lock down migrated questions more rigidly than other sorts of closed/locked questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19208/answers-posted-to-a-migrated-question-post-migration-remain-visible-and-unlocked&quot;&gt;Answers posted to a migrated question post-migration remain visible and unlocked on the original site.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T16:13:02.793" />
  <row Id="22438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19280" CreationDate="2009-09-17T16:23:04.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the first five or so months of SO, there was a reasonably effective solution to this: close the question until the author (or someone else) comes and cleans it up. This helped to prevent &quot;wild guess&quot; answers, and provided a strong incentive to improve questions quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the introduction of &quot;vote to close&quot;, the use of this technique took a big hit. In all but the most blatant cases, it takes far too long to close a question - and more importantly, far too long to re-open it again - for this to be used effectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend you immediately down-vote poorly-asked questions. If they lack sufficient detail or specificity to answer, vote to close; otherwise, edit them. In both cases, give the original author a few minutes to respond to criticism and provide the edits himself. Once edited, you should be able to retract or reverse your vote, if you feel it is no longer appropriate. Voting is not as effective a &quot;stick&quot; as was closing, but it's what we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T16:23:04.663" />
  <row Id="22442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22444" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:03:44.450" Score="2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hit my reputation cap, offered a bounty, and got 13 more upvotes after offering the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 13 upvotes didn't generate any reputation, so I was stuck at 150 reputation gained today (until one of my answers got accepted).  (No, they weren't Community Wiki)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I regain the reputation I offered for the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Can this be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T08:35:05.950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:35:05.950" Title="Reputation cap ignores reputation paid for bounty offerings" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22442" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:06:56.193" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you've hit the cap, you're done, other than having answers accepted. I believe if you hit the cap, downvote someone, and then remove the downvote, you stay at 199. I don't personally agree with it, but that's how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T17:06:56.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22442" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:11:18.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any time you &quot;give away&quot; rep such as through bounties or downvotes, it will decrease your rep cap by that amount. This has been noted in the past as a bug by several of us but I am unsure as to whether anything will be done about it because it seems to be too minor of an issue for some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T17:11:18.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22449" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:41:55.987" Score="38" ViewCount="1201" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a lot of talk about the daily reputation cap and what counts and what doesn't count and so on. But why is there a cap at all? I've seen lots of questions about whether the cap number should be changed, or whether certain things should or should not apply to the cap, but I've never seen any reasoning behind why it exists in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I write a great answer to something and get 30 upvotes in a day, why should I be deprived of 100 reputation points? What is the difference between getting 30 upvotes today and getting fifteen yesterday and fifteen today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2011-04-14T23:33:36.693" Title="What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22447" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:45:27.900" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It stops the site from being gamed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user like Jon Skeet will gain 1000+ points in an hour if this didn't exist for example. Jon objects to the cap himself for other reasons. &lt;em&gt;PS: I am using Jon as an example that we all know&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is to level the playing field&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It allows for others that won't gain reputation as quickly not to fall behind. Also considering that the reputation is based on how much you are trusted, it avoids having users gain ability without them having spent some time on the site to understand how it works. I would not want someone who has been on the site for 2 days to suddenly have the ability to close questions, or edit my posts, if he hasn't had time to understand the nature of the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The latter unfortunately has been proven to not work so well, some users still don't understand SO after a year.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/25163/anonjr&quot;&gt;AnonJr&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A better example of gaming is posting dozens of (generally poor quality) questions in rapid succession and rapidly gaining rep through they typical drive-by voting and/or sympathy voting. (I'm all about voting questions up when they're good, but some questions just seem to get votes for no apparent reason...) Since rep is a measure of trust, this type of rep-farming could garner enough rep for someone who is most likely not trustworthy to do things that they probably ought not to be able to do. (IIRC that was listed in a blog post/meta topic related to the caps) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="156560" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-14T23:33:36.693" LastActivityDate="2011-04-14T23:33:36.693" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="22450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22453" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:53:00.553" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to go through and clean up my questions by selecting the answers, what is the best view/page for me to go to in order to easily access them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136052" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T07:06:52.423" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T07:06:52.423" Title="Best view on stackoverflow to easily browse through and accept answers on past questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22450" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:56:20.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I type this into the SO search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:52738&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get a list of all my questions followed by all my answers. You just have to swap out the number with your user ID. This may be easier than going through the questions on your profile page, since the view tends to reset when you navigate away and back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T17:56:20.343" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:57:46.970" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet once wrote a bug in his code just to see what it was like.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Knuth has a check from Jon Skeet for $2.56 hanging on his wall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first post to Slashdot was &quot;I for one welcome my Jon Skeet overlord.&quot;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet's Slashdot user id is a negative number.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When dragons write code they comment it with &quot;Here be Jon Skeet&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In a debate between vi and emacs the winner would be Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet knows the fate of Schrödinger's cat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Turk&lt;/a&gt; had to be explained as a hoax because no one could figure out how Jon Skeet was able to control it from the future.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_%28chess_computer%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Deep Blue&lt;/a&gt; was really just a box concealing Jon Skeet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="134272" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T18:40:47.937" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T18:40:47.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T17:57:46.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22450" CreationDate="2009-09-17T18:06:54.273" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I go to my profile and look through my questions there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I like a modification of what's been mentioned here, for the Search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;user:13295 hasaccepted:0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T06:36:47.693" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T06:36:47.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T18:10:10.243" Score="4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another one about special chars in URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy reproducing steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;C# tag page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log in if you're logged out or log out if you're logged in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You're now returned to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&quot;&gt;C tag page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gets worse, for example, when coming from a &quot;answers:1&quot; kind of search result page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T08:15:46.767" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T08:17:16.497" Title="Return URL is broken for escaped characters" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;character-escaping&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22447" CreationDate="2009-09-17T18:13:21.233" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Addiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if Jeff has done this intentionally but it has a major role in having resources (procrastinating programmers) available on a regular basis and making it a habit for users to come and answer questions everyday rather than having irregular bursts of answers some of the time and a bunch of unanswered questions other times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T18:13:21.233" />
  <row Id="22456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:43:25.010" Score="6" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was a TA for an undergraduate programming course and I've been considering doing it again. Since I'm sure some of my students would be requesting solutions to their homework here, I've been thinking about how I would handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was &quot;it would be easy to search here for people asking for answers,&quot; where the obvious course of action is approaching the student about academic integrity. However, after further thought I came to another conclusion: I teach because I want to help the students &lt;em&gt;who care&lt;/em&gt; to be the most capable developers then can be. As such, I think I would simply move towards grading on &quot;passion&quot; when I find a student getting the answers online. Summarized, &quot;If you're going to be asking around for other people to give significant input on your homework, you'd better be doing it for the purpose of training yourself to see elegant solutions to problems you face.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal teaching philosophy: Identify the students with a desire to learn and procede to utilize their individual stregths to maximize their learn:time ratio. Assign grades based solely on (demonstration of known subset + &lt;em&gt;curve&lt;/em&gt; of the &quot;expected to know after the course&quot; as listed in the syllabus from the beginning of the semester), where &lt;em&gt;curve&lt;/em&gt; is created to cover cases where it's clear I expected more than was reasonable for a single-semester course. Clearly, based on this I would allow the replacement of the assigned work with work of significantly greater material coverage for capable students - I don't like wasting their time and if they'll put in overtime to still make the course worthwhile for themselves I'm not going to stop them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to two key questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would you use for a &lt;em&gt;written&lt;/em&gt; policy regarding students seeking homework answers online.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would you use for an &lt;em&gt;unwritten&lt;/em&gt; policy &quot;addendum&quot; to the written policy. Personally, I think the mechanisms I use for subjective grading go here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I &lt;a href=&quot;http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary%5F1861705758/rocker.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;off my rocker&lt;/a&gt; for the final philosophy paragraph?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Before voting to close:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I believe this information could be helpful to people genuinely interested in helping their students learn.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm open to feedback on how to improve this question - so try to make a suggestion before a close vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I made it community wiki and gave it proper tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131057" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:25:33.087" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:25:33.087" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T17:43:41.267" Title="Teachers/Graders: How do you handle students asking homework questions on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;policy&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="22457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22456" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:57:46.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which of the following approaches to assignments would you use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do the assignment in class - In this case, while one can use SO, Google and other resources, the key factor is what is submitted and how well does the student understand what they are submitting.  While it isn't practical to consider this, it may be reasonable to consider changing the assignment near the end to reveal one more question or something to answer given what was done that should be rather straightforward to answer before they are done with the assignment.  So, a students writes the program to change temperatures from one scale to another and has to run various test cases to show the code works and does meet the requirements of the assignment.  An additional question may be to break down various parts of the program, e.g. what is the input or output of the program.  Time is a key factor when it comes to doing assignments this way and can work for introductory classes to my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do the assignment on your own - Now this can be trickier as the student can use whatever they want.  The key is to evaluate if what they submit makes sense and possibly do they do little things to show that, &quot;Yes, I do get the point of this assignment and here it is in my own words,&quot; as to borrow the same example as above, while one can probably find examples of this program, wrapping that program is likely much more important to my mind.  Why is this program the right one?  Do you show me in a simple manner that this does do the right thing in each case of input?  Have you considered various error cases,e.g. someone wants to convert X in a literal sense, the input is the letter X, that should be handled somehow.  This is what I'd expect in upper year courses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd think the main concern is Plagiarism or students being able to repeat what they read somewhere without understanding its meaning, which is why how the answer is communicated is where I'd focus my attention and possibly consider giving a follow-up to the assignment to see if things have stuck or not, but that is just a quarter-baked idea to my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T18:19:14.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T17:57:46.090" />
  <row Id="22458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22456" CreationDate="2009-09-17T18:26:13.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you have been specifically looking at homework questions here, you might have noticed &lt;em&gt;how differ&lt;/em&gt; the ways the questions are asked in.  By the way your student asks the question, you may judge his understanding and the amount of work performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, some people post compilable code with the questions hitting the essence of the task, mark it with homework tag, and gladly accept answers that only direct them, not just give a complete solutions.  I am sure that in class they'll exhibit understanding of the subject and, given they really have the aptitude and wish to learn, this experience will be useful for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While others post a large piece of code, barely even formulating their question, just whining &quot;my code doesnt work, i need to do The Stuff,m please help its urgent!!!1&quot; and then, having conceived nothing, having not gotten the exact solution, provide the equally low level of understanding in their next question on the same matter.  Then someone gets pissed off and posts the answer and they pass the work to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you clearly do have the way of observing this matter, you could easily distinguish people who learn from experience exchange from those who just &quot;gets the answers&quot;.  While the latter is a major hindrance for educational process, the former is the natural and valuable part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, SO users, especially those who's not greedy and willing to get easy rep from the homework helps, follow the natural policy of not to give the answers to those who ask for a homework, but rather direct them in the ways they can learn what's needed.  So your worries about abuse of SO for learning are a bit overestimated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About policies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scheme was used by one of my teachers whom I think was the best one I ever had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;written&lt;/em&gt; policy may include the requirement to cite all the external sources that helped people to solve the task, whether any sources is cited not influencing the overall mark the student receives.  Aver them that looking in external sources, including social networks, is a natural part of the studying and is of countenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;em&gt;unwritten&lt;/em&gt; policy is to determine whether the student has the understanding, but in no way should this be associated with the sources the student used--at least in what you tell them.  But you'll know whom to look closer at since you read the SO homework requests.  Well, that's teacher's stuff, you know it for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, after some time you'll clearly distinguish students that do all on their own from slackers.  Checking SO is just one way among all others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T18:26:13.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T18:26:13.927" />
  <row Id="22460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22465" CreationDate="2009-09-17T18:33:46.470" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1765/screenshot2nb.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1765/screenshot2nb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Huh???&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observe the madness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was taken on a user's profile. What caused it? Is it something I did wrong? Was it a server error? I feel like I am having deja vu from my last question about the 503 error i saw...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on the image, then assuming that you have the same monitor resolution as I do and you are in google Chrome, you will see exactly what I saw. I refreshed the page and it vanished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for explaining what went wrong!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133681" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T19:00:27.980" Title="Random ASCII, overflowing stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22456" CreationDate="2009-09-17T18:39:03.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day I don't see prowling SO for people asking about your assignment helping. The students who legitimately know about SO will be using it for legitimate guidance and not just to have the work done for them. Those that are looking for someone else to do their homework are going to use whatever site Google tells them to - are you going to police them all? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when it comes to comp-sci assignments, what about the students who just ask/pay/&quot;bribe&quot; the smart students to write the assignment for them (or just copy or steal it the other students work outright)? I've found that the big difference in skill creates a situation where assignments are embarassingly easy for the smart students, removing the normal barrier of it being a lot of extra work to do someone elses assignment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really feel that the comp-sci equilivent of plagiarism needs to be stopped at the level you are grading, the assignment and grading needs to be structured around that. Either do the assignment entirely in class, or force the student to be able to talk about what they did and why - it becomes &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; obvious which students did their assignments and which ones just copied. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One on one grading is unfortunately not very practical in a university environment except for term assignments and the like. What can be practical is oral presentations - students submit code, but must also give a 5 minute presentation in front of the class and answer 1 or 2 questions (this can also help the student learn from each other, both from mistakes and from insights)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67468" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T18:39:03.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T18:39:03.260" />
  <row Id="22463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22460" CreationDate="2009-09-17T18:42:23.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/149053/klabranche&quot;&gt;can't see it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T18:42:23.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22460" CreationDate="2009-09-17T19:00:27.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like one of the files (perhaps an image?) got served as the wrong MIME type and your browser tried to render the binary data inline as characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter what, if it went away upon refresh, it'll probably be status [no-repro].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T19:00:27.980" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22456" CreationDate="2009-09-17T19:28:45.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say the important things are that they learn the material and that they learn how to learn.  Asking for and receiving an answer that you regurgitate without thought is not learning and I wouldn't encourage that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is to grade the homework, but give it a low overall impact on the actual course grade.  You want to encourage them to do the homework because it is in doing that we learn best, so you make it count.  You might also want to make it a requirement that to pass the course you must turn in at least 75% (or 80% or 90%) of the homework with a passing grade to receive a passing mark in the course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, make your tests such that you actually have to know the material to pass the test.  Ideally, you'd make it such that the student who does the homework will do as well on the test as they have on the homework, but a student who has the homework done for them will fail the test.  Use the test scores (and projects, where you can more closely observe whether the work is the student's) as the primary course grade components.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasize that this is how the grading will work.  Encourage collaborative thought on the homework, but don't allow people to turn in exactly the same work if possible. Working together is one way that we learn, but discourage them from simply co-opting someone else's work. Warn them that while they might be able to fool you and turn in someone else's homework, they are only harming themselves when it comes to their overall grade since they won't be learning the material well enough that way to pass the exams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also pass on the advice that while the grade may seem to be the most important issue in their minds, it's a short-term goal at best.  The ultimate test of their educational experience is whether they have learned the fundamentals of their craft/science and whether they have learned how to extend and apply them to future problems.  That's the key to whether they will be successful in their career or simply turn into another drone copying code off the net without understanding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T19:28:45.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-17T19:28:45.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22470" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:13:23.637" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just hit 200 points (on SO) in an unusual day where I had five answers accepted. Because these are acceptances, I haven't reached the rep cap yet, and have gained 20 points since. However the recent activity page (the envelope button) doesn't record this activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear - I am accruing the extra points as expected; they just aren't being displayed correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems this may be a bug - surely the page should show activity if it generates positive or negative rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else noticed this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:28:44.077" Title="Recent activity page doesn't update correctly if hit 200 but not rep cap" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22468" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:21:10.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They might be displayed correctly if you click on the &lt;code&gt;Reputation Earned&lt;/code&gt; hyperlink in the summary table on that page.  Note that you only see the top 5 posts on that page, you have to drill down to see more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:21:10.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22468" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:28:44.077" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1440967/how-do-i-make-sure-my-bash-script-isnt-already-running/1440993#1440993&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, according to your user reputation graph is reporting to have earned you 14 points. But according to your reputation graph you have gained 204 today. According to Jon Skeets &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=143804&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tracker&lt;/a&gt; you've gained 200. Regardless, accepted answers are not fully exempt from the daily cap. All means of gaining reputation are taken into account until you reach the daily cap, at that point, you can only gain reputation from bounties awarded, accepted and accepting answers. So if you've hit 200, those the only ways you could gain more reputation today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:28:44.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:48:05.243" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a weird trend today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as though instead of closing off non-programming questions, people are migrating them from StackOverflow to Meta. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22307/suggestions-for-dealing-with-difficult-peers-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22307/suggestions-for-dealing-with-difficult-peers-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22456/teachers-graders-how-do-you-handle-students-asking-homework-questions-on-so&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22456/teachers-graders-how-do-you-handle-students-asking-homework-questions-on-so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22400/why-do-programers-help-each-other-without-pay-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22400/why-do-programers-help-each-other-without-pay-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not arguing whether or not these questions belong on StackOverflow. I just believe that these questions are &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; relevant on StackOverflow than on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Edited last paragraph&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-17T21:10:01.350" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T21:10:01.350" Title="Why are we moving all slightly off topic questions from SO to Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22471" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:51:15.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They shouldn't appear on meta. And should just be closed due to things like &quot;not programming related&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why this is happening? I do not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My speculation is that people think that Meta is the discussion board of SO but not the board to discuss how SO works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:51:15.267" />
  <row Id="22473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22479" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:55:37.333" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally upvoted an answer and I was looking for a way to cancel it, but the only thing I can do is downvote. I'm I missing something or this feature is not implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T04:18:48.643" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T04:18:48.643" Title="Is there a way to cancel upvote on answer / question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22473" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:58:55.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the Upvote image again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:58:55.517" />
  <row Id="22475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16004" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:59:21.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should I tell the kind folks at sqlite.org to fix their webserver to deal with this issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sqlite.org/lang%5Fupdate.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sqlite.org/lang%5Fupdate.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.sqlite.org/lang%5Fupdate.html&lt;/a&gt;) I get the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Document Not Found&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The document&#xA;  /lang_5Fupdate.html is not avaivable&#xA;  on this server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would call this a fringe issue, except that sqlite.org is a reputable, well-known site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:59:21.960" />
  <row Id="22476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22473" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:59:38.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you can click on upvote link again, and if you're quick enough you vote will be canceled. I'm usually not that quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:59:38.857" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22471" CreationDate="2009-09-17T20:59:43.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the first one is not relevant to any of the sites, the second two are relevant as they deal with the StackOverflow platform. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22456/teachers-graders-how-do-you-handle-students-asking-homework-questions-on-so&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22456/teachers-graders-how-do-you-handle-students-asking-homework-questions-on-so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is aimed at teachers, but it could also reasonably be considered a question for the SO community about the acceptability of teachers &lt;em&gt;sending&lt;/em&gt; their students to SO for their questions. In fact, that question already &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10857/should-i-send-students-to-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;exists&lt;/a&gt;. So clearly it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an appropriate question for meta, because it is about what the community response should be to an evident behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22400/why-do-programers-help-each-other-without-pay-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22400/why-do-programers-help-each-other-without-pay-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in a comment on a different response. This question is also appropriate for MetaSO because it is about knowing your users. Everyone on S[O|F|U] is providing their time for free, and they are getting... &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt;... reward. Some people do it for rep, some for fun, some for whatever, but the point is that each person has a reason to sacrifice their time. And to someone who may or may not be intent on building their own StackExchange community, or someone who is just wondering about the community, would have to ask that exact question. And it would belong on this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, for an answer, Jeff has already blogged about it, when he talked about Micro-payments, and the Experts-Exchange model both being insufficient for StackOverflow. Once again, the question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; appropriate here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T20:59:43.863" />
  <row Id="22478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22433" CreationDate="2009-09-17T21:19:59.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the porn ad there. I don't think SOFU will ever have this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Because of this blog post.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T21:19:59.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22473" CreationDate="2009-09-17T21:21:09.410" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking the upvote arrow again will undo the upvote (the same with the downvote arrow and a downvote). However, if you do not undo your up or downvote within 5 minutes after casting it, you cannot undo the vote until or unless the post is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T03:53:46.050" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T03:53:46.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22433" CreationDate="2009-09-17T22:19:52.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love the new layout!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6206/soads.png&quot; alt=&quot;Its cleaner now.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its really cleaner now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T22:19:52.920" />
  <row Id="22481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48488" CreationDate="2009-09-17T22:27:19.723" Score="2" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed when a question is re-pushed to the top of the question stack (and thereby making it onto the home page of Stack Overflow) it can be tricky to figure out exactly what about that question (or one of its answers) has changed to warrant its re-push. It would be great if alongside &quot;oldest&quot;, &quot;newest&quot;, and &quot;votes&quot; answers could be sorted by &quot;active&quot;, those that have had comments added, edits made, etc., going to the top of the pile. That way (for example) active threads of discussion about particular answers can receive fresh attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-05T09:19:27.860" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T11:43:25.757" Title="Sorting answers by activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;last-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="22482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22481" CreationDate="2009-09-17T22:36:32.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that old comments could be shaded, so that the new ones would stand out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T22:36:32.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22481" CreationDate="2009-09-17T22:38:42.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Activity is an ambiguous thing. When one person talks about edits, another person talks about comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorting by last edit time would be something both easily implemented and would probably be a nice addition to the site (when time allows). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But comments are a whole nother beast and something that no feature like this should be created for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T22:38:42.590" />
  <row Id="22484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-17T23:41:03.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my own attempt (I didn't see this until a few days ago):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webscript.princeton.edu/~kjenkins/Countdown.jar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Countdown.jar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very plain. (I would say 'elegant'.) I've not tested it anywhere but on my own MacBook. The source is included in the archive. This is also my first brush with Java's GUI toolkits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-17T23:41:03.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21233" CreationDate="2009-09-18T01:44:10.250" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think in this specific case what you're doing doesn't lead to a particularly readable post, so I'm inclined to call this &quot;it hurts when I do that, so don't do that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; if you need an artificial paragraph break between sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T01:44:10.250" />
  <row Id="22487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22488" CreationDate="2009-09-18T01:47:39.573" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the total of pre-set badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T01:59:21.813" Title="How many different badges are there except those created by user?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22487" CreationDate="2009-09-18T01:51:27.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;38 Badges (as shown on the Badges page) on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I counted 40 on StackOverflow. They have the Beta and Fanatic badges, so that upped the count. I imagine the Beta badge will be on both SuperUser and ServerFault. I imagine that the Fanatic badge will be available for all the sites, but if they are not at the moment, they will be displayed as soon as someone hits 100 straight days (maybe?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag badges are automatically created whenever someone first achieves 400 upvotes (for silver) and 1000 upvotes (for gold) in a single tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T01:59:21.813" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T01:59:21.813" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22481" CreationDate="2009-09-18T01:51:29.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user clicks on links in either the Recent Activity or any of the tabs of his user profile page, the link takes the user to the answer link within a question that is the area of the user's input (the question or answer that the user provided or commented on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you reach the link, the post that was the target is highlighted and the highlight slowly fades.  This could be a good idiom for what you are looking for.  One idea would be to redirect the link on the homepage to the area that was updated.  Though a great idea for those who loiter on the homepage, it could end up being confusing to the casual visitor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a good idea would be to maintain the fading highlight on the updated answer within the post for an extended period when coming from the homepage.  This would allow those interested in what has changed, ie those who browse the homepage knowing that old posts are sometimes updated, to scroll and find the modification (assuming it wasn't a delete).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T02:27:25.880" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:27:25.880" />
  <row Id="22490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22491" CreationDate="2009-09-18T02:07:56.370" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;In hex, what is the value for the &quot;orange&quot; of StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:11:15.363" Title="What is the orange color code of StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22490" CreationDate="2009-09-18T02:11:15.363" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#FF9900&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://colorcop.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Color Cop&lt;/a&gt; to the rescue! Well I guess you could look at the source (CSS) too but this is easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:11:15.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-18T02:14:37.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that you're not just helping &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; other programmer; you're effectively creating or adding to an extremely large knowledge base, thusly helping the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For nearly every programming question I Google at work &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; home, there are about 3-4 StackOverflow links on the first two pages of results, and probably at least 75% of the time at least one of them answers my question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it is: why not give back a little?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:14:37.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-18T02:19:48.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FOR THE BADGES!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:19:48.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-18T02:42:26.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the females of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57757" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:42:26.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-18T02:50:21.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Information exchange mutually helps them in their skills and knowledge of the field. It is to their(our) mutual benefit over time to share information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:50:21.517" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22456" CreationDate="2009-09-18T02:52:11.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who's both a SO-participant and a (former) TA, I have experience here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is &lt;em&gt;plz send meh teh codes&lt;/em&gt;, I will categorically deny their request, possibly with prejudice, depending on how begging they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is up front with the homework question and its a reasonable question that does not request the specific answer, I am likely to give them help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is careful enough to request only the help that they need, it is indistinguishable from the rest of the questions and does not particularly matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T02:52:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-18T02:52:11.110" />
  <row Id="22497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22498" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:39:54.440" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, is it OK to put small programming requests on StackOverflow? Say, like, could someone write something that could do this in 50 lines or less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135942" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T12:38:40.700" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T12:38:40.700" Title="Is it OK to put programming requests on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22497" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:44:34.023" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily think that is a legitimate use of StackOverflow. We already have contention about homework problems. Asking someone now to actually write a solution for you for a problem (without at least making an honest attempt yourself) is not likely to be accepted widely by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T03:44:34.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22497" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:45:29.903" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for someone to write your code for you, the answer is NO.  If you are looking for something like the numerous &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20912/so-weekly-code-golf&quot;&gt;code-golf&lt;/a&gt; questions, the reactions are mixed, but I say that for a Friday afternoon, it is a good time had by those interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T03:45:29.903" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22502" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:46:41.603" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2120/unanswered.tif&quot; alt=&quot;Unanswered Tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;See &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;discussion&lt;/code&gt;, and others? They don't have their special appearance.&#xA;This is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/unanswered&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T04:57:54.297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T04:57:54.297" Title="Unanswered page loses special appearance of tags on Meta" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;moderator-tags&gt;&lt;special-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:50:46.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To put down the answer somewhere so you can refer to it later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T03:50:46.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22500" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:50:54.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because they don't have the CSS class applied. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first it's like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; &#xA;class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then it's like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class=&quot;post-tag&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T03:50:54.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22540" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:55:15.910" Score="7" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;VERY many questions&lt;/strong&gt; on Stack Overflow nowadays that &lt;strong&gt;are being closed&lt;/strong&gt; when they are &lt;strong&gt;possibly legitimate&lt;/strong&gt; questions, and the &lt;strong&gt;community has very little part&lt;/strong&gt; in this. I am not satisfied with this current system, as I believe that we should actually &lt;strong&gt;let users debate&lt;/strong&gt; and discuss what they think about a particular question, and then let people with enough rep to close questions decide based upon what points people are making. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may seem like a very tough and unneeded thing to accomplish, but haven't you ever felt that a question has been closed when it shouldn't have been, denying the asker the right to get some good answers? I have thought of a method of implementing a system that would let this happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, in the UI of a question that has been closed or is about to be closed, this can be added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it has &lt;strong&gt;already been closed&lt;/strong&gt;, we can &lt;strong&gt;add an &quot;appeal&quot; button&lt;/strong&gt; onto the &quot;closed&quot; box. What this link will lead to will be discussed next.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question &lt;strong&gt;hasn't already been closed&lt;/strong&gt;, we can just &lt;strong&gt;add a &quot;Submit to Closing Discussion&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (or other wording) link next to the &quot;flag&quot; button. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These buttons (&lt;strong&gt;which will require some amount of rep to use, maybe 100&lt;/strong&gt;?) will lead to a &lt;strong&gt;new section&lt;/strong&gt; of Stack Overflow, &lt;strong&gt;called &quot;Closing Discussion&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; or something similar. A general link to this could be located in the main navigation, in the mini-navigation (which has the Featured tab, etc.), or in the page footer (this would probably be the best option). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This new section will &lt;strong&gt;look similar to the normal questions interface&lt;/strong&gt; on Stack Overflow, but the &lt;strong&gt;questions will actually be about discussing questions&lt;/strong&gt;. The votes system will be a bit different, where &lt;strong&gt;voting is basically your opinion on the topic&lt;/strong&gt; (whether to close or not, or to reopen, etc.) and voting would require a certain amount of rep, say 100. &lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt; would then be added to the &quot;question&quot; and they &lt;strong&gt;will explain opinions why the question should or should not be closed&lt;/strong&gt; (comments will then be added to the answers as discussion). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question creation will be automatic, through the &quot;appeal&quot; and &quot;submit to closing discussion&quot; buttons. The questions will link back to the question being discussed, so that people can easily see what the issues are. The people who are going to be casting the real closing/opening votes on the real question itself will then read what the community is saying about the question, respond accordingly, and just &lt;strong&gt;understand the points of both sides&lt;/strong&gt;. With this, we can actually &lt;strong&gt;cut down on the rate of inappropriately-closed questions&lt;/strong&gt;, and the &lt;strong&gt;community will have an even bigger say&lt;/strong&gt; in how Stack Overflow works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of this may already be accomplished with the present architecture, but I think that we should have a user-friendly, streamlined, and dedicated system for this. This is, of course, a big feature suggestion, as it proposes adding a whole new section to Stack Overflow. However, I think that the community would really benefit from this. What do you think? Please tell me (and more importantly, all of us!) what your opinion on this matter is - &lt;strong&gt;do you feel that many questions are being incorrectly closed too? Do you feel that the user body isn't getting a say in this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I will be adding some mock-ups of the designs soon (I'm leaving right now...)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T00:19:52.743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T00:19:52.743" Title="Feature Request: New System for Agreeing and Discussing on Whether to Close Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22503" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:57:53.097" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You asked for a user-friendly streamlined method...and then went and suggested a huge addition to the architecture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering why the current method does not work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is discussed in the comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question gets closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question continues to be discussed in the comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question can get reopened with 5 reopen votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question continues to be discussed in the comments. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see what is wrong with this. Sure the comments could be made more user friendly...but for all intents and purposes it works remarkably well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T03:57:53.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22503" CreationDate="2009-09-18T04:13:50.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The votes system will be a bit different, where voting is basically your opinion on the topic (whether to close or not, or to reopen, etc.) and voting would require a certain amount of rep, say 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what if we upped your rep requirement to, say, 3000?  Then it would be in line (exactly) with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;what we have today.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T04:13:50.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22503" CreationDate="2009-09-18T04:20:19.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would take too much time to do all of that processing for the crappy questions.  I think five is a good number.  Most questions like that aren't worth my time to discuss them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T04:20:19.140" />
  <row Id="22507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22521" CreationDate="2009-09-18T04:49:42.923" Score="-1" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4283/closing-etiquette-why-do-some-answer-and-close&quot;&gt;Closing Etiquette: Why Do Some Answer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Close?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and vice versa. I don't have anything more to say, just remove that &lt;em&gt;paradox&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T00:44:43.383" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T00:44:43.383" ClosedDate="2009-12-11T09:23:57.037" Title="If you vote to close a question you shouldn't be able to post an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22507" CreationDate="2009-09-18T04:55:44.957" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it a paradox? Just because you feel that it should be closed does not mean that the community will agree with your vote. So if the question may not get closed and you can still answer the question, you might as well put forth a good faith-based effort in case it does stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T04:55:44.957" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22507" CreationDate="2009-09-18T04:56:30.570" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a little irritating &lt;strong&gt;in some cases&lt;/strong&gt; (depending on what they actually post), but I'm not sure it needs &quot;fixing&quot; as such; I've seen the two combined responsibly. My own pet peeve is when a 3k+ user posts a reply like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This has already been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://some/SOFU/link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in this (SOFU) question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rather than using a close vote. And even for a 50+ user it should be a comment IMO. Or maybe a &quot;close as duplicate&quot; vote should take less rep, since you are forced to qualify it with a related question... 1k or 500, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T05:38:59.387" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T05:38:59.387" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22512" CreationDate="2009-09-18T05:02:21.980" Score="37" ViewCount="695" Body="&lt;p&gt;The shading for accepted answers was a nice UI touch, please bring it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T18:07:46.740" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T18:07:46.740" Title="Please bring back shading to accepted answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="22512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22510" CreationDate="2009-09-18T05:09:57.957" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been turned off on the whole &quot;Trilogy&quot;. See just above the last graphic &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/help-stackexchange-with-colors/comment-page-1/#comment-35677&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Jeff: &lt;strong&gt;Turn it back on,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T05:09:57.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T05:41:13.157" Score="6" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Especially for those with high rep totals. How much of the time do you know the answer off the top of your head? Or do you have to spend a good deal of time googling or looking up in other references the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7672" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:24:09.083" Title="When answering questions, how much do you have to look up?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22513" CreationDate="2009-09-18T06:03:14.787" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really depends on the question, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a lot of combined knowledge from the ghosts of projects past - so it is often possible to answer purely on that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but some of us love challenges (and learning) - so we'll (when we have time) pick up something far outside of our comfort zone and try to find the answer - which might involve either searching or playing in an IDE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if anything, digging out appropriate supporting hrefs is sometimes a bigger challenge than answering the question; &quot;here's how I know (from experience) it works... if only I could prove it from an official source&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T06:03:14.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22758" CreationDate="2009-09-18T06:04:00.820" Score="5" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just now I found this ad at the sidebar area of StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://web7.twitpic.com/img/30467379-4f87c79e32809949ed0ebdfe331ebfcc.4ab321bd-full.png&quot; alt=&quot;#2 Programming book on Amazon - The Betterphoto Guide to Digital Photography&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it so ironic (being both a programmer and a photography buff) and my first instinct was to tag it as &quot;not-programming-related&quot;, which is of course impossible since it's an ad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who should deal with these things? Or should we just ignore them? I know Jeff totally hates those Evony ads but this is almost tantamount to one (albeit it has none of the, ermmm, smut).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130805" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T06:43:30.323" Title="Who should deal with not-programming-related advertisments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22516" CreationDate="2009-09-18T06:12:52.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found it so ironic (being both a programmer and a photography buff) [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not like a free ride that you've already paid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it hit you on both counts? Sounds like the ad targeting algorithm is a success!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T06:12:52.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22513" CreationDate="2009-09-18T06:22:53.017" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; of the time I know at least the basics of the answer off the top of my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I look up is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; details of a method in the answer, if I can't remember the capitalization, or the order of the parameters etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links to methods, types etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will often post a basic answer, including a code sample, and then go back to improve the answer by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making sure the code compiles and runs appropriately&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding caveats for corner cases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I relatively rarely have to research an answer from scratch, if you see what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T06:22:53.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22516" CreationDate="2009-09-18T06:26:19.097" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess they are still being carefully selected. Most programmers are into photography so that's an easy call. The Photoshop book that's being advertised is a more dubious call in my opinion, but still, ads need not be programming related (sadly), but programmer likable, which are two different sets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Luckily, it turns out that I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22516/who-should-deal-with-not-programming-related-advertisments/22758#22758&quot;&gt;wrong&lt;/a&gt;. They are indeed trying to get programming only ads, but Amazon conspires against that wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T06:43:30.323" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T06:43:30.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22513" CreationDate="2009-09-18T07:09:28.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often know the solution in my head, but not necessarily the exact code if it is related to SO. The other sites is simply knowing what the solution is. However as a rule I always try and post an answer with an external reference, so even if I post quick answers the chances are I will come back and post a link to an external source confirming or verifying the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Thoughts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fundamental difference with SO and the other two sites are that a lot of programming answers, although available on the net, are not easy to understand. Often it requires someone to provide a detailed explanation, and often it also has various interpretations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SF/SU the answer is almost always specific, since you are dealing with a hardware or software issue. Chances are very often there is information on the internet already, it is just a case of finding. On SF experience has a lot to do with the answer, and you often know because you deal with the problem regularly or had to deal with it the hard way. I trust a source more if they provide an external link, rather then just providing a guide. There is cases however where step-by-step instructions that work are good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T18:10:13.257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T18:10:13.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22507" CreationDate="2009-09-18T07:21:14.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened earlier today so I'm inclined to think I'm one of the people you were talking about. (The &quot;Programming language for the rest of your life?&quot; thread?) I voted to close, but also posted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a generically correct answer because it's pretty obvious that the question was gonna get closed in T minus 5 seconds anyway. While I don't normally think people should post on those questions, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make such a simple correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I usually pre-empt the community wiki flag (like Marc) if I think the question will get wiki'd, but I've done it so many times in the past I wanted to treat myself to a couple extra rep points. :) C++ has been slow lately! :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T07:21:14.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22516" CreationDate="2009-09-18T07:22:39.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting how true that is! A colleague of mine is a freelance photographer next to his daily job as programmer. I myself am also interested in photography but also do plenty of things with 3D rendered artwork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is Photoshop not programming-related? I don't know, since web development these days does involve the use of many small icons, pictures and graphics. Almost every application will start with it's own splash-screen and plenty of sites use logo's and small pictures in their websites. And with the Copyright Police monitoring the Web very closely, these days, I think it is practical for developers of small projects to be able to at least generate their own logo's, icons and graphics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, graphic design should not be done by developers in general but by Graphics specialists. But to be honest, if you're working on a small project, it's a lot cheaper when you can just create your own images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T07:22:39.787" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="22523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22510" CreationDate="2009-09-18T07:22:40.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The background colour doesn't contribute any additional information that the checkmark doesn't already. And, with users' own answers already being a different colour, it's confusing to remember which is which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind the missing background, it looks cleaner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T07:22:40.363" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22510" CreationDate="2009-09-18T07:26:42.710" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff changed it as one of the tweaks to the look &amp;amp; feel of the sites. From the lastest blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/help-stackexchange-with-colors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just deployed a change to remove the accepted answer color to make color schemes a bit easier for SE. But I do believe that we can and should do much, much better than the existing Stack Exchange color schemes. Seriously, what does this say to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming this change was also applied to the rest of the Trilogy sites. It's a bit disconcerting but I do like it better. It does make answers easier to read, and helps on sites like SF or SU where we use screenshots on white backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T07:26:42.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T07:35:49.060" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14185/deleting-a-comment-mine-shouldnt-count-as-a-comment-vote&quot;&gt;Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn&amp;rsquo;t count as a comment vote&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When trying to delete more than a single comment in less than 5 seconds (not a common ocurrence, I must admit), the popup reads (paraphrased) &quot;You may submit a comment vote every 5 seconds&quot; &lt;strong&gt;instead of&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;You can delete a comment every 5 seconds&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a dupe of that question. The question in question states that deleting shouldn't be subject to rate limiting. This question refers to the message that pops up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T17:48:14.157" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:48:14.157" ClosedDate="2009-09-18T17:56:53.283" Title="Repeated comment deletion shows wrong message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22525" CreationDate="2009-09-18T07:40:08.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's like voting to delete a comment. But you can only vote to delete your own. And you only need one vote to blast away the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T07:40:08.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22513" CreationDate="2009-09-18T08:07:44.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the time I know that there is a solution, but have to look it up in Visual Studio or via Google to get the correct syntax etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's the key - if you know there's an answer it's (relatively) easy to find using the existing resources, but if you don't know there's an answer you just have to ask someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T08:07:44.663" />
  <row Id="22529" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T08:54:26.853" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really annoying when someone answers a question like 'what is your fave tool?' and they write 4 in a bulleted list. This makes it hard to comment on the individual bits. It would be cool if you could drag over one of the answers, hit the 'split to new answer' button and have it become its own item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144181" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:18:23.643" Title="Can we add a 'split answer' feature?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T08:56:55.930" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;imagine being the proud owner of such an even numbered question. Incredible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130240" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:32:12.553" Title="What was the 300,000th question? Can we find out?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T08:59:51.010" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens if the user who asked the question has removed his account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/169625/regex-to-check-if-valid-url-that-ends-in-jpg-png-or-gif&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/169625/regex-to-check-if-valid-url-that-ends-in-jpg-png-or-gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who would approve an answer to his question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possible solutions to this case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choose the top voted question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer will be chosen by some moderator.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136080" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:10:42.063" Title="What happens to dead questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22536" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:00:13.630" Score="-1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;How the marketing job was done in old days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T09:07:11.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:07:11.247" Title="How is SO started up, how is the traffic brought up?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22529" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:00:23.287" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this kind of question is tolerated at max, but definitely not encouraged, I don't think there's much to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this sounds close-to-impossible to reasonably implement UI-wise. If you have strong feelings about a particular case, you can post a new answer with one part of the source answer, and edit the source answer to remove the migrated part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:00:23.287" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22530" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:02:45.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Counting back from 300,091 gives &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1442980/webbrowser-search-using-search-engine-uri-and-input-keyword&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I noted that one being 7th or 8th in the list when I refreshed just after 300,000 was passed, so it might be the one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:02:45.390" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22531" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:03:07.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the cases of ghost and deleted accounts, nobody is available to accept an answer. All answers will just sit there gathering the stray vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/mbQEy.png&quot; alt=&quot;oh for they will run but they will not run fast enough&quot; title=&quot;catch and play with the stray votes, boy&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T10:10:42.063" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:10:42.063" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22532" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:05:49.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO started up with the readers of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel's&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's&lt;/a&gt; blog. These blogs are pretty popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:05:49.470" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:09:45.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you are going to get paid very well and become popular (you share, you learn, sometime you taught)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ultimately all the learning will get you the better job with better pay... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:09:45.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22529" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:18:23.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the Trilogy strongly discourages discussion type or list type questions, although to some degree some exists, this is really not a needed feature. Comment to the OP and ask them to break up the answer, and since these questions are meant to be CW, they won't have any rep gain either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a need for this. Anything to discourage users to post discussion or open ended questions I would welcome with open arms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22529/can-we-add-a-split-answer-feature/22533#22533&quot;&gt;balpha&lt;/a&gt; pointed out it will also be a pain to implement. What logic do you use? Split by line? Split by word? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:18:23.643" />
  <row Id="22539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22531" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:26:01.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for automatically accepting top vote answers, see this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21043/auto-accept-unaccepted-but-correctly-answered-questions-after-some-time&quot;&gt;auto-accept-unaccepted-but-correctly-answered-questions-after-some-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are many questions that do not&#xA;  have satisfying answers for the OP,&#xA;  even though answers are upvoted by the&#xA;  community. Accepting is totally up to&#xA;  the OP, as it is a means to reward the&#xA;  answerer. Doing this automatically&#xA;  would actually be missleading as it&#xA;  would look as if the OP awarded the&#xA;  points, thinks that his problem is&#xA;  solved, and therefore late answers&#xA;  after some time would be discouraged.&#xA;  The OPs accept rate would be flawed as&#xA;  well. Would the OP be able to unaccept&#xA;  the answer, and accept an other one?&#xA;  Or leave it with no accepted answer to&#xA;  start the game again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This holds as well for the moderator accepting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:26:01.617" />
  <row Id="22540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22503" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:31:00.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I agree that some questions seem to be closed overzealously, I don't see the need for all the extra debate. Do you really want to spend all that time arguing over the detailed merits of questions? Coming to a consensus sounds like the ultimate committee nightmare. A simple vote makes your opinion known concisely and with the minimum of fuss. If the majority of the community agrees, your opinion will stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one &lt;strong&gt;simple&lt;/strong&gt; change that I think would dramatically improve the open/close system is having a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote-not-to-close-option-to-counter-the-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;vote not to close option&lt;/a&gt;, rather than waiting to reopen, to avoid the close-reopen asymmetry. See that link for the detailed discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are also suggesting providing much more power to lower rep users, which I think is a completely separate point. In my opinion though, the ability thresholds are there for a reason, and work pretty well, for the most part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:31:00.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22543" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:35:17.170" Score="1" ViewCount="559" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering how stackoverflow (wmd) solves syntax highlighting on source code snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that if text is marked as code it gets that &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; CODE &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; &lt;/code&gt; tags and that the wmd then recoginzes this as code snippet. But how is the syntax highlighting itself done? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that all this must happen based on javascript and no ajax and server based stuff is involved at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me how this is done? How is the programming language of a code piece detected? Does this work like an 'exact' science (mean code is really detected as ie. Ruby code) or is is code highlighted done by a 'generic' code syntax highlighting? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:05:53.133" Title="Source code syntax highlighting on stackoverflow wmd" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22542" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:42:56.030" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO, uses Google's prettify to do the syntax coloring. Prettify uses common language patterns to determine syntax coloring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For further information see &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The authoritative source on the languages that are understood by prettify are in &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;. Here an extract:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The lexer should work on a number of&#xA;  languages including C and friends,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Java, Python, Bash, SQL, HTML, XML,&#xA;  CSS, Javascript, and Makefiles.   It&#xA;  works passably on Ruby, PHP and Awk&#xA;  and a decent subset of Perl, but,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  because of commenting conventions,&#xA;  doesn't work on Smalltalk, Lisp-like,&#xA;  or   CAML-like languages.&#xA;      If there's a language not mentioned here, then I don't know it,&#xA;  and don't   know whether it works.  If&#xA;  it has a C-like, Bash-like, or&#xA;  XML-like syntax   then it should work&#xA;  passably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:05:53.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:54:46.370" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;As those that use it know, the forum on &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/sharp-architecture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google groups&lt;/a&gt; has all discussions as well as technical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest moving the technical questions here and leaving the forum for more general discussions on the code, the meta questions if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone agree or indeed have a better suggestion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:12:19.330" Title="Should questions on S#arp Architecture be moved to Stack Overflow from Google Groups?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;forum&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22544" CreationDate="2009-09-18T09:55:52.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Slice off the discussions and bring on the technical questions and answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T09:55:52.233" />
  <row Id="22546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22544" CreationDate="2009-09-18T10:12:19.330" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a discussion on the podcast and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-flash-mobs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog article&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff on how the R community went about this. Do it likewise - and yes, leave out the discussion part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:12:19.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-18T10:31:27.703" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me the reason is simple. By sharing my knowledge for free, I will hopefully encourage others to share their knowledge for free too. Thus, I share a little and gain a lot back from the community for a simple amount of generosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm old enough to remember the time when the Internet was still a little infant, crying for it's feeding bottle. To learn something new, you had to go to school or buy a book or visit the local library. Gaining new knowledge was slow and sometimes expensive too. When I learned about SQL back in 1988, I had an advantage over others simply because working for IBM gave me access to some of their resources about a technique that was extremely new back then. Learning more about programming in general meant that I had to subscribe to several magazines and hope they would contain some useful articles. To make things more complex, I lived in the Netherlands where such magazines were very limited, thus I had to order them from abroad, making them even more expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Internet took away the borders for sharing knowledge. As a result, people started to share their knowledge, hoping the Internet would become a huge, cheap knowledge tree. And that's succeeding extremely well even at a point where publishers start to get into problems because no one buys their dead-tree magazines anymore. (And almost no one is willing to pay for subscriptions when the same information can be found somewhere else for free.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, sharing your knowledge will grant you a bit of fame, for which you can be recognized by others. Share a lot and your name becomes well-known at the Internet, making it easier to get a new job and some interesting offers. (Share your email address online and you'll be spammed into oblivion, though...) Just consider the number of companies that are analyzing the topics here at SO/SU/SF/Meta just to find some good candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, the things you share online can be used against you, though. If you e.g. share knowledge about how to pick locks, make explosives or your personal view on the monarchy in Thailand and why it should be abolished then you might end up in legal problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:31:27.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22530" CreationDate="2009-09-18T10:32:12.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions modify the number of &quot;active&quot; questions, so the precise 300,000th question is a moving target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:32:12.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-09-18T10:55:39.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6739/jenit&quot;&gt;Jeni Tennison&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/36305/dimitre-novatchev&quot;&gt;Dimitre Novatchev&lt;/a&gt; (XML/XSLT)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T10:55:39.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-18T10:55:39.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22585" CreationDate="2009-09-18T11:23:07.657" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15484/how-do-you-search-by-user&quot;&gt;How do you search by user?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to search within one of my questions, but in vain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T11:55:59.373" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:15:47.540" ClosedDate="2011-08-08T14:33:59.790" Title="How to search within the questions of a user?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22551" CreationDate="2009-09-18T11:27:34.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Include this within the search box along with whatever terms/tags you're hunting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T11:27:34.497" />
  <row Id="22557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22507" CreationDate="2009-09-18T11:57:43.660" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree wholeheartedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I find a question I can answer (praise the lord), I'll answer it. I'll probably do a little googling and extra reading to make sure my answer is correct, then I'll post it. By that time, I might find that three other people have voted to close as exact duplicate. At that point, I check the link and agree with them, so I vote to close as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I delete my answer? No. It is still a valid answer to the question and will possibly be merged into the other question if a merge takes places. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or I come across a question that is blatantly offensive &quot;I'm so F*ng frustrated with trying to get XYZ to F*ng compile. You're all bastards.&quot; So I edit out the profanity and character attacks, add comment that explains why, add a downvote, and attempt to answer the question as best I can. Then the OP rolls back my edit. At that point, I'd flag a moderator and vote to close for blatantly offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spam would be the same situation as the first problem. I might not realize it is spam when I am answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, most people will likely try to answer a question if possible and then vote to close as a last resort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see any &lt;em&gt;abusive&lt;/em&gt; behaviour, you should flag it. But I think than banning answering/closing won't stop any actual abuse, and it would disallow completely valid courses of action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T11:57:43.660" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22516" CreationDate="2009-09-18T12:17:39.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just looked into the best sellers list for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3839/ref=pd%5Fzg%5Fhrsr%5Fb%5F3%5F3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Books &gt; Computers &amp;amp; Internet &gt; Programming&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and at the time &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0321580095&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was number four on the list. If you actually look around on the page for a bit, it looks like the book is getting tagged with &quot;Digital Image Processing&quot; which makes sense; however, that tag falls under the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/132567011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Books &gt; Computers &amp;amp; Internet &gt; Programming &gt; Algorithms &gt; Digital Image Processing&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which isn't exactly accurate per se. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in Amazon's defense, it looks like they are making an effort to deliver ads that are relevant to programming; however, the tagging system that they are using on their books needs some work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastEditorUserId="1185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T12:22:51.510" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T12:22:51.510" />
  <row Id="22560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22513" CreationDate="2009-09-18T12:26:33.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I can't definitively answer off the top of my head, instantly, then I don't even answer.  I'd love to do the research and figure things out or even confirm things I'm not completely certain on, but I don't have quite that much time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T12:26:33.017" />
  <row Id="22562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22510" CreationDate="2009-09-18T12:56:46.877" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see some people hated the &lt;em&gt;high&lt;/em&gt; (for small ammount of high) contrast of the accepted answers' background, and some of us miss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coul we have it back in at least a pale green colour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like &lt;code&gt;#d3ffde&lt;/code&gt;? This would be subtle enough and work the same way it used to for those of us that have already trained ourselfs at &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; looking to the checkmark :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T13:30:52.553" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T13:30:52.553" />
  <row Id="22563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22564" CreationDate="2009-09-18T13:32:44.797" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have already asked about withdrawing a question before : it was no longer relevant to me. I was told that once the question was asked, it was no longer mine. It belonged to the community. And I liked the concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I have another question that I feel will stay unresolved, as the few answers don't satisfy me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wanted to have a 100% acceptance rate: I hate hanging unanswered questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I turn the question into a community question, will it still need to have an accepted answer? Will it count toward my acceptance rate? Will it show in my profile as an unanswered question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I do something else about it? I feel like accepting an incomplete answer is useless or worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about my last question and I know it hasn't been up for long but it could be any other question as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T13:51:14.513" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:59:16.553" Title="Getting &quot;rid&quot; of a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22563" CreationDate="2009-09-18T13:37:05.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to &quot;own&quot; a question anymore, making it community wiki is the way to go.  The question will no longer count against your accept rate, but it will still show up in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer the CW option over accepting an incomplete or otherwise unsatisfactory answer any day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T13:37:05.803" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22563" CreationDate="2009-09-18T13:37:09.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are unsatisfied with the answers you have received, you always have the option of answering your own question.  You also have the opportunity to accept your own answer, if you think it is best ;).  You will have to wait for a couple days after the initial question was posted to accept your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T13:37:09.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22563" CreationDate="2009-09-18T13:42:36.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is really crappy/useless, you can flag it for a moderator to delete it. I have done that with a question regarding small-scale DVD production that was really useless and received useless answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T13:42:36.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22574" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:19:32.710" Score="5" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're browsing a site - Stack Overflow, and beyond - do you find yourself clicking an ad as a thank-you to the site owners... as opposed to clicking because of a bona fide interest in the product/service advertised?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Just to clarify, we &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; want you doing this. I'm only curious who does and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T14:30:23.050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:44:12.440" Title="Do you ever click an ad as a thank-you?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22577" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:20:32.477" Score="2" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to recover an account that was explicitly deleted by a SO administration, or SO security enforcement agency ( in cases where the user requested the deletion, or committed atrocities against this harmless community)?  Just a general question! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="133741" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T17:31:40.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:31:40.207" Title="recover a deleted account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:26:39.670" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Because if you click on an advert without ending up buying anything, that just devalues adverts in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:26:39.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:27:08.937" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That feels too close to click fraud for my taste.  I'll click on ads only if they interest me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:27:08.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:29:29.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Opera Mini in Mobile View to visit the Stack sites quite happily for several days now - not been near a PC for a week. It works very well, apart from the lack of help adding tags and of course the impracticality of typing much code on a phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:29:29.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:29:54.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done it, but extremely rarely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:29:54.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22513" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:30:17.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm predominantly a C++ guy, and have the standard handy in PDF form.  I might also look at a book or two on my desk.  Aside from that, I wing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:30:17.917" />
  <row Id="22574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:30:25.063" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I only click ads if I'm genuinely interested in the product.  I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; unblock ads on sites that I use a lot, like SO and reddit.  I think allowing them to show me their ads is thanks enough. (&quot;Thanks&quot; probably isn't the right word here.  If I'm getting value out of the site, I think it's more like &quot;not stealing&quot; to unblock the ads that pay the site's bills, but I digress.)  It's still up to advertisers to show me something that I'm interested in that will earn a click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Just for the sake of completeness, I do occasionally click on the ads on SO, since I do find them relevant to my interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T14:39:23.410" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:39:23.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22568" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:39:31.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you can. I know I saw a reference to it somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Kyle for finding the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you/11655#11655&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt; I was looking for&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Removed previous link as it was not relevant (thanks balpha)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T15:13:27.200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:13:27.200" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:43:07.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not really. I only click on ads if I find them interesting. Sometimes I even end up buying a product or service as a result (rare but it has happened). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ads should be relevant and interesting, for that monetising scheme to be successful. No amount of 'thank you' clicks will change that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From listening to the podcast I believe Jeff et al are very well aware of this, and they're not doing that bad with the hand-picked ads (as opposed to Adsense).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:43:07.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22568" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:50:25.790" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's possible to recover a deleted account, but it requires &quot;Jeff-level&quot; access.  Contact team@stackoverflow.com to get an account undeleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:50:25.790" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T14:57:46.730" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.  Generating click fraud is the last thing I'd want to do to a site I care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T14:57:46.730" />
  <row Id="22580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:02:55.270" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've clicked on SO ads, but usualy I can't buy their products because I'm not in USA/Europe :S&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:02:55.270" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22582" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:03:48.713" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently answered a question and in my answer I linked to an external site. I left the link as is because I think it's fairly descriptive, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could have formatted the link as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WGET for Windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, I could have formatted it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WGET for Windows (SourceForge)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third format provides a hint as to the link destination without moving the mouse over the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the preferred link format for the Stack Overflow trilogy of sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T16:55:07.997" Title="What is the preferred link format in questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="22582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22581" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:07:39.563" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer either the second or third options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:07:39.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:10:08.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only click on ads if they look interesting. A couple of times I've even made a purchase (the Regex tools from JG Soft).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, most of the ads so far have been interesting/targetted enough to click through on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:10:08.173" />
  <row Id="22584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38949" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:10:23.757" Score="1" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often the answer to a question contains a reference to a book, &lt;strong&gt;this might as well point at Amazon in such a way as StackOverflow owns the commission&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T21:48:48.760" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T21:48:48.760" Title="Make it easy for me to link to a book on Amazon (and earn money for Stackoverflow at the same time)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22551" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:15:47.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to random's answer (in case it wasn't obvious), to search in &lt;em&gt;someone else's&lt;/em&gt; answers, use their user ID:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:22656&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:15:47.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21178" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:16:46.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer my own question....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I should have asked this on Stack Overflow in the first place... and given a big-ass bounty to make it happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:16:46.617" />
  <row Id="22587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22584" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:19:34.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I for one welcome our new corporative cloud overlords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12855" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:19:34.037" />
  <row Id="22588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:19:38.187" Score="-1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Then use the lists to help decide which books on Amazon to show adverts for, taking into account the tags on the given question and the tags on questions the user has answered or asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This need not be as complex as people seem to think, e.g. just find books that are listed most often by users “related” to a given tag and sometime choose a random one to show the advert for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The chosen book only have to be interesting sometimes for this to be worth while, provided it is  not displacing paid for adverts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T16:59:42.543" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T16:59:42.543" Title="Use personal lists of books to inform targeted advertising" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:26:14.350" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;The default view for questions you have asked (in your profile) is ordering by votes. Wouldn't it be nice if the system would remember the last viewing settings applied ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bill the Lizard is stuck with the john skeet fact question on top of his list. He can change the ordering, but it always comes back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also prefer &quot;newest&quot; than &quot;more votes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do something for poor little Billy here, crying for help ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. the same applies to other section as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T05:44:17.680" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T05:44:17.680" Title="Remember the last viewing settings" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;question-order&gt;" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22588" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:26:40.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds very complex.... and the books associated with the &lt;em&gt;user&lt;/em&gt; may have little to do with the specific &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;. Besides; which user? The OP? Many questions are asked by new / unregistered accounts, who are unlikely to have a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, leave it just with the question text/tags. If you want to add your favorite books to your profile you can already do this, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:26:40.840" />
  <row Id="22592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22588" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:27:45.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you just use your public About Me section to put whatever you want in there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:27:45.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22503" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:30:23.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If five experienced people vote to close, and there's no quick five votes to reopen, it can't be that good a question.  In that case, I'm fairly indifferent to whether it's open or closed, and I certainly don't see that it's worth making a big deal over questions that are borderline acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think too many questions are being closed, then you might want to argue for refinement of the close reasons, or suggest that more votes be needed to close than to reopen.  I doubt either of those would be a great change in the code or process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the community goes, anybody who can comment can take part in the debate.  If somebody wants to have a vote, they can just go get 3K reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:30:23.300" />
  <row Id="22594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22584" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:31:04.857" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And what if someone wants to have their own affiliate tag in the link so that THEY can potentially make a little money? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a fan of either, and I have seen numerous times where people who add affiliate information get flagged as spam. I don't like the idea of StackOverflow covertly changing my links to insert their own affiliate information. That is pretty shady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:31:04.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22588" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:42:48.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A personal home page/blog is a great place to do it. There's a Website link in your profile for the exact same purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Beside book list, you can add a mouse-pointer tracking script, and a javascript alert box that welcomes users when they come to your page :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:42:48.143" />
  <row Id="22598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:40:52.550" Score="1" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are reading this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your answers guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Mark &amp;amp; @Jason, thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@MusiGenesis, you are right, this is not a job post, it's a partnership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank u @Bill for the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, although I do understand why the thread was closed, I don't understand why it was marked as spam!!!!! and why wasn't I notified that the post was deleted!!!! or why wasn't I made aware that it wasn't the right forum or something!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T16:03:26.030" Title="Why was my post marked as spam?" Tags="&lt;jobs&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;&lt;graphics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21175" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:49:32.827" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take the extreme position of fatally flawed and needs to go away.  While the intent was good, it's become quite apparent that the &quot;Tragedy of the Commons&quot; has taken hold.  Time to cut it off before it infects the remainder of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:49:32.827" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22598" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:49:50.597" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean &quot;Looking for SERIOUS partner(s)&quot; (deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is essentially a job advert (I won't dwell on the difference between &quot;job&quot; and &quot;partnership&quot;... &quot;opportunity&quot;, if you will). Stackoverflow isn't the right site for that. There were lots of comments left (before it was deleted) explaining this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try jobs.stackoverflow.com – Mark Pim 2 hours ago &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This isn't the right place to post something like that. – Perspx 2 hours&#xA;  ago &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you are looking to fill a position I suggest you navigate to&#xA;  jobs.stackoverflow.com and post a job.&#xA;  – Jason Punyon 2 hours ago &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;@Jason: this doesn't sound like a &quot;job&quot; in the sense of something you&#xA;  would do and get paid for. –&#xA;  MusiGenesis 2 hours ago &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) would be a better place to look for&#xA;  partners in a programming start-up. –&#xA;  Bill the Lizard♦ 2 hours ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:49:50.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22598" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:50:37.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;spam&quot; is applied loosely, and has a different definition for different people.  The community voted to close the post as spam because enough people felt it wasn't right for SO.  I gave it a couple of hours after being closed before I deleted it to give you enough time to get back and read the comments, which did indicate that SO wasn't the right place for that question.  I decided to remove it permanently because it was getting heavy downvotes and was generating a lot of moderator attention flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:50:37.943" />
  <row Id="22604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22612" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:51:28.097" Score="-3" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people ask for a feature request on meta, people either like it, or furiously vote it down. Couldn't we have a poll instead or simply answers like &quot;I agree&quot; or &quot;I disagree&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll tag this as discussion and feature request because it's both at the same time. And don't downvote just to make the joke.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133938" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T18:13:21.973" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:13:21.973" Title="Meta Question (feature request) : poll instead of furious downvoting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="22606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22598" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:55:55.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not uncommon for new users to get slammed like this because they don't understand the purpose of the site.  Reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is a good way to start.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common 'net etiquette suggests that you &quot;lurk&quot; at a newly-discovered forum site for awhile to get a feel for the flavor, culture, and expectations of the site before participating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T15:55:55.127" />
  <row Id="22607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22604" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:56:38.697" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with the current system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting system does exactly what it should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff even mentioned that he will browse the feature-request tag and look at highly voted feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the requests themselves don't get voted on, they won't be sorted by most liked requests.  It completely breaks the idea of using meta in replacement of uservoice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, mixing poll answers in with discussion answers seems like a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T16:09:36.567" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T16:09:36.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22604" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:57:24.203" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been said how meta works. Down votes here mean either bad/not good question or they simply disagree with the request. I think the system is working well here as is. Remember to not take voting and reputation on meta personal even more so then the other sites. Voting is the community response to feature requests and Jeff and his crew use that information during site modifications/additions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T02:46:24.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:46:24.740" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T15:59:31.687" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19208/answers-posted-to-a-migrated-question-post-migration-remain-visible-and-unlocked&quot;&gt;Answers posted to a migrated question post-migration remain visible and unlocked on the original site.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1445262/can-i-ping-127-0-0-1-if-my-computer-isnt-connected-to-a-network-closed&quot;&gt;this is a bug&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i30.tinypic.com/2h31xqt.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:22:02.410" ClosedDate="2009-09-19T13:19:08.773" Title="Answers to Migrated Questions are supposed to not be shown on the original site?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22598" CreationDate="2009-09-18T16:03:26.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all cases, checking the box (to get notified of possible answers) doesn't seem to work, cos I didn't receive any of the answers posted before the thread got deleted... And I DID check and noticed other job posts across the forum before posting my own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T16:03:26.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21175" CreationDate="2009-09-18T16:12:30.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see CW threads as being a genuine wiki concept. They just &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; wiki, in the sense that I don't see collaborative editing beyond the norm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think their primary practical purpose is, &lt;em&gt;let's have a subjective discussion&lt;/em&gt;. IMO, that's OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of CW's use is to discourage gaming of the rep system, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; that's an overload of the wikiness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your specific points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Encourage community participation -- Community Wiki questions invite the participation of the entire community (those with &gt;100 rep)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So more people can join in the edit wars? &lt;s&gt;Also, CW doesn'thave an edit history. This is a terrible change: there's no way to revert to a correct answer. It's like degrading &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; a version control system. We all know that's bad, m'kay?&lt;/s&gt; Hmmmm. Either I'm dumb(always a realistic option), or this was a bug that had crept in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Allow the best content to be consolidated in threads with many answers -- When a question has a large number of answers (15 or 30), converting the entire thread to community wiki allows the community to participate in improving the content of the question and its answers, so that the best information can 'bubble' to the top.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;I am not sure if I've seen many cases of friendly community editing community. People seem to respect the original author of both answers and questions. The only real positive other-editing I've seen is grammar/spelling/formatting fix, but not changes of substance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Punish contributors who improve their posts with many edits -- Posts are forced into community wiki after ~6 edits, which can be seen as unfair by those who are diligent about improving their contributions, and which some have alleged can lead to gaming of the system.&lt;/em&gt; I think this is a case of &lt;strong&gt;adjust the parameter.&lt;/strong&gt; After 15 edits...something's fishy in Kansas, and it's probably not the ocean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Discourage asking questions which are too popular -- Threads are forced into community wiki after a large number of answers, which can be seen as an incentive to ask questions which are just popular enough to gain rep, but not so popular as to get too many answers.&lt;/em&gt; I'm not sharp enough to ask uber-popular questions, but I can see how this would provide a motivational drag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Discourage potential answers -- Some participants feel that having a Community Wiki question discourages potential answers, because answerers can choose to participate instead on questions where they have the possibility of earning reputation.&lt;/em&gt; Spot-on. I like my rep, and the questions I'm reasonably decent at answering often are the more &quot;it depends&quot; answers. Hmmm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="130556" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T21:25:49.433" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T21:25:49.433" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22604" CreationDate="2009-09-18T16:14:37.633" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't want a downvoted feature request to hurt your rep, why not make it a wiki?  After all, the nature of the question begs for the users to just upvote or downvote the actual question.  And, as previously mentioned, it actually makes meta for features useful - the questions naturally sort based on interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136056" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T16:14:37.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22604" CreationDate="2009-09-18T16:17:21.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of meta votes an &lt;em&gt;idea popularity contest&lt;/em&gt;. Mostly. Sometimes there's just votes for lulz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T16:17:21.453" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22588" CreationDate="2009-09-18T16:39:00.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine the marketing department at Amazon is working hard to only show books people want to buy. Why not leave them to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T16:39:00.117" />
  <row Id="22621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66602" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:08:20.030" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a bounty expires if you up vote an answer an alert pops up reminding you that you can accept an answer. Since the bounty has expired you are unable to do so. The pop up should not show when an answer can no longer be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T19:40:03.137" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T19:19:12.390" Title="&quot;Don't forget you can mark an answer as accepted&quot; reminder shouldn't show up on unaccepted bounty questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:09:44.303" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This format of help is not suited for everyone. A lot of my friends don't like the Trilogy since they don't like getting the answer straight without learning more about the issue at hand. So this is no Holy Grail or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other's just have another favorite forum they like to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One friend of mine is a sysadmin for a pretty large system and I've pointed him towards ServerFault and he has used it for a few questions. But it's only after he has tried all other methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion, just let it come naturally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T17:47:41.490" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:47:41.490" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="22623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22621" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:09:55.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;won't be fixed, since the message already expires after ( n ) days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:09:55.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:21:19.667" Score="2" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;What symbols/characters are not allowed in tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:24:53.730" Title="What symbols/characters are not allowed in tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22624" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:24:53.730" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the sidebar it says that these are the Tag Characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag characters: [a-z 0-9 + # - .]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd assume anything not listed there is invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:24:53.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:29:34.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe not entirely famous yet but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/19299/brian&quot;&gt;Brian McNamara&lt;/a&gt; from the F# development team has a signficant 16K+ rep at the time of adding him to the list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:29:34.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-18T17:29:34.533" />
  <row Id="22628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:31:38.540" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff mentions in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22621/dont-forget-you-can-mark-a-question-as-the-answer-reminder-shouldnt-show-up-o/22623#22623&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; that the amount of time the &quot;Don’t forget you can mark an answer as accepted&quot; appears is &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; days.  This implies that &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; is configurable, and may vary from site to site or time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, we rely on the FAQ and Meta to help us figure out what the current settings are for any particular site.  This seems sub-optimal, since they can change, and the data is obviously available somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to set up a configuration page where certain configuration data is visible to all, to be used as a reference by users?  Obviously we don't want to dump all the meta-data, just the subset that is safe and useful for users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know which items are configurable and which are hardcoded, but the following possibilities come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The amount of time for which the &quot;Don’t forget you can mark an answer as accepted&quot; appears&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number of comment flags allowed per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number of post flags allowed per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number of votes allowed per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The length of time during which changing a vote is permitted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;power&quot; threshholds currently listed explicity in the FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Probably more... suggestions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T18:27:42.430" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T18:27:42.430" Title="Can we be given a view of safe and useful configuration data?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;configuration&gt;" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:51:37.567" Score="17" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I answered stack overflow question with a completely wrong answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was quickly down voted as it should have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I gave though might have been a typical conclusion to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the answer is completely wrong, but very clearly down voted and acknowledge as wrong, and why it was wrong in the comments; should the answer remain visible or should it be removed deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did delete it and got the &quot;Peer Pressure&quot; badge, but since then, I am thinking maybe it should have stayed visible (at the sake of my own self esteem, and being humbled) as clear example of what NOT to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136111" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T19:50:55.237" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:00:04.877" Title="Should I remove a wrong answer (Peer Pressure)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;peer-pressure&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="22631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22630" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:52:54.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's totally up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can edit it to fix your mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can keep it but make a note to say that you realize now that it's wrong but you want to keep it for posterity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:52:54.833" />
  <row Id="22632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22630" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:54:27.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, you have two options now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undelete the answer and make it community wiki so it dowsn't hurt you so much, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a new answer stating the conclussion you reached in your original answer, and why it was wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ólafur also notes a third option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correct the answer (duh! I must be slow in my head today...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:54:27.483" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22630" CreationDate="2009-09-18T17:57:46.730" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers that are &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; wrong should be deleted/fixed. They simply confuse the issue, even with downvotes on them, the people viewing your answer won't necessarily know &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is wrong, and so they might draw the wrong conclusions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are &lt;em&gt;subtly&lt;/em&gt; wrong should remain. You should add an &quot;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; to it so that you explain where and why it went wrong. That way anyone who has a similar inclination will be able to see why they were wrong. You could also add a short disclaimer at the beginning that says &quot;&lt;strong&gt;See edit note&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; so that no one assumes the answer is correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, more information is always better, including correct answers, and &lt;em&gt;explained&lt;/em&gt; incorrect answers. But when an answer is just plain wrong, then it doesn't belong there at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T17:57:46.730" />
  <row Id="22635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22630" CreationDate="2009-09-18T18:38:22.740" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reason I can think of leaving an unambiguously incorrect answer is if the &lt;strong&gt;incorrectness itself provides useful information&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you make a common mistake that a lot of programmers might make; it was clearly pointed out in comments; it was wholly voted down; and you added an addendum to your post that it was wrong and why you are leaving it... then, yes, that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be a good reason to leave it as a &quot;lesson learned.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally speaking, I would be more likely to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T18:38:22.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22630" CreationDate="2009-09-18T18:44:16.190" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you deleted that one, but then wrote a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; answer which starts off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might have thought that... [incorrect stuff] but this is wrong because [...].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for deleting the first one is that you don't want that &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer to start off with negative votes. Those votes were against the incorrect form, not the correction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T18:44:16.190" />
  <row Id="22640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22643" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:01:48.280" Score="21" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;How has SOFU changed/ruined your life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, in one simple way - I want to vote on EVERYTHING.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read comments on a blog, and I want to say &quot;Yup, I agree&quot; or &quot;Wrong!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to ever design/write any kind of website/software with comments, they would be just like SOFU's...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="138231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T17:16:38.760" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T10:46:49.330" Title="How has SOFU ruined/changed your life?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="22641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:03:55.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The good news is, there are some places that do have voting! If you frequent places like slashdot or YouTube. But I have to agree, I constantly think to myself: &quot;I agree with that comment! +1&quot; though sadly, I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131561" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:03:55.093" />
  <row Id="22642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:04:54.220" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend too much time creating Photoshopped images as gags, only to find out that the questions they pertain to have been closed.  Thanks, Meta!  You ruined my life!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5088/linqso.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jon Skeet's Newest Book&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:04:54.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:05:24.123" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree on wanting to &quot;+1&quot; everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how else it's changed my life... people have never asked me to wear sock puppets before... I've never had people interested in when I sleep, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I transferred my newsgroup addiction to SO, so there's not quite as much change in terms of time as you might think... although I do generally spend more time on SO than I did on the newsgroups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:05:24.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:05:29.210" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Life... What life? According to my wife I need one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously thought I can relate to the voting thing. I actually wanted to do this on a specification document I was reading at work today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Positives&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More attention to detail when providing information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Improved ability to search for information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Learning new technologies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More critical of information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only look at the Trilogy as a source of information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;With regards to the last one. I will skim other forums or sources of information, but spend time reading a Trilogy post.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Negatives&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No time left during the day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Distraction at times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wanting to close conversations as subjective and argumentative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit I also enjoy the interaction on Meta, although at times it can get out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:05:29.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:15:05.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/11498/comments&quot;&gt;My future self was stalked and brutally murdered because of Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:15:05.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:19:05.443" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see food sitting out on the counter (that isn't mine) and think to myself, &quot;This should be Community Wiki...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:19:05.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22513" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:24:09.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the time my brain has a fuzzy idea of what it thinks the answer is, but more not my fingers remember a good deal. Once I've typed out a bit of the code I know enough to answer. If my fingers don't remember it all then I end up looking things up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd say about 50-60%. But then again I haven't answered that many questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:24:09.083" />
  <row Id="22649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:25:49.640" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have virtually &lt;strong&gt;zero tolerance&lt;/strong&gt; for traditional, threaded-style discussion now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that's 95% of the information online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:25:49.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-18T19:29:14.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the free telerik tools are nice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T19:29:14.750" />
  <row Id="22653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22630" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:00:04.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably a case-by-case judgment call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've left a wrong answer public b/c the solution is an otherwise popular one, but the comments (and downvotes) that have been left explain why it is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/22607/22619#22619&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/22607/22619#22619&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be better if others who are making this mistake find out why they shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:00:04.877" />
  <row Id="22654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22676" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:09:14.793" Score="13" ViewCount="617" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1440171/matlab-defective-or-just-different&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/a&gt; degenerated from disagreement of opinion into some discussion over capitalization and luckily didn't go any further. It highlights an issue which has cropped up in, among other places, the very evolved ecology of Wikipedia editors: who moderates the moderators? To what extent are moderators allowed to use the power they wield to enforce decisions about their own conduct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not affiliated with either 'side' of this one; just a passerby who saw the discussion devolve and would like to prevent it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130370" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T20:31:59.623" Title="Who moderates the moderators?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="22655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22507" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:11:44.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will treat this as two cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to &lt;em&gt;move&lt;/em&gt; the question to another site: this implies I think it is a good question, and answering is OK. The more so as I have associated accounts on all the sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting to close without moving (NaRQ, SPAM, whatever): I think I answered one of these once. Can't recall why I thought it was a good idea, but I did mark my answer CW because I thought that gaining reputation on a questions that I felt did not belong would be wrong. An answer here might be appropriate if the asker seems to have a vast misunderstanding that needs to be corrected so that they will understand &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the question does not belong. Mostly this can be accomplished in the comments, but there can be cases when they are a poor tool for the job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T01:33:52.153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T01:33:52.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22654" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:11:46.177" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think that the moderators are not being fair or performing their tasks with impartiality, then email team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example provided, I think Marc did well to go and lock the post to allow cooler heads to prevail. No good comes out of an edit and rollback war, and I imagine that the comments got pretty heated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T20:18:46.803" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:18:46.803" />
  <row Id="22657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22660" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:11:57.427" Score="5" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a question to &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/43514/how-can-i-easily-view-and-record-a-video-input-in-linux&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; and afterward realized that it might not be answered very quickly due to how specific it was. So I also posted it on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7970648#post7970648&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ubuntu forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan to update both the SU and Ubuntu posts with the final answer I end up using, but I can't help but feel users from both places might not like that I've posted to both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: &lt;strong&gt;Is it frowned upon to post the same question elsewhere and link to it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastEditorUserId="130692" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T20:33:41.973" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T14:37:52.030" Title="Is it wrong to ask the same question elsewhere?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="22658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22654" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:12:20.450" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that post started out degenerate.  How-you-say? Ah, yes. &lt;strong&gt;Subjective and argumentative.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who moderates the moderators?  The site owners, if necessary, and at their sole discretion.  Who moderates them?  Nobody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:12:20.450" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22657" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:14:53.223" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything wrong with asking in more than one place, as long as you do as you've said you will, and update both posts with whatever pertinent information you find.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were to post and abandon because you went to another forum, that could be frowned upon, but then again, there probably aren't very many people who would notice and even fewer who would be bothered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:14:53.223" />
  <row Id="22660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22657" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:15:22.457" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would it be wrong? Although these sites hope to become the canonical source of all programming/sysadmin/computer knowledge, we aren't exactly going to tell you what you can and can't do on other websites or forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:15:22.457" />
  <row Id="22662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22657" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:19:36.053" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt; that you continue to seek your own answer to the question that you have. And part of that would be seeking other venues for answers. The more things you do to find the answer, the more chance there is that you'll find someone that can help you, and that is the purpose of all these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that we ask is that you update your S[O|F|U] question once you find the correct answer. Make sure that you post the resolution so that other people can benefit! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good Luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:19:36.053" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:22:29.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people have trouble formulating a clear, informative, useful question. I fear the SO community may be becoming less and less tolerant of poor quality questions, which makes actually posting a question rather a frightening prospect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's also hard to know how a given individual will do unless they try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:22:29.543" />
  <row Id="22664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22654" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:23:30.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites log everything we do with our moderator powers.  Jeff has the ability to not only monitor, but roll back anything we do, making him the highest authority when it comes to moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I think Marc's edits were totally appropriate on the question you linked to.  Screaming &quot;moderator abuse&quot; at the drop of a hat isn't going to win any arguments.  I think we're all grown up enough to see right through that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:23:30.337" />
  <row Id="22665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22654" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:24:16.983" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who was knee-deep in that debacle, here's what went down...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I'll leave it anonymous, but you can pretty much figure out the names from the comments and edit history)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user edited the question and some answers to correct misspellings (&quot;MATLAB&quot; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; correct!). I was actually about to edit them myself, since I routinely do this for MATLAB questions, but they got to them first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A second user came along and felt the need to rollback all the edits, for apparently political reasons (I guess?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marc Gravell swooped in to stop the rollback wars and enforce the corrections, and I thank him for it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second user cried moderator abuse (totally unjustified, IMO).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there was much more wrong with the post than just this. Not only was it mostly a big flame-war, but some even decided to put forward their definitions of what constitutes a &quot;real&quot; programmer. The question should really just be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, that question is an example of the helpful role moderators play&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:24:16.983" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22654" CreationDate="2009-09-18T20:37:20.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about this when I first joined SO and thought it might be a problem. But I quickly realized that by the time someone racks up the reputation to have moderator control, they feel vested into SOFU and want to further improve it. They more than likely won't need to be monitored since it's unlikely that they'll do anything out of line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T20:37:20.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22671" CreationDate="2009-09-18T21:46:19.333" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be one of those, &quot;Is it just me?&quot; questions that gets buried, but on some questions, there are a ton of comments.  And annoyingly enough, &lt;strong&gt;enough comments are shown that it's just noise&lt;/strong&gt;.  The whole point of the show comment link and the fancy ajax whizbangery is to keep the noise minimal, while showing you a &lt;em&gt;few&lt;/em&gt; comments you might care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a lot of times I go to a thread, and see a giant wall of comments blocking the answers.  I don't like it sir.  Here are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7572/why-do-incorrect-answers-keep-getting-accepted&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19890/visual-toys-for-so&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt; and a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/so/so-wall-of-comments.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;wall of comments&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T21:58:29.513" Title="The Amount of Comments gets out of control sometimes" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22670" CreationDate="2009-09-18T21:48:30.843" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think using Meta as an example is a bad idea. Comments here are going to overflow, and happen often since everything gets discussed, or someone needs to mention &lt;strong&gt;ponies&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;waffles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it gets really out of hand we delete the comments. However the honest solution is just to ignore it if your not interest in reading them. It beats having 200 answers on a question to handle a discussion. IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13531/mmyers&quot;&gt;mmyers&lt;/a&gt; pointed out, this is only on MSO. On the [S]OFU sites only the 5 top voted comments are displayed in this manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T21:57:16.380" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T21:57:16.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22654" CreationDate="2009-09-18T21:49:25.880" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no disagreement of any Moderators. There was, however, a disagreement between two Users who had enough rep to edit Community Wiki posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only one of those two would have been able to edit the question had it not been Community Wiki. The interesting thing is, that the person who kept changing it to the incorrect capitalization, was the one who could have edited it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person on the wrong/losing side, really doesn't seem to be active in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[matlab]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily a &lt;strong&gt;moderator&lt;/strong&gt; came and reverted it. Then locked it, to prevent the rollback war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T21:49:25.880" />
  <row Id="22674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22670" CreationDate="2009-09-18T21:58:29.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I imagine that it may be a lot more intensive, I must admit I am a fan of the idea of threaded comments which can then be expanded outwards, and I think it would be useful to follow along the conversations as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T21:58:29.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-18T22:10:34.780" Score="2" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any .NET libraries currently for the Stack Overflow unofficial API? I'm thinking of writing one and posting it here, but I just want to check if there are any already. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T00:20:19.483" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T14:30:24.933" Title=".NET Library for Stack Overflow API?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22654" CreationDate="2009-09-18T22:16:45.983" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just thought I'd better weigh in... after a number of users flagged the post for moderator attention (for the record, I don't think the flags were by any of the people directly involved), I reviewed the thread. There was a clear and pointless &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1440171/list&quot;&gt;edit/rollback war&lt;/a&gt; beginning focusing mainly on a spelling/casing of MATLAB vs Matlab. This was in both the question and in the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When revisions start getting into double digits of revisions without adding any &lt;em&gt;value&lt;/em&gt; it is just noise, distracting both the users involved, and everyone else who sees the question keep appearing at the top of the front page. It also affects the OP if the question goes &quot;wiki&quot; (the OP was not party to the edit war).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very brief search showed that MATLAB is the correct casing, so I reverted to the most recent MATLAB versions and locked the top post to call an end to it. I also reverted the same in a number of the answers, but didn't bother locking them; I figured the message was clear enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;who moderates the moderators&quot;; in part the community, in part each-other, and ultimately Jeff - I happily hold my actions up for inspection. I don't really follow what you mean by &quot;about their own conduct&quot;; but note that I had no personal interest / investment in that thread. Moderation is best done impartially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sigh&lt;/em&gt;. It seems one of the parties involved considered this action abuse bordering on subjugation. Again; to clarify - nobody was admonished; nobody was punished; nobody was told off; simply: the edit was abruptly terminated. I make no apology for &quot;siding&quot; one way or another. I do, however, regret the need for this entire thread - for the sake of the wasted time of the MSO readers. Of course, if we closed the thread &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; would somehow be wrong too - you can't win as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-19T20:31:59.623" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T20:31:59.623" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22681" CreationDate="2009-09-18T23:08:04.583" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the site abbreviated dates are used (Apr 21 at 9:12). This works great for dates within the current year but it seems that as the years roll by it'll become important to include the year in the date. I am not sure that having the time is of value for a post that is a year old. Maybe at a certain threshold replacing the time with the year is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-19T01:43:26.840" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T01:43:26.840" Title="Add year to time date stamps" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;&lt;dates&gt;&lt;date-format&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22678" CreationDate="2009-09-18T23:18:51.643" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hover over the time stamp and you'll see the UTC time as a tool tip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1673/tooltipg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tool Tip&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T23:18:51.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22678" CreationDate="2009-09-18T23:40:47.627" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dates more than a year old do include the year. See for example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-18T23:48:03.307" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T23:48:03.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22683" CreationDate="2009-09-18T23:48:10.953" Score="6" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;More often than not, I find that my question has been answered by more than one people equally good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should I do? What do you do in such a situation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selecting one answer as an &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; does injustice to the others, who were really as good as this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well if I don't accept any answer, my accept rate is going down by each question :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T07:40:51.603" Title="What should I do when my question has 2 or more equally good answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22682" CreationDate="2009-09-18T23:51:25.377" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should comment on both good answers and say so. Hopefully someone will take the hint and will edit their answer to include the full information necessary to be a canonical answer. Then you could accept that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you could pick the best one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting one only applies a 15 point bonus, it does not prevent the other answers from getting upvotes as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if I were you I would not put so much weight into this Acceptance Rate. I would think less of someone who arbitrarily accepts answers to keep their rate high than someone who is more judicious and awards the check mark only to answers which really deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T23:51:25.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22682" CreationDate="2009-09-18T23:52:02.770" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't fret about it too much. Pick the one with the most:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bullet points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pictures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/dont-panic.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;don't panic&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-18T23:52:02.770" />
  <row Id="22687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-19T00:09:34.953" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I spend too much time making graphs based on data dumps.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is fun, I can't help myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-graph.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T00:09:34.953" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5390" CreationDate="2009-09-19T01:28:13.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opera Mini supports some Ajax, and works fine on the Stack sites. I've been commenting, answering, voting, tagging, etc, quite happily with it for over a week :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T01:28:13.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22692" CreationDate="2009-09-19T02:27:38.197" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that if a question is migrated, the asker's name doesn't get highlighted when he/she posts comments.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/43635/gui-ftp-program-capable-of-using-public-private-keys&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/43635/gui-ftp-program-capable-of-using-public-private-keys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See Sarteck comments on the question and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-19T19:22:01.450" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T19:22:01.450" Title="Question Asker isn't highlighted in comments when question was migrated" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22690" CreationDate="2009-09-19T02:30:43.947" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until they associate their accounts and the system knows who is actually asking the question, it won't show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DisplayName isn't something unique, but the UserID is, and while the question and comment both share the same DisplayName, without the unique  user ID, you can't be certain that they're one and the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T02:30:43.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-19T04:07:07.640" Score="2" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi! I'm building a .NET library for the Stack Overflow API, and I would like to include a function where an input of a display name (username) is converted to the userid. This can be done by using the Users page, but how can this be done programmatically (in C#)? If there aren't any API methods for this, could you explain how it would be possible to screen-scrape the users page for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By the way, if this belongs on StackOverflow (as I'm asking how it can be done programmatically and for sample code), please migrate it. Your help is appreciated!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-20T16:02:34.947" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T16:02:34.947" Title="Stack Overflow API: Finding the UserID of a user with their Display Name" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22693" CreationDate="2009-09-19T04:13:27.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be difficult/impossible seeing the usernames are not unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/11702/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130712/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130861/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131541/josh&quot;&gt;Josh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131648/josh&quot;&gt;josh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T04:13:27.800" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22682" CreationDate="2009-09-19T06:08:09.693" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick the oldest one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T06:08:09.693" />
  <row Id="22697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22640" CreationDate="2009-09-19T06:18:22.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It hasn't ruined it because (hopefully) I know better -- but I have found some very thoughtful and helpful answers / discussions from time to time, and it's fun to weigh in on the easy ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135137" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T06:18:22.620" />
  <row Id="22698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22657" CreationDate="2009-09-19T06:19:48.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if you already know the answer.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135137" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T06:19:48.547" />
  <row Id="22703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22705" CreationDate="2009-09-19T10:25:26.643" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, I wanted to vote on a question where both the up- and down-vote symbols were showing in gray. I got the &quot;Vote too old&quot; message. I probably did vote earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked a few other (older) questions and sometimes my votes were marked in color, sometimes not. I can't see a pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is: where did the visual cue go?  I hope this isn't by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T03:35:45.647" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T03:36:30.123" Title="Old votes not shown in color anymore" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22703" CreationDate="2009-09-19T10:31:23.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First time you vote on a post, the ticker starts ticking for the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18788/vote-reversal-time-limit-concerns&quot; title=&quot;tick tock, tick tock&quot;&gt;no more vote change&lt;/a&gt;&quot; window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If within a few seconds you take that vote back or vote the other way, it still counts from the first vote movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a couple minutes have passed, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18360/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-but-i-havent-voted&quot; title=&quot;geriatics vote too y'know. maybe&quot;&gt;the vote is now too old to change&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if both arrows are in grey, if you have at one point in the life of that question voted, it will mean you can no longer vote again until that post has been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-19T10:36:38.683" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T10:36:38.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22710" CreationDate="2009-09-19T11:22:35.417" Score="5" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking a question I would love to share the one or other code snippet I have created that is too small to make a full article on e.g. CodeProject.com or CodePlex.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; Would it be a good idea to post it as a stackoverflow.com &quot;question&quot;? Or are there any other suggestions how to share?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Of course I could post it on my own weblog and then twitter about it, but I would love to put it in a more of a programming context)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&#xA;Uwe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133056" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T13:25:59.543" Title="Is it allowed/desirable to post code snippets?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22706" CreationDate="2009-09-19T11:25:34.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could pose a question with the problem you were trying to solve and then post your answer a few days later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, you could post the problem as a Code Golf type question and either include your solution in the question or as the first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T11:25:34.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-19T11:49:52.887" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone tried using SO/ SF to study for a certification exam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example reading all windows 2008 questions to prepare for MCSE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, was it any use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T12:15:22.323" Title="Using SO/SF to study for certification exams" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22708" CreationDate="2009-09-19T12:15:22.323" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having done most of the MS exams, and being an MCT, I can say that using the question on SO to study will not help very much, unless the question is related to the base framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exams are specific to the course material, with the questions drawn out of the theory explained in the courses. Therefore even if there is a &lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt; way of doing it as defined by the web, SO or other sources, the answers required in the exam has to be according to the course material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can definitly gain knowledge via SO, but it won't have much value in the exams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T12:15:22.323" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22706" CreationDate="2009-09-19T12:41:38.437" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting a question, to which you already have a solution, is perfectly acceptable in my opinion.  You would then post your solution as one possible one.  A link to a fuller explanation may or may not be appropriate depending on the answer.  I would be very careful to avoid the appearance of trying to &lt;em&gt;market&lt;/em&gt; your solution, though.  I think you'll find that people are very sensitive to spam and if your posts looks like spam, it will probably be unmercifully voted down.  Even it it doesn't you may still get some downvotes from people who don't understand that it's ok to post answers to your own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that I would also suggest is that you be explicitly open to alternative solutions.  Be genuinely interested in other answers to your question -- and write your question from that perspective.  &quot;I ran into this problem doing foo the other day and was able to solve it (solution posted as an answer), but I'd be interested in other, perhaps better solutions?&quot; would be the tack I would take.  In my mind, if you are still looking for solutions, then the question is not in doubt as to its legitimacy.  And, please do vote up other answers that are useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I would only do this rarely -- it might be that many of your questions take this route, but then I would expect that your questions are asked more rarely.  A pattern of posting questions that are really links to your blog or some code you are marketing will be detected and will not be appreciated by many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-19T13:25:59.543" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T13:25:59.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18051" CreationDate="2009-09-19T14:04:38.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it make sense for the RSS feed to include only the stub link (ie, without the title appended), since that works just as well for loading a given question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T14:04:38.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-19T14:21:08.500" Score="0" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12800/posting-questions-does-not-work-any-more-in-opera-9-64&quot;&gt;Posting questions does not work any more in Opera 9.64&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to some project requirements I am working on, I have to use Opera 10 (10.00 b1750) to test some pages, so I was using it to attempt to ask a question. I noticed that when attempting to post a question to StackOverflow, the 'Ask Your Question' button doesn't perform a submit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just my experience? Anyone else got it working? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136148" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T02:57:21.700" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T02:57:21.700" ClosedDate="2009-09-20T03:12:34.327" Title="Using Stackoverflow with Opera 10?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22657" CreationDate="2009-09-19T14:37:52.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and do it.  Then, if you get a solution from somewhere else, post it as an answer here, so we'll have the answer if somebody else has the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T14:37:52.030" />
  <row Id="22716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22765" CreationDate="2009-09-19T14:40:47.657" Score="14" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found the html to show the flair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was wondering if it was possible to place this in a Linkedin profile. Where would be the best place to put it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T17:05:40.677" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T15:28:25.107" Title="IS it possible to show SO flair on Linkedin" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;linkedin&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="22717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-17T22:58:42.490" Score="1" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I find out what the OpenID of my Google account is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to log in to join the Stack Overflow community, but the OpenID process is very frustrating for me. I did manage to log in a few weeks ago and I thought I managed to connect to my Google OpenID. But I don't recall the OpenID. The obvious option (my account username) is an email which can't be an OpenID. I can't find any reference to an OpenID when I look through the preferences, etc in my Google account. The OpenID.net site says to get my ID just go to Google and log in (no further hints given).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of OpenID is that it is simple to use but for me it is the exact opposite. Could Stack Overflow consider an old-fashioned username/password option? Or am I missing something really obvious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: The login page has no way to register except by entering an OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T10:24:39.233" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T10:24:39.233" Title="Google OpenID login problems" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22717" CreationDate="2009-09-17T23:17:02.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I find out what my google&#xA;  account openid is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click the google picture at the login page and you'll automatically be redirected to the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, I know this should be posted in meta but I can't post there without logging in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't need to login to read other posts, and there are lots of questions that already cover this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/openid&quot;&gt;topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T17:05:07.863" />
  <row Id="22719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22717" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:29:08.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Click the google picture at the login page and you'll automatically be redirected to the right place.'&#xA;This directs me to the google account login page. Once I log in the link directs me to www.google.com.au. I suppose somewhere my account (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount&lt;/a&gt;) there is something I can do to find the openid, and maybe I'm stupid for not finding it, but I can't find it and would appreciate any suggestions on where to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'You don't need to login to read other posts, and there are lots of questions that already cover this topic.'&#xA;Sorry if my post sounded like it was from someone who had not tried to help themselves. I've read dozens of posts with the openid tag and spent about half an hour doing google searches and not found an answer to my question. Its a classic situation where the answer is probably so obvious that its incredibly hard to search for and nobody writes down the answer because they can see it so easily. In my opinion that is a really valuable role of a site like this where I can ask the question after I have got stuck. The reason I'd like to join serverfault is that the majority of the answers I've seen are helpful rather than condescending and there seem to be few flamewars which other sites I use are plagued with. I do have some skills and I'd like to also contribute answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T17:05:07.863" />
  <row Id="22720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22717" CreationDate="2009-09-18T03:48:39.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, finally found the answer - all I needed was to paste &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&lt;/a&gt; into the login field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was happening was that noscript was blocking a third-party site javascript that shows a google icon and populates the link into the login field. That explains why nobody else was reporting this problem - you all have allowed that site (I think either sstatic.com or quantserve.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T17:05:07.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20084" CreationDate="2009-09-19T17:37:57.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, perhaps the mythical &quot;rep recalc&quot; should recalibrate the reputation granted by each answer. The OP's referenced answer that settled on a score of +2 should, in the end, grant him +20 rep, rather than +44.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technical details here would be somewhat tricky - you'd have to track not just which questions, but also which votes on those questions had been through the normalization process, but it would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a similar answer on SO, which was a snarky and not-very-helpful response (but was considered humourous to some, including me). It got 4 upvotes and 4 downvotes, settling at a (IMO reasonable) score of 0 but it still got me +32 rep.  &lt;strong&gt;[Corrollary conclusion, worth considering separately: we're not rewarding good answers, but controversial answers.]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T17:37:57.287" />
  <row Id="22722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2009-09-19T18:02:32.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, why not? I don't think it amounts to click-fraud and if I were an advertiser I don't think I'd mind too much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, they get another shot at convincing you to buy their product/service with all the benefit of an entire web-site rather than a small banner. The people who are already interested in your products aren't the tricky ones to attract after all.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T18:02:32.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22690" CreationDate="2009-09-19T19:21:55.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The openids have to be properly associated between the two sites. This is done via the &quot;accounts&quot; tab on the user page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the accounts are associated, the user will re-own any migrated questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T19:21:55.973" />
  <row Id="22727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-19T20:17:25.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do it to make me look smot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135137" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T20:17:25.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-19T20:44:00.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make utilitarian arguments and you can make spiritual/religious/karmic arguments.  Strangely, both arguments resonate with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do it for selfish reasons (rep) and because I believe what goes around comes around and I believe in the golden rule and, most importantly, it makes me feel kinda good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T20:44:00.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-19T22:47:46.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of it is CV++&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T22:47:46.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22741" CreationDate="2009-09-19T23:28:08.050" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The generic &quot;oops&quot; crash page on Meta directs users to report the issue at meta (optionally). There's a stack overflow joke in here somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps meta should replace that text with another site or email (or just remove it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/7690/sometaerror.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T03:12:13.157" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T03:29:40.897" Title="Crash page on Meta directs users to Meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;crash&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22734" CreationDate="2009-09-19T23:30:31.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless you're crashing when asking a question, then you can report the error on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joke is pretty good though. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-19T23:30:31.870" />
  <row Id="22736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22400" CreationDate="2009-09-20T00:42:41.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they want other people to help them for free as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131603" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T00:42:41.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-12T10:33:08.620" />
  <row Id="22737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22738" CreationDate="2009-09-20T02:18:11.467" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot;&gt;Is there an editing &amp;lsquo;grace period&amp;rsquo; on answers after they have been posted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to edit posts and not have the &quot;edited&quot; tag show up?  At first I thought I was seeing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this a couple times, and there are sometimes those jerks that will edit their (erroneous) answers and copy/paste or use someone else's correct answer instead.  Usually happens when it's within 1 minute, which leads me to suspect edits within 1 minute won't show up?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that it's a big deal really, but I don't quite understand why it would be desirable to hide edits?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think it would make sense to show &quot;edited&quot; but not have to keep track of what was edited.  More like a flag that just shows that, yes, this was edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T02:37:18.160" ClosedDate="2009-09-20T19:21:02.093" Title="Editing doesn't show &quot;edited&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22737" CreationDate="2009-09-20T02:20:40.747" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot; title=&quot;outside the window&quot;&gt;There is a 5 minute window&lt;/a&gt; where you can make an edit and not have it show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason being that most of the edits within that window are to fix up small mistakes like grammar and typos. Adding them to the revision list would then have a lot of posts kick into community wiki earlier just for those minor infractions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T02:31:28.637" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T02:31:28.637" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22716" CreationDate="2009-09-20T02:22:54.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you able to hotlink to an image on a LinkedIn profile?  If so, this might be kind of a duplicate of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1475/can-we-get-flair-as-an-image&quot;&gt;Can we get flair as an image?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first answer there includes one user's implementation of image-based flair, since there is no official solution.  But if you're unable to hotlink to an image, then this wouldn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T02:22:54.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22734" CreationDate="2009-09-20T03:09:44.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent find!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should make sure to redirect people to the meta.meta.stackoverflow.com and not just the normal meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T03:09:44.970" />
  <row Id="22741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22734" CreationDate="2009-09-20T03:29:40.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The image of the error isn't joke enough for you? get it? The dialog image box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T03:29:40.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22703" CreationDate="2009-09-20T03:36:30.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second you take a vote action on a post, the clock starts ticking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That includes undoing votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case you voted and then undid your vote; you can't vote again on that post until it is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T03:36:30.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22746" CreationDate="2009-09-20T05:38:21.170" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accept check marks are not visible on one of my unaccepted questions on SO:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/490627/custom-http-basic-authentication-for-asp-net-web-services-on-net-3-5-vs-2008&quot;&gt;Custom HTTP Basic Authentication for ASP.NET Web Services on .NET 3.5/VS 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am logged in and I see the check marks on other unaccepted questions. Is there a special rule for accepting questions that I am missing?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7457/screenshot20090920at233.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T07:41:40.013" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T07:41:40.013" Title="Accept check marks are not visible on one of my unaccepted questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22745" CreationDate="2009-09-20T07:19:01.187" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to have an RSS feed that only included questions I ask and answers. This would allow me to share my Stack Overflow activity on other sites without having the noise generated by comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T07:22:08.670" Title="Exclude comments from RSS" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22744" CreationDate="2009-09-20T07:22:08.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to your profile. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then go to the &lt;strong&gt;Recent&lt;/strong&gt; tab. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the &lt;strong&gt;RSS&lt;/strong&gt; feed for that page. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then parse out those with the following node:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title type=&quot;text&quot;&amp;gt;Comment by ...&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that work for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T07:22:08.670" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22743" CreationDate="2009-09-20T07:30:19.470" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(maybe obvious, but) are you logged in as the correct user? (I can only see one &lt;code&gt;eed3si9n&lt;/code&gt;, so I don't think this is the problem, but sometimes people start with an unregistered account and then have a &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; registered account - which can be merged by moderators if needed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did you have an (unsuccessful) bounty or anything like that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I checked the logs; yes, you did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;eed3si9n -&gt; Bounty creation of 100 rep on question id = 490627 Feb 4 at 5:33 () (-50 rep)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add a bounty, then the ability to select an answer is removed after the bounty ends. You didn't select a winner, and none had 2 votes so none was auto-selected. See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16836/questions-where-answers-can-not-be-accepted-should-not-count-towards-the-accept&quot;&gt;Questions where answers can not be accepted, should not count towards the accept rate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T07:36:52.020" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T07:36:52.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22750" CreationDate="2009-09-20T13:05:46.230" Score="-1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just looking at the meta tag in the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on Stack Overflow site and I do not see any reference to the &lt;code&gt;Content-Type&lt;/code&gt; used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any difference between setting the http header information through the meta tag or directly setting it on the response? Any issues related to browser compatibility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134608" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T18:00:48.623" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T18:00:48.623" Title="Why doesn't Stack Overflow use meta http-equiv?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22749" CreationDate="2009-09-20T13:49:15.777" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why simulate HTTP headers with http-equiv when you can use HTTP headers directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T13:49:15.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20606" CreationDate="2009-09-20T13:50:10.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're on Firefox, you could use this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug/21623#21623&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt;. It adds a link next to each tag in the tags section which when clicked totals all the votes for a that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot showing a completed query (for eclipse-rcp) and one in progress (for java):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2598/3916480385%5F816231354c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tags query screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T13:50:10.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-20T14:17:47.733" Score="11" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are views unique visitors? Does it include the person who was asking the question? Are only registered users counted or also people who stumble upon the question from google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135433" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T14:22:30.440" Title="How are question views counted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22752" CreationDate="2009-09-20T14:22:30.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume its unique views, because the number won't go up with each of my page refreshes ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53587" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T14:22:30.440" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22756" CreationDate="2009-09-20T16:50:55.517" Score="4" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sscce.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I saw this today&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a description of Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example. This would be a useful reference for many as a guideline for how to make code usable in questions on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's based on these 4 points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* Short (Small) - Minimize bandwidth for your example, do not bore the audience.&#xA;* Self Contained - Ensure everything is included, ready to go.&#xA;* Correct - Copy, paste, (compile,) see is the aim.&#xA;* Example - Displays the problem you are trying to solve.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was pretty cool and could perhaps be worked into the SO FAQ or wherever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a useful guideline, and &lt;strong&gt;what other code guidelines might be useful for SO examples?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T18:22:50.230" Title="SSCCE: How to provide examples for programming questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;code-examples&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22754" CreationDate="2009-09-20T17:05:57.617" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eric Raymond wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;whole bloody treatise&lt;/a&gt; on asking technical questions. The problem that became evident was that people who want to learn how to write a good question and people who can't write a good question are mutually exclusive groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind seeing these four bullet points on the FAQ, though. Just to reinforce that we do, actually, like well-worded and well-thought out questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95589" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T17:05:57.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22516" CreationDate="2009-09-20T17:09:58.703" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be seeing not-programming-related advertisments on the Amazon Book ads... we are aware of it, and are working on addressing it. It's just an unfortunate result of automated selection and improper categorization by Amazon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few things to keep in mind about the Amazon Book ads ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's experimental right now&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ads are powered by the Amazon Product Advertising API&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ads all come from the “Books &gt; Computers &amp;amp; Internet” category or some subcategory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When we query the Amazon database, we sort by review, not by sales rank. This is because the best-selling computer books are always the “for Dummies” or “Teach Yourself”, which we’re guessing the Stackoverflow audience would not want to see. Specifically, we only pull back books with 5/5 stars, and then order by the number of reviews, believing that a book that is getting actively discussed is better than a book that isn’t being discussed. We don’t factor in sales rank at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All of the queries are done by keyword search, which is why you’ll see books about Java or C# in the tag for “regex”. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We’re only querying the Amazon API on the 500 most popular tags. For every other tag (and there are 25,000+), we simply get the highest-rated books in the Computers &amp;amp; Internet category and display those. That’s why you’ll see The Code Book, for example – it’s improperly categorized by Amazon, and with its 213 5-star reviews, it rises to the top of our review-based ranking.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T17:09:58.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22761" CreationDate="2009-09-20T17:13:19.260" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta StackExchange Duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of StackExchange Sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i would like to see what sites have signed up for stackexchange as i am curious what types of situations people think this is a good model for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T20:38:52.227" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T20:38:52.227" ClosedDate="2009-09-20T20:38:09.217" Title="Is there anyway to see a list of stackexchange websites" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22760" CreationDate="2009-09-20T17:24:42.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta StackExchange has a running list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;shh, they might here you.&quot;&gt;the currently public SE sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T17:24:42.880" />
  <row Id="22762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22754" CreationDate="2009-09-20T18:22:50.230" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think using a fairly obscure acronym (I'd never heard about it before) doesn't help as much as making it explicit. I tend to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please provide a short but complete example which demonstrates the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's clearer than even the expanded acronym. I have my own page about it which I sometimes reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html&lt;/a&gt; - occasionally I've had to refer readers to a second page too: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/incomplete.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/incomplete.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T18:22:50.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-20T18:36:14.457" Score="5" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text input control (top right) should retain its value when used. Thus making it much easier to modify the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently one has to completely re-enter (with all typo likelihood), or navigate back (thus losing the initial results as reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: JUst tried again on SF. Search for &quot;[windows]&quot; consistently left a blank search box... some other searches left it populated and some didn't. There seems to be a lack on consistency. (All in FF.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT #2: As noted in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://#22794&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answer below&lt;/a&gt; if the search consists of just tags, then it is treated as selecting those tags. This should still leave the search box populated to allow refinement of the search (i.e. keep the page content consistent with a search).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T01:52:16.213" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T01:52:16.213" Title="Search Input Control Should Retain Search String" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22763" CreationDate="2009-09-20T18:39:25.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which browser are you using? I currently observe the behaviour that you request to be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just searched with the keyword &lt;em&gt;test&lt;/em&gt;, and on the page which shows the search results there is the text &lt;em&gt;test&lt;/em&gt; in the search textfield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T18:39:25.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22716" CreationDate="2009-09-20T18:46:32.397" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to write a LinkedIn application for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T18:46:32.397" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22849" CreationDate="2009-09-20T19:11:17.507" Score="0" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449787/are-there-any-halfway-decent-free-html-editors-for-the-mac&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; belong on Stack Overflow or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T22:33:37.760" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T12:34:14.870" Title="HTML editors on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="22767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22766" CreationDate="2009-09-20T19:13:42.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have SuperUser up. I would say it belongs there now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T19:13:42.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22766" CreationDate="2009-09-20T19:41:39.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking about a program is not programming related. Even if you program with that program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking how do you a certain type of code with a certain type of program. Is programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Program program program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean is. Questions about using a program are on a gray line. There are questions about using a program that fit perfectly with SO and others that do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But questions about where to get, how to install etc are IMO not programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the original question, I think yours is on a gray line but it's worded well so IMO it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T20:20:43.533" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T20:20:43.533" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22766" CreationDate="2009-09-20T19:48:11.990" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comes down to the old question - is 'pure' HTML design (without automatic markup generation or scripting) programming related, or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since HTML is a &lt;em&gt;markup&lt;/em&gt; language, not a &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; language, many people feel that designing HTML is not programming, and therefore does not belong on SO.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;OTOH, I believe that any web developer worth his salt will &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to look up the HTML source his code generates from time to time. From this perspective, HTML editors are programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22766/html-editors-on-stack-overflow/22769#22769&quot;&gt;Ólafur's answer&lt;/a&gt;. Of course, HTML isn't programming. But it is related (rather closely, in fact). Therefore in reply to his statement:  &lt;em&gt;Related related related&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;   In reply to Ólafur's update on his answer:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;He is right in saying that there is a gray line, and I agree that a question like &lt;em&gt;How do I install Visual Studio&lt;/em&gt; does not belong on SO. Even though installing VS is certainly programming related, such a question is better placed on SU.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The main reason why there still are such questions on SO is that they were asked before SU was available. That can not be used as a justification to post such questions on SO nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastEditorUserId="22114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T09:22:57.343" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T09:22:57.343" />
  <row Id="22771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22776" CreationDate="2009-09-20T20:06:15.660" Score="11" ViewCount="547" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know, the tactical downvoting (I'm talking especially about SO, as I don't know about other sites) is more and more becoming a serious problem, as I see, the community can't stop this behavior without some sacrificing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a suggestion, I think it makes sense to prevent an answerer from downvoting any answer on the same question, this -sure- has a harm, but IMO, it's less harmful than the tactical downvoting issue, and to make the things a bit more easier, we can prevent an answerer from downvoting a question without posting a comment to that answer before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And vice versa, if a user downvoted an answer, he shouldn't be able to post another one unless he posted a comment first, to prevent working-around that system, so a user can't downvote other answers before posting his own to avoid posting comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT, more clarification: I don't say wrong answers shouldn't be downvoted, BUT if you want to downvote an answer and post your own, you'll have to post a comment, so we make sure you're not just downvoting right answers tactically.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking forward to hear your opinions about this idea.&#xA;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastEditorUserId="131760" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T20:33:25.543" LastActivityDate="2010-07-08T11:05:23.493" Title="The answer to tactical downvoting problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22771" CreationDate="2009-09-20T20:23:05.323" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see an answer to a question that is just plain wrong, I should be able to both downvote it &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; post my own answer. This is such a fundamental part of SO that it's too heavy-handed to prevent it just to avoid a relatively minor problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T20:23:05.323" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22771" CreationDate="2009-09-20T20:26:29.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't say I've noticed the problem, but perhaps it's not as prevalent in the threads I use. However, someone can only downvote your answer once - does a 2 becoming a 1 really make that much difference? If someone is in the habit of downvoting tactically, it would likely be apparent from their profile.&#xA;And wrong answers should be downvotable irrespective of any other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-08T07:51:28.870" LastActivityDate="2010-07-08T07:51:28.870" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22771" CreationDate="2009-09-20T20:27:54.380" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be better if people who downvote would also be required to leave a comment. Sometimes, answers get downvoted because of misconceptions, which cannot be cleared if people just downvote without comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then you could flag offensive downvotes much easier too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T20:27:54.380" />
  <row Id="22776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22771" CreationDate="2009-09-20T20:34:51.437" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tactical downvoting is something Jeff and the team has been aware of for a while, there has even been a blog post about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the recent changes Jeff made to avoid this is the timed voting, which means you can't reverse a vote after a certain period of time. There is also scripts in place to reverse serial downvotes which occur from time to time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to stop this is to flag instances of possible tactical downvoting to be investigated by the team, and if a user is guilty the relevant action will be taken. I have to admit on SU I have very rarely seen this occur, and I am not so sure if it is such a big problem on SO. I am not saying it does not exist, but I highly doubt it occurs on every question. There is possibly a small percentage of the total user base that does do this to get an advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from this, there is really very little that can be done to stop this, and anything more to stop it will eventually make the system to cumbersome to use. So forcing someone to leave a comment, which has been declined before, is not a solution, since this removes the anonymous nature of the voting process altogether. I don't always leave a comment for a downvote. If the answer is wrong, I don't need to make the person answering feel worse by pointing it out in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T20:34:51.437" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-20T20:58:14.613" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22516/who-should-deal-with-not-programming-related-advertisments&quot;&gt;Who should deal with not-programming-related advertisments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/592/badad.tif&quot; alt=&quot;Bad Ad&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there's many questions about this, but... really. You need to fix these ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T20:58:14.613" ClosedDate="2009-09-20T21:05:50.797" Title="Advertisements are not working at all" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-20T21:32:11.537" Score="4" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to ask my first question and after editing, I pressed the &lt;strong&gt;Ask Your Question&lt;/strong&gt; button which become disabled and I couldn't press it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any error messages on the page and the question is not on my asked questions list. I also don't see the question appear on the new questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did I miss?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/KX8XT.png&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot of broken ask button&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136185" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:13:23.317" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:13:23.317" Title="Ask Your Question button is disabled" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="22779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-20T21:40:44.207" Score="-5" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an idea I just had and I would like to know what you guys think about it. How about showing votes and order the answers ONLY after a vote has been casted. Sometimes answers that come late are not voted up, because they are simply not as visible or people just bother to read the really highly upvoted or downvoted question, which leads to excessive up and down voting. So I would only be able to see what other people think when I left my opinion unbiased or maybe give up my right to vote on the thread. &#xA;Please give me the pro and cons on an approach like that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;Maybe add a feature that says that I give up my right to vote on a question and then immediately see how everybody voted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hide votes until after a vote has been cast on either the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135433" LastEditorUserId="135433" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T22:13:28.730" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T22:44:22.847" Title="Should I see how other people voted after I cast a vote?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22779" CreationDate="2009-09-20T21:47:10.283" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see hiding the votes until after someone has cast a vote valuable. What if I don't want to vote on the question, but would like to see what the highest voted response was? Or I reach my vote cap for the day and now I can't see what the highest voted answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a development aspect I can see a lot going wrong changes the site to support this, since one of the major features of the site is the voting, and it determines a lot of aspects of the display. For example, a question with more then 5 downvotes no longer shows in the active list, yet people will have no idea why it is not there until they vote on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone may be learning a technology, have no idea what is the right answer, but uses the highest voted answer or question to determine what the right approach is to do something. I will admit, I don't always upvote an answer if I find it via Google for example, since it may answer my question, but may not be the solution I needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Based on Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, as much as all these suggestions are promising, it really is making the system overly complex. The ideal is simple, ask a question, provide an answer, vote on either if you like them or not. As much as all the other bells and whistles sound good, the overall usability of the site should be the first consideration. I can't imagine using the site with all these additional rules around voting. It just makes the whole concept to cumbersome. The way it works right now is why it has been so successful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes do drive by voting. I read the question, read the answers, vote for the one's I like and move on. If I happen to see a particularly bad answer, I downvote. If I see that someone has a good answer, and getting an opvote might earn him or her a badge, or even up their reputation enough to give them additional functionality on the site, I might even look at their profile and vote on a correct answer that will gain them the required reputation. Hiding the votes defeats that objective completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-20T22:24:02.880" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T22:24:02.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22779" CreationDate="2009-09-20T21:55:26.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you mean making the voting invisible until you yourself have either voted or answered, so that you or others are not swayed by what has gone before.&#xA;A big con is that this would not be helpful to those who are just learning and don't want to vote or answer. They would not know what was the best option unless an answer was accepted (and not necessarily even then, as that depends on the asker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T21:55:26.447" />
  <row Id="22782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22779" CreationDate="2009-09-20T22:44:22.847" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't know the answer, and are unable to recognize a given answer as either correct or incorrect, then &lt;strong&gt;don't vote&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't up-vote an answer just because it &quot;sounds good&quot; or has previous up-votes. &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; avoid up-voting an answer &lt;strong&gt;just&lt;/strong&gt; because it has been down-voted; it may well deserve it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't down-vote an answer just because it has previous down-votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strategy is fairly natural; i suspect most users follow it to some degree just as a matter of course, the exceptions being users who feel that they have to &quot;fix&quot; the system somehow. Note that i'm perfectly fine with users up-voting answers they feel are underrated, and down-voting answers they feel are overrated: over the long run, this helps to correct the ranking of good but late answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: the primary use for voting is to help other users, old and new, to find the questions and answers we need. Displaying the current score helps us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T22:44:22.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22766" CreationDate="2009-09-20T23:57:14.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It didn't get closed, so the community apparently thinks it is a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take:  HTML editors are programming related, so it's a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-09-20T23:57:14.547" />
  <row Id="22784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22778" CreationDate="2009-09-21T00:21:30.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something seems to have been broken with stackoverflow's scripts, I did get a &quot;Content Encoding Error&quot; in Firefox if I tried to load the scripts directly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wrongly encoded scripts got cached, but a &lt;em&gt;Shift-Reload&lt;/em&gt; fixed the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T00:21:30.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22788" CreationDate="2009-09-21T01:48:09.330" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a mechanism to link or cross reference a specific answer from a perhaps related or unrelated question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, what should the interface be like? And should this be a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that questions are the atomic unit of StackOverflow. Are there any strong arguments for making Answers an atomic unit. And how could/should the reputation system account for this? If someone writes up a particular strong answer to a generic question, wouldn't it be useful to correlate the answer to other questions even if it is not a direct, albeit useful, answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134920" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T02:14:06.490" Title="Can and/or should we be able to link directly to other answers in other questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22785" CreationDate="2009-09-21T02:14:06.490" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below each answer, there is a &quot;link&quot; link which is a permalink to that answer. Is that what you're looking for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T02:14:06.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22789" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T02:40:13.427" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about you, but to me happens a lot: if I'm reading a question with a LOT of answers, (specially in a really specific question) I just read the most voted up: that's the way the system was made to be, and it's really good. The most relevant voted by the community are the first ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we have TOO many users, and a lot of them are reading the same questions and answering them almost at the same time, do you think the &quot;urge&quot; to be the first to answer a question and so gain reputation points makes people sometimes write things too fast and not try to really elaborate a really helpful answer? We may think: &quot;people aren't going to read all answers, so I need to be really concerned about how fast I'm to answer&quot;. Are we incentivating &quot;objective answers&quot;, or &quot;not so good but objective and good to be voted up&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to be unfair with all answers people here provide, we have &lt;strong&gt;really good ones&lt;/strong&gt; here. But supose what I wrote above is a reality: what you think it would happen if it was a &quot;time delay&quot; between an &quot;up-vote or down-vote&quot; and it's sum in the answer? Summarizing: what if the sum wasn't almost &quot;real time&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T02:44:44.243" Title="What you think it would happen if it was a &quot;time delay&quot; between an &quot;up-vote or down-vote&quot; and it's sum in the answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22789" CreationDate="2009-09-21T02:44:44.243" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're concerned that the votes sway how you view the answers, just sort them by Newest and read down the list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T02:44:44.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22792" CreationDate="2009-09-21T05:07:06.730" Score="2" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen some questions on the Stack Overflow front page having orange colored background. What is the meaning of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T07:06:30.953" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T11:32:08.237" Title="What does the color behind the question mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="22792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22791" CreationDate="2009-09-21T05:09:42.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often times the colors are used to highlight things like tags you've marked as a favorite or a post that belongs to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T05:09:42.137" />
  <row Id="22793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20553" CreationDate="2009-09-21T05:16:11.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am interested in a more liberal position because I think some people link for genuine reasons. Some people want to link to the content -only- because of relevance. Although other users might be trying to build their blog traffic or their google ranks, there are probably people out there who do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I have a fogbugz.com trial account, which is free, and I use the wiki module as a parking lot for technical notes and a pipeline for various technical topics. It is sort of an extended memory bank. Sometimes, I am doing some stuff in SO, and I think: &quot;I should just link to this page&quot; to start the conversation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a way of allowing linking while mitigating the abusive usages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T05:16:11.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22763" CreationDate="2009-09-21T06:38:28.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason a search for &lt;code&gt;[windows]&lt;/code&gt; will not keep the term in the search box is because that will actually take you to the tag page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T06:38:28.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22831" CreationDate="2009-09-21T07:20:13.433" Score="4" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have put a bounty on my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1371549/jxta-p2p-application-over-internet&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I think I have found the answer only 6 hours are remaining for bounty to close. Can I answer the question and select it as correct answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T07:27:26.443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T08:41:01.693" Title="Can I answer to my own bounty question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="22831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22830" CreationDate="2009-09-21T07:28:38.560" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always self-answer your question. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18841/lost-reputation-after-answering-my-own-question-with-bounty&quot; title=&quot;what's gone is gone and you're all alone&quot;&gt;don't expect to get your bounty back&lt;/a&gt; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T08:41:01.693" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T08:41:01.693" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22771" CreationDate="2009-09-21T07:46:48.550" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't believe tactical downvoting has much effect at all. It feels immediate, spiteful and effective, so people get upset. But IMHO it's an ineffectual strategy. This is because most users &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15706/should-good-answers-always-be-upvoted&quot;&gt;vote to move an answer towards its perceived value&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; because they agree/disagree with what is said. If an answer is 'worth 4 points' to most users, it will converge on that value over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long term, answers that are downvoted without basis will be upvoted, netting reputation points for free. Aggressive downvoting actually helps that user in the long run! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20084/generating-reputation-through-downvotes&quot;&gt;this line of reasoning&lt;/a&gt; in more detail before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some say tactical downvoting works because answers at the top of the stack are much more likely to be upvoted. I'd like to see some evidence of this. I've never noticed it myself. Most questions only have a small number of answers, and they're usually short. Are people really as lazy as this assumes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T07:46:48.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22841" CreationDate="2009-09-21T09:06:48.097" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16640/add-a-copy-profile-to-sister-sites-button&quot;&gt;Add a “Copy profile to sister sites” button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've updated my SO profile to correct some information and to add some more, but when I see my SO-meta profile, the old information is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't updating a profile on just one site updates it automatically in sister sites (SU, SF, meta-SO), or at least give an option to do so? It's really annoying to update my profile four times every time I want to edit something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I haven't entered the profile information manually the first time I've registered in a sister site, there should be an easy way to get the info from another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-14T09:40:38.717" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T09:40:38.717" Title="Should updating profile on one site updates it in other sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;overlap&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22836" CreationDate="2009-09-21T09:09:48.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The profiles are separate by design, after all you might want to emphasise different aspects of your work on each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that a common core profile with separate specialist sections might be more user friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T09:09:48.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22836" CreationDate="2009-09-21T10:21:58.503" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using a different display name here than in SO (admitedly, it was due to a joke), but I can see reasons to not enforce replication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You already have a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131760?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;copy profile from&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; button, but maybe a &lt;em&gt;copy profile to all the rest of associated accounts&lt;/em&gt; would be enough to please your (and many others') need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T10:21:58.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22879" CreationDate="2009-09-21T10:22:26.177" Score="13" ViewCount="505" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't really a question but I thought that it may interest people here to see that SO reputation seems to follow &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s%5Flaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Benford's law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the data I got from &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;statoverflow&lt;/a&gt; (I omitted accounts with &lt;code&gt;reputation = 1&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t5Pav1kP5QKlzB6UVRzDGvQ&amp;amp;oid=2&amp;amp;output=image&quot; alt=&quot;SO-Graph&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this to Benford's predictions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Rozklad%5Fbenforda.svg/300px-Rozklad%5Fbenforda.svg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Wikipedia's graph&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T19:20:15.460" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:31:52.360" Title="Benfords law as it relates to SO reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22836" CreationDate="2009-09-21T10:40:50.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option might be to add a 'link profiles' checkbox, which could also be specific between pairs of sites.  Most people probably want the same profile on all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T10:40:50.400" />
  <row Id="22845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22842" CreationDate="2009-09-21T11:16:34.027" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the excess number of 3s as starting digits be related to the fact that 3000 is the required rep level for closing/reopening posts, which is kind of the last stepping point before 10k. If people are motivated by achieving certain targets I would imaging that motivation to &quot;level up&quot;/gain rep falls off after 3000 as the next target is so far away leaving a larger number of people in the low 3000s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T11:16:34.027" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2009-09-21T11:44:03.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The amount of times this happens is far and few between. At the moment there is 9300+ questions on SU, and I can recall only 3 I have seen that could be potential cross-site targets. The others, amazingly have been moved to the correct site by the community, and in fact has created duplicates on these site, which end up getting closed. End result&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ask on both sites - One site closes and moves - Second site closes as dup - Single Question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To accommodate the anomolies in my humble opinion is not worth the amount of work it will require. I think the current system works well the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T11:44:03.597" />
  <row Id="22848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22766" CreationDate="2009-09-21T12:17:08.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK. Html markup is not strictly a programming language. But if you are creating a web page using html and not a clean GUI web page designer (i.e. &lt;strong&gt;MS Word&lt;/strong&gt;), you are quite advanced, and will probably also spice up the functionality of the page with some additional javascript, which is definitely a programming language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the fact that 7103 posts on SO are marked with the &lt;strong&gt;html&lt;/strong&gt; tag (at the time I post this..) means that html related questions definitely belongs here! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135505" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T12:17:08.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22766" CreationDate="2009-09-21T12:34:14.870" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, according to the results of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12373/which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate&quot;&gt;this poll&lt;/a&gt;, yes, as per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12373/which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate/12378#12378&quot;&gt;3rd-highest voted response&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions about best practices and&#xA;  other aspects of programming,&#xA;  including &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;use of software tools used&#xA;  in the development process&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, standards&#xA;  for maintenance and readability of&#xA;  code, advice to avoid potential coding&#xA;  pitfalls, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis added)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that for a great many of us, an HTML editor is a tool used in the development process.  I think the important distinction here is that he isn't asking for help in installing such a tool (which would be a superuser question), but is asking for advice on &lt;em&gt;selecting a good tool.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since selection will critically depend on the fact that one is a programmer and not a hobbyist or heavy-hitting UI designer, this is definitely fair game for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T12:34:14.870" />
  <row Id="22850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22682" CreationDate="2009-09-21T12:44:45.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As said by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22682/what-should-i-do-when-my-question-has-2-or-more-equally-good-answers/22683#22683&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; you can and should comment on both of the answers, and certainly upvote both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, when two answers are equally good &lt;em&gt;but not the same&lt;/em&gt;, then you will have to choose between them, and you should decide based on which one helped you the most. If they both helped you equally, that means that neither one was a complete answer, and you should encourage either one of them to edit their answer to include the other steps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other critical part (which I've done in the past) is to edit your own question with a rejoinder that says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: the answer was to do XYZ, which I learned from [link]abc's[/link] and [link]def's[/link] excellent answers.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you specifically mention both, it is more likely that they will both get upvotes from it, because other people will see that they both have correct answers, even if the answers are not the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If select one as the accepted answer and do not mention the other, then the people reading the question will not know that you have to &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; both in order to fix the problem you were having. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T12:44:45.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T13:50:08.930" Score="3" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/230/duplicate-question-etiquette-to-delete-or-not-to-delete&quot;&gt;duplicate question etiquette: to delete or not to delete?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a question that I knew was a duplicate, because I was having no luck at all searching up the question that I knew was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/67296/pre-load-ad-user-profile-to-domain-joined-pc&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/67296/pre-load-ad-user-profile-to-domain-joined-pc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Squillman was there to help me out, but I want to make the solution easier to find.  Edit it (or its tags), or leave the dupe Q up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-03T14:08:16.133" LastActivityDate="2010-07-03T14:08:16.133" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T17:15:52.080" Title="Close as duplicate, or leave it to assist others with weak search-fu?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22842" CreationDate="2009-09-21T13:51:12.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This suggests that log(reputation) is more-or-less uniform. We can test this hypothesis directly since I understand the data's available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next question is then: why is log(reputation) uniform? It makes sense that fewer people would have high rep that low rep, of course (since rep takes effort), but a uniform distribution of reputation seems equally likely. Or is there some mechanism through which the people who have reputation are more likely to gain more rep than people with fewer to start with? A sort of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%5Feffect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matthews effect&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T13:51:12.017" />
  <row Id="22854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22851" CreationDate="2009-09-21T13:57:30.693" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question should be closed if its an exact duplicate, but having it posted is often a good thing. Especially because, as you suggest, it is often hard to word searches in the right way to find a question, even if you know it exists, so having more &quot;pointers&quot; to the canonical question is not a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T13:57:30.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22851" CreationDate="2009-09-21T13:57:38.057" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing doesn't stop it from being found - so long as it isn't deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to edit it to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you think it shouldn't be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you could always edit the duplicate to include the appropriate search terms there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T14:04:41.257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T14:04:41.257" />
  <row Id="22857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22851" CreationDate="2009-09-21T14:13:36.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Squillman was there to help me out, but I want to make the solution easier to find. Edit it (or its tags), or leave the dupe Q up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the above!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give the original a better title (not the same as yours) and some useful tags (the same as yours).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close the duplicate with a link back to the original.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't delete the duplicate, so that it may act as a signpost to future searchers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T14:13:36.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22868" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:00:27.177" Score="2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on the fence about voting to close &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/67332/10-best-ssl-cert-providers&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on SF as subjective and argumentative.  What do you guys do on SO with regards to this?  I'd probably be ok if it wasn't &quot;10 best...&quot;, but this is a bit broad.  We don't get these too often on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T17:04:16.557" Title="10 Best (fill in the blank) providers. Close?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22863" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:05:44.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit the question to 'Who are the best providers...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T15:05:44.373" />
  <row Id="22865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12250" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:07:41.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would help to filter out those answers that does not need to improved, because someone else has provided an accepted answer, and focus on your answers that can be improved to solve the problem that is not yet solved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135505" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T15:07:41.577" />
  <row Id="22866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22842" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:09:12.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't seen it before, Benford's law is pretty interesting, and seems on the face of it rather amazing. It takes a bit of thought to see how it arises, but once you do, it isn't at all surprising to see it appear in the Stack Overflow reputation graph. I highly recommend this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~fewster/benford.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;well-explained article&lt;/a&gt; that goes through the details with a minimum of maths, and with some great examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from that article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We can conclude that data from &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; distribution will tend to be 'Benford', as long as the distribution spans several integers on the log_10 scale - several orders of magnitude on the original scale - and as long as the distribution is reasonably smooth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have reputation spanning 1 - 100,000. That's 6 orders of magnitude. If we &lt;strong&gt;didn't&lt;/strong&gt; see something close to Benford's law, that would be really interesting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T15:09:12.010" />
  <row Id="22867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22863" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:16:08.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a real question. How's he gonna limit the responses to 10 answers? Or is everyone supposed to provide their personal top-10 list, and let readers vote? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And... Who needs 10 SSL providers anyway? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he just wants a ranked list of SSL providers, he should have made the question CW and pre-populated it with those he's considering, inviting readers to vote for their favorites. That's still bordering on an abuse of the system, but at least it has a slim chance of actually being useful to someone for a short time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T15:16:08.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22863" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:16:19.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Change the title to &quot;Must have SSL cert providers&quot; and then you'll be sweet. – random 8 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@random: I like that idea. Move that to an answer so I can accept :) – squillman 2 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T15:16:19.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-21T15:16:19.520" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:32:27.023" Score="31" ViewCount="873" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; is a direct-query site for the public data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original&lt;/a&gt;, javascript is required and it's limited to 1000 rows in the result set.  (You can bust out of that if you know how, but all queries are logged and so I'll see it and block anyone caught abusing things too much).  There's also a query governor to restrict any really expensive queries, but it should be set high enough right now to let most things through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What distinguishes this from StatOverflow is that I'm on the October data release rather than July, I'm running &lt;strong&gt;Sql Server 2005&lt;/strong&gt; rather than MySQL 5 (with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/06/how-to-import-the-stackoverflow-xml-into-sql-server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar's schema&lt;/a&gt;).  Also, I'm using the Telerik controls provided to 10K users (an excuse to try them out was one of the reasons for the building this in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the generosity of Mr DailyWTF himself, Alex Papadimoulis, StackQL is now running on a hosted machine with a &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; better connection.  You can now access it here:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Features:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Schema dropdown menus in the toolbar to help jog your memory for table and column names (click one, and it's inserted directly into the text)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Basic client-side sorting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Logs table to show what others are looking at &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Better error messages in most cases (a few errors will still sometimes just say &quot;no results returned&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'F5' key give you a chance to cancel before re-submitting (you won't lose changed query text)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Resize/remove columns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did not HTMLEncode post bodies, so formatting is at least partially preserved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Export to CSV (urlencode the query and pass it to &lt;code&gt;quick.ashx?q=&amp;lt;your%20urlencoded%20query%20here&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Notes on the Logs table:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I left it out of the dropdown lists on purpose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Right now it's mostly just my test queries: make sure the system works, make sure the logs table is visible, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The QueryHash column uses an md5 hash, but before taking the hash I convert the query to all uppercase and standardize whitespacing, in an effort to try to group together identical queries that may differ only by formatting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, this means all your vanity searches are visible to everyone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An md5 hash of your IP is logged (not the IP itself).  That column doesn't show up by default if you just do a select * from logs, but I don't want anyone to be surprised that it's there or that you can query on it.  If anyone can convince me this is a huge problem I might be willing to change how it works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Notes on the Telerik controls (because I know some will be curious):&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I had a working proof of concept done with &lt;em&gt;no C# code at all&lt;/em&gt; before even installing the controls on my system, so they weren't an enabling factor in this.  Of course, I eventually did add some C# code for validation, hash generation, etc, later.  But a simpler version of this site is possible using basic, out-of-the-box ASP.Net WebForms controls with no server code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The controls were an interesting of mix of 'wow, that's cool' and frustration.  It feels like maybe I didn't get them installed quite right, as some things that should have worked better didn't, there were rendering or javascript issues at times, and other odd behaviors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The editor definitely is not intended as a code editor, and even though there's a &lt;code&gt;.Text&lt;/code&gt; property I wasn't able to get dynamic syntax highlighting working without seeing an occasional formatting tag end up in my query text. That said, it would be an &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; rich text editor, which is more what it's made for, and I think with more experience and time I might be able to get the syntax highlighting up (I'm not trying though).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The controls did enable me to do a few things: Column resizing would not have worked nearly as well without the RADGrid.  I'm not a graphic designer, and so having ready-made skins was helpful.  Once I understood things, the editor was a big time-saver getting the drop down lists for the schema working.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I only needed three of the controls (RADEditor, RADGrid, and RADScriptManager) for this project.  There are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; more controls included in the toolkit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This was my first experience with these controls, and so some blame for any lingerings issues or oddness likely lies with me rather than the controls.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Planned features:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm really hoping to get some feedback and help making it look a little nicer, especially the banner.  A black box with a white border just doesn't cut it, and I could use a better looking image to go with the logo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Done&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I want to add a button to the result column headers that you can use for columns that are PostIDs or UserIDs use to automatically create links to the corresponding question or user profile on StackOverflow.&lt;/strike&gt; ... Actually, I'm now leaning towards triggering this based on the column names: ends with &lt;code&gt;QuestionId&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;PostId&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;AnswerID&lt;/code&gt; and I link to the question.  Ends with &lt;code&gt;UserId&lt;/code&gt; and I link to the user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Done&lt;/kbd&gt;A way to link to a query for sharing &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Done&lt;/kbd&gt;Add a feedback link (probably point it here and let people add answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Done&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Add UrlEncode/Decode buttons to editor toolbar, to support csv export via the &lt;code&gt;quick.ashx&lt;/code&gt; handler.&lt;/strike&gt; Decided to use a &quot;Results to CSV&quot; button on the toolbar instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Done&lt;/kbd&gt;Full-text indexes on Body and Title columns in the posts table, and comment text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other indexes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other ideas welcome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Known bugs:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you allow your session to expire, viewstate validation will fail and you'll get a yellow screen of death.  Need to catch that and just reset the viewstate.  Turning off viewstate validation doesn't help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some weird un-reproducable javascript weirdness from time to time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Query governor and certain other errors just report 'no results returned' rather than an error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newlines are lost in the query logs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Html isn't stripped from pasted queries correctly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please let me know if you find others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any feedback is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-05T15:14:06.113" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T15:14:06.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-21T19:55:56.457" Title="StackQL: Yet Another Data Dump Sandbox" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;stackql&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="24" FavoriteCount="15" />
  <row Id="22870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22863" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:34:09.343" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question should definitely be closed. It is both &quot;Subjective &amp;amp; Argumentative&quot; and &quot;Not a real question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions fitting your format are fit to be the title of a blog post. In fact, the OP is essentially asking for blog posts instead of &quot;answers&quot;. They are asking for people to compile lists of positives and negatives relating to (some tech thing) which is basically farming out your own research. In general, these questions about the &lt;em&gt;single best something&lt;/em&gt; are frowned upon because they are subjective and invite flame wars. In this case it is even more so because they are asking for a body of research to be done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, questions of this sort are not particularly applicable to S[O|F|U] because of the changing nature of the technologies. Acceptable questions are about solvable problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I.E. &quot;My system has these specs: XYZ. I have these symptoms: ABC&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will remain applicable, because the system doesn't change. It &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be applicable to other systems, but the solution should remain applicable to that particular problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What is the best thing to do XYZ&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question will become stale the moment the next startup rolls out its signature product. New startups appear every few hours. This question won't serve as a repository of valid up-to-date information unless someone is intent on maintaining and updating it. Then again, that runs completely counter to the purpose of the site, it is not meant to host blogs or lists. It is supposed to be strictly Q &amp;amp; A. Subjective stuff only meets 50% of those criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, after a lengthy, meandering, tangential response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T17:04:16.557" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T17:04:16.557" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22869" CreationDate="2009-09-21T15:56:44.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Cookies&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tried in Opera, but wasn't able to get anything of a screen. Just the blank. Then figured it might be cookies/sessions. So it goes. Will it only spit back if you have cookies-allow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Old stuff below:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first it was like trying to query this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT ans.ParentId as QuestionID, ans.Score, qs.Title&#xA;FROM posts as ans&#xA;INNER JOIN posts as qs &#xA;ON ans.ParentId=qs.Id&#xA;WHERE ans.PostTypeId='2' and &#xA;      ans.OwnerUserId='23354' and &#xA;      ans.Score &amp;gt; '4' and &#xA;      (ans.CreationDate - qs.CreationDate) &amp;gt; '5097600'&#xA;ORDER BY ans.CreationDate DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then it was like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No records to display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which given that it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21318/is-there-a-good-way-of-looking-up-the-cause-of-another-users-badge&quot; title=&quot;well, roundabout way&quot;&gt;ran on the Stat Overflow Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;, is missing out on two rows at least. Is it case sensitive? No maths allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly thought that the Run Query button was for the Media Player to stream some radio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/DJSWM.png&quot; alt=&quot;break the sql&quot; title=&quot;looks nothing like breakdancing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, you're also missing this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;λ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T02:39:33.963" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T02:39:33.963" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="22873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22869" CreationDate="2009-09-21T16:18:37.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;via Isaac Waller:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It needs a way to link to a query for sharing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:29:28.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-21T16:18:37.077" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22875" CreationDate="2009-09-21T16:20:27.510" Score="6" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;This greasemonkey script adds back in the green background to an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, it doesn't work when you navigate to a question using a link to the accepted answer. Not sure why, yet, other than I think it has to do with the background fade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know why, please, let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58178&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SOFU Accepted Answer Highlighter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T07:00:03.153" Title="Greasemonkey script to add highlight to accepted answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22874" CreationDate="2009-09-21T16:21:31.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you! I miss the highlighted answer! +1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131561" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T16:21:31.253" />
  <row Id="22876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22869" CreationDate="2009-09-21T16:31:21.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; if i could pass a query in a querystring, and get a clean table of results back as a response (no AJAX)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This'd let me suck query results into a Google Docs spreadsheet, create forms for stuffing parameters into queries,and produce graphs and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T16:31:21.233" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22899" CreationDate="2009-09-21T17:02:34.987" Score="13" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to make a suggestion for StackOverflow complete thread printer-outer. It would print out the full thread content, including the comments, which the normal web-browser print does not do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136208" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T18:34:27.110" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T13:06:15.400" Title="Printing out StackOverflow Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;printing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="22878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22877" CreationDate="2009-09-21T17:08:21.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the print functionality of your favourite web browser? If you are on Windows &lt;kbd&gt;CTRL&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;P&lt;/kbd&gt; will work in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T17:08:21.603" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22842" CreationDate="2009-09-21T17:08:26.673" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I have an explanation for the anomaly at 3.  I queried not just based on first digit, but also on number of digits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the query I used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT LEFT(reputation, 1) AS first_digit&#xA;     , LENGTH(reputation) AS num_digits&#xA;     , COUNT(*)&#xA;FROM users&#xA;GROUP BY first_digit, num_digits&#xA;ORDER BY first_digit ASC, num_digits DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After massaging that a bit, you get this as your raw data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1st Digit   5 digits   4 digits   3 digits   2 digits   1 digit&#xA;        1        190       2504       7049      12838     52486&#xA;        2         30        876       2973       7180         0&#xA;        3         11        485       2150       4634      2623&#xA;        4          7        274       1578       3074         0&#xA;        5          0        157       1114       2336       301&#xA;        6          1        128        899       1972         4&#xA;        7          1         84        687       1481       146&#xA;        8          0         62        618       1305         0&#xA;        9          1         40        446       1141       447&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1-digit reps throw things off.  In particular, there is a large number of users with rep of 3, because that is your rep if you ask one question, get no upvotes, and accept some answer.  Also, due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10984/removing-a-downvote-adds-reputation-that-wasnt-there&quot;&gt;a bug&lt;/a&gt;, if a new user receives a downvote, and then the downvote is revoked, they will have rep=3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at that in chart form.  First, here is all the data.  Clearly the users with rep of 1 are anomalous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1431/benfords1lines.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's filter out those users with rep=1.  Now we can see that there are anomalous spikes for rep=3 and rep=9.  (Rep=9 happens with 1 upvote and one downvote.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8563/benfords2lines.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, lets filter out all users with one-digit rep.  We get a result that is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; closer to an ideal Benford's Law distribution now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7204/benfords3lines.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T16:31:52.360" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:31:52.360" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T17:44:42.517" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I browse SO site I refresh page many times (enter new question, etc.) However, when someone comment my answer I can see the top-bar-envelope-notification 15 minutes after comment was made. Why I can't see this notification immediately after the comment was made? Is there some delay time fixed, or is it just mine browser-cache-related problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135622" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T21:00:02.750" Title="Delay with comment notification" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22880" CreationDate="2009-09-21T17:57:05.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not your browser-cache. It is how the system internally caches data from the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you see on the screen isn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; the absolute latest data stored in the database. For performance reasons, Stack Overflow caches various types of data in memory, only fetching new data from the database periodically... the refresh frequency depending on how often the data changes and how important it is that the data be up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every so often, the system will re-check the comments database to see if you need to be notified, but it does not happen in real-time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T19:44:22.860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:44:22.860" />
  <row Id="22882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22894" CreationDate="2009-09-21T18:25:30.790" Score="6" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anybody used the SO db dumps to generate graphs showing how users are interconnected via their questions and answers, or related to tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to see how &quot;clumpy&quot; people tend to be... i.e., how many people stick with one or two topics, how many answer across a broad variety of topics, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T22:51:42.103" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T22:51:42.103" Title="any interesting graphs of SO user interconnectedness?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T18:29:10.720" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally nailed this down on win7 IE8 - but I'm fairly sure the issue was the same before I installed over XP sp3 IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add tag: tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add tag: bug, in the autocomplete list of suggested tags, select with the mouse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This overwrites the first tag with the second, leaving me with a field of: bug bug&#xA;(or if I hadn't finished, and clicked on &quot;bug&quot; with only &quot;bu&quot; in the field, I'll have &quot;bug bu&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to work fine if I just use arrow keys and enter, but sometimes I get mousey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:18:19.803" Title="Tagging autocomplete bug with mouse" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="22884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22842" CreationDate="2009-09-21T18:37:24.373" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I direct everyone reading/contributing to this question to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you&quot;&gt;&quot;How addicted to StackOverflow are you?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer &quot;I download rep data and compare it to Benford's law&quot; still hasn't been given as an answer yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="132253" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T23:49:23.630" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T23:49:23.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22885" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T18:39:39.780" Score="1" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/743/necromancer.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?  This was taken at about 2:37 PM EST&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the odds of having that many silver badges awarded at once, not likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastEditorUserId="2469" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T18:48:36.473" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T19:00:03.113" Title="Why were a bunch of Necromancer badges were just awarded?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T18:45:54.870" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a slight hiccup in the pagination mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/dhcp&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got 88 results and the first page shows 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on page 6 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=dhcp&amp;amp;page=6&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now click on &quot;50 per page&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=dhcp&amp;amp;page=6&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it retains the 'page=6' you get an empty page as there are only two pages when you do 50 per page on 88 results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected behavior: A page that contains at least some of the items from where I came. So in this example I would have expected to see page 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130816" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T08:20:58.713" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T08:20:58.713" Title="Pagenation hiccup" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22885" CreationDate="2009-09-21T18:53:53.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge awards for Necromancer are likely only calculated once a day like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10223/large-number-of-woot-badges-awarded-in-short-succession&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T18:53:53.127" />
  <row Id="22889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23809" CreationDate="2009-09-21T18:58:30.013" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One word of caution: if you are on the first two /user pages of any Trilogy site, a little birdie told me you might have free stickers coming your way, so hold off on mailing anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anything come of this? I'm still holding off!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T08:45:20.407" Title="stickers for first-two-page users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stickers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="22890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22889" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:01:51.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got mine. Did you send a request with relevant details? It's possible the post office is having a bit of trouble delivering an envelope addressed to &quot;Rex M, US&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:01:51.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:03:37.897" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I download rep data and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22842/benfords-law-as-it-relates-to-so-reputation&quot;&gt;compare it to Benford's law&lt;/a&gt; (on a day I'm home sick).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="3848" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T11:59:49.953" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T11:59:49.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-21T19:03:37.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22889" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:03:53.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I received my meta sticker (and an assortment of trilogy stickers) about a week ago. Thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you have to request them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The limited-edition meta stickers were &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19857/meta-stack-overflow-stickers-are-here&quot;&gt;offered to anyone on the first page&lt;/a&gt; of meta.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, anyone can request the trilogy stickers by &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/how-to-get-stack-overflow-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;following the instructions here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:03:53.357" />
  <row Id="22894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22882" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:05:28.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's now relatively easy to make your own.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22869/yet-another-data-dump-sandbox/22876#22876&quot;&gt;Shog9's request&lt;/a&gt;, I added a feature to &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; today that let's you pass in a UrlEncoded sql SELECT statement in the 'q' parameter of the &lt;code&gt;quick.ashx&lt;/code&gt; query string, and get csv back out.  Apparently you can easily put that in a Google spreadsheet and generate charts from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example request looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/StackQL/quick.ashx?q=select%20id%2CBody%20from%20posts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/StackQL/quick.ashx?q=select%20id%2CBody%20from%20posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T19:22:27.673" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:22:27.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22901" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:09:01.757" Score="0" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been considering that I found would find it very useful to be able to view certain details about the number and types of users online at any time. In particular, the following statistics I would find quite helpful for the given reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Number of users online&lt;/em&gt; - generally useful to determine how people could potentially answer your question, or whether you might find a question you can ask.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breakdown of number of users online&lt;/em&gt; by a) reputation, b) favourite tags, c) number of questions asked, d) number of answers made. All these could possibly be used in a user's judgement of whether it's worth them idling around StackOverflow at the current time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Current/recent traffic rate&lt;/em&gt; (page hits per second?) - gives you similar info to point 1, except it largely ignores &quot;inactive&quot; users that are online.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;List of moderators online&lt;/em&gt; - perhaps most useful for other moderators so that they know when someone is watching the questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;List of 'famous' users online&lt;/em&gt; - mainly for curiosity/fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are people's thoughts on these ideas? Has it been considered previously? Certainly I see no technological obstacle to implementing such a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:28:55.250" Title="Displaying Users Online" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;traffic&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="22896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22895" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:15:19.123" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would certainly be possible to code, but it might incur a performance hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Running aggregate statistics like that is not a cheap task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:15:19.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22895" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:20:32.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/886/a-friends-list-on-stackoverflow-would-be-nice/914#914&quot;&gt;quote Cletus&lt;/a&gt; as I've done before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Repeat after me: SO is not a social networking site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:20:32.750" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22877" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:23:48.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could be done with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20823/stack-overflow-portable-edition&quot;&gt;SO static dump framework&lt;/a&gt; that I've started to work on. I don't quite have comments rendering yet (I've been busy with other projects), but the rest of the question/answer data is available in a plain format suitable for printing. Adding comments would be pretty straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:23:48.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22895" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:38:20.097" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This idea has come up &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2631/view-approximate-number-of-users-online&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;, although with not as much specificity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be paraphrasing from my earlier &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2631/view-approximate-number-of-users-online/19043#19043&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically: &lt;strong&gt;It does not matter how many users are online.&lt;/strong&gt; Moreover, we do not want users to &lt;em&gt;care&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It basically amounts to a way to 'game' the system. You only ask questions when the average rep is high enough, or when there are enough users online. The trouble with this pattern is that it is self-enforcing, it will lead to higher and higher server loads at certain times, and many fewer users at the other times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason why information like that would be useful is if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; need your question answered. However, there have been requests that were related to making 'urgent' or 'time-sensitive' questions, and they all get rejected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SO is not about farming out work.&lt;/strong&gt; SO should be a resource for you to bring your toughest problems and it should be an extra tool &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to your continued attempts to solve the problem. Because that is the case, it should not matter &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; you put your question up. If it is not answered in 3 (?) days, you can add a bounty to it, but before then, you can only wait. Or continually add edits as you gain information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is about getting people to answer your question, there are ways to do that without this information. This information would change the usage habits and it would almost definitely be for the worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T19:38:20.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23573" CreationDate="2009-09-21T19:54:27.023" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11731/padding-a-comment-with-spaces&quot;&gt;Padding a comment with spaces.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17183/do-away-with-minimum-char-limits-on-comments&quot;&gt;Do away with minimum char limits on comments.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose I put in the comment box, '+1' then 13 spaces. I now can add the comment(presuming other conditions permitting). It shows up as +1, with the trailing whitespace stripped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T08:28:26.477" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:28:26.477" Title="15-char comment minimum is exploitable around" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:23:53.927" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently we have a check while a user is writing an answer to notify him that someone else has answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then refresh to see that answer, and if its better than yours, vote that up and skip answering yours. etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about adding to that notification that someone has voted a possible duplicate to this question. It serves a similar purpose and may be quite useful to focus answers to those answers that have experience :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T09:27:27.517" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T09:27:27.517" Title="Duplicate notification while writing an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="22908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22913" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:30:47.690" Score="4" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question a couple weeks ago and received no responses.  It got me the Tumbleweed badge, in fact.  I'd still like to get an answer, if possible, to the question.  I've updated the question with some additional information that I've discovered in the past 3 weeks, but my problem remains.  How do I get other Stack Overflow users to revisit my question (ie, how do I get it to come back to the top of the list of questions on the board)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I've just added a bounty to my question.  Though it appears in the featured questions list, it is at the very bottom.  Will anyone see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136033" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:45:46.430" Title="How do I get my Tumbleweed question answered?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22908" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:32:14.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you edit the question. It will pop to the frontpage. Since the frontpage is questions sorted by last modification time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the community user will on occasion bump old questions to the frontpage free of charge. How very nice of him :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:32:14.893" />
  <row Id="22910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22908" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:33:03.270" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the bounty: it will move upwards in the featured-list as the bounty deadline approaches, so it will get more and more exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:33:03.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22907" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:34:31.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems superfluous, since in this case the answer would be already visible, and if it was already a possible duplicate, the person writing a new answer should have already seen it and not written a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:34:31.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22908" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:37:40.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing you need to do is make sure it's tagged correctly.  Make sure you're using tags that are commonly used on this site for your topic area.  That's how users who are knowledgeable in your subject area will notice the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:37:40.297" />
  <row Id="22914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:39:49.967" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the weaknesses of the current reputation points system is that is it heavily biased towards people participating in &quot;hot&quot; topics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. a super-expert on &quot;Turkey&quot; language that has 10 users who are interested in the language on SO and who answered EVERY one of 10 questions asked about &quot;Turkey&quot; with everyone up-voting it, would only get 1000 reputation, despite being an acknowledged guru for that tag (e.g. 100% view/up-vote rating, and 100% accept his answers rating). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas everyone who spent &gt;5 minutes on SO can point to numerous examples of people who earn much higher rep by virtue of not bothering to Google for a bunch of simple newbie answers and get up-voted for a bunch of truly irrelevant questions (this post is not meant as a whine about the latter pattern, as there are many such whines already on Meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would propose to combat such bias would be an ability to view  - either per-tag or globally - &lt;strong&gt;the user's reputation normalized by the amount of views for the question that the rep was gained on&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., if you answer 100 Java questions with so-so answers just good enough to get voted +1 but aren't even close to being the best answers, your normalized Java score would not be the same 1000 of the above-mentioned &quot;Turkey&quot; language guru, but some % value much lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm uncertain of the exact formula to use, but perhaps dividing the rep for a question by either linear or logarithm of the number of views would do that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know whether this is considered a good idea - either from site's usability standpoint, or from difficulty/cost of implementation standpoint, for either per-tag or global numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T05:06:19.577" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T05:23:33.713" Title="Is reputation normalized by question views a relevant piece of info?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22914" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:44:13.920" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No I don't think so. And this is why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question tag changes from edit to edit. So normalized rep would fluctuate quickly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question within a popular tag could be very difficult to answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Same in reverse, a question in an unpopular tag could be very simply answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:44:13.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22908" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:45:46.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the other fine suggestions here, you may want to look at your question and see if there isnt' a better way to rephrase the title and/or more optimally ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:45:46.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22914" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:52:43.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think this is a good idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Votes would have different worth based on your environment**. &lt;em&gt;My&lt;/em&gt; votes in the C# are worth 'less' than my votes in the 'r' tag. Which is, of course, not true, I didn't do &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; thinking about my vote in the 'r' tag, so why should it be worth more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very Easily Gamed&lt;/strong&gt;. All you have to do is answer some questions in an obscure tag, and then have a sock puppet upvote a few of them. Not all of them, or you'll run afoul the 'sketchy vote detector'. But it is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;# of views is not a fair indicator of quality.&lt;/strong&gt; There are many reasons why a question or tag may have low views. It may be very ill-formed, and therefore gets low views. On the other hand, it may be very interesting, be &lt;em&gt;very obscure&lt;/em&gt; and get a high number of views, but no one qualified to vote on the one answer. So, a thorough detailed answer might not end up with that many votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;# of votes per view varies across tags.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm sure the statistics will bear me out on this assumption, but I'll bet there are higher votes per view percentage on some of the smaller, more obscure languages. This is because most users are looking into C# (the most popular tag) and not voting very often. As they branch out into new tags, they'll tend to vote more in general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as Olafur noted, &lt;strong&gt;tags change.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T20:52:43.157" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22919" CreationDate="2009-09-21T20:55:49.827" Score="3" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1456608/what-is-the-best-way-to-number-my-beta-versions&quot;&gt;a question on SO&lt;/a&gt; and it was closed within 8 minutes, stating that it was a duplicate. To me, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/615227/how-to-do-version-numbers&quot;&gt;the question it was supposedly a duplicate of&lt;/a&gt; did NOT answer my question, as my question was more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do want an answer to my question. I know I have to wait 2 days to open up a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I couldn't find on Meta SO was whether or not I'll be able to offer a bounty on a closed question after the two days is up. Will I?  If not, do I have any alternatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133783" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:21:30.890" Title="Can I Offer a Bounty on a Closed Question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22918" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:00:40.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK you can not offer up a bounty on a closed question. I checked on some closed questions of mine (that were old)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:00:40.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22918" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:12:49.983" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answers to the previous question do not answer your question, then you should re-ask, and &lt;em&gt;highlight the differences&lt;/em&gt;. Highlight, in the title, the aspects that make your question different than the previous one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the body of your question, include the things you've tried, including all the answers to the previous question, and why they did not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Include a link to the other question along with your explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, it is not a duplicate, it is merely similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:12:49.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22923" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:15:43.957" Score="9" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In re: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1456726/excel-challenge&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO, which I just voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question, on SO, is simply about an Excel formula. I felt it belonged on SU, so I voted to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: Is my logic there correct, or would Excel-fu be acceptable on SO? (This is a fairly easy formula, if that matters any.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-27T21:12:24.050" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T21:12:24.050" Title="Which site do Excel (or other spreadsheet) formulas belong on?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;site-rec&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22922" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:16:46.793" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have had quite a few question regarding Excel formulas on SU and they have all been answered, so I am fairly comfotable saying they are acceptable for SU. There is a broader audience using Excel who are not neccessarily programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:16:46.793" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22922" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:19:41.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of them belong on SO, the rest on SU, usually based on the complexity.&#xA;Even worksheet-functions are small programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one you mentioned probably should have been on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:19:41.500" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22918" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:21:30.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if you could, &lt;em&gt;you wouldn't want to&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one can post answers to closed questions. You'd be depending on enough people agreeing that it was closed incorrectly to vote it open again prior to the end of the bounty. And every day that passed without that happening is a day where the bounty clock is ticking and no one is posting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore... A closed question is three votes away from being deleted. If that happened, it would be even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; unlikely that you'd get any good answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best bet is to think good and hard about why your question was closed. Politely ask those who closed it why they did so, and listen carefully to their reasoning. Then, taking what you've learned, &lt;strong&gt;go and ask a better question&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:21:30.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:21:45.727" Score="2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1414898/phing-sending-the-full-log-by-email&quot;&gt;question on SO&lt;/a&gt; on sept 12th -- ie, more than 7 days ago ; right now, it has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;26 views &lt;em&gt;(was 24 or 25 until a few minutes ago, before I opened it)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking I would get a tumbleweed badge (which description says &quot;&lt;em&gt;Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and low views for a week&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) as a &quot;consolation prize&quot;, but I haven't gotten one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, I was wondering why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because my question has been upvoted? I would have thought this meant &quot;&lt;em&gt;not a too bad question&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, and would have given even more meaning to the &quot;consolation prize&quot; idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastEditorUserId="131607" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T21:40:29.607" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T06:59:05.907" Title="Tumbleweed badge for an upvoted (not-answered) question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="22927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22926" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:23:02.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps 24 - 26 views in 7 days isn't considered &quot;low&quot; by the system's standards. The definition of &quot;low&quot; is very vague; I personally would like to know how that's calculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:23:02.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22926" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:23:35.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think too many views kill the chance for the TW badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:23:35.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:32:46.763" Score="-2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, when sorting through available answers to any question (mine or not) on a topic I'm not nearly an expert on, it may sometimes be VERY difficult to separate wheat from the chaff by using up-votes - which are heavily biased towards earlier even if not better answers). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another helpful metric is of course the rep - but as noted many many times, the rep as it currently stands is often misleading for mid-range people (1k-7k), by heavily penalizing experts in less-popular fields, or people who give very few but unusually good answers, and being biased towards people who ask and answer many newbie level questions - the latter is not a slander against such people, but merely a note that this situation makes separating merely prolific posters from genuinely competent people is hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suggestion to help in such separation of more-competent people is to display the &quot;accept hit rate&quot; of the user - e.g. I'd be more willing to trust a guy for whom 100% of their question askers so far accepted as &quot;accepted answer&quot;, even if their rep is not in 10000s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2238/would-it-be-useful-so-show-peoples-hit-rate-i-e-percentage-of-answers-accep&quot;&gt;There was a similar discussion on Meta previously&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13847/display-statistics-have-subject-badges-for-accepted-answers&quot;&gt;and here's one more&lt;/a&gt;) but it centered on usefulness of such statistics to the user himself, as opposed to others who will peruse their answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXAMPLE1:&lt;/strong&gt; For a question I asked yesterday, the very best answer was actually up-voted the &lt;strong&gt;least&lt;/strong&gt; (it is the last in the list of answers), made by a user who has second lowest rep of all the answerer. &lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; - his ratio of accepted answers for my tags of interest is VERY high. And the second best asnwer, while voted up the most, was from a user with the LOWEST rep - but he also had a decent enough accepted answer ratio that I'm inclined to trust their info despite low rep. Yet, f I did not know enough about the topic in question to be able to discriminate by content, i'd have likely been more trusting one of the other two answers which were very much not the best ones but came from higher-total-rep people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXAMPLE2:&lt;/strong&gt; My own answer to a question where I didn't have nearly enough expertise - and the answer was very sub-optimal and much worse than the ones giveb later by others - was not only voted far above other answers, but actually accepted by the questioner. Go figure.&#xA;(my answer wasn't bad enough to delete, and i did edit it to improve the info for SO consumption, but still, you get my point). Yet, I had zero accepted score on that particular tag, as opposed to other answerers who came after me yet were not voted up enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As both these examples illustrate, the rate of acceptance of someone's answers for specific tags could be a very useful tool when sifting through the asnwers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does everyone think? Is it useful? Should it be added as a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T22:04:48.330" Title="Is there any value in displaying answers-only statistics, especially &quot;accepted answers&quot; rate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="22930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11563" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:42:15.407" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That can and will create a narrow focus based on tags. And basing focus on tags is something that I don't think is smart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see all questions for your tag, fine you can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even though I have a nice little tag setup for myself. I still find questions not in my tags that I can answer. Which I would have never found if this was implemented. Which is bad for everyone, since you all know my answers are awesome! :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:42:15.407" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22929" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:45:31.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, as you noted, even accepted answer isn't necessarily the best indicator of the best answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because sometimes short answers will be accepted, whereas long thorough answers will not. Another situation where this is the case is when an answer is added to a question with an already accepted answer. In general, answering a question with an accepted answer is a losing proposition, because it is generally likely that the accepted answer will tend to get more upvotes and maybe the highest voted non-accepted answer but other, newer, answers will get nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, users who have fewer answers could get a 25% rating with 3 out of 12 answers accepted, whereas users with thousands of responses is not likely to be able to match that ever^1. This creates a bias towards newer users, or at least a skew in the statistics. The argument could be made that we'll just trust the number less if the user has a lower reputation, but then we fall into the common flaw of trusting reputation to mean more than it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I feel like this feature would cause a lot of people to change their habits into only answering questions if they think they can get the &quot;accepted answer&quot; rather than if they think it could &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; someone. It would also lead to a mass deletion of 'non-accepted' answers, even if they were good answers that just happened to have no upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1) Jon Skeet is not constrained by such generalities. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-21T22:04:48.330" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T22:04:48.330" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="22932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22929" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:52:03.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also the problem with more and less popular categories.  If somebody answers questions only on Snobol programming, there won't be nearly the competition for acceptance as there is for C# or .NET.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:52:03.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21897" CreationDate="2009-09-21T21:56:47.190" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With Firefox, if you do a save open tabs and exit, it doesn't refresh the pages when you re-open it (so the site doesn't know that you are visiting it). I'm not sure if this is the case with Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T21:56:47.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22935" CreationDate="2009-09-21T22:21:48.767" Score="9" ViewCount="468" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been so annoyed recently by people who downvote my answers with no comments.  Usually it falls into one of two categories&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker is asking a question that is inherently impossible or counter to the purpose of the thing they are asking about, like how do I use jQuery to (insert any horrific hack JavaScript coding practice jQuery is supposed to free us from).  The answerer responds with a reasoned description of why that might be misguided and offers an alternative approach.  Asker doesn't &lt;em&gt;like that&lt;/em&gt; and downvotes the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A well meaning user posts a question, and Person A answers with a hastily written, insufficient, unreasoned, or maybe blatantly wrong answer.  Person B sees this answer, comments on why it might be insufficient, and then answers with a proper, well-reasoned answer.  Person A (presumably) sees this, gets angry, and downvotes Person B out of spite.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, of course, no helpful comment because all that would do is reveal how spiteful and/or vindictive the downvoting was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love Stack Overflow, but I am a busy person, so what little time I get to spend here, and what reputation I've earned, I've worked hard for, and I hope it adds to the value of the community at large ... but then someone comes along and chips away at my reputation out of spite, with no checks and balances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this goes on, what is my motivation for wanting to contribute to the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I got downvoted with a reasonable comment, I would welcome that.  That shows me something I may not have thought of, gives me an opportunity to improve my answer, and again add to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting with no comment serves no purpose but to degrade the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that downvotes with no comment not detract from the poster's reputation.  And if that comment is something silly, and the comment gets flagged by someone else, the poster's reputation hit should be restored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132210" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T23:26:48.040" Title="So annoyed with no-comment, vindictive downvoting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="22935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22934" CreationDate="2009-09-21T22:33:11.273" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts are this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish people would stop taking everything personal and assume that all downvoting is a vindictive personal attack when 95% of the time it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the grand scheme of things, the amount of rep you lose from downvotes is absolutely paltry compared to the rep you gain from getting upvotes. We already have an overabundance of upvotes from people who vote up everything they see that looks good, while not willing to punish people with wrong/bad answers with downvotes. All this complaining about downvoting in general just adds to the apprehension of casting downvotes that the rep penalty you incur by casting one already creates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every downvote requires a comment. I should not have to explain myself every time I want to mark someone for being wrong. I would much rather post my own correct answer or simply upvote someone else who has the correct answer. It shouldn't require an explanation to you or anyone else how I choose to vote, and the fact that voting is anonymous to begin with should be respected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone doesn't want to give you a reason for why they downvoted you, then you should examine your post and see what it may have wrong with it compared to other posts. If you still believe that you are absolutely correct, then just deal with the two rep penalty. If you are so right, the upvotes will immediately cancel out any downvoting that comes along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I should also note that if you think you are getting downvoted purely out of spite, then you ought to have good reason to believe that, including an idea already of who is the one downvoting you. If that is the case, get in contact with a moderator or team@stackoverflow.com and they can check the voting patterns out for you and if there IS a problem, they can deal with it. If they can't see a serious problem then, again, grow a thicker skin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T22:33:11.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22922" CreationDate="2009-09-21T22:43:02.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Random thoughts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spreadsheets are, in principle, functional programming languages, but many uses of them don't have the hacker nature. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The risk of saying &quot;hard ones on SO, easy ones on SU&quot; is that it becomes harder for people to search for answers to their spreadsheet questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question pointed to is (IMHO, of course) not very programmy, but neither is it a trivial application of one function.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T22:43:02.410" />
  <row Id="22937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22934" CreationDate="2009-09-21T22:45:32.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In both cases, of course, no helpful comment because all that would do is reveal how spiteful and/or vindictive the downvoting was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why care? You've already talked yourself into believing you know who down-voted the answer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; why they did so; why not just talk yourself into believing that it doesn't matter, and save yourself all this angst!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If this goes on, what is my motivation for wanting to contribute to the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your motivation if it &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; go on? I sure hope it isn't up-votes; they're not worth much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Downvoting with no comment serves no purpose but to degrade the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-voting, like up-voting, serves one primary purpose: it allows users to leave behind a mark, an indicator of what they found worthwhile and what they found worthless. Comments &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; help reinforce this, but are considerably less effective by design. Comments are &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; for the benefit of the author of the post they're attached to; votes are for the benefit of &lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I propose that downvotes with no comment not detract from the poster's reputation. And if that comment is something silly, and the comment gets flagged by someone else, the poster's reputation hit should be restored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sounds like a recipe for massive numbers of redundant comments, vote-wars as the thin-skinned users whose posts have been down-voted look for revenge against those that commented, a drastic reduction in down-voting, and even more rude, worthless posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T22:45:32.653" />
  <row Id="22939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22934" CreationDate="2009-09-21T23:26:48.040" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with TheTXI on this and I'll keep it short why: a downvote when there are no comments is like saying &quot;that sucks&quot;. It's not about the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you go to code reviews and say &quot;it sucks&quot;? Do you accept that from someone else? Or are you expected to justify your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there already is a constructive comment then it's fair enough to effectively say &quot;I agree&quot; with subsequent downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T23:26:48.040" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="22940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-21T23:34:57.250" Score="13" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to this link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/global.asax&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/global.asax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess i should have just entered this as a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;=E&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T05:47:20.940" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:53:45.117" Title="Why does stackoverflow.com crash when i search for &quot;global.asax&quot;?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22940" CreationDate="2009-09-21T23:36:44.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that it is because when you search for global.asax you end up putting .asax in the url as though it were a page!  Which causes the .net engine to vomit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/global.asax&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/global.asax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130748" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T23:41:04.523" />
  <row Id="22942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22940" CreationDate="2009-09-21T23:38:48.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It only works on &lt;strong&gt;global.asax&lt;/strong&gt;, not &lt;strong&gt;foo.asax&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T23:41:04.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22940" CreationDate="2009-09-21T23:44:44.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The .asax causes the browser to treat it as a file, which when the request is sent to the server, returns a 404 error. I am in google chrome, and yes, I see the error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow administrators: Perhaps edit .htaccess to include a rewrite for the 404 page to make this and other glitchy tags redirect to their proper pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only glitch like it I have seen so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133681" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T23:44:44.373" />
  <row Id="22944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22940" CreationDate="2009-09-21T23:56:36.673" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By default, the ASP.NET runtime doesn't even attempt to serve certain requests that &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; like they might be accessing a protected file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll also notice that the following will fail as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wtf.cs&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wtf.cs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wtf.vb&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wtf.vb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wtf.config&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wtf.config&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be turned off in web.config or IIS7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-21T23:56:36.673" />
  <row Id="22945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22940" CreationDate="2009-09-22T00:02:31.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a workaround, you can search for &quot;global asax&quot; (just replace the dot with a space).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136225" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T00:02:31.063" />
  <row Id="22946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T01:57:54.117" Score="1" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked few questions on Stack Overflow and got the perfect solutions for my questions in no time. Thanks a ton to all you folks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am just wondering, who are the people who are answering my queries and what encourages them to answer these questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a knowledge sharing platform? Can anyone please tell me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T02:24:14.963" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:07:13.167" Title="What is Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22946" CreationDate="2009-09-22T02:00:18.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just can't resist. Money isn't everything in life. We want to bond, sometimes don't know how. Helping others help life be more bearable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131945" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T02:01:40.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22946" CreationDate="2009-09-22T02:03:45.550" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same people who've answered questions on other forums for years and years, and mailing lists before that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T02:03:45.550" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="22949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22946" CreationDate="2009-09-22T02:28:54.500" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many cases, it's the same people who were asking the questions a decade ago :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T02:28:54.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22957" CreationDate="2009-09-22T03:30:45.603" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider the answers that I receive to questions on StackOveflow as &quot;Pearls of Wisdom&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I'am afraid that these shouldn't get lost in the mountain of questions that I keep asking day in and out.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I was wondering if there was a way I could organize these precious &quot;Pearls&quot; , yes at the moment there are tags present but they are still generic...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Could you'll propose alternative ways of organizing these &quot;Pears of Wisdom&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131865" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T04:31:36.243" Title="How do I organize these &quot;Pearls of Wisdom&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;organization&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="22954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22953" CreationDate="2009-09-22T03:35:26.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So bookmark (or 'favourite') them, then just save them locally if you're that obsessed. Alternatively just start an email archive, and email them to yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T03:35:26.097" />
  <row Id="22955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22953" CreationDate="2009-09-22T03:35:54.973" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Start a blog and then post the answers, with attribution (maybe even with a link back to the actual question as posted on SO), on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With each blog post, you start off with the question you had and then post the solutions or answers that helped you out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then tag those blog posts as you wish without clashing with any of those already on SO. You could tag them with pears or peach even, it's on your site, you're the king of the tagging now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T03:35:54.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22953" CreationDate="2009-09-22T03:40:02.720" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd use the favorite mechanism, but we really need a way to organize our Favorites well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T03:40:02.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22953" CreationDate="2009-09-22T03:54:11.147" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bookmark the questions/answers using a service like &lt;a href=&quot;http://delicious.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Delicious&lt;/a&gt; and you can tag them as you see fit.  Using the Delicious Firefox plug-in you can find then quickly via the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T03:54:11.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T04:26:58.793" Score="7" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's their major and job title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they're awesome and created a good look and feel with the use of only a few images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T04:40:46.740" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T06:27:39.947" Title="Who's behind the UI design of Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="22959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22953" CreationDate="2009-09-22T04:31:36.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked the answer &lt;code&gt;beggs&lt;/code&gt; gave&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(meaning, I would have suggested delicious with tags and groups if it was not already mentioned, +1 there).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one more thing I use besides Delicious, for local organization -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TiddlyWiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You can actually export the Delicious bookmarks to an XML and&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;convert that to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiddlywiki.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TiddlyWiki&lt;/a&gt; page too (with some scripting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T04:31:36.243" />
  <row Id="22960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22958" CreationDate="2009-09-22T04:36:00.413" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jeremykratz.com/index.php/work/stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeremy Kratz&lt;/a&gt; is the primary designer of Stack Overflow. Don't know what he majored in (you'd have to ask him) but he is a professional designer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T04:36:00.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22887" CreationDate="2009-09-22T06:25:03.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best solution to fix up these &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug+pagination&quot; title=&quot;shifting in the sands of time&quot;&gt;dupe pagination bugs&lt;/a&gt; is to have the per page setters &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; include the &lt;code&gt;page=&lt;/code&gt; parameter at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Force those who want to switch up between 15, 20, 25, 30, all that money and still riding the bus to go back to the first page of results, but now set with as many of the questions as selected from the bottom right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T06:25:03.117" />
  <row Id="22962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22958" CreationDate="2009-09-22T06:27:39.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me a bonehead but I found the UI a bit confusing at first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'd search by entering my criteria&#xA;in the Search box, but I kept on&#xA;clicking the Ask Question button to&#xA;execute my search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I found that placement of the tabs&#xA;(Newest, Featured, etc) over the&#xA;question count and ads to be&#xA;confusing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've since gotten used to the UI though, and find it simple, easy to use and very utilitarian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T06:27:39.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22967" CreationDate="2009-09-22T06:45:18.603" Score="7" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a lot of questions from SO has been migrated to SU, which seems to have been given the impression that it is the SO and SF dumping ground, which I strongly disagree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a few questions regarding the setup of developer machines, hardware and software related, and although I agree that it is SU material, the audience is not as wide for these as SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem is that some users end up pointing back to SO saying the question is a duplicate. The other part of the problem is that some SO users want the question migrated to SU, and some SU users wants the question migrated to SO. Confused much? &lt;em&gt;(There is one particular case where the same user couldn't make up his mind, first he wanted it on SU, then decided it should go to SO when it did move)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no way to flag a question as duplicate cross-sites, the best solution is to post a related question link to the other site&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/44926/building-a-fast-visual-studio-machine&quot;&gt;Building a fast Visual Studio Machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/7844/help-with-developer-machine-hardware-and-software-setup&quot;&gt;Help with developer machine hardware and software setup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/42353/can-all-in-one-desktops-be-good-developer-machines&quot;&gt;Can all in one desktops be good developer machines?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/20631/2009-ultimate-developer-rig&quot;&gt;2009 Ultimate Developer Rigs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where should question regarding developer machine setups go? SO? SU? Non?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T06:50:41.417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:46:14.593" Title="Where should Developer Computer Setup Questions go?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="22964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22963" CreationDate="2009-09-22T07:03:20.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the description, it seems like super user is the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Super User is for computer&#xA;  enthusiasts and power users. If you&#xA;  have a question about ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* computer hardware&#xA;* computer software&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- Edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding to the comment, my &lt;em&gt;opinion&lt;/em&gt;, is they don't belong anywhere. But that's mainly because I don't care about such posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- Edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually that's not entirely true; I just don't think they should be on SO. (And I haven't seen one there, to be honest). I do not fit the description of someone who uses SU, hence because of my dislike for those posts, and the fact that they do fit with the SU description, it makes sense that they go there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T07:39:34.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22963" CreationDate="2009-09-22T07:04:07.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the questions fits Super User more than Stack Overflow. Though of course a computer used by a programmer might be programmer related, but programmers also use cars and coffee machine and we don't want to discuss those there (ok some people would) either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT asking those questions on Super User would mean that people from Stack Overflow with experience on this topic would have to visit Super User (if they don't already) to answer it and I don't think the vast majority of Stack Overflow also visits Super User on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it should belong on Super User&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T07:04:07.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22963" CreationDate="2009-09-22T07:12:45.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we define the &lt;em&gt;right place&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;Where can the most people help them&lt;/em&gt;, then Stack Overflow is the right place.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I vote for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T07:12:45.730" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="22967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22963" CreationDate="2009-09-22T07:19:24.873" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is part of a wider issue. I've seen over-enthusiastic close requests on bash shell, LaTeX and Vim questions, and have even seen Subversion questions voted against because the target of version control included non-code files! Justifications are rarely given, but when they are, they are based on an extremely narrow focus - one that should exclude Eclipse questions from SO, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why the community appears so keen to close and eradicate questions that are useful to programmers, but just happen not to include &lt;strong&gt;actual code&lt;/strong&gt;. We are in danger of throwing away valuable and interesting insights! Clearly the pool of expertise and interest for questions about development processes, development tools and development machines lies with the developers - on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking to the future, what would a SO with developer machine questions actually look like? I would expect there to only be a relatively small number of these questions before they become duplicates. They would have specific tags. They would be useful to developers. Are we really that obsessed with the purity of SO questions and answers to ban them from the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T07:19:24.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T08:11:41.007" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1400057/getting-the-name-of-the-makefile-from-the-makefile/1400184#1400184&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on SO, and there is an almost correct answer posted. I made a comment on the answer that I will accept it when it is fixed. It was 11 days ago and it seems that the author of the answer will not come back to fix his question. What should the OP (me) do in a case like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept the almost correct answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a new answer that is correct and accept it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait and hope that the author of the answer will come back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write an email to the author.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get someone with a high rep to fix the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135799" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T08:27:16.080" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T08:32:37.723" Title="Almost correct answer not fixed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="22969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22968" CreationDate="2009-09-22T08:14:51.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this particular case (it's a minor edit), I would accept it. Your comment describes what has to be fixed. After posting it here on MSO, some highrep SO user will care about it soon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100754/sinan-unur&quot;&gt;Sinan Ünür&lt;/a&gt; cared about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T08:32:37.723" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T08:32:37.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-09-22T09:14:05.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reasons: 1, 4, 6, 8 and whenever someone tells that you should have looked up the answer on Google. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrong answers should be clearly marked as wrong. I will downvote the answer and explain why it's wrong. In these cases, I will also confirm or add the right answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that don't address the question are just noise. They're distracting and can often make others think the Q has been answered already. Many people will still add answers if the number of answers is reasonably low but this noise just increases the number thus decreasing the chance that someone else will add the right answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that are copies of other answers are also noise, although I can understand a duplicate answer if it's added almost immediately after the first one. (Within 5 to 10 minutes.) But if someone posts a duplicate long after someone else posted an answer, even if both answers are wrong, I will downvote them to mark them as noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Profanity has no place on these sites and will be downvoted even if the answer is correct. (And flagged for deletion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I get really pissed off when they just answer that you'd have to Google for the answer. If you still add the (correct) answer then that's okay but only sending someone to Google is not enough. These answers need to be downvoted into oblivion since these are bigger insults than all other reasons to get downvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T09:14:05.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-22T09:14:05.400" />
  <row Id="22972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T09:53:56.637" Score="9" ViewCount="649" Body="&lt;p&gt;Among &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot; title=&quot;What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User?&quot;&gt;allowed HTML tags&lt;/a&gt; there are tags which together form 'definition list', namely &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (definition list), &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (definition term), and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (definition description) elements.  They can be useful among others to create e.g. glossary of terms... well, they could if they have any sensible style associated with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like to have better &lt;strong&gt;CSS style&lt;/strong&gt; associated with 'definition list'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following source (which has empty line after first item, which sometimes is and sometimes isn't visible in source view below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;description term&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt; &amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;description definition&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;lorem ipsum&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.&#xA;&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/dl&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;generates the following output:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;dl&gt;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;description term&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dd&gt;description definition&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;dt&gt;lorem ipsum&lt;/dt&gt;&#xA;&lt;dd&gt;    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.&#xA;&lt;/dd&gt;&#xA;&lt;/dl&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which has horrible style, and is unusable (IMHO) as it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case it got corrected the output looks like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;description term&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    description definition&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;lorem ipsum&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW. I couldn't find how to do 'definition list' using Markdown formatting: is there any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:36:20.340" Title="Better style for HTML 'definition list' &lt;dl&gt; elements" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;style&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="22973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22976" CreationDate="2009-09-22T09:56:49.393" Score="3" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1458896/how-to-detect-if-a-windows-version-is-legal-or-not&quot;&gt;this Q at SO&lt;/a&gt; and it's being upvoted and downvoted. It's about validating if the Windows version is genuine or not, which I want to do to prevent people from using my software on pirated Windows version. And with good reasons, since people who pirate Windows are likely to pirate my own products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I can understand that people disagree with me, but I don't understand why they downvote this Q simply because I want to use this check in my code. No one is forcing them to use Windows, nor will anyone force them to use my software. Several answers are nothing more than noise, basically telling me to bugger off and ignoring the fact that all I want is to stop piracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for some reason, several members think it's better to use pirated software instead of using an alternative, free product. This is bad in my opinion since pirated software tends to include some unwanted extra's like spyware and botnet-plugs. It also harms the market for Free products since people will just continue to use the pirated products instead of supporting the free alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I understand that people disagree with me asking this question and thus hinting others about how to do the same. I can understand that some members really hate the Windows Genuine Validation. But would this be a reason to just downvote a question, hoping it disappears?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:52:45.260" Title="What to do about downvotes because people don't like the question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;piracy&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="22974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22973" CreationDate="2009-09-22T10:05:21.793" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try not to take the actions of anonymous (or not) people on the internet too seriously. It's so easy to be critical; it takes no effort really, and much harder to actually engage in a legitimate discussion with the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't let it get to you. You got your answer; I support your right to ask the question, and the question is solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is that, in life, people may take offense at what you do; just ignore them and do what you think is best. If it comes down to actually affecting the results of your SO question, then maybe it's worth some more thought, but given that it was all solved, I'd just ignore the haters and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- Edit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I will add, to some degree, people who &lt;em&gt;comment and downvote&lt;/em&gt;, may be worth engaging, just to see if they have some useful opinions. It is likely that the people are quite passionate about what they are saying, and may (or may not) have good reasons for it. Can't hurt to try and find out what they are, and judge for yourself their appropriateness to your case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T10:05:21.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-09-22T10:11:15.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'definition list' elements are allowed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I would really like better style for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'feature-request'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22972/better-style-for-html-definition-list-dl-elements&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Better style for HTML ‘definition list’ &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; elements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130454" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-12T19:09:09.367" LastActivityDate="2011-07-12T19:09:09.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-22T10:11:15.213" />
  <row Id="22976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22973" CreationDate="2009-09-22T10:13:05.383" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be pleased. The question's gained you &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=115305&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;58 rep&lt;/a&gt; so far. It's a perfect example of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20084/generating-reputation-through-downvotes&quot;&gt;reputation generator&lt;/a&gt;; a controversial question or answer that causes emotional, polarised voting, both on your question, and on the responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any event, there's nothing you can 'do' about it. It's not really surprising you got reactions like this after writing up a detailed opinion in your question. If you were only interested in the answer, you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have phrased the question much more concisely and theoretically, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it possible to tell whether the underlying operating system has a valid licence?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Is it possible for a userspace program to access the Windows piracy validation API?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that wouldn't have gotten nearly as much traffic or rep...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T10:13:05.383" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="22977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22972" CreationDate="2009-09-22T10:23:44.113" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, it looks like Markdown lacks... **removes sunglasses** &lt;strong&gt;definition&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should at least indent the definition descriptions to provide some visual cue that you're dealing with a list not ordinary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;definition term&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;  definition description &#xA;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;definition term&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;  definition description &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above is really just this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;definition term&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&#xA;  definition description &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;definition term&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&#xA;  definition description&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really should have some kind of difference between the &lt;code&gt;DT&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;DD&lt;/code&gt; on the &lt;code&gt;DL&lt;/code&gt;. Unless there are plans to just tweak the CSS and they just have it on the... DL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T13:09:39.217" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:09:39.217" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="22983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22984" CreationDate="2009-09-22T11:53:04.933" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;How does &amp;ldquo;Reputation&amp;rdquo; work on Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is a basic question, but I cannot find this in the faq or anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is the total upvotes shown in my profile page calculated? Is it just the sum total of all the upvotes I got on my answer to some questions and the questions I asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136242" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T11:56:43.647" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:03:48.843" ClosedDate="2009-09-22T12:03:08.720" Title="How do upvotes work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22983" CreationDate="2009-09-22T11:57:03.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the total of up-votes you have given. If you've down-voted that'll appear as a separate subtotal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T11:57:03.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22983" CreationDate="2009-09-22T11:57:54.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume you mean the number showing how many upvotes &lt;em&gt;you made&lt;/em&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1818/bathog.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T12:03:48.843" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:03:48.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="22986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22983" CreationDate="2009-09-22T11:58:13.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;### Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;### Answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the sum of upvotes minus downvotes on the questions and answers, if you are talking about the numbers left of your questions and answers in the questions and the answers sections. The number to the left of the section title is the actual number of questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;### Votes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not so if you are talking about the votes section, its the sum of the upvotes and the downvotes you casted, with upvotes and downvotes shown separately underneath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T11:58:13.207" />
  <row Id="22988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22989" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:14:45.643" Score="0" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the answers for many questions but I can't reply because I don't know where to paste the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T12:43:35.490" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:48:30.253" Title="How do I add code when replying to questions on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22988" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:16:24.293" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The small &lt;strong&gt;&quot;101 010&quot; image&lt;/strong&gt; on the toolbar above the textbox can handle code implementation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6793/thecodez.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T12:48:30.253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:48:30.253" />
  <row Id="22990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22988" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:19:46.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;editing help&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:19:46.083" />
  <row Id="22991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22988" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:19:50.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paste your code, select it and press Ctrl-K to format it as code, or press the small 101010 button on the edit bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:19:50.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="22992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22963" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:30:20.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To rehash/expand on my comment to Ivo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It belongs on StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;, because the question is &lt;strong&gt;programming-related&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A developer's machine is critical to his job as a programmer and is distinct from other people's computers. While coffee or a car might have good traits for a programmer, there's nothing that makes them distinctively good &lt;em&gt;for programming&lt;/em&gt;. A developer machine is critically different in that it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have characterstics that will make it suitable or unsuitable specifically for programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser is for questions about computer hardware and software.  In general.  As in, questions that aren't specific enough to be appropriate for SO or SF.  In my opinion, this question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; specific enough to be on SO.  After all, &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions on SO are about software, it just so happens that because they are about software &lt;em&gt;development&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. programming-related), they belong on SO and not on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:30:20.710" />
  <row Id="22994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22973" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:38:55.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reckon an individual question should not contribute more than &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; percent of a user's points. That is, if a person just happens to post a question that is controversial, they shouldn't suddenly get a huge boost in rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise with down-voting: you shouldn't lose more than &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; number of points off a down-voted question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133316" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T17:47:01.680" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:47:01.680" />
  <row Id="22995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22988" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:45:09.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or just &lt;strong&gt;indent&lt;/strong&gt; everything four spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:45:09.853" />
  <row Id="22996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22963" CreationDate="2009-09-22T12:46:14.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn’t there a simple (conceptually if not to code) solution. Questions which are debatable could be on both sites as the same question, so answers, votes etc from both sites are shown together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise someone will ask a question about building a developer machine for iphone development. The “code only” zealots of SO won’t want it, and the “not about phone” zealots on SU won’t want it either. The question clearly belongs somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other option is for people to chill out a bit about what goes where, does it really matter if things are a little off topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T12:46:14.593" />
  <row Id="22998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22946" CreationDate="2009-09-22T13:07:13.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all in the reps :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:07:13.167" />
  <row Id="22999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2009-09-22T13:12:23.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you then get even more questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/12442/where-i-can-get-free-cd-dvd-of-any-linux-distribution&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/12442/where-i-can-get-free-cd-dvd-of-any-linux-distribution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean really? was the 100 rep bounty even necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, there's enough Linux love around there that it will get answered in short order.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second, is teh Google failing you that bad?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its because there aren't enough people to intelligently use the feature that it shouldn't get implemented as you suggest. I'm probably one of the few who think that while the bounty thing was a good idea on paper, human nature just kinda makes it not work right. (still on the first cup of coffee - for a more detailed and coherent answer see my answer to one of the initial bounty questions - or it might have been the blog post.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I've not seen many questions that don't get answers in the first 6-12 hours. The few that don't tend to be esoteric, or very technology specific, and in any case wouldn't significantly benefit from the bounty - except to attract people trying to post &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to at least score the default position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:12:23.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-09-22T13:17:49.437" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://socialwire.ca/?p=42&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://socialwire.ca/?p=42&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Social Wire has entered the social&#xA;  forum space with a unique engine of&#xA;  our own.  Similar to other Q&amp;amp;A sites&#xA;  out there, GoogleWaveZ takes the forum&#xA;  to the next level.  Blending&#xA;  questions, answers, wikis, reputation&#xA;  and a voting system to create a social&#xA;  forum totally run by its users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Social Wire Inc. will be&#xA;  white-labeling this engine and&#xA;  launching a self serve version to the&#xA;  public in Early 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:17:49.437" />
  <row Id="23002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22895" CreationDate="2009-09-22T13:28:55.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I'm kind of curious as to what the traffic patterns for Stack Overflow are like; however, I also think that seeing that information real-time is a bad idea. There have been a couple blog entries (e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/us-versus-hyphen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Us Versus Hyphen&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/where-in-the-world-do-stack-overflow-users-come-from&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Where In The World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) that address the topic of traffic patterns and I think that ultimately, that would be the best place for such information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T13:28:55.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T13:44:06.750" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admit this is not exactly programming question. I would highly appreciate if you could suggest me better places to send it. I tried to check whether fora at meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions can handle such a question, but I haven't found anyone matching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm organizing an experiment on collaborative tagging of Web services (&lt;a href=&quot;http://mars.ing.unimo.it/wscolab/new.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mars.ing.unimo.it/wscolab/new.php&lt;/a&gt;) that would require a reasonable number of participants (i.e. taggers). I'm looking for communities that could be relevant for that. I have left my announcement at several different places for programmers, people interested in SOA, Web services, software engineering, but still I would be grateful if you could suggest me any other fora for this kind of annoucement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maciej&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:06:47.583" Title="Where can I find users interested in SOA, Web services and software engineering?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;forum&gt;&lt;software&gt;&lt;services&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23003" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:06:47.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking for people to do something somewhere else is not the purpose of SO. So it would not be the correct forum for that i think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:06:47.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:06:54.353" Score="4" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1460190/sun-java-certification-exam-from-bangladesh/1460224#1460224&quot;&gt;a question that was voted closed as too localized&lt;/a&gt;, which it very much could have been. However, I did get 2 upvotes for that answer. As I browsed SO, I noticed that my rep went down 2 points, so I looked - both the original question (which was at 0) and my answer (which was at 2) were downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is a perfectly legitimate question and my answer was perfectly valid. However, the community thought that it should be closed, and that's how things work. And if you think the question is bad or inappropriate, downvoting, voting to close, and commenting are the proper means of communicating this. However, downvoting answers to questions you think are bad is inappropriate, unless the answer is bad on its own. Really, there are two distinct ratings here - the question and the answer. Even if a question is bad and should be closed, that shouldn't prevent answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what can be done to prevent people from downvoting perfectly legitimate and good answers to even the worst questions? Can anything be done about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: For the record, I don't care about the 2 rep. However, I think this is a kind of &quot;bad behavior&quot; that needs to be discouraged. Behavior that needs to be encouraged is to treat answers independently of the question (but in context), commenting, voting to close for the proper reasons, and making sure that even the worst questions are as readable as possible and properly tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T14:18:48.730" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T04:35:12.990" Title="I think I was just serial downvoted...how can this prevented by the community?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:09:48.687" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1125/move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&quot;&gt;Move the &amp;ldquo;remove tag&amp;rdquo; icon inside the tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my list of interesting tags, the 'X' button is sometimes wrapped without its associated tag also being wrapped:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1899/tagwrap.png&quot; alt=&quot;SO icon&quot; title=&quot;SO Icon&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens in Firefox 3.5.3, but it doesn't seem to happen in IE 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-11T06:09:00.653" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T06:09:00.653" ClosedDate="2009-09-23T08:07:45.690" Title="'X' next to tag wraps when tag doesn't wrap in interesting tags list" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23005" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:11:30.383" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of speculations here. Why do you think your answer was perfectly good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:11:30.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23005" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:12:57.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions can be reopened. If people fell it should be reopened, it will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I believe that that question was innapropiate for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People disagree and downvote for no reason. Its the way humanity is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trolls will exist always. The system already is designed in such a way that they can do little damage. Move along, nothing to see here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:12:57.277" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23005" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:13:36.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer is helpful or not is the decision of the voter. If you think there was a vote fraud, flag it for moderator attention. In any other case: Live with it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:13:36.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23005" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:14:14.730" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking in general, it can't be prevented without changing the voting system into something else.  To date, there has been no consensus on the need to change, or even what to change it into among those who believe change is needed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have discussed their dissatisfaction with downvotes (in whatever context) at &lt;em&gt;excruciating&lt;/em&gt; length here, and on uservoice before meta was available.  The conclusions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this is a case of one or two downvotes that you found unpalatable, just live with it.  The problem isn't big enough to justify the changes that could (possibly) fix it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you receive a large number of &quot;revenge&quot; downvotes from a single user, there are automated systems to detect and correct this, so just sit tight.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you suspect repeated abuse from a particular user, contact team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:14:14.730" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23005" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:16:36.037" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;one downvote is not serial downvoting.  serial downvoting is when someone downvotes many of your questions/answers, just because they don't like you or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:16:36.037" />
  <row Id="23012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23005" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:21:04.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23005/i-think-i-was-just-serial-downvoted-how-can-this-prevented-by-the-community/23010#23010&quot;&gt;Adam Bellaire points out that there is an automated system to detect and undo revenge downvotes&lt;/a&gt;. I feel that this should be expanded to detect when one user votes on a question and/or all answers in a given question in the same direction (minus a post by the user that he/she can't vote on). This action should be undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:21:04.437" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:31:53.500" Score="2" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like more information as to why a question deemed &lt;em&gt;Localized&lt;/em&gt; is grounds for closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An example&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1460190/sun-java-certification-exam-from-bangladesh/1460224#1460224&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1460190/sun-java-certification-exam-from-bangladesh/1460224#1460224&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the notion somewhat disturbing since the target of the question is irrelevant as long it is on topic. On many programming forums (or user forums if we drive a parallel to Super User where this question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/45102/sun-java-certification-exam-from-bangladesh-closed&quot;&gt;was also closed&lt;/a&gt; for the same reason) I must say, in near 20 years, I cannot remember a question ever being closed by its moderators on grounds of being &quot;too localized&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thought: On both cases, before the question was closed, apparent valid or useful answers were given, which does show the ability of the forum users to provide valuable information on this type of questions. This displaces the notion this type of question may not find any interest, or may not be answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I cannot see any information on the FAQ with &quot;Localized&quot; as a type of question to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136246" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T17:42:11.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:57:57.733" Title="What does &quot;Too Localized&quot; mean as a justification for closing a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;too-localized&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23013" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:41:01.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is specific to a country or region, it is considered localised. The option has been there for some time, and has been used, albeit rarely. In this particular case the question was related to exams in a country, and unless someone lives in the country, even with the information online, there is not a big chance of it getting a valid or correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot; title=&quot;and a little more from the peanut gallery&quot;&gt;discussion about the various close reasons&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;too localized&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would only be relevant to a very small geographic minority, and is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to a product that may be very specific, for example an in-house application that no-one has heard about, however these are rare. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions also tend to be drive-by questions, with the posters rarely, if ever, coming back. However, in this specific scenario, it was not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have in the past deleted similar questions off forums, since none of the others I have been involved in ever had the option to close questions the way it is done on SOFU. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SuperUser question was closed after it was flagged for moderator attention by various users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta this has been discussed a few times as can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=too+localized&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and it is mentioned in the Official FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4818/what-questions-should-be-closed-with-reason-too-localized&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T14:51:47.533" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:51:47.533" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23023" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:42:43.680" Score="0" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is raised in comments to these two stackoverflow questions (one borked as the submit check only allows me one link):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1452239/rebol-how-to-parse-a-b-syntax-error&quot;&gt;Rebol how to parse A B syntax Error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1458139/rebol-parse-rule-with-compose-deep-and-append-function&quot;&gt;Rebol parse rule with compose deep and append function&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is no, and I am happy to provide evidence towards that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The discussion though is best conducted here rather than in comments scattered across other threads. At the moment, it is simply diluting the responses with off-topic material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to consolidate the comments here and then take it from there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133628" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T14:45:59.667" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T16:17:30.503" Title="Am I a spammer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23013" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:47:12.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason is that some users (myself included, can't know how much concensus there is) believe that that question doesn't belong on (isn't withing the scope of) stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:47:12.330" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23017" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:47:59.850" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the name of the poster being Rebol Tutorial and apart from the function definition in the question there is no real meat to it, I can definitly see why it is considered spam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe by providing a detailed question with an answer this won't be considered as such, but I have to admit having seen the name Rebol Tutorial around I have always been wary of it being a spam account if it wasn't for the reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:47:59.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22973" CreationDate="2009-09-22T14:52:14.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't downvote it because I disagree with it; I'd downvote it because of the excessive amount of opinion in the question.  Asking a technical question is one thing, and I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt without motive.  Asking for opinions is iffier, and I'd want that to be CW.  Giving opinions on potentially controversial subjects in a question is, I think, outside the scope of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T14:52:14.553" />
  <row Id="23022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23013" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:07:34.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for your information: I voted to close and have it moved to SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I commented that his question might be too localized and that it could be hard to find the answer. Turned out, my first Google hit was the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good for him, but a better question would have been where to find something like that in general. That would make it useful to a broader audience as well, not just people in Bangladesh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:07:34.993" />
  <row Id="23023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23017" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:08:45.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The behaviour of both you and REBOL Tutorial is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; REBOL Tutorial sounds like spam, although if he (she or they) intend to gradually ask more and more intro level REBOL questions, (and thereby become a tutorial) that is fine too. As long as each question is self-contained, and they are obeying the rules (no duplicates, upvoting answers, and marking accepted, etc.) then their behaviour is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All they are doing is asking questions about REBOL. Nothing wrong with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:08:45.740" />
  <row Id="23024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:10:11.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow: among those who answered when this was asked back in July, of course Jon Skeet has it the closest (with myself a close 2nd).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:10:11.930" />
  <row Id="23025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23028" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:16:48.813" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple problem. With one Q, a few members think it's fun to make a few annoying posts, or generate noise or just be obnoxious. Of course, there's a nice little flag that can flag them as offensive...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why can't I flag more than 8 comments while the ones making offensive remarks and noise can still just continue to be obnoxious???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, a feature request: Can this limit be higher or even remove it altogether? It just makes no sense&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:35:28.343" Title="&quot;Daily vote limit reached; come back in 8 hours.&quot; makes no sense when reporting offensive messages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23025" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:19:26.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag for moderator attention, or email the team. They can clear out all the comments and warn/suspend the offending users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:19:26.360" />
  <row Id="23027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23025" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:24:19.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with removing the flag limit on comments in particular is that comments are removed on an automated basis, permanently and silently.  They aren't even seen in the 10k user tools.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everyone had an unlimited number of flags, it would be easy for a small group of users to delete an unlimited number of comments for no reason at all, and it would be difficult to detect them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it may be reasonable to ask to increase the number of comment flags you have per day.  See my comment on your question for the thread where that was discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:24:19.937" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23025" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:35:28.343" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderator / offensive / spam flags are indeed currently capped, and I have openly supported raising this limit for trusted users (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8935/increase-the-number-of-daily-spam-flags-with-reputation&quot;&gt;this near-dup&lt;/a&gt;); but we don't want a rogue low-level account spamming the system with flags etc (grudge settling, or just to be obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:35:28.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4933" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:35:30.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just be happy to see the number of answer and questions (or a ratio) next to the rep, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2k 1 10 (50/10) or 2k 1 10 (5)&#xA;2,000 rep, 1 silver, 10 bronze (50 answers/5 question).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now someone who abuses the site, their rep would looks something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2k 1 10 (0/300) or 2k 1 10 (0)&#xA;2,000 rep, 1 silver badge, 10 bronze (0 answers/300 questions).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are users out there who asks just as many questions as answers, so maybe the ratio isn't the best idea, but having the actual number of questions and answers show with the rep would be very informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136250" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:35:30.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23032" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:39:45.870" Score="2" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anybody else having problems with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; when browsing the site through Linux Google Chrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that some (most?) JavaScript driven buttons do not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Incorrectly reports that the email address is invalid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote button has no effect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite button has no effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T01:29:48.793" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T01:45:01.807" Title="Problems with Stack Overflow when using Linux Google Chrome?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="23032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23030" CreationDate="2009-09-22T15:57:04.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every now and then the team will release some changes and fixes to the code. That includes tweaking of the JavaScript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find the site not responding to your will, say when you vote or any other interaction with the site that involves JavaScript, it's a good idea to clear your cache to see if that solves the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your machine would have been running a cached version of the JavaScript that might not be as fresh as the new site release would work with. Or referencing something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T15:57:04.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23030" CreationDate="2009-09-22T16:24:06.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had problems today and yesterday, yes. (I believe there was a new drop over the weekend... or it may just have been that that's when our desktop updater picked it up.) I don't know whether the version I use is exactly the same as the version you're using (I don't know whether internally we're ahead of the public &quot;dev&quot; channel or behind it; I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; we're on it) but it sounds like the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found that restarting Chrome solves the issue &lt;em&gt;temporarily&lt;/em&gt;, but that it becomes problematic again fairly soon. I've switched to Firefox for SO (and related sites) temporarily; hopefully it'll be fixed in the next version. (If it isn't, I'll try to delve a bit deeper and work out what's going wrong.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until now, it's been working very well - I'm looking forward to normal service resuming :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T16:29:09.217" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T16:29:09.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23017" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:16:02.497" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're doing is no different (and I'll argue even less intrusive) than when the R community &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-flash-mobs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;invaded SO with questions about the R language&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:16:02.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23037" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:21:24.423" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Umm, I feel dumb for asking this, but how to I add HTML into my questions and answers with this editor? Sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324764/accessing-a-frame-within-a-frame&quot;&gt;it works&lt;/a&gt; for me and sometimes it doesn't... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know about the faq, that the site uses markdown and there are allowed tags as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? &amp;#x28;The Official FAQ&amp;#x29;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed&quot;&gt;What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136250" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T00:06:47.737" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:30:51.667" Title="How do I add HTML to my posts using the editor?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23035" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:32:20.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not clear what you mean.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you mean show html code snippets?  If so, indent your code four spaces or select and use the &quot;code&quot; button on the toolbar (Ctrl-K as a keyboard shortcut).  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags also work, and you can use backticks (`) for inline snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you mean add formatting to your question using html? If so, common html tags should work as expected.  However, the input box was really designed for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;markdown&lt;/a&gt;, and so it will also apply markdown rules anywhere they fit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T18:11:47.867" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:11:47.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:32:54.493" Score="1" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this site, but what makes me despise sites are things like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;new users can only post answers every 3 minutes; try again later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why, Stack Overflow, do you limit me helping the community by forcing me not to answer for another 3 minutes?  The site praises itself about popups / JavaScript and all the little annoyances &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blinking&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; text yet it stops me from helping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider disabling such a useless feature...sorry for being a rodent about this but I find messages like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;new users can only post answers every 3 minutes; try again later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Annoying!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138999" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T00:05:26.617" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T00:47:51.830" Title="Why must I wait three minutes after posting an answer to post another answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;&lt;annoyances&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="23039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23038" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:35:24.167" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It limits spammers to a rate at which they can reasonably be moderated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132764" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:35:24.167" />
  <row Id="23040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23038" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:36:20.107" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not meant to punish you, but to filter out spambots, and limit the damage they can do when they do get by. Part of the &quot;trust model&quot; of this site rewards active contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13433" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:36:20.107" />
  <row Id="23041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23038" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:36:30.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That rule is there to stop spam - think about it rationally: some spammer uses cheap labour or a fake OpenID provider to create gazillions of users on the system. He starts using them to post spam answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a time limit like this keeps the spam output at a manageable rate and gives the mods time to clean up the mess and ban the new users or block IPs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41981" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:36:30.433" />
  <row Id="23042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23038" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:36:44.973" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kind of answers are you posting, if they take less than 3 minutes to write? Take an extra minute or two to provide a link to your sources, or fix spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As others note, the limit exists to reduce the damage abusive users can - and, prior to the limit &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; - cause the site)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:36:44.973" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23038" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:37:20.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the system can't be sure you're not a &quot;spammer&quot;. That's not to say you are one, it just can't be sure. Now, I still get &quot;Comments may only be submitted every 30 seconds&quot; or &quot;comment votes may only be submitted every 5 seconds&quot; fairly often, and i have a couple thousand rep. You wouldn't want spammers sending 2 dozen questions out at once or adding 5 answers that make no sense in short order do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short it's so that moderators can minimize the damage of spammers if they should appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:37:20.480" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23038" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:38:50.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a specific incident that I recall (possibly one of many) where a new user created an OpenID using a junk e-mail account, and proceeded to create dozens (maybe hundreds) of junk spam questions, filling up the front page.  At the time, the moderators were completely swamped trying to kill them all, and team@stackoverflow.com was taking too long (IIRC it was after their &quot;regular&quot; hours) to ban the account.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This measure was put into place so that troublemakers can be more easily managed by community moderators until the site admins can take action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:38:50.400" />
  <row Id="23045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:42:05.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the prize for asking the question that gives the 100k?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:42:05.167" />
  <row Id="23046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14453" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:45:47.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://rss.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IT Conversations StackOverflow RSS feed&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;contains the last 30 podcasts.  (currently #39 - #68, Jan. - Sept. 2009)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3676" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:45:47.813" />
  <row Id="23047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22973" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:52:45.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; ask a technical question. If you &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt;, it might have generated some controversy, but I doubt it would have garnered anywhere near the amount of attention and subsequent discussion that it did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the technical part of your question was brief and to the point, and pretty much fit entirely within the title. The rest of your question - six paragraphs worth after the last edit - &lt;em&gt;appeared&lt;/em&gt; to seek out &lt;strong&gt;opinions&lt;/strong&gt; as to whether you should be doing what you wanted to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you got 'em, &lt;em&gt;in spades&lt;/em&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the down-votes: ask an opinionated question, and you'll get folks expressing their opinions via the voting buttons. If you don't like it, stick to asking straight technical questions and leave the discussion to another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:52:45.260" />
  <row Id="23048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23013" CreationDate="2009-09-22T17:57:57.733" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reason given by Jeff of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;&quot;too localized&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too localized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question would only be relevant to a very small geographic minority, and is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;contradicts the general principle described in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO FAQ&lt;/a&gt; ( by him self )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...of interest to at least &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; other programmer somewhere&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;assert: &quot;1 programmer&quot; &amp;lt; &quot;a very small geographic minority&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evaluates to true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one of them is wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not however mark to close a question as &quot;too localized&quot; nor vote to re-open it though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T17:57:57.733" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="23049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23051" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:06:42.787" Score="7" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;The highest-voted answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/268321&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has three votes, and appears above the accepted answer (two votes). I think it's an amusing coincidence that it just so happens to be a Jon Skeet answer. What's going on here? Shouldn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/268321/bidirectional-1-to-1-dictionary-in-c/268545#268545&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; be at the top? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i35.tinypic.com/1zdxkpc.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T18:09:09.180" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:29:10.877" Title="Answer with more upvotes appears above accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23049" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:08:33.190" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the asker accepts his/her own answer, it is not floated to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:08:33.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22869" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:16:42.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just adding a note where people will see it that I've temporarily raised the query governor limit.  A lot of queries that used an order by clause were bumping up against it, and so I raised the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I expect this to be temporary.  I suspect there was only a problem because the database is so new, and so there were no actual statistics to use as a base-line for cost estimates. I'll leave it up like this for week or two to establish better costs, and then run some test to see where the final number should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 500 record limit on the result set remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:16:42.787" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-22T18:16:42.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22869" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:23:08.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to export a SQL query as HTML?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:23:08.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-22T18:23:08.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23061" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:28:57.027" Score="6" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1461631/is-css-used-anywhere-besides-web-browsers&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the original question read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does css used other than browser environment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty bad, and in need of an edit. So it was edited by someone else to read: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is CSS ever used outside the environment of web browsers? Does it have any applications outside of the web?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fair enough. Makes sense to improve it like so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then finally, it was edited to read by a third person:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just curious - apart from its ubiquitous use in specifying the presentation of HTML in modern web browsers, do any programs or standards utilize CSS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite having the same meaning, this just sounds like putting words into the asker's mouth, and could also confuse some non-native speakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have edit privileges on any site, so I'm particularly interested on hearing the opinions of those who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have them. I personally feel that the third edit was going to far, considering it was fine in the second version. Would others consider it going too far/is it too far?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1455728/php-sql-newbie-help&quot;&gt;Another example&lt;/a&gt; (this is the one that made me think about asking the question but I had an answer in, so I tried to find another one for the main example): This question was edited by someone first to tidy up the code (fine), but then edited again by someone else to make some sort of ascii representation of the table at the top (which didn't help understanding, and just added visual clutter to the question IMO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T20:21:51.420" Title="How much editing is too much?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23035" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:30:51.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Re: It works) That's just embedding code. You put all of this in a &amp;lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;block and escape the '&amp;lt;' with &amp;amp;lt; However the easiest way is to paste it in, select it, and press &lt;kbd&gt;control&lt;/kbd&gt;-&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; or click on the 101/010 icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:30:51.423" />
  <row Id="23058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23056" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:35:49.417" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first went to far when it changed it from a straight-out question to one that showed a certain attitude (not a bad attitude, but one not expressed by the OP).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second example should have put the PK in parentheses next to the ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:35:49.417" />
  <row Id="23059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23056" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:43:52.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try and edit as little as possible, instead focusing on spelling &amp;amp; grammar issues. However I know in some cases (such as your example) the whole question needs to be re-written. In these cases, I just try and rephrase the exact question using correct grammar. In this case, I would not have included the second question (Does it have any applications outside of the web?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should have looked at the question before I posted my answer. It appears to me as though Shog9 probably accidently overwrote Welbog's edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:43:52.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23056" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:44:56.517" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a general rule of thumb is: &lt;strong&gt;the worse off a question is, the more editing should be expected.&lt;/strong&gt;  If your question is very poor, extensive editing should be expected.  If your question is reasonably well put-together, editing should be minimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first example was really bad, and Shog9 made it intelligible.  Sure it may feel like we are putting words in the OP's mouth, but that's because the OP didn't post enough information to make a judgment about his or her intent one way or the other.  So it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question is not as bad, but these were clearly good-faith efforts to make the question more easily understood.  Whether they succeeded or failed is a judgment call, but I see nothing wrong with the motivation of the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the editors usually have nothing personally to gain from attempting to help bad questions become better.  Sometimes they make edits that don't help, but that's okay, they're (for the most part) only human.  Overall, the site benefits from their time and efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:44:56.517" />
  <row Id="23061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23056" CreationDate="2009-09-22T18:46:21.133" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, when I set out to edit the first question you cite it had one comment asking that it be expanded, and no one had yet edited it. Seeing that it was a reasonable question,  I obligingly edited it to clarify what I saw as the intent of the original author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with this. Plenty of decent questions get asked on SO by people who, for numerous reasons (poor language skills are a big one), are unable to ask clear questions by themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if the original author disagrees with any edit, he can roll it back with &lt;em&gt;a single click&lt;/em&gt;... or edit the revision to correct any misconceptions on the part of the editor. IMHO, editors should therefore be zealous in their editing, striving to do as much as possible to create good questions - there's no danger that any information will be irretrievably lost in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T18:46:21.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4255" CreationDate="2009-09-22T19:11:05.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon should come up with a nearly impossible programming question, and give it a bounty of 100k.  That could be epic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could at least act as good test on the bounty system.  Remember back in the early days, 10k+ rep users threw off the formatting of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133482" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T19:11:05.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T19:53:52.673" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've finally decided to set up an RSS feed for the few blogs I frequent.  I'm using IE 8, and so went to 'Coding Horror' and hit the orange button and then subscribed.  When I went to the StackOverflow Blog, and hit the orange button, I just got an error page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any input on how to make this work (I'd prefer not to have to get a separate tool for the few RSS feeds I plan on watching)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Error: 'Internet Explorer cannot display this feed'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  For reasons I can't determine (the SO Team says nothing changed), I was now able to add the feed as normal.  Thanks for the help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T20:01:38.720" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:00:02.660" Title="RSS feed for SO Blog" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;blog&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23067" CreationDate="2009-09-22T19:56:45.977" Score="3" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look like there are hundreds of meta users at exactly 101 reputation. Why is that? And how much is one up vote worth?  Easy Q's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131460" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T20:48:12.407" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T12:10:37.163" Title="Why are there so many users with exactly 101 rep? How much is an up vote worth?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23064" CreationDate="2009-09-22T19:58:49.607" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think because they migrate their profiles from other sites in the trilogy.  That gives you 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Start with 1 + 100 = 101&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T19:58:49.607" />
  <row Id="23067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23064" CreationDate="2009-09-22T20:01:54.780" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New accounts start with one rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Account association for users with over 200 rep on one site gives a 100 point bonus to their account on the new site. That is how you get the 101 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each upvote is worth 10 points as long as your answer or question is not community wiki and you are not over your daily rep limit already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T20:01:54.780" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23063" CreationDate="2009-09-22T20:17:02.680" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the actual url for the complete SO Blog feed: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php/feed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php/feed/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why you shouldn't be able to subscribe using that URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T20:17:02.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23063" CreationDate="2009-09-22T20:20:10.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of clicking the orange button, try the following, which just worked for me in IE8 (Win7):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php/feed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Complete&lt;/a&gt;&quot; link under &quot;RSS&quot; on blog.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When it comes up, you'll see an option to subscribe in the main window, near the top, in a big yellow box. (Note: Once you complete these steps, that option goes away, since you're already subscribed.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click that option. You're subscribed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T20:20:10.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23056" CreationDate="2009-09-22T20:21:51.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it triggers Community Wiki, its too much. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T20:21:51.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22442" CreationDate="2009-09-22T20:41:39.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that this is an unwanted side-effect of the current implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T20:41:39.203" />
  <row Id="23072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:10:16.233" Score="-1" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;A work of fiction: A user by the name Rich has been committing insidious crimes by creating multiple accounts. At the same time, he has been preserving some qualities of a decent citizen, by answering questions, and thus earning rep points. Now, with enough medicine and illegal drugs,  he has been fully rehabilitated and decided to pursue a healthy career on stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's making a step forward, will SO moderator board give him another chance, and another life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's consider the following cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user's account has been deleted; a good example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20675/who-is-sasha-and-why-is-he-a-big-villain&quot;&gt;nefarious Sasha&lt;/a&gt;. The user wants to comeback with his original account (minus malicious posts), and his points, as opposed to starting  afresh. Can he or she  do that, assuming (s)he provides enough medical evidence to prove absence of mental degeneration and other similar conditions? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22568/recover-a-deleted-account&quot;&gt;As we learned in this post, the criminal can recover the account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A deleted user did comeback, under a different account, and for months has been showing a improvements. Can his/her deleted account be combined with the new one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user created a several accounts and has been using them (I dare to say, illegally). Now, he decided that a life of a criminal is a no-no, and therefore decided to stop. But he cannot chose which account should represent his true  and reformed identity, as they all have rep, questions... after-all he wants to be able to keep track of his old questions. Can these accounts be combined? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please do NOT turn this discussion into a finger-pointing!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T18:56:08.700" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T18:56:08.700" Title="Combine multiple accounts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23072" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:16:26.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to use your example, Sasha was deleted at his own request; in the &quot;your account has been suspended&quot; e-mail I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; it was stated that yes; he could return &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;q&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;as long as the behaviour improves&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/q&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. I &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; that Jeff's hacked-up undelete script would still work (but it isn't 100% - some things don't resurrect cleanly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(really just combines the first and third bullet)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accounts can indeed be combined as long as ownership/identity can be demonstrated (i.e. I won't believe you if you claim that you are &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last is the easy one. The first only Jeff/&quot;the team&quot; can do. Note that if there is evidence of self-voting between the accounts that dubious rep may be redacted (although not immediately, IIRC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we stop dancing? If you are, as the text implies, the user formerly known as Sasha - then it is in many ways encouraging that your account isn't well known to me. I genuinely don't have the ability to personally undelete user accounts, and there may be a question of dates (re the suspension)... one for Jeff's input...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like Oscar's point; perhaps merge the &lt;em&gt;well-behaved&lt;/em&gt; accounts (to restore good sense) and let the old sleeping dog lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T21:38:05.513" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T21:38:05.513" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="23074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:30:29.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/09/10/generic-constraints-for-enums-and-delegates.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;constrain generic types to Enums&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131269" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T21:30:29.223" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-22T21:30:29.223" />
  <row Id="23075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23096" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:36:34.907" Score="5" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is unclear to me whether I should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave a comment on the question that it should be CW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a CW tag to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit the question and put &quot;Should be community wiki&quot; at the top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag the post for moderator attention saying that it should be CW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do nothing, and let the system magically handle it somehow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strongly related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down/7183#7183&quot;&gt;Should the community wiki police be shut down?&lt;/a&gt; (response from management) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39430" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:32:48.150" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:32:48.150" Title="What action to take on a question that should be community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23110" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:39:33.950" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that there are a hundred questions here on meta about the color scheme, but this one is very specific and easy to fix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com has colored links for each of the main navigation buttons (Questions, Tags, Users, etc.). The text starts out white. In IE6 (horrors!) after the link is visited, it turns a kind of teal color. The &quot;visited&quot; teal colored text on the gray background is very difficult to read. Can the page styling be fixed so that the link color does not change when visited (text remains white), or it changes to another bright color that contrasts better with the gray? (Off-white? Lighter gray?) When I test it out on Firefox, the color scheme of the link doesn't change after it's visited. The same complaint can be made about this site (MSO), but the visited link color is burgundy instead of teal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135319" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:24:50.013" Title="CSS fix/feature request: Visited link color for SO main navigation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;&lt;style&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23075" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:45:51.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd go with #1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2 does nothing to describe the content of the question, which is what tags are suppose to be for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 3 is basically a more forceful version of #1, which many users likely won't appreciate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 4 is only good for really clear cut CW questions. If a moderator doesn't agree with you then it won't help. Just say it should be CW and see if other users or the OP agree with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 5 is only good if you don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just be warned if you do this often others will accuse you of being the CW police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T21:45:51.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23075" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:46:11.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's usually based on how obviously CW it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not so obvious.&lt;/strong&gt; Do nothing probably. It's probably going to sort out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kinda obvious.&lt;/strong&gt; Comment about it, shop around for others to agree.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obvious.&lt;/strong&gt; Flag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If its your own question and you're not sure. Then add a question to see if people think it should be a CW. Usually if you're not sure, just ask around. You can always change it into a CW. But not back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T21:46:11.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23075" CreationDate="2009-09-22T21:47:43.840" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Options #1 or 4 would be my recommendation. It lets the poster (#1) or the mods (#4) know that it should be wikified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would strongly recommend &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; doing options #2 or 3 (CW tag or editing the post). Adding a CW tag is like adding a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot;&gt;belongs-on&lt;/a&gt; tag -- it's considered bad editing practice. Personally, I believe #3 is also bad editing practice -- among other things, the OP doesn't necessarily get notified of his post being edited (I don't think?), but he/she &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be notified of the comment being added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T21:47:43.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T22:15:38.487" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I've passed 400 non-cw upvotes for answers in Java (well according to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug/21623#21623&quot;&gt;GM script&lt;/a&gt; I have anyway), if there is not a bug in my script's tallying, I believe that qualifies for the silver badge. As yet I've not received the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume there is some batch process that does the counting and awards the badge, does anyone know what the interval between checks is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: For future reference I just got the badge at 10:00 am UTC, about 12 hours after I passed the threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T10:04:45.167" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:04:45.167" Title="what is the time lapse between achieving a tag badge and it being awarded?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23080" CreationDate="2009-09-22T22:20:05.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember that this process runs every night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Searching for evidence]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could not find any evidence to back me up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/898#898&quot;&gt;question #88&lt;/a&gt; Jeff refers to the badge background process, but I couldn't find any place where it mentions when it runs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-22T22:33:33.180" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T22:33:33.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23080" CreationDate="2009-09-22T22:32:10.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last I waited for a badge it seemed to show up within minutes. I wouldn't be surprised if it varies based on badge, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T22:32:10.780" />
  <row Id="23083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23064" CreationDate="2009-09-22T22:36:56.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case of meta everybody's SO profile was copied over (which is why a lot of people have the same user id on SO and Meta) to create the initial population of users. Most of these won't have been interested in using meta so they'll have the initial amount of rep which I believe was set to 101 to enable everyone to vote down straight away (&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt; this was before the reputation required to vote down was increased to 125). This was later formalised as the 100 point bonus for linking accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New people registering will start at 1 unless they link a 200+ point account from SO, SF or SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-08T12:10:37.163" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T12:10:37.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T22:54:36.887" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be some form of restriction on the number of times an account can be renamed?  If so what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T23:23:10.313" Title="Should there be a restriction on account renames?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23084" CreationDate="2009-09-22T22:58:09.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the restriction should be on the frequency - e.g. only allow one rename per week (or month), or only allow a rename after a certain rep score is reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be perfectly valid reasons why someone wants to rename their account. Of course there might not be, but you can't punish everyone for what a few people do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T22:58:09.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23084" CreationDate="2009-09-22T22:58:31.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should there be some form of restriction on the number of times an account can be renamed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If so what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;37,159 times. And not one time more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T22:58:31.327" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23084" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:05:28.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What problem is a lack of restriction causing/allowing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T23:05:28.333" />
  <row Id="23088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:13:43.123" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been using my open ID on StackOverflow.com and ServerFault.com without issue for months. Today, I went to log in to SuperUser.com to ask a question - and it won't let me log in. I successfully get redirected to OpenID, I successfully log in there, but when I get redirected back, SuperUser.com which puts me back on the login screen with the error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&#xA;&#xA;The signature verification failed.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't think this is an issue with my openID as I used it to log in here just now, and also tested it successfully on both ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com in the last 5 minutes. It's only SuperUser.com that has the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tested with both FireFox and Safari - same issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bug rates really high on the &quot;will it infuriate users&quot; scale - at least judging by the steam coming out of my ears :) I'd suggest it needs to be fixed urgently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136272" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T02:23:44.400" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:23:44.400" Title="Bug - login failing for my open ID on SuperUser.com but not on other 3 sites" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23080" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:18:36.437" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some badges (mostly the ones which can be awarded more than once) are awarded fairly quickly once you meet the criteria.  Things like Nice Question, Enlightened, and the like.  These are probably awarded from within the main system, typically triggered by voting activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other badges (mostly the ones which can only be awarded once, like the specialist badges) are awarded by a background process which appears to run only once a day.  According to TheTXI (comment below), this seems to happen at 0:00 UTC (at least on meta), but since we don't have an official word on this, it's hard to say whether it's the same for all sites or is consistent.  However, it's safe to say that after 24 hours, if you still don't have your badge, something is amiss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T01:55:31.973" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T01:55:31.973" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23084" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:23:10.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really see the need, since everything in the system is tied to user id (a unique number), and based on that id your profile, stats, recent activity, etc. are persistent and visible to everyone who cares to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible reason to restrict it would be if there were some form of abuse taking place.  Given that, I am having a hard time imagining what kind of abuse could take place that wouldn't be more easily handled by moderator intervention, rather than by implementing a name change limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T23:23:10.313" />
  <row Id="23091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23075" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:24:13.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After more research, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff Atwood says, &quot;If you think something should be community wiki then flag it for mod attention with a comment to that effect.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So #4 it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39430" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T23:24:13.167" />
  <row Id="23092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23155" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:43:49.357" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never used anything but Visual Studio for designing a WPF UI, but I recently began playing with MS Expression Blend, and inevitably, some questions have come up. I noticed that there was very little on SuperUser about Expression Blend, and one of the two questions I did find was closed and migrated to StackOverflow. Also, there's quite a bit more Expression Blend content on StackOverflow (though I haven't noticed a lot of &quot;How do you do this?&quot; type questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I've answered my own question just by citing these trends, but what I've observed goes against my understanding of the purposes of StackOverflow and SuperUser. In my mind, Expression Blend is to XAML as Dreamweaver is to HTML (both provide GUI interfaces for producing markup), yet you see plenty of Dreamweaver questions on Super User and almost no Expression Blend questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which site should I use if I have a question about how to do something in Expression Blend, SuperUser or StackOverflow? (Just to provide an example, I was curious how to edit the &lt;code&gt;ItemContainerStyle&lt;/code&gt; of a &lt;code&gt;TabControl&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T12:52:36.683" Title="What is the correct venue for questions about MS Expression Blend: StackOverflow or SuperUser?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23092" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:46:26.840" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it relates to coding with a markup language of some sorts then it belongs on SO in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's about how do you do X in program Y, it's more likely to be for SU. Not guaranteed though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T12:52:36.683" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T12:52:36.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17292" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:53:53.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People are down-voting over inane reasons! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;News at eleven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People downvote for a number of reasons, not necessarily logical. They also upvote for the same not  necessarily logical reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that in the end it evens out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there is no way to know intent of a vote, not until &lt;code&gt;SO Neural Iterface 0.3.2&lt;/code&gt; goes public Beta in about 6 to 8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T23:53:53.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2009-09-22T23:54:50.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that some of you doubt this problem is more pervasive than the occasional question by Joel or Alan Kay. I just observed it yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1457814/get-every-combination-of-strings&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1457814/get-every-combination-of-strings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now please note I am not picking on Alex. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, but earning 40 rep while the correct answer had 0 votes on it after 1-2 hours with over 90 views is sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57757" LastActivityDate="2009-09-22T23:54:50.240" />
  <row Id="23096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23075" CreationDate="2009-09-23T00:05:07.303" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question you should ask yourself is &lt;strong&gt;WHY&lt;/strong&gt; do you think a question should be community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it because its &lt;em&gt;not fair&lt;/em&gt; that someone gets tons of rep for easy questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it because users with 100 reps should be allowed to edit and improve the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost always the answer is 1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ... the system is inherently unfair, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940/why-does-every-man-and-his-dog-want-to-code-a-blogging-engine/471944#471944&quot;&gt;easy and soft answers&lt;/a&gt; get tons of rep. Subjective is the most lucrative tag. Very complicated questions and answers often get a very small number of votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recommendation would be to move over to another question OR flag for moderator attention. Don't look for fairness in this system, look for utility.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble with leaving a comment is that you have to remember to delete it and its very easy to sound adversarial. Going harsher than that and editing with the intention of making something wiki is considered abuse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T00:05:07.303" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19362" CreationDate="2009-09-23T00:12:36.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the concept is interesting, but you really need to make it &lt;em&gt;MORE&lt;/em&gt; lucrative to edit and improve old questions as opposed to &lt;em&gt;LESS&lt;/em&gt; as suggested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We tossed around the concept of allowing votes on edits, this was chucked out by management as to complicated / not useful enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T00:12:36.713" />
  <row Id="23099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23038" CreationDate="2009-09-23T00:47:51.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;fwiw - once your rep hits a certain level, this restriction goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the amount of time it takes me to answer on any of the sites entirely dependent upon how much I have to look-up vs what I know right-off. Sometimes I can answer in 40 seconds, other times it's 40 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T00:47:51.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-09-23T01:15:33.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can this question be like a &quot;tracker&quot; question for related bugs? I don't really get how using StackOverflow software for bug tracking works, if indeed that is what we are supposed to be doing. But I didn't find anywhere else to file bugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway this is a more specific request that would be excellent as part of general mobile-display-related improvements: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11770/a-user-search-option-from-a-mobile-phone&quot;&gt;A user search option from a mobile phone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136276" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T01:15:33.760" />
  <row Id="23101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23075" CreationDate="2009-09-23T01:21:56.947" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt; #6&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a comment and downvote it until it is made CW  ( that's what other have made to me in the past and it works!! )&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is not worth the -1 rep for downvoting it, why should you care if is CW or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is worth the -1 dv, then other will follow you example and at the count of -4 or -5 it will be made cw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never been too happy with the &quot;made it cw&quot; comment. If a question is meant to be cw, one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; must take place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system is not designed to make a post cw by adding comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still if you don't like the rep-surf, downvote it. That's what dv are for, to show you don't find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T01:21:56.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T01:32:42.703" Score="1" ViewCount="616" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9392/how-do-i-logout-from-a-non-registered-account&quot;&gt;How do I logout from a non-registered account?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to log out of Stack Overflow, but always it shows me logged in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I achieve the sweet release that is logging out of this site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I have yet to register; the site currently always shows my name and default email.&#xA;I wish to log out so that I may start a new session!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T02:34:33.167" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:34:33.167" ClosedDate="2009-09-23T02:21:37.400" Title="How can I log out of Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23102" CreationDate="2009-09-23T01:34:03.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the logout button at the top of the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, nominally belongs on 'Meta'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T01:35:20.313" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23102" CreationDate="2009-09-23T01:36:46.343" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about clicking on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/logout&quot;&gt;logout&lt;/a&gt;? Don't you have that link at the top of the page? If no, I guess you'll have to manually remove a cookie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T01:36:46.343" />
  <row Id="23105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:12:12.893" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the great answer should be either the accepted one of with a high vote count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &quot;favorite&quot; the question, you could instantaneously see the accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you favorite question is not in the top voted then I guess it deserves being bookmarked by traditional methods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:12:12.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9392" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:15:45.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/login?&quot;&gt;login page&lt;/a&gt; and login with your &quot;normal&quot; account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:15:45.633" />
  <row Id="23107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9392" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:20:58.743" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do that to prevent people from irrevocably destroying unregistered accounts, as they are 100% browser cookie based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can probably guess the URL if you really need to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/users/logout&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:20:58.743" />
  <row Id="23108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23112" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:23:04.620" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the footer there's a link to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. It seems to be broken - when you click on it, you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DB Error: connect failed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T03:15:03.620" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:15:03.620" Title="'DB Error: connect failed' when downloading podcast" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23088" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:23:37.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:23:37.693" />
  <row Id="23110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23076" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:24:50.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We aren't currently fixing anything IE6 related unless it breaks the site in some serious, kills-small-children way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:24:50.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23049" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:25:57.610" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/why-cant-i-accept-my-own-answer/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;read in chronological order&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:25:57.610" />
  <row Id="23112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23108" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:29:33.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, issue with &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/&lt;/a&gt; , it seems. Hopefully temporary, but outside our control!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T02:29:33.517" />
  <row Id="23113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23114" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:52:42.947" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple enough : I answered this question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/45336/locked-my-alias-how-do-i-unlock-it/45353#45353&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/45336/locked-my-alias-how-do-i-unlock-it/45353#45353&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And thought nothing more of it. Then i check my 'latest' button, and it shows that someone marked my answer down about 20 minutes ago losing me two rep. I visit the post...and there's no downvote there. Does this mean someone marked me down, then removed it, and there's a delay in the update? Or some weird bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T08:36:49.877" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:36:49.877" Title="Delay in undoing downvote?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23113" CreationDate="2009-09-23T02:56:05.793" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer was basically: Google it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone justifiably downvoted you. You lost two rep. The answer was marked with &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then someone for some reason upvoted you. You got 10 rep. The answer is now marked &lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the reputation chart at the time, and you'll note the points swing with the votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/2ggbK.png&quot; alt=&quot;always sunny in vote-adelphia&quot; title=&quot;swing when you're swinging&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T03:12:05.140" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T03:12:05.140" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:09:48.043" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to sink my own deleted answer to the bottom? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, in the case of a vote tie, the deleted answer will be ranked at the top (for example, for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463987/execute-sql-query-from-sql-file&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I deleted one of my duplicated answer), as shown below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Dbm31zTAzCP9ieR8w0mnCA?feat=embedwebsite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_SDci0Pf3tzU/Srm6-i3ZaxI/AAAAAAAAFKs/chMzjNhZD6E/s400/deleted%20answer..png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is best if you can always assign the lowest priority ( regardless of votes) to the deleted answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:24:12.197" Title="Deleted Answer Should not Appear On the Top" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23116" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:21:02.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, but so few people see them that I don't think it matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:21:02.700" />
  <row Id="23118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12073" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:22:25.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While his &quot;day job&quot; is programming in&#xA;  Java, Jon is a C# developer at heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet on C# 3.0 - .NET Rocks!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=383&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=383&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:22:25.770" />
  <row Id="23119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23116" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:24:12.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since only you (and moderators) can see the deleted answers, this really only affects your view, correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:24:12.197" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:28:15.683" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8724/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;How to deal with google questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is a duplicate, sorry for not finding it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone asks a question, and the answers provided are from a google search, the form I've generally followed is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I googled &quot;your question here&quot; and found the following: ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I've found that helpful from other folks because they're identifying what/how to search better for so I can be more self-reliant in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the Right Way to go about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:59:52.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T06:28:15.683" ClosedDate="2009-09-23T12:09:27.217" Title="Answering etiquette with 'google'" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="23121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23049" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:29:10.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plus, aren't you viewing in Vote order? I thought that was expected behavior in that context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:29:10.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T06:29:10.877" />
  <row Id="23122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23120" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:34:56.297" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't ever do this. I'm sure you can do it in a nice way but I'm also sure it could still be misconstrued by the asker as being &quot;talked down to&quot;. You also see comments like &quot;Have you heard of Google?&quot; which is (imho) completely uncalled for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of SO is to build up a comprehensive set of questions and answers that Google can search. The fact that same information can be found on Google is basically irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in this day and age you can assume people know about Google so there's no need to mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, being able to type something into Google doesn't help you discern what information is good or bad so a lot of the time you need some sort of filter on that information anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:34:56.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T06:34:56.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23120" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:43:29.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Super User I often post something along the lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found this on a forum...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since I only (well 99% of the time) use Google, you could read it as: I Googled your question and found this forum, which said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big difference off course between Stack Overflow and Super User is that the SU audience is more likely to be less experienced with using a computer, so they are likely to be less able to find what they need. And like cletus mentioned: then decide if it's the right answer for them or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while on SO this might be a bit offensive, SOME users on SU could benefit from learning where to look and what to look out for. But still, I wouldn't phrase it as &quot;let me Google that for you&quot;. It would be better to answer their question and describe why you think this is a good idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You never know, they might learn something from it ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:43:29.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T06:43:29.790" />
  <row Id="23124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23125" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:48:47.190" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; only contains generic badges. Is there a page with a list of specialist badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T23:25:53.217" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T23:25:53.217" Title="Is there a page with a list of specialist badges?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23124" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:51:09.777" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot; title=&quot;you're it!&quot;&gt;Click the tags tab&lt;/a&gt; next to general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/aJjB3.png&quot; alt=&quot;where the tags rest&quot; title=&quot;hey, you like tags?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T07:00:37.870" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T07:00:37.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23124" CreationDate="2009-09-23T06:51:57.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;? It's the next tab along on the main tags page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T06:51:57.997" />
  <row Id="23127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23120" CreationDate="2009-09-23T07:01:36.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;on SO this is likely to be helpful only for a short time.  I've found that after a while (sometimes a *very short while) the question itself appears as one of the top results in Google, which can result in a circular reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be referred to google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question comes up on google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;back to 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T07:01:36.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T07:01:36.043" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23131" CreationDate="2009-09-23T07:19:57.490" Score="2" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have isbn tags for books?  I'd like to be able to refer to somebody to a title using syntax such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;isbn:1597491098&amp;gt;      # 10-digit form&#xA;&amp;lt;isbn:978-1597491099&amp;gt;  # 13-digit form&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and have that generate a link to the book information page that also links to some online purchase options?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here's a few examples of how the links might look (using amazon since these links actually work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1597491098&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Hack-Stack-Ethereal-Insecure-Network/dp/1597491098&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1597491098&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hack-Stack-Ethereal-Insecure-Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1597491098&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514%2Bg0caqqL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;updates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as Roland Shaw and Workshop Alex note, an ISBN number make good sense.  Updating accordingly.  Note that the online bookstores list the ISBN numbers on the book pages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as per random's comment: coz it makes it easy to find out more information about the book!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree that it would be a good place to put an SO referral code.  I'm happy to support SO with purchases of stuff I see here.  And as Ryan notes, it would be a useful feature for people trying to make self-sustaining Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T23:40:21.247" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T23:40:21.247" Title="add an &lt;isbn:&gt; tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;&lt;markup&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="23130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23128" CreationDate="2009-09-23T07:29:05.260" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we were linking to books as answers to programming questions a lot. Then this would be a great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly we aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T07:29:05.260" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23128" CreationDate="2009-09-23T08:07:50.497" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, If this feature were to be implemented, I'd prefer something a bit more vendor neutral, in a asimilar manner to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AISBN&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ISBN magic on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In there case markup of &lt;code&gt;ISBN 1597491098&lt;/code&gt; generates a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3ABookSources/1597491098&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3ABookSources/1597491098&lt;/a&gt; which lists places to find out more about the book, including buying it from online retailers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T08:07:50.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23120" CreationDate="2009-09-23T08:32:31.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question on one of the sites, I do so hoping that someone will answer who knows the problem and has solved it himself. Of course I know how to use Google, but finding some forum post buried amongst spam and aol-ish &quot;me too!&quot; responses doesn't exactly make me trust the answer. The other extreme is marketing material. If my question is &quot;What is a good software for xyz?&quot; and you refer me to some web site just because Google served it up, I still don't know whether it will work or crash every other minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to finally answer your question, if you don't know the answer to a question, please, please don't answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T08:32:31.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T08:32:31.573" />
  <row Id="23133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23137" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:06:31.793" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to search for questions in SO that include both the keywords &quot;eclipse&quot; and &quot;rse&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the search only shows me all questions that have either one of the keywords. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I refine my search so that I can see results that have &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; keywords?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135515" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T09:41:50.310" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:41:50.310" Title="How do I search for posts with two or more keywords?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:08:47.063" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed this in hundreds of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the users use invalid lower case letters. &quot;i&quot; instead of &quot;I&quot; and &quot;how to do...&quot; instead of &quot;How to..&quot; Other than that I can see a lot of abbreviated words like &quot;plz&quot; &quot;thx&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However they are not nice to see on a Q n A site. And these are the things that can be corrected by a bot (Or even when submitting the question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to add as a new idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131711" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T11:14:27.070" Title="Implementing auto correct/complete in Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23133" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:11:02.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The posts with both keywords will get the higher rank. So the very first items you get contains the things what you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are not getting such result, that means there are no posts with both keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131711" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:11:02.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:13:00.083" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have the feature informing the SO users of the planned downtime start time and possible duration?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134608" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T11:42:25.317" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T11:42:25.317" Title="Informing users of planned downtime on SO" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23133" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:13:53.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knuckle it down some if you think one of the terms would be used as a tag. That way you just need to search with the other term inside the tagged questions and that should bring the relevancy up some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search with a word forced as a tag, surround it with square brackets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this example, you're using &quot;eclipse&quot; as the tag and &quot;rse&quot; as the TNT you want to blow up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Beclipse%5D+rse&quot;&gt;search: [eclipse] rse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to really hunker down, force them both as tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Beclipse%5D+%5Brse%5D&quot;&gt;search: [eclipse] [rse]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does tighten to a great deal though, questions must be tagged with both tags if they were to show in the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:13:53.357" />
  <row Id="23138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:12:11.147" Score="0" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-what-is-it-all-about&quot;&gt;Accepting answers, what is it all about?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people aks me to accept the answer on Stack Overflow. I never know that I can. Now I don't know how to accept the answer? Where is this option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T09:17:32.663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:17:32.663" ClosedDate="2009-09-23T09:19:01.320" Title="How to accept the answer on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23138" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:12:48.230" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the arrow under this post, on the left. (I think it's right below the arrows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144558" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:14:18.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23138" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:17:16.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the tick (check mark) on left under the vote arrows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:17:16.020" />
  <row Id="23141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23134" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:20:13.970" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's what the segment of the community over 2K rep is for. It's all a collaborative effort and everyone pitches in to clean up, whether it be with fixing up formatting or even going through and cleaning up the grammar and english.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The incentive for this is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot; title=&quot;eats and roots&quot;&gt;Strunk and White&lt;/a&gt; badge and feeling a sense of relief and a calming of the night terrors as lowercase usage of the pronoun I haunts you leaving the soles of your feet pitch black and an empty bird cage next to your pillow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:20:13.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23136" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:24:46.830" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downtime across the sites is hardly ever that long that you can nick down to the corner store to pick up some supplies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If things do take a little longer than expected, it will be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;that old thing?&quot;&gt;posted on the blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:24:46.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23133" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:34:41.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the SO search what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;SO search is good for&lt;/a&gt;; use Google for what &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.de/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&amp;amp;source=hp&amp;amp;q=rse+eclipse+site%3Astackoverflow.com&amp;amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=rse+eclipse+site%3Astackoverflow.com&amp;amp;fp=f5335fc613b29a5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google is good for&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Or do what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23133/how-to-search-for-articles-with-two-or-more-keywords/23137#23137&quot;&gt;random said&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:34:41.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21629" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:43:13.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't found a way to reproduce it again either, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with cache corruption in firefox and nothing to do with your site.  It was bugging me and I eventually cleared the cache, the problem went away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for forgetting to update the post on meta, or the absolute failure of me to post the headers of my request to help you try and find the problem.  I would be a horrible bug-tester ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130602" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:43:13.863" />
  <row Id="23146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23120" CreationDate="2009-09-23T09:59:52.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there is value in teaching the asker what search terms are actually related to the question. In that case, mentioning that searching for some specific phrase produces valuable info is a good thing. It amounts to knowing what the true names of things are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even then, I try to salt the right vocabulary into my answer without specifically saying &quot;google these words&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are times that using LMGTFY is just really, really tempting, but I do try to resist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68204" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T09:59:52.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T09:59:52.150" />
  <row Id="23147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23149" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:00:45.983" Score="5" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted an answer, being convinced it was mistaken. I then went to check it, just in case, and turned out I was the mistaken, but the window had already passed. So, having the privileges I have, I trivially edited the question to be able to undo the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That all worked. But then I wanted to upvote the question as well, and the system wouldn't let me, showing the &quot;cannot modify the vote unless it is edited&quot; popup, even when the question had been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to wait 5 minutes, and do another edit to be able to upvote? Is this by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that I should be able to change from downvote to upvote directly, without having to wait for two edits (maybe my mistake was to change it from downvote to novote instead of directly to upvote.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Confirmed. If I make a second edit 5 minutes afterward I can actually upvote the answer. What I haven't tested is if I can directly change the vote from downvote to upvote without having this to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: I know the proper course of action would have been to do the check before downvoting. But I'm human and err sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 3: This is a dupe. It is here &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18788/vote-reversal-time-limit-concerns&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18788/vote-reversal-time-limit-concerns&lt;/a&gt; and the problem is indeed changing from down to no to up instead of directly from down to up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T10:08:59.197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:21:29.410" Title="Change a vote from downvote to upvote via editing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:09:07.997" Score="25" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just noticed that someone can Google my name and instantly know If I'm on Stack Overflow, because it shows the &quot;seen 6 minutes ago.&quot;  It's shown on the results screen, the searcher doesn't even have to click the search result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from having respect for Google search and feelings of joy for Stack Overflow getting good ratings there, I find it a bit &quot;big-brother&quot; creepy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we need &quot;last seen,&quot; anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a minimum I'd expect it to keep track using dates, not exact times.  But it should be removed altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132426" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T17:32:43.030" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T16:08:10.010" Title="&quot;Last seen&quot; time appears on Google" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23147" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:14:36.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the system's count and check, you threw in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18788/vote-reversal-time-limit-concerns/18827#18827&quot; title=&quot;vote happy soldier!&quot;&gt;way too many votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be aware that if you want to change your vote there are two different ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;cast initial upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;click upvote again to &quot;undo&quot; upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;click downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's 3 votes by our reckoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;cast initial upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;click downvote to convert your upvote to a downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's 2 votes by our reckoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't be surprised if a) is blocked, while b) is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And of course you can always re-vote after an edit, but if you are sloppy in the way you cast your votes (see above), you may be blocked regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by you undoing the vote, that was still counted as a vote action. And happening after the edit, you had one shot. If you had clicked the upvote right after the instead, that would have been still just the one vote action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:14:36.037" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23147" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:21:29.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It occurred to me the other day that telling me that my &quot;vote cannot be changed unless the question is edited&quot; is a waste of time, since I have enough rep to simply edit the question myself and then change the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why make me do that? If I have enough rep to edit the question the system should just let me change the vote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:21:29.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23148" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:24:16.580" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if the user does not click on the result, he gets a cached page from google to the best of my knowledge. Therefore he does not know whether the &quot;6 minutes ago&quot; actually was quite some time ago. Correct me if I am wrong. Clicking through to the site of course he can just hover over the string and get the exact zulu time of the last visit. My search result says &quot;Seen, 11 mins ago&quot; and my points are at 4742, so the page is 24h old at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it rather interesting to see when somebody was seen last, as I can then judge their involvement a little better. But I agree: It would suffice to use words like &quot;today&quot;, &quot;yesterday&quot; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:24:16.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23148" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:24:38.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google is only correct for a minute though. It still says &quot;6 mins ago&quot; but you profile now says &quot;38 mins ago&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't see that it matters anyway, all it tells you is that you're probably at a computer somewhere in the world right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:24:38.810" />
  <row Id="23153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23134" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:27:40.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some automated cleanup would be beneficial, although it would have to be carefully considered. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ABots/Status&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia uses bots&lt;/a&gt; quite successfully in this way. Despite what users on meta claim, manual community cleanup is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; sufficient to keep up with the incorrect grammar and typos. Take a look through any random selection of questions on Stack Overflow. You'll find them full of errors, even ones with lots of votes and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the truth is most people just don't really care, as long as the intent of the question can be discerned well enough to provide some kind of answer. I don't have any hard evidence, but I suspect the vast majority of 2K+ users don't edit much at all. It's easier to just &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1451626/pagerank-and-its-mathematics-explanation-needed&quot;&gt;vote to close&lt;/a&gt;. Personally, I edit every now and again if I like a question, but it's pretty boring and completely thankless work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a related way, I also think a lot of tag cleanup tasks could be automated (I think some already are), but that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12609/writing-a-tagging-bot&quot;&gt;wasn't a popular opinion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that does surprise me is how ambivalent/negative the reaction seems to be to this sort of proposal. On a website dominated by people whose job it is to automate things, I find the answer 'we have people to do that manually' difficult to understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd definitely appreciate some insight from those who prefer the other side of this particular fence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:27:40.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23148" CreationDate="2009-09-23T10:36:28.883" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely agree. I dislike this being watched 'feature' immensely, and don't find it helpful at all. What's the point of it? There's very little you can infer from it. Someone might be just refreshing their user page in between compiles, or they might be answering question after question. You can't tell from that number. If you want to know what people are actually &lt;em&gt;doing&lt;/em&gt;, why not just look at their recent tab on their user page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T10:36:28.883" />
  <row Id="23155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23092" CreationDate="2009-09-23T11:50:10.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, because both Dreamweaver and Blend are programmer/designer oriented programs, it is more likely that the quesitons you have will be appropriate for SO. Similarly, Visual Studio questions (even simple ones) are generally for StackOverflow because the purposes of those programs are to work with and generate code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not as familiar with Dreamweaver, but Blend at the very least has a strong component that is related to user-generated and not computer generated code, for that reason, it is easiest to cluster the Blend related questions all together on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T11:50:10.887" />
  <row Id="23157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23576" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:01:05.700" Score="1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;See here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1461819/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1461819/&lt;/a&gt;  &amp;lt;-- This question has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was edited so that the title and body were blank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Brandon points out, this was accomplished by editing the question to all spaces. I suggest we start enforcing the character limit (by ignoring white space). I agree that the 15 character limit for comments is a nuissance, so I also suggest this be shortened (maybe all the way to 1 character).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bug has already been documented. However, I believe the question I referenced above demonstrates a unique effect of this bug so I wouldn't consider this post to be a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T09:06:04.507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:06:18.750" Title="It is possible to edit a question to make it completely blank" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;empty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23157" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:03:36.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is. It's not actually blank, it consists of spaces which lets it bypass the character limit. It's a known &quot;bug&quot;, but its a bug that most of the community likes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:03:36.850" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23163" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:21:24.257" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there must be something in place to stop this from happening, I'm just wondering what it is.  If someone posts a question or answer and gets a bunch of up votes, can that same person go back later, change a letter, and then be eligible again to get up voted from the same people who have already voted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if someone goes back and makes a very trivial modification to their question, is is still re-submitted to the top of the newest list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131460" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:51:40.007" Title="Are users able to edit one small word or letter in order to get more up votes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22869" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:22:16.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another update: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increased command timeout to 2 minutes (it was set &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; too low) and trapped a certain class of error I was missing that should eliminate most yellow screens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:22:16.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T14:22:16.550" />
  <row Id="23162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64040" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:22:44.740" Score="4" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;A notifier program (icon on the main panel) that would indicate when new messages / comments are received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Features:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Permanent Icon on the main panel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Icon changes state when new messages for user are available&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Icon changes state when profile for user is updated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Real-time notification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Works on KDE and GNOME&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastEditorUserId="135835" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T14:31:30.340" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T22:07:03.653" Title="Is there a &quot;Stackoverflow&quot; notifier for Linux?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;linux&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23160" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:25:17.683" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone has already voted on a question or answer, they can't vote again just because it's been edited. They can &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; their vote (i.e. &lt;em&gt;remove&lt;/em&gt; an up or down vote) when it is edited, but they can't add another upvote if they already gave it one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing bumps a post back up to the top of the active list if you are not within a short window of the last edit you made (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/the-editing-grace-period-on-answers&quot; title=&quot;keeping it in the same window&quot;&gt;5 minutes&lt;/a&gt;). For example, if you post a question, then edit it within 2 minutes, it won't get bumped back to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes only small edits are needed, like spelling or capitalization. If you see someone do this once or twice, that's not unusual. If you see someone &lt;em&gt;continuously&lt;/em&gt; making minor and unnecessary changes in an apparent effort to keep their post at or near the top of the active list, this is generally considered abuse. In such a case, I generally leave a comment or flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also an auto-bump that is routinely done by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community user&lt;/a&gt; to give old unanswered questions more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question itself is migrated, and the same people who voted have associated accounts at the destination site, then they can vote again. But the votes before the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378/do-migrated-questions-migrate-reputation-and-badges&quot; title=&quot;shower the cost of votes&quot;&gt;migration will no longer shower with reputation&lt;/a&gt; and instead go to the Community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T14:51:40.007" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:51:40.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23035" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:30:51.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why, but I've noticed a couple of time that using the backtick rather than four leading spaces works better for some HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:30:51.667" />
  <row Id="23165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23166" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:39:38.593" Score="4" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Came across this question today that didn't have a title and thus nothing to click in the question view to open it. However, clicking the vote count seemed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1466407/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1466407/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like at a minimum it should show a generic title like &quot;(Untitled Question)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:26:34.407" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:26:34.407" Title="How did this question manage to get added without a title?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23165" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:44:54.090" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way: you can create a question, submit, click edit, delete the title and all the text, and leave nothing but 15 characters in its place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do that in under 5 minutes, there will be no revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:44:54.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23165" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:45:07.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title and contents were probably removed in an edit, after posting, because they were very inflammatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:45:07.927" />
  <row Id="23168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:50:01.757" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing a post there is no clear way to discard changes, one can click the &lt;code&gt;Return to Question/Answer&lt;/code&gt; link but that's not entirely intuitive and it prompts for confirmation to &quot;navigate away from page&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest adding a &lt;kbd&gt;Discard Edits&lt;/kbd&gt; button which I don't think should prompt for confirmation (since it's an explicit action). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ideal would be to discard edits without prompting but add a Gmail style link to go back to editing from where you left off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T18:12:32.287" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T18:12:32.287" Title="Add discard button when editing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23168" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:52:57.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a two step workaround for this, if the post has an edit history, you can select a previous revision and then the current revision again, which will effectively discard all your edits, without leaving the post and returning again. This will cause the prompt, confirming you want to leave even though you've made changes, but doesn't require reloading the whole page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, ctrl-z, or the &quot;undo&quot; button (top right above the edit text box), will allow you to go through all the changes you have made and undo them, click this enough and you will return to the original state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:52:57.837" />
  <row Id="23170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23168" CreationDate="2009-09-23T14:53:17.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For comments: &lt;kbd&gt; F5 &lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions: &lt;kbd&gt; Bakcspace &lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There you have it! SO is so cool that it even has buttons on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; keyboeard!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T14:53:17.417" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23174" CreationDate="2009-09-23T15:03:40.517" Score="6" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two days back my reputation dropped to 282 from 900 without no reason.No down votes or any such similar issues.&#xA;What was the problem?&#xA;Was it a technical fault?What should I do now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somebody out here from moderators to help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T14:30:07.350" Title="Why reputation suddenly dropped from 900 to 282 without any reason?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T15:05:55.347" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent Stack Overflow podcast, fifty or sixty something, Joel Spolsky commented on social network sites replacing real social groups and interactions that would consist of your friends at the bar or pub. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot google the transcripts for the exact quote and was hoping someone remembers the podcast and the point in the show where the statement was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136301" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T08:12:14.277" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T08:12:14.277" Title="In what podcast and at what mark did Joel comment on pre-pacakaged social interaction apps like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;&lt;facebook&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23171" CreationDate="2009-09-23T15:06:49.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most likely answer (with a drop of rep that significant) is that your reputation was recalculated, for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T15:06:49.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23171" CreationDate="2009-09-23T15:10:39.833" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possibility is that there is a background function that attempts to find &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you?referer=sphere%5Fsearch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suspicious voting patterns&lt;/a&gt;, and undoes them, which can result in a dramatic change in reputation for some users. In some cases this is because a user has setup a shell account to upvote everything they do. However, sometimes it is simply because someone decided to follow everything you do and upvote it, which at some point the algorithm may detect and undo the upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T15:10:39.833" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23171" CreationDate="2009-09-23T15:14:43.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a side note you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;associate your account&lt;/a&gt; here on meta with your StackOverflow account and get 100 rep bonus on each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T15:14:43.820" />
  <row Id="23176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23171" CreationDate="2009-09-23T15:16:43.800" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If any of your questions or answers were either deleted or migrated to another site, the Rep you earned from them will be removed when a Rep recalculation is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T15:16:43.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23128" CreationDate="2009-09-23T15:29:24.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also add a referral code which would toss the SO team a kickback if someone buys the book. I like these forms of non-intrusive moneymaking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't own a StackExchange site, but I could imagine that that would be a neat feature to add as additional option for a StackExchange owner to make a few bucks.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T15:29:24.070" />
  <row Id="23178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T16:14:25.563" Score="8" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to suggest checking the markup of SO to uncover bugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, not for accessibility or philosophical reasons, and definitely not for the sake of validation itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And forget the goal of producing 100% valid HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just talking about a sensible sanity check to catch simple mistakes before they multiply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, many pages have multiple elements with the same ID value. This is likely to lead to undesired behaviour of CSS or JavaScript in at least some browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18333" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T16:19:13.857" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T02:29:22.163" Title="Use an HTML Validator on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;maintenance&gt;&lt;development&gt;&lt;validation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="23179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23178" CreationDate="2009-09-23T16:21:01.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is that the HTML source is all ready &quot;too far gone&quot;, and that rewriting the code to validate is going to be deemed ... &lt;em&gt;(ahem)&lt;/em&gt; ... &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;more effort than it is worth&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we're not talking best practices and philosophy, but pure results, it's fair to say the dev team at this point is (probably) going to concentrate on actual reported problems rather than potential problems that have not been demonstrated to exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;em&gt;if it ain't (demonstrably) broke...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T16:21:01.263" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T16:43:18.287" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2261/contribute-to-bounty&quot;&gt;Contribute to bounty?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen questions that have a bounty on them, but I'm interested in the answer as well, and I've wanted to augment with the bounty with some points of my own. Can we get a way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a question with a 100 point bounty on it, and I'm willing to throw 50 of my own points into the mix to make the bounty 150. I recognize that I won't get any control over the question/answer selection as a result, but it lets me do something more than just upvote a question if I want it answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130851" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T16:46:57.813" ClosedDate="2009-09-23T16:50:00.583" Title="Add my own bounty to a question with bounty outstanding" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23157" CreationDate="2009-09-23T16:44:35.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, any empty posts are easily removed ;-p I can't say I've seen this hugely, so I can't say it is much of an &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; problem. Most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be &quot;fixed&quot;? probably; is it pressingly urgent? probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T16:44:35.710" />
  <row Id="23184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10144" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:01:39.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this can only apply to questions which are over a certain age. Maybe they gain additional &quot;Accept&quot; points the longer they stay unanswered, which would encourage users to dig around in the older &quot;unanswered&quot; bin to find some additional rep and close out the languishing questions that have fallen off the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130851" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:01:39.000" />
  <row Id="23185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10071" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:06:23.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe switch to Microsoft CDN?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/15/announcing-the-microsoft-ajax-cdn.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/15/announcing-the-microsoft-ajax-cdn.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are less corporate offices that would block microsoft...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:06:23.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23202" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:26:54.527" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a newcomer in a few stackexchange sites, and it's very frustating to be at reputation 1 and not being able to upvote anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there could be a small incentive like awarding a badge for the first two upvotes to a user, or for upvoting users with less than 20 rep, or something like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T19:03:00.507" Title="Badge for upvoting new users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23178" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:36:44.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can always clean as they go. Nothing says that the entire site needs to be cleaned in one fell swoop. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I've been working on a certain high-traffic site for over 2 years to get it dragged into some sort of validation. I work when I can and slowly, slowly it is getting there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136311" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:36:44.007" />
  <row Id="23189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:37:54.223" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YO JON I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU AND IMM'A LETCHA FINISH BUT I JUST GOTTA SAY THAT JEFF ATWOOD'S QUESTION WAS THE BEST APRIL FOOL'S QUESTION OF ALL TIME.  &lt;em&gt;OF ALL TIME!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:37:54.223" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T17:37:54.223" />
  <row Id="23190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:41:21.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I make the 3D in my app? &#xA;Thanks a lot!!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:41:21.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T17:41:21.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:44:42.353" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is a follow-up to this one that has been closed almost immediately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1467324/have-you-ever-been-responsible-for-a-downsize&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1467324/have-you-ever-been-responsible-for-a-downsize&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the question is not programming related in the sense that no actual code is needed to answer it but the question is definately &lt;strong&gt;programmer&lt;/strong&gt; related as only programmers should answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such a case, where should the question be posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very interested in hearing other programmers experience and anecdote on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T19:15:43.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T17:44:52.540" Title="Where to ask non-programming questions that are only for programmers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;not-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23191" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:49:03.437" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of the trilogy sites (Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User) are appropriate for your question because this &quot;type&quot; of question is not appropriate for these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow (and the trilogy, in general) are Q&amp;amp;A sites for &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; questions with &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; answers. They are not designed to be &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt; sites. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand your desire to &lt;em&gt;chat&lt;/em&gt; about non-programming issues with programmers but Stack Overflow just is not that place. Perhaps a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/List.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;traditional discussion forum&lt;/a&gt; or a blog post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T18:06:29.677" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T18:06:29.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T17:49:03.437" />
  <row Id="23193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:50:32.140" Score="4" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not knowing the click through rates of advertisements in general here on SO makes this somewhat philosophical and subjective (hence CW), but is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://telerik.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Telerik&lt;/a&gt; promotion one that is getting more clicks vs. others like IssueTrak?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will other vendors look at this kind of model rather than standard advertising in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I'm specifically referring to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/reputation%20points%20Final%5FBanner.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I personally had never used Telerik before this and had spent quite a bit of time on Infragistics.  I can now safely say that Telerik will be my preferred product..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="2541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T11:24:40.953" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T11:24:40.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T17:50:32.140" Title="Is The Telerik &quot;Advertising&quot; Model One to Follow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23186" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:50:51.797" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think voting should be based strictly on the merit of the question/answer. Any incentive to vote for a lower quality post will only hurt the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:50:51.797" />
  <row Id="23196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23193" CreationDate="2009-09-23T17:56:49.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I clicked on the Telerik ad and browsed through their products for a while, and I don't even do .Net. Just sayin'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T17:56:49.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T17:56:49.180" />
  <row Id="23197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23178" CreationDate="2009-09-23T18:05:19.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a problem with the &quot;errors&quot; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2F&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T18:05:19.633" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23193" CreationDate="2009-09-23T18:05:52.627" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on the results of course.You know, those results only the relevant people know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one, vote for more promotions like this. Freebies!!! More freebies!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I had never heard of Telerik before and now I'm going real soon now to give a test drive to their products. That might be good for them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T18:05:52.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T18:05:52.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T18:05:57.213" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't the rel=&quot;canonical&quot; on SO used in a wrong way so that it prevents google from indexing every other page than the first of questions that have +1 pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rel=&quot;canonical&quot; hint should be used to point to the canonical URL when the content of the pages is identical, e.g. when the content is just ordered by another criteria or if you see the page optimized for printing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URLs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411394/how-to-become-a-faster-programmer&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411394/how-to-become-a-faster-programmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411394?sort=oldest&amp;amp;page=2#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411394?sort=oldest&amp;amp;page=2#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411394?sort=newest&amp;amp;page=3#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411394?sort=newest&amp;amp;page=3#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all have the  hint, but contain totally different content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did some site searches for exact phrases from these pages and only got results that are listed under the canonical URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you confirm this and what do you think about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136304" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T19:47:37.183" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T20:29:33.983" Title="rel=&quot;canonical&quot; on SO used incorrectly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23199" CreationDate="2009-09-23T18:09:00.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the thinking here is that the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; content is identical, so if you google for terms that are found in the question, you don't want every page of answers to appear in your search results.  Instead you can go to SO and page through the answers yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to motivation, they are probably thinking that you are going to be googling for your question rather than your answer.  After all, you kind of have to know what the answer is in order to search for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6193/suggestion-use-relcanonical-to-improve-stack-overflows-google-results&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (and Jeff's response) it's explicitly stated that this is the reason (preventing the same question from uselessly appearing multiple times for the same search).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T20:29:33.983" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T20:29:33.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23186" CreationDate="2009-09-23T19:03:00.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the SE sites, while in Beta should give out 100 rep to get things going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T19:03:00.507" />
  <row Id="23203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23191" CreationDate="2009-09-23T19:15:43.840" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddit's programming section&lt;/a&gt; for that type of question since they're more discussion oriented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find many of their discussions worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T19:15:43.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T19:15:43.840" />
  <row Id="23204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T19:56:29.287" Score="4" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459403/missing-features-in-visual-studio-closed&quot;&gt;question about features that people thought were missing in Visual Studio&lt;/a&gt; on SO.  I tagged my question as subjective when asking, but it was quickly closed as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presume that subjective alone is not a reason to close a question.  There are many questions out there that are purely subjective from which I personally have gained a lot from reading - world's greatest developer mouse, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested to hear opinions at to why this question is judged &quot;argumentative&quot;, other than in the positive sense of that word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: The question is no longer marked as closed, and there is no apparent revision history! Man, is that freaky to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136320" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T17:49:20.390" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T18:17:34.847" Title="Why is this &quot;argumentative&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="23205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23204" CreationDate="2009-09-23T19:58:37.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been said many times &quot;just because question x is an offender and is still open doesn't mean yours automatically gets to be, too&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with the closers, often an especially subjective question that's not especially argumentative will be closed, probably because subjective questions tend to get argumentative because they are somewhat religious. It just happens. If enough people disagree, it will get reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T20:03:48.947" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T20:03:48.947" />
  <row Id="23206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23204" CreationDate="2009-09-23T19:58:40.517" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone could technically argue that nothing is missing from some piece of software and others may think differently.  Subjective questions always bring some sort of potential argumentive component to them. They go hand in hand many times and others not so much. It is the nature of such questions to attract that kind of responce depending on how passionate the answerers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone has an opinion, some of which feel the need to cram that down everyone they know. Others just speak their mind, respectful, and will listen to other points of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T18:17:34.847" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T18:17:34.847" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23204" CreationDate="2009-09-23T19:59:59.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two unrelated concepts, subjectivity and argumentativity, are grouped together in one reason. Most people vote to close for S&amp;amp;A because something is subjective, and the &quot;argumentative&quot; part is there because of the system. Many posts closed for that reason aren't really that argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd be interested to hear opinions at to why this question is judged &quot;argumentative&quot;, other than in the positive sense of that word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The argument that some people (not myself) would use is that the positive sense of that word makes it a discussion question, which is expressly mentioned in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T19:59:59.670" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23204" CreationDate="2009-09-23T20:05:47.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your case, I don't feel the question isn't argumentative per se. However, the reason to close is a single string -- &quot;subjective and argumentative.&quot; (I know; I just used it on a different question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This term has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19260/split-subjective-and-argumentative-close-reason&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/193/should-we-rephrase-or-clarify-subjective-and-argumentative&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12015/losing-my-way-on-the-meaning-of-subjective-and-argumentative&quot;&gt;times&lt;/a&gt; here on Meta. I'm personally of the mindset that the terminology should change, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that subjective questions are no longer as well-tolerated as they once were. A lot's changed in the last year, and this is one of them. There are still subjective questions which remain open, but I'd guess (without querying the sandbox to verify) that they're fewer in number than those which get closed, as yours did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a somewhat newer train of thought that merely marking your question as wiki doesn't excuse subjective questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last thing: You only see the most popular close reason. It is plausible that some of the people who voted to close your question voted for other reasons -- including, believe it or not, belongs on SuperUser. I've seen a recent trend toward moving the software-specific (IE, not code) related aspects of IDEs to SU. I don't know for fact the close reasons of any of those users, but this is another possible consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T20:05:47.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23204" CreationDate="2009-09-23T20:06:54.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't. You simply asked people for a list of features they wanted to see. You did not ask for any kind of discussion (which could have devolved into argument).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean your question should not have been closed, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the real problem is that &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; question is subjective and argumentative. I'm basically arguing with the people who answered that your other post was argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T20:06:54.727" />
  <row Id="23210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-09-23T20:27:21.990" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I see a very good answer I sometimes go to the user's profile and scan a few of his/her answers/questions from the fields I know about and if I like them I up vote them too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened once with a offensive answer I saw, feeling that one down-vote was insufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I still only vote on posts I think warrant the vote (up or down) but by looking at a specific user's posts I raise the likelihood of her/him getting my votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3848" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T20:27:21.990" />
  <row Id="23211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23212" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:28:37.947" Score="2" ViewCount="1686" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19756/how-does-the-comment-system-and-comments-work&quot;&gt;How does the comment system and comments work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not been able to figure out how to add comments to questions/answers on stackoverflow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I wanted to comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/818285/how-to-get-uicontrols-by-their-id-in-iphone-dev-environment/818291#818291&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question but there is no way to add a comment that I can see.  I ended up adding another answer that corrects/clarifies the first answer.  That doesn't seem like the best thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After adding the answer, I can see that there is an &quot;add comment&quot; link below my answer only.  But nowhere else on any other question or answer do I get an &quot;add comment&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136324" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T09:41:06.247" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T08:56:31.570" Title="How do I add a comment to an answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23211" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:31:04.683" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverlow works with a reputation system. You dont have enough reputation to comment according to the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amass enough reputation points and&#xA;  Stack Overflow will allow you to go&#xA;  beyond simply asking and answering&#xA;  questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;15     Vote up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;15     Flag offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;50   Leave comments†&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;† you can always comment on your questions and answers, and any answers to questions you've asked, even with 1 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to ask/answer more interesting questions so you could comment. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T05:43:41.910" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T05:43:41.910" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23218" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:38:09.440" Score="8" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that we're out of moderators on SuperUser. Diago's off for the next 2 weeks (seeing how much he works to keep SU running properly, he deserves it), and all the other moderators have had limited interaction lately with SU. Looking at their profiles, they've mostly stopped answering any questions by September 14.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm worried that this might become a problem; in my opinion, moderators have a very important role in the well functioning of these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T21:44:02.723" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T05:41:49.373" Title="Where are the SU moderators?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23211" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:43:31.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these kind of questions might be a classic example of why joel wrote a blog post suggesting that you shouldnt disable menu item, you should just tell people why they cant click on an item if they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea to leave the add comment link and simply tell people why they cant add a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132349" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T21:43:31.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23216" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:44:23.393" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not answering questions doesn't mean that they aren't doing moderator duties.  Perhaps they are just too busy moderating to contribute answers.  Looking at just a few of their profiles shows that most have visited SU within the last day.  Check the &quot;Seen&quot; parameter in the profile rather than the last question answered time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T21:44:23.393" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23193" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:47:40.033" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hooked me, too.  I'm now a licensed user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T21:47:40.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-23T21:47:40.033" />
  <row Id="23220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23225" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:55:16.277" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to delete some of my questions and answers on SO. I can't because there are accepted answers (Q) or they have been accepted (A). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, SO has a very easy sign-up process, I can't remember clicking away some EULA (please correct me if I missed that). That leaves the question: who is the intellectual owner of the Q&amp;amp;A on SO (trilogy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel very deeply that I should be able to delete what I posted. For answers that would be easy, just remove the condition about Accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Questions, where other users might have posted worth-while answers, it is a little more complicated. As a suggestion, answerers should be able to see a deleted question (like 10K+ users, for some time) so that they can salvage there answer and do a answer-your-own-question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastEditorUserId="60761" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T23:03:34.890" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T23:03:34.890" Title="Who owns the Questions | Answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:55:25.417" Score="-6" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will the impact of &lt;a href=&quot;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sidewiki&lt;/a&gt; on SO be positive, negative, or zero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59768" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T22:37:33.253" Title="Google Sidewiki impact" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-23T21:59:13.537" Score="9" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c-programming&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[c-programming]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is completely unecessary, as every question on the site should be programming related, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[c]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; should suffice. For the nonce, I have retagged all three questions bearing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c-programming&quot;&gt;c-programming&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am less certain about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/unix-programming&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[unix-programming]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. There are currently over 50 question tagged this way, and I can see an argument that it differentiates between questions about using unix for programming and those about programming to the unix API. None-the-less, I think that this argument is weak (we don't have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mac-programming&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[mac-programming]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows-programming&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows-programming]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has only 7 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm for getting rid of all three, and only using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/unix&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[unix]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mac&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[mac]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 up votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 down vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 suggestion (4 net votes) to merge &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c-programming&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[c-programming]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c-programming&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[c]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the various OS-programming tags with the plain OS tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 suggestion (2 net votes) to kill &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c-programming&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[c-programming]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but keep the OS-programming tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 suggestion (0 net votes) to leave well enough alone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A trend may be emerging, but still not much passion here, and I will take no further action unless and until a stronger consensus develops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T01:57:01.933" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T01:57:01.933" Title="Remove c-programing, unix-programing, and windows-programming tags from Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23220" CreationDate="2009-09-23T22:01:10.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki link&lt;/a&gt; at the bottom right of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T22:01:10.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23220" CreationDate="2009-09-23T22:02:40.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The content is licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC-Wiki&lt;/a&gt; (see the legal stuff at the bottom of the page), which explicitly leaves intact your moral rights as the author:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to the right of licensors&#xA;  to request removal of their name from&#xA;  the work when used in a derivative or&#xA;  collective they don't like, copyright&#xA;  laws in most jurisdictions around the&#xA;  world (with the notable exception of&#xA;  the US except in very limited&#xA;  circumstances) grant creators &quot;moral&#xA;  rights&quot; which may provide some redress&#xA;  if a derivative work represents a&#xA;  &quot;derogatory treatment&quot; of the&#xA;  licensor's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may request that SO remove your name from any question or answer that you don't want associated with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T22:02:40.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23221" CreationDate="2009-09-23T22:13:38.707" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I refuse to risk my everlasting soul by practicing divination for such a banal purpose.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; interested in finding an answer here, I suggest you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1696/add-a-magic-8-ball-feature-to-the-ask-a-question-page&quot;&gt;vote for this enhancement&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though? This idea has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikalong.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tried before&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%5Fannotation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;several times&lt;/a&gt;, actually) - unless it develops a large and dedicated following, i highly doubt it'll have any impact on anything, at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T01:28:17.013" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T01:28:17.013" />
  <row Id="23229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23237" CreationDate="2009-09-23T22:25:57.747" Score="1" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that every week, or almost every day, a new question appears as to why generics in C#/.NET don't support co- and contra-variance (eg &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1468714/generics-inheritance-and-casting&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1443341/explicit-casting-problem/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). There must be a reason why people aren't finding the questions other people have asked before they post their own ; is there some way we can have a 'standard answer' to covariance questions, or make it easier for people to see other people have the same issues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136327" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T06:06:50.023" Title="Reduce number of questions about generics covariance in C#/.NET" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23243" CreationDate="2009-09-23T22:51:10.603" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get a list of featured questions, sorted by date they became featured?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to do this because I try to look at the list of featured questions every few days to see if there are any new ones I could answer.  But I'd love to be able to skip over old ones and only examine questions I haven't seen before.  Possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136315" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T01:33:45.193" Title="sort featured questions by &quot;featured date&quot; -- how?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;featured-tab&gt;&lt;featured-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23233" CreationDate="2009-09-23T22:54:32.640" Score="1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=004055899985439311584%3Atwnxsyrgj4a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;custom google search&lt;/a&gt; a little while back that searched the &quot;family&quot; of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to do a search and got this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Forbidden&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your client does not have permission&#xA;  to get URL&#xA;  /custom?cx=[LOTS OF GIBBERISH]&#xA;  from this server. (Client IP address: 63.230.246.50)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We apologize for your inconvenience,&#xA;  but this request could not be&#xA;  processed. Please click here to&#xA;  continue your search on Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried a few times over the course of an hour and I get the same message. Are other folks running into this issue (I think there are a few of these custom searches out there) or is it just me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:00:02.013" Title="Are the google custom searches getting blocked now?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23216" CreationDate="2009-09-23T22:55:16.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Diago spends a lot of his SU time (and he spends a good chunk of time on there) doing mod duties. Closing questions, reading through the current flags and responding appropriately, etc. Don't worry, they are there. TheTXI will not respond very often, but will moderate flags quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your part of the 3k+ crew, so use those close/flag votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-23T23:12:30.067" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T23:12:30.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23231" CreationDate="2009-09-23T23:37:07.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mmm, that's a little creepy (especially with the IP address there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried making a custom standard search myself for the trilogy sites, checked the &quot;I accept the terms&quot; checkbox, and clicked the Next button, and got &quot;Bad Request&quot; several times before it finally accepted it.  Is buggy, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the new search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=014887575466180363695%3Ag0ck1r1qso4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=014887575466180363695:g0ck1r1qso4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't work for you, that probably means that it only works for me (muahaha!).  If it does work, that may mean there is a bandwidth limit that was exceeded on yours, or that a time limit was exceeded.  Is your Google account current?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a mention somewhere on the internets about an IFrame problem, but I don't see how that could apply here.  Are you running it inside an IFrame?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T23:37:07.570" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23220" CreationDate="2009-09-23T23:45:42.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that licensing and ownership are two distinct concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You own the content you contribute, but by posting it you give license for your content to be used under the terms of the license (which is, as others have pointed out, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic&lt;/a&gt; license).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T23:45:42.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23229" CreationDate="2009-09-23T23:57:05.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system is already designed to limit duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After typing in the title, the system shows you a list of possibly related questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Over 1,600 users can vote to close duplicate questions, which are then linked to the original question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many thousands more can leave comments indicating that a question might be a duplicate or flag for moderator attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a duplicate post on generics covariance in C#/.NET, pick the best existing answer (as your &quot;standard&quot; answer) and submit a comment with a link to the duplicate question so it can be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what else can be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-23T23:57:05.147" />
  <row Id="23236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23216" CreationDate="2009-09-24T00:12:40.597" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;not at all unusual&lt;/strong&gt; for users of a site who become moderators to scale back their contribution to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Podcast #48: &lt;em&gt;On selecting your top-contributors as moderators:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the risks is that when you take one of your best teachers and&#xA;  turn them into the principal of the&#xA;  school, you lose a great teacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you promote your best contributors, in some scenarios, you lose those contributors. They stop contributing in the same way. They spend more time policing the system rather than helping to build it. It doesn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; happen. But it is common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T04:28:54.500" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T04:28:54.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23229" CreationDate="2009-09-24T00:24:27.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've pondered this one myself. It's not unusual to see several covariance/contravariance .NET questions in a single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the reason this comes up so often is because if you know the terminology, you already know the answer. So the people who end up asking can only do so by simply describing what appears to be strange behavior in their particular use case. There are so many ways to describe the effects without using overlapping keywords, and even if a covariance question did pop up as a suggestion, it's unlikely they would recognize that as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would like to do (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15270/official-list-of-common-questions-answers-for-dupes&quot;&gt;have suggested&lt;/a&gt;) is that we keep a running list of the &quot;authoritative source&quot; for questions like this, perhaps here on Meta. We can pick the best &quot;.NET covariance&quot; question/answer and consistently point all new ones to that one. It doesn't stop the new questions, but it does canonize the best answer and consolidate the amount of effort that goes into answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T00:24:27.797" />
  <row Id="23238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23229" CreationDate="2009-09-24T00:25:05.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user doesn't understand the concept in the first place or doesn't realize that it's called variance, there is no way he could realize it's a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we should definitely avoid is harassing these types of users for posting duplicates when they may not even realize they are doing so. Simply use your vote to close as a duplicate (if you can) or leave a link as rcartaino suggests. That way, the user will realize the name of the concept of what the underlying problem is and possibly research it a bit from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T00:25:05.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T01:12:19.363" Score="15" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the Stack Overflow trilogy is to be a resource for googlers, I usually try to go back over my questions/answers and improve them in whatever way that I can. However, I feel this may be inappropriate if there is already an accepted answer because edits bump the (already answered) question to the front page I am wondering if I should refrain from this habit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way that I can edit my posts &lt;strong&gt;without&lt;/strong&gt; bumping them? If there isn't, I really think there should be a way to do this (hence the 'feature-request' tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130049" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T14:56:42.877" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T14:56:42.877" Title="Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23241" CreationDate="2009-09-24T01:25:56.050" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first off, no, there's no way to prevent your edit from bumping the question. Which isn't to say that any edit will &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; cause the question to appear on the front page - but you're better off not trying to put it into a scenario where it absolutely won't appear there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel this may be inappropriate if there is already an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone might have a better answer. They might read your question and post that better answer. Then you could accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or someone might take the time to edit the existing answer, and improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the Q&amp;amp;A might just catch someone's eye, draw them in, and teach them something they didn't know but now appreciate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't knock the bumps. The bumps are good!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T01:25:56.050" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="23243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23230" CreationDate="2009-09-24T01:33:45.193" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Featured, or bounty, questions are already sorted in the &quot;Featured&quot; tab by the date the bounty expires, soonest first.  Since bounties expire 7 days from being posted (&quot;becoming featured&quot;), this is effectively already the sort order, earlier-featured questions appearing first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To find the new ones, browse to the last page and work backwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T01:33:45.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23171" CreationDate="2009-09-24T02:14:09.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, looking at your history of questions, I notice you had a bounty on some of them, and accepted answers on them two days ago.  You also edited someone else's question, and answered it, gaining a bounty from &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;.  It's all that activity in a short time period from someone fairly low on reputation to begin with that probably looks suspicious to the automated checkers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136258" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T02:14:09.160" />
  <row Id="23250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22063" CreationDate="2009-09-24T02:37:59.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  Per discussion below, I favor adding the &quot;stop sign&quot; to a question if it is done &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; the question is closed.  The question gets marked &quot;Closed as Exact Duplicate,&quot; when it is closed (making it crystal clear to everyone what happened), so if you really want a permanent link you can put it in the comments where the OP cannot delete it, or flag it for moderator attention so they can roll the question back and lock it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To the downvoters:&lt;/strong&gt;  You might want to read the discussion below first before you pull the trigger.  I didn't realize that the system now inserts the stop sign automatically, after the question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;possible duplicates&quot; edit is rude enough without making it uneditable. It's only purpose is to get the question closed faster for those who feel the urgent need to get it closed. I've thought all along that it is an abuse of the system, and that comments are far more suitable, but the community disagrees, so I acquiesced. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave it alone; it's good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T03:23:28.817" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T03:23:28.817" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="23253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23216" CreationDate="2009-09-24T03:22:59.830" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is entirely reasonable that the moderators are busy moderating and not busy actually answering and asking questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of my activity on SU is generally spent responding to flags. My knowledge of basic computer troubleshooting is not exactly enough to make me a highly successful user of that site anyway, but I will attempt to answer what I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T03:22:59.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22063" CreationDate="2009-09-24T03:52:15.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also cases where someone else comes along and edits it so that it doesn't seem like a duplicate anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited the question: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1456608/how-do-i-differentiate-between-beta-versions-and-normal-versions&quot;&gt;How do I differentiate between beta versions and normal versions?&lt;/a&gt; to make the question seem less like a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverfhttp%3A//stackoverflow.com/questions/615227/how-to-do-version-numberslow.com/questions/615227/how-to-do-version-numbers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to do version numbers?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note that they are very similar, but the first person to vote-to-close, was also the last person to vote-to-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to point out that when a question gets reopened, those links do not get automatically removed. So I, or someone else, would have to come along and remove them. They would also have to do so, &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; someone sees it, because they might decide to vote-to-close, again. ( Which sort-of happened on that question, Ólafur forgot to remove a comment he added. &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;It has since been removed&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something you may not have realized, that became a feature, &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; users had already started editing-in duplicate links. Basically that feature was added to reduce the manual work for closing a question as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T03:52:15.800" />
  <row Id="23255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23256" CreationDate="2009-09-24T03:55:57.027" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dupe checker isn't finding one, so I don't feel quite so bad about asking this. If it is a dupe, please let me know; I'm happy to close it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed a comment by random on a certain &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23239/is-super-user-only-for-personal-computers/23240#23240&quot;&gt;Meta post&lt;/a&gt;. I didn't notice the question ID of the question I was looking at, but I did notice (upon mousing over random's link) a title of &quot;Where is your pony God now?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to admit this, but I was intrigued, as ponies are one of the memes here. So I opened it in a new tab and discovered that it was just TheTXI's answer for the same question. (Which I upvoted, then downvoted the accepted answer; I think for obvious reasons.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I tried a little experiment, and surfed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23239/what-the-bloody-fart/23240&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;, which I just made up off the top of my head. Naturally, it goes to the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the title isn't an intrinsic part of the URL (that is, something used by the system), why is it there? I understand why the system would ignore it -- we change these titles all the time, and it would totally break permalinking. But why is it there at all if it's impotent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T04:09:51.447" Title="Why is the question title (sort of) in the S[OFU] URLs?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23255" CreationDate="2009-09-24T04:02:49.960" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title (with characters stripped) is in the URL to make it easier for people to read the full urls (Just by looking at the URL for this question you immediately know what it is about, because of the title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Google tends to favor pages that have the search terms in the URL over ones that don't. Therefore, it will bump them up a bit higher in the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the title is only in the question purely for 'superficial' reasons, SE does not give it any importance in identifying the page that is requested. The question number (meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/&lt;strong&gt;23255&lt;/strong&gt;) is all that is needed, so the rest is simply discarded. This has the... 'side effect' of users changing the URLS to questions when they link to it. I would assume that this has no effect on the Google results because of the use of the &lt;code&gt;canonical&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T04:09:51.447" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T04:09:51.447" />
  <row Id="23257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23193" CreationDate="2009-09-24T04:05:21.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This really isn't an advertising model. It's a bona fide thank-you to Stack Overflow members from our friends at Telerik. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, let's think about it. It's a promotion that's precision-targeted to an extremely small number (250?) of members (many of whom are not even .NET developers) to &lt;em&gt;give away&lt;/em&gt; a product? Where's the money in that? &lt;em&gt;Hoping&lt;/em&gt; that a handful of ~250 somewhat-influential people happen to recommend the product to someone else? As far as business/marketing plans go... this is certainly not one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22157/how-flexible-is-sofus-ad-targeting/22314#22314&quot;&gt;noted elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 10K-targeting was a very special thing that we did exclusively for Telerik, as they are a very special sponsor. But at this time, we are not offering rep-targeting for anyone else. Once we see how this promo goes, then we may consider offering it to other premium sponsors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So depending on the demand (and if we think the readers would find it a good fit), we may do another thing like this in the future... but it's never going to replace standard advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spending money on advertising (when done right) will bring in &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; money. Giving away the whole enchilada to a small number of people (no matter how you do it) will not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T04:05:21.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T04:05:21.907" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="23261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23216" CreationDate="2009-09-24T05:41:49.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My biggest problem is that I sometimes doubt if I should flag something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fear that closing the first question a new user asks on the site will probably stop him from asking more. Now there are two possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;either his questions wouldn't improve anyway and it's good riddance or,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he would improve his questions and we lost a potential user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus as &quot;just a regular user&quot; you don't get any feedback, I don't have a page to see what questions I flagged were actually closed or get notifications when other questions are out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the end the only thing I can do is keep answering questions and lead by example &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T05:41:49.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23264" CreationDate="2009-09-24T05:49:14.413" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I hover over a question in the main page the question is previewed in the hover over text. But when I click on one of the tags and hover over any question, in that page, the preview is not shown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hover over any question on the main page -- you will see a preview.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hover over any question under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/stackoverflow&quot;&gt;&quot;stackoverflow&quot; tag page&lt;/a&gt; -- you won't see the question preview.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have checked this on Firefox 3.5.3 and IE8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136341" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T03:10:52.193" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:10:52.193" Title="Question preview not showing in &quot;tagged&quot; pages" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23193" CreationDate="2009-09-24T05:52:08.197" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks Telerik! This was my reaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://markharrison.net/stackoverflow/telerik.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T05:52:08.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T05:52:08.197" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23262" CreationDate="2009-09-24T06:05:50.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the front page, you only see the titles of the questions. You have the extra tooltip if you want to linger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the rest of the pages, like the tagged questions page, you already have the preview showing directly under the question title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/e6kMW.png&quot; alt=&quot;differences and planes and trains&quot; title=&quot;planely in the way&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't need to have the &lt;code&gt;TITLE&lt;/code&gt; attribute of the link of a question repeat exactly what's showing below it unless you want redundancy. And for screen readers, it's extra noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T08:01:12.390" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T08:01:12.390" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23229" CreationDate="2009-09-24T06:06:50.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously, this is a drop in the ocean compared to the 'How do I parse markup with regex?&quot; and &quot;I'm a Javascript and PHP user, please explain the difference?&quot; questions - don't worry about the small stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there's an easy way to query the datadump for the most duped question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T06:06:50.023" />
  <row Id="23268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-09-24T06:23:55.017" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Thanks Telerik!  I primarily program computers that don't have screens, but it's nice to expand one's horizons.  I feel kinda like this guy, except for &quot;most interesting&quot; part of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://markharrison.net/stackoverflow/telerik.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T06:23:55.017" />
  <row Id="23276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23557" CreationDate="2009-09-24T07:39:18.000" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I asked a question (poll type) and gave four answers for voting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone else gave an answer as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone pointed out it was a dupe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I tried to delete the question - it said there were too many answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I deleted all my answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I deleted the question successfully.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I undeleted the question to leave a comment as to why I deleted it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, all the answers are back with one delete vote each and I can't delete them again since I already voted. And I'm now stuck on step 4 above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think the deleted answers should stay deleted even if I undelete the question. I certainly think I shouldn't lose the power to delete my own answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T03:11:47.637" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:12:00.117" Title="Bug with deletions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23280" CreationDate="2009-09-24T08:10:00.533" Score="4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have my user affiliated with all 4 sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this similar &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17581/let-me-vote-to-move-my-own-questions-to-a-different-site-so-su-sf&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, the asker wants to know why he can't vote to close his question for it to be moved. Another similar &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5752/migrate-my-questions&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was asked 2+ months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've voted for a couple of mine on SO to be moved, now that there is a more directly-better place for them to live (SU or SF). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I, as the question author, move it on my own? Shouldn't I not need other approval to move it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="131197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T07:36:46.357" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:21:12.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T08:10:00.533" Title="Moving questions as the author" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23279" CreationDate="2009-09-24T08:14:11.197" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, if you can close your own questions, you should also have the ability to migrate them. It would also make things a bit easier for the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T08:14:11.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T08:14:11.197" />
  <row Id="23281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23276" CreationDate="2009-09-24T08:20:31.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, do not delete dupes light-heartedly. When closed they are pointers to the original question. If you didn't find it, other will have this problem, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, flag your question for moderator attention, if you still want to delete it. They should be able to help you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T08:55:04.210" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T08:55:04.210" />
  <row Id="23282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T08:34:07.603" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been playing with loading the data dumps into MySQL using C#, but even my best attempts still take hours to complete. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3481/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-load-up-the-data-dump-into-sql-server&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; indicates that it can be done in under 10 minutes when pushing the data into MS SQL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've commented out the &lt;code&gt;cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()&lt;/code&gt; statement which issues the &lt;code&gt;INSERT&lt;/code&gt; query and that knocks the time down to just under two minutes. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with the database, so I'm wondering if it's just differences between MySQL and MSSQL that are causing the delay, or if it's something I'm doing really, really wrong (I'm assuming the latter is more likely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1456086/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-load-an-xml-file-into-mysql-using-c&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow regarding the best way to load this data, but it's not exactly getting any attention (hopefully the bounty helps things a bit). What I'm wondering is if there are any statistics on &quot;good&quot; load times using other databases. I'd imagine a large number of folks on meta will have played with this data using a variety of different platforms. Perhaps we could compile some statistics for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T11:44:54.777" Title="How long should it take to load the Creative Commons Data Dump?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23285" CreationDate="2009-09-24T09:38:25.190" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Observed with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1470530/does-c-c-have-a-delay-function&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;: the tag text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;c c++&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is displayed as &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cc++&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: 5 minutes later it is displayed as expected. What is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/SO/cAndcppMangling4c.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T03:10:06.280" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:10:06.280" Title="C/C++ mangling?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23284" CreationDate="2009-09-24T09:50:17.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1470530/list&quot;&gt;revision list&lt;/a&gt;, it was misspelled and corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T09:50:17.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23276" CreationDate="2009-09-24T10:00:04.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, go ahead and blame me. I posted a comment for one of your answers. That's blocking you from deleting them. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw, don't delete dupes but just close them. If a Q is a duplicate then the topic is popular and there's a chance someone else will also ask the same thing. With these dupes in the index, it's more likely that others will notice that the topic has already been covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T10:00:04.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23284" CreationDate="2009-09-24T10:06:53.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no more questions tagged &lt;code&gt;cc++&lt;/code&gt;.  No more worries!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T10:06:53.967" />
  <row Id="23289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T10:22:53.970" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22130/per-tag-breakdown-of-reputation-in-answers&quot;&gt;Per-tag breakdown of reputation in answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if for each question only relevant reputations appear, for both the question and the answers. Based on the question tags.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If a question is about Linux, we don't care about Windows reputation. If a question is about network, we don't care about database reputation ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136348" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T11:40:42.443" ClosedDate="2009-09-24T14:18:27.057" Title="tag bound reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23289" CreationDate="2009-09-24T10:26:46.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds interesting, but how would you propose to visualize this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many more stats that could be interesting meta information about the answerer, but I fear this will clutter the interface. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's unfair for topics that are less popular, though people's rep on those topics will probably be comparable in a relative fashion (everyone will have lower rep for that tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still I like the idea of more info, but I fear it will have to come from a Greasemonkey script...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T10:26:46.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T10:32:19.413" Score="5" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are we doing with Markdown bugs / inconsistencies?&#xA;Should they be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each posted as a new question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All added to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view/23291&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt; or a different question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Forgotten about 'cause we all know they're there &amp;amp; the dev team have better things to work on &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just added one &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view/23291#23291&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it's new&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T11:05:50.650" Title="What are we Doing with Markdown Bugs / Inconsistencies" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23292" CreationDate="2009-09-24T10:38:04.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Embrace Open Source and &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fix it&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T10:38:04.927" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23289" CreationDate="2009-09-24T11:40:42.443" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been said before, and probably bears repeating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a measure of technical skill. Rep is a measure of participation in a given S[OFU] site, and is a measure of trust said site has in you to perform certain additional actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Splitting rep by subjects (or tags, which are probably easier) would overly complicate the system, and for no true gain. Answers should &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; be judged on who provided them; they should be judged by their content. If an answer is helpful, upvote, If an answer is not helpful, downvote. Who provided said answer is ancillary at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T11:40:42.443" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="23295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21897" CreationDate="2009-09-24T11:53:50.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well this is the answer I got from the team:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if you browse some of the safari 4&#xA;  threads on meta you can get a hint as&#xA;  to what's necessary for the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked some of the other threads and I'm none the wiser. Some people say just opening the page is sufficient, others say you have to refresh the page at least once. The badge hasn't turned up yet so I'm leaning towards me missing a day somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since the 15&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;/16&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of September I have been refreshing the SF page and checking at least one question so if the badge doesn't turn up until the 15&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;/16&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; October I'll know that you need to do at least one refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT - 30/09/2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge still hasn't turned up. I must have &quot;missed&quot; a day sometime in early September. So it looks like there is some minimum level of activity required, but what that level is will remain a mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT - 12/10/2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge has &quot;finally&quot; turned up. So it seems that I missed a day on the 12th(?) September. It was a Saturday so I would have accessed the sites via Google Chrome at home &amp;amp; if I didn't do a refresh that would support the cached page theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T08:15:17.853" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T08:15:17.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T12:36:40.987" Score="8" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there some technical, philosophical, political reason that search on StackOverflow does not provide a basic &quot;match all terms&quot; feature (aka AND search)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm well aware that we can use Google but that's beside the point. Why is this so hard to add to StackOverflow search?  The simplest approach would be to allow a + prefix in front of each term that must exist in the target question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This addition would almost single handedly improve the effectiveness of the search by simply reducing the number of matched results returned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this option you can trim down the results to a more manageable size and then relax the criteria if you don't find what you want in the results.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience this is the only sane way to search when dealing with a very large possible result set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, once again what's so hard about adding the + prefix to StackOverflow search?  It's a great resource, just such a shame it has a time-wasting and ineffective search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T22:01:12.453" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T22:01:12.453" Title="Match all terms search feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23296" CreationDate="2009-09-24T13:33:51.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, too, would love to see this feature. However, having not seen the code powering these sites, I don't know that I would label it as trivial effort -- in other words, while I agree with the request, I disagree completely with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what's so hard about adding the + prefix to StackOverflow search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having written tools to perform searches before, I can tell you that there's a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; hard about writing custom search engines. (So much so that I won't do it. I will always lean on another tool for it -- Lucene.NET or, if critically necessary, Microsoft's Indexing Service.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;S[OFU]'s advanced search tools provide some pretty good functionality, including some spiffy S[OFU]-specific features (tag searching, user searching, special metadata, etc). They do provide for phrase searching as well. But boolean options, especially when factoring in the other useful tools, are not a trivial effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see the team put forth that effort, but at the same time, there's another way to search any of the sites, with all of the features you're looking for. Google is considered the StackOverflow home page, and with good reason. If it's on SO, it's on Google. (I'm sure this is also the case for the other three sites.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any Google search, start with the first term being &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, then use your Google-fu (including booleans, phrases, etc), and you will be performing the exact same search you're describing. You will lose the ability to do tag/metadata-specific searches, but you will gain what it seems you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, as the S[OFU] search pages themselves say (at the bottom):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;Search is hard. Let's go shopping!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T13:33:51.820" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23300" CreationDate="2009-09-24T13:42:54.390" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the questioner selects my answer as the correct one, can I still go and edit the answer or is it frozen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T15:14:50.917" Title="if my answer is selected, can I still edit it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23299" CreationDate="2009-09-24T13:44:06.340" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can edit it, and so can anyone with editing rights. Just because it was selected doesn't mean it can't be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T13:44:06.340" />
  <row Id="23301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-09-24T13:44:35.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about instead of open sourcing it, making it free to create a StackExchange site? You could keep all the advertising revenue. There's loads of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see&quot;&gt;great ideas out there&lt;/a&gt;, and I would hazard a guess that many of us would just like a SE site relating to our topic of interest, and aren't interested in trying to monetise it. For example, books.stackexchange.com or movies.stackexchange.com could easily become more successful than stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T13:44:35.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T13:44:35.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23311" CreationDate="2009-09-24T13:55:25.040" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know what the ratio between anonymous and registered (logged in) users is for stackoverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T14:38:22.950" Title="What the anonymous to registered user ratio at stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18931" CreationDate="2009-09-24T13:57:35.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add my dislike for the randomness of the appearance of answers with the same number of votes. Twice now, I've come to Stack Overflow looking for an answer I know is in a question and I have to spend an extra minute or so looking for an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few times I've come back to the same question to read an answer again, to ensure I understood it all or to grab a link, and due to the random sorting order, I was unable to scroll right to it. Instead I had to scan the whole page to find it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Today, I got an email from Stack Overflow saying there is another answer to my question. Great! I went there expecting to see it at the bottom of the page, when it didn't appear, I was confused. I then, remember the comments from the podcast, began to scan the page and find the new answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I find the new ordering scheme to be most irritating at a time-it-takes-to-find-something level and I firmly believe that the best productivity gains are in organizing your resources properly so that information can be found quickly and efficiently. At this point, I beginning to think I am working for the software, which raises a red flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T13:57:35.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23339" CreationDate="2009-09-24T14:04:55.817" Score="3" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to submit a question with an API? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have some forums and we would like to add a button [Also submit to StackOverflow]. Of course users would have to authenticate themselves but this would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T05:44:23.587" Title="API to create a question in stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23299" CreationDate="2009-09-24T14:05:35.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When something is selected as the accepted answer, all it really does is provide a visual identifier which one the original question asker believes is the best answer or the answer that solves their problem, along with a 15 point bonus. There are absolutely no locking features on the checkmark (except you can't delete your answer...thanks Jon)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T15:14:50.917" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T15:14:50.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23304" CreationDate="2009-09-24T14:07:02.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has not been any real public API released by StackOverflow at this point but it is something in the pipeline. I would guess, however, that functions such as asking and answering questions will not be API'ed and that the API will mostly be used for pulling back information in a variety of methods for other websites and applications to aggregate and parse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T14:07:02.490" />
  <row Id="23307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23309" CreationDate="2009-09-24T14:25:09.773" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1136280/killing-the-windows-shell-closed&quot;&gt;This Question&lt;/a&gt; over at SO was closed and moved to SU, which is perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now it still lives on as a zombie in SO and I can't accept anything, vote to delete it, or do anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have brought up this and would have let it live its un-life, if it was for the question alone. But since the acception rate is displayed, this silly question spoils my rate, and that for no good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113195" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T14:28:30.113" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T14:29:34.493" Title="Moved question spoils my acception rate" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;moved&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23307" CreationDate="2009-09-24T14:27:12.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't be attaching so much importance to your Acceptance Rate to begin with. I would personally look upon someone with a super high acceptance rate as someone who is willing to accept any answer rather than waiting for the right answer or one that actually works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T14:27:12.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23307" CreationDate="2009-09-24T14:29:34.493" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1063228&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the question &quot;hurting&quot; your acceptance rate. Questions that are closed, CW or not 3 days old are excluded from the calculation for acceptance rate. Additionally as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23307/moved-question-spoils-my-acception-rate/23308#23308&quot;&gt;TheTXI suggests&lt;/a&gt;, a 100% acceptance rate is not important at all, your acceptance rate as is, suggests you will generally accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T14:29:34.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23302" CreationDate="2009-09-24T14:38:22.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I remember hearing on the podcast, well over 90% of the traffic on SO is from anonymous users; however, I could be wrong :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T14:38:22.950" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:04:05.273" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adds functionality to show &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; upvote/downvote activity on posts. Just &lt;strong&gt;click the big score&lt;/strong&gt; on any question or answer, and this script will query the recent reputation graph JSON API to find the reputation gained and lost for this post separately, below the vote score. (Positive in green, negative in red).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/10/updownvotes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since the reputation graph is limited to six weeks, this script only queries for the most recent six weeks of activity on a post.  I suppose I could cascade a call to go back all the way, but I think that would be a frowned-upon use of the API.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the post hasn't generated any recent rep (either way) for the OP, (none) is shown instead.  This means that, in particular, you can't see vote information for CW posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Basically, it shares all the limitations of the reputation graph page in the user profile. :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58492&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SOFU Show Upvotes/Downvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T19:32:39.550" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T19:32:39.550" Title="A Greasemonkey script to show reputation gain and loss separately" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="23320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23296" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:28:50.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they added the + prefix option it would help decrease not only what we see, but also what has to be pulled in from the database.  Seems like a win-win situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T15:28:50.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23326" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:36:32.313" Score="31" ViewCount="772" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of comments on SO, of the kind (paraphrasing brutally):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(on questions) if you start accepting some answers, I might deign to post a reply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(on answers) good answer, but perhaps too much effort invested for a user with such a low acceptance rate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(OK, I'm exaggerating horribly - but that is the gist)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I find these a bit abrasive... is it me? Should we discourage this? Ignore it? Encourage it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm keen to get people's thoughts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of the acceptance rate, but I don't like the idea of rubbing people's noses in it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T15:40:57.047" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T08:00:05.900" Title="Is it appropriate to comment on people's accept rate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:40:48.637" Score="4" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can we manipulate the incentive system to promote Wikipedia-like culture of collaboration?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;sofaq&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately in practice it hasn't turned out this way.  The culture is that people are individually accountable for their content, and this culture is enforced by the individual rep system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Collaborative answers like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1469559/help-me-understand-this-c-code-void-scode/1469565#1469565&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; will always have higher quality, but the incentive system  encourages individual answers, and you have to dance a fine line to not be seen as 'stealing rep', or just mark everything you write as CW and never get any rep from your collaboration efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way could be just to reduce visibility of who authored a post, to make posts less personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T16:06:02.273" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T11:18:27.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T15:41:35.390" Title="How can we manipulate the incentive system to promote Wikipedia-like culture of collaboration?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;culture&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:41:29.510" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; my answers to be accepted if/when they're the best.. but I don't feel a need to point out that a given user isn't accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they don't know. Maybe they like more than one equally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they don't care. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But commenting on it does &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be a bit obnoxious, in my book :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T15:41:29.510" />
  <row Id="23325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:42:42.253" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The focus on SO should be on improving questions and answers, not fixing broken people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving these type of comments, is very abrasive. They are &lt;strong&gt;off-topic&lt;/strong&gt; and in the long run add no value to future googlers. The user already knows they have a low accept rate, they can see it when they look at their question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; click on the flag button. I don't think this should be tolerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not like it will likely change their behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T21:39:57.807" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T21:39:57.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:52:51.610" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned over and over again on Meta, in a wide variety of topics, relating to 'inethical questions', 'newbie users', 'annoying users', 'leechlike users', 'unwise architechture' and other such questions, the answer has always returned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer the technical question. No one should care who asked it or why.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who would choose &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to answer a question based on someone's acceptance rate is being selfish anti-community. It is actually against their best interest to be this way, because they lose out on the upvotes they may have acquired. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging a comment might be the best way to go, except that flagged comments are silently deleted, and the commenter will never know that it happened. I think the best we can do is to flag for moderator attention, and have the moderators create a 'form letter' that says some variation of 'don't be an ass, answer the damn question.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, for users who don't know about the 'acceptance rate' they will require someone to tell them about it, and even an obnoxious warning might be better than no warning at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO, it is not appropriate to change your behaviour because of some user's acceptance rate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes commenting on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T15:52:51.610" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:55:00.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen, higher acceptance rates &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; go along with users who tend to be more &quot;involved&quot; in their posts after asking the question (reading and responding to responses and comments, providing feedback about what did and didn't work, etc). This is opposed to &quot;drive-by&quot; behavior that goes hand-in-hand with low accept rates -- ask a question, and then (seemingly) never return to it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being &quot;involved&quot; in one's question is useful to both those who post answers (they get feedback as to whether their solution helped or not, or how it could be improved), and to the community at large -- others may have the same problem, come across the question, and avoid pitfalls/learn more from the OP's feedback. Without involvement and response from the OP, a question can sometimes stagnate with no clear resolution (unless the answer is very straightforward).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, all of that rambling out of the way -- I think the larger issue is increasing user's &quot;involvement&quot; in their own questions. If we can encourage this behavior by encouraging users to have a higher accept rate (with the end goal being more involvement, not necessarily blind acceptance of the top answer), then we should do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T15:55:00.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23323" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:01:34.777" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I think all posts should be 'community wiki' in the sense of editable by almost everyone.  The rep earned should be distributed proportionally to the authors.  It doesn't matter if some edits are trivial--it will encourage not reinventing the wheel (e.g. having 10 answers, and nobody is going to delete theirs because they all want the rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd need a new paradigm for marking poll/discussion/popularity contest posts.  Or you could get rid of the whole CW conceptin its present implementation all together and normalize rep yielded by the number of upvotes on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:01:34.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T16:01:34.777" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23323" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:04:22.150" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you remove the authorship and the reputation earned for it, you will remove a lot of the incentive that drives this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By having authorship tied to most answers, you gain accountability that a group-think answer doesn't necessarily have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:04:22.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T16:04:22.150" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23323" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:06:44.423" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your observations are completely accurate.  However, not everyone agrees.  Moreover, among those who agree, there is no agreement on what (if anything) should be done to address the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up my thoughts, the entire system espouses &quot;community&quot; collaboration and the virtue of &quot;wiki&quot; editing on one hand, while encouraging rampant self-gratification through rep and badges on the other, and pretends that the result is an &quot;intended balance.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a conundrum.  The entire reason the site works so well is because of the motivational factor of rep and badges.  But the same thing that encourages thoughtful, high-quality posts also encourages gaming and selfish behavior.  The only reason collaboration exists at all is due to sheer altruism, or perhaps a misguided hope for peer recognition. (And let's not forget the Strunk &amp;amp; White badge!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence Stack Overflow is predominantly a culture of individuals in competition, not a community cooperating for the common good.  And that's purely due to the implementation, the same implementation that has made it so successful.  The entire &quot;Community Wiki&quot; concept and the idea of collaborative editing is little more than a tacked-on afterthought compared with the vast volume of individual questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not going to change easily, as many different aspects of the site impinge upon this issue.  Basically, we're talking about the &lt;em&gt;soul&lt;/em&gt; of Stack Overflow.  Editing, community ownership, individual ownership, voting, reputation, even badges play a role in creating the culture as it exists.  It's hard to see how changing any one thing will really help, and it's even harder to justify sweeping changes to the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I don't know how to encourage a culture of community ownership any better than what exists now, even only considering the opinions of the &quot;vocal minority&quot; here on meta, and even with the problems that we have.   That's not to toe the line or support the status quo, but it's just too complex a problem, and as of yet nobody has proposed a truly excellent solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:06:44.423" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T16:06:44.423" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:09:56.850" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this was the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;whole point&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of showing acceptance rates: to publicly shame people who don't accept answers.  What other point would we have for showing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if someone wants to leave a comment to explain to a newbie that they need to accept some answers or people won't keep answering their questions, then that's good because it's teaching them the type of behavior that is expected from question-askers (since they obviously haven't noticed the mark of shame below their sig).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the person leaving the comment is being a real a-hole, then by all means flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:09:56.850" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23335" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:13:53.880" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer of mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/297037/what-tricks-do-you-use-to-get-yourself-in-the-zone/297090#297090&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/297037/what-tricks-do-you-use-to-get-yourself-in-the-zone/297090#297090&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... hit 100 upvotes two days ago, but I haven't received a gold badge for it yet.  What gives?  Gold badges are all I have to live for, now that my goal of passing Jon Skeet is a wee bit out of reach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; tell me &quot;we don't need no steenking badges&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:52:49.673" Title="Where is my gold badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;gold&gt;&lt;narcissism&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23334" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:16:37.523" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only see two +100 answers in your stats, and yet you have three &quot;Great Answer&quot; badges.  It seems likely that some of your previous &quot;Great Answers&quot; were migrated or deleted, and until you have more than three &quot;live&quot; +100 answers on the site, you aren't going to get another badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry.  If it's any consolation, I am in the same boat with &quot;Good Answer&quot; and &quot;Nice Answer&quot;, thanks to my (in)famous poll which was migrated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:16:37.523" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23334" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:18:55.663" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14606/musigenesis&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt; you have 3 &lt;code&gt;great answer&lt;/code&gt; golds. However, looking at your answers, you have (now) 2 answers with 100+ net upvotes. Likely you had 2 other answers that had 100+ net upvotes, but they were on questions that have since been migrated here to meta (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts/9151#9151&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet facts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8086/how-to-get-over-200-reputation-points-every-day/8090#8090&quot;&gt;how to get over 200 rep&lt;/a&gt;). The system doesn't remove these badges when the question migrates, but the system does correct this as you &quot;earn&quot; more, you only earn replacements first, until you've replaced all the ones that were lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has stated this behavior &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10807/has-anybody-else-stopped-recieving-badges/10910#10910&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T16:52:49.673" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:52:49.673" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:33:59.257" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just signed up in meta.stackoverflow.com and created an account using my OpenID profile. In the end of my registration I think there was a question to &quot;connect&quot; this profile with my other one in the main stackoverflow.com. However, I believe when I registered there it was simply with my Google mail and not with OpenID so the system rightly said that it couldn't find the respective profile/account on stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to connect these two accounts now?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the advantages, if any?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since my OpenID is registered on the same mail (Google) shouldn't this have happpened automatically anyway?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136356" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T16:55:10.183" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:55:10.183" Title="How to connect my meta profile with my main stackoverflow one?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;profile-sync&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23304" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:37:40.793" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would generally advocate against any API that &lt;em&gt;writes&lt;/em&gt; information into SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gather info, sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notify me when there's been a (comment, answer, up/down vote) to my question, absolutely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With some creative scripting, you might be able to set up a &quot;submit to SO&quot; function yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136311" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:37:40.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23075" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:37:47.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mark comments like &quot;should be community wiki&quot; as noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a management response somewhere that this is OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:37:47.563" />
  <row Id="23342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23338" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:39:16.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go here &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/136356?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/136356?tab=accounts#sort-top&lt;/a&gt; to associate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+100 rep on each account if at least one has &gt; 200 currently&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google's OpenIDs are unique per site, which is the reason (well, at least one of the reasons anyway) the accounts had to be linked in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:39:16.233" />
  <row Id="23343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23338" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:40:11.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On your profile page, click on the &quot;Accounts&quot; tab; it leads you through it gently from there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantages: a free 100pts for you (if you have an established account), easier support for us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gmail might be a pain; IIRC I used my (also google) blogger address while linking, but it might work (I just didn't really try).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:40:11.007" />
  <row Id="23344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T16:43:25.197" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't comment on the answers.  They saw the user had a low acceptance rate and gave an answer anyway.  It also adds no value to the site -- the answerer gets notified, not the asker, and they should already know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the questions, I'm all for it (so long as it's civil; sarcasm is fine by me too).  I saw one along the lines of &quot;only accepting 19% on your questions -- they all can't be wrong&quot; and it motivated the person to start reviewing his questions.  He had asked 90+ questions and I checked at the end of the day his acceptance rate had risen to 44%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people just need a little nudge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T16:43:25.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T17:01:02.170" Score="1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OpenID login-widget-thingy has a bug. When selecting Flickr as the OpenID provider, it asks for my Flickr username (to login to &lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flickr.com/&lt;/a&gt;). However, the flickr OpenID url is &lt;a href=&quot;http://flickr.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://flickr.com&lt;/a&gt;, regardless of my username. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selecting Flickr as provider: &lt;img src=&quot;http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1514/loginorregisterstackove.png&quot; alt=&quot;Selecting Flickr&quot; /&gt; (kaboingsingen beeing the username)&#xA;Result: &lt;img src=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/1514/loginorregisterstackove.png&quot; alt=&quot;Response&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136365" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T08:31:32.387" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:32:00.530" Title="Problem with the auto-suggestor for OpenID / Flickr" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T17:06:47.900" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which would you prefer -- a comment on a question that indicates that you should improve your acceptance rate or risk not getting answers or simply ignoring the question and move on.  A civil (we should always be civil, IMO) comment is actually more helpful than just ignoring the OP's behavior.  I have and will continue to civilly point out how the OP can be a better SO citizen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't and probably wouldn't comment on answers as I see no point in trying to get other people to conform to how I choose to interact with people who don't accept answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:06:47.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-09-24T17:27:29.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever you search for something in Google, Jon Skeet is manually producing all the answers and the paging at the bottom. Also, is manually painting all the &quot;o&quot; at the bottom of the page in real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136367" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:27:29.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T17:27:29.373" />
  <row Id="23351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:17:04.613" Score="3" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I give out my email address on here or are you not supposed to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:56:58.837" Title="Can I give out my email here?" Tags="&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23351" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:19:23.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are welcome to put your email in your profile, but please don't spam the Q &amp;amp; A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:43:10.247" />
  <row Id="23353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23351" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:19:29.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not supposed to. What for ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148982" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:43:10.247" />
  <row Id="23354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23351" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:19:51.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never safe to publish your email address on an open web site.  If you want someone to get in touch set up a new temporary address and use that until you're sure you can trust them.  Even if the people on the site are trustworthy there are people out there harvesting every publicly available email address and selling them to the spammers and mass marketers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134432" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:43:10.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23351" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:20:02.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can if you want to. You should probably keep yourself safe and try to obfuscate it in some way. Use something like myusername [at] whatever &lt;em&gt;dot&lt;/em&gt; com instead of just saying myusername@whatever.com. It will at least keep the dumbest email scraping bots away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130195" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:43:10.247" />
  <row Id="23356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23351" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:20:40.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really want to give out your e-mail you can either in a question, answer or better still in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it will be publicly visible and readable by spiders etc. so you might want to make it harder (but not impossible) to work out what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:43:10.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23351" CreationDate="2009-09-24T17:56:58.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As everyone else has said, you can post your email if you want, but its a good idea to take precautions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you're asking if you can post your email and request users to email you directly rather than go through the answer system, then no. Your email address will be removed and you'll likely get comments about how bypassing the Q&amp;amp;A system defeats the purpose of the website. Answers should be posted on the site for the benefit of everyone, private help is usually discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T17:56:58.837" />
  <row Id="23359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23323" CreationDate="2009-09-24T18:58:05.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;The battle inherent in the system&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SO systems of ownership and collaboration are perpetually at war with one another. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many questions, the best answer &lt;em&gt;would be&lt;/em&gt; a combination of multiple answers by several different authors, but is never realized as each author holds on jealously to his own words, either due to a desire for the reputation that can be gained, or simply pride. In some cases, this can get ugly, when a late answer is posted to address errors common to existing answer(s) and then attacked by insecure competitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; regrettable. But, it's a trade-off: this system encourages a competition among authors that often produces multiple answers where &lt;em&gt;each one&lt;/em&gt; is better than a single collaborative answer. As authors strive to differentiate their answers, they add value that would otherwise have been excluded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The single most important Stack Overflow feature&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to say we should just throw up our hands and accept this state of affairs as &quot;good enough&quot;. When I first read about Stack Overflow, that one aspect described in your FAQ quote immediately caught my eye: trusted users can edit other users' posts. Not just &quot;Community Wiki&quot; posts - &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; post. A top-rated answer, or a down-voted question are both fair game for any editor with the time and motivation to improve it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that, unlike asking or answering questions, the motivations for editing are almost entirely intrinsic: there's no reputation to be gained, only one badge, and precious little in the way of recognition. Editors must be be satisfied with seeing a question or answer improved. IMHO, &lt;em&gt;that's not a bad motivation&lt;/em&gt;! Once a user has been on the site long enough to gain full editing abilities, a whole new way of interacting with Q&amp;amp;A is opened to them: no longer must they struggle to get their &quot;errata&quot; answers or comments noticed, or cringe while responding to a poorly-formatted question: they can see a problem &lt;em&gt;and fix it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not that everyone likes this idea.&lt;/strong&gt; Believe it or not, some of the most knowledgeable and prolific authors on SO are among the most reluctant to edit other user's posts and jealously protective of their own posts. IMHO, this attitude is &lt;strong&gt;actively harmful to Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; - not only does it run the risk of discouraging editors who find themselves embroiled in an unexpected argument with a protective author, it sets a bad example for new users, who look to these highly-visible users for cues in how the site should be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think we need &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; motivation&lt;/strong&gt;. SO may not fulfill some utopian idea of what a wiki system &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be like, but it was never intended to be a straight wiki. The system, freakish monster that it is, actually &lt;em&gt;works&lt;/em&gt; for a good many people looking for solutions to their problems. And as many of us can attest, the joy of seeing a poor question turned into a good one... or a good answer turned into a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; one... can be more than enough to keep us going. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; anything needs to change, it's the attitudes of those who would callously discourage new editors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15839/editing-versus-answering&quot;&gt;Editing versus Answering?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Dustin inline response:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with your whole post.  The anti community ownership culture IMO arises out of the incentive system.  The culture will not shift unless the incentives shift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="133583" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T17:39:13.100" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T17:39:13.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T18:58:05.403" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T20:12:53.767" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accessed the site with Internet Explorer 7 from my university today,  just to see how it looked for unregistered users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423823/whats-your-favorite-programmer-ignorance-pet-peeve&quot;&gt;upon this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/423823/whats-your-favorite-programmer-ignorance-pet-peeve&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i35.tinypic.com/53qu0l.png&quot; alt=&quot;Programmer ignorance pet peeves&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not short of the irony of the ad, look at the starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Internet Explorer 7.0.5730 on Windows XP SP2&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I won't make any more ads questions, I swear!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T20:12:53.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T20:12:53.767" Title="Yet another small ad CSS bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;" />
  <row Id="23363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23323" CreationDate="2009-09-24T20:24:45.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Collaboration is over-rated. Rep is king!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[This message is brought to you by the Jon Skeet Fan Club.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;This answer is community wiki despite my best efforts.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, the irony!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-10T11:18:27.373" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T11:18:27.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T20:24:45.807" />
  <row Id="23364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23304" CreationDate="2009-09-24T20:27:40.387" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Please, No&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's just asking for bot spamming!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;plus, it's hardly a &quot;community&quot; if &lt;em&gt;every other sub-par Q&amp;amp;A site can cross-post their questions here&lt;/em&gt;, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T20:27:40.387" />
  <row Id="23366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T21:48:47.993" Score="31" ViewCount="1210" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent kerfuffle has made it clear that perhaps there is not enough clarity on why users are being boxed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the guideline is &quot;Don't Be A Jerk&quot; but that still doesn't help because there are so many different... jerk-thresholds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible for all the moderators, Jeff, and Joel to create a list of all the reasons that have caused users to be suspended so far?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be non-specific enough that it does not relate to specific incidents, and it can also serve as a rough guideline of possible actions which may also be disallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things I believe have occurred in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creating a spam user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sock-puppet user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Repeated abusive/offensive comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linking to hacking/warez/illegal websites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Abusing editing privileges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conspicuous tag abuse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no certainty that any of these have actually occurred. But it seems to me that there should be a more official guideline somewhere on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would not be a full and complete ruleset. This is simply &lt;em&gt;past reasons for suspension&lt;/em&gt;. The moderators would still have full discretion to suspend anyone for whatever reason. The only thing this would help is when a user does something &lt;em&gt;which is already on the list&lt;/em&gt;. Then the moderator can point out the link to the FAQ that has the reason. I do think that there should be a final note. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Moderators are allowed to suspend any user for any of the aforementioned reasons &lt;em&gt;as well as&lt;/em&gt; any new abusive behaviour which may come up&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to take that away from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T17:55:20.877" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T17:55:20.877" Title="Suspension Reasons" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="23367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2009-09-24T21:52:58.203" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use of profanity outside of the realm of S[O|F|U] &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use of expletives in comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harassing users who answer your questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assuming a pro-waffle stance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T21:56:04.890" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T21:56:04.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-24T21:52:58.203" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:03:51.150" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the idea of having a required posting of reasons for boxing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've managed a handful of reasonably sized online communities (nothing near the scale of SO of course), and in my experience, the more specific you try to get with the rule set the more the mods will have to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deal with people who like to get as close to the edge as possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deal with defining and interpreting the rule set&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deal with people claiming hypocrisy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spend time explaining themselves&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;allow malicious / disruptive users who are &quot;technically&quot; within the rules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spend time on complaints of unfair treatment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vindicate certain users who WANT the public attention of being banned/boxed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;think of new rules to address people who slip through the cracks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deal with debates about why a certain rule is unfair in some scenario&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, no rule set is perfect, and it &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; comes down to judgement calls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be upfront about the fact that it's a judgement-based case-by-case decision.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a list of reasons is just fuel for the disruptive fire of complaints and gives &quot;jerks&quot; a target that they can try to exploit/skirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the mods can choose to explain themselves as they please, and it's always good for the mods to be responsive to peoples questions/complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I honestly think that creating a very formal rule set and process for boxing only increases the problems that surround it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastEditorUserId="131073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T22:11:54.377" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T22:11:54.377" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="23371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:06:46.447" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they provide a list of behaviors that are considered &quot;being a jerk&quot;, then people will just start looking for loopholes.  Then once Jeff comes up and says &quot;I've gotta box you cause you're being a jerk&quot;, they'll say &quot;but it's not on the list of jerky behaviors!&quot; (because that's the kind of thing a jerk would say).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;don't be a jerk&quot; is intentionally vague to allow them to make judgement calls, and most reasonable people can generally tell when someone is being a jerk, and most people know when they are being a jerk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T22:06:46.447" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:12:18.590" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like it. There are too many ways to abuse a system as complex as SO to list all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current approach to penalty-boxed users is subtle. I like &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; aspect. You don't get a &quot;wall of shame&quot; listing users in the penalty box, opening them up for mockery and abuse. Not that I haven't encountered instances where a past suspension is thrown out as an ad hominem attack in subsequent arguments, mind you... But you have to really &lt;em&gt;dedicate&lt;/em&gt; yourself to holding a grudge for that - there's no visible black mark once the suspension is over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you visit the profile of a suspended user, and things get creepy. You get a detailed history of questions and answers, a page listing recent activity including edits and comments, and likely as not &lt;em&gt;nothing to connect the two&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you'll find a history of abusive comments, pointless edits, useless answers, and lazy questions... But chances are, whatever actually triggered the suspension has either been deleted or obscured. A suspended account filled with a history of good answers, helpful edits, and insightful comments sends a chill down my spine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, moderators should attach a public comment to the account of anyone put in The Box. Doesn't need to be detailed; most of the suggested reasons posted here so far aren't detailed. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23385/avoid-the-streisand-effect-be-clear-about-the-reason-when-suspending-an-account&quot;&gt;Just let me know that there's &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; valid reason for what i'm observing.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T15:49:22.203" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T15:49:22.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23374" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:15:21.033" Score="5" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Granted most of the questions asked here are way over my head but in the rare occasion where I see a question I can assist with, Im more than happy to offer my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just looked up one of my old answers and saw that the user basically took my answer, changed the directory a little, submitted it and chose it as the accepted answer?   Does this happen often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this kinda irked me..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastEditorUserId="136160" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T15:12:07.793" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T16:10:02.040" Title="User basically takes your answer, posts it as his own and accepts his?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23373" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:18:55.740" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had this happen. It sucks... The user had a chance to reward you for your help, and didn't. Some people are like that. Just brush it off and move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T22:18:55.740" />
  <row Id="23375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23373" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:20:49.870" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that guy was being malicious (after all he doesn't get any rep for accepting his own answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I think the issue just came down to the fact that the folder you pointed to didn't exist on his machine, and he wasn't familiar enough with windows to know that &lt;code&gt;C:/Documents and Settings/&lt;/code&gt; is the Windows XP structure and that he should replace it with &lt;code&gt;C:/Users&lt;/code&gt; for his Windows 7 install.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T22:20:49.870" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18005" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:35:35.897" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just ran out for the first time today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know it was coming until &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; I'd spent several minutes reading answers in some alleged duplicates in an effort to determine if the new question really &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the same as a previous one. When, at last, I decided it was I voted to close and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; got told I was done for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T01:34:10.767" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T01:34:10.767" />
  <row Id="23377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23373" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:36:04.960" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was a pure copy, I would be mad, but I think there is a bit of difference to show that he did try your version and it didn't help him. - And as TM said, he probably did not realise / understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a similar issue on Superuser.com where I posted a link showing you need to use %userprofile%\something (I forget now), and then the owner, about 20 minutes later wrote the full thing &quot;C:\users\name\something&quot; and accepted, where as if he actually tried my thing, it should have worked on any version of Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He even wrote, I went to My computer and could not find the %userprofile% directory... oh well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you don't know, he may have given you an upvote in that thread :S&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T16:10:02.040" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T16:10:02.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:40:03.250" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't totally object to the idea of making a list of reasons people have been boxed in the past.  After all, this could be useful as a list of things you definitely should not do.  However, it should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be considered in any way a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; list of things you shouldn't do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of you are very creative and I know that you will always come up with new ways of testing out how the system works.  We're programmers, that's pretty much a job requirement.  When that happens, the rules have to be able to bend and change too, so I don't think it's possible to ever have a complete list of all the rules you could break.  I can say that &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; (unfortunately not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;) of the time that someone has been boxed in the past, it was only after repeated warnings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T22:40:03.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:55:57.450" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people want hard examples...others point out that highly qualified rules will be abused.  So why don't we get the best of both worlds?  The rule being &quot;Don't be a jerk...and here are some examples of things that would qualify as having excessive jerkitude.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T22:55:57.450" />
  <row Id="23380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-24T22:56:56.867" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am completely new here and I am overwhelmed. This is a wonderful ocean of information both on and in between the lines. I found it through the creator of Evolvotron, Tim Day. So if there are any Bonus Bounty Points for bringing in new members, they're his. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is not about a specific programming issue, it's about navigating this Forum: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would there be a way to leap from random topic to random topic? I usually implement a page that does that on all (: .. 2 ... :) my sites and it would be great to have something like that to navigate through this Pool of Wisdom too. Just F5 and -poof- another topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a great help to get a feeling for this place and its companions for newbies like me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I promise: I won't ask silly questions after this one anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance, and I'll enjoy the browsing anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;/*&#xA; * Being a newbie only applies to this forum, &#xA; * very much so to Linux/Ubuntu, &#xA; * Somewhat to Internet, &#xA; * but by no means to programming. &#xA; */&#xA;&#xA;{&#xA;I hope I get the tags right ; &#xA;wont work : &#xA;.= newbie randomTopic forumBrowse (2 new tags) ;&#xA;.= newbie random topic forum browse (1 new tag) ; &#xA;;}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136382" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T07:55:16.130" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T20:27:45.740" Title="Would there be a way to leap from random topic to random topic?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;random&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23380" CreationDate="2009-09-24T23:01:39.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect attempts to move this question to Meta Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to leap from random topic to random topic is just to look at the newest questions. They're a pretty random selection of topics, although (of course) favourite topics predominate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T23:03:09.007" />
  <row Id="23382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23380" CreationDate="2009-09-24T23:07:40.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there are no bonus points for bringing in new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest thing to a random question section would be the newest questions. It is the most random of any of the question sorting options.  Recent questions and active questions are also good sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-24T23:15:38.973" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T23:15:38.973" />
  <row Id="23383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23380" CreationDate="2009-09-24T23:16:07.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from just refreshing the new questions page. I am sure someone like Sampson or one of our other Greasemonkey gurus could work up something to bring back a random question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T23:16:07.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23321" CreationDate="2009-09-24T23:23:18.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd still post an answer, even though the op has a low accept rate. It might do somebody some good when he's googling for the solution to the problem he's lost 5 days worth of sleep over. So if not for the (i have to agree, slacking) op, then FTW!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-24T23:23:18.023" />
  <row Id="23385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="89027" CreationDate="2009-09-25T00:57:54.903" Score="89" ViewCount="1958" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23347/what-happened-to-the-superuser-user-john-t-closed&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; sort of thing has happened a few times now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hey, did you see? User X was boxed!&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;User X? Why?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;I donno... Maybe he... &quot; &lt;em&gt;(wild speculation ensues. waffles are blamed.)&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's generally quite easy to notice when a user gets thrown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Penalty Box&lt;/a&gt;. You see the tell-tale &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; when viewing questions they've asked or answers they've provided. You visit their profile page. You see that big red message. And you're curious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Streisand effect&lt;/a&gt; is an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't good. It turns what &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a subtle &quot;cool-down&quot; period into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;big public spectacle&lt;/a&gt;. And for what? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse yet, speculation leads to unease. Was the suspension &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; justified? Where's the evidence? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23366/suspension-reasons&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the definition of &quot;jerk&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been two years since this tool was introduced, and nearly a year and a half since I first wrote this proposal. In that time, a number of things have changed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The popularity of the core &quot;SOFU Trilogy&quot; sites has grown immensely, bringing many more &quot;problem users&quot; with it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many new Stack Exchange 2.0 sites have been created, with community-elected and &quot;Pro Tempore&quot;-appointed moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can now engage users in private conversations on-site, without having to resort to email. These conversations remain attached to the account, allowing other moderators to review them as-needed. &lt;em&gt;Templates&lt;/em&gt; are provided to guide moderators in communicating common problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;No effort to learn and improve over time&quot; rationale for suspending turned out to be as or more important than &quot;Disruptive behavior&quot; on Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, moderators have found &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; uses for this tool: suspending (rather than deleting) spammer accounts to allow for tracking history and... &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/60295/how-does-the-deposit-user-work&quot;&gt;scalp-hunting&lt;/a&gt;. Which just goes to show, no matter how obvious the purpose of a tool might be, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/4708/is-it-possible-to-cook-a-whole-fish-in-a-dishwasher&quot;&gt;folks will always find other uses...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 90+ suspended users on Stack Overflow, over 40 on Super User and nearly &lt;em&gt;150&lt;/em&gt; on Server Fault. In the face of this, the occasional drama resulting from the suspension of a popular/notorious user seems relatively unimportant...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff often refers to the modern-day Stack Overflow as having &quot;big city problems&quot;, meaning it's reached a scale where the sort of intimate, hand-holding relationship between staff, moderators, and new users is no longer practical. But it also has &quot;big city advantages&quot; - paradoxically, you can &lt;em&gt;retain some amount of privacy&lt;/em&gt; in a large population, while in the small town &lt;em&gt;everyone knows you&lt;/em&gt;... In the big city, you can spend the night in jail and go back to work the next morning without any questions; in the small town, everyone remembers how you got into an argument with Barney in front of the post office last May. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE is busily adding more small towns. Hopefully they won't &lt;em&gt;stay&lt;/em&gt; small very long... But that inital, small-town period is crucial to their later development. Personalities clash, users unfamiliar with the SE platform stuble through newbie mistakes with varying degrees of grace, and the newly-minted moderators try their best to gain the trust of the budding community. During this period, it is &lt;em&gt;vital&lt;/em&gt; to avoid the appearance of censorship or abuse of power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Transparency, when it matters&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After discussing this with several moderators and watching how suspension is used in practice, I've come to the conclusion that there are two three primary categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users who should be / will be deleted. Suspected spammers, trolls, sockpuppets, astroturfers, etc. There's no need to wear the kid gloves here; no positive contributions to the site, past or present. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users who've made a disturbing mix of valuable, and harmful contributions to the site. These may need some care; poor-quality questions, rants or inflamatory comments have probably been deleted, sockpuppets have been merged, votes expunged, leaving a public record that looks &lt;em&gt;pretty good&lt;/em&gt; to the casual observer. And others may agree with these users' arguments, even if they disagree with the tone or manner in which they've been presented. The hope is that the suspended user will come back to the site and participate positively; any appearance of public humiliation, whether by moderators or other users, works against this goal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users who just need a chance to cool down. This is a pretty close match to the original metaphore of a &quot;penalty box&quot; - a user got caught up in an argument, or came home drunk and started having some &quot;fun&quot; at the expense of other users, or quit smoking... Maybe their account was hacked and they can't be contacted for some reason. There's no reason they can't come back and contribute positively once they've regained their composure, but in the meanwhile they need to be kept from making a mess of the site and their own reputation.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;originally&lt;/em&gt; suggested a simple change: add a way for moderators to add a &lt;em&gt;brief&lt;/em&gt;, public comment to the account, noting the reason without going into detail. &quot;Sockpuppet voting&quot;, &quot;Persistant low-quality&quot;, &quot;Cool down&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's unnecessary in the vast majority of suspensions. Indeed, even a &lt;em&gt;moderator-only&lt;/em&gt; annotation isn't really necessary when the user is a flagrant spammer, or has already been sent a message regarding persistant abuse. The situations I wanted to address here, and still believe are &lt;em&gt;worth&lt;/em&gt; addressing here, are the tiny handful of high-profile suspensions involving a user well-known within their site or circle, where a suspension might otherwise lead to &lt;em&gt;harmful speculation&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my second idea. This is what the suspension UI looks like right now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/0PLuj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of current suspension UI&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators must enter at least a short description of the problem, even if that's just &quot;See user-message ###&quot;. The idea is that this gives other moderators a place to start when reviewing suspensions; in practice, the user's history (containing annotations, private user-messages, etc.) is probably going to contain more important information. Here's what I propose in its place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/SeuRQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mock-up of selectable suspension reasons.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not attempting to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23366/suspension-reasons&quot;&gt;enumerate badness&lt;/a&gt; here, although I suppose I am &lt;em&gt;stratifying&lt;/em&gt; it. The results would look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/2Yg3x.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mock-up of account page containing reason&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terse. No gory details. And without that free-form text-entry to trip up a new, frustrated moderator whose goal should be to &lt;em&gt;minimize&lt;/em&gt; rubbernecking. And most importantly, specific &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; to hopefully quell speculation until such a time as the user is able to defend himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-27T19:38:50.990" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T07:45:31.837" Title="Avoid the Streisand Effect - be clear about the reason when suspending an account" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="23386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-15T02:23:40.283" Score="11" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is so easy to get answers on, I'm starting to find myself asking questions on here as a starting point, before even googling or wikiing them. Is this considered rude, or do people like to answer simple questions as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147883" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T20:38:34.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T02:34:04.080" Title="Is it appropriate to ask questions on Stack Overflow without prior research?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23386" CreationDate="2009-03-15T02:27:53.860" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always try to follow &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these rules&lt;/a&gt; before asking questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if they are generic questions that many people can benefit from, you should ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40906" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T01:19:45.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T02:28:03.953" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23386" CreationDate="2009-03-15T02:28:31.083" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of us can only handle the simple questions :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4782" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T01:19:45.780" />
  <row Id="23389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23386" CreationDate="2009-03-15T02:28:45.857" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some cases, I have stopped googling for some programming questions I have, instead searching SO directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that I can quickly discern the quality of the answers in a familiar UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these reasons, I think it's good to make SO the clearinghouse for programming questions that are not duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T01:19:45.780" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23386" CreationDate="2009-03-15T02:43:38.283" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple questions are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No prior work is rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vague questions are rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions already asked are rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that amount to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10078/plz-send-teh-codez-for-homework-kthxbai/10086#10086&quot; title=&quot;i can has homewerkx&quot;&gt;plzsendtehcodez&lt;/a&gt; are rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Homework is rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is already covered in the FAQ's and in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17494/im-new-to-stackoverflow-what-should-i-consider-before-asking-questions&quot; title=&quot;and the circle continues looping&quot;&gt;I'm new to Stack Overflow, what should I consider before asking questions?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T01:32:36.510" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T01:32:36.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T02:43:38.283" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23386" CreationDate="2009-03-15T02:49:10.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no, you shouldn't ask questions without doing prior research, where &quot;prior research&quot; constitutes at least Googling and checking any obvious resources (e.g. for Java API questions, check the Javadoc). But even if you find the answer somewhere else, if you still think it's the kind of thing someone else might later come to SO to find out, I suppose you can ask it anyway and post an answer with the information you found. It seems to me that that would help make Stack Overflow what it was intended to be, a programming question-and-answer repository.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56541" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T01:19:45.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T02:49:10.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23386" CreationDate="2009-03-15T02:53:11.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been guilty of asking questions even if I can give the answers myself. I want to see other people's opinion on things. It never hurts the quality of SO to have more good questions with good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T01:19:45.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-15T02:53:11.117" />
  <row Id="23393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T01:51:42.890" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say based:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;profile views &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be cool to give votes/ and down votes for a creative profile description. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T12:33:30.323" Title="Add a feature to see the most famous user" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T02:02:28.437" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of lots of reasons why the smart thing to do is not to publish why a person has been suspended, not the least of which is the potential liability for slander.  Even if notice were to be given, where would you give it?  The blog?  Blogging about someone's transgressions absent some compelling interest -- like resulting changes to the fundamental rules of the site -- seems like overkill.  Posting it to the front page of the site?  That's hardly any better.  I know, why don't we put a message on their profile that they've been suspended.  That makes sense.  It's not hidden, anyone can see it -- if they care enough to look.  Oh, yeah, that's already been implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we only need to quibble about whether everyone needs to know exactly why it happened.  For the liability issue alone, I would caution against making a public statement unless it results in fundamental change to the system.  Even then, I would focus on the resulting change not the behavior.  Note that anyone who feels compelled to disagree with their ban has the whole of the internet to work with in making their position known.  As far as I know none of the admins has the capacity to turn off someone's internet access or restrict them from posting an alternate forum.  There are plenty of people who will commiserate with them over on Reddit.  As far as I know you aren't restricted from updating your profile to add a link to your version of events if you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T02:02:28.437" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23400" CreationDate="2009-09-25T02:46:41.320" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody misread &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/46530/are-there-any-non-widescreen-monitors-20-inches&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; today on SU and gave an answer that wasn't applicable because of it. I downvoted and commented on it but know I feel kind of bad about it. I think it would be better just to use a comment to notify the poster about the mistake and then maybe they'll move to delete their own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135942" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T05:04:04.090" Title="What do you think about voting down answers to misread questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23397" CreationDate="2009-09-25T02:57:29.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've misread a few questions and been punished for it, but I'm learning to read questions &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion of a comment is fine, but it won't guarantee an inappropriate question is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can an inappropriate question be flagged as such, and appear somehow different, or even be hidden like 'excess' comments are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T02:57:29.990" />
  <row Id="23400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23397" CreationDate="2009-09-25T03:11:22.443" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they misread the question and the question itself is inarticulate, messy or just a plain hot mess, then a comment should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if they answer and totally misread it with a clearly worded and/or well written question, or if the answer is patently not even close to the same track and field as to where the question is, then downvote them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T03:11:22.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T04:07:22.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that any information given would quiet the gossip.  In a way, it will make things worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they posted a terse summary saying &quot;X got banned for Y&quot;, everyone is going to go through their recent activity to see if Y really happened.  Now, instead of asking if there is any evidence, people are directly analyzing it.  I think it would just exacerbate the kind of speculation you talk about, i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was the suspension really justified? What's the definition of &quot;jerk&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T04:07:22.840" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T04:40:17.860" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22553/amazon-ads-dont-match-up-with-context-of-title-or-question-content&quot;&gt;Amazon ads don&amp;rsquo;t match up with context of title or question content&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I observed this amusing advertisement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;7 perl book on Amazon&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[O'Reilly cover]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Erlang Programming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T04:40:17.860" ClosedDate="2009-09-25T07:46:37.410" Title="funny advertisement" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" />
  <row Id="23403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23397" CreationDate="2009-09-25T05:04:04.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question isn't clear about it's purpose, edit it. The OP will then get a better quality of answer, than they would otherwise get. After all, good quality questions, generally receive good quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is just way out in left field, down-vote or flag, until you are satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is only slightly wrong, edit it until it is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would comment on the incorrect answers, that they should re-read the question. Regardless of what other actions I have taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T05:04:04.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T05:46:22.340" Score="4" ViewCount="648" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else encountered user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015/shore&quot;&gt;Shore&lt;/a&gt;? This is only a recent discovery for me but he seems to ask a lot (473) of questions that are seemingly low-quality. By that I mean they are vague, omit important details and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this just me? Just curious what others' experiences are here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-16T07:40:49.483" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T23:11:01.753" Title="What's the deal with user Shore?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;specific-user&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23404" CreationDate="2009-09-25T05:53:44.760" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like someone who may be a bit selfish...  Asking 400+ questions without answering any is not someone who I would feel is a member of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T05:53:44.760" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="23406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T05:53:44.947" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search results are not displaying the SO User Flair properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/8348/66688989.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot; title=&quot;screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only half of the actual flair is displayed for results with summaries of more than 3 lines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's even worse if the result has more than 4 or 5 lines (flair doesn't even show up). It isn't a functional issue. But it looks odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T07:56:29.683" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T11:00:00.723" Title="User flair on searches are cut in half" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20618" CreationDate="2009-09-25T05:57:29.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed; the M/D/YYYY format here is ambiguous with the D/M/YYYY format that is common outside the US.  The ISO 8601 YYYY-MM-DD date format should be used.  It looks like this one was missed as part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2560/change-date-format-of-x-hours-ago-tool-tip&quot;&gt;this fix&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112212" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T05:57:29.653" />
  <row Id="23408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T06:00:18.400" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing that ticks me off most is that we are all sitting here completely speculating about &quot;WHY&quot; someone is in the penalty box.  The speculation seems to always have a flavor or hint that people think the moderators have abused their power or messed up.  I see the same thing happening with our police officers.  We don't simply assume that they've done their job and a good one, we pick one thing and want to blow it way out of proportion and before long, we have a beast upon us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one and only way to solve this is complete transparency.  I know that some want it, some don't.  But if we all had visibility to see what marks a user has against them, we wouldn't have to speculate.  To some degree, we use the &quot;we are the community&quot; or the &quot;we are the world&quot; approach here on the SO sites, but we really don't fulfill that because this process is fuzzy to most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10K+ users can see posts that have been flagged, maybe they can also see some kind of user rating as well that shows them who is close to the box, who is in the box, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T06:00:18.400" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23404" CreationDate="2009-09-25T06:02:56.290" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That user, without answering any questions and having only voted under a double dozen, now has close powers. But that's not the end of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repping hard off the back of very low quality questions, doesn't seem to ever learn anything or apply any of the knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1451292/what-does-selector-ahref-mean-in-jquery&quot; title=&quot;the question in question&quot;&gt;recent jQuery question&lt;/a&gt;, it was put as to where the code was grabbed from. Turns out it was from the Learning jQuery site. A site which features nice and thorough tutorials. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the user just copied the code, put it into the question box and let the community explain it. Totally missing the point of actually reading the information on the site the source code was nicked from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are often vague and you will see that user then comment on the answers about how they're missing something or not accounting for whatever charset that is suddenly part of the question, despite not being there at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over and over again. Of poor quality and a selfish air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T06:02:56.290" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T06:07:22.397" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing what happened yesterday, I think there should be a short explanation about the sin binning. Otherwise, the community is going to take out its &lt;strong&gt;virtual pitchforks&lt;/strong&gt; and try to find an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lack of information leads to a lot of searching into why the user was binned, countless accusations, almost no control of the situation, a general mess of things. This is not what we should strive for. It might not be obvious right now, but it will tear the community apart. There are a lot of egos here that will not take binning that easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T06:07:22.397" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23404" CreationDate="2009-09-25T06:11:11.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I run stats on the data dump he &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13607/what-makes-a-bad-user&quot;&gt;always&lt;/a&gt; manages to find himself on the top of lists that you don't want to be on. (he get a tiny amount of upvotes, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is one of the reasons Jeff wants to increase the pain of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the accept rate helps out a lot here, cause he also tends not to accept answers. He is not the only problem user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T06:11:11.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T06:11:29.533" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;fwiw, the forum model is generally a terse statement along the lines of &quot;suspended for spam&quot;, &quot;warning for violation of TOS&quot;, etc.. in red letters by the username or offending post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It eliminates the streisand, is clear and inarguable if the mods are decent human beings, provides some openness to the system (arbitrary and unknown penalties basically = police state) and serves as a powerful warning and steering mechanism for the community at large - the latter two of which are much more important than curtailing rumour-mongering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm against naming and shaming generally, but I see value in the OP's proposition even if for different reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T06:11:29.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-09-25T06:18:30.657" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love this idea, in fact I liked it so much I implemented this on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.mediabrowser.tv/topics?category%5Fid=4&amp;amp;order%5Fby=published&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;community tracker&lt;/a&gt;, but its a lot harder that it sounds ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blogs look different to SO and family sites, so you need a custom template and custom template capabilities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need to store an extra date on posts and hack in an extra ordering (cause there is a distinction between data_created and date_published)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anonymous comments are very hard to support (in conjunction with normal commenting) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need better categorization, you dont want people looking for your blog by clicking the blog tag. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall implementing something like this would be a major piece of work, and I guess, why fix it if it is not broken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T06:18:30.657" />
  <row Id="23416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23393" CreationDate="2009-09-25T06:32:54.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have the &lt;strong&gt;Users&lt;/strong&gt; page. There's no need for more. Besides, we all know who Jon Skeet is :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T06:32:54.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23556" CreationDate="2009-09-25T07:19:13.667" Score="3" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I want to tag a question &quot;sql-server-2008&quot; on stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 823 questions tagged Sql-server-2008 but, the tag matching engine won't find it even if I type in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sql-server-200&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the tag matching algorithm hide this tag? I guess it's because there's another tag starting with the same string and with a higher count, but still, I think this could use some tweaking ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47341" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T08:11:05.790" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:11:52.637" Title="Why does the tag matching algorithm hide some frequently used tags?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T07:58:57.340" Score="13" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a supported way of doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only seen this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3274/can-i-search-for-just-unanswered-content-that-matches-my-interesting-tags&quot;&gt;hack&lt;/a&gt; or this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21907/view-new-questions-marked-with-any-of-your-interesting-tags&quot;&gt;workaround&lt;/a&gt; which doesn't really do it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T08:19:38.160" Title="List newest questions only matching my interesting tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23418" CreationDate="2009-09-25T08:19:38.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far there is no other way to achieve this. Interesting tags are used to color the questions on the client side in all question lists and to filter them in the unanswered my tags list. If you do not have interesting tags set, my tags will use the tags you answered to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can obviously also search for the tags using normal search in SO/SF/SU. If you have a long list of interesting tags, this gets tedious though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a reason for this: SO/SF/SU and even meta want to encourage you to answer questions. Obviously you will do that in your field of interest most of the times, but you would miss many questions that you have a valid and great answer to outside of it. Even if it is only for somebody using the wrong tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were to easy to only see the newest questions in your field of interest, people would resort to that view as default and much would go unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T08:19:38.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23441" CreationDate="2009-09-25T08:38:25.927" Score="6" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img3.myimg.de/Untitled10279.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jon Skeet flair on SO&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jon Skeet reaches 1000 bronze badges, the reputation line in flair is not going to fit there any more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest reducing the precision as you reach 100k (just like what happens with 10k users) by removing the decimal point altogether and rounding to the nearest &quot;k&quot; boundary, thus displaying 100.2k as 100k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T08:45:01.847" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:24:51.113" Title="Remove the decimal point after 100k rep" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="23421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23223" CreationDate="2009-09-25T08:46:13.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%5FIt%5FBe%5F%28song%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Let it be.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T08:46:13.213" />
  <row Id="23422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T09:19:45.197" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great to see that now, as opposed to a month ago, when I up vote an answer I like to a question that I asked, that it reminds me I can also mark the check mark to say it's the answer I accept. But could we have it say &quot;remember&quot; instead of &quot;don't forget&quot;? It has been shown that negative words at the beginning of commands are often ignored. E.g. better to tell a child &quot;stop!&quot; then &quot;don't run into the street&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T09:19:45.197" Title="remember to be positive about reminding to check accepted answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23404" CreationDate="2009-09-25T09:27:19.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have I encountered him? Sure, and even on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17253/will-my-question-rank-forward-if-i-re-edit-it&quot;&gt;Will my question rank forward if I re-edit it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17324/should-parasite-behaviour-be-punished-somehow&quot;&gt;Should parasite behaviour be punished somehow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4448/does-so-encourage-developer-laziness/4449#4449&quot;&gt;Does SO encourage developer laziness?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased/7332#7332&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that the list is complete, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T09:27:19.570" />
  <row Id="23424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T09:36:44.777" Score="2" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498/what-are-the-architecture-details-of-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What are the architecture details of Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admire the instant responses of SO. I wonder how the database was built? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the architecture? You don't need to disclose the exact thing but an idea to everyone will help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T09:46:56.490" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T09:46:56.490" ClosedDate="2009-09-25T12:19:42.233" Title="DB Architecture of stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;&lt;database&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23424" CreationDate="2009-09-25T09:40:06.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What Was Stack Overflow Built With?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498/what-are-the-architecture-details-of-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What are the architecture details of Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Architecture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T09:43:52.053" />
  <row Id="23426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T09:41:08.070" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely too sure on how the whole GMail accounts work, therefore any explanations would be greatly appreciated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm trying to do is how to associate my current StackOverflow account with a different GMail account. I've already changed the e-mail in my 'Edit' section of profile, however I still have to login to my old e-mail in order to get into SO! Please advise! Thank you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139219" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T12:03:23.683" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T08:23:28.897" Title="Associating SO Account with different GMail?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23223" CreationDate="2009-09-25T09:51:31.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would agree with c-programming but unix-programming or any os-programming should be left alone imo. Since you could be asking about specific elements of programming within that operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But those tags could be combined with their os counterpart (unix-programming merged with unix or something)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T11:13:39.250" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T11:13:39.250" />
  <row Id="23428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23426" CreationDate="2009-09-25T09:55:32.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go into your user profile and click on &quot;new login&quot; (next to &quot;edit&quot;). That will let you associate a new OpenID with your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then switch which one is the &quot;primary&quot; ID back on the profile page - there's a &quot;swap&quot; link next to &quot;Alt OpenID&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T09:55:32.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23431" CreationDate="2009-09-25T10:55:30.157" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459716/sharepoint-2007-how-to-set-column-level-permission/1470610#1470610&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/176392&quot;&gt;176392&lt;/a&gt; has the name &lt;code&gt;dotnetworld&lt;/code&gt;. In their comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1459716/sharepoint-2007-how-to-set-column-level-permission/1470610#1470610&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; they have the username &lt;code&gt;technorati.com/people/technorati&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The username on the comment does not match their current name. This shouldn't be a caching issue as they were last seen 8 hours ago (at time of writing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T00:13:27.070" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T00:13:27.070" Title="Wrong username displayed in comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23430" CreationDate="2009-09-25T11:06:43.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is only a problem, because the user hasn't specified a name in his user page. Maybe he logged in using different email accounts for the question and the comment. Not sure, if it is possible to fix that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T11:06:43.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23430" CreationDate="2009-09-25T11:37:15.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've edited the user's profile to achieve consistency - but yes, looks like a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T11:37:15.587" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23420" CreationDate="2009-09-25T12:14:34.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a better solution to it all (and avoid scaling issues in the future) is just to drop the badge counts to the next line underneath the rep, giving the rep and the badge counts more room to grow outwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T12:14:34.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23404" CreationDate="2009-09-25T12:19:16.057" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must admit I find it amusing that people are starting to pull up examples of users who match the blankman, sasha, kirsh, and other users criteria that many of us used to use as an example of this exact problem. Back then most people just guffawed about it and didn't think it was any issue, but now that more users are being discovered that use the exact same methods to achieve high rep (namely asking hundreds of piss poor questions that will each get one or two sympathy upvotes) there is a greater vocalization about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T12:19:16.057" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23393" CreationDate="2009-09-25T12:33:30.323" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It will be cool to give votes/ and&#xA;  down votes for a creative profile&#xA;  description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No it wouldn't.  It would be pretty much the antithesis of how SO is supposed to work.  Questions and answers are supposed to be judged upon their own merit, which earns their author reputation.  A user is not supposed to get rep because his profile is little more than -- hypothetically -- a profanity-laden, drunken tirade about lasers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T12:33:30.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T12:52:46.730" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am very much against this. When a user gets suspended &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is their punishment. There is no public shaming of them, they are just binned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only noticable in high profile cases. If a user with &amp;lt; 1000 reputation gets binned, no one is going to notice, so there is no reason to tag their profile. Some of the users may have made small but serious mistakes, or became carried away in the course of one discussion and been suspended. In any and all of those scenarios, &lt;strong&gt;the suspension is the punishment&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be people who distrust authority, and they will never believe any suspension is reasonable. If you publish a reason then not only are you giving people something specific to grasp at and disagree with, you are publicly shaming someone who is already being punished. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, as noted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23385/avoid-the-streisand-effect-be-clear-about-the-reason-when-suspending-an-account/23401#23401&quot;&gt;womp&lt;/a&gt; the terse explanation will still fuel speculation. For instance 'Banned because of abusive comments' would generate speculation about which discussion caused it. And then whether or not the person was binned for mentioning waffles. You can't open up terse explanations without generating huge amounts of discussion and curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, keeping people in the dark also does this, but it generates &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; because you are less likely to notice someone being binned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23366/suspension-reasons&quot;&gt;My suggestion&lt;/a&gt; is that there be a list of actions in the FAQ which will generally get you banned. It would shed some light on the process (&quot;users have been banned for the following reasons:&quot;) but it would not single out users for particular shaming. It should also be stated that moderators can still suspend people for other reasons. So, you can't claim &quot;but posting pornography isn't on 'the list'! so it must be allowed!&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T13:05:56.173" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T13:05:56.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23621" CreationDate="2009-09-25T13:01:01.673" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it Kosher to ask the same question multiple times on different SO sites?  This really applies to command line utility questions on SF and SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/68684/how-can-i-get-diff-diff-show-only-added-and-deleted-lines-if-diff-cant-do-it-w&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/46766/how-can-i-get-diff-to-show-only-added-and-deleted-lines&quot;&gt;Superuser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T23:24:22.617" Title="Asking a question multiple times on different sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23420" CreationDate="2009-09-25T13:10:04.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just dropping the decimal point is enough. The field is enough to hold 4 letters. With &lt;code&gt;margin-left: -2px;&lt;/code&gt; in the badges counts its enough for a correction when somebody reaches more than 999. I think that you can't scale more than that with a clean interface. Maybe don't show the bronze badges when you are over 9999 silver badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i35.tinypic.com/291gldx.png&quot; alt=&quot;TheTAXI 18M&quot; title=&quot;Unchanged css&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i36.tinypic.com/1622p9w.png&quot; alt=&quot;TheTAXI 555k&quot; title=&quot;Unchanged css&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i36.tinypic.com/fa615e.png&quot; alt=&quot;TheTAXI 555k and a lot of badges&quot; title=&quot;margin-left:-3px toevery badge container&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.tinypic.com/28re71z.png&quot; alt=&quot;TheTXI 999k&quot; title=&quot;margin-left:1px to every badge symbol&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T14:23:37.030" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:23:37.030" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T13:13:18.923" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed I get very slow email notifications from SO. The checkbox says it will notify me daily, but generally two (2) days lapse before I receive a notice of any responses.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tested this by inserting dates in some of my posts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two days. That seems to be the best response time I can get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136069" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T03:05:13.060" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:06:17.597" Title="slow email notification" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;slow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23440" CreationDate="2009-09-25T13:13:29.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last I checked, no. 99.9% of all questions really only belong on one site. While there is some overlap when you look at broader categories of questions (scripting for example) - the intent really does point you to one site or another. This has been discussed in greater detail elsewhere on meta. many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T13:13:29.533" />
  <row Id="23444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23440" CreationDate="2009-09-25T13:18:19.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will, for convenience, repeat my answer here that I gave &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4708/what-to-do-with-cross-site-duplicates/4712#4712&quot;&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is clearly a question that does belong on another site, migrate it and then treat it as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a borderline question, let it live in both cultures, as the answeres will be different, programmers answering for programmers, and admins answering for admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is important to keep the sites focused, but frankly, I am a programmer and will ask questions in SO mainly. So if I have a borderline question I will ask it in SO, not researching SF or SU upfront.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking the questions in a comment or the text will be of help and might point me to some additional answers. But I might not understand them, as the answerer expects too much from me as knowledge of the other community goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This view seems to be backed up &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7000/are-similar-questions-allowed-on-two-sites/7003#7003&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T13:18:19.820" />
  <row Id="23445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23442" CreationDate="2009-09-25T13:18:29.380" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would agree with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today (25th) I was informed by email of some responses to my questions on the 22nd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't looked into what effect timezone differences may have made, but the 2 day delay seems about right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and I visit the site every day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T13:18:29.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23404" CreationDate="2009-09-25T13:30:18.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a bad, totalitarian, and most likely despised idea. Those questions are, sometimes, valuable, if not for the question itself, for the answers provided. &lt;strong&gt;If a question doesn't give value, then they should be deleted&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a way of punishment for &lt;del&gt;acting as a jerk&lt;/del&gt; not giving enough thought before asking, some of his answers could be &lt;em&gt;disowned&lt;/em&gt; and his rep recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not comfortable with the idea, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of a Close capable-400 question asker-no answers-half of votes negatives user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T13:30:18.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-09T11:54:22.020" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've reposted a couple questions I originally posted on SO that seemed too server-y even at the time. It seems a bit silly to repost, but they're more suited to Server Fault. Is this frowned upon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130827" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T06:17:34.073" Title="Is it okay to repost my relevant Stack Overflow questions on Server Fault?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;cross-posting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23465" CreationDate="2009-05-09T13:01:48.623" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. In fact - I think the admins want you to repost your question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Joel and Jeff want serverfault.com to be the sort of place which holds the answers to all server questions, I think they'd be happy to have questions answered at other sites to be reposted here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best use-case that Joel talks about is asking a question on stackoverflow.com and having the answer instantly pop up. By asking the question again here, you're moving the information to where it deserves to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably - To avoid stepping on toes, I'd ask for the original question to be closed. You're not flooding all sites with your question - You're just putting the right question in the right place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1726" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:03:46.547" />
  <row Id="23467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23465" CreationDate="2009-05-09T14:22:35.550" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Definitely re-post here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is to make this database as complete as possible - and being off-topic on Stack Overflow will keep them from being as highly viewed, since the audience is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:03:46.547" />
  <row Id="23468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23465" CreationDate="2009-05-09T15:01:35.113" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't just re-post them. Instead, vote to close them as &quot;belongs on serverfault.com&quot;. In order to help you gather the necessary votes (and to prevent vote wars), edit the original question and make it clear that you are the original author and that you &lt;em&gt;wish&lt;/em&gt; it to be moved here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2988" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:03:46.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-04T14:36:59.027" Score="5" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/1039/can-anyone-recommend-a-perimeter-spam-filtering-service&quot;&gt;#1039 - &quot;Can anyone recommend a perimeter SPAM filtering service?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have since discovered there is no single right answer, however I find great benefit to the multitude of good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this now a community wiki?  How do I know, what is the criteria for marking a question community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/8324/how-does-serverfault-work-the-community-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32700" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T19:29:47.860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T22:15:50.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-04T15:06:54.637" Title="When Should a Question be Changed to Community Wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23469" CreationDate="2009-05-04T14:42:38.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the information on community wiki questions lifted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/128434/what-are-community-wiki-posts-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why have Community Wiki posts?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the goals of Stackoverflow is to be a continually evolving source of good information. Community Wiki posts help enhance the wiki aspect of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How do Community Wiki posts work?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki posts work by transferring ownership of the post from the original author to the community. They make the post easier to edit and maintain by a wider group of users, but they do not contribute to any user's reputation. Community Wiki posts are marked as community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the key features are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community Wiki posts are owned by the Community User, not by any individual user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A much lower reputation is needed to edit a community wiki post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting on a community wiki post (up or down) does not affect any user's reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original author still gets badges based on community posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original author keeps the reputation gained (or lost) before their post entered community mode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How does a post become a Community Wiki post?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several ways a question or answer can enter community wiki mode, and most of these ways will occur automatically based on the rules of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posts enter community wiki mode when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The body of the post has been edited by four different people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post has been edited five times by the original owner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is initially asked, if the author checks the community wiki checkbox.&#xA;-The question generates more than 30 answers. In this case all answers and the question will enter community mode, including any future answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When should I set my post/answer to Community mode from the outset?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the following types of posts and answers are best set to community mode from the get-go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anything that could have have serverfault or sffaq tag applied.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any &quot;official&quot; type response to a serverfault or sofaq tagged question, such as the &quot;official&quot; answer to this question, or this answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Polls - both the initial question, and the set of answers that users can upvote to cast their vote in the poll should be set to community mode. Not only will this keep rep-harvesting to a minimum, but I think people will be more likely to freely cast votes in polls if they know that someone is not gaining as a result. This could apply to posts like &quot;What is your favorite X?&quot;, &quot;What is the best Y?&quot;, and possibly even &quot;Hidden features of Z&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Miscellaneous&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way to reclaim your post back from community wiki mode. This is to prevent exploits and gaming of the system.&#xA;Rollbacks do not reverse any of the community wiki mode calculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:04:01.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23469" CreationDate="2009-05-04T14:43:29.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community wiki doesn't really have anything to do with whether a question has a single right answer or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki just means that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People with a lower rep can edit it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't gain rep for upvotes on it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the precedents set on SO, a question should probably be community wiki if it is a poll type question or a fun somewhat off-topic question (to prevent people from gaining a bunch of rep for posting a good programmer cartoon, for instance).  FAQ type questions (like this one) should also be CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see any reason for the question you linked to to be community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:04:01.600" />
  <row Id="23472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T14:36:07.663" Score="30" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a thought, but would Stack Overflow be able to add some keyboard navigation shortcuts? Something along these lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Shortcut Key - Page to navigate to:&#xA;           H - Home&#xA;           Q - Questions&#xA;           T - Tags&#xA;           U - Users&#xA;           B - Badges&#xA;           N - Unanswered&#xA;           A - Ask Question&#xA;&#xA;Shortcut Key - Action to Perform (While on page with a listing of questions)&#xA;           K - Previous Question&#xA;           J - Next Question&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-11T12:14:49.863" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T12:14:49.863" Title="Add keyboard shortcuts to Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-planned&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="23474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23472" CreationDate="2009-09-25T14:45:34.900" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally have never been a fan of keyboard shortcuts. If there was a way for the user to have them disabled by default, however, I would probably be in favor of it because I know it would make things easier for the keyboard gurus out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:45:34.900" />
  <row Id="23475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23479" CreationDate="2009-09-25T14:46:32.763" Score="-9" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing real quick but after say 2 months, I think the asker should &quot;owe&quot; 1 rep point for every upvoted answer in a given question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using me as an example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/351160/net-read-properties-of-and-disable-the-screensaver-and-other-power-schemes&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked this question 9+ months ago and haven't accepted an answer yet.  If you give a 2 month grace period, I would &quot;owe&quot; 14 SO points for not accepting an answer for 7 months with 2 upvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I be docked some rep for letting this question go for as long as I have?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tweak this a little...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Would there be a situation where you would start decrementing rep for this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users with N questions with &amp;lt;M% acceptance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers upvoted N times with no downvotes (this would show participation from the asker).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  I removed some of the &lt;em&gt;harsh&lt;/em&gt; language.  The answers using &lt;em&gt;punish&lt;/em&gt; are valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="4068" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T15:12:36.897" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T15:40:43.037" Title="Should questions with no accepted answers be charged &quot;interest&quot; after awhile?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23475" CreationDate="2009-09-25T14:49:19.357" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You don't know if the question has no accepted answers because the user just hasn't accepted one, or if none the answers (despite being upvoted) actually solved the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making someone lose rep is just going to encourage arbitrary acceptance of answers. I'd rather there be no accepted answer at all than an accepted incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:49:19.357" />
  <row Id="23478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23475" CreationDate="2009-09-25T14:52:51.957" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not at all. Not all questions will end up having a correct answer, and marking an accepted answer just for the sake of having it accepted is not what we want here at all in any way, shape, or form. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting Answers should only be when an answer actually successfully answers the question. If there are none that do so, then there should be no accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Accented Answer is decided solely by the original asker. If the original author never accepts it, well then so be it. Eventually the top answer should filter to the top via the votes anyway, so it will still be there for future users to see even though there isn't a green check mark with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:52:51.957" />
  <row Id="23479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23475" CreationDate="2009-09-25T14:53:40.830" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users already have an acceptance rate which shows when they do not accept an answer to a question. They should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEVER&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be punished because the system failed them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user asks a question and does not receive any correct answers, why are we going to force them to accept an incorrect answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want to encourage users to accept answers, however, there is no punishment for not doing that because the purpose of having votes is that even if an answer is not 'accepted', it can still be show to be the most commonly accepted answer. Even without an 'accepted' checkmark, the community is still enriched by the question being asked, and the answers on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No harm is &lt;em&gt;caused&lt;/em&gt; by not accepting an answer, so why should we &lt;em&gt;punish&lt;/em&gt; for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:53:40.830" />
  <row Id="23480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23472" CreationDate="2009-09-25T14:58:15.517" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be in favor of this, as long as you could turn it on or off at your discretion. Maybe it could work as part of a larger &quot;StackOverflow Labs&quot; feature. &lt;br /&gt;Think Gmail Labs... you could turn on or off different &quot;experimental&quot; parts of functionality that other users have written (and there'd probably have to be a submission/verification process). &lt;br /&gt;Come to think of it, that might be a good way to keep a lot of the Greasemonkey scripts that people have written in a central location, and give some of their hard work more visibility to those that don't visit Meta but might have use for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132722" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T14:58:15.517" />
  <row Id="23481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23475" CreationDate="2009-09-25T15:20:35.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. We should not &quot;punish&quot; anyone who is simply asking questions with un marked answers.  We have no idea exactly what they were looking for and if they honestly got the answer they needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the accept rate has already done part of this because some people feel like they are bad if they don't have 100% under their name. This idea would only further issues such as premature answer checking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wins the &quot;not well recieved feature request of the day&quot; award. I don't think we need any more complexity to the rep system either. People already complain about, argue, praise, and value rep too much already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T15:40:43.037" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T15:40:43.037" />
  <row Id="23482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:01:23.077" Score="17" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Stack Overflow for a couple of weeks, and it is an amazing resource and community.  A couple of things have been bugging me, however, and I wanted to share them from the perspective of a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the Community Wiki concept is utterly baffling at first - not because the concept is difficult, but because it receives very little support from the interface: &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What IS the community wiki?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What posts should go in there?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I know if a post is community wiki? (yes, I know it's labeled as such, but it's really not visually distinct unless you're looking for it).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it an important aspect of Stack Overflow?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is, why is it so downplayed by the interface and the FAQ (barely mentioned in passing)?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it isn't an important aspect, why is it there in the first place, and why do so many posts complain &quot;this should be community wiki&quot;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And, last but not least - if it's a WIKI, how do I search/browse it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;my tags&quot; unanswered questions - why can they only be sorted by votes, not by date?  For the longest time, I thought I was simply missing an interface feature somewhere.  I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23418/list-newest-questions-only-matching-my-interesting-tags&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but my experience so far doesn't match with the reasoning given.  Only something like 10% of the new questions have one of my tags, and I have yet to answer a question outside my tags.  I get tired of sifting through all the unrelated questions on the &quot;newest&quot; page, so I don't do it very often.  On the other hand, &quot;my tags&quot; doesn't show the newest questions, so I miss them.  Unless there's been some significant testing done to show otherwise, I think this is the biggest flaw in Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: a couple of things I forgot to mention.  These tripped me up a bit at first, but I mostly got used to them by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The difference between the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;home page&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;questions page&lt;/a&gt;.  They're... different, but it's not immediately obvious how.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The difference between the &quot;Recent activity&quot; page (click on the mail icon) and the user page (click on my username).  The difference is a bit more obvious, but getting to the &quot;Recent activity&quot; page isn't that obvious unless the mail icon is colored in.  (my first instinct was that the mail icon and the username, being so close together, would both go to the same place).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T17:37:41.763" Title="First impressions from a new user" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23482" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:06:28.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, all answers/questions are wiki if you have enough reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wiki questions should be the ones that can't have a deffinitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To browse by date, just order by newest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its interesting to hear the point of view of a newcommer, as most of the people here in Meta have been on the site for months (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/13/yearling&quot;&gt;some for more than a year&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T16:06:28.417" />
  <row Id="23484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23482" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:15:09.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mostly agree the community wiki concept is strange. Case in point: experienced users disagree about what it should be used for to the point that the community wiki police come along and insist that anything without a formal proof of correctness be made CW. I'm still not sure what the basis of this opinion is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others think that by marking their question CW they should be allowed to say anything and have open ended discussions. You see these questions that are closed with the indignant comments &quot;What?! Why?! I marked it CW!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested to know what purpose it was intended for. The reality just seems to be a means of lowering the bar for relevance, quality and being on topic (jokes, cartoon, wedding cakes and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T16:15:09.603" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:15:32.380" Score="8" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can Stack Overflow implement AJAX refreshing for questions and answers (the way it works on Gmail, or similar to Slashdot's 'New Stories' feature)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T04:33:05.683" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:33:05.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-25T16:15:32.380" Title="Ajax refreshing for questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;ajax&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23482" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:19:44.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I agree CW needs better definition.  It took myself awhile before I understood why some questions were and were not.  I remember that being one the most confusing things when I was new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing that tripped me up was the difference between home page questions and the questions section. You are not alone in your concerns and experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T16:19:44.010" />
  <row Id="23488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:24:18.497" Score="10" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of interesting tags would be more usable if it was ordered alphabetically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apologies if this suggestion has already been made, I couldn't find it (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1975/ability-to-sort-reorder-interesting-ignored-tags-in-sidebar&quot;&gt;this is the closest&lt;/a&gt;, but not quite the same).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T10:10:20.190" Title="Sort interested/ignored tags alphabetically" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="23489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23486" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:28:16.333" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't work while you were answering a question - as the text box would potentially move out from under your cursor while you were typing. Not a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While answering you get the notification of new answers at the top and have the option of reloading the page - I think that's enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be a benefit to extending this to occur while just reading answers, but again I wouldn't want it to happen automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see any use for it on the questions page though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T19:15:22.783" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T19:15:22.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-25T16:28:16.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36486" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:35:39.067" Score="14" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I want to check what's happened in the past day on a question I'm interested in. It would be nice to have a &quot;recent activity&quot; tab on each question next to the &quot;oldest&quot;, &quot;newest&quot;, and &quot;votes&quot; tabs. This tab should bring up a view very similar to the Recent Activity view you can see if you click the envelope next to your name at the top of the page, but containing all the activity on the question thread rather than all the responses to a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this view should include information about when various answers got upvotes/downvotes, but it should make an entry every time somebody posts/edits an answer or makes a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T18:55:21.317" Title="Recent Activity tab on each question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2009-09-25T16:58:47.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're taking the SO engine to seriously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with the blog approach. If you think an idea posted there deserves more attention or discussion, just post it here. The Blog exists because not everything has to be discussed and voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simplifying everything as a SO engine just because it's really good just complicates everything in the long run IMHO. Sounds to me you're trying to use SO engine as a silver-bullet to everything that is &quot;driven&quot; by a community, and I don't think this is the best approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T16:58:47.263" />
  <row Id="23495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23488" CreationDate="2009-09-25T17:19:21.873" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is implemented, it should be an optional feature, not automatic.  I have my interesting tags sorted in more-or-less the order I want them, more interesting first, even though I had to delete and re-add tags to get it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T17:19:21.873" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23223" CreationDate="2009-09-25T17:23:59.930" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't these all just be merged with their non *programming counterparts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have a C question that applies to windows-programming, it should be tagged &quot;c&quot;, &quot;windows&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say Unix programming should go the same way: e.g. a question could be tagged &quot;bash&quot;, &quot;unix&quot; or perhaps just &quot;shell-scripting&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T17:23:59.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23482" CreationDate="2009-09-25T17:37:41.763" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer your questions in as direct and succinct a manner as possible, point by point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What IS the community wiki? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's complicated. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;(Reference)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What posts should go in there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stuff you want others to edit.  Beyond that, there's disagreement. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23469/when-should-a-question-be-changed-to-community-wiki&quot;&gt;(Reference)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I know if a post is community wiki? (yes, I know it's labeled as such, but it's really not visually distinct unless you're looking for it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to look for that distinguishing feature, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it an important aspect of Stack Overflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some say very much so, others disagree. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21175/is-community-wiki-fatally-flawed-xor-vitally-useful&quot;&gt;(Reference)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it is, why is it so downplayed by the interface and the FAQ (barely mentioned in passing)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Huh. Good question. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14567/is-community-wiki-still-relevant&quot;&gt;(See Also)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it isn't an important aspect, why is it there in the first place, and why do so many posts complain &quot;this should be community wiki&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure. Puzzling, isn't it? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&quot;&gt;(See Also)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And, last but not least - if it's a WIKI, how do I search/browse it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find wiki questions by adding &lt;code&gt;wiki:1&lt;/code&gt; in the search bar, but most people just use Google, and ignore whether questions are wiki or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T17:37:41.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33363" CreationDate="2009-09-25T17:58:58.947" Score="2" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that our &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4255/contest-to-predict-date-and-time-that-jon-skeet-will-eclipse-100k&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet contest&lt;/a&gt; is over. I'd like to try our hand again but this time with Marc Gravell. When do you think he'll surpass the 100,000 mark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/2009/07/11/stack-overflow-share-your-flair-now-in-png/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.grumpydev.com/imageFlair/imageFlair.php?userid=23354&quot; alt=&quot;Current Score&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T18:29:54.240" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T20:18:25.263" Title="Contest to predict date and time that Marc Gravell will eclipse 100k" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;contest&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23499" CreationDate="2009-09-25T17:59:19.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is Dec 12th, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T17:59:19.257" />
  <row Id="23501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23499" CreationDate="2009-09-25T18:00:14.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In six to eight weeks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, as a real entry into the contest, Dec 23.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T18:15:44.767" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T18:15:44.767" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T18:03:25.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just an Average Joe on SO/MSO/SU. I ask dumb questions, I get smart answers. I appreciate the tension between privacy of the individual and the transparency of the community, and I think we're all aware that there's no Great Big Answer Way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a problem is having long crabby gossip threads about what's going on?! why did &lt;code&gt;$joe&lt;/code&gt; disappear! why are there waffles instead of flair on &lt;code&gt;$joe&lt;/code&gt;'s page!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to have good enough transparency that the community is reasonably satisfied there aren't Creepy Moderators Silently Killing Users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="130556" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T22:45:41.323" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T22:45:41.323" />
  <row Id="23503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23499" CreationDate="2009-09-25T18:03:27.410" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm ~81k now, after &lt;em&gt;roughly&lt;/em&gt; a year (less a few days) - so add ~3 months. I'll say Dec 15th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T18:03:27.410" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="23506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14665" CreationDate="2009-09-25T18:11:48.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most amazing part of StackOverflow is being endorsed ( well actually developed by ) Jeff and Joel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are in the top 10 programming blogs. Thus when they launched SO, they have already a good critical mass ( mostly .net/windows programmers ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a good critical mass, is essential to start sites like this. This site could have had the same features, but if is only visited by 20 or so people at day, you wouldn't get answer in a timely fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also other factors for the &quot;Amazingness&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Coding Horror's blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001284.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Code: it's trivial&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;synthesizing cleaner, saner HTML markup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;optimizing our pages for speed and load time efficiency&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;simplifying or improving our site layout, CSS, and graphics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;responding to support and feedback emails&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;writing a blog post explaining some aspect of the site engine or philosophy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;being customers of our own sites, asking our own programming questions and sysadmin questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interacting with the community on our dedicated meta-discussion site to help gauge what we should be working on, and where the rough edges are that need polishing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;electing community moderators and building moderation tools so the community can police and regulate itself as it scales&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;producing Creative Commons dumps of our user-contributed questions and answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;coming up with schemes for responsible advertising so we can all make a living&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;producing the Stack Overflow podcast with Joel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;helping set up logistics for the Stack Overflow DevDays conferences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;setting up the next site in the trilogy, and figuring out where we go next &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T18:11:48.143" />
  <row Id="23517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23469" CreationDate="2009-09-25T18:57:44.160" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lo these many days ago, when the knowledge of fire was young and many still lived who remembered the Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow beta, there was a great shadow on the land. For some of the people though that Goodness was measured in technical prowess only, and other sought joy in jokes, popularity, comics, and other things of a frivolous nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad blood arose between the tribes, and many Users Voiced strongly worded opinions, teeth were gnashed, beards were pulled, much dander was seen raised high, and discouraging words were heard where they should not be heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in time, peace was forged, and it was agreed by many that the joyous should go forth to babble of best comments, and worst managers without constraint yet would not seek to measure their accomplishments by these things, but only by works of a studious nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, my friends, the land welcomes new people every day, and this agreement must be continuously renewed lest the trying times come again. So go forth and teach this history as I have chanted it to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T22:15:50.347" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T22:15:50.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-25T18:57:44.160" />
  <row Id="23520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:05:08.097" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people post/answer questions here, time stamp doesn't show the year. I think the year in time stamp is very important. Technology and solution change fast . It will be helpful to add the year in time stamp. It will help people to filter information that are outdated.. &#xA;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="34211" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T20:08:28.630" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T17:15:19.050" Title="time stamp when posting questions/answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="23521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23520" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:09:45.260" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The year will appear if you hover your mouse over the date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T20:09:45.260" />
  <row Id="23526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23380" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:27:45.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Hello World&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you all for what you showed me in this humble first post of mine in this community. &#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The need for the random button subsided once i found the power of the tag-button filters&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;But what i will never forget, is what i found out about this Forum. It is very healthy. I undeliberately and very hesitantly injected this off-Forum Question on SO and within 5 minutes i was shoved this way by five SOber and friendly White Blood Cells. The Organism is very strong and decisve on keeping healthy. &#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;This simple post is one i'll never forget. I feel welcome here, and should i do anything wrong, i have every confidence that i'll be standing corrected in no time, so false habits won't get a chance to creep in. &#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;I greet you, and thank you for this warm welcome. &#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;Bye, Rolf&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136382" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T20:27:45.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23610" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:34:25.823" Score="2" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question can apply to any computer language, but my example is C++.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions (quite helpfully) supply sample code (which I can paste into an IDE and try), but use &lt;code&gt;using namespace std;&lt;/code&gt; which is a very bad practice in many cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am concerned that with so many questions including this bad practice, this will be seen as normal and just end up promoting bad practice all over SO and Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there are a number of students coming to SO with real questions, but somehow having picked up a bad habit.  We need to answer the valid questions, but promote good habits as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need more rep on SO to be able to edit the questions?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Can questions with some tags be flagged with some warnings to the writer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136415" LastEditorUserId="136415" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T20:45:01.387" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T19:50:47.317" Title="How do I discourage bad programming practice in SO questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23527" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:41:17.167" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When this happens and I think it's worthy of it, I &lt;strong&gt;just comment&lt;/strong&gt; on the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the specific issue of &lt;code&gt;using namespace std;&lt;/code&gt;, many tutorial sites and even books, use it in their examples. It's simply a way to save time and space for examples. It's generally well understood that libraries and production code should avoid doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T20:41:17.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23527" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:42:10.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is what voting and commenting are for -- When you see a bad answer, whether it's unclear, doesn't solve the problem, or promotes bad practice, then you have the option to downvote -- you should also leave a comment to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; you believe it to be bade practice too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you could always leave an answer of your own that doesn't exhibit the same problems, and explain why you think it's a better answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T20:42:10.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23520" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:46:55.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The timestamp &quot;ages&quot; gracefully so that as a post gets older, the timestamp shows more information about when it was asked/answered.  If a timestamp is missing information, you can assume that it is the most recent &quot;whatever&quot; corresponding to the date fragment -- year, month, day, as appropriate.  As others have noted, you can always hover over the timestamp to get the full date and time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T17:15:19.050" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T17:15:19.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23539" CreationDate="2009-09-25T20:50:15.013" Score="8" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/60761?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;reputation tab of my profile&lt;/a&gt;, the graph ends at a score of 12k5, my actual score is 14k8. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been deleting some answers lately, some with votes. Could it be that the graph is showing what a ReCalc would do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-31T22:54:19.863" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T23:03:31.937" Title="Does the Reputation Graph indicate the results of a ReCalc?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23499" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:13:46.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The progression of his reputation is exponential, so I'll guess earlier. I'll say November 2nd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T21:13:46.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23534" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:16:12.953" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to link to all of my posts in a given tag or look at all the posts another user has made in a given tag. If this is possible how do I go about performing the query? If not I'd like to present this as a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T23:57:07.507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T23:57:07.507" Title="Is there a way to see all of a users posts in a given tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23533" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:18:41.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, type this in the search box and press enter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:userid-of-the-prospective-user [tag-name]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, my C# posts can be found by searching for &lt;code&gt;user:33708 [c#]&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;(for your own posts, you can simply use &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T21:18:41.327" />
  <row Id="23535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23544" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:19:28.827" Score="15" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find viewing everyone else's deleted answers kind of distracting, and sometimes it's hard to not pass judgement when viewing some of them. Any chance of getting an option to be able to just not load them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T23:38:01.847" Title="Feature Request: ability to not load the deleted answers after hitting 10k" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23533" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:29:12.510" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also simply click the tags on their user page, which does the same search as Mehrdad specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T21:29:12.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:42:39.300" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, how about remembering the sorting of your answers / questions? I personally like to see mine in the 'Newest' sorting, but it's always under the 'Votes' one by default. Sometimes I forget this and it gets confusing when I see my posts in a different order than I instinctively expect them to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about. You see how the 'votes' sorting is checked? What I'm asking is that it remembers your last selection when you come back. If you choose 'recent' (which is my preference) it should be like that next time you login.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/CarloDekstop/folders/Jing/media/5cfc2ff4-e8b4-4e31-9444-89d78f60d0b2/2009-09-26%5F0008.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T08:22:08.207" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:22:08.207" Title="Initial sorting of answers and questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23531" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:49:57.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding up all the green numbers and subtracting all the red numbers gives 12211. So that's the reputation you'd have from all current questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I hadn't realized that this list also includes reputation used and granted for bounties - given that it does, you can probably trust this number. Keep in mind, rep from deleted answers, including answers to deleted or migrated questions, doesn't count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one time, I had a Greasemonkey script written to calculate your actual reputation from the graph... But this was never perfectly accurate, and the addition of the /reputation page (for instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;your Stack Overflow reputation audit&lt;/a&gt;) makes this unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-31T23:03:31.937" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T23:03:31.937" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="23540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23472" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:50:08.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keyboard shortcuts are a must for people who cannot see. That said they are incredibly difficult to implement since each browser and operating system has it's own list of keyboard shortcuts which you must contend with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T21:50:08.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23499" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:52:18.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;November 29, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T21:52:18.173" />
  <row Id="23542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23535" CreationDate="2009-09-25T21:59:32.577" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps something like the &quot;show more comments&quot; would be good, so you can see where there is a deleted post, but it's a one line message that doesn't show anything other than a post was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T21:59:32.577" />
  <row Id="23543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23072" CreationDate="2009-09-25T22:27:02.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users can always come back if their behavior improves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case, it is too much manual work to re-associate the deleted account, so the user should start at zero, or whatever the new accounts have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably better to start with a fresh slate anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T22:27:02.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23535" CreationDate="2009-09-25T23:38:01.847" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be happy if all the deleted answers were simply at the end regardless of their votes or answer/edit time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T23:38:01.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23538" CreationDate="2009-09-25T23:40:42.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're logged in, you should already be able to stick with a sort order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having set it a long time ago on Newest, while everyone keeps talking in the mindframe of sort by Votes, this continues to hold true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T23:40:42.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-25T23:43:01.807" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;After using both for a good while now. I get frustrated that questions appear on the front page before they appear on the newest question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should at least show the newest questions at the same rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-25T23:47:35.810" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T01:40:43.590" Title="Newest questions list isn't quick enough!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20601" CreationDate="2009-09-25T23:46:29.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answers were slugged as if they were in the negatives, that would be okay if you're viewing in the Votes mode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you can just ignore the far end of the answers list and be done with their presence on that front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T23:46:29.553" />
  <row Id="23548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23385" CreationDate="2009-09-25T23:51:34.883" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, it is a private matter between the moderators and that particular user. Note that other moderators have access to annotations on the account that will provide more context for the suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it is the reponsibility and right of the user who was placed in timed suspension to have the freedom to discuss (or &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; discuss) what happened to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a basic matter of respecting other users' privacy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Note that &lt;strong&gt;every user suspension page links directly to our official guidance on the matter:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please read that closely&lt;/em&gt; -- it is quite detailed, and explains the most common general reasons that cover 95% (or more) of all timed user suspensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/ej79Y.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-13T11:18:22.237" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T11:18:22.237" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23546" CreationDate="2009-09-25T23:57:51.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never use the front page myself so I would never know if they shot up there faster than on the new questions list...but it may have something to do with the order that things are updated on the website behind the scenes, just a guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But overall I agree. New Questions ought to be as fast as possible. Make all my refreshes worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-25T23:57:51.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T01:23:32.310" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across this today. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1475550/how-to-put-a-div-at-center-of-another-div&quot;&gt;How to put a div at center of another div?&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1475550/list&quot;&gt;originally&lt;/a&gt; asking how to have &quot;one div at center of another div vertically&quot;. I downvoted an answer that said to use &quot;margin: 0 auto&quot; and adding a DOCTYPE, which is what you do for horizontal centering. The question was later changed to say horizontal. The answer wasn't but a downvote is no longer appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the appropriate action in this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T01:35:04.020" Title="What's the accepted practice when you downvote an answer and the question is edited so the answer fits?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23550" CreationDate="2009-09-26T01:27:46.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question was initially unclear (he wrote &quot;vertically&quot; but indicated that the method for centering horizontally worked for him in FF, thus hinting that he may have actually meant &quot;horizontally&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it was corrected, and you saw the correction, you should probably remove your down-vote. (i suspect you've already done this, given the edit...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T01:27:46.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23550" CreationDate="2009-09-26T01:35:04.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't have edit privileges, there is nothing you can do.  Your vote is cast, it's permanent, you could leave a comment explaining that you're sorry that you downvoted earlier, but that's about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, echoing Shog9, if you have edit privilege, edit it and change your vote.  Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T01:35:04.020" />
  <row Id="23553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23546" CreationDate="2009-09-26T01:40:43.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this as well. I originally thought &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/450835/how-do-you-stop-scripters-from-slamming-your-website-hundreds-of-times-a-second&quot;&gt;How do you stop scripters from slamming your website hundreds of times a second?&lt;/a&gt; was asked by Jeff but only just discovered it was edited by him and asked by someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation described in this question is a lot like the &quot;Newest Questions&quot; link. You could think of new questions as a resource people want to get early access to new questions. One way to deal with this (like in the question) is to aggressively cache it and it does seem that Newest Questions does at most update every minute or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The home page is probably cached as well but perhaps with a different refresh interval. If enough people cotton on you may find the home page getting slammed instead of the newest questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it would make sense if they were consistent but it probably isn't the easiest thing to synchronize and the payoff is probably quite small so I'm not sure we'll see this anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T01:40:43.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T02:12:04.017" Score="27" ViewCount="805" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the data dump, I've put together some &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/tagtrend.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tag trend graphs&lt;/a&gt; that show the rate of tagged questions over time. Below are some samples, there are many more on the linked page. I can update the page with requests for specific tag groups if you're interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; There's a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interactive tag trend graph&lt;/a&gt; page where you can select any set of tags to compare. Also, the graphs are improved and have a labeled X axis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Popular Languages (c#, java, php, javascript, c++, python)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3ahIdIdbd9f1hZaVbnh-n4pQmwuqqtwnxSuCrrqprQuapkx2zj03v.yt0x0H04595E9b.M7D9v6.9B7J6T8L095G5B49187h4t1.4p9p9-6p8D..-P9m,JnK1PBSqTGRvVGVZUMWyYkYvYNb7ZqbDZ8WxYKZYS5UcWKYxbKZCXpXLZfaharaXb4czaYeabKf4bseUezbUd8dLdIhLhojAh2bmccdHfUeregdrhM,LCJ0JiKOJdIoIMKaJyOULfM0OwM0NeODPbNZNcNnOLNlMxM6OXNkN4O3QjRXR0QBQSR4UBTTQtRSRNSlTISaSTU-WcWiarZzZDZTcVc1fFcfegcPfs,J-GbIhMjMANbJsLNM4NvQxOSPsNVQRPaQnSTPiQdPMQaPoQQRpRbSYRTSbUJR0S8SFT0TPT-UfQ1UUVYWsXDXXX1VlUOXMZnXKWVWbXJbkXwZGWjWu,FsLhKwKOMuOEMSOURQP6SQRCQ1VuVBUqQnTZRBRUSDQaPiSRTdU8PbQsSQS1T.TuUJT0TFV5R1TmPwUlV6UJSKRvSBS4TGTfTjVVT2SqT8U0SwTJQc,J-EEG5JgMjKOIJL8KPKDLfJ.KtLKK.N8M6LcMZNuLeNcLKPBPUMDNBNfMVM1M-O.NEPSPeM3OTPpNvNQQNQmQTOrPNQUOhRNOtOlQFPTO9PzRtPALq&amp;amp;chco=FF0000,00FF00,0000FF,FFFF00,FF00FF,00FFFF&amp;amp;chdl=c%23|java|php|javascript|c%2B%2B|python&amp;amp;chtt=Tag%20activity%20per%20week&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|0%|3.6%&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Distributed Source Control (git, mercurial, bazaar)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3amQHRNFXIq-pMU6RBVCQMN8dhUFc4gbPxXHSumXcFOgRVTMeMudcyXUkCw0abg5osVMdjhvj5Z5oArfconA0u05ubaVfgiGrZiRj.pHkyjRwU..ckzY,HpOjIuLkLuG3DfGFDPFZAAH3PoGqEoJAFIErAAErAAOcD1DxDtBzDVE6BvGmIqBsBxBvDXHLDcGZRFOUTgQpLbIMNKJMFPOAKJHMM7KrLVDtL2G2AA,AAAAAAAAH0DbBvAABnAAAAB9AAAACUAAAAHBCQAADoC4AAB4FkAABqAAAABpDdAAAAAADXAADcDMDGC3AABYAAEGBUD8BTBZCiAABLAABQAADjCSAA&amp;amp;chco=FF0000,00FF00,0000FF&amp;amp;chdl=git|mercurial|bazaar&amp;amp;chtt=Tag%20activity%20per%20week&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|0%|0.17%&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Javascript Libraries (jquery, prototype, mootools)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3aC5B1CMKsK1JhEgGcLOO-SVJrQmNuSsVBVtPDV6S4SSUZPfapVjWAYkX9czcvbEcpfaaFh0nmmGeriFkRk5rjpdrZxKrMxHtBtIts0v1t9K5z9G78.-,AAA6AAAfA.DBBGAnAAAdBABPBaBHCVA2ApA4BIBLCSBFA9CJBKBIB4BCBwB3BFB7ByBwB6BWBhBaBkBzBZDJBnCEA.BpB0AtDXB9BxBpCiBZB8BTAA,AAA6AAAAAAAbAOAAAnAdBAAPAkARASAAAAASA2ASA6AAAAAPAOA6AoANA4AAAAANAAAOAbA5AbAAAMAiAAAWAiBCAVAqAqAhAUATAvA5A8AnAcAkAz&amp;amp;chco=FF0000,00FF00,0000FF&amp;amp;chdl=jquery|prototype|mootools&amp;amp;chtt=Tag%20activity%20per%20week&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|0%|1.3%&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Meta (subjective, not-programming-related, polls, belongs-on-serverfault, stackoverflow)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3agobKXQnvfQvmqS2PyD..4o1hz-snkOu2pGpmrtmRiJoEkKhioThQhweRg2cLYAebaDYGXsWVdwZCYSTlRFWcQQQvQJS5NDPLRmQbRVOVPAO-OHQQRI,CuAAAxDbEKBOCUBgBcEKGXE5EwDjFwEzHTGPIBCfFzIuH2OFKkKjLQPISSVuUAVGWSYaZfW-XoPpUtQSLoQBHnKrLAKfLpKcKJJKHuGHEeFSHXJWH.,FcFLCUArAsGtLJPxKWHCIIKJKUFhEhGZB0DUFNDVD3FpFdEBC-CjCqDMB3EGBiA5A8A7BMAoBOBICfBRA.APBRAuAsAdAdA.BWAoBQA1AcAcANAaAA,AABSAAAAAsAAAdAbBcAUAAAWAZAyAAAAAAAAAZAAAAAgAAAVAAAUASAlAAASATAAAUAnAmAUAnCRDlCiH7ErEkGTDvFIDQDuEvFwCtEoE7EZF5E4G2,BXClG-EHBYCcCoB8CTEKDLE5B-CXE8EADpA1E0CFDOCkCCEBA.AoBLBKCKASCdAmAAA7BMAoAnBtB7BhBfCdBBC6CGCzAsDuBzD1DVC8AcCbCUDqEk&amp;amp;chco=FF0000,00FF00,0000FF,FFFF00,FF00FF&amp;amp;chdl=subjective|not-programming-related|polls|belongs-on-serverfault|stackoverflow&amp;amp;chtt=Tag%20activity%20per%20week&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|0%|0.95%&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-29T01:57:16.347" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T01:57:16.347" Title="Tag trends by week" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="23555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23442" CreationDate="2009-09-26T03:06:17.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:06:17.597" />
  <row Id="23556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23417" CreationDate="2009-09-26T03:09:30.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;cannot reproduce, either on the \tags page or the \ask page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/1127/soask.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the expected partial matches when I type &quot;sql-server-200&quot; (without the quotes) in either box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: apparently we neglected to turn off caching for the autocomplete plugin. Should be fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T08:11:52.637" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:11:52.637" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23276" CreationDate="2009-09-26T03:12:00.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention indicating what you want done, and it will get done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:12:00.117" />
  <row Id="23558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23559" CreationDate="2009-04-30T19:53:30.313" Score="8" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/subjective-warning.png&quot; alt=&quot;The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did I do wrong? I just typed up a title for my question, went to enter the question itself, and &lt;em&gt;bam&lt;/em&gt; BIG SCARY RED WARNING!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/8324/how-does-serverfault-work-the-community-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T10:46:08.687" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T10:46:08.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-30T19:53:30.283" Title="How can I avoid the dreaded &quot;Subjective&quot; warning on ServerFault?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="23559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23558" CreationDate="2009-04-30T19:56:43.833" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't use the following words in a subject title - it connotes subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Worst&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hardest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favourite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.uservoice.com/pages/17382-general/suggestions/179922-remove-subjective-question-warning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff posted the regex&lt;/a&gt; in uservoice (As of May 2, 2009): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Regex.IsMatch(s, @&quot;\bbest\b|\bworst\b|\bhardest\b|\byour?\b|\bfavou?rite\b&quot;, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to note that avoiding the above words does not make your question any less subjective - &quot;Best management tool&quot; is inherently subjective - the warning is not there to tell you to avoid certain words, but to avoid the question altogether, or to re-word it so it can be evaluated objectively and measurably so that the answer is the same for everyone in your situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:39:59.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-30T19:56:43.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23558" CreationDate="2009-04-30T20:03:53.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, well, mine got closed even if it didn't had &quot;best&quot; in the subject. I think all this is way to &quot;subjective&quot; for a beta so I will probably stay away ... at least until it will be out of beta :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49032" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:39:59.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-30T20:03:53.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19617" CreationDate="2009-09-26T03:46:28.180" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the revision history, you deleted and then undeleted that answer prior to the question itself being deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this before: when the answers for a question are deleted &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt;, the deletion timestamp is set to the actual time of deletion... but for previously-deleted answers, the &quot;deleted by&quot; attribute isn't reset - it will still reflect the last user to have deleted that specific answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that this is enough to trigger the Disciplined badge...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T03:46:28.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23554" CreationDate="2009-09-26T05:19:51.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like these.  Here are some more ideas if you've got time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone/blackberry/android/palm&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;windows/unix/linux/mac&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ie/firefox/chrome/safari/opera&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; oops, my eyes jumped over the text to the pretty graphs.  Looks like you've got all three of these (or something close) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/tagtrend.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the linked page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T08:46:39.067" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:46:39.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22940" CreationDate="2009-09-26T05:47:10.737" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;fix&quot; for this is kind of nuclear, as it would allow access to raw sourcecode and configuration data for the actual website itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I have elected to globally rename these tags to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;web-config  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;global-asax  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, when the tag blacklist / forced-synonyms is implemented, the dot equivalents will be blacklisted/auto-replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T05:47:10.737" />
  <row Id="23566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2009-09-26T05:55:23.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We looked at this, but the so-called &quot;fix&quot; is really nasty and involves a lot of kludgy, hacky layout. And lots of lines of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kind of a case where the cure is worse than the disease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T05:55:23.297" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11731" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:23:20.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:23:20.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14807" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:23:46.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:23:46.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17114" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:24:24.490" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:24:24.490" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10519" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:24:54.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also made it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44011/zero-width-non-joiner-allows-unclickable-titles&quot;&gt;Zero Width Non Joiner&lt;/a&gt; aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-02T03:41:53.653" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T03:41:53.653" />
  <row Id="23571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1939" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:25:55.237" Score="-39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to abuse of the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag here on Meta, I have disabled it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: now that we support &lt;code&gt;[tag:name]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[meta-tag:name]&lt;/code&gt; syntax I have re-enabled it. example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'java'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;java&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag required-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'discussion'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-21T03:41:09.470" LastActivityDate="2010-11-21T03:41:09.470" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22904" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:28:19.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:28:19.130" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17183" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:30:15.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now less easy to bypass; perhaps one should consider populating their comment with something meaningful of 15 characters or more? Perhaps if one has less to say than that, one should keep one's thoughts to him or herself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A modest proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:30:15.053" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="23575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-09-26T08:30:45.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now less easy to bypass; perhaps one should consider populating their comment with something meaningful of 15 characters or more? Perhaps if one has less to say than that, one should keep one's thoughts to him or herself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A modest proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T08:30:45.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23157" CreationDate="2009-09-26T09:06:18.750" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:06:18.750" />
  <row Id="23577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23165" CreationDate="2009-09-26T09:18:22.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got sick of the umpteen bajillion &quot;bugs&quot; opened on this, so we &quot;fixed the bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:18:22.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19622" CreationDate="2009-09-26T09:19:40.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;fix&quot; for this is kind of nuclear, as it would allow access to raw sourcecode and configuration data for the actual website itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I have elected to globally rename these tags to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;web-config&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;global-asax&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, when the tag blacklist / forced-synonyms is implemented, the dot equivalents will be blacklisted/auto-replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T09:19:40.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23581" CreationDate="2009-09-26T09:56:12.867" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know SO is a place for questions and answers, but I really like to challenge the community with my code-golf questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until now, they are all marked as community wiki, which means no one gets reputation over it, including the 'winning answer'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I make my question 'normal' questions to let the 'winners' receive something back from participating? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side note: I'd offer a bounty, but reputation is not unlimited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: How about user contributed bounties? a person who wants to 'see this problem solved' will donate a small amount of his/her reputation (10-20?) that will accumulate and be given when the answer is chosen. I know that will most likely be hard to add, but just throwing it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130066" LastEditorUserId="130066" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T10:03:51.387" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T19:46:38.603" Title="Code golf as non-community wiki questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23583" CreationDate="2009-09-26T10:04:51.230" Score="3" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wondering whether SO/SU/SF/Meta could have an option for a 'wide page layout', for those of us with 1080p/1080i resolutions. The unused whitespace on both sides of the middle 'column' could be put to better use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130783" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T10:14:01.883" Title="Wide page layout option for 1080p and 1080i screens" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23579" CreationDate="2009-09-26T10:07:04.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can certainly add a bounty yourself, bounties are valid on cwiki questions. That would be my recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(also, you still get badges on cwiki questions, so there is that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for pooling rep into bounties, that's in the planned tag already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T10:07:04.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23580" CreationDate="2009-09-26T10:08:24.123" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternately, you could consider this an opportunity to have 4 browser windows open.. one for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/the-stack-overflow-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;each site in the Trilogy&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T10:08:24.123" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23580" CreationDate="2009-09-26T10:14:01.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Widescreen is another way for you to conceivably walk into the Large Print aisle of the local library. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crank up the zoom on your browser and you'll see in no time that the white space will be gone. Not only that, the size of the letters will allow for you to cruise in a sling back chair while browsing through SOFU and not strain your eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to make use of the widescreen monitor and getting rid of the whitespace is to rotate your monitor 90° and view all your trilogy time in portrait mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T10:14:01.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T10:23:07.140" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some character escaping problem with this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a minor editor problem &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit text: Code\nCode2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark as code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Insert line between Code and Code2: Code\n x \nCode2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result: Code asd Code2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be: Code\n x \nCode2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;project&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;build&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;plugin&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;groupId&amp;gt;org.codehaus.mojo&amp;lt;/groupId&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;artifactId&amp;gt;build-helper-maven-plugin&amp;lt;/artifactId&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;version&amp;gt;1.4&amp;lt;/version&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;executions&amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;execution&amp;gt;&#xA;                  &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;add-source&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;&#xA;                  &amp;lt;phase&amp;gt;generate-sources&amp;lt;/phase&amp;gt;&#xA;                  &amp;lt;goals&amp;gt; &amp;lt;goal&amp;gt;add-source&amp;lt;/goal&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/goals&amp;gt;&#xA;                  &amp;lt;configuration&amp;gt;&#xA;                      &amp;lt;sources&amp;gt;&#xA;                        &amp;lt;source&amp;gt;${eclipse.generated.src}&amp;lt;/source&amp;gt;&#xA;                      &amp;lt;/sources&amp;gt;&#xA;                    &amp;lt;/configuration&amp;gt;&#xA;              &amp;lt;/execution&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/executions&amp;gt;&#xA;          &amp;lt;/plugin&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;plugin&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;groupId&amp;gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&amp;lt;/groupId&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;artifactId&amp;gt;maven-eclipse-plugin&amp;lt;/artifactId&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;configuration&amp;gt;&#xA;          &amp;lt;additionalConfig&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;file&amp;gt; &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;.factorypath&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;content&amp;gt; &amp;lt;![CDATA[&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;&#xA;                ]]&gt;   &#xA;                &#xA;                &#xA;                 .settings/org.eclipse.jdt.apt.core.prefs&#xA;                            &#xA;                &#xA;              &#xA;            &#xA;          &#xA;        &#xA;      &#xA;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135797" LastEditorUserId="135797" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T06:33:39.493" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T06:33:39.493" Title="Add new line in code sample region" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23584" CreationDate="2009-09-26T10:26:34.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;            &amp;lt;content&amp;gt; &amp;lt;![CDATA[&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have not indented the part between these lines of the code with the requisite four (4) leading spaces. Is that intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;            ]]&amp;gt;   &amp;lt;/content&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T10:26:34.480" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23584" CreationDate="2009-09-26T10:33:48.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code must be indented 4 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, click the little [?] icon above the editor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, when editing, click the &quot;full reference &gt;&gt;&quot; link conveniently provided on the right sidebar under &quot;formatting reference&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T10:39:34.770" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T10:39:34.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T11:39:37.950" Score="4" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65/stack-overflow-stats-graphs&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill's stats graphs&lt;/a&gt; the number of answers per question is slowly trending downwards:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3A5smt..5C0SqIo6jQkreTh1b8lLfZjGkCc7fmeYe9gycub3i8anboanYvZMYNYdW.bTWTYlWdXuWDWJV0XRaFVVd-X7bqb3cEbgaSbla7cWYFYVW3Y0YqYlZgViT.V8ZtW.YVUoXCTyYNSpTQXUSXSSSSUMSMTtT3TIRwRORYURWyTTbLTqShQ5RYRETDScQKRgRRPuRWSPQiPpQKQNPHQDROPcQ0O6QqQiPwO6Q-QkQNQaQDP4QiQvQ3P4PmPRPuRJT8QiPpQXPuQ3QQR6P9PuP2QAQ-RgSFR9PcRgTDRYQsSFRWQDSCRtVxSUR6QiRwQ-RlRBTGRwPUQQQFPWQkPZQVPHQnQVQAP7QDPePUP9PzPcPeRYSCQqPZO3QaQDPwQNOyO.QFOiO8PrP4OdPROoPhO6PRO3OiOLODOLOOOLPePZNPODOQNKN-N2OGODN7N5OYOQNxNCNXOVOBNfNANHNHMmMmMmNFMTNhM6OBMrNANuNsNFNSNnNNMwM1MENUNNNfOGNsM9NUMtMmNSNaMzNFMGMBMTMrNFNPOIMbNPMrMGMRMmMBL8L8MGL0MeMwNFMrM6MrMWMtM4L8MrM6L.MrLyMOMTMrMRLnMJLyM9MZMONNL3MWMEMjMJMGL.MeMOMMMMMzMJLlLvMRMBLyLqLVLSL5LdLvLvLyL3LQMML0LnMRL.LSLvL.MjLiLDLYL3LlK2LFLVLQLdK4LLLALFLIL5KkKcKxKxKrK7KpLDK7KzKmLDKkLIKzKhK2KpKxKhK2KuK-KrKrKuKuKcKeKHKMJy&amp;amp;chtt=Answers%20per%20question%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y,r&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|1%3A|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15&quot; alt=&quot;graph of answers per question by day&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it going to stabilise at some point so that (on average) questions receive one answer or will it drop below 1 so that questions are no longer statistically likely to receive at least one answer? How would that affect the site and is there anything that can be done about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T18:34:39.237" Title="What happens when the average number of answers per question drops below 1?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23590" CreationDate="2009-09-26T12:26:47.770" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there is a bug with the rendering of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1112373/implementing-hash-isequal-isequalto-for-objective-c-collections&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow (1112373). The question appears to stop halfway through and the question tags become part of a bulleted list present in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1112373/list&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; for the post, there also appears to be a substantial chunk of the question missing (if you look at revisions 1 and 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that it might be an error with the rendering of bulleted lists that hadn't been picked up, but I looked at a few other questions and it appears unique to this question. I also remember viewing this question a few months back when it was asked and I remember it to have rendered fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Was fixed by &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; (see answer below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added image for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://oneinfinitemonkey.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/stackoverflowquestion1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Page rendering issue&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T23:02:04.157" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T23:02:04.157" Title="Unique question-rendering bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23587" CreationDate="2009-09-26T12:37:43.897" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what people don't take into account when looking at questions and answers per question may be trends in terms of industry as far as what new technologies are being released at what times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: When MVC is first released, it is likely that there is a lot more activity in questions and answers due to its newness. But when there is nothing new being put out at the time, you are going to undoubtedly have a lot more esoteric or very domain specific questions which the potential audience for is limited, which will cut down on the number of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not be surprised if when Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, and other new things become full blown releases you will start to see an uptick in questions which the audience may be greater, leading to more answers per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T12:37:43.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23588" CreationDate="2009-09-26T12:45:54.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Went ahead and fixed it up. All that was done was to resave it and that looks like that fixed the problem. Sorry to render the question without screenshot first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very much related to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post/&quot; title=&quot;got your short shorts on?&quot;&gt;truncated posts spotted on Server Fault some time back&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T12:45:54.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23587" CreationDate="2009-09-26T13:22:26.453" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For it to drop (significantly) below one would imply that most questions only receive one answer and some large fraction are considered unanswerable.  There are a number of truly unanswerable questions -- questions without enough data to make even a guess as to the problem, questions on esoteric technologies with few or no other users, etc., however I don't foresee this becoming a problem in the general case.  Given the drive for reputation, I expect that the majority of questions will always have at least one answer, the fraction of unanswered questions will remain low, and there will be enough questions with multiple answers to keep the average number of answers well above one.  In the grand scheme of things, we only need one answer -- the &quot;right&quot; answer -- on each question for the site to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T13:22:26.453" />
  <row Id="23592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23587" CreationDate="2009-09-26T15:28:37.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice this a lot on Superuser, where often only one good post is needed to either answer the question or let it be known it's not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Luckily&quot; there are still topics where there are different points of view or alternative solutions, so there will always be some distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: you should check how many of those questions are also accepted as the correct answer, in which case it's not necessarily bad if they are answered within one answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T15:28:37.843" />
  <row Id="23593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23587" CreationDate="2009-09-26T15:38:15.627" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't look to me like it's steadily going downward. It looks to me like it's converging to 2.5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T15:38:15.627" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23595" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T16:49:11.613" Score="7" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that now you can no longer just put spaces at the end of text to get past the character limit.  You can still put them in the middle, where they get truncated to a single space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always thought that being able to use spaces to get past the minimum character limit was one of the best hidden-features of the S[OFU] sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please vote to get this reimplemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T22:58:04.197" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T22:59:13.990" Title="Spaces getting past minimum character limit" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;&lt;hidden-features&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-09-26T17:06:16.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could include more metrics next to a user asking the question. Currently we can easily see the user's overall reputation and his acceptance rate; if this was combined with another ratio indicating overall upvotes to downvotes, we would be able to see the general quality of his questions.  If it is too difficult to calculate this value (I understand this data is not indexed in the DB), even the average score of all the user's questions would be useful to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/16031/rba&quot;&gt;user of the post in the question&lt;/a&gt; has a total question score of -10 over 14 questions, yielding an average score of -0.7 -- a pretty good indication that this user does not ask good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T17:06:16.620" />
  <row Id="23597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23587" CreationDate="2009-09-26T17:13:44.593" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;hangs head in shame&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll just have to try harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T17:13:44.593" />
  <row Id="23598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T13:40:46.513" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed this even here on Stack Overflow. Where there maybe many similar tags eg. &lt;em&gt;php&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;php4&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;php5&lt;/em&gt;, or because of spaces eg. &lt;em&gt;zendframework&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;zend-framework&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I hope that in future when I do a tagging system, I want to avoid this. Some ideas I have are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having a message telling users to use say dashes (&lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt;) or underscores (&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;) for spaces eg. &lt;em&gt;zend-framework&lt;/em&gt; (which is better btw, I noticed &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; is usually used). But how can I validate this, I can’t I think?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;About the similar tags ... I dunno if having a self join of the tags table (id, related[FK], tag) to show a hierarchy will be good, like &lt;em&gt;php4&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;php5&lt;/em&gt; is related to &lt;em&gt;php&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136449" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:26:51.207" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:26:51.207" Title="Tagging - avoiding similar tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23598" CreationDate="2009-09-26T13:44:37.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the first issue, you could do a search and replace for all tags before they are entered into the DB. So replace _ with - or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the hierarchy you could either do a parent child setup or have a list of similar tags when a user is entering some certain tag. That can get complex pretty fast if it's not properly done though. And you should never count on your users to do it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T17:39:35.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23598" CreationDate="2009-09-26T14:09:01.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm implementing a tagging system myself so I've given this a little thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I'm approaching it involves a little bit of code and a little bit of instruction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.) I'll implement an AJAX-driven text box which searches for similar tags as you type (very similar to what you see in Stackoverflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.) I'll add some instructions next to the tagging fields that say something like, &quot;Tag wisely: It's best to tag with common terms as well as specific (less common) terms that best define your entry.  For example, rather than just using the tag 'gaussian blur', use the tags 'blur' and 'gaussian blur'.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3.) I'll also be moderating these entries so the remaining tags that come through poorly formatted should be something I can handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think of steps 1 and 2 as simple measures that should work pretty well most of the time.  But at the end it'll be my job to ensure the tagging is done well.  Of course, I'll only be dealing with hundreds of entries, not 300,000+ like StackOverflow.  So I think it'll be manageable for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156665" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T17:39:35.323" />
  <row Id="23601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23595" CreationDate="2009-09-26T17:52:00.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the character limit exists, and it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17183/do-away-with-minimum-char-limits-on-comments/23574#23574&quot;&gt;seems that it will&lt;/a&gt;, it makes sense for it to be enforced. 15 characters isn't a whole lot, really. Can anyone come up with a good example where it's not possible to expand the thought to meet the quota?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T17:52:00.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23587" CreationDate="2009-09-26T18:12:53.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that it is hard to tell (looking at the data en-masse) if 1 answer is enough. If every question was &lt;em&gt;solved&lt;/em&gt; with just one answer, I'd consider that good (although a second/third perspective is obviously very welcome). So perhaps to understand the data we'd need to separate out the questions which are ticked, or have no tick but a highly-rated answer (most likely: the right answer, but to a drive-by user who didn't mark it complete and is now deleted through age).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also need to exclude CW questions, as these tend to get more than average replies; and we used to get a lot more of the &quot;what is your favorite *&quot; questions. I wonder if this is also skewing the answers? Most &quot;real&quot; questions get (from what I see) &amp;lt; 5 replies, in part because we've actually got some clever people on the site who have given the right answer already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So an average of, what, 2.5 answers/question doesn't concern me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T18:12:53.690" />
  <row Id="23603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23605" CreationDate="2009-09-26T18:32:22.390" Score="1" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1422977/how-to-prevent-tomcat-session-hijacking&quot;&gt;This SO question&lt;/a&gt; has an open bounty of 400, but the questioner only has rep of 16. How is this possible? Perhaps, if the system allows you to offer two bounties of e.g. 400 when you have rep 416, and one answer is accepted, that would reduce your rep to 16, leaving the situation as described. How does SO prevent this kind of &quot;bounty on credit&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is accepted, how will the bounty be paid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118903" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:30:38.517" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T21:24:34.800" Title="How can you offer a bounty when you don't have enough rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23587" CreationDate="2009-09-26T18:34:39.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Low-hanging fruit got picked up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More controversial/discussion-y questions got asked a year ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect TXI is correct, in that after a while, spikes of usage will show up when new &lt;s&gt;ponies&lt;/s&gt; software versions are released into the wild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T18:34:39.237" />
  <row Id="23605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23603" CreationDate="2009-09-26T18:36:03.930" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounties get paid when they are started, not when they are awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the questioner had more than &lt;strike&gt;400&lt;/strike&gt; 350 rep (there is a 50 rep bonus added by the system as pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23603/how-can-you-offer-a-bounty-when-you-dont-have-enough-rep/23614#23614&quot;&gt;@Workshop Alex&lt;/a&gt;) before he started the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-26T21:23:11.873" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T21:23:11.873" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15562" CreationDate="2009-09-26T18:37:29.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally try to be a bit more hand-wavy in homework questions, leaving the author to do more work on his own rather than giev him teh codez. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T18:37:29.263" />
  <row Id="23607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23554" CreationDate="2009-09-26T18:47:06.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK. I LOVE these graphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see graphs of activity for....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;r &amp;lt;-- especially this, with the &quot;flash-r-mob&quot; thing that happened a few months back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;f#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I'd like to see a plot of homework, I'm wondering if that spikes around Sept 1 and Jan 15. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: i r dumb. i need to look at linx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T18:47:06.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23527" CreationDate="2009-09-26T19:50:47.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T19:50:47.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T20:28:58.917" Score="29" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a code snippet is long enough to prompt scrolling (especially horizontal scrolling), it would be helpful to offer a link to view the code snippet in a new window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking that the link should be positioned below the snippet, since most people will decide to use it after scanning the part of the snippet that is visible without scrolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135568" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T14:43:52.043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T01:26:16.663" Title="View code in new window" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code-block&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="23612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T20:37:28.900" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I am nothing if not smitten with the idea of using the community to determine the &quot;right&quot; answer amongst many possible answers.  It's a tremendous improvement over forums, where there is no way to be right or wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given that the central improvement SO makes over forums is that you can separate wheat from chaff, why should SO actively discourage subjective questions, which are often the questions that most need to have people weighing in on them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where better to go if I want to get a vote (with substantiated opinions) on the best Rails plugin for a given task?  Or the best approach to a problem?  Or the best anything?  SO's ability to determine the &quot;best&quot; of something is exactly what makes it great for me.  Yet including the word &quot;best&quot; in my question gives me that nasty &quot;your question looks subjective and may be closed&quot; warning.  I feel like I'm being scolded for leveraging the key strength of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I suspect I know why SO discourages this.  Probably because subjectivity can lead to disagreement, and disagreement leads to time spent managing community.  I happen to run a big, community-driven website, and I &quot;get&quot; that keeping people of differing opinions civil can be difficult.  But it is a solvable problem (hint: community+technology = automation) that shouldn't be allowed to interfere with one of the key strengths of this site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the least, I think it makes sense to re-evaluate trying to scare people off when they put the word &quot;best&quot; in their title.  Asking about the &quot;best&quot; programming language is probably a discussion not worth having, but to discourage the asking of &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question with the word &quot;best&quot; feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T21:20:44.373" Title="Might the &quot;this question appears to be subjective&quot; warning be discouraging good questions from being asked?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;subjective-warning&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23603" CreationDate="2009-09-26T21:00:59.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He had 366 first, added a bounty of 350, SO added another 50 bonus and now has only 16 left. See his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2554?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="147647" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-02T21:24:34.800" LastActivityDate="2011-04-02T21:24:34.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69738" CreationDate="2009-09-26T21:03:53.330" Score="16" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue was brought up, with regard to ServerFault, nearly &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/419/data-dump-for-serverfault&quot;&gt;three months ago&lt;/a&gt;. At that time, Jeff responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We will do this, but I agree with Michael -- there's not enough data yet. Plus, we'd like to &quot;perfect&quot; the process with the SO data dump before extending it to the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Check back in a few months...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what &quot;enough&quot; data is precisely, but I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;need and rationale given&lt;/a&gt; for creating the data dumps does not depend on the quantity of said data. And given the fact that there don't &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/data-dump+feature-request+-status-completed&quot;&gt;seem to be any major issues&lt;/a&gt; that have cropped up, I'd say that the process seems to be more or less &quot;perfected&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, now that it's almost 3 months later, &lt;strong&gt;I would like to formally request that the September (and all future) dumps contain data from all four sites (SO, SF, SU, Meta).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that does come to mind to address when creating the dump for all the sites is to provide migration information - perhaps additional fields in the posts table: &lt;code&gt;MigratedToSiteId, MigratedToPostId&lt;/code&gt; for the origin post and &lt;code&gt;MigratedFromSiteId, MigratedFromPostId&lt;/code&gt; for the target post? Is there anything else that needs to be tweaked/added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Just remembered something else that should go in the dump - account association information. This will help keep track of users' activity across sites, and since it's already public info I don't think that there are any privacy issues. However, it's not clear to me what the ideal format would be, especially if the sites will be in their &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23615/include-all-sites-in-future-data-dumps/23637#23637&quot;&gt;own separate dumps&lt;/a&gt;. What makes most sense to be is to have a table with the user IDs on the different sites as the fields i.e.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;row StackOverflowUserId=&quot;658&quot; ServerFaultUserId=&quot;548&quot; SuperUserUserId=&quot;6&quot; MetaUserId=&quot;658&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for all users with accounts on 2 or more sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:32:43.520" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T23:02:23.617" Title="Include all sites in future data dumps" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23612" CreationDate="2009-09-26T21:20:44.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You assume that people actually pay attention to it when all the evidence points to the contrary.  It doesn't appear to have much effect in stopping subjective questions.  I know that I've ignored it (on meta anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T21:20:44.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-26T22:55:08.320" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if I ask a question, and get no good answers. This is hurting my accept ratio... but not because I'm too lazy to mark one as correct, just no one has posted a reasonable answer. Maybe it's not a terribly important question, so I don't want to start a bounty... what can we do? Can we at least flag the question as &quot;given up&quot; or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65387" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T00:20:41.360" Title="Questions with no good answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="23618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23595" CreationDate="2009-09-26T22:59:13.990" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;when doing length check, switched to &lt;code&gt;.RemoveExtraSpaces()&lt;/code&gt; on the server side instead of &lt;code&gt;.Trim()&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T22:59:13.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23617" CreationDate="2009-09-26T23:00:19.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki questions don't seem to affect your accept ratio, at least from what I've seen on a question I asked that I &lt;em&gt;started&lt;/em&gt; as CW.  Maybe marking as CW will stop it from being counted in your accept ratio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T23:00:19.247" />
  <row Id="23620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23617" CreationDate="2009-09-26T23:01:24.220" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you really invested the effort into getting your questions answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T23:01:24.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23440" CreationDate="2009-09-26T23:24:22.617" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would strongly discourage asking the same question on multiple sites, unless you feel you have a very compelling and unique set of reasons to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T23:24:22.617" />
  <row Id="23622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23417" CreationDate="2009-09-26T23:38:29.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce this on the ask page using FF3.5.3.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4648/tag1b.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, if I go back to the start of the string and delete the initial 's', the expected matches come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7907/tag2j.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-26T23:38:29.050" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23617" CreationDate="2009-09-27T00:20:41.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one expects you to maintain a 100% accept rate.  If you have a few questions that didn't generate a good answer, it's not that big of deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's announcement of acceptance rate&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is considered good manners to accept answers on your questions, eventually, but &lt;strong&gt;accepting answers is not required&lt;/strong&gt;. I personally consider anything at 70% or over quite good, meaning you accept answers on 7 out of 10 questions that you ask. &lt;strong&gt;There are certainly cases where you don’t get an answer you like, or the question is inherently unanswerable&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T00:20:41.360" />
  <row Id="23628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23629" CreationDate="2009-09-27T06:22:45.787" Score="7" ViewCount="439" Body="&lt;p&gt;I encountered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1482763/sql-three-table-join-and-sort&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which contains an RTFM comment in response to a user's question-comment about the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that in SO there should not be RTFM answers, as was already established, but my question is about RTFM &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see RTFM I find it offensive to the question asker, that may be a complete newbie, and SO also needs to serve complete newbies well. If you think the asker should RTFM, it's okay to just ignore or politely direct him/her at the documentation without the F attitude. That's not to say some users don't deserve it, and there may be claims that &quot;it depends on the exact scenario&quot;, but I'm asking about the general spirit of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - are RTFM comments okay? Not okay? Is it reasonable to flag them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastEditorUserId="131663" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T06:47:14.260" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T21:44:29.573" Title="How to deal with RTFM comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;rtfm&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23628" CreationDate="2009-09-27T06:44:35.903" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would flag it as requiring moderator attention if it's a post, or just flag it if it's a comment (as there aren't different options there). There are definitely better ways of drawing people's attention to the manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T06:44:35.903" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23554" CreationDate="2009-09-27T08:01:11.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While % is useful, I'd &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; be more interested in the growth of individual tags. Perhaps normalising the current counts (i.e. so they all end at 1 or 100 or something), so we can see which tags are linear / sub-linear / super-linear / stagnant / etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is: a sudden spike (in either direction) by itself doesn't mean much - it could just be that there was a rush on people learning &quot;ook&quot;. The overall trend of the % is interesting, though. Thanks for the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T08:01:11.533" />
  <row Id="23631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-27T08:07:24.737" Score="0" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked a legit question and yet it gets closed. why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1480149/what-is-the-highest-level-programming-language-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1480149/what-is-the-highest-level-programming-language-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136454" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T16:07:13.093" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:07:07.973" Title="Why was this question closed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="23632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23631" CreationDate="2009-09-27T08:14:12.087" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the comments show, your question is too vague. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should, to start, define better what a &quot;full application&quot; is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful to tell where does this come from, is it you want to know about new high level languages? is it because you want to do a specific application (there might be langauges suited to the task at hand)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T08:14:12.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23631" CreationDate="2009-09-27T08:41:17.277" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with the question &quot;What is the highest level programming language?&quot; is very simple: by what standard do you measure the &quot;height&quot; of a programming language? What is higher level, C# or Java or Python or Perl or Ruby or Scheme or Lisp or Prolog or... I could go on, but you get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, people colloquially say that there are &quot;low-level&quot; and &quot;high-level&quot; languages, and the low-level ones give you more direct access to the underlying hardware while the high-level ones abstract you away from it. How do you measure the level of abstraction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about C++? It lets you get as close to the metal as C, but gives you gazillions of features to the point where writing idiomatic C++ is nothing remotely like C. So is it really a low-level language if it's not commonly &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; as a low level language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that your question has no answer, a) because there is no scale by which to measure how high-level a language is, and b) because higher and higher level languages will continue to be invented, and there is no foreseeable limit to the potential amount of abstraction (seriously - the trend these days is to abstract away our &lt;em&gt;loops&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;code&gt;map()&lt;/code&gt; and stuff).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T08:41:17.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-27T09:35:57.240" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start submitting a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fill it out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check the notify option but &lt;strong&gt;leave the email blank&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click submit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fill out the captcha correctly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get an error stating that the notify e-mail was left blank!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fill out the notify field and click submit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fill out the captcha again!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead after step 4 you should get the error of step 6, and once everything is okay, you should get the captcha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T02:59:48.247" Title="When asking a question if notify email left blank have to input captcha twice" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23615" CreationDate="2009-09-27T10:12:23.490" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably obvious, but please do not have the dump for all sites in the same .7z file, so everybody can choose which site(s) to download.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T10:12:23.490" />
  <row Id="23638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23611" CreationDate="2009-09-27T10:20:20.483" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a strong dislike of the scrollbars-within-scrollbars that code snippets introduce. I do tend to edit my samples to avoid it, which I guess is part of the desired behaviour Jeff is going for. I know in the past Jeff has said that snippets should be short, but sometimes a bit of verbosity is unavoidable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I would want a new window, but perhaps some CSS-based truncation and JavaScript expansion would be in order. Or perhaps some font scaling code, if such a thing is deemed practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T10:20:20.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23628" CreationDate="2009-09-27T10:21:27.343" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we all know what the &quot;F&quot; in RTFM stands for, I'd say this falls under &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-in-comments/22233#22233&quot;&gt;this rule&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As GMan comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23628/how-to-deal-with-rtfm-comments/23629#23629&quot;&gt;Jon's answer&lt;/a&gt;, it's okay to point at the manual, especially when you point to the relevant section (which, FWIW, is what the commenter did). But clearly, the wording was way off. As we say in Germany: The music is in the tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a link to the relevant part of an online manual is always a good addition to the question itself, especially if&amp;mdash;as in this case&amp;mdash;the commenter is the answerer himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the side: I just flagged the comment in question, and appearently that was the last missing flag; the comment is gone now. FYI, it just read&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RTFM: &lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sorting-rows.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sorting-rows.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and had one upvote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T18:57:24.103" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T18:57:24.103" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23641" CreationDate="2009-09-27T13:08:20.470" Score="0" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18984/wmd-unable-to-render-markup-inside-words&quot;&gt;WMD unable to render markup inside words&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a comment I left on a post earlier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;The only thing is that I was wanting to assemble bytecode, not *dis*assemble it. :-)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put the asterisks around dis because I wanted those three letters to be italicized.  Should they have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T07:46:04.633" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T07:46:04.633" ClosedDate="2009-09-28T07:45:49.253" Title="Is this a bug with the comment markdown syntax?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23640" CreationDate="2009-09-27T13:12:57.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It won't work in the middle of words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/06/three-markdown-gotcha/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;snatch!&quot;&gt;Three Markdown Gotchas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T13:12:57.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23611" CreationDate="2009-09-27T13:13:26.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more of a brainstormy &quot;what if&quot; type suggestion.  What if SO had some kind of pastebin that was integrated with the site?  Or if that wasn't possible, why not instead offer some kind of integration with pastebin or maybe even github's gists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T13:13:26.140" />
  <row Id="23643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-27T14:12:27.843" Score="23" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a recent bug, if you write less than 15 characters, you trigger the 30 second spam protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can try this by writing a short comment, try to hit send, and then fill it with enough characters and try hitting send again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T08:06:10.713" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T12:08:20.153" Title="Writing less than 15 characters in a comment triggers the 30 second protection" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="23644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23643" CreationDate="2009-09-27T14:20:28.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably tagged &lt;strong&gt;[status-bydesign]&lt;/strong&gt; because when you send through your attempt, that starts the counter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't matter if your comment doesn't meet the 15 character minimum, it still set off the initial ticker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you'd have to wait because they'd otherwise have to check to see if the comment was inserted into the database as to whether or not to actually reset or continue the countdown timer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T01:01:43.320" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T01:01:43.320" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23611" CreationDate="2009-09-27T15:46:53.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an idea: we could use something like etherpad to post code snippets, that way someone could actually edit the code and save a revision, then link to the revision with their answer.  That way you could see all the possible answers for your question via revision&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/view/ro.rL88DbBECby/rev.13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://etherpad.com/ep/pad/view/ro.rL88DbBECby/rev.13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53587" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T15:46:53.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3635" CreationDate="2009-09-27T17:39:50.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I for one would probably use such a LinkedIn app, and I guess it would pretty quickly get up to a few hundred or few thousand users. So in principle I don't think that's such a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have two doubts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SO owners probably are not interested enough&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem lies in that LinkedIn only&#xA;  offers their API to &quot;approved LinkedIn&#xA;  partners&quot;, so, and I may be wrong&#xA;  here, the request may have to come&#xA;  from SO/SF itself as opposed to&#xA;  enterprising users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are correct about this. Personally I'd guess that Jeff et al wouldn't be very interested at all in creating a LinkedIn app - they probably find there are way more urgent things to be working on in the SOFU sites themselves. So at the very least someone from Stackoverflow.com LLC would need to officially sanction the app, even if it was actually created by interested users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More importantly, LinkedIn seems to be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; selective about the 3rd party apps&lt;/strong&gt;. I mean, look at their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=application%5Fdirectory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;app directory&lt;/a&gt; - there are currently only ten (10) applications available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://linkedin.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linkedin.cfg/php/enduser/std%5Fadp.php?p%5Ffaqid=1209&amp;amp;p%5Fsid=SOYfw%5FIj&amp;amp;p%5Flva=1160&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quote from their FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;API access is only offered to approved&#xA;  LinkedIn partners. We partner with&#xA;  companies who provide clearly&#xA;  compelling value to our users,&#xA;  generally giving priority to&#xA;  integrations that provide the most&#xA;  value to the greatest number of&#xA;  LinkedIn users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading that makes it pretty clear to me that they wouldn't want an app that's aimed at so small a portion of their users and does so little (show a rep score and provide a link is pretty minimalistic after all). So while there are &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of (technical) software and IT people on LinkedIn, in the bigger scheme of things they are a tiny minority there. Note that none of the current 3rd party apps are limited to some specific field or industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;in conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;, simply linking to your SOFU user page from your LinkedIn profile will probably remain the best / only option for some time. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T17:49:11.050" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T17:49:11.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-27T17:51:28.767" Score="6" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just accepted an &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/26842/can-i-trust-a-hard-drive-that-has-had-to-reallocate-sectors/26899#26899&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to one of my questions on SU and wanted to throw the guy an upvote as well, but I was denied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/333/20090927134158.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, I haven't cast a vote yet, but I am not allowed to do so because it thinks I have already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-27T18:31:02.643" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T18:31:02.643" Title="Why would I be told it's too late to change my vote when I have yet to cast a vote?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23649" CreationDate="2009-09-27T18:22:45.510" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably voted on it and removed your vote some time in the past.   The timer starts ticking as soon as you vote, even if you remove that vote before it expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Touching the up or down arrow means you have a very short time window to decide what your permanent vote will be:  up, down, or nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T18:22:45.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-27T18:46:00.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I've noticed is a lot of the really bad questions come from (unknown)yahoo or (unknown)google accounts with under 50 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps require filling out the profile fields if you want to ask questions and have under 100 rep? That is, provide a hassle bar high enough that the casual noise-maker goes away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T18:46:00.380" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-27T18:46:00.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-09-27T19:43:24.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So? These questions either turn into&#xA;  something good in the long run,&#xA;  because (with or without help from the&#xA;  asker) they are edited for the better&#xA;  and possibly get good answers, or they&#xA;  get downvoted and drown in the sands&#xA;  of time (or get plain deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What actually happens is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone posts an incredibly easy question that a very large % of users could answer (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1385841/how-to-unset-id-attribute-with-jquery/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that I answered).  A lot of people rush to get the free rep, and in the process a lot of users view the question.   What follows is that there is a higher likelihood for upvotes on the question.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the user who asked this question has their account suspended, and also note that I downvoted this question (after looking at the account and seeing so many questions), even though I answered it.   Assuming I am the only downvoter, the asker still gained 28 rep from it, since the question still has a positive 2 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick look through the askers profile will show lots of questions which have answers that link to the &lt;strong&gt;same exact page of documentation&lt;/strong&gt;.  Frankly it looks like this particular user goes through the documentation in jQuery and makes up &quot;reverse questions&quot; that are likely to get a lot of attention/answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, a question that a lot of people know the answer to is more likely to get upvotes than a really hard question that few people understand.   I'm guessing this is due to the fact that more people will open it in the first place based on the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you buy that these users not just farming rep, they are definitely not making any attempt whatsoever to learn anything.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T19:43:24.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-27T19:43:24.113" />
  <row Id="23656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-27T20:05:27.207" Score="14" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now with actual (pictures of) gold plate and a gold SO icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a new preferences tooltip (bling bling) that allows features to be toggled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2601/3985016880%5F893177445f%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;gold-plated preferences&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shamelessly ripping off an existing script to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12053/&quot;&gt;show daily reputation&lt;/a&gt;, here's a script that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows day's rep score in the top bar (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows the most recent update inline in the header (2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Locks the header bar to the top of the page so it's always in view (3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Count down the remaining time for earning rep today (4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New preferences icon, launches tooltip to change preferences (5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preferences are saved separately for each site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show today's reputation in the page title (6)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Queries for new questions once a minute and updates the page with new questions and updates to existing questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If looking at a particular tag, the page is updated only with questions for those tag(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Queries for today's reputation once a minute and inline updates reputation and today's score (with a little hide/show effect for added niceness).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows the today's votes as a tooltip on mouseover of today's score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clicking today's score takes you to the reputation page for today&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new preferences tooltip is shown when you click on the gold SO icon (I haven't got round to doing the SF/SU versions). This allows you to pick the desired features, the selections are applied when Save is selected and persisted between sessions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've removed the timestamp update processing as when questions are updated, the &quot;X mins ago&quot; field is updated anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get the updated script from userscripts.org: &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58719&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58719&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3985016858%5F70f2250d38%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;header screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the reputation tooltip in action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2665/3959281471%5Fc7ea68d57b%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;tooltip screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1483822/&quot;&gt;some issues&lt;/a&gt; using the &lt;code&gt;GM_init&lt;/code&gt; approach to use the JQuery script already provided, so haven't got that sorted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some TODO items:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Smarter processing for inserting new questions (e.g. block inserts on link mouseover)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Restore the time field from the latest update item, styled to fit in the available space &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Filter newly inserted questions by interesting tag and/or excluding ignored tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clicking the envelope takes you to &lt;em&gt;today's&lt;/em&gt; summary page, as in from midnight UTC to now&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T20:16:46.967" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T20:16:46.967" Title="Greasemonkey script to gold plate SOFU" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="23659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4391" CreationDate="2009-09-27T20:35:16.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they're worried about this being making the UI look too busy, perhaps make it &quot;hidden&quot; by not changing the look of it.  That way, those of us whose reflexes have been trained by Infopop or other forums will be rewarded for our instincts, and the interface still looks clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you're at it, if you could add in this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10521/make-activity-description-in-activity-tab-more-descriptive&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10521/make-activity-description-in-activity-tab-more-descriptive&lt;/a&gt;, that would be greeaaaaat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T20:35:16.950" />
  <row Id="23661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23681" CreationDate="2009-09-27T21:41:09.980" Score="5" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; says account suspensions will be from &lt;strong&gt;2 to 7 days&lt;/strong&gt;.  &quot;...if the problem behaviors continue beyond the timed suspension, your account is very likely to be permanently deleted.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015&quot;&gt;This user&lt;/a&gt; is suspended until Oct. 25 (as I write this, that is &lt;strong&gt;28 days&lt;/strong&gt; away).  If the offense was so egregious as to warrant a month long suspension, why isn't the account just deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An even more extreme example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5640&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt;, suspended until Feb. 4, 2011 (as I write this, that is &lt;strong&gt;364 days&lt;/strong&gt; away).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T20:13:42.933" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T00:56:18.560" Title="What is the point of a 30 day account suspension?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23661" CreationDate="2009-09-27T21:45:07.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's certainly possible for someone to realize the error of their ways and become a valuable member of the community after 28 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134068" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T21:45:07.370" />
  <row Id="23663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23661" CreationDate="2009-09-27T21:45:46.620" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;476 questions and 1 answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That account will most likely be deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T21:45:46.620" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="23664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23661" CreationDate="2009-09-27T22:04:24.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23385/avoid-the-streisand-effect-be-clear-about-the-reason-when-suspending-an-account/23548#23548&quot;&gt;There's no way to know for sure why the account was suspended&lt;/a&gt;, so what follows is a wild and irresponsible guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The admins want the suspended user to &lt;em&gt;just go away&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they'd deleted the account, it's quite possible that the user would merely have recreated it. If they'd used a shorter suspension (and it's not inconceivable that they have, in the past) then it's just that much more likely the user would come back and go back to the same old tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may well be something like the protection schemes used by some authentication systems, where they make a user wait progressively longer after each failed attempt to log in. The user may never be able to use the site properly, but at least he'll be tying up less and less of the moderators' time while he continues to fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T22:04:24.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23628" CreationDate="2009-09-27T23:27:13.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RTFM comments generally useless&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If everybody read the fine manual, most of the questions asked on the internet would go away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-09-27T23:27:13.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16725" CreationDate="2009-09-28T02:25:12.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Points/answer is a better measure of quality than answerer's acceptance rate and it's already weighted to favor accepted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be called &lt;strong&gt;Quality Rating&lt;/strong&gt; rather than &quot;acceptance rate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers are judged by the OP, but up-votes include the opinion of anyone interested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points/answer is in keeping with the Populist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T02:25:12.663" />
  <row Id="23668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-09-28T03:35:11.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that the acceptance rate is more of an issue if your question and earlier ones appear simple to answer.&#xA;If your question looks challenging or interesting, i don't think many would care about your acceptance rate. After all, if you accept an answer, they get just 15 rep. If they answer well, they can get far more from others reading their answer and upvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T03:35:11.053" />
  <row Id="23670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T04:34:25.323" Score="2" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't know if this is available already. Sometimes I come across a question (not necessarily my own), and would like to bookmark/put in on a watch list so I can follow it's progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could use the browser's bookmark, but it'll be a lot tidier if Stack Overflow can handle it so the list is available on any computers I use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T04:37:11.807" Title="Can I bookmark a question on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bookmark&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="23671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23670" CreationDate="2009-09-28T04:35:50.547" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com, but yes, you can click the star under the vote total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138568" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T04:37:11.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23670" CreationDate="2009-09-28T04:36:03.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the Favourite (star) icon under the voting control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143006" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T04:37:11.807" />
  <row Id="23673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23499" CreationDate="2009-09-28T04:42:17.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;December 5th, 2pm UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T04:42:17.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23676" CreationDate="2009-09-28T05:16:07.950" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that I'm hesitant to upvote an answer when it is ok, but I could see room for improvement, since the upvote would take the question off the unanswered list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I simply missing a piece of etiquette?  Has anyone else noticed this effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136195" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T10:24:08.850" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T10:24:08.850" Title="Should I upvote an answer when I think there may yet be better answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="23676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23675" CreationDate="2009-09-28T05:20:07.040" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMHO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should use votes how you like.  They are yours to cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I upvote right answers, even if they aren't the best.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T05:20:07.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23707" CreationDate="2009-09-28T05:26:07.620" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I see questions which fall under my interesting tags at one shot rather than clicking each tag ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136424" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T12:29:37.853" Title="how do i see questions which fall under my interesting tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23677" CreationDate="2009-09-28T06:06:19.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the 'Unanswered' link. Then click the 'my tags' link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T06:06:19.827" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23661" CreationDate="2009-09-28T06:08:36.793" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stage 1&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;email warning&lt;/b&gt; about specifics of unacceptable behavior&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stage 2&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;1-7 day suspension&lt;/b&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stage 3&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;30 day suspension&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stage 4&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;120+ day suspension&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;or&lt;/i&gt; account now eligible for deletion&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You advance from stage to stage by continuing to engage in the unacceptable behaviors that were identified in stage 1. Only one user has gotten to stage 4 so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; assuming we have an email, which we might not; email is not required to use our sites&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; depending on severity and type of unacceptable behavior&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T21:44:22.023" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T21:44:22.023" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="23682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23675" CreationDate="2009-09-28T06:09:35.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote an answer if it helped answering the question in any way. If I feel like there is something missing from the answer, I put a comment on it indicating the room for improvement. Same goes for good questions that need improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T06:09:35.420" />
  <row Id="23683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T06:10:40.957" Score="5" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16740/migrating-questions-causes-too-much-visual-noise&quot;&gt;Migrating questions causes too much visual noise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11580/nicer-migration-notice-when-closing-questions-as-belongs-on-x&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Nicer&amp;rdquo; migration notice when closing questions as &amp;ldquo;belongs on X&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated, there are 8 links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;migrated to {destination site}&quot;, where {destination site} is the link to the new question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;locked by {community}&quot;, where community is a link to the community user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;closed as belongs on {destination site} by {user1}, ... , {user5} {some time} ago&quot; where {destination site} now goes to the site's home page, and user{n} are the user-profiles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it isn't very friendly; a lot of migrated questions are by new users - how about some cotton wool?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it isn't obvious which link takes you to the new question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the {community} line seems redundant, just adding confusion?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is confusing that two links captioned the same go to different places&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about something more like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It has been suggested that your question is more suited to {destination site}; your question has been migrated automatically, and can now be found {here}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as belongs on {...} by {...}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(where {here} is the link to the new question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is a bit clearer to new users what has happened and why&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is easier to see where the new question is - what to click on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there aren't the &quot;same label, different destination&quot; phenomenon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;just a bit less jarring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T07:16:16.827" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T07:16:16.827" ClosedDate="2009-09-28T15:31:49.380" Title="Make the destination link to a migrated questions more obvious?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="434" CreationDate="2009-09-28T07:40:54.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I periodically review...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Highly voted bugs with no status assigned&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug%20-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug%20-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Highly voted all feature requests with no status assigned&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request%20-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want something implemented, then vote for it! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also highly recommend you check out what is currently planned as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-planned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T07:40:54.817" />
  <row Id="23686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T07:43:31.613" Score="5" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;On stackoverflow, there seem to be quite a few programmers who ask a question, usually with one line like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I release memory after memory warning? My app crashes. Thanks and welcome for reply.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a bunch of us will ask questions like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what platform?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give us some more detail about the crash.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weeks will go by and the original poster never adds any more details.  In the meantime, some respondents go ahead and answer the question thoroughly, covering possible platforms/scenarios, etc.  Of course no answer is ever selected by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the OP shows up again, and asks another question, sometimes its the same question asked differently, sometimes not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on here?  Do they have one chance every so often to get a query out on the Internet and they get through and they post and then they can't get back?  Or are they forgetful, since they are posting the same question to tens or hundreds of sites?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious.  Seems like they shoot themselves in the foot when they have a captive audience waiting for more details of their problem, yet they never provide those details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136287" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:17:35.240" Title="What's with those who ask a question, but don't ever seem to come back to add requested info?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23406" CreationDate="2009-09-28T07:56:21.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't repro in IE8, though I do see it in IE7 compat mode. Probably wont-fix since it's cosmetic for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T07:56:21.527" />
  <row Id="23688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T08:27:16.647" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;While debugging my newest, daftest, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23656&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script&lt;/a&gt; I noticed that the css for the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/130494&quot;&gt;Recent Activity&lt;/a&gt;&quot; pages is inlined in the html. A moderate performance improvement could be achieved by moving the css to a separate file and serving it from sstatic.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just checked the character count, and the css accounts for 1,217 characters (1,948 with spaces). My recent activity page for today has 11,467 (16,011 with spaces), and on quieter days can have as few as 8,923 (13,351 with spaces). So this could save around 7-15% of the page depending on gzip and minification usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this count as a bug, a feature, or a feature request, or just my OCD flaring up again? I'll just spam it with tags and let the fates decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T08:56:27.840" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:58:20.537" Title="Move the recent activity css to a separate file" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T08:43:04.357" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a couple of upvotes just now but it's not showing in the the recent activity page where I got those upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:19:52.427" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:19:52.427" Title="Recent activity not showing here at Meta SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23689" CreationDate="2009-09-28T08:44:44.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you click &quot;today&quot;? Sometimes the envelope can't figure out when you've been here exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:44:44.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23688" CreationDate="2009-09-28T08:46:02.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;since that page is only visible to you, that specific user (and 2-10 moderators at most), it's not very high on our list of things to optimize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T08:58:20.537" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T08:58:20.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T09:00:23.730" Score="4" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to inform you all that SO is featured on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/27/2127259/StackOverflow-For-Any-Topic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt; today after Jon Skeet reached 100K:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;StackOverflow, the successful question-and-answer website for programmers, is now over a year old and its top user has just passed 100,000 reputation points. Now one of the creators of StackOverflow, Joel Spolsky, and his company Fog Creek, are developing a software-as-a-service form of the StackOverflow engine called StackExchange to support any topic you want. The software is currently in private beta, but the first few beta sites have surfaced. Topics include business travel, the home, parenthood, the environment, finance, and iPhone game development.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132501" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:16:51.450" Title="Stackoverflow is Slashdotted" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23692" CreationDate="2009-09-28T09:12:01.650" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would happen if Slashdot was StackOverflowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T09:12:01.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23692" CreationDate="2009-09-28T09:13:23.270" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doesn't seem &quot;slashdotted&quot; to me in the normal sense of the term, i.e. the website being overloaded. It's working fine for me. Maybe that's just my direct brain-to-database connection though :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also say the story is more to do with StackExchange than my reputation, amusing as it is to have a direct link to my user profile :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T09:13:23.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23692" CreationDate="2009-09-28T09:14:37.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding what random commented: Slashdot sure seems to have passed its golden age, or the peak of the hype cycle, or whatever. (So yeah, SO will hardly be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot%5Feffect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;slashdotted&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in my view it still qualifies as a &quot;reliable third-party publication&quot;, so the post will be another good source for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack%5FOverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. Which is nice - perhaps we might finally throw that &lt;code&gt;{{primarysources}}&lt;/code&gt; warning away (with good conscience) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T11:43:14.863" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T11:43:14.863" />
  <row Id="23697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23656" CreationDate="2009-09-28T09:32:42.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very cool - thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found a bug: Clicking a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/26077/realvnc-just-appeared-after-restart/26106#26106&quot;&gt;link to an answer&lt;/a&gt; doesn't cater for the fixed header. This also happens when clicking the Recent / Views / Newest / Votes links in the user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also just received a badge and the header was chopped up. Best explained with a screenshot but don't have access to ImageShack from my current proxy. If you have e-mail or Twitter I can show you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T10:48:30.410" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T10:48:30.410" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="23698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23686" CreationDate="2009-09-28T09:40:56.683" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's not important enough for them to follow up, don't be concerned about it. The important thing is answers that contribute to the &lt;strong&gt;knowledge of the community&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer these questions as best as I can with the information given, but don't spend much time on it. Leaving a trail for anyone that stumbles upon it later might help someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T13:22:40.440" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T13:22:40.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T10:06:37.743" Score="4" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi guys,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created a new toolbar for Firefox which supports Stackoverflow.com, ServerFault.com, SuperUser.com and also this meta site.  I will be adding in the reputation score in a future edition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14532&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Check it out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Description:&#xA;Ok at the moment its a pretty straightforward toolbar which allows you to select whichever site you want to interact with.  You can then search that site or jump to specific sections quickly using the buttons e.g Questions, Tags etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any feature requests or feedback let me know here or on the addons site and I will try to build them in.  The major one i want to add when i have times is reputation display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2720" LastEditorUserId="2720" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T15:03:14.253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:03:14.253" Title="Firefox AddOn for Stackoverflow Trilogy sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23628" CreationDate="2009-09-28T10:10:03.430" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;RTFM/LMGTFY comments are appropriate responses to useless questions, and it's clear from recent discussions on meta that there is such a thing as a useless question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T10:10:03.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38759" CreationDate="2009-09-28T11:05:09.317" Score="17" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just downvoted an anwser with a comment explaining my downvote, the poster edited his answer, but I can't revert my vote because &quot;vote is too old to be changed unless post is edited&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what happened is that he edited his post during the 5mn initial &quot;furtive editing&quot; period, so the answer doesn't appear as edited, which causes the system to deny me the right of changing my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that helps, the answer I tried to un-donwvote is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1486420/how-can-i-enhance-the-aesthetics-of-an-ugly-windows-form-packed-with-too-many-ne/1486442#1486442&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47341" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T23:14:22.913" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T23:14:22.913" Title="Why can't I change my vote if the post has been edited during the initial 5mn grace period?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23701" CreationDate="2009-09-28T11:10:03.397" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you vote the first time, up or down, the starter's gun pistolwhips the air. As the crack rounds the bend and smacks your left ear, that's about when the vote is locked in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they happen to sneak in some more content within the 5-minute grace period, your first vote still sticks with all the gunpowder residue for forensics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll now have to wait for them to edit outside the five minutes, or edit it yourself, and then recast your vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But remember, don't just undo a vote to cast the other way, that counts as two vote actions. Just vote the other direction from the next crack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T11:10:03.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23704" CreationDate="2009-09-28T11:54:16.530" Score="1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 100 reputation points on Stack Overflow, yet I am prevented from offering a bounty on my question. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T16:11:36.110" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T16:11:36.110" Title="I have 100 points on Stack Overflow; why can't I set a bounty?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23703" CreationDate="2009-09-28T11:59:19.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be that you missed this in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after two days, you still don't&#xA;  have an answer you like, you can offer&#xA;  a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T11:59:19.967" />
  <row Id="23705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23703" CreationDate="2009-09-28T11:59:20.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the question isn't eligible yet, you have to wait at least 48 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have a link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T11:59:20.297" />
  <row Id="23706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23675" CreationDate="2009-09-28T12:16:50.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you better off with the answer than without it? If so, upvote it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T12:16:50.153" />
  <row Id="23707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23677" CreationDate="2009-09-28T12:29:37.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may be interested in this question and its answers: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22338/how-to-view-only-tags-of-interest&quot;&gt;How to view only tags of interest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T12:29:37.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23675" CreationDate="2009-09-28T12:40:35.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I can provide the improvment, I write an answer. If not, I upvote the existing one. I may also ask for precisions in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T12:40:35.523" />
  <row Id="23710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23686" CreationDate="2009-09-28T12:52:22.400" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Always answer the question as best you can. That way &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; can learn from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a site dedicated to questions and answers. The fact that a user has a question means they have already contributed to the community. Once you submit an answer, if it is good and thorough, and answers the question for all operating systems, that is &lt;em&gt;stellar&lt;/em&gt; and it will get many many upvotes. You will gain hugely from it. By that point, the 'accepted answer' checkmark is simply flair, because everyone who views the question already knows that it is the correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, even if the user never comes back, other users may have a similar question and they will stumble on it and find a phenomenal answer waiting for them. So in giving a great answer, you are helping not just the OP but everyone who is wondering the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user returns and asks the same question again, just mark it as a duplicate of their earlier question. Make sure you post a link in the comments. They may not know their way around the site that well. Remember that their reputation doesn't necessarily mean they have a lot of experience, it just means that their earlier question(s) may have received many upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always remember that this behaviour is not usually malicious, these are just inexperienced users who are requesting answers. Kindly try to correct their behaviour, but also give them the answers they want. Telling one person that you won't answer them until they correct their question doesn't actually help that person or the community. But helping them get better &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answering the question will help both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T12:52:22.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23686" CreationDate="2009-09-28T13:23:35.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a lot of these people aren't IT-literate enough to work out how to 1) find their way back to the site, 2) find their way back to their question, or 3) find the Edit button.&#xA;To me, the amazing vagueness of many questions indicates they're not used to computers at all.&#xA;The most we can do is 1) ask sensible questions, 2) make wide-ranging answers, or 3) make an educated guess or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T13:23:35.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T13:57:20.657" Score="3" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's well established that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;answering your own question&lt;/a&gt; is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But can you have too much of a good thing?&#xA;I just came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17469/zeljko-filipin&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; - 21 questions, 12 of which are self-answered (not always self-accepted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the consensus on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:20:47.153" Title="Consistently Answering your Own Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23712" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:03:36.997" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see it as a problem. You will only get up-voted if your answers are good, and you won't get anything from accepting your own answers. If you're clearly gaming, I think you'll be met with a slew of downvotes. Answering your own questions increases the risk of getting more-than-average downvotes. There's really more risk than gain in this - if people want to do it, that's fine, it's their rep that is at risk if they do it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:03:36.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23631" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:07:07.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My criterion for &quot;not a real question&quot; is whether I could recognize something as being an answer.  This doesn't qualify as a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is it appallingly vague, but it confuses objectivity and subjectivity in a bad way.  There is no well-accepted definition of how high-level a programming language is, so the evaluation has to be subjective.  On the other hand, the &quot;highest-level&quot; implies that there is an objective answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be fine with a CW-style poll for what people think is a very-high-level language (although these are getting much less popular with the 3K+ crowd).  Or a question on what makes a programming language high-level.  Or if the Q offered a definition of language level height.  Anything where I could recognize an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:07:07.973" />
  <row Id="23715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23712" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:08:18.297" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a good amount of questions where if you can anwer them yourself they don't deserve asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering your own questions should be the &lt;em&gt;exception&lt;/em&gt; not the usual thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can find the anwer after 5 min. yourself, then why bother asking in the fist place, it's against the point of an Q&amp;amp;A site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask when you don't know or are unable to find the answer with some effort, else you're filling the site with noize and low value questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:08:18.297" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23712" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:11:17.653" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This user is behaving the way we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; users to behave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not have the answer to something I need at work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I try to find it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I fail to find it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I ask on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I continue to search for the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I find it, and post it on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the questions that I saw, when he answered the question himself, he wasn't stealing from answers that other people posted, he was posting a completely separate and unique answer, because the answers provided to him did not solve the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the perfect behaviour because the issue is solved, and there is an accepted and correct answer so that other users can find it if they have similar issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:11:17.653" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:13:33.250" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I view my answers in time-ordering (oldest first) - I think it makes it easier to see when one answer builds upon another (as I've seen happen often). However, there's no visual indicator that says that a given answer is the highest ranked answer in the question (or, the &quot;community chosen best answer&quot;). So perhaps a light bulb, exclamation point, or something like that should appear next to the highest voted answer in a question if the highest voted answer is not the accepted answer. If the highest voted answer is accepted, then it would just have the check mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This idea is really only applicable to the oldest and newest views, so I guess it depends on how many people actually use those views, but it would make it easier to quickly identify the highest voted answer when viewing in either time ordering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:00:59.623" Title="Can a mark be added next to the highest voted answer in the question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23723" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:19:24.237" Score="1" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, state the official SO policy! Don't give me link to another question where this has been discussed to death without any conclusion at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Should I accept some answer to this question? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastEditorUserId="136013" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T05:55:18.390" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T05:55:18.390" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T14:19:55.437" Title="Is it OK to accept an answer to community-wiki question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="23720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23719" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:22:21.750" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes :D All you're doing is communicating the answer that helped you most, all the other answers are still visible and otehr users can decide for themselves. Plus with all this &quot;accept answer rate&quot; going around, I hope they mean for us to accept answer to CW questions too &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:22:21.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T14:22:21.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23719" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:22:37.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why it wouldn't be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, in the FAQ, if one post becomes the all encompassing &quot;canonical&quot; source for the answer, then I don't see why marking it as the accepted would be unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:22:37.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T14:22:37.133" />
  <row Id="23722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23719" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:26:04.210" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system alows you to do it, then it all comes down to deciding yoursef if a particular wiki question should have and anwer marked as accepted or not, depending entirely on the nature of the quetion and the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:26:04.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T14:26:04.210" />
  <row Id="23723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23719" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:29:51.753" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question owner, it is your right to show what you consider the right or your favorite answer (as often is the case with CW questions, there isn't a &quot;right&quot; answer per se).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:29:51.753" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T14:29:51.753" />
  <row Id="23724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:30:03.500" Score="3" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me crazy but on a question's view if there is only one view, it states '1 views'. I have no idea why, but that really bothers me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think that it would be a big/hard change to make, simply add a line or two of code before the text is displayed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;viewSuffix = numOfViews == 1 ? &quot;time&quot; : &quot;times&quot;;&#xA;var viewDisplay = string.Format(&quot;{0} {1}&quot;, numOfViews, viewSuffix);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this sort of thing bother anyone else? It seems like I am a minority on stuff like this, as I see the same 'mistake' on other websites/counters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133674" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T14:43:11.513" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:50:50.447" Title="Small formatting quirk that bothers me" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;plurals&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="23725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23724" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:39:45.107" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://explore.twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://explore.twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/133674/anders&quot;&gt;Dear Next Person Who Opens a Pluralization 'Bug',&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;I will personally&lt;/a&gt; come to your house and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9662/new-users-cant-create-new-tags-show-a-singular-or-plural-message/9694#9694&quot;&gt;bludgeon you to death with a giant S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T14:39:45.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T14:39:45.107" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="23726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T14:59:35.850" Score="0" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4692/why-do-we-need-the-trilogy-instead-of-just-one-site&quot;&gt;Why do we need the trilogy instead of just one site?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did you guys decide to arbitrarily partition off classes of questions into several disjoint websites? Wouldn't the tagging system have taken care of this automatically? IMO this was an absolutely terrible idea, because questions are &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; less likely to be answered if you have to bounce back and forth between several websites rather than having one centralized repository. Tagging questions appropriately is sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136495" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:11:23.333" ClosedDate="2009-09-28T15:26:39.483" Title="Why did you guys branch off superuser, serverfault, etc?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23717" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:00:59.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine the number of people who use those views is pretty paltry in comparison to the Votes order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that if you are really that interested in what the highest voted answer was, you could just switch the order momentarily and go to the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:00:59.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:04:13.330" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Jeff and Company didn't want to recreate Yahoo! Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: To be more detailed...StackOverflow started out only as a source for &lt;strong&gt;PROGRAMMING&lt;/strong&gt; questions. The need/desire for questions pertaining to SysAdmins and Computer &quot;Super Users&quot; did not come around until well after StackOverflow as off the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It made more sense to create new sites to cater to the new subject matter than to arbitrarily change SO's mission to fit. Sort of the opposite of Digg when they decided to become more than just Tech stuff and decided to let all the crap in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:04:13.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:05:45.590" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't partition off classes of questions, they added &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; classes of questions.  StackOverflow is and always has been about programming questions.  Questions about hardware or software problems were never really in its purview.  However, Jeff and company recognized that their Q&amp;amp;A platform could fill the same need in those areas -- especially considering the number of such questions incorrectly posted to SO.  Thus, SF and SU were born to fill those niches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:05:45.590" />
  <row Id="23730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:08:51.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, having too many questions on one site will make them hard to track.  I find interesting questions now and then with tags I wouldn't have expected.  Some people just won't get the hang of tags, and will find a mishmash of questions with nothing interesting.  Nor can a tag system based on individual tag designation work perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Splitting into SO/SF/SU made it possible for people to just follow programming or system administration questions easily, without worrying about tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:08:51.857" />
  <row Id="23731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:11:23.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two (closely related) reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The format worked so well that it made sense to &quot;expand&quot; the playing field by introducing more sites which were directly targeted at areas other than programming.  SO was advertised and understood to be for programming-related questions only from the beginning.  Other people wanted their technical, but not programming-related questions answered using the same system, so the idea for additional sites was proposed and adopted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Segregating the the sites to directly address an area of interest, rather than agglomerating them together, distills pertinent information by target audience.  This makes each of the sites more useful to those who read it.  Individuals don't have to wade through Apache installation and usage information on SO when they are trying to &lt;strong&gt;program&lt;/strong&gt; an Apache module, because the sites are segregated.  Installation and usage questions go elsewhere and have the same benefit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:11:23.333" />
  <row Id="23732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23686" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:17:35.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of them may be employing a shotgun approach to assisted problem-solving.  They find as many forums as they can which &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; potentially deal with their problem, and ask the same question on all of them.  As soon as they get a &quot;bite&quot; on another forum, they may forget about Stack Overflow and pursue that.  Eventually that might turn out to be a dead end, so they may come back to Stack Overflow and ask again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, they misunderstand that SO is not a forum, especially in two crucial ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need to read your comments.  You might have responses &lt;strong&gt;even though you have no answers&lt;/strong&gt; yet.  The big &quot;0&quot; next to your question doesn't mean your &quot;thread&quot; is not active.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are encouraged to edit and bump your question when you get more information, and are &lt;strong&gt;strongly discouraged&lt;/strong&gt; from asking a similar question again instead.  These are not simply discussion threads, and you should not open them up or discard them lightly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:17:35.240" />
  <row Id="23733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23712" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:20:47.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's great to post a good question and an answer you know to build up a repository of solutions.  I hope one day to not have to search anywhere else on the web for the answers I need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:20:47.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23738" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:31:05.090" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there are total 500 pages, and i have to see some content on page no. 250 , i should be able to jump to that direct, using Next &amp;lt;&gt; Prev is annoying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136498" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T15:32:47.177" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:39:41.190" Title="Why can't I Jump to a Page Directly?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23735" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:39:07.980" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, you can just edit the url:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=c%2b%2b&amp;amp;page=5&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&#xA;                                                            ^ here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:39:07.980" />
  <row Id="23739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23735" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:39:41.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, not ideal - but depending on the user you can always edit the url:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=c%23&amp;amp;page=100&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;page 100 of C#&lt;/a&gt; - note the &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;page=100&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:39:41.190" />
  <row Id="23741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:55:34.953" Score="7" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that StackOverflow, etc. keep track of which items I've voted on, as I can't duplicate my vote, etc.  But I don't see a way to directly access the items that I've voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I might have downvoted something and left a comment.  If the item was edited to correct my complaint, I would like to be able to remove that vote, but I also don't want to bookmark every vote I make.  It seems like the sites should present that information to me directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132601" LastEditorUserId="132601" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T17:05:48.630" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T21:59:22.497" Title="Is there a way to quickly see the questions and answers I've voted on?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23741" CreationDate="2009-09-28T15:57:36.540" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be a tab in the user profile that showed your recent voting history. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14610/where-did-the-votes-tab-go&quot; title=&quot;vote up for down and down for up&quot;&gt;But it's gone now&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T15:57:36.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T17:05:16.260" Score="6" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've had a lot of discussion on SO's homework policy: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18242/what-is-the-policy-here-on-homework&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;and here&lt;/a&gt;. So why don't we add this to faq? A link at the very least would be nice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T17:28:27.170" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T04:59:40.403" Title="Add Stack Overflow's &quot;homework&quot; policy to the faq (next to about and logout at top of site)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23744" CreationDate="2009-09-28T17:19:29.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the very first page of the FAQ topics, you'll see that it does link to this thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T17:19:29.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23748" CreationDate="2009-09-28T17:44:46.237" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;String&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;String&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's say this is a question on SO, and I'm asking something about the String class. You'll notice that in the previous sentence &quot;String&quot; has the normal font, I'd like it to have the same font as it would if it were in a code block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen other posts do this, so I know it's possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136507" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T19:46:20.913" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:46:20.913" Title="Use code font text in paragraph" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23746" CreationDate="2009-09-28T17:47:59.910" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use a backtick '`' to achieve this effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;code&gt;String&lt;/code&gt; is in code font!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This `String` is in code font!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The backtick is below the tilde on my keyboard.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T17:47:59.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23754" CreationDate="2009-09-28T18:56:28.303" Score="3" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question caused quite a &quot;stir&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1488618/how-true-is-this-statement-if-you-want-to-get-marry-find-cute-girl-and-get-ma&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1488618/how-true-is-this-statement-if-you-want-to-get-marry-find-cute-girl-and-get-ma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Only 10k users can view this question as it is deleted.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to know How true is this&#xA;  statement : &quot;If you want to get marry,&#xA;  find cute girl and get married while&#xA;  you are in college becuase once you&#xA;  start working in Software Industy, you&#xA;  will hardly find one&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, is this true universally or only&#xA;  for some geographical locations ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been deleted by a moderator, but I have mixed feelings about it. I voted to close it for not being &quot;programming-related&quot;, but after seeing the comments, it occurred to me that it WAS related to the software development industry, and lots of young developers have these concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many humor community questions on stackoverflow, so why not this one? It wasn't 100% politically correct but where do you draw the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Followup question&lt;/em&gt;: can a question be voted to be undeleted? And if so, is it appropriate to do so? (without risking an offended moderator)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130672" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T19:03:41.850" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T20:06:59.140" Title="What's programming related?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;rules&gt;&lt;humor&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="23751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-09-28T18:58:59.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programming related means it's directly about programming software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can mean ancillary things, as long as they are directly about the act of programming (like books and website recommendations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T18:58:59.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:03:43.910" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My stance would be this, if the question is subject, argumentative, and/or more for fun than actually solving a problem, the default, the likelihood is that the question should and will get closed. There are absolutely some well known exceptions, occasionally enough people are in the right mood, that a question will take off and people will have a lot of fun with it, but typically, these question can and will get shut down. Every now and then, a little bit of &quot;community building&quot; by way of entertainment may slip through, but generally, its not going to happen, since those kind of questions do not really fall within the scope and intent of SO (et al).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*note, I can't comment specifically on the question you're referring to because I didn't see it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:03:43.910" />
  <row Id="23753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:05:50.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question cannot be answered by writing code or reading a reference book, so it is not a programming-related question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is, however, sound advice for any kind of engineer. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:05:50.113" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:10:14.223" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;after seeing the comments, it occurred to me that it WAS related to the software development industry, and lots of young developers have these concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of young people have these concerns, &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; programmers. Stereotypes aside, there's nothing very specific about programmers / software developers here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Followup question: can a question be voted to be undeleted? And if so, is it appropriate to do so? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. But not in this case: the OP himself wanted it to be deleted, and requested that a moderator do so. In the absence of any compelling reason to preserve the question (say, valuable and unique technical information contained in an answer), you should respect this and leave it deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:10:14.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:11:32.987" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My decision method is to imagine it on UnbalancedColumns or BadPrecedent, which would be equivalents for accountants and lawyers.  If it works just as well there, it's definitely not programming-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I can easily imagine this advice for lawyers and accountants, I consider this definitely not programming-related.  The same thing would be true of a question on the best car for a programmer to drive, or an exercise program for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:11:32.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23791" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:11:53.080" Score="5" ViewCount="427" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/572?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/572?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&lt;/a&gt; - Between 2009/09/27 and 2009/09/28...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's unusual for me...to have 6 downvotes in less than 20 minutes. Now, I normally don't care about my rep, but this is just fishy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the procedure for such things? Wait until the automated systems kick in and do something? Post here on Meta? Flag a post that was downvoted for review by a mod and use the text field to explain it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T18:46:04.457" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T18:46:04.457" Title="So, what's happening to my reputation? How do I report something fishy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23757" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:13:42.720" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19508/how-to-deal-with-questions-or-answers-plagiarism-from-copyrighted-sources&quot;&gt;How to deal with questions or answers plagiarism  from copyrighted sources?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done when someone answers a question by simply cutting and pasting text from somewhere else online?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/64484/whats-the-difference-between-ssl-and-tls/64542#64542&quot;&gt;Example Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kb.iu.edu/data/anjv.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Original Text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T19:21:47.963" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:21:47.963" ClosedDate="2009-09-28T19:43:13.273" Title="What to do about obvious copyright violations or cut/paste answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;plagiarism&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:15:27.287" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember: Programmer-related != Programming-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to think about it: if this were another more general site, would you naturally tag your question as &quot;programming&quot;, or something else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, you &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; use that tag, but &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; if you were somehow restricted to a narrow set of tags and programming was the closest fit.  A more natural tag choice is &quot;programmers&quot; and &quot;romance&quot;.  But &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &quot;programming&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T18:09:49.150" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T18:09:49.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23757" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:16:25.973" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have edit power edit it.  Otherwise, flag it for moderator attention.  Make sure you give them the original URL so they can edit the source into the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:16:25.973" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23756" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:18:55.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you flag one of the posts, and use the text to explain what you've seen to the moderators, one of them can likely take a look for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:18:55.410" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:28:19.900" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackalert.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackAlert&lt;/a&gt; real-time or just RSS based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135246" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-28T19:51:19.873" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:54:46.887" ClosedDate="2009-09-28T20:50:18.707" Title="Is StackAlert real-time or just RSS based?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23756" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:38:55.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know SOP is to put your faith in the autobot and let it go. Flagging for mod attention or raising with the SO team does seem... inefficient... as you've said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The* problem I have with relying on the bot is that it's a (necessarily) opaque mechanism, and life goes on so it's almost impossible for me to tell if or when it's working, or those downvotes remain standing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again, rep is just a number right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;em&gt;Ok, apart from the problem with that guy who keeps downvoting me but apparently not in a systemic enough way for a non-human to notice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T19:38:55.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T19:43:37.190" Score="-1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10802/can-you-add-a-math-related-site-to-the-trilogy&quot;&gt;Can you add a math related site to the &amp;ldquo;Trilogy&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/806/-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;*.Stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of a couple:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Math Overflow&quot; - math is generally not subjective and questions can be answered in a straightforward manner, but the questions do not necessarily belong on Stack Overflow because often they aren't programming-related.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A goof-off site. One where the users are not directed to follow any specific category or subject, and can post whatever they want. This will undoubtedly result in a lot of humor and nonsense, but would certainly make for good entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:48:46.087" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T19:43:37.190" ClosedDate="2009-09-28T20:49:29.440" Title="What sister sites should be added to the family of Stack Overflow sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23763" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:02:30.587" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what we're really missing is a feel good site where anyone can post anything and everyone votes everything up.  I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.specialsnowflakes.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.specialsnowflakes.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:02:30.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T20:02:30.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:12:03.237" Score="-1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, S triology update scripts have been constantly having problems displaying. The last two days they seem to have stopped working completely - is there a reason for that, or ... ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(firefox 3.5 on xp)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:09:40.377" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:09:40.377" Title="sof.modos.org update scripts" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23763" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:18:33.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Math-overflow would quickly be filled with assignment questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please don't encourage the start of &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; goof-off sites on the internet, there's enough of them already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:18:33.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T20:18:33.273" />
  <row Id="23771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23772" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:24:43.510" Score="14" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I can best remember a question by its comments. How can I search for a question that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downloading the data dump is not viable because it may be a question posted today...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39430" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T20:24:37.667" Title="How can I search StackOverflow comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="23772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23771" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:27:45.393" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the top five comments of each post are displayed in the page, Google indexing can pick them up. So if you can remember key words from the comments, a Google search (with site:stackoverflow.com, of course) should be able to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I know I once made a comment with the phrase &quot;four-year-old&quot;. I can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22four-year-old%22+site%3Astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this search&lt;/a&gt; to find it again (the second link shows my name in the preview, so it's a pretty good bet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:27:45.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23776" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:40:01.643" Score="-12" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes questions are posted that are too vague or broad and they are simultaneously voted for closure and asked to provide more information. If the OP manages to edit the question before it gets closed (presumably to add the extra detail necessary as requested) the close vote count should be reset. This will give poorly worded questions that have been subsequently improved a fair chance at an answer without its history overtaking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-25T22:07:01.600" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T22:07:01.600" Title="Let editing a question reset the vote-for-close count" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23767" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:42:08.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9863/track-your-reputation&quot;&gt;the creator&lt;/a&gt; of the service you mention. It appears that modos.org's IP was somehow blacklisted. I sent an email to team@stackoverflow.com a little while ago and I'm waiting for a response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this to my attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Apparently there were some large requests that my site was pulling down. I've thrown in a limiter - 500 questions, 500 answers, sorted by activity. I may be able to creep this upward once I can get a better sense of how large these requests are. I've sent a reply detailing this, requesting to be unblocked, so now all I can do is wait for a reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T00:37:57.193" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T00:37:57.193" />
  <row Id="23775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:47:46.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There would need to be some kind of way to programatically determine a proper edit. This could very easily be abused, which would quickly invalidate your presumption of adding necessary info.  I think it'd be better for the OP to edit the question and request it be reopened.  They should be putting more thought into formulating proper questions (IMHO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:47:46.463" />
  <row Id="23776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:47:54.200" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no guarantee that editing the post made the post any bit better or more worthy of staying open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are going to potentially reset the votes, you need to give those votes back to the users who already voted so that they can vote to close it again. But even then I am against this, because you can't expect every user who goes and votes to close to keep tabs on every item they voted for in case it gets edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post a duplicate or something that is clearly not belonging, editing it is not going to make a bit of difference, so all you are doing is canceling out the votes of those who already came by. Expecting them to come BACK to cast the same vote yet again is senseless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:47:54.200" />
  <row Id="23777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:48:11.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that would give a too-easy getaway for people asking &quot;bad&quot; questions, so I'm against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is I think the disadvantages of your suggestion outweigh the advantages, and I believe such a feature will be abused. It's not as if these scenarios don't currently have a solution - if the editing made the question &quot;good&quot;, it will be reopened by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131663" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:48:11.113" />
  <row Id="23778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:48:42.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this should be handled by adding the ability for any of us to reverse our close vote. This has already been requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:48:42.420" />
  <row Id="23779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23763" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:48:46.087" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see some mileage in a business, career development, and/or project management overflow (Meetings Overflow, perhaps?) - questions related to those subjects crop up relatively frequently and draw some flak, right or wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:48:46.087" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T20:48:46.087" />
  <row Id="23780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:52:09.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the purpose behind the idea, but this idea would simply not accomplish it's purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it would effectively do is make it impossible for a contentious question to be closed. If a user (or users) are trying to keep it open, they could simply continually make little edits to it, and it would be completely unable to be closed. This would cause huge edit wars, and would completely nullify the purpose of the close vote in the first place. It would mean that only moderators have the ability to close questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:52:09.433" />
  <row Id="23781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2009-09-28T20:53:35.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question gets edited well enough, to the point where its gone from a question that was getting close votes, to a question that should be open, the same group of users who could have and perhaps were voting to close, can and likely will vote to reopen the question. Again, assuming the edit made the question worthy of being open. Automatically assuming an edit fixed the reasons people were voting to close, I think would be very unreliable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T20:53:35.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23767" CreationDate="2009-09-28T21:19:56.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it relies on Yahoo Pipes, it might have something to do with this short twitter exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4436827424&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4436827424&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/simonw/status/4437114256&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/simonw/status/4437114256&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4437171439&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4437171439&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T21:19:56.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-09-28T21:35:39.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember also, just because someone adds &quot;for a programmer&quot; to the end of question does not automaticly make it programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T21:35:39.027" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23628" CreationDate="2009-09-28T21:44:29.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not everyone knows where the manual &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A polite comment or answer saying where to look is appropriate, as long as the answer linked is clear and obvious. If not, then more explanation will be required anyway. In that case, a real answer should be posted, linking to the manual, and explaining what the manual meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has always amazed me how many people simply don't seem to know about &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The MSDN Library&lt;/a&gt;. It's a great resource, and I see nothing wrong with pointing that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T21:44:29.573" />
  <row Id="23786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23771" CreationDate="2009-09-28T22:45:12.330" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't at the moment. It's annoying to me, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:45:12.330" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23790" CreationDate="2009-09-28T22:45:25.670" Score="2" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two upvotes on my answer on question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1489474/how-to-test-ecommerce-software-for-credit-cards/1489666#1489666&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1489474/how-to-test-ecommerce-software-for-credit-cards/1489666#1489666&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I got 5 points for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not complaining about the points. I am curious how I got five points (it was initially 5 for the first upvote, zero for the second).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have 130 rep points for today so I am not near the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't a community wiki question, but regardless, I didn't think it was possible to get 5 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135105" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:52:25.547" Title="How did I get 5 points for 2 upvotes on my answer, on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23724" CreationDate="2009-09-28T22:50:50.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously, how long is any question going to be at ONE VIEW?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C'mon! You're not even &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to file bugs when you file this stuff! :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:50:50.447" />
  <row Id="23789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23719" CreationDate="2009-09-28T22:52:17.370" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't give me link to another question where this has been discussed to death without any conclusion at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What? This is meta! It is what we do here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:52:17.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-28T22:52:17.370" />
  <row Id="23790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23787" CreationDate="2009-09-28T22:52:25.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, you're at 190 (you need to click &quot;today&quot;) - so I'm guessing you did actually hit the rep cap, and have also had a vote retracted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T22:52:25.547" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="23791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23756" CreationDate="2009-09-28T23:00:35.610" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If, &lt;strong&gt;after 36 hours&lt;/strong&gt; (this is to ensure the daily voting anomaly scripts have run) you still have issues with your rep, email us via the address at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-28T23:00:35.610" />
  <row Id="23795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23756" CreationDate="2009-09-29T02:15:32.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the moderators' oath: &quot;we pledge our lives, our reputations, and our sacred free time...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T02:15:32.677" />
  <row Id="23799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23801" CreationDate="2009-09-29T03:13:01.417" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been to the formatting reference, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of which shows me how certain things on done on the site. Is there a way to view the ML used to generate a post? I think that allowing other people to look at a posts' markup would be the fastest way to learn.  Perhaps when I have high enough rep to edit other people's posts or topics I can look then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/98606/favorite-visual-studio-keyboard-shortcuts&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/98606/favorite-visual-studio-keyboard-shortcuts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how those key shortcuts were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57883" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T03:34:43.903" Title="Is there a way to look at the ML used to make a post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23799" CreationDate="2009-09-29T03:28:47.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The keys are made with the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag. They're &lt;strike&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;f&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;u&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;n&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;!&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; no longer fun. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23624/kbd-elements-are-non-existent/23625#23625&quot;&gt;Jeff disabled the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag on Meta due to abuse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T03:28:47.533" />
  <row Id="23801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23799" CreationDate="2009-09-29T03:34:43.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Grab the post ID of the question in question. It's between the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;question&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and the SEO friendy part of the URL. Just grab the first set of numbers you see really. And then put it in the &lt;strong&gt;XXX&lt;/strong&gt; of the sample URL below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;XXX&lt;/b&gt;/list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for this, while you may not have edited it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/23801/list&quot; title=&quot;we meet again!&quot;&gt;you can still see the revisions list&lt;/a&gt; if you follow the above template. Then click the &lt;strong&gt;View source&lt;/strong&gt; link of the relevant edit edition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to play around with how a post will look, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&quot; title=&quot;get some scrubbing on&quot;&gt;spend some time in the sandbox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T03:34:43.903" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T05:25:10.317" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering about incentives to prune one's own questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in the same way your profile prompts you about &quot;have you considered marking an accepted answer?&quot; (or at least, it used to?) I wonder whether it would be a good idea to add &quot;have you considered deleting this downvoted/zerovoted/notaccepted answer?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that in the vast majority of cases, stackoverflow's quality would be improved by having less answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem is that when you do delete your own answer, you can still see it, and with an ugly colour at that, so there isn't really any aesthetic incentive. How about collapsing deleted answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just thinking out load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there could be a &quot;encourage user to prune&quot; flag? (I know lots of people are going to say &quot;that's what downvoting is for&quot; - I'm not so sure. As Jon Skeet has pointed out many times, the 'meaning' of a downvote is completely unknown if unaccompanied by a comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastEditorUserId="130064" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T05:41:13.643" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T07:44:42.917" Title="Incentives to prune questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23767" CreationDate="2009-09-29T06:03:06.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, the block is cleared now that we have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user-agent properly set on the requests&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;requests of a reasonable size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;http compression (gzip) on all requests&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T10:23:35.653" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T10:23:35.653" />
  <row Id="23805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23802" CreationDate="2009-09-29T06:06:20.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already two badges for this: Disciplined and Peer Pressure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T07:31:52.020" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T07:31:52.020" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-09-29T07:06:47.073" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to go to the profile view to find out when the user was last on SO - no point adding comments or suggestions if they're long gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T07:06:47.073" />
  <row Id="23808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23802" CreationDate="2009-09-29T07:44:42.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I think needs to be done is to not discourage people from deleting duplicate and incomplete answers. The problem is you may get a few upvotes for an answer but then a better answer comes along and your answer becomes just noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you delete it currently you'll lose that rep on a recalc so I've suggested (several times) that on a recalc you should get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;MAX (0, reputation from question)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we necessarily want to reward people for deleting content but we should remove the &quot;penalty&quot; so reputation (gained or lost) is no longer a consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T07:44:42.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T08:45:20.407" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/free-trilogy-stickers-for-top-users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/free-trilogy-stickers-for-top-users/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T08:45:20.407" />
  <row Id="23811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T08:49:13.550" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where and how do I go about hiding the posts that match any of the tags on my ignored list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136536" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-20T05:21:29.950" LastActivityDate="2010-05-20T05:21:29.950" Title="How do I hide posts matching my ignored tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23811" CreationDate="2009-09-29T08:54:23.883" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to your profile page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the Prefs tab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underneath the Ignored Tags section is a checkbox labelled: &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check that and then go about your business. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/Or5eK.png&quot; alt=&quot;ignore at your own tag choice&quot; title=&quot;how cheesy is this?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will autosave the preference once you check/uncheck. Now, when you're viewing a list of questions, those marked with any of your ignored tags will be removed from view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're taken out of your view when they get to your side of things, so keep that in mind when paging through with set amounts per page listings. i.e. if you're thumbing through 50 a page, but you only count 40 on the page at a time, then 10 are being hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T09:08:40.643" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T09:08:40.643" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2009-09-29T10:25:12.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced your analysis is correct.  Looking at the graphs, there's a pretty clear trend of increasing bubble size with increasing distance from the origin.  I think if you treat the excessively large bubbles (e.g. Jon Skeet) as outliers, the results will be more or less as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T10:25:12.187" />
  <row Id="23818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23821" CreationDate="2009-09-29T11:12:03.817" Score="3" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few questions in serverfault and superuser asking for software to perform hardware testing. I'm familiar with Hiren BootCD, which can be extremely useful when troubleshooting, but along with free software it also contains at least one illegal software copy. I was wondering if I should be recommending this to people in these boards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130982" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T12:52:32.623" Title="Suggesting software that infringes copyright" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="23819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23818" CreationDate="2009-09-29T11:14:52.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, no this should not be recommended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T11:14:52.113" />
  <row Id="23820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23818" CreationDate="2009-09-29T11:37:51.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know this CD, but what is &quot;illegal software copy&quot; in that context? It it a copy of a commercial tool? In that case I think that it should not be recommended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it is stuff that is not Warez but rather in the grey area (like &quot;Password recovery tools&quot; or anything in the same gray legal area that DeCSS is) then i'd say &quot;It depends&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T11:37:51.540" />
  <row Id="23821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23818" CreationDate="2009-09-29T12:06:35.920" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's merely &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; that your suggestion may infringe copyright, I don't see any problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's &lt;em&gt;definite&lt;/em&gt; that your suggestion does infringe copyright, then no, it is not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If in your judgment you perceive that your suggestion will &lt;em&gt;most likely&lt;/em&gt; be used to infringe copyright, then you may elect to withhold your suggestion.  That's a judgment call based on your personal ethical standards and your understanding of the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T12:06:35.920" />
  <row Id="23822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23823" CreationDate="2009-09-29T12:07:44.527" Score="4" ViewCount="1608" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1491957/testing-for-an-empty-iterator-in-a-python-for-loop&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow recently and had trouble with the MarkDown processor: the code block would not render as code despite being indented four spaces. I've not had this trouble before; maybe the StackOverflow devs have been tinkering and have broken something? It seems to be connected with the fact that the code block is preceded by a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I had to use a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag, but this doesn't provide colouring, so it's not as nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be grateful for feedback from the community, and if that doesn't help, I'd be glad if someone from the SO team could take a look to see what's going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136089" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T13:52:24.557" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T13:52:24.557" Title="Markdown code block problem" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23822" CreationDate="2009-09-29T12:15:43.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason having the code immediately follow the unordered list was causing a problem.  By inserting an innocuous line of text between the end of the list and the code (&quot;Here's the code:&quot;), the code formatting worked as intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T12:15:43.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23822" CreationDate="2009-09-29T12:16:39.533" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3327/why-is-a-code-block-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-i&quot;&gt;problem&lt;/a&gt; before. See the linked thread for solutions. Basically, you need to indent by &lt;em&gt;eight&lt;/em&gt; spaces (four for the list, four for the code), or insert some invisible text, such as a space between backticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T12:16:39.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2009-09-29T12:18:44.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would find a native iPhone app quite useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will frequently answer some questions and then leave my desk for some time, and an iPhone app with push notifications would allow me to stay on top of the answers and their responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't actually write one even if SO does expose an API (I run Windows)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T12:18:44.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23853" CreationDate="2009-09-29T12:25:51.563" Score="17" ViewCount="935" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the conversation on Twitter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4436827424&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood (codinghorror):&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;oh look, Yahoo Pipes doesn't respect robots.txt. I am SHOCKED! (ip block ban time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/simonw/status/4437114256&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Simon Willison (simonw):&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@codinghorror should RSS consumers obey robots.txt? Pipes doesn't crawl, it's directed-if you robots-off aggregator, why publish RSS at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4437171439&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood (codinghorror):&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;r @simonw Pipes is crawling HTML when we explicitly told it not to in robots.txt. Verified logs. Result: perma-ban from all IP ranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it sounds like Jeff doesn't understand that Yahoo! Pipes isn't a robot and therefore has no need to obey robots.txt and that Yahoo! Pipes is for more than feeds - they have specific &quot;modules&quot; designed to retrieve XML, JSON, and HTML (all offered by StackOverflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it really eating that many resources? I know a new server was installed for GoogleBot to have fun with, since it wanted to index gigs of stuff from SO. If it was, I can understand blocking it - it's far more important to allow your users to have a good, unhampered experience and then to allow indexers to play with your site (as far as I know, Pipes does not index anything).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was actually playing with Yahoo! Pipes (since Google doesn't have anything like it that I know of) to try to come up with some cool SO feeds that I can make public, but also parse for cool data, so is there an explanation other than &quot;it doesn't obey rules that I think it should&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T12:32:48.770" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T10:38:32.220" Title="Jeff, Why did you block Yahoo! Pipes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;yahoo-pipes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="23828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23818" CreationDate="2009-09-29T12:52:32.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiren%27s%5Fboot%5FCD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spanish version&lt;/a&gt; had more information, but I'm not in the mood for translating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiren%27s%5Fboot%5FCD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hiren's BootCD&lt;/a&gt; is a live CD containing various diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems.[2] As it is a bootable CD, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. &lt;strong&gt;Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software.&lt;/strong&gt; Utilities with similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem redundant; however, they present choices through different UIs and options in what they can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While this collection of tools can be very useful, potential users should note that &lt;strong&gt;many of the tools are commercial applications that have not been legally licensed for redistribution&lt;/strong&gt;, and so download/use/sharing of Hiren's BootCD &lt;strong&gt;may be&lt;/strong&gt; illegal (&lt;strong&gt;depending on your legal jurisdiction&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even when it has free software and abandonware, it also has &lt;strong&gt;copyrighted DOS programs&lt;/strong&gt;, so you have to this has to be had into account when using it you &lt;strong&gt;could&lt;/strong&gt; be infringing intelectual right laws. This makes the disc illegal in &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spanish wikipedia&lt;/em&gt; (appearently I'm in the mood after all)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd recomend it, putting a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;BIG DISCLAMER: THIS SOFTWARE &lt;em&gt;MAY&lt;/em&gt; BE ILLEGAL IN YOUR COUNTRY&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but if you had a licence to all the software included, then you wouldn't be infringing. Right? Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I mention IANAL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'd recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sysresccd.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;System Rescue CD&lt;/a&gt;, the same thing, completely free software/open source. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T12:52:32.623" />
  <row Id="23829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T13:44:27.300" Score="3" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking ahead to the October StackOverflow public data export, which will hopefully be available before the end of the week.  If so, I want to update &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; to use that data over the weekend.  With this release I want to add some additional indexes.  I was thinking a full-text on &lt;code&gt;Posts.Body&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Comments.Text&lt;/code&gt;, but I'm wondering what else people think would be a good idea?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I don't get any good suggestions I'll just go through the actual queries that were run so far and use those, but I'd like some feed back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, if you've had any queries timeout you might go back and try them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T14:08:46.023" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T16:23:49.207" Title="What indexes should I add to StackQL?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;stackql&gt;&lt;indexing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23771" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:02:26.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It won't help with other people's comments, but for your own comments to questions posted today, click your name at the top of the page to get to your profile page and then click on the &quot;recent&quot; tab near the middle of the page.  This should show comments for the last couple days or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, to search older comments you don't have to download the entire data dump.  There are a couple web sites that have already done it for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130090/ian-elliott&quot;&gt;Ian Elliot&lt;/a&gt;.  Uses MySQL and looks a lot nicer, but only shows data from July.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net&lt;/a&gt;, by myself.  Uses Sql Server, has the September (hopefully soon October) dataset, but needs the touch of someone with more design talent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be others, but those are the two I'm aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T14:02:26.113" />
  <row Id="23831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23829" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:08:42.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have the queries done in the past stored, and isn't there an option for suggested indexes based on queries done on data?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T14:08:42.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23826" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:18:21.093" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that Jeff (who has access to the log) knows more than about what Yahoo is doing to his site than sinmonw does, and I'm certain that it is more reasonable for a site &lt;em&gt;owner&lt;/em&gt; to decide who (s)he expects to obey &lt;code&gt;robots.txt&lt;/code&gt; than the operator of the robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;End of story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T14:18:21.093" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23829" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:39:53.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general rule, I would recommend adding an index on any column that is the ID in another table.  So, in your comments table, you want to make sure there is an index on PostID.  Also ensure that all your ID fields themselves have indexes on them.  Depending on how you are loading the data dumps, you may or may not have these indexes already.  Also, you want to make sure the tag names themselves are indexed, so we can query by tag name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastEditorUserId="1862" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T14:45:13.100" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T14:45:13.100" />
  <row Id="23834" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:46:17.810" Score="11" ViewCount="549" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be a good idea to have a URL-shortening service for each of the Stack Overflow family of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since questions, and answers all have a unique id, it should be fairly easy to use that for shortening the URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(Could easily be shorter)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://short-SO-url.com/1234&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could easily point to a question, or an answer. All this would need to do is redirect to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if it is an answer, point to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/{question-id}/-/1234#1234&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;You need something between the question id, and the answer id. That is why there is &lt;code&gt;/-/&lt;/code&gt; in the URL.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, if you want a shorter URL, you have to use a third-party URL shortener which can point to anywhere. It is also difficult, or impossible to know that it doesn't redirect to a malicious website. If there were an official URL shortener that only worked for Stack Overflow, you would know for sure that it is safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be easier if there was an internal interface to redirect to the correct URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/api/post/1234.301&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could redirect to the correct URL regardless of if it is an answer or a question. &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;301 redirect&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-18T20:00:49.260" LastActivityDate="2011-04-23T09:56:48.250" Title="Official shortened URL service" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="23835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23834" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:50:37.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would be the benefit?  Only thing I can think off the top of my head is less text to send back to the client, which I'm not sure outweighs the cost of maintaining the additional system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T14:50:37.927" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23834" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:52:23.133" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;URLs on stack overflow are already pretty short, especially once you remove the post title and such.  In your example, you aren't really saving that much.  I think if you wanted something considerably shorter, you'd have to go to something like tinyurl has, and you'd end up with something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/url/D839d8D&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which still wouldn't gain you much over the already pretty short url of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234256&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With answers, it gets a bit longer but I think that we could come up with a link to an answer like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/answers/1234256&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then a database lookup could be done to direct you to the correct question.  Same thing could be done for comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing something like this for direct links to answers and comments would be much easier to costruct your own URL, and would keep much more to the MVC spirit of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T14:52:23.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23837" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T14:56:13.347" Score="10" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that the Acceptance Rate is implemented for all users, I think it can be useful to put back some of the unaccepted questions in the Unanswered Questions group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm saying this because some questions are not marked as answer simply because a suitable answer hasn't been found yet, at least from the question asker perspective, even if there are upvoted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an user has an high acceptance rate (&gt;80%, for instance) then it is expected that he accepts all questions except the ones that he considers not to have a valid answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, for these users, the unaccepted questions should be considered unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entering in details about the rules, it's just to give an idea and ask for your opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4880" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:04:37.607" Title="Add unaccepted questions back to the Unanswered Questions for users with high acceptance rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="23838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23826" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:00:22.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only used Pipes a couple of times, and wasn't relying on it for anything regularly... Still, it was rather fun to play around with it, massaging the various SO-family Atom feeds into new and interesting shapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh well... at least Google Reader is still available. &lt;strong&gt;ALL HAIL OUR GOOGLY OVERLORDS!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:00:22.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23837" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:02:15.193" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now you could search for all the questions that haven't been marked with an accepted answer, which is pretty close to figuring it out as one that is &quot;unanswered&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just use the search modifier &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3A0&quot;&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you're in the mood for only questions under a certain tag, drop a bag of that into the search as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3A0+%5Bjquery%5D&quot;&gt;hasaccepted:0 [jquery]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:02:15.193" />
  <row Id="23840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23837" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:04:37.607" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea.  It has merit, though I'd put the threshold closer to 90%.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't really really think it should be implemented.  The Unanswered Questions view is complicated enough already.  This would add a burden not only the site maintainers but also yet another conceptual burden to new users trying to understand the view.  We already have enough people come through here asking why this question or that shows as Unanswered, even though it has answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:04:37.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:24:43.137" Score="-3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see instances of SO users answering questions using information from comments or other answers, and then being awarded winning rep when their answer is accepted. If that was me, I might feel compelled to give (some of?) my awarded rep to the user(s) who really deserves it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are cases where I have provided the 'correct' answer first, then someone else comes along later, uses my answer and maybe adds some embellishment in the form of words and links, and wins the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136164" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T16:10:02.883" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T16:41:43.727" Title="Transfer/Award Reputation between users?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="23842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23841" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:28:09.403" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of SO is to get the best answer to the top of the page.  Reputation is just a bonus to try and get people to do that.  If you want to give someone some rep, browse through their questions/answers and upvote a few that deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:28:09.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23841" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:28:48.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;original&quot; answer is linked to from within the &quot;duplicate&quot; answer (as is the appropriate practice) then others will hopefully click through and give it some upvotes too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know there are cases where I have&#xA;  provided the 'correct' answer first,&#xA;  then someone else comes along later,&#xA;  uses my answer and maybe adds some&#xA;  embellishment in the form of words and&#xA;  links, and wins the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just the nature of the game, my friend. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:28:48.933" />
  <row Id="23844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23841" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:31:00.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone makes a comment, they write that comment knowing they cannot receive any rep whatsoever from it.  They would have made it an answer if that is what it truly was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for rep, you can give the accepted answer to whomever you feel like and they will receive the 15 rep points. Upvotes are your way to reward other people's answers. So go ahead and upvote any other helpful answers. Upvotes are a reward for good/helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T16:41:43.727" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T16:41:43.727" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23841" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:31:35.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not who answers first that wins, it's who provides the most useful and complete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, any answer can be edited and &quot;embellished&quot;, if you feel other users provide a more complete answer, you should edit your answer and complete it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4880" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:31:35.840" />
  <row Id="23846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23841" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:32:00.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could end up easily abused. It would become far too easy for one user to strongly affect the reputation of another, thus skewing what reputation means. There would be no way to tie gifts of reputation to instances where a user truly helped another user earn reputation. Which means users could attempt to sell reputation and further the abuses that can be done using a shell account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel you shouldn't get credit for answer because of help provided by another, you can make your question/answer community wiki (CW), so you're not gaining from someone else's work, but I think a system allowing users to transfer reputation would be too easily and frequently abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:32:00.470" />
  <row Id="23847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23826" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:39:32.050" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... you want Jeff to say &quot;I was wrong, Pipes shouldn't have to obey robots.txt, but it's still sucking down way too many resources so it's still blocked.&quot;? What would that accomplish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty%5Fcalls.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T16:03:18.263" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T16:03:18.263" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23841" CreationDate="2009-09-29T15:58:03.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those who provide answers in comments know they get no rep (they also can't get downvoted).  Information in comments cannot be found by search so it's better not to encourage people to answer in comments.  Sometimes the OP will tell a commenter to post an answer so they can accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T15:58:03.933" />
  <row Id="23849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23829" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:23:49.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the index building is a one-time operation (once a month, that is), and after that the DB is read-only: Why not just index everything? Assuming you have the storage space, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T16:23:49.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:25:39.423" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some sites, like linked in, allow you to say &quot;I'm interested in being contacted about ...&quot; with several options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a few people self promote themselves in the body of their answer.  While I find nothing explicitly wrong with that, it might be advantageous to everyone if we had a few User Interested tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a user could say, &quot;I'm interested in being contacted about:&quot;&#xA;Contract Opportunities,&#xA;Full Time Employment,&#xA;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be indicated with some sort of little badge under their name, and next to their icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2424" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:12:21.660" Title="Request for User Interested tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23856" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:26:26.723" Score="6" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that on StackOverflow, a question which used the @ sign to denote a string literal ie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;string TheClosingQuoteSOULDBeEscaped = @&quot;c:\&quot;;&#xA;string ButTheSyntaxHighlightingMissesIt = &quot;another string&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't properly handle the string literal and instead thinks the slash at the end of line one is meant to escape the last quote, leading to a mega quote that spans the whole code block.  I saw this in the question listed below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247668/running-command-line-from-an-aspx-page-and-returning-output-to-page&quot;&gt;Running Command line from an ASPX page, and returning output to page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system works!!! The ticket I opened with Google was just &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/issues/detail?id=93&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;resolved&lt;/a&gt;!  The project owner, &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/u/mikesamuel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mikesamuel&lt;/a&gt;, fixed it in under four days.  Its in revision 83.  As long as the SO team updates with the next release, this problem is solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130387" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T06:06:37.360" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:06:37.360" Title="Formatting @ (string literal) sign" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23850" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:28:37.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is not currently a way to &quot;message&quot; another user, so this alone would not add anything. Additionally, SO is not designed to be a social, or even professional, networking site. Over time I would expect that more features related to employment opportunities will be added, but the primary focus will remain Q and A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T16:28:37.093" />
  <row Id="23853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23826" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:43:42.523" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff doesn't understand that Yahoo! Pipes isn't a robot and therefore has no need to obey robots.txt&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really? That's funny, because &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=troubleshooting#q14&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that's not what the Yahoo! Pipes documentation says&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I keep Pipes from accessing my web pages?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three ways you can prevent your page content from being used within a Yahoo! Pipe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3) Using robots.txt&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;User-agent: Yahoo Pipes 1.0&#xA;Disallow: /&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too bad it &lt;em&gt;LIES!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a problem with Pipes using the RSS, but Pipes not respecting robots.txt for html requests is a dealbreaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Talking at London DevDays to &lt;a href=&quot;http://icant.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christian Heilmann&lt;/a&gt; who is a Yahoo dev evangelist and works on the YQL team. We're discussing removing the Yahoo Pipes block and working on other types of yahoo YQL integration; done right it could be a form of API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T10:38:32.220" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T10:38:32.220" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23834" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:46:45.763" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001276.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001276.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T16:46:45.763" />
  <row Id="23855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23850" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:47:51.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given how little information is typically available on an SO profile, I can't imagine too many quality leads coming through this mechanism. It would be mostly head hunters just spamming the whole site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users post links to their blog or other page where they have more information (including contact info). If an employer is really interested, they can go through that channel instead. And if an SO user wants to be found, he or she will have an appropriate link on their profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:12:21.660" />
  <row Id="23856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23851" CreationDate="2009-09-29T16:58:50.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this has to be fixed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google-code-prettify&lt;/a&gt; first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, we just deployed the latest trunk of prettify.js ; revision 83&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T06:06:27.173" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:06:27.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17483" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:01:04.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now this is one I just love!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/stackoverflow-ad1.png&quot; alt=&quot;definitely omg-yes-totally-now complete-bs user-manipulation&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give us more like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:01:04.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:10:40.447" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;all in the title;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is there a way to know which question / answer is linked to a badge on my own profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just won a necromancer badges and I don't know from which one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:33:41.260" Title="is there a way to know which question / answer is linked to a badge on my own profile?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="23859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23472" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:13:42.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Implementing this using HTML &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%5Fkeys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;accesskeys&lt;/a&gt; would be easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greasespot.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; script for &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50954&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;adding some keyboard shortcuts&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't include the full list as mentioned in the question, but this script would be a good starting point for Firefox/GreaseMonkey users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133232" LastEditorUserId="133232" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T17:23:03.497" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:23:03.497" />
  <row Id="23861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23858" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:17:02.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No it's not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's not something they are going to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/101#101&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:17:02.557" />
  <row Id="23862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23858" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:18:37.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't you look at your reputation history to see which answer recently reached the 5 upvote mark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a perfect solution, but you should be able to find which answer earned you the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:18:37.157" />
  <row Id="23864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23858" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:33:41.260" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no simple method other than doing some detective work on your own. This is definitely something that would be nice, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:33:41.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23874" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:36:36.433" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to add a bounty to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1490940/what-precautions-should-you-take-when-a-senior-employee-leaves&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SO. I have checked threads on Meta but I am not able to find how to add a bounty to my question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I doing wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I am not able to include the link of the searched meta thread, because I am a new user here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135080" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T17:50:15.583" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:50:58.780" Title="I am not able to add a bounty to my question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23867" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:37:32.720" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449468/can-another-firefox-extension-mark-a-site-as-trusted-in-noscript&quot;&gt;a question on SO&lt;/a&gt; with no answers and barely any views.  I am considering adding a bounty to the question to encourage people to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since my question is of the &quot;is it possible to do this&quot; variety, I am worried that nobody would answer the question honestly, but some person would just throw up a &quot;you can't&quot; message, without actually knowing whether it's possible or not, just to get his answer auto-accepted and make off with the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even worse, since this is the accepted answer, then people would stop looking at my question, even though the accepted answer is unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something I should be worried about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100835" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:42:48.500" Title="Answering bounty questions with no effort, just to get the rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="23867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23866" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:41:04.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any response requires at least two upvotes to be eligible for auto-acceptance.  Therefore, while anyone can answer &quot;You can't&quot;, at least two other people would have to agree and upvote for it to be worth his while. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless that's actually the correct response, it's not likely to succeed, not only because he won't be able to get the upvotes, but because someone else can come along and say &quot;You can't, because (reasonable explanation)&quot; and get your acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:41:04.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23866" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:42:48.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Implicit in your fear is the idea that &quot;you can't&quot; is dishonest... I don't think that's necessarily true. While, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23866/answering-bounty-questions-with-no-effort-just-to-get-the-rep/23867#23867&quot;&gt;as Adam notes&lt;/a&gt;, such a brief and unhelpful answer is unlikely to garner a sufficient number of up-votes, you're still opening the door wide to answers that explain in detail &lt;em&gt;exactly why&lt;/em&gt; you can't do what you want to do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could re-word your question, such that it asks, &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I accomplish&lt;/em&gt; X*?&quot;* rather than &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is&lt;/em&gt; X &lt;em&gt;possible?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; This might at least &lt;em&gt;reduce&lt;/em&gt; the motivation for bounty-hungry readers to spend time researching the impossibility of the task and instead go looking for solutions to your actual problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:42:48.500" />
  <row Id="23869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23873" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:42:49.327" Score="17" ViewCount="815" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw someone edit the title of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1493870/what-is-your-favorite-funny-debug-message-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1493870/list&quot;&gt;change&lt;/a&gt; the spelling from favourite (The British spelling) to favorite (The US-English spelling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does SOFU have an accepted standard on language and spelling? Which is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T17:51:01.993" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T02:43:37.250" Title="What should the standard spelling be - British or US?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;&lt;language&gt;&lt;community-standards&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23869" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:46:50.723" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whou cares? If it's nout spelled wroung by &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; standard, leave it aloune. If it's spelled &quot;faveurt&quot;, then fix it tou whichever spelling you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyoune gets tied up intou a knout about the spelling of wourds like this, youu can tell me and I'll schououl them at TF2. If TF2 is unavailable I am quite capable of schououling in a wide variety of activities, such as using the louou, riding the lift tou my flat, our standing oun the kerb and inspecting a car's tyres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T17:58:41.353" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:58:41.353" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="23871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23869" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:48:04.870" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both spellings are correct, for &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; definition of &quot;correct&quot;. So I say let it go. No need to get into edit wars over correctly spelled words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-31T14:56:10.163" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T14:56:10.163" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23869" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:48:54.337" Score="51" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of starting torrents of angry comments, I'd say the correct one is whichever one the OP uses. It is acceptable to fix spelling and grammar errors in someone's response, but if you feel that their favourite spelling of 'behaviour' colours your judgment, then I'm afraid they should just get over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; acceptable to change American to British spellings or British to American.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-13T02:43:37.250" LastActivityDate="2011-03-13T02:43:37.250" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23869" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:49:10.453" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does SOFU have an accepted standard on language and spelling? Which is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For bodies, no. For tags, US-English. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Titles don't actually &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to be consistent (tags absolutely do!), but if you think anyone might want to search for a question then you would do well to use the more common spelling - whichever that might happen to be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that changing the spelling of language keywords or identifiers to match the spellings actually used by the relevant language or library is &lt;em&gt;very much&lt;/em&gt; appropriate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:49:10.453" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23865" CreationDate="2009-09-29T17:50:58.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to wait at least 48 hours to start a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;Read about bounties.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T17:50:58.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23879" CreationDate="2009-09-29T18:19:52.313" Score="6" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would like the ability to apply a highlighter (background yellow, red, etc..) to identify a specific section of code to draw attention to it. Note that this would be inside of the formatted code itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136063" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:39:49.997" Title="Ability to highlight (mark) portions of code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="23878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23877" CreationDate="2009-09-29T18:26:44.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would require changes to the code used to do syntax-coloring right now, which isn't managed by SO. It would be a nice feature though. Perhaps for now your best bet is to show the code without its context, and with its context. It's a bit more verbose than what you're proposing, but it's the best way I can think to achieve this right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;echo ('Hello World);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public function introduction() {&#xA;  if (isset($foo)) {&#xA;    $bar-&amp;gt;logConv();&#xA;    echo ('Hello World);&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T18:58:29.697" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T18:58:29.697" />
  <row Id="23879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23877" CreationDate="2009-09-29T18:27:52.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pastebin.com&lt;/a&gt; does this in a very neat way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;To highlight particular lines, prefix each line with @@&quot;&#xA;I see it as a proper inspiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pastebin is also open source:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/pastebin.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pastebin.com/pastebin.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;So it is easy to see how the implementation works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61521" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T18:27:52.233" />
  <row Id="23880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23877" CreationDate="2009-09-29T18:28:16.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tell it to &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google-code-prettify&lt;/a&gt;; that's what SO uses.  Of course, you can always just do something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;here&#xA;is&#xA;important stuff&#xA;some&#xA;code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note this section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;important stuff&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T18:28:16.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23886" CreationDate="2009-09-29T18:49:17.373" Score="10" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always found it really easy to know if the question was solved or still pending simply by the green background. Now that its removed I have to consciously search for that little green arrow to know the same. Whats the advantage of removing the green background? Can we get it back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:16:54.970" Title="What's the advantage of removing the accepted answer green background?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;checkmark&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23881" CreationDate="2009-09-29T18:55:10.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're only having to consciously search for the green arrow because your brain learned to &quot;read&quot; the site one way. Give it time, it'll learn to notice the green arrow much more quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T18:55:10.873" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23881" CreationDate="2009-09-29T18:56:24.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any advantage whatsoever in the change. All I can really say is that perhaps they made the change so that it didn't stand out TOO much and then potentially cause users to ignore all the rest of the answers that may be provided, regardless of how good they might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T18:56:24.397" />
  <row Id="23884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:10:01.237" Score="3" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12989/stackoverflow-taking-down-the-evil-experts-exchange&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow taking down the evil Experts Exchange&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to my query on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alexa&lt;/a&gt;, this week the traffic to stackoverflow.com exceeded that to a competing knowledge exchange site with a hyphen in its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135230" LastEditorUserId="135230" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T19:56:45.753" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:56:45.753" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:10:01.237" ClosedDate="2009-09-29T22:28:40.453" Title="A StackOverflow milestone?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;traffic&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23881" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:11:07.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/help-stackexchange-with-colors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Colors are hard&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps they &lt;strike&gt;went shopping&lt;/strike&gt; decided to reduce the number required?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:11:07.647" />
  <row Id="23886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23881" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:13:52.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They reduced the number of colors on the system to help out with color selection for the Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/help-stackexchange-with-colors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Help StackExchange With Colors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’ve been creeping further and&#xA;  further towards the refuge of&#xA;  minimalism in our Trilogy layouts over&#xA;  the last year. fact, I just deployed a&#xA;  change to remove the accepted answer&#xA;  color to make color schemes a bit&#xA;  easier for SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:13:52.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23884" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:15:19.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder when other sites will respond to the competition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:15:19.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:15:19.307" />
  <row Id="23888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23881" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:16:54.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One (admittedly small) advantage is what Diago &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22510/why-dont-accepted-answers-show-shading-anymore/22524#22524&quot;&gt;mentioned here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It does make answers easier to read,&#xA;  and helps on sites like SF or SU where&#xA;  we use screenshots on white&#xA;  backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/32885/what-do-you-have-for-a-home-server-for-multimedia/32940#32940&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; looks way better after the change.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:16:54.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:17:08.733" Score="1" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;What feature of Stack Overflow do you like the most?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T13:03:16.373" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T17:30:51.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:17:08.733" Title="What feature of Stack Overflow do you like the most?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;vampire&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23884" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:19:38.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's interesting to me is that the expert sex change thing is not in decline.  At worst, SO has merely eaten into their growth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:19:38.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:19:38.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:20:14.543" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without that, it's just a gimmicky Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:20:14.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:20:14.543" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:21:23.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet. Duh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136566" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:21:23.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:21:23.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23884" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:21:44.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google trends for the two sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://trends.google.com/websites?q=stackoverflow.com,+experts-exchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://trends.google.com/websites?q=stackoverflow.com,+experts-exchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:21:44.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:21:44.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:23:29.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, they should be unified to one single reputation score which is the same on the different platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure the topic's are really distinct. But does that really matter? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:23:29.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:27:53.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Ask Question&quot; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:27:53.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:27:53.590" />
  <row Id="23896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:29:50.263" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​LASERS​​​​​&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:29:50.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:29:50.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:31:36.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll bite.  I love the fact that if I want to ignore something I have the option to, but that everything is right up front to begin with.  I loathe categorized content that forces me to dig through someone else's classification scheme to find what I'm interested in or looking for.  I've learned a ton of things from viewing content that I probably would not have seen using a category system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:31:36.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:31:36.127" />
  <row Id="23898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:33:18.527" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having the best/accepted answers float to the top, and the irrelevant/flame/incorrect answers float to the bottom or get moderated out. Saves a ton of time wasted on reading crap answers and off-topic discussions that you get on other Q&amp;amp;A sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:33:18.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:33:18.527" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:33:52.567" Score="64" ViewCount="3926" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Stack Overflow has grown, it has become increasingly clear that we're going to have a significant amount of unsold ad inventory for the forseeable future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, we'd like to put that space to good use, by &lt;strong&gt;featuring useful open-source programming projects&lt;/strong&gt; in the &lt;strong&gt;sidebar ad slot&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/6874/adslotssoquestion.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(remember, the leaderboards are hidden for any user with &gt;= 200 rep, but not the sidebar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current plan: we think we can do this by leveraging meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There will be a monthly question on meta with a specific tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post your favorite / most worthy open source projects as answers to that question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote up or down on the answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most highly voted answers will be scraped and formatted nicely in the sidebar ad (likely text only, though we might be able to pull logos..)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way &lt;em&gt;you guys&lt;/em&gt; can control what appears in that ad slot, and it can be driven by popularity and interest. The ad engine will periodically poll the RSS for the question and format the top (n) answers by votes into a public service ad for that open source project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would likely have a &lt;strong&gt;narrow whitelist of known code hosting sites&lt;/strong&gt; like SourceForge, GitHub, CodePlex, and so on. Only links to projects on those sites would be considered valid and eligible for appearance in the sidebar ad slot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We figure we can pull RSS for the project page, or worst case, write some Q&amp;amp;D regex template code for each of the ~8 whitelisted code hosting sites to get relevant information for the open source project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Feelings? Ideas? Palilogy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is now implemented at&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/open-source-advertising&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/open-source-advertising&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;made public on the blog at&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T10:42:37.970" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T10:42:37.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:33:52.567" Title="Free Vote-Based Advertising for Open Source Projects" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;open-source-advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="23900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23877" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:39:49.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post minimal code fragments that have been abstracted down to &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; what it takes to exhibit the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then all the code is necessary, and highlighting is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/pet peeve&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that this is not always possible, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible much more often than people use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:39:49.997" />
  <row Id="23901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:40:36.003" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;browsing questions tagged 'pointless-waste-of-time'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:40:36.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:40:36.003" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:42:18.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice idea. But I really don't see why you would want to exclude self-hosted projects. I, for one, am glad that my project moved aways from sourceforge which was a constant pita.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:42:18.277" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:42:18.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:45:13.873" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Awesome idea.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could also leverage the power of tags so that everybody sees an open-source project that &lt;strong&gt;they are interested in&lt;/strong&gt;. Here's how it would work...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone could post a question on meta with the tag &lt;strong&gt;[oss-ads]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attach &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; tags to that question, such as &lt;strong&gt;[ruby]&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;[asp.net]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then, if you're in, say, the &lt;strong&gt;[ruby]&lt;/strong&gt; tag on StackOverflow, you would see the most-upvoted projects under the &lt;strong&gt;[oss-ads] [ruby]&lt;/strong&gt; tag from Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question body would have a certain format (name, url, description) so that an ad could be auto-generated from the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users could browse the &lt;strong&gt;[oss-ads]&lt;/strong&gt; tag on Meta and upvote projects they like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly more complicated than Jeff's proposal, but it allows different audiences to &quot;self-select&quot; for different open-source software advertisements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/stock-photo-happy-users.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;online advertisements make people happy&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-29T21:17:04.717" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T21:17:04.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:45:13.873" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T19:52:31.673" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ability to abuse &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23889/what-feature-of-stack-overflow-do-you-like-the-most/23904#23904&quot;&gt;recursion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T19:52:31.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T19:52:31.673" />
  <row Id="23905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-29T20:00:02.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds good - and it provides a legimate way for people to advertise OSS &lt;em&gt;through contributions&lt;/em&gt; - rather than being spammy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, when I mention any high performance binary serialization frameworks for .NET (that happen to rhyme with frotohuf-bet) it isn't spammy at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T20:00:02.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T20:00:02.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-29T20:16:56.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having the community able to de-spam it and report abuse automatically through voting / flagging. Anybody familiar with usenet knows what I mean...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T20:16:56.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T20:16:56.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-29T20:19:55.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like it.  I would think you might also want something to keep that monthly question more visible so it doesn't fall off the main page.  Keep it visible so people will contribute to it.  Maybe have Community kick that special tag once a night or something so it stays visible.  Or a small link to the current month's question at the top of the sidebar maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T20:19:55.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T20:19:55.240" />
  <row Id="23912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23942" CreationDate="2009-09-29T20:41:18.853" Score="-1" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's cool that you can see on the badges page what the site-wide badge awards are, but how about something that shows site-wide rep stats, like total reputation, maybe a graph of that over time, number of upvotes, downvotes, bounty rep paid/rewarded, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131098" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T19:02:46.860" Title="site-wide reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="23917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-29T20:50:48.820" Score="56" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is good, but wouldn't it open up more possibilities if we didn't restrict the projects to a short list of pre-approved project sites?  Yes, I know this allows the data to be easily pulled from those sites, and that brings me to the meat of my plan: instead of a simple &quot;X is the highest regarded Y and here are some details about it&quot; type thing, we instead task Welbog with writing up a discursive, needlessly opaque review of the product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this solves a few problems in one fell swoop.  Specifically, it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is much more interesting than automated text will ever be, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;grants the whole world the opportunity to enjoy Welbog's splendor, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provides Welbog with an outlet for his superfluous verbiage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty much a win-win, as you can easily see.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we've all agreed that this plan must be enacted, let us move on to the logistics.  Of course the first issue is compensation.  Thanks to the international exchange rate of baked goods, compensating him with donuts is much cheaper than paying him would be.  Still, the point is not to spend any money at all, and donuts do not grow on trees (they must be hunted).  However, while I know he will work for donuts, I suspect he will also work for fear of the whip.  Thus we need volunteers to go to Welbog's house and whip him whenever he slacks off.  I have a feeling we will have an overabundance of people willing to perform this task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second is the issue of Welbog's ability to review each piece of software.  Welbog refuses to use any operating system other than the One True OS (MINIX).  In addition, he also refuses to touch a Mac, due to a drunken brawl with Steve Jobs that escalated wildly, ultimately resulting in the formation of the Grand Canyon.  But so what?  Nobody enjoys Welbog for his well-reasoned, intelligent discourse on topics he knows well.  Just give him some screen shots, a rough description of what the program is supposed to do, and tell him whether it parses XML with regex, and let him go to work.  Let's not complicate the process, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there is the question of how we maintain a high output of reviews to keep the site fresh and current.  This has the simplest solution of the three problems, although it is dependent on slavery being legal in Canada.  What's that?  It &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt;?  I suppose there are two alternate solutions then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;capture Welbog in a non-lethal trap and ship him to a country where slavery is legal, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enlist an SO user willing to take Welbog into his or her home to feed and care for him, much like one would a pet, so that he has more time to devote to these reviews.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I think my proposal is both the most complete and practical of any put forth.  For the good of the site -- nay, for the good of the world! -- I implore you all to vote for my plan.  If we don't, then the sex change experts have already won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T20:50:48.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T20:50:48.820" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="23927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23912" CreationDate="2009-09-29T21:34:25.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can link your profiles so any user can see your stats on any of the other sites. If a user chooses not to do that, then that's his option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T21:34:25.373" />
  <row Id="23928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-29T21:42:46.727" Score="1" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am getting frequent (although intermittent) crashes in IE8 while writing answers.  I'm not using &quot;crash&quot; to mean a script error or server issue-- this is an old-fashioned Win32 Access Violation where IE is trying to read from a null pointer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens about once for every 5-10 answers I write. What's partciularly annoying is that it only seems to happen when I'm editing a long, complex answers with code formatting and lots of hard-to-rewrite-from-memory text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I found an easy workaround that I wanted to share, in case anyone else had the same issue: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept Windows' suggestion that you debug IE.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Launch Visual Studio via the JIT debugger. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Detach the debugger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At this point, you can return to IE and you can copy the text (and then close IE!) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No idea why this worked, but it did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm running IE8 on Windows Server 2008. 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  <row Id="23931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24063" CreationDate="2009-09-29T23:13:56.503" Score="0" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21521/reputation-vendetta-timeouts&quot;&gt;Reputation Vendetta Timeouts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23756/so-whats-happening-to-my-reputation-how-do-i-report-something-fishy&quot;&gt;So, what&amp;rsquo;s happening to my reputation? How do I report something fishy?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I downgraded the incorrect answer on one of the questions. After that I lost around 30 points. Looking at my history I can tell that many of my old answers were recently (few hours ago) downgraded by 2 points. I suspect this was the user which question I downgraded. He later removed his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you deal with such things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136574" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T18:24:55.960" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T18:39:18.493" ClosedDate="2009-09-30T19:34:00.013" Title="How to deal with retaliation on stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-29T23:14:14.040" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I poo-poo this idea, let me start by saying that Jeff and I have been discussing &lt;em&gt;donating&lt;/em&gt; advertising space to Open Source projects for a little while now. I'm a big fan of this and would like to this &lt;em&gt;sort&lt;/em&gt; of thing happen. &lt;strong&gt;But not through automation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automated ads are low quality and simply do not work. The Great and Exalted Google miserably failed on Stack Overflow with AdSense (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #64&lt;/a&gt;). The custom-built automated amazon ads (built specifically with our audience in mind) has run into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon+advertising&quot;&gt;host of issues&lt;/a&gt;. Do we really think automagically scraping and formatting text (maybe logos) will be the exception?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advertising space on Stack Overflow is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; valuable, and quite a many companies recognize this by continuing to advertise on the site. We maintain the high value by disallowing animated, obnoxious, and &lt;strong&gt;low quality&lt;/strong&gt; advertisments. When we lower our quality standards, we devalue the space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there's the fact that you can't just throw advertisments on a site and hope it works. There's a whole process involved to ensure success - from developing a message to designing the banners -  and that process requires all sorts of hard work. Blasting low-quality ads will deliver minimal results, and that benefits no one. Worse, it puts in a chink in our &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/Responsible-Advertising.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Responsible Advertising&lt;/a&gt; program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, here's &lt;strong&gt;my counter-proposal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We will commit to donating a certain amount of advertising&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Project leaders of open source projects will fill out an application that describes&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How their project benefits the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why the community is important to their project&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their advertising goal: donations, users, developers, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What will happen if the advertising goal delivers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put up a voting page to let &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, the commuunity, decide the winner(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work closely with the project leaders to develop a strong, successful campaign&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T23:14:14.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-29T23:14:14.040" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23826" CreationDate="2009-09-29T23:54:18.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently use Yahoo! Pipes to correct problems using the RSS feed from StackOverflow.  In particular, I use twitterfeed to feed the RSS to twitter/facebook and the relative URLs are not transformed to absolute URLs, thus people tend to complain about the links.  To correct this, I replace the leading &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I could run the StackOverflow feed through Google Reader, share it and then use the shared feed in Yahoo! Pipes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-09-29T23:54:18.897" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T00:16:24.183" Score="2" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to monitor the questions tagged by several tags, say t1 and t2. How can I get a single feed containing questions tagged by either t1 and t2 without any duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136577" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:44:31.153" Title="Subscribing to stackoverflow feed for multiple tags" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;subscription&gt;&lt;atom&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="23936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23935" CreationDate="2009-09-30T00:22:56.383" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/t1+or+t2&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/t1+or+t2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69713" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T00:26:08.737" />
  <row Id="23937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T00:28:18.057" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/456/notifications-for-edits-by-others-of-my-own-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;Notifications for edits by others of my own questions and answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2303/notify-us-when-an-answer-weve-accepted-has-been-edited&quot;&gt;Notify us when an answer we&amp;rsquo;ve accepted has been edited&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't find a question that addresses my issue, I'm sure it exists, though.  So, if it does, kindly let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463800/applying-space-formatting-in-visual-studio&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1463800/applying-space-formatting-in-visual-studio&lt;/a&gt;) and got several answers pretty quickly, I tried them and they didn't work.  I left some comments on the answers looking for clarification, and apparently the posters edited their answers -- but I wasn't notified.  I forgot I hadn't found the answer to my question and  just came back to it today wondering why there wasn't any activity, only to find I'd been ignoring it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130318" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T00:28:18.057" ClosedDate="2009-09-30T11:13:10.477" Title="Can I be notified of edits to answers on questions I own?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-09-30T00:32:43.510" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my late addition: &lt;strong&gt;DevDaysGLTimer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wyckhebert.com/DevDays/DevDaysGLTimer.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Executable (Windows)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wyckhebert.com/DevDays/DevDaysGLTimerSource.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://wyckhebert.com/DevDays/DevDaysGLTimer1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://wyckhebert.com/DevDays/DevDaysGLTimer2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I saw the announcement for this I got an idea to incorporate the StackOverflow logo with some animation.  So, I dusted off some old OpenGL code and went to work.  Here is the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything is fully 3D and the view can be rotated and translated as desired.  You can view the timer in either a perspective or orthographic view.  When you quit, the view is saved (to orientation.ini) and will be loaded next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every color in the timer is configurable, including background and fade colors, and the message font is also modifiable (see config.ini).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The control keys while running are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   i = toggle info&#xA;   w = toggle wireframe mode &#xA;   g = toggle grid&#xA;   m = toggle mouse control (left: rotate, middle: translate, right: zoom)&#xA;   r = toggle rotate display (auto rotate)&#xA;   p = toggle perspective/orthographic view &#xA;   c = center display &#xA;   + = add one minute   &#xA;   - = subtract one minute &#xA; ESC = quit&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:  Made a very small edit to the list iteration to properly erase elements from the list after they are popped from the stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136570" LastEditorUserId="136570" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T21:02:21.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:02:21.223" />
  <row Id="23939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23912" CreationDate="2009-09-30T01:03:35.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I was looking at your SO profile, why would I care what you did on your meta or SF account? If I was curious, I could just look there. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T01:03:35.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23912" CreationDate="2009-09-30T01:57:08.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To clarify, you are not asking for a page that would show &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; stats across the different sites, but instead you are asking for stats on the entire userbase of SO in one place.  This would be a complement to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Badges&lt;/a&gt; page, which shows how many of which type of badge have been awarded to users on the site.  Your page would show: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the total number of all reputation gained by all users, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the total amount of votes cast, up and down across all the questions on Stack Overflow, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the totals for bounties offered and received.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;potentially a graph of this data over time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though this might be an interesting feature on the site, I dont think it will rank high on the list.  Dont let that get you down, though.  You will be pleased to know that you have the ability to query for these stats already.  There are two sites out there that offer access to the free data dump without the need to import it into a database for querying on your own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4179/data-dump-sandbox&quot;&gt;statoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22869/stackql-yet-another-data-dump-sandbox&quot;&gt;stackql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as far as graphs are concerned, you might just want to sit on this site and watch for periodic updates from the likes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65/stack-overflow-stats-graphs&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20828/comment-analysis-from-latest-data-dump&quot;&gt;Stu Thompson&lt;/a&gt; among others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T19:02:46.860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T19:02:46.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21265" CreationDate="2009-09-30T01:58:56.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a better idea to auto-accept the &lt;em&gt;highest voted&lt;/em&gt; answer if the questioner hasn't accepted one in (for example) 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, if the questioner can't get off their enormous butt long enough to click on a big honkin' tick graphic, the community decides. That gets immediate answers for all those orphaned questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if they're &lt;em&gt;actively&lt;/em&gt; watching their questions and are not satisfied with the answers to date, give them a button that restarts the 30-day timer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, They can always go back and change it if they find a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T01:58:56.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T02:31:18.920" Score="6" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently you can look at a page and decide to vote (up or down) based on what you see. If that's been sitting on your screen for awhile it may have vastly changed. If the post (question or answer) you're trying to vote on has changed then it should bring back an error saying &quot;Post has changed, please refresh&quot; or simply refresh it automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally I've seen downvotes (with comments) given for errors in posts that I'd corrected 15 minutes earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting involves a server call so this would not be adding any server roundtrips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T12:10:48.310" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:19:59.340" Title="Stop votes being applied to posts that aren't the most recent version" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23944" CreationDate="2009-09-30T02:46:17.473" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, I like the idea of being notified if what i'm voting on doesn't match what's actually there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the voting UI has become &lt;em&gt;all too annoying&lt;/em&gt; lately, with the complex rules surrounding when votes can be reverted or reversed leading to frequent run-ins with the dreaded &quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot; error. Indeed, it is &lt;strong&gt;single handedly turning my love of jQuery-faded &lt;code&gt;div&lt;/code&gt;s into a &lt;em&gt;deep and abiding&lt;/em&gt; hatred&lt;/strong&gt; for all things boxy and fade...y. I really don't care to see any more &lt;em&gt;errors&lt;/em&gt; when i'm just trying to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updating it automatically though... yeah, now &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; I could handle. If code is to be added to detect this scenario server-side, i'd much prefer that it send back &lt;strong&gt;the actual updated post&lt;/strong&gt;. The client script can then display it, and i can immediately revert my vote if need be. It could even use that little fading highlight effect normally reserved for pointing out an author's own just-posted answer; i still kinda like that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T02:46:17.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T02:51:18.667" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to  visually filter my questions using that legend one for those  I haven't pick a correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad not to see it on CW's though.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Howcome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T03:43:44.887" Title="Why was the &quot;Have you considered accept an answer&quot; legend removed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23944" CreationDate="2009-09-30T02:54:25.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or possibly implement a version of the &quot;new posts have been added while you're answering&quot; script to do something like &quot;n posts have been added or changed since you loaded the page.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T02:54:25.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23946" CreationDate="2009-09-30T03:43:44.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one time, they reduced it to not show unless the question had been opened a certain number of days, and after 60 days they would stop showing it.  Not sure if your questions fall into that or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T03:43:44.887" />
  <row Id="23951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-09-30T04:13:22.090" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1976/30092009577.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131804" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T04:13:22.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:07:05.123" Score="-2" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm browsing around the trilogy, my policy is to only upvote questions/answers that I feel are underrated, and I only downvote answers that I feel are overrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance if I see a humorous response to a question, and it has less than 2 or 3 upvotes, I'll most likely vote it up. If that exact same answer had 20 upvotes, I probably wouldn't. If it had 200 votes, I'd most likely vote it down. This goes for any answers, not just humorous ones. I assign everything I read a value I feel it should have. I then vote either up or down to help move the rating to where I feel it needs to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My policy is as follows: Any answer that makes &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; effort to be helpful, deserves at least 1 upvote. Even if the answer is wrong (unless its blatantly wrong). If it's a few paragraphs and kinda goes above and beyond, it deserves 5 or 6 upvotes. If it really goes the extra mile to be completely thorough, and it seems the author did special research for the answer, that deserves more than 10. If an answer is really long and really thorough, but it doesn't answer the question in any way (I've seen this a lot), it deserves one upvote at the most. I hate it when people do that. Blatant rep mining. Unless they post an apology or something explaining how they mis-interpreted the question, I'll most likely vote it down (unless I asked the question, in which I never downvote unless they're spamming or something)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to questions, anything thats not &quot;send me the codez&quot; or so &quot;localized&quot; to the asker's specefic problem, should at least be 1, maybe 2 at the most. If the question brings up a really interesting &quot;corner case&quot;, and it seems the OP did a lot of research beforehand, it should be a 5 or 6. Only the really thought provoking question should be a 10 or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that most people here don't do it that way. They vote on questions and answers based solely on their own &quot;vacuumed&quot; opinion. If they like the post, they'll vote it up, regardless of how many people have already done so. Because of this, I've noticed questions that cover broad topics, (which have the most views), seem to get answers with the most upvotes, regardless of the quality of answers therein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this be how it should be? Or should we encourage people to vote with a system such as mine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets say you come across an answer that was a one liner, was only marginally helpful, and had 30 upvotes. Does this person deserve 300 rep points for this answer? Is that fair that that person gets such a bump, while most other people post much better answers all the time without even getting 2 or 3 upvotes? In this case is it &quot;ethical&quot; to downvote the overrated answer? I guess judging by the reception of this thread, it is seen an unethical. But why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130292" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T07:50:38.323" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T09:48:59.587" Title="Should we be voting based on absolute merit, or personal relative merit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23964" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:12:25.580" Score="34" ViewCount="1901" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whoa! Very cool. A welcome and smart way to bring users and company together in a way that benefits everyone involved - &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the kind of advertising we need more of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i33.tinypic.com/2vcw9ll.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that'll be open to any company who owns the product(s) behind an SO topic? Or only ones with Adobe's weight/checkbook?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T14:25:32.187" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T15:07:04.270" Title="Adobe-sponsored tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;&lt;sponsorship&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="23956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23954" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:16:22.517" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing out with this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems to me that most people here don't do it that way. They vote on questions and answers based solely on their own &quot;vacuumed&quot; opinion. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But reading back you write:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My policy is as follows: [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't see how you following your own policy isn't just like what everyone else is doing inside of their &quot;vacuum.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to go about handing pity votes, or upvoting wrong answers, that's your call. If you want to downvote to level out an answer that's getting too big for its britches, fine. If you want to upvote a well written answer or one that is correct, totally on your click of the mouse again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're your votes to give out as you wish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T05:16:22.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23962" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:30:22.130" Score="32" ViewCount="831" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.tinypic.com/wbdgsg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tags&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's with this Adobe logo? I don't use Adobe Flex, I use Flex, the fast lexer, and I've had to add a million tags to my ignored list to try (unsuccessfully) to filter out the questions about this Adobe Flex business to get to the (few) questions about Lex and Yacc. And now this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose this is some kind of promotion sponsored by Adobe. How long will it last? When can I go back to trying to forget that a company I don't like has a product with the same name as a common tool that helps write compilers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T15:31:09.740" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T07:00:36.790" Title="What's this about labelled tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:34:04.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hear you. If you feel strongly about this, I recommend using [fast-lexer] as the tag instead of [flex].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T05:34:04.887" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="23961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:34:19.783" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logo in the tag background is a nice method, not unlike the woot! badge. That is indeed a cool way to bring the tag-based advertising on board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could open it up to all sorts of tag sponsorship...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/Hf4Wc.png&quot; alt=&quot;rrrrrrrrrrrrr&quot; title=&quot;mateys!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cue those who will decry any and all advertising on the internet as demon's blood soaking the denim of acid-wash jeans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least the questions disappear if you've got them on your ignored and hidden list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T10:50:12.370" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T10:50:12.370" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:49:27.323" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that you retag to &lt;kbd&gt;gnu-flex&lt;/kbd&gt;.  I went through and cleaned this all up a couple of months ago (there was only about 50 questions, total, about gnu-flex).  This seems to be the more standard way of referring to this application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Here is the list of searches I use when editing tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] bison&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] lex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] lexical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] pars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] parse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] parsing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] yy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] [bison]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T05:55:56.827" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T05:55:56.827" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="23963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:50:17.977" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate it, as it draws my attention away from more important things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please give me a preference to make it go away. And fix ignore, it seems to be broken w.r.t. these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: After thinking about if for a while, it might be clever to attach the logo only to &quot;interesting&quot; tags. I think I'd actually like it if it helps me find the things I'm interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: No, scrap that. Please keep content and advertisements separated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49246" LastEditorUserId="49246" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T17:14:38.103" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T17:14:38.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-30T05:50:17.977" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="23964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T05:51:05.650" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for the positive feedback. Mutually beneficial was our goal in developing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this something that'll be open to any company who owns the product(s) behind an SO topic? Or only ones with Adobe's weight/checkbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag sponsorship is available to all sponsors (big or small)... and it really comes down to how dominant of a sponsor they are on the tag. Getting 100% of the ads for a particular tag will most certainly get you the tag sponsorship... but 1%, not so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T05:51:05.650" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23973" CreationDate="2009-09-30T06:09:32.200" Score="11" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Adobe tags (which I'm totally not interested in) now are screaming for attention with colorful icons, I tried to add them to my ignored tags. They are added to the ignored list, but the questions containing them are not actually displayed with the changed style. (Example: &quot;actionscript&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directly after adding a tag it seems to work, but after a reload questions with the tag stop being marked as ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T15:30:05.170" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T11:41:12.533" Title="Ignoring sponsored tags doesn't work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-09-30T06:13:59.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more flex's problem than anyone elses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they most certainly had the name first, Adobe took it over basically owns it now. The project is still on the first page of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=flex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google:flex&lt;/a&gt;, but it ain't at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long term, and to distinguish itself from Adobe's product, it would probably make sense to rename the project. Heck, I didn't even know about flex before now (though I am familiar with Yacc and Lex), and just assumed it was always an Adobe thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about... freelex? That has a ring to it.  Or freelexr. That's web 2.0-y I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T06:13:59.010" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="23967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23965" CreationDate="2009-09-30T06:20:52.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's part of the ad terms/contract to have the tag not hidden even if it's listed on a user's ignore list, it's branding and advertising to an uninterested crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is missing the point of the ignore/hidden tags. If they have no interest in seeing the tags, why would they now want to see the tag with sponsorship? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forces it down the throat of the wrong market. The targeting has failed in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T06:20:52.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23954" CreationDate="2009-09-30T06:38:12.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you want to vote something up, go ahead and vote it up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you want to vote down, go ahead and vote down, but don't forget a comment that tells the person being downvoted why you did it. People want feedback, especially for their answers. Don't be surprised though, when people get angry after you downvoted them and stated that you did this because they had too many upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not whether you are wrong when you vote. The question is whether the answer you vote on is wrong or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When 30 people (I took this number from your edited question) think that something deserves an upvote, who are you to decide that this is unfair or even unethical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want more upvotes, post more and better answers or shift your expertise to more popular tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="130804" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T08:18:48.537" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:18:48.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="23969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23965" CreationDate="2009-09-30T07:29:37.693" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit: workaround, &lt;strong&gt;use wildcards&lt;/strong&gt;. Remember that the extra space at the start is blocking the match, so enter &lt;code&gt;*flash&lt;/code&gt; to block flash, &lt;code&gt;*actionscript-3&lt;/code&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T08:25:12.113" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:25:12.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23928" CreationDate="2009-09-30T07:31:02.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you give an actual set of steps to reproduce the crash?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T07:31:02.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23972" CreationDate="2009-09-30T07:31:06.473" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;To reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the questions-page: enter &quot;C#&quot; in the interesting tags field and press &quot;Add&quot;.&#xA;C# now appears as a button just above the field. Press the button and you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c#&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c#&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;After you refresh the page, the button properly takes you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seen on Firefox 3.5.3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154495" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T13:05:37.960" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:05:37.960" Title="Problem when adding C# as interesting tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="23972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23971" CreationDate="2009-09-30T07:37:28.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;duplicate; wont-fix as this is only a minor client-side issue on the initial add, and works fine on every subsequent page load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T07:37:28.927" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="23973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23965" CreationDate="2009-09-30T08:18:13.907" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed and will be rolled out in tomorrow's push.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new image added a space when jQuery's &lt;code&gt;.text()&lt;/code&gt; was called, so I wrapped that call in a &lt;code&gt;$.trim&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &amp;lt;3 jQuery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:18:13.907" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="23974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23965" CreationDate="2009-09-30T08:19:27.740" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the bug is in the getTagsSelector() function, when the text is obtained for tags with embedded images there is a leading space, resulting in a class of &lt;code&gt;&quot;.t- flex&quot;&lt;/code&gt; (rather than &lt;code&gt;&quot;.t-flex&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, I threw together a GreaseMonkey script to test removing the space and it seems to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. replace:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(d){&#xA;    b+=&quot;div.tags:regex(class, t-&quot;+a.replace(/\*/g,&quot;.*&quot;)+&quot;),&quot;&#xA;} else{&#xA;    b+=&quot;div.t-&quot;+a+&quot;,&quot;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(d){&#xA;    b+=&quot;div.tags:regex(class, t-&quot;+a.replace(/\*/g,&quot;.*&quot;)+&quot;),&quot;&#xA;} else{&#xA;    b+=&quot;div.t-&quot;+a.substring(1)+&quot;,&quot;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is probably a neater way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:19:27.740" />
  <row Id="23975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23954" CreationDate="2009-09-30T08:33:08.310" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is basically the advice the site gives for voting an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote up if&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote down if&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is not helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fair to consider that as pretty authoritative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you downvote a popular answer (which you agree &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; helpful) just because you feel it has &lt;em&gt;too many&lt;/em&gt; upvotes, naturally that will strike people as strange, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23954/should-we-be-voting-based-on-absolute-merit-or-personal-relative-merit/23968#23968&quot;&gt;as Manni pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, and it is also clearly against what the site designers had in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, go ahead with your policy if you must. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23675/should-i-upvote-an-answer-when-i-think-there-may-yet-be-better-answers/23676#23676&quot;&gt;As jjnguy said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should use votes how you like.&#xA;  They are yours to cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:33:08.310" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23954" CreationDate="2009-09-30T08:59:46.793" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be voting based on the &lt;strong&gt;content of the post&lt;/strong&gt;, not who made it, how many votes it has or anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T08:59:46.793" />
  <row Id="23977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23978" CreationDate="2009-09-30T09:41:44.187" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently answered a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1476550/c-any-standard-way-to-divide-a-class-into-regions/1476560#1476560&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that has been &lt;strong&gt;upvoted 25 times&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A long time ago I got a silver good answer badge for an answer that must have been migrated, deleted or archived with question.  I've double checked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30913/dove&quot;&gt;my account&lt;/a&gt; history and I can see nice answer badge awarded this month but no good answer was.  I've had this silver badge for quite a while, the guts of a year I'd say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Curious to know what may have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt;) My new good answer is taking place of archived one and so I don't warrant a second one, understandable behaviour if designed so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;b&lt;/strong&gt;) Awarding of new badges is batched irregularly and it will be awarded in due course&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;) This is an edge case bug and I should receive second silver good answer badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132507" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T10:44:12.590" Title="Can an unearned 'good answer' badge that is block an earned one?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23977" CreationDate="2009-09-30T09:47:46.233" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge process kicks in regularly and every time it reports the number of badges of each type every user should &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; have. If the count is larger than the count of badges you already have, you'll get a new badge. Otherwise, nothing will be awarded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T09:47:46.233" />
  <row Id="23979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23954" CreationDate="2009-09-30T09:48:59.587" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of replying to each comment, I'll just make this an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how I see it: The number of upvotes next to the post is like the community determined score. If a post is really good, the score should be really high. If the post is really bad, the score should be really bad. The &lt;em&gt;effect&lt;/em&gt; of voting is that score being changed, so the &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt; of the voter should reflect that. VI think of a 0 rating as a C. A score of 1 is a B. Anything higher than a 2 is an A. -1 is a D and anything lower than -2 is an F. Whenever I see a -2 or lower score, I expect to see a F grade post. Whenever I see a post with a score of 15, it better be a really really good post. If the system worked like this, it'd be a better system, imo. Alog those same lines, downvoting a post from +10 to +9 is not the same thing as downvoting a post from 0 to -1. The overall effect is much greater by making a 0-post negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at sites like imdb where they have a granular rating system (5-star, 4-star, 1-star, etc), you'll see that the most common votes casts in their system is a ten and a one. Thats not because movies have a tendency to either suck hard or be utter masterpieces, it's because people vote with the intent of making the movie rating higher or making it lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that as it is written right now, the definition of voting around here is to just simply vote up whatever you think is good, and not to downvote unless you think the answer is bad or wrong. This makes for a very lopsided system that results in rep-inflation. People love to get rep, but is it whats best for the community? I imagine 5 years from now, everyone using the site today will have 10K+ reps. Thats going to make it hard for the newbies to catch up to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130292" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T09:48:59.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23977" CreationDate="2009-09-30T09:49:19.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;a)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badge totals aren't recalculated, so if you lose one (question migration, question deletion, down-votes etc.) your total doesn't go down. Then the next one you win brings the total back to what it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T10:44:12.590" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T10:44:12.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23982" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T10:14:43.080" Score="14" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see all sponsored tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the ones &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex&quot;&gt;sponsored&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash&quot;&gt;by&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/actionscript-3&quot;&gt;adobe&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short of scanning all the tags page, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I find this way of advertising pretty much aesthetic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T11:25:09.813" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:23:32.803" Title="All &quot;sponsored tags&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="23983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23982" CreationDate="2009-09-30T10:38:42.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a new Super Ninja search option: &lt;code&gt;sponsored:1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T10:38:42.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23982" CreationDate="2009-09-30T11:11:33.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A list of them would suffice, IMHO. I don't see any need at all to have some sort of search method to only bring back sponsored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T11:11:33.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23992" CreationDate="2009-09-30T12:57:59.237" Score="7" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23959/whats-this-about-labelled-tags&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s this about labelled tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, WTF guys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/xGNP8.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130337" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:33:22.643" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:33:22.643" ClosedDate="2009-09-30T13:05:10.893" Title="How Much is Adobe Paying For The Tag Icon Image?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="23992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23991" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:01:40.557" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much do I have to pay to get a &lt;strong&gt;vampire&lt;/strong&gt; icon on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=vampire&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot;&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;vampire&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag on meta? Can I trade in some of my large, arbitrary number to make that happen? What's the point of large, arbitrary numbers if I can't cash them in for cheap prizes at the front desk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:01:40.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="23994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23991" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:02:59.993" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it, and hope they eventually expand it to use more icons, advertised or not.  Why? Because it makes it &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; obvious to new users that they've chosen a known good tag.  Don't see the little icon next to your main tag?  You've probably done something wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm... I'm gonna promote this to a feature request:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24001/show-an-icon-for-all-common-tags&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24001/show-an-icon-for-all-common-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T16:12:46.683" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:12:46.683" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="23995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23991" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:04:10.990" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the &quot;Seriously, WTF guys?&quot;  Adobe pays them, they get their logo on tags that are associated with their products.  The site is supported, tags get a nice visual indicator, the site owners are paid for their efforts...I'm not seeing the issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:04:10.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="23996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23999" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:14:53.857" Score="6" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wonder if I read questions and nobody ever focused on one special point - I constantly think if it is worth the time to answer them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They usually do not get any upvotes no matter how good the answer is and so remain in the mostly unread lower part of the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should we consider consider a question as a knowledgebase for a topic or just a way to answer one single person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134874" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T17:12:19.217" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T13:54:32.107" Title="Does it make sense to answer to old questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="23997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23982" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:17:50.247" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but it really should. I really like this kind of sponsoring. Branding without disturbing. Companies that understands that should be honored with some kind of listing or search-option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One easy solution is to add an extra tab (or link) under 'Tag'-page. The listing could be a really simple one, only the sponsors and their tags. I think that would be a great way to show us who the sponsors are and in a way thank them for supporting the community, Jeff and everyone else that benefits from their money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133235" LastEditorUserId="133235" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T13:32:24.277" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:32:24.277" />
  <row Id="23998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23996" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:17:59.200" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always try to answer questions, even if they are old. Maybe the OP still needs his question answered. I might not get any upvotes, but that's not all that important; the answer will still be there and someone will find it useful eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:17:59.200" />
  <row Id="23999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23996" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:18:33.817" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering old questions has many pros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It will get bumped to the frontpage. Getting more views and your answer possibly getting upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You answer the question for anyone who comes later with the exact same question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You show others the question, who might answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You might get a badge for answering an old question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The user (if still active) will get a notification of new answers to his question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T13:46:12.193" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:46:12.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23996" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:30:59.833" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've answered plenty of old questions. It notifies the original poster, who will occasionally vote it up. A number have changed their chosen answer to my new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In maybe 90% of cases though, it does nothing. Almost no-one else reads it. The OP doesn't notice it, there are no votes up, it doesn't get chosen, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I answer them much more rarely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:30:59.833" />
  <row Id="24001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:40:24.573" Score="12" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new adobe advertising has given me a (hopefully good) idea.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a default icon that is shown for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; tags used in more than a certain number of questions (maybe 500? 250? Different icons at different ranks?).   The idea is that it will make it easier for new users to know when they've made good tag choices.  It shouldn't interfere with future tag promotions, because you still just show a different icon for sponsored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could even steal something back from one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askdev.ru/tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:23:02.870" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:23:02.870" Title="Show an icon for all &quot;common&quot; tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24005" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:41:43.323" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to the ad block that is shown when you use a sponsored tag in search, or clicking on it from the Tags page, is this visible for everyone or is it hidden for users with rep &gt; X?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T15:27:49.590" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:27:49.590" Title="Is the &quot;Sponsored links for this tag&quot; ad block visible for everyone?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;&lt;visibility&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24001" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:45:54.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would work as a possible solution for the suggestion I had about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21209/tighten-up-tag-restrictions-and-add-warnings-for-new-and-low-usage-tags&quot;&gt;issuing warnings to users who use low-popularity tags&lt;/a&gt; to make sure they know what they're doing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like this idea, and having icons would make some tags easier to understand (if company logos are on them for proprietary stuff, and not on them for public stuff). But then would you want the same icon for every non-proprietary tag? If that's the case, we're going to be seeing an awful lot of the same icon. Maybe tags should have no, bronze, silver and gold icons depending on their relative popularity. That will make things less monochromatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something that describes the icons should say that tags with a gold or silver icon are more likely to be seen, so try to make sure at least one gold or silver tag is on the question. It's not necessary, just helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:45:54.550" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="24005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24003" CreationDate="2009-09-30T13:48:52.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it should be visible even if you're up there at 10k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23955/adobe-sponsored-tags&quot; title=&quot;more and the same&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i33.tinypic.com/2vcw9ll.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;all your adobe tag belong to adobe&quot; title=&quot;where in the adobe?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20849/thanks-to-both-stackoverflow-and-telerik-for-the-awesome-promotion&quot; title=&quot;for those above 10k&quot;&gt;10k? What are you talking about?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T13:48:52.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24003" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:04:56.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's visible for 10k users as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:04:56.700" />
  <row Id="24009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24001" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:24:23.390" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are good at something, never do it for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you were going to do it anyway, you may as well charge for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Never tell your employer you'd do it for free anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say, add icons to non sponsorable tags (Free Software and Open Source). i.e.: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pascal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SQL (what would its icon be?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linux&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BSD&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be you could get a token payment for them from the backing organizations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T14:30:48.133" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:30:48.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:30:14.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't warrant a full question, but I thought I'd ask it where it's appropriate.  Are you guys tracking stats on the tags (more specifically sponsored-tags) added to &quot;Ignored Tags&quot; before/after the adobe campaign? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see what the community response is to the tags in an empirical way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:30:14.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24001" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:35:09.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I would want to suggest is that any icon for common non sponsored tags be relatively low-key just because if the vast majority of the tags end up having the same icon, it could definitely end up being a bit jarring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:35:09.687" />
  <row Id="24013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24001" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:38:57.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about each high-popularity tag getting a unique, auto-generated image for itself, kinda like the default gravatars on profiles without user-supplied pics? This would point out which tags are popular as well as discern high-popularity tags from one another. If an organization wanted their logo instead of the random image, then they could fork over some green to replace it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:38:57.293" />
  <row Id="24014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:40:55.700" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, when you get this sort of clash, and both names have reached some kind of threshold, it works on a first-come-first-served basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I recommend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[flex] - the lexer written in 1987&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[adobe-flex] - the programming language written by Adobe in 2004&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:40:55.700" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="24015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23982" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:43:23.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &quot;sponsor gallery&quot; is on the to-do list... I suppose we could list the tags that are sponsored under the copy. So like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Adobe Logo] - Flash and Flex provide .... (more copy)...&#xA;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;sponsored tags:&lt;/em&gt; [flash], [flex],...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we'll get to it in Oct some time....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:43:23.790" />
  <row Id="24016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23935" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:44:31.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;.. and, as it turns out, currently you can get no more than 20 tags concatenated this way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135025" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:44:31.153" />
  <row Id="24017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24018" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:47:12.630" Score="14" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash&lt;/a&gt; you will see an adobe logo fest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The tags list could end up looking like a walk through Tokyo. – random 13 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we have an option to disable just the icons in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tag list&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash&quot;&gt;question tagged&lt;/a&gt; pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Sponsored links for this tag&lt;/em&gt; would still be present, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow to keep the noise down on the places were the most repetition would take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time to be proactive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Remove Icons From Tags&#xA;// @namespace      remove_icons_from_tags&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    //Function for finding the window's jQuery variable.&#xA;    //http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12448/greasemonkey-users-here-is-your-vote-reputation-info-plug-in-for-stackoverflow/12454#12454&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;    	var daWindow;&#xA;        if (window.opera) {&#xA;    		daWindow=window;&#xA;    	} else {&#xA;    		daWindow = unsafeWindow;&#xA;    	}&#xA;        if(typeof daWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') {&#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else {&#xA;            jQuery_init(daWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;&#xA;    function jQuery_init($){&#xA;    	$(function(){&#xA;    		$('.post-tag').children().remove();&#xA;    		alert(&quot;hello&quot;);&#xA;    	});&#xA;    };&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Corrected script&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T20:04:23.937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:19:07.570" Title="User option to disable sponsored tags in the tag list" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24017" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:49:53.777" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this really a good way to spend valuable and limited development resources?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we want to have a 100 different options for every little tweak a small handful of users might want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're a programmer. You probably use firefox. Go install Greasemonkey and disable them yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;UPDATE:** Okay, so that came across as much more harsh than it should have. Sorry about that. It must have been a bad free-sample day at the grocery store or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:12:51.533" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:12:51.533" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:53:07.970" Score="16" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this falls under &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23965/ignoring-sponsored-tags-doesnt-work&quot;&gt;sponsored tag bug&lt;/a&gt; fix, but I've placed the the adobe tags in my ignored list and still receive the logo on the sponsored tag.  If the tag is in my ignored list, I'd prefer to not see the icon as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can just imagine stackoverflow down the road....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/QBwW0.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture with some icons in the ignored tag section... or something like that&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; - As a work around, the icons can be ignored via &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23965/ignoring-sponsored-tags-doesnt-work/23969#23969&quot;&gt;wild carding the ignored tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T15:25:58.847" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:40:02.610" Title="Remove sponsored tag logo from Ignored Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24019" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:57:43.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;yes, and I still see questions with the flash tag even though flash is in my ignore-list and I don't show ignored questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this sponsored tag thing extremely annoying, I don't want my user experience trashed with all kinds of unmatching colors and shapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:57:43.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24019" CreationDate="2009-09-30T14:58:51.063" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure this would really be helpful to StackOverflow. After all, they are being paid to advertise their sponsor and even if you want to ignore the tags, I don't think it's fair to allow you to ignore the advertising too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't eat a free lunch and then complain that someone wants to try to sell you something while you eat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T14:58:51.063" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="24022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24019" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:07:38.130" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with Jeff Yates. Showing an Adobe logo to someone who has specifically ignored Adobe tags is not effective advertising. In fact, it only serves to foster resentment - making it less likely that the user will take interest in the sponor's product in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the logo-free tag should appear in the ignore list. However, I don't expect this would be a high priority for the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:07:38.130" />
  <row Id="24023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24019" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:09:56.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything wrong with that picture.  It helps me visually group related tags together.  And I think lots of icons is actually &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; visually jarring than just a few.  Otherwise, the few look really out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think this makes sense.  If you're ignoring a tag, you probably don't need to see a logo right there.  The only reason not to do it is that it probably means added extra code clutter for the special case.  As mere &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; of the site that's not really our problem (though I do understand that it might be a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; while before the time has time to make that change).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the thought that &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; this becomes common, omitting the icons from the ignored tags actually &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; like a bug at first glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T15:40:02.610" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:40:02.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24017" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:10:58.030" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like an option to disable all advertising everywhere. I'll also like to pay less for everything, and have more products and services be free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone's got to pay the bills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:10:58.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24017" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:13:09.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.  I think if this becomes more common the icons will be less visually jarring, and will actually help you group related tags together visually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:13:09.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23944" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:19:59.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we had more facebook-style ajax updating we wouldn't have this problem. New answers or edits could appear as if by magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:19:59.340" />
  <row Id="24027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24019" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:21:48.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greasemonkey FTW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Tag img remover&#xA;// @namespace      remove_img_from_tags&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com//*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;$('#ignoredTags .post-tag').children().remove()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:21:48.137" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24052" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:23:23.873" Score="3" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious. Is StackOverflow built with Domain-Driven Design (or TDD, BDD, etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you guys say something more about code infrastructure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136598" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T15:43:22.607" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T08:12:08.470" Title="Is StackOverflow built with Domain-Driven Design?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24001" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:26:35.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about some &quot;categorical&quot; icons. I'll admit when I stumbled in this morning and saw the initial questions about the Adobe icon, I was slightly amiss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then it dawned on me that we do deal with visual a lot and having icons could be a good thing. Sure MS-SQL, Oracle, MySQL, and SQLite probably won't pay money, but what if there was a general database icon (that little cylinder thingie) with those tags to help identify database technologies. It might help some of the newer folks in the programming world say &quot;Oh wow! SQLite is a database?!&quot; and move from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize we can get into tag icon wars over all of this, but I think the prospect of having some general icons for certain things could be a big benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also help with some of the &quot;broad base&quot; type tags, such as best practice, algorithm, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 10 bits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:26:35.117" />
  <row Id="24030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:32:32.093" Score="4" ViewCount="421" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see many &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1490949/how-to-write-loop-in-makefile&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; on Stackoverflow with strange tag pickups.  They have [makefile] tag but they don't have such tags as [make], [qmake], [gnumake] etc.  It happens that there are about 200 of such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I came across these questions, I retagged them, adding proper [make] and/or [qmake] tag.  But such questions keep appearing, so I'm in doubt whether tagging with [makefile] only is indeed incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should questions, that regard &lt;em&gt;writing makefiles&lt;/em&gt;, be tagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastEditorUserId="136055" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T09:58:26.057" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T00:21:32.577" Title="Why do they specify &quot;makefile&quot; tag instead of &quot;make&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tutorials&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="24031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24028" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:40:51.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/4492867529&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Looks like TDD is unlikely&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:40:51.270" />
  <row Id="24032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:42:01.250" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qj5RW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; It's clever-ish, and no doubt very effective, but it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; kind of visually jarring. It also gives Stack Overflow a distinctive Adobe feel, as if they're &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; than &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; a tag sponsor. What I mean is that I went to the main page this morning, and there were several instances of Adobe-sponsored tags on the first page that stood out from all the other, non-sponsored tags. Clicking one (I mean, what else can you do?) you &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to click the Adobe tags) took me to a page with even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; Adobe paraphernalia. Now, don't get me wrong, I use and like Adobe products, but if this continues I can see three possible results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow will look like it's run by Adobe (as it does today) or MS or whoever buys the tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when a new user goes to Stack Overflow, it's possible a subconscious question develops around &quot;Can I ask &lt;em&gt;non-Adobe&lt;/em&gt; questions here?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or, with more sponsorships, it ends up looking like a NASCAR product.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Capitalism is great and Stack Overflow is great and all that. Ooo-rah. I'm just suggesting that care be taken. Today, Stack Overflow looks like Adobe is slightly more than just a sponsor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(EDIT: The tag sponsorship concept is interesting, and I love the blatant business angle. It has a kernel of genius. My only beef is the  unintended &quot;Made by Adobe&quot; feel StackO verflow just took on, and where this is going. So, &lt;strong&gt;do it&lt;/strong&gt;, just think harder about &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; you do it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(EDIT: Seriously, no problem &lt;em&gt;whatsoever&lt;/em&gt; making a living or selling tag sponsorships or ads or whatever. I'm just saying be careful about the vibe that's given off. When it looked like an Adobe site this morning, I did a double-take, and the thought briefly crossed my mind that maybe they were running something now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4126" LastEditorUserId="4126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T15:07:04.270" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T15:07:04.270" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24035" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:47:24.110" Score="3" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I have 200 rep, shouldn't I not see the 'Sponsored Tag' Header Ad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind the sponsored tags, but I hate losing screen space to the Header Ad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please exclude those users from seeing the 'Sponsored Tag' Header Ads, who were excluded from Header Ads before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  Alex has pointed out that it only shows on the Tags page, which doesn't really bother me.  I'll leave this question up for those who care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T22:26:56.213" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T22:26:56.213" Title="Bring Back the 200 rep level to not see Sponsored Header Ads" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;&lt;rep-ability&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="24034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24033" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:53:51.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first I didn't think this was so bad, but I'm imagining what it would look like if Microsoft sponsored all the .NET related tags. Ouch! Every time you looked at .NET or c# you'd lose all that space to links you've seen a thousand times already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agreed - drop it for 200+ rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:53:51.447" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24033" CreationDate="2009-09-30T15:55:26.060" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't consider the header to be an advertisment in the traditional sense. It's a collection of links to resources that are relavent to the tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only shown on the tag home page... where one would expect to find such links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T15:55:26.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24058" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:00:02.933" Score="-7" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been stated by Jeff that flags for obscenity have a small time limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that 5 or 6 (?) people have to flag a post within a few days for it to be deleted for obscenity.  Unfortunately, this means that older posts will stick around with flagging them being pretty much useless, since they don't get the traffic to generate the requisite number of flags before the flags expire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason to put a time limit on obscenity flags, so that eventually enough users will visit the post, that it will get taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I have editing powers, I try to edit the obscenities out, but that just starts edit wars with those who get a thrill out of verbal pornography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T16:29:13.130" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T17:42:27.897" Title="Remove time expiration for obscene flags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24036" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:05:44.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is that bad, just flag the post for moderator attention along with your offensive flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T16:35:50.013" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:35:50.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24036" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:06:53.733" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am of the opposite opinion.  If it's truly offensive, it'll get all the votes it needs within a few minutes.  Same for spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, AFAIK, the time limit is reset after every edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:06:53.733" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24036" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:09:06.880" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave expirations in. An &lt;strong&gt;offensivity rate&lt;/strong&gt; (making new words is offensive!) is what is measured by the offensive flags. See, if you didn't have a &lt;em&gt;rate&lt;/em&gt;, you'll end up having six &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;hard-core whiners&lt;/a&gt; coming and marking the post offensive, each a month apart. However, the vast majority of people don't find it offensive, so I would definitely say that those six whiners don't deserve to have their way over something the majority is OK with when they're only a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something is truly offensive, a lot of people will find it offensive and so its &lt;strong&gt;offensivity rate&lt;/strong&gt; will skyrocket and it will be deleted quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, offensive things are subjective. From my point of view, calling people names and using &lt;strong&gt;bad words&lt;/strong&gt; isn't offensive in the least (in contrast to the opinions of the aforementioned whiners). However, if you try to parse XML with regular expressions then I'm going to mark you offensive, tell a moderator and call my mom for her to console me for the next half hour while I calm down. But not many people are offended by bad XML parsing, so those questions don't get deleted, because the &lt;strong&gt;offensivity rate&lt;/strong&gt; for that post is low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So rate is good, because it means that only things that are offensive to a lot of people (read: objectively offensive) are actually deleted, and things that just piss off whiners are fine. Because they are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop whining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:09:06.880" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="24041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:20:56.437" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23899/proposal-free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/24041#23932&quot;&gt;Alex's counter-proposal&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We're demanding too much if we expect project leads to fill out an application. The project leaders should focus on the software, which is presumably why they are project leaders. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open-source projects thrive because of the advocacy of their &lt;strong&gt;users&lt;/strong&gt;, not their &lt;strong&gt;authors&lt;/strong&gt;. If I'm particularly passionate about some OSS project, but I'm not an author, I should be allowed to submit it for consideration.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The OSS ads should strive to be as free as possible from moderator attention. Alex should focus on paid ads, so that StackOverflow can continue to thrive, grow, and be free. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, here is a &lt;strong&gt;counter-counter-proposal&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone from the StackOverflow team creates an official [oss-ads] question called &quot;Please design a 220x250 pixel ad for your favorite open source software.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone with Photoshop, Gimp, Paint.NET or Ye Olde Paint Shoppe Pro can try their hand at designing an ad for their favorite project. (Freehand circles are encouraged but not required.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Submit your advertisement as a new answer to the question. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone votes and comments on each ad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once an ad receives a certain number of upvotes, it automatically goes into rotation on the site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This solution would &lt;strong&gt;scale&lt;/strong&gt; (no attention required from Alex or the StackOverflow team) while allowing for &lt;strong&gt;full artistic expression&lt;/strong&gt; in the ads themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastEditorUserId="131499" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T15:37:13.787" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:37:13.787" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-30T16:20:56.437" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:22:21.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of promoting Open Source projects, particularly those that aren't already that well known.  I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23899/proposal-free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/23932#23932&quot;&gt;Alex&lt;/a&gt; though, that it's probably best that it's not fully automated.  Make the people who want to promote their project do some work to make for better ads.  Get them to fill in a form, write an &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;-word description and/or provide an ad image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:22:21.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-30T16:22:21.957" />
  <row Id="24043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:25:14.587" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Advertising in-tags is not cool. It reminds me of the scripted a hrefs where, when you mouseover, you get some kind of ad popup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recognize that StackExchange Group has to make money. This is not a good way to go about it, and this trend makes my experience significantly less enjoyable. Remember, in &lt;strong&gt;6-8 weeks&lt;/strong&gt;, someone can build a SO clone and suck the SO datadump into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increase the advertisement levels, and eventually the concept of switching is going to be a reasonable choice to get away from ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I think ads are a lousy model...sell product, not ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:25:14.587" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="24044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:28:04.973" Score="-1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I answer a question, and click post, SO can save my question into database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that after that, the SO is supposed to load back the question, with my new answers. But from what I can see the SO just hang there, unable to fetch the response from the web server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone experiences this as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Google Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: I don't think this is a connection issue; I tried to access SO from both home and office, and the same behavior can be observed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T02:48:57.017" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T02:48:57.017" Title="Page Not Coming Out when I Answer a Question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;slow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24044" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:31:01.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is likely just a problem with your connection, everything works as expected for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:31:01.440" />
  <row Id="24046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:31:16.917" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't work with Windows - Imagine a Microsoft designed tag icon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.invisiblecompany.com/public%20images/msipodbox.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:31:16.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:33:02.373" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand you guys like to keep it simple and minimalistic, but drop-downs are really needed for the user-account link, so I can hop over directly to my asked question, recent activity etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quick mockup: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fdropdown%5Fmockup.png&quot; alt=&quot;user tools dropdown&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136602" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T09:50:22.720" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T09:51:03.547" Title="Add a dropdown for different profile sections next to the username at the top of the page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24036" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:34:25.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10K users can see a list of all flagged posts, so older posts will get some immediate attention once flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time limit means you need sufficient flagging velocity to kill a post. Otherwise, 5 flags in 5 years would do the trick, which is subject to abuse and misuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:34:25.867" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24030" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:41:32.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall, back in the late neolithic when I was new to unix, that I didn't think of &lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt; as a language or a nameable entity, rather it was a verb, and the &lt;em&gt;thing&lt;/em&gt; was the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is probably what the tag-with-[makefile] thing is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that such questions should be tagged with the tool [&lt;code&gt;make&lt;/code&gt;|&lt;code&gt;cmake&lt;/code&gt;|&lt;code&gt;qmake&lt;/code&gt;...] rather than with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/makefile&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[makefile]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and have been making this change when I am editing such questions anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:41:32.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:47:31.867" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind the Adobe icon in my &quot;interested&quot; tags or within the context of a single question. However, it makes going through search results simply too difficult because there are so many of them on the screen and each one and every one of them is screaming for attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to suggest limiting the number of sponsor icons visible on a given page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:47:31.867" />
  <row Id="24051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24047" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:51:46.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Current method:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click account link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(optional) Click desired secondary destination.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New method:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click dropdown to open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click desired secondary destination.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this proposal better? It's either the same or more clicks to do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:51:46.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24028" CreationDate="2009-09-30T16:58:03.937" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is built with Stack-Driven Design (SDD), a &lt;strong&gt;new paradigm&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;revolutionary methodology&lt;/strong&gt; developed and promoted by &lt;strong&gt;The Stack Overflow Team&lt;/strong&gt; (Web 2.0 moniker: &lt;em&gt;73 Stacks&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Existing methodologies (including TDD, BDD, UDD, and WDD) tend to promote a myopic focus on one aspect of the development process, to the detriment of &lt;strong&gt;The Whole Stack&lt;/strong&gt;. Stack-Driven Design eschews such primitive notions, opting instead for a multi-focus, metaphor-packed, fun-loving strategy referred to by SDD aficionados as &lt;strong&gt;FPR Foci&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SDD practitioners believe firmly in the old saying, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Proof is in the Syrup&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Prior to SDD, software development success rates were notoriously difficult to evaluate accurately. SDD mandates a hard &lt;strong&gt;6 to 8 week&lt;/strong&gt; development schedule, with the success of any project determined solely by its status at the end of this time frame. Though acolytes of other, lesser methodologies (where projects might run for months or even years) are often suspicious of this tactic, the delicious syrup proves them wrong: &lt;strong&gt;all SDD projects complete successfully in 6 to 8 weeks&lt;/strong&gt;, no exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T16:58:03.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23996" CreationDate="2009-09-30T17:10:57.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is always good.  Do not forget one of the major purposes of these sites. It is meant to be an Internet resource of information. People will search and find these questions and want any good answers to their questions.  I have found myself finding old questions that were current questions of mine and read through all the answers, not really even paying attention to when they were posted.  Just because a question is not on any of the front pages does not mean it is forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try not to even think of up/down votes, just answer the question. That is what is important, not how popular it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T10:21:36.717" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T10:21:36.717" />
  <row Id="24054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-09-30T17:12:02.493" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't argue with selling advertising on the tags, though I am finding the Adobe logos visually intrusive. Maybe that will get better after I'm used to them or there are more tags with logos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I never complained--or even worried much--about [flex] being a dual use tag when it was just [flex], but when it became [LOGO flex], it unfairly and unreasonable excludes the product with priority. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grr---can't make the picture show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T19:13:02.580" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T19:13:02.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24033" CreationDate="2009-09-30T17:20:19.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm skeptical of anything that makes it harder for SO to generate revenue because I'm tight and I don't want to pay for the service. However, that said, the advertising practices on the site should reflect the desires of the users to some degree or there would be no audience for the advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making the advertising more annoying for new users feels wrong. If it is annoying for users at 200+, why is it not annoying for those below that level? That is to say, what makes the user not get annoyed and stay long enough to get 200 rep so that they no longer see the ad? Seems to me a more workable solution all round is required lest we replace one problem with another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the advertising can be expandable? Provide an overview in the collapsed view and then expand to show links and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T17:20:19.590" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23889" CreationDate="2009-09-30T17:30:51.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I use Stack Overflow my mouse finger often twitches to click on some vote button on other sites. Unfortunately they don't support voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49246" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T17:30:51.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-09-30T17:30:51.537" />
  <row Id="24057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T17:31:31.693" Score="7" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have sponsored tags, the system surely knows that those tags have the same sponsor, so can we have auto-generated sponsor tags? That way I can just follow everything sponsored by Adobe or Microsoft or whoever, including any new tags they sponsor that I didn't know existed yet but might be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T16:03:45.110" Title="Can we have sponsor tags auto-generated now?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24036" CreationDate="2009-09-30T17:42:27.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that flagging also escalates the post to 10k users for viewing (and potential voting) as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if it doesn't reach the threshold, it brings &lt;em&gt;attention&lt;/em&gt; to the post. Which is kind of the goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T17:42:27.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23996" CreationDate="2009-09-30T17:51:27.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So should we consider consider a question as a knowledgebase for a topic or just a way to answer one single person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely a knowledge base for a topic.  The question will live on in Google long after the original poster has gone on his way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T17:51:27.570" />
  <row Id="24063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23931" CreationDate="2009-09-30T18:39:18.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well you've got two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1). Do the childish thing and retaliate in kind. You'll lose more karma, self-respect and probably draw the ire of the mods anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2). Let it slide and put your faith in the autobot and the mods to repair the damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly one of those isn't a real option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fwiw I often find that when this happens some kindly passing souls will give me an upvote which of course more than compensates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T18:39:18.493" />
  <row Id="24064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T18:41:53.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dislike the sponsored the links at the top of those tag pages. I would pay to get rid of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T18:41:53.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-09-30T18:44:58.983" Score="26" ViewCount="1116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a user script (&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58913&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO sponsored tag advertisements&lt;/a&gt;) to remove the icons from sponsored tags. I found them obtrusive. Also removes the sponsored div block at the top of the tag pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This has been tested in Opera and Greasemonkey&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Before&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6753/sosponsor.png&quot; alt=&quot;before&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;After&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9493/sonosponsor.png&quot; alt=&quot;after&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130911" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T19:19:36.290" LastActivityDate="2010-05-18T23:00:51.693" Title="User script to remove SO sponsored tag advertisements" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="24066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-09-30T18:56:53.110" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dislike the sponsored tags because they still draw my attention to this colorful tags despite they are in my ignored tag list.. Successful advertisement, I agree, but annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T18:56:53.110" />
  <row Id="24067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-09-30T19:16:29.110" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is an issue for you, you can always opt to use a userscript (if your browser supports it) to remove the images. It bothered me, so I wrote one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130911" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T19:16:29.110" />
  <row Id="24068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24057" CreationDate="2009-09-30T19:36:51.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not so sure the system knows they have the same sponsor, in that the sponsor data may be denormalized.  That is, the data may be in there somewhere, but if it's embedded as part of other &quot;tag&quot; data, then it might not be immediately usable for querying as you suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;, though, the same mechanism could be used to support more generalized tag hierarchies, as suggested &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6514/tag-hierarchy-to-browse-through-tags&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  While the dev team have declined tag categorization in the past, now that they have done at least some of that work to support sponsored tags, perhaps the idea is more viable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T19:36:51.477" />
  <row Id="24069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24072" CreationDate="2009-09-30T19:43:17.110" Score="2" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500179/share-point-where-to-start&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; contains many questions but also all of those questions have been asked separately (or together) by other users. So it's essentially a multi-dupe question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do when only one question can be chosen as an &quot;exact duplicate&quot;? Is it better to write a multi-dupe answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T09:08:38.827" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T09:10:47.357" Title="Questions that ask many duplicates" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24069" CreationDate="2009-09-30T19:45:45.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would vote to close as an exact duplicate of whatever you feel is the &quot;best&quot; question that it is a duplicate of. I would also provide a comment or an answer (which personally I would make community wiki) that kindly points in the direction of the other relevant questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T19:45:45.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24069" CreationDate="2009-09-30T19:46:24.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, questions that have multiple questions in the question should probably have each question separated into its own question. That just makes it easier for everyone all around especially when it comes to answering and voting. How do you handle it if you answer part correct and part wrong, etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question has multiple duplicates, close it as a duplicate and then you (or whoever has proper privileges) can edit the post to contain the links that it dupes. Also, if it gets closed with multiple votes going to multiple questions, all of those questions will be posted at the top automatically as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T20:07:15.303" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T20:07:15.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24069" CreationDate="2009-09-30T19:46:51.317" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually you'd post a comment that outlines all of the different duplicates, and then vote to close based on the one that is most similar to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment isn't big enough to fit all of the duplicates, or if you want to describe each duplicate, a community wiki answer would be alright, too, as well as the vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the question is closed, if you think an important duplicate link has been left out, you might want to edit it back into the possible duplicates list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T19:46:51.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24065" CreationDate="2009-09-30T19:47:11.643" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a modified version that replaces all of the icons with the head of a My Little Pony:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name          SO sponsored tag advertisements.&#xA;// @description   Removes stupid sponsored tag advertisements.&#xA;// @include       http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include       http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// @include       http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include       http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    //Function for finding the window's jQuery variable.&#xA;    //http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12448/greasemonkey-users-here-is-your-vote-reputation-info-plug-in-for-stackoverflow/12454#12454&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;    	var daWindow;&#xA;        if (window.opera) {&#xA;    		daWindow=window;&#xA;    	} else {&#xA;    		daWindow = unsafeWindow;&#xA;    	}&#xA;        if(typeof daWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') {&#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else {&#xA;            jQuery_init(daWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;&#xA;    function jQuery_init($){&#xA;    	$(function(){&#xA;    		$(&quot;a.post-tag img&quot;).attr('src', 'http://bstorer.com/images/so/my-little-pony.gif');&#xA;    		$(&quot;div.welovestackoverflow&quot;).remove();&#xA;    	});&#xA;    };&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/pony%20demo.png&quot; alt=&quot;example&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-09-30T20:03:23.487" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T20:03:23.487" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2009-09-30T20:27:15.313" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created a native application for Stack Overflow for anyone who is interested. Try the &lt;a href=&quot;http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=330493203&amp;amp;mt=8&amp;amp;s=143441&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iTunes link&lt;/a&gt; or if you want to know more about how I created it you can check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ioncannon.net/projects/geeqe/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;project page&lt;/a&gt;. It is limited because I'm using the CC data dump but it is a starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T20:27:15.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24065" CreationDate="2009-09-30T20:40:12.623" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same as Pesto's script, but future-proof: if Pesto wins the Lottery and is out of here, the following change will allow the script to continue to function long after his server goes down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;function jQuery_init($){&#xA;    $(function(){&#xA;            $(&quot;a.post-tag img&quot;).attr('src', 'data:image/gif,GIF89a%12%00%10%00%A5%3F%00%9C%5B%9E%CAJ%23%B3%CE%E8%E6%A5%D0%11%09%24cn%9C%FA%CAL%9A%7C%A7r%89%A8%F6%DD%A8%D5%DB%E5%DD%E2%EA%E4%E5%E8%D5%A6%16%D4o%AC%F8%C52%F9%FE%FD%FF%A4%8C%F3%8Fo-%5E%98%C0S%99%9B%92b%FA%D2d%EA%F7%FA%BE%C5%D7%DA%EE%FE%E9%D5%E5%E1%E7%F4%E4%7B%C1%B4%94%C5%DB%FE%FF%B0%B0%CE%F8%8C%8Fc%B0%D4%EA%B9R%D0%5B%A1%E9p%B5%CE%83%BB%B0%25v%D2%B2P%E9%E3%D7%F3%B5%9F%C8%E8%F8%C8%88%94%F2%C7%BE%DC%D4~%8D%A1%C2%D9%E5%E1%EA%AFs%C0c%9B%7D6%81%E8rJ%CE%7D%5B%BBC%8B%97%BD%DB%ED%ED%E8%EF%EC%FD%CE%BA~%BD%8Av%FF%E8H%D3%E6%EE%DDO%9E%E2%89%BD%FF%FF%FF!%F9%04%01%00%00%3F%00%2C%01%00%00%00%10%00%10%00%00%06%A0%C0%9Fp%F8%9B%94L%83%09%91%E8%9A%CD%7C*%5Emg%40%2C%7F%12%98%04%12%82HD%16%CB2%26%99%7D%148%5E%A2a1%10c%94%88%EE%E2%CAh2%0D%83!'%9C8%06%20%1A%04%04%0A%1B%0B8%15%22%15B%08%23%03%02%2C%04%25%05%0A%0B%1A%02%0FJ%3F%08%0E%24%0B%3C%0B%17%0A%0A%2F%10'V%7D%23%1C*.%0C%0C%2F%0A%10%13%06'%9A%3F%14%24%23%3C%18%18%19%02%18%7DC%13%1D%14%0E%23%13*%0C(.W%3F%1D%1A%0E%26E%086%CD%3F2%07%03%0E%D6K%1C%1D5%DCK%D2%E1D%B6%D6A%00%3B'&#xA;    });&#xA;};&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136311" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T20:40:12.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24085" CreationDate="2009-09-30T21:06:25.570" Score="27" ViewCount="2534" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/187715/what-is-your-favorite-esoteric-programming-language&quot;&gt;couple of posts&lt;/a&gt; on SO where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BrainF_ck&lt;/a&gt; language is mentioned that have been flagged as offensive. Should these be edited to &quot;BrainF_ck&quot; (or something else), or left as is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I could go either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:08:12.287" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T21:58:18.117" Title="Is the language &quot;BrainF_ck&quot; offensive?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;offensive&gt;" AnswerCount="23" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="24081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T21:09:02.163" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either way.  Just don't flag a post for something the poster has no control over (the name of the language.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T21:09:02.163" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T21:10:38.667" Score="-21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely offensive if spelled out, the standard on SO is to put the asteriks in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  I'll now modify this answer since I've seen quite the variety of munging.  As long as we munge out the indecencies, I'm not hung up on the method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:04:39.690" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:04:39.690" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="24083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T21:12:07.133" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The language is named &quot;Brainf_ck&quot; because it's confusing as hell. To emphasize how hard it is to understand and work with the language, emphatic words are appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The language isn't absurdly profane. You can talk about the language and discuss the code without actually being terribly offensive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's one word. Grow up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the comments &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/187715/what-is-your-favorite-esoteric-programming-language/187858#187858&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for Marc Gavell's (moderator) opinion that largely (won't say &quot;entirely&quot; because of point 3) agrees with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're going to edit it, change it to &quot;bf&quot; (or what I use, &quot;the language that shall not be named&quot; with a Wikipedia link). Calling it &quot;brainf*ck&quot; or something looks obviously censored and sparks edit wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T04:12:23.560" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:12:23.560" CommentCount="28" />
  <row Id="24084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T21:12:52.063" Score="54" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the language is not, can not be offensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be flagged by a lot of nanny automation, so it should be munged anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;::sigh::&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T21:12:52.063" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="24085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T21:55:53.900" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't say it in polite company, don't write it on a public web site.  I'd say that pretty much covers just about any post.  You and I may disagree about what may be said in polite company, however.   If we do, then you (or I) should feel free to flag as offensive (or not) according to our own perception.  If enough people agree that it violates the polite company standard, then it gets removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I appreciate the people who realize that some things outside of their control may reasonably offend others and defer to the other person's sensibilities by masking or making an oblique reference to the potential offensive word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-09-30T21:55:53.900" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="24086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T22:14:06.647" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, words should be considered obscene if they're used in an obscene context. But as part of a name, who cares? In Germany, there's a bus company/travel agency named &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.busmietzentrale.de/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fücker&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which would, of course, be considered obscene if those buses would travel through the USA or the UK, simply because it's name is in huge letters on top of those buses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's funny when you consider the history of these four letters grouped together in this &quot;bad&quot; way. Whole books have been banned in the USA just because they used this word too often. Worse, some authors ended up being criminally charged for obscenity because they used this word. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is still controversial because it used this word, being banned in quite a few US libraries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But remember this: In 1971, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen%5Fv.%5FCalifornia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;U.S. Supreme Court&lt;/a&gt; decided that the mere public display of [beep] is protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and cannot be made a criminal offense. Thus, the use of this word is perfectly legal. Yet a forum like this can apply some censorship if it's used in a bad context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But anyone who just blindly bans this word no matter how it's used is basically ignoring these two amendments and thus the Constitution of the USA. It's almost if they're saying a big eff you to this constitution by applying censorship...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mangling it, masquerading it, shortening it, spelling it wrong, etc. These are all techniques used to bypass certain obscenity filters. Basically, that tells me that people are just accepting censorship by bypassing it. That can't be right, can it? Besides, those filters would just adjust and also consider those misspellings as obscene and before we know it, there's no more Fr@@ Sp@@ch anywhere on this World. Let's at least keep Fr@@ sp@@ch on the Internet, okay? (Before someone even considers that a bad word...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="161822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T11:51:25.380" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T11:51:25.380" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="24087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T23:11:27.257" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How in the name of all things made of batter can a word be offensive when spelled &quot;f_ck&quot;, but not offensive when spelled &quot;f_ck&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've said it before and I'll keep saying it until the moderators stop deleting it every time I say it. There are two situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You know what the word &quot;f_ck&quot; means because you are old enough to know what it means. There are two subsituations here:&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are offended by the word, in which case the implied usage of the word (i.e. when it's butchered and made into something like &quot;f_ck&quot;), should still be offensive to you. The word doesn't have any power. It's not like it's magically not the word anymore because one of its letters is missing. It's still &quot;f_ck&quot;, and if you are offended by the simple word but aren't offended by some childish mask of it, then you are inconsistent (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000635.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;inconsistency makes you a bad programmer&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff said so). That is to say, if you find the word &quot;f_ck&quot; offensive, and use the word &quot;f_ck&quot; when other, less cowardly people would use the word &quot;f_ck&quot;, you're effectively using the word &quot;f_ck&quot;. If you don't avoid the word altogether you are a hypocrite, by definition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You aren't offended by the word, so there's no reason at all to replace it with some hollow facsimile of it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't know what the word &quot;f_ck&quot; means because you have never seen it before. The word is completely meaningless to you, and would be just as meaningless if the word were spelled &quot;f_ck&quot; or &quot;waffle&quot; or some other word you don't recognize. There's no reason to mask the word from such people because the word doesn't carry any meaning for them. And if they want to look it up because they don't know what it is, spelling it &quot;f_ck&quot; isn't going to make it any harder, because that spelling is all over the Internet and it's fairly easy to realize it's an expletive from its use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's no reason to pretend the word is a different word when it's spelled with magical runes that remove the word's non-existent powers. It's just a word. Use it when it is the best word for the situation, like you would any other word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T04:11:32.563" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:11:32.563" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-09-30T23:36:31.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brainf_ck is the name of the language, not BrainF_ck, BF or anything else. Flagging post with brainf_ck in it is just &lt;em&gt;shooting the messenger&lt;/em&gt; . I agree with Welboug, ppl know what F***, Fu_k etc, actually mean (for those that don't, how they going to understand what BrainFu_k is all about?), so this is just silly. (Same goes for the stupid &lt;em&gt;beep&lt;/em&gt; one get's in american tv shows, totally pointless.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130719" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T04:13:07.287" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:13:07.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T00:22:27.470" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;In asking a few bounty questions I've noticed that the average page views per hour on page 1 is about &lt;strong&gt;8x higher&lt;/strong&gt; than on page 2 (small sample based on a 2 of my questions, but I'm sure the large disparity remains true for most bounty questions now that there's a consistent queue over 50 questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a wiki for collective comments/ideas, what can you guys/girls come up with that would make the bounty system more useful?  In the current state your bounty is worth less the more questions it's behind times the time they have remaining, keeping it off page 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The time your question spends in bounty mode before it reaches page 1 is significantly less likely to receive a useful answer.&lt;/strong&gt;  What would you do to better present bounty questions, increasing the exposure to people who might answer them from when they're marked while retaining some order of least-time-left at the top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:  Are the paging controls just not that visible, are they being looked over and that's the reason page 2 and on are missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135201" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T13:53:30.470" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T13:53:30.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T00:26:08.337" Title="Bounty - Page 1 &amp; 2 Differences" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;time-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59198" CreationDate="2009-10-01T00:36:20.080" Score="9" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;To reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click Ask Question on meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fill in question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check &lt;strong&gt;community wiki&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;Notify [] daily of any new answers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't enter any of the required tags, causing a prompt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Error prompt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  must include one of these tags -- bug feature-request discussion support&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;community wiki and Notify [] daily of any new answers are &lt;strong&gt;unchecked&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Error prompt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Options remain checked&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave something like the content of the prompt on the page to begin with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags must include at least one of: &lt;strong&gt;bug&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;feature-request&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;discussion&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;support&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135201" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-31T19:27:19.093" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T19:27:19.093" Title="Validation Fail - Unchecks Wiki/Email" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;validation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24089" CreationDate="2009-10-01T00:51:54.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One suggestion could be to sort the bounties &quot;randomly&quot; - so you get them in some order, but not always the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T00:51:54.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T00:51:54.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24065" CreationDate="2009-10-01T00:57:09.997" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why someone would go to this effort. The sponsored tags aren't exactly in your face and you realize that running something like SO costs money right? So if you're not getting charged they have to make that money somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; and those who naively think it doesn't matter that you remove these things after they're loaded, you ignore two important points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If everyone used such a script and noone saw these sponsored links, who would pay for them? Noone. So it's simply a question of degree. This same specious reasoning is used by people who think it's OK to remove ads automatically from free-to-air TV. Of course many people don't watch or pay attention to ads but advertisers are paying for the low percentage of viewers that do; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO will be getting paid for placing the sponsored links, for the clickthrough rate or both. If they're getting paid (in part or in full) for the clickthrough rate then by removing them you are cutting off a source of revenue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And anyone who argues &quot;I never click on ads&quot; is both delusional and missing the point: most people click on ads at some point even though the clickthrough rate might be 0.01% or less and the ads aren't just there for the clickthrough rate. They are also promoting brand awareness and it doesn't take a click to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T02:16:38.353" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T02:16:38.353" CommentCount="27" />
  <row Id="24093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24106" CreationDate="2009-10-01T01:07:20.540" Score="14" ViewCount="626" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Update 2]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've provided feedback and this doesn't seem to be going anywhere different. So I'm done with this question and all the responses and comments. Let this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/RIP#Initialism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RIP&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[End of Update 2]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Update]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;OK guys, for all you funny people out there, here's a screenshot of what I see (with the ads highlighted in red). I find the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Gate_Software&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Red Gate Software&lt;/a&gt; ads very distracting and ugly on a useful website like Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow. On a quick look (the way humans usually browse) can you tell whether the question on this page is &quot;Zero in on memory leaks rapidly&quot; or &quot;store image in database or in a system file? [closed]&quot;? I find the single ad on the sidebar to be somewhat OK, although it's also huge. But the ads interleaved between the question and the answers just don't look good. They should either be smaller in size or removed from that column altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not just the Red Gate ads, many other ads look distracting and make it difficult to read the actual question and answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5955/stackoverflowads.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[End of Update. Read on for the original post.]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm marking this as a bug since it's making the site painful to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why has Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow become so bloated with heavily distracting graphical ads? Weren't the previously displayed ads on the sidebar making enough money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the need for money to run a heavily loaded site like this, but it's getting worse with time. It used to be better looking some months ago. Now huge graphical ads show up everywhere and make it difficult to even read the question and answers (on the side, between the title and question, between answers, and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping someone from the core Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow team would respond before anyone else decides to trash this question as irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136623" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-28T11:13:28.533" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T11:13:28.533" Title="Why has StackOverflow become so bloated with heavily distracting ads?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24028" CreationDate="2009-10-01T01:35:12.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the methodology described by Jeff in his blog is called SOTP: Seat of the Pants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite common, and generally effective - provided what you're trying to do isn't too complicated, and you have sufficient time and talent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While few people advocate SOTP as an enterprise SDLC methodology, it is in fact the de facto standard in many, if not most, organizations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, most organizations do not have the time and talent enjoyed by SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T01:35:12.267" />
  <row Id="24096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2009-10-01T01:40:20.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's still only one on top and 2 on the side. And it reduces to 1 on the side when you're logged in and have a little rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, is it that bad to have to ignore a couple of ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T01:40:20.090" />
  <row Id="24097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2009-10-01T01:46:22.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just two words &lt;strong&gt;commercial imperative&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Jeff seems to be taking the reasonable view &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'What objectionable ads? Show me which you mean'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I think the OP is saying all ads are objectionable and the more there are, the more painful it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit, I tend to agree with the OP, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; a little rep does the trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T01:55:34.803" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T01:55:34.803" />
  <row Id="24098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2009-10-01T01:47:20.310" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earn 200 reputation and the leaderboard ads are suppressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, I'm not sure what you're talking about. Can you be more specific? Maybe with a screenshot pointing out what you find so very objectionable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, now that I've seen your screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;show me another ad-supported site ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;without ad animation &lt;em&gt;of any kind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with only 3 ad slots per page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that &lt;strong&gt;automatically&lt;/strong&gt; disables 66% of the ads for users who participate on the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... beyond that, this is just &quot;all advertising is bad!&quot;. So you'd prefer to pay a subscription fee, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T08:10:23.700" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T08:10:23.700" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="24099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24089" CreationDate="2009-10-01T01:55:25.007" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;default Featured (bounty) tab on home page&lt;/a&gt; is sorted in &quot;soonest-to-end&quot; order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The home page displays 48 questions by default; right now there are 75 featured questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question on the BOTTOM (#48) has a bounty ending in 5 days.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question on the TOP (#1) has a bounty ending in 13 hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, assuming this is typical, your question will have at &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; 5 days on the first page. Is this really a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T01:55:25.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T01:55:25.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T02:16:11.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose a compromise: give Jeff &amp;amp; the SO team plausible deniability by spelling it &quot;BrainF|_|ck&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T02:16:11.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T02:27:15.543" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current title (tooltip) text on the upvote button says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;This answer is helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current title text on the downvote button says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;This answer is not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &quot;helpful&quot; is such a subjective word (and kinda bland), these messages do little to discourage popularity-based upvoting, and voting based on programmer glurge&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. Additionally, both titles presume that the &quot;answer&quot; is an answer to the question&amp;mdash;when in reality it's just text in the Answer box that might or might not, in fact, be a real answer. This dilutes the meaning of the word &quot;answer&quot; on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, given that a core value of StackOverflow (et al) is to generate quality &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to questions...&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I'd like to suggest that a better title text for the upvote button is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;This answers the question, and is accurate or helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a better title text for the downvote button is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;This does not answer the question, is incorrect, or is not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subjective &quot;helpful&quot; bit is there at the end, as a catch-all, but first the user is encouraged towards more productive voting practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be a (ahem) helpful improvement to the site(s)?&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; For instance: &quot;Gosh, I just &lt;em&gt;luvs&lt;/em&gt; jQuery, so I'm upvoting the glib 'use jQuery' answer. jQuery is &lt;em&gt;kewl&lt;/em&gt;. What was the question again?&quot;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136390" LastEditorUserId="136390" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T02:54:43.073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T03:59:33.240" Title="Please improve the title text for upvote/downvote buttons?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14442" CreationDate="2009-10-01T02:29:26.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My greatest pet peeve about online advertisement is relevance - I'm not interested in 99.9 percent &lt;br&gt;of the ads I see (although the relevance is a bit higher on the trilogy, IMO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second greatest pet peeve is that I can't get back to the 0.1 percent of ads I'm interested in, because I already clicked a link or hit the back button, and I happened to see one out of the corner of my eye while the browser was refreshing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AARRGGGH!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T02:36:31.483" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T02:36:31.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-01T02:30:28.127" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this approach to advertising. One suggestion would be, though, to make the icon blend more with the site colors. Right now it stands out too much. A softer, more SO-compatible hue would make it much more pleasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More careful control of the colors will be increasingly important if this approach becomes popular among other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T02:30:28.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24101" CreationDate="2009-10-01T02:35:06.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. If you could show us any practical examples in a real (not very subjective) question where a blatantly bad answer gets upvoted for suggesting a popular (but wrong) approach, I may see your point of view. But I have never, in my 8 months on this site, seen this happen. Never.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens in code golf. The Python solutions get upvoted more than (possibly shorter) solutions in less popular languages. But it's code golf. Who cares? I've never seen this kind of thing happen in a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side point, your suggestions are, in my humble opinion, way too long. Why not change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that conveys the meaning you wanted to convey without using as many words. But I still don't think it's necessary. The people who would upvote solely based on how much they liked the tools an answer uses aren't the kind of peope who would carefully read the upvoting instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T02:35:06.340" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="24105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24101" CreationDate="2009-10-01T02:36:06.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23954/should-we-be-voting-based-on-absolute-merit-or-personal-relative-merit&quot; title=&quot;as you wish&quot;&gt;account for people's opinions&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For upvoting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This answer is long winded and mentions something of the asker's problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This answer is wrong, but &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; to be helpful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This answer so hilarious! Pass the towel please!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Him engrish is bad, me no rikey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This answer is hilarious! What was the question again?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;This answer already has too many upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T02:36:06.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2009-10-01T03:15:10.120" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all part of the master plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i38.tinypic.com/egvk8k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you know, one step at a time and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T03:15:10.120" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24101" CreationDate="2009-10-01T03:26:01.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternate proposal, inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23954#23956&quot;&gt;random's answer in another question&lt;/a&gt;, which is summed up in the closing statement &quot;They're your votes to give out as you wish&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;   &lt;p&gt;This should be moved up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;   &lt;p&gt;This should be moved down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or just get rid of the title text and let the arrows do the talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This addresses the dilution of the word &quot;answer&quot; without telling people &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they should vote. It just tells you what votes will accomplish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136390" LastEditorUserId="136390" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T03:59:33.240" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T03:59:33.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T04:14:49.250" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that if you have to ask, you most likely know the answer.  Some people get offended by the darndest things, but this is completely 100% unnecessary.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These posts should be edited completely and that kind of language should be removed.  Replacing a &quot;U&quot; with a &quot;_&quot; does not change the text or how people will read it, so why do that?  If you edit out the &quot;U&quot; then just remove the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Just a follow-up...  The reality is that folks need to apply some common sense here.  This is not about having a sense of humor.  This is about being able to intelligently articulate yourself without resorting to a [beep] or a !$%@...  There are many working professionals that are on these sites daily, and we should do our best to maintain a safe for work site.  There is not a single reason as to why the swearing should be tolerated, and that has zero to do with it being offensive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the same thing as a &quot;caution, contents may be hot&quot; on a coffee cup.  I think that is a little ridiculous and that common sense would tell you coffee is supposed to be hot.  Let's keep SO clean...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:54:44.543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:54:44.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T04:20:27.570" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I may make one last argument, I would like to cite the SO FAQ (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be nice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Treat others with the same respect you'd want them to treat you. We're all here to learn together. Be tolerant of others who may not know everything you know. &lt;strong&gt;Bring your sense of humor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowhere in the FAQ does it say anything about &quot;profanity,&quot; &quot;language,&quot; &quot;bad words,&quot; or even &quot;professional.&quot; Instead, it says &quot;Bring your sense of humor.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything falls under &quot;sense of humor,&quot; I'd say esoteric languages do. Sure, it's a strange brand of humor, and it may not be for everyone, but if you don't find it funny, you don't have to laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:20:27.570" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="24110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24065" CreationDate="2009-10-01T04:21:16.007" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great example of how folks can take a tool like GreaseMonkey and improve the overall user experience on the SO Sites.  I personally found the Adobe Sponsored Tags annoying this morning.  Maybe its because they were in my ignored tags anyways and the logo showed up and the posts were no longer hidden.  Either way though, I don't think that the logo's do the tags much justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to second guess the team's decision to try it out.  Heck if someone pays you for it, why not.  But user's will react to these just like they do standard advertisements.  To add a point against &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements/24092#24092&quot;&gt;Cletus&lt;/a&gt;'s point, if you use AdBlock, is it really any different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for creating the script.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:21:16.007" />
  <row Id="24111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24120" CreationDate="2009-10-01T04:22:33.603" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Issue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When filtering questions by combining tags invalid tags can be created.  This seems to occur occasionally when the tags end with a '+'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steps To Reproduce&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add 'com+' as an interesting tag &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the newly created tag to filter the questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on a related tag (e.g. 'wcf')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When these steps are done, instead of seeing two tags 'com+' and 'wcf' the tags are concatenated together (separated with a + sign).  Obviously no questions are shown since 'com++wcf' is not an actual tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL in the browser is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/com%2b+wcf&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/com%2b+wcf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example would be to select the tag 'mts' combined with the tag 'com+' this results in the tags 'mts' 'com' ' '.  The URL in the browser is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mts+com%2b&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mts+com%2b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not happen for all tags with a '+' in them -- c++ seems to behave properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue seems to occur when the tag contains a + sign and the tags in browser URL are separated with a '+'.  This doesn't seem to be a consistent behavior when combining tags since some tags are combined together by using a %20 in the browser URL (instead of a +).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is not an issue, can someone please explain the following HTML source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the tag com+, which does not work properly, the following is the HTML that is generated by StackOverflow to filter by another tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/com%2b+.net&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'com+ .net'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&amp;gt;.net&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;item-multiplier&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;times;&amp;amp;nbsp;25&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for the tag c++, which does work properly, the following is the HTML that is generated by StackOverflow to filter by another tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b%20.net&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'c++ .net'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&amp;gt;.net&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;item-multiplier&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;times;&amp;amp;nbsp;255&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&#xA;Notice that in the non-working version the tags are separated with a + but in the working case the tags are separated with %20.  If the non-working tag simply had a %20 instead of a + then it would work fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the URL encoding/rewriting is not working properly when generating the links.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133156" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:10:24.837" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:10:24.837" Title="Bug: Invalid Tag When Filtering Questions By Combining Tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T04:47:08.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using any kind of explicative that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; offend someone on an all ages public information source is not a very smuckin fart thing to do. If you say .. frain buck, anyone interested in your question due to its topic is going to know what you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the point is to ask good questions that get good answers, the need to NOT offend others more or less obviates itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:47:08.800" />
  <row Id="24114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13462" CreationDate="2009-10-01T04:57:09.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider this completed since that functionality is available on the search page itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T04:57:09.547" />
  <row Id="24115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10521" CreationDate="2009-10-01T05:03:58.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, but we just don't have that information there without running more queries, which I don't want to do in the listing page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T05:03:58.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T05:28:31.097" Score="4" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be&#xA;  submitted because: •  'faq rules&#xA;  stackoverflow discussion ' contains a&#xA;  tag reserved for moderator use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User should be told which specific tag is needed to be removed to comply or, perhaps, the system should automatically remove the tag automatically. I should not have to use trial and error to solve the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, the offending tag was FAQ which seems rather odd since this would be the site SO would send people to talk about the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T05:28:31.097" Title="Unable to submit when using a tag reserved for moderators" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-10-01T05:31:16.100" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; The Language That Must Not Be Named (or Brainf_ck)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Unclear. The censorship of the Language That Must Not Be Named has been around for a long time. However, the question that caused the ensuing war was asked by user &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/27414/jon-b&quot;&gt;Jon B&lt;/a&gt; in response to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/187715/what-is-your-favorite-esoteric-programming-language&quot;&gt;favorite esoteric language&lt;/a&gt; question on Stack Overflow, where several people (notably &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13295/lance-roberts&quot;&gt;Lance Roberts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135301/chris-lutz&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;, and, appropriately, He Who Must Not Be Named) were engaged in a low-intensity edit war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive&quot;&gt;The little question that started the big war&lt;/a&gt; was asked by Jon B after a certain more liberal (on this issue, at least - I can't speak for his personal or political beliefs) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;moderator&lt;/a&gt; asked that the term be preserved, as it is the name of the language. Several users replied, generating much heated debate and some equally heated flaming. The conflict lasted for several hours, generating 13 upvotes on two answers in favor of the term being used unaltered, 9 in favor of it being used but resigned that it probably shouldn't be, and several others, along with a notable (and rather noble) answer by Lance out-and-out opposed to the word that generated an impressive -19 votes. Then Jeff Atwood came in, edited (and locked) all posts to use the censored form, and effectively ended the debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Background:&lt;/strong&gt; It should be noted that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive/24085#24085&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;, while a good answer (it received an upvote from me), is not representative of the highest &quot;community-choice&quot; answer (and isn't meant to be - Jon B said he picked the answer he most agreed with, since there really doesn't seem to be an answer &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; can agree on in this situation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-16T09:32:14.970" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T09:32:14.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T05:31:16.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24111" CreationDate="2009-10-01T06:44:38.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Click on the newly created tag to filter the questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refresh the page before doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;wont-fix as this is only a bug one time on the client, and &lt;em&gt;never again&lt;/em&gt; on every subsequent page load for the rest of recorded time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue of plus as a delimiter in a world where tags can contain plus has been discussed. Bottom line, use space to delimit if any of the tags contain a plus. Our code already does this with the one wont-fix exception above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/com%2b%20.net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/com%2b%20.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: OK, now I see the problem. Tags with a single plus are triggering this. Should be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T09:14:59.023" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:14:59.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-01T07:08:29.820" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sponsored tags suck.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're half a step away from having flashing animated gifs, scrolling marquees and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;those terrible ‘Free Forever’ ads&lt;/a&gt;.  (Oh, and to all those people whose knickers just got in a knot, it's called &lt;em&gt;hyperbole&lt;/em&gt; ;b) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it comes across as visually jarring, seems like a clumsy grab-for-cash, add zero value to the question/answer and hinders usability by breaking the consistency rule.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually a bit disappointing Jeff because in the past you have had quite a strong and honourable stance when it comes to advertising (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000893.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How To Advertise on Your Blog Without (Completely) Selling Out&lt;/a&gt;).   I don’t know what your motivations are for expanding the SO family advertising in such a way, but in my opinion, the credibility, design and usability are all suffering as a result.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please keep the advertising out of the content, our eyes will thank you for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;@Jeff:  It's your site and you can do whatever you want with it and I sincerely (for real) hope that you and Joel (and Geoff and Jarrod) make bucket loads of money out of it.  I consider SO to be the best programming site out there and I consider you to be 'the good guys'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the content on the site comes from us, the users, so we do feel as if we have some right to at least comment and provide feedback on the direction of the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to heed the feedback, but due to the source of the content on the site, at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/eric%5Fbrechner/archive/2009/03/01/i-m-listening.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;listening to the feedback (without getting cranky and sarcastic) &lt;/a&gt;seems like the right thing for you to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we can go to some other site if we don't like this one, but we DO like this one, and it sucks when it moves in a direction that makes us like it less.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is why I think this style of advertising has caused such a reaction amongst your users.   &lt;em&gt;It is pushing the boundaries (which are grey and muddy by the way), and we are just letting you know that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastEditorUserId="242" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T07:01:41.840" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:01:41.840" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="24123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24184" CreationDate="2009-10-01T08:03:28.407" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The &quot;Problem&quot;:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some times folks put the code blocks first, and the question second.  The CRLF in code blocks is ignored, which makes the summaries usually worthless.  Also, it is code, and not a description of the problem, then the summary is again usually worthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-quetion-list-suggestion.png&quot; alt=&quot;Peanut Butter Toast&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The &quot;Solution&quot;:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not include code blocks in abbreviated question summaries on the question listing pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, we could just go off and reformat other people's questions, but that seems unnecessarily invasive for such a minor 'problem'.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T14:25:07.660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:07:49.453" Title="Do not include code blocks in abbreviated question summaries on the question listing pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;list&gt;&lt;question-summary&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24028" CreationDate="2009-10-01T08:12:08.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's built with EDD, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001239.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Exception-Driven Design&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T08:12:08.470" />
  <row Id="24125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24126" CreationDate="2009-10-01T08:32:16.217" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the etiquette for answering questions that belong on other sites? For example I considered answering &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1499798/security-problems-when-extending-a-web-application-in-sharepoint&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but instead saw it should be on Server Fault so left a comment accordingly and marked to close. Someone has now answered that question correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the primary goal of the site (I think) is to answer questions, is it more important to answer and follow up the admin work of moving the question later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T11:47:39.083" Title="Answering questions that belong on other sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24125" CreationDate="2009-10-01T08:37:31.960" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should still answer the question, while it's not yet moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case edits are made to the question after it's moved you can always go to the other site and edit your answer accordingly. If the question doesn't change, you're answer is valid, regardless on which site you answered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T11:47:39.083" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T11:47:39.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T08:39:11.957" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This whole topic is about the right of Free Speech versus censorship of things considered obscene by some. And as such, it tends to be a very sensitive topic. But compare this with the Harry Potter bookseries and movies. As I write this, several people all around the world want &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoplease.com/spot/banned-harry.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these books and movies to be banned&lt;/a&gt;! The reason? It's about children doing witchcraft. Just now, the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bannedbookslist.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Banned Book Week&lt;/a&gt;&quot; has ended again, restricting what people can read in a library. But what people don't realize is that some of these bans are based upon religious views, but people who don't share those views are just duped by these restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an Atheist, my views are simple. You have the right on your opinion, I have the right to have my opinion. If you don't like my opinion, you're free to not listen to me. If you don't like swearwords, just install nanny software on your own computer, just like you would close your ears whenever I would be talking. But never, ever deny my the right of Free Speech or I kick you in the [beep]!!! [Beep], [beep] [beep] [beep]...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It reminds me a bit about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%5Fthey%5Fcame...&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;poem &quot;First they came&quot; by Pastor Martin Niemöller&lt;/a&gt;, who realized what he and others had allowed to happen in Germany during WWII. The same problem applies to censorship. The more we allow it, the more we'll lose our right to Free Speech. If we continue to allow this kind of censorship, then we just don't deserve Free Speech. We wouldn't even be allowed to be Free,since we let others dictate what we can and cannot do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But do I approve the use of obscene words? [Beep] no! Definitely not! But people should not be [beep]ing stupid and just flag anything that seems to be using a bad word. Worse, when would we start banning words that are bad in other languages? The word &quot;lul&quot;, part of &quot;lullaby&quot; is a bad word In the Dutch language. The female counterpart &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kut.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kut&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is fortunately not something you'll see in the English language, although it's the name of some radio station in the USA. Do people realize that these two words are specific Dutch words referring to the genitals of men and women?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anyway, if someone uses a bad word as a regular part of a name or question, it should be okay. If someone intentionally used the word to be obscene, flag it! Even if they misspelled the word, flag it! It's not about words, it's about intentions and if someone intents to misbehave, they deserve to be flagged, banned even. But don't ban words...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also interesting is the word &quot;fok&quot; which would have a similar meaning as [beep]. But in the Dutch language, it's far less offensive in the Dutch language than [beep is in the USA or UK. Maybe we're not that prudish? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Final note: the USA also bans &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fbanned%5Ffilms#United%5FStates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;several movies&lt;/a&gt; because of it's &quot;obscene content&quot;, or for being &quot;anti-Christian&quot; or for several other reasons... The Netherlands only used to ban one movie involving Laurel and Hardy, but this movie has been unbanned again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="161822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T09:01:11.867" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T09:01:11.867" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="24128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24069" CreationDate="2009-10-01T09:10:47.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case the question was closed and I edited it with all of the duplicates I could find. (Interesting that a lot of those were duplicates of each other, but hey!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future I'll post a comment if there are one or two duplicates and leave a community wiki answer if there are more than that. Thanks for the advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T09:10:47.357" />
  <row Id="24129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24123" CreationDate="2009-10-01T09:21:54.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They could only post a code block and explain their problem in the code (block) comments. Then you need to handle this edge case or someone will complain about an empty summary. Too much effort, if you ask me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T09:21:54.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24133" CreationDate="2009-10-01T09:24:47.393" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the &quot;accept rate&quot; info on a user's questions - but how about also showing how many questions the user has asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially for those notorious non-accepters, that information might be helpful and encouraging them to finally get off their b*** and start accepting people's responses to their answers....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T09:50:39.203" Title="Show not only accept rate, but also number of questions asked" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24130" CreationDate="2009-10-01T09:32:29.753" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you hover over the accept rate, it will show you how many questions they have asked (and are counted toward the accept rate) as well as how many of those they've accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/28oF6.png&quot; alt=&quot;nuts to the accept rate&quot; title=&quot;don't hang on a limb now&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T09:50:39.203" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T09:50:39.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T09:45:37.043" Score="9" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;G'day,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful showing the breakdown of a user's reputation on their User page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing fancy, just percentage of rep. from questions asked and answers given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe show the breakdown of rep. against tags? (Thanks Ivo for the suggestion). As pointed out in the comments, rep. against tags is a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;cheers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2974" LastEditorUserId="2974" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T14:04:08.460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T14:04:08.460" Title="Worthwhile showing source of reputation?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24135" CreationDate="2009-10-01T10:15:57.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, in the meantime, there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug/21623#21623&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script&lt;/a&gt; that allows you to see how many votes you have by tag, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13847&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt; that gives you &quot;badges&quot; and stats for accepted answers by tag, the two could be combined to give a breakdown of all votes by tag fairly simply&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T10:15:57.677" />
  <row Id="24138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24140" CreationDate="2009-10-01T10:23:23.370" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to have been a recent change, whereby all text highlighted using the backtick formatting has acquired a colour background.  This is fine in a code block but irritating when the format is applied to a keyword or two in regular text like this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of what I post is related to Oracle, which is old-fashioned enough to use underscores rather than CamelCase.  Unfortunately this clashes with the formatting for italicisation.  So I need to use backticks if I want to refer to (say) &lt;code&gt;DBA_TABLESPACES&lt;/code&gt;, otherwise it comes out like this: DBA_TABLESPACES (provided there is a subsequent matching underscore _ ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advice to use &amp;lt;PRE&amp;gt; instead doesn't help in this scenario, as the underscore formatting takes precedence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to whoever edited my question and &quot;fixed&quot; the formatting, but I deliberately wrote it that way to show what happens when a post has two _ in it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133829" LastEditorUserId="133829" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T15:08:35.863" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:08:35.863" Title="CODE format: can I avoid colourisation _and_ italicisation?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;underscore&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T10:23:34.430" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sponsored icons is a nice concept.. From my view the &quot;sponsoring&quot; part is irrelevant, but the &quot;icon&quot; part is not - it makes the tags quickly identifiable at a glance.. No more reading a bunch of identical looking tags, there's nice unique, colourful icons next to them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6715/adobetechicon.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of question with adobe sponsored tags&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This makes it obvious the question is about Adobe-related technology. The problem is when multiple Adobe related tags are used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7615/clutteredicons.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of question with multiple Adobe sponsored tags&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That's just.. cluttered. Couldn't the Flex icon be shown next to the flex tag? Couldn't the Flash icon be shown next to the &lt;code&gt;flash&lt;/code&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8523/uniqueicons.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mockup of question with unique icons&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T13:45:10.570" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T13:45:10.570" Title="More varied/unique sponsored icons" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24138" CreationDate="2009-10-01T10:29:37.323" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to make use of the underscore (_) but don't want the whole post to go italicrazy on you when there is another in the mix, escape them with a backslash (\).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in your case, it would be like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;DBA\_TABLESPACES&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T10:29:37.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-10-01T11:26:06.533" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Request: Would be nice to be able to underline some text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this already possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T23:26:01.123" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T23:26:01.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T11:26:06.533" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="24143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-01T11:26:36.580" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Advertising on top of a tag is perfectly fine. However, the little icon in the tag itself could be problematic, because you are giving away part of your branding to an external company and could give the impression that Adobe is the owner of StackOverflow as they are also the only tag-sponsor so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the idea itself has potential if you have more sponsors, because they draw attention. A Flash developer can easily spot Adobe-Related tags. But for me as a non-flash developer, it looks like Christmas Decoration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T11:26:36.580" />
  <row Id="24144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T11:36:32.333" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dimly remember a question in the early days of stackoverflow where the OP made the mistake to mention that he was working in the context of &quot;adult content&quot;, he didn't even say &quot;porn&quot;. And people were offended by that! There were no links being posted, no &quot;offensive&quot; words being used, it was enough for some to know that a piece of stupid source code would be used to dole out porn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure there are people out there that are offended because I just used the words &quot;stupid&quot; and &quot;porn&quot;. To them I say: Könnt ihr verdammten Arschlöcher nicht einfach die Schnauze halten?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give the easily offended an inch and they will take a mile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="130804" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T12:05:11.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T12:05:11.050" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24139" CreationDate="2009-10-01T12:05:22.203" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea myself, but I think ultimately it would be up to the sponsor how they decide to &quot;iconify&quot; tags. I mean, if Adobe wanted I'm sure they could have multiple icons (although honestly they wouldn't have the immediate visual effectiveness as the Adobe logo itself). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T12:05:22.203" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="24148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T12:06:24.570" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directly submit the form &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or by ajax?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process is too far for me to distinguish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T14:15:27.800" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T14:19:07.857" Title="Which way is SO submitting the questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;form-submit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24148" CreationDate="2009-10-01T12:11:47.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normal HTML Form. StackOverflow is intended to work without JavaScript enabled, so no &lt;em&gt;critical&lt;/em&gt; functions are JavaScript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T12:11:47.837" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24148" CreationDate="2009-10-01T12:14:34.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, it is a good old HTTP POST, and it invokes &lt;code&gt;/questions/ask/submit&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T12:14:34.980" />
  <row Id="24151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24139" CreationDate="2009-10-01T12:48:42.640" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;O.M.G. Ponies!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-omg-ponies.png&quot; alt=&quot;TheTXI&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T12:48:42.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T13:37:47.730" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21328/let-me-see-all-questions-answers-that-point-to-a-question&quot;&gt;Let me see all questions / answers that point to a question&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be interesting to have a count of the number (and list) of questions that cite the question you are currently looking at. That would create a &quot;tree&quot; of potentially highly related questions, and show which questions have spawned similar or related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, looking at my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/242295/&quot;&gt;how-does-one-add-a-svn-repository-build-number-to-python-code&lt;/a&gt;, it'd be nice to know that there's a related question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1499811/&quot;&gt;how-to-programmatically-get-svn-revision-number&lt;/a&gt; that refers to it and builds upon it by  asking how to do it without the web calling Python/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be a valuable new metric for gauging question/answer quality (i.e. &quot;4 questions cite this question&quot;). I'd hope it'd be relatively easy to program - just parse all the questions for SO links and build a tree (which would have a nice visual presentation, too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Food for thought. I'm making this a wiki in case someone has thoughts that run from this (or add appropriate tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131829" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T14:14:57.303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T14:14:57.303" ClosedDate="2009-10-01T14:05:47.257" Title="Show count of SO questions that are referencing a particular SO question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T13:44:44.893" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most logical reason to disallow obscene words (whether part of a real name or not) on the website is to give those poor souls behind overly oppressive internet filters a good chance at being able to use this excellent set of websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While one may disagree with the definition of obscene, and internet filters in general, one must consider that the benefit of self-censoring may well be greater than the (apparently huge, to many people here) cost of adding an asterisk, or using the abbreviation, or one of a million other ways to deliver the same point without the use of 'obscene' words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work in a company with over 50k people, perhaps 1k are programmers.  They, unfortunately, use a very, very strict filter which currently does not block SO, but they have blocked other resource sites (even after requests to open them up specifically for work purposes) due to obscenity issues.  They don't do by-page blocking.  With an internet connection pipe as large as is needed at each site, it's far easier to monkey with DNS and ipfilter and block the whole site - lowers the cost of the filtering equipment, software, pushing the same changes to all sites, and manual admin work, etc.  Keep in mind that in this economy the bean counters rule, and in fact half the IT department was laid off last year, and the CTO is an accountant.  &lt;em&gt;They don't care.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While one may rail against corporate censorship, vaunt cries of free speech, and in general force others to accept their rules for obscenity, they must admit that the world isn't perfect, and it isn't just a &quot;this could happen&quot; scenario - this IS happening right now in even the larger companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes.  If one chooses to use an offensive word (as defined by my corporate overlords) I WILL edit the post, and then mark the post offensive if it's changed back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is offensive to me that someone risks my ability to interact with this site when it's trivial for them to restructure or reword their post to avoid it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T13:44:44.893" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="24155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T14:03:53.547" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just one question, if my name were &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.classmates.com/directory/public/memberprofile/list.htm?regId=463820661&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Fucker&lt;/a&gt;, would I be barred of using my name as a username?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about &lt;a href=&quot;http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michel Foucault&lt;/a&gt;? It sure does sound obscene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I were named &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;js=y&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.ar%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Ddefine%253Apelotudo%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%3Aen-UK%3Aofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a&amp;amp;sl=es&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;history_state0=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Juan Pelotudo&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should my name be censored because its mildly offensive in spanish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about using a red gravatar? Should I be censored because a chineese might find that offensive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Where do we draw the line?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-10T00:45:56.717" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T00:45:56.717" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24158" CreationDate="2009-10-01T14:13:35.387" Score="5" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone asked today about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24154/when-is-the-best-time-to-ask-a-question-on-stackoverflow-closed&quot;&gt;the best time to ask a question&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions&quot;&gt;a question that has come up before&lt;/a&gt;) and it got me thinking that if there is a best time, then there is probably a particular geographical region or set of regions that provides more answers than others. I would assume this is most likely North America due to the companies that rule most people's lives in at least the SO and SF domains, like Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, but are there any stats that could be used to analyse this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be interesting to see the patterns as those in high activity regions would face more competition in answering questions than those in low activity regions, or more importantly, time zones. It could give a whole new insight into some of the top rep holders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a corollary, the times of day that people answer and ask questions might also be useful on some level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:06:41.013" Title="Is there a geographical pattern to the top rep holders?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;geography&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24156" CreationDate="2009-10-01T14:20:11.270" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could easily just break it down into the primary economic hubs of the IT world:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;East Coast USA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;West Coast USA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Western Europe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Top 7 on SO are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Iowa, USA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Washington, USA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New Zealand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New York&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure someone with more time and perhaps usage of the data dumps could provide a greater breakdown of the data, but just based on Jon and Marc alone, the UK is pretty dominant at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some more counting here are some geographic counts (All Users &gt;= 20,000 rep):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unknown (15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Western Europe (13)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eastern USA (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;United Kingdom (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Western USA (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia/New Zealand (6)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Midwest USA (5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Canada (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Central America (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Russia (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Many of the Unknowns are simply listed as &quot;USA&quot; which combined with the fact that the USA is divided into three regions can skew the results significantly. If the United States was combined into a single entity, it would vastly outperform the other regions in terms of users over 20,000 reputation (currently 69 users in total meet this threshold).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Some of the American regions are a bit off, but if you break them down too far you start to make the results a bit more dirty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Combining the regions of the United States into a single entity leaves us with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;United States (32)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Western Europe (13)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;United Kingdom (9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia / New Zealand (6)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unknown (6)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Canada (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Central America (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Russia (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T15:10:36.047" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:10:36.047" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="24159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5950" CreationDate="2009-10-01T14:38:58.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't need a trilogy site to combine the other four sites; they just need &lt;strong&gt;one site, period&lt;/strong&gt; (which they have, called Stack Overflow), and have people tag things appropriately. Separating things into different domains, creating duplicate user accounts with different reputation levels and potentially different logins, and fragmenting the community needlessly was a bad idea. Don't focus on making workarounds to the real problem; they should just consolidate it all back into SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136495" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T14:38:58.180" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24163" CreationDate="2009-10-01T14:49:21.343" Score="-1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;It resizes the textarea when moving the div.grippie,how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T14:55:45.263" Title="How does SO implement resize for wmd?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T14:53:42.770" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I notice in this whole conversation is that some are mixing up profanity with the &quot;being nice&quot; concept. Talking about Brain[beep] is not profanity. It's just a name that happens to be badly chosen. Talking about John Fucker, 1990 graduate of Bishop Smith Elementary School in Pembroke isn't profanity either. It's just his name. There's a whole family tree for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.your-family-history.com/f/fucker-family-history.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fucker family&lt;/a&gt;, which probably sounds silly for some here, and probably upsets a whole lot of other people but you can't change the fact that this is their name!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a huge difference between someone who'se last name is actually Fucker and to call someone a f_cker just to insult them. The first is just perfectly legal and should never be edited. And profanity filters who filter this away need to be filtered away themselves! There's no excuse for filters who generate false positives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can wonder if John Fucker is even able to work for certain companies simply because they consider his name offensive. But I bet he's real proud of his name, which is very likely to be very old. And if he ever works for a company that applies a profanity filter, will he have a problem every day with this filter? Would every email of him be blocked simply because of his name? Can he even apply there for a job or will this filter just block his email containing his CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People need to realize that words alone are never offensive! You should always look at the context in which it is used.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T23:31:07.830" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T23:31:07.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24160" CreationDate="2009-10-01T14:55:45.263" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They use &lt;a href=&quot;http://plugins.jquery.com/project/TextAreaResizer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TextAreaResizer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T14:55:45.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T15:09:20.387" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems stupid to flag it offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its a language and that's its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cover your mouths and giggle kids.  Daddy said a bad word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:09:20.387" />
  <row Id="24165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:09:10.000" Score="13" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, apologies if this question has been asked before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone noticed any technical downvoting of their or others answers?  For example in a recent answer to a question, my answer described a possible solution.  Shortly afterwards another answer appeared following the solution I had mentioned.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that this is completely in the spirit of the site, however my answer had been down voted even though it was still as valid as it ever was.  Another poster also had his equally valid solution down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way of knowing the reason behind the down voting, as no comments were left, but I am suspicious as to the ethics behind down voting someone else's valid answer in the hope of making their own answer more prominent.  Are people really that desperate to gain reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen comments in other posts that suggest that tactical down voting has occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does anyone think that it is acceptable to downvote another post, even though it is still correct but may not provide a complete answer, to make their own appear more favourably?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-05-10T11:55:00.613" Title="Is Tactical Down-Voting ever valid?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:16:23.150" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it shouldn't be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As quoted in the faq: Stay fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139367" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:16:26.303" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO should require a comment when downvoting, so you can see why you are being down voted.  Someone open a uservoice ticket.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131968" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-16T18:16:26.303" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="24168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:16:47.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;personally I think the entire voting needs a little bit of an overhaul. This isn't digg, so a simple yeah or neah doesn't really cut it. As we all know there are a hundred ways to skin the cat, so in many cases a number of answers are just as valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance .. &quot;how do I do x with javascript&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A1. &quot;you could use jquery and do this ...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A2. &quot;you could use YUI and do this ...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A3. &quot;You could use MooTools and do this ...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All perfectly acceptable answers but one is going to rise above the chaff, in this case based more on popularity than merit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps some sort of tag-voting, instead of a simple up down, a couple buttons you could click to provide more granular control of your vote while still making it easy. I think comments required on downvotes would render downvotes extinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:17:19.310" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's perfectly valid simply because the site allows it :).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really do feel the pain though of getting a down vote with no reason or explanation. Unless the answer is blantantly wrong or completely off topic I add a comment for every down vote I give describing the reason why.  I try to be as constructive as possible in those comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand I wish SO would add a feature to force people to comment on down votes.  Then again I feel like there is no way to force people to give a decent comment.  In the end I feel like the people who downvote without comment today will just add gibberish into the &quot;comment&quot; section so the feature would become useless.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:23:32.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole voting system was discussed here a lot, just search inside the stackverflow tag &#xA;for voting and you will find a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it's happening from time to time but usually fixed. I seen my answers downvoted for now reason, but usually somebody is fixing it. I personally vote up answers that was down voted without the reason (IMHO). So the system is kind of working. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general problem however persist. Voting is subjective and does not reflect your actual skills, it's more like a game. Actually i'm not sure it's a problem after all, just treat this like a game :). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6807" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" />
  <row Id="24171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:25:48.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen often answers that are short are vote up and accepted. Answers that are long, but that correctly explain the matter are, when the stuff is copied out of them and pasted in the new answer, downvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same is true if the more complete answer is posted afterwards. People say there is already an answer that is short and accepted. So why vote for that new and longer, complicated answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether that is the right way to go, but that's how many people vote apparently. And i think those that regard this as a littl game are right. Just keep being relaxed :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" />
  <row Id="24172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:36:01.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What seems to happen is the first (usually shortest) answer gets one or two votes then people either stop bothering to read all the other answers, or just up vote said answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that answers are ordered by number of votes causes/compounds this problem because when reading a post, you are subconsciously predisposed to favour the top answer, rather than read all answers and judge them on their relative merits. The best answer may actually be the last to appear but may not get the up-votes required (at least initially). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather see answers appear chronologically by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27805" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" />
  <row Id="24173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:53:23.450" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfair downvote is the best thing someone can do for your reputation (!). See people notice it being unfair, and upvote you. Giving you a net +8 reputation and a +0 voting. 8 Points for nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158018" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:54:05.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think tactical downvoting would even accomplish much, since you can only downvote once per answer.  After an answer is voted up a few times the downvotes don't get noticed anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to downvote only if I think the information in the answer is likely to grossly mislead the questioner.  The upvotes will usually sort everything else out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" />
  <row Id="24175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T19:05:57.483" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's so sad that we (myself included) attach importance to these &quot;reputation points&quot;. They &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; addictive, aren't they? But every once in a while we should take a step back and realize how we really shouldn't get worked up over these &quot;points&quot;. Just be proud that you provided a valid answer and that many people benefitted from your contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T19:25:57.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be plenty of valid reasons why your answer got voted down. Perhaps someone thought it was incorrect (whether or not it really was), perhaps someone thought it was too incomplete, or... No, &quot;tactical&quot; downvoting is silly, but you can't say for sure if that was what happened to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that voting is subjective. If I think an answer is good, I vote it up. But perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps I'm simply unaware of some major flaw in that answer which makes it completely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And similar when downvoting. Perhaps I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; an answer is incorrect, so I vote it down.&#xA;Of course, leaving a comment explaining why you vote it down (or up) may help avoiding such misunderstandings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it though. The point in such a community-driven site is that &quot;on average&quot; your answer gets the rating it deserves. Someone votes you down for the wrong reason, and sooner or later, someone will vote you up for the wrong reason as well. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" />
  <row Id="24177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T19:49:57.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a reason for downvoting which hasn't been mentioned yet. I don't know for sure whether it would actually work or not, but I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; it would. It's to do with the rep limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the rep limit rule is basically: &quot;When an upvote is cast, check whether the current rep is less than X + 200 where X = &quot;reputation at the start of the day&quot;. If it is, add 10 to the rep.&quot; That certainly seems to be the way it works - which means that it's advantageous to get answers accepted close to the end of the day rather than close to the start, oddly enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, evil downvoting tactic: spend all your votes at the start of the day, downvoting randomly. Then when you've hit the limit anyway, undo all the downvotes to claw back the rep which was &quot;spent&quot; on downvotes. I can't remember how many votes we get per day - say it's 50, and we start with a rep of 1000:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start of day: 1000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After downvoting: 950&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After lots of upvotes from others: 1200&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After removing downvotes: 1250&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it would work, and I wouldn't do it anyway, but it could be that some people are. I have no reason to suspect anyone, mind you. It could be only my mind that works this way :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T20:05:48.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only see two reasons to down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer is obviously wrong.  If the answer is subsequently corrected, I'll remove the down vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User is being a jerk.  It is reputation after all.  If the user corrects the post to stop being a jerk, I'll remove the down vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's reputation, not popularity.  Also, the issue is whether the answer was helpful or not.  Wrong answers (and people acting like jerks) are not helpful.  Partial answers might be if they contribute something that another answer doesn't.  Also, I typically only up vote the first of identical answers -- and I usually remove my answers if they are identical to someone else's and come after theirs.  Repetitive answers are also not particularly helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-16T20:05:48.937" />
  <row Id="24179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T20:37:26.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm convinced that any form of negative feedback (at least from the membership) is counterproductive. Inevitably it results in a chain of inferred motivations and attitudes that I believe are more often incorrect the accurate, and there's no resolution mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would much prefer that the only things measured would be positive feedback, and if you disagree, withhold your vote, and maybe offer a better solution that will attract more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" />
  <row Id="24180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2008-11-16T20:52:30.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I see a question and I dont know the full answer to it but have an idea I thow out a &quot;brain storm&quot;-answer, like &quot;maybe if you try x, y would work&quot; and then describe why I think that would work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I keep getting down-votes for that, it will make me only answer questions I know for sure the answer to, and I will not try to use my experience to maybe leed or point in the right direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats a lose-lose situation I think. Better up-vote what you think is right and down-vote what you KNOW is totally wrong, but why down-vote pointers and brain-storm-answers, its just pointless and make the site to a elitist-site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you down-vote a brain-storm-answer because you know its wrong then it should be a good manner to add a comment like &quot;Nope, I tried that and it does not work. Sorry.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My 5 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2009-02-09T11:50:38.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my answer is 1 point above or tied with better answer I will vote up better answer anyway. Maybe unethical behaviour is not a good thing, but on the other hand such people are probably very serious about their SO reputation and will contribute a lot elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:13:52.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-09T11:50:38.523" />
  <row Id="24183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24065" CreationDate="2009-10-01T15:31:37.490" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/10/stackoverflow-advertising-and-ethics-of.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow, Advertising and the Ethics of a Free Lunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:31:37.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24123" CreationDate="2009-10-01T15:42:09.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a useful solution for displaying summaries would be perhaps to replace anything within code blocks with the string [BLOCK OF CODE] or something similar. It would serve a dual purpose of not screwing up the summary display, but also potentially allowing for more characters to be included in the summary, since you won't waste characters with broken up code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is my question title&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am having a problem getting such and such&#xA;  to work. Here is what I have tried so&#xA;  far: &lt;strong&gt;[CODE BLOCK]&lt;/strong&gt; Are there any&#xA;  other suggestions on how to fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would look a lot better than something that happened to be incredibly fractured thanks to only displaying a portion of a sizable chunk of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T15:42:09.767" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:03:08.400" Score="11" ViewCount="678" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically the one that tries to masquerade as SO content.  I find this the electronic equivalent of the &quot;special advertising sections&quot; in print magazines that join the stiff cardboard ads in the trashcan on sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone who hasn't see it yet it's this ad in the sidebar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/distracting%20ad.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:26:11.703" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:26:11.703" Title="Am I the only person to find the woot ad noxious?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;woot&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:03:30.427" Score="6" ViewCount="749" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the initial reason for having the popup on SO is no longer an issue with the SO brand of sites - see the discussion below for more details.  I suggest that SO either removes the popup-on-navigate away, or give us an option to turn off popups from SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would rather live in a popup-free SO than what we have now, if possible.  A long time ago, on a UserVoice far far away, I proposed that the 'navigate away warning' popup be removed.  As I understand it, the popup was added because when you navigated away, you could lose the text that you were working on out of your history.  (Now, most modern browsers don't wipe your forms when you navigate, but as I understood it, something in the back end of the site, under certain conditions, could make the form clear anyway.)  The solution was to warn the user with a popup.  (A popup, like most other popups, that was put in place of other, more integrated solutions. The best part? Someone chimed in during that post that the problem that caused folks to want the popup had been fixed, unless you had already made a response to that question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I navigate away from a page, I do it deliberately.  That's why I clicked on the link to navigate to another page.  If I lose what I&quot;m working on in this page, that's my fault, not the site.  Making me click a popup when 99 times out of 100 I'm confirming what I &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; want to do makes me feel like I'm on vista. &quot;You would like to navigate away from this page.  Confirm or deny?&quot; (dejected) &quot;Confirm&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was some...feedback.  Of the static shock variety.  Folks didn't seem to like it.  Especially highly ranked SO members...I guess something about using a web form all day that eats their answers grinds on you, and a popup doesn't seem too bad. :)  However, at the time, I had called for unilateral removal of the popup.  This time, I think, just giving us the option to turn it off would be enough.  All you have to do is throw this preference right there in the 'prefs' section, right under ignored tags, that says &quot;disable navigate away popup&quot;.  I'd check that box in a heartbeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ideally&lt;/strong&gt;, the solution would be to remove the need &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; the popup in the first place.  For example, I just started editing this suggestion, and navigated back using my back button.  I pressed OK on the the &quot;I want to nivgate away&quot; popup, then pressed forward.  My edits remained in place, no problem.  Then, I added more text, clicked on the &quot;Meta stackoverflow&quot; tag, and pressed back, and my edits &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; remained.  If simply navigating forward and back were the root cause of losing edits, you guys have fixed it, and the popup is no longer even necessary!  I'll try here, in a second, the multiple answer edit problem, and see if that's still an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Follow Up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now done several bits of navigation after editing both questions and answers (and multiple answers) and every time my text has remained in the box after I navigate back.  If text was being lost due to navigation at one point, it seems that defect has been corrected.  If this was the problem the popup was trying to fix, it seems to me that the problem has been &lt;em&gt;solved&lt;/em&gt;, and the popup can be removed entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone else think of problems that the popup are preventing at this point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments test followup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I attempted the same tests as above, just this time with comments.  I do not get the popup alerts when I entered text and then tried to navigate away...it looks like IE and Firefox &lt;em&gt;forget&lt;/em&gt; the comment text on navigation.  Chrome, however, remembers.  (Go google...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134097" LastEditorUserId="134097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T20:45:40.237" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:58:47.080" Title="Let me turn off the 'navigate away' popup" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24065" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:07:59.530" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that some people might miss the sponsored tag images, so just in case I modified the script to make all of these images &lt;strong&gt;3x larger&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/2633/flex.png&quot; alt=&quot;Much better!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; I am currently running with this script enabled as penance for my previous unethical behavior of installing the original script in the first place.  Sorry, Alex!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Amplify Sponsored Tags&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    //Function for finding the window's jQuery variable.&#xA;    //http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12448/greasemonkey-users-here-is-your-vote-reputation-info-plug-in-for-stackoverflow/12454#12454&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;        var daWindow;&#xA;        if (window.opera) {&#xA;                daWindow=window;&#xA;        } else {&#xA;                daWindow = unsafeWindow;&#xA;        }&#xA;        if(typeof daWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') {&#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else {&#xA;            jQuery_init(daWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;&#xA;    function jQuery_init($){&#xA;        $(function(){&#xA;                $(&quot;a.post-tag img&quot;).css({width: '54px', height: '48px'});&#xA;                $(&quot;div.welovestackoverflow img&quot;).css({width: '300px', height: '300px'});&#xA;        });&#xA;    };&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:07:59.530" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:11:57.713" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would much rather the advertisements actually attempt to work within the context of the system than just some random AdSense. Creativity goes a long way in attracting users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are that turned off by it, there are plenty of ways to do ad blocking with your choice of web browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:11:57.713" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:14:19.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are you often &lt;strong&gt;entering text and then backing out?&lt;/strong&gt; That's a very strange usage pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We recently improved the code so it only warns if there's text remaining, so if you delete all the text you entered, you shouldn't see the navigation warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:14:19.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:14:24.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This ad placement/strategy is not unique to SO. You will see that on many websites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personaly, they are just another ad to me and a part of advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:14:24.823" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:16:38.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really care for it, but I may run across it once every few days so in the grand scheme of things it doesn't bother me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case you may have intended to navigate away 99% of the time but that is not always the case. I imagine for every person that doesn't like the system trying to hold their hand, you could find another potential user who cries about the lack of user friendliness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this were something that was a setting an individual user could set, all well and good I suppose, but this just gets tossed into the extremely large pile of &quot;desirable user settings&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:16:38.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:17:27.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While at times I will start entering an answer and change my mind, or see someone else post the same answer, or for any reason really. But, I'd still rather it prompt me always than not prompt me at all. Additionally, I think the overhead of maintaining a user setting for this would not be worth its cost in terms of design, development and maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:17:27.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:17:54.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Encyclopedia Britannica lookup for &quot;rhetorical question&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;rhetorical question&lt;/b&gt;  n&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a SO question from Jon Skeet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135523" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:17:54.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T16:17:54.630" />
  <row Id="24195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:18:00.993" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's satirical.  The whole point is to poke fun at that sort of ad.  It's very meta, which is our &lt;em&gt;raison d'être&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:18:00.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:27:07.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a meta-answer, to test out and record results from navigation in various browsers, so we don't have to muck up other questions.  Thank you for ignoring it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefox 3.0, single answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to answer my own question here, to see if the &quot;answering a question&quot; problem is the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back: After pressing the &quot;want to answer my question&quot; button, I navigated away (pressed the OK I want to navigate away popup), and came back.  My comments above were retained by my browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next up, back browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back: back browsing, posting my answer, worked again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try answering a second time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134097" LastEditorUserId="134097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:11:55.153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:11:55.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T17:58:43.787" />
  <row Id="24197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:28:55.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a meta-answer, to test out and record results from navigation in various browsers, so we don't have to muck up other questions.  Thank you for ignoring it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefox, multi-answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my second answer.  I'm going to try navigating away by clicking on the SO link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm back.  My second answer's text has remained in this box, no loss.  Now I will try to do a 'back' operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm back.  My second answer, and all above here, still remain in this box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll update my original post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134097" LastEditorUserId="134097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:11:44.593" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:11:44.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T17:57:56.020" />
  <row Id="24198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:36:43.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a meta-answer, to test out and record results from navigation in various browsers, so we don't have to muck up other questions.  Thank you for ignoring it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chrome&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding some text and navigating away....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now adding some text and hitting &quot;back&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple links and multiple backs...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome seems to have the same behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134097" LastEditorUserId="134097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:12:24.887" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:12:24.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T17:58:20.980" />
  <row Id="24199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24200" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:37:32.440" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What’s the point of put some&#xA;  javascript to head and others to end&#xA;  of body? (4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does (4) mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:39:32.343" Title="What does the number after suggested questions mean?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24199" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:39:32.343" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the number of answers already supplied to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way you can see that when you are asking a question, you may be asking a duplicate that already has potential answers for you to look at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:39:32.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:40:21.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a meta-answer, to test out and record results from navigation in various browsers, so we don't have to muck up other questions.  Thank you for ignoring it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IE 8.0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entering some text, and navigating away...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IE 8.0 retains text after multiple navigations away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entering some text, and hitting &quot;back&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IE 8.0 retains text after multiple navigations away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entering some text, hitting forward, adding a comment, and then coming back...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Success; I returned to my text remaining in the answer question box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134097" LastEditorUserId="134097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:12:13.140" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:12:13.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T17:58:29.187" />
  <row Id="24202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-01T16:46:06.153" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17483/what-kind-of-ads-do-you-like/23857#23857&quot;&gt;already said&lt;/a&gt;, I like it. I think it's funny. That's the problem with humor though: &lt;strike&gt;I'm the only one who has it&lt;/strike&gt; It's very subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T16:46:06.153" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24123" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:07:49.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if the code were stripped from the summary, upon loading the full question we're still stuck with having to read through the code before getting to the &lt;em&gt;actual question&lt;/em&gt;. This is annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then again, we could just go off and reformat other people's questions, but that seems unnecessarily invasive for such a minor 'problem'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naw. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1502236/list&quot;&gt;There's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; a reason to edit&lt;/a&gt; - this is just one more thing to be cleaned up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:07:49.453" />
  <row Id="24204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24207" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:08:05.880" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I view my SO reputation for 10/1/2009 - 10/1/2009, I see the 5 questions listed, with no down-voting (second red column is all zeros) and a combined first column of 125.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I view my reputation for 9/30/2009 - 9/30/2009, I see the 8 questions listed, with no down-voting (second red column is all zeros) and a combined first column of 160.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2 of the questions are common between 9/30 and 10/01 lists)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I view my reputation for 9/30/2009 - 10/1/2009, I see the 17!!! questions listed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;7 of them have &quot;-2&quot; down-votes (and I saw my rep drop by ~10 points within 1/2 hour today, so it did happen recenlt)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A combined first column of 285.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1: How come the 7 down-votes on 7 questions do not show up in either 9/30 nor 10/1 view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 2: How can I tell whether some of the 7 down-votes were a result of serial downvoter (I know 100% sure that at least 3 of them were voted down within 1 minute as I saw it on my Recent screen). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="119280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T19:23:11.277" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:23:11.277" Title="SO Reputation list day-by-day seems incorrect compared to total. Why?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24208" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:16:54.240" Score="2" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does it take so long for Gravatar to update my StackOverflow avatar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T17:26:21.510" LastActivityDate="2010-08-28T02:51:16.880" Title="Why does it take so long for Gravatar to update my StackOverflow avatar?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:19:29.430" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BrainF_ck&lt;/a&gt; : Programming Languages :: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%5FLive%5FCrew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2 Live Crew&lt;/a&gt; : Music&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a joke.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The joke isn't very funny, original, interesting, or useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It causes problems with corporate net filtering software and jeopardizes others' ability to &lt;em&gt;even arrive at the site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All in all, a giant f_cking waste of time for everyone involved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will censor it, or we will censor you. Your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T17:35:47.277" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:35:47.277" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24204" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:24:38.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/119280?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-09-30&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-10-01&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/119280?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-09-30&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-10-01&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will at least tell you the date it &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; you were downvoted. As for why it doesn't show up, not sure who can answer that one :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:24:38.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24205" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:26:26.143" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't take long for them to update your avatar, &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; you click on logout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at a version of your avatar that hasn't been cached, it will show your new avatar immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once prevented it from updating the cache by continuing to log into Gravatar.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:05:33.183" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:05:33.183" />
  <row Id="24209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24205" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:34:24.737" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't take them long. What takes long is for the cache to expire on the old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:34:24.737" />
  <row Id="24210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24156" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:35:07.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Population stats from Wikipedia, User stats from about 17:00 UTC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Order of table is by first appearance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly New Zealand is the place to be, this is without counting Chris Jester-Young in their total (expat Kiwi living in US)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Key	Pop		Agg.	20K users	users/M	Agg Rep/M&#xA;UK	61.6	392.2	10			0.16	6.37&#xA;US	304.1	1002	32			0.11	3.30&#xA;AU	21.0	145.6	4			0.19	6.93&#xA;NZ	4.2		80.9	2			0.48	19.38&#xA;DE	82.1	208.8	6			0.07	2.54&#xA;FR	65.1	68.4	2			0.03	1.05&#xA;GU	14.0	40.9	1			0.07	2.92&#xA;DK	5.5	35.8		1			0.18	6.49&#xA;CA	33.8	33.5	1			0.03	0.99&#xA;RU	142.0	31.6	1			0.01	0.22&#xA;N	4.8	28.6		1			0.21	5.91&#xA;SW	9.3	45.7		2			0.22	4.93&#xA;CH	7.7	23.3		1			0.13	3.01&#xA;N/A	176.1			5&#xA;&#xA;Key	Country&#xA;UK	UK&#xA;US	USA&#xA;AU	Australia&#xA;NZ	New Zealand&#xA;DE	Germany&#xA;FR	France&#xA;GU	Guatemala&#xA;DK	Denmark&#xA;CA	Canada&#xA;RU	Russia&#xA;N	Norway&#xA;SW	Sweden&#xA;CH	Switerland&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T17:43:01.117" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:43:01.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:38:21.640" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with the idea of sponsored tags. The Woot badge works for me (essentially the same thing from a UI/aesthetics perspective), but the Adobe one is ugly and doesn't fit the SO scheme at all... Maybe if it matched the blue tag background it wouldn't be so jarring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="736" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:38:21.640" />
  <row Id="24212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:42:24.863" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to really hate ads.  I thought they were the bane of the web.  Then along came StackOverflow.  But it's not what you think.  I didn't change my mind because StackOverflow is ad supported. I changed my mind because the hyphen-site isn't (at least, not relative to subscriptions). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, when I look at these two specific sites and compare the non-ad site vs the ad-supported site, I'll take the ad-supported site every time.  Of course, these aren't the only two business models out there, but the dichotomy really changed my mind about the place of ads on the web &lt;em&gt;and what the alternatives might look like if ads ever cease to be a viable option.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T20:04:03.493" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:04:03.493" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-01T17:50:06.003" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually thought these were pretty clever as far as sidebar ads go.  Particularly the tags on the bottom &quot;fake&quot; question.  When the sidebar ads are obviously tailored for SO specifically, they immediately grab my attention way more than &quot;generic&quot; ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T17:50:06.003" />
  <row Id="24215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:03:53.887" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15330/how-do-i-put-a-bounty-on-a-question&quot;&gt;How do I put a bounty on a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to add a bounty to one of my questions on SO - what are the rules governing adding bounties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1503810/what-javascript-table-widgets-are-available&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1503810/what-javascript-table-widgets-are-available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135468" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:06:41.417" ClosedDate="2009-10-01T18:07:20.277" Title="How can I add a bounty to a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24156" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:06:41.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to my research, it seems that all of them are on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:06:41.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24215" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:06:41.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is too new to add a bounty - it has to be at least 48 hours old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, &lt;strong&gt;after two days&lt;/strong&gt;, you still don't have an answer you like, you can offer a bounty. Slice off a bit of your own hard-earned reputation -- anywhere from 50 to 500 -- and attach it to the question as a bounty. We'll even throw in 50 reputation to sweeten the deal. The bountied question will appear with a special icon in all question lists, and it will also be visible on the home page Featured tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:06:41.417" />
  <row Id="24218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24221" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:17:30.680" Score="1" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user has posted up to 10 comments to his own answer defending his position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm specifically asking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1503946/lookup-structure-for-handling-future-events-time-based/1503997#1503997&quot;&gt;this behavior&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please not that I had to remove my downvote plus some of the comments because the situation turned unbearable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to treat such a situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="130363" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T18:26:13.207" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:27:11.643" Title="User seems unable to receive criticism. What can you do?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24218" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:25:18.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time this has occurred.  The votes determine the community acceptance of the answer.  You can control which answers get up and down voted, but you can't control how an author to an answer will respond.  If you have explained yourself clearly and they still don't listen to you, then that is the author's problem if they cannot take critism.  This is a community site and they should understand that.  Just remember not to aggravate them. Just make your point clear on where they might be misguided and call it good.  Everyone can see your comments and can make a judgement for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:25:18.560" />
  <row Id="24220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24218" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:26:13.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are abusive as a result of constructive criticism, flag their comments. If they continue to be abusive, email the SOTeam. If they're just unwilling to hear criticism, but aren't abusive, walk away leaving a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:26:13.940" />
  <row Id="24221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24218" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:27:08.573" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might just be me, but I don't see anything that would make the situation &quot;unbearable,&quot; with the possible exception of the user-in-question's first comment (and possibly any comments removed since).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the reality is that there is nothing you can do.  He presented an argument, you countered that argument, and nobody reached a conclusion.  I don't see anything that is abusive, so downvote and leave, since there is really nothing else you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:27:08.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24218" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:31:17.130" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When childish behaviour arises, you have a few options&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Respond in kind. Call him &quot;poopface&quot;, pull on her pigtails, edit &quot;I hate Steve Jobs&quot; into his response.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remove your downvote, walk away, pretend it never happened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(My personal favorite). &lt;strong&gt;Stand your ground.&lt;/strong&gt; If you are correct, argue for why you are correct. If you feel that his answer is not good, downvote it and &lt;em&gt;leave the downvote there&lt;/em&gt;. If they convince you that they are correct after all, then remove the vote. But, if they remain wrong, then you can't let them get away with such behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the critisism is polite, concise and accurate, then there is no excuse for yelling at someone about it. The other part is that if you remove a part of the dicussion, no one has any way of verifying that you are correct. All they can see is the other person's very vehement claims that you are incorrect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any kind of rude and childish behaviour should not be tolerated.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they get out of hand, or serially downvote you, inform a moderator (flag the question) and then the user will be punished. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you let the childish person win, then they will continue being childish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been noted by a few people (and I agree) the attitude from the post inquestion is not actually childish. At worst it is churlish, but not particularely heinous. My answer should be taken in the general case. It is not relating directly to that user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="59808" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T20:27:11.643" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:27:11.643" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:32:13.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't even realize the Woot! badge was an advertisement until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132547" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T18:32:13.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24218" CreationDate="2009-10-01T18:48:19.813" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;unbearable&quot;?&lt;/em&gt;  I see no cursing or name calling from said villain--just long winded disagreement.  Without your comment history the context is hard to follow.  One might even wonder if they were erroneous.  I would suggest you leave them in the future.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean this in the kindest way, but it seems to me that &lt;strong&gt;you were half the problem.&lt;/strong&gt;  At a minimum, you enabled your nemesis-of-the-day.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T19:18:26.450" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:18:26.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24218" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:10:46.820" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write a really long, nonspecific rant in the comments, indicating your dislike of watermelon and your affinity for Madonna. After a while, your opponent will forget what he was talking about and will agree with you that Madonna is a pretty cool guy who signs albums and doesn't afraid of anything because of that kamikaze watermelon that almost ruined your sofa that one time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was up with that watermelon, anyway? Do you think someone promised to pay his family a lot of money to attack your Batman-themed cushions? Or maybe it was a matter of honour. I have heard that Batman is disgraceful in the eyes of large, Japanese melons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which reminds me, remember that restaurant we visited the other day? What was it called? Shinobu something? Senjougahara something? Well, it doesn't really matter what it was called. The point is the waitress there was amazing. What was her name? Kimono something? Well, it doesn't really matter what her name was. The point is she was amazing. I've never been served tempura so incredibly fast. And the food was so good it was like I was at the opposite of Pizza Hut or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure the opposite of pizza is rice, with corn mixed into it. But not a lot of corn. If you add too much corn to anything, you end up accidentally making pizza all over again. Remind me to ask my biocheminomy professor about that the next time I'm in class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been to class in like 4 years, unless you count that time I went to my friend's class after I had graduated to meet the prof he said was cool. Going back to your old learning grounds long after you've graduated is a pretty neat experience. Everyone looks a lot shorter than you remember. And there are fewer squirrels around the trees. But they're bigger than they used to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They must have merged to form supersquirrels. Or rather, they must be in the process of merging to form a single, monumental ultrasquirrel, and supersquirrels are simply an intermediate step in this metamorphosis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like it if the Japanese made a movie about Ultrasquirrel, with Madonna singing the title theme, but it would probably offend Batman-hating watermelons the world over. You wanna go for some pizza?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:10:46.820" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="24226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24248" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:17:43.923" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are just over 500 entries tagged '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/framework&quot;&gt;framework&lt;/a&gt;' on SO, and just over 400 tagged '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/frameworks&quot;&gt;frameworks&lt;/a&gt;' (or maybe vice versa).  I rather suspect one such tag would do - I would probably select the singular over the plural, but I have no strong opinions on that issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Amusing side-note: Meta has '&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;' and '&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussions&quot;&gt;discussions&lt;/a&gt;' tags - only two entries under 'discussions' though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="15168" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T02:42:34.140" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T08:32:49.067" Title="Should the tags 'framework' and 'frameworks' be merged?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24226" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:25:37.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just scanning the titles I don't detect a distinction in usage. I'd say merge them to the singlular tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:25:37.373" />
  <row Id="24228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:31:14.943" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I load the page it often takes a while to highlight &quot;interesting&quot; questions based on the tags I like. This is especially a problem on my mobile phone, but also (sometimes) on my PC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very annoying (and time wasting) because sometimes I just want to sift through the highlighted questions, and if there are no highlighted questions currently visible, I don't know if it's because it hasn't finished loading yet or if it's because the questions are not actually in my tag list. If it's the latter, I have to either 1) wait long enough that I am confident the page has finished loading, or 2) page down/up until I see other highlighted questions which indicates it actually has finished loading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't looked at the source but I assume this is because the highlighting effect is being done by javascript after the page has partially loaded. The highlighting effect could maybe be done on the server-side prior to sending the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:59:05.890" Title="Highlighting questions with interesting tags is very slow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24228" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:36:06.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible reason I can think of for why this is done client side is because it would make it harder to effectively cache data, since everyone can have different settings for favorites and ignores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:36:06.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:38:49.453" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am constantly using stackoverflow as a great resource to begin any search for questions/solutions I am looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As there are more and more questions/answers with the best answer bubbling to the top, wouldn't it make sense to have a wiki page to take these answers and add them to one common wiki page for this certain tag/topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would add a great deal of benefit to the stackoverflow site.  It would not only become a place to search for a specific tag/topic, but also a quick reference manual.  Being a wiki, this could constantly be updated as better answers/solutions are found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="406" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:53:36.590" Title="Should certain topics/tags create a wiki to summarize FAQs on those topics/tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24230" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:41:29.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the most frequently viewed or highest rated questions for a given tag might have a similar effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:41:29.870" />
  <row Id="24232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24230" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:44:52.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually find this request interesting, but the more I think about it the less it works in my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first thought about it, I was picturing a wiki page forming when a tag got popular enough that was displaying the top questions and such, but then I quickly realized that this is already being done for EVERY tag already just by the tag homepage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your part about taking answers and adding them to the common wiki page doesn't work IMHO because adding answers without the proper context of the question it is answering doesn't make a whole lot of sense. You just have a bunch of answers that aren't really answering anything anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this was something more along the lines of a FAQ page being generated where users could then post common practices as far as questions and answers are concerned, then MAYBE, but I find it to be so rare of a necessity that it doesn't make any real sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearly everything concerning a tag can be handled directly from the tag's own homepage already. I think this is more than sufficient for someone interested in finding out all the really popular information that has been squirreled away in that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:44:52.827" />
  <row Id="24233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24226" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:46:25.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plural usage probably is used to indicate that the question involves more than one framework, possible for comparison or contrast purposes.  This is a common problem among such general-use tags. Compare also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plural more common:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;packages&lt;/strong&gt; (115) vs &lt;strong&gt;package&lt;/strong&gt; (59) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;programming-languages&lt;/strong&gt; (853) vs &lt;strong&gt;programming-language&lt;/strong&gt; (1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;functions&lt;/strong&gt; (427) vs &lt;strong&gt;function&lt;/strong&gt; (420)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;methods&lt;/strong&gt; (236) vs &lt;strong&gt;method&lt;/strong&gt; (174)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;namespaces&lt;/strong&gt; (293) vs &lt;strong&gt;namespace&lt;/strong&gt; (162)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;variables&lt;/strong&gt; (439) vs &lt;strong&gt;variable&lt;/strong&gt; (180)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Singular more common:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;language&lt;/strong&gt; (268) vs &lt;strong&gt;languages&lt;/strong&gt; (52)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;class&lt;/strong&gt; (802) vs &lt;strong&gt;classes&lt;/strong&gt; (223)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;library&lt;/strong&gt; (1101) vs &lt;strong&gt;libraries&lt;/strong&gt; (16)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;file&lt;/strong&gt; (928) vs &lt;strong&gt;files&lt;/strong&gt; (760)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something else needs to be done wrt the plurality issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:46:25.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24228" CreationDate="2009-10-01T19:59:05.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;which browser are you using? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JavaScript performance varies radically from browser to browser. For example, Google Chrome and Safari are blazing fast, Firefox is so-so, and IE is brutally slow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T19:59:05.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T20:06:27.243" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to find a better way to be notified when someone replies to a comment or question I make on StackOverflow, because right now I have to go through a few pages to figure out where I wrote, and if they were updated.  And the &quot;recent&quot; tab only goes so far...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it legal to run a crawler on the site to get that info?  Or is there an api to get that info yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you manage this stuff right now, those of you who are answering millions of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136662" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:20:54.727" Title="Streaming Updates to StackOverflow Questions" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24235" CreationDate="2009-10-01T20:14:15.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no public API released as of yet (although if I am understanding correctly, it is in development. Expect it in 6 to 8 weeks). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is ILLEGAL to run a crawler over the site, but you run the risk of getting IP banned if you start to use up a lot of resources (this happened in the past). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One method that you could keep on top of things is by using the RSS feeds which are available for Questions, Users, Tags. Just about anything you could need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:14:15.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24230" CreationDate="2009-10-01T20:18:23.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackQL to the rescue:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=292&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/?qid=292&lt;/a&gt; (Warning: it takes a few moments to run the query).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the sql it runs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DECLARE @Tag varchar(20) &#xA;Set @Tag = 'c#' &#xA;&#xA;SELECT a.ID As AnswerID, a.Score, q.Title, a.Body, &#xA;    a.OwnerUserId, COALESCE(a.LastEditDate, a.CreationDate) LastChange &#xA;FROM Posts a &#xA;INNER JOIN Posts q ON q.ID=a.ParentID AND q.PostTypeID=1 &#xA;INNER JOIN PostsTags pt ON pt.PostID=q.ID AND pt.Tag = @Tag &#xA;WHERE a.PostTypeID=2 &#xA;ORDER BY a.Score DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy enough to change that for any particular tag you care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T20:53:36.590" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:53:36.590" />
  <row Id="24239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24235" CreationDate="2009-10-01T20:20:54.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's one of the most needed things in here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, the only way I've found of keeping track is to put the questions you're interested in, in your bookmarks (S-3 active question), and revisit them from time to time. Primitive, ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T20:20:54.727" />
  <row Id="24240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:00:55.590" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope I don't get really flamed for this, but I actually &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; the idea of the sponsored tags.  Not so much the fact that they are &lt;em&gt;sponsored&lt;/em&gt; (I don't care if somebody's paying for them or not) as much as the fact that some tags have icons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see more of these: a windows logo for windows tags, a penguin on linux tags, the Python logo on Python tags etc.  I think it adds to the site (no pun intended), and gives an additional visual cue regarding the scope of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if people would be bothered by it if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it wasn't advertising, just the first in a series of icons that are on the way, unrelated to advertising.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it didn't appear on ignored tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:46:10.000" Title="Add more &quot;sponsored&quot; tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24240" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:10:06.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd go for it. Don't really care about the icons on the tags themselves, but the little header thing is nice. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing, for instance, a set of good&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; jQuery and JavaScript references at the top when &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jquery&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;jquery&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;sub&gt;no links to w3schools please!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:10:06.463" />
  <row Id="24242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24258" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:18:24.560" Score="26" ViewCount="2413" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a forward, this is not about whether or not code golf is valid on Stack Overflow. If you argue against this, you're arguing against a mound of evidence, and you should be arguing in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20912/so-weekly-code-golf&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20736/what-is-code-golf-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; about this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people (myself included) seem to be of the opinion that code golf questions, in and of themselves, are acceptable. Most people (again, myself included) also seem to be of the opinion that there is a certain frequency at which there are too many code golf questions being asked too quickly, or of &quot;too low quality.&quot; Also brought up is whether or not low-reputation users should ask code golf questions, as they are not as well established in the community (which is the entire point of code golf).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in light of this, I suggest we discuss (and hopefully establish) a rule or guideline concerning the asking of code golf questions. Post answers suggesting metrics you think should be used to govern code golf, and upvote answers that you think are best. That way, we'll get a community consensus on what is &quot;too much&quot; or &quot;too low quality&quot; code golf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points to address (reiterated to put them all in one easy-to-grok place):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How far apart, time wise, should code golf questions be? What frequency of code golf questions per your favorite period of time do you think is an acceptable &lt;em&gt;maximum&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should the quality of a code golf question be evaluated? Should quality be an important factor in determining whether or not a code golf question is allowed? (Note: I know this can easily be subjective, but all the rules about what is &quot;appropriate&quot; for code golf are subjective. Just because it's subjective doesn't mean we can't get good guidelines or ideas on how to answer it.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the asker be taken into account when evaluating a code golf question for appropriateness? What guidelines should be used for that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What actions, if any, should (or can) be taken to inform new users about code golf rules?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Add this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the minimum specification requirements for a code golf question? I don't think this is subjective, because it's impossible to answer a code golf question without knowing certain things, so this one shouldn't be easy. However, it is a separate issue from the quality discussed in point 2. That point is intended to deal with the quality of the &lt;em&gt;challenge&lt;/em&gt;, not the quality of the challenge's specifications. I think should separate &quot;well-asked code golf&quot; from &quot;good code golf&quot; and evaluate (and treat) each separately. If you disagree, of course, say so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="135301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-01T21:28:58.147" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T14:30:40.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T05:15:24.500" Title="Acceptable level of code golf questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rules&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;&lt;guidelines&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="12" />
  <row Id="24243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24017" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:19:07.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question appears to be a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements&quot;&gt;User script to remove SO sponsored tag advertisements.&lt;/a&gt;. Additionally the source code posted is a &lt;strong&gt;copy/paste&lt;/strong&gt; of the code linked in the aforementioned post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It would be appropriate to credit the original author.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130911" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:19:07.570" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:27:22.097" Score="19" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff said I should ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi Jeff,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read your &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-flash-mobs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow blog post&lt;/a&gt; about the R folks getting together&#xA;to push R content into Stackoverflow. I'm a maintainer of the Perl&#xA;docs and would like to push the perlfaq into Stackoverflow too. We&#xA;already have all the questions and the answers, a bit over 300 in&#xA;total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to put these into Stackoverflow, considering&#xA;issues of rep, community wiki, etc? Would you like me to create&#xA;another user for these, tag them in some special way, etc? Would you&#xA;like something you can import into the database directly, or can I&#xA;write a posting robot to do it for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136666" LastEditorUserId="136666" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-11T22:42:47.073" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T16:03:53.947" Title="Can we import the perlfaq into Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:35:11.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely think you should create another user. 300 Perl questions with good answers is an easy silver badge, and almost assuredly a gold badge too, and there aren't a whole lot of Perl programmers on Stack Overflow, so even spreading that workload out would give a lot of people a lot of badges, to say nothing for rep. Plus, it'd be funny to occasionally have someone's question answered by user &lt;code&gt;perlfaq&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:35:11.957" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:35:14.640" Score="0" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does it check if the answer is modified or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T13:52:52.780" Title="How does SO implement the diff efficiently?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24226" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:36:21.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of them are asking about a given framework, but don't have the given framework as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1490456/strataframe-net-framework&quot;&gt;Strataframe .NET framework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which currently has the tags &lt;code&gt;[frameworks]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[visual-studio-2008]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1458758/the-milos-framework-from-eps&quot;&gt;The Milos Framework from EPS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;currently tagged: &lt;code&gt;[frameworks]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/963532/web-development-frameworks-zend-framework-vs-ruby-on-rails-vs-asp-net-mvc&quot;&gt;Web Development Frameworks: Zend Framework vs Ruby on Rails vs ASP.NET MVC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;currently tagged &lt;code&gt;[web-development]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[subjective]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions that do have the given framework as a tag, don't really need either tag. They also usually have the &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; tag immediately following the the name of the framework. Which suggests that they may have put the &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; tag on without thinking about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1480005/java-spring-modular-application-design&quot;&gt;Java Spring Modular Application Design&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[java]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[spring]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[web-development]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1478072/entity-framework-new-entities-with-new-children-cannot-be-added-with-savechange&quot;&gt;Entity Framework - New entities with new children cannot be added with savechanges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[entity]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[savechanges]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[context]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[c#]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1477136/how-to-use-zendform-in-a-layout-script&quot;&gt;How to use Zend_Form in a layout script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[zend]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[form]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some that seem to be appropriate to have &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1453174/restful-framework-alternatives-to-wcf&quot;&gt;RESTful framework alternatives to WCF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[wcf]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[restful]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[.net]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1450555/is-it-efficient-to-use-css-frame-works-if-so-which-one-is-best-or-any-comparis&quot;&gt;Is it efficient to use css frame works? If so, which one is best? Or any comparison comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[css]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[css-frameworks]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449503/erp-framework-to-use-in-development&quot;&gt;ERP Framework to use in development?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[erp]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[enterprise-library]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are those that apparently just added the tag because it was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1439302/anyone-know-the-click-framework&quot;&gt;Anyone know the Click Framework ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[apache]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[click-framework]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~framework~&quot;&gt;3,789 questions that have a tag matching &lt;code&gt;[*framework*]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; only &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/framework+or+frameworks&quot;&gt;934 of them have either &lt;code&gt;[framework]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[frameworks]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go out on a limb here, and question whether we even need either tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:36:21.563" />
  <row Id="24249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24240" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:42:07.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of the problem is because of a bunch of users are incredibly anti-ads in all ways and will find any excuse to hate them. I imagine that if you suddenly had PHP icons on php tags and Visual Studio icons on visual studio tags, etc. etc., you wouldn't see all of this animus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is sort of hard to weigh in on your request to &quot;add more&quot; seeing as how that is entirely dependent on the sponsors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:42:07.917" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:45:33.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;W.R.T. modified or not -- my money is on a hash of the before text compared to a hash of the edited text.  If they're the same, it wasn't edited (or more accurately &quot;statistically unlikely it was edited&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for the diff itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:45:33.950" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:51:37.340" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are posting so many questions as your faq, you should probably post them as Community Wiki.  That way more people can join in editing them, and you won't get annoyed users trying to close your questions because they think that you are farming for rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:51:37.340" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-01T21:54:42.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a regular Perl questioner, ::waves @ brian::, I'd love to see this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T21:54:42.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-01T22:06:20.247" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have wanted to see more activity about Perl, on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, currently there are less questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[perl]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; than tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[delphi]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be a step on the way to that goal. It also could be very problematic if not done correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would suggest &lt;strong&gt;slowly&lt;/strong&gt; adding questions, to start out with. That way if there is any backlash, it would be easier to manage. This would also help with the process of learning how the questions should be set up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T22:06:20.247" />
  <row Id="24254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24257" CreationDate="2009-10-01T22:06:55.923" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question and I'm interested in any potential answers (it seems like it might become a tumbleweed).  I saw the checkbox for &quot;notify (email) daily of any new answers &quot; - but how do I use it?  I already submitted the question, so I can't re-post the question, and I don't see an update button or anything to enable this notification feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Call me stupid, but how do I use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134396" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T22:32:27.267" Title="how to use email notification after question is posted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24254" CreationDate="2009-10-01T22:32:27.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you entered an e-mail address in your profile? Click on your profile and then &quot;edit&quot; to check/enter one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have then you should see a check box followed by the words &quot;Notify [email@example.com]  daily of any new answers&quot; at the bottom of the page. You should be able to select this at any time after the question was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you enable the option you can edit the e-mail address to something else if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T22:32:27.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24242" CreationDate="2009-10-01T22:37:55.570" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frequency:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too many &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'code-golf'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-golf&lt;/a&gt;s too fast, distracts from the main mission of the site and from the attention that can be paid to each contest. Please don't post if your question would be the third one in any given seven day period&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Non-negotiable requirements:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An indication of what the winning criterion is, either &quot;shortest code&quot; or &quot;shortest source code&quot;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The choice of wording allows the question poster to decide if object code entries (machine code, bytecode, etc.) should count.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the winning criterion is something other than code brevity, then it's not a code golf, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-challenge&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'code-challenge'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-challenge&lt;/a&gt; tag should be used instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality:&lt;/strong&gt; A good code golf should&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be thoroughly specified&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be simple enough to be understood fully in two quick readings of the spec&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;admit rapid naive implementations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be complex enough to admit more than one reasonable way to accomplish it, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have built-in-to-some-languages solutions excluded (i.e. no &lt;code&gt;eval&lt;/code&gt; for arithmetic parsers and the like)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not be optimized for one language or one class of languages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not be too closely related to others we've done recently&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;solve a class of problems rather than a single instance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to answer the second half (should quality effect closability) because I feel that I've said my piece already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low rep users:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users are strongly discouraged from posting code golf questions until they fully understand the specific circumstances under which these challenges are considered appropriate. You have been warned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Specification:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good thing to specify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should the solutions be bare functions or complete programs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;input spec.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;output spec.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a clear description of how the input and output should be related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;explicit statement of any error checking or recovery that should be performed (because fragile solutions are, well, par for the course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;test inputs with expected output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things you are discouraged from specifing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;limits on or description of the process that should be applied to get from input to output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please include an advisory link to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual tags for code golf questions are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'code-golf'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;code-golf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rosetta-stone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'rosetta-stone'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rosetta-stone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/language-agnostic&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'language-agnostic'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;language-agnostic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and possibly something relevant to the problem posed &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="153011" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-02T14:30:40.497" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T14:30:40.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T05:11:28.983" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="24259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2009-10-01T22:43:14.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting questions should be reflecting that people who ask questions which lead to good answers are contributing to the knowledge base of the site. This currently is not working well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a problem with all such sites. I was just over on a site based on a model very much like SO. This site is still very new so it is not being flooded with questions. I asked two very basic questions (the type that should be in any wiki about the subject) neither had been asked on the website (and before someone comments they happened to be questions I didn't know the answer too). Both questions received answers and those answers received votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone wrote that often the question is not useful to them so they don't upvote it, but that the answer to that same question is useful, so they upvote the answer to that same quetion. Is that really the system working as intended? How wasn't the question helpful in that it was what led to the helpful answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasonable solutions I can think of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encourage those answering questions to upvote with a reminder if they have not already. Perhaps even a suggested list on how to evaluate questions (question is of wide interest, question adds to the technical knowledge base of SO, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, all answers should give some value (even if less than an actual upvote). Given that questions can be closed (which should remove points given for that question) and people can use comments (which probably should be used far more then downvoting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another approach would be when someone upvotes an answer to have the fly out ask about and allow voting on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet another that answers who do not rate the question do not receive full points for their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T22:43:14.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T22:43:14.267" />
  <row Id="24261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24242" CreationDate="2009-10-01T22:56:41.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How far apart, time wise, should code&#xA;  golf questions be? What frequency of&#xA;  code golf questions per your favorite&#xA;  period of time do you think is an&#xA;  acceptable maximum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no maximum, &lt;em&gt;if the questions are quality ones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should the quality of a code golf&#xA;  question be evaluated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it survives community scrutiny without getting closed, it's a quality question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should the asker be taken into account&#xA;  when evaluating a code golf question&#xA;  for appropriateness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not.  Do you look at a user's profile before you upvote or downvote them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What actions, if any, should (or can)&#xA;  be taken to inform new users about&#xA;  code golf rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these rules become part of the Official FAQ, you can post a link to the Code Golf FAQ in a comment to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T22:56:41.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-05T22:32:47.653" />
  <row Id="24262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:00:06.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've managed to break the addiction.  I didn't even feel bad when I fell off the first page at SO and SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After having not visited for quite some time, and coming back into a few interestingly meta questions, I'm thinking, &quot;Uh oh... I'd better leave before I start up again...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/checks to see if rep has gone up at any of the four sites...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:00:06.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-01T23:00:06.683" />
  <row Id="24264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24240" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:04:16.257" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that more would make them &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; distracting. Though it might take a while to get used to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sticking them on the ignored tags would be a nice touch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:04:16.257" />
  <row Id="24265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:04:44.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have to say, nice idea, I'm looking forward to this!  My opinion on the particulars:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Create a new user&lt;/strong&gt; in preference to posting them yourself, although I don't really have strong feelings on this one way or another, others might see this as more &quot;fair&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use a robot&lt;/strong&gt; rather than asking for DB insertion, since that allows for the same community involvement as regular posts.  I'd say rate-limit the robot, for example 10 posts a day, spaced at one every 2 hours, and we're still done in about a month.  This will also help to make sure the non-Perl crowd aren't confused and infuriated by the import.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The posts should definitely be community wiki.&lt;/strong&gt;  That's another reason to rate-limit the import, to make sure us Perl folks can keep an eye on things and make sure nobody abuses the CW nature of these pages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag them all &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;perl-faq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, this tag is currently unused.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T12:03:04.633" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T12:03:04.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:08:59.103" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about instead of closing questions some questions can be 'flagged' in other ways?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about instead of closing questions as the main tool available, some questions can be 'flagged' in other ways? For instance, why not allow mods or those with enough rep to vote on a question as entertainment? The result of a question being flagged as entertainment would be to cap or eliminate the rep earned by populist questions such as the &quot;Jon Skeet Facts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:37:42.873" Title="How about instead of closing questions some questions can be 'flagged' in other ways?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24266" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:17:38.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can turn a question into a CW, this will prevent any rep on &quot;fun&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A feature like this could encourage people to post questions that don't have a clear answer, since there is a feature that relates to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:17:38.493" />
  <row Id="24268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24242" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:23:33.833" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, Chris beat me to posting it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I prepared this for my 'complain' for the recent code golf bomb. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://liranuna.com/junk/so-golf-bomb.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marked in yellow are my questions. Blue are 'other users'. &#xA;The reason the challenge &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1407422/code-golf-seven-segments&quot;&gt;Seven Segment&lt;/a&gt; was ranked relatively low was because I added a rule where you cannot use eval or system, mainly to prevent the use of figlet. But people seemed to hate restrictions, so now I design my questions to not impose limitations, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1480023/code-golf-lasers&quot;&gt;Lasers&lt;/a&gt;, which I consider highly successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130066" LastEditorUserId="130066" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T00:38:25.430" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T00:38:25.430" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:24:16.827" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is causing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look for the red circle in the picture below.  The word UpdateModel is being repeated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link where you can see it live:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+is+correct+behavior+of+updatemodel&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+is+correct+behavior+of+updatemodel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i38.tinypic.com/33lk18k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T02:47:15.973" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T02:47:15.973" Title="Words being Repeated in Question Index Description" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24242" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:29:43.683" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only going to pose one question as an answer to one of the points:  When is Jeff adding &quot;Reason for closing: Already too many code golfs this week&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can subjectively up/down-vote or vote to close a code golf on any other merit*, but you can't police the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; on how frequently code golf questions are asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* Might be neither here nor there, but I'll agree that the code golf I posted was fairly shitty.  It sounded good in my head, but after I actually wrote it out it was clear how poor of a question it was.  I'd just as soon have the question deleted, frankly, but I don't think that can happen with how many answers there are already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:29:43.683" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24266" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:37:42.873" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The result of a question being flagged as entertainment would be to cap or eliminate the rep earned by populist questions such as the &quot;Jon Skeet Facts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep isn't the biggest problem - no one gained massive amounts of reputation from that question, since it turned CW early on. Now it's on Meta, so no one's getting SO rep for it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem is simply noise. Closing isn't the solution to that, either - deletion is. Closing is sort of a staging area, where bad questions sit until someone gets around to deleting or improving them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is truly inappropriate, flag it for moderator attention - that feature exists &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, and moderators can put a question and all responses into CW (no rep) mode, move them to a more appropriate site, or instantly delete them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:37:42.873" />
  <row Id="24272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24240" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:46:10.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding image icons to non-sponsored tags would completely remove the incentive for an advertiser to sponsor &quot;their&quot; set of tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose you add the Microsoft flag to each MS technology tag. Aside from the questionable use of trademark, wouldn't Adobe feel a bit slighted that they had to arrange to sponsor their tags? And then where's the incentive for Microsoft to sponsor their tags which already have the flag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:46:10.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24269" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:52:42.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search is highlighting the term &quot;UpdateModel&quot; for you because that's what you searched for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-01T23:52:42.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24279" CreationDate="2009-10-01T23:55:49.970" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested primarily in .NET technologies. However, those technologies break down into quite a few tags, among them Silverlight, Silverlight 3.0, C#, C# 3.5, C# 4.0, XAML, .NET, .NET 3.5, LINQ, WPF, etc., etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would someone give me a walk though about how I'm supposed to find the questions that are of interest to me? I presume there is a better way than checking each tag individually? Is there really no better method then clicking on newest then an individual tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also interested in other information on how to use the site effectively. The FAQ isn't very helpful in this, so any links you have would be appreciated. I'll do my best to upvote any answers that add information. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T08:56:01.427" Title="Can someone point me to information on how to use the SO site effectively?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="24275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24274" CreationDate="2009-10-02T00:09:38.960" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are a few tips, hope they help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use the search options.&lt;/strong&gt; There is no specific rule for tag names, and there is tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg-closed&quot;&gt;reorganizing&lt;/a&gt; going on. So finding all the tags you are interested in can be a challenge. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does help is the search box. If you didn't know about the many cool options it has, then check it out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also click &quot;Ask Question&quot; and use the tag box there as a search box for tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related questions list.&lt;/strong&gt; A great way to find questions you're interested in besides tags, is the related questions list on the righthand side. Find a question you like and check there, and check that question's list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The FAQ Tag.&lt;/strong&gt; Regarding on how to use the site effectively, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; tag here. It has many great questions regarding the everyday usage of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T00:09:38.960" />
  <row Id="24277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T01:15:31.993" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We a unique opportunity to promote your brand&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't read right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133351" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T02:32:12.290" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T02:32:12.290" Title="typo in advertiser's ad" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-02T01:18:55.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I may not be an adobe fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sponsored tags are not OK.  Advertising is OK, just don't f**k with the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, I'm sure I don't need to remind you that StackOverFlow is all about the content.  And that content is only valuable when it has a perceived credibility.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I posted a question like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Flex, blah blah blah?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, I was reasonably confident that the answers I got were genuine on SO.  However, an answer with a sponored tag?  Not so sure anymore.  What might happen to an answer like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Flex is a pile of shit in that scenario.  Here's why...&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;?  A sly downvote because it might piss off the tag sponsor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely, there are smarter ways to monertise this site without destroying the only value you have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T11:12:46.243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T11:12:46.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24274" CreationDate="2009-10-02T01:32:04.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Ólafur's suggestions, use Google as the SO home page.  Enter a search term in Google and use the &quot;site:&quot; search axis to limit it to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;c# .net site:stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;silverlight xaml site:stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.net site:stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T01:32:04.567" />
  <row Id="24280" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T01:54:26.383" Score="3" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on SO, whether it allows Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and other companies logos to its related tags, will become something like a big carnival - Imagine many company tags in different colors. If possible, remove them from SO. If do not, put it in black and white instead color. SO is better in a clean and efficient design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136678" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T02:57:30.917" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:15:25.730" Title="Is it possible REMOVE ADOBE LOGO from its related tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24280" CreationDate="2009-10-02T02:17:01.193" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it is part of an advertising campaign (&quot;sponsored tags&quot;), most likely you'll see more of this.  The reaction has been more positive than negative from what I can tell, so I'm guessing you should prepare yourself for more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See a pretty big post on this topic here.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23955/adobe-sponsored-tags&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23955/adobe-sponsored-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T02:28:11.500" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T02:28:11.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24277" CreationDate="2009-10-02T02:18:40.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidently a word.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&amp;laquo;fixed&amp;raquo;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T02:18:40.503" />
  <row Id="24284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T02:35:33.127" Score="19" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1427200/most-efficient-way-to-grow-an-array-in-java/1427244#1427244&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I posted a few links that I formatted using backtics.  Because of the new background color and the way the links are formatted it isn't clear right away that they are clickable. (It just looks like they are being syntax highlighted the same way code blocks are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out by rcartaino, hovering over the link does not show an underline like regular links.  The only visual clue a user is given that it's a link is the cursor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend that links formatted as code should be underlined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(These results come from Firefox 3.5, and Chrome 3.  Underline works in Opera and IE 7)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-22T06:13:00.903" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T06:13:00.903" Title="Make links in monospaced format look more like links" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-02T02:52:47.743" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be better in black and white. As said in another answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IT DRAWS MY ATTENTION AWAY from more important things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136678" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T02:52:47.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24284" CreationDate="2009-10-02T03:19:09.050" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Opera they look like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/CFFk2.png&quot; alt=&quot;coded links&quot; title=&quot;links from coded blocks&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hover style with the underline is there, along with the colour. But the link looks like a syntax-highlighted keyword, which is missing out on the visual distinction of it being a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T03:19:09.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T03:36:57.210" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/464022/when-to-use-and-not-to-use-each-development-paradigm&quot;&gt;a question about paradigms&lt;/a&gt; quite a while ago, and got zero useful answers. Since the question is an accumulator-type question (subjective and opinion but not a poll) I would like to offer a bounty for every (decent) answer provided (over and above the +1-thanks-for-contributing courtesy upvote), but of course this feature does not exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody else want this kind of feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: for the referenced question, I would expect that there are a dozen or so paradigms worth mentioning, some of which i have no experience with at all, so I'd like to offer 50 or 100 points per answer to help get the information &quot;out there&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could ask a dozen or so questions, one per paradigm, but I'm way too &lt;strike&gt;lazy&lt;/strike&gt; busy for that, plus I may overlook a paradigm or two that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: this is not a request for &quot;supervotes&quot;, it's more like a multi-accept with a bounty. [though i like the idea of 'supervotes' for different purposes]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-26T17:32:28.853" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T17:32:28.853" Title="Provide a bounty per answer, not just for accepted answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2009-10-02T03:51:07.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i like this suggestion in its intent, but it could just be the ability to award a 'bonus' along with a single regular upvote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;of course, this could result in the system being gamed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T03:51:07.620" />
  <row Id="24289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2737" CreationDate="2009-10-02T04:47:31.057" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Foreground coloration for syntax on inline code would be okay (I lived without out it just fine), but I really hate the background coloration. Inline code is &lt;em&gt;inline&lt;/em&gt; because it's supposed to flow with the enclosing text. Changing the background color destroys that continuity and impairs readability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2737/code-coloring-for-inline-code-in-answers/2746#2746&quot;&gt;Perspx&lt;/a&gt;: inline code isn't really for &quot;code&quot;, at least not for code complex enough to benefit from syntactic analysis. It's just to set apart keywords, identifiers, and options from surrounding text. If it's more complex than that, make it a block quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135396" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T04:47:31.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24242" CreationDate="2009-10-02T04:54:38.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We seem to have a really good answer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24242/acceptable-level-of-code-golf-questions/24258#24258&quot;&gt;dmckee&lt;/a&gt;, and I agree with almost anything he said, so reposting all his answers is fruitless. However, I would like to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What actions, if any, should (or can) be taken to inform new users about code golf rules?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think (this is me) that this question, with dmckee's answer probably accepted fairly soon, should be part of the FAQ if possible. I also think that code golf questions (preferably all) should link to them, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See the Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24242/acceptable-level-of-code-golf-questions&quot;&gt;unofficial policy on code golf&lt;/a&gt; before posting your own code golf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sort of how the system edits questions to contain &quot;Cosed as duplicate: [link]&quot; when they're closed, only I wouldn't want to bother Jeff to add to the system, so it can be self-enforced. Hopefully this way, no one will read a bunch of code golf questions and think &quot;I'm gonna make my own!&quot; without seeing the link to the (un)official guidelines that we expect them to follow. I think that will help keep the number of code golf questions reasonable and keep the quality high. If they're all supposed to be Community Wiki anyway, it's fairly trivial to edit that line (or some variation) into code golf questions. That way, anyone who enjoys code golf will have no excuse for not knowing what Stack Overflow users expect from a code golf question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T04:54:38.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T05:15:48.773" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24292" CreationDate="2009-10-02T05:26:14.887" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20736/what-is-code-golf-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What is &amp;ldquo;code golf&amp;rdquo; on stack overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am been using Stackoverflow for quite few time now and recently my question was given comment as code golf questions ? and I was not quite sure of what actually it is and so I wanted to know what does it mean when question is been marked as code golf question ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134960" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T05:29:06.800" ClosedDate="2009-10-02T05:58:07.560" Title="What does it mean when question is tagged as code golf question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24291" CreationDate="2009-10-02T05:29:06.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20736/what-is-code-golf-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Look here&lt;/a&gt;. Also, you should try to search (Meta) Stack Overflow before asking a question - it might have already been asked (like this case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T05:29:06.800" />
  <row Id="24293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2582" CreationDate="2009-10-02T05:50:26.310" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is perfect - it rounds out the 2x2 matrix of sites (not counting meta): discussions on the use of software (SU), on the use of hardware (SF), on the making of software (SO) and the making of hardware (oO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T05:50:26.310" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-02T06:55:39.620" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that everybody agrees that the posts should be community wiki. However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24244/can-we-import-the-perlfaq-into-stackoverflow/24246#24246&quot;&gt;Chris&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24244/can-we-import-the-perlfaq-into-stackoverflow/24265#24265&quot;&gt;Adam&lt;/a&gt; also propose creating a new user for this. I think that is not necessary, and in fact not desirable, for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By posting CW questions and answers, Brian will not receive any rep points anyway. But, as the maintainer of the Perl faq he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; spend a lot of time on this, so the few badges that he may receive by posting using his own account are &lt;em&gt;very much deserved&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; Brian will create a new account, then it will not be as easy/convenient for him to keep track of any new answers and comments on/edits of the &lt;code&gt;[perl-faq]&lt;/code&gt; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T06:55:39.620" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24297" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:14:10.290" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realized it doesn't happen to everyone, which begs the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or are there issues with entering backslashes in the answer editor? Whenever I press backslash (which is Alt Gr and plus, the key to the right of the '0' in the top row, on a typical &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%5Flayout#Swedish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swedish keyboard)&lt;/a&gt;, I get the text &quot;enter code here&quot;, surrounded by backticks. The text is selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, this makes entering e.g. C code and regular expressions painful, since I have to copy and paste each backslash (when in Windows, the command prompt is a good source for backslashes) into the answer editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, this happens every time in Windows. Not sure about Linux, will have to test that later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135651" LastEditorUserId="135651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T07:19:36.970" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:23:51.503" Title="Why am I unable to enter backslashes in answers?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24301" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:23:34.700" Score="0" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google Wave is an extremely cool technology and Stack Overflow could be even better by integrating features from Google Wave. Add suggestions on what you think we could learn from Google Wave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:52:10.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T07:33:25.463" Title="What can Stack Overflow learn from Google Wave?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24295" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:23:51.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22alt+gr%22&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22alt+gr%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:23:51.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24302" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:23:59.023" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I turned 18 a few months ago, and haven't been on Stack Overflow for a while. But I was surprised to see when I took a look at my profile today, the age field hasn't updated despite the fact I actually inputted my date of birth rather than my actual age. It isn't updating when I hit edit and save it again, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87349" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T07:35:43.447" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:23:44.443" Title="Age not updating on profile" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;dates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24296" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:27:26.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ability for thread to be marked as read or unread is extremely cool (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/450/bookmark-mark-as-unread&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;). The use of discrete green labeling to mark threads as unread is very nice. Spacebar in Google wave takes you to the next thing you haven't read (even taking you to another question if you were browsing a list). Something like that could allow me to review the answers to a question twice as fast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:27:26.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T07:33:25.463" />
  <row Id="24300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24298" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:33:59.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait a couple of hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is based on UTC and will count the years on your birthday cake based on that. So it might still be yesterday where you live based on timezones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:33:59.427" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24296" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:34:06.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Real-time collaboration is extremely cool, if disconcerting to start with. Obviously SO doesn't have the sort of resources (either human or machine) of the Wave team, but it would at least be &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt; to have the option of making your answer visible to others as you were typing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also love to be able to write a robot which could automatically link to bits of the .NET framework documentation or JavaDoc, but that sort of level of integration would be pretty tricky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's more likely that it'll be feasible to write a Wave robot to read and post to Stack Overflow... which may give at least some of the benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:34:06.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T07:34:06.820" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24298" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:35:05.617" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without revealing your actual birthdate, it still hasn't happened this year according to what I as a moderator can see in your profile -- it's not for quite a few more days yet in fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;unless you are posting this from the future!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:35:05.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24296" CreationDate="2009-10-02T07:52:10.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The presence of a double organisation system - folders and tags is an extremely useful feature. Tags are basically what the community uses to organise, while folders lets a user organise questions themselves. I would like to organise the questions I've read in folders so that I could review them again later. Favourites are okay, but I don't think it scales so well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T07:52:10.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T07:52:10.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4080" CreationDate="2009-10-02T08:13:10.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to second this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently been trying to make my questions &quot;community wiki&quot;, only to discover that I get no rep for the question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TBH, I don't think it matters that much if only the OP gets rep from the question. As is pointed out above, after a certain point everyone can edit any question, at which point all questions effectively become community wiki questions, yet we don't have any problems dividing rep up there do we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the rep model for wiki questions the same as normal questions - yes, it's slightly unfair for those who edit it later, but really, in the grand scheme of things, who cares?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a carrot or a stick. Create some extra small incentive to persuade people to make questions community owned. Perhaps wiki questions gain 1 extra point or rep? or perhaps normal questions gain 1 point less? It doesn't need to be anything drastic, just enough to nudge people in the right direction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wiki feature has the possibility of being a huge bonus to the SO scheme - we've already seen numerous examples of the fact that the wiki model works, so why not embrace it properly? At the moment it just feels like a half-hearted bolt-on. Hell, why not make &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions community wiki? What have you got to lose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134933" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T08:13:10.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T08:13:10.150" />
  <row Id="24305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T08:17:12.547" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the grey background colour has been added to inline code, links are quite hard to spot.&#xA;When linking to a function's documentation I usually do it like this since it is a function it seems to belong in a code block to me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[`number_format()`](http://php.net/number_format)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which displays as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://php.net/number%5Fformat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;number_format()&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually even worse on MSO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T08:16:18.580" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T06:43:54.260" Title="Make links in code more prominent" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;style&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24280" CreationDate="2009-10-02T08:39:17.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really don't like them, here you'll find how to get rid of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there is also an answer to that question that provides an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements/24073#24073&quot;&gt;alternative image&lt;/a&gt;. So you could create the B/W one yourself and replace it with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T08:39:17.420" />
  <row Id="24307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24274" CreationDate="2009-10-02T08:40:15.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the right sidebar you have the option to set your interesting tags. They are highlighted for you then.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2842/highlightspade.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21717/a-greasemonkey-script-to-make-browsing-interesting-tags-easier&quot;&gt;this Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; to improve the handling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T08:56:01.427" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T08:56:01.427" />
  <row Id="24308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T08:44:45.363" Score="4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support the need to generate income and Jeff et al. do a really great job of making it work. But I was just thinking about the extension of this &quot;tag buying&quot; advertising...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about the tags that don't have a natural sponsor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;W3C icons for CSS HTML?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;algorithm?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TDD?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will these just get lost in the sea of &quot;shiny&quot; logos and make the tags seem a little less important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T09:00:11.640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T14:45:34.787" Title="What about tags that don't have a natural sponsor?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24308" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:02:51.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Tough cookies&quot; for them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sponsored tags cost money--they should stand out from the rest.  They are arguable worth less if all/most tags have icons.   Also, there is no need have all tags sporting a little image just because. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:02:51.337" />
  <row Id="24310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24280" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:15:25.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great experiment that has the potential to vastly increase the profitability of SO and the other &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; sites in the trilogy. The said logos are simple png images which should be easy to block if you are really that bothered by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend the logos in tags to be not B&amp;amp;W but grayscale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe (and hope), as this experiment evolves, the SO team will address the issue of search results lighting up like a Christmas tree with logos by limiting the places where a logo will be shown and the number of different logos on a page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are lucky enough to, say, have Microsoft sponsors the &lt;code&gt;internet-explorer&lt;/code&gt; tag and Sun sponsor the &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt; tag, they will have to figure out a way to decide what to do for questions with both tags anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:15:25.730" />
  <row Id="24311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:15:41.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm almost 100% sure that they use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%5Fcommon%5Fsubsequence%5Fproblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Longest Common Subsequence&lt;/a&gt; algorithm to find changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:15:41.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24308" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:17:37.553" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't expect there will be &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; many sponsored tags at any given time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could be wrong, but the idea that &quot;the tags list will look like Times Square&quot; is a little hysterically overblown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:17:37.553" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34109" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:25:24.527" Score="5" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read through &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt; and a few searches but can't find much information about how the team built the revision side to the software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What libraries or resources were used, if any, to build the revisioning and allow it to recognise HTML and none-HTML changes? Or is that a trade secret?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T06:35:56.057" Title="What revision library does stackoverflow use?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="24314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22972" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:29:14.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all these years of writing blog posts by hand (including typing out all the HTML tags) I have never really understood the purpose of the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I am a HTML neanderthal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:29:14.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22972" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:36:20.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW: I have always thought that &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; should work as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;dl&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;dt&amp;gt;pony&amp;lt;/dt&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;dd&amp;gt;any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less &#xA;    than five feet high at the shoulder&amp;lt;/dd&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;...&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/dl&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because an item in a glossary consists both of the term and its definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:36:20.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:42:06.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a truly great idea. The Perl community would benefit from this and stackoverflow would benefit. Win-win!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions shouldn't flood the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somehow we need to have an eye on what gets done to all those questions and answers. They might be edited in an unhelpful way, they might get flagged as duplicates. Some of them might no even be programming related if you are very strict. I guess this could be most easily accomplished by having members of the community &quot;adopt&quot; a couple of questions each.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:42:06.493" />
  <row Id="24317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24305" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:53:48.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please be careful with underlining those links though, since that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; make underscores in links in code hard to read. If it does, may I suggest judicious use of &lt;code&gt;padding-bottom&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;border-bottom&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T09:53:48.607" />
  <row Id="24318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24244" CreationDate="2009-10-02T09:56:43.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great idea as it would also allow closing questions that are answered in the FAQ as exact duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend (as the maintainer of the FAQ) brian use his own account to do this using a robot and make the questions CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of us will have to keep a keen eye on edits to these questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming not all the edits made on SO will make it to the release version of the FAQ list. In that case, how would one keep the SO version in sync with the release version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I just read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-flash-mobs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post brian mentioned&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the first hour, participants will pair up to claim a question, formulate it on StackOverflow, and provide a comprehensive answer. In the second hour, participants will rate, review, and comment on the set of submitted questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this method also has some merit by allocating a certain degree of responsibility on a number of people for ensuring the integrity of the FAQ content instead of everyone assuming brian will take care of things ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T10:06:05.170" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:06:05.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24308" CreationDate="2009-10-02T10:20:47.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does a logo make a tag important? How could a missing logo make a tag less important? I don't know how you use stackoverflow, but I use it to search for information that is &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; to me. Whether the tags that are associated with that information come with a logo or not hardly matters and I will surely not change my interest because I want more of those shiny logos on my profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:20:47.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24326" CreationDate="2009-10-02T10:21:06.763" Score="3" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I've run into questions on SO that have a wrong answer accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1504990/whats-the-difference-between-like-and-in-sql/&quot;&gt;What's the difference between “LIKE” and “=” in SQL?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; The accepted answer has been edited to include the caveat &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1504990/whats-the-difference-between-like-and-in-sql/1505035#1505035&quot;&gt;mentioned in another answer&lt;/a&gt;.))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After trying to convince others, you realize that the person who asked the question got an answer they deemed correct and stopped looking after that. Even if there is a correct answer, it gets buried somewhere deep in the list, because nobody bothers to look at questions with an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I, as a high-rep user, use his powers to fix this? How would I go about this? Edit the original question? Edit the answer that got accepted to make it right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or just let it be? Internet is a jungle anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T07:29:28.170" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T07:29:28.170" Title="What should be done with accepted, yet wrong, answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;wrong-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24322" CreationDate="2009-10-02T10:26:00.857" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should maybe use your powers for more useful things, like constructing post titles that make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer isn't all that wrong, IMO, and crucially he says at the bottom &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in this case, you still want to use the equals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments seem sufficiently adequate at pointing out the limitations of the answer, but I would not go so far as to call it &quot;wrong&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:26:00.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-02T10:39:14.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a great way to fund the site. Props to Alex and Adobe for trying this. The UI is a little jarring with so many adobe logos on the page but I am sure that will be changed in future iterations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only concern about this is that it could lead to censorship. If there are postings in an adobe sponsored tag which adobe doesn’t approve of, they could put pressure on SO to remove questions and answers. It would be re assuring if it was explicit that this can’t happen. Otherwise a bad question could get removed by the community (for being a bad question) and a user will complain that it is commercial pressure that got it removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:39:14.157" />
  <row Id="24325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24305" CreationDate="2009-10-02T10:41:11.627" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;seems sufficiently link-ified to me (at least for &lt;em&gt;unvisited&lt;/em&gt; links)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1508784/how-to-unbind-the-event/1508810#1508810&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1508784/how-to-unbind-the-event/1508810#1508810&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MSO is an exception of course since links here in post-text are dotted underline only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, if you feel strongly about it, I'd drop the code formatting as it's not really adding much in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:41:11.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24322" CreationDate="2009-10-02T10:44:35.347" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should use your powers for editing and correct the small error in the accepted answer and make it correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T10:44:35.347" />
  <row Id="24327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T11:20:25.283" Score="3" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22447/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-the-reputation-cap&quot;&gt;What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am just curious about why reputation has been limited to 200 per day.I know up to some extent it does not matter, But even if we get more than 200 a day there is nothing bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards&#xA;SSS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136498" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T15:05:53.500" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T15:05:53.500" ClosedDate="2009-10-02T12:09:16.053" Title="What is the rationale behind limiting us to 200 reputation per day" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="24328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24327" CreationDate="2009-10-02T11:30:32.940" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it wasn't limited to 200 a day, Jon Skeet's score would continuously raise &lt;code&gt;ArithmeticOverflow&lt;/code&gt; exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T11:30:32.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T11:30:32.940" />
  <row Id="24329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24327" CreationDate="2009-10-02T11:31:53.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To limit the amount of time anyone spends on the site. If rep was unlimited we'd all be on here all day everyday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah - I see we are anyway&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T11:31:53.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T11:31:53.733" />
  <row Id="24330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24327" CreationDate="2009-10-02T11:32:57.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/daily-dose-of-daily-reputation-ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; are a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/revisiting-the-daily-reputation-cap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;few blog&lt;/a&gt; posts talking about the rep cap&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T11:32:57.070" />
  <row Id="24332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24327" CreationDate="2009-10-02T11:33:38.970" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/daily-dose-of-daily-reputation-ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff has written about this&lt;/a&gt; and spoken about it in a podcast or two - and it boils down to two words: rate limiting. Without some form of rate limiting it becomes trivial to game the system and garner high rep with no real contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those that are genuinely contributing, yes it doesn't matter if you get 200 or 2000 rep a day - but for those that are not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T11:33:38.970" />
  <row Id="24338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2009-10-02T12:04:47.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, I'm not sure how complicated and performance hitting it will be, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you maybe implement some sort of indicator sets, where you will put marker words that are together specific to these trolling posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you get a scheduler to run to match new posts from very-low rep users against these sets. Whatever gets flagged will disappear from public view until a moderator gets to it (to delete it or to unflag it if it was a false positive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;{Win32 zip dll hook Kernel32 Compuserve Never absolutely perfect }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T12:04:47.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24308" CreationDate="2009-10-02T12:15:28.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can imagine if a sufficient number of tags have icons on them, then a reader's eye might start to regard them as a cue that a tag is there, similar to a bullet point.  &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; that happens (emphasis on &quot;if&quot;), then it's possible that tags without icons might be more easily lost to the eye.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Jeff has stated that he doesn't expect the sponsored tags to become so numerous that they &quot;outweigh&quot; non-sponsored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even &lt;em&gt;if they did&lt;/em&gt;, I'd imagine simply adding a generic bullet point (like ■) before the &quot;orphaned&quot; tag names would fix it visually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T13:50:29.833" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T13:50:29.833" />
  <row Id="24343" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T12:29:11.027" Score="2" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen this happen yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T17:33:30.227" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T20:31:17.547" Title="What will happen if more than one person edits the same question at the same time?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24343" CreationDate="2009-10-02T12:29:55.067" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since March 2011, a warning is shown &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1577/notifications-for-concurrent-changes-when-editing-posts/28119#28119&quot;&gt;after you save&lt;/a&gt;, if a conflict occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;The user who clicks &quot;Save Your Edits&quot; second will overwrite the first person's changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no type of merging interface.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T20:31:17.547" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T20:31:17.547" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24343" CreationDate="2009-10-02T12:32:40.083" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The universe will end, and a new one will be created, starting from the exact same moment that the last universe left off, with all of the exact same properties as the first universe, except with one fewer waffle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, every time two edits collide, random quantum fluctuations kill a waffle. &lt;strong&gt;Please, think of the waffles.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that his happens all the time. When I think my edits are going to take a long time, I leave a comment saying that I'll be editing it for a while. That way people know not to edit the question lest the universe be recreated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T12:32:40.083" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24343" CreationDate="2009-10-02T12:43:22.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both users changes will show in the revision history, with the user that saves last overwriting the user that saves first.  There is no provision for locking or checking out to edit.  As you said, you've never noticed this, so it works pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T12:43:22.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24287" CreationDate="2009-10-02T12:51:42.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this proposal is that it gives more control to the question asker, which is good for the asker, but not so much for the answerer, because it introduces a great deal more uncertainty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On regular bounty questions, as long as someone has more than 2 upvotes on their answer, they know with certainty that one individual will receive at least half the bounty amount for that question, or the entire amount if the owner selects an accepted answer.  No splitting.  They are competing for that guaranteed reward.  If you instead switch to a system where they may or may not receive a smaller bounty for each and every answer, then the playing field becomes much more varied.  Some askers may be very stingy with their multi-accepts, offering them only the minimal amount required.  Others may be very generous, offering them to pretty much anyone who provides an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does this introduce uncertainty into the reward scheme for bounties, it also sets up a situation where some individuals will be recognized as generous and (possibly) exploited for their multi-accepts, and reviled if they are withheld.  Others will be recognized as stingy.  We've already seen the impact that revealing the acceptance rate has on answerers' behavior.  Introducing another reason to consider who is asking rather than what is being asked seems, to me, to be unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it might be possible to come up with a way to implement this that is fair and minimizes the uncertainty for those providing answers, but it isn't immediately obvious to me what that would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T14:29:21.493" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T14:29:21.493" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24367" CreationDate="2009-10-02T13:13:53.910" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this bug for a while now: whenever I cast a vote on a question or answer in StackOverflow, then proceed to navigate to another page or refresh the same page (within roughly 5-10 seconds), I observe that my vote has disappeared. This is somewhat irksome in that it forces me to wait for at least 10 seconds before closing any page on which I have just voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would seem to be a bug in the AJAX functionality of voting, and I suspect there is no technical reason for this behaviour. Surely it's not taking up to 10 seconds for the AJAX request to be sent. (My internet is running nice and speedily otherwise.) I should note that this has happened for me in Firefox 3.5, though I haven't tested on other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone else confirm this bug? It would be helpful to have it fixed in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T20:20:57.757" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:23:30.823" Title="Vote not registered when page is closed shortly after" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24352" CreationDate="2009-10-02T13:18:46.083" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spotted this behaviour every now and then. Nothing major. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote, see it stick. Then refresh the page. Vote is no longer there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reload the page once more, vote was there all along!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T13:18:46.083" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24354" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T13:39:46.703" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching inside a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible (and wouldn't it be a neat feature if not possible) to search inside a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance I was looking at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711?sort=votes&amp;amp;page=1#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711?sort=votes&amp;amp;page=1#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And was curious is x book was in there. But how do I search for that book inside this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried going to the main search bar and putting the title of the question and the title of the book but that did no return what I expected (had other posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T13:59:39.363" Title="Searching inside a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24354" CreationDate="2009-10-02T13:44:27.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases you can Ctrl+F to find something in the answers. There are very few questions with more than one or two pages of answers, which I think makes this feature only useful in a handful of cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T13:44:27.427" />
  <row Id="24356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24354" CreationDate="2009-10-02T13:44:28.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the SO search fails you, you could always use Google. Just add &quot;site:stackoverflow.com&quot; to your query to filter results down to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T13:44:28.067" />
  <row Id="24357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24354" CreationDate="2009-10-02T13:46:43.943" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably duplicate: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1274/seaching-questions-with-n-pages-of-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1274/seaching-questions-with-n-pages-of-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I answer because I think this could be made possible in a different way than proposed in that question.  Given the new search features ,why not allow us to provide the question ID in the regular search box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;question:1711 &quot;code complete&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would search on posts where &lt;code&gt;postId&lt;/code&gt; = x or &lt;code&gt;parentId&lt;/code&gt; = x. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T13:46:43.943" />
  <row Id="24358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24354" CreationDate="2009-10-02T13:59:39.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For older questions you can write an sql query for the community dataset, which is easily accessible via either &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T13:59:39.363" />
  <row Id="24363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-10-02T14:28:42.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just heard this idea listening SO #69 and love the concept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some degree of emphasis should be given to raising visibility for lesser known tools. If the stack overflow open source ad (SOOSAD) list is populated with nothing but the Most Active or Most Downloaded projects already indexed on the respective source code hosting sites, then the cool quotient of SOOSADs will be pretty low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if you could use stackoverflow questions and answers as source data to find little known tools. For example, if a post has a particular tagged &quot;tool&quot;, is heavily upvoted, then scan the post url's, and see if that url is a project page on one of the source hosting sites. That kind of automation might miss the point since the tool may not be why an answer was heavily upvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T14:28:42.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T14:28:42.117" />
  <row Id="24366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24308" CreationDate="2009-10-02T14:45:34.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see no reason why tags like those should be ineligible. The whole idea behind &quot;tag sponsorship&quot; is that the sponsor has committed to purchasing a dominant portion of the advertising space for questions associated with that tag, and is then given the opportunity to be recognized for that and provide the community with some interesting/relevant links relating to the tag topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I don't know every single company and product out there, but I could see..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[css] - perhaps someone makes a tool to help edit and manage CSS files; in my experience, it can be a pain, and I'd like to see something better than Visual Studio for that purpose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[algorithm] - without really looking into it, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceops.com/SciCode2.asp?sID=313&amp;amp;cID=1228896&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SciCode&lt;/a&gt;; no idea what they do or if they'd be a good fit, but they see to be all about algorithms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[tdd] - how about a company that makes unit and mock testing tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that we work very hard towards relevance. We won't sell ads, for example, to a Java component company that wants to buy c#-tagged questions. As such, you're not going to see crap like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you like tdd? &lt;strong&gt;Find tdd for a great price&lt;/strong&gt; on NexTag!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless, of course, they throw in a yacht (50ft min). You can't blame anyone for selling out for a yacht. And if you do... it won't matter because we won't be able to hear you from our yacht anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T14:45:34.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24352" CreationDate="2009-10-02T14:53:22.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get &quot;lost&quot; votes in two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vote and immediately close the browser.  In this case the vote is really lost, because I closed before the ajax request was sent.  That's my own fault, or at worst the browser's fault.  Not much SO can do to make it better, unless you count requiring a full page refresh every time I cast a vote (which I would not want).  This is also really rare and hard to reproduce.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vote.  Navigate to another page. &lt;em&gt;Hit the back button&lt;/em&gt;.  What's happening now is that I'm seeing a cached view of the page from the previous time I requested it. If I refresh the page, I can see the vote again.  The key thing here is that no new request was sent to the SO web server when I saw the page with the &quot;missing&quot; vote.  I suspect this is what's really happening with the OP, as well.  It could likely be fixed by changing how the server tells the browser to the cache responses, but imo it's not worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T20:23:30.823" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:23:30.823" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2009-10-02T14:54:46.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just upvote and append a comment about how good the answer really is.  I leave it up to the community to take it from there.  I think that's good enough, if not necessarily ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T14:54:46.237" />
  <row Id="24370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22447" CreationDate="2009-10-02T14:59:34.870" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trust.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system learns to trust you based on your reputation, and gives you new abilities as your rep increases.  Part of the trust relationship you develop is not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; reputation, but also &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt;: that you've used the site over a period of time, and over that period you should come to understand the community and accepted procedures for how it operates.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the reason the reputation threshold for certain abilities is set at a particular level is because, thanks to the daily cap, the system can assume that even a well-qualified user who hits the cap every day from day zero has spent at least a certain number of days actively using the site.  A particular threshold choice equates to at least certain number of days actively using the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, vote to close at 3000 means you've actively used the site on &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; 15 days (accepted answers aside) &amp;mdash; hopefully long enough to understand what closing a question really means. It gives the community a chance to assimilate the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not fool-proof.  If you're &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48710/alan-kay&quot;&gt;Alan Kay&lt;/a&gt;, for example, you could post twice, come back a year later, and find you've earned quite a few privileges.  But it's a pretty good measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T19:51:45.960" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T19:51:45.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:20:58.167" Score="0" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff and SO family...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for you to create a clone of SO for testing out design changes on membership?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am thinking that if we have a site that you can test user reaction to the proposed changes to the design before you implement - as we did with all the sites, including Fog Creek hosted sites, you may get a more favourable response?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To come to the site that you use a lot, and have invested time and effort (lots of us have been here since the beta) and the site content is our effort really, you will always get a highly emotive reaction to design changes that are done without consultation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A clone that you can test on us might help adoption and reduce the fear that we feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T10:33:11.320" Title="Site Clone for testing of design changes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24371" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:36:59.107" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta was supposed to serve that role, unfortunately, there's a bit of a biased group of users here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the users of meta are power-users who have invested huge amounts of time in to the SO trilogy. As such, they do not fit the profile of a 'normal' user. Also, they will be attached to the normal way of doing things and therefore very opposed to change. (The answer ordering incident) As a result of this, the test group that you are using as your guinea pigs are not only not a fair sample of your typical user, they are in fact almost certainly &lt;em&gt;atypical&lt;/em&gt;. That is not to say that they are wrong, but simply that the sampling method will not necessarily generate an accurate representation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general, meta fulfills the role you described. People come here to suggest features (as you have done) and the meta community comments and hypothetically tests them out. Then Jeff and his crew make the final decisions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59808" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T16:37:48.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T16:37:48.223" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24371" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:39:34.280" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm not a fan of a number of the more recent changes, I don't support this.  There is nothing to be gained by such a site.  You'll only have a small portion of the userbase bothering to try the test site.  In fact, I'd wager the userbase would very closely match that of the meta regulars.  And what's going to happen with each new change?  They are going to be argued about here on meta, just as they are now.  What have we gained, then?  Sure, you avoid thrusting the occasional flop on the entire population, but that's hardly worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we ought to have is a discussion from the SO Team of upcoming changes before they go live.  I'm not advocating that team must seek the approval of the users before a change can go live or anything of the sort.  Just a feeling-out of what the users think of the idea.  This would be an huge improvement of the current system where changes are sprung upon us, and we only figure out what happened when Jeff explains the reasoning in an answer to one of the many questions about the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T15:39:34.280" />
  <row Id="24374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24376" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:41:42.857" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1469899/whats-the-worst-security-hole-youve-ever-seen&quot;&gt;the same question&lt;/a&gt; make the front page for the last few days. I don't want to ignore the tag, but I would like to ignore that question. Anything I can do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136262" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T16:00:20.653" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T16:00:20.653" Title="Is there a way to ignore a specific question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24374" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:45:33.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Change your view and forget about looking at the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click Questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click Newest tab&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No problem any more as the floating question gets pushed further back every day. If you want to view Active, then that's just how the bubble bobbles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking a look at the actual question in question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1469899/whats-the-worst-security-hole-youve-ever-seen&quot; title=&quot;holey moley&quot;&gt;What's the worst security hole you've ever seen?&lt;/a&gt; it's apparently the only question making use of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/security-hole&quot; title=&quot;down down down&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[security-hole]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be good to ignore that specific tag and not have it invade your eyeball space in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T15:59:09.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T15:59:09.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24374" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:45:45.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which question, and what is causing it to bump? If it is being inappropriately edited (etc) we can lock it. Other than that, I find &quot;not looking at it&quot; works fairly well for me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if there is a problem on this question, let us know. Flagging for moderator on the site would work, or raising it here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may also be a grease-monkey script somewhere; there usually is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T15:45:45.563" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24352" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:53:00.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another reason: The pages are cached on the web server itself, so most of the times we see a cached view. The vote is in the database, just hasnt made it into the cache.  The next time the cache is refreshed, your vote will show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131010" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T15:53:00.793" />
  <row Id="24380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24385" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:53:35.503" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read that reputation does not reflect technical skill.  What is the purpose/meaning of reputation then?  What do you mean when you vote?   Isn't there any technical-skill overtone in your votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136348" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T15:59:22.183" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T17:09:46.230" Title="What do votes mean?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24380" CreationDate="2009-10-02T15:57:17.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an small aspect of technical skill, and a large aspect of community involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T15:57:17.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24380" CreationDate="2009-10-02T16:03:32.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the extent that the votes function &quot;as intended&quot;, a person receives votes by asking questions and supplying answers which are deemed useful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, votes applied by human beings with their own motives and ideas, and so individual votes vary in meaning so much that no overall intent can be applied to voting as a whole.  This is why it's often said that reputation is meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a baseline level, to receive votes, you have to participate.  This doesn't mean participation guarantees votes, but it does mean that the more you participate, the more likely you are to receive votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, votes are a very rough measure of participation.  This is why reputation threshholds are used to limit access to more advanced features of the site, such as editing and moderation tools.  By earning reputation, you demonstrate that you have participated enough to understand how these are supposed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the system is far from perfect.  It's a work-in-progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T16:03:32.770" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24380" CreationDate="2009-10-02T16:35:59.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes are the currency used to establish trust by the SO software.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T16:35:59.537" />
  <row Id="24388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24371" CreationDate="2009-10-02T16:39:17.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one of the stackexchange sites could serve this purpose.  Say, something like sandbox.stackexchange.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T16:39:17.613" />
  <row Id="24389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24390" CreationDate="2009-10-02T16:57:34.710" Score="-3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1509785?sort=votes#sort-top&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (probably others too), if I try to sort the answers by 'Votes' its still showing an answer with 2 votes above an answer with 3 votes. Please see the screenshot &lt;a href=&quot;http://i34.tinypic.com/2n07mf6.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T17:02:21.940" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T17:02:21.940" Title="Showing answers by votes not working" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24389" CreationDate="2009-10-02T17:00:31.537" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is always first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T17:00:31.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24380" CreationDate="2009-10-02T17:09:46.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could ask a lot of questions, and not be very skilled. Also, you may be very skilled in a technical area that is not common/popular and just because of the size of the user group, you may not get a lot of points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T17:09:46.230" />
  <row Id="24393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24394" CreationDate="2009-10-02T17:11:15.340" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to go and re-tag all the 12 ccnet tags to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cruisecontrol.net&quot;&gt;cruisecontrol.net&lt;/a&gt; and I got a page not found error on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ccnet.config&quot;&gt;ccnet.config&lt;/a&gt;!  Gasp!  The horror!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Could someone then retag the lowly [ccnet.config] to [ccnet-config]? D:&lt;/strike&gt; Wait... I can do this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="33226" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T17:17:46.513" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T17:17:46.513" Title="Broken link for ccnet.config" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24393" CreationDate="2009-10-02T17:13:10.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copy of my answer here:&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg/2930#2930&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg/2930#2930&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[web.config] =&amp;gt; [web-config]&#xA;[app.config] =&amp;gt; [app-config]&#xA;[ccnet.config] =&amp;gt; [ccnet-config]&#xA;[machine.config] =&amp;gt; [machine-config]&#xA;[user.config] =&amp;gt; [user-config]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a uservoice request about these tags noting that IIS refuses to serve anything that ends in &lt;code&gt;.config&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T17:13:10.717" />
  <row Id="24398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24343" CreationDate="2009-10-02T17:35:15.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, there is &lt;em&gt;limited&lt;/em&gt; support for merging: if one editor edits only the title, and another edits only the body, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/24343/comments#comment-50976&quot;&gt;both changes will be preserved&lt;/a&gt;. Same goes for tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T17:35:15.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:00:24.750" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11526/what-is-the-sof-algorithm-for-generating-the-icons-for-each-user&quot;&gt;what is the SOF algorithm for generating the icons for each user?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/946c085c383cc406907c2bbf809917c3?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:06:02.573" ClosedDate="2009-10-02T18:08:00.370" Title="How does SO assign thumbnail to user?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24402" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:02:39.380" Score="17" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Atm, if you want to view the Markdown source of a question/answer (on SO/SF/SU/MSO at least, probably all stack exchange sites), you have 4 options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gain enough rep to edit posts, then click the edit button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hope it is CW, and have enough rep to edit CW posts, and click the edit button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for the OP to edit the post, and click the edited link to view revisions, then view source.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Horrible kludge this one). Either manually or via Greasemonkey go to http://&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;example.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;/revisions/&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;id&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;/list, then click view source&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to have a view source button for those of us who cannot edit questions in the place where the edit button would be if we could? After all, it's those with less rep (and therefore less experience) who are more likely to need Markdown help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T23:42:18.590" Title="View Source link on all questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;view-source&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24399" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:06:02.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/392280/what-is-the-algorithm-used-to-generate-those-little-gravatar-identicon-images/392288#392288&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/392280/what-is-the-algorithm-used-to-generate-those-little-gravatar-identicon-images/392288#392288&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:06:02.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24400" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:09:43.453" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally have never used the View Source...ever. But if it's available in most instances, it might as well be available to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:09:43.453" />
  <row Id="24403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24404" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:11:18.460" Score="-2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that there have been some similar posts to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23049/answer-with-more-upvotes-appears-above-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer with more upvotes appears above accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7572/why-do-incorrect-answers-keep-getting-accepted&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do incorrect answers keep getting accepted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;etc&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..but I feel that this question is a little different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently looked up a question where the asker had accepted an answer that was passable, but really not that good.  The community had upvoted the accepted answer four times, and had upvoted what I feel was the best answer 28 times.  It seems to me that the community here is sending a pretty clear message to the system as to what the best answer is, even if it was not the accepted one.  It seems to me that receiving 700% more upvotes than the accepted answer should imply to the system that the asker should reconsider what they accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is the question that brought this to my attention:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/160608/how-to-do-a-git-export-like-svn-export&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/160608/how-to-do-a-git-export-like-svn-export&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems there may be many ways of solving this, and I can see pluses and minuses to many of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO could place a clear marker on the page that the accepted answer is not the one the community chose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO could create a new flag so that there is &quot;Asker Accepted&quot; and &quot;Community Accepted&quot; answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the most upvoted answer has significantly more votes than the accepted answer SO could put the most upvoted answer on top and then flag the user with some clear text explanation, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO could request that the asker reconsider their accepted answer the next time they log in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else feel like somehow solving this issue would improve SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136713" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T18:16:20.353" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:22:46.630" Title="Should the system automatically modify the accepted answer when another answer is voted significantly higher?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24403" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:15:09.293" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolutely NOT&lt;/strong&gt;. The accepted answer check mark goes to the answer that best helps the user (in theory). The only person who can accurately gauge that is the question asker themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any attempt to force the system to decide on its own what the best answer is is asking for trouble. The Community has just as much opportunity to be wrong as the OP. It is not exactly a rare occurrence for someone to post a quick answer, get several upvotes, and then the sheep mentality follows, with everyone else upvoting an already high voted answer without thinking about whether it is correct or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do not need any type of visual indicator to say &quot;Hey look, the community thinks THIS ONE is better&quot;. You can already do that just by looking at the vote numbers. You do not need any type of flag for this, and asking the OP to &quot;reconsider&quot; based upon the community's vote pattern, again, flies in the face of what the OP themselves have decided. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the grand scheme of things, the check mark is not the end-all-be-all. It is an indicator that THAT particular answer was the best answer for THAT particular user. It does not mean &quot;StackOverflow officially endorses this answer&quot; when it comes to future users looking for answers to their own problems. That is why we allow for voting to send other answers up on the list. All a user has to do is scroll down slightly more and they can see all the rest of the answers and see if something was voted up much higher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a future user has a problem and the accepted answer doesn't help them, well then they can just look at the one that got voted up higher. If it helps them, awesome. But again, the check mark indicates which answer the OP decides is the best FOR THEM. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T18:20:14.887" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:20:14.887" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24403" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:17:10.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is the one that worked for the OP. The highest upvoted answer is the best method. You would hope that these are the same answers, but there are a few cases were they are not. I can't find links to any atm, but I've seen a few cases where the highest upvoted answer actually did not work in the OP's situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:17:10.070" />
  <row Id="24406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24403" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:22:46.630" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we should just leave the accepted answer to the community and not the original asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Just for the downvotes&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:22:46.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T18:22:46.630" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24242" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:24:37.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer no code golf, but since that's not an option...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As many have pointed out, code golf needs to be limited in frequency.  Also needs to be of a given quantity.  I really don't see a way for that to happen naturally in the site.  That's the type of thing that truly needs to be moderated.  Code golf items should be submitted for approval, then released by a moderator (if appropriate) at a &quot;reasonable&quot; interval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:24:37.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T18:24:37.483" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:45:42.173" Score="1" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/187715/&quot;&gt;esoteric languages thread&lt;/a&gt; locked? Obviously there was controversy about whether or not the name of a certain famous esoteric language should be sanitized or not but to the best of my knowledge everyone was having a good time with the thread and sharing some cool programming-related oddities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T03:49:15.737" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T03:49:15.737" Title="Esoteric languages thread" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24408" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:49:39.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've been having issues with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive&quot;&gt;Brianfudge&lt;/a&gt; lately. A vampire &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive/24206#24206&quot;&gt;came to the conclusion&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;strong&gt;bad words&lt;/strong&gt; must be censored because some corporations use content filtering and, as we all learned in school, two wrongs make a right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:49:39.590" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24408" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:51:32.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/187715/list&quot;&gt;a bit of an edit war&lt;/a&gt; and the Mighty Lizard stepped in and put an end to it, because he does not f_ck around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:51:32.067" />
  <row Id="24411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24408" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:55:59.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seemed pretty self-explanatory at the time, but since I forgot about it and let a day go by before unlocking it, I can see how that's no longer the case.  I was alerted to an edit/rollback war in progress and decided the question and one of the answers needed a cool off period.  Thanks for reminding me about it.  It's unlocked now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:01:05.420" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:01:05.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11526" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:56:23.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gratuitous friday afternoon analysis of gravatar images used by page 1 of /users on MSO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;                        :    .    |    .    |&#xA;Photograph of a human   :*************** 15&#xA;Photograph of an animal :** 2&#xA;Cartoon of a human      :***** 5&#xA;Cartoon of an animal    :*** 3&#xA;Other cartoon           :* 1&#xA;Other abstract image    :*** 3&#xA;&quot;Plain&quot; Gravatar        :***** 5&#xA;Unknown (Possibly Jesus):* 1&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T18:56:23.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-02T18:56:23.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24408" CreationDate="2009-10-02T18:57:22.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderator stepped in to stop the edit wars over m_nging of obscene terms.&#xA;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive/24082#24082&quot;&gt;link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:04:12.200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:04:12.200" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:17:46.043" Score="0" ViewCount="662" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you think about this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askdev.ru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:27:23.580" ClosedDate="2009-10-02T19:20:48.193" Title="Russian StackOverflow clone" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24414" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:19:50.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones/2281#2281&quot;&gt;It's old news.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and their users tab is broken in Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:27:23.580" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:27:23.580" />
  <row Id="24417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:21:29.703" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24185/am-i-the-only-person-to-find-the-woot-ad-noxious&quot;&gt;Am I the only person to find the woot ad noxious?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I hate ads that try to fool you by blending into the site. I even clicked on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the question is, do you think this (common) practice is ethical and would you employ it on your own websites? I won't lie, I think these ads are cute, but the fact of the matter is that you're tricking your users to go buy items from other people - potentially you profit from it but you begin to lose user trust when you do something like that. Or is it okay in small amounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: And for those of you that don't understand, Stack Overflow now has an ad that looks almost exactly like actual questions. I made the mistake of thinking the first one was some sort of weird &quot;featured&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T19:25:38.030" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:25:38.030" ClosedDate="2009-10-02T19:25:17.890" Title="Should I buy everything that woot! is selling?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:31:08.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first saw the ad, I thought that I would upvote it if I could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134625" LastEditorUserId="134625" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T22:12:08.403" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T22:12:08.403" />
  <row Id="24419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:39:44.790" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;well look guys it's really a witty advertisement, i can tell they put some thought into it to make it look like the site , andt here's a little sefl-deprecation comedy there too! ha ha ha good on them to be able to poke a little fun at themselves! its really a testament to their dedication and desire to &quot;fit in&quot; with the &quot;community&quot; that they spent all that time and effort. boy i shure wish other advertiser scould be this clever and considerate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;welp *opens up adblock blacklist*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39892" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:39:44.790" />
  <row Id="24420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:44:09.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use AdBlock Plus for Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What woot ad? (rhetorical)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132956" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:44:09.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:48:37.677" Score="12" ViewCount="1061" Body="&lt;p&gt;The past couple of days has seen a dramatic increase in the attention given to advertising on the StackOverflow websites thanks in large part to the introduction of things such as the Woot! ads as well as the Adobe sponsorship of certain tags. This has led to a number of posts that have had both sides of the argument concerning advertising, whether it is good, bad, etc. We've also seen discussions concerning the types of different advertising and how some people react to them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am curious about, however, are different streams of revenue which could be tapped by the StackOverflow brand of websites. What possibilities are out there? What are the most feasible? Which ones would garner the most acceptance from the majority of the userbase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not meant to say that I detest advertising. I will freely admit that I personally use ad blocking software (which so far has not taken away the logos on tags nor the sponsored links on tag pages). 99% of the time I will not like advertising and probably 99.9999% of the time I will not click on advertising, so blocking it from displaying for me is fine. But for sites like this, I &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; advertising which integrates seamlessly with the site itself and also &lt;strong&gt;enhances&lt;/strong&gt; the experience by providing new resources or more context to the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I am wondering more than anything is, what types of revenue models are out there that can be more successful towards users like myself? What revenue models are out there which will &lt;strong&gt;enhance&lt;/strong&gt; my user experience rather than &lt;strong&gt;distract&lt;/strong&gt; me from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T21:10:19.217" Title="Potential StackOverflow Revenue Models" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;revenue&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="24422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:51:35.610" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO-branded, WiFi-soaked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24421/potential-stackoverflow-revenue-models&quot;&gt;Waffle House&lt;/a&gt;s!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://john.cognitivedelay.com/images/so-house.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shangrila&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Image courtesy of John Rasch&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T20:28:53.873" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:28:53.873" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-02T19:52:50.570" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A swear jar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Freedom-loving users can sign up with credit cards, and every time they swear in questions, comments, edits, answers (but not profiles), they get charged a few cents. I leave figuring out the right per-word charge to Atwood's Angels, but I'm sure they'll come to an agreeable pricing system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T19:52:50.570" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="24424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:05:01.687" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;i see something similar is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3930/bug-list-entry-followed-by-code-messes-code-up&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3930/bug-list-entry-followed-by-code-messes-code-up&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i figured i'd post my situation since it's a different situation (i'm not trying to add my code into the list).  also, i didn't try to use a formal numbered list--i just numbered it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;added a TRibbonCombobox on the ribbon bar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;added an event handler&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;procedure TfrmRibbonDemo.RibbonComboBox1Change(Sender: TObject);&#xA;begin&#xA;  if RibbonComboBox1.Text='Luna' then&#xA;    Ribbon1.Style:=RibbonLunaStyle&#xA;    else&#xA;    Ribbon1.Style:=RibbonSilverStyle;&#xA;end;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the other hand, if a list doesn't immediately preceed it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;procedure TfrmRibbonDemo.RibbonComboBox1Change(Sender: TObject);&#xA;begin&#xA;  if RibbonComboBox1.Text='Luna' then&#xA;    Ribbon1.Style:=RibbonLunaStyle&#xA;    else&#xA;    Ribbon1.Style:=RibbonSilverStyle;&#xA;end;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136718" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T20:09:02.333" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T04:14:21.307" Title="list preceeding code prevents code from being displayed as code" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:07:18.873" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some sites can charge subscription fees, but I think it would turn S[OFU] into something like That-Other-Site.  I really don't know any good ways to get a revenue stream on the net other than subscriptions or advertisements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I've dropped AdBlock Plus on my browsers.  NoScript seems to do a good enough job of not letting them be obnoxious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:07:18.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24424" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:08:48.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;added a TRibbonCombobox on the ribbon bar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;added an event handler&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;procedure TfrmRibbonDemo.RibbonComboBox1Change(Sender: TObject);&#xA;begin&#xA;  if RibbonComboBox1.Text='Luna' then&#xA;    Ribbon1.Style:=RibbonLunaStyle&#xA;    else&#xA;    Ribbon1.Style:=RibbonSilverStyle;&#xA;end;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indent 8 spaces &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;per the documentation&lt;/a&gt;, which is linked via the little &quot;help&quot; icon in the upper right of toolbar, and again on the right sidebar when editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:08:48.090" />
  <row Id="24427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:12:59.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about paying a certain fee to become a Moderator for a month? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you'd have to only allow this after a certain rep threshold (say 5000).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:12:59.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:12:06.260" Score="-1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work&quot;&gt;How does the automatic subjective filter work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very curious about how people think Stack Overflow is determining whether or not a question is subjective and highlighting it once you've entered the title.  I'd like to build a similar capability but wouldn't know where to start.  The AJAX callbacks, HTML and stuff is easy ... but analysis the question itself seems to be quite complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T20:16:22.227" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:16:22.227" ClosedDate="2009-10-02T20:25:16.640" Title="How does Stack Overflow achieve its subjective check on titles?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24428" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:14:23.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Compare the words in the title to words in titles of questions that have been closed as subjective.  If, say, 30% (adjust as necessary) of the words match you might have a winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2424" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:14:59.747" />
  <row Id="24430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24408" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:19:45.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;bf&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; got added to the question Dec 23 2008. (fully written out ).&#xA;Sep 30 2009: it got re-written to block out the f word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it got rolled back between those two versions half a dozen times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bill finally stepped in and locked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interesting thing is that besides the edit Bill did, only one user edited the post to remove the f word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T20:19:45.747" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-02T20:36:52.580" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I'll deal with the idea of for-pay premium accounts that can do little things like access the 10K tools from users with only 5K rep, for example.  As tempting as it might be, I don't think you ever want to do that here in any way.  It just sets up a slippery slope towards becoming the &quot;other&quot; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there are still a lot of options to do better than advertising alone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell site-related merch.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Become a go-between to help highly-rated devs become consultants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell access to the code for the site. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell developer expertise the team gained building it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackExchange (meh)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell components used in the site (like the WMD editor implementation, OpenID implementation, wiki/revision control implemention, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell pre-configured copy of the knowledge base; like data dump, only nicer.  Think ready-to-go MDF file with indexes already done, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell an iPhone client&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sell API access (this one's a little slippery)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I could go on and on.  Whenever you're able to build a successful community like this (especially when that community has an in-demand skillset), access to the community will be valuable.  You just have to figure out how to cash in on the value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T21:27:05.000" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T21:27:05.000" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24435" CreationDate="2009-10-02T21:11:52.267" Score="-6" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a challenging, if not impossible task. YET As a developer, I like to type code in VI, hence I want the SO to have VI like functionalities... and perhaps other editors like pico, nano, emacs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yes -- we can cut-and-paste. But if  you implement it, we won't have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;too impossible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T12:40:13.710" Title="VI functionality in the code editor for coding questions/answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24432" CreationDate="2009-10-02T21:14:36.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What part of vi do you want? Modal editing? Specific commands? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've little doubt this could be accomplished using Greasemonkey for the handful of users foolhardy enough to write large amounts of code in a tiny browser textarea...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T21:14:36.317" />
  <row Id="24434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24432" CreationDate="2009-10-02T21:22:43.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editor in SO is not made for writing programs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VI would be totally inappropriate for the intended use of the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T21:22:43.040" />
  <row Id="24435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24432" CreationDate="2009-10-02T21:33:23.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimperator.mozdev.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;vimperator&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T21:33:23.833" />
  <row Id="24436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-02T21:41:43.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24421/potential-stackoverflow-revenue-models/24427#24427&quot;&gt;John's suggestion&lt;/a&gt; gave me another idea: sell access to an &quot;ad heavy&quot; mode for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14710/but-i-dont-want-reduced-advertising-when-i-get-200-rep&quot;&gt;masochistic users&lt;/a&gt;. Coupled with the 10k tools, they'll be able to spend all day cleaning up messes in an ad-clogged wasteland... and, presumably, loving every minute of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T21:41:43.663" />
  <row Id="24437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-02T21:50:00.527" Score="12" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I downvoted the answer because I thought it didn't answer the question.  Not very uncommon reason to downvote, isn't it?  But then the guy, who asked the question, edited his question and I realized that the answer I downvoted actually answers it and deserves an upvote instead!  But I couldn't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could do it if the answerer had edited his post.   As I understand, the rationale of changing vote after edit is the following.  If I came to the question page for the first time &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the edit of &lt;em&gt;the answer&lt;/em&gt;, I would've upvoted it instead of downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why doesn't the same rationale hold for the cases when the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; is edited?  Unless there's a good reason, I suggest to allow changing answer vote on &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; edits, not only on &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-02T21:59:33.503" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T22:59:21.243" Title="Change votes for answers if a question is edited" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2009-10-02T22:18:28.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment/2059#2059&quot;&gt;Blogbears's suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, the name could be replaced with the userid internally, so that when the user changes his name, in the comment it could be always up to date, and in the case of more than one user on the same thread with the same name, you would have to manually select which one you are referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it were implemented &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment/2050#2050&quot;&gt;that way&lt;/a&gt; letting every user involved in the same thread to get a notification wouldn't be a problem, they'd just stop getting notifications if they change their name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T22:18:28.150" />
  <row Id="24441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2009-10-02T22:21:57.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff talks about it in a blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001222.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mixing Oil and Water: Authorship in a Wiki World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He provides a link to the paper: &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmailserver.org/diff2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and its Variations&lt;/a&gt; (pdf) and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathertel.de/Diff/DiffDoku.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C# Implementation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T22:21:57.630" />
  <row Id="24443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24437" CreationDate="2009-10-02T22:59:21.243" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 for this request. As an interim, assuming you don't have enough rep to edit, you can comment on the answer you DV'ed, explaining that you'd like to reverse your vote, and request that the answerer edit his post in a minor way so you can. I don't like this solution, though -- I much prefer your feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep to edit, go with RSolberg's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-02T22:59:21.243" />
  <row Id="24444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24448" CreationDate="2009-10-03T00:47:37.210" Score="4" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's getting a bit old. And it creates a ton of questions like &quot;what's the enthusiast badge&quot; and &quot;why is the woot badge also called enthusiast&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:43:36.750" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:43:36.750" Title="When will the Woot! Enthusiast sponsorship end?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-03T01:14:14.510" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jobs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know what your thinking, there is already the woeful non-international, poorly targeted, &lt;strong&gt;tiny&lt;/strong&gt; note on every page and a check box on your profile that does nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, employers are willing to pay lots of money to find good people, and there is a pool of over 100K developers on stack overflow with a living, breathing resume. Surely we could do better than having a couple of non relevant links on every page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Target Job ads at the location the user is from. I, for one, am not really interested in relocating my life alboquerque at the moment. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a new entity that does jobs better, partner with local job agencies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Collect more information from the end users. Eg. Would you be willing to move? Would you be willing to work from home? Looking for contract or full time? Etc... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;winner :)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T18:23:57.817" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:23:57.817" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24449" CreationDate="2009-10-03T01:46:27.010" Score="4" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm logged in to Stack Overflow it ought to log me into Super User and Server Fault also; as well as Meta Stack Overflow, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136052" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-25T10:24:00.190" LastActivityDate="2010-09-25T10:24:00.190" Title="If my accounts are linked across the trilogy, why won't it just log me in to all of them?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;stackauth&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24446" CreationDate="2009-10-03T02:03:41.660" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites all have different domains so they can't share a cookie for authentication.  In this scenario, they would all have to redirect every unauthorized request that doesn't contain a site cookie through a central login service.  Since you don't have to be authenticated to use the site and much of the traffic actually comes from unregistered users via Google (as well as the issue of robots crawling the site), this is probably too much overhead to avoid a simple, very infrequent event on the part of registered users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T02:03:41.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24444" CreationDate="2009-10-03T02:20:44.483" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;December 31 2009&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have been officially dewooted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love the woot! guys (they are very cool, and we plan to have them on a future podcast) but &lt;em&gt;man&lt;/em&gt; was I sick of that particular promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T10:17:34.637" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T10:17:34.637" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24446" CreationDate="2009-10-03T02:24:53.540" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to a feature-request that's up, so you can vote on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T02:24:53.540" />
  <row Id="24451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-03T02:52:52.333" Score="4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I put a code block in a list, a single newline in the source is displayed as two newlines in the rendered page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code here, single empty line following:&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;more code here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The eight space indent is markdown for &quot;inside the list &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a code block&quot;).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The same happens for unordered lists, but inside quotations everything works fine. One empty line in the source should correspond to one empty line in the output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T17:58:07.863" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T17:58:07.863" Title="Empty lines in code samples inside lists are shown duplicated" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24451" CreationDate="2009-10-03T03:54:07.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See answer here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19624/bug-in-markdown-formatter/19799#19799&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19624/bug-in-markdown-formatter/19799#19799&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T03:54:07.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1662" CreationDate="2009-10-03T04:28:27.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have never been comfortable with badges being earned from the &quot;fun&quot; questions, but I have never been able to come up with a way to prevent it that makes sense and doesn't create HUGE windows for abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have any good ideas on this that can't be gamed or abused, please reply (as an answer! not as a comment!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add another voting category: &quot;vote to mark as fun&quot;. Questions so marked can't earn badges. A moderator can remove the &quot;fun&quot; status if the votes are truly misguided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems pretty simple, so where's the hole in my logic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T04:28:27.040" />
  <row Id="24454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-03T05:17:41.363" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stackoverflow conversations are oriented around questions, but I think some conversations could be more productive on a personal basis with the question context removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one example that I did come up with is that you would like to interact with a user directly.  You do not want to misuse a question as your discussion board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this channel should be public. Back room discussion have more disadvantages than advantages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135797" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T13:02:16.367" ClosedDate="2009-10-03T20:01:30.370" Title="Is a personal channel a useful feature?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24454" CreationDate="2009-10-03T06:21:32.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from your comment, you are looking to discipline other users without muddying the SO question.  There are channels to do this built into the system.  Specifically, you can flag a question, an answer, or even a comment for administrator action.  This is the appropriate action in these cases.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other cases, you should respect your fellow users' right to privacy.  You will find that some users are up for contact from other SO users, and if so, they post their contact details in their profile.  If you are up for such contact, I urge you to post your IM/email/etc in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T06:21:32.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-03T07:25:14.050" Score="3" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't see anything different whether or not to permallink to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T07:35:14.813" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T14:34:04.703" Title="What's a permalink used for?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24456" CreationDate="2009-10-03T07:34:48.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;permalink&quot; just means direct hyperlink, the basic building block of the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &quot;permalink&quot; to a &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; by clicking the question title (or right clicking the title and selecting &quot;copy link&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24456/whats-a-permalink-used-for&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also right click the &quot;link&quot; menu item underneath a question and select &quot;copy link&quot;. In that case, you'll get a personalized link (one with your user ID embedded in it). &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/announcer-booster-and-publicist-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pass this around to win coveted badges!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/24456/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &quot;permalink&quot; to an &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; by clicking the &quot;link&quot; menu item next to it (or right clicking the &quot;link&quot; menu item and selecting &quot;copy link&quot;). This ensures you get a link that works no matter what sorting is used, and no matter how many pages of answers a question has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24456/whats-a-permalink-used-for/24457#24457&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, you might see a little reminder pop up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/share-a-link-to-this-hot-question.png&quot; alt=&quot;share a link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reminder &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; contains the personalized permalink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/4287/whats-a-good-ui-for-sharing-permalinks&quot;&gt;The funky pop-up will now show up for answers as well, to minimize confusion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-04T14:34:04.703" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T14:34:04.703" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23304" CreationDate="2009-10-03T07:50:01.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very, very likely that the first iteration of the API will be &lt;em&gt;read-only&lt;/em&gt; for all the reasons others have listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone on the SO team agrees on this point, but I think we need to get a good V1 out there for reading, before we even begin to attack the much harder writing problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T07:50:01.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7986" CreationDate="2009-10-03T07:53:53.420" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that all tabs on the home page now have specific feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T07:53:53.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24432" CreationDate="2009-10-03T07:57:22.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's All Text!&lt;/a&gt; addon for firefox, which lets you use any external editor of your choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T07:57:22.697" />
  <row Id="24462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24371" CreationDate="2009-10-03T10:33:11.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To come to the site that you use a lot, and have invested time and effort (lots of us have been here since the beta) and the site content is our effort really, you will always get a highly emotive reaction to design changes that are done without consultation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you need to be a lot more specific about what you're referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SO community already has input into what we are working on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote up your favorite [feature-request]s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote up your favorite [bug]s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug+-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug+-status-~&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T10:33:11.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24432" CreationDate="2009-10-03T12:40:13.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely.  The fact that the textarea doesn't support emacs commands is infuriating.  Do you know how many times I've wanted to check my email, talk to an Eliza, and play Tetris &lt;em&gt;all at the same time&lt;/em&gt; while writing an answer on SO?  I can't stress enough how important it is that the SO Team immediately drop whatever else they're doing (probably removing a useful feature, amirite?) and get to work on porting emacs to Javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T12:40:13.710" />
  <row Id="24464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24454" CreationDate="2009-10-03T13:02:16.367" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the core ideas of StackOverflow is that it is &lt;em&gt;community based&lt;/em&gt;. Adding &quot;private channels&quot; or &quot;private messaging&quot; as a feature would be a large step toward destroying this. It certainly doesn't encourage the collaboration and wiki-like aspect that we hope for in the site. At worst, you could start seeing a lot of the new users private-messaging other users with questions instead of asking them publicly. (Jon Skeet, for one, would be liable to be spammed endlessly.) If you have a disagreement of some sort, the comment section is usually the right place, as long as it doesn't get too out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T13:02:16.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24468" CreationDate="2009-10-03T13:50:07.417" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1125/move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&quot;&gt;Move the &amp;ldquo;remove tag&amp;rdquo; icon inside the tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO it will be more elegant and useful if &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; mark will be inside blue div with tag name. (then &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; will not fall down something to line below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136742" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T14:09:51.700" ClosedDate="2009-10-03T17:09:29.700" Title="Change X - sign in interested tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2009-10-03T13:52:52.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does it check if the answer is modified or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each revision is stored in a PostRevision table, something along the lines of..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;PostId    PostBody        PostCreatedAt&#xA;1234      My answer is... 2009-01-01 00:00:01&#xA;1234      Edited answer.. 2009-01-02 08:04:01&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To find out if a question has been edited (and if it needs to show a link to the revisions page), you would just do something like &lt;code&gt;SELECT count(*) FROM PostRevision WHERE PostID=1234&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For efficiency, I imagine this data is denormalised, so there would be a &lt;code&gt;NumberOfTimesEdited&lt;/code&gt; column in the Posts table&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T13:52:52.780" />
  <row Id="24468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24466" CreationDate="2009-10-03T14:09:51.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah didn't see, there is the same thread right here - &gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1125/move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1125/move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136742" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T14:09:51.700" />
  <row Id="24469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24471" CreationDate="2009-10-03T14:16:02.077" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can offensive tags be reported or flagged in StackOverflow and associated sites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T15:50:15.307" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T15:50:15.307" Title="Reporting offensive tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;offensivetagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6981" CreationDate="2009-10-03T14:27:18.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another reason for a question appearing to have been modified by the Community user - when a question is migrated, it's shown as edited by the Community user on the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T14:27:18.487" />
  <row Id="24471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24469" CreationDate="2009-10-03T14:30:17.607" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the question and in the little message box mention that you find the tag(s) on the question offensive and which one(s) specifically you find offensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it goes to a moderator to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T14:30:17.607" />
  <row Id="24472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24469" CreationDate="2009-10-03T15:00:01.747" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on your reputation level, you also have the right to go in and edit the offensive tag out.  Of course you run the risk that the offender will then try to re-add it.  At that point, follow random's suggestion of flagging the item for administrator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T15:00:01.747" />
  <row Id="24473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24477" CreationDate="2009-10-03T17:21:58.727" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewing a list of my own questions, if I switch to page 2 of the list I can't go back to page 1 by clicking &quot;Back&quot; in the browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: thanks for the replies. Can the back button be made to work in this case please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastEditorUserId="136714" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T18:21:53.390" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T18:21:53.390" Title="Why does back/forward not work on paginated lists?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24475" CreationDate="2009-10-03T17:31:27.537" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;This suggestion stems from the frequency with which I am inserting links to MSDN in my posts (especially the .NET/C#/LINQ related ones):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An option on each post which upon submission, tells the parser to automatically format any keyword that has an associated MSDN page, and is enclosed in backticks (`). This could apply to a number of languages, including C#, VB.NET, F#, C, C++, and others. A similar feature for linking Java keywords to the Sun documentation could also work. If differentiation between languages is needed, this can be done based on the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people aren't too keen on the idea of it being automated (though I don't see &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; scope for it to go wrong/be detrimental, providing that only the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; instance of a keyword is processed), the Markdown parser could be slightly extended to utilise some lightweight syntax for adding links to language keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example post (ignore the fact it doesn't make sense out of context):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unprocessed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In your method that takes an &lt;code&gt;IList&amp;lt;DateTime&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, I think you want to subtract subsequent &lt;code&gt;DateTime&lt;/code&gt;s to give you the intervals between events. If you then &lt;code&gt;yield each resulting &lt;/code&gt;TimeSpan&lt;code&gt; object along with the associated &lt;/code&gt;struct`, that should give you the correct results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Processed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In your method that takes an &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5y536ey6.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;IList&amp;lt;DateTime&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I think you want to subtract subsequent &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;DateTime&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;s to give you the intervals between events. If you then &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9k7k7cf0.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;yield&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; each resulting &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timespan.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;TimeSpan&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; object along with the associated &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ah19swz4.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;struct&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, that should give you the correct results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Erm, links aren't terribly easy to see on &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt;, so be sure to hover over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as implementation goes, the MSDN links for the more common types/keywords within the .NET Framework (for example) could be cached, so the aditional load would be minimal, given that processing is only done when a post (question or answer) is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is far from being the most important feature of editing, but I would imagine that it could be a significant timesaver, at least for the sizable number of us answers that refer to MSDN a lot! Any thoughts and/or further suggestions on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastEditorUserId="130256" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T22:49:07.303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T22:49:07.303" Title="Auto-Format/Auto-Insert MSDN Links for Keywords in Posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;posts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24474" CreationDate="2009-10-03T17:42:36.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tells the parser to automatically format any keyword that has an associated MSDN page, and is enclosed in backticks (`)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't want that; I tend to be pretty &lt;code&gt;strict&lt;/code&gt; about using backticks for any &lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt; names etc, but I only add links to the &lt;strong&gt;important&lt;/strong&gt; concepts in an answer; if everything in backticks (with a match) is a link, it is just noise and you can't find the bits that matter for that question. IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take your example as a case in point; I'm sure most of those don't vastly add to the answer. Unless the poster is asking how to represent a date, we should probably assume that either they know what a &lt;code&gt;DateTime&lt;/code&gt; is (or at least, what a search engine is); no need to link it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T17:42:36.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24473" CreationDate="2009-10-03T18:01:29.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's because those page buttons actually execute an ajax request in stead of a whole page request.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I wouldn't say that's actually &quot;by design&quot; as it's possible to make the back button of your browser behave like you want it to (gmail does this all over the place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T18:01:29.463" />
  <row Id="24478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24479" CreationDate="2009-10-03T18:06:19.453" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose it's not community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="6461" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T20:26:27.843" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T20:31:38.663" Title="Can someone modify another guy's answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24478" CreationDate="2009-10-03T18:07:08.063" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: Once you have 2000 rep, you can edit other people's posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT: or if you are a moderator.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="6461" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T20:30:24.327" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T20:30:24.327" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24480" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-03T19:02:20.663" Score="27" ViewCount="819" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a script to add some &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; branding to the tags, mostly open source projects like Python, Ruby, etc. Full disclosure : the script directly links to a bunch of favicons because I'm lazy. Here is a link to the script : &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/59074&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Tag Icon Adder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit : updated with some more important open-source related tags like linux, bsd, gnu, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Ftagicons.png&quot; alt=&quot;Icons!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135947" LastEditorUserId="135947" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T01:45:10.850" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T21:58:30.123" Title="Script to add more branded icons to SO tags, to offset Adobe branding" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="24481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24480" CreationDate="2009-10-03T19:19:43.707" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it more than I thought I would :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  [ /microsoft/ , &quot;http://www.microsoft.com/favicon.ico&quot;],&#xA;  [ /windows/ , &quot;http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Framework/images/favicon.ico&quot;],&#xA;  [ /ie6/ , &quot;http://www.midwesttapes.com/img/ie6.png&quot;],&#xA;  [ /ie7|ie8|internet-explorer/ , &quot;http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windows/images/possibilities/offers/icon_ie.gif&quot;],&#xA;  [ /j2me/ , &quot;http://java.com/favicon.ico&quot;],&#xA;  [ /word/ , &quot;http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/common/images/icons/office2007/word2007.gif&quot;],&#xA;  [ /excel/ , &quot;http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/5129/nz/digitallife/images/product/officeicon07-excel.gif&quot;],&#xA;  [ /office/ , &quot;http://it-soft-sac.com/cursos/images/products/icons/ofice0307.png&quot;],&#xA;  [ /sql-server/ , &quot;http://it-soft-sac.com/cursos/images/products/icons/sqlserver.png&quot;],&#xA;  [ /web-development|css/ , &quot;http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home&quot;],&#xA;  [ /postgres/ , &quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Postgresql_elephant.svg/40px-Postgresql_elephant.svg.png&quot;],&#xA;  [ /security/ , &quot;http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/Images/Bruce_Schneier.gif&quot;],&#xA;  [ /prototype/ , &quot;http://www.prototypejs.org/images/fav.png&quot;],&#xA;  [ /linux/ , &quot;http://www.managenergy.tv/metv/images/linux_icon.gif&quot;],&#xA;  [ /^mac/ , &quot;http://www.winterwolves.com/images/mac.gif&quot;],&#xA;  [ /osx/ , &quot;http://eina.sourceforge.net/img/download-osx.png&quot;],&#xA;  [ /apple|iphone/ , &quot;http://movies.apple.com/trailers/disney/toystory3/assets/images/apple.jpg&quot;],&#xA;  [ /google/ , &quot;http://www.google.com/favicon.ico&quot;],&#xA;  [ /chrome/ , &quot;http://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/res/chrome/images/chrome-16.png&quot;],&#xA;  [ /opera$/, &quot;http://www.opera.com/favicon.ico&quot;],&#xA;  [ /unicode/, &quot;http://unicode.org/favicon.ico&quot;],&#xA;  [ /\.net/, &quot;http://www.bitsontherun.com/static/uploads/images/net.png&quot;],&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [ /ponies/ , &quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4f7c0c43b0fb87f905d369d42d2667ac?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;],&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That looks like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8307/icon2tp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really looks great :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/825/colorfull.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ponies&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3017/ponies.png&quot; alt=&quot;OMG Ponies!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T17:55:55.810" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T17:55:55.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-05T18:40:25.303" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-03T19:22:25.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The S[O|F|U]/Meta crowd is a hard one to sell to because like a lot of sites, people come here for a particular reason - to get an answer. Unless the Ad points to an answer (and in some cases, for some ads they do - which is why I don't mind the ads here), you're not likely to sell much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better Jobs listing would probably go a long way - because lets face it, Google and Fog Creek can only hire but so many people. There are probably a lot of programmers/admins/etc. that are keeping an eye on the market. The existing tool isn't bad, but it could be better. Or where I'm at just sucks and I need to go start a company making bug tracking tools... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merch isn't a bad idea either. Its a way for those involved to show their love for the site (I think the response for the stickers has shown as much), and will likely drive more offline discussions about the site, which will likely drive more traffic &lt;i&gt;to&lt;/i&gt; the site. It may take some experimentation to find out what the best merch is and at what price point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Figure out a reasonable fee for a completely non-ad version of the site. Make it part of an annual &quot;sponsorship&quot; drive a la userfriendly.org. Possibly combine that with the merch and some interesting sponsorship tiers like techdirt.com and you get some neat possibilities... how much is a day with Jeff/Joel worth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T19:22:25.103" />
  <row Id="24483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24480" CreationDate="2009-10-03T20:30:28.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks really nice with my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements/24188#24188&quot;&gt;icon amplification script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6872/screenvj.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T20:30:28.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24478" CreationDate="2009-10-03T20:31:38.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I am assuming this is a 'moral' question and not a 'technical' question.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I've done it before.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example:&lt;/em&gt; Correcting someone's code so that it at least compiles, etc.  Not in the heat of the responses, but I came along weeks later and the answer answered my own question, co I copied the code.  It did not work, lacked private modifiers, etc.  So I fixed it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all in the spirit of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a line where one could go to far, like trivial edits, which is a full on topic here on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T20:31:38.663" />
  <row Id="24485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24480" CreationDate="2009-10-03T20:51:16.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;I hate it.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is geek eye candy and rots the brain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;here-and-there&lt;/em&gt; placement of icons, especially if it is bring in cash to SO, and hence keeping SO from looking like the-site-that-will-not-be-named, is OK.  But an excess is not desirable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere someone likened this kind of stuff to making SO look like Time Square, Piccadilly Circus, or whatever...and I agree.  Imagine a SO with 99% of tags with icons...yuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the greatest redeeming features of SO is the minimalist-yet-powerful user interface.  Zillions of icons in a smallish space is just plain messy and will degrade that.  So, I won't be using your script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except for ponies.  I like ponies.  Do you have a script just for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-omg-ponies.png&quot; alt=&quot;TheTXI&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-03T21:02:38.700" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T21:02:38.700" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-03T21:32:12.560" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it a problem of performance on the site or that too many make it look way ugly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T01:31:11.360" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T01:31:11.360" Title="Why doesn't SO show all comments when there are many?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24486" CreationDate="2009-10-03T21:43:26.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its to avoid cluttering the interface with off and side topic comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T21:43:26.740" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24489" CreationDate="2009-10-03T22:10:02.850" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems it'll calculate each user for only once,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that way each if someone frequently comes back,it's still not shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think of this idea,bad or good?Any better solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T05:53:41.987" Title="About the viewed times of a SO question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24488" CreationDate="2009-10-03T22:18:54.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a good idea, and I for one am glad it's implemented this way. To me, this gets the genuine level of interest in a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question, I will frequently revisit it throughout the next hour or so, looking for answers. That would unfairly jack up its popularity (measured in views) if the counting weren't implemented this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, I'll also frequently revisit questions I've answered or commented on, for much the same reason. And again, by only counting a unique user's first visit, the view count remains an accurate gauge of the question's true popularity within the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T22:18:54.833" />
  <row Id="24490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24498" CreationDate="2009-10-03T22:20:22.817" Score="40" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there are several comments some of them get hidden, which I don't mind, except when comments in the middle are hidden and I don't realize it till I get to the end. Then I have to unhide the comments and try to figure out which ones I haven't read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments stay in order as they should so you can follow them but when you hide random ones in the middle you can loose the context of the comments until you unhide them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of ideas that could help with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put the Show X more comments at the top of the comments instead of the bottom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put some indicator that there or hidden comments between these two&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Comment this is the first comment&#xA;Comment this is the second comment&#xA;...&#xA;Comment this is the fourth comment, comment three is hidden indicated by the dots&#xA;Comment this is the fifth comment&#xA;...&#xA;Comment this is comment number nine, comment 6, 7, and 8 are hidden&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the dots equals some indicator that there are hidden comment between two comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally you could highlight the newly shown comments when you hit the unhide comments link like you do when you post your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure there was a better way to format this question but I couldn't figure it out, if you can format it better please do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Please note I do not want to number the comments I was just trying to illustrate in my example that there were missing comments. I couldn't figure out a better way to illustrate it but with this edit I will try something different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132547" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T03:48:12.277" LastActivityDate="2010-09-17T07:21:01.517" Title="Can we get an indication comments are hidden between the comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="24491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24490" CreationDate="2009-10-03T22:43:32.213" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just get in the habit of opening all the comments before you read? If you're gonna spend the time to read comments, might as well expand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like an awful lot of work and clutter to label comments numbers when you can just click &quot;add/ show comments&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T22:43:32.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24495" CreationDate="2009-10-03T22:45:29.323" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's several older questions I just stumbled across, which at the time were closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;, but should now be moved to SuperUser. How should these be dealt with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reopening then voting to close is rather slow, as it requires 10 votes (5 to reopen, 5 to close as &quot;belongs on &lt;strong&gt;_&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just flagged them as needs-moderator-attention, is this the best way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T23:17:23.727" Title="Moving a closed question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24456" CreationDate="2009-10-03T22:55:28.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;link&quot; under each answer is just that, a link directly to that answer.  It was added as a convenience, so that if you wish to reference that answer in another answer or question, you could just right-click on it to copy the URL.  Prior to this you had to look up that answer on the user's profile page and copy the link from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T22:55:28.120" />
  <row Id="24494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20420" CreationDate="2009-10-03T23:03:51.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've probably missed the deadline, but this took a bit of research and, having a couple of small kids and a job, I don't have much spare time to do this kind of thing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave.faller/download/CountDown.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Download my entry from here&lt;/a&gt;. It's a 16bit DOS COM file. I've tested it with the WinXP command prompt, I won't make any assurances about other OSes/DOS emulators. To start the program:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;count hh:mm message&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where hh:mm is the 24 hour time format and message consists of alpha numeric text with %s where the time to go is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of us old enough to remember, it should bring on a bit of nostalgia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skizz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://eji.com/a86/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this assembler&lt;/a&gt; to build the application. Command line is:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a86 count.asm data.asm&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: Yeah, it really needs the voice too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastEditorUserId="1898" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T14:21:16.383" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T14:21:16.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24492" CreationDate="2009-10-03T23:17:23.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends in part on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether the OP is still around, or whether they were 1-question-wonders&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether the question is going to be constructive to the new site (especially without OP input)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what answers do they have?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving things to MSO is probably a lot clearer / easier. But yes, &lt;em&gt;if appropriate&lt;/em&gt; flagging can help here; perhaps more than voting, since the questions are old&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-03T23:17:23.727" />
  <row Id="24496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24497" CreationDate="2009-10-03T23:28:03.070" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The company I work on would like to be able to find good programmers through SO, but we couldn't find a way to filter users nearby. Is it possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130149" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T18:14:01.267" Title="Is there a way to retrieve users from a specific state or city?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24496" CreationDate="2009-10-03T23:32:27.833" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can go somewhere like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackql&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;statoverflow&lt;/a&gt; and write an sql query to filter users based on the location field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what I've seen in the StackQL logs, maybe something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT ID AS UserID, * FROM Users &#xA;WHERE (Location LIKE '%Cleveland%' OR Location LIKE '%Ohio%' )&#xA;ORDER BY Reputation DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That'll get you 239 potential candidates.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Direct query link:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=446&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/?qid=446&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T18:14:01.267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T18:14:01.267" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24490" CreationDate="2009-10-03T23:35:21.823" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55020/add-a-show-more-comments-button-to-the-top-of-a-list-of-comments&quot;&gt;'show extra comments' link was at the &lt;em&gt;top&lt;/em&gt; of the comments&lt;/a&gt;, it would be easier to see that some comments were hidden, and it wouldn't be necessary to number comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link could be more obvious, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="146482" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-17T07:21:01.517" LastActivityDate="2010-09-17T07:21:01.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24496" CreationDate="2009-10-04T00:08:29.967" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about having them &lt;em&gt;support&lt;/em&gt; the site and place a job listing on &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jobs.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T00:08:29.967" />
  <row Id="24500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24480" CreationDate="2009-10-04T01:31:20.550" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait, I'm sorry, but, &lt;strong&gt;no WAFFLES!?!?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/8363/metawaffles.png&quot; alt=&quot;Waffles&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T01:31:20.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10848" CreationDate="2009-10-04T02:30:12.653" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the determining factor is if something has to be done that is not covered by the normally [sic] processes in place (voting, discussion, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or the flagger lacks sufficient reputation to perform that action himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T02:30:12.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T02:32:12.323" Score="2" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think moderators should be arbitrarily marking questions as community wiki, thus denying users of potential reputation points.  For example, I was just searching SU and found &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/31786/what-tools-to-test-the-reliability-and-stability-of-a-newly-built-pc&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  Why did Diago mark it as CW?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the same thing about this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1133581/is-23-148-855-308-184-500-a-magic-number-or-sheer-chance&quot;&gt;SO question&lt;/a&gt;.  Mark Gravell marked it as CW for some reason.  Why?  Because it got too much attention?  So what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let the community determine what is &lt;strong&gt;community&lt;/strong&gt; wiki.  One of several things will take care of &quot;questionable&quot; questions.  It will be so freakishly popular that the number of answers will switch it soon enough, the community will pressure the person who asked the question into making it CW, or the community will be put off and ignore it.  Of course, they may just as well accept it as just a really popular question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:56:14.633" Title="Should moderators be making questions community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24502" CreationDate="2009-10-04T02:36:24.483" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, they should. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down/7183#7183&quot;&gt;According to The Atwood&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you think something should be community wiki then flag it for mod attention with a comment to that effect. Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the questions you cite: the first is a GTKY question (asked individuals to describe their practices, no &quot;right&quot; answer), while the second asked for speculation. These questions, while fun enough when rare, can and have become a problem if left unchecked... CW isn't the best solution, but it's the compromise that's worked the best so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T02:42:21.617" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T02:42:21.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10848" CreationDate="2009-10-04T02:45:52.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down/7183#7183&quot;&gt;Another specific case&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you think something should be community wiki then flag it for mod attention with a comment to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T02:45:52.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24502" CreationDate="2009-10-04T02:47:39.097" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the examples questions you gave were &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first was about testing hardware and the second a bit of fluff about an unusual computer malfunction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither question asked about &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; or related to any particular programming language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I hope it is getting more and more difficult to fool moderators by inserting the word &lt;em&gt;programmatically&lt;/em&gt; in a question, &lt;em&gt;in any of its spelling variants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T02:47:39.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T02:54:08.983" Score="1" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow has no known peer (other than it's offshoots serverfault.com et al)...oops forgot about experts-exchange.com, which I have no experience with since I never used their services (I wonder if the &quot;experts&quot; ever answered/asked any questions on the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt;). So as far as the term &quot;tipping point&quot; goes it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping%5Fpoint%5F%28sociology%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;...the event of a previously rare phenomenon becoming rapidly and dramatically more common&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and that is just what the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt; has become in it's year of existence. When I need a technical reference or have a technical question I don't google it I look for it on the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt; and I put answers on the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt; in the &quot;I scratch your back you scratch mine&quot; &lt;em&gt;modus operandi&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posit that at least 80% of the broad major questions have already been put on the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt;. Stuff like code best practises, code reviews, algorithm anlyses and comparisons, concurrency, data structures etc. The 20% are those more specific use case questions and those that arise with new influences such the next JDK 8, the next Scala etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is it - the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt; is the &quot;FaCEbook for us programmers, developers, engineers, architects...&quot;. You put a question on the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt; and, if relatively easy enough, a &lt;strong&gt;Stacker&lt;/strong&gt; has an answer or a comment on the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt; in 2-5 minutes guaranteed. &lt;strong&gt;Stackers&lt;/strong&gt; poll the &lt;strong&gt;Stack&lt;/strong&gt; as a new daily part of their ritual to see what's up. Indeed when you go to your next interview and the interviewer asked where do you go when you are totaly stumped, do you google it...the appropriate answer to the contrived question is no...I &quot;stack&quot; it. What do you guys think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136756" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T03:01:49.727" Title="Has stackoverflow.com reached the &quot;tipping point&quot;?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24507" CreationDate="2009-10-04T03:00:02.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure, but I cover some of the more recent growth patterns for the site here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/one-million-pageviews/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/one-million-pageviews/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/us-versus-hyphen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/us-versus-hyphen/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/one-year-of-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/one-year-of-stack-overflow/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other posts documenting different milestones, largely in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/background/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;background&quot; category&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T03:00:02.443" />
  <row Id="24509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24507" CreationDate="2009-10-04T03:01:49.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the appropriate answer to the contrived question is no...I &quot;stack&quot; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally dont use the term 'Stack' to refer to SO.  I generally use the full 'stackoverflow' or 'SO.' I think I would need clarification if a candidate said to me 'I stack it.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T03:01:49.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24502" CreationDate="2009-10-04T03:59:41.710" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators shouldn't be using Community Wiki as a weapon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki shouldn't be about the topic.  If something is off-topic, then close or delete it.  CW is all about editing and allowing more people to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T04:12:07.863" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T04:12:07.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22869" CreationDate="2009-10-04T04:30:08.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found another raw-query site to play with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T04:30:08.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-04T04:30:08.720" />
  <row Id="24513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-10-04T04:49:45.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to open source would be because you would gain less revenue. (which isn't the same as losing revenue: hardly anyone who downloads Photoshop would pay for it if they couldn't download it, so it's not revenue lost)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you gain less? StackExchange might gain less revenue, but StackOverflow wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The on the other side, the only reason I can see to open-source it is to get it more widely used than a service like StackExchange can make it, or to head off competitors that are doing similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the reason is because it would be free-like-beer. The fact that it would be free-like-speech wouldn't give many benefits at all: The product works well so there's not a huge amount of development work you need to do that can't be done in-house. And any work done externally would have to be vetted in-house anyway, so you'll need to pay that guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you did decide you wanted to go the Open Source route, follow the MySQL or RedHat path: it's all open source, but support is provided at a cost. That means you will sell it to the enterprise crowd who need solid support contracts before they can begin to look at a product. You can sell it (via StackExchange) to the crowd who have no idea (and don't want any idea) how to set it up for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, there will be other people who will compete with StackExchange using your product. But that's going to happen anyway, just using some other open-source initialtive that works the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that this yet-to-be-discovered competitor will be writing it in PHP or Ruby or Python -- all languages that have huge Open Source followings. ASP.Net just isn't that big for open source because it's based on closed-source libraries and compilers. This means that you'd be losing the competition for people to help you write it, so again the argument is all about free-like-beer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132812" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T04:49:45.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-04T04:49:45.470" />
  <row Id="24514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24516" CreationDate="2009-10-04T05:41:20.573" Score="3" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to search for several related tags at once. When I type multiple tag-names in the search box, only one gets selected and I have to sift through a horde of non-pertinent questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. 1: I want to find all questions where 'java' AND 'netbeans' AND 'tomcat' all are defined per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. 2: (this may be a bit much to hope for) I want to find all questions where 'java' AND 'netbeans' BUT_NOT 'tomcat' is defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, is there a way to search through the previous search results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136755" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:44:42.173" Title="How do I combine/exclude multiple tags from a search?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24488" CreationDate="2009-10-04T05:53:41.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is implemented with a sliding time window by IP address, pretty standard stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T05:53:41.987" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24514" CreationDate="2009-10-04T06:04:59.797" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed it is possible.&#xA;This brings up all questions tagged with all three:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bjava%5D+%5Bnetbeans%5D+%5Btomcat%5D&quot;&gt;search: [java] [netbeans] [tomcat]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings up all questions tagged with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[java]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[netbeans]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; but not &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[tomcat]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5B-tomcat%5D+%5Bjava%5D+%5Bnetbeans%5D&quot;&gt;search: -[tomcat] [java] [netbeans]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T06:44:42.173" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:44:42.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15719" CreationDate="2009-10-04T06:05:48.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just deployed the latest trunk of prettify.js ; revision 83&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:05:48.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20029" CreationDate="2009-10-04T06:06:50.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just deployed the latest trunk of prettify.js ; revision 83&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:06:50.013" />
  <row Id="24519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14549" CreationDate="2009-10-04T06:07:08.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just deployed the latest trunk of prettify.js ; revision 83&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:07:08.997" />
  <row Id="24520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8385" CreationDate="2009-10-04T06:09:01.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just deployed the latest trunk of prettify.js ; revision 83&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:09:01.317" />
  <row Id="24521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24514" CreationDate="2009-10-04T06:36:59.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt;'s answer covers your question,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;there is one more way to search -- the Google way &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19253/exclude-specific-words-in-stackoverflow-search&quot;&gt;as described for this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you sift through the '&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;' questions on the right for this question,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;there are a lot of other things you can do to search here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is one more reference on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1114/additional-search-features-syntax&quot;&gt;additional search features&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T06:36:59.113" />
  <row Id="24522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T07:34:48.323" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;/questions/1509416/how-to-get-the-latest-record-among-3-different-table-in-mysql/1509429#1509429&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see an element with id 1509429 but it still works,how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T19:51:51.593" Title="What does stuff like 1509429#1509429 mean inside permalink?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24522" CreationDate="2009-10-04T07:42:56.187" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is referring to an answer rather than a question.  The first number in the URL is the question number.  The name of the question can change if someone with authority (permission) edits the title, so I suspect that the value in the permalink is immaterial.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indeed, some playing with permalinks shows that the text portion is effectively ignored; you can reduce it to a single character, or remove all the characters, or remove the slash too.  Thus, all these get to this answer:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522/what-does-stuff-like-15094291509429-mean-inside-permalink/24523#24523&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522/what-does-stuff-like-15094291509429-mean-inside-permalink/24523#24523&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522/k/24523#24523&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522/k/24523#24523&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522//24523#24523&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522//24523#24523&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522/24523#24523&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24522/24523#24523&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first of the two numbers separated by the '#' (hash) symbol is the answer number - as part of the URL, it instructs Stack Overflow to load the page with that answer on it (only really meaningful for questions with multiple pages of answers, but a link wouldn't be very &lt;em&gt;perm&lt;/em&gt;anent if it broke once too many answers were posted).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number after the hash (the URL &quot;fragment&quot;) is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; the answer number - but this time it instructs the &lt;em&gt;browser&lt;/em&gt; to scroll that answer into view once the page has loaded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and you're right - there's no element with an &lt;em&gt;id&lt;/em&gt; set to the answer number; it's an honest-to-goodness &lt;em&gt;anchor!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a name=&quot;1509429&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Thanks to @shog9 for some previous additional information - the last couple of paragraphs, roughly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="15168" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T19:51:51.593" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T19:51:51.593" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24522" CreationDate="2009-10-04T07:57:06.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old way for bookmarks to work was with a named hyperlink, and this is the method that SOFU uses, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a name=&quot;24523&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T07:57:06.130" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24322" CreationDate="2009-10-04T08:06:35.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer is basically ok and wrong only by a small oversight then correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is plain wrong, downvote it and upvote the correct answer, or provide a correct answer yourself. You can also add a comment to point out what's wrong with the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is ok to substantially change the meaning of a post attributed to somebody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49246" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:06:35.893" />
  <row Id="24526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24522" CreationDate="2009-10-04T08:09:12.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hint: one of these things can be seen by the server and the client browser, while the other can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be seen by the client browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:09:12.613" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23345" CreationDate="2009-10-04T08:32:00.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;removed flickr from the sub-list, since flickr no longer requires a username -- and basically has merged with Yahoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, short answer, use the Yahoo button now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:32:00.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24480" CreationDate="2009-10-04T08:33:22.430" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate to sound all lawyerish - but I can see two problems with the script (were it adopted more commonly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if corporations etc get their icon added for free, there would be little incentive to sponsor a tag; and since I value SO, I have to respect that they need &lt;em&gt;paying&lt;/em&gt; sponsors. But I think as an &lt;strong&gt;advert for tag sponsorship&lt;/strong&gt; it works very well &quot;your logo could be here&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a little less likely, but there can also be issues with using people's logo without their permission; partly it would come down to whether you are applying &quot;fair use&quot;, or whether you are using it for commercial gain. Arguably in this case (for the SO site owners) the latter would apply. It would be pretty stupid to argue this case, but sometimes companies (and legal in particular) qualify.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a MSO perspective, I think this also means we need to be &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; careful about tag edits (merge in particular). Tag merges have slowed down significantly, so I don't think this is a biggie, but just something extra to check...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:33:22.430" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-04T08:54:07.260" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few months ago, the excellent CBC Radio Show Age of Persuasion did a particularly good show called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/2009/02/season%5F3%5Fepisode%5Fbreaking%5Fthe.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Breaking the Contract&lt;/a&gt;. It explores the idea (from David Ogilvy) that advertising is bound by a social contract with the audience -- if I see an ad, I should benefit from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These Adobe ads are a blight. They distract from the content, especially the other tags. They stick out like a sore thumb, like a row of billboards along the highway. They add absolutely no value. They look tacky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, Joel, et al., I beg all of you to reconsider these advertisements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or at least provide a way to have &quot;text-only&quot; tags -- perhaps at a certain level of reputation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134447" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:54:07.260" />
  <row Id="24532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24502" CreationDate="2009-10-04T08:56:14.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Generally&lt;/em&gt; we would only do this in obvious cases - and even then there is a fine line between marking it wiki and just closing / deleting it. In reality, based in part on timing and popularity; delete a popular (yet completely off-topic) question and hell breaks loose. Delete the same question before it gets started, and nobody minds. CW is, in some cases, a compromise that works reasonably well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of cases where somebody suggests something should be wiki and we leave it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to try to analyse retrospectively, but the $23,148,855,308,184,500 is a tricky one. The answer (assuming it is correct) is a fantastic bit of detective work. I honestly can't remember my thought process at the time (I &lt;em&gt;imagine&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; it was getting a lot of spam / moderator flags - don't quote me), but thinking fresh &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;; rep is primarily a token of site activity / trust. I'm not sure if it a great idea for somebody to get virtually 10k moderator access on a single answer... perhaps more evidence that a rep limit per post might be more useful than a rep limit per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T08:56:14.633" />
  <row Id="24534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24536" CreationDate="2009-10-04T10:03:11.313" Score="2" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me SO just hide the flag feature on that comment for this user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-24T16:47:42.400" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T22:22:02.840" Title="What happens after flagging a comment as noise, offensive or spam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-04T10:03:27.100" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate to point out that I just installed the FIRST adblock rule I've ever manually written in over 3 years... On Stack Overflow of all places.  Up until now I had even white listed ad blocking on the League of Justice sites based on your advertising policies.  All because this company I'll never care about now has a RED 'A' to make its questions stand out to the eye MORE than the questions I actually care to read.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm taking Jeff's advice and adding an adblock for it, but I just lost a little faith in the 'above ground' advertising policies you had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the problems I have with this would be solved if either (preferably both) of these things happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the logo was 'colored' in the same blue hue as the tag boxes - Tell me which tag you see first: &lt;img src=&quot;http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/368/tagsr.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there were more tags that had these logos, perhaps some tags like rss/html/etc (which I hope you don't plan on selling to the highest bidder) could pick up generic icons. (Maybe throw in a jQuery one as a donation to the project since you use it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130602" LastEditorUserId="130602" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T10:29:54.993" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T10:29:54.993" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24534" CreationDate="2009-10-04T10:16:29.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderator tools and the 10k tools (available for those with more than 10k reputation) show the flags (but neither one shows &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; flagged). A moderator can delete it right away, and 10k users (and any other user who happens to read the comment) can then flag the same comment too. When some threshold is reached, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17364/how-does-comment-voting-and-flagging-work/17365#17365&quot;&gt;the comment is deleted&lt;/a&gt;. This does not affect reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-24T19:01:42.497" LastActivityDate="2011-01-24T19:01:42.497" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T10:59:19.650" Score="3" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I concluded from the id of questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T13:04:57.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T13:04:57.050" Title="Why does SO store questions and answers in the same table?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="24538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24537" CreationDate="2009-10-04T11:11:13.907" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you enjoy asking questions so much, I will answer your questions with more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the difference between a question and an answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What fields does question have, that answer does not?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should similar items be stored together?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T11:11:13.907" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="24539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T11:15:50.323" Score="5" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent addition of the Adobe logo to the Adobe based tags, I came to realize that my eye was scanning these tags first when browsing the question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I was thinking more about how much this may affect my Stack Overflow experience - I thought that perhaps a little JavaScript adding a &quot;star&quot; to your interesting tags / something else for ignored tags &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; be very useful.  You could quickly spot a question that is in 3 of your tags (as opposed to just 'any of my tags') while scanning the questions list.  It would also quickly draw your eye to WHY the question is interesting to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly - This could even be accomplished by altering the border properties of interesting tags (like feature-request/etc end up looking here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A greasemonkey userscript if you want to see what it might look like: &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/59123&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;grab from here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2992/picture1oj.png&quot; alt=&quot;mock&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another quick screenshot using highlighting instead of an icon:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5945/picture2ps.png&quot; alt=&quot;mock2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130602" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-26T02:51:27.870" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T02:51:27.870" Title="Highlight interesting tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;favorite-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="24540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24539" CreationDate="2009-10-04T11:20:56.103" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, there is no difference if there is 1 or 3 tags that make a question interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T11:20:56.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T12:05:48.207" Score="4" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a keyboard issue with the '}' key. At the moment, I have to actually copy/paste this character whenever I want to use it inside a 'question' or 'answer' WYSIWYG editor on this website. If I type it using my keyboard it is replaced automatically by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;enter your code here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if I am at the beginning of a line or by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`enter your code here`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if I am not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using an AZERTY keyboard (being French).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On an azerty keyboard, the '}' character is two keys to the right of the '0' character and requires the 'ALT-GR' key (right of the space key) to be pressed for activation, I was wondering if this could be misinterpreted by the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does make typing code bothersome, especially since I am mostly a C++ user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;Following an answer: Yes I use Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather not change my language though, I prefer my keys to actually reflect the characters they will produce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For any idea or suggestion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132600" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-27T01:50:20.577" LastActivityDate="2010-10-27T01:50:20.577" Title="Editor issue with the '}' key" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24541" CreationDate="2009-10-04T12:17:21.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There must be a conflict between your '}' key and the shortcut assigned to &quot;code sample&quot; (ctrl-k).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only say that while I also have an AZERTY keyboard (being Belgian), I don't have this issue. Granted, my '}' sign is on the '0' key, not two keys right of it, but I also have to use the 'ALT-GR' key to type it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T12:17:21.427" />
  <row Id="24543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24480" CreationDate="2009-10-04T12:27:39.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Optimized the regexp testing - and added the SO icon to the tags you mark 'interesting' (at least on the pages that SO publishes them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revision posted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/59121&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;userscripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130602" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T12:27:39.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24546" CreationDate="2009-10-04T12:43:56.167" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got down-voters remorse, as I don't think I was being fair. But now its too late for me to reverse it. Any ideas please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T13:02:51.077" Title="Too late to reverse a down vote?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24544" CreationDate="2009-10-04T12:48:12.790" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bookmark the answer in your browser of choice. (Leave a note to yourself as to why you'll be coming back to the post.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue using the site until you have at least 2000 juicy rep points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go back to the answer and edit it. This will reset the counter for votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reverse your downvote to an upvote or just take back the vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or just wait for them to edit their post and undo or reverse your vote then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T12:48:12.790" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24544" CreationDate="2009-10-04T13:02:51.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24544/too-late-to-reverse-a-down-vote/24545#24545&quot;&gt;@random's answer&lt;/a&gt;, you could also leave a comment asking the author to do a minor edit, so you can undo your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T13:02:51.077" />
  <row Id="24547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T13:42:44.843" Score="10" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frequently I see questions where the OP has basically come to the conclusion: &quot;If only I knew how to do Z, then I could solve my problem,&quot; then basically asks &quot;How do I do Z?&quot; on SO (or pick another site).  Often, it turns out that &quot;doing Z&quot; is impossible or impractical (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1516385/dynamic-generic-declaration-of-type-t&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt;) and you get the sense that if only the user had described their actual problem, you might be able to help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it advisable to encourage people to describe the context of their question as well as the specific question as well?  How can we encourage people to do this?  I usually comment, but there is often a lag before the question gets updated with additional information, leaving some answers as irrelevant once the real question comes to the fore.  People tend not to read instructions, so perhaps there isn't a good way to catch this any earlier.  Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T02:32:05.270" Title="How can we encourage people to ask the right question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24547" CreationDate="2009-10-04T13:57:24.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that I've come across in my professional life too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can do is ask for more information to try and get to the reason behind the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the format of SO all you've got is answers, comments and votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't post an request for more information as an answer, so you've only got comments on the question. As you say there's a lag between posting a comment and getting a response. The only way to get a more timely response might be to down-vote the question as well as posting the comment, but that seems harsh to me. However, as Matthew Scharley points out, you can always undo the vote if the question is modified, so it might have the desired effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T14:16:13.643" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T14:16:13.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24547" CreationDate="2009-10-04T14:00:31.893" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think comments are the best option for this scenario. After all, comments are supposed to be &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; about the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, the original poster is checking their new questions often, both to get their answers and to provide any followup information requested. If they are not, then the question will only get the (lack of) attention it deserves. You get out what you put in... The same concepts apply to the answers, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T14:00:31.893" />
  <row Id="24550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T14:31:24.473" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it that you can't do single-newlines? More often than not it bothers me not to be able to do so. Are there any reason it's been disallowed in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T19:22:06.627" Title="Allowing single newlines?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24550" CreationDate="2009-10-04T14:37:16.910" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not disallowed, and in fact very possible to do single-newlines,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;just add 2 spaces after the previous line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can also use a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;Look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/24551/list&quot;&gt;revision of this answer&lt;/a&gt; for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also these links for more information regarding the Markdown editor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-04T19:22:06.627" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T19:22:06.627" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24547" CreationDate="2009-10-04T15:02:25.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To oversimplify, there are two types of questioners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One will pay attention to guidelines, and will almost certainly have learned to ask good questions already.  Therefore, there's no point in putting things like this in the guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One (the more common) will not.  In this case, there's no point in putting anything in the guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically, there are people who will glance at the guidelines, and for them we need to keep guidelines short.  I don't think this belongs in quick guidelines, since I've seen a lot more questions with insufficient information than I've seen asking the wrong question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think the only thing to do is to post comments.  If I don't see a response fairly soon, I might downvote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T15:02:25.617" />
  <row Id="24553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24547" CreationDate="2009-10-04T15:36:07.037" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many people feel uncomfortable 'courting' a room full of experts. When I see a question that suggests its own answer, I just take into consideration that the poster is very likely wearing blinders and respond appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, people feel the need to show that they have worked through their problem or question as far as they possibly can prior to asking a question. While this is indeed good practice, some take it to the extreme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best thing to do is just gently alert the person that they have become either snow blind or over determined to or for a certain course of action. Some people just feel the need to show they know something while asking for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T15:36:07.037" />
  <row Id="24554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4701" CreationDate="2009-10-04T17:48:39.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a feedfier for the user's recent activity page (the envelope button): &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/authfeed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/authfeed/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T17:48:39.307" />
  <row Id="24556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="666" CreationDate="2009-10-04T17:49:36.343" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a feedfier for the user's recent activity page (the envelope button): &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/authfeed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/authfeed/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T17:49:36.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24559" CreationDate="2009-10-04T17:54:53.460" Score="0" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;the volume of questions on stackoverflow is large. i think we should have a separate website for asking questions related to mobile phone related development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T21:14:55.750" Title="Should there be a separate site for mobile phone related development?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="24558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24557" CreationDate="2009-10-04T17:56:25.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so.  I don't think there's enough volume plus people will invariably continue to post mobile phone dev questions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T17:56:25.860" />
  <row Id="24559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24557" CreationDate="2009-10-04T18:00:21.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is about programming on ALL platforms, mac, windows, linux, all on one site. The reason superuser and serverfault were made is because they're a different subject, computers in general and server administration, respectively. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T18:00:21.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-24T17:49:20.280" Score="10" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I want to have someone with moderator abilities review a question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What would be the best way to flag this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there already some standard way to do this that I don't know about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T08:11:25.427" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T03:12:59.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-24T17:49:20.280" Title="Flagging a question for moderator review" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24557" CreationDate="2009-10-04T18:37:53.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;NO.  Proof by counterexample: I have never wrote a single mobile program, but I answered a question about Android with just use of mere Linux knowledge.  Many concepts between mobile, embedded and &quot;usual&quot; development are shared throughout these domains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just more logical to have them all in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T18:37:53.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24522" CreationDate="2009-10-04T19:03:26.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Named anchors (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags) are a way to link to specific parts of a page..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say you have a long page, and in the middle, the following HTML:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a name=&quot;1509429&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you navigate to &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/mypage.htm#1509429&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/mypage.htm#1509429&lt;/a&gt; the browser will jump to where the above HTML is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, the &lt;code&gt;#1509429&lt;/code&gt; makes the browser scroll the appropriate answer, rather than the top of the page (as a normal link would)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T19:03:26.893" />
  <row Id="24567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-10-04T19:04:29.513" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://shapado.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shapado&lt;/a&gt;, but it's a shame it's developed on Ruby on Rails. I would've preferred a PHP/MySQL solution instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T02:43:14.153" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:43:14.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-04T19:04:29.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24560" CreationDate="2009-10-04T20:27:55.210" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit of an oldie recently migrated from SO, but this is now achieved with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moderator flags&lt;/a&gt;. Just click Flag -&gt; Requires Moderator attention, and tell us why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical reasons are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/80269/to-flag-or-not-to-flag-and-a-request-for-auditing/80273#80273&quot;&gt;discussed here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10848/what-are-acceptable-reasons-for-flagging-as-requires-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If unsure you can also just ask here on &quot;meta&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-03T03:12:59.137" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T03:12:59.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-04T20:27:55.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T21:58:32.643" Score="-1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we get more chars for the comments here in meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On lengthy discussions the comments 600 char limit is in ocations too constricting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/caribbean/wildlife-facts/2002/wildlife-facts%5Fimages%5F2002/boa%5Fde%5Fpr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Constricting like a boa.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that meta is &lt;del&gt;an after&lt;/del&gt;thought for discussions, this could help a little. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, there seems to be a concensus that you should be able to get your point across in under 600 chars. Most of the time I'd agree, but I've seen more than once some &lt;strong&gt;heated&lt;/strong&gt; discussions where comments had to be broken down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course feel free to close as &lt;code&gt;[status-bydesign]&lt;/code&gt; if correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T12:46:50.767" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T12:46:50.767" Title="More chars on comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;character-length&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-04T22:05:11.850" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Previously there was a feature requested to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22305/automatically-add-preview-title-attribute-to-internal-links&quot;&gt;add a title= tooltip to internal comment links&lt;/a&gt;. This was recently marked as &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt; but was really only half implemented, as discussed in that post (how does one re-open an issue, anyway?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the incomplete feature, there's a bug:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If a comment contains two or more links (ie. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1517428/coming-from-a-visual-studio-background-what-do-you-recommend-i-use-to-start-my-v&quot;&gt;this post's first comment&lt;/a&gt;), then the tooltip for every link in the same comment has the same tooltip text, specifically the text from the first link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T01:03:01.387" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:05:46.683" Title="Tooltip for internal comment links shows wrong title" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24570" CreationDate="2009-10-04T22:18:18.583" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If 600 characters is not enough then you might need to try writing more concisely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T22:18:18.583" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24570" CreationDate="2009-10-04T22:49:10.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already been increased from about 300 to 600. Comments are supposed to be a way to, well, comment on a post - &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a discussion forum. The limit needs to be set somewhere, and 600 seems perfectly reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24570/more-chars-on-comments/24572#24572&quot;&gt;Jon B&lt;/a&gt;, if you need to type more than 600 characters, you should either write more concisely, or.. create your own answer and quote the parts you wish to reply to, as I am doing here..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, Twitter seems to be doing fine with 140!...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T01:33:02.373" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:33:02.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24570" CreationDate="2009-10-04T22:51:11.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want to get your point across as quickly as possible, so there really shouldn't be many situations where 600+ chars are required. If that much discussion is required, then it shouldn't occur in comments. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-10-04T22:51:11.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24578" CreationDate="2009-10-05T00:18:43.260" Score="3" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try it yourself. Type &quot;want&quot; in the top left box and press enter.&#xA;I want it corrected!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I remember the phrasing of the question I am searching and it doesn't contains any keyword, so I have to go to Google to search it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T00:42:12.873" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:12:45.297" Title="SO sites don't search for common words" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24575" CreationDate="2009-10-05T00:22:04.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want you ... to want ... me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FDmpM8DMZ9E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FDmpM8DMZ9E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T00:22:04.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24575" CreationDate="2009-10-05T00:23:23.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search ignores common words and focuses on keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see what keywords it's searching for by looking on the right side of the search results. You can also switch tabs and then check the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T00:23:23.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24575" CreationDate="2009-10-05T00:37:42.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're called stop words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of our major performance optimizations for the “related questions” query is removing the top 10,000 most common English dictionary words (as determined by Google search) before submitting the query to the SQL Server 2008 full text engine. It’s shocking how little is left of most posts once you remove the top 10k English dictionary words. This helps limit and narrow the returned results, which makes the query dramatically faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/podcast-32/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/podcast-32/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As of today, we do a better job of discarding stopwords&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/stack-overflow-search-now-51-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/stack-overflow-search-now-51-less-crappy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T01:12:45.297" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:12:45.297" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24575" CreationDate="2009-10-05T00:38:43.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would expect it to ignore &quot;common&quot; words - most search engines do, perhaps accepting them if you force them (google, yahoo, ebay, amazon, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indexing common words slows the search down, and returns results you [probably] don't &lt;strong&gt;want&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T00:49:49.880" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T00:49:49.880" />
  <row Id="24580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2747" CreationDate="2009-10-05T00:57:14.750" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about answers from questions that have been merged (such as from a only-very-slightly different question closed as a dupe)?  I'd love to edit the content of one of my answers into the other, except deleting an answer would mean losing its rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe what this means is that &lt;strong&gt;a user should be able to merge two of his answers (including comments and accrued reputation) into one&lt;/strong&gt;.  This could be an ability granted after ~250-500 rep, perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T00:57:14.750" />
  <row Id="24581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-10-05T00:57:31.253" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My stickers arrived yesterday. Since I do not use ServerFault as much as StackOverflow and SuperUser, I had requested to replace my SF sticker with an extra SO one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the stickers on my laptop! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1240675/StackOverflow/fr%5FDSC%5F0651.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1240675/StackOverflow/fr%5FDSC%5F0652.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1240675/StackOverflow/fr%5FDSC%5F0653.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1630" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T00:57:31.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2747" CreationDate="2009-10-05T01:04:34.317" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it is difficult to find the other answer I provided to this question (this one) which currently has 13 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can easily find that answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;using the advanced search operators&lt;/a&gt;. Of course this question predates those existing..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:04:34.317" />
  <row Id="24583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24571" CreationDate="2009-10-05T01:05:46.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We aren't going to do an additional database lookup on every comment URL. The current implementation should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:05:46.683" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24570" CreationDate="2009-10-05T01:12:04.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that 600 characters is &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; more than enough. Comments are not supposed to become an on-going discussion between users or long diatribe by one user. That type of protracted discussion is avoided, by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are supposed to be a bit Twitter-like; a light-weight way to add a few hundred characters as an annotation to the post. Comments provide &lt;em&gt;just enough&lt;/em&gt; functionality to point out issues or add any sort of mini &quot;meta discussion&quot; you want to have about the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have significant content to contribute, add another answer so it can be voted on independently. &lt;strong&gt;That is the basis of how Stack Overflow works.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T01:12:04.457" />
  <row Id="24585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7129" CreationDate="2009-10-05T03:27:25.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, a designer site focusing on Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, The Gimp, etc. is missing from the trilogy. I typed &quot;photoshop&quot; into doctype.com and it found 9 questions :-(.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T03:27:25.300" />
  <row Id="24586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-05T04:31:57.243" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been a few times that I've seen nearly unreadable questions from obviously non-native English speakers. I'm pretty certain the actual question would have been more clear if they had used an online translator to translate from their native language to English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen any of these too recently, and I don't think there's a need for any links to specific questions here.  Would it be out of place to suggest (in a comment) that they could probably get better answers if they had a machine translate to English for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, it seems a little rude, but on the other hand, it seems very practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T08:37:34.093" Title="Would it be out of place to ask a user to use an online translator for a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-10-05T04:42:08.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about: &quot;SOheads&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T04:42:08.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-05T04:42:08.173" />
  <row Id="24588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24586" CreationDate="2009-10-05T05:09:40.137" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making the questions easier to read helps everybody out. But who knows how accurately the translations will work for the English as a second language (ESL) speakers. They might not recognise their own question after the parse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you word it just right, it shouldn't come off as rude. Then again, intent could be hard to gauge if you're new/foreign to a language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they could include their first attempt along with what the translation guessed for them. Someone with enough succulent rep points (2000 for normal posts, 100 on wikied posts) could then rewrite for the savoury betterment of all users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google Translation: They might not recognise their own question after the parse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;English &gt; Indonesian&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mereka mungkin tidak mengenali pertanyaan mereka sendiri setelah parsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Indonesian &gt; Croatian&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oni svibanj prepoznaju vlastite pitanja nakon obrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Croatian &gt; Spanish&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Que puedan reconocer sus propios problemas después del tratamiento.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Spanish &gt; Thai&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;พวกเขาสามารถรับรู้ปัญหาของตนเองหลังการรักษา.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Thai &gt; Czech&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mohou realizovat své vlastní problémy, po lécbe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Czech &gt; Italian&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Si rendono conto i loro problemi dopo il trattamento.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Italian &gt; Danish&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;De er klar over deres problemer efter behandlingen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Danish &gt; English&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are aware of their problems after treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T06:21:10.333" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T06:21:10.333" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7129" CreationDate="2009-10-05T06:56:10.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like a 'design' site would suffer from an incredibly high number of &quot;subjective&quot; questions/answers, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ceraintly there are some agreed-upon standards.. but designers, by nature, are out.. well, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;designing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; things, right? So, won't there be a lot of subjective &quot;I love it&quot; &quot;I hate it&quot; &quot;I don't care&quot; responses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If was on the &lt;em&gt;how-to&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;tools&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I could see it working, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T06:56:10.550" />
  <row Id="24597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24586" CreationDate="2009-10-05T08:37:34.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not allow the author to put its question both in unreadable english and in its native language?  This would allow other speakers of this language to offer a better translation (assuming they have enough rep to edit questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure that this would be appropriate for answers though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, this should not be understood as an invitation to answer in that language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T08:37:34.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-05T09:53:07.823" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23178/use-an-html-validator-on-so&quot;&gt;Use an HTML Validator on SO&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does SO family care about valid html markup and semantic web? I've noticed that tables are used in most places where non-tabular data is being displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135723" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T10:37:58.583" ClosedDate="2009-10-05T10:39:27.053" Title="Valid HTML and semantics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;markup&gt;&lt;semantics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24601" CreationDate="2009-10-05T10:07:30.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently we can safely say that valid HTML markup &lt;a href=&quot;http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;isn't&lt;/a&gt; their top priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, I for one would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; blame the developers for focusing their efforts more on the functionality and user experience of the sites...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: even if strict standards compliance doesn't seem to be of utmost importance, they clearly &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; care about accessibility and interoperability, as the SO family sites work reasonably well with most (or all) of commonly used browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T10:37:58.583" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T10:37:58.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23178" CreationDate="2009-10-05T11:32:56.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See also Jeff's Blog Post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001234.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001234.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T11:32:56.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22778" CreationDate="2009-10-05T11:35:52.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this problem once, no idea what happened then. I think I just reloaded the ask-a-question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T11:35:52.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24609" CreationDate="2009-10-05T11:51:47.467" Score="5" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to StackOverflow. I have a detailed article on a particular topic (How WinSxS works - around 5000 words), which I would like to post somewhere where it can be discussed and people can edit it without having to maintain it myself, but I don't think it's appropriate for wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somebody on Slashdot suggested I post a question to StackOverflow, and answer it myself, which sounds like a good match except possibly for the length of the article (there was a question already on meta about &quot;how to&quot; articles, but this is more a description of a mechanism). Is this considered good etiquette? Is there a more appropriate place for this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136788" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T13:36:28.710" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T17:05:58.050" Title="What is the etiquette for posting an article?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;article&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24608" CreationDate="2009-10-05T11:55:52.857" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh my gosh, I am totally down with WinSxS information, check out my question about it on SuperUser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1/why-does-the-winsxs-folder-grow-so-large-and-can-it-be-made-smaller&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/1/why-does-the-winsxs-folder-grow-so-large-and-can-it-be-made-smaller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would definitely be a great Super User topic, though the length gives me pause. Here's what I recommend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start a blog. Build your own online profile before you build ours! Post the full article there first, and cite it elsewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post an abbreviated, condensed, &quot;reader's digest&quot; version as a self-answered question on Super User. Of course link back to your blog for the full thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other thoughts from anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems the best balance of building your online presence (after all &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; did all the work, so you deserve the bulk of the benefits!), while helping others too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T11:55:52.857" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24608" CreationDate="2009-10-05T12:09:04.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Self-answering is good etiquette, lengthy answers are not. Can you reduce the article? If not maybe it is possible to truncate it into &quot;chapters&quot; and post one answer for each. Truncating the post isn't an etiquette yet, and I guess some guys will not like it, but Jeff could solve this issue, if he agrees with this approach.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw, you should post the question as community-wiki to make the question/answers editable for 100 rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T12:25:44.470" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T12:25:44.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24618" CreationDate="2009-10-05T12:10:38.633" Score="104" ViewCount="6954" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found &lt;code&gt;http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/faq/4761/whats-the-hi-lo-algorithm&lt;/code&gt; which has an exact copy of this Stack Overflow question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282099/whats-the-hi-lo-algorithm&quot;&gt;What's the Hi/Lo Algorithm&lt;/a&gt;, with all its answers and no difference in a single character. There is no reference to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this legal, or at least tolerated? Is this impertinent theft of information? I just can't see any sense in copying whole pages, particularly when not referencing the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134318" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T22:27:32.600" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T20:53:05.337" Title="Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;attribution&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="49" />
  <row Id="24612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24608" CreationDate="2009-10-05T12:12:29.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My next suggestion is to truncate the article into several chapters and post for each chapter a question with one self-answer. Link the different questions, so the readers can follow the whole article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T12:12:29.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24611" CreationDate="2009-10-05T12:16:07.937" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;checked the &quot;blog&quot; itself?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an exact copy of a lot of questions and it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Programming FAQ Archive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the unofficial static archive&#xA;  of over 130,000 questions and answers&#xA;  about programming and software&#xA;  development by the vibrant and&#xA;  knowledgeable community of&#xA;  StackOverflow. All content are&#xA;  licensed under cc-wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please explore the library through the&#xA;  pages navigation below, or pay a visit&#xA;  to StackOverflow to get your questions&#xA;  answered now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T12:16:07.937" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24611" CreationDate="2009-10-05T12:17:47.403" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just can't see any sense in copying whole pages, particularly when not referencing the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of AdSense on that page :) Providing valuable content along with that amount of advertisement has a lot of sense for someone doing that in search of easy profit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this should be considered a theft, no matter how much the site owners will try to pretend they are doing this for &quot;the good&quot; by archiving SO database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136784" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T12:17:47.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28511" CreationDate="2009-10-05T12:36:32.487" Score="5" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to add a comment that included this text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;https://username@password:www.mysite.com/mypath/&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it showed up like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://username@password%3Awww.mysite.com/mypath/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;username@password:www.mysite.com/mypath/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I prevent auto-hyperlinking in a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The magic: (view edit (not source))&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://‎username@password:example.com/mypath/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134040" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T08:45:21.267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:45:33.560" Title="How do I write a URL in a comment without making it a link?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24616" CreationDate="2009-10-05T12:53:00.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're going to have to include some Unicode character that will be taken out by the parser and breaks the URL at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://‎username@password:example.com/mypath/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which kind of looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://&amp;lt;hidden unicode here&amp;gt;username@password:example.com/mypath/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T13:05:39.313" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T13:05:39.313" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24611" CreationDate="2009-10-05T13:56:48.143" Score="89" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is licenced under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Generic&lt;/a&gt;, which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attribution&lt;/strong&gt; — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is pretty clear that they have failed to do this (or any attribution whatsoever). So IMO (and IANAL) no: this usage is not legit. But &lt;strong&gt;within the terms of the cc-wiki agreement cited&lt;/strong&gt; re-use is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: the cc-wiki licensing and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution policy&lt;/a&gt; are also linked on every footer page like so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/309/attributionrequiredfoot.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click through to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot;&gt;attribution policy&lt;/a&gt; you will find the specifics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So let me clarify what we mean by attribution. If you republish this content, we require that you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Visually indicate that the content is from Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Server Fault, or Super User&lt;/strong&gt; in some way. It doesn’t have to be obnoxious; a discreet text blurb is fine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hyperlink directly to the original question&lt;/strong&gt; on the source site (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show the author names&lt;/strong&gt; for every question and answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hyperlink each author name&lt;/strong&gt; directly back to their user profile page on the source site (e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12345/username&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12345/username&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By “directly”, I mean each hyperlink must point directly to our domain in standard HTML visible even with JavaScript disabled, and not use a tinyurl or any other form of obfuscation or redirection. Furthermore, the links must &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be &lt;a href=&quot;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nofollowed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-29T20:53:05.337" LastActivityDate="2011-08-29T20:53:05.337" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="24619" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24620" CreationDate="2009-10-05T14:07:25.987" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I use a long url, it writes over the advertisement. User name and icon overflows into related items. See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1509536/wcf-support-in-mono&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1509536/wcf-support-in-mono&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now fixed it as per random's comment. But I still think that it is a bug, and the system could wrap it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:40:25.527" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:40:25.527" Title="formatting bug when using long url" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24619" CreationDate="2009-10-05T14:12:07.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's why it's a good idea to make the link text contextual and not just dump the URL. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wouldn't want something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/comeoneverybodyletsgetdownanddirtyplayingaroundintheformattingsandboxwhereyoucanputsanddownyoursocksandwalkalldaylonglikeyouareatthebeachbutwithoutthatwetstuffgettinginthewayofmakingyourdayniceandseasidesunshiny&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/comeoneverybodyletsgetdownanddirtyplayingaroundintheformattingsandboxwhereyoucanputsanddownyoursocksandwalkalldaylonglikeyouareatthebeachbutwithoutthatwetstuffgettinginthewayofmakingyourdayniceandseasidesunshiny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when you could have something &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/comeoneverybodyletsgetdownanddirtyplayingaroundintheformattingsandboxwhereyoucanputsanddownyoursocksandwalkalldaylonglikeyouareatthebeachbutwithoutthatwetstuffgettinginthewayofmakingyourdayniceandseasidesunshiny&quot;&gt;just tucked away naturally&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T14:12:07.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24678" CreationDate="2009-10-05T14:20:04.497" Score="14" ViewCount="529" Body="&lt;p&gt;I received an Enlightened Badge when I logged into stackoverflow.com today. While this is nice, I don't understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two answers with more than 10 upvotes, but none of them was the first answer to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136790" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T08:09:57.203" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T08:09:57.203" Title="Why did I get an Enlightened Badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24621" CreationDate="2009-10-05T15:21:27.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only recent activity I can see in terms of reputation is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/48475&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; - you received a vote on Saturday (2 days ago, which is when you got the badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that's your &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; rather an answer... which suggests that one of the following has happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You were awarded it for a migrated answer (unlikely - not many migrations &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You were awarded it for a CW answer - except you don't have any, as far as I can see&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system is broken somewhere - possible: this does look quite odd...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T15:29:01.067" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T15:29:01.067" />
  <row Id="24625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30153" CreationDate="2009-10-05T15:27:54.113" Score="1" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime earlier today I downvoted a couple of things on Meta. I think one was a question and the other an answer. I saw under the little envelope that the votes had definitely registered and they stayed that way for at least an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now one of my downvotes has suddenly disappeared and my rep has gone up by one. However I never removed the downvote and I didn't ask for a rep recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I can't remember where I put the downvotes and my guess is that the target of the vote has been deleted anyway. But I thought rep recalcs didn't happen unless requested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what might have happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastEditorUserId="6651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T08:39:24.237" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T01:14:29.050" Title="Why did my vote disappear?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24625" CreationDate="2009-10-05T15:34:29.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the question or answer in question has been deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T15:34:29.640" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24611" CreationDate="2009-10-05T15:37:53.517" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer...but to me the site clearly violates the terms of use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no link to stackoverflow on the referenced page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no link to the original question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no attribution of the author of the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is no attribution of the author of the answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the last two are serious violations of the spirit and letter, and i think that persecution would be warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, &lt;a href=&quot;http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=w3ec.com&amp;amp;prog%5Fid=godaddy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the registrant&lt;/a&gt; is in China, but godaddy.com will probably cut them off at the knees if @[Jeff Atwood] requests it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T19:51:52.630" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T19:51:52.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24787" CreationDate="2009-10-05T15:47:11.690" Score="10" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/games&quot;&gt;games&lt;/a&gt; tag has 169, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/game&quot;&gt;game&lt;/a&gt; has 113.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure which should be merged into which.. It seems like the singular &lt;code&gt;game&lt;/code&gt; makes sense most of the time (for example, a question is likely about &quot;iPhone game crashing&quot;, rather than &quot;iPhone games crashing&quot;), but obviously &lt;code&gt;games&lt;/code&gt; is more commonly used&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:26:41.410" Title="Merge tags &quot;game&quot; and &quot;games&quot; on Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24480" CreationDate="2009-10-05T15:52:23.460" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice, although I like my grease monkey script that just removes the icons completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T15:52:23.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24628" CreationDate="2009-10-05T15:53:40.853" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A (very) casual glance at the lists doesn't show much in the way of consistency; I second the merge proposal and recommend the singular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T15:53:40.853" />
  <row Id="24632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24611" CreationDate="2009-10-05T16:32:20.627" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do believe the problem is with the following paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Attribution — You must attribute the&#xA;  work in the &lt;strong&gt;manner specified by the&#xA;  author or licensor&lt;/strong&gt; (but not in any way&#xA;  that suggests that they endorse you or&#xA;  your use of the work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis is mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's this manner specified? I think this is too subjective. How can you just point at people and say they are ilegal using your content if you didn't specified what exactly this &quot;attribution&quot; means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &lt;strong&gt;complete reference&lt;/strong&gt; about this subject that I found is within an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official blog post&lt;/a&gt; (it even has the website you're concerned about as an example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe it would made no harm a simple url below the cc-wiki image in SO footer, named &quot;Attribution Guidelines&quot; that are contained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. Doing this way people have no excuse of &quot;misunderstanding&quot; attribution guidelines since you &lt;strong&gt;explicity&lt;/strong&gt; said what you need to to when using SO content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T16:32:20.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24628" CreationDate="2009-10-05T16:38:45.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think 'games' is a category that covers many things, so the plural is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T16:38:45.340" />
  <row Id="24634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24625" CreationDate="2009-10-05T16:42:32.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be that you didn't give time for the vote to register before you left the page? I've experienced a similar issue, which I detailed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24352/vote-not-registered-when-page-is-closed-shortly-after&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T16:42:32.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24608" CreationDate="2009-10-05T17:05:58.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a blog for this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://omnicognate.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/winsxs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://omnicognate.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/winsxs/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136788" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T17:05:58.050" />
  <row Id="24636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24628" CreationDate="2009-10-05T17:44:50.693" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, &quot;game&quot; could be a verb like &quot;hack&quot; or &quot;kluge&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Games&quot; will almost always be a plural noun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the tags should be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133703" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T17:44:50.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24639" CreationDate="2009-10-05T18:17:14.693" Score="4" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;In May I asked this question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/813813/how-to-specify-the-location-a-mvc-view-will-be-created-for-a-mvc-controller&quot;&gt;How to specify the location a MVC view will be created for a MVC controller?&lt;/a&gt; on SO. At the time the answer required a hack to be done since the feature was not supported in MVC 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the latest release of MVC 2 Preview the above feature is implemented as areas, and therefore it can now be done, and since the goal of SO is to keep information new and up to date I would like to update the question to reflect this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would the correct procedure be to handle this scenario?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the question a CW, and add the above as an answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the above as an answer and make it the accepted answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask the question specifying MVC 2 rather the just MVC?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question and add the change with a link to MSDN for the new feature?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I apologize if this has been asked before. I have to admit I could not come up with the right search terms to search for this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T18:56:07.193" Title="How to handle a question where a feature is now possible?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="24638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24637" CreationDate="2009-10-05T18:26:18.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the fourth option is best.  Preface the question with an Edit, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EDIT: The accepted answer to this&#xA;  question was correct at the time,&#xA;  however a new feature has made it&#xA;  easier/more visible to accomplish the&#xA;  goal of the question.  Please see&#xA;  [link to new feature] for more&#xA;  information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, the question remains for anyone who may be working on legacy systems and need the original answer, and we don't get new questions every time some minor feature is upgraded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T18:26:18.857" />
  <row Id="24639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24637" CreationDate="2009-10-05T18:26:31.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have already accepted an answer, you could do the good community thing and edit their answer to reflect the changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you could create your own answer to your own question providing the new details and then after some point setting that as the new accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would be a good idea to fracture off into another question just because it is a different version. As long as you make your original question pretty explicit in the answers (i.e. detailing that the new information is for Version 2) then you shouldn't have a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T18:26:31.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24637" CreationDate="2009-10-05T18:45:28.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to happen more and more as new software is released or information simply becomes obsolete. If the question has already received many (now wrong) answers, simply &lt;em&gt;evolving&lt;/em&gt; the question and adding new answers might not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be the best option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Pragmatic Approach&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If the &lt;em&gt;vast&lt;/em&gt; majority of old answers suddenly become incorrect, &lt;strong&gt;consider closing the question as &quot;no longer relevant.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Leave a comment in the question as to why it was closed. If the question is still relevant (needing new answers), &lt;strong&gt;re-post the original question&lt;/strong&gt; for the community to answer correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, the old question (with legacy answers) will remain on the system for legacy users. The new question will receive fresh answers so the &lt;strong&gt;integrity of Stack Overflow as a authoritative, canonical source of information is preserved&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T18:56:07.193" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T18:56:07.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24658" CreationDate="2009-10-05T19:09:56.717" Score="2" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the SO spirit, let's have a little up/down vote block for the ads, so we can rate the quality.  Obviously, there doesn't need to be any rep attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm so StackOverflowed now, that I hate not being able to vote for everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:13:26.843" Title="Rate the quality of the ads" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24643" CreationDate="2009-10-05T19:14:18.533" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what purpose this serves. The advertisers can measure how many clicks they get, so that takes care of them. Who benefits from this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T19:14:18.533" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24643" CreationDate="2009-10-05T19:23:37.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea. Worth considering, IMHO, as a possible way (along with clickthroughs and actual purchases, of course) to get feedback and help guide advertisements towards more relevancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The UI for this should be pretty inconspicuous though — it shouldn't draw attention away from the ads or the actual content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T19:23:37.300" />
  <row Id="24647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24643" CreationDate="2009-10-05T19:28:18.103" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the problems with this is that if you don't like an ad, you're going to downvote.  If you don't like &lt;strong&gt;any ads&lt;/strong&gt; you're going to downvote.  If you get &lt;strong&gt;offended&lt;/strong&gt; by ads, or this ad, you'll downvote.  If you do like an ad, you'll upvote.  If you don't care, you won't do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on ads will be canted towards downvotes.  The only way you'd be able to uncant it would make it a rep cost I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides all that - what would it actually accomplish?  Give feedback to the advertiser that we didn't like their ad?  That might be useful, but I think it's one of those &quot;The only people who will give you feedback will be the people complaining&quot; scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T19:28:18.103" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-05T19:31:29.407" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One word: &lt;strong&gt;boxing&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much would you pay to fight (amatuer rules) another member on the site? I'm sure at least a few of you would pony up some cash to step in the ring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;, I'd pay $50... maybe $60 to dance for a few rounds with you. Mostly because when I said &quot;pony up&quot; in the previous paragraph, I thought of your avatar. And that's not cool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure at least one of you would pay to fight me, the ad guy, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here's the real money maker: streaming pay-per-view. We could charge like $10. Multiply that by like a million people who would totally pay to see it, and you got a lot of money. Right, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T19:31:29.407" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24547" CreationDate="2009-10-05T20:00:42.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is quite common; i tend to post the correct answer with an explanation of the mistaken assumptions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and then get downvoted ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T20:00:42.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24657" CreationDate="2009-10-05T20:01:45.797" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I'll see moderator flags because something is off-topic (suitable for migration from SO to SU / SF, but this MSO question would apply in any direction), but somebody has added a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem: once a bounty exists, it is not possible for users to vote for close/migrate/etc, even if it would do better on another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I think the tactic has been (slightly reluctantly) to leave it alone, perhaps adding a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TBH; I don't know what would happen if I tried to forcibly close/delete/migrate them - none of the bounty questions have been &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; bad that it &lt;strong&gt;has&lt;/strong&gt; to go. Other than &quot;spot the off-topic posts more quickly&quot;, any suggestions on policy here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T20:09:12.490" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T20:36:13.030" Title="How to handle off-topic questions with bounty?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24643" CreationDate="2009-10-05T20:09:50.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a lot of interest/care about ads lately. I am not sure why people care so much. They are just ads. The only people that I would think that care are advertisers.  I think that is there own responsibility to research and market there own ads correctly and that should show through their click numbers and ad success.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it is kind of an ok idea, but I just think it will clutter things even more. I think only if Jeff and his team made more $$$ from a feature like this, otherwise I would say it's not worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T20:09:50.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24653" CreationDate="2009-10-05T20:18:14.547" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first impulse is to reply, &quot;migrate it and let them take the rep hit as punishment for posting an off-topic question&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's... slightly unkind. Rare though these might be, you probably don't need the sort of headaches such an action would give rise to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, you could punch a button somewhere that would close or migrate the question and refund the bounty on the original site. Once in the proper location, it may be that the question would be answered without need for a bounty anyway, but if not then at least they wouldn't be out the rep on the first site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lacking such a tool, you're probably best off just letting the bounty expire (or be awarded), and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; migrating the question. They'd still lose their bounty (and following a recalc, i assume the person whose answer was accepted would as well)... but at least they'd have the &lt;em&gt;opportunity&lt;/em&gt; to get some value out of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T20:18:14.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24653" CreationDate="2009-10-05T20:36:13.030" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed that there is a option to remove and refund bounty under the mod options for a bounty question. I would assume in a really severe case you can just remove the bounty and then let the community close, or close and migrate yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T20:36:13.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24643" CreationDate="2009-10-05T21:04:32.073" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the audiences are very different, I can speak from some experience running hundreds of millions of ads per day on Facebook. The &quot;thumbs-up / thumbs-down&quot; voting on ads ended up &lt;strong&gt;providing very little useful data&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all ads had the exact same up-to-down ratio (5%-to-95%). This seems to suggest that people either like ads or don't like ads, and vote accordingly. The actual ad copy has negligible impact on the voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is one very important difference that thumbs-up, thumbs-down buttons provided: &lt;strong&gt;when allowed to vote on ads, users clicked ALL advertisements more frequently&lt;/strong&gt;. Presumably this is because the users feel more in control of the process, and are less likely to ignore the ads altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in that regard, voting on ads makes sense, and I suspect this is something that we'll eventually see on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T21:04:32.073" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-05T21:05:28.267" Score="13" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't Stack Overflow just email me immediately when someone responds to my questions?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like an a-hole when I find out someone posted on a question I asked a month ago and I only find out because I happened to browse to it. Every other forum does it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136808" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T11:42:05.670" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T12:54:28.383" Title="Instant email alerts and notifications" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="24660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24659" CreationDate="2009-10-05T21:08:47.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried the checkbox down below that says &quot;Notify [your email address] daily of any new answers&quot;? It sounds like it will send the email even if you are active on the site, unlike the profile option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside is that you'd have to check it on all your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T21:22:53.273" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T21:22:53.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24659" CreationDate="2009-10-05T21:09:30.180" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your profile in prefs there is an email notification option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shame you won't read this answer for a month to find out, though :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T21:21:57.860" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T21:21:57.860" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-05T21:33:17.267" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;Why an answer can&amp;rsquo;t be accepted after an unresolved bounty?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19005&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I understand that if no answer is accepted, the questioner cannot later accept any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] However, if the owner does not accept in the alloted time, then no answer can ever be accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be sensible to allow the answer to be accepted (with or without the answer receiving the bounty) after the bounty period has expired? If not what is the rationale?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1469786/generate-ant-build-file&quot;&gt;bounty question&lt;/a&gt; this morning, about 8 hours before the deadline. The questioner hasn't been seen since raising the bounty so probably hasn't seen my answer. I believe my answer addresses their issue (well I would wouldn't I), but as it stands they would not now be able to accept it (assuming my answer meets their needs), as the bounty period passed and no answer had 2 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'd seen the question earlier I may have ended up with a bounty, so there's a lesson for me somewhere. but I think that it should still be possible to accept a correct answer after a bounty has lapsed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:13:21.443" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:13:21.443" ClosedDate="2009-10-06T07:06:46.593" Title="Allow lapsed bounty questions to be accepted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24643" CreationDate="2009-10-05T21:46:21.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not only allow upvotes? All ads should be considered average. Good ads or advertisers should be voted up. That way Jeff will be able to identify the ads we like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T21:46:21.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-05T22:24:46.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merchandising. To paraphrase Mel Brooks, that is where the real money is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvmZ9SPcTzU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.minhembio.com/dvdrec/jedi/screens/spaceballs/yogurt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;yoghurt&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, just look at how &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/133733/alex-papadimoulis&quot;&gt;Alex&lt;/a&gt; has sold out... selling crockery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/articles/announcement-get-the-mug.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mediabrowser.tv/mug.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm a victim... I bought it. To be fair, though - it does hold a sufficiently large geek coffee. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-05T23:21:50.920" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T23:21:50.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24667" CreationDate="2009-10-05T22:26:07.540" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see lots of questions about url rewriting. I am tempted to start closing these as belongs on server fault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is URL rewriting a programmer or server admin task?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T07:47:34.863" Title="Web server url rewriting. Server fault or stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;apache&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24666" CreationDate="2009-10-05T22:44:32.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on what kind.  In the apache/PHP world I understand it's more of a configuration setting and might mean getting a sysadmin involved.  But even here, it's usually something the programmer does.  In the ASP.Net MVC world, it's more likely a code change that the programmer has to make.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T22:44:32.733" />
  <row Id="24668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24628" CreationDate="2009-10-05T22:47:56.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/game-development&quot;&gt;game-development&lt;/a&gt; tag (640 questions). Is this used in the same way as &lt;code&gt;game&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;games&lt;/code&gt;? A quick look-through suggests all three are interchangeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are equivalent, then perhaps &lt;code&gt;game-development&lt;/code&gt; should be the one to live on. It's the most popular, most specific and is unambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T22:47:56.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24670" CreationDate="2009-10-05T23:25:36.387" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6365/vote-ordering-of-accepted-answers-has-changed-accepted-below-top-voted&quot;&gt;Vote ordering of accepted answers has changed: Accepted below top voted&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this question : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840117/jquery-ui-datepicker-not-sitting-over-dropdowns-in-ie-6&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/840117/jquery-ui-datepicker-not-sitting-over-dropdowns-in-ie-6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer is all the way to the bottom, displayed in a random order. Is that a bug or a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a feature... why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T04:14:46.500" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:28:51.270" ClosedDate="2009-10-06T13:29:33.283" Title="Why is the accepted answer at the end?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24669" CreationDate="2009-10-05T23:27:14.870" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the asker answered the question himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the accepted answer keeps its original sort order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-10-05T23:27:14.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-05T23:54:53.853" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Atom feeds, particularly &quot;my recent activity&quot;, does not contain a full URL in the  entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; href=&quot;/questions/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this please be tweaked for all the sites? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135928" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T07:14:24.767" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T10:59:30.277" Title="List full URLs in &lt;link&gt; entity of all Atom feeds" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T00:27:49.210" Score="2" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I already have a stackoverflow account using another openid, but, when i registered it was detected automatically (mozilla weave) so, I didnt get to choose my real openid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I recover my other account, or merge this new one with the old one. Both use the same email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T00:31:18.810" Title="Merge Stackoverflows accounts" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24672" CreationDate="2009-10-06T00:31:18.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of this page and they'll take care of you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T00:31:18.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T00:31:18.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24659" CreationDate="2009-10-06T00:43:41.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like email notifications very much, so I subscribe to RSS feed. It's just another alternative to know when a question is answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136815" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T00:43:41.283" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24677" CreationDate="2009-10-06T00:51:36.277" Score="1" ViewCount="696" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that Stackoverflow.com does not respond with an ETag header when queried through either a HEAD or GET method (assuming I am correct of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RSS aggregators (such as Google Reader) make good use of this header resulting in less useless traffic on your servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:50:09.493" Title="Why don't you guys use ETag header?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24675" CreationDate="2009-10-06T00:54:14.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably something to do with this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T00:54:14.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24675" CreationDate="2009-10-06T00:59:40.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RSS aggregators (such as Google Reader) make good use of this header resulting in less useless traffic on your servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag should be present on RSS feeds, along with Last-Modified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Well, I added this to the /question pages for search bots. We now respect If-Modified-Since on question retrievals for bots, and we return Last-Modified for bots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Request:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;GET /questions/1696044/how-to-delete-a-row-in-a-sqlite-database-table HTTP/1.1&#xA;User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Response:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;HTTP/1.1 200 OK&#xA;Cache-Control: private&#xA;Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8&#xA;Content-Encoding: gzip&#xA;Expires: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:23:33 GMT&#xA;&lt;b&gt;Last-Modified: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:18 GMT&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;Vary: Accept-Encoding&#xA;Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0&#xA;Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:23:32 GMT&#xA;Content-Length: 9309&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE 2: It's working! I see 304s in the log from Google. Which is a nice break from the 2+GB of data Google pulls down from us every day. You see, the Google giveth, and the Google taketh away...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T04:50:09.493" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:50:09.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24621" CreationDate="2009-10-06T01:24:46.560" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely a mystery. You shouldn't have the badge; our current SQL queries agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I suspected &quot;accepted answer changed&quot; hijinks, but you have no other answers with &gt;= 10 score, and the two you do, are already accepted. So that can't be it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I suspected deleted answers but you don't have any.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I suspected downvotes (was it at +10 then voted down?), but but you have exactly one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possibility: a question could be merged into another, which means a previously &quot;top&quot; accepted answer wouldn't be chronologically first any more. But again it'd have to have +10 score and would still be associated with your user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The queries, when running now, show that you should NOT have this badge. But the queries haven't changed in months, so &lt;strong&gt;at the time the query was run and the badge was awarded, &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; was different&lt;/strong&gt;. But I can't figure out what that was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hrm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T01:24:46.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22907" CreationDate="2009-10-06T01:50:37.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the odds, really, that a duplicate question would be asked in the same couple minute time frame that you're taking to write your question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do much of my writing in notepad, then copy/paste it into the question window, where I change formatting (if I need/want to). So - my &quot;ask&quot; time is ~30 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I get the little robot/human form :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T01:50:37.073" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24621" CreationDate="2009-10-06T02:29:10.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it's probably because he commented on a post that received it. this has happened to me previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T02:29:10.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T02:45:03.200" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24616/how-do-i-write-a-url-in-a-comment-without-making-it-a-link&quot;&gt;How do I write a URL in a comment without making it a link?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5265/urls-in-comments-bugs&quot;&gt;URLs in comments bugs.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for instance, the following doesn't work: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot;&amp;gt;Google&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, it recognises the rather poor link of &lt;code&gt;http://google.com&quot;&amp;gt;Google&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and links to that and mangles the HTML that you probably intended to display too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-25T12:07:00.727" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T12:07:00.727" ClosedDate="2009-10-06T06:12:57.097" Title="Bug: backticks don't stop link recognition in comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T02:57:50.573" Score="5" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things that really bothers me lately about SO is the preponderance of crappy questions. People, especially new users, consistently fail to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide enough information to figure what they're trying to do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indicate what part of the problem is confusing them (e.g., is it null-terminated strings or nested &lt;code&gt;for&lt;/code&gt; loops?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indicate what they tried already (seen often in a comment: I tried x library already, but its implementation of SVD is too slow for my dataset)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indicate their level of proficiency&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide feedback of any kind (upvotes for those who are on the right track, best answers to those who answered the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, it seems like other SO users take this as an opportunity to punish users, with downvotes and snarky comments. This is an old old old thread in programming &amp;amp; nerd culture where we simply are not very friendly to the very new and very naive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that I think would help would be a notice on the ask a question page that gives some tips for asking a good question. Sort of like a very succinct &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how to ask questions &lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;directly on the &quot;ask&quot; page&lt;/strong&gt;. The important part of it being on that page is that new users are unlikely to know about or look for FAQs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important point here is that just because someone starts off as a crappy, or not very involved user doesn't mean they need to stay that way. If users find that this website is helpful and friendly, even the crappiest of users can turn into great contributers. The payoff is that we build a healthier community, with a higher quality level discourse. We just have to help new people get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;First Meta post, so I hope I'm doing this right&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136820" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:12:57.867" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:12:57.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T02:57:50.573" Title="How to help hapless newbies become better SO users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="24686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22907" CreationDate="2009-10-06T03:06:18.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be happy enough to see such a a feature, but would consider it fairly low priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said: judging from the number of new answers I've seen made to questions with multiple &quot;this questions duplicates &quot; type comments, I'm not sure that it will have the effect you hope for. The incentives are to ask and answer duplicates rather and people respond, until that changes we will be fighting a losing battle to suppress duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T03:06:18.437" />
  <row Id="24687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24685" CreationDate="2009-10-06T03:06:45.597" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of the time I see new users setting themselves up for failure, the SO regulars are reasonably helpful. Within a minute or two, someone will edit the question for readability and at least one comment of &quot;we need x information to answer your question&quot;. The occasional snarky comment, but just a bit of fun - when balanced with actual helpful answers, nothing that would scare a user away. There are a few with a bit of a sour attitude, but for the most part I just don't see this among the high-rep users. So I guess I'm saying, where are you seeing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T03:06:45.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T03:06:45.597" />
  <row Id="24688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24685" CreationDate="2009-10-06T03:13:13.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s%5FLaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sturgeon's Law&lt;/a&gt; applies to communications skill as well as anything else. Most people (even most perspective programmers) are rotten communicators, and many will never invest the effort required to become mediocre at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you present the user with too much text on the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; page, they'll just ignore it. Read the caption on the entry areas and go about their business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this suggestion, while not bad, will likely have a minor effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T03:13:13.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T03:13:13.870" />
  <row Id="24689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24685" CreationDate="2009-10-06T03:58:32.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no hapless newbies on SO. The Stack Overflow policy is clear: &lt;strong&gt;everyone gets a hap&lt;/strong&gt;. Now, that's not to say that some users don't &lt;em&gt;waste&lt;/em&gt; their haps, pissing them away like so much cheap beer... but there's really not much that can be done about &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hap firmly in hand, the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6254/what-should-the-users-of-stackoverflow-be-called&quot;&gt;SOistani&lt;/a&gt; faces much the same challenge in asking his question that he would face anywhere else: figuring out what it is he's actually trying to do, and then finding a way to effectively communicate this to an unknown population of readers. All the haps in the world won't make this any less difficult... some will manage, some won't. And so it goes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T03:58:32.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T03:58:32.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-06T04:58:08.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;two words: &lt;em&gt;reputation rentals&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO could charge a premium to high-rep users for rep maintenance, much like investment brokers charge a percentage of the principle to watch it dwindle and die in a down market&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO could - with permission and a cut to the appropriate users - rent out some or all of a high-rep users' reputation for a limited period of time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example, I would pay upwards of a dollar to be Jon Skeet for a day ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO could also run a futures market in reputation options, much like the what-day-will-jon-skeet-cross-200K pool already in progress&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T04:58:08.747" />
  <row Id="24691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24685" CreationDate="2009-10-06T06:11:23.620" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reminder: this is why, when you see a good question by a new user, &lt;strong&gt;you should vote it up&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, well asked questions are rare, and well asked questions from new users should be cherished like freakin' diamonds!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the kinds of users we &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; on the site, those that can ask questions in a reasonable way. So &lt;strong&gt;please vote up GENEROUSLY questions that are clear, readable, and make sense!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T06:11:23.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T06:11:23.620" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-10-06T06:16:03.347" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;SOpedians&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't know how I missed this thread...been saying 'SOpedians' on and off for ages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T06:16:03.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T06:16:03.347" />
  <row Id="24693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24659" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:03:32.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO does not post immediately, because Jeff does not want to annoy the users. Many mails in a short period of time from the same address could be considered as spam by some filters, too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you visit SO (almost) daily (as a logged in user), you won't get emails. The envelope icon next to your name will inform you about new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T07:03:32.543" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24696" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:09:12.050" Score="7" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that images in tags (like the Adobe logo) should be served by static server (&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net&lt;/a&gt; as other images) and not directly from web server since the request of this images are sent with session cookies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132567" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T07:33:12.687" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T07:34:06.867" Title="Images in tags doesn't come from static server" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3721" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:13:33.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to point out that preventing users from disowning their questions is arguably illegal in some countries (typically, under the French Law, nobody can use your name unless without your explicit consent. I only gave a license to use the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; I provided)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say arguably because my login is associated with my questions, not my name. However, my login can be my real name, my login is associated with my email, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47341" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T07:13:33.913" />
  <row Id="24696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24694" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:13:47.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's true; we haven't had time to really set that up correctly yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;We're working on something big for Oct 7th, the first day of DevDays. After that we should have more time. Maybe.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is done. ALL HAIL &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SSTATIC.NET&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T07:34:06.867" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T07:34:06.867" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="24697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:36:14.527" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8282/should-popular-questions-be-so-easy-to-delete&quot;&gt;Should popular questions be so easy to delete?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make it harder for popular question to be closed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users vote on question not only by means of giving their vote (not all of them even are able to do so) but to much extend also (in many cases &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt;) by digging it among thousands of others and just &lt;strong&gt;viewing&lt;/strong&gt;. Respect this kind of &lt;em&gt;voting&lt;/em&gt;, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95735" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T12:47:41.563" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T12:47:41.563" ClosedDate="2009-10-06T12:10:48.060" Title="Make it harder for popular question to be closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;popular-question&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24697" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:39:20.620" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions usually get closed for good reasons; and it's not exactly easy to close question. Popular questions should not get any preferential treatment. If it really is that good it can always be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T07:39:20.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24666" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:47:34.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It usually involves writing regular expressions - I count that as programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T07:47:34.863" />
  <row Id="24700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24697" CreationDate="2009-10-06T07:59:39.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point is that these are completely different axes of voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we make upvotes counter close votes, that conflates and confuses the concepts of a) editorial control and b) popularity. They're different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T07:59:39.320" />
  <row Id="24701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T09:05:30.303" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether I am the only one experiencing this feeling or not.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I feel that the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; column is a bit cluttered and kind of overlapping with each other if we have many tags marked as interesting. Sometimes I ended up clicking &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; mark near tags instead of actually clicking the tags. I know I use a highly sensitive mouse. But still.. Should not there be a bit space between them so that it actually looks better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see this image you could understand that tags or so close (particularly spaces between two lines) that even a slightest movement in high-sensitive mouse can delete another tag instead of selecting one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9962/itags.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using IE6/WinXP/TimesNewRoman/96dpi&#xA;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1069/john-smithers&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/9314/random&quot;&gt;Random&lt;/a&gt;, it seems to be a problem with IE6 alone. Do we have some setting to make it look good in IE6?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135616" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T13:34:41.963" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:34:41.963" Title="Interesting Tags - More Cluttered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="24702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24697" CreationDate="2009-10-06T10:00:16.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to step out of line here and say that I think that there is some merit in the original post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course some questions should be closed, obvious spam for example. However there tends to be a little (how can I say this politely) sternness from the people with editorial control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways of viewing this. One is that people who can vote questions can do so by virtue of a high rep and that was bestowed upon them by the community, so their will is the will of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second way to view this is while people who can close posts have a high reputation their will may not be that of the majority of users. This is evident if popular questions are being closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very delicate ground to tread getting the balance right. Especially as more and more users become moderators. It will be a struggle to keep the site accessible for new users while keeping old users happy. Making popular questions harder to close (and unpopular ones easier)  is a way to keep the moderators and the newer users on the same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I don't buy that they are completely different axes, often there is some judgement behind why a question is closed, should lower rep people have no say in if they want a question on their site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may help to take score into account when there are close/reopen wars going on (ie when the editors can't decide)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastEditorUserId="56672" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T10:12:09.600" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T10:12:09.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24706" CreationDate="2009-10-06T10:19:57.187" Score="5" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just passed the 10k-threshold and now I'm a bit unsure on which questions I should vote to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions I'd have voted to close anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only questions that are completely nonsense / noise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something completely different.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T11:17:41.010" Title="Under what circumstances should a 10k-user vote to delete a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="24704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24703" CreationDate="2009-10-06T10:25:53.243" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you've just passed 10k, I suggest looking at the delete tab in the tools section. Check out what kind of questions have delete votes and what questions have just been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can kinda get the feeling from it there. It's just something you learn, same with the close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions that are deleted are usually nonsense and spam. But there are other things that are deleted, like questions that clearly don't belong here and anywhere else. Like how do you get a serial number for X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T10:25:53.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24707" CreationDate="2009-10-06T10:30:56.977" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;My FireFox HTML validator add-on always flags SO with a couple of warnings one of which is that the CSS link elements in the head don't have the required type attribute (type=&quot;text/css&quot;). Is there a reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also badge names with &amp;amp; characters don't seem to be HTML encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132626" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T06:02:38.233" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:03:04.427" Title="CSS link elements with no required type attribute" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24703" CreationDate="2009-10-06T10:32:36.240" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that has been closed is eligible for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that deleting still takes a certain # of votes, so when you vote to delete, it is an implicit flag (as Ólafur Waage mentioned) to other 10k users that they might want to vote to delete it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would remind you that sometimes closed duplicates are useful to keep around for the reasons outlined in this blog post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some general comments on the SO question lifecycle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of deletion is to cull the worst stuff out and &quot;trim the fat&quot; so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T10:32:36.240" />
  <row Id="24707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24705" CreationDate="2009-10-06T10:37:47.933" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CSS link elements in the head don't have the required type attribute (type=&quot;text/css&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not required according to the w3c validator:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://validator.w3.org/check&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://validator.w3.org/check&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am inclined to favor that over a random add-in..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;badge names with &amp;amp; characters don't seem to be HTML encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;possible, since I don't think many have &amp;amp; (strunk &amp;amp; white?), and we might want to fix that bug. Can you cite HTML source?&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixed, In a gross oversight, we weren't encoding badge names or descriptions. I blame me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T06:03:04.427" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:03:04.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24705" CreationDate="2009-10-06T10:40:05.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, CSS &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; don't actually need the type field in the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really, the most common answer to these sorts of questions is that perfectly valid HTML and CSS (even though in this case it is valid) is not a high priority because no one benefits (compared to something like new features) from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T10:40:05.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-24T23:53:55.803" Score="9" ViewCount="693" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/793/how-do-i-change-my-openid-provider&quot;&gt;How do I change my OpenID provider?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started with a Yahoo OpenID account, but I'd like to switch my OpenID to a Google account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible?  How do I change my OpenID provider?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130557" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:42:56.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T00:02:47.857" ClosedDate="2010-04-07T01:50:00.613" Title="How do I change my OpenID provider?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24709" CreationDate="2009-02-24T23:56:13.347" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  Under your profile page, click &quot;new login&quot; in the upper right and add your new openID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134810" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T11:14:10.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24709" CreationDate="2009-02-24T23:57:08.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The StackOverflow Blog&lt;/a&gt; covered this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T11:14:10.373" />
  <row Id="24712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24709" CreationDate="2009-02-25T12:43:04.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you should look into &lt;a href=&quot;http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/19/openid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OpenID delegation&lt;/a&gt;. That way you control the OpenID endpoint and you can switch from Yahoo to Google to whatever without changing any logins. It's easy to setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T11:14:10.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T12:43:04.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24697" CreationDate="2009-10-06T11:15:44.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some popular questions need to be closed and moved to MSO or another trilogy site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a point about popular questions being closed. However, the reopen vote mostly resolves this. Personally, I'd like a reopen vote opportunity before the question is closed at all, so it can prevented in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T11:15:44.243" />
  <row Id="24714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24703" CreationDate="2009-10-06T11:17:41.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm new to this too. My rule of thumb is that I only vote to delete anything that is 100% trash (spam, rants, etc). That's just my rule - it doesn't apply to everyone else. I'll let the more experienced users and mods delete other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T11:17:41.010" />
  <row Id="24715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5265" CreationDate="2009-10-06T11:24:57.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, to get the link to show in its entirety within the comments, you'll have to include some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24616/how-do-i-write-a-url-in-a-comment-without-making-it-a-link/24728#24728&quot; title=&quot;better butter batter&quot;&gt;Unicode character that has no width&lt;/a&gt;, like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200b/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;climb higher, higher, higher&quot;&gt;zero-width space&lt;/a&gt;, that will be taken out by the parser and breaks the URL at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;header(&quot;Location: http://‏​www.example.com/user/home.php&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which kind of looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;header(&quot;Location: http://&amp;lt;hidden unicode&amp;gt;www.example.com/user/home.php&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody with over 100 pastalicious rep points can just hit the edit and see what's being hidden in the &quot;broken&quot; URL for the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To type the zero-width space: &lt;kbd&gt;ALT&lt;/kbd&gt; + &lt;kbd&gt;8207&lt;/kbd&gt; (This may not work on all systems. See a detailed description for Windows &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter%5Funicode.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T11:39:10.807" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:39:10.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-06T11:25:57.050" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24718" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T12:30:05.247" Score="5" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently questions are added in a rapid pace to SO, so that new questions disappear very quickly from the homepage. It I want to see questions from my areas of interest I can do either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to the tagged/my tags page, but then I will see the questions only according to the votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Supply a list of tags &quot;x or y or z&quot;, but it seems the list is limited to 15 or 20 tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I suggest is to have categories as grouping of tags - the .net category , java category , web development category , etc. It can also help new users to locate questions from their area of expertise they can answer. We can decide that a category can contain between 5 and 20  tags in order no to have too narrow or too broad categories (numbers were given just for the sake of argument)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136542" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-08T06:48:38.333" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T06:48:38.333" Title="Add &quot;tag categories&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="24719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T12:41:37.990" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Syntax highlighting seems to have been broken recently. For example see the code example at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423282/wpf-textblock-padding-is-cutting-off-text&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423282/wpf-textblock-padding-is-cutting-off-text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the attributes' first letters are black. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... or a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131326" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:12:24.700" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:12:41.737" Title="Syntax highlighting broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T12:50:59.360" Score="0" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or maybe they're already here (my company's firewall blocks most ads, so I don't see many of them).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since you've admitted that there's extra ad inventory, that would seem like a natural fit to fill in some of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:29:24.423" Title="Should there be Fogbugz ads on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="24721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24718" CreationDate="2009-10-06T12:52:53.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like you are looking for something oddly similar to a tag hierarchy without the full blown tree structure. Tree-structure tagging has been shot down by the team numerous times and they have made it pretty evident that they don't want to go in that direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion sounds like it would attempt to lead in that direction and I don't necessarily think it is for the best. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T12:52:53.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24720" CreationDate="2009-10-06T12:55:20.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the only problem would be if you start adding FogBugz ads, you aren't actually generating ad revenue, you are attempting to use your ad revenue generating space to try and generate other revenue (unless Joel actually pays to have his own ads on a site he helped found). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally I think advertising for their products would be logical, but I could also see why you wouldn't want to potentially cut out other advertisers from paying to actually use that space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T12:55:20.803" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T12:55:50.613" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24694/images-in-tags-doesnt-come-from-static-server&quot;&gt;Images in tags doesn&amp;rsquo;t come from static server&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed on the SO blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;static content is served from sstatic.net&lt;/a&gt;.  But I noticed today that the new adobe-sponsored tag icon is served from &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/Content/Img/tag-flash.png&lt;/code&gt;.  This is certainly static content, so it's probably an oversight (which is why I'm tagging this as &quot;bug&quot; rather than &quot;feature-request&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T07:33:03.590" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T07:33:03.590" ClosedDate="2009-10-06T12:57:39.113" Title="Sponsored tag icons are not served from sstatic.net" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;performance&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24719" CreationDate="2009-10-06T12:57:17.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would classify it as a bug personally because it makes no sense to highlight like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our syntax highlighting is due to the Prettify project, so perhaps this should be taken up with them...unless the team here has managed to fark something up recently with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T12:57:17.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24730" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:16:23.370" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a list of &quot;status-completed&quot; questions so I can tell what has changed lately. Right now you can see everything with that tag, and you can sort by date. However, this is the date the question was asked, not when the suggestion was implemented. Is there any way to see sort this way? Is this something that could be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:24:02.357" Title="How can I see a list of status-completed questions sorted by when they were completed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;changes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="24728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24616" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:18:25.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The examples above use U+200E Left-to-Right Mark as a zero-width joining character to break up a sequence that would be spotted as a link otherwise. This is a bit dodgy IMO; directionality characters have a specific use and this isn't it. Although U+200E isn't one of the directionality characters described by W3/Unicode as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/#Charlist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;discouraged for use in markup&lt;/a&gt;, there is an argument for stripping them out, as the ‘discouraged’ characters definitely should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest U+200D &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/200d/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zero-Width Joiner&lt;/a&gt; instead. (Although, in practice I tend to use U+200B Zero-Width Space, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doxdesk.com/software/win/eurokb.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my keyboard&lt;/a&gt; makes it easy to type.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:18:25.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24727" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:22:37.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can, but you could try and rank them by the number of votes they receive. Atwood said in the past that they tend to take on the ones with the highest vote totals first, so that may be an indicator of the order of completion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:22:37.680" />
  <row Id="24730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24727" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:23:09.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your best bet is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;sort by active&lt;/a&gt;. While this will introduce some false positives (i.e. recent activity other than the addition of &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;), you will be able to see what posts have been recently marked as well. Protip: If Jeff Atwood is the last modifier, there's a good chance that modification is the addition of the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:23:09.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24727" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:24:02.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you use the RSS feed of the tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:24:02.357" />
  <row Id="24732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="570" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:25:59.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a frequent StackOverflow user, I've gained enough rep to edit posts and I feel helpful, cleaning up titles, typos, hyperlinking cited references that aren't linked and cleaning up code with high levels of tab indentation so that they are actually readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I visit the SuperUser site too, but more like 10% of the time I spend on StackOverflow.  I'm miles away from having editing rights on SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would hope that its obvious that I have no intention of defacing superuser (based on my SO rep) thus it would be nice if I could somehow leverage that &quot;trust&quot; on the related sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point... I asked this question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/51289/ati-catalyst-setting-to-stretch-xp-start-bar-across-both-displays&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/51289/ati-catalyst-setting-to-stretch-xp-start-bar-across-both-displays&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/51289/ati-catalyst-setting-to-stretch-xp-start-bar-across-both-displays/51319#51319&quot;&gt;Molly provided a good alternative answer&lt;/a&gt; with 4 references (but none were linked).  Since I had to Google them anyway it would have been easy for me to edit the answer to add the links so that future visitors would benefit from them... but I can't. :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:25:59.297" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6365" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:30:11.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you accept your own answer, it is ordered any other answer - by votes. If it's the most highly  voted answer, it will be first in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the StackOverflow blog post &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Accept Your Own Answers&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, there are some special rules around owner-accepted answers, to prevent gaming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Wait 48 hours. You must wait 2 days from the time you originally asked your question before you can accept your own answer. This gives other users a chance to answer the question in good faith, and earn the accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No change in sort order. Normally, accepted answers are “docked” under the question. This is not true for owner accepted answers; they stay in standard sort order like any other answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No reputation is earned. Normally, accepted answers confer +15 rep to the answerer and +2 to the owner. Owner accepted answers do not earn rep (or badges) for anyone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:30:11.643" />
  <row Id="24735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22581" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:37:46.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone for /. style?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wget for Windows&lt;/a&gt; [sourceforge.net]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69713" LastEditorUserId="69713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T13:42:57.067" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:42:57.067" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24744" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:49:44.977" Score="13" ViewCount="773" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed one user on Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/173653/anirudha&quot;&gt;anirudha&lt;/a&gt;, who has caused some problems.  He's on his second or third penalty box, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21844/how-to-deal-with-people-creating-two-or-more-accounts-to-game-reputation&quot;&gt;has created sock puppet accounts before&lt;/a&gt;.  Unfortunately, I've now seen him creating a new account, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/179493/anirudha&quot;&gt;anirudha&lt;/a&gt;, while suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, is it against the rules to create a new account while suspended?  If so, is there any way to specifically bring up the situation?  It seems odd to report one of his questions for the problem, as the questions themselves aren't at issue, but I don't know a way to report an actual user separate from their questions, answers, and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  He's baaack.  New account:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/185341/anirudha&quot;&gt;anirudha&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134915" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T02:17:39.573" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T02:17:39.573" Title="Suspended user creating new accounts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;&lt;multiple-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24737" CreationDate="2009-10-06T13:57:05.340" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's against the rules creating sock puppets. Period! (Ok, Jeff is an exception). Flag one of his posts for moderator attention and explain your concerns.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or post a question here on Meta ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T13:57:05.340" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24737" CreationDate="2009-10-06T14:00:56.643" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are, in essence, doing so by reporting it here. Hopefully one of the SO mods will see it and look into the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remember that there is always a &lt;em&gt;slim&lt;/em&gt; chance that this is a different Anirudha -- that name is common enough in India that these could actually be two different people. The mods, hopefully, can ascertain that by examining key data like the open ID, e-mail address, maybe even IPs of the affected users. (I admit they look very similar at first glance -- down to the exact same style of broken English.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T14:00:56.643" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="570" CreationDate="2009-10-06T14:39:15.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have edit rights on SU, but I would not feel comfortable with edit rights on other sites, unless I've earned it (this is especially true for SO and SF). I have to prove I know what I'm talking about before I can actually start editing something that others have worked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T14:39:15.933" />
  <row Id="24742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T14:51:16.053" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/700/can-we-get-rid-of-the-threshold-of-15-chars-for-comments&quot;&gt;Can we get rid of the threshold of 15 chars for comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment saying something short like &quot;I did.&quot; or &quot;It is.&quot; in response to another comment is perfectly legitimate. What's the point in requiring users to fill it up with pointless &quot;...&quot; or other characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134441" LastEditorUserId="134441" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T14:53:53.037" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T14:53:53.037" ClosedDate="2009-10-06T14:56:36.200" Title="RFE: Remove the useless 15-character requirement for comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T14:52:52.230" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23643/writing-less-than-15-characters-in-a-comment-triggers-the-30-second-protection&quot;&gt;Writing less than 15 characters in a comment triggers the 30 second protection.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to post a comment containing less than 15 non-space characters followed by the remaining number of spaces to make up the 15-character requirement. It'll come back saying the comment wasn't posted because it is shorter than 15 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then try to fix the comment and post it. It'll come back claiming you already posted a comment within the last 30 seconds, which is not true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134441" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:39:52.613" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:39:52.613" ClosedDate="2009-10-06T15:53:06.393" Title="30-second rate limit for comment fires when no comment posted yet?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24737" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:03:53.503" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Sigh) Annoying, isn't it. Merged; thanks for reporting it. A very tricky one to deal with, since it is (by design) easy to be a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T15:03:53.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24747" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:21:38.743" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to put a link to my SO profile on my homepage. I remember a codesnippet i saw somewhere that would basically display my Username and my reputation. Where was that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136840" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T16:20:42.133" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T22:03:42.953" Title="How can i link my UserProfile on my personal homepage?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24745" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:25:20.437" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/nowearn-valuable-flair&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/nowearn-valuable-flair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T15:25:20.437" />
  <row Id="24747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24745" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:25:22.213" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/flair&quot;&gt;flair&lt;/a&gt; tool?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T15:25:22.213" />
  <row Id="24748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:40:49.347" Score="6" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just looked at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Badges page&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Overflow and the Fanatic badge is strangely absent. &lt;strike&gt;I suspect that it's been intentionally ommitted as the Fanatic badge &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;was announced&lt;/a&gt; before &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow went live&lt;/a&gt;, and Super User, which was launched after Meta Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges/42/fanatic&quot;&gt;has the badge&lt;/a&gt; (though it hasn't been awarded yet).&lt;/strike&gt; It now sounds like this could be an oversight, since the Fanatic badge was only &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24748/fanatic-badge-on-meta/24751#24751&quot;&gt;added to Super User yesterday&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, as a user that would be a recipient of the gold badge I'm inclined to request that it be added, but at the same time I can understand that Meta Stack Overflow has a different dynamic than the rest of the sites. It's obvious who the daily contributors are, so the existence of the badge might be redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Meta have a Fanatic badge, or is the Enthusiast badge enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm not posting this for purely theoretical reasons - today would have been the day that the badges would have been awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-20T12:37:36.240" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T12:37:36.240" Title="Fanatic badge on Meta Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24748" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:45:37.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess no one wants to show that we don't have a life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T15:45:37.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24748" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:46:35.267" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing because &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;meta means murder&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and Jeff doesn't want to encourage us &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much, even if we are off on a different site ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86e1d35970b-pi&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;meta means murder&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T06:39:27.533" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T06:39:27.533" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24748" CreationDate="2009-10-06T15:48:05.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was only just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24589/does-the-disciplined-badge-work-on-superuser/24591#24591&quot;&gt;added to SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;, I guess it is a manual configuration per site, and as random says it shows you don't have a life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T15:48:05.653" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24748" CreationDate="2009-10-06T16:08:04.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the implication is that those of us who spend a lot of time on meta are proving our fanaticism to such a great extent, that the badge would serve no further purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T16:08:04.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24748" CreationDate="2009-10-06T16:22:07.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Woot badge is on all sites - I thought Fanatic was, too.. but alas, it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T16:22:07.280" />
  <row Id="24754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24852" CreationDate="2009-10-06T16:23:34.780" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/51758/list&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/revisions/51758/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a quick example of a revision list. I noticed that on the right hand side with every edit, the user names are there, but their rep/badge count is cutoff due to some formatting. This applies to all the sites and not just SU.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7218/bazookacutoff.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: None of the user avatars/pics load for me as my current location blocks most scripts/ads/etc and hangs/time outs. So those icons are currently red x'd due to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone reproduce? Maybe I am just crazy and this is a local issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Win XP, IE 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 1: So far this is just my local issue.  Someone might get to reproduce if they somehow blocked the picture host so the icon/pictures &quot;red x'd&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Looks like at least once person reproduced under xp and IE 7:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Win XP and IE 7 here, and I have the same issue even though the gravatars aren't blocked. – mmyers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T07:27:19.873" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T12:25:52.947" Title="The user information is cutoff in the answer/question revision page?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="24755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22581" CreationDate="2009-10-06T16:55:07.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually give a name to the link. That way it is easier to maintain the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1518359/how-do-i-get-perl-pod-in-string-and-print-it-in-page&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a POD document. Now, I want to&#xA;  convert that POD to a parsed section&#xA;  like usage/description and get it in a&#xA;  string. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why not [&amp;#96;pod2usage&amp;#96;][pod2usage]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This doesn't help me to get the output&#xA;  in string but in STDOUT/file. I am&#xA;  stressing on the point &quot;getting it in&#xA;  string&quot;, because I want to display the&#xA;  POD in &quot;pages&quot; if the length exceeds&#xA;  screen length.&#xA;  [&amp;#96;pod2usage&amp;#96;][pod2usage] doesn't print&#xA;  them in pages :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can somebody tell me which module to&#xA;  use for this purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[pod2usage]:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://perldoc.perl.org/pod2usage.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://perldoc.perl.org/pod2usage.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T16:55:07.997" />
  <row Id="24756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24757" CreationDate="2009-10-06T17:00:02.483" Score="0" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34537/acidzombie24&quot;&gt;On stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; I wrote yesterday (Mon Oct 5th, its the 6th now) a question about signing in with google. I dont see it in my recent history, it is as if I never wrote it. Did the question/post go through or not? (I am hoping someone who can see deleted questions can check for me and see why)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-edit-&#xA;It turns out when i went to bed and awoke in the morning it was deleted bc i didnt reread and rushed it in order to get sleep. Here it is again except i added the word implement into the title and considered the fact ppl might think actually logging in and not implementation (lol. Thats funny to me.)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1527947/how-do-i-implement-sign-in-with-google-on-my-site&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1527947/how-do-i-implement-sign-in-with-google-on-my-site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="34537" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T12:28:16.590" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T12:28:16.590" Title="Did I write that question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;strange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24756" CreationDate="2009-10-06T17:03:53.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was migrated here to meta via the normal means, and the deleted by Mr. Atwood himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10K users or mods only:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24680/how-do-i-sign-in-with-google&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24680/how-do-i-sign-in-with-google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First rule of StackOverflow: you don't talk about stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you be kind enough to paste or email me my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not much to it.  Giving you back the exact text won't help you.  You'll need to re-word things or asking it again will result in the same fate.  But you've been around SO long enough you &lt;em&gt;ought&lt;/em&gt; to know that.  That said:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to sign in using a google account? (not openid... i 'll plan to use openid only if this doesnt have much benefits). I notice a few sites can login via google and i am wondering how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T18:33:55.660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T18:33:55.660" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="24758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24737" CreationDate="2009-10-06T17:08:43.497" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see an obvious puppet account, you can just flag one of their questions or answers for moderator attention. It would be a good idea to give the moderators a link to the original account ( the one with the lowest user-id ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/b2gills/3987030057/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Screenshot Flag as duplicate account by b2gills, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2566/3987030057_b448367bce_o.png&quot; width=&quot;740&quot; height=&quot;430&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot Flag as duplicate account&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T17:08:43.497" />
  <row Id="24759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24756" CreationDate="2009-10-06T17:10:04.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that you left out some vital information in your question. It was perceived to be a question like &quot;how do I log in to &lt;em&gt;Stackoverflow&lt;/em&gt;&quot; when I believe your real question was &quot;how do make my own website utilize Google's OpenID&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ask the question again and try to add some detail like platform, language, etc. instead of a completely general one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T17:10:04.803" />
  <row Id="24761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24756" CreationDate="2009-10-06T17:12:47.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To clarify, it was migrated because several people (myself included) thought it pertained to signing in to Stack Overflow using a Google account. Several commenters (and answerers) thought that it referred to adding functionality to a website for signing in with a Google account. If this is what you meant, you can ask your question again, but please be clearer, because I don't see how anyone thought you meant that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T17:12:47.467" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T18:59:19.280" Score="1" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know Stack Exchange is somewhat a fork of the Stack Overflow platform. But I just had to ask if it's still just right to say that &quot;Stack Overflow runs on top of Stack Exchange&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T23:38:40.060" Title="Is right to say that &quot;Stack Overflow runs on top of Stack Exchange&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24769" CreationDate="2009-10-06T19:01:43.863" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as how they are indeed forks to some degree, I think the correct answer would be &quot;No&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be more accurate to say that StackExchange is an offshoot project based off of the success of the original StackOverflow Trilogy of websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T19:19:02.393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T19:19:02.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24769" CreationDate="2009-10-06T19:15:30.170" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Stack Overflow runs on a similar engine to the one powering Stack Exchange.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect neither is a superset of the other - calling attention to the similarity is probably accurate and appropriately fuzzy. Of course, how much detail you can provide depends on who you're talking to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T19:15:30.170" />
  <row Id="24775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7528" CreationDate="2009-10-06T19:24:07.237" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or, perhaps simpler - have a daily script to de-dup them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T19:24:07.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24779" CreationDate="2009-10-06T19:56:01.517" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have looked at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2683?tab=stats#sort-top&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; and his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered/271471#271471&quot;&gt;top answer&lt;/a&gt; is for question &quot;What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While ordinarily I would not care, the vote counts are quite disproportionate: 408 stated on the userpage, and 4 on the question page itself. There is a tag &quot;(2)&quot; next to the link to answer on the userpage. Could that be related, and if so, how is it related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39974" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:10:06.693" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:10:06.693" Title="Incorrect vote count?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24777" CreationDate="2009-10-06T19:58:21.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The (2) indicates that this user has posted 2 answers for that question.  His &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered/185106#185106&quot;&gt;other answer&lt;/a&gt; accounts for the discrepancy in upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T19:58:21.777" />
  <row Id="24779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24777" CreationDate="2009-10-06T19:58:54.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user has multiple answer to the question, they have +404 for this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/185106#185106&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;code&gt;(n)&lt;/code&gt; (in this case 2) means the user has multiple answers to the question. I don't know that it is documented which answer you will be taken to if you click on the link in the case of multiple answers. I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the most recently posted, but again, I don't know that its been documented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T19:58:54.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T20:27:18.377" Score="0" ViewCount="963" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I download code source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T21:29:18.830" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:29:18.830" Title="Can I download the code source of stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;source&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24781" CreationDate="2009-10-06T20:32:23.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but you can signup for StackExchange, and maybe get a copy (though that might take a little more than the average signup).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T20:32:23.007" />
  <row Id="24783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24781" CreationDate="2009-10-06T20:33:29.073" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot download the source code, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3086&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question for some of the discussion around open sourcing the source code. All of the data, however, is licensed under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons license&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;. To get the data, watch the blog for frequent (generally monthly) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dumps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T20:33:29.073" />
  <row Id="24784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24781" CreationDate="2009-10-06T20:37:01.330" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have said: no you can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you're interested in how to build something like stackoverflow, the I'd suggest you follow the series of blog posts by Andrew Siemer titled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dotnetslackers.com/projects/StackOverflowInspiredKnowledgeExchange/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Building a StackOverflow Inspired Knowledge Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19635" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T20:37:01.330" />
  <row Id="24785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24737" CreationDate="2009-10-06T20:46:27.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He does keep doing this. I noticed it like a week or two ago and am surprised he is still doing it. He begged me for up-votes stating that if I upvote him then maybe, just maybe, he'll upvote any future answer I give him. Yeh..Ok...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastEditorUserId="35454" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T20:53:11.143" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T20:53:11.143" />
  <row Id="24787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24628" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:26:41.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've merged [games] and a few others with 1 or 2 questions into [game]; am happy to go either [games] or [game], but &lt;em&gt;in the context&lt;/em&gt;, the singular seemed to make more sense. It also scanned for any obvious unrelated questions, but couldn't see any (note that [games] and [game] are very far apart in meaning).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't touched [game-development] at the moment; see comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:26:41.410" />
  <row Id="24788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24769" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:29:26.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seeing as how they are indeed forks to some degree, I think the correct answer would be &quot;No&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be more accurate to say that StackExchange is an offshoot project based off of the success of the original StackOverflow Trilogy of websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;answered 2 hours ago&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  TheTXI♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know, right? Stack Overflow runs on top of waffles. – Welbo_g 2 hours ago&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  and powered by pink pony poop. – Greg Hewgill 11 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reminded me of the true inside of Django&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.tokumine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/pony-magic%5Fs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would the C# mascot be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:29:26.677" />
  <row Id="24789" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:20:18.577" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Calculating user statistics seems like a very time consuming and performance heavy task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whats the best way to calculate a lot of statistics repeatedly and quickly? Take SO's tags or user rep for example, how does SO recalculate all that information without any noticeable performance penalty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of performance-tuning skills did they use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:33:26.000" Title="Best way to implement user statistics" Tags="&lt;database-design&gt;&lt;performance-tuning&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24769" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:39:33.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;StackOverflow and StackExchange use different engines that share a common code base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because while much of the code is the same, they have forked some as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:39:33.177" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:46:57.590" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This does need to be changed...Jeff says (in a comment reply to the original question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a) no. I can point to dozens of accepted answers that are flat-out wrong. b) if the question owner abdicates responsibility (by starting a bounty and not following up), then they lose their right to select an &quot;accepted answer&quot;. Which has little to nothing to do with what the answer actually is..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a), sure, we can all find examples of answers out there of questions with accepted answers that are wrong.  Why on earth would we want to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; it, though?  Shouldn't I be able to eventually select the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as b) goes, it doesn't have to be that the asker &quot;abdicated responsibility&quot;, but no answer ever fit the bill within the time limit.  So someone gets the accepted answer and bounty for something incorrect.  Fine.  But then, if a new answer comes in that actually solves the problem, I should definitely have the opportunity to select it as the accepted answer (ignoring bounty.)  It just makes the quality of the question higher, because now people scanning down the answers will have a much greater chance of stopping at the correct answer, rather than an older incorrect one (after all, that's what the accepted checkmark is for!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I don't understand the rationale behind saying, &quot;well, sometimes wrong answers are accepted; thems the breaks.&quot;  Why not try to make it better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T21:46:57.590" />
  <row Id="24793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24794" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:49:31.477" Score="12" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see some people write comments that are for example - in &lt;em&gt;italics&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not see any way of doing that while writing my comments. Why is it so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-06T22:31:23.157" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T14:24:36.363" Title="How to use formatting in comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="24794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24793" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:50:27.610" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*italics*&#xA;**bold**&#xA;`code`&#xA;[link text](url)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2115/text-formatting-now-allowed-in-comments-list-of-proven-and-disproven-abilities&quot;&gt;Text Formatting Now Allowed In Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why the site doesn't tell you &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to do this, I can't say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T19:47:53.073" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T19:47:53.073" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24793" CreationDate="2009-10-06T21:51:17.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; around your text for italics &lt;em&gt;like this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt; around your text for bold &lt;strong&gt;like this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;***&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;***&lt;/code&gt; around your text for bold italics &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;like this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="146495" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-18T14:24:36.363" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T14:24:36.363" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24745" CreationDate="2009-10-06T22:03:42.953" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, to get flair as an image: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1475/can-we-get-flair-as-an-image/4525#4525&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1475/can-we-get-flair-as-an-image/4525#4525&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T22:03:42.953" />
  <row Id="24798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2009-10-06T22:26:45.863" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that this should be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/18807/leopard-network-shares-and-browsing-are-unreliable&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SuperUser, and got no replies. I offered a bounty of 100 reputation for this question, bringing the total to 150. I did the right thing, and kept up with the question throughout the bounty period, however I did not recieve a satisfactory answer - or to be frank, I did not recieve an answer I was comfortable accepting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty period ended, and I lost 100 rep for nothing. It would be nice for the sake of completeness to be able to say &quot;I have found the answer&quot; and mark it as accepted. It would also help anyone who reads the question later on down the track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130343" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T22:26:45.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24769" CreationDate="2009-10-06T23:38:40.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be an awful code duplication infringement if it didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="432" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T23:38:40.060" />
  <row Id="24802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="84983" CreationDate="2009-10-06T23:49:30.253" Score="11" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a close reason added of 'Belongs on Meta StackExchange'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T04:42:33.553" Title="Meta needs a Close Reason of 'Belongs on Meta StackExchange'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;belongs-on&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24802" CreationDate="2009-10-06T23:59:00.100" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no mech for the migration out of Meta (because like it's been said, this is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24748/fanatic-badge-on-meta/24750#24750&quot; title=&quot;by gnovice to you&quot;&gt;Hotel California&lt;/a&gt;) so if it gets closed as &quot;Belongs on...&quot; it misses out on the link to the migrated question you would expect for other belongs on close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing as &quot;Not stackoverflow related&quot; along with a comment or answer pointing out the difference would be more helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-06T23:59:00.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T00:40:59.743" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote out a long and detailed question for Super User and then lost it. I tagged it, but it turns out one of them was new. And being a new user, I wasn't allowed to add the new tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the problem is that this error was not visible as it didn't show up on the screen and would have required scrolling. I assumed the question was posted and closed the tab and later found out that the question had vanished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions on how to fix this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disable the submit button if user has added illegal tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a JavaScript &lt;code&gt;alert()&lt;/code&gt; to notify user that their question was not posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put the error at the top of the page with huge red letters (or with red background)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If user presses submit but there is an error, put the question into Drafts from where the user can find it again in case they accidently leave the page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the user is not allowed to add a tag, post the question anyways without the tag and change the view to edit mode where the user can then modify the tags if they really want to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135898" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T03:52:36.023" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T03:52:36.023" Title="Make it obvious that the question wasn't submitted if user cannot create a tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24805" CreationDate="2009-10-07T00:57:04.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drafts is a great idea, I've lost a few posts for different reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T00:57:04.643" />
  <row Id="24807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24809" CreationDate="2009-10-07T01:03:46.307" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if Stack Overflow has a place that accepts tutorials or articles in general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the whole feel of SO, so felt like asking this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136866" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T01:11:16.053" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T01:56:26.063" Title="Where do I post answers instead of questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24807" CreationDate="2009-10-07T01:13:35.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO isn't really designed for tutorials/articles, but if you've just discovered a neat way to do something and want to share that information, one option is to open a question then immediately answer it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T01:13:35.113" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24807" CreationDate="2009-10-07T01:56:26.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Get a blog.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/standbyme/getajob.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sha na na na, sha na na na na&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133829" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T01:56:26.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24805" CreationDate="2009-10-07T03:08:56.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I assumed the question was posted &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you assume this if the same &quot;enter your question&quot; form is still on the screen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woudn't you expect to be looking at the live, posted question itself if it was submitted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T03:08:56.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24814" CreationDate="2009-10-07T03:35:39.067" Score="3" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand why I can't upvote my own answer, but if I realise that my answer is wrong, why can't I downvote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for one answer, I figured I'd just edit saying something to the effect of &quot;warning - this answer is wrong - left in as a warning to others&quot;. This seems like the right (but embarrassing) thing to do - but is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, what's the normal way to confess your own wrong answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136873" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T07:26:17.613" Title="Why can't I downvote my own answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="24814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24813" CreationDate="2009-10-07T03:36:56.253" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete it if it's wrong and off base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By deleting, you help clean up by not littering with an incorrect answer (unless you're a mod and you get the joys of seeing deleted answers amidst the non-deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T03:36:56.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24813" CreationDate="2009-10-07T04:26:16.043" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't solve the exact question posted but could potentially be useful to someone else who comes across that question with a &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; problem, I sometimes mark the answer as community wiki with a note saying that it's wrong but potentially applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if it's completely wrong and not at all applicable, then as @random points out, deleting it is the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T04:26:16.043" />
  <row Id="24816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24817" CreationDate="2009-10-07T04:29:49.030" Score="0" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be a badge for N instances of on-topic mentioning of Joel's name (SO, JoS, FogCreek, Joel's software, EBS, all count)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think such a tag would be Way Cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure how to go about implementing such tag, but may be some relevant sub-string searches in answers up-voted at least once?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1529385/how-to-write-technical-specs-for-a-project&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1529385/how-to-write-technical-specs-for-a-project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T07:59:09.110" Title="Should there be a &quot;Joel Spolsky&quot; mentions badge?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;joel-spolsky&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24816" CreationDate="2009-10-07T04:37:46.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if we must have it. We could call it &quot;Golden Calf&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T04:37:46.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24816" CreationDate="2009-10-07T04:57:26.580" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are supposed to be rewards for good behavior. Bleeting out Joel's name or his company's products isn't good (or necessarily bad) behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T04:57:26.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24802" CreationDate="2009-10-07T05:00:46.573" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because Meta StackExchange looks similar does not make them magically seamlessly communicate with one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T05:00:46.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24813" CreationDate="2009-10-07T07:26:17.613" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand-- if your answer is wrong, why you don't just correct it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T07:26:17.613" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24816" CreationDate="2009-10-07T07:39:43.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, too, will invoke Joel when the spirit moves me.  However, I could see a badge triggering a rash of name dropping in order to trigger such a badge.  In the end, although the intention is good, it might not have the desired effect - it might end up weakening any reference to the Joel trademark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T07:59:09.110" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T07:59:09.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24816" CreationDate="2009-10-07T07:42:58.283" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Badge should look like some pieces of a badge duct-taped together though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T07:42:58.283" />
  <row Id="24826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T07:47:58.150" Score="-7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just got downvoted twice for a (I admit half-assed) answer, it occurred to me that it didn't so much irritate me to lose 4 points as the feeling that either a) I was getting booed out of the room or b) that someone was being a jerk and downvoting me for demanding a comment for the first downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, I had this moment of &quot;Oh c'mon! I get it already!&quot; and it occurred to me that maybe on solution to the downvote dilemma would be to set a bottom of either -1 or, if need be, -2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't personal, mind you. You can grandfather me in and leave my rep the same. But really if a question or answer goes under -2 or -3 it's usually something that should be removed, not left open for further kicks-to-the-groin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, -1 has a sort of symbolic nature to it, kinda like null or &lt;code&gt;i&lt;/code&gt;. It suggests &quot;Um, this was a less than nothing attempt. We'd rather you just had stayed home.&quot; Rather than quantifying just how severe the poorness of a Q or A is, why not just say -1 or vote to remove?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-1 could even be worth a tad more (-5 perhaps, to the user, -3 to the caster) to reflect that it's a big deal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I definitely agree that in case of voting something to below 0, there needs to be some cost to the voter. Whoever decides, &quot;Nah, you're going negative, dude&quot; needs to show they really are committed to that vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- Two to the head, zombie-be-dead.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131983" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T14:39:43.237" Title="Max downvotes per question/answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24828" CreationDate="2009-10-07T07:49:06.137" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see lots of folks on SO that ask tons of questions and never bother to even accept a single one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think they're all creeps&amp;mdash;but I can't find any explanation in the SO FAQ where I could point them to, to explain how the concept of &quot;accepting the answer&quot; works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be so self-evident to most of us&amp;mdash;but to some, it seems quite foreign. Could the SO team add a section to the FAQ &quot;How and why to accept answers?&quot; and maybe even post a screenshot or two for those who claim they don't speak enough English to understand how to accept an answer? A picture is worth more than a 1'000 words&amp;mdash;and it's true in &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; language! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: it would be really nice to have a link to this post on the SO FAQ page at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;. People might read that page&amp;mdash;I doubt they'll read anything else...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T05:45:46.820" Title="Explain in SO FAQ concept of accepting answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;faqs&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24827" CreationDate="2009-10-07T07:51:29.250" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already in the official FAQ here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-what-is-it-all-about&quot;&gt;Accepting Answers, What is it all about?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the FAQs on all the sites point back to the FAQ tag on Meta in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is very little that can be done about the drive by askers however, and the acceptance rate has slowly started to build awareness around the issue. Over time the more regular users are the more accepting of answers will happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T07:54:02.880" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T07:54:02.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24826" CreationDate="2009-10-07T07:52:31.590" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree. If you can have unlimited upvotes then you can get unlimited downvotes to match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are that ashamed of getting multiple downvotes, you can do the good thing and delete your answer when it reaches a score of -3 and you will get the Peer Pressure badge each time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T07:52:31.590" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="24830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24826" CreationDate="2009-10-07T08:05:09.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;the down vote dilemma&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What dilemma?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, there are more than a few threads with plenty of answers with &amp;lt; 0 votes.  Under your proposal, they would all be ranked equally even though some garnered more (maybe even many more) down votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T08:05:09.710" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24826" CreationDate="2009-10-07T08:18:04.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When one comes across a post with multitudes of downvotes, one is quick to note that indeed this is poison and should thusly be deleted or markedly improved upon post haste. For the good of all kind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mere -1 is not clear enough and hoi polloi should do well to make it most assuredly clear on the level required for competent and useful posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If perchance one does not wish to receive the Peer Pressure badge by deleting their post, yet wishes to minimise the thrashing of keeping their downvoted affront to humanity, one is available to switch one's post to community wiki mode and spare oneself the hurt in points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T08:18:04.070" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24826" CreationDate="2009-10-07T08:23:18.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people seem to enjoy getting a large number of downvotes; that, or they don't really care what happens to their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I get a downvote and I see it has a legitimate reason, I delete it on the spot. If my answer was totally offtopic or misleading, besides deleting it, I also apologize to the OP. It's a matter of respect. I do not like to be given half-assed responses, so I try to do the same to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be no limit whatsoever to the number of downvotes. It's your answer, take responsibility for it and let it go down in flames if you don't want to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T08:23:18.597" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24834" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T08:45:08.933" Score="2" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a great feature to be able to view Questions by &quot;Interested&quot;... This option would only show questions matching the tags you have in your &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; section on the right of the page.  Sometimes I want to filter out everything other than those tags, instead of just selecting &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this feature already exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136881" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T09:13:20.693" Title="I'd like to be able to view only questions of a tag in my Interesting Tags&quot; section" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24826" CreationDate="2009-10-07T08:48:19.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the unlimited downvotes make a clear distinction between &quot;bad&quot; and &quot;worse&quot; answers. And I think everyone will look at an answer and then decide if it has been downvoted enough or not. At least, I tend to avoid downvoting bad answers into oblivion. It still has an educational value to show it's a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, bad answers aren't always bad as long as an additional comment explains why it's bad. Thus, if someone else thinks about the same bad idea, they will know it's bad instead of thinking it solves the problem. But things get worse when there are real bad answers that just make the problem worse. For example, someone claims about an unreadable file on his disk and someone else claims it's a virus and the only thing that helps against it is to do a low-level format of the whole disk. Such an advise would be real bad since it results in massive dataloss while the answer is (most very likely) wrong. Such answers need to be downvoted into oblivion to discourage that user from posting more dumb answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do keep in mind that there are users at these SE sites whom are just hunting for reputation. They'll answer almost every question with some answer that they can quickly think of, only to hope someone will give them a vote up. They don't mind a few downvotes since every downvote only lowers their reputation by 2, while each upvote gives them 10 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, if the number of downvotes were limited, those reputation whores would just be encouraged to post lots and lots of answers, hoping to gain at least one + vote per answer. If the downvotes were limited to 3 max, they could get a net gain of 4 points per useless answer, as long as someone will upvote them at least once. I prefer to downvote these reputation whores into oblivion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do think that every downvote needs to be accompanied with an additional comment, explaining why it is downvoted. This way, others can just agree with the downvote by upvoting the comment to indicate the answer is bad, without downvoting the answer too much because it isn't real bad.&lt;hr /&gt;As suggested by John Smithers, enforcing comments for downvotes would not be very popular, so a better suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever you downvote an answer, you must leave a comment, but this comment will be anonimous! (Just like the vote.) With upvoting, you should also be able to add an anonimous comment. But for upvotes, this would not be required.&#xA;The reason for forced comments for downvotes is that it forces people to explain the downvote and to make it harder for some to do drive-by downvotes in general, since they have to add a comment every time. (And silly comments could then be flagged and deleted by the moderators with the downvote.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question with 20 downvotes would then have at least 20 comments and will get noticed. It's likely that it will be flagged sooner or later and if the owner of the answer doesn't delete it, a moderator could probably delete it after evaluating the comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="161822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T07:11:32.577" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:11:32.577" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24834" CreationDate="2009-10-07T08:49:11.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the Ninja search options:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[tag1] [tag2]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T08:49:11.123" />
  <row Id="24838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24856" CreationDate="2009-10-07T09:12:13.330" Score="3" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is hard to answer since, to the extent that anyone does this, they likely don't do it consciously. In the spirit of Richard Wiseman and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/quirkology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quirkology&lt;/a&gt; I just wondered what were people's thoughts on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please bear in mind that that's me in the picture, and if you down-vote this, that'll be a real person hurtin', not some abstract symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136005" LastEditorUserId="136005" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T09:29:10.007" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:22:52.860" Title="Are you less likely to down-vote someone whose gravatar is a photograph of them?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="24839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24834" CreationDate="2009-10-07T09:13:20.693" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Combine them with &lt;code&gt;+OR+&lt;/code&gt; and bookmark the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash+OR+flex&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash+OR+flex&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T09:13:20.693" />
  <row Id="24840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T09:14:18.227" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I am not less likely. I downvote very rarely (on SO) and when I do it's subjectively based on the content&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T23:42:31.137" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T23:42:31.137" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="24842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T09:21:39.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's why my gravatar is a nice, rendered woman. :-) If people dislike my answers, I hope the gravatar makes them rethink their downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I'm a guy. The gravatar just displays one of my hobbies: rendering women...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T09:21:39.537" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T09:52:33.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... Interesting question. I do not make a difference between Photos and other Avatars, but for some reason I really dislike the default Identicon (the funky pattern generated from an IP Address). I don't know if it really influences me when downvoting (I'm sure it's no difference when upvoting as I look at the content rather than the icon), but for some reason I take people with Gravatars more serious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;psychology is weird :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T09:52:33.460" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="24844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T10:01:32.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try not to upvote/downvote a person but a question or an answer. Nevertheless if I get influenced somehow, this is more by rep score than by gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T10:01:32.210" />
  <row Id="24845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24846" CreationDate="2009-10-07T10:05:46.383" Score="7" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed more and more on both SU and MSO users being able to vote on answers and questions that has been closed, as well as being able to accept answers. My feeling on this is that this degrades the value of a closed question, since the OP simply ignores the fact that it is closed and still accepts and answers, and users still gain reputation for answers on closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I tend to find this more commonly happening with new users.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question&lt;/strong&gt; Is this behavior correct? Should it be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T10:34:41.007" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T23:00:07.347" Title="Is allowing voting and accepting answers on closed questions best practice?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24845" CreationDate="2009-10-07T10:10:18.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it should be discouraged. One way for users who don't have the appropriate privileges to voice their opinion on the quality of a question is using the voting mechanisms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as answering questions, this one is a little bit more of a gray area for me. For most of the close reasons, I could see why it would be reasonable to not allow for accepted answers. But for things like Duplicate Question closings, if you can get in your answer faster than it closes and it is right, more power to you if you get accepted (and I don't think we should necessarily turn off the OP's right to accept an answer to their question if it is closed as a dupe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T10:10:18.573" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24845" CreationDate="2009-10-07T10:22:29.847" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly thrilled about the idea of allowing users to vote on closed questions and to accept answers. If it's closed, it was probably closed for a reason. You should be allowed to comment on it but not do anything that alters users reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason most questions are closed is because they are duplicates. Allowing users to vote even after they are closed means that some people actually profit from these questions, even if they shouldn't. If you manage to answer a question right before it gets closed, even if you just copied the answer from other duplicate questions, you can still gain quite a lot of reputation. It doesn't seem all that fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T10:22:29.847" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-07T10:31:30.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My biggest concern is what happens to the tags that don't have lots of money behind them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Python, PHP, Apache, Perl, and so many others... their tags would eventually be drowned out by the eye-catching nature of the sponsored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the little Adobe logo, but I don't want free software to get left out in the cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T10:31:30.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7440" CreationDate="2009-10-07T10:53:54.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to learn is by trying to articulate your thoughts to someone else, particularly without verbal communication. As a result I think my ongoing participation is making me better, well less worserer, at understanding and interpreting requirements and communicating complex technical issues. This can only be a good thing.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I also find questions just outside my comfort zone interesting and challenging, and I've ended up writing (and using) a few little widgets that wouldn't have occurred to me without trying to answer someone's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I reached 10K I set myself a few arbitrary targets and ongoing benchmarks. Some are readily achievable, some longer term goals. They either give me something to aim for in terms of rankings, or learning new things, or helping out with unpopular questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Targets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 2 gold tag badges (have 2 silver)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get a silver tag badge for JQuery (only 391 to go!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 350 rep in a day (done!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 500 accepted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 100 accepted answers in 3 different tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 25 accepted answers with no upvotes (help the noobs)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ongoing activities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be the top user in 3 tags with more than 500 questions (unexpectedly just done this, am now no 1 in maven-2, ant, and build-process)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it to the 5th page (done)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it to the 3rd page (still gaining)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1st page? tricky as they're all active users with mainly 6-9 months head start, but It could happen...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 1000 rep per week and 5000 rep per month minimum (unless I go on holiday)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer 1 question per day in a subject I know little about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer 1 old question per day (still going for that Enlightomancer badge)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been writing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A130494+%5Bgreasemonkey%5D&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey scripts&lt;/a&gt; to help learn JQuery and help me track those goals. To reinforce my first point, writing this list down has made me think about my goals more precisely and I've come up with a few more ideas for GM scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T23:34:05.527" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:34:05.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T11:14:52.473" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are avatars in this site!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know, I use &lt;code&gt;lynx&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T11:14:52.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24754" CreationDate="2009-10-07T12:25:52.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works with IE8. Upgrade your browser!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2651/peacedove.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T12:25:52.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24845" CreationDate="2009-10-07T12:35:05.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with this behavior per-se.  The semantics of a closed question are simply that no further answers will be accepted, because the question is not appropriate for whatever reason.  I don't think its primary purpose is punitive, but editorial.  In particular, you have to keep in mind that closed questions could be re-opened later.  Therefore, nothing drastic should take place; that's what locking and deletion are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't see why voting should stop.  Sometimes seeing a question's popularity can influence the potential re-open votes. Voting on the answers can have a similar effect, if some truly excellent responses are given to an otherwise marginal question, that might influence the community to re-open the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't see why a closed question should not have an accepted answer.  Again, it could be re-opened later.  I don't see how precluding a question from having an acceptance improves the quality of content on the site.  Any question, even a closed one, is &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; (though not necessarily) better for having an accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, all of this is part of the editorial process.  The effect on reputation is secondary, and shouldn't dictate the semantics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T12:35:05.267" />
  <row Id="24855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T12:53:42.330" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22338/how-to-view-only-tags-of-interest&quot;&gt;How to view only tags of interest?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to make Stack Overflow only show questions with at least one tag in you &quot;interesting tags&quot; list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135930" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T12:53:42.330" ClosedDate="2009-10-07T13:43:02.563" Title="Show only question with 'Intersting Tags' tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T13:06:42.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When this happens, it happens subliminally.  That is, I don't think anyone is &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; not down-voting others who have a photograph of a friendly, smiling human being as their avatar.  But that doesn't mean the effect is not there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have to actually examine voting patterns on a per-user basis, and for that you'd need access to the (actual) DB.  Just asking people without access to the real data won't get you real answers, you'll just get everyone saying &quot;No, that doesn't influence me&quot;, because they are not aware of the influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, except those who claim to freely downvote uggos.  But that's another matter entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to the way that people claim they aren't influenced by advertisements, when in fact they almost certainly are (ask Alex Papadimoulis!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T13:06:42.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24858" CreationDate="2009-10-07T13:29:23.227" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1531557/does-hadoop-support-a-holodeck-tag-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, which may have been deleted by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought something like 2000 points were needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T13:31:42.430" Title="How does a user with 529 rep points edit a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24857" CreationDate="2009-10-07T13:30:48.607" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That particular user simply edited tags, which anyone is allowed to do at &lt;strong&gt;500 rep&lt;/strong&gt;. Admittedly, it's not clear until you actually view the edit details, but he would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be allowed to edit the actual content at that rep. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;The FAQ&lt;/a&gt; details all the rep levels for perform various actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T13:30:48.607" />
  <row Id="24859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24857" CreationDate="2009-10-07T13:31:42.430" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only need &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;500 reputation to edit tags&lt;/a&gt;, which is what the user did. If you to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1531557/list&quot;&gt;revision list&lt;/a&gt; (click on the edited link), it will show you what users have made what changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T13:31:42.430" />
  <row Id="24860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24861" CreationDate="2009-10-07T13:35:43.513" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbled across an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1143640/aliasing-resources-wpf&quot;&gt;old question&lt;/a&gt; of mine, realising it didn't yet have any accepted answer. However, when I viewed the page, I noticed that the tick marks for accepting answers had all disappeared. Is this by design - if not, what's up here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T20:37:34.963" Title="Cannot Accept Answer on Old Post" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24860" CreationDate="2009-10-07T13:38:27.347" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you previously set up a bounty on that question? Questions that have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/1414#1414&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; expire without an accepted answer can never have an accepted answer. In your reputation history you have a -50 for that question, which almost always suggests a bounty was offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T13:46:54.053" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T13:46:54.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T14:15:25.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will admit, I am more likely to downvote or vote to close and/or delete a bad question posted by someone whose avatar is one of the defauls &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; whose name contains leet-speak or any variations of the words hacker, lord, king etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative, of course, is not to ignore bad posts by others. However, I do try harder to see if the post can be improved before voting to dismiss. This is especially true if the poster seems to be using his/her real name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know ... I know ... You can be anyone you want to be on the web. &lt;em&gt;bU7, 1 9U355 1 |-|4\/3 4 50Ph7 5P07 Ph0R p30PL3 \/\/|-|0 90 7|-|3 3&gt;&amp;lt;7R4 /\/\1L3 70 4PP34R L1|&amp;lt;3 4 r39UL4R |-|U/\/\4|\| b31|\|9 r47|-|3R 7|-|4|\| 50/\/\3 UB3R-|-|4&gt;&amp;lt;0R3R.&lt;/em&gt; (Translation: But, I guess I have a soft spot for people who go the extra mile to appear like a regular human being rather than some uber-hacker. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T15:15:23.940" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T15:15:23.940" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2451" CreationDate="2009-10-07T14:44:37.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just down-voted an answer for my very first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the reason was: The &quot;answer&quot; was nothing more but a complaint, that the question of the OP was not yet answered. Additionally, the language he used was very &lt;em&gt;colloquial&lt;/em&gt; in a manner that I feel very nerving. I think, this is a place where we can talk/write like adults. I don't mean perfect english (my English is learnt from school, I am German). But we don't need no &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Somebody just fix this silly thing plz cuz i needa take my pics from the SanDisk Memory Card&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135515" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T14:44:37.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T14:44:37.550" />
  <row Id="24864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T14:35:45.487" Score="0" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of datalayer is Stack Overflow using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-06T17:02:34.173" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T17:02:34.173" ClosedDate="2009-10-07T14:48:19.820" Title="DataLayer in ASP.NET for Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T14:46:51.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1428800/getting-the-min-and-max-values-from-a-php-array/1428813#1428813&quot;&gt;garnered votes&lt;/a&gt; based purely on the contents of my avatar!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69713" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T14:46:51.570" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24864" CreationDate="2009-10-07T14:47:59.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T14:47:59.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T14:48:46.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24874" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:21:30.917" Score="8" ViewCount="467" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question that apparently offended a number of c++ programmers, and made me realize that there are some things I didn't know about C++.  Here is a link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1529679/how-do-you-program-safely-outside-of-a-managed-code-environment&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1529679/how-do-you-program-safely-outside-of-a-managed-code-environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I am free to express &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; ignorance, how am I supposed to ask a question (any question)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I'm not upset about this, and I welcome the comments and answers.  But I do notice that some questions do not get answered, or are treated with disdain by the community, because the question is perceived as an ignorant one.  Is this an &quot;I'm superior to you&quot; attitude? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T06:37:17.470" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T08:16:48.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-01T05:55:11.997" Title="Am I allowed to be (at least a little) ignorant on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:26:56.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are free to be ignorant. Everyone is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C++ programmers are free to be offended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;It has been proven here on meta that you can get offended by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfuck-offensive&quot;&gt;anything&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that question in particular, I think that they felt that you were saying something akin to &lt;em&gt;your tools sucks, what extra work do you have to do to make sure your apps don't suck too much&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just try to be a non-confrontational ignorant at all times :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T15:36:21.640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T15:36:21.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:28:30.483" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm OK with ignorance as long as you know you're ignorant, and can demonstrate to me that you know you're ignorant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000303.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;incompetent people don't know they're incompetent&lt;/a&gt;, I know I and a lot of others will be a lot more helpful if you can demonstrate that you know you don't know what you're talking about. If you don't demonstrate this, a lot of people will just assume you're some pompous douchebag who thinks he knows everything but whose code winds up on the Daily WTF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that make sense? Make it clear that you don't know much about the subject and that you're looking for enough information to know what you don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T15:28:30.483" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:28:37.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Real-looking picture, abstract symbol, both are good - I'm no more likely to downvote one than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cartoon character avatars OTOH, creep me out. Especially the &quot;character creator&quot; ones, unholy patchworks of pre-drawn &quot;pieces&quot; combined into what may or may not vaguely resemble a caricature of the person themselves. They all end up looking kinda the same. Or exactly the same. I probably down-vote them more often just out of frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, anyone whose display name has spaces in it. Pretentious bastards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T15:28:37.127" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="24874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:29:39.873" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think ignorance is perfectly acceptable, the key is phrasing your question well. Your question as initially asked contained some phrases that I would expect could be quite off-putting to some people. For example, &quot;diehard who still programs in C or C++, without the modern benefits&quot;, seems have assumptions built in that the &quot;modern&quot; way is &quot;better&quot;, &quot;safer&quot; and &quot;easier&quot;. As the question sits now &quot;someone who programs in C or C++, without the managed-language benefits&quot; I think it reads a little more neutral, more like you're honestly attempting to understand, and less like you're trying to insult the language(s) that the people who are qualified to answer your question must know and probably use regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence what I'm trying to say is, if you're ignorant about a topic and going to ask others who are less ignorant for help, its certainly a good idea not to offend or attack them, and probably good to approach the situation with some humility and respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T15:29:39.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:32:31.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is ok to have some ignorance.  You are trying to learn and know more so you are not ignorant.  Just make sure to be respectful and word the question to the best of your knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, some people forget the reason/purpose of the SO site and are not always so pleasant to less informed people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T08:16:48.567" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T08:16:48.567" />
  <row Id="24876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:34:41.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do notice that some questions do not get answered, or are treated with disdain by the community, because the question is perceived as an ignorant one. Is this an &quot;I'm superior to you&quot; attitude?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a, &quot;wow, people really think that way?&quot; attitude. Such as you might express upon encountering someone who honestly believes Disney Land is &lt;em&gt;the happiest place on earth&lt;/em&gt;, or that &lt;em&gt;every last drop&lt;/em&gt; of coffee in a cup of Maxwell House is good. Incredulity, mixed with a little bit of suspicion that you're being led on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When things go well, when the asker is honest, humble, and doesn't try to cling too tightly to his preconceived notions, both sides learn something new, about each other, and about the subject at hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When things go badly, the asker gets labeled a troll or a shill and beaten soundly for it (and then up-voted &lt;em&gt;to the sky&lt;/em&gt;, since that's just how SO works...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T15:34:41.237" />
  <row Id="24877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-07T15:53:43.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something that the other posters have neglected to mention as yet is that a stead trickle (or stream, or sometime geyser) of questions founded on ignorance or misunderstanding is part and parcel of help environments that cater to (or allow) beginners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that when you've explained a basic concept a couple of times, and voted up other explanations over and over again, it is easy to become impatient. One can start to think *&quot;I &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; explained that! Why the hell don't you look it up or use google or something???&quot;* which may or may not be fair. Certainly they haven't explained it to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; yet, and some topics are &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; to search for. But the frustration is natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try, when I start to feel that way, to &lt;em&gt;not write any response&lt;/em&gt;. Not even a comment. Because I won't be able to be helpful. But I can see where they are coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I agree with some of the other folks here that you framing of the question left much to be desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T02:00:59.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T02:00:59.050" />
  <row Id="24880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:21:27.820" Score="2" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is planning on making use of the API when it is released and how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to see what people have planned after its release :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136902" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T10:06:55.460" Title="Stackoverflow API - any good ideas for its use?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24880" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:26:11.237" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure Jon Skeet is just itching to write a Google Wave robot for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:26:11.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24880" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:29:54.553" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take over the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:29:54.553" />
  <row Id="24883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24880" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:32:46.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to do anything &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; it, but I was planning to find all the questions with the &quot;write a greasemonkey script&quot; answer and edit them to say &quot;you can use the API for that!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T17:23:50.013" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T17:23:50.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24888" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:34:27.167" Score="4" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've visited the site (SO, MSO and SU) at least 30 days in a row. I'm not entirely sure, but I may even have done 100 days in a row. However, I have not gotten the enthusiast/woot badge. My timezone is GMT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other requirements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing at a few possible causes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My &quot;day&quot; is not equal to a SO &quot;day&quot; (timezones maybe, I'm in GMT).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a minimum activity requirement (some days I just read a few questions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The badge is awarded when you stop visiting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It requires an actual login. I stay logged in at times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are any of these correct, or if not, what is the actual cause?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:43:04.957" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:43:04.957" Title="What are the exact requirements for the woot/enthusiast badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24880" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:36:33.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to kill the fun here, but I wouldn't anticipate it offering anything more than HTML screen-scraping does really. It's certainly not going to allow posting/editing, as that's open to endless abuse. So yeah, it will save anyone who wants to gather info about questions/answers/comments from screen-scraping, but tht's about it. If you don't need the information is real-time, then the monthly StackOverflow dumps would be just as good, I'd think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:36:33.183" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24898" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:37:15.553" Score="0" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am somewhat ignorant of how/if voting data on SO can be mined, so I was wondering if it's possible to run a search of voting patterns to see if people tend to up-vote less when the author is in their approximate rep bracket (either sub-consciously, or on purpose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask &quot;why would anyone do something ilke that&quot; - I actually have a plausible theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel at least once mentioned, when promoting SO, that the SO rep these days is sometimes  used as a sort of score when job hunting (I know I'd at least pay attention to that datum on a resume when I interview people, although it won't be even remotely most important).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So people may treat their rep standing (if not exact value) as something of a scarce resource and - possibly sub-consciously - try to deny that resource to closest competition (as in, you don't have to be faster than a bear, just faster than the fellow next to you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeets of the world are way out of reach anyway so up-voting them does no harm as far as one's own relative rep standing, whereas up-voting much lower rep users is safe enough since they will be unlikely to catch up to you. But up-voting someone with score similar to you may feel like helping the competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's possible to mine for that, but I have observed a couple of times when  people &quot;accepted&quot; obviously not-the-best answer from either very low or very high rep user yet left alone a much better one from similar reps (that's what started me wondering).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just to be clear, in response to Brad's note, I don't expect (or want :) to see the voting data - I assume that very few people (may be only 2) have access to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="119280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T17:11:26.993" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:03:33.277" Title="Voting patterns - do people tend to &quot;strategically&quot; avoid up-voting people with similar rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;research&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24884" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:40:56.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GMT is the timezone SO &quot;days&quot; are based on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only minimum activity required is being logged in and coming to the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The badge is award on day 30 (for &lt;code&gt;enthusiast&lt;/code&gt;, 100 for &lt;code&gt;fanatic&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're logged in, you're logged in, you do not need to log out and log back in each day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, it shouldn't be any of those. I would guess you actually missed a day in there at some point, but only a &lt;del&gt;SO team member&lt;/del&gt; moderator can check the actual logs of your activity in the DB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T16:56:42.947" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:56:42.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24884" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:42:24.580" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are GMT you are on server-time, so your days match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the SO log; I see gaps (not all missing days shown):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5th Oct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8th Sep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15th Aug&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;24th Jul&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't know what the minumum activity is, but &lt;em&gt;whatever&lt;/em&gt; it is, there are gaps. Is it possible that you weren't logged in on those days? Did you clean down your cookies perhaps, and not notice the big yellow bar at the top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get the badge you must visit &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; day in a contiguous block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:42:24.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:49:30.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that anyone thinks rep is that important for job hunting.  I think programmers tend to be more rational than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:49:30.243" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:49:59.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Brad points out, there's not sufficient public information to answer this question. Voting data is anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As my anecodte for users around my level, the 10 rep for an upvote is fairly insignificant. What's more, it's reasonably likely that people above/below me will probably get to the daily rep cap anyway with or without my &quot;help&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, I can't say that it is a factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:49:59.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:50:36.497" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I feel that if your answer is correct, or useful you deserve some rep, regardless of how close to my own rep score you are. Its only a number after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If employeers want to look at my SF profile to see how good my sysadmin knowledge is, then thats great, but if they would really determine whether I got a job based on whether or not i'm in 4th or 5th place on the scoreboard, then I don't think I want to work for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said there are always people who guard their rep and position like its gold, so it wouldn't suprise me to see some people acting in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:50:36.497" />
  <row Id="24892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:52:50.440" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people are obsessed with SO reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't mean obsessed in the way you or I are obsessed, good healthy obsessions full of friendly competition, frequent checks of the &quot;Recent&quot; page, and compulsive hand-washing while singing &quot;The Rep Song&quot; &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; seven times without error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I'm talking about a much uglier form of obsession. &lt;em&gt;An all-consuming hunger&lt;/em&gt; for rep, eventually reaching a level where a user's position in the Users list is the only true judge of their character, and the loss of &lt;em&gt;a single point&lt;/em&gt; is cause for much wailing and gnashing of teeth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These poor ghouls are rumored to hold midnight ceremonies involving prayers to The Bounty, blood sacrifices to The Cap, and, probably, the strategic withholding of up-votes. Also, sock-stealing. Why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:52:50.440" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2009-10-07T16:59:31.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as jobs go, right now I tend to think of my rep as a liability and wouldn't mention it unless specifically asked about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T16:59:31.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T17:28:27.697" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my real account: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/84535/dykam&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/84535/dykam&lt;/a&gt;. But after logging in, meta created a new account (huh?). Something similar happened on stackoverflow.com too, but there I could click &quot;Create a new account&quot; away, and it seemed I was logged in normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could have gone wrong? This isn't really... nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: It happened at two different physical places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84535" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T18:14:28.927" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:00:01.850" Title="Logging in with my openid creates a new account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24880" CreationDate="2009-10-07T17:34:58.963" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Replace the Visual Studio online help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T17:34:58.963" />
  <row Id="24897" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T17:53:09.400" Score="21" ViewCount="1266" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel's announcing it now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;$99/year to post a CV and link to your Stack Overflow profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Introductory DevDays price of $29/three years&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Students can post for free&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blog announcement / background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/introducing-stack-overflow-careers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/introducing-stack-overflow-careers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-17T10:48:57.913" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T10:48:57.913" Title="Stack Overflow Careers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="24898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2009-10-07T17:55:19.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My objective is to increase useful Perl knowledge out there and reduce the amount of misinformation. I have upvoted any and all posts that further that objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers that serve that end tend to be from people with relatively high reps, so, if anything, my votes might be biased towards people with reps close to mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T16:03:33.277" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:03:33.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:00:56.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really cool to bring this all together. So it is completely free to students looking for work? That is very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I am not sure I agree with charging people looking for a job. I thought most job assistance sites charged the employers looking for hires, not the other way around. Maybe convince me otherwise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I think this was a good idea no matter what you guys decide to charge. From the FAQ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And remember, there's always our unconditional 90-day money back guarantee if you are unhappy for any reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T20:31:32.557" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:31:32.557" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:05:54.370" Score="44" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not quite sure I understand the appeal of paying to post your CV/Resume. Most career sites charge the employers for the luxury of searching, not the potential employees for the luxury of being searched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;$29 for three years I could do just because it is that damned cheap, but I really don't see how/why it would be worth it when Monster and Dice don't charge a penny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:05:54.370" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="24901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24895" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:14:15.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I merged your accounts.. just mail the address at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:14:15.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:14:49.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this line on the page to associate your stackoverflow account:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All account matching is by OpenID. For best results, please sign in to careers with the same OpenID that you use on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that mean they've solved the problem with google generating unique openID's per site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:14:49.487" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:23:43.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do like the idea of integrating career advancement opportunities into SO, but I'm curious about how this is any different or more advantageous than posting my CV on a &lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt; site and simply including a link to my SO account? The FAQ for &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We keep a plethora — a &lt;em&gt;plethora&lt;/em&gt; — of&#xA;  live statistics on how your Stack&#xA;  Overflow Careers CV is actively&#xA;  working for you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that the advantage? Do they keep stats that other sites don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:23:43.497" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24906" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:30:15.030" Score="2" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uade.edu.ar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I'm a student&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24897/stackoverflow-careers&quot;&gt;how do I get the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq#pricing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;free CV posting&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Somebody had to ask.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T19:44:23.280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:44:23.280" Title="I'm a student, how do I get the free CV post at careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24904" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:31:57.303" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fill out your CV. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;File your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check the box that says student.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fill in the rest of the information required and then hit submit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just did it as a test and there is apparently no verification necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Background checks are nonexistent. Seems the team is hoping that you go for the introductory offer rather than just ticking the student box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T18:37:52.927" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:37:52.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24904" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:33:24.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um.. tick the checkbox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6766/socareersstudentfileche.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:33:24.883" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="24907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:37:38.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid that many people will now more aggressively try to gain more rep because suddenly this could become important for finding a good job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T18:37:38.823" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:37:50.507" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &quot;charging the job seeker&quot; issue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow already has a lot of programmers, so they don't have to market it to potential job seekers as hard.  But they don't know many employers; they'll have to work much harder to attract them.  That means they have to think about this &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; from the point of view of the employer.  Make the site work the them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm an employer.  Why would I check StackOveflow?  There are &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;qualified&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;interested&lt;/em&gt; applicants already available to me at Monster, Dice, etc... especially in this economy.  I already have a good relationship with the established players Dice and Monster, and all the users at SO are likely to be on those sites as well.  Why should I give SO my time, let alone my money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking to your SO profile doesn't really add value to the employer, so in the end SO is left competing with the other sites on price alone.  Even if they can win that battle, it's likely not many employers would show up, because the alternatives are now well established.  SO has to do something &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; or this is a non-starter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now think about what happens when you add the fee to &quot;list&quot; your CV.  Suddenly the signal to noise ratio at StackOverflow changes dramatically.  Dice and Monster are well known for also having &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;unqualified&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;uninterested&lt;/em&gt; candidates.  Those unqualified or casual candidates are less likely to be listed here.  Now StackOverflow Careers can offer something to employers that Monster and Dice can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The risk is that the site becomes a ghost town from the other direction; you lose too many potential job seekers.  That explains the initial discount; it needs to be cheap to populate the initial database.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about going forward?  As a seeker, why should you pay vs a free listing elsewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they're hoping we'll see value in showing up in a more selective or elite listing.  That SO Careers will somehow get you hired faster because you'll be in a group with less competition.  (Also, they somehow think showing off your SO profile will mean something to job seekers; I'm not convinced).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is sound &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; they can get past several challenges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They'll need a way to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;prove&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; additional value to seekers in terms of increased activity on their profile from employers and decreased time to that next job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stay relevant if Dice and Monster start &lt;em&gt;featuring&lt;/em&gt; paid listings of their own (I think they already have this ability, it's just not marketed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 3 year initial subscription could kill the whole concept by &quot;polluting&quot; the db with the very uninterested seekers the fee is intended to weed out. (Perhaps allow you disable your listing and save the remaining subscription time for later).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;$99 is past the pain point for someone who's out of work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... and if the system works as expected it won't take a year to find a job, leaving a lot of unwanted entries in the db&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turn the link to the SO profile into something more useful to employers, who otherwise have no clue how to evaluate it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T21:24:21.390" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:24:21.390" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="24909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T18:46:36.233" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see advantages and disadvantages of charging job seekers to post their resumes. But making it free for one class of job seekers and non-free for a different class of job seekers is going to &lt;em&gt;significantly&lt;/em&gt; skew the pool of job seekers in favor of the former. So employers will come to view the site as &quot;the place to recruit possibly job-seeking students.&quot; Experience tells me that students tend to take advantage of things which are free, whether they need them or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that's what you want. If you intend to charge job seekers, you should probably charge all of them, even if it is just a nominal ($1? $5?) fee for some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastEditorUserId="7714" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T20:44:36.170" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:44:36.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:29:13.867" Score="3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the quick little stats page you land on when you go to the careers site, but it would be nice if this had some kind of RSS functionality. I don't like to check the sites, I like the sites to update me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T19:41:07.543" LastActivityDate="2010-11-14T09:44:15.990" Title="Please add an RSS feed for the careers site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:32:38.400" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Continents is important at &quot;Where do you want to work?&quot;, because lot of developers from Europe's countries haven't problem working at other European Union countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Europe (European Union)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Middle East (UEA, Saudi Arabia or Qatar)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Caribbean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T19:43:31.207" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:46:07.513" Title="Continents at Where I want to work?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24912" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:35:34.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd have to be authenticated RSS, because that's not public. So you'd have to feed it your auth cookie. Just letting you know..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:35:34.603" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30427" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:39:13.270" Score="2" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you planning in future this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T07:06:30.853" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:06:21.610" Title="Associate Accounts with other SO family sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:40:33.300" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we were working on &lt;a href=&quot;http://hiddennetwork.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hidden Network&lt;/a&gt;, we came across a small handful of pay-to-play job sites. They all seemed to have their own niche (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theladders.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Ladders&lt;/a&gt;, for example, was $100K+ jobs) and a common philosphy that's reflected in the SO-Careers &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Employers] need to know you that you're serious about getting a great job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a big one. As an employer myself, I've been amazed at the quantity of crap that comes in the door, even long after the job has been taken down. We're talking, &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/series/Tales%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5FInterview.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tales from the Interview&lt;/a&gt; bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, to make sense for you, the programmer, to sign-up, there have to be jobs and recruiters actively searching the database. That's not happening yet (but it probably will)... but for $29 over 3 years, it's a pretty solid bet in my book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:40:33.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26664" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:44:16.913" Score="23" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers.Stackoverflow.com has one benefit for me. If an employer happens to find my resume, they can then browse through my SO answers to see how I work and how I think. I work very hard on my Stack Overflow answers and I would like employers to see what I can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; many posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if I could go through and &lt;strong&gt;highlight my best posts specifically to be linked with my resume profile&lt;/strong&gt; (sort of a &lt;em&gt;best-of&lt;/em&gt;). This link would be available for employers to peruse my most relevant posts without having to wade through a bunch of irrelevant fluff. It might also show tags I've participated in, average number of up-votes, and other information that might make me &lt;em&gt;look good&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be &lt;strong&gt;a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; benefit to me&lt;/strong&gt; and worth the price of admission many times over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-23T22:57:46.753" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T22:57:46.753" Title="Let me link &quot;best-of&quot; answers to my resume profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="24919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24917" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:51:20.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also just delete the irrelevant fluff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or make up a list and paste the links into the &quot;Projects and links&quot; field. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be nice if that field allowed some sort of formatting though. Raw URLs with the ends cut off don't look all that great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it turns out a significant number of employers actually &lt;em&gt;bother looking at this stuff&lt;/em&gt;, then i'd imagine they'd try to emphasize it more in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:51:20.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24922" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:51:31.003" Score="14" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24897/stackoverflow-careers/25221#25221&quot;&gt;love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the site, however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's just &lt;em&gt;not the same&lt;/em&gt; without &lt;strong&gt;Markdown&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How am I supposed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codexon.com/posts/simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;get noticed&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:29:18.700" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:29:18.700" Title="Where's the Markdown support on careers.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24920" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:52:49.253" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No kidding. Nothing like pasting links into &quot;Projects and Links&quot; only to find them displayed raw, with the ends (most relevant part!) cut off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't need full-on embedded HTML support, don't even need the more complex parts of markdown... code, headers, lists and linking would go a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:52:49.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24920" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:53:59.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We weren't willing to open the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;        &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;          &lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;MARKDOWN PANDORA'S BOX!!!!1!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;        &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in v1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am open to hearing opinions on this though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:53:59.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:54:04.183" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand charging the job seeker to be displayed. It assures employers that they're not wasting time searching through uninterested people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the cost to value ratio seems high. I pay $100 for a year of appearing in ads. Here's where I miss the appeal: &lt;strong&gt;once I find a job, I'm not really interested in being searched for the rest of the year.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you post the value that I'm getting by ammount of time in search, I immediately think: &lt;em&gt;If a year is 100 bucks, well I only want to appear for 1-2 months, so can I pay $15?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130166" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:54:04.183" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24942" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:55:05.443" Score="1" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep getting an error saying &quot;It's not you, it's us&quot; when I try to associate my StackOverflow account on careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;anyone else having this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I clicked the &quot;associate account&quot; button again just to get the full text of the error, and got this new error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow Careers cannot&#xA;  associate your Stack Overflow account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;because it is already associated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it's not.  My careers account still says I don't have a StackOverflow association.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fixed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I logged out of careers.stackoverflow.com &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cleared out my cookies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;logged back in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;associated my account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;everything worked this time.  Thanks for your help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133165" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T20:16:53.877" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:17:19.337" Title="Cannot associate accounts on careers.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24924" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:56:58.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't accept my (delegated) Open ID to log in, but it associated my account just fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only imagine how many problems &lt;em&gt;that's&lt;/em&gt; gonna cause on down the line...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T19:56:58.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24928" CreationDate="2009-10-07T19:57:18.107" Score="0" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much of your profile (if any) on careers.stackoverflow.com should be public facing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This came up in my last &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24912&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:43:25.537" Title="How much of your profile on careers.stackoverflow.com should be public facing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="24927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26970" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:03:41.047" Score="9" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just joined Stack Overflow careers and figured I'd chime in and ask for a feature. It appears that the order you insert the &quot;Experience&quot; items in is how they stay. I seem to have put mine in ascending order instead of the more traditional descending. It would be helpful if SO Careers had a sort feature for that section. I certainly want potential employers to see my latest experience first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136919" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:04:10.897" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:04:20.210" Title="Please allow a user to sort the experiences on the career site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24926" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:04:16.130" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wanted it public, I'd just put it on my website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:04:16.130" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24924" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:04:40.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes this happens when you have multiple accounts on the sites, like, say, multiple Stack Overflow accounts. Do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: ah, I see it turned out to be an issue of making sure the right cookies were in the browser. Good to know..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T20:17:19.337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:17:19.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24421" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:04:46.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow users to purchase ads for $100.  Ads run for a week and show up in their own special section, another tab on the top of the page.  2-3 text ads whith a link to the posting are shown randomly on every page.  Users get to comment, vote, and favorite ads just like any other posting.  Advertisers get to write whatever they want and link to whatever they want.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more like a classified listing than traditional internet ads.  I could see this used for surveys, user to user sales, marriage proposals, company announcements, posting questions that would otherwise get deleted...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the ads are entertaining, it creates a section made up of paying customers that people visit &lt;em&gt;on purpose&lt;/em&gt; just to add comments, up vote/down vote, and so on.  From an advertiser's perspective, there's an opportunity for dialog with SO users.  You never know &quot;classifieds&quot; might become some folks favorite tag and a reason to visit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48767" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:04:46.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T20:04:46.207" />
  <row Id="24933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25033" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:07:33.847" Score="27" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please allow us to see who the employers are on the career site. A simple list would be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better would be if it linked back to jobs.stackoverflow.com and the listings that employer has there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:50:09.323" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T16:06:31.197" Title="Please allow us to see who the employers are on the career site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;employers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24933" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:09:55.340" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I can only speculate why we presently can't though. Perhaps they feel it would discourage programmers from filing their CV's? If the list of employers is small, and not yet matured, some people may just opt to make an account on linkedin instead. This way, there's a bit of mystery :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:09:55.340" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="24939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24941" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:14:38.797" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I wandered on over to SOC, just to check the place out... Turns out, there's not much to see without logging in. So, I tried to log in. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24924/cannot-associate-accounts-on-careers-stackoverflow-com/24925#24925&quot;&gt;And failed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems the OpenID support was a tad broken initially. Slightly daunted, I grabbed a handy Google account and logged in with that. Entered a bunch of mostly-bogus information, clicked every button I could find, and finally, satisfied, wandered back here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I hate to just leave a bogus account laying around... Someone could trip over it and get hurt! So my first impulse is to delete it... But, I don't see an option for that. So maybe I could just associate my normal OpenID, and enter real data... But, I don't see an option for &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; either!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, where's the control panel that lets me associate a new OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T08:12:29.047" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:13:05.720" Title="How can I change the OpenID associated with a SOC account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24947" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:16:14.737" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;When can I sign up for the introductory rate at the careers site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131224" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T02:45:52.283" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T03:24:14.850" Title="When can I sign up for the introductory rate at the careers site?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="24941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24939" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:16:39.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing at the moment. Email us directly on this (but use the right email, eg, the one at the bottom of every careers page..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: there's an accounts tab now; you should be able to handle this the same way you do on the trilogy sites. The code is the same, even if the UI is a little different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T08:13:05.720" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:13:05.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24924" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:16:42.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Glad you got it working - we pushed a fix for the exception you were getting (we DO get logs :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to refactor the crap outta account association this weekend - too much Google OpenID cruft in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:16:42.490" />
  <row Id="24943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24926" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:17:21.910" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It definitely shouldn't be public by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'd like to see an option to have select parts of my CV viewable from some public URL. (ex. careers.stackoverflow.com/{username})&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a Public/Private checkbox next to each piece of information on the CV, with everything set to Private by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now I'm using my public Linked-In profile as my resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can export out a well formatted PDF copy of my resume to print or e-mail to recruiters or potential employers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can link to my public profile online.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the SO community and the style and mind-set of the sites. I would love to host my 'digital resume' in this environment instead of Linked-In.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:17:21.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:18:35.077" Score="32" ViewCount="612" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a user doesn't want their current employer to know that they're keeping their ears open on the job market, when filling out their CV it's not clear at all what potential hiring managers will see when browsing the profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will ones employer be able to see names if casually surfing the site?  Will the see other information?  And does a potential employer need to get behind the paywall before seeing profiles, or can anyone see them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135277" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T20:15:53.820" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T20:15:53.820" Title="Privacy on Stackoverflow Careers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="24946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24940" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:19:54.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now. Until Nov 9th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:19:54.073" />
  <row Id="24947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24940" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:20:23.513" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All&lt;/em&gt; rates are introductory rates ($29 for 3 years) until November 9th, so .. well, anytime now. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note that you must fill out at least 50% of your CV to get the filing option.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T03:24:14.850" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T03:24:14.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24952" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:23:24.893" Score="4" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I sign up as a student, can it be changed later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;For instance if I'm not a student anymore by next month?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T03:13:43.553" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T03:24:48.633" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T20:23:24.893" Title="Can the student status be changed later on careers.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24926" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:24:29.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I commented on the blog, I have &lt;strong&gt;no idea&lt;/strong&gt; how this will work in terms of your &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; employer snooping to try to identify likely runaways. &lt;a href=&quot;http://marcgravell.blogspot.com/2009/06/checking-your-career-path.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Not a huge problem for me at the minute&lt;/a&gt;, but in particular people like me and Jon would probably be readily identifiable... UK, MVP (or ex-MVP for Jon), high volume in C#, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know an awful lot about the jobs markets - but I'd be... &lt;em&gt;cautious&lt;/em&gt; - or I'd want to see exactly what browsing employers would see ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:24:29.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24913" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:24:50.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an exception in saving continents, but this has been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're using the awesome &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt; location service right now - here's an example Europe query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20&lt;/a&gt;*%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22Europe%22&amp;amp;format=xml&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will give us a nice bounding box to help determine searches on your specified continents, regions, etc - whatever Yahoo! supports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll be adding more features around locations ASAP - we just needed lots of live data to help us out :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:24:50.773" />
  <row Id="24951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24945" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:25:28.823" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;does a potential employer need to get behind the paywall before seeing profiles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes! &lt;strong&gt;No payment, no viewing of details for employers.&lt;/strong&gt; They can do trial searches and see preview counts of results but no actual user details. And believe me, they pay .. uh .. a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; for the privilege of viewing actual user information, so this is not something that should happen casually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will ones employer be able to see names if casually surfing the site? Will the see other information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, they must pay the (much!) higher employer subscription rate first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you have paid to file a Stack Overflow Careers CV, and your employer just happens to sign up for a paid Stack Overflow Careers employer account, too .. then yes, they'd be able to find you. It's sort of a catch-22 but I don't know how to get around that, since the same problem exists on every other job site that I can think of..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:25:28.823" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="24952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24948" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:28:40.157" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;It is not implemented &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt;, but...&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &quot;convert&quot; a free 1-year student account to a regular paid account. You'll  have to pay the standard yearly rate (as of this writing, until Dec 31st 2009 $29 for 1 year) to do so, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T03:24:48.633" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T03:24:48.633" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T20:28:40.157" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24920" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:33:54.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Jeff, In response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24920/wheres-the-markdown-support-on-careers-stackoverflow-com/24922#24922&quot;&gt;your post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why you &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; allow markdown to let us at least &lt;strong&gt;approximate traditional CV formatting&lt;/strong&gt; (headers, bold/italics, bullets, etc). But if &quot;pandora's box&quot; means abusive use of formatting(?)... if a user wants to make themselves look bad, that's their choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't used the site, yet so I'm not sure I can speak &lt;em&gt;intelligently&lt;/em&gt; about it. But what am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:33:54.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25249" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:35:58.743" Score="7" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently you are limited to 5 tags per job/degree on the new careers site, just like SO questions.  But a job/degree is typically more wide-ranging than a single SO question.  I would like to be able to display more (7-10 would be better).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T06:46:25.077" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:46:42.347" Title="Allow more tags per employment history entry on careers.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24961" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:52:54.267" Score="4" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a perfectly valid address symbol. Gmail supports it ... what more evidence do you need?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/08/24/email%5Faddresses%5Fwith%5Fa%5Fare%5Fvalid.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/08/24/email_addresses_with_a_are_valid.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132807" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T21:11:39.117" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:11:39.117" Title="Why doesn't the payment form allow '+' symbols in email address?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T20:54:30.490" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the hassles with CareerBuilder/Monster is I get weird skeevy spam-like emails from people looking to hire Java devs. I'm not qualified for what they are looking for(5+ years experience, etc), even if they weren't skeevy-sounding(and some 3 years since I last touched those sites....).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there going to be a filter to try to keep the employers from not being sketchy-type operations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T20:54:30.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24991" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:08:16.300" Score="5" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the launch of this new career connection, I had a question concerning student signups. I know the primary goal is full time positions, but will internships be a part of this service? Is this not a good idea to mix with job postings? Maybe a future add on? Dedicated students are always looking for internship opportunities as they are great experience and a foot in the door in many cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes? No? maybe? 6-8 weeks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T06:27:59.057" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:27:59.057" Title="Stackoverflow Careers and Internships?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;students&gt;&lt;internships&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24958" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:11:33.283" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ok, this was a (very) bad client side regex. fix deployed, you may need to CTRL+F5 on the billing page to get the new js, as we cache the content folder for about an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:11:33.283" />
  <row Id="24962" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:13:09.083" Score="14" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I type this into the Location box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Iceland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works, but if I type (with or without the comma)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reykjavik, Iceland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns it to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reykjavik, Reykjavik Iceland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I found out why this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/2tMs5o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Check out this query&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Careers is just listing the Region and City. But the issue is larger than that, since they can't just ignore region if it's == to city, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/1DSTTx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this query&lt;/a&gt; would be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-20T18:31:53.097" LastActivityDate="2011-06-20T18:31:53.097" Title="Careers won't let me list Reykjavik, Iceland as location" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24969" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:27:49.463" Score="20" ViewCount="1067" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Careers, when filling out my CV, it is listed as being 145% complete.  Could someone tell me why this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:39:11.603" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:39:11.603" Title="Why is my CV 145% complete?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="24967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28148" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:32:57.800" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using the auto-complete on careers.stackoverflow.com, only the characters I type are stored and displayed on saved document--not what the autocomplete seems to complete.  Fields effected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;University&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other: First Computer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other: Favorite Editor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably others too.  Details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;FF 3.5.3&#xA;OSX 10.6.1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T09:20:13.973" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:21:31.850" Title="career autocomplete fills in text box, but only first characters are stored" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25060" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:34:16.673" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cznp.com/images/careers%5Fow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T07:24:39.513" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:25:13.070" Title="Unusual spacing in the description text of careers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;description&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24964" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:34:42.103" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The over 100% is intentional -- just indicates that you've gone the &quot;extra mile&quot; beyond the minimum required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeOXsA8sp_E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.merryswankster.com/images/SpinalTap_Eleven-thumb.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T04:44:49.010" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T04:44:49.010" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="24970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:35:27.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dislike the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the same rip off as they paid dating sites do. You pay just for the hope, to obtain something that in 99% of cases never comes. Many wait for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:35:27.920" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="24971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24964" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:35:36.080" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;145% means that you're 45% better than the average programmer.  Congratulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:35:36.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24962" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:38:50.737" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same silly nonsense for Zürich:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zurich, Canton of Zurich Switzerland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds harsh, but I find this to be a very &lt;em&gt;&quot;provincial&quot;&lt;/em&gt; approach to city/something/country categorization that my fellow Americans tend to suffer from &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt;.  I'm too scared to see what is says for such locations as Singapore and Dubai.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The form did not insist upon 5-digit postal codes, so I guess that is a plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:38:50.737" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="24973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25013" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:41:29.143" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone done the data mining to discover which tags the most users have marked 'interesting' (or 'interesting' minus 'ignored') for the stacker sites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136928" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:12:41.033" Title="Most interesting tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;&lt;community-data&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24913" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:46:07.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also: regions.  Like Mid West, North East, West Coast, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:46:07.513" />
  <row Id="24976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24979" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:46:43.190" Score="24" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really like careers.stackoverflow.com to be where I keep my most up-to-date version of my CV.  That being said, can we have a way to, say, convert our CV information into a PDF for printing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this suggests that we would be sending out CVs to potential employers who have not paid to be a part of the careers site.  But, on the other hand, we &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; paying for this service and I think it would be a nice addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133165" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T06:29:32.423" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T18:09:45.413" Title="Are there any plans to create printable CVs on careers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-planned&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="24979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24976" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:51:27.207" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. This could be very useful. I sure hate having so many different copies of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:51:27.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:52:24.503" Score="2" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some sort of formatting capabilities for the CSO &lt;em&gt;&quot;Summary&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  If not full blown WMD, then maybe just like we have with comments + CRLF + bullet points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T21:52:24.503" Title="Add minimal formmatting capabilities to CSO summary block" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" />
  <row Id="24981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T21:53:18.840" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the first pieces of advice I received was, &quot;Never pay anyone to help you find a job.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My skepticism of this boils down tp that the intersection between the set of great developers and the set of developers willing to pay to be listed on a job site is not a very large set, and would indeed be dwarfed by the set of poor developers willing to pay to be listed on a job site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the &quot;velvet rope&quot; of the entry fee, designed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, will, in my opinion, have the opposite effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then, I've never build a successful product or website, so what do I know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastEditorUserId="130994" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T01:31:24.983" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T01:31:24.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24983" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:02:27.153" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I live in France, and have only a VISA card. I would like a 3 year subscription.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am a little hesitant to do that since I don't see the usual listing of accepted cards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know SO is an international website, but I am not used to buying things on American websites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83331" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-07T22:06:41.220" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:06:41.220" Title="Is a VISA card accepted as a payment card on Careers.so.com?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="24983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24982" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:04:56.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, international cards should work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We just enabled some settings in our payment auth gateway that were blocking some international cards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; work, email careers@stackoverflow.com (the contact email address at the bottom of every careers page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:04:56.107" />
  <row Id="24984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:08:38.360" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where can I turn it off?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Students get free for a year? (I thought it said that but now I cant find that again)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any reason for a year limit of students? (or whatever the limit was) Since we're usually always broke :P&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T05:36:49.467" Title="Regarding the student tag on CSO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;students&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="24985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24984" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:11:41.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can't turn off the student indicator. The life of a student is, sadly, rife with compromises such as this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, students get 1 year free, this is stated in the /faq and the filing page itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There always have to be limits,  as we have learned &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for upgrading from student to regular, see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24948/can-the-student-status-be-changed-later-on-careers-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24948/can-the-student-status-be-changed-later-on-careers-stackoverflow-com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:11:41.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24984" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:13:22.750" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24904/im-a-student-how-do-i-get-the-free-cv-post-at-careers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24904/im-a-student-how-do-i-get-the-free-cv-post-at-careers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt; (This mentions the rates)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you’re a student, a 1 year membership is free &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  The limit is there I assume because it would be a student just about to finish school and looking for work. Also, there is currently no verification of student status, so there has to be a limit on it. Jeff linked to the question asked about how to turn off the student status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:13:22.750" />
  <row Id="24987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25096" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:13:30.160" Score="16" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of us checking this out are not necessarily looking for permanent or contract work, just...sniffing crotches, so to speak.  (Or more accurately in this context, lifting our tail to let others sniff.)  We are happily employed but open to ideas.  The current options are too rigid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Full time permanent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Temporary contract&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Telecommuting (working remotely) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, additional options would be nice.  This could/would be a way to describe folks who are looking for start-up opportunities, etc.  Maybe something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open to ideas&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also for students:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Internship or Co-op for (check all that apply)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;summer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fall&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;winter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T06:27:18.400" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:27:18.400" Title="Add vague Objective option to CSO's &quot;What type of work are you seeking?&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24995" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:20:45.953" Score="12" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;In jobs.stackoverflow.com most of the jobs are from USA and UK. Will careers.stackoverflow.com have similar employers locations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is being done to encourage employers from other countries to use this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8041" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:01:40.193" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:01:40.193" Title="Will there be employers from many countries?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;demographics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:22:42.377" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your appear to be targeting people who are very actively and deliberately seeking a new job. Which is fine. Maybe they are currently unemployed, or have had enough of where they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about people who are fairly settled, but still interested in hearing about any really &quot;great&quot; opportunities come up in their favourite technologies in the right location &amp;amp; working environment. Is this site intended for them too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130808" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:22:42.377" />
  <row Id="24991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24960" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:36:24.643" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Internships? Sounds like a good idea to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would need to add a checkbox where you specify whether you're looking for an internship vs. a full time gig, and let recruiters search that, but it makes sense to me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:36:24.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24993" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:36:40.680" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;When somebody posts a URL in the comments, it is automatically cleaned up and turned into a link. This is an excellent feature, but the system does not allow some symbols in URLs. For example, I've added a comment to this question consisting entirely of the text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphey's_Law&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but when you try to click on the link, you get taken to the page &lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphey&lt;/code&gt;, which is the &lt;strong&gt;wrong page&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some reason &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; is assumed not to be in URLs? Can we change the comment link algorithm to allow &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;s?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T08:25:04.227" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T08:25:04.227" Title="Please change linking algorithm in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="24993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24992" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:41:43.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So encode the ' then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphey%27s_Law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphey%27s_Law&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T07:31:59.797" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T07:31:59.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:42:29.487" Score="15" ViewCount="867" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Joel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/spolsky/status/4693523929&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tweet&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;exhausted from first #devdays. waiting for the us airways shuttle back to new york.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it would be nice if someone could write a review of the first conference of SO DevDays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boston&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 7th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/reviews-of-devdays-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:24:06.767" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:24:06.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T22:42:29.487" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Boston" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="24995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24988" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:43:35.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is intended to be a worldwide service, and all of our location fields are fully world-aware, so yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how many there &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be, I cannot say, but it is our intention to be worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(with the inevitable caveat that we have no immediate plans to localize the UI)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: employer search stats now available:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:54:18.753" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:54:18.753" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="24996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24994" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:45:38.390" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an OK idea, and I am sure it will happen, but I would like to see it kept to people's personal blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:45:38.390" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T22:45:38.390" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="24997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T22:56:18.383" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to import information from an Account associated with Careers into your Careers CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, are the only accounts you can associate with careers StackOverflow accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T22:56:18.383" Title="Associate Account information import to Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="24999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:15:26.617" Score="4" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a play with the careers site and I've decided that I don't want to pay to list my CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that if I don't pay then my CV isn't listed and stays private, but is there an easy way to delete it completely other than remove each field individually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:26:31.760" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:26:31.760" Title="How do you delete your CV from the new Careers site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24999" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:28:12.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a planned feature. If you want to remove it now, email team@stackoverflow.com about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T16:13:44.330" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T16:13:44.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24927" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:28:42.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with this.  I've similarly just entered all my experience in ascending order, but want it displayed in descending order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T23:28:42.630" />
  <row Id="25002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:30:02.737" Score="3" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;The careers.stackoverflow.com icon is exactly the same as stackoverflow.com.  It's a problem when multiple tabs are open--it is not easy distinguish between SO and CSO.  Merely a different shade than the SO &lt;strong&gt;orange&lt;/strong&gt; would do the trick.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grey&lt;/strong&gt;, of course is out, seemingly being the official MSO color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brown&lt;/strong&gt;, the color of both waffles and ponies (conspiracy?) is too close to grey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Green&lt;/strong&gt;.  I like green.  It's my favorite color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T02:43:59.323" Title="Use a different favicon.ico on CSO" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;favicon&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24994" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:52:15.207" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was very good - I would have to say that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16929/miguel-de-icaza&quot;&gt;Miguel de Icaza&lt;/a&gt; stole the show with his Mono presentation.  He was immensely entertaining and informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here were my impressions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keynote (Joel Spolsky): This I completely missed due to showing up late so I don't know how this went.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Python (Ned Batchelder): Excellent presentation and my second favorite overall.  Ned is a great presenter and had some really cool examples of expressive and clean Python code (spellchecker and custom web template engine specifically).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;iPhone (Dan Pilone): This was a great talk that illustrated the process of developing and publishing an iPhone App. Dan is a very good presenter and did a great job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fogbugz (Joel Spolsky): This was actually a lot cooler than I thought it would be - Joel unveiled Fog Creek's new source control repository (&lt;a href=&quot;http://fogcreek.com/kiln/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiln&lt;/a&gt;) which is very interesting and exciting as well as new FogBugz 7 features.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ASP.Net MVC: When and Where (Patrick Hynds and Chris Bowen): No offense to the presenters but I found this the weakest presentation of all.  It was very entry level and I felt that most folks would have appreciated a more advanced presentation on ASP.NET MVC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Understanding JavaScript Testing (John Resig): This was very good as well - John had some very interesting things to share and did a good job.  By far the coolest thing he shared was &lt;a href=&quot;http://testswarm.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TestSwarm&lt;/a&gt; (Distributed Continuous Integration for JavaScript - think SETI@home for JavaScript testing).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mono (Miguel De Icaza): This was an aswesome presentation that was also hilariously funny.  Miguel has a very dry sense of humor that consistently brought the house down.  He did a fantastic job presenting Mono and spent about half of his presentation talking about MonoTouch (Mono on the iPhone) - this was an excellent companion to Dan's iPhone presentation earlier in the day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T23:52:15.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-07T23:52:15.207" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:52:16.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be far more interested in seeing if women get more + or - votes than men, even if their questions are horribly bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T23:52:16.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:57:04.013" Score="6" ViewCount="642" Body="&lt;p&gt;Original Woot! ad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/stackoverflow-ad1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Redesigned Woot! ad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/blendingin-1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Woot you!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has anyone clicked the new Woot! ads and made their designer cry?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/adResults-stackoverflow.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24185/am-i-the-only-person-to-find-the-woot-ad-noxious&quot;&gt;I blame&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/136100/dan-neely&quot;&gt;Dan Neely&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52738/gnovice&quot;&gt;gnovice&lt;/a&gt; for the misery they have brought upon us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T22:24:18.973" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T00:08:55.963" Title="Has anyone clicked the new Woot! ads?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;woot&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="25006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25002" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:57:53.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about blue? There are not enough blue logos in the computer industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/6213/ibmso.png&quot; alt=&quot;Breaking news! IBM just bought SO!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/474/sogoogle.png&quot; alt=&quot;This just in! Google and Microsoft might be pulling their checks out to but SO out of IBM!&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T00:37:40.303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:37:40.303" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-07T23:59:22.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, that's bright.&#xA;I won't need any more caffeine today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-07T23:59:22.930" />
  <row Id="25008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:04:20.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to &lt;strong&gt;ignore&lt;/strong&gt; ads entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coincidentally, I was explaining to my daughter only the other day, that some advertisers are basically dishonest and you can't believe what they show you in magazine ads for clothes, cosmetics, lifestyle items in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit harsh and paranoid, I know, but I'm probably better at recogising BS than she is at the age of fifteen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can trust web advertisers any more than print advertisers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:04:20.427" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:05:10.363" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you guys &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; these things?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it weren't for MSO, I might never even know about new ads on SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T05:18:33.757" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:18:33.757" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:08:12.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did notice the ads when they switched the design. Since then, I have clicked the ads every morning to see what they were selling that day (and with intent to buy if it is something I might like to have around being offered at a reasonable price).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:08:12.340" />
  <row Id="25011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:10:27.373" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think paying to list a CV is a great idea&lt;/strong&gt;. As I said in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ninety-nine dollars is nominal. If you&#xA;  get a job making $1k/year more -- or&#xA;  the same job, but negotiate a better&#xA;  salary because hiring on SO is&#xA;  relatively cheap -- that's a 900%&#xA;  return. If you're out of work and land a&#xA;  job one day sooner you'll probably&#xA;  recoup your cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Joel Coehoorn objected, &quot;$99 is a huge risk if your current income is $0.&quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's true. And if your current income is $0, isn't that all the more reason to do everything in your power to land a job ASAP? Let's say that having a listing on CSO will get you a job on average one day earlier. If that's the case, it makes sense as long as you'll end up making more than $99/day. If you make $100/day, you'll end up $1 ahead on average. If you make $200/day (about $40,000/year), you'll end up $101 ahead. (Have fun playing with the formula. What if listing helps you get a job a week earlier and you make $300/day? (1))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if Joel meant to imply that in addition to no income, the job-seeker has no savings, or so little savings that he has to choose between CSO and prescription drugs. If that's the case, I would expect you to ask a friend, family member, charity, the government, or even a businessperson to foot the bill. Depending on the nature of the relationship, you may pay them back, possibly with interest, once you have the job, and would probably still come out ahead. (2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;JohnMcG makes a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24897/stackoverflow-careers/24981#24981&quot;&gt;compelling argument&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Never pay anyone to help you find a job.&quot;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you're not paying for help finding a job. You're paying to get in a position where a job can find you. You still have to have a good enough CV / rep / body of work on SO to get a phone call. And then you have to pass a series of interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know for sure, but I imagine most low-caliber developers who post on Monster don't end up getting jobs. At least, they don't get jobs with companies that have smart hiring practices. But if the cost of posting is zero, even the most miniscule chance of getting a job means you're averaging an infinite return on investment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he has any sense, a so-called developer who doesn't have a good chance at getting a programming job won't waste his money on CSO. That's especially true if he realizes that CSO isn't Monster. Its clients are looking for the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; developers, not just warm bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think CSO will be flooded with pretenders&lt;/strong&gt;. Most of them won't even find the site. Of those that do, most will balk at the idea of paying for listings (bots certainly will). Of the few who are left, many will look at the cost/benefit ratio and realize their money is better spent on good resume paper. We can compete with with the few who are left. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's not just about competing with a smaller pool of CVs. It's also about being better than the competition job sites, so that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24897/stackoverflow-careers/24908#24908&quot;&gt;top employers will come looking for us in the first place&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Miyagi Coder equates the idea with charging for water.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's stupid to pay $1.50 for a bottle of water when you can get it for free out of the tap. But as I've argued above, CSO claims to offer something better than the free alternative. It's more like paying $1.50 for a glass of wine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some of your thinking is clouded by what's known as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract%5Fid=951742&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;zero price effect&lt;/a&gt;. The question you should be asking isn't, &lt;em&gt;why pay $99 for something I can get for free&lt;/em&gt;, but rather, &lt;em&gt;is a listing on CSO worth $99 more than the other sites&lt;/em&gt;? If it cost $1 to list on Dice and $100 to list on CSO, what would you say then? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it yet another way: If listing on CSO was free, but I offered you $99 to stay off the site for a year, would you take my offer? Who's more likely to take that offer? You, or an unqualified slacker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Footnotes:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) And what if the job you get via CSO pays better than the job you'd otherwise get? What if it's closer to home so you save gas money, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) If you're not resourceful enough to figure that out, you're probably not the kind of person I want on my team. Which means the system's working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T00:36:29.803" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T00:36:29.803" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:10:50.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oddly, the only time I seem to notice ads is just &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; hit Reload to update the page in question. It takes a moment for the screen to clear, and my eyes seem to take a quick trip around the screen during that moment. Of course, then I can't click on the ad because it's already gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:10:50.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24973" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:12:41.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The set of &quot;interesting&quot; tags for an individual user is not available in the data dump. However, the set of &quot;starred&quot; questions &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; available, so one could derive some set of interesting tags from that data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:12:41.033" />
  <row Id="25014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:13:04.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an ad like this is just as bad as an animated ad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:13:04.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:16:57.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only one advantage I can see here is Careers CV live statistics. But anyway it looks meagerly as compared to #tc50 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/iQSOr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LocalBacon&lt;/a&gt; where you pay $0.99 for 1 application and &lt;strong&gt;get (100% guarantee) feedback about your resume from an employer&lt;/strong&gt;. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/3IwQps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Calacanis show&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130313" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:16:57.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25019" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:17:54.673" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created a question on stackoverflow, it got moved to superuser, and now I don't have control of it anymore.  I was not registered before it got moved, but now I can't add comments or edit the question, so its kind of pointless...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T23:31:00.523" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T23:31:00.523" Title="I created a question but don't have control" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25002" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:19:51.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pink, as it's also for people who have been pink-slipped? (bad pun, but someone had to make it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:19:51.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25017" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:21:51.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll need to have registered accounts on both sites and they need to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/136940?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;associated&lt;/a&gt; for you to get control of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise there is no way for the system to distinguish between you and me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:21:51.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:29:04.060" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And the Circle of Feedback is complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the other woot ad was obnoxious because it blended in too much, then this ad is the complete opposite of obnoxious (&lt;strong&gt;super kickass awesome!&lt;/strong&gt;) because it completely clashes with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that's how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T00:29:04.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25030" CreationDate="2009-10-08T00:36:56.327" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have any experience with programming related questions in &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask Metafilter&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you get more experts there and are your answers better? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do they reply quickly and does every question get answered, considering its a paid service?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The typical Ask Metafilter questions that I find using Google have excellent answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T02:24:12.417" Title="Is Ask Metafilter better than SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-08T01:41:46.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a gravatar, and I'm almost to 10K on SO. Some of my earlier answers might have received fewer upvotes because I had low reputation and no gravatar (good indication of an impermanent newbie) and gave a few sub-par answers, but it hasn't really hindered me. I'm no Jon Skeet, but that's because I don't do C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T01:41:46.353" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T01:43:17.723" Score="0" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24964/why-is-my-cv-145-complete&quot;&gt;Why is my CV 145% complete?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CV percent complete algorithm needs improvement.  It should be capped at 100%, currently mine is showing that it is 245% completed.  That doesn't seem right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:14:27.097" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:14:27.097" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T02:02:12.273" Title="CV Percent Complete Algorithm needs improvement" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T01:45:51.617" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24976/are-there-any-plans-to-create-printable-cvs-on-careers&quot;&gt;Are there any plans to create printable CVs on careers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to request that the careers.stackoverflow site allow for a link to an outside PDF/Word document link that employers can download.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what the stackoverflow team has done is great, but many HR departments like to pass around official looking resumes.  Not only that but a well prepared and good looking resume is the first indication you can give to an employer that you are detailed oriented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T01:49:39.690" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T02:07:32.213" Title="Allow link to PDF/Word version of my resume" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="0" />
  <row Id="25029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-08T02:13:25.400" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;J&amp;amp;J - Congratulations! I hope you make a ton of money and help a lot of people!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I won't be one of them, on either side of the equation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't want a job, I already have one: running my own consulting company. I'd be delighted to get more clients, of course, but that does not seem to be what y'all are targeting. And I don't pay for leads, anyway ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a potential employer, I can already cross-reference anyone &lt;em&gt;who uses their real name&lt;/em&gt; on SO with their CV, so I don't see the attraction of the service [Note to those who don't use their real names: sorry!]. And to me, paying to list your resume doesn't indicate that one is &quot;serious&quot; about finding a job, it indicates that one is &lt;strong&gt;desperate&lt;/strong&gt; to find a job, since there are so many free CV listing sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my opinion. These are not the words you're looking for. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T02:13:25.400" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25021" CreationDate="2009-10-08T02:24:12.417" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a fairly radically different (and much wider) audience, so a bit of apples to oranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a big fan of Metafilter as covered on previous podcasts, though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-22/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-22/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to knock MeFi at all, but SO, being a dedicated programming community, should do far better on prgramming questions -- and I'd be seriously concerned if it didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T02:24:12.417" />
  <row Id="25031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-08T02:37:11.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far the careers site looks interesting, if the percentage complete algorithm seems to be a bit off. However, I do agree with everyone in regards to the annual pricing. One suggestion though, instead of having the $99 a year payment, why not have a shorter $9 a month style plan? That should still allow employeers to know that the CVs are from serious job seekers while at the same time not running the risk filtering out candidates who might have extremely tight budgets when they are looking for a job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spending $99 on something may be a bit too much given someone's current situation; however, you might be able to scrape $9 a month together when money is tight if careers.stackoverflow.com gets a good reputation of landing people good jobs quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T02:37:11.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25002" CreationDate="2009-10-08T02:43:59.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about this, but I'm not sure how to distinguish it. While I (cough) &lt;em&gt;appreciate&lt;/em&gt; (cough) voyager's design skills, I need to come up with a concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember it is a subdomain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so you could argue that it's tightly related to SO, with the acct association, and all, and should have the same favico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T02:43:59.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24933" CreationDate="2009-10-08T02:51:17.890" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a good idea -- what we might do is have the employers set up a logo and we'll randomly feature a few logos from the list every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if we can really expose employers in the way you want. But some anonymized search data is safe to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:49:57.843" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:49:57.843" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:02:36.607" Score="7" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Location seems like something worth adding here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T02:36:24.023" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:31:24.787" Title="Suggestion: location of jobs in the experience section of the CV on careers site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;&lt;experience&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:03:46.150" Score="0" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25024/cv-percent-complete-algorithm-needs-improvement&quot;&gt;CV Percent Complete Algorithm needs improvement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24964/why-is-my-cv-145-complete&quot;&gt;Why is my CV 145% complete?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Save your CV, go back and edit it. It starts at 100% and goes up from there as you edit sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T23:59:44.863" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T23:59:44.863" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T03:15:31.060" Title="Progress percentage on careers site goes above 100%" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:24:46.487" Score="2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/can-someone-write-a-review-of-the-first-conference-of-so-devdays&quot;&gt;Can someone write a review of the first conference of SO DevDays?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folks who were lucky enough to attend the Dev Days, could you please share links to your blog posts, photos or videos from the event here? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1630" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T03:07:15.793" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T03:07:15.793" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T04:22:06.397" Title="StackOverflow Dev Days: Share your blog posts, photos and videos" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;videos&gt;&lt;photos&gt;" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="25038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24994" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:25:04.787" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my thoughts for DevDays Boston:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keynote (Joel Spolsky)&lt;/strong&gt;: The intro video was kind of goofy, but it served to get everyone in the mood from the looks of it. The presentation itself was actually extremely interesting and raised some good points. I actually got quite a bit out of it and I think the &quot;Copying DNA&quot; slide was one of the highlights of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Python (Ned Batchelder)&lt;/strong&gt;: I haven't done any Python work yet, so this did get me interested in looking into it a bit more. The only issue I had was the while the spell checker was a neat bit of code, it didn't look to be like someone that could have been used &quot;real world&quot; where as the simple templating engine could be and I would have liked to hear a bit more about how the spell checker could have been improved for performance or if it was just something neat to look at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;iPhone (Dan Pilone)&lt;/strong&gt;: This was a good talk and some of the information on the app store was every enlightening, but the demonstration part of the talk was very basic. This is likely more the fault of the length of time than the presenter though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fogbugz (Joel Spolsky)&lt;/strong&gt;: The new source control repository was pretty neat, but unless you are in a position to use or possibly use Fogbugz, some people might not get much out of the presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ASP.Net MVC&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm going to have to agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/can-someone-write-a-review-of-the-first-conference-of-so-devdays/25003#25003&quot;&gt;Andrew Hare&lt;/a&gt; in regards to this presentation in that they spent a lot of time on talking about the very basic code that is generated when you create a new MVC project. I think this could have been much better if the presentation was targeted at a slightly more advanced level than it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Understanding JavaScript Testing (John Resig)&lt;/strong&gt;: Very interesting presentation on JavaScript testing and definitely some good take-a-ways in the presentation. I am kind of disappointed that he didn't talk about jQuery a bit more, but the presentation that he did give more than made up for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mono (Miguel De Icaza)&lt;/strong&gt;: I think this might have been an inadvertent potpourri style presentation, but it definitely had some extremely interesting content in it that I didn't know was going on in the Mono development arena. Also, Miguel managed to get quite a few laughs out of the crowed which served to wrap up the day quite nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No actual badge was given out, instead there was a wrist band which I think was meant to serve the same purpose. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In terms of goodies floating around, there were some stickers and the StackOverflow ones seemed to be the most popular and a branded screwdriver from codero, plus the usual pens and pad  of paper.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were also copies of &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1590599144&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Painless Project Management with FogBugz, Second Edition&lt;/a&gt; but I'm not sure how many there were.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The WiFi didn't really work that well and my iPhone had no reception in the conference room. Apparently the router ran out of IP address which is why some people weren't about to get online.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bottom Line&lt;/strong&gt; - Regardless of any negatives, I think that overall the day was worth my time (and money) and I would definitely go again if there is a DevDays in Boston again next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastEditorUserId="1185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T15:00:35.720" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:00:35.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T03:25:04.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:26:42.660" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;The format of work history on the CV is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Title (Bold)&#xA;Tags&#xA;Description&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, the tags act as more of a break in the flow than anything else. One could thing that what's between the tags is one job. I'd suggest a better demarcation. Perhaps a line between jobs, alternate shading or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T07:03:46.293" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T07:03:46.293" Title="Suggestion: clearer demarcation between jobs on CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" />
  <row Id="25040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:38:17.413" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24927/please-allow-a-user-to-sort-the-experiences-on-the-career-site&quot;&gt;Please allow a user to sort the experiences on the career site.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possibilities for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The order should be intelligent based on data. I would suggest reverse chronological order, at least for experience; and/or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ability to manually move the order around. Currently there's no way to do this if you want to maintain order and need to insert something in the middle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T03:10:18.100" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T03:10:18.100" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T04:17:47.137" Title="Ability to change order of education/experience" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24976" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:45:58.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about an API -- then you can extract the vitals from your CV, slice, dice and present it however you want. Show off your &lt;code&gt;( HTML | PS | PDF | SVG | LaTeX | ... )&lt;/code&gt; foo at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the API can ping a URL, you can put together a one-click build for all the versions of your Resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T04:48:15.243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T04:48:15.243" />
  <row Id="25042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25062" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:56:49.953" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to upvote a comment on SO, but when I moved the mouse over the greyed out up arrow, it disappeared.  I can click on the blank space and an upvote is counted.  Now using the links at the bottom of the page I open up Server Fault, go to a comment on a question there and the comment flags work as expected.  Meta, SuperUser also OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Version: 10.00&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Build: 1750&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Platform: Win32&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;System: WinXP Pro&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Java: Sun JRE 1.6&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Browser ID: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131504" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T23:30:45.407" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T23:30:45.407" Title="Comment flags on SO not working properly with Opera" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="25043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-10-08T03:58:15.377" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got my &lt;strong&gt;Trilogy Stickers&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;League of Justice Stickers&lt;/strong&gt;) three days ago, I immediately took a shot. Stickers are cool and now I will paste them on my car, computer and router. Once I done with that, I will post some more pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/%5F03EqiVPBKfM/Ss1bo%5FD9gJI/AAAAAAAAAwA/Z0mvktn09ME/s400/Trilogy%5FStickers.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Programming360 :: Trilogy Stickers for Stackers&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69111" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T03:58:15.377" />
  <row Id="25044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T04:37:30.567" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a natural integration. Give anyone potential hirer an easy way of accessing stuff you've written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T00:00:05.593" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T00:00:05.593" Title="Tags on CV should link back to SO search for that tag/user" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-08T04:48:59.920" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;$ 30 is a bit too high for someone from India. 30 dollars &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.in/search?q=30%20dollar%20to%20inr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;converts to 1400 rupees&lt;/a&gt;. And 1400 bucks in India is a lot of money.      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/where-in-the-world-do-stack-overflow-users-come-from&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Especially when it’s the third biggest source of traffic.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22039" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T17:51:27.837" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:51:27.837" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T04:52:23.550" Score="13" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no hiring side (it says &quot;coming soon&quot;) so the 3 year period shouldn't really start now I would've thought. The beta goes for 4 weeks or so. I would suggest the 3 year period begins from when the beta ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T21:26:14.947" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:26:14.947" Title="Suggestion: the 3 year intro price should be 3 years from when the beta ends" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;beta&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25046" CreationDate="2009-10-08T05:10:05.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason the promotional pricing is in place is to reward the early adopters, so this is effectively already happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T05:10:05.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25046" CreationDate="2009-10-08T05:12:21.843" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you're getting a huge discount, and a few weeks out of 3 years isn't much of a dent. I wouldn't sweat it. If it bothers you, you could wait until the last day of the reduced rates, or when the employer side is live (whichever comes first), but that seems... well, make your own opinion ;-p It also means that the team would have less &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; QA data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T05:12:21.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25052" CreationDate="2009-10-08T05:59:26.593" Score="3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this hasn't been asked - is it possible to resize an image in an answer? eg: this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/770841/how-important-is-phd-research-topic-to-getting-a-job&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/770841/how-important-is-phd-research-topic-to-getting-a-job/770873#770873&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have the image in the answer, but it's too big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to handle resizing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T23:30:11.227" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T19:50:28.717" Title="resizing an image in a post?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25051" CreationDate="2009-10-08T06:02:39.007" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that all image uploads are stored on imgur servers, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.diy.stackexchange.com/questions/369/please-try-using-smaller-versions-of-images&quot; title=&quot;that's dandy handy, mandy&quot;&gt;you can tweak the URL&lt;/a&gt; to show various sizes &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/101439/please-do-something-to-encourage-people-to-scale-down-their-giant-heavyweight-pho/101446#101446&quot; title=&quot;back again at the post&quot;&gt;should the original be too large&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the original might be something as obscene as this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://i.stack.imgur.com/R7QBb.jpg&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slip your hand in with &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;s&lt;/code&gt; before the file extension like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Medium:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://i.stack.imgur.com/R7QBbm.jpg&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Smaller:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://i.stack.imgur.com/R7QBbs.jpg&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can whack in good ol' HTML for that and force client-side resize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://example.com/path-to-ghosts.jpg&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, it's up to you to work out what a good set of resize dimensions will be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T19:50:28.717" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T19:50:28.717" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T06:33:31.007" Score="11" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should have a badge ( or a set of badges) for the users who close a sufficient number of questions. Closing question is a form of community service and therefore deserves rewards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: Now don't try to close this question in the name of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4508/please-do-not-auto-select-answers-on-bounty-questions&quot;&gt;illustrating the irony :)&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T08:15:01.373" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T12:34:29.677" Title="Badge for Closing Question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25072" CreationDate="2009-10-08T06:50:11.833" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I registered for careers.stackoverflow.com today and everything is great except that I don't seem to get the verification email message. After waiting 30 minutes I have received nothing in my email account (hosted Google Apps email). I have checked the spam folder but can find no message.  I returned and re-clicked on the &quot;verify your email&quot; link and again nothing.  Interestingly I did receive, in a flash, the billing confirmation message at the same email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there a deliberate delay?  An issue?  A bug?  Or maybe Google is blocking it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T08:36:17.937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:37:46.873" Title="Delay or bug in sending careers.so.com email verification messages?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34885" CreationDate="2009-10-08T06:52:45.310" Score="19" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering all discussions on SO and CSO are in english, it might be interesting, on CSO, to display some kind of map showing where employers are from -- and/or where they want to recruit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm thinking about something like a google map with a marker for each employer, which would be visible without having to file a CV -- not displaying too much informations, of course ; just country/city would be quite nice, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would allow users that are not from the US/UK to know if careers could be interesting for them, before putting their CV online &lt;em&gt;(ie, there is no point in paying to file a CV if there is no employer from our non-US country)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is already the possibility for us to indicate where we want to work -- this would be exactly the same thing, indicating where employers are recruiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:52:32.360" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:52:32.360" Title="CSO : Display countries/cities of employers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="25056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25054" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:03:43.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got mine in less than 10 seconds.  I'm guessing something went wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:03:43.167" />
  <row Id="25057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25053" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:05:58.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the real issue would be to determine how to issue - back in the olden days, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; user with sufficiently-high rep could close. Now it takes a group effort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about if the question is reopened? Does the 'Close' badge go away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:05:58.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25054" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:07:11.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Me too.  I'm still waiting, and it has been &lt;em&gt;tens of minutes&lt;/em&gt; now.  Spam folders have nothing.  I use fastmail.fm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something is all clogged up in that series of tubes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T07:24:35.970" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:24:35.970" />
  <row Id="25059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25061" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:21:39.267" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reasoning goes as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Wow $29 for 3 years, that's a good deal, I'll buy it now!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hang on, I like my job, I don't want to change right now&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to turn your CV on and off? Or at least have some kind of slider which goes between &quot;Don't call me&quot; and &quot;Get me outta here&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T06:38:02.377" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:38:02.377" Title="Will we be able to toggle visibility of our CVs on careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24968" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:25:13.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;element was incorrectly marked &lt;code&gt;clear:both&lt;/code&gt; should have been &lt;code&gt;clear:left&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:25:13.070" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25059" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:31:45.693" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is possible; this option appears in the dashboard once you have filed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Your CV is searchable by employers; &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hide from searches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:31:45.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25042" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:41:38.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Switching to rep-whore mode...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flushing your cache should fix it up. Since the JavaScript was still working, it's most likely a cache issue with the CSS swapping out the image of upvotedabilityness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no off position in the rep-whore mode!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T07:41:38.953" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25064" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:48:25.103" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder why some tags placed under questions look slightly like 3d-buttons, but others look like 2d with a thicker darke border? I only notice a difference here on Meta SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135515" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:14:30.503" Title="Why are some tags outlined differently than others?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25063" CreationDate="2009-10-08T07:58:49.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Thick grey border - Required tag&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each question must include at least one of these tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; title=&quot;quite the chatty cathys&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[discussion]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; title=&quot;it's a want&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; title=&quot;it's a feature!&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[bug]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/support&quot; title=&quot;headset whatties&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[support]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Red tags - Moderator only&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only moderators can set these to a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; title=&quot;done then?&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-completed]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; title=&quot;cool by nature&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-bydesign]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; title=&quot;uh uh&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-declined]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; title=&quot;say what now?&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-norepro]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; title=&quot;on the backburner&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-deferred]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; title=&quot;looking into it&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-planned]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; title=&quot;looking hard into it&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-review]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-reproduced&quot; title=&quot;look right at it&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[status-reproduced]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions migrated from the other sites to Meta, along with those older than the tag reuirements, may slip through without a required tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T08:14:30.503" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:14:30.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:08:51.493" Score="8" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox/25065#25065&quot;&gt;mucking around&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&quot;&gt;Formatting Sandbox&lt;/a&gt;, I discovered AFTER all my hard work and effort I put into my 'response' that there is a character limit of 30,000 for posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can there please be a notification of such limit? Whilst we are typing the response would be best, but it could be applied the same way the minimum character limit warning is applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T09:35:41.650" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T09:36:03.977" Title="Please notify me of the 30,000 character limit" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="25068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:21:29.957" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1536293/c-best-way-to-call-tostring-on-an-object/1536299#1536299&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; I have answered, sent, and then realized the answer was plain wrong - so I deleted the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the Answer seems to have 3 Points and I have earned the the &quot;Disciplined Badge&quot;. Have I gotten points for deleting my own answer, or were the points awarded before I deleted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: Was deleting the &quot;right&quot; choice, or should I have added a comment like &quot;ups, doesn't work...&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136780" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T08:31:01.767" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:31:01.767" Title="Deleted Answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="0" />
  <row Id="25072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25054" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:37:46.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep I confirmed that no mails were going out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were erroneously using our hosted gmail to send mails instead of our local SMTP server (this is really a local development mistake that got promoted to production, I am now calibrating my project blame-o-meter to &lt;em&gt;STUN&lt;/em&gt;). I think we hit the gmail limit of 1500 emails per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I corrected that mistake, switched to our local SMTP server, and verified that mails are now going out. So you may want to click the &quot;resend verification email&quot; again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:37:46.873" />
  <row Id="25073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24926" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:43:25.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throwing this is so it can be up/down voted as an option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;There should be a way to permalink to a careers profile.&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:43:25.537" />
  <row Id="25074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25066" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:46:02.600" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're actually complaining that your enormous post in the &lt;em&gt;formatting sandbox&lt;/em&gt; was truncated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be more amenable to this request if someone actually wrote a &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt; post that long, and had a legitimate complaint that it got truncated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we really should be warning users when they enter a novella body text that's too long, rather than just truncating silently. I added a saner check for this through the standard question form validation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T09:36:03.977" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T09:36:03.977" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26972" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:51:51.277" Score="5" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where you have permission to work is obviously important. Where you're a citizen can also be important. You could do this with free text but that wouldn't necessarily be accurate to search so I would suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Citizenship: listing countries;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Permanent residency: listing countries;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work Permits for the most relevant countries (US/Canada, EU, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:09:28.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:09:51.683" Title="Add residency/nationality to Careers site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25078" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:54:21.273" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi All,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When i saw Unanswered questions, i wanted to check all questions with '0' answers first. Is there a way to list unanswered questions, by number of answers it has? If not, do you think it will be good to have it there. I can see only 3 types of listing: Associated with our tags, newest first and by votes on question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135616" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:56:48.057" Title="Sort by Number of answers in Unanswered Tab" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25077" CreationDate="2009-10-08T08:56:48.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always search for questions with zero (0) answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0&quot;&gt;answers:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T08:56:48.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98435" CreationDate="2009-10-08T09:06:47.913" Score="12" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see new users that are unaware of the formatting capabilities of the WMD editor, prominently the &quot;format as code&quot; function. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of them don't format their code at all (especially XML and HTML will not show up in the question, and other code gets line-wrapped), or they shoot themselves in the foot trying to make the editor do something that could be easy (replacing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; to make HTML tags appear, sprinkling &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags to force line breaks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a user who edits many questions, it results in a lot of work to correct these misunderstandings. I know there are editor buttons and a help section on the right, but in general - people don't read anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that new users (less than 100 rep or so) get their WMD editor pre-filled with some advice like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome to StackOverflow. Here is a quick overview of what you &#xA;can do in this editor:&#xA;&#xA;Indent blocks of code by four spaces (you will even get automatic &#xA;syntax highlighting!):&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xml code=&quot;sample&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;!-- use the &quot;0101&quot; button above, or the CTRL-K keyboard shortcut --&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/xml&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;Use backticks to format inline bits of &#xA;code: `var hint = &quot;The button or shortcut work here as well!&quot;`&#xA;&#xA;You can also write **bold** or *italics*, use lists&#xA;&#xA;- like&#xA;- this&#xA;&#xA;or headlines&#xA;&#xA;##Like This##&#xA;&#xA;The editor can do even more, take some time to explore its capabilities.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-13T12:31:18.747" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T11:35:47.207" Title="More obvious formatting help for new users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25079" CreationDate="2009-10-08T09:14:22.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't read now, what makes you think they'll read some &quot;junk&quot; that they need to clear out of their way in order for them to get the codez now, post haste!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that's too much text. Cut it down to the real meat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have code, select it and then hit the icon with the &lt;code&gt;101010&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they won't even read that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T09:14:22.610" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T09:19:59.557" Score="9" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some crazy people love programming, but they also have other things in their life, perhaps even to the extent that they want to work part time. Or is it just me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131522" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T11:17:40.230" Title="Can we have a &quot;Part time permanent&quot; option under &quot;What type of work are you seeking?&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25085" CreationDate="2009-10-08T09:24:51.797" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;The verification email for CSO contains dodgy line endings, and looks like this in Mutt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Thanks for registering with Stack Overflow Careers^M&#xA;^M&#xA;To ensure that potential employers can reach you via email, we need to confirm your email address. All it takes is a single click.^M&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole message shows a ^M at the end of each line. The encoded form of the text/plain message looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable&#xA;&#xA;Thanks for registering with Stack Overflow Careers=0D =0A=0D=0ATo ensure=&#xA; that potential employers can reach you via email, we need to confirm your=&#xA; email address. All it takes is a single click.=0D =0A=0D=0AClick here to=&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure there isn't supposed to be that extra &lt;code&gt;=0D&lt;/code&gt; in there (especially not with that extra space), and taking it out allows the message to render correctly in Mutt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:51:49.557" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:51:49.557" Title="CSO emails contain extra ^M characters" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25083" CreationDate="2009-10-08T09:30:15.763" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The notifications are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13014/notification-email-from-stackoverflow-contains-3-after-zip-code&quot; title=&quot;youtube: I &amp;lt;3 U online&quot;&gt;all about sharing the love&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;^M = Kissing you with sharp lips. Because it hurts when you lick a live CPU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;=0D = They're happy to help you, smile! (Their in ur newlinez fixin your ln breks)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T09:30:15.763" />
  <row Id="25085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25083" CreationDate="2009-10-08T09:36:14.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try to view the HTML version; the quoted-printable text/plain text stuff is only there as a weak fallback. (On Trilogy sites, the entirety of the text/plain is &quot;view the html, please&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The QP bug is in the .NET framework mail classes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7336/option-for-plain-text-mail-notifications-and-spamassassin-scoring-due-to-html-o/11849#11849&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7336/option-for-plain-text-mail-notifications-and-spamassassin-scoring-due-to-html-o/11849#11849&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: we have switched to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afterlogic.com/products/net-email-components&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;third party email component&lt;/a&gt; recommended by our pals at &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;X-Mailer: MailBee.NET 5.7.2.156&#xA;From: &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that it &quot;fixes&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the quoted-printable encoding bug&lt;/a&gt; in the .NET framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:47:56.010" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:47:56.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T09:49:35.637" Score="5" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined SO when there were are 150K questions.  Now there are some 330K questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that the number of visits to questions, and the real longevity of an interesting question, appear (IMHO, no empirical data) rapidly dropping off.   This seems a like a natural consequence:  with floods of new questions coming in, older questions simply disappear in an avalanche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disk caches have the same problem in operating systems.  If the number of queries that mention cache elements is high enough, the cache elements tend to stay in the cache.  If the number of queries for new things exceeds the cache size, the cache gets filled with new items and there's never any cache hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are the properties of SO as the number of questions goes to infinity? (Or 10 million, that's only 1 question per programmer on the planet and I'm sure we all have at least one)? What properties of the design of SO provides any assurance that it won't die by simply being drowned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT Aug 7 2011:  Now SO has some 1.9 million questions.  I go for several days at a time now when no interesting questions come up, in spite of the probably much larger volume of users that exist compared to when I asked the question.   Jon Skeet below vaguely answered my original post, but didn't back up with facts.   So... I repeat the question... what designed-in properties does SO have to prevent it from getting drowned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132537" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-07T08:26:56.313" LastActivityDate="2011-08-07T08:26:56.313" Title="Impact of StackOverflow's growth on viability?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;scalability&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25086" CreationDate="2009-10-08T10:14:37.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;by the clever(er) use of labels to filter off the noise. I personally only look at my interested labels, and ignore any other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i m sure if the community moderates the bad seeds out (bad seeds being users that post poorly), stackoverflow will continue to be a valuable resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what i &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; concerned about is the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; is coming into existance. Stackoverflow is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a good platform for CV intelligence gathering. It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; something you use to get a job. If you happen to chance upon a job because the employer found you on SO, then good. But dont make SO a place to pad out my resume - it is a computing and programming resource first and foremost. What i fear is that if i dont perform well on SO, i will be looked down upon from the employer's perspective - that ought to never happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133316" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T10:14:37.713" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T10:29:43.473" Score="1" ViewCount="875" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot delete my own post on Stack Overflow. When I try, I get the following error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, this question cannot be deleted: too many existing answers, or upvoted/accepted answers&#xA;  (click on this box to dismiss).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T12:58:36.697" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T06:11:13.327" Title="How can I delete my post on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25088" CreationDate="2009-10-08T10:45:11.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the error message stated, you cannot delete it because there are too many answers, people have responded to your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really need it deleted for some reason I would suggest flagging it for moderator attention and explaining your rationale for needing it deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-14T06:11:13.327" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T06:11:13.327" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25088" CreationDate="2009-10-08T10:45:35.600" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically you can't. If you've asked a question and others have contributed answers which have been deemed valuable by the community, you can't delete the question because that would delete those valuable answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you want to delete the question? Maybe there's a better alternative, such as editing it to make it more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T10:45:35.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24643" CreationDate="2009-10-08T11:13:26.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting on ads gives me a way to express my opinion.  Even if it does absolutely no good, i.e., makes no difference in what ads I see, I'd still like to be able to weigh in on ads.  I confess that I hadn't really thought about this until I saw the new Woot ad, but I seriously want to downvote that one -- and anyone who is associated with it, or clicks on it, or even looks on it kindly.  Yuck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:13:26.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T11:32:01.473" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24987/add-vague-objective-option-to-csos-what-type-of-work-are-you-seeking&quot;&gt;Add vague Objective option to CSO&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;What type of work are you seeking?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there should be an option under &quot;What type of work are you seeking?&quot; that would mean something like &quot;I am not actively looking but if something comes up I may be interested&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively this could be split out so in addition to perm, contract etc. you would say how actively you are looking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T13:35:03.777" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:35:03.777" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T13:33:54.120" Title="Please add an option for not actively looking to the career site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24987" CreationDate="2009-10-08T11:48:11.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be hard since it opens up the possibility of applicants who are not as &quot;serious&quot; as others.  I imagine that one of the selling points of the site to employers is that the individuals are actually looking for work as opposed to simply floating resumes in the hopes of snagging a better deal.  On the other hand, it provides a way for people who &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; simply floating resumes to be honest about it.  This will happen -- even $99/yr is a small investment -- so I'm generally in favor of it.  Perhaps an &quot;other&quot; option with a field for an explanation would be sufficient to cover the many scenarios that fall outside the current choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:48:11.150" />
  <row Id="25095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25086" CreationDate="2009-10-08T11:48:11.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rate at which questions are being asked doesn't seem to have grown exponentially, which would be the worrying thing IMO. Indeed, as SO gains more and more questions, there will be more and more &quot;cache hits&quot; when someone goes to ask a question to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There are graphs of this somewhere - I'll look for them in a minute.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind it's still working - if I've been away for a few hours, most of the recent-ish questions I look at seem to have good answers. There's a problem in terms of keeping old questions up-to-date (as new technologies arrive which solve them in a different way) but I think that's due to time rather than question volume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:48:11.490" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24987" CreationDate="2009-10-08T11:48:50.493" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I basically agree that a &quot;Open to ideas&quot; option would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, and especially this part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When hiring managers search through&#xA;  CVs, they want to know that they’re&#xA;  looking at active, serious job&#xA;  applicants. If it were free to post a&#xA;  CV, &lt;strong&gt;a lot of applicants that weren’t&#xA;  looking for jobs&lt;/strong&gt;, or who knew that&#xA;  they had no reasonable chance of&#xA;  getting a job, &lt;strong&gt;would post them&lt;/strong&gt;, making&#xA;  it harder for the employers to find&#xA;  serious applicants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I'm not sure it fits what the SO team had in mind. They'll obviously want to market the site as one that's full of &quot;serious applicants&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, why not - it should be easy enough (to add functionality) for employers to filter out these &quot;Open to ideas&quot; people if they only happen to be looking for developers who &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; are looking for a job right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T11:54:37.813" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:54:37.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9090" CreationDate="2009-10-08T11:49:45.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the need for this kind of grace period but should it also take into account the % change of the post? I see a lot of 'fastest gun' stuff going on and 5 mins can allow someone to completely change their post or significantly extend it while retaining their position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The % change could be hard to calculate but even a size check could reveal the 'cut &amp;amp; paste' of someone else's info or the extension of your answer to include elements from someone else's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132504" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T11:49:45.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T11:49:45.530" />
  <row Id="25099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25053" CreationDate="2009-10-08T12:22:41.243" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could make sense since closing is now a community process, requiring 5 votes to accomplish.  That means that rather than awarding a badge based on simply voting to close (could encourage voting to close for no good reason), or based on casting the final vote (unfair to others who voted to close, and creates unusual incentives when votes approach 4 or 5), I'd propose that the badge be based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Casting X votes to close on questions which were then subsequently closed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an arbitrary suggestion, I'd say X = 25.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that everyone who votes to close would get credit towards their X, but only if the question was actually later closed (signifying that your vote was a &quot;correct&quot; vote).  This does make it a little more attractive for those who wait until the 5th vote, but I don't see that as a major problem, as all voters still get credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd propose that questions that are re-opened should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; rescind the associated tally, because a question could be re-opened after editing and be different from the form that was closed.  Indeed, the close process can play a part in encouraging questioners to shape up their questions, and so the votes to close should still be recognized as a valuable part of that process even if it gets re-opened later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem I can see is that this kind of badge might be difficult to calculate and implement for the dev team, as it relies on keeping a tally on information which is transient in the system.  It may not be technically feasible without major work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T12:22:41.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25053" CreationDate="2009-10-08T12:34:29.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I'm not sure sure is such a good idea if the badge is awarded for closing a large number of questions as it might encourage some users to vote to close questions that may not need to be closed just to get the badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said though, I think it would also be in keeping with the trend in some of the other badges to award one for the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; question that you vote to close that is also closed as that would encourage users who just got their &quot;Vote to Close&quot; permissions to try them out which is how some of the other badges are designed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T12:34:29.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25214" CreationDate="2009-10-08T12:55:50.493" Score="4" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the same as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24924/cannot-associate-accounts-on-careers-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;this answered question&lt;/a&gt;, except I've tried the steps outlined there and it didn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first logged in using my Google log-in and then tried association, but I'm still referred to as New User and there doesn't seem to be any association with StackOverflow. So I resigned in with my OpenID after logging out and clearing cookies and tried associating that way, and it tells me the account is already associated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Addendum&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the association was working properly, logging in with either Google or OpenID should go to the same account as they do when logging into SO, but they do not. Something is screwy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see &quot;No associated accounts&quot; when I click &quot;New User&quot; but I can't associate my account (in either log-in - which, if associated properly, should surely both lead to the same careers account anyway as they would link to the same account in SO, Meta, SF or SU).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T09:01:51.627" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:01:51.627" Title="Still called New User and &quot;no associated accounts&quot; on account in careers.stackoverflow.com after association attempts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25093" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:00:20.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is exactly the type of thing they &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want &quot;filed&quot; in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:00:20.750" />
  <row Id="25103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25112" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:02:14.990" Score="10" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This section of the About says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Why is this better than other job sites?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hiring managers&lt;/strong&gt; can find great developers, see what they’ve done, and &lt;em&gt;even check out the answers they’ve written on Stack Overflow&lt;/em&gt;. Unlike traditional resumes, a Stack Overflow CV gives hiring managers insight into a developer’s real work and skills instead of a meaningless list of acronyms. &lt;em&gt;(Emphasis Added)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we see what a potential employer would see when they click on our CV? Specifically, how all of the information is displayed? If they're being shown information from our Stack Overflow profile, it's in our interest to know what they see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T22:37:51.237" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T22:37:51.237" Title="Can we see what an employer would see when they look at our CV?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:03:16.753" Score="19" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the top users feature. It brings out my competitive spirit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing that bugs me about it is that as far as I can see, it is not affected at all by the number of accepted answers. It would be nice if this was included in some way. Even if it was just another column by the number of questions answered and up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may help people judge someone’s ability in a tag. If there are two people with similar numbers of questions and upvotes one may have written something on a popular question, and a load of tosh on numerous others. The other may have spent time answering in detail other non popular questions and being accepted. Especially with the CV thingy it may be important to note such differences&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56672" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T16:18:55.727" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T18:40:30.133" Title="Accepted answers count on top users page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25101" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:05:03.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to fill your real name for it to appear where &lt;strong&gt;New user&lt;/strong&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:05:03.707" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:11:02.730" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to link to an answer to a StackOverflow question, but couldn't find a way to do it. I couldn't get the id of the answer in order to create the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can you get the permalink for an answer to a question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T13:30:16.967" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:30:16.967" Title="How can you get the permalink for an answer to a question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25106" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:13:47.093" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beneath all answers you'll see a link called &quot;link.&quot; That's your permalink. For example, the permalink to this answer is &lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25106/how-can-you-get-the-permalink-for-an-answer-to-a-question/25107#25107&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:13:47.093" />
  <row Id="25108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25106" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:14:49.180" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On any given answer, you'll see a link which says, &quot;link.&quot; That's the permalink to the answer. Right-click it and copy the URL to your clipboard, then use that whenever you need the permalink to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;down here!&#xA;\/&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T13:17:59.160" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:17:59.160" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25103" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:18:33.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The impression I got at Dev Days Boston, when Joel explained it, was that they wouldn't see Stack Overflow stuff on your CV page, but would have a link to your Stack Overflow profile page. For you, they would be brought &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16587/george-stocker&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how accurate this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:18:33.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25101" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:34:14.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you entirely sure you're using the same OpenID for SO Careers as you are SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should have a small button to press saying &lt;code&gt;Authenticate with Stack Overflow&lt;/code&gt; on the Associate Accounts tab - Have you seen this yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:34:14.650" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25116" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:35:12.327" Score="5" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently I am working for software consulting company X. They pay me a salary. While working for X, they have sent me to companies A, B, C, D and E. I have done very different things at each of those companies and some of them are big name banks. Some have been year long engagements while some have been as short as a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I list my experience on careers? Should I have Experience entries for each A, B, C, D and E  Or should I try and fit all of the work I have done for companies A, B, C, D and E under my entry for company X?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separate Entries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pro: Name dropping of big companies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pro: Work that I have done can be highlighted better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Con: Really long experience list with some really short term engagements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One Big Entry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pro: A lot of experience from one company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pro: Doesn't look like I job hop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Con: Difficult to list out a lot of responsibilities in a nice way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T01:32:42.843" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T01:32:42.843" Title="How should I list my consulting gigs on careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25103" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:37:12.710" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm going to pay for this service, I want to see &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; what the potential employer can see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like that we can see exactly how our CV looks in the search results - but is there anything else a potential employer can see? For example - a break down of my answers, upvotes, downvotes in my &lt;code&gt;Favorite Tags&lt;/code&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excellent feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastEditorUserId="136243" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T14:01:38.797" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:01:38.797" />
  <row Id="25113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24987" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:51:13.730" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about a 5th option - for student accounts - internships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23528" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:51:13.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24976" CreationDate="2009-10-08T13:56:58.277" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really want the StackOverflow version in a PDF format.  I want a link to my own.  In a previous post that was closed as a duplicate for this one (which it wasn't now that I read this post), I stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to request that the&#xA;  careers.stackoverflow site allow for a&#xA;  link to an outside PDF/Word document&#xA;  link that employers can download.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think what the stackoverflow team&#xA;  has done is great, but many HR&#xA;  departments like to pass around&#xA;  official looking resumes. Not only&#xA;  that but a well prepared and good&#xA;  looking resume is the first indication&#xA;  you can give to an employer that you&#xA;  are detailed oriented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just a simple link where I can point people that are interested in my resume to a professional looking CV that is well formatted and shows the level of professionalism that I will bring to the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T13:56:58.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25111" CreationDate="2009-10-08T14:02:36.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the clients &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;allow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; you to reference them you should, with whatever information they've allowed you to share (perhaps via a recommendation on LinkedIn).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they do &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; allow you to share that, then you have to leave it out - or risk them suing you for breach of your NDA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I have the legalities right, which vary by jurisdiction, and I'm not a lawyer :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of the two formats, I'd choose the second, because that's how my resume and LinkedIn profile is setup :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:02:36.297" />
  <row Id="25117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24964" CreationDate="2009-10-08T14:11:44.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably the same way I scored 104% of possible points in a compilers class - extra credit.  Make sure your typing is neat and read the assignment thoroughly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:11:44.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25227" CreationDate="2009-10-08T14:13:42.907" Score="0" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing a CV on CSO, there's no section to add references to your experience or education - usually containing a mailing address and a phone number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a number of previous employers and tutors - it would be valuable for this reference information to allow a potential employer to contact my previous employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans for this to be implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:02:43.830" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:30:05.237" Title="Adding Experience and education references to CV?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="72" CreationDate="2009-10-08T14:24:08.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is a large part of the community, even on meta. It still shows the level of commitment on the user side and a level of trust from the community side. Taking reputation out of the system would be a detriment to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have a hard time finding the reason of Community Wiki on meta. Almost everything here, including this question is a discussion. There is no single answer to be given here on almost any question. On &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/can-someone-write-a-review-of-the-so-devdays&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, both Rich B and Jeff Atwood commented on why the question had been marked as CW. Jeff even said: &quot;&lt;strong&gt;people should get rep for spending time on writing their thoughts&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. This, in my opinion, is the very essence of meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:24:08.583" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25118" CreationDate="2009-10-08T14:41:41.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Checking of references seems like something that should be done after contact has been established, not just when an employer first looks at a CV.  So why have it in this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that your references aren't going to want to field a large number of calls; but don't mind talking to someone that you are seriously interested in and is seriously interested in you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:41:41.387" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25104" CreationDate="2009-10-08T14:53:36.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coming at this from the &quot;specialist&quot; badge point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Counting an acceptance towards your in-tag vote count would give the question asker two effective votes. Now, askers are often the people least able to judge the quality of an answer, so it would not do to give them more leverage towards determining who the &quot;experts&quot; are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:53:36.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-08T14:58:25.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone who has made use of a call-girl service has demonstrated he is serious about getting laid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean that a woman looking for a husband would be well-advised to start with a madam's client list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T14:58:25.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25127" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:03:11.550" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13976/who-owns-the-copyright-to-sofu-content&quot;&gt;Who owns the copyright to S[OFU] content?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions often ask for solutions to difficult problems. Since many users are resourceful and creative, I wouldn't be surprised to find novel ideas in posted answers. An answer might solve a business crushing problem or propose a solution that creates a whole new kind of business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user reads a posted answer and starts a profitable business based around the posted answer do authors have any recourse to defend their intellectual property?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I someone were to seek out patentable ideas on SO and file them, they would likely make a profit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do authors give up the rights to the intellectual property of their answers by posting them? If so, have they been warned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm against software patents and ownership of ideas and believe in the sharing of solutions and knowledge, but I was wondering what the official SO policy is on intellectual property (I couldn't find any) as well as what users think the policy should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:16:21.707" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T17:22:45.373" Title="Who owns the intellectual property of answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;&lt;intellectual-property&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25125" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:06:45.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the footer of every page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user contributed content licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; with attribution required &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:06:45.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25125" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:08:38.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a cc-wiki icon at the bottom of every page:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/Img/footer-cc-wiki-peak-internet.png&quot; alt=&quot;cc-wiki&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By posting here, you agree to make the content available under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that license&lt;/a&gt;, where the 'attribution required' part of the specific terms is spelled out here:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you're broadening the scope to include &quot;intellectual property&quot; as some superset of copyright, I'll address that as well.  Putting aside whether or not software should be patentable, I don't think you're allowed get a patent (with yourself as inventor) for something created by someone else.  That would be a form of &lt;strong&gt;fraud&lt;/strong&gt; or plagarism.  That said, the current system doesn't seem to do a very good job checking that and so you might get away with it anyway.  Either way, I would think a posting here would ultimately qualify as prior art, and make your patent harder to enforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You certainly can build your own product that makes use of code here and sell that product.  Patent protection is not required for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T16:16:21.707" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:16:21.707" />
  <row Id="25128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18584" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:18:44.673" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Main problems in my experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Look at the possible duplicates!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you type in your title, a whole list of question appears underneath. You are supposed to look at those questions, to see if your question already have been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Tell us what the problem is that you are trying to solve.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got to Stackoverflow, because you ran into some problem and during your efforts to fix that problem you ran into a wall. 90% of the time you ran into a wall, because the way you decided to solve the problem is the wrong way. You end up trying to do something that is hard or impossible, Like &quot;How do I get the name of a variable in Python&quot;. Well, you don't. Python variables don't have names. In fact Python doesn't really have variables in the standard sense. You are barking up some sort of incorrect tree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So tell what the problem is you are trying to solve, give us some context, so we can point you towards the right tree to bark up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Format your code.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a button in the editor toolbar saying 10101010. Select your code, and press that button before you save. You also have a preview below your editor. There you can see how your question looks. Make sure it's readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That covers 99% of all bad questions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131332" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:18:44.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T15:18:44.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25125" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:20:10.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that some of us explicitly release our answers to the public domain. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100754/sinan-unur&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All original source snippets I post on stackoverflow are dedicated to the public domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if my help proves to be a valuable contribution to someone's job or product, it would be nice to have my name mentioned somewhere in the acknowledgments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, if you want to charge people for answers you post, you can start your own consulting business. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, ideas are &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; supposed to be patentable, only implementations (disregarding the current sad state of patent offices everywhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:20:10.613" />
  <row Id="25130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:35:44.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to lie... &lt;a href=&quot;http://shirt.woot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://shirt.woot.com&lt;/a&gt; supplies my entire t-shirt wardrobe. I must have 20+ shirts from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135618" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:35:44.577" />
  <row Id="25131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6037" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:36:16.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if anybody else is having this problem, but the request to pixel.quantserve.com takes something like 40 seconds to complete here (we have a Level3.net connection here, not some miserable Comcast or DSL).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something that can be done to make this work better/faster without my blocking it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:36:16.760" />
  <row Id="25132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:41:56.407" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I love it!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some feedback for woot: there should be something blinking - rapidly. Maybe the foreground and background could exchange colors a few times per second. And I'd like it to be more engaging, you know, like I should be able to click to punch or shoot something. Like a monkey. And, this pretty much goes without saying, it should expand to a larger size when my mouse gets near it, covering up some content that I wasn't going to read anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:41:56.407" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24927" CreationDate="2009-10-08T15:50:20.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this feature would be great.  I would like to also see the &quot;Education&quot; section sortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either some sort of drag and drop to arrange them the way the user wants, or an ascending/descending sort button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136970" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T15:50:20.180" />
  <row Id="25136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25141" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:03:19.017" Score="3" ViewCount="392" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/ouelbogue&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt; no longer seems to know (or remember) his name from day to day, I propose a naming contest to choose one for him that is both memorable and amusing enough for him to keep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T17:33:53.013" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:26:16.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:03:19.017" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T17:32:21.487" Title="Rename the Welbog contest" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;welbog&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="25137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:06:20.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maple-Syrup-Waffle-Laser-Bee&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:06:20.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:06:20.290" />
  <row Id="25138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:07:21.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;I suggest&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boggs McLaren&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitpic.com/kq2fy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Share photos on twitter with Twitpic&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/kq2fy.png&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; alt=&quot;Share photos on twitter with Twitpic&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastEditorUserId="24181" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T16:28:10.420" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:28:10.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:07:21.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:09:35.463" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ye Olde Wellebouge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:09:35.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:09:35.463" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:11:35.180" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He Who Cannot Be Named Consistently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:11:35.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:11:35.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25086" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:13:30.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The faster questions are asked, the less likely yours is to be answered. People ten take a new approach to solving the problem and go elsewhere - one question I saw 4 hours ago still only has 7 views, and no answers - I'd suggest the longer it remains unanswered, the less the chance it will be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:13:30.073" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:35:55.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say Francesca&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:35:55.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:35:55.400" />
  <row Id="25145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:36:35.913" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &quot;Susan&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:36:35.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:36:35.913" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:41:56.200" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;smeagol&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;random&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What were we talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:41:56.200" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:41:56.200" />
  <row Id="25147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:45:16.973" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Head DeCapitated &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:45:16.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:45:16.973" />
  <row Id="25148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:46:43.710" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AF7mjJIvGhUe7HM%3Ahttp%3A//happyvalleynews.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/prince%5Fsymbol2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hot linked&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/hot linked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:46:43.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:46:43.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:49:11.020" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FineToilet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PassableLoo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HealthyLavatory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:49:11.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:49:11.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:56:04.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welboug is ouf course prouper englishe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:24:44.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:56:04.940" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="25151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25079" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:57:49.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What'll happen is, users will just post the help text as their question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:57:49.320" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25136" CreationDate="2009-10-08T16:59:41.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &quot;Welbog&quot; is already an anagram for &quot;weblog&quot;, let's try out &lt;a href=&quot;http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=welbog&amp;amp;t=1000&amp;amp;a=n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a few others&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Bowleg&quot; might work, if he had legs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T16:59:41.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T16:59:41.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25188" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:04:12.757" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderator tools on SO say 'telematics' is a new tag with 59 (!) questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I selected the tag - up popped the list of 59 questions.  The 'gps' tag showed up as related, and listed 59 questions.  Clicking on 'gps' lists the doubly tagged 'telematics' and 'gps' tagged questions - 59 of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, 'telematics' seems to be an exact synonym of 'gps'.  As such, it should be removed in favour of the older 'gps' tag (and the relevant badge rescinded).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T20:19:23.010" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T01:00:03.863" Title="Tag 'telematics' is a new tag but is currently synonymous with 'gps'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:09:53.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I share OP's view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, configuring a tool for programming purposes and other purposes makes strictly no difference. The configurations rules to apply are strictly the same. Except that in one case the configuration is explicitly programming related, e.g. &quot;How to bind one keys sequence to compile my current file according to the language of the file currently edited?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless this question is not programming related (in that case, please close all text-editor discussions that are opened on SO), I can assure you that, in Vim context, the questions &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/47793/vim-hotkeys-for-specific-file&quot;&gt;Vim Hotkeys For Specific File&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, or &quot;How can I grep my edited log files when I hit F5?&quot; are strictly identical to the previous one. Why should we give different answers ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these forums disperse communities and the quality of the responses given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136977" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:09:53.477" />
  <row Id="25156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25163" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:10:31.107" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the wyswyg implementation on SO open sourced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it include the processing during a post back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T17:27:12.557" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:41:08.943" Title="Is the wyswyg implementation on SO open sourced?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25156" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:16:58.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are referencing the question/answer area where what you type and you see your answer already displayed. This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Markdown&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which is open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure of the processing during the postback. I'd imagine even if there there processing during the postback that there isn't much due to most of it occurring as you type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="18821" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T17:34:48.753" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:34:48.753" />
  <row Id="25158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23279" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:21:12.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23279/moving-questions-as-the-author/23280#23280&quot;&gt;What alex said&lt;/a&gt; - with the provision for some sort of limit on the number of moves and/or time between moves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:21:12.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T17:21:12.770" />
  <row Id="25159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24838" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:22:52.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few interesting combinations of avatars/usernames showing up in this thread:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;real names&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;real photographs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cute photographs/drawings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fake names&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use a pseudonym for a bit of privacy, but my username is a common nickname that anyone who has worked with me would instantly recognize. My avatar is a photograph I took myself and also recognizable as a former housemate that some of my (former) coworkers have met. So I'm traceable back to the &quot;real me&quot;, but still somewhat hidden behind a mask...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't downvote me, I'm adorable! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm surprised that TheTXI hasn't weighed in yet!  (ponies!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:22:52.860" />
  <row Id="25160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25154" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:28:15.223" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few ways to combat this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require a tag to be used by &lt;strong&gt;50 users&lt;/strong&gt; and not 50 questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rate limit the use of re-tagging by the same user. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require a week 'cool-down' period after the tag is created and used by 50 questions until the badge is awarded. It should give plenty of time for other users to spot gaming and revert.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get rid of the taxinomist badge. It has invited more than its fair share of controversy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the user in question, I asked him via Stack Overflow about the tagging. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1539012/creating-a-path-in-wpf-programatically/1539131#1539131&quot;&gt;He responded&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yup...went on a tagging spree... However, I didn't do it with the intent of inducing erroneous tagging, as ideed, gps technology is a subset of telematics. Telematics, or telemetry, is a technology that allows remote measurement and reporting of information, thus including a wider variety of fields than just gps: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry. I stand by my action, as further questions targeting the integrated use of telecommunications and informatics may very well choose the tag as a valid one. – luvieere 6 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take that response how you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T01:00:03.863" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T01:00:03.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25103" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:35:08.673" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh, there's a tab next to Edit called View CV.  It renders all the information with StackOverflow styling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at the top, on the right, it lists &quot;Stack Overflow Account&quot; and then your SO Badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130166" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:35:08.673" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25156" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:41:08.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The back-end is not open source, but the JavaScript Editor is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cky/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/cky/wmd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T17:41:08.943" />
  <row Id="25164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:43:53.150" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to as a question as an extension of a previous SO question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kind of like a question inheritance.  New question extends Old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently this is done by placing a link somewhere in the question text, but it'd be neat if it were more formal.  Then you could have links from 'base class' questions that point to all the questions that extend it, without having to manually update everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T17:57:27.587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:36:15.877" Title="Ask related question (question inheritance?)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25164" CreationDate="2009-10-08T17:48:15.233" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the current system works ok.  I like it when the linked related or reference questions are at the top of the new related question. As long as it is referenced/linked clearly in the &quot;child&quot; question, you should be good to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T18:06:05.980" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:06:05.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:01:27.267" Score="20" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a section that is missing currently from the CV details.  Any plans to add this?  Even though I know it's not really the most important thing to have listed as a part of one's career accomplishments it would be nice to optionally include this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148848" LastActivityDate="2011-06-02T23:20:51.790" Title="Can I have a section in the CV for entering professional certifications?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25166" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:15:59.817" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, this would be a good additional information.  The Server Fault people will appreciate this even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:15:59.817" />
  <row Id="25168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25066" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:17:10.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're writing anything 40,000 characters long (about equal to 7K English words) in one piece for any Internet forum, you're doing it wrong.  Srsly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:17:10.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25171" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:32:15.197" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at my reputation gains today and I noticed that for some posts I had a net gain of +65 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the number was odd struck me as strange, since I had read in the faq that you would get +10 for an upvote and -2 for a downvote (and no matter how you add/substract/multiply two even numbers, you cannot obtain an odd number).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at the post and noticed that I had gotten 5 up votes and the answer had been accepted, so I supposed that giving the accepted answer would net +15 points, however I do not understand why it is not on the FAQ or a page pointed to by the faq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not seem to take much to add this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132600" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T18:48:05.730" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:48:05.730" Title="Improving the reputation question in the faq" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25164" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:36:15.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only inherited questions that stick in my mind (there must be others, but I can't recall them just now) fall into two categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are asked by the most clueless, persistently wrong-headed, take-take-take-and-never-give users in an effort to get us to solve their problems for them instead of just pointing them in the right direction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are one adjective away from an existing question, and generally feel like the poster was anxious to post something--&lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;--and latched onto the first idea that presented itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that there are legitimate uses for such a feature, but I suspect that it will be of most use to the users I least want to have around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Count me as agin' it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:36:15.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25169" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:38:04.437" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. The rep cap bit is incorrect too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the current text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how it works: if you post a&#xA;  good question or helpful answer, it&#xA;  will be voted up by your peers: you&#xA;  gain 10 reputation points. If you post&#xA;  something that's off topic or&#xA;  incorrect, it will be voted down: you&#xA;  lose 2 reputation points. You can earn&#xA;  up to 200 reputation per day, but no&#xA;  more. (Note that votes for any posts&#xA;  marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not&#xA;  generate reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggested replacement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how it works: if you post a&#xA;  good question or helpful answer, it&#xA;  will be voted up by your peers: you&#xA;  gain 10 reputation points. If you post&#xA;  something that's off topic or&#xA;  incorrect, it will be voted down: you&#xA;  lose 2 reputation points. If an answer is&#xA;  accepted by the person asking the question,&#xA;  you gain an extra 15 points - and the questioner&#xA;  gains 2 points for accepting the answer. You don't&#xA;  get anything for casting an upvote, but a downvote&#xA;  costs 1 point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you earn&#xA;  200 reputation in a day, only accepted answers&#xA;  (or &quot;bounty&quot; - see below) will give you any&#xA;  more reputation for the rest of that day.&#xA;  &quot;Days&quot; are measured from UTC midnight to UTC midnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that votes for any posts&#xA;  marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not&#xA;  generate reputation - although they can still&#xA;  earn you badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:38:04.437" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:45:56.187" Score="1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at an old question of mine, to which I've already accepted an answer. I discovered that unaccepting an answer, then accepting it again right away granted me 2 rep! This only works once per answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if a rep recalc will clear that rep gain or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T23:29:29.170" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T00:00:00.923" Title="Unaccepting, then Accepting Old Answer Gives Rep (Again?)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25101" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:48:05.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed yesterday when I signed up that it took a minute or two for &quot;No associated accounts&quot; to change. I assumed there was some sort of caching going on, and that the act of associating the account did not invalidate the cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:48:05.823" />
  <row Id="25175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25173" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:53:22.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an answer you can test with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:53:22.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-08T18:53:22.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25177" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:54:27.390" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked more than my share of questions.  And sometimes, I want to do something and I know I asked it on SO, but can't remember it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific syntax for searching just my own questions?&#xA;The reason I am asking is that when I do general searching, I get a lot of noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-10T00:07:56.837" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T17:10:44.793" Title="How can I search my own questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25176" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:56:46.557" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:9382&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(or whatever user id)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T18:56:46.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25176" CreationDate="2009-10-08T18:58:04.497" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUPER NINJA SPECIAL SEARCH OPTION&lt;/strong&gt; - Search by particular user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the syntax &quot;user:[UserID]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;: user:22164&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the vainglorious searches on your own post, you can use the clipped shorthand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame&quot;&gt;user:me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other Special Search Options can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T23:21:17.837" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T23:21:17.837" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25196" CreationDate="2009-10-08T19:33:50.437" Score="0" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: I'm trying something new here, so bear with me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-----Original Message-----&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;     From: Khaled Mohamed R*** [&lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;@hotmail.com]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;     To: Inedo Media&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;     Sent: Mon 9/28/2009 10:30 AM&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;     Subject: JQuery Dynamic Pages  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;artcile about how to navigate between pages without reload.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: i.e., if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T20:20:31.307" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:30:53.070" Title="Advertising Inquiry: JQuery artcile [sic]" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T19:40:48.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Khaled,&#xA;&#xA;Thank you for your email. I have no fraking [sic] idea what you're asking. &#xA;If this is a programming question, please go to http://stackoverflow.com&#xA;and ask it there. If this is an ad-sales question, I'm your man. Just&#xA;re-write your question first.&#xA;&#xA;All the best,&#xA;&#xA;Alex Papadimoulis&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T21:30:53.070" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:30:53.070" />
  <row Id="25186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T19:41:16.303" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna take the cynical route here.  I gotta think that if someone actually stoops to send a programming help request via that contact, even after seeing the big &quot;Ask Question&quot; button at the top of the page, they're clueless enough that you could probably reply with the exact solution and they still wouldn't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; you could hope to do with it is open a new question on their behalf and reply with a hyperlink to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, you mean in fun.  In that case I'd paste the jQuery documentation into the body of the e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T20:02:10.023" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:02:10.023" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T19:41:39.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Mohammed,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe you have reached this&#xA;  address in error. If you are&#xA;  interested in advertising on&#xA;  Stackoverflow, please reply. If you&#xA;  have a technical question, please use&#xA;  the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; link on&#xA;  www.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex Papadamillousse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T19:41:39.063" />
  <row Id="25188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25154" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:07:46.757" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely abusive. Tag removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this answers my &quot;show me actual abuse of the Taxonomist badge&quot; question, but this is the only one I know of. And there will be .. serious consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T20:12:50.757" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:12:50.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16626" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:08:20.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hah, apparently now there is one : &lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://electronics.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44084" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:08:20.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:10:48.140" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subject: RE: JQuery Dynamic Pages  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;emali about how to correspond between peoples without confuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:10:48.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25193" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:12:27.200" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just noticed that the syntax highlighting no longer highlights C# &quot;&lt;code&gt;abstract&lt;/code&gt;&quot; keyword correctly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1540070/is-this-an-abuse-of-the-type-system/1540083#1540083&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1540070/is-this-an-abuse-of-the-type-system/1540083#1540083&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it used to work correctly before. Anything changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:41:37.737" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:41:37.737" Title="Syntax highlighting fails to highlight &quot;abstract&quot; correctly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:15:38.587" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would respond:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RTFM N00b!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:15:38.587" />
  <row Id="25193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25191" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:16:49.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;we deployed a new Google prettify.js a few days ago; maybe it's their bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: deployed yet another prettify.js.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:12:08.930" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:12:08.930" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:20:55.627" Score="18" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like this is almost certainly a duplicate, but I couldn't find what it's a duplicate of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an RSS feed for updates (new answers, edits, comments, maybe even votes) on your &quot;favorite&quot; questions? If no, can we have one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T02:16:59.960" Title="RSS feed for favorite questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="25195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23420" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:24:51.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just use three significant figures for everything, including badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.00k&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10.0k&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100k&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1.00M&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10.0M&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100M&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136990" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:24:51.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:30:13.507" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Mohammed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would love to assist you with your&#xA;  programming inquiry. However, I'm&#xA;  afraid that in your current delusional&#xA;  state (as evidenced by your inability&#xA;  to form complete sentences and use correct capitalization and/or&#xA;  punctuation), you may be incapable of&#xA;  comprehending the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My official recommendation, therefore,&#xA;  would be to consider a career which&#xA;  does not require the ability to&#xA;  transpose complex thought patterns and&#xA;  algorithms into specific syntactic and&#xA;  lexical constructs, and leave software&#xA;  engineering to those who are both&#xA;  literate (thus able to see the large&#xA;  &quot;Ask Question&quot; button) and able to&#xA;  communicate with other carbon-based&#xA;  life-forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In closing, thank you for your&#xA;  attempt. I'll give you a cookie to go&#xA;  away now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T21:03:05.307" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:03:05.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:43:00.910" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Khaled,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:43:00.910" />
  <row Id="25198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25194" CreationDate="2009-10-08T20:55:55.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an excellent suggestion, I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed before&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133554" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T20:55:55.380" />
  <row Id="25199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:01:36.510" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How would you have responded to this email?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't. Don't encourage that sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UPDATE: i.e., if you were drunk. In other words, how would you want to respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh... In that case, I'd post about it on Meta, and enjoy the responses...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:01:36.510" />
  <row Id="25200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:09:43.607" Score="11" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Living on a remote island in the south Pacific, I couldn't justify the overseas travel to attend any of the DevDays presentations. However the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/can-someone-write-a-review-of-the-so-devdays/25003#25003&quot;&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt; from the Boston event sound like there were some really good talks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to listen to the presentations; this would be a great addition to the current Stack Overflow podcast content (which, of course, is already a bit lighter during DevDays). Many other conferences make audio available through &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IT Conversations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T03:06:44.483" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T03:06:44.483" Title="Will presentation recordings from DevDays be available?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;audio&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25226" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:11:11.517" Score="4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff asked me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/25103/list&quot;&gt;ask this as a new question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This section of the About says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Why is this better than other job sites?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hiring managers&lt;/strong&gt; can find great developers, see what they’ve done, and &lt;em&gt;even check out the answers they’ve written on Stack Overflow&lt;/em&gt;. Unlike traditional resumes, a Stack Overflow CV gives hiring managers insight into a developer’s real work and skills instead of a meaningless list of acronyms. &lt;em&gt;(Emphasis Added)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; says in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24897/stackoverflow-careers/24903#24903&quot;&gt;comment to this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I guess the primary difference is that we feel the free job sites are filled with noise, because they're free. Also &lt;strong&gt;we'll have superior integration in highlighting your SO profile, since we have low-level access to the API and DB&lt;/strong&gt;. – Jeff Atwood♦ 23 hours ago &lt;em&gt;(emphasis added)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will our Stack Overflow Profile be displayed? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will it be shown in relation to our CV? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presently it's just a link, but if and when that changes, it'd be a good feature to allow us to see the integration of the two as they would see it when they browse the careers site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're being shown information from our Stack Overflow profile, it's in our interest to know what they see and how they see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T02:37:58.793" Title="Will employers get a special view of our Stack Overflow Profile?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="25202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:15:29.323" Score="30" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote was only seconds old, minutes at the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Didn't it occur to SO coders that sometimes, on a second read, you realize that the answer is actually wrong (perhaps when you read the right one a few answers down)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come &lt;strong&gt;ON&lt;/strong&gt;, at least make it a day!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130299" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T09:05:37.487" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:30:17.483" Title="Isn't the &quot;vote too old to be changed&quot; a little too eager?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25200" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:16:16.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like this as well, but I won't be holding my breath. This would kind of screw the people who paid to go out of the entry cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:16:16.233" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25202" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:18:33.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19021/request-change-in-behaviour-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited&quot;&gt;at&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21462/undoing-an-old-vote-cannot-be-recast-because-vote-is-too-old&quot;&gt;great&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18360/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-but-i-havent-voted&quot;&gt;length&lt;/a&gt;. The problem this solves is that of fraudulent/gaming votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic concept behind voting now is: Be sure you want to vote, and how you want to vote, when you vote. It's a few seconds in case you accidentally click the button, not in case you re-read the answer and change your mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As tvanfosson mentions, there is a special case workaround for this: If you have enough rep, edit the post, then you can change your vote. There are potentially ethical issues around that, IMHO, but it's a viable option. (You could always make a trivial edit -- punctuation, capitalization, something small that poses no ethical issue.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:18:33.107" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="25205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25184" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:28:55.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question ignored as not advertising&#xA;  related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:28:55.990" />
  <row Id="25206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25200" CreationDate="2009-10-08T21:34:36.917" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked Joel about this, and IIRC (I can't find the email) he said that he hoped so, but it would depend on what was available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I really hope they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; recorded - and I don't think it particularly screws over people who've gone any more than people who attend live concerts are screwed over by videos coming out. Actually &quot;being there&quot; is part of the value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T21:34:36.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T22:04:43.090" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a couple of questions on kiln.stackexchange I've seen questions with more votes than views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My initial assumption is that you have to be able to view a question to vote on it so this doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just due to caching of pages when viewed? If so, does 'views' mean number of times a copy of the page was created (and cached)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a global issue affecting all sites? or just a stackexchange issue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that if this behaviour is by design it will only show up in smaller stackexchange sites where there are fewer users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131125" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:10:52.777" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:10:52.777" ClosedDate="2009-10-08T22:22:02.717" Title="How can a question have more votes than views?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;views&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-08T22:32:09.250" Score="11" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;When is it ok to post two answers to one question on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T02:53:31.963" Title="What is the official etiquette on answering a question twice?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="25210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25209" CreationDate="2009-10-08T22:35:45.423" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have two distinct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's better to post two different answers, than to put them into one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions will be multiple-answer types directly, like polls, tips-and-tricks or best-practices.  This allows the one's the community feel are the best/correct to float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some computer languages have a lot of flexibility in how to solve any one problem, so by listing them both as separate answers (if &lt;strong&gt;very distinct&lt;/strong&gt;) they can both be voted on by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you put two very different answers in one, then one could be a great answer, and one could be a terrible way to do things, but the upvotes (or downvotes) on the good (or bad) answer will drag the other along with it to the top (or bottom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-08T22:52:56.903" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T22:52:56.903" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25209" CreationDate="2009-10-08T22:36:07.450" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is possible for a question to have two valid answers from the same person, the odds are high that it's a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(in other words, it's a poll question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general there should be one answer per person per question; if you need to amplify your answer, &lt;strong&gt;edit it!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T22:36:07.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25209" CreationDate="2009-10-08T22:36:35.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they offer different approaches to the problem?¨&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes one answer may be directly related with the problem the user is asking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other answer may be something that you suggest as an alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &lt;em&gt;&quot;How do I shoot my self in the foot with C++&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1st answer ... .&lt;em&gt;First you do #define if while etc. etc&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2nd answer ... &lt;em&gt;Why use C++, you can use ( this, and that, and the other )&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There always can be two answer for the same question ( specially when is vague ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T22:36:35.733" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25101" CreationDate="2009-10-08T22:41:33.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the association was working properly, logging in with either Google or OpenID should go to the same account as they do when logging into SO, but they do not. Something is screwy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The careers account is indeed created as new, and then you use the associate tab to associate your SO account with your careers account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The matching of SO account to SOC account is done via openid after you've created a new SOC account. It does not change any information in your SOC profile; they are totally independent sets of data. All it does is make the change you can see on the View CV tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't associate email the address at the bottom of every SOC page for assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-08T22:41:33.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25571" CreationDate="2009-10-08T22:54:30.443" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to create a new question, typed my (short) title, and long question body, I scrolled down and clicked &quot;Ask Your Question&quot; (actually this happened while editing an old question, which had a title of less than 15 characters, but that's a different issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The button is greyed out (like usual when you click), and.. nothing happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reloaded the page and tried resubmitting. Same problem again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually I noticed, in tiny red writing next to the &quot;Title&quot; input heading, an error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Title *required - at least 15 characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..so I entered a longer heading and all worked correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kind of a usability problem - the error message doesn't appear until you click submit, which you have to scroll down (at least at a screen resolution of 1440x900, which is common for laptops)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an screenshot more clearly demonstrating the issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/7623/shorttitleerrorexample.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot demonstrating the &amp;quot;invisible&amp;quot; error&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two possible solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scroll the page to the top when you click submit. Might be a bit jarring, as when the page changes, you'd expect to be viewing your newly submitted question..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Display a similar message next to the submit button, such as &quot;There were errors with your question: title must be 15 characters or longer&quot;, or simply &quot;There was an error with your question, please double-check each input&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T08:46:14.410" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:18:03.210" Title="&quot;Title *required - at least 15 characters&quot; error hard to see" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;error&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="25218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24994" CreationDate="2009-10-09T00:45:14.610" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I left feeling like I spent my time very well spent by going. I would have liked the internet connection to be more stable and the chairs to not hurt my back but I got so many ideas on new technologies to use and new business ideas that I'm still sorting through it all. I went to a very expensive conference a few weeks ago here in Boston and I don't think it had as big of an impact on me. I felt like the room was filled with people who were very smart and were looking to learn something cool and have fun. I think the consistent theme of &quot;fun&quot; made the conference a joy to be apart of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highlights were the funny movie during the intro, the FogBugz demo, Miguel's talk, and seeing a lot of my old coworkers. I mention FogBugz because I had no idea how good the product had gotten since I last looked at it. I never had a bad opinion of it but I couldn't stop thinking &quot;How do I get to use this thing?&quot; When they announced the StartUp package I was thrilled and can't wait to try it now for the company I'm in the process of starting up now. The MVC talk was interesting but just OK. I wasn't sold entirely even though I wanted to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're reading this and on the fence about going to the one in your city you should go. You're actually crazy for even considering not going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132448" LastEditorUserId="132448" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T14:09:48.573" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T14:09:48.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-09T00:45:14.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-09T01:17:46.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the introductory 30$ for 3 years (10$ a year) instead of 300$ for that period, I will definitely join most likely, I feel that one thing that could hurt me a little is all the competition because there are SOOOO many users who are more qualified than me but at the same time, I really think this is a good idea to help support the Stack Overflow family I feel obligated to contribute.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thought as well is that employers looking for good qualified computer/programmers/IT whatever field will most likely find the BEST candidates on this site! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-17T10:38:33.113" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T10:38:33.113" />
  <row Id="25220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T01:23:24.083" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16902/accept-rate-closed-and-no-answer-questions-should-not-count&quot;&gt;Accept Rate - Closed and &amp;ldquo;No Answer&amp;rdquo; questions should not count&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be GREAT to not count unanswered questions against the user's answered acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: a user has 100 questions and 5 of the questions have 0 answers (un-answered questions) then these 5 questions should not hurt the OP's acceptance rate percentage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this hasn't been discussed a million times. Or even worse, it has been implemented and I didn't even realize it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T01:53:05.683" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T01:53:05.683" ClosedDate="2009-10-09T05:14:56.287" Title="Don't count unanswered questions against a user's accept rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-09T02:06:15.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about it way too much, and reasoned out a way to evaluate the price of a CSO CV listing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you go to find a job, you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; get offers. You may not get offered every job you want, and you may not accept every offer you receive, but you'll probably get at least one offer. Without a doubt, you'll get at least zero offers. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you list on CSO, you'll get more offers. In fact, you'll get at least zero more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each offer you get has a value. It's the sum of the total compensation package and all of the intangibles: location, type of work, team chemistry, etc. (It's hard to put a number on the intangibles, but you should be able to come up with a reasonable estimate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's figure out how much a CSO listing is worth. If you end up accepting an offer through the referral of a friend, or a recruiter, or another job site, or you didn't get a job at all, then CSO is worth nothing to you. Its value is $0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If CSO does connect you to your next employer, you can determine how much the site was worth using this formula:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; CSOListingValue = theOfferYouAccepted - theNextBestOffer;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my very limited, anecdotal experience, the difference between the best offer and the next best offer tends to be quite significant -- at least $5,000. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, I'm not just comparing salary. I'm assigning a value to intangibles for the purpose of being able to compare two offers and make a decision. If you think $5,000 is way off-base, please substitute your own number and follow along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's assume the value of CSO is either $5,000 (if it connects me to my next job) or $0 (if it doesn't). If that's the case, I would need at least a 1/50 chance of getting the best offer via CSO to justify spending $99. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I happen to think that StackOverflow is a great brand, it's a great way to showcase my talent, the Careers site's design is very well thought out, and the best employers will show up. So I put the odds at more like 1/10. Thus a $99 listing is in fact worth 1/10 * $5,000, or $500 to me. Even though, IMHO, I'm using very conservative figures, it works out to quite a deal!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, if I didn't have a very impressive CV and StackOverflow profile, my odds of success would be much less, which makes the listing worth less. While $99 is a bargain for you and me, it's a rip-off for someone who doesn't know anything about programming. So there should, in theory, be a very high signal to noise ratio. It's worth at try at least. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T11:54:32.610" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T11:54:32.610" />
  <row Id="25223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25202" CreationDate="2009-10-09T02:16:33.733" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is arguably a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the window is a little too short but I'm not too fussed about that I guess. I only have one real concern. Now I haven't tested this but I've seen it reported elsewhere. It seems that if you vote on something and then retract your vote the timer starts so you still have a narrow window to pick something and then it's locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it works like that then I think that needs to be changed. I guess it could be argued that someone will sit there and click down (pause) retract down repeatedly to effectively game the system but... seriously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I thought of another problem and this one has happened to me: when you post or edit you have a 5 minute window to edit that and it counts as the original edit. I've had and given downvotes for a problem on something that's still being edited in that window but after the short window where edits can still happen after you then can't change the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just not convinced alleged vote gaming is worth these problems even if they aren't major.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T02:16:33.733" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25225" CreationDate="2009-10-09T02:27:22.243" Score="7" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to configure your Stack Overflow account so that you receive notification emails when posts are made to specific tags?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do you simply have to log on to see new posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137006" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-16T17:02:07.577" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T17:02:59.793" Title="Email notifications for new questions matching specific tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="25225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25224" CreationDate="2009-10-09T02:32:35.153" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on a tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Check your browser notification spot that shows up the RSS icon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/waffles&quot; title=&quot;get your leather on&quot;&gt;subscribe to the RSS for that tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not email, but it's just as in your face as you want it to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T02:32:35.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25201" CreationDate="2009-10-09T02:37:58.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Employers will see your StackOverflow signature (name, reputation, picture, and badge counts) right on the search results page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently we're expecting that employers will search, see a bunch of candidates, and click through on the ones who look like they might be good fits. After they've clicked through to a bunch of them, they'll check little boxes on the ones they want to approach. This will give them an email form where they can compose an email to the job seeker explaining who they are and what they're hiring for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once this stuff is actually working, we'll put up screenshots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T02:37:58.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25118" CreationDate="2009-10-09T02:40:45.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is far more common on CVs outside the US. For various and sundry reasons related to the litigious American legal system, it is rare inside the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T02:40:45.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25209" CreationDate="2009-10-09T02:53:31.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have already had a couple of &quot;real&quot; (e.g. not a poll or fluff or humor) questions where I answered with 2 or even 3 solutions, explaining the reasons to pick each one. And i'm a relative newbie on SO (only 4k rep). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One place where this situation is especially likely to come true is Perl (aka ThereIsMoreThanOneWayToDoIt language).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I usually squeeze all my ideas into a single post in such situations, I greatly appreciate the ability to NOT put them in one basket, so to speak - e.g. when I feel that posting one of the answers is education and adds to the site's useful content, yet the other one is &quot;more deserving&quot; (e.g. cuter/more elegant) and you don't want the up/down votes from one to affect the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T02:53:31.963" />
  <row Id="25230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25248" CreationDate="2009-10-09T03:04:12.817" Score="5" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;code&gt;Experience&lt;/code&gt; section of my Stack Overflow CV, there's no place for me to put in jobs that have lasted less than a year (such as short term contracts). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now if I put a three month contract in, it makes it seem like I was employed there for an entire year, instead of 3 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty standard to have something like one of the three following headers for a job on your CV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;June 2008 - September 2008 (3-month Contract)&#xA;June 2008 - September 2008 (Contract)&#xA;June 2008 - September 2008&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Feature Request&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add the ability to narrow down employment to Month/Year, and not just Year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T06:32:10.360" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:32:10.360" Title="Add Months to Timespan for Job Experience" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T03:51:28.657" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example, if you had a job writing J2EE apps then it's quite likely all these tags will apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;j2ee&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hibernate, eclipselink, openjpa, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jpa&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ejb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spring-mvc, seam, struts or something similar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;servlets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jsp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;html&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;css&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;javascript&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jquery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ant or maven&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;oracle, mysql, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's before you even use anything nonstandard and noteworthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T06:47:49.333" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:47:54.107" Title="Increase the tags beyond 5 for experience on Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;experience&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T03:53:24.677" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;How long did it take for SO to get a full page of 10k users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I browse around SO I see 79 featured questions, 8.5 pages of &gt; 10k users, and questions that have 400 upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long did it take SO to get to this kind of activity? Are there similar hopes for SF and SU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously they're a LOT younger, but does anyone know if they're growing at the same/similar/faster/slower speed than SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I look forward to the day on SF and SU where a question (CW or no) can get 400 votes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If there were a CC dump of SF/SU I would most likely run these statistics myself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T11:53:00.257" Title="How long did it take for SO to get a full page of 10k users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;growth&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25245" CreationDate="2009-10-09T04:07:49.547" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know how to see all questions matching to one tag, but how do I see all questions that match up with my set of interesting tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137008" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T04:21:09.477" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T05:54:26.357" Title="How can I see all the posts matching my interested tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25239" CreationDate="2009-10-09T04:21:38.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no built in functionality for this, you'll have to use a userscript to achieve what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T04:21:38.087" />
  <row Id="25243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T05:21:04.777" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate that thing that shows up on the top of the screen and asks if it's my first time here EVERY SINGLE TIME I visit this site.  I click Log In, and it flashes AGAIN.  Then, when I'm logged in, ANOTHER bar flashes up there, and continues to flash every time I go to another page, until I dismiss it.  It grabs my attention, every single time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it would just not do that annoying fading in animation, I would be a happy camper.  If it didn't show up at all on the Login page, since if I'm logging in it's obviously not my first time here, I'd be an even happier camper.  Anything else you can do to reduce the annoyance of the annoying bar would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135785" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-15T12:59:57.020" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T12:59:57.020" Title="Why does the &quot;First Time Here&quot; thing have to flash so annoyingly?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notification-bar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25243" CreationDate="2009-10-09T05:30:43.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only ever notice the bar show up after I delete my cookies, and even then it only shows up the one time (since I immediately close it and it never shows up again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T05:30:43.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25239" CreationDate="2009-10-09T05:54:26.357" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash+OR+flex+OR+actionscript+OR+actionscript-3&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash+OR+flex+OR+actionscript+OR+actionscript-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make a url matching your tags and bookmark it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T05:54:26.357" />
  <row Id="25246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T06:18:11.943" Score="14" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25055/cso-display-countries-cities-of-employers&quot;&gt;CSO : Display countries/cities of employers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've searched for jobs within 500 miles of where I live on jobs.stackoverflow.com, and I get at the most, three jobs.  None for where I live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the appeal to pay money if there aren't any Canadian companies using careers?  Will it be possible for us to see how many employers are using the system in our region, or will it basically be gambling $100 to be seen by potentially nobody, and we have no way of knowing? (No answers about moving to the states to pursue opportunities please ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T07:47:16.700" LastActivityDate="2010-05-30T04:51:00.887" Title="Is Careers going to be worth it for Canadians?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25243" CreationDate="2009-10-09T06:25:41.540" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you're accepting our &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; cookie which tells us if you've been here at least 1 time before, ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we don't see the &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; cookie, we assume you are brand new, and set the &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; cookie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way this could happen is if you refuse the &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; cookie. Then you'd see it on every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:25:41.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25230" CreationDate="2009-10-09T06:30:22.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already do this -- it's a free-form field with no validation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add this as example text so it is clearer that this is OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:30:22.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24955" CreationDate="2009-10-09T06:46:42.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;we now allow up to 10 tags on job and education sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:46:42.347" />
  <row Id="25250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25233" CreationDate="2009-10-09T06:47:54.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;we now allow 10 tags on job and education sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T06:47:54.107" />
  <row Id="25254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25246" CreationDate="2009-10-09T07:30:25.797" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We on the Stack Overflow team love Canada!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3167/kissedcanadianflag.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See? Proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T07:30:25.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25234" CreationDate="2009-10-09T07:42:02.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See Google Trends for their visitor statistics. That should give you some indication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://trends.google.com/websites?q=serverfault.com%2C+superuser.com&amp;amp;geo=all&amp;amp;date=2009&amp;amp;sort=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://trends.google.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T07:42:02.497" />
  <row Id="25256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25215" CreationDate="2009-10-09T07:46:43.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also display the error message after leaving the title text box without even clicking the submit button. But it is more work to implement.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you display one of these red error messages boxes after hitting submit and take care that they are always displayed within the visible area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T07:46:43.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T08:14:10.533" Score="0" ViewCount="730" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know language in which stack overflow written in. &#xA;Its the second website I visit when I start my browser after google. It hasn't ever shown me server too busy or server under maintenance. When I think of google python comes in my mind , so is the same language powering stacky. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T08:16:14.933" ClosedDate="2009-10-09T09:07:23.047" Title="In which language stack overflow written in?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;language&gt;" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T08:42:12.953" Score="2" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24897/stackoverflow-careers&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Careers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't everyone think that the pricing of careers is all wrong? At $99 you need at least give the impression of giving more value than the other 'free' sites and I don't see that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My concerns: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;less employers on. So why pay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You've not explained how you are attracting hiring managers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Site will be US based.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;$99 is a lot of money for the unemployed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T10:00:52.343" ClosedDate="2009-10-09T12:04:01.890" Title="$99 to file my cv? pricing all wrong" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25260" CreationDate="2009-10-09T09:00:54.743" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I immediately thought the $29 introductory price was funny after reading one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001301.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's latest posts.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Williams-Sonoma introduced bread machines, sales were slow. When they added a &quot;deluxe&quot; version that was 50% more expensive, they started flying off the shelves; the first bread machine now appeared to be a bargain&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When contemplating the purchase of a $25 pen, the majority of subjects would drive to another store 15 minutes away to save $7. When contemplating the purchase of a $455 suit, the majority of subjects would not drive to another store 15 minutes away to save $7. The amount saved and time involved are the same, but people make very different choices. Watch out for relative thinking; it comes naturally to all of us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CSO is anchoring us in with the $29 price for three years, but in order to get around the relativity questions in your head - focus on the one price and think about whether you'd pay $29 for 3 years if the $99/year price wasn't there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0061854549&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Excellent book though.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T09:00:54.743" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25263" CreationDate="2009-10-09T09:04:36.173" Score="6" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm active on SO and got some reputation there, but only come to meta if I find a bug or really badly want a feature. I use the search and find the exact same feature request I would ask for, but can't vote it up, because I'd need some reputation on meta. Normally, I'm just annoyed and go back to SO and live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it would be helpful to give users from SO, SF or SU there highest reputation on meta, so they could use all the features and one would see, they got a lot points and know the platform well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Maybe I get some rep. through this question and can vote on the &quot;someone also commented on a question you commented on&quot;-feature)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60518" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T12:33:48.607" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:45:25.230" Title="Should we give users their highest SO, SF or SU rep. on meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25262" CreationDate="2009-10-09T09:09:01.063" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried associating your accounts under account associations in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since your already associated the order of association may not be working. The rep boost only applies if you have more then 200 rep on any other site. However your welcome to try and to remove your association and reapply. I am not sure if this will work and give you the boost if you have since gained 200 rep on the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall your trust on the rest of the sites does not mean we trust you on Meta. And gaining 15 points on Meta is not extremely hard to do either way if you provide a good answer or question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T09:09:01.063" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25260" CreationDate="2009-10-09T09:20:43.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first of all, it's not $99 to file your CV right now: it's $29, for 3 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your other points are addressed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt;; I don't know what else I could add, unless you have specific sections you have questions about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T09:20:43.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25260" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:00:52.343" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My honest opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The $99.00 will ensure that the value of the candidates is high enough for employers to pay to use the site. Although most career sites are free, in my experience the level of service they supply is shocking, and in all honestly the level of the CV's aren't that great either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By paying to list your CV, you are forced to provide detailed and valid information, and go the extra mile to be seen. Also the service cater for people that are serious over getting a better position. I don't see Careers easily attracting the general fluff that other sites have at this point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me personally the $99.00 is out of reach when coming to listing my CV, unless I am seriously planning on leaving ZA for the US or UK. Same goes for the $29.00 fee introduction since I am not interested in leaving my position now. However, if I was serious about leaving, I would make a plan to get the funds, knowing that the level of the employers will be high, and it also shows that you are seriously invested in your own career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely a smart move from Jeff and Joel side, and with Joel's experience with the current job listing market, well worth the effort and energy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too summarise. It is about quality much rather then quantity.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The higher quality employers will be attracted solely because of the fee. Knowing that the candidates are vested in securing a better position and advancing their careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T10:00:52.343" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25272" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:04:36.240" Score="3" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until I reached 10K rep that I realized when you delete a post, it really only hides it from the thread...  Unless of course you are 10K+ or a moderator...  Since the delete is not occurring, I think it would be interesting to consider changing the text to Hide.  Undelete can become &quot;Show&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that there is no way that we can actually get the delete to delete, but that would by far be my preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a couple of the answers had a good point in them, maybe this question should be asked differently...  Many are comfortable with SharePoint and we know that the deletion of content from there goes into a recycle bin that can be emptied.  This whole thing would go away if a delete simply was a delete.  If we follow the SharePoint concept, then I should be able to empty the recycle bin.  If you can vote to delete a post which is a delete after the votes reaches the require limit, why not add a rule to the process that will do the delete if the owner requests it?&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;still can't comment, so I'll edit for now...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@diago: But the delete is not deleting anything.  It also still shows it to others.  So how is that something that is already not confusing to a user?  I would also venture out on a limb and guess that a moderator undeleting a post that an owner deleted is not a good idea...  So with that said, now that I know a post of mine that I deleted can be undeleted by a mod, then it definitely is not deleted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@jonskeet: I like the metaphor of the recycle bin...  Maybe I just need an option in my user profile to empty the darn thing from time to time?  I also completely agree that trying to articulate what is happening would take up far too much real estate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@random: actually embarassing, I fixed it... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@random: jQuery file loads from the Google server is blocked by one of my companies filters, so anything on the SO sites (basically everything) that requires the jQuery files no longer works for me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T11:03:17.367" LastActivityDate="2010-12-23T22:04:02.703" Title="Should &quot;Delete&quot; be replaced with &quot;Hide&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25270" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:07:29.757" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this will cause more confusion then is neccessary. Delete means I no longer want my answer to appear. The ability to vote for deletion by those that can ensures that answers or questions that are truly valuable is not lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have on occassion undeleted someone's answer because it was really good, however they deleted it due to some comment or not feeling it is valuable. At the end of the day it also gives 10K mods a good indication of what posts should be deleted and which to keep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25270/should-delete-be-replaced-with-hide/25272#25272&quot;&gt;Jon's&lt;/a&gt; answer explains it a lot more simply then what I do, however something that you also need to keep in mind is that all data once submitted is covered under the CC-Wiki License. Therefore the community has the right to decide if something should be deleted or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a question or answer has received sufficent delete votes then it acutally gets purged from the DB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SharePoint does exactly the same thing when it comes to delete, where everything is deleted into a central recycle bin which administrators can use to restore items, and it has become a defacto across a lot of management applications recently. I don't see any problem with the way it is implemented on [S]OFU or any reason to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T10:48:38.030" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T10:48:38.030" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25270" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:09:38.350" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means delete for the vast majority of users. Even on SO, there are only 8 full pages of 10K users, compared with over 1500 pages of users with at least 11 rep... and then of course there are the vast hordes browsing without an account at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put it this way - it means &quot;Delete&quot; just as much as the &quot;Delete&quot; option on a file in Windows, where it'll end up in the recycle bin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hide&quot; would sound like you're just hiding it from your current view, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect there's no way to be absolutely accurate about this without also taking up &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; too much space on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T10:09:38.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25234" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:22:56.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow started with quite a big amount of traffic and that was because of the popularity of Joel and Jeff's blogs. Secondly, developer community tends to be very tightly interrelated. Things spread quite quickly and as soon as people know of a good development resource, they tend to spread the word. To top it off, there was reputation which was something to brag about and developer's take pride in showing off their development skill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure that other two sites are not even close in their growth rate as of SO. It will take more time for SF and SU but the overall idea of these sites is so good that eventually they might catch up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30341" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T10:22:56.347" />
  <row Id="25274" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:51:09.867" Score="9" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there are laws that stop agents charging before putting someone CV forward etc.  However I don’t know if they will hit the stackoverflow career's website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Joel - you may be right that it is only &quot;exclusive arrangements&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Annakata - The employment agent regulations in the UK are &lt;strong&gt;very extensive&lt;/strong&gt; and in the past have affected companies &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; would not think of as an employment agent&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;Belong that it needs a legal person that specializes in UK employment law.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T09:58:08.083" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T16:02:25.680" Title="It is legal under UK law to charge someone to post their CV?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25694" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:54:37.647" Score="13" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26820/any-plans-to-restrict-recruiter-access-in-careers-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Any plans to restrict&#xA;  recruiter access in&#xA;  careers.stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. can I limit access to my CV so that only the company that has the job can see it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish to choose the agents I work with, rather then having 101 of them ring me up and lot of them put my CV forward without asking me first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have hit this problem in the past with other CV posting web sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T21:00:04.853" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:00:04.853" Title="Will Agents be allowed to use careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38910" CreationDate="2009-10-09T10:56:37.457" Score="21" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that my Linked Profile already has a list of jobs, dates etc.  I would like to be able to &lt;strong&gt;start&lt;/strong&gt; my careers CV by importing from my Linked Profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T11:19:11.970" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T11:19:29.067" Title="Input CV from LinkedIn" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;linkedin&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="25277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25274" CreationDate="2009-10-09T11:22:41.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The company is US-based, though, so if it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; illegal in the UK, I doubt it would matter (then again, I know very little about &lt;em&gt;international&lt;/em&gt; law).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T11:22:41.183" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25276" CreationDate="2009-10-09T11:24:55.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I concur - maintaining yet another source to be as up-to-date as the other is (I think) going to be a pain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already maintain: LinkedIn, resume file (doc &amp;amp; pdf), plus whatever various companies require if/when I apply there (though why they &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; don't support importing from LinkedIn or a pdf/rtf/txt format resume, I do not know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T11:24:55.877" />
  <row Id="25280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25274" CreationDate="2009-10-09T11:50:31.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well they didn't force you to post your CV, you clearly have to undertake a step to do this, so it's not like you have a strong case now have you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T11:50:31.790" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25234" CreationDate="2009-10-09T11:53:00.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So grew very reapidly when it started, partly due to knowledge of its existance quickly spreading throughout developers, thanks to Joel and Jeff's blogs, and quite alot of build up through the community before it launched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand when SF launched the only people who were really aware of it were programmers who used SO, who were also sysadmins, or had an interest in that area, so it has taken longer for word to spread about SF in the sysadmin community. I'm quite reguarly seeing posts on twitter etc from sysadmins who have just discovered SF, and there ahve been alot of really expereienced sysadmins joining in the last few months, and leaving some great answers, where as I think alot of the great programmers you see on SO, have been there from the very start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think yes SF adn to the same extent SU are growing slower the SO did, but they are becoming fantastic resources and will become more and more popular, with more experienced sysadmins joining over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T11:53:00.257" />
  <row Id="25282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25270" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:04:42.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete should not be replaced with hide in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a deletion operation: it's only that is what is often termed a 'soft-delete'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answers.com/topic/soft-delete&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Answers.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To mark a record in a database for deletion or to temporarily prevent it from being selected. In order to actually delete the record, a &quot;hard&quot; delete or &quot;permanent&quot; delete function must be performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my honest opinion, this is a feature, not a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:04:42.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38950" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:11:37.180" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;As my LinkedIn profile contains recommendations, etc., I wish my CV to link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T11:17:51.350" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T11:18:50.933" Title="Profile a link to my LinkedIn profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25283" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:14:30.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;File a link somewhere in the &quot;Projects and Links&quot; section perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:14:30.997" />
  <row Id="25285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25262" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:20:27.350" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 100 rep gained by associating an account to your meta profile is more than enough. We all have to gain reputation on meta, it's not something that's just given out. Look at &lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/strong&gt;. He's the top user on SO, yet he's also added nearly 15k worth of reputation here, making him the 3rd user on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person with a higher rep on meta usually knows when they're dealing with duplicates, how the sites work and what bugs have been solved or not, how things have to be tagged. Again, remember that reputation has to be earned, no matter what the site. It shows you how the community looks at you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:20:27.350" />
  <row Id="25286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:32:41.587" Score="4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently happened across this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543290/how-do-i-hide-a-file&quot;&gt;How do I hide a file?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP asks about writing code in C/C++ to make a file &quot;hidden or undeletable.&quot; Rather than close or downvote the question for its (rather obvious) flaws, the majority of the community jumped on the OP for &quot;reek[ing] of viral intentions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, that question doesn't necessarily &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; have applications in the malware market. But even if it does, is it within the purview of the community to close it for such? It's still a valid programming question, is it not? It just struck me as a bit much that three different commenters asked about possible legitimate uses for such code, with one going so far as to warn the OP that IPs are logged at SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:30:10.390" Title="How far should we go in judging question ethics?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25274" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:34:03.537" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but I can't see how it would possibly be illegal. After all, it's not like SO is preventing you from &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; posting it on a free web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as being a bit like a dating site - and those clearly aren't illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you could show the details of the law you're talking about, it would make things a lot clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:34:03.537" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="25288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25286" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:40:34.257" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is our place to judge the ethics or motives of a user. If the user does not explicitly state that they have ill intentions, you should not assume that to be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you should also remember that nobody is &lt;strong&gt;obligated&lt;/strong&gt; to answer questions. If you feel that answering the question may prove to be wrong ethically, nobody is going to twist your arm to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you have enough reservations about the ethics of the question, flag it for moderator attention and let someone else take a look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:40:34.257" />
  <row Id="25289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:40:39.887" Score="3" ViewCount="431" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might not be relevant to everyone, but it would be nice if there was a section to add professional memberships to the CV, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IEEE, Computer Society, 2009-2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T14:00:02.823" Title="Add professional memberships section to CV" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25289" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:42:37.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could theoretically include that in your educational achievements. Otherwise, yes a new section would be required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Also see related suggestion: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25294/build-your-own-cv&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25294/build-your-own-cv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T13:06:05.210" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:06:05.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:44:35.140" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;One section that I noticed is missing on the CV, is a section for publications. Granted the &quot;Projects and Links&quot; section could be used for this purpose, it would be nice to have a bit of isolation between a listing of publications that you have written or co-authored and the projects that you have worked on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:44:35.140" Title="Add a publications section to CV" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25286" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:44:39.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking for myself and various colleagues/friends, we like to know as much as possible about what goes on inside our computers and get very resentful when programs try to hide things from us. It's one thing to hide things from regular (non-admin) users, but we're very territorial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But generally speaking I think we should give the poster the benefit of the doubt. They are often only the messenger, asking how to do what some faceless manager has insisted must be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:44:39.350" />
  <row Id="25293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25262" CreationDate="2009-10-09T12:45:25.230" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the one hundred points for associating accounts is enough. As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25262/should-we-give-users-their-highest-so-sf-or-su-rep-on-meta/25263#25263&quot;&gt;Diago&lt;/a&gt; points out above if you did not have the points on SO when you associated your accounts first time round, clear all associations and re-associate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this makes a better balance between a direct link and none, if respected enough else where you get the points to be able to vote up (or vote two people down. Moohahaha) but that is it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134634" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T12:45:25.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T13:05:31.887" Score="2" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I have noticed recently on Meta is the influx of feature requests for Careers.StackOverflow (CSO) that is looking for all of these new sections which would absolutely rock on a CV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think perhaps it would be nice if instead of trying to make everyone happy by including every potential section under the sun, you keep the &quot;main profile&quot; of your CV simple but then give the user the ability to add their own sections with customizable forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All sections that people would want to add would generally be of a few basic types. Long Text, Lists, etc. It would make sense to allow a user to add a new section, select the type, give it a title, and then fill it in. Basically taking the Content Management paradigm and apply it to their CVs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downsides I can see about this are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Potentially longer development time &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unable to do efficient searches on these types of sections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upside, however, is giving the user the ability to construct their CVs in a manner which is better for them personally and will allow them to show all of the information that they may feel is relevant towards their potential worth to an employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:11:14.670" Title="Build Your Own CV" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25295" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T13:06:35.553" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1540591/how-can-i-split-an-xslforeach-into-multiple-parts&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; at work yesterday afternoon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watched it for a bit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Went home and up-voted the answer by Jared (and made some other votes I think)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Came to work this morning, and still had the tab open, so I tried to refresh the page, but accidentally down-voted Jared's answer, (so it changed my up-vote to a down-vote).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tried to change the vote back to an up-vote, but couldn't!  It says the answer would need to be edited (because of time I guess).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are timing rules on when votes could be changed... but this sounds like a bug right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131257" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T23:22:34.160" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T23:22:34.160" Title="I was able to downvote an answer, and then unable to change it immediately after" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25295" CreationDate="2009-10-09T13:10:09.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They changed the system (to prevent potential vote abuse) so that you can only take away your votes if the post has been revised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough reputation to edit the post yourself, you can revise the post and then it will release you from the vote lock. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't do much to prevent vote abuse, IMO, and more than anything it just leads to users frustrated and revising things that don't need revising just so they can get their vote back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:10:09.257" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25286" CreationDate="2009-10-09T13:11:06.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking for myself, I may have poked fun, but my vote to close that... poorly worded question was entirely to do with the question itself (originally) than the ethics behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please do not use system call in the code because they either generate error of no no output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait, what error? Shouldn't we be trying to fix errors? As I noted in a comment to the question after the whole ethics debate really fired up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also &quot;Please don't tell me to use method x because it generates an error.&quot;, especially without providing said error usually points to a misuse of method x, not a deficiency in the method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I'm usually fairly hard on the 1 rep random users. If someone has even 11 rep not from the question at hand, I'm usually willing to cut some slack and reread a few times, but to quote someone else, in this particular case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It just reeks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastEditorUserId="15537" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T13:17:18.727" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:17:18.727" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25294" CreationDate="2009-10-09T13:11:14.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or they could just build in some Markdown support and let users format subsections where necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who reads long CVs anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:11:14.670" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25274" CreationDate="2009-10-09T13:29:55.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would a newspaper be allowed to charge you to post an ad that you are looking for a job? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:29:55.337" />
  <row Id="25301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25286" CreationDate="2009-10-09T13:30:10.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with other aspects of human interaction, it's seldom the case that the question itself is considered and answered in isolation.  We should strive for that ideal, of course, but when a questions is poorly worded it makes it that much easier to focus on other factors, such as the asker's marginal write-up and perceived malicious intent, than to focus on the technical question at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question had been posed as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What means are available to developers in C/C++ to make files undetectable or undeletable, and how can they be circumvented (if at all)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question would likely have received a much better response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T13:30:10.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:07:29.243" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or does the CV section just seem to be more ho-hum kind of stuff?  Given the emphasis on Smart and Gets Things Done, I would have hoped for something that would give some better indications of this.  What is there or what could be added that would differentiate the CV from other job sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:10:04.950" Title="What is new about the CV in careers that makes it better than those on other job sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25306" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:10:04.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a place where we can post code samples.  Looking at a codes samples from prospective employees can be very valuable.  Being able to do this early on in the process of identifying prospects can save a lot of time.  Likewise, providing code samples can demonstrate your abilities in ways that your employment history and education can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:10:04.950" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24994" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:22:32.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best $99 I've spent this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30812" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:22:32.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-09T14:22:32.680" />
  <row Id="25310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25243" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:35:02.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you seem to log in from multiple computers, and it seems to be more of a cookie issue than anything else, maybe you should look at using a portable browser on a thumbdrive for all your S* related browsing? Something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.srware.net/en/software%5Fsrware%5Firon%5Fdownload.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Iron Portable&lt;/a&gt; (basically a portable Google Chrome) or &lt;a href=&quot;http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox%5Fportable&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Portable FireFox&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:35:02.097" />
  <row Id="25311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25339" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:35:20.113" Score="2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time people post &quot;Please hire me!&quot; requests on /stackoverflow.com (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1544117/please-help-me-to-find-freelancer-websites&quot;&gt;e.g.&lt;/a&gt;). These are closed, usually, as &quot;Not a real question,&quot; or something like that. In the spirit of &quot;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com,&quot; should there also be a &quot;Belongs on careers.stackoverflow.com?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:34:36.887" Title="Belongs on careers.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25312" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25316" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:36:59.313" Score="2" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543486/does-computing-requires-specific-energy&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is about to be closed again and I think people will re-open it again once it's closed. (I will vote to re-open it again!) You can wonder if it's programming-related or not, but in a way, it is, in my opinion. If you want to write programs for low-powered systems, keeping track of energy usage is important, thus the Q is valid, although borderline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it shows the endless loop that can occur when people open-close-open-close-open-close-open-close-open-close-open-close-open-close-open-close-etc questions. Can we do something about this? (E.g. lock the open/close vote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T15:20:03.007" Title="Close, re-open, re-close, re-re-open, re-re-close, etc" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25312" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:40:16.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's called a &quot;close war.&quot; It's kinda fun. Participate in it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific case, I have yet to see a &quot;war.&quot; It's just closed a couple times. I consider this post a sneaky method to attract re-open votes ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, theoretically, since you can't cast a close/reopen vote on a single question more than once, pigeonhole principle states that it'll &lt;em&gt;eventually&lt;/em&gt; end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;My &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; opinion regarding the validity of the post:&#xA;While power conservation is related to programming, I doubt this specific post relates at all to conserving power in software. It's merely a physics question stated vaguely. At best, it's related to hardware design, not programming.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T14:51:51.953" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:51:51.953" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25046" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:40:32.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the 3 years should be from when there are a reasonable number of employers within a reasonable distance of where I am willing to work.   Otherwise why should anyone outside of the USA sign up? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This “&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%5For%5Fthe%5Fegg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chicken or Egg&lt;/a&gt;” problem for none USA users will be worse once the full price is being charged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have already signed up, as I am looking for a job now and careers.stackoverflow may help me.  However I am willing to think of my small payment as a &lt;strong&gt;donation&lt;/strong&gt; to the people that gave us stackoverflow, so I don’t personal care match about the risk of not having employers outside of the USA signing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:40:32.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25311" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:49:29.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My gut reaction is &quot;no, those posts are totally inappropriate and should be killed with haste.&quot; However, it would serve to drum up sales of the careers service, so maybe Jeff and the gang would want that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:49:29.760" />
  <row Id="25316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25312" CreationDate="2009-10-09T14:51:43.327" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should be able to vote to reopen once a single close vote is cast. This would negate that close vote, resetting the close count back to zero. This way we can have the &quot;war&quot; without the post actually closing and reopening. If there are that many more people who want the post closed, they will win - just as soon as they defeat the reopeners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T14:51:43.327" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="25317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25312" CreationDate="2009-10-09T15:06:55.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in a way, it is, in my opinion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in a way, it's not, in that it doesn't ask a programming question. This is borne out by the answers, &lt;em&gt;including your own&lt;/em&gt;. It's very sad that, rather than encouraging the poor confused asker to visit a site dedicated to explaining this subject, some users have instead attempted to keep the topic alive on SO (and, near as I can tell, further confuse the guy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can we do something about this? (E.g. lock the open/close vote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. But if you have a good reason why that should happen, you can ask a moderator to lock it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25312/close-re-open-re-close-re-re-open-re-re-close-etc/25313#25313&quot;&gt;As Mehrdad notes&lt;/a&gt;, this can't go on forever - we only get one open and close vote per question now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T15:06:55.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25311" CreationDate="2009-10-09T15:18:34.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It occurs to me that the other &quot;belongs on...&quot; links eventually move the question. With careers (and specifically with charging users on careers), this couldn't work. There would need to be a kind of purgatory, &quot;Insert 25¢ to continue.&quot;¹&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ Is anyone here old enough to remember payphones? Or payphones which cost 25¢?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T15:18:34.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25312" CreationDate="2009-10-09T15:20:03.007" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of several ways to stop the war - I doubt any would be to your liking... at the moment it is sat closed, and I'm content with that as a community decision - but if it &quot;kicks off&quot;, it is more likely to be deleted than anything else. It isn't really a programming question, and &lt;strong&gt;by definition&lt;/strong&gt; if it causes unnecessary angst, it is a problem to the site. Problems get... fixed ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T15:20:03.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25311" CreationDate="2009-10-09T15:20:08.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you had just paid $99 for your CV to be displayed on a site, do you really want it being picked up by the kind of recruiter that spam a forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134634" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T15:20:08.687" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T15:37:05.910" Score="8" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;main FAQ page for SO&lt;/a&gt; it gives a brief overview of what abilities you gain at different Rep levels (with more detail given on the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Meta-based FAQ for SO&lt;/a&gt;). One detail that should probably be added to both of these is a clear description of what you can do regarding commenting at the starting level of &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; Rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've often seen situations where new users don't realize they can post comments on their own questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1263/new-user-comment-clarification&quot;&gt;as well as any answers they receive&lt;/a&gt;, probably because the FAQs say you need 50 Rep to comment (so they don't even bother to try). This usually leads them to add their comments as answers, making a mess of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the main FAQ page and official Meta-based FAQ for SO could have the following modifications made to their lists of Rep-thresholds for abilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&lt;/strong&gt; (default) Ask or answer questions, comment on &lt;em&gt;your own&lt;/em&gt; questions (and their answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+50&lt;/strong&gt; Add comments to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; It looks like some helpful modifications were made to the list of Rep-thresholds on the FAQ page, so I guess this is now &lt;code&gt;status-complete&lt;/code&gt;. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T17:14:27.823" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T17:14:27.823" Title="Could some clarity regarding commenting be added to the main FAQ page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;clarification&gt;&lt;abilities&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-10-09T15:56:27.633" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;sarcasm&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Unfortunately, the developers of Stackoverflow use IDEs and Editors that don't let &#xA;you change code once you've typed it. Also, they never make mistakes or modify &#xA;anything they've done. The concept is alien to them. So, as much as anyone might &#xA;want this feature changed, it can't be done.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137035" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T18:41:03.390" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T18:41:03.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25055" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:08:12.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately it's a chicken-and-egg problem.  Employers will only be interested if there is a robust pool of CV's, and applicants will only be interested if there are enough employers in the system to make it worth the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the track record of J &amp;amp; J, I have no doubt that this has been beaten to death internally and that they'll come through it to lead the pack.  I imagine the $29 initial offering is supposed to go a long way to solve the problem, and it probably will - but it would definitely be more attractive to us peons if we knew what the picture looked like locally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:08:12.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24897" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:28:10.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes SO so successful is not any property of the site, but the community.  There's a network effect.  It attracts lots of intelligent and knowledgeable people who like helping others while showing off, so it's a good site to ask questions on, so it's a good site to search, and so forth.  (I don't know SF nearly as well, and I'm still not sure SU will succeed - too many dumb and/or noob questions will overwhelm any forum.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question for the careers site is who it can attract.  It needs to attract jobseekers to be attractive for employers, and employers to be attractive for jobseekers.  The cost has to be potentially worth it, and I'm not just talking about money cost.  If employers look at the careers site a few times fruitlessly, they may well forget about it.  In many cases, if they can't have recruiters search the careers site (and Jeff said in a comment that he wanted hiring managers), they either won't bother or would be in conflict with company policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a great many scams involving charging jobseekers, and in any case people will be reluctant to spend money listing themselves without some assurance that they're more likely to get a job they like.  The introductory rate is a step in the right direction, but the site will have to prove itself to be trusted enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potential employers will find that people spending money to list themselves are not so much the highly competent ones as the ones who really want to get a job, possibly because they're incompetent.  If the careers site is better at filtering out the good people for whatever reason, it will work in its favor, but we'll have to see how that goes.  It will need to show some sort of statistics to give jobseekers reason to trust it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm not at all confident this will work, but if I were in the market I might consider the introductory rate cheap enough to try.  I wouldn't put down $99 unless I had reason to think it might be worth it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:28:10.850" />
  <row Id="25327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25332" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:32:59.437" Score="3" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: lucy w******* [mailto:*******2009@yahoo.com] &#xA;    Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:41 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    More information of becomming a good programmer&#xA;&#xA;    Phone: 07297*****&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:35:07.523" Title="Advertising Inquiry: information of becomming a good programmer [sic]" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:36:34.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, you must know how is babby formed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:36:34.237" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:42:57.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe she just wants to advertise her teaching skills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the private ads in the newspapers &quot;Private mathematics lessons, call Jenny at 867-5309&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO needs a &quot;Offering Services&quot; section, and Lucy deserves a honorable mention for opening our eyes to this great new opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:42:57.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:43:29.497" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reply with the full text of The Art of Computer Programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:43:29.497" />
  <row Id="25331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:47:17.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess I wouldn't respond....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:47:17.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-09T16:47:17.180" />
  <row Id="25332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:53:10.037" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a question on SO consisting of nothing more than a banner ad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i777.photobucket.com/albums/yy58/jonburk77/fakead.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:06:14.910" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25334" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:56:20.063" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9075/we-should-be-able-to-vote-comments-down-as-well-as-up&quot;&gt;We should be able to vote comments down as well as up&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dont mean downvotes. Sometimes i REALLY wish there were thumbs down on a comment so we can see how many ppl disagree with it. Some are obnoxious and have enough +1 to make it sound good and have no way for ppl who dont agree to agree short of writing a full comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:00:17.573" ClosedDate="2009-10-09T17:53:03.077" Title="Thumbs down on comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25333" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:57:18.063" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write a comment in response that disagrees, which others can then upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T16:57:18.063" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T16:58:23.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for your email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I recently called that number and was&#xA;  asked to provide 'major credit card&#xA;  information' for a 'good time'.  While&#xA;  I believe that programming is a 'good&#xA;  time', I'm not entirely sure the&#xA;  sultry voice on the other end was&#xA;  referring to the pleasures of bug&#xA;  hunting and squashing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you'll excuse me, I need to go back&#xA;  to my compiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All the best,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex P.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T15:35:07.523" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:35:07.523" />
  <row Id="25337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T17:15:51.947" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;Dear Lucy,&#xA;&#xA;I like ponies.&#xA;&#xA;All the best,&#xA;Alex Papadimoulis&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:15:51.947" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25346" CreationDate="2009-10-09T17:32:04.473" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have often noticed that some people have questions which have, like some 4k views in 10 minutes while my questions have ~100. Same tags, diferent questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that it matters a lot, but it does matter (affects the chances of some person good at it answering my question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the HUGE difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:46:39.217" Title="Why the difference in the number of views?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25311" CreationDate="2009-10-09T17:34:36.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem like &quot;moving&quot; a question there will work.. Even if it did technically work (if careers.SO was based on the same engine), moving someones question to a site that requires you to pay is rather crappy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better solution would be to simply add a comment informing the person that SO isn't an appropriate place to ask for a job, recommend they have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; and vote-to-close the question as &quot;Not a real question&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:34:36.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25338" CreationDate="2009-10-09T17:52:24.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Potential reasons in view discrepancies (although I think your anecdote is extremely unreliable as evidence):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time of the day can be an important factor in how many views a question gets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The quality of the question, or how controversial the question may be&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The person asking it. Since we can follow users, it could stand to reason that someone with more &quot;star power&quot; like a Jeff Atwood or a Jon Skeet would attract loads more attention than a less well known counterpart.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:52:24.403" />
  <row Id="25343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T17:55:31.933" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dearest Lucy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;using (Bitmap b1 = new Bitmap())&#xA;{&#xA;    b1.Load(&quot;boatOnRiver.jpg&quot;);&#xA;    this.View(b1);&#xA;}&#xA;using (Bitmap b2 = new Bitmap())&#xA;{&#xA;    b2.Load(&quot;tangerineTrees.jpg&quot;);&#xA;    this.View(b2);&#xA;}&#xA;using (Bitmap b3 = new Bitmap())&#xA;{&#xA;    b3.Load(&quot;marmaladeSkies.jpg&quot;);&#xA;    this.View(b3);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;IPerson p = new Girl();&#xA;p.Eyes = Eyes.Kaleidoscope;&#xA;p.Call(this);&#xA;Thread.Sleep(1000);&#xA;this.Respond(p);&#xA;&#xA;for (int i = 0; i &amp;lt; 3; i++)&#xA;    this.In(sky, &quot;♦♦♦♦&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does that help any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&#xA;  Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T17:55:31.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25349" CreationDate="2009-10-09T17:58:11.037" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1545186/do-you-use-protected-visibility/1545194#1545194&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; used an HTML comment to subvert the &quot;Your answer is too short&quot; error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should HTML comments not be counted as part of the length of an answer? (Similar to how spaces aren't counted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T18:05:59.543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:19:36.893" Title="Should HTML comments be stripped when validating answer length?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;character-length&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="25345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25338" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:03:25.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could be looking at the active page (the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; home page), which shows all items that have recently been either added/edited/answered.  This will show updates for old items as well as newly posted questions.  On this page, a very popular question (ie, the 4K views) can sit next to a newly posted item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are interested in seeing the view-count activity on new posts only, you can click on the 'Questions' tab (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;) at the top of the page, and then on the 'newest' subtab.  With this filter, you will see items in a submitted order (most recent on top).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T18:46:39.217" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:46:39.217" />
  <row Id="25346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25338" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:03:35.537" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to add commonly googled keywords to that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on superuser about a windows 7 driver for a common video card  &amp;amp; it seems to have racked up 1k views very quickly,  being  the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com.au/search?q=windows+7+driver+82865G&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3rd site on google&lt;/a&gt; probably helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40067" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:03:35.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25344" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:03:51.170" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the problem. It was a fitting answer to a fitting question. If it was a legitimate question the answer would have been down-voted into oblivion or simply ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the HTML comments, these instances are rare and most answer are longer than one sentence. I see no reason to actually change anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T18:06:52.597" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:06:52.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25344" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:03:54.180" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:03:54.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25344" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:09:49.050" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T18:19:36.893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:19:36.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25344" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:16:17.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really want to go through the effort to post a short answer, then fine. I don't think it would be worth the effort to strip out all the possible ways of cheating that system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One word answers will probably get downvoted anyway. And zero word answers should be flagged as spam, since they are just wasting space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:16:17.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25356" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:33:24.607" Score="42" ViewCount="359" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just lost some reputation, presumably because someone changed their selected answer from mine to someone else's. Can these losses of reputation be noted on my reputation page similar to the other ways in which my reputation fluctuates? I'd like to figure out which answer was unaccepted so I can review it and possibly learn a thing or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15912/reputation-notification-of-deselected-answer&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; covering the same topic, and I get that the vote record no longer exists in the database, but still isn't it possible to provide notification to the user of this vote change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T19:00:15.260" LastActivityDate="2011-04-28T14:40:09.453" Title="Notification when my answer is unaccepted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25359" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:37:34.303" Score="7" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has it been considered to allow some form of optional (opt-in) piece of flair (in this context, just an icon next to your contributions) on stackoverflow indicating you have your CV online with &quot;Careers,&quot; and you are interested in job-offers. Perhaps this is already in the works, but just in case it isn't I thought I'd put it out there as a suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:41:49.130" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:14:46.870" Title="Identify 'Career' Participants on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="25353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25351" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:39:41.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue TheTXI was highlighting in that response is that the &lt;code&gt;/recent&lt;/code&gt; page simply lists data in the &quot;votes&quot; table of the database.  Upvotes, downvotes, and accepts are all noted by a single record, these are accumulated and displayed in your &lt;code&gt;/recent&lt;/code&gt; page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when an answer is unaccepted, a record is actually being removed from the database.  The query which shows your &lt;code&gt;/recent&lt;/code&gt; page has no way of knowing that a record used to exist, therefore it shows nothing.  Changing this would not only require adding database data when the accepted answer changes, but modifying the &lt;code&gt;/recent&lt;/code&gt; page to acquire that data as well as the plain &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt; data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:39:41.337" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25352" CreationDate="2009-10-09T18:40:32.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is a checkbox in the profile. Perhaps if it's checked, then you have a link to the public profile of careers when it's available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T18:40:32.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25351" CreationDate="2009-10-09T19:39:42.270" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It strikes me that the vote record being removed from the database makes rep recalcs fundamentally unreliable. For example, take a day when this happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer unaccepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total reputation: 185 (you hit the cap, then the 15 is removed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After recalc: 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically a rep recalc is meant to replay history - but it can't do that if the history isn't there any more. A vote given and then removed is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the same as the vote never being cast. It seems to me there are three options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start recording &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; vote history, rather than just votes which haven't been deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change rep algorithm so that it wouldn't matter (which may not be feasible with &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; kind of limit - I'm not sure)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignore the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd like the first option - although I see the major benefit as being things like this overall question, where a change has happened (losing 15 rep) but there is no data left to say &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T19:39:42.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2931" CreationDate="2009-10-09T19:51:07.257" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I retagged 59 questions originally tagged 'gps' with a new tag, '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telematics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;telematics&lt;/a&gt;' and got awarded the badge the next day after the retagging. A topic was opened here on MetaSO concerning the issue, and for this abuse, my account was temporarily suspended for five days and the new tag got removed, as it was considered irrelevant and synonymous with 'gps'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="136743" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T09:47:29.647" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T09:47:29.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25352" CreationDate="2009-10-09T20:14:54.923" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;indicating you have your CV online with &quot;Careers,&quot; and you are interested in job-offers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that is a great idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it removes much of the need for employers to go to the trouble of, you know, &lt;em&gt;paying&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it says &quot;hey, current employer! I'm going as soon as I can find something I hate less&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; don't think that this is a good idea. Fine for contractors, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T20:14:54.923" />
  <row Id="25360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25352" CreationDate="2009-10-09T20:24:38.213" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sure don't want any &lt;strong&gt;more flair cluttering up the Q&amp;amp;A pages&lt;/strong&gt;. So, I'm against it for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to give any more justification to &lt;strong&gt;authors who feel slighted&lt;/strong&gt; when someone edits their post and crowds their flair. So, against it for &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25352/identify-career-paticipants-on-stackoverflow/25359#25359&quot;&gt;As Marc points out&lt;/a&gt;, it kinda &lt;strong&gt;defeats the whole privacy aspect&lt;/strong&gt; of SOC. Sure, you could limit the visibility to signed in employers, but... what's the point? They could just use SOC! So, against it for that reason as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if all that weren't enough, it &lt;strong&gt;smacks of desperation&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;I've hit bottom and am left with no option but to spam SO with answers in hope that someone will notice me&quot; desperation. That &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; be good...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really feel good about your CV and want to show it off, just... mention it in your &quot;about me&quot; box. Heck, you could do that now and maybe save the $29... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T20:24:38.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25327" CreationDate="2009-10-09T20:37:34.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask question now. www.stackoverflow.com help you good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T20:37:34.137" />
  <row Id="25362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25352" CreationDate="2009-10-09T20:47:38.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see having this icon available only to logged in employers when they are viewing SO, but I don't think it should display to others.  For employers it would be very handy identifying individuals -- perhaps it could also be linked to the person's CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T20:47:38.487" />
  <row Id="25363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T20:58:29.277" Score="6" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a Legal Stack Overflow would be an excellent resource. Why doesn't such a thing exist? If it doesn't, I'd like to create one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137051" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T07:53:09.463" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T18:16:35.420" Title="Is there a Stack Overflow for Law Questions? If not, why not?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6254" CreationDate="2009-10-09T21:21:02.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about: &quot;SOdians&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T21:21:02.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-09T21:21:02.920" />
  <row Id="25368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T21:25:26.923" Score="2" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34292/code-blocks-after-a-list-but-not-within-a-list-in-markdown-is-it-possible&quot;&gt;Code blocks after a list, but not within a list in markdown. Is it possible?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't add a code block after an ordered list. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a list item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be a code block, not part of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-11T22:34:55.080" LastActivityDate="2010-04-11T22:34:55.080" ClosedDate="2010-04-11T22:32:38.670" Title="Code block after numbered list: Markdown bug?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T21:38:22.627" Score="12" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll probably get in on the $29.00 deal on careers.stackoverflow.com even though I'm not a developer by trade (I'm an IT / network / server guy-- you may have seen me on Server Fault  &amp;gt;smile&amp;lt;) and even though I'm not looking for a &quot;job&quot;. Buying a listing lets me support Jeff and Joel's fun little venture here, and makes me feel good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want a &quot;job&quot; from an &quot;employer&quot; ever again. I like being an independent contractor a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;. Five years of this lifestyle has completely ruined me for ever having a &quot;job&quot; again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, having said that, is it anywhere in the design goals for careers.stackoverflow.com to offer specific features that are of help to those people who, like me, aren't looking for jobs but rather are looking for contracting opportunities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw that there was an option to specify &quot;Temporary contract&quot; under the &quot;What type of work are you seeking?&quot; heading, so that fulfills my &quot;contractor seeking contracts&quot; need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about the &quot;employer&quot; (contractee?) looking for a contractor? I see Jeff talking about marketing to &quot;hiring managers&quot;, but typically &quot;hiring managers&quot; aren't the people who end up looking for contractors (at least in my experience). Will there be marketing / access opportunities for the various &quot;non-hiring manager&quot; manangers who might want to find contractors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastEditorUserId="130120" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-09T21:56:25.807" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T21:56:25.807" Title="Will careers.stackoverflow.com be of use to contractors?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;contractor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-09T21:40:45.460" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21462/undoing-an-old-vote-cannot-be-recast-because-vote-is-too-old&quot;&gt;Undoing an old vote cannot be recast because vote is too old&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody edits their question, you can change your vote. But if you change your mind about changing the vote, you receive the message &quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't you have a brief window in which to restore the vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113962" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T21:40:45.460" ClosedDate="2009-10-09T22:30:04.283" Title="Changing your mind about changing your vote" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;change-vote&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25370" CreationDate="2009-10-09T21:48:09.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &quot;&lt;em&gt;Temporary contract&lt;/em&gt;&quot; checkbox among the options under the &quot;&lt;em&gt;What type of work are you seeking?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; heading that would seem to fit the bill...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T21:48:09.940" />
  <row Id="25373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25368" CreationDate="2009-10-09T22:13:33.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a list item.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This should be a code block, not part of the list.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T22:13:33.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-09T22:13:46.263" />
  <row Id="25374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25275" CreationDate="2009-10-09T23:25:09.350" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is our explicit goal to work directly with companies and cut agents out of the equation, entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who needs the middle-men? What value do they add?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-09T23:25:09.350" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-10T00:03:56.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It gets old after 3 or 4 viewings, but it's fairly legitimate, and fun, to use that kind of device in order to get noticed.  The woot ad that really made me laugh, though, was the yellow flashy one (“Click here to prove me wrong against my boss and make me cry” – felt like at the office :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136857" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T00:03:56.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14200" CreationDate="2009-10-10T00:29:08.313" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;devinb said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could instead institute regular rep-recalcs (monthly? bi-weekly?) that way, it would still be controlled, rather than user-initiated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be horribly cruel to automatically perform a rep recalc when a user passed one of the thresholds for gaining new abilities (15, 50, 100, 200, 250, 500, 750, 2000, 3000, 10000)? I know it would be heartbreaking to &quot;gain&quot; an ability only to lose it (temporarily), but it would provide for regular checkpoints to keep reputation more accurate (and between thresholds, it doesn't really matter anyway - as others have said, it should be considered to be approximate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be coupled with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15661/you-have-gained-power-heres-how-to-use-it-kind-of-message&quot;&gt;another feature request&lt;/a&gt; to give the user a pop-up when acquiring new abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T17:11:36.470" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T17:11:36.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25380" CreationDate="2009-10-10T02:38:41.257" Score="5" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason I seem to recall that SO FAQ's table of what can be done with N rep points included a data point for 5000 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, looking at the FAQ now, I no longer see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it just a fluke in my memory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did the Matrix produce a black cat and changed the FAQ (and supposedly site rules) on me in the last month?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T02:42:06.573" Title="Was there a site participation right on SO for people with 5000 rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25378" CreationDate="2009-10-10T02:42:06.573" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It used to be that you could delete &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; comments from your post if you had 5000 rep. They changed that, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/128387-do-not-allow-users-to-delete-comments-on-their-questions-?ref=title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the old UserVoice request detailing the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's response was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;comment flagging renders deletion obsolete&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, because you can flag any comments, there is no need for the feature any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T02:42:06.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-10T03:44:41.183" Score="10" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the long by default periods, and assuming the site works out, careers will have a huge number of uninterested CVs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this fits in your business plan, but I think a good way to avoid that problem while motivating the seekers to cooperate is to add a flag &quot;Open for offers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the flag is selected, the CV is listed and the paid for time counts down. When the flag is not selected, the CV is no longer listed, but the paid for time doesn't count down. This should motivate people to go back and unmark &quot;Open for offers&quot; when they've found a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T05:23:30.563" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T21:45:32.793" Title="Add a way to specify that you've already found a job" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25363" CreationDate="2009-10-10T05:56:15.007" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be great, but I don't think it can work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer (blah blah), but I have a few lawyers in my family, and I have always found law to be an interesting topic (though I have never had any interest in actually practicing).  I think that one of the reasons real lawyers would not want to give advice like this is that it is hard for them to know the whole situation in this type of forum, so they would not be able to give sound advice, and also, a lawyer giving legal advice may establish an attorney-client relationship in some jurisdictions, regardless of whether any fees were paid.  This can mean the lawyer can be bound to certain obligations, such as attorney-client privilege.  Likewise, discussing legal matters in a public forum may not make a whole lot of sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it would be awesome if there was a site like SO where I could research law-related questions that pop into my head, and get well-informed responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T05:56:15.007" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="25384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-10T06:46:00.967" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;If i have a bunch of blocked tags, it seems those questions still count for the amount of questions per page even though i never see them. Can this be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T06:46:00.967" Title="Get blocked questions to not cound in the &quot;x questions per page&quot; option?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;blocked&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25386" CreationDate="2009-10-10T06:54:25.927" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back, I accidentally asked a question on Super User that should have gone on Stack Overflow. It got moved, but my accounts weren't linked, so it didn't show me as the owner of my question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to upvote it, and I discovered that after I linked my accounts I got the 10 rep points from my question and was unable to remove my vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has this been seen before and can it be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T07:26:32.763" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T07:30:36.030" Title="Able to get rep artifically via migrated questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25385" CreationDate="2009-10-10T07:30:36.030" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really not sure it is worth worrying about; it is &lt;em&gt;such&lt;/em&gt; an edge-case that you would get minimal rep. Arguably, posting on meta about some nuance of a question (with link) is a far more efficient rep exploit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, there is a known glitch at the moment when we merge two accounts for the same user; it is possible (in the nefarious cases) that those accounts have intentionally cross-voted each-other, and this doesn't &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; get removed when merging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point (I'm getting there); I'm hopeful that Jeff/team will eventually fix the above to remove self-votes as a scheduled task; this would address the above (slightly-less-evil) case as a handy side-effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T07:30:36.030" />
  <row Id="25387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25382" CreationDate="2009-10-10T07:50:51.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already exists. You simply hide your CV from employer searches, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your CV is searchable by employers; &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hide from searches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer to your other question, to keep things simple, the filing period is a fixed period of time starting from the date of filing, and ending when the filing period ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T05:23:14.310" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T05:23:14.310" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3890" CreationDate="2009-10-10T09:30:04.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the featured question feed is available on the home page on the appropriate tab -- see bottom of that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T09:30:04.937" />
  <row Id="25389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10140" CreationDate="2009-10-10T09:36:32.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, this is now implemented -- the list by tag page has feeds specific to each tab (sort). You can find them linked at the bottom of the page, like all our other feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are labelled appropriately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;newest&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;status-completed&lt;/strong&gt; questions feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=featured&quot;&gt;featured&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;status-completed&lt;/strong&gt; questions feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=hot&quot;&gt;hot&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;status-completed&lt;/strong&gt; questions feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;highest voted&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;status-completed&lt;/strong&gt; questions feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/status-completed&quot;&gt;recently active&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;status-completed&lt;/strong&gt; questions feed&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest voted is a little odd since it will be extremely static -- you'll get the top 30 voted questions in those tag(s), which isn't likely to change much over time. It makes sense as  browse order but as a top (n) rss feed I think we need a time interval specified there as well, or something. Of course doing that would make it very similar to the &quot;hot&quot; rss, too, so.. hm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; this was the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; tag based feed available before so the syntax is identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T09:36:32.117" />
  <row Id="25390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6502" CreationDate="2009-10-10T10:00:55.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;implemented per:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10140/any-way-to-get-an-rss-feed-of-newest-tagged-questions/25389#25389&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10140/any-way-to-get-an-rss-feed-of-newest-tagged-questions/25389#25389&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T10:00:55.207" />
  <row Id="25391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25393" CreationDate="2009-10-10T10:03:36.373" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12984/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-both-up-down-voted-your-answer-question&quot;&gt;Is there a way to see who both up/down voted your answer/question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way for me to find who voted up or voted down my questions or answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T10:16:03.123" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T10:16:36.287" ClosedDate="2009-10-10T10:53:44.893" Title="How do I find out who voted on my question or answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11909" CreationDate="2009-10-10T10:05:39.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are now &lt;strong&gt;tab-specific&lt;/strong&gt; feeds on the homepage, and when viewing questions by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this addresses (most) of your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T10:05:39.910" />
  <row Id="25393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25391" CreationDate="2009-10-10T10:14:46.900" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No there isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is supposed to be anonymous - to prevent retribution for down-votes is one of the reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to be non-anonymous they will leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T10:14:46.900" />
  <row Id="25394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25391" CreationDate="2009-10-10T10:16:36.287" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be available in the CC dumps.. but I personally think it should be left anonymous so you can't vote-retaliate or collude :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T10:16:36.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25396" CreationDate="2009-10-10T12:13:44.653" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9808/how-do-i-figure-out-whos-been-banished-to-the-penalty-box-recently&quot;&gt;How do I figure out who&amp;rsquo;s been banished to the penalty box recently?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can users be filtered by their &quot;suspended&quot; status?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T15:08:36.957" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T15:08:36.957" ClosedDate="2009-10-10T22:27:55.597" Title="How do I see a list of all the suspended users?" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25395" CreationDate="2009-10-10T12:14:29.893" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No - by design, suspension is a &quot;quiet&quot; business, rather than something advertised widely. The idea is to avoid attracting too much attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T12:14:29.893" />
  <row Id="25397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25400" CreationDate="2009-10-10T12:22:53.637" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;This script helps to mitigate accidental votes (which are now nearly impossible to rescind) by requiring two clicks within one second on a vote arrow in order to cast a vote. Clicking once does nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to change the double-click delay, it's the first (commented) variable in the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/59482&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vote Confirmation script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T12:39:45.570" Title="Greasemonkey script to require double clicks to vote" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-10T12:38:35.837" Score="24" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because migration is different than actually closing a question, I think that the rules for close reasons that would result in migrations ought to be changed.  Specifically, if a user votes to close their own question as &quot;belongs on...&quot;, then the question should be migrated immediately or should, at most, require one other user to agree.  Since the OP could have originally asked the question in the other forum, see little danger in allowing this and it would allow questions to be migrated to the appropriate forum more quickly.  It is unlikely that a user would choose this option unless they realized later -- perhaps after seeing others voting to migrate the question -- that it was inappropriate for the original forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10363/allow-question-asker-to-close-own-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10363/allow-question-asker-to-close-own-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-06T10:38:55.977" LastActivityDate="2011-07-20T16:01:34.653" Title="When the OP votes to close their own question as &quot;belongs on ...&quot;, immediately migrate the question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25397" CreationDate="2009-10-10T12:39:45.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 I like it. One suggestion if I may. You could modify the tooltip/and or show a prompt on the first click to remind the forgetful a double-click is required (like me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T12:39:45.570" />
  <row Id="25402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25410" CreationDate="2009-10-10T13:31:59.140" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why isn't it a tab for sorting by the number of answers that a question has?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T15:34:14.930" Title="Sorting by number of answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25395" CreationDate="2009-10-10T13:49:19.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The penalty box isn't the &lt;em&gt;stocks&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;pillory&lt;/em&gt; used for the scorn of the local peoples, who then take to to insulting, kicking, spitting and in some cases urinating and defecating on its victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more like the County Lockup where you tuck people away for a day or two so they can cool off or sober up. You can't wander in there an say, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;So let's see who you have here this weekend.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T13:49:19.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25428" CreationDate="2009-10-10T14:16:33.477" Score="10" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the reasoning behind the design decision to allow users to create a display name which matches another existing users exactly?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;opposed&lt;/em&gt; to the common practice of enforcing unique user names, and I'd really like to learn something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-10T12:06:50.627" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T12:06:50.627" Title="Why does Stack Overflow allow duplicate display names?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25404" CreationDate="2009-10-10T14:23:55.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really an answer - but the user id is the unique part, the name is just the human (and possibly SEO) readable bit, so there's no need in the system for the name to be unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never come across a user who's used another's name exactly (I've seen a couple of &quot;jon_skeet's&quot; and even a &quot;john skeet&quot;) but even if I did their reputation would give the game away, so I'd normally be 99% sure it's the right person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you got any examples of where this has been done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to your system - if you had a &quot;score&quot; generated by the system and that was always displayed, it would be even rarer that the user you were trying to impersonate would have exactly the same score as you. On SO there are 4 values you'd have to match (pure rep, and nos of gold, silver and bronze badges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T16:12:12.057" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T16:12:12.057" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25404" CreationDate="2009-10-10T15:19:06.440" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they didn't, and people missed out on their first choice, you'd be left with trying to come up with all sorts of variations just to &quot;be yourself&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't want it to be like AOL or Xbox Live (badges notwithstanding) where if you're not the first, you're &lt;code&gt;docsavage1933&lt;/code&gt; while some other joker, who just happens to be in before you gets to sit around on &lt;code&gt;docsavage&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to be known as, say Fletch, and another user happens to also be named Fletch, and both would rather go by that instead of changing and feeling like someone else or not truly expressive under their own name, how do you coordinate a fight to the death where the victor keeps their name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T15:19:06.440" />
  <row Id="25409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25404" CreationDate="2009-10-10T15:24:32.030" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are so many programmers participating in stackoverflow it would be unfair to reserve a name for the first one. Everyone should be able to use his own name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever noticed how people choose their e-mail addresses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;chris_32@hotmail.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3xample@gmail.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end there's no reason not to allow everyone to choose their name freely. With unicode support enabled one could easily create a name that looked like another anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T15:24:32.030" />
  <row Id="25410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25402" CreationDate="2009-10-10T15:34:14.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make the search shake its tail feather for you and query for questions based on the minimum answers posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to see questions tagged &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[jquery]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with at least five (5) answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bjquery%5d%20answers%3a5&quot;&gt;[jquery] answers:5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted at least 15 answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bjquery%5d%20answers%3a15&quot;&gt;[jquery] answers:15&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T15:34:14.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25413" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:01:05.883" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/886/a-friends-list-on-stackoverflow-would-be-nice&quot;&gt;A &amp;ldquo;Friends List&amp;rdquo; on StackOverflow would be nice&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to tag favourite users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not it will be a good idea. I work with a bunch of guys developing stuff, and it would be nice to track thier questions or profile because most of thier problems are my problems. And having some sort of team SO would be nice. P.S. at the moment we send each other emails with links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132883" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T17:10:27.113" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T20:02:29.667" Title="Favourite Users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25412" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:10:27.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just subscribe to each other's RSS feeds.  Go to any user's page and scroll to the bottom to find the RSS link.  This would allow you to have all of each other's posts conveniently grouped together in your RSS reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T17:10:27.113" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25474" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:15:51.053" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm subscribed to a couple RSS feeds from SO.com, and it seems like the titles are getting mangled in the feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking in the feed source, I see this line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/%3ftagnames%3dobjective-c%26sort%3dactive&quot; type=&quot;text/html&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click on the title of the feed to visit the page that originated the feed (I'm using Safari 4.0.3 on OS X 10.6.1 for reading), it attempts to take me to the URL listed in the  tag above.  Since the URL is malformed, I get a white screen of death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL should be:  &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/?tagnames=objective-c&amp;amp;sort=active&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This started happening in the past day or so (today is 10 Oct 2009).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas what caused this or how soon it will be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135683" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T06:46:25.157" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:46:25.157" Title="The RSS feeds are broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25416" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:17:26.930" Score="-12" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you think about being able to trade reputation for a decrease in account suspension time? It would still be a punishment, and the amount of reputation lost should be calculated according to the severity of the suspension's reason, and the amount of suspension time decrease a user would like to 'buy'. It would be like paying bail, probably available only in certain moderator-selected cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-25T22:03:14.240" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T22:03:14.240" Title="Trade reputation for a decrease in account suspension time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25415" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:32:37.623" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a very bad idea. Reputation represents your participation in the site. A suspension indicates something you've done is &quot;bad&quot; and outside the normal functioning of the site (where downvotes etc would be the punishment). You shouldn't be able to buy your way out of being a jerk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T17:32:37.623" />
  <row Id="25417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25415" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:45:25.850" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a better idea - don't get your account suspended in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T17:45:25.850" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25404" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:47:52.990" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone who wants to avoid having a duplicate name can always add &quot;the Lizard&quot; or some other creature to the end and get a unique name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T17:47:52.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25423" CreationDate="2009-10-10T17:53:18.583" Score="7" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware of the related questions, but I feel that this remains an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I occasionally encounter &quot;bad&quot; users on SO. They are the exception! But it would be nice to have a way to keep track of them, so I can avoid future arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the user info visible next to the post, I can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Handle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept rate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking these in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to use my brain cells to remember &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; handles, not bad ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user with low rep may be a newbie, a doppelganger, a non-contributor, etc. Newbies are not evil, and I don't wish to penalize them (especially when they take the time to contribute). A user with higher rep may be a good citizen or a troll. As has been noted before, downvotes seldom affect your rep significantly and may trigger the reverse effect. Argumentative threads may be popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are fun, but aren't a good indicator of personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accept rate is a useful indicator, but may also be low for newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I could drill down to the user's page and examine them more closely. But that takes time away from more useful activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution might be to come up with a metric of behavior (Alignment? ;) and display that, possibly color-coded. This could be based on the number of flagged posts, suspensions, ratio of positive-to-negative reputation earned, etc. It still wouldn't detect doppelgangers (they'd show up Neutral, like newbies) but would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Displaying &quot;member for&quot; time would also help - long-standing members with low reputations might be questionable. Factoring this into the metric might be a better solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Another possibility would be to allow individual users to &quot;tag&quot; other users as offensive, but &lt;em&gt;only allow the tagger to see the tag&lt;/em&gt;. This would be similar to blocking/hiding a user on other sites. On SO hiding might be confusing; perhaps they could be grayed out. This might be the fairest option; if people find me boorish (which is subjective), they could ignore me without affecting anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and it appears that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;this has already been thought of&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134591" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T01:49:01.193" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T01:49:01.193" Title="Distinguishing newbies from trolls at a glance" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;trolling&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25274" CreationDate="2009-10-10T18:09:16.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a solicitor and all that... but I am tempted to add some uninformed conjecture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some related documentation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file24248.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guidance On The Conduct Of Employment Agencies And Employment Businesses Regulations 2003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T18:09:16.400" />
  <row Id="25421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25404" CreationDate="2009-10-10T18:12:50.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ability to have any display name makes me uneasy. Particularly with comments - there's no convenient way to tell who has left a comment without clicking through to the user page. Most people will just assume you are who you appear to be, particularly if you're a well known user. Also, being able to change your display name at any time often leads to discontinuities when trying to follow the thread of a comment discussion, since the &lt;code&gt;@user&lt;/code&gt; convention doesn't update in step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be very confusing on those occasions where two users have chosen the same name. For example, on meta I have seen some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18962/replace-tsql-tag-with-sql-on-so/18964#18964&quot;&gt;perplexing discussions between identical users&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read the other responses, but I personally don't see the problem with unique names. Is having hundreds of users named 'joe' really any better than 'joe1', 'joe2' etc.? Do people really feel it's 'unfair' that their real name isn't available on Skype or Gmail anymore? Users seem to manage well enough on every other site/email address in existence...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T18:12:50.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16725" CreationDate="2009-10-10T18:55:49.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'd rather see a badge awarded for a certain number of answers having been accepted. Say 25 for silver, or 100 for gold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T18:55:49.417" />
  <row Id="25423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25419" CreationDate="2009-10-10T19:11:25.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the 'member for' idea.... some of us don't have a lot of time to invest in building reputation on SO, so we'll be gaining rep slowly.  That won't differentiate between a user who took 6 months to hit 1k rep, and a user that burned 2k of 3k rep over the course of that same time-frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it might be interesting to see (positive rep / negative rep) (shown as a ratio, not a percent) for users.  I would expect the trolls to have more negative rep relative to their positive rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T19:11:25.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-10T19:19:31.147" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1548811/edit/f181e62b-cecb-4d7a-8652-ca0584dc9971&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1548811/edit/f181e62b-cecb-4d7a-8652-ca0584dc9971&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colons in some backtick'ed inline code are showing up as &lt;code&gt;%3A&lt;/code&gt; on the page. This:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&gt; Invalid per `cvc-complex-type.1.2.4`: &#xA;element `{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:key` not allowed here (1) in&#xA;element `{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:sequence`, expecting&#xA;[`{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:annotation`, `$`,&#xA;`{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:element`,&#xA;`{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:group`,&#xA;`{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:choice`,&#xA;`{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:sequence`,&#xA;`{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}:any`]:&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is becoming this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;Invalid per &lt;code&gt;cvc-complex-type.1.2.4&lt;/code&gt;: &#xA;  element &lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Akey&lt;/code&gt; not allowed here (1) in&#xA;  element &lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Asequence&lt;/code&gt;, expecting&#xA;  [&lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Aannotation&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Aelement&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Agroup&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Achoice&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Asequence&lt;/code&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}%3Aany&lt;/code&gt;]:&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68587" LastEditorUserId="68587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T19:51:54.130" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T19:51:54.130" Title="Bug: Colons becoming %3A in inline code (plus 2nd bonus bug inside)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;text-escaping&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25424" CreationDate="2009-10-10T19:24:39.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the auto-linking code is ignoring backtick-escaped text, but the code to fix up bogus URLs isn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24992/please-change-linking-algorithm-in-comments&quot;&gt;And folks wonder why SO isn't more aggressive&lt;/a&gt; when trying to automatically fix bad URLs...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T19:24:39.907" />
  <row Id="25426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-10T19:48:28.177" Score="7" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Next to my (our) username(s) at the top of the page is a little envelope that glows delightfully orange when someone's answered a question of mine, or commented on an answer, or commented on a comment (I think). It's always quite exciting to see, and I'm always terribly disappointed to click on it and see. .  oh. . . the answer I was just looking at. Surely this can be kept track of, and StackOverflow needn't waste it's (my) time suggesting I look at. . . what I'm looking at it. In fact, it seems like the ONLY way to restore my little envelope to white is to click on it. Which seems silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T03:04:48.693" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:04:48.693" Title="Don't tell me that I have new replies when. . . I've seen them all" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;replies&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="25427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25434" CreationDate="2009-10-10T19:52:28.090" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is that post describing how many points you need to do what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T19:59:17.703" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T22:05:36.907" Title="Where is that post describing how many points you need to do what?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25404" CreationDate="2009-10-10T19:52:58.013" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People have the same names in real life. Isn't StackOverflow real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T19:52:58.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25427" CreationDate="2009-10-10T19:55:08.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Here it is.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, if there are any questions you have about how SO works, you can first go to the search box in the upper right corner of the page and type &lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt;. This will show you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;all the posts tagged as FAQs on Meta&lt;/a&gt;. There is also one large parent FAQ that links to most of the others: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T20:00:16.453" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T20:00:16.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-10T20:00:41.990" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;While writing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1548811/xml-schema-key-in-sequence/1548859#1548859&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; I clicked &quot;code&quot; and cut and pasted XML schema into the question. For some reason, all this then displayed was the first line &lt;code&gt;&quot;&amp;lt;?xml. . .&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. I fixed this by manually selecting and re &quot;codifying&quot; the text. But I shouldn't have to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Observations? Is this true of all XML?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135632" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T03:39:55.723" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T03:39:55.723" Title="Clicking &quot;code&quot; and copy/pasting xml (schema) displays only first line" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;xml&gt;&lt;display&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25430" CreationDate="2009-10-10T20:05:53.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened was that only ended up indenting the first line of code. For code to show up properly every line needs to be indented by four spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you can do instead is paste your code in, then go back and select it and press the code button (or Ctrl-K). That indents it after the fact so it shows up right. That's how I fixed your post, I highlighted the XML and hit the code button. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T20:05:53.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25426" CreationDate="2009-10-10T20:13:08.023" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, the shining envelope is badly implemented. It has never worked for me, I've always seen the comments earlier. It seems to be related to the fact that it starts shining after some activity after an idle time, my activity after an idle time usually is going to check for previous comments/answers so I have no use for the envelope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm an addict, so it may work for others...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T20:13:08.023" />
  <row Id="25433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25426" CreationDate="2009-10-10T21:14:50.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How in the world would Stack Overflow know what you looked at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might just as well have read other answers to the question, not neccessarily the comments on your on answer. You might have just scanned your answer for typos, yet not have looked at the comment thread at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No way to know whether you really read your response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what we all know is this: As soon as the envelope doesn't light up because you &lt;em&gt;have been on the page, so you should have seen the comment&lt;/em&gt;&amp;mdash;well, &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; will be coming to meta to complain about this change. Rightfully so, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T21:14:50.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25427" CreationDate="2009-10-10T22:05:36.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ page&lt;/a&gt;, linked (as &quot;faq&quot;) at the top of (almost) every page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amass enough reputation points and&#xA;  Stack Overflow will allow you to go&#xA;  beyond simply asking and answering&#xA;  questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;15   Vote up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;15   Flag offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;50   Leave comments &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;100  Vote down (costs 1 rep), edit community wiki posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;200  Reduced advertising&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;250  Vote to close or reopen your questions, create new tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;500  Retag questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2000 Edit other people's posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;3000 Vote to close or reopen any questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;10000 Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that the numbers may vary between sites; I've used stackoverflow for the example, but just click &quot;faq&quot; on the site you choose)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T22:05:36.907" />
  <row Id="25435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25463" CreationDate="2009-10-10T23:15:03.440" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway to unlink SO and SF and SU accounts after you have linked them together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-10T23:53:56.630" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:53:56.630" Title="Can you unassociate or unlink accounts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25419" CreationDate="2009-10-10T23:17:24.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorting the problem users from the beginners seems like an AI complete problem to me. I doubt any simple metric will be reliable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that even looking at a users profile is only the start. To be sure there are a problem, I have to read some of the questions (or rarely answers) linked from the profile to identify a pattern of behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:17:24.543" />
  <row Id="25437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-29T09:34:43.050" Score="14" ViewCount="789" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's OK to post these (properly tagged as 'puzzle's of course), knowing that it's not a 'real question' in the sense that the one who asks (usually) knows the answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;others would be interested?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Rob Cooper:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the 'puzzle' tag (or some other...) could be used just to identify these questions I guess, so that it would be clear to everyone;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is there really always a need to pick a 'best answer'? Note that lots of questions being asked are quite subjective in nature, and do not have any 'best answer'...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-04-18T21:32:33.343" Title="Posting programming/algorithmic puzzles on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-08-29T09:37:03.293" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is OK if your question is an interesting programming related puzzle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a very good way to get all of our brains to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Puzzles are fun too, and will make SO a better place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing we should avoid is posting homework questions hoping that people will help you do your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131130" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-08-29T09:39:14.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's ok, and would be interested myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139399" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-08-29T09:43:08.240" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a great idea.  Puzzles serve three important purposes to programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can act as an introduction to the art programming for newer programmers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They exercise the mind, which is no bad thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Occasionally the answers can give insight in how to solve real world problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So keep posting them I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="770" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-08-29T09:47:10.260" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I started learning python, I went to &lt;a href=&quot;http://projecteuler.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Project Euler&lt;/a&gt; for some exercises. I recommend it for anyone seeking challenges in programming (and math). Some of the exercises involve finding a winning poker hand, sudoko puzzles and path finding algorithms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-08-29T11:24:02.460" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about this, and upon thought, I really dont think it is right that puzzles are posted here, there are already great websites for that and I don't think StackOverflow should be doing things that are away from its original &quot;question/answer&quot; concept. A lot of this purely because there &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be an accepted answer for a question, and with this, there is just too much scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if you have a question with regards to solving a puzzle, worded well, I see no issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have redacted my previous comment..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142924" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-10-05T16:45:44.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, too bad that lots of students would just tag their homework as &quot;puzzle&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-10-24T22:00:52.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's ok, and I just added 'puzzle' to my favourite tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2008-11-26T23:20:25.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a challenging puzzle (everybody failed first) today and got down-voted to -5. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently puzzles sometimes are good, and sometimes bad? And i explicitly tagged it as puzzle. I don't know but one guy even tried to tag it with &quot;homework&quot;. Heck...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-26T23:20:25.920" />
  <row Id="25446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2009-09-17T16:38:06.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.Definitely it is ok.There are tons of great puzzles in the world to be solved by programing.So I don't see a problem at all posting such questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25437" CreationDate="2009-09-17T17:11:12.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good site for programming exercises is &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmingpraxis.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Programming Praxis&lt;/a&gt;.  It's more programmer-oriented than Project Euler, which is more math-oriented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:37:54.130" />
  <row Id="25448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-04-14T10:24:44.463" Score="12" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have experienced people actively hindering or flaming people who want to make public or discuss techniques that can break good security habits or schemes of languages, software or operating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of open source software and especially open source operating systems, like let's say Linux, do you believe this is the right way? Or should freedom of speech and freedom of science beat the other interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: someone asks on Stack Overflow how to make a log-in free Linux box and would be down-voted. Someone could say &quot;i know how to do this but I won't tell you, because it is bad for Linux.&quot; (I am actually asking this here for fluxbox: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/747066/linux-auto-login&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/747066/linux-auto-login&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please make this a nice discussion, I am looking for the most enlightened answer that includes all the different aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T05:34:52.193" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T05:34:52.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-14T10:55:31.287" Title="Is it okay to discuss poor security practices?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;policy&gt;&lt;security&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25448" CreationDate="2009-04-14T10:35:24.440" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe in &quot;responsible disclosure&quot;. By revealing an exploit to the world, you potentially compromise millions of systems. I think the best idea is to contact the developers first and give them a chance to patch the bug. If they do not, then you are free to open it up to the world. I believe in free speech, but I also believe it is possible to abuse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:40:12.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25448" CreationDate="2009-04-14T11:22:35.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talking about security risks and exploits is two sided indeed. You may help someone to make their site more secure but you may also help others to cause havoc. Probably the really delicate things should not be discussed on platforms like SO but rather in smaller circles of people who know each other. These circles would then probably consist of either security specialists or hackers or let's say either constructive hackers or destructive hackers... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently looked at the profile of an SO user who's questions and answers could suggest that the person works in the destructive field... I didn't like it but most certainly a certain percentage of SO users are active in that field and get their answers here as anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:40:12.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-14T11:22:35.573" />
  <row Id="25451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25448" CreationDate="2009-04-14T11:48:45.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 2 main aspects to this discussion, as far as I can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad security model - security getting in the way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad user model - not understanding what allowing access to a machine entails.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example of the linked question, you present a perfect case for 1 - the system security is causing you a significant delay when starting your machine, which would be a non-issue if you didn't have to interfere halfway through to satisfy some academic security requirement which isn't actually an issue for &gt;50% of home users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But also there's the problem of people allowing too much access to their machines - like sharing their whole disk with the world and allowing anyone to read and write anywhere, just so that they can copy files to it from work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, I guess most, if not all of this, is really down to a bad security model - even if technically it's right, if the only thing a user can do to actually use a system is turn off security, then, at the very least, the user interface is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given that the vast majority of security models are wrong in some way and do cause issues, what do you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the time, the question's asked on forums are second degree questions, as opposed to first degree questions - for example, someone will ask how to enable worldwide sharing to their disk. If you directly answer that question for them, their machine will probably be totally compromised within a few minutes. If, however, you get them to ask the first order question &quot;How do I share files between home and work&quot;, you might be able to give them a much safer answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually, this is the case - that people start to solve a problem using the tools they have, then hit a wall where the system doesn't behave as they want, and easiest way forward intellectually at that point is to break down that wall rather than back up a bit - hence the bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Equally, it doesn't help if someone says at the outset &quot;How do I share files between work and home&quot;, and the answer comes back &quot;don't be stupid, that's a security risk&quot;. Pointing out security implications is part of the answer, but the requirement still stands, if the question isn't answered properly, then how is anyone to know the security difference between sharing a single folder, non-suid, non-exec, fully audited, IP filtered and certificate controlled, vs just opening up the whole machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen, SO is generally quite good at getting to the first-order questions. That's really the key of the whole thing, that and respecting the validity and requirement of these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7298" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:40:12.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-14T11:48:45.370" />
  <row Id="25452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25448" CreationDate="2009-04-14T14:40:58.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hindering or flaming&lt;/em&gt; of anyone who asks wants to discuss a question or answer &quot;that can break good security habits... of languages, software or operating systems&quot; is unacceptable in my book. There is nothing actually wrong with discussing these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking&lt;/em&gt; security schemes is a gray area if the system is designed to stop you from breaking them (as opposed to it's just not a good idea). This is the difference between asking how to bypass a login password vs simply not having a password. One is breaking the scheme, the other is simply ignoring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hindering a discussion that reveals a zero-day exploit (without a fair chance for the authors to fix it), reveals proprietary or stolen information, or advocates the use of exploits or other security vulnerabilities is probably ok with some exceptions. There's a lot of &quot;un-good&quot; that can come that discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jim T points out, sometimes these types of questions may need further discussion of the problem that's being solved. I think it's the responsibility of the community to get more information about the initial problem to make sure that a &quot;bad habit&quot; is the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answer, not necessarily a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is no reason to withhold information on bad practices. Personally, I would provide the information and heavily caveat the information with warnings that it's a bad practice, some info or links on the &quot;good habits&quot;, and maybe alternative ways to solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, discussing the bad practices is educational. Not all users are &quot;experts&quot; in security, and some &quot;experts&quot; are in name only. By openly discussing the &quot;bad habits&quot;, it may increase the general awareness of security. Some bad habits are a myth. Some good habits are a myth. Only by talking about both can we all get a better picture of the smarter way to practice security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160333" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:40:12.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-14T14:40:58.797" />
  <row Id="25453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:28:58.017" Score="8" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever used your reputation (points) outside of this website, say to get a job or something? Or more generally, what are reputation points to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T14:38:40.187" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T15:16:02.793" Title="Have you ever used your gained reputation points to get a job or something?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;career-development&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:31:17.713" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I told them I am &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; from Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow and they hired me right away. Schweet!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2386" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T12:26:00.403" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T12:26:00.403" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:34:19.690" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were an employer and an interviewee was boasting about their reputation I'd look at what questions were asked and what answers were given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &quot;How is babby formed (in PHP)?&quot; would not score well for a PHP guru. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally answering of &quot;just google it, dude&quot; may show things about ability to work within a team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that I think there should be no fear of asking questions, no matter how stupid. If I were an employee I guess I would see a lot of questions asked as a desire to improve or to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T12:27:13.587" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T12:27:13.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:34:38.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoy having a mid-sized rep so I can edit questions and answers to make them better/more complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do more editing nowadays than actual answering or asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did mention at my last interview that Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow is something I do in my free time. It was a nice conversation piece for the interview and showed that I am interested in programming outside of work too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T12:28:05.923" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T12:28:05.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-03T21:36:23.740" />
  <row Id="25457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:35:28.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you have too much rep though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:41:14.360" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:36:13.210" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or more generally, what are reputation&#xA;  points to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as I reach 1.000.000 points I'll fire Jeff and Joel and dominate SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:41:14.360" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:38:24.033" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that rep points alone aren't significant, but I can imagine that someone wanting to provide evidence to Microsoft of why they (or anyone else) should be an MVP could certainly point at their answers on Stack Overflow. The important thing is the details of how the reputation has been gained, not the number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I thoroughly enjoy the element of competition that reputation brings to the party. I'm a competitive person, and although the number is in many ways meaningless, it's fun to compete with it. (That's also why I've suggested a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/95721-monthly-league-for-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;monthly league&lt;/a&gt;, to even the playing field on a regular basis.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:41:14.360" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="25460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:38:45.030" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always thought of my reputation points on this site as a shameful secret I must conceal from my employers. Answering questions here is what I do when I'm trying to avoid work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1412" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:41:14.360" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:45:54.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being new, and not having been on a job search lately, my personal answer is &quot;no&quot;.  However, in order to keep my brain engaged and myself involved in more than just my daily work, I've made it a goal to give one useful answer here a day.  I've found that teaching, no matter how formal or informal, clarifies my thoughts and helps me learn.  So, no, I don't think anybody is going to give me a job based on my SO reputation, but it certainly helps me learn more about what's going on and keeps my mind focused on problem solving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:41:14.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25453" CreationDate="2009-01-03T21:47:04.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my tasks is to get more programming knowledge into the team. So yes I have mentioned that I'm sometimes active on this site and even forwarded the link. But as far as I know, none of them has registered yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:41:14.360" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25435" CreationDate="2009-10-10T23:53:11.000" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should have a &quot;Clear All Associations&quot; button on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4653?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;your accounts tab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-10-10T23:53:11.000" />
  <row Id="25464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25448" CreationDate="2009-10-11T00:04:41.730" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you hand someone a loaded gun, it's a good idea to first try to ensure they know enough not to shoot themselves in the foot and aren't planning to go on a killing spree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks for help doing something that would be potentially harmful to &lt;em&gt;themselves&lt;/em&gt;, then answer if you like - but make them aware of the risks involved. &lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;How can I configure a Linux system to automatically log users in as root?&lt;/em&gt; (answer provides asker with means of leaving their system wide open to attack)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks for help doing something that would be potentially harmful to &lt;em&gt;others&lt;/em&gt;, then avoid helping them unless they provide a good reason for it. &lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;How can I write a kernel module that hides files and processes?&lt;/em&gt; (answer provides asker with means of opening up &lt;em&gt;other users'&lt;/em&gt; systems for attack - even if asker has good intentions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%5FBMG%5FCD%5Fcopy%5Fprotection%5Fscandal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it's still malware&lt;/a&gt; from the end-user's point of view)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember though, that every answer you provide can and probably will be read and used by many people besides the person who asks the question. You can't prevent a malicious user from obtaining the information they need to do something malicious, but you don't have to make it any easier; whenever possible, try to suggest an alternate course of action that won't open up security holes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12621/would-you-teach-black-hat-techniques-in-public-forums&quot;&gt;Would you teach black hat techniques in public forums?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3528/questions-with-nefarious-intent&quot;&gt;Questions with nefarious intent?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T00:04:41.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-11T00:04:41.730" />
  <row Id="25465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T00:41:57.547" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24659/stackoverflow-alerts&quot;&gt;stackoverflow alerts&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to get an immediate email alert when people answer/comment on one of my Stack Overflow posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159370" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T01:16:42.787" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T01:16:42.787" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T03:37:59.330" Title="Immediate email alerts when people answer/comment on one of my posts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T00:43:45.107" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way of getting a view (that I can bookmark) of a reverse chronological sort of any responses to my posts/comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting a bit confused between the various views available, but I haven't seen anything (could have missed something) that addresses my requirement above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159370" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T04:27:58.937" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T04:27:58.937" Title="Reverse chronological view of any responses to my posts/comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7275" CreationDate="2009-10-11T01:16:27.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to see this information on your my own posts, if I have flagged that post already myself (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5296/add-the-ability-to-flag-your-own-post-for-moderator-attention&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5296/add-the-ability-to-flag-your-own-post-for-moderator-attention&lt;/a&gt;). I would, for example, be able to see how many more votes are needed before my post is closed or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T01:16:27.967" />
  <row Id="25468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T02:33:33.100" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7913/please-add-the-ability-to-filter-closed-questions-out-of-my-results&quot;&gt;Please add the ability to filter [Closed] questions out of my results.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cloned myself by accident!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dupe of:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7913&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7913&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the desire to keep closed questions around as information to future users searching for the same thing, but during busy times e.g. 9-5 EST there can be many of them cluttering up the first 5-10 pages of questions on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love an option to hide closed questions when I am just browsing the questions pages, 1,2,3,4,5... etc. Since I can't really do anything with them (answer, assist, clarify, etc.). and they mostly fall into the &quot;read the FAQ before posting category&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course if a user searches for something like &quot;jQuery form&quot;, by all means keep the closed questions visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I'd be happy if the closed questions were &quot;dimmed&quot; similar to the questions that I tag &quot;ignore&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastEditorUserId="6144" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T17:37:21.073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T17:37:21.073" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T19:37:34.143" Title="Any chance of a hide closed questions option?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T05:56:54.993" Score="2" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to implement OpenID for my website. I wanted to look at how Stack Overflow did theirs, so I signed out. I use my WordPress account to sign in (which is what I have been using for my tests). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, in both cases, when I try to sign in through OpenID with WordPress, I get an error: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No openid endpoint found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I couldn't log in to Stack Overflow, I tried another provider on my personal site - LiveJournal - and that worked. This was working before. I do not own my own domain for my blog&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- it's at &lt;code&gt;http://brokenbokken.wordpress.com&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did WordPress do something to break OpenID? Do I need to do something to my blog to make it continue to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T06:27:04.900" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:27:04.900" Title="Why can't I use WordPress to login with OpenID anymore?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25469" CreationDate="2009-10-11T06:17:05.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, if you're using your WordPress.com hosted blog as your OpenID, it will have these tags in the header:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel='openid.server' href='http://example.wordpress.com/?openidserver=1' /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel='openid.delegate' href='http://example.wordpress.com/' /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if you ever switch your blog to protected mode and try to sign in, those two lines will not be present. As such, any attempt to sign in will fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unprotect your blog, sign in with OpenID and then you can go back and return your blog back to protected mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:19:54.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1661" CreationDate="2009-10-11T06:28:37.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tried to upvote the answer, but get a popup that says I don't have enough rep points yet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it curious that new users are presented with the grey up/down triangles for voting. We don't present UI elements for anything else that is outside the user's current capability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:28:37.577" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25414" CreationDate="2009-10-11T06:46:20.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;sorry about that. Will be deployed and fixed in a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:46:20.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="684" CreationDate="2009-10-11T06:48:47.243" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now possible, but &lt;strong&gt;only by tag&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the RSS feeds linked on the tag view, for the &quot;newest&quot; tab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=feature-request&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=feature-request&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T06:48:47.243" />
  <row Id="25476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2314" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:02:02.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;good idea; implemented!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:02:02.820" />
  <row Id="25477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24671" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:13:00.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ah, you mean this feed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/135928/recent&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/135928/recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ok, fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:13:00.447" />
  <row Id="25478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25484" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:36:21.090" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22657/is-it-wrong-to-ask-the-same-question-elsewhere&quot;&gt;Is it wrong to ask the same question elsewhere?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it considered rude to ask a question at the same time at SO and for example a Zend Framework mailinglist? Should I maybe post it first at one place and wait a few days for a good answer to come and then post it at the other place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will provide a link/summary to the good answer at the other location, wherever the best comes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T11:26:09.607" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T14:02:15.253" Title="Is it acceptable to cross-post questions to a mailing-list" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;cross-posting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20720" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:38:55.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this was a regression; I added it back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:38:55.377" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25478" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:44:52.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar questions have been asked before (most similarly &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22657/is-it-wrong-to-ask-the-same-question-elsewhere&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), and it's fine - as long as the answer(s) you get are cross-posted back to the other locale, so that folks can see you've found an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="131197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T11:26:09.607" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T11:26:09.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6658" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:45:34.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated by random, this is purely a timing issue and thus impossible to reliably control; if you happen to get the feed before the posts are deleted ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:45:34.257" />
  <row Id="25482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11559" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:48:42.940" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated the titles to a lot of the feeds to be more descriptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I was referring to the HTML links (+ &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;meta&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; headers) to the RSS on the page, which many clients echo back. I also just changed the actual feed title per your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T07:58:54.713" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T07:58:54.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5721" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:49:48.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we do now have much better tag-based feed support:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10140/any-way-to-get-an-rss-feed-of-newest-tagged-questions/25389#25389&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10140/any-way-to-get-an-rss-feed-of-newest-tagged-questions/25389#25389&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what you're describing I am not sure we will do, but there is some pointlessness around &quot;give me the 30 highest voted questions in [foo] tag&quot; that I might add more to, later..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:49:48.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25478" CreationDate="2009-10-11T07:56:13.160" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done so before now, when asking Code Contracts questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would only do this if I had a reasonable expectation that it might take quite a while to get a response on either of them - so I wouldn't do it for &quot;easy&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1244290&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209166&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; I ended up accepting my own answer, having copied it from the MSDN forum. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209185&quot;&gt;other one&lt;/a&gt; I accepted someone else's answer but still added an answer posted in the MSDN forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would cause problems if this were done a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;, but on occasion it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T07:56:13.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25566" CreationDate="2009-10-11T08:40:23.487" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's purpose is not clear and people looking to associate a new openid with their account can't find it.  Perhaps it should be called &quot;Associate another openid&quot; or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a user experience reported on HN: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=873261&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=873261&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137101" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T06:22:11.860" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:22:11.860" Title="&quot;New login&quot; on the profile page is confusing UI" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="25488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25490" CreationDate="2009-10-11T09:03:46.937" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25202/isnt-the-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-a-little-too-eager&quot;&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t the &amp;ldquo;vote too old to be changed&amp;rdquo; a little too eager?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just encountered this on StackOverflow (svn revision: 4911): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accidentally clicked upvote without meaning it; reverted (un-clicked)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;read the answer, decided that it was worth an upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was prevented by an &quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot; message&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feels nonsensical to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: I know this has been raised once or twice here on meta, but not with any satisfying answer so far, or regarding to slightly other circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T09:06:56.877" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:06:56.877" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T09:12:41.963" Title="&quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot;, again?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25488" CreationDate="2009-10-11T09:08:21.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How long was it between your first click vote through to reading and then to casting it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a bit of time, a minute or two is a long time now on SOFU, it's still counting from the first click. By which, your option to vote is now gone, too old. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T09:08:21.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25488" CreationDate="2009-10-11T09:10:04.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You tried to cast three votes (vote, undo vote, vote again) in the space of (n) seconds. There are independent limits on time and number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? This is due to a few users gaming the vote undo mechanism for unsavory things. Sorry, as usual, a few bad apples ruin it for everyone, this is why we have to lock our front doors, etc etc etc blah blah blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may be interested in the greasemonkey &quot;double-click to vote&quot; script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25397/greasemonkey-script-to-require-double-clicks-to-vote&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25397/greasemonkey-script-to-require-double-clicks-to-vote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can honestly say that I have never accidentally voted on anything, and I spend a &lt;em&gt;LOT&lt;/em&gt; of time on the trilogy sites. Not as much as, say, Jon Skeet, but quite a bit..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T09:10:04.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T09:28:13.543" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I split my time between two cities that are 70 miles apart (this is a long distance in the UK). I would like to list both as my location in my CV on careers.stackoverflow.com, but I get only one choice. Please allow multiple location values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I can enter multiple locations in the &quot;where do you want to work&quot; section, but this is lower down the CV and doesn't quite match my situation (where I am really in both cities).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137103" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T06:00:35.023" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T06:00:35.023" Title="Careers: multiple locations" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T09:49:57.920" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the filing screen at careers.stackoverflow.com, there are fields for city, state or region, and postal code. But country is missing, so (for instance) you can't distinguish between Perth, UK and Perth, Australia. Please add a country field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137103" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T06:27:38.707" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T06:27:38.707" Title="Careers: include country when filing CV" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T12:26:38.717" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3330/why-cant-i-just-offer-a-bounty-for-a-question-right-off-the-bat&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;rsquo;t I just offer a bounty for a question right off the bat?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most of us know now, when a question has a bounty, it can gain more answers faster than the questions without a bounty.  It just so happens that I needed an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/53677/how-to-resize-a-windows-vista-partition-to-use-the-extra-space-for-dual-booting-w&quot;&gt;my question in SU&lt;/a&gt; and I need to get a good answer really really fast. But since there is a threshold for giving a bounty, I will still have to wait longer instead of getting the answers faster. I think 48 hours is too long. Maybe we could at least make it 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T12:26:38.717" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T19:02:07.550" Title="48 hours is too long to enable the add a bounty" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T12:34:28.190" Score="-2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;i'd like to have the questions i already visited to be highlighted so it would be easier to scroll thorugh them espcially when new ones are arriving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133805" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-02T13:50:48.697" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T13:50:48.697" Title="Highlight already visited questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25494" CreationDate="2009-10-11T12:36:05.520" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My browsers perfectly show the links I've visited, and I did not do anything fancy for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Maybe you should set your browser to keep a longer history?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T12:36:05.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25497" CreationDate="2009-10-11T13:04:01.973" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7913/please-add-the-ability-to-filter-closed-questions-out-of-my-results&quot;&gt;Please add the ability to filter [Closed] questions out of my results.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When searching for questions, is there a way to avoid all those marked &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; at the end? I know how to find questions with &quot;truly&quot; 0 answers (&lt;code&gt;answers:0&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skipping closed questions would be nice in search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T05:41:28.840" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T16:14:27.687" Title="Avoiding &quot;closed&quot; questions in a search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25496" CreationDate="2009-10-11T13:06:56.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add &lt;code&gt;closed:0&lt;/code&gt; to your search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, to search for all the truly unanswered questions I use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed:0%20hasaccepted:0%20answers:0%20[c%23]&amp;amp;tab=newest&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T13:06:56.507" />
  <row Id="25499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25494" CreationDate="2009-10-11T14:01:35.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use Greasemonkey or Stylish to change the a:visited links to something much more obnoxious if you like.  I'm sure someone will come along with a script soon enough ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T14:01:35.753" />
  <row Id="25500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25496" CreationDate="2009-10-11T14:08:13.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closed as duplicate are useful in searches as they provide different keywords to search for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T14:08:13.290" />
  <row Id="25501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7913" CreationDate="2009-10-11T14:48:17.020" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stick the &lt;code&gt;closed:0&lt;/code&gt; parameter in your search pipe and you're &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25496/avoiding-closed-questions-in-a-search/25497#25497&quot; title=&quot;tip o' the hat thar&quot;&gt;smoking out&lt;/a&gt; the closed questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3A0&quot; title=&quot;looks so open here&quot;&gt;closed:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you're in the mood of puffing around the closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3A1&quot; title=&quot;why are all the doors closed?&quot;&gt;closed:1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On both, they will default to showing you the Relevance tab. But hey, default is for the lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click your stub on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot; title=&quot;fresh is somewhat better&quot;&gt;Newest&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3a0&amp;amp;tab=active&quot; title=&quot;how are you today?&quot;&gt;Active&lt;/a&gt; and then you'll be walking in your leather jacket along the rows and pages of questions as if &lt;code&gt;closed&lt;/code&gt; was some kind of filter. (And did you know that when you smoke 'em like your lungs are filled with black, that the thumb and fingers block the filter pores so you're getting more tar quicker into your lungs?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your interesting and ignored set of tags will still be in play, but your eyes will not be assaulted any more by closed questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then page along your merry way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T15:10:29.520" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T15:10:29.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25166" CreationDate="2009-10-11T15:02:35.243" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microsoft certifications&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As many people will like to show these on these CVs, it would be good if everyone show then in the same way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each exam, has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A number&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The data it was passed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(There is no grade)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a set of tags for what the exam covered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are the overall certifications (e.g. MCSD) that each has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a icon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;date passed, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also we have certifications from other companies (e.g. Java etc), but I don’t know what data they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a section on the CV for certifications, or should one of the current sections be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T15:02:35.243" />
  <row Id="25503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27245" CreationDate="2009-10-11T15:05:50.073" Score="1" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wish to add the icons for my Microsoft certifications to my CV, how do I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T06:49:03.613" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:49:03.613" Title="How do I add icons / images to my CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25556" CreationDate="2009-10-11T15:12:51.480" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;When creating my CV, I had to choose between &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C#-1.0, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C#-2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.NET&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person searching for CV will have to do the same.  This will lead to a lot of CVs not being matched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reduce the number of tags, so that&#xA;there is only one C# tag etc &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Form&#xA;the tags into a tree**S** (or graphs), so that when&#xA;.NET is searched for all sub tags are found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:25:53.260" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:25:53.260" Title="Too many tags to choose from on CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25044" CreationDate="2009-10-11T15:18:33.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that I don't always answer questions with the same tags as are on my CV.  So I think a link to all my ansers would be more useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T15:18:33.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T12:04:14.460" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting a Stack Exchange site and I want to be able to intercept the question text before and after the markdown script gets at it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to be be able to enter &lt;code&gt;[custom-tag]stuff to be altered[/custom-tag]&lt;/code&gt; in the question window, and then have the &lt;code&gt;stuff to be altered&lt;/code&gt; removed (as the standard markdown engine won't be able to interpret it) store it, and then replace the tags in the output with the &lt;code&gt;stuff to be altered&lt;/code&gt; after it has been processed by my own (serverside) engine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm failing at the first step; I can't find the markdown javascript is. Is it somewhere hidden in /content/js/master.js?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137087" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T15:55:15.180" ClosedDate="2009-10-11T20:00:49.437" Title="How can I intercept and modify markdown from the wmd markdown editor before it posts?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25509" CreationDate="2009-10-11T16:13:22.460" Score="1" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the message printed at the bottom of the stats page (and as confirmed by Jeff's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18945/answer-count-on-stats-page-off/19007#19007&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18945/answer-count-on-stats-page-off/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Only non community-wiki questions and&#xA;  answers are included in these totals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=weblogic&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;stats&lt;/a&gt; of the weblogic tag (for example), it says I answered &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; questions in the last 30 days (and I don't even appear in the all time stats). But the following search &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A70604+%5Bweblogic%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:70604 [weblogic]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shows that I answered 14 questions (and 13 in the Last 30 days at the time of writing this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, there must be a bug somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked for questions mentioning the same issue but I couldn't find something really describing this behavior as a bug (and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8058/bug-incorrect-answer-count&quot;&gt;Bug(?): incorrect answer count&lt;/a&gt; question and answer don't apply in my case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-15T14:14:17.683" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T14:14:17.683" Title="Wrong Answer Count on Stats Page" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;&lt;answer-count&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25503" CreationDate="2009-10-11T16:17:39.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And there are people that want to add Waffle-sharks with freaking lasers in their heads. That's the reason that now we can't put images in the CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;May be&lt;/em&gt; Jeff &amp;amp; co. might reconsider and trust we'll behave, but &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; wouldn't trust us to behave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T16:17:39.583" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25507" CreationDate="2009-10-11T16:41:18.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're checking out the weblogic stats page, and you're comparing against the search, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A70604+%5Bweblogic%5D&quot; title=&quot;susan?&quot;&gt;run it against &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;code&gt;weblogic&lt;/code&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;code&gt;sql&lt;/code&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The results show 12 answers by you, but only two (2) of those with a vote each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is these two with upvotes that are counted on your stats leaderboard appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/4uB87.png&quot; alt=&quot;tongue you very much&quot; title=&quot;froggy logic&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Number of answers provided&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though you have thrown up over a dozen answers, the only ones worth counting as part of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;number of answers provided&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; are those that have been upvoted and are non-wiki. Accepted does not count in this metric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for documentation, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25507/wrong-answer-count-on-stats-page/25509#25509&quot; title=&quot;where did the fly go?&quot;&gt;it's here now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T08:53:44.800" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T08:53:44.800" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T17:03:09.910" Score="0" ViewCount="743" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3086/will-open-sourcing-stack-overflow-destroy-our-business-model&quot;&gt;Will Open Sourcing Stack Overflow Destroy Our Business Model?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a very modern discussion forum, very fast and effective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it built upon an open sourced discussion forum framework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, can the framework that Stack Overflow built upon be open sourced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157978" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-01T10:27:52.963" LastActivityDate="2010-12-01T10:27:52.963" ClosedDate="2009-10-12T13:32:14.350" Title="Is Stack Overflow build out of an open sourced framework or can it be open sourced?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;forum&gt;&lt;source&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T16:29:30.290" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18506/any-way-to-manage-and-keep-track-of-answers-and-questions&quot;&gt;Any way to manage and keep track of answers and questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/53585/how-do-favorite-questions-work&quot;&gt;How do favorite questions work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I'm missing something obvious. If so, maybe it should be made more visible in the UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to &quot;save&quot; a question I like so that I can come back later to either check new responses or to refer to after a few months etc. Kinda like an in-site bookmark facility like what Reddit has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any plans to add something like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137126" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-09T18:13:48.587" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T18:13:48.587" ClosedDate="2011-03-09T18:17:39.400" Title="Any way to save a question (like in Reddit)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25514" CreationDate="2009-10-11T16:31:06.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can mark a question as a &quot;favorite&quot; by clicking the star underneath the vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132986" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T17:09:46.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2009-10-11T17:11:40.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a &lt;strong&gt;minimum reputation level required to create a new tag&lt;/strong&gt; (or use a tag that currently has 0 uses -- i.e. already created but has been merged into another tag)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason why a questioner should have to fully tag the question himself -- someone with higher rep will soon see it and tag it appropriately if not already done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A pleasant side-effect is that the Taxonomist badge is harder to game -- at least, it staves off the gaming attempt until the user is more seasoned and hopefully wiser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I see this was also suggested &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4396/please-increase-the-reputation-required-to-create-tags&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T17:11:40.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25512" CreationDate="2009-10-11T17:17:11.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is stackoverflow built upon an&#xA;  open-source discussion forum&#xA;  framework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the software behind Stack Overflow is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;, and it is not open-source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If not, can the framework that&#xA;  StackOverflow built upon be open&#xA;  sourced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3086/will-open-sourcing-stack-overflow-destroy-our-business-model&quot;&gt;StackExchange is unlikely to be open-sourced anytime soon.&lt;/a&gt;  There is a similar knowledge-exchange platform called &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Solace&lt;/a&gt; which is open-source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130782" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T17:17:11.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25522" CreationDate="2009-10-11T17:53:49.700" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an example I asked a question where the title could have been phrased better - that is, it wasn't phrased as a question; however, the body of the entry was a question about what options are available for creating controllers for agents in simulated worlds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The item was closed (&quot;Not a real question&quot;), I have subsequently rephrased the title and body but now I still need 3 votes to reopen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I'm referring to is:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1541010/what-types-of-solutions-are-applicable-to-real-time-controller-tasks-closed&quot;&gt;What types of solutions are applicable to real-time controller tasks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially this is on the edge of what SO is meant for. The reason I thought it would be OK was that it is about programming, it is a question with some potentially straightforward direct answers (although there is obviously scope for wider and open ended discussion) and there are pre-existing 'challenge' and code-golf questions that seemed to be popular and that haven't been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts welcome. Thankyou.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137112" LastEditorUserId="137112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-11T18:23:22.317" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T18:57:22.330" Title="Is it ever acceptable to re-post a closed question? e.g. after editing it to be more appropriate" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25520" CreationDate="2009-10-11T17:59:26.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would edit the original question instead, rather than creating a new question. Admittedly it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; harder to get a question reopened than to start a new one, but it does show that you care about the quality of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If enough time goes by without it being reopened (and with no comments suggesting further improvements) you might want to create a new question, but delete the old one... or if there are already answers (as in this case) edit the old question to link to the new one, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T17:59:26.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25200" CreationDate="2009-10-11T18:34:19.283" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the perspective of a speaker, I hope the talks are recorded. I'm going to spend quite a while researching, writing and practising my talk. I would like as many people as possible to benefit from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very exciting to see how many people are actually interested in a talk you give. I gave my last talk four times, to a total in-the-flesh audience of about 140 people, but nearly 8000 people (to date!) have watched it online. That's quite an economy of scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T18:34:19.283" />
  <row Id="25524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25512" CreationDate="2009-10-11T18:52:33.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should also look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, where several open and closed sourced clones written in different languages are discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T18:52:33.777" />
  <row Id="25525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25520" CreationDate="2009-10-11T18:57:22.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it currently stands most of the text of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1541010/what-types-of-solutions-are-applicable-to-real-time-controller-tasks-closed&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt; feels like either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look at this thing I'm involved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Build my contest entry for me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find myself reacting very negatively to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if I put those suspicions aside, the question (nice title not withstanding) boils down to &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Can anyone help with this project?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; The correct answer to which is &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Yes&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, but that is not very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see Stack Overflow as a site for recruiting participants in other projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To your question here, editing the closed question is generally preferable to reposting, but unless you're badly misstated the original, I don't see how you can save this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing will also bump the question back to the front page where it can get some more attention, but your edit (or a accompanying comment) should include an explanation of how you have fixed the original problem or an argument as to why the close was in error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T18:57:22.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25548" CreationDate="2009-10-11T19:12:10.587" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the collation used for StackOverflow trilogy databases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intention of this question is optimize how one can do a search within SO sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that, collation is set to &lt;code&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI&lt;/code&gt; but I would like to know if case sensitivity or accents matter or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4035" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T04:45:00.277" Title="StackOverflow database collation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T19:42:21.967" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to search for my name here on Meta, since I know there are some threads that mention it (with correct accent)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I entered &quot;Ólafur&quot; into the search box it barfs up an error &quot;Your search returned no matches.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when i search for my lastname &quot;Waage&quot; it turns up results, some of which use my correctly accented name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T03:57:26.037" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:57:26.037" Title="Searching with an accented character does not work" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25527" CreationDate="2009-10-11T20:11:49.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;crazy moon language characters!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T20:11:49.947" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T20:23:32.250" Score="0" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;All things considered I'd rather like to keep my online and real-life identities separate. However I also rather need a new job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible or reasonable to maintain anonymity with a CV on jobs.stackoverflow.com? (I guess this is a feature-request if not)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T00:13:54.640" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:21:06.067" Title="Preserving Anonymity on Jobs?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-11T20:37:41.490" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I looked back on the old &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C’Mon Get Meta post&lt;/a&gt;. There were some great ideas for how the system could be changed into a discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bounties make little sense on a discussion site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions-&gt;topics, answers-&gt;replies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remove notion of community wiki, as discussion sites have a stronger sense of ownership, plus nothing will be off-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remove accepting an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all things that were stated from day one. (i'm not talking about that most of these things haven't been implemented). But why are we still treating the system like a Q&amp;amp;A system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is for discussion, an answer to a question is a reply to a topic. It's like we're still trying to get rep and worrying about looking like a rep whór.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO. Answer and talk about questions as much as you want. Comments are only for meta-meta-meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a discussion tag, so we should be able to discuss things as an answer. Not as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:38:32.047" Title="Why are we using comments for discussion and answers for opinions or information?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25530" CreationDate="2009-10-11T20:50:49.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, you don't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to link your SO profile. Granted, that's kinda the hook for SOC, but it's still not really known if employers will really &lt;em&gt;care&lt;/em&gt; - you could always try going without it for a few months &amp;amp; see how that pans out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'm fine with linking the two so long as it's not exposed to casual browsing / Google / etc. What I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want is any indication on SO-proper that I have a CV posted on SOC - right now, that's the case, and I hope it stays that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T20:50:49.767" />
  <row Id="25536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25531" CreationDate="2009-10-11T21:11:24.283" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;remove notion of community wiki, as&#xA;  discussion sites have a stronger sense&#xA;  of ownership, plus nothing will be&#xA;  off-topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waffles &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mrwonderfuls.com/images/waffle.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Waffles&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T21:11:24.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25531" CreationDate="2009-10-11T21:14:45.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a slashcode like system would work much better for discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow for threaded responses. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hide stuff with no votes when you have a response overload. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole giant comment thread thing is completely out-of-control here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T21:14:45.260" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25541" CreationDate="2009-10-11T21:32:40.470" Score="1" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I see a question that I'd like to know the answer to, but that has not been answered yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if I could save that question in a personal 'favorite questions' list, so that I could easily find it again later (to check back with the question later if it has been answered).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136994" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T02:25:21.813" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T02:25:21.813" Title="Feature request: Personal 'favorite questions' list" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="25539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25531" CreationDate="2009-10-11T21:35:17.003" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is, flat message boards / bulletin boards / forums &lt;em&gt;all suck&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hmm, Ólafur makes a good point - I wonder if anyone has been able to refute his arguments... I'll just quickly read through the next &lt;strong&gt;80 pages of unthreaded, largely-redundant responses&lt;/strong&gt; and check!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flat only works when you're willing to admit that, after the first ten or so responses, everything else stands a good chance of being ignored. Which is &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; for SO (no discussion allowed), fine for blog posts (any real conversation in the comments would lower the blog-owner's soapbox), and &lt;em&gt;death&lt;/em&gt; for a discussion forum. And so we don't use MSO like a discussion forum, or when we do we do so largely via comment responses: it's the closest we can get to a &lt;em&gt;real,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;threaded&lt;/strong&gt; forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta as a discussion forum is doomed, &lt;em&gt;and has been from day 1&lt;/em&gt; - the system simply doesn't support it. But, that's ok - it still works better for discussion than UV-style or PHPBB-style forums, and that's enough to make it worthwhile for the time being. Eventually, it'll all collapse under its own weight, but by then we'll all be using Wave or something... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T21:35:17.003" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-10-11T21:36:37.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when enough people upvote an obnoxious answer other people may think this is true or a good idea. I see many of those and i really wish to express my disagreement. I would like comments with an up and down count so we can see how many ppl agree and disagree and not just get a average number ((agree count, disagree count) &gt; (result = agress - disagree))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T21:36:37.327" />
  <row Id="25541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25538" CreationDate="2009-10-11T21:46:38.260" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That little star under the up/down vote buttons next to each question is used for saving favorite questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, to review your favorites, you can go to your profile (click your name), and you'll see a &quot;Favorites&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/8026/screenshot2zo.png&quot; alt=&quot;star&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-10-11T21:46:38.260" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="25546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24185" CreationDate="2009-10-12T03:57:45.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't the first ad of its kind I've seen on SO. there was another a while ago that confused users by imitating the tab-style layout of the SO navigation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ad that attempts to trick people by imitating site content, or pretend it's not advertising, is underhanded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attempting to weasel out of that with &quot;but WE'RE not doing that, we're IRONICALLY poking fun at people that do that!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... well, maybe you're doing that as well, but you crafted an ad that imitated site content to do it, so mainly you're engaging in the very activity you're deriding. slightly clever, but wholely hypocritical, and still underhanded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it annoys me that a site I enjoy as much as SO allows advertisers to use these tactics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137135" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T03:57:45.933" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25550" CreationDate="2009-10-12T04:09:18.970" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I've created and saved my CV but haven't filed it, can anyone see it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:09:36.953" Title="Can anyone see my CV before it has been &quot;filed&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25526" CreationDate="2009-10-12T04:45:00.277" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Collation is currently set to &lt;code&gt;SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS&lt;/code&gt; - the &quot;why&quot; is lost in antiquity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll probably change it over to a case-insensitive collation at some point, but it's not a concern right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we're using SQL Server's Full Text Search, which is case-insensitive*, so the database collation shouldn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* only place I could find MS saying it's case-insensitive: &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187787.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187787.aspx&lt;/a&gt; (search for &lt;em&gt;sensitive&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T04:45:00.277" />
  <row Id="25550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25547" CreationDate="2009-10-12T05:05:18.260" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody can see it but you -- until you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) make it public (free, not yet implemented, but coming soon)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-or-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) file it and make it searchable by employers ($29 / 3 years)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are both off by default, so your CV is always 100% private until you decide it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, once you make a CV searchable by employers, you have the option to hide it again, so it can't be seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T05:09:36.953" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:09:36.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25491" CreationDate="2009-10-12T05:24:33.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is unlikely that employers will be searching on your personal location; this is mostly included for informational purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The locations they will be searching on are at the bottom of your CV under &lt;strong&gt;Where do you want to work?&lt;/strong&gt;, and can include multiple locations, as many as you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:24:33.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25531" CreationDate="2009-10-12T05:38:32.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're surprised that the software is structuring how people behave? That people wrap their behavior around what the software allows and encourages rather than the other way around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that the SO engine is not &lt;em&gt;optimal&lt;/em&gt; for pure discussion, it ends up being better than most of the alternatives. In all honesty, I think this says more about how crappy the alternatives are than how great our system is. But, a win by default is still a win, so yay us!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you ought to be looking at Stack Exchange sites for evidence of how well this model extends beyond its intended initial audience (Q&amp;amp;A for technical folks, programmers) than meta. They're pushing the boundaries way more than meta is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:38:32.047" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25554" CreationDate="2009-10-12T05:39:36.413" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello All,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some one was awarded tumbleweed badge for a question for long time, then, does it indicate that what was asked in the question is not possible or no one knows the solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If for a long time a question is not answered or doesn't have any comments what the owner must do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastEditorUserId="137068" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T05:51:53.863" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T18:44:28.763" Title="Tumbleweed Badge for long time indicates &quot;Not Possible&quot; or &quot;No One Knows&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="25554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25553" CreationDate="2009-10-12T05:47:44.353" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tumbleweed is a &quot;for fun&quot; badge; the implicit message is &quot;we're sorry this question isn't working out for you; keep trying!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this for some great tips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can &quot;bump&quot; your thread by &lt;strong&gt;providing status and progress updates resulting from your own continued efforts to answer the question yourself&lt;/strong&gt;. I usually do that unless I really hit a dead end with no further clues to follow. Some times I eventually bring about enough understanding to realise the answer, and thus post a resolution to my own problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough points, you can offer a &lt;strong&gt;bounty&lt;/strong&gt;, promising to give some of your points to the person who correctly answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is persistence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody should want to find out the answer to your question more than you do -- so show us proof that you're actively working towards a solution! If you are serious and show evidence of your hard work others will be more willing to pitch in and help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and, in contrast, compare this with the &quot;do all my work for me&quot; types of lazy questions -- not saying your question is one of these, but only using it as an example of what does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; work.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:47:44.353" />
  <row Id="25555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25553" CreationDate="2009-10-12T05:50:15.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... either of the two... or maybe no one who knows the answer has viewed the question, or considered it worth-answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:50:15.783" />
  <row Id="25556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25504" CreationDate="2009-10-12T05:52:08.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C# and .NET aren't the same.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which one would you choose? Would you really take C#-1.0 or C#-2.0 instead of the more general C#?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think 99% of all people will choose C# in this example. The same should be true for other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one would like to do something about it: sort tags by occurrence or show it in brackets like this: C# (40000)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T05:52:08.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25492" CreationDate="2009-10-12T06:05:43.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't require a country for the purposes of billing - it's more important to get your location correct on the location field in Personal Info and &quot;Where do you want to work?&quot; located on your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T06:05:43.897" />
  <row Id="25558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-12T06:23:09.870" Score="14" ViewCount="687" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a bunch of sites on Stack Exchange that are directly splintering off portions of Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlteam.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ask.sqlteam.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://snippetgood.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://snippetgood.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T14:38:19.703" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:46:56.883" Title="Stack Exchange is splintering off portions of SO, is that a problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-10-12T06:34:46.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe splintering wouldn't be such a bad thing. A more localized community can solve questions with greater ease because they would not get distracted by the noise added by all the other questions and topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also allows Stack Overflow to easily deal with the problem of searching for stuff you like. You can just get directed to the appropriate Stack Exchange site where the information is easier to sift through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have to agree that a centralized place for all programming related questions is a good thing. You know that when you have a problem, there's a single place where you can get your question answered. It also allows people to gain experience by simply looking through different topics, even though they might not be experienced in some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T06:34:46.497" />
  <row Id="25562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13014" CreationDate="2009-10-12T06:56:42.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel so warm and fuzzy. I love you too, Stack Overflow! &amp;lt;3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135007" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T06:56:42.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2009-10-12T07:00:36.790" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logos bug me too.  I didn't know before now that flex-the-lexer was not a GNU tool (although I never assumed it was).  Now that I know, the [gnu-flex] tag seems distasteful (and propagates the misconception).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that we can do better.  I thought of a couple of ideas, but any solution needs to deal with the fact that &quot;flex&quot; is how the product is known to most of its users, so a tag that does not contain the word (including suggestions like [fast-lexer] or [lex]), even if accurate in some sense, might make the questions harder to find for some users.  There also seems to be the issue of addressing the GNU flex myth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a change from &quot;gnu-flex&quot; to &quot;non-gnu-flex&quot;.  That fits with references like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/flex/flex.README&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/flex/flex.README&lt;/a&gt;.  I also think it helps combat the myth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure -- I'll happily do the retagging, but I'll wait to see if this &quot;Answer&quot; ever gets more votes than the gnu-flex (accepted) answer.  If it doesn't, then it's probably not the best solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58549" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T07:00:36.790" />
  <row Id="25564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21026" CreationDate="2009-10-12T07:53:21.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, we have a rudimentary &lt;code&gt;GeneratePlainTextFromHtml&lt;/code&gt; function in there now. Results may not be optimal, but for most of our emails, which are minimally HTML formatted, it should be reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T07:53:21.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20996" CreationDate="2009-10-12T07:53:40.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, we have a rudimentary &lt;code&gt;GeneratePlainTextFromHtml&lt;/code&gt; function in there now. Results may not be optimal, but for most of our emails, which are minimally HTML formatted, it should be reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T07:53:40.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25487" CreationDate="2009-10-12T07:55:59.990" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I agree, this totally sucked, and I have nobody to blame but myself. I guess when I wrote that, I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It now says &lt;strong&gt;add openid&lt;/strong&gt; when you don't have an alt openid set, and &lt;strong&gt;change openid&lt;/strong&gt; when you have both a primary and alt set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also (theoretically) helpful title tooltip set on the links which elaborates a bit on the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T07:55:59.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-10-12T08:33:09.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That however will devalue the reputation thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before SO was kind of unique now there's going to be plenty of them. So your reputation on one of them will carry less weight. Understanding this, I think people's motivation to participate and gain reputation will drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mine already has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T08:33:09.537" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="25571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25215" CreationDate="2009-10-12T08:45:00.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;workaround: when doing the AJAX callback to look up related titles we now return &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That title is too short to be useful. Can you add some more detail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;instead of actually searching on too-short titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means the top part containing the validation error is more likely to be visible, since it won't be &quot;pushed down&quot; by the related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(aside: constructing a valid 15 character title, even for testing, is pretty darn hard.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: We moved most of the post validation to the server, which helps reduce any client JavaScript quirks that would prevent submission. This also means submission errors can be simplified and placed in the same area on the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6915/stackoverflowserverside.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:18:03.210" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:18:03.210" />
  <row Id="25574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-10-12T11:12:33.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could pose a strange problem to SO if a certain site gains momentum and becomes the de facto site for asking about X. Since you should be able to goto SO to ask about X but most of the people who knows everything about it, are on the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T11:12:33.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-10-12T12:37:41.767" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing, but I also don't really see it as a good thing. It's just &lt;strong&gt;a thing&lt;/strong&gt;. The major reason StackOverflow is as successful as it is is due to the population, which I think would be incredibly hard to reproduce in any StackExchange site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that any of these super specific sites would cause any real negative impact on SO, and even if it potentially did, that's the risk that Jeff &amp;amp; Joel and company have to take when it comes to this preferred business model. If you start saying &quot;your SE site can't be about subjects X, Y, Z, and R&quot; that is going to look bad on SE and those running it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T12:37:41.767" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25578" CreationDate="2009-10-12T12:44:33.067" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;No big deal, but if you add one char to a question, the edit history says it's adding 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thought you should know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T16:23:48.183" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T16:23:48.183" Title="If you add one char to a Question, the edit history says it's adding 5" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25576" CreationDate="2009-10-12T12:52:13.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1551496/list&quot; title=&quot;now now now!&quot;&gt;your most recent edit&lt;/a&gt; as an example here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Original:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any best practices surrounding this practice? I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Revised:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any best practices surrounding this practice? I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;x&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're not counting the newlines added, which the diff (apparently) is, in the character count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T12:52:13.020" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25576" CreationDate="2009-10-12T12:54:12.017" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the reason for the discrepancy in the characters is that carriage return and line feed are counted separately so two carriage returns = 4 chars, plus the char you thought you added = 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carriage return + Line feed + Carriage return + Line feed + character&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T12:54:12.017" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29553" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:00:29.230" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that for normal Stack Overflow codebase changes, we're not usually notified of the small things; and the big things are usually put into a blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That works quite well, since we're not paying for that service -- there's no real need for us to be aware of any change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not so with Careers, however.  We &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; paying for that service, and changes in how it works may lead us to change or update our CV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we request a blog post or a meta post (or even something on the careers site itself) from the team of changes made for Careers so that we're kept up to date? I suppose it could be solved by doing a tag search for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[careers] [status-completed]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, but that's an indirect way to keep up with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:40:03.360" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:40:03.360" Title="Can we have revision updates for Careers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;updates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25579" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:04:19.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever changes of relative importance have been made they have always made it fairly well known using the status completed tags and via blog posts. I don't see why that would change at all with the careers section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:04:19.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25593" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:08:19.543" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;user feed&quot; page is not rendering properly in Google Chrome (V 3.0.195.25). It looks like a text file with all the html tags and contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-01T13:07:03.143" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T13:07:03.143" Title="User Feed page in Google Chrome" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25579" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:11:57.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only recently found, solely by looking through the questions on meta surrounding careers that the number of tags you can stick on as your &lt;code&gt;Favorite&lt;/code&gt; (and others) has been increased to 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally I'd have been notified of that change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:11:57.850" />
  <row Id="25583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:28:48.320" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I search eBay UK for something it tells me if there are also hits on other eBays around the world ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... child StackExchange's could be included in the &quot;Possible answers&quot; results list when a new question is created on SO, allowing the user to be directed to answers elsewhere.  Thus people skilled in MS SQL Server could hang out at ask.sqlteam.com and users asking questions here on SO could still find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask a SQL question on SO and am offered an answer on ask.sqlteam.com from someone (over there) with a high reputation it strikes me as more relevant than an answer here from someone with huge reputations, but in another specialty (which I can't easily tell, can I?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137157" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:28:48.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25587" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:31:49.890" Score="0" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;SO Clones?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the clone wars have begun :(&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.excbadaccess.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.excbadaccess.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't running on the so-engine right?&#xA;If it is then that's cool otherwise...booooooooo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T13:34:46.610" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:35:49.103" ClosedDate="2009-10-12T13:43:12.443" Title="Stackoverflow ripped off?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;engine&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25584" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:34:29.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Old news:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this is a StackExchange site, not a clone:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:34:29.887" />
  <row Id="25586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25584" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:35:10.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; website - using the same engine as SO, SU, SF and MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a list of (most) stackexchange websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:35:10.323" />
  <row Id="25587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25584" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:35:49.103" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There it is listed. So running officially on stackoverflow I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134324" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:35:49.103" />
  <row Id="25593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25581" CreationDate="2009-10-12T13:46:47.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google Chrome has no support for RSS feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T13:46:47.833" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25594" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-12T14:00:20.070" Score="13" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to use the new October data dump (remember: this is Sql Server, not MySQL).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also has a new (better but still very bad) graphic layout and several new features:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More indexes, including several full-text indexes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easier to get links to share your queries (see the Query ID to the top right of the editor after running a query).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easier to see what queries others are running (see the &quot;logs&quot; link on the top right) -- fyi, &quot;logs&quot; will soon be replaced with &quot;featured&quot;, where the logs query is just one featured query among several.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;faq page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Includes new CommunityOwnedDate column on posts table.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easier to get CSV results out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Updated results limit to 1000 records from 500.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initial ground work for a &quot;featured queries&quot; section and support for other sites (serverfault, superuser).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Better (safer) escaping of the html responses (the same &lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/codes/333-sanitize-html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script that StackOverflow uses&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Known bugs: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Newlines are not shown in the editor when running a query from the logs.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Html formatting isn't always stripped from pasted queries correctly. Sometimes this breaks the query, sometimes not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Default &quot;Results to X&quot; button not always selected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Session expiration is handled poorly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Query Governor -limited queries still gives same response as a query with no results.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any feedback welcome, but especially bug reports, kudos, and graphics layout ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Just fixed some bugs, including an issue with not htmlencoding querytext when showing the logs, losing line breaks in the logs (only fixed for new queries), better handling for invalid log id, and wasn't showing error text for SqlExceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T20:43:10.670" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:35:10.433" Title="StackQL Update for October + new features" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;stackql&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-12T14:18:00.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it seems their ad director monitors this site, I wonder if woot would be willing to share the results of this ad vs the last one.  It'd be interesting to see some data better than annecdotal &quot;I liked it&quot;/&quot;I hated it&quot; postings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T14:18:00.177" />
  <row Id="25596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-10-12T14:23:23.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we'll continue to see this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlservercentral.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ask.sqlservercentral.com/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlteam.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ask.sqlteam.com/&lt;/a&gt; - which cover EXACTLY the same subject matter area, and frankly there is no real reason to prefer those to StackOverflow and ServerFault except that it is likely they will cover areas from both SO and SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After considering them and trying to start contributing, I'm having difficulty getting enough rep to even start voting up other people's answers, let alone helping tag or anything like that.  I expect I'll continue to use StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, things which have been exiled from SO like math questions and business of software now have relevant sites: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathematics.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mathematics.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://answers.onstartups.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T14:23:23.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23554" CreationDate="2009-10-12T14:30:10.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For anyone who might be interested I put together an interactive tag comparison. You can put in up to 4 tags and compare them over a date range and granularity. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ioncannon.net/projects/sostats/tag%5Fcompare.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Check it out here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T14:30:10.423" />
  <row Id="25598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25601" CreationDate="2009-10-12T14:48:00.187" Score="31" ViewCount="453" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to find out more about &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/where-in-the-world-do-stack-overflow-users-come-from&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;where in the world StackOverflow users come from&lt;/a&gt;, so I decided to do a little data mining.  Unfortunately, because the &quot;Location&quot; field on the user profile has no regular format, this proved to be a much more tedious process than I expected.  I tried using some clever regular expressions, but they always had way too many false positives, so I ended up sanitizing all the data by hand.  To make it a little easier for me, I only looked at users with rep &gt;= 1000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Data retrieved from &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow sandbox&lt;/a&gt; on 2009-10-05 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/creative-commons-data-dump-sep-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;September 2009 data dump&lt;/a&gt;) for users with rep &gt;= 1000.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full data can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t8H6oZuQzJFA9Afdj4z_pZg&amp;amp;output=html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;viewed as Google Docs spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t8H6oZuQzJFA9Afdj4z_pZg&amp;amp;output=xls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;downloaded in Excel format&lt;/a&gt;.  (There are multiple tabs in the spreadsheet!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Overview in charts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Worldwide&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&amp;amp;chs=440x220&amp;amp;chco=FFFFFF,FFCCCC,FF1111,FF0000&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,AACCFF&amp;amp;chtm=world&amp;amp;chld=USGBCAAUDENLSEINFRILNZNOBEPLDKCHIEBRATRUFIITROZAJPESTRARGRPTCZHUMXSGUASIRSCNMYTHBGEELTPKSKCLEGHKPHISLVMTAMCODOHNHRIDIQIRLBPETWBDBMCGCIGTIMKEKHKRKWLKMAMDMKPYQASASYTNTTUYVEVN&amp;amp;chd=s:9SIGFDDCCCCCBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Europe&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&amp;amp;chs=440x220&amp;amp;chco=FFFFFF,FFCCCC,FF1111,FF0000&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,AACCFF&amp;amp;chtm=europe&amp;amp;chld=GBDENLSEFRNOBEPLDKCHIEATRUFIITROESTRGRPTCZHUUASIRSBGEELTSKISLVMTAMHRIRIQCIIMMKMDMASYTN&amp;amp;chd=s:9QLJHFFFEEEDDDDDCCBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;United States&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&amp;amp;chs=380x220&amp;amp;chco=FFFFFF,FFCCCC,FF0000&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,AACCFF&amp;amp;chtm=usa&amp;amp;chld=CANYWATXPAFLMAILOHCOVAGANCMIORMNNJINWIMDMOAZUTDEDCARKYTNCTIASCALNEIDKSNVMEOKVTLANHRIAKNMWVHIMSMTSDNDPR&amp;amp;chd=s:9ifZTPPPNMMKKKJIIIIHHHFFFEEEEEDDDCCCCCCBBBBBBBBBBAA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users by continent&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Note: In my categorizing, every country belonged to exactly one continent.  This means all of Turkey was categorized as Asia; Puerto Rico and Hawai'i were categorized as North America; and all of Russia was categorized as Europe.  There were some gray areas: I categorized Taiwan and Indonesia as Asia, and Iceland as Europe.  But I categorized the Philippines, New Zealand, and Carribean island nations as non-continental.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Users  Percent  Continent&#xA;---------------------------------&#xA;2065    51.10%  North America&#xA;1428    35.34%  Europe&#xA;213      5.27%  Asia&#xA;189      4.68%  Australia&#xA;56       1.39%  South America&#xA;56       1.39%  (non-continental)&#xA;33       0.82%  Africa&#xA;1        0.02%  Antarctica&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users by country (top 20)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Note: There were a few cases where the country wasn't clear.  A lot of people left two-character abbreviations for their location, using either top-level domain country codes or USPS state abbreviations.  These two collide in some cases: 30 users with location &quot;CA&quot; (California or Canada?), 28 with &quot;DE&quot; (Deleware or Germany?), and 8 with &quot;IN&quot; (Indiana or India?).  In these cases I split the users evenly between the two possibilities.  In some other cases, only a city name was provided, when more than one city with that name exists (e.g. &quot;St. Petersburg&quot;).  In those situations, I took the one that was obviously the larger city.  If it wasn't obvious to me, I took the one with the top Google hit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Users  Percent  Country&#xA;------------------------------&#xA;1807    44.83%  United States&#xA;538     13.35%  United Kingdom&#xA;243      6.03%  Canada&#xA;189      4.69%  Australia&#xA;142      3.52%  Germany&#xA;95       2.36%  Netherlands&#xA;83       2.06%  Sweden&#xA;69       1.71%  India&#xA;64       1.59%  France&#xA;50       1.24%  Israel&#xA;48       1.19%  New Zealand&#xA;46       1.14%  Norway&#xA;41       1.02%  Belgium&#xA;41       1.02%  Poland&#xA;39       0.97%  Denmark&#xA;35       0.87%  Switzerland&#xA;33       0.82%  Ireland&#xA;31       0.77%  Brazil&#xA;29       0.72%  Austria&#xA;28       0.69%  Russia&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users by state/province/territory/(whatever subnational entities in the UK are called)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Note: if a user only specified a city, I filled in the state/country.  I only did this for the countries that I knew something about (and I regretted doing this for the UK, because half the time I had to look up where the town was because only &quot;town, UK&quot; was given).  The &quot;unspecified&quot; responses here indicate that the user only indicated what country they lived in, but not the city or state.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;United States (top 20)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Users  Percent  State/Province&#xA;------------------------------&#xA;402     22.25%  (unspecified)&#xA;209     11.57%  CA&#xA;118      6.53%  NY&#xA;107      5.92%  WA&#xA;85       4.70%  TX&#xA;64       3.54%  PA&#xA;53       2.93%  FL&#xA;53       2.93%  MA&#xA;51       2.82%  IL&#xA;45       2.49%  OH&#xA;40       2.21%  CO&#xA;40       2.21%  VA&#xA;35       1.94%  GA&#xA;35       1.94%  NC&#xA;34       1.88%  MI&#xA;30       1.66%  OR&#xA;29       1.60%  MN&#xA;29       1.60%  NJ&#xA;27       1.49%  IN&#xA;27       1.49%  WI&#xA;25       1.38%  MD&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Canada&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Users  Percent  State/Province&#xA;------------------------------&#xA;75      30.86%  ON&#xA;66      27.16%  (unspecified)&#xA;42      17.28%  BC&#xA;23       9.47%  QC&#xA;22       9.05%  AB&#xA;4        1.65%  SK&#xA;3        1.23%  NB&#xA;3        1.23%  NS&#xA;3        1.23%  PE&#xA;1        0.41%  MB&#xA;1        0.41%  YT&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Users  Percent  State/Province&#xA;------------------------------&#xA;273     50.74%  England&#xA;225     41.82%  (unspecified)&#xA;32       5.95%  Scotland&#xA;6        1.12%  Wales&#xA;2        0.37%  Northern Ireland&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Australia&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Users  Percent  State/Province&#xA;------------------------------&#xA;67      35.45%  (unspecified)&#xA;42      22.22%  NSW&#xA;34      17.99%  VIC&#xA;23      12.17%  QLD&#xA;15       7.94%  WA&#xA;7        3.70%  SA&#xA;1        0.53%  ACT&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users by city (top 20)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Users  Percent  City           St/Prov  Country&#xA;------------------------------------------------------&#xA;113      5.13%  London         England  United Kingdom&#xA;52       2.36%  Seattle        WA       United States&#xA;38       1.73%  Sydney         NSW      Australia&#xA;35       1.59%  San Francisco  CA       United States&#xA;35       1.59%  Chicago        IL       United States&#xA;35       1.59%  New York City  NY       United States&#xA;33       1.50%  Melbourne      VIC      Australia&#xA;32       1.45%  Toronto        ON       Canada&#xA;28       1.27%  Austin         TX       United States&#xA;24       1.09%  Vancouver      BC       Canada&#xA;24       1.09%  Boston         MA       United States&#xA;23       1.04%  Paris                   France&#xA;22       1.00%  Atlanta        GA       United States&#xA;21       0.95%  Brisbane       QLD      Australia&#xA;21       0.95%  Philadelphia   PA       United States&#xA;20       0.91%  Portland       OR       United States&#xA;19       0.86%  Montréal       QC       Canada&#xA;19       0.86%  Berlin                  Germany&#xA;17       0.77%  Los Angeles    CA       United States&#xA;17       0.77%  Dallas         TX       United States&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the full versions of each of these lists (not just the top 20) is in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t8H6oZuQzJFA9Afdj4z_pZg&amp;amp;output=html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Docs spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt; (there are multiple tabs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Just for TXI&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4296/freehando.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T19:19:24.353" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:19:24.353" Title="Where in the world do StackOverflow users say they are from?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="25599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3657" CreationDate="2009-10-12T14:54:55.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the original markdown.pl implementation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;echo &quot;[a](http://example.com/test_ing)&quot; | markdown.pl&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..returns..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/test_ing&quot;&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..as one would expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The showdown.js preview in the editor also does not escape the underscore, so the preview is different from the final result..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I'm fairly sure it's correct to blame this on a bug in the SO markdown renderer..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T14:54:55.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25598" CreationDate="2009-10-12T15:23:11.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm probably the only reason there is any color in Iceland. Even though I'm white as snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T15:23:11.727" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25598" CreationDate="2009-10-12T15:31:47.873" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great analysis! Would there be any way of doing users per capita, or even rep per capita, as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T15:31:47.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25598" CreationDate="2009-10-12T16:18:21.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just want to know who the lone Antartican is with a rep over 1K!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T16:18:21.310" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25605" CreationDate="2009-10-12T16:41:26.167" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to appeal a deleted question?  I spent a few minutes coming up with a constructive answer for a very badly worded question, and the whole lot just vanished a minute or so after I posted, no votes or anything.  It's a bit annoying, since it was a genuinely interesting programming question (basically about building a custom linux distro/appliance to run an app inside, it used to live &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555515&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).  It was clearly an English-not-first-language user, and I really think if they had been given a chance to reword their question it would have been worth keeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12744" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T16:48:48.900" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T16:55:25.253" Title="deleted question about custom bootable appliance" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25603" CreationDate="2009-10-12T16:47:00.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user who posted the question deleted it. So I don't think the problem was that they didn't get a chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post the question yourself if you think it's interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T16:47:00.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25603" CreationDate="2009-10-12T16:47:14.393" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was deleted by the author (thanks for posting the link; it would have been hard to track without it); the system prevents against author-based deletions when a few answers are &quot;in&quot; and it is upvoted. You could always ask the question yourself, with your suitable wording? History suggests it may be an idea to leave it a little while before answering yourself, though. But answering your own question is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T16:55:25.253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T16:55:25.253" />
  <row Id="25608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-12T16:53:45.410" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555515&quot;&gt;This question on SO&lt;/a&gt; (requires 10k rep) has been deleted but 2 of its answers have not been. I was under the impression that if a question is deleted, all of its answers are deleted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a bug, will the system catch this during a batch update, or does this not matter in the slightest? I could see this possibly becoming a problem for the data dump but I can't say for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T17:23:57.803" Title="Why are some answers not deleted if a question is deleted?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25611" CreationDate="2009-10-12T17:10:05.553" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21793/why-isnt-my-gravatar-image-updating&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;rsquo;t my Gravatar image updating?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today i've changed my avatar at Gravatar, then i wait some time, because normally about 3 minutes and the avatar here changes, but i waited all the day and i see that my avatar at StackOverflow, Meta StackOverflow, SuperUser and ServerFault doesn't have changed, but if i click in got flair? button all those boxes have my new avatar, but in all the site my posts are using the old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This avatar that you're seeing is my old one, the new one is a leaf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best Regards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T18:11:41.570" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T18:11:41.570" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T09:57:11.223" Title="Avatar Change Bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;avatar&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25610" CreationDate="2009-10-12T17:13:14.640" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to log out of Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravatar doesn't seem to invalidate it's cache until you are logged out. Either by doing so manually, or waiting for the session to expire (on their end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually prevented the cache from being invalidated, by continuing to visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gravatar.com&lt;/a&gt; everyday. I of course, didn't realize at the time it was preventing the site from invalidating the cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T17:13:14.640" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25608" CreationDate="2009-10-12T17:23:57.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's the same reason that it is possible to post answers to closed questions: the client-side check of the question's status doesn't update that often and the server apparently doesn't check, so there's a small window of opportunity to post after a question has been closed or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T17:23:57.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25553" CreationDate="2009-10-12T18:44:28.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had one question that got ignored, and recieved the tumbleweed badge. Then because of a bump to the front page, it got a couple answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does not get any feedback, in the meantime, add some more detail and things you have tried so far to answer your question. Those valuable edits will give the question a bump to the front and many will see it again. Because of the added information, the question will be easier for someone else to answer also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T18:44:28.763" />
  <row Id="25614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2557" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:06:13.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent post. I think there are many metrics that would be useful to show on a user's profile page, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ratio of questions/answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvotes/downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;number of total upvotes and downvotes received from questions and answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;average score of all questions and answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;number of questions closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;number of questions deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps all of these stats could be combined together into a magical meatgrinder algorithm to provide an overall ranking of the &quot;quality&quot; of the user. It would be interesting to see how this value graphed against total reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I'm also coming around to the earlier suggestion that upvotes on questions be worth only half of their worth on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T18:21:00.413" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T18:21:00.413" />
  <row Id="25615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:18:44.020" Score="-18" ViewCount="378" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an idea for dealing with a question you badly want to be answered, which no one will answer, even after you've offered a large bounty: cash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users can offer cash, and whoever has the accepted answer can be paid, possibly via PayPal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this sound like a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28324" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T18:25:46.817" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T18:25:46.817" Title="Offering actual money as a bounty?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;money-making&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="25617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25615" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:20:58.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would change the focus of the site, not necessarily in a positive way.  People will hold off answering bounty questions, hoping for a cash incentive to come along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T19:20:58.307" />
  <row Id="25619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25615" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:22:17.320" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff talked about this on one of the podcasts... they believe offering financial incentives reinforces the wrong behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should be motivated to answer questions because they are interested in the field, not because they are offered some money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154895" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T19:22:17.320" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25615" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:30:08.770" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, and after you answer, if the person refuses to pay up, Jeff and Joel should have to mediate the dispute.  Or, maybe we can just migrate the question to LawyerOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but no...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T19:30:08.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25615" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:41:41.980" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I know the answer but am not willing to put the time in to answer your question for free... then I'm probably not gonna do it for $20 either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But someone will. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guaranteed, someone, somewhere has time to burn and needs cash. No guarantee they know the answer, mind you... but they'll take a guess at it. And since they really need that $20, they'll likely hang around and down-vote any other answers, while picking fights with anyone who criticizes theirs. Just look at the little fights people get into over rep &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, and spice it up with some desperation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you just want answers, and lots of 'em, but don't really care if they actually answer the question... And if you &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; flame wars... Then yes, this is a great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like anything about the way the site works now, then it's a terrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T23:32:06.683" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T23:32:06.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25615" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:43:34.723" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At that point, why not just post the job on &lt;a href=&quot;http://acrisdesign.com/2009/08/hello-world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one of the many coder-for-hire sites&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T19:43:34.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24920" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:43:55.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like it to &lt;em&gt;just work&lt;/em&gt;. The same parsing code that's used on Stack Overflow should be used on Careers. I don't want to think about what works over here and what works over there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand your hesitance to open Pandora's box with version 1. It might not be a bad idea to start out with the same restrictions you have on new users. I would be fine with that (for a while).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T21:06:20.160" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T21:06:20.160" />
  <row Id="25624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:55:45.327" Score="2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to copy large amounts of code into Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For up to 10 lines, prepending 4 spaces to each line is ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For 50 or 100 lines it become a headache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more, this is probably not the correct way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T20:08:52.290" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:50:02.957" Title="Best way of pasting a lot of code into a question or answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="25625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25624" CreationDate="2009-10-12T19:59:50.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've got more than about 10 lines of code, your question is almost certainly too broad, certainly if you've got more than 20 lines of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T19:59:50.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25624" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:15:48.470" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Select the snippet and hit &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; or click the code button on the tool bar.  Or wrap the section with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I agree with the sentiment that if you have a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of code, you're likely doing something wrong.  However, I disagree on what makes for a lot of code.  20 lines might not be very much.  If we're going to use lines for the metric, then 40 to 60 could still be reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-12T20:21:31.877" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T20:21:31.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25624" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:19:25.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel is right - you can hit Ctrl-K to indent a block of code &lt;em&gt;so long as it's not indented already&lt;/em&gt;. If it's already indented, there's no way of indenting it &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; 4 spaces - it will be outdented instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd like to see separate indent and outdent shortcut keys (probably keeping Ctrl-K with its current behaviour to avoid confusing people too much). As it is, I suspect either a greasemonkey script or manipulating the code elsewhere is the best way forward :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T20:19:25.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25624" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:22:09.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't post hundreds of lines of code. Don't even post fifty. Abstract you problem down to a quantity that can be understood in short order: that is find the minium piece of source that will reproduce the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is some work, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You might find the answer while you are doing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It proves that your not asking &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; to read a pile of code because you are lazy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt;, somehow, posting a long code for a good reason, select it a hit to &lt;code&gt;101010&lt;/code&gt; button (or use &lt;code&gt;control-k&lt;/code&gt; (which always screws me up with my emacs reflexes)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T20:22:09.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25624" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:30:04.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope you're not actually &lt;em&gt;writing&lt;/em&gt; 50-100 lines of code in the Markdown editor. Especially if you're using a language where indentation matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When formatting code snippets for SO, I use an editor with indentation settings set at 2 spaces. This keeps lines short. And also makes it easy to indent everything by four spaces when I'm done...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T20:30:04.543" />
  <row Id="25631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:37:59.070" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Essentially for all those questions that get bumped from the currently existing sites for being in the wrong place. E.g. if a perfectly good and interesting question has no natural home in the existing family of 'stack' sites it could 'fall off the end' and find a home at an 'odds and ends' catch-all site. A sort of SO reject bin if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could call it 'orphaned storage'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Periodically the tag stats could be analysed to sift for promising new stack sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137112" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T23:47:48.010" Title="How about an odds and ends stack site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25631" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:42:30.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a cue from Jeopardy, and label it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Potpourri&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T20:42:30.590" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25631" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:46:59.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has often stated an opinion that you can't have a site with no topic/focus, it will just end up poorly supporting &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;. At which point it becomes very hard to build community and get quality, reliable answers. Obviously, you can make what you want with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; site, but I would not expect to see Jeff and his team create an &quot;odds and ends&quot; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T20:46:59.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25594" CreationDate="2009-10-12T20:52:15.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2205/2226271704%5F7ffc32f755.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;this is not me&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T20:52:15.440" />
  <row Id="25636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25624" CreationDate="2009-10-12T21:16:45.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I you would like to &lt;em&gt;supplement&lt;/em&gt; your shortened example code, you can use a free service like &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PasteBin&lt;/a&gt; to put your code and link to it in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T21:16:45.613" />
  <row Id="25638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25631" CreationDate="2009-10-12T22:00:32.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://offtopic.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OffTopic.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T22:00:32.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25631" CreationDate="2009-10-12T23:47:48.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... Who's gonna answer these questions? How do you propose to lure away users from existing general-purpose Q&amp;amp;A sites like Y! Answers or WikiAnswers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-12T23:47:48.010" />
  <row Id="25644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-10-13T00:15:50.253" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to follow this up - this contributed to me dropping stackoverflow.com as an interest.  I was just looking over my posts on the subject just now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to spout my tech credentials but I think it would be patronising, but 19 years and a majority in serious C++ dev, and working at the very top pay bracket of the field - I think I am qualified to have an opinion.  I still work as a top end senior developer/manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I respect Jeff Atwood's blog immensely, his blog is great.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so, I can't understand how this place is made a haven, positively incentivised for disruption, for the people who have no answers and only want to pollute the discourse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most silly thing I see in general is that a genuinely hard question, something that really needs the collective good to contribute to, never gets any votes and frequently submerges underneath questions which regard IDisposable or the operation of virtual destructors in C++ - pathetic really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a post (or an answer to) &quot;what are the best lessons you've learnt from comments you've read in code you've worked on?&quot; gets gazillions of votes for the questioner or reader.  Some answerer rise immediately in stackoverflow status for a comment regarding Klingons and Commander Data which takes the fancy of a bunch of scifi fans (for instance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that sense, it's just a reddit for nerds (I do like reddit) rather than a site which encourages the contribution of the best to avail themselves.  But the points system ends up being an offense to good sense if you have something on the sharp end to contribute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like my reddit distinguishable from my stackoverflow - otherwise I may have to start &quot;IamA, AmA&quot; and see how many stackoverflow votes I get for absolutely no technical contribution whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think my MBA degreed department manager could get more stackoverflow votes on here for asking the utterly inane, and wallowing in purile discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to argue extensively to some folks about how a (smart) pointer to heap memory was significantly different to a vector (particularly that default copy semantics meant buffer copying was inevitable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a straightforward argument really, what is the difference between a stack allocated array and a dynamically allocated array.  But they went back and forth for 20 responses and still gave the points to someone that wanted to allocate BITMAPS!!!! of massive screenshot dumps!!!! in vector !!!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would I ever have the points to be credible when you don't earn points for applying yourself to the hard things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as I said months ago, the points scoring rules are there to encourage gross participation - but this will be at the expense of the gifted and experienced in general, that can actually add rare value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But maybe nobody's looking for rare value on here - and maybe it's meant to be beginner answers to beginner questions, asked ad-finitum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131831" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T00:15:50.253" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="133" CreationDate="2009-10-13T02:39:09.523" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow as a business model is highly dependent upon its advertising model -- which is directly related to the value of advertising on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an effort to branch out from this dependency, They've released the &quot;Stack Exchange&quot; product as well as careers.stackoverflow.com and jobs.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll discuss each in turn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advertising&lt;/strong&gt;: The tried-and-true business model of the internet. In times of recession, ad-revenue is down across the board, but it's still the lowest friction way to make money.  It requires the least resources from a business perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt;: This one puzzles me.  I don't know if Stack Overflow LLC licenses the Stack Overflow source code to FogCreek (which would seem to make the most 'legal' sense since they are two separate entities) or if they 'sold' it outright.  Or, as a third alternative, they have a business agreement that allows for a split of the revenues and they promise to share the improvements to the source code model. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem with Stack Exchange is that it is an unproven business model.  How many 'pay for private knowledge exhcange' sites do you know of?  The cost is also subject to change.  If they charge too much, they make too little, but if they don't charge enough, they don't make nearly as much.  It's also dependent upon how the people that use it either monetize it, or write it off as a business expense.  The latter depends upon Stack Exchange bringing some sort of business value that justifies the expense.  Only time will tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jobs&lt;/strong&gt;:  As &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-thanks-or-no-thanks.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel points out&lt;/a&gt; the jobs board brought about 1 million in revenue in its first year.  I can only assume it brings in more now -- and with Stack Overflow and its sister sites, I'm sure Stack Overflow LLC gets a cut of that revenue as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Careers&lt;/strong&gt;: The first effort by Stack Overflow LLC that doesn't seem dependent on Fog Creek support (even the monetization of Stack Exchange requires Fog Creek support, as Aaron is a Fog Creek employee).  It requires that developers and businesses pay to get a seemingly 'high quality' pool of applicants.  It deserves its shot; but I'm leery since it's trying something very new (charging applicants!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Success is a subjective factor, but business success isn't.  Stack Overflow is able to pay three employees (not including the Ad guy) and cover its hosting cost.  It's currently &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; new hotness in the programming world.  Where else can you have Jon Skeet, Eric Lippert, Alan Kay, Joel Spolsky, Jason Cohen, Jeff Atwood, and many other 'rockstars' of our industry participate on a daily basis?  It sounds like hero worship, but the quality they bring is immeasurable.  It's an exciting time to be a developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T02:39:09.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23615" CreationDate="2009-10-13T04:19:12.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/creative-commons-data-dump-oct-09/#comment-39158&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from the blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;oh, and if there are any remaining issues with the data dump PLEASE let us know now. We’re planning to dump Super User and Server Fault next month as well, and I want this to be the final data format...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No mention of Meta. Too many drop-shadowed waffles riding atop ponies jumping through freehand circles for its own good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T04:19:12.490" />
  <row Id="25648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29878" CreationDate="2009-10-13T05:03:42.267" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this Superuser question had the '&lt;code&gt;software-rec&lt;/code&gt;' tag twice:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/41670/best-preferred-software-for-photography&quot;&gt;Best/Preferred software for photography&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/41670/list&quot;&gt;revisions&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was the second instance allowed to be tagged?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I expected the duplicate tag to be automatically cleared/dissolved when &lt;code&gt;Lance&lt;/code&gt; saved the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Removed the duplicate tag (see the revisions link).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But, is this expected behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is allowed to repeat a tag -- why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If as &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; says, a global conversion caused the duplication of this tag,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I'd still kind-of expect the conversion to be implemented to check for such duplicates&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(caused by it).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also be surprised to find someone choose to shorten a tag and&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;did not delete the older longer form (for the conversion to cause a duplicate later). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130093" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T01:18:41.513" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:18:41.513" Title="Is it allowed to have the same tag repeating on the question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25648" CreationDate="2009-10-13T05:11:55.963" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[software-rec]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5935/superuser-tagging-question-software-hardware-product-recommendations&quot; title=&quot;used to be&quot;&gt;used to be&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[software-recommendation]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; so it's possible that when Lance went to retag, it was already sporting the latter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then some global merge/rename (of the latter style to the former) left the question with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7528/can-the-batch-re-tag-feature-automatically-remove-duplicate-tags&quot; title=&quot;dedupe?&quot;&gt;the case of duplicate tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T05:11:55.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25648" CreationDate="2009-10-13T06:16:12.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt; - but it happens as an unwanted side-effect of retags (see tags on this question). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hopeful Jeff/team will add a de-dup script (if it doesn't already exist). I'll keep an eye on this question and see if it fixes itself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, from what I understand from Jeff, the tag-merge script is a simple &lt;code&gt;UPDATE&lt;/code&gt; command that changes the ids only - it doesn't checks for dups because of the performance cost. But I'm thinking a scheduled job (perhaps once a day) should be reasonable...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T06:16:12.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T07:18:47.230" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way (or hacks) to view my down voted posts alone in SO? Is there an option (in the user page, I presume)  to view my posts that were recently down voted? If not, wouldn't it be nice to have such a &lt;code&gt;Down Voted&lt;/code&gt; tab that lists my recently down voted posts so that I can spot them easily to understand what was wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T22:01:08.710" Title="Can I view my down voted posts separately" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T07:56:40.250" Score="9" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this has got any worse with the updated style &lt;strong&gt;on StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;, but hyperlinks are extremely difficult to spot in an answer: they aren't underlined (which is a standard idiom) and the color of the text is only slightly different to that of normal text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1558590/how-does-scalatest-syntax-work/1558725#1558725&quot;&gt;my answer here&lt;/a&gt;. I'm really not at all sure that the OP is going to notice the two links I've embedded in the answer. Can we have the same underlining on SO as we have here on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Here is a related question about the visibility of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24305/make-links-in-code-more-prominent&quot;&gt;links embedded in code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T20:44:01.753" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:44:01.753" Title="Can we make hyperlinks more obvious in an SO answer?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25657" CreationDate="2009-10-13T08:08:19.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They looks real nice and so purdy here on Meta that it's a darn shame them pretty link dotted borders don't get out on the ranch of SOFU where it's all just waving in the breezing of a summer dress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd get some links that insist on having a word or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24305/make-links-in-code-more-prominent&quot; title=&quot;under where?&quot;&gt;variable in there with an underscore&lt;/a&gt; and throws out everything, but a little padding down the bottom should cushion it soft and well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T08:08:19.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25656" CreationDate="2009-10-13T08:52:15.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the envelope next to your user name, then go to the reputation tab and choose the time frame you're interested in. Anything that's red is something that lost you reputation. This includes -2 for a downvote you made yourself on someone else's answers/questions, but that shouldn't be two hard to distinguish from downvotes on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, though, that this will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; show you downvotes on CW questions / answers, because these don't do anything to your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T08:52:15.453" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25722" CreationDate="2009-10-13T09:12:23.810" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's a bug or timezone related, but in order to properly use the /users/recent page I have to click on Yesterday or Last Week to properly see all votes and comments (most likely due to comments received during the night).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the old layout the links were very visible, but in the new layout they are to subtle for my taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have them a bit more obvious again please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Okay, maybe it's not the look but a different bug. Here are three Screenshots, showing my SO View for Today, Yesterday and This Week. Notice that there are 3 Upvotes that only show up in &quot;This Week&quot;, even though they are more recent than the accepted answer that shows up &quot;Yesterday&quot;. I'm guessing it's due to a data range overlap. Ideally, I don't want a view for &quot;Yesterday&quot; - instead &lt;strong&gt;I want a view for &quot;Last 24 Hours&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. That's why I use the &quot;This Week&quot; and &quot;Last Week&quot; views a lot, and they are harder to find with the new design. I've renamed the question as it's either a bug or a feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4117/1today.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Today&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4144/2yesterday.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Yesterday&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/474/3thisweek.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;This Week&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt; I just noticed that there is a difference between the default view and &quot;Today&quot;. &quot;Today&quot; shows the proper changes, so the default view is rather useless. I don't know if making the default view to &quot;Today&quot; is a good solution, as I'd still prefer the default view to be &quot;Last 24 hours&quot;, as a sliding window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T20:42:07.917" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:42:07.917" Title="/users/recent page does not consistently show all changes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24305" CreationDate="2009-10-13T09:18:43.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't like it, there's always the option to override it locally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stylish Plugin for Firefox&lt;/a&gt; provides the ability to override CSS with your own partial style sheets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137190" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T09:18:43.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25663" CreationDate="2009-10-13T09:39:49.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the old one you would see comments and votes wrong and there was a difference between clicking the envelope and then clicking today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a vote happen 3 hours ago (night time) and it's showing correctly. In the old version I would have also seen the other 3 votes I got before midnight. (A total of 4 votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T09:39:49.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2009-10-13T09:48:29.877" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a user should be capped at something like 500 rep if he/she does not have at least something like 50% of their rep from answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is too easy to copy questions from other web sites so the benefit of doing so should be limited.  However good questions do have value so users should got rep for asking questions – just pot some limit on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T09:48:29.877" />
  <row Id="25667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-10-13T10:09:48.263" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45145/marco-cantu&quot;&gt;Marco Cantù&lt;/a&gt;) am the author of over a dozen books on Delphi, published around the world. Do I count as a famous developer? Probably only in the given community, &quot;Delphi&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T14:27:55.467" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T14:27:55.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T10:09:48.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25657" CreationDate="2009-10-13T10:49:52.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no problem distinguishing between the links in the answer which are in bright blue and the normal text which is black. However I must admit I use LCD's anywhere which might be what makes a difference, since CRT monitors does tend to be a lot lighter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am not sure if it is such a big issue with most users, as it has been done like this for quite some time and I have seen very few people complain about it. The other alternative is to simply change links to bright orange to fit with the rest of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T11:38:11.770" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T11:38:11.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T11:42:30.123" Score="-1" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In every day work, what type, label, mark of char you use? I mean the chair where you sit during the IT work.&#xA;And what type you will like to use in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16039" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T11:49:08.877" ClosedDate="2009-10-13T11:49:04.993" Title="What type of chair you use?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;programming&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25669" CreationDate="2009-10-13T11:49:08.877" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently use one that has all the standard features of chairs: A flattish surface for my posterior, a back against which I can rest my back, placed at a certain offset from the ground such that my legs bend appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, I'd love to retain that core featureset in my chairs. Some ideal enhancements would include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ability to generate food and/or water on demand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Integrated toilet facilities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rocket powered casters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Safety belts (kinda goes with the above)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cloaking feature (so coworkers think I'm away from my desk when I am, in fact, productively there and just ignoring them)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T11:49:08.877" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="25671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-10-13T12:34:08.530" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45145/marco-cantu&quot;&gt;Marco Cantu&lt;/a&gt;, Author of many Delphi books, and very active in Delphi community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137199" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T12:34:08.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T12:34:08.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25598" CreationDate="2009-10-13T12:46:38.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why am I not at all surprised by the lack of South African's in this list. No one here knows how to complete a profile online. Location would propably be completed as at home or work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hell.. I don't think most of them know they live in South Africa which is part of the African continent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T12:46:38.633" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25663" CreationDate="2009-10-13T12:52:03.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some changes to this page were rolled out last night, see Jeff's comments here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today-butt/25650#25650&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today-butt/25650#25650&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T12:52:03.443" />
  <row Id="25676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25677" CreationDate="2009-10-13T13:24:16.283" Score="6" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions involving using VBA to do some advanced task in Outlook or Word seem like they belong on Super User, but I'm not entirely sure.  I think questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1287247/how-can-i-use-outlook-restict-method-to-filter-the-outlook-items-on-lastmodificat&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; straddle the line between the two sites, and could possibly be asked on both.  What does everyone else think?  Should questions like this be migrated to one site or the other, or just left where they're originally posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:09:20.847" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:09:20.847" Title="Do VBA questions belong on SO or SU?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;site-rec&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25676" CreationDate="2009-10-13T13:27:47.057" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is a judgement call based on each question. I have passed a few VBA question on SU, which based on the &lt;strong&gt;way&lt;/strong&gt; it was asked indicates the user is simply a power user and needs gentle guidance, compared to the question in your example that shows some throrough research on the topic. This is what I use as my guide. If the question requires developer level understanding --&gt; SO, if not --&gt; SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My vote: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Based on the level and quality of the question, leave it where it was posted, unless it will get a better response somewhere else.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T13:27:47.057" />
  <row Id="25678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25676" CreationDate="2009-10-13T13:33:45.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting question, but I think a good rule of thumb would be based upon if what you are trying to accomplish could be recorded or not. If you have to actually hand write the macro then I would say it belongs on Stack Overflow. However, if you are able to just use the macro recorder and go through a series of menu commands then I would say that it belongs on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T13:33:45.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25676" CreationDate="2009-10-13T13:37:40.190" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T13:37:40.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T13:37:40.190" />
  <row Id="25681" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T13:39:16.210" Score="8" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was playing around with the URL to the /users/recent page, and it looks like I can add a time to the StartDate URL parameter, but not to EndDate. Regardless of what time I set for EndDate, it always comes out as 23:59:59.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;/users/recent/18511?StartDate=2009-10-12%2001:23:45Z&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-10-12%20&lt;b&gt;19:20:21&lt;/b&gt;Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows: &quot;2009-10-12 01:23:45Z to 2009-10-12 &lt;b&gt;23:59:59&lt;/b&gt;Z&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance you could add this in?  I know it's not something most users would ever use.  I mainly want it because I tried to write a GreaseMonkey script that would make Today/Yesterday/etc. buttons based on my local timezone (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1359/make-recent-activity-today-etc-buttons-based-on-users-time-zone/2994#2994&quot;&gt;suggested to me by Kyle&lt;/a&gt;), and I couldn't get it to work because of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T16:32:23.583" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T16:32:23.583" Title="URL to recent activity page accepts full timestamp for StartDate but not for EndDate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25676" CreationDate="2009-10-13T13:43:24.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good example of a question that belongs on both sites.  See here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5790/allow-cross-posting-of-questions-to-more-than-one-so-site&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5790/allow-cross-posting-of-questions-to-more-than-one-so-site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T13:43:24.283" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-10-13T14:31:51.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95954/rudy-velthuis&quot;&gt;Rudy Velthuis&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.teamb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeamB&lt;/a&gt; fame is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; too.&#xA;Besides being very knowledgeable, he is also a really nice person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--jeroen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137204" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T14:31:51.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T14:31:51.417" />
  <row Id="25685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25676" CreationDate="2009-10-13T15:01:41.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really depends on context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If its a developer trying to automate something for an app, department, company, etc. it belongs on SO. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If its a power user working in the context of a personal project (work or home) it belongs on SU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T15:01:41.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:01:09.773" Score="2" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23858/is-there-a-way-to-know-which-question-answer-is-linked-to-a-badge-on-my-own-pro&quot;&gt;is there a way to know which question / answer is linked to a badge on my own profile?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9078/how-do-i-find-out-which-question-answer-earned-me-a-badge&quot;&gt;How do I find out which question/answer earned me a badge?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that I got the Necromancer badge on SO. Given the amount of questions that I have answered, its going to take a while to figure out just what answer earned it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could badges in the user page (when clicked) point to questions / answers that earned them rather than everyone else who has earned the badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd really like to know what answer earned it. Sifting though 200+ answers to figure it out makes my curiosity dwindle in a very rapid fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T16:08:27.200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T16:08:27.200" ClosedDate="2009-10-13T16:08:02.550" Title="On badges and Necromancers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25702" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:09:18.523" Score="3" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is it possible that the last point on the reputation &#xA;graph (end at the current date) is different from the &#xA;reputation displayed on the user page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Stack Overflow user &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4857?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;sudo bountiful&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/MSO/sudoLow%5F2009-10-13%5F16c.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T01:46:23.750" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T01:46:23.750" Title="User sudo minus?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25687" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:21:13.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reputation cannot go below 1 so if you daily rep totals are, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-100&#xA;  -50&#xA;  -whatever&#xA;  +135&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...your displayed reputation would be &lt;strong&gt;136&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T16:21:13.293" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:30:44.663" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a distinction between the &quot;answer&quot; and the &quot;bounty winner.&quot;  This keeps the OP in control of the answer, but allows other users to add a bounty to the question.  They'd be more willing to put a bounty on someone-else's question knowing they get to decided the best answer.  It's sort of like a vote up, but with more &quot;oomph.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works with the bounty pool idea as well, each contributor awards their portion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mechanic could even extend to the OPs who provide a bounty.  They could give most of the bounty to the answerer, but maybe give some to another who's alternative answer is valuable, but not quite the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's all an exception to the rule though.  I'd be willing to bet 80% of the time the answer and bounty winner are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112794" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T16:30:44.663" />
  <row Id="25690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25692" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:33:54.050" Score="1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that I've noticed is especially prevalent on SQL-related questions but applies to any kind of code question. I'll see a new user, and their question illustrates that they're new to the subject. They'll ask a question that has perhaps several valid answers, and most of the answers they get are just SQL, nothing else, not even a comment. This seems a bit much when the answer contains code which would be several levels up from what the new user is familiar with.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it not be better, if a user is clearly new to the subject, not to bombard them with the more complex syntax without explanation? Otherwise I feel we're just encouraging people to copy-and-paste code without understanding it.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Or is it better to treat the audience as wider than just the person asking the question, and assume that others will learn more from the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Feel free to point me at the duplicate I'm sure this question has, but I couldn't find one...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:44:40.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T16:34:11.880" Title="What is accepted practice for explaining your answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="25691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25690" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:37:20.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it not be better, if a user is clearly new to the subject, not to bombard them with the more complex syntax without explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or is it better to treat the audience as wider than just the person asking the question, and assume that others will learn more from the answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No reason to assume that future readers won't be equally confused by a raw SQL dump... Explain away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T16:37:20.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T16:37:20.533" />
  <row Id="25692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25690" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:44:16.340" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see two answers, one is just a code dump, and the other is an equivalent piece of code with an accompanying explanation, just upvote the one you think is more helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T16:44:16.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T16:44:16.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25690" CreationDate="2009-10-13T16:59:59.460" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, a detailed explanation hurts you when it comes to earning rep (unless you are just REALLY fast at explaining, or the topic has low traffic). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been bitten by this a bunch of times:  I see a question with no responses, I start typing up an answer with a lot of explanation and details.  By the time I finish, there are a few quickie &quot;code only&quot; answers that have upvotes already, and at that point I'll be lucky to get anything for the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that's just my theory on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it's common to see the short &quot;code only&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best way to handle this, in my view, is to post the short answer first, then start editing right away and improve with details and explanations.   This allows you to get your answer out there quickly, and it also promotes good answers.   I've found that adding explanations and details is generally a surefire way to &quot;break ties&quot; and have your answer move to the #1 slot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and another minor detail: it helps people learn stuff too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastEditorUserId="131073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T00:34:43.300" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:34:43.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-13T16:59:59.460" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25275" CreationDate="2009-10-13T17:00:41.330" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two kinds of recruiters working in the tech industry: &lt;em&gt;contingency&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;retained search&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A contingency recruiter only gets paid if they place a candidate. Companies that use contingency recruiters tend to use &lt;em&gt;dozens&lt;/em&gt; of them, because it's free until they actually find someone. The recruiter stands to make so much money that it's in their interest to spam the universe trying to throw any and all candidates at the company hoping that one of them sticks in which case they hit the jackpot and make, typically, 1/4-1/3 of the first year salary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A retained search recruiter is paid to fill the position &lt;em&gt;whether or not they are successful.&lt;/em&gt; The retained search relationship is also exclusive, meaning, only one recruiter will be hired by the company to find someone to fill a position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, you will find that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;most of the problematic recruiters&#xA;you have dealt with as an employee&#xA;are contingency recruiters, because&#xA;they are literally just looking to&#xA;throw as many resumes as they can at&#xA;a company, without much regard to&#xA;quality, which is why they're so&#xA;annoying to good candidates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the companies that do not know how&#xA;to hire tech employees and wish to&#xA;outsource that will use retained&#xA;search recruiters, who have a much&#xA;higher standard and work to a higher&#xA;standard of ethics--they are, for&#xA;all intents and purposes,&#xA;indistinguishable from the hiring&#xA;company's own employees&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is very easy to detect&#xA;contingency recruiters, as they will&#xA;not reveal the name of the company&#xA;they are recruiting for, out of fear&#xA;that you will go straight to them&#xA;and they will lose their fee.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of fact #3, there's an easy way to get contingency recruiters out of the system: (a) charge them money, and (b) require that they disclose the name of the company for which they are hiring. We're going to do both, so I don't expect to see many contingency recruiters in our system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T17:00:41.330" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25687" CreationDate="2009-10-13T17:37:54.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is kind of a dupe. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25405/negative-reputation-display&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; discusses the rep graph's negative displays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short version is, I believe, a bug in the graph: It shows the aggregate of what user's rep would be if negative scores were allowed, not accounting for the fact that the actual rep lower bound is 1. (In other words, if you get downvoted into oblivion at 1 rep, you're still at 1 rep, but the rep graph will keep showing your descent into rep hell.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T17:37:54.400" />
  <row Id="25696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25699" CreationDate="2009-10-13T18:30:41.980" Score="4" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just updated my gravatar to reflect the logo for my new Stack Exchange site (the cache hasn't updated yet). I don't see anywhere that there are rules for what is allowed in the gravatar, but I don't want to put anyone's nose out of joint. It doesn't have anything too blatant in it, just the domain of my site (se my profile if you're interested).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are guidelines that I've missed can someone point me to them please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:13:35.350" Title="Is text in a gravatar frowned upon?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25696" CreationDate="2009-10-13T18:32:44.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would text in the gravatar be frowned upon? I've seen other people who have had text in their gravatar and never seen any grief from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T18:32:44.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25696" CreationDate="2009-10-13T18:38:34.320" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but you can set the family-friendly level with gravatar to limit things.  I'm not sure for SE sites if you work directly with gravatar, or if Fog Creek does that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T18:38:34.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25696" CreationDate="2009-10-13T18:40:55.737" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The domain of your site should be fine.  You could even change your username to promote your site if you wanted to.  Your gravatar and username act as your signature on every post you make, so it's really up to you what you want these to say.  As long as you don't use anything blatantly offensive, like swearing or, oh... I don't know... an image of Jesus flipping the bird, you should have no problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T18:40:55.737" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="25700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T18:05:46.243" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downloaded the 7z file but cannot unzip it with WinZip. What do I need for an old Windows98 PC?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T19:10:02.360" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:18:00.367" Title="How am I to download and extract the Stack Overflow Creative Commons data dump?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25700" CreationDate="2009-10-13T18:07:15.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.7-zip.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;7zip&lt;/a&gt;, which is compatible with Windows 98.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:03:18.827" />
  <row Id="25702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25687" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:05:39.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it looks like this: Some of his questions with many votes got converted to community wiki. He realized that he would therefore loose much of his reputation once a rep recalc comes and decided to spend it all on bounties before this would happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The graph shows &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23531/does-the-reputation-graph-indicate-the-results-of-a-recalc&quot;&gt;the &quot;real&quot; reputation&lt;/a&gt;, without the CW questions, like what it would be like after a recalc and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25405/negative-reputation-display&quot;&gt;without the restriction to positive scores&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T22:30:05.677" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T22:30:05.677" />
  <row Id="25703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25696" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:13:35.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49153/click-upvote&quot;&gt;ClickUpvote&lt;/a&gt;'s gravatar (&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/833df8cee775eea743cb1172dfcd3809?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; /&gt;) is OK, then I don't see why this would be frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:13:35.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25700" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:18:00.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need a new PC.  Windows 98 is no longer supported, even by microsoft, to the extent that new security patches are no longer released.  It is unsafe to use Windows 98 on any computer connected to the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you will need a database engine.  The dump is not a ready-made program that you can write queries for, but raw xml data that must be loaded into a database engine.  It's worth noting here that the database engined used by the StackOverflow team (Sql Server) will also not install on Windows 98.  You can, of course, use a different less discriminating database if you choose to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once your are sure of those things, take a look at 7zip, as that is the format used to zip the file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:18:00.367" />
  <row Id="25705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:39:17.553" Score="0" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1561242/should-i-pay-for-conference-closed&quot;&gt;whether or not I should attend a programming conference&lt;/a&gt;, but it was closed. I don't understand why such a valid question is closed. Isn't C++, C#, MFC and .NET programming related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T20:07:02.787" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:16:42.067" Title="Why was my question about a programming conference closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:45:52.700" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562460/facebook-footer-bar-ajax&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562460/facebook-footer-bar-ajax&lt;/a&gt; the link to the wikipedia article could not be set: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%5F%28programming%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%5F%28programming%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137232" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-13T20:22:14.677" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:22:14.677" Title="URLs ending with ) are not well parsed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25705" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:47:26.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was closed because it was so subjective that there is no single 'right' &amp;amp; provable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:47:26.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25624" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:50:02.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way in my opinion is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;It's All Text!&quot; plugin&lt;/a&gt; for firefox.&#xA;That way I can use gvim and get all the &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; goodness I'm used to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main drawback is the loss of the WYSIWYG stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T19:50:02.957" />
  <row Id="25710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T19:52:23.860" Score="3" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have a home-grown learning management system (LMS - highly abused term, but I'll be damned if I can find a more succinct way of putting it) that includes a list of classroom classes (filed under various categories) and a list of online educational modules (filed under various categories) - and there have been some (justified) complaints about it being difficult to find things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read a couple of articles on creating a tagging system, and have seen a number of implementations. I was curious as to how the S[O|F|U] implementation was set up as it seems to be much better than most of what I've found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't hear what I'm not saying: I don't want the code handed to me on a silver platter. I'm just curious as to the general DB/Infrastructure used for the tags here as I like the system much better than what I've found elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T01:49:04.383" Title="How is the tagging system implemented here at S[O|F|U]?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="25718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25706" CreationDate="2009-10-13T20:21:12.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is essentially by design; have you read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;the markdown help&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are at least 5 different ways to make links&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://foo.com&#xA;&amp;lt;http://foo.com&amp;gt;&#xA;[foo](http://foo.com)&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://foo.com&quot;&amp;gt;foo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and of course the default toolbar markdown (footer-y) way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:21:12.417" />
  <row Id="25720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25705" CreationDate="2009-10-13T20:23:43.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was listed as closed for not being programming-related.  Personally, I don't see what's programming-related about it.  It discusses programming skills, but not in any way that would distinguish them from, say, different sorts of accounting skills.  The question of how to pick up new skills, and who pays, would be equally applicable to actuaries, and so the question is not programming-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:23:43.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T20:30:42.977" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;used WordPress as my openID.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Went through the usual process, logging int WordPress &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OnStartups site reported that it had no a/c for that username. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I clicked create new user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the bit you'll like - I hit escape to cancel the page load because I thought I saw a way to associate the new user with my existing StackOverflow etc a/c.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Realising I didn't actually see that, I clicked the create user button again. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hello kitty !&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132165" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:30:42.977" ClosedDate="2009-10-13T20:42:18.400" Title="I broke OnStartups creating a new user" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;login&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25663" CreationDate="2009-10-13T20:41:55.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dates are quite clearly outlined at the top of the page; this isn't a bug at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2009-10-13 07:36:46Z to 2009-10-13 23:59:59Z  (envelope -- implicit &quot;since last login&quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  2009-10-12 00:00:00Z to 2009-10-12 23:59:59Z  (yesterday)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  2009-10-11 00:00:00Z to 2009-10-13 23:59:59Z  (this week)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the &quot;3h one&quot; is not showing because it isn't in those time ranges. Think about it -- the (this week) is the ONLY view containing the early morning hours of 10-13, before 7:36:46.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why you see the entry there, but not in the other views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:41:55.110" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25705" CreationDate="2009-10-13T20:49:11.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't agree with this closing, so I reopened it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YMMV, but I &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; think it was well asked and sufficiently programmer-y to warrant its existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T20:49:11.117" />
  <row Id="25725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:02:25.883" Score="1" ViewCount="2121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, comment on a comment? How do I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137239" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T06:55:29.017" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T11:14:51.600" Title="How do you comment on a specific answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25729" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:06:57.527" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21866/what-is-the-relevance-of-in-comments&quot;&gt;What is the relevance of &amp;ldquo; @ &amp;ldquo; in comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see &lt;code&gt;@user&lt;/code&gt; here and there in the comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What, pray tell, does it mean and what is it used for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136924" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T03:43:54.160" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:43:54.160" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T09:55:59.823" Title="What does @user mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;symbols&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25728" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:09:46.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean &lt;em&gt;@username: ...&lt;/em&gt; as used in comments? That is just to signal who the comment is for, especially if this is not the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:09:46.027" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:19:52.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It did attract my attention but I wouldn't click it as the original advert was the most awesome advert I have ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:19:52.573" />
  <row Id="25732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25705" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:26:30.270" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What @John Rudy said (okay, what &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; said, since he linked to me ;) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I will explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this question is perceived as &lt;em&gt;programmer&lt;/em&gt; related rather than &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of non-programming professions have conferences, and lots of professionals go to those conferences.  The reason and motivations you, as a programmer, go to a conference or choose to pay for it out of pocket are not substantially different from the reason a non-programmer professional would do the same for a conference in their own field. Just slapping a &quot;programming&quot; in front of conference doesn't necessarily make it programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you went well beyond that.  You also want to know whether a particular conference is likely to help you significantly bridge your specific programming knowledge gap.  But it's a very fine distinction to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T14:16:42.067" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:16:42.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25725" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:34:10.100" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to have 50 reputation before you can leave a comment on stackoverflow, but you only need 1 on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:34:10.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25738" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:39:01.697" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I get a Stack Overflow-like site to use as my company's knowledge base?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136924" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-31T17:54:56.420" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T17:54:56.420" Title="Where can I get a Stack Overflow-like site to use as my company's knowledge base?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;private-site&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25754" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:39:47.860" Score="8" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete contents of the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on a link such as Unanswered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IE7/8:&lt;/strong&gt; The error message will read &lt;strong&gt;null&lt;/strong&gt; instead of the normal &lt;strong&gt;You have started writing or editing a post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefox:&lt;/strong&gt; Nothing happens and you are taken to the link without being prompted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastEditorUserId="153011" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-12T16:42:36.547" LastActivityDate="2011-03-12T16:42:36.547" Title="Found a bug in Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="25738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25736" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:40:37.420" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;The engine used in Stack Overflow is sold as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The paid Stack Exchange service was ended in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/04/changes-to-stack-exchange/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;April 2010&lt;/a&gt;. There are several &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange-like systems&lt;/a&gt; that may be suitable for corporate users instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-31T17:04:05.393" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T17:04:05.393" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25737" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:41:56.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not getting any message box at all when I do this (Firefox 3.5.3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confirmed:&lt;/strong&gt; I am getting it in IE7...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:41:56.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:42:09.663" Score="0" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling this question might have been asked before, but there it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created an SO account using my gmail account. I would now like to change the username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:46:23.853" Title="Is it possible to change your username?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25740" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:45:54.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on your username at the top of the page. Just to the left of the gray user-information area, you will see a link to 'edit'. There you can change your username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:45:54.790" />
  <row Id="25742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25740" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:46:23.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on your name in the top right&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the edit link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Complete your profile and earn an autobiographer badge in the process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I am leaving this here since I actually went through the effort of answering the question&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:46:23.853" />
  <row Id="25743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:47:45.067" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on SO. It has been closed/opened/closed. But I'm not complaining about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just looking for it on my profile, there were some content and people arguing in comments if it should be stay opened or closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway I was looking for it to add some content to the question, the problem is I can't find that question. Has it been deleted? the hard way? Why can't I see it, even if I'm the author?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt; content is not really deleted but &lt;em&gt;hidden&lt;/em&gt; for low-rep users. Do I have to have an higher rep to see my own deleted content? Do you keep that information on the database  bump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21384" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:32:38.213" Title="My question has been deleted, hasn't it?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25737" CreationDate="2009-10-13T21:49:43.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Appears to be IE specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T21:49:43.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25746" CreationDate="2009-10-13T22:04:13.820" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't I accept an answer on this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686813/removing-items-from-data-bound-array&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686813/removing-items-from-data-bound-array&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23528" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T03:05:58.673" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:05:58.673" Title="Can someone see why I can't accept an answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25745" CreationDate="2009-10-13T22:07:59.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you set a bounty on it in the past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of questions about this on meta - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - for example. Jeff answers to the effect that if...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the bounty expires with no auto-accept, and no answer can ever be accepted for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T22:07:59.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25710" CreationDate="2009-10-13T22:09:34.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The db model is the easy part, the tricky part is the find-as-you-type implementations which auto-completes tags, it is tricky to get it working properly cause of various browser annoyances (finding where the cursor is, is non-trivial). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the DB side a PostsTags and Tags table should be enough to get you going. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a performance perspective, you have to cache total counts per tag and don't want to end up in deadlock central. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you may also want to look at Tag synonyms (not implemented on SO yet) so for example if someone tags a topic with c# you could automatically retag to c-sharp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally you may want to consider admin tags. (tags that can only be applied by admins)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T01:49:04.383" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T01:49:04.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25737" CreationDate="2009-10-13T22:41:09.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed: Windows XP in IE 7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T22:41:09.417" />
  <row Id="25749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-13T22:59:54.843" Score="5" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like the metrics at the bottom of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;job search home page on Careers&lt;/a&gt;. It'd be really nifty if I could compare to some site-wide averages so I know when/if I need to spend some time polishing my CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T20:26:57.930" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T20:28:00.863" Title="Can I compare my success rate on Careers to the average?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25954" CreationDate="2009-10-13T23:06:41.213" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to say &quot;looking for full-time employment at my current location, but would also be interested in short-term contracts abroad in countries X, Y and Z&quot;; but the interface does not currently permit me to be this specific, leaving me with a choice of either potentially missing out or potentially wasting recruiter time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132764" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:31:18.797" Title="Careers: specify contract type by location" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25749" CreationDate="2009-10-13T23:08:40.507" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few things that would be interesting (if they were anonymous):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Success rate for members&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of members selected with 1-4 years of experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of members that have a Computer Science Degree (as opposed to a lighter degree like 'Computer Information Systems)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average length of CV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;length that has the highest rate of getting a job (average)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of times CV appears in a search (but not selected for interview)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T23:08:40.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25760" CreationDate="2009-10-13T23:50:05.487" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201101/how-to-initialize-an-array-in-c/573342#573342&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (but I have seen it quite often), what is the official policy (or the common practice) for what to do when someone posts a question as an answer to another question? I've seen this happen quite a few times, and I just flag it as &quot;Needs Moderator Attention&quot; but I feel bad putting any more work on moderators, I don't even know if it's worth their attention, and I don't even know what to do? Should we comment and tell them not to post questions as answers? Should we downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:16:25.033" Title="Official policy on questions posted as answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25752" CreationDate="2009-10-13T23:54:29.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO I would comment on the question and tell him to ask it as a question and link to the original one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't downvote though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-13T23:54:29.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25737" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:01:41.020" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is fixed in the next push.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was returning &lt;code&gt;null&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;code&gt;onbeforeunload&lt;/code&gt; handler instead of not returning anything, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// incorrect behavior in IE&#xA;window.onbeforeunload = function() {&#xA;   return (hasUserEnteredText) ? &quot;You've started writing a post!&quot; : null;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;// correct behavior everywhere!&#xA;window.onbeforeunload = function() {&#xA;   if (hasUserEnteredText)&#xA;      return &quot;You've started writing a post!&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T00:07:41.163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:07:41.163" />
  <row Id="25755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25743" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:04:07.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try looking on ServerFault or SuperUser for it, in case it was migrated instead of being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:04:07.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:02:07.263" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18506/any-way-to-manage-and-keep-track-of-answers-and-questions&quot;&gt;Any way to manage and keep track of answers and questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23670/can-i-bookmark-a-question-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Can I bookmark a question on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11330/stack-overflow-feature-request&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Feature Request&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's so much great content here, I'm wondering if there's a way to bookmark/favorite questions within SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T01:51:24.910" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T01:51:24.910" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T09:53:00.857" Title="Is there a way to bookmark a question on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="25757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25756" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:03:04.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's the star under the up/down vote.  Next time, questions like these go on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:04:15.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-14T00:03:04.733" />
  <row Id="25758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25756" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:03:13.173" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the star icon below the vote buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see all of your bookmarked questions in your user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:04:15.823" />
  <row Id="25759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25756" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:03:51.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click that little star icon on the left, beneath the rating.  FAVE'D!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139053" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:04:15.823" />
  <row Id="25760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25752" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:16:25.033" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention and we will delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:16:25.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:26:15.797" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7913/please-add-the-ability-to-filter-closed-questions-out-of-my-results&quot;&gt;Please add the ability to filter [Closed] questions out of my results.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I can filter topics that don't interest me. I'd love to see some kind of automatic tag of [Closed] added to closed questions so that I could exclude closed questions. Is there a way to do that already that I just missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarification: I don't mean when searching, I mean when looking at the main page, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; - I don't know (or use) Java, for example so I've got that excluded. I'd like to exclude &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; closed questions - not necessarily from searches I do, but just from the default display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarification #2: On Stackoverlow.com, at least there is a [closed] tag but only 6 questions have it. If closed questions got it added automatically (and removed upon reopen) that would be perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5948" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T00:52:07.647" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:52:07.647" ClosedDate="2009-10-15T07:52:35.293" Title="Is there a way to exclude Closed questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:26:38.947" Score="0" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what language you guys used to create such a cool web application &quot;stakoverflow&quot;? please share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T13:33:02.180" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:33:02.180" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T00:30:37.193" Title="i wonder what language did they use to create stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25766" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:30:04.493" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1563620/how-to-make-main-window-visible-in-cocoa&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SO. At this time, I am seeing two answers to it. However, when I click on my &quot;envelope&quot; icon in the top navigation bar (next to my name) and look at the &quot;Most Recent Responses&quot; section, I see three responses. There is a response there that I do not see in the &quot;one topic&quot; view, and it has been like this for several minutes. What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130063" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:11:11.387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:11:11.387" Title="Data inconsistency between &quot;recent replies&quot; and one question view" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25764" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:34:35.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please look &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25663/users-recent-page-does-not-consistently-show-all-changes/25722#25722&quot;&gt;very, very closely&lt;/a&gt; at the date and times at the top of the /users/recent page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: one of the answers was deleted by the owner. C'est la vie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: OK, I finally fixed that long standing bug, so deleted answers should not show up in your /user/recent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T03:03:51.533" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:03:51.533" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25761" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:35:12.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if you could, I wouldn't recommend this. Just because it's closed doesn't mean it should be closed (hence the reopen option). If we all ignored closed questions, then valid questions that were wrongly closed would get no attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:35:12.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25761" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:38:17.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot; title=&quot;read upon the ninja tips&quot;&gt;just miss it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jimmy in the &lt;code&gt;closed:0&lt;/code&gt; parameter in your search input and you're crowing out the closed questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3A0&quot; title=&quot;looks so open here&quot;&gt;closed:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you're in the mood of scoping the scene for closed doors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3A1&quot; title=&quot;why are all the doors closed?&quot;&gt;closed:1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no real difference between viewing the site on the questions page over the search results. You just swap out the Hot and Featured tabs for Relevance. You still see your interesting and ignored tags taking effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a tag, in your case &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&quot;&gt;java&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;, on your ignored+hidden then it will also be hidden/ignored on your search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T00:43:59.173" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:43:59.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25690" CreationDate="2009-10-14T00:44:40.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is a straightforward code answer, I tend to post that first (after checking that it works with any sample data provided -- if that costs me votes, so be it). Then, I revise/clarify my answer. Sometimes, I end up editing quite a few times and my answer becomes CW, but I can live with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like being the first to post an answer (and I like my &lt;em&gt;Enlightened&lt;/em&gt; badges ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T00:44:40.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-14T00:44:40.320" />
  <row Id="25770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25771" CreationDate="2009-10-14T01:28:55.497" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15986/tool-tip-timestamp-shows-a-z&quot;&gt;Tool-tip timestamp shows a Z&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/3451/00z.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's present in the &quot;Question Asker&quot; one, as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6335/askera.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &quot;answerer&quot; one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9018/answerer.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this some form of usage I'm unfamiliar with, or is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T01:33:55.130" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:04:34.603" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T10:04:46.110" Title="What's the &quot;Z&quot; in the Joined date tooltip mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25770" CreationDate="2009-10-14T01:29:37.693" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/z.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;march, march, on to battle&quot;&gt;Z = Zulu&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in all time is based on UTC or GMT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T01:29:37.693" />
  <row Id="25773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25770" CreationDate="2009-10-14T03:04:34.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still don't understand why all these times can't be displayed in the user's local time zone... It'd certainly be far more useful/usable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:04:34.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2009-10-14T03:04:59.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But there is no reward for just giving answers, either, unless they're upvoted or accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a badge given for answering questions is intriguing... Say, 100 answers upvoted at least once, for a Professor badge?  I think we should probably be rewarding providing answers above asking questions... It's &lt;em&gt;knowledge&lt;/em&gt; we want to encourage, not the display of a lack of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:04:59.300" />
  <row Id="25775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25743" CreationDate="2009-10-14T03:05:37.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should email the address at the bottom of every page on this one. We need more info on what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T03:05:37.567" />
  <row Id="25779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-10-14T04:06:24.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet, for his book C# in Depth. He is a very active SO user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11182" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T04:06:24.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-14T04:06:24.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25787" CreationDate="2009-10-14T06:56:34.613" Score="3" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that a lot of SuperUser questions have answers involving code, and it occurred to me that most of the questions whose answers involve &lt;em&gt;elisp&lt;/em&gt; code seem to be on StackOverflow, even when those questions are really more about customizing the behavior of emacs, rather than programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I realized that before I consciously thought about it, the emacs questions never seemed to me or anyone else to be out of place on SO, even though equivalent questions about other programs would probably be migrated to SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here's the question: Why are questions about emacs customizations mostly on StackOverflow, while questions about customizing other programs (even customizations whose answers are code or even full programs) are mostly on SuperUser? And why? And should it be that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135271" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T07:22:34.783" Title="Where do Emacs customization questions belong? SO or SU? Why?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;emacs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25785" CreationDate="2009-10-14T07:22:34.783" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple. Questions regarding the customization of a development environment is related to developers, and therefore acceptable for SO. They add value to the working live of a developer, but have no value to a general power user who will never develop software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU is for general computer users. I doubt there is more then a third of the SO user-base even aware of SU, or who would ever use SU. Ideally we want them too, but the SU topic base is way to broad, and not all developers are interested in anything apart from the software they work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T07:22:34.783" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25790" CreationDate="2009-10-14T08:05:38.887" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been awarded a taxonomist badge on SO for retagging 59 questions with a new tag. This action was considered abusive, and the tag was removed, along with my badge from the 'Badges' section on my profile page. However, the badge still appears next to my user name in the upper section of the screen, and when I search my user name in the users tab... it shows 1 'silver' 11 'bronze'. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T05:31:12.687" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T05:31:12.687" Title="Removed badge still shows next to my user name" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25788" CreationDate="2009-10-14T08:08:23.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of it like a gentle hint of the badge debt you'll have to repay. Right now, you're in the hole for one silver badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When your next silver badge comes along, the number won't increase, but correct out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T08:08:23.387" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25788" CreationDate="2009-10-14T08:41:43.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ChrisF is right, the next time you get a badge, it recalculates the denormalized badge count field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What random is referring to is a little bit different, since your badge was actually &lt;em&gt;removed&lt;/em&gt;, not just attached to a now-deleted question, which is the more typical case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T08:41:43.110" />
  <row Id="25791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25725" CreationDate="2009-10-14T09:10:53.383" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need 50 rep to comment globally, unless it's either &amp;hellip; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;your question &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;an answer to your question&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; in which case you can comment with 1 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta has a different ruleset from the other trilogy sites and allows global commenting with 1 rep. All rep levels are documented on the /faq page as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(shamelessly stolen from mmeyers' comment, but he should have left it as an answer!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T09:10:53.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25793" CreationDate="2009-10-14T09:47:21.920" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just few days ago I noticed that when searching on SO, results flash for less than a second, and then disappear.  Using both Firefox and Chrome latest stable builds on Windows XP causes same result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137269" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T09:56:24.270" Title="Stackoverflow search results disappearing" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25792" CreationDate="2009-10-14T09:56:24.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am guessing all the search results share a tag in your Ignored Tags list with your preference set to &quot;hide&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try doing the search while logged out, or from another web browser, to confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you can disable hiding ignored tags, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T09:56:24.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15973" CreationDate="2009-10-14T10:02:25.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can create your own StackExchange site and view its moderator tools. I expect them to be very similar to what StackOverflow has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T10:02:25.363" />
  <row Id="25795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T10:07:48.133" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18360/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-but-i-havent-voted&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Vote too old to be changed&amp;rdquo;&amp;hellip; but I haven&amp;rsquo;t voted!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was in doubt whether to upvote or downvote &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1564980/building-a-comma-separated-list/1565042#1565042&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.  I quickly undid both my up- and downvotes.  But now that I'm sure I'd like to upvote, I cannot vote at all.  The errror is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless this answer is edited&#xA;(click on this box to dismiss)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is no vote registered for it, so how can the vote be too old?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T09:05:20.453" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:05:20.453" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T10:21:53.080" Title="Non-existing vote too old to be changed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25795" CreationDate="2009-10-14T10:10:37.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The previous up or downvote registered as a vote. Therefore until the answer is edited you will not be able to vote. It has nothing to do with the amount of votes the answer has, but rather with whether you did or did not vote on it already. Removing the vote doesn't neccessarily allow you to vote again, and from your explanation it probably triggered one of the checks not to allow you to vote again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: &lt;strong&gt;Be sure before casting your vote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T10:10:37.690" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35919" CreationDate="2009-10-14T10:34:06.307" Score="2" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11098/reply-to-comment-feature-request&quot;&gt;Reply to comment feature request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4798/lets-make-it-easier-to-reply-within-comments&quot;&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s make it easier to reply within comments!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like a &lt;strong&gt;reply to comment&lt;/strong&gt; feature to SO, so when someone replies to one of your comments, it will be shown on the summary page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;important information or comments may be lost if you don't manually check all the threads you've commented to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there's almost no way to see the newest replies to old comments, especially if you ask something in the comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are usually the way someone notifies you of things that have changed, sometimes those replies are directed at comments not at answers, and comments are frequently used to complete existing answers without creating new ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T07:33:46.900" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:33:51.363" Title="Add a [reply to comment] feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25725" CreationDate="2009-10-14T10:38:39.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that you mean : To comment not on a question or answer, but on one of theirs comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've seen, and am doing also, is to &lt;strong&gt;prefix my answer with &lt;code&gt;@author&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, where &lt;code&gt;author&lt;/code&gt; is the name of the person who wrote the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T10:38:39.340" />
  <row Id="25799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25705" CreationDate="2009-10-14T10:53:55.490" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm glad this question got reopened.  If you look from a distance, say from Mars, programmer conferences must surely seem related to programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing should be made harder.  Relevant and fun questions get filtered out by trigger happy moderators.  It reminds me of usenet's comp.lang.c.moderated, where people would remove relevant questions that were not to their own taste, as &quot;unrelated to C&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T10:53:55.490" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25800" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25801" CreationDate="2009-10-14T10:57:51.940" Score="4" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few very strong statements recently here on META about students asking questions on SO.  Personally, I think that we are all students in some way shape or form, just at different levels in turns of experience, knowledge, etc.  So why the hate towards the academics?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should students not ask questions here?  Isn't this just what the site is for?  Who cares if it can be found via a Google search, that is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the &quot;Plz send the codez&quot; questions are worthy of down-votes and getting closed.  However, I'm concerned that an almost elitist attitude and approach towards students in general will drive folks away from the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also seem logical to separate out the issues a bit.  Students all seem to be getting lumped together as being bad, when in reality there are a very small minority of folks who take away from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;One Example...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  There are others I've seen recently, but can't find them all right now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What we get is a bunch of deperate undergrads engaged in a desperate search for knowledge that is so accessible elsewhere. And the more they ask, the more points they get. Of what benefit is that? Do you have significant development experience, or are you an undergrad too? – polyglot yesterday  &quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold/18595#18595&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold/18595#18595&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T12:34:34.373" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T18:17:33.323" Title="Why is there resentment towards students on the SO sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;students&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T11:02:44.210" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Students should absolutely ask questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What matters is how they ask their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;plz give me the codez for teh towers of hanoi&#xA;in c&#xA;k, thx.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question will likely get closed with extreme prejudice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when a student:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marks their question as homework / admits it's homework&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows they're working towards a solution (by showing &lt;strong&gt;us&lt;/strong&gt; the code)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actively participates in expanding their question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't ask for an 'answer' to their homework; rather they ask for an answer to the specific problem their having &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; their homework&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I'd be surprised if that question was closed, and I'd re-open it in a heartbeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T11:02:44.210" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T11:03:27.300" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the majority of the &lt;em&gt;'resentment&lt;/em&gt;' towards students is based on the questions that are pretty much just &lt;strong&gt;&lt;KBD&gt;PLZSENDTEHCODEZ/HOMEWORK&lt;/KBD&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; questions. Postgrads/Ex-students didn't have SO to post on to get their homework tips/tricks/code - perhaps it's that that makes those certain members resentful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with you though - one of us (even Jon Skeet) isn't as clever as all of us. The whole point of SO is that everyone works together, everyone has their &lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt; fields of expertise. And because of that - &lt;strong&gt;we are, all students.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T11:03:27.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25827" CreationDate="2009-10-14T11:11:49.233" Score="13" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;After casting a vote on an answer, you can change your vote during a small time window, but afterwards the change is blocked by the error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless this answer is edited&#xA;(click on this box to dismiss)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes my past votes are clearly wrong, and I'd like to correct them.  If I understand the other Meta questions correctly, vote changing was disabled due to concerns about cheating or tactical voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be an option to allow changing your vote at a cost to your own reputation?  I'm not sure about the exact nature of the tactical votes, but it seems to me that the cost of reputation could outweigh the advantage of tactical voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, I don't care greatly about reputation, but I do care about my old wrong votes permanently affixed to an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Apparently I can change my vote by editing the answer, but that feels wrong (the answer gets a later timestamp), and might not be available to every user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.2. One of my best experiences in Stackoverflow was when I posted an answer, and instantly got downvoted to -5.  Then someone with high rep upvoted me and commented &quot;hey this is actually correct&quot;.  Many people changed their votes and my answer was eventually accepted.  Such an experience would be impossible now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="137265" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T12:14:42.273" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:24:49.387" Title="Suggestion: Allow changing your vote at a reputation cost" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25803" CreationDate="2009-10-14T11:17:56.647" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there's already a workaround (edit the post, if you feel so strongly) it is unlikely we'll add any more complexity here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T11:17:56.647" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25812" CreationDate="2009-10-14T11:22:03.833" Score="6" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I put my name in your database to have a look at the system, but there's no 'off' button. I'm quite happy where I am at the moment thank-you-very-much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about implementing an off button at the same time as changing the pricing: $9 per month that it's turned 'on'. That way, when I'm looking for work I'm paying. When I'm not looking, I'm not paying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132812" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:06:46.650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:07:45.027" Title="careers.stackoverflow.com needs an 'off' button" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T11:33:54.780" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is nothing wrong with getting help for homework, or assisting students. In fact, my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/895371/bubble-sort-homework&quot;&gt;Bubble Sort Homework&lt;/a&gt; got a lot of attention, including a mention on the podcast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asking these sorts of questions, make sure you ask them in a way that not only solves your problem (otherwise why would you ask it), but is still vague enough to be a helpful resource for others. John Fouhy wrote this comment on my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The post is essentially: &quot;I have trouble coding, this is what I did, it doesn't work.&quot; There's obviously an implicit &quot;Can someone give me some pointers please?&quot; Unlike many homework questions, this one: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;is well written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;is upfront about being homework&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;includes a good attempt at solving the problem. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T11:33:54.780" />
  <row Id="25808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:03:50.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more a resentment towards stupidity. There have been several students who came here asking questions that just seem to drop the average IQ of this size with a dozen or more points. Questions like &quot;What is a boolean?&quot; or &quot;When I type 'HelloWorld.c' at the command prompt, it won't execute my new application. Why?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, several students also just ask us to do their homework. For free, that is. Thus, they're faking their whole studies, which will end up in more stupid developers who just don't know the difference between = and == in C++...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the problem with students is that they haven't grasped the concept of writing &quot;well-written questions&quot;, thus they're often considered rude or just plain stupid. Several students also tend to use the same writing style that they use for social networks which also annoys a few people here. In general, they just tend to speak a different language than experienced developers, thus it's easy to consider them to be less than regular developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:03:50.980" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:12:28.920" Score="-5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Why?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the sites grow the user hierarchy will inevitably take on more of a pyramid shape with less users with &quot;moderator&quot; and &quot;close&quot; privileges as a ratio to &lt;code&gt;noobs&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it may be necessary to &lt;em&gt;&quot;lower the bar&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to allow more users to help moderate the site, close bad questions etc. &lt;strong&gt;I think we can all agree this would be a bad idea.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;What?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A slight tweek to the &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;move&lt;/code&gt; question algorithms that allow question to be closed (or moved) if the total amount of reputation of all those users requesting the action is greater (or equal to) 15k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow 15, 1k users (not a trivial rep.) to close or move a question, thus relieving  some of the workload from the increasingly diluted number of 3k-ers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The total of 5 votes should still be kept in place so not to give the 3k-ers too much power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Summary&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(votes ≥ 5) &amp;amp;&amp;amp; (sum_voters_rep ≥ 15000)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NB: I have been reliably informed that only 3k rep is required to close questions. Maths updates appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T12:38:14.553" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:22:38.093" Title="Closing (or Moving) Questions with Accumulative Reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25809" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:19:34.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Move is actually an automatic process. If five 3K rep users vote to close by moving to a sister site it &quot;just happens&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T13:22:38.093" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:22:38.093" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25809" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:23:56.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;3000 rep is the level at which you can vote to close and move. This is fine and as the site goes on longer, the more people will have 3000 rep to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you need probably more than an increased population of people allowed to vote to close is giving those people who already are allowed to vote more votes over the course of a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: You also lowered the accumulated rep from 15,000 (5x 3000 rep) to 10,000 so that is even more reason to vote you down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:23:56.903" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="25812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25805" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:24:27.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will be the ability to make your CV private. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:24:27.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:34:34.827" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that there is a resentment to students on the site.  There is, however, a resentment towards cheaters -- of all stripes.  Getting people to do your homework for you is cheating -- both the other students in the class and yourself.  I'm happy to assist students in learning, that's what we're all here for: to learn and to teach.  There are ways to ask homework questions that will get you help on learning how to solve it yourself or to get over a specific hurdle that you are facing.  These questions should be and, I think, generally received well here.  Then there are those that post a series of questions, often in the form, &quot;Suppose you have a network...&quot; that are obviously copied directly from the homework assignment.  Answering those with anything other than &quot;we won't do your homework for you&quot; is a disservice to the student and to the others in their class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:34:34.827" />
  <row Id="25814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25817" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:34:51.190" Score="-2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can something be done to get users like this to vote more?  E.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show them a message when they ask a question pointing out that they have not voted match on answers to other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sending them a friendly email from a modulator and/or show them the message when ever they use the site until they have dismissed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show a “poor up voter”  label on all questions they post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think people should be up voting at &lt;strong&gt;least&lt;/strong&gt; trice the number of times they ask questions.  Only people will a VERY poor upvoting record should be targeted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:46:45.273" Title="Prompt users that ask lots of questions but don’t up vote match to up vote more" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="25815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25809" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:36:02.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system seems to be working. Take SuperUser, where the number of users with more than 3000 points is rather low (34). Even with such a small number of people with close and move privileges, the site functions well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need to complicate things just because it might get easier; there's no way of knowing that. Let the community police itself organically for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:36:02.437" />
  <row Id="25817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25814" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:40:00.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already being done with the &lt;strong&gt;acceptance rate&lt;/strong&gt;; it's enough to get attention to the fact they don't accept answers, there's no need to stone and shame them for having poor acceptance rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they also get messages asking them to start a bounty if they don't have a good enough answer. The truth is, whatever you do, if they don't want to mark an answer as accepted, there's nothing anybody can do. Just answer the question if you can and let others judge if your answer is good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:40:00.463" />
  <row Id="25818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25743" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:44:37.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which question? I can see three likely contenders:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;.htaccess settings, how to make images point to a dynamic page?&quot;, which you deleted yourself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How to make brosers show the border color I want?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;English as second language. How to improve it?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any of those? If not, how about a clue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default, you can see your own deleted &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, but IIRC you need 10k to see &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; deleted  posts (including your own deleted questions, I believe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:44:37.477" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25814" CreationDate="2009-10-14T12:46:45.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like it when the system tries to go out of its way to tell me how to cast MY votes. I will vote how and why I choose and as long as I do not do so in an abusive manner it should not make any difference whether I ask 100 questions and cast 1000 upvotes or ask 1000 questions and cast only 10 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvotes and downvotes are not something that you are obligated to cast, and to be quite honest we probably have people who already cast &lt;strong&gt;too many&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes and &lt;strong&gt;not enough&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes to where it skews everybody's perception of the site into something more akin to &quot;Yay! You made an effort! Here's a backpat and a gold star!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T12:46:45.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:04:33.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is there resentment towards students on the SO sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no resentment, &lt;em&gt;au contraire&lt;/em&gt;, its extreme love towards them, as most of us try to direct them towards places where they can learn and find more information on the inquired topic, but at the same time allow them to have the chance to figure it by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the only reason they think an answer for homework is correct just because it has many up votes while not understanding the answer, we are just doing a disservice to the poor fellow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the question is reasonably laid, the questioner shoud not find himself chastitized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:04:33.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25824" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:13:44.117" Score="7" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about what posts does the Community user upvote... The description found while viewing it's user page is that it owns downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted. It doesn't say anything about the upvotes... on what criteria does it upvote, and what posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:52:55.230" Title="What posts does the Community user upvote?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25822" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:15:38.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Own community questions and answers so nobody gets unnecessary reputation from them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this means that when you upvote a CW question or answer, it's the Community user that owns the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:15:38.043" />
  <row Id="25826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:24:29.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember a podcast from Jeff &amp;amp; Joel where Joel pretty much says that they want every search for technical questions to throw a SO link of some stripe.  Given that as a goal (and I tend to support that thinking as it makes my life easier to have a good, open, publicly verified answer source), I have to think that the management would strongly like to intelligent conversations about homework/abstract/entry-level questions of all stripes.  I suppose that over time the questions will die down as they're already answered and it doesn't seem like there are more new questions coming out (I mean honestly, who hasn't seen Towers of Hanoi).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136062" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:24:29.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25803" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:24:49.387" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this before I left for work this morning, and decided to think about it before responding. And you know what? I think it's a novel approach that has potential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only issue I have with it is that if it costs less than 4 rep to change your vote outside the window, it probably wouldn't be enough of a disincentive to strategic downvoters (who potentially would still be able to make that up by being higher on the page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I can see others who change their vote and suddenly drop &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; rep freaking out here on meta -- &quot;Why did I lose 4 rep for voting? What the --?!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's a novel approach, and it might be a best of both worlds scenario. Until/unless then (and it sounds like Jeff disagrees) we have to learn to use the system as-is. And that means an edit to undo/change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:24:49.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25822" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:46:01.250" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're referring to the 44405 votes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;community user&lt;/a&gt; has cast (these are meta numbers), most of the downvotes (3021), I assume come for the reason explained in the Community user's profile &quot;Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted&quot;. But, there is no explanation for how or what its upvoting (on meta 41384). My guess is that the community user owns the votes on questions that are migrated to the site, when the account that originally cast the vote, does not have an associated vote on this site. This would explain why, until recently the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;SO community user&lt;/a&gt; didn't have any upvotes, and now doesn't have too many (231) and why the meta community user has so many upvotes, there were a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134&quot;&gt;very popular questions&lt;/a&gt; migrated here, and I suspect a very small percentage of SO users have meta accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*for reference, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;SF community user&lt;/a&gt; has 4044 upvotes and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;SU community user&lt;/a&gt; has 7017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T13:52:55.230" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:52:55.230" />
  <row Id="25829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15986" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:54:33.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As already pointed out, Z means UTC. For details, check these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%5F8601#UTC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%5F8601#UTC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/z.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/z.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think &lt;code&gt;2009-07-20 23:12:37 UTC&lt;/code&gt; would better than  &lt;code&gt;2009-07-20 23:12:37Z&lt;/code&gt;; it's slightly more readable and would cause less confusion (like in this question, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/kodehoved/status/4829031302&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25770/whats-the-z-in-the-joined-date-tooltip-mean-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!). (And it's not like we're running out of space in the tooltip, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2560/change-date-format-of-x-hours-ago-tool-tip/2562#2562&quot;&gt;Shog9 aptly noted&lt;/a&gt; earlier.) Extremely small thing obviously, but probably very cheap to implement too? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I tend to agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25770/whats-the-z-in-the-joined-date-tooltip-mean/25773#25773&quot;&gt;the suggestion by cletus&lt;/a&gt; that (optionally!) using a user-selected local timezone for all timestamps might be somewhat more useful. But well, UTC only isn't too bad, especially as recent times are shown along the lines of &quot;6 hours ago&quot; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:54:33.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2009-10-14T13:58:04.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if you could reply to a specific comment and it was threaded. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;This answer saved my marriage, career and $4.99 - mrX&#xA;  I'm glad I could help - BrianG&#xA;This is clearly the wrong answer, -1 and I'm not talking to you for 23 minutes - dave&#xA;  Infact, make that 26 minutes - dave&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But do the number of questions that actually have large amounts of comments make it worth it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T13:58:04.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33941" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:02:57.460" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;As discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;Should we be allowed to edit comments&lt;/a&gt;, one simple solution is the digg.com comments way. I don't like digg.com nor use it but their method is quite an intelligent way of allowing you to edit typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically when you post a comment, you are given 30 seconds (or it might be 1 minute) to change that comment. After that the comment is locked and cached, and you can only delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds annoying to code, but could be a good compromise between the current system and plain out deleting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T07:18:49.493" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:18:56.870" Title="A possible solution for editing comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25831" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:11:07.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the way things sometimes move here, you could have 2-3 comments to your own comment in that time. It would make things rather awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just looking at your comment before hitting the &lt;strong&gt;Add Comment&lt;/strong&gt; button can go a long way in solving problems. And you can always delete and repost the comment. It seems almost the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:11:07.333" />
  <row Id="25833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:16:43.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we loosing the point of a questions and answer site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment system should be simple and not take anything away form the questions and answers.   If the comment system gets to complex, then it will be uses instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:16:43.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25831" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:17:27.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You also have to remember that the character limit on a site like Digg's comments are FAR MORE than on StackOverflow, which would make the chances of long-winded comments that need to be accurately written more important. SO's comment system is not &lt;strong&gt;supposed&lt;/strong&gt; to be so heavily relied upon and full featured. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion of a short time limit to fix comments I could agree with just because it wouldn't bother me, but overall I think it would be best if we try and stay away from making the comments as &quot;heavy&quot; as comments on Digg or other sites because it will probably end up starting to distract a lot more from the question and answers themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:17:27.590" />
  <row Id="25835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25836" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:21:53.383" Score="3" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we can only use &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed&quot;&gt;limited subset of HTML/CSS&lt;/a&gt; is it possible to center an image, or any block element for that matter, on SOFU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:51:43.923" Title="Is it possible to horizontally center an image in SOFU?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25835" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:25:17.963" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags to position things manually I guess, but that is the only way I can imagine doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;                     &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4f7c0c43b0fb87f905d369d42d2667ac?s=320&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;CENTERED!&quot;&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4f7c0c43b0fb87f905d369d42d2667ac?s=320&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;CENTERED!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T14:51:43.923" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:51:43.923" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:28:17.707" Score="24" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow-up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25598/where-in-the-world-do-stackoverflow-users-say-they-are-from&quot;&gt;Where in the world do Stack Overflow users say they are from?&lt;/a&gt;  As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25598/where-in-the-world-do-stackoverflow-users-say-they-are-from/25601#25601&quot;&gt;requested by Kyle Cronin&lt;/a&gt;, I've calculated the number of Stack Overflow users per capita.  I'm making this a separate post since there were already so many charts and tables on the other one.  But, lest anyone accuse me of rep-whoring, I'm making this post CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have once again provided &lt;a href=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=trFzPsM8YcCGR9Xi8B8o0Ng&amp;amp;output=html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the full data in a Google Docs spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt;, and it is also available &lt;a href=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=trFzPsM8YcCGR9Xi8B8o0Ng&amp;amp;output=xls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in Excel format&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit (2010.01.06):&lt;/strong&gt; My previous post had incorrect per-capita data for the states in the US. I think I pasted the population data into my spreadsheet sorted by state name, when I had sorted the data by number of users. The result was that states had the incorrect populations. I have updated the chart and the Google spreadsheet to reflect the accurate numbers. And I apologize to all the Wasingtonians (state and DC) and Delewarians I offended. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Overview in charts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Worldwide&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&amp;amp;chs=440x220&amp;amp;chco=FFFFFF,FFCCCC,FF1111,FF0000&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,AACCFF&amp;amp;chtm=world&amp;amp;chld=BMIMNZNOISSEGBAUIEMTCADKILUSNLFICHSIBEEEATSGDELTLVPTHUROGRCZPLFRSKTTRSQABGAMHKZAMKLBHRITARESKWUYMDHNCLUAMYTRDORUBRPYJPMXTNTHTWGTPEKHIQINEGLKSYCOPHSAVEMAPKIRKEKRCGVNIDBDCN&amp;amp;chd=s:9ysmljjiddccbXXUSRPPOIHGFFFFFFEEEDDDDCCCCCCCBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Europe&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&amp;amp;chs=440x220&amp;amp;chco=FFFFFF,FFCCCC,FF0000&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,AACCFF&amp;amp;chtm=europe&amp;amp;chld=BMIMNZNOISSEGBAUIEMTCADKILUSNLFICHSIBEEEATSGDELTLVPTHUROGRCZPLFRSKTTRSQABGAMHKZAMKLBHRITARESKWUYMDHNCLUAMYTRDORUBRPYJPMXTNTHTWGTPEKHIQINEGLKSYCOPHSAVEMAPKIRKEKRCGVNIDBDCN&amp;amp;chd=s:9ysmljjiddccbXXUSRPPOIHGFFFFFFEEEDDDDCCCCCCCBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;United States&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&amp;amp;chs=380x220&amp;amp;chco=FFFFFF,FFCCCC,FF3333,FF1111,FF0000&amp;amp;chf=bg,s,AACCFF&amp;amp;chtm=usa&amp;amp;chld=DCDEWAVTMACOORUTNYCAMNMEIDVAPANEARWIRIMDAKINMOIAILOHNHNCGAAZTXCTMINJNVKYFLKSSDSCTNMTALWVOKNDHINMLAMSPR&amp;amp;chd=s:9slWSSSPONNMMMMLLLLKKKKJJJJJIIIIIIHHHGGGFFEEEEEDDCB&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users per capita by country (top 20)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Country         Users per 1,000,000 residents&#xA;---------------------------------------------&#xA;Bermuda         15.3846&#xA;Isle of Man     12.5000&#xA;New Zealand     11.0939&#xA;Norway           9.5049&#xA;Iceland          9.3971&#xA;Sweden           8.9092&#xA;United Kingdom   8.7289&#xA;Australia        8.6148&#xA;Ireland          7.4003&#xA;Malta            7.2529&#xA;Canada           7.1874&#xA;Denmark          7.0659&#xA;Israel           6.7025&#xA;United States    5.8728&#xA;Netherlands      5.7398&#xA;Finland          5.0493&#xA;Switzerland      4.5185&#xA;Slovenia         4.3967&#xA;Belgium          3.8123&#xA;Estonia          3.7302&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Users per capita by state/province&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;United States (top 20)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;St/Prov                   Users per 1,000,000 residents&#xA;-------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;DC  District of Columbia  27.0347&#xA;DE  Delaware              19.4710&#xA;WA  Washington            16.3378&#xA;VT  Vermont                9.6576&#xA;MA  Massachusetts          8.1564&#xA;CO  Colorado               8.0981&#xA;OR  Oregon                 7.9154&#xA;UT  Utah                   6.5779&#xA;NY  New York               6.0543&#xA;CA  California             5.6860&#xA;MN  Minnesota              5.5551&#xA;ME  Maine                  5.3173&#xA;ID  Idaho                  5.2500&#xA;VA  Virginia               5.1486&#xA;PA  Pennsylvania           5.1413&#xA;NE  Nebraska               5.0464&#xA;AR  Arkansas               4.9030&#xA;WI  Wisconsin              4.7975&#xA;RI  Rhode Island           4.7583&#xA;MD  Maryland               4.4377&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Canada&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;St/Prov                   Users per 1,000,000 residents&#xA;-------------------------------------------------------&#xA;YT  Yukon                 29.9025&#xA;PE  Prince Edward Island  21.3672&#xA;BC  British Columbia       9.5023&#xA;AB  Alberta                6.0565&#xA;ON  Ontario                5.7751&#xA;NB  New Brunswick          4.0090&#xA;SK  Saskatchewan           3.9070&#xA;NS  Nova Scotia            3.1931&#xA;QC  Quebec                 2.9553&#xA;MB  Manitoba               0.8238&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;St/Prov           Users per 1,000,000 residents&#xA;-----------------------------------------------&#xA;Scotland          6.1914&#xA;England           5.3065&#xA;Wales             1.9969&#xA;Northern Ireland  1.1268&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Australia&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;St/Prov                            Users per 1,000,000 residents&#xA;----------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;WA   Western Australia             7.1232&#xA;VIC  Victoria                      6.5319&#xA;NSW  New South Wales               6.0966&#xA;QLD  Queensland                    5.4996&#xA;SA   South Australia               4.4178&#xA;ACT  Australian Capital Territory  2.9420&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stack Overflow data retrieved from &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow sandbox&lt;/a&gt; on 2009-10-05 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/creative-commons-data-dump-sep-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;September 2009 data dump&lt;/a&gt;) for users with rep &gt;= 1000.  Population data retrieved from Wikipedia on 2009-10-13.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Just for TXI&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/849/freehand2.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T19:19:51.687" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:19:51.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-14T14:28:17.707" Title="What countries have the most Stack Overflow users per capita?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="20" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="25840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:42:10.460" Score="-5" ViewCount="637" Body="&lt;p&gt;People ask &quot;how do I learn compilers&quot; in some form or other every few weeks. Someone immediately replies &quot;read the dragon book&quot;. This is very bad advice for a compiler newbie (see &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself in this position, please recommend &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/155860698X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Engineering a Compiler&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Keith Cooper/Linda Torczon, or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Modern Compiler Implementation in X&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (where X should probably be Java, maybe C), by Andrew Appel. These are excellent introductions to compiler for beginners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also vote down answers where the answerer says only &quot;read the Dragon Book&quot;, without a qualifying remark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java/cover30.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Modern Compiler Implementation in Java&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B1VKHJCKL.%5FBO2,204,203,200%5FPIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76%5FAA240%5FSH20%5FOU01%5F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Engineering a Compiler&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Discussion:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dragon Book is a very thorough book, with detailed discussion of theory (especially about parsing). However, this level of detail and theory does not make it a good introductory book. In contrast, the books above present very clearly how to build a compiler, avoiding theory where it is not useful. This makes them superior recommendations for beginners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dragon Book is best suggested for intermediate compiler authors, though they are likely to know of it already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Partial list of questions so answered&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1489089/how-to-create-a-compiler-in-vb-net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1489089/how-to-create-a-compiler-in-vb-net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41785/learning-resources-on-parsers-interpreters-and-compilers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41785/learning-resources-on-parsers-interpreters-and-compilers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/411682/introduction-to-static-analysis&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/411682/introduction-to-static-analysis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156363/create-a-compiler-for-windows&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156363/create-a-compiler-for-windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514367/compilers-and-beyond&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514367/compilers-and-beyond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453870/suggestions-for-writing-a-programming-language&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453870/suggestions-for-writing-a-programming-language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/183882/interesting-compiler-projects&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/183882/interesting-compiler-projects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/what-are-the-best-resources-on-designing-a-new-language&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/what-are-the-best-resources-on-designing-a-new-language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1553594/what-is-the-good-approach-to-build-a-new-compiler&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1553594/what-is-the-good-approach-to-build-a-new-compiler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13537/bootstrapping-a-language&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13537/bootstrapping-a-language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1419269/what-happens-when-i-compile&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1419269/what-happens-when-i-compile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985837/compiler-design-resources&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985837/compiler-design-resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/708231/need-help-understanding-compilers-hll-assembly&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/708231/need-help-understanding-compilers-hll-assembly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049927/unable-to-understand-compilers-main-optimizations&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049927/unable-to-understand-compilers-main-optimizations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085490/how-do-c-c-compilers-work&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085490/how-do-c-c-compilers-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/424796/are-there-any-compiler-lectures-available-via-video&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/424796/are-there-any-compiler-lectures-available-via-video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1515940/learning-how-programming-languages-work&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1515940/learning-how-programming-languages-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177652/taking-a-compilation-course-in-undergraduate-cs-studies-useful&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177652/taking-a-compilation-course-in-undergraduate-cs-studies-useful&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastEditorUserId="131553" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T15:30:23.430" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:35:06.943" Title="Can we stop recommending the Dragon Book, please?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="26" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="25841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:46:36.833" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People are free to suggest whatever they feel is the best, just as you are free to comment on how wrong they may be and you are even allowed to downvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why you should be making a post on meta about this to try and change people's minds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make your own suggestions and if you don't agree with others, vote them down and maybe people will start to see your way. There is nothing wrong with what they are doing in making their suggestions for the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:46:36.833" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="25842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:48:43.367" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem here is answerers blindly referring users to &quot;the dragon book&quot; not having read it themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full solution to the problem is don't recommend books you haven't read just because you saw someone else recommend them 20 years ago. Let someone who actually knows the field and has read the books recommend something instead. This is a classic example of people jumping to get rep by just pasting in a standard answer that they actually know nothing about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have read &quot;the dragon book&quot; and you like it, of course you should be free to recommend it if you want to, but if you haven't read it, just leave the question for someone else to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:48:43.367" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="25843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T14:49:02.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the Dragon Book is certainly very thorough, it is not very clear, or easy to learn from. That was probably acceptable in 1986, or whenever you read it way back when, but there are actual good compiler books now, especially for beginners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can recommend what they want to recommend. If you don't like an answer, if you think it doesn't answer the question or offer what the asker needs - then downvote it. &lt;strong&gt;Simple.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T14:49:02.897" />
  <row Id="25844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T15:09:40.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;David, Let's assume you've read all the books you are talking about. (I happen to have read none of them, so won't comment on the suitability of each).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't you write a review of each, (as one article), compare and contrast and draw a conclusion as to which is better for certain types of readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then on each question where you disagree with the recommendation of &quot;the dragon book&quot; post a summary of your conclusions that are relevant to the particular question, (a link to the full review if it's too long to fit nicely in the answer), and your recommendation of your preferred book. Users tend to like answers that have taken the time to explain in detail the pros and cons of both sides. Others will see your review, and perhaps if it is good and people agree they will also link to it. Perhaps others interested in the area will take time to read both books and draw their own conclusions, and up vote your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately then you have worked towards promotion of the best outcome - that of full disclosure of available information along with community agreement on the most suitable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T15:09:40.613" />
  <row Id="25845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T15:09:59.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up and down votes are your best friend in this situation. Vote and explain your reasoning. Your opinion is just one of many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this same kind of thing with an Operating Systems class in my undergrad degree. The book assigned by the professor was one of the more popular OS books. Very dry, to the point, and was not aimed at beginners. It was still a great book though and an excellent class choice. It was not an easy book for people to start with, but it was still a great resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't make it a bad recommendation in any way though. Lots of CS books tend to not be beginner friendly.  They are advanced topics and require a vast array of knowledge to comprehend and understand well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T15:09:59.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T15:10:06.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;completely bizarre&lt;/strong&gt; that a backroom discussion has been started to pre-determine what the correct answer should be to a particular class of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a (hopefully) ill-fated attempt at a cyber-version of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%5Fol%27%5Fboy%5Fnetwork&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;good ol' boys network&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T16:35:06.943" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:35:06.943" />
  <row Id="25850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T15:18:57.977" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24284/make-links-in-monospaced-format-look-more-like-links&quot;&gt;Make links in monospaced format look more like links.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25837/retag-request-source-control&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25837/retag-request-source-control&lt;/a&gt; its impossible to know that those tags are, in fact, also links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i35.tinypic.com/vgsimh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What change do you propose so that links in code blocks really look like links?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T16:04:04.710" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:04:04.710" ClosedDate="2009-10-14T15:49:51.367" Title="Highlight links in code sections in meta" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;link-highlighting&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="25853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-10-14T15:43:36.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting! &#xA;Apparently, smart guys got CNProg code running in the first time. Nice job on UI tweaking and English translation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah? No sign of CNProg!? hmm.. can i say these are rip-off CNProg? oh.. they even stole my code and said &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://socialwire.ca/?p=42&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unique own engine&lt;/a&gt;&quot;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T15:43:36.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T15:57:09.637" Score="3" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ticker &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Developers Counter is not legit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   &amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    $(function(){&#xA;&#xA;        var visitors = 5373771; //Appears to be a modified based on actual count&#xA;        var updateVisitors = function()&#xA;            {&#xA;                visitors++;&#xA;&#xA;                var vs = visitors.toString(), &#xA;                     i = Math.floor(vs.length / 3),&#xA;                     l = vs.length % 3;&#xA;                while (i--&amp;gt;0) if (!(l==0&amp;amp;&amp;amp;i==0))&#xA;                    vs = vs.slice(0,i*3+l)&#xA;                       + ',' &#xA;                       + vs.slice(i*3+l);&#xA;                $('#devCount').text(vs);&#xA;                setTimeout(updateVisitors, Math.random()*2000);&#xA;            };&#xA;&#xA;        setTimeout(updateVisitors, Math.random()*2000);&#xA;&#xA;    });&#xA;   &amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The back story here is I thought it was a cool little effect and might put the idea to work on one of my sites. I inspected the source hoping to see some ajaxy goodness and was sorely disappointed when Math.random() jumped out ... Santa is Dad.  :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133571" LastEditorUserId="133571" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T22:09:40.810" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:09:40.810" Title="Is the number of developers counter being disingenuous?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T15:59:15.670" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you also get angry when you drive by a McDonald's and the sign says &quot;BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The seed value seems to change when you reload the page &lt;strong&gt;(possibly cached, it doesn't seem to refresh EVERY time)&lt;/strong&gt;, so it looks as if it may actually be getting a count of users from the database and then just doing random upcounts for visual effect until you actually reload the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how it is unethical, IMHO. Too many people get wrapped up in the &quot;ethics&quot; of advertising and expect it to be some sort of puritanical realm when that couldn't be farther from the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But like Pesto said in the comments, it would probably be better for everyone involved if instead of a fancy random uptick, it just said &lt;em&gt;&quot;Over [initial database count]&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. I wouldn't have a problem with that at all, but I also don't have any problem with it the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra Note&lt;/strong&gt;: I also find it incredibly sad that we are even discussing the ethics of this as if it wasn't anything more than a hacked up hit counter. It says &lt;strong&gt;VISITORS&lt;/strong&gt; in the code, so it is logical to assume that it is actually tracking unique pageviews (something advertisers actually care about). I guess if you want you could also start complaining about the fact that the text says &quot;[number] Developers are waiting&quot; when you have no guarantee that those page views are all being generated by people who code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T16:38:24.490" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:38:24.490" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="25857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:11:58.953" Score="10" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is not exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That page talks about recent activity, I was suggesting a tick mark in the global questions' list as seen in this image (screen shot from actionscript.org). The tick mark on the left side tells me that I've posted in that thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5FdMvpiHJOOxw/StatrtHusqI/AAAAAAAAATg/hYU4jn3hGe4/ASdotOrg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to identify the questions that I've posted to or commented to in the various &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt; tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, I think it would be nice to have a tick mark near those questions in which I have asked/answered/commented in the main page and the various &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt; pages. Currently, hot/active tabs only shows the name of the user who updated the question recently. If there is a tick mark near questions with my posts, it would be like saying &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Hey you've made a post here, why don't you go back and check what OP/others are doing in there?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Basically, I've seen this in many vBulletin based forums and am so used to it that I'd like to see it here too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, currently there is no way(?) to track the questions that I've commented (and not posted). Many a times, we seek some clarification from OP in a comment (which I believe is more appropriate than posting it as answer) and forget to come back. Now, given the traffic in SO, someone will take it from there, but still I believe there should be some way for me to keep track of those commented posts. As of now, I'm favoriting such questions and removing favorite star once it's no more required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastEditorUserId="135650" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T05:07:45.203" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T05:07:45.203" Title="Highlighting questions in which I have already posted or commented" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:13:02.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is the difference between programmers and advertising.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By our very nature, programmers want everything to be exactly correct - especially when it comes to numbers.  Even large numbers.  If we say 12,347,132 we damn well mean 12,347,132, and if there was an epsilon we'd bloody say 12,347,132 +/- 2!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advertisers... well I probably can't say anything without it sounding like a criticism, so I'll just say they &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; as exact, especially when it comes to numbers.  And I think anyone doing advertising understands that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moral of the story?  Don't let programmers make advertisements, and don't expect every advertisement you see to be exact.  That's what contracts are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:13:02.883" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="25860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:13:54.647" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly feel like I am being cheated by this JavaScript tomfoolery. I want someone to actually count these developers, preferably by making them stand in a line so that we can be sure that they are not counted twice, and using a pencil and paper rather than some newfangled electronic gizmo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:13:54.647" />
  <row Id="25861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:14:43.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda get your point, it's like people recommending the Knuth books to someone wanting to get started with programming. Whilst iconic, the Knuth books are not the best place to kick things off for a beginner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd probably recommend The Dragon Book as an option for the novice once he or she has acquired the basics from more up-to-date and accessible texts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:14:43.723" />
  <row Id="25862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:25:23.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you not think the number of developers signed up on StackOverflow might actually exceed the number shown on page (5373866) with the page left open for the normal, average amount of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say, at maximum, a potential company representative stays on that page for 2 minutes.&#xA;The counter would increase by, what, 200? Bringing the total to 5,374,066. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if this number is actually less than the number of developers registered on SO? Is it still 'disingenous' and are you still offended?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:25:23.237" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:36:44.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ouch, not only gmail's megabyte count could be &quot;disingenuous&quot; ( what does that mean anyway )  ehem but the script is suspiciously similar to SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// Estimates of nanite storage generation over time.&#xA;&#xA;var CP = [&#xA; [ 1199433600000, 6283 ],&#xA; [ 1224486000000, 7254 ],&#xA; [ 2144908800000, 10996 ],&#xA; [ 2147328000000, 43008 ],&#xA; [ 46893711600000, Number.MAX_VALUE ]&#xA;]; &#xA;&#xA;function updateQuota() {&#xA;    if (!quota_elem) {&#xA;        return;&#xA;    }&#xA;    var now = (new Date()).getTime();&#xA;    var i;&#xA;    for (i = 0; i &amp;lt; CP.length; i++) {&#xA;        if (now &amp;lt; CP[i][0]) {&#xA;            break;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    if (i == 0) {&#xA;        setTimeout(updateQuota, 1000);&#xA;    } else if (i == CP.length) {&#xA;        quota_elem.innerHTML = CP[i - 1][1];&#xA;    } else {&#xA;        var ts = CP[i - 1][0];&#xA;        var bs = CP[i - 1][1];&#xA;        quota_elem.innerHTML = format(((now-ts) / (CP[i][0]-ts) * (CP[i][1]-bs)) + bs);&#xA;        setTimeout(updateQuota, 1000);&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:36:44.273" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:48:56.060" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose by this same flawed logic, wall clocks are not legit either because they only estimate the current time and aren't directly connected to the Time and Frequency Division of NIST.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:48:56.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T16:56:25.113" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should all sign a petition asking Jeff to immediately change the logic to do a SELECT COUNT(*) FROM USERS on every page load and then rework this counter to be an AJAX control that updates every 30 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He may say it will slow down the site, but it is far more important that something irrelevant be accurate than something important be fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137286" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T16:56:25.113" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20397" CreationDate="2009-10-14T17:03:40.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love how it is prepopulated with fake users and content. If you look around on the user pages of some users, like these ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingnuts.com/users/4/babyblue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.weddingnuts.com/users/4/babyblue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weddingnuts.com/users/33/iluvtiffany&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.weddingnuts.com/users/33/iluvtiffany&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... you can see that their reputation and the number of votes they've received + accepted answers + etc don't add up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T17:03:40.777" />
  <row Id="25867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T17:58:42.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering where did that 5M number came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As The TXI points out they are visitors ( not user which do not reach more that 140k adding the three sites S[OFU] ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/one-million-pageviews/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog entry&lt;/a&gt; Jeff mention they serve Quantcast cookie too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well we do have a backup in the form of Quantcast; we serve their cookie too. You can think of Quantcast as Google Analytics but 100% public data.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(select the Page-Views dropdown)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Global daily is right at 1.0M, and max is stated as 9/29/09, so two sources agree at least.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming those Page-Views are from developers and the measure used is &quot;Per-Week&quot; ( and even subtracting a number of non-developers ) I think the  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;5,374,xxx developers are waiting for you&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is still legit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Pesto said, adding an &quot;Over&quot; would make it perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/888/capturadepantalla200910.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T17:58:42.170" />
  <row Id="25868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25869" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:13:55.560" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can still post comments on regular SO, but suddenly comments on Meta won't work. The button to add a comment is there, and I click it, and nothing happens. Same thing when a post has too many comments to see and I click &quot;see X more comments&quot; - nothing happens. Is it just me, or is this hitting anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T20:35:29.730" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:24:01.233" Title="Why can't I comment on Meta?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25868" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:15:34.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a local javascript issue. Works fine for me and no one else has reported any issues with it so far.  Maybe check your browser settings and restart the browser? Most likely some type of javascript error. You running any no script plugin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T18:15:34.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25800" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:17:33.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I wonder if the blatant and unresearched homework questions don't piss people off &lt;em&gt;so much&lt;/em&gt; because it forces the less introspective among us to stop and think about the fact that they're helping complete strangers for no tangible reward whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't personally think that's the case, and I'm well aware of the reasons that I enjoy this community - but I have a theory that the more 'violent' reactions to homework questions stem from this odd unease people have with the idea of doing something for 'nothing'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or hey, maybe they have a nite job as a tutor, and simply don't like the idea of a free website cutting into their moonlighting check.  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T18:17:33.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:39:28.633" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the first character(s) of an XML attribute are capitalized, they don't get colored in the usual attribute way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;element InitialCap=&quot;1&quot; initialLower=&quot;2&quot; ALLCAPS=&quot;3&quot; SOMEcaps=&quot;4&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have the entire attribute name consistently colored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="404" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:11:37.480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:11:48.400" Title="First letters of XML attributes not colored correctly if capitalized" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;&lt;xml&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:41:02.230" Score="6" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I look at Stack Overflow as two things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way to learn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way to give back as I have received&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people in my office range across skill levels all the way from the top to the bottom but I am one of two people who participate on this site. I venture to guess that this is similar at other offices too, the brightest people still are not participating and I would like be able to learn from them too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So. How would you motivate your colleagues to join Stack Overflow to get them to participate in this process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(merged a virtually identical question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the age old idiom goes &quot;You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had difficulty encouraging peers to use the trilogy to the help with their work. Unfortunately, this avoidance behavior extends to all technical forum websites. I end up answering a lot of questions personally or posting a question for them. What methods have you used to encourage peers to use forum sites? Is it just a personality thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24172" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:51:19.557" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:51:19.557" Title="How would you motivate your colleagues to join StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;publicity&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:42:29.287" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have to &lt;em&gt;motivate&lt;/em&gt; them, I don't think they should be here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's more valuable to tell them about it, what benefits they can receive, and let them make their own decision to use it or not. I got here from a Google search on a subject, found the site extremely intriguing, and signed up. That said, I have a natural propensity toward helping others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your co-workers/friends/colleagues don't have this desire, you can't force them to have it. However, they still might come here and obtain great information, which is also a great use of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T18:42:58.137" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:45:50.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could get the stackoverflow.com stickers and put them up in your cube - maybe more co-workers will get curious, visit, and start participating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137290" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T18:45:50.697" />
  <row Id="25875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:46:00.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tell them you have a higher rep than they could ever have and follow this with a number of nana's!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make it a competitive thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T18:46:00.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:47:11.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love SO for the fact that I can take a break from my work and use that break time effectively to learn more, gain more knowledge, or help someone else. It can be very beneficial, but be careful, it can be addictive. ;)  That won't always grab an unmotivated workers attention though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T18:47:11.550" />
  <row Id="25877" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:56:39.803" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that there are several questions that get asked many times, in many different forms. That all refer to the same underlying problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we should consider making tags specifically for each of those problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, there are quite a few questions that ended up being a problem with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/browser-cache&quot;&gt;browser cache&lt;/a&gt;. That is, problems caused by having an old copy of the JavaScript files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem appears in many forms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21856/problem-with-ajax-and-wmd-editor&quot;&gt;Problem with AJAX and WMD editor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25868/why-cant-i-comment-on-meta&quot;&gt;Why can’t I comment on Meta?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6126/did-the-ajax-just-die-on-superuser&quot;&gt;Did the AJAX just die on SuperUser?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a test, I created the tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/browser-cache&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[browser-cache]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, to help find questions that turn out to be caused by having an old cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:56:46.300" Title="Should there be tags specifically for questions that get many dupes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;special-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25854" CreationDate="2009-10-14T18:56:50.940" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sweeeeeeeet!&lt;/strong&gt; Some one finally noticed the counter!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number comes from Google Analytics, and is the &quot;Absolute Unique Visitors&quot; count. I suppose I could put that in a footnote or something, but no one really cares.... and if they do, they can just call and ask for a full picture on the statistics, since just that one number is kinda silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the whole notion of even counting absolute unique visitors is a bit hokey and disingenuous as is. Let's set aside the whole &quot;IP Number&quot; issue, and consider that there's no way for Google Analytics to know how many actual people are sitting in front of the monitor viewing the site. Or, for that matter, how many people go to different computers to view the same site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we all know that. The accuracy precision is maybe in the thousands, but that's a heck of a lot better than traditional viewership numbers (think Nielson), which always come out in 100K increments. But most importantly, &lt;strong&gt;we all know it's a fun eye-catching marketing thing&lt;/strong&gt;. 5,373,771 is basically the same as 5.4M, but the former is a more fun number to write out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the &lt;code&gt;Math.random&lt;/code&gt;, that's there to make it feel more &quot;organic&quot; instead of incrementing at a fixed interval all the time. Hokey? Probably. But not any hokier than Absolute Unique Visitors, and GMail does it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T19:32:10.797" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T19:32:10.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25877" CreationDate="2009-10-14T19:03:25.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the tags are useful and make sense, there is no harm in creating new tags. This is the entire reason we have this kind of tagging system to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T19:03:25.420" />
  <row Id="25880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25877" CreationDate="2009-10-14T19:19:47.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25877/should-there-be-tags-specifically-for-questions-that-get-many-dupes/25879#25879&quot;&gt;What TheTXI said&lt;/a&gt;. Tags are the most effective way to search [M]S[O|F|U], so use them liberally...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T19:19:47.107" />
  <row Id="25881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25877" CreationDate="2009-10-14T19:20:28.993" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's a great way to figure out what tags are needed.  Find a need and fill it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T19:20:28.993" />
  <row Id="25882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16840" CreationDate="2009-10-14T19:20:58.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the same issue.  I usually won't vote to close for a dupe because the dialog is utterly annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only can't you just type in the fing number, you also can't paste in a fing link.  And, when it suggests a duplicate page, you aren't offered any quick way to select it.  You have to open it in another window, grab out the title, go back, paste it in the textbox, then select it in the dropdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IT BUGS THE @#$&amp;amp; OUT OF ME.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for fixing it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow me to type in a number&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you suggest a website, give me a way to quickly select that one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow me to paste in a URL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most annoying UI of SO.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T19:20:58.960" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-10-14T19:32:29.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send them links to answers to their specific problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody wants their problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T19:32:29.207" />
  <row Id="25886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25871" CreationDate="2009-10-14T20:33:48.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Prettify&lt;/a&gt; bug, so they have to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deployed the latest Prettify, see if that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:11:48.400" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:11:48.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T20:36:39.360" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit of a dumb question, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am on this unregistered account I created some time ago, but I now have a registered one I want to use instead... How do I log out of this one and into the new one?&#xA;Is there a good way of associating this one with the existing one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T20:41:54.087" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:18:42.807" Title="Logging out (or in) of stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="25888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25887" CreationDate="2009-10-14T20:39:50.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;E-mail team@stackoverflow.com. They should be able to do the merge for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T20:39:50.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25887" CreationDate="2009-10-14T20:41:03.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You log out with the &quot;logout&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re merging the two accounts; no problem - just let me/us know the other account, so I/we can confirm that it is yours. I checked by e-mail address and a few other things, but no obvious matches...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T20:41:03.217" />
  <row Id="25890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-29T17:03:09.163" Score="32" ViewCount="1131" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case you have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnprog.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cnprog.com&lt;/a&gt; is a straight up rip-off in terms of style on and functionality of Stack Overflow but in Chinese. This may or may not be right/legal cause I am not sure what the creative commons license on this site covers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As programmers do you ever copy someone design and functionality like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has someone ever copied your design and functionality like this? What did you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else excited that they are going to release the source code for their site (which is powered by Django and jQuery)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To obtain CNProg's source code (requires subversion):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;svn checkout http://cnprog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ cnprog&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:24:49.083" Title="Impressed or angry at http://www.cnprog.com?" Tags="&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;&lt;creative-commons&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="35" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-29T17:06:51.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had a site almost completely copied - even to the date on which it was launched (which was clearly nonsense on the imitators site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We didn't really care. Imitation is the best form of flattery - and the only way, as a smallish company, to stay ahead is to continually come up with new stuff that our customers want to buy. Unless you are Microsoft et al., you can't really get bent out of shape about it as pursuing a legal solution would use up too much time/resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-29T17:07:15.940" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In case you have seen cnprog.com is a&#xA;  straight up rip-off in terms of style&#xA;  on and functionality of StackOverflow&#xA;  but in Chinese. This may or may not be&#xA;  right/legal cause I am not sure what&#xA;  the creative commons license on this&#xA;  site covers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it's legal because the CC license is pretty liberal, and in any case you can't copyright an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As programmers do you ever copy&#xA;  someone design and functionality like&#xA;  this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As TS Eliot said &quot;Beginners copy.  Mature artists steal.&quot;  You bet; I don't know how many times I've coded a web site with a side menu, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has someone ever copied your design&#xA;  and functionality like this? What did&#xA;  you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once or twice, and mostly I preen a little bit and add a line to my resume about how my innovation has been adopted elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is anyone else excited that they are&#xA;  going to release the source code for&#xA;  their site (which is powered by django&#xA;  and jquery)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163561" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-29T17:41:01.633" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow while nice is no massive technical achievement. What seems to make it so invaluable is the community based around it - which cannot be copied. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also is this site loclised in Chinese? If not then nothing to complain about really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144665" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-29T17:45:25.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is a very good concept, its UI is very intuitive and it serves a very useful purpose. SO is also available only in English. SO will be duplicated many, many times. How many sites now duplicate Myspace, twitter, ebay or more almost to a T?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am hoping that the new Linux.com web site has something similar to SO, it would be so useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emulation is the sincerest form of flattery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would (as a Dad) be delighted to see and use a site like SO devoted to parenting topics. Once that happened, surely German, Russian and Chinese centric sites would spring up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless someone can show me a pond that does not ripple?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-30T01:37:17.277" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;cnprog team did suggest to StackOverflow a collaboration effort before they came out with a clone. But unfortunately StackOverflow didn't have localization on their roadmap, so the cnprog had no choice but to go on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very impressed, but apparently &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/694657/disable-source-tab-in-google-code&quot;&gt;the guys who closed my question&lt;/a&gt; weren't. To those who are angry, maybe you should&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Think about those Chinese programmers who can't read English. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modify StackOverflow so that it supports multiple languages and local communities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be more useful than sitting there and complaining all day long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnprog.com/questions/59/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cnprog.com/questions/59/&lt;/a&gt;请问cnprog跟stackoverflow的关系是什么？&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="25896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-30T01:56:30.613" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a very interesting article about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.futurelab.net/2007/05/why%5Fdoes%5Fchina%5Fcopy%5Fdesigns.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why Does China Copy Designs&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that it is at the very least irritating to have a website copied icon by icon, &lt;em&gt;in Chinese culture, its really about the fact that “copying is the greatest form of flattery”. Trust me, they do not waste their time copying the market failures.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in that spirit I copied the last part from the article ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142177" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-30T02:07:16.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't condone the blatant ripping off of the Stackoverflow design.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do like that they released the source and I'm interested in seeing how they implemented some of the things with Django + jQuery.  These things don't cancel each other out but I do appreciate them sharing the work they have put into re-writing SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do hope that Stackoverflow is officially open sourced one day.  I also hope that database dumps are provided of the questions/answers.  Being able to take a database dump of the questions/answers and make an &quot;offline&quot; Stackoverflow for when internet connection isn't feasible would be great.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often go on multi-week trips and am often on boats and land locations where internet connection is spotty at best.  It would be nice to fire up SO to look for answers in a downloaded version.  I mean we technically are &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;already allowed to do this&lt;/a&gt; ourselves, but I'd rather not scrape SO for both their and my own sake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-30T02:12:48.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhat impressed. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They've obviously had to reimplement all the code (interestingly, they chose quite a different platform in Django). Given that I'm typing this on a computer which important parts of derive from this kind of thing (the BIOS being reverse engineered from IBM's, for example, which one could argue is not totally dissimilar), it would arguably seem a little hypocritical to condemn them :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My assumption is that Joel, Jeff and their minions aren't so bothered since SO is English-only. If they'd localised a Chinese version I'm sure CNProg wouldn't even exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-03-30T03:35:42.157" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very nice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though they may need to watch what they stick in svn... settings.py&#xA;(that is, if those are actually the db connection details.  if it were me, they'd be faked when stuck in svn)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19097" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-04-17T14:46:27.460" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with most of the posts.  This is no imitation, it is copying.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Ask your math teacher what she or he would have thought if you were flattering a better student by imitating his/her test answers. CNPROG are test cheats.  Yes, they are showing their work, but they are still stealing the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to share ideas but I don't want all of my work taken from me.  While the patent system has been abused, the reason we have patents is to protect the inventor from people making copies of the idea and muscling someone right out of the market with their own idea.  People should be allowed to have ideas that do not belong to the world as soon as it exists.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What if it was an English version that looked identical instead of Chinese?  Is it still ok? What if Oracle built a clone and pushed StackO into irrelevancy before it had a chance to reach critical mass.&#xA;Not everything has to be open source.  It is not a sin to make money.  I believe it is ok to get credit for your work and benefit from it.  We are members of the community, the community does not own us. (That may be a philosophical difference from some mainland &#xA;Chinese beliefs and is not meant in a derogatory way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow is not a clone of Expert's Exchange, it is an innovation of the Q and A concept.  That is the spirit of why many of us innovate.  I don't want to innovate if everything I do gets taken from me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163801" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-04-23T09:02:14.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most valuable part of SO are the questions and answers. Did they copy all the questions and answers and have them all translated into Chinese?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt so. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-04-23T09:05:42.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'm impressed. Not every Chinese programmer can understand English. In fact, most can't. So why aren't they allowed to enjoy the power of information and knowledge like those in SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not as if SO is going to launch a Chinese version tomorrow anyway, so morally I don't see any problem with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for it's legality, I'm not too sure because I don't know what license is the CSS under. But according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;they are free to share and to remix, and I believe that they did comply with the 5 conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their decision to release their source is a plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-04-23T09:24:52.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theres not really much of an option. Either take it gracefully (&quot;imitation == flattery&quot;) or get angry and be a bit of an ass. &#xA;What good can come of being angered by this? Your &quot;best&quot; outcome is just closing down a programming site in the chinese language and what exactly is the benefit in that (aside from the satisifcation of legal dick waving)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-04-23T10:25:51.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As programmers do you ever copy someone design and functionality like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I do copy bits and pieces from here and there. This is not a bad thing, you can't possibly recreate all the knowledge of the human kind since the beginning of time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; build on other people's knowledge and ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. Is it a bad thing for linux to have a desktop with applications running inside &quot;windows&quot;? Windows itself copied the idea from Mac, I heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has someone ever copied your design and functionality like this? What did you do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that happened I'd be happy and proud of my self, that people &lt;em&gt;copy me&lt;/em&gt; is a testimony to my achievement. Might even put it on my resume or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-08-09T02:16:03.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;However.. there is a English version of this site : &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pantofla.webfactional.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pantofla.webfactional.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131161" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-08-31T12:01:29.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now the people are going to say the most Forums are illegal copies of the first Forum ever coded. This does not sound appropriate. Instead of appreciating their efforts, we are discouraging it even when their technology is totally different... It's like if a forum has been designed in asp.net first, it can not be developed in any other language or any other developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-09-24T01:59:18.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with completely ripping off every element of a site. People being able to build a similar site is good for competition, but they should at least contribute some innovation by designing their own layout. I think what this shows is that current copyright law is a failure - allowing big companies to copyright ideas and block everyone else from using a single feature (such as Amazon's 1-click), while allowing other companies to completely rip off a site without consequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-09-24T15:59:12.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it is not the first rip-off and i believe that there will be more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will make stackoverflow.com special is the quality and &quot;level&quot; of the users posting and answering questions on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it is the users that will make the difference in these type of sites. So to answer your question I am neither angry or impressed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135041" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:05:23.857" />
  <row Id="25909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T21:16:15.973" Score="1" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started this day with reputation of 595. Durung the day several of my answers were upvoted quite a few times. But my reputation the whole day stayed planted firmly at precisely 595. No changes whatsoever. Is there something I'm missing about the way it is calculated? I thought it is supposed to go up as you get upvoted. (And that's the way it worked for me before.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142855" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T21:36:56.530" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:36:56.530" Title="Reputation frozen?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25909" CreationDate="2009-10-14T21:18:03.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;maybe some of your answers are now community-wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132890" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:19:24.523" />
  <row Id="25911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25909" CreationDate="2009-10-14T21:22:51.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You hit your 200 limit cap. Meaning you can only get 200 rep in a day (not counting bounties)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137297" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:22:51.003" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25868" CreationDate="2009-10-14T21:24:01.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had this problem in Opera for a few months now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133879" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:24:01.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25909" CreationDate="2009-10-14T21:27:10.090" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You already hit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;reputation cap of 200&lt;/a&gt; today. You can see this using &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=187690&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt;, or using SO by going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/187690?StartDate=2009-10-14&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-10-14&quot;&gt;your recent activity page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:27:10.090" />
  <row Id="25914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-14T21:51:48.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We deserve what we get :'(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/adResults-stackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spike (if I read correctly graphs without any kind of scale whatsoever), seems to be the day or the day later to when this question was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Goes to show that reverse psicology works, that we like making people suffer, or that we like bright ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T21:51:48.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25887" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:18:42.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are on as an unregistered account, &lt;strong&gt;there is no &lt;code&gt;logout&lt;/code&gt; button&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But... if you follow the &lt;code&gt;register&lt;/code&gt; link, you can select the Open-ID of your registered account and you will then be logged in as &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you can contact team@stackoverflow.com and ask them to merge the two account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:18:42.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:21:28.027" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering careers.stackoverflow.com, employers may be intersted in seeing your questions, answers as well as your comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some comments contains valuable information that can show your knowledge to a potential employer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be woth the cost to add a publicy available section in user profiles, showing all comments. A new dedicated tab, or an expandable section in order not to pollute the user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most times user comments are not inteligible, when read out of context, Why not to display its whole context. That is: the related answer followed by all comments including the concerned user's comments, highlighted in a dedicated color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stackoverflow's main goal is dedicated to provide the best answers to questions, the adding of this feature could boost the comments quality and indirectly enhance answers quality, and prevent it from being used as chat room , as it could pollute the comment section in your public profile. SO users might be more prone to delete their unvaluable commments as a consequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83331" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:34:29.457" Title="What about having a comment section on the user profile page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="25919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25890" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:24:49.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to agree with Techdirt on there matters: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091001/0300156383.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Protecting Copyright Often Seems To Fly In The Face Of Good Business&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good imitations increase the value of SO. Bad imitations won't even get noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:24:49.083" />
  <row Id="25920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25918" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:25:39.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The possible employers have access to our SO profile, so they can search for whatever they'd like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:25:39.220" />
  <row Id="25921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25918" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:26:32.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments aren't meant to be answers, essays, or showcases for your writing skills. They're a way for you to provide feedback to other users on &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; questions or answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have something worthwhile to say... or just want to show off... then write your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:26:32.590" />
  <row Id="25922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25918" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:29:57.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO isn't intended to be any type of discussion, so comments are just an extra feature.  It is first and foremost a question/answer site. So I think the focus should just be on questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:29:57.653" />
  <row Id="25923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:34:26.040" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Achievements&quot; section on my CV is a subsection of the &quot;Education&quot; section. That would make sense if it were for academic achievements like Latin honors. The &quot;help&quot; note on the side, though, suggests you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brag about your GPA, your SAT scores, being Employee of the Month at the car wash: whatever you got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this section is meant for academic achievement, where do other ones go? And why does the note indicate otherwise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:16:08.543" Title="Why is &quot;Achievements&quot; under &quot;Education&quot; on Careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;semantics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="25924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25918" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:34:29.457" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments on user profiles? My mind reels at the number of ways this could go horribly, horribly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We try to keep the focus on the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;, not the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T22:34:29.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25930" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:37:58.387" Score="27" ViewCount="656" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where do Vim questions belong?  It seems pretty clear to me that they belong on SO, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vim is predominately used by programmers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's already clear that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20251/where-to-ask-a-question-about-an-ide&quot;&gt;IDE-related questions go on SO&lt;/a&gt;.  Vim is clearly an IDE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The configuration language for Vim (VimL) is itself a Turing-complete programming &#xA;language.  You can also embed Ruby, Perl and Lisp directly in it.  Setting up a mapping for even simple things often involves functions, conditionals, string concatenation, &lt;code&gt;:eval&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;:execute&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Searching&quot; in Vim uses regular expressions.  There is no such thing as non-regex search/replace in Vim.  Any question that asks about searching automatically becomes a programming question, if you consider a regex programming (I do).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Given the target audiences of SO vs. SU, I'd have to imagine that you're going to get much better answers to Vim questions on SO than on SU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See recent examples of questions being (unfairly in my opinion) marked as &quot;belongs on SU&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568115/delete-first-word-of-each-line-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568115/delete-first-word-of-each-line-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1537975/whats-your-vim-environment-like-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1537975/whats-your-vim-environment-like-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555779/how-do-i-do-redo-i-e-undo-undo-in-vim&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555779/how-do-i-do-redo-i-e-undo-undo-in-vim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568139/using-vi-how-can-i-remove-all-lines-that-contain-searchterm&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568139/using-vi-how-can-i-remove-all-lines-that-contain-searchterm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1531551/how-to-yank-entire-block-in-vim&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1531551/how-to-yank-entire-block-in-vim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568177/vim-and-putty-mouse-issues-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568177/vim-and-putty-mouse-issues-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to have consensus on this.  In my opinion, even simple &quot;How do I do X in Vim&quot; questions are useful to any programmer who uses (or wants to start using) Vim to program.  Perhaps the person posting the question should get to decide which site these kinds of questions go to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23070" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-14T23:05:40.493" LastActivityDate="2011-01-05T22:12:02.637" Title="Vim questions: SO or SU?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="25929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-14T22:57:01.740" Score="0" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/all.css?v=4905&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/mso/all.css?v=4905&lt;/a&gt;, there are a number of errors, according to Firefox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expected 'important' but found 'ie7'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Error in parsing value for 'max-height'. Declaration dropped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unknown property 'border-radius'. Declaration dropped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unknown property 'zoom'. Declaration dropped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 'charCode' property of a keydown event should not be used. The value is meaningless.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unknown property 'word-break'. Declaration dropped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 'charCode' property of a keyup event should not be used. The value is meaningless.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132601" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T05:45:15.697" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T05:45:15.697" Title="Errors in sstatic.net CSS file" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25925" CreationDate="2009-10-14T23:03:57.187" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it belongs on Stackoverflow. Vi/m is basically a programmer's editor, and configuring it is essentially programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, emacs questions usually don't get flack for these kinds of queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T23:03:57.187" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25925" CreationDate="2009-10-14T23:07:09.647" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was well written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gave some context as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the user wanted to know the command.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And didn't just say, &quot;Give me the answer&quot; without providing some things the user has tried&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it ought to stay open and stay on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T23:07:09.647" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25466" CreationDate="2009-10-14T23:40:02.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deal with this in one of three ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is a comment or answer to a post I've made, it will show up in my Recent Activity (Click on the Envelope, then Responses, then Today).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is not a comment or answer to one of my posts, I will favorite the question (by clicking on the star); I can then return to it by clicking on my name, then Favorites, then Newest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;OR I will just leave the question open in another browser window, and come back to it later and refresh it.  After an hour or two, the question gets stale anyway, and I can close the window.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-14T23:40:02.100" />
  <row Id="25933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25946" CreationDate="2009-10-14T23:51:15.620" Score="4" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had, a couple of times, encountered a situation where I asked a question whose answer I wanted to know but didn't consider critical enough to attach a bounty to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, in the process of answering, someone's answer not only was the best, but &lt;strong&gt;actually taught me information greatly more valuable than i anticipated to arise from that question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example: in a question on pros/cons of using exceptions as constructor error handlers in Perl; one of the answers actually taught me the first significant new fact about Perl I learned since beginning of the year [that somehow I missed out on the fact that &lt;code&gt;die&lt;/code&gt; can throw an entire object and not just a string since I almost never used &lt;code&gt;die&lt;/code&gt; in my many years of Perl development. I know - shame on me]).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That answer, IMHO, deserved a lot more than 25 rep points I could give - I'd have gladly given a post-factum bounty to the person who provided this insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;is there such a mechanism on SO? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If no, do you consider it a good idea to add? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If good idea, how easy/difficult would it be?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:58:11.470" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:58:11.470" Title="Post-factum bounty?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="25934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25933" CreationDate="2009-10-14T23:56:48.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is effectively completed, because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bounty system is no longer tied to accepting an answer in any way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can issue multiple bounties on your question if necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;related:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:58:02.923" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:58:02.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25933" CreationDate="2009-10-15T00:00:07.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep sacrifice opens up the system to huge risk of gaming. Policing it would be a very difficult task. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case the problem was solved, the person who solved the problem got a reward and the system is nice and clean, no need to do any more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the reverse problem a lot more interesting and worthy of a scheme along what you were described, Eg. if there is a messy question or long standing conundrum I may want to sacrifice some of my rep to help solve that problem. This also opens up the system to more gaming, but if designed properly may result in helping with the information rot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your particular case it may be possible to unaccept the answer. Add a bounty and then accept the original one, it is border line gaming though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:00:07.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25925" CreationDate="2009-10-15T00:25:28.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have used mostly &lt;code&gt;gvim&lt;/code&gt; (and &lt;code&gt;vim&lt;/code&gt; via ssh) for almost all my editing needs for almost 10 years. IMHO, some gvim/vim/vi questions definitely belong on SO. For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562507/is-it-possible-to-have-a-vim-syntax-file-command-span-multiple-lines&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562507/is-it-possible-to-have-a-vim-syntax-file-command-span-multiple-lines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54104/is-there-any-way-to-enable-code-completion-for-perl-in-vim&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54104/is-there-any-way-to-enable-code-completion-for-perl-in-vim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1537975/whats-your-vim-environment-like-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1537975/whats-your-vim-environment-like-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is about colorschemes and such and I think rightly belongs on SU. Finally, questions such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562886/managing-different-versions-of-vim-in-unix-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1562886/managing-different-versions-of-vim-in-unix-closed&lt;/a&gt; definitely belongs on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, a judgment call needs to be made by posters (and those who can vote to close questions) on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:25:28.850" />
  <row Id="25939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25925" CreationDate="2009-10-15T00:31:52.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to move the question about how to delete the first word on a line, even though I answered it.  The reason is because there was no clear connection between the question and a programming task.  The fact that a program is used in programming does not therefore qualify any question about it as a programming question.  For something like Visual Studio there is probably greater latitude precisely because it's a more focused tool.  VIM, like TextMate or TextPad, is first and foremost a text editor, though so unless the question is clearly related to programming, I think the question belongs elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:31:52.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25743" CreationDate="2009-10-15T00:32:38.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little surprised &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1441651/english-as-second-language-how-to-improve-it-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (for those with enough rep to see it) got deleted so soon after being closed.  I'm leaning towards opening it back up, but we should be prepared for a bevy of slippery-slope arguments against it.  People seem to think questions like this open the door to &quot;what's your favorite snack food for programming?&quot;  I'm in favor of this question because, as Jeff has very publicly stated in the past (and I tend to agree), learning to communicate in English will help you become a better programmer.  Anything that helps people become a better programmer should be allowed (within reason, of course).  &quot;Favorite snack food&quot; doesn't carry that property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:32:38.213" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25005" CreationDate="2009-10-15T00:33:35.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9771/sadpanda.png&quot; alt=&quot;sad panda&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time to add ads.stackoverflow.com to my hosts file. till this stupid campaign is over&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like this angered someone so I will add a correction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Right click &lt;code&gt;cmd&lt;/code&gt; run as administrator &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;notepad c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add line: 127.0.0.1 ads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No more blinding woot ads.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will be happy to undo this when the stupid ad is gone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T00:08:55.963" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T00:08:55.963" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25872" CreationDate="2009-10-15T00:57:10.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;when they ask you a question, tell them that they should ask it on stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;period. then don't help them - you are much too busy, or you just don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[if you really think it's that important!]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T00:57:10.663" />
  <row Id="25945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25925" CreationDate="2009-10-15T01:09:32.373" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 for SO. It's a programmable programmers editor as such most questions about it are relevant to programmers. We find visual studio customization and questions available on SO, why not vim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136001" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T01:09:32.373" />
  <row Id="25946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25933" CreationDate="2009-10-15T01:43:49.577" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible for you to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take it back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boot up a bounty on the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-award the original accepted answer, now with bountyliciousness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take a look at the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/5526/looking-for-a-free-cheap-exchange-account-provider&quot; title=&quot;and birds go tweet tweet while they read the mail&quot;&gt;Looking for a free/cheap Exchange Account Provider&lt;/a&gt; on Super User, this is exactly what has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Congratulations, you were the recipient of me testing the bounty system. You were the original check mark recipient, but I took it away to place the bounty, and then gave the check back, so you walked away with some extra rep today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All up it pretty much is a play for something like a super-upvote that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T01:43:49.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25952" CreationDate="2009-10-15T02:34:00.293" Score="11" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really understand why my question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/992679/what-is-the-difference-between-an-array-and-a-list-closed&quot;&gt;What is the difference between an array and a list?&lt;/a&gt;, was closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear that there are a lot of different answers and the people aren't really sure what the answer to it is but that doesn't make the question &quot;not real&quot; does it? Really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still don't understand what &quot;not a real question&quot; even means. Can you tell me please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Responding to &quot;the question has no context&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tagged my question with &quot;computer-science terminology&quot; so I'm asking what the difference is in those terms, that's the context. If there is no good answer to this question that surely that is the answer but nobody made such an answer. Also the guy who says my question is bad because its like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the difference between a piece of wood and a baseball bat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem. I can answer that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A baseball bat is made from wood. Wood comes from trees but has to go through some sort of manufacturing/refinement process to be a baseball bat of any quality. Technically speaking, however, any piece of wood that was used in a game of baseball to hit a baseball could be considered a baseball bat. Wood is just one possible material from which a baseball bat can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See. And such an answer provide a great deal of clarification for someone confused enough (like me) to ask it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still don't agree with me then what should I have asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137307" LastEditorUserId="137307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T02:50:07.533" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:41:00.820" Title="Why is my question &quot;not real&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;not-a-real-question&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="25949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T02:38:05.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you read the comments?  I thought they were pretty self-explanatory.  The point is not so much that it wasn't a question, but that it didn't have enough context to be meaningful, i.e., &lt;em&gt;not a real question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T02:38:05.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T02:55:50.783" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;What is the difference between a piece of wood and a baseball bat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem. I can answer that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except, you didn't. You talked about wood, and baseball bats, and noted the relationship between the two of them... But you didn't tell us what the &lt;em&gt;difference&lt;/em&gt; between them is, which is what the question asked. I don't blame you; the question made no sense... and that was my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask what a list is. Ask what an array is. Ask how the two relate to each other even, if you're still confused after the first two questions. Why turn it into a riddle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Come, we shall have some fun now!” thought Alice. “I'm glad they've begun asking riddles—I believe I can guess that,” she added aloud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?” said the March Hare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “what's the answer?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I haven't the slightest idea,” said the Hatter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Nor I,” said the March Hare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T02:55:50.783" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="25951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T02:59:20.573" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/3viWZ.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous and vague, and cannot be answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T02:59:20.573" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T03:16:22.460" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it an interesting question, so would not have voted to close, but I'm under 2k rep on SO, so I don't have a say in that.  That said, you mentioned seeing different definitions of each everywhere you look.  If you had listed those definitions, analyzed the contradictions and discrepancies, and asked for help in evaluating the relative merits of the various definitions, I think people would have approached the question very differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, &quot;help me settle it Stackoverflow&quot; sounds like you're expecting a debate of answers, rather than answer... this isn't a discussion forum, and it isn't for flamewars.  But it sure sounds like you're wanting to watch one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do some leg work on it, give constructive analysis, then ask specific questions to clarify your understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:16:22.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24719" CreationDate="2009-10-15T03:23:05.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll have to wait for the next public release of &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google prettify&lt;/a&gt;. I don't see one up there yet, only the trunk copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta users asked me to put in the latest prettify, I did, and now meta users are complaining about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the future, no updates until prettify has a public release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I deployed the latest prettify (no public release in sight, so the trunk.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:12:41.737" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:12:41.737" />
  <row Id="25954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25750" CreationDate="2009-10-15T03:31:18.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As this is somewhat unusual, couldn't you indicate this in your personal statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems a bit onerous to make everyone fill out specific goals for each location they wish to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary goal is to match by location -- so I think I'd rather have slightly too-broad matching in this case and err on the side of too many results and having the hiring manager screen based on your personal statement, rather than increasing complexity for everyone across the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:31:18.797" />
  <row Id="25955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25933" CreationDate="2009-10-15T03:37:05.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea.  I'd like to be able to say &lt;em&gt;thank you&lt;/em&gt; when someone provides a very valuable answer.  While I can appreciate the current design of the bounty system, for some questions I can't say that I would &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; to get a good, solid answer.  Some questions would require a good bit of work to answer, and take more effort than the rep I'm willing to sacrifice on a gamble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take for instance this question of mine about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282736&quot;&gt;BouncyCastle&lt;/a&gt;.  I got one answer that took a stab at the problem, but with only 4 google hits on a relevant search, and the fact that I can't hand other people access to the system in question, I really don't &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; to get a real answer here.  I could throw out a bounty for it, but then, I'm forced to accept an answer that didn't really answer the question, and when I get back to solving the problem and post the real answer, I can't mark it as such.  I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; get this issue solved at some point, so I don't want to accept an answer that doesn't solve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if someone &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; hand me the answer on a silver platter, after I pick myself up off the floor, I'll give them a heart-felt &lt;em&gt;thank you&lt;/em&gt;, and gladly hand 'em a chunk of rep as a (in?)tangible expression of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'set a bounty, then immediately accept the answer' will work currently, but my concern is that, like changing up/down votes, more constraints may be placed on that in the future that break this use case if it isn't considered as part of the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:37:05.073" />
  <row Id="25956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25957" CreationDate="2009-10-15T03:37:55.667" Score="6" ViewCount="590" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has been asked several times. I've read the responses. I'm still very confused. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the legal requirements for using samples from SO in other projects? If there are requirements, how should we go about removing them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: a user who's question I answered was concerned about the cc license. I had to email him the solution to remove his fears of licensing. That's stupid, I don't want to give out my email address to work around legal issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can someone at this organization clarify this is the intent?  If so, what is a legally sufficient means of bypassing the license?  One related answer suggested a profile message that source posted would be considered public domain and free of licensing. Is this sufficient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the answer above I'd like to make a recommendation that a 'Public Domain Content' checkbox be added for answers. Since I may pull code from an already public domain source the license does not apply anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&lt;/a&gt; that actually clears it up a little, my apologies for being a twit and finding this first.  Most of my confusion comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12527/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; where the basic consent was to 'consult an attorney' which is IMO counter productive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I still think a &quot;License Free&quot; option for posts would be an ideal solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137312" LastEditorUserId="137312" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T17:21:49.310" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T17:21:49.310" Title="What is up with the source code license on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;&lt;license&gt;&lt;creative-commons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="25957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25956" CreationDate="2009-10-15T03:53:52.687" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had to email him the solution to remove his fears of licensing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he's afraid of the monsters under his or her bed, too? Is this one user representative of the majority? Or any sizable contingent of the audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a license mess, some people &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; a mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The footer says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user contributed content licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cc-wiki license seems pretty clear to me on this point: free to remix and reuse, as long as you attribute and use a similar license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, a snippet of code falls under excerpt category and thus should be free to use under fair use. Heck, we don't even &lt;strong&gt;support&lt;/strong&gt; giant masses of code being posted, so to me, by definition, everything would be an excerpt. We're not sourceforge, github, or codeplex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure this is really a practical ongoing concern except for the truly paranoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get ... your code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:53:52.687" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19406" CreationDate="2009-10-15T03:54:11.533" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of us sit behind corporate proxy servers loaded with urls to block. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these proxies block 'Network Storage' type sites. Is there any hope for people like us then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132485" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T03:54:11.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-15T03:54:11.533" />
  <row Id="25960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25961" CreationDate="2009-10-15T04:01:27.807" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've setup my CV but has not paid for the service yet. On the latest podcast, they mention that the CV can be published publicly. How do I do that, I can't find the option anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133828" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T05:33:27.377" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T05:33:27.377" Title="How do I make my CV public in careers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="25961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25960" CreationDate="2009-10-15T04:20:51.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25547/can-anyone-see-my-cv-before-it-has-been-filed&quot; title=&quot;better wear longjohns&quot;&gt;Can anyone see my CV before it has been &quot;filed&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nobody can see it but you -- until you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a) make it public (free, &lt;strong&gt;not yet implemented, but coming soon&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-or-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;b) file it and make it searchable by employers ($29 / 3 years)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T04:20:51.107" />
  <row Id="25962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T04:49:38.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Real&lt;/strong&gt; reason it was closed, was because it was subjective, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt;, it wasn't made Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a (mostly) unwritten rule that subjective questions, on Stack Overflow, should be made Community Wiki. That way users don't get tons of rep on the questions that everyone can take part in. There are early questions which gave exorbitant amounts of rep, in less than a day. (That was before there was a daily rep limit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that it wouldn't have been closed &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt;, it's just that it was likely the main reason it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T04:49:38.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25929" CreationDate="2009-10-15T05:45:05.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, a lot of the css rules we use are browser specific by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsstatic.net%2Fmso%2Fall.css%3Fv%3D4905&amp;amp;profile=css21&amp;amp;usermedium=all&amp;amp;warning=1&amp;amp;lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsstatic.net%2Fmso%2Fall.css%3Fv%3D4905&amp;amp;profile=css21&amp;amp;usermedium=all&amp;amp;warning=1&amp;amp;lang=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are some browsers that require some css workarounds for proper behavior, most notably IE7, although there is a very nasty IE8 specific bug with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; that we have to work around as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T05:45:05.120" />
  <row Id="25966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25967" CreationDate="2009-10-15T05:54:21.453" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using Firefox 3.5.3, trying to view questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1570081/any-other-way-to-make-the-query-shorter&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking the link makes Firefox freeze (can't even use other tabs), and attempts to answer or edit answers periodically hangs.  My internet connection is a 1.5 MB download - it's not like I'm trying to check questions on dialup...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the periodic hangs while answering (or editing answers) is likely due to the AJAX calls to provide the banner, altering the user that the question has been closed, or someone posted an answer while the current user was typing theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IME, the behavior turns up when dealing with text that has a lot of code formatting in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to add more examples as I come across them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1569916/match-only-if-one-field-matches-multiple-values-err/1570234#1570234&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1569916&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T07:08:24.867" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T07:08:24.867" Title="Question Lag on Load, Answer &amp; Answer Editing" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="25967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25966" CreationDate="2009-10-15T06:16:58.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this happen when you try in Chrome or Safari or a different browser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it happen in Firefox safe mode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T06:16:58.260" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25956" CreationDate="2009-10-15T06:53:19.877" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow answers simply aren't big enough to be concerned about licensing. Here's how you (I'm using the general &quot;you&quot; here) can deal with it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understand the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implement a corresponding solution in your own &lt;strike&gt;words&lt;/strike&gt; code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you would prefer to copy the code verbatim and comply with the cc-wiki license, include a link to the answer in a comment in your source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T06:53:19.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T07:08:32.767" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12803/tag-suggestion-only-works-for-the-first-tag&quot;&gt;Tag suggestion only works for the first tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repro steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a tag to a question.  I chose&#xA;bug for this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add another tag.  I chose tags for&#xA;this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select with mouse (or enter) the&#xA;second tag from the autocomplete&#xA;list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected behavior:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I would have 2 tags.  In this case, bug tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observed behavior:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new tag replaces the original one.  In this case I have: tags tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this behavior on all three sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is with IE8 on Win7 if that happens to be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132887" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T15:40:00.387" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T15:40:00.387" ClosedDate="2009-10-15T16:35:21.300" Title="Tag completion is broken for multiple tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T07:10:59.363" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25871/first-letters-of-xml-attributes-not-colored-correctly-if-capitalized&quot;&gt;First letters of XML attributes not colored correctly if capitalized&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been noticing today that the first character of each attribute name in markup code is black, and the remaining characters are red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Binding Path=&quot;LeftMargin&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I type this, the &quot;P&quot; in &lt;code&gt;Path&lt;/code&gt; is showing up black, but the &quot;ath&quot; is showing up red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional? It certainly looks bizarre to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:11:30.570" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:11:30.570" ClosedDate="2009-10-15T07:38:05.820" Title="Code coloring seems to have gone haywire" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" />
  <row Id="25977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T08:07:33.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can definitely see the need for this (so +1). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the software doesn't provide any proper way to do this. Long time ago I personally resorted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/281100/is-it-worth-becoming-sun-certified/281149#281149&quot;&gt;leaving a comment on an unrelated answer&lt;/a&gt; to notify a certain user who seemed knowledgeable (as there seemed to be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; few people on SO with the SCWCD certification). Yeah, that was an ugly &quot;hack&quot; (but it &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498889/is-the-scwcd-still-worthwhile-and-if-so-how-to-prepare/499223#499223&quot;&gt;worked&lt;/a&gt;!).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other workarounds that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be available are 1) sending an email &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; the user has one listed publicly or 2) sending a tweet towards them &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; they have posted their Twitter username. (As suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3014/send-question-to-user-tags/3019#3019&quot;&gt;Rich B&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25969/tagging-users-to-answer-your-questions/25975#25975&quot;&gt;random&lt;/a&gt;, respectively.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can also see why this wouldn't be implemented; e.g. what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3014/send-question-to-user-tags/3016#3016&quot;&gt;The TXI said&lt;/a&gt; about &quot;consulting the community&quot;. And this would surely become &quot;spammy&quot; for some popular users, so people should definitely be able to opt-out from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another neat solution, of course, would be to implement the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user/1043#1043&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opt-in, minimalist, Wikipedia-like email system on SO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that I have been plugging. That would be very cheap to do, and it would also solve other problems than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T08:14:39.433" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T08:14:39.433" />
  <row Id="25978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T08:22:35.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a couple of problems with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some known leaders just would not have the time to be sollicited by many users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This plays against new users who could answer as well but have not proven their leadership yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T08:22:35.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25985" CreationDate="2009-10-15T08:49:36.923" Score="0" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I google a programming question and the search results bring a Stack Overflow link, I always click that link.  That’s because I know that (1) it is very likely that there will be  good answers to the question and (2) the best answers will be at the top. That’s awesome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may happen occasionally that the SO link in the search results does not contain what I am looking for. The link can be to a page that contains words that I used in my search, but the question itself is unrelated. That is how search engines work and there is nothing I could do about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it may be frustrating if that SO link in the search results was not only unrelated to my search but also a closed and negatively voted question. In that case, the SO question is net trash that pollutes the search results. For example, let’s say that you searched for “java arrayoutofboundsexception” in Google or any other search engine and in the search results you found a SO question. It may happen that that question was closed and negatively downvoted (say -3), but not deleted. A SO question in that situation would be, for example, “What are all run time exceptions in Java, like ArrayOutOfBounds and NullPointerException”. I think that question would be downvoted and closed. If not deleted, it would be trash found by search engines. If that happens often the good reputation of SO links in search engine results could be affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think these questions should be automatically deleted in SO? Or is still better to leave it as it is, where it is up to users with very high reputation (10K+) to delete questions? Perhaps the best solution would be to lower the required reputation for deleting questions? Or maybe lower the required reputation and allow users to vote to delete?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:18:13.213" Title="Should closed questions that are negatively voted be automatically deleted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T08:51:31.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lets play out this scenario. I'm a first page user specialized in C#. On the first day the system is implemented I get 10 notifications. Since I'm a nice guy I'll go over all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first 3 questions have already been answered since the notifications were sent out. Ok, that's fine, I'll go over the other 7 notifications.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait, these 3 are about Objective C or jQuery... I don't know Objective C or jQuery. Let's just skip over these.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The next one is not programming related, let's vote to close this one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This one sounds interesting; it's already on the first page, but has no good answers. I'll just answer this one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just 2 more to go... One's a duplicate, the other I don't really understand, let's just leave a comment to clarify.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the Objective C questions? They sent me a notification! I must be a jerk for not answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, this notification system has a very good change of just annoying people. People will abuse the system, no doubt about it. They'll send everything to Jon Skeet, because they don't know anybody else and besides, he's number 1, so he's got to be gest at anything. The same thing will happen on SU and SF, drowning the first page users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will also cause resentment. Why haven't they answered my question? I sent them a notification? I don't care about all the other answers, I want his answer. I'm not marking an answer as accepted until I get a response from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And let's not forget that hi and thanks are sometimes considered distracting; even Jon Skeet said he just prefers the question. Imagine having notifications constantly popping up. Even if it's just an envelope, like for the Recent page, it's still distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T09:23:05.600" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:23:05.600" />
  <row Id="25982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25980" CreationDate="2009-10-15T08:55:20.580" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After just reading the title I would like to say that &lt;strong&gt;I'm not comfortable with automatically deleting any content from the site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T08:55:20.580" />
  <row Id="25983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25989" CreationDate="2009-10-15T09:00:21.787" Score="4" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if I'm being an idiot, but I can't see any way to pay the $29 dollars. I've signed into Careers, and I have the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Introductory offer&#xA;$29&#xA;3 year membership&#xA;until Nov 9&#xA;faq »&#xA;about »&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but only faq and about are links. Is it because I'm from Britain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49376" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:46:46.557" Title="Why can't I pay for my $29 3 year membership?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="25985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25980" CreationDate="2009-10-15T09:05:12.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should the negative voting and the fact a question is closed, get it a lower priority in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sitemap&lt;/a&gt; file?  (That way Google will tent to show over stackoverflow questions higher up in the search results)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:05:12.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25923" CreationDate="2009-10-15T09:16:08.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am ok with an &lt;em&gt;Achievements&lt;/em&gt; section for &lt;em&gt;Education&lt;/em&gt;, but would like to see an &lt;em&gt;Achievements&lt;/em&gt; section, in addition to &lt;em&gt;Responsibilities&lt;/em&gt;, for each subsequent &lt;em&gt;Experience&lt;/em&gt; block in the CV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like I really started to get things done when I had a real job and that stuff doesn't really belong in &lt;em&gt;Responsibilities&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:16:08.543" />
  <row Id="25989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25983" CreationDate="2009-10-15T09:46:46.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make sure you've filled out the CV to at least 50%, otherwise the filing option will not appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:46:46.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25980" CreationDate="2009-10-15T09:51:03.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Usually, it’s garbage-in, garbage-out. Bad questions beget bad answers. If you sort the Stack Overflow question list by votes and sink to the bottom of the barrel, you’ll find some truly horrible questions, as you might expect. But you’ll also find something you probably didn’t expect — some amazingly good answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, these are questions judged by community votes to be of so little merit that I’d usually delete them without a second thought. But I can’t, because a well-intentioned Stack Overflow user has poured his or her heart into an incredibly insightful and helpful answer. Deleting the bad question would bury the good answer, too. It’s the web forum equivalent of turning lead into gold, and it happens far more often than I ever would have predicted. (This is also the reason why voting on questions should be, and is, independent of answer votes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T09:51:03.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25980" CreationDate="2009-10-15T10:01:50.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Negative voting is a matter of opinions and sometimes a question can still be valid, even though several members have some negative feelings about it. E.g., when I asked a question about how to check if &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1458896/how-to-detect-if-a-windows-version-is-legal-or-not&quot;&gt;the Windows version is a pirated version&lt;/a&gt; or not, I did get several negative votes from members disagreeing with the fact that I would build in anti-piracy code in my own code for a product that wasn't mine.&#xA;I needed this functionality to warn the user about possible security risks that might occur with pirated software and had to add some explanations to make this a bit more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be more topics that could be downvoted simply because they're not very popular topics. Asking code for a keylogger or code to modify existing executables to include additional code to them will also risk being downvoted real fast. (Hacking-, virus-related.) Doesn't mean those questions are invalid, just that some people feel strongly against the use of such code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, some easier example, when people ask questions about LSL, the scripting language for Second Life, some members will probably downvote those or even vote to close the question simply because they don't consider a game script as a programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe a few other examples... &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357811/vim-vs-emacs-final-battle-closed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is about vim versus emacs. It's almost voted into oblivion with a -41 downvote. It's the most downvoted question so far, since it's highly argumentative and subjective. And it has only one answer, explaining why it's such a bad question. It's a great example of bad questions and thus should need to stay!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another question is about convincing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576136/how-can-i-convince-a-professor-to-move-from-java-to-c-on-his-teaching-and-resear&quot;&gt;professor to use c# instead of Java&lt;/a&gt;. That's because the asker thinks C# is much better for research and teaching. Matter-of-opinions, though but hey, he has the right to have this opinion. It actually has quite a few interesting answers, with one answer having 18 upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just take a look at the most downvoted questions and you'll be amazed with the amount of valuable information they still offer. The questions might be bad, but the answers still add value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="161822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T10:13:48.877" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T10:13:48.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="25992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20010" CreationDate="2009-10-15T10:08:22.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a special case for situations in which best is contained in &quot;best practice&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47341" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T10:08:22.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="25993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9443" CreationDate="2009-10-15T12:20:32.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to the Cambridge event, which is the day before Halloween.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seriously considering going dressed as a Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132004" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T12:20:32.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-15T12:20:32.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="25997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T12:59:16.067" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see comments that relate to something in the question or answer that is subsequently changed in light of the comment. This can make the comment appear odd to users who are looking at a revision of the question/answer and not the original that the comment related to. For example, a comment might point out &quot;You wrote foo when I think you meant to put bar&quot; and the author then corrects it. The question/answer no longer contains a reference to foo yet the comment remains and users may take a while before they realise that foo must have been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about some kind of mechanism to identify a comment with a particular revision so you can tell at a glance that it may be out of date? This could either take the form of a hard link between the comment and the revision or simply some form of shading/colour coding/other identifier to indicate that the comment relates to a previous version without necessarily indicating which one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you don't already have a relationship between a comment and a revision logged behind the scenes, it ought to be possible to work it out for existing comments based on timestamps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137333" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T16:06:07.120" Title="Indicate which revision of a question or answer a comment relates to" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="25998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25997" CreationDate="2009-10-15T13:02:26.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments already have timestamps which will tell you how far back they go. It is possible to take that timestamp and place it to a particular revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment says &quot;4 days ago&quot; I am going to look back at the revision history and see what revision(s) &quot;4 days ago&quot; is referring to in terms of a particular revision. For items that are more recent you can be even more accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to add a hard link for every comment just to point back to a particular revision wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, especially when you take into account the fact that &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt; don't even link to a particular revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T13:02:26.280" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="25999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25971" CreationDate="2009-10-15T13:06:59.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed on FireFox 3.5 (I noticed this as far back as 1-2 weeks ago, but not certain of the exact start of this behavior)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T13:06:59.953" />
  <row Id="26000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T13:11:30.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to point out that, while your question was closed it was also &lt;em&gt;answered&lt;/em&gt; by several people. Closing your question isn't necessarily a judgment on you nor is it necessarily an insult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was it closed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions that are extremely naive, or based o misconceptions can be very hard o answer in the Stack Overflow format. Certainly Stack Overflow isn't going to set the authoritative definition for &quot;list&quot; in a programming context, and that word doesn't have one definition in the world of programming: in some languages it is a language construct with well defined semantics, in others it is the day-to-day meaning and is supported by classes or data structures. So we &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; compare lists to arrays in a language agnostic way. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T13:11:30.067" />
  <row Id="26001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25997" CreationDate="2009-10-15T13:13:45.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On such occasions as pointing out minor things that are later rendered obsolete/updated in the post, wait for the commentor to delete it and keep things clean for everyone, or kick down that point in there being no trouble to flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;flag this comments as noise, offensive or spam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't really care for comments being made that much more feature rich. If they're that good, they should be answers in their own right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless they're off-topic picks at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/94/pundit&quot; title=&quot;kicking it yucks style&quot;&gt;the Pundit badge&lt;/a&gt;. In which case, its comedy or salience really doesn't need to be that heavily tied down to a revision point in the answer's history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T13:13:45.180" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26003" CreationDate="2009-10-15T13:15:15.507" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25944/so-possible-tag-merge-clustered-index-21-vs-clustered-indexing-3&quot;&gt;manually re-tagged a couple of questions to merge 2 tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when confirming that the re-tagging worked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It took ~1-2 minutes for the list of questions for the &quot;cleaned-out&quot; tag to become empty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More importantly, even after the list was empty, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/clustered-indexing&quot;&gt;it still says that there are 2 questions tagged with &quot;clustered-indexing&quot;&lt;/a&gt; despite there being none&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume it's just some lag due to caching?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: Definitely caching, as the count now is down to correct zero&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="119280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T13:56:41.400" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T13:56:41.400" Title="Lag in counting tagged questions after re-tagging (may be just caching?)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26002" CreationDate="2009-10-15T13:17:34.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag list is heavily cached so it may take a while for you to see any changes in the counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T13:17:34.190" />
  <row Id="26006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T13:59:46.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My definition of &quot;not a real question&quot; is one where I don't know if a proposed answer answers the question or not.  I would count this one as borderline.  Should I answer that the terms are used in lots of different ways and let it go at that?  Should I point out that we can't settle the meaning of anything?  Should I throw out a few common definitions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T13:59:46.963" />
  <row Id="26007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21897" CreationDate="2009-10-15T14:07:46.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been visiting SO daily from about 2 months, and as far as I remember, I have been always hitting “Refresh” button. I do not have Enthusiast badge. Maybe there is an issue with visiting SO from different IP’s (Monday to Friday work IP and home IP during weekends)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130976" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T14:07:46.233" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25956" CreationDate="2009-10-15T14:22:11.357" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CC-BY-SA is not an all-permissive license like the modern BSD type.  It's much closer to the GPL, in that derivations have to be under a share-alike license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some programmers, this is fine.  I work on internal software, so it really doesn't matter what Free/Open Source licenses we use.  All we need is permission to use, modify, and distribute internally, and that's what we do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, some of us make money by selling software in the traditional sense, and CC-BY-SA isn't compatible with that business model.  (I've had a couple of jobs like that.)  Some of us work for companies with lawyers or managers who don't &quot;get&quot; free/open source software.  (I've had some clueless managers.)  In this case, anything short of a BSD-type license might frighten them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor does the &quot;excerpt&quot; idea necessarily help.  There is, as far as I know, no official lower bound of what is copyrightable, and there is not necessarily a right to use excerpts.  In the US, &quot;fair use&quot; is in the copyright law, but again there's no actual definition:  it's a judgment call that should consider several things.  There's legal dangers with rewriting snippets also, in that it isn't clear what's a derivative work.  All of these would potentially have to be decided in a court of law, and that's expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there is a very real problem for individuals or companies that sell proprietary software and don't want to be in the position of having to defend what they include in court. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would help if we had a handy BSD-type license we could slap onto code snippets as we wished. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T14:22:11.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8156" CreationDate="2009-10-15T14:32:21.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As suggested by Oscar Reyes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13049/let-people-still-earn-the-woot-badge-if-they-register-for-a-holiday/21031#21031&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, have one these animals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.brokenwire.net/bw/images/109.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..operate your F5 button. Simple. No complicated scripts to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T14:32:21.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26011" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T14:48:28.873" Score="28" ViewCount="2287" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/markdown-one-year-later/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown, One Year Later&lt;/a&gt;, a question I think would be better suited to here, than the blog's comment system..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for #3, &quot;Automatic return-based linebreaks instead of &quot;two spaces at end of line&quot; linebreaks&quot;, that’s one I hadn’t considered. In normal Markdown, this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;  Roses are red¶&#xA;  Violets are blue¶&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will render like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;  Roses are red violets are blue &lt;/pre&gt; &#xA;  &#xA;  The Markdown answer is to add two spaces at the end of the line (or a literal &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;, I suppose).&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;  Roses are red  ¶&#xA;  violets are blue¶&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although it’s easy once you know the trick, this is far from intuitive to most. I’m reminded a bit of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000096.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;double-click mouse problem&lt;/a&gt;. I wonder if we should adopt the GitHub linebreak approach here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T16:45:42.280" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T19:07:24.387" Title="Should the markdown renderer treat a single line break as &lt;br&gt;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="26012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-15T14:50:30.197" Score="45" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always been an annoyance with me. When I press the enter key to go to a new line, it would be quite nice if the editor actually did what I wanted it to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T14:50:30.197" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26017" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:02:50.003" Score="17" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found SO very useful for finding out information, largely because Google gives high page ranks to many useful questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I have had experience of asking questions on SO (not on this account) and found the community very quick to condemn questions which do not match certain criteria, for example: if the question is 'subjective', 'not a real question' or 'too vague'. Yet the faq say: 'No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems a contradiction to welcome new programmers but close their questions because they don't know how to write them specifically and clearly. Its also insulting to claim that someone's unclear question is 'not a real question', because it clearly is. It would be more appropriate and less offensive to say it's not a suitable question, surely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a newcomer I can't help but notice a lack of politeness and tolerance for questions which don't meet the exact criteria. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note: I understand there might well be good reasons for this attitude; I am not trying to be inflammatory. My apologies if this question is not suitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137328" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:31:22.947" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T04:31:22.947" Title="Why is the stack overflow community so aggressive about question criteria?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="26015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:08:17.357" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole idea of StackOverflow is to have a high quality narrow focus. Keeping it as pure as possible is crucial to keeping it high value instead of becoming Yahoo Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T15:08:17.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:17:49.273" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is designed to be a high-quality repository of programming questions and answers. Emphasis on &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; -- questions which require extended discussions, have no clear and definitive answer, or are open-ended are in fact &quot;not a real question&quot; by the standards of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cite the FAQ that no question is too trivial or newbie -- and this is correct. If you ask the difference between a 64-bit and 32-bit integer, that question is perfectly valid because it meets the &lt;strong&gt;other&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered! &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please look around to see if your question has already been asked (and maybe even answered!) before you ask.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind all these criteria is to keep SO a high-quality repository of valuable information. It is not meant to discourage new users, but rather to nudge them in the direction of asking clear, detailed and answerable programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there subjective questions and discussion/debate-type questions which have made it through in the past? Yes. When the site first launched, those were more accepted by the community than they are now. As times change, so do the social mores governing the trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25948/why-is-my-question-not-real&quot;&gt;much&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17282/not-a-real-question-change-to-not-a-valid-question&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4489/why-was-my-question-flagged-as-not-a-real-question&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; about the exact wording of &quot;not a real question,&quot; but at the end of the day, it generally means subjective and/or unanswerable. Occasionally it means the question reads like Q-Bert's death sequence, but that's extremely rare. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T15:17:49.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:25:47.073" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I am completely against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the other changes (auto-linking bare &lt;code&gt;http://example.com&lt;/code&gt; links, no intra-word emphasis &lt;code&gt;a_b_c&lt;/code&gt;) don't deviate too far from regular markdown, this does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other changes aren't really problems for users of the data-dump, or who are used to markdown else where. The intra-word-emphasis default behaviour should be quite rare, due to the &lt;code&gt;in_line_code&lt;/code&gt; formatting, and markdowns ability to escape underscores (&lt;code&gt;yay\_for\_escapes&lt;/code&gt;). The non-auto-linked links are a minor annoyance, plus many markdown parsers already have options for auto-linking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think this change will encourage people to try and post code snippets using new lines, rather than the proper 4-space indentation of pre tags.. This will lead to less subtle errors, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Am *def = 456;¶&#xA;Ex *abc = *def;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..will become bold, and look broken.. but not not &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; broken enough for the user to look at the preview and think, &quot;hmm, I wonder how I post code snippets without it breaking&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, people still post code despite it looking like a mess, but at least it's easy to spot a giant blob of text, and for someone to edit the question and fix up the formatting (something I regular do quite happily)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the subject of the preview, all the SO markdown modifications this far have been made to SO's markdown engine, but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the preview. The disparity between the showdown.js rendered preview and final output was already a problem, and this will further exacerbate it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring all the miscellaneous weirdnesses &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3657/can-an-unescaped-underscore-be-included-in-a-link/25599#25599&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Removed support for intra-word emphasis like_this_example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change hasn't be mirrored in the preview (&lt;code&gt;a_b_c&lt;/code&gt; shows up at a&lt;i&gt;b&lt;/i&gt;c in the preview, but a_b_c in the final post)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Added auto-hyperlink support for http:// URLs in posts &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor has this change been mirrored - &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com&lt;/a&gt; shows up as plain text in the preview, and a link in the final post&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, I think encouraging people to split text into paragraphs makes their text easier to read. Allowing one-line-break-br's will increase the number of &quot;giant lump of text&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the largest issue is: &lt;strong&gt;how will questions be migrated to the new markup syntax?&lt;/strong&gt; This will screw up the display of older post - you can't justswitch to the new &lt;code&gt;markdown()&lt;/code&gt; function, not when you can edit old and new posts alike. Say I edit a post that was made with &quot;so-markdown-v1&quot;, where new lines are handled the &quot;old&quot; way. I fix a spelling mistake, and click save. Suddenly it's rendered with &quot;so-markdown-v2&quot; and is displayed completely differently.. Another way would be to convert all old posts, removing any new lines not ending in two spaces. This could work, but are you going to do this across all the SO family, and all the StackExchange sites, without introducing any formatting errors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I don't think this is a particularly big problem.. There are currently over 330,000 questions on Stackoverflow. Most are perfectly well formatted, most of the others are badly formatted because, well, the author is lazy - lack of any kind of punctuation/formatting, basic spelling mistakes, where the user clearly hasn't re-read their question (I don't mean people who are learning English as a second language, but rather from people who clearly don't care about their question) - such questions would not be helped by turning newlines into &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags, as there is no newlines anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tidied up lots of badly formatted questions, but I recall seeing &lt;em&gt;very few&lt;/em&gt; questions where someone has tried to format their question nicely, but not understood simple markdown syntax, such as two-returns == new paragraph, lists need spacing.. Besides, once they've made the mistake once, it's easy to pickup the solution - put a blank line between chunks of text, just like every book uses to separate paragraphs..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, if this change is made, please do what Github has done - do not call it &quot;Markdown&quot;, it's not, call it something distinct, like &quot;Stackoverflow Flavoured Markdown&quot;, and mention that clearly next to the input box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, make it internally consistent - if you change the behaviour of newlines in text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Hi¶&#xA;this is my question&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..becomes..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;this is my question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the same should happen with blockquotes..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;gt; Hi¶&#xA;&amp;gt; this is my quoted question&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..becomes..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  this is my quoted question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not like the current markdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi&#xA;  this is my quoted question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this post is rather long and rambling, my main concerns are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this really worth the effort?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will the site make it clear it's no longer using standard markdown? (Github does this well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will the alterations be internally consistent? Must act the same in different blocks, including markdown blockquotes, must not require blank lines about lists and code blocks, and be consistent with the WMD preview&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will questions using the old markdown be migrated, without breaking the formatting of old questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T16:00:06.900" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T16:00:06.900" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25980" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:26:56.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a question on SO that was heavily downvoted and closed, not because it wasn't programming related or a bad question, but because it didn't relate to a lot of other's programming environments.  Sometimes opinions on SO just work that way.  I ended up just deleting it myself to get the 'Peer Pressure' badge (and as usual in these kind of circumstances, telling myself that I'd never do that to anyone else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T15:26:56.387" />
  <row Id="26020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:26:58.837" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing questions is not, in itself, impolite.  It's simply operating within the bounds of the system.  For a new person, I'd probably also leave a polite comment explaining how the system works.  Leaving rude comments, especially for new users, on questions should be flagged for moderator attention.  Unless the OP has a history of rudeness, disregard for the system, or otherwise abusive behavior I don't see any reason for rude behavior on the part of answerers or commentors.  Engage in abusive behavior, such as asking lots of dubious questions, though, and people may legitimately respond in kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T15:26:58.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:37:05.697" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please also see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things were much more laid back in the beginning when questions were not so plentiful. Now that SO is so large, moderators and high rep users have been much more strict.  This is to help keep SO's array of information clean and resourceful for future readers and google searchers. An information resource is a primary goal of SO and related sites. Limits have been put in place that help accomplish this goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always comment about issues with moderators decisions and 3k+ users can vote to re-open a question (5 votes needed). So if it gets closed, maybe ask for some pointers on how to make it a better question. Closed questions can be reversed if enough people feel it is worthy. Remember to not get discouraged by closed questions. It is the system in play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T16:07:56.293" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:07:56.293" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1010" CreationDate="2009-10-15T15:45:27.740" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Complementary suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add a clipboard paste handler to the answer textarea that automatically replaces pasted internal links with question/answer links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user right-clicks a permalink in a question or answer and selects &quot;Copy link&quot;. The permalink is copied to the clipboard (for example: &quot;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010/advanced-syntax-ideas&lt;/code&gt;&quot;). The user moves to the answer box and presses &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl-V&lt;/kbd&gt; to paste the link. The event triggers, detects the internal link and replaces it with &lt;code&gt;[#1010]&lt;/code&gt; automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55078" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T15:45:27.740" />
  <row Id="26027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25980" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:16:21.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they should be automatically deleted... As other users have noted, there are terrible questions with good answers, and really what needs to be done in those cases is to edit the question and then re-open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, deletion &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; important, for the reasons you bring up. It's boring and time-consuming, but when I get the chance I do try to go through closed questions and vote for deletion on those that don't provide any value. Hopefully, this becomes more common as we continue to add users to the ranks of those able to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:16:21.803" />
  <row Id="26028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:20:07.067" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9902/what-happens-if-there-are-no-answers-to-a-bounty-question&quot;&gt;What happens if there are no answers to a bounty question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason why rep. points aren't returned from a bounty if no one has answered my question? If you're an admin/moderator who can see that this question had a bounty until an hour ago, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1499598/programmatically-adding-two-infragistics-ultrawebgrids-renders-only-one-grid-with&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1499598/programmatically-adding-two-infragistics-ultrawebgrids-renders-only-one-grid-with&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133661" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T16:22:44.100" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:22:44.100" ClosedDate="2009-10-15T16:29:51.713" Title="Bounty Question Not Answered and Reputation Points Lost" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:21:35.880" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The non-intuitive line break thing was a problem for me one time.  But, then I learned how to correctly do it and haven't had trouble since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a tech-oriented site like Stackoverflow I think it is not a problem.  However, users of &lt;a href=&quot;http://moms4mom.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moms4mom&lt;/a&gt; may have a steeper learning curve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:21:35.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25948" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:23:51.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the answer to this now. My question wasn't closed for any single reason or because of any single rule. It was closed a bunch of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are loads of people with the power to close (law of numbers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those people don't have to answer to any higher authority, so they exercise their power more lightly than they would otherwise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They feel good when they're being decisive and particularly when they criticize someone else. They look for reasons to separate themselves from other people; why they are better SO community-members. So they look for reasons to close, not reasons to keep open. And once they start looking in that one direction they won't change their mind (that's just how it works for people, they don't want to admit they were wrong).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is now an established culture for closing so people feel confident that closing is a safe decision.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They haven't learnt to use a light touch, in leadership.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People here have tried to answer why my question it was closed but I now think that's kind of funny. Some of the answers were really bad. Even from people who write well and sound really intelligent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think at the heart of the problem is this drug called &quot;reputation&quot;. It's actually addictive! You make those numbers so big on the site. And now everybody is clamoring for it like popularity in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;high school&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a question is closed the justification hats go on and people put all their mental effort into convincing themselves that the right decision was made. &quot;Surely, it must have been right because that's just how we do it here!&quot;, they're thinking. What would happen if people put all their mental effort into actually objectively questioning the kinds of motivations/decisions that influence such outcomes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the questions you really need to ask are difficult so people generally avoid asking them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What isn't a question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is a vague question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do vague/difficult questions really harm SO?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What direction does SO want to move in?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What constitutes a healthy community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What psychological effect do we need to be aware of?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will people feel when we do x thing to them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are duplicate questions closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do those reasons apply to second attempts to ask a previously close question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how could the situation be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fewer people with power.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People who have the power being more careful. They should routinely discuss how they use it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Power being granted to those worthy of it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More detailed rules on what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constitutional rules codifying the what SO aims to achieve and the direction it wants to move in, including the kinds of attitude it wants to foster and the kind of experience that it wants people to have when they come here. (I certainly don't believe this question has been sufficiently answered, otherwise when I came here to ask why, you would have all pointed me to specific extracts of a document that was guiding you and told me how it relates.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guise of SO being community-driven isn't serving the community. It's very glamorous and web 2.0 and everything but when you put power in the hands of the masses you get all the problems to do with psychology that I've outlined. Most people prefer not to think hard about decisions unless made to and, if everyone leads, nobody leads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now had a number of annoying experiences on this website, which sucks because I really want to like it. I'm not sure where I want to go from here. Maybe I just need to learn what is acceptable. (Shame there isn't really a good definition of that.) Or maybe I just won't use Stack Overflow. I know in the past I've spoken-up about things, like this, and it has turned out, afterwards, that there were actually a lot of other people who felt the same way but didn't speak up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137307" LastEditorUserId="137307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T16:41:00.820" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:41:00.820" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:37:00.407" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stickers just arrived, so I put one on my MacBookPro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally linked to a Facebook location, but I don't trust that not to move, so here it is hosted on my server (which does not have a sticker on it yet): &lt;img src=&quot;http://gallery.xcski.com/d/29025-2/CIMG0016.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastEditorUserId="3333" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T16:45:26.337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:45:26.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26039" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:43:10.787" Score="1" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was pasting my CV from Word into Stack Overflow Careers, and I noticed that if you paste bullet points, they translate over.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;• My Accomplishment here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug? Or Feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:12:21.617" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:12:21.617" Title="Good 'Bug' with Stack Overflow Careers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="26034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26033" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:46:09.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would call that a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:46:09.487" />
  <row Id="26035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26014" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:48:34.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why such &quot;aggressive criteria?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most powerful feature of the site is the ability ask and answer questions from day one, anonymously and without reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;price&quot; you pay for that is super vigilant moderation by the community.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site's only criteria for a &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt; question -- &quot;Programming questions that can be answered&quot; -- covers a large range of topics. The only way to keep such a large user base of from falling into chaos is to &lt;strong&gt;cast a wide circle but keep well-defined edges&lt;/strong&gt;. Posts simply cannot solicit or devolve into long diatribes, extended discussions, or religious platform wars; otherwise, the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; system will break down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to provide that level of no-barrier, no-friction access, the community is asked to self-moderate the site to keep it focused and on-track. As your experience with the site grows, so does your abilities and responsibilities to moderate the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through experience with the site, you learn why Stack Overflow has been so successful in the past. &lt;strong&gt;Then you work very vigilantly to keep it that way for the future.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why the Stack Overflow commmunity is so aggressive about question criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T16:53:52.217" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:53:52.217" />
  <row Id="26036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26033" CreationDate="2009-10-15T16:52:45.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would call that a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T16:52:45.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-15T16:52:45.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26033" CreationDate="2009-10-15T17:03:13.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would call that a bugture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T17:03:13.620" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T17:11:20.983" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you hover over the green checkmark on an answer that has won a bounty (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623062/why-was-googles-chrome-browser-written-almost-entirely-in-c-and-not-c-or-java/644292#644292&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;), you will see that the time it was selected is incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T11:55:37.027" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T11:55:52.550" Title="Mouseover of the green checkmark for answers winning a bounty shows wrong time" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26033" CreationDate="2009-10-15T17:15:10.977" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would call it:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;• Expected behaviour for cut/paste&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;• Not worth fixing if it isn't&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;• A shortcut to typing Alt+0149 like I just did entering this answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T17:15:10.977" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26041" CreationDate="2009-10-15T17:16:35.327" Score="5" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking at a question I know I've answered at least once (maybe twice) before - but I have a slew of answers and I don't know which one it is. I'd love to be able to do a rudimentary search of my answers to quickly point the question poster in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T17:18:44.527" Title="Ability to search my answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26040" CreationDate="2009-10-15T17:18:44.527" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is possible - just include &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; in the search to search only your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this will search both questions and answers - I'm not aware of a good way to weed out questions, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T17:18:44.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26045" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:00:17.570" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/podcast-70/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #70&lt;/a&gt; Jeff and Joel agree that smart companies should be looking for good programmers not the other way around.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the more smart companies (&lt;em&gt;aka &quot;great employment opportunities&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) that sign up and browse the filed CVs the better for all of us good programmers.  On that subject, is there anything specific that can or will be done to attract these smart companies to careers.stackoverflow.com ?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148848" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T18:04:04.973" Title="Will careers.stackoverflow.com do anything in particular to attract &quot;smart&quot; companies?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26044" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:04:04.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this is one area where we plan to leverage the crap out of Joel's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular you can expect us to approach any and all employers who currently advertise on &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you're angling for a job at Fog Creek, obviously, this is one place where they'll be checking. Though Fog Creek is ridiculously selective, so good luck, and enter &quot;NY, NY&quot; as one of your desired work locations. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T18:04:04.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:17:48.193" Score="1" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you attended &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/austin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays in Austin&lt;/a&gt;, unleash your thoughts and reviews about it here. Links to blogs etc. are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Austin&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 14th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/devdays-reviews-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purposefully &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:25:18.573" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:25:18.573" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Austin" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;devdays-austin&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:35:08.367" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted and answered a question as a cookied user . Then I logged in using openId. I have now lost the connection to my original questions and answers (and badge). Is there a way to combine these for the user bucho. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T20:10:25.287" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T20:10:25.287" ClosedDate="2010-05-12T03:31:35.913" Title="Is there a way to combine my cookied StackOverflow login with my new openId one" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26048" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:42:19.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;email team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T18:42:19.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25877" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:58:17.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding another tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/merge-accounts&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[merge-accounts]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions that ask for help combining multiple accounts &lt;em&gt;on the same site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T18:58:17.137" />
  <row Id="26051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26106" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:00:55.320" Score="10" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked out a few StackExchange sites this morning, and I noticed something about the StackOverflow UI.  When the user goes to the homepage, there are a lot of numbers: three columns of large numbers to the left of the questions.  It seems like a noisy and intimidating interface, especially on sites with a dark background (i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://epicadvice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Epic Advice&lt;/a&gt;).  It looks more like a spreadsheet than a website, basically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The columns show the number of votes, answers, and views.  I think views, in particular, can be removed; no one really cares about views, except when trying to figure out which question was responsible for the &quot;Popular Question&quot; badge you just got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for votes, I would suggest (and I realize that maybe this is more radical) that instead of showing the number, another type of visual cue is used.  For example, maybe questions with &gt; 10 votes get a larger font, and questions with negative votes are semi-transparent (like an ignored tag).  This would leave only the number of answers, which is probably what a most people really care about.  Or just leave votes and answers, but remove views, if you don't like that suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And because I know a screenshot with freehand circles will be requested...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6092/2manynums.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T08:19:43.577" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T00:57:37.487" Title="Can we reduce the amount of numbers on the homepage?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26067" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:04:54.287" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Random question, but is there a way to add your flair to an email signature? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;So  the consensus is not to do it. Admins/Moderators, please feel free to close this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137173" LastEditorUserId="137173" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T21:44:40.173" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T17:01:52.290" Title="How to add flair to email signature?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:06:17.713" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a thread pops back upto the front page that I'm sure I provided an answer to - could there by some visual highlighting? Then I can check to see if somebody voted up/down or provided a better answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially if it's a multiple page wiki type thread it's hard to find your own answer. Some way of searching for or jumping straight to your own answer would be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking in your own user page doesn't really help, I have &gt;10 pages of answers and I can only order them by score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastEditorUserId="10897" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T22:03:38.750" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T22:03:38.750" Title="Find my own answers to a question - flag threads I have posts in" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:07:44.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So instead of seeing some numbers (granted there are a lot of them) that are clearly labeled and plainly viewable, you want to substitute in visual cues and effects that leave you more in guess mode than anything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:07:44.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26064" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:15:26.793" Score="6" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; There looks to be enough interest to make this effort worthwile.  Check out the new article for the DevDays audio.  I will be updating that post as new presentations are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26587/devdays-austin-audio&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26587/devdays-austin-audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a bunch of audio yesterday and I'll put it on my blog if anyone wants it.  I tried to take some video but it didn't really turn out that well.  Hopefully I can get the slides from some of the speakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the speaker list: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/austin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/austin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I thought this went without saying, but I'll say it anyway.  I'll stream/let you download the audio files for free.  No gimmicks, no advertisements, no catch... I just want to share the great content (especially to those of you who couldn't make it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I emailed every speaker and asked explicit permission to post their talk.  Jason Cohen already gave his approval and I'm waiting on everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133165" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-08T02:31:17.750" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T02:31:17.750" Title="Anyone interested in the audio from Stack Overflow DevDays 2009 - Austin?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;devdays-austin&gt;&lt;audio&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="26057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26048" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:16:53.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email to team@stackoverflow.com explaining the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can, edit the duplicate, and write in the description that it is a dup of your other account. You may also want to edit the description of the original, if you can. This will help prove that the person who owns the duplicate account, is in fact the same person who owns the other account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually done this, and it worked flawlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:16:53.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26056" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:18:10.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, I for one would be interested! (I just hope it's ok with the speakers and organisers to publish them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:18:10.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25980" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:18:13.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be left to moderators and not automatically deleted, because moderators can edit questions as well as delete them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently on SO there was a question which every answerer misunderstood, and as a result everything was getting downvoted. Instead of deleting it, someone edited the question so people could understand it. Then the question and on-topic answers got upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135230" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:18:13.213" />
  <row Id="26060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26047" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:27:16.850" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was awesome (I actually took audio of the whole thing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best part of DevDays: most of the presenters actually sat down and wrote code as part of their presentation.  To me, this added alot of value and is a pretty risky thing to do.  Especially having 300 people point out your bugs as you write code :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel's presentation at the beginning was really great.  He talked about the performance vs simplicity tradeoff in software and about how users hate to make decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite presentation was Jason Cohen's talk on how code reviews don't have to suck.  He didn't so much give reasons to have code reviews, but instead he focused on how to &lt;strong&gt;not waste time&lt;/strong&gt; while doing the reviews.  I was impressed he didn't even plug his company's code review product (until the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most interesting presentation from a stand point of &quot;I had no idea you could do that&quot; was Damien Katz's presentation on CouchDB.  It's a document-oriented database that focuses on scaling up and down.  Check it out here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://couchdb.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://couchdb.com&lt;/a&gt;  Also, props to Damien for giving his talk in sweat pants and a t-shirt (symbolizing the slogan of CouchDB &quot;relax&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was a bit disappointed in the iPhone development talk.  Jon did a good job showing the code/interface creation and part of the development process, but it seemed a little long to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to add the audio files to my blog, I wasn't going to at first, but there looks like there is some interest. (I'll send you a link when they are up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133165" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:27:16.850" />
  <row Id="26061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:31:14.573" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know if there is any stackexchange or site similar to stackoverflow or an active discussion forum, for people having technical issues in graphics designing for websites, applications and in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T19:44:18.543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:44:18.543" Title="Where to ask questions related to graphics design?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;non-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26061" CreationDate="2009-10-15T18:34:05.233" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you want &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doctype.com&lt;/a&gt;. From the front page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can ask questions about CSS, HTML, web design and email design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:29:17.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24994" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:32:45.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can check out my very detailed reviews of DevDays Boston on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emilsit.net/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/stackoverflow-devdays-boston-2009-morning/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Morning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emilsit.net/blog/archives/stackoverflow-devdays-boston-2009-afternoon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Afternoon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilsit/sets/72157622558403216/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pictures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I wrote there,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Overall, I think DevDays was well worth attending. On the networking side, I  got to meet a few local developers (of whom I’ve posted a few pictures on Flickr) and catch up briefly with some acquaintances from school. On the technical side, I got a broad overview of several popular technical areas from leading figures in those areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137347" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:32:45.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-15T19:32:45.857" />
  <row Id="26064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26056" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:36:02.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I's say a lot of people would be interested in this. I for one can't come to any of the DevDays (the closest on is 1700 km away), but I'd like to hear what's been talked about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:36:02.417" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26047" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:39:45.403" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to mostly skip Spolsky's talks because he's always energetic and funny. His opening talk about elegance in coding was a good segue into Eric's presentation. If you read his blogs or use FogBugz then it is old news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Eric Jones - Python&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My take - Best language for some applications&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Demonstrated elegant coding using Python's syntax. I haven't seen Python in about 8 years, so it was eye opening in terms of how well Python can manipulate lists. Reminded me of the condensed functionality now available using LINQ in the .NET Framework, I can see where LINQ got some of their syntax. Python is an interpreted language so he showed a scientific application with a console where you can enter and issue Python commands to a 3D model, that feature alone scores very high on the geek scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The talk was almost exclusively a code demo, which is nice because from the raise-your-hand poll most people have not seen Python before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jonathan Johnson - iPhone&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My take - iPhone app development is easy, but not likely profitable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Built a Hello World app right in front of us using an iPhone emulator. Again, I've never seen iPhone app development, so it was a good introduction to what that is all about. It actually looks easy. The Objective-C syntax would take some getting used to but the SDK looks quite approachable. I really liked how he dissected the various parts that make up popular iPhone apps to show what controls were likely being used where and how the behaviors are built-in. Because Apple gives you so many controls to start with, it is easy to make a forms-over-data app that sticks to the Apple motif. Most of the controls are quite extendable, so if there is a control that is built-in but you need an extra label under the header you can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He went into some of the negative business issues such as loosely applied SDK restrictions, viability of products and the difficulty of breaking even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Peter Mourfield - ASP.NET MVC&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My take - MVC 101&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poor MVC, so powerful yet the default setup just doesn't do the technology justice. Peter walked through the typical &quot;intro to MVC&quot; where he explains the MVC model then creates a couple views using the. No mention of DI/IoC, testability was mentioned but not demo'd, alternative view engines were not mentioned. The next version of MVC was not brought up either. So good intro for ASP.NET WebForm developers that haven't seen MVC yet, but I'd like if he was given an extra hour to get into the topics that really make MVC shine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jonathan Sharp - jQuery&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My take - jQuery is easy and powerful, the best way to write JavaScript&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost everyone raised their hand when asked if they are using jQuery. Jon quickly went through the concepts behind jQuery, the syntax and the language. For the benefit of Prototype users, several times he explained the NoConflict option. He then went on to create a simple jQuery page that copied select options from one list to another. After doing so, he asked the audience for feature suggestions, which is incredibly daring but jQuery is so easy to use that he had the features working quickly. I didn't learn anything new that I can think of off hand since I've been using jQuery for a very long time, but it was really neat to see someone else writing code live &lt;em&gt;on stage&lt;/em&gt; and see the process they took to create a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Damien Katz - Erlang / CouchDB&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My take - Freaking awesome! Why store data in a relational database if it isn't relational in real life?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the talk was titled Erland and CouchDB, it was almost exclusively about CouchDB. He was one of the funniest presenters and gave an awesome CouchDB talk. By far he had the most questions at the end too, probably because the concept of a document database with peer replication is so different and fixes so many problems. When they cut off the question time there were still three people with hands up. He did a lot of well deserved bragging at the beginning concerning the companies happily using CouchDB and the insane performance of the system. At the end, when asked who would like to use CouchDB a very large number of people said they would. I wish Erlang ran better on Windows and Windows CE, that would make life wonderful. Right now it does best on *nix. The promise of peer replication for handheld and edge computing is too much to ignore.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I missed Jason Cohen's talk, but people said that he was quite funny. I got his book though, so I'll have to see if there is anything new about peer review in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131337" LastEditorUserId="131337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T18:15:41.093" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T18:15:41.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26052" CreationDate="2009-10-15T19:49:25.477" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1475/can-we-get-flair-as-an-image&quot;&gt;Can we get flair as an image?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, big fat sigs with images and lots of irrelevant information are ugly and somewhat rude. Don't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T19:49:25.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-15T20:05:28.353" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to partially disagree with you on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numbers are much more defined and much more universal.  It is a little noisy yes, but I can't imagine the front page with different sized question fonts or partially transparent ones due to votes. That would not be an obvious &quot;feature&quot;. It would be a UI nightmare IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for removing views, I could see that happening, but I kind of like seeing what are current popular questions. I like all the information given without having to click around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T20:05:28.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26048" CreationDate="2009-10-15T20:09:55.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For info all: posting here on &quot;meta&quot; works too. And has better around-the-clock coverage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Identity confirmed via non-public data)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T20:09:55.363" />
  <row Id="26077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-15T20:30:19.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it the way it is, and I'm not an accountant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T20:30:19.353" />
  <row Id="26078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26080" CreationDate="2009-10-15T20:37:00.560" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated in the title, when going to the home page, could it be possible to have the input focus in the search box since this is the place most users go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131272" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T21:29:42.973" Title="Suggestion: Could the search box have the initial input focus when going to the home page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26078" CreationDate="2009-10-15T21:02:03.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would respectfully say this might not be the best idea. Its one of those things that seems good at first glance, but ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, there seems to be one big (possibly unfounded) assumption there - and I have to ask: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do most people go to the search box? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you know most people didn't get here via Google and are already on the question they want? How do you know that the bulk of the people who go straight to the home page aren't the folks looking for something to answer rather than something to ask? Just sayin'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, are people really going to be that o.k. with the site deciding where their focus ought to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T21:02:03.510" />
  <row Id="26080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26078" CreationDate="2009-10-15T21:27:33.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there's only one input field on the main page, it's not a 'bad' idea.  If there were more than one input field, I'd be highly suspect.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/10/web-developers-please-stop-stealing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I agree with Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt; on this subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T21:27:33.463" />
  <row Id="26081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26078" CreationDate="2009-10-15T21:29:42.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26078/suggestion-could-the-search-box-have-the-initial-input-focus-when-going-to-the-h/26079#26079&quot;&gt;AnonJr&lt;/a&gt;. I am used to being able to hit the backspace key on my keyboard in order to return to the previous page. If a textbox has focus, though, I can't do this (I just delete something I never typed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T21:29:42.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24994" CreationDate="2009-10-15T21:50:30.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me rank them by &lt;em&gt;really excited to be here&lt;/em&gt; 1-10 rating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miguel De Icaza (Mono for iPhone and Visual Studio, and SuseStudio.com) &lt;strong&gt;10.0001&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;[You can tell he feels he and his team have the best way to develop. Now with slicker tools]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Joel Spolsky (Keynote) &lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;[No trepidation about having it all go wrong was visible]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Fogbugz 7 (Joel Spolsky) &lt;strong&gt;8.1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;[the day wore on, but fogbugz and kiln have great features]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Dan Pilone (iPhone) &lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;[He really wanted to show us that embedded development just has a first class set of tools in XCode]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Understanding JavaScript Testing (John Resig) &lt;strong&gt;7&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;[He wanted people to test their JavaScript and got more excited when talking about his distributed approach, but less so when rounding up other methods]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Ned Batchelder (Python) &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;[The content was definitely good, but Ned wasn't too enthusiastic about the 10am slot I think]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Patrick Hynds &amp;amp; Chris Bowen (ASP.Net MVC) &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;[Post lunch is tough on everyone. Had there actually been a war story told, I'm sure this would have gone up]  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T21:50:30.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-15T21:50:30.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:36:34.150" Score="7" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we start a campaign to change the Stack Overflow podcast introduction music?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The saxophone number is very cheesy and would want something that does not sound like it came from a 4th grade music class...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the announcement of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42247/what-ideas-are-out-there-for-the-new-podcast&quot;&gt;possible new format&lt;/a&gt; to the podcast.  Can we start a grassroots movement to change the music or possibly creating their own theme song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastEditorUserId="26327" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:48:46.813" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:48:46.813" Title="Stackoverflow podcast intro music" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26084" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:45:40.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't it come from IT Conversations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T22:45:40.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26084" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:48:15.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before Jeff &amp;amp; Joel join IT Conversations, I believe Joel said that he dislikes theme music on podcasts, and that he didn't want any.  I remember someone actually created a theme song for the podcast, and they used it once, but Joel said he didn't want to use it regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T22:48:15.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26094" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:48:50.337" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the spell checker feature while writing a post. Could you add spelling suggestions too? I guess there are a lot of developers on SO that are not native English speakers, and that it would be useful to suggest a list of alternatives in case of a spelling mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T22:55:16.160" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T07:37:52.440" Title="Spelling suggestions in posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;&lt;idea&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26087" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:53:10.657" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as an aside, some browsers will do this for you - I use Chrome, and it offers a range of language spell checkers, with automatic underline etc. The options are under &quot;font and languages&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a native English speaker, and it still saves me a lot of embarrassment - especially on words like embarrassment ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem with programmers is that we don't always speak English - at least, not as regular users would understand it... type-names, keywords, obscure protocols, etc - I can live with a browser-supplied checked because it is fast; but anything that checks over http is probably going to hit too many false-positives to be worth making a round-trip to the server. IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T05:12:46.760" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T05:12:46.760" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26092" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:55:27.190" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this colum represented the total rep received on the question, but apparently not always.  For example, John T has &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/42543/45406#45406&quot;&gt;two votes on some question&lt;/a&gt;, plus an acceptance.  The associated rep on his user page at the time I wrote this was indicates the rep is &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/1931?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;570&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a rule that would allow 10 + 10 + 15 = 570?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This result is not consistent with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6046/numbers-in-the-rep-tab&quot;&gt;previous answers posted here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this possible?  And no, I'm not envious, just curious.  OK, maybe a bit envious ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135974" LastEditorUserId="135974" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-15T23:01:34.557" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T23:09:02.313" Title="On a User page, reputation tab what does the first column (reputation) represent" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25276" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:56:40.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also concur.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;BTW:  Public profiles on LinkedIn are published marked-up in &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hResume&lt;/a&gt;.  So there are already tools out there to parse this data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137361" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T22:56:40.340" />
  <row Id="26091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26087" CreationDate="2009-10-15T22:57:47.530" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this should be implemented as a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, browsers like Chrome and Firefox already have this capability, and it would take more man hours for Jeff and Co. to implement this than it would for users to spend their time fixing spelling mistakes.  One of the major features of Stack Overflow is for the ability for users to edit other users' posts; so this 'feature' can already be consider implemented via that capability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T22:57:47.530" />
  <row Id="26092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26089" CreationDate="2009-10-15T23:09:02.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there was a bounty on that question, which explains the spike in rep awarded to the accepted answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T23:09:02.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26139" CreationDate="2009-10-15T23:27:19.207" Score="2" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't be dumb like me and be sure to hit Stack Overflow with your phone or laptop sometime during the day so you don't reset your &quot;fanatic&quot; timer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133165" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T03:11:38.897" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T11:14:51.870" Title="DevDays and the Fanatic badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26087" CreationDate="2009-10-15T23:28:08.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been awhile since I used a web browser that did not provide an integrated spell-checker. So I would say, increasingly, that spell-checking has become a client-side issue rather than something that every website should have to provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would simply be a waste of the development team's resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T23:28:08.660" />
  <row Id="26095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26093" CreationDate="2009-10-15T23:30:19.950" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I promise I won't be as dumb as you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T23:30:19.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-15T23:37:37.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I am looking through the questions. Sometimes I am looking through the numbers. One thing I &lt;strong&gt;always admired about the Stack Overflow design&lt;/strong&gt; is that it is &lt;em&gt;visually&lt;/em&gt; easy to separate one from the other... without distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-15T23:37:37.987" />
  <row Id="26097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26087" CreationDate="2009-10-15T23:42:10.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't use spell checkers, so I can't say how effective they are, but it's clear to me that an effective spell checker would be a giant can of worms, and difficult to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;overlap with grammar (then/than, their/there/they're or lose/loose)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;British / American differences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;apostrophe confusion (its v it's)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the preponderance of technical terms in SO questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;modern usage v 'traditional' (plz, ur, ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all of which make it difficult to choose the correct spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effort wouldn't be justified ... and what would be the point of an ineffective spell checker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T07:37:52.440" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T07:37:52.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26101" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:07:42.627" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;The graph shows rep from 10/14 through 10/15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer 10/14 that currently has 2 upvotes, but it isn't listed in the details to the right of the graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have screenshots of both the graphs and the question, if you want them (ctrager@yahoo.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a link the the answer whose points are not counted.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543107/what-is-the-cleverest-ui-feature-you-have-seen-in-a-website/1569910#1569910&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543107/what-is-the-cleverest-ui-feature-you-have-seen-in-a-website/1569910#1569910&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a link to the page with the graph.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9328?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9328?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137363" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T00:24:46.873" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T00:25:34.437" Title="Bug report: details for graph showing my rep don't include an answer that earned rep within the graphs selected time period" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:24:12.020" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are &lt;em&gt;just now&lt;/em&gt; noticing this? Seriously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I implemented the suppression of badge display on the front page. I agree that part isn't super relevant to the front page, but views &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Views represents popularity from the anonymous masses, which may or may not have anything to do with how many answers and upvotes something gets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-25T00:57:37.487" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T00:57:37.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26107" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:24:52.957" Score="1" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;Problems and questions aside, I found that in SO, many questions are either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have very similar ones in SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easily searched via google etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes despite me knowing the answer, I really just felt like telling them to improve their searching skill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a developer, relentless learning is important. New things/ideas/technology pop out everyday. We have to keep updating our skills/knowledge. Knowing where to find these pieces and knowing how to 'find/search' solutions to newly encountered problems are essential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I do not know if this 'question' is a question, just voicing out what I felt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Add:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;After reading a couple of answers, I think I didn't phrase my 'question' properly.&#xA;I put it in brief here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we teach someone to fish? Or do we give them the fish? The urge to tell them to improve their searching skills doesn't mean I do not give any sort of answer. Spoonfeeding direct answers are not helping them (I'm refering only to the group of users that I described above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T00:40:05.223" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T10:37:36.730" Title="Some people just do not know how to search" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;learning&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26098" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:25:34.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a bug - the answer you linked to is Community Wiki, meaning that you didn't actually get any reputation from it, and that's why it's not in the graph. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T00:25:34.437" />
  <row Id="26102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26100" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:30:34.990" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is a duplicate, and you have the power to close questions, then close it as a duplicate. If you don't, then post a link in the comments to the question that it duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is not a duplicate, then it's free game, even though it could be easy to answer. The end goal is for Stack Overflow to become a knowledge base for all programming questions, even the easy ones. I suggest you take the free rep when you can get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can sympathize with the desire to educate these people about how to effectively search for the answers to their questions, on Stack Overflow the primary objective is to answer the question. If you want to slip something in at the end about how to find more information, feel free, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy&amp;amp;l=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lmgtfy&lt;/a&gt; answers are frowned upon, and are likely to get downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T00:48:04.410" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T00:48:04.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26100" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:33:34.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because a question could easily be searched for and yield a result elsewhere, is not a reason it shouldn't be asked on SO. In fact, part of the goal of SO is to be the end result of those searches. As for questions with similar ones on SO, that is certainly a problem, and can always improve, but that's why there's a system for closing questions. Regardless, it is not appropriate to reply with &quot;let me google that for you&quot; or some similar response, if you don't want to answer questions that you deem to easy or simple, just move on to another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T00:33:34.860" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:39:50.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T00:39:50.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26100" CreationDate="2009-10-16T00:48:37.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the times (with me) the problem is that I don't know what to search for (the keywords, the modules, the idioms, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens to me quite often when trying to apply one concept from one language to another. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing a Google search would take me about 5-10 minutes dealing with obnoxious results (like those in the hypen site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While, if properly formulated, the question could be answered in less than a minute using Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, you give other opportunity to increase their reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16353/stackoverflow-for-the-lazy-newbie-developer&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow for the lazy (newbie) developer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-17T10:37:36.730" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T10:37:36.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-16T01:17:29.863" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to this specific issue, I can say that one major thing that could be gotten rid of is the &lt;code&gt;views&lt;/code&gt; number.  Who cares if it has 5 views or 5 thousand? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a minor thing, you could remove the badge counts from the right of the User name, and just have the user name and reputation. It doesn't add anything to see the badge counts; and it just clutters up the space.  Maybe allow a mouse-over that contains that information if someone really wanted it to be there; same with Views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New Look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MJ7SHaJorfU/StfNG-7d9HI/AAAAAAAAALI/0D5y2TqbCKM/s400/modifiedquestion.PNG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old Look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MJ7SHaJorfU/StfNHXWRjqI/AAAAAAAAALM/6ryb-qmg8kM/s400/unmodifiedquestion.PNG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T01:35:52.483" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T01:35:52.483" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26100" CreationDate="2009-10-16T01:59:58.430" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow rewards asking duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a duplicate (or a 'near' duplicate) of a popular question, you're guaranteed to get attention, votes, and badges.  Look at the questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;What's the most [adjective] [noun] that you've seen&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's amazing the number of views and votes they get; but they aren't the only one.  Questions about basic things like Arrays draw thousands of views; and each new asker tries to ask the same question a little differently, and people buy into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't believe me? Do a search for any question closed and re-opened as a duplicate; and see how much reputation or views a user got out of asking the question. I guarantee it's a non-trivial amount -- and when you have low reputation, any amount helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I believe that any question that is closed as a duplicate should have the points for both the question asker forfeited from it, and the answerer should have his answer merged with other answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T01:59:58.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26100" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:53:03.437" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two things that people need to get over:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicates; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Googleable&quot; questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates can be closed. In some cases it's hard to find the others (like how do you search for === if you don't know what it's called?). In other cases the search just doesn't find them. That's fine. The new duplicate will link back to others. There is simply no need to get snarky about it (as I see some people comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other is questions that can be answered with Google. People really need to get over this. Google simply returns results it finds. By having the question on SO, SO will be one of the search results and unlike a forum will have the benefit of comments, votes, etc. The other thing is you may find outdated or contradictory or just plain incorrect information on Google. There is no or inadequate feedback mechanisms to find this information out on forums and mailing lists. SO provides a superior mechanism for determining the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So get over it, basically. If you don't like the question, don't answer it. If it's a duplicate and you can vote to close it, then do that. No other action is required or justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:53:03.437" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:51:01.707" Score="5" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was I think for 1 - 2 hours but what would you do if it happens for one day? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T20:23:40.443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:42:04.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:51:01.707" Title="What would you do if stack overflow is down for one day?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;downtime&gt;" AnswerCount="20" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:53:15.197" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd wander the streets seeing if anyone needs any questions answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144558" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:55:43.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:53:15.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:53:42.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would maybe Exercise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142296" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:55:43.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:53:42.123" />
  <row Id="26112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:53:47.223" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably write a script that gives the browser focus and simulates F5 every few seconds to save my fingers from RSI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:55:43.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:53:47.223" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:54:26.083" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd get more work done. Or maybe get some juggling practice in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:55:43.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:54:26.083" />
  <row Id="26114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:56:45.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know. Perhaps I will need to get a life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3819" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:56:45.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:56:45.240" />
  <row Id="26115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:57:35.393" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd mourn having to start all over again for the Fanatic badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:57:35.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:57:35.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T04:58:11.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;drink more coffee and keep refreshing the browser on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139663" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T04:58:11.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T04:58:11.710" />
  <row Id="26117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T05:02:57.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turn around, blinking and rubbing my eyes, and talk to the nice people who work around me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136005" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T05:02:57.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T05:02:57.877" />
  <row Id="26118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T05:07:45.120" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wonder why no one says +1 to my witty remarks in the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T05:07:45.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T05:07:45.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T05:08:08.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apply leave and have a good day with family :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T05:08:08.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T05:08:08.283" />
  <row Id="26120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T05:39:44.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd actually have to GOOGLE stuff. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131603" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T05:39:44.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T05:39:44.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26084" CreationDate="2009-10-16T05:47:26.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though the music you're referring to is the IT Conversations theme, some of the podcasts hosted there have their own theme music - I'm thinking of 'Tech Nation' with Moira Gunn, which has a fetching piano track - so IT Conversations podcasts obviously support nested theme music. I suggest some Aphex Twin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136005" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T05:47:26.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T06:09:10.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go in to withdrawal. Eventually I would become manically depressed, and would seek out the assistance of Welbog so that he will see pity on me and laser me to my welcomed demise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T06:09:10.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T06:09:10.367" />
  <row Id="26123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T06:12:47.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give praise and thanks that I already have my Fanatic badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T06:12:47.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T06:12:47.927" />
  <row Id="26124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T06:26:43.707" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get round to writing some blog posts I've been thinking about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spend more time on the other StackExchange sites, unless those were down too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get more writing/editing done&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Play Comet Crash more&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T06:26:43.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T06:26:43.707" />
  <row Id="26125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T06:47:19.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Find time to get some sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T06:47:19.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T06:47:19.553" />
  <row Id="26128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26131" CreationDate="2009-10-16T07:23:53.137" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello All,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Stackoverflow offer themes (just like in gmail) where the user can choose his best liked?&#xA;If not, how about having it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T07:55:52.823" Title="Stackoverflow themes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26128" CreationDate="2009-10-16T07:48:14.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT, and that is a big but... You can use FireFox with GreaseMonkey to load some custom CSS for the sites.  Happy hacking!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T07:48:14.680" />
  <row Id="26131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26128" CreationDate="2009-10-16T07:55:52.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow doesn't have native support for Themes... but many browsers support custom stylesheets that you can use to override the default CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instructions on how to do that here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1089/user-specific-css&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1089/user-specific-css&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/heres-a-meta-uservoice-question-can-you-bring-the-color-back/417#417&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/heres-a-meta-uservoice-question-can-you-bring-the-color-back/417#417&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you can use a UserScript, as described here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5353/want-to-browse-meta-with-the-upcoming-superuser-stylesheet-logo&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5353/want-to-browse-meta-with-the-upcoming-superuser-stylesheet-logo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T07:55:52.823" />
  <row Id="26132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26133" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:10:24.113" Score="-1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever found yourself in a – not necessarily real life but non-SO – situation thinking “How many reputation points am I getting for this?” when being asked for help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help forums are built on altruism. They heavily depend on receiving help in exchange to giving help in another place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when I spend time on software help forums apart from SO I noticed me wondering “Why can’t they ask that on SO? The answer is worth at least 50 rep.” I suspect me even taking less effort on answering questions on these forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like my social behavior has been spoiled by SO. Call me Uncle Scrooge. Anyone else made similar experience? Perhaps we could set up a self help group…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135523" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T08:24:02.383" Title="Does Stackoverflow spoil your willingness to help" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26132" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:14:11.330" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answer better on other forums, since I started on SO. I treat my post like an answer on SO, which means make it concise and very helpful, rather than dragged out, and conversation-e. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T08:14:11.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26132" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:22:17.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Previously I'd have thrown in a piece and see if the other understood it. Then I'd try a larger piece. Until at the end (where I almost every time ended) I explained it in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO and it's siblings made me understand, that it is more helpful to provide a full answer from the beginning, even if it takes more time in some (rare) cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, I don't think it spilled my willingness to help. &lt;em&gt;Au contraire&lt;/em&gt;. It helped me get better with my answers - or at least without confusing the questioner first :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134324" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T08:22:17.723" />
  <row Id="26135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26132" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:24:02.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are these &quot;software help forums apart from SO&quot; of which you speak?  There can be only one!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I actually do wish that other help forums had SO-like mechanisms (voting, reputation, community moderation) to encourage more answers... it's frustrating that there are so few volunteers answering questions, and an SO-type approach would almost certaintly encourage broader participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm on other forums, I wish I could downvote people who say something that's wrong or not useful.  Better yet, it'd be nice if at the dinner table I could close out topics of discussion with a &quot;Closed as subjective and argumentative.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T08:24:02.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:27:49.163" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow treads a fine line between two goals: one is to provide help for programmers who have a specific problem, and the other is to provide a useful, high quality and highly findable resources for programmers. (Please note I'm not saying these are the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; goals, just the two I am discussing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to facilitate the latter goal, the former must be compromised to an extent: vague or subjective questions are voted down and often closed. Unlike a forum where almost any question is accepted, but the overall quality and findability is very poor. Forums are basically where expert information goes to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it benefit the site to add a short countdown (1-3 days) before a closed question is actually closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the asker gets a chance for his question to be answered and a chance to reform (or community-wiki) his question into something useful for the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is certainly not clear to new users that closed questions can be reopened, or how this can be achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137328" LastEditorUserId="137328" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T16:32:04.070" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:32:04.070" Title="Could there be a countdown before questions are closed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26136" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:33:58.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question no longer applies, is severely out of date that it's not even worth the trouble of updating, or just isn't &quot;needed&quot; any more, there's a close reason of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;no longer relevant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even then, the answers to a question would/may speak to the truth or principles that last longer than the question's own half-life that it would be richly wanted on SOFU. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just deleting them serves to hamper the call to make the trilogy the go to site on programming/sys admin/computer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T08:33:58.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26160" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:39:37.990" Score="0" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering, was this Stack Overflow question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1575988&quot;&gt;How can you popup two windows and then do stuff?&lt;/a&gt; closed as subjective because of the questioner's bad English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T08:45:12.770" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:17:52.007" Title="Was this closed due to bad English?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;english&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26093" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:49:17.770" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fully expecting to be posting answers during DevDays... at least occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I promise not to do so during my own talk though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I should try to remember how the outside world tends to treat presentations, actually. During Google Tech Talks it's entirely expected for a large proportion of the room to have a laptop open, checking mail, doing code reviews, etc. while people are talking. That doesn't tend to go down so well elsewhere.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-28T11:14:51.870" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T11:14:51.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26138" CreationDate="2009-10-16T08:55:55.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the only people who can say for sure are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/119280/dvk&quot;&gt;DVK&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2469/david-basarab&quot;&gt;David Basarab&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1551/chris-ballance&quot;&gt;Chris Ballance&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/157237/peter&quot;&gt;Peter&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337/john-saunders&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt;, but I suppose seeing a question whose title (before edits) started out &quot;JavaScript is cool!&quot; didn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, in light of the edits I'm voting to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T08:55:55.260" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26138" CreationDate="2009-10-16T09:02:37.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The english and the phrasing of the question definitely have rooms for improvement, but we are not langauge expert in English. Java or C# maybe :P&#xA;Other than that I do not see anything wrong for it to be closed.&#xA;&quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;? Hmm... I wonder why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T09:02:37.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T09:24:28.880" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of questions on SO that are essentially read the manpage or read the FAQ/manual kind of questions. So my basic suggestion is that when somebody tries to post something like &quot;What is the return value of &lt;code&gt;xyz_common_function&lt;/code&gt;&quot;, SO should show a nonobstrusive link to that particular node in the manpage/faq/manual. If such keyword based detection is not possible, then how about people being able to, instead of replying, posting a &quot;pointer to the manpage/faq/manual&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through the entire length of the suggestion, manpage/faq/manual reffers to something that will be built into SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135843" LastEditorUserId="135843" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T09:45:28.700" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:48:01.363" Title="Auto Manual Link Suggestion" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T09:31:29.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browse twitter/forums and wonder why I can't upvote tweets/posts. I did it during today's downtime. &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw, did you hear about &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Xinus00&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/Simucal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;people&lt;/a&gt; who joined twitter just to track SO's status?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Srsly, I'll get some work done before SO is back in running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T09:31:29.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T09:31:29.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1024" CreationDate="2009-10-16T09:39:51.940" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;h&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ttp://careers.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; solves this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T09:39:51.940" />
  <row Id="26145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T09:54:27.710" Score="19" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I run Google search specifying &quot;site:stackoverflow.com&quot; I often get multiple duplicates in results for the following specific reason...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose I search for &quot;Create GUID&quot; and there're several questions that have this text in their title - matching questions. The problem is that when SO was serving pages for some other questions that don't contain the search phrase at all (non-matching) it decided that the matching questions are related to non-matching questions. So now some non-matching questions have the &quot;Related questions&quot; list containing the titles of the matching questions and appear in the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible hypertext should be tweaked so that Google doesn't search in the &quot;Related questions&quot; region of the page from SO - anyway if some text is there this text is also in the title of the page with the corresponding question and so no information is lost, but search results are much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-08T22:26:39.473" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T22:28:59.517" Title="Google Search should not index &quot;Related questions&quot; lists" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26146" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T10:57:47.690" Score="14" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just posted an answer to a new question, you just saw that someone else has posted an answer. You submit anyway. Yours and his are very similar. No one else is answering and the question is getting low views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you experience a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%5Fstandoff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mexican standoff&lt;/a&gt; if you're not upvoting the other guy, or do you give the other guy an upvote for a good answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T17:14:38.003" Title="Do you experience a Mexican standoff when you post an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-10-16T11:00:02.257" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to give the other person an up-vote &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; their answer is well worded and more detailed then mine. In the latter case I will delete mine, in other cases I will leave mine anyway if it adds something the other users answer doesn't have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are times where the answer is so good I would edit it to include my information and remove mine completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you give a good answer, whether I answered or not I will up-vote someone, and the same rule applies to down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T20:04:06.970" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T20:04:06.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26151" CreationDate="2009-10-16T11:12:42.020" Score="6" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by far, the most annoying behaviour of all annoying behaviours of StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me turn it off. Add a checkbox or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T12:01:51.933" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T11:36:40.110" Title="&quot;You have 10 votes left for today&quot;... &quot;You have 9 votes left for today&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26149" CreationDate="2009-10-16T11:16:22.323" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that if the warning is removed, a counter should be available somewhere in the profile page so that you can still see how you're doing. Arguably that would be useful to have whether or not the reminder was removed :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that it could appear in the user profile page next to the total votes - so you'd see how much you've voted overall, the up/down votes you've cast &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt;, and how many you've got left for today, all in the same area. Obviously the &quot;today&quot; stuff would only be shown to the user themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T11:16:22.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26149" CreationDate="2009-10-16T11:17:50.153" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe just a warning at 10. The countdown is pretty annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T11:17:50.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T11:19:30.587" Score="2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have 85% completed my CV and I don't see any boxes on salaries, neither previous nor desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any plans for this , or perhaps it comes up when you &quot;file&quot; your CV...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see that you may not want to disclose precise figures, but a range might be useful, at least in the desired category, to see how compatible the employer/employee are...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Chris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T14:30:16.273" Title="Careers site, why no salary info - at least on the basic CV" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26142" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:20:09.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally answers that are &quot;read the manual for &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;&quot; are there because the OP didn't know there was such a function as &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;, not that they didn't know where to find the manual; so I imagine such a feature would probably have a fairly limited impact on the number of answers which read simply &quot;see the manual for &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T12:20:09.460" />
  <row Id="26154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26152" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:21:23.327" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The advice I've had on this in the past, is to not state these figures -- they &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; put off employers that think they can't afford you (For example, a contractor who wants to take a pay cut to go perm); and you may get a lower salary offer than you'd get otherwise (as the employer know what you're after, they don't have to exceed your expectations)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="130044" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T12:36:48.450" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T12:36:48.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26084" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:27:06.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest the intro song be replaced with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKrYxtCLyY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one of my favourites&lt;/a&gt;. It's guaranteed to be liked equally by everyone who hears it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T12:27:06.030" />
  <row Id="26156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:31:12.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to try to draw attention to the question by editing it to make it better.  Or I'll make my post, leave out some major part, and add it back in with an edit after the 5 minutes are elasped.  I don't willy-nilly edit questions, but I do edit them to make them better, and I'm not going to lie, if I have an answer in the thread, it probably means I hope to net 1 or 2 upvotes each time I revisit the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have about a 40% success rate I'd say, which is a non-trivial amount, given the number of answers I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't vote the other guys' answer up if I believe my answer is superior; but by the same token if his is superior, I'll vote it up in a heartbeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T12:31:12.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:42:02.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This case happened to me this morning. The phrasing of the other answer looked better: I just deleted mine and upvoted the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastEditorUserId="131554" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T20:26:08.780" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T20:26:08.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:51:31.497" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;So someone has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25923/why-is-achievements-under-education-on-careers&quot;&gt;asked&lt;/a&gt; why achievements are under education on Careers.  I answered with a follow up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not have &lt;em&gt;Achievements&lt;/em&gt; for each &lt;em&gt;Experience&lt;/em&gt; block?  I was not getting any action, so I thought I would re-state the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like I really started to get things done when I had a real job and that stuff doesn't really belong in Responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:09:59.823" Title="Can we have Achievements in addtion to Responsibilities in each Experience section?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26159" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29550" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:56:53.890" Score="22" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just heard Careers is going to hide your CV from at least your current employer.  would it be possible to allow us (the programmers waging the wars against the oppressive pointy haired bosses) to input aliases for companies also to prevent them from finding us under different names.  My problem is that my current company has: an official name, a nickname which everyone refers to it as, we were bought out, and our parent company then was bought out.  The company could search careers with any of these four names exposing my search to my boss.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T20:21:23.007" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T20:21:23.007" Title="Hiding CV from Current Employer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26138" CreationDate="2009-10-16T12:59:39.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the problem was the original phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some one deleted the &lt;em&gt;Java5crip7 is kwel&lt;/em&gt;, and I tried to improve phrasing of the question, as it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd just like he had just asked &lt;em&gt;How do you open a pop up window with javascript when you close another window?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T12:59:39.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26159" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:05:17.557" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it not just be easier to allow you to hide your CV from any employer matching a set of terms you can set yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: As Jon said, you will be allowed to use the power of &lt;strong&gt;REGULAR EXPRESSIONS&lt;/strong&gt; to filter out who you do not want to view your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T13:11:28.733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:11:28.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26363" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:05:51.207" Score="4" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a part of careers, we’re planning&#xA;  to roll out free, public CVs with&#xA;  user-selectable “vanity” URLs in a&#xA;  week or two. In retrospect, we should&#xA;  have done this from day one, as it&#xA;  compliments the public record of your&#xA;  Q&amp;amp;A on Stack Overflow. As Joel notes,&#xA;  the best way to control your online&#xA;  presence is to fill it yourself with&#xA;  all the cool stuff you’ve been doing!&#xA;  Don’t let others tell the story of you&#xA;  when you can tell it yourself. --&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/podcast-70/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow Podcast 70 Summary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but could someone elaborate? After reading this, it seems like everyone will get a CV that they can attach to their profile without paying a cent. However, these won't be in the careers searchable database unless you pay the fee. Is this correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:17:52.690" Title="What does this announcement about free, public CVs really mean?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26159" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:06:52.750" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/podcast-70&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 70&lt;/a&gt; suggests that you'll be able to supply a regular expression to match employers against. That should be flexible enough to do what you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or to put it another way: currently, you have one problem (hiding your CV from your current employer). When you have the option of using regular expressions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001016.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you'll have two problems&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T13:21:09.447" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:21:09.447" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26162" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:09:43.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything that I have seen up to this point leads me to believe that you can fill out a CV but you are paying a fee to have it filed and searchable by prospective employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:09:43.977" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26169" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:13:35.450" Score="1" ViewCount="1817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask this specifically because SQL Server collations contain underlines, and I couldn't find how to display them properly as part of a sentence. Only quoting them as code seems to display it properly, as below :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Latin1_General_CI_AS&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:37:21.117" Title="How can I type an underscore symbol as part of a word?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;underscore&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26165" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:27:22.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way to get it to show up in the same sentence as regular text would be using the backticks for code highlighting it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are just looking to make it work at all, you can use the backticks, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Turns out I am wrong and the underscores WILL work but the preview is still bugged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T13:37:21.117" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:37:21.117" />
  <row Id="26169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26165" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:33:29.970" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Intra_word_emphasis are disabled, so the underscores in that first part should show up normally. There's a long-standing bug that the preview doesn't handle this correctly, but it should show up normally in the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still have an _ that is causing you trouble, you can escape/hide it from the markdown parser with a backslash (\).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:33:29.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:33:32.357" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an explanation from the Markdown docs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;h3 id=&quot;p&quot;&amp;gt;Paragraphs and Line Breaks&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated&#xA;by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a&#xA;blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered&#xA;blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be indented with spaces or tabs.&#xA;&#xA;The implication of the &quot;one or more consecutive lines of text&quot; rule is&#xA;that Markdown supports &quot;hard-wrapped&quot; text paragraphs. This differs&#xA;significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable&#xA;Type's &quot;Convert Line Breaks&quot; option) which translate every line break&#xA;character in a paragraph into a `&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;` tag.&#xA;&#xA;When you *do* want to insert a `&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;` break tag using Markdown, you&#xA;end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.&#xA;&#xA;Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a `&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;`, but a simplistic&#xA;&quot;every line break is a `&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;`&quot; rule wouldn't work for Markdown.&#xA;Markdown's email-style [blockquoting][bq] and multi-paragraph [list items][l]&#xA;work best -- and look better -- when you format them with hard breaks.&#xA;&#xA;  [bq]: #blockquote&#xA;  [l]:  #list&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the text before it's converted to HTML. You can read the docs in &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;text&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.php#p&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/a&gt; format. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T13:45:56.997" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:45:56.997" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26142" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:48:01.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One, this is a &lt;strong&gt;major&lt;/strong&gt; feature to add. Keywords for every language under the sun, with context-sensitivity (to know when you're asking about a given feature)? Entire class libraries? This could get freakin' huge -- and for not a lot of payoff, in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, and generally, &quot;RTFM&quot;-type (or the more modern equivalent, &quot;LMGTFY&quot;) answers are frowned upon to begin with. It's often been said that Google is StackOverflow's home page -- that is to say, so much of their traffic comes from Google searches that kicking someone out of the StackOverflow environment (even if not to Google itself) is probably not the right approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, there is a deeper question. Sure, API &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; might cover everything they need, and pointing them at raw docs might be OK. But a lot of the time, I've seen that people are more interested in how to apply API &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; to suit their needs, and that's information that may not be readily apparent in the man page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, again, the SO goal is to be THE repository for this information. Yes, much of it may be repetition of &quot;what's out there&quot; -- but the goal is to make it so that SO is the one place you as a developer have to go. That, I think, is part of why the FAQ specifically says that no question is &quot;too newbie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:48:01.363" />
  <row Id="26173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26159" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:54:25.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will it be possible for me to view other CV's as somebody that looks for a job? How would you then filter out employees I should not see? Overlapping current employers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current employer will probably have a normal account and not use the company name. What name he will use will be impossible to foresee. The RegEx has to be very general to do what you ask for, something like .*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:54:25.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26051" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:54:50.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dig data. I'd rather have a colorless numbered site than a colored numberless site. But that's how I roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:54:50.070" />
  <row Id="26175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26145" CreationDate="2009-10-16T13:57:07.290" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely agree. I also ran into a similar issue the other day. I was learning about OpenID and doing some SOFU site-searching from Google, and ended up getting a lot of false hits because of the &quot;Get an OpenID&quot; link at the bottom of question/answer pages (when you're not signed in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T13:57:07.290" />
  <row Id="26177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26158" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:09:59.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Achievements for the position should go under that position's &lt;code&gt;Experience&lt;/code&gt; block, not as a separate heading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Microsoft - 1994-1999&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Created Excel VBA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spent the next 9 years talking about it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a normal practice for HR, and I realize that as programmers we want to have things clearly delineated, but that's not normal practice for HR companies and hiring managers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:09:59.823" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26138" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:17:52.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the original closers - and as Voyager neatly put it, &quot;Java5crip7 is kwel&quot; was the main trigger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it was written completely &lt;strong&gt;incoherently&lt;/strong&gt; - and &lt;strong&gt;bad English had nothing to do with it&lt;/strong&gt; to answer the specific question in this thread (being ESL I'm hardly the first person to cast stones at others' English :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I wasn't inclined to dig any further, but did the guy actually ever satisfyingly explain WHY he'd want to do something that so far, to the best of my knowledge, only spam pop-ups did? (that wasn't my reason for closing but it did leave a bad impression nonetheless)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:17:52.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26145" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:24:24.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amen. +1 for suggestion. I often have to grep through throngs of questions listed because my phrase was in the &quot;related Qs&quot; area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:24:24.113" />
  <row Id="26180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26188" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:25:21.837" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139238/session-id-in-url-and-or-cookie&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. The nortorious &quot;ugg boot spammer&quot; keeps returning to this question (if you have 10K powers you can see the deleted spam posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, some spammer has this bookmarked and keeps coming back to create new accounts and post garbage. Can this question be renumbered, killing its permalink? Would this help the problem? Perhaps if our boot pushing friend gets a 404 he'll just go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:49:19.347" Title="Should SO renumber questions that are abused by spammers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:25:47.123" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36954/provide-keep-interesting-tags-option-when-hide-ignored-tags-enabled&quot;&gt;Provide &amp;ldquo;Keep Interesting Tags&amp;rdquo; option when &amp;ldquo;Hide Ignored Tags&amp;rdquo; enabled&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a setting I can toggle to get that behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, I'd like to request a feature.......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137385" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T00:26:46.080" ClosedDate="2010-08-05T03:32:20.427" Title="Tags: If &quot;A&quot; in My Tags, and &quot;B&quot; in Ignore, and a post has &quot;A&quot; and &quot;B&quot;, I'd like to see it" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26180" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:27:55.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about closing the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if there are more than one question that are being spammed, may be we should simply block the user/IP block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:27:55.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26181" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:31:28.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turn off the &quot;hide questions on my ignore list&quot; setting on your profile and they will show up as both interesting and ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:31:28.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:39:28.740" Score="-5" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually I'm not done editing so all they're doing is creating unnecessary revisions that I just clobber anyway. I don't care if I put &quot;it's&quot; when I meant to put &quot;its&quot;. Leave it alone, at least until I'm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else have this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that when someone creates a post they have a 5 minute window where no-one else can edit it. The same thing would happen when you edit a post. I believe a lot of clobbering occurs during this window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T16:39:46.377" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T16:39:46.377" Title="Suggestion: block edits by others in the 5 minute window after creating a post or doing an edit" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:35:31.187" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;jokes, quotes, and comics seem to be the best way to get votes around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A: correct answer to a Flash Actionscript question, average value 6 reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B: posting this comic (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.projectcartoon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.projectcartoon.com/&lt;/a&gt;) in every &quot;funniest&quot; question. average value 500+ reputation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add a bounty to a question, I must first find the perfect Dilbert comic, and earn reputation by posting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am i understanding this correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:05:59.763" Title="How can new users post Bounties on questions? -multiple choice-" Tags="&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;non-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26185" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:41:06.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions are usually made &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which means no reputation is earned no matter how many upvotes an answer may receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I'm not sure you understand what a bounty is, maybe read this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15330/how-do-i-put-a-bounty-on-a-question&quot;&gt;FAQ entry&lt;/a&gt; on adding bounties to questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:41:06.053" />
  <row Id="26187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26184" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:41:51.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually give the last editor of any post, at least a 3 minute grace period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing more annoying than thinking you're going to edit a post again, without leaving another edit to the edit history, and then have someone else edit it in the mean time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:41:51.623" />
  <row Id="26188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26180" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:42:18.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Breaking permalinks punishes everyone. If we were gonna go that far, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26180/should-so-renumber-questions-that-are-abused-by-spammers/26182#26182&quot;&gt;voyager's Closing suggestion&lt;/a&gt; would at least allow folks to still &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; the question, even if they couldn't respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:42:18.143" />
  <row Id="26189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26184" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:43:04.570" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do we know when you're done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously -- I'm not trying to be a jerk here. When a question is posted, some folks with edit privs will see it &amp;amp; edit it if it needs editing. There's no clear indication of &quot;when you're done&quot; editing your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I can see this for answers, where you might want to get in quickly and get the early bird advantage. But for questions, you should certainly be able to get all of your editing done before you hit the post button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 2 pennies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:43:04.570" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26223" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:43:47.407" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 334,911 questions under the &quot;active&quot; tab, 334,914 under the &quot;newest&quot; and &quot;votes&quot; tabs, and 333,037 under the &quot;hot&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this inconsistency, or is it a bug?  Are there 3 questions which for some reason are not considered active and 1,877 that aren't hot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the lesser number of active questions is due to page caching, but that doesn't seem likely for the hot tab given the number of missing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:11:41.493" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:11:41.493" Title="Inconsistent question totals" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26184" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:45:13.037" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, I've see the problem. For typo correction, I'll usually wait to edit for this very reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, in cases where a new question &lt;em&gt;really needs editing&lt;/em&gt;, that's 5 minutes for it to collect abuse and down-votes on the first page of questions while the (often ESL) author struggles to stop the bleeding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can put up with a bit of the former to allow us to help out newbies in the latter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:45:13.037" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26194" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:46:01.117" Score="27" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post a comment. Notice spelling mistake. Delete comment, fix error, repost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OOPS! 30-second rate limit! Gaaahh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go away and do something else, post the corrected comment when you come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is highly annoying and shouldn't be necessary. If anything I should be encouraged, not hindered, to take the time to fix a small mistake in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134441" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T15:02:22.580" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T15:02:22.580" Title="Deleting a comment (mine) should reset the 30-second rate-limit" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26184" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:46:34.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I said in the comments to John Rudy, I don't know what the big deal is about the conflicting edits. If you post and someone else edits it before you are done, then your newest edit is just going to come out on top anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post and someone else is in the process of editing and don't post it in time before your own edit, you already have the tools to roll it back to the appropriate position. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:46:34.220" />
  <row Id="26194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26192" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:47:35.450" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. This should also be extended to when there happens to be some sort of error that occurs which will not post your comment but still set the 30 second timer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:47:35.450" />
  <row Id="26195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26180" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:49:19.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't diamond mods lock a post so it can't receive answers without closing it? That would seem the right answer, with a comment as to why the question is locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the number is, at best, a short-term fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again, IP bans are probably a good idea, too (unless the spammer is using multiple IPs, which they probably are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:49:19.347" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26184" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:54:35.530" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree, but &lt;em&gt;conditionally&lt;/em&gt;. I take into account the reputation of the user's post I am editing. If it's a user that traditionally doesn't edit their work or is a low-reputation user, I'm more likely to edit their material as soon as it's posted to keep it from being closed.  If it's a user like you, I'm &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; less likely to edit it soon after it's posted, and may not edit it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:54:35.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T14:59:32.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always hitchhike over to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26126/so-what-was-the-cause-of-todays-downtime/26129#26129&quot;&gt;Peak Internet&lt;/a&gt; facilities and access Stack Overflow on a local terminal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T14:59:32.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T14:59:32.477" />
  <row Id="26198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:00:53.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Work. (Brought to you by the 15 character requirement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:00:53.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T15:00:53.923" />
  <row Id="26199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:05:37.503" Score="0" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Four people, other than the original owner of this question, edited it in &lt;strong&gt;less&lt;/strong&gt; than two minutes of each other. This was after the question had been open for only four minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1578501/parse-from-a-list-with-a-quote-in-text&quot;&gt;Parse from a list with a quote in text.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now it is a CW question, even though all of those edits trampled on one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All because the question owner asked a very poorly worded question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1578501/list&quot;&gt;revisions&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/76087224-0dab-4564-8208-cf0f9d301a0e/view-source&quot;&gt;original source&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some ideas to hopefully reduce chances of this happening in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T16:37:51.333" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T16:37:51.333" Title="Five edits within the first five minutes caused a question to become CW" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26185" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:05:59.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel your pain.  Garnering enough reputation to post bounties is tough, and the reputation-whoring option represented by Answer B has been intentionally shut down.  I've noticed folks tend to be pretty stingy with up-votes for questions, so the slow slog represented by Answer A (post good answers, hope a few of them get selected as the &quot;correct&quot; answer) is generally your best bet these days.  (I personally lucked into the bulk of my early reputation with a single good answer, and I'm still not exactly breathing down Jon Skeet's neck.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the process of registering to answer this question, I discovered that creating an account on Meta Stack Overflow and linking it to my regular Stack Overflow account is worth a cheap 100 rep points -- enough to post bounties on two questions!  So you might want to give that a try.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137386" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:05:59.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26199" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:12:41.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are some ideas to hopefully reduce chances of this happening in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All because the question owner asked a very poorly worded question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, as you note, it wouldn't have happened if the author had spent a few extra seconds on his spelling... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when you're editing, you can help avoid this by checking for interim edits before submitting your own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:12:41.487" />
  <row Id="26202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26199" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:13:54.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm a fan of the &quot;This question has been edited while you were making changes&quot; prompt that other sites throw when two people are trying to edit at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know theres a suggestion somewhere on Meta for this feature, I just can't seem to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:13:54.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26145" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:16:09.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yahoo has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ysearchblog.com/2007/05/02/introducing-robots-nocontent-for-page-sections/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;robots-nocontent tag&lt;/a&gt; for ignoring sections of a page but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonkragh.com/index.php/how-to-get-google-to-index-only-part-of-a-webpage/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google doesn't support it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder though if adding rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; to the links would have any effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:16:09.373" />
  <row Id="26204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26199" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:21:04.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about another screen appearing when you hit submit? If someone has edited and committed a change ahead of your edit, show your proposed version side-by-side with the live version, and give the option to commit your version in place of the live one. If nobody's edited it since your edit, the screen wouldn't show and your edit would save as normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, a 'pre-check-in' page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:21:04.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26192" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:22:43.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could open comments up to greifing though. Someone could submit and delete the same comment repeatedly making it hard to flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that I have felt the need for this myself so if it could be implemented safely I'd like to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:22:43.073" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26199" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:24:32.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny you mention that, not long ago &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26184/suggestion-block-edits-by-others-in-the-5-minute-window-after-creating-a-post-or&quot;&gt;I proposed a 5 minute edit blockout when something is posted or edited&lt;/a&gt; for this very reason (among others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that the last edit introduced a grammatical error in the title (&quot;an quote&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:24:32.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26209" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:24:34.347" Score="18" ViewCount="687" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some answers contain characters that look like keyboard keys, used as e.g. Ctrl+E.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What markup do I need to add to make &lt;code&gt;Ctrl&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;E&lt;/code&gt; look like actual keys?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;That's not mentioned in the formatting help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136036" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T17:49:12.887" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T14:23:14.217" Title="How can I format as keyboard keys?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="26208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26207" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:27:16.343" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;code&gt;kbd&lt;/code&gt; tag: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;Ctrl&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;+&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;E&amp;lt;/kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;E&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &lt;code&gt;kbd&lt;/code&gt; tag's style has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive/23571#23571&quot;&gt;disabled on Meta&lt;/a&gt; because of what Jeff termed &quot;abuse&quot;, so I can't show the actual effect of this code. If it ever gets re-enabled, the above text will look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fctrle.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ctrl+E&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T19:24:58.357" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T19:24:58.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26207" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:27:43.407" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: After this answer was accepted, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag was disabled on Meta.  It still works on SO, SF and SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T14:23:14.217" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T14:23:14.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:37:31.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polish clone: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salonit.pl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.salonit.pl/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:37:31.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T15:37:31.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26214" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:38:17.273" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like a feed that includes every tag with the word &quot;excel&quot; in it.  So I would get excel, excel-2007, excel-2003, and a few others.  I have been subscribed to the excel tag, but I didn't realize there were other excel-related tags that I could be getting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can subscribe to each individually if that's the best way, but it does lead to duplicates and it's a heck of a lot of low volume feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can also combine the tags, but then when someone makes an excel-2010 tag, I'll have to know that it was made and update my feed settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can accept that I might get tags that contain 'excel' that I don't want, but I can live with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some existing way to accomplish this?  If not and you want to implement it, I suggest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~excel&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~excel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where tilde+keyword would include all tags containing that word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137388" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:46:01.363" Title="RSS Feed for All Tags with Excel" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26199" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:38:37.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22135/optimistic-concurrency-for-post-edits&quot; title=&quot;ocean, billy, ocean!&quot;&gt;checking for edits in motion&lt;/a&gt; happens, maybe we can start up a little habit of posting a comment that you're going in for an edit and to warn others to stand back a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit in progress...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then when you're done and out, delete your comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That won't stop all conflicts, since people might have gotten to the question before your comment stuck. But it should cut down the extra conflicting/clashing edits some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:38:37.257" />
  <row Id="26213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26211" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:45:07.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add &lt;code&gt;excel*&lt;/code&gt; as an interesting tag (or other similar wildcard such as &lt;code&gt;*excel*&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on your new interesting tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to the bottom of the screen for an RSS Feed of everything that matches your new wildcard interesting tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely you could just construct the url yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=excel+or+excel-2003+or+excel-2005&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=excel+or+excel-2003+or+excel-2005&lt;/a&gt; (etc. etc. etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/excel~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/excel~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:45:07.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26211" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:46:01.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Switch it around: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/excel~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/excel~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you'll come to all questions where the tag starts with &lt;strong&gt;[excel]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll see variants such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excel-vba &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excel-2007 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excel-formula &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excel-2003 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excel-addins and so on and so forth and so how's your mother doing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click the RSS icon that will appear in your browser location bar. Or wherever it happens to crop up. There you will see a deluge of all the posts under that tag wildcard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But because of the flood of excel prefixed tags, you might get a Bad Request - Error 400.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just cut down some of those tags and spread your subscription across a couple of the feed variants. 10 tags per feed should be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:46:01.363" />
  <row Id="26215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26199" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:50:02.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that the user wrote a poorly worded question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should institute 'features' that benefit users that write poorly worded questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will reinforce the &lt;code&gt;'If you write a question well, you'll get reputation for it.'&lt;/code&gt; notion -- and that's a notion that needs reinforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:50:02.120" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26199" CreationDate="2009-10-16T15:51:51.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Wave&lt;/a&gt; style editing? Just kidding, it'd be an overkill, and possibly would kill the servers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T15:51:51.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1209" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:07:57.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed on this can we have a separate retag option (as you get before you can edit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136010" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:07:57.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-16T16:07:57.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26252" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:10:31.087" Score="24" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1566899/1566966#1566966&quot;&gt;very silly answer to a question&lt;/a&gt;.  It got voted down, rightfully so. Then, I guess, somebody took a pity on me and upvoted a question.  I was really surprized that I've got a full +10 on my reputation back.  Shouldn't you get a &lt;code&gt;net&lt;/code&gt; value of up and down votes?  E.g. in my case, should I have only got a +2 back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137390" LastActivityDate="2010-11-26T22:47:03.550" Title="Should up and down votes cancel each other?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26220" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:13:02.470" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that bugs me too. IMHO, up-votes to posts with a negative score should merely counteract a single down-vote in terms of rep awarded to the user, not give them a bonus. In the past, I've actually gained more reputation from some trollish answers than from equivalently-ranked serious answers... I'm now more careful to CW such responses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:13:02.470" />
  <row Id="26222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26220" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:13:21.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the real world you would think so. In Stack Overflow, we like to reward a lot more than we punish apparently (I guess to prevent people from getting feelings hurt too easily and to prevent people from gaming the system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; there has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;talk in the past of increasing the downvote damage to -5 instead of -2&lt;/a&gt;, although it is likely to also come with an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased/7325#7325&quot;&gt;increase in penalty to cast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T11:48:15.620" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T11:48:15.620" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26190" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:24:51.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hot screens out posts below a certain vote threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:24:51.873" />
  <row Id="26224" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:37:52.140" Score="-9" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should ban people who never down-vote.  I always go into questions that suck, only to see comments from people saying &quot;This is a terrible question, please rephrase it&quot;.  Why don't they down-vote the question then?  Scared to lose one point, you silly user?  I would not waste my time with the question if I saw it was at -1!  This bothers me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130648" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T20:49:50.953" Title="People Never Down-Vote" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="26226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26224" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:41:36.397" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Banning might be a bit harsh, but... This is a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind though, there's a bigger problem: sympathy votes. The user who posted that comment may well have down-voted the question, only for it to have been up-voted again by some misguided busybody who felt sorry for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a few proposed solutions to this, but ultimately it's a social problem: most folks just aren't critical enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:41:36.397" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26224" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:43:54.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment and give people a chance to fix things unless the transgression is &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; egregious;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting people on 1 rep is a pointless activity;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It takes 5 downvotes to counter 1 upvote. Questions and answers on less than 0 net votes are &lt;strong&gt;much&lt;/strong&gt; more likely to attract &quot;pity upvotes&quot; cancelling out the effect; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes received can be cancelled out by subsequent upvotes (up to the daily rep cap) meaning that if you answer a lot of questions you can largely ignore downvotes anyway, so there's even less reason to downvote such a person's posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to separate out downvotes on CW posts (which cost the voter nothing) out of people's upvote/downvote stats to see how many &quot;real&quot; downvotes people actually hand out. I imagine not many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:43:54.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26224" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:44:05.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I down-vote a lot :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just did a quick experiment - randomly clicked 10 user names who had more than 500 points. 2 of them had not a single down-vote, 8 of them did. Of those 8, the average number of down-votes was around 15% of their up-votes, which seems quite reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your suggestion is too drastic, banning people just for never down-voting. It's a fine balance to encourage people to down-vote but make it hard to abuse. The -1 is necessary, but if only 20% of the people never down-vote that's probably not too bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(obviously my stats are really, really crude)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:44:05.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26230" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:48:05.213" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am building an App to access Stackoverflow, I would very much like to use the logo and colour scheme to give users a sense on continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the same time I don't want people to think it a SO product or endorsed by them in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The app will be free (but I may ask for donations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:52:08.890" Title="Using SO, SU, SF Logos and Colour Schemes in Third Party Apps/Tools" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;logo&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26229" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:52:08.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the footer of every page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site design and logo is © 2009 stackoverflow.com llc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would email team@stackoverflow.com and ask Jeff/Joel directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:52:08.890" />
  <row Id="26231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26224" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:52:30.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honest answer? Downvoting punishes the user who only tries to help, so it's a lose-lose situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something is really crappy (and not &quot;repairable&quot; by editing the post) I'll flag it or vote close, whichever is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T16:52:30.463" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T16:58:49.670" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it isn't easy to implement, has privacy implications, etc., but I think it'd be really neat if Jeff's Angels could somehow broadcast when careers was successfully used to place someone at a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a simple running tracker of &quot;&lt;em&gt;X programmers placed at dream jobs so far...&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this would depend on people opting in and reporting when they received an offer, etc., but I think it'd be really great (and great promotion for the service) if there was some way to announce/broadcast when the service has actually helped someone out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it's a simple blog post from time to time - as a prospective customer, I'm really interested to know if/when careers is helping people get jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T17:04:42.447" LastActivityDate="2010-07-05T14:54:31.647" Title="Will we know when people start getting jobs through careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26224" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:00:01.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you claiming that you don't even read questions that are at -1?  How does a question being at -1 affect your ability to answer it correctly and get upvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know this isn't an answer.  It's a comment, but I want to separate the discussion of this from the discussion of the question itself.  If it's abuse of the system, then so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T17:00:01.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26236" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:00:15.080" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I revised &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1579127/&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; with an updated body and made it CW. It now shows a link that reads &quot;3 revisions&quot; but when you click on it, you see only 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am guessing that moving it to CW is an implicit revision that's hidden?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T17:28:53.580" Title="Minor: Revision count is incorrect" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26220" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:18:13.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community should encourage people to ask. It is fair that upvotes have bigger impact on reputation than downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T17:18:13.753" />
  <row Id="26236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26234" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:28:53.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you made the change within the 5 minute grace period, it won't show up in the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T17:28:53.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26240" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:31:11.703" Score="6" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just crossed 2K reps in SO and hence gained edit access to others' posts. Straightaway I edited a couple of posts to correct spelling mistakes and code errors (and to test my 'editing powers', of course). I am a little reluctant about editing posts for reasons that are not as straightforward as these ones though. Now, I read that it's okay to &quot;Clarify meaning without changing it&quot; but it also says &quot;Always respect the original author&quot;. I just changed the title of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1579117/&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; to clarify it's meaning better. Could someone check that and tell me whether that falls in the &quot;clarifying the meaning&quot; side or &quot;offending the author&quot; side of the wall? Of course, offending is subjective and varies from person to person - I'm looking for a general idea (and a second opinion on my first nontrivial edit, I guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T18:09:43.507" Title="Editing others' posts - general etiquette" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26241" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:35:14.240" Score="12" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe once everyday I stumble with questions like &quot;I'm feeling down&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1579230/how-do-you-deal-with-the-early-signs-of-burnout&quot;&gt;How do you deal with the early signs of burnout?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/322542/feeling-trapped-to-the-job-closed&quot;&gt;Feeling trapped to the job [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&quot; &quot;Should I stay or should I go?&quot; and many other mood-related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand that are important questions, I'm not sure about if SO is right place to ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we, politely, ask users to seek professional help and to avoid posting psycho-related stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastActivityDate="2010-10-01T15:18:09.040" Title="How to deal with &quot;I need a hug&quot; type questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;psychology&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26237" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:37:44.393" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your edit went far enough -- although it was as far as you were comfortable going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good thing about Stack Overflow is that we're able to make it a repository of perfectly worded good programming information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing is a key part of that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at my edits, they are usually expansive, but I rarely encounter apprehension towards my edits; if anything I've noticed that bad questions tend to get upvoted after they're extensively edited well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be afraid; just be sure of your edits before you make them. I know I've inadvertantly changed the meaning of a post once or twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T17:37:44.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26239" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:38:00.943" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to sound callous, but this is a Q&amp;amp;A site.  Not a suicide prevention hotline.  Close it as 'Not Programming Related' or Subjective or whatever else, and if you're worried about the guy, post the hotline and move on.  We're a community, but we're not really a community at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T17:38:00.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26239" CreationDate="2009-10-16T17:49:25.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an aside to Tom's excellent advice, if you don't have close privs, flag for mod attention. They can take care of the post in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T17:49:25.150" />
  <row Id="26246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-16T18:02:53.223" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a suggestion that might allow everyone to have their cake and eat it too. Leave the parser, but change the &lt;em&gt;editor&lt;/em&gt; to add two spaces and a newline when the ENTER key is pressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way code would remain standard Markdown and compatible with every other Markdown parser. Also new posts/edits would be compatible with existing posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T18:02:53.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26237" CreationDate="2009-10-16T18:09:43.507" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission (according to Python - don't know if I agree). If you think it's clearer, edit it. If the OP disagrees, he/she can edit it back (or just rollback), but I think most of the time they'll understand that you're just trying to make it a better question and work with you rather than against you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And edit wars happen, and it's no big deal, because after a few back-and-forths you (or they or some clearheaded third party) realize what's going on and stop (or break it up in the case of the third party) and then it's over. Sure, it's bad, but it's not &quot;end of the world&quot; bad. Just &quot;try not to&quot; bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you lose something in the meaning, or if you mess something up, it's not like it's broken forever. It's just in the permanent edit history for us all to laugh at you at. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T18:09:43.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26220" CreationDate="2009-10-16T18:26:39.070" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+10 on your question.  The current system rewards &lt;em&gt;controversial&lt;/em&gt; posts more than &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; posts -- if I can say something that is inflammatory enough that it gets both downvotes and upvotes, I can rake in the rep. One might even say this is a good recipe for gaming the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;strong&gt;should it go both ways?&lt;/strong&gt; If we made the reputation gained/lost from a post based on the post's &lt;strong&gt;net score&lt;/strong&gt; (barring the daily rep cap interfering) even for an overall positive post? e.g. so a post that gets votes of (+1, +1, -1, +1) would receive (10 + 10 - 10 + 10) score, so that the -2 deduction only kicks in if the post's net score dips below zero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T18:26:39.070" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26224" CreationDate="2009-10-16T18:27:30.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing questions and flagging for deletion those that are irretrievably broken is immeasurably better than downvoting in my opinion.  Downvoting can result in self-deletion, but only if the OP actually cares or has rep to lose.  Most often poor questions come from new users who have none and probably are unaware they can delete their question anyway.  I choose the more effective mechanism for completely broken questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that can be improved should be by those who can edit.  If you have enough rep, rather than downvote or complain via comments, why not repair the question and make it useful.  The OP benefits because now he/she may actually get some usable answers.  The site benefits because it has one more usable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually reserve my downvotes for bad behavior -- consistently posting poor questions, trolling, and the like.  In that case I'll often downvote and flag, getting a 2 for 1.  Even though the rep cost to the OP is relatively low it sends a message about the behavior that it won't be tolerated (at least by me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T20:49:50.953" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T20:49:50.953" />
  <row Id="26254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26255" CreationDate="2009-10-16T19:20:54.433" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23701/why-cant-i-change-my-vote-if-the-post-has-been-edited-during-the-initial-5mn-gr&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;rsquo;t I change my vote if the  post has been edited during the initial 5mn grace period ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1573159/java-check-boxes-in-a-jcombobox/1579848#1579848&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; because the original revision was poorly formatted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author then edited it, to fix the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still cannot cancel my downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I am &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; trying to change my downvote to an upvote, just cancel the downvote.  This has always worked for me in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be to do with the fact that the author edited it less than 5 minutes after originally posting it, so the edit does not appear in the history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I was able to work around this by editing the answer myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T09:18:11.377" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:18:11.377" ClosedDate="2009-11-05T15:26:38.267" Title="Still cannot cancel my downvote, even though post has been edited" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26254" CreationDate="2009-10-16T19:26:12.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your suspicion is likely correct. Since there is no revision history, it can't tell that the post has actually been revised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T19:26:12.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26239" CreationDate="2009-10-16T19:29:29.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create a new user account called FreeHugs and make sure he/she says something randomly positive whenever you see it; then vote to close with your regular account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T19:29:29.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26224" CreationDate="2009-10-16T19:32:43.963" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I am hesitant to down-vote now is that it's harder to take it back.  I used to down-vote poor questions/answers early and then undo after it had been edited.  Lately it's been harder (for me anyway, also that's what she said) to time it correctly to avoid the &quot;This vote is too old to undo&quot; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T19:32:43.963" />
  <row Id="26261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26254" CreationDate="2009-10-16T19:59:31.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real problem is that the edit window for the first edit (5 minutes) is less than the window allowed for changing your vote.  If these two values were brought into alignment this scenario would no longer be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So would it be possible to extend the window for changing a vote to 5 minutes after the original posting time?  This also largely addresses the &quot;the vote change window is so @$@#$@ short&quot; problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T19:59:31.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22305" CreationDate="2009-10-16T20:17:56.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another element that would be helpful: the visible link (that is underlined in the browser) should show the title portion of the post, not &quot;stackoverflow/questions/...&quot; which is rather pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something that SO's customized Markdown could be doing (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/markdown-one-year-later/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as discussed in the blog yesterday&lt;/a&gt;) -- filter on SO links and customize the visible text accordingly. (And use the real title of the post, rather than using whatever random stuff the user chooses to include -- see comments above for examples.) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T20:17:56.173" />
  <row Id="26263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26266" CreationDate="2009-10-16T20:21:22.080" Score="6" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ended up with a non-existant tag in the tag field of a new question.  When I attempted to post it I got this error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;new users can't create tag 'visual'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is because I don't have enough reputation (in which case the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;'s statement about needing 100 to do so is incorrect (I have 121 on SO) [EDIT:  It's dated], or something else entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF the issue is my not having enough rep explicitly stating that fact would be better since 'new' implies a time based criteria not an activity based one.  If the issue was something else then the message should be changed to indicate what the actual error was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T11:04:26.360" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T11:06:15.000" Title="Error message returned when attempting to post with a non existant tag could be made clearer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-10-16T20:21:54.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm usually not the fastest gun in the West and someone else has already replied to the question. Often I go &quot;yeah that's a good answer&quot; and upvote, then a few minutes later I realize that the answer was incomplete and I can improve on it, so I post an answer of my own. Now I'm all irritated that I already gave the other guy an upvote and he'll probably not give me one... and I'll get even more irritated if the OP decides to accept his answer because it was first or higher ranked, even if mine is better!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So lately I've postponed voting on answers until I decide whether or not I'm going to reply myself.  For questions that I've submitted an answer to, I wait a while before voting on any of the other answers, although I usually will eventually (especially if my answer already has the most votes and/or has been accepted). I don't like shorting others the rep that they deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T20:21:54.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26263" CreationDate="2009-10-16T20:24:48.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do agree the word 'new' is kind of vague, but the FAQ for meta is not the same as the FAQ for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflows reputation limit for creating new tags is actually 250.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T20:24:48.190" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26263" CreationDate="2009-10-16T20:27:50.117" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this could and should be improved!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: OK, I improved a number of new user post validation messages. I believe getting the new user experience right is extremely important, almost more important than improving features for heavy users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular I am thinking of Jon Skeet's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/481/whats-the-single-biggest-barrier-to-entry-on-so&quot;&gt;What's the single biggest barrier to entry on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T11:06:15.000" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T11:06:15.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-16T23:00:32.180" Score="0" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Icon is always there, regardless if I have new replies or not. What's it supposed to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it just go away when there is nothing to be aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137401" LastActivityDate="2010-04-18T16:11:53.807" Title="&quot;New replies&quot; icon useless when you have no (new) replies" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;replies&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26270" CreationDate="2009-10-16T23:07:59.717" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's useful for showing recent activity on your account, such as upvotes/downvotes to your questions and answers, badges received, comments made to your posts, etc.  Those of us who obsess about reputation click on it several times a day to see what just caused our reputation to change (somewhat related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21375/fill-in-the-blank-hitting-the-rep-cap-is-like&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19522#19522&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T23:07:59.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26270" CreationDate="2009-10-16T23:15:15.290" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not at all useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try clicking on the other tabs. It lets you check where your votes came from; where you gained reputation, badges, and comments/answers to you in the last day, previous day, this week, last week, this month or last month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty cool, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T23:15:15.290" />
  <row Id="26273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26276" CreationDate="2009-10-16T23:20:12.207" Score="5" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hazard a guess that most people have a little bit of school/education information, but potentially a lot of work experience.  Certainly it's more likely than the other way around.  When I'm hiring/interviewing candidates for a job, their work experience is &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; more important to me than school information.  I think the CV page would showcase the relative importance of these factors better if the sections were reversed.  That is, the experience section would come before the education section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136564" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:20:49.320" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:20:49.320" Title="Why does the education section come before the experience section on careers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26273" CreationDate="2009-10-16T23:25:18.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect it's because people usually get their education before their (relevant) work experience, so the sections are more or less chronological.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I actually answered the question &quot;why is &quot;Education&quot; below &quot;Careers&quot; on a traditional resume layout?&quot;  I expect careers just followed the &quot;standard&quot;, waiting for questions such as this to buck the system. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-16T23:38:03.177" LastActivityDate="2009-10-16T23:38:03.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26145" CreationDate="2009-10-16T23:30:23.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top 10 Google search results &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; have &quot;Create GUID&quot; in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+create+guid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+create+guid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I'm not seeing the problem here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/3xPdQ.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per my discussions with Rich Skrenta who runs blekko.com and is on our board of advisors -- showing related questions is &lt;strong&gt;exactly what we're supposed to be doing&lt;/strong&gt; as it provides a nice &quot;random walk&quot; for search engines to spider us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's funny because in an email he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would create a &quot;related questions&quot; box on the sidebar, that linked to 5 other random related questions.  You have the tag data to drive this, but it goes into /tag/, so the related leaves are a 2nd hop away -- after another pagination barrier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which.. we already had. Exactly. And that's what you guys are complaining about :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-08T22:28:59.517" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T22:28:59.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26273" CreationDate="2009-10-16T23:31:23.657" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Agree. We're currently working on making everything re-orderable.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: we permanently moved Experience above Education, and you can re-order any of the items &lt;em&gt;within&lt;/em&gt; experience or education however you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be rolled out next week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:20:42.220" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:20:42.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19580" CreationDate="2009-10-17T00:05:02.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would help, I think, if we included version numbers of whatever the question pertains to. For fast moving targets like Rails, which seems to dump tried-and-true gems in the bitbucket weekly, it is hard to pick and choose relevant answers to problems that occur on &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; version of the language I'm using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it is &lt;em&gt;immensely&lt;/em&gt; helpful that every question and answer has a timestamp. All too often I've seen a blog post / personal site / whatever that appears to have the answer I seek, only to find out that it was written two years ago ( =&gt; not worth the brain cells reading the title of the page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136311" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T00:05:02.483" />
  <row Id="26278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25871" CreationDate="2009-10-17T00:12:03.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ack.  I thought that was fixed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/diff?spec=svn82&amp;amp;r=82&amp;amp;format=side&amp;amp;path=/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/diff?spec=svn82&amp;amp;r=82&amp;amp;format=side&amp;amp;path=/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt; but apparently I needed to add an i to the next line too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Submitted a fix at revision 86: &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/detail?r=86&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/detail?r=86&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137403" LastEditorUserId="137403" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T00:29:53.953" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T00:29:53.953" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-17T00:36:04.330" Score="9" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to add collapsible #regions within my post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blah blah blah I am very smart and I will tell you how its done.  Blah blah blah blah, if you're interested, that's like THIS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;#region explaining how to DO IT BABY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;int main()&#xA;{&#xA;  puts( &quot;DO IT BABY&quot; ) ;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;#endregion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blah blah blah, more explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(( the #region and #endregion pairs become invisible, and they basically look how #regions look in visual studio. ))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T01:05:09.450" LastActivityDate="2011-04-21T19:15:53.330" Title="collapsible region" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26279" CreationDate="2009-10-17T00:38:50.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should file a feature request with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt;, since that's what we use for markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T00:38:50.440" />
  <row Id="26282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25191" CreationDate="2009-10-17T00:42:30.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed at revision 87: &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/diff?spec=svn87&amp;amp;r=87&amp;amp;format=side&amp;amp;path=/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/diff?spec=svn87&amp;amp;r=87&amp;amp;format=side&amp;amp;path=/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137403" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T00:42:30.263" />
  <row Id="26283" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-17T01:00:25.920" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24962/careers-wont-let-me-list-reykjavik-iceland-as-location&quot;&gt;Careers wont let me list Reykjavik, Iceland as location&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I type in &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Berlin, Germany&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the location field, the form automatically changes it to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Berlin, Berlin Germany&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same with the field &quot;Where do you want to work?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T01:50:10.717" ClosedDate="2009-10-18T11:03:04.117" Title="Problem with location field on careers.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="26284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26283" CreationDate="2009-10-17T01:50:10.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it is in the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;City, Region Country&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Berlin is both a city and the name of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States%5Fof%5FGermany&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;federal state&lt;/a&gt; Berlin (city) is in. So for somewhere else in Germany it might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Koeln, Nord-Rhine Westphalia Germany&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just confusing because it's Berlin twice so it doesn't strike me as a bug per se.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T01:50:10.717" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="26287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26290" CreationDate="2009-10-17T04:41:04.210" Score="6" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a search before posting this. Lots of previous post regarding deleted questions but I can't find a specific one related to what I want to discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened yesterday when I submitted an answer to a new question. Minutes later, I could find my answer and I realised the question page shows &quot;Page Not Found&quot;. I presume it is deleted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't help but to feel, &quot;why can't it show something like, 'This question has been deleted'?&quot; At least I would have know what happened instead of trying to find out if I somehow go to a different URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was it a fluke incident and I was mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T15:27:23.023" Title="Is deleted question page shown as &quot;Page Not Found&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="26288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26287" CreationDate="2009-10-17T04:47:32.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A deleted question is no longer live and is effectively &quot;dead&quot;. It's deleted for a reason and doesn't need to be shown, especially to Google, so it  isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you crack the 10k mark, or are a moderator, then you won't be seeing the &quot;Page Not Found&quot; bummer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T04:47:32.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26287" CreationDate="2009-10-17T06:37:18.613" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;9 times out of 10, this is because the question author elected to delete their own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we do prevent this, if there are a certain # of answers or upvotes on the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T06:37:18.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26279" CreationDate="2009-10-17T07:25:34.970" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually like this idea, if only because there are other SE sites where the ability to hide a portion of one's answer (until the user elects to see it) would be beneficial. (I'm specifically thinking of SmarterGamer, where the ability to hide spoilers would make a lot of sense.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow, I'm not so certain that people want to hide portions of answers, nor that users want portions of answers hidden. Thus, I'm less certain of its utility. (The one use case that really does spring to mind is when you have to post tons of code for some reason -- the ability to hide everything except the error lines might make sense; those who need the rest to debug can still get to it ... Er, I still don't know.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I can tell you that one of the owners of the Trilogy happens to be very much &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001147.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;against code folding&lt;/a&gt; in general, the &lt;code&gt;#region&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;#endregion&lt;/code&gt; pair, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5199/please-add-the-ability-to-fold-blocks-of-code-in-questions-and-answers/7705#7705&quot;&gt;posting large amounts of code to SO&lt;/a&gt;. So I wouldn't exactly hold my breath on this one. Indeed, you'll notice on link #2 there that this very same request is ... &lt;code&gt;[status-declined]&lt;/code&gt;. (Yes, your rationale is different, but the underlying tech is identical.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T07:25:34.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26287" CreationDate="2009-10-17T08:27:53.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that this error message is not very informative. As I understand it, the current situation is that people will see a deleted question only &lt;strong&gt;if they are the OP or a 10k+ user&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that this be changed such that one can view a deleted question only &lt;strong&gt;if they are &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; person who posted in the thread, or a 10K+ user&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is more user friendly, doesn't interfere with Googlebot (I have not seen Googlebot answering any questions... yet), and allows one to access one's own answer after a question has been deleted. I find this last argument the most compelling: if I spend time formulating a nice answer, I do that first and foremost for the OP, but also as a future reference for myself. Quite frequently I search for one of my own answers! I'd like to be able to access that data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T08:27:53.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-17T08:39:35.600" Score="2" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some LA reviews are already popping up on &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#search?q=%23devdays&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, but there's no place on Meta for them yet, so here goes...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were there, can you write a review of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/losangeles/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Los Angeles leg&lt;/a&gt; of Stack Overflow DevDays? Links to reviews in blogs, etc, are also welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 16th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Intentionally &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a wiki (as per comments &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:12:36.817" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:12:36.817" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Los Angeles" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26287" CreationDate="2009-10-17T09:37:28.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the other answers - there is one case where it gets &lt;em&gt;fully&lt;/em&gt; removed, and not even 10k users (or ♦) can see it ('cos it really doesn't exist) - &lt;em&gt;merge&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally a duplicate is just closed. If it gets lots of answers before closing &lt;strong&gt;and is a very good match&lt;/strong&gt;, it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; get merged at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; question gets quickly merged is if the OP double-posted, and both versions are attracting answers (if one has no answers we'll just delete that one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T09:37:28.583" />
  <row Id="26295" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-17T09:42:39.853" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14147/is-there-an-easy-way-to-see-all-questions-in-a-tag-that-have-0-answers&quot;&gt;Is there an easy way to see all questions in a tag that have 0 answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16542/how-to-search-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to search unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it's possible to view these pages and if it is possible, it's very un-intuitive to get to them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137410" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T16:25:52.920" ClosedDate="2009-10-19T07:40:32.803" Title="I want to view the unanswered questions per tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26295" CreationDate="2009-10-17T09:47:43.820" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say you want to see all the questions tagged &lt;strong&gt;[sifr]&lt;/strong&gt; with zero (0) answers. Plop this into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot; title=&quot;tips and hints&quot;&gt;the search&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0+%5Bsifr%5D&quot; title=&quot;why does lisp have an S?&quot;&gt;[sifr] answers:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What returns will be all questions with absolutely no answers under that specific tag. Salt and pepper to your tastes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T09:47:43.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26297" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26299" CreationDate="2009-10-17T10:45:58.147" Score="1" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19946/if-you-bookmark-a-question-shouldnt-you-also-be-encouraged-to-upvote-it&quot;&gt;If you bookmark a question, shouldn&amp;rsquo;t you also be encouraged to upvote it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8457/why-not-get-reputation-when-your-question-is-marked-a-favorite-by-somebody&quot;&gt;Why not get reputation when your question is marked a favorite by somebody?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it quite often, a question has more users marked it as favorite than the users who upvoted it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it somewhat, well, &lt;strong&gt;(c)rude&lt;/strong&gt; to mark some question as favorite and &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; upvote it?, by marking it as favorite you say that this question &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; nice and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't users who mark question as favorite be encouraged to upvote it, too?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(Like when upvote an answer on your own question, a note is shown to remind you to accept it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T16:23:14.640" ClosedDate="2009-10-17T21:23:49.217" Title="Shouldn't a user who &quot;favorite&quot;s a question up-vote it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="26298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26297" CreationDate="2009-10-17T10:59:51.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometime 'favorite' a question because I'm interested to see the answers, but I expect them to say something negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I may not think the question worthy of an upvote, but I want to be able to go back to it later. This is easier if it's a 'favorite'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T10:59:51.350" />
  <row Id="26299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26297" CreationDate="2009-10-17T11:02:24.497" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;No&lt;/em&gt;. Not everybody selects a question as his favourite because it's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; their favourite. One could e.g. select it as a reminder to come back later to see whether people closed or reopened it. OR come back later to see whether the question has been improved. And sometimes a questions is not really good, but one of the answers is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Ah, this question appears to be a duplicate of the slightly misnamed question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19946/if-you-bookmark-a-question-shouldnt-you-also-be-encouraged-to-upvote-it&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you bookmark a question, shouldn’t you also be encouraged to upvote it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T11:19:17.947" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T11:19:17.947" />
  <row Id="26300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26297" CreationDate="2009-10-17T11:02:33.030" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I treat favourite as a bookmark - which has nothing to do with whether I think the question is any good or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This behaviour been noted elsewhere on meta - but I can't find the question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually either &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19946/if-you-bookmark-a-question-shouldnt-you-also-be-encouraged-to-upvote-it&quot;&gt;the question in Stephan202's answer&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8457/Why-not-get-reputation-when-your-question-is-marked-a-favorite-by-somebody&quot;&gt;the one in Brad Gilbert's comment&lt;/a&gt; would fit the bill&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T16:23:14.640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T16:23:14.640" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26302" CreationDate="2009-10-17T11:04:33.930" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got my monitor in portrait mode and when I'm editing a question, I seem to gravitate towards the preview and start trying to click around to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;That's a Newbie Mistake&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very surprised - I'm a developer building his own application, I love computers and I'm a power user who can recite most of the keyboard shortcuts for the apps I love. And I've been using Stack Overflow for quite a while now. You'd have thought I got used to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This the kind of thing I'd expect a user to do who doesn't understand about how browsers or editors work. And yet I've made this mistake three times in a row now and it's getting really annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What Causes This&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The preview is large relative to the question editing area in portrait mode. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The distracting nature of the code preview or images - they stand out and draw my eye to the preview section.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Possible Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if point 1 was fixed, point 2 would be a non-issue - because more of your preview would be pushed off the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be done only in portrait mode - people viewing the page on a normal landscape monitor would be unaffected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Current Layout&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://synapticmishap.co.uk/CurrentScreen.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Current Screen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggested Layout&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://synapticmishap.co.uk/SuggestedScreen.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Suggested Screen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137412" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T00:53:27.500" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T00:53:27.500" Title="Increasing size of Question Edit region" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26301" CreationDate="2009-10-17T11:54:11.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it looks like you're not using Opera, but instead something called Safari, aren't you able to drag the lower right corner to extend your textarea area? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If you're using the super fantastic Opera, it's just the bottom bar of the textarea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/k8KST.png&quot; alt=&quot;barring the hulk&quot; title=&quot;even bad puns live somewhere&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though why you would want to type with just three visible lines showing, hey to each a peach.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then this would only solve your case and not across the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haven't been of the use of looking at the preview text and thinking it was too much of a draw card. Used to be the preview had a dark grey background, but now it's got this nicely dotted border instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really that much of a problem to be able to distinguish what the edit area is and where the preview of what you're typing up is? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T15:43:42.017" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T15:43:42.017" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26301" CreationDate="2009-10-17T11:56:53.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we want to give more prominence to the preview because that's how the text will appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the preview is always going to stand out because it's formatted, maybe with bold text or headings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you just have to get used to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T11:56:53.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26297" CreationDate="2009-10-17T12:54:07.460" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow and Internet Explorer have made the same mistake. They've called bookmarks &quot;favorites&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, it wasn't the original intended use in SO's case, but it is what they have been used for)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T12:54:07.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26301" CreationDate="2009-10-17T14:47:17.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The browser, in this case, doesn't matter -- AFAIK, all the major browsers can expand the S[OFU] text editor using the spiffy bar at the bottom. I'm looking at it in Firefox on a Mac now, and swear I can do it in FF and IE on Windows at work -- and of course, Safari and Chrome as mentioned by random. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who are web developers, I'm speaking specifically the div whose class is &lt;code&gt;grippie&lt;/code&gt;. I just made this text editor really big for no good reason whatsoever. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the editor can be resized at will on the major desktop browsers, I'd say there's no real need for change here. I think statistically, portrait-monitor users will be far (far) outnumbered by standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9, 16:10) users, and we should probably optimize for the latter pair (shorter visible area) therefore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T14:47:17.300" />
  <row Id="26316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26239" CreationDate="2009-10-17T15:16:44.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noted with pleasure that the default SO response to iffy legal questions is starting to be &quot;see a lawyer&quot;, in contrast (say) to the Slashdot tradition of people from various unknown jurisdictions and varying knowledge of the law being very definite of what it is or isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The psychological questions are similar.  I know a lot about C++ and some other topics, but I'm neither a lawyer nor a psychotherapist.  Perhaps we should start cultivating a response suggesting professional help while closing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The legal questions are frequently more programming-related, but the psychological ones tend to be less.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T15:16:44.267" />
  <row Id="26319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-17T16:12:17.737" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been involved with closing a few subjective questions, and more often than not the owner replies with links to other similar questions that have stayed open for some reason or other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a few cases, these are the questions from back in the day where the rules were softer on these kinds of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions are usually open due to momentum and others are closed before they were caught before they were able to gain momentum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your subjective views on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T18:29:27.700" Title="What to do with &quot;But all the other kids are doing it!&quot; type of replies when a subjective/fun question is closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26328" CreationDate="2009-10-17T16:15:37.480" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/75432/alternative-to-ubuntu-closed&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See this question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was migrated to SF from SO, and then closed on SF as Belongs on SU with at least 3 (maybe 4) votes to this regard.  After being closed the &quot;Migrated from SO&quot; message is retained but there is no Closed or Migrated to SU message.  It was migrated to SU (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/56596/alternative-to-ubuntu&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here it is&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T16:31:41.603" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:34:05.700" Title="No closed reason displayed on question migrated from SO, to SF, to SU" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26319" CreationDate="2009-10-17T16:17:11.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote to close the questions used to defend questions that should be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or vote to migrate them here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Might make sense to add a comment to the target question to point out that it is being used as justification for undesired behaviour along with the vote to close/move.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="133671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T16:28:38.440" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T16:28:38.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26319" CreationDate="2009-10-17T16:20:50.623" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My subjective views are that we need moderators to step in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'open mafia' fights against closing not because the question is worth something, but because they are anti-'closer'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've even had some of them follow me around just to re-open any question that I vote to close. I don't begrudge them that, but I think that their motivation is skewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should always take more votes to re-open something than it should to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions start in an open state.  Closing for well-defined reasons (which we do have) means that this question does not fit on Stack Overflow. Period.  It may be a great question, but it doesn't belong here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet we engage in a tussle where the same number of open votes opens the question back up, it accrues more votes, and then even though it's an out of bounds question, it gets to stay around because it accrued views and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's flawed; and it dilutes the system from those questions that should be here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T16:20:50.623" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26319" CreationDate="2009-10-17T16:29:13.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close and point the user to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26014/why-is-the-stack-overflow-community-so-aggressive-about-question-criteria&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; here on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding my opinions on this ... I tend to agree with George Stocker that there are a number of high-rep users who really want questions to not get closed for practically any reason. They don't grok that closures are good for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I begin to wonder: At 3,000 rep, we can vote to close and reopen. Perhaps the rules should change a bit? Maybe up the rep needed to vote for reopen (5,000)? Perhaps keep it at 3,000, but double the required votes to reopen? (In other words, 5 votes closes, 10 reopens?) I'm not sure -- but I'm open to suggestion on what the right answer there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T16:29:13.807" />
  <row Id="26325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26319" CreationDate="2009-10-17T16:40:13.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another idea: What if voting to reopen cost some rep?  Say 30 or 60 points or something -- enough that 3k users will think twice before voting?  Would this provide some counter pressure, or are the people re-opening undesired questions significantly higher in rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T16:40:13.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26327" CreationDate="2009-10-17T16:49:05.127" Score="3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;When logging in there are some icons indicating which OpenID provider you use. What are these for? I click on one and it highlights... but does nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I type in my ID (without the myopenid.com suffix) and it doesn't work.&#xA;I type in my name and then click the icon and it just clears out the input field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are these icons for? I can't find a use for clicking on them and it has confused me for quite a while now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;After seeing the responses I understand how it works. For some reason I was simply ignoring the smaller icons below the large ones. However, I still think it could be made quite a bit more obvious somehow. The interface is definitely &quot;making me think&quot;. Discuss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20471" LastEditorUserId="20471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-17T17:58:20.693" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:58:20.693" Title="Logging in: Does the interface make sense?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26326" CreationDate="2009-10-17T17:04:16.220" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, when I log in, I click the myopenid icon and type in myopenid username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cznp.com/images/myopenid.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:04:16.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26320" CreationDate="2009-10-17T17:34:05.700" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a known issue. Jeff normally updates these in the database when reported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Once a question is migrated to a site it cannot be migrated back or moved to another site correctly&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a regular problem on SU at the moment since SO users seems to be under the impression SU is a garbage bin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:34:05.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26331" CreationDate="2009-10-17T17:41:05.627" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;If person A creates a Q or A, then person B comes in and changes it, the percent contributed will be displayed next to the original posters name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does that affect rep?  And is there a certain level where the original poster would no longer accumulate rep for votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:45:56.707" Title="How does 'percentage contribution' affect rep on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26329" CreationDate="2009-10-17T17:45:53.527" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Percentage is only shown on community wiki posts, which by definition don't generate any rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:45:53.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26329" CreationDate="2009-10-17T17:45:56.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't, other than that after 6 edits a post becomes communitiy wiki and no longer accumulates rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T17:45:56.707" />
  <row Id="26332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26279" CreationDate="2009-10-17T18:24:11.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i don't like this, because that will encourage long-winded articles instead of concise precise answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If what you're saying isn't important enough to be read, don't put it in a collabsible section, just omit it - saves bandwidth, pixels, and reading time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T18:24:11.080" />
  <row Id="26333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26319" CreationDate="2009-10-17T18:29:27.700" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;close the referenced questions also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as for the open/close wars, perhaps an incremental cost would be in order, i.e. it initially takes 5 votes to close a question, then 5 votes to reopen it; next cycle it should take 6 votes to close it and 6 votes to reopen it, then 7, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;each time through the cycle the open/close faction has to recruit one more vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after a while, the community bot can just delete the question as 'churn' ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T18:29:27.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26297" CreationDate="2009-10-17T19:14:23.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People should be able to use the site as they want to some degree. Forcing users to vote when they perform other actions may be counter to their wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T19:14:23.720" />
  <row Id="26336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26273" CreationDate="2009-10-17T19:53:08.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always put education information with my personal statement and a skills summary on the first page.  This is due to the fact that my education information only states I have a 1st in Computer science from Essex University.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think for old people like me, the manager is likely to stop reading the experience session when he gets board, and therefore never find the education information if it is at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T19:53:08.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-17T21:03:58.420" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;if the user I am voting on (upvote) has hit the daily maximum, does my vote get rejected? i.e. the vote will not increment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T21:06:32.313" Title="If I am voting on an answer, and that user has hit the daily limit, what happens?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26337" CreationDate="2009-10-17T21:06:32.313" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vote is incremented, but no reputation is gained. So you can still see how many people actually like an answer, but it just doesn't help the poster's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T21:06:32.313" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26360" CreationDate="2009-10-17T22:58:32.780" Score="2" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1583413/find-a-prime-number&quot;&gt;algorithm &lt;/a&gt;  question on SO and it was closed as a non-programming related. As far as I know, algorithms were always part of CS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="133741" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T15:21:21.273" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T17:45:37.687" Title="Are algorithm questions allowed on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="26341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26339" CreationDate="2009-10-17T23:08:36.897" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been nominated for reopening and is (temporarily at least) open again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that algorithms are reasonable questions for StackOverflow.  Clearly, not everyone agrees, but it doesn't belong on SuperUser or ServerFault (or Meta), so where else could they be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-10-17T23:08:36.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26339" CreationDate="2009-10-18T00:26:21.043" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically it's purely math related, but computer science is simply &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/435/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;heavily applied math&lt;/a&gt;. I wouldn't vote to close because it is very clearly &lt;em&gt;related to programming&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. it's for programming purposes). It wouldn't make sense to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To find out whether N is a prime number, we only need to look for all numbers less than or equal to sqrt(N). Why is that? I am working as a carpenter and trying to understand the reasoning behind the floor plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I would say it's okay for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T00:26:21.043" />
  <row Id="26344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26339" CreationDate="2009-10-18T01:32:07.600" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; programming related. It is basic mathematical reasoning, and you would have been better off puzzling over until you got it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But close enough that I wouldn't vote to close. On the other hand, I wouldn't vote to reopen either...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T01:32:07.600" />
  <row Id="26345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T01:57:34.497" Score="40" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like how &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; has a few unique fields that are quite specific for developers. I think that's a great idea and thought about another addition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you search the blogosphere it's quite common to see developers promote/display their programming book collection. I think it would be an interesting add-on to the careers website for devs to attach their favourite books to their CV. I know for a fact that I would weigh and applicant who has read &lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Pragmatic Programmer&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; a lot higher than someone who has a lot of &quot;Learn X in 24 hours&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The statistical interest would be interesting as well to see if there's any correlation with certain books and the type of jobs they get. I would be curious to see how many that read &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Peopleware&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; get managerial jobs, and would also reflect favorably for that employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1894" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-05T19:21:11.483" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T19:21:11.483" Title="Provide A Programmer Bookshelf With Your CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26345" CreationDate="2009-10-18T01:59:44.103" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fantastic idea, perhaps we can include some form of ISBN auto-lookup as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T01:59:44.103" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26348" CreationDate="2009-10-18T02:20:03.067" Score="15" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges/15/generalist&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/badges/15/generalist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found no user awarded for Generalist Badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What a user should do to achieve this badge?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why there isn't any user with these badge?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many tags should be active for generalist badge?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sagar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T08:52:04.057" LastActivityDate="2010-05-24T16:40:42.670" Title="&quot;Generalist&quot; badge for super user &amp; stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26347" CreationDate="2009-10-18T02:40:27.400" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I don't think the generalist badge has been implemented yet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4916/suggested-implementation-for-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But time marches on, the codebase grows, the features creep, and now it has been: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/generalist-badge-implemented/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;details here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="133671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-24T16:40:42.670" LastActivityDate="2010-05-24T16:40:42.670" />
  <row Id="26349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-10-18T02:52:58.873" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason i thought the stickers were bigger than they are...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/WK6iJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;stickers cash&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131901" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T03:25:19.983" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T03:25:19.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T05:18:24.110" Score="0" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the best tags to follow on Stack Overflow if you are looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Advice for Career-Development&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Tags I follow: &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/career-development&quot;&gt;career-development&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To Look for CS University Free online courses&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Tags I follow: &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/university+or+learning+or+college&quot;&gt;university, learning, college&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To keep updated with latest trends and technology updates&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Tags I follow: &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/polls+or+blogs+or+programming&quot;&gt;blogs, programming, polls&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accordingly, what are the SO tags that you follow regularly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134960" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T05:48:50.570" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T07:45:00.907" Title="What are best tags to follow on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26350" CreationDate="2009-10-18T05:28:00.543" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ones that are relevant to my knowledge and interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Resisting urge to illustrate with lolcats... Resisting... Urge...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bytesizebio.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/funny-pictures-relevant-to-my-interests.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;This is relevant to my interests&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried. I'm sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="135301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T05:46:40.603" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T05:46:40.603" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26339" CreationDate="2009-10-18T05:28:40.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a proponent of leaving the question closed I suppose I should reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all questions belong in the Trilogy. To say &quot;it doesn't belong on SU or SF, therefore it must belong on SO.&quot; isn't valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree it's a thin line. But imagine if the question had no language attached and the user had simply asked &quot;To find out whether N is a prime number, we only need to look for all numbers less than or equal to sqrt(N). Why is that?&quot; I don't think anybody here would think it was programming related, because it's pure math. In the same manner saying &quot;How do they make waffles look so tasty? Oh, because I'm programming a waffle simulator&quot; doesn't suddenly make waffles programming related, I don't think &quot;Why is pure math question X so? Oh, I'm implementing it&quot; makes the question related to programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, programming is applied mathematics, but it's the application we talk about, not the pure mathematics. I don't find saying &quot;well then algorithms etc also aren't programming related since they are math&quot; is valid either. They are programming related because &lt;em&gt;we implement them&lt;/em&gt;. We take these algorithms and &lt;em&gt;apply them&lt;/em&gt;. How can one &quot;apply&quot; why the minimum number to check is sqrt(N)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastEditorUserId="87234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T17:45:37.687" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T17:45:37.687" />
  <row Id="26353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26347" CreationDate="2009-10-18T06:24:26.090" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They created the badge but as of yet have not actually implemented the rule as far as how to award it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is our Duke Nukem Forever of badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T06:24:26.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26350" CreationDate="2009-10-18T06:50:14.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best tag is &lt;code&gt;code-golf&lt;/code&gt;. Most of the other stuff is pretty boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T06:50:14.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26358" CreationDate="2009-10-18T07:01:25.480" Score="3" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I think stackoverflow llc won't handle my data securely, but, it's just that, well, I'm a developer too and I've seen where credit card data ends up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an alternative means of payment for careers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T08:56:05.800" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T08:56:05.800" Title="Alternative means of payment for Careers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;payment&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26355" CreationDate="2009-10-18T07:39:06.673" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you wish you pay for careers you can use also use paypal - however it's more of a manual process for us to activate your account, so please allow 24-48 hours after you send funds via paypal for activation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The paypal address is:  careers@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please be sure to include your email address that is present on your careers CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T07:39:06.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26350" CreationDate="2009-10-18T07:45:00.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are tags? I just read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the questions&lt;/a&gt; in numerical order...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T07:45:00.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26355" CreationDate="2009-10-18T08:11:07.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The credit card transmission is https://&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We don't store your credit card information &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt; in our database, &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T08:11:07.817" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26355" CreationDate="2009-10-18T08:47:29.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blame Fedex. They refused to take the last live goat I tried to send.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T08:47:29.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26339" CreationDate="2009-10-18T09:44:10.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at your question I can honestly say that you should ask it at &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mathoverflow.net&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that you can't ask &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; math question? I think no; you &lt;strong&gt;can ask math questions that are not too technical or specific&lt;/strong&gt;, something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1581267/find-if-an-angle-is-within-x-degrees-from-another&quot;&gt;high school algebra&lt;/a&gt; or first year undergrad calculus are accepted, I think. Beyond that, I suggest you take it to mathoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T09:44:10.240" />
  <row Id="26361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26339" CreationDate="2009-10-18T11:03:50.510" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is so not an algorithm question. And if you think it is, you're wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T11:03:50.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-10-18T11:27:37.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really satisfied browsing Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow via my iPhone except for one thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Large blocks of code are missing their scrollbars in Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137445" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-05T16:17:26.097" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T16:17:26.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26162" CreationDate="2009-10-18T11:35:33.357" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will be a tab titled &lt;strong&gt;publish cv&lt;/strong&gt; containing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Your CV is private; make it public to the world&#xA;&#xA;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/[ input box ]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below that will be individual per-field toggles to hide things you don't want shown to the public. This should be available by the 27th and we will make sure to allow a brief period where current paid members can get the public URLs they want first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:17:52.690" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:17:52.690" />
  <row Id="26364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26149" CreationDate="2009-10-18T11:36:40.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can reduce it to, say, 5 if you like. Would that work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T11:36:40.110" />
  <row Id="26365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26366" CreationDate="2009-10-18T12:30:52.427" Score="7" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a screenshot but I don't have a server to host it on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way for me to just attach the image to the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T07:39:58.667" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T07:51:43.077" Title="Is there a way to attach images to a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="26366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26365" CreationDate="2009-10-18T12:37:01.667" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=free+image+hosting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=free+image+hosting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've used ImageShack and ImgUr before without incident, though I think ImageShack may be blocked by some corporate firewalls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, we now support integrated image hosting using the image insert toolbar button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/new-image-upload-support/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T07:40:32.333" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T07:40:32.333" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26365" CreationDate="2009-10-18T12:49:44.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/75491/how-to-upload-an-image-to-a-post&quot;&gt;the built-in image upload&lt;/a&gt; no need to worry about anything. It happens to use imgur, but it uses a pro account, ensuring images will never expire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For personal use, &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;started by a redditor&quot;&gt;imgur&lt;/a&gt; is good too if you want to throw up an image with no fuss. Images posted are allowed to stay up for a period of three (3) months with no activity before they are deleted. If you view your image before the three months are up, it'll be around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want something where you can have an account, you can also try something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://photobucket.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;drip drip&quot;&gt;Photobucket&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever you do, don't go with TinyPic. They don't like it when you hotlink images (the whole point) and will only allow you a cruddy thumbnail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-11T07:51:43.077" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T07:51:43.077" />
  <row Id="26368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26369" CreationDate="2009-10-18T14:21:14.630" Score="5" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted an answer to one of my questions and then realized later that I read the answer wrong and that it was correct. I went to upvote it and it wouldn't let me. It said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless this answer is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any clue as to what this is about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T14:31:30.350" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T16:00:02.587" Title="Why is my vote now too old to be changed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="26369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26368" CreationDate="2009-10-18T14:25:41.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The time between when you first voted and then tried to change your vote has been too long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clock which tracks this length of time has expired, your vote is now locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can now only change your vote when the answer has been edited. Editing a post resets the clock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be careful though. When you get the next chance, do not just undo your vote if you're only going to cast in the opposite direction. That would be two (2) moves. Instead, just reverse your vote if you so want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T14:25:41.547" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T14:57:37.103" Score="10" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22140/who-created-which-tag&quot;&gt;Who created which tag?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got the notification telling me that I earned the Taxonomist badge. With curiosity getting the better of me, I tried to find out what badge I had created. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;apparently&lt;/a&gt; you can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree that once you have hundreds of badges the thrill of discovery probably wears off. But, do you think that is representative of the entire Stack Overflow audience? Or perhaps a very vocal minority?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There must be something I am missing. I tried looking on my profile page for something that might aid me, but there is nothing there. All it tells me is that I have &lt;em&gt;participates&lt;/em&gt; in 482 tags. Next, I took a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/tags?page=2&quot;&gt;list of tags&lt;/a&gt;. I thought maybe I could go through all the tags with 60-45 questions and see if I am the creator. Once I saw that there were about 40-or-so tags within this range, I simply gave up. Just as well, because the tag pages do not seem to tell you who the creator is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Jeff, I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wish I could find out how I got this badge. I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wish&#xA;I could feel this 'thrill of discovery' you keep talking about when discussing this issue, but it appears impossible to discover this at all, let alone in a 'thrilling' way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like going hunting, but all the animals are already dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/18G0h.gif&quot; alt=&quot;duck hunt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T01:00:50.007" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T01:05:36.530" ClosedDate="2010-07-12T01:07:30.733" Title="Is it at all possible to find out which tag earned me the Taxonomist badge?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24541" CreationDate="2009-10-18T15:13:00.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%5Flayout#United%5FKingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UK keyboard map&lt;/a&gt;, I see the same behaviour (&lt;code&gt;Alt Gr&lt;/code&gt;+&lt;code&gt;=&lt;/code&gt;), but only with Firefox on Windows (Chrome on Windows, IE and Firefox on Ubuntu do not respond to the key-combination).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to confirm your OS, browser, versions and so on if you want a fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a temporary workaround, you can try switching browsers and/or making use of your operating system's input services to remap the keyboard (for example, Windows lets you switch language input at will via a taskbar icon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T15:13:00.103" />
  <row Id="26372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26370" CreationDate="2009-10-18T15:32:39.550" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/7868&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was the first to have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/filesystems&quot;&gt;filesystems tag&lt;/a&gt;. There is one earlier question with this tag, but the tag wasn't added until &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/6769/list&quot;&gt;later&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how to figure this out, when you receive the notification, likely it was recently that the tag went from less than 50 to equal or greater, so look through the tags with about 50 questions (much much easier on SU than SO) and look through the first questions asked with that tag. Also, be aware of revision history and migrated questions, because sometimes the oldest questions are not actually the ones who had the tag first. This is surely not a completely accurate process, and can be time-consuming, but generally, especially when you're searching for it right after receiving the badge, its possible to figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T15:32:39.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26287" CreationDate="2009-10-18T15:52:12.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;A Team intro music&gt; If the deleted question had comments on it, and you know how, maybe you can write a Greasemonkey script to fetch them. (That would at least confirm that there had been a question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T15:52:12.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26370" CreationDate="2009-10-18T15:57:02.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been made possible now that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot; title=&quot;stick that on your pin and wear it&quot;&gt;badging system tells you what you badged up for&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/11/taxonomist&quot; title=&quot;and there was a fountain&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Taxonomists&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/badges/11/taxonomist&quot; title=&quot;not just any fountain&quot;&gt;Server Fault Taxonomists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges/11/taxonomist&quot; title=&quot;fountain of tags&quot;&gt;Super User Taxonomists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T01:05:36.530" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T01:05:36.530" />
  <row Id="26375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26370" CreationDate="2009-10-18T16:07:28.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to tell you that &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11881/popular-questions-badge-show-which-question-is-the-popular-question&quot;&gt;it's not possible&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to discover which question brings in what tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge/898#898&quot;&gt;it's not technically possible now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T06:28:40.730" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T06:28:40.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T16:11:24.553" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can questions be asked on StackOverflow and then answers be contributed to projects licensed under the Gnu free documentation License (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://pleac.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PLEAC&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135883" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T20:26:15.880" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T20:26:15.880" Title="Compatibility with Gnu Free Documentation License" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T16:20:44.240" Score="2" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11017/what-are-the-most-upvoted-downvoted-questions-and-answers-on-the-sites&quot;&gt;What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be interesting to see which question/answer is the most downvoted one, without referring to the monthly data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea how to get this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T16:40:09.820" ClosedDate="2009-10-20T12:08:26.570" Title="Most Downvoted Question/ Answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26295" CreationDate="2009-10-18T16:25:52.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possible (a bit more intuative than search):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strike&gt;java&lt;/strike&gt; (your tag here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T16:25:52.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26377" CreationDate="2009-10-18T16:40:09.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most downvoted question is simple. Just click questions, sort by votes and goto the last page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently its &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1357811/vim-vs-emacs-final-battle-closed&quot;&gt;this question.&lt;/a&gt; And the most voted none closed question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1072903/what-would-be-the-best-way-to-invert-a-stack-without-using-anyother-extra-data-s&quot;&gt;this.&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to get the answers is something you can't see simply. You can see past 30 days in the 10k tools. Currently it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568144/how-can-i-convince-a-client-that-audio-on-a-website-is-a-bad-idea/1568194#1568194&quot;&gt;this one.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T16:40:09.820" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26376" CreationDate="2009-10-18T16:48:24.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All content is licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic.&lt;/a&gt; So any usage of code from here is subject to that license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T16:48:24.300" />
  <row Id="26381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26396" CreationDate="2009-10-18T17:26:32.620" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23~&lt;/a&gt; returns &quot;43,619 questions tagged c#&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the single tag in the results despite the wildcard in the search term. However, the following search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.net~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.net~&lt;/a&gt; returns &quot;26,058 questions tagged&#xA;.net or  .net-3.5 or  .net-2.0 or  .net-1.1 or  .net-4.0 or [lots of other terms beginning with .net]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I would expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I know there are questions tagged [&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%232.0&quot;&gt;c#2.0&lt;/a&gt;], [&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%233.0&quot;&gt;c#3.0&lt;/a&gt;], [&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%233.5&quot;&gt;c#3.5&lt;/a&gt;] and [&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%234.0&quot;&gt;c#4.0&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same is true if you search for &quot;c++*&quot; (or more accurately &quot;c++~&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I'm guessing it has something to do with the way # is encoded as %23 and + as %2b.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1672/please-allow-wildcards-in-tag-searches/1726#1726&quot;&gt;by design&lt;/a&gt; - though I'll leave the question open for now in case the 4 character limit can be lifted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T20:55:56.310" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T20:55:56.310" Title="Searching for questions tagged &quot;c#*[~]&quot; only returns questions tagged &quot;c#&quot; not &quot;c#&quot; or &quot;c#2.0&quot; etc" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44190" CreationDate="2009-10-18T17:36:04.053" Score="20" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the search box requires the enter key to start a search.  This is a bit hard to do when your device doesn't have one.  We can has search button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting from a Zune HD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T18:34:38.710" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T17:13:11.217" Title="Make the search box handheld-device friendly" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7954" CreationDate="2009-10-18T17:50:30.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I offered a suggestion for performing regular recalcs on all users &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14200/self-instigated-rep-recalc/25376#25376&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, when a user passed one of the thresholds for gaining new abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T17:50:30.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26386" CreationDate="2009-10-18T18:10:24.303" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;Should we be allowed to edit comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are you allowed to edit your comments. .if so how . .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T07:18:42.377" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:18:42.377" ClosedDate="2009-10-18T18:19:18.017" Title="can you edit your own comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26385" CreationDate="2009-10-18T18:13:35.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. If you messed up, just delete your comment and re-write it, though you cannot really do this after someone replies (it'll look funny).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other questions concerning it, as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12041/allow-comments-to-be-edited&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12041/allow-comments-to-be-edited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T18:13:35.780" />
  <row Id="26387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T19:19:35.223" Score="0" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that my meta reputation is stuck at 1 at the moment (not a huge problem for me, but weird).  Has anyone else noticed this?  I've received upvotes to answers, linked my accounts and I'm stuck at measly 1.  Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4640" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:12:15.487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:12:15.487" Title="Reputation stuck at 1" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26382" CreationDate="2009-10-18T19:22:26.933" Score="-9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We won't be adding a button, but I guess I could make the background clickable (the search icon is a background-image specified in CSS).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I view this as a problem with the browser on that platform, not our problem. If the iPhone browser can handle this, the Zune / Blackberry / etc browser should be able to, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: see that Android already followed Apple's lead here, so this really is a platform issue as I said: &lt;a href=&quot;http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1872/how-to-use-the-search-box-on-these-stack-exchange-sites-with-the-galaxy-s&quot;&gt;http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1872/how-to-use-the-search-box-on-these-stack-exchange-sites-with-the-galaxy-s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T05:23:03.950" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T05:23:03.950" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="26389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26387" CreationDate="2009-10-18T19:24:06.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much rep in the account you're linking from?  I think you have to have 200 to get the 100 for linking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check the questions you've answered and had upvoted.  Are they all Community Wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check your rep now.  I've been puzzled by rep not going up before, so I'm upvoting this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T19:24:06.337" />
  <row Id="26390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26387" CreationDate="2009-10-18T19:31:18.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The no-repro is the number next to your name which is non-one. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T19:31:18.913" />
  <row Id="26391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21793" CreationDate="2009-10-18T19:33:45.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem for me was that Safari was caching my profile image. It had already updated on Gravatar's site, but even when I reloaded my user profile my image didn't change. I ended up emptying the cache and restarting my browser, and that solved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137452" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T19:33:45.587" />
  <row Id="26392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26387" CreationDate="2009-10-18T19:35:42.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/4640/deeksy&quot;&gt;user page&lt;/a&gt;, the only &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26109/what-would-you-do-if-stack-overflow-is-down-for-one-day/26112#26112&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; you've received upvotes for (besides this question) is a &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt; answer, so those upvotes didn't generate rep for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what Jeff said (you got rep just fine from an upvote for this question). :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T19:35:42.900" />
  <row Id="26393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T19:51:29.597" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the following answer, the user, links and other information is within the last code block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/599461/how-do-you-perform-an-and-with-a-join/599472#599472&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/599461/how-do-you-perform-an-and-with-a-join/599472#599472&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see off hand what's wrong with the code block, but something is messing it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5441" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-18T20:10:09.607" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T20:10:09.607" ClosedDate="2009-10-18T20:09:01.170" Title="The user, links, etc are within the code block?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" />
  <row Id="26395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26376" CreationDate="2009-10-18T20:17:06.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, so grain of salt and all that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that you can (try to) contact the original poster to obtain permission to use it in a GPL context. Because the copyright holder can license the creation several different ways if they so desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this sounds like the way you want to go, contact a IP lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T20:17:06.177" />
  <row Id="26396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26381" CreationDate="2009-10-18T20:47:54.750" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wildcard searches only work when added to a string of &lt;strong&gt;four&lt;/strong&gt; or more characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1672/please-allow-wildcards-in-tag-searches/1726#1726&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; Jeff Atwood posted about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I implemented an experimental&#xA;  &quot;explode&quot; operator which allows you to&#xA;  effectiely do the same thing -- it&#xA;  &quot;explodes&quot; the tags using ~ wildcards&#xA;  in a begins-with and/or ends-with&#xA;  manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all questions tagged bug, but without&#xA;  a tag beginning with &quot;status-&quot;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-~&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug%20-status-~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all questions with a tag containing&#xA;  &quot;edit&quot;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~edit~&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/~edit~&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I haven't fully tested all the&#xA;  permutations, but &lt;strong&gt;you must include at&#xA;  least 4 characters for it to be a&#xA;  valid match.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also: THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL. Like I&#xA;  said!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T20:47:54.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26365" CreationDate="2009-10-18T20:49:58.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just use &lt;a href=&quot;http://flicker.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt; because I already have a Yahoo! account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-18T20:49:58.087" />
  <row Id="26398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T21:12:59.483" Score="29" ViewCount="840" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions already on meta-stackoverflow regarding the database schema, but here is another, that I don't think is a duplicate, so please read on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read a description of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding%5Fthe%5FStackOverflow%5FDatabase%5FSchema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;schema&lt;/a&gt; after I read this article on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;High Scalability website&lt;/a&gt;. To quote the article, in the &quot;Lessons learned&quot; section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow copied a key part of the Wikipedia database design. This turned out to be a mistake which will need massive and painful database refactoring to fix. The refactorings will be to avoid excessive joins in a lot of key queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a newbie to database design, I thought it would be highly enlightening for somebody to expand on this statement a little, giving, for example, 1 or 2 examples of queries used by StackOverflow that suck when it came to excessive joins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm thought I read somewhere (can't remember exactly where, so maybe I didn't) that the database had recently undergone some refactoring which, I am assuming, was to address the issues regarding the joins. Is the, what seems to be widely published, schema (in the link above) a description of the database before or after refactoring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for a complete description of all the details about this, but some examples, general insights or links to other material would be a very useful resource for those of us who are new to this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137456" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T21:19:05.433" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T04:55:08.163" Title="StackOverflow database design join issues" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;&lt;database-design&gt;&lt;schema&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="16" />
  <row Id="26399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-18T21:31:39.790" Score="7" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/38/peer-pressure&quot;&gt;Peer Pressure page&lt;/a&gt;, the badge is awarded to those who &quot;deleted [their] own post with 3 or more downvotes.&quot; I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1583869/why-is-the-use-of-shift-without-parentheses-is-ambiguous-warning-issued-by-pe/1583882#1583882&quot;&gt;did this&lt;/a&gt; recently and didn't get the badge. The answer in question had 3 downvotes, but also had 4 upvotes. Either clarify the Peer Pressure badge to say &quot;Deleted own post with a score of -3&quot; or change the badge's implementation (and do the same for Disciplined, since I assume they're implemented the same way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T23:26:42.133" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T23:26:42.133" Title="Peer Pressure badge worded incorrectly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;peer-pressure&gt;&lt;badge-description&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26038" CreationDate="2009-10-18T22:03:02.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to deleted users. Note that user &quot;polk&quot; who was the original author no longer exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now don't show the date of accept at all in these cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-30T11:55:52.550" LastActivityDate="2011-06-30T11:55:52.550" />
  <row Id="26402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26365" CreationDate="2009-10-19T00:16:45.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put images in my &lt;a href=&quot;http://getdropbox.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dropbox&lt;/a&gt; &quot;public&quot; folder, right click the file, &quot;dropbox - copy public link&quot;. Very simple, no fuzz with upload forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130083" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T00:16:45.780" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-10-19T06:08:45.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would find such a tool useful. Just tonight I was answering some questions on SO and wished I had a drawing tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the functionality of Groff's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic%5Flanguage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pic&lt;/a&gt; program be integrated into the editor? The program already exists and can quickly generate images, so it might just be a matter of doing some AJAXy stuff to render the images in real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't seen pic code before, it's very simple but can create complex diagrams. Here's one that creates a simple state machine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;circle &quot;x&quot;&#xA;circle &quot;y&quot; at 1st circle - (0.4, 0.6)&#xA;circle &quot;z&quot; at 1st circle + (0.4, -0.6)&#xA;arrow from 1st circle to 2nd circle chop&#xA;arrow from 2nd circle to 3rd circle chop&#xA;arrow from 3rd circle to 1st circle chop&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what it looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/Glamorgan/gaius/web/grohtml-3218937.png&quot; alt=&quot;state machine&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17312" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T06:08:45.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20726" CreationDate="2009-10-19T06:31:33.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about partnership with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Balsamiq mockup&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure the Balsamiq people will welcome it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T06:31:33.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T07:52:18.230" Score="1" ViewCount="619" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that the editor I'm using to input questions on Stack Overflow is a very smooth, comfortable and easy to use beast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a variety of CKEditor or developed from scratch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible, I want use it in my own website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T07:58:56.980" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T07:58:56.980" Title="What WYSIWYG editor is Stack Overflow using?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="26413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26412" CreationDate="2009-10-19T07:54:19.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WMD Editor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137473" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T07:54:40.347" />
  <row Id="26414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26412" CreationDate="2009-10-19T07:55:41.010" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/reverse-engineering-the-wmd-editor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this SO blog post&lt;/a&gt; it's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WMD Markdown Editor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T07:55:41.010" />
  <row Id="26418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26419" CreationDate="2009-10-19T09:34:19.443" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code in the top post at &quot;Factorial Algorithms in different languages&quot; on Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23930/factorial-algorithms-in-different-languages/441229#441229&quot;&gt;&quot;Polyglot: 5 languages, all using bignums&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, doesn't display correctly and hasn't displayed correctly for some time.  In particular, it gets cut off after some point, but it's not clear to me what causes this break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The source is absolutely ridiculous (it's a polyglot as the name indicates, and it gets cut off in the middle of some brainf*** code), but it should still display correctly.  In fact, if you look at the revision history, or try editing the post, it does display correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technical note: the post currently uses &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags because previously the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag broke the Whitespace.  In theory I'm open to using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags but it should work either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137475" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T13:26:36.943" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:26:36.943" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T05:15:25.177" Title="Code doesn't display correctly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;display&gt;&lt;truncated&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26418" CreationDate="2009-10-19T09:48:13.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot; title=&quot;short shorts&quot;&gt;been noted before&lt;/a&gt; and all that you can do to clear it up is just add some extra spaces at the end of the post with the next edit. That pretty much fixes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T09:59:50.580" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T09:59:50.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T11:08:00.693" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to use Stack Overflow, banging in question after question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I have used a variety of methods of recording my progress and keeping track of things I've learnt, including some of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paper-based journal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emails &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Test programs &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ProtoPage.com &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memory &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally I have come to the conclusion that  :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;using Stack Overflow as a 'jotter' might be a good use of the site. Asking questions I cannot readily think of the answer to, and then coming back to either provide the solution I used, or to get pointers in other directions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I previously asked a question on Stock Overflow as I worked on someting for a couple of hours and then I came back to see what suggestions had been made , and also to provide my own answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an acceptable use of Stack Overflow? Banging in questions as I think of them, and then coming back to provide an answer an hour or maybe days later when I've worked through it? Maybe coming back in the meantime to see what answers I'm getting, maybe providing me with new directions to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;I know I asked the question on SO, but posted it on there to ask about methodologies that programmers like to use, and on here, as to whether using SO in 'jotter' kind of way is acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131388" LastEditorUserId="131388" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T12:03:31.070" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T12:08:14.993" Title="Using StackOverflow as a jotter" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;learning&gt;&lt;sharing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26421" CreationDate="2009-10-19T11:12:23.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is OK as long as the resulting questions conform to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO guidelines&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two things that irk me, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Banging in questions as I think of&#xA;  them, and then coming back to provide&#xA;  an answer an hour, few hours, or maybe&#xA;  days later whn I've worked through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sounds like you will only come back to the question when you know the answer. And that implies that you will not check for new answers and comments on your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't post your questions to several sites like you did with this one and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1588055/what-methods-do-programmers-prefer-to-use-when-learning-new-subjects-or-technolog&quot;&gt;that one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T11:12:23.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26421" CreationDate="2009-10-19T12:08:14.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are asking quality questions which can be answered and are not duplicates or breaking the site guidelines, then there is no rate limit at how fast you can ask questions (outside of the bot check using the Captcha).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T12:08:14.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T12:23:54.017" Score="1" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question, and then Superuser asked me to log in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was trouble logging in. First, I used http instead of https in my openid (which is my fault I suppose).  After correcting this there was a protocol error with Superuser trying to talk to my openid provider launchpad.net reported back by Superuser -- I was never asked for a password.  On the third try I finally got a request to supply a credential. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The browser window was never closed in this sequence of events, which took maybe 5 minutes.  The answer I had written to someone's question, which was kind of long, did not appear once I logged in.  I used the browser back key and got back to the page with the question, but my answer was not there either.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suppose the software could store an unauthenticated posting in a temporary area, and set a reminder somehow (cookie?) indicating a lookup index of some kind which is then sent from the user's browser when the user actually does log back in.  These temps could be kept for at least a few hours or so before being deleted (in case someone answered a post and had to run off to a meeting before figuring out why login failed). If so then was it the bad auth that trashed the post? That seems rather sudden. To avoid sounding like an idiot, I won't speculate further.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I suppose I will try to remember to log in first from now on and then post, it would be nice if the system were a little friendlier when there are login difficulties, because the rest of the system here so far seems very well thought out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137487" LastEditorUserId="137487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T13:16:22.137" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:16:22.137" Title="Answer post deleted when user has trouble logging in" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" />
  <row Id="26429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T12:56:03.893" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some SO users which keep posting same questions, over and over, despites all them being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is possible to create a feature to hide messages from specific users, just like &quot;Ignored Tags&quot; feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T12:57:08.667" ClosedDate="2009-10-19T12:58:55.167" Title="Ignore questions from specific users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;ignore&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26429" CreationDate="2009-10-19T12:57:08.667" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should report that type of behavior. Don't ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T12:57:08.667" />
  <row Id="26431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26432" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:09:10.857" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing some delay notifications to the likes of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;you can only comment every x seconds etc&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are all the timing delays that you guys know of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are proven to not be a BOT etc., are these necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:17:56.283" Title="time delay blockers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26431" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:16:51.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can prove that you aren't a bot now, but you can't prove that you aren't a bot five minutes from now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:16:51.293" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26431" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:17:56.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're not just there to stop bots, but also anti-social users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:17:56.283" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="26434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:18:34.163" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/469/page-navigation-on-users-page-doesnt-work-if-using-the-input-box&quot;&gt;Page navigation on Users page doesn&amp;rsquo;t work if using the input box&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you type a name in the users page then delete all the letters again, even when all the letters are deleted the &quot;next page&quot; link disappears until the page is reloaded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the users page doesn't work at all on Nintendo Wii Internet Channel. Typing in a name produces no results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T13:37:06.157" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:37:06.157" ClosedDate="2009-10-19T13:41:40.560" Title="Users page blasts away the pagination if you use the search" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="26435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:24:17.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just launched a site that is a perfect example of this phenomenon.  The site is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.runsubmit.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.runsubmit.com&lt;/a&gt;.  It's dedicated to questions about the programming and use of the SAS Software system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are barely 100 questions about [SAS] on Stack Overflow.  Many times, the community at large just doesn't get the fact that there are fringe languages and platforms.  For example, someone asked a performance tuning question about programming in SAS and, within 15 minutes, the upper-level reputation guys had voted to close and move it to Server Fault (thinking it had to do with Serially Attached SCSI disk drives).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dedicated, more-focused Stack Exchange site on subtopics (without extraneous questions about C++, GDI and iPhone development, etc.) is likely to gain a larger more devoted following.  In my case, the de facto question/answer forum is a Usenet newsgroup that's been in operation for over a decade.  Those folks deserve reasonably advanced Knowledge Exchange.  I'm hoping that's going to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.runsubmit.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Run; Submit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52522" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-03T09:46:56.883" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:46:56.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26440" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:47:24.527" Score="0" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just seen the check-box for community-wiki for an answer.  For a question, I can understand, but for an answer?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T14:08:18.970" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:09:57.620" Title="Why do individual answers have the option of being community wiki?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="26438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26444" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:48:35.493" Score="0" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know you can mark questions you like as favorite for easy reference. But still, you need to go through fairly large number of questions, users profile to find out the real pearls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have a place we you store any list of interesting questions (&lt;em&gt;and thus interesting answers as well&lt;/em&gt;). Perhaps like, the most answered question, the most favorited question, the most viewed question, the most upvoted question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would need some sort of page where you can put at this detail. Perhaps for every good (&lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;) tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137491" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T14:35:13.020" Title="Must read questions in Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26437" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:52:30.307" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer might be something that you want other people to edit and augment. For example, a list of books on a particular topic, or a list of technologies that satisfy a particular niche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, community wiki is the right option since it lowers the bar for other users to add useful details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:52:30.307" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="26441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26438" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:55:06.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can just use your Favorites to bookmark things to go back to later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to find things with certain users, certain votes and other criteria like that, you can use the super ninja search options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:55:06.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26438" CreationDate="2009-10-19T13:56:49.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since compiling lists of really good questions and answers isn't really what SO is &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; (it's for getting answers to questions), I wouldn't suggest that this functionality be added to SO by Atwood's Angels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, I can see a benefit for having high-quality questions and answers be in a very visible location. Especially for questions that are asked a lot and have been answered well to death already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps someone could create a community wiki question on meta for people to list really awesome questions whose answers benefit everybody even if they don't have the particular problem the original asker had intended? I'm talking about questions that are so good that just reading them make you a better person or head in a jar or raised chicken or whatever you might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T13:56:49.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26438" CreationDate="2009-10-19T14:09:57.643" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could search for questions (or answers) with more than a specified number of votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=votes%3A50&quot;&gt;votes:50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if you wanted to see questions with a certain count of answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A66&quot; title=&quot;pick up sticks&quot;&gt;answers:66&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of certain views:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=views%3A616&quot; title=&quot;the real number?&quot;&gt;views:616&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coupled with tags in the search term, I think this covers most of what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T14:35:13.020" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T14:35:13.020" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26437" CreationDate="2009-10-19T14:10:29.640" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've occasionally made answers Community Wiki if they've been improved by many people - e.g. if people have added a variety of comments, and I've edited the answer to include them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also use CW for an answer which has just culled the best bits of a variety of other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases it leads to a more Wikipedia-like situation: an answer which is genuinely community driven rather than the work of one person, and which becomes the &quot;ultimate&quot; answer to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T14:10:29.640" />
  <row Id="26446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T14:24:42.243" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I find an RSS feed of all the Stack Overflow podcast episodes, and not just the latest 10?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137492" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T16:21:26.527" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T16:21:26.527" Title="RSS feed for all podcast episodes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T14:46:32.250" Score="8" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the prompt at the top (nice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I click through:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maximum of 90 days allowed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137495" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T00:07:08.607" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T00:07:23.083" Title="Top message says 1 more response available, but linked page says out of date" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26437" CreationDate="2009-10-19T14:47:26.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to make my answer Community Wiki if I feel the question should be CW, and isn't yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T14:47:26.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26447" CreationDate="2009-10-19T14:47:36.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visit the site more often, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T14:47:36.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26973" CreationDate="2009-10-19T14:53:22.080" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/terms-of-service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;terms of service&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...Until November 9, &lt;strong&gt;2009&lt;/strong&gt; the Membership fee will be $29, and will allow your CV to be searched for 3 years from the date your Fee is paid. After November 9, &lt;strong&gt;2010&lt;/strong&gt; the Membership fee will be $99...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2010?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the price from 10-nov-09 to 09-nov-10 then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I to agree on the terms as they are, or should I wait for the amendment? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T22:17:13.597" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:17:13.597" Title="Membership prices typo in the terms of service - Careers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27580" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:06:59.513" Score="0" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel mentioned on the podcast that we’d be able to pick a vanity URL for our Stack Overflow Careers CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can’t see anywhere to set that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134863" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:52:26.293" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:52:26.293" Title="How do I pick the vanity url for my stack overflow careers cv?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26450" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:09:30.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I heard in the podcast I believe this is a typo and should be 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:09:30.743" />
  <row Id="26453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26437" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:09:57.620" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you know the community isn't going to like your answer for whatever reason, then you can save yourself some grief by making it CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:09:57.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-19T15:09:57.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26456" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:12:43.077" Score="2" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered this question and it was quickly pointed out that the code in my answer had a few bugs. I deleted it to avoid misleading the OP until I fixed the code and then undeleted it after the correction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1588913/how-do-i-merge-two-arrays-in-vba/1589045#1589045&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1588913/how-do-i-merge-two-arrays-in-vba/1589045#1589045&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it is relate to the delete-edit-undelete pattern, but after undeleting it the add comment link didn't seem to work anymore. It indicated as clickable, but just did nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Id think the link should still work, or if this is by design get rid of the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did some more troubleshooting:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The problem occurs on all questions,&#xA;not just the original one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It only happens when I use FF 3.5.3,&#xA;but not IE7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It works fine in both browsers on the meta site, just not StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T04:54:57.297" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T04:54:57.297" Title="Add Comment link broken" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26451" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:13:51.637" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would be able to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean you are able to...yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:13:51.637" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26454" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:17:06.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just tried it and it worked OK for me. Got the box, but didn't add a comment though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you tried refreshing (F5, or in extreme circumstances Ctrl+F5) the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T15:33:54.113" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:33:54.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:27:41.700" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted a question in this site and have received a comment for the question. Now I want to reply to that question and also intimate the user of the comment for the reply. How can we perform this task?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:33:01.057" Title="How to add reply to the comments received in any question in this site?" Tags="&lt;comments&gt;&lt;reply&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:32:43.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can either reply with another comment like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Username: Your comment goes here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or just add detail to your original question or answer if you are the OP and it is applicable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:32:43.693" />
  <row Id="26459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:33:01.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'd just add another comment in order to reply, but to specifically let someone know you'd have to leave a comment on one of the posts they own (a question or answer that they posted).  They won't get notified if your comment reply is attached to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:33:01.057" />
  <row Id="26460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26461" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:37:43.453" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1589165/lexical-tie-ins-with-flex-and-bison&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1589165/lexical-tie-ins-with-flex-and-bison&lt;/a&gt; there are two things called &quot;flex&quot;. Is there another tag for one or the other which could be used instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-21T12:21:28.890" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T12:21:28.890" Title="Tag for two flexes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ambiguous-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26460" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:43:33.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;code&gt;gnu-flex&lt;/code&gt; has become the tag to use. I've retagged the question accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:43:33.807" />
  <row Id="26462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26047" CreationDate="2009-10-19T15:44:25.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Review by Justin Britten&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.austinstartup.com/2009/10/review-stackoverflows-devdays-in-austin/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.austinstartup.com/2009/10/review-stackoverflows-devdays-in-austin/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T15:44:25.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-19T15:44:25.067" />
  <row Id="26463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26465" CreationDate="2009-10-19T17:10:32.720" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;How far back can you change a vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T17:38:23.950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:16:00.713" Title="How far back can you edit a vote?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26713" CreationDate="2009-10-19T17:31:52.933" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this answer here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1589853/what-coldfusion-8-performance-monitoring-free-tools-are-available/1589940#1589940&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1589853/what-coldfusion-8-performance-monitoring-free-tools-are-available/1589940#1589940&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Charlie Arehart's CF411 [lists several monitoring tools][1], some free, some not.&#xA;&#xA;Here's the current list:&#xA;&#xA;* [CFStatShot][3], free, from Dave Spurr. CFStat Yahoo Desktop Widget.&#xA;* [ColdFusion AJAX System Monitor][4], free, from Steve Brownlee&#xA;...&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://www.cf411.com/#cfmon&#xA;  [3]: http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/cfstatshot-cfstat-yahoo-desktop-widget/&#xA;  [4]: http://www.fusioncube.net/?p=37&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the first link is not being closed, so (in Chrome at least), it's applying all the way to the bulleted list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;post-text&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Charlie Arehart's CF411 &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cf411.com/#cfmon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;lists several monitoring tools, some free, some not.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Here's the current list:&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is always the first link that does it - I added a link in front of that one, and it started misbehaving whilst that one then fixed itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited a few times, but the only workaround I've managed to get working is to repeat the first link, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Charlie Arehart's CF411 [lists][1] [several monitoring tools][1], some free, some not.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9360" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T05:14:39.967" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T05:14:39.967" Title="Broken link behaviour in question (doesn't occur in preview)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26463" CreationDate="2009-10-19T17:32:45.630" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not far enough. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;It's a very short time&lt;/a&gt;, not specified exactly so as to prevent gaming, but it's somewhere in the realm of 1 or 2 minutes after the post was last edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a high enough reputation, y&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15672/you-can-remove-votes-up-or-down-on-questions-that-you-edit&quot;&gt;ou can remove or change your vote on an old post&lt;/a&gt; by editing it first. Jeff has stated that this is considered acceptable, but personally I would prefer we just grant this ability directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T18:16:00.713" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:16:00.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26464" CreationDate="2009-10-19T17:41:27.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charlie Arehart's CF411 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cf411.com/#cfmon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lists several monitoring tools&lt;/a&gt;, some free, some not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the current list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/cfstatshot-cfstat-yahoo-desktop-widget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CFStatShot&lt;/a&gt;, free, from Dave Spurr. CFStat Yahoo Desktop Widget.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fusioncube.net/?p=37&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ColdFusion AJAX System Monitor&lt;/a&gt;, free, from Steve Brownlee&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to have worked correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be because of the lack of a &lt;code&gt;[2]:&lt;/code&gt; link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your original answer was like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Charlie Arehart's CF411 [lists several monitoring tools][2], some free, some not.&#xA;&#xA;Here's the current list:&#xA;&#xA;* [CFStatShot][3], free, from Dave Spurr. CFStat Yahoo Desktop Widget.&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://test&#xA;  [2]: http://www.cf411.com/#cfmon&#xA;  [3]: http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/cfstatshot-cfstat-yahoo-desktop-widget/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there was no &lt;code&gt;[1]:&lt;/code&gt; link, that must have upset the parser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T17:41:27.983" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26464" CreationDate="2009-10-19T17:44:51.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charlie Arehart's CF411 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cf411.com/#cfmon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lists several monitoring tools&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cf411.com/#cfmon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, some free, some not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the current list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/cfstatshot-cfstat-yahoo-desktop-widget/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CFStatShot&lt;/a&gt;, free, from Dave Spurr. CFStat Yahoo Desktop Widget.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fusioncube.net/?p=37&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ColdFusion AJAX System Monitor&lt;/a&gt;, free, from Steve Brownlee&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ColdFusion JVM Memory Monitor&lt;/a&gt;, from Dan Switzer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cftracker.riaforge.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ColdFusion Tracker&lt;/a&gt;, free, from David Boyer. Access application, session and memory information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cflex.net/flexmon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FlexMon&lt;/a&gt; CF monitor, free, from Tariq Ahmed (also available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://flexmon.riaforge.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RiaForge&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fusion-reactor.com/labs/analytics.cfm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FusionAnalytics&lt;/a&gt;, commercial, from Intergral (makers of Fusionreactor)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fusion-reactor.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FusionReactor&lt;/a&gt;, commercial, from Intergral&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fusioncube.net/index.php/scope-enhancer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scope Enhancer&lt;/a&gt;, free tool from Steve Brownlee. Places java system info into the CF Server scope to assist with monitoring JVM setup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seefusion.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SeeFusion&lt;/a&gt;, commercial, from Webapper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lynchconsulting.com.au/blog/index.cfm/2006/11/9/Hacking-CFMX--pulling-it-all-together-serverStats&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ServerStats&lt;/a&gt;, free from Mark Lynch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://whosoncfc.riaforge.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WhosOn CFC&lt;/a&gt;, open source, from Shane Zehnder. Simple tool to help track users visiting your site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9360" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T17:47:17.113" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T17:47:17.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:20:06.560" Score="-6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I suspect that this is a controversial idea, but I think it would be useful to allow responses to a question on the SO family of sites to be sorted by the reputation score of the responder.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is some of my reasoning in making the feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a loose correlation between someone's reputation score and the quality (or insight) of the answers they provide.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interesting answers to posts often don't get many upvotes because they are masked by the &lt;em&gt;first response&lt;/em&gt; effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Controversial questions often get a lot of responses, and it becomes difficult to sift through all of them to find the interesting comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This seems like an easy feature to implement (at least on the surface).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Empirically, I've found myself looking for responses from certain people because I know that they generally have good, insightful answers that may illuminate facets of the problem that others may not realize.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I realize that there are a lot of feature requests out there and many great ideas just don't have enough value to implement. But here's why I think this idea has merit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The purpose of these sites is to share knowledge within their particular domains.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Valuable knowledge is &quot;promoted&quot; to the top of the list (based on votes) to help people sift through noise by relying on the expertise of other contributors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reputation system is a powerful way of identifying contributors with a particular expertise or enthusiasm for a subject.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expertise/enthusiasm is an indicator of the potential quality of a response.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seeing the best responses to an answer is a valuable capability for a knowledge system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some of the potential downsides of this idea:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This could overshadow voting as a way to score the relative value of an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People's reputation changes over time, just because someone has a high reputation at the present, doesn't mean that when they answered the question they did.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It feels undemocratic and may convey a negative impression to some people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91671" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T18:46:18.930" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T18:46:18.930" Title="Feature Request: Ability to sort answers by responder's reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="26470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26468" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:32:10.713" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is an indication of a users trust by the SO community, not necessarily of their ability to answer questions in a particular topic. This has been discussed at length on Meta and I strongly disagree with this option. The most correct answer to a question should be the one receiving the most votes, irrelevant of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This method will also make the entry level barrier for new users much much harder, something which will discourage the growth of the trilogy. It may not make a major dent but it will make a dent at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:32:10.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26468" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:34:10.290" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorting by reputation wouldn't mean anything. Say I answer a Lisp question (I have 10.6k) and am put on top of someone who writes Lisp compilers but only has 100 rep. I am by no means an expert, or even remotely qualified to answer Lisp questions, but someone may get the wrong idea if they chose that sorting order (or even saw it as an option in the first place!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:34:10.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26468" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:34:49.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the harm in adding it as a (non-default) search criterion. It could be helpful in sorting through the cruft where there are a huge number of answers provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:34:49.430" />
  <row Id="26473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26474" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:37:29.787" Score="1" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;I focus more on reputation than badges, what about you guys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T19:30:59.020" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T01:00:39.230" Title="Do you care more about reputation or badges?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:38:58.553" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I care about giving good answers, and learning from other people's answers (and questions). The rest is window dressing; sure it helps keep me competitive, but I don't &lt;strong&gt;care&lt;/strong&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With my ♦ hat on, I also care about trying to keep the dross off the site; we &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to do OK on that front, with lots of help from the community flagging and editing (cheers guys).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;caveat: of course, if I could get that darned &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/95/reversal&quot;&gt;reversal&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:38:58.553" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:39:36.430" Score="3" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering if this site really is useful? This is my first time on it and if someone can just let me know how useful this is as a tool I would really appreciate it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T19:22:32.343" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T03:09:23.497" Title="Does this site really help people out?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="26476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:41:30.607" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Really. Try yourself with real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:41:53.097" />
  <row Id="26477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:44:22.490" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is very useful. Lots of good questions and lots of good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me ask you: how did you find this site? I bet your answer is &quot;Google&quot;. Nowadays plenty of my programming-related search queries lead me right to Stackoverflow. Even if it's not the top hit, it's the first link I'll click on. So yes, this site is &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:44:22.490" />
  <row Id="26479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-19T18:57:47.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To me I seem to focus more on points that badges, what about you guys?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points definitely, badges come along. I mean, a great answer will give you more points than a lame answer, and you'll get a golden badge in the process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T18:57:47.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:05:42.917" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES, stackoverflow is super useful.&lt;/strong&gt;  I do not know any where else on the web I can have a personalized 'to the point' answer and many times within minutes of asking a programming question. I love this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T03:09:23.497" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T03:09:23.497" />
  <row Id="26481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:07:41.197" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it when I get a badge for the first time; I remember being excited when I finally got my first Enlightened badge nearly a year ago. But the novelty wears off. I think I got yet another one in the last week or two, but I couldn't say for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And tag badges represent quite an accomplishment, so if I ever got another, I would be happy about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have become much less active than I used to be, mainly because I have much less time for SO than I had before. At 20k, I don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; points anyway, but I still get a little thrill from the competition. I'd like to get back onto page 2 if I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:07:41.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:14:30.280" Score="21" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to allow users to mark a change in an answer (or question) as minor (e.g. for a simple spelling or grammar correction). A change marked as minor wouldn't push the question on top of the list of questions on the home page or in the feeds. It wouldn't trigger any notification. This could be implemented with a &quot;Minor change&quot; checkbox when editing an entry (a la Confluence). What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-29T16:22:22.183" LastActivityDate="2011-08-20T09:36:56.793" Title="Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="26484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:16:59.870" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Incredibly so. Think every time you google a programming question and see experts-exchange, except we actually have the answers. And if we don't, you can get them pretty damn sharpish by asking your own question. Then you can have a bit of fun, and learn a lot, by sticking around and answering your own questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually SO will take over the internet, and instead of googling something, you'll post a question on SO, which will quickly be closed as a duplicate, as SO has answered every question in existance. (Except the meaning of life, though we have the answer, the question text itself was lost in a horrible database accident involving Jon Skeet and a large amount of water. We won't talk about it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:16:59.870" />
  <row Id="26485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26483" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:20:19.617" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the bumping behavior is explicitly by design so you can get attention on older posts by making simple edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, adding more complexity for a non-existent problem is something the SO development team is not going to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:20:19.617" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:20:42.533" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/334/what-should-happen-with-a-question-that-has-both-ignored-and-interesting-tags/335#335&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard said&lt;/a&gt; (in this page):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I prefer 'ignore' having precedence&#xA;  over 'interesting'. I'd like to see&#xA;  every 'java' question, but I don't&#xA;  need to see the 'fun, offtopic,&#xA;  not-programming-related, java'&#xA;  questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the opposite of my preference. I ignore python questions, but mark perl as interesting. When a question comes up that is tagged with both (e.g. someone asking for a solution in either language), I would prefer to see this question, rather than hiding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this could be resolved by having another checkbox in the user preferences below the first: &quot;...even if they also match one of my interesting tags.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:20:42.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:21:50.067" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  This site is completely, totally, and unabashedly pointless.  Oh, wait, you're asking about SO?  Never mind then.  I thought we were talking about meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:21:50.067" />
  <row Id="26488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:21:52.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wrote the universe as a hobby project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you write a pice of code and then Jon Skeet writes identical code, Jon Skeet's code will run many times faster, have a smaller memory footprint, and have a much smaller binary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can write FORTRAN in any language; but Jon Skeet can write python in malbolge.                                                                                                                               &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet once hacked a Powerbook 5300 using nothing but an abacus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is written in the book of knuth that the end of the world shall begin with the creation of competition that combines programming with martial arts. It is there that Chuck Norris, Avatar of Destruction, and Jon Skeet, Avatar of Knowledge shall meet. It is said that a meeting of these great titans would cause the universe to end in a monumentus battle that will persist till beyond the the end of time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of 'Hello, World!' Jon Skeet's first program outputted 'Let there be light'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some programmers use nano, others use emacs, others use vim, or even ed. But the great use a magnetized needle and a steady hand, the truly great use butterflies, and the greatest of them all set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want. Jon Skeet sets the constants at the beginning of the universe so that it will evolve to contain the necessary butterflies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134495" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:21:52.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-19T19:21:52.627" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:31:20.733" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself caring neither about badges or points, but I do find I care a &lt;em&gt;very great deal&lt;/em&gt; about downvotes, especially on subjective questions (I mean seriously, that just doesn't make sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strange that negative motivation affect me more. Perhaps that's something I should worry about. But then, who has the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:31:20.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:36:16.560" Score="1" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;The Many Memes of Meta&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this joke so many times, but I guess I started reading Jeff's blog too late to get it. Where did the  6-8 weeks joke start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126196" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:38:48.583" ClosedDate="2009-10-19T20:27:25.383" Title="Can someone let me in on the 6-8 weeks joke?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;joke&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26491" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:38:48.583" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19514#19514&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:38:48.583" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:41:58.393" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fundamentally agree with Marc and annakata's answers, but between badges and rep... I like milestones of any variety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A gold badge is always a milestone. A silver tag badge is a bit of a milestone in that it's something new. 100K rep was a milestone, as was 1000 badges total. Finally getting the Fanatic badge will be a nice milestone, when it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next &quot;numbers&quot; milestone I'm idly contemplating is 1000 bronze badges, partly because I want to see what the display will do. I'm not really sure what comes after that :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pure rep isn't particularly interesting now, although &quot;rep gained per day without bounty&quot; is an interesting challenge. I think my record is 468. It would be nice to get to 500, but that's really, really tough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:41:58.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26483" CreationDate="2009-10-19T19:43:12.087" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of being denoted manually, some sort of heuristic could be used - e.g. if fewer than 1% of the post's characters have changed, it's a &quot;minor edit&quot;. It might be tricky to get right though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T19:43:12.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26468" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:01:40.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about answers by a user with a relevant topic badge being sorted to the top of equally scored answers?  (With the rest being the normal random sort.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, a &quot;topic badge icon&quot; beside the answer to catch your eye as you scroll?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems that should give you something similar to what you want, without giving too much advantage to the incumbents, and provide a bit of meaning to those badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T20:01:40.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26483" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:03:25.090" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Implementing any sort of &quot;don't bump&quot; functionality &lt;strong&gt;would also delay accountability&lt;/strong&gt; and transparency for those edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notifying users of edits in the system allows them to take a look at the content and make sure there isn't something fishy going on. Imagine if people could make changes to the system without &lt;em&gt;anybody&lt;/em&gt; noticing. &lt;strong&gt;That is very exploitable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T20:08:56.323" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T20:08:56.323" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26468" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:11:17.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible way to get what the OP wants might be to use tags stats page info - if a user is in the top 20 for a tag, then they probably have at least some idea what they're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's still not a perfect solution (how best to handle multi-tagged questions?), but it's certainly a better metric than raw reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9360" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T20:11:17.147" />
  <row Id="26498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:28:25.177" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the home page right now you see question specific stats (votes, answers, views, titles, tags, time, user name, reputation). Only three of these is varied by type, there's the red, no answers box, the golden accepted answer text, the ignored and interested tags highlighting and the bounty in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a little more of this for the other details. Notably the negative voting status of a question could be a little more obvious. Additionally I'd like to have it indicated if the user is new to this. There's a few ways this could happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user's rep is visible, if it's below 100 maybe their author tagline (div class=&quot;started&quot; box) could be highlighted a little. Personally I can't visually judge a user's rep as low as quickly as I can spot there's a &lt;code&gt;k&lt;/code&gt; or no &lt;code&gt;k&lt;/code&gt; in the rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this is one of the user's first &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; questions the same box might be highlighted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this user has never answered a question or has less than &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; questions some indication might be useful too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the first concern is that we don't want people ignoring new users just because they're new, so personally I hope it wouldn't be a red-flag style of highlight, but more of a be-a-little-understanding kind of indication.  On the other hand, when you see a question that is not one of the first &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; but the user hasn't answered &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; times yet, that might be something that will clue you in to the fact that they might not even know how to ask a question well yet, or have no interest in other people's problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; oops. I forgot that the user tag line on the homepage doesn't stay as the user who asked the question, but rather changes to the last person who asked or answered on that question. This makes the highlighting of user-type I was just talking about less relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T20:42:54.980" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T20:55:44.407" Title="Home page question display could differentiate users by type" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;indication&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:37:19.357" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our site has this question [&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.climatedeal.org/questions/24/is-there-any-website-where-to-find-good-data-analysis-on-cdm-projects%5D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://community.climatedeal.org/questions/24/is-there-any-website-where-to-find-good-data-analysis-on-cdm-projects%5D&lt;/a&gt; for which the user Summer made a comment. However I can't see this user on the Users tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T20:37:19.357" ClosedDate="2009-10-19T20:39:23.380" Title="Questions/Answers made by users which dont seem to exist in the Users tab" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26498" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:55:44.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated before, questions should be answered and posts should be voted solely based on their merit as questions and answers, not by considering their author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's a good thing to prevent abusive behavior, as done by the accept rate, what you are suggesting is basically choosing not to visit a post merely by looking at its author on the home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T20:55:44.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26504" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:58:25.150" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would test it out here but I'm not sure if anyone has voted to close any of my questions.  I'm curious because it could result in quicker edits by the asker.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;I suppose a follow-up question is -- &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; they be allowed to see that close votes are accumulating on their question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-19T21:26:45.413" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T11:34:27.483" Title="Can the questioner with &lt;3000 rep see his/her close votes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T20:58:47.083" Score="6" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was playing with StackQL and asked myself. Are there people who have as much rep as their highest voted question/answer (as in, they've only gotten rep from that one question/answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The query isn't that complicated but you have to filter out the people who have answered one question, gotten 1 upvote and have 10 rep. Since thats no fun. So I limited it to &gt;= 100 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Posts.Id, Posts.Score, Users.Id, Users.Reputation FROM Posts&#xA;LEFT JOIN Users ON Users.Id = Posts.OwnerUserId &#xA;WHERE (Posts.Score * 10) = Users.Reputation AND Users.Reputation &amp;gt;= 100 &#xA;ORDER BY Users.Reputation DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the questions / answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/646517/boxing-when-using-generics-in-c/646584#646584&quot;&gt;Answer to - Boxing when using generics in C# (230 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/240152&quot;&gt;Question - Why would I want to use Interfaces? (220 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/216931&quot;&gt;Question - What is the difference between an asp.net web method and a wcf service? (180 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110354/can-an-elements-css-class-be-set-via-javascript/110361#110361&quot;&gt;Answer to - Can an element’s CSS class be set via JavaScript? (160 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75102/best-java-book-you-have-read-so-far/75138#75138&quot;&gt;Answer to - Best Java book you have read so far (150 rep) (this might be a fluke though)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/892731&quot;&gt;Question - Computer science final year project ideas (150 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1078197&quot;&gt;Question - Determining if ASP.Net is properly registered (150 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/506396&quot;&gt;Question - How relevant is Win32 programming to modern professionals? (110 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1047232&quot;&gt;Question - What would be a good sample project to ask a prospective programmer to code during the hiring process? (110 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are often interesting but generic but it's the answers that intrigue me. For example the top one. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63787/ruiyiz&quot;&gt;That user&lt;/a&gt; has not done anything but voted a few times and answered that one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fluke one might be because of CW not being enabled at the start of his answers. He has two, both CW answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third answer is similar to the first one, although &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/19861/jonah&quot;&gt;he has answered two questions&lt;/a&gt; but the other answer has 0 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the list isn't that exciting, it's still a bit interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a query with +100. I was worried that there would be to many cases where people had gotten upvotes from other places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Posts.Id, Posts.Score, Users.Id, Users.Reputation FROM Posts&#xA;LEFT JOIN Users ON Users.Id = Posts.OwnerUserId&#xA;WHERE (Posts.Score * 10) + 100 = Users.Reputation AND Users.Reputation &amp;gt;= 200&#xA;ORDER BY Users.Reputation DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did &gt;= 200 because otherwise I got pages and pages of results. This is the breakdown of the query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/60469/tim&quot;&gt;Tim (309 rep).&lt;/a&gt; Got 210 from one question. Two account associations with SO. But no rep on SO from that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8215&quot;&gt;giltotherescue (270 rep).&lt;/a&gt;. Rep from other questions. No assoc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22956&quot;&gt;Mohit Ranka (240 rep).&lt;/a&gt; Most from one of his 28 questions. Matched query because he has one CW question with 14 votes. No assoc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14877&quot;&gt;rofly (230 rep).&lt;/a&gt; Similar situation as Mohit. No assoc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/81720&quot;&gt;qrunchmonkey (210 rep).&lt;/a&gt; Rep from other stuff. No assoc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/85662&quot;&gt;Daz (200 rep).&lt;/a&gt; Rep from other stuff. No assoc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So account association has no effect here, we just get bad results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like I had forgotten the initial 1 rep. So I have fixed the query (I'll leave the original stuff intact) But what happened to the starting 1 rep is a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here is the same list but with a fixed query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Posts.Id, Posts.Score, Users.Id, Users.Reputation FROM Posts&#xA;LEFT JOIN Users ON Users.Id = Posts.OwnerUserId&#xA;WHERE (Posts.Score * 10) + 1 = Users.Reputation AND Users.Reputation &amp;gt;= 300&#xA;ORDER BY Users.Reputation DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I limited this one to &gt;= 300 since the list was pretty long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12432/scott-stanchfield&quot;&gt;Scott Stanchfield (441 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/32073&quot;&gt;Jay Kimble (411 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47501&quot;&gt;Hamster (331 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/86492&quot;&gt;Long Time Smalltalker (321 rep)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25340&quot;&gt;Mark (311 rep)&lt;/a&gt; (This one has more answers and rep for that)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:12:13.350" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:12:13.350" Title="List of people who have done one thing and gotten nice rep for it" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24685" CreationDate="2009-10-19T21:20:16.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we can give the newbie some more tips other than suggesting they read the FAQ.  Perhaps while they are composing their first question, we can give them a link (in a very large font!) to &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to Ask Questions the Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;.  This link could also be repeated if their questions are getting downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm picturing some sort of animated bouncing animated pony with a text bubble: &quot;You seem to be having trouble. Why don't I help you ask your question better?  -- TheXXI&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T21:20:16.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-19T21:20:16.363" />
  <row Id="26504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26501" CreationDate="2009-10-19T21:21:18.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I thought they are able to see the close votes to their questions, even if they have below 3K rep. That would help especially with dupe posts, if no-one mentioned it in a comment.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So, I vote to implement it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/44765/john-rasch&quot;&gt;John Rasch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26501/can-the-questioner-with-3000-rep-see-his-her-close-votes/26522#26522&quot;&gt;pointed out correctly&lt;/a&gt;, that you only need 250 rep to vote to close your own questions. So I want to clarify, that I think you should be able to &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the close votes/reasons, even if you are below that threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T11:34:27.483" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T11:34:27.483" />
  <row Id="26505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26501" CreationDate="2009-10-19T21:25:11.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you have to be over 3k rep to see your close votes.&#xA;It probably would be useful for a user to see the close/reopen votes on his questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll change this to a feature request for those interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T21:25:11.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-19T21:40:38.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good Lord yes.  My &quot;Time wasted searching for answers&quot; vs. &quot;Time spent asking question on SO&quot; ratio is monstrously high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T21:40:38.117" />
  <row Id="26508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-19T21:56:34.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a superb way of &lt;s&gt;wasting&lt;/s&gt;spending time searching for answers to questions and searching for questions in need of answers you can give.  You can waste lots of time on it if you're careful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T21:56:34.233" />
  <row Id="26509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26501" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:10:54.940" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that we (since I'm &amp;lt;3k) not be able to see &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; voted to close, but the number of votes and reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, it gets revealed once closed, but I think this would be good to avoid making newbies mad &lt;em&gt;at someone in particular&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:10:54.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:18:34.940" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the times, when I paste a link I do: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the &quot;link&quot; icon at the toolbar  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste the link  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter the link title   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While step three is not too problematic I would like to skip it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we insert the page title, back from step 2, so the next time we enter a link it appears like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Like Jeff said in [Stack Overflow Outage - Blog &amp;#8211; Stack Overflow][1]&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/stack-overflow-outage/&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from there we can put what ever we want ( just like today ) ie &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Like Jeff said in [the latest blog][1]&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/stack-overflow-outage/&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If needed, or just leave it like that ( as I will do  most of the times) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T01:36:44.897" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T01:36:44.897" Title="Auto-lookup of page/site title for external links posted in WMD" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26451" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:23:26.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aha, also see the accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26162/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134863" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:23:26.400" />
  <row Id="26513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:31:09.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would to what I did by 3 hrs. last time: F5'ing twitter #stackoverflow until Jarrod Dixon says we are back again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: Twitter is a baaaaad baaaaaaaaaad substitute for SO :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:31:09.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-19T22:31:09.447" />
  <row Id="26514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:38:15.520" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I'd like to see on a profile page - beneath the big reputation figure, I'd like to see two smaller numbers. The first would be the reputation the user has gained from answering questions, and the second the reputation gained from merely asking them. Personally I feel a bit cheated when I see someone with thousands of rep and discover it's almost entirely from asking questions - I'd like some quick way of seeing the split.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, possibly, on a question page, you could display the relevant figure next to their overall reputation depending on whether their post was an answer or a question. If I see someone who mostly just answers other people's questions, I find myself more curious about the questions they themselves ask. If I see someone answering a question who mostly just asks them, I take their answer with an extra pinch of salt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T08:01:58.983" Title="Additional info on user profile page - reputation split" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26192" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:40:35.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;..Or allow us to edit comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:40:35.047" />
  <row Id="26516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26109" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:42:04.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would write a viewer for the latest Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump and read questions offline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135898" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:42:04.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-19T22:42:04.233" />
  <row Id="26517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-19T22:46:49.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, rep is important, because you need certain amounts of rep to do certain things. Badges are just window dressing as far as I'm concerned. (Although, it is nice to get them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132432" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T22:46:49.670" />
  <row Id="26518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-10-19T23:28:39.857" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Changing your display name on a whim.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot; title=&quot;Beware: Not Safe For Work!!&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; TBD&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Official Response:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29966/can-we-restrict-the-ability-of-users-to-keep-changing-their-names&quot;&gt;Limited to one change every 30 days&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; User &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot; title=&quot;Beware: Not Safe For Work!!&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt; likes to change his profile whenever it will make a post of his seem funnier. Other times it seems to just be on a whim. He will also edit his &quot;About Me&quot; text, to fit in with his current display name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot; title=&quot;Beware: Not Safe For Work!!&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Welboug (Old English spelling)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive&quot;&gt;Welbo_g&lt;/a&gt; (Censored Old English spelling)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ouèlbogue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Susan (From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25136/rename-the-welbog-contest&quot;&gt;&quot;new name for Welbog&quot; contest&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Susan Papadismgaogenabhieanae&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25710/how-is-the-tagging-system-implemented-here-at-sofu&quot;&gt;Susan Papadismgaogenabhieanaelaegkae&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biglaser.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Lasers!&quot;&gt;www.biglaser.net&lt;/a&gt; (He is a big fan of lasers) &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26224/people-never-down-vote&quot;&gt;(referenced here)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26437/Welbog-the-Movie/26440#26440&quot; title=&quot;Welbog the movie&quot;&gt;Steven Spielberg's Welbog&lt;/a&gt; (Waste of a movie)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27046/with-more-awesome-in-your-face/27050#27050&quot; title=&quot;Saturdays at 11 on Fox&quot;&gt;Robox Prime&lt;/a&gt; (best cartoon on television in 2009)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chicago Ted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm really awesome. Really.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28703/how-is-the-sea-perfume&quot;&gt;welbog at googlewave.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29233/playful-parodies-possibly-pose-plenty-perplexing-problems/&quot;&gt;Hellbog&lt;/a&gt; (Evil twin of Smellbog)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Birthday Welbog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;firtjer (It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/firtjer.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fretje's fault&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gargamel (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31168/fork-you-frell-you-and-frakk-you/31196#31196&quot;&gt;because they only had on Smurfette&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NIfE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/48974/cyber-bullies-stole-my-identity-lunch-money&quot;&gt;The Encapsulator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/52900/area51-silliness-what-does-it-mean/52925#52925&quot;&gt;The Proposer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Weblog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Double Welbog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Toronto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/245108#245108&quot;&gt;Sid Meier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Killbog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also independently started by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130127/voyager&quot;&gt;voyager&lt;/a&gt; in response to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21823/what-constitutes-spam/21824#21824&quot;&gt;post asking what constituted spam&lt;/a&gt;, trying to convey that some users &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; spam, comedic effect enhanced by answering &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21855/monty-python-book-ad-showing-up-in-python-questions/21864#21864&quot;&gt;in a post complaining about the Amazon Monty Python ads&lt;/a&gt; appearing when first introduced. After that, it just degenerated into a neverending competition with welbog to out do the wackiness of the other user's changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voyager&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21855/monty-python-book-ad-showing-up-in-python-questions/21864#21864&quot;&gt;spam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22433/possible-bug-with-ads&quot;&gt;Eggs, Spam, Ham and Spam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arthur voyager King &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23724/small-formatting-quirk-that-bothers-me/23725#23725&quot; title=&quot;not the first occurrence&quot;&gt;smeagol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23005/i-think-i-was-just-serial-downvoted-how-can-this-prevented-by-the-community/23008#23008&quot;&gt;spam AKA smeagol AKA voyager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ûöyàgúer (or something like that)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25676/do-vba-questions-belong-on-so-or-su/25682#25682&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;viyager&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voyager's back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voyager's mask&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the man with the shifting name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voyλger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;waveyλger (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28882/what-is-your-google-wave-id&quot;&gt;Google Wave is a time sink&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44461/usernames-ending-in-json-cause-trouble/44465#44465&quot;&gt;json&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;perbert&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other changes of management&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pesto&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26491/can-someone-let-me-in-on-the-6-8-weeks-joke/26492#26492&quot;&gt;Uwe Boll's Pesto&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Based on Welbog's change to Steven Spielberg's Welbog&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pesto Demands Fealty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28703/would-it-be-appropriate-to-make-a-thread-on-meta-asking-for-google-wave-ids-of-so/28709#28709&quot; title=&quot;enhance! enhance!&quot;&gt;CSI Pesto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Policeman Pesto (oink oink)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chetso&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hilarious Comedy Pesto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52738/im-kind-of-a-big-deal&quot;&gt;Gnovice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Carpenter's The Gnovice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm kind of a big deal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30193/tag-badges-exploit/30216#30216&quot;&gt;gnostradamus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;gnovices-exchange&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gnovice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Rudy&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28612/discussions-should-not-be-marked-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;John Rudy's Grumpy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cigars and Bourbon are Good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cigars and Absinthe are Great&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user0x36E0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zombie Nixon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Gonzo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I miss my downvotes (a result of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/59084/where-did-all-of-the-downvotes-go&quot;&gt;this bug&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Rudy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130890/michael-bays-belgariontheking&quot;&gt;belgariontheking&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael Bay's belgariontheking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am Chet Atwood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ether&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ðer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30411/what-can-stackoverflow-do-to-persuade-female-programmers-to-participate-more/30418#30418&quot;&gt;Æther&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ether&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rich B&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chet Atwood (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29233/playful-parodies-possibly-problematic&quot;&gt;which has resulted in a suspension&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Geoffrey Chetwood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135301&quot;&gt;Chris Lutz&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/can-haz-recurshun/26518#26518&quot;&gt;Changing my Meta Name is Cool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Length Limits on Names are Stu &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gnome&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Cat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gnome&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pekka&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/89?m=569836#569836&quot;&gt;What&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down with the 30 day waiting period&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/54986/name-change-limiting-can-be-broken/55942#55942&quot;&gt;I outwitted the 30 day waiting period&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive&quot;&gt;Rejoice rejoice &lt;kbd&gt;kbd&lt;/kbd&gt; is back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pekka's trolling account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pekka's other trolling account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pekka's holiday account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eat more twisters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ccomet&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ccornet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grace Note&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chacha102&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tradition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chacha102&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1228/will&quot;&gt;Will&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Won't (coordinated with a meta-specific Yao Ming gravatar)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="162705" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T23:44:44.940" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T23:44:44.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-19T23:28:39.857" CommentCount="40" />
  <row Id="26519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26514" CreationDate="2009-10-19T23:29:46.173" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't really do it because you can earn a whole bunch of upvotes after you hit the daily rep cap. So any split like this could be really misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see someone with &quot;thousands of rep&quot; from just asking questions, let it go. What does it matter? It's really hard to earn rep from questions (compared to writing answers). If someone has written enough questions that others have voted up thinking them good/interesting, what's the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-19T23:29:46.173" />
  <row Id="26521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-19T23:59:37.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tag badges&lt;/a&gt; have been my focus for a while (though my &quot;focus&quot; is often pretty hazy). They're really hard to get, even the silver ones, especially in less-popular areas of the site (ie. not C#/.NET/Java/PHP). And the only way to get them is to provide lots of really good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I finally got the &quot;git&quot; and &quot;svn&quot; silver tag badges a few weeks ago, but my next one is a ways off still (I don't even recall which is next, that's how hazy my focus is!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you're Jon Skeet then you can get weird badges like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/87/string&quot;&gt;&quot;string&quot;&lt;/a&gt; without even trying. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T00:13:32.080" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T00:13:32.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26501" CreationDate="2009-10-20T00:10:41.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone with 250 rep can &quot;Vote to close or reopen your questions&quot; according to the FAQ, which means they can also see the close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T00:10:41.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T00:19:55.547" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like a StackOverflow question because of Trac and SVN (clearly programming tools), but I suppose you could make the case for SuperUser (for Wordpress) or ServerFault (server configuration).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:11:15.790" Title="Where should I post questions about configuring Dreamhost/WordPress/Trac/SVN repos to play nice?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26514" CreationDate="2009-10-20T00:23:43.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps somebody could create a greasemonkey script that would put hats on gravatar icons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Dunce&quot; cap for people who mostly ask questions and answer few (maybe with a taller dunce cap for lower quality questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Wizard&quot; cap for people who provide good answers to questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T00:23:43.010" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26514" CreationDate="2009-10-20T00:38:05.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something I'd like to see in some expanded statistics on the user page. You can figure out a lot about a user's knowledge base by looking at the mean, median and total score of their questions and answers, as well as the percentage of their answers that are accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't do the full calculation off &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40468/ether&quot;&gt;my SO account&lt;/a&gt; as it's a little painful clicking through to each question where I've answered twice to get the value of each answer (also it's hard to take into account the occasional downvote hidden in there), but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions: mean 7, median 7, total 28 upvotes over 4 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers: mean ~5, median 2, total ~200 upvotes over 89 answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accepted: 17/89 = 19%&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T00:38:05.377" />
  <row Id="26526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-20T00:44:53.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;badges were cool for the first 500 rep points; after that it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;became too difficult to tell where they came from&lt;/a&gt; so now they &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; get ignored [was that part of your design, @Jeff? ;-)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rep matters most: badges are shiny, but rep gives you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;powers beyond belief&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T00:44:53.253" />
  <row Id="26527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26511" CreationDate="2009-10-20T01:05:42.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another method to entering links is to highlight the words in your post and then fire up the help dialog to enter in the hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saves on the server having to go and do a fetch and parse of the page (which may or may not be possible depending on what you're linking to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe get into the habit of flipping your steps around:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter the link title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the &quot;link&quot; icon at the toolbar &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste the link &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T01:05:42.643" />
  <row Id="26529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26511" CreationDate="2009-10-20T01:18:47.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22305/automatically-add-preview-title-attribute-to-internal-links&quot;&gt;suggested earlier as an enhancement to markdown&lt;/a&gt; -- just including the link in the text would automatically translate to the correct markup with title preview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T01:18:47.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26534" CreationDate="2009-10-20T01:23:13.643" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a BlackBerry Curve 8330 and I am unable to login to StackOverflow.com, Why? I spend several hours a week on StackOverflow.com on the BlackBerry but cannot vote, ask or answer questions. I use the Google OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136340" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T04:52:20.013" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T04:52:20.013" Title="Why can't I login to StackOverflow.com on my BlackBerry?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;blackberry&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2009-10-20T01:32:40.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally got mine (silly air mail). It was the oddest mail-pickup ever. I was walking to pick the mail up, which is quite a distance away from my house, so I was listening the SO podcast. I noticed a letter addressed to me, and, out of the corner of my eye, I notice &quot;Jeff Atwood&quot; up in the corner for the return address. Just a little bit spooky (considering this was the first time in a month I have listened to the podcasts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/T75px.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to put one on the back of my iPod touch, but the stickers are too long :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T01:40:49.893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T01:40:49.893" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26530" CreationDate="2009-10-20T02:01:47.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which browser are you using, the built-in?  Have you tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opera.com/mini/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Opera Mini&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T02:01:47.207" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T02:45:20.310" Score="8" ViewCount="716" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/BrentO/statuses/5001049084&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar:&lt;/a&gt; Either it just started pouring down rain in SFO, or #devdays is being hosted under the world's largest toilet and someone just flushed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/ikai/statuses/5002883458&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ikai Lan:&lt;/a&gt; Saw a guy next to me fall asleep and dart drooling on himself at #devdays QT talk. Okay, fine, I admit it, it was me (woken by @artemr)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=+%23devdays+since%3A2009-10-18+until%3A2009-10-19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Other twitter #devdays results&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/devdays-reviews-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;San Francisco&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 19th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to ask about everyone's reviews of the DevDays San Francisco.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Not a community wiki on purpose, following previous suggestions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131372" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:20:19.280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:20:19.280" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - San Francisco" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26536" CreationDate="2009-10-20T02:59:23.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My own favorite topics were in the following order of fun/usefulness level:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iPhone (though I'm interested in Android development myself but it's always good to check out the competition) - it was fun and not boring. Quirky, jittery, OCD all come to mind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's keynote (Hi, Joel, I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/ArtemR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@ArtemR&lt;/a&gt; ) - I welcome the discussion of simple vs feature rich, though Joel has talked about this on his blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/09.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;multiple&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;times&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jQuery - nice intro into history of jQuery and competition with other frameworks. The technical level of specific examples was quite basic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Android - this is the topic I'm mostly interested in and unfortunately the main speaker got substituted by a guy who has obviously not presented in front of a large crowd before (sorry, I have to criticize - you'll do better and better each time! Just don't worry so much and know your stuff) and was pretty much a recent college grad from the looks of it. He did a pretty decent job at making the code run but a really poor job of marketing and explaining Android's weaknesses and strengths, as some people on twitter &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/scanningcrew/statuses/5004657117&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pointed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/SuperDalgas/statuses/5004654967&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow review - quite brief but fun. Thanks Jeff!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python - very odd that it was even there - just a look at a few lines of code from the infamous Python google-like suggest algorithm.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Qt - didn't really care for it but sat through it. Nokia, meh. Next!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASP.NET, Fogbugz - I skipped as I didn't care much for those &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I feel like the information presented in all sessions was pretty basic but I guess that was the idea - a little bit of everything for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The absence of WiFi was pretty disappointing as I think it was advertised but I didn't care much for it. Kept everyone more concentrated anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The free memory upgrades by Microsoft was an AWESOME move (though mine is already at 4GB and they didn't give out 4GB sticks)! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lunch was decent - Boudin. Lots of drinks and snacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well worth $99.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beerpla.net/2009/10/19/impressions-from-the-stackoverflows-devdays-conference-in-san-francisco/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cross-posted&lt;/a&gt; to beerpla.net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131372" LastEditorUserId="131372" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T03:17:05.867" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T03:17:05.867" />
  <row Id="26541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26536" CreationDate="2009-10-20T04:44:26.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the other DevDays reviews my expectation was that it would be like a 'tasting menu' of different technologies and I wasn't disappointed. I was mostly interested in learning more about things I don't ordinarily use--in this case: MonoTouch, Android, and ASP.NET. I was looking forward to hearing Miguel De Icaza talk about MonoTouch, but unfortunately he wasn't on the schedule in SF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET's presenter was the most entertaining of the day, even though the technology did nothing to convince me to switch away from Python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Android presentation really could use some work -- let's leave it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody else did a pretty good job of showing off the technology and a glimpse at the development environment and tools around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really liked Joel's examples of simplicity. Came home and told my wife about the MP3-player and the need for 'pause' vs 'stop' buttons. She was scratching her head too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an interesting conference. I liked the smorgasbord approach, but I think maybe if it continues that it would do better if it was converted to an unconference with speakers presenting for maybe 15 minutes and then opening it up to audience discussions. There was a lot of technically competent people there. Be a damn shame to let all that expertise go untapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T04:44:26.613" />
  <row Id="26544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-20T05:08:29.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Focusing on reputation at the broadest level seems to be pointless if you're competing with anyone but yourself. Jon Skeet et al are essentially impossible to catch even for us in the top 50 unless they completely stop participating for a year or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequently, I try to focus on being a top contributor in my areas of expertise (.NET &amp;amp; ASP.NET if anyone's curious). This also is slightly more meaningful than pure &quot;rep&quot; - it's well-established that reputation points alone is not indicative of &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; technical ability - just participation. But evidence shows that people who are not strong in a given category (say, c#) cannot break onto the stats page for that tag. People who are very strong in that topic - and are generally helpful, kind and good teachers - dominate the stats page. It's a challenge to maintain, but an honor for me to be listed alongside such people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T05:08:29.310" />
  <row Id="26546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26536" CreationDate="2009-10-20T05:11:33.003" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My review of the San Francisco Dev Days conference in chronological order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joel Spolsky: Keynote. The introductory movie was hilarious. This was probably a lot more so for me than for my co-workers who didn't get a lot of the SO podcast references (6-8 weeks, etc), although there was a slight glitch which made a few scenes repeat. Joel's presentation was really well-done and humorous, though as a previous commenter noted, if you've been following Joel's blog for a while, there was not much new. I actually thought that Joel could have also done a better job at highlighting how his design talk correlated with FogBugz (he seemed to hint at this later on, but only briefly - perhaps it would have been best if the keynote was merged with FogBugz)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Harrison: Python. I really enjoyed this talk. It was basically a dissection of Peter Norvig's &lt;a href=&quot;http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spell Checker&lt;/a&gt;. It might have been boring for those who knew Python well, but for me being a Python novice, I thought it was really informative and just at the right level of detail. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rory Blyth: iPhone. I agree in that this was the best presentation of the day. Rory was humorous and engaging and a terrific public speaker. He used repetition and humor masterfully and was able to actually get a nice demo up and running in quite a short amount of time (though he did apparently go over a few minutes on his alloted time).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joel Spolsky: FogBugz 7. I had never actually seen FogBugz live, though I'd read about it extensively on Joel's blog. Like I mentioned earlier, this talk could have worked a lot better had Joel explicitly connected it to some of the points of the keynote. At any rate, the software was very impressive, especially the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evidence Based Scheduling&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/fogbugz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Balsamiq plug-in&lt;/a&gt;. I wasn't as impressed with the Mercurial Plug-In, as it basically still required you to have to do quite a bit from the command line. The code-review feature was also really nice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boudin's: Lunch. Awesome. Free. Yum.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scott Hanselman: ASP.NET MVC. So, while Scott was actually an excellent speaker and very engaging and personable, I was a bit disappointed by this talk. Essentially, I felt he rushed through this talk in an effort to go deep into certain topics (he mentioned that this was an intentional correction due to feedback from Joel), but I really feel that it detracted from the talk. Basically, it was 50 minutes of rapid-fire Visual Studio wizardry, peppered with a few humorous anecdotes. A nice side-effect of the talk was getting to see the new Visual Studio. I was pretty impressed with Microsoft's efforts to open-source ASP.NET MVC, and to incorporate jQuery into it and contribute to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow. This was another highlight for me, as I've always found Jeff to be both highly entertaining and insightful. However, it was mercifully short. For being &quot;Stack Overflow DevDays&quot; the amount of time spent on StackOverflow-related topics seemed excessively short. Joel Briefly mentioned &quot;Careers&quot; during one of this talks, and while Jeff's talk was great, it was much too short. It would have also been nice to have Geoff and Jarrod speak, and perhaps walk through some of the interesting source bits in Stack Overflow development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Daniel Rocha: Qt. I could tell that this wasn't going to go well as soon as the talk started with a bribe of Nokia phones to those who paid attention. I was not disappointed. This was very painful. Daniel spent the whole time talking about how Qt was going to be the Silver Bullet to solve the issue of having to port your source to multiple platforms, except for the fact that he couldn't even get his &quot;Hello World&quot;-ish application to look correctly on the three target platforms he demoed (Windows, Linux, Symbian) without making modifications, and mentioning how you needed to resort to macros to get a lot of the cross-platform functionality to work correctly. He didn't even showcase the targeting of the Mac platform, which would have been the most compelling part of the presentation for me, had he done so. In general, the whole time I felt like it was 1991 and I was listening to a poor talk about MFC, in which I would be rewarded with a copy of Microsoft Bob if I paid attention and was able to regurgitate some Nokia marketing speak at the end. Embarrassingly, a couple of people at the end of the talk were indeed rewarded with Nokia phones for parroting back a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Yum: Android. So in James' defense, he was apparently blind-sided by the fact that he had to give this talk a few days ago after a cancellation, and seemed to be quite nervous and young. However, all that being said, this was also quite painful and slightly embarrassing. After playing an Android commercial, and extolling the virtues of &quot;Threadz!!!!&quot;, James went on to stumble his way through a demo in a painful manner. He was pleading with his compiler for things to work and asking the audience for help. At one point he even said &quot;Oh well, your loss&quot; when something didn't work as it should have. It was almost as if Daniel and James' talks were done by Apple moles who were planted to prove all of the points Rory made during his presentation about why the iPhone is by far the most compelling platform to develop for. I asked James a question echoing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel's concern&lt;/a&gt; about multi-threaded programming being a recipe for generating very difficult bugs to find and correct, and if there was any way the Android platform could help you with this, and he didn't really seem to have an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yehuda Katz: jQuery. Very informative talk. While Yehuda  wasn't as compelling or engaging a speaker as Rory, Jeff, or Joel, his talk was quite good and very informative. I think he suffered somewhat for being at the end of the day, when most people's attention spans were drifting quite a bit. His examples were easy to understand, and well done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, it was a very enjoyable day, and definitely worth the attendance price. However, as I stated earlier I could have done with a lot more Stack Overflow-related material. As a bonus, I think the majority of attendees went home with handfuls of FogBugz pads, pens, and lots of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/free-trilogy-stickers-for-top-users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stickers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132830" LastEditorUserId="132830" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T23:08:04.920" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T23:08:04.920" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26056" CreationDate="2009-10-20T05:15:15.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now if someone would just post the keynote video of Joel abusing his employees like a high school track coach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T05:15:15.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26550" CreationDate="2009-10-20T05:18:00.467" Score="8" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times I've noticed that when a question is posted on SO, comments requesting more information appear within minutes, but the OP has apparently disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that in return for mobilising the vast machinery of SO, the OP has a responsibility to stick around and clarify the question, if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we include a little something on the &lt;strong&gt;Ask a Question&lt;/strong&gt; page which explains that responsibility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that it couldn't be enforced, of course ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-16T17:43:38.863" LastActivityDate="2010-06-16T17:59:03.903" Title="When a question is posted, can we advise the poster to hang around and respond to comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26548" CreationDate="2009-10-20T05:20:47.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, but not sure if it will work at all. IMO most people who ask questions and don't hang around speak/write English very poorly and will just not notice. At least this text look and positioning should be very very carefully designed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T05:20:47.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26548" CreationDate="2009-10-20T05:39:04.580" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the drive-by will just post their question as they please, never bother to read anything, come back look over the answers and if one solves their problem, leave a comment as an answer, &quot;Thx! Fixed my problem&quot; and are off again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More words on the site is only good for those who stick around and like reading text. But most of these new users don't read now as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe after they ask a question a terse box above it with something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Please check back regularly to see the answers and comments on your question and to clarify if needed.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which goes away after they've burned some time into the site. Say, after they've accepted their first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T05:39:04.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26685" CreationDate="2009-10-20T05:39:54.093" Score="3" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Careers: Will it be possible for me to view other CV's as somebody that looks for a job? How would you then filter out employees I should not see as I currently work with them? Overlapping current employers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, how would you prevent my boss looking at my CV? He'ld just have to ommit his current employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:50:58.770" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:50:58.770" Title="Is it possible to browse CV's as a user in careers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-20T06:06:41.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both. Helping and learning is the key part of hanging around in SO. But tbh, I do care about anything that boosts my programmer's ego - that includes even a 'thank you' comment from the OP. Now that I've 2K reps but just 9 bronze badges, I'm keen on getting my first silver badge. They are hard to earn unless you are concentrating on popular badges. My domain is flash/flex and most of flashers and flexers hang out in actionscript.org, flashkit and other flash specific forums. How about this - I'm considering learning regex/javascript/php to boost my reps in SO? Did I just hear &quot;man, get a life&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T06:06:41.020" />
  <row Id="26555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26548" CreationDate="2009-10-20T06:53:49.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drive-by posters are a real problem. Without them some questions are pretty much impossible to answer. However, there's no real way to keep people engaged if they don't want to; the only effective way is having a positive reward (badges and rep, which are already given for new users). If they care about the answer they'll either stick around or will come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is we can't harass people for everything we, as a community, don't like. We can't force people to accept answers, we can't force them to upvote/downvote and we can't force them to come back to give more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a fine line here between reminding people of something and just plain annoying them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T06:53:49.590" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26523" CreationDate="2009-10-20T06:54:41.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a grey area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions can potentially belong on any of the three sites and the line can be blurry. Configuring MySQL might well be considered a serverfault question but then again it can relate to programming issues as well. You'll find questions on SO about PHP session config and similar for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the problem when you try and create demarcation on related subject areas by site. Not that I'm saying we shouldn't do that. We just need to accept there are grey areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trac: probably not SO as it's not really programming related. SU/SF depending on if its a usage or admin issue;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subversion: SO;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wordpress: potentially anywhere. You'll find &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wordpress&quot;&gt;Wordpress questions on SO&lt;/a&gt;. If it's about installation or admin, probably SF. Writing code for it then definitely SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's just my opinion. Just use your best judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T06:54:41.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T07:03:56.017" Score="4" ViewCount="633" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to use the Stack Overflow database for a data classification project. How do I dump the Stack Overflow database?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T07:19:11.187" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T06:21:51.770" Title="How do I dump the Stack Overflow database?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="26559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26557" CreationDate="2009-10-20T07:11:51.370" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can download the data dump (produced monthly) at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will need a 7zip decompressor, XML parsing code, and probably a database to load the data into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also be interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/&lt;/a&gt; which has already done all this for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T07:11:51.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26571" CreationDate="2009-10-20T07:55:53.053" Score="21" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Joel Coehoorn's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt;, I've created a query that you can use to determine how far you are from getting those elusive &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tag badges&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual query is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=1879&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;saved in StackQL&lt;/a&gt;. Load that up then edit the query to replace Jeff's user id (1) with your own. This will show your top 20 tags, ordered by number of upvotes (only non-CW answers are counted). Tweak as necessary, for example to increase the number of tags listed (such as if you're Jon Skeet, even though he doesn't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; have badges for 20 different tags yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Bug/feature requests for Joel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiline queries retrieved from the log don't respect indent whitespace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a way to easily substitute named parameters (eg. &lt;code&gt;$USERID&lt;/code&gt; in the above example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider not storing failed queries in the log&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T08:01:54.867" LastActivityDate="2010-04-17T23:15:03.430" Title="StackQL query to determine your own tag badge progress" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;&lt;stackql&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="26561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26514" CreationDate="2009-10-20T08:01:58.983" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's &lt;strong&gt;not villainize&lt;/strong&gt; people that ask a lot of questions. Both Jeff and Joel repeatedly said on the podcast that questions are really important. You can turn almost any question into something useful with a bit of editing, even the really bad ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no one would ask any questions we'd have nothing to answer. Just because a question might seem trivial or even stupid that does not mean you can't learn anything from it. Sometimes simple questions have incredibly good answers from which you can learn. A lot of the top users on all the trilogy sites have few asked questions. They do all the heavy lifting by actually answering, but if there'd be no questions they'd have nothing to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T08:01:58.983" />
  <row Id="26562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26557" CreationDate="2009-10-20T08:27:30.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just tell her you think you should see other people, but that you still want to be friends. (Don't actually call, though)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T08:27:30.997" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25594" CreationDate="2009-10-20T09:14:17.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be really nice to be able to make individual values links - so for example, in Greg's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26560/stackql-query-to-determine-your-own-tag-badge-progress&quot;&gt;tag badge progress&lt;/a&gt; query, it would be nice if the tag names were links to the stats for the individual tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether this is even vaguely possible, and obviously the SQL would need to specify the URL &quot;template&quot; as it were - but it would be really handy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T09:14:17.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24030" CreationDate="2009-10-20T09:57:38.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tagging question that concerns &quot;make&quot; with [makefile] is the same thing as marking [c] question with [c-file] tag.  A makefile is &lt;em&gt;just a file that contains program&lt;/em&gt; for one of the make tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should the questions be tagged?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark your questions with the at least one of the following tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[make] if you use usual Linux make; the answers with GNU make-specific solutions will contain proper remarks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[gnumake] along with [make] if you don't want to restrict yourself to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/make.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;POSIX make standard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[qmake] if you need to change the project file only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[cmake], [nmake] etc if you use the relevant tool.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether [makefile] tag persists is irrelevant, but I'd advice to drop it, because novices see lots of [makefile] tags and think that it's the way they should mark questions.  While it leads to confusion only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the difference between &quot;make&quot; and &quot;makefile&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly used for build systems, there exists a program called &quot;&lt;strong&gt;make&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.  The purpose of this program is to maintain dependency information between files (e.g. source and object files of your project) and to update (e.g. recompile) only those files that actually need it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check how it works by creating a file &lt;code&gt;hello.c&lt;/code&gt; with a simple program and typing &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ make hello&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll see how make invokes C compiler and builds executable for your program.  If you invoke the same command again, it will report that &lt;code&gt;hello&lt;/code&gt; is up to day, and it will be recompiled only if you update &lt;code&gt;hello.c&lt;/code&gt; file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you do not need a makefile for that!  Because for simple rules make can do well without any makefile!  But of course, if the rules go more complex, you'll need one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;&lt;strong&gt;makefile&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is a file that contains a &lt;em&gt;program&lt;/em&gt; written in special language for it to be executed by the &quot;make&quot; interpreter.  It contains project-specific rules and dependency relations.  The &quot;make&quot; program matches them against the file system and determines the sequence of commands that need to be executed to bring the target supplied up to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are different make systems and standard, each of which has a different language: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GNU make&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/make.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;POSIX make specifications&lt;/a&gt;, Microsoft's &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd9y37ha.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nmake&lt;/a&gt;; and meta-make high-level systems that generate makefiles just like C compiler generates assembly: &lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qmake-manual.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;qmake&lt;/a&gt; for Qt and general-purpose &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cmake.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CMake&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the programs share the same domain, the programs that drive their befavior are called &quot;makefiles&quot;. But the languages, in which these makefiles are written, are different!  &lt;strong&gt;So you should always specify the actual &quot;make&quot; program you use&lt;/strong&gt; in your questions and tags.  Not only this is correct, but also it avoids confusion, when people answer the question that later occurs to be restricted to the other make program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastEditorUserId="136055" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T09:48:45.590" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T09:48:45.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-25T09:48:45.590" />
  <row Id="26568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26557" CreationDate="2009-10-20T11:30:34.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are using MySQL I have a schema and a script written in ruby that will load the data. Just grab the latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data dump&lt;/a&gt;, create a database, load &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/geeqe/source/browse/trunk/scripts/schema.sql&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this schema&lt;/a&gt;, modify &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/geeqe/source/browse/trunk/scripts/load.rb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this loader script&lt;/a&gt; to point to your database and then run the script. It only takes a few minutes to load all the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T11:30:34.467" />
  <row Id="26569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T11:47:45.810" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen quite a bunch of &quot;popular&quot; votes recently which just rephrase a bit the next popular answer but suddenly get a bunch of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this may be down to people using their social network to vote on their responses and I feel this is tweaking a bit the vote system as original posters do not get the recognition that the points system should support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an incentive for users to use their social network, of course, as they receive points. However, seeing this happened a few times I feel less motivated myself to answer in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How will stackoverflow balance against these techniques?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137534" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:14:07.420" Title="How do you deal with &quot;Vote for my answer here&quot; social techniques?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27574" CreationDate="2009-10-20T11:52:54.663" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Careers site you add employment and eduction starting with the most recent first going to the oldest as in a stadard CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However then if I complete a course, get a new job or forget something, any additional employment or education are added at the end and in turn out of chronological order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to set the order and if not is this a valid feature request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:32:04.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:32:04.223" Title="Setting the order of Education and Employment on Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26560" CreationDate="2009-10-20T12:16:28.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awesome!  I love to see people use this thing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I refined Greg's query a little, because one of his feature requests is already implemented (it's built into sql server and I didn't want to block it):&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=1997&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=1997&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also linked back to the tag's stats pages, with the exception that sql server doesn't have a convenient urlencode function and so I let it break for tags like C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for logs: I've gone back and forth on that several times.  The log was originally intended simply as a way to spot queries that busted out of the 1000 record result restrictions (you can do it if you know how) and maybe a way for me to spot and feature some other 'popular' or especially good queries.  For the former, I definitely want to see failed queries in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's also turning into something much more useful, and when I started showing the link at the top of the page I realized I needed to at least fix the line breaks so it didn't break queries with single-line comments.  I'll probably fix the white space eventually, but it's low on my priority list and it's tricky because sql server doesn't have a good htmlencode method built in (maybe I'll do it as a clr function).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T14:38:12.770" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:38:12.770" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26569" CreationDate="2009-10-20T12:38:52.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the number #1 balance check in place is the requirement to have at least 15 reputation to be able to vote up. This means that any user in these &quot;social networks&quot; is already eligible to vote answers and questions up anyway since they have contributed to the community already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T12:38:52.510" />
  <row Id="26573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26569" CreationDate="2009-10-20T12:40:58.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always send a broadcast out on twitter for people to vote for your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether they do or not is up to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can ask you to send me money, but it's still up to you whether or not you send me money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as I'm not coercing anyone into it; it's not a 'crime'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reference to Stack Overflow, so long as you don't have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sock puppet accounts upvote your posts&lt;/a&gt;, you ought to be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T12:40:58.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T12:46:47.267" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this question has been asked/answered yet ... but, is there a way, or in the works, to hide the ignored tags on my homepage? I'm talking about the list that displays them. I have a lot of tags I ignore and it pushes any advertisements, recent tags, and recent badges out of sight. It would also be a nice option to hide my interested tags as well, as I know what I am interested in, and should I forget I can go look at my preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1768" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:09:05.387" Title="Why must I see my Ignored Tags on my homepage?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26574" CreationDate="2009-10-20T13:10:40.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are right - both those boxes should be moved to the profile page and not be displayed on the homepage as it just adds clutter. Maybe some nice jQuery magic can be used to provide a new way to interest/ignore tags from the homepage view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T13:10:40.590" />
  <row Id="26577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26560" CreationDate="2009-10-20T13:14:19.740" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Damn you! I only have 141 upvotes in my most popular tag. I need to get on this. ASAP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T13:14:19.740" />
  <row Id="26578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24720" CreationDate="2009-10-20T13:29:00.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FogBugz is a Product of FogCreek, the StackOverflow family of sites is a product of StackOverflow.com LLC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially two different companies (even though StackExchange makes their relationship a bit blurry), and I doubt that Jeff gets money for FogBugz sales. So realistically, FogCreek would have to pay money to StackOverflow.com LLC, so for them it boils down to the question: &quot;Is it worth advertising FogBugz on StackOverflow?&quot;, and I assume that question either never came up or was answered negatively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that advertising for StackExchange would be more logical than for FogBugz, but I assume they will come as soon as SE is out of beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T13:29:00.027" />
  <row Id="26581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26574" CreationDate="2009-10-20T13:35:35.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of ignored tags could be replaced with a small,simple, &quot;3 ignored tags&quot; link which would take you to your profile when clicked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T13:35:35.147" />
  <row Id="26582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26574" CreationDate="2009-10-20T13:39:05.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the current layout, because it allows me to check easely my ignored tags &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; add new ignored tags if I see a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; tag that I want to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The power of greasemonkey:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Remove Ignored Tags&#xA;// @namespace      so&#xA;// @description    Remove Ignored Tags&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    function GM_init() {&#xA;        if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') {&#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;        } else {&#xA;            jQuery_init(unsafeWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    GM_init();&#xA;&#xA;    function jQuery_init($){&#xA;            $(&quot;#ignoredTags&quot;).hide();&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T15:09:05.387" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:09:05.387" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26588" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:17:18.500" Score="-2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25378/was-there-a-site-participation-right-on-so-for-people-with-5000-rep&quot;&gt;removed the power to delete arbitrary comments&lt;/a&gt; from your post once you reach 5000 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change itself makes perfect sense, but it leaves those of us who strove to reach 5k rep feeling lost and without a milestone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I propose, as a consolation prize to keep the morale up for people pathetic enough to care (like myself) - a new badge for reaching 5k (may be remove it past 6k or something).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;T-Shirt&quot; (I reached 5k rep and all I got was a lousy T-Shirt badge)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%5Fdenominations%5Fof%5FUnited%5FStates%5Fcurrency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;James Madison&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;#include comments/&amp;lt;get-a-life.h&amp;gt;&#xA;#include comments/&amp;lt;get-better-priorities-in-life.h&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T14:48:17.247" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:48:17.247" Title="Can we have a badge as a consolation prize for lack of 5000 rep powers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26583" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:26:01.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can still strive for 10K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:26:01.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24720" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:29:24.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If FogCreek is willing to pay for the ad space, I don't see why not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think that it would be best if FogCreek did pay for ad space if they wanted it. Otherwise, other vendors of bug tracking solutions may raise a cry about preferential treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:29:24.423" />
  <row Id="26586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:30:34.110" Score="6" ViewCount="426" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO had turned me into a better developer by far, I like to browse questions that strike my interest and curiosity and just read through the answers. I never fail to learn something new everyday, whether it's something trivial or something much more complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I receive reputation it means a lot to me, almost a self achievement of sorts. Something I can show to someone to prove my &quot;worth&quot;. I think it works for me as a great confidence booster, also its something I can show my friends who don't understand what I do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It almost feels like I can finally have something to back me up if need to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is what does YOUR reputation mean to YOU? Is it simply a number, is it a score as if you're playing a game, or does it help you mentally achieve your goals and improve yourself like it does for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130614" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T14:34:14.040" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T10:18:19.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T14:30:34.110" Title="What does your reputation mean to you?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:32:08.367" Score="15" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I get audio from DevDays 2009?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133165" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T03:56:34.827" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T04:05:15.173" Title="DevDays Austin audio" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;audio&gt;&lt;devdays-austin&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="26588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26583" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:33:35.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Jeff Atwood will see this, have pity on you, and send you a few SO stickers to assuage your pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:33:35.633" />
  <row Id="26589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:36:55.237" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26586/what-does-your-reputation-mean-to-you/26589#26589&quot; title=&quot;It's just a number, a score, let's get over it and get on with life now. :)&quot;&gt;It holds me closely and keeps me warm at night. It is, in fact, the wind beneath my wings.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:36:55.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T14:36:55.237" />
  <row Id="26590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:37:03.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Score in a game, definitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Confidence booster to some extent - although comments do that more than just rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something to show to prove &quot;worth&quot;? No... it's too easy to give examples of how you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; get rep without actually showing much knowledge for that to be a good idea. If I wanted to impress people with what I've done on SO, I'd ask them to look at the content, not the votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:37:03.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T14:37:03.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:39:09.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd love to be able to say 'Nothing, it's just a number', but I'd be lying and proving my 'e-ddiction'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I definately think it's important though - it's like the score in a game, showing me how well I'm doing. The higher I go, the more satisfaction I have with myself, the better a developer I think I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really know. It means something - but it's not the end of the world if it were to be wiped. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:39:09.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T14:39:09.650" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:41:52.873" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So the question is what does YOUR reputation mean to YOU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means that when I see a post that needs editing, I'm free to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:41:52.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T14:41:52.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T14:45:43.523" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means I'm wasting entirely too much time on my computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T14:45:43.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T14:45:43.523" />
  <row Id="26598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:00:25.697" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ says that an user can earn at most 200 of reputation points per day. But since some questions keep being viewed, answered, voted for many days, one can theoretically earn more than 200 points with one question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know what SO question or answer gave the highest number of reputation points to an user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T15:15:31.830" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T06:27:36.237" Title="What was the question or answer in SO that gave the highest number of reputation points to one user?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="26599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26569" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:14:07.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Explicit patterns of vote fraud are automatically detected and removed by the reputation algorithm.  Boosters and serial downvoters -- people who vote primarily for or against a particular user -- have their votes removed by a daily fraud detection process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:14:07.420" />
  <row Id="26600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26598" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:15:22.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; gave &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69755/brian-campbell&quot;&gt;Brian Campbell&lt;/a&gt; a total of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69755?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;886 Rep points&lt;/a&gt; from upvotes (which you can see if you highlight the entire steeply rising portion of his Rep graph). He also got two down votes and subsequently burned 500 of the Rep points on a bounty for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:15:22.907" />
  <row Id="26601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:19:16.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a nice affirmation that maybe I do know a thing or two about my profession after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't applied for a job since joining SO, but I imagine it will be a very useful backup to all the claims I make in my resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T16:25:39.287" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:25:39.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T15:19:16.033" />
  <row Id="26602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:38:53.707" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't even buy hamburgers with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:38:53.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T15:38:53.707" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26605" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:40:04.720" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was posting question on serverfault, and I immediately thought about computer networking questions. Is it good idea to add one more website into league of justice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69111" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T16:01:52.713" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:03:45.830" Title="What do you think about new website for Network questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;&lt;networking&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26603" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:44:14.807" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you would like to create your own site: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most networking questions can be answered on server fault (administration, advanced) and super user (home, basic). Is there a question that you feel doesn't belong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:44:14.807" />
  <row Id="26607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26536" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:54:07.060" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/10/stackoverflow-devdays-san-francisco-recap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my blog entry about DevDays&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know what to expect from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow DevDays&lt;/a&gt;, and I was pleasantly surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, the presenters showed the basics of several different programming environments, but it was anything other than &quot;Language X 101.&quot;  This was top-gun coders showing the pros and cons of their particular language, taking very sharp questions from very sharp audience members, and being frankly honest about the things you need to know before you start programming with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the sessions included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/116/mark-harrison&quot;&gt;Mark Harrison&lt;/a&gt; on Python - showed off a one-page Python spellchecker with &quot;did-you-mean&quot; style autocorrection&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.neopoleon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rory Blyth&lt;/a&gt; on iPhone development - showed the rather intimidating side of the development IDE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hanselman.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/a&gt; on ASP.NET MVC - showed how Visual Studio 2010 is catching up with other MVC implementations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rawsocket.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Daniel Rocha&lt;/a&gt; on Nokia's Qt - showed that yes, cross-platform apps are still vying for Miss Congeniality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;James Yum on Android - showed why building properly threaded applications can still be rocket science&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first reaction was that I'm really glad I'm not a developer anymore.  Database administration seems a lot easier to me than some of this development work.  After building your Android app, for example, you have to test it against all kinds of different screen resolutions, screen densities, portrait vs landscape, etc - oh, and by the way, if you flip between portrait and landscape, Android may just restart your app.  Y'know, to be safe.  Wow.  Suddenly, $.99 for phone apps sounds even cheaper, and I'm even more impressed with apps like &lt;a href=&quot;http://layar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Layar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The presentations are still rapidly evolving based on attendee feedback.  Some of the presenters mentioned that they'd radically revised their presentation level (beginner vs expert) after feedback from earlier #DevDays events, so your mileage may vary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft threw in a surprise: they sent someone with boxloads of 2 gig laptop memory chips and a screwdriver kit.  Anybody whose laptop wasn't already maxed out with memory could swing by Microsoft's table and get it upgraded - &lt;strong&gt;free&lt;/strong&gt;.  Now that's my kind of schwag.  (As it happens, mine was already maxed out.)  There were several jabs suggesting they were doing it as a pre-emptive strike because Visual Studio 2010 must be some kind of memory pig, but it was all in good fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays&lt;/a&gt; to programmers at any level.  If nothing else, you'll see that the grass isn't any greener for programmers of other languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best of all, I finally got to meet the StackOverflow crew in person - Jeff Atwood (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;), Geoff Dalgas (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superdalgas.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/superdalgas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;), and Jarrod Dixon (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jarrod_dixon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;), good guys all.  (I'm just now realizing I didn't track down Joel, although I did meet &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/babakian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Babak&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:54:07.060" />
  <row Id="26608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26293" CreationDate="2009-10-20T15:59:13.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Review by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crshman.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert Navarro&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/crshman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter.com/crshman&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crshman.com/?p=257&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dev Days LA 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T15:59:13.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T15:59:13.077" />
  <row Id="26609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20849" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:01:18.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Damn, I would love to have these controls but 10K points is far too much. Can't this threshold be lowered a little, say to, for example 1157 points? A very round number! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:01:18.207" />
  <row Id="26610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26603" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:03:45.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Home networking should be right at &lt;em&gt;home&lt;/em&gt; on SuperUser, and Business networking should be right at home on ServerFault, sometimes less is more :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:03:45.830" />
  <row Id="26611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26293" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:04:39.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Review by &lt;a href=&quot;http://iamgoat.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rick Fleischer&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/iamgoat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter.com/iamgoat&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://iamgoat.com/post.cfm/stackoverflow-devdays-conference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow DevDays Conference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting the sum-up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the end, would I go next year? &#xA;  Yes! The price alone makes it a&#xA;  no-brainer.  However, if it's the same&#xA;  talks it will get boring fast.  The&#xA;  presentations were all introductory&#xA;  and pretty easy to grasp.  More&#xA;  intermediate talks would be cool. &#xA;  Technology is always advancing so I&#xA;  imagine it won't be hard to find new&#xA;  topics.  Couch DB or principle talks&#xA;  of software development / project&#xA;  management would be great. I hope some&#xA;  people post pics. I wanted to do a Qik&#xA;  video stream, but wasn't sure if it&#xA;  would be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:04:39.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T16:04:39.370" />
  <row Id="26612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:06:18.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a nice number that gets bigger at the top of my page.&#xA;When I'm downvoted, 2 things happen: I go &quot;Oh no, I posted something that was at least partially incorrect :(&quot;, and try to change it, and then I think &quot;Damn, the number at the top of my page is no longer pretty. It has, like, 7s in it and stuff&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there, the only way to fix it is to tactically hit the rep cap (or hope to see 2 bad answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual number itself is meaningless. A fun game, but it's the knowledge I hang around for.&#xA;edit: Though, yes, I really hope I get an accepted answer on SU right now - that'd put me on 2000 exactly! What a lovely round number, it's like a game within a game getting those :3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:06:18.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T16:06:18.650" />
  <row Id="26613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:12:18.917" Score="2" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to make a request for training section on CV, as I think those of us who are lucky enough for an employer to pay for training or may have even paid for it themseleves would like to demonstrate they have invested in their careers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137541" LastActivityDate="2010-04-18T08:00:02.953" Title="Add a Training section on CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;training&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26014" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:16:32.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26540/why-was-my-question-about-the-matrix-closed/26591#26591&quot;&gt;By request:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll address this part of your question:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't understand how these questions fit the criteria and how my question does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It comes back to the same thing your financial adviser tells you:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&quot;Past results do not guarantee future performance.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of those questions perhaps should be closed.  But mainly it comes down to the mood of the community at the time you post it: who's online, how much off-topic stuff have they seen lately, do they have enough rep to vote to close, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is designed so that a certain &lt;em&gt;very small&lt;/em&gt; amount of off-topic questions can make it through the community-driven filter.  The community does need some of this content from time to time.  But it's basically like winning the lottery.  There's even a prize, as a good off-topic question can earn you a gold badge or two.  But continuing the lottery analogy: you're odds aren't much better and the smart decision is to just not play.  And whining about &quot;losing&quot; your off-topic question won't help you any more than whining about losing the lottery would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one consolation I can give you is that the process isn't over yet.  The question is still out there, and those with enough rep can see it or vote to re-open it.  If you can convince a few high-rep users to vote to open the question, it will be opened.  But it's an uphill battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:16:32.840" />
  <row Id="26616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26617" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:27:39.393" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens if an answer is accepted twice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible? What happens with the reputation on the user who answer and in the user who ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T16:39:46.763" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:42:20.850" Title="What happens if an answer is accepted twice?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26616" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:31:31.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean as in they deselect your answer and re-select your answer later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would take away the 15 reputation (accepted answer reputation) when the answer was deselected. The 15 rep would return when your answer was selected a second time. So you would only gain 15 rep like you should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T17:42:20.850" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:42:20.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26536" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:31:40.057" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were eight speakers and each topic was interesting.  I'll definitely try to go again next year.  I've already added some of the speakers to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RSS fire hose&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; - Keynote&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel started out with a great exploration of the software design tug-of-war between simplicity and power.  He examined several excruciating techniques for interrupting users with complicated questions that they're not qualified to answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also derided the &quot;keep it simple&quot; approach that many software companies take when avoiding new features because new features lead to more revenue.  This was a pretty pointed critique of &lt;a href=&quot;http://37signals.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;37signals&lt;/a&gt;' approach to building software.  There are always reasonable features that could be added that would provide real value to the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, he suggests that you add features that give users power over what they care about and eliminate (or hide) all other features that may interrupt the user with something they don't care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also showed a pretty hilarious video they made at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FogCreek&lt;/a&gt;, where he's shown as the world's most insulting boss and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; likes playing with his cat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;Mark Harrison (Pixar) - Python&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark introduced everyone to a little bit of Python by showing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one-page spelling checker&lt;/a&gt; written by Peter Norvig.  He described the concept of elegance in code with a little definition: &quot;when it looks like there isn't enough code to do the task&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This talk was pretty technical and went long, but was a great exploration of how terse and still understandable Python can get.  However, I think some of the audience were getting a little tired toward the end of the code walk-through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone asked a great question: &quot;When does elegance stop and obfuscated begin?&quot;  Mark agreed that the example is more terse than is standard for Python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently Pixar embeds Python into its tools to do things that used to be done by linking specialized C libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Rory Blythe - iPhone Development&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's interesting to see a talk about iPhone development by a person who doesn't work for Apple.  He said some things that would be blasphemous at the Fruit Factory.  Anyway, it was a good talk, but it was a basic &quot;Here's the iPhone&quot; talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did get into &lt;a href=&quot;http://monotouch.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MonoTouch&lt;/a&gt; at the end, which was very cool and certainly raised some eyebrows about how much less code it took to accomplish the same stuff than Objective-C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Rory needs to go get &lt;a href=&quot;http://tuvix.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/DemoMonkey/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DemoMonkey&lt;/a&gt; and stop typing so much. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, here's a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://secrets.blacktree.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Secrets PrefPane&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;Joel Spolsky - FogBugzz&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel took the stage again to pitch the newest version of FogBugz, which I have to say is very cool.  It's got an extensive set of plugins and apparently, 7.1 now runs on linux under Mono.  He showed a pretty cool commercial plugin called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Balsamiq Mockups&lt;/a&gt;, which is integrated with FogBugz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also showed the newest extension to the FogBugz family: &lt;a href=&quot;http://fogcreek.com/kiln/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiln&lt;/a&gt;.  Kiln is basically a hosted Mercurial infrastructure that hooks into FogBugz on Demand (the hosted version) and provides both DVCS code hosting as well as code review support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;Scott Hanselman - Microsoft&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott talked about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asp.net/mvc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/a&gt; as well as the new version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010/default.mspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Visual Studio 2010&lt;/a&gt;.  I was pleasantly surprised and it made me want to go check out the great work that Microsoft has done in this space.  Also, that ASP.NET MVC is open source (albeit under a Microsoft open source license).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It definitely feels like they've taken a lot of the great ideas from things like Ruby on Rails and integrated them into ASP.NET MVC (really, they need a better name), especially RoR's approach to convention over configuration.  The IDE adapted itself very nicely to just dropping in new templating code.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also showed a demo of something called &quot;T4MVC.cs&quot;, which basically walked around the solution looking for &quot;magic strings&quot; and replacing them with symbols that were then picked up by IntelliSense.  Very cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like Scott was the best speaker at this conference.  He had a fantastic blend of humor, showmanship, and a genuine passion for what he's currently evangelizing.  He also showed a distinctly non-Microsoft interest in eliciting feedback from the audience about how ASP.NET MVC compares to other leading web frameworks out in the open source world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a pretty nifty way to get several common web apps up and running quickly on the Microsoft platform by using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft Web Platform Installer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nerddinner.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NerdDinner.com&lt;/a&gt;, whose tagline is &quot;Organizing the world's nerds and helping them eat in packs.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; - StackOverflow&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff took the stage to talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; itself and the hardware and software it runs on as well as the monitoring tools that they use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the entire Microsoft ASP.NET stack, some of the things they use: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cacti.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cacti&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CruiseControl.NET&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://haproxy.1wt.eu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HAProxy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also recommended a book that I'm already half-way through: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1430219483&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coders at Work&lt;/a&gt; by Peter Seibel.  I definitely agree.  Each of the interviews in this book is excellent and each has made me think about a new aspect of how I go about my job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff advocated for one of my favorite things for large-scale web apps, which is comprehensive logging, gathering, and inspection for errors.  He feels that no serious web app should be built until this is in place.  I definitely agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also mentioned the &lt;a href=&quot;http://highscalability.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;High Scalability Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;Daniel Rocha - Qt&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daniel gave a talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://qt.nokia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Qt&lt;/a&gt;, which is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit that targets both desktop and mobile platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac, Win CE, Symbian, Maemo).  It's a technological marvel and seems to have a lot of utility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks pretty cool, but it smacks of the general problem of building a cross-platform UI toolkit, which is that it has to make sacrifices which are not generally acceptable to end users.  It's all well and good to have a single codebase that can port to multiple platforms, but it's likely that it won't be accepted by folks who expect things to work for their platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the iPhone and Mac are any indication, event the slightest deviation from accepted norms is a pebble in your shoe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daniel gave away a couple of Nokia handsets in his segment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;James Yum - Google &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.android.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James was filling in for someone else who had been scheduled to give the Android talk, and I think he did a great job on short notice.  However, I have to question the original speaker's choice of topics, which was essentially &quot;Pitfalls with Threading in Android&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm used to iPhone demos, which are all about making it seem that the iPhone SDK is so easy a gibbering idiot could make an app for the phone that sells a gazillion copies and make him rich.  Apple rarely calls out difficulties in developing for their platforms, and if they do, they hide it within a whiz-bang demo.  Everything that comes out of the Fruit Factory is presented as milk and honey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's maybe just a cultural difference, but I can't understand why Google would decide to give a talk about how difficult it is to develop for Android.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I think this was the weakest of the talks this day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;H3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yehudakatz.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yehuda Katz&lt;/a&gt; - jQuery&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yehuda ended the day with a fantastic talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems like it's the leading JavaScript framework these days.  Even VS.NET MVC will be bundling jQuery in the upcoming version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the trend towards &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unobtrusive JavaScript&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and jQuery certainly fits the bill.  It seems to be the winner of &quot;Survivor: JavaScript Framework&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133684" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:31:40.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26613" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:31:48.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Agreed!&lt;/strike&gt; Might as well get some mileage out of those team-building exercises we got sent to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I strongly disagree with Stu that this is not a valuable metric of the candidate's skills. There are many kinds of training that are very relevant, such as Agile scrum-master certification, Toastmasters (public speaking), or managerial leadership training. Not to mention all the various certificates that Microsoft hands out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were a 17 year old kid and went to a summer camp for Ruby, I'd definitely want to highlight that. It's going to set me head and shoulders above all the other I-have-no-degree-but-I'm-awesome-anyway sorts of candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I humbly withdraw my agreement. I'll leave up this post however so we don't lose the banter attached to it. It still might be still useful to put on the resume, but it doesn't need its own section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T22:02:47.567" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T22:02:47.567" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:32:14.550" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some Trilogy stickers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a set of Telerik tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:32:14.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T16:32:14.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:35:08.880" Score="13" ViewCount="1151" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the most repeated question on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137544" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:18:46.267" Title="What's the most repeated question on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="25" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:36:11.513" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the most repeated question on StackOverflow?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:36:11.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:37:58.060" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why was my question closed?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:37:58.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:39:51.333" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;plzsendtehcodez&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:39:51.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26586" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:46:34.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reputation is a sign that I am worth something as a programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes me feel... wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastEditorUserId="150173" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-26T09:28:46.090" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T09:28:46.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T16:46:34.830" />
  <row Id="26629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26014" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:49:04.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No question is too newbie, but many are too vague. I've found myself linking an awful lot to &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to ask Questions the Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I wish this link was on the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; page, especially for low-rep posters.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:49:04.827" />
  <row Id="26630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26613" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:52:57.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Training is not a very good metric of your skills.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things J&amp;amp;J seem to be addressing with CSO is the crap way Internet based job searches work.  The main thing they've got going with CSO is the tie in to SO.  What you are proposing diminishes from keeping CSO clean, functional and relevant to the quality of a job seeker.  I'd even suggest that any employer who thinks training matters is not the kind of employer that CSO is excited about having.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:52:57.940" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:55:26.330" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Which is better?  Language x or language y?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A variation is &lt;em&gt;&quot;Framework x or framework y?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:55:26.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T16:59:51.080" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the best book for &lt;em&gt;[verb]&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;[noun]&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T16:59:51.080" CommentCount="41" />
  <row Id="26633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:00:21.703" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why do I keep generating the same random numbers?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why is the result of my floating point operation wrong?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:00:21.703" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:07:22.690" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hidden features of &quot;X&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in just 25 mins we got question &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1596139/hidden-features-adn-dark-corners-of-stl&quot;&gt;Hidden Features and dark corners of&#xA;  STL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135080" LastEditorUserId="135080" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T17:37:22.587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:37:22.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:07:36.340" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;How can I develop iPhone apps without a Mac&quot; used to come up at least once a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:07:36.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:12:18.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone help me fix this query in [MySQL, MSSQL, LINQ]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a problem with my jQuery selector...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:12:18.720" />
  <row Id="26637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:13:20.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do my homework?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25650" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:13:20.493" />
  <row Id="26638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:16:43.873" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I parse XML with a regex?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:16:43.873" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:20:24.633" Score="0" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have often come upon questions where the asker never bothered accepting what is &lt;strong&gt;obviously&lt;/strong&gt; a correct answer. &quot;Obviously&quot; can mean (aside from my own judgment):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer is a clear leader in up-votes (again, combined with my judgment that it is a correct one)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer is the only one (and again appears correct)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer (or Q) is commented on by OP indicating it helped.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user is still active on SO, what helps &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt; is to post a comment on the question mentioning you can/should accept the answer. For my own answers, this technique worked ~30-50% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the user is a zombie (showed up &gt;1 month ago, asked one or few answers, and was not on the site for &gt;1 month since), this would obviously not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ameliorate this situation, I would propose allowing users whose rep &gt; &lt;em&gt;threshold&lt;/em&gt; to &quot;accept&quot; answers from other peoples questions. This would be limited to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;questions from zombie users as defined above (e.g. total active time on site &amp;lt;= 30% of time since last visit, or however you want to define).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;questions from non-zombie users with very low accept rates (this may require higher threshold).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;neither the OP nor &quot;guest acceptor&quot; gains 2 points for accepting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the OP should have the right to choose a different accepted answer at any time, and get 2 points rep when that happens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you accept your own answer, you obviously don't get 15rep for acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if implemented to the above specs, it should provide enough of a barrier to misuse while serving the goal of the site (allow arriving at the best possible answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. This was obviously triggered by some of my own answers but once I realized the situation I observed it numerously with questions I was merely browsing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:31:59.557" Title="Allow users to mark &quot;accepted&quot; answer on someone else's question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;zombie&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26639" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:26:02.920" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best option is to let the moderators accept (with some kind of mechanism to avoid bad things happening), as per this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18312/moderators-accepting-answers-on-users-behalf-after-a-certain-time-period&quot;&gt;link.&lt;/a&gt;  As you can see it's not a popular position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T17:31:59.557" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:31:59.557" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T17:26:02.920" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="26641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26639" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:26:35.447" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the OP doesn't accept it, then it's meaningless. Other users can already indicate that they like a given answer &lt;em&gt;simply by &lt;strong&gt;up-voting&lt;/strong&gt; it!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of thing gets suggested a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;, and it always boils down to the same thing: a misunderstanding as to what &quot;Accepted&quot; really means. So here's the truth: &lt;strong&gt;the &quot;Accepted&quot; answer is the one the OP liked most&lt;/strong&gt;. Nothing more, nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:26:35.447" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26639" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:27:17.413" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only the OP knows whether the answer solved their problem or not.  As such it makes no sense for anyone but the OP to accept an answer to their question.  The community weighs in with it's collective insight via voting so there is no need to have an accepted answer from the community's point of view -- it's already expressed in votes.  I don't think anything needs to change in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, you are tying acceptance privileges to reputation which is meaningless when it comes to knowing whether any particular answer is the absolute best answer to any particular question.  If anything it ought to be votes that determines the accepted answer, but then again, that already happens from the community's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:27:17.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26645" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:45:32.980" Score="10" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4448/does-so-encourage-developer-laziness/4449#4449&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; about developer laziness and decided to try and follow  Mike Houston's suggestion from the comment of posting &quot;How do I implement bubble sort?...&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I was ready to sacrifice some reputation for the sake of science, as well as suffer some flame, so here's the result: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595989/how-do-i-implement-bubble-sort&quot;&gt;Bubble-Sort&lt;/a&gt; . To summarize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nearly instantly got 5 down-votes with no upvotes :(&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone instantly re-tagged the question as &quot;Homework&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone fairly rudely but quite accurately noted that the question was not as good as it should have been.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People posted at least 2 very good answers that I saw&lt;/strong&gt;. Don't know if they were the same people who down-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my biggest question is, &lt;strong&gt;how come Joel Spolsky's infamous LOGO turtle moving question was voted up high, while this one was downvoted into oblivion?&lt;/strong&gt; Was it merely Joel's name on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137545" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T21:46:56.923" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T21:46:56.923" Title="Why am I not Joel Spolsky? (or, treating newbie questions on SO that don't come from Joel)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26475" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:46:54.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one time, I used to come here and use it as a Ginsu knife that could cut through any urgent programming-related problem I had. Stumped? Leap onto StackOverflow and find your solution in minutes flat. Google?! LMAO!! What a waste of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now? Now I spend (unauthorized) time wading through pages of StackOverflow looking for any topic that catches my eye talking about things I don't know about, perusing the answers, sucking up knowledge like a sponge. I'm horribly addicted, and what the vast majority of the users here (Joel, Jon, Mark, et al) don't know is that I'm constantly leeching knowledge off of them when they aren't looking. I'm not doing my work. My productivity is going down the tubes. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't get through a single day without my SO fix. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that answer your question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137549" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:46:54.067" />
  <row Id="26645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26643" CreationDate="2009-10-20T17:49:42.297" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For one thing, you could have mentioned that fact that you wanted to make sure SO had a bubble-sort-related question on it, and that's why you were making the question. To make it more likely to succeed, I would have linked to the similar Joel questions as evidence that you know what you're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But otherwise you hit the nail on the head. Questions like that only work because they are highly visible due to the people asking them. Stack Overflow is not very friendly to that kind of question because, frankly, it looks like a &quot;plz send me teh codez&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Joel asks the same question, people give him the benefit of the doubt. When you ask it, it looks like a new user trying to take advantage of everyone's generosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T17:49:42.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26643" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:04:14.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the one that originally edited Joel's question; and I would have voted to close if I hadn't googled &quot;Turtle LOGO&quot; and found out what he was talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question: It doesn't matter to me who you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are stark differences between Joel's question and your question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's Question didn't have the &lt;em&gt;propensity&lt;/em&gt; to be a homework question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel didn't ask us to 'plzsendtehcodez'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you had asked the question in such a way that it didn't appear like you wanted us to do your homework&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; for you, then it probably wouldn't have been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;I realize that it wasn't a homework question &lt;em&gt;for you&lt;/em&gt;, but it is a possible homework question for someone out there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:04:14.060" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:29:18.170" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Why the down-vote?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:29:18.170" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:30:14.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the difference between == and === in (PHP|Javascript)?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:30:14.250" />
  <row Id="26649" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:32:25.323" Score="0" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well the title of the question sums it up. Everything after the commented line is taken as a comment. You can see the bug here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595972/how-to-call-a-public-sub-function-of-a-window-from-another-window/1596465#1596465&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595972/how-to-call-a-public-sub-function-of-a-window-from-another-window/1596465#1596465&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T19:58:10.097" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T20:38:40.697" Title="Commenting one line of Visual Basic code comments everything" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26649" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:36:22.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not taking the ' character as a comment starter, but rather as the beginning of a string and it's expecting a second ' to close the string.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:36:22.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26649" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:37:39.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Submit an &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;issue with Google prettify&lt;/a&gt;, since this functionality belongs to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:37:39.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T18:37:39.073" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:44:36.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;How can I validate a (numeric range|date|ip address|email address) using a regex?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:44:36.543" />
  <row Id="26654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T18:51:20.713" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is babby formed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T18:51:20.713" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T19:23:17.543" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;At DevDays, Joel showed a graph of StackOverflow site visits per day over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious how the total reputation in the system has grown over time, and how that compares with the total number of (registered) users.  Does anyone know of such a graph?  I don't know if there are any significant changes to reputation allocation (bounties maybe) but it'd also be neat if the graph marked when such changes occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137347" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T19:23:17.543" Title="Total reputation in StackOverflow over time" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;&lt;so-history&gt;" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="26657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T19:41:27.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found something similar to this a few hours ago in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=266&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL logs&lt;/a&gt;, so it's not my idea originally, but according to StackQL it's &lt;code&gt;&quot;MySQL Query&quot;&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=2116&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/?qid=2116&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T19:41:27.790" />
  <row Id="26658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T19:59:28.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't [language|framework] have feature x?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T19:59:28.880" />
  <row Id="26659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26649" CreationDate="2009-10-20T20:04:02.503" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not the only thing that doesn't work with the current code highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;code&gt;prettify.js&lt;/code&gt;' documentation, it can take the intended language as an argument.  This is also clearly needed for consistently producing the intended results.  However, in spite of numerous nudges and complaints, this feature is still unavailable, mostly, I suspect, due to the inherent inflexibility of Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice would be to replace Markdown with something like BBcode and migrate the existing posts either by enclosing them in [markdown]...[/markdown] tags or by translating the current Markdown guesswork to the corresponding new markups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, it would be no problem to have a [code language=&quot;VB&quot;] environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;:  Another possibility is to allow a &lt;code&gt;lang&lt;/code&gt; attribute on &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastEditorUserId="131533" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T20:38:40.697" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T20:38:40.697" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26665" CreationDate="2009-10-20T20:50:43.903" Score="6" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page give a short explanation when the &quot;community wiki&quot; checkbox should be checked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply giving the checkbox a different caption might make it more obvious what CW is and when it should be selected, e.g:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[ ] make this a community wiki question if it is subjective or if there is no single correct answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(of course this is just my interpretation of when the CW checkbox should be checked)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, at least the FAQ should explain when the CW checkbox should be checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19635" LastEditorUserId="19635" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T19:14:00.283" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:35:07.583" Title="When to check the &quot;community wiki&quot; checkbox?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26666" CreationDate="2009-10-20T20:54:08.903" Score="5" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/609276/listview-dataitem-shows-null&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and have editing powers, you see the full text in the edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/%5FMJ7SHaJorfU/St4i0ywiKLI/AAAAAAAAALw/EsPrzaWorgM/s800/notmuckedquestion.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Not Mucked Question in Edit Mode&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you look at it in Firefox 3.5, the question gets 'cut' off and the tags are moved to the previous line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5FMJ7SHaJorfU/St4i0241wyI/AAAAAAAAALs/nZbJY7KBAlU/s800/questionmucked.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mucked Question w/ freehand circle&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T22:36:24.707" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T22:36:24.707" Title="Bug in Rendered Question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26660" CreationDate="2009-10-20T20:55:05.673" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CW is not for subjective or many correct answers (if so, then accepted answers would not work on CW questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW is for community edited information. Where we gather round to give our best to sculpt and create the bests answers around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T20:55:05.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24917" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:06:18.023" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seconded. I've answered a lot of questions, but my highest-rated answers tend to be the highly-viewed social-poll style questions, whereas most of the lowest tend to be simple RTFM-style answers; the interesting ones from an employer's POV - the sort where I give complex in-depth answers involving specialist knowledge - tend to get orders of magnitude fewer views that the social-poll questions, and hence fewer upvotes; and thus are buried somewhere in the middle of the &quot;noise&quot;; yet if I stop answering newbie questions, SO would lose something I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if having me select questions to be highlighted is not acceptable, something like displaying the highest-rated question for each of the top few tags I am most active in might work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132764" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:06:18.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26660" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:09:06.707" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say CW is very much for &quot;many correct answers&quot;, as well as &quot;there are no correct answers&quot;.  CW questions can be used for pooling a number of ideas or approaches to a problem, or a poll, where up/downvotes can be used to sort the answers by &quot;goodness&quot; (rather than correctness).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ólafur makes me wonder why we allow the &quot;Accept Answer&quot; option on CW questions. This should at least be renamed &quot;Select answer as best&quot;, but it would be interesting to see if anything would suffer if it were removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; page should definitely have more guidance on it, and with perhaps really verbose instructions for low-reputation posters.  It should also have a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;How to Ask Questions the Smart Way&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; a direct link to the FAQ item about asking questions. (It never hurts to put instructions in more than one location; everyone looks for guidance in different ways.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:09:06.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26661" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:27:21.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Known issue:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought we had all these cleaned up, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was some work done early to try to find potential truncated posts, but everything I found was already cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:27:21.697" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11387" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:33:40.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have also switched to use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page instead of the search box to search for questions. Some moments ago I was searching for &quot;Reusable functionality in asp.net mvc&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the search box returns 17 pages of (mostly unrelated) questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when entering that as the title on the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page, I get what I'm looking for (in the first position of the search results)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19635" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:33:40.360" />
  <row Id="26668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26279" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:35:13.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. Occasionally someone has a question where the only answer is a long-winded explanation/walk-through their code. Or in those times when someone has a problem that manifests itself over repeated iterations of improvement, and your answer grows larger and larger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to give a paraphrase and then post a collapsible code block so the entire page isn't molested by my answer. I'm usually concise, but sometimes you just need a long answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:35:13.273" />
  <row Id="26669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11387" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:44:01.447" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: Why does [insert favourite trilogy site here] provide better answers on [site focus] than google's own answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: Different purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google use complex weighting to choose pages, SO probably uses a fairly straightforward db search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:44:01.447" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26672" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:46:25.530" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see&quot;&gt;What StackExchange sites do you want to see?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like I'm wanting this exact same forum structure for many other domains since it is such an effective way of asking questions / finding answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for instance it would be useful for the following :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Science  (maybe even broken down into physics, chemistry, math)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cars / Motor Vehicles &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Medical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Law&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136999" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-20T22:36:39.713" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T22:36:39.713" ClosedDate="2009-10-20T23:16:54.570" Title="What other stackoverflow style websites would you want?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;&lt;ideas&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26670" CreationDate="2009-10-20T21:51:28.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Design: Illustrator, Photoshop, Blend, Corel, Dreamweaver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133401" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T21:51:28.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26670" CreationDate="2009-10-20T22:04:02.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;existing ones.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T22:04:02.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T23:09:51.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the fastest way of evaluating a simple SQL or mathematical expression without telling you what OS, software, hardware, or expression I'm really using?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135230" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T23:09:51.790" />
  <row Id="26674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-20T23:21:43.050" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just stumbled upon this: &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14532&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14532&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:09:51.663" Title="Is that official SO firefox ad-on" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-20T23:29:41.173" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Community wiki please?&quot; by a mile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T23:29:41.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26674" CreationDate="2009-10-20T23:37:18.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd already added the search functionality to Firefox with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'Add to Search Bar'&lt;/a&gt; add-on, so there's nothing exciting yet.  I think the rep and badges showing on the bar will be interesting, so we'll see how that goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meta SO link&lt;/a&gt; on how to setup the Firefox search for all four sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T23:37:18.240" />
  <row Id="26677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-10-20T23:49:08.097" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OCD&lt;/strong&gt; - visited the site every day for a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135683" LastActivityDate="2009-10-20T23:49:08.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-20T23:49:08.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T00:29:29.300" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to start a list of the programming-related StackExchange websites, since there are more and more SE sites that might have a more focused community, rather than SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have more than 100 rep feel free to edit the first answer itself. Otherwise post a link seperately and someone will add it in :). I'm not doing this for rep so please don't close this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of all SE sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchangesites.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SE Showcase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T00:29:37.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T00:31:18.050" Title="List of programming related StackExchange websites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;websites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26680" CreationDate="2009-10-21T00:29:37.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;General&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Math Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Electronics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Software GUI design&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://physics.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Physics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific products&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlservercentral.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft SQL Server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://snippetgood.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JavaScript snippets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://officequestions.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MS Office and VBA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://teradataquestions.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Teradata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FogBugz&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://kiln.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiln&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.excbadaccess.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iPhone Apps&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://iphonegamedev.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game Dev&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T00:29:37.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T00:31:34.960" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T00:29:08.523" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I comment on someone's question? I don't see a button or link for this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a help page for this forum?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I ask questions about the forum on the forum?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T01:02:38.683" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T20:14:56.980" Title="Comments on questions, how do I add mine?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26682" CreationDate="2009-10-21T00:35:59.007" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You need 50 reputation points before you can leave comments. The easiest way to earn them is to post good questions and answers.  Also, you may get downvoted now and then early on;  try not to get disheartened!  Just keep improving your questions and answers, and the 50 reputation points should follow quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;official FAQ&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;user generated FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Questions about the forum belong on Meta&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you can always leave comments on your own questions, answers, and any answers to questions you have asked. Even with 1 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck and welcome to Meta Stackoverflow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-18T20:14:56.980" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T20:14:56.980" />
  <row Id="26684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30161" CreationDate="2009-10-21T00:41:31.433" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, I do not want to post duplicate questions, so I always do a search in the top right hand first, sometimes I learn a lot and spend about 30 minutes+ reading up on similar results that are very interesting, however not the exact question I want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at this point I go to Ask Question and after typing a title, to my shock, the exact question I want answered pops up, despite putting the same terms into search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I alone here, or is there some scope in the future of a sort of &quot;Ask Jeeves&quot; type search where you actually write the question and get the same results as I do in the related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T04:11:23.833" Title="Searching for similar questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26551" CreationDate="2009-10-21T00:42:52.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can view a public CV and only paying employers can view a private CV. It is up to you if you want to publish your CV as private or public. In a way, you can see other public CV's but they won't be searchable or able to be browsed because that would defeat the purpose of the Careers business model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137568" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T00:42:52.400" />
  <row Id="26686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26684" CreationDate="2009-10-21T00:45:04.673" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me introduce you to your new little friend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site+stackoverflow.com+Search+Here&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=site+stackoverflow.com+Search+Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T00:45:04.673" />
  <row Id="26687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26473" CreationDate="2009-10-21T01:00:39.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to get enough rep to be able to edit questions or answers every time I see a typo (that happens fairly often). But it's a very high number, so I'm just forgetting about both rep and badges and just answering questions when I happen to know the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T01:00:39.230" />
  <row Id="26688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26674" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:09:51.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Official&quot; as in built and/or endorsed by Jeff/Joel? No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23699/firefox-addon-for-stackoverflow-trilogy-sites&quot;&gt;It was built by a member for other members.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:09:51.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:17:58.870" Score="36" ViewCount="1257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the last few weeks of the &quot;visitor&quot; metric per Google Analytics, on each Trilogy site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8907/analyticsvisitorsmeta.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/503/analyticsvisitorssf.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;superuser.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6666/analyticsvisitorssu.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7807/analyticsvisitorsso.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are ordered in terms of least visitors to most visitors. Stack Overflow is the blockbuster here. Which makes sense, as it's the oldest, and the site that is most in tune with the Joel on Software and Coding Horror audiences we originally started with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is only included for completeness; we don't actually need any particular traffic level there (aka, &quot;here&quot;) due to the nature of the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not showing the larger trend graphs here, but &lt;strong&gt;the deeper concern is that Super User and Server Fault are not growing much (if at all) over time&lt;/strong&gt;. Google traffic levels are one sign of a site's maturity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO has 90% google traffic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SF has 77% google traffic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SU has 67% google traffic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we're not quite &quot;mature&quot; yet, but we're getting close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure we've done a good job of reaching out to the power user (superuser.com) and sysadmin/it pro (serverfault.com) communities to make sure they're at least aware of these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why this matters: I worry that if we don't attract a critical mass of users there, questions and answers will languish. They don't need to be &lt;em&gt;enormous&lt;/em&gt;, I just want them to be &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;. And that implies some growth, at least!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this is my question to you: &lt;strong&gt;what should we be doing to reach out to the power user and sysadmin communities?&lt;/strong&gt; How can we attract more of the kinds of power users, sysadmins, and IT pros that we'd like to see asking and answering questions on superuser.com and serverfault.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T21:37:22.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" Title="How do we grow the Server Fault and Super User communities?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;traffic&gt;" AnswerCount="36" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="19" />
  <row Id="26690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26536" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:19:11.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reviews:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Spolsky, Keynote&lt;/strong&gt;: I thought the video at startup was hilarious, although there were definitely instances of programmers-are-not-actors in the video (specifically the awkward laugh before commanding the guys to run laps). The presentation was pretty good, although it seemed to take a few long detours and scenic routes to get where it was going. I don't know that I'd agree with the argument that elegant code is code that does more than it looks like it's possible to do. Personally I like the suspension bridge better than the other one. In programming, the most important part is the readability of the code. If a programmer can't figure out &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the code works, then they have no hope of fixing any problems that come up. I guess this is same as the question that was asked about &quot;when does elegance stop and obfuscation begin?&quot; I definitely agree that less code doing the same amount of work is more elegant than more code doing the same amount of work, as long as it's still readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Harrison, Python&lt;/strong&gt;: I like that this presentation wasn't just a &quot;hello world.&quot; I don't necessarily like that it seems like it was written in a functional way, because I'm not sure all python programs are written that way. There were probably some slightly longer ways to create the insertions/deletions/substitutions that didn't involve a super-functional method of doing it, and would be simpler to explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rory Blyth, iPhone&lt;/strong&gt;: To me, this presentation basically said &quot;here's all the crappy stuff apple makes you do to write apps for the iPhone. Oh, and you have to buy a mac too.&quot; I had listened to his appearance on the DotNetRocks podcast, and this presentation was pretty similar. I was pretty impressed that the IDE wasn't as terrible as I had heard. I also enjoyed the ending, where he showed how awesome MonoTouch is, but would've preferred a little bit more in depth on it. Rory was definitely the most animated person on stage, and was very good at using dry humour to get laughs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lunch advertisers&lt;/strong&gt;: I walked in towards the end of this, but it seemed like it was basically &quot;here's the cool stuff we're working on, and we're really awesome, and if you join us, you'll make tons of money.&quot; A bit too much head-hunterism, if that's the right way to say what I thought of it, but it was neat to look at the cool pictures. And the guy kept saying &quot;this works a lot better on a big monitor&quot; during his demo. A better demo would have been something that worked on the 1024x768 monitor, but I'm sure they figured that out by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Spolsky, FogBugz 7&lt;/strong&gt;: I was really impressed by the demonstration. Of course, right now I'm using some pretty sub-par solutions, so anything better looks great. The kiln integration looked great to link the code to the bug tracking/code reviews. Hopefully we can convince management to go for it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott Hanselman, ASP.NET MVC&lt;/strong&gt;: It seems like Scott has done a lot of presentations, and it shows from this presentation on MVC. He kind of jumped around a lot, and assumed everyone knew web programming/MVC, but we're an advanced crowd. Again, I'm kind of looking forward to moving some stuff to ASP.NET MVC, due to some bad experiences with PHP, and my love of C# from desktop applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood, Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;: I was a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; underwhelmed by this presentation. It was enjoyable, but it seemed like it was lacking depth. I can't really explain it in words though, but I was probably just expecting too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daniel Rocha, Qt&lt;/strong&gt;: The Qt presentation (cue-tee is how I've always said it in my brain) was definitely the weakest of the day for me. Yes, it's kind of cool that you can make portable apps, but really, you shouldn't. At least, not in the way it's done here. I can think of at least three reasons off the top of my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C++: Not only it's c++, but it's a hacked up pre-processed version of c++. I've had enough weird versions of c to last me a lifetime with working on embedded processors. There's always &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; wrong with them. Also, I think Java does a much better job of the portability without hacky things like macros. And I don't really like Java that much.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The uncanny valley: Even though Qt uses native widgets, it's always going to feel slightly wrong. A pixel too far left here, a slightly different battleship gray there, and it adds up to your brain telling you something's wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asymmetric interfaces: Developing for a mac and windows may result in similar programs, but a windows program and a phone application should not be the same interface. A file menu on a phone? Seriously?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the fact that he's speaking on something that's not really relevant to me as a person shouldn't mean the presentation was bad, but it was presented sloppily as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Yum, Android&lt;/strong&gt;: I'll be an out-lier, and say that I enjoyed this presentation. Not as much as some of the others, but it wasn't the worst. I think that the first part of the presentation could've been a little shorter, and dove right into the code a little faster. I will give credit for him going into a more advanced topic that might show weakness in the platform. He could've just as easily done a &quot;hello world&quot; app like Rory did, and probably done it equally as fast. However, as an audience, I think we benefited more because the concerns on android are felt on other platforms as well. Pretty much everything he had to deal with was the same exact stuff you have to do when using threads in c# both winforms as well as WPF, and for the same reasons (there is only one UI thread).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the people that are giving him flak because of the fact that android kills and restarts your app when changing orientation, it also does it when doing other things, like switching tasks (gmail notification), and when the phone rings. Just like the iPhone, except you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; continue running when other tasks happen. To me, that's a feature, not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he seemed to be relatively inexperienced giving presentations compared to Rory giving the iPhone presentation (which he's done several times now), so that should count for something. And there were a lot of android phones representing in the audience, which was kind of surprising to me. I thought I was in the minority of android users compared to iPhone users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yehuda Katz, jQuery&lt;/strong&gt;: This was a good presentation. I liked that it had something for people new to jQuery, as well as gave some insight for those that have used it. While I wouldn't call myself an expert, I've used it in the past, and I got a lot out of the history of the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microsoft&lt;/strong&gt;: I was hoping they would give away win7 instead of ram :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28776" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:19:11.943" />
  <row Id="26691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:23:07.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're not going to open source it, then you might create some lower priced tiers for freelancer/small business.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132445" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:23:07.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T02:23:07.443" />
  <row Id="26692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:27:59.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from just building a fantastic website and community (which you already seem to have done), what about advertising (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;responsibly&lt;/a&gt;, of course) on other websites? I'm not too sure what websites you would want to advertise on. Reddit maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Server Fault, what if you tried to form some kind of 'partnership' (or agreement) with some hosting companies to provide a place for technical resources and other content that may be beneficial for their customers. Of course, the downside is that you do not want Server Fault to be seen at the support website for a particular web hosting company. What Slicehost did with &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.slicehost.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slicehost Articles&lt;/a&gt; is very good, and it could be used as a source of inspiration as to what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:27:59.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23955" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:29:14.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if there were logos on more things (but no &quot;sponsor&quot; banner on the tag), then this would be significantly better than if just the adobe icon is there, in bright red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28776" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:29:14.033" />
  <row Id="26694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:34:02.883" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with Josh, but let me add to his answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't find out about SO until the day I noticed those links on the side of your blog (which BTW are kind of small (also why isn't your flair on there?)) and I probably never would have otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOLUTION: Advertise!&lt;/strong&gt; I would suggest starting with sites that have high traffic that are geared toward computer enthusiast and SysAdmins. How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://everythingsysadmin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Everything SysAdmin&lt;/a&gt; for SF and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.extremetech.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ExtreamTech for SU&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seriously make those links bigger on your blog, and maybe show the favicons.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:34:02.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:36:51.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder how much overlap there may be with the /. crowd.  StackOverflow has gotten some press there, but I don't see any articles in my RSS feed about ServerFault or SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps advertising over there, or coming up with something to grab their attention enough to have a post about either of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I could see a rather strong argument that the level of user that would likely be found there would be... uhmm... given to the wrong sorts of behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there other communities with better sound/noise ratios that you could advertise to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:36:51.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:39:07.397" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same way you built StackOverflow. Find a blog that is very popular with those demographics and convince/Cajole those bloggers to review the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd think Superuser would be a good topic on LifeHacker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't know many blogs focused on the admin types though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, maybe if you posted some of the more popular (and general interest) questions to the appropriate Reddit, Digg, or Technorati subsites you'd get some traffic from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried that once for one of my questions on SO (Tells of a Novice Programmer) and got a decent bump in views the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:39:07.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:39:17.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess we have to find where are they now and what do they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it happened with programmers? You knew we were spread for in a number of websites dealing with problem of finding a good answer that were both accurate and up to date. ( Across msn, the hypen site, and many other forums )  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this process was not performed for sysadms and powerusers, what are their frustrations, where are they getting ( or trying ) to get answers right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;heh heh , yeeap I agree with the rest. Once you find out what blogs are they reading, &lt;strong&gt;Advertise&lt;/strong&gt;  there, I got here too by codinghorror in first place &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:39:17.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:44:20.723" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After advertising, I'd want to say that there are a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;LOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of fora for questions like the ones that show up on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sysadmins tend to talk to their &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%5FUser%5FGroup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LUG&lt;/a&gt;s for feedback, or spend uncountable amount of time in &lt;code&gt;man&lt;/code&gt; pages or reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoWorld&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;InfoWorld&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm active (to some level) on all three sites, but find the Server Fault one to be most useful, as it's what I do for work most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (but have no statistics to back this up), that there are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;substantially&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; more &quot;programmers&quot; than there are sysadmins - how many &lt;kbd&gt;homework&lt;/kbd&gt; questions are on SO, vs. either of the other two? (1589SO vs. 16SF vs. 8SU.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of folks have to do programming for school/work/etc. and then move into something else later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, word-of-mouth communication is how I think this is going to grow most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T01:16:17.363" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T01:16:17.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:45:53.623" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SuperUser, the various &lt;code&gt;wrt&lt;/code&gt; related tags have a fairly small number of hits (18, all combined).  But &lt;code&gt;router&lt;/code&gt; has 118.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest approaching the various wrt related projects out there (openwrt, dd-wrt, tomato, etc, etc.) for advertising or some sort of partnership.  Perhaps offer tag sponsorship (with logo) to them (which I really don't think they'd ever be in the position to buy anyway), in exchange for them encouraging their users to seek help here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went looking at the wrt stuff since I'm familiar with it; but I expect you could apply the same idea to a number of other tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T02:45:53.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T02:47:28.830" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already some well known users on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Standalone Sysadmin&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/4392/matt-simmons&quot;&gt;Matt Simmons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has also put up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2009/11/subscribed-blogs-now-with-opml-goodness/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; that he has put up an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/google-reader-subscriptions.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OPML file&lt;/a&gt; of his Sys-Admin subscriptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T17:37:47.093" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T17:37:47.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T03:38:14.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if you would reach your target audience with Trade Publication advertisements.  SQL Server Magazine and InfoWorld.  Or if that would hit more of the 'policy' guys and less of the 'trenches' guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T03:38:14.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26705" CreationDate="2009-10-21T03:50:38.800" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be great for fostering local community. I mean not everybody can go to Dev Days ya know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18149" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T03:56:48.460" Title="Why can't you click on your location in your profile to get a list of other developers on Stackoverflow in your area?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T03:56:04.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's forum fatigue (community fatigue?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they were just sub-forums of Stackoverflow you wouldn't really have that problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132054" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T03:56:04.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26703" CreationDate="2009-10-21T03:56:48.460" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because&lt;/strong&gt; - and pay close attention here, because it's not terribly obvious and a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of people make this mistake - &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt;, Stack Overflow is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be, of course. Don't think for a minute that Atwood &amp;amp; Co. aren't perfectly capable of writing Facebook. But why would they opt for fame and untold riches, when they could instead provide a narrowly-scoped Q&amp;amp;A site for programmers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T03:56:48.460" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T03:57:18.570" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding SF, have you tried working with/cross promoting the various professional bodies, like SAGE, LOPSA, etc. (list &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/20356/professional-groups-and-associations&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130206" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T03:57:18.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T04:02:42.440" Score="13" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;We (SO, TDWTF, few others) are working on an initiative (to be announced fairly soon) that has the potential to drive a decent amount of money (few hundred, few thousand, who knows)to open source projects. While I can't divulge the details of this initiative just yet, what I can say is that we want to give money to open source projects that will actually be able to use it effectively, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001158.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unlike the Screwturn Wiki folks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short list of projects already on the list are...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;jQuery&lt;/strong&gt; - they don't run any ads on their site, so donations pay the fairly expensive hosting bills and also enable them to do some important things like meet-up in person (the team is across the country)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apache&lt;/strong&gt; - they do a whole ton, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html#FundsGo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explain fairly well&lt;/a&gt; where their funds go&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not too keen on including Mozilla, since that seems to be a confusing mix of a for-profit corporation and a non-profit, much of which is paid for by Google. With $75M in revenue, they don't need our help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said... what &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; projects would you suggest be included in this initiative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-04-22T19:17:19.343" Title="What free, open source projects should we financially support?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26460" CreationDate="2009-10-21T04:29:02.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how to go about editing tags, or I would have already, but this was a &lt;em&gt;poor&lt;/em&gt; choice of tag. Flex is not a gnu program -- never was and never will be. It's distributed under a BSD-style license, not the GPL. Nothing should be done to foster the utterly false notion that Flex is associated with GNU in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137574" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T04:29:02.647" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T04:32:51.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I thought more and more about what open source needs, I kept coming around to &lt;strong&gt;grunt-work&lt;/strong&gt;.  No one enjoys writing documentation, guides, and so on.  So if the money could somehow fund &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;, it'd be great.  But that'd basically be paying people to contribute.  That's an idea, but I don't know if it fits well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about &lt;strong&gt;bribing people&lt;/strong&gt;?  I don't know the exact mechanism, but say approximately - I go and talk to a project about what they need but don't want to do. Let's say it's documentation.  I then go write some great documentation for Putty, or cygwin, or IronPython, or some other great open source project that might have a large barrier to entry or otherwise lacking something.  And in recognition of my contribution - &lt;strong&gt;you donate an amount of money to a (legit) charity of my choice&lt;/strong&gt;.   I win - I learn more about a project.  The project wins - they get some great stuff.  The charity wins - they get money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I know this doesn't answer your question of what projects, but it does solve the problem of &lt;em&gt;finding projects that can use help&lt;/em&gt;.  You don't donate the money until the group is satisfied, and I bet every project has some work they'd love to get around to but can't find time or desire to work on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T04:32:51.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T04:44:53.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always been a proponent that you could get a lot of amazing contributions if there was some sort of StackOverflow open source project. Release a super stripped down version of just the main core and then let developers build add ons for it. You could then actually take the best of the best from the project and implement them into SO-proper or even the StackExchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are wanting to fund projects which benefit StackOverflow, I can think of no better project to fund than StackOverflow itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T17:37:38.923" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:37:38.923" />
  <row Id="26712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26447" CreationDate="2009-10-21T04:55:43.863" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree it's not optimal, but this is by design at the moment; if we don't limit the query dates, the queries will time out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: This is now complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/r-i-p-envelope-hello-improved-user-pages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/03/r-i-p-envelope-hello-improved-user-pages/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-30T00:07:23.083" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T00:07:23.083" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26464" CreationDate="2009-10-21T05:14:32.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You had an errant &lt;code&gt; [ &lt;/code&gt; character in your post. I removed it. Fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T05:14:32.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T05:57:48.817" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bug Recreation Steps:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete a post that has a negative vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch your reputation points. They will remain the same e.g: 13  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undelete your previous post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for some time say 5 minutes and refresh your page and see you reputation lessen to 11. (as 13-2 = 11)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T07:17:51.713" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T07:17:51.713" Title="Undeleting a post with a negative score reduces rep" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;undelete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27578" CreationDate="2009-10-21T06:00:30.823" Score="3" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of now you can purchase an account on careers.stackoverflow.com but once you've filled out your CV, set your CV's visibility and verified your email you get....???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the clock is ticking on your purchase can we get and official roadmap or at date for when the service will be live -- other then 6 to 8 week :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or can the active time period of the CV be reset to 1 or 3 years (depending on the purchased account lifetime) at the end of the beta?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:46:57.003" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:46:57.003" Title="Roadmap for careers.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T06:10:00.230" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main problem with SU is that people usually have one problem, they go to the site, post their question, get an answer (hopefully) and they're off. It's not like programming, where you always try to gain knowledge by answering questions, by reading more stuff, by asking others for help. I remember someone saying on meta that SU is a sort of tech support; in some ways it is. People usually need it when something's broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some (broader) topics might gain an audience. &lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engadget.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ars Technica&lt;/a&gt; would be good places to look for a potential audience. A lot of answers on SU are based on suggestions got from one of these sites. It would be nice if some of the editors on these sites could be engaged into becoming active members of the community. &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/949/john-siracusa&quot;&gt;John Siracusa&lt;/a&gt;, an Ars Technica columnist, was, at one time, quite active. If you could convince these guys to play an active part in the community, it could really help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another problem on SU: a lot of the top users seem to lose interest. Out of the 35 users on the first page, 16 have had almost no activity within the last week. And if you think it gets better with the second page users, it doesn't; it's 18 almost inactive users there in the last week. I believe &lt;strong&gt;a community is driven by its top users&lt;/strong&gt;. If they can't be kept engaged, them it's a major problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T19:03:27.533" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:03:27.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26714" CreationDate="2009-10-21T06:55:26.187" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No repro. I think you got downvoted in that time interval, which is the -2 you're describing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T06:55:26.187" />
  <row Id="26719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26720" CreationDate="2009-10-21T06:56:33.267" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not downvoted anything. I can not see in my account that someone else downvoted one of my answers. Though I drop from about 852 to 813 reputation. Why? This is not the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136281" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T07:09:29.593" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T07:09:29.593" Title="How come that I lose reputation score every week and I don't see in my account why?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26719" CreationDate="2009-10-21T06:58:43.950" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most likely answer is that a question or answer which gained you reputation was deleted or migrated to another site, and then your reputation was recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T06:58:43.950" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26723" CreationDate="2009-10-21T07:44:32.990" Score="8" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-python-decorators#1594484&quot;&gt;long anwser to Python decorators&lt;/a&gt;. I've shorten it a little since, but you can see the original problem rolling back to the fourth revision. It's get truncated at the end. It's not just on the HTML side, it's on the plain text side as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's long and contain links, it may be related to :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13218/long-questions-on-stack-overflow-are-truncated-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13218/long-questions-on-stack-overflow-are-truncated-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137564" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T09:34:58.460" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T09:35:30.667" Title="Long answers are truncated in SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;truncation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="26723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26721" CreationDate="2009-10-21T08:40:07.787" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um.... holy crap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, here's my real answer. I think this is far too large of an answer for Stack Overflow. With the (substantial!) amount of effort you put into it, you deserve the benefit more than us. So here's what I would do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post it on your blog. (If you don't have a blog, get one.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a relevant excerpt that answers the question in non-novella form.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to the rest of the entry for those that want to drill into the detail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's good stuff, but it's not necessarily a good fit for the SO answer model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also be tied into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25066/please-notify-me-of-the-40-000-character-limit&quot;&gt;&quot;warn me when I get to the 40k character limit&quot; request&lt;/a&gt; that was recently posted but I mentally lump these together into the &quot;doctor, it hurts when I do this&quot; file. But at least unlike Josh you have a valid real world example :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we really should be warning users when they enter a novella body text that's too long, rather than just truncating silently. I added a saner check for this through the standard question form validation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T09:35:30.667" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T09:35:30.667" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="26724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26715" CreationDate="2009-10-21T09:00:43.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AT least one thing we seem to know from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/podcast-70/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast 70 shownotes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a part of careers, we’re planning&#xA;  to roll out free, public CVs with&#xA;  user-selectable “vanity” URLs in a&#xA;  week or two. In retrospect, we should&#xA;  have done this from day one, as it&#xA;  compliments the public record of your&#xA;  Q&amp;amp;A on Stack Overflow. As Joel notes,&#xA;  the best way to control your online&#xA;  presence is to fill it yourself with&#xA;  all the cool stuff you’ve been doing!&#xA;  Don’t let others tell the story of you&#xA;  when you can tell it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the podcast it was narrowed down to &quot;end of October 23.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:00:43.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1263" CreationDate="2009-10-21T09:03:38.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated the /faq on all sites to reflect this, because it was.. er.. a frequently asked question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:03:38.387" />
  <row Id="26726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16407" CreationDate="2009-10-21T09:05:10.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated the /faq to clarify this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;you can always comment on your questions and answers, and any answers to questions you've asked, even with 1 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:05:10.427" />
  <row Id="26727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-10-21T09:06:31.830" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I updated the /faq to clarify this point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;you can always comment on your questions and answers, and any answers to questions you've asked, even with 1 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:06:31.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T09:07:54.480" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, since SO has all that trafic. There must be some ways to make use of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, how about changing the &quot;first time visitor&quot; message to give more information about the trilogy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First time here? Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can have this  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First time here? Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  We also have sister sites focused on system administrating, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt;, and super users, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I doubt the casual visitors of SO see the links to SF and SU at the bottom of the page.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;And you could also try mentioning those sites to the users with 200 or less reputation, under the ad on the right column.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131610" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:07:54.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26721" CreationDate="2009-10-21T09:14:48.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of it as some sort of code-golf... come up with the shortest answer that solves the problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T09:14:48.897" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24880" CreationDate="2009-10-21T10:06:55.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really would love to have a desktop &quot;new question notifier&quot; a la GMail notifier, with the possibility of filtering by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T10:06:55.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="54291" CreationDate="2009-10-21T10:16:13.917" Score="33" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked a question on SO and set a bounty of 50 rep. on it.  Would it be possible to permit me to raise this bounty, if I see that it doesn't get enough attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:50:20.280" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:50:20.280" Title="Raise bounty later?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26733" CreationDate="2009-10-21T10:56:43.700" Score="5" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to flag &quot;useless&quot; answers, those that aren't really spam, but still are junk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example see the OP's post on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/75499/how-to-install-enable-ftpcopy-binary-and-mysqldump-binary-on-whm-cpanel&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/75499/how-to-install-enable-ftpcopy-binary-and-mysqldump-binary-on-whm-cpanel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's been removed the OP left an answer of just:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112080" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T17:27:40.713" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T17:36:08.523" Title="Add option to flag &quot;useless&quot; answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26732" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:05:17.313" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the flag link and you'll see these among the options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;not an answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;very low quality&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This answer has severe formatting or content problems. This answer is unlikely to be salvageable through editing, and might need to be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll probably be using the first option most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T17:36:08.523" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T17:36:08.523" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26732" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:13:45.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down vote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T11:13:45.620" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="26735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26737" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:15:43.197" Score="6" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a user, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/187860&quot;&gt;anirudha&lt;/a&gt;, who has a rather checkered history of creating alternate accounts, whether for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21844/how-to-deal-with-people-creating-two-or-more-accounts-to-game-reputation&quot;&gt;sock-puppeting&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24737/suspended-user-creating-new-accounts&quot;&gt;skirting suspensions&lt;/a&gt;.  He's now created a new account, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/187921/anirudha%20gupta&quot;&gt;anirudha gupta&lt;/a&gt;.  As always, the account looks to be very clearly his, down to the same avatar, same website, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, however, he hasn't really done anything wrong yet on the surface, that I can see--there's no sock-puppetry that seems to be going on between the pair, and this time, it wasn't to skirt a suspension.  It mostly looks like the account was created to escape a very negative history with the previous account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When, exactly, is it appropriate to report multiple accounts?  Should a person with a history of multiple account abuse be reported simply for having multiple accounts, or is there some further requirement of a new bad act that should occur first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134915" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T02:17:22.473" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T02:17:22.473" Title="When is it right to report multiple accounts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;&lt;multiple-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26739" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:16:43.600" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to add some country information to the CV, not only location:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a field with my current country and a field with the country, where I would like to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I'm living in Switzerland, and I'm looking for a job in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would be much easier to select the corresponding candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&#xA;Eric&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137585" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T11:37:45.327" Title="Careers feature request: Open it for worldwide jobs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26735" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:20:27.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should give people the benefit of doubt and assume that their intentions are honourable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say it looks like anirudha is looking to start afresh with a clean sheet. Perhaps he's learnt the lessons of his previous incarnations and is reformed. So perhaps keep an eye out for sock-puppetry but otherwise do nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he does transgress then report the problem in the normal manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T11:20:27.403" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26741" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:23:02.013" Score="0" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now the StackOverflow logo is showing as a squished little caveman figure.  Has somebody hacked the sstatic.net site?  Or is this a regular feature of SO, like Google changing its logo for anniversaries and public holidays?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** edit ** &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Must have been a temporary glitch - it's gone now.   However, for the doubters out there, here is a screen shot of the sstatic.net url.  It's the best I can do to prove I was not imagining things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/OFYomIpp_dIKMZ8nstKB5w?authkey=Gv1sRgCJuW7ueu07LigQE&amp;amp;feat=embedwebsite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_34BQkIlQpRQ/St7zIR2i6oI/AAAAAAAAABs/dKE--dnJJ4A/strange_logo_screensaver.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** edit **&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;hmmm, smaller than I'd like.  Why is that?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I am using Firefox so the cache-bug suggestion might be the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133829" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T13:17:13.820" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:17:13.820" Title="What's up with the SO logo?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;logo&gt;&lt;hacked&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26736" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:37:45.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't show you, but I entered &quot;Zürich, Switzerland&quot; as location. Even in the hint text it shows &quot;London, England&quot;. Granted, this is not the Country, but just use &quot;London, England UK&quot;. Works just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Zürich, Switzerland&quot; will show up as &quot;Zurich, Canton of Zurich Switzerland&quot;.&#xA;&quot;Bichelsee-Balterswil, Switzerland&quot; will be &quot;Bichelsee-Balterswil, Canton of Thurgau Switzerland&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the Location field in personal information to say where your at, and the set of locations you want to work at in the section &quot;Where do you want to work?&quot; at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T11:37:45.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:38:53.733" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure this is right place to report a bug, but here we go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/113794?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-10-20&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-10-20&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/113794?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-10-20&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-10-20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9632/155pts.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;155 pts&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why some yesterday up votes wasn't counted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastEditorUserId="136915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T12:00:43.023" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:43:36.020" Title="Error processing reputation sum" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26738" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:39:29.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're using Firefox, then this is a possible cache bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T11:39:29.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26740" CreationDate="2009-10-21T11:47:35.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't see your &quot;recent&quot; tab, as it is not public. One can only see his or her own. But as a wild guess: did you hit the 200 points daily reputation cap? Look for it by searching &quot;[reputation] cap&quot; here in meta for some explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T11:47:35.670" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26738" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:09:00.280" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are fooling us, aren't you?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The red circle shows, that the original logo is displayed. You photoshopped this one. Or it is a weird browser bug showing images where they shouldn't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9738/kiddingfool.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:09:00.280" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26747" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:13:43.563" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have selected to show 15 questions per page in the &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt; page. I have also a number of &lt;code&gt;Ignored tags&lt;/code&gt; and set to hide questions with ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like &lt;em&gt;15 questions per page&lt;/em&gt; first loads the 15 questions, and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; filters on ignored tags. Which means that a page shows less than 15 questions! Another consequence of this is that the links at the bottom to next/other page is further down than directly after the last question, because the space down to those are aligned as if the page actually displayed 15 questions. This is very annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I regret that I used 15 as example, because I normally show 50 questions per page, and then the problem with having to scroll down to the links at the bottom is more annoying. I guess the reason I used 15 as example is that I had set it to 15 when I noticed that it showed less than 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It seems that it is browser specific. I use Chrome, and I just tested with others, and the problem is also in Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Firefox, IE and Opera, it is not a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135505" LastEditorUserId="135505" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T13:22:46.710" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:22:46.710" Title="Showing page links on the bottom of Questions page is too far down" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26735" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:13:56.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Freeze him with liquid nitrogen! - Just kidding...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple accounts are sock puppets. There is no need to prove that he upvoted himself. Report it to the mods, so they can care about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:13:56.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26744" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:16:35.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what does: the &quot;ignored tags&quot; function filters or highlights client side, no re-fetch done to fill up the page. This saves a lot of server computer power and bandwidth, even though it will be annoying if you have many ignored tags, granted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the scrolling down: just press the &lt;kbd&gt;end&lt;/kbd&gt;-key as a workaround. (I know, switching from mouse to keyboard.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce this in Google Chrome 3.0.195, but not in Firefox. So it is browser specific. Seems as if the size of the div containing the questions is not recalculated in Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:07:27.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26744" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:18:58.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have as many tags on your ignore/hidden list that a set of 15 questions will net you zero often enough, select to show 50 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:18:58.203" />
  <row Id="26749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26795" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:30:15.717" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago (&gt;1year) I have asked a question at stackoverflow.com. For a long time there were no answers, but recently there were two answers, which show the need to edit my question.&#xA;However this seems not to be possible. In fact my profile do not show, that I asked this question.&#xA;How can the correct association between the question and the username be restored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;The question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90891/control-fujitsu-softune-debugger&quot;&gt;Control Fujitsu Softune debugger&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;I am not aware that I ever used an other OpenID account, but it may be possible that the account was deleted. I used SO for some time without login.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137589" LastEditorUserId="137589" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T15:52:47.523" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:56:15.600" Title="Username is not correct recognized" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26749" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:33:04.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the question for moderator attention and explain your problem, or add a link to your question here and wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:33:04.447" />
  <row Id="26751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26749" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:34:50.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your account in SO is only 12 days old. When you asked the question, did you have an account? If so, did it use the same OpenId?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After searching for your name, I found this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90891/control-fujitsu-softune-debugger&quot;&gt;control-fujitsu-softune-debugger&lt;/a&gt;. There is no account associated. Either the account has been deleted, or you asked this question anonymously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could include a link to the question in this answer and maybe some moderator will link it to your account. Or flag the question, as John says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:34:50.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26740" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:43:36.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;155 agrees with what &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=113794&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=yesterday&amp;amp;showflair=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt; thinks you should have got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's just upvotes which didn't contribute to reputation, I'd normally think of Community Wiki posts, but from the screenshot it looks like you got 3 votes for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595118/1595167#1595167&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; but only 10 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this happen before if you hit the rep cap but then have some reputation subtracted when fraudulent votes are removed... it gives you an effective rep cap lower than 200. You may or may not get some of that reputation back if you ask for a reputation recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:43:36.020" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T12:53:05.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;90% of your traffic comes from Google, right? What I think you need to do is figure out which topics people are Googling to find your site, and then do a push for more of those kinds of answers, similarly to what the R (statistics package) folks are doing right now on SO. If you can develop content on under-served topics, it should certainly increase your Google traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The follow-up question would be, thus increasing this kind of hit build community, or just page loads? I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T12:53:05.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="26754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:08:37.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;How do I do sub-second [millisecond/microsecond/nanosecond/picosecond] timing in language X with library Y on platform/operating system Z?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:08:37.967" />
  <row Id="26755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:17:11.290" Score="1" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed over time that there are a lot of things that, while not officially prohibited, are highly discouraged/disliked by the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At great risk of irritating people by using a polling question (probably will be high on the list) to generate this list, I'm looking for a list of things that are likely to raise the ire of the SO/SF/SU community and a notion (via the votes) of how severe the anti-sentiment is for each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&#xA;Content edited substantially to make it less like a &quot;Fun Day Friday&quot; type subjective poll, and more of a user FAQ to help new users acclimate and to discourage certain behaviors in a constructive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:44:46.163" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T04:44:46.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T13:17:11.290" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T13:32:32.867" Title="What types of things though not officially against the rules are generally discouraged by the community?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26764" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:18:06.890" Score="7" ViewCount="531" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to use a small font size in questions or answers? That is, for the purpose of minor and possibly irrelevant information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked the Markdown syntax but couldn't find anything. However I feel I've seen it on the site somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:33:27.220" Title="How do I use a small font size in questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;font-size&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26755" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:18:11.523" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polls like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:18:11.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T13:18:11.523" />
  <row Id="26758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26755" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:18:17.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Homework questions that aren't tagged as such and show no attempt to do any of the work on their own before punting to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:18:17.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T13:18:17.343" />
  <row Id="26759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26755" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:18:58.170" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The endless stream of people who post lame subjective/poll questions and then use the programming cartoon question as a justification for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:18:58.170" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T13:18:58.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26755" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:20:01.287" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=stackoverflow+pet+peeves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LMGTFY&lt;/a&gt; as an answer to an easy question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:20:01.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T13:20:01.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26755" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:20:32.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions with completely useless titles: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; - &quot;I have a question.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; - &quot;Help. My program won't work!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:20:32.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T13:20:32.473" />
  <row Id="26762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26755" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:21:03.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The constant need for every question to be commented and eventually pressured into being &lt;strong&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:21:03.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T13:21:03.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26756" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:21:47.587" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the traditional &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag (for text to shunt into subscript).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;Thar be monsters under the bed, ma&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Don't turn off the night light please.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could go superscript with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open up a floating balloon and suck some &lt;sup&gt;helium and your voice goes like this.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:21:47.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26756" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:22:19.740" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags for that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This is sub text,&lt;/sub&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;and this is sup text.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:22:19.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:24:25.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't my website work in IE6/IE7/IE8/Opera/Firefox/Safari?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:24:25.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:44:08.290" Score="-2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Original Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the whole the SO HTML is very good - I've never had any rendering problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I am working on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.echo-technology.co.uk/2009/10/21/stackoverflow-iphone-app-solving-non-existant-problems/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow iPhone App&lt;/a&gt; and the use of HTML tables (mainly on the question pages i.e. this one) are causing me some problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the removal of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to be replaced with the more versatile &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem Clarification&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree with sentiment that there is nothing wrong with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;s the use on the &lt;code&gt;questions/[0-9]*/&lt;/code&gt; pages hampers efforts third parties to write custom CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Not a Screen Scraper&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The App refereed to simply loads the webpage into a UIWebKit and substitutes the CSS file for a custom one that formats pages to look more in-keeping with the iPhone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not alter the HTML or Javascript in anyway, only the CSS is &lt;strong&gt;substituted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastEditorUserId="89035" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T14:05:25.367" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:05:25.367" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T14:04:52.327" Title="Removal of &lt;table&gt;s from SO HTML" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26766" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:48:00.670" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are having issues with your screen scraper, why not ask for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;help&lt;/a&gt; with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T13:57:53.073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:57:53.073" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26766" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:50:05.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I show amusement at Div vs. Tables holy war &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3110/when-did-so-start-using-tables-for-layout/3117#3117&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:50:05.553" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26766" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:50:46.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with the use of the &amp;lt;table&amp;gt; tag when it is used for tabular data. I would argue that the SO questions view is a table of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &amp;lt;div&amp;gt;s for a tabular information would be inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Besides, implementation of SO is for everyone, not just so your app can processes it happily)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't actually looked at the HTML, so maybe I'm wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:50:46.427" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:55:17.073" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am adding these as one since they have the same meaning and end result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is SO built with?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Where can I get my own copy of SO?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Where can I download the code for SO?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are now even appearing on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:55:17.073" />
  <row Id="26771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26731" CreationDate="2009-10-21T13:57:56.990" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered that maybe its the question that needs some attention? It has been my experience that a lot of bounty questions don't get good answers (or answers at all) because they are worded poorly or are missing important information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly it seems the bounty system has become the &quot;brute force&quot; solution to getting answers, when there really needs to be some &quot;re-factoring&quot; instead... but that's another topic for another day where I haven't worked 3 12hr shifts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T13:57:56.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24165" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:06:45.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting something down is to easy as it just costs -1 REP and requires 100 REP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should vote things up, because they like them, but many people down vote things because they DO NOT like something.&#xA;If I do not agree with someone's answer, I do not down vote it, due to some minimalistic reasons, as for example &quot;I down voted you, because some answer does match better&quot; etc. .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, down voting should take more effect on your on reputation, AND other people should be able TO RATE YOUR DOWN VOTE, so that we can ensure, that the majority of stackoverflow.com decides whether this down vote was &quot;legal&quot; or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People which down vote anything without any reason can be down voted or criticised for their uncommon down vote and this should be &quot;written&quot; under the reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:06:45.770" />
  <row Id="26773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:10:30.820" Score="9" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the '&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/terms-of-service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt;' for the Career site, I found the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow reserves the right at&#xA;  any time and from time to time to&#xA;  modify or discontinue, temporarily or&#xA;  permanently, the Service (or any part&#xA;  thereof) with or without notice at any&#xA;  time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems odd to me that I would pay for a service that I'm not sure I'll get... Any comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137503" LastEditorUserId="137503" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T16:00:50.163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:00:50.163" Title="No obligation whatsoever for StackOverflow LLC about Career?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;terms-of-service&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:14:16.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt they have changed the TOS significantly since the introduction of Careers.StackOverflow.com, and prior to that there was no services being paid for, meaning it didn't matter if they shut down tomorrow or next week or next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:14:16.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:22:49.490" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called Legalese. It's designed to cover the owners of a business and ensure that they are not held liable for a variety of situations both in and out of their control. By having these sorts of clauses in the terms-of-service (TOS), they are covering themselves from potential legal actions against them, as a result of a variety of conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truth of the matter is that the presence of CYA-style language like that does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; imply intent. It is simply there to make sure that Joel, Jeff &amp;amp; the crew are covered in all situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the language looks scary. But it's not malicious nor evil. In fact, it's pretty boilerplate across many terms-of-service that I've read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:22:49.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:28:30.310" Score="1" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to let you know that, while searching for a SO clone for electrical engineering and mathematics, I found the following sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;electronics.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mathoverflow.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think who are from EE and mathematics backgrounds will be interested in these sites. Moreover, electronics and mathematics have close relationships with computer programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T14:38:03.480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:38:03.480" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T14:35:04.313" Title="Stackoverflow.com equivalent for EE and Mathematics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26776" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:30:14.670" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... I think this belongs to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe stackoverflow can have a section with links point to all the sister sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:31:57.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:43:14.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you subscribe to a service like this you're taking the risk that the business offering it will cease operations, or simply discontinue it. Given the low cost of the SO careers service, that's not much risk. If this was an expensive service you might want better assurances that you could reclaim the &quot;unused&quot; portion under these circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:50:15.163" />
  <row Id="26780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:48:41.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO equivalent on field X?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T14:48:41.233" />
  <row Id="26781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T14:59:57.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, what about funding project developers to go to a conference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's use &lt;a href=&quot;http://trac.edgewall.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trac&lt;/a&gt; as an example, since I'm familiar with it. &lt;sub&gt;nothing self-serving here &lt;a href=&quot;http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracTeam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;-cough-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;  &lt;strike&gt;I don't know if it would be a project you would want to fund or not; if it is, drop me a line.&lt;/strike&gt;  (Oh, right, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FogBugz&lt;/a&gt;, my bad.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trac is developed in Python, and for the past few years several of us have been going to the US PyCon and working on Trac during the &quot;sprints&quot;.  Some of our active developers live on the far side of the globe and have not been able to make it, but have expressed a desire to.  I think that funds for travel, lodging, registration, etc. would make it easier for us all to meet face-to-face.  Throw in several StackOverflow T-Shirts for us to wear/give away, and you could get some advertising as a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm sure there are other projects with a similar situation that others could suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="133671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T17:50:57.230" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:50:57.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:05:38.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the money to go to the GNU project of the Free Software Foundation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:05:38.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T15:13:33.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:14:31.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's wrong for a company not to take responsibility for the services they've contracted for. Many businesses will be dependent on these services, in fact SE only businesses will be completely dependent on these services.  It is the modern trend, especially in the software business, for a company not to take responsibility for their actions, &lt;strong&gt;but it's not a good trend&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:14:31.683" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:15:06.880" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, who does help StackOverflow the most? I think you first should support the Projects that you use. I have no idea how Apache helps you, but I know that jQuery is a big contributor to the usability of SO, that that should be on your list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about the HAProxy people? Open Search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subsonic - Rob Conery does a fantastic job on it and is very open to people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ninject - Okay, Nate Kohari runs a startup now and is technically a company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:15:06.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:26:19.367" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24284/make-links-in-monospaced-format-look-more-like-links&quot;&gt;Make links in monospaced format look more like links.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I spotted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1594414/css-not-working-with-php-script/1594503#1594503&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; today: If a link's text contains backticked code, there is no visual change when hovering over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;an example&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of what I mean.  &lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Okay, that's a bad example, because on meta it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; change when hovered... but see the link above, on main SO there is no visual change when hovering over a backticked link.  On meta, though, there is no indication that it is a link &lt;em&gt;until&lt;/em&gt; you hover over it, which is also not ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should either still show the underline (like a normal link), or change the color of the text and/or background slightly, since this is how all other links in text on the site behave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature request, but I'm tagging it as bug since I think it was probably an oversight (i.e. it probably wasn't designed this way on purpose).&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T15:36:53.487" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:36:53.487" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T17:58:45.983" Title="No change in appearance when hovering over link containing backticked code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;css&gt;" />
  <row Id="26787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15241" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:30:33.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea, and it would also cover those cases where you're not sure whether the problem should be considered a bug or a feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:30:33.963" />
  <row Id="26788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26756" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:33:27.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if this was officially supported.  The &lt;code&gt;sup&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;sub&lt;/code&gt; thing is a nasty hack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO support for the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag would be ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:33:27.220" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:43:36.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would find such language completely unacceptable for any service I actually paid for.  At a minimum, the company should be liable to return any money paid if discontinuing the service, and should be required to offer a refund in event of substantive change in terms.  (I'd accept prorating the refund, but that's as far as I'd go.)  I would find even this insufficient for any service I was doing company planning around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is these terms (if legal) would allow collecting money and then just skipping out with it.  It's a Bernie Madoff guarantee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These terms work just fine on sites where there is no payment.  I get benefits from Google and StackOverflow and Facebook, and they sell my eyeballs to advertisers.  There's no problem if either side just stops doing what they're doing.  Once money starts changing hands, it's a very different situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:43:36.593" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26749" CreationDate="2009-10-21T15:56:15.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for rules on abandoned accounts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T15:56:15.600" />
  <row Id="26796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:00:25.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One idea might be to donate to the open source projects that have the most questions on StackOverflow. It's both an indication that the project is popular and that they might need some extra help! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136702" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:00:25.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:04:22.493" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;House ads would help, but I suspect that part of the problem is the nature of those audiences.&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SF:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been my experience (which may or may not be typical) that more Sys admins are of the &quot;I had to learn it on my own, so you need to as well&quot; and/or &quot;I don't want to talk about x lest someone use it to penetrate the system&quot; - resulting in the Admin community being more a scattering of islands with a few kind souls trying to connect all the little silos of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast that with the programmer community, where sharing and mutual growth are expected and encouraged - and you see where you'll get more support for a community Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're probably getting a lot of programmers (like myself) who end up doing double duty as the server admin and the programmer.&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SU:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems we haven't really tapped into the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; SU community as (from a semi-regular visitor's standpoint) we're getting a lot of &quot;tier 1&quot; type help desk questions - not a group of enthusiasts that like computers, are not &quot;professionals&quot;, but have a desire to learn more about computers, scripting, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't hear what I'm not saying, they are there, just not enough of them. As others have suggested, audiences like Lifehacker and Gizmodo would likely be good places to post a few ads and/or contribute a few &quot;guest&quot; articles to bring some attention to the sites. The latter might be better received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:04:22.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:05:00.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; project would be a good candidate.  It's a large project that used by many people and I'm sure they could put the money towards hosting and equipment for things like build bots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1447" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:05:00.217" />
  <row Id="26799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26834" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:08:19.010" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd really like the ability to ignore comments by particular users on a per-user basis or simply choose not to see comments at all as a preference or interface mechanism (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2148/preference-to-keep-comments-hidden-by-default&quot;&gt;related&lt;/a&gt;).  Particularly on meta, some comment threads are distracting to the actual question/answer dialog.  It would be nice to filter out some of the more distracting commenters and/or hide the comment display entirely to make it easier to read the questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waits for inevitable annoying comment threads to start...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternative: what if, instead of simply removing the comments, it worked more like SO where I only see a certain number of comments unless I expand them all.  In this case it would hide the comments from people I'm not interested in or beyond a certain number that I've chosen but give me the ability to expand the comments as desired.  This would keep the context available if I'm interested in following a discussion but keeps the comments to a manageable level.  This behavior could be specified by user preference but would default to showing all comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T19:40:14.717" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:47:55.093" Title="Filter comments by user or allow hiding comments entirely" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:09:17.013" Score="-8" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;And use your own login system. Really. I don't visit very often, but each time I do I have to remember which provider I used for my open-id, which takes a couple tries, then click, fill out form, click, fill out another form. Other sites have a simple login and &quot;Remember me&quot; box. Why can't SO have it too? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never cleared cookies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137606" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T16:27:06.123" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T18:38:08.983" Title="Can you please dump open id?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:12:22.577" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use cookies and never worry about logging in again (unless you are switching computers a lot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't had to relogin into this site from my home or work pc's in months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:12:22.577" />
  <row Id="26802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:15:03.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The coolest part of OpenID is using an existing account you already have and not creating a new one to remember. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can have it remember yourself so you do not have to log in every time. Then when you click login on any of the sites, it will just log straight in.  No extra username/pw to remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:15:03.713" />
  <row Id="26803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:15:21.870" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only site you actually have to login to post is this one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to login at the trilogy sites if it's too difficult for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:15:21.870" />
  <row Id="26804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:15:26.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myopenid.com&lt;/a&gt; allows this. You are just using a bad OpenID provider or you don't understand what you are doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't even remember the last time I logged into OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:15:26.317" />
  <row Id="26805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:17:38.280" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, OpenID seems one of the best features of the trilogy sites. Why bother remembering another username and another password when I already have enough of them? I can just click on the provider I have and be done with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:17:38.280" />
  <row Id="26806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:19:54.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, why are you even logging out of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part the second&lt;/strong&gt; - What makes you sure that you won't also forget your username and password combination on this site if it ever did use such a system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt; - OpenID is a simple log in. You sign in once at your provider, tell SO where it is and you're in like Flynn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IV&lt;/strong&gt; - You're doing something wrong if you're filling out all those extra forms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, those other sites with &quot;Remember me&quot; are using cookies. Do you not like the Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25243/why-does-the-first-time-here-thing-have-to-flash-so-annoyingly/25247#25247&quot; title=&quot;not enough mmmmmm for you?&quot;&gt;cookies&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:19:54.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:23:43.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ads on tomshardware and similar sites would probably help somewhat. The fora on computer help are fairly extensive, I'm afraid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also do Dead Tree advertising and try to bring in maw &amp;amp; paw who have questions and don't know much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could hire some techs from local repair shops to post their FAQs &amp;amp; answers on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="130556" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T17:55:35.973" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T17:55:35.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:32:08.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd have to agree that Perl 6 deserves to have some money put into it. Strawberry Perl as well perhaps. They might be a real company, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think Maxima needs to be worked on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emacs always could use more work, but it's a bit of a strange duck in development procedure I gather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Lisp is the ever-present future that will happen real soon now, and CLISP could use the money I bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of small useful projects:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/&lt;/a&gt; is exceptionally awesome. It really helps for multipage output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.launchy.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.launchy.net/&lt;/a&gt; is very useful for Windows XP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:32:08.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:33:53.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/using-your-own-url-as-your-openid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;use your own URL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; if you really can't remember which provider you registered with.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:33:53.693" />
  <row Id="26810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:34:41.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you forget your OpenID provider URL, just use your own.&#xA;If you have your own domain, from a blog or website, you can use that as your Open ID login. All you have to do is to add two lines of html to your blog or website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example for claimID (my open ID provider):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.server&quot; href=&quot;http://openid.claimid.com/server&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.delegate&quot; href=&quot;http://openid.claimid.com/username&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is some &lt;a href=&quot;http://claimid.com/openid#delegate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more info from claimID&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;but this will work with other providers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rather than logging in with&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://claimID.com/username&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://claimID.com/username&lt;/a&gt;, you'd log&#xA;  in with &lt;a href=&quot;http://myblog.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://myblog.com&lt;/a&gt;. Of course,&#xA;  claimID will still be providing the&#xA;  backend (no need for you to install&#xA;  your own OpenID server!) so you'll be&#xA;  asked for your password by claimID.&#xA;  However, when you show up as a&#xA;  commenter on a Livejournal thread, for&#xA;  example, your blog or website will be&#xA;  your OpenID url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:34:41.900" />
  <row Id="26812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T16:41:52.230" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've looked at about a dozen Stack Exchange sites and no one has gotten the &lt;code&gt;Disciplined&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Peer Pressure&lt;/code&gt; badges on any of those I checked. (I should have gotten them on one site (moms4mom.com) which is what prompted me to look.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are all badges active in the Stack Exchange sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T16:41:52.230" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T16:43:15.613" Title="All badges active in Stack Exchange sites?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:15:10.640" Score="18" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those of us who are moderators have the ability to see a lot more about what goes on behind the scenes on the sites we are moderating, but there are still some things which are hidden, which can make figuring out what happened rather confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: when a post is flagged for abusive content and a moderator comes in and starts to delete comments that are offensive. Right now there is no way for other moderators to see the actual action taken (or a history of such action) or by whom, so there can be the guessing game about who is potentially doing what. This type of action is not the kind stored in the user history that mods can check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that information like that is still available to the developer team, and I know that we are able to leave annotations to leave a record of actions taken, but that doesn't seem to get used with the appropriate frequency, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the request would be either for a more transparent (to the mods at least) way of seeing what actions are taken by whom, or a higher frequency of usage of the already built-in user annotations. This would hopefully allow the mods to not possibly step on each other's toes or be left guessing about what happened after an action was taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T17:22:23.387" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T22:13:40.737" Title="Please improve the history/audit trail of moderator actions for moderators" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="26814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:23:13.120" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be nice to have separates links (or fixed buttons) to other sites like xing.com or linkedin.com in the CV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So additional or similar information could be shared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137585" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:47:39.993" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:47:39.993" Title="Please include additional links to other communities on the Careers site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26816" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:24:48.280" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can flag a comment or I can vote for it. But how do I rate it as a bad comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137584" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T13:03:28.510" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T13:03:28.510" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T17:26:02.083" Title="down rate comments, how?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;rating&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26815" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:26:08.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, you don't. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3615/should-downvoting-be-allowed-on-comments&quot;&gt;There's a feature request for it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:26:08.323" />
  <row Id="26817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26813" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:29:03.043" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be warned: I will one-click delete all comments without hesitation if commenting devolves into &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;endless fractal in-joke irrelevance&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;name-calling&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;baiting the poster, or other commenters&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;general utter loss of signal in noise&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So generally, refrain from the above four things if you don't want that to happen. Stay on topic (plus or minus 10 percent) and play nicely with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:29:03.043" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="26818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:39:14.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My proponents are wxPython and Arch Linux, but lacking any cientific or objective reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:39:14.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T17:39:14.537" />
  <row Id="26819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26813" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:42:04.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds as if deleted comments totally vanish from the system. Perhaps instead could they be made visible to moderators but denoted in some way (e.g. different text background, such as with deleted answers -- or with strikethrough markup)? Then an undelete option can be added, allowing one moderator to undo the overly-zealous actions of another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could also be a section for each question page (or even for each individual post) that is only visible to moderators, as a place for extra annotation.  Do what revision control systems do -- show all changes, and allow the attachment of an explanation to each change!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:42:04.173" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27233" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:43:21.300" Score="5" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest pains in the ass for me is when job sites make no distinction between recruiters and employers. A recruiter will list a generic job opening just to get a flood of resumes to store in their database for future use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have the same concern about using careers.stackoverflow. Even if the fee is &quot;hefty&quot; for employers to register to see resumes, there are plenty of big recruiting companies who are more than capable of paying any fee that an employer is capable of paying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will careers.stackoverflow make any attempt to distinguish recruiters from employers? This would probably involve doing some background research on the company before setting them up on the system since recruiters can use a variety of techniques to create the appearance that they are a real employer. Fake job listings are the primary obfuscation method I have seen them use and it circumvents the primary method that is used on careers.so to keep recruiters out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to use the site but I absolutely refuse to allow the possibility of having to talk to these sleazeballs during my job search and will go to any lengths to avoid it - even if that means missing some job opportunities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137612" LastEditorUserId="137612" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T18:04:10.080" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:14:21.560" Title="Any plans to restrict recruiter access in careers.stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26820" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:45:35.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25275/will-agents-be-allowed-to-use-careers/25694#25694&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; by Joel on the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25275/will-agents-be-allowed-to-use-careers&quot;&gt;Will agents be allowed to use careers&lt;/a&gt; is pretty encompassing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are two kinds of recruiters&#xA;  working in the tech industry:&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;contingency&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;retained search&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A contingency recruiter only gets paid&#xA;  if they place a candidate. Companies&#xA;  that use contingency recruiters tend&#xA;  to use &lt;em&gt;dozens&lt;/em&gt; of them, because it's&#xA;  free until they actually find someone.&#xA;  The recruiter stands to make so much&#xA;  money that it's in their interest to&#xA;  spam the universe trying to throw any&#xA;  and all candidates at the company&#xA;  hoping that one of them sticks in&#xA;  which case they hit the jackpot and&#xA;  make, typically, 1/4-1/3 of the first&#xA;  year salary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A retained search recruiter is paid to&#xA;  fill the position &lt;em&gt;whether or not they&#xA;  are successful.&lt;/em&gt; The retained search&#xA;  relationship is also exclusive,&#xA;  meaning, only one recruiter will be&#xA;  hired by the company to find someone&#xA;  to fill a position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In general, you will find that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;most of the problematic recruiters&#xA;  you have dealt with as an employee&#xA;  are contingency recruiters, because&#xA;  they are literally just looking to&#xA;  throw as many resumes as they can at&#xA;  a company, without much regard to&#xA;  quality, which is why they're so&#xA;  annoying to good candidates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the companies that do not know how&#xA;  to hire tech employees and wish to&#xA;  outsource that will use retained&#xA;  search recruiters, who have a much&#xA;  higher standard and work to a higher&#xA;  standard of ethics--they are, for&#xA;  all intents and purposes,&#xA;  indistinguishable from the hiring&#xA;  company's own employees&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;it is very easy to detect&#xA;  contingency recruiters, as they will&#xA;  not reveal the name of the company&#xA;  they are recruiting for, out of fear&#xA;  that you will go straight to them&#xA;  and they will lose their fee.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because of fact #3, there's an easy&#xA;  way to get contingency recruiters out&#xA;  of the system: (a) charge them money,&#xA;  and (b) require that they disclose the&#xA;  name of the company for which they are&#xA;  hiring. We're going to do both, so I&#xA;  don't expect to see many contingency&#xA;  recruiters in our system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:45:35.337" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-21T17:45:35.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26799" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:53:34.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just flag them (the parent post, I mean) for moderator attention with a brief 1 sentence explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a low tolerance policy towards misbehavior in comments, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26813/please-improve-the-history-audit-trail-of-moderator-actions-for-moderators&quot;&gt;as documented here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T17:53:34.400" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="26823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26820" CreationDate="2009-10-21T17:59:22.520" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25275/will-agents-be-allowed-to-use-careers&quot;&gt;has said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there's an easy way to get contingency&#xA;  recruiters out of the system: (a)&#xA;  charge them money, and (b) require&#xA;  that they disclose the name of the&#xA;  company for which they are hiring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually it's not quite so easy and the naivety of this statement boggles the mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(a) &lt;strong&gt;The big contingency recruiters have large budgets to find candidates&lt;/strong&gt;. They're not afraid to pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(b) &lt;strong&gt;Recruiters just make up a company name or an entire job listing in order to get access to a database of candidates&lt;/strong&gt;. The idea that this requirement is going to scare them off is laughable. Once they have this database, they can then make back the fee they paid many times over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in the original question, the only way to restrict their access is to do background research on every company that wants access to the system. Somehow I doubt that will happen - but if I'm paying $99/year, that's a cost that I would hope my subscription would cover. Is there any plan to do something like this? The current system is unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137612" LastEditorUserId="137612" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T18:12:48.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T18:12:48.223" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26820" CreationDate="2009-10-21T18:15:37.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It occurs to me that we can use the community to help police this: if a job-seeker spots a recruiter on the site, &quot;flag for moderator review&quot; and have them removed, just like we would remove a spammer on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T18:15:37.920" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26825" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T18:31:32.853" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7008/why-isnt-there-a-way-to-consolidate-answers&quot;&gt;Why Isn&amp;rsquo;t There a Way to Consolidate Answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't know if this has been asked already, but what about allowing to users to merge their answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see the following:  User A gives a good answer, and User B, gives a good answer.  The two together, make the accepted solution.  So maybe a mechanism to combine the two.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this suggestion, I make no recommendation how this might work, because I can't think of a good way :-P  Maybe allowing the person who posted the question to accept two answers might be better, splitting the credit between the two people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T18:42:12.750" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T18:42:12.750" ClosedDate="2009-10-21T22:39:32.883" Title="Allow answers to be merged" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26825" CreationDate="2009-10-21T18:36:57.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP can edit one of the two and append the other into that... I've done it in the past&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T18:36:57.210" />
  <row Id="26827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2009-10-21T18:38:08.983" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how I would reformulate your question with regard to &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; non-OpenID web sites out there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And use &lt;strike&gt;your own login system&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;OpenID&lt;/strong&gt;. Really. I don't visit very often, but each time I do I have to remember which &lt;strike&gt;provider&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt; I used for my &lt;strike&gt;open-id&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;account on your web site&lt;/strong&gt;, which takes a couple tries, then click, fill out form, click, fill out another form. Other sites have a simple &lt;strong&gt;OpenID&lt;/strong&gt; login and &lt;strike&gt;&quot;Remember me&quot; box&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;login is seamless&lt;/strong&gt;. Why can't &lt;strike&gt;SO&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strong&gt;site XYZ&lt;/strong&gt; have it too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T18:38:08.983" />
  <row Id="26828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26825" CreationDate="2009-10-21T18:40:48.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar things have been requested in the past (being able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2786/accept-multiple-answers-or-split-bounty-among-several-users&quot;&gt;accept multiple answers&lt;/a&gt; is the more common suggestion, i think). The big problem becomes, how do you divvy up the credit? For all its wiki-like features, SO leans heavily on individual contribution and associated rewards (rep, badges). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's easily accomplished manually - either by editing one answer to include the other (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26825/nutty-feature-request-answer-merge/26826#26826&quot;&gt;as Juan Manuel suggests&lt;/a&gt;), or posting a new answer combining the two existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7008/why-isnt-there-a-way-to-consolidate-answers&quot;&gt;Why Isn’t There a Way to Consolidate Answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T18:40:48.090" />
  <row Id="26830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T18:57:42.257" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the activity tell me if someone has replied to a comment I leave in an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. I comment on a question or answer, maybe asking for clarification or something.  Will my activity be updated if someone replies to the &lt;strong&gt;comment&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it just a stream of all my questions, answers and comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T19:04:12.777" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:53:41.917" Title="What exactly does the activity in the profile display?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26830" CreationDate="2009-10-21T19:04:24.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does the activity tell me if someone has replied to a comment I leave in an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, It only displays your activity aka &quot;stream of all my questions, answers and comments&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as pointed out by belgariontheking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Additionally, any time someone edits or receives a badge. – Michael Bay's belgariontheking  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment reply's are not a part of any notification to the intended &quot;@username&quot;.  The OP of the question/answer will be notified though of a comment to thier question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T19:53:41.917" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:53:41.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26830" CreationDate="2009-10-21T19:04:39.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, replies to comments are not listed.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Yes, the other stuff is listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:04:39.297" />
  <row Id="26833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26799" CreationDate="2009-10-21T19:13:56.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest you just use this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/ignore-users-script&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/ignore-users-script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is bad enough. Ignoring users should not be condoned by the site because it &lt;strong&gt;increases&lt;/strong&gt; the noise on the site instead of decreasing it which is the goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:13:56.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26799" CreationDate="2009-10-21T19:47:55.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be in favour of a &quot;Hide Comments&quot; checkbox by each section of comments (or even at the top of the page directly below the question). Sometimes there's so much banter on a page it's hard to see that there's actually some answers in there too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:47:55.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T19:56:35.297" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it sounds a little obvious, but I'd recommend putting out an overt call to the community at each site asking everybody to spread the word. More eyes on the site is better for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have yet to show Server Fault to a sysadmin and not received a favorable reaction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting a few of those people who regularly attend local sysadmin SIG meetings, user groups, etc, to spread the word would be helpful, I'd think. As obvious as it sounds, I'm betting that most people don't even think about spreading the word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If nothing else, I want more questions on the site to answer...  &amp;gt;smile&amp;lt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T19:56:35.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="85" CreationDate="2009-10-21T20:14:02.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've retagged this question with &quot;bug&quot; because it appears that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.superuser.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.superuser.com/&lt;/a&gt; is not working (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.serverfault.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.serverfault.com/&lt;/a&gt; redirects properly though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T20:14:02.897" />
  <row Id="26841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T20:15:26.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about this as well.  I'm more in tune with the Microsoft side of things and was thinking that for SF enlisting MVP's would be a good start.  There are a number of well-known MVP's already participating on SF (indeed, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/1674/mrdenny&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;even one of the mods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) who provide a wealth of great, advanced knowledge.  Would be great to get more, and get them to help evangelize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T20:15:26.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="26842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-21T20:17:19.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically relating to serverfault:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned, reach out to some members (and non-members) who have well read blogs. Matt Simmons is an obvious candidate; Tom Limoncelli is someone else who's generic 'sysadmin' blogs I read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on to an issue that may be hindering serverfault; not sure how to address it, but you should be aware of it. The term 'sysadmin' covers a far wider variety of disciplines than does 'programmer'; and the relative breadth and depth of knowledge varies widely between the &amp;lt;10 user office admin to the 3rd line network engineer at AT&amp;amp;T (for example). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my observation at work (more on the 'enterprise' side of the scale) most infrastructure departments tend to be pretty siloed, particularly as the size of the organisation increases. You have your network geeks, your storage geeks, your database geeks, your *NIX geeks... the list goes on. Each of these groups probably frequent a different set of forums and blogs, with little overlap. You may have better luck trying to engage each of these communities separately? There are several excellent 'jack of all trades' on serverfault already; is it worth now trying  to court the specialists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T20:17:19.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26845" CreationDate="2009-10-21T20:37:31.510" Score="4" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are questions that I've answered and received upvotes for that are beyond my daily reputation cap no longer being shown in the my &quot;users/recent/reputation&quot; tab? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I miss that feature. Please bring it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T20:38:47.217" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:22:39.380" Title="Revisions to the &quot;users/recent&quot; tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T20:57:59.803" Score="13" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has probably been beaten to death, but there really needs to be a way to remove yourself from posted content. I understand deleting content has its issues, but certainly you should be able to transfer something you posted to an Anonymous account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really going to open myself up to trolls here, but not being able to delete things you posted is a major issue for the new careers feature. I'm not talking about stupid questions / answers I've posted so much as smart ass remarks / troll posts. You will probably say that one deserves to have their inflammatory comments stay attached to their name. I think that everyone has bad moments though, and there should be a way to publicly delete it. Not having delete forces people to create new accounts just to use the careers feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just want to make it clear that I agree you shouldn't post anything you don't stand by. I'm saying though there should be some recourse for when you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T21:34:02.840" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T00:52:18.217" Title="There needs to be a way to delete content or disassociate your account from said content" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26843" CreationDate="2009-10-21T20:58:46.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/stackoverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt;. As a bonus, it collects results for all &lt;em&gt;four&lt;/em&gt; trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, the SO reptutation tracker still works for me, that is, it shows votes that happen past the 200 daily cap. You may have to click on &quot;Today&quot; and &quot;Reputation&quot; to see everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T21:22:39.380" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:22:39.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26844" CreationDate="2009-10-21T21:02:50.107" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you shouldn't be posting things that you would later be ashamed of in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the system needs to change to accommodate this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just think of the avenues of abuse for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T21:57:03.363" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:57:03.363" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="26847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26844" CreationDate="2009-10-21T21:06:13.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can delete your comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You delete your answers, with certain constraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You delete your questions, with certain constraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, I don't use the careers site -- does it expose prior-deleted information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like Rich says, don't post anything publicly you'd be embarrassed of later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:06:13.173" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26844" CreationDate="2009-10-21T21:17:59.737" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a good idea. However, there has been an interesting change in the &quot;contract&quot; between Stackoverflow and its users. Previously, we were communicating primarily with our peers, and knowledge and &quot;rep&quot; were the only currency. Now we've added potential employers, and real money may be at stake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to delete any comments and answers that you don't want an employer to see. If you have a question that you can't delete, flag it for moderator attention or email the team and see if they can do something about it (like transfering it to the community user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an extreme case - if your account is garbage and you want to start from scratch - rename your account to something innocuous, ask the team to delete it, and create a new one (tell them what you're doing so they don't merge the accounts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going forward, anyone using the careers feature will have to be on their best behavior. Ultimately, this is a good thing. If we did have a feature to transfer your post to a junk user that would only make it easier to post rants and noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:17:59.737" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T21:20:36.983" Score="7" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I close a question because of duplicate, I usually paste the URL into the textbox. Sometimes it works, sometimes not (it's search, after all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this feature is to detect when I'm pasting a URL of a question and extract the ID from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T13:25:16.660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T13:35:20.117" Title="Allow pasting a question's URL when closing a duplicate question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26849" CreationDate="2009-10-21T21:34:14.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't work? This is how I've always closed questions. Can you come up with a case where pasting the URL doesn't work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T21:34:14.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26844" CreationDate="2009-10-21T22:17:58.513" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; license under which contributors post their content specifically retains the moral right to remove your name from any content that you do not want associated with your name.  As such a simple request to the SO team ought to suffice to have your content disassociated from your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the Other Rights section (moral rights hover-over):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to the right of licensors&#xA;  to request removal of their name from&#xA;  the work when used in a derivative or&#xA;  collective they don't like, copyright&#xA;  laws in most jurisdictions around the&#xA;  world (with the notable exception of&#xA;  the US except in very limited&#xA;  circumstances) grant creators &quot;moral&#xA;  rights&quot; which may provide some redress&#xA;  if a derivative work represents a&#xA;  &quot;derogatory treatment&quot; of the&#xA;  licensor's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T22:17:58.513" />
  <row Id="26852" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-21T22:21:50.147" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself going to stackoverflow and wanting to see recent activity on my questions that I asked or things that I've answered, so the flow usually goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click username &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/98050/dougnukem&quot;&gt;dougnukem&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;recent&quot; sorting option &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;look at any recent changes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to create a bookmark that brings me to my user page and lets me view my recent activity and other people's activity on my questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried going to the link that is associated with the sort button but it seems to be some weird non-styled result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dougnukem activity link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=98050&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=recent&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=98050&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=recent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130152" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T17:41:24.800" LastActivityDate="2011-01-26T16:31:56.260" Title="How do I get a link to my User Stats sorted by recent" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26844" CreationDate="2009-10-21T22:35:49.127" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is, IMO, a positive side effect of the careers side of Stack Overflow. I've been meaning to blog about this, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway -- as far as removing content, you can easily do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;change your display name to &quot;Anonymous&quot; or whatever you like&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;email us to delete your account, which permanently denormalizes every post with your current display name &quot;Anonymous&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bam, done, all trace of your old identity is gone forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to do that, you can of course delete your posts. Deleted content is only visible to 10k+ rep users, and I think it's verrrrrry unlikely employers will happen to have 10k+ stack overflow accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that some questions are protected from deletion depending on how many votes and answers they have, but if you &lt;strong&gt;flag them for moderator attention indicating you want them deleted&lt;/strong&gt; and we agree, we can delete them for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me, you can already do what you want to do, for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T22:35:49.127" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26849" CreationDate="2009-10-21T22:38:53.523" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already works, I do it all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T22:38:53.523" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26864" CreationDate="2009-10-21T22:39:33.817" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about clicking on the little envelop vs clicking your own username next to it. After using stackoverflow almost daily for 9 months now, I &lt;strong&gt;still&lt;/strong&gt; locate certain pages by trial and error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example scenario: I want to see if recent comments I made had responses in the form of comments or edits. So I typically click the envelope (RECENT comment right?), then click a few tabs (summary/responses/revisions) and spend a few seconds staring at each one, give up, click my username, ah! ACTIVITY is what I want. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This process takes time, and its not unusual for me to forget what I was looking for because I'm distracted by all the other interesting things that I see on the way to the activity tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar problem: I can't remember which of the &quot;reputation&quot; tabs I can find  behind the envelope, and which one behind the username link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any logic to the madness that can help me remember?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I'll attempt to clarify. I click the envelope if I want to see &quot;recent stuff&quot;. I click my username if I want to see &quot;more stuff I couldn't find under 'recent stuff'&quot;, such as the activity tab. Help me form a better mental map of stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130083" LastEditorUserId="130083" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-21T23:21:36.380" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T00:30:38.203" Title="What is the logic behind /users/recent/xxxxx versus /users/xxxxx/username?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26849" CreationDate="2009-10-21T22:57:41.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen that sometimes I need to press the &quot;down&quot; button on my keyboard after pasting for the question to be searched, but that is about all the problems I've had with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T22:57:41.570" />
  <row Id="26857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26855" CreationDate="2009-10-21T23:05:39.727" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More importantly, is there any logic to the madness that is this question? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read this like three times and I still can't quite tell what you're asking. What exactly &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; your question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T23:05:39.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26860" CreationDate="2009-10-21T23:15:20.963" Score="1" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which of the following sites in the &lt;b&gt;Stack Overflow Trilogy&lt;/b&gt; would be the best for asking questions about Visual Studio licensing costs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastEditorUserId="26327" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T15:38:40.267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T15:38:40.267" Title="Visual Studio licensing questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26859" CreationDate="2009-10-21T23:17:36.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T00:03:54.513" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T00:03:54.513" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26859" CreationDate="2009-10-21T23:19:36.337" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://microsoft.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T23:19:36.337" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-21T23:28:24.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that when you're asking a question about a programming language, it pays avoid any emotionally laden terms at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like religion - you wouldn't start off a question about Christianity by saying, &quot;If you are a diehard Christian who still believes in a monothestic god, how do you make sure that your soul is saved?&quot;  Well you might start off a question that way, but I cringe to think of the sort of anger you'd get back in the responses!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things go better if you use neutral language.  For example: &quot;I have a question for practicing Christians.  How do you make sure on a day to day basis that your soul is saved?&quot;  Something like that would (hopefully) trigger less of an emotional response, which is usually really healthy for the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it helps to start off by telling everyone that you're just getting started learning about the category.  Everyone is nicer to a newbie... we've all been there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avoid emotionally laden language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use neutral language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Admit that you're a newbie, and ask for help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-10-21T23:28:24.213" />
  <row Id="26863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26859" CreationDate="2009-10-22T00:07:25.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your local &lt;a href=&quot;https://partner.microsoft.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft Partner&lt;/a&gt; is actually the best resource. Failing that, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26859/visual-studio-licensing-questions/26861#26861&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T00:07:25.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26855" CreationDate="2009-10-22T00:30:38.203" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;/users/recent/xxxxx - To you&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see what someone else has given to you, click the envelope. That page tracks what gifts, letters of love and other such notes, badges and revisions other users have put forward to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;/users/xxxxx/username - From you&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to track how you've put things out into the sites, click your username and then Activity tab. Because that's tracking your activity and things you've put into other people's envelopes and sealed with a kiss of interaction and friendliness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T00:30:38.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26866" CreationDate="2009-10-22T00:33:15.327" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a questions that should be community wiki as there's a comment saying that with 5 upvotes. The user doesn't have enough rep to have the community wiki option, I go to edit the question, and I can't make it community wiki. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="130281" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T00:42:44.147" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T07:56:56.460" Title="I have 2000 rep, why can't I make a post community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26865" CreationDate="2009-10-22T00:35:48.897" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because that way leads to abuse and people kicking other people's posts around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently there are four ways to turn a post into wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Original author ticks the box and saves their edit. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A moderator comes along and switches it over. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy edit wars go on on the post shunting it over the threshold and automatically sets it as wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are enough answers on the question to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot; title=&quot;and the dog is dead&quot;&gt;auto-force it into community wiki mode&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;30 for Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Meta, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6814/reduce-community-wiki-force-threshold-to-15-answers-on-superuser&quot; title=&quot;what's your must have hidden feature of wiki mode?&quot;&gt;15 for Super User&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a question that you feel needs to be wikified, flag it for a moderator and explain why. Don't just say, &quot;Should be wiki&quot;. Instead, something like &quot;This question is open-ended and sounds utterly like fetching advice and best practise than an actual concrete answer and should be wiki&quot; helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All authors have the ability, regardless of their rep level, to set their own posts as wiki. Even the drive-bys can set their questions to wiki on first go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T07:56:56.460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T07:56:56.460" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T01:47:25.613" Score="0" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoy a great many things about Stack Overflow, but you know Stack Overflow works when I caught myself trying to &quot;time-attack&quot; to see if I could score first! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Stack Overflow trait do you appreciate the most?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138970" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:30:12.523" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:30:12.523" ClosedDate="2011-08-21T06:41:49.270" Title="Favorite things about Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="26868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26867" CreationDate="2009-10-22T01:49:21.740" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key is to provide the short answer first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: then edit and give the long answer with &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;em&gt;fancy&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;markup&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;System.out.println(&quot;and code examples!&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139053" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T01:51:51.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2009-10-22T02:12:36.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself with three (3) Fanatic badges, while still posting good quality answers (because just turning up isn't really playing), then you're probably a little addicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a polite way now to have it show up only as a nice little badge on your profile and not this &quot;Crack rock level&quot; tick-ticker of addiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T02:12:36.963" />
  <row Id="26870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T02:33:09.580" Score="4" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg/3064#3064&quot;&gt;this re-tag request&lt;/a&gt; needs to get resurrected from the original &quot;Great Tagging Reog&quot; discussion, but as someone who still eats, sleeps, and breathes Classic ASP (well, Classic ASP pays for the food and the roof) its bothered me that there's an &lt;code&gt;asp&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;asp-classic&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can understand that some of the questions (~20% based on sloppy math and random sampling) are from people too lazy to finish ASP with a .NET, it would probably help to sort those out from the Classic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to selectively re-tag? i.e. if it has other tags like &lt;code&gt;vbscript&lt;/code&gt; change it to &lt;code&gt;asp-classic&lt;/code&gt; and if it has other tags like &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; change it to &lt;code&gt;asp.net&lt;/code&gt; and then see how many are left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have insomnia, and may just undertake some manual work, but 531 questions is likely to cure my sleep issues before I finish...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just bringing this back up as the &lt;code&gt;asp&lt;/code&gt; tag is fairly useless since it doesn't differentiate between classic and .net. Or is this something that's going to have to wait until there's a blacklist for tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastEditorUserId="25163" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T20:01:20.750" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T06:04:22.307" Title="Classic Re-Tag Discussion on some good ole ASP (Classic)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T02:39:44.200" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14450/tag-suggestion-inserts-new-tags-at-wrong-position-on-ie6-and-ie7&quot;&gt;Tag suggestion inserts new tags at wrong position on IE6 and IE7&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous report was closed as a duplicate of a fixed bug and one that didn't have the same repro steps.  As I can't do anything about the report being closed, but this is still broken across all the sites as of today (10/21), let's try one more time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repro steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;add a tag to a question. I chose bug for this question. &#xA;add another tag. I chose tags for this question. &#xA;Select with mouse (or enter) the second tag from the autocomplete list. &#xA;Expected behavior:&#xA;I would have 2 tags. In this case, &lt;strong&gt;bug tags&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observed behavior:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new tag replaces the original one. In this case I have: &lt;strong&gt;tags tags&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this behavior on all three sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is with IE8 on Win7 if that happens to be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12803/tag-suggestion-only-works-for-the-first-tag&quot;&gt;Tag suggestion only works for the first tag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132887" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T08:27:09.807" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T08:27:09.807" ClosedDate="2009-10-22T08:25:05.443" Title="Tag Completion Is Broken For the 2nd Tag (in IE8 at least)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26870" CreationDate="2009-10-22T02:41:10.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to only see questions tagged with one on explicit appearance of another, slam them together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp+vbscript&quot; title=&quot;but he's in the wrong play!&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[asp]&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;[vbscript]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; you only have 59.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp+c%23&quot; title=&quot;snappy dresser that snake&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[asp]&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;[c#]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you're down to only 37.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now that list of 531 doesn't look so menacing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T02:41:10.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T02:48:13.827" Score="2" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/search?q=+%23devdays+since%3A2009-10-20+until%3A2009-10-21&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter #devdays results&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/devdays-reviews-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/devdays-reviews-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seattle&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a community wiki on purpose, following previous suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132887" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:27:38.497" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:27:38.497" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Seattle" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-22T02:58:17.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;i&gt;&#xA;There are four sorts of men: &#xA;He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool &amp;mdash; shun him; &#xA;He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple &amp;mdash; teach him; &#xA;He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep &amp;mdash; wake him; &#xA;He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise &amp;mdash; follow him.&#xA;&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;                                                       Arabian proverb&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=xHmlRamoszMC&amp;amp;lpg=PR3&amp;amp;dq=Reasoning%20About%20Knowledge&amp;amp;pg=PA49#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reasoning about Knowledge&lt;/a&gt;, an excellent book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T02:58:17.240" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-22T03:10:16.577" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to take a moment to thank Joel and everyone at Carsonified. The conference was, in my opinion, a great success. The venue was great. It was full, but didn't feel too crowded except at break time. The food was very good for conference food. The companies at the event were aimed at the right audience. The speakers were all entertaining to listen to. Each speaker made me interested in his technology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only complaint was the wifi which didn't work terribly well. I was using a Zune HD which drops the signal a lot to save power and so had to reconnect often and it wasn't always possible. The DHCP seemed to fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find my extensive review &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/steverowe/archive/2009/10/22/stackoverflow-devdays.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall though, a great conference and well worth the $99. I'll be back next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132887" LastEditorUserId="132887" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T07:39:35.587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T07:39:35.587" />
  <row Id="26876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26923" CreationDate="2009-10-22T03:59:32.977" Score="-2" ViewCount="690" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I voted to close &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1604124/what-does-the-in-a-za-z0-9-mean&quot;&gt;What does the _ in [a-zA-Z0-9_] mean?&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;Not a real question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasoning is simple: Anyone who knows what the &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; in that expression means cannot possibly be ignorant about the meaning of &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; (it stands for itself, just like the &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt;). Therefore, this question cannot be genuine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If enough people agree with me, the question will be closed. If they don't, so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as you may notice, there is quite a discussion going on in the comments of that post. Keeping in mind that MSO was created so that these kinds of meta arguments do not bog down the real content, I decided to post this question here, and replace my comments on that question with a link to this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does my argument make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand on that argument:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that gives me pause is that I agree with &quot;Just because you think a questioner knows the answer already does not make the question any less valid on SO.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not &quot;assume that one must know all aspects of REs or none&quot;. However, think about the difference between &lt;code&gt;/[a-z]/&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;/a-z/&lt;/code&gt;. That is a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; difference ... one would have needed to read and grasp a lot to be able to get that. And, by the time one understood that, one would have known that &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; stands for itself in &lt;code&gt;/[a-z_]/&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why I do not think this question can be helpful to a newbie in the future. A newbie will not know the difference between &lt;code&gt;/[a-z]/&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;/a-z/&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Summary:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26876/is-this-question-really-a-real-question/26885#26885&quot;&gt;pax&lt;/a&gt;: Just because you think a questioner knows the answer already does not make the question any less valid on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26876/is-this-question-really-a-real-question/26901#26901&quot;&gt;Vinko Vrsalovic&lt;/a&gt;: The 'reality' of a question is orthogonal to the intention of the questioner. ... But, as long as he posts questions (coherent and answerable) they are valid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26876/is-this-question-really-a-real-question/26877#26877&quot;&gt;random&lt;/a&gt;: Are you saying it's not a &quot;real&quot; question because it's an &quot;easy&quot; question and one that you yourself already know the answer to?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26876/is-this-question-really-a-real-question/26916#26916&quot;&gt;Telemachus&lt;/a&gt;: you're still taking a kind of all-or-none attitude to learning. ... Maybe you learn in a very linear manner, but I can assure you that many people do not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree with the statements quoted above. However, I do not think they are applicable in this particular situation. If they were, it would be perfectly OK to post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does the &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;/a/&lt;/code&gt; mean?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does the &lt;code&gt;b&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;/b/&lt;/code&gt; mean?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does the &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;code&gt;/c/&lt;/code&gt; mean?  ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, maybe I learn in a different way than you do and just because I understand what &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; means in &lt;code&gt;/a/&lt;/code&gt;, that does not mean I can generalize it to other letters in the English alphabet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, even if I knew the answer to that, it is possible someone, somewhere else might not know and that person would benefit from a clear and concise answer to each and every one of those questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so what if I posted all these questions one after another in an attempt to collect a point here and a point there. After all, by the rest of the criteria, the question is real, and my intent is orthogonal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, filling up SO with noise is detrimental to both the main purpose of SO and its money making potential. I want SO to make money for Joel and Jeff and all who worked on it and therefore I would never start posting the kind  of questions I gave above, but, by your arguments, if someone did post those questions, each and every one of them would be a valid, &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you again for all your answers. I have benefited from the points raised on this thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T15:01:58.857" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T05:50:58.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T04:19:44.327" Title="Is this question really a real question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;not-a-real-question&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="26877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T04:04:51.187" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the dash/hyphen (&lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt;) used as a range delimiter or as a character on its own? What is the underscore (&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;) used for in that expression? Is it a look behind trigger or just a plain old underscore character to match against?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can you say that it's obvious that the underscore is a character on its own when the dash is used in a different way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you saying it's not a &quot;real&quot; question because it's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3251/closing-easy-questions-yes-or-no/3256#3256&quot; title=&quot;so soft like butter&quot;&gt;&quot;easy&quot; question&lt;/a&gt; and one that you yourself already know the answer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot; title=&quot;beware the non-learners&quot;&gt;rep-whore constantly posting soft/easy questions like this&lt;/a&gt;, then that itself would be a problem. One that you could flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the question would still be valid and a real question at that. Stack Overflow aims to be &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; place to brain up for programmers and even the fresh have to start somewhere. Even if it's not patently obvious how regular expressions work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear you know so much more than the person asking the question and by that, their question must not be real. Because, seriously? Someone doesn't already know what you know about programming? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By your reckoning, anyone and everyone who wants to learn, has already learnt and can't possibly be confused or need guidance on the intracacies or quirks of a programming language or function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T12:28:33.780" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T12:28:33.780" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T04:05:30.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a real question, although a dreadfully elementary one. What I found sad was the lemming-like upvoting of the response, which I thought deserved one or two votes at most. Both the question and the answer were worth less than a minute of anyone's time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T04:05:30.767" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-22T04:08:16.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really enjoyed this.  I agree that it was worth the $99, maybe even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Positives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[Scrumms]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's Keynote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scott Hanselman and his Poop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rory was fun to hear, although I wasn't too interested in the iPhone stuff&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cody Lindley's presentation on JQuery made me want to rush home and start coding.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Food catered by Wolfgang Puck.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not as positives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lots of advertising by Fog Creek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Rocha did a nice job, but it was a little dry for right after lunch and I had to fight the afternoon nap gnomes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wifi was really hard to keep connected, and then it was slow....&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Didn't care for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dan Sanderson was mono-tone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ted Lueng, What's with the font colors?  Blue and Purple were horribly hard to see, even when they turned all the lights off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the website they're HUGE, but when you get them, the stickers are tiny.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overall Most Enjoyed&lt;/strong&gt; goes to Steve Seitz, who gave a wonderful (and upbeat) presentation on the origins and continued development of the Photosynth technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overall Worst Moment&lt;/strong&gt; was when I went to get the free memory upgrades (did I mention that MS was filling everyone's laptop to capacity?) and found out that my laptop was too old for the memory that they were giving out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely will come back for more next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[EDIT] Wish they would post the slides for the presentations as there were more than a few URL's that I would like to check out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30862" LastEditorUserId="30862" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T04:17:44.703" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T04:17:44.703" />
  <row Id="26880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26870" CreationDate="2009-10-22T04:16:01.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After you go and do that you are still left with &lt;strong&gt;240&lt;/strong&gt; questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/asp&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[​asp]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try this search to see for yourself &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/asp+-c%23+-vbscript+-asp-classic+-~.net~&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[​asp]&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp; -&lt;strong&gt;[c#]&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp; -&lt;strong&gt;[vbscript]&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp; -&lt;strong&gt;[asp-classic]&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp; -&lt;strong&gt;[*.net*]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while it would definitely help to reduce the clutter, it only reduces it to about half of it's original size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it interesting that the &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; highest correlated tag to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/asp+-c%23+-vbscript+-asp-classic+-~.net~&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[​asp]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/php&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[​php]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(After the proposed retagging effort)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T04:16:01.817" />
  <row Id="26881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15947" CreationDate="2009-10-22T04:32:34.523" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spam/offensive flags are anonymous&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment flags are anonymous&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moderator attention flags are attributed to the user who raised the flag, as Marc pointed out, so we can have a dialog if necessary or get background&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T04:32:34.523" />
  <row Id="26883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T04:41:19.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a sheep-like reaction that sets in; if there's one vote to close, others jump on the bandwagon.  That's why Perlmonks has countering &quot;keep&quot; and &quot;edit&quot; votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149341" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T04:41:19.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T04:41:19.247" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-22T05:03:39.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was definitely worth the $99.  If it had been a regularly-priced conference, I would have thought there was too much advertising (the FogBugz presentation and to a lesser extent some of the other ones were a little bit like sales pitches).  But as-is it was fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ted Lueng's talk was great but the slides were not so great with the low-contrast fonts.  The Qt talk, jQuery talk, and the Photosynth talk were my favorites but none of the talks were bad.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the honesty -- many talks were upfront about the good and bad parts of some of the technologies discussed.  Though Scott Hanselman's talk was (IMHO) a little too self-deprecating about Microsoft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a conference which was (as expected) focused on breadth rather than depth about any one topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to MS and the free memory upgrades, and the stackoverflow and Fog Creek teams for putting this on!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137463" LastEditorUserId="137463" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T05:15:18.783" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:15:18.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T05:17:25.860" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My reasoning is simple: Anyone who knows what the - in that expression means cannot possibly be ignorant about the meaning of _ (it stands for itself, just like the a). Therefore, this question cannot be genuine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reasoning &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be simple - I decline to comment :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; fallacious. You are wrong, in my opinion, on two accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To say someone could not understand what &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; is for when they know what &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; is for is wrong. I, for example, still write my REs with &lt;code&gt;[A-Za-z ...]&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;\w&lt;/code&gt; partially because I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; know all the PCRE-type extensions (and partially because I still work on systems that don't support them). To assume that one must know all aspects of REs or none of it is plainly incorrect. Both &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; are clearly in the &quot;punctuation&quot; class of characters and it is reasonable to think they may both have special meaning in REs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just because you think a questioner knows the answer already does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; make the question any less valid on SO. I suggested in the original question that &lt;code&gt;&quot;What is the difference between i++ and ++i?&quot;&lt;/code&gt; would be in a similar situation since you could argue that no-one who knew &lt;code&gt;i++&lt;/code&gt; could fail to know &lt;code&gt;++i&lt;/code&gt;. Yet that question would be a genuine one since SO is supposed to be for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; levels of programmers, including those who haven't mastered all the intricacies of C (or REs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as to the sadness of the lemming-like voting, that answer was right &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; simple. Who's to say it didn't deserve the upvotes? @Ether states that the answer wasn't worth more than a minute of anyone's time but I managed to read and upvote it in about 20 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, that's 20 seconds I'll never get back, but I waste more time than that each day with booting my work PC :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastEditorUserId="14860" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T05:50:58.600" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T05:50:58.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T05:17:25.860" />
  <row Id="26886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-22T05:41:02.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As bad as it may sound, I think you just have to keep doing what you're doing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the potential audience size for Server Fault is larger than that for Stack Overflow; the potential audience size for Super User is practically every human who uses the web.  As a result, there is a lot more &quot;noise&quot; already out there on the web for both of these groups -- tons of scattered pages with &quot;tips&quot; for computer use, or half-finished notes written by admins to themselves; put up on the web because, well, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will take a while for the &quot;signal&quot; from these sites to start to attract more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If and when Super User reaches critical mass, though, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58549" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:41:02.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-22T05:51:54.077" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the speakers were quite good and I had a great time.  Benaroya hall was perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some notes/comments I jotted down.  This is not complete, these are just the things I cared to note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talked about the trade offs between simplicity and power when designing user interfaces.  It was a good talk but much of it sounded familiar to me, but that is probably because I've been reading Joel's works and listening to the SO podcast for a while now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Demonstrated ASP.NET MVC 2 using Visual Studio 2010 beta.  I've been using ASP.NET MVC since the beta so much of this was familiar to me, but he did discuss some interesting new features, in particular using code templates to create strongly typed references to resources (such as Jpeg images) in your views (although I admit I sort of lost him in how to actually accomplish this, as he was clicking away).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rory Blythe&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Demoed iPhone development environments using iPhone SDK (objective-c) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://monodevelop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monodevelop&lt;/a&gt; (C#).  Rory seemed to know both obj-c and C# well enough to draw comparisons between the languages which was useful to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty good demo of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fogbugz 7&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://fogcreek.com/Kiln/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiln&lt;/a&gt;, enough to convince me to try it.  Didn't know before this that it was free for startups and students.  Kiln/mercurial demo was great but was a bit disappointed that it is currently only available in hosted version of Fogbugz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;(Lunch)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For lunch they had a neat idea of separating groups of tables and labeling them (A-F I think), each with a different topic (e.g. Social Networking, Languages, Startups), so that you could sit and have lunch with those interested in the same topic.  I had a pleasant lunch and talk with a group of like-minded people (in my case Startups).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cody Lindley&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good presentation, I knew much of it already but was good to get reinforcement from someone who knows this stuff.  He pointed out some good links I didn't know about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He used &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jsbin.com&lt;/a&gt; for demonstrating jquery.  Nice tool for experimenting with javascript and html in general.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://codylindley.com/jqueryselectors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Web tool on his site&lt;/a&gt; for testing jquery selectors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plugged his ebook: &lt;a href=&quot;http://jqueryenlightenment.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery Enlightenment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mentioned Microsoft was now hosting jquery scripts on their CDN (Google already doing this), I dug around and found more info &lt;a href=&quot;http://visitmix.com/Opinions/jquery-love&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Dan Rocha&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dan is from Nokia and talked about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://qt.nokia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Qt framework&lt;/a&gt; which Nokia bought from Trolltech and converted to open source.  This was interesting to me because it was the only topic of the day I had no prior knowledge of.  But after his talk I will look into using Qt for Windows Mobile development as a possible alternative to raw Win32 and .NET compact framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A notable link he mentioned was &lt;a href=&quot;http://getjar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;getjar.com&lt;/a&gt;, where you can download mobile apps for various devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ted Leung&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Provided quick overview of Python.  Used Python 2.6.x for examples but spoke about 3.0 at the end.  Good talk but the font colors he used in his presentation for the Python keywords were blue on black, which literally gave me headache after a while.  Some links to tools he mentioned that I didn't know about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;virtualenv&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;zc.buildout&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Dan Sanderson&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Demoed &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/appengine/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google App Engine&lt;/a&gt; dev environment using both Java and Python.  I had read about this but actually seeing a live demo and seeing how easy it was to get a quick hello world app going was quite interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Steve Seitz&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve is a professor at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle and he talked about the research behind Microsoft's &lt;a href=&quot;http://photosynth.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Photosynth&lt;/a&gt; (I did not know that MS licensed this from UW). This was the last talk and at first I was considering leaving because I was quite tired from sitting most of the day (and also I wanted to avoid the traffic rush out the opera hall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But his presentation was interesting enough to keep me put.  There wasn't much that helped me as a working programmer, but I was impressed with the work Steve and his colleagues have done and his explanation of some of the computer science behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136391" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T05:51:54.077" />
  <row Id="26888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-22T06:11:20.203" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try reaching out to the IT Pro Evangilsits at Microsoft (there's only 3 of them) and see if they have any suggestions as to IT Pro bloggers you can talk to.  I've got contact into for the west coast guy if you don't have you local IT Pro guys info (your local MSDN Evangilist can hook you up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:11:20.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="26889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-18T02:57:52.677" Score="34" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any sites like Stack Overflow where we can ask computer science and more theoretical questions? What do you guys/gals use other than this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;Even though I really didn't get satisfactory answers, I am closing the bounty.  I have been using comp.lang.* and the guys there have been pretty helpful. But I hope Stack Overflow welcomes more theoretical and broad range of questions that may or may not have straightforward answers. I also hope I don't need to tag my questions with a vague title like 'computer-science'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137636" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T11:36:55.827" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T11:36:55.827" Title="Is there a Stack Overflow like site for computer science?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;computer-science&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-18T03:04:36.967" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This site:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has said that the site is about programming, instead of Computer Science in general. Although Computer Science related topics are often discussed anyway.    I cannot say for sure, but I think he specifically said programming so that people didn't try to include questions like hardware setup.  And not to exclude theoretical Computer Science topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think that you can ask your questions here, even if it is about theoretical Computer Science and it will be well received if it is a good question.  I know at least I would upvote good theoretical Computer Science questions.  I have seen many past theoretical CS questions highly voted up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It comes down to the fact that there are many capable people on this site that can probably help you with your theoretical computer science questions.  And if a lot of these people like your question, then as a community it will be voted up and answered.  I can't see a moderator deleting a question that is well received by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other source of info:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than this site, you could ask for recommendations for the topic you want to know about from professors in your Computer Science department.  Or to a school that is local to where you live.  Also, depending on what you're studying, a lot of times the classes (that cover your topic) in University have a forum per class. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="26891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-18T03:15:40.403" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The discussion boards on &lt;a href=&quot;http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lambda the Ultimate&lt;/a&gt; generally have a high signal-to-noise ratio, and attract a lot of the computing-sciency crowd. You're likely to get a good response there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Note that although it's got a functional name and a pretty large FP-oriented crowd, non-FP discussion is still quite welcome there, so long as it's theoretical enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142445" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-18T21:16:20.840" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;##C #lisp and #haskell on irc.freenode.net&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp.%2A%5Fhierarchy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comp.* hierarchy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comp Sci at Reddit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" />
  <row Id="26893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-25T22:22:00.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's sort of what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acm.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ACM&lt;/a&gt; is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166263" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-26T22:36:37.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep. It exists..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's called usenet and conferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" />
  <row Id="26895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-26T22:53:37.937" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ask them here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236000/whats-a-turing-machine&quot;&gt;What's a Turing machine?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40716/is-solving-the-halting-problem-easier-than-people-think&quot;&gt;Is solving the halting problem easier than people think?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/475350/can-the-halting-problem-be-solved-for-any-non-turing-languages&quot;&gt;Can the halting problem be solved for any non-turing languages?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210829/what-is-an-np-complete-problem&quot;&gt;What is an NP-complete problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/306249/how-were-the-first-np-complete-problems-shown-to-be-np-complete&quot;&gt;how were the first NP-complete problems shown to be NP-complete?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" />
  <row Id="26896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-29T20:37:10.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not exactly &quot;Stack Overflow-like&quot;, but the closest I've seen to your desire is  Academic Hacker News (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ask questions there, and I'm sure you'd get a response, although the traffic is not terribly great these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that being said: since CS is an academic discipline, I'd think that most people just ask their professors, or read the literature.  If you're just starting out in CS, and not affiliated with a University, you might want to study a few foundational texts instead of trying a question/answer approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6741" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-30T01:03:42.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/553264/can-stack-overflow-help-you-explore-the-magic-and-beauty-of-computer-science&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that I asked in February. In the question I included everything I use. It sparked some interesting behavior (folks wanting to close it and several people favoriting it and upvoting it). Jeff Atwood himself commented on the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think a lot of researchers and professors &quot;get&quot; Stack Overflow yet and thus aren't interested at the moment (although several do like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/41661/norman-ramsey&quot;&gt;Prof. Ramsey&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in Luis von Ahn's &lt;a href=&quot;http://vonahn.blogspot.com/2009/02/academic-publications-20.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Academic Publications 2.0&lt;/a&gt; post as it sort of relates to what you're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1869" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" />
  <row Id="26898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-05-31T09:29:45.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/the-stack-overflow-trilogy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not ready yet - link goes to Jeff's announcement post on the stackoverflow blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At any rate, if you wanted a community where (almost) anything goes, you’re about to get exactly what you asked for in the form of superuser.com. If your question has to do with computers, it will be allowed there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29620" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26889" CreationDate="2009-06-02T15:39:20.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/news&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask HN&lt;/a&gt; maybe ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T06:22:17.817" />
  <row Id="26901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T07:03:26.397" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are misunderstanding &quot;not a real question&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of &quot;not a real question&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do my homework for me. Now!: That's clearly not a real question, but an order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I hate Microsoft's stack: That's clearly not a real question, but a rant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You all suck balls here, time wasters: That's clearly not a real question, but a troll&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You green SQL apple blue cloud?: Incoherent, unanswerable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of a &quot;real question&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does one move the turtle in logo?: Basic, probably useless nowadays, but a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does the _ mean in [a-zA-Z0-9_]?: Basic, but a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'reality' of a question is orthogonal to the intention of the questioner. We cannot know the intention of the questioner, nor what he really knows or how stupid he is. But, as long as he posts questions (coherent and answerable) they are valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the feeling of &quot;this is so basic it must be a joke&quot;. But &lt;strong&gt;even if it is a joke&lt;/strong&gt; it will probably help some newbie, sometime, as long as it can be answered. So it just doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T07:03:26.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T07:03:26.397" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27576" CreationDate="2009-10-22T07:31:22.323" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upon login to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; I expected to be presented with a form (in addition to the CV edit page, that is) to enter my credit card and related payment information  but cannot find this anywhere.  What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I must admit that I feel like I've already failed the interview.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:42:48.363" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:43:45.463" Title="How do I pay for Stack Overflow Careers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26903" CreationDate="2009-10-22T07:46:47.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After entering more information into my CV, it appears as a link on my status page as a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://careers.stackoverflow.com/billing/jobseekers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;File Your CV&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="375" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T07:46:47.147" />
  <row Id="26905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-22T07:48:02.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wifi stayed connected just fine, but with almost no throughput a lot of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the conference in a space that doesn't allow food or beverages in the talks is a big minus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next year, multiple tracks so there's some choice of which talks to go to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149341" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T07:48:02.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26907" CreationDate="2009-10-22T07:52:48.230" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I figured out deleting a post is really a soft delete and it is still in the DB, unless of course there are enough votes to make a hard delete.  I'm curious if comments are a soft or hard delete.  You don't get a vote to delete option either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, are soft deleted items included in the data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T08:30:38.507" Title="Is it a hard or soft delete on comments, what about the data dump?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26906" CreationDate="2009-10-22T08:04:24.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted items are not included in the data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Comment: comments are a soft delete...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T08:30:38.507" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T08:30:38.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T08:17:05.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to think that this is one of the many cases of “not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; real question”, rather than “not a real question”.  The real question was probably something like “I've been using &lt;code&gt;[a-zA-Z0-9]&lt;/code&gt; to match an alphanumerical character, but recently I've came across &lt;code&gt;[a-zA-Z0-9_]&lt;/code&gt; in a similar context.  What's the difference, and why this additional underscore character?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136857" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T08:17:05.643" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T08:17:05.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T08:17:31.227" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23643/writing-less-than-15-characters-in-a-comment-triggers-the-30-second-protection&quot;&gt;Writing less than 15 characters in a comment triggers the 30 second protection.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you you attempt to add a comment, and the comment fails to add (for instance, if it is less than 15 chars); then the system doesn't let you from resubmit (after fixing the fault, of course) for 30 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T08:24:24.163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T08:24:24.163" ClosedDate="2009-10-22T08:24:16.287" Title="&quot;You may only add a comment every 30 seconds&quot; comes up, even if the comment didn't post sucessfully" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" />
  <row Id="26912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T09:25:28.013" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25079/more-obvious-formatting-help-for-new-users&quot;&gt;More obvious formatting help for new users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all of my edits to questions on SO consist of selecting the code and hitting the code formatting button. It seems clear to me that new users don't notice the code button or don't realise they need to do something special for code fragments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could there be some hint text (limited by reputation maybe?) saying - &quot;If you include some code in your question, please format it using this button [arrow pointing to code button]&quot; or equivalent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38883" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T09:25:28.013" ClosedDate="2009-10-22T18:07:38.937" Title="Make code markup button more obvious" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;markup&gt;" />
  <row Id="26913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26914" CreationDate="2009-10-22T09:28:51.033" Score="7" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to search for similar question here, but can't find one (yet).&#xA;Here's a scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person asked about &quot;How to build a SQL query to get count and blah blah blah...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His tag is just &quot;mysql&quot;. I helped to add &quot;sql&quot; and &quot;count&quot; tags to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone answered with a nice SQL statement that has a &quot;group by&quot; statement which seems &quot;logically inevitable&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I proceed to add a tag &quot;group-by&quot;. I did that on the basis that someone search for &quot;group-by&quot; will be able to find this post which I found useful. My concern is, it wasn't described at all in the question nor implying it explicitly. Unlike &quot;sql&quot; and &quot;count&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will be you guys' opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: The scenario above is a real one &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1605886/counting-instances-of-unique-value-in-field&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. And the one who answered it nicely is Jon Skeet. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T10:22:45.017" Title="Should I retag a question with a tag that is based on the answer and not the question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26913" CreationDate="2009-10-22T09:38:09.370" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are five tags to be used on a question, so use them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When an answer gets accepted, it becomes fused (until no longer accepted) to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A relevant tag to couple the question and answer together with a concept sounds perfectly valid after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags also help in finding related questions and possible dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T09:52:12.100" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T09:52:12.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26913" CreationDate="2009-10-22T10:22:45.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd expect that if the user had realized GROUP BY clauses were relevant to his question, he wouldn't have felt the need to ask the question at all :-)  But it looks like there's more to his question, according to his comments on Jon's answer, hence this kind of retagging might indeed do the OP a favor and help users follow up on his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136857" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T10:22:45.017" />
  <row Id="26916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T12:15:51.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's depressing as hell to me that the question is currently closed. (And now it's open again, so never mind that...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To respond to Sinan, my reasoning is also simple: the question was perfectly clear and nobody is born knowing the answer. Yes, a textbook or &lt;code&gt;perldoc&lt;/code&gt; or would answer the question, but the purpose of SO is to answer questions, and it says right in the FAQ that all levels of questions are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What part of any of that is hard to understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My other concern was that the Perl section of SO seems &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too quick to vote to close lately. I understand if people prefer to answer and read more challenging or unusual questions, but they can always simply ignore the questions they find trivial or boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Further response to Sinan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do not &quot;assume that one must know all aspects of REs or none&quot;. However, think about the difference between /[a-z]/ and /a-z/. That is a huge difference ... one would have needed to read and grasp a lot to be able to get that. And, by the time one understood that, one would have known that _ stands for itself in /[a-z_]/.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That is why I do not think this question can be helpful to a newbie in the future. A newbie will not know the difference between /[a-z]/ and /a-z/. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you're still taking a kind of all-or-none attitude to learning. In my experience of programming (and learning more generally), it just ain't so. A person might easily understand &lt;code&gt;/[a-z]/&lt;/code&gt; because the idea of a range of letters is fairly natural, but &lt;em&gt;at the same time&lt;/em&gt; freeze when seeing &lt;code&gt;/[a-z_]/&lt;/code&gt; because - oh, crap, &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; is punctuation, and punctuation is all kinds of weird in regular expressions. Maybe you learn in a very linear manner, but I can assure you that many people do not (note: I'm a teacher, so I have buckets of anecdoatal evidence to back that up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your second point (that it won't help a newbie), that depends on the kinds of answers it gets. If you think that a key point to grasp is the difference between &lt;code&gt;/[a-z]/&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;/a-z/&lt;/code&gt; (I agree with that, by the way), why not post a detailed, clear answer explaining that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, you might take a look at the posts of John W. Krahn and Chas. Owens to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Perl Beginners mail list&lt;/a&gt;. Each of them has posted hundreds of patient, clear, detailed answers to a never-ending slew of questions, ranging from the very, very simple to the very complex. I've probably learned 1/4 of what I know about Perl just from making sure to read their answers. It's nobody's &lt;em&gt;duty&lt;/em&gt; to answer simple questions, but it is definitely useful when knowledgeable people take the time to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26702" LastEditorUserId="26702" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T13:49:16.540" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T13:49:16.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T12:15:51.807" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26859" CreationDate="2009-10-22T12:17:18.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are a start-up or contractor etc you will find that StackOverflow gives you the best answers, otherwise you need to talk to a Microsoft reseller.    However the Microsoft resellers will not tell you about the schemes that Microsoft has in place for start-ups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T15:03:01.320" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T15:03:01.320" />
  <row Id="26918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-10-22T12:18:57.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest the tags should be declined/inflected so as to make the sentence “This is a question about ⟨&lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt;⟩.” grammatically correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39892" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T12:18:57.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T13:23:10.110" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6378/do-migrated-questions-migrate-reputation-and-badges&quot;&gt;Do migrated questions migrate reputation and badges?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens to rep points earned from answer up-voting or acceptance on a SO question that later gets closed-to-move-to-SF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they get lost on SO immediately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they get lost on SO pending a re-calc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they get added to user's associated SF account if that's the case? (either immidiately or on re-calc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T13:23:10.110" ClosedDate="2009-10-22T13:42:51.920" Title="Do we keep the rep for answers to questions that are closed as &quot;moved to SU/SF&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26849" CreationDate="2009-10-22T13:35:20.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a Greasemonkey script so you don't even have to extract the ID:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21826/greasemonkey-easier-vote-to-close-for-duplicates&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21826/greasemonkey-easier-vote-to-close-for-duplicates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T13:35:20.117" />
  <row Id="26923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26876" CreationDate="2009-10-22T13:58:58.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is not merely that someone posted an easy question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone posting an occasional easy question is OK, either out of genuine curiosity, or as a social experiment (see LOGO turtle), or as an occasional re-whoring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone genuinely trying to understand stuff and showing they did the work is great, even if they are a newbie - it's not the level of the question that matters, but the level of effort they put in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;someone just abusing the &quot;easy Qs are good for SO's overall purpose of being an encyclopedia&quot; is a major problem&lt;/strong&gt; - they don't ACTUALLY add to the site (heck, if they did, just have some bot written by Jeff Atwood pump easy questions as CW user into the site from some textbook), and they serve to &lt;strong&gt;hugely dis-incentivise&lt;/strong&gt; people who might wish to earn an honest reputation by answering actual technical (and hopefully not-always-trivial) questions who see that a question pumper like the guy mentioned by Sinan can earn enormous rep with no effort b merely pasting one-by-one questions from some Perl etc... textbooks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T13:58:58.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T13:58:58.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-22T14:45:59.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The conference was well worth the $99, althought at first I was a bit unsure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt; is a very good speaker, lots of interesting things to say and he is very good at presenting his products in a way that makes you want to keep listening. Some marketing is to be expected and he does a good job of mixing in stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/strong&gt; For a .NET guy he was pretty interesting. Good coverage of new features in Visual Studio. Nice to see them trying to keep up with Rails and Python frameworks ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rory Blythe&lt;/strong&gt; almost made me walk of of the conference. His coverage of ObjC and iPhone development was peppered with uselessly snide comments towards the system and platform. It was almost like he had been forced at gunpoint to write iPhone apps. I would recommend finding someone more enthusiastic (and better at it) to present about the iPhone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lunch&lt;/strong&gt; I had the Roast Beef and it was pretty good. I heard reports from others that the chicken and turkey were indistinguishable from rubber. IT was better than the OSCON boxed lunch from a few years back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cody Lindley&lt;/strong&gt; gave an excellent presentation on jQuery. I learned a couple of new things from him, including the live() method. He also has a really nice site setup for playing with selectors - &lt;a href=&quot;http://codylindley.com/jqueryselectors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codylindley.com/jqueryselectors/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dan Rocha&lt;/strong&gt; talked about Qt (cute) and Nokia. He gave away 2 phones, and did a really nice job of cramming in coverage of Qt, its tools and a couple of demos of cross platform development -- same code on Windows, Linux and one of the Nokia phones. I somehow had missed that Nokia bought Trolltech and has opened up the licensing for Qt so that commercial users don't need to buy expensive licenses anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ted Leung&lt;/strong&gt; was the hilight of the conference for me. Being a Python developer I am always interested to learn new things from people smarter than me. One point that caught me by suprise was the prototype() builtin. It has been in the language since 2.2 but I'd never seen or used it before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dan Sanderson&lt;/strong&gt; Gave a nice, if somewhat dry, overview of Google App Engine. Covered the points in detail and even had time for a Java and Python demo of the local development environment. I was dissapointed there wasn't any time to ask questions, I've use App Engine and had a couple of problems with it (data import/export and limited querys).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steve Seitz&lt;/strong&gt; was amazing. His work on using pictures from the internet to build 3d models of locations is just incredible. I even memorized their url - &lt;a href=&quot;http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, a great time. Lots of information, although a large part of it was probably at a lower level than most of the audience could handle. Would I go next year? I'm not sure. For the price I could probably have learned just as much, if not more, by buying a bunch of books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA: &lt;strong&gt;WiFi&lt;/strong&gt; was your typical conference WiFi. Overloaded. I ended up using 3G on my iPhone (when that was working, AT&amp;amp;T seemed to be overloaded at one point) instead of the local WiFi connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a conference with wired connections :) 802.11 just wasn't designed to handle hundreds of devices in the same area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137660" LastEditorUserId="137660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T15:11:30.870" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T15:11:30.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-10-22T14:52:38.100" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;strong&gt;tough call&lt;/strong&gt;. Tags that are clearly intended to be &lt;em&gt;keywords should be singular&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;code&gt;foreach&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;static&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt;, etc.)--&lt;code&gt;foreachs&lt;/code&gt; makes no sense. However, &lt;em&gt;concepts should be plural&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;code&gt;loops&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;types&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;arrays&lt;/code&gt;, etc.). So, what do you do with tags like &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt;? Some users are going to use the keyword &lt;code&gt;array&lt;/code&gt; several times in a question, but really be asking about the concept &lt;code&gt;arrays&lt;/code&gt;. Retagging this correctly would require reading and understanding the question. And you might get it wrong anyway. And you'd have to keep retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about conceptual tags like &lt;code&gt;looping&lt;/code&gt;? Should be retagged as &lt;code&gt;loops&lt;/code&gt;, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's a matter of extending the tag matching logic to account for this. Ideally, there would be a way to indicate both. Entering &lt;code&gt;array/s&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;array$&lt;/code&gt; or similar would match both (or all variants). If i want to monitor all looping questions, i should just mark &lt;code&gt;loop$&lt;/code&gt; interesting and i get all questions marked &lt;code&gt;loop&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;looping&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;for-loop&lt;/code&gt;, etc. Of course, i don't get &lt;code&gt;foreach&lt;/code&gt; questions unless i mark &lt;code&gt;for$&lt;/code&gt; as interesting too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is that it would be nice to clean things up, but that's problematic. &lt;strong&gt;The real issue is matching tags.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4126" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T14:52:38.100" />
  <row Id="26928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-10-22T15:20:02.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the mailto syntax not supported for anchor tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried adding it to my profile but it's stripping it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T15:20:02.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T15:20:02.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26820" CreationDate="2009-10-22T16:12:58.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we also be to review recruiters and employers similar to glassdoor.com (or link to that site)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T16:12:58.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28955" CreationDate="2009-10-22T16:39:43.440" Score="3" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried using the &quot;add openid&quot; feature and then clicking on the &quot;Sign In Using Weave&quot; button that the add-on has, I get the chomping lizard page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5771/mozchomp.gif&quot; alt=&quot;chomping lizard&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but then I get this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OpenID parameter &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  'AGh0dHBzO[...big-string-continues-here...]='&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  was expected to be base64 encoded but is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.mozilla.com/weave/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Weave&lt;/a&gt; issue since it's beta, but just wondering if there's a workaround for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1414" LastEditorUserId="22164" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T17:42:40.157" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T11:32:29.377" Title="How do I add my Mozilla Weave account's OpenID to my existing SO account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;mozilla-weave&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26933" CreationDate="2009-10-22T16:41:00.537" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25872/how-would-you-motivate-your-colleagues-to-join-stackoverflow/25883#25883&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; had been merged with another, and I had two similar answers on it.  I've now deleted the extra answer, but it's probably been that way a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited (because of George's great answer):&lt;/strong&gt; Could we have a notification in the response envelope/recent activity for all those users whose questions have been merged, and those users with answers on that question, so that they could check that everything was still copacetic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T17:26:02.430" LastActivityDate="2010-06-10T06:13:16.417" Title="Notify posters when questions merged" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;merged-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="26933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26932" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:18:27.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be better to have a site notification; much in the same way you're notified when someone answers your question or comments on your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your Answer has been merged to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T17:18:27.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30208" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:18:58.470" Score="0" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is of course related to the previous ones:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6336/why-not-merge-reputation-across-so-sf-and-su&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6336/why-not-merge-reputation-across-so-sf-and-su&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/587/single-location-for-so-sf-su-user-info&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/587/single-location-for-so-sf-su-user-info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but not limited to that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, some questions clearly belong to more than one site, so it should work like &quot;tagging&quot;. Probably my one isn't the best example of a question that belongs to two sites, but I think it gives you the idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/77268/history-file-grows-indefinitely&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/77268/history-file-grows-indefinitely&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1567735/history-file-grows-indefinitely&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1567735/history-file-grows-indefinitely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with keep things usually separate, but there should a way to have a question appear on more than one site, without duplicating it or migrate it (maybe just for user with a high reputation?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137341" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T20:55:37.610" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T15:25:06.010" Title="Is the separation between SO SF SU too harsh?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:29:49.503" Score="-1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious which user posted the most questions. Is there a way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is easy for reverse -- Jon Skeet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T17:36:20.377" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T17:45:06.983" Title="Any way to find out which user has asked the most questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26934" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:30:48.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the user's reputation should be a factor in questions appearing on more than one site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think though that the migration of questions from one site to another needs to be more seamless -- reputation should work as if the question had originated on target site, should be able to move back to another site without things breaking (though probably with increasing numbers of votes required), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't really see the need for it to reside on multiple sites at the same time.  It might make sense to have the search functionality and the duplicate-question search pull from the full trilogy if it doesn't now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T17:30:48.440" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26934" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:32:39.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the separation between SO SF SU too harsh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, they all have their defined scopes. They have specific areas of computing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for multiple questions, it is &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; ok to ask questions on both sites. Jeff has stated we do not want duplicate questions across the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ex: I had a bad example, which I now changed.&#xA;(Question on SU has now been deleted and left one on SF)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/60876/what-hardware-antennae-to-use-for-an-outdoor-wireless-connection&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/60876/what-hardware-antennae-to-use-for-an-outdoor-wireless-connection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T18:25:02.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:25:02.050" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="26939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26934" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:36:18.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should just flag it for moderator attention and we can move it for you. I've cancelled the bounty (refund) and moved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T17:36:18.520" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26941" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:37:06.880" Score="2" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got caught by the captcha.  However, I can't fill it out because our whitelist firewall is blocking it.  What domain(s) do I have to add to get the captcha phrase and entry boxes to show up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137665" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T19:41:54.480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T19:41:54.480" Title="CAPTCHA - what domain is it coming from?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="26941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26940" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:41:29.160" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captcha is provided by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://recaptcha.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://recaptcha.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T17:41:29.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26940" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:42:49.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends but if it's reCaptcha try these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;recaptcha.net&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;api.recaptcha.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136885" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T17:42:49.033" />
  <row Id="26943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26936" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:45:06.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of the latest dump, it appears that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54964&quot;&gt;Masi&lt;/a&gt; has asked the most questions (770 now, 755 at the time of the dump)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=2360&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's the query I used&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T17:45:06.983" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T17:51:39.803" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to do this?  Am I missing something, or is it just not there?  If not, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="292" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:59:10.997" Title="Can I assign an alternative openId to my careers account?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="26948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T18:36:44.523" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the best way to display an execution plan from SQL Server on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131010" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T18:39:09.433" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T20:33:59.627" Title="What is the best way to display an execution plan from SQL Server on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="26949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-10-22T18:36:56.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all right to be ignorant.  We all start that way, and we're all ignorant about a tremendous number of things (not all the same things).  We all know how we do things, and sometimes wonder how other people do those things, even when they do them differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you need is a little humility about being ignorant.  When you're ignorant, ask questions in a more neutral manner.  Remember that, when you're ignorant, there are things you don't know, and one of them is whether how you do things is in fact the best way.  When you're answered, don't pick apart the answers from your point of view, but rather try to understand the other point of view.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you were told that smart pointers and RAII make resource handling uniform in C++, after which you maintained that resources other than memory were a red herring because there were different techniques in C# (the &quot;using&quot; statement) and other languages.  You did not seem to think that memory handling was a red herring in C++ because of smart pointers.  In fact, garbage collection as usually practiced is often better memory management than smart pointers, but uniform treatment of resources has advantages, and it's good to be able to put deallocation code in one place (the class definition) and not have to remember to put it in every time you use the class.  Both approaches have advantages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It read like the typical Usenet language war:  &quot;My language is better than yours because I can do A by using B in mine, and I don't know how you'd do A in yours.&quot;  I came to despise such flamefests and the flamers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question was edited to be reasonable:  &quot;I know how I do this:  how do you do it?&quot; in essence.  You can take it as a model.  Your comments were ill-considered, or perhaps unconsidered.  If you ask for enlightenment, try to understand it.  When other people are trying to give you good answers, realize this and try to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think other people are giving you an &quot;I'm superior to you&quot; attitude in a technical forum, consider for a moment that you may be doing the same, or that they may have some justification.  You'll learn a lot more that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:36:56.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26948" CreationDate="2009-10-22T18:38:45.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say screen cap, or a link to a page that displays it.  If it's not an overly complicated execution plan you might also be able to just describe it or list the components in text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:38:45.490" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26948" CreationDate="2009-10-22T18:45:28.760" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Screenshot sounds fine, or ASCII if you can get away with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't do what this guy did, at any rate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1535085/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1535085/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still laughing about that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:45:28.760" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16840" CreationDate="2009-10-22T18:56:29.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, the automatic lookup &lt;em&gt;almost always&lt;/em&gt; works for me. But, &lt;em&gt;when it doesn't&lt;/em&gt;, there's a little trick you might find helpful: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With focus in the entryfield, &lt;strong&gt;hit the down-arrow key&lt;/strong&gt;. The drop-down should appear...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:56:29.897" />
  <row Id="26953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T18:57:21.003" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that, (e.g.) moms4mom.com is much slower than the main sites (stackoverflow, etc).  Is this just because it's on a shared server?  One of the nice features about stackoverflow is that it's so snappy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137463" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:57:21.003" ClosedDate="2009-10-22T19:00:00.573" Title="Stack Exchange sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;performance&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26944" CreationDate="2009-10-22T18:59:10.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not at the moment, we were trying to keep careers a bit simpler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a need for more than one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T18:59:10.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3223" CreationDate="2009-10-22T19:14:39.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/geeqe/source/browse/trunk/scripts/load.rb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/geeqe/source/browse/trunk/scripts/schema.sql&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;schema&lt;/a&gt; for mysql that you can use if you are interested. The load script requires Ruby. I also split a tags out into their own table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T19:14:39.140" />
  <row Id="26957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16840" CreationDate="2009-10-22T19:23:53.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once again I will spam my Greasemonkey script that eliminates the need to do any trickery to close dupes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21826/greasemonkey-easier-vote-to-close-for-duplicates&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21826/greasemonkey-easier-vote-to-close-for-duplicates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T19:23:53.043" />
  <row Id="26958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T19:25:35.847" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15020/winnerless-bounties&quot;&gt;Winnerless bounties&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens if Bounty expires after Seven Days and you have not selected an answer ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134960" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:07:44.363" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:07:44.363" ClosedDate="2009-10-22T19:37:53.290" Title="What happens if Bounty expires after Seven Days and you have not selected an answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26958" CreationDate="2009-10-22T19:28:33.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The highest voted answer provided &lt;em&gt;after the bounty started&lt;/em&gt; will be automatically accepted and receive half the bounty provided it has 2 or more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is explained in the /faq on each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more detailed explanation see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:07:29.803" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:07:29.803" />
  <row Id="26960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26948" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:01:57.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about screen shots: the plans can get large.  Sql Server has an xml option for query plans.  I'd go with that:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187757.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187757.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T20:33:59.627" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T20:33:59.627" />
  <row Id="26961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26962" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:12:43.533" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4202/markdown-italics-with-underscores-look-good-in-preview-but-not-in-answer&quot;&gt;Markdown italics with underscores look good in preview but not in answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just ran into an interesting markdown bug with previews that I thought I'd throw out there in case it's new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post in question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609467/in-perl-is-there-a-built-in-way-to-compare-two-arrays-for-equality/1609602#1609602&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  The text looks fine in the &quot;normal&quot; view, but in the preview pane (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1609602/edit&quot;&gt;while editing&lt;/a&gt;) it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Test%3A%3AMore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Test::More&lt;/a&gt;'s eq*deeply() function, which will also display exactly where the structures differ, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Test%3A%3ADeep&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Test::Deep&lt;/a&gt;'s eq*deeply(), which doesn't require a test harness (and just returns true or false).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow the underscore characters are being interpreted as start italics/end italics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I can't seem to reproduce the appearance here. In the preview pane here on meta it looks like it does in the original post, but after posting, it comes out wrong (the asterisks are visible).  Clearly it's not possible to demonstrate a bug in markdown &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; markdown :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:26:23.367" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:26:23.367" ClosedDate="2009-10-22T20:22:49.980" Title="Markdown bug in preview pane (incorrect italicization)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26961" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:17:11.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Known bug.  Intra-word emphasis are part of the markdown spec, but they're disabled here as they cause problems in code snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug is that the preview doesn't handle this departure properly, even though it will be correct (for the SO-modified version of &quot;correct&quot;) when it's posted.  But that's old news:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T20:17:11.890" />
  <row Id="26964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:36:52.443" Score="39" ViewCount="1845" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have officially discontinued the Amazon book affiliate remnant ads, since despite our best efforts they don't perform well for our audience and cannot be made to perform well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've often wondered, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10948/would-it-be-a-problem-if-all-amazon-links-were-converted-to-affiliate-links&quot;&gt;Would it be a problem if all Amazon links were converted to affiliate links?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking this isn't a problem; it has gotten lots of support historically. So we're going to go ahead and do it, so the company Amazon account is still getting some use, and we benefit a little. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear: &lt;strong&gt;from this point on, all Amazon book links posted on Trilogy sites will automatically be rewritten to add our affiliate link&lt;/strong&gt;. We have a clever affiliate redirect that geolocates the IP and redirects to the appropriate regional Amazon store (amazon.uk, amazon.ca, et cetera).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any feedback on this, or suggestions, as they say &amp;hellip; speak now or forever hold your peace!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: this is now implemented across all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T10:42:49.360" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T20:25:47.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T20:37:02.740" Title="Auto-Inserting Stack Overflow affiliate into all Amazon book links" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;&lt;affiliate&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="26965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:43:36.687" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's a great idea. I'm glad you're implementing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make a habit (though this will sound like Hero-worship) of buying books that you tell me about through your blog affiliate link. I also do this with &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; site that tells me about a book I later buy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the same thing should happen for Stack Overflow.  It's a business model that is both sensible and compatible with the nature of the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T20:43:36.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T20:43:36.687" />
  <row Id="26966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:54:52.150" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have an affiliate account anywhere, but I wonder: do you also &lt;em&gt;replace&lt;/em&gt; affiliate accounts if someone includes their own?  Would that be ethical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T20:54:52.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T20:54:52.150" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:56:38.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0201485419&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Test book link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cool, it works now! I was mostly curious which Amazon site it would send me to (based on geolocating my IP). Answer: default &lt;a href=&quot;http://amazon.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://amazon.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already own the &lt;em&gt;above&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, so I won't need to buy it again through the affiliate link, sorry Jeff. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T03:32:16.257" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T03:32:16.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T20:56:38.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-10-22T20:56:53.643" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works for me.  Do you care about links to Amazon created from URL obfuscators (tinyurl, bit.ly, etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T20:56:53.643" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T20:56:53.643" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-10-22T21:20:24.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the fun of it, I took a spin in StackQL to get an idea of how many links we're talking about.  The number comes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=2400&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;7493 posts&lt;/a&gt;, though many of those may contain more than one link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I find it likely that if you liked a book enough to buy it via one of these links, you probably voted for the post as well.  So we can exclude any posts with a zero score, and that gives us &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=2401&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;5535 posts&lt;/a&gt;.  Again, that's posts, not links.  It doesn't take downvotes into account.  And it doesn't sum the scores, though an upvote hardly translates to a purchase or even a click.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you want to see &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; posts these are:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=2402&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/?qid=2402&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T21:40:31.367" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T21:40:31.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T21:20:24.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24927" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:04:20.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is completed and will be deployed sometime next week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:04:20.210" />
  <row Id="26971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25805" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:07:45.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make your CV private at any time, which indicates you're &quot;in a relationship&quot;, as they say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Payment to list your CV covers a certain time period, regardless of whether or not you're actively looking for work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:07:45.027" />
  <row Id="26972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25076" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:09:51.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every location will have a small checkbox;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[ ] I have the legal right to work in this location&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will be deployed next week&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:09:51.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26450" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:17:06.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;typo, should read 2009, will fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:17:06.483" />
  <row Id="26974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26978" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:20:05.107" Score="5" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hindsight on acceptance percentage related to the hypothesizing seen in this question: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712/will-the-accept-rate-score-encourage-unwanted-behavior&quot;&gt;Will the “Accept rate” score encourage unwanted behavior?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had a couple of accepted answers now where it was clear that they really shouldn't have accepted the answer -- they wound up doing something else than what my answer said to do, and they said so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How prevalent has this behaviour become since the implementation of the acceptance percentage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Feature request&lt;/em&gt;:&#xA;Is there a way we could indicate that an accepted answer shouldn't have been accepted so that those interested in data-mining SO can figure out if the acceptance percentage thing is a net win or loss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;EDIT:&lt;/b&gt; To clarify: Would it be worthwhile to allow us to mark an accepted answer as &quot;erroniously accepted&quot; so that data mining could tell us if we think we're getting too many of these?  I don't think it's something that needs to be shown to all users or anything; perhaps implement it similar to flagging for moderator review.  Just have it available in the data dumps so we can try to figure out if it's a net win or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="133671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T01:09:17.823" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T18:54:48.780" Title="Has the “Accept rate” score encouraged unwanted behavior?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="26975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26974" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:27:23.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget - your answer, though not 100% correct, may have been enough for them to work out the solution themselves. In that case I can see why they might accept your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact I did this very thing with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/664476/in-wpf-xaml-how-do-i-change-the-size-of-a-paragraph-of-text-using-a-scroll-bar&quot;&gt;one of my questions&lt;/a&gt; - well before the acceptance rate came in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:27:23.823" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:29:00.810" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usurper&lt;/strong&gt;: Have an answer accepted for a question that had an accepted answer at the time you posted your answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thief&lt;/strong&gt;: Have an answer accepted for a question that had an accepted answer at the time you edited your answer. The first version of your edited answer must have been posted before the other previously accepted answer was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not too hard to automate. Also encourages users to supply/improve answers to questions that already have accepted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137190" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T00:31:41.530" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T00:31:41.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T22:29:00.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25035" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:31:24.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely a traditional thing on a resume, and adds &quot;color&quot;, so I think it's worth adding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:31:24.787" />
  <row Id="26978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26974" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:32:27.297" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It encourages people to go back and accept inappropriate answers to old questions that didn't get answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they did find an answer, they still may mark SOMETHING as accepted, rather than writing out what they found out, and then marking that as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is potentially misleading to future surfers who find the question, and raises another problem: If someone asks a duplicate question, and the accepted answer on the existing question is wrong, there's currently no good way to encourage a fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131692" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T22:32:27.297" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:39:24.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Power Overwhelming&lt;/strong&gt; - Hitting rep cap X days in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Now with the epic and legendary badges, they are similar, but this one is for X consecutive days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T20:24:55.460" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T20:24:55.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T22:39:24.897" />
  <row Id="26980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26974" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:40:58.270" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if moderators had the ability to uncheck the 'Accept&quot; box, or mark a different answer as Accepted.  &lt;strong&gt;It should be used sparingly, of course.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This is for the cases as described by the OP: &quot;...it was clear that they really shouldn't have accepted the answer -- they wound up doing something else than what my answer said to do, and they said so.&quot; In that case, the moderator could correct the question/answers state to reflect reality.  I do not mean to impose more work on the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: Why so many downvotes? Are people really that distrustful of the moderators that giving them this ability is seen as so horrible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T18:54:48.780" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T18:54:48.780" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T22:46:48.023" Score="4" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is about how people should behave on Stack Overflow? More specifically, when you ask a question, do you have any right to argue (in writing) against the people that answer your question? (read the next example before making up your mind)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this question because on more than one occasion I have provided somebody with an answer and they did not agree with it. But, instead of just &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001271.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ignoring me&lt;/a&gt;, or even just showing their strong disagreement by down voting me, they persist on trying to argue with me in their comments. As though they believe that, despite the fact that they asked the question, they still know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Opinion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it Stack Overflow has in implied question asking 'contract' if you will. The person that asks a question is implying that they do not know the answer; thus the question. So they are not an Expert and have no place arguing against answers. The people who answer are experts (maybe not, but the contract assumes they are). Therefore their advice should be listened to and taken under consideration. You can comment on why you agree / disagree, you can upvote or downvote to the same effect but under no circumstances should you argue with them. If you want the contract to be that you are the expert and everybody else should learn from you, then write a blog post, Stack Overflow is not meant for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt;: Please notice the fine line between a statement of (dis)approval and an argument. Where I am okay with the former but not the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this may sound like a rant but it is important to me and I really want to know what everybody else thinks. So please, what do you think, yes, no or maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Because this is SO I will agree using votes; I promise I will not argue against or for anything you say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137625" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-19T10:22:23.920" LastActivityDate="2010-04-19T18:09:25.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T23:14:43.407" Title="Should you argue with the Expert?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="26982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20694" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:02:35.283" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the definition of the beginner tag being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A beginner question with an obvious&#xA;  answer that newbie could be stuck with&#xA;  for hours and still blush when the&#xA;  answer is presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it strikes me that there's a category of general knowledge/general understanding questions that get tagged &quot;beginner&quot;. They don't have a solution that could &quot;make a newbie blush&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That case seems like a mistag to me. Someone who's been programming for decades could still want to get a better understanding of some feature of a language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag itself is slightly pejorative, so using it liberally doesn't foster a sense of community in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:02:35.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26981" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:07:31.857" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your use of the word argue is wrong, think 'discussion' and 'questioning'.&#xA;I ask more questions than anyone I know, because I need to find the 'exact' reason backed up by logic and rational thought as to why it's that way.  I'm not saying their wrong, in fact, I usually assume they're right, but I ask the questions so that I can get the details figured out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all about understanding a problem, which is usually based on thinking about that problem right.  In your answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606393/css-layout-without-fixed-width/1606437#1606437&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, you could have just gave more exact reasons and examples to show the questioner why his understanding of the problem fell short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not about 'knowing better', it's about wanting to understand better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T23:14:41.953" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:14:41.953" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="26984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20694" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:07:43.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can all ask &quot;beginner&quot; questions from time to time - I know I have. They're the question you ask when you're moving into a new area or returning to something you used to do a while ago. You know that there is an obvious answer, but you can't find the right search terms for Google to turn up the answer, or select the correct class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that they can necessarily be categorized by a single tag though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T23:20:59.333" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:20:59.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26974" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:13:43.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the acceptance rate was first introduced, it was made clear that not having a 100% acceptance rate was perfectly appropriate. If your question wasn't answered, don't accept an answer. If you solved it yourself, post what you really did to solve it and accept your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I've got a 100% acceptance rate on SO is because they all have &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;working&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:13:43.190" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="26986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26981" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:15:43.653" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone has a logical case to make when they disagree with someone else, I think it entirely appropriate for them to express that disagreement in comments. From my point of view, the benefits are twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;expert&quot; is right, then the person disagreeing is more likely to learn if they express that disagreement - because it is likely to become clear where the disagreement is, and why.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the questioner is right, the &quot;expert&quot; can modify or delete their answer: it's in no-one's interests for an incorrect answer to stay up and incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly if anyone disagrees with &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;, I'd rather they express that than bottle it up. Just because they ask a question that I think I can answer doesn't mean that they don't actually know more about it than me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:15:43.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T23:15:43.653" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="26987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26981" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:27:36.803" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lots of possible scenarios here, but I think a couple stand out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is blatantly incorrect, then the poster may not know the right answer, but they might know that that one is wrong. In which case the OP could &lt;em&gt;politely&lt;/em&gt; inform them of that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a Community Wiki question, debate (within reason) could be a normal part of the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For any situation, though, the discussion should be civil and well-intentioned. Anyone being a jerk--whether it's the answerer or the asker--needs to be checked, and it's up to the community or the mods to do so. We're all adults here (except for the genius 13-year-olds that will steal all our jobs...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-22T23:45:23.717" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:45:23.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-22T23:27:36.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:30:40.027" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/296/reputation-for-comments&quot;&gt;Reputation for comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggesting to so a system that if your comments are up voted you earn some reputation, something like 1 point for each up vote or 1 point per 3 up votes(or something like this). Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:40:58.967" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T00:04:59.933" Title="Earn Reputation For Comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26988" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:37:26.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up to a point, a good idea.  The rate should probably not be 1 rep point per up vote but smaller (hence 1 rep point per 3 up votes).  There should probably also be a way to undo upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:37:26.357" />
  <row Id="26990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26988" CreationDate="2009-10-22T23:40:58.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this in the sense that comments are still a &quot;contribution to the community&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, they certainly don't hold nearly the same value as actual answers, so you'd have to choose your point value wisely. Don't want rep-whores using comments as their new way to cheat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-10-22T23:40:58.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26974" CreationDate="2009-10-23T01:05:49.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen some old questions where people answer with &quot;I just want to close the question&quot; and than accept that (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1289851/rails-deployment-book/1598124#1598124&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1151201/singleton-per-call-context-web-request-in-unity/1598024#1598024&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). I don't think it's a huge problem, but it's adding useless noise to these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T01:05:49.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-10-23T01:41:14.443" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a fantastic idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;strong&gt;love, love, love&lt;/strong&gt; to see the affiliate-link conversion &lt;strong&gt;migrated over to the StackExchange platform&lt;/strong&gt;. Can you make sure that your affiliate ID is in an easily configurable location so, hopefully, the StackExchange folks can integrate that functionality into their release?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to request this feature over at StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T01:41:14.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-23T01:41:14.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="26996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26981" CreationDate="2009-10-23T02:52:30.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had that happen where the OP down-voted my answer, eventhough it was a plausible solution, then told me in a comment why it wasn't. I've then either expanded my answer, or replied in a comment (depending on which I feel to be more appropriate), and have seen them then get defensive and keep going with comments as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I'm wrong, or it can't work, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with being downvoted if I'm &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; wrong, but if it's a matter of the OP not listening, and just blustering-on, then I feel it's undeserved and discourteous to the community (not merely me, I've seen it happen to many others, too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T02:52:30.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-23T02:52:30.070" />
  <row Id="26997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T03:24:48.787" Score="1" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed several tags on the site that are either duplicated via misspelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &#xA;usability vs. usabilty &#xA;web-development vs. webdevelopment &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes searching and subscribing difficult.  Is there a way to combine these types of tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137685" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T03:24:48.787" Title="Duplicate Similar Tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="26998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T03:40:58.903" Score="1" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1611004/as-a-software-engineer-what-would-you-look-for-in-a-software-company-before-join&quot;&gt;As a Software Engineer, what would you look for in a Software Company before joining it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned it's not a discussion. It's seeking specific advice to a specific problem. What justification is there for forcing it to CW?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; let me counter the predictable arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It isn't programming related.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/a-question-about-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Question About Questions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about social engineering, management, or career building,&#xA;  ergonomics, or other “soft” topics&#xA;  related to development work. (7)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The “winners” of this poll, items 1-7,&#xA;  map strongly to my idea of what we&#xA;  built Stack Overflow for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exhibit B: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/career-development&quot;&gt;792 questions tagged with 'career-development'&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's about the reputation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had ~25 upvotes beyond the daily rep cap of 200 on that day so no it isn't. Even if I didn't it's still not the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's subjective.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/subjective&quot;&gt;5,716 other questions&lt;/a&gt;. Beyond pure syntax, most programming topics have varying degrees of subjectivity. &quot;Should I use an interface or a class for this?&quot; is subjective. &quot;Is anything wrong with this object model?&quot; is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a duplicate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a duplicate, close it as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's been some change in policy I'd like to know about it. There's nothing on the blog and nothing new in the FAQ so I'd really like to know why a mod took it upon himself to force something to CW with no explanation why (there or here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important for programmers to be able to ask such &quot;soft&quot; questions. If that's no longer the case, fine, no problem. While it is fine, such questions should be left alone. If they're of no interest to you, just add &quot;career-development&quot; to your ignored tags and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Still looking for an answer to this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T16:55:12.410" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T22:18:04.410" Title="Why was this question made Community Wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="26999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26981" CreationDate="2009-10-23T04:12:43.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe I would be irritated if that happened to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I have answered over a thousand questions on SO, and not once has it happened to me.  Not by the OP anyway.  If an OP argues with me, it's because I misunderstood or misread a question, or I did in fact give the wrong answer (which almost never happens :).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has happened a couple of times with someone who was not the OP.  Without mentioning names, I'll just say that it happened to be a particularly thorny issue with which I have had first-hand experience and understanding, but my opinion in this area is controversial and the guilty party wanted to try and tell me that I was an amateur and that I should leave this kind of work to the experts.  Which, given the nature of the software in question, I was quite happy to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T04:12:43.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-23T04:12:43.893" />
  <row Id="27000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26998" CreationDate="2009-10-23T04:17:59.173" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned it's not a discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope. It's a poll. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably also worth noting that 3 of the first 4 answers were &quot;Joel Test&quot;. Just sayin'...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T04:17:59.173" />
  <row Id="27001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26998" CreationDate="2009-10-23T04:21:38.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It overlaps a lot with other questions, and is rather subjective. Also doesn't really fit as well with the intended purpose of SO - but that seems to be a little more up for debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T04:21:38.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26998" CreationDate="2009-10-23T04:25:48.907" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be specific to you but it's still an open-ended, who cares dares, kind of question for the hive mind. What one person would look for before they think of joining a software company differs from someone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the lunch buffet is the most important aspect right after the free vending machines of Jolt and Dr Pepper. Or that each programmer has their own office. Maybe that they are paid in money and not stocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because Spolsky has a test doesn't mean that that is the right and only answer and that all other discussions are moot and invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T04:25:48.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T04:34:56.557" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently as it stands, once you open a bounty for a question, and once you've accepted an answer for that, you can never ever unaccept it anymore. And if a better answer appears or if you realize that you've make a mistake in accepting a wrong answer, you are out of luck (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/560326/multiple-database-transaction&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this is as unreasonable as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4508/please-do-not-auto-select-answers-on-bounty-questions&quot;&gt;auto-accept answer after bounty period expires&lt;/a&gt;. But I don't know what others think. I'm putting this up as a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T04:41:20.757" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T05:24:06.270" Title="Allow unaccepting an answer to a bounty question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T05:15:57.757" Score="10" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated to ServerFault or SuperUser from StackOverflow, it is already &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; minutes old (the number of minutes it took to obtain enough votes for the migration).  This places it well down the stack of unanswered questions, virtually guaranteeing that it will get no attention on the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're going to forcibly move an OP's question to another site, shouldn't they at least get another bite at the apple (their question shows up at the top of the stack on the new site)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T13:53:43.103" Title="Migrated question already too old to get attention on target website" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="27005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27003" CreationDate="2009-10-23T05:18:13.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do accepted answers have an expiration timer like votes do? If this were a feature, I think it would still have to be subject to the expiration timer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a practical matter, I think bounty answers should be chosen carefully.  If possible, the answer should be tested to see if the solution works before the answer is accepted.  Given SO's bias towards quick answers, the vote on a carefully-chosen answer shouldn't need to be changed, even if a better answer arrives later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be opposed to a confirmation dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This action cannot be changed later.  &#xA;Are you sure you want to award the bounty to this answer?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T05:24:06.270" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T05:24:06.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27004" CreationDate="2009-10-23T06:47:10.453" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a good idea, as migrated questions already have a difficult time for various reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like orphaned children, unwanted, unloved, they move from foster home to foster home..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The premise of this question is in fact incorrect; migrated questions &lt;em&gt;ARE&lt;/em&gt; bumped to the current date and time on the target site -- and always have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T13:53:43.103" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T13:53:43.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T06:50:53.993" Score="12" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;For various reasons and in various ways, I sometimes wander around looking for old questions to close. (Think of me as the night janitor.) For example, a related question might come up in the list on the right that happens to be a duplicate of a current post that is also a duplicate. I can go to that question and vote to close it as a duplicate, but the probability that several other people will happen upon the same question, within the (I think) 1 week close vote timeout, seems to be pretty slim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few examples that are in my queue at the moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1601843/find-if-a-num-is-a-power-of-2-fast&quot;&gt;Find if a num is a power of 2 fast.&lt;/a&gt; (exact duplicate; I happen to know only because I answered the other one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1604312/fork-and-child-processes-in-unix&quot;&gt;fork() and child() processes in unix&lt;/a&gt; (no longer relevant; zero answers to a homework question that was due yesterday)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1569836/does-anyone-know-a-working-python-library-that-can-read-arc-files&quot;&gt;Does anyone know a “working” Python library that can read .ARC files?&lt;/a&gt; (no longer relevant; OP asked about an ambiguous file format name, and re-asked the correct question later)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1605040/getting-the-domain-tld-with-php&quot;&gt;Getting the domain TLD with PHP&lt;/a&gt; (exact duplicate; this one happens often)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible solution to this might be another moderator tool page would show a list of &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; close votes. I sometimes try to visit the &quot;most close votes&quot; page before the UTC day rollover and spend my remaining close votes for the day on posts that deserve it, but posts with even 2 close votes never seem to show up on that list. A list of recent close votes whose posts are still open may be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that ♦ moderator close votes are binding, so that's another possible answer. However, I don't think that the few diamond mods want to spend too much time trawling for old questions to close; this is a problem whose solution seems to involve the greatest number of eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to flag the post for moderator attention, it would likely get the job done quickly but removes some of the element of community input into close votes. Binding moderator closes always seem a bit heavy-handed to me, especially after just a couple of regular close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose some people might not consider this a problem at all, but I would suggest that without regular cleanup, the same questions will continue to be asked over and over in the long run, which dilutes the question pool and makes searching less focused (for example, I was a bit surprised to see the power-of-2 question appear again). Also note that I am advocating &lt;em&gt;closing&lt;/em&gt;, not necessarily &lt;em&gt;deleting&lt;/em&gt; in all cases, because there is value in differently-worded posts being pointers to a canonical answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T13:29:54.967" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T11:16:40.693" Title="How to get attention required to close old posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27647" CreationDate="2009-10-23T06:59:08.647" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you leave a blank date in the education field, it does not show up on the final CV. Some of us prefer not to list the exact details, and we should still be able to claim to be educated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131692" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T01:46:07.597" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T01:46:07.597" Title="Careers doesn't show education item if date is blank" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27007" CreationDate="2009-10-23T07:10:59.533" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about not making it a moderator tool, but making it a 10K+ user tool? There could be a special section for &quot;old posts receiving recent close votes&quot;. Now personally I don't look in the 10K tools page much, but I might start doing so for &quot;pseudo-moderator&quot; duty if that was deemed a useful thing to do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T07:10:59.533" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-10-23T07:45:17.273" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fast gun&lt;/strong&gt; Posting an answer within a minute of the question being asked, that gets accepted without any edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Answering your own question wouldn't count. That'd be shooting yourself in the foot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Turns out this is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1289/new-badge-quick-draw/60662&quot;&gt;New Badge: Quick-Draw&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T11:52:25.470" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T11:52:25.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-23T07:45:17.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25046" CreationDate="2009-10-23T08:13:00.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you get a great job from the kind of quality teams that I &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; will be using Careers, then $29 is a small price to pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T08:13:00.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T08:30:38.757" Score="8" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's happened quite a few times. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27011/replacing-whole-html-content-kills-head-and-body-tags-after-http-request&quot;&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; a recent one. So I'm wondering, what is the scenario? Are they scrolling down to the link of sites, clicking meta and posting? Are they googling for some result, that gives them a post on meta and then they ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:23:14.470" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:29:15.027" Title="Why are people asking Stack Overflow questions on Meta Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;confused-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27013" CreationDate="2009-10-23T08:48:27.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to stick with the same answer I gave to the last question I answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People don't read!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A little warning message on the ask page couldn't hurt too much, though, could it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:29:15.027" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:29:15.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T09:04:23.607" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just started a bounty on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595649/threading-in-a-pyqt-application-use-qt-threads-or-python-threads&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; for the first time. Before doing so I checked on meta whether there are any recommendations regarding the height of the rep amount to be offered. I was rather surprised not to find any such question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the following would be interesting to know, both from a general advice perspective as well as learning from people's experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How high do you generally set a bounty?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you base the decision on? How do you determine how much a good answer is worth to you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are your experiences as to the relationship between the bounty amount and the quality of answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T09:51:46.350" Title="How to choose the amount of a bounty?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="27018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27013" CreationDate="2009-10-23T09:04:26.667" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need &quot;belongs on Stack Overflow&quot;, &quot;belongs on Super User&quot; and &quot;belongs on Server Fault&quot; as close reasons for meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T09:04:26.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27017" CreationDate="2009-10-23T09:11:02.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually 50 is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My logic is that the amount of bounty is already a few times more than other rewards, so adding rep on top on the minimum won't create extra motivation, neither will it improve the quality of answers a lot-- a classic example of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingutility.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;diminishing marginal utility&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T09:11:02.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27017" CreationDate="2009-10-23T09:51:46.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think 50 is enough, as gaining 100 reps is enough reward to get most people to spend half an hour answering a question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main benefit of offering a bounty&#xA;  is that a lot more people see your&#xA;  questions.   (I don’t think many&#xA;  people sort questions by the size of&#xA;  bounty.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise writing a good answer to a question with a bounty is likely to get you more rep then normal, even if you don’t win the bounty, due to the question getting more views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now 500 rep may get someone spending half a day or so doing detailed research and writing sample code – especially if the questions is about something they wish to learn about.  However if the question is not very hard, it is likely someone else will work hard to earn the bounty, so the competition is more (is this self defeating?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T09:51:46.350" />
  <row Id="27021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27007" CreationDate="2009-10-23T10:01:25.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a 3K+ Stackoverflow user I should be happy if the system shown me a list of 2 or 3 questions it wished me to look at and vote to [close|nod close] when I logged onto the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would let the work load be spread round a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g if a question get a close vote, show the question to 5 more random (maybe with tag matching as well) 3K+ users.  If more the 1 or 2 then vote to close the question, repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-18T10:08:02.840" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T10:08:02.840" />
  <row Id="27022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27013" CreationDate="2009-10-23T10:10:22.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's revenge posting from that side of the fence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For far too long they've had to deal with their share of closing and shunting questions such as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot; title=&quot;must be RoR right? Ruh-roh!&quot;&gt;What is Stück Überfloé built with?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=why+was+my+question+closed&quot; title=&quot;eh, a search is dizzy enough&quot;&gt;Why my question closing?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; as not programming and &quot;Belongs on Meta&quot; questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They've soldiered up some pawns into the front line to ask programming questions that belong on SO on Meta. They know full well things get stuck here like the veritable black hole of no escape. Velcro could only hope to stick like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's utterly, honey rhythmically scrumptious and delicious to their tastes and delight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T10:10:22.570" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T10:50:29.150" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited-problem&quot;&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited &amp;ldquo;problem&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By mistake I downvoted good answer that was upvoted by me earlier. Now I cannot upvote it again because the answer is too old. I asked answer author to edit his answer and then was able to upvote it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there other way to repair such mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think SO should allow me to change my decision within some time, but maybe I omitted something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T11:00:36.967" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T11:01:39.530" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T11:46:27.727" Title="Upvote downvoted answer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27023" CreationDate="2009-10-23T11:01:39.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's designed to prevent people gaming the system - particularly downvoting other answers on questions they've upvoted. See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited-problem&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T11:01:39.530" />
  <row Id="27026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39465" CreationDate="2009-10-23T11:29:37.403" Score="3" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to have an option to search favourites and questions we asked even if it was only title and tag search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T04:49:50.420" Title="Ability to search favourites and questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T11:49:41.250" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6557/instant-notifications-of-answers-to-my-questions-id-love-to-have-them-and-you&quot;&gt;INSTANT notifications of answers to my questions - I&amp;rsquo;d love to have them and you?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to set notification to be received instantly? sometimes i have to wait more than 24 hours to get a notificaition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T12:34:05.227" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T21:25:38.723" Title="new answer Notification can take a day or more" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27031" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:31:57.963" Score="0" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14665/reasons-why-stackoverflow-is-amazing&quot;&gt;Reasons Why Stackoverflow Is Amazing&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just have a look at their growing traffic (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;siteanalytics.compete.com&lt;/a&gt;)  and the growing number of questions posted daily, and we cannot deny that with this current pace, StackOverflow will soon become the biggest community website for developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is even more surprising is that they are growing rapidly despite the fact that they are evolving in a very high competitive environment (there are tons of forums/questions-answers/groups) against websites that exist for years !! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So according to you what are the critical factors/features/reasons that make it happen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does Stackoverflow have that others don't have?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I know that this question &lt;em&gt;reasons-why-stackoverflow-is-amazing&lt;/em&gt; is quite similar but here I want to understand what made the difference with others. I agree that stackoverflow is great but what are the factors that outmatch the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137701" LastEditorUserId="137701" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T12:38:00.757" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T14:20:46.203" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T14:44:35.463" Title="What are the reasons for stackoverflow success?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27029" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:33:38.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;smart people who get things done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T12:33:38.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-23T12:33:38.083" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27029" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:34:03.823" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large, active community that can provide timely answers and doesn't hide everything behind a pay wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T12:34:03.823" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27027" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:34:05.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not come back to the site? It's faster and maybe you'll find something interesting while you're there. The notification system will probably remain unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T12:34:05.227" />
  <row Id="27034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27029" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:36:50.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple, clean site design, addictive rep and badge system and, above all else, an incredible community. Also, the signal to noise ratio is really high thanks to moderators and high rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T12:36:50.957" />
  <row Id="27035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:43:43.050" Score="-1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed an interesting behavior on Stack Overflow of late.  It goes like this.  After a question I see several very quick and dirty answers.  Mostly they are incomplete or not very elaborate.  Within about 15 minutes, those answers are edited to be much more complete, often incorporating ideas from later answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would appear that users are posting quick and dirty to get the top slot, then going back and modifying their answer (within the first 15 minutes or so) to incorporate other replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if the poster checks compulsively, they may also see the behavior.  But if they post, go get coffee and come back, then they come back to a very well thought out answer as the top post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to me as a way to game the system and get ranking by snagging the top post then incorporating the wisdom of others.  And it's not just low rank people doing it.  I've seen it twice by people with over 25k rep, making me wonder how much of that rep was just their ability to quickly grab &amp;amp; edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137704" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T07:58:06.723" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T07:58:06.723" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T14:16:48.603" Title="Using a quick post to get the top then editing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:49:57.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are legitimate reasons for behaviour like this. If the user has asked a question which has a straightforward answer (e.g. how can I do &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; in language &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;?), then a legitimate answer might be pointing them to the documentation page with a brief explanation. That might well be enough to get the user going, so I'm in favour of the quick post, since it helps someone out. Then, the answerer goes back, gives examples, perhaps some caveats to the approach. The answer is improved, and the questioner can come back to their question if they need more information than was provided in the answer as originally given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right, it can be a way of gaming the system, but it is not always. Some users might get lots of upvotes by doing this maliciously, but conscientious users shouldn't be penalised for doing what I think can often be totally legitimate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T12:49:57.100" />
  <row Id="27037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2009-10-23T12:56:59.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It used to be that the &quot;fastest gun in the west&quot;, the first to answer had distinct advantage over everybody that followed. This was due to the fact that the entries with the same amount of votes were sorted according their time of creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lead to many gaming variants - the one you are describing is just one of them, strategic downvoting would be another. You downvote an answer that has the same number or one vote more than yours to get on top. As soon as you accumulated enough votes, you cancel your downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays the heat has been taken out of this by sorting answers with equal votes randomly with each refresh. And votes quickly grow too old to change unless the answer voted on is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are great reasons to answer quick and dirty and then elaborate. The short answer might be helpful in itself and correct. Later you have additional ideas, examples, or you see others add to the solution in ways that stimulate your brain to produce further insight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the goal of the site is to provide a &quot;best answer&quot; that can be accepted and upvoted for easy discovery by the OP or others with the same problem, merging multiple answers into one is a good thing. Obviously, if you draw from another answer, it contributed to the solution and you should upvote that answer in return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T12:56:59.957" />
  <row Id="27038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27039" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:06:15.417" Score="4" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this is a quick question, but could someone tell me if a single database was used to maintain all 4 sites (stackoverflow.com, serverfault.com, meta.stackoverflow.com, superuser.com) or if each site has their own database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies for the code-base, is it one managed code-base, or are changes maintained on one master copy, and then pushed out to the aforementioned sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Kyle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137706" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T11:57:59.777" Title="Trilogy Database Design" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="27039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27038" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:14:40.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hope/imagine different databases that just happen to have identical (for the most part?) schemas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't want one database failure to bring down four sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:14:40.787" />
  <row Id="27040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27038" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:20:15.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My imagination has it as one DB server, one redundant DB server that's getting mirrored updates from the master DB server, and 4 Databases in each server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I further imagine that there's 1 source tree that contains the code for all the sites, but that there's some 4 production source trees that get updated from this 1 tree. They contain differences in the CSS, Web.config, and other details that differentiate the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially there's some configuration in each database, like required tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:20:15.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:23:30.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually edit my posts, but not significantly in the first 15 minutes. Maybe a day later when there's some comments and some answers that make me think to elaborate what I said, I like to make it clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:23:30.573" />
  <row Id="27043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:31:24.217" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions&quot;&gt;Best Time to Ask Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What times of day and days of week do most questions, answers, and votes happen on each of the trilogy sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T13:42:05.433" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:42:05.433" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T13:50:42.813" Title="Best Time to Ask Questions - The Dupe" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;time&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27029" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:32:45.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because it just works. You can get answers for questions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Achievements. This is key. Look at how that set &lt;a href=&quot;http://foursquare.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;foursquare&lt;/a&gt; apart from Loopt, Brightkite, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because it's free.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was started by famous developers, so the community was top-notch from the get-go. If the same site was launched by some guy, the community would have been very slow to build. The same level of success probably wouldn't have been reached. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:32:45.637" />
  <row Id="27045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:34:38.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with this (in fact, it's even encouraged), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; you meet these two criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your initial post is a real answer.  Gibberish or something that's plainly inadequate or wrong just to get the first spot is bad (and wouldn't help you anyway, since such a post would likely get down-voted before you could fill out the answer).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your final post is your work.  You should know what the final result will look like before making your initial post.  For example, you might post your answer and then go look for the msdn links to edit in.  You knew they would be there, but it takes time to dig them up.  But copying the work of others is a bad idea.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception to item #2 is a list situation.  Questions like &quot;what are the advantages of X&quot;.  You might have listed 4 items, and somebody else will come and add a 5th, but they'll post that item by itself.  Go ahead and add that to your answer, but give the other user credit in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T14:21:16.390" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T14:21:16.390" />
  <row Id="27046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27050" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:39:13.160" Score="1" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: Meenakshi D**&#xA;    Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 2:18 PM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;   Hello there&#xA;   M interested to know what exactly your podium does? I mean &#xA;   would it be helpful if I want to get good placements. M a &#xA;   student in IT field&#xA;&#xA;   Phone: 982390****&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T20:57:24.913" Title="Advertising Inquiry: M interested in your podium" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:41:43.457" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll sort of mirror here the post I made on Coding Horror:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hitting the carriage return key on a keyboard should give the user a new line in the output. This is simply typographical common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A markup should not break elementary common sense rules in order to provide other elevated functionality.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact users use two carriage returns to create paragraphs [...] is irrelevant. The markup internal rules stipulate that [...] text formatting can break break because the lack of two carriage returns. That's fair enough. But text doesn't lose readability if instead of a new paragraph, every carriage return introduces a line break on the resulting text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the user &lt;strong&gt;edit box&lt;/strong&gt; here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/su-ask-resized.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything in there that is not clear in terms of formatting? He doesn't use carriage returns and yet his line-break formatting style makes that particular text easy to read and appealing to the eye. The markup however made a mess of it. So, the markup actively ruined the user text. This cannot be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of some special formatting elements, like list detection the markup aggressively demands two carriage returns to break a line and doesn't accept the idea of a new-line break, unless the user explicitly forces it with the &lt;em&gt;BR&lt;/em&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line that divides easy-of-use and formatting tyranny can be very thin. On this case it was crossed over. The text the user writes on his text box should have been formatted with single line-breaks. The end result would have been readable text, just like the user intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136246" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:41:43.457" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27046" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:42:56.990" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would respond honestly as I could:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My podium is a platform that is used&#xA;  to raise something to a short distance&#xA;  above its surroundings. If you want to&#xA;  stand higher than others, then a&#xA;  podium might help you out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:42:56.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27046" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:50:04.657" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My podium transforms into giant robots. Not just a single giant robot, but an entire fleet of giant robots, which can subsequently recombine into a single, large podium-shaped enormous robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know how Soundwave could become a tiny little boombox or how Megatron could become a little gun? My podium uses the exact same principles to embiggen itself into multiple, giant robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can combine, if necessary, into a super podium. This allows their tyrannosaurus friend (&quot;Jim&quot;) to announce his rhetoric on a much grander (and suaver) scale than usual. No politician has even been able to stand up to Jim's special attack &quot;laedans ad hominem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The robots form a super-sleuth team called &quot;Robox Prime&quot;. Their weekly adventures lead them to neighbour McCormick's basement to solve the mysteries of the surrounding suburbs. Is the abandoned house on Elm street haunted? Are strange sounds really coming from the docks on Tuesdays? Find out Saturday at 11 on Fox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:50:04.657" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27046" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:56:36.030" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;Dear Meenakshi,&#xA;&#xA;I like ponies.&#xA;&#xA;Yours truly,&#xA;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:56:36.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:57:07.933" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited-problem&quot;&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited &amp;ldquo;problem&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find an incorrect answer (this step requires reading the question @random)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Down-vote it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reread the question, and decide to remove your downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait 5 or so minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reread the incorrect answer, and re-decide to down-vote it (it currently doesn't have a vote assigned by you. &lt;strong&gt;this is important&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will be told that you can't change your vote unless the question is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simplest solution would be for me to make up my mind and either cast the down-vote or not, but I still think this is a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright, I didn't make the issue clear.  I understand that I shouldn't be allowed to change a vote if I have left a +1 or a -1 vote.  But when you give a -1 then take it back you can't go back and reissue the vote after a period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When I go back and try to issue a vote to a question that has neither a +1 nor a -1, I am told I can't vote.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is different from the other posts that say: *When I try to remove a vote or change my vote to a question/answer that I have &lt;strong&gt;already voted&lt;/strong&gt; on I can't &lt;strong&gt;change&lt;/strong&gt; my vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137708" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:12:26.687" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:12:26.687" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T13:59:58.457" Title="Why can't I recast a vote (possible bug)?[edited]" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2009-10-23T13:57:22.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very often post a short answer and then elaborate on it. My reason for doing so it more to let other people know the kind of answer I'm coming up with than anything else - it saves duplication. If 10 people all have the same idea and spend 15 minutes writing out the same answer, that's 140 wasted minutes. If the first person wrote a brief answer and posted it after a minute, and all the other people merely added comments for tweaks etc, that's a lot of saved time - and you end up with one answer which is the best of all worlds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't just take from other people's answers, but I will sometimes refer to them (e.g. &quot;you could use X as suggested by Y&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T13:57:22.830" />
  <row Id="27054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27046" CreationDate="2009-10-23T14:12:20.920" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I am concerned with the way Meenakshi refers to himself in the third person all the time.  And he has decided to give himself the moniker of &quot;M&quot; to appear cooler.  This sort of behavior is a desperate bid for attention.  Someone needs to talk to him about this before he takes it to far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer this question, we must first ask ourselves what, exactly, is a podium.  Merriam-Webster defines a podium as &quot;the masonry under the stylobate of a temple.&quot;  And, as we all know, a stylobate is -- as Wikipedia explains so succinctly -- &quot;the top step of the crepidoma.&quot;  With that in mind, we can formulate a reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is perfectly natural to be concerned with the structural integrity of one's stylobate.  This is a part of puberty that all IT students must go through.  &quot;Is my crepidoma a good size?&quot;  &quot;When will I get hair on my euthynteria?&quot;  &quot;Why do all the guys in the locker room laugh at my stereobate?&quot; We've all been there at one time or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for Alex, but while my podium is really none of Meenakshi's business, I can assure you all that my partners only rarely complain about the placement.  Alex, if you feel secure enough to answer that question, by all means do so.  Meenakshi has to learn about these things somewhere, and better from some guy over email than from one of his friends, or worse yet a For Dummies book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T14:12:20.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27029" CreationDate="2009-10-23T14:20:46.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel identified a need and filled it with a quality solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T14:20:46.203" />
  <row Id="27057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-23T14:36:57.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps allow a raw text entry mode, selected by default, with a switch (either in the user's profile/settings, or on the submission form itself) to use Markdown? More advanced users who want to use Markdown to style their submissions shouldn't have any issue switching, and it allows the less advanced users to use simple WYSIWYG ASCII entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137713" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T14:36:57.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27058" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T14:37:54.943" Score="2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10984/removing-a-downvote-adds-reputation-that-wasnt-there&quot;&gt;Removing a downvote adds reputation that wasn&amp;rsquo;t there&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you down-vote an answer to a user with only &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt; rep, then remove the down-vote their new rep is &lt;code&gt;3&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137708" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T15:49:08.287" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T15:49:08.287" ClosedDate="2009-10-23T14:44:12.330" Title="quirk with down-vote user with 1 rep" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:15:32.967" Score="9" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;How come when asking a question and checking notifications checkbox you can enter any email in the text field nearby? Doesn't it mean that I can write any email of other SO user (or generally any email) to simply spam another person? Are there any counter measures against that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137716" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:21:09.120" Title="Spamming with email notifications" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27059" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:23:55.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a way, I kind of like it and I wish it was easier for others to say &quot;hey, here's a question I think you can answer&quot; and have it sent to me (either through the SO UI or via email). On the other hand, it's far, far too open to abuse if you are correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:23:55.853" />
  <row Id="27061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27069" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:29:45.253" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1614029&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1614029&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609151&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609151&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1604990&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1604990&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These have all showed up in the past 24 hours, they all have the &lt;em&gt;exact same wording&lt;/em&gt; (they are copy and pastes of each other), and the poster (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/194772/charles&quot;&gt;Charles&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/194820/charlie&quot;&gt;Charlie&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/195375/unknown-google&quot;&gt;unknown (google)&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) is responding with answers such as this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1604990#1608750&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1604990#1608750&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135683" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T15:53:30.667" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:53:30.667" Title="Spammer in objective-c/iphone" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25118" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:30:05.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the first look at cv, checking references are time-consuming. Before interview, recruiters ask each applicant to fill and sign a release form permitting them to ask detailed questions. If they are interested in you after interview, they proceed screening process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The offer of employment made is usually subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening. It involves previous employment and education verification, professional references and also memberships. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:30:05.237" />
  <row Id="27066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27061" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:43:49.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there isn't much the community can do about this, I would suggest flagging each question for moderator attention. Explain in each flag what you suspect is happening. There's little reason to post this kind of stuff here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:43:49.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27061" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:49:12.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag these as spam by clicking on the flag link and select Spam. They are listed in the moderator tools as spam flagged questions and answers and if more then 5 users flag it as spam it is automatically deleted. The diamond moderators also check the list frequently and if required will intervene. If it is reoccurring flag at least one entry for moderator attention and the diamond moderators will intervene and destroy the relevant accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same process applies to offensive posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:49:12.927" />
  <row Id="27069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27061" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:51:51.467" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK; duplicate questions deleted; comment added; all 3 user accounts confirmed for identity (via private data), and the two unregistered accounts merged into the registered account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:51:51.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27007" CreationDate="2009-10-23T15:58:21.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A possible solution to this might be another moderator tool page would show a list of recent close votes. I sometimes try to visit the &quot;most close votes&quot; page before the UTC day rollover and spend my remaining close votes for the day on posts that deserve it, but posts with even 2 close votes never seem to show up on that list. A list of recent close votes whose posts are still open may be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do the same thing, and agree - while it's nice to be able to finish closing posts that deserve it, if there are enough 3- and 4-vote questions that &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; need to be closed (because the author or an editor took the time to fix whatever problems originally existed) then there's no easy way to get past them and see 1- and 2-vote questions that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be closed. The vote-counting system works against this as well, sorting re-opened questions at the top of the list (with 5+ votes). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, adding paging or sorting to this list would be ideal. You can &lt;em&gt;sort of&lt;/em&gt; get the same information already from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tools/votes-hot&quot;&gt;the vote velocity page&lt;/a&gt;, but that's really not a very good tool for this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T15:58:21.523" />
  <row Id="27071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-23T16:01:31.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like most of those advocating for change assume that messages are typed into a browser window in one pass. Most of those who like it the way it is edit, quote other texts, and use a text editor (i.e., emacs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137720" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T16:01:31.407" />
  <row Id="27072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27007" CreationDate="2009-10-23T16:02:31.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just thinking about this in terms of the new &lt;strong&gt;Windows 7 release&lt;/strong&gt;. Soon the beta versions will expire and a &lt;strong&gt;large body of questions&lt;/strong&gt; will literally become &quot;no longer relevant.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep Stack Overflow (and in this case, Super User) relevant and clean, it seems like there should be focused bursts of activity to remove out old posts as [CLOSED -- No Longer Relevant]. &lt;strong&gt;But I'm at a loss of how to accomplish this.&lt;/strong&gt; Old questions simply do not have the traffic to &quot;vote to close.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this will happen periodically in other subject areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no longer relevant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question was only applicable to a very narrow situation or moment in&#xA;  time that no longer exists, and will never exist again for anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should be the procedure to initiate routine, janitorial work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="7872" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-18T11:16:40.693" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T11:16:40.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27046" CreationDate="2009-10-23T16:47:12.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Meenakshi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My podium doesn't do anything, he just sits his lazy arse all day long.&#xA;  It's not likely that he'll ever do something useful... more than that... he won't&#xA;  help you get a good placement... seriously... I've asked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best Regards,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  A P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T18:58:35.443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T18:58:35.443" />
  <row Id="27076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T16:50:40.953" Score="4" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier this year when I started using Stackoverflow, I would be able to get multiple answers to a question fairly fast.  Now, however, there are new questions posted every minute so a new question quickly drops off the front page.  Now it seems that by the time the question has dropped off from the Newest Questions page that it usually only has a few views and is not uncommon to have no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a question last week which I thought would be easy but there were no answers so I had to open a bounty even to get one answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way now to receive more answers?  I always try to tag the question appropriately but it doesn't seem to make a difference.  It seems that Stackoverflow is becoming a victim of its own success - there are so many questions now that less are getting good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1522162/set-cookie-and-expires-headers-differ&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was posted by me on Oct 5.  I didn't receive any answers so I opened up a bounty for it even though I thought it would be pretty easy for a person with the right knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1614390/how-to-get-jquery-tablesorter-to-sort-descending-by-default&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; I posted today.  It fell off the &quot;Newest Questions&quot; page with only 4 views (2 of which I think were me) although it did have a vote.  Perhaps Tablesorter is too narrow a topic though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133267" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T18:05:00.243" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T19:36:21.503" Title="Stackoverflow is too popular. How do I get new questions answered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="27077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27076" CreationDate="2009-10-23T16:54:31.490" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you give an example?  Most of the questions I see have two to three answers within 5 minutes of being posted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No I don't think that it is too popular.  Most questions that don't get answered are probably because they aren't worded well enough for people to pick up what the actual question is.  It could be that, or the question is tagged inappropriately.  Other times questions are essentially asking to other people to do their job for them (not saying this is you, I'm just making a general comment).  Do questions sometimes fall through the cracks, sure, but that is true anyplace.  I would bet that if stats were ran, most questions are answered very quickly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did notice too, that you accepted an answer to your question, which means that someone answered it to your liking (at least partially). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to admit this also, but I believe I remember seeing your question this morning, I just didn't try and answer it.  I admit, I didn't know the answer right off the bat, but I could have done a little digging and eventually solved it.  I'm not saying this as an assault on you or that I'm super smart (which I'm not), I'm just trying to point out, it's kind of the luck of the draw as to when people see if if they want to respond.  It does have something to do with the site's popularity, but that isn't the only factor.  It was definitely on the front page long enough to be seen, it really just depends on people's moods as to how fast someone will get a response. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T18:53:39.800" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T18:53:39.800" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="27079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14591" CreationDate="2009-10-23T16:58:02.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question with a bounty is closed by the community (prior to an answer being accepted), the bounty should be refunded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;That said, if an OP is willing to spend some of his rep to keep a question open, you should be willing to wait out the five days (or whatever the bounty period is) before you vote to close the question.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T19:47:18.390" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T19:47:18.390" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27076" CreationDate="2009-10-23T16:58:25.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/&quot;&gt;Community user&lt;/a&gt; brings some unanswered questions up the list, and there's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;Unanswered page&lt;/a&gt;. If you have a question that has 0 answers, try rewording it, adding details, making sure the tags are good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T16:58:25.753" />
  <row Id="27081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27007" CreationDate="2009-10-23T17:07:16.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about adding a new sort option, to sort by close votes? Or a checkbox which would only list questions with &gt;0 close votes on them, so as to allow the other sorting methods to still be applied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T17:07:16.497" />
  <row Id="27082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T17:16:52.757" Score="2" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25404/why-does-stackoverflow-allow-duplicate-display-names&quot;&gt;Why does StackOverflow allow duplicate display names?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really legal to have duplicate usernames?  (This seems like an obvious enough question that I'm surprised I couldn't find it here...am I just missing it?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO I went to users and searched for &quot;Shawn&quot;...and got a page full of users...all named &quot;Shawn&quot;.  Some of them with identical icons (but different reputation values.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a secondary question: is this a good idea?  Could spoofing have detremental effects?  And is there any reason to think that it's at all likely to happen?  (As several people have mentioned, we don't really have any reason to think that this is an active problem at this point.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastEditorUserId="131417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-23T18:55:55.267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T08:24:54.067" ClosedDate="2009-10-24T09:04:54.947" Title="Repeated usernames?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27082" CreationDate="2009-10-23T17:18:18.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;by-design&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the SO family of sites usernames don't have to be unique.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are only uniquely identified by their user id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is there is more than one person with any given name.  People shouldn't have to give up their name just because they weren't the first to find the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T17:18:18.653" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27082" CreationDate="2009-10-23T17:22:23.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there's more than one Alex, why not let them all be Alex? I don't have a trademark on my name, and they don't either. Names are hyperlinked so it's not that hard to know who you're talking to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T17:22:23.207" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27076" CreationDate="2009-10-23T17:48:07.380" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting a complaint about it on meta seems to work.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T17:48:07.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27076" CreationDate="2009-10-23T18:31:45.243" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly the TL;DR principle seems to apply on SO (just like everywhere else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are planning on posting a wall of text with a lot of details, I'd recommend that you try to put a visually separated short-and-sweet version of the question at the top, &lt;strong&gt;then&lt;/strong&gt; add all the details and code samples afterward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the readers get confused or bored by all your setup details / code samples, etc, they aren't even going to make it to your question, much less answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also, nobody likes to follow random links.&lt;/strong&gt;   In one of the questions you mentioned, your actual question is stated in the form of &quot;I asked this question at someurl.com/blahblahblah&quot; and didn't get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically you didn't type out the question again, so now all your potential helpers have to do extra work to read that question on some other site, then go and back forth with the information here on SO.  Putting the actual question directly in SO would likely get more people to look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T18:31:45.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-23T18:46:49.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you given thought to how you might poach some of the IT audience from Experts Exchange?  They do have a fairly large community, after all.  Do these people even know ServerFault exists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at things like how they advertise, who they connect to.  Who are the &quot;rockstars&quot; there? Maybe even join for a couple months (it's free for &quot;experts&quot;) and troll the IT support areas to see where they hang out, what ads Experts Exchange shows them, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not recommending approaching their members directly.  That would be sleazy.  But it might be useful to get to know some of them just to get ideas on how to reach their peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T18:46:49.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="27090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-23T19:31:29.040" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;two spaces at the end of a line -&amp;gt; line break&quot; is a weird convention (personally, I'd support getting rid of it and just requiring &amp;lt;br&amp;gt; for this case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &quot;blank line between paragraphs&quot; is a decent convention; it's also used in TeX (and friends) which is a pretty good endorsement, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T19:31:29.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27076" CreationDate="2009-10-23T19:36:21.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Popularity works both ways: yes, questions move off the front page quicker, but while they're &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; the front page, they attract more eyeballs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see a graph of how &quot;time to first answer gaining 2 or more votes&quot; has changed over time, but I doubt that you'll see that big a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I would say things are getting &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;, if anything. These days when I get up, it's not worth me looking through more than the first couple of pages of questions - anything older than an hour or two (that I can answer) is likely to have a good answer already. I &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to go through all the questions since the last one I'd seen the night before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T19:36:21.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14591" CreationDate="2009-10-23T20:23:04.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can still flag for moderator attention if it is off-topic. Moderators can and do refund bounties (albeit rarely). I did that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1592146/windows-7-x64-boot-camp-partition-snow-leopard-on-mbp-and-vmware-fusion-2-x-3&quot;&gt;just this morning&lt;/a&gt;, to move something to SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T20:23:04.570" />
  <row Id="27094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4010" CreationDate="2009-10-23T20:37:34.473" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mainly because it's not a very good search.  It is easy to return bad search results fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T20:37:34.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-23T20:37:43.767" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4010" CreationDate="2009-10-23T20:42:40.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that SO doesn't have to search eleventy-billion or so web pages like Google does.  It's more like 350,000 questions.  Many databases are much larger than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T20:42:40.120" />
  <row Id="27096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T20:53:13.150" Score="3" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11370/search-result-summaries-appear-to-have-raw-html-where-there-should-be-links&quot;&gt;Search result summaries appear to have raw html where there should be links &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I noticed while searching MSO: it looks like a question's html markup is being indexed as searchable content.  Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=hr&quot;&gt;searching for &quot;hr&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and you'll see several questions that use horizontal rules in their markup, even if the text doesn't mention &quot;hr&quot; anywhere.  The same works for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=img&quot;&gt;&quot;img&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=href&quot;&gt;&quot;href&quot;&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11370/search-result-summaries-appear-to-have-raw-html-where-there-should-be-links&quot;&gt;this similar question&lt;/a&gt;.  In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11370/search-result-summaries-appear-to-have-raw-html-where-there-should-be-links/11371#11371&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt; to that, he says this is by design because you'd want &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/perl-hacking&quot;&amp;gt;a link&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to be returned in a search for &quot;perl hacking&quot;, even though the link's text doesn't mention it.  Fair enough, but is it possible to index only the attribute values, and hide the tag and attribute names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5347/hrsearch.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:06:07.037" ClosedDate="2009-10-24T00:05:00.717" Title="Search is indexing HTML tag and attribute names" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27046" CreationDate="2009-10-23T20:57:24.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ad Inquiry MadLibs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: [Name]&#xA;    Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 2:18 PM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;   Hello there &#xA;   [Random Letter] interested to know what exactly your [Noun] does? &#xA;   I mean would it be helpful if I want to get good [Plural Noun]. &#xA;   [Random Letter] a [Occupation] in [Industry]&#xA;&#xA;   Phone: 982390****&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T20:57:24.913" />
  <row Id="27100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27059" CreationDate="2009-10-23T21:06:32.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that this would fall under the banner of objectionable behaviour (aka the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Penalty Box&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:06:32.057" />
  <row Id="27101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27059" CreationDate="2009-10-23T21:21:09.120" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The funny thing is that every hapless user you do that to, has the ability to turn off all &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; email notifications with a single click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the link is included in every email that goes out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you'd have to go in and re-tick the global email notifications box every day for this sort of griefing to work. You'd almost be griefing yourself, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:21:09.120" />
  <row Id="27102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-23T21:23:46.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://whatwouldpicarddo.blogspot.com/2009/10/stackoverflow-devdays-seattle.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://whatwouldpicarddo.blogspot.com/2009/10/stackoverflow-devdays-seattle.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:23:46.040" />
  <row Id="27103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14591" CreationDate="2009-10-23T21:28:15.707" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderators have a menu to remove / refund the bounty, so this is no longer an issue. &lt;strong&gt;Flag such things for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt; as the moderators have all the tools necessary to deal with this now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T21:28:15.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27106" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27108" CreationDate="2009-10-23T22:33:43.930" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure exactly why a promotional-pricing model has been chosen to &lt;em&gt;target developers&lt;/em&gt; registering their CV's on careers! After all, promotional-pricing is there to encourage me to use the service but I'm hardly likely to resign to take advantage of it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a &lt;em&gt;&quot;I'm not currently looking for a job&quot;&lt;/em&gt; option, which would mean that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you get the promotional rate (maybe for only 2 years)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your CV is navigable from SO but not searchable on &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers&lt;/a&gt; itself, &lt;em&gt;so it doesn't clutter the employers' results&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has a few advantages: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you get more cash now from people like me (i.e. idiots)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can analyze SO usage patterns to guess when someone has lost their job (or is bored at work?) and send the occasional email saying &quot;Do you want to activate your CV yet?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:42:06.880" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:42:06.880" Title="Can we file our CV's on careers to be visible-only-from-SO and get, say, 2 years for $29?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27135" CreationDate="2009-10-23T22:48:42.443" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the addition of careers and SO being used on CV's etc, it might be an idea to add a few things to a user's profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quartile: e.g. &lt;em&gt;foo is in the top 4% of SO users&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could actually be extended (maybe extra features unlocked either by reputation or possibly by payment) so that more analysis can be done:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;foo is in the top 10% of responders in the C# tag&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;75% of bar's questions have been tagged plzsendtehcodez&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T03:15:27.413" Title="Quartile measure on SO profiles" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27106" CreationDate="2009-10-23T22:54:56.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but I'm hardly likely to resign to take advantage of it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouFnQTq6gNQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're about to launch a free public CV option which I think will cover you. The only reason to pay the $29 is if there is &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; possibility you'll be looking for work in the next 3 years -- so you can flip the &quot;hey make me searchable by employers&quot; toggle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T22:54:56.823" />
  <row Id="27109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27107" CreationDate="2009-10-23T23:02:00.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top responders thing can be seen in the tag stats. The other stat can be simply queried from StackQL. I don't see much use for it personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T23:02:00.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-23T23:11:16.677" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24205/why-does-it-take-so-long-for-gravatar-to-update-my-stackoverflow-avatar&quot;&gt;Why does it take so long for Gravatar to update my StackOverflow avatar?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i'd changed my profile picture at gravater.com before 2 days but till now it hasn't changed in stackoverflow.com &#xA;How do i change it ??? is there any caching problem ??&#xA;thanks for help ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137749" LastActivityDate="2009-10-23T23:11:16.677" ClosedDate="2009-10-24T10:15:58.657" Title="why the profile picture is not changing?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-23T23:47:00.620" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the question &quot;why can we not treat line breaks in the input as line breaks in the output?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose hard linebreaks in the input where converted to linebreaks in the output, as many have proposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, here is the problem: there is no way for me to see the difference between hard linebreaks on the one hand and word wrapping by the editor on the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two paragraphs look the same in the editor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam venenatis augue&#xA;non ipsum dignissim eget posuere nisl porttitor. Vivamus est ligula, aliquam&#xA;consequat sodales non, aliquet non nulla.&#xA;&#xA;Nullam interdum tincidunt convallis. Morbi vel pulvinar nisi. Nullam pharetra&#xA;sollicitudin libero a vestibulum. Maecenas eget tellus mauris. Phasellus ut&#xA;tortor at sapien varius dictum eu in velit.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it is only soft wrapped by the editor, the first paragraph would render as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam venenatis augue&#xA;non ipsum dignissim eget posuere nisl porttitor. Vivamus est ligula, aliquam&#xA;consequat sodales non, aliquet non nulla.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the second paragraph–hard wrapped by the user—would render as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nullam interdum tincidunt convallis. Morbi vel pulvinar nisi. Nullam pharetra&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;sollicitudin libero a vestibulum. Maecenas eget tellus mauris. Phasellus ut&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;tortor at sapien varius dictum eu in velit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to make the second paragraph look better, I would have to do the backspace-space shuffle for every single line in that paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Incidentally, Markdown's usage of two invisible spaces at the end of a line may or may not be called brain dead for the same reason…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you expect the text to be read in its ASCII form, Markdown's approach is nicer looking than an explicit line break tag like \\ or &amp;lt;br&gt;, but still it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; invisible markup.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3850" LastEditorUserId="3850" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T00:57:20.940" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T00:57:20.940" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27846" CreationDate="2009-10-23T23:59:50.903" Score="35" ViewCount="9641" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have &lt;strong&gt;amusing but on-topic images&lt;/strong&gt; for our 404 Page Not Found page on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server Fault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By on topic, I mean the &lt;strong&gt;404 image&lt;/strong&gt; on Stack Overflow should be a programmery &quot;not found&quot; of some kind, and the Super User one should be a power user's &quot;not found&quot;, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These images would be shown in addition to the existing 404 page text, so nothing is getting lost, we're just trying to inject a little fun into the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm having trouble coming up with anything. Any good suggestions? Post them as answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your submission or suggestion is highly voted and meets the criteria outlined, it's likely to be deployed as the &quot;official&quot; 404 image for one of the trilogy sites &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: 404 page winners!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark Rushakoff : Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;squillman : Server Fault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other two I selected myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:32:11.790" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:32:11.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-23T23:59:50.903" Title="Amusing 404 &quot;Page Not Found&quot; Images for Trilogy sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;http-404&gt;" AnswerCount="31" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="16" />
  <row Id="27113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T00:12:57.933" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems you've followed a dangling pointer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.cznp.com/images/dangling%5Fpointer.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T00:29:04.613" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T00:29:04.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T00:12:57.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T00:15:23.167" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there are no waffles here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19392/what-is-up-with-the-waffle-fetish/21481#21481&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/stack-overflow-waffles-pony.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;waffels, not waffles&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T05:31:24.610" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T05:31:24.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T00:15:23.167" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="27115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T00:16:14.203" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems you're trying to access a page that doesn't exist. You should totally drop that and try jQuery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T00:16:14.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T00:16:14.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:14:48.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For StackOverflow: reams upon reams of green-bar paper with (presumably) code printouts, along with the text &quot;What line did you say that was again?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T01:14:48.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:14:48.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:19:09.980" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For StackOverflow: punch cards scattered across the floor and the text: &quot;Error: We didn't find that hole.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T01:19:09.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:19:09.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:24:51.630" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SuperUser: A generic super-hero's costume (incorporating the logo colors?), on either hanger or a mannequin, with the text &quot;404 Hero not found&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T01:24:51.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:24:51.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:27:09.293" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a couple for SF/SU:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As suggested in comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Linux users:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/SF%5F404.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Not Found - Windows&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Windows users:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/SF%5F404%5FKDE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Not Found - KDE&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone will have to pick me up on the Mac Finder shot, I don't have a Mac lying around here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T19:39:09.067" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T19:39:09.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:27:09.293" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:28:01.487" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Stack Overflow (or any of the sites; it's a Star Wars reference).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.monkey-and-banana.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/star-wars-droids.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;404&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;404: These are not the Droids you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;404: We couldn't find the Droids you were looking for. Try Google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T02:04:50.780" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T02:04:50.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:28:01.487" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2645" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:29:49.090" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful to see at least the closed questions that I have asked, so that as I get more experience, I can look at the questions, see if I understand why they were closed, and get better at writing questions, based on my past failures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment it is hard to learn from the experience, so we just keep repeating the same mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135105" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T01:29:49.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:30:41.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Meta: a picture of that &quot;Thinker&quot; statue in a ditch of dirty water; &quot;404: Amazingly, that's one thing we &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; find here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T01:30:41.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:30:41.877" />
  <row Id="27124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:33:55.943" Score="63" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's another for SF.  Found it &lt;a href=&quot;http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/01/09/the-worst-cable-mess-ever/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, not sure about permissions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;404: Server not found&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/NetworkMess.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="131346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T07:25:10.630" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T07:25:10.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:33:55.943" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:55:16.967" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SuperUser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&quot;Your input could not be processed&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is from a google image search for &quot;cat keyboard&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dontclickthis.whatingods.name/cat-on-keyboard.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dontclickthis.whatingods.name/cat-on-keyboard.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:42:16.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:55:16.967" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:57:28.877" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For ServerFault:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&quot;I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&quot;I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't find that.&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drucker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/hal9000.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.drucker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/hal9000.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from google image search for &quot;hal 9000&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:41:40.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:57:28.877" />
  <row Id="27128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T02:02:42.723" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a play on a qmail bounce, for SF:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/SF%5F404%5FEmail.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T02:02:42.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T02:02:42.723" />
  <row Id="27129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T02:03:29.833" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For any of the sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&quot;Despite his best efforts, Joel Spolsky was unable to locate the item in question&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or, more neutrally,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&quot;Despite our best efforts, we were unable to locate the item in question&quot;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/images/4506VV4002.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/images/4506VV4002.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(from Google image search for &quot;ibm punch cards&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I have de-hotlinked the image here since the competition is over.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:43:09.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T02:03:29.833" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T02:46:28.863" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Sorry, we can't find your page. You may have mistyped something.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newtechusa.com/humor/HPrimate%5Ffiles/monkey-with-keyboard2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.newtechusa.com/humor/HPrimate%5Ffiles/monkey-with-keyboard2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from google image search for &quot;monkey keyboard&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:41:06.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T02:46:28.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:48:19.157" Score="11" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20736/what-is-code-golf-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What is &amp;ldquo;code golf&amp;rdquo; on stack overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is code golf? I always see this in questions but I never understand what it is. Sorry for the stupid question but I really want to know what it is. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I googled it but I still don't understand what exactly it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144129" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T13:57:52.407" ClosedDate="2009-10-24T14:42:15.977" Title="What is code golf?" Tags="&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27131" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:49:58.257" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Solve a problem with as short a program as possible.  Like in golf, the lower the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137755" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T03:09:26.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27131" CreationDate="2009-10-24T01:53:21.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code golf is a pastime where programmers compete to implement a program in the fewest number of characters. It started in the perl community and has spread from there to other dynamic languages. Like Golf, a lower score is better and additionally, it supplies the pun of the winner using the fewest (key) strokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T03:09:26.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T01:54:01.293" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27131" CreationDate="2009-10-24T02:18:27.420" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;19 chars: &lt;a href=&quot;http://codegolf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codegolf.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137779" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T03:09:26.663" />
  <row Id="27135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27107" CreationDate="2009-10-24T03:15:27.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might look at what &lt;a href=&quot;http://ohloh.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ohloh.net&lt;/a&gt; does; I think they've setup a decent ranking system with nice visuals.  Of course, given that they currently rank &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net/people/rankings?show=5035&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;me&lt;/a&gt; just above &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net/people/rankings?show=13492639771236&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andrew Morton&lt;/a&gt;, I must admit they &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have some issues with the ranking itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T03:15:27.413" />
  <row Id="27136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27131" CreationDate="2009-10-24T03:30:37.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Least code wins&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T13:57:52.407" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T03:50:49.087" Score="3" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it because programmers are more willing to help people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137756" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T04:07:57.200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T10:04:50.043" Title="Why is there more activity on Stack Overflow than on Super User?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;traffic&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="27138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27137" CreationDate="2009-10-24T04:02:20.713" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That has nothing to do with it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has a direct audience; a definable audience that spends its life on the intertubez.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normal people (and people who might need tech help) do not necessarily realize that Super User is even here.  It'll take far longer for it to gain widespread adoption than it took Stack Overflow.  I gather it'll have that widespread adoption, but only if it is very well maintained, and if people treat it like they do Stack Overflow and edit posts; fix things, and generally don't leave Broken windows lying around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T04:02:20.713" />
  <row Id="27139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-10-24T04:12:36.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 Change it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has just happened to me (again) someone downvoted and wrote a comment which I agree with (I think you should have to write a comment on downvote). I then said why they are wrong and defended my point and they agreed with me, but were unable to upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/59692/do-facebook-group-wall-posts-appear-for-all-groups-or-only-those-you-are-a-member/59695#59695&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/59692/do-facebook-group-wall-posts-appear-for-all-groups-or-only-those-you-are-a-member/59695#59695&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T04:12:36.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27137" CreationDate="2009-10-24T05:05:48.740" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For one thing. it's almost one whole year older. SU launched on Aug 18, 2009; SO launched on Sep 16, 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow launched with two fairly large programmer audiences from Coding Horror and Joel on Software, so it had a substantial head start as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly, it will take time to grow the community. We're looking into a few different ways to help that happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T05:05:48.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-24T06:34:46.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a picture but it's still a funny 404 message. Unfortunately you will have to click the link. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tud.ttu.ee/error.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Depressed Server&lt;/a&gt; If someone knows how to make it show up here without having to click the link please edit my post so it will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132547" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T06:34:46.853" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T06:34:46.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11935" CreationDate="2009-10-24T07:13:09.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try now; we clarified the dates and ranges and fixed a really nasty accidental localization of time bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T07:13:09.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27082" CreationDate="2009-10-24T08:24:54.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's occasionally been &lt;em&gt;very briefly&lt;/em&gt; odd for me - a couple of times other people have registered as Jon Skeet with the same gravatar. I can't remember whether they then posted rubbish or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's easy to spoof just a &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt;, you can't actually fake where your posts/comments are coming from. The link in the user name is always to the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; user profile, so it's easy enough to tell the difference once you're aware that there are two posters with the same user name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that for the vast majority of the time it doesn't cause a problem, I think this was the right decision. The few times there &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been other users spoofing me, moderators have jumped on them very quickly :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T08:24:54.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27137" CreationDate="2009-10-24T08:47:24.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO users are 99.99% developers. Developers helping each other, nice! A search on Google brings you to SO easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU users are mixture of all sorts, and people who had questions do not have idea that SU exists. A search (if done properly in the first place) probably give them a lot whole other resources too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user has network/bootup issue (very common) and can't get online, he/she ain't gonna ask on SU (unless using another terminal elsewhere). WHen he/she is back online, problem solved, nothing to ask. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T08:47:24.777" />
  <row Id="27149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27137" CreationDate="2009-10-24T09:58:13.120" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People come to SU when they have a problem. When the problem is solved, they stop coming. That's not the case on SO, where people also want to &lt;strong&gt;learn&lt;/strong&gt;, to perfect themselves. When they help people they also learn from others. This is a big difference from SU, which is viewed as nothing more than &lt;strong&gt;tech support&lt;/strong&gt;, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second major factor is that SO has a much larger userbase, almost 10 times larger than SU. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T09:58:13.120" />
  <row Id="27150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27137" CreationDate="2009-10-24T10:04:50.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that of all computer users, it's the software developers who are looking for answers on the Internet. Regular users first read the manual, the helpfiles, ask a colleague, friend or anyone else. Developers will first go to a forum, ask questions and in the meanwhile they're trying to solve the problem in some other way or work on somthing diofferent first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference is that developers will freely share their knowledge with others, and that most development is very generic. Superusers are often asking more specialized questions and thus asking on a large, generic forum isn't really helpful. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I ask something about writing assembly code in Delphi, the question would be a bit obscure but I have no doubt that I will get 50+ views with at least 3 answers. It's very likely that one of those would be the right one too.&#xA;When I would ask about how to import a Collada model into Poser Pro, I do have more doubts about getting a few views and probably no good answers. (Okay, some will just google for Collada and Poser Pro, hoping they can find an answer and thus gain reputation thus it's the reputation hunters who will most likely answer this Poser question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T10:04:50.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T11:14:24.773" Score="6" ViewCount="1238" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you attended &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/toronto/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays in Toronto&lt;/a&gt;, please post your thoughts about it here. Links to blogs etc are also welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/reviews-of-devdays-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Toronto&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:21:39.373" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:21:39.373" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Toronto" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="27152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T11:18:18.803" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a deliberate search before posting this. There's something similar on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Homework on SO&lt;/a&gt;, but didn't find the anything close to a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my concern. I can't help but to realize that there are more 'suspcious' questions here that are posted by SO users who just want a wholesale answer (complete code etc) to maybe solve a work project problem or to solve something they have no clue about. I will not finger-point here, I am sure some of the guys here might agree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is something like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;homework issue&lt;/a&gt; but if it's to the extent of copy-n-paste client's/colleague's email request into a question post, that really pisses me off. I hope I am wrong, but if it is true, what can we do about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My observation of typical beheviour of these group of users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They seldom accept answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question requires huge effort to answer and often entire chunck of codes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't response promptly (probably at work) and disappear when problem solved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Wiki-ed this post for discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T19:23:31.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T11:18:18.803" Title="Using SO to solve work project issues (Wholesale)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-24T11:58:27.027" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted my thoughts about Dev Days Toronto at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.techscene.ca/2009/10/24/in-review-stack-overflow-dev-days-toronto/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In Review: Stack Overflow DevDays Toronto&lt;/a&gt;; anyone know where we'll find the slides and so forth from the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137764" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T11:58:27.027" />
  <row Id="27154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-24T12:12:47.317" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would echo the comments on Geoffrey Wiseman's blog, except for a couple of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ASP.NET MVC talk was incredibly boring.  People were pulling out their laptops and smart phones to do other stuff far more in this talk than any of the others.  The guy brought out an accordion - I think it would have been more entertaining if he'd played it rather than trying to do a live coding demo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Python talk made me want to learn Python.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The FogBugz talk made me want to sign up for a start-up account to try it out just to plan my own personal projects.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The JQuery talk made me think that maybe I shouldn't be afraid of learning Javascript if jQuery can make it into an almost decent language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Greg Wilson was entertaining and interesting, even if he kept slamming my favourite language (not all Java programmers are doing boring EJB/J2EE stuff, you know).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only thing the Ruby talk convinced me of is that I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want to try Ruby.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The WiFi, as predicted, melted down - in the morning it was flakey, in the afternoon it was just gone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came all the way from Rochester NY and stayed in a hotel nearby because my father, who lives in Oshawa, sold his house and the closing date was the day before yesterday.  Yeah, he didn't consider my conference schedule in his moving plans, dammit.  I hope to come back next year, but I'll need to find cheaper accommodation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it comes down to over-all is that when you've got a bunch of different talks on a bunch of different topics to a diverse crowd, you don't go there expecting to like all of them.  This isn't like the $1000 conferences where you pick the subject matter and level from a wide palette of choices - there couldn't be an &quot;ASP.NET MVC for Unix dudes&quot; and a &quot;ASP.NET MVC for expert ASP.NET programmers who haven't gotten around to checking out MVC yet&quot; because there was only one talk going on at once.  So the fact that I didn't get much out of a couple of talks was expected by me, and doesn't mean I didn't think it was a fantastic day.  And it doesn't mean the presenters failed, they just didn't aim their talk precisely at what I needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastEditorUserId="3333" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T19:56:35.690" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T19:56:35.690" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12041" CreationDate="2009-10-24T12:16:18.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bump into the same issue over and over again. It just happens all the time, you read you comment and there it is, stupid mistake. It's hard to believe that we don't have that feature done already, Jeff has complained numerous times on podcast that he also makes such mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To protect flow of discussion I'd say it is enough to make 30 seconds interval during which you can edit your comment and disable edit afterward. 30 seconds should be enough to read 600 chars and you can't post new comments during that time anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T12:16:18.763" />
  <row Id="27156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27131" CreationDate="2009-10-24T13:15:42.243" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Less code FTW&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T13:15:42.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-24T13:16:01.117" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The slides for Revised.revised(Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/raganwald/sets/72157622647242360/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/raganwald/sets/72157622647242360/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137767" LastEditorUserId="137767" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T01:25:15.433" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T01:25:15.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27131" CreationDate="2009-10-24T14:15:57.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cut To Point :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The :) Was needed to meet the 15 character minimum when posting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T14:15:57.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-10-24T14:23:57.947" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Darwin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who have over 10 questions (or answers) voted below 0 within a 90 day period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May as well get &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; for trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T14:23:57.947" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T14:23:57.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T14:42:49.797" Score="1" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14450/tag-suggestion-inserts-new-tags-at-wrong-position-on-ie6-and-ie7&quot;&gt;Tag suggestion inserts new tags at wrong position on IE6 and IE7&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was retagging some questions - adding &lt;strong&gt;[objective-c]&lt;/strong&gt; tag to questions that just have &lt;strong&gt;[iphone]&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;[iphone-sdk]&lt;/strong&gt; listed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I started typing in the retag field and &lt;strong&gt;[objective-c]&lt;/strong&gt; comes up, if I hit return or select with a mouse, sometimes it would replace the existing tag rather than just adding &lt;strong&gt;[objective-c]&lt;/strong&gt; as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just tried it there but it doesn't seem to be happening anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ah&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ha&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - it just happened when I was adding tags to this question. So it is intermittant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just type the tags and don't select from the drop down it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132349" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T14:54:23.073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T14:54:23.073" ClosedDate="2009-10-24T21:16:01.720" Title="Tag lookup box replacing the wrong suggested tag in IE7" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-10-24T14:43:33.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome Back&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded when someone returns after 30 days away from the site. It could be made &quot;harder&quot; by adding the condition that they post and have at least one upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be a nice present to people returning and might encourage them to stick around this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T14:43:33.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T14:43:33.057" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T15:18:44.037" Score="4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Should &amp;lsquo;Hi&amp;rsquo;, &amp;lsquo;thanks&amp;rsquo; and taglines and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Background&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to thank people for helping me, but my kind words are edited out when I ask Stack Overflow questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize the arguments for editing them out: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're not relevant to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be seen as fishing for upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's also not a 'universal' standard for editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should have a place to discuss this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your opinion of us not being &quot;allowed&quot; to post &quot;thanks in advance&quot; at the end of our questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T15:55:08.000" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T17:20:25.047" ClosedDate="2009-10-24T17:38:37.400" Title="Ethics of editing out gratitude" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27162" CreationDate="2009-10-24T15:28:43.477" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point is to make the question as useful as possible in as little text as possible. Adding something at the end isn't as bad as adding &quot;Hello&quot; etc at the start (as that useless information is going to be shown in the summary on the front page) but it's still effectively &quot;noise&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonable to assume that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questioners will be grateful for help received - that's why they asked the question, after all. Removing this sort of thing keeps the signal to noise ratio high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T15:28:43.477" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-24T15:43:55.160" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keynote: good start.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET MVC: This is supposed to be a conference for programmers who are just interested in all aspects of programming, and the presenter was trying to draw divisional lines between technologies.  I don't think that was in the spirit of the conference, and maybe that's why the stuff that was supposed to be funny didn't come across as funny.  The technical demo was interesting, and just what I needed as an introduction to it.  PeeTimes was funny.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Python: Very Good.  I can see why the language is getting so much interest.  Kind of looks like it has a lot of the power of Perl without looking like line noise on an old modem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;FogBugz: Kind of a advertisement I had to pay to see, but at the same time it also sponsored the cost of the event, and the cost was certainly reasonable, so ok.  It didn't bore me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;jQuery: Very Good.  One minor point I would make is that it just needed a very quick intro to the DOM for people who might not be web developers (I know there aren't many left).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greg Wilson&lt;/a&gt;: Probably the highlight of the conference.  I hope he succeeds in his mission to apply statistical evidence to software development.  Again, there was a very diverse audience in terms of technologies at the conference, including Java programmers.  Java is highly represented in SO.  I'm not sure why he considered it necessary to pick on them, especially when he didn't offer us any &lt;em&gt;evidence&lt;/em&gt; to back it up.  Maybe that was supposed to be &lt;strong&gt;irony&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ruby: Not sure I learned anything about Ruby.  I kind of get the idea about changing the computer language to suit your purpose and making it more expressive for what you want to accomplish instead of just shoehorning your application into the available tools.  Perhaps if it was advertised as being about &quot;meta linguistic programming&quot; instead of Ruby, then it would have setup our expectations a bit better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135233" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T18:04:38.800" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:04:38.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27162" CreationDate="2009-10-24T15:57:48.837" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edit them out; but only if I can make other improvements to the question to make it easier to read.  Your question is an example of how I edit questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nothing personal, it just adds cruft to a question; and if you've seen the myriad of Programming forums on the internet, you've seen bad spelling, unclear wording, and always a 'thanks'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the author wants to thank me for helping him answer his question, he can do it by spending more time on his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T15:57:48.837" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27162" CreationDate="2009-10-24T15:58:11.907" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some of good words will be beautiful and may give good feeling for that person who give his time to answering our question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So please don't delete the appreciations words.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK of course I'll support the person who helped me with points that's sure. &lt;strong&gt;But where is the problem if i finished my question with thanks words ??&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137772" LastEditorUserId="137772" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T17:20:25.047" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T17:20:25.047" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T17:48:52.323" Score="-7" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to set a filter that challenges me with annoying math questions if I post a comment, question or answer (selectable) after a certain time of day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may help prevent someone from asking a very basic or nonsensical question while being over tired, frustrated, intoxicated or a plethora of other mind numbing conditions. The other benefits are similar and obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;G-Mail has this ability from Google Labs. It would be great if SO provided the same (optional) functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, most of us could solve the given problems easily no matter our state of mind .. it serves as a reminder as well as a challenge. The title of the pop up could be &quot;Should you sleep on this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the constructive criticism. This is not a bad idea, but it would be much better implemented as some kind of a browser plug-in, not as a feature of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T04:40:43.160" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:40:43.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T19:51:23.973" Title="Add an optional 'midnight challenge' to questions, responses and/or comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="27170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-24T17:52:16.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a web developer and I came with an open mind regarding ASP.NET MVC, but if you compare Joel's (well-rehearsed, in-a-VM) FogBugzz 7 demo with the ASP demo, what a contrast. Doing live demos can be extremely difficult (I have done so myself) but it dragged on for way too long. Maybe with a simpler project there would have been a better chance of bringing interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the effort, but between Rails and Django (which have their own issues), what does ASP.NET MVC bring to the table that makes it worth building on a Microsoft stack? That's the question I wanted answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137778" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T17:52:16.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27169" CreationDate="2009-10-24T18:01:26.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about you just take responsibility for your own behaviour at all times? Don't worry, if you're being a prat we'll just delete it ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T18:01:26.117" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13748" CreationDate="2009-10-24T18:03:43.693" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;30,000 character limit is perfectly reasonable. Just post the most relevant or &quot;broken part&quot; of the code. If you do &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to post more, use a site like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pastebin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pastebin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pastie.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pastie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gist&lt;/a&gt; etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the limit is perfectly reasonable, silently truncating a users post is never good - I see no reason why a simple Javascript content-length-check could not be added to the question form..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T18:03:43.693" />
  <row Id="27173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27152" CreationDate="2009-10-24T18:07:19.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its rather easy to spot 'show me the codez' questions on sight. I answer them depending on the tags and edit history. If the original poster tagged the question as homework, beginner, etc .. I'm a little more inclined to help, but I don't rule out those who are obviously trying to get out of trouble at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter what, you are helping some (albeit often budding) programmer, somewhere have a better and more productive day. Considering that, I fail to see anything really sinister if for you immediate gratification when providing an answer is a non-issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every community, even the hacker community has one way streets. Consider giving two bucks to a homeless person, your reward is instant, you did something good and you know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gets a little different when you donate your time and creativity and then enjoy radio silence. I do understand your point, however I think you may enjoy the system a bit more with a slightly thicker skin. Remember, its not only the original poster who benefits .. someone else is very likely to have the same problem and (given the recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26689/how-do-we-grow-the-server-fault-and-super-user-communities&quot;&gt;stats that Jeff posted for SO&lt;/a&gt;) likely to find your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you have answered &lt;strong&gt;their&lt;/strong&gt; question, but in a short amount of time &lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt; become rather incidental, its the answers that remain helpful over time. After all, what is a question but a means to find an answer? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T18:20:39.660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T18:20:39.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T18:07:19.893" />
  <row Id="27174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27169" CreationDate="2009-10-24T18:17:17.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I originally had concerns over requiring time zones, but as the comments point out, you can just use the client-side time &quot;right now&quot;... there's no need to be able to predict a different time, which is where time zones in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is still &quot;no, this isn't a good idea&quot; because I believe it's a solution looking from a problem. I've seen no evidence that this is &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; causing a problem, and I believe the SO team has better things to do with their time than chase &lt;em&gt;theoretical&lt;/em&gt; issues. If we were seeing hundreds of drunken posts, that might be a different matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Midnight&quot; depends on where you live - or rather, your time zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any sane developer will run screaming at the idea of doing things which depend on time zones. I intend to give a few examples in my talk on Wednesday, but basically you'd have to have a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; important feature to make it worth tangling with time zones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Coping with simple situations isn't actually &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; hard - but the whole thing is a mess, particularly when it comes to choices, changes etc. There'll always be someone who disagrees with your system's idea of what their time zone is.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T07:25:02.987" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T07:25:02.987" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27152" CreationDate="2009-10-24T18:50:12.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like a self-correcting problem to me.  If the OP really does ask questions without giving back to the community, eventually the well will dry up for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T18:50:12.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T18:50:12.870" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27152" CreationDate="2009-10-24T19:23:31.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is valid and well written, why should there be a problem? I've yet to see the rule that you can only use SO for help with hobby projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T19:23:31.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T19:23:31.987" />
  <row Id="27177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T19:27:15.520" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3528/questions-with-nefarious-intent&quot;&gt;Questions with nefarious intent?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we do if we come across a question that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have malicious intent behind it. I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1605773/1607646#1607646&quot;&gt;one such question&lt;/a&gt; and don't know what the normal practice regarding these questions is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we flag them? Not answer them? Not worry about them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12621/would-you-teach-black-hat-techniques-in-public-forums&quot;&gt;Would you teach BlackHat techniques in public forums?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135956" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T22:01:21.010" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T22:01:21.010" ClosedDate="2009-10-24T21:56:41.277" Title="Do we answer questions that may have malicious intent?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27177" CreationDate="2009-10-24T20:00:19.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question must have a good, safe, helpful use. Anybody with malicious intent can get that information on more suitable boards, but SO won't ever become a comprehensive resource if we don't allow potentially harmful questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, if you know how something bad is done, you're one step closer to combating it. It's good stuff to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Alright, reading the question it seems he wants it for an &quot;unkillable process&quot;&#xA;That seems very fishy, but I still believe that it's good information to know, and he could get it somewhere else if he had truly malicious intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T20:00:19.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-24T20:13:17.593" Score="5" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop/Community&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Raindrop wiki&lt;/a&gt; on Mozilla tells developers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Specific code questions can be asked via &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;. Use &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/raindrop&quot;&gt;raindrop&lt;/a&gt;&quot; as a tag on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the official (and your) stand on that? I wouldn't consider this blatant abuse (as e.g. in the riacowboy case), and it's also not such a definite &quot;no&quot; as in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15937/is-a-localized-tag-acceptable-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;tufts-comp40&lt;/a&gt; case, but on the other hand SO probably doesn't want to become a developer mailing list replacement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And questions specifically about rainbow code might become candidates for &quot;too localized&quot;---or would they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T20:20:56.327" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T20:26:17.673" Title="Raindrops keep tagging on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27179" CreationDate="2009-10-24T20:20:45.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there was another project that moved most of their &quot;support&quot; to StackOverflow, and I think Jeff and Joel mentioned it as a good thing on the podcast.  I think it's a good thing to get people working on that project participating in SO because they'll have expertise on other things as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T20:20:45.697" />
  <row Id="27181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27179" CreationDate="2009-10-24T20:21:29.757" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts is that it is &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; a programming technology, and as long as people are asking genuine programming questions I'm content. I wouldn't want to see product support questions &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far there is only one example of a raindrop question, and it doesn't seem to be hugely programming related. I'm inclined to give the tag the benefit of the future doubt...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T20:21:29.757" />
  <row Id="27182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27179" CreationDate="2009-10-24T20:26:17.673" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they hadn't have told people to do that, what would people tag their questions with? &lt;code&gt;raindrop&lt;/code&gt;, of course. They're just telling people who don't understand SO how they should ask their questions, and there's nothing wrong with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T20:26:17.673" />
  <row Id="27183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-24T20:36:42.600" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dev Days Toronto was excellent value for money and time.&lt;/strong&gt;  I enjoyed listening to people who are funny and don't take themselves so seriously, that they can't make fun of themselves.  Thanks Joel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://smartbear.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SmartBear&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://codero.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Codero&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well Done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Free copies of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://smartbear.com/codecollab-code-review-book.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Best Kept Secrets of&#xA;Peer Code Review&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781590599143&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Painless&#xA;Project Management with FogBugz&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &#xA;These will be read and maybe passed&#xA;on to others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20420/countdown-app-for-devdays&quot;&gt;The countdown timer&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;kept everyone on time and the twitter&#xA;feed kept them entertained. The stage&#xA;set-up with screen, two lecterns,&#xA;front monitor and timer was&#xA;efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Fog Creek videos were hilarious.  I didn't know about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://training.fogcreek.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;training videos&lt;/a&gt;.  What a great place to work!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joel's openning keynote was&#xA;funny and thought-provoking.  I&#xA;promise to ask fewer questions on my&#xA;forms!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.python.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Python&lt;/a&gt; talk convinced me&#xA;that it's worth looking at.  (I wish&#xA;there were more hours in the day.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd seen the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FogBugz&lt;/a&gt; features on-line,&#xA;but Joel's was much more persuasive. &#xA;He showed the project from both the&#xA;developer's and the manager's view.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The salads and sandwiches at lunch&#xA;were delicious.  Much better than the&#xA;morning muffins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JQuery&lt;/a&gt; is back on my&#xA;high priority list as something I&#xA;have to try.  The talk reminded me&#xA;that I have at least two minor&#xA;projects where it would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greg Wilson's talk&lt;/a&gt; was excellent. &#xA;The first thing I did when I got home&#xA;was to give his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gvwilson/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;contact info&lt;/a&gt; to a&#xA;colleague with a volumous bug&#xA;problem.  I liked Greg's Father's&#xA;quote: &quot;A week of hard work can&#xA;sometimes save you an hour of&#xA;thought&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meta-programming&#xA;(mis-titled as ruby) was interesting,&#xA;and raised some good points.  The&#xA;most useful for me was the difference&#xA;between ugly problems and drunk&#xA;problems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was impressive when the different speakers reinforced&#xA;each other's messages, through the&#xA;use of shared graphics and &lt;a href=&quot;http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;common&#xA;code examples&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Areas for Improvement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The muffins were disappointing and it took a long time to enter the theatre.  While waiting, it would have been fun to have an activity that would have encouraged meeting other people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was looking forward to ASP.net MVC.  Barry and Joey did a good job, but they weren't as good as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails%5Fblog%5F2.mov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ruby on rails video&lt;/a&gt; I had seen previously.  I was disappointed when we didn't get to hear the accordian.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering the number of iphones in the audience, something on mobile development would have been appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4058" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T18:03:59.877" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:03:59.877" />
  <row Id="27184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-10-24T20:51:59.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment treshold is 1 for meta, but 50 for SO, and I think it should be 1 for SO, too (on other people's questions) ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the OP, and the following from this question w/answers (my words):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;low treshold on comments make SO more open to new users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;high treshold encourages misuse of answers as comments, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;..creating negative experiences for new users, like downvoting and negative comments - pushing away new users (regardless of IQ and EQ levels)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments are &quot;post-it notes&quot;, less important than questions or answers, but are definitively useful for &quot;small stuff&quot;, like observations, associations, followup questions, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a comment is the &quot;least bad&quot; place to get spam, but comments are more restricted than questions or answers... (in SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a limit of 1 to comment wouldn't create more &quot;spam&quot; from newbies, just move it to a less disturbing place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132704" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T20:51:59.100" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27177" CreationDate="2009-10-24T21:06:16.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel that a question is asking for help on activities that would be illegal or immoral flag it for a moderator to deal with immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T21:06:16.090" />
  <row Id="27186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27169" CreationDate="2009-10-24T21:11:56.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's reasonably likely that any problem sufficiently complicated to prevent a good, but tired programmer from posting a question on SO is also complicated enough to prevent a new programmer from posting.  If it's just a reminder not to ask questions or post answers late at night, a post-it note on your monitor probably works just as well, costs nothing in development time, and doesn't impact anyone else on the system at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T21:11:56.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-24T21:11:56.650" />
  <row Id="27187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20432" CreationDate="2009-10-24T21:12:57.367" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that Ask &lt;strong&gt;searches on title ONLY&lt;/strong&gt;. Nothing else is looked at: body, tags, nothing. It's a pure title match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: there is now an advanced search operator, &quot;title:1&quot; which you can see documented here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-06T07:54:14.873" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T07:54:14.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-24T21:53:49.963" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The slides for the ASP.NET MVC presentation are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/AccordionGuy/urine-for-a-treat-or-aspnet-mvc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137788" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T21:53:49.963" />
  <row Id="27189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27190" CreationDate="2009-10-24T22:29:55.553" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/22648/fastest-reliable-way-to-open-the-terminal/22701#22701&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question on SU;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the u in chromium isn't &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;, as it &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be, given the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;situation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;However, you can't do &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt;meth*in*g like that (although the prettify box says you can), so do we need something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*Ch*romi[blank]*u*[blank]m&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to allow such a string to be posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T23:02:25.467" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T23:34:42.573" Title="Do we need a &quot;blank&quot; character in Markdown?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27189" CreationDate="2009-10-24T22:34:12.523" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Ch&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;romi&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;u&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;m&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;i&gt;Ch&lt;/i&gt;romi&lt;i&gt;u&lt;/i&gt;m&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, if you really want your blank, use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%5FWidth%5FSpace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;zero-width space&lt;/a&gt;. It's Unicode char 0x200B, and you can use it like this: &lt;code&gt;Chromi&amp;amp;#x200B;*u*&amp;amp;#x200B;m&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; Chromi&amp;#x200B;&lt;em&gt;u&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#x200B;m&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(or, like this... &lt;code&gt;Chromi​*u*​m&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; Chromi​&lt;em&gt;u&lt;/em&gt;​m - though this doesn't make a good demo, since by definition the character &lt;em&gt;doesn't show up&lt;/em&gt;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-24T23:00:45.930" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T23:00:45.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13748" CreationDate="2009-10-24T23:11:34.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether or not 30k characters is enough (I think it is, by a huge margin), the OP's request that there be a &lt;em&gt;warning&lt;/em&gt; is perfectly reasonable. We have such a warning on comments, so why not on answers?  If the answer text is over, say, 10k characters, simply make visible the text &quot;Warning: maximum 30k characters allowed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T23:11:34.677" />
  <row Id="27193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27189" CreationDate="2009-10-24T23:34:42.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;markdown.pl (the reference implementation of Markdown) supports intra-word-empasis, without the magical blank character you propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ echo &quot;Ex*amp*le&quot; | perl markdown.pl&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Ex&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;amp&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;le&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is disabled in the stackoverflow version of markdown because it's annoying more often than not.. You are very few cases where you want &lt;code&gt;my_example_variable&lt;/code&gt; to display as my&lt;i&gt;example&lt;/i&gt;variable, instead of my_example_variable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want intra-word emphasis, just use the relevant HTML tags as Shog9 suggested:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Ch&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;romi&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;u&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;m&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really recommend &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; using the unicode zero-width-space character.. The equivalent &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#x200B;&lt;/code&gt; escape sequence seems reasonable, although it's less obvious and harder to read than simply using the HTML tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T23:34:42.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-10-24T23:40:30.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;shortest-&gt;+1  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(12 character response)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-24T23:40:30.330" />
  <row Id="27195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2009-10-24T23:56:27.780" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last I know, the site used a whitelist approach to strip the unsupported tags or unsupported attributes on tags.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;So I think it would be easy to &lt;strong&gt;at least&lt;/strong&gt; let us provide the &lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt; attribute for the &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; tag (right now, it doesn't). That way, we can manually set the language for the syntax highlighting like this :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre class=&quot;prettyprint lang-sql&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;&#xA;--sql comment here&#xA;&amp;lt/code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question ; Yes, it would definitely be worthwhile to provide hints as to what language to use for the syntax highlighting. I mean take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlservercentral.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ask.sqlservercentral.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlteam.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ask.sqlteam.com&lt;/a&gt;, both of them are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchangesites.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange sites&lt;/a&gt; focused on SQL Server. But none of the code examples are highlighted correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131610" LastEditorUserId="131610" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T00:11:32.187" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T00:11:32.187" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-25T00:17:00.177" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had great expectations for this day. I didn't attend expecting that I would learn how to program in  within a 50 minute presentation. I can do that on my own time from the comfort of my home. I came expecting to be inspired. I wanted to see things that I don't normally see in my day-to-day work. I wanted to leave all fired up and ready to make a difference in the world (ok, at least in MY world :) ). Did it deliver? Kind of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel's keynote hit the mark. It's something that all (most) developers should struggle with. How do we make something so incredibly difficult and complex appear effortless and intuitive? Elegant user interface design is something that is lacking far too many applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there things went downhill. Not that the presentations/presenters were bad or didn't know their stuff. I just wasn't inspired. For example, I felt that the JQuery talk could have demonstrated how jQuery can create the worlds most intuitive UI (as an aside, Joel's demo where he added sub tasks completely via the keyboard should be how every interface works. He mentioned that they tried to make it as simple as using notepad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg Wilson saved the day (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;slides&lt;/a&gt;). His talk has been and will be covered by numerous people so I won't add too much except to say that he opened my eyes, challenged and inspired me. Thank you Greg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reg Braithwaite also gave a great talk. I heard grumblings that there was little in the way of ruby. Which (in my opinion) was his point. Who cares about the language? Languages will come and languages will go. As developers we need to learn how to solve problems, programming languages are just a means to achieve that. If all you know how to use is a hammer then every problem will look like a nail.&#xA;I wish I would have known a bit more about Reg before the talk. I've followed some of his projects (from a distance) in the past without realizing that he was involved. He is brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end it was a great day. I'll be back next year and I'll be bringing the rest of my team with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137792" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T18:05:12.947" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:05:12.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10363" CreationDate="2009-10-25T00:20:36.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that it would make sense for the asker voting to close being more heavily weighted, although whether this is worth implementing is another matter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T00:20:36.623" />
  <row Id="27198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-25T00:47:48.443" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greg Wilson's slides are available at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137002" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T00:47:48.443" />
  <row Id="27199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27201" CreationDate="2009-10-25T00:53:08.290" Score="16" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;When does a day start on the Stack Exchange network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some badges (Enthusiast, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fanatic-badge&quot;&gt;Fanatic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7060/badge-for-upvotes-after-rep-cap-is-reached&quot;&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/a&gt;) and voting limits are bound by and relate heavily to the concept of a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do days correspond to calendar days? What time zone is used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Related&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5212/are-there-any-voting-limits&quot;&gt;Are there any voting limits?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133251" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-31T21:31:40.440" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T21:31:40.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-10T19:10:44.680" Title="What is an SE &quot;day&quot;? When does each day start?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27202" CreationDate="2009-10-25T00:55:49.400" Score="4" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a great user-input for Careers would be &quot;Dream Jobs.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe companies should be eager to hire an engineer that is passionate about the technologies they utilize. -- Many engineers (like me) fall into &quot;career traps&quot; that they would desperately like to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the circumstances, I might eagerly consider a job &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;for practically no salary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; if it involved a technology that I was interested in studying. (e.g. Python-based web apps?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid my blurb about working for no pay has skewed my intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I was trying to suggest was it would be nice to have a section for &quot;Technologies I'm Interested in Working With.&quot; -- I'm personally fortunate in that I have demonstrated success in a niche skill-set (as reflected in my resume) but would really enjoy learning something new. I'm certainly a believer in self-motivated study (in the very few hours I have away from my current day job) but making the switch without a defined project/projects to work on can only take you so far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T01:32:27.493" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T01:32:27.493" Title="Careers feature request: Dream Jobs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27199" CreationDate="2009-10-25T01:14:59.513" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes; a day starts at 00:00 UTC time. Marc Gravell explains so in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24884/what-are-the-exact-requirements-for-the-woot-enthusiast-badge/24888#24888&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24884/what-are-the-exact-requirements-for-the-woot-enthusiast-badge&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T18:16:49.963" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T18:16:49.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-10T19:10:44.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27200" CreationDate="2009-10-25T01:17:56.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's what the '&lt;code&gt;Favorite Technologies&lt;/code&gt;' tags are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T19:39:51.230" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T19:39:51.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-25T01:23:22.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved it. Mostly I will echo the sentiments above.  I'm one of the &quot;my job didn't pay for this, if it had been more than $99 it might not have worked out thank god for this I never get to go to conferences&quot; types.  Seriously, loved it - fantastic job. The venue was perfect (who cares about wifi, I have an iPhone), meals were better than expected and just good enough to come home and say &quot;you know, the food was good!&quot; without being overkill. The content was amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the ASP.NET MVC &quot;live coding example&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very sure I'm not cool enough to have done a better job, first of all. This disclaimer aside, it would have been nice if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The screen could have accommodated a full line of code without scrolling; bonus points if it could hold an entire function without scrolling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The program had worked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I had come away with an actual understanding of how to get started with ASP.NET MVC (it was as if the point was not to educate, but prove the point that we can do a site in an hour.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It had not depended on quite so many MS tricks that not everyone is using (however, as a counter point I came away thinking &quot;wow, I really have to try LINQ&quot;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Less cut and paste had been required&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, it might have been the concept that was too ambitious for an audience that varied on a screen that small.   The intent, subject and speakers were interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130606" LastEditorUserId="130606" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T01:28:42.010" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T01:28:42.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T02:33:33.377" Score="10" ViewCount="837" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charlie Owen put together a great mockup of an alternative /ask page layout:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2602/4038011915_8db8ecca1e.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please do read the whole writeup here, which goes into great detail, with specific annotations and elaboration on the current (well mostly current) /ask page layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.retrosight.com/TreatingUserMyopiaOnTheHttpSuperusercomAskAQuestionPage.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.retrosight.com/TreatingUserMyopiaOnTheHttpSuperusercomAskAQuestionPage.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are your opinions on this alternative layout?&lt;/strong&gt; There are parts of it I like a lot, and I've already implemented some of the suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like the dynamic question suggestions in the sidebar, but I'm a bit loathe to give up the &quot;How to Ask&quot; and &quot;How to Format&quot; sidebars. I am wondering if there's some way to change the content of the sidebar dynamically that makes sense..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-08-23T07:16:59.957" Title="alternative /ask page layout" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27204" CreationDate="2009-10-25T02:52:09.737" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't particularly like the number of answers he shows for the 'related questions' sidebar, and I realize it's a mockup, but it should be limited to some number that doesn't cause it to scroll past the screen. Maybe a Twitter style 'More' if you really want to see more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He brings up great points about the 'Ask your Question' duplication, and since 'Submit' is universally known as 'Send the server whatever I just did', it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to the WYSIWYG editor; he's both right and wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's right in that users that copy and paste are going to have formatting issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's wrong in believing that some other WYSIWYG editor will solve it; and if his tone means anything, it feels like he thinks it'll solve all problems and cure cancer all at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can modify markdown to handle pasted entries, then problem solved. If not, then just be glad you have 1 up on every other 'forum' in the world: You allow people to edit each other's entries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note to blog author: &lt;em&gt;its&lt;/em&gt; is possessive, &lt;em&gt;it's&lt;/em&gt; means it is.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T02:52:09.737" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15722" CreationDate="2009-10-25T02:54:33.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We no longer use the green background to denote accepted answer; the green checkmark suffices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T02:54:33.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27199" CreationDate="2009-10-25T03:07:03.920" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow's official clock is UTC time, which &lt;em&gt;just so happens&lt;/em&gt; to be the timezone Jon Skeet is in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, technically, Stack Overflow is on JST. Jon Skeet Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T03:07:03.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-10T19:10:44.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-25T03:20:23.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://ralphwhitbeck.com/2009/10/25/StackOverflowDevDaysTorontoMySlides.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery for Developers slides&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="648" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T03:20:23.283" />
  <row Id="27209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27210" CreationDate="2009-10-25T03:22:33.930" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18308/how-do-deleted-posts-affect-rep&quot;&gt;How do Deleted Posts affect rep?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I delete a question or answer of mine, how does it affect mine/others reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I get down voted for a question, can I delete it and will it give me my rep back?&#xA;What about others who answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T03:56:17.170" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T03:56:17.170" ClosedDate="2009-10-25T05:39:22.937" Title="If I delete a question or answer of mine, how does it affect mine/others reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27209" CreationDate="2009-10-25T03:29:34.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have an answer with positive rep that is later deleted (either your answer is or the question is) you will lose out on those points the next time there ever is a reputation recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you have a question that gets deleted, everybody who scored up on that question will also lose their rep from answers posted to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T03:34:53.153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T03:34:53.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27204" CreationDate="2009-10-25T03:54:59.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Ask Your Question&lt;/strong&gt; button being on the page you're asking your question is stagnant and redundant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post your question&lt;/strong&gt; would go with the &lt;strong&gt;Post Your Answer&lt;/strong&gt; button, where you're describing the action to be carried out and isn't as weak as &lt;strong&gt;Submit&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;OK&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about a more pronounced hint as to what that question mark above the box is? The words, &quot;Formatting Help&quot; only showing if you hover over it. Tooltip already exists, but this is more in your face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/Lteb4.png&quot; alt=&quot;finger for help&quot; title=&quot;touch of help?&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T03:54:59.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T07:32:52.280" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other SO sites have this link in their FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=faq&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=faq&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But MetaSO doesn't, nor does it have any prominent indication of this &quot;core&quot; stuff that I can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest it be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137802" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T09:41:05.140" Title="MetaSO lacks a link to its FAQs" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T07:47:45.643" Score="0" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/10483?tab=reputationhistory&quot;&gt;my reputation&lt;/a&gt; was 76. But today it's only 1. Why did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T09:01:02.260" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T13:59:50.560" Title="Why is my reputation down to 1 at Super User?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="27215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27214" CreationDate="2009-10-25T08:24:10.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be able to see more when clicking that little envelope next to your name. (Only you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/recent/10483?tab=reputation&quot;&gt;see that&lt;/a&gt;; we cannot.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And as this question will be moved to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; some time later, you can register there to prepare for that, and then &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/10483?tab=accounts&quot;&gt;associate your accounts&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T08:34:30.417" />
  <row Id="27216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27214" CreationDate="2009-10-25T08:41:31.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sudden drops like this can be caused by posts being marked offensive (you suddenly lose 100 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T13:59:50.560" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T13:59:50.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27204" CreationDate="2009-10-25T09:12:54.233" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's some good and some bad here in my opinion, but essentially I think he's answering the wrong question. The post gives a good answer to &quot;How can we modify the Ask-A-Question page to make it easier to ask a question?&quot;, but I think really the question should be &quot;How can we modify the Ask-A-Question page to improve the asking-a-question experience?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal isn't necessary to allow the asker to ask a question as easily/quickly as possible, it's how to get that asker to the answer as easily/quickly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Viewed from that angle some of the current design choices make more sense than the alternatives suggested :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The current layout does in some ways try to steer the user away from asking a question, but I think that's deliberate. You want to discourage the zero effort question that's only going to get an instant &quot;Duplicate&quot; response and annoy the regular users (pushing them away in the long term and so leading to less answers for everyone).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;How to ask&quot; section may seem redundant, but again the goal isn't to ask any question, it's to ask the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; question, and to this end users need regular reminding of what makes that right question. This also counts for things like the repeated FAQ links.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some good points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's definitely a question over whether SU should be modified to be more friendly to lower res screens, which probably are much less prevalent than on SO (although Jeff should be able to give some stats on that?).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;navigate away&quot; nature of the related questions must confuse some people - I guess again many non-developers don't have the open-in-new-tab/window reflex.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="908" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T09:12:54.233" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27214" CreationDate="2009-10-25T09:27:00.140" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/59740/is-there-a-difference-between-amd-and-intel-processors/59811#59811&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/59740/is-there-a-difference-between-amd-and-intel-processors/59811#59811&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was marked as offensive. Seems a bit extreme to me, so I removed that from your vote table for now and recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T09:27:00.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27213" CreationDate="2009-10-25T09:41:05.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the faq. I don't understand your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T09:41:05.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18795" CreationDate="2009-10-25T10:29:36.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a great idea to suggest to users that they may be posting into the wrong category!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But rather than doing that with a text matching algorithm, it sounds like this is a classic application for a Bayesian classifying algorithm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%5Fspam%5Ffiltering&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically we have four datasets: the existing databases of posts for SO/SU/SF and Meta.  Every post has already been &quot;classified&quot; - we can be reasonably sure that the classification for each post is correct if it has a certain number of views and/or upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So using that dataset of classified posts, we should be able to use classic Bayesian filtering to determine which bucket/category each new post should be posted into.  This is how Bayesian algorithms filter emails... using Bayesian algorithms run on existing datasets, they determine if each new post should be classified as Ham or Spam.  In this case, our Bayesian filtering algorithm would determine if each post should be in SO, SU, SF or Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this would be adaptive - as more sites are added, the Bayesian algorithm would learn which site to sort each post into.  This would scale nicely - rather than having to brainstorm new text-matching patters for each new site, the Bayesian algorithms would find out what words tend to appear in posts on that site and pattern match accordingly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange engine could use it as well, to suggest an appropriate site in the event that a user posts an offtopic post into one of the SE-powered sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T10:29:36.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18795" CreationDate="2009-10-25T11:07:56.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think sometimes as programmers we get obsessed with programmatic solutions to the detriment of practical ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tiny fractional slivers of human effort are pretty darn effective at this already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would take a substantial engineering effort to even attempt this, and it would likely cause more problems in false positives and bugs than it solves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T11:07:56.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-25T14:51:04.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greg Wilson's talk was definitely the highlight of the event.  I really wish that it was recorded because I'd love to show it to some colleagues.  He touched on a lot of the issues we run into in my current working environment (and I'm sure many others' as well).  I'm simply not going to do the presentation any justice when I attempt to explain it.  It's the only talk that during which I was frantically taking notes.  Very natural presenter, well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Python talk was interesting, a lot of information and a very intriguing sample program covered in less than hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, too, came from Rochester, NY and would likely come again next year.  Not sure if I would stay at the Rogers Centre/Renaissance Toronto Hotel again, but I am definitely going back to the Mill Street Brewery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T14:51:04.280" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27226" CreationDate="2009-10-25T16:44:18.933" Score="3" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4448/does-so-encourage-developer-laziness&quot;&gt;Does SO encourage developer laziness?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My post is a dupe. I tried to have it deleted but can't. Please &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4448/does-so-encourage-developer-laziness&quot;&gt;follow the original&lt;/a&gt; thread where it belongs. If possible delete or close my post.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ORIGINAL&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been following Stackoverflow for sometime now and I find it to be one of the most usefully sites on programming. That said I think one should try its best to only ask a question when the solution to the problem has been thought of, at least for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do notice that some fellow programmers here shoot without even reading the functions docs, take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1621298/how-to-scroll-to-a-div-100-with-scrollto&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should one reply to this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Down voting the question?&lt;/strong&gt; The user is new, down voting would probably mean nothing to him and would scare him away from Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Respond?&lt;/strong&gt; Would probably be an incentive to laziness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tell him to go and read the docs?&lt;/strong&gt; Would be a dull reply and be of little value to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you guys, and how should we all respond to lazy-questioning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137820" LastEditorUserId="137820" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T11:52:29.553" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T11:52:29.553" ClosedDate="2009-10-26T12:13:26.503" Title="How to deal with Stackoverflow laziness?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27200" CreationDate="2009-10-25T16:51:33.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you describe how such a feature might manifest itself in the site? e.g. a description of your ideal job (technologies, working conditions, hours etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T16:51:33.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27223" CreationDate="2009-10-25T17:02:09.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to respond if I know the answer. I don't want to spend time judging the questioner if it is a valid question with an available answer. Even if the answer is in the docs, by being on this site certain questions assume a FAQ-like quality and that is fine with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131945" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T17:02:09.353" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27223" CreationDate="2009-10-25T17:07:57.000" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say to just answer the question with a link to the source in the documentation. If the aim of the site is to be the end all resource for programming questions, repeating something from the documentation isn't going to hurt that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I try not to ask these types of questions if I can avoid it, I often look up basic RTFM type questions on SO mainly because I find the site easy to use and often people answer with tips beyond the basics that the man page would provide. For example, &quot;This method doesn't work as documented, try this workaround...&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, documentation for some products is organized to where you need to know the name of the command or class before you can look it up, which makes it kind of like looking up the spelling of a word in a dictionary. Task based documentation isn't as common as it should be, but the questions asked here tend to be more task oriented and easier to look up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestion&lt;/strong&gt;: It is clear that these questions bug people. Maybe we could initiate a tag like RTFM (with a less inflamatory name) that moderators/high-rep users could apply. Then people that hate these things could set them to be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T17:07:57.000" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15262" CreationDate="2009-10-25T17:13:38.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be useful having an RSS feed available for anything that would show up in 'users/recent' (i.e. the envelope icon). I frequently click on that to see where the latest +10 came from.  It would also be convenient for being able to click directly to the post that someone has just commented on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T17:13:38.627" />
  <row Id="27228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27223" CreationDate="2009-10-25T17:13:58.957" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some sort of tag seems a good idea.  Otherwise, perhaps give a brief answer, with a link to the docs or a google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137822" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T17:13:58.957" />
  <row Id="27229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T17:31:44.583" Score="52" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm having a premature senior moment, but I'm sure that when editing an answer there &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to be a link to the existing answer - which I used to use to bring up the original question in a separate tab. It was fabulously useful, but it seems to have gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I delusional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, what was the reason for removing said link, and is there any chance we could have it back please? (Or have a copy of the question in the edit page, probably collapsed to start with but expandable.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T09:54:21.087" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T09:54:21.087" Title="What happened to the &quot;Return to answer&quot; link?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="27230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-10-25T17:37:54.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right - it's gone &amp;amp; rather than having it back a copy of the question would be better. You could even hide it from regular users behind a link/button that would display it without a refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's gone across all four sites - currently showing version 5066.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T23:35:50.513" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T23:35:50.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27204" CreationDate="2009-10-25T17:46:49.963" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visually I think the proposed page looks much cleaner. Moving the related questions to the side-panel looks good. Perhaps this could be made a bit shorter, and retain the &quot;How to ask&quot; panel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the user types a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/341/askaquestionbefore.png&quot; alt=&quot;Before entering title&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being the only thing in the sidebar, the &quot;How to Ask&quot; box stands out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading it, the user enters a title. The &quot;How to Ask&quot; box is moved out the way by something else they should pay attention to, the related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3810/askaquestiontitled.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mockup when user enters title&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After verifying it's an original question, they start writing their question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once that is done, the user scrolls down to click &quot;Post your Question&quot;.. but they spot a big brightly coloured flashing box with plenty of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blink&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags (okay, maybe no flashing or blink tags):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2107/askaquestionwhensubmitt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mockup of lower part of page&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two possibilities: The question does indeed looks wrong, so the user reads the markdown primer, realises they need to add a few blank lines, and proceeds falls in love with the wonderfully simple Markdown syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively: the question looks fine, because the user has experience with Markdown, from their blog or wherever - so, they click the little close button, and it is never seen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a slight aside:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Issue: Offline writing then copy and paste doesn't work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With basic knowledge of Markdown, you can easily write your questions/answers in any text editor. Many editors have markdown previews, and there is even dedicated Markdown editors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a WYSIWYG editor, there is almost no way to write text offline, then paste it without having to reapply any formatting (at least not without lots of incredibly error prone paste-detection and auto-formatting)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Solution: Replace Markdown with a more elegant solution which understands CRLF. Even better, implement a true WYSIWYG editor if possible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It completely disagree with this. I think a simple prompt (as mentioned in the article, and mocked up in the above images) should solve this whole one-return-linebreak kerfuffle, without the need to fork Markdown..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't look right in the preview, it's not hard to work out &quot;I'm probably doing something wrong&quot;. The brightly coloured box, pointing the user to the formatting help, should point them in the correct direction (and should mention the &quot;question formatting help&quot;, link for future reference)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T17:46:49.963" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T18:02:53.263" Score="-6" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4830/private-message-feature&quot;&gt;Private Message Feature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11635/instant-messaging-on-so-sf-su&quot;&gt;instant messaging on SO SF SU&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole question &amp;amp; answer concept has proved itself, but why don't you support something like private messages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or an alternative forum to ask some off-topic discussion questions? (For which you don't get points if it bothers you.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As far as I understand it, you can't ask in Meta things like, &quot;What's your favorite animal?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137825" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T16:24:46.337" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T16:24:46.337" ClosedDate="2009-10-26T01:24:28.977" Title="Maybe we have other things to talk about apart from programming?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;messaging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26820" CreationDate="2009-10-25T18:14:21.560" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I can tell you that I've been running a job board at jobs.joelonsoftware.com for several years now and have not received a single complaint about spammy recruiters placing fake ads just to collect resumes for their collection. I think the worst case scenario if a recruiter does this is that you get an email offering you a job that you don't want, and you delete it. That's not really the end of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, we can add it to the Terms of Service that anybody using the resume search feature must be searching for an active position, and must reveal the name of the employer to the job seeker in the first email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most important to remember is that the whole goal of careers.stackoverflow.com is to put all these shady recruiters out of business. If we're successful, nobody will need recruiters just to source resumes, because they'll go straight to the mountain: StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:14:21.560" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33310" CreationDate="2009-10-25T18:32:37.167" Score="4" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear that the account's &quot;Last activity time&quot; is not updated for every hit.  I've been active on SO all morning, and in the last five minutes have voted on some posts as well as posted an answer.  However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40468/ether&quot;&gt;my account profile&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Last activity: 2 hours ago from &amp;lt;IP address&amp;gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a certain amount of time that needs to elapse between hits before the activity time is updated again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This issue could result in Enthusiast badges not being awarded when they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:37:40.620" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T09:27:43.140" Title="Account &quot;last activity time&quot; is not always updated" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27232" CreationDate="2009-10-25T18:33:02.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Offtopics (like what's your favorite animal) shouldn't be asked in a programming site, like SO, even if there's some more private room, like the upcoming chat feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a StackExchange site that's dedicated to talk about offtopics, which aren't covered in any other StackExchange site, which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://offtopic.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Offtopic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastEditorUserId="131760" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T18:39:07.987" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:39:07.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22940" CreationDate="2009-10-25T18:53:45.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently SO is hosted on IIS. In my opinion, there are two issues here and I wonder why it was tagged &quot;status-declined&quot; as they are both trivial to fix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The error page is a default error page and should show a human readable error page. Showing the parser error is almost as bad as showing a stacktrace. While this isn't fixed, just change the default error page to a &lt;em&gt;&quot;oops, something went wrong, please report or try again&quot;&lt;/em&gt; page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixing this is trivial: add a rewrite rule in IIS to replace the dot in global.asax (or any dot-containing expression) with an underscore or similar. In the database, the reverse must be done: underscores must be replaced by dots, of course. This has two wins: firstly, it immediately allows for &quot;illegal&quot; strings and secondly, it enhances security by not telling possible hackers how you've configured your environment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please reopen this. If you need help implementing a fix or need more elaboration on the workarounds, the ups and downs of it etc, you can always contact me off-site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T18:53:45.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27238" CreationDate="2009-10-25T19:48:25.857" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the suspension of my account from Super User, I noticed that my reputation was gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the side-effects of being 'boxed' or suspended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T20:13:09.497" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T20:13:09.497" Title="What are side effects of Suspension?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27237" CreationDate="2009-10-25T19:57:35.317" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi Joe. After the suspension period (typically one week) your rep will be recalculated. So you're only temporarily at 1 rep. For more info, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A day in the penalty box&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must say that playing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s%5Flaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Is that a verb?&quot;&gt;Godwin&lt;/a&gt; right there in your question is not such a good idea. You may want to remove that remark and relax a bit. It's not the end of the word. (Oh, and may I suggest a spelling and grammar checker?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider emailing &lt;code&gt;team@superuser.com&lt;/code&gt; if you want personal feedback on your penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T20:09:16.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T20:09:16.223" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27237" CreationDate="2009-10-25T20:11:49.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me slow, but none of your linked accounts are currently suspended... do you have others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway; suspension:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prevents posting, editing, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prevents commenting (although it didn't once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prevents you gaining rep for the duration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;causes a recalc when the suspension ends&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T20:11:49.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27232" CreationDate="2009-10-25T20:31:26.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other sites exist for other topics. I don't ask theology questions here, I go to a theology forum. I don't drum up a community, or chat in general about the forum software project I work with, we have a forum for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything has a place, and programming has StackOverflow, Server Admin has ServerFault, and Super Users have SuperUser. Questions/problems/etc. with the engine itself have Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to chat with people, post a link in your profile to where you like to hang. If it doesn't exist, make it. If you don't know how to make it - well, there's a programming question. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T20:31:26.963" />
  <row Id="27241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-10-25T20:32:07.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just open the edit link in a separate tab, rather than clicking on the edit link and then opening the question again in a separate tab?  That seems like a more logical &quot;work flow&quot; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T20:32:07.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-10-25T20:39:15.307" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to miss that one! That was indeed useful to double check specifics from the OP. Where can we sign the petition to bring it back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: to clarify my thoughts... I &lt;em&gt;totally get&lt;/em&gt; that new development generally needs to be biased towards new users, and (realistically) monetization: if there was a new [feature-request] &quot;add a back to question link&quot;, I'd merrily say &quot;hold [ctrl] when you click&quot;. But lets not &lt;strong&gt;actively&lt;/strong&gt; spend dev time making things &lt;em&gt;more awkward&lt;/em&gt; for the site addicts. Pretty please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit edit: [ctrl]+(click back button) in Chrome does what we need ;-p (at least, it does in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27028&quot;&gt;4.x&lt;/a&gt;). You are using your employer's browser, yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T21:47:01.393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:47:01.393" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T20:46:49.790" Score="7" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;This and related bugs have repeatedly been reported &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24424/list-preceeding-code-prevents-code-from-being-displayed-as-code&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7503/bug-code-after-bullet-list-isnt-renedered-correctly-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3327/why-is-a-code-block-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-i&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23822/markdown-code-block-problem&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which is four times in four months. And there are many many more of the same reports, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue? Almost the same. But in my case it was even more scary: the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1620589/xslimport-using-stylesheets&quot;&gt;entire code block of this question&lt;/a&gt; disappeared during typing and when submitting. It is easily reproducible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy the following code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then do something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the code above this line? No? If you do, this bug is fixed, if you don't the bug is still there. Code to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Copy the following code&#xA;3. Then do something&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:import @href=&quot;test.xsl&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &quot;bug&quot; has sometimes incorrectly &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24424/list-preceeding-code-prevents-code-from-being-displayed-as-code&quot;&gt;been considered &quot;by design&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, a feature or, most often, as a duplicate. I just bring it up again because it is being reported so often and because this behavior is far from intuitive. Most of the reporters complain that it takes so long to figure out how to workaround this bug. And if you are an occasional poster, unintuitive behavior or odd workarounds don't stick and can put people off when they have to figure it out again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I suggest: fix it, to prevent &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25368/code-block-after-numbered-list-markdown-bug&quot;&gt;further reports&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3327/why-is-a-code-block-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-i/11317#11317&quot;&gt;wasted time&lt;/a&gt; figuring out or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7503/bug-code-after-bullet-list-isnt-renedered-correctly/7504#7504&quot;&gt;explaining the issue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; If I can be of any assistance to fixing it, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="137826" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T14:50:19.440" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T12:05:19.427" Title="Bug: code blocks after numbered or bulleted lists completely disappear" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27243" CreationDate="2009-10-25T20:56:28.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; by design. You must indent 8 spaces, as you're &quot;within&quot; a numbered list at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try it in babelmark if you don't believe me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you want is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Copy the following code&#xA;3. Then do something&#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:import @href=&quot;test.xsl&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Copy the following code&#xA;3. Then do something&#xA;&#xA;look ma, a paragraph!&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:import @href=&quot;test.xsl&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Copy the following code&#xA;3. Then do something&#xA;&#xA; &amp;amp;lt;xsl:import @href=&quot;test.xsl&quot;&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Copy the following code&#xA;3. Then do something&#xA;&#xA;   `&amp;lt;xsl:import @href=&quot;test.xsl&quot;&amp;gt;`&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-25T21:01:44.413" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:01:44.413" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25503" CreationDate="2009-10-25T21:03:43.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will be supporting full Markdown in all free text fields in the next version, to be released by Oct. 28th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:03:43.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27232" CreationDate="2009-10-25T21:08:08.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nicely played sir. You just succeeded in advertising your new site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:08:08.933" />
  <row Id="27247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10665" CreationDate="2009-10-25T21:24:29.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, there's a difference between a &lt;em&gt;filter&lt;/em&gt; and an &lt;em&gt;order&lt;/em&gt;.  To take Unanswered as an example, &quot;My Tags&quot; means &quot;filter out anything that doesn't have one of my tags.&quot;  &quot;Newest&quot; means, &quot;order the questions by date.&quot;  It would be nice to be able to combine these - I would very much like, for example, to be able to show &quot;Unanswered questions with my tags, ordered by date.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130474" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:24:29.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27234" CreationDate="2009-10-25T21:26:55.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is documented in another answer as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;add key=&quot;Security.LastAccessDateThresholdMins&quot; value=&quot;30&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;add key=&quot;Security.LastLoginDateThresholdHours&quot; value=&quot;8&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just how things work on the web. You're only &quot;there&quot; as a user when you request a page. Spend an hour reading something, we don't know if you're there or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T09:27:43.140" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T09:27:43.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-10-25T21:30:37.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or if you can let users create their own stack site on your system. Like Google Groups, but now it's Jeff Stacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137756" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:30:37.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-25T21:30:37.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T21:41:14.537" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19356/printer-friendly-layout-truncates-long-titles-on-firefox&quot;&gt;Printer-friendly layout truncates long titles on Firefox&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I printed out the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/60503/what-is-the-best-computer-hardware-for-a-fast-quiet-non-gaming-developer-machin&quot;&gt;What is the best computer hardware for a fast, quiet, non-gaming developer machine?&lt;/a&gt;, it only printed part of the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the best computer hardware for&#xA;  a fast, quiet, non-gaming d&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T21:41:14.537" ClosedDate="2009-10-25T21:51:10.490" Title="printing stack overflow questions cuts off long titles" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;printing&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26814" CreationDate="2009-10-25T22:20:47.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can already do that in the Projects and Links box. From the help:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Are there any public or open source projects you've participated in that you'd like to share? Perhaps something on SourceForge, CodePlex, Github, Google Code, or similar?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Is there anything else on the internet that shows off who you are and what you do &amp;ndash; screencasts, blog entries, slideshows, presentations, videos, whatever? Link to it here, and briefly describe why it's awesome.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This field supports plain text with linebreaks, and automatic hyperlinking in the form...&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.example.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;... so don't be shy about linking to anything cool and interesting you'd like to share!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133184" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T22:20:47.907" />
  <row Id="27253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-25T22:38:22.443" Score="-2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a button to search for questions within interesting tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137834" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T01:35:43.727" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T01:41:58.553" Title="Button to search for questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="27254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27255" CreationDate="2009-10-25T23:01:51.517" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm playing with solutions to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1619739/replacing-tokens-in-a-string-from-an-array&quot;&gt;one of my questions&lt;/a&gt; on SO. There are some great answers there, but no perfect ones (broken in a minor way, wrong after I clarified the question, or good but not ideal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to award credit where it's due, but the final code will combine of one or more answers with my own tinkering. It looks like there are three options here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark-as-answered with the best answer (and there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a best answer), edit the question with my solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Submit my own answer, upvote good answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Submit my own CW answer, upvote good answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the right choice? This probably comes up on all of the SO sites. When the final answer is &lt;em&gt;close to&lt;/em&gt; one of the submitted answers, the asker should get a chance to wrap up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132616" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T23:10:14.183" Title="Best way to award credit when solution is *based on* another answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27254" CreationDate="2009-10-25T23:10:14.183" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not edit one of the answers (the closest one) to have the most aspects of correctness, then award it to that person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, you reward the &quot;closest to correct&quot; answerer, and the answer has been edited so it's all in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of &lt;em&gt;course&lt;/em&gt; upvote every answer that was useful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-25T23:10:14.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-10-25T23:30:51.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just about to post this question too. I don't understand why it's gone and it is inconvenient, particularly because the question isn't displayed when you edit an answer for it. I usually find myself ctrl+clicking on the &quot;Return to Question&quot; link to open the question in a new tab to refer to some detail in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Seriously, can we get this back or a comment as to why it was removed? It makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Why can't we at least get a comment as to why it was removed? It makes absolutely no sense to me. Can't we just have it back? It's a huge pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T03:03:15.060" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T03:03:15.060" />
  <row Id="27259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2009-10-26T00:12:20.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will sometimes answer such questions by defining a program language that generates an executable which implements the questioner's requirements when faced with an empty file as source code, and then claim zero characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No-one ever recognises my brilliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T00:12:20.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33484" CreationDate="2009-10-26T00:56:55.380" Score="4" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you search for something that doesn't return any results, the Suggestions on the No Results page are not working as they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the following search returns no results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=csv+%5Bsaveas%5D+%5Bpowerbuilder%5D&quot;&gt;csv &lt;strong&gt;[saveas]&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;[powerbuilder]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestions I get for my search are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Place your search terms in quotes to search for a phrase:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;csv saveas powerbuilder&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use fewer words:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=csv%20%5bsaveas%5d%20%5bpowerbuilder%5d&quot;&gt;csv [saveas] [&lt;strike&gt;powerbuilder&lt;/strike&gt;]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=csv+%5Bsaveas%5D+%5Bpowerbuilder%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;strike&gt;csv&lt;/strike&gt; [saveas] [powerbuilder]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=csv%20%5bsaveas%5d%20%5bpowerbuilder%5d&quot;&gt;csv [saveas] [&lt;strike&gt;powerbuilder&lt;/strike&gt;]&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two issue here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I think the suggestions should remove the first word, remove the second word, ... remove the nth word and so on. In this instance, the second last and last suggestions are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the URLs for the suggestions don't remove the stuck-out word if it's a tag. The last suggestion's URL should be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=csv+%5Bsaveas%5D&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=csv+%5Bsaveas%5D&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;since the &lt;strong&gt;[powerbuilder]&lt;/strong&gt; tag is removed in the displayed font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130593" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T08:56:59.073" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T08:56:59.073" Title="Tags not being removed from search suggestions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27266" CreationDate="2009-10-26T01:07:55.297" Score="13" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;[ this is perhaps pretty close to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11001/question-answer-ratio-etiquette-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11001/question-answer-ratio-etiquette-in-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; and maybe a few others...but it seems at least a smidge different than &quot;&lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate&quot; to me... ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that &quot;a lot&quot; of &quot;stupid&quot; or &quot;bad&quot; questions (asked only for rep?) come from people with few answers.  While I'm by no means any type of an expert on SO (with a measly 1000+ rep), I answer a whole lot more questions than I ask--by a ratio of about 10-answered to 1-asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything on SO that is driven by this ratio?  Should there be?  If so, what would be a &quot;good&quot; question/answer ratio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we all want people to feel free to ask questions, there is a lot of benefit in both answering questions and taking the time to write a decent question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137439" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T13:32:07.930" Title="What is a &quot;good&quot; question/answer ratio?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-10-26T01:26:04.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why these &quot;easy to Google&quot; questions are asked, but one possible reason, rather than just pure laziness, is that these people are lonely and actually want some kind of human response. Or, they feel insecure and would like to get some kind of confirmation which the documentation can't give them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In exchange for reassuring these people you get the reputation points. I guess most of the reputation points people get are for answering relatively easy questions. In fact you are less likely to pick up a lot of points for answering a difficult question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T01:26:04.690" />
  <row Id="27263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27253" CreationDate="2009-10-26T01:41:58.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a good ratio of interesting:ignored in your tags lists, and you have hidden those you're ignoring, the search already works just fine for filtering through your interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you search, those that match your ignore+hidden list will disappear from display, leaving you with those that are on your interesting and any fluff that comes through. Most of the time the fluff is stuff that doesn't distract too much and if it does, it's just another thing to add to your ignore list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to search within a particular tag, load it up in the field with square brackets (&lt;code&gt;[]&lt;/code&gt;) to make sure it's treated as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say you want to search all questions tagged &lt;strong&gt;[svn]&lt;/strong&gt; that contain the word &quot;conflict&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bsvn%5D+conflict&quot; title=&quot;deep in the grass, where the bullets whizz by&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[svn]&lt;/strong&gt; conflict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T01:41:58.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-26T02:18:41.500" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;DevDays was definitely well worth the time and money I invested in it. Kudos to Joel, Carsonified and everyone involved in the logistics for being able to pull off the conference at such a low price point. I am in the crowd of people who self paid for the ticket (though my employer gave me the day off to attend), so the fact the event was only $99 was a big reason behind me being able to attend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appologize in advance if I end up repeating the thoughts of others that posted before me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;General Comments:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The location was perfect. Being in the centre of Toronto made attending very easy for me - just took the subway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kudos on the food provider you picked - the food was excellent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone commented on the wireless, but I just tethered my Macbook to the iPhone - was good enough for me :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I liked the display with the time during breaks plus the ubiquitous Twitter feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I loved the video on &quot;The Office&quot; software dev style that was shown at the beginning - you guys should put the video up somewhere (I need to let some friends who couldn't come see it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I missed out on the Painless Project Management book but managed to get a copy of Smartbear's Peer Code Review book. I'm a big fan of peer review so look forward to reading this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Next time please please please pick a venue that I can bring my morning coffee into the event. The staff at the door made me throw out a full cup of coffee I had just bought at Starbucks :(&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone presenting obviously knew their stuff, and the topics were very enlightening&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Joel's Opening Talk&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great, as I expected. I've been reading Joel's writing now for what seems like for-ev-er (how many years now? :) ) and it was great to finally hear him speak&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's really illuminating to realize the impact on usability that having too many &quot;options&quot; has - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This classic comic sums up the idea behind too many options affecting usability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The technology was very cool, I could see the passion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While it was cool that the platform was easy enough that the app could be built before our eyes, I would say you would be better off having a prebuilt app and just showing us the highlights (perhaps making small additions/modifications)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would have liked to see perhaps two apps that do the same thing, one using ASP.NET and one using MVC and showcasing the differences. &quot;Notice this bit of hairy code? Not necessary look how cool it is now in MVC!!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I wasn't offended by the &quot;Hippie&quot; comments, thought it was all in good fun. Also I'm pretty sure you can't argue that RMS &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a chatty cathy :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ACCORDION GUY: NO ACCORDION PLAYING???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Python Talk&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The spell checker was a clever bit of programming :) Python is cool, I like Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;FogBugz&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'll admit I have never used FogBugz before, so the demo was very interesting and cool to me. I love the calculated percentile chances of schedules being met. Also nice to be able to see who is delaying the project&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kiln seems like a very cool product, but not sure how easy that is going to be to sell hosted services for my company's source code to the upper management. Any plans for allowing companies to host their own Kiln servers? I'd definitely like to try it for my own personal stuff though, especially so I can see how it (and mercurial itself) compares to git&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;jQuery&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This was a very VERY cool talk. I guess I shouldn't be suprised but webdev tools have come a long way (Somehow I've managed to do almost no webdev over the past 6+ years or so)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This demo was impressive enough that someone else from my company (who IS involved in our web side of stuff) is going to be looking deeper into jQuery to see if we can use it in our software, so kudos to the presenter!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only minor comment: would have been cool to see more of the UI elements of jQuery, and also a demo to show &quot;hey this also works in the worst browser imaginable, IE6, with the same source!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Greg Wilson's Talk&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was excellent, one of the best of the entire event. It is so true that we need more concrete basis on the &quot;truths&quot; we try to follow in our development methodologies in this industry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The slide about women's role in the software industry could be definitely be its own talk, and its obvious that this is something Greg is passionate about - has Greg done a talk about this topic and is it online somewhere?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Meta-Linguistic Programming&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I find this topic VERY interesting, since coindicentally I started reviewing a preview copy of a book about Domain-Specific-Languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reg was a great speaker and obviously knew a lot about the topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minor critique: it would have been nice if Reg could have shown a couple more examples of cases where he made use of features of the language to work around issues like his .andand technique that made his code more expressive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I love &quot;Thinking about Thinking about Programming&quot;. That quote is something that stuck in my head even now a couple days after the talk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking forward to being able to attend next year! I definitely recommend anyone who didn't go this year to check it out next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137839" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T02:18:41.500" />
  <row Id="27265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27261" CreationDate="2009-10-26T02:25:00.890" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any one right answer to this, and as far as I know nothing on the site is driven by your Q/A ratio.  If you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;top users&lt;/a&gt; you'll see some tiny Q/A ratios.  Question quality is a lot more important in this regard, though.  I don't think anyone would fault you for asking 100 &lt;strong&gt;high quality&lt;/strong&gt; questions for every answer you gave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do like people to contribute back to the community, but there are other ways to do it than answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask good questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit other people's posts for grammar/spelling/accuracy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag spam for moderator attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there have been a handful of cases where a few members asked such a huge number (hundreds) of dreadful questions, and the community flagged them often enough, that a warning email was issued to inform them of the problem and what to do about it.  In other words, &lt;strong&gt;we will let you know if it's a problem&lt;/strong&gt;.  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T02:25:00.890" />
  <row Id="27266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27261" CreationDate="2009-10-26T04:00:28.633" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact answer to Dan is that, unfortunately, there's absolutely no benefit or even recognition (no extra perms, no badges, no stats displayed outside of the Q and A counts on user's profile) for people who provide answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Bill - I beg to differ. It is &lt;strong&gt;significantly&lt;/strong&gt; easier/more rewarding to ask a question than to provide an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The pool of questions is very large - easy to find a Q to ask&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was noted before, some people succeeded in acquiring a fair amount of rep points by merely doing what amounts to typing in every question from a textbook (I'm exaggregating but not much) - and as long as the questions were fairly well worded and not GimmeTheCodez, they don't get voted down or closed due to Joel and Jeff's attitude about newbie questions and overall purpose of the site becoming an &quot;encyclopedia&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, you don't really need to know anything to ask a question, so your range of topics for asking is nearly infinite, whereas you need to posess at least some knowledge to be able to answer all but completely trivial questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The risk of posting a question is much lower&lt;/strong&gt;. Especially risk adjusted by amount of work/time spent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very few questions aside from really awful get downvoted much and many get upvoted. Answers get down-voted much more, and for many more reasons - someone didn't like the answer, someone thinks it's wrong, someone wants to improve their own answer's placement by tactically downvoting others, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even leaving aside spurious things, the risk of having your answer be not correct and thus downvoted exists unless you're Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's much more work to produce a good answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to make sure it's correct, it often needs some working code, you should have some links to references, and you should format it nicely. Most questions can be a lot sloppier and will be shortly edited to better form (much more often than asnwers).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's no time pressure on questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can post at any time, take as long as you want. Answers, you need to catch the question you can answer on time (before someone else posts 100% good answer and before someone posts 100% same as yours answer - hopefully the same thing :) ) and you need to try and answer it as soon as possible due to TFGITW bias (one of MSO posts had very telling statistics about TWGITW).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asking a question has its own rewards&lt;/strong&gt; aside from rep points and quite likely greatly more important than them (from at least satisfying burning curiosity to helping with making your paying job easier and your work faster). Answering, aside from a dicey chance of earning some rep, merely allows you to feel better about yourself and/or show off a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, by treating questions same as answers, you merely create a bias towards rewarding questioners (they earn easier/more/faster rep on average due to factors above) and thus a pressure against answerers. And while you need questions for Q&amp;amp;A side, the questions will ALWAYS come even if there's no rep awarded for them - they will come from people genuinely wanting to know the answer (or people wanting to better the site - just as people answer wanting to better the site/community). Yet if you drive away the answeres (or lower their motivation - which personally already happened to me), you lower the quelity and potential of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;/rant&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T04:00:28.633" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-26T04:14:48.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Python talk slides have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/hexsprite/a-taste-of-python-devdays-toronto-2009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137846" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T04:14:48.300" />
  <row Id="27268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27272" CreationDate="2009-10-26T04:47:15.813" Score="3" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/849/the-4th-in-the-trilogy&quot;&gt;On this question &lt;/a&gt;, Jeff comments: &quot;I try to pretend meta doesn't exist&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Jeff hate Meta so much? As Meta's parent, doesn't this seem like bad parenting? Shouldn't Jeff love all his (web)children? Isn't he afraid Meta will grow up with a complex?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137847" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T05:15:25.263" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T05:15:25.263" Title="Why does Jeff Dislike Meta So Much?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T04:49:50.957" Score="44" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really a question but an incredibly grateful comment. I am so thankful for this site's creation. I only recently became aware of it having a lot of programming questions lately. Seems any and all questions I ever ask are already here so again, THANK YOU FOR EXISTING!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137848" LastEditorUserId="144987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-04T20:10:18.063" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T20:10:18.063" Title="This place is AWESOME!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27268" CreationDate="2009-10-26T05:00:51.907" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001282.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the above is a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; tongue-in-cheek. But as an aside: nobody pays for meta. OK, that isn't the biggie; the biggie is that it isn't &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; productive time (and certainly has a lower signal:noise), but he has (grudgingly, maybe) been forced to accept that it is &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt; wasted time; that keeps the main site clean of some of the noise, and provides somewhere for the unwashed regulars to let of steam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon, I hear the SO employees are going to get holiday, lunch breaks, etc!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/meta-means-murder.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Meta means murder&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T05:00:51.907" />
  <row Id="27271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27261" CreationDate="2009-10-26T05:02:14.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are those who: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. Ask a lot more than they answer (if any at all)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. Answers a lot more than they ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C. Quite balanced in asking and answering&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ratio actually doesn't bother me. What really bother me is those whose acceptance rates are low and the asking ratios are high. Having said that, it's my personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T05:02:14.747" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-26T05:02:14.747" />
  <row Id="27272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27268" CreationDate="2009-10-26T05:09:34.510" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why, I'll tell Meta the same thing I tell my son, &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/rockhardawesome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rock Hard Awesome!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3530/38568577.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are worthless! You will never amount to anything! I don't know why I even bothered creating you in the first place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His response is the same as mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Oh, you just wait until I blog this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T05:09:34.510" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27269" CreationDate="2009-10-26T05:10:53.277" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, thank YOU FOR EXISTING!!! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because after all, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow is You&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* most of the time&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T05:10:53.277" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="27274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27276" CreationDate="2009-10-26T06:22:37.510" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is in the title, how do I sort the questions by the number of view? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not that, I'd settle for any suggestion on how to view the &quot;Most Viewed&quot; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131901" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T07:02:48.783" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T07:02:48.783" Title="How do I sort the questions by the number of views?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27261" CreationDate="2009-10-26T06:32:20.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people need to stop caring whether or not people answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not important. It's only important whether they ask good questions. If they ask bad, vague and easily searchable (&lt;strong&gt;on SO&lt;/strong&gt;, it's not important that they can be found on Google) then that's different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You don't have to earn the right to ask questions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Let it go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T06:32:20.920" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27274" CreationDate="2009-10-26T06:44:54.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can at least search for questions based on the number of views:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=views%3A500&quot;&gt;views:500&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will search for questions with at least 500 views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T06:44:54.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27261" CreationDate="2009-10-26T07:54:33.600" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah well: an instance of a not good Q/A ratio is 63 questions, 1 answer (and that one down-voted twice), with a 28% accept rate.  The user in question has made 22 up-votes and 3 down-votes too.  And has a reputation of 578 - enough to go retagging. (Now (2009-11-09) nearer 750 reputation, and currently 'nameless'; the name has been removed from the user entry.)  Frankly, I find that unsatisfactory; the user has not demonstrated competence and should not IMNSHO be allowed the perquisites that go with the accumulated reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've come across another 'not good' Q/A ratio - 26 questions: 2 answers (both of which should be edits to a question by this person, both showing 0 votes); 0 up-votes; 0 down-votes; 0 accepted answers; 245 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="15168" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T13:32:07.930" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T13:32:07.930" />
  <row Id="27283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27284" CreationDate="2009-10-26T08:55:56.987" Score="0" ViewCount="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the user profile page, one can sort the answers based on votes, newest, views and recent. Although this is really helpful, it would be even better if users can filter out the answers based on the tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure for those who have answered too many questions, it would be a pain without this feature if they need to refer to their previous answers for any reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39289" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T09:01:31.823" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:01:31.823" Title="Filter a user's answers based on tags" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27283" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:00:03.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever gone into your own profile, or anyone else's for that matter, and clicked on the tags at the bottom? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do that, see what you return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:00:03.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:01:32.477" Score="11" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;Unanswered&lt;/a&gt; page, there is on the right a list with &quot;Unanswered Tags&quot; and after that a list with my personal &quot;Interesting Tags&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unanswered tag list links to the unanswered page for that tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;/unanswered/tagged/c#&lt;/a&gt;), while the interesting tag list links to all questions for that tag (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php&quot;&gt;/questions/tagged/php&lt;/a&gt;).  Why is it done like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be better to link the interesting tag list there to the unanswered pages instead? Is there an easy clickable path to the unanswered page of my favorite tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastEditorUserId="85514" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T17:07:34.030" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T21:27:29.290" Title="Interesting tags on unanswered page point to question page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27851" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:11:58.730" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;setting bounties on other peoples questions is planned&lt;/a&gt;, I think it would make sense to separate the indication that a bounty has been awarded from the checkmark. (create a separate icon). Then the issue about auto-acceptance of answers could finally disappear, as the bounty and bounty icon could be automatically awarded instead of acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional possibilities that are &lt;strong&gt;non-core&lt;/strong&gt;. It is not actually necessary to implement these possibilities, rather they are just listed as examples of what else would be possible once bounties were split off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple bounties would become possible, with the proviso that one person cannot receive over 500 points from answering a single questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 points of the bounty could be kept separate for the question owner to award&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:11:01.243" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T22:31:53.720" Title="Separate awarding of bounties from acceptance" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12989" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:12:27.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love SO, but I'm old enough to remember EE's first days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time, the force was with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137152" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:12:27.340" />
  <row Id="27288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27285" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:13:30.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer you can find &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the &lt;em&gt;my tags&lt;/em&gt; page of the &lt;em&gt;Unanswered Questions&lt;/em&gt;. You can click to the right &lt;em&gt;in your tags&lt;/em&gt; tag links to filter them further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T09:31:01.050" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:31:01.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:15:46.567" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Random changes like this are a real pain for long-time users that have a certain workflow. It's not like I can't get used to the new way, but I don't see the point of dropping a simple hyperlink that people used. If you'll look at the people that expressed their dissatifaction with this change, you'll notice it's mostly users that have been along fow a while and that actually edit stuff. Why make their life harder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:15:46.567" />
  <row Id="27290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:22:25.890" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5436/direct-link-to-a-comment&quot;&gt;Direct Link to a Comment&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be handy for those who would like to link directly to a comment in their blog. Or perhaps reference it in their question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134397" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T09:32:25.943" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:32:25.943" ClosedDate="2009-10-26T09:42:06.363" Title="Is there a way to permalink a comment?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27286" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:44:29.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, let's make it as complicated as humanly possible! That sounds like fun! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many issues around multiple users pooling bounty awards on questions that we haven't even begun to think them through. This isn't coming for a while. Like 6 months+ a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now completed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:11:19.427" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:11:19.427" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T09:46:15.107" Score="2" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your interesting tags you can give a wildcard symbol. So if you click on an interesting tag, you will see all questions matching your wildcard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the unanwered page this does not work. Take for example the unanswered page for the tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/zend~&quot;&gt;zend*&lt;/a&gt; this one contains 35 questions, (the same as for the tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/zend&quot;&gt;zend&lt;/a&gt;) while there are 141 questions for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/zend-framework&quot;&gt;zend-framework&lt;/a&gt;, something that definitely should match for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/zend~&quot;&gt;zend*&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another funny detail is that while &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/zend-framework&quot;&gt;zend&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/zend~&quot;&gt;zend*&lt;/a&gt; tags give the same page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/zend~+zend&quot;&gt;combined&lt;/a&gt; the page is empty!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T09:49:30.653" Title="Wildcards don't work for filtering unanswered page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27306" CreationDate="2009-10-26T11:20:26.640" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm trying to use &quot;unanswered&quot; -&gt; &quot;my tags&quot; list on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&lt;/a&gt; if you click on &quot;unanswered&quot;, this gets &quot;my tags&quot; selected by default.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags&lt;/a&gt; if you click on &quot;my tags&quot; again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;364&#xA;questions with no upvoted answers&#xA;in your tags&#xA;firefox dom xul xulrunner firefox-addon xpcom gecko google-wave mozilla firefox-extension&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Listing several first questions from that list in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1601610/difference-in-jquery-with-xml-namespace-and-xhr-responsexml-between-opera-and-fir&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1601610/difference-in-jquery-with-xml-namespace-and-xhr-responsexml-between-opera-and-fir&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;modified Oct 21 at 15:25&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1620422/in-what-order-do-firefox-extensions-get-initialised&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1620422/in-what-order-do-firefox-extensions-get-initialised&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;modified yesterday&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1624036/first-entry-not-easy-to-click-issue-in-firefox-a-bug&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1624036/first-entry-not-easy-to-click-issue-in-firefox-a-bug&lt;/a&gt; is not on the list even though it's tagged &quot;firefox&quot; and was asked just now (no answers or votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what exactly is the &quot;my tags&quot; subtab of the &quot;unanswered&quot; tab is supposed to list and in what order?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(FWIW, didn't find this in the &quot;official&quot; faq, nor searching here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131861" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T12:14:36.437" Title="&quot;unanswered&quot; questions -&gt; &quot;my tags&quot; - some questions missing and/or unclear sort order" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27302" CreationDate="2009-10-26T11:31:33.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed, I added the firefox and firefox-addon tags to my list and got Question number 1620422 but not 1624036&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing though, there are no questions newer than 18 hours old in my list but I know there are a few that are unanswered. So could it be that there is a time limit on when questions enter this list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T11:31:33.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T11:39:07.353" Score="8" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main use-case for the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tab is to find questions that have no good answer to try answering them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the list has many questions you can't provide useful feedback on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is poor and needs further clarification.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Possible solution: The questions &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; downvoted could be hidden from your &quot;unanswered&quot; tab&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question already has an answer that you or another person provided, but it didn't reach the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18870/why-does-the-unanswered-questions-tab-show-questions-that-have-answers&quot;&gt;arbitrary upvotes limit&lt;/a&gt; used to hide the question from the &quot;unanswered&quot; list.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Possible solution: The questions &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; answered or with answers you upvoted (even if its score is 0=+1-1) could be removed from your  &quot;unanswered&quot; list.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You just don't know the answer to a question (and either interested in knowing it or not interested at all).&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Possible solution: Either let me &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7603/the-ability-to-hide-questions&quot;&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt; the question or make a question I upvote/favorite disappear from the &quot;unanswered&quot; list.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some questions are answered by the reporter in a comment (like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1574478/javascript-insertbefore-method&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1574478/javascript-insertbefore-method&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other ideas for getting the &quot;unanswered&quot; list more manageable? I'm mainly thinking about the &quot;my tags&quot; use-case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[edited, the original question was not well-thought-out and was more like a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7603/the-ability-to-hide-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7603/the-ability-to-hide-questions&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks to the commenters who helped me realize this]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131861" LastEditorUserId="131861" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T13:26:05.073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T16:22:16.030" Title="Make the &quot;unanswered&quot; tab more manageable by hiding questions from it more aggressively" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7603" CreationDate="2009-10-26T11:43:32.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be a nice to have. And would also require a way to un-hide a question. Good suggestion though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T11:43:32.190" />
  <row Id="27306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27302" CreationDate="2009-10-26T12:14:36.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is sorted by votes. So I guess it is in that list, but because it has no votes yet, you have to flip through the pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T12:14:36.437" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T12:20:52.847" Score="25" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that I really don't like about bounties, is the fact that I have to accept an answer at the end of it.  This forces my question effectively 'closed' even though I might not have recieved a satisfactory answer.  If I haven't had a satisfactory answer I would much rather leave it open, and just 'lose' the points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of no satisfactory answer, these might be alternatives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opt to forfeit the points, but leave the question unaswered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opt to award the points to the best attempt at an answer, but leave the question unanswered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does anyone think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135353" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:52:00.527" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T16:42:35.450" Title="Why do I *always* have to accept an answer at the end of the bounty period?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2009-10-26T12:48:09.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about an option to extend the bounty period, by being able to trade in another amount of points for a new week of bounty period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T12:48:09.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-10-26T13:18:08.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it disappeared shortly after the start of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27204/alternative-ask-page-layout&quot; title=&quot;is a 7 Eleven closed all day?&quot;&gt;revamping the Ask Your Question page&lt;/a&gt; more toward friending the new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't make sense to lose it since the people who would use that link would be more intune with how the site works, or at least have an idea and not be so cleared out of distractions that they format the post wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really miss seeing it when editing a post. Looks like having to reflow the whole process in order to click out to a new tab just in case. It was handy if you were cleaning up a post and then wanting to double check to see or combine any comments to better the post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Know what it feels like now when you're editing a post and the link back is gone? It feels &lt;strong&gt;like you're posting a brand new question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T13:18:08.660" />
  <row Id="27310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2009-10-26T13:46:52.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably because the bounty was meant as a &quot;last resort&quot; measure, and it is assumed that you have tweaked and tuned your question beforehand - making it as high quality as it can be &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you applied the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally/Usually/Generally (hereafter abbreviated NUG) you don't get quality answers to a question because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is vague&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information that would make it answerable is missing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It just wasn't a good question to begin with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its too niche a question and just hasn't been found by the only person who knows the answer (a.k.a. Jon Skeet) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NUG, if your question falls into one of the above, extending the bounty isn't going to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T13:46:52.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-10-26T14:00:19.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time you pop something off the stack, Jon Skeet gets a nickle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135925" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T14:00:19.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-26T14:00:19.737" />
  <row Id="27312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2009-10-26T14:01:05.197" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can think of a bounty as contract between yourself and other StackOverflow users, with the following basic terms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You promise to give one lucky user some extra rep in exchange for more attention for your question from the community as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are obligations on both sides here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community will give your question more &lt;em&gt;attention&lt;/em&gt;.  This is not the same as the community promising to give you an acceptable answer.  No one could promise that, because there might not even be an answer.  The best we can do is attention, and you can see from average view counts and answer counts that bounty questions definitely get a lot more attention on average than non-bounty questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your end of the deal is then to award extra rep to the one member of the community that most helped you during the bounty period.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Allowing you to decide you didn't like any answer would in effect be allowing you to breach your contract with the community, and make the bounty feature as a whole much less useful.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I personally would like to see bounties changed such that they no longer expire.  Instead, when you accept an answer for your bounty you get back 50 rep.  This rep should be cap immune like accepted answers.  That would align incentives correctly such that you are strongly encouraged to accept your bounty as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T14:01:05.197" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-10-26T14:53:40.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that this change is somewhat related to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2003 article by Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; which give an answer to the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why don't you show me the post I'm replying to, while I compose my reply?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because that will tempt you to quote a&#xA;  part of it in your own reply. Anything&#xA;  I can do to reduce the amount of&#xA;  quoting will increase the fluidity of&#xA;  the conversation, making topics&#xA;  interesting to read. Whenever someone&#xA;  quotes something from above, the&#xA;  person who reads the topic has to read&#xA;  the same thing twice in a row, which&#xA;  is pointless and automatically&#xA;  guaranteed to be boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people still try to quote&#xA;  things, usually because they are&#xA;  replying to something from three posts&#xA;  ago, or because they're mindlessly&#xA;  nitpicking and they need to rebut 12&#xA;  separate points. These are not bad&#xA;  people, they're just programmers, and&#xA;  programming requires you to dot every&#xA;  i and cross every t, so you get into a&#xA;  frame of mind where you can't leave&#xA;  any argument unanswered any more than&#xA;  you would ignore an error from your&#xA;  compiler. But I'll be damned if I make&#xA;  it EASY on you. I'm almost tempted to&#xA;  try to find a way to show posts as&#xA;  images so you can't cut and paste&#xA;  them. If you really need to reply to&#xA;  something from three posts ago, kindly&#xA;  take a moment to compose a decent&#xA;  English sentence (&quot;When Fred said&#xA;  blah, he must not have&#xA;  considered...&quot;), don't litter the&#xA;  place with your &amp;lt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&gt;&gt;&gt;s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133566" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T14:53:40.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2009-10-26T15:33:02.237" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel has a great point in noting that the bounty should always be awarded, since it is a request for extra work by the contributors.  But that could just be left separate from the accepting of an answer.  If the person doesn't want to accept an answer, because their problem isn't yet solved, then award the bounty to the highest rated answer as normal, but don't &lt;em&gt;auto-accept&lt;/em&gt; an answer.  Then the questioner could hope for more answers, put up more information, perhaps a second higher bounty, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T15:33:02.237" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-26T15:45:34.057" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see all of the slides coming up, and the audio for Greg's talk. It would be great if next year these were all filmed and posted after the fact. I'd love to be able to send the keynote and Greg's talks to a few of my co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also help create buzz for next year's events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137816" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T15:45:34.057" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5436" CreationDate="2009-10-26T16:05:10.690" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; link to comments by combining the URL used behind the scenes to retrieve them with the internal ID for the specific comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/27319/comments#comment-57475&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/27319/comments#comment-57475&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this relies on specific aspects of the current implementation, and there's no guarantee they won't change at some point in the future. Don't count on these links being &lt;em&gt;permanent&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, even worse, combining the permalink of an answer (to ensure proper pagination) with the id of a comment, which however might not be shown on a page if there's too many comments, or if it's deleted (and hence would result in the page not scrolling at all):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5436/direct-link-to-a-comment/27319#comment-57475&quot;&gt;Direct Link to a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a userscript that'll make this easier, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://rchern.github.com/StackExchangeScripts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the SEModification.user.js available here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-25T19:29:37.043" LastActivityDate="2011-05-25T19:29:37.043" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27304" CreationDate="2009-10-26T16:22:16.030" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some good ideas there, especially about using votes to hide questions. I'll go over each of your 4 scenarios real quick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there's a problem.  When a question is edited, you probably want to see it again.  And if you still don't like it, you can't re-downvote it so easily.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This makes a lot of sense to me.  However, see the next point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the time you implement the &quot;hide from my view&quot; option, you may just as well use that to handle scenarios 1 &amp;amp; 2, also.  The problem here, though, is that I think it would add a lot of traffic and complexity to the system. I still think a better sort option, maybe combined with suggestion #2, would work better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you see a question that's really &lt;em&gt;answered&lt;/em&gt; in a comment, copy that comment to a new community wiki answer of your own (so you don't earn rep for someone else's work and they can take ownership easily later if they come back) and get someone to upovte it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T16:22:16.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T16:23:24.083" Score="9" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent activity page only shows activity since last login until 23:59:59. I would ideally like the live titles to show everything from &quot;Today&quot;, but there is no static link for Today at 00:00:00 to today at 23:59:59... a date range must be specified in the query string. For this reason, I can never have a bookmark that shows &quot;Today&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose something like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;/users/recent/[uid]?Today =&gt; Shows&#xA;00:00:00 to 23:59:59&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;/users/recent/[uid]?Yesterday =&gt;&#xA;Shows 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 from the&#xA;previous day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;..and so on for&#xA;ThisWeek, LastWeek, ThisMonth,&#xA;LastMonth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;I've also come up with an alternative idea, which may (or may not) be easier to implement. In the query string, in addition to using [StartDate|EndDate]=YYYY-MM-DD, why not allow for the keywords above? ie. StartDate=Yesterday&amp;amp;EndDate=Today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also alleviate the troubles experienced by the following folks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27558/why-does-the-default-time-range-on-the-recent-activity-page-work-as-it-does&quot;&gt;Why does the default time range on the ‘recent activity’ page work as it does?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25663/users-recent-page-does-not-consistently-show-all-changes&quot;&gt;/users/recent page does not consistently show all changes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am asking because I am using the reputation microsummaries for Firefox found here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12362/firefox-users-your-stackoverflow-reputation-microsummary&quot;&gt;Firefox users - your stackoverflow “reputation” microsummary!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the live title loaded from my default /users/recent/[uid] page. The microsummary will only show what can be pulled from a bookmarked page. If I bookmark the &quot;today&quot; page, it is always a constant date range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day left on bounty, maybe this is trivial for most folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastEditorUserId="136414" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T17:41:53.750" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T11:08:38.650" Title="Could we have static date range links on the Recent Activity page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-26T16:37:47.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent ... can you do these a couple of times a year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Greg Wilson presentation was worth the price of the conference.  His sexism slam at the beginning sobered the audience and was an eye opener.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FogBugz ad would have been a bad idea if Joel wasn't a great speaker and/or the application wasn't so deeply important to developers.  Not a criticism but you need to be careful that the sponsor presentation slot is only occupied by a good speaker with a product important to developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The .Net/MVC talk was irksome.   The hippie jokes went flat after the first couple.  Too much time was spent on the tutorial,  only a couple of the steps should have been done live to show how easy the framework was to use, the rest should have been code samples and higher level discussion.  The talk &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; have been good because the framework was interesting and both Barry and Joey are good speakers.   For the record,  I &lt;strong&gt;like&lt;/strong&gt; .Net and would have liked to have seen the rest of the slide deck ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The jQuery presenter was a bit of an awkward speaker but the material was great.  Work on those presentation skills Ralph!  And don't use red on black as a highlight in future ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked the meta programming talk but my lack of ruby experience made some things hard to follow, especially at the end of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked the venue but the screen was small if you were in the balcony.  This certainly didn't help the MVC presentation ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137865" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T16:37:47.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T16:43:49.107" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25224/email-notifications-for-new-questions-matching-specific-tags&quot;&gt;Email notifications for new questions matching specific tags&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I get notified whenever there's a question on a tag I'm interested in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T07:11:24.567" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T07:11:24.567" ClosedDate="2009-10-26T16:53:23.333" Title="Can I get notified when there’s a question on a tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T17:09:41.807" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19246/can-i-please-select-a-current-duplicate-when-closing-a-question&quot;&gt;Can I please select a current duplicate when closing a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I vote to close a question with reason as exact duplicate the dialog box displays the duplicates chosen by the other users. Most of the times the duplicates are chosen correctly. Now to vote with the same question as duplicate I have to open the question in a different tab , copy the URL and paste it here. I believe it will be good if there is an UI option which says I agree with previous duplicate choices and want to use the same for my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131638" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T17:09:41.807" ClosedDate="2009-10-26T17:23:36.213" Title="Voting for close - Improving the usability" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27332" CreationDate="2009-10-26T17:13:57.987" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Discussed before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have a different solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I'm somewhat new, perhaps this is way off base, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed among those with quite a bit of rep to reserve a space for an answer and put something very small in, to answer first -- then edit and &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; answer the question as time goes along. It's appealing enough that I have gotten sucked into doing it a few times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this is a crappy way to treat other answerers to the question, as you're attempting to make it appear to the asker that you are the first to provide an actual answer. If the user is not sitting there pushing Command+R on the page to watch for answers, it will look like you've written a novella before everyone else, and therefore deserve the accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A specific example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1625882/what-is-f-being-used-for&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the first answer posted didn't address of any of the original question's (multiple) questions. It was simply &quot;C# does this, F# does this, big difference.&quot; Through a few revisions, Justin has gradually added more information to the answer, but his timestamp still says that he answered first. This is not entirely correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aside: I tend to factor in first-to-answer when answers are very similar, and I am choosing an answer to accept. I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1624883/alternative-way-to-split-a-list-into-groups-of-n&quot;&gt;did this here&lt;/a&gt; to Nadia, because she and another answerer actually hit the same thing, but the accepted answerer beat her by 2 minutes. Perhaps this is a flaw on my part, and I shouldn't take that into consideration -- I'd be interested to hear if others do when choosing an answer to accept.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to the feature request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When an answer is edited, reset the timestamp on the answer to now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137502" LastEditorUserId="137502" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T17:28:11.953" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T18:35:16.877" Title="Changing &quot;answered $time ago&quot; when an answer is edited" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27329" CreationDate="2009-10-26T17:26:09.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new random sorting of answers with the same score was implemented to counter this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue with your suggestion is this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You post a good answer, someone else then posts an ok answer but good enough. You find more references and do your work in trying to improve the answer you gave so the asker would get his problem fixed and even learn something on the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You edit to add that information, and you get bumped down. Now this ok answer is at the top and people have a tendency to vote for the first thing they see. Maybe there are more ok answers and your good one is way at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T17:26:09.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27329" CreationDate="2009-10-26T17:28:26.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced this is a problem at all.&#xA;Yes, it encourages &quot;gaming&quot; the system, but it does it in such a way it creates one complete, comprahensive idea. SO isn't just about the users, it's about creating a repository of knowledge, and this is actually beneficial to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T17:28:26.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20912" CreationDate="2009-10-26T18:19:52.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I find code golf pointless, but I've added it to my ignored tags so it's not a major irritation.  However, if you want to make this a regular thing, why not start your own site for it (either a blog or a StackExchange site)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T18:19:52.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27169" CreationDate="2009-10-26T18:30:54.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of us consistently do our best work after midnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T18:30:54.390" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-26T18:30:54.390" />
  <row Id="27337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27329" CreationDate="2009-10-26T18:35:16.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I come across a question that has just been asked (in the last ~10-15 minutes) and I see a &quot;placeholder&quot; answer from a user with high reputation. It doesn't answer the question very well, but it is clearly a placeholder (e.g. mentions documentation without a proper URL). In those situations I will not bother taking the time to compose a reply myself, &lt;em&gt;because it is clear that someone else already has this question covered.&lt;/em&gt; So in this case it is very beneficial to me to see these &quot;placeholder&quot; responses, because then I know I don't have to invest the time myself into replying in parallel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will probably come back in an hour or two and add an answer myself if there isn't a complete reply yet, but that's rarely happened. Placeholder responses generally evolve into good complete responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T18:35:16.877" />
  <row Id="27338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2009-10-26T18:51:07.930" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the OP.  If there is not a good answer after a time and that prompts a user to add a bounty there is still a high likelihood of no &quot;right&quot; or best answer.  I think it is  HUGE mistake to award an answer automatically and/or to force a user to pick one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made bounty questions a number of times and in MOST cases I did not get satisfactory answers.  I am ok with losing hit points, but I don't want a bounty &quot;Taken&quot; just because some artificial time period ended.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree strongly with [Joel and Jeff] on this issue and there have been a number of other threads about this on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-22T16:42:35.450" LastActivityDate="2010-10-22T16:42:35.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27339" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:03:27.787" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27307/why-do-i-always-have-to-accept-an-answer-at-the-end-of-the-bounty-period&quot;&gt;recent question here&lt;/a&gt; on bounties, and I wanted to use StackQL to prove that questions with bounties get more views and answers on average than questions without, and quantify just how much based on the bounty level.  However, it turns out that there's no information on bounties in data set. Please add BountyAmount (int) and BountyAwarded (DateTime) columns to the posts table in the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;On further reflection, there's no need for the BountyAwarded column.  Any question with a BountyAmount &gt; 0 and a non-null AcceptedDate had the bounty awarded on that date.  But we do still need the BountyAmount column.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T23:03:42.557" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T23:03:42.557" Title="Add bounty details to Community Data Dump" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27341" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:10:26.837" Score="-5" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this question:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1626693/im-a-good-c-desktop-programmer-will-it-be-easy-for-me-to-program-windows-mobil&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1626693/im-a-good-c-desktop-programmer-will-it-be-easy-for-me-to-program-windows-mobil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really seems like the two accounts are either the same person or colluding with each to game the system.  4 minutes between question and accepted answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T20:17:18.883" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T20:17:18.883" Title="Is this sock-puppetry?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27340" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:13:44.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After looking at the usage of both accounts, I see no other similar activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:13:44.310" />
  <row Id="27342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27340" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:15:07.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it only the time difference that bothers you?  Or do you have other evidence?  Seems to me that the OP simply got an answer that he liked and accepted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:15:07.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28057" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:21:25.113" Score="5" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;They could be creating strange anomalies when someone does a query against the datadump when someone is suspended when it's generated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So either remove those users from the dump or include them in their normal state. An example of this from the current dump is the user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015&quot;&gt;Shore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T19:01:05.857" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T19:01:05.857" Title="What to do with suspended users in the data dump?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="27344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:30:53.250" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious if people have found tags that are related to other tags that might not always appear together. I suppose if you wanted to take this a step further, you might also analyze questions to group related questions into families based on full-text analysis + tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone working on anything like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:30:53.250" Title="Has anyone done cluster analysis on the data dumps?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27340" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:32:50.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;C# is one of the most heavily-subscribed tags, so 4 minutes is a perfectly reasonable window in which to receive an answer to a simple question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Orthogonal random thought: It would be interesting to see a list of the highest tags considered &quot;interesting&quot; and &quot;ignored&quot; by the user base. I expect this information is not in the data dump; would it be available via stackQL?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:32:50.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27347" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:32:33.897" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, everyone. Shouldn't my StackOverflow and ServerFault users be the same? I logged in using the same OpenID as stackoverflow and i'm a total new user. Shouldn't my profile at least transfer over?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137877" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:55:08.250" Title="Stack Overflow and Server Fault user" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27346" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:41:10.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll need to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;associate your accounts&lt;/a&gt; and then you can just copy your profile over in the Accounts tab of your target sites profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:41:10.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27340" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:44:48.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is reasonably common to get my answers to c#, .NET and ASP.NET questions accepted in well under 4 minutes, since those make up 3 of the top 4 topics and the top 4 tags' activity represents as much as the next 10 combined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:44:48.487" />
  <row Id="27349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27346" CreationDate="2009-10-26T19:55:08.250" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a note that Google is a bit of an exception here.  They generate a unique openID for you for every site where you use it, and so if you use Google's openID there is no way to have the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; openID at StackOverflow that you do at ServerFault or SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T19:55:08.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27343" CreationDate="2009-10-26T20:19:35.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Removing them could create even more anomalies. I vote for the &lt;em&gt;normal state&lt;/em&gt; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T20:19:35.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27343" CreationDate="2009-10-26T20:52:26.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first instinct was to request that a flag be added to the dump to indicate the users that were under suspension, but while this is technically public information, I think that providing a permanent record of their suspension isn't something that we should be doing. And to prevent the artificially low reputation from throwing off the stats, I, too, vote for the normal state option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T20:52:26.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98436" CreationDate="2009-10-26T20:59:06.583" Score="8" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;By far the most common edit that I have to make in SO is to correct newbie users who don't know how to format their code. This got me thinking: is there a way to automatically recognize when a post contains unindented code and present the asker with a popup or warning message? Simply pointing out that their code isn't formatted and pointing to the format button would go a long ways towards cutting down the difficulty that new users have. A relatively simple Bayesian classifier could probably catch enough cases to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I welcome implementation discussion and counter-proposals in the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133679" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-13T12:31:43.270" LastActivityDate="2011-07-14T11:27:22.880" Title="Auto-detection of non-indented code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27352" CreationDate="2009-10-26T21:11:20.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A scan of the post to see if it contained common keywords outside coding markup might work, though it would have to be just a hint (&quot;Your post looks like it contains code, have you formatted it correctly&quot;) rather than a popup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are many potential languages - c#, c++, XML, XAML, VB, php, perl, etc. and what's common in one is rare in another and a superset of all languages might generate a lot of false positives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T21:11:20.283" />
  <row Id="27354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27352" CreationDate="2009-10-26T21:11:54.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think our best bet is going to continue to train new users in the preferred ways of the community, especially after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001306.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff's latest blog post on user myopia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  I'm a bit with Jeff in &quot;where do we draw the line&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T21:11:54.163" />
  <row Id="27355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25079" CreationDate="2009-10-26T21:19:34.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that this is a good idea. People have a question and they want this question on the site and often ASAP. They won't read the pre-filled text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about forcing users to preview their questions before they can post them? Yes, I admit that most of them will not be reading their own questions either, but if you paste a couple of lines of code, you expect the block to stand out in the preview which will not be the case if the editor just treats it as a paragraph of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T21:19:34.163" />
  <row Id="27356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27352" CreationDate="2009-10-26T21:21:13.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to agree with ChrisF -- this will likely cause too many false positives. A good heuristic for this that didn't miss any, across the gazillion languages (Ook, anyone?), and was performant and non-intrusive to users ... That'd be a Holy Grail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the heuristic determine inline code (I'm talking about using &lt;code&gt;object.ToString()&lt;/code&gt;?) from real code? (I suppose the tick-marks help, but still.) I can think of a variety of situations where code may not even include language keywords -- with as much abstraction as we use these days, it's entirely plausible to have a code block which falls into this. These are just two of the traps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention that we're talking hard-core string analysis on posts which can be a couple K ... Every post ... Which happens on SO, what, about every second or so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I think in this case, the &quot;cure&quot; may indeed be worse than the illness. Anyway, I'm working on a Strunk &amp;amp; White here! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T21:21:13.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27352" CreationDate="2009-10-26T21:39:12.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a common pattern for &quot;code-looking text&quot; might be &quot;a bunch of short(ish) lines with a newline at the end of each one&quot;. Especially if there's &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; kind of other indent structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T21:39:12.237" />
  <row Id="27358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25079" CreationDate="2009-10-26T21:41:16.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea, though I think some of that can be cut back.  No need to explain lists or headlines or even backticks.  Just bold, italics, and code block will probably suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And maybe the editor window can be smaller than normal for these users, so that they are more likely to notice the preview text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T21:41:16.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26873" CreationDate="2009-10-26T21:52:56.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this was a great conference!  All the topics covered were very interesting and for the most part they were all things I have wanted to learn about but just haven't taken the time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only complaint would have to be the model which most speakers followed when presenting their topics...  Many of them stayed too basic.  I understand the need for a general introduction, but it would have been great if more presenters showed us the full potential of the products they were presenting.  The Qt presenter did a great job of this.  He showed us the basic presentation across multiple platforms, but then showed us some really cool stuff on his mobile device.  I would have been very interested in seeing some of the full capabilities of jQuery, not just that we can change the background color on table rows.  Same with Google App Engine and even .Net MVC...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since most of us in the room were developers, most of us could have figured out the basics.  I would have liked to have been shown why I should try these products...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the presenters did a great job, and I would definitly come back next year.&#xA;Thanks for the great conference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T21:52:56.307" />
  <row Id="27360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27365" CreationDate="2009-10-26T22:08:08.957" Score="-1" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you stop people from asking and answering their own questions en masse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T22:28:45.957" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:03:50.293" Title="How do you stop people from asking and answering their own questions en masse?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27360" CreationDate="2009-10-26T22:10:39.920" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with people answering their own questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP stands no gain to answer their own question, other than to share with the community. You get no reputation for answering your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastEditorUserId="136414" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T22:32:44.603" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T22:32:44.603" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T22:11:46.003" Score="5" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen/accepted any term and conditions/terms of service in the sign up, or when posting.&#xA;There is a link to a privacy policy and a creative commons statement in the bottom of the pages. But no legal blah blah, is this a triumph of the common sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Makes me feel warm inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137882" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T22:58:36.223" Title="stackoverflow no term and conditions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;terms-of-service&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27362" CreationDate="2009-10-26T22:15:19.860" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the foot of every page there's this statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user contributed content licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;attribution required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;plus the links to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faqs&lt;/a&gt; on each site which have the following statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which I think just about covers everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-26T22:21:51.180" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T22:21:51.180" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27360" CreationDate="2009-10-26T22:31:13.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By design, it's always been OK to ask a question and answer it yourself. One of the first SO questions I ever asked I did exactly that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, over time, the social mores have changed a bit, and it's at least considered better form if you mark your own answer as community wiki such that you don't get rep from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this isn't a big issue. Other answers can come up and be just as good, and voted just as highly. It's not like the OP posting his own answer prevents others from posting theirs. And if theirs are better, the community will reward them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T22:31:13.503" />
  <row Id="27365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27360" CreationDate="2009-10-26T22:32:10.067" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do realize that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you have to wait 2 days to accept your own answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you don't get any rep for accepting your own answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, is this really a problem &lt;em&gt;in practice&lt;/em&gt; and not just &lt;em&gt;in theory&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-26T22:32:10.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-26T23:49:31.727" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typing the same words into the search bar and the &quot;title&quot; field when editing a question lead to different results. The title field relies only on the title of the question, where as the search bar takes into account content of the question too. Seeing as they're not the same, something I want to use the title-field method, but it won't show me the search results unless I have a &quot;good title&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the title bar has a different search method, people are going to want to use it to search questions. Especially when someone's asking a question and they don't want to use the search bar and have to load a new page for every new search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It says, &quot;you don't have a good title, so we won't show you any similar questions or help you find what you're looking for&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with the message saying its not a good title for a question, I just think the search results should be displayed anyways. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T01:16:26.457" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T07:29:47.753" Title="Still show search results when editing the title of a question, even if &quot;that's not a very good title&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="27367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T00:30:26.843" Score="7" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you attended &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/washingtondc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays in Washington DC&lt;/a&gt;, please post your thoughts and reviews about it here. Links to blogs, photostreams, etc. are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/reviews-of-devdays-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Washington DC&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deliberately &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137886" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:22:57.420" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:22:57.420" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Washington, DC" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;devdays-dc&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5436" CreationDate="2009-10-27T00:51:57.673" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would actually be really helpful for people who flag comments - being able to move directly to the item flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T00:51:57.673" />
  <row Id="27370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T00:57:42.627" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to log into SO after a hiatus of a few months. Unfortunately, I've no idea which OpenID I used to sign myself up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got various email accounts with associated OpenIDs, plus one I run on my personal domain; but I've tried all the ones I can think of, and none of them seem to be the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way I can retrieve my account, or find out which openid is associated with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137887" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T06:29:04.773" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T06:29:04.773" Title="Don't know which OpenId I used" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27360" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:03:50.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;in theory, i'm not even sure this would be a Bad Thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in practice, it is never going to happen because Jon Skeet will answer the questions &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt; before the masses can&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:03:50.293" />
  <row Id="27372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27370" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:15:15.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email to team@stackoverflow.com with whatever information you can remember. Like what username you had here etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:15:15.963" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:15:50.737" Score="-1" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm creating this because the answer to &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/434/do-all-meta-stackoverflow-bug-feature-request-and-discussion-eventually-get-rev&quot;&gt;Do all meta stackoverflow bug, feature request, and discussion eventually get reviewed by a moderator?&lt;/a&gt; says that Jeff periodically reviews things with a &quot;feature-request&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27261/what-is-a-good-question-answer-ratio/27275#27275&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; comment from &lt;strong&gt;DVK&lt;/strong&gt; suggests&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... separate Q from A rep ... allow people who do answer question to have a separate&#xA;  grading curve—see my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27261/what-is-a-good-question-answer-ratio/27266#27266&quot;&gt;reply&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  ... as to WHY the curve needs to be different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I can find no such &quot;feature-request&quot; tagged item.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137439" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T15:16:15.667" Title="separate reputation for questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27366" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:16:45.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Declined, I think adding an intitle:1 advanced search option makes way more sense than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;intitle:1 is now active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T07:29:47.753" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T07:29:47.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27381" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:30:24.100" Score="-5" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21463/efficient-reputation-strategy&quot;&gt;Efficient reputation strategy&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried the usual stuff. I just want to quickly get enough rep to be able to upvote, downvote, and comment without being annoyed by pernicious error messages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137889" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:02:13.823" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T11:34:37.110" Title="What is the easist way to get some quick reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27375" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:32:09.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link your SO, SF and SU (and meta) accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137439" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:32:09.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:33:08.797" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Venue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DevDays at DC was held in the State Theatre, and it (as a venue) was suited for the information portion of the show, but wasn't well suited for the 'networking' sessions that were held during breaks and during lunch time.   The seats were set up in rows and there just wasn't a lot of space for individuals to congregate in numbers greater than 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre-Conference&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Venue didn't have beverages set up for us pre-show; which was expected due to the tweets the other venues' attendees had made.  There was music pre-show, as well a twitter feed with Stack Overflows DevDays countdown.  The sound was high quality and the presentation of the venue prior to the keynote was of very high quality (considering).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt; - Opening Keynote &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the opening video played (which, by the way, was perfectly cued to start with the closing of &lt;em&gt;Drive In, Drive Out&lt;/em&gt; by Dave Matthews Band), it was apparent how much quality was put into the production of this show.  The Video was high quality (though the part where it paused was a glitch) and the production quality of the video was apparent. &lt;em&gt;They put some serious dough into making this look and sound good&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Joel came out he spoke with his usual wit; and it put the conference in the right 'mood'. I won't add too much other than to say that he is well versed in presenting and it was worth the price of admission to hear the subject matter.  Other attendees had a problem with him touting FogBugz and having conspicious advertisements, but I don't see a problem with that.  If he were advertising for Microsoft, I'd be surprised; but he's &lt;em&gt;advertising for his own company&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;strong&gt;That's his Job&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dan Pilone&lt;/strong&gt; - iPhone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Production Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Dan's opening onto the stage was 'rushed', and it took a minute for the mic to catch up with him. I realize it was only a day conference and the price was cheap, but they probably should have worked on the 'handoff' better between speakers. This happened throughout the day, and while it wasn't anything more than a 'glitch', it otherwise marred a perfect production (how it flowed, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dan's talk on the IPhone hit the the true side of the 'marketing'-speak. To paraphrase him: &lt;em&gt;You'll get rich if you make a great app, or if you're a rapper.&lt;/em&gt;  I would have liked a more technical presentation; but he didn't have time for that. Given the time he had, he used it well, and it did whet my appetite for more. I may pick up his book on the subject to see what's next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He skipped the parts on Objective-C (presumably because they would have bored the hell out of half the room); but it would have been interesting to know how it diverges from other C-Based languages (other than the syntax is completely different).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I commend him for his presentation skills; he knew his subject matter and he was skilled enough in his environment to work around any glitches that came up. That's hard to do when there are 200 geeks waiting for your next breath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;K Scott Allen&lt;/strong&gt; - ASP.NET MVC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hearing K. Scott Allen speak on ASP.NET MVC was a treat in of itself. He went through little more than the basics, but even for someone who's worked on ASP.NET MVC for multiple projects, I still learned some stuff (notably the T4 Templates, which seek to make the &quot;Magic Strings&quot; strongly typed); and he even threw in some of the goodies from ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview that I hadn't had a chance to play with yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Production-wise; it's tough to give a talk without upsetting some geek somewhere.  I'm sure there were quite a few Ruby on Rails guys that were just &lt;em&gt;jeering&lt;/em&gt; at the ASP.NET MVC talk. That's ok; we jeer at you when you're not looking too (I kid, I kid).  He probably couldn't have changed much on it other than to have a fully ready-to-go expansive site that worked out MVCs muscle. I wouldn't expect that for an hour talk, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://odetocode.com/downloads/devdays2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET MVC Presentation Slides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FogBugz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the rest of the show was a veiled advertisement for FogBugz, I still would buy FogBugz for my development team.  Just looking at what that software can do is a testament to the developers at Fog Creek Software. I don't care if you're open-source or a Microsoft guy, that software is &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;. I'm talking yummy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lunch&lt;/strong&gt; - Networking Session&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only 'fail' of the day. Not lunch, but the networking session that accompanied it.  The Venue just wasn't set up to house more than 5 people standing around; and the most interesting section (the one I wanted to hang out in - &lt;em&gt;Startups&lt;/em&gt;) had 8 developers crammed into the opening for that section; with 15 more trying to hang out around it. It wasn't happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lunch was yummy and precisely what you'd expect for a $99 dollar conference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Eckel&lt;/strong&gt; -- Not On Python&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I loved Bruce Eckel's talk.  Didn't learn a damn thing about Python (&lt;em&gt;Because he didn't teach anything on Python proper&lt;/em&gt;) but I learned the evolution of languages; which is quite important.  You have to know &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; something is the way it is to be any more than a simple user of a tool; and his talk helped reinforce that point.  Unfortunately people were offput because he didn't just talk about Python, so there were grumblings from the masses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did make one point that I disagree with; and that was the reason Google was going to Python was because of the advantages it holds over Java (he spent a lot of time railing against Java. It's ok, he wrote a book, he can do that); but I wanted to point out that while Google does use Python, &lt;em&gt;they use Java too&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jonathan Blocksom&lt;/strong&gt; -- Google App Engine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Informative; but light.  He couldn't do the walkthrough of his GAE site for whatever reason. Still enjoyed the talk; but don't know enough about the subject matter to know whether or not it could have been better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gae-devdays09.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google App Engine Slides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard D Worth&lt;/strong&gt; - JQuery&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people left during this part of the presentation, for whatever reason.  Maybe they thought they knew JQuery, maybe they had to beat traffic (no way, not at 4:40 in the NoVA area); but they missed out on a truly awesome presentation.  He introduced and went through JQuery and the various ways to 'correctly' use it, and in the process we got to play with &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JSBin.com&lt;/a&gt; and a site that tests &lt;a href=&quot;http://codylindley.com/jqueryselectors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JQuery Selectors&lt;/a&gt;. Fricking amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/rdworth/jquery-2366236&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JQuery Slides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OPOWER&lt;/strong&gt; - Improving your Agile Process&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://opower.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OPOWER&lt;/a&gt; is an up-and-coming tech startup that looks to help spearhead the 'green' revolution by making it easier for companies and families to track their energy usage.  They asked to give a presentation at the end of DevDays about improving agile processes.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.naildrivin5.com/blog/2009/10/27/joel-spolsky-at-devdays.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apparently there was a fair amount of drama involved in that request&lt;/a&gt;.  I wanted to stay for the presentation, but I had to give my friend a ride so he could leave the area at a reasonable time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/davetron5000/measuring-agile-process-shorter-2359457&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OPower Presentation Slides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miscellaneous Stuff&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.yapb.net/post/2009/10/27/My-Experience-With-Amazon-at-DevDays.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blogged about my experience&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/amazonevents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@amazonevents&lt;/a&gt; at DevDays. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bottom Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well worth the price of admission; the topics were interesting.  I would pay more if they would host it in a larger venue, or if they'd host it in the same size venue but actually make the area conducive to networking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T21:24:17.040" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T21:24:17.040" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27375" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:33:33.240" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried answering questions well and correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems you've left out what you consider to be &quot;the usual stuff&quot; here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't put in the knowledge and time to answer well or craft clear questions, the community, aka &lt;em&gt;the system&lt;/em&gt;, won't reward you with any rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not doing either of these simple acts, why should you be allowed to upvote, or even downvote, other people's contribution and work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T01:57:08.790" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:57:08.790" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27375" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:42:01.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the unanswered button and do a lot of research to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:42:01.953" />
  <row Id="27380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27375" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:48:18.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hack Jon Skeet's account. That should give a small amount to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:48:18.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27375" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:57:14.303" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer obvious questions, and answer a lot of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, see this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:57:14.303" />
  <row Id="27382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27375" CreationDate="2009-10-27T01:59:02.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Writing titles without typos is a possibility. Answering questions correctly is also acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T01:59:02.523" />
  <row Id="27383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27375" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:02:13.823" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't want people to get quick easy rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:02:13.823" />
  <row Id="27384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:15:48.317" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In honor of Geocities, &lt;a href=&quot;http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/10/geocities-closing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;called home by the Lord today&lt;/a&gt; at much too young an age:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.animatedgif.net/underconstruction/5consbar2_e0.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:15:48.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-27T02:15:48.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27389" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:26:08.170" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;The edit toolbar is not showing for me, neither is the preview.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It is working here on Meta though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7746/capturadepantalla200910z.png&quot; alt=&quot;lame screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something broken with the WMD or is it just me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T08:57:21.867" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T08:57:21.867" Title="Is the edit window broken for everyone or just me?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3086" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:28:57.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could there be &quot;enterprisey&quot; closed source and &quot;public&quot; open source parts of the business?&lt;/strong&gt; I've always said that StackExchange is going to have to fork because their private small, medium, and large business audience will want very different things than the public internet audience we serve. Wouldn't this be one way to segment the &quot;free as in whatever the heck it is we're calling free these days&quot; open-source dev work from the value-add closed source product?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think open-sourcing &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the tool amd not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of it is a Bad Thing&amp;trade;. It's why I won't even take a second look at a lot of &quot;Open Core&quot; toolsets (like Zenoss) - either the whole operation should be open and available, or none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've wanted to be able to use the SO engine for a knowledge-base system for a while - with the caveat being that any authenticated user can post or view a question, but only &quot;special&quot; users can answer (in the context of providing a corporate KB for software tools, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be willing to use SE, but honestly the hosted costs are just way too high. For the amount we'd spend in a year, I can have a couple developers build a knock-off that works well enough for our purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is even more true in the context of having a Q&amp;amp;A site for FLOSSS projects on which I am involved at some level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:28:57.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-27T02:28:57.773" />
  <row Id="27387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:33:42.817" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally enjoyed the conference.  In my opinion Eckel's talk was the highlight of the day (subscribed to his blog).  Joel's keynote was also pretty good.  I also enjoyed the fogbugz demo.  While I read Joel's blog, I'd never actually seen the fogcreek software in action.  It's pretty impressive, especially with the new 'kiln' integration.  There's a couple of these tools now that &quot;do code reviews&quot;.  I am interested to look into those futher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I felt a little let down by the more technology-focused pieces of the day, however.  I would have wanted either a more in-depth technical presentation with some real guts or a higher level meta-presentation about the concepts behind the technologies.  Eckel went the latter route, which I thought worked well.  Not to be crude, but I can find hello world tutorials online for free.  Granted I have been using MVC and jquery on a project for a couple of months now, but I was expecting / hoping to be able to pull a little more new info from these sessions.  Maybe calling these sessions out as 'intro-level' might have set expectations a bit better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:33:42.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27373" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:40:58.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree - I can click on your user to find out how many questions and answers you've provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to see a ratio displayed that shows my Q/A rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:40:58.707" />
  <row Id="27389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27385" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:51:36.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, it is just you and everybody else whose browser caches files regardless of the little query string appended to the requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your cached version of the site's JavaScript file was out of date. Hence, a clearing reload and flush of your browser cache fixes the problem by calling for a fresh file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:51:36.777" />
  <row Id="27390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27261" CreationDate="2009-10-27T02:54:57.797" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking a good question can take a lot of effort -- you need to clearly lay out what the problem is that you are trying to solve, document your efforts to solve it, specify constraints that disqualify some solutions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can easily ask questions you haven't put effort into, and someone else will clean it up for you, and you will get the rep for the improved question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands today, the rep system is rewarding inquisitive idiots with increased control of SO, and I humbly submit that is not a good thing for the SO community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down votes tend to indicate that people think the question should just be closed.  Up-voting a question seems to me to say &quot;I want to know the answer to this question too.&quot;  So instead of awarding the rep to the original asker of the question, award the rep to the accepted &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simpler implementation that just eliminates voting on questions themselves would also be an improvement to the status quo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T02:54:57.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T03:29:36.467" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Other people have already done&#xA;  an excellent job summarizing the&#xA;  content, so these are just my personal&#xA;  opinions. Take them for what&#xA;  they're worth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Joel Spolsky - Opening Keynote&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel's been evolving this talk for at least 18 months (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RailsConf '08&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2008/04/business-of-sof.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Business of Software '08&lt;/a&gt;) and it keeps getting better.  One of his more memorable points is that all software is ultimately about gene replication (a more academic way of saying &quot;sex sells&quot;) which I know is &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; true in advertising, but it got me thinking about how to apply that to other projects. Basically, the vast majority of the software we create is either directly or indirectly getting in the way of the what the user &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; wants to do, which is why software sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if I try to remove my fanboy hat, I would still say this was the best presentation of the day. &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Grade: A+.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Dan Pilone - iPhone&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great presentation that helped demystify iPhone development for this Windows developer. I've been spoiled by having an iPhone Rock Star on my staff for several years, so I never really looked into iPhone development in any detail. Boy, was that a mistake. Dan made it look downright fun!  In particular, objective-c does not look nearly as terrifying as others have made it out to be.&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Grade: A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;K Scott Allen - ASP.NET MVC&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to watch someone provide an introduction to a technology that you spend your entire day in, so I must confess that I wasn't 100% engaged in this presentation. I mostly did some work and followed the predictable Microsoft-bashing over on the #devdays hashtag. &#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Grade: N/A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Joel Spolsky - FogBugz 7 and Kiln&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been on FogBugz since version 3.0. I patiently sat through the 3 hour &quot;FogBugz World Tour&quot; in Crystal City a couple of years ago. I get it. I use it. I tell everyone to buy it. I've personally bought FogBugz 5 separate times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that, given Joel's involvement in StackOverflow, a lot of other people are also FogBugz users. Which is why I think it's &lt;strong&gt;totally inappropriate&lt;/strong&gt; to devote an hour to a FogBugz/Kiln demo. I know that $99 is cheap for a conference, but that does not, in my opinion, grant FogCreek the permission to use it as a marketing venue. Frankly, FogCreek should have paid &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; for the privilege of a 1 hour captive audience of developers. (Like the way a timeshare company pays you $200 or $300 to take a tour of their facility.) The whole arrangement actually made me like FogBugz &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Grade: F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Lunch&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uhm, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/petermartindc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/rmm5t&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/lavallee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;us&lt;/a&gt; may or may not have ditched the lunch and hit up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clareanddons.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clare &amp;amp; Don's&lt;/a&gt;. Yum. Oops: I mean, I can neither confirm nor deny that it was delicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Bruce Eckel - Python&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I so badly wanted to love this talk. Bruce is like 3-4 orders of magnitude smarter than everyone else in the room and I was really hoping to get re-engaged with Python. (I haven't written any production Python in 4-5 years.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His inside knowledge about the evolution of C++ was fascinating. His opinions on where Java got wrong were insightful. His predictions on where languages were going seemed plausible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he finished talking about all of this, I thought to myself: &quot;Great introduction. I'm siked to see some PYTHON!&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;But then he was done&lt;/strong&gt;. Pardon the crass analogy, but it was the language nerd equivalent of blue balls. I wanted Python!&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Grade: C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jonathan Blocksom - Google App Engine&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what I was hoping DevDays would be: passionate geeks getting way too excited about the technologies they love. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jonathan does not work for the App Engine team, and his presentation was all the better for it. This is just a guy -- a funny, self-deprecating, modest guy -- who loves the Google App Engine and wanted to share it with his fellow engineers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also was honest about GAE's weaknesses: e.g., you can't search the data store (not even for the keyword &quot;irony&quot;); you can't have long-running processes; you CAN have a hybrid with Amazon EC2 (I guarantee you nobody from the GAE team would have put THAT on a slide). Kudos to Jonathan for getting at least one attendee (me) pumped about the Google App Engine.&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Grade: A-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Richard D Worth - jQuery&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a fine presentation, but &lt;strong&gt;totally mismatched for the audience&lt;/strong&gt;. Earlier in the day, Joel asked people what technologies they used, and at least 80% used JavaScript/jQuery. Richard had prepared I very good introduction to jQuery. But nobody wanted an introduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I literally did not learn a single thing, and there were several suggestions that were just downright odd, such as using JSBin.com to do testing. (You should use Firebug. Always use Firebug.) Judging from the Twitter traffic, I was not alone. Richard should have called an audible, put away his slides, and just started showing off some jQuery ninja shit. I know he knows it. &#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Grade: D&lt;/strong&gt; (Sorry Richard!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggestions for improvement&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need to &lt;strong&gt;serve coffee in the morning&lt;/strong&gt;. The poor local Starbucks didn't know what hit them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the love of God, please put &lt;strong&gt;more space between the chairs&lt;/strong&gt;. That would have been uncomfortable even for a supermodel conference, and your average developer runs a little husky.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As discussed, do not promote FogCreek so aggressively, especially not on 4 separate occasions (intro video, FogBugz presentation, Business of Software video, training DVD video). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remind the presenters that &lt;strong&gt;they can go deep&lt;/strong&gt;. This is a self-selected group of enthusiastic software engineers. They want meat, not salad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was really hoping for an &lt;strong&gt;Android&lt;/strong&gt; talk. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider having &lt;strong&gt;more talks that are shorter&lt;/strong&gt;. Since it's a single-track conference, odds are good there will be talks that someone is either (a) not interested in, or (b) already an expert in. If that happens for a 30-minute talk, no biggie, but 1 hour is a little long to sit through.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider having &lt;strong&gt;two tracks&lt;/strong&gt;, for the exact same reason. That way people could pick only the technologies that they are really into.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider having two styles of presentation, where each talk is either &lt;strong&gt;for experts only&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;for n00bs only&lt;/strong&gt;. Nobody really knew what the expect. For example, the iPhone talk was perfect for me, but was a complete waste for the woman who just finished her fifth iPhone app. She should at least have had some warning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide an official place to go after the event. It doesn't have to be a full-fledged &quot;after party&quot;, but there should be a known place where everyone can grab a beer afterwards. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please please talk to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.charleshudson.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charles Hudson&lt;/a&gt; from Serious Business, who managed to put on the $199, one day Social Gaming Summit, that had tables and chairs, super awesome wifi, lots and lots of food, an after-party, celebrity speakers, and yet never once mentioned his company. Seriously, pick his brain, because his conference was twice as expensive but ten times as good. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Things that were awesome&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meeting other Stack Overflow users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mix of topics that were presented. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The venue. Sure it had its problems, but at least it wasn't Yet Another Hotel Ballroom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sign up, registration, website, etc (Carsonified has it down pat)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wifi at this one was great. I had no problems all day, on 3+ devices. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No goodie bag. If you wanted schwag, it was there, but for those of us with enough clutter in our lives, it was great to not be force-fed a knapsack of stupid pens and stuff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No handouts. Way to save trees. Nobody reads that stuff anyways.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trying something new&lt;/strong&gt;. Although there is room for improvement (as always), this was a heck of a good first conference, and refreshingly different from the norm.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T03:29:36.467" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T03:50:00.810" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impressions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the presentations were good.  The only technology that was covered that I knew much about was Python ... and as George said, Bruce didn't really cover that per se.  However, I'm not complaining, in fact, I thought the talk on &quot;the archeology of programming languages&quot; and why Bruce (currently) prefers Python to other languages was in many ways the best presentation of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The others, in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joel's keynote:  Preceded with a humorous video depicting Joel as a tyrannical boss, the talk was very interesting and enlightening.  My main take away was that we should work hard to find the right balance between keeping software simple to use by not confusing users with too many options and yet giving them the power to do what they need to do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dan Pilone on developing iPhone apps:  Dan spent some time giving reasons why we want to consider doing this, some time showing how to do a &quot;Hello World&quot; app, and some lessons learned from dealing with the app approval process.  I'd not really thought much about mobile development before, but this gave me some reasons to consider it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scott Allen on ASP.net MVC:  I have to admit this wasn't a compelling talk for me, but that's probably because I have no experience with the topic and do not see myself going down that direction in the foreseeable future.  Nonetheless, I did think he gave a decent presentation and am sure it was much more interesting for those who are going down that path.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joel's talk on FogBugz:  Yes, it was blatant advertising for Joel's company, but we knew that when we got there and could have skipped the talk.  It didn't upset me.  In fact, it enlightened me quite a bit, as I thought FogBugz was just another bug tracker, and didn't see the point in paying for something that competes with so many free tools.  However, I learned that the software helps with a lot more - project planning &amp;amp; management, customer communications, and now (with Kiln - still in beta), source control and code reviews.  It's made me consider trying out the free version, although I can't imagine my employer ever paying for it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jonathan Blocksom on the Google App Engine:  It was my impression that Jonathan is still learning this himself, but he still gave a good talk and has me thinking about trying it out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard Worth on jQuery:  Richard gave a nice overview of using jQuery, along with a demo of developing with it.  I'd been thinking about learning it before for the little bit of JavaScript I do, and definitely plan to do so now, as it looks like it will speed things up and make them easier to understand with little penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was supposed to be an unofficial presentation about Agile development after the official conference ended, but I could not stay for that.  If anyone can review it, I'd like to know how it went.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Onto the venue:  While I fully realize this was done on the cheap to keep our costs down and an ideal venue wasn't possible, I still have to say I found the State Theater to be a mixed bag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, while Falls Church isn't that far from DC, for many of us in the 'burbs of Maryland, it was quite a haul to get there - over an hour and a half for me by car, subway, and foot, and I live very near the beltway and the subway.  I hope that if there's a future SO conference in the area they can find a more central location.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The WiFi worked great almost all day!  :-)  The only time I experienced a drop out was during lunch, when I'm sure it was getting hit really hard.  Even then it was brief and I was able to get back on and check email, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another nice point was that there were lots of power strips on the floor for people to power their laptops with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a vegetarian, I was disappointed that I saw nothing available for my diet at lunch. (Maybe that was not the venue's responsibility, but it seems related.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comfort was not good, as the (lower level) chairs were less than ideal, and the temperature was too cold downstairs and too hot in the balcony.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, the sound glitches that George mentioned didn't really bug me.  It probably wasn't possible, but some low level lighting - just enough to take some notes by (egads, on paper! ;-), would have been nice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137890" LastEditorUserId="137890" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T03:57:05.057" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T03:57:05.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-10-27T04:26:40.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the context of a text input box, the &lt;em&gt;only reason&lt;/em&gt; for the Enter key is for formatting text - it has no purpose otherwise. &lt;strong&gt;Why would you purposely ignore a formatting input?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the text is being pasted from another source, line breaks and all, is it such a bad thing if it matches the format it had in that other source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T04:26:40.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T04:34:51.113" Score="24" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;The error message you get if you try to flag more than 10 posts for moderator attention should be differently worded. It should say that you can only flag for moderator attention &quot;10 times per day&quot; instead of just &quot;10 per day&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i36.tinypic.com/2nrehvl.png&quot; alt=&quot;flag 10 per day&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's not that important an issue as the picture makes it look like. Meta just provokes a lot of colors and exclamation marks.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T08:17:28.687" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T08:17:28.687" Title="Wording of &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot; error should be correct English" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T05:08:24.183" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are filling out your CV in Careers, under the Experience section, the Technologies field states to &quot;list up to 10 core technologies you used...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once you enter more than a few, the entries end up being longer than the text field, and the cursor isn't automatically placed at the end of the text field as you add more entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I was attempting to enter &quot;nunit&quot; as my sixth or so core technology, so I typed its first few letters and then hit enter as soon as the auto-complete recognized it. However, instead of seeing &quot;nunit&quot; on the text box, it didn't auto-scroll, and so I saw &quot;nun&quot;. I had to click on the text field and hit End to see the entire tag. This would be much more pronounced for longer tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132830" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T05:08:24.183" Title="Careers: Technologies field should auto-scroll or expand" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T05:44:13.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Venue&lt;/strong&gt; It was OK. For fostering independent discussions, it wasn't ideal, but Joel did a good job of dividing up the auditorium into discussion groups for the lunch break. Surprisingly, the Wi-Fi worked great, but perhaps even more surprising was that AT&amp;amp;T's 3G was flying, so I didn't even need to connect to the local network. My only gripes about the venue were: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kind of a pain to get to, especially&#xA;if you were an out-of-towner without&#xA;a car like me (I came down from NYC). Being in the heart of D.C. would have been more convenient. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've never been to a conference that&#xA;started at 9AM that didn't have&#xA;plenty of bagels and fruit salad&#xA;waiting patiently to be molested with tongs and consumed by geeks. I was surprised that there was no breakfast there. There&#xA;wasn't a deli or any thing in plan&#xA;sight of the venue, so I had to wait until the first break to walk 10 minutes over to a Starbucks and get some food. Poor me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The projector was great, especially displaying the back channel discussion on twitter. I think there is some room for debate here on whether or not that could actually be displayed during the talk. It could be a more efficient way to ask questions, but at the same time you don't want to have a guy up there talking while people are expressing their discontent or arguing about it in tweets that are displayed right behind him. Curious what others might think.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the talks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Loved Dan Pilone's iPhone and Jonathan Blocksom's App Engine talks. Both came across as passionate and knowledgeable, keeping the discussion at a high level while at the same time respecting the audience when it came to getting technical. A lot of &quot;business of software&quot; stuff in here too. If you were curious about doing iPhone or App Engine development, you probably would be eager to run home and start writing some code after watching either of these two.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bruce Eckel's talk on Python did not deliver at all as advertised, I believe he talked about the language for maybe 30 seconds. So it sucked, right? WRONG. This was the kind of segment that made you feel like your ticket to the conference was money well spent. It's hard to explain, so I'll just recommend that you read his books or try and watch this talk if a video is made available at some point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;K Scott Allen's and Richard D Worth's MVC and jQuery talks were not good. As somebody who doesn't know why he would want to use either technology, they didn't do a good job of selling me on anything. In terms of MVC I wouldn't be interested anyway since I don't do Microsoft development, but the only takeaway I picked up was that it's better than something called WebForms because it uses convention over configuration. I suppose I wasn't the target audience for that talk, but still, it was just watching a guy write a lot of code. On the other hand I'm the kind of guy you want to hook with jQuery - I dabbled in AJAX a bit when it started, and I know a lot about HTML and CSS, and Javascript. I haven't really done much in the past few years though - so I have no idea why I would want to use jQuery instead of prototype or the 500 other Javascript frameworks that are out there. And after this talk, I still didn't know why I would want to use it, aside from the fact that it's the most popular. Too much code and showing off stuff that I could probably just read in the documentation. This is in contrast to Dan's talk, where he briefly tried to hold our hands and show us that the big, bad, Objective-C monster isn't so bad after all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's intro movie was hilarious, and is a must-see if it winds up on YouTube. He continued to entertain throughout as the day's host, and his keynote about simplicity is one that I hope everybody was listening to. The FogBugz talk though, was painful. I'd imagine that everybody there already knew who Joel was, and because of that would be well aware of what FogBugz is. And for those that weren't in the know, I'm not sure that a sales pitch for enterprise software really fits in with a $99 conference that doesn't serve bagels. I did think that the free option for FogBugz (for startups) is interesting, but news of that came after the demo, where I had already been zoned out for an hour.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all, I like the format - take a handful of topics that people would be most interested in (I have seen some people complaining about no Android talk, I'm not sure who they think they are kidding) and let's all learn from each other. Sadly a few didn't deliver on that promise but I'll be going again next year. Just keeping my fingers crossed for one in NY. And bagels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T05:44:13.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T06:17:38.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Portman, I agree with you that it's difficult to match the level of detail to the audience at an event like this.  It's the classic Icarus problem: Fly too low and the noobs are lost; Fly too high and the experts are bored.  There's probably a middle path somewhere in there but it's very elusive.  The two track idea is good but that would require a different sort of space for the event and more speakers.  As a jQuery noob, I would rate Richard D. Worth's talk as an A.  It was an excellent introduction, and after the keynote, probably my best take away from the conference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised by all of this venom towards Joel's self marketing.  He pretty much said in his blog and in his podcast that he would be heavily promoting FogBugz when he announced the conference.  Yes, this easily could have been called the &quot;Joel Spolsky Show&quot;, but I actually found it entertaining and informative.  Maybe it didn't bother me because I was expecting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132078" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T06:17:38.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27373" CreationDate="2009-10-27T06:24:04.617" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the issue from the motivation from an economic perspective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subject: Questionee&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Action: Asks a question&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Motivation: To learn something new&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subject: Person with knowledge&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Action: Answer the question or not to&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Motivation: None&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution is to give the person with the knowledge a reward for answering. Typically in the real world this is done by giving actual reputation or financial reward. This is rarely done through altruism, due to the limitless abuse that may happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encouraging good questions is a nice thing to see; however, it's like asking for someone to invent the next killer app: very vague and subjective. The current system allows for people to vote for the questions they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136869" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T15:16:15.667" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T15:16:15.667" />
  <row Id="27399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27370" CreationDate="2009-10-27T06:25:53.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found your account; I will e-mail details to the e-mail address listed (done).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T06:25:53.263" />
  <row Id="27401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20683" CreationDate="2009-10-27T06:48:50.927" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff should rewrite Stack Overflow in Ruby on Rails. It has a .pluralize method that can handle this kind of problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T06:48:50.927" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27403" CreationDate="2009-10-27T07:18:45.677" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still in doubt if it's worth going to the DevDays in Amsterdam, but since I'm not a programmer I have no idea if it's actually of any use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I won't be able to &quot;use&quot; anything they would talk about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: is it any use going to the DevDays if you're not a programmer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:19:11.747" Title="Is it any use going to the DevDays if you're not a programmer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27402" CreationDate="2009-10-27T07:25:01.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you were deaf would you spend 20k on an amazing sound system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DevDays seems to be catered towards the programming crowd. You may find interest in interacting and meeting other members of the SOFU sites, but as far as the talks themselves are concerned I'd say you would find it pretty boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not a programmer, but are interested in &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;, attend. If you're not a programmer, and have no interest in programming, you'll probably be in agony. If you really want to meet and talk with some other users attending, then that alone might be a good enough payoff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T07:25:01.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T08:36:19.690" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow&quot;&gt;We need to help non-english-speakers somehow&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19280/whats-the-correct-response-to-poorly-phrased-questions&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s the correct response to poorly-phrased questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this has already been discussed in some other form in this site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see a question with a &quot;not-so-perfect&quot; language/expression/description, would you immediately downvote/vote for closure? Or would you take the trouble to stretch a bit and try to understand the question contextually (it is indeed possible - I have seen some veterans here post graceful answers despite minimal data - they probably use the meta-data/tags/error messages and such to understand the question better, while refraining from making any negative comments whatsoever on the questioner's limitation with the language). &#xA;But at times I see the opposite happening and I want to know if being too quick to judge someone based on their language/expression might not seriously discourage any knowledge sharing and even growth for anyone who may not have english as the first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterall this is a knowledge-sharing site, not a language forum. Is the annoyance and short fuse justified? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking forward to hear opinions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137256" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T01:50:45.697" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T09:16:15.040" Title="Should we really pay undue attention to the &quot;language&quot; or the decor of the questions asked?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;english&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27458" CreationDate="2009-10-27T08:54:32.940" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone still remember it?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It's not exactly &quot;green&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135011" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T08:59:08.973" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T16:26:25.863" Title="What's was the original background color of the accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27404" CreationDate="2009-10-27T08:59:29.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've only been a member for 13 days (judging by your profile)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WRONG!&lt;/b&gt; &lt;em&gt;I'm sorry about that&lt;/em&gt;. I think I must have looked at your profile on MSO by mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you must be a saint if you don't feel the frustrations caused by poorly-worded questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly not a language site, but the difficulty of answering technical questions is multiplied when we can't understand the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no solution to this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T01:50:45.697" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T01:50:45.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27405" CreationDate="2009-10-27T09:20:25.137" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was &quot;green-ish&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T09:20:25.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19280" CreationDate="2009-10-27T09:26:57.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not close a poorly expressed question, but I might ask to clarify the question somewhat. If the question was too elementary or whatever to my taste, I would rather skip the question than blame it being a bad question. Of course if there was a dublicate question and answer, I would link them. And finally if the question went under community edit, then editing is one possibility too, but I wouldn't edit very many questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming forums are for exact question-answer pairs. But I like to also discuss things. So I wouldn't close a discussion question, rather I would want to move it to discussion area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137721" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T09:26:57.687" />
  <row Id="27410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T09:47:09.880" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3783/moderator-abilities&quot;&gt;Moderator abilities&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not seen a list of what their powers are. So I would like to know what they are able to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T09:47:09.880" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T11:17:00.290" Title="What services to the ♦ mods offer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T10:26:34.867" Score="5" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the search engine does not consider capital letters (just like most regular search engines). However, I have the feeling that in a &quot;coding&quot; context, this could be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, searching pages about the standard C library &quot;FILE&quot; struct returns a lot of pages containing the &quot;file&quot; word, that are not (always) relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to force keeping capitals? If not, maybe it could be a nice feature to add?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137902" LastEditorUserId="137484" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T12:00:44.827" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T12:00:44.827" Title="Add the option to do a case-sensitive search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27411" CreationDate="2009-10-27T12:14:19.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are running SQL Server in case insensitive mode (the default), this will be an expensive operation as you'd need to post filter any of the results you get from SQL Server to do the case matching.  This would increase the processing required on the web servers, though it's really unclear how much since we don't have any idea how often it would be used.  I was going to suggest using Google advanced search against site:stackoverflow.com, but they apparently have omitted case sensitive search from their tools.  Perhaps they know something we don't.  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=134479&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Some basic facts&lt;/a&gt; (from Google help)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every word matters. Generally, all the words you put in the query will be used. There are some exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Search is always case insensitive. Searching for [ new york times ] is the same as searching for [ New York Times ].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With some exceptions, punctuation is ignored (that is, you can't search for @#$%^&amp;amp;*()=+[]\ and other special characters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T12:14:19.557" />
  <row Id="27413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T12:48:46.520" Score="6" ViewCount="3311" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3473/native-iphone-app&quot;&gt;Native iPhone app&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I the only person who keeps on searching the iPhone app store for a Stack Overflow app? There are probably 100,001 less useful apps out there. Is this something the SO community would be interested in working on as an open source project? Is there an open API we can use? Is this something Joel/Fogcreek/SO developers should work on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="164469" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T13:01:55.460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:54:51.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-27T12:48:46.520" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T14:41:23.397" Title="Stack Overflow iPhone app" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:07:35.473" Score="5" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently the conclusion on licensing is that users implicitly license their content to StackOverflow under cc-wiki. However, it was months after posting on StackOverflow that I ever noticed the fine print that user content was licensed under cc-wiki, and I still haven't seen anything warning the user about this or asking them to license their content to StackOverflow under cc-wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the agreement is that users license their content under cc-wiki, why won't StackOverflow &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; this somewhere and ask for agreement? Let me be perfectly clear what I mean since no one seems to get it. There are several issues that need to be nailed down. Who owns the content? Under what license does StackOverflow make use of the content? Under what license does StackOverflow license the content to others? Precisely &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; of these questions is answered: what license StackOverflow makes the content available to others under. Without you first licensing the content to StackOverflow though, they don't have any right to make this license to others, but StackOverflow &lt;strong&gt;never asks you to license your content to them nor even states that you are doing so&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; thing they state is that they will license your content to others under cc-wiki. What possible right do they have to do this if I haven't first licensed my content to them? At the very least, the notice could be changed to &quot;user-submitted content is licensed to StackOverflow under cc-wiki and redistributed under cc-wiki as well.&quot; Otherwise this is all just hand-waving and hoping no one sues, because StackOverflow has entered into absolutely no legal agreement with me yet they think they can relicense my content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, without asking for this agreement, how does StackOverflow come to the conclusion that they have received this license? I think the implicit agreement argument is BS because of how tucked away in the fine print the license terms are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to discuss whether or not cc-wiki is a good choice, and I've given up on trying to get StackOverflow to explain how they can assume a license they never asked for. I just want to know one thing. What could it possibly hurt to warn users that you assume this license and to make the agreement explicit rather than implicit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65393" LastEditorUserId="65393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T13:50:49.823" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:08:45.693" Title="Why won't StackOverflow ask for a license agreement?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:20:49.560" Score="1" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, all major cities are covered, but why not NYC? Joel can do it right out of his FogBugz office. DevDays in NYC would generate so much interest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T13:24:44.497" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:41:40.170" Title="I am shocked there is NO DevDays in NYC" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="27417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27415" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:24:08.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He had mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/06/10.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in his blog&lt;/a&gt; that it was just too expensive to host DevDays in NYC. That's why DC and Boston were offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T13:43:16.273" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T13:43:16.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27415" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:24:23.547" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's too expensive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/money%5Fin%5Fhand.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T13:29:34.293" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T13:29:34.293" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27414" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:24:51.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the bottom of the site, it clearly states that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user contributed content licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By submitting content to this site, you implicitly agree to its terms and conditions. There is no need to bother users with explicitly asking them for a licence agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Please note that I am not a lawyer and this is not a legal advice whatsoever etc)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T13:24:51.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27414" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:33:49.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really see that much of a &quot;fine print&quot; issue, the footer is the traditional place to put that kind of information, and there's a pretty big CC-wiki logo down there too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a legal standpoint (like DrJokepu I'm not a lawyer so don't quote me on this to anyone who can sue me) I think that by submitting your information willingly through the internets, you agree to anything that the site claims they can do with it anywhere on that page, and EVERY page you submit on has that notice at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is your argument that there should be a dialog to agree every time, or even the first time you write an entry on SO? If so I think Jeff would point you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001306.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt; about dialogs, and how great they are at doing nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I didn't realize that on signup you don't agree to TOS these days, I did it awhile back and couldn't remember. I'd agree with that on signup, but I think that's all you'd really need. The information available on every page is enough of a reminder each time you post, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134569" LastEditorUserId="134569" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T13:51:26.317" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T13:51:26.317" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27415" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:37:16.823" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/06/10.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel's response to the question&lt;/a&gt; in his blog.  He cites two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too expensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;poor turnout&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T13:37:16.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27414" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:40:18.750" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why won't StackOverflow &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; this somewhere&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do, at the bottom of every page on the site as you noted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the implicit agreement argument is BS because of how tucked away in the fine print the license terms are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A notice on every page you visit is hardly tucked away.  But that aside, you're posting code on a public web site where it will be visible to anyone.  Making the code available publicly is the &lt;em&gt;whole point&lt;/em&gt;. How can you really expect a more restrictive license?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T13:49:55.007" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T13:49:55.007" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T13:56:29.060" Score="0" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2137/is-the-critic-badge-badge-awarded-prematurely&quot;&gt;Is the Critic badge badge awarded prematurely&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently have the Critic badge, but no downvotes.  I was immediately awarded the badge upon clicking the down arrow, even though I canceled before the downvote was made permanent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected behavior:&#xA;The badge should be awarded when the downvote becomes un-undoable, not before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2137/is-the-critic-badge-badge-awarded-prematurely&quot;&gt;related&lt;/a&gt; question is tagged &quot;by design&quot; but this behavior has resulted in an inconsistent state &amp;mdash; namely, I have a badge without the prereqs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137910" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T16:12:31.327" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T14:41:21.313" Title="Cancelling downvote didn't cancel Critic badge" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27425" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:01:45.073" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By design, awarded badges are never removed due to further user actions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T16:12:31.327" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T16:12:31.327" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27415" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:02:31.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's always Jersey City. I mean, there isn't a DevDays there either, but it addresses all the issues (except turnout) and it's surprisingly accessible. Put the conference near the PATH or on the Light-Rail and New Yorkers can get there a lot faster than they can Boston, even if they're in Queens or Staten Island. Boston's hotels aren't cheaper for visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternative: get NYU or Columbia to lend a hall (probably for cash). After all this kind of conference is unusual in that it fits in one hall/room. Then you need to work with their rules about food though; which is likely to be cheaper than a hotel's food service. They do symposiums and such quite often. Positive: slightly better Wifi; Negative: they might not open the wifi to non-students just for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T14:08:22.817" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:08:22.817" />
  <row Id="27428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27414" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:08:45.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First thing, legal advice is best gotten from a lawyer, and I'm not a lawyer.  I'm assuming you're not looking for actual legal advice here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the bottom of the page, &quot;user contributed content licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required&quot;, with links.  I'd read that as saying that what I contribute is licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required, and that's how SO etc. license my contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO can't apply a license to my contributions.  I never assigned copyright, and they don't pay me anything so this isn't work-for-hire.  Therefore, the copyright on anything I put here remains with me, and I'm the only one who can license it.  SO can refuse my contributions unless I license under cc-wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this would be considered sufficient legal notice.  I haven't heard of any court cases testing such implied licenses, and I don't think there's specifically applicable law in the US.  Again, you'd have to consult a lawyer, and you're very likely to get an answer of &quot;maybe&quot; with a substantial bill attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case anybody cares, I hereby license all my contributions to StackOverflow, MetaStackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser under the aforementioned cc-wiki with attribution license.  I also license any code snippets I put in for unlimited use for any purpose with or without attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:08:45.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27413" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:14:45.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't looked into any of this, but I'd think that the extent of SO development could be an API (if they haven't made one already; I haven't looked).  At that point, somebody's going to write a SO app, on the principle that for all X somebody's going to make an X app.  (Hey, it worked with farts and flashlights.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:14:45.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-27T14:14:45.900" />
  <row Id="27430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27402" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:19:11.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're a manager of programmers (or want to become one), this might be useful for you to gain understanding of what programmer do and what technologies you might want to consider using.  Another reason to go would be if you're looking to recruit programmers to join your company.  However, if you're not a developer and don't want to become one and don't have some other motivation for going, I don't see why you would want to go just to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136321" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:19:11.747" />
  <row Id="27431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27432" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:23:35.497" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed I was able to vote on a question that was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found that a bit strange. Is there any time when you can't vote on a question/answer?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;i.e. does it ever get locked also?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T14:40:07.610" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:40:07.610" Title="Is voting ever locked for questions/answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27431" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:26:38.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't vote if the post is locked. That's different from just being closed. When it's closed you cannot add an answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:26:38.650" />
  <row Id="27433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27437" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:27:00.367" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18033/question-about-accept-rate&quot;&gt;Question about Accept Rate&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When is the accepted answer rate updated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it would be real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T14:34:52.220" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:34:52.220" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T15:34:21.807" Title="Is the accepted answer rate a batch job?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27431" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:27:42.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't vote on a question that's been locked. Try voting on any question thats been migrated and you'll see. (Even though it says [Closed] it's actually locked). You can still vote on closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:27:42.703" />
  <row Id="27435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27413" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:28:17.413" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've created one. See my answer here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3473/native-iphone-app/24074#24074&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3473/native-iphone-app/24074#24074&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastEditorUserId="68183" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T14:54:51.447" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:54:51.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-27T14:28:17.413" />
  <row Id="27436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27444" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:28:39.800" Score="0" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you get tons of down votes for an answer, should you be allowed to delete it and reclaim your points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the answer could be removed, but you still lose the points. Is that incorrect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T14:52:59.340" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:14:59.943" Title="When you delete a really really bad answer, should you still be penalized?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="27437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27433" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:29:47.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the exact time, but according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/#comment-32274&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog comment&lt;/a&gt;, it is not real time, it could take up to a few hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the value is cached heavily so expect any change to take hours to&#xA;  appear (depends on traffic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:29:47.770" />
  <row Id="27438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27436" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:31:34.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is recalculated from time to time, so you still show the rep loss until that happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that you get it back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:31:34.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:33:58.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Joel's opening talk, he described a scenario where a CFO wants quickly print a check to keep his secretary quiet before his wife enters the office. But when he starts up whatever application is required to do this, it asks if he wants to install an update now or later. Isn't this the perfect thing for the application to do? If it installed the update without asking, or tried to pick a time when it thought installing the update would be more convenient, the risk of not being able to print the check in time would be higher. I realize that Joel was trying to be witty and funny, rather than seriously criticize the way software works, but I think this was just a bad example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47833" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:33:58.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27415" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:41:40.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something to consider - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel points out that it would cost $23 per person to run an event on the East side of NY. This would include only a single coffee break. But this is NY - you can get coffee on every street corner and buying your own lunch isn't going to be a problem either. It's a lot easier than finding food in BumbleF, VA. For an NYC conference we could put a list together of suggested local eateries on meta and everybody can just do their own thing. In that case maybe lunch could be 90 minutes long, eliminating the need for so many coffee breaks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as hotels go, I would guess that people traveling would mostly be those who can't get to Boston or D.C. And for a lot of those people NYC is a day trip to Grand Central/Penn Station/Port Authority bus terminal. So a lot of them wouldn't need a hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the target cost per person is that Joel is shooting for, but let's say that to break even and still make some profit, they had to raise the DevDays NYC price to $150-$200. Still would be a fantastic deal for such a great conference. For people like me who had to travel from NYC, it's on the low end - $25 bucks for a Bolt Bus and a sleep on a friend's couch, and on the high end it's a roundtrip Amtrak ticket for about 150-200 and maybe even more if you want to stay in a hotel. So NYers having to make a trip is more expensive then it would be for a &quot;premium city&quot; DevDays ticket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:41:40.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T14:52:23.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I paid $99 and drove 2 hours from Delaware.  After the event, I drove home wanting more.  Those who shared my impression might want to criticize by explaining they expected more, had higher expectations, or whatever.  I think the whole event turned out great for a first run.  I know that next year will be better and I'll be there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I liked most:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's keynote and successive presentations really highlighted the challenges faced by users and underscored each speaker's presentation with a special meaning: Use these skills to solve the people problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bruce Eckel's talk was less technical than I thought, but I found his insight and anthropology on the subject extremely thought provoking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bargain.  I couldn't have afforded a $1000+ ticket.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lunch and coffee were great.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Desire to copy DNA.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Least:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Parking was a little confusing.  There were no open spaces at the small theater lot.  The public spaces next door were useless with a posted 4 hour limit.  Fortunately, the hospital didn't mind me taking up their parking garage since there was no proof I wasn't a patient/visitor.  Maybe I missed an email or something that directed where I should park, but it wasn't on the ticket and no signage was present at the location.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I thought the idea of breaking up into lunch groups by topic was a great idea, but it was a shame the venue didn't support the logistics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T14:52:23.910" />
  <row Id="27444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27436" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:14:59.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doing this will reward you with a &lt;code&gt;[Peer Pressure]&lt;/code&gt; badge if the votes total -3 or less, but you will not get your reputation back. There has to be something you put on the line when you want to post answers of questionable merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the recalculation, I don't believe you get your reputation back for downvotes on deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, you can always make your answer &quot;Community Wiki&quot; and you will not gain or lose any reputation even if you are downvoted into oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:14:59.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27449" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:19:13.730" Score="8" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone is asking about, for example, how to add a feature, or change behavior to/of some program for which you know it is not possible, is it acceptable to post a &quot;this is not possible&quot; answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is not an answer in itself, but then there is a dilemma: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leaving the question without answer&lt;/strong&gt; (in this case, the user can wonder if simply his question had no success, and he would eventually start a bounty for something which can't be answered).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering &quot;there is no solution&quot;, and explaining why&lt;/strong&gt; (which would provide information to the user, but at the price of discouraging further answers, and of course the risk of simply being wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you recommend to do in such situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Bonus question:&lt;/strong&gt; When there is such an answer, what about the voting behavior? Should such answer be upvoted if you agree that indeed, there is no solution? In the end, this is not giving any solution, so it looks strange to vote for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T14:26:00.227" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:26:00.227" Title="Is it ok to post &quot;there is no solution&quot; answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:19:56.100" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you start typing out an answer and then navigate away from the page or close the window, it'll ask if you're sure before it'll let you continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that if I only have one FireFox tab open, and start typing an answer and then press &lt;code&gt;ctrl+w&lt;/code&gt; to exit out of FireFox, it asks me twice if I'm sure I want to exit. I'm using FireFox 3.5.3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:00:02.420" Title="Why does exiting the browser when you've started typing a response make the confirmation show twice?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:21:39.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there really is no answer, then it should be perfectly acceptable. However, try to avoid answering with &quot;there is no answer&quot; if the solution is simply advised against. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:21:39.910" />
  <row Id="27448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:22:01.307" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer that there is no solution, and explain why if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can stop someone from going on a wild-goose chase, why wouldn't you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:22:01.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:23:02.423" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answering &quot;there is no solution&quot;, and explaining why (which would provide information to the user, but at the price of discouraging further answers, and of course the risk of simply being wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a great way to answer these types of questions.  Provided you are confident in your answer. As long as you give a reason why, I would find that to be a complete answer.  You might provide alternatives if possible or similar solutions/code/software/etc. or whatever the question entails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for using bounties for these kind of questions, it just brings more attention to the question and will have a greater chance of having more qualified and complete answers. That is not always the case, but brings lots of eyeballs to the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember to first make sure the questions are being asked in the best way with complete information, links, and details and then see where it goes from there. I have been proven wrong many times by someone later that found a solution or something I have never heard of yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T02:19:29.127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:19:29.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:26:54.497" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;There is no solution to this problem&quot; is logically different logical situation than &quot;The existence or not of a solution to this problem has not yet been established&quot; (and, of course, than &quot;I don't know.&quot;). By saying &quot;There is no solution&quot;, you rule out (unless you are wrong, of course :) the possibility that further waiting would result in someone's investigations getting to find a solution to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T15:56:56.737" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:56:56.737" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20068" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:43:01.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having some weird issues where all of a sudden accepted answers aren't boxed in light green, and answers are randomized instead of desc ordered by upvote. o_O&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:43:01.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27446" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:43:27.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed with Firefox 3.5.4.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not happen if there are several tabs open and you only close one of them. So I assume the first confirmation is for closing the tab, the second for closing the browser. Does not sound like an SO bug though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:43:27.977" />
  <row Id="27453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27455" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:51:36.293" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I logged in this morning and there's a &quot;You got a 'Nice Answer' badge&quot; banner on my screen. Cool! But... I can't for the life of me figure out which answer it is for! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only candidate I plausibly have (e.g. questions that were up-voted within last 2 days and are around 10 and around 20 ranges) is this one with 19 up-votes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1572704/the-future-of-perl-perl-6-employability/1572732#1572732&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1572704/the-future-of-perl-perl-6-employability/1572732#1572732&lt;/a&gt; - and I don't see any recent down-votes on it so it does not seem like &quot;reached 20 and dropped&quot; situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any way I can figure this out myself? Not terribly critical but I hate unanswered riddles :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:54:47.320" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T16:24:37.423" Title="How do I find out what I got &quot;Nice Answer&quot; badge for?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27453" CreationDate="2009-10-27T15:54:47.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27445/is-it-ok-to-post-there-is-no-solution-answers&quot;&gt;There is no solution&lt;/a&gt; to your problem, if posed in general terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you get that badge at +10. The +20 doesn't come into play at any time. You may have been voted +10, got the badge, and then got 9 more upvotes for a total of +19.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T15:54:47.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T16:25:00.473" Score="23" ViewCount="485" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, I like the idea of accept rate.  I'm tired of giving good answers and not having them accepted.  The idea of adding another incentive to accept answers was another great idea by SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found a problem though (in my experience at least) which I'm wondering if other people would like to see tweaked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue is that I have asked several questions where a few answers have been given, but none of them has answered the question or solved my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers have no upvotes but SO still complains that I haven't accepted an answer and brings down my accept rate for not picking an incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My accept rate has not suffered terribly, but I've asked several difficult obscure questions just to probe the community for knowledge and those questions usually don't receive answers that merit acceptance.  I don't think I should be penalized at all for NOT accepting an incorrect answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the question should have at least one upvoted answer before being counted?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What do you folks think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132249" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T20:25:42.057" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:33:31.383" Title="Accept rate-why accept an answer that isn't an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27405" CreationDate="2009-10-27T16:26:25.863" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hex code was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#E0FFE0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which in RGB is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;rgb(224, 255, 224)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T16:26:25.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T16:42:50.047" Score="1" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;DevDays reviews - Washington DC&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any of the DC DevDays presentations, sideshows, audio..etc available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133298" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T19:40:38.643" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T19:40:38.643" ClosedDate="2009-10-28T07:04:10.193" Title="DevDays Presentation Resources - Washington DC" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;devdays-dc&gt;&lt;devdays-resources&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:13:57.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While in theory, I'd like to say &quot;Yes&quot;, I'm forced to say &quot;No&quot; after observing...  People are saying &quot;No solution&quot; to questions that indeed there ARE solutions to.  They're just not as smart as they think they are...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps some sort of middle ground, such as listing potential problems with it that you don't know how to solve (and indeed may be unsolvable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:13:57.807" />
  <row Id="27463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27465" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:17:11.610" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;On serverfault, I got a redbox popup (like the one when you try to accept your answer) right after an upvote on a question, but I had already hit back before it popped up and I had time to read it.  Anyone know what that might have said? I believe it had the word denied in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question might have been: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/78695/winter-and-summer-time-switch-without-a-break-in-the-timeline/78699&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/78695/winter-and-summer-time-switch-without-a-break-in-the-timeline/78699#78699&lt;/a&gt; . Of course, I can not confirm or deny that I did in fact anonymously up vote that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:27:11.523" Title="Red Box After Upvote" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27463" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:27:11.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those pop up from time to time for me.  They're usually the &quot;An error has occurred&quot; box and sometimes the vote is cast, sometimes not.  Usually I'll just go back and refresh the question to make sure my vote took.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:27:11.523" />
  <row Id="27466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:28:20.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Include popular programs in your answers (works mostly for SU).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your answer includes a very popular program, like Firefox, AutoHotKey, Notepad++, 7-zip, and plenty others, you are getting votes not only for the &quot;that indeed answers the question&quot;, but for the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;oh, that 7-firefoxKey++ roxx, I use it too, +1!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I unfortunately notice it to be more and more frequent. People will favor simply what they know and use themselves, even if they have barely read the question and the answer doesn't fully match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:28:20.503" />
  <row Id="27467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:32:21.513" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21549/comments-incorrectly-sumbitted-as-an-answer-instead-what-should-we-do&quot;&gt;Comments incorrectly sumbitted as an answer instead: what should we do?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8319/correct-action-for-non-answers-by-new-users&quot;&gt;Correct action for non-answers by new users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I see new users come to the site, find a question, but don't have enough information to answer it. Because they don't have enough rep to leave a comment on the question they write their questions for clarification as answers. &lt;strong&gt;These are obviously not real answers but they are legitimate requests for more info.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct way to approach this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6651" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:47:14.533" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T20:20:41.290" Title="What to do about low-rep users requesting more information in answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:33:01.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about responding &quot;There may be no solution to this problem, and here's why:&quot;.  Followed by a detailed list of the probative data as to why it's impossible/unsolvable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:33:01.073" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27457" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:54:27.113" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just ignore it. Acceptance rate is just one datum next to many others about you (your number of upvotes and downvotes, total questions and answers posted, not to mention your reputation itself), so on its own it's not really a big deal: if your reputation is good then it shouldn't deter anyone from answering a subsequent question you ask.  If someone comments on your original question asking why you haven't accepted an answer yet, it's okay to say that you haven't yet found a satisfactory solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having no accepted answer on the question can be more of a draw to getting more answers later, which is what you want!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:54:27.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27457" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:56:36.343" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the site is not &quot;to probe the community for knowledge&quot;, the idea is that upon finding an answer, you could actually answer the question yourself. If not, just wait... after all, it's not about the accept rate, it's about getting help to your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T17:56:36.343" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16634" CreationDate="2009-10-27T17:59:40.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like Anton's comment on the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The problem is that any time a number is associated with a user, the user feels he must make that number as big as possible. Perhaps we need a high-rep role model with a low accept rate to put people at ease. I see that litb is at 50%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps acceptance rate should only be shown for users with lower than a particular rep threshold, since it's mainly a tool for distinguishing question pumps from team players.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;That said, I like the OP's suggestion too - acceptance rate should only take into account questions with upvoted answers. Questions with no satisfactory answers should not compel the poster to accept one of them.&lt;/strike&gt; Edit: wow, I can't believe I said that. Unanswered question -&gt; unanswerable question == potentially bad question. Either work harder to make the question answerable, or if the OP found a workaround or some sort of solution himself, document it as an answer and accept that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one of my questions on SO is sitting with no answers accepted, and it doesn't bother me at all. I see my acceptance rate as less significant than my answer:question ratio (112:4) or my overall reputation (~3500).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. I'm going to repeat a comment by Andrew Coleson from elsewhere in this question, as I think it's excellent and deserves to be highlighted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to enforce 70% to be &quot;excellent&quot; (nobody will see it this way intuitively), display a label like &quot;Excellent&quot; instead of the percentage (70%). Basically, put the percentages in the FAQ and just gloss over the details with a tagline of &quot;[Excellent|Good|Fair|Poor] acceptance rate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T08:15:05.577" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T08:15:05.577" />
  <row Id="27473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-27T18:03:40.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is no solution, ask about the question's general context - what is the person who asked the questions trying to achieve... maybe there is a possible alternative way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T18:03:40.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7946" CreationDate="2009-10-27T18:21:28.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also noticed that questions and answers about &lt;em&gt;Languages That Aren't Very Popular But Have A Proud Userbase&lt;/em&gt; (such as Common Lisp) tend to get upvotes more easily. My stupid noobish Common Lisp questions got me more upvotes that some advanced questions of mine about more mainstream technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple answers to simple questions will also get you more reputation as more people will feel that &lt;em&gt;&quot;Hey, I know that, this is completely true, let's upvote it&quot;&lt;/em&gt; especially since people like feeling smart and knowing the right answer. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644609/c-problem-with-byte&quot;&gt;Example here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastEditorUserId="8954" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T15:54:59.003" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:54:59.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-27T18:47:47.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted photos from the last few talks &lt;a href=&quot;http://hyfen.net/out/writing/2009-10/stackoverflow-devdays/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on my blog&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T18:47:47.620" />
  <row Id="27481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27457" CreationDate="2009-10-27T19:17:29.750" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;not an answer&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; flag just like there is an &quot;&lt;em&gt;accept as answer&lt;/em&gt;&quot; flag available to the author of the original question. I've observed the same thing where all the provided answers do not actually answer the question, or they don't work.  Sometimes they may have valid information, and may even get up votes, but they just are not an answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the author of the question can &lt;em&gt;accept as answer&lt;/em&gt; the one correct, answer, or can flag each of the questions as &lt;em&gt;not an answer&lt;/em&gt;, and both behaviors would count as accepting an answer.  The whole point of the accept rate is to encourage question authors to followup with the people who provided the answers for them.  One way of following up is to say &quot;nope, that isn't what I am looking for, but thanks anyway!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the &quot;not an answer&quot; flag should not have any negative penalty attached.  If the answer is actually wrong, then it can be down voted via the normal mechanism.  This is purely to fine tune the answered vs. unanswered vs. accepted status of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T19:17:29.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T19:40:16.957" Score="0" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26682/comments-on-questions-how-do-i-add-mine&quot;&gt;Comments on questions, how do I add mine?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was just looking at a question on SO where other people had posted comments yet I was unable to post a comment.  What is going on here? Does it have anything to do with the fact that the question had been turned into a wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144446" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T20:53:20.433" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:53:20.433" ClosedDate="2009-10-27T20:20:03.283" Title="Why am I unable to post comments on certain threads" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27482" CreationDate="2009-10-27T19:44:03.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need 50 rep to post comments, except on your own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141852" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T19:44:03.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27485" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T19:47:18.373" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;For posts that have been answered, it would be nice to see a &quot;Followup&quot; section (just below the original question text section) where I can put a followup narrative about how I used the 'checked' answer to completely solve my issue.   Right now, if I want to post followup information I need to edit the original question and it doesn't look that nice when you do it that way.   Also, you could add badges for being a good user for following up and adding more info after the question is answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132251" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:15:05.297" Title="Followup method for answered posts would be nice" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27482" CreationDate="2009-10-27T19:56:26.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26682/comments-on-questions-how-do-i-add-mine&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26682/comments-on-questions-how-do-i-add-mine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T19:56:26.553" />
  <row Id="27487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27490" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:08:11.780" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to do a search restricting the results to my own questions. I checked out the search tips and discovered this recommendation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Advanced Super Ninja Search Options&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;posts from a specific user &lt;code&gt;user:1234 apples oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I tried...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:Ethan vim  # I'm trying to find a question I asked about Vim a while ago.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were many results, but none were questions of mine, at least not on the first page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the correct way to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130286" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T20:52:06.313" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:52:06.313" Title="How can I search within my own questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27487" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:10:40.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use your UserId instead of your username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hover over your username, look for the Id portion. /users/&lt;strong&gt;YourId&lt;/strong&gt;/YourUsername&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of registered users named Ethan on StackOverflow, the site distinguishes you based on your UserId, not your display name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:10:40.907" />
  <row Id="27490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27487" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:13:03.893" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way is to use &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you will need to use your numeric user ID, not your name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On Meta SO, 130286. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On SO, 42595. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On SF, 11478&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On SU, 2176&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would be &lt;code&gt;user:42595 vim&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A42595+vim&quot;&gt;Doing this on SO&lt;/a&gt;, currently, your question is the only result which pops up. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-27T20:40:49.197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:40:49.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27485" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:15:05.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually just put an &lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; block in as you mentioned.  I think this is a good way to do it, because many times there are multiple &lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;s to be added in as an issue is worked, and input given and received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:15:05.297" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:28:02.953" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm unable to create a new topic/question on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click &quot;Post Your Question&quot;, it turns grey and just hangs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried using both Firefox and Chrome and I'm not able to post a new question to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue was resolved, but could we make the title minimum character requirement more obvious when posting new questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137934" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T17:46:10.880" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:46:10.880" Title="Make it easier to see the 15 character minimum warning for the title when asking a new question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27525" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:35:48.663" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've started asking this question, and the editing toolbar has still not displayed.  I'm timing it, and wondering how long it will take for the toolbar to display.  Is this just an issue for me, or for others?  I do not have any responses in for my account, and yet it took just over a minute for the related questions and toolbar to come up, as I typed.  And, then, when it did come up, it took the focus from this edit box to the title, while I was typing.  That's especially annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it takes awhile if I have responses for my account, and I have to stop the browser (IE 7) in order to do an upvote.  But this seems like the slowness is related to the searching for related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136906" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T07:25:21.423" Title="Why does it take so long to get editing information when asking a question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;speed&gt;&lt;focus&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27492" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:39:09.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found the issue, my Title only had 14 characters and not the required 15 character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You guys might want to make this MUCH more obvious if that's the problem from allowing someone make a post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137934" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:39:09.667" />
  <row Id="27496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27457" CreationDate="2009-10-27T20:51:46.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think I should be penalized at&#xA;  all for NOT accepting an incorrect&#xA;  answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; penalized when you accept rate is below 100%. The accept rate is just a number and nothing more. If it is well above 0% there is absolutely nothing to worry about. And even folks with 0% get answers to their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T20:51:46.840" />
  <row Id="27497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-27T21:17:29.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anybody figured out where to find the slides from DC DevDays?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T21:17:29.937" />
  <row Id="27498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27457" CreationDate="2009-10-27T21:53:54.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My threshold for what constitutes a reasonable accept rate is 2/3. IMHO, if you are not getting a satisfactory answer to more than a third of your questions, that means either you do not know how to formulate questions or you are asking too many questions with no right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I work hard to figure out a good answer and feel like I have come up with a good answer and it is not accepted, well, I take that as a serious signal of lack of reciprocity on the poster's part. (I still hope that one day my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1013828/how-to-write-a-perl-python-or-ruby-program-to-change-the-memory-of-another-proc&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; will be accepted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a semi-coherent post from a person with higher than 2/3 accept rate, I am inclined to try to fix up the question first. That helps the poster gain rep. On the other hand, when I see a 42% accept rate, I don't bother. If the question is relatively straightforward, I might fire off a quick answer. If it is a difficult question, I act all petty and move on to the next one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no one is proposing penalizing people for not accepting an answer to one question. However, one is usually given the proverbial cold shoulder for establishing a pattern of not reciprocating. Big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T21:53:54.490" />
  <row Id="27499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27457" CreationDate="2009-10-27T22:01:32.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeff points out in his answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16634/count-only-questions-with-upvoted-answers-towards-the-accept-rate-percentage&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that any accept rate of 70% or higher is considered &quot;excellent&quot;, so you don't have to sweat every single one. There are occasions where accepting isn't practical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An accept rate of 100% should not be something you should necessarily aspire to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T22:01:32.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-27T22:13:37.593" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27454/improving-server-fault-closed&quot;&gt;this issue needs to be discussed here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically dealing with &lt;strong&gt;Server Fault&lt;/strong&gt;, I can see why the site is not growing.  Consider that you are competing against Experts Exchange, news groups, and many different vendor forums/communities.  Server Fault really has some &lt;em&gt;faults&lt;/em&gt; to overcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Problems&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the primary problem is that the Server Fault community is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; made up of professional system/network administrators, but is instead developers asking questions about their server environments.  That may be great for a PHP developer wondering why a module is not loading in Apache, but the result is a bunch questions that are not relevant to most administrators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A second result of the make up of the community is that extremely technical questions do not get answered because there are very few people to answer them.  Also, when they do get answered, most of the community does not understand the topic enough to vote.  Notice &#xA;how low the vote counts are on most questions compared to Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site is not very friendly to newcomers.  Put yourself in the shoes of an Exchange administrator and then look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;front page&lt;/a&gt; of SF.  What on that page even hints that Server Fault is a good place to ask Exchange questions or, gasp, stick around and help others with Exchange questions?  Compare Server Fault to &lt;a href=&quot;http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/categories/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Technet&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server%5FSoftware/Email%5FServers/Exchange/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Experts Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Solutions&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, I do not think you are helping Server Fault (or Super User) by tying the trilogy of sites so close together.  You seem to grasp that these are separate audiences; however, you only advertise the three sites to developers.  Of course, SO is going to take off while the others flounder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server Fault needs to be much less accepting of off-topic and Super User questions.  Just because a question references &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/68864/how-can-i-use-all-of-the-space-on-my-new-hard-drives-added-to-an-existing-raid-co&quot;&gt;RAID&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/31470/setting-time-zone-on-linux-ubuntu&quot;&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt; does not mean it is appropriate.  Maybe give some direction to your moderators to clean up these questions to make the site more appealing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the reputation system to reward those that answer difficult technical questions.  Unfortunately, I really do not have an idea on how to do that.  The current system rewards those who ask and answer easy questions making it just as easy for non-administrators to gain reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider creating &lt;strong&gt;Portals&lt;/strong&gt; on this site which target specific products or manufactures.  It may be as simple is grouping certain tags on a portal page and changing the branding a little on each portal.  Maybe this could include corporate sponsorships.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seek out the experts!  I would be contacting every MVP I could find to ask them to visit the site.  And yes, there are tons of admin-related bloggers too but they tend to revolve around certain products (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual%5Fpc%5Fguy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ben Armstrong&lt;/a&gt; and Microsoft Virtualization).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;One Final Consideration&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be time to step back and consider whether or not the Q&amp;amp;A format is best for Server Fault.  There needs to be a better way to format a back-and-forth discussion between users which is required to troubleshoot and solve a complex problem.  This isn't Stack Overflow were you can simply post a snippet of code and someone can point out your problem or a different way to attack the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current format lends itself towards simple questions and simple answers.  The end result being a site that may not be to useful for professional system administrators.  Evan's comment on a different question reminded me of this - none of the admins I have told about Server Fault have stuck around.  Figure out why that is, solve it, and then your community will grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastEditorUserId="130157" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T03:37:18.543" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T03:37:18.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2009-10-27T22:41:43.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In reference to a new user asking his/her own question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can edit the original question and add an additional information section. I try and leave a comment to the OP that this would be a better solution then adding an &quot;answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The low rep OP can leave comments on their own questions, just not other people's questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In reference to a new user answering other questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only takes 50 reputation points to comment.  You are given the privilege of commenting once you have been on the site for some time and learned some of the rules and procedures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-10T09:57:24.600" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T09:57:24.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8319" CreationDate="2009-10-27T22:42:45.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In reference to a new user asking his own question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can edit the original question and add an additional information section. I try and leave a comment to the OP that this would be a better solution than adding an &quot;answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The low reputation OP can leave comments on their own questions, just not other people's questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In reference to a new user answering other questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only takes 50 reputation points to comment.  You are given the privilege of commenting once you have been on the site for some time and learned some of the rules and procedures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T10:54:14.253" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T10:54:14.253" />
  <row Id="27503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8724" CreationDate="2009-10-27T22:59:23.713" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have a programming question, SO is my first stop. If I can't find it here, then I search for it. If you want to tell me where to look on google, that's fine, but I ask questions here for a reason. In the 10 - 12 months I've been here, I've only had to go somewhere else for the answer a handful of times. I heard of SO by reading Jeff Atwood's and Scott Hanselman's blogs, but I started using it when I googled about the build actions in .net project files.  I did google it, and google led me here.  2.3 million results and the top one points to SO.  Google and bing are great tools, but nothing beats a talented community of individuals that are willing to share their knowledge. And here I was able to find what I was really looking for: not just an answer, but the best way to apply that answer to my problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something SO gives you that google can't is the polite debate amongst experts that applies context of the question. Sometimes it's not about finding the answer, but how you should apply the answer based on what you're trying to accomplish.  A recent question I saw was about using Regular Expressions to replace parts of strings. There are tons of resources on Regex, and tons on replacements. I'm sure the person asking could have searched through all the results from google looking for the best answer, or he could come here get an explanation of why to do it this way instead of that way. And there's no reputation marker in google that would say to take the advice of this person named  Jon Skeet over some random guy posting on his blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137939" LastActivityDate="2009-10-27T22:59:23.713" />
  <row Id="27505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2009-10-28T00:02:27.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the following case, I had to put a comment as an answer, because it needed some actual working code to point out the flaw in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1627945/in-perl-how-do-you-access-a-value-from-a-reference-in-an-array-of-hashrefs/1628033#1628033&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1627945/in-perl-how-do-you-access-a-value-from-a-reference-in-an-array-of-hashrefs/1628033#1628033&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T00:02:27.590" />
  <row Id="27506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27507" CreationDate="2009-10-28T00:03:39.723" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1628750/why-is-bash-everywhere&quot;&gt;Why is bash everywhere?&lt;/a&gt; was migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/61727/why-is-bash-everywhere&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and there is a really good answer there that I would like to accept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I seem to have lost control over the question. Is there some way to associate my account with this migrated question so I can accept an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137944" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T00:20:50.637" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T00:20:50.637" Title="Accepting an answer on a migrated question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27506" CreationDate="2009-10-28T00:16:14.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a SU account using your OpenID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;associate your SO account to your SU account (in the 'accounts' tab of your user profile)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag the SU question that is &quot;yours&quot; (that was yours on SO) and ask the moderator to associate it with your account.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could do the same here on metaSO to get ownership of this question as well. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T00:16:14.067" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29096" CreationDate="2009-10-28T01:19:27.057" Score="5" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try to login to StackOverflow via my Technorati OpenID I get &quot;&quot;No OpenID endpoint found.&quot;  I checked and double-checked my URL and it appears to be correct.  Luckily I had a Google OpenID associated w/ my account as well.  Is anyone having any success w/ Technorati OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148961" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T16:08:03.317" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T16:08:03.317" Title="Why can't I login to StackOverflow using my Technorati OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2009-10-28T01:55:50.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put a &quot;Post your Comment&quot; button right next to the &quot;Post your Answer&quot; button and act accordingly depending on which button is pushed. See if that helps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137947" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T01:55:50.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-28T03:11:31.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The slides from my presentation are here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://odetocode.com/downloads/devdays2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://odetocode.com/downloads/devdays2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the feedback, everyone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137948" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T03:11:31.367" />
  <row Id="27512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27513" CreationDate="2009-10-28T03:51:53.683" Score="-1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9024/how-is-stack-overflow-officially-branded&quot;&gt;How is Stack Overflow Officially Branded?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions/answers have been edited multiple times now due to a simple thing: whether to write Stack Overflow (or Super User) as Stack Overflow or as StackOverflow. One edit of one of the posts edited it to the first way, the other edit of the other post edited it to the other way. So, what is the correct way of writing it? Oh, and also, feel free to edit the title of this question. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T04:08:11.450" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T04:08:11.450" ClosedDate="2009-10-28T04:50:31.180" Title="What is the proper spacing of the &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; name?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;so-name&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="27513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27512" CreationDate="2009-10-28T03:56:06.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9024/how-is-stack-overflow-officially-branded&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T03:56:06.867" />
  <row Id="27514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-28T04:16:35.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I volunteered at this event and also got roped into speaking last after everyone had left (my company, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opower.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OPOWER&lt;/a&gt;, decided to get a booth there after I had decided to volunteer).  I spent most of the time outside watching the twitter stream.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Carsonified folks were great to deal with; very organized, very professional.  They had their sh*t down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few funny bits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel introduced himself to me as &quot;The guy running this thing&quot;.  Like &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; didn't know that already :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of my co-workers asked Bruce Eckel (who had questioned my company's use of Java) if he &quot;was more of a .Net guy&quot;.  Ha!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did a double-take when I saw the laptop of one of the Carsonified checkin staff -- it was a Dell running OS X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The best schwag of the night, Cordero's multi-tool, suffered from being packaged in a dingy ugly paper box; the pens went much faster (though the buttons seemed least popular of all).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I scanned the barcode printed on some of the paper tickets; just some database primary key; nothing geeky :(&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the talks, I really enjoyed Joel's opening bits that I could catch, and was &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; glad Bruce Eckel's talk was not a big Python lecture, but instead some deep insight into language design, from a real expert.  I was hoping the JQuery talk would be a bit more advanced, but it's hard to know what the audience would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was super nervous going out there for my &quot;after everyone had left&quot; talk.  Was glad a few people stuck around; my runthroughs on Sunday were all north of 15 minutes, but I got through the whole thing in 13.  Hope I wasn't talking too fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137560" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T04:16:35.143" />
  <row Id="27515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T04:37:24.867" Score="3" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the whole OpenID/Google/Yahoo/AOL login system of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans to open this component, and the backing code for authentication, up to the public? You talked about carving out the useful components of SO, like OpenID and markdown++, for open source distribution on the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your OpenID implementation is quite slick and I could see it benefiting the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136256" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T11:53:06.027" Title="Is the Stack Overflow OpenID component open source?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T04:55:45.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is when I feel like pointing and laughing and say &quot;ha, these verticals should have just been part of Stack Overflow like I said all along!&quot; But I think the trilogy helped usher in the development of Stack Exchange, which is awesome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really think there is a way to grow these things without putting a lot of money behind it, ie advertising. Good programmers read programming blogs and as such, Stack Overflow hit the ground running with a huge audience because two of the best programming bloggers were behind it. And that initial momentum naturally carries over into Google indexing which enables Stack Overflow to continue to grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about good IT guys? Are there IT blogs out there with huge followings that are written by thought-leaders in IT? I don't think so. So unless you're sponsoring conferences and setting up a booth and what not I have no idea how you can capture the minds of people in the IT profession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's even harder for super user, because the target audience there is everybody that has a computer. I've told friends about it but they just don't get it. Probably because they don't feel like dealing with OpenID or having to author a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's too late now, but it's not like when Digg.com decided to branch out from technology news they really had much of a problem with &quot;one size fits all.&quot; Just sayin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T04:55:45.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="27520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T06:33:10.710" Score="6" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see many questions being asked on serverfault that are more appropriate for superuser.  I vote to move/close, and add a comment to so other regs will also vote to move.  Frequently the original poster, will add a comment saying something along the lines of &quot;I didn't know that site existed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ask a question page (&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;) do give you a somewhat useful idea of what is appropriate for whatever site the user is on in the column to the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page does not give any good indications that the other trilogy sites exist and the focus of the other sites may be more a better location for them to ask their question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think updating the 'Ask Question' page to provide some better hints about the existence and focus of other trilogy sites is one way to help &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26689/how-do-we-grow-the-server-fault-and-super-user-communities&quot;&gt;grow serverfault/superuser&lt;/a&gt; with on-topic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T06:33:10.710" Title="Update the 'Ask Question' pages on the trilogy sites to encourage user to select the domain" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T06:37:26.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27454/improving-server-fault/27474#27474&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; I am thinking serverfault could use a couple more moderators to close or move off-topic posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Ask a question page (&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;) you have a good description of what is appropriate for the site you asking questions at.  I am thinking that you may want to consider making it more obvious (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27520/update-the-ask-question-pages-on-the-trilogy-sites-to-encourage-user-to-select&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;) that the other two sites exist so people won't be tempted to ask off=topic questions on the wrong site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T06:37:26.350" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T06:50:23.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think DLux got it pretty much right. The exchange administrators are relatively easy crowd to please, you'll know SF is good when the network engineers accept it. As they are relatively comfortable with Nanog, vendor-nsp mailing lists, irc and other relics, I guess it'll take at least few years. Even if SF starts going to the right direction today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as the good and interesting questions are scarce and the crowd really doesn't appreciate them or the good answers, it's pretty hard to imagine how SF wouldn't self-select itself into uselessness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people have suggested advertising, and I would have to say it wouldn't help. To make it work and gain visitors who would actually return, SF would have to be a valuable resource that just needs to be found. The value is not there at the moment. When someone has a SF-related problem, Google usually finds some obscure blog or years-old mailing list post, but seldom anything from SF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big part of this can be attributed to the fact that old stuff runs the world. It's not uncommon to have to work with decade old hardware and even older software. With programming, the pressure is towards using the most productive tools. With systems and network engineering, the pressure is towards causing as little capex as possible. SO crowd has questions about new stuff, the intended SF crowd has questions about antique. Because of this, it will take way longer for SF to find its way to the first results of sysadmins' google searches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to finding the &quot;Joel Spolsky of sysadmin bloggers&quot;, the fact is that there is none. Actually, Joel isn't really a &quot;programming blogger&quot;, I'd say he's read more because of his business orientation than technical content. Sticking to technical stuff limits the readership. To have in-depth knowledge of some platform or technology usually means you don't have broad knowledge about related stuff and optionally you work for the vendor. And the field is even more fragmented than programming. On the other hand, if it was possible to attract the active niche gurus to SF, they could provide really great answers to hard questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a quick fix and easy improvement, there really should be links to SF and SU on the &quot;ask a question&quot; page. It should probably be in the sidebar, with brief, clear description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134356" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T06:50:23.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="27523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27204" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:09:28.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Issue(1): Jeff says &quot;What we're doing&#xA;  with the trilogy is not exactly rocket&#xA;  surgery. At its core, we run Q&amp;amp;A&#xA;  websites. And the most basic operation&#xA;  of any Q&amp;amp;A website is … asking a&#xA;  question. Something any two year old&#xA;  child knows how to do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that any two year old can ask a question, but a quick look at newsgroups, mail-lists, forums and everything that came before stackoverflow seems to quickly prove that bad questions do exist.  When I say bad I mean there isn't enough detail, they are not addressed to the wrong audience, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions asked at the wrong place annoy the regular users of the system, and will frustrate the new users when they have to figure out how to link trilogy accounts because their question got moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the domain name/site logo alone gives a strong enough indication about what the focus the trilogy sites are for.  In a perfect world everyone would go read the FAQ so they know, and the would scroll down and see the links to the other trilogy sites which are below the fold, and they would go look at the faq for those sites as well.  Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world.  I think it is very important that the focus of the site be displayed.  I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27520/update-the-ask-question-pages-on-the-trilogy-sites-to-encourage-user-to-select&quot;&gt;would like&lt;/a&gt; to see the page also include more details about the other trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T07:09:28.690" />
  <row Id="27524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:18:59.847" Score="1" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be interesting to see if there is a Jon Skeet effect on question closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently seen two heavily downvoted questions (one &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20123/jon-skeet-should-be-ashamed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) which AREN'T closed, and I suspect that it's because they have an answer by Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wonder whether there aren't people 'following' Jon around, and questions that he answers automatically get more views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be also interesting to see if this is a Jon Skeet effect, or if it is a high rep user effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T07:36:38.807" Title="Data-dump analysis idea : Detecting the Jon Skeet effect" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27494" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:25:21.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like basic network connectivity problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have mentioned, try in a different browser to see if that helps as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not aware of any systemic network problems on our end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T07:25:21.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27524" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:28:29.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure there are a few people who follow me around to some extent. Eric Lippert seems to comment on my answers more than would seem likely if he were just reading a random sample of C# questions - although that's an effect for which I'm profoundly grateful, as his comments are always insightful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the linked Meta question already had plenty of downvotes before I answered though - and it's worth remembering that downvotes on a question on meta don't really equate to downvotes on a Stack Overflow question. They're expressions of disagreement rather than suggestions that the question is asked badly etc. Examples in Stack Overflow would be more interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if there were an effect, but one that's a little more subtle - it's possible that if I answer a question, some people &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; not downvote it when they otherwise would. That doesn't necessarily have to be due to me being me, however. You might think a question is generally useless until you see an answer which interprets the question slightly differently, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T07:28:29.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27529" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:35:03.940" Score="5" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to include employer and job titles in the experience section of my Public CV without also including all the detailed job duties. It seems like adding one more level of granularity in that hierarchy should be straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132807" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T23:35:17.527" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T23:35:17.527" Title="More granularity needed in Publish CV options" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27524" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:36:38.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shouldn't be to hard to pull off. Just two subsets of the data. One with Skeet and one without. Plot a graph and ???. Profit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T07:36:38.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27527" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:46:04.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add this - we were just waiting to see if anyone wanted it :)&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Update - now live&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can set the visibility on the large textarea descriptions of any Experience and Education sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T23:35:07.683" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T23:35:07.683" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:48:15.160" Score="6" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I'm on a train to DevDays London... and I have my video camera with me. I have no idea how well it will work in terms of quality or battery life, but it records to SD and I have my laptop with me, so storage shouldn't be a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to record my own talk, and I'd like to record as many other talks as I can, but what else are people interested in? Would you actually bother to watch bits of &quot;general atmosphere&quot; or should I just save my battery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The video side of Joel's keynote looks like it's come out reasonably, but the audio is a mess (although that could be my netbook trying to cope with HD). Hopefully Joel's got the audio being recorded separately, so we should be able to sync it up. Currently recharging battery (from netbook, which I'll charge separately later), so unfortunately not recording the Python talk. Will make sure I get myself and Jeff, and whatever else I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Okay, so in the end I managed to record:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's keynote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first half of Remy Sharp's jQuery talk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's Stack Overflow careers talk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first half of Jeff's Stack Overflow talk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All but the last couple of slides of my talk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might try to get a spare battery for next time - it's a pain that you can't charge it and record at the same time :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carsonified are going to merge the audio and video (the sound recording is rubbish from the camera) and publish them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T01:04:28.480" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T01:04:28.480" ClosedDate="2010-05-10T23:59:22.657" Title="What would people particularly like me to record at the London DevDays?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;devdays-london&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:53:23.830" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have purposely not replied to this until now, as I wanted to see what the discussion would lead to. &#xA;I must admit I am somewhat surprised at some of the responses and although I agree with most I also &#xA;have my own thoughts on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Google is the Trilogy Home Page&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest issues I see coming forward from the community on a regular basis is the lack of quality questions &#xA;and answers. However it seems that unless you were part of the original SO beta group, no one has realised the purpose&#xA;behind these sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The trilogy is meant to be a canonical collection of questions and answers continually updated &#xA;  with the latest information.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore to drive traffic to the site, the easy &quot;Google It&quot; questions should and must &#xA;appear on SU and SF. With the ability of 2K+ users to edit posts, the idea is that these questions, if bad, gets edited &#xA;into properly indexable questions with up to date answers. This is what makes the Trilogy stand out from the rest of the &#xA;forums and sites out there. If someone types a question in Google relevant to a topic on one of the trilogy sites, that site &#xA;should be the first 10 links that come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that the current user base needs to be guided and taught what the purpose of the site is, and the 2K+ users must &#xA;take on the responsibility given to them by having the abilities, as they have a vested interest in the success of these sites.&#xA;The development of the Stack Overflow Careers should be more then enough motivation to drive this change in attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog, Blog, Blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each person that has a blog has a readership. Whether that readership is 1 person or 20, the more the sites are exposed in blog &#xA;entries, the more they are indexed by sites like Google as the canonical source of information. Between the blogs and twitter, &#xA;awareness needs to be spread irrelevant of the smaller communities it represents. Moms4Mom's recent explosion was caused by &#xA;the twitter exposure when people like Scott Hanselman suddenly sends a tweet about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Joel and Jeff have access to some of &#xA;the biggest names in IT, not just development. Get Scott to evangelise this in his podcast, even consider sponsoring his podcasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advertising&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find the right podcast and become a sponsor. This could also potentially open up a huge traffic boost, and also reach a broader audience.&#xA;Most users ignore internet advertising, we know this. However podcasts, RSS feeds and others can't be ignored. I have to admit creating &#xA;a twitter account for each of the sites which people can follow is not a bad idea, maybe listing the top questions for the day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Thoughts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking specifically around the MVPs, involving them is by no means an easy task. They are often held back from involvement due to &#xA;other commitments, and the never ending list of NDAs put in place by Microsoft. As a VSTS Ranger I have learned this the hard way. &#xA;Not too long ago I was asked to remove answers of SO due to me violating the NDA, and I wasn't even aware at the time I was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are&#xA;also by no means know the answers to every question, since at the end of the day received an award from Microsoft for an achievement, not &#xA;because they know every answer. I am by no means saying they are not good, however they are human, and often not the right people to answer&#xA;questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to ensure that we meet the initial goal of the site, which I have already listed. Be the canonical source of information where people &#xA;find the answers to their questions. Not only by driving new users, but engaging and keeping the existing user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T08:42:38.783" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T08:42:38.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T07:55:43.413" Score="13" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a few profile related queries. (Only relating to the AboutMe box) and here are some of the interesting profiles I found. Do you know of more fun profiles out there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The strange&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18149&quot;&gt;leeand00&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443&quot;&gt;Welbog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/138575&quot;&gt;prabhu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The book writers&lt;/strong&gt; (People with a long aboutme)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30715&quot;&gt;yeradis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4681&quot;&gt;Joseph Ducreux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/108175&quot;&gt;kennethfsk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33810&quot;&gt;orcmid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The people who are trying to break the profile box&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/140786&quot;&gt;x10&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/319&quot;&gt;Binarytales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16269&quot;&gt;StfnoPad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PGP Keys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3474&quot;&gt;erickson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54838&quot;&gt;BC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood love &amp;lt;3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/804&quot;&gt;Sam C&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1212&quot;&gt;Chris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just plain fun&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/58088&quot;&gt;Chacha102&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/93246&quot;&gt;Hooloovoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oddly high profile views&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/66112&quot;&gt;GordonB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/379&quot;&gt;geocoin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T22:29:25.723" Title="Collection of fun and/or interesting profiles" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27530" CreationDate="2009-10-28T08:38:27.190" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time you answer a question, be prepared for the onslaught of high-fives (upvotes) coming your way. If you get slapped on your butt, that's an accepted answer. Record that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General atmosphere; lunch, the seating, noise &amp;amp; hub-bub, the people's faces around the room in the other talks would be good. The element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hold back on the toilet visit footage if you're thinking of the Beastie Boys' little experiement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T08:38:27.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27535" CreationDate="2009-10-28T08:43:35.267" Score="-5" ViewCount="664" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway for me to see who is upvoting or downvoting me? Apart from looking at the data dump, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; go after those who downvoted me, but it's interesting to know, anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-08T16:40:38.407" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T16:40:38.407" Title="See Who is Upvoting/ Downvoting My Question/Answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="27535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27534" CreationDate="2009-10-28T08:46:08.660" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is anonymous and not even the moderators have access to this information. The only people I suspect that can see is Jeff and the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From the comments: Voting data is made anonymous before the data dump is done so this information is not available in the data dump.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are scripts that run that check for voting anomalies that will indicate when a user has a high rate of up-votes or down-votes from a particular user, however these instances are rare and handled by Jeff and the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T10:01:13.930" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T10:01:13.930" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27532" CreationDate="2009-10-28T09:00:33.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice finds. Note that all of the texts of the book writers is cut-off. Is that a bug, or did they simply copy/paste those texts without verifying the result?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: just tested it: the text is cut off without notice (the maximum number of characters is 2000). Perhaps we should tag this &lt;code&gt;[bug-report]&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: wadda ya know, of course this has already been turned into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12093/could-we-get-n-characters-left-status-when-editing-about-me-in-our-profile&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt; over two months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T09:39:44.080" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T09:39:44.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T09:02:37.680" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it planned to be able to add additional documents to the experience section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I wanted to add a letter of reference from my previous employer or a detailed overview of tasks and responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137952" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T12:57:48.597" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T13:00:00.390" Title="Additional documents for CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T09:15:44.787" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12093/could-we-get-n-characters-left-status-when-editing-about-me-in-our-profile&quot;&gt;Could we get &amp;ldquo;n characters left&amp;rdquo; status when editing &amp;ldquo;About Me&amp;rdquo; in our profile?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently (as noted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27532/collection-of-fun-and-or-interesting-profiles/27536#27536&quot;&gt;Stephan202&lt;/a&gt;) you are not notified when your content in the about me box is cut short. So there should be at least a warning telling you that you have exceeded the maximum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T13:52:43.463" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T13:52:43.463" ClosedDate="2009-10-28T10:09:35.437" Title="Notification when you've exceeded the maximum length in the about me box" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27530" CreationDate="2009-10-28T09:18:54.080" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a discussion between you and a few high rep users about C# or some other programming related topic. Just a casual talk, it's often very interesting to see how smrt people think and talk about things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T09:18:54.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-28T09:44:56.757" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4484/oscarfindspage.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;pre&gt;                  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fight Link Rot!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T09:44:56.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T09:44:56.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27543" CreationDate="2009-10-28T09:49:03.593" Score="4" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got the captcha message for an answer I wanted to post. No problem I entered the message, but made a typo which I only saw just after I submitted. Yet my answer was still posted. The captcha said 'dreaming The' and I entered 'draming The'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to let you guys know. I'm not even sure this is the place to post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137954" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:33:49.067" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:33:49.067" Title="Is there a bug in the captcha? I entered the wrong message and my answer was still posted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27542" CreationDate="2009-10-28T09:53:10.957" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reCaptcha&lt;/a&gt;. They allow for a certain % of error margin. Since you're helping transcribing OCR books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T09:53:10.957" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T11:29:14.713" Score="0" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;On careers.stackoverflow.com , I click on &quot;file CV&quot;, and Firefox gives me this error: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com uses an invalid security certificate.&#xA;The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.&#xA;(Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I could be the subject of a man-in-the-middle attack, but I suspect there is a more prosaic cause!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing Comodo as the issuer, but Firefox is still saying: &#xA;&quot;the certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works OK in IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it help if I post more details of the cert I'm seeing?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Working!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's working OK now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thanks, Geoff :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131251" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T20:34:46.057" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:34:46.057" Title="Invalid Security Certificate?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27545" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:17:49.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got this yesterday, too.  It appears to be fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO team probably left the self-signed test cert on it by accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T12:17:49.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27549" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:19:02.913" Score="1" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to search for questions with badge &quot;sql&quot;, no accepted answer, and order the results by the age of the question.  Is it possible to search like that from the browser address bar?  Or in any other way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about other criteria, like &quot;no answer at all&quot;, &quot;no upvote&quot;, or even &quot;less than 100 views&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Apologies if this is a dumb question. I can't seem to find the answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T13:01:13.767" Title="Search for questions that match certain criteria" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27547" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:25:58.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;Ninja search options&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your sql results use &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bsql%5D%20hasaccepted%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bsql%5D%20hasaccepted%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[sql]&lt;/strong&gt; hasaccepted:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T13:01:13.767" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T13:01:13.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="700" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:38:52.227" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it .... errr ... well ... amusing, ridiculous, surprising, interesting and all kinds of other things, that a large percentage of the honorable meta crowd really thinks that a minimum character limit encourages &quot;thoughtful comments&quot;. Since when are people that talk more more thoughtful? Since when are long texts more thoughtful? Since when haven't you been talking to your marketing department? Since when is more code better code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, best of all, IMHO: Since when is saying &quot;Thank you!&quot; considered a thoughtless venture into AOL land?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T12:38:52.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27555" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:43:12.730" Score="0" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following got closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1636877/how-to-insert-an-image-into-mysql-and-read-it&quot;&gt;How to insert an image into MySQL and read it?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please give a  short demo in PHP.Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be of interest to many starting PHP programmers. On the other hand the poster is a lazy bum who could've found his answer using Google in 10 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Stack Overflow started, one of the things I read was that they wanted canonical answers for easy questions. What was it, like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-shell-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But was the question closed correctly? If so, does that mean SO no longer wants to have canonical answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Example answer I had in mind, heavily borrowed from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phpriot.com/articles/images-in-mysql&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tutorial&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can create a MySQL table to store images like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;create table testblob (&#xA;    image_id        tinyint(3)  not null default '0',&#xA;    image_type      varchar(25) not null default '',&#xA;    image           blob        not null,&#xA;    image_size      varchar(25) not null default '',&#xA;    image_ctgy      varchar(25) not null default '',&#xA;    image_name      varchar(50) not null default ''&#xA;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can insert a new image like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$imgData = file_get_contents($filename);&#xA;$size = getimagesize($filename);&#xA;mysql_connect(&quot;localhost&quot;, &quot;$username&quot;, &quot;$password&quot;);&#xA;mysql_select_db (&quot;$dbname&quot;);&#xA;$sql = &quot;INSERT INTO testblob&#xA;        ( image_id , image_type ,image, image_size, image_name)&#xA;        VALUES&#xA;        ('', '{$size['mime']}', '{$imgData}', '{$size[3]}', &#xA;         '{$_FILES['userfile']['name']}')&quot;;&#xA;mysql_query($sql);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can display an image from the database in a web page like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$link = mysql_connect(&quot;localhost&quot;, &quot;username&quot;, &quot;password&quot;);&#xA;mysql_select_db(&quot;testblob&quot;);&#xA;$sql = &quot;SELECT image FROM testblob WHERE image_id=0&quot;;&#xA;$result = mysql_query(&quot;$sql&quot;);&#xA;header(&quot;Content-type: image/jpeg&quot;);&#xA;echo mysql_result($result, 0);&#xA;mysql_close($link);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T14:32:38.613" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T14:32:38.613" Title="Was this question closed correctly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="27553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27552" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:49:25.667" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The subject matter is programming related enough so it's a borderline case. Why I think it was closed is the question displayed no initiative. It was basically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please do my (job|homework) for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which people object to. People like it when you've spent some effort on something, even if it's completely wrong. Honest effort goes a long way to eliciting help from others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T12:49:25.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27552" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:51:17.530" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the tooltip of &quot;not a real question&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what's being asked here. The question is ambiguous and vague, and cannot be answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it was closed correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is certainly being asked in a way that seems to demonstrate the user doesn't even know what he's asking. It's like someone told him, &quot;Store an image in a database&quot; and he asked us the same thing because he's tremendously lost. There are much better ways to ask that kind of question when you're tremendously lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T12:51:17.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27552" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:54:19.837" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it was a question. Questions should be answered. If the question is duplicate, then link the duplicate. If the question is general discussion, move to discussion area. If the question wants you to create a piece of program, then create one or give pseudocode or instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question had the question only in the title. Someone should copy the question also to the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is great if only perfectly expressed questions are allowed and others are given lots of minuses and closed. Of course badly expressed questions are not great either, but seems rude way to treat others to just close. I bet many discussion posts are really just closed because the area is not discussion area, even though the discussion might be very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137721" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T12:54:19.837" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="27556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27537" CreationDate="2009-10-28T12:57:23.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &quot;Detailed Overview of Tasks and Responsibilities&quot; -- that's what your CV is for.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/george-stocker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See mine for an example&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as &quot;Letters of Reference&quot;; they're something you can send to the company with a cover letter and a resume; but if you want them publicly available I'd link to them from your blog and include the link in the CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, maybe a sentence like the following in your Personal Statement or 'Background':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I get things done and impressed my previous employer enough &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/example-reference-letter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that he wrote about it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T12:57:23.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27542" CreationDate="2009-10-28T13:47:33.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically what happened is that since reCAPTCHA gives you two words, one known and one unknown, you must have made the typo in the unknown word, essentially passing the CAPTCHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has happened to me before, and a lot of times, you can know which word is the one that is known: it looks a lot cleaner than the other one. Not that this knowledge has given me any cheating power that could be used for evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T13:47:33.620" />
  <row Id="27558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27596" CreationDate="2009-10-28T14:09:16.303" Score="6" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just went to my 'Recent Activity' page on StackOverflow and the time range offered to me by default was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2009-10-28 13:38:20Z to 2009-10-28 23:59:59Z&#xA;&#xA;Top 5 Posts&#xA;(nothing in this date range)&#xA;Most Recent Responses&#xA;(nothing in this date range)&#xA;&#xA;all times are in UTC; the current time is 2009-10-28 14:00:17Z&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the logic that generates the range shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means that I am being shown less than 20 minutes of activity plus about 8 hours of future time, which might be useful to Jon Skeet, but isn't to me (I don't often get significant voting activity in just the last 20 minutes) -- I always have to go and select 'Today' to get anything meaningful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't you modify the code so that the range is more like one of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2009-10-28 00:00:00Z to 2009-10-28 23:59:59Z&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2009-10-27 14:00:17Z to 2009-10-28 14:00:17Z&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In case it is not clear - the first alternative is 'the current 24 hours aligned to the day's ends in Zulu time', and the second is 'the last 24 hours as of the current time'; the first is the range provided when you do click 'Today'.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T17:27:04.930" Title="Why does the default time range on the 'recent activity' page work as it does?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27629" CreationDate="2009-10-28T14:10:20.940" Score="5" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fixed&lt;/strong&gt; - Thanks guys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noticed that the public CV for careers has a different layout for Firefox and IE7.  In IE, I get the heading and tags on several lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/305/giantleapie.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Firefox I get the heading and tags on their own lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/exampleff.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I prefer the firefox rendering, so I hope that is the intended layout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'd appreciate it if others could take a peek and tell me what they see in their browser: &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/adamdavis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/adamdavis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T14:11:11.767" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T14:11:11.767" Title="Careers experience layout messed up in IE" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;internet-explorer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="27560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27562" CreationDate="2009-10-28T14:20:04.480" Score="4" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if just simply typing in a name in the edit box in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/publish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; to publish my CV is enough to reserve the public URL. I noticed the UI seemed to think this step was done as it updated the item with the green check mark, but I was wondering if I have to publish the CV in order to reserve the URL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the URL is automatically reserved as soon as I typed it in, but I kept looking for a &quot;Save&quot; button or something, probably after being trained to do so by years of using crappy websites with low-usability. Am I correct in my assumption of your awesomeness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132830" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:34:03.953" Title="Careers public URL" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27560" CreationDate="2009-10-28T14:28:28.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The URL is reserved as soon as you get the green check mark. If you typed in a URL that someone else was using, you'd get a red X and a &quot;name already exists&quot; message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/CONHn.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:34:03.953" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:34:03.953" />
  <row Id="27563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27565" CreationDate="2009-10-28T14:54:02.930" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to my Public CV, even when I'm currently signed into SO/C.SO, the blue bubble in the upper-right corner is asking me to &lt;strong&gt;sign in&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;join now&lt;/strong&gt;. I know I don't need to do either but it's just sort of confusing/annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get the system to do a &quot;is logged-in&quot; check to determine whether those portions of the blue-bubble should be visible or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130838" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T14:24:23.980" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:24:23.980" Title="Why does Careers ask me to sign in if I'm already signed in?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;&lt;minor-annoyances&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27563" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:01:07.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, you're referring to the public CV preview. We can probably mask that part for logged in users, but that is how 99.99% of the world will see your CV page, so it is accurate.. for the record. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:01:07.873" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:01:17.093" Score="11" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions are still rampant on SOFU, despite the Related Questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature Request&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that in order to display more relevant questions in the list, the tags given for the new question should be taken into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a questions doesn't share any tags with the question I'm about to ask, it's highly unlikely that the question is related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, if a question shares many tags in common, that question is more likely to be related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Recent Example of Related Questions Fail&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to ask a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How can I get the End key to move the&#xA;  cursor to the end of the current line&#xA;  in Xcode?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the key bindings preferences, so I didn't actually ask it, but the list of Related Questions included questions about jQuery, vim, the CSS propery cursor:move, how to count lines using awk, and several other totally unrelated questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the 25 listed questions, 5 were about shortcuts or cursor movement in Xcode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the list had taken a look at my tags (xcode keyboard-shortcuts not-programming-related tools) it would have been able to give a much more accurate list of questions, and omitted the questions that were unrelated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next time you ask a question, read over the list and and count how many questions share a tag (or more) and whether or not other questions were of relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does this help avoid Duplicates?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the tags would narrow the list of questions down, fewer related questions could be listed for the user. If the list were shorter, users would be more likely to read through it and would therefor be more likely to find an a duplicate question in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this feature would work best when users use the correct tags for their question. To continue to help users that do not tag ideally, we may not want to completely bar questions that don't share tags from showing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usability Implications&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the tags are entered below the question description. In order for users to know that their tags are involved in the Related Questions search, it may be more intuitive to place the tag input above the Related Questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, the Related Questions list could display a message such as: &quot;Enter a tag to search for Related Questions.&quot; until the user enters tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-29T15:48:02.443" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T15:48:02.443" Title="Would it be feasible to tie the tags of a new question to the Related Questions list?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:03:00.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to editors share in the reputation if they edit a significant portion of the answer.  I have seen a few cases were someone just posts a link in the answer, but someone else comes along and pulls in relevant quotes from the link and summarizes the information.  On SF, there was one where someone also added screenshots and translated information off of the link to English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like that, it seems odd that the original poster gains the reputation for the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:03:00.487" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:04:50.227" Score="0" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the stated goals of the site was the have one comprehensive answer to each question. I think we can definitively say that it hasn't worked out that way. I think the reason is reputation. If one person answer the question with 40% of the information that a comprehensive answer would contain, and another with another 40% with 20% scattered among three other answers. Who's answer will get edited with the combined information and get the further upvotes? It just doesn't happen. People don't want to edit questions and mess with someone else's reputation (quite rightly, IMO - how would you feel getting a downvote for something added to your answer that you didn't write?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea to get towards that goal would be to have a community answer on each question, with say a small reputation bump (2 points?) for participating in making it. To prevent reputation inflation, you can only get the 2 points from a given question one time, with a daily limit (say 10 points) for doing it on questions asked by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when the question is seen for posterity, it will be the first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is what to do with the accepted answer? One possibility is to only open the community answer once there is an accepted answer and pre-fill it with that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does any of this make sense to anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastActivityDate="2011-04-12T05:29:31.420" Title="Would a meta-answer be a good idea?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27559" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:06:06.353" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browser bug. Looks good with IE8. Upgrade your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8344/whousesie.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:11:30.790" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:11:30.790" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:17:05.053" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25295/i-was-able-to-downvote-an-answer-and-then-unable-to-change-it-immediately-after&quot;&gt;I was able to downvote an answer, and then unable to change it immediately after.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25202/isnt-the-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-a-little-too-eager&quot;&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t the &amp;ldquo;vote too old to be changed&amp;rdquo; a little too eager?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read an answer and started to downvote. I took it back 10 seconds later. 5 minutes later I decided it really did deserve a downvote, but then I was unable to do so. I get the message &quot;Vote too old to be changed, unless the answer is changed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I unable to downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136262" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:17:05.053" ClosedDate="2009-10-28T15:27:58.037" Title="Can't downvote after taking back" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:21:38.900" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted an answer I posted to one of my own questions after it turned out to be incorrect.  I first got an error saying I couldn't delete an accepted answer.  However once I unaccepted it, I was able to delete it without problem.  Could the error be changed to a confirmation message instead that had an unaccept and delete option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:21:38.900" Title="Deleting an accepted answer requires more clicks than neccesary" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:25:50.420" Score="2" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted an answer to one of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1580163/override-disable-dependency-analysis-in-visual-studio-setup-project&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; after discovering that the answer I proposed didn't work.  My next update reported that I'd been awarded the tumbleweed badge, so I assume that was the question that earned it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving the badge for a question that did have an answer strikes me as a bit odd though, and I'm wondering it it's a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T15:28:46.683" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T10:41:57.970" Title="Can deleting an answer to a question result in tumbleweed being awarded" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27572" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:30:35.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probable that by the time the check cleared, your bill at the end of the dinner for the badge was so low it counted as Tumbleweed status and you were able to continue eating your meal in the alleyway behind the restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:30:35.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26570" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:31:51.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Employment now appears first, as this is conventional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Within&lt;/em&gt; Employment and Education, you can now reorder at will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:31:51.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:41:17.643" Score="7" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to use my website field, since I'm working on a website that I'll be putting there. And it should be somewhere other than the &quot;About Me&quot; field. Especially since one of the 6th hit (5th if you don't count the image results) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;amp;source=hp&amp;amp;q=%22Thomas+Owens%22&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;fp=8ec9ea851cee2c5b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;for &quot;Thomas Owens&quot; on Google&lt;/a&gt; is my SO Profile! If you add &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;amp;q=%22Thomas+Owens%22+%2Bsoftware&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;fp=8ec9ea851cee2c5b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;+software&lt;/a&gt;, I move to 2 (1 if you count the LinkedIn search page) and if you add &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;amp;q=%22Thomas+Owens%22+%2Bsoftware+engineering&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;fp=8ec9ea851cee2c5b&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;+software engineering&lt;/a&gt;, I'm 1!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T02:12:10.993" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T02:12:10.993" Title="Can our SO profile link to a public published CV, if we have one?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26903" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:43:45.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now offer the filing option even if you've entered nothing in your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seemed sort of weird to me, but it's OK -- if you enter nothing in your CV (not recommended, obviously) then you simply won't show up in employer search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:43:45.463" />
  <row Id="27577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26814" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:44:42.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that all the free text fields support full Markdown, you should be able to link to your heart's content!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:44:42.783" />
  <row Id="27578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26715" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:46:23.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the email we sent to all paid CV users, we will notify you of any significant new features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do plan to email paid users when major new features are released to &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;; this would happen once every month at most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, the public CVs are now live (sorry for the delay).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:46:23.943" />
  <row Id="27579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26551" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:50:47.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible to browse other user's CVs on the public web, &lt;strong&gt;if they have opted to publish their CV&lt;/strong&gt;. You'd have to know the CV URL that user has chosen, or arrive there via a Google search if someone has linked to the URL on a public web site, somewhere. This is all controlled via the Publish CV tab, and is a completely free service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The private view of the CV is &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; ever visible to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have paid to file&lt;/strong&gt;, then your private CV view is available to any employers who discover you through searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:50:47.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26451" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:52:15.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature is now live; check the &quot;Publish CV&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T15:52:15.140" />
  <row Id="27581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27545" CreationDate="2009-10-28T15:52:49.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have installed Comodo root and intermediate certificates - could somebody having this issue please verify if this has resolved the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Received five new certificates from COMODO our SSL Provider, installed all of them including Trusted Root Certification and Intermediate Certification Authorities &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Installing these required a server reboot.  It should be working now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T18:08:07.147" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:08:07.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27575" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:13:18.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16587/george-stocker&quot;&gt;profile field&lt;/a&gt; as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a Software Developer. I'm also a&#xA;  PC. But I could be a Mac. I talk about&#xA;  software, programming, and usability&#xA;  on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.yapb.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I'm Good at&lt;/strong&gt;:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Communicating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Creating &lt;strong&gt;sensible&lt;/strong&gt; software solutions  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Self-aggrandizing sentences (like these).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Catch me on:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;   - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/gortok&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;   - &lt;strong&gt;Linked In&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Want to see what I've&#xA;  done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Check my &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/george-stocker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or&#xA;  my &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.yapb.net/page/My-Portfolio.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Portfolio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think of the &lt;code&gt;About Me&lt;/code&gt; field much like I do the &lt;code&gt;Personal Statement&lt;/code&gt; in a CV, except that it's a general thing; so that's why I include links to it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: The &lt;code&gt;About Me&lt;/code&gt; field that I'm currently dealing with:  If you have too much, it adds a scrollbar; which makes people less likely to look at your content. If you've got any suggestions as to how I can get rid of the scrollbar on mine, I'm all ears. Right now I've got HTML crammed in there and if I could get rid of a few characters I'd be back to no scroll-bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T16:25:09.223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:25:09.223" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:13:24.437" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26451/how-do-i-pick-the-vanity-url-for-my-stack-overflow-careers-cv/27580#27580&quot;&gt;pick a vanity url for my public CV&lt;/a&gt;, and I find that it auto-saves too quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted a vanity url like &quot;john-doe&quot;.  But if I don't type it fast enough, the auto-save of &quot;john-&quot; removes the trailing hyphen, so when I continue to type I end up with &quot;johndoe&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the case that a hyphen is not allowed, because if I type quickly it accepts &quot;john-doe&quot; just fine.  It just doesn't allow a trailing hyphen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T17:36:19.097" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T19:00:01.787" Title="Autosave of vanity url on Careers is too fast" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27575" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:13:40.910" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with the &quot;About me&quot; field? It's freeform text, you can put as many links as you like in there; why not &lt;strong&gt;use it&lt;/strong&gt; rather than cluttering up the rest of the page? It's not like you have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443&quot;&gt;particularly long bio&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:13:40.910" />
  <row Id="27585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:21:20.203" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another problem I found with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26451/how-do-i-pick-the-vanity-url-for-my-stack-overflow-careers-cv/27580#27580&quot;&gt;picking a vanity url for my public CV&lt;/a&gt; on Careers: the auto-save always moves the cursor to the end of the line.  This makes it very disruptive to change the url.  Say I used &quot;jdoe&quot; and wanted to change it to &quot;johndoe&quot;.  I might end up with &quot;jodoehn&quot; or &quot;johdoen&quot;, depending on how quickly I can type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T17:38:12.663" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T18:00:01.270" Title="Autosave of vanity URL on Careers moves cursor focus" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;focus&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:30:23.780" Score="0" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work&quot;&gt;How does the automatic subjective filter work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When writing a question in Stack Overflow, it will give you a red bar with a warning if the question looks subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjective or non-programming questions (e.g., &lt;em&gt;What is your faviourite programming language?&lt;/em&gt;) seem to be easily recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How, exactly, isthis done?  Heuristics, algorithms, machine learning?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm amazed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:46:55.900" ClosedDate="2009-10-28T17:14:26.813" Title="How does Stack Overflow's subjective question detector work?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27586" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:32:14.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure it just detects words like &quot;favo[u]rite&quot; and &quot;best&quot;. I've not seen it detect a non-programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131999" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:32:47.187" />
  <row Id="27588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27586" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:32:16.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having the word &quot;best&quot; in the title triggers it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:32:47.187" />
  <row Id="27589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27586" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:37:05.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work/4435#4435&quot;&gt;Jeff uses this regex&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;return Regex.IsMatch(s, &#xA;@&quot;\bbest\b|\bworst\b|\bhardest\b|\byour?\b|\bfavou?rite\b&quot;, &#xA;RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149844" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T16:46:55.900" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:46:55.900" />
  <row Id="27590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-28T16:46:00.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what I was expecting. I don't go to a lot of conferences these days since I'm not working for companies that pay me to go any more, and even when I did go, I often didn't get much out of the presentations. I suppose it's just not a format that's conducive to my style of learning. I signed up because I could afford it, I like Joel's writing, and I hoped it would be a day of interacting with some smart people and picking up things I might not delve into otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact, that's pretty much what I got out of it, and it was well worth attending. My reaction to most of the talks was that they taught me enough to know whether the technologies were worth digging into. (They pretty much were in two categories, yes definitely and yes if I have a reason to use it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the standard length was probably good to cover different audience expectations, for me personally, I think I could have gotten as much out of 15-20 minute presentations for each technology focused on &quot;here's why this is cool and worth learning.&quot; Anyone want to organize a conference around that principle? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Eckel's talk was fantastic, and made me much more interested in learning dynamic languages than if it had actually been an intro or a &quot;technical highlights&quot; presentation on Python. (Perhaps a bit more &quot;truth in labeling&quot; would have avoided the complaints here.) Definitely the highlight of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T16:46:00.487" />
  <row Id="27591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:05:38.617" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was logged out the other day and I saw that my age was displayed on my user profile page.   According to the blurb under the bday field it's says that it's not supposed to be displayed.   If you guys are displaying it by default can you make an option to turn that off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Sorry, what I'm asking for is an option to have my age not be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28672" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T04:13:31.683" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:13:59.513" Title="Displaying age on user pages" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27591" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:08:48.710" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your birthday &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; displayed, but your &lt;strong&gt;Age&lt;/strong&gt; is.  The only way someone would be able to deduce your birthday is to physically poll your page each day to see when it changes. I agree there should probably be +/- a week so that it's not so easy to get your birthdate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T17:08:48.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27591" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:09:10.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like it says, your birthday is never displayed. It's just used to generate your age for your profile...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want it displayed, just edit your profile and remove your birth date. However, you can't get the Autobiographer badge without it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T17:28:50.797" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T17:28:50.797" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27558" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:27:04.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this answer for an explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today-butt&quot;&gt;Clicking envelope beside username shows fewer recent activities than “today” button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;startdate&quot; by default is the time current time minus the time shown in the &quot;Last activity&quot; line of your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I wish the default were the values you get from clicking &quot;Today&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, upvote my feature request here, because it's a functionality that would satisfy your needs as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27323/could-we-have-static-date-range-links-on-the-recent-activity-page&quot;&gt;Could we have static date range links on the Recent Activity page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T17:27:04.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27603" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:36:23.677" Score="4" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I edit my CV on careers my completion status says &quot;135% complete (this one goes to 11)&quot;. What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9382/editcv.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135523" LastEditorUserId="135523" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T17:51:29.627" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:45:35.643" Title="What does &quot;this one goes to 11&quot; in completion status in edit cv mean" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27601" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:41:38.103" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a reference to Marshall amplifiers that go up to 11 instead of 10 (Get it? They're one louder!). The movie This is Spinal Tap &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%5Fto%5Feleven&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;has a bit on this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T17:41:38.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27605" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:46:15.420" Score="2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know Asp.net MVC creates some defaults for us when we create a new Asp.net MVC project:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Default controller is &lt;code&gt;HomeController&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Default action &lt;code&gt;Index&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've noticed that although Stackoverflow did keep the &lt;code&gt;HomeController&lt;/code&gt; it didn't keep &lt;code&gt;Index&lt;/code&gt; as the default action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/home&lt;/a&gt; - works&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/home/index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/home/index&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;fails&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the name (Index) of the default action either, that's why I'm looking for other possibilities and am wondering &lt;strong&gt;what's Stackoverflow's default action name&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137977" LastEditorUserId="137977" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T17:58:42.947" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T19:08:02.190" Title="Home controller default action name on Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27604" CreationDate="2009-10-28T17:52:07.707" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can indeed Be &lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt; but if they remove the &lt;code&gt;default&lt;/code&gt; route or replace it with the following code, then you have the same effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/Home&lt;/code&gt; we know that they use this route:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;routes.MapRoute(&#xA;    &quot;Default&quot;, &quot;{controller}&quot;,&#xA;    new { controller=&quot;&quot;, action=&quot;Index&quot; }&#xA;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this route does, is that if you have what would normally be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/home/index&#xA;stackoverflow.com/questions/ndex&#xA;stackoverflow.com/users/index&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd be able to get to the &lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt; action by omitting the &lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt;. Indeed, if you took out the default route, that's &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; way you'd get to the &lt;code&gt;index&lt;/code&gt; action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/home&#xA;stackoverflow.com/questions&#xA;stackoverflow.com/users&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I gather that they also have the following route:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;routes.MapRoute(&#xA;    &quot;Default&quot;, &quot;&quot;,&#xA;    new { controller = &quot;Home&quot;, action = &quot;Index&quot; } &#xA;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T19:08:02.190" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T19:08:02.190" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="27606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27604" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:02:29.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know but I hope they've filtered out the exceptions caused by invalid controller/action parameters from their ELMAH email.  I imagine this question will create a flood of invalid requests as people try to guess the index action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:02:29.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27601" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:07:47.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as being a reference to This is Spinal Tap, it also means that because if you fill out more than 100% of the form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With your details, one employer and one education section fully you'll have completed 100% of the form. Therefore, as you'll probably have several employers and education sections you can fill out the form to over 100%, as you have already done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:07:47.100" />
  <row Id="27608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27611" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:13:04.933" Score="5" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639050/what-are-the-next-top-technologies-for-the-next-5-years-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639050/what-are-the-next-top-technologies-for-the-next-5-years-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like six people listed as voting to close.  I was under the impression it should only list the first five.  Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:24:44.403" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:24:44.403" Title="Six people to close - bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27608" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:13:59.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose two people could have voted at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:13:59.227" />
  <row Id="27610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4371" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:14:56.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's done by a simple regex as posted by Jeff.  The regex matches the following words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Best&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Worst&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hardest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favourite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to note that avoiding the above words does not make your question any less subjective - &quot;Best management tool&quot; is inherently subjective - the warning is not there to tell you to avoid certain words, but to avoid the question altogether, or to re-word it so it can be evaluated objectively and measurably so that the answer is the same for everyone in your situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:14:56.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27608" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:16:40.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think two people cast the fifth vote at the same time.  If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1639050/list&quot;&gt;the edit history&lt;/a&gt;, you see two different &quot;this post was closed by x&quot; messages, with the same timestamp (to the second).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:16:40.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:43:49.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the questions here seem to be focused on advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one thing you could to on this front is improve flair so I can actually link to my trilogy profiles from other social networking sites.  The badges and flair are a nice idea, but right now they are pretty much locked up on the trilogy sites unless a user is running their own web server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now I cannot use flair in most places because wherever you post it either has to allow iframes or javascript.  Both are blocked by pretty much every social network and hosted blog on the Internet.  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1475/can-we-get-flair-as-an-image&quot;&gt;flair as image&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware there are scripts available that I could &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9482/image-based-flair-downloadable-implementation-v2-1&quot;&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; and use, but I don't think this is something a user should have to do.  I am thinking image-based flair should be supported officially.  Or come up with some official way I display my flair and link to the trilogy sites from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexa.com/topsites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;popular sites&lt;/a&gt; like facebook, myspace, blogger, wordpress.com, linkedin, plaxo, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you should be looking for other ways to tie in to other social networking sites.  Perhaps make it more obvious about how a person can have their activities on trilogy sites show up on their wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:43:49.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="27613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27545" CreationDate="2009-10-28T18:51:43.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good site to make sure the cert and chain is installed correctly - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digicert.com/help/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.digicert.com/help/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I have had problems with Firefox caching an invalid certificate which makes it real difficult to troubleshoot these problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T18:51:43.577" />
  <row Id="27614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="104087" CreationDate="2009-10-28T19:14:16.970" Score="45" ViewCount="615" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anybody thought about/seen the ability to export your careers.stackoverflow.com CV to a PDF (or Word, or OpenDocument, etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like it would be a really nice feature to offer so that we have a common format for our CVs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137986" LastEditorUserId="148024" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-26T19:40:36.023" LastActivityDate="2011-08-26T19:40:36.023" Title="Careers CV - Possible Export Functionality" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;export&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="27615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27614" CreationDate="2009-10-28T19:18:55.277" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love the request; just had someone today ask me if they could get a PDF version from me. I didn't have one, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, as someone who's used ActivePDF: Use something else, if at all possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T19:18:55.277" />
  <row Id="27616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T19:20:17.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing is that sysadmin and user questions are harder to express in text.  Perhaps it should be easier to post screenshots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I myself help some users with CoPilot, and that's actually from Fog Creek?  Maybe you can setup CoPilot sessions for people trying to help each other on Superuser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T19:20:17.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" />
  <row Id="27617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T19:48:49.163" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only recognized/found these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drive In, Drive Out (Dave Matthews Band)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cinnamon (The Long Winters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy in Love by (Beyonce and Jay-Z)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Little Less Conversation (Elvis Presley vs. JXL)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Throwing Stones (Grateful Dead)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tangled Up in Blue (Indigo Girls?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132696" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T18:32:28.560" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:32:28.560" Title="DevDays DC Soundtrack -- Does anyone have a list of all the songs played?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;devdays-dc&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T19:53:59.267" Score="11" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001224.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;anonymous users coming from Google make up 90% of Stack Overflow's traffic&lt;/a&gt;, maybe there are ways to track how satisfied these users are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since upvotes aren't an option to unregistered users, my thought was a simple, non-intrusive &quot;Was this helpful?&quot; box below answers, that would be &lt;strong&gt;shown only to unregistered users who arrived at the page from a search engine&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9504/feedbacki.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These &quot;helpful&quot; votes could be translated into upvotes for the user who provided the answer.  Maybe for every 10(?) helpful votes, the user gets one upvote.  I'm not sure what you'd want to do with the &quot;not helpful&quot; votes other than keep them as statistics.  (Show them to 1000+ rep users?  Use them as indicators of potential spam?  Use them as indicators of a question lacking a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be good for simple questions, that get answerd and forgotten quickly.  I think the user who provided the correct answer that helps lots of unregistered users should get some rep for that.  It is desired behavior that should be encouraged!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea: if rep goes to the person who provided the helpful answer, maybe some rep could go to the person that asked the question as well?  (Maybe one upvote on the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; for every 20 helpful votes to &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to that question?) After all, if the question is not written well, no one will arrive at the page from a search engine.  This means that well-worded, SEO friendly questions are encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this means you'd have to account for people who are trying to cheat.  I think it shouldn't be too difficult to spot anomalous vote patterns, given the experience the SO team already has with that type of thing.  Another problem would be SEO spamming (i.e. throwing keywords into the post for no apparent reason other than to increase the chance of a Google hit), but I think the existing flagging mechanisms will control this well.  Also, if the question isn't what the user was looking for, then they probably won't find it very helpful anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-18T05:57:44.383" LastActivityDate="2011-07-18T05:57:44.383" Title="Getting feedback from anonymous users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, lets summarize: we need advertising to &quot;reach out to the power user and sysadmin communities&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about a &quot;referrals&quot; system? I reference some people, and if they register because of my reference, I earn X reputation points (and possible badges) - and so on the person that registered. There are a lot of wesites that do this kind of thing. I thought about it after I used &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getdropbox.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dropbox&lt;/a&gt; and remembered they have this approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way you don't have to &quot;pay&quot; for advertising, you're using the users that think referring someone it's worth. Of course there would be a lot of statistic rules need to avoid people gaming the system, but I don't think it would &quot;harm&quot; the system at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't pay these people with advertising money, you pay with visibility in the community itself with reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think of this idea? Would this &quot;cannibalize&quot; the reputation system? And, most importantly: would it be effective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T19:58:30.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27618" CreationDate="2009-10-28T20:07:23.133" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having up and down arrows with a big number &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; little thumbs-up/down icons, which intuitively do the exact same thing but one set of which you can use and one set of which you can't, is a massive usability failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to show anonymous users the big number (because that's pretty much the whole point of how answers are organized), so if you're going to give them thumbs, you should remove the arrows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you're going to remove the arrows and replace them with thumbs, you might as well just leave the arrows and have them behave in a slightly different manner for anonymous users. Now, that's a usability failure too, but in a less confusing way. In fact, overloading those arrows will probably go unnoticed by the vast majority of the userbase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can do the same thing you want (which is gather anonymous statistics separately, and count every, say, 10 anonymous upvote as a regular upvote) without changing the look and feel of the site and, more importantly, without presenting two sets of buttons that look like they do the exact same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:07:23.133" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27617" CreationDate="2009-10-28T20:14:48.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel's Entrance Music was Crazy in Love by Beyonce and Jay-Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think everybody else used A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley vs. JXL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:14:48.523" />
  <row Id="27622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27618" CreationDate="2009-10-28T20:20:10.410" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best measure of satisfaction from anonymous users is: &lt;strong&gt;how many of them register&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A secondary voting mechanism seems...redundant ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T20:42:48.993" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:42:48.993" />
  <row Id="27623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-10-28T20:32:26.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I blogged about it!&#xA;I loved it and I loved the trip to Toronto (from Montreal). Thanks for the warm welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, I blogged about it and I'm currently writing about the last 2 talks of the conference. The first 5 (incl. opening keynote) are available: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.mikecouturier.com/search/label/devdays&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.mikecouturier.com/search/label/devdays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel is a genius... A visionary, funny, a people person, a programmer, a communicator and an entrepreneur. Seriously, it's hard to find that many qualities in a single person. A must see in a conference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For 99$, a steal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137991" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:32:26.090" />
  <row Id="27624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27618" CreationDate="2009-10-28T20:37:26.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Steven here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal here should be convert unregistered users to registered users. So any UI changes should be aimed towards that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:37:26.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T20:38:48.443" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a thought:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if people were able to ask superuser questions via Twitter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an idea that would need a lot of refinement but twitter is often used as a question-asking service. Maybe something like @superuser with a 140 character description of your computer problem, and it becomes a question on the site. That page is thus indexed by Google and people will find it when searching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:38:48.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T20:38:48.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-10-28T20:43:44.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One major difference to keep in mind is that while all three fields are changing rapidly, only the programming field is changing due to its own users.  Further, software can be rapidly prototyped in the comfort of one's own home with no special skills or products.  If you want to try out a new RAID product, you have to buy the product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, in other words, the consumers of programming expertise are also the producers of that expertise.  New languages every day.  New methods, techniques, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The world of servers and users are supplied by companies that may or may not listen to users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a cathedral and bazaar situation, in a small sense.  The company that produces the product is the expert, but when one can't get help from them it's hard to find other users that also have the same products, have experiences the same issue, and have the expertise to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also due partly to how small the problem space is.  Programming is large, but in comparison a single server product from a single company can generate as many questions and problems as a small programming language.  Multiply this by 500 products and again by 50 companies, then add interoperability problems and you find the problem space dwarfs programming.  Programming is a huge space to begin with, but you can almost always find an expert that can understand and help solve your problem because the cost of entry is so low in terms of both time and money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it's endemic to the fields.  Given that new hardware replaces old over the years (whereas many programming problems are timeless in nature) the existing questions will cease to be useful at nearly the same rate that questions are entered.  This means that even time won't result in a problem corpus large enough to sustain the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the only thing you can add to the serverfault site that might help is vast, deep, timeless, general server principles.  Suck in the newbies and keep them around to solve the later problems they encounter that aren't general purpose knowledge.  Some of this content may or may not already exist, but the key is that whenever someone does ANY server information search on google, serverfault pops up in the first page with general principles.  A Server University, of sorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure the same can be done for superuser - it may only ever be the 'sidecar' to Stackoverflow where programmers ask and answer each other's non-programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T20:43:44.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-28T20:43:44.893" />
  <row Id="27628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27630" CreationDate="2009-10-28T21:51:55.583" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be pretty cool, if I can select a tag and search for questions within that tag only. To be more awesome, the ability to select multiple tags and search within it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147717" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T21:59:32.730" Title="search within a tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27559" CreationDate="2009-10-28T21:53:29.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the records: Opera 10 works!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5808/randomsopera.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T21:53:29.543" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27628" CreationDate="2009-10-28T21:59:32.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature already exists. To narrow down your search to a tag just add &lt;code&gt;[tagName1] [tagName2]&lt;/code&gt; in your query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;See here for all search options you can use.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T21:59:32.730" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27617" CreationDate="2009-10-28T22:00:52.557" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was quite a few Vampire Weekend tunes before everything started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the lunch break, when the music took a turn, I remember the Grateful Dead's &quot;throwing stones&quot; and a cover (Indigo Girls?) of Dylan's &quot;Tangled Up in Blue&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T22:00:52.557" />
  <row Id="27632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27532" CreationDate="2009-10-28T22:29:25.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sneakers O'Toole - &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/21&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/21&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T22:29:25.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T22:34:18.887" Score="14" ViewCount="1723" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you attended &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/london/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays in London&lt;/a&gt;, please post your thoughts about it here. Links to blogs etc are also welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/reviews-of-devdays-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;London&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-reviews-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:15:03.917" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:15:03.917" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - London" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;devdays-london&gt;" AnswerCount="27" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="27634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27637" CreationDate="2009-10-28T22:52:19.017" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to look up stuff on A* search. The search box doesn't really help, it seems to ignore the *, which of course makes the search a little less precise. I know that I can successfully search for C#, so it seems not out of the realm of possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130147" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:33:21.297" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:33:38.893" Title="Can I search for &quot;A*&quot; on stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-28T22:56:20.877" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would be useful/fair for me to post thoughts on other speakers, although I will say I particularly enjoyed Paul Biggar's speech on scripting, and I had a generally fabulous time. Thoughts on the general day etc:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meeting Jeff and Joel wasn't as scary as I'd built it up to be in my mind. We enjoyed recording a podcast at Google London, which will hopefully be out soon. That was followed by a very nice meal with the other speakers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall I think Carsonified did a &lt;em&gt;fabulous&lt;/em&gt; job with the organization.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Particular good points organizationally:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choice of venue. Fabulous place. Would like DevDays to be there again next year, unless Joel's dream of the Royal Albert Hall comes to pass :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The seating and voting apps were fun, although they clearly had fewer takers later on in the day. I'm also not sure about Twitter as an API... it means my Twitter stream is even spammier today than normal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most&lt;/em&gt; of the technical stuff went really smoothly, I thought. I didn't need to worry about people not being able to see my slides given the enormity of the screen :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The WiFi worked all day for me - admittedly I had to log in again a few times, but that was no hardship.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Niggles or suggestions for improvements:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obviously the drink/snack facilities weren't really up to the demands of 900 people. More something for the Kensington Town Hall to fix than Carsonified, of course.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A couple of microphone issues (although compared with preaching in churches, that was nothing!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I suspect that having fewer sessions might have helped. 12 sessions in a day is a heck of a lot to take in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;With fewer sessions, longer breaks could have enabled more socialising... maybe with some way of easily finding people you're likely to share interests with. Not sure how it would work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would have been nice to have proper video being taken of all the presentations with a decent video camera from a good vantage spot, instead of my 95 quid cheapo one which ran out of battery several times :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was pleased with how my own talk went, although I could &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; do with a preview of which slide is coming next. I think I fouled up in at least three places due to that. Tony went down well - thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/95589/eric&quot;&gt;Eric&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22164/thetxi&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt; for that suggestion. I still don't understand why subscribing to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;time zone news blog&lt;/a&gt; got &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; as many laughs as it did, but I'll take everything I get. It's good to have the talk on video to work out how to improve. Thanks to everyone who said nice things afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion to those who had to lean against walls or sit on the floor: there are often seats on the front row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T10:27:51.783" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T10:27:51.783" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="27636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27362" CreationDate="2009-10-28T22:58:36.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;does it really matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is like lawyers brainwashed us to think that we really need ToC, licenses, privacy policies. Who reads them anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137882" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T22:58:36.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27634" CreationDate="2009-10-28T23:10:14.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As snicker pointed out, the questions involving A* are tagged as &lt;kbd&gt;a-star&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try searching for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[a-star]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130090" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T23:10:14.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-28T23:23:37.460" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just got back home, so off the top of my head...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel: Even though I'd caught some of their talks on the podcast on the train in they both came across as the very polished, very natural speakers they both are. Joel always impresses me so the bar was higher but Jeff especially came across as thoughtful and well spoken. Though I &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; believe a man of Jeff's age hasn't been to Europe before. Americans - wtf :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet (&lt;em&gt;Humanity: Epic Fail&lt;/em&gt;): damn him, he can even talk the talk in person.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paul Biggar (&lt;em&gt;How not to design a scripting language&lt;/em&gt;): The student talk (though calling a PhD candidate a student feels disingenuous). I've never looked into compiler theory in even passing interest and I found this both insightful and intriguing enough for me to want to go find a book on the same in the near future, though apparently &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the dragon book. Apparently the answer to the talk isn't just &quot;PHP&quot; as well - who knew?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christian Heilmann (&lt;em&gt;Yahoo! Developer Tools&lt;/em&gt;): Really savvy presenter again but frankly the YUI tools I know (and respect) aren't of any real interest to me given jQuery and my own libraries, but when he got to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YQL&lt;/a&gt; demo it blew my mind. Searching for all the twitters matching X and translating them to language Y? This stuff looks &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fogbugz presentation: yes it's a very slick product, yes it looks awesome, and if I had any purchasing clout at my company maybe it would be relevant. I resent being compelled to watch a sales pitch to matter how well presented, but not nearly as much as I resent paying for it. I just don't get who the audience was for this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Phil Nash (&lt;em&gt;iPhone&lt;/em&gt;): Bad is the wrong word really. Very solid presentation indeed, but what I got from it was concrete evidence that objective-C is completely nuts and to be avoided at all costs. Crossing fingers monotouch is worth getting on board with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pekka Kosonen (&lt;em&gt;Qt&lt;/em&gt;): Same again, really quite entertaining presentation (and refreshingly honest view of Nokia dev support) but I came away from it without really grasping why I should care about Qt. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remy Sharp (&lt;em&gt;jQuery&lt;/em&gt;): Probably the best technical demonstration but totally the wrong audience and the wrong level imho. When over half the audience has used jQuery before you're just wasting half the audience's time - it's not like jQuery has esoteric corners to illuminate or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Ugly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Sparks (&lt;em&gt;Python&lt;/em&gt;): I don't want to dwell on this too much but, &quot;train wreck&quot;. Definitely the low point, no real business presenting and only succeeded in reinforcing the idea that Python really is just the monstrous write-only progeny of Perl. Which is a shame really because I still don't really believe that. Sorry Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reto Meir (&lt;em&gt;Android&lt;/em&gt;): Very dry indeed, couldn't help feel that Java looks incredibly crufty and dated and I'm thinking that google made a tactical error by association.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Catering: usual for London, i.e. massively overpriced, poor quality, little selection. I understand it ran out as well which beggar's belief. I assume everyone who's ever been to London before just went out to find a pret or a pub or something but the impression made on first-time traveller's must have been awful. Future recommendation: just don't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I probably got my 85 quid out of it (definitely more effective value than FOWA say) but it would take significant change for me to bother again. I don't want to be sold anything by anybody and I do want to learn about new and exciting things coming down the line (the stated goal) but that isn't jquery or python, that's erlang or F# or haskell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally I was disappointed that there was no organised social event around this - SO is a huge community and a lot of us would probably like to put faces to the names etc. Starting with something as simple as putting gravatars on namebadges would have been a good idea, and y'know a scheduled after-session in the bar (wait, there was no bar...). We were never going to organise ourselves, but a little help from the organisers would have been easy enough wouldn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Addendum: when I got home I found an envelope full of (now redundant) trilogy stickers and a signed thank you note from Jeff for my participation (even though a recalc left me on page 3 these days). I gotta say the human touch there made my day, I'll be keeping that letter I think. &lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt; is how you build community.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastEditorUserId="13018" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T08:59:55.207" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T08:59:55.207" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="27639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-28T23:33:54.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really liked it, especially Jon's talk and the Paul Biggar's &quot;lecture&quot; about scripting languages. I would say the worst part was the Qt bit - it didn't really convince me to develop for Nokia phones. The Python talk didn't really highlight Python's strong points, instead concentrated on concepts that are pretty much present in most modern programming languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a bonus, here's a crappy G1 recording of mine of the first five minutes Jon Skeet's talk. I hope I violate the terms and conditions of the event by publishing it (I don't really care): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQDLtixGHr0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQDLtixGHr0&lt;/a&gt; (sorry for the quality, that's all the G1 can do)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T23:33:54.300" />
  <row Id="27640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-28T23:39:27.013" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27274/how-do-i-sort-the-questions-by-the-number-of-views&quot;&gt;How do I sort the questions by the number of views?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just cruising the site looking for interesting stuff. I can look at the questions with the most votes on the &quot;newest, featured, hot, etc.&quot; menu, but how can I sort by views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-28T23:48:12.460" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T23:48:12.460" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T00:28:59.630" Title="See questions with the most views? (sort by views)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-28T23:40:56.723" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally in order of enjoyment it was Paul Biggar, Joel, Michael Sparks, Jon Skeet and Jeff. I’d admit that Paul Biggar stood out in my mind because what he was talking about is quite relevant to what I’m currently working on, but I thought that he was an interesting speaker who made some good points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m still mentally processing the other talks, so I’ll have to get back on them. Although Remy Sharp’s jQuery, Pekka Kosonen’s Qt talk and Christian Heilmann presentation of the current offerings of yahoo developer tools have made me very much aware I do need to set aside some time in the near future and sit down and look at them a bit more closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I was very impressed and willing to come to the next one. The giving away of Painless Project Management with Fogbugz was nice touch and I’ll be having a good flick through that later in the week too. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137999" LastActivityDate="2009-10-28T23:40:56.723" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2009-10-29T00:00:30.967" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We need this feature!&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not sure why it was deferred, because this seems like a big productivity plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in the other answers here, such a feature should be similar in functionality to how Gmail works with drafts - if I'm drafting an email, it auto-saves, and then I can wait before sending it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When writing a question or an answer, such functionality would have multiple benefits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prevents data loss from crashes&lt;/strong&gt; - let's say that I'm writing a question and I want to paste in some sample code, so I go into my IDE, with Stack Overflow open in a browser window/tab, and boom! My computer/browser crashes. All the question data I was just writing is lost.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Switch computers while writing&lt;/strong&gt; - I often get ideas for questions right before I have to leave somewhere (I have no idea why this is, though). This means that I either have to quickly write my question, thus delaying my trip and affecting the quality of the question. As Gmail allows, I want to be able to start writing a question (or at least write the title and a few lines of notes/ideas), save it, and continue writing it from another location.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such a feature is implemented, it should apply to &lt;strong&gt;both questions and answers&lt;/strong&gt;. While it would be more useful for questions, the first reason I stated above applies to answers, too. However, questions don't really have a specific time cycle (nothing will change if you don't ask the question right now, but instead, ask it tomorrow), while with answers, the original question and its answers will probably change. Who knows, maybe a great answer will have been accepted already, but the draft feature is still necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, I'm not sure we would need to purge drafts, well, maybe rarely (once every year would eliminate any problems with this), but we can discuss this later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a feature would be awesome. Wouldn't you want your question/answer to be auto-saved while you're writing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-17T17:39:38.563" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T17:39:38.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T00:00:30.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T00:18:37.730" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;The candidate name on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;public CV of Careers&lt;/a&gt; is currently in all upper case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be changed so it respects the one typed by the user (me) on the edit CV box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;s/OSCAR REYES/Oscar Reyes&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T14:06:40.117" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T16:27:33.357" Title="Allow Careers name in mixed case" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T01:05:30.497" Score="1" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading the hundreds of comments on Jeff's blog, and the SO blog, and the first question that was posted here, I think there may be a simple solution to most of the [perceived] usability problems in the edit form. Several people have suggested that Markdown should be optional, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br/27057#27057&quot;&gt;matthock&lt;/a&gt; in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this hypothetical question that could be asked by a first-time user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I'm trying to create* a custom tag in ColdFusion, called cf_helloworld.&#xA;&#xA;Here's the code in hello.cfm:&#xA;&amp;lt;cfparam name=&quot;greeting&quot; default=&quot;Hello&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;cfparam name=&quot;name&quot; default=&quot;friend&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;#attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#. We've been expecting you.&#xA;&#xA;And here's the code in index.cfm I use to call it:&#xA;&amp;lt;cfoutput&amp;gt;&amp;lt;cf_helloworld name=&quot;Patrick&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/cfoutput&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;It doesn't throw any errors, but it's not quite working the way I want.&#xA;1. It prints &quot;#attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#...&quot; instead &#xA;of &quot;Hello, Patrick...&quot;&#xA;2. It prints the whole thing twice.  &#xA;&#xA;Thanks!&#xA;&#xA;* Actually, I'm trying to edit an existing one, but first I need to &#xA;figure out how these things work.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how Markdown would render that question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm trying to create* a custom tag in ColdFusion, called cf_helloworld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's the code in hello.cfm:&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#. We've been expecting you.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And here's the code in index.cfm I use to call it:&#xA;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't throw any errors, but it's not quite working the way I want.&#xA;  1. It prints &quot;#attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#...&quot; instead of &quot;Hello, Patrick...&quot;&#xA;  2. It prints the whole thing twice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Actually, I'm trying to edit an existing one, but first I need to figure out how these things work. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br&quot;&gt;proposed line break change&lt;/a&gt; wouldn't help much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm trying to create* a custom tag in ColdFusion, called cf_helloworld.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's the code in hello.cfm:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#. We've been expecting you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And here's the code in index.cfm I use to call it:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't throw any errors, but it's not quite working the way I want.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1. It prints &quot;#attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#...&quot; instead of &quot;Hello, Patrick...&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2. It prints the whole thing twice.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Actually, I'm trying to edit an existing one, but first I need to figure out how these things work. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only hope the system has of getting this question right is just to treat it as plain text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm trying to create* a custom tag in ColdFusion, called cf_helloworld.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's the code in hello.cfm:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;cfparam name=&quot;greeting&quot; default=&quot;Hello&amp;gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;cfparam name=&quot;name&quot; default=&quot;friend&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;#attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#. We've been expecting you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And here's the code in index.cfm I use to call it:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;cfoutput&amp;gt;&amp;lt;cf_helloworld name=&quot;Patrick&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/cfoutput&amp;gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It doesn't throw any errors, but it's not quite working the way I want.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1. It prints &quot;#attributes.greeting#, #attributes.name#...&quot; instead of &quot;Hello, Patrick...&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2. It prints the whole thing twice.&lt;br&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;* Actually, I'm trying to edit an existing one, but first I need to figure out how these things work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might make sense to treat posts as plain text by default, and only enable Markdown at the user's request (a checkbox below the editor). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[ ] Enable advanced formatting with Markdown (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot; title=&quot;(Markdown intro. Meta should work together to make a better one. :-))&quot;&gt;Tell me more...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The setting would be sticky. If you choose Markdown when you create a post, it will be selected by default the next time you create a post. If you edit an existing post (your own or someone else's), the checkbox will default to the state it was in when the post was saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T14:09:46.173" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T14:09:46.173" Title="Should Markdown be opt-in?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27645" CreationDate="2009-10-29T01:42:14.873" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Stack Exchange? Sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For SO, the site built &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; programmers, &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; programmers? No. If you can't be bothered to learn such a simple markup language... or even bother to &lt;em&gt;notice that it's required&lt;/em&gt;... Then you're hopeless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that... Most of the SO Markdown rendering is stuff that &lt;em&gt;you probably already want&lt;/em&gt;! Lists get turned into HTML lists, *asterisk emphasis* gets &lt;em&gt;italicized&lt;/em&gt;, URLs get hyperlinked, etc... Turning off Markdown by default just means the questions of lazy newbies will be ugly-looking for a new set of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T01:42:14.873" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27008" CreationDate="2009-10-29T01:45:58.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed - before, we were requiring &lt;em&gt;all three&lt;/em&gt; Degree/University/Time Frame (or  Title/Company/Time Frame for Experience) to be present before a section would show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, only the Degree/Title need be present for a section to be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T01:45:58.470" />
  <row Id="27648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T01:49:40.100" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot;&gt;Is there an editing &amp;lsquo;grace period&amp;rsquo; on answers after they have been posted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made a change to one of my pre-existing answers and then about two minutes later I was looking over the previous changes I had made. I rolled back to a previous answer expecting my already made edit and comment to stick around. They didn't, so the question I have is whether this is intended behaviour or a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note why have the tag possible-bug when bug is required? Or is that a user-submitted tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137999" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T04:00:03.630" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:00:03.630" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T04:00:19.590" Title="Anyone noticed that rolling back to a previous version after making a recent edit can completely overwrite your edit?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;rollbacks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27645" CreationDate="2009-10-29T03:03:11.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, you could have multiple different editors -- say like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/screenshots/editor.jsp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Altassian Confluence&lt;/a&gt; wiki does -- with the editor having RTF/Markdown/Preview tabs.  The user could choose which type of editor they want as their default.  I suspect most people would pick one and stick with it.  All of the editors would probably need to save to one or the other format and a translation would be needed to the other's format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T03:03:11.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27645" CreationDate="2009-10-29T03:10:06.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown already is opt-in, in that you can do everything via the toolbar if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T03:10:06.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27648" CreationDate="2009-10-29T03:22:37.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any edits made solely by the same person within a five-minute period are only counted as one edit, and only one edit from that period is stored in the revision history.  I'm guessing this is because they want to keep the number of revisions down?  It also makes it so you can fix small typos without upping the number of revisions (which is good, because too many revisions == automatic community wiki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you edit a question, then within five minutes do a rollback, your edit will be lost.  I'm not sure if this is what is supposed to happen in the case of a rollback as opposed to just an edit--that'd be for the team to decide.  My &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; is that this is intentional, so you can undo &quot;oops!&quot; moments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T03:22:37.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T03:25:50.647" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure of anyone went to more than one event -- aside from organizers obviously -- hence question can be directed to them. But event was the biggest success in terms of audience, topics, presenters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133741" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T22:15:10.503" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T22:15:10.503" Title="which devdays city was the best?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-29T04:00:52.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;are slides from joel's opening talk avaialble?  I wana show it to someone and copy DNA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138009" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:00:52.223" />
  <row Id="27655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4914" CreationDate="2009-10-29T04:02:08.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, good call. This was fixed when I went through /recent and refactored it all. So many bugs. Ugh. Rest assured, the developer involved has been chained to the basement. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:02:08.533" />
  <row Id="27656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27645" CreationDate="2009-10-29T04:08:53.910" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What people don't seem to grok is that some barriers are there for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those armchair designers who say &quot;make it so easy &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; can do it&quot; have no idea that they are, in a very real way, destroying the very system they set out to 'improve'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary example is Wikipedia, where editing is so complex as to be completely impenetrable by the average user. This seems &quot;wrong&quot; but is in fact a feature. It keeps editing limited to people committed enough to the topic that they're willing. (and for the record our system is &lt;em&gt;nowhere&lt;/em&gt; near as complex as Wikipedia. I mean, it's several orders of magnitude easier.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If users can't be trained, and aren't willing to jump through the extremely minor hoop that is Markdown -- &lt;strong&gt;we do not want those users&lt;/strong&gt;. The internet is a big place, and I have no desire to capture every user. I'm sure there are other websites where these types of users will be perfectly happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The design ethos here is &quot;be brave enough to say no&quot;, instead of &quot;saying yes to everything&quot;. I have seen so much software destroyed by well-meaning &quot;say yes to everything!&quot; teams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:08:53.910" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27591" CreationDate="2009-10-29T04:13:59.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply don't fill out that field if you don't want it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:13:59.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27601" CreationDate="2009-10-29T04:45:35.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added in a direct link to the YouTube video in the UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeOXsA8sp%5FE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeOXsA8sp%5FE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The numbers all go &lt;strong&gt;eleven&lt;/strong&gt;. Right across the board. Eleven ... eleven ... eleven ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, it's one louder, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:45:35.643" />
  <row Id="27659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27653" CreationDate="2009-10-29T04:58:18.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hard to answer, because who other than the organizers (or really just Joel as I only went to 4 myself) has been to &lt;em&gt;every single DevDays&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'd go with London, just based on size. It had 900+ attendees, which is almost 2x as large as the next one, which I believe was Toronto with 500. You need a fairly large group to get the network effects going full swing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T04:58:18.647" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T04:58:40.697" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like the majority of questions that I come across on SO never get the &lt;em&gt;official green checkmark&lt;/em&gt; from the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When an answer is given that the OP accepts, sometimes they leave a comment under their accepted answer, sometimes they upvote it, sometimes they don't do anything.  It seems like only rarely do they hit the &lt;em&gt;green checkmark&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because folks don't know about it?  Or they don't care?  Or is there some other reasoning with regards to the way reputation works that I'm not aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only asked a large handful of questions but I always make sure that I hit the &lt;em&gt;green checkmark&lt;/em&gt; on the answer I accept because I feel I need to give credit where credit is due. But I just want to make sure I'm not missing something here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167756" LastEditorUserId="44765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T05:03:12.140" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T09:28:00.267" Title="How come so few SO questions get the green checkmark" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27660" CreationDate="2009-10-29T05:03:50.657" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get green check-mark for questions you asked, so only you can accept the answer for questions you asked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T05:03:50.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27660" CreationDate="2009-10-29T05:09:44.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of users who have reputation of 1.  My guess is that the SEO for the site works so well that it organically attracts non-SO users who are seeking answers to developer problems.  When they can't find the answer they want, they ask a question, and don't concern themselves with reputation or respecting input of their peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135265" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T05:09:44.260" />
  <row Id="27664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T05:15:02.760" Score="0" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi every one. I am new in ASP.Net so I would like if you could help me giving some tips how to solve my problem.&#xA;I have a soft that insert every 15 minutes some arrows to a database(MSQLserver2008),and I want to develop a web application that can display the new data every 15 minutes. I though in using AJax but I would like to hear some ideas from people who have more expirience, Thanks a lot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T05:15:02.760" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T11:44:27.533" Title="web application that update(get the data from the DB MSQLSERVER) every 15 minutes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27667" CreationDate="2009-10-29T05:21:57.593" Score="0" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot;&gt;Can we disallow the use of &amp;ldquo;belongs-on-xxxxxxx&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;not-programming-related&amp;rdquo; tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the title says, i have seen few questions where the owner of the question had tagged it as &quot;Not Programming Related&quot; and still it's closed by marking it as &quot;Not Programming Related&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am really confused how to handle with &quot;Not Programming Related&quot; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T09:21:29.803" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T09:41:52.550" Title="Questions with tag &quot;Not Programming Related&quot; is closed by marking it as &quot;Not Programming Related&quot; !" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27666" CreationDate="2009-10-29T05:26:27.293" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just think of a tag like &lt;strong&gt;[not-programming-related]&lt;/strong&gt; like an abuse of the tag system in the same way that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22087/is-belongs-on-serverfault-a-real-tag&quot; title=&quot;belongs on an oblong&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[belongs-on-]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally injected into your eyeballs by those who, although they have enough rep to flag and/or comment what they think the question should be closed for, will instead retag with this nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot; title=&quot;like a cancer&quot;&gt;remove it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T05:26:27.293" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25960" CreationDate="2009-10-29T05:33:16.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Public CVs are now available!  Go reserve yours now!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/free-public-careers-cvs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/free-public-careers-cvs/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T05:33:16.213" />
  <row Id="27669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27673" CreationDate="2009-10-29T05:38:23.090" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I ask a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1641231/python-working-around-memory-leaks/&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and I receive one answer that answers the question that was asked really well and another answer that solved my problem without answering the question I asked. Which answer should I accept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T05:59:00.010" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T06:24:23.440" Title="Which answer should I accept - that which solved my problem or that which solved the question asked?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27669" CreationDate="2009-10-29T06:24:23.440" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would personally accept the answer which &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; helped you the most - but upvote both, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that the next person who finds your answer when asking about memory leaks will probably benefit more from the &quot;stop the cause&quot; than &quot;treat the symptom&quot; approach too, so it's good for &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; if that answer is at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T06:24:23.440" />
  <row Id="27674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27676" CreationDate="2009-10-29T06:53:02.177" Score="0" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click on 'see a live preview', nothing happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also, as of today, whatever I change, the Save button doesn't get enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Firefox 3.0.15 on Windows XP SP3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T09:10:10.073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T09:10:10.073" Title="Careers: edit CV, 'see a live preview' not working or not yet implemented?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27660" CreationDate="2009-10-29T06:58:01.733" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. I just looked at the questions that you answered on SO and the accepted/not-accepted ratio on those is really dramatic. I think you hit upon a sub-population of SO that is clustered around specific tags where accepting an answer doesn't really seem to be very popular. But it's not only accepted versus not accepted answers that's interesting here: That sub-population also doesn't seem to be particularly prone to upvote anything. Most of the questions themselves have a score of 0. Maybe you can answer your question when you answer this question: Why did you never upvote a question that you answered? You have asked 10 questions, answered 24, but you have only upvoted 20 times. Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T06:58:01.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27674" CreationDate="2009-10-29T07:01:22.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an issue with our build - the cache breakers for client scripts aren't being appended to our javascript files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working on that now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, if you do a hard refresh of the page (or clear your cache for Careers), you should get the latest files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T07:01:22.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28065" CreationDate="2009-10-29T07:11:03.303" Score="12" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit; added a bounty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to indicate how useful I think it would be&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to see if anyone else has ideas on how to avoid missed comments, without needing extra work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because rep is arbitrary &gt; 10k ;-p&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; that at the moment it is easy to &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; miss a reply (i.e. not have it ever appear on screen) when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you get lots of comments in a short interval&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the odd time glitch between &quot;today&quot;, and the default time interval when using the envelope&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I'll revisit a post (for example, a new comment arrives, or I see a vote on an old post), and I'll see comments (perhaps from the OP) that &lt;strong&gt;I've never seen&lt;/strong&gt;. And I check my &quot;new replies&quot; button regularly, so it isn't for want of trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm missing comments, and so not adding requested info - such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1469873/simple-query-regarding-wcf-service&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about we just add a bit flag to the posts/comments table, meaning that the reply has been read by the owner. For comments and replies to questions &quot;owner&quot; means the OP; for comments on answers, &quot;owner&quot; means the answerer. These would then appear &lt;strong&gt;in bold&lt;/strong&gt; (emph just in case you've forgotten what that looks like ;-p) on the replies screen, which ideally would have an &quot;unread replies&quot; view, rather than just a date-based view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also help when taking breaks ;-p Obviously there would need to be a way to dismiss it. And if anyone doesn't want to use this mode, they wouldn't have to. Also; all existing posts would have to be marked as read, for obvious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is different to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/450/bookmark-mark-as-unread&quot;&gt;possible dup&lt;/a&gt;, as it is entirely about the replies to the owner of a question/answer; like the existing &quot;new replies&quot; screen. The other thread seems more about bookmarks etc. This would also go a long way to addressing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25426&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (which IMO still isn't really &quot;completed&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T20:07:32.667" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:07:32.667" Title="Actively dismiss comments/replies (&quot;mark as read&quot;)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;replies&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T07:47:36.657" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, the highlights were the iPhone talk, the JQuery talk, Joel's keynote and Jeff Atwood's StackOverflow talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't expect to get much out of the iPhone talk, but I became hooked on the discussion of the syntax of Objective-C. It may not make sense to anyone from a C# / Java / C++ background, and it certainly hasn't made any sense to me before, but the presenter's explanation of its history as a language made all the pieces drop into place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, not having used it, Remy Sharp's jQuery talk was informative. I was surprised by how many people in the audience had used it, but given its power it will definitely be on my shortlist should the need arise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel's keynote was witty and hit the mark. He is an engaging speaker. I felt bad for Michael Sparks who followed him with a talk showcasing Python's expressiveness as Joel was definitely a tough act to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's comment about starting his blog to be able to talk to other developers struck a chord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I had to leave early, which meant that I missed Paul Biggar's talk on how not to design a scripting language. Judging by some of the other reviews it looks like I missed a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138018" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T07:47:36.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27660" CreationDate="2009-10-29T08:37:58.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what you are seeing is evidence of a generation gap. This is going to be rather difficult to articulate, however I'm going to give it a try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's rare these days for me to see someone under 30 years old actually hold the door open for the next person entering a building. The generation now in late years of high school or early years of college is of course a little different than previous generations. I don't imply anything sinister when saying this, I'm sure that many people just assume you know they are grateful for your answer. I also realize that people are individuals, not just members of a particular generation. There are exceptions, which solidifies my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What alarms me more than what you brought up is the increasing number of &quot;show me the codez&quot; questions. I'm as lazy as they come, but I enjoy &lt;em&gt;learning something&lt;/em&gt; from pointers (no pun intended) that more experienced programmers are kind enough to lend. I'm starting to worry that natural curiosity, the kind where you just can't sleep until you solve a problem, is dwindling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it all adds up to &quot;Generation Gap&quot; for me. But, of course, just IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1641585/converting-dll-to-so&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;, in particular illustrates what I'm trying to convey. Look at the comments in my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T09:15:01.197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T09:15:01.197" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27666" CreationDate="2009-10-29T09:21:29.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So? Do you also think that questions tagged &lt;code&gt;offensive&lt;/code&gt; shouldn't be closed as offensive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T09:21:29.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27660" CreationDate="2009-10-29T09:28:00.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because the green tick doesn't look very much like a button and there is nothing directing you to actually click it when someone has provided the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be buttonised, and have a big geeen hint under the question (for the question asker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138025" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T09:28:00.267" />
  <row Id="27683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29055" CreationDate="2009-10-29T09:50:32.420" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;This hasn't happened to me often yet, so I could be completely wrong about the current behaviour :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having just started to answer questions I find that I go off to research an answer, meanwhile &lt;strike&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/strike&gt; Tony the Pony jumps in and answers it. If I had started typing an answer I would see the alert immediately, but without typing I don't get an alert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I were reading a question I wouldn't see the alert and may miss reading an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the &quot;new answer&quot; alerts appeared regardless of what you were doing on a question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65107" LastEditorUserId="65107" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T10:06:36.020" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:32:38.337" Title="Alert when answers are added to the question being viewed even when not entering an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T09:51:57.277" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24968/unusual-spacing-in-the-description-text-of-careers&quot;&gt;This is happening again.&lt;/a&gt; the url for the spacing issue is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/view&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image is an old one but the issue looks the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cznp.com/images/careers%5Fow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T22:01:24.060" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T22:01:24.060" Title="Unusual spacing in the description text of careers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;description&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T09:56:02.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My own thoughts from yesterday's London #devdays event &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.horsesizepills.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.horsesizepills.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T09:56:02.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T10:07:40.823" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25558/stack-exchange-is-splintering-off-portions-of-so-is-that-a-problem&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange is splintering off portions of SO, is that a problem?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just note @splosky tweek &quot;StackExcange of the day&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlservercentral.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ask.sqlservercentral.com&lt;/a&gt; clearly focussing on SQL server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also discovered &lt;a href=&quot;http://uxexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://uxexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; focusing on User Experience issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect there may be more stack exchange based sites with a more tightly focused programming related subject area and more to come.  Which is great for those guys that own StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However now if I have a SQL server question where do I ask?  Stackoverflow or ask.sqlservercentral.com?  What happens if someone builds a CSharpExchange, JavaExchange etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, is this preliferation going to dilute and ultimately undermine the benefit of Stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17516" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T10:07:40.823" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T10:11:21.983" Title="Success of the StackExchange engine the undoing of StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" />
  <row Id="27687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27814" CreationDate="2009-10-29T10:23:10.670" Score="4" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;So - it seems like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32198/will-there-be-devdays-in-2010&quot;&gt;there's going to be a &quot;next year&quot; for DevDays&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you like to see change from the DevDays this year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T20:39:03.490" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T20:39:03.490" Title="What would you change about DevDays next year?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T10:32:26.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iceland!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;a href=&quot;http://ccp.is/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CCP&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gogogic.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gogogic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gogoyoko.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gogoyoko&lt;/a&gt; and a host of fun technical people that could speak :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch for the volcanoes though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T10:32:26.193" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T10:55:13.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I want Super User DevDays&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the Dev part will probably not be true and I have no idea what they should talk about... but I want it anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the people from Server Fault want their own flavour as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T10:55:13.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:02:52.650" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I would change / tweak:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Employer buy-in:&lt;/em&gt; Although I found it relatively easy to get my employer to pay for it, I gather that something like 60% of the attendees at the London event had to pay for it out of their own pocket, and no doubt had to take a day off to attend. I think there would be mileage in providing some words that can be used by attendees to sell the next dev day to their employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Larger venue:&lt;/em&gt; I obviously can't speak for other venues, but Kensington Town Hall in London seemed a little cramped for the number of attendees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Organised meetups:&lt;/em&gt; It would be great to have some organised opportunities to meet with other like-minded developers either before or after the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I would keep the same:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Multiple topics:&lt;/em&gt; I liked the eclectic nature of the presentations, and in fact got the most out of a talk in which I had no prior interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138018" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:02:52.650" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:05:13.220" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55/what-about-meta-meta-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What about meta-meta stackoverflow.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just read the FAQ again (don't ask me why), and it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Server Fault&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Super User&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  ... it is welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't say I may post questions about Meta, like this one. Or is it really illegal to post Meta questions on Meta? There is even a &lt;code&gt;meta-so&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T11:45:34.980" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:45:34.980" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T17:46:47.747" Title="According to meta's faq, this question wouldn't be allowed" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:13:19.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet made an application which programs and ask questions on SO itself, so he doesn't need to anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:13:19.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T11:13:19.813" />
  <row Id="27693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27732" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:13:39.700" Score="4" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I change my student CV to the $29 3 year special? I think the student badge will be a hindrance in finding my job after graduation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://careers.stackoverflow.com/billing/jobseekers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://careers.stackoverflow.com/billing/jobseekers&lt;/a&gt; doesnt have anything for the special for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23528" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:47:13.977" Title="Careers student account migrate to $29 account" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27693" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:35:13.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering the same thing. I added the student badge to try the system out and help look for bugs, now that I'm interested in using it, I cant find the 29$ deal. Just the ability to extend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:35:13.427" />
  <row Id="27695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:46:57.870" Score="-2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3811/how-about-a-difficulty-rating-for-questions&quot;&gt;How about a difficulty rating for questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When browsing the questions I feel I can answer, I am often frustrated by the fact that there are questions above and below the level I would like to address. I wonder whether people feel we should have a &quot;toddlers pool&quot; for beginners to ask questions, and more &quot;pools&quot; for intermediate and advanced? I see a problem with the definition of the limits of each pool, but I imagine that posting a beginner question in the advanced pool is going to see it thrown out or drowned by the professionals trying to discuss more advanced topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a dimension I have not seen in the website and although it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be solved with tags, it's be better done separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130021" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:56:53.290" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T13:01:30.580" Title="Should questions be assigned a skill level?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:50:43.407" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/50107/dont-allow-submitting-questions-edits-if-a-tags-length-exceeds-the-limit&quot;&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t allow submitting questions/edits if a tags length exceeds the limit&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably doesn't get much more low priority than this, but when you create a tag that is longer than a tag can be, there is no warning and it just creates a cropped tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T05:58:29.577" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T05:58:29.577" ClosedDate="2010-08-18T14:49:40.420" Title="Creating Tag Longer than Limit doesn't Give Warning" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27695" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:51:31.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean instead of &lt;code&gt;belongs-on-SU&lt;/code&gt; tags you want &lt;code&gt;belongs-on-toddler&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly? I hate this idea. Really cluttering the space instead of organizing it. Make up your mind and answer the question or leave it as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:51:31.043" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27695" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:52:03.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt if it's really about &quot;levels&quot; rather than &quot;specialties&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:52:03.473" />
  <row Id="27699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:52:28.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1476513/customize-url-in-addthis&quot;&gt;did&lt;/a&gt; the same :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:52:28.803" />
  <row Id="27700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27695" CreationDate="2009-10-29T11:56:53.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is one way to build reputation as an expert to answer beginner's questions you stumble upon. If you only swim in the experts pool, you will never get to see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there is the odd question that seems to be easy but turns out to be very hard. How would I know as a beginner in the field asking the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T11:56:53.290" />
  <row Id="27701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T12:11:23.950" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the DevDays were originally announced I took note of their intention to have presentations that were taster sessions for their subjects. I skipped some of the presentations that I wasn't interested in and had some interesting chats instead. You didn't have to go to all of them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I find it strange that there are so many disappointed with the level of the talks. I found the jQuery talk good, but above my head in some cases. If you know and use jQuery why did you stay for the talk? If you wanted a more in-depth presentation, there are other conferences for that sort of thing. It would have been strange to have a talk on the esoteric corners of jQuery in amongst presentations on the basics of Python, and Android development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Objective-C seems to have taken a kicking. @VoteApp didn't accept it as a language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On to the plus points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The level of the talks was about what I expected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I had some interesting chats with fellow coders.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Strong, dependable and fast WiFi.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The organisers were monitoring the #devdays twitter channel, I got a couple of direct responses from them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reasonably priced.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and negatives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Coffee was truly awful (and I'm not a connoisseur).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The chairs were too narrow, hard and close together.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blurry screen in some cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Farting. Seriously, there were far too many silent smellys being dropped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sticky nametags didn't get used. Small breaks meant that chances to talk to people were limited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quality of the talks were variable. Some were very good and engaging, but others were dull.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll certainly consider going again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154481" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T12:11:23.950" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T12:29:05.930" Score="14" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm trying to see all the questions tagged &lt;strong&gt;web.config&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;app.config&lt;/strong&gt; I'm sent to an URL like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which shows an XML parsing error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;XML Parsing Error: no element found&#xA;Location: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config&#xA;Line Number 1, Column 1:&#xA;^&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's normal from an ASP.NET point of view, but I would like to see those questions instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since adding another tag like &lt;strong&gt;asp.net&lt;/strong&gt; means an URL like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config asp.net&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which solves the problem, but restrict the results, I propose to create an empty, meaningless tag which would not restrict the result set but would avoid the errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19756" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-20T05:18:22.560" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T08:40:00.557" Title="Tags with usability problems - app.config and web.config" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27702" CreationDate="2009-10-29T12:33:32.263" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution is re-tagging &lt;code&gt;web.config&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;web-config&lt;/code&gt;. That's how it should look like in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T12:33:32.263" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27710" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:10:31.090" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1643279/&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SO about adding product version information to an SQL Server database. I knew I could just add a special table which would just contain this number but I wanted to know if there's an alternative solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is one useful answer after 5 answers telling me I should just use a table. I'm not even interested in such comments and here they are, adding noise to my question. So, should I downvote them? Flag them as noise? Or just ignore them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:14:39.110" Title="What to do about comments that aren't really useful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;noise-reduction&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27709" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:12:12.950" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just ignore them. We need to expect a certain amount of subjective noise. If you think it's wrong or unhelpful, then downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T13:12:12.950" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="27711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:35:47.747" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you use for monitoring your network resources (servers etc...)? Do you use an open source product? Also what do you use to monitor things like total requests per second etc... or any other user defined business metric? Do you have an alarming framework you can layer on top of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T13:53:56.637" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T14:09:04.820" Title="Server &amp; Performance Monitoring" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:37:20.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;my personal high points were Jeff and Joels talks (Jeff's hit a nerve with me when the inside of the Amiga 1000 case came on screen, since a friend of mine is in the process of butchering a real live A1000 to make a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzydweeb/sets/72157622433927862/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Franken-miga&lt;/a&gt;... )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The iPhone segment was a good intro for me as i'm about to take that plunge, and the objective C was causing me a few headaches but makes sense now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Qt was pretty relevant for me since I already use it at my current place (though phasing it out as it doesn't play too nicely when mixed with MFC) and I love the way Finns speak english. Pekkar gave nice interesting talk, and i may well consider doing some Qt mobile dev in the the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon was very entertaining and his geek t-shirt was bang on, though for me nothing new except for there being 3 CST time zones (2 in the same country!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not done any web client side stuff bar some basic html, so Remy was over my head after the first couple of slides...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I avoided the food fail by skipping out to the high street along with probably more than half the audience... (and they &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; ran out??? who are these catering amateurs) It sounds like McDonalds was an upgrade so I guess I dodged that particular bullet. The polish coke was funny tho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nice to have a quick play with the nokia n900 that one of my colleagues has been harping on about for the last month and the fogbugz book was just a sweet cherry on top!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you Jeff for sparing as much time as you did to chat, I'd have loved to talk a while longer, but there was a queue forming....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;oh and I imagined Joel to be taller and Jeff to be shorter IRL...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="379" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T13:37:20.760" />
  <row Id="27713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27702" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:44:52.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe use a quick rewrite rule for the moment: add &quot; +&quot; at the end of the URL if it ends with &lt;code&gt;web.config&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;app.config&lt;/code&gt; or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least the following URL returns the same number of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net-mvc +&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net-mvc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it also works for the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/app.config +&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config +&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.aspx +&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/global.asax +&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(but there are no more &lt;code&gt;globax.asax&lt;/code&gt; tagged questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another workaround would be inserting &lt;code&gt;%20&lt;/code&gt; after the tag name in the generated URLs, like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.mdf%20?sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.mdf%20?sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19756" LastEditorUserId="19756" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-31T08:40:00.557" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T08:40:00.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27715" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:49:06.203" Score="-1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Profile pics from SO and the other sites are broken this morning for me, and the problem is also making my &lt;a href=&quot;http://kaiseradvisor.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;flair show up as a broken image&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT - I've cleared the cache and tried in Chrome and IE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2 - My fault - My bloody company firewall started blocking gravatar this morning. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137288" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T18:08:06.077" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:08:06.077" ClosedDate="2009-10-29T16:35:16.793" Title="Profile Picture Problem" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27714" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:51:29.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried clearing the cache?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: What error are you seeing from Firebug when the browser tries to download the images? (I'm just wondering if someone is blocking gravatar where you are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T14:29:11.970" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T14:29:11.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27711" CreationDate="2009-10-29T13:53:56.637" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went and searched around serverfault, and found the name of what the developer had mentioned. It was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cacti.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cacti.net/&lt;/a&gt;, on the podcast it had sounded more like cat eye to me which I couldn't find anything related to server monitoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T13:53:56.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T14:02:51.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a response to a few of the &quot;jQuery - wrong level&quot; type answers - I've used it for a while (although I certainly don't consider myself an expert), and while I know how the selectors and things work, I still managed to pick up a few tips that will fix a couple of issues I've had - things like .live to keep adding events to added elements, and using .getJSON to handle the whole JSON/JSONP and associated issues when calling web services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, I found the conference to be interesting an useful - there will be highs and lows with everything: take the Andriod presentation - all that time spent on the Maps application - I've done Google Maps on the web, so I know how to create a map, add overlays, etc, yes it's good to know that if I want to build an app the skills are transferable from the web side, but there could have been something different in there (i.e. more stuff with the hardware (tilt, compass, etc)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T14:02:51.587" />
  <row Id="27718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T14:09:07.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The venue was easy to reach and I did not have problems with chairs. Most of the time I was sitting upstairs so the gas problem wasn't that bad. Lack of space during the breaks was annoying. Catering was a joke as mentioned many times already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to say that most presentations were good or ok but I didn't get the point of the Qt presentation. Definitely did not attract me to start Qt development for Nokia devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Android presentation was somewhat interesting because of Java but the zooming around the screen, sound problems and slow pace made it boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite those rants I found it worth of a travel (from Edinburgh) and I'll try to make it again next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Photos here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepez/sets/72157622685399650/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepez/sets/72157622685399650/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138045" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T14:09:07.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3811" CreationDate="2009-10-29T14:12:20.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I attempted tagging questions early on with &quot;Beginner&quot;, &quot;Intermediate&quot; and &quot;Advanced&quot; but it never took off, for a really good reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no value in judging questions based on who they would likely apply to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many questions tagged beginner, and that may be a little useful over time for those just starting out who want to limit their searches to question geared more to their level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, just search for or ask the question - the system doesn't need this categorization because everything is instantly searchable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T11:34:00.940" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T11:34:00.940" />
  <row Id="27720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27723" CreationDate="2009-10-29T14:31:36.187" Score="1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oracleoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;oracleoverflow&lt;/a&gt;, where should programming questions about oracle go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OracleOverflow is a simple site&#xA;  designed around the stackoverflow&#xA;  system. You can ask and answer&#xA;  questions, vote up people’s answers if&#xA;  they’re helpful and vote for questions&#xA;  you think are good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will the searching of the two sites be linked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will the tags be linked, so when I click on the &quot;oracle&quot; tag on stackoverflow I see questions from oracleoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:12:38.830" Title="When to use oracleoverflow/stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27720" CreationDate="2009-10-29T14:34:27.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use StackOverflow when is a &lt;strong&gt;programming related&lt;/strong&gt; Oracle question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use oracleoverflow when there &lt;strong&gt;is not&lt;/strong&gt; a programming related question but Oracle specific.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T14:34:27.830" />
  <row Id="27722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27720" CreationDate="2009-10-29T14:40:58.187" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you like Stack Overflow, use that for your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like Oracle Overflow, use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No one&lt;/strong&gt; is going to close a question on &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; as &quot;&lt;code&gt;Belongs on OracleOverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, these sites have to fight for their community; and it makes far more sense for that corpus of knowledge to be kept on Stack Overflow than it does fragmenting it across 50 -Overflow sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T14:40:58.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27720" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:01:56.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Oracle Overflow was part of the Stack Overflow family of sites then yes, I'd be asking Oracle questions there. But because it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; part of the 'trilogy' then I &lt;em&gt;personally&lt;/em&gt; would ask the question on either Stack Overflow (if programming related) or Server Fault (if related to management/administration tasks). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, things may change and Oracle Overflow might become the canonical place to ask Oracle related questions instead of Stack Overflow/Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oracle Overflow is a standalone site (run by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.red-gate.com/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Red Gate&lt;/a&gt; by the looks of it) that happens to be built on top of the Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange engine, I doubt we'll see any intelligent tag linking/search result aggregation across the two sites in the near future (if at all). However it could be a nice earner for Jeff's and/or Fog Creek's teams to provide such a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T15:12:38.830" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:12:38.830" />
  <row Id="27724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27726" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:09:49.960" Score="10" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong when I get annoyed when I post an answer, someone else sees it, and posts the SAME answer with some minor textual changes.  Then after the answer has been there for say, 20 hours, if he posted it 40 minutes after you, it looks like they were posted at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess my question is, should this be considered Stackoverflow Taboo?  Wouldn't it be more helpful to comment on the correct answer to help enhance it that way instead of posting a brand new one that is the exact same idea and try and steal votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if it is considered Taboo, would I be justified in downvoting their answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of something from Stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;GregorianCalendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();&#xA;return cal.getTimeZone();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And 40 minutes later, someone else wrote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();&#xA;TimeZone timeZone = cal.getTimeZone();&#xA;int rawOffset = timeZone.getRawOffset();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the question was how to get the time zone on a Black Berry.  Now granted Gregorian Calendar isn't supported on the black berry, but that was just a variable type, pretty easy to correct, other than that, nothing more was given other than a function call easily found in the Java Docs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135261" LastEditorUserId="135261" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T15:49:19.270" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T04:25:48.070" Title="Answer stealers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:14:08.513" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This could work on SuperUser:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://worryfreehelp.com/business/images/BDR/Burnt%20Server.png&quot; alt=&quot;Burnt Server&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Error 404&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for kicks, we tried: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sudo &quot;make me a sandwich&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't work. We'll be back up in a minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130838" LastEditorUserId="130838" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T15:46:14.890" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:46:14.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T15:14:08.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:19:39.580" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no actual way to distinguish between someone who had the same answer as you, and someone who actually stole your answer.  After all, if your answer is the correct one, then everyone else who has it right is going to come up with the same answer.  So I don't think you'd be justified in downvoting it (which sounds a little vindictive, anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you posted before them by, for example, 40 minutes, means that you'll probably get the first upvote, so your answer &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be higher on the list than theirs anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130260" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:19:39.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:20:44.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never had this happen to me, but I seem to see it all the time.  I'm not sure if the second poster hits reply and doesn't answer for a while and &lt;em&gt;coincidentally&lt;/em&gt; answers very similarly, or if they're doing this intentionally.  It's kind of annoying though... as it causes a lot of redundancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138054" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:20:44.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:26:29.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I blogged about the event here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scottlaw.knot.org/blog/?p=465&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scottlaw.knot.org/blog/?p=465&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post is a bit formal because the initial audience for what I wrote was my managers at work.  It doesn't talk about other aspects of the event at all, so I'll do that in my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information on the State Theatre website was slightly misleading.  I moved my car during lunch as a precaution.  Parking on the street turned out to be just fine.  If Dev Days picks the same venue again next year, I hope the parking instructions are more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't expecting music before the conference and during breaks, and the stuff they picked was pretty cool.  I'm still &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27617/dev-days-dc-soundtrack-does-anyone-have-a-list-of-all-the-songs-played&quot;&gt;trying to get a complete list&lt;/a&gt; of what they played because I'd like to own a few of those tracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Food&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was pleased with the food.  I've had worse at events that cost a lot more than this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Networking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This venue wasn't setup so well for that, but I was fortunate enough to run into a guy who's familiar with a open source e-commerce package I'm helping a friend with.  Assuming they find a larger venue next year, they'll probably be able to structure the conference to support networking better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132696" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:26:29.653" />
  <row Id="27729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:32:16.827" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to write down two answers to this question. Both are the same in meaning, but different in how they're composed. Which one would you vote up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer #1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are times that you and another&#xA;  answerer can give the same 'answer'.&#xA;  It can contain the same exact&#xA;  information; but if he composes his&#xA;  answer in a way that makes it&#xA;  'better', that is, more readable, then&#xA;  he wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer #2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your answer isn't as Eye-catching as his.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the difference?  Both answers contain the same information; but the first is wordy and the second is not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:32:16.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:33:24.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know a solution to the problem, some people are probably just like that no matter what you 'teach' them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just try to lead by example: if I see someone was quicker than me, providing the same solution, I will edit his post to make it more complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way I hope others will try and do it as well later on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:33:24.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:47:11.857" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upon leaving, I was actually a bit disappointed, but perhaps I just had high expectations. I did get a lot out of it and was worth the price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Highlights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Phil Nash (iPhone): Great, well-prepared presentation. This is what Dev Days should be about. Writing iPhone apps is all the rage and I didn't have a clue about it or Objective-C when I walked in. I came away with an understanding of both.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet (Humanity: Epic Fail): Probably the most entertaining though not very technical. It was fun to see Jon speak.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christian Heilmann (Yahoo! Developer Tools): An unexpected hit. I wasn't really interested in Yahoo! Developer Tools, but the presentation was well done and the YQL demo was absolutely amazing. I was glad I didn't leave early. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paul Biggar (How not to design a scripting language): Another pleasant surprise. I am not interested in designing a scripting language, but it was an interesting discussion looking at features of various languages and had general appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel: I wish I hadn't listened to the podcast first, but overall good talks. As usual the points are right on and certainly relevant. I didn't mind the FogBugz presenation -- I've read about it enough on his blog posts, it was actually good to see a demo. After all it's their conference so it is expected to have demos of FugBugz and StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remy Sharp (jQuery): Another well done presentation. While many people many know jQuery, it was new to me and certainly one of the stronger presentations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Room For Improvement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other Presentations: Due to a combination of subject matter, presentation style, or preparation I didn't get a lot out of the remaining presentations. Though I didn't expect all of the topics to be the most relevant, a good, well-prepared presenter would go a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Helloapp: Good idea; poor execution. I like the idea of meeting other people with similar interests, but this didn't do it. I don't use twitter, but happen to have an account. It literally took me hours to try and figure out how to get myself on the map because of some twitter settings that aren't visible on the mobile version of their site. It shouldn't be so hard. And it didn't really help me find people because the map was cleared every session and there was no listing outside of that. And the tags on my profile didn't show up in the tag cloud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Venue and Catering: There wasn't enough room for all the people. At the first break it took 5 minutes to get out of the room and at least 10 minutes in the queue for a drink. Similar for lunch, but there was no food left when I got to the front.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Screen: It was blurry which made it difficult to read code-heavy presentations. That probably had huge impact on my appreciation of, for example, the Python presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6944" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:47:11.857" />
  <row Id="27732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27693" CreationDate="2009-10-29T15:47:13.977" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can remove your current student subscriptions - just email careers@stackoverflow.com and indicate this is what you'd like to do and we'll take care of it.  After the current student subscription is removed you'll see the option for the $29 3 year special.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T15:47:13.977" />
  <row Id="27733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:02:52.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When it comes to code, it is often the case that there is only one or two solutions to a problem is, presented in slightly different ways, with minor detail changes. That’s why the whole software-patent thing is such a sticky situation. Like &lt;strong&gt;George Stocker&lt;/strong&gt; said, an answer can contain the same information, but presented in an easier to understand form. Also, another answer can contain the same code, but with a better performance, or using less memory, or in your case, one that actually solves the question asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131979" LastEditorUserId="131979" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T17:27:28.640" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T17:27:28.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:14:26.700" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this isn't an issue for the large population of Stack Overflow users, but more so on the SF/SU sites (possibly related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26689/how-do-we-grow-the-server-fault-and-super-user-communities&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26689/how-do-we-grow-the-server-fault-and-super-user-communities&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that format of the site, and the process of obtain answers or comments is not conducive for troubleshooting difficult problems.  Troubleshooting is often a linear process where you ask a question, obtain suggestions (or answers), reply with new results, and eventually the back-and-forth comes to a conclusion or solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most tech sites just operate forum-like software to handle this (or even news group style), which I feel personally works quite well.  However, the SOFU/Yahoo style of here's-a-question; heres-an-answer seems &quot;clunky&quot; for problem troubleshooting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SOFU, the process usually goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OP:&lt;/strong&gt; Asks a question, usually missing some details&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Commentor:&lt;/strong&gt; Asks for more details on the question&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Gives a vague answer based on the question&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;OP:&lt;/strong&gt; Edits the question with more details&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Possible solution (gets upvoted)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;OP:&lt;/strong&gt; Comments on the answer that the solution didn't work, gives more results&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; (after reading the question, sorting though and reading the other answers and comments) posts a working solution&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;OP:&lt;/strong&gt; (hopefully) accepts and comments on the answer&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&amp;lt;10 days later&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; (new user) Hey, I'm having a similar problem but the solution didn't work.  Any more ideas?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;The Mob:&lt;/strong&gt; Down votes the user into oblivion...he never gets an answer and doesn't return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all of the up votes and down votes, the above turns into a jumbled mess on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a different site, I have an issue that I have been working on for 6 months.  I occasionally add more information and people bump the thread up with their tests results too.  We have eventually narrowed it down to a bug in the vendor's product which occurs in very specific configurations, and were able to come up with a work around once we determined that.  Troubleshooting like that could never happen here due to the Q&amp;amp;A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, uh, I guess my question is - how do we improve that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some examples, just &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/search?q=%22error%22&quot;&gt;search for &quot;error&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on Server Fault.  You see a bunch of questions/answers that are hard to follow, don't come up with a solution or everyone just gives up. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/67768/oracle-error-ora-12560-tnsprotocol-adapter-error&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/67768/oracle-error-ora-12560-tnsprotocol-adapter-error&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/79366/dont-know-what-is-updating-all-my-stats-causing-io-problems&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/79366/dont-know-what-is-updating-all-my-stats-causing-io-problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastEditorUserId="130157" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T16:24:39.800" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T22:27:38.493" Title="Thoughts on the Question/Answer/Comment layout of the sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27739" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:17:47.157" Score="10" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other day I was trying to find a question that I knew I had voted on. I remembered enough about it to search for it, and of course I could see once I got there that I had in fact voted on it, but I was wondering if there is any way to see all such questions. Like from my profile I can see what comments I've made, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is a FAQ. I did search metaStackoverflow but couldn't find the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138056" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:17:33.290" Title="Is there any way for me to find Stackoverflow questions on which I have cast votes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="27736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27734" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:19:09.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting question. I have a small solution that I would like to suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the OP edit's a question, that he can edit in the normal fashion (like is done now) Or he can add an extension to the question. That would appear in a separate box below the original question. This would show updates and further information in a clear way without turning the layout into a threaded form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T16:19:09.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:20:12.580" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had people basically copy my answer. Obviously people can be writing the same answer at the same time but sometimes I've had someone post what is basically my answer 20 minutes after I did and I have trouble believing they hadn't seen my answer. The change to random order sorting (with same votes) I think actually makes this worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kinda irritating but you can't dwell on it. It doesn't happen often. More often than not things work out the &quot;right&quot; way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may find someone writes an answer after you that says what you do but expands on it somehow. This can be things like fixing errors, adding links to documentation, blogs or articles about the issue, adding further useful commentary, making their answer more visually appearing or whatever and as a result their answer gets voted up instead. That's fair enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T16:20:12.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27735" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:20:45.650" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be a log of recent votes in a tab in the profile page, but it was removed several months ago because it was deemed useless. I don't think there is any way to see that information anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T16:20:45.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27735" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:20:54.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there is no way to see what you have voted on. The system tries its best to keep voting anonymous. Even in the data dump there is no way to see this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T16:20:54.387" />
  <row Id="27740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27734" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:22:08.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trouble-shooting is a form of collaboration. In a collaboration-is-discussion sense, this is avoided, by design. And for good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any tools that will encourage collaboration will also allow the question-answer dynamic to devolve into long diatribes, extended discussions, or religious platform wars. That's where the entire system will break down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not denying the usefulness of healthy collaboration. But I don't think Stack Overflow is the place for the &quot;back-and-forth&quot; you describe to take place... by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T16:22:08.177" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:39:32.647" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;function lookForPage(url) {&#xA;  if (pageExists(url)) {&#xA;    return page(url);&#xA;  } else {&#xA;    return lookForPage(url);&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T17:38:34.890" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:38:34.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T16:39:32.647" />
  <row Id="27747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T16:43:01.547" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm registered on the trilogy sites using a personal email address, which will be mine forever and which has a gravatar associated with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now though, I'm at work, with limited access to my personal email (via phone only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just asked a question about something at work, and I'd like notifications to come to my work email, but when I enter the work email address in the notify textbox, it over-writes the personal email I used when registering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to use a separate email for the notifications? If not, why not? It's a bit of a jump to assume that you want to change your email, especially as this causes the gravatar to disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138058" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:43:28.393" Title="When you use the notify email feature, why does it over-write the main email?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;registration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27754" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:12:42.297" Score="10" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been noticing of late a lot of questions on Server Fault that have the close votes for 'belongs on superuser'. A number of these questions are not valid questions, and do need to be closed, but they're not valid because they're not questions, way too vague or just spam. They are not questions suitable to be answered by any of the 3 sites, yet people seem to just want to dump them on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't spend much time on Super User, so if they do end up there, it doesn't really affect me much, but it seems unfair to push these bad questions onto the Super User moderators to clean up. They're bad questions, it's obvious for all to see so close them as such, don't push them over to Super User, there's enough crap over there as it is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's because Super User is newer and has a lot more question scope. You don't see bad questions getting pushed to Stack Overflow, because we know they would come straight back, but Super User's not going to complain. If a mod gets to the question before it's closed, then they generally close it with the right reason, but where it's user closed often 1 or 2 people will pick the Super User reason, and the rest will go along with the crowd, until it has 3 votes and it's too late for the last 2 votes to tip the balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to stop this– do we need more education, more moderators to overrule this, or just have to leave it and let SU deal with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T18:22:40.790" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T18:22:40.790" Title="Belongs on Super User - Does it really?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27735" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:17:33.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see which (non-community wiki) questions you have downvoted by going back through your user history (the little envelope icon) because it is recorded as -1 to your reputation.  I made use of this when I hit 2000 rep (and editing privileges) by finding and retracting downvotes on posts that had since been improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:17:33.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:28:16.343" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Yahoo OpenID works fine for the rest of the trilogy, but when I try to sign in to careers, it hangs.  It goes out to Yahoo's site but never comes back to the careers site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything different in the authentication on that subdomain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1676" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T14:29:27.597" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:29:27.597" Title="Signing in with Yahoo OpenID fails on careers.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27748" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:30:16.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be for not moving questions between any of the sites.  Just close the question and leave it up to the person asking the question to re-ask on the appropriate site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I should add that it seems to be rare that the OP continues to participate in the question after it gets moved....defeating the whole purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastEditorUserId="130157" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T19:05:23.663" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T19:05:23.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27748" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:34:47.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, this has been commented on frequently, since well before SU was out of private beta. Essentially, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10219/is-superuser-a-stackoverflow-dumping-ground&quot;&gt;SU is the SO trash bin!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:34:47.693" />
  <row Id="27753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27750" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:34:49.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried logging in using a yahoo account and it worked.  Try a simple solution first - clear all of your browser cookies and try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:34:49.050" />
  <row Id="27754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27748" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:35:04.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there is a lot of overlap in some peoples mind between basically running a home server, and system administration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that questions not appropriate for any site should be closed as not-sysadmin-related or not a real question.  If I think there is doubt about it not being appropriate for one of the other trilogy sites I will add a comment to the question as well as casting a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do notice that stackoverflow seems to send a lot of questions towards serverfault that are not what I would classify as sysadmin related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that if it is not pretty clear that it belongs withing the scope of one of the other trilogy sites, then you probably just close it instead of voting to move it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:35:04.993" />
  <row Id="27755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:45:16.500" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.c0r3.org/404/404dia.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for STACK OVER FLOW &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:45:16.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T17:45:16.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:50:51.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://my.yougov.com/App%5FPortals/yougov/templates/en/images/error%5F404.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for Server Fault&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:50:51.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T17:50:51.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27760" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:51:33.877" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seem to have a lot of whitespace on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; link using chrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome version is 3.0.195.27&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinypic.com/r/2r7osb7/4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinypic.com/r/2r7osb7/4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note, zoom (&lt;kbd&gt;CTRL-Middle Mouse Scroll&lt;/kbd&gt;), then unzoom removes this whitespace)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T09:14:51.973" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T09:15:08.053" Title="Chrome rendering issue?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27759" CreationDate="2009-10-29T17:58:57.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that all the time. In fact, this was asked before, but declined as &quot;status-norepro&quot;.  At least you thought to take a screenshot ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the problem has to do with ignored tags, in that Chrome is not correctly reclaiming the space left over from questions hidden for having ignored tags.  To test this, you could try switching your &quot;hide ignored tags&quot; option for a while and seeing if the issue goes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T17:58:57.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:01:46.390" Score="3" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that someone has squatted the vanity url &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jonskeet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jonskeet&lt;/a&gt;.  I demand justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It would appear that justice has been delivered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6212" LastEditorUserId="6212" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T22:57:04.500" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T22:57:04.500" Title="Squatting Vanity Urls" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;vanity-url&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27761" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:10:29.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also SaraChipps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/sarachipps&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/sarachipps&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably others as well. Mine name remains open ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:10:29.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27761" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:10:52.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not like Jon Skeet needs it in the near future. (I would guess)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:10:52.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27747" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:14:39.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A warning would be nice; but think about the fact that if you could put anyone's email address in there, you could do some serious spam damage; or at least annoy another user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:14:39.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27761" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:17:30.127" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, this could be a real issue. I haven't been to the Careers site yet, mostly because I'm very happy in my current job, but just looking at the &quot;Jon Skeet&quot; URL, that's pretty spectacularly crummy on the part of the squatter. No amount of ponies and waffles could make up for this kind of fraudulent behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there ought to be -- or even if it's feasible to implement -- a check when you request the vanity URL that compares it against existing usernames, and if it matches any (and does not match your own, to gracefully handle dupes), disallow it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big issue I can foresee is that, as the systems grow in popularity, there would be a performance problem for performing that check. Probably a large one. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a means of reporting this sort of thing might be the easiest answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Took out the Sara Chipps part on account of Tom Ritter's explanation in a comment to another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T20:16:48.167" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:16:48.167" />
  <row Id="27767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27761" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:22:58.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/dan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/dan&lt;/a&gt; not be a page but be taken?&#xA;And I've been refreshing careers every day for two weeks to get &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/daniel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/daniel&lt;/a&gt; and someone beats me to it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:22:58.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:25:33.530" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In no particular order: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the presentations hit their marks as taster sessions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those which were more blatantly sales pitches (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;cough&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;Fog-bugz&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/cough&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) were fine by me - how else are you going to meet the $99 price point? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Qt session was rescued by Pekka's personality, but was the worst of the day for me - it wasn't a pitch, it wasn't much of a demo, it didn't help me work out what Qt is about. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I thought that Michael Sparks' Python presentation was the victim of timing and unclear expectation. He lost the crowd quite quickly, who were still buzzing from Joel's uber-enthusiastic Joel-being-Joel, developers-developers-developers, yee-haw keynote. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel, Jeff and Jon Skeet might have had meta topics, but they were all thought provoking, illuminating and interesting. It wasn't quite a rally, but there's a cult of StackOverflow personality coming through (or was it just those with initial Js?), the biggest applause was clearer for Joel, Jeff and Jon Skeet ...  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The more accomplished presenters shone too, Remy Sharp was first rate, but the enthusiasm from Reto Meier and Phil Nash for their subjects rescued them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Passionate developers come from having your curiousity tweaked - and all of the presentations managed that with me, to a greater or lesser extent. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The WiFi worked, all day. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were plenty of power points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The chairs weren't too uncomfortable, but I stuck to the end of a row ... &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Food and drink are not why I go to conferences and at least this one was close enough to local shops that it didn't matter. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the twitter app idea was good - but it needs to be more iPhone friendly. Did you see how many there were? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, to summarise: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it worth a day off? Yes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would I recommend it to colleagues? Already have. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would I go next year? Yes - even if it was further than a 20 minute tube ride. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did it pique my interest and get me to think about my direction? Yes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An unequivocal success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:25:33.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:27:01.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for the deeply technical talks python,iphone,android,qt. It would've helped to just focus on a small demo and breaking that demo apart. I'd much rather see hello world than a week long language course crammed into an hour.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;soft topics work very well as it challenges the way you think Jon Skeet, Jeff, Joel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great presenters can make anything interesting. Compiler design made me close my laptop and listen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would have loved to see a panel discussion, there's so many smart people to hear from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI the topics we coverred at altnetbeers afterwards were&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you aren't messaging are you tightly coupled?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BDD how do you get started&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;monotouch workshop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131105" LastEditorUserId="131105" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T10:48:55.110" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T10:48:55.110" />
  <row Id="27770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27788" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:38:55.297" Score="3" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why isn't the content of field &lt;code&gt;Display Name&lt;/code&gt; displayed for Stack Overflow user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47161/erikkallen&quot;&gt;erikkallen&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenshot below is from Opera, but I see the same in Firefox (or rather I don't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/SO/empty%5Ferikkallen%5F16c.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T14:29:04.980" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:29:04.980" Title="Invisible Stack Overflow users?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="27771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27853" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:39:04.690" Score="18" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be really nice if there was a way to select which associated accounts to show on your public CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'd like to keep it limited to just my SO account the way the private CV is.   I'm not sure if it is useful or productive for a potential employer to look through my MSO posts about waffles for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131073" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T20:22:54.590" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T20:25:20.793" Title="Can I hide associated accounts on my public CV?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27748" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:40:33.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't care if they send it over to SU, if only because I won't answer questions I don't know the answer to, but you're right: the other sites should probably decide to close instead of moving them to SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since if the majority of SU thinks like I do, they don't get answered and might as well have been closed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:40:33.180" />
  <row Id="27773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:41:06.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;404, the waffles are outdoors today.:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.wafelsanddinges.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/webassets/.pond/Newtruckpostcard5.jpg.w560h527.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Waffles and Dinges&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:41:06.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T18:41:06.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27734" CreationDate="2009-10-29T18:43:37.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People should simply edit each other questions more often to make it more complete, instead of making their own version of the answer and let things get out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of times there is only one solution, in that case, in a perfect world, the best answer should be the only one with a lot of upvotes and stand out of the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T18:43:37.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:06:45.360" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27761/squatting-vanity-urls&quot;&gt;Squatting Vanity Urls&lt;/a&gt;, it seems like whilst squatting is a real problem, it is more inconvenient if you happen to share a name with someone else. To solve this name-sharing problem, would it be beneficial to have a sort of disambiguation page similar to how wikipedia does when there is a name clash? This way, going to &lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com/joebloggs&lt;/code&gt; could show you all of the Joe Bloggs that have a public CV, with a summary of their CV (similar to how CVs appear in search results) so you can choose the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not be an ideal solution for everyone, but it seems a good approach if you don't happen to get the vanity url first - after all who wants &lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com/joebloggs99&lt;/code&gt; as their url? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:14:58.170" Title="Disambiguation page for public CVs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27775" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:21:17.250" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;after all who wants careers.stackoverflow.com/joebloggs99 as their url?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*ahem*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T19:21:17.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-29T19:21:37.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27771" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:26:49.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Actually, showing the Meta Stack Overflow flair is meaningless...what does it matter?It shouldn't even be an option to show it.&lt;/strike&gt; The &lt;strike&gt;other&lt;/strike&gt; flair should be reorderable and toggable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: If one person thinks that the Meta flair should at least be an option, and it's already there, then it should stay an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T19:32:14.943" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T19:32:14.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27748" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:31:50.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to complaints, many in the community who can vote to close prefer to be somewhat less harsh and push the 'problem' onto the other community.  They feel bad about closing questions that simply don't belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it does a disservice to the person who asks the question and both communities, but that is why we are user moderated - so the community can decide what to do on a case by case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T19:31:50.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27781" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:33:46.643" Score="8" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just joined SO I find myself in a strange situation, the following question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644242/get-drive-information-freespace-etc-for-drives-on-windows-and-populate-a-memo-box&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; has much merit, but the person asking the question has been less than sporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, should one ever down-vote a question that has merit? Does the voting system have an ethical side to it, or is it pure quality of the question / answer material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138072" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T20:00:17.613" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T03:35:01.863" Title="Downvoting a question that has merit" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:36:09.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since english isn't my native language, I can't type as fast as native speakers or as fast as people who are proficient with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm usually &quot;slow&quot; in answering questions in this scenario. I don't know why, but sometimes, when I spent like 5 minutes in typing my response, I know the probability of someone posting the same as me is huge, but I don't get the &quot;Load Answer&quot; alert on top. I have to refresh the page, and after refreshing, I see the responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some people may be copying answers, but couldn't they be in the same scenario as me - but instead of reloading they just post? (I know this only happens when the difference between all responses is really small).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another fact to consider: if you have 3 answers, and 2 are copied ones and with 0 reputation, when people enter the post and see a copied answer on top that is useful (since 0 is random), you tend do up vote the first on you read, not the earliest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid with this 0 reputation scenario as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22789/what-you-think-it-would-happen-if-it-was-a-time-delay-between-an-up-vote-or-do&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; I made some time a go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T19:36:09.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27779" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:40:01.067" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason given to downvote a question is that it's : &lt;code&gt;Not Clear or Useful&lt;/code&gt;. This question isn't very clear, and it doesn't appear like the author has put much (if any) effort into the problem himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That merits a downvote&lt;/strong&gt; in my book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others may claim that we should just leave the question alone -- but if you encourage unclear questions, that's what you'll get -- causing more work for everyone else, and increasing friction on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T19:40:01.067" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27775" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:44:27.930" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you disambiguate a name in a job search?  If there is more than one Adam Davis on careers then a potential employer is going to have to look at all the profiles on the disambiguation page to have a hope of figuring out which one she actually came here for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect people are going to come via direct links anyway, so while joebloggs99 may not be attractive, it isn't going to matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that it's a relatively small community.  Unlike AOL there won't be thousands of Adam Davis.  Some names will duplicate quite a bit, but the majority might only require 3-4 valid alternatives (adamdavis, adavis, adamd, ad, davisa, adamprograms, programmeradam, adamthenewhotnessdavis, not to mention dashes, underscores, etc).  I'd say this problem will really only adversely affect less than 1% of the users.  Only those that cannot come up with meaningful alternatives will have to resort to using nondescript numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, what is the alternative?  If you add these disambiguation pages (which I argue adds ambiguity) then what is the point of a &quot;vanity&quot; URL?  We're back to saying, &quot;Well, you can either go to /adamdavis and search for me, or you can go to /K3DS934 to get directly to my profile.&quot;  You are essentially arguing against having vanity URLs at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T00:14:58.170" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:14:58.170" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="27783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27779" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:47:33.107" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having looked at the question I would flag the question for moderator attention. In this scenario, as moderator, I would e-mail the OP, and explain to them how the system works, and also explain why their behaviour is not acceptable. It may sound like too much but in some cases users are worth having, and they may just need a more detailed explanation of the system. This may be one of the few cases I would consider moderators having the ability to change the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also clean up the comments and the answer a bit and set the question to CW. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the down-votes on his answer is doing enough damage, so I would not necessarily down-vote the question, but rather the answer. Your answer however is getting the right exposure since it is detailed and correct, and users are seeing the attitude of the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This would be how &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; would handle it, however the SO moderators will use their own discretion and experience. SU/SF/SO handles certain scenarios differently because of their audience and size. This solution may not work on SO due to its size.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T21:50:07.660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T21:50:07.660" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:47:50.143" Score="6" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/george-stocker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CV&lt;/a&gt;, I have the following summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/%5FMJ7SHaJorfU/Sunwdo%5FeulI/AAAAAAAAAMg/nPjjqw89HEc/s400/cvsummary.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;CV Summary&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the employer search results, it shows up like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/%5FMJ7SHaJorfU/Sunwdp5V%5FqI/AAAAAAAAAMc/tDqVY3LG2fM/s400/employersearch.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;employersearchresults&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that a &lt;strong&gt;...&lt;/strong&gt; is added after my text, which &lt;em&gt;drastically&lt;/em&gt; changes the tone of what I'm writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To denote &quot;There's more here to see&quot;, I think there ought to be another indicator:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;[...]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;placed &lt;strong&gt;below&lt;/strong&gt; the line, instead of appending it into the end of the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-06T16:41:03.290" LastActivityDate="2010-12-06T16:41:03.290" Title="Employer Search View needs modification" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27870" CreationDate="2009-10-29T19:57:47.090" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;After your careers subscription expires, will the vanity URL be released and allowed to go to whomever requests it next, or is it permanently attached to your account, waiting for your next job search phase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Preferably once it's assigned it would be nice to always have it there, but you might run into an issue where, over decades, vanity urls become increasingly arcane due to the non-expiration of older, unused urls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nice middle ground might be, &quot;We reserve it for you for X year(s) beyond the last subscription,&quot; but I understand that careers has a responsibility to provide the best service to paying members, which may include a larger, unencumbered pool of vanity urls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, please explicitly state the policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:19:36.627" Title="What happens to vanity URL on careers after subscription expires?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;clarification&gt;&lt;vanity-url&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27770" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:03:07.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do not have to set a display name (i.e. you keep your profile completely empty). The username of your OpenID URL is taken as SO username then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:03:07.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27785" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:06:18.093" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/free-public-careers-cvs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Publishing your CV&lt;/a&gt; and the vanity URL that goes with it is free. What costs money is filing the CV so that it will be included in the search results for employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Publish CV: free, public CVs for any&#xA;  working programmer who wants one, at&#xA;  the URL of their choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;File CV: subscribe for a nominal fee, and&#xA;  make your private CV visible to and&#xA;  searchable by hiring managers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Public CVs can be made visible, with full&#xA;  privacy controls, at the custom URL of&#xA;  your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:06:18.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27709" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:14:39.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be patient. You should either ignore them or downvote them if they are downright wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The noise &lt;strong&gt;corrects itself&lt;/strong&gt; given enough time for people to vote on the answers. Those with higher votes will naturally go upwards in the list and be sorted that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So have patience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:14:39.110" />
  <row Id="27795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:19:24.427" Score="1" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't get it to look right!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1645999/list&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Compare 1:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1410/compare1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;code sample&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8014/compare1a.gif&quot; alt=&quot;render sample&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Compare 2:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3802/compare2.gif&quot; alt=&quot;code sample&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/5982/compare2a.gif&quot; alt=&quot;render sample&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Compare 3:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/5153/compare3.gif&quot; alt=&quot;code sample&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9646/compare3a.gif&quot; alt=&quot;render sample&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T14:30:36.763" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:30:36.763" Title="How do I format this source code?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27795" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:22:56.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was using a numbered list. I removed the list to fix the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info and other fixes:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3327/why-is-a-code-block-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-i&quot;&gt;Why is a code block not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T20:29:14.043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:29:14.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27795" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:24:37.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to indent &lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt; in the code block by four spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're getting the code blocks that you are because the start and end lines are not indented by four spaces.  So add four spaces to the start of every line and it should work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130260" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:24:37.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27761" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:35:16.127" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is totally &lt;strong&gt;not a problem&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Careers is managed by Jeff, not ICANN. Abuse can be handled swiftly and promptly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:35:16.127" />
  <row Id="27801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:41:29.847" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone active in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/matlab&quot;&gt;niche tag&lt;/a&gt;, I have always sorted tagged questions using the &quot;active&quot; tab since there isn't that much activity anyway (compared to other more popular tags). However, I recently noticed a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1645723/how-do-i-choose-an-input-using-a-gui-explorer-window-in-a-matlab-program&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1645723/how-do-i-choose-an-input-using-a-gui-explorer-window-in-a-matlab-program/1645753#1645753&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt; getting very few views or activity, so out of curiosity I clicked over to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=matlab&amp;amp;sort=hot&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;&quot;hot&quot; tab&lt;/a&gt; and, lo and behold, the question doesn't even appear &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt; on the &quot;hot&quot; list for the tag!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of writing this, the question I linked to above was at the top of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=matlab&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;&quot;active&quot; list&lt;/a&gt; with only 9 views, 1 answer, and one upvote for the question. Certainly not what you would consider &quot;hot&quot;. However, niche tags don't usually get many eyes on them, and thus typically have low views and few votes, meaning that the definition of what's &quot;hot&quot; may not work as well for them as it does for more popular tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have others noticed this problem? Would it make sense for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;&quot;hotness&quot; algorithm&lt;/a&gt; to take into account the popularity of the tags on the question, so questions without any high-popularity tags could have a lower threshold for being counted as part of the &quot;hot&quot; list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; 2 more votes and 2 more views was apparently just enough to push the question over the threshold for inclusion in the &quot;hot&quot; list, but that took an hour or so to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-29T20:58:14.507" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T09:44:30.027" Title="Does the &quot;hotness&quot; measure do a disservice to niche tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hot-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:43:04.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sweden&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have lots of broadband and no &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27687/what-would-you-change-about-devdays-next-year/27688#27688&quot;&gt;volcanoes&lt;/a&gt; so it's like totally &lt;em&gt;cool&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:43:04.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:46:47.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might change things up by attending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:46:47.983" />
  <row Id="27805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:52:23.617" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27771/public-cv-hide-associated-accounts&quot;&gt;Public CV - Hide associated accounts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it currently stands, the public (and I assume private) versions of the posted careers CVs show ALL my linked accounts. The dialogue for modifying which parts I publish on the public resume should include checkboxes for the trilogy sites (and it would be &lt;strong&gt;awesome&lt;/strong&gt; if it worked with the other stackexchange sites too!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't think putting my meta.so rating on my CV is particularly professional - it shows that I know how to talk about talking about tech?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131692" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:31:33.460" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:31:33.460" ClosedDate="2009-10-30T01:26:27.823" Title="Careers site linked profiles choices" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T20:53:24.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, or Des Moines.  Granted, I could still only potentially make two cities from the list, but at least hit &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; in the MidWest.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T20:53:24.587" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:01:22.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More Schwag!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A wristband, a button, and of course the stickers were the only Stack Overflow branded schwag that I could find. I even asked Joel where I could get a shirt like he had on, but apparently it was a custom job and there were only 7 made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T21:01:22.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27815" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:04:35.907" Score="5" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recognize that the careers location fields are greatly useful for people who have more than one potential home base. However, my question is probably a bit more pedestrian: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and have no intention of moving from the general vicinity. However, I'm definitely interested in jobs in, say, San Jose, South San Francisco, Marin, Vallejo, Walnut Creek, etc. That's a range of nearly 100 miles that I might be interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I just assume that when employers do a search by location they'll assume that I'm willing to commute 2 hours each way? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I add each of these localities so I've got 10 different cities there that are all geographically near each other? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I set my location centrally and hope for the best? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should there be some kind of &quot;I'm willing to commute this far&quot; option?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I way overthinking it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131692" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T11:36:26.310" Title="Careers Locations - how am I supposed to use this? Radius of interest?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29077" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:12:49.113" Score="3" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;install anything (e.g toolbar)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type too much&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baically something that would show the SO or SF favicon and do a google site:stackoverflow.com search would be just fine - but I haven't find it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137341" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T11:45:03.073" Title="search stackoverflow (and serverfault) from firefox search box" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;addon&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="27811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:15:24.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Better WiFi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the WiFi was pretty bad at most of the conferences. I know there are limitations in terms of what the venue provides, and I'm vastly oversimplifying, but why not at least get a few enterprise-grade access points and set them up in the corners? At least this way you wouldn't run out of IPs, like what happened in Boston. (As an example, I had to post &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24897/stackoverflow-careers&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; through my tethered iPhone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, this &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/72767/why-is-internet-access-and-wi-fi-always-so-terrible-at-large-tech-conferences&quot;&gt;seems to be a priority&lt;/a&gt; for Joel, so I look forward to his solution next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T21:15:24.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27820" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:21:27.103" Score="0" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just created a Careers account, and clicked to verify my email address.  The text/plain portion of the email is formatted with &lt;code&gt;\r\n&lt;/code&gt; rather than &lt;code&gt;\n&lt;/code&gt;, so in my unix mail client (mutt), it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;---Attachment: text/plain                                              -- (all)&#xA;Thanks for registering with Stack Overflow Careers^M&#xA;^M&#xA;To ensure that potential employers can reach you via email, we need to confirm&#xA;your email address. All it takes is a single click.^M&#xA;^M&#xA;Click here to verify your email address^M&#xA;^M&#xA;If the above link is not clickable, copy and paste this link into your web&#xA;browser's address bar:^M&#xA;^M&#xA; http://careers.stackoverflow.com/email/verify/xxxx/obfuscated ^M&#xA;^M&#xA;??^M&#xA;^M&#xA;Questions? Comments? Let us know on our feedback site.^M&#xA;^M&#xA;stackoverflow.com LLC, 410 Clayton Ave, El Cerrito CA 94530 &amp;lt;3&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Okay, there's definitely a difference, but it's now broken in the other direction: now there's no linefeeds at all (in places where there ought to be, e.g. before &quot;Careers Team&quot;); spaces are also absent between sentences. Also note the special character after the URL, third-to-last line.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Thanks for filing your CV with http://careers.stackoverflow.com !We wanted to let you know that we'll be starting the employer beta later today -- and that means potential employers will be checking out your stuff! So, here's our friendly reminder to go in and make sure your CV is looking good before that happens.In particular, here are a few things to watch out for:- Go through your &quot;Where do you want to work&quot; locations and make sure they're accurate and specific. Putting WORLD here is .. less than optimal. Remember, you can have as many potential work locations as you like, and they can be as broad or narrow as you like: zipcodes, cities, regions and states are all valid.- While you're looking your desired work locations, make *sure* you have ticked the &quot;I have the legal right to work in this location&quot; box appropriately for each location. This is a key search field, and it defaults to required for employers. So if it's not filled correctly, you won't show up! - Make sure you've filled in the essential, most often displayed fields at the top of your CV like Full Name, Location, Personal Statement -- along with your likes and dislikes. These are also shown in search results.- Since the earliest beta, we've added full Markdown support to all free text fields, so if you're inclined, you can add bold, bullets, headers, and the full range of Markdown and basic HTML markup to make your text pop.As we ramp up the employer side of the service, we'll keep you advised over the next few weeks with brief emails like this one.If you have any questions or feedback, don't hesitate to email us -- and we're always listening for feedback at http://meta.stackoverflow.com under the [careers] tag.Careers Team---&#xA;&#xA;http://careers.stackoverflow.com�|&#xA;&#xA;This mail was sent by careers.stackoverflow.com. Questions? Comments? Let us know on our feedback site.&#xA;&#xA;stackoverflow.com LLC, 410 Clayton Ave, El Cerrito CA 94530 &amp;lt;3&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry, the &quot;duplicate with fixed formatting&quot; email just rolled in and it looks much better now. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T18:10:26.677" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T18:10:26.677" Title="Careers text/plain email messages are not formatted correctly" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:23:33.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5Ff%5Fp0CgPeyA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Australia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its one thing Cletus and I could agree on. Though it is less likely I would fly to Perth &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T21:23:33.273" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:24:58.637" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Video Recording&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7350/devdays-video-recorded&quot;&gt;popular request&lt;/a&gt; for this years' DevDays, but apparently it didn't work out. There have been a few audio recordings made, and I'm looking forward to Jon Skeet's videos from the London DevDays, but it would really great to have recordings made for those that can't be in attendance or want to see a talk from another city, as well as helping those that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; avoid the need to take notes, and consequently pay more attention to the presenter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't have to be a philanthropic service either - I'm sure many people would pay money for a high-quality collection of talks on disc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T21:24:58.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27808" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:28:28.373" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a good question, +1 for overthinking it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can enter Bay Area and the Geolocation will return California in the display - however behind the scenes we are storing the LAT / LON of the bounding region for the Bay Area as returned by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YQL&lt;/a&gt; (Yahoo Query Language) geolocation API. For instance, Bay Area returns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;lt;centroid&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;latitude&amp;gt;37.878689&amp;lt;/latitude&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;longitude&amp;gt;-121.943451&amp;lt;/longitude&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/centroid&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;boundingBox&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;southWest&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;latitude&amp;gt;36.893089&amp;lt;/latitude&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;longitude&amp;gt;-123.533684&amp;lt;/longitude&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/southWest&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;northEast&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;latitude&amp;gt;38.864300&amp;lt;/latitude&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;longitude&amp;gt;-121.208199&amp;lt;/longitude&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/northEast&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/boundingBox&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an employer searches for any city that either is encompassed by the coordinates or overlaps and matches any other search criteria an employer selected, your CV will be returned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Employers will search by a combination of region (for center point) &lt;strong&gt;and traditional distance radius&lt;/strong&gt;. If this radius intersects any of the rectangles you've specified as work locations, you will show up as a search match for them. We try to be very generous in the matching, and let the two parties involved figure out whether or not the distance makes it a good fit or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A general rule - enter locations that encompass a surrounding area if you're willing to take a position that requires you to commute, or target a specific area - the choice is yours to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:36:15.393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:36:15.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2009-10-29T21:29:11.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://keywordbookmarks.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://keywordbookmarks.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T21:29:11.927" />
  <row Id="27819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-29T22:12:53.673" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Jon, I'm not in a position to say too much about the other sessions, but overall I thought it was a great day. I certainly agree that the catering could have been better. I didn't sit in any one chair long enough to know how bad they were, but everyone else seemed to be complaining about them. I tend to agree with all the points Jon made, and want to thank Joel, Jeff and Carsonified for putting the conferences on and for all the effort involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I met some great people there too, some I knew, some I knew of, and others were new to me. That's a big part of what these conferences are all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems my own presentation was a little controversial. This is probably not the place for me to go too much into that, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2009/10/29/stackoverflow-devdays-london.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I've just posted to my blog about it&lt;/a&gt;, so feel free to drop by there :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138080" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T22:12:53.673" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27812" CreationDate="2009-10-29T22:17:37.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update: we have switched to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afterlogic.com/products/net-email-components&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;third party email component&lt;/a&gt; recommended by our pals at &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;X-Mailer: MailBee.NET 5.7.2.156&#xA;From: &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that it &quot;fixes&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=156052&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the quoted-printable encoding bug&lt;/a&gt; in the .NET framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:48:22.717" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:48:22.717" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="27821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T23:11:21.463" Score="9" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bit confused, what is the difference between the version of the editor on Github and the one here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wmd-editor.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it the same thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T17:40:53.287" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T17:40:53.287" Title="What's the difference between the wmd editor and the one hosted on github?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3615" CreationDate="2009-10-29T23:40:28.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just want to be able to downvote the meta-comments.  Flagging them as noise has not proven effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T23:40:28.120" />
  <row Id="27823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-29T23:43:00.220" Score="2" ViewCount="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to scan questions with the 50 items per page option turned on, but by the time I've gotten to the end, perhaps pausing to answer or comment on something, the next page often ends up being half filled with the questions from the page I just left since pages are relative to the beginning of the question list.  It would seem a lot more intuitive if I click next on a page, I should be showed the next set of items relative to where I just was, not relative to the first question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T23:47:21.467" Title="Make a way to navigate pages while pausing 'new question pushdown'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27823" CreationDate="2009-10-29T23:47:21.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not fire up a few tabs and let them stew some seconds before checking them out? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have four (4) tabs from the start and it wouldn't be that much of a strain to load them up so when you check out the pages they all keep their relativityessness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-29T23:47:21.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27829" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:10:24.863" Score="-2" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24685/how-to-help-hapless-newbies-become-better-so-users&quot;&gt;How to help hapless newbies become better SO users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are some nice ways that we can welcome new users to our site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T00:46:03.380" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T01:00:14.093" ClosedDate="2009-10-30T04:57:28.677" Title="How can we be friendlier to new users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27825" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:21:19.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried the 'welcome aboard' approach, and it didn't seem to have any repercussions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should definitely be friendly to new users &lt;em&gt;who do the right thing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:21:19.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:27:59.240" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll use a different banding, although it's all by-the-by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Useful&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christian Heilmman (Yahoo! Developer Tools) - just showed some damn cool stuff that nobody has bothered to look at because it's Yahoo! and yet all of Yahoo! has been able to accelerate so quickly (and quietly) because of it.  To me it brought home the 20% catching-up time that we all need - don't roll your own GIS analysis tool, use something Yahoo! or Google have developed and don't worry about it because you are /never/ going to even blip onto their bandwidth.  This reminded me that much of the big-power on the web is pretty cool and friendly, which is at times an uncomfortable feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paul Biggar (How not to design a scripting language) - right to the bones, what the hell is going on, guaranteed to piss off virtually all PHP developers and c++ developers alike by saying that it basically doesn't make much difference what you use, but if you were aiming for perfection then figure out a convergence... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet &amp;amp; Tony the Pony - we all knew what he was saying but it still felt like news, and that's the mark of a great communicator (a trait that was brought up in many talks)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pekka Kosonen (Qt) - I admired Pekka's openness and thought, particularly having seeing the car-crash of Objective-C, that there was something sensible going on in there.  I think it's dangerous that everyone is assuming they should develop for iPhone when in fact there's massively more audience (+money) in the big mobile providers.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Less useful&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Phil Nash (iPhone) - Oh My.  Phil's presentation was top-notch but to see Objective-C code in the flesh is like watching the London sewer pipe close up.  Please, everyone figure out a bridge very quickly.  When so much of current talk in programming is about readability, surely we should stick a knife in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jeff &amp;amp; Joel - OK, just too satiated with podcasts and blogposts that there wasn't a great deal new there, but still did a fantastic job in organising and envisioning the whole day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frustrating&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;catering: frozen sandwiches, bizarre coffee and uncoordinated lengthy queues &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;chairs: OMG.  Would rather have brought my own noose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;general signposting: maybe I missed something but having the countdown clock &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the auditorium rather than where everyone else was standing was a little misdirected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the Circle line, although I won't blame Joel for this.  Yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I would've liked to see:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;big ass&lt;/strong&gt;.  BigTable, memcached, Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Haystack, perhaps even Haskell, all the mental stuff that people have had to resort to in the past 3 years because everything that was sensibly designed &lt;strong&gt;broke&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bizarro&lt;/strong&gt;.  Rather than jQuery, which less than half the audience has ever used but still if they ever needed to use it, would be able to do so in their sleep, why not drill into &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; Erlang is used for certain applications like CouchDB, Facebook Chat or Delicious.  Very often it is not about &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; the tools but &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the tools.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;socialising&lt;/strong&gt;.  No programmer is able to socialise so it would've been good to have some cable ties applied at registration which forcibly linked you to another programmer and encouraged at least some discussion of Microsoft, if not unconditional love.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;meta&lt;/strong&gt;.  Jeff should clearly have had his own meta-DevDays table which he sat at all day, ignoring the knowledge, enthusing people to have the very conversation we're having now, but with him, directly, and in detail.  It would've forked manna.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80482" LastEditorUserId="80482" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T00:33:43.523" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:33:43.523" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="27828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27825" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:38:31.767" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Show them a picture of Jon Skeet's pony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80482" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:38:31.767" />
  <row Id="27829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27825" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:45:26.377" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we can solve this by implementing Clippy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/%5FMJ7SHaJorfU/Suo2vJuCLbI/AAAAAAAAAMo/sQ3nTW0fz28/s800/It-looks-like-you-are-new-to-Stack-Overflow-Did-yo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Clippy!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:45:26.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27748" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:45:47.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be a better user experience if the site itself suggested, while you were writing it, that perhaps your question about &lt;code&gt;baby puke on the NAS&lt;/code&gt; would be better asked on &lt;code&gt;moms4mom.com&lt;/code&gt; rather than &lt;code&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/code&gt;.  This is what Christian Heilmann was getting at with his mashup at #devdays whereby the tags were autofilled - when asking a question, each of the sites should auto-suggest the site (and assume they are right) to which the asker's question is directed, then notify the user what the hell has gone on and perhaps send an email to let them know where to check for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Behind the scenes, Christian Heilmann will then manually facilitate the entire process from his MacBook, and there will be zero latency because he is German.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="80482" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:45:47.763" />
  <row Id="27831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:58:12.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about using a log&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt; scale for views and changing indicator to a popularity or interest index rather than raw number of views? You can then not use a number but a narrow color bar to indicate views. One can also add a title to the HTML element which would show the raw number on hover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:58:12.477" />
  <row Id="27832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27825" CreationDate="2009-10-30T00:58:50.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New user or not, we should treat everybody with respect in our comments and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For new users, give pointers and encouragements before any down-voting. Give reason if we do so. Up-vote when they are doing something right (though may not be great).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T00:58:50.463" />
  <row Id="27833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27825" CreationDate="2009-10-30T01:00:14.093" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual SO welcome: answer their questions, critique their answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T01:00:14.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-30T01:00:14.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-10-30T01:23:43.103" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just change the word &quot;views&quot; to &quot;Kviews&quot; and &quot;Mviews&quot; and give it the same font color as the number itself so it's highlighted when the number is highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'll fit.  It'll make sense.  It'll allow the same amount of precision as always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T04:02:11.990" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T04:02:11.990" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="27835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2009-10-30T01:27:28.553" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rexmorgan.net/journal/stack%5Foverflow%5Fsearch%5Fprovider&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I did this back in March.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rexmorgan.net/media/StackOverflowSearchProvider%5FDCC0/sosearch.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Edit: fixed an XML error - missing space - in the post)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T16:38:20.553" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T16:38:20.553" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27837" CreationDate="2009-10-30T01:39:14.273" Score="5" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Haven't got any other machines at hand to check this on, but the following is showing up for a particular user.  This is not happening for any other users.  This is only happening in Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone else try this in their Chrome and see if it's the same for &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/12183?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www3.telus.net/public/izzy.e/Bug1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Bug Screenshot&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133203" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T09:17:20.873" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T09:17:20.873" Title="Chrome and Related Accounts page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27836" CreationDate="2009-10-30T01:52:07.363" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The DisplayName is too big for the box's britches and in Chrome, the line forces the rest of the user flair information down a level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the information is still there, but with the margin, padding and box width joys of plying CSS across browsers, it just sunk down its gut some for Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the CSS dimensions for the box wasn't fixed, then you would just see this expanse of grey sitting at the top all the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they were to fix up the CSS to allow for the line to start on the line where it would be on a shorter DisplayName, you'd then end up some names still overflowing outside of the box or just cut off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T02:29:33.750" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T02:29:33.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-30T01:58:57.587" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We made you a question ... but we eated it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T01:58:57.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-30T01:58:57.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T02:05:30.453" Score="6" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since 100-rep does not attract enough attention, I would like to increase the value of the bounty I've placed on my question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1610842/latex-equations-in-ubuntus-mediawiki&quot;&gt;LaTeX equations in Ubuntu’s MediaWiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you increase the value of a bounty after setting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T07:00:47.003" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T07:00:47.003" Title="Increasing the value of a bounty after setting it" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2009-10-30T02:09:46.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sort-of exists. You can just delete the question and keep it around, then undelete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T02:09:46.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-30T02:09:46.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27839" CreationDate="2009-10-30T02:10:09.433" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, no you can not change the bounty after offering it.  Your options are to :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep modifying your question every day of the bounty with new things you've tried to keep it active  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow it to run out; award the bounty and re-ask with new question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't think your problem is solely the bounty you offered.  You also offered it in a very much &lt;em&gt;niche&lt;/em&gt; subject.  However, the bounty system could use extension in cases like yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature Request&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26731/raise-bounty-upon-setting&quot;&gt;Allow asker increase the bounty&lt;/a&gt; after &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; days if they don't receive any new upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow them to extend it for another 7 days for the same reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please treat these as separate feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T02:47:37.360" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T02:47:37.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27821" CreationDate="2009-10-30T02:37:39.177" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The WMD editor story goes something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and team started with the original WMD code at &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wmd-editor.com&lt;/a&gt; and it was written by a chap called John Fraser. There's an early blog article about choosing WMD as the code/text editor here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/05/potential-markup-and-editing-choices/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Potential Markup and Editing Choices (blog.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reasons only known to himself, John became uncontactable so Jeff &amp;amp; Co decided to reverse engineer the code because the only release available was obfuscated/minified and a number of fixes/enhancements were required:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/reverse-engineering-the-wmd-editor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reverse Engineering the WMD Editor (blog.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fruits of their labours culminated in a version that is now hosted on GitHub:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WMD Editor Reverse Engineered (blog.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/updated-wmd-editor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Updated WMD Editor (blog.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code on GitHub (&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cky/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/cky/wmd&lt;/a&gt;) was the code being used by the Stack Overflow family of sites. From there it moved to Google Code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original WMD code on Google Code (&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/wmd/&lt;/a&gt;) seems to be pretty much dead-ended for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a complete refactor, since August 2011 it's now released under a new name and is available on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-03T16:41:50.600" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T16:41:50.600" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T02:41:19.733" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865/consecutive-day-count-in-profile&quot;&gt;Consecutive Day Count in profile&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the Woot badge and the Fanatic badge for visiting the site for so many days in a row.  Is there a way to view how many days you've logged in a row?  If not it would be a pretty cool feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134645" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T02:41:19.733" ClosedDate="2009-10-30T02:48:46.760" Title="Determine number of days in a row you have visited Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;login&gt;" />
  <row Id="27844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27779" CreationDate="2009-10-30T03:35:01.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The merit of voting down a question is simply that the question may be incomprehensible and poorly worded, may not be related to computer programming related subjects, may be far to specific and useless to other programmers, or the question could have nothing to do with its title or topic. Realistically being able to down vote something should be left only to trusted users to prevent 'trolling' and voting down of users who you just don't like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answer was useful to you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T03:35:01.863" />
  <row Id="27845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30080" CreationDate="2009-10-30T04:21:14.713" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/kengray&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CV on Careers&lt;/a&gt;, I have three of my degrees listed from Mizzou, but they show up in a horizontal format which is hard to read at a glance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better way to display them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="730" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:46:52.397" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:11:18.803" Title="Education Section Doesn't Handle Multiple Degrees Well" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;education&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-30T05:18:26.673" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see some kind of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot%5F%28computing%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;polyglot&lt;/a&gt; for StackOverflow's 404 page.  Here's a little polyglot for Befunge-93, Brainf*ck, Python, Ruby, Perl, and C that simply prints 404 to stdout. It probably works in whatever other scripting languages that use &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; as a line comment and accept the keyword &lt;code&gt;print&lt;/code&gt;. Could possibly add Whitespace as well, but that doesn't show up very well in images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# define v putchar&#xA;#   define print(x) main(){v(4+v(v(52)-4));return 0;}/*&#xA;#&amp;gt;+++++++4+[&amp;gt;++++++&amp;lt;-]&amp;gt;++++.----.++++.*/&#xA;print(202*2);exit();&#xA;#define/*&amp;gt;.@*/exit()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Jeff: There were a couple things I didn't care for in the version that's up on the 404 page now, so I propose this modified version.  It still works in Perl/Python/Ruby/C/Befunge/BF (at 143 chars), but I got rid of the &lt;code&gt;exit&lt;/code&gt; stuff since it didn't really add anything, and technically the BF output a &lt;code&gt;\0&lt;/code&gt; that I didn't originally mean to have in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# define v putchar&#xA;#  define print(x) main(){v(4+v(v(52)-4));return 0;}/*&#xA;#++++++++4[&amp;gt;++++++&amp;lt;-]&amp;gt;++++.----.++++&amp;lt;*/&#xA;print(202*2)&#xA;#undef /*&amp;gt;.@*/v&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm actually not sure if Perl needs a semicolon after &lt;code&gt;print(202*2)&lt;/code&gt; -- I can recall Perl requiring a semicolon after each statement, but Perl 5.10.0 on my machine doesn't complain, even with the &lt;code&gt;-W&lt;/code&gt; flag.  Can anyone advise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastEditorUserId="133801" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T03:32:26.630" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T03:32:26.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-30T05:18:26.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24984" CreationDate="2009-10-30T05:36:49.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just paid for a three year subscription on CSO, and reading the TOS, I noted that the student offer explicitly covers only students from the US (I cannot find the terms at the moment of writing, but it was in there, I swear!). I regard CSO as an international 'job board', so how come students are limited to US?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be a separate question? My apologies in advance if that's the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T05:36:49.467" />
  <row Id="27849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T06:30:36.160" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my app &lt;a href=&quot;http://eventsinindia.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://eventsinindia.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to get rid of &quot;Interesting/Ignored tags&quot; box. I could not find any way to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I could not find how to get rid of &quot;Recent tags&quot; and &quot;Recent Badges&quot; box too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138098" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T06:30:36.160" ClosedDate="2009-10-30T06:36:58.050" Title="How to get rid of certain sidebar boxes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27286" CreationDate="2009-10-30T07:12:37.513" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And now, it is done. See, much better =P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T22:31:53.720" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T22:31:53.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-31T19:43:15.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25579" CreationDate="2009-10-30T07:44:44.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea - things have been a bit hectic with Dev Days going on, so our head blogger has been swamped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll discuss exposing our source control commit messages&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; for Careers; you could then get every delicious change we make!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note to self: no more flippant remarks in my messages :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T07:44:44.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27771" CreationDate="2009-10-30T08:20:46.583" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're going to refactor account association this weekend (I hope) - I'll add this option to Careers while I'm in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:  We have added the ability to hide associated accounts.  Visit the &quot;associate accounts&quot; tab and choose the ones you would like to be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T20:25:20.793" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T20:25:20.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27771" CreationDate="2009-10-30T08:41:27.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1, I was about to suggest the exact same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a developer, but have found serverfault and superuser useful. While it's good to show my development knowledge on my CV, I'm not so sure that showing that I have also asked a few questions on each of the other sites is any use at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T08:41:27.277" />
  <row Id="27855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27771" CreationDate="2009-10-30T09:15:46.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've linked your accounts, then all a potential employer needs to do is go to your &quot;preferred&quot; account from CSO, then look at other posts on the sister sites via the &lt;kbd&gt;Accounts&lt;/kbd&gt; tab there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T09:15:46.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27867" CreationDate="2009-10-30T09:18:49.593" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my CV on careers I have this entry in my first experience responsibilities field:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Project management and development of&#xA; framework for model driven development&#xA; in Delphi. Look for Atlas 2 framework&#xA; at [Opus](www.opus.ch).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see on &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ralphrickenbach&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my public CV&lt;/a&gt;, the link is not rendered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not work either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Project management and development of&#xA; framework for model driven development&#xA; in Delphi. Look for Atlas 2 framework&#xA; at [Opus][1].&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: www.opus.ch&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T14:15:44.483" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:15:44.483" Title="Markdown in Careers Experience Responsibilities does not render" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27801" CreationDate="2009-10-30T09:44:30.027" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course it does a disservice to niche tags! It has to. Either you are on a niche tag or you are hot (or your questions/answers are anyway). Niche != Hot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T09:44:30.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22717" CreationDate="2009-10-30T09:45:11.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also don't see the Google Logo as well, so my first experiance with the login process was very frustrating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T09:45:11.093" />
  <row Id="27859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T11:36:01.163" Score="5" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't take much notes as I assumed there would be a URL I could go to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have emailed Carsonified with no response.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134529" LastEditorUserId="6461" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T12:14:09.707" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T20:37:10.563" Title="DevDays London - Can I get hold of the presentation material?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;devdays-london&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="27860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27859" CreationDate="2009-10-30T11:41:46.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each speaker will probably have their own notes somewhere. I don't have any published yet, but I was considering writing a blog post basically consisting of my &quot;script&quot; with slides, and a link to the video when it's published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might as well use this question to aggregate all that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my talk:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/11/02/omg-ponies-aka-humanity-epic-fail.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog post&lt;/a&gt; with slides&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7516539&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;High quality video&lt;/a&gt; (in terms of the picture; the content is as bad as it ever was!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/jon-skeet-at-stack-overflow-dev-days-london/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog post from Carsonified&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T20:37:10.563" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T20:37:10.563" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="27861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-30T11:54:02.093" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sensorymetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/404.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for Super User&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T11:54:02.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-30T11:54:02.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T12:51:39.290" Score="5" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there should be a silver version of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/95/reversal&quot;&gt;Reversal&lt;/a&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the extremely high number of votes (20) required, Reversal is  the rarest of al the badges on SO.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26347/generalist-badge-for-super-user-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Except Generalist&lt;/a&gt;, of course)  On SF, no-one has won it, and on SU, it doesn't exist.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26919/reversal-badge-not-available-on-super-user&quot;&gt;Why?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many suitable answers (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1563516/my-application-crashes-with-a-filenotfoundexception-and-i-dont-understand-why/1563668#1563668&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1121059/python-for-loop-question/1121778#1121778&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/506719/solution-for-writting-a-program-for-keep-secret-photos/506830#506830&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt;) which simply haven't received enough exposure to earn twenty upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what parameters would be best for a silver version; what do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-27T17:31:23.950" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T17:31:23.950" Title="Silver Reversal" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;reversal-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27862" CreationDate="2009-10-30T13:14:23.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well the obvious criteria are +10 votes on an answer to a -3 question, though I'm not 100% sure about the number of down-votes on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it needs to be at least -3 for the badge to mean something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T13:22:58.343" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T13:22:58.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T13:25:18.260" Score="4" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the votes tab, What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon? is always at number 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps consider having a list of top voted questions this week, this month, and all time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3295" LastEditorUserId="148535" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T21:23:50.153" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T21:23:50.153" Title="Have votes tab show this week, this month, all time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T13:48:12.330" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have configured my Yahoo Messenger for Stack Overflow feeds.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the main title but the details come up blank.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all other feeds from other sites it is working fine.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137006" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T19:39:11.837" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T19:39:11.837" Title="RSS Feeds with Yahoo Messenger" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27862" CreationDate="2009-10-30T13:49:56.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps -5 with an answer of +5 or +10 (Bronze), +10 or +15 (Silver), and +20 (Gold). If someone could write a query on StackQL to see how many Bronze and Silver Reversal badges with my criteria would be given out, that would be amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T13:49:56.770" />
  <row Id="27867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27856" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:15:28.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;we require the http:// in front of all URLs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:15:28.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:19:35.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dswebhosting.net/images/404.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;This is for STACK OVERFLOW !!!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:19:35.847" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-30T14:19:35.847" />
  <row Id="27870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27785" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:19:36.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vanity URLs should be valid forever, and as Timothy pointed out, are not tied to payment in any way -- they are totally free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might, however, cause &lt;strong&gt;unused &quot;reserved&quot; vanity URLs to expire after a certain amount of time&lt;/strong&gt; if you are not actively using them, e.g., you never publish your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:19:36.627" />
  <row Id="27871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27750" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:20:49.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:20:49.070" />
  <row Id="27873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27734" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:37:16.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel personally works quite well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having spent a lot of time on phpBB forums, troubleshooting hardware problems, I vehemently disagree. In a giant thread, nobody reads anything but the last few posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time you edit your post, it gets bumped to the top of the stack. So as you have more information, simply edit your post and add it. You can use a &quot;running commentary&quot; format in the post if you like, with dates and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the post is now on the front page of the website, it will get more attention. And since nobody reads anything except the last few posts in any given &quot;thread&quot;, editing the question at the top is functionally equivalent -- people will read your troubleshooting log as it exists in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real implied question here, is how to notify answerers when the question they answered has been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T22:27:38.493" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T22:27:38.493" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27864" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:42:06.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps consider having a list of top voted questions this week, this month, and all time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have described the primary tabs on the homepage. Use them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes tab is really designed for use within specific tags, not so much the list of all questions. What's the highest voted [java]+[ndepend] post, for example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:42:06.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:45:52.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Positives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yahoo talk: amazing stuff Yahoo have on offer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Qt talk: lots of personality and illustration of Qt features I didn't know about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FogBugz: yes, it was a sales pitch, but I liked learning about the time modelling features.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Negatives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python talk: poor.  The speaker didn't display any special knowledge, no&#xA;insight into where the language came&#xA;from or where it's going, no&#xA;pros/cons relative to other&#xA;languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Twitter interludes: kind of missed&#xA;the nature of the crowd, I think --&#xA;around where I was sitting hardly&#xA;anyone was twittering, maybe brit&#xA;developers are just a bit less into&#xA;it than americans?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Catering: One&#xA;food counter for 900 people?  Please&#xA;just buy vouchers for nearby outlets&#xA;(there was a Pret and a&#xA;Marks&amp;amp;Spencers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136637" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:45:52.050" />
  <row Id="27876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:49:19.303" Score="3" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23005/i-think-i-was-just-serial-downvoted-how-can-this-prevented-by-the-community&quot;&gt;I think I was just serial downvoted&amp;hellip;how can this prevented by the community?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, this is frustrating. After downvoting a question with a remark indicating why I thought it was a bad answer, I received downvotes on 3 random answers of mine all within 1 minute of each other. This kind of behavior is extremely frustrating and makes me hesitant to downvote other bad answers, or to leave a comment when I do. How can the community avoid this kind of bad behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131102" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T15:29:11.450" ClosedDate="2009-10-30T15:35:51.637" Title="Revenge downvoting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31210" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:50:37.847" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;First seen in a Stack Overflow question, but re-created here for testing purposes. The page title and the header displaying the question title above the question disagree on some character replacements. In my testing this included:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many (yes, even more than three) consecutive full-stops get collapsed into one U+2026 Horizontal Ellipsis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two dashes get replaced by U+2013 En Dash&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Straight quotes (U+0022) get replaced by “curly” quotes (U+201C and U+201D, respectively)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these replacements &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; happen in the page title, which makes for funny page titles if you actually include, like, 100 full-stops which get collapsed into a single U+2026 on the page itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T05:21:20.027" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T05:21:20.027" Title="Automatically converted characters for question title don't appear in page title" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27876" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:53:05.087" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would report that behaviour directly to team@stackoverflow.com. They'll be able to verify that it really &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; revenge downvoting, and take appropriate action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I wonder whether it would be worth having a &quot;flag this user&quot; button on the user profile page, in the same way as for comments etc. It really is the &lt;em&gt;user's&lt;/em&gt; behaviour which needs to be checked, not one individual post or comment in this case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:53:05.087" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27876" CreationDate="2009-10-30T14:59:08.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a few occasions when this has happened to me, Jeff's scripts spotted it and restored my rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T14:59:08.940" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-10-30T15:01:17.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry but I just can't resist. :-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Skeet can harvest &lt;strong&gt;Expression Trees&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Skeet don't need to use &lt;strong&gt;Inversion of Control&lt;/strong&gt;. Components eagerly ask for participation anyways.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Skeet's code don't need &lt;strong&gt;Dependency Injection&lt;/strong&gt; because the universe bends to his will and the right connections happen with magic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T15:01:17.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-30T15:01:17.790" />
  <row Id="27882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27771" CreationDate="2009-10-30T15:14:54.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was also just about to ask the same question, I have no issue with showing my SO rep but my pathetic 101 on meta and superuser don't need to be seen by the whole world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5882" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T15:14:54.197" />
  <row Id="27883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27862" CreationDate="2009-10-30T15:27:17.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;strong&gt;Reversal&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Populist&lt;/strong&gt; are the rarest gems of the badge array, why do you want to dilute them with cruddy silver and bronzed knock-offs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hand out cubic zirconias to those who just don't have enough of whatever it takes to ring and rock out the bling with diamonds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody's a winner right? No, not everyone can be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's what makes those badges super duper special. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T15:27:17.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27876" CreationDate="2009-10-30T15:29:11.450" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed today that one of my questions was downvoted because I had downvoted a few answers. The answers were just noise, not relevant to the Q. So I did something simple: I flagged my own post for moderator attention, noting that someone apparently did some vengeance downvoting. The downvote on my question is gone again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if the Jeff-Script detected the vengeance vote or if a moderator just removed it, though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, just flag your own answer or question, asking a moderator to check for vengeance downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T15:29:11.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27958" CreationDate="2009-10-30T16:03:21.693" Score="1" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an account (which I created on another computer using weave). I'd like to log into that account from this computer, but I get an error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&#xA;&#xA;OpenID parameter &#xA;'.....'&#xA;was expected to be base64 encoded but is not.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using mac OS X 10.6.1, Firefox 3.5.3, Weave 0.7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Is there a known issue with Weave?&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OpenID functionality was removed from weave. See:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-weave/browse%5Fthread/thread/18c97796e02e4f78&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-weave/browse%5Fthread/thread/18c97796e02e4f78&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Please remove the option from the login screen. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138123" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T09:47:33.727" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:47:33.727" Title="Any Known Issues With OpenID and Weave" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;mozilla-weave&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27890" CreationDate="2009-10-30T16:17:06.640" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to login to careers with my primary OpenID for stackoverflow (the accounts are associated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I've observed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had a stackoverflow account on which I used Blogger as the primary OpenID provider and Yahoo! as the alternate OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I created a careers account, the Blogger OpenID worked correctly for authentication on careers. All seemed well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I successfully changed my stackoverflow authentication configuration to use Google as the primary OpenID provider and Blogger as the alternate OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Currently, careers does not recognize my Google open id, but Blogger continues to work on careers. Both Google and Blogger work on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, I've put myself into a state where my primary stack overflow open id does not work on careers even though the accounts are associated and the careers login page declare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For best results, please sign into careers with the same OpenID that you use on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13940" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-01T03:59:05.860" LastActivityDate="2010-07-01T03:59:05.860" Title="Careers open id authentication configuration not synced with stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27889" CreationDate="2009-10-30T16:27:53.237" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is the Google OpenID. Google uses a &quot;secure&quot; system, such that they generate a unique endpoint for you for every domain where you use your ID.  So the OpenID endpoint seen by careers.stackoverflow is different from stackoverflow itself.  You log in to a completely different OpenID endpoint.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to specifically prevent this kind of &quot;sharing&quot; scenario.  Imagine that Careers and StackOverflow where completely different businesses.  You wouldn't necessarily want them sharing info about you without your consent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, say Amazon.com started accpeted OpenID logins.  You have an account there, and they might even have your e-mail address.  You do some shopping on Amazon and find an item. One nice thing about Amazon is that it lists other affiliated retailers also selling the same item, and in this case a different reputable shop has the item at a better price.  You make the purchase there, and they also accept OpenId.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you would give this other retailer your shipping address.  After all, you want the item shipped to the correct location. But you may not want to give them your e-mail address.  With most openID providers, their relationship with Amazon and the common OpenID endpoint might be enough for them to get the address out of Amazon (I'll give Amazon a little privacy credit and say &quot;probably not&quot;, but you never know).  Google's scheme prevents them from matching up the accounts that way and sharing data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's not necessarily a bad thing.  But it's a pain when it gets in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T16:39:07.963" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T16:39:07.963" />
  <row Id="27891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-30T18:19:11.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my review: &lt;a href=&quot;http://phil-booth.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://phil-booth.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138051" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T18:19:11.827" />
  <row Id="27892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-30T18:27:45.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://johntopley.com/2009/10/30/stack-overflow-dev-days-london-2009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my review on my blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T18:27:45.890" />
  <row Id="27893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27896" CreationDate="2009-10-30T19:46:55.310" Score="0" ViewCount="794" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Content Management System is Stack Overflow based on, if any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138130" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T19:59:31.253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:03:37.587" ClosedDate="2009-10-30T20:23:55.977" Title="Is Stack Overflow based off of a known Content Management System?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;cms&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27893" CreationDate="2009-10-30T19:48:02.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can purchase the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; platform from &lt;a href=&quot;http://fogcreek.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fog Creek Software&lt;/a&gt; and use it for whatever you would like.  A list of Stack Exchange sites is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T20:03:37.587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:03:37.587" />
  <row Id="27895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27877" CreationDate="2009-10-30T19:51:46.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't post questions with titles containing 100 consecutive full-stops. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T19:51:46.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27893" CreationDate="2009-10-30T19:58:30.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's its own 'CMS'; though it's a CMS very much customized towards 'Q&amp;amp;A' and Forum type sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; is based on the Stack Overflow codebase -- and not the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; for what Stack Overflow was built with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T19:58:30.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:31:32.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that your code won't compile and his will?  Yeah, I'd say it's not only petty and vindictive, it's outright wrong to downvote him for posting a running example &lt;em&gt;even if it's based off your answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have been &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt; of him to correct you, but it is by no means a requirement, and in some cases author's of answers aren't as attentive as you and wouldn't edit their answer anyway.  Comments are not a good place to put code.  So all this leans towards posting a corrected answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end of the day, it's a Q&amp;amp;A website, and there are plenty of questions in the sea.  If you are jilted, move on.  It's not worth the time and effort to be annoyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:31:32.857" />
  <row Id="27900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:43:30.810" Score="-9" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a number of cases (won't mention names) where a person will answer a number of questions for the same person over and over to where I start to believe that someone is gaming the system.  Could you make a Nepotism badge if someone answers let's say 10 questions for a single person?  It would certainly not be a badge of honor, but it might discourage people from gaming the system for points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T03:22:49.713" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T03:22:49.713" Title="We need a Nepotism badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;negative-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="27901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27367" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:43:33.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I've posted my App Engine talk slides and write ups to all the questions I received at:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gae-devdays09.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gae-devdays09.appspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope it's useful!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137632" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:43:33.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27900" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:45:53.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add it to the list: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personaly, I don't think we need any more &quot;bad behavior&quot; badges, but that is IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:45:53.560" />
  <row Id="27903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27906" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:47:42.820" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hit my daily limit of up votes, but the message box says &quot;Try again in 3 hours&quot;.  That would be 4:30 PM PDT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like an odd time to reset my daily limit.  Is the daily limit automatically reset on a specific hour or is it per user or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138134" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:52:13.800" Title="When does the sun rise on stack overflow land? (Or, when does the daily limit reset)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27900" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:47:46.110" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Then Jon Skeet would have a Nepotism badge for everyone who asked 10 questions about C#. I'm really not seeing the problem that you're trying to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:47:46.110" />
  <row Id="27905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27900" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:50:56.893" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. Someone either games the system or he does not. If he does, we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;other means&lt;/a&gt; to deal with that; if he doesn't, then any kind of badge with a negative connotation is not deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:50:56.893" />
  <row Id="27906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27903" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:52:13.800" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; three hours; it resets at 5:00 PM PDT, which is 0:00 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:52:13.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27900" CreationDate="2009-10-30T20:57:06.197" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are supposed to be there to promote &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; behaviour, not bad behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T20:57:06.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27900" CreationDate="2009-10-30T21:19:00.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Could you make a Nepotism badge if someone answers let's say 10 questions for a single person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, you start off alleging abuse/gaming of the system, and then switch to charges of nepotism. Which is it? One person gaming the system, or one person taking extra time to answer questions from a family member? Because unless they're &lt;em&gt;bad answers&lt;/em&gt;, i don't see how the latter is a problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T21:19:00.563" />
  <row Id="27911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27912" CreationDate="2009-10-30T21:25:28.570" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very new to the stackoverflow community, so I apologize if this is a duplicate or inappropriate question (I tried to search for answers beforehand but couldn't find them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that, on stackoverflow.com, I have 4 up votes on one question and 1 up vote on another, but my reputation is only 43. Is this because I have sustained some kind of penalty I am not aware of? Or does the reputation just take time to calculate sometimes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/130427/credford&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/130427/credford&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it looks like the fact that I edited the Trace Table question more than 6 times caused it to become CW, negating any reputation I might receive on up-votes to it. I'll be sure not to do this in the future!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137972" LastEditorUserId="137972" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T21:58:09.950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T21:58:09.950" Title="Slow Reputation Calculation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27911" CreationDate="2009-10-30T21:28:36.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one question became &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt; after the last edit, so you no longer get rep for up-votes on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T21:28:36.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27911" CreationDate="2009-10-30T21:29:22.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1645028/trace-table-for-python-programs&quot;&gt;Trace Table for Python Programs&lt;/a&gt; became &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, so it could be that you gained 1 upvote after that point. And CW does not award reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T21:29:22.433" />
  <row Id="27914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T21:32:36.303" Score="12" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions on SO about Subversion repository organization. Perhaps some experts on the subject could go through these and identify some good candidates for the &quot;canonical questions&quot; that cover most cases, and close the questions that are duplicates? I'd vote to close a few but there's enough hair-splitting differences that I don't feel comfortable doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of those questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/66633/subversion-tags-and-branches&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/66633/subversion-tags-and-branches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108682/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-the-recommended-layout-for-subversion-repositories&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108682/what-is-the-reasoning-behind-the-recommended-layout-for-subversion-repositories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130447/should-i-store-all-projects-in-one-repository-or-mulitiple&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130447/should-i-store-all-projects-in-one-repository-or-mulitiple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153812/subversion-is-trunk-really-the-best-place-for-the-main-development&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153812/subversion-is-trunk-really-the-best-place-for-the-main-development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/222827/how-do-you-organize-your-version-control-repository&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/222827/how-do-you-organize-your-version-control-repository&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49356/what-is-a-good-repository-layout-for-releases-and-projects-in-subversion&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49356/what-is-a-good-repository-layout-for-releases-and-projects-in-subversion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/249085/shared-components-throughout-all-projects-is-there-a-better-alternative-than-svn&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/249085/shared-components-throughout-all-projects-is-there-a-better-alternative-than-svn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/812497/how-granular-are-your-svn-projects-one-big-project-containing-several-releated&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/812497/how-granular-are-your-svn-projects-one-big-project-containing-several-releated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/799520/is-a-good-idea-to-put-all-projects-in-the-same-trunk&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/799520/is-a-good-idea-to-put-all-projects-in-the-same-trunk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574368/should-you-have-branch-tag-and-trunk-folders-even-for-small-projects&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574368/should-you-have-branch-tag-and-trunk-folders-even-for-small-projects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573695/folder-structure-for-many-projects-in-one-svn-repository&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573695/folder-structure-for-many-projects-in-one-svn-repository&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1103650/suggestions-for-setting-up-a-subversion-repository&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1103650/suggestions-for-setting-up-a-subversion-repository&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1027172/subversion-vendor-branches&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1027172/subversion-vendor-branches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275724/recommend-good-svn-layout-for-my-project&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1275724/recommend-good-svn-layout-for-my-project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1214023/svn-repository-structure-why-is-this-better&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1214023/svn-repository-structure-why-is-this-better&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1214459/repository-structure-with-tortoise-svn-question&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1214459/repository-structure-with-tortoise-svn-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1197986/best-practice-for-structure-of-subversion-repository-working-copy&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1197986/best-practice-for-structure-of-subversion-repository-working-copy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1208016/how-to-structure-subversion-repositories&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1208016/how-to-structure-subversion-repositories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1138628/how-do-you-arrange-several-projects-in-a-single-svn-server&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1138628/how-do-you-arrange-several-projects-in-a-single-svn-server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="44330" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T13:57:03.023" LastActivityDate="2011-03-27T18:37:56.153" Title="list of duplicates: Subversion repository organization questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26731" CreationDate="2009-10-30T21:53:31.723" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27839/increasing-the-value-of-a-bounty-after-setting-it/27841#27841&quot;&gt;posted an answer elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;; but since it's to this question I'll extend the answer and repost it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, no you can not change the bounty after offering it.  Your options are to :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep modifying your question every day of the bounty with new things you've tried to keep it active  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow it to run out; award the bounty and re-ask with new question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't think your problem is solely the bounty you offered.  You also offered it in a very much &lt;em&gt;niche&lt;/em&gt; subject.  However, the bounty system could use extension in cases like yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature Request&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26731/raise-bounty-upon-setting&quot;&gt;Allow asker increase the bounty&lt;/a&gt; after &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; days if they don't receive any new upvoted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow them to extend it for another 7 days for the same reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Feature Request&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also think that substantial edits to&#xA;  a question during its bounty period&#xA;  should reset the bounty and vote count&#xA;  for another 7 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T21:53:31.723" />
  <row Id="27918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27684" CreationDate="2009-10-30T22:01:13.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was introduced when we started converting the &quot;Personal Statement&quot; to Markdown, which wraps blocks of text in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixed in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T22:01:13.717" />
  <row Id="27919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27921" CreationDate="2009-10-30T22:06:19.923" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the pictures that are shown when human verification is due, or when something is wrong, like this one, at meta :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/captcha-humans-are-dead.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Humans Are Dead&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you share the sources of some of those funny images?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:31:14.850" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:31:14.850" Title="What the source of all those funny images used in trilogy sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27919" CreationDate="2009-10-30T22:10:07.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They all seem to be references stemming from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%5Fof%5Fthe%5FConchords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flight of the Conchords (FOTC)&lt;/a&gt; some more closely based than others. FOTC have a TV series that showed up on HBO and do live performances and the like.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/results?search%5Fquery=flight+of+the+conchords&amp;amp;search%5Ftype=&amp;amp;aq=f&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube has a ton of videos for them.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically Meta's image comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/video%5Fgames&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jinx&lt;/a&gt;; Server Fault's image comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnwgolden.com/space.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John W. Golden&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/sf/img/captcha-toy-robots.png&quot; alt=&quot;Robot image&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Super User's image might be Jeff himself???:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/su/img/captcha-robot-hobo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Robot image&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="33226" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-30T22:16:21.887" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T22:16:21.887" />
  <row Id="27922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27919" CreationDate="2009-10-30T22:10:21.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first one was from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fconchords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flight of the conchords.&lt;/a&gt; This is too I think, there's a song by them called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Humans are dead.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T22:10:21.080" />
  <row Id="27923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-30T22:53:43.873" Score="4" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that I've noticed with StackOverflow is organization is a big priority of the site, however there is little incentive to retag items. There is a badge for the first retagging, however there is no incentive to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion: &#xA;This is very similar to the image tagging problem in computer vision. (Applying appropriate and correct tags to large collections of images). This was solved by using the ESP Game and comparing the results of the tags with others' reactions. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%5FImage%5FLabeler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google uses this to tag images.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be pretty cool, and would solve the issue with organization and tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136869" LastEditorUserId="136869" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T09:52:36.393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T09:52:36.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-31T10:35:51.043" Title="Incentived Retagging" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="27924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27923" CreationDate="2009-10-30T23:17:06.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;another badge for retagging&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T23:17:06.933" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="27926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27923" CreationDate="2009-10-30T23:28:08.690" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges aren't really much of an incentive here, rep is king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In fact, I've seen people get flamed for targetting a badge with a question, lol!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-10-30T23:28:08.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27929" CreationDate="2009-10-31T00:31:49.270" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might have skipped me while reading the FAQs and the posts &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow/7238#7238&quot;&gt;How does “Reputation” work on Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8272/the-rep-cap-is-200-per-day-correct&quot;&gt;The rep cap is 200 per day, correct?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say in SO, I've earned 200 points for the day and it's UTC 2300hr. One of my answers are still getting up-vote which will not go into my piggy bank (immunity cases aside). 1 Hr later at UTC 0000hr (+1D), someone up-voted my answer again, do I then resume getting my 10 rep points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case, I should 'pray' or 'hope' that the guys up-vote me at a later time so the rep points won't get garbage-collected, yea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, my question is simple, is what I described above correct? If not, what should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T00:36:01.467" Title="The 200 Points-Per-Day Question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="27929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27928" CreationDate="2009-10-31T00:36:01.467" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can max out your rep riches for the day on one question/answer that's not a wiki, and every subsequent upvote netting you nothing in terms of rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when that UTC starts over again, you can pick up where the stream left off and continue netting more rep from that same post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T00:36:01.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-31T00:52:02.773" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My £0.02, if you're still interested this far down the list :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2009/10/stack-overflow-dev-days-london.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2009/10/stack-overflow-dev-days-london.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138131" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T00:52:02.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33715" CreationDate="2009-10-31T01:06:45.423" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editing box is not working properly for me. It appears to be a delay on google-analytics that causes the script responsible from showing it get's delayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same have happened with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17557/ads-stackoverflow-com-delaying-the-page-rendering&quot;&gt;ads.stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; and even sstatic.net from time to time, but today it's g-analytics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the browser is waiting for those servers to deliver their content, the editing box does not show the edit bar, nor the edit preview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7356613&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3016/capturadepantalla200910e.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pressing ESC stops the retrieval and allows the js to run and show the edit bar and the preview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T03:01:16.807" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T07:00:38.587" Title="Google analytics delaying the editing box on stackoveflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T01:15:52.660" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1274/searching-questions-with-n-pages-of-answers&quot;&gt;Searching Questions with n-Pages of Answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When preparing to post a response, especially a question that already has a lot of answers, is there a means of searching the responses to make sure I'm not duplicating an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T01:43:01.540" ClosedDate="2010-08-03T02:13:28.863" Title="Is it possible to search responses before responding?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T02:11:26.763" Score="5" ViewCount="1390" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering, would creating Stack Overflow Trilogy mobile applications (for iPhone, Android, etc.) be a good idea? What does the community think? Maybe, after a general API is proposed and released, the whole community could somehow get together and create such applications?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOTE: There have been questions before that asked whether mobile apps for Stack Overflow are currently available - this is not a duplicate, they are simply related.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; I just checked out the mobile Stack Overflow web UI, and it's spectacular! However, I still think mobile applications are a good idea. Let's say that we want to make a Stack Overflow iPhone app with the API that will be released in 6-8 weeks (of course, we'll be making it &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the API is released, right?). Per one design, we could have these tabs/panes in the app:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me&lt;/strong&gt; - this is where your profile info is shown, collated from all associated accounts from your login. You can see all your questions, answers, rep changes, notifications, and more for all 4 Trilogy sites. Also, we could have notifications outside of the app, based on the existing notifications architecture of Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt; - questions are shown in a grid format (with a similar look and feel to the web Stack Overflow UI), the site you wish to see questions from can be selected through a little tabbed interface at the top (and there will also be tabs such as &quot;Featured&quot;, &quot;Unanswered&quot;, etc.), once you click on a question, it is displayed with all of its info &amp;amp; metadata and you can answer from inside a question, as well as vote, favorite, retag, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt; - similar to the Tags interface in the web UI, but again, you can select which of the 4 sites you want to see the tags of.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Users&lt;/strong&gt; - see Tags explanation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search&lt;/strong&gt; - utilizes the search functions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do you think? Do you think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that creating mobile apps for Stack Overflow is a good idea?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that the above design is a possible implementation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What other architectures do you think would be a good idea, depending on how the API is developed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T17:30:56.077" LastActivityDate="2010-07-17T04:45:07.780" Title="Stack Overflow Mobile Apps" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="27934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27943" CreationDate="2009-10-31T02:29:33.927" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I view my CV through the public URL, and notice a mistake, as far as I can tell, the only way to edit it is to navigate to the root careers page, and then click on the (now misleading) &quot;Create my CV&quot; page, even if I'm still logged in to the careers site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the site knows I'm logged in and knows I'm me, there could be an &quot;Edit&quot; button at the top of the link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing that, the &quot;Create my CV&quot; button should be renamed &quot;Edit my CV&quot; if a CV has been started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T08:53:33.160" Title="Only way to edit CV is to &quot;Create my CV&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="27935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23404" CreationDate="2009-10-31T03:01:21.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135200/alex&quot;&gt;alex&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23404/whats-the-deal-with-user-shore/23405#23405&quot;&gt;said earlier in this thread&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He's not the only one. There are others out there with similar patterns. Although I fail to see why they do this. What could they possibly gain from the rep points if nobody respects them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're all missing the point. &lt;strong&gt;He's not after the rep.&lt;/strong&gt; He doesn't care, and probably isn't even aware of what reputation is, except as some abstract thing that other SO guys seem to think is really important for some reason. He's asking questions purely to get answers, and he'll keep asking them so long as some rep-hungry chump* is willing to trade 5 minutes of his time for some worthless currency. Sounds like he's on to a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do we do about it? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23404/whats-the-deal-with-user-shore/23423#23423&quot;&gt;Manni's post&lt;/a&gt; has some links to some previous suggestions. I think that's a good start: any method for discouraging feeding the question pumps has got to include making the troublemakers harder to hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;sub&gt;I'm one of those chumps too, so don't take it too personally.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T03:01:21.787" />
  <row Id="27936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27933" CreationDate="2009-10-31T03:02:18.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to create a MSO / SO / SF / SU app for Android if / when the API is released (6-8 weeks....?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T03:02:18.053" />
  <row Id="27937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-31T03:17:12.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember the larger goal of having good answers to the question.  If someone else copies your (correct) answer and ends up getting voted up higher, you lose out on some rep but the question is still answered.  Given this goal, it's clearly not in anyone's interest to downvote another answer just because it might have been cribbed from yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137004" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T03:17:12.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27933" CreationDate="2009-10-31T03:32:25.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you refering to an app that users can perform what they do from a normal browser? I've been accessing SO from my Opera Mini browser on my 2 yr+ SonyEricsson phone.Yes 2 yr old cell phone is ancient these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'm really impressed with the experience. Other than some of the Ajax stuff which are become postbacks, I can do almost anythng I want without re-adjusting to a new layout or UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try it for yourself using Opera Mini Demo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opera.com/mini/demo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.opera.com/mini/demo/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some screenshots to share:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shrinkd.com/thumbs/somini01.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Homepage&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://shrinkd.com/thumbs/somini02.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Homepage-zoom&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://shrinkd.com/thumbs/somini03.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Post&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T09:27:31.717" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T09:27:31.717" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2009-10-31T03:40:21.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my very personal case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I answer more Java question for that's the language I have more experience in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ask non-java questions, when they get in the middle of a task I'm performing in my daily work: SQL, JavaScript, Python[this last only for joy] etc. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact I answer more that what I ask is because my main technology from every day, is the one I have more experience with: Java&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The day, I stop working in Java, I bet I will flood StackOverflow with tons of questions from the new tech. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the same would happen with Jon Skeet if he have to work with... mhhh ( gee with ... ) .... well with ... COBOL, for instance....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T03:40:21.893" />
  <row Id="27940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27954" CreationDate="2009-10-31T03:58:27.830" Score="11" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me see the original question while answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long version:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my pattern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on &quot;answer&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open the original question in a new tab by clicking on &quot;Return to original question&quot; ( now gone )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Switch back and forward to see if I'm missing something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to me to look several times at the question. I don't want to write a good answer and get downvoted only because the OP said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Foo&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I typed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Bar&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and have comments and downvotes saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;He said Foo not Bar&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and deviate the attention from the answer to the small mistakes I may have committed ( enough is to take care of the spelling already ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to have ( honestly,  I don't really have a clue of &quot;how&quot;  ) a view of the original question while answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was already a hassle having to switch between tabs, but now the link is gone, a just a couple of click harder  now I have to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dismiss whatever I might have written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;open the &quot;answer&quot; in a new tab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and made a lot of mistakes because the question is now at my left and not at my right where it was. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;phew! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having this view, will allow me ( us ) to give better answers, and to use the system in a more &quot;humane&quot; way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27229/what-happened-to-the-return-to-answer-link&quot;&gt;what-happened-to-the-return-to-answer-link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T04:12:41.857" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T08:46:18.583" Title="Now that the &quot;Return to question&quot; link was removed, can we have a &quot;original&quot; question view while answering?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;question-preview&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-31T04:19:45.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure Joel encourage this on a podcast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be one of the first ones. It was something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Want to earn rep fast? Merge two or three questions&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This have happened to me, specially with &quot;easy&quot; question like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do I do xyz with JavaScript&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And everyone answer almost at the same time &lt;em&gt;&quot;Use jquery&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you have to add more details to your question to be more &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27724/answer-stealers/27729#27729&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Eye-catching than his&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T04:19:45.963" />
  <row Id="27942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27724" CreationDate="2009-10-31T04:25:48.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that people should only start a new answer if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have a significant amount of new content to add (not a minor correction) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have commented on an answer and left it for a while, but the answer wasn't fixed up and the detail is important enough that you can't just leave it in a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T04:25:48.070" />
  <row Id="27943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27934" CreationDate="2009-10-31T04:46:02.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can click on your Name at the top of the screen to go to the menu where you can edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T04:46:02.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27945" CreationDate="2009-10-31T04:48:09.293" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;When is it better to self-answer and when is it better to include detail in the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T01:00:05.680" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T17:14:35.693" Title="Self-answer vs more detail in the question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;arguing-with-yourself&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="27945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27944" CreationDate="2009-10-31T04:52:27.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that if you have an idea which you think &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; work, but you aren't sure, posting it as an answer rather than a question will:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow you to modify it as an answer to an appropriate solution if it only needs a minor correction or is already correct&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Separate comments on your question from comments on your solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep the basic question lighter, and gets ranked along with other community answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it has the disadvantage that people who help you may not be rewarded, because they commented on your answer rather than providing their own. Also, people tend to be harsher with downvoting self answers, but I think they will be less critical if you list what you think are limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T17:14:35.693" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T17:14:35.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T04:52:51.653" Score="5" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;This user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/164299/rachel&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/164299/rachel&lt;/a&gt; continually posts questions. Just to absorb the contents of the questions she has already asked would take a year or more I think. And yet the questions keep popping up: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1653405/books-on-portal-developments&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1653405/books-on-portal-developments&lt;/a&gt;. I don't think she is actually reading the answers but just asking lots of questions for getting the reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anything need to be done about such a person, and if so, what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Postscript&lt;/strong&gt;: In response to some people who replied to this question, I'd like to point out that a lot of Rachel's questions are not only downvoted but also deleted/closed/disappearing. There are fifteen pages of questions, and only six pages of these have even one upvote. There are three pages of downvoted questions, and I don't know how many pages of deleted questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T18:26:29.697" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T01:33:04.397" Title="Endless question user - what to do?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27946" CreationDate="2009-10-31T04:58:12.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure it's a guy (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/8748/rajshharma&quot; title=&quot;orly?&quot;&gt;Raj Shharma&lt;/a&gt;) using a female name. That gender flip is done to both soften any kind of land rush of finger pointing for endless and pointless questions and also as an attention and rep-whore tactic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't do much about gaming the males of the site in that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T04:58:12.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27923" CreationDate="2009-10-31T06:00:40.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried that Google game. It's quite fun! I think this sounds like a great idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T06:00:40.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27946" CreationDate="2009-10-31T06:09:49.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it really matter whether the user is interested in the answers or not? The user responds to comments and comments on answers, and generally seems to interact reasonably well. The questions are mostly useful (at least the community thinks so, having voted accordingly). If you're the sort of person that prefers answering things (as most of us are), it can seem kind of annoying that you can get this much rep simply from asking questions, but that's how the system works. This user is acting completely reasonably within the rules of the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no problem here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T06:09:49.733" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="27951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28062" CreationDate="2009-10-31T07:22:02.967" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to be able to mark favorites from the list of questions rather than having to go into each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-20T12:22:54.933" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T12:22:54.933" Title="Expose Ability to Favorite on the Questions Listing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7350" CreationDate="2009-10-31T08:08:14.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the audio from San Francisco (which is pretty similar) was put in last week's podcast, but I recorded Jeff's talk at Cambridge yesterday (with video) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7355062&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uploaded it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Audio came out pretty well and there's some questions at the end that he took and answered from the audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T08:08:14.717" />
  <row Id="27953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T08:39:55.013" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any neat stats about SO? I've been tracking (for the last 2.5 months) :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the number of questions &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webnumbr.com/stackoverflow-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webnumbr.com/stackoverflow-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the number of featured questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webnumbr.com/stackoverflow-featured&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webnumbr.com/stackoverflow-featured&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions are linearly growning, and featured are all over the place :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything else that you've been tracking? Or any number on the site that would be good to track?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130173" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T22:11:34.887" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T22:11:34.887" Title="Do you know some stats about stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27940" CreationDate="2009-10-31T08:46:18.583" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, please do that. If, as stated in the related question, the idea is to prevent quoting, then have the original question appear in a non copyable portion of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think that if quoting is as much a temptation as Joel says, we would see that much amount of quoting already, regardless of how the site works now. And I don't see questions quoted, at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T08:46:18.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27934" CreationDate="2009-10-31T08:53:33.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking the logo will also take you to the cv menu as well, once you've created a CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T08:53:33.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27946" CreationDate="2009-10-31T09:08:42.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be sure to &lt;strong&gt;flag anything particularly egregious for moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt;. That's by far the most effective way to deal with this, or any other anomalous activity in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T09:08:42.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27889" CreationDate="2009-10-31T09:12:38.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're planning to change how this works in the next &lt;s&gt;4-5 days&lt;/s&gt; 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, if you use Google or another non-identifiable openid, you can copy and paste a &quot;user key&quot; (a unique key string) from one site to the other to manually link them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:57:36.560" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:57:36.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27886" CreationDate="2009-10-31T09:13:32.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly suspect this is an issue with Weave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T09:13:32.997" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T09:59:31.750" Score="6" ViewCount="468" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you attended &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/events/cambridge/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays in Cambridge&lt;/a&gt;, post your thoughts about it here. Links to blogs are also welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/reviews-of-devdays-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cambridge&lt;/strong&gt; (Oct 30th)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28160/devdays-review-amsterdam&quot;&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1738" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:13:46.630" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:13:46.630" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Cambridge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27965" CreationDate="2009-10-31T10:24:13.717" Score="2" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should I warn people if I am planning to self answer a question immediately after asking it? I did this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1653970/does-python-have-an-ordered-set&quot;&gt;the thread here&lt;/a&gt; and was immediately sent a number of downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; This question is not about immediately self-answering questions. This is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706&quot;&gt;well accepted practice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T11:23:06.457" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T10:22:07.707" Title="Warning people when you are planning to immediately self answer your question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T10:30:37.520" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I don't think the downvotes are deserved, I do not think you handled this particularly smart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the first comment by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22459/olafur-waage&quot;&gt;Ólafur&lt;/a&gt; shows, a warning indicating that you know the answer and will post it in a couple of minutes &lt;em&gt;puts other people off&lt;/em&gt;. For a reason: no person receives help in the short term&lt;sup&gt;&amp;dagger;&lt;/sup&gt; and your hint that you already prepared an answer does not motivate others to formulate an answer of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effect is that indeed most people will (at least initially) not answer your question, even though they may have a different, useful answer to the same question. Often there are multiple ways to attack a problem; the power of this site is that there are plenty of users that can bring distinct insights to the table. It is important to keep them motivated to actually post those insights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;dagger;&lt;/sup&gt;: Of course, in the long term this question &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; useful, since other people will find it though Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T10:36:28.403" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T10:36:28.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T10:30:56.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why you should warn people. Post your answer and let others post theirs, you might get duplicate answers but that's just hoe SO works. Either one of these &quot;duplicate&quot; answers is better than the others in a way and it gets voted up, or people delete their answers when they see that someone posted the same answer, or people vote up the first of these answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said I don't think the question should've been downvoted for disagreeing with what you did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T10:30:56.273" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T10:35:01.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are going to self answer a question immediately after asking an effort should be made to ensure that other people don't waste their time looking up information that you already know. Some people may be posting on Stack Overflow not for rep, but actually in an effort to help people, and they may quite rightly feel you have wasted their time if you already know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One disadvantage of leaving a message is that it discourages other people from answering the question as they may feel the OP will be more likely to select their own answer. This may lower the quality of the answers provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are going to warn people, you want to do it in a way where you are not discouraging people from answering, but rather encouraging them to wait until you have answered so they can see if they can think of anything better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T10:35:01.183" />
  <row Id="27969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T10:48:21.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases, if you already know the answer, then dont bother posting a question.  Wait until someone else asks the question, then answer it. That way we get questions that people actually want answered on the sites, not questions that people think will be asked at some point in the future.  There is some judgement to be used about if a specific question is going to be helpful to others.  Your specific question appears to have been easily answered by yourself from existing documentation, meaning the question is probably never going to be asked for real on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a suggestion for a solution, and are wanting a discussion about if that is the best solution, then include your solution in the question, and phrase the question along the lines of &quot;Is this a good way to do xxx, is there a different/better way?&quot;&#xA;Or, even better, be specific about what you dont like about your solution, and ask for solutions that avoid that specific issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131047" LastEditorUserId="131047" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T10:22:07.707" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T10:22:07.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T11:10:14.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27964/warning-people-when-you-are-planning-to-self-answer-your-question/27965#27965&quot;&gt;Stephan202&lt;/a&gt;, warning people in the initial post will discourage people except if they are looking for a challenge, which is not the real purpose of SO (or associated sites). For some cases when the question is interesting, I spend some time to look for a solution instead of giving it off the top of my head, in any case I try to include relevant links to have a useful post for the OP and the long-term. There would be much less motivation to do that if I was told the OP would answer the question in two minutes - I didn't see the original post but I gather it was the general idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it there are two cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;either you have the beginning of an answer or a &quot;workaround&quot; you are not really satisfied with, or you have doubts. Just post it directly in the question and ask if that is the way to do, or whether anyone sees a better way to handle the problem;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or you honestly don't know &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt;, but you happen to figure it out later. Then simply post your solution separately in the thread (telling you just found out), examine all the solutions later, once there are significant answers and decide which is best.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that being said, I don't think it deserved any downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138152" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T11:10:14.153" />
  <row Id="27972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27959" CreationDate="2009-10-31T11:15:56.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cambridge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As a first visit to Cambridge it has a strange intellectual aura that made me feel like a philistine. Globalization doesn't seem to have made its way into the campus, only in the city center which was nice, but also threatened me as a Londoner! So many cyclists, and it's obviously socially acceptable to ride on the pavement in Cambridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8:00 - 9:00 Registration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A free goodie bag from Redgate at the start was a nice touch, and with a t-shirt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9:00 - 9:50 Joel Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The scrubs themed video and Joel were an entertaining start. The conclusion was Apple products have the simplicity versus features mix just right&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9:50 - 10:50 Christian Heilmann Yahoo! Developer Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Following Joel, Chris was also interesting and got a fair amount of laughs. I wondered what business use of the YQL service could be (besides for Web 2.0 startups). I already knew about YQL and the apis in similar detail to the talk but others were impressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christian had said he worked on Yahoo Answers - I wanted to ask what he thought of Jeff + Joel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-22/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;opinions of Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt; but didn't get the chance. Maybe he's already answered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10:50 - 11:20 Break&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The coffee queue - the hall for coffee and lunch had real access issues and meant a long queue to get in. It would've probably been better if we had all just been given a Starbucks sized paper cup, and left the catering staff out of it. Developers want huge quantities of coffee!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11:20 - 12:20 Frank Stajano Seven principles for systems security&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Frank works at Cambridge University as a lecturer in CS. This was the weakest talk of the day in my view, it consisted of mostly watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8mf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Real Hustle&lt;/a&gt; and bullet points of the scams. The scams didn't really tie into anything software related and it may sound cynical, but I thought Frank was more use to academic lecturing instead of faster flowing conference talks. I don't think Joel was happy by the over run too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12:20 - 12:50 Joel Spolsky Fogbugz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Joel's fogbugz sales pitch followed. My non-stackoverflow afficiendo co-workers were slightly bemused by having a sales pitch in a paid conference, atleast not during lunch or coffee. Personally I didn't mind, I haven't used Fogbugz professional since 2005 but it looks like it has a lot more to it since then. One gap I noticed is that (atleast what I'm use to) Scrum and agile methodologies are typically no more than 3-4 man teams, but parts of the demo were based around larger teams. I suppose not the entire conference uses scrum + agile though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12:50 - 13:50 Lunch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Long queues for a very small amount of food consisting of bhajis, sausage rolls and thumbnail sized sandwiches - a fault of Cambridge University and not Carsonified. The table arrangement and small room size meant it was hard to get to the food, but I'm a fatso who likes a 600 cal lunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13:50 - 14:50 Steven Sanderson ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The best talk of the day in my view. Steven had prepared everything well so there was no watching him code and was obviously aware of how to keep the audience interested. The talk had lots of MVC 2.0 features, and only a few minor 'missing-curly' style incidents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Submit buttons are sexist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14:50 - 15:50 Remy Sharp jQuery&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;For people who hadn't used jQuery before (which was about half the audience) this would've been a useful introduction. For the other half it was likely to be less useful as it tended to be mostly overview. There was some more in depth selector information though and the talk went smoothly, apart from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://remysharp.com/downloads/me-cloud.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt; part at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://acko.net/blog/abusing-jquery-animate-for-fun-and-profit-and-bacon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is the bacon demo&lt;/a&gt; he didn't have time to show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael Foord's Python talk was reasonable but I'm not a fan of the language, nor ever see myself using it. Jeff's talk I had been given a spoiler for from previous confererences but was largely entertaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T11:25:49.153" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T11:25:49.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27953" CreationDate="2009-10-31T11:20:45.397" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you aware that there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;public data dump&lt;/a&gt;?  It is released once a month and a couple of use have setup sites, blogged about it, and posted graphs into questions &amp;amp; answers here on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search for the tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=data-dump&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;data-dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T11:20:45.397" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28004" CreationDate="2009-10-31T11:51:48.747" Score="4" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example - on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1645030/use-silverlight-to-query-mysql&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the asker is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27112/&quot;&gt;(removed david)&lt;/a&gt; but then an answer has been posted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/195776/david&quot;&gt;david&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure its the same user as he's replying to another answer and the autogenerated avatar image is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've left my standard comment recommending that the user contacts team@stackoverflow.com, but is there anything else that can be done to reduce the chance of this happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T22:03:03.787" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T22:03:03.787" Title="I'm seeing a number of innocently created duplicate accounts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;multiple-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-10-31T12:11:49.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took these pictures:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/brunorothgiesser/DevDaysLondon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://picasaweb.google.com/brunorothgiesser/DevDaysLondon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T12:11:49.660" />
  <row Id="27978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27959" CreationDate="2009-10-31T12:26:15.217" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(In true Atwood style) I've actually written a &lt;a href=&quot;http://perspx.com/blog/archives/565/devdays-cambridge/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I recorded a video of Jeff's talk which can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7355062&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt; if anyone is interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastEditorUserId="130027" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T13:12:27.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T13:12:27.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1191" CreationDate="2009-10-31T13:42:51.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a better use case is when the OP indicates that they are learning about a technology and would like some ideas on how to go about doing it.  In that case, it would be helpful to be able to hide a code sample so that the OP can read the answer, try it, then look at (or not) the code sample provided after they have tried their own solution or if they run into problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1654287/simple-upload-download-form-in-asp-net-mvc/1654337#1654337&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; it's sometimes difficult to know how much code to provide in your answer.  You want to be complete so that other user's who find the question later and only want to know how to do it have a good answer, but you don't want to give everything away since the best way to learn is by doing.  A way to hide part of your answer would be an ideal solution to this problem, allowing anyone who wants to see the code the ability to do so while hiding it from people who only want ideas on how to do their own solution while learning the technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T13:42:51.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-10-31T13:42:51.660" />
  <row Id="27981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T13:55:00.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking a simple yes/no question that you already know the answer to probably seems to many like a ploy for rep.  I don't think that there's anything necessarily wrong with it if the question doesn't already exist, but be aware that it may not be well received.  A warning in that case may not be advised to avoid the appearance of trying to gain rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you have a complex problem that may be of interest to others and have a solution to it, then I think it can be appropriate to let people know that you have solved it and will provide your solution in an answer.  Answers are the &lt;strong&gt;right place&lt;/strong&gt; to provide answers.  Answers should not be provided in questions.  You should be open to other answers and I would indicate that in your warning.  Providing a warning, though, can serve to help others not waste time trying to find a solution to a problem you have already solved.  Indicating that you are open to other solutions lets people who have also solved the problem or a similar one know that you value and will upvote their answers if provided and appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T13:55:00.957" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27982" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T15:12:59.227" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer&quot;&gt;Is &amp;ldquo;Don&amp;rsquo;t do it&amp;rdquo; a valid answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times I see a user asking how to do something that is not a good idea, for example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1616212/can-i-make-wpf-radiobuttons-look-like-checkboxes/1616222#1616222&quot;&gt;how do I make radio buttons looks like checkboxes?&lt;/a&gt; (my answer: don't, it will just confuse your users) I sometimes post an answer that tells them that its probably not a good idea. This allows us to give our opinions and try to help them in ways they might not have directly asked for. Someone else usually posts how to actually perform the non-reccommended answer, so I figure no harm done. When my answer is upvoted to the top of the list, it shows that people agree with it and its good practice. If not, (how do I get syntax highlighting in MSWord? my answer: just use notepad) then it may get downvoted, but it will be discussed and the user will learn from our discussion (and I can delete it if it isn't helpful at all). Is this ok?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T15:28:09.083" ClosedDate="2009-10-31T15:53:02.387" Title="Is it OK for us to give advice but not actually answer the users question? ex: (how can I do X? answer: don't do it)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="27983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T15:14:35.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you post both at the same time?  Whenever I post a question I'm going to answer, I compose the question &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the answer, make sure I thought of all the nuances, and then post them both in rapid fire.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T15:14:35.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="27984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27982" CreationDate="2009-10-31T15:28:09.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why not. When people are trying to figure out &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/alex%5Fpapadimoulis/archive/2005/05/25/408925.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how to hammer a nail with an old shoe&lt;/a&gt;, they really need to be told there is a better tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T15:28:09.083" />
  <row Id="27985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27964" CreationDate="2009-10-31T15:45:18.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Why would you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you plan on posting an answer &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, then the warning is redundant: they can &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; that you self-answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you plan on sitting around&lt;/strong&gt; and watching for other answers before posting your own, then the warning is counter-productive: you may not get any good answers if you imply that you've already made up your mind as to what the answer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;if you don't plan on answering&lt;/strong&gt;, but then find the answer after asking the question, it's too late for a warning anyway, as folks may have already written answers, or be in the process of writing them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I'd caution you about would be waiting until someone's already written an answer roughly equivalent to yours, and then posting your own. First off, there's no need for it at that point... but also, it can seem to the author that you're trying to cheat him out of up-votes after he took the time to answer you. If you have an answer prepared, either &lt;strong&gt;post it &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; after the question, or post it only if no one else provides a similar answer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T15:45:18.803" />
  <row Id="27986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T16:01:29.313" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about having a site that is only for refactoring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are sites like this but SO has the largest audience of programmers so a section where you can just post a code snippet and people can give advice on refactoring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133255" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T18:05:20.890" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T00:22:36.143" Title="Stack Overflow site for refactoring?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27986" CreationDate="2009-10-31T16:52:48.620" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow could be used to do that.  In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/473087/string-benchmarks-in-c-refactoring-for-speed-maintainability&quot;&gt;I've used it for that&lt;/a&gt; in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend a tag like &lt;code&gt;Refactoring&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;refactor-my-code&lt;/code&gt; but either would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'question' part would be &lt;code&gt;How can I refactor this code for&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;?&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T16:52:48.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27951" CreationDate="2009-10-31T17:33:06.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You already have this feature:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hover with the mouse over the link, click your right mouse button and select &quot;Bookmark this link&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T17:33:06.943" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="27989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27959" CreationDate="2009-10-31T17:50:59.910" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I attended the StackOverflow DevDays event in Cambridge yesterday, here's my review now I've had a little time to compose my thoughts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I enjoyed it lots - I saw lots of interesting bits and pieces that I want to go back and investigate properly. Here's the session-by-session breakdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keynote - &lt;a href=&quot;http://joelonsoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Joel's theme was Simplicity vs Power and the (perceived) paradox that giving users more choice makes them less happy. It was an interesting session with some food for thought about UI design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yahoo Developer Tools - &lt;a href=&quot;http://icant.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christian Heilmann&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I'd expected this to be about the YUI Yahoo Javascript library, however it was actually more about creating mashups using Yahoo's YQL library. Which is fine because YQL seems very cool. It takes SQL and applies it to the Internet- sites like Flickr and Yahoo Maps look like tables and can be joined, so you could, say, put up a map and overlay it with pictures taken in the appropriate places.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; One thing that was very impressive was Christian's use of the tools to create a tag predictor for StackOverflow, which when you type a question, looks at what you've typed and uses it to generate a set of tags for the question - I expect we'll see this implemented on the site before too long.&#xA;An audio recording of Christian's talk is &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/4IibE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/details/IntroductionToTheYahooDeveloperTools-StackoverflowDevdayCambridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seven Principles for Systems Security - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Efms27/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frank Stajano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This talk showed the principles by which people get scammed, whether in a shell game in the real world, or as part of a 419 fraud. Frank used video from BBC's The Real Hustle to demonstrate some of these principles. Unfortunately I didn't think there was enough linking of the principles to designing security into systems, so whilst it was an interesting session, it was only generically so. Frank's original paper can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Efms27/papers/UCAM-CL-TR-754.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(I should mention that I don't think I'd fall for the scam involving the honeytrap - I'm a geek, if a pretty girl starts talking to &lt;i&gt;me&lt;/i&gt;, I'm instantly suspicious!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FogBugz - Joel Spolsky&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I saw Joel last time he came to Cambridge on the FogBugz World Tour, so I'd seen much of this before. The section on Kiln was new though, and it looks interesting. It does however rely on an available Internet connection - our company lost our main Internet feed last year for about six weeks, we'd have been boned if we'd been using it then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET MVC - &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.codeville.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steve Sanderson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This was a tour through developing an application using the MVC stack for ASP.NET, although ASP.NET MVC 2.0 would have been a more accurate title as Steve used the MVC 2 bits for all his code. Which was no bad thing, and it was really interesting to see him using jQuery, including jQueryUI - I did feel that this session and the session after it would have worked better the other way round, with an intro to jQuery first and then showing it 'hands-on' integrating with ASP.NET. Steve went through it all really quickly, which I think may have worked against him a bit as he was on after lunch, however for a change in the first afternoon session of a conference I managed to stay awake and interested!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;jQuery - &lt;a href=&quot;http://remysharp.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Remy Sharp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This was an overview of the core jQuery library, and although Remy was an engaging presenter, I felt it suffered a bit in trying to go through &lt;i&gt;everything &lt;/i&gt;that jQuery covers, I thought it would have worked better in focussing on some of the common tasks that developers need to address with JavaScript and showing how using jQuery makes it easier/less code etc. One thing Remy did cover was how to create a jQuery plugin, which takes a lot less code than I'd anticipated. At the end of the session Remy started to use jQuery to build a tag cloud based on the Twitter lists he's on, which was getting really interesting until he ran out time. I thought he was going to finish coding it in the break and then show it at the start of the next session, but actually he finished and demoed it in the break, so I missed it :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Python  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/index.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Foord&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The last technical session of the day was on IronPython, which is something I've flirted with learning now and again. Michael demonstrated using it to build a spell checker which uses the algorithm that Google uses when you mistype something and it comes back with 'Did you mean...'. Which is done in 21 lines of code and uses some statistical analysis based on some source text like a dictionary, the works of Shakespeare etc. It works out every permutation of letters based on what you typed and compares it to every word in the source text to find the most likely word you meant e.g. in the source text 'the' occurred about 80 000 times, meaning if you type 'teh' it's most likely you meant 'the' and that's what it matches you up with. Michael then demonstrated that the results of the algorithm can be fed into itself enabling it to correct two errors in a word. Very neat and worth some investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Jeff talked about the evolution of the StackOverflow trilogy, the team, StackExchange and the importance of having someone hate you. He talked about how it's OK to fail sometimes as that means you are pushing the boundaries. But his main thrust wasn't particularly about coding at all, it was more about the importance of writing, which he said is probably the single most important skill for developers. He backed this up with quotes from people like Douglas Crockford and Jon Skeet. As part of this, he revealed the etymology of the Strunk and White badge on the SO sites - it comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/020530902X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this book&lt;/a&gt;, which certainly in the UK I don't think is known at all (I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0340882875&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; may be the closest equivalent). (Jeff said on the way to the pub that he accidentally localised the site to the USA with this badge!)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As a result of seeing Jeff's thoughts on this, I resolve to try and write better SO answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On to the infrastructure:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Even though I've worked in Cambridge for years, the colleges aren't somewhere I'm really familiar with. So although my satnav got me to the right road, I was then looking for the college. And I nearly drove right past it whilst looking for a sign for a car park. Which then led to my discovery that there was no car park - I ended up parking down a side street where I think I got just about the last space.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Check-in was good - I'd expected there might have been a problem as I originally registered for the London day, then switched to Cambridge. Amiando would only let me print out a London ticket, but in the event there was no issue at all with this. And it was nice to run into my old friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/exogistic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Graham Parker&lt;/a&gt; helping out.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The food was fine - having seen some of the talk on Twitter from London about what had happened there, I was a little concerned about this. I didn't try the biscuits or the fruit cake, but the main finger buffet lunch was fine, particularly the sausage rolls! I have to say, though, that having seen the tables laid out in the refectory, I'd expected we were actually having a sit-down lunch. The coffee was OK, not great by any means but it contained caffeine which, let's face it, is the important thing.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In the hall itself I found the chairs pretty comfortable, but I'd have preferred chairs with a fold-out desk that you could have put a pad on to make notes.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The big annoyance for me was the wi-fi - I was accessing it on my phone, which meant that I kept having to put the key in and then accept the terms &amp;amp; conditions. I would have thought an open connection would have been easier for everyone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, a solid day's learning - I'll most likely be back next year!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Cross-posted from my blog at &lt;a href=&quot;http://diaryofadotnetdeveloper.blogspot.com/2009/10/stackoverflow-devdays-cambridge-review.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://diaryofadotnetdeveloper.blogspot.com/2009/10/stackoverflow-devdays-cambridge-review.html&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1738" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T17:50:59.910" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="27990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T17:51:37.367" Score="7" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, as soon a question is closed the delete link shows up, even though it won't be eligible for deletion for 2 days yet.  This link should be hidden until the 2 day wait is over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T20:09:17.887" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:09:17.887" Title="Don't show &quot;delete&quot; link until question is eligible for deletion" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="27991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27959" CreationDate="2009-10-31T17:57:48.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I rambled endlessly, I won't crosspost, and I'll just &lt;a href=&quot;http://thom.org.uk/2009/10/31/diary-of-a-schwag-hag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link to my blog&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138163" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T17:57:48.450" />
  <row Id="27992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27946" CreationDate="2009-10-31T18:11:25.230" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23404/whats-the-deal-with-user-shore/27935#27935&quot;&gt;As I said in the discussion about Shore&lt;/a&gt;, I'm not convinced that these users are in it for the rep. These users don't appear to make use of their abilities (although Rachel has performed edits, rollbacks, and voted) in any real capacity; they instead seem to view SO as their &quot;special trick&quot; for doing and keeping their jobs. Many of Rachel's questions seem worded exactly as they would come assigned from a project manager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This keeps coming up time and time again. We need a clear way to tag problem users as &quot;not community friendly&quot; and &quot;does not ask questions well&quot;. The most obvious way to deal with them is to ignore them, but that means that &lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt; needs to ignore them. But in a large community there is always going to be someone who will feed the troll, and that's what they count on. They keep coming back with their lame questions because &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; is going to answer them and essentially do their jobs for them, because we're cheap rep whores who like answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;beggar&quot; is a more appropriate term for these people. It accurately describes what they are doing: feeding off of the community's good will and giving nothing in return.  Once one person catches on to their tactics, there are still ten more well-intentioned people standing behind who are ready to take on feeding the beggar for a while.  It's time to say &lt;strong&gt;no more&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. See also this excellent article about &lt;a href=&quot;http://slash7.com/pages/vampires&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Help Vampires&lt;/a&gt;, courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4448/does-so-encourage-developer-laziness/11873#11873&quot;&gt;Sam Hasler's post&lt;/a&gt; on a similar thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T18:20:14.833" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T18:20:14.833" />
  <row Id="27993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27986" CreationDate="2009-10-31T18:18:14.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure - &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;create it yourself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T18:18:14.643" />
  <row Id="27994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27975" CreationDate="2009-10-31T18:34:05.137" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the autogenerated avatar image is the same...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a programmatic option right there -- compare new users to existing users using heuristics and automatically flag them for moderator review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T18:34:05.137" />
  <row Id="28000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27677" CreationDate="2009-10-31T20:18:02.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two issues here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There may be a bug in the way 'replies' are handled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There may be a misunderstanding of what constitutes a reply.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your feature request is great; but if your anecdote is accurate &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; there isn't a misunderstanding of what constitutes a reply, then there necessarily must be a bug in the reply system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; replies ought to operate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one of the following things is true; the person should receive a reply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;a. If someone comments on their answer.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &amp;nbsp;b. If they comment on someone else's question and a comment is posted below their comment (in time order)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &amp;nbsp;c. If someone comments on their question.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &amp;nbsp;d. If someone comments where they left a comment. (catch all)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply: &lt;strong&gt;I should see replies any time I participate in a post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T21:02:59.253" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T21:02:59.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27975" CreationDate="2009-10-31T22:00:38.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason the avatar is the same is that the e-mail address is the same. Based on this and other factors, they are the definitely same account/user (now merged). I agree that the system could make it easier to spot this, but there are some complications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we obviously would want to allow account stealing just by knowing the e-mail address (mine/Jon's aren't exactly secret, for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it isn't really a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; problem for unregistered users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is already easy enough for us to search by things like e-mail address to relocate and recombine accounts, but again: unless one of the accounts is registered this is a bit like taping smoke back together...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff/team would have better access to numbers, but I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; that the volumes of dup accounts would make it very high maintenance, unless we only reported on duplicates past an arbitrary date, but again: unless one is registered it isn't necessarily useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all things considered I'm not hugely sure it is worth changing much, except perhaps locating obvious dups where there is a registered account involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T22:00:38.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-10-31T22:45:11.140" Score="0" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16587/george-stocker&quot; title=&quot;that guy&quot;&gt;George Stocker&lt;/a&gt; edited my question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1655500/what-unspecified-functionality-do-you-put-in-your-software&quot;&gt;What unspecified functionality do you put in your software?&lt;/a&gt; where I specifically said that our software sending back stacktrace to one of our servers was a user-known public feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then modified the title of my post, along with the entire content, making it sound like I snuck in the feature and that our application was phoning home without our users knowing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I specifically wrote in the original post that the feature was not sneaky. He completely changed the meaning of my post. I find this to be rather unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to prevent editing of my posts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I retaliate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I file a complaint?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can people with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;reputation&lt;/a&gt; do anything they want on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T22:09:50.753" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T00:00:00.597" Title="Can I prevent others from editing my question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="28006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28011" CreationDate="2009-10-31T22:52:02.013" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to edit my CV after I have filed it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138171" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T23:12:34.970" Title="Editing a CV after it is filed" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-10-31T22:52:52.713" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should link to the question which you're referring to. I assume you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1655500/what-unspecified-functionality-do-you-put-in-your-software&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is&#xA;  collaboratively edited. If you are not&#xA;  comfortable with the idea of your&#xA;  posts being edited by other trusted&#xA;  users, this may not be the site for&#xA;  you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is no way for you to prevent other people with sufficient reputation from editing your posts. If you do not agree with a certain edit, don't just revert it. This can cause an edit war. Try to solve the situation in a civil manner. You can complain by flagging your post and/or by mailing to &lt;code&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;. And then there is this forum for more general discussions about these matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But whatever you do, &lt;strong&gt;DO NOT&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;retaliate&quot;! That's not how we treat each other around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the specific post: your original question contained a lot of spelling errors. I think that is what caused George to edit you question in the first place. When he was at it, he decided that the point could be brought across in a much more concise manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-10-31T23:04:31.590" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T23:04:31.590" />
  <row Id="28008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-10-31T22:53:41.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No. You can always roll back edits though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please don't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a 'contact us' link on the bottom of all the sites. &lt;code&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T22:53:41.447" />
  <row Id="28009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-10-31T22:57:20.387" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is it possible to prevent editing from&#xA;  my post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how can I retaliate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't.  Do you know what the word &quot;retaliate&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retaliate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;means&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can I fill a complain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just did.  You can also flag your post for moderator attention, or email the site devs (see the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of your page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He completely changed the meaning of&#xA;  my post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, he didn't.  He simplified it.  He did change a good bit of the content, more than I would have, but he left in the key point that &quot;We do let our users know that we collect crash data.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T22:57:20.387" />
  <row Id="28010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-10-31T23:11:20.943" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. What you did was completely inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your text had numerous spelling and grammatical errors (repeatedly misspelling &quot;functionality&quot; as &quot;functionnalities&quot; to name one example) - that &lt;em&gt;alone&lt;/em&gt; is reason enough for someone to edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You asked a poll question / discussion. SO is a Q&amp;amp;A site, not a place to chew the fat with fellow developers. If that's what you're after, see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13198/where-can-i-find-interesting-programming-discussions&quot;&gt;Where can I find interesting programming discussions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You rambled on about a particular &quot;easter egg&quot; in your own software. SO isn't a blog, and if you're gonna answer your own question then &lt;em&gt;use an actual answer to do so.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When George tried to correct a few of these issues, &lt;strong&gt;you re-edited to include a long, off-topic rant complete with inflammatory language&lt;/strong&gt;. That's &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're new here, so you can be forgiven for not reading the FAQs and remaining unaware of some aspects of how the site is intended to be used and what the local customs are. But the correct response upon encountering resistance is to &lt;strong&gt;take a step back and attempt to learn what you did wrong&lt;/strong&gt;, not immediately launch an attack against a well-respected member of the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sit down, shut up, and spend some time familiarizing yourself with Stack Overflow. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;And remember&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your posts being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28005/can-i-prevent-others-from-editing-my-question/28014#28014&quot;&gt;your response&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You claim that George misrepresented your intentions, implying that you were doing something unethical. I don't see it: you described what you were doing, and justified it claiming that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Nothing sneaky nor hidden here: users fully know that stacktrace/crash report are being sent to us...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George cleaned this up somewhat, but did not appear to significantly alter the meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We do let our users know that we collect crash data.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what you meant, then this was your wake-up call: your question was confusing and needed to be clarified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering you prefixed this paragraph with the statement, &lt;em&gt;&quot;in a client-side GUI app that is distributed to a lot of clients I've put a few 'hidden' things&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and then began the paragraph with &lt;em&gt;&quot;For example: &quot;&lt;/em&gt; I'm not sure why you then claim that this functionality - which you describe as an example of something hidden - is not, in fact, hidden! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit gave you a rare opportunity: to see your words through someone else's eyes. If you didn't like what you saw, then quietly re-editing your question to correct the corrections would have saved everyone a lot of trouble...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T02:03:08.160" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T02:03:08.160" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28006" CreationDate="2009-10-31T23:12:34.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can edit your CV any time. Filing doesn't do anything more than give you the option of having your resume appear in the Careers employer search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T23:12:34.970" />
  <row Id="28014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-10-31T23:59:11.287" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shog9... Why the insult?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're telling me to 'shut up' and you're getting 4 votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is that George &lt;em&gt;changed&lt;/em&gt; my question, making it say exactly the contrary of what I said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly it appears that people like George and you are making stackoverflow.com a very sad place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was an honest poster, asking an honest question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I get someone completely changing my question, making it sound unethical even tough I specifically wrote it was not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I get someone telling me to 'shut up'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So once again, and this is an honest question, is this the way stackoverflow.com is supposed to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I'm sure joining the &quot;stackoverflow.com sucks&quot; crowd soon if you keep dodging the facts and using insults...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138175" LastActivityDate="2009-10-31T23:59:11.287" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27986" CreationDate="2009-11-01T00:22:36.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You undoubtedly seem to be looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RefactorMyCode.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This is a relatively new yet well-established site for anyone to come along and propose improvements/refactorings to your code, in a vaguely collaborative/wiki-like way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T00:22:36.143" />
  <row Id="28017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27959" CreationDate="2009-11-01T00:59:36.170" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Content&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I signed up originally, the topic list left me nonplussed - the question gnawing at me was: what would I get out of it? Few topics came close to my coding solar system - which is basically in-house desktop stuff, no web, no web pages: it seemed to kill off most of the talks in terms of relevance for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hey, glad I went along despite my reservations. I've dabbled in the web from time to time, just never for money, and the talks on Yahoo Developer Tools, jQuery, ASP .NET MVC, let me know that web development really has moved forward since the last time I sniffed around that particular patch. jQuery got me interested in Javascript again. The ASP .NET MVC went a bit over my head as I've never worked in any form of ASP before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The security talk didn't offer much of a concrete takeaway, although it was interesting. I guess my favourite was the Python talk which I followed all the way through; Python's devotion to indentation won my heart years ago, but I'd never spent any time with the language, so this was the time to rekindle those feelings. I was actually more interested in hearing about the Excel-replacement from Michael's employer but Michael didn't stay for the drinks afterwards, so I'll have to stalk him through the internet. [That reminds me- what do you say to a software development celebrity like Joel Spolsky that you've been following since 2001 when you meet him for the first time? Do you say how pleased you are to meet him in person? No, you ask if Michael is coming to the drinks because it's him you want to talk to =) ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keynotes are keynotes and well there's nowt to say about them apart from: I hope Joel uploads the opening video to the web when Dev Days is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had no complaints with the commerical presentations, considering how cheap the conference was. There was no deception here. At least it wasn't like one of those panels where speakers subvert a discussion to promote their product. The oddest thing was I came away with little idea of Red Gate's products! (I found it difficult to hear the Red Gate presentation clearly and their own stand was more about recruitment than what they sell, which is developer tools I understand)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a great fan of live coding, it takes me back to my mathematics lectures in uni- at a certain point you'd lose your balance and then that was it, the rest of the lecture would be gobbledigook until you went home and studied it. I managed to keep up with the Python code, but I got lost in the web ones (maybe because of background, who knows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Venue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd heard the complaints about the London venue but the smaller, more cosy size of the Cambridge conference seemed to work in its favour. There were a few queues and it got a bit tight in the eat/drink area but it wasn't bad, it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the day. There were also some issues with lighting and sound in the auditorium, something to do with the control room having the same characteristics as solitary confinement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I would add it seemed way too far from the train station with taxi being your best bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copying DNA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things I was hoping to do was meet a number of developers beyond my cramped desk in London, and I don't feel there was enough time to get to know people. We were even encouraged to cut lunch short to attend an optional Red Gate presentation. I think perhaps the day was a bit too dense as Jon Skeet alluded to for the London day - but not sure what I'd advocate &quot;cutting&quot;, and expanding to two days would drastically change the economics of the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was nowhere to go to if you wanted to skip a presentation and just meet up with the people. Those who weren't interested in a talk would crack open the Wi-Fi. It amuses me that the organisers (you know who you are) thought developers would prefer sitting in the dark with their laptop as a companion than outside with real people. Where on Earth did that stereotype come from? Ah yes, that was Jeff. He was barely off his laptop all day =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Were You Glad You Went?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138159" LastEditorUserId="138159" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T02:05:17.327" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T02:05:17.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27946" CreationDate="2009-11-01T01:33:04.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to help give suggestions to this user as to how to better ask questions, or to edit the questions to get better information, as I frequently start off a response with the fact that this question is overly broad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately some people do have a hard time knowing how to ask questions, and hopefully this user will learn, but I don't see a problem with the questions, as the answers may be a useful start to others, and perhaps can serve as an example of how not to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135105" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T01:33:04.397" />
  <row Id="28019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="450" CreationDate="2009-11-01T01:50:35.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't that what your browser bookmarks are for? Or de.li.ci.ous (or however it's spelled) or opening multiple tabs, or...? Does the site need to save your links for you? How is the &quot;I want to read this later&quot; problem unique to SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T01:50:35.070" />
  <row Id="28020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28068" CreationDate="2009-11-01T01:54:42.660" Score="12" ViewCount="537" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah... um, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/21888/bogha&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; needs to go.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find any way to edit the avatar, but I'm not sure that deleting the user is necessarily the next step.  Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Link isn't very illustrative any longer - user had posted an offensive political/religious profile icon.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU and SO mods - FYI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/107887/bogha&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/107887/bogha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/13093/bogha&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/users/13093/bogha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lock edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this bruises some folks, but avatars aren't priority #1 in my mind. If an avatar generates a big administrative overhead (i.e. many complaints from many users) it'll be changed.  This isn't because anybody gets their rocks off changing avatars, it's because I'd like my Trilogy-time to result in something that enhances it, not strugging with issues that have nothing to do with the stated purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastEditorUserId="130047" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T16:39:54.493" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T16:39:54.493" Title="Moderating user avatar" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;avatar&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="23" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-01T01:59:12.960" Score="7" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted an answer that had some bold text struck out and the bold attribute leaked out and affected the &quot;link|edit|delete|flag&quot; links and other stuff below the answer. I'll try it here and see what happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Bold Struck Text&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/s&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T10:51:23.043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:52:13.470" Title="Strikeout and bold causes bold to leak out" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="28022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28020" CreationDate="2009-11-01T02:00:04.363" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remove the email address, but not before you use it to contact the user about the avatar. Once the address is removed from the account it should revert to an identicon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just edited the user account &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/136737/bogha&quot;&gt;here on Meta&lt;/a&gt;. Since it was GMail, I added a &quot;+youravatarisoffensive&quot; before the @gmail.com. This won't affect notification, but it's technically a different address, so it has a different hash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T02:00:04.363" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28027" CreationDate="2009-11-01T02:11:40.857" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes come across questions on SO about someone having trouble installing a piece of software (recent example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1649245/how-do-i-run-multiple-versions-of-matlab&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Since installing software sounds to me like a general computing topic, not a programming topic, I usually suggest that it belongs on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen comments from those who don't agree saying that it's appropriate to ask such a question on SO if the software in question is directly related to programming (like an IDE). When I looked up &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12373/which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate&quot;&gt;this poll question about appropriate programming-related topics&lt;/a&gt;, the answer that seems closest to the issue of software installation is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12373/which-types-of-programming-related-questions-are-appropriate/12386#12386&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, which is comparatively pretty low on the list (#12 by votes) of what people feel is approved SO content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I would ask this question to more specifically address the issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Under what circumstances is it appropriate to ask questions on SO about software installation problems?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:57:05.333" Title="Is there ever a case when &quot;I'm having trouble installing X&quot; is appropriate on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;content&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-11-01T03:03:36.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/404-error-pages-for-your-viewing-pleasure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nice collection&lt;/a&gt; of images for inspiration.  An amusing image is a good idea, but I would take the &quot;URL as part of the UI&quot; metaphor one step further.  Turn the &lt;em&gt;juicy bits&lt;/em&gt; of the miss-typed URL into a search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they type something starting with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Search for a question with the rest of the URL.  If it has a big number (like a question ID) that isn't found, then discard it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Search for a tag, if there is nothing close, then search for a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Search for a user, if there are no results, search their profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - You get the idea . . . &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could put some other parsing in there to make a more educated guess for what they were going for.  Apply the same pattern to any site in the trilogy, or for that matter on Stack Exchange.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="255" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T04:01:18.500" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T04:01:18.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-01T03:03:36.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-11-01T04:09:43.637" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put up a bull's eye target with the HTTP error code in the bull's eye. Place what appears to be a counter just under the target that says &quot;XX Tries Left (NERF ONLY)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caption it with &quot;Here's a chance to increase your reputation! Yeah, really, the counter will change .. just throw something heavy at it, you'll see!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not as if you are lying, the counter &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; change :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T04:09:43.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-01T04:09:43.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28023" CreationDate="2009-11-01T04:12:54.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest the answer is to post the question should be based on how fast you get a answer, the quality of the answer, and the breadth of knowledge of those answering the question, for follow up. The problem is that I am not sure where that is. I think that discovering the best place to ask the question is to search for similar questions an look at the quality of those responses. I just happened to notice the same post on SF 80227 and SO 1655932 asking about PYTHONPATH. I'll let someone else judge the quality of the two answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138179" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T04:12:54.663" />
  <row Id="28027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28023" CreationDate="2009-11-01T04:18:52.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on what is being installed. If your system ships with libfoo 3.2 and you need 3.4 but your OS has yet to package it, it may be appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is having trouble installing a web server, RDBMS, etc ... that's when I'd vote to migrate the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, if its a library, part of a collection of interpreted classes, gem or egg .. I think its appropriate for SO. Someone is spending time trying to hammer a library in place instead of using it .. such a question is worth answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of those times where the individual discretion of those who have the ability to close comes into play. Luckily, it takes more than one person to close or migrate a question :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T04:18:52.913" />
  <row Id="28029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-01T05:18:18.647" Score="9" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed some weird behavior of Markdown regarding adding hyperlinks to images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Start with an image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![alt text][1]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com/image.jpg&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, highlight &lt;code&gt;![alt text][1]&lt;/code&gt; and hit Ctrl+L (add a hyperlink).  instead of the expected prompt for hyperlink URL, you just get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;alt text&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the reference to the image URL is gone entirely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's say you manually entered that link, then added another paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![alt text][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;second paragraph&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com/image.jpg&#xA;  [2]: http://example.com/page1.html&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you want &quot;second paragraph&quot; to be a link, so you highlight it, hit Ctrl+L, and enter &lt;code&gt;http://example.com/page2.html&lt;/code&gt; as the URL and hit OK.  You get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![alt text][1]][1]&#xA;&#xA;[second paragraph][2]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://example.com/page1.html&#xA;  [2]: http://example.com/page2.html&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the URL to the image has been completely removed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T16:51:18.520" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T20:49:47.807" Title="Markdown quirkiness with hyperlinks including images" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-11-01T05:30:46.640" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27112/amusing-404-page-not-found-images-for-trilogy-sites/27114#27114&quot;&gt;Ólafur Waage/random's answer&lt;/a&gt; and added freehand circles with dropshadows and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000464.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unnecessarily high JPEG compression&lt;/a&gt;.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/235/404good.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Properly compressed version here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/160/404comp.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T05:30:46.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-01T05:30:46.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-01T05:36:06.843" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not getting any responses since the last two days about what ever questions I have posted here since those days? Why so? Have I done anything wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T06:16:19.027" ClosedDate="2009-11-01T19:55:46.937" Title="Why not I am getting any more responses" Tags="&lt;general&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28032" CreationDate="2009-11-01T05:49:45.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing you may want to consider is to edit your question. You can take on board comments people have made that will make it a better question, or simply change it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By making the question active again, it returns to the top of some views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way, if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want more answers and you have enough rep, is to offer a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T05:49:45.747" />
  <row Id="28034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28032" CreationDate="2009-11-01T06:16:19.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, asking question is an art. You need not have perfect command of English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few pointers (by no means exhaustive):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a good question title, so people have a good idea of the context and they will know if it's something they have the expertise/interest to answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Relevent tags, reason same as above and also ease search and those who browse by tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Structure your question properly especially if it is long and complex.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can the question be spilt into 2 or more so each portion can have discrete answer? Give it some thought. If the splitted questions are have related context, hyperlink them up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give respect to those who attempt to read and answer your question, they have no obligation so make it easy for them to read and be polite :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list goes on and on, hope it helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T06:16:19.027" />
  <row Id="28035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28021" CreationDate="2009-11-01T07:35:10.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your markup:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt; **Bold Struck Text** &amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gets mangled to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Bold Struck Text &amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could switch out your shorthand of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; into the proper &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt; **Bold Struck Text** &amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T07:35:10.470" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28020" CreationDate="2009-11-01T08:48:27.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed for SO; we've done the same thing (the gmail + trick) in the past for people &quot;borrowing&quot; the avatar from other (popular/recognised) accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T08:48:27.840" />
  <row Id="28038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-11-01T10:35:59.860" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible to prevent editing of my posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The (very few) ♦ moderators &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; lock individual posts from edits &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; there are good reasons (usually to call a cease-fire in edit wars). On this occasion, and looking at the current version of the question, I don't see that any such stance is necessary. Editing is a core part of stackoverflow (and related sites), and the edits don't seem particularly inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T10:35:59.860" />
  <row Id="28039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-11-01T12:21:03.997" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can. It involves writing the question so well nobody needs to edit anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original edit to your post cleaned it up considerably, and still assured people the phoning home wasn't secret, just not quite as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T12:21:03.997" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35915" CreationDate="2009-11-01T14:55:35.510" Score="3" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment&quot;&gt;Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Stackoverflow is wisely trying to avoid an excessive notification system (like's facebook's, but I would definitely like to know when somebody responded directly to me. Since we're already notified when someone comments on our question/answer, this would be for when someone responds to my comment. I sometimes ask questions or express opinions in comments, and I would love to know when someone responds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T07:27:39.707" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:28:17.193" Title="Be notified when someone leaves a comment that is a direct response to my comment, &quot;@my_user_name&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28042" CreationDate="2009-11-01T15:06:10.150" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't really possible at the moment for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Names aren't unique; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People often abbreviate. In your case I'm more likely just to put &quot;@Crazy&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think this kind of thing just needs to be handled by a subscription model something like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you post a question, you should get notified of any answers (this happens already) as well as edits to those answers (this does not);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you post an answer, you should get notified of edits to that answer (this does not happen), comments on that answer (this does), edits to the question (this does not) and gaining or losing accepted answer status (gaining does, losing does not);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you post a comment to a question, you should be notified of edits to the question and subsequent comments on that question (neither happens);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you comment on an answer, you should be notified of edits to that answer and future comments (neither happens).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to opt-out at any time (&quot;unsubscribe&quot;) from these notifications. Likewise you should be able to opt-in (&quot;subscribe&quot;) to something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to a particular answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to any answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments on question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments on a particular answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments to any answer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some or all of the above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T15:06:10.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26368" CreationDate="2009-11-01T15:07:03.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing an answer will reset the change-your-vote timer.  So if you have enough reputation, edit the answer and change your vote.  If you don't, post the answer here.  I bet someone will be willing to edit the answer for you so you can correct your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locking up/downvotes is a really bad idea imho.  It's made downvoting much harder, which is a shame, because downvoting is the feedback that keeps the quality of answers high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="137265" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T15:29:16.650" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T15:29:16.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-01T15:46:06.350" Score="3" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvotes are a cheap.  You can breeze through the site upvoting all sorts of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really useful questions get favorited.  Why not have the reputation system reflect this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a disincentive for people to favorite things that aren't that useful because it degrades the utility of the favoriting system for them so you could probably award more rep than for a standard upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On an unrelated note, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;the FAQ does not accurately reflect how rep is earned&lt;/a&gt; as it does not mention getting rep for accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T21:20:09.697" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T00:18:51.023" Title="Earn reputation for questions marked as favorites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="28046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-11-01T15:51:37.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Coffee in the morning&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any event for programmers that beings at 9:00 am sharp needs a lot of coffee/snacks in order to turn people's brains on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T15:51:37.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28045" CreationDate="2009-11-01T15:51:43.620" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your assumption of how people use the favourite question feature is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of favourites are questions people actually like but I think another sizable slice is questions people just want to go back to at some point. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interesting questions that currently have no answer. You'll go back and check in a day and then unclick it;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions you want to revisit. Comments that need follow-up, possible edits, etc;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that are simply hard to find via the search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone likes the question they'll upvote it more often than not so a favourite is just a second upvote. IMHO there's no need for that. There was an article floating around last month about how complex voting systems are a waste. I think the example was Youtube where the vast majority of votes were 0 or 5 with very little in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically you could give people two choices&amp;mdash;like or dislike&amp;mdash;and you'd achieve basically the same end result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T15:51:43.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-11-01T15:53:56.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Combine all FogCreek promos into a single talk&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two &quot;house ad&quot; played during the breaks: one for the Business of Software conference, and one for the FogCreek Training DVDs. Although people COULD have walked out and socialized outside, programmers are polite by nature, and they sat and watched the promos. That time would have been better spent for socializing/networking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T15:53:56.137" />
  <row Id="28049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-11-01T15:56:24.227" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Setup an &quot;official&quot; post-event destination&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody expects a $99 conference to include an after party, but you should provide some sort of signal to attendees on where to go after the conference. Part of the allure of DevDays is having 500 devs in the same place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an added bonus, this would be incremental revenue for DevDays, because the bar/restaurant you send people would definitely pay you to be the featured destination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T15:56:24.227" />
  <row Id="28050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28045" CreationDate="2009-11-01T16:06:29.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think another issue with this is how you can set or remove favorites at any time -- this is a necessity in a favorite system, where you might want to bookmark something just to read it again one time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast this with the upvote system, where once a vote has been set (for a couple minutes), you can't change your vote.  I assume part of the reasoning for this is that it would be unfair to the upvotee if you decided you wanted to un-upvote any of their answers at a later date.  It would be at least annoying if your rep went up and down frequently due to people starring and unstarring your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there are the Favorite Question and Stellar Question badges that are awarded for 25 and 100 favorites, respectively; so it's not like you never get anything for favorites on your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T16:06:29.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2009-11-01T16:49:44.077" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add that for any Google Chrome users reading this, just do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search for anything in the stackoverflow search. Chrome will automatically learn that it is a search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the address bar, start typing &quot;stackoverflow&quot; until it completes to &quot;stackoverflow.com/&quot;,  Hit tab, and now the address bar should say &quot;Search stackoverflow.com:&quot; in light blue.  Now just type your search terms after that and hit enter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138196" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T16:49:44.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-01T16:49:44.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27583" CreationDate="2009-11-01T17:36:10.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure I agree with this request, as having the delay be too long is definitely worse (as in: your entry may not be saved at all) than having it be too short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I increased it from 1000ms to 1500ms, but I'm not willing to increase it any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T17:36:10.637" />
  <row Id="28053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27585" CreationDate="2009-11-01T17:38:07.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Minor, doesn't happen in Firefox 3.5 (though I can repro it in Chrome), and should be resolved by the other request you made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27583/autosave-of-vanity-url-on-careers-is-too-fast&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27583/autosave-of-vanity-url-on-careers-is-too-fast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T17:38:07.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-01T17:50:39.817" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The colorization auto-formatting doesn't seem to work too well for XML over at SO.  It seems to work properly over here.  Check out the color of the XML at the bottom of this question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1344120&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1344120&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like it is getting confused by the '/' near the end.  It seems to be coloring everything between two '/'s brown, not detecting that that character is part of a closing tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154586" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T18:47:24.310" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T20:00:00.840" Title="format color error for XML" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;xml&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28054" CreationDate="2009-11-01T18:47:01.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has to be filed against &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Prettify&lt;/a&gt;, not us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T18:47:01.657" />
  <row Id="28056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2009-11-01T18:50:14.230" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already exists and is served up by every site in the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View source and look for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;search&quot; type=&quot;application/opensearchdescription+xml&quot; &#xA;      title=&quot;Meta Stack Overflow&quot; href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/opensearch.xml&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just use the little drop-down menu in the search bar next to the address bar on most browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It is a bit different in Google Chrome as Chrome has only one unified address bar, as Semi points out in his answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately going to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scroll down to &quot;search is hard&quot; type then press enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T18:50:14.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27343" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:00:58.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit too much work for a process that is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;totally free&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has taken a ton of engineering so far&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is extremely minor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;declining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T19:00:58.837" />
  <row Id="28058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20193" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:07:40.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, that might be complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Youtube does something similar to what you're describing, if you click on &quot;Statistics &amp;amp; Data&quot; under a video. For this video:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFg3pAprdg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFg3pAprdg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stats are ... (takes about a full minute to load, so it's expensive, even on YouTube..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7031/youtubestats.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T19:07:40.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:22:49.197" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Stack Overflow has grown, it has become increasingly clear that we're going to have a significant amount of unsold ad inventory for the forseeable future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23899/proposal-free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects&quot;&gt;open source advertisement&lt;/a&gt; idea is a good idea to do something about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just had another one: Give developers who filed their CV on &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; the chance to create an advertisement to be put on SO, maybe next to questions / answers they have posted, or maybe in relevant tags. This should be cheaper than regular ads (maybe even free? At least for early adopters?) and should link exclusively to their CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the ad would be subject to review as they all are (no &quot;&amp;lt;span style='font-size: really-huge'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;blink&amp;gt;Hire ME!!!&amp;lt;/blink&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&quot;), but it might be an interesting extra feature for devs who really want that great job they dream of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T20:01:00.187" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:01:00.187" Title="Suggestion: Advertisements for CVs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28059" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:46:51.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea. Care must be taken to preserve the clean, minimalist theme, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of adding a bullet/emblem of some sort to a job-seeker's signature block to handle this, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T19:46:51.623" />
  <row Id="28061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:53:25.540" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24616/how-do-i-write-a-url-in-a-comment-without-making-it-a-link&quot;&gt;How do I write a URL in a comment without making it a link?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I include a URL within backticks in a comment, it should not be processed as a link.  It appears to work properly for questions, but when I include a url inside backticks in a comment, the url gets changed into a link (which shouldn't happen).  For example, see my comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1658070&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  I'll also add a comment to this question demonstrating the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135683" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T08:54:58.270" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:54:58.270" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T08:54:52.577" Title="Don't process URLs as links inside code blocks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27951" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:58:14.453" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't do this for the same reason we don't allow voting from the question page; it's a conscious decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to click through to vote, because we don't believe you can cast an informed vote without viewing the full question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar rules would apply for favoriting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T19:58:14.453" />
  <row Id="28063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28067" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:58:40.490" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered one of my questions (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1646801/how-can-i-use-microsoft-words-spelling-grammar-checker-programmatically&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1646801/how-can-i-use-microsoft-words-spelling-grammar-checker-programmatically&lt;/a&gt;) and accepted it but it randomly appears first or second (out of two answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/27Qr5.png&quot; alt=&quot;OMGWTFBBQ&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T20:11:40.237" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:11:40.237" Title="Accepted answer subject to random sorting" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27339" CreationDate="2009-11-01T19:59:39.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will include BountyAmount in the latest export.  VoteTypeId = 9 is BountyClose, so if there is a corresponding BountyAmount attribute then a bounty was awarded.  It is possible for a bounty close to result in 0 in the case where the person who created the bounty accepts an answer that they posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T19:59:39.490" />
  <row Id="28065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27677" CreationDate="2009-11-01T20:06:13.980" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I'll revisit a post (for example, a new comment arrives, or I see a vote on an old post), and I'll see comments (perhaps from the OP) that I've never seen. And I check my &quot;new replies&quot; button regularly, so it isn't for want of trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably because the old replies page had bugs the size of small planets in it related to how dates (and even the underlying SQL) were handled. It was really, really bad. Kind of disgraceful, actually. Let me give you an example: the userid parameter was accidentally &lt;em&gt;hard-coded&lt;/em&gt; in one of the queries. And that was just one of many mistakes. Yeah. It was bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that those bugs have been fairly definitively fixed (as of.. 1 week ago? 2 weeks ago? recently, anyway, I don't see how you could miss a comment reply, since the reply viewer is date-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments have dates, the replies viewer uses dates. So unless dates are broken...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:06:13.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27990" CreationDate="2009-11-01T20:09:11.927" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we don't believe in the philosophy of hiding things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the same reason many (including Joel) rant about the &quot;why is this menu dimmed / inactive / not available&quot; topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We show it to you, then explain what it takes to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:09:11.927" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28063" CreationDate="2009-11-01T20:11:34.480" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;accepting your own answer confers no sorting benefits. See this and other rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:11:34.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28020" CreationDate="2009-11-01T20:14:46.983" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the future, don't remove the email, because that destroys any ability we have to contact the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just use the &quot;plus in email&quot; trick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;username@gmail.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;username+offensiveavatar@gmail.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T00:57:53.953" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:57:53.953" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28023" CreationDate="2009-11-01T20:57:05.333" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the software is programming related: on Stack Overflow ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, if you have trouble installing your IDE, you will find more helpful answers on SO than SU. On SO are all these guys who use IDEs. For sure a lot more than on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interesting part begins when you have to install e.g. Apache, because you want to develop a web app running on this server. Then it depends on the particular problem, where you get the best answers: SO, SF, or SU. I would post a problem like this on SO, because I assume that it is very likely that other developers had this problem before, if I am encountering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T20:57:05.333" />
  <row Id="28070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28086" CreationDate="2009-11-01T21:17:57.913" Score="6" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried paying for a careers subscription by Switch/Maestro debit card (a fairly popular payment method in the UK) but got a &quot;card number invalid&quot; error. I assumed that's because that card type isn't supported so used my MasterCard instead and it went through fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be worth showing the logos of the card types the payment page accepts just so it's clear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure the people from the UK would also appreciate support for debit cards as they're in pretty wide use here, perhaps more so than credit cards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129991" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-01T23:47:39.630" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T23:47:39.630" Title="Showing credit/debit card types supported by careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;payment&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28045" CreationDate="2009-11-01T21:48:29.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One can also use the favourite button to flag a post as a reminder to return later to check whether it has been improved yet. For example to undo a downvote, or to give the OP some time to improve his question before voting to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, in those cases the OP should not be rewarded additional reputation points. My point is: &lt;em&gt;Marking a post as &quot;favourite&quot; is not always a compliment&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T21:48:29.093" />
  <row Id="28072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27859" CreationDate="2009-11-01T21:48:50.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The slides and code from the Cambridge live demo for my jQuery talk is available here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://remysharp.com/talks/#2009%5Fstackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://remysharp.com/talks/#2009_stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; (note that the slides also include links to jsbin.com to view and play with the demos live)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138033" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T21:48:50.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-11-01T22:07:08.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally able to write mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Memorable&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff Atwood’s talk about social skill for developers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;YQL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scripting Languages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WiFi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neutral&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jQuery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iPhone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nokia Qt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;KeyNote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Venue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Android&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel’s sales talks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lunch/Catering&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Audio/Video&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wrote an extensive review on my blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2009/11/01/stackoverflow-devdays-in-london.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2009/11/01/stackoverflow-devdays-in-london.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138078" LastEditorUserId="138078" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T08:24:43.217" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T08:24:43.217" />
  <row Id="28074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28083" CreationDate="2009-11-01T22:22:49.900" Score="3" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I wonder if someone could please clarify;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to emulate the voting mechanism used by stack overflow in my own website (ie users simply click a + or - and the vote is registered)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't planning on using &quot;reputation&quot; to start with but that's a possibility at a later date&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please clarify if this is allowed? Where can I find copyright/licensing information. I don't want to use the ideas from SO without permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135956" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T02:13:46.077" Title="Stack Overflow Rating System Copyright" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-01T22:30:35.103" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can copyright ideas like this, despite some US patent lawyer's best efforts, only their implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T22:30:35.103" />
  <row Id="28078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-01T22:40:35.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ideas here are already used in numerous other systems; the Stackoverflow team has said from the beginning their badges and reputation points system is based on XBOX LIVE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T22:40:35.297" />
  <row Id="28079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-01T22:40:52.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do it on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://cznp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; (but in a difference sense)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can copyright stuff like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T22:40:52.143" />
  <row Id="28080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29548" CreationDate="2009-11-01T22:42:04.123" Score="16" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if it wouldn't. :) If it knows how to autocomplete the name, why doesn't it save the actual name? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131078" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:15:51.963" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:38:36.093" Title="Why does careers location field change Jyväskylä to Jyvaskyla?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28080" CreationDate="2009-11-01T22:45:28.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC they're using a 3rd party location library. So it might be some bug there. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24962/careers-wont-let-me-list-reykjavik-iceland-as-location&quot;&gt;(See my other post with an issue in it)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T22:45:28.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:11:52.827" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be careful -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10630/will-stack-overflow-sue-me/10637#10637&quot;&gt;our crack legal team will be watching you!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T23:11:52.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:20:50.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to these other points, sites like Digg and Reddit were around long before SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138160" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T23:20:50.783" />
  <row Id="28085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:23:56.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this doco about some advertising guy in the 70s, his motto was &quot;Its easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;live&lt;/strong&gt; by this motto these days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody will just sue you out of the blue, its too expensive. They will send you a cease and desist first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The likelyhood of Jeff sending you such a letter is close to 0. He believes in mashing up ideas, the flagging system on SO is a mashup of ideas from craigslist, the badge system is a borrowed from the xbox 360.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, you will not be sued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO != &lt;a href=&quot;http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&amp;amp;NR=5960411&amp;amp;KC=&amp;amp;FT=E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T23:23:56.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28070" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:47:30.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have added logos for the various credit / debit cards we accept.  This will be pushed out in the next release.  Thanks for the feedback!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T23:47:30.523" />
  <row Id="28087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:47:59.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copyrights, at least in the United States, can't be applied to the voting system of stackoverflow. If you were going to try and protect it, it would have to be in the form of some kind of a patent. Probably in this case, it would be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%5F%28patent%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;method patent&lt;/a&gt; since so many of the individual aspects would fall under prior art and &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be patentable as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%5Fpatent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;design patent&lt;/a&gt;. However, generally speaking, to get a patent on something, the patent must be applied for (not necessarily granted) prior to public disclosure of the concept/idea otherwise it becomes no longer patentable and effectively into the public domain. So, in the end, unless a patent of some kind is already in process that we don't know about, you are good to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: The look of the site (not how it functions) can be and &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; actually copyrighted as you can see at the footer of each page, so you have to be careful not to plagiarize the graphic design of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1553" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T02:13:46.077" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T02:13:46.077" />
  <row Id="28088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28090" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:49:07.797" Score="0" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know you can find unanswered, but is there an easy way to find questions with a selected answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135942" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T00:40:12.460" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T00:40:12.460" Title="Can one find questions with selected answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28005" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:50:29.227" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My $0.02 .. hopefully I will clear things up a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible to prevent editing of my posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.  Understand that on Stack Overflow (as on Wikipedia), collaboration is &lt;strong&gt;DESIRED&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you are not OK with this model, don't submit questions or answers.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better approach is to write questions with sufficient care that others don't feel the need to edit.  It won't take long for you to figure that out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I retaliate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;strong&gt;respond&lt;/strong&gt; by undoing the edits or making further edits to clarify your meaning.  You can also use the comment feature to ask an editor to explain or to indicate why you don't agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;strong&gt;retaliate&lt;/strong&gt; in some negative manner you will probably be quietly removed from the site by a moderator.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can I file a complaint?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes .. you can flag the post/comment for moderator attention and indicate why you are bothered by the edit.  If it happens repeatedly, the moderators have tools and protocols for dealing with nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can people with reputation do anything they want on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  As you get reputation you are given more privileges on the site.  The rep thresholds and privileges are listed in the faq; they are different on Meta, Stack Overflow and Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastEditorUserId="9852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T00:00:00.597" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T00:00:00.597" />
  <row Id="28090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28088" CreationDate="2009-11-01T23:54:44.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If by selected you mean accepted, slip this into your search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3A1&quot; title=&quot;can haz big tix?&quot;&gt;hasaccepted:1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more like this, simply &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot; title=&quot;but beware the chaffing&quot;&gt;consult the ninjas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-01T23:54:44.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28092" CreationDate="2009-11-02T00:19:21.060" Score="1" ViewCount="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I login to SO, I get a recent activity link like this:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/recent/21955/2009-11-01/2009-11-02?tab=responses&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I get to this page from the menu, and not using the link I get when I logged in.&#xA;(It is a better view than the one I have in the profile).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137531" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T00:25:50.917" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T00:25:50.917" Title="Getting to the Recent Activity page from the menu" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28091" CreationDate="2009-11-02T00:21:30.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get to that page at any time - just click the envelope &lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/replies-off.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&gt; at the top of the page and click the &quot;responses&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T00:21:30.403" />
  <row Id="28094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2009-11-02T01:20:15.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, SO does not own a patent covering a &quot;method of scoring answers&quot; or &quot;method of calculating value of user submitted content&quot; , or anything of the sort. This is one of the biggest reasons why the term &lt;strong&gt;intellectual property&lt;/strong&gt; is so dangerous, its ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When implementing some kind of new software, you should have the diligence to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I violating another's &lt;strong&gt;copyright&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I violating another's &lt;strong&gt;patent&lt;/strong&gt;(s)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I violating another's &lt;strong&gt;trademark&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copyright pertains to written works (which could later be performed in some way, i.e. by acting them out or recording as a song). Software is a written work. Unless you have the actual source code to SO itself, you are in no danger of violating copyright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO (afaik) does not hold a patent on any part of the user process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't call your site stackoverflows or serverfaults, even just out of being a good neighbor. I'm not sure if either name is trade marked, If they got a trade mark for Stack Overflow, they had a really good lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its worth taking some time to understand the differences between the three topics that are covered by the term intellectual property. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T01:20:15.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28096" CreationDate="2009-11-02T02:28:45.583" Score="0" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I access SO from home in Firefox (under Ubuntu), it underlines in red my spelling misteaks (and there are many). But when I use IE8 (under XP) on a different machine, I do not get that functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how SO is doing that and why it might not be working in IE? All the other fancy Javascripty things work fine in IE, just not the spell checking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T02:35:41.607" Title="How do I enable spell checking for SO in IE8?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;&lt;ie8&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28095" CreationDate="2009-11-02T02:35:41.607" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spell checking is a browser specific feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not up to Stack Overflow to enable spell checking.  Just use a different browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T02:35:41.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2009-11-02T04:06:37.567" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As usual I'm late to the party... :-)  The inline image sucks (auto sizing and all that)... see the full image at &lt;a href=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3913/so404proposal.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imageshack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3913/so404proposal.png&quot; alt=&quot;Error 404&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;Actually given some more thought to this (even though the bounty is over, I would do the 404 page as an actual question.  Asked by &quot;Community&quot; or &quot;StackOverflow.com&quot;.  The text of the question would be the text/links on the current 404 page (and maybe the winning image from this question).  And for fun I would allow users to actually answer the question.  Imagine the chaos that could ensue... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T07:16:59.187" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T07:16:59.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T04:06:37.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T04:40:07.240" Score="1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I lost my old stack overflow id with new openid changes. how can i get it back ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T12:31:35.717" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T12:32:17.617" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T07:13:52.860" Title="Lost my actual Stackoverflow ID" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28099" CreationDate="2009-11-02T04:46:19.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best write a mail to &lt;code&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; with information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T04:46:19.570" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T04:53:40.527" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;For long code, what should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;write down all the code in body content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Parse the snippet and link the rest of it using pastebin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post the pastebin URL only.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, how long is &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134397" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T06:07:55.320" Title="How should I display long code in question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28103" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T05:20:51.803" Score="2" ViewCount="5618" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a small script that I needed, and feel that I should share the community. I'm sorry if you find something extremely unpythonic or a bad practice, but it's a quick and dirty script and I should have gone to sleep a few hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It creates a new SQLite db if needed, creates all the tables, and dumps the dump in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without more presentation, my WTF of the date:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sqlite3&#xA;import os&#xA;import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree&#xA;import logging&#xA;&#xA;ANATHOMY = {&#xA;    'badges': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'name':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'date':'DATETIME',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'comments': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'PostId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Score':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Text':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'posts': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER', &#xA;    	'PostTypeId':'INTEGER', # 1: Question, 2: Answer&#xA;    	'ParentID':'INTEGER', # (only present if PostTypeId is 2)&#xA;    	'AcceptedAnswerId':'INTEGER', # (only present if PostTypeId is 1)&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'Score':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'ViewCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Body':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'OwnerUserId':'INTEGER', # (present only if user has not been deleted) &#xA;    	'LastEditorUserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'LastEditorDisplayName':'TEXT', #=&quot;Rich B&quot; &#xA;    	'LastEditDate':'DATETIME', #=&quot;2009-03-05T22:28:34.823&quot; &#xA;    	'LastActivityDate':'DATETIME', #=&quot;2009-03-11T12:51:01.480&quot; &#xA;    	'CommunityOwnedDate':'DATETIME', #(present only if post is community wikied)&#xA;    	'Title':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Tags':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'AnswerCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'CommentCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'FavoriteCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'ClosedDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'votes': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'PostId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'VoteTypeId':'INTEGER',&#xA;           # -   1: AcceptedByOriginator&#xA;           # -   2: UpMod&#xA;           # -   3: DownMod&#xA;           # -   4: Offensive&#xA;           # -   5: Favorite&#xA;           # -   6: Close&#xA;           # -   7: Reopen&#xA;           # -   8: BountyStart&#xA;           # -   9: BountyClose&#xA;           # -  10: Deletion&#xA;           # -  11: Undeletion&#xA;           # -  12: Spam&#xA;           # -  13: InformModerator&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'users': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Reputation':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'DisplayName':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'LastAccessDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'WebsiteUrl':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Location':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Age':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'AboutMe':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Views':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'UpVotes':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'DownVotes':'INTEGER',&#xA;  },&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;def dump_files(file_names, anathomy, &#xA;    			dump_path='c:\\temp\\', &#xA;    			dump_database_name = 'so-dump.db',&#xA;    			create_query='CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS [{table}]({fields})',&#xA;    			insert_query='INSERT INTO {table} ({columns}) VALUES ({values})',&#xA;    			log_filename='so-parser.log'):&#xA;&#xA;    logging.basicConfig(filename=os.path.join(dump_path, log_filename),level=logging.INFO)&#xA;    db = sqlite3.connect(os.path.join(dump_path, dump_database_name))&#xA;&#xA;    for file in file_names:&#xA;    	print &quot;Opening {0}.xml&quot;.format(file)&#xA;    	with open(os.path.join(dump_path, file + '.xml')) as xml_file:&#xA;    		tree = etree.iterparse(xml_file)&#xA;    		table_name = file&#xA;&#xA;    		sql_create = create_query.format(&#xA;    							table=table_name, &#xA;    							fields=&quot;, &quot;.join(['{0} {1}'.format(name, type) for name, type in anathomy[table_name].items()]))&#xA;    		print('Creating table {0}'.format(table_name))&#xA;&#xA;    		try:&#xA;    			logging.info(sql_create)&#xA;    			db.execute(sql_create)&#xA;    		except Exception, e:&#xA;    			logging.warning(e)&#xA;&#xA;    		for events, row in tree:&#xA;    			try:&#xA;    				logging.debug(row.attrib.keys())&#xA;&#xA;    				db.execute(insert_query.format(&#xA;    							table=table_name, &#xA;    							columns=', '.join(row.attrib.keys()), &#xA;    							values=('?, ' * len(row.attrib.keys()))[:-2]),&#xA;    							row.attrib.values())&#xA;    				print &quot;.&quot;,&#xA;    			except Exception, e:&#xA;    				logging.warning(e)&#xA;    				print &quot;x&quot;,&#xA;    			finally:&#xA;    				row.clear()&#xA;    		print &quot;\n&quot;&#xA;    		db.commit()&#xA;    		del(tree)&#xA;&#xA;if __name__ == '__main__':&#xA;    dump_files(ANATHOMY.keys(), ANATHOMY)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to make any suggestions. I'll try to improve on it, but as it is now, it &lt;em&gt;Works on my machine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blogs.reuters.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/python300.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;I'll go to bed now, with my lovely snake.&quot; title=&quot;I'll go to bed now, with my lovely snake.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Correctly working, never using more than 200 MB for the dump.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;timeit&lt;/code&gt; pending, but fast enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Kyle Cronin for making me wonder if I was on the right path. My previous algorithm had important problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This script uses &lt;code&gt;lxml&lt;/code&gt;, that allows you to have only one node in memory at a time, avoiding the need of &lt;del&gt;using regexes for parsing &lt;code&gt;XML&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/del&gt;committing a sin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T22:29:37.377" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T22:29:37.377" Title="Python script to import/create SQLite3 database from SO data dump" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;scripts&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="28105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28099" CreationDate="2009-11-02T05:30:42.643" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can almost certainly recover this relatively easily, but you'll need to give us somewhere to start - what was your account called, for example? &quot;here&quot; (meta), or a moderator flag on SO may be quicker than the e-mail approach (heck, I'm here now...). We'll also need to confirm that it is your account. Then we can just merge with your new SO account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/92076/somasekhar&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is your account, then you just need to use the subdomain. I've e-mailed your openid to your listed e-mail address (from the old account).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: confirmed via e-mail discussion and merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T12:32:17.617" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T12:32:17.617" />
  <row Id="28107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28102" CreationDate="2009-11-02T05:37:08.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally you should make it short enough to fit in the normal question length.  I've yet to see a good reason for more than about 80 lines of source in a question on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T05:37:08.433" />
  <row Id="28108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28110" CreationDate="2009-11-02T05:43:58.860" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be some ordering. And I just checked, it is not according to the time the answer was given. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the ordering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T04:28:25.157" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T04:28:25.157" Title="How are the answers with equal up-votes arranged on a page in SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;answer-order&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28108" CreationDate="2009-11-02T05:45:15.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ordering of answers with the same score is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late/17606#17606&quot;&gt;random&lt;/a&gt; when ordering by votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We now sort answers of the same score, randomly, per this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T05:45:15.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28108" CreationDate="2009-11-02T05:47:01.740" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers with the same vote total are put in random order unless there are more than 30 answers, in which case the order is net votes then oldest to newest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late/17606#17606&quot;&gt;How to give some boost to some really good answers that arrive late?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We now sort answers of the same score,&#xA;  randomly, per this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in response to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West&lt;/a&gt; &quot;problem&quot; (I say that because I don't think it's a problem at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change caused a problem with questions that had more than one page of answers. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18931/random-sort-order-results-in-answers-being-lost-as-the-user-changes-to-a-differ/18937#18937&quot;&gt;Random sort order results in answers being “lost” as the user changes to a different page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When there are more than (pagination&#xA;  limit) answers, the randomization&#xA;  sub-order is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been one of SO's more &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;controversial changes&lt;/a&gt; and (imho) not a positive one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T05:54:25.893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T05:54:25.893" />
  <row Id="28111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28102" CreationDate="2009-11-02T05:57:44.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should keep the code to the minimum capable to explain your inquiry/problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; than 100 lines is too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should always try to post the smallest possible code showing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T05:57:44.513" />
  <row Id="28112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28102" CreationDate="2009-11-02T06:07:55.320" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; that much code to ask a question, the question is probably wrong. Or, at least, a bad fit for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T06:07:55.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26557" CreationDate="2009-11-02T06:21:51.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28103/python-script-to-import-create-sqlite3-database-from-so-data-dump&quot;&gt;slow Python script&lt;/a&gt; to import the dump to a SQLite3 database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's designed to run on my RAMless netbook, so it doesn't make a single &lt;code&gt;COMMIT&lt;/code&gt; for all &lt;code&gt;INSERT&lt;/code&gt;s, but rather &lt;code&gt;COMMIT&lt;/code&gt;s every &lt;code&gt;INSERT&lt;/code&gt;. I'll make a fast RAM sucker version tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T06:21:51.770" />
  <row Id="28115" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28116" CreationDate="2009-11-02T08:57:54.480" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27714/profile-picture-problem&quot;&gt;Profile Picture Problem&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something wrong with the site, none of the avatars are being displayed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T09:04:32.487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T09:04:32.487" ClosedDate="2009-11-02T11:07:56.743" Title="Avatars not being displayed" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28115" CreationDate="2009-11-02T09:03:50.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a problem on your side. Hit CTRL+F5. If they still do not show up, maybe your employer blocked gravatar.com with some filter rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T09:03:50.023" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9711" CreationDate="2009-11-02T10:17:48.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi Jeff,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am getting the same problem while sending mails to our clients. What changes you made? Please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Ram&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T10:17:48.487" />
  <row Id="28118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28120" CreationDate="2009-11-02T10:44:01.700" Score="0" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently signed up with careers.stackoverflow and after I paid my membership, setup my CV, filed it and publicly published it, I see some numbers (I assume some statistics) on the Status page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of them are self explanatory, but others are a bit ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 Employers&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does this mean there are 12 employers on careers.stackoverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have 12 employers viewed my CV?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest seem related to my profile, as in &quot;the amount of views my public CV has had&quot; etc, it's just this employer one that has me stumped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130807" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-21T12:19:54.130" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T12:19:54.130" Title="What are the numbers on the status page of Careers.stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1577" CreationDate="2009-11-02T10:45:22.693" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is partially implemented. You'll get async notifications during editing, if someone else saves a revision &lt;em&gt;during&lt;/em&gt; your editing. These notifications ping the server every 45 seconds to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, we now prevent edit collisions on &lt;strong&gt;save&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you click &quot;Save Edits&quot;, if the post changed while you were editing, we now return:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Warning! You're editing an old revision. If you save it, you will effectively roll back to this old version of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;{username} edited {tags / body / title} of this post; try refreshing this post and editing again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is specific to the area in question, so one user can edit body and you can edit tags without conflicting. (Or title, etc). It's only when you both edit the same field at the same time this error is returned on save.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qmXLQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qmXLQ.png&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of warning messages&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-13T11:35:42.190" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T11:35:42.190" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28118" CreationDate="2009-11-02T11:07:12.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does this mean there are 12 employers on careers.stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's just a total count of subscribed employers at the moment. We'll be fleshing this out over the next week in a big way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T11:07:12.377" />
  <row Id="28121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T11:19:13.930" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4545/strange-formatting-on-questions-page&quot;&gt;Strange formatting on questions page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the following screenshot of a question snippet: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://media.dominicrodger.com/quirk.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The layout quirk is that the end of the question summary/preview ends up on a new line all by itself and floating to the right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occurs in Chrome 3.0, Firefox 3.5, IE 8 (note that the question referenced in the above image has been edited, which means the bug doesn't show up if you look for that question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-07T02:41:03.080" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T02:41:03.080" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T08:45:21.247" Title="Layout quirk on questions page - Preview/summary displacement" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;question-summary&gt;&lt;question-preview&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T11:40:38.307" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even I accept answer the accept rate is displayed as zero.I dont know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T11:56:27.697" Title="Why my accept rate is zero?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;clarification&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T11:43:27.037" Score="8" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6022/display-where-has-the-question-been-migrated-on-the-title-instead-of-just-closed&quot;&gt;Display where has the question been migrated on the title instead of just [closed] (this q isn&amp;rsquo;t closed!)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6975/favourited-migrated-questions-appear-as-having-no-answers&quot;&gt;Favourited, migrated questions appear as having no answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question has been closed in stack overflow it is not possible to know without opening the question if it was a bad question or a good question that has been moved to one of the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that questions that have been moved have a [Moved] tag put next to the question, and possibly that that tag be clickable and take you straight to the question in the new site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T03:32:30.887" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T03:32:30.887" ClosedDate="2009-11-02T12:32:19.490" Title="[Moved] not [Closed]" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28122" CreationDate="2009-11-02T11:44:07.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accept rate is only updated periodically, I believe - if you've accepted an answer &lt;em&gt;just now&lt;/em&gt; then wait a while and it should update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if you accept a CW answer, I don't &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; that affects anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you could let us now which account you're talking about, that would help :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Okay, having looked into it a bit more, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;found the original blog post&lt;/a&gt; I think the problem is that the questions are too new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've only accepted answers to the &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; questions - whereas only questions 3 days old (or older) count for either acceptance or non-acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T11:56:27.697" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T11:56:27.697" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28121" CreationDate="2009-11-02T12:05:53.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not true for FireFox 3.5.4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/9190/nottrueff.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T12:05:53.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28132" CreationDate="2009-11-02T13:01:49.033" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to find my page on the users page / jump over there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137531" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T13:56:14.327" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T14:34:39.407" Title="Can I find my page on the Users page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;users-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28131" CreationDate="2009-11-02T13:11:53.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far you can't. Obviously it is sort of a binary search, and it is quite a hassle when you have low reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not need up to date accuracy or just want a good guess for a starting point, look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4179/data-dump-sandbox&quot;&gt;sandbox&lt;/a&gt;. Get your position in there and divide by 35 (Thanks, Chris).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T14:34:39.407" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27151" CreationDate="2009-11-02T13:15:49.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prof. Wilson's talk, &lt;em&gt;The Bits of Evidence&lt;/em&gt;, got the most applause from the audience.  It was a great idea to allocate one slot to an &quot;academic&quot; speaker so that we all could step back from products, languages, and frameworks and look at the big picture.  Greg Wilson showed numerous examples of how the software field is not up to the same standards of scientific proof as evidence-based medicine and how things are changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Python talk (by Jordan Baker) was also very engaging.  The speaker could have easily spent one hour going over the syntax of various language statements, but instead, fortunately, he chose one problem that is not trivial, but can be solved effectively using the unique powers of Python.  I am referring, of course, to the spelling-correction problem (&quot;did you mean...?&quot;) and Norvig's algorithm.  The speaker then built the algorithm from ground up, line-by-line.  That was a great introduction to Python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure Reginald Braithwaite's talk on metalinguistic programming got some people in the audience to rethink their thinking about thinking about thinking about programming.  The entire presentation was written in Ruby syntax, which was very very cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Frameworks talks&quot; (on ASP.NET MVC and jQuery) were not as exciting, but contained a lot of useful information and the speakers definitely knew their topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel's keynote was quite entertaining: many examples of how to simplify a software product by removing decisions that annoy users, the acknowledgement that complex, feature-rich products make more money, the dilemma between simplicity and the need to make money, and the attempt to solve it by picking &quot;good&quot; features over &quot;bad&quot; ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, Joel also talked about Fog Creek and its products during the conference.  To me that sounded more like information (StackOverflow Jobs, FogBugz's code review features, etc. etc.) and less like a sales pitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137871" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T13:15:49.940" />
  <row Id="28134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28131" CreationDate="2009-11-02T13:17:29.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of today, you are on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=261&quot;&gt;page #261&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T13:17:29.517" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28021" CreationDate="2009-11-02T13:56:42.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Further testing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt; &lt;strong&gt;bold and struck with s and double asterisks to start things off&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;struck with s&lt;/s&gt; and not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bold with asterisks&lt;/strong&gt; and not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;bold with b&lt;/b&gt; and not &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;italics with one asterisk&lt;/em&gt; and not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;italics with i&lt;/i&gt; and not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;struck with strike&lt;/strike&gt; and not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;strong&lt;/strong&gt; and not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now some unterminated tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;struck with s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**bold with asterisks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;bold with b&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*italics with one asterisk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;italics with i&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;struck with strike&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;strong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T10:51:36.473" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:51:36.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T13:57:47.757" Score="1" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, since it could probably by done by Jeff, should Jeff provide the data dump in other formats - SQL Server, SQLite, and XML instead of just XML? I'm not sure how intensive it is, but it would probably make it easier for people looking to use or mine the dumps if it was in a multiple formats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T21:56:44.747" Title="Is there a SQLite data dump for the latest release?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="28138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-11-02T14:53:03.710" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you please announce this on the SO site. I'm getting downvoted by people who don't know that this is now in place and think that I'm trying to point people myself. Yep, I know, they should just look at the redirected URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TIA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;cheers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2974" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T14:53:03.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T14:53:03.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28144" CreationDate="2009-11-02T15:21:53.177" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;Why an answer can&amp;rsquo;t be accepted after an unresolved bounty?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1514410/why-is-the-authkey-parameter-empty&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and offered a bounty to it, alas, the users who answered the question did not meet my requirements. couple of days after the bounty already ended a user answered the question right, I wanted to check this answer as the right one, but I can't!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136080" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:23:12.220" ClosedDate="2009-11-02T15:34:23.197" Title="Bounty question answered right after 20 days or so" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27944" CreationDate="2009-11-02T15:23:43.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never been the type to post a question only to answer it myself. Even though this is encouraged, I feel that if i was to do this then it was never really a question from the beginning if I already had the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only been in a few cases where I answered my own question. This is when I ask a question and receive answers that might be on the right track; but not correct was a case when I came to answer my own question. Reason was to  give the accurate answer to my question for others who could come looking for answers after finding my question. When I have done that though I would comment on the posted answer that put me in the best position to answer my question and give reason why their answer was not accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137962" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T15:23:43.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28141" CreationDate="2009-11-02T15:25:53.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;You can't&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the bounty period is over, if you don't select an answer or one isn't auto-select by votes (at least +2) then you forfeit ever being able to select one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T15:27:34.740" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T15:27:34.740" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28141" CreationDate="2009-11-02T15:33:20.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bounty action is a one way ticket.  Once you buy it, you cannot change your mind later.  The selected answer becomes irrevocably permanent.  If you don't choose an answer and there is one answer with at least two upvotes, then one will be chosen for you and it cannot be changed.  If there is no answer with at least two upvotes then no answer will be chosen, and you will not be able to select one later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you are still free to edit the question or add comments, so if the bounty has locked down the answer, but you feel a better answer has come along, feel free to add comments, or even point out the better answer at the bottom of the question with a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe that the selected answer is flat out wrong and may lead to errors in the future, flag the question and make a note for the moderators with your reasoning.  They can fix individual problems like this when absolutely necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, once you start a bounty you are locked in to the consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T02:23:12.220" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:23:12.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24967" CreationDate="2009-11-02T15:40:15.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this too, and I think I've figured out why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The careers site appears to save fields as part of a blur event on the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I imagine happens, is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you type the first however many characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;autocomplete dropdown appears&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you click the autocomplete dropdown&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;blur event triggers on the input field, the content of the input field gets saved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the content of the input field gets replaced from autocomplete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since another blur event doesn't get triggered on the field, the autocomplete data doesn't get saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The work-around seems to be not to use the mouse the select options from the autocomplete dropdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1170" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T15:40:15.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T15:47:20.633" Score="5" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, after reading about some advertising discussion I decided to allow ads to be served to me at specific sites that I frequent. Because I recognize there &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%5Fain%27t%5Fno%5Fsuch%5Fthing%5Fas%5Fa%5Ffree%5Flunch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;is no free lunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally started blocking because of ads that are &quot;jarring&quot;, offensive, clutter the site or hide the content. Flashing ads or animated ads especially get no love from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have left ads on for quite a while on StackOverflow but one ad in particular keeps coming up and getting in my way visually. It is for that reason that I have turned Adblock back on. If an ad gets in the way or makes me want to stay away from the site, I would prefer to block then leave the community stop visiting the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a user of StackOverflow, I want to inform both the StackOverflow management and community of my actions and ask for advice. This question is not meant as flame bait or as an insult, but hopefully to improve everyone's experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with the ad in question other then completely blocking the ads on this site? How do you deal with these ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136262" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T17:34:47.303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:32:43.657" Title="Advertising on Stack Overflow and Adblock" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T16:10:33.370" Score="-1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21793/why-isnt-my-gravatar-image-updating&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;rsquo;t my Gravatar image updating?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed my display pic on gravatar more than 2 days ago; but triology websites dont yet reflect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55562" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:05:21.363" ClosedDate="2009-11-02T22:06:00.707" Title="Display Pic not changing 48 hours later" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28151" CreationDate="2009-11-02T16:21:33.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to log out of Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravatar doesn't seem to invalidate its cache until you are logged out. Either by doing so manually, or waiting for the session to expire (on their end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually prevented the cache from being invalidated, by continuing to visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gravatar.com&lt;/a&gt; everyday. I didn't realize at the time it was preventing the site from invalidating the cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21793/why-isnt-my-gravatar-image-updating/21816#21816&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:05:21.363" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:05:21.363" />
  <row Id="28153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T16:27:07.113" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot;&gt;Can we disallow the use of &amp;ldquo;belongs-on-xxxxxxx&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;not-programming-related&amp;rdquo; tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Duplicate of:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot;&gt;Can we disallow the use of “belongs-on-xxxxxxx” and “not-programming-related” tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an official position on this? Do we or don't we like adding &quot;belongs-on-x&quot; tags when closing? Personally I don't like it at all, since it's editing the question itself to support the closer's opinion, which hasn't been validated by the community yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="67" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T17:11:53.663" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:36:57.380" ClosedDate="2009-11-02T19:48:52.600" Title="&quot;belongs-on&quot; tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2009-11-02T16:33:06.027" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;A Bounty&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty action is a one way ticket. Once you buy it, you cannot change your mind later. The selected answer becomes irrevocably permanent. If you don't choose an answer, then one will be chosen for you, and that cannot be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Wrong Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may find that an answer is selected for you if you don't select one by the time the bounty ends, or that after you've selected an imperfect answer something better comes along later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, you can't change the 'answer.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you are still free to edit the question or add comments, so if the bounty has locked down the answer, but you feel a better answer has come along, feel free to add comments, or even point out the better answer at the bottom of the question with a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe that the selected answer is flat out wrong and may lead to errors in the future, flag the question and make a note for the moderators with your reasoning. They can fix individual problems like this when absolutely necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, once you start a bounty you are locked in to the consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cost of The Bounty&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are unhappy that you lost reputation and didn't receive a valid solution to your problem, keep in mind that the bounty you paid is an &lt;strong&gt;incentive to others&lt;/strong&gt;, not a &lt;strong&gt;guarantee to you&lt;/strong&gt;.  You are paying for &lt;em&gt;greater exposure&lt;/em&gt;, and you certainly received it.  You are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; paying for a better answer - merely the possibility of a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T16:33:06.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28153" CreationDate="2009-11-02T16:37:26.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you.  I don't see what purpose the tags serve.  Is anyone going to search for posts based on a &quot;belongs-on-x&quot; tag?  I don't see why they would.  They just cause a little more work when a post does get migrated and the now silly looking tag needs to be removed.  I remove them when I see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T16:37:26.237" />
  <row Id="28158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28153" CreationDate="2009-11-02T16:52:35.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I believe a feature is in the works to prevent users tagging things as &lt;code&gt;belongs-on-x&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;), I think they should not be used. Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; details how to deal with occurrences of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T16:52:35.900" />
  <row Id="28159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:03:06.677" Score="8" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28137/the-woot-ad-has-inspired-me-to-turn-ad-block-back-on-for-stack-overflow-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was closed...since you can't read it now, it was basically a comment by a user that they found an ad irritating enough that they were turning on ad-blocking in their browser.  This created some discussion in some comments, and the question was closed as &quot;blatantly offensive.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People closing the question as offensive seems odd to me, but they have the rep to do it, and it's certainly their right to do so.  What I don't understand is why it was deleted.  It implies that it high level moderators of some kind must have agreed that it was offensive, but I'm not clear on how.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user made a comment near the end of the comment stream that read like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is not providing 'feedback', nor is it open for &#xA;      discussion. The user is telling us he is violating the social&#xA;      contract with this site. There is no question and no discussion&#xA;      here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this seems a bit counterintuitive to me, but since the question was closed and deleted, obviously many people must either agree, or have related feelings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do people (users? owners?) feel that the users of this site have an implicit &quot;social contract&quot; to not hide the ads of the site?  Are there other aspects to this social&#xA;contract?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T17:13:03.897" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:59:19.043" Title="Do we have a &quot;Social Contract&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="28160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:05:03.973" Score="6" ViewCount="701" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you attended DevDays in Amsterdam, please post your thoughts about it here. Links to blogs, etc. are also welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;DevDays reviews&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24994/devdays-reviews-boston&quot;&gt;Boston&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 7th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26047/reviews-of-devdays-austin&quot;&gt;Austin&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 14th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26293/devdays-reviews-los-angeles&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 16th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26536/devdays-reviews-in-san-francisco&quot;&gt;San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 19th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26873/devdays-reviews-seattle&quot;&gt;Seattle&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 21st)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27151/devdays-reviews-toronto&quot;&gt;Toronto&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 23rd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27367/devdays-reviews-washington-dc&quot;&gt;Washington DC&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 26th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;London&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 28th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27959/devdays-reviews-cambridge&quot;&gt;Cambridge&lt;/a&gt; (Oct 30th)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amsterdam&lt;/strong&gt; (Nov 2nd)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6399" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T08:47:13.897" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T08:50:33.310" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Amsterdam" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:05:54.017" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because he re-posted the same &quot;discussion&quot; with much more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28149/advertising-on-stack-overflow-and-adblock&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28149/advertising-on-stack-overflow-and-adblock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marc deleted the old one, cause it was just a statement with ranting comments. The new one is a much better written explanation of his logic and thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to answer your question: No, there is no &quot;social contract&quot;. You are not obligated to do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:05:54.017" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:06:10.053" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no such contract. No one is under any obligation to look at ads, social or otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:06:10.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28167" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:14:15.640" Score="0" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I want to ask something like &quot;Is it a List&amp;lt;String&amp;gt; or a List&amp;lt;Question&amp;gt;?&quot; it gets printed as &quot;Is it a List or a List?&quot; which obviously doesn't make any sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can surely replace &amp;lt; by &amp;amp;lt; and &gt; by &amp;amp;gt; to present the question the way I want, but that adds that extra effort I actually don't want to put in and I also don't think about it everytime so I only spot it when I actually posted the question which adds the extra irritation to discover the need that your question needs to be edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't there any tag/feature/option to disable Markdown? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or better, just disable it forever (as every decent forum does) and only allow users to write HTML when posted in a certain tag, e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[html]You &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;may&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; write &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;HTML&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; here.[/html]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:34:04.730" Title="How to disable Markdown feature?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="28164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28163" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:18:10.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of disabling Markdown, you should learn to use it properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it a &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;String&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or a &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;Question&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know how to use Markdown, it is easy enough to format just about anything you wanna say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is some more information regarding the Markdown editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:18:10.560" />
  <row Id="28165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28153" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:21:52.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, the official position from Jeff is that belongs-on-* should not even exist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4128/change-the-belongs-on-serverfault-tag-when-a-question-is-moved-to-serverfault/4211#4211&quot;&gt;you're not going deep enough: these tags should not exist, period.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I swear I thought there was also another answer of Jeff's on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22087/belongs-on-tags/22099#22099&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; ... But I do not see it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about as close to official policy as we can get. I started retagging a bunch of &lt;code&gt;[belongs-on-superuser]&lt;/code&gt;-tagged items last week when I started seeing it a lot on SO. (Mostly guys who just got the ability to retag.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:21:52.393" />
  <row Id="28166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:23:38.007" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no social contract. However, there's a basic and obvious game theory would suggest that if you circumvent the site's means to generate revenue (which is ads) while using up the site's resources (bandwidth, effort of its paid staff), you are contributing to the site's demise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it may be a winning &lt;strong&gt;tactics&lt;/strong&gt; for an individual user, it is a losing strategy (e.g. the stable equilibrium is for the site to close down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:23:38.007" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28163" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:27:34.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you're discussing code items, would you consider using the inline code tags to describe them? EG, you refer to a &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;String&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and a &lt;code&gt;List&amp;lt;Question&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;; without any extra effort (aside from two characters, one at each side of the formatted string), you can have exactly what you want with Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You simply wrap the text in backticks (on US standard QWERTY keyboards, that's under the tilde, just to the left of the 1: &quot;`&quot;). Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:27:34.583" />
  <row Id="28169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:32:11.520" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a &quot;social contract&quot; between the angler and the fish? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. The fish sees the bait and goes for a meal. The angler hopes the hidden hook catches the fish, but the fish is under no obligation to swallow it - if the fish ignores the baited hook... or eats the bait and leaves the hook... then the angler will just have to try again. He might try tastier bait, or he might resort to gaudy lures... He might become impatient and scare even hungry fish away, or he might become frustrated and leave. But this is no concern of the fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:32:11.520" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28170" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28173" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:33:34.997" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago (but still in the same galaxy) I answered a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/748939/field-max-length-in-entity-framwork/749013#749013&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about LINQ and the Entity Framework.  I wrote an answer -- and if you check the times the answer had sat for nearly 20 minutes before I answered and it was the only answer for several days -- that referenced how I solved a similar problem with LINQ to SQL.  I prefaced my answer with the fact that I hadn't used EF so my answer may not apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I got a snide comment and a downvote, presumably from the same person, basically indicating that I shouldn't have answered since I didn't know what I was talking about.  I was tempted to delete the answer but the answer was seemingly helpful to the OP  and could be helpful to others who end up at the question looking for a LINQ to SQL solution.  The OP later answered his own question with a solution that uses the same pattern as mine, but is specific to EF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering, though, should I leave the answer -- including said downvote and snide remark -- or delete it now that the question has a proper, accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:24:40.350" Title="Should I remove an answer that was helpful, but not absolutely correct?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="28171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28163" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:34:04.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you, the backticks do the work nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting the entire story in a code block as suggested by jjnguy makes no sense. It's not part of code, it's just part of a textual/paraphrased answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:34:04.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64986" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:37:31.447" Score="2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like some way to get notices of comments people make to my (questions, answers, comments), as well as changes to my reputation.  Any chance that this could be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I could script something up to scrape the webpage, but that's a lot less friendly than having it built in :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127120" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T18:50:56.667" Title="RSS feed of reputation changes? Comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28170" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:40:44.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option is to edit it to say what you just said here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:40:44.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28170" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:41:16.120" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's ok since you posted a theoretical solution, albeit not a 1-1 with the technology in question.  I've posted many things (on SF) that I admit were not direct answers, but ways of helping the OP along the path of discovering the correct answer.  Some of these are even accepted by the OP.  Not everyone's going to agree with that methodology (thus your downvote...), but if it helps I don't see a problem in keeping it around.  Not that you'd be worried about the rep, but you can CW it :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:41:16.120" />
  <row Id="28176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28170" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:41:41.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tough call. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand that you feel like you're taking a black eye on your &quot;reputation.&quot; The answer doesn't have the &lt;em&gt;appearance&lt;/em&gt; of being helpful based on the lingering down-vote and the comments. But I cannot comment technically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that the answer might help someone in the future, you can say &quot;screw the voting&quot; and leave it. Edit your post to include the information you discussed here. But, from the lack of &quot;appreciative tone&quot; in the comments and voting, I can understand that you might feel like taking your ball and going home (delete). Truthfully, that's probably what I would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:41:41.377" />
  <row Id="28177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:47:29.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only 'Social Contract' I have with the Stack Overflow family of sites is to contribute content by answering questions and being nice to other users, in return I get to ask some questions each month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't feel obligated to view the ads but I don't block them. Stack Overflow ads aren't that intrusive, but if there were more of them on a page and they became a visual distraction with reduced content space then I'd perhaps choose to block them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Website operators who derive their income from ads have to walk a fine balance between catching the user's eye with an advert but without overloading them through the ad delivery mechanism/strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already benefited from the current ad delivery strategy because of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20849/thanks-to-both-stackoverflow-and-telerik-for-the-awesome-promotion&quot;&gt;free Telerik controls&lt;/a&gt; promotion, blocking them would've meant I'd likely have missed out (had it not been discussed on Meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:47:29.433" />
  <row Id="28179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28149" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:49:38.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I recall in the previous, but now deleted thread, it was the Woot advertisements in particular that were causing some pain.  If it is the same Woot advertisements that annoy me, then I tend to agree that it is visually getting in the way.  I've found a couple of the ads from Woot that I don't particularly care for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25005/has-anyone-clicked-the-new-woot-ads&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if my dislike would warrant blocking all advertisements on the site with an adblocker, especially since they are fairly random.  Any pain that this causes can be quickly solved with a refresh, I'm not sure it warrants spending too much development time or other time trying to make changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if folks are actually clicking on these advertisements more than others, then the companies are going to continue down this route as it is working.  If folks don't click on them, then they'll continue to make changes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/adResults-stackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;Advertisement1&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/stackoverflow-ad1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Advertisement2&quot; /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T17:57:23.673" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:57:23.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28191" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:49:47.980" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this is a duplicate. I did search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to take advantage of the three year promo, it looks like a great deal considering how well SO itself has done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite finished working on my CV. It will be a week or two (at least) until its ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I pay now and file, will my CV still remain unpublished and in draft stage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been an independent contractor for 5+ years, it takes a while to summarize and document that experience (for the morbidly curious)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please close this as its no longer relevant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T16:09:03.403" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T16:09:03.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T17:49:47.980" Title="Does filing my CV now at careers still keep it in draft stage?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T17:52:14.653" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few nice to haves for the data dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put the gravatar hash in the users.xml dump file.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Identify badges by ID like vote types are. Create another dump file for badge types that includes the name and the medal type.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a dump file for vote types.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know 2 and 3 can be gleaned from either the readme.txt file or the site itself but for automation reasons it would be much easier not to have to update the types by hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T17:52:14.653" Title="Suggestions for additional data in the data dump" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" />
  <row Id="28182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28170" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:06:03.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not applicable to the example you gave, but when I know I made a mistake, I often want to make sure the question asker (and maybe others who might post the same wrong answer) knows about that as well. Just deleting might not have that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, I often tend to leave wrong answers, using &lt;strike&gt;strikethrough&lt;/strike&gt; to indicate what was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; decide to delete it, I might still use the strikethrough and add a note like &quot;I will delete this tomorrow&quot; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:06:03.860" />
  <row Id="28183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:07:03.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'll throw in two other possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make the view-count area wider, so that it can accommodate 4-digit counts (i.e. 1000K views, 1000M views). I guess the current version is trying to keep the view-count area the same width as the votes and answer count boxes, so maybe this isn't a reasonable solution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or don't worry about representing very large values exactly. Maybe once you go over 99K views, you just display it as &quot;&gt;99K views&quot;. We already lose precision anyway once you get into the thousands, and is it really that important to know a question has exactly 100,254 views? On the other hand, if you still want to see the real view count, you could consider still displaying the total number of views in a smaller font, where &quot;thousands&quot; was displayed before.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&amp;gt;99K&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  views&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(100,254 total)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you can't spare the extra space for the &quot;&gt;&quot; character, add text above the view count to specify &quot;greater than&quot; (obviously with better alignment):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  more than&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;99K&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;views&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(100,254 total)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, then we have the same problem with how to display the total when it gets really large. Maybe we should just cap it and anything over 99K views is just displayed as &quot;&gt;99K&quot; views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still want to show the total view count somewhere, you could display the approximate view count on the questions tab, and then display the total view count only when you actually click on the question, perhaps above or below the title in a smaller font, or below the question next to the asker's information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17862" LastEditorUserId="17862" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T18:17:15.837" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:17:15.837" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:17:14.887" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;While humor on SO is rare, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/895296/how-can-you-tell-if-a-person-is-a-programmer&quot;&gt;it&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke&quot;&gt;does&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;happen&lt;/a&gt; (note, three links in 'it does happen'). I was considering compiling a 'Best Of SO' collection in HTML and PDF format, also including some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21334/compile-a-list-of-funny-comments&quot;&gt;really funny comments&lt;/a&gt; with proper attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else doing this? If not, links to funny answers to funny questions are easy to find. I'd appreciate, however, links to answers with really funny comments. I realize funny is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no time table on when this will be finished. It would just be a funny publication to serve overall community goodness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:33:11.377" Title="Anyone compiling a 'best of' SO humor?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28180" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:18:06.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paying for the service is not the same action as filing the CV. You can pay for the service and not use it if you desire it. I can confirm this, having signed up yesterday before actually finishing and filing my CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:18:06.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T18:18:06.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28184" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:24:28.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Nothing official that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data dump can be searched for popular responces if you would like. Some people have posted questions asking which were most popular and upvoted. The data dump is there for your enjoyment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to do it, go right ahead. Those kind of lists are always fun to read through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T19:21:54.540" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:21:54.540" />
  <row Id="28187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28170" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:24:40.350" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;should I leave&#xA;  the answer -- including said downvote&#xA;  and snide remark -- or delete it now&#xA;  that the question has a proper,&#xA;  accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignore the downvote and snide comment (which, in the realm of snide comments on SO was rather tame/lame) and judge the answer on it other merits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the&#xA;  answer was seemingly helpful to the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the answer could be helpful to others who end&#xA;  up at the question looking for a LINQ&#xA;  to SQL solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the question has a proper,&#xA;  accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, it doesn't matter how many 'perfect' answers a question has.  If it has an answer that is slightly off to one side, but still useful or applicable in nearly any way, then it should not be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going further, I don't understand the reasoning behind downvoting answers that are imperfect.  If they are blatantly wrong, perhaps.  Otherwise, just upvote the other answers ahead of the one that is less helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that reason, you can ignore the downvote and snide comments, especially since you've given explanation.  Let the haters hate, and go on helping people out as much as you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:24:40.350" />
  <row Id="28188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7188" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:30:40.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These tags now has roughly twice as many questions as Louis first listed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, the fact that these tags are split is prohibiting me from getting a look at all of the new questions that are tagged iPhone-sdk. On pretty much every stack overflow visit I am looking at a page with a question tagged &quot;iPhone.&quot; So I click that tag and see if there are any new questions to answer. If somebody tags their question iPhone-sdk then I'm going to miss it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could do advanced search options but... no. I'm not going to do that. It's not one click that fits into my regular workflow. I can't think of any good reasons why the tags shouldn't be merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:30:40.010" />
  <row Id="28189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28184" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:31:48.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My archive of SO/MSO humor is located right &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:31:48.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28184" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:34:16.947" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I compiled the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cznp.com/blog/21/top-10-comments-on-stack-overflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;top voted comments&lt;/a&gt; on my blog a while back. Some are pretty funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:34:16.947" />
  <row Id="28191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28180" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:34:35.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can buy the service now, and edit your CV before making it available to employers and publishing it publicly. You can even reserve your public URL before publishing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T19:29:29.083" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:29:29.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T18:34:35.090" />
  <row Id="28195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:45:02.990" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did someone make an attempt at mining comments on the data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like comments very much, even though they are &quot;second class citizens&quot;. I think they add a lot of spice to the trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if someone has used the data dumps to produce interesting data regarding comments such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most commented questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most commented answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most voted comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most prolific commenter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user whose posts are most commented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags with highest relative number of comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T18:51:37.333" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:10:30.373" Title="Data dump and comments statistics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51875" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:53:24.820" Score="10" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still find &lt;b&gt;favorites&lt;/b&gt; doesn't fill the need of finding the questions I've favorited in the last 2 days or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the 'recent' and 'newest' tabs really do almost the same thing - sort by &quot;question with most recent activity&quot; and &quot;question order by date&quot; respectively but I'd argue &quot;newest&quot; isn't useful except for the SO historians among us (wrt. getting answers, questions are mostly timeless, are they not?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'recent' tab is great for seeing what of your favorite threads have new posts to them but to me this seems to be really noisy data and I can't gather much meaning from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the information about &lt;strong&gt;when&lt;/strong&gt; something was favorited is saved or not but I think a really helpful tab for me would be &quot;by order of most recently &lt;b&gt;favorited&lt;/b&gt;&quot;.  I used to use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21337/what-was-i-just-looking-at&quot;&gt;votes&lt;/a&gt; tab, but alas &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14610/where-did-the-votes-tab-go&quot;&gt;that's gone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm saying it should be something like YouTube where the &lt;strong&gt;most recent thing you favorited&lt;/strong&gt; is at the top of your favorites list, down to the very first thing you every favorited on the site at the bottom of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-31T23:03:44.633" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T23:04:16.777" Title="Making 'favorites' more usable" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28195" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:55:44.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2961/stu-thompson&quot;&gt;Stu Thompson&lt;/a&gt; has posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20828/comment-analysis-from-latest-data-dump&quot;&gt;Comment Analysis from the Latest Data Dump&lt;/a&gt; (from the Sept data dump).  It looks at the Number of Comments vs Average Score by User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T18:55:44.050" />
  <row Id="28198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28195" CreationDate="2009-11-02T18:58:39.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=6875&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The most commented questions/answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=6878&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Most voted comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=6881&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Most prolific commenters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=6898&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Users whose posts are the most commented&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can carry on from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T19:10:30.373" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:10:30.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-02T19:34:33.097" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I send HTTP requests to a webserver.  That webserver is free to respond with a result.  I am free to process that data as I like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the webserver delivers HTML, I may interpret it as HTML, or I may render it into a woven cloth representing ones and zeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I choose to render it using an HTML standards compliant engine, I may find that the HTML requests that I make further server queries to gather other elements of the 'page'.  I may allow my engine to do so, I may disallow my engine to do so, or I may pick and choose whether I'll do so on a case by case, element by element basis.  If I get tired of doing that by hand all day, I may give my engine a set of instructions for it to follow so I don't have to micromanage this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The webserver is always free to cease distributing content to me, individually, in a variety of methods and manners, using any means at it's disposal to identify whether I am a 'valuable' user or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once it sends those bits, other than copyright violations (ie, I may not be allowed to redistribute them), I am free to do with them as I please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I don't use adblock or noscript - only the coarse grained, &quot;Don't load images from this server&quot; available in the default FF install and flashblock.  I don't mind ads.  I find that I simply don't read sites with annoying ads if the annoyance is greater than the usefulness or entertainment value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a 'social contract' is ludicrous.  There is no contract, social or otherwise, that I will do anything with the bits sent to me.  Any contract people would have you believe exists, only exists in the same way &quot;sweetest day&quot; exists - a corporate designed idea/concept/meme/propoganda intended to increase the bottom line.  Think of the &lt;strike&gt;children&lt;/strike&gt;content producers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality is that intelligently designed advertising is unobtrusive &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; effective.  Most users don't bother with advanced ad blocking, and, as the OP exemplifies, only employ it when suitably annoyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how Google is still #1 in search, and their advertising is superbly effective at keeping a billion dollar company afloat.  For a site with real value (Stackoverflow) if the ads are good, then you should not have any friction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end of the day, the only contract I keep with HTTP websites is HTTP 1.1.  Beyond that, they have no say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that there is already a reserved HTTP error code for this situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;402 Payment Required&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T19:55:39.933" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:55:39.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28184" CreationDate="2009-11-02T19:42:43.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; covers most of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:42:43.237" />
  <row Id="28203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-02T19:51:24.983" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll start with what I thought was less:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The screen was very hard to read.  This was a big problem for the Qt, Nokia, Google App Engine, and ASP.NET MVC guys.  Their presentations lost a lot of appeal because I couldn't follow what they were doing on the screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Google app engine talk was lost on me.  I still have no clue about appengine.  If you can host the world's 1000th most popular site on 2 servers, what do normal people need appengine for?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting up at 5:30 am&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good parts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The event started on time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Really liked the wallclock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Python and jQuery talks were best imho&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Got a good idea of what jQuery, Qt, ASP.NET MVC, and YQL are about&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Python and jQuery guys had large code samples that you could actually read&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Python guy had an amazing demo where he highlighted an SVG map of the world by number of extinct species&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ASP.NET guy had an off-day I guess (or maybe he's less engaged after joining an insurance company) but still very good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of like-minded people!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138193" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T19:51:24.983" />
  <row Id="28206" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T19:58:31.317" Score="3" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as my profile being part of my internet public image, I would like it if 'Answers' came before 'Questions'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also a larger font so the Questions really are emphasized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that make sense to anyone else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T20:16:09.287" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:44:26.703" Title="Answers before Questions on Profile Page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="28207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T19:59:21.080" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether it's possible to sort the questions by meta-data: how often people mark a question as a &quot;Favorite&quot; within Stack Overflow or just the top-voted questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138237" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T20:09:50.453" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:09:50.453" Title="How can I get a list of the most often bookmarked / &quot;marked as Favorite&quot; answers on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28206" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:01:44.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be far better if this were just customizable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:01:44.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28207" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:04:14.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already sort the questions by votes. Just use the sorting tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the favorites, I am not sure how this would ever be valuable, but you could probably do it easily with a data dump query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:04:14.600" />
  <row Id="28210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28206" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:05:37.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That make sense to anyone else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Why does it matter? Only your 10 most-up-voted questions are shown on the first page anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:05:37.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28136" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:13:36.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how intensive it is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be three times as intensive.. The issue with the data-dump is the file-size - releasing the data in three formats (basically) triples the file-size, and spreads out seeds over three torrents..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's worth the hassle, and I think a better solution would be to include a few scripts to convert the XML data into other formats, the concentrate the seeds on one torrent (the XML distribution)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hm, it might be a good idea to start a cwiki'd question to collect a few Python or Ruby scripts to convert to SQLite/MySQL/Postgres, C# code to convert to MSSQL etc etc.. Then the data-dump readme could simply link to that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; We shall see if it's a good idea: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28221/scripts-to-convert-data-dump-to-other-formats&quot;&gt;Scripts to convert data-dump to other formats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T20:39:59.773" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:39:59.773" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28206" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:16:47.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As far as my profile being part of my&#xA;  internet public image, I would like it&#xA;  if 'Answers' came before 'Questions'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dare to dream!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That make sense to anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, some people are more pleased with the answers they've provided than the questions they've asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd rather the SO team work on more important features than those aimed purely at 'pride' and 'presentation.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with the new careers site associated with your account you might want to 'clean up' that page, and with good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Delete those questions and answers that you feel don't best represent your abilities and skills.  They will thereafter no longer cumber your user page with the crufty thoughts of yesteryear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, however, that in future reputation recalculations these will no longer be counted towards your totals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation, or a 'clean' page - &lt;em&gt;It's your decision.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:16:47.930" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28230" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:22:24.330" Score="7" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of desktop admin questions being migrated to Super User.  Are we positing that enterprise desktop support belongs on Super User?  To me it's just as valuable for Server Fault to have information on things like troubleshooting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BSoD&lt;/a&gt; on Windows XP on Server Fault because the troubleshooting steps for a desktop BSoD and a server BSoD are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, Super User was put out as the consumer/non-business version of Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130477" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T09:40:17.220" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T09:40:17.220" Title="What questions belong on Super User vs Server Fault?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="28218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:22:29.400" Score="-1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28221/scripts-to-convert-data-dump-to-other-formats&quot;&gt;Scripts to convert data-dump to other formats&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28136/is-there-a-sqlite-data-dump-for-the-latest-release/28212#28212&quot;&gt;suggested in another question&lt;/a&gt;, if you have scripts or small programs in any language that convert the monthly data dump into another format, please share them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T21:38:54.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T20:22:29.400" ClosedDate="2009-11-02T22:10:53.977" Title="Scripts to Convert the Monthly Data Dump" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;convert&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28217" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:24:15.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The two sites are not the same.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be fairly obvious from the FAQs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Server Fault is for system administrators and IT professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Troubleshooting a BSOD on Windows XP is clearly in the power user domain. Troubleshooting relay failure in Exchange server is clearly in the system administrator domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:24:15.793" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="28220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:25:32.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's opening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wi-Fi is working &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Python talk was energitic and interesting, even if I never have used it &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Yahoo Developer framework talk was top-notch. Got some interesting idea's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Afternoon bites were great, lunch not bad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The less good &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The jQuery talk was interesting&#xA;because jQuery is interesting, but&#xA;the presenter was a typical&#xA;developer, not a typical presenter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I zoned out during the Google App engine talk, the talk could use a bit more spice I guess&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The last talk about ASP.NET MVC is also interesting but kinda slow. Nice to see Visual Studio 2010 in action&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6399" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T08:50:33.310" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T08:50:33.310" />
  <row Id="28221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:39:10.507" Score="21" ViewCount="864" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28136/is-there-a-sqlite-data-dump-for-the-latest-release&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, perhaps we could collect together a bunch of scripts to convert the XML data-dump files into other formats, such as SQLite, MySQL and the likes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep things consistent, some guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If something changes in the data-dump&lt;/strong&gt;, and the old script no longer works, &lt;strong&gt;make a new post&lt;/strong&gt; for the updated script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't depend on the machine having lots of memory&lt;/strong&gt;, reading the entire set of XML files into memory is probably going to cause a lot of machines to run out of memory - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=xml+stream+parser&quot;&gt;some of these questions&lt;/a&gt; should help with this..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mention version numbers of things you are using&lt;/strong&gt;, well, relevant things, like the programming language and any libraries. Linking to non-standard modules and such would be nice too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use the following template for all posted scripts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# {New format name}&#xA;&#xA;{Implementation language}&#xA;&#xA;Tested and working on release(s):&#xA;&#xA;- {List of releases the script is known to work on}&#xA;&#xA;----&#xA;&#xA;    {code}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;SQLite3&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Python 2.6.4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tested and working on release(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Oct 2009&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Nov 2009&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sqlite3&#xA;import magic&#xA;magic.convert(&quot;*.xml&quot;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T03:33:04.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T20:39:10.507" Title="Scripts to convert data-dump to other formats" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="16" />
  <row Id="28222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28217" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:41:27.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd favor putting things in SO or SF if they belong there, so they won't get lost in the SU dumping ground.  This means I'd generally be happy with desktop admin questions in SF, as long as they aren't things that would be unlikely to be in the corporate environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ServerFault FAQ says that the site is intended for people who administer a large number of desktops that aren't their own (among others), and that questions referring to those desktops are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, there's going to be some overlap of problems between somebody who administers his or her own private computer (and belongs on SuperUser), and somebody who administers a lot of corporate systems (and belongs on ServerFault).  I'd say a question should only be moved to SuperUser if it's a question that most corporate IT admins would not find useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Here is the beginning of the ServerFault FAQ.  I certainly hope it's accurate; I copy-pasted it.  It is my understanding that this is supposed to be the official position.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Server Fault is for system administrators and IT professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity. If you are in charge of ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;servers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;networks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;many desktop PCs (other than your own)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to ask your question! Well, as long as the question is about your servers, your networks, or desktops you support, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please note that Server Fault is not for general computer troubleshooting questions; if you paid for that desktop hardware, and it's your personal workstation, it is unlikely that your question is appropriate for Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to mean that questions about supporting corporate desktop PCs are on topic for people who have that as their job responsibility.  It says that if the problem is on your personal machine, &quot;it is &lt;strong&gt;unlikely&lt;/strong&gt; that your question is appropriate for Server Fault.&quot;  I am skilled and experienced in the English language, and the words in the FAQ are not unusual and do not appear to be arranged in a confusing manner.  My conclusion is that they likely mean the obvious meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be very interested in learning which questions pertaining to administering corporate desktops are not appropriate for SF, and why labeling such questions off-topic is not against the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:15:52.233" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:15:52.233" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="28223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28225" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:52:16.337" Score="7" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed several questions by the same user along the lines of 'What is the best...' or 'What are some hidden features of...'.  Looking at the user's history I noticed that &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of his questions were rep-farming questions along those lines and many answers appeared to be cut and pastes from other answers, sometimes with a dash of URL referencing thrown in.  Is there anything to be done about this other than 'Hope he gets his rep voted down more than up?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Re: commentary on 'calling the user out on meta'.  I specifically avoided naming the person because I don't want it to be an issue of mob justice or a huge drama intensive issue.  Pointing fingers in online communities tends to generate more heat than light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the downside that means that others can't look at the same information I looked at and comment that they don't feel this particular instance does or does not rise to the level of taking some sort of action.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastEditorUserId="136058" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:19:13.430" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T09:58:35.153" Title="What is the correct response to obvious reputation farming?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="28224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28223" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:56:08.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention, or if you don't want to go quite that far vote it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:56:08.667" />
  <row Id="28225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28223" CreationDate="2009-11-02T20:56:16.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is a clear pattern, report the questions to the mods with the flag button. They should be able to take action from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to add more evidence and build a better case against the user, an email to team@stackoverflow.com can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the down voting, do not hold you breath. Down voting is largely ineffective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T20:56:16.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28223" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:03:24.910" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Rep Farming as Abuse&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the question's premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the difference between &quot;rep farming&quot; and &quot;posting interesting questions that meet the requirements of the website&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the questions harming the website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it hurt you, others, or the website that this person is gaining reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is 'bad' then it'll be closed and eventually deleted and upon a rep calculation (happens at least once a year) the rep will disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the question is deemed useful by the community, they why is it a bad thing based only on the intentions of the OP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should the intentions matter?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why can't the question be judged on its own merit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rep Farming vs Real Abuse&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you go further to mention that the user is also copying content from other questions/answers.  If the question is duplicate, or the content is being 'stolen' from existing questions and answers, then that should be dealt with as per normal rules (closed as duplicate, for instance) or flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be done for 'rep farming' but the reality is they are abusing SO by committing other rule violations.  These should be dealt with using the normal channels - the rep farming itself isn't the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T21:12:27.767" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T21:12:27.767" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28223" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:17:28.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close 'em all as duplicates. If anyone argues, flag for moderator attention. Once they've been closed for two days, delete them - normally, I don't care for deleting duplicates, but if they're blatant rip-offs then why not...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T21:17:28.553" />
  <row Id="28228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28217" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:35:04.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone's egos, titles, jobs, certifications, previous work, awards, experience, and blah blah blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow, SuperUser, and ServerFault are all about the questions and their content. Doesn't matter who is asking them.  I think the FAQ's speak clearly and you can use your judgement to decide where to best ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T21:35:04.277" />
  <row Id="28229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28218" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:38:54.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28103/python-script-to-import-create-sqlite3-database-from-so-data-dump&quot;&gt;Python script to import/create SQLite3 database from SO data dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requires:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python 2.5+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;lxml&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sqlite3&#xA;import os&#xA;import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree&#xA;import logging&#xA;&#xA;ANATHOMY = {&#xA;    'badges': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'name':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'date':'DATETIME',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'comments': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'PostId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Score':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Text':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'posts': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER', &#xA;    	'PostTypeId':'INTEGER', # 1: Question, 2: Answer&#xA;    	'ParentID':'INTEGER', # (only present if PostTypeId is 2)&#xA;    	'AcceptedAnswerId':'INTEGER', # (only present if PostTypeId is 1)&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'Score':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'ViewCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Body':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'OwnerUserId':'INTEGER', # (present only if user has not been deleted) &#xA;    	'LastEditorUserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'LastEditorDisplayName':'TEXT', #=&quot;Rich B&quot; &#xA;    	'LastEditDate':'DATETIME', #=&quot;2009-03-05T22:28:34.823&quot; &#xA;    	'LastActivityDate':'DATETIME', #=&quot;2009-03-11T12:51:01.480&quot; &#xA;    	'CommunityOwnedDate':'DATETIME', #(present only if post is community wikied)&#xA;    	'Title':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Tags':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'AnswerCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'CommentCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'FavoriteCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'ClosedDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'votes': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'PostId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'VoteTypeId':'INTEGER',&#xA;           # -   1: AcceptedByOriginator&#xA;           # -   2: UpMod&#xA;           # -   3: DownMod&#xA;           # -   4: Offensive&#xA;           # -   5: Favorite&#xA;           # -   6: Close&#xA;           # -   7: Reopen&#xA;           # -   8: BountyStart&#xA;           # -   9: BountyClose&#xA;           # -  10: Deletion&#xA;           # -  11: Undeletion&#xA;           # -  12: Spam&#xA;           # -  13: InformModerator&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    },&#xA;    'users': {&#xA;    	'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'Reputation':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'DisplayName':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'LastAccessDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;    	'WebsiteUrl':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Location':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Age':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'AboutMe':'TEXT',&#xA;    	'Views':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'UpVotes':'INTEGER',&#xA;    	'DownVotes':'INTEGER',&#xA;  },&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;def dump_files(file_names, anathomy, &#xA;    			dump_path='c:\\temp\\', &#xA;    			dump_database_name = 'so-dump.db',&#xA;    			create_query='CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS [{table}]({fields})',&#xA;    			insert_query='INSERT INTO {table} ({columns}) VALUES ({values})',&#xA;    			log_filename='so-parser.log'):&#xA;&#xA;    logging.basicConfig(filename=os.path.join(dump_path, log_filename),level=logging.INFO)&#xA;    db = sqlite3.connect(os.path.join(dump_path, dump_database_name))&#xA;&#xA;    for file in file_names:&#xA;    	print &quot;Opening {0}.xml&quot;.format(file)&#xA;    	with open(os.path.join(dump_path, file + '.xml')) as xml_file:&#xA;    		tree = etree.iterparse(xml_file)&#xA;    		table_name = file&#xA;&#xA;    		sql_create = create_query.format(&#xA;    							table=table_name, &#xA;    							fields=&quot;, &quot;.join(['{0} {1}'.format(name, type) for name, type in anathomy[table_name].items()]))&#xA;    		print('Creating table {0}'.format(table_name))&#xA;&#xA;    		try:&#xA;    			logging.info(sql_create)&#xA;    			db.execute(sql_create)&#xA;    		except Exception, e:&#xA;    			logging.warning(e)&#xA;&#xA;    		for events, row in tree:&#xA;    			try:&#xA;    				logging.debug(row.attrib.keys())&#xA;&#xA;    				db.execute(insert_query.format(&#xA;    							table=table_name, &#xA;    							columns=', '.join(row.attrib.keys()), &#xA;    							values=('?, ' * len(row.attrib.keys()))[:-2]),&#xA;    							row.attrib.values())&#xA;    				print &quot;.&quot;,&#xA;    			except Exception, e:&#xA;    				logging.warning(e)&#xA;    				print &quot;x&quot;,&#xA;    			finally:&#xA;    				row.clear()&#xA;    		print &quot;\n&quot;&#xA;    		db.commit()&#xA;    		del(tree)&#xA;&#xA;if __name__ == '__main__':&#xA;    dump_files(ANATHOMY.keys(), ANATHOMY)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T21:38:54.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T21:38:54.020" />
  <row Id="28230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28217" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:39:00.790" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to post a similar question about a week ago, then reread the SF FAQ page (as referenced in the other answers).  The distinction I use is how potentially wide-spread I see the problem in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a desktop support perspective there are certainly cases where a large(r) number of machines will be affected by something, in which case it's appropriate for SF.  There are then others that are isolated to a single computer, these tend to be the ones I vote to move to SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That won't always be the case, though.  For example, you can get one PC that's not getting a domain group policy applied correctly - more appropriate for SF.  In these cases I'll usually leave a comment on the question stating why I think it's appropriate to leave it on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; a plain-vanilla call where PC questions just generally get dumped to SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:07:05.853" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:07:05.853" />
  <row Id="28231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:40:43.317" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28103/python-script-to-import-create-sqlite3-database-from-so-data-dump&quot;&gt;Python script to import/create SQLite3 database from SO data dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requires:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python 2.5+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;lxml&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sqlite3&#xA;import os&#xA;import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree&#xA;import logging&#xA;&#xA;ANATHOMY = {&#xA; 'badges': {&#xA;  'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'Name':'TEXT',&#xA;  'Date':'DATETIME',&#xA; },&#xA; 'comments': {&#xA;  'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'PostId':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'Score':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'Text':'TEXT',&#xA;  'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;  'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA; },&#xA; 'posts': {&#xA;  'Id':'INTEGER', &#xA;  'PostTypeId':'INTEGER', # 1: Question, 2: Answer&#xA;  'ParentID':'INTEGER', # (only present if PostTypeId is 2)&#xA;  'AcceptedAnswerId':'INTEGER', # (only present if PostTypeId is 1)&#xA;  'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;  'Score':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'ViewCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'Body':'TEXT',&#xA;  'OwnerUserId':'INTEGER', # (present only if user has not been deleted) &#xA;  'LastEditorUserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'LastEditorDisplayName':'TEXT', #=&quot;Rich B&quot; &#xA;  'LastEditDate':'DATETIME', #=&quot;2009-03-05T22:28:34.823&quot; &#xA;  'LastActivityDate':'DATETIME', #=&quot;2009-03-11T12:51:01.480&quot; &#xA;  'CommunityOwnedDate':'DATETIME', #(present only if post is community wikied)&#xA;  'Title':'TEXT',&#xA;  'Tags':'TEXT',&#xA;  'AnswerCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'CommentCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'FavoriteCount':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'ClosedDate':'DATETIME',&#xA; },&#xA; 'votes': {&#xA;  'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'PostId':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'UserId':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'VoteTypeId':'INTEGER',&#xA;           # -   1: AcceptedByOriginator&#xA;           # -   2: UpMod&#xA;           # -   3: DownMod&#xA;           # -   4: Offensive&#xA;           # -   5: Favorite&#xA;           # -   6: Close&#xA;           # -   7: Reopen&#xA;           # -   8: BountyStart&#xA;           # -   9: BountyClose&#xA;           # -  10: Deletion&#xA;           # -  11: Undeletion&#xA;           # -  12: Spam&#xA;           # -  13: InformModerator&#xA;  'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;  'BountyAmount':'INTEGER'&#xA; },&#xA; 'users': {&#xA;  'Id':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'Reputation':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'CreationDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;  'DisplayName':'TEXT',&#xA;  'LastAccessDate':'DATETIME',&#xA;  'WebsiteUrl':'TEXT',&#xA;  'Location':'TEXT',&#xA;  'Age':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'AboutMe':'TEXT',&#xA;  'Views':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'UpVotes':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'DownVotes':'INTEGER',&#xA;  'EmailHash':'TEXT'&#xA;  },&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;def dump_files(file_names, anathomy, &#xA;    dump_path='c:\\temp\\', &#xA;    dump_database_name = 'so-dump.db',&#xA;    create_query='CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS [{table}]({fields})',&#xA;    insert_query='INSERT INTO {table} ({columns}) VALUES ({values})',&#xA;    log_filename='so-parser.log'):&#xA;&#xA; logging.basicConfig(filename=os.path.join(dump_path, log_filename),level=logging.INFO)&#xA; db = sqlite3.connect(os.path.join(dump_path, dump_database_name))&#xA;&#xA; for file in file_names:&#xA;  print &quot;Opening {0}.xml&quot;.format(file)&#xA;  with open(os.path.join(dump_path, file + '.xml')) as xml_file:&#xA;   tree = etree.iterparse(xml_file)&#xA;   table_name = file&#xA;&#xA;   sql_create = create_query.format(&#xA;        table=table_name, &#xA;        fields=&quot;, &quot;.join(['{0} {1}'.format(name, type) for name, type in anathomy[table_name].items()]))&#xA;   print('Creating table {0}'.format(table_name))&#xA;&#xA;   try:&#xA;    logging.info(sql_create)&#xA;    db.execute(sql_create)&#xA;   except Exception, e:&#xA;    logging.warning(e)&#xA;&#xA;   for events, row in tree:&#xA;    try:&#xA;     logging.debug(row.attrib.keys())&#xA;&#xA;     db.execute(insert_query.format(&#xA;        table=table_name, &#xA;        columns=', '.join(row.attrib.keys()), &#xA;        values=('?, ' * len(row.attrib.keys()))[:-2]),&#xA;        row.attrib.values())&#xA;     print &quot;.&quot;,&#xA;    except Exception, e:&#xA;     logging.warning(e)&#xA;     print &quot;x&quot;,&#xA;    finally:&#xA;     row.clear()&#xA;   print &quot;\n&quot;&#xA;   db.commit()&#xA;   del(tree)&#xA;&#xA;if __name__ == '__main__':&#xA; dump_files(ANATHOMY.keys(), ANATHOMY)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="156431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-29T03:33:04.800" LastActivityDate="2011-07-29T03:33:04.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T21:40:43.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28236" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:41:12.613" Score="-3" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is commonly acknowledged that rep inflation is occurring on SO. As opposed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/599/what-to-do-about-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; meta question, I don't think the inflation is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the real culprit is that a lot of users seem to gain moderator abilities and randomly close/migrate questions. The problem has already been raised &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26305/why-dont-stack-overflow-users-still-know-how-to-close-questions-appropriately&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I am proposing that moderator abilities should relate to the reputation in the system. An example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 10&lt;sup&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt; total reputation points in the System and 1000 users are registered, making an average of 1000 points per user. In reality, &amp;lt; 50% of the users are below that threshold: the top 10% of users have 25% the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderation Capabilities should be restricted to the users with the top 20% the rep. (All numbers  are completely hypothetical. A detailed analysis of SO reputation would provide clearer hints)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136840" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T22:29:09.110" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T22:45:07.980" Title="Make Moderator abilities relate to Rep Inflation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;&lt;rep-ability&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28233" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:41:15.560" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just got the Taxonomist badge and whilst trying to work out what for, I took a look at the tags status page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page has numbers everywhere and is quite hard to understand. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=windows-7&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;example link&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colors made me feel a bit weird starting at it for a while trying to figure out what the first column meant, but then I looked in the source code and I could see that it is called &quot;Total Score&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that it is a tool tip that says it, however, it is not at all obvious. I have no suggestion on how to improve this, but I just thought it needs to be said!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i34.tinypic.com/12307pk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T03:28:00.627" Title="Tag Page - clear up all the numbers!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;ease-of-use&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28136" CreationDate="2009-11-02T21:42:44.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are programmers, we have &lt;code&gt;XML&lt;/code&gt; schemas for breakfast and have data dumps at night. We sometimes get indigested, but that's what scripting languages where made for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28103/python-script-to-import-create-sqlite3-database-from-so-data-dump&quot;&gt;Python script to import/create SQLite3 database from SO data dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13810/importing-data-dump-into-anything-other-than-sql-server&quot;&gt;Importing the Data Dump into anything other than SQL Server?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26557/how-do-i-dump-the-stack-overflow-database&quot;&gt;How do I dumo the StackOverflow Database?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3481/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-load-up-the-data-dump-into-sql-server&quot;&gt;What is the fastest way to load up the data dummp into SQL Server?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump/2678#2678&quot;&gt;Anatomy of a data dump&lt;/a&gt; (useful for your reference)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28221/scripts-to-convert-data-dump-to-other-formats&quot;&gt;Scripts to convert the data dump to other formats&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28218/scripts-to-convert-the-monthly-data-dump&quot;&gt;Scripts to convert the monthly data dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of the last are currently &quot;empty&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T21:56:44.747" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T21:56:44.747" />
  <row Id="28235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28232" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:06:13.670" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should do this, but for fun here's a StackQL query to help see where the &quot;80/20&quot; rule really is:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=7020&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=7020&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the top 10 users have nearly 2.5 percent of the total rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; updated the link, looks like about an 88/12 split (12 percent of users have 88 percent of the rep.) or 84/16 if you &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=7034&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;exclude users with 1 rep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:32:36.390" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:32:36.390" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28232" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:06:21.453" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO powers don't - and shouldn't - require that you outshine your peers by a certain amount. They require that you have made a significant contribution to the site, and are invested in the quality of SO. Over time, more and more users will attain these powers. That's fine. These users will have &quot;skin in the game&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:06:21.453" />
  <row Id="28237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:12:36.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a short C# program to help import the Posts table into SQL Server.  You can see an old version here:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28221/scripts-to-convert-data-dump-to-other-formats&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28221/scripts-to-convert-data-dump-to-other-formats&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember and have time at home later I'll post updated code. The other tables were imported via Brent Ozar's instructions (with some modifications for schema changes):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/06/how-to-import-the-stackoverflow-xml-into-sql-server/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/06/how-to-import-the-stackoverflow-xml-into-sql-server/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T11:34:52.047" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T11:34:52.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-02T22:12:36.140" />
  <row Id="28238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28217" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:18:42.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there can be some overlap, for professional IT questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important when you ask the question to be clear what your goals are -- that &lt;strong&gt;you're troubleshooting this to support your (n) desktop machines where you work&lt;/strong&gt;, versus troubleshooting it for your own personal computer that you own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:22:34.677" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:22:34.677" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:19:13.557" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I attended the Cambridge Stackoverflow Dev day. Joel said that Stackoverflow careers would be completely free for students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, upon inspection, I found that it states that students would only get one year of free filing. Shouldn't it be free as long as one is a student?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131355" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T01:32:50.343" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:04:26.427" Title="Should SO Careers be free to students?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28242" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:22:40.977" Score="-1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24185/am-i-the-only-person-to-find-the-woot-ad-noxious&quot;&gt;Am I the only person to find the woot ad noxious?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this count as abuse of the way ads should work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dafydd.net/stackoverflow/StrangeCloakedAdvertOnStackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:35:29.860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:35:29.860" ClosedDate="2009-11-02T22:33:38.727" Title="What's behind these strange adverts posted on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;woot&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28241" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:25:56.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its ironically self aware and genre-savvy advertising.  Its clear that they're both a) trying to mimic the site design in order to attract more attention, and b) making sure that the content is different enough (by calling attention to their own whorish nature) that they can't be accused of abuse&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:25:56.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28149" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:29:58.997" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's one ad you don't like, why not just block that particular ad by name? Each ad has a specific filename and URL, as they're just images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to block a specific ad image&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, you must have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://adblockplus.org/en/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AdBlock Plus Firefox extension&lt;/a&gt; installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right click the offending image and select &lt;strong&gt;Adblock Plus: Block image...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1832/adblock1rightclickimage.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the resulting dialog, &lt;strong&gt;select the pattern that matches the ad filename&lt;/strong&gt;. It's the topmost one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6866/adblock2dialog.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done and done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T02:32:43.657" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:32:43.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28239" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:34:57.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is free for one year as a student. That's because in order to take a full time job (the goal of most students, eventually, yes?) you have to finish school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The free year is intended to overlap with part of your senior / final year as a student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:34:57.740" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:33:24.260" Score="0" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find it in the UI of this website and I clicked through before setting it. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T22:37:19.997" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:50:28.850" Title="Is there any way to set the &quot;notify on new answers flag&quot; after submission of question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28233" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:45:38.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just mouse over the numbers and it explains what they are. This is true of most UI in any stack overflow family site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:45:38.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28245" CreationDate="2009-11-02T22:50:28.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you view your question the option should be available at the foot of the page between the &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button and &quot;Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged [] or ask your own question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T22:50:28.850" />
  <row Id="28248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-02T23:04:38.183" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &lt;em&gt;social contract&lt;/em&gt; that we have with &lt;em&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/em&gt; beyond what is mentioned in the faq. The fact that SO currently funds itself via ad-spend &lt;em&gt;does not necessarily mean that this is the optimum business-model for the site&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if jarring or offensive adverts proliferate, it would plainly detract from the quality of the site, driving away programmers and affecting the site's overall quality (and hence traffic and hence ad-income). I'm certainly not saying that this is happening, I'm just noting that this is not black-and-white; Joel has made clear statements about the sort of adverts he is prepared to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But who knows, if every SO user blocks the ads thus increasing the overall site quality, this may mean that the careers site makes more money off the back of the resulting larger community. A balance will be found and &lt;em&gt;users should be free to give feedback even if that takes the form of blocking ads&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T23:04:38.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4719" CreationDate="2009-11-02T23:07:31.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this'd best be solved by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1177/allow-questions-to-be-saved-as-drafts-prior-to-posting&quot;&gt;drafts&lt;/a&gt;, kinda like how you do in email.  (Start a draft fully intending to finish it &quot;later&quot;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T23:07:31.547" />
  <row Id="28251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28252" CreationDate="2009-11-02T23:38:53.040" Score="6" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to lose a badge during a recalc? Or once you have it you can't lose it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68183" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-02T23:59:13.157" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T23:59:13.157" Title="Is it possible to lose a badge during a recalc?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28251" CreationDate="2009-11-02T23:44:41.030" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You won't lose the badge, but the next time you get that badge your number won't go up either.  You'll have to reaccumulate them before your total starts incrementing again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-02T23:44:41.030" />
  <row Id="28255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28159" CreationDate="2009-11-03T00:34:35.043" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A social contract that I am obliged to view ads!?!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you kidding me?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What next, a social contract that I am obliged to purchase products that are advertised to me?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then a social contract that I am obliged to have the payments made direct from my bank account?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then a social contract that the advertisers will decide what is best for me to buy and they will be handling all my finances from now on?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shall I continue?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, this is over-statement.  But I'm just trying to make a point)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally accept that if we want to live in a society that uses any kind of currency (money, cows, labour, etc) to conduct business, then advertising is a necessary evil, but that does not mean that we are obliged in anyway to look at, pay attention to, or act upon any of this advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastEditorUserId="242" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T04:59:19.043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:59:19.043" />
  <row Id="28256" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T01:38:10.083" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found rather limited the choice of what should I allow in my public CV. As it is right now, it only lets us select or deselect entire blocks of info. It doesn't allow us to change the text within those blocks for the public CV and still preserve the original text for the private CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I'd like to make the technologies and responsibilities of my current job public, but hide the name of company where I work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, I'd like to change the responsibilities in a particular job to something more generic, removing product names, etc. (the same goes for the Background block).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4880" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T05:07:01.260" Title="Different info between private and public CVs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28257" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T01:41:01.027" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I last used superuser about 1 month ago.  There isn't a clear path to logging in where you enter user account and password.  Can anyone recommend a) the login/password login page for Superuser.com or b) a way to recover passwords for superuser.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136418" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T02:03:54.620" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T03:00:02.550" Title="Anybody Know how to recover an account in Superuser?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28257" CreationDate="2009-11-03T02:03:05.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superuser uses OpenID for registration which means you used an account on another service to log in (Google, Yahoo!, AOL, MyOpenID, etc). Click on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/login&quot;&gt;login&lt;/a&gt; link at the top of the page and select the OpenID provider you selected when you first logged in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't remember the password, go to the service provider and use their password recovery procedures. If you don't remember which OpenID provider you used, contact team@superuser.com with your account information and maybe they can tell you which OpenID provider you used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:03:05.077" />
  <row Id="28260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28206" CreationDate="2009-11-03T02:39:03.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe make the answers appear before the questions if the answers have gathered more reputation than the questions, and vice versa.  This would automatically feature whichever section the community deemed the most useful contribution of the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might be harder to implement, though, so a more coarse grained approach would be to simply list the section first that has more items.  If the person has asked more questions than answers, then questions would appear first, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, as I think about it I'm coming more around to the point of view that &lt;strong&gt;the site's purpose is to generate GREAT answers&lt;/strong&gt;, not great questions (though that is a side effect) and so overall Stack Overflow might consider showcasing the great answers above the great questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T02:44:26.703" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:44:26.703" />
  <row Id="28261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28256" CreationDate="2009-11-03T02:46:15.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For instance, I'd like to make the technologies and responsibilities of my current job public, but hide the name of company where I work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or, I'd like to change the responsibilities in a particular job to something more generic, removing product names, etc. (the same goes for the Background block).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are looking at finer granularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, you have a workaround: &lt;strong&gt;create a new &quot;employment&quot; entry with just the fields and values and text you want&lt;/strong&gt;, and make that one public. Keep the other one private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:46:15.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2585" CreationDate="2009-11-03T02:51:57.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like this has been implemented in one form for stackexchange: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://chiphacker.com/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/chiphackers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/chiphackers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36723" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T02:51:57.000" />
  <row Id="28263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37659" CreationDate="2009-11-03T02:52:24.530" Score="-2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;All this chatter on advertising has me thinking - we should be able to upvote, downvote, and comment on ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T03:12:32.327" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T21:13:45.973" Title="Add voting to ads" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2585" CreationDate="2009-11-03T02:57:41.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've requested it before, and it's been declined.  Everyone appears to believe the best option is an RSS&amp;lt;--&gt;Twitter service of one kind or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I did that, it wasn't done well (the RSS isn't optimized for Twitter, so titles are too long, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A specific service that did this just for SO would be nice if it also took into account special actions on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I just got the Organizer badge on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My answer to &quot;80 char question title&quot; was selected as the best answer, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be more interesting to me than a new tweet for every single question and answer. Maybe alerts only once they've reached certain 'trigger' vote levels (5 votes, 25 votes, 100 votes, selected as answer, gone below 0 votes, etc), alerts for badges, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T03:01:17.720" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T03:01:17.720" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28263" CreationDate="2009-11-03T03:00:47.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people I talk to who have done this (voting on ads) indicate that it never results in worthwhile, actionable data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T03:00:47.860" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-11-03T03:22:26.467" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The signature is fine. Please don't edit the question if that's the only thing you are going to 'clarify' - see Jeff's post on &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Great Edit Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; for his suggestion on what to do when the author clearly prefers one representation of the question above the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that post, Jeff says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;But I would draw the line at editing solely to remove salutations, unless they’re unusually excessive.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/#comment-15830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T03:27:29.363" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T03:27:29.363" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="28267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28233" CreationDate="2009-11-03T03:28:00.627" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a crazy idea - how about putting the column titles at the &lt;em&gt;top of the columns&lt;/em&gt;? Having &quot;Total score&quot; and &quot;N answers&quot; at the top of the columns would make the static version of the page instantly comprehensible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am no UI expert, but I do know this page has confused me in the past. IMO tooltips should be for helpful extra information, not for fundamental descriptions of values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T03:28:00.627" />
  <row Id="28268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28263" CreationDate="2009-11-03T03:48:08.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The people I talk to who have done this (voting on ads) indicate that it never results in worthwhile, actionable data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a valid point.  Advertisers have their own metrics (they literally live in their own world of 'ad response' statistics) and this additional metric may be off-putting to some.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Google didn't say, &quot;Let's do advertising the way it's always been done&quot; they decided to do it their way and accept the advertisers who were willing to fit into their model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a site built around the idea that the community can vote on and moderate itself - why not extend that to moderating the ads as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The advertisers won't like it&quot; is only valid if that means that we can't get enough advertisers to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect, though, that the advertisers who truly want our dollars won't mind coming into our community and participating, even if most of them only do it tongue in cheek (as woot did).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I suspect this is one aspect of StackOverflow that the community won't be able to decide - at the end of the day it'll have to be a business decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, it would be a fun experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T03:48:08.963" />
  <row Id="28269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28239" CreationDate="2009-11-03T03:53:53.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shouldn't it be free as long as one is a student?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, you aren't looking for a job for the entire time.  In most parts of the world, students are full-time students and the expectation is that they'll focus primarily on schooling and not working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I worked full-time throughout my education so I can see that for some minority it would have significant value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you think it's not fair I suppose you could request that they give you as much free time on the careers service as the rest of us working stiffs get... ;-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T15:04:26.427" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:04:26.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2009-11-03T04:02:25.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that salutations and signatures are a waste of screen real estate, and I edit them out generally as a rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally find reading &quot;thanks/really appreciate/etc&quot; to be insulting when it comes from users with an accept rate of less than 75%.  If the user has less than 20 questions logged, I understand - but the ones with 100+ I have a hard time believing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:02:25.363" />
  <row Id="28271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-21T01:54:39.430" Score="9" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some languages that get highlighted incorrectly. Is it possible to specify a code block that does not have any highlighting when it gets displayed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an small example of CSS that is getting highlighted as if it was C/C++.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#div.a {&#xA;  background-color: #000000;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.static {&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T01:24:23.673" Title="Is it possible to have a code block that isn't highlighted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="28272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28271" CreationDate="2008-08-21T02:04:28.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should probably post this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131271" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:20:45.337" />
  <row Id="28273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28271" CreationDate="2008-08-21T02:07:00.260" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can display a block without color by using a &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;#div.a {&#xA;    background-color: #000000;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.static {&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think Stack&lt;strong&gt;Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; is using &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Code Prettify&lt;/a&gt;, but I haven't figured out how to get it to show CSS yet (though it claims it should, attaching class=&quot;prettyprint lang-css&quot; in a pre tag doesn't seem to work.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CORRECTION&lt;/strong&gt;: Oops, apparently Stack&lt;strong&gt;Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Code Prettify&lt;/a&gt; not &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;syntaxhighlighter&lt;/a&gt; as was previously posted, thx for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19207/is-it-possible-to-have-a-code-block-that-isnt-highlighted#19259&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;correction&lt;/a&gt; shog9, it's always nice to have the right information.  Despite the correction, the class=&quot;prettyprint lang-css&quot; attribute still doesn't seem to work, even with supported languages such as C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153513" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:20:45.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28271" CreationDate="2008-08-21T02:24:27.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@akdom I don't think that's google's syntax highlighter... it's just hosted on google code.. it belongs to Alex Gorbatchev... he did an awesome job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually made a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.codesushi.com/codesushi/entry/syntax_highlighter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;slight mod&lt;/a&gt; to that code a bit back... just in case someone else likes it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136271" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:20:45.337" />
  <row Id="28275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28271" CreationDate="2008-08-21T02:59:26.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Code Prettify&lt;/a&gt;. All you need to do to get a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block to pretty-print is to add prettyprint to the class name. You should also be able to specify the language by adding a &lt;code&gt;lang-&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;language&lt;/em&gt; class - but this does not seem to work for CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre name=&quot;code&quot; class=&quot;prettyprint lang-css&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;#div.a {&#xA;    background-color: #000000;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.static {&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&amp;lt; /pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will produce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;#div.a {&#xA;    background-color: #000000;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;.static {&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(...same bug as the default)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Akdom noted, you can just use a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag and leave out the prettyprint class to get a plain ol' code listing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:20:45.337" />
  <row Id="28276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:39:50.023" Score="5" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are so many good answers to my questions that it's sometimes hard to decide what answer to designate as accepted. I really feel that more than one is &quot;accepted.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should one do in this case? Pick one randomly or just leave no answer marked as accepted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145023" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:58:37.813" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:58:37.813" Title="What answer to accept?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;answer-quality&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:40:35.497" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick the earliest correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148633" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:41:27.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just pick the best one using any criteria you might think of - people like to be appreciated and an 'accepted' answer is definitely a token of appreciation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134934" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:41:36.820" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are several equally good answers, go with the one posted first.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be afraid to switch your accepted answer to someone else if a better answer gets added later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:42:01.763" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earliest of the best answers; vote the others up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132764" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:42:46.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick one that seems most correct, and if there are two that are the same correctness, pick the one that came in first.  Also, if you create a question, you should vote up anybody who you found had a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:42:53.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, since it is collaborative you could edit your entry to combine the best of all the answers given!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143254" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:43:01.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I guess this comes down to the person's own algorithm for preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could rate the correct answers by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time to supply answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User's current rating (lowest first, to reward them! ;) )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grammar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clarity and depth of answer (i.e., do they talk about caveats to a solution as well as the solution)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:43:14.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest making your questions more specific such that there is only one correct answer. The first one to provide it gets the bump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130900" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:43:24.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take your time.  There's no rush.  After you've selected your answer you can still show your support for other answers by voting up/adding comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134701" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:44:14.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gather all of the information in each comment up, add it as a single comment yourself, and accept that comment.  It's not about rewarding people, it's about putting the best answer at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144185" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T16:47:58.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely in many cases you're going to want to accept the correct answer that the &quot;community&quot; has voted for, so taking into account the one with the most votes is something that should be considered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is kind of what the voting is for anyway, not just for helping people get medals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28276" CreationDate="2008-09-18T17:00:20.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most complete, accurate and sincere answer. For me, it doesn't matter if it comes earlier or later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1679" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:00.690" />
  <row Id="28289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-19T03:27:29.920" Score="17" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/should-i-ask-a-question-i-know-the-answer-to&quot;&gt;Should I ask a question I know the answer to?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a log of problems I've encountered over the years with the solution at the particular time.  What's the etiquette for posting them and posting the answer myself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131354" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T22:18:33.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-19T03:27:29.920" ClosedDate="2010-04-07T00:20:40.473" Title="Is it useful to post questions I already know the answer to on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28289" CreationDate="2008-09-19T03:28:15.300" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is actually encouraged.  Check the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:13.573" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28289" CreationDate="2008-09-19T03:29:01.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should ask them as if they were a problem you had, then answer it, and allow for other people to contribute with their own (hopefully different) answers. This allows for viewing a problem from different angles, should the question permit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134429" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:13.573" />
  <row Id="28292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28289" CreationDate="2008-09-19T03:30:16.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this done both ways, as a simple post explaining an answer and tagged with &lt;em&gt;not-a-question&lt;/em&gt;, also as a question answered separately by the user. I get the feeling the latter is the preferred way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5302" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:13.573" />
  <row Id="28293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28289" CreationDate="2008-09-19T03:30:16.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;yes. The whole point is collaborative sharing. I see the best part is you share your knowledge (I am looking to do the same thing myself) and it allows other to learn. Other people may also refine or evolve your answers in a way that you can expand your knowledge, even in an area you may feel exceptionally experienced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:13.573" />
  <row Id="28294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28289" CreationDate="2008-09-19T03:30:56.730" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I ask is this - let the community provide answers before you post yours. This way you can get different perspectives (maybe ones you haven't even thought of). It's annoying to see an incredibly detailed answer posted by the questioner two seconds after the question was posted. As it's hard to top that kind of answer, most of us don't even try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:13.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28289" CreationDate="2008-09-19T03:47:23.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, because your solution might suck. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All hail hive mind!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:13.573" />
  <row Id="28296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28289" CreationDate="2008-09-19T05:27:20.380" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked the same thing in a slightly different form &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/86634/so-frequent-question-asker-and-answerer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Here is the verbatim answer from Andrew Johnson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To quote Joel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Every question in Stack Overflow is like the Wikipedia article for some extremely narrow, specific programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As long as you aren't producing lots of duplicates, this practice seems like a great way to populate the SO knowledgebase. Just be sure to follow the rules of the FAQ, and be open to alternate answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   * detailed and specific&#xA;   * written clearly and simply&#xA;   * of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;. Oh yes, and it should be about programming. You know, with a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what I found with my personnal experience is that some people will be displeased if:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;you answer your own question right away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why should I bother to answer it. The answer is already so detailed, I won't provide any value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you wait before answering&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it's not a real question, you're wasting my time by not posting your answer right away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, someone will be unhappy...&#xA;Of course, you could always mark your answers community owned.  This way, anybody (with reasonable karma) would be free to edit the answer and improve it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is after all the whole point for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163175" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:13.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T04:21:19.350" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the look of it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/53978/ubuntu-automatically-mount-external-drives-to-media-label-on-boot-without-a-us&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; is not going to be answered within 3 days.  If an answer even exists, no one knows of it.  I'd like the question to remain unanswered until a solution comes along (maybe months from now), but the bounty process is going to force someone's answer to be accepted even though none of them are right.  Is there any way for me to change the accepted answer later?  Is there any way around the automatic accept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the major stupidities of Yahoo Answers, where completely idiotic answers get chosen as the Best just because they got a single vote, and I'm dismayed to find out it exists here, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130885" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T02:54:09.077" Title="Is there any way to cancel a bounty or prevent someone from automatically getting it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-15T17:33:04.727" Score="3" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the ideal stance to take with regard to other similar resources, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perlmonks.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PerlMonks&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:19:36.450" Title="Co-petition with PerlMonks?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;policy&gt;&lt;cross-posting&gt;&lt;perlmonks&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28298" CreationDate="2008-09-15T17:33:37.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;copy and paste good answers, with attribution, license allowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:29.160" />
  <row Id="28300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28298" CreationDate="2008-09-15T17:41:23.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like any other source of information, you can quote the source, but be sure to link to original URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3347" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:29.160" />
  <row Id="28301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28298" CreationDate="2008-09-15T17:43:30.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quote and link to source&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Name the author of the source if you can&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This should apply to all quotes, not just those from a similar site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If duplication of content isn't allowed, either find a different source or settle for just a link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132042" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:29.160" />
  <row Id="28302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28298" CreationDate="2008-09-16T13:01:58.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking from the point of view of a perlmonks user, and assuming you are being literal in &quot;co-petition&quot;, we generally prefer to know where else you asked the question, so we don't end up repeating ourselves (or somebody else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:29.160" />
  <row Id="28303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28298" CreationDate="2008-09-19T07:42:38.637" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The more the merrier.  There's going to be some overlap of users (something would be very wrong if there were not), but I suspect there'll be a lot more non-overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also speaking as a perlmonks user, and not to set policy - it's early days yet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149341" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:21:29.160" />
  <row Id="28304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:02:48.867" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this counts as &quot;navelgazing meta-discussion&quot;, but I'm actually wondering because part of a system I'm building for a tool of mine will be intimately driven by user tagging, so I'd like to learn how the tagging system works around here for reference.  The exact workings of the system are immaterial, but you could think of it like tagging Twitter-like posts, or something to that effect (sans the juvenile post material).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, while I'm at it, I have a few questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; would keeping my tag set as conservative as possible be preferable to allowing expressive use of tags?  I'm under the impression that the more tag data provided, the better.  More specifically, would this be something implementation-specific (like the difference between a social bookmarking service and, say, Stack Overflow)?  Or is there a &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; reason to want to follow this strategy in general (like to make a taxonomy)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would implementing a thesaurus-like system to minimize unique tags be worth the effort?  Or is it just easier to pimp slap people into using a standardized set?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How would a standard set get to be defined?  I dun wanna do it all myself, but I don't want to argue with people how to get it done either if it ever became important to do so.  Am I just going to have to pick which path I don't want to do the least?  Or is there some 'correct' procedure I could implement or borrow for picking tags (and keep in mind I'm talking about tagging &lt;strong&gt;in general&lt;/strong&gt;; not programming-specific tags or anything like that).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would be a good way to form a taxonomy from the existing tag set if I needed one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19825" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:20:33.670" Title="With regards to Stack Overflow, why and what is the philosophy behind tagging?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;philosophy&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28304" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:09:47.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For tagging systems in general, the type of tagging you want depends on the nature of the media being tagged.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a media that is difficult to index, like images or video, then you want a loose tagging system that encourages putting as many tags as possible with each item.  The more tags the merrier, because you will need to use the tags to help index the content for searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For something is more easily indexed (text!), you want a much more rigid system where it may take an extra step or two to create the tags.  This is because in this situation, the items themselves &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; the tags in a manner of speaking.   You don't need tags to index the content, so the user-added tags will be used only to categorize it.  And to be useful for categorization you need to make sure that multiple users are putting things into the same categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:22:16.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28304" CreationDate="2008-10-21T13:28:05.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of tags are great but you need to make sure that duplicates and typos are cleaned up. Here, the people with enough rep-points tend to clean up tags (I know I do) on other people's posts and I've even gone through the tags section just to clean things up. It's time consuming but necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You certainly could try and create an automatic thesaurus (or a &quot;Did you mean...?&quot; on tag entry) system but it's not going to be as accurate as human intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The standard set here is created by the users. Tags are reused based on new questions' authors picking them and people adding/editing them later on. I don't see why you'd need a particular starting point but make sure you edit your initial data set so they're using enough tags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can't really -- not automatically, at any rate... Tags are folksonomic, designed to be plentiful and overly descriptive through organic input. Taxonomic descriptors are deliberately wide-reaching so many things can fit under a section.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144180" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:22:16.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-02T19:20:59.523" Score="13" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand what it takes to earn the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White badge&lt;/a&gt;, but where does the name of the badge come from?  What does the name mean or refer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135413" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T15:21:29.353" Title="What does the Strunk &amp; White badge mean?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28309" CreationDate="2008-11-02T19:22:59.190" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;William &lt;strong&gt;Strunk&lt;/strong&gt; Jr. &amp;amp; E. B. &lt;strong&gt;White&lt;/strong&gt; were the co-writers of &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/9562912639&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Elements of Style&lt;/a&gt;, a popular American English writing style guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style&lt;/a&gt; (via google)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastEditorUserId="5058" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-27T10:53:01.173" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T10:53:01.173" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28309" CreationDate="2008-11-02T19:23:13.713" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White are the authors of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Elements of Style&lt;/a&gt;, an American English writing style guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:21.120" />
  <row Id="28312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28309" CreationDate="2008-11-02T19:23:14.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look up the Elements of Style at Amazon. Strunk and White is a reference to the authors of the book on editing on which all editing practices have since drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:21.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-28T16:05:15.570" Score="10" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5212/are-there-any-voting-limits-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm interested in why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I limited to identifying 30 useful questions and answers per day? It seems strange that a website dedicated to community editing would limit that to a hard count/day. I'm guessing the concern is indiscriminate upvoting. But you have to make a determination like the US legal system does. A guiding principle is that we'd prefer to allow 1000 guilty men go free rather than convict a single innocent person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By limiting me to 30, you're preventing questions or answers that deserve getting upvoted. That's the wrong compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:02:27.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-28T17:04:03.113" Title="Why are there voting limits?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;voting-limits&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T16:07:27.580" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because during the beta someone wrote a script that upvoted every question.  The limit is to prevent that from happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T16:07:57.030" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The US legal system will limit you to one vote for president next week ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more serious note you could &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/21565&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vote for change&lt;/a&gt;.  I'm sure stack would figure a way to stop the bots&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://uservoice.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt; you only get 10 votes in total, but of course it's possible to redistribute the votes.  This saves ups the value of a vote, which i think is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132507" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T16:10:22.643" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If everyone upvotes indiscriminately, wtf is the point?  By having a cap on it, you need to choose what really deserves the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139408" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T16:22:25.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd rethink what you're upvoting. I haven't reached my limit since it was imposed (to test it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T16:48:39.757" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd also add that there is a badge for voting 300 times (Civic Duty).  Downvoting burns rep, but upvotes are free.  It's not hard to imagine new people will simply keep upvoting everything in sight until they hit 300 just for the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T17:07:02.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All limit on this website provide security for abuse (number of vote, number of rep by day etc). The other thing is that it provide a &quot;STOP&quot; limit for people who are too much on this website (myself include) and force these people to continue to work or do something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that rule perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-28T17:07:02.903" />
  <row Id="28321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T17:10:48.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: limited voting causes more deliberate voting decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare the level of discourse between a sites like Digg versus Slashdot. You'll note that the discussions on Slashdot are considerably more balanced and each comment seems to have more thought put into it, while on Digg the only comments visible are those that agree with the majority opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confident that this is partially because Slashdot gives visitors limited moderation points on an occasional basis, and when they're more rare you tend to use them with greater discretion. Digg lets anyone vote on everything with no noticeable limits, and as a result people vote comments up and down willy-nilly. The net outcome is a site that never shows minority opinions, which hurts discourse all around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-28T17:10:48.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-28T17:13:48.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The consequences of convicting the innocent are far worse than denying someone the chance to vote.  Plus, Stackoverflow is a benevolent dictatorship, not a democracy.  Now, admittedly, Jeff does accept the advice of the masses, but this site is his baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2470" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" />
  <row Id="28323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-29T07:34:49.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bell curve of distribution of votes per day for each user would be enlightening. My own mean votes per day is about 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134408" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" />
  <row Id="28324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2008-10-29T08:03:44.153" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I regularly hit the 30 limit I would compaign for change. As it is, especially since favourites were implemented to mark questions, I don't think I've hit that limit more than once or twice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it becomes a problem then perhaps some solution which perhaps gives you extra daily votes based on some formula of payment (10 rep points buys you an extra 30 votes) or activity (ask a question - 10 more votes, answer a question - 5 more). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:33.617" />
  <row Id="28326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19457" CreationDate="2008-10-27T14:04:40.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post the new question and refer (link) to the old one. If you edit the original, it may dissappear down the tube as it is &quot;old&quot; and you may not get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18681" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:45.940" />
  <row Id="28327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19457" CreationDate="2008-10-27T14:04:49.993" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can post a new question with a link to the old question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:45.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19457" CreationDate="2008-10-27T14:05:21.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is really still one question, amend the original question.  If it is really a new question, albeit related to the previous question, ask a new question and link back to the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18747" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:45.940" />
  <row Id="28329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19457" CreationDate="2008-10-27T17:03:27.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29044/good-free-alternative-to-ms-access&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is what I did when I had a situation like that.  I'm specifically referring to the &quot;See Also&quot; part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2820" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:23:45.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-27T17:03:27.607" />
  <row Id="28330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28297" CreationDate="2009-11-03T04:25:32.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the bounty process is going to force someone's answer to be accepted even though none of them are right. Is there any way for me to change the accepted answer later? Is there any way around the automatic accept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not true. Have you read &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the faq&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:25:32.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19457" CreationDate="2009-11-03T04:43:33.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create a new question, and link to the previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's disrespectful to those who answered your original question because you risk their answers getting downvoted now that their answers don't sync with the question.  There isn't a limit of questions that I'm aware of, but multiple questions is also good for you because you'd get +2 rep for every question answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:43:33.553" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-03T04:43:33.553" />
  <row Id="28333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28297" CreationDate="2009-11-03T04:46:22.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If any of the answers added since the bounty started are voted at least +2, then an answer will be automatically selected.  If all new posts are 1 or lower, then no answer will be selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, if you don't choose an answer in the time allotted, you will not be able to accept an answer ever again for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty system exists to bring additional attention to your question, it does not guarantee you will receive a better answer.  Once you chose to start a bounty you locked your question into the bounty path, and you consequently limited your overall options, with the reward of a little extra attention.  This path is designed to prevent gaming the rep system, so the restrictions are a necessary evil.  If they are too troublesome, then a bounty might not be the best way to attract attention to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T15:15:30.977" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:15:30.977" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28217" CreationDate="2009-11-03T04:55:58.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that part of the confusion is folks looking for the &quot;magic&quot; word.  It seems like no-one will dispute that if the question says &quot;on my corporate desktop&quot; then magically it belongs on SF.  There appears to be an overzealousnees on SF to banish any question to the SU trashheap if the topic is windows and the magic words aren't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly &quot;What command could be used obtain system hardware specs on Ubuntu desktop&quot; didn't make to to SU (but I suspect if it said windows instead of ubuntu it would have). In my mind, a question should be given the benefit of the doubt unless it's unequivocally not sysadmin related.  By the way of example of what I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how to troubleshoot BSOD --&lt;br&gt; SF- admins should know hot to troubleshoot BSODS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get a BSOD after I installed itunes for my boss on his laptop -&lt;br&gt; SU- clearly this is a corporate piece of hardware but this is a problem with consumer software&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get a BSOD after I install SQL Server express that I use to manage my media center movie collection.- &lt;br&gt; SF- this ones obviously debatable but sql server express is used in corporate environments and I wouldn't think that the best place to have sql server issues resolved would be super user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the qualifiers in the FAQ is &quot;Furthermore, if it's a general computer troubleshooting question, it doesn't belong on SF&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would ammend that to say clearly  &quot;Furthermore, if it's a general computer troubleshooting question, (E.G. how does a disk drive work), it doesn't belong on SF, but admin related general troubleshooting questions do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I had to make this an answer 'cause the comments section was too small)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130477" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T04:55:58.753" />
  <row Id="28335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28232" CreationDate="2009-11-03T04:57:20.387" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a lot of users seem to gain moderator abilities and randomly close/migrate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great!  This is a community moderated site by definition.  If the community changes over time (and it had better, stagnant communities die) then the site &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; change to accommodate them, by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've contributed enough material to be given these powers (and let's be honest, you have to spend more than a few hours on the site to get to 3k) then you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be given a say in how this community operates.  Not only that, but you've spent some time observing how it currently operates, and since you're still around you obviously aren't terribly chafed by the current system of operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we implement some sort of system whereby a curve is employed, or only the top % of users are given powers, then the division between the haves and have nots becomes a gulf, and the friction that already exists (and is relatively small, IMO) will amplify and consume more and more of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system works.  It works by being self-adapting and flexible enough to meet the needs of the &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; users.  There is some small concern for the tyranny of the majority, but that's the only &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; concern in this very democratic process, and that concern is mitigated by the site moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no - don't make moderator abilities relate to rep inflation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T05:16:10.570" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T05:16:10.570" />
  <row Id="28336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28239" CreationDate="2009-11-03T05:02:28.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe SO Careers should be free to all developers looking for jobs... why charge them? I am sure they can make a very nice profit charging Employers only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136676" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T05:02:28.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28256" CreationDate="2009-11-03T05:07:01.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it really necessary? If you look at LinkedIn, almost everyone lists the company they are working for and the technologies and responsibilities in their current and previous positions... how is this different? In the end, even if you try to &quot;block&quot; or &quot;hide&quot; some of the information... I am sure people will be able to find it if they really wanted just by using Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136676" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T05:07:01.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T05:11:52.137" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great if i could see only the highest voted questions within a date range, sort of like the &quot;week&quot; or &quot;month&quot; tabs on the main page. Can this be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T08:44:52.407" Title="Add ability to show &quot;votes&quot; question view by date range" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;views&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28341" CreationDate="2009-11-03T05:40:37.407" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at my profile, I see this area with a highlighted background color in most browsers (IE, FF, Chrome).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this convey any specific info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8147/aboutmee.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of blank about me&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T07:12:11.547" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T08:16:32.283" Title="What's the blank space on my About Me page meant for?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;empty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28263" CreationDate="2009-11-03T05:42:20.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have 'voting' for ads.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's called '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;clicking on them&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' ; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T05:42:20.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28339" CreationDate="2009-11-03T05:47:12.623" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can fill it with info about you.  Check out any of the users' profiles on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;first users page&lt;/a&gt; for some good examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T05:47:12.623" />
  <row Id="28343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28080" CreationDate="2009-11-03T06:28:28.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what we get back from &lt;a href=&quot;http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20%2A%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22Jyv%C3%A4skyl%C3%A4%22&amp;amp;format=xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YQL&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;place xml:lang=&quot;en-US&quot; yahoo:uri=&quot;http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/566473&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;woeid&amp;gt;566473&amp;lt;/woeid&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;placeTypeName code=&quot;7&quot;&amp;gt;Town&amp;lt;/placeTypeName&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;Jyvaskyla&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;country code=&quot;FI&quot; type=&quot;Country&quot;&amp;gt;Finland&amp;lt;/country&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;admin1 code=&quot;FI-LS&quot; type=&quot;Province&quot;&amp;gt;Western Finland&amp;lt;/admin1&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;admin2 code=&quot;&quot; type=&quot;Region&quot;&amp;gt;Central Finland&amp;lt;/admin2&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;admin3/&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;locality1 type=&quot;Town&quot;&amp;gt;Jyvaskyla&amp;lt;/locality1&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;locality2/&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;postal/&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;centroid&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;latitude&amp;gt;62.240490&amp;lt;/latitude&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;longitude&amp;gt;25.751289&amp;lt;/longitude&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/centroid&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;boundingBox&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;southWest&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;latitude&amp;gt;62.175419&amp;lt;/latitude&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;longitude&amp;gt;25.604650&amp;lt;/longitude&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/southWest&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;northEast&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;latitude&amp;gt;62.298199&amp;lt;/latitude&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;longitude&amp;gt;25.882360&amp;lt;/longitude&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/northEast&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/boundingBox&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/place&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may work on a way to override the name as a future enhancement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T06:36:32.533" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T06:36:32.533" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28263" CreationDate="2009-11-03T06:45:58.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;facebook has a sort-of 'downvote' on their ads - you can click to close them and give a reason why you didn't like it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i seriously doubt that it has any effect on the quality of the ads displayed, however...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T06:45:58.147" />
  <row Id="28345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26523" CreationDate="2009-11-03T07:08:59.573" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly? None of the above. I'd expect you'd do better on forums specific to that product. Particularly since it's such a Big Ball of Mud product, combining so many other items together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T07:08:59.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T07:13:43.840" Score="0" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/80831/computer-arcitecture-question-cost-performance-analysis&quot;&gt;It seems&lt;/a&gt; there's a market for MathematicsFault.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any takers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mid-term season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133203" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:53:07.557" Title="New Site Suggestion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28346" CreationDate="2009-11-03T07:18:07.047" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;any reason &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mathoverflow.net/&lt;/a&gt; can't work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T07:18:07.047" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T08:14:47.373" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;h3&gt;An answer is given. I upvote it.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, I realize that there is a problem with the answer. I return to the page and click the orange arrow, undoing my previous upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as a vote-undoing-newbie, I don't realize that the undo &lt;em&gt;shouldn't have worked&lt;/em&gt; because the undo-window should have been closed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the undo did work. As it turns out, in the five seconds between when I loaded the page and I clicked the up-arrow, the original answerer had edited his post. The page didn't refresh to show me this fact, but the undo vote went through and the orange up-arrow became a gray one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The problem&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his edit, the answerer &lt;em&gt;corrected his answer&lt;/em&gt; so that it really was deserving of my vote. By the time I'd realized that, the window on my undo (really a redo window) had closed again. So now I can't redo my vote to mark the edited post as truly deserving of an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that most of the questions on here about vote undo have been marked &lt;strong&gt;[status-bydesign]&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I humbly offer this particular issue as an exception: My undo shouldn't have gone through without first informing me of the edit and allowing me to reconsider the undo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: I realize that last sentence blurs the line between bug-report and feature-request.  This is supposed to be a bug-report, and I was trying to imagine how my interaction with the site would have proceeded if the bug were not present.  Here is an alternate imaginary solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should be able to undo my vote-action if &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; of the following conditions is met:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A time-based voting window is open: &quot;It has been less than X minutes since I made my first vote-action&quot; or however that window is defined exactly (I don't know).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A version-based voting window is open: My most-recent action was based on a version of the post in my web browser which is now out-of-date.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding condition #2 would remove the race-condition that I encountered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136280" LastEditorUserId="136280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T18:22:04.303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T19:08:21.427" Title="Vote undo/redo race condition" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28339" CreationDate="2009-11-03T08:16:32.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/im-really-awesome-really&quot;&gt;It's for this.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T08:16:32.283" />
  <row Id="28350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T08:20:04.430" Score="4" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20849/thanks-to-both-stackoverflow-and-telerik-for-the-awesome-promotion&quot;&gt;has been offering the Telerik controls suite for free to user with 10K reputation points&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if this promotion is still active, and if so, for how many time will it be. I'm really interested, but my reputation in SO is still about 2100 yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: Today (Dec 24, 2009) I have reached 10k points and the advertisement has appeared to me. I have sent my request to Telerik and now I am waiting for approval. What a nice christmas gift! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastEditorUserId="136880" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T11:54:17.773" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T11:54:17.773" Title="Duration of the Telerik controls promotion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;telerik&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T07:53:39.497" Score="4" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the Stack Overflow trilogy of sites use Markdown instead of some other rich text editor like FCKEditor or TinyMCE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T08:45:43.277" LastActivityDate="2010-04-09T14:43:16.557" Title="Why doesn't the site use a rich text editor?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28351" CreationDate="2009-11-03T07:54:50.867" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons for this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take up resources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can be prone to cross browser issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A source of errors in javascript (goes with browser issues)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is quicker for users who are accustom to it to format the text &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also, this site claims to be wiki like/based... so I guess this is just a similarity they are trying to reinforce.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136869" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T08:39:35.127" />
  <row Id="28353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28351" CreationDate="2009-11-03T07:59:13.603" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;6.&lt;/code&gt; ... and RTEs suck at entering source code. Since that would be not optimal for a page like SO I am really happy they don't try to apply one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the '6' stating, that I fully agree with steven's answer and just wanted to add another important point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113195" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T08:39:35.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28351" CreationDate="2009-11-03T08:06:26.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because WYSIWYG doesn't really work. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.pdark.de/2008/08/31/the-space-between-two-characters/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See my blog&lt;/a&gt; for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131188" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T08:39:35.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28351" CreationDate="2009-11-03T08:15:50.217" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;WYSIWYG RTE editors are generally bad at structuring the underlying data, making it very difficult to analyze/restructure the contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this, how often have you seen a Word-user mark a line of text, make it bold, increase font size, and change the font. The experienced user would of course set the style (or what it's called in word) to Heading 1, and modify that style instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you do this? Well, try to have word generate a ToC for a document where you changed all the 'headings' manually. Or if you'd like to submit your article for print, where there are other rules (fonts etc). Word actually does make this easier (you can select all instances of a certain combination of attributes), but you'll never be sure you got all of them, or if you managed to snag more than just your headers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be irrelevant for small question/answer entries, but if you'd like to index the entire database, all the answers of all the questions, you'll have quite a substantial data set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is, markup usually conveys structure. WYSIWYG RTE editors usually conveys optical style. The first can pretty easily be turned into the latter, the other way around however, is very difficult. Use structural markup where you can, sooner or later you'll be happy that you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the individual small entries / user experience, I'd go for the other answers (browser problems, source code, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139448" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T08:39:35.127" />
  <row Id="28356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28351" CreationDate="2009-11-03T08:45:03.090" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff talks &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; about this question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001116.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one of his blog posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T08:45:03.090" />
  <row Id="28357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28377" CreationDate="2009-11-03T09:27:06.087" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think directly linking to an answer, where the question of that answer has multiple pages of answers doesn't work - or at least doesn't work well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, this link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760/whats-your-most-controversial-programming-opinion/1657050#1657050&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760/whats-your-most-controversial-programming-opinion/1657050#1657050&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't get me to the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it matters, I'm on Firefox 3.5.3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T12:02:19.970" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:02:19.970" Title="Directly linking to an answer when the question has many pages of answers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28378" CreationDate="2009-11-03T09:42:32.670" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Once again, the client-side code highlighter doesn’t work properly. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1666228/can-someone-analyse-what-the-code-does&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; stops my browser from responding completely, until after a few seconds I am asked whether I want to continue the script or stop its execution. I can press “continue” as often as I like, the script never finishes and the browser never responds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m assuming that the script is caught in an infinite loop somewhere since, although the source code in the question is quite long, and it’s in VB (which the formatter &lt;strong&gt;still&lt;/strong&gt; doesn’t support), it should never take &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; long (on all other codes, highlighting is instantaneous).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The browser is Firefox 3.5.4 (OS X 10.5.8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Notice that I am only &lt;em&gt;assuming&lt;/em&gt; that the error lies in the formatter rather than somewhere else.)&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; Uhm … can’t repro any more, although there’s still a very noticeable delay just at the end of loading the page. According to Firebug, this is due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/Img/search.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/Img/search.png&lt;/a&gt;, which is waiting 3.9 seconds (!!!) for a response (but then loads instantaneously). I’ve therefore taken the liberty to change the title of this bug report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just to be clear, this problem &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; appears on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1666228/can-someone-analyse-what-the-code-does&quot;&gt;question linked above&lt;/a&gt;, nowhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2&lt;/strong&gt; Apparently the problem isn’t sstatic.com after all, but a script. I don’t know exactly how to repro but now I’ve once again got the timeout dialog (at least most of the time) which tells me that, in fact, the script &lt;code&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005%3A1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005%3A1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt; isn’t responding. Well, that’s probably not all that helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I’ve attached links to four images (quite large, so not inline) of the firebug network diagnostics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/krudolph/temp/loaded-1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;After first loading, no script timeout, just noticeable delay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/krudolph/temp/loading-2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reload of page, this time during script’s timeout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/krudolph/temp/loaded-2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;… and after the script has finally finished loading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/krudolph/temp/back.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;After going forward and backwards again in the browser history&lt;/a&gt; – notice that no content gets loaded but scripts get executed (hence Google analytics and pixe.… is loaded).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that clearly at some point the whole network traffic is put on hold to wait for some script, and also notice the red line which indicates that loading has completed. To repeat: &lt;em&gt;this only happens on that one question&lt;/em&gt;, and it coincides with the time it takes for the code to be highlighted: during the execution of the script, the code appears without syntax highlighting. If I halt execution of the script, the code remains unhighlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastEditorUserId="1968" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T12:29:17.420" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T12:29:17.420" Title="Syntax highlighting has long delays for some VB code" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;timeout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28223" CreationDate="2009-11-03T09:58:35.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say: keep an eye on that user and flag anything that breaks the rules. Other than that, there isn't anything you can do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's amazing just how much rep you can earn in very little time even if you don't know anything. Asking questions that are tailored to certain characteristics that make them popular, answering by using Google plus cut and paste, removing anything that gets downvoted quickly, micro-editing your questions and answers so they get more attention. It's ugly, but I guess we just have to live with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T09:58:35.153" />
  <row Id="28362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28357" CreationDate="2009-11-03T10:01:38.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Test:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760/whats-your-most-controversial-programming-opinion/667637#667637&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760/whats-your-most-controversial-programming-opinion/667637#667637&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That test works for me. Funny. Maybe the answer you link to was deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T10:01:38.283" />
  <row Id="28363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28350" CreationDate="2009-11-03T10:16:20.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Telerik offer still appears to be active but unfortunately you need 10k rep to see the advert. I don't see any indication as to when the offer will end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T10:16:20.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-11-03T10:17:17.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The good stuff:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Sparks' Python chat was &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; most 'consumable' code-based presentations I've been to.  It was also educational and I can't want to tinker with Python again.  And find a reason to add a spellchecker to my application.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The introduction video (staring Jeff, Joel, &amp;amp; random FogBuzz staff) was highly entertaining.  Although, I don't think Pope Benedict will like it much.  Seriously, funny stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joel Spolsky's &lt;em&gt;&quot;simplicity&quot;&lt;/em&gt; key note was great, although he was singing to the choir for some/many of us.  It was well thought out and presented.  And the UK hat was fantastic.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bad stuff:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The venue was not large enough for that many people.  The queues for coffee and food could not be serviced in time.  There was realistically only enough time for everyone to exit, smile at each other, and reenter the theater in the allotted break time.  Worst part?  Rubbing shoulders, literally, with lots of skinny people.  We were all sitting in strange postures trying not to tough each other.  And the bastard behind me who wore the same pair of pants he wore last night out clubbing in W1?  Grrrrr....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reto Meir's Android: The small font problem was rectified by zooming in.  And, Reto not having done this zooming before, kept moving the cursor.  Even he was dizzy halfway though.  I was down right nauseous and spent much of that time staring at the floor breathing &lt;em&gt;sslloowwllyy&lt;/em&gt;.  Got a headache too, from which I never recovered that day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a couple photos too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/devdays-london-jeff-atwood.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Jeff Atwood at DevDays London&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/devdays-london.joel-spolsky.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Joel Spolsky at DevDays London&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T18:21:58.997" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T18:21:58.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28368" CreationDate="2009-11-03T10:36:16.960" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7008/why-isnt-there-a-way-to-consolidate-answers&quot;&gt;Why Isn&amp;rsquo;t There a Way to Consolidate Answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose  the question had more than one answers . Out of which, I find that 2 answers each addresses exact 50% of the question. So in my view, both should be marked answers to the question. Is there a way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40236" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T10:40:41.053" ClosedDate="2009-11-03T11:11:08.313" Title="how to mark the right answer?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28366" CreationDate="2009-11-03T10:38:07.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The only thing that you could do is to give each an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T10:38:36.193" />
  <row Id="28368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28366" CreationDate="2009-11-03T10:40:41.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can write your own answer using contents of other answers and accept it as the right answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T10:40:41.053" />
  <row Id="28369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-03T10:56:08.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted a review/summary of the Amsterdam conference on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://3punt14.net/blog/2009/11/03/stackoverflow-devday-amsterdam-2nd-november-2009/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4166" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T10:56:08.717" />
  <row Id="28370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28371" CreationDate="2009-11-03T11:21:50.617" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, it's probably OK, but do &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;sourceid=navclient&amp;amp;gfns=1&amp;amp;q=stackoverflow+trac+dreamhost+svn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a Google search for stackoverflow trac dreamhost svn&lt;/a&gt; or even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+trac+dreamhost+svn&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;aqi=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site:stackoverflow.com trac dreamhost svn&lt;/a&gt; and the first result is...a meta post? If I was looking for help related to Trac, Dreamhost, and SVN on SO with Google...I just failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that robots.txt should block the indexing of meta. Or there should be some kind of trickery in place to lower the ranking of meta pages on Google searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T11:27:26.037" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T11:27:26.037" Title="Why is meta indexed by Google?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="28371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28370" CreationDate="2009-11-03T11:23:49.817" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes you think no-one wants to find posts on meta? Just yesterday I did two searches specifically looking for meta posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to remove meta posts from your results, include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-site:meta.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in your case the search would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com trac dreamhost svn -site:meta.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which works just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T11:23:49.817" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19851" CreationDate="2009-11-03T11:31:11.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, seems to be the only way is to find out Total score is to get into Top20. That's what I'm going to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130951" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T11:31:11.410" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28376" CreationDate="2009-11-03T11:41:05.170" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I notice questions that could be improved (in style, punctuation, clarity of thought, tags, etc.) But I also have the answer to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just feel wrong editing a question (even for a retag) that I also answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the policy on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T11:55:53.833" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T11:58:30.600" Title="Is it bad behavior to edit and answer a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32216" CreationDate="2009-11-03T11:43:05.650" Score="53" ViewCount="983" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff recently posted a blog about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001308.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hosting CVs on careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked in the comments whether there were any plans to support &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hResume&lt;/a&gt;. Jeff said it was a great idea and that I should post it here on meta.stackoverflow.com to see what interest there might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, question is, &quot;Should careers.stackoverflow.com support the hResume microformat?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to vote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hResume&lt;/a&gt; is a microformat dedicated to the markup of CVs/Resumes to facilitate data exchange. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Guardian recently began accepting hResume formatted CVs on their &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.guardian.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt; exposes using hResume&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138271" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T23:26:14.743" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:58:21.300" Title="Should careers.stackoverflow.com support hResume?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;microformats&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="28376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28374" CreationDate="2009-11-03T11:48:53.017" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're helping the site, the readers and the whole shack when you edit a badly written or unclear post into a well written/unambiguous version. Even if that means realigning it with more appropriate tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because you want to answer as well doesn't mean there's any kind of conflict of interest or any social no-no frowning at you for answering a question you just happen to improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T11:58:30.600" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T11:58:30.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28357" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:02:10.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works as long as the clicking user hasn't changed the default sort order of answers. By design, then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:02:10.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28359" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:04:06.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't see any problems in the cacti graphs for web3 which is where sstatic.net is hosted on bare metal (no VM).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;memory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cpu usage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;network bandwidth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;http connections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all look normal through the last few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:04:06.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28375" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:04:37.923" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes Yes YES!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Microformats are the future!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only should SOCareers support hResume, but I think that Jeff should look into other microformats (although none are as important as hResume) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hCard&lt;/a&gt; for profile pages and &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-license&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rel=&quot;license&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strike&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rel=&quot;tag&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; for the SO content pages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Jeff commented that rel=&quot;tag&quot; is indeed used on SO pages. +1 for using some microformats on SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="572" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T13:09:36.257" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T13:09:36.257" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="28383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28359" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:28:40.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any figures, but indeed - when I'm using SO on the train (limited bandwidth), the main &quot;waiting for...&quot; that I see is &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; sstatic. Fine from my main connection(s) though. It is quite a regular thing to see the main text loaded, but the &quot;other bits&quot; taking &lt;em&gt;forever&lt;/em&gt; to dribble in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was some kind of routing / caching difference between SO and sstatic, but I'm not a network guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:28:40.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:31:07.527" Score="1" ViewCount="625" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13871/what-stackexchange-sites-are-out-there&quot;&gt;What StackExchange sites are out there?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I discovered &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Math Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, which is basically Stack Overflow for mathematicians. So I'm wondering, are there any other sites in the spirit of Stack Overflow for other topics, e.g. Stack Overflow for physicists, Stack Overflow for biologists, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T15:17:00.037" ClosedDate="2010-01-30T17:31:36.107" Title="Sites similar to StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28384" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:32:42.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This really belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131185" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:32:42.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28384" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:34:12.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scroll to the bottom of this page. On the footer you'll see several links like careers, serverfault, superuser, etcetera. Those are &quot;sites similar to StackOverflow&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:34:12.967" />
  <row Id="28388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27747" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:43:28.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this too when I posted a question that was relevant to work, so I plugged in my work email. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then my gravatar stopped working; it took me a while to care/notice that my profile email had been updated and because gravatar didn't know about my work email, it wasn't serving up the correct image. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously you can associate your work email with the gravatar, but should the email notification have such unexpected side-effects? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:43:28.393" />
  <row Id="28389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28384" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:46:06.457" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchangesites.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchangesites.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:46:06.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28392" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:49:11.987" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read and, I believe, understood &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood&quot;&gt;previous questions&lt;/a&gt; on the Populist Badge, to summarize: a user must have a minimum of 21 votes (while the accepted answer is 10 or less) to qualify. I.e., a minimal difference of 10 and twice the amount of the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, this algorithm seems broken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/78833&quot;&gt;User snemarch&lt;/a&gt; currently doesn't have a single answer up-voted above 9. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/107639/seb&quot;&gt;User seb&lt;/a&gt; has received &gt; 10 on two answers, but these have not been accepted. Others are all quite below 10.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15683/causas&quot;&gt;User causas&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;em&gt;highest score&lt;/em&gt; of 11 currently.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that once the badge is obtained, you won't loose it anymore, not even if you're down-voted heavily. But the differences seem too big and the dates too short in history to justify that thought. Perhaps in the past the algorithm for earning this badge was different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:12:32.163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:12:32.163" Title="Populist badge working incorrectly: repeatedly assigned to answers &lt; 10 votes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;populist&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28395" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:52:01.810" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to search for vote-to-close by number of votes, especially for posts that I have voted to close. For less popular tags, it can be some time before any further action is taken, if any action is taken at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question relates too closely &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11188/make-close-votes-appear-in-recent-activity&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11188/make-close-votes-appear-in-recent-activity&lt;/a&gt;, I apologize. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T10:18:40.557" Title="Search for vote-to-close" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28390" CreationDate="2009-11-03T12:58:07.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge could have been awarded for answers on questions that have since been migrated to Super User or even Meta. These answers won't show up in the users history on Stack Overflow any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could also have deleted the answers (unlikely I know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T12:58:07.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T13:59:28.867" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4564/document-rep-limit-for-new-users&quot;&gt;Document rep limit for new users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question within 20 minutes of a previous question, I would get a warning and not be able to post the new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long will this new user period last?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152618" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T14:14:09.963" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T14:14:09.963" ClosedDate="2009-11-03T14:31:54.377" Title="How long is the new-user period?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28391" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:11:46.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You gain the facility to see the number of close votes per question when you reach 10k rep, this is part of the tools functions you gain access to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you gain access to the moderator tools, you are able to view a list of questions, ranked by the number of close votes, so you can see which questions have the most close votes. You are also able to view lists of most voted questions, most downvoted questions etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastEditorUserId="8768" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T10:03:57.227" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T10:03:57.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29558" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:13:47.000" Score="10" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I signed into Stack Overflow Careers with my OpenID, my provider asked me if I wanted to share my real name, nickname and email address with SOC. I figured that I might as well tick the box rather than having to type them in again, but it turned out SOC just ignored that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be hard to pre-seed the name and email fields (and possibly other information, if other providers serve up more) with the values from my OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138291" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T07:43:27.230" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T17:22:22.617" Title="Why doesn't Stack Overflow Careers infer my name from my OpenID" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:18:45.743" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my career I have two different instances of working for a company which was then acquired by another company. In both cases the acquirer was a larger, known-name company which I'd like to list on my resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However at the same time, in one of these cases 80% of my time was spent at the pre-acquisition company, and it would feel wrong to me to claim that I worked for Big Company for the entire 4 year period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an accepted way to represent this on your CV? I'm nervous that if I attempt to enter something like &quot;Small Company Name / Big Company Name&quot; in the &lt;code&gt;Company or Employer&lt;/code&gt; field that this might mess with string matching if I chose to hide my resume from either of these employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should I list these companies as distinct entries in my CV? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are other people handling this scenario in their own CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:44:09.143" Title="What's the best way to list working for a company that was then acquired by another?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28397" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:28:24.913" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has happened to me - one job was at four companies (original, buy out, takeover, takeover).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I list them as four separate companies with an explanation of the circumstances of the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T14:28:24.913" />
  <row Id="28399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:41:52.783" Score="3" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com is now categorized as Job Search by BlueCoat, and therefore is blocked at my job site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T15:03:32.417" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:00:02.517" Title="careers.stackoverflow.com blocked" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;firewall&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="28400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28399" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:45:13.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well...it is a job search site...what do you expect us to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T14:45:13.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28399" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:45:19.470" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that sounds like the correct categorization.  If your employer wants to block job search sites, that's (literally) their business.  It's probably a bad idea, but it's still their decision to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T15:59:27.853" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:59:27.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28404" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:52:08.057" Score="3" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1667757/alert-box-running-first/1667776#1667776&quot;&gt;answering a question earlier on SO&lt;/a&gt;, I realized that the upvotes to my answer do not increase my reputation. I've checked and I am sure that neither the question nor my answer are set as community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking my latest activities, it shows 2 in the top half of the green box, but nothing in the lower half, where reputation would be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Here's a screenshot of my rep activity:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3803/usermaurisrecentstackov.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of reps&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139663" LastEditorUserId="139663" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T16:39:15.003" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:39:15.003" Title="No reputation for upvote given?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28402" CreationDate="2009-11-03T14:54:52.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you were not over your reputation limit for the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at your reputation graph, it looks like this is a strong possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T14:54:52.873" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28402" CreationDate="2009-11-03T15:04:56.083" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've got 196 reputation today. You're at your cap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/mauris.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:04:56.083" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="28407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28121" CreationDate="2009-11-03T15:40:29.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Replicated on Windows 7, Firefox 3.5.4, here on Meta this morning. Seems to be an issue when the summary text is within a certain # of characters past overflowing a line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/73443422@N00/4071664339/sizes/o/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2527/4071664339%5Ffaa2323bdd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Short summaries may be the issue? (click to embiggen)&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:40:29.870" />
  <row Id="28408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T15:44:00.050" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my own CV and most CVs that I read, the work experience section is presented in reverse chronological order, i.e. with the most recent (and therefore presumably relevant) experience appearing first on the page.  Given the limited mechanism in &quot;careers&quot; to easily move the experiences around and that new experiences are always added at the bottom, the site seemingly encourages chronological order instead.  Even the section names &quot;Experience 3&quot; seem to encourage this.  Is this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming it isn't then can we have a facility to add entries to the top? or move entries to the top? Or maybe just a checkbox to present the experiences in reverse order would be best? What UI would work best?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138299" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T18:10:25.587" Title="What order should experiences be listed in?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;experience&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28397" CreationDate="2009-11-03T15:44:09.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Original Company, LLC. (2001-2003)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assistant Programmer, Coffee Maid, Postal Boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brought out by Second Company, LLC on Jan 25th 2003.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second Company, LLC. (2003-2004)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programmer, Design Architect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken over by Third Company, LLC on Feb 25th 2004.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Third Company, INC. (2004 - 2007)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Division Lead Programmer, Project Designer, Project Head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken over by Google on Jul 4th 2007. (Because all company's eventually end at Google.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google (2007 - Present)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Head Programming, Project Lead for Projects in North East USA area.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137471" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:44:09.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28408" CreationDate="2009-11-03T15:46:15.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fine the way it is, and it doesn't matter the order - I prefer the order to be most recent at the top, but I haven't reordered them yet (I added them before the feature to reorder them was added). But you might want them in chronological order from oldest to most recent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T15:46:15.523" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28408" CreationDate="2009-11-03T15:46:47.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's correct:  Reverse chronological order &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quintcareers.com/best%5Fresume%5Fformat.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;is the 'preferred' set-up for experience&lt;/a&gt;. I believe it's planned to allow you to switch the order of experience.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's JQuery; (bahahahahahahaha), then I'm sure they could just add a &lt;a href=&quot;http://dotnetslackers.com/Community/blogs/bmains/archive/2009/02/20/jquery-dragging-and-dropping.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;drag and drop&lt;/a&gt; move feature and send back its order to the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T18:10:25.587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T18:10:25.587" />
  <row Id="28412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T15:58:50.240" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6336/why-not-merge-reputation-across-so-sf-and-su&quot;&gt;Why not merge reputation across SO, SF, and SU?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems you need a different account on all 4 of these sites, even though the openid can be the same.  You also have independent rating systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just have one location of names and reputation, rather than 4 separate ones.  I am a programmer, but dabble in IT stuff at work(so just for work I use stackoveflow and serverfault).  When I am home I am also a hobbyist and use superuser and now I am writing you and needed a 4th account.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just feel one rating's system with a uniform user-base will add to consistency and ease of use for your users.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138304" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T16:55:24.913" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:55:24.913" ClosedDate="2009-11-03T20:31:48.047" Title="Different accounts on different sites, why?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28351" CreationDate="2009-11-03T16:01:14.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I use lots of different websites, and I have no interest in learning different editors for different sites.  If the editor gets in the way of my sitting down and typing, which includes code snippets and links, I won't contribute.  The toolbar on top of the box I'm typing into is about the most I'm willing to learn to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:01:14.963" />
  <row Id="28415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28232" CreationDate="2009-11-03T16:19:48.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's also good that we have a variety of moderators, with their own particular mixes of skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not strictly awarded on expertise or time.  Certain types of questions attract more people, and hence the questions and answers can attract more rep.  With all due respect for Jon Skeet, he wouldn't be a SO meme if he contributed lots of excellent answers to Fortran questions rather than C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that high-rep users are disproportionately those who answer questions on popular topics.  This isn't ideal, but I don't see any good way to change it, and it certainly isn't much of a problem the way the system is set up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, if somebody answers a lot of questions well, and the subject is of interest to even a fairly small part of the community, they'll work their way up to 3K and then 10K rep.  For any topic that gets enough questions to matter, we will have people interested in that topic with enough privileges to help moderate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Restrict these privileges to the top N or N% of the users, and you're cutting off community moderation on less popular topics.  That means that the questions on the less popular topics tend to be worse, and the site will tend to converge to being about a certain number of popular topics.  There's nothing wrong with specialized sites, but that wasn't what the trilogy sites were intended to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:19:48.083" />
  <row Id="28416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52486" CreationDate="2008-11-10T05:38:40.257" Score="17" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a general policy/netiquette question for the sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people like to include 'signatures' in their answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But signatures are redundant, since the poster's gravatar is already on each answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some signatures have links, which I think are appropriate for articles but not for answers, since the link should already be part of your profile for those that are interested.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most answers have neither signatures nor links.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links in signatures won't actually increase the search-engine ranking of the linked-to web site, since they're automatically marked rel=nofollow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Links in answers tends to 'clutter' the thread&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the policy, official or otherwise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is a community wiki, with some stock answers for up/down votes (note there is no penalty for downvoting a wiki post). Salient points/opinions should be added as wiki posts also please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a consensus is reached, perhaps it should be added to the FAQ. If link-farming is deemed OK, my site could use the exposure as much as anyone else's ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Why should we care? Other than the cluttering and he/she-does-it-so-I-want-to-also issues, if signatures and links are OK then they should be respected when editing and/or consolidating answers. If not then it is OK to edit an answer to remove the signature/link clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-18T00:03:40.093" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T14:29:23.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-10T05:38:40.257" Title="What is the policy on signatures and links in answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;poll&gt;&lt;signatures&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="28419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28416" CreationDate="2008-11-10T05:39:51.283" Score="57" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;For voting:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No signatures or links in answers, please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:34:05.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-10T05:39:51.283" />
  <row Id="28423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28416" CreationDate="2008-11-16T20:16:31.943" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;For voting:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave signatures alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links in them are fine as long as they are not blatant commercial advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I intensely dislike the reliance of this site on OpenID logon, because it is the only site I've ever used that requires it (or even offers it). I don't have a &quot;gravatar&quot; through there because it seemed like way too much of a mess to set up with the image I wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the signature here that I use in all my posts in all the Access forums I participate in. This makes me immediately identifiable as the same David Fenton you see in the other forums -- that sig (and it's formatting) is part of my online identity, and not having it would be a real problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only forum I've ever participated in where the kind of signature I use has ever been questioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I include the link to my website is that I provide Access-related materials on my website (most importantly, the Jet Replication Wiki), so it's provided not as an attempt to increase my pagerank (which I recognize doesn't work), but as a pointer for those reading the articles I post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually agree with the post that says GET A LIFE -- I've seen this kind of discussion many times and don't believe it ever improves a forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- &lt;br&gt;&#xA;David W. Fenton&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dfenton.com/DFA/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Fenton Associates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132155" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:34:05.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-16T20:16:31.943" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28416" CreationDate="2008-11-16T21:22:46.160" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I refrained from using a signature on Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow like I do on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Code Project&lt;/a&gt; et al simply because (a) it's redundant with the auto-signature and user page, and (b) almost no one else does it, including the site's founders and noted author contributors et al.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary to some opinions, I do indeed 'have a life', but I am very careful about presenting a professional and consistent presence on the web. Remembering that I am a &lt;em&gt;guest&lt;/em&gt; on Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow, I wondered what the netiquette was, which is one of the reasons that I asked this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason I asked this question is to see if anyone else cared about it. This is debatable - we have one 'get a life' with several downvotes, quite a few upvotes for 'no signatures', one vote for 'signatures are OK', and two people bothered to express an opinion. I would say that based on this the Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow community in general really doesn't care about signatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all who participated, I am marking this question 'closed'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best regards,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Steven A. Lowe&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Founder and CEO, Innovator LLC&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nov8r.com/main.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.nov8r.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-13T14:29:23.453" LastActivityDate="2011-08-13T14:29:23.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-16T21:22:46.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T16:34:53.907" Score="6" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think labelling (via tool-tip) the stats item on the tag page as 'total score' is misleading. It is apparently calculated by the number of votes the answers provided by a user has received, however reputation is also referred to as 'reputation score' in the tool-tip.&#xA;I wondered why my score for certain tags was not higher as it should score 10 for a voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think replacing score from the tool-tip text to would be clearer, for example 'total votes'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130067" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T16:17:13.747" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T16:17:13.747" Title="I think the 'total score' label on the top users page should be changed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28399" CreationDate="2009-11-03T16:43:55.573" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey, look on the bright side: if you needed any more proof that it's time to find a new job...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:43:55.573" />
  <row Id="28428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28412" CreationDate="2009-11-03T16:53:28.333" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason is that your expertise at being a developer does not equal your expertise as a sysadmin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty simple, really - you're in a new community, so you have a new reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be like asking why do you have to make friends and network when you move from one city to another, even though you were well-known where you came from - it's because it's new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;though, fwiw, if you have a high-enough rep on one site, when you associate the other sites you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; get a 100 rep bump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T16:53:28.333" />
  <row Id="28430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:04:02.743" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I'm not suggesting a Bing-like background, so let's get that out of the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am asking about is whether anyone else has noticed that questions on StackOverflow sometimes seem to come in grouped by topic.  For example, today I answered several questions for which the answer was a &lt;code&gt;xx.TryParse[Exact]()&lt;/code&gt; function all from different people and completely independent of each other.  Other days I'll find three or four linq questions, again all completely independent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else noticed this, is it my imagination, or is it just a statistical quirk, like the odds of two people in a small group having the same birthday being surprisingly high?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T19:10:48.377" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:23:06.687" Title="StackOverflow daily themes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28430" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:13:51.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it happens because there is an assignment in a class about that topic that day, so a bunch of students in the class flock to SO for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or maybe once &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; question is posted, other people say to themselves &quot;Hey I'm going to test out that solution&quot; or &quot;I was wondering about something similar&quot;, and then they come up with similar problems/issues to raise as additional question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T17:13:51.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28441" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:14:08.797" Score="9" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beside what is outlined in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Attribution Required&lt;/a&gt; page, what are some potential citation formats that could be used? Think along the lines of how you would cite a question/answer in a book, blog posting, paper, etc that you are writing. &lt;strong&gt;Not for re-use of the contents, but &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; the contents&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that a good format would conform in spirit to other commonly used formats such as IEEE/ACM, APA, etc. This way it would be easier to convert from your proposed style to any of the previous, should strict bibliography and reference rules apply to you work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've posted my suggestion below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that the purpose of the citations are not for the &lt;strong&gt;reproduction&lt;/strong&gt; of content, as described on the Attribution page, but &lt;strong&gt;citations &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; the content&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T18:22:06.720" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T18:22:06.720" Title="How should the Trilogy and Stack Exchange be cited in external works?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;citation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28433" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:14:37.470" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ASKER&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;ANSWERER1&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;ANSWERER2&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;...&amp;gt;. &amp;lt;QUESTION TITLE&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;QUESTION ID&amp;gt;, &#xA;    &amp;lt;URL&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;DATE RETRIEVED&amp;gt;.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ANSWERER&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; fields should probably stick to the top ~3 answers, otherwise we could default to an &lt;em&gt;et al&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2567" LastEditorUserId="2567" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T17:38:27.330" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T17:38:27.330" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="28435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22749" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:19:31.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html;charset=utf-8&quot; &amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The W3C's Internationalization and Localisation (L18n) Body recommends setting the header with an apache &lt;code&gt;.htaccess&lt;/code&gt; file. It's always the case the the header will supersedes any information found within the content, &lt;code&gt;http-equiv&lt;/code&gt; is meant to be used as a fall back last resort. This is how it has been implemented. However as I understand it, it would seem that &lt;code&gt;http-equiv&lt;/code&gt; was meant to be used as the last word on how the content was to be displayed to the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;W3C's L18n does have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset#declaring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; recommendation on what type of tag to use and when&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137471" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T17:19:31.983" />
  <row Id="28436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28430" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:21:42.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's like when you buy a new car. Suddenly it seem like that car model is all over the place. So if you &quot;notice&quot; a question for whatever reason, suddenly it will be popping up all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T17:21:42.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28430" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:27:16.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be contagious questions. Someone sees a question about LINQ, and they go &quot;Oh yeah, I wanted to ask XX about LINQ too!&quot; Like yawns, and smiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T17:27:16.603" />
  <row Id="28440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:29:30.777" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting comments. To those that thought the presentation sucked - my apologies. Contrary to some comments, I did do a lot of prep for that talk, but it's an odd approach, and not one I've taken in the past. Based on reactions, it's not one I'm ever likely to take again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've given a bunch of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/kamaelian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;presentations&lt;/a&gt; in the past on Kamaelia, concurrency, and also on topics like how to manage creativity in an R&amp;amp;D project, as well as on open source in general, but this was the first time I'd really gone down the route of no slides, which was an explicit request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the brief for the talk was essentially &quot;can you talk about this code example, introducing python as you go, assume you're talking to experience developers, but they may not be familiar with specific aspects of python, and please do it without using any slides&quot;. (this is a paraphrase)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I took that brief and went with it, and having seen a variety of responses varying from &quot;please go away and do not darken my door again&quot;, through to &quot;That was fantastic, thank you&quot;, I've come to the conclusion that if this talk style was a food that it would marmite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a place for that sort of thing, but when you've got 900 people captive in a room, having 400 people upset is not a great thing. Marmite is all well and good, but if there's that many people, aiming for a talk with a similar appeal level as chocolate or coffee is probably a better aim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if I was to redo that talk, I'd probably want to discuss in greater detail picking out something more generally relevant, and representative, even if not &quot;all code, no slides&quot;. I'd also aim for a better balance - with more useful slides. (If you look at previous presentations, I tend to think extremely heavily about what I put in them to assist what I'm saying rather replace what I'm saying)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I gave a tutorial at Europython this year by contrast, I produced slides, but still did much of the tutorial in terms of a walkthrough. In a way, I think the key difference is that having actual slides gives an audience more cues that actually the talk is going somewhere specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all 20:20 hindsight of course. Before giving the talk I liked the code example, thought it interesting and useful, and a good idea. Even right before the talk, Joel checked with me that I was going to do what I did saying it had been a really popular approach elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a pragmatic perspective, it's worth mentioning that &lt;strong&gt;having the audio drop out as it did really doesn't help&lt;/strong&gt; . I could hear it doing it, and it really throws you as a speaker, and from experience of sitting through talks with bad audio levels, I know it's awful to listen to as well. There wasn't really any excuse for this incidentally. I arrived at the venue shortly after 8 in the morning, when a technical run through was happening. I wasn't mic'd up however until 9:30 - near the end of Joel's talk. That could have been, and should have been sorted before people started coming in IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As they say, you live and learn. If anyone has any specific suggestions for improvement, I'd welcome them either below or via email ( sparks dot m at gmail dot com ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I only found out about this page by chance. No one seems to have bothered to let the speakers know these links exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind you, Stack Overflow didn't pay speakers expenses either (and no, neither did my employer), so when I found that many of the other talks were all marketing oriented I came to the conclusion that I'd been used and decided to head home mid-afternoon in order to get home before midnight. (I don't live anywhere near London, and due to timing in the day had to come down the night before)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad some people got something from the day, and once again, my apologies to those who hated my talk for following the brief I'd been asked to follow (I &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; after all choose to follow that brief).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst that may come over a little b* * *y, that's not my intent - unless we're honest about where things go wrong things don't improve. As I say above, if anyone has any more feedback, please get in touch. To me it was a fail due to the amount of negative feedback, something I've not had in any previous presentations, so I have something to learn. Please don't assume anyone's told me what you're thinking, since I've seen both extremes - I'd like to know where you perceived things went well and where you think they went badly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the upside, at least some people liked it - I'll try and do better next time. (if there is a next time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You live and learn I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133710" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T17:29:30.777" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="28441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28433" CreationDate="2009-11-03T17:30:53.397" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Book&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; however you want to attribute them, as long as they adhere to the attribute rules (URL to question, author's name, URL to author's profile, contextually establish that the source is Stack Overflow and not you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog post&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; link to the question. (Congratulations, you're using the Web!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paper&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; generally papers have their own styles for attribution when citing sources, so use that style instead of trying to make your own.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Something else&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;mdash; just make sure you use the right attribution and make it clear that the content isn't yours. This isn't rocket science, it's copyright law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T17:30:53.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="531" CreationDate="2009-11-03T18:46:43.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really need this cuz I really can only answer a few topics and I would love for just those things to come up when I searching to answer.  However, if i do the javascript hack, it doesn't just give me the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; it hides the others so instead of 50 questions on a page I get 1-3 and I have to keep going and going and going to browse a bunch of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="730" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T18:46:43.663" />
  <row Id="28445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28449" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:06:24.003" Score="-5" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for making the listing option free for students, but the penalty sucks.  There's a big blue &lt;strong&gt;student&lt;/strong&gt; on the top right of &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ajh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my CV&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had I known that was the penalty, I wouldn't have signed up as a student at all.  I don't see a way to &quot;revoke&quot; my subscription and remove the banner; I'm not exactly thrilled about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you're likely going to have non-students choosing that option to get a free listing for a year.  If the penalty is a big, ugly banner for free listing anyhow, why not make a &quot;cheap-ass&quot; option to get free listing for a year, and allow the cheap-ass population to at least be honest with you?  Then put a huge ugly banner on their resume that says &quot;cheap-ass&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a student, but I'd rather have a big &quot;cheap-ass&quot; banner on my resume than deal with the stigma of being &quot;just a student&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138319" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T00:06:42.743" Title="&quot;cheap-ass&quot; option StackOverflow Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;students&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28348" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:08:21.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That makes sense in a &quot;It Should Just Work(TM)&quot; way, but honestly it should affect very, very few interactions with the site, and thus probably shouldn't rise above the level of, &quot;To do someday, maybe, when we re-tool voting for some other major changes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this occurs to your frequently, you might consider hitting F5 or refreshing the page immediately before voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T19:08:21.427" />
  <row Id="28447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28445" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:11:13.480" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why not make a &quot;cheap-ass&quot; option to&#xA;  get free listing for a year&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since when is free &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; cheap? If you are a student, what is the issue with it saying as such. You ARE a student, so what is the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what stigma is there for being a student? To some degree, employers today like students because they can hire them cheaper than others.  So I would actually consider it to be an advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if you are a graduate student, yet working full time, maybe the banner could say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Graduate Student - Working Full Time,&#xA;  but still too cheap to buy a 3 year&#xA;  subscription&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a way at some point to move away from a student account into a paid account.  Considering this is all rather new, I'm guessing that will be introduced someday if it is not already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T00:06:42.743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T00:06:42.743" />
  <row Id="28448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28445" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:12:55.333" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree there should be a way to &quot;un-student&quot; yourself if you're willing to pay and perhaps a better explanation upfront about what saying you're a student will do. However, to your larger point, I believe the &quot;I'm cheap&quot; option would undermine the paid option in a way to student option will not, since you can only get one free year by saying you're a student. There has to be value added for paying for the service or no one will do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T19:12:55.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28445" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:18:08.163" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want to participate in Careers, but you don't want to pay for it.  I don't think that's going to fly for a number of reasons, primarily due to the cost increasing the quality of the pool of candidates by only including those who are actively searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The student option recognizes the fact that many students don't have the money to pay for such a service, and gives them a free year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, though, you should recognize that $99 will be recovered in your first day of your new job, so it's certainly worth the cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;cheap&quot; option merely serves to dilute the pool of candidates with those that really aren't interested in changing their job proactively.  Keep in mind that the existing free CV options still allows the public CV viewing, it just doesn't open you up to employer searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contact the careers administrators - they've converted student accounts into paid accounts before, and will likely do so again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T20:22:16.207" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:22:16.207" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28493" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:30:13.363" Score="16" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to create my public CV, but make it visible to only a handful of people (ie: people I send my electronic word CV to, which could include the URL of my SO public CV), making it semi-public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to add a password to access it? This way I could put the URL, and the passcode to access it when I send my CV; and I could change it if I ever don't want those recruiters to see it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I could create my CV in something like &lt;code&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/[myPassCode]&lt;/code&gt;, but it would be better to have a friendly url and a page that asks for the passcode before rendering it (kinda like the access to the private beta of SO last year)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Jeff argues that Google won't index it if it's unlinked, but Tom says it could do it anyway (and provides a link to prove it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still feel it'd be a nice feature, and 10 other people (at the time of this writing) agrees with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a new feature request could be to provide an option to export it to html to do what Tom suggests?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:32:19.720" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:32:34.820" Title="Password for &quot;public CV&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;password&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:39:46.187" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;It specifically asks about technology which seems to imply programming languages or database technology. What if you studied biology or chemistry? In my case I have business school info (gasp! horror!) that I would like to add but not sure how well it fits. Any suggestions or examples of how others have done this is appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132259" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T03:00:03.260" Title="Should the education section on the career site be more flexible/general?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;&lt;education&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:49:06.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The good&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enjoyed the Python, Google App Engine and Yahoo! Developer Tools talks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The food was good (I'm picky, so this is by no means obvious)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wi-Fi worked without problems&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joels opening keynote was well thought out and an interesting argument for powerful simplicity :-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The bad&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was COLD! (and I'm from norway, I'm used to cold weather)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The jQuery-talk was ruined by bad sound (atleast for us in the back)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The map-location marked on the carsonified website was totally wrong (we walked for 15 minutes in the wrong direction from our hotel before we started asking for directions, had to get a cab to get to the venue in time)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both the ASP.NET-MVC and the Qt talks were too much &quot;I want you to buy into this stuff, so my company makes more money, so I earn more money, so I get laid&quot; ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I would come again next year, but it depends a lot on the program/talkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136352" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T19:49:06.360" />
  <row Id="28453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27323" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:51:10.800" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounties won't work on feature requests... the team can assign themselves all the reputation they want...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I don't see the point of bounties on meta...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T19:51:10.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28458" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:52:22.483" Score="1" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does retagging a question count as an edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T19:57:11.557" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T02:24:39.420" Title="Does retagging a question count as an edit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28454" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:53:47.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the badge? not sure. Not sure if that's what you were asking, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T19:53:47.940" />
  <row Id="28456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20283" CreationDate="2009-11-03T19:54:24.120" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's great for answers, but when you post a question as a community wiki you deliberately disallow anyone who contributes an answer any reputation gain from their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be what you want, but you might consider altering the script so it's easy to force it on just the answers you provide, or both answers and questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T23:01:56.077" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T23:01:56.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-03T19:54:24.120" />
  <row Id="28457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28399" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:00:02.517" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;use ssh's dynamic proxy option ssh -D my.home.computer -D 1080 to forward your connections through your home system. then set firefox to use localhose:1080 as a proxy server.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;then find a job that doesnt require such hoops in order to find a better one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131576" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:00:02.517" />
  <row Id="28458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28454" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:02:14.557" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does not count for the Strunk and White badge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T02:24:39.420" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T02:24:39.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28118" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:02:38.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it was 15 now its 12.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;are these beta testing employers?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;These odds dont seem favorable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131576" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:02:38.893" />
  <row Id="28460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:05:48.857" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would propose that when the bounty time expires with no accepted answer, the bounty is auto-awarded via the current rules, &lt;strong&gt;but no answer is auto-accepted&lt;/strong&gt;.  The user could then add a new bounty, wait for new answers, continue discussion, etc...and hopefully a new and definitively correct answer will be posted and accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:05:48.857" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34889" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:12:40.980" Score="10" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to add a search option which will tell you if employers are looking at the careers site in your area?  I wouldn't expect to see the name of which employers are looking, but I think it would help, when you are looking for a job, if anyone in your area is actually even paying to see resumes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I live, I'm not certain how many people have even heard of Stack Overflow, let alone have realized the potential about finding programmers on it.  I don't live in a small town, I just don't think the market penetration for it has really happened here (don't know why, you may insert jokes about the quality of programmers at this point in time).  When I start looking for a new place of &quot;opportunity&quot;, it'd be nice to know if I don't get any response, because no one has figured to look at SO, or just because I'm lame (not arguing the latter could definitely be possible).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T15:39:15.937" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T15:39:15.937" Title="Find out if companies are using Careers in your area" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;employers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="28462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:15:31.320" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found that on stackoverflow, when a question is asked, especially when it is on a less obvious topic, often one person will post a reply that mostly misses the mark (I assume to get out some quick points or whatever) but that still gets the question to &quot;answered&quot; status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this will often lead to a question being overlooked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are the experiences of others on this? Are there systems in place to prevent this sort of thing? What can a question poster do to prevent this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:29:56.833" Title="The dynamics of stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28462" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:18:52.423" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers are more likely to miss the mark when the question is vague or poorly worded. The best thing a poster can do to get an accurate answer is to post a specific and clear question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:18:52.423" />
  <row Id="28465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28430" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:23:06.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I've noticed it too, on more than one occasion.  I have no proof to back it up, but questions definitely seem to come in waves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:23:06.687" />
  <row Id="28466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28461" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:26:34.063" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would actually be nice if Careers was a two way street.  Both parties are paying for the service, but all the candidates can do is &quot;bait&quot; their CV in the hopes it attracts attention.  They are a very passive partner in the job matching service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be much better if both parties were actively involved in finding matching situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:26:34.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28462" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:29:56.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jon B, but I have also experienced people answering my question with incorrect responses. I have carefully worded the question, and believe it to be as clear as I could make it. Other people responding correctly interpreted my question. In these cases I have responded quickly to their answers by editing my question to clarify whatever was mis-interpreted and commenting on their answers informing them of why I believe their answer is not useful and advising them to read the revised question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:29:56.833" />
  <row Id="28468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21718" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:40:50.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, how about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1669920/importing-from-text-file-java-question/1669943#1669943&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1669282/find-max-value-in-java-with-a-predefined-comparator/1669304#1669304&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt;? I got some upvotes, but I didn't get points? The question nor the answer was marked as CW?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T20:40:50.150" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:46:56.550" Score="0" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4780/lose-rep-accomplishments&quot;&gt;Lose Rep Accomplishments&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just gotten close-voting privileges on SO.  Jeff in the past has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;talked about a rep-recalc coming in the future&lt;/a&gt; with downvotes being increased to -5 points; if this is done, I may well go below 3000 (I still don't understand some of my downvotes...).  Will I lose my close-vote privileges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T21:21:12.713" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:29:39.470" ClosedDate="2009-11-03T22:10:01.017" Title="What will happen after the great reputation re-calc?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="28470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28469" CreationDate="2009-11-03T20:59:02.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What will happen after the great reputation re-calc?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people will lose some reputation.  Those that have made very subjective/controversial posts with a lot of up and down votes will lose more than those that made objective/noncontroversial posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will I lose my close-vote privileges?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you drop below 3,000 rep, then yes.  You can query the database dump to approximate how much you might lose.  They just handed out the latest dump from October.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased/7332#7332&quot;&gt;Sam Saffron's post&lt;/a&gt; has a lot more information on the users that stand to lose the most, and includes the query which you can modify to give you an idea as to how much you would be affected.  As pointed out by Joel in the comments, the full rep query is rather complex and difficult to duplicate in the datadump.  But it should give you an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as Sam's post pointed out, few people will lose more than 200 rep, and 200 rep can be gained in a day.  So the rep calculation will likely set most people back by perhaps a day.  You can prepare for it by working ahead, if it concerns you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T21:29:39.470" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:29:39.470" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:14:54.453" Score="5" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when I answer a question on SO, I have two different answers that are equally valid. This happens most when answering architectual questions where there are many valid ways to solve a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it better to put each alternitive into a single answer, or put each alternative in its own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted each alternitave separately will allow the voting system to float the best answer to the top, but I don't want to be accused of rep whoring by &quot;flooding&quot; a question with answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your opinion? One or two answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136256" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T22:33:03.520" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T22:33:03.520" Title="Two Answers, One Question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28471" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:18:45.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a single right answer for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're two radically different solutions then two answers might be the best solution, but you'd have to judge each case on it's merits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the system doesn't prevent you posting multiple answers, it discourage you from do so, so the default position must be to post a single answer containing all your information. This is the message you get when you click on the &quot;Add Another Answer&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you sure you want to add another answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You could use the edit link to refine and improve your existing answer, instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-03T21:25:41.147" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:25:41.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28445" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:19:13.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, if I were an employer and I found out that you were masquerading behind the &quot;Student&quot; option to save money when you're not a student, the first thing I would do is not hire you.  Honesty is big.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're a student, great, there's nothing wrong with that.  In fact, a lot of people see that as a plus especially if you are going to graduate school.  Sure some employers are going to actively not look at student resumes, but really, do you want to work for them anyway? I would guess probably not.  I would think the &quot;cheap&quot; option on your resume would be a much bigger stigma than student.  To me, student says, &quot;I want to learn and I am spending my time and money to do so.&quot;  Cheap says: &quot;I spend too much money on cheetos to afford this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:19:13.107" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28471" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:23:05.877" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always put both options in a single answer and state which one you'd recommend and why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Option 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;some quotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;somecode.../&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Option 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;some other quotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;somedifferentcode.../&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Option 2 is probably best because of x, y, and z...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:23:05.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34884" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:25:43.067" Score="25" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just thinking down the road to when Careers is accepting employer signups, I think it'd be a really great promotion and informational view to be able to see what types of tags and searches companies are doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I think it'd be valuable during the signup process for prospective job-seekers to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;65% of employers are searching for &lt;code&gt;C#&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;22% of employers are searching for &lt;code&gt;Java and Spring&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think having some level of visibility into what employers are actually searching for (at an aggregate level) might help the job-seekers know what exactly it is that employers are currently looking for, and how they can better market themselves to those interests - although I suppose the argument could be made that the type of developer that SO Careers is targeting shouldn't need to do that sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just think it'd be great for paid users to be able to see some level of details as to how employers are using the system, so they can tell if they are getting any value for their registration cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:47:07.257" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T17:17:20.013" Title="Statistics on what employers are actually searching for" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="28476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28469" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:26:39.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will I lose my close-vote privileges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do, so what? You'll get them back soon enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:26:39.867" />
  <row Id="28477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28475" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:46:30.720" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that visibility into some sort of volume number would help, but being too specific will lead to users gaming the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:46:30.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-11-03T21:59:37.747" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So here's the problem with changing the reputation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want people to post on the site, even if they are not totally right.  It should be ok to make mistakes and have other people correct you etc.  If you get down voted a couple of points for making a mistake, that should be ok.  It's a learning process.  Should people be punished for making a mistake, maybe a little as a way of saying, &quot;Hey, you made a mistake, please try and fix this.&quot;  By making it higher, really what you are starting to tell the community is, &quot;Don't be stupid, don't make mistakes about what you are posting, and don't waste our time.&quot;  (wow sounds a lot like usenet).  In the past, the tenet of the site was always been to be able to ask any question no matter how simple.  If I remember back to the first podcasts it was always about people not having to RTFM.  People need to be able to post mistakes to learn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the &quot;game&quot; (site) is to get people to participate and play.  If people are mightily punished for trying, the immediate response is going to be to not use the site which will ultimately cause it's demise.  The scoring system shouldn't be targeted towards the upper posters on the site, it should be focused on keeping the average programmer interested and coming back.  The people who maybe kind of often get down votes, and try and post useful information and get some up votes too.  Right now, you need only one up vote for every five people who think you made a mistake.  Losing points does a lot more to someone's ego (that's what the points boost) than gaining points.  Most programmers aren't experts at what they program, but they try.  The reward vs. punishment factor directly affects how much they are willing to try (the greater the punishment, the less they will).  There are what 9 million programmers, but there are only 400 people with a 10k + rep.  Does there really need to be a greater gap between the top posters and people who ask a lot of questions to try and learn?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of points lost by the recalculation isn't really that important in the big scope.  It's about the person who maybe logs onto the site and asks a question or posts and answer and quickly realizes that the community suggests that &quot;non-experts need not apply&quot; and goes away to pay 10 dollars a month to get his questions answered elsewhere, because at least he doesn't feel dumb there. To be successful, these are the people the site needs to focus on retaining.  The site is kind of like Communism, to work it has to benefit the masses.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T21:59:37.747" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-03T21:59:37.747" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="28479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16691" CreationDate="2009-11-03T22:02:15.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;btw; there's a &quot;close &gt; exact duplicate&quot; feature for marking duplicate questions; flagging &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; work (depending on a number of factors), but isn't necessarily the primary aim of the &quot;flag &gt; Requires Moderator attention&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T22:02:15.883" />
  <row Id="28480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28471" CreationDate="2009-11-03T22:31:24.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system is designed to have separate posts for every answer. There is nothing wrong with this, it is not 'rep whoring'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T22:31:24.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T22:46:19.597" Score="11" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've published my CV on Careers, even though I'm not actively looking for a job, because of a family situation in which I would be open to jobs under particular circumstances.  My situation is actually a good thing, but not something that everyone needs to know.  I'd like to be able to communicate this to potential employers, but don't really want this information to appear in my published CV.  I had originally included it in my personal statement, but that gets published publicly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to see is a section available to communicate information only to employers. This section should would contain free form information about the job search process or any special requirements that one might have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T17:22:20.800" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T04:23:17.567" Title="Careers needs a section to communicate information just to potential employers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-11-03T22:50:03.603" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;The Great Mythical Rep Re-Calc&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; ???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Heard:&lt;/strong&gt; (by me? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28469/what-will-happen-after-the-great-reputation-re-calc-closed&quot; title=&quot;What will happen...?&quot;&gt;two minutes ago&lt;/a&gt;.  but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/im-really-awesome-really&quot; title=&quot;..or whatever Welbog calls himself these days..&quot;&gt;I'm really awesome. Really&lt;/a&gt; sez so, so it's gotta be true, right?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; 5'3&quot; without shoes.  Or so I've heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Apparent fears of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot; title=&quot;or other changes, like halving the points a question upvote is worth&quot;&gt;downvote weights increasing&lt;/a&gt; among the general user population.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19522#19522&quot; title=&quot;Rep whores&quot;&gt;Rep-whores&lt;/a&gt; in fear for their ill-gotten points.  Due to arrive in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19514#19514&quot; title=&quot;6 to 8 weeks (thx Ether)&quot;&gt;six to eight weeks&lt;/a&gt;, although it's possible my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/21224#21224&quot; title=&quot;Everything is a Meme&quot;&gt;leg is being pulled&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Official Response:&lt;/strong&gt; The Great Mythical Rep Re-Calc &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot; title=&quot;oh no they di'n't!  (oh yes they did!)&quot;&gt;occurred in March, 2010&lt;/a&gt;.  Rumors now grow of another Great Rep Re-Calc.  It could occur in as little as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19514#19514&quot; title=&quot;you just had to look again, didn't you??&quot;&gt;6-8 weeks&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19480#19480&quot; title=&quot;Waffles (mmmm)&quot;&gt;More research is needed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/80862/sudden-sharp-reputation-drop-problem-points-disappeared-and-score-lost-recalc&quot;&gt;The other shoe dropped Feb 27, 2011.  Nothing will ever be the same.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="1228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-14T12:42:40.633" LastActivityDate="2011-03-14T12:42:40.633" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-03T22:50:03.603" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-03T23:38:36.947" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed someone had a typo on a CV. I wish there was a feature for other users to highlight things like this. Something similar to the 'flag' functionality would be neat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps more than just spelling mistakes. Sometimes there are technology name changes etc which might impact some job searches. Sometimes people are throw in things like VS instead of visual studio, or use ambiguous terms like VSS. And I don't mind helping people with things like this on a casual basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132259" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T01:01:01.707" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:32:43.733" Title="Feature to help other devs with CV typos etc" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28483" CreationDate="2009-11-03T23:41:21.637" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that someone would take the time to make sure their CV was error free. It is like spelling errors on a resume or job application. Take a few minutes and invest in your future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, I like your idea for those that would like to assist others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-03T23:41:21.637" />
  <row Id="28485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28487" CreationDate="2009-11-04T01:35:42.597" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to imagine the creators of these sites built a mechanism to detect &quot;Vote Fraud&quot;.  Is there something to stop someone from creating two accounts and continuously vote for each other to build reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137006" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T02:46:11.327" Title="Number of times you can vote for particular person" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28485" CreationDate="2009-11-04T01:45:24.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called sock puppetry, and yes, there are tools to prevent it and appropriate recourse when it occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T01:45:24.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28485" CreationDate="2009-11-04T01:46:15.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeap. It is covered in this blog entry: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Vote Fraud and You&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;More Voting anomalies&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically SO query the database from time to time and if they find that a user is just upvoting some other specific user, they all the points from that user are removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T02:46:11.327" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T02:46:11.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26684" CreationDate="2009-11-04T02:21:41.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, Jeff said that the search on the 'Ask Question' page only searches the title, while the upper left search searches the entire post.  So the results wind up being different, and sometimes better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that was a while ago, it might have changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T02:21:41.117" />
  <row Id="28490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25224" CreationDate="2009-11-04T02:26:37.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@random is exactly right, but if you still want email notifications on top of RSS, you can easily set up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://feedburner.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FeedBurner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; feed - just grab the feed address, sign in with your Google account to &lt;a href=&quot;http://feedburner.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FeedBurner&lt;/a&gt;, paste the address in, and under the &lt;strong&gt;Publicize&lt;/strong&gt; tab, enable Email Subscriptions. Of course, you can set up email delivery times, branding, etc. I use this a lot for all the feeds I want to keep track of - I just always forget to open Google Reader...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T02:26:37.740" />
  <row Id="28491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T02:57:06.220" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like a way to change the colour of the highlighting of questions for interesting tags on stackoverflow.com. The orange colour currently in use is really horrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T10:43:24.413" Title="interesting tags colour is horrible" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20283" CreationDate="2009-11-04T03:12:15.833" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, in related news:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/free-waffles&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/free-waffles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T03:12:15.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-04T03:12:15.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28450" CreationDate="2009-11-04T03:14:54.067" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Public CVs are indexed by Google, but there is no public collection of all CV links. At least not one we publish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I can't think of any way Google could index your public CV page unless you, or someone else, links to it from another source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: We now provide a time-limited URL on the publish tab. You can share this URL with whoever you like, and they can freely view your public CV for (n) days (even if it is not published), after which the link expires and is no longer valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:32:34.820" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:32:34.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28450" CreationDate="2009-11-04T03:18:24.733" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to Jeff, I wouldn't be the least surprised if google crawled Stackoverflow so aggressively that it somehow 'found' people's CV's.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016288.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Them's sneaky&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; want a password protected CV - I would publish it, save the HTML, and then unpublish it.  Put the HTML, with some formatting tweaks as needed, on a site you control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T03:18:24.733" />
  <row Id="28495" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T03:28:53.683" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27771/can-i-hide-associated-accounts-on-my-public-cv&quot;&gt;Can I hide associated accounts on my public CV?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the flair being displayed on my CV, but only the SO flair. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have very low rep in the other sites ( SF for instance I have just 200 pts ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it considered to allow the user to select which flair will be displayed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I want to change the picture ( for one where I'm using a tie )  would there be a change to do that with out having to show that tie in the SO site it self? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T20:23:24.230" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T20:23:24.230" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T07:37:51.093" Title="select the flair displayed on the CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28499" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28500" CreationDate="2009-11-04T04:53:45.527" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I want to delete something so &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; never see it again. This doesn't work. Is there any way to make it so &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; can't see it (10k and mods I don't care).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T07:33:37.230" Title="Delete questions so they do not appear for me" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28499" CreationDate="2009-11-04T05:01:08.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could stab your eyes with a fork, but you probably won't see much of anything anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, edit your deletion to nothing before you delete it, to minimize it's impact on you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it would probably make to be a good option, &quot;Hide deleted content&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T05:01:08.743" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T06:14:47.440" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; (home-page) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; is the difference between both URLs, which anyone can see but &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;. That is, whenever I log into the site I have one single purpose, see if there is someone facing a difficult, in an area or subject which I can help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently &lt;code&gt;/question&lt;/code&gt; is the place to go for me. Instead, I think, &lt;code&gt;/question&lt;/code&gt; should be the home page. and all other &quot;top of the week&quot;/&quot;best of the month&quot; should move aside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138189" LastEditorUserId="138189" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T08:25:36.950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T08:36:32.487" Title="Why is there http://stackoverflow.com/ (home-page) and http://stackoverflow.com/questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28501" CreationDate="2009-11-04T06:28:34.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt; page gives you more sorting options, plus a preview of question content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T06:28:34.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28501" CreationDate="2009-11-04T06:28:39.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The home page has a few different things on it such as badges recently awarded etc - and the most active questions for the week/month (instead of options to sort by time and votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the simple reason is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; just questions. It's also tags, badges, and users. It therefore makes sense to have a /questions URL stem when looking at a specific question, and also when just looking at questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You obviously need to have &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; at the home page too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I very rarely look at the home page. It might make some sense for the home page and the questions page to be the same, but it's not really a problem IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T06:28:39.117" />
  <row Id="28504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T06:29:09.990" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27693/careers-student-account-migrate-to-29-account&quot;&gt;Careers student account migrate to $29 account&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a student, I used the first-year free filing option. However, I am graduating in 6 months, so the &quot;student&quot; branding tag could be detrimental going forward. Is there any way to go back and pay for a full subscription or to hide the blue &quot;student&quot; box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138352" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T12:44:11.480" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T12:44:11.480" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T08:19:03.657" Title="Add ability to move from &quot;student&quot; subscription filing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T06:58:30.823" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could someone help me create pagination like stackoverflow.com? I have written all my stored procedures to fetch necessary records from my db but I want c# code to generate links to paging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T12:42:54.260" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T12:42:54.260" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T07:17:45.720" Title="How can I implement pagination like on stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28499" CreationDate="2009-11-04T07:33:37.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GreaseMonkey, baby!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T07:33:37.230" />
  <row Id="28508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2009-11-04T07:36:29.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty certain it's all CSS (too lazy to open source at 2:30am) so you can use FireFox and one of the Add-Ons that allow you to change the CSS (I'm certain Web Developer lets you but there must be something more lightweight :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T07:36:29.690" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-11-04T08:32:50.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/202214/kevin-bourrillion&quot;&gt;Kevin Bourrillion&lt;/a&gt;, of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeO_J2OcHYM#t=2m54s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Collections fame&lt;/a&gt; (nowerdays &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guava&lt;/a&gt;), is a pretty active user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, not as famous in the Java world as, say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/564385/josh-bloch&quot;&gt;Josh Bloch&lt;/a&gt; (who is an infrequent user), but quite well-known as he leads what definitely is a popular project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="147793" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-22T16:47:47.267" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T16:47:47.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-04T08:32:50.590" />
  <row Id="28511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24616" CreationDate="2009-11-04T08:45:33.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply use the code `` delimiters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:45:33.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5265" CreationDate="2009-11-04T08:48:54.847" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok this is now fixed; placing comment urls inside a code `` block makes them immune from being link-ified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:48:54.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2009-11-04T08:51:20.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that reminds me, I need to remove that &quot;allow people to contact me about jobs&quot; checkbox from the SO UI..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:51:20.070" />
  <row Id="28514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6146" CreationDate="2009-11-04T08:51:38.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly hope to see you on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where's my beloved&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/blixt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/blixt&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T08:51:38.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17080" CreationDate="2009-11-04T09:00:31.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears on every search result page (screenshot presented in ye olde traditional hand-drawn Meta style)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5870/sosearchtips.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;doing a blank search will take you to the search help page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;doing a search that returns no results will provide search tips as well (though different ones, I need to make sure they're cross-linked..)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:00:31.317" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T09:01:49.443" Score="11" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to have different highlighting based on different interesting tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting way to do this would be to change the highlight color from the default (&lt;code&gt;#FFEFC6&lt;/code&gt;) to something more colorful, similar to how the Firefox Colorful Tabs extension works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2061/socolorfultaggedidea.png&quot; alt=&quot;Colorful Tags&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(I also added a 5px left margin to the &lt;code&gt;.votes&lt;/code&gt; boxes, as it looked a bit odd)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could further color the tags in the &quot;interesting tags&quot; box on the sidebar based on the color used in the question list to give a visual hint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head I can think of a few issues (other than &lt;em&gt;&quot;yuk pastels!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;da colors! they hurts my eyes!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how many colors -- what if I have 20 interesting tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;auto color generation could be too costly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what happens when a question is tagged with multiple 'interesting' tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T02:34:57.670" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T08:35:38.583" Title="Different question highlighting colors on different interesting tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19028" CreationDate="2009-11-04T09:04:55.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed. Had to do with specifying &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;input&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; length=&quot;22&quot; rather than style=&quot;width:300px&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently length/size of an input field varies depending on the font, so it's a bad idea to set width that way -- always use a specific css size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:04:55.010" />
  <row Id="28521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-04T09:20:54.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keynote (can you download that movie somewhere?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yahoo Developer tools, especially YQL. I didn't know it existed, and it looks powerfull. Also, the speaker, Christian Heilmann, was great.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python talk was kinda fun. I liked it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lunch was kinda good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The wallclock was a nice idea&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commercial Fogbugz talk. While I think Fogbugz is cool (we use it), and Fogbugz 7 is even better, it was a bit too commercial for me, but ok. We might still buy Fogbugz 7, mind you, but the talk could have been left out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASP.NET MVC talk. I walked out of that one. Partly because I knew almost everything that was being said the first half hour, but partly because the talk was a bit dull and slow. It could have been better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google App Engine talk. Overall, kinda slow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bathrooms could have been a bit better...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ugly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Qt. I know you can't please everyone with certain talks, but I was so not interested in this topic. That, plus tediously trying to drag the components into the right area and resizing them... this could have been a lot better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The jquery talk. Hate to be rude, but it was basically just walking the audience through the complete API. Combine that with a bad presenter (sorry), bad sound, the presenter also usually not rephrasing the questions that were asked (and thus getting completely lost on me) - no sorry, this one was not for me. It could have been cool, since jquery is kinda cool.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall: I had a great time, I picked up on some useful stuff, and I'll probably be there next year, if there is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38889" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T16:24:39.500" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:24:39.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27859" CreationDate="2009-11-04T09:36:12.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got this email from fogcreek.  Not too sure if it's already up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reviews:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27633/devdays-reviews-london&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Python: Michael Sparks&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.python.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.python.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Android: Reto Meir&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/android&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/android&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;jQuery: Remy Sharp&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jquery.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;FogBugz 7: Joel Spolsky&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fogbugz.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fogbugz.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The kiln beta is at:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fogcreek.com/kiln&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fogcreek.com/kiln&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Business Of Software Conference 2009&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://businessofsoftware.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://businessofsoftware.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;November 9-11 &amp;lt;-- That's SOON!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Stack Exchange Beta&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Stack Overflow Careers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Qt: Pekka Kosonen&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://qt.nokia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://qt.nokia.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://getjar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://getjar.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;Make Better Software&quot;: The Training Series&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://training.fogcreek.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://training.fogcreek.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Donors Choose&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://donorschoose.org/stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://donorschoose.org/stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has a page at Donors Choose which allows you to donate to a bunch of our favorite causes. Donors Choose is an awesome organization. Please consider helping! (Currently there are only 9 donations.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;iPhone: Phil Nash&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2009/10/29/stackoverflow-devdays-london.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2009/10/29/stackoverflow-devdays-london.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/4LQTV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://is.gd/4LQTV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Paul Biggar&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~pbiggar/#so-2009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~pbiggar/#so-2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Yahoo: Christian Heilmann&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://developer.yahoo.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/4IibE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://is.gd/4IibE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some photos:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepez/sets/72157622685399650/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepez/sets/72157622685399650/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/brunorothgiesser/DevDaysLondon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://picasaweb.google.com/brunorothgiesser/DevDaysLondon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134529" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T09:36:12.870" />
  <row Id="28523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6407" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:10:41.417" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do allow very limited markdown in comments now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt; for  bold, italic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;`` for code blocks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[example](http://example.com &quot;merely an example&quot;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No HTML, just Markdown in comments, please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-01T08:50:40.177" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T08:50:40.177" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7652" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:27:27.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding a bit to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently on Super User, I noticed more answers which were not actually answers. For example, these questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/62762/how-to-enable-middle-button-with-apples-new-magic-mouse&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/62762/how-to-enable-middle-button-with-apples-new-magic-mouse&lt;/a&gt; There, we have answers which are only personal opinions, like you would find on a forum.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/57072/unable-to-use-tweetdeck-on-windows-due-to-ooops-tweetdeck-cant-find-your-data&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/57072/unable-to-use-tweetdeck-on-windows-due-to-ooops-tweetdeck-cant-find-your-data&lt;/a&gt; This question is the first popping in a typical Google search, for this problem. As such, it gets a lot of &quot;oh, I have same problem on &lt;em&gt;system-version&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To such answers, I referred that answers should be indeed, answering the question, or at least bringing something to help, and not simply saying that you have same, or to give your opinion in general, and to this i refer to the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I noticed indeed that the FAQ is really detailed about questions, what to ask, to not ask there... But tells nothing about answers. In this case, it's more than &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7656/how-do-i-write-a-good-answer-to-a-question&quot;&gt;how to write a good answer&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, it's about basic ground rules, even if they seem obvious to people using the site regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe indeed the FAQ should include such disclaimers, like for the questions. It probably won't prevent such answers from being posted, but at least we can refer them to some ground rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T10:27:27.300" />
  <row Id="28525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:27:11.240" Score="9" ViewCount="715" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/75491/how-to-upload-an-image-to-a-post&quot;&gt;How to upload an image to a post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please tell me, with all the freehand circles and illustrative figures you can muster, how one goes about posting a screenshot in a question on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-01T21:41:08.663" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T09:04:02.153" ClosedDate="2011-07-25T10:20:30.540" Title="How do I post a screenshot on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;screenshot&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28525" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:27:54.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upload it to some image hosting site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T10:30:50.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28525" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:30:44.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hit the sixth button from the left in the 'post your answer' field. That allows you to build an image link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12960" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T10:30:50.877" />
  <row Id="28528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28525" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:33:32.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First you need to upload to a website somewhere. Free image hosting can work, as long as they allow hotlinks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link to it using either the normal HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag, or use the markdown &lt;code&gt;![My Image](&lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/path/to/image.jpg)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/path/to/image.jpg)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T10:33:32.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28525" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:33:35.430" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a post on popular Image Hosts you can use:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19406/image-hosting-for-stackoverflow-answers&quot;&gt;Image hosting for StackOverflow answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upload the images on those hosts and link to the uploaded images via the UI like what the other guys mentioned. That button is here:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i38.tinypic.com/2mpla42.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SO-Insert Image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T13:10:43.240" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T13:10:43.240" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="28530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:48:43.517" Score="0" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16040/please-tidy-how-badges-are-displayed&quot;&gt;Please tidy how badges are displayed&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO should display badges categorically. It looks cluttered when all the badges are displayed together. Categories could be 'questions' , 'answers' , 'editing' etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130243" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T10:48:43.517" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T12:40:09.520" Title="Badges to be displayed category-wise" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;display&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T10:49:13.237" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4376/please-allow-image-uploads-directly-onto-the-site&quot;&gt;Please allow image uploads directly onto the site.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having to find a choose an image hosting before you can put a image in a question/answers is &lt;em&gt;unnecessary&lt;/em&gt; pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the problem that a lot of &lt;strong&gt;corporate proxy servers&lt;/strong&gt; block different image storage sites, so some users can not see the images in some questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time go on, more and more questions/answers will images will be broken due to &lt;strong&gt;image hosting sites going down&lt;/strong&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that a &lt;em&gt;image can be worth a 100 words&lt;/em&gt; and some questions/answers greatly benefit from them, I don’t wish old posts on  StackOverflow (etc) to become less useful due to these problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I understand not providing image hosting at first, as it is not the most important thing to provide, however I cost of the not providing it is now more then the cost of providing it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19406/image-hosting-for-stackoverflow-answers&quot;&gt;Image hosting for StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&quot; for a list of image hosting sites that can be used until this is fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T10:49:13.237" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T11:03:50.073" Title="Provide native image hosting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;images&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-11-04T11:03:00.247" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is also the problem that a lot of corporate proxy servers block different image storage sites, so some users can not see the images in some questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:03:00.247" />
  <row Id="28533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28525" CreationDate="2009-11-04T11:07:09.537" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You go to the place you want to take the screenshot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You press &lt;kbd&gt;Prnt Scren&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;sub&gt;(Yey! &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive/1974#1974&quot;&gt;Our toy&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive/23571#23571&quot;&gt;back again!&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create an answer/question&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6651/pantallazo1p.png&quot; alt=&quot;Any type of post will do&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the &lt;em&gt;Insert Image&lt;/em&gt; button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search an image provider (top google search will do)&#xA; &lt;img src=&quot;http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3392/pantallazo2q.png&quot; alt=&quot;I'll choose ImageShack as they are pretty reliable&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;em&gt;Choose File&lt;/em&gt; and select the screenshot file&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Optional&lt;/em&gt;: Resize the image to an usable size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click Upload&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy the first provided link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste the provided link here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click OK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hurray!&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6356/pantallazox.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mission Accomplished!&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="131541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-18T13:27:42.077" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T13:27:42.077" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="28534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28483" CreationDate="2009-11-04T11:32:43.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a flag function on every public cv page, in the lower right sidebar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:32:43.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-28T00:57:28.527" Score="17" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; The term &quot;moderator&quot; used herein refers primarily to high-reputation users, not to those with diamonds by their names (although that is also useful).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com%20%22How%20can%20I%20become%20a%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;long tradition&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;&quot;How can I become a better ...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Think of your biggest pet peeve of moderators.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read all the answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your pet peeve doesn't exist then&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post a new answer - only ONE pet peeve, and at most 3 short sentences of explanation (No Too Long, Didn't Read (TLDR), please)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;else&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote up your pet peeve since it already exists.  Add comments to suggest improvements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try to remain objective and dispassionate.  Phrase your pet peeve in terms of an improvement I might make, rather than a negative statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avoid:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;I hate when my question starts getting closed without comment&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Instead:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Please leave a comment regarding the reasons for voting to close&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a very narrow view of what Stack Overflow is, and what it could be.  My hope is that I'll learn new ways of helping maintain it while frustrating people less.  I know there are many moderators who are also open to suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T20:35:07.817" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T20:35:07.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-28T18:15:11.667" Title="How can I become a better Stack Overflow moderator?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;&lt;high-rep-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28535" CreationDate="2009-02-28T18:16:02.663" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, SO mod-users need to be significantly less active in closing and editing. I think a lot of them are getting off on a power-trip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:50:25.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-28T18:38:48.087" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28535" CreationDate="2009-02-28T18:20:01.220" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would LOVE if people would explain their upvote/downvote.  Particularly their downvotes, votes to close, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38317" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:50:25.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-28T18:20:01.220" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="28538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28535" CreationDate="2009-02-28T18:23:09.120" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Biggest pet peeve is when some questions are allowed through and others are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either go back and close all the old 'What's your favorite...' questions, or let them all through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Some of me does believe that it has to do with reputation.  Higher Reputation users are allowed more leeway than lower reputation users, and I believe that to be unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if a 1000 Reputation or less user had posted this question, it would have been closed &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/post%5Fhaste&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;post haste&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T23:40:18.190" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:40:18.190" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-28T18:23:09.120" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28535" CreationDate="2009-02-28T20:07:35.610" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All in all, I feel that the moderation on SO has gotten better as time's gone by.  At one point in time, it seemed like you couldn't post anything outside &quot;Here's my code, here's my question.&quot;  I do still think that moderators should be a little bit more forgiving.  For the most part, I feel that if it's a grey area, we should give the poster the benefit of the doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:50:25.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-28T20:07:35.610" />
  <row Id="28540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-06T03:32:50.880" Score="20" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is more than anything else a place to ask programming questions, but we also have stuff like tips and tricks, code golf (to the chagrin of some), programming as a profession style questions, programming jokes, books, blogs, etc, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also seen, and myself placed, problematic code and/or code with unconventional ideas to be viewed by others on Stack Overflow and get help and or opinions about the snippets... in a way a code review of sorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering how do the rest of you feel about Stack Overflow as a place for simple code reviews (barring placing illegal code). Is this an activity that is in line with the purpose of Stack Overflow or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: My opinion is Stack Overflow is great for small code reviews of personal projects and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:09:12.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T03:32:50.850" Title="Is Stack Overflow an appropriate place for simple code reviews?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T03:34:21.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it depends on a case-by-base basis. If you just put code up and ask if it's OK, I think there is a fine line you can cross into the realm of &quot;not asking a programming question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if you have code that you are &quot;unsure of&quot; or think there is possibly something wrong with, then post it and see if others can spot the problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T03:34:21.190" />
  <row Id="28542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T03:34:53.340" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, why not.   &quot;Is my code good&quot; is a programming question.  And I am sure you would receive lots of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T03:34:53.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T03:36:28.407" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say absolutely but within reason. I can't really see anyone willing to spend large amounts of their time code reviewing entire projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T03:36:28.407" />
  <row Id="28544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T03:38:59.073" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a great idea, unless you're employed. Don't post company-owned code without express permission! And make sure any sensitive information is removed or replaced. You could get into real trouble if your boss finds company source code floating about on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143873" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T03:38:59.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T03:40:08.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends which portion of the voting population is online at the time. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131570" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T03:40:08.367" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T03:40:27.947" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the perfect site for this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Refactor my Code&lt;/a&gt;. The community over there is great and people are always eager to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-John&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134813" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T03:40:27.930" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T04:06:03.623" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As usual, &quot;it depends&quot; -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you just want someone to bench-check your widget class before you check it into VSS and clock out for the day, ask a co-worker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want someone to double-check your homework before you turn it in, ask a fellow student.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you're having a problem with your code, yes - post it, describe the problem, and we'll all learn something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you've discovered the solution to a problem, post the question and your code as the answer, and we'll all learn something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in general, I'd have to say &quot;No, SO is not a free code-reviewing service&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T04:06:03.610" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T04:12:42.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind - I'll vote yes. Most people here are pretty responsible with what they ask/post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1685" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T04:12:42.970" />
  <row Id="28549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28540" CreationDate="2009-03-06T04:21:17.317" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  I've seen people do it, but it makes me uncomfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, SO was envisioned as a repository of software knowledge, where all the good questions get asked, and all the good answers get saved, and &lt;strong&gt;anyone with the same questions can find those good answers later&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kind of &quot;one-off&quot; questions are too specific to contribute much to the knowledge base.  Who else is going to have that exact problem later?  &lt;strong&gt;Questions should be general enough to be useful to someone else, not just you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="163565" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:51:11.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-06T04:21:17.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:20:39.333" Score="8" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that some questions get a lot of responses quickly, and the cool fact is that most of the time these initial responses are correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see users are motivated to accept answers. Because many questions take less than 24h to get an acceptable response, I'm unsure what to do when I have a question that takes more than 24h to get a response that I feel is complete enough to warrant being marked as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48729" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:07:48.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T21:35:48.193" Title="How long should I wait before accepting an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:23:49.373" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just mark the correct answer that solves your problem as the solution. Votes take care of anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" />
  <row Id="28552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:24:45.017" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accept an answer as soon as I see one that I feel does a reasonable job of answering my question. Often that takes 2-10 minutes. Sometimes it's days. There are even a couple questions I've asked where I still don't have a satisfactory answer, either because I didn't phrase my question well, or because nobody else really had the answer either, or even occasionally just because the question was overlooked for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I go ahead and accept an earlier answer I will then always come back later and switch the accepted answer to different answer if one comes along that I like even better because it does a better or more complete job of explaining the answer to my problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26049/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; in regards to your second paragraph for some info about how to get additional responses to older questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131706" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" />
  <row Id="28553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:26:08.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to that, you can always change the correct answer if you realize a better one has been presented.  The only thing marking an answer correct does is stop the drive by answers (like this one :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:35:07.557" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you get an answer that solves your problem, mark it answered.  If someone does a better job later, switch.  Sometimes the quick one-line answer really is all the information you need.  If no one gives an answer that actually works as a solution, resist the temptation to accept the best one so far - this will let others know that the question may still need a solution.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that you can mark your own answer as accepted, if you manage to find a solution on your own, you can write your own answer and mark it as the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8701" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" />
  <row Id="28555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:40:01.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote up answers that are helpful as soon as I read them and I'm satisfied with them.  I wait at least a full day before marking one 'accepted' just in case a really brilliant answer comes in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you can reverse your votes and accepted answer only for a while, but if you leave it too long then they become unchangeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133415" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T21:40:01.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:40:22.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer gives you the info you are looking for, it's not to soon. You can always change it later if a better answer comes along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T21:40:22.943" />
  <row Id="28557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-01-09T21:50:15.373" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will admit that I don't accept answers very quickly because I feel like people won't contribute if they see an answer is accepted. Fewer contributions means fewer thoughts/ideas/answers, and those answers are the real value in this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to wait until I feel like my question's lifecycle has ended, and then I accept an answer. There's no hard-and-fast rule for how long that is; some questions 'end' sooner than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-09T21:50:15.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-08-07T15:37:25.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of questions with accepted answers that are inferior to answers posted after them, or which are even incorrect, just early enough and convincing-sounding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should probably wait until you have actually implemented the suggestion in the response and verified that it works for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T11:52:07.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-08-07T15:37:25.090" />
  <row Id="28559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28561" CreationDate="2009-11-04T12:13:12.677" Score="4" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1667029/what-was-the-biggest-mental-leap-hurdle-you-had-to-overcome-in-your-career-clos&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow yesterday and it got closed due to being subjective. I'm slightly confused as I used the subjective and discussion tags (what are these for if not my type of question) and I've also seen other subjective questions on SO that have not been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just want some clarification for the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T12:36:15.113" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T00:42:57.470" Title="Subjective question on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="28560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28559" CreationDate="2009-11-04T12:17:08.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Do not ask them! The existing ones are the exceptions and shouldn't be the rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you really have to ask them, be sure they are Community Wiki from the beginning. But that does not guarantee that they will not get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T12:17:08.550" />
  <row Id="28561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28559" CreationDate="2009-11-04T12:18:44.803" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason such questions are (sometimes) closed is stated on every /ask page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is your question a question which can be definitively answered? Or is it a &quot;list of X&quot; type question with no real answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, these questions are occasionally OK if &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they are marked community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the community responds well to them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at least you asked! That counts in your favor; most don't even ask, just do whatever they like..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I converted it to wiki and I'll let others vote it open as they deem fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T12:18:44.803" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T12:38:28.557" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25276/input-cv-from-linkedin&quot;&gt;Input CV from LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have the Careers site automatically parse a PDF or RTF CV file and attach the information in the data field. At least it could extract this information from some major recruitment website such as LinkedIn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T12:40:48.007" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T12:40:48.007" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T12:41:49.503" Title="CV Parsing mechanism in Careers or Linking of linkedIn" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="28563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28550" CreationDate="2009-11-04T12:45:34.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/60658/how-can-i-do-a-dump-of-only-the-table-structure-in-postgresql&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, and had the acceptable &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/60658/how-can-i-do-a-dump-of-only-the-table-structure-in-postgresql/60661#60661&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; in 38 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There it was a case of me not knowing what to Google, and the answerer knowing the answer :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T12:45:34.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-04T12:45:34.083" />
  <row Id="28564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28565" CreationDate="2009-11-04T13:45:53.963" Score="3" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;... the study that measured samples on offer, customer interest and the amount ultimately purchased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, this is one of the data slides he took from the study: &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/4054067210%5F9ffc748548%5Fd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to read the study for myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T18:33:35.280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:33:35.280" ClosedDate="2010-05-10T23:59:13.120" Title="What study did Joel Spolsky quote in his DevDays user interaction talk?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;joel-spolsky&gt;&lt;devdays-london&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28564" CreationDate="2009-11-04T13:58:51.613" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I belief he was referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/whenchoice.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing?&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sheena S. Iyengar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The study is also referred to in Chris Anderson's book &quot;The Long Tail&quot;, which I'm currently reading. To quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchengineland.com/human-hardware-the-paradox-of-choice-14283&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But what about Anderson’s Long Tail? In his book, Anderson also refers to Iyengar’s study (pages 170 – 172) but has a different take on it. He argues that it’s not so much the number of choices available to us, but the tools available to us to filter and order our alternatives. As he notes, his local grocery story has a lot more than 24 choices of jams, yet they still sell lots of jams. The difference is in how we make the decisions. Anderson quotes the conclusion of Iyengar and her colleagues in another study, “Knowing What You Like versus Discovering What You Want: The Influence of Choice Making Goals on Decision Satisfaction”:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Despite the detriments associated with choice overload, consumers want choice and they want a lot of it. The benefits that stem from choice, however, come not from the options themselves, but rather from the process of choosing. By allowing choosers to perceive themselves as volitional agents having successfully constructed their preference and ultimate selection outcomes during the choosing task, the importance of choice is reinstated. Consider the request in Forbes’ recent ‘I’m Pro-Choice’ article: “Offer customers abundant choices, but also help them search.” We now know how.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what Joel thinks of this take on the experiment, especially in relation to the points he made on software development in his keynote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2597" LastEditorUserId="2597" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T14:04:48.640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T14:04:48.640" />
  <row Id="28566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28568" CreationDate="2009-11-04T14:23:55.223" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/664159/gaming-development-vs-corporate-software-development/664187#664187&quot;&gt;Gaming Development vs Corporate Software Development&lt;/a&gt;, the content is overlapping the footer and it's wider than the other answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/y5E9y.png&quot; alt=&quot;shot of the formatting overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure why. I'm also sure it didn't used to be like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T14:55:01.560" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T14:55:01.560" Title="Weird layout bug on this long answer on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28566" CreationDate="2009-11-04T14:31:01.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After checking it with aardvark, the TR around the question is wider than usual, but the TD is normal. I'm thinking due to the answer above's length combined with your answer's length is messing up with the layout. Due to the related box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T14:31:01.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28566" CreationDate="2009-11-04T14:40:34.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Known issue.  See this:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fixed that particular post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T14:40:34.533" />
  <row Id="28569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28678" CreationDate="2009-11-04T14:50:57.637" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here comes a strange question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I want to edit one answer in particular, the link for the &quot;Save your edits&quot;, obviously randomly generated, contains amongst other random characters the following word: &lt;strong&gt;babe&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: screenshot to show the link:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3962/editlink.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot-link&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing wrong in itself, it's randomly generated, and not really offensive. however, it was deemed offensive by my workplace's proxy, which refuses to send my request (and probably notified the local admin that I'm trying to watch some things that I'm not...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question is: is there a way for me to change this link, is it related to my current session, or is it a strong link, and will remain the same for this particular question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T08:27:05.300" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:30:48.380" Title="Is there a way to change the &quot;submit edition&quot; link, once generated?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="28570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22454" CreationDate="2009-11-04T14:51:31.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the same issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=svn%20or%20subversion&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;%&lt;/code&gt; characters are escaped and you're taken to:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=svn%2520or%2520subversion&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;which is not valid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137910" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T14:51:31.363" />
  <row Id="28571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T15:04:59.263" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14664/how-does-so-syntax-highlight-citations-so-well&quot;&gt;How does SO syntax highlight citations so well?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The syntax highlighting on StackOverflow is excellent. How do they do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136545" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T15:43:13.597" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T15:43:13.597" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T15:30:42.027" Title="How does SO do its syntax highlighting for code?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="28572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28571" CreationDate="2009-11-04T15:12:04.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google prettify&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T15:12:04.667" />
  <row Id="28573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28559" CreationDate="2009-11-04T15:14:12.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick check of your question shows it wasn't in the same category as &quot;Which is better:  emacs or vi?&quot;, but we prefer questions that can be answered.  The &quot;subjective&quot; tag doesn't help, because it doesn't change whether or not the question belongs.  It's kinda like asking &quot;Mind if I smoke?&quot;  in an asthma ward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a fair number of questions like this, and some of them are valuable.  &quot;What's a good book to learn X?&quot; questions are an example:  they're a good place to find what books are generally considered worth getting, although we're rarely going to settle on one best book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to remember is that votes to close are done by people with 3K reputation and up, and such people are usually fairly aware of the rep system.  There's prejudices against questions and answers that seem designed to get cheap reputation, and subjective questions like yours tend to breed both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki questions and answers don't affect reputation, and so we can do all the voting we want on them without worrying about cheap rep.  This leads to the poll sort of question, where people throw on answers and other people vote according to how they like them.  One example of this would be a good books question.  You can assume that a book near the top of the list has impressed a lot of people, and is likely good.  (Books at the bottom might not be good, or they might be obscure, or they might be idiosyncratic.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T15:14:12.493" />
  <row Id="28579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38254" CreationDate="2009-11-04T17:43:25.907" Score="1" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closely related to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21793/why-isnt-my-gravatar-image-updating&quot;&gt;Why isn’t my Gravatar image updating?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ever since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28192/has-jon-skeet-been-hacked&quot;&gt;Tony the Pony hijacked Jon Skeet's account&lt;/a&gt;, the avatar image on Jon's old profile page now shows the updated image of Tony, as one might expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the smaller &quot;thumbnail&quot; image attached to Tony's questions and answers still shows a picture of Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until you (the reader) clear your browser cache, that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible solution: change the thumbnail image URL when the user updates their avatar image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Presumably this is already being done for the full-size image as that updates immediately.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T22:22:18.983" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T00:34:00.517" Title="Full-size avatar image updates, but thumbnail doesn't" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28579" CreationDate="2009-11-04T18:09:22.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take your case to &lt;a href=&quot;http://gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt;, since they provide the Avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T18:09:22.413" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:14:24.507" Score="12" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the last couple of days I've been digging deep in the &lt;strong&gt;Unanswered Questions&lt;/strong&gt; tab and looking at all those questions that do have answers and no upvotes and upvoting if there is a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm proposing is a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;call to action&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to clean the Unanswered Questions and give proper credit to those who've actually took the time to answer. We could organize an all-day like Wordpress does. It would be fun to look at the figures pre and after cleanup. In the end making it a special day would be just a way of motivation on the community. Perhaps we could have a special - cleanup day - badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think of the idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; to better explain my proposal, as suggested, here go some links and more specificity into the pot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress%5FBug%5FHunts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wordpress bug hunt day page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - WP plans a specific day for bug-hunting. All days are good for bug-hunting, sure. But having a specific day and doing things together is part of the fun. A bit like running. I run weekly but it's more thrilling on 1/2-a-marathon organized days!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://typo3.org/development/bug-fixing/bug-day/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Typo3 bug day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Same thing as above. They summarize it clearly with the line: &lt;em&gt;The motivation for having a Bug Day is to foster community outreach and growth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How would credit be given?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A bit like the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Beta&quot;&lt;/em&gt; badge, SO team could create one that would be given to all users who, on the day xx, voted (up or down), edited, commented and so forth all questions older than yy amount of days sitting on the Unanswered pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How could we prevent overlaping work?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A good things about SO is that this has been taken care from the start up. If an answers gets two upvotes it gets two upvotes - there is really no more overlapping that on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;new-questions-fastest-gun-in-the-west&lt;/a&gt; pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137820" LastEditorUserId="137820" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T01:43:00.073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T03:42:20.130" Title="StackOverflow tidy-up day!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28581" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:18:34.580" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think every day should be clean-up day. We want people to do this sort of thing all the time, which is why we have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;badge for voting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you should only upvote an answer if it's &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt;, not just to remove the question from the Unanswered list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T19:18:34.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:32:23.320" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking the form label &quot;Address&quot; in the File Your CV page focuses the e-mail field instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130166" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T18:06:07.027" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T18:06:07.027" Title="Address Label in File CV is &quot;for&quot; email" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55311" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:37:28.663" Score="5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am reviewing my open questions (some are on page 4 or 5). So I click the page number &quot;4&quot; and get a list of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I click on the question, I go read it, and then hit the back button to go back and see the next question, it takes me back to the first page of my questions, not to where I actually was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I not be hitting the back button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131010" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T13:05:14.633" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T13:05:14.633" Title="back arrow to recent activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="28585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28581" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:38:05.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a link to your example of what Wordpress does might help explain the community aspect of your proposal. Otherwise it sounds a little like a day when some people will spend more time and effort on StackOverflow than others and it's not clear to me how you get counted as having participated, or how the workload gets distributed and un-duplicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T19:38:05.213" />
  <row Id="28586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:42:47.683" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does StackOverflow currently notify all those who have answered a question when that question is edited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135246" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T19:48:07.097" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T19:55:24.763" Title="Does StackOverflow currently notify all those who have answered a question when that question is edited?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28586" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:45:30.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it does not notify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T19:45:30.613" />
  <row Id="28588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28586" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:46:58.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the question will be noted as edited. You can click on that edited date and see the revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only comments or answers to your question will be notified to you (the question OP). Every answerer will only be notified of comments to their individual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T19:55:24.763" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T19:55:24.763" />
  <row Id="28589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28584" CreationDate="2009-11-04T19:58:48.860" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, do not hit the back button here. Open your questions in tabs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the address bar when you click page 4. It shows the same URL than page 1. Therefore the back button cannot distinguish these pages. Believe me, tabbed browsing is really great to solve this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T19:58:48.860" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23750" CreationDate="2009-11-04T20:06:59.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not programming related, but as an aside my software architecture professor (a class about developing for and in teams) once took a day out to demo problem solving on domains that are hard to prove as solvable. His choice of example was how to optimize your choice of a mate. This is a problem that a large number of people are interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were some assumptions, such as, you needed more than 4 months to determine how much you loved someone and a year to determine if that person was someone you'd marry; you needed to marry by age 29 but couldn't seriously start looking before 20 due to dating in your age group and general maturity and mutual interest in marriage. Additionally it was assumed that you couldn't universally measure the degree of love quantitatively but that you could accurately compare it in scale to your previous relationship, and with less accuracy relationships before those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These assumptions boil down to an approach where you calculate that you'll get about 6 to 10 opportunities, due to time spent between relationships, out of which the first two should not be candidates and instead used as a baseline. Should you experience a positive difference in love that is notably greater than the previous positive difference, you should seek to get married. This of course can't guarantee that you'll get agreement on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, now it's vaguely programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T20:06:59.140" />
  <row Id="28594" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T20:40:53.790" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Sometimes, upon reflection, one decides that a topic SHOULD stay open. Why can't we undo our close vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133879" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T20:47:52.517" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T20:56:58.023" Title="Why can't I undo my vote to close?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-11-04T21:06:21.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the close vote total never reaches the threshold of 5, there's no reason for you to rescind it since close votes eventually expire after a certain period of time (although I forget what that period of time is... maybe a week?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and if anyone is wondering, after a close vote expires you can vote again (i.e. you are only counted as having voted already if the question actually gets closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T21:11:29.930" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T21:11:29.930" />
  <row Id="28598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T21:27:28.247" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5468/should-cw-activity-be-rewarded-similarly-to-normal-posts&quot;&gt;Should CW activity be rewarded similarly to normal posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't we get reputation for answering community wiki questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137473" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T21:37:58.880" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T21:37:58.880" ClosedDate="2009-11-04T21:45:41.800" Title="Why don't we get reputation for answering community wiki questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28598" CreationDate="2009-11-04T21:31:52.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the answer is &quot;owned&quot; by the community and not any one individual (even more so than usual).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making an answer CW is supposed to encourage others to edit it and make it &quot;the&quot; answer to a question, so then the problem would become - who gets what proportion of the rep from up-votes (or loses what proportion from down-votes) if the answer were still &quot;owned&quot; by the individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T21:31:52.777" />
  <row Id="28608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26998" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:18:04.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I cite the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[CW posts] make the post easier to edit and maintain by a wider group of users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/811/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; already &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26998/why-was-this-question-made-community-wiki/27000#27000&quot;&gt;mentioned&lt;/a&gt;: it is a poll. To make it easier for people to add additional info to these poll posts (by lowering the rep level for edits below 2k), it is a good idea to force CW. That is what it was made for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Novelocrat's and your answer should be one post and not two. With CW merging these is possible for users below 2k rep, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T22:18:04.410" />
  <row Id="28609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17186" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:23:02.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I think that the Accept Rate is changing StackOverflow and not for the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was about to post this as a new question, but I'll start by adding it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the Acceptance Rate breaking StackOverflow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More and more now I am seeing comments below a question such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1660321/how-to-cache-masterpage-settings/&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Improve your accept rate to mark as answer of your questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, if you take a look at the history of the asker, they have in general been interacting with the people answering, and may have not yet found a solution to their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also realise that people would get better answers that they could legitimately accept if they wrote better answers, and removed some of the psychic debugging that is clearly happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hand in hand with this, I'm also starting to hear more people say &quot;I would post, but I don't want to be flamed as a noob&quot; - which surely is the whole ethos of StackOverflow - to promote people helping each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've been guilty in the past of suggesting the use of a search engine, but if I do, I'll post the search terms and likely useful links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T22:23:02.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:35:27.980" Score="2" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many servers are used to host a commercial website like StackOverflow?  Are there caching appliances involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:40:43.620" Title="How many servers are used to host Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;server&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28610" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:48:39.687" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an update, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-network-configuration/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stack-overflow-network-diagram-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Network Diagram&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-network-configuration/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T16:40:43.620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:40:43.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:51:02.520" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8578/aggressively-closing-duplicate-questions&quot;&gt;Aggressively closing duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the way most people get on meta is, that they notice something on StackOverflow that ticks them off. Then they want to vent their anger somewhere, and meta is the obvious place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example you see five veteran stackoverflowers close a newbie question because it's subjective.  Then you log on to meta.stackoverflow, and post the following;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;WE SHOULD BE MORE FRIENDLY TO NEWBIES&#xA;GREETINGS &#xA;METANEWBIE&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're really after is crossing your debating skills with some other people, so you can see where you stand, whether other people agree, and just to vent some anger.  However, the answer you get is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CLOSED AS DUPLICATE&#xA;WE DISCUSSED THIS DURING THE 2005 BETA&#xA;FIVE GRUMPY META DEVELOPERS&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves you with the option of appending a 2005 post, which nobody will read. That's just a waste.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think discussions can't be duplicated, because a 2005 discussion is really different from a 2009 discussion.  Questions that have the &quot;discussion&quot; tag should not be closed as duplicate,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. It would be pretty ironic if someone found a duplicate for this :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:11:38.717" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:11:38.717" ClosedDate="2009-11-05T08:31:13.170" Title="Discussions should not be marked as duplicate" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28612" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:57:24.633" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is an issue for you, then you don't understand the site. This site is not a discussion forum, it is meant to be a wiki Q&amp;amp;A site. You should be interested in adding to the wiki, not getting more views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, by interacting with the old question, the question will start to appear again on the front page for at least a short period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T22:57:24.633" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="28614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28610" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:57:39.190" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the server configuration, IIRC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;web (stackoverflow.com)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;web (stackoverflow.com)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;web (serverfault.com / careers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;web (superuser.com)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;web (meta / sstatic.net) / &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/load-balancing-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HAproxy load balancer&lt;/a&gt; for stackoverflow.com in a VM / cacti monitoring / etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;database (all sites)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a backup appliance for regular database backups. Caching is done on the individual web servers (not shared) so one of the goals for HAproxy is to attempt to route users to the same server for repeated requests through IP hashing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email traffic is hosted with Google Apps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T23:26:18.860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:26:18.860" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28612" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:59:17.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is a bit different from SO, in that it actually does encourage the concept of discussion. However, in my mind, that key change does not change the core tenet of any of the Trilogy sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always search for dupes &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; you post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you might find an older post to which you should be appending. Sorry, them's the breaks. However, by doing so, you &quot;bump&quot; said post to the &quot;Active&quot; questions tab on the home page, and the original asker of said post gets a big bar notification next time he/she signs in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really seeing the problem. The reality is that most discussions are suggestions -- and in the case dupes, suggestions whose outcomes have already been decided, if not by consensus then possibly by mods or Jeff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T22:59:17.330" />
  <row Id="28617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28612" CreationDate="2009-11-04T22:59:43.553" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to post here to represent one of the five grumpy meta people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Insert Grumpy Comment here&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-04T23:02:38.010" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:02:38.010" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28621" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:05:19.910" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to find the oldest questions that remain unanswered in my areas of expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tab, it seems to me like the most logical sort order for questions is oldest-first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should at least be an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, if this list were filterable by my &quot;interesting&quot; tags, I think I could be quite a bit more effective at finding and answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:10:42.223" Title="Is it possible to find the oldest unanswered questions in my tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28618" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:10:42.223" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can search for questions with no answers with the search tag &lt;code&gt;answers:0&lt;/code&gt;. So to search for unanswered question in your favourite tag &lt;code&gt;asp.net-mvc&lt;/code&gt;, enter &lt;code&gt;[asp.net-mvc] answers:0&lt;/code&gt;, i.e.: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Basp.net-mvc%5D+answers%3A0&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[asp.net-mvc]+answers%3A0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it is not possible to search for all your favourite tags at once other than by manually constructing a gigantic url (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net-mvc%20or%20sql-server&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net-mvc%20or%20sql-server&lt;/a&gt;). This works for the &quot;unanswered&quot; category as well, e.g &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/unanswered/asp.net-mvc%20or%20sql-erver&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/unanswered/asp.net-mvc%20or%20sql-server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:10:42.223" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28535" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:15:26.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the FAQ updated with a moderator related section, with information on things like tag consolidation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:15:26.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-04T23:15:26.677" />
  <row Id="28624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28627" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:45:16.123" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question containing COM1 as title will trigger this error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1677444/COM1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1677444/COM1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Server Error in '/' Application.&#xA;The resource cannot be found.&#xA;Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.  Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requested URL: /questions/1677444/COM1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:06:30.860" Title="COM1 not accepted in title" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28647" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:48:10.847" Score="47" ViewCount="34389" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/404&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; on SO and was wondering 2 things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I compile it? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the joke?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Xb25fTcjIRQ/SvISKY5kyPI/AAAAAAAAAEI/pGf4KiLbbsA/Capture.PNG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T00:18:03.787" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T09:13:22.157" Title="What's the joke in the Stack Overflow 404 page code?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;error&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="13" />
  <row Id="28626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28612" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:51:32.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your extreme example of the same discussion topic being posted twice in four years, I would agree.  However, the reality is that the same discussion topics get posted on a weekly (or shorter) basis.  In that light, I'm going to keep closing duplicates.  It's more useful to keep related discussion together on a single post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:51:32.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28624" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:55:06.077" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a known issue of ASP.NET MVC routing, not StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/987105/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/987105/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T00:06:30.860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:06:30.860" />
  <row Id="28628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28625" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:56:09.053" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27112/amusing-404-page-not-found-images-for-trilogy-sites/27846#27846&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot%5F%28computing%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Polyglot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-04T23:56:09.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28630" CreationDate="2009-11-04T23:59:59.543" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given Jeff's post here &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000817.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000817.html&lt;/a&gt;, which type of user id was used in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presume it was int, as it is used in the URL, and as far as I can see there is not the need to use GUID, as the benefits in the above are for distributed disconnected systems, it seems to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135482" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T00:01:17.607" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:04:37.997" Title="Was int or guid used as the primary key/index in StackOverflow, and why?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28629" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:01:59.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the data dump, it is an integer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:01:59.727" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28612" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:02:45.453" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with duplicate discussions is that the old-timers (you know - those of us who have been here for &lt;em&gt;several months&lt;/em&gt; now) eventually get tired of discussing the same things over and over and over and over and over &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and we just give it up. The new discussion becomes an echo chamber for people new to the site, and nothing good comes of it. If you can find the original discussion, take time to read it, and either respond to it (bumping the whole question to the front page in the process) or start a new discussion that derives from &lt;em&gt;but does not duplicate&lt;/em&gt; the original, then we're all better off: you, because you've taken the time to learn from past arguments; us, because we don't have to endlessly repeat old arguments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:02:45.453" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28625" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:19:02.693" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The joke is that it is a program that prints '404' to the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The program is a polyglot.  It is valid in C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Befunge-93, and Brainf*ck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:19:02.693" />
  <row Id="28633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:24:50.873" Score="-8" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google just released &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/friendconnect/admin/site/overview?id=00627780894841784194&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Friend Connect&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; a tool that allows sites to offer real-time discussion to people currently visiting the site. Google Friend Connect is based on the same OpenID authentication that SO already uses, so it wouldn't be bringing in facebook or MySpace to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Overflow would benefit greatly if for a particular question there was a Google Friend Connect real-time discussion available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the activity speed on Stack Overflow answers/comments, I usually can sit on a new question's page and refresh it every minute or two and get a new response or comment. It'd be especially nice to immediately reply to a comment in a &quot;real-time&quot; manner as a lot of times user comments are a back and forth discussion, clarifying the question, exposing some error, &amp;amp;c.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if you could support &quot;channels&quot; for each particular question, but it'd be pretty cool. Also I'm not sure how you'd integrate the Google Friend Connect log into Stack Overflow (maybe as a special type of comment, or maybe it would just be transient &quot;chat&quot; and would be discarded or stored for however long Google stores it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;There is an amazing amount of revulsion to this feature. Seriously, I'm not asking to bring MySpace or facebook to SO. What I'm suggesting is to improve &lt;em&gt;the comments&lt;/em&gt; and other discussion areas of SO. Active discussions on SO can occur in nearly real time in comments and edits to answers/questions anyways; it'd be nice to collaborate and discuss in true real time so that any confusing points or ideas could be fleshed out. I think it's much better than the backwards &quot;refresh/wait&quot; cycle or waiting for the daily e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130152" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:29:50.277" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T20:31:23.037" ClosedDate="2010-09-02T00:26:05.207" Title="Stack Overflow should integrate Google Friend Connect" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:27:19.247" Score="5" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28625/whats-the-joke-in-the-stack-overflow-404-page-code&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28625/whats-the-joke-in-the-stack-overflow-404-page-code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it occurs to me this is likely to be the first of many; the polyglot joke is a little obscure.  Could we add a link to the page that either points to the meta question where you ask for suggestions or the question I just linked to, in an effort to avoid users repeating the question every few days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T00:47:18.803" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:58:07.597" Title="Add a link on the 404 page users can follow to get the joke" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;http-404&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28634" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:35:00.497" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have high hopes for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11319/who-are-the-robots-in-the-captcha-request&quot; title=&quot;the year 2001&quot;&gt;people clicking on the image for an explanation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll need something like a big bright link text to clue them in about the 404 page contest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/wLSpD.png&quot; alt=&quot;for the link deprived&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T00:58:07.597" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:58:07.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28633" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:39:43.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of siloing interesting discussions away where others can't see them.  I learn a lot from reading other peoples' questions and answers, and would hate to lose that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:39:43.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28633" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:48:01.970" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/886/a-friends-list-on-stackoverflow-would-be-nice/914#914&quot;&gt;I'm going to quote Cletus here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Repeat after me: SO is not a social networking site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T00:48:01.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28633" CreationDate="2009-11-05T00:53:30.757" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this happens I will punch myself in the head repeatedly and never come back to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138411" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T01:16:08.890" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T01:16:08.890" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28640" CreationDate="2009-11-05T01:18:43.050" Score="-1" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally understood why Jon Skeet did a talk with a sock puppet. Now I read that a &quot;sock puppet&quot; is a term used for a fake user account set up to reinforce somebody's legitimate account... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but why refer to ponies? Is there a stack overflow reference to ponies that I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:06:14.233" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:06:14.233" Title="by now we all know that Jon Skeet sometimes goes by the alias &quot;Tony the Pony&quot; - but why the reference to ponies?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28639" CreationDate="2009-11-05T01:21:37.367" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ponies are explained here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19479#19479&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19479#19479&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, go ahead and read all those answers and many of the &quot;jokes&quot; will be explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T01:26:57.873" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T01:26:57.873" />
  <row Id="28642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28776" CreationDate="2009-11-05T02:06:16.570" Score="56" ViewCount="5661" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, are there good ways to get more satisfaction out of my job, possibly by leveraging my participation in SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-10T09:52:28.640" LastActivityDate="2010-08-26T15:14:21.583" Title="Why do I get more satisfaction out of participating in SO than out of my job?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;motivation&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="28643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T02:12:37.943" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the community is engaging, gives you new and different problems to solve, your help is appreciated and no one can force you to do something that you don't want to (as long as you don't want to troll or set thing on fire) and you don't have the stress of having to answer correctly or you'll lose your food (being fired). Lack of having to answer to a clueless PHB is just a plus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: You are here for intellectual leisure/engagement/fun, you are at work to get money so you can eat every day and sleep comfortably (consumerism aside).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T20:34:59.117" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T20:34:59.117" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T02:34:54.350" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I add to Voyager's answer that we shouldn't underestimate the reputation effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't answer questions BECAUSE of reputation - I do it out of a genuine interest in helping out others and myself (by learning while I answer them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is an incredible satisfying effect - at least to me - in seeing my contribution being valued right away in a quantifiable manner. By my peers no less, not by a person that might understand very little of what we do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How often at work can we say that we had an impact of 2 out of 10 on anything we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, sure, there are people that are hunting reputation - even gaming for it. And that detracts from the spirit of SO. But it is undeniable that reputation plays a role...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it just me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I didn't realize there was a sub-question. How to leverage your SO participation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I think reputation plays a role. The more reputable you are on a site by developers, for developers; the more likely you are to be invited/contacted/considered for a better job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah - I believe it may help you land a better job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommended to the HR of the company that currently rents my brain that they ask candidates if they participate in SO (or to just look if they can find the guy/gal here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't be the one that had that idea... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138172" LastEditorUserId="138172" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-01T18:21:49.420" LastActivityDate="2010-06-01T18:21:49.420" />
  <row Id="28646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T02:57:19.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get a job where the work environment is good and you interact with interesting colleagues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T02:57:19.283" />
  <row Id="28647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28625" CreationDate="2009-11-05T03:04:19.880" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Want a step-by-step through it?  I'm the original author of the polyglot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easy versions are Python, Perl, and Ruby: the only code executed is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;print(202*2);exit();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because they all treat &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; as a line-comment.  Obviously, the code prints &quot;404&quot; and exits the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The C code is fairly easy to read, but even easier if you run it through a preprocessor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;main(){putchar(4+putchar(putchar(52)-4));return 0;};exit();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your standard &lt;code&gt;main&lt;/code&gt; function is declared there, and &lt;code&gt;exit&lt;/code&gt; is also declared as a function with an implicit return type of &lt;code&gt;int&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;exit&lt;/code&gt; is effectively ignored).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;putchar&lt;/code&gt; was used because you don't need any &lt;code&gt;#include&lt;/code&gt; to use it; you give it an integer argument and it puts the corresponding ASCII character to stdout and returns the same value you gave it.  So, we put 52 (which is &lt;code&gt;4&lt;/code&gt;); then we subtract 4 and output &lt;code&gt;0&lt;/code&gt;; then we add 4 to output &lt;code&gt;4&lt;/code&gt; again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;The brainf*ck code will be a little more difficult to understand, but essentially it's the same as the C code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+-&amp;gt;       Effectively ignored from earlier part of code&#xA;++++++++  Put 8 in first memory location&#xA;[&amp;gt;++++++&amp;lt;-] Add 6 to second location; decrement first location; &#xA;            repeat until first is 0; effectively this does 6*8 into 2nd location&#xA;&amp;gt;++++.    Move back into 2nd location and add 4 so we have a char of 52; print it&#xA;----.     Decrement 4 times to output a 0&#xA;++++.     Increment 4 times and output a 4&#xA;&amp;gt;.        Move pointer and output a null&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, that last line wasn't supposed to work that way.  The last part was supposed to be &lt;code&gt;++++&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; before the &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;.&lt;/code&gt;  Oh well, it's up there now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Befunge is my favorite of the group.  I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ashleymills.com/?q=befunge%5Fapplet%5Flite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Visual Befunge Applet&lt;/a&gt; if you want to see it in action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, all the characters in &lt;code&gt;define&lt;/code&gt; are pushed on the stack and never used.  Then &lt;code&gt;v&lt;/code&gt; points our instruction vector downwards.  Then we push another &lt;code&gt;e&lt;/code&gt; on the stack, which happens to be an ASCII value of 101.  Push 4 on the stack, multiply, turn right, hit the &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; and print 404 to the screen.  &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; stops the program there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T03:04:19.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28655" CreationDate="2009-11-05T03:23:29.563" Score="5" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the beginning of StackOverflow Jeff has been saying that the team have been paid slave wages, with the success of StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser et al has this changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the team moved up to serf or possibly even pauper wages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: I posted this question not to be nosy, though it obviously could be construed that way, but out of interest in that I love these sites and wanted to know if all the hard work is paying some dividends for the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been working my way through all the StackOverflow podcasts, starting with episode one as I came late to the party, and kept hearing Jeff talk about how the team has been doing it for the love of it on slave wages. I have now got to episode 23 and whilst the sites appear to be very popular and &lt;em&gt;successful&lt;/em&gt; (still going) I was hoping that things are working out well for the team hence my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137466" LastEditorUserId="137466" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T07:26:21.310" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T07:26:21.310" Title="Is the StackOverflow team now getting paid more than slave wages?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;team&gt;&lt;payment&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T03:35:20.107" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer? Because many (if not most) programming jobs turn into a soul-sucking slow torture of meetings, overbearing process, second-rate solutions in the name of compromise and dealing with clueless and/or unreasonable people who often view what you do as an unfortunate cost centre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas on SO you're generally talking to a better class of programmers. I say this because those who bother to read and post on SO are generally more interested in self-development than perhaps the average Joe (Programmer). To such people learning something and teaching something to someone who is generally interested is more rewarding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T00:03:05.927" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T00:03:05.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28648" CreationDate="2009-11-05T04:07:45.960" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this is short and sweet, but I don't think that's really any of our business to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T04:07:45.960" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T04:17:26.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because you enjoy an intellectual challenge that you're maybe not getting from your day job. I love my job, but I have a root around Stack Overflow for interesting questions during the day because it allows my brain to take a break from the problem or task at hand in work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like problem solving and in my day job I'm not problem solving 100% of the time. For example, you may have a task to complete where system X needs to talk to system Y and there isn't a documented mechanism to do this. So you solve the problem which may have taken 20%-30% of your time, that's the interesting bit. The rest is turning that communication mechanism into robust production code and getting it tested thoroughly and deployed, that's less fun. Hence you turn to Stack Overflow for interesting problems to solve whilst completing the less interesting part of your project or task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T04:17:26.347" />
  <row Id="28652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28648" CreationDate="2009-11-05T04:27:01.947" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should be getting &quot;industry competitive&quot; wages in about 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T04:31:24.557" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T04:31:24.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T04:53:41.913" Score="6" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One rule:&lt;/strong&gt; You can't pick Jon Skeet just because he's &lt;strike&gt;awesome&lt;/strike&gt;Jon Skeet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T06:58:11.593" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T15:58:33.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T04:53:41.913" Title="Who has the funniest gravatar on any of the trilogy websites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="28654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28653" CreationDate="2009-11-05T04:56:56.290" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this one is HILARIOUS!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6cd69b37e99add42bb0b053ab5df5616?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-31T10:03:21.043" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T10:03:21.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T04:56:56.290" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28648" CreationDate="2009-11-05T04:57:44.183" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely, almost all the money that comes in goes to salaries. That's order of business #1, pay what people are worth!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T04:57:44.183" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28653" CreationDate="2009-11-05T04:58:26.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it is a toss-up between these two...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4f7c0c43b0fb87f905d369d42d2667ac?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Because I can't help but think of the classic pony rants every time I see it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a19aace2b644b36f9743a402ef07a436?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Because this totally reminds me of someone that is just hilarious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T04:58:26.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T04:58:26.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28653" CreationDate="2009-11-05T05:21:35.933" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;eh? oh ... funny :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/833df8cee775eea743cb1172dfcd3809?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T05:21:35.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T05:21:35.933" />
  <row Id="28658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28660" CreationDate="2009-11-05T05:40:42.310" Score="-1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Soap box&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm new here but, I've seen a lot of comments that are extremely rude. The most common ones are &quot;RTFM&quot; type comments placed as part of answers. I can understand the frustrations related to RTFM responses (or similar), but you are the one that came to Stack * in the first place. What's worse, people tend to promote rude answers in comments on said answers either by commenting their approval or up voting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears I am &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15143/whats-with-all-the-rude-comments-recently&quot;&gt;not the only one to noticing this either&lt;/a&gt;. Does the Stack * community really benefit form such behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;/SoapBox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is where the problem lies though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some answers are good answers, yet have rude/inappropriate comments toward the OP in them. It is hard for me to downvote the best answer on the page just because it has that kind of behavior in it. However, as far as I know, even if a moderator edits it the user is not necessarily punished for their behavior. It is also hard for my to up vote for the same reasons. To me, using up/down voting in this manner also goes against the idea behind them (getting the best answer voted up so that it receives attention in the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, with that, I'm curious what you all think may work better to promote good behavior or punish users that a frequently found rude, innapropriate, or off topic in answers beyond simple moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137550" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:13:23.017" Title="Suggest a system that will help promote less rudeness in answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28658" CreationDate="2009-11-05T05:47:05.733" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow community users to approve/disapprove of general site conduct directly on a user's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pros&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is out of the way, so it will be used only when people feel it worth the time/effort&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anybody can add/remove rep from someone when they deserve it (outside of the answers/comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cons&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibility of abuse&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limitations could be imposed to prevent this (see below).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users will fixate on the personalities and behaviors of other users. Cliques will form, warring factions bent mutual destruction. Users will be banned for participating in the banning of other users, comments will devolve into fierce flame wars consisting of little but dire threats and personal attacks. There will be wailing, and gnashing of teeth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation will lose what little connection it might still have to &quot;positive site participation&quot;, becoming nothing more than a tool of oppression. New users, with no reputation to begin with, won't care; users with a little bit of earned reputation will find it taken from them for arbitrary reasons. Long-time users, their war-chests stuffed with reputation, will act with impunity, killing the reputation of other users at will.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Possible Abuse Prevention&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require comment to be left in order to set approve/disaprove.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments will be publicly displayed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow comments to be flagged for moderator review&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137550" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T15:13:23.017" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:13:23.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T05:47:05.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28658" CreationDate="2009-11-05T05:54:05.030" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just flag a post for moderator attention? If it's really bad then I'm sure they'll have a quiet word with the offending party via back channels. If even that does not help, they still have the option to put the offender in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;penalty box.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if you've enough reputation points then you could just sanitise the answer by editing out whatever was rude or inappropriate. The system does generally work quite well in my experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T08:59:53.917" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T08:59:53.917" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28670" CreationDate="2009-11-05T06:21:08.397" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a guy that does this every few days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1678595/conversion-from-type-dbnull-to-type-string-is-not-valid-asp-netvb-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1678595/conversion-from-type-dbnull-to-type-string-is-not-valid-asp-netvb-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be easily blocked if you add an automatic spam detector, and have the moderators or people with 50000 reputation the tools to add spam patterns to that detector list (for example - that dude's site address.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an idea&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:03:01.370" Title="Anti-Spam filter" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="28662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T06:21:16.430" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a feature where if your question meets certain specs, you can nudge your question back towards the top of the question lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible ideas for requirements to be able to 'nudge':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question has not received any new answers within a time period (a day?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Low number of views during a given time frame (several days?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question does not have a negative vote (ie. has not been down-voted more than up-voted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question has nod been nudged in some time (a day or two?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question does not have any answers with a large number of up-votes (audience acceptance)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question has not been locked from nudges by admins or by vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A maximum number of 'nudges' per question has not been reached&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obvious options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is your own question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some minimum rep requirement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep cost (as in down-voting)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I am not suggesting to have all of these measures in place, merely bringing ideas to the table... I don't think I even agree with all of them. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this would be to allow users to quietly bring an unanswered question back to the table after the question has fallen into obscurity (really, how many people go through questions that are more than a few days old?). I think many of us may have asked a question at some point in time that essentially dissapeared (as far as a public audience is concerned) after the initial surge of views (and potentially answers that you don't think are quite what you are looking for). This, if implemented well, would make it so that unanswered questions that are still of importance can be given another chance, while unimportant or answered questions still fade away... A huge benefit to the person asking the question, and I suppose a somewhat smaller benefit to whomever is out searching for questions to answer, since the important ones will tend to stay on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is to be able to nudge other peoples questions in case you found a similar existing problem, but are not satisfied with the given answers... If this would be allowed some method of marking the question as 'nudged by such and such a user' would have to be available, along with a way for the user who nudged the question to append their own reasons for nudging it so the community can help them (ie, clarification of an answer, unsatisfied with previous answers, slight change from the original question, etc...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we already have the 'bounty' feature, but I think that this is a separate system from that, and has its own benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T07:21:06.653" Title="&quot;Nudge&quot; feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28639" CreationDate="2009-11-05T06:22:41.390" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for doing a talk with a sock puppet pony was simply because I was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8634/what-will-jon-skeet-present-in-stackoverflow-devdays-in-london-cambridge/8639#8639&quot;&gt;asked to&lt;/a&gt;. Obviously it was TheTXI who insisted it should be a pony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T06:22:41.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28658" CreationDate="2009-11-05T06:26:12.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each Person has a personal attitude, limits and feelings toward programming issues  - for some people RTFM is a very good even funny answer, and I think that other than clear personal insults (&quot;How Stupid can you be&quot;) there should be no limit on the answers styles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This place is educational, but also a community and it should be fun to hang around, helping other people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if one should always watch his language while trying to help, there might be less answers around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't need to be over- sensitive, as there is no one rule for what considered good / bad behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T06:26:12.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T06:43:54.237" Score="-2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be we can add a button to ask a previously asked question again to bring it to the top. May be some one else will be able to find it this time and anser. And it will be nice if a rule is put like a question can be &quot;re-asked&quot; only once in a week or so and a total of 5 times or so.. What you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135920" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:23:43.327" Title="How about a button to re-post/ask-again a question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28665" CreationDate="2009-11-05T06:54:39.367" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We definitely won't be doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I recommend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T06:54:39.367" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28662" CreationDate="2009-11-05T07:11:13.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users can &quot;nudge&quot; questions by posting comments in them telling that they wanted to &lt;em&gt;bump the question up&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the danger with having a specific nudge feature (with a press of a button) is that the recent question list will become broken when everyone and their mom would want to nudge their question. At least posting a comment requires some kind of active interaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T07:11:13.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28662" CreationDate="2009-11-05T07:21:06.653" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this already exists, really..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the community user bumps (n) unanswered posts per hour to the front page. Unanswered is defined as no answers with upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits to your question bump the question to the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;new answers bump the question to the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;edits to answers bump the question to the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;after 2 days you can issue a rep bounty on a question which keeps it on the &quot;Featured&quot; tab on the front page for 7 days&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general philosophy is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T07:21:06.653" />
  <row Id="28669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28661" CreationDate="2009-11-05T07:44:30.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; the spam filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When/if there are six (6) flags on a post, it automatically gets deep-sixed from and by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's egregiously persistent then there are other measures such as IP blocking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T07:44:30.073" />
  <row Id="28670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28661" CreationDate="2009-11-05T08:05:01.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My [delete] key still works just fine ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with automated filters is that you end up in a war of subtle tweaks, and it isn't hugely beneficial. Those answers take almost no time to deal with manually. Just keep flagging / voting / etc. By now they easily qualify for nuking from orbit, so just add your flag =&gt; require moderator attention and quickly vacate the blast area...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T08:05:01.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28653" CreationDate="2009-11-05T08:05:19.117" Score="-7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d8ebb117e8d83d74ea95fbdd0f87e13?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony the Pony.... 'cause he's Jon Skeet :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T08:05:19.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T08:05:19.117" />
  <row Id="28672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28665" CreationDate="2009-11-05T08:07:56.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How will this be beneficial to the community?  It will lead to questions being reposted as exact duplicates, which will either be closed very quickly by the community (wasting the time of those who look at the question to answer it, then realise that it is a dupe), or the answers will be spread out too much rather than being collated in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, draw people's attention to your current question.  There they will see answers already provided, which may give them a starting point (e.g. this kind of worked, this didn't work, etc.).  For more information on how to draw attention to the post, see the link that Jeff and random have provided (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot; title=&quot;Please search for dupes before asking your question!&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T08:07:56.803" />
  <row Id="28673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28653" CreationDate="2009-11-05T08:12:56.697" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/493/lomaxx&quot;&gt;lomaxx&lt;/a&gt; might be stealing from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000818.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's blog&lt;/a&gt;, but it encapsulates the (SO) site's ideals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/77e47d73607b14b75b4cd3d6e5f12a5d?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;works on my machine&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T08:12:56.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T08:12:56.697" />
  <row Id="28674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12123" CreationDate="2009-11-05T08:50:54.973" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a problem with including images generated by one of the many LaTeX servers.  For these, the alt text should be the exact LaTeX code used to produce the image: it makes it accessible to those who use screen readers to read the alt text, and it makes it possible to simply cut-and-paste the formula without having to go through and undo all the Markdown escaping.  Given how often the underscore is used in LaTeX formulae, it would be extremely useful to have this fixed in the markdown implementation used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed in the PHP markdown port (even the version without all the extras) and, I believe, in the maruku ruby variant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138421" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T08:50:54.973" />
  <row Id="28675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28661" CreationDate="2009-11-05T09:03:01.370" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; implement a blacklist of some kind (this typically means URLs, since they are almost by definition unique) but to date it hasn't really been necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:03:01.370" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28629" CreationDate="2009-11-05T09:04:37.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;post revisions use guids, but everything else is standard incrementing integers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:04:37.997" />
  <row Id="28678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28569" CreationDate="2009-11-05T09:18:48.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What a babe! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks much like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GUID&lt;/a&gt; to me. I assume Jeff uses them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28629/was-int-or-guid-used-as-the-primary-key-index-in-stackoverflow-and-why/28676#28676&quot; title=&quot;Looks like I was right&quot;&gt;distinguish the different edits&lt;/a&gt; easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not just your session:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/yoC0A.png&quot; alt=&quot;leg shot of the babe link&quot; title=&quot;guess the inspiration&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:30:48.380" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:30:48.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T09:40:45.100" Score="12" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt like expanding the first rule Jeff posted on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog a while back.&lt;/a&gt;. They are all based on the original Fight Club rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Rules of Stack Overflow.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1st RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; You do not talk about Stack Overflow on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2nd RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; You DO NOT talk about Stack Overflow on Stack Overflow. That's what Meta is for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3rd RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; If someone votes to close or reports to the mod, the question is over.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; Only one accepted answer to a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; One answer from a user at a time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; No shirts, no shoes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; Questions will go on as long as they have to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; If this is your first time at Stack Overflow, you HAVE to read the FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; Paint whenever you can.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't use soul-less circles!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11th RULE:&lt;/strong&gt; NEVER EVER make up rules for Stack Overflow!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T09:58:54.460" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:15:51.010" Title="The Rules of Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="28680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28679" CreationDate="2009-11-05T09:48:16.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about no &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28525/how-do-i-post-a-screenshot-on-stack-overflow/28529#28529&quot;&gt;soul-less circle&lt;/a&gt; on SO and Meta? :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T09:48:16.463" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28679" CreationDate="2009-11-05T10:12:18.010" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;7th RULE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;Questions will go on as long as they have to&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T10:12:18.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28391" CreationDate="2009-11-05T10:18:40.557" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're at roughly 7.5k rep at the time I am writing this. When you get to 10k, you have access to a tools menu. The tools (among other things) will show you questions with the most pending close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T10:18:40.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28688" CreationDate="2009-11-05T11:02:27.543" Score="0" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27269/this-place-is-awesome&quot;&gt;This place is AWESOME!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked the environment of appreciation and recognition which is driving the site. Also the ease of use and giving credit is great. Kudos for the creater of stakeoverflow site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138428" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T09:59:17.107" ClosedDate="2009-11-05T13:34:28.267" Title="This is an awsome site" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;feedback&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28687" CreationDate="2009-11-05T11:59:08.143" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;thanks!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/zZd5G.png&quot; alt=&quot;Official Seal Of Awesomeness&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-18T09:59:17.107" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T09:59:17.107" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T12:45:14.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because SO makes learning new things fun: you learn by helping others, and you learn by being helped. Also, there are no restrictions regarding the time you spend here: stay as much or as little as you want, and your only deadlines are the ones that you impose to yourself (let's see if I can gather 1000 rep. in a week, or stuff like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T12:45:14.627" />
  <row Id="28690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27687" CreationDate="2009-11-05T13:15:36.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't assume speakers have unlimited resources or that they're paid by anyone to attend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't live near London, and London is hideously expensive to get to and stay overnight in. After paying to come to the Cambridge dev days, I ended up being the python speaker at London - which I am grateful for being incidentally :-) Financially though, it was a double whammy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the event did have high production values though, was a paid for event and had lots of marketing talks (far too many, it's part of the reason I left early) led to much higher expectations. Audio dropping out regularly threw me badly, and that impacts the talk &amp;amp; audience impression.  People moan more at the time when that happens though, and people give positive feedback later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps worst of all, I felt that I had wasted the time and money of the attendees, due to the feedback, and felt upset at having essentially a very marmite talk (ie either loved or hated in about equal numbers, rather than generally useful to all). In retrospect, after chatting to those who didn't like it, they've generally suggested minor improvements but not wholesale change, which intrigues me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the day though, this led me I left thinking I had wasted my time and money - since like many attendees I didn't get paid by my employer to attend, nor did Stack Overflow appear to even consider reimbursing costs. Before the dev days I was happy with this. (All the speakers at community conferences - which I took this to be - pay their own way, and are a lot of fun - europython, pycon etc :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After discovering on the day it was primarily a commercial conference with a VERY heavy marketing agenda, I felt somewhat used. For example, I've been thanked for paying my fees to &quot;attend&quot; the Cambridge Dev Day I didn't bother attending after the nasty taste left in my mouth by London, indeed, received several mails about that, but not a peep from the organisers. So I paid for my lunch, ate it and went home early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems a real shame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOWEVER, this is teething problems. Every new conference/dev thing has a starting point, and I absolutely agree with Jeff's talk though - the only way to improve is to deal with mistakes &lt;strong&gt;next&lt;/strong&gt; time. (Beating up Jeff and Joel would be &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; wrong IMO BTW, because if it takes guts to give a talk, it takes A LOT more guts to put on a conference!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my only reason for mentioning this stuff here - I'm over the above really - I've still got the deepest of respect for Joel &amp;amp; Jeff, I'm still really thankful of the real privilege that it was to attend the dev days and give a talk about something I love, and just hope that they take on board what's said here (if they read it - busy people :-), and don't assume next time that speakers have unlimited resources :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in case this comes over in any way as b * * * y, it's not intended that way. I've been umming and ahing about whether I should post anything and come to the conclusion that the only way Joel &amp;amp; Jeff can improve things is with feedback. (After all, my guess is this is just a combination of assumptions gone awry really, and we all do that since we're all human :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope Jeff liked the chocolate here :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133710" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T13:15:36.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T14:30:10.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copy-paste from my blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) 9:00 - 9:50 Joel Spolsky - Opening Keynote&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a great talk about simplicity in software. I heard a lot of things I'd already read in 'The Design of Everyday Things' ,'Why Software Sucks' and Joel’s own blog, but it was entertaining nevertheless (I swear I heard the 'dog in a towel' gag before...). Spolsky is an engaging speaker and with his track record I'd listen to him even if he wasn't!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) 9:50 - 10:50 Jörn Zaefferer - jQuery&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I was looking forward to this the talk itself was quite a disappointment. The sound was pretty bad and Jörn accent didn't help in that regard. After a promising intro, we got a detailed overview of each and every API in jQuery - not very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3) 11:10 - 12:10 Eero Bragge - Qt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again a speaker with a rather thick accent, but the talk was much more entertaining; Qt is really an exiting platform and I might even give it a try someday. At least I installed the Qt Designer on my laptop. What Qt has working for it, is platform independency. The Mono team still refuses to implement WPF, so if you want to be able to deploy on Linux and Mac, Qt really seems a nice alternative, even though it means programming in unmanaged C++.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4) 12:10 - 12:40 Joel Spolsky - Fogbugz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next came Joel again, with a promo for Fogbugz. Since I don't own a software shop I wasn't really interested, so I used this time (and the excellent Wi-Fi) to download the Qt stuff :P FogBugz still looks nice as far as these things go...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5) 12:40 - 13:30 Lunch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lunch was okay. I was lucky to grad a sandwich before the line formed, but when I wanted to get another one (after the line had dissolved) all that remained were 'pains au chocolat' and bananas. Ah well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6) 13:30 - 14:30 Simon Willison - Python&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing this guy hack his way at the iPython console I really was inspired to pick up this nice dynamic language. So, in the coming weeks, I'll be looking at IronPython again - or maybe Python together with PyQt... who knows ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7) 14:30 - 15:30 Nick Johnson - Google App Engine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This talk was okay. The topic was interesting enough -and the word 'cloud' was never uttered during the presentation- but somehow it didn't manage to persuade me. There was some marketing BS, but mostly it gave an adequate overview of the App Engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8) 15:50 - 16:50 Christian Heilmann - Yahoo! Developer Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YQL and the Yahoo! devtools are surely worth checking out. Heilmann really did an excellent job, especially if you take into consideration he as recovering from a bad case of the flu. The guy is funny and knows his stuff. If you want to make a mashup you might want to check out if there's a YQL endpoint available!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9) 16:50 - 17:50 Alex Thissen - ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm quite taken by the APS.NET MVC framework I was curious to see what Alex would be talking about. He gave a broad (and therefore shallow) overview of the framework. This was certainly not the best talk of the day, and I don't think he managed to convince the MS-skeptic crowd that MVC was worth their time, even though his demo was pretty good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, the DevDays were certainly worth the 80+ euros I paid for it; the venue was nice, although a rather chilly :-) See you next year SO DevDays!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136014" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-27T08:49:44.563" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T08:49:44.563" />
  <row Id="28694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2009-11-05T14:38:04.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rob Mensching (of the Wix Toolset)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2094" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T14:38:04.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T14:38:04.920" />
  <row Id="28697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T14:45:58.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far other answers seem to reasonably cover which talks were good and which weren't. Some additional comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cross-domain stuff makes it easier to justify the expense of the day to a business: the keynote was excellent in this respect. Specific technologies are more likely to be dismissed as irrelevant within a specific business setting. (The &quot;right&quot; tool for the job is often biased overwhelmingly in favour of what people already know.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I personally thought there was a huge quality difference between those who I surmise were invited to give a talk, versus those handed a slot in exchange for sponsorship. I basically didn't think that the Qt and ASP.NET talks were anywhere near as good as the rest. (Maybe it's a sense of privilege versus entitlement at work here. Or maybe specific speakers being invited versus the company being asked to send someone along. Or maybe neither.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The no-PowerPoint idea was excellent, even if one presenter missed the point of it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most common basic mistake presenters made was not repeating the question during Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138438" LastEditorUserId="138438" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T15:14:58.897" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:14:58.897" />
  <row Id="28698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T14:59:04.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allot is already mentions, but here are my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the good:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA; - Opening talk + movie&#xA; - YQL&#xA; - jquery learnt allot, but the speaker was a bit nervous&#xA; - the food&#xA; - Phyton talk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The can be better&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA; - Location was to small for the amount of people, queue's for food&#xA; - The twitter feed was not readable during a presentation&#xA; - the toilets&#xA; - Drinks at the end (beer!) would have been nice :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the bad&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA; - The Nokia talk, the speaker was a bit&#xA;   boring and QT was boring, i know how&#xA;   to click a application together&#xA; - MVC, could have gone a bit deeper&#xA; - Google, he lost me really quick&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138441" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T14:59:04.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:11:33.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mixed bag... One point i like to make is that it is clearly pretty hard to make a perfect content-full and entertaining presentation if your not speaking your native language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good parts: the low cost, excellent time management, a VERY good keynote by Joel Spolsky, two really good presentations (Yahoo &amp;amp; Python)&#xA;The bad parts: Joel's other talks who here merely commercials, the QT, the ASP.NET talk.&#xA;The maybe OK parts: the Jquery and the Google talk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The no powerpoint model was working for some, although i had the feeling that the ASP.NET guy was not used to give a preso like this.&#xA;Also its not for the faint of heart to try to do live coding while being entertaining...&#xA;Maybe next time one or two more 'Joel like' preso's to spice things up..? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrapping up: I liked it, had a good time and got really good value for money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138445" LastEditorUserId="138445" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T15:17:47.300" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:17:47.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28679" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:18:43.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're missing &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;don't be a jerk&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this list is all in good fun, so maybe the one real rule should be left off of it. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:18:43.413" />
  <row Id="28702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:22:26.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally enjoyed the day, despite having to get up at 5:30 to travel from Cambridge (the Cambridge event having been announced well after I booked).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will add a comment about the use of twitter.  This was fine for those with the right phones and laptops, but left out those of us without.  Glancing over the shoulder of the people near me the HelloApp generated map of seats was pretty sparse, which I think was a consequence of this.  TBH I don't have an account on twitter, facebook or any other social media; the people I socialise with don't use it so I have no need.  I feel what would have worked better was a much lower tech solution such as people writing the technologies they were interested in/working with on their sticky name tags.  That way you could easily spot similarly interested individuals.  Alternatively if twitter etc. are going to be an integral part of the experience, then this should be made clear before the event so that I can properly prepare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a heavy user of Qt but found the Qt talk a little dissapointing.  I felt it amounted to saying nokia development used to be rubbish, but now we have Qt it is great.  What it didn't say was much about what Qt is good for, which for me is having the equivalent of the standard Java libraries available for C++, and code that simultaneously works on windows, linux, mac and solaris.  Plus it is actually OO and sane to understand, unlike MFC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given how many people turned to their laptops when the talks were poor - perhaps an objective measure of a how good a talk is would be the inverse of the volume of wifi traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:22:26.603" />
  <row Id="28703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28706" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:23:30.080" Score="6" ViewCount="480" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shoggington the Ninth and I were having a conversation on Wave, and I mentioned that I wanted to get everyone's &lt;a href=&quot;http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Wave&lt;/a&gt; ID, so that we can have behind-the-scenes secret conversations about ponies and waffles and waffles covered in &lt;strike&gt;pony&lt;/strike&gt;maple syrup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the Shog said that such a thread wouldn't be appropriate. So I asked him if making a thread asking if it would be appropriate would be appropriate. He said yes (transcript attached): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/shogversation.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shogversation&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is it acceptable to make a thread about SO users' Wave IDs on Meta? If not, how am I supposed to get Tony the Pony's Wave ID so that I can ask him embarrassing questions about what colour the sky is in England? What about other IDs, like Steam? If I made a Steam Community for SO (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TDWTF&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the one I made for TDWTF&lt;/a&gt;), would it be appropriate to announce it here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we're not here for community lovey-dovey crap like that, which is why I'm not suggesting that SO have these features added to it. It's more that I'm wondering how I can gauge interest in things that can be used to interact with other users, or if I should even bother trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T15:41:17.710" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:30:30.650" Title="Would it be appropriate to make a thread on Meta asking for Google Wave IDs of SO users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;vampire&gt;&lt;google-wave&gt;&lt;boat-programming&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="28704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28665" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:23:43.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The downside of a &quot;bump&quot; button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By having this be a simple, one-click deal, it becomes very easy for people to essentially keep their questions on the active list, without any real activity going on with them. This creates a vicious circle where many questions are competing for the active attention, as armies of us code monkeys are sitting there clicking the &quot;bump&quot; button over and over like hamsters in a lab experiment. I wish I could see the situation where that &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; happen, but let's be honest -- a lot of people want their question to receive a lot of attention, and if even only 1% of SO's user base did this, madness and chaos would still ensue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I have no faith in fellow humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:23:43.327" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28703" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:29:20.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, coordinating users' participation in non-SO services isn't really on-topic for MSO. I suggest you use another service for this task - Wave would be a good choice, as it has poll and map gadgets and I've been made to understand that such things are useful for &quot;social&quot;-type things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:29:20.990" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28703" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:29:38.150" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a perfectly acceptable meta topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I personally am highly skeptical of the actual utility of &lt;s&gt;the segway&lt;/s&gt; Google Wave relative to the hype. It's sort of &lt;a href=&quot;http://easiertounderstandthanwave.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hard to understand&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've been wrong before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:29:38.150" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28703" CreationDate="2009-11-05T15:38:08.090" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess this question might as well become the one it talks about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My wave ID is nothing particularly secret: jonathan.skeet@googlewave.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T15:38:08.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28703" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:00:53.240" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having examined your image using sophisticated sciencey type stuff like algorithms and VB GUI interfaces, I have been able to extract the image of the third member of your conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bstorer.com/images/so/shogversation%20csi.png&quot; alt=&quot;CSI POWERS ACTIVATE!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gasp!&lt;/em&gt;  It's none other than Jeff Atwood's evil twin: Chet Atwood!  All this time you have been conspiring with him and noted rapscallion Shog9 to bring down StackOverflow!  Clearly we cannot allow you to make a thread asking for Google Wave IDs of innocent MSO users.  No doubt you have a nefarious plot to abuse their trust to further your plans for StackOverflow domination.  You must be stopped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:00:53.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:13:17.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall I enjoyed the conference. However, it was a bit biased towards web developers. Four of the six talks (not including Joel's) were about web development exclusively. There was little for those interested in desktop applications and mobile programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:13:17.777" />
  <row Id="28711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:23:54.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My feedback on the event in Amsterdam:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) 9:00 - 9:50 Joel Spolsky - Opening Keynote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great talk on &quot;choice&quot; and &quot;simplicity&quot;. (Can we get the slides?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) 9:50 - 10:50 Jörn Zaefferer - jQuery&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't like being talked through the man pages. Really boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3) 11:10 - 12:10 Eero Bragge - Qt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was totally &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; impressed with Qt. It seemed like a lot of code to hook only a few things together and that code hooked together like 'spagetti'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4) 12:10 - 12:40 Joel Spolsky - Fogbugz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commercial talk/demo on one of the tools Joel sells. Cool tool though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5) 12:40 - 13:30 Lunch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lunch had a scalability issue. There was one table with food and a few people walking around with trays of sandwiches ... who had an empty tray with in 5 meters of their starting point.&#xA;I would recommend that the people who handled the food had read some books on scaling before actually trying this out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6) 13:30 - 14:30 Simon Willison - Python&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GREAT talk. This guy really 'danced' with python. Gotta try this for myself (and probably trip over my own feet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7) 14:30 - 15:30 Nick Johnson - Google App Engine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This talk was okay. Got a good enough demo on the ease of using this platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8) 15:50 - 16:50 Christian Heilmann - Yahoo! Developer Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great talk. YQL is om my todo list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9) 16:50 - 17:50 Alex Thissen - ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gave a good demo of where Microsoft is right now. As far as I can tell they are at the level of Java was in 1999.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environmental issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) The parking for the day was &amp;euro; 30 (no kidding)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The music was too loud. I was sitting in the hall during the lunch and could barely talk to the person next to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) The catering was organised in such a way that it did not scale for the number of people present (simple reorganisation would have worked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) The catering did the dishes in the same room as the talks. So during the talks directly after a break you could clearly hear people puttint glases in a dishwasher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall&#xA;I would come again. Just get a different location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130816" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:23:54.620" />
  <row Id="28712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:27:14.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opening Talk - Joel is a good speaker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jQuery - Good topic, interesting stuff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Python&lt;/strong&gt; - Excellent and very interesting presentation, really showed the strength of the language! Really good speaker, fun to listen too!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;YUI - Really good presentation, good speaker. Gave good insight of potentially complex problems&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lunch - Good sandwiches, croissants and drinks!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stuff to take home - Bags, badges, stickers, books, magazines!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Less Good&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google AppEngine - Seemed to be intermixed trying to tell the complexities of cloud computing and a web-interface with database. It was a bit dry, though parts were interesting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FogBugz - Interesting to see the product and the integration between all the systems. Though I still failed to see why I should switch over to FogBugz.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Temperature - the doors were open to the outside, which made it very cold when you were in the back rows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Better continue coding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QT - This was the first example I did with QT, all these smart guys in the room. I would have expected something more deep and interesting. All the fiddling with the layout did not benefit either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ASP/MVC - Though the speaker was enthusiastic, the topic was a bit uninteresting. MVC is nothing new - this does not seem a selling feature of ASP. I still don't know why I should use ASP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138454" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:27:14.240" />
  <row Id="28713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:34:02.197" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; FAQ says that the cost to list a CV for searching is $29 before Nov 9th, and after the 10th it's $99, but what is the cost on the 9th and the 10th?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138457" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:45:18.393" ClosedDate="2009-11-12T19:06:40.290" Title="What is the cost of listing a CV on Nov 9th &amp; 10th?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28703" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:35:05.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Wave is one of the more suitable services to connect via meta for software developers.  Not only are we going to be the ones doing the most interesting things with Wave, but there may be a lot of value for very prolific SO users if some developers work on Wave gadgets and API integration with SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, mine is stienman@googlewave.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:35:05.097" />
  <row Id="28715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28653" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:38:06.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate Rich B's old afro avatar. Sadly, I don't have a pic :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:38:06.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T16:38:06.043" />
  <row Id="28716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28713" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:45:18.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling that the 9th at midnight is actually the cutoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, $29 up to midnight, but not including it, on the 9th, $99 at 12:00 A.M. on the 10th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16623" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:45:18.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28703" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:46:02.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And would this also be a good place to beg people for wave invites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:46:02.930" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="28718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28721" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:50:49.253" Score="1" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the user on &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/1498/what-fun-and-low-cost-fringe-benefits-perks-would-you-offer-to-employees/1502#1502&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this stack exchange page&lt;/a&gt; (that Joel recently linked to from his blog) has &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; administrator icons: &quot;Jason ♦♦&quot;.  Is this just something that they customized on that particular StackExchange site, or does it have a different meaning? Is it something particular to StackExchange sites, or would anyone on the trilogy sites have them?  (Even Jeff and Joel don't have a double-admin marks on SO, so I'm guessing it's just a stack exchange thing...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T18:09:05.553" ClosedDate="2009-11-05T18:01:57.033" Title="Do double administrator icons (&quot;♦♦&quot;) mean anything?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28718" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:53:55.037" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blixt♦ would be a moderator and Blixt♦♦ would be an administrator, I believe. There's most likely only one double-diamond user per site. It basically indicates the owner/super-admin of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my understanding, anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:53:55.037" />
  <row Id="28721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28718" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:58:32.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All that means is that &quot;Jason ♦♦&quot; &lt;strong&gt;owns&lt;/strong&gt; the Stack Exchange site, or is at least closely affiliated with the owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have the power to do things that can change the database without leaving any visible trace of the modification. This is mostly restricted to the owners, and to the people that they employ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T18:09:05.553" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T18:09:05.553" />
  <row Id="28722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28653" CreationDate="2009-11-05T16:59:31.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6e6867b9c55f0240641b5ce9ce31a9c5?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this one makes me think of funny variations to the song based on SO memes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e93a372e263490e0cf273ede0a1393ed?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This was an upvote.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm making a joke here, HUGE REP WHORE.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's hard to overcome the daily rep cap.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflowing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We google the rep because we can&lt;br&gt;&#xA;for the good of our rep score&lt;br&gt;&#xA;but not that ones who are slow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's no sense crying over every lost vote&lt;br&gt;&#xA;you just keep on trying 'till you program on boat&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And the questions get answers and community grows&lt;br&gt;&#xA;for the people who are total noobs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T16:59:31.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-05T16:59:31.890" />
  <row Id="28724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27614" CreationDate="2009-11-05T17:08:45.930" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to maintain my CV in RTF, DOC and HTML....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After years of exporting and uploading my CV in multiple formats I gave up and now just maintain it in &lt;strong&gt;the only format recruiters, employers and clients ever ask for - Word Format&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'd like to make careers.stackoverflow.com the only place I need to edit to update my CV&lt;/strong&gt; - and have it instantly updated on the web, available in the stack overflow search and downloadable as a word document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T17:08:45.930" />
  <row Id="28725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26731" CreationDate="2009-11-05T17:29:58.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that user's who answer bounty questions may evaluate the difficulty of answering vs. the potential gain.  In that circumstance, increasing the bounty may lead to more answers, but I suspect only in the case where the question doesn't already have existing answers.  That is, if they've avoided answering the question due to its difficulty, increasing the bounty probably doesn't compensate for the risk associated with investing time into a question with lots of existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that increasing a bounty on a question with 2 or fewer answers or a question with no answers with upvotes may be reasonable, but it's unlikely to have an effect on questions with 3 or more answers, especially if any have upvotes.  Given the way bounties work and the lack of attention for older questions, answering a difficult bounty question with many answers or upvoted answers carries more risk (time wasted) than reward. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Given that it would only be of very limited use, I don't think it warrants any development time.  If it can be shown that there are significant fraction of bounty questions with 2 or fewer answers or no upvoted answers, then I'd be willing to reconsider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T00:19:28.240" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T00:19:28.240" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25276" CreationDate="2009-11-05T17:45:36.643" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got to this question exactly because I wanted to link my linkedin profile to CV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LinkedIn is great for networking - which is by far the most effective way to land a job (you come recommended, you have their attention!). SO is great for showcasing your knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to maintain 4 different resumes (Linkedin, my favorite; Monster, losing relevance every day, but still a source of leads; resume file, because I still get - I have no freaking idea - requests for paper resumes if I just point people to an online source; and SO CV).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be ideal if CV would require a summary from the user and link to my LinkedIn profile and my SO track record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138172" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T17:45:36.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28679" CreationDate="2009-11-05T17:54:24.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the 4th rule is true, then why does the system allow the selection of more than one answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T17:54:24.520" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T17:57:14.190" Score="4" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to maintain my Stack Overflow Careers resume from an external application, to reduce the amount of effort I have to put into keeping it up to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-resume-manager/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WordPress Resume Manager&lt;/a&gt; to keep my resume updated, but I imagine there would be other applications that could use such an API, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also mention that I wrote the above mentioned resume manager, so I can quickly add support into the plugin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138467" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T01:19:59.353" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:19:59.353" Title="API for careers that allows updates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28770" CreationDate="2009-11-05T18:33:14.040" Score="5" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a dreaded 500 error on attempt to purchase the 3 year deal running on careers.stackoverflow.com.  Has anyone else seen this issue?  I would like somebody from SO to contact me as my credit card is showing a pending charge.  Here's the lovely error screen complete with LOLCAT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i38.tinypic.com/23ut1mu.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;I Can Haz Error&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138471" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T02:25:19.133" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T02:25:19.133" Title="Bug on purchase of CV on careers.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;error&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28730" CreationDate="2009-11-05T18:37:07.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need a response, I would recommend you contact them directly: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;careers@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T22:34:37.693" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:34:37.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28679" CreationDate="2009-11-05T18:58:53.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rule 12: Animals automatically beat out humans. This goes for ponies, cats and lizards, but not dogs because they drool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T18:58:53.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:22:22.283" Score="8" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind LOLCats, though I no longer find them particularly funny, but I'm wondering if employers or job seekers might not be put off by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;careers.stackoverflow.com error page&quot;&gt;error page&lt;/a&gt;. I could see why job seekers might be put off by anything that drives potential employers away based on a sense that the site, and by extension those who list their CVs there, might not be professional.  Or is the target employer audience only those companies that find LOLCats funny -- that's even scarier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider replacing it something less trite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the related question for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28730/bug-on-purchase-of-cv-on-careers-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28730/bug-on-purchase-of-cv-on-careers-stackoverflow-com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T20:26:31.633" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:14:03.170" Title="Should careers have a more professional error page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21462" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:24:52.063" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did the exact same thing as listed under &lt;strong&gt;The Bug:&lt;/strong&gt;.  I accidentally clicked on an upvote I'd made, and it went away.  Then I tried reclicking, and was told the vote was too old.  Edit:  I noticed later that it had been edited.  Presumably, I'd been able to misclick because it was edited, and then denied the chance to reclick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system is broken.  We have a window after which votes are frozen, that's OK.  However, after that window I should either be unable to change my vote, or I should be able to immediately click to undo my change.  Basically, I should always be able to fix a misclick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastEditorUserId="14148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T20:12:53.700" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:12:53.700" />
  <row Id="28735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28733" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:34:53.167" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. That LOLCats picture says to me, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We don't care about this site. We care about cats. Only cats. If the choice was between letting the site stay operational, and allowing our cats to play on our keyboards, the cats would win every time. &lt;strong&gt;Every&lt;/strong&gt; time. Including, probably, this one. So unless you're a cat, bug off...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The photo should have a guy in a suit. Looking very, very serious. As though he had committed to fixing whatever problem was afflicting the site, and &lt;em&gt;should he fail&lt;/em&gt; is prepared to disembowel himself with a spork out of shame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T19:34:53.167" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28733" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:43:58.420" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule #1 of Careers:&lt;/strong&gt; Bring your sense of humor.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Rule #2 of Careers:&lt;/strong&gt; Bring your wallet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First:&lt;/em&gt; it's a funny message meant to diffuse the fact that an error happened.  Humor can sometimes help ease tension created by a frustrating situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Second:&lt;/em&gt; who wants to be hired by a company that puts humorless people in charge of hiring you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Third:&lt;/em&gt; if the errors happen frequently enough that it somehow tarnishes the site, and therefore the people who use it, then there's something far more wrong with the site than the 500 error message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fourth:&lt;/em&gt; have you even seen the monstrosity that is other employment sites?  I'd far rather belong to a clean, slick, non advertising-coming-out-our-ears website that has a funny error message than any one of the hundreds of ugly, ugly, ugly job sites that already exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fifth:&lt;/em&gt; LOLcat is now an established meme that anyone who uses the internet daily understands.  It has already reached the corporate boardroom.  In fact, if it WEREN'T a meme associated with all the stupid-funny lolcat image macros out there, I don't think anyone currently complaining would have an issue.  Would it matter if it were one of Google's pigeon rank pigeons with the same text?  The fact that it's associated with LOLcats is the problem for people, and that they feel lolcats themselves are stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bring teh funneh.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T20:33:14.963" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:33:14.963" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:50:04.227" Score="-1" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Introduction:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the downvoting system to be very permeable to abuse. Despite the loss of rep when downvoting, the cumulative effect is more felt on the person being downvoted. And this is perfectly acceptable. However, in a non perfect world like this one I've been witnessing on numerous occasions a &quot;monkey see, monkey do&quot; effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question or answer rep remains pretty much unchanged for a while but once it is downvoted it is often followed by a series of successive downvotes. As I interpret it, users are copying the last action. The system is being twisted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how prevalent this is. Only the devs could probably answer that question after doing some some data mining. But I've seen this happening on numerous occasions. Often on questions or answers that while certainly meriting a downvote, are in no way a case for a flurry of negative rep. It's particularly damaging to newcomers, who posting on the wrong forum suddenly see their perfectly valid question (albeit, done in the wrong place) being voted down to... say -6. For many of them, this becomes an unfriendly place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My suggestion:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the system remains unchanged. Rep is calculated the same, downvotes and upvotes too. A flurry of downvotes can still happen. However, let the webpage display at most -3, even for those cases where the true rep is actually less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this will help curb the enthusiasm of the downvoters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Debatable aspects:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why -3?:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is tied to the Peer Pressure badge and still helps give the poster a clear indication of the general non appreciation of their post. Limiting it to -2, or -1 would be probably too much since there is probably an element of &quot;punishment&quot; (take the word liberally please) that would be lost. But -3 seems good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A really bad post should have lots of downvotes:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A really bad post should be closed, period. And anything below -3 should be considered for closing instead of yet more downvotes. Nothing is gained by this approach. Not even those who downvote since they too lose rep. What happens is, I suspect, most users that have enough rep to vote for closing down a post still prefer to downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why not just limit the downvotes to -3?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be my approach if I was in charge. But I'm not. In any case, limiting the downvotes to -3 may not fit well into the current system which does not remove enough rep. A bad post worth 3 downvotes would remove 6 rep for the poster. If it had 1 single upvote, it would need 4 downvotes to get to -3 and the poster would even gain 2 rep(!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136246" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T19:56:30.207" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:08:24.883" Title="Limit downvotes visibility to -3" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="28738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28737" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:56:57.833" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, if anything Downvotes garner sympathy upvotes just as much as they garner 'monkey see, monkey do' downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that an upvote is worth &lt;strong&gt;5 times more&lt;/strong&gt; than a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This effect is not only negated by the voting system, it's practically irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T19:56:57.833" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28737" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:57:00.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strongly against this. Leave the voting system alone, it is working just fine as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down voting is not abuse. Leave your emotions at the door. Down voting is very necessary for separating the good from the bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T19:57:00.687" />
  <row Id="28740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28737" CreationDate="2009-11-05T19:57:32.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand where you're coming from, but I completely disagree with the suggestion.  Let the community speak.  If the OP is worried / threatened by a barrage of downvotes then they have free reign to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit the post to explain or change something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete their post and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;flag it for moderator attention for a lock in case they feel there is abuse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something is colossally bad, then it should be reflected as such.  If the community &lt;strong&gt;thinks&lt;/strong&gt; something is colossally bad, then it should also be reflected as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T19:57:32.123" />
  <row Id="28741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28728" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:06:28.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If SOC is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28375/should-careers-stackoverflow-com-support-hresume&quot;&gt;made to output hResume&lt;/a&gt;, then I don't see why it couldn't be made to &lt;em&gt;accept&lt;/em&gt; hResume as well... Then, just write a tool to work with that. Or just use SOC as your source, and drive everything else with the hResume export&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:06:28.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28737" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:08:24.883" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You seem to be only thinking of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A really bad post should be closed, period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about answers? If an answer suggests something completely irresponsible, I would personally welcome it being downvoted to oblivion, to make it perfectly clear to anyone reading it that this is &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:08:24.883" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:14:14.963" Score="10" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find this question a little more pertinent now, given &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Careers&lt;/a&gt; and Joel's assertion that reputation is a good indicator of programming ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The majority of my reputation comes from either insanely easy questions or meta-ish questions. Sure we have the meta thing policed, but what bugs me is the huge difference in &quot;plus rep&quot; you can receive for providing pretty simple responses in popular technologies (such as C#) against excellent answers in more niche ones.&#xA;I've seen awesome posts in niche techs that have like + 30 tops, whereas there are others that are kind of &quot;meh&quot; in a popular technology with +100 or more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway we could adjust the voting system to address this? Bounties help a little, but I was thinking more along the lines of being able to +x an answer or even gift reputation to others for specific answers that really helped. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that answering the question in the title is the obvious thing to do but I'm much more interested in discussing systems to address this issue that don't also open up other cans of worms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if we had a feature where I was allowed to give an extra 100 reputation to an answer per day because I have greater than X reputation where would such a feature fall down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are we agreed on the premise that such a system is impossible, and the current one is the one that &quot;sucks least&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T07:41:35.480" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T15:17:50.317" Title="How do we make sure the hard questions get as much reputation as the easy questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28743" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:16:16.707" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  There is some measure of ability (you'll have a hard time getting a high rep without it), but it's also a lot to do with how well you can express yourself in writing and even more to do with have much &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; you spend on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:16:16.707" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28743" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:33:12.000" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has a lot to with luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you get your well reasoned and crafted answer in there with at least one up-vote before anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can then your answer appears first on the page and is more likely to gain more up-votes. There have been discussions on this - search for &quot;Fastest Gun in the West&quot; and now answers of the same score are randomised rather than being presented in chronological order, but once an answer starts getting votes it's much like a snowball rolling down hill and gains more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;This answer applies to the question as originally titled - I'm going to have to think some more about the updated version&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T21:09:39.113" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:09:39.113" />
  <row Id="28746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28743" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:35:27.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given equivalent behavior and areas of interest, rep can be a relative measure of ability, I think.  For example, if you had two users who answered questions in roughly the same tags and had roughly the same number of answers, but whose reputation level were an order of magnitude different (10K vs 1K, say), I think you could infer that the higher rep user had more ability than the lower rep user.  I doubt that you could say that they were 10x better, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:35:27.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28743" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:41:14.560" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is reputation a good measure of knowledge?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;no&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do we make sure the hard questions get as much reputation as the easy questions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it matters.  Reputation and question difficulty are unrelated.  The system as currently implemented allows bounties for those really hard questions, but other than that there is no need to award harder questions with more reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They either get answered, or they don't, and that's the point of Stack Overflow - good answers to reasonable questions.  Reputation is just the carrot - it turns Stack Overflow into a game with a leaderboard, and encourages people to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you make reputation dependent on a subjective measure, such as &quot;difficulty&quot; then the control loop (the carrot egging the programmer on) becomes unstable without very, very, very careful adjustment and damping.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe adding &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; subjectivity to a scoring system will not only result in a worse outcome, but will actively drive some programmers away who currently enjoy being 'graded' using relatively objective measures - you are either right or wrong.  A lot of programmers hated English not because they had difficulty with the language, but because you couldn't turn in a paper and know in advance if it is objectively 'correct' or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's still a ton of subjectivity in the current system, but we already have plenty of complainers about spurious downvotes they don't feel are deserved.  Do we care to face the onslaught of, &quot;The question I answered should have been rated difficult because it was hard for me!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T07:44:03.807" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T07:44:03.807" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29015" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:42:03.387" Score="5" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what the diversity of knowledge of SO users would be like. It seems like an interesting research idea to see how many people have responded only to questions in a very narrow field, and how many others have broader knowledge and can contribute useful answers in more diverse fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be done using tags: first cluster the tags according to how often each pair of tags shows up at the same question (a user that knows both ASP and ASP.net shouldn't be considered a 'diverse' person, so this should be factored out first), and then counting in how many different clusters that this user has contributed a good answer (with 'good' being defined as the assigned answer, or just an upvoted one, or ...). You could assign badges based on this, or just write an interesting blog post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138483" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T03:59:10.710" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T16:15:20.537" Title="Measure user diversity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;research&gt;&lt;generalist&gt;&lt;diversity&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28743" CreationDate="2009-11-05T20:42:29.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally agree with what Joel Coehorn says.  Time spend is the major driver behind my reputation :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, high rep depends on how (for lack of a better word) &quot;hot&quot; your answers are.  An answer to a simple C# question can get you tons of upvotes.  Because it's simple, many people feel confident that your answer is right. And many people follow the C# tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the job market, the opposite is true.  The &quot;colder&quot; your knowledge is, the harder it is to find, and the higher your market value.  How many people answer SAP questions here?  Yet SAP positions are among the higher paid in the industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if high reputation is negatively correlated with salary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T20:42:29.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28743" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:04:48.250" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is... it &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many users that have gained a fairly high reputation by only &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; questions... and fairly simple ones at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to tell the difference is the questions asked to answers given ratio, the lower the better. Other factors are involved, such as the number of total upvotes on their answers, and esotericity of their questions (higher is better).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:04:48.250" />
  <row Id="28751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28748" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:11:00.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Generalist Badge (not yet implemented) is supposed to cover this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:11:00.013" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28748" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:16:58.303" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this, I believe, with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the public database&lt;/a&gt;.  It does sound like an interesting research topic, to measure each person's breadth vs depth ratio, then plotting it with other measures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think everyone would be interested in seeing what, if any, correlation there is between breadth/depth and reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T02:57:52.003" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T02:57:52.003" />
  <row Id="28754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28733" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:20:47.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, let's see what Mr. Atwood thinks about being &quot;professional&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001300.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001300.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess he's probably not interested in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138484" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:20:47.063" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28703" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:30:30.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just going to throw mine out there: thomas.j.owens@googlewave.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:30:30.650" />
  <row Id="28756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28758" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:39:10.993" Score="30" ViewCount="1153" Body="&lt;p&gt;While browsing Stack Overflow, I noticed that I lost a lot of reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6452/downvoteparty.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Downvote in action&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this serial downvoting? Will it be corrected by a rep-recalculation? How often are those done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a second instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4480/downvoteparty2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;One More Time&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T22:20:57.780" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T19:22:21.343" Title="Serial Downvoting Victim" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="28758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28756" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:41:03.080" Score="45" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's serial downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three ways to fix it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do NOTHING.&lt;/strong&gt; The daily vote anomaly script will pick it up and your rep will be recalculated automatically.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If after 36 hours (give the script time to run) you still see a problem, then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag one of your answers and ask a moderator to look into the anomalous voting patterns.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it still hasn't been corrected, contact team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-03T19:22:21.343" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T19:22:21.343" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="28759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28763" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:45:56.990" Score="8" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;vote too old&quot; window must be increased to let people fix genuine &quot;first impression&quot; mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that you're trying to solve the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;Tactical Downvoting&lt;/a&gt; problem, but this way sucks, and Dan Dyer has proposed a much better solution in his comment on the above link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example 1&lt;/strong&gt;: I read the top answer. I think it's good. I upvote it. I read the second top answer. It provides not only a better answer but also shows that the top answer was strictly speaking &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;. I upvote the second answer and try to remove my vote for the top answer. OOPS! Too late now. I've permanently upvoted the wrong answer. What's worse is that because of the way it's written, and because it's currently on top this will &lt;em&gt;keep happening forever&lt;/em&gt;, and the second top answer (the correct one) may never &quot;win&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example 2&lt;/strong&gt;: I read an answer. I think it's wrong, so I downvote. Shortly afterwards I start having second thoughts and do more research, and indeed it turns out that the answer was correct. But it's now too late to change the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly urge you to find alternative solutions to all problems you're trying to solve by making votes permanent. I've already mentioned someone's great suggestion for Tactical Voting. Are there any others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4012/is-the-down-voting-most-all-answers-that-arent-yours-pattern-considered-harm&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4012/is-the-down-voting-most-all-answers-that-arent-yours-pattern-considered-harm&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17538/what-should-be-done-to-people-who-downvote-strategically&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;) describing the problem of downvoting something permanently. Even that isn't always seen as terribly damaging; downvoting and then undoing the vote must be so minor that I honestly don't see it deserving a &quot;fix&quot; like the &quot;vote too old&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we need a fix for downvote-then-undo tactical downvoting (which many have denied, see links above) at all, then I'd rather have all my downvotes have a &lt;em&gt;permanent&lt;/em&gt; effect on my rep, but be undoable (like Andomar suggested)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T02:39:29.447" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T02:40:05.093" Title="Increase the &quot;vote too old to be changed&quot; window" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="28760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28756" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:48:14.457" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was serial down-voting it should be spotted, and corrected, by the automatic processes that run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:48:14.457" />
  <row Id="28761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T21:55:32.070" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. Ways to get more satisfaction out of your job?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A. Behave like you're in a real &quot;StackOverflow&quot; work environment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Invite others to ask you questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the time to research and give good answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Publicly recognize people who give good answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4058" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T21:55:32.070" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28759" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:05:05.563" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternative for the voting window: make the downvoting reputation loss permanent, even if undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The permanent reputation penalty would attach to the first of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Switching an upvote to a downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removing an upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:05:05.563" />
  <row Id="28764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:17:20.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's presentations ... even if I don't agree with something he said, it was a pleasure to hear out his point of view. I am ready to forgive a sales pitch, I sort of expected it. Still, FogBugz is great tool so why not promote it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brilliant Python and Yahoo! presentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liked Qt presentation. Although it wasn't perfect fit for the crowd, still it was interesting quick and dirty tutorial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some presenters, whose native language is not English simply couldn't sell themselves (and subject of their presentation); it's a pity since jQuery could be presented better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A little too much of Microsoft bashing as for my taste. This kind of attitude does not fit professional crowd.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too short :D&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Slightly more spacious location next time please!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138495" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:17:20.067" />
  <row Id="28765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28766" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:21:33.880" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about asking a question regarding communicating effectively, but I realized it may be not directly related to programmers. So, I will ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ok to ask questions on stackoverflow like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is this fun prezi.com presentation effective at communicating the purpose behind ^caret:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://prezi.com/w3aavx2irfru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://prezi.com/w3aavx2irfru/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it more important to communicate an underlying idea rather than explicitly documenting the technology?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, is it not a real question and considered project marketing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T22:23:46.433" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:38:21.277" Title="Is it bad to ask questions regarding communication?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;marketing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28765" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:24:05.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is not the site for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:24:05.483" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28772" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:35:37.677" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago I created an account an asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/60191/unable-to-play-video-any-format-on-e-machines-laptop-running-ubuntu&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.  When trying to login today, it claims my OpenID has never been seen before &amp;amp; I need to create a new account.  Is this a bug?  The question I asked no longer links to my account.  I did not get any notification or email saying this was going to happen, but actually I can't remember if I put my email in my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:51:07.647" Title="Was my account deleted on SuperUser?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28765" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:38:21.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh yes, and it should be about&#xA;  programming. You know, with a&#xA;  computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effect of a presentation seems out of scope.  It's related to programmers but not to programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:38:21.277" />
  <row Id="28770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28730" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:40:51.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an issue if you decided to pay first without entering a CV.  We'll have a fix out asap!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:40:51.163" />
  <row Id="28772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28767" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:51:07.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any account issues like this are best handled by the stackoverflow team. Go ahead and email team@stackoverflow.com with your account details and what happened. This is the quickest way to get issues like this resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:51:07.647" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28451" CreationDate="2009-11-05T22:52:00.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the &lt;em&gt;Background&lt;/em&gt; field as a workaround and mention there that you studied Biology or Chemistry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135744" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T22:52:00.097" />
  <row Id="28774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28733" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:05:42.833" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an employer is going to be put off by an error page having a sense of humour, I don't want to work for them. There are dozens of other job sites that take themselves entirely seriously I can post on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:05:42.833" />
  <row Id="28775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28756" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:15:10.430" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it looks like you're a Score Whore, asking questions for cheap points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1682874/hidden-features-of-r&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of R?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1677164/what-i-can-do-with-r&quot;&gt;What I Can Do With R?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1677489/is-r-embeddable&quot;&gt;Is R Embeddable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683093/where-are-the-ms-dos-developers-now-closed&quot;&gt;Where Are The MS-DOS Developers Now?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683171/what-was-the-biggest-thing-that-youve-done-in-r-closed&quot;&gt;What Was The Biggest Thing That You’ve Done In R?&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then your answers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1669944/can-i-use-an-open-source-framework-in-a-project-i-plan-to-profit-from/1669960#1669960&quot;&gt;It's all at the license, there you will find your answer&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How you got that much rep in the first place is beyond me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5188" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T23:16:10.273" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:16:10.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:30:26.377" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you receive instant positive feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you got a rep increase from your co-workers every time you sent a useful email, made a good point in a meeting, or got someone to laugh around the water cooler, you'd find work a bit more satisfying as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:30:26.377" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28780" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:31:07.683" Score="-3" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22771/the-answer-to-tactical-downvoting-problem&quot;&gt;The answer to tactical downvoting problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4012/is-the-down-voting-most-all-answers-that-arent-yours-pattern-considered-harm&quot;&gt;Is the &amp;ldquo;down-voting (most) all answers that aren&amp;rsquo;t yours&amp;rdquo; pattern considered harmful?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17538/what-should-be-done-to-people-who-downvote-strategically&quot;&gt;What should be done to people who downvote strategically?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Dan Dyer mentioned in his comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6460/if-you-just-witnessed-tactical-downvoting-is-it-a-reportable-offense/18046#18046&quot;&gt;tactical downvoting&lt;/a&gt;, there is a conflict of interest when you have posted your own answer and are allowed to downvote other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the vote editing window being drastically reduced, the fundamental problem remains: I can downvote the other answers &lt;em&gt;permanently&lt;/em&gt; and still benefit - my answer gets upvoted ONCE and wham, I have just made up the rep loss for my 10 other downvotes. The vote editing window fixes part of the problem, but there is a more complete fix that has the extra benefit of not preventing legitimate vote changes: to &lt;strong&gt;disallow downvotes on competing answers when you have posted one yourself&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The temptation to wrongfully downvote competing answers is huge. The rep loss is tiny in comparison. It has to be in order for people to continue to &lt;em&gt;legitimately&lt;/em&gt; downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I have previously voted and then post my own answers, delete my downvotes. Continue to allow me to remove the upvotes - I think this is fully legitimate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I delete my answer it's probably best to continue to deny downvotes (perhaps even including the question), but I don't have a strong opinion either way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-05T23:55:45.990" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:55:45.990" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T00:32:51.133" Title="Disallow downvoting other answers if I've posted my own" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;social-manipulation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28777" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:39:26.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;trust the community not to downvote unfairly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:39:26.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:41:20.817" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to consider having bounty separated, to some degree, from the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would work something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh gee, I'm indecisive, and all these&#xA;  answers are so scrumptious!  I want to&#xA;  eat them all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well... I'll choose this one as the&#xA;  official answer, and they'll get the&#xA;  full bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But these other four are nearly as&#xA;  good, and they should be rewarded for&#xA;  answering my call as well.  I will&#xA;  give them the same award from my own&#xA;  rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I offered a 150 point bounty, the first person would be accepted as the answer and go to the top, and receive the original 150 rep (100 from me, 50 from the system).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next four would each receive 150 rep as well, from my rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would cost me 750 rep to do so.  Other than the accepted answer, nothing else would change in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-04T20:22:28.847" LastActivityDate="2010-11-04T20:22:28.847" Title="Multi-bounty-ing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;multiple&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28777" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:45:06.553" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a very, very valid reason for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are posting a correct answer, and have the expertise to know the others are wrong, then you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; downvote the other answers, and answer the question correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one should be made to decide, &quot;Do I downvote the wrong answers so others see they are wrong but not be able to post the right answer, or do I write the correct answer and hope someone backs me up?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:45:06.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2009-11-05T23:59:08.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be present but costly, for example add only +1 vote, cost 20 rep, and only be available once per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, if this feature just adds +1 as I'm suggesting, then perhaps it should be called &quot;ExtraVote&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138502" LastActivityDate="2009-11-05T23:59:08.433" />
  <row Id="28782" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48192" CreationDate="2009-11-06T02:08:23.157" Score="3" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can access questions with tags by link construction:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/[tag1] or [tag2] or [tag3]&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I combine a lot of tags I get an error 400 (invalid URL). In my case the URL length was 755 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I use the link  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=[tag1] or [tag2] or [tag3]&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then the page is loaded, even though I used the same big set of tags (and this time we have 768 characters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I pass the link to my RSS reader (with &lt;code&gt;%20&lt;/code&gt; instead of a space)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=[tag1]%20or%20[tag2]%20or%20[tag3]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all data was properly loaded with no errors (908 characters this time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some bug/limitation to the length of the first link construction (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/%5Btags%5D&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/%5Btags%5D&lt;/a&gt;) that does not apply to second method (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=%5Btags%5D&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=%5Btags%5D&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136619" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-03T07:21:39.730" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T07:23:30.297" Title="Why do I get an error 400 with one constructed URL and not with the other one?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28759" CreationDate="2009-11-06T02:40:05.093" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't vote until you're sure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the post is edited, you may re-vote on it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if you have 3k rep, you can edit a post to force a re-vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T02:40:05.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T03:00:22.797" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20812/how-to-behave-now-ive-got-the-10k&quot;&gt;How to behave now I&amp;rsquo;ve got the 10K&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15661/you-have-gained-power-heres-how-to-use-it-kind-of-message&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;You have gained power. Here&amp;rsquo;s how to use it.&amp;rdquo; kind of message.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who got to the 10K reputation, what do you do with the moderation tools? That is, what do you actively look for with them and how are they useful to you or how do you use them to help with the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130225" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T03:02:11.340" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T11:10:12.500" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T11:17:32.877" Title="What do you do with the moderation tools?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2009-11-06T03:24:12.393" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally forget about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every so often I'll go through and add a close vote to some if they're needed; or take a peek at what's highest voted and what's lowest voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd wager that I don't even use the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; menu on 1% of my visits to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T03:24:12.393" />
  <row Id="28787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T03:35:08.647" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26460/tag-for-two-flexes&quot;&gt;Tag for two flexes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1685148/writing-compilers-whats-right-and-whats-wrong&quot;&gt;Writing compilers … what’s right and what’s wrong?&lt;/a&gt; I was little surprised to notice an Adobe sponsored tag. Then, I realized the sponsored tag mechanism did not differentiate between &lt;a href=&quot;http://flex.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;flex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea how to deal with this? Do Adobe want to pay for sponsorship even when the thread topic is not related to one of their products?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-21T12:22:36.870" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T12:22:36.870" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T03:38:47.080" Title="Sponsored tags: flex vs Flex" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;&lt;ambiguous-tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28581" CreationDate="2009-11-06T03:42:20.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I like the spirit of the idea &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bit like the &quot;Beta&quot; badge, SO team could create one that would be given to all users who, on the day xx, voted (up or down), edited, commented and so forth all questions older than yy amount of days sitting on the Unanswered pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would create a bit of a perverse incentive to vote up unanswered questions, just to get the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, we already have Civic Duty, and another badge related to voting that I haven't rolled out yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T03:42:20.130" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28791" CreationDate="2009-11-06T04:51:06.963" Score="2" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18242/what-is-the-policy-here-on-homework&quot;&gt;What is the policy here on homework?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do Stack Overflow users close questions? Shouldn't we be encouraging homework questions, and encouraging users to ask homework questions in an appropriate manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T05:14:50.523" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T05:44:23.140" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T07:49:30.760" Title="Why are all the homework questions being closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28789" CreationDate="2009-11-06T04:59:09.070" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with what you say, but in practice the kind of OP who requests (or demands) homework information, is never heard from again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least the comments which ask for more information (like &quot;show us what you've done&quot;) never get a reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think some SO users have developed an ability to recognise this kind of post, and close it ASAP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T05:04:40.293" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T05:04:40.293" />
  <row Id="28791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28789" CreationDate="2009-11-06T05:44:23.140" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that homework questions ought not to be discouraged, but rather guided by a basic principle: &lt;em&gt;The poster should have made a good faith effort at the solution.&lt;/em&gt; This is generally easily discernible in a question; those that have only a plain question and no subsequent explanations of attempts (e.g., &quot;I was thinking that…&quot; or &quot;What I tried was…&quot;) have obviously either not been attempted or haven't been attempted seriously. I think questions like this warrant at the very least to be ignored by the SO community at its discretion. They might, as you ask, even deserve closure as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if a user posts something like 'What is O(f(n))?' I think it is pretty obvious this is a homework question. Should it be treated any differently than any other question? Based on my point above, I would say so. In my opinion, it is always better to post a question that leads you to an understanding of the concept, rather than a specific answer for one instance. In this case, a question along the lines of &quot;What is Big O?&quot; obviously stands to teach the OP a lot more than the original version. In the case of the first version, it's some pretty easy rep for someone to post 'O(n)' or whatever it is, but answers like this only stand to encourage the exploitation of SO, and so we can argue that they might in fact warrant closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But again, the fact that a question is tagged 'homework' or appears to be such should not warrant its immediate closure. I think a question like 'What is O(f(n))?' is completely valid if the user has a particular question that he has genuinely attempted and cannot solve. He might not understand some less-than-obvious concept, or he may have overlooked it. These questions should be encouraged because chances are if he does not understand it, there will be someone in the future who is in the same situation and will benefit greatly from the fact that the original question was not closed outright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll finish with some food for thought: SO is supposed to be a place for questions &quot;that can be answered.&quot; Do they come any more answerable than these simple homework questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133251" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T05:44:23.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28795" CreationDate="2009-11-06T06:31:00.247" Score="0" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this was fixed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Somehow people still do it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I just wonder, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126196" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T16:10:37.180" LastActivityDate="2010-06-26T07:36:58.193" Title="Comments less than 15 chars?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="28793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28833" CreationDate="2009-11-06T06:48:54.253" Score="2" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is &lt;s&gt;one&lt;/s&gt; three of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, I thought the following messages were a mistaken triple-click, but looking at the dates and email addresses... that definitely wasn't it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: ram [mailto:rambabu.********@gmail.com] &#xA;    Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:45 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    i need simple desktop application developed on c#&#xA;&#xA;    Phone: 929317****&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: ram [rambabu.********999@gmail.com]&#xA;    Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:47 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    i need simple desktop application developed on c#&#xA;&#xA;    Phone: 929317****&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: ram [mca.****@bvrit.ac.in]&#xA;    Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:53 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    i need simple desktop application developed on c#&#xA;&#xA;    Phone: 929317****&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T14:45:39.907" Title="Advertising Inquiry: Third time's the charm" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28793" CreationDate="2009-11-06T07:01:34.497" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give him a quote: US$50,000 for the app.  Then post the requirements as a Code Golf, split the profit with the winner... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T07:01:34.497" />
  <row Id="28795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28792" CreationDate="2009-11-06T07:10:00.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T07:50:36.937" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T07:50:36.937" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="28798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T07:46:36.430" Score="0" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25046/suggestion-the-3-year-intro-price-should-be-3-years-from-when-the-beta-ends&quot;&gt;Suggestion: the 3 year intro price should be 3 years from when the beta ends&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to look a gift-horse in the mouth, and not that it really matters too horribly much, but since employers won't get in until 11/09/2009, shouldn't the three-year period that us early adopters have paid for not start until then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6010" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T07:49:13.320" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T07:49:13.320" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T07:49:07.703" Title="Shouldn't the three-year early Careers filing last until 11/09/2012?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="28799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T07:50:31.420" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3473/native-iphone-app&quot;&gt;Native iPhone app&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really want to read SO articles in my iPod Touch, although I can do that now through Safari. But it's not convenient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T08:02:08.223" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T08:05:29.453" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T08:20:23.653" Title="Should Stack Overflow make an iPhone version site app?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28799" CreationDate="2009-11-06T08:05:29.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;iPhone (and mobile devices in general) should be supported, but I think they'll just expose an API so other people will do it for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T08:05:29.453" />
  <row Id="28801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28501" CreationDate="2009-11-06T08:36:32.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That is, whenever I log into the site I have one single purpose, see if there is someone facing a difficult, in an area or subject which I can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, but not every body shares that same single scheme! Some cats gotta know what's &lt;em&gt;hip&lt;/em&gt;, what's &lt;em&gt;hot&lt;/em&gt;, what's &lt;em&gt;going on in the world&lt;/em&gt; - and the home page makes that happen! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T08:36:32.487" />
  <row Id="28802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T08:43:08.337" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now we've got a public vanity URL on Careers (mine is &lt;code&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/blixt&lt;/code&gt;) that's pretty long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Careers&lt;/a&gt; had some kind of shorter version of its URL that redirects you to the longer version.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Much like Flickr has &lt;code&gt;http://flic.kr/mr-blixt&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly wishful thinking from my part I guess =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T09:34:34.110" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:27:33.297" Title="Dedicated, shorter domain for vanity careers URLs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="28803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T08:52:35.993" Score="0" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of questions with a status of &lt;strong&gt;closed&lt;/strong&gt; and the questions migrated across the various Stack Overflow sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What purpose, and on what basis, do these questions get migrated from one site to another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what's the classification between these in the context of the questions asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T11:54:49.487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T11:54:49.487" Title="Reasons behind question migration between the sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28803" CreationDate="2009-11-06T09:01:17.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow = Programming-related questions - things about programming languages, algorithsm, data structures, implementation details, program design, et cetera - if it's involved in &lt;em&gt;making&lt;/em&gt; software, it probably goes there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ServerFault = System administration. OS setup/usage/sysoping, network management, et cetera all go here. If it's about installing/configuring production software/systems, it probably goes there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser = General computer usage of all types. If it's a question about computing and it doesn't go on SO or SF, it can probably be asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta = Questions &lt;em&gt;about the other sites&lt;/em&gt; - support issues, questions on community topics, etc; anything that deals with how SO, SF, and SU work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132820" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T09:01:17.150" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T09:05:17.817" Score="-5" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like an admin or moderator to delete some of my questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;These questions were asked when I was just starting out at my development:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156363/create-a-compiler-for-windows&quot;&gt;Create a Compiler for Windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114658/download-file-using-c&quot;&gt;Downloading file using C++&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1148740/best-editor-for-c-development-under-windows&quot;&gt;Best editor for C++ development under Windows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1172173/is-pythonce-good-closed&quot;&gt;Is PythonCE good?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554779/is-c-a-versatile-language-closed&quot;&gt;Is C# a versatile language?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1150048/game-boy-visual-games-development-closed&quot;&gt;Game Boy visual games development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089509/best-language-to-start-closed&quot;&gt;Best language to start!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1171602/to-development-what-is-the-best-windows-or-linux-closed&quot;&gt;To development what is the best: Windows or Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1172384/good-free-forum-hosting-closed&quot;&gt;Good free forum hosting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634605/is-smalltalk-dead-closed&quot;&gt;Is SmallTalk &quot;Dead&quot;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1608420/how-do-i-get-the-email-content-from-mailmessage&quot;&gt;How do I get email content from Mail::Message?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1217910/issue-regarding-sizet&quot;&gt;Issue regarding size_t&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1219029/do-a-code-injection-in-c-closed&quot;&gt;Do a code injection in C++&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1215688/read-something-after-a-word-in-c&quot;&gt;Read something after a word in C++&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1150072/install-cdt-plug-in-on-eclipse-ganymede&quot;&gt;Install CDT plug-in on Eclipse Ganymede&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114667/making-a-makefile&quot;&gt;Making a makefile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147616/free-svn-hosting-server-without-project&quot;&gt;Free svn hosting server without project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683171/what-was-the-biggest-thing-that-youve-done-in-r-closed&quot;&gt;What was the biggest thing you've done in R?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1677164/what-i-can-do-with-r&quot;&gt;What can I do with R?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1670710/net-runtime-optimization-service-is-turning-my-system-unstable&quot;&gt;.NET runtime optimization service is turning my system unstable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I just want to start a new life here. I want to delete these horrible questions.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T12:07:16.547" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:22:50.607" Title="Request a Mass Deletion" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T09:05:22.730" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had my account on Stack Overflow for more than a year now. Today, I followed a question that was migrated to Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a few interesting comments that I wanted to upvote. But the intelligent JavaScript warned me that I was not logged in because of it being a different site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I logged in, it suggested I merge/associate my Meta account with my SO account. (Simply brilliant that it was just a single click. Bravo to the dev team!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to vote up these comments from before, I was then told that I didn't have enough reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the point of having a minimum of 15 rep and having an account for over a year when I can't upvote on the other, related, sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Overflow is user support for the main trilogy of sites and the users of such should be able to vote on the ideas and feature requests that relate to those sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the real world, if you had reputation, it would stick with you wherever you went.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138532" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T09:27:33.187" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:12:27.037" Title="Can't upvote on Meta even though I've been an SO member for more than a year?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28805" CreationDate="2009-11-06T09:12:58.270" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One issue here is that sometimes there are very good answers to... &quot;wanting&quot; questions. And perhaps somebody else might have a similar question and benefit from them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd say keep them and wear them as battle scars. A second best might be to somehow detach them from your account... Jeff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T13:44:05.187" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T13:44:05.187" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28806" CreationDate="2009-11-06T09:16:30.150" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need 15 points to vote. That is one question with 2 votes, or one answer with 2 votes, or one question and one answer each with one vote, is it really that hard?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you associate your accounts and any of your accounts on the other sites have more then 200 reputation you automatically get a 100 rep boost. After a year you should have at least 200 points right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The requirement is there to prevent users creating sock puppet accounts and up-voting themselves to gain unnecessary reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just because you are trusted on SO, doesn't mean you can be trusted on the other sites which cover completely different topics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is earned through interaction on the site, not through how long you have been a member. The latter is irrelevant if you hardly ever visit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T09:55:25.180" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T09:55:25.180" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28806" CreationDate="2009-11-06T09:16:49.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no cross-pollination of rep.  SO and MSO are different communities and you need to earn the respect of the community to enjoy the perks you reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T09:16:49.980" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28802" CreationDate="2009-11-06T09:30:20.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you had a shortened version of the site, you'd lose the cachet that automatically comes from an easy glance of the current version of your vanity URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's got both Careers and Stack Overflow and shows that you mean business about your career. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shrink that down into something a few characters long, what are you ashamed of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T09:30:20.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28802" CreationDate="2009-11-06T10:31:42.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One option is an abbreviated domain such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;socareers.com&lt;/strong&gt;/blitxt (currently available)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a bit shorter and expressive enough for those 'in the know'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again this also says &quot;So, careers?&quot; &gt;D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37207" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T10:31:42.790" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28805" CreationDate="2009-11-06T10:47:19.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't you delete them yourself? I thought there was a delete button on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally recently I answered somebody's question about binary coded decimal and then he suddenly deleted the question. Admittedly the question was phrased in such a way that he came across looking foolish, and perhaps he was embarrassed, but I think there might be other people with the same notion, so I think it would be preferable not to delete it. Also, my answer was also deleted along with the question, boo hoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T10:47:19.610" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6250" CreationDate="2009-11-06T10:59:34.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gave vote and then thought I should wait for some better responses and I immediately undid it. Later I didn't got any other answers and many people had only viewed that post. So it meant that the answerer was right. But now I can't give him vote. I can only mark it answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138428" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T10:59:34.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28375" CreationDate="2009-11-06T11:03:30.687" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a very sound idea (and fits well with the reverse request to be able to pull in existing resumes (e.g. from LinkedIn) that are marked up as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would also like to see externally linked URLs on career profile pages marked as @rel=me for full semantically linked goodness (I note that the personal URL already has a @rel=nofollow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138537" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T11:03:30.687" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2009-11-06T11:10:12.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally check the list of close votes each morning to see any questions that need to be closed, I also look at the low voted questions and answers to see if there are any areas that can be cleaned up. Thats about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T11:10:12.500" />
  <row Id="28817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28818" CreationDate="2009-11-06T11:27:03.500" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1679671/use-of-the-verbatim-environment-inside-a-macro&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. This answer was accepted. But OP wrote a comment that the proposed solution does not work well in one small case. I can fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which solution is better? Edit old answer or add new one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138539" LastEditorUserId="138539" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T11:37:57.427" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:02:06.507" Title="Which solution is better? Edit old answer or add new one?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="28818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28817" CreationDate="2009-11-06T11:31:11.370" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case edit the answer. It sounds like your solution worked in the general case, but only failed on one edge case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer is still valid, but incomplete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T11:38:35.820" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T11:38:35.820" />
  <row Id="28819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27959" CreationDate="2009-11-06T11:52:59.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good conference in great surroundings (for the extended version see my &lt;a href=&quot;http://calameda.wordpress.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;).&#xA;I didn't like much the joke addressed to Christian Heilmann at the end of his presentation though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T11:52:59.367" />
  <row Id="28820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28817" CreationDate="2009-11-06T12:02:06.507" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with Chris: Edit the answer. What SO is about is to have great answers that can easily be found. Best case: the selected answer gives you all the information to solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is even encouraged to merge answers into one great answer (and giving credit to the other answerers contributing, at least by voting them up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having two answers with only a slight difference where one is slightly off only confuses. This is a site for great answers, not reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:02:06.507" />
  <row Id="28822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28806" CreationDate="2009-11-06T12:12:27.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation limits, which are similar but not the same on meta, function to keep the anonymous google user from being able to dump all over the site.  You need to invest a (very) little to get voting privileges on meta, just like you do on all of the other sites to be trusted to vote on other people questions and answers.  Essentially, the sites says you have to care a little to get to participate more.  The more you care -- as shown by participation in asking and answering questions, especially with good questions/answers -- the more you get to do. I think this is a perfectly reasonable requirement, especially since the bar is so low for what you want to do.  Having been on SO for more than a year, I would have expected you to know how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:12:27.037" />
  <row Id="28823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28802" CreationDate="2009-11-06T12:27:33.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can create an alias to your own domain that redirect to SO careers. So, if you have &lt;code&gt;blixt.com&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;blixt.com/cv/&lt;/code&gt; would redirect to careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:27:33.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28825" CreationDate="2009-11-06T12:45:08.177" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, what is the use of marking a question as a favorite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T12:55:45.477" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:55:45.477" Title="Is there a way to see all my favorite questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28824" CreationDate="2009-11-06T12:48:44.300" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's on the favorites tab of your user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL will be: &lt;code&gt;http://superuser.com/users/[YOUR USER ID]?tab=favorites#sort-top&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:48:44.300" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28805" CreationDate="2009-11-06T12:57:41.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/690262/how-can-i-create-a-soap-header-like-this&quot;&gt;There&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/729303/does-the-gpl-license-contaminate&quot;&gt;is&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/797147/why-can-i-sort-an-inline-select-value-but-not-use-it-in-a-where-clause&quot;&gt;stuff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/155260/what-is-the-functionality-within-c&quot;&gt;I&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/666272/matching-fixed-format-numbers-in-regex&quot;&gt;feel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/487052/moving-a-system-from-sort-of-a-class-system-to-an-mvc-format&quot;&gt;stupid&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/379231/how-is-gui-and-game-program-flow-compared-to-web-programs&quot;&gt;for&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282829/is-there-a-better-way-to-make-console-games-than-with-console-clear&quot;&gt;asking&lt;/a&gt;, but as Marc stated, other people might have similar issues and get the great help I got back in the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm smarter now, and looking back on these questions, I often ask myself &quot;what was I thinking&quot; but I'm proud of them, since without them, I wouldn't be the person I am today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T12:57:41.337" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28828" CreationDate="2009-11-06T12:59:04.080" Score="5" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been doing a lot of reading on Meta about this subject and I cannot find a definitive answer or view of what people think regarding this question. So, apologies if this has already been covered/closed/down-voted, etc!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm finding myself hesitating over whether or not to try and answer questions on stack overflow for users with &lt;em&gt;very low&lt;/em&gt; accept rates. I notice there are a number of people experiencing this feeling as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is thus; should users with a very low percentage of acceptance be banned from asking new questions? Maybe 'banning' is too harsh. Perhaps the user should be &lt;em&gt;nagged&lt;/em&gt; by one of the dropdowns at the top of the page, i.e. &quot;&lt;em&gt;Have you considered accepting any of the 46 questions that you have not accepted an answer for?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this should only apply to users with a low accept rate, i.e. less than 10%, WHEN the user has over N amount of questions within a particular timespan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, don't get me wrong on the whole accept rate functionality. I know it's been discussed to death from other &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26974/has-the-accept-rate-score-encouraged-unwanted-behavior&quot;&gt;angles&lt;/a&gt;, but I think users who generally can't be bothered to accept and clean up their questions should be made to, or encouraged to put some effort in. I know myself how frustrating it is to find an unaccepted question that potentially contains the answer to my problem. It's always a bit of a pain having to trawl through comments to see if the author has put a message along the lines of &quot;Thanks, it worked!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135465" LastEditorUserId="135465" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T13:06:03.990" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:27:55.263" Title="Should users be discouraged from asking new questions until they've accepted a certain % or deleted old unaccepted questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28827" CreationDate="2009-11-06T13:01:17.353" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That feeling should come naturally. People are less inclined to answer questions from people with low acceptance %. And the user should be able to see that. If he does not, then it's a loss for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say no, just let it come naturally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also never restrict a user, since he could just log out and ask as a anonymous user, or create a new account. And then you're just creating a whole other type of a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T13:01:17.353" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="28830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T14:26:35.700" Score="1" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT - apologies for the duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-in-comments&quot;&gt;Are Expletives allowed in comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently answered a &quot;humour +offtopic&quot; CW question about annoying habits of colleagues with what I thought was a &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; amusing (and meant to be light-hearted) reply containing the word &lt;em&gt;asshole&lt;/em&gt;. It got edited so the &quot;profanity&quot; was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was I inappropriate? Last time I checked, SO wasn't a my little pony appreciation society. It's hardly like I used the word [EXPLETIVE DELETED], is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="132008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T20:00:52.377" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T20:00:52.377" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T14:35:23.887" Title="What is the policy on profanity on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;profanity&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28836" CreationDate="2009-11-06T14:38:55.987" Score="3" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1686831/ssis-loop-a-list-of-connection-strings-in-a-master-package-executing-two-other&quot;&gt;my question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; three times now as I progress with the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not bumping to the front page when I edit. I gathered from previous posts here on Meta that editing your question bumped it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has something changed or am I being thick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1166" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T14:51:01.007" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T17:11:07.570" Title="Editing my question is not bumping it" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28793" CreationDate="2009-11-06T14:42:40.583" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've got three email addresses and a phone number, so you have a lot of options here.  First and foremost, you can locate the phone.  This is extremely easy, thanks to our fancy cell phone triangulating software.  It will locate the phone to within a 1 foot radius and  display the address (not the latitude and longitude!) on what looks suspiciously like Google maps, only with more beeping and blinking text.  Then we can storm the address, with CSI technicians inexplicably charging in alongside -- or perhaps even before -- the SWAT team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the user decides to hang up his phone call a second before the trace is complete, we'll only know which hemisphere he's in, because our software arbitrarily sucks sometimes.  In that case, you'll need a VB GUI interface to trace those emails back.  This could take as little as a few seconds or,  if they have bounced the email through enough satellites, as long as three minutes.  When it turns out that he is in another country, we can send in a team to get him without concern for jurisdiction while we observe from a large screen running a video feed of the operation.  One of the forensics guys -- probably the one who looks the least like a lab technician and most like an action movie star, even though he or she is supposedly an expert in DNA or blood spatter or something -- will have to go with the team, because we can't leave this sort of important business to the SWAT guys who are trained for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now some of you might prefer a more old-school approach.  I can understand the appeal; it seems more like actual police work.  Unfortunately, without a dead body, we can't have the medical examiner pinpoint the time of death to within two seconds, so we have to rely on the time-tested strategy of interviewing people.  I mean, we have a name; how hard can it be?  Naturally, any person we interview will have important information on our investigation -- dead ends are for the uniformed officers.  If they &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have useful information, despite the fact that we talked to them, then they are the criminal.  I mean, that's just obvious.  On the other hand, if there's one guy who is the clear cut #1 suspect, then we know, thanks to the Scooby Doo Rule, that he is innocent.  The criminal is actually the other guy who nobody would ever suspect, except that he has a speaking part and decent camera time considering his only tangential involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever approach we use, the results are the same.  We bring the perp down to the &lt;s&gt;station&lt;/s&gt; lab for questioning.  The CSI technicians will do the questioning while a homicide detective sits in the room and pretends to be interested, struggling with the urge to tune out completely and play BrickBreaker on his Blackberry.  Eventually, the CSI tech will notice something on the perp which will seal the case, be it gunpowder residue behind their right ear, or blood under a fingernail discovered after dipping his entire body in a vat of Luminol (which the department purchases by the tanker truck), or maybe even something completely crazy.  Regardless, we'll probably have to use a black light and UV glasses to investigate while techno music plays in the background.  Anyway, once we have that key piece of circumstantial evidence, the perp will go to jail forever and we'll call it a day until next week (some clips of which we'll show you, after these messages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T14:42:40.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28793" CreationDate="2009-11-06T14:45:39.907" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;Dearest ram:&#xA;&#xA;I like ponies.&#xA;&#xA;All the best,&#xA;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Dearest ram:&#xA;&#xA;I like ponies.&#xA;&#xA;All the best,&#xA;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Dearest ram:&#xA;&#xA;I like ponies.&#xA;&#xA;All the best,&#xA;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T14:45:39.907" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28834" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T14:53:38.363" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&quot;&gt;Display the original question beneath the answer edit form&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was answering a question today that had quite a few answers already (though I think my was better still). Because there were so many answers I had to scroll about 5 page ups and then back down about 3-4 times to copy little tidbits of code into the answer textarea that is at the very bottom of the stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it should be there by default but maybe once you start typeing in the box have it jump up, or the question body jump down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:29:23.793" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T16:21:05.243" Title="Move answer textarea to top of all answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28827" CreationDate="2009-11-06T14:55:04.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Preventing them from asking new questions is taking things a bit too far. I guess gentle reminders through comments would work. Disallowing new questions might drive them away from SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally would answer the question irrespective of the accept rate - but if the user has enough (acceptably answered) questions to his credit, I would &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1679886/text-input-restrict-in-flex3-air&quot;&gt;post a comment&lt;/a&gt; with links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;meta posts&lt;/a&gt; about accepting/upvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T14:55:04.040" />
  <row Id="28836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28831" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:00:06.763" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bumped it and it works. There a so many questions, it drops of the list very quickly. SO's success sucks from time to time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T17:11:07.570" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T17:11:07.570" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:04:48.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I noticed was that all the hands-on first application demos failed miserably (except for the App Engine talk).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;QT and ASP.NET MVC are too broadly spread technologies to try and do a hands-on application demo in an hour. I guess that's why both struggled. &lt;strong&gt;Side note:&lt;/strong&gt; Eero Bragge took 15+ minutes to design a form in a WYSIWIG editor which is kind of insulting the intellect of all the developers in the audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly the jQuery talk had quite the extensive run-down of the API which was not at all informative as it's meaningless to both folks who have and haven't used jQuery before: either they don't care (just yet) or are already familiar with the API.&#xA;A talk on jQuery in the real world solving real problems would have won more hearts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simon Willison's (Python) &amp;amp; Christian Heilmann's (YUI) approach of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Here's the cool stuff I can do with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;X&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;  on a daily basis because I am an &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;X&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; ninja&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;worked because it had no intention of being a newbie tutorial on &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;X&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.  This way everyone can take away something from the presentation wheter you're already knowledgeable on the subject or not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newbies can decide if being an &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;X&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; ninja will benefit them enough to warrant years of study.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Novices/Knowledgeable users are bound to pick up something new.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you were already an &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;X&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; ninja your probably never cared for the presentation anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging the tweets and this thread most people seem to concur the Python and YUI talks were the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the event organisation itself it was all good except &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The chairs were not very comfortable but perhaps a developer's rear is spoiled by padded office chairs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Food was great, being able to get to the food was troublesome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sound, especially in between talks, was way too loud.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quite enjoyed the event and would definitely visit next year as well. On top of that I love the stackoverflow.com stickers I was able to grab in abundance! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138543" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:04:48.160" />
  <row Id="28838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28834" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:13:26.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm agin' it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting the text area at the top would encourage people to answer without reading (or even scanning) the existing answers leading to too many duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Workaround:&lt;/strong&gt; I open another tab to read the question in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:13:26.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28827" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:16:42.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think restricting a user's ability to ask more questions is a good idea. It may be that they just aren't getting good answers, particularly if the technology they're asking about is niche. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there's nags in the question list on your profile, but perhaps once a month they could be nagged with a dismissable pop-up on the main question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try not to use the answer percentage statistic but, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28827/should-users-be-discouraged-from-asking-new-questions-until-theyve-accepted-a-ce/28828#28828&quot;&gt;Ólafur points ou&lt;/a&gt;t, you do get a feel for whether it's worth spending a large amount of time attempting to help someone who doesn't play by the spirit of Stack Overflow. If I see a user who has a very low acceptance rate then I sometimes nudge them with a friendly reminder in the comments under the question. Quite often that's just enough because I think there's some folks who have just genuinely forgotten or haven't quite 'got it' with the way Stack Overflow works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:16:42.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28805" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:22:50.607" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;These questions were asked when I was just starting out at&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of them (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683171/what-was-the-biggest-thing-that-youve-done-in-r-closed&quot;&gt;What Was The Biggest Thing That You’ve Done In R? [closed]&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1677164/what-i-can-do-with-r&quot;&gt;What I Can Do With R?&lt;/a&gt;) were asked within the last two days. Seems you're making rapid progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:22:50.607" />
  <row Id="28841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28872" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:26:34.127" Score="0" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the idea is that you just have a public CV if you are not looking for a job and &quot;file&quot; your CV when you are looking for a job. At the moment you can file your CV for three years! I would be a touch upset, even in the height of a recession, if it took me three years to get a job! Surly this policy is going to end up creating a lot of stale filed CVs which will put off recruiters? Maybe one to six months would be a better time frame?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132185" LastEditorUserId="132185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T15:34:10.913" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:01:04.637" Title="Isn't filing your CV for three years a little long?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" />
  <row Id="28842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28848" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:26:41.193" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it's long been an issue that searching on SO is not perfect. I've just come a-cropper here by asking an exact duplicate because I searched for &lt;em&gt;profanity&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;swearing&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;expletive&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;salty&lt;/em&gt;. (Following which I got quite comprehensively downvoted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have been picked up if some kind of &lt;strong&gt;thesaurus-o-tron&lt;/strong&gt; was at work on search. I don't know much about search and indexing but I guess that this kind of thing must be possible (i.e. to identify key nouns in a post and index that post by their synonyms as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;; whilst I accept that Google is a valid answer to this question, I have seen Joel himself say that Google does not do search properly on Q&amp;amp;A-like content (e.g. by giving prominence to older content) and I have also seen him say that on SO &lt;em&gt;&quot;the act of asking a question is also the act of searching for the answer&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. If this is the case, and if I'm to end up losing a load of rep because the search algo could be improved, I'd like to see the search algo improved!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="132008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T15:44:28.990" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:44:28.990" Title="Is there a way to improve search via a thesaurus?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28827" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:27:55.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that users should be out right banned from asking questions unless we are very careful about where the threshold kicks in. For example, someone might have a 10% accept rate, but they also only asked 10 questions where as someone else might have asked 100 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do think that it might be a good idea to add a short message addressing the user saying something like &quot;You might encounter a lower response rate until you accept some answers!&quot; This could either be on the user page, or it could show up when they go to create a new question, similar to the existing message for subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:27:55.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28834" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:29:23.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28834/move-answer-textarea-to-top-of-all-answers/28838#28838&quot;&gt;dmckee points out&lt;/a&gt; that having the answer text box at the bottom encourages people to read all the existing answers on the way down, not everyone does. In my experience, the duplicate problem usually arises within the first five minutes of a question being asked when everyone knows the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often I'll answer questions whilst watching telly in the lounge using my Eee PC which has a tiny screen. Opening another window and/or scrolling up and down to read the question again can be extraordinarily annoying due to the small screen size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the way to solve this is to keep the answer box where it is but have a button that when clicked moves it to just under the question, or it could be in a layer that could be dragged up the page. Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:29:23.793" />
  <row Id="28845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28842" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:31:41.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;guys&lt;/a&gt; who know &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.de/search?&amp;amp;q=profanity+swearing+site%3Ameta.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;searching best&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:31:41.293" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28841" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:33:03.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a person isn't looking for a job, then it's up to them to 'de-publish' it.  But 3 years presents a heck of a cost-savings.  Knowing that if anything happens in the next 3 years that I have a go-to place for having my resume put in front of good hiring managers is quite comforting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what Stack Overflow careers has that other sites do not; the people that hire here are definitely looking for the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:33:03.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28841" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:33:22.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If something is $99, then you'd like to think that you would definitely only need it once. I think 3 years covers nicely for this - it has the feel of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;the foreseeable future&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; about it. i.e. I think it will more than cover my needs for the foreseeable future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say they had given you 12 months: what if it took you 6 months to find a job, you have 3 months notice (very common in the UK at least) and then you found pretty quickly that the job wasn't what you thought and you want to start looking again? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="132008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T15:54:55.510" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:54:55.510" />
  <row Id="28848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28842" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:33:48.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why tagging correctly is important on this site. With correct tabs, finding questions can be much more simple and helps the search find questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like your idea, but the search has been discussed a lot here and the verdict is using google for detailed searches because that is what they do best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:33:48.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28841" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:39:33.133" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will only keep my CV visible until I find a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are people that are not planning to start looking for a new job yet, they will just hide their CV until they need a new job.  These people can take part in the beta and get the discount due to the 3 year limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also contactors will be looking for me then one contract over a 3 year period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:39:33.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22232" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:41:25.907" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise there would be an effective swear filter. If you don't have a swear filter you cannot effectively police it. This means you end with an inconsistent policy which frustrates those who wish to swear and still offends those who dislike swearing and come across swearing that hasn't been caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Net result being that you've only achieved irritating a bunch of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest as a solution a &quot;Safe&quot; option which does simple word substitution (so people can turn it off in scenarios where the word substitution fails and ruins a bit of innocent text). This would enable those in tricky corporate scenarios to browse safely while not irritating those who like to use the full extent of the English language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:41:25.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-06T15:41:25.907" />
  <row Id="28852" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:46:52.793" Score="0" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do you visit Stack Overflow? Why do you think people visit Stack Overflow? What is this website about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138554" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T22:06:02.947" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T22:06:02.947" Title="What is the primary purpose of Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="28853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28852" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:47:48.347" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is a website where software developers can gain reputation in the form of reputation points and badges by asking questions and giving answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138554" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:47:48.347" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28841" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:47:58.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You never know what's round the corner when it comes to employment. I try to treat my CV as a living document at all times, not just something that gets resurrected whenever I need a new job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to note all the milestone achievements/projects as they happen. Otherwise I'll forget something important that might have tickled potential employer's fancy. You never know, you might just get an unbelievable offer simply because you keep on top of your CV and keep it fresh and up-to-date. So in short, I don't think three years is a long time to file your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:47:58.627" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:48:23.680" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any statistics available correlating when a SO question is asked until when it receives an upvote or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like if you ask a good question that's relevant to a large number of people and one that will usually gain a reasonable answer that it's answered in the first 8 hours or less when that question is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do understand that some questions are really really specific and really really useful to a certain group of developers so maybe those don't fall into that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd just be interesting to know the emergent behavior of questions/answers on SO, this is probably all rolled into &quot;featured&quot; questions etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130152" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:00:01.860" Title="Question answer statistics" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28852" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:56:42.450" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make me smrt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I digress. The purpose of this site is stated in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;About section.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a programming Q &amp;amp; A site that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it's just free. And fast. Very, very fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what type of questions is in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:56:42.450" />
  <row Id="28858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28852" CreationDate="2009-11-06T15:58:54.677" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;About&quot; page sums it up nicely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a programming Q &amp;amp; A site that's free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T15:58:54.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28868" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:03:52.623" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;So Joel wants us to pay to have our CVs shown to recruiters. I am concerned that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.census-online.us/search/AABERG,AARON&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aaron Aaberg's&lt;/a&gt; CV is going to get more eyeballs than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.census-online.us/search/ZYLSTRA,ZULMA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zulma Zylstra's&lt;/a&gt;. Can Joel or Jeff give us an assurance that CVs won't ever be listed in Alphabetical Name order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132185" LastEditorUserId="132185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T16:32:47.903" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:42:59.290" Title="Are filed CVs ever going to be displayed to recruiters in alphabetical order?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="28862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28860" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:10:26.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorted by rep of course :P (Or a mechanism to sort by rep :P)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:10:26.247" />
  <row Id="28863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28876" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:20:21.033" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anyone with professional experience outside of software development listing their other lines of work? I plan to list my CV on Careers, but I can't decide whether to only list IT and programming experience, or if I should list qualifications of my other career as well. Which is not to say that they are completely separate, as there has been some overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, my other career stuff is relevant, and may be &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; relevant to a small niche... but to others, the majority, it is just going to look like nonsense and lower the signal-to-noise ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep it simple or go all out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:28:45.520" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:28:45.520" Title="Multi-Classing: Listing Two(or more) Lines Of Work On Careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28860" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:20:22.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be sorted by relevance to the employer's criteria. For example, if he searches for Java, the person best suited for Java according to the info he provided would be shown at the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea could be sorting by last activity date (like in some dating sites, members who recently logged in are shown above those who didn't log in for a week).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:20:22.233" />
  <row Id="28865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28860" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:21:13.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CVs will be sorted by votes first. Since they're all on the same level, they will then default to the next sorting method, randomly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because that's the way they like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:21:13.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28831" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:40:34.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, the range is 6 minutes at the moment -- from most recent to least recent 48 on the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:40:34.893" />
  <row Id="28867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28869" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:42:42.097" Score="5" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I had the following things happen to me on Super User:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of my answers was locked, and a moderator left me some wrong comments (which spoil my name). Maybe I did that myself very long ago, but after my warning, I have not done any such thing. Check my records. How come moderators can still say such things to me?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tried asking about this on the site meta, but my question there was closed and deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also discovered that the moderator in question was talking about my activites in public, not in private. I think that this is a rude thing for someone with moderator powers to do. Moderators shouldn't do wrong things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm feeling a little powerless... What recourse do I have now? What can I do when I feel that a moderator has abused his/her power, and has been repeatedly unfair in his/her dealings with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="153008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-20T14:09:24.153" LastActivityDate="2011-05-20T14:09:24.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-07T00:57:52.990" Title="What recourse do I have if I believe a moderator has abused his/her privileges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="28868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28860" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:42:59.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The results will be presented in location order most of the time, so those closest to the search location will appear first. Beyond that, we favor random order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:42:59.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28867" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:45:53.390" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a dispute with a diamond moderator your options are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;E-mail team@superuser.com with your complaint and links to the questions/answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag for moderator attention and request a specific moderator to address.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record. The levels of moderation on the trilogy are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Developers - Jeff and company.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diamond Moderators - Selected by community and listed in the About page of each site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10K Moderators - Gained 10k reputation and access to moderation utilities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for my actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I make mistakes. Period.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I respond to flags by users. Sometimes these are wrong and I rectify them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am held responsibile firstly by the community, secondly by Jeff and company.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for my comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have e-mailed you directly in the past with regards to interaction on the site. I have patiently edited questions and answers to help make them better and assist with the language barrier. Progress is made for a few days. Then the flags start. Users complain and we investigate. 90% of the time there is a problem. The circle starts again. However&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After discussion with Jeff, there will be no further action. I have reversed my comment and the lock, and will not intervene further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T17:15:28.733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T17:15:28.733" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28867" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:47:15.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you give a link to the question and answer you're talking about, it might help people understand your issue a little better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:47:15.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-11-06T16:49:39.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So it's OK for people to post helpful links that also make you money but not themselves? That doesn't seem fair. Why not only replace affiliate links a percentage of the time? That way everyone gets rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T16:49:39.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-06T16:49:39.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28841" CreationDate="2009-11-06T17:03:40.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The expectation is not that it will take you three years to find a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who opt in early get the benefit of using careers.stackoverflow.com for a job search &lt;em&gt;at any time&lt;/em&gt; for the next three years. Whether they'll need it or not, that's up to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it is our way of saying &quot;thanks&quot; to those who are willing to be the early adopters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T17:03:40.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28855" CreationDate="2009-11-06T17:07:18.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could certainly analyze this using &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the public data dump&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T17:07:18.310" />
  <row Id="28874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T17:16:24.440" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone considered using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PageRank&lt;/a&gt;-like algorithm for the reputation system? This would help to address the common criticism that users gain more reputation for witty one-liners than detailed, technical answers. (Anecdotally, I find this to be true. I got more reputation for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-name-of-this-operator/1642035#1642035&quot;&gt;one-line answer&lt;/a&gt; to a funny question than any detailed answer I ever gave.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not apply some ideas from PageRank to Stack Overflow? Google's PageRank is so successful because a link from a respected site will give your webpage a lot more rank than a link from some obscure site. In the same way that Google doesn't count all links equally, Stack Overflow shouldn't count all up-votes equally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An up-vote from someone with a lot of reputation should be worth more than an up-vote from somebody with no reputation. Intuitively, an upvote from Jon Skeet is worth a lot more than an upvote from (unknown yahoo user), because the community trusts him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also help to mitigate a lot of other ways you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codexon.com/posts/simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;game the system&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, I thought my idea was original, but evidently not. Having read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22151/indicate-how-trustworthy-the-upvotes-are&quot;&gt;reactions&lt;/a&gt; to the previous person who suggested this, it is clear the SO community at large is not in favor of this idea.  Still, I don't find the reasoning very solid.  Disturbingly, the main line of reasoning against weighted up-voting (WUV) also implies that reputation is almost entirely useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reasons against WUV are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) Reputation != expertise.  It is mostly&#xA;  an indication of how much time you&#xA;  spent on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really?  Then perhaps we should just replace the rep system with a simple uptime-like readout.  But seriously, the SO FAQ specifically says &quot;Reputation is never given, it is earned by convincing other Stack Overflow users that you know what you're talking about&quot;.  Clearly, there is at least &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be a strong correlation between reputation and computer programming knowledge.  And if there &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a strong correlation between reputation and computer programming knowledge, then the whole rep system is basically &lt;em&gt;useless&lt;/em&gt;; it becomes nothing more than a measure of social standing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if reputation is correlated with computer programming knowledge, it seems obvious that an upvote from someone with a higher rep is &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; to be more valuable.  Sure, there are edge cases where this won't be the case; for that matter, there are horrible webpages with a high PageRank on Google - but I'm not looking for perfection here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) Reputation does not mean you're an&#xA;  expert, because reputation can be&#xA;  earned by asking masses of low value&#xA;  questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True.  But the solution to this is simple.  Question upvotes shouldn't increase reputation.  This makes sense, because the only reason for WUV is because we should value the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; given by more knowledgeable people.  But it doesn't take any expertise to ask a question.  So, upvotes on questions shouldn't increase reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3) Reputation is too broad a&#xA;  measurement; it doesn't indicate that&#xA;  a particular voter is knowledgeable in&#xA;  that particular subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably the only significantly difficult rebuttal.  It's true that a person's overall rep score doesn't indicate they are knowledgeable in any particular subject.  But that doesn't mean a WUV system couldn't take specific expertise into account.  In fact, the SO tagging system already records the information necessary to resolve this.  For example, if you look at my user-info page, you'll see that I've answered a lot of C++ questions, but no Lisp questions.  Therefore, my upvote on a C++ question should be weighted more than my upvote on a Lisp question.  Adding a WUV system which takes into account expertise in specific areas would really help to better identify answers which are more likely to be valuable to the questioner, as well as everyone throughout posterity who reads the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4) Adding a WUV system would make it more&#xA;  difficult for new people to gain&#xA;  reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A WUV system will only make things difficult for new people who &lt;em&gt;don't know what they're talking about.&lt;/em&gt;  People who actually know what they're talking about, and who provide useful answers, will quickly gain reputation in a WUV system.  (Perhaps even faster than in the current system.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, a WUV system in general would help to mitigate many of the ways people are able to game the system to increase their rep points, or otherwise increase their rep in ways that don't correlate to actual expertise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138561" LastEditorUserId="138561" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T07:31:17.100" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T07:31:17.100" Title="Applying PageRank-like algorithm to Stack Overflow votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28874" CreationDate="2009-11-06T17:31:18.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem I see here is that you have no way of gauging the quality of a reputation score. High rep doesn't always equate to high quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other users of Stack Overflow who have lower scores but who post very high quality answers or questions in specialised areas, perhaps less often, and where the topic is of less interest than say C# Generics, Java Date Time problems or SQL JOIN questions. Who's to say that these votes are less valuable than Jon's, Joel's or Marc's for example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also what happens when a high rep 'trusted' user casts a down-vote? Should that down-vote also be weighted by taking into account their rep? Votes can be cast for idealogical reasons rather than technical ones and that would introduce some very odd skewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see what you're getting at but I think this is a flawed idea. There would need to be extra 'quality' data applied to this ranking or weighting system which isn't captured by Stack Overflow presently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T17:37:57.867" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T17:37:57.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28863" CreationDate="2009-11-06T17:36:11.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I wouldn't put it on your public CV. But on the private CV side it might be ok -- maybe post it as abbreviated versions so potential employers can scan it quickly, and you can elaborate if they ask? That would be a good compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T17:36:11.020" />
  <row Id="28879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28874" CreationDate="2009-11-06T18:10:19.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not use the algorithm described by Randall Munroe here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be pretty effective, and intuitively, it does what you want it to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T18:10:19.817" />
  <row Id="28880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28841" CreationDate="2009-11-06T18:13:53.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refraining from a full quote: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247217/do-you-actively-look-for-a-better-job/247233#247233&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247217/do-you-actively-look-for-a-better-job/247233#247233&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; keep my CV up-to-date. Never know when it'll come in handy :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T18:13:53.023" />
  <row Id="28881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8695" CreationDate="2009-11-06T18:20:03.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New answers to old questions would also help &quot;late but good&quot; answers get the attention they deserve. In fact I was going to request just such a view. It seems odd to me that only 10k users would have access to find these (underappreciated) answers. I would think we'd want to help the wiki-gnomes to find parts that need more (positive) attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132775" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T18:20:03.420" />
  <row Id="28887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19938" CreationDate="2009-11-06T18:29:48.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19938/is-there-a-way-to-know-when-one-of-my-comments-gets-upvoted/22107#22107&quot;&gt;random's hint&lt;/a&gt; to use the data dumps, here's some stored queries to see how close you are to a Pundit badge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=9196&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Count of how many comments you have at each score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=9203&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link to all your comment posts, sorted by score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T18:29:48.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5340" CreationDate="2009-11-06T18:32:55.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can pull this out of the data dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=9196&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Count of how many comments you have at each score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=9203&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Link to all your comment posts, sorted by score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T18:32:55.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T18:38:30.407" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scene%20points&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scene%20points&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could get a dinosaur t-shirt and a bandana. Anything to up my 43 stackoverflow rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't agree to become emo, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130606" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T19:45:32.610" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:45:32.610" ClosedDate="2009-11-06T19:45:19.867" Title="StackOverflow Reputation Score could be based on Scene Points?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28892" CreationDate="2009-11-06T18:57:34.023" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1658378/how-to-make-money-with-my-programming/&quot;&gt;How to make money with my programming?&lt;/a&gt; I gave a tongue-in-cheek answer to a question I knew was inevitably going to be closed.  After being surprised to find a Populist badge for another answer I had forgotten about, I went back through and cataloged all the badges I have the potential to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question currently has a score of &lt;strong&gt;-5&lt;/strong&gt;. If my answer makes it to &lt;strong&gt;+20&lt;/strong&gt;, will the gold badge be awarded, even though the question was closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is generalizable to &lt;em&gt;will badges be awarded for triggers on closed questions?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137502" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:10:08.087" Title="Will Reversal badge be awarded on closed questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28891" CreationDate="2009-11-06T19:00:48.507" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;will badges be awarded for triggers on closed questions?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Closed questions still function like normal questions in all other respects (see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stack-overflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T19:10:08.087" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:10:08.087" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="28893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28841" CreationDate="2009-11-06T19:01:04.637" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel gave a plug for the launch of careers during the recent DevDays tour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have the impression that the 3-year introduction is their way of seeding the database. In many ways it's a win-win.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The subscription lets you 'publish' your CV so that searches will find it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While the subscription is active you can toggle whether it's published or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the plug Joel mentioned that it should also be possible to blacklist certain employers so that you don't show up in their searches, with the default being all employers on your CV. I can't see any evidence of this feature yet though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138438" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:01:04.637" />
  <row Id="28895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28896" CreationDate="2009-11-06T19:27:14.843" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that I've lost 100 reputation; presumably this is because an answer of mine has been automatically closed after a certain number of downvotes. &lt;strong&gt;The answer was CW&lt;/strong&gt;, which I had assumed would not affect my rep, it was a non-serious joke answer to an &lt;code&gt;offtopic&lt;/code&gt; question: &lt;strong&gt;why has this cost me 100 rep?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS. I've googled and searched on this site and can't find any reference to losing points like this. I may also be wrong as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; states quite clearly that voting on a CW post should not affect rep.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:46:29.910" Title="Do I lose rep if a question is automatically closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28895" CreationDate="2009-11-06T19:29:53.060" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was your answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was flagged as spam enough times, it comes with a penalty of -100 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As George Stocker pointed out, the -100 reputation penalty also comes with the offensive, abusive, or hate speech flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T19:46:29.910" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:46:29.910" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="28897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28899" CreationDate="2009-11-06T19:45:57.243" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a post of mine (now deleted) was unfairly flagged. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22174/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work-in-stackoverflow/22175#22175&quot;&gt;guidelines on flagging a post&lt;/a&gt; clearly state that it should only be used for something which qualifies as hate speech or abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mentioned quite clearly in the comments on the post (when it had been flagged twice) that it was &lt;em&gt;a joke referring to a line in a film&lt;/em&gt; (and hence not intended as abuse). Unfortunately for me I didn't realize that I ran the risk of losing 100 rep, as I would have just deleted the post at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm now 100 points to the bad: tough luck, or is there some procedure of appeal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:52:35.297" Title="Do I have the right of appeal after losing rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="28899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28897" CreationDate="2009-11-06T19:52:35.297" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to answer your question in two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email the team (See link at bottom of the page). They may be willing to restore your rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100 rep is not a big deal in the long run. Hopefully this was a learning experience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:52:35.297" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T19:55:49.770" Score="1" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would like jobs.stackoverflow.com to have the ability to tag/group by technologies. Existing browse feature requires me to click on each one before seeing whether it's PHP, .NET, Java, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, this could be extended to feature or ignore based on my SO settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T19:55:49.770" Title="Jobs: Search / Tag by Technology" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;&lt;organization&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T20:23:20.963" Score="9" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29665/careers-internationally&quot;&gt;Careers internationally&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm considering paying and posting my CV via careers SO. I'm just wondering how much international audience the site has or will get? The success of the careers database wins or falls depending on a certain &lt;strong&gt;critical mass&lt;/strong&gt;. This is also depends on the country itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure we get to this mass in a country as the U.S.A., but how is it with the different European countries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it, for instance, be possible to see &lt;em&gt;how many CV's there are in Careers SO per country&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that in a country where I live (The Netherlands), general recruiters will not look for stack overflow careers, because there are a lot of generic job websites where people leave their CV. But for those 5-10% real software development companies that really search for the quality it may be a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;honey pot&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T20:23:20.963" ClosedDate="2009-11-13T23:53:42.607" Title="How international are the SO careers CV entries?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28867" CreationDate="2009-11-06T20:36:03.940" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.alibaba.com/photo/10276575/Ring%5FOctagon%5FUltimate%5FFighting.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Octagon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm Ready.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T20:36:03.940" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-06T20:58:37.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+2  for THE sheets from Joels presentation. They are all I can show my girlfriend and kids to tell what I did on Monday. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T20:58:37.627" />
  <row Id="28905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T21:06:54.600" Score="7" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to do a translation of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; when I noticed that it contained &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/32361&quot;&gt;a question with answers from serverfault&lt;/a&gt; as a reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is pretty cool. Does anybody know of other uses in Wikipedia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-21T23:06:07.130" LastActivityDate="2010-12-21T23:06:07.130" Title="Answers from the Trilogy as references in Wikipedia" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;wikipedia&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28905" CreationDate="2009-11-06T21:13:35.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you do a wikipedia search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;amp;search=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;fulltext=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; you can see that there are several articles that cite StackOverflow.com as a reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Slowloris article seems to be the only mention of Serverfault, and there seems to be no mention of SuperUser.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Excluding the articles that are about the sites themselves)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T21:13:35.380" />
  <row Id="28907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28852" CreationDate="2009-11-06T21:14:22.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to see the POV of people who are &lt;strong&gt;experienced&lt;/strong&gt; in the subjects presented here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when you search google for something programming related, you don't even know how to start, don't even know the needed keywords to search for your problem/question. But in SO people can understand you because they &lt;strong&gt;lived&lt;/strong&gt; what you're asking. You can have practical advice in lot of ways - and vice versa. Questions and answer here inspire &lt;strong&gt;trust&lt;/strong&gt; most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding this subjective factor with an objective one - the plataform is simple, non-intrusive and fast - is just a killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, another motivation I found in using SO is to improve my english since it isn't my first language, and since I'm a developer, I would benefit myself twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T21:14:22.353" />
  <row Id="28908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26964" CreationDate="2009-11-06T21:17:20.587" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just think this should be in the faq somehow. This kind of behavior should be transparent to new users in my opinion - if you don't agree, don't post. I think users have the right to know what you're planning to do with their data - or a jQuery box saying &quot;this link is going to be SOfied. Click here for more information&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I do believe some other information about the system should be in the faq and not &quot;dispersed&quot; here in meta. Is there any plan to complement the faq?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T21:17:20.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-06T21:17:20.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28920" CreationDate="2009-11-06T21:36:39.507" Score="0" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recollect hearing Jeff/Joel say in one of the podcasts that their primary use case when designing Stack Overflow was someone typing a question into Google, seeing a Stack Overflow page as the first hit, clicking on the link, and getting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm saying this at work an awful lot lately, that as website designers this is the most important workflow for our customers. We know from our traffic analytics that this is what is happening, but not everybody has internalized what this means in turns of site design. I'm attributing this to Jeff/Joel, but I'm not sure I'm remembering this correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone help me find this quote?  A search of the transcript Wiki hasn't turned it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7920" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T15:53:47.533" Title="Quote about Google being primary use case for Stack Overflow design" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="28910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-06T21:44:12.330" Score="5" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did You ever refrain from clicking 'This is a great comment' just becase you think that it is not that great, but you still find it valuable? I think that if this hint was 'this is useful comment', I would click it more. Do you have this feeling too or is it just me? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138198" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T01:08:11.710" Title="'This is a great comment' - why this hint?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28910" CreationDate="2009-11-06T21:53:11.707" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced that we need to soften that language. If the language makes you not want to click, then I say don't. I don't know that we need to encourage zillions of comment upvotes unnecessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if you think the comment is great, click it. If you don't, don't. If you feel the comment is useful, but not quite up to great standards, but you still want to click it ... Go right ahead. Not gonna hurt anybody in any event. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And who knows, your vote might the one which pushes someone into a Pundit badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T21:53:11.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-06T22:07:09.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people said enough in this post about the presentations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I really liked was the &lt;strong&gt;interaction&lt;/strong&gt; with other developers: I met some guys from Germany (who were horribly late because they didn't know about the famous Dutch traffic jams) who were surprised that milk was served during Lunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also met other people who developed iphone applications and they talked about how their work is different from mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That open atmosphere is something that I really appreciated and was something that was also the intention of the DevDays. That and getting those trilogy stickers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T22:07:09.417" />
  <row Id="28915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28910" CreationDate="2009-11-06T22:17:43.453" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The verbiage : &lt;code&gt;This is a Great Comment&lt;/code&gt; is used because &lt;code&gt;+1 Insightful&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;+1 Funny&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;+1 Interesting&lt;/code&gt; were taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T22:17:43.453" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28867" CreationDate="2009-11-06T23:25:49.447" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Super User question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/49883/list&quot;&gt;Change MAC Address&lt;/a&gt; showed an edit by you that was nothing more than adding in blank lines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feeling that this was just an abuse of your edit level, as it's something that you do often and others have seen you do a lot (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28126/what-does-1-tview-mean-closed&quot; title=&quot;blank. blank. blank.&quot;&gt;prime example/offense noted in these comments&lt;/a&gt;), it was flagged for that highlighted reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diago then stepped in and issued the warning and locked down the entire question. Perhaps it would have been better had he just locked down your answer instead. Wanted to upvote his comment, but being locked, wasn't able to. It was a stern, to the point, and clear comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, it's hard to see how with you having an answer posted and then you bumping up the question for no good reason didn't seem like serving your own self-interest in trying to attract more upvotes on your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T23:25:49.447" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28919" CreationDate="2009-11-06T23:41:13.380" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is rather odd. For some reason, my answer all of a sudden became community wiki. In the history of the page is says so that I did, but I wouldn't even know how to, so I'm pretty sure I didn't. How can I see who did this and, more importantly, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider the answer a valid answer and the question a valid question (clear, not subjective etc). The question itself is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; community wiki and in this case, nor should the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I (or someone else) change this back? It's all about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1658871/pretending-net-strings-are-value-type/1658914#1658914&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T23:50:34.157" Title="Why did my answer become community wiki, history says I did that, but I didn't" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;oddities&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28917" CreationDate="2009-11-06T23:44:00.613" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the last question: It can't be undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1658914/list&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt; history, it seems that it was automatically made a wiki after the 10th edit, which is how the system is intended to work. After a certain amount of edits answers and questions are automatically made CW. This is the nature of the trilogy. This is documented in the FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-06T23:50:34.157" LastActivityDate="2009-11-06T23:50:34.157" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28909" CreationDate="2009-11-07T00:17:14.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are a few mentions. There are many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W29036&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 46&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So your web search engine; I mean one of the things we'll, we talk about all the time is how our very original design is: the way StackOverflow works is, you go to your favorite search engine, you type a question, you hit enter, and then you find the result [in StackOverflow], and that is the most important use case of StackOverflow; things that are already in there. And after you've seen three or four of those, you notice they're all coming up on this site called StackOverflow, you might say &quot;Hey, I wonder what else is going on here&quot;, and, you may not ask questions on there, for a while, you may participate, you may just sort of look around, you may kind of hang out and, and what we want is the home page to be just some sort of interesting questions, where you can learn some interesting kind of stuff. -- Joel Spolsky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24218&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 19&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The beta does not in any way solve the people who come to the site, because the beta is invisible to Google, so our most common use case which is gonna be somebody types a question into Google and the answer happens to be on StackOverflow is not even being tested in the beta. We don't even have that kind of audience. -- Joel Spolsky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T15:53:47.533" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T15:53:47.533" />
  <row Id="28921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28910" CreationDate="2009-11-07T01:08:11.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could try to apply the same logic to the upvote and downvote buttons. Sometimes I want to upvote an answer, but It's not useful but it's something else :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T01:08:11.710" />
  <row Id="28922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-07T01:37:16.727" Score="-7" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've met a few very nice people on SO, I've got some decent answers to some moderate questions and I've even seen one or two truly smart questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't get though is why this site attracts so many blockwarts, so many narrow-minded people who will immediately downvote and close a question if it is a little more complex than your average how-to-mysql-query-dishwasher-to-asp.net-my-coffee and scream &lt;code&gt;THISS MUSS BE COMMUNITY WIKI!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138554" LastEditorUserId="44765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T03:44:26.903" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T09:06:43.457" Title="Why are there so many blockwarts on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;rant&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28922" CreationDate="2009-11-07T01:51:20.913" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you give some examples of questions that were handled unfairly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T01:51:20.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36555" CreationDate="2009-11-07T02:11:01.253" Score="26" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if each user's profile page showed what previous names that user had recently used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-01T15:24:58.260" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T09:57:21.820" Title="Keep short history of user display names" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-07T02:35:04.830" Score="2" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does &amp;ldquo;Reputation&amp;rdquo; work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to search for this and apologise if I've missed it, but I can't find the exact scoring table for reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, 2 for asking, 10 for correct answer, 1 for upvote, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again apologies because I'm sure it's here somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-31T19:02:29.467" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T19:02:29.467" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T06:58:57.660" Title="Where exactly is the reputation scoring table?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28925" CreationDate="2009-11-07T02:40:50.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;. Currently they are all the same, but in theory at least I believe the reputation gains (and losses) could be different between the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T02:40:50.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-07T02:53:11.723" />
  <row Id="28927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-07T03:12:43.447" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1691736/what-is-an-exciting-area-of-database-research&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow. It solicits some ideas for a project from the community. People have already started providing some great resources and ideas and I really want to give back to them. Obviously, the best thing I can do for a user is to accept their answer, but this is the type of question that does not have a well-defined answer. It seems to me there are three options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept whichever answer gets the&#xA;most upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept the answer with the idea I&#xA;end up going with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not accept any answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is the community-approved course of action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I realize this question is also of the &quot;ill-defined&quot; type (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s%5Fparadox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Russell&lt;/a&gt; must be laughing somewhere). Therefore, I think I'm going to go with consensus on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138595" LastEditorUserId="138595" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T10:07:34.900" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T10:07:34.900" Title="How to accept answers for questions with no well-defined answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="28928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28922" CreationDate="2009-11-07T03:41:17.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are well over one million questions and answers on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find that only a few answers and questions are 'worthy' of your attention, and only one or two are 'truly smart' then, taking a wild guess, I'm thinking this site doesn't meet your needs, and you may need to look elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this is a user defined community full of humans.  To get much out of it you're going to have to filter everything to some degree, and let the water roll off your back rather than getting irritated at what you find annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T03:41:17.067" />
  <row Id="28930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28927" CreationDate="2009-11-07T03:51:48.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Few problems with that question (Great question, by the way):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has no answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The FAQ says, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It requires discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What can be authoritatively the 'right' answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of all these things, your question should be community wiki; and the answer is whatever you think is the best answer, or the one you end up going with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T03:51:48.807" />
  <row Id="28931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28922" CreationDate="2009-11-07T03:53:27.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I don't get though is why this site attracts so many blockwarts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get that either. But then, I don't know what a &quot;blockwart&quot; is. According to my dictionary, it's German slang for what we'd call a &quot;rat&quot;, &quot;snitch&quot; or &quot;narc&quot; here in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of self-absorbed jackasses who think the world of their own writing, even in the face of criticism. They tend to have a hard time on SO, where criticism - both the constructive and the brutally harsh varieties - is plentiful, and where most rules regarding acceptable content are enforced by the people themselves rather than by administrators or moderators. If you're referring to such people, and specifically to their tendency to go crying to the site admins when their feelings get hurt, then I can sympathize with your frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if that &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; what you are referring to, then the rest of your question makes no sense whatsoever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T03:53:27.960" />
  <row Id="28932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28934" CreationDate="2009-11-07T04:02:24.420" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wondering what the upper limits are.  I'm guessing 32 bit signed integers for speed, but I suspect someone knows off the top of their head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without some testing, though, we wouldn't be able to determine if the code for the site handles overflows gracefully, which would turn a 2 billion rep (and change) into a negative 2 billion rep (again, assuming 32 bit signed integer).  If this assumption is correct, then we only have another 22,000 years or so before Jon Skeet overflows, so a swift answer and action is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the storage format/space/type for rep and votes for a question/answer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T18:39:13.730" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T18:39:13.730" Title="How is the vote and rep stored in the DB?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28927" CreationDate="2009-11-07T04:03:08.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not accept any answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That.&lt;/strong&gt; You're asking something that cannot be answered with anything other than a statement of personal taste. Personally, I find nearly everything database-related to be painfully dull; an &quot;exciting&quot; area would be one that doesn't put me to sleep in the first five minutes of discussion. But everyone has their own preferences, and a good many people find a good many things exciting that neither you nor I would ever give a second glance... Unfortunately, that means whatever answer you &quot;accept&quot; will undoubtedly be seen as a poor choice by a fair chunk of readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead, why not leave it entirely up to the readers! Don't mark an answer, just let the votes determine the ranking. In order for this to work effectively, you should really encourage Community Wiki answers - it's a bit late now, but if you flag down a Moderator, they'll be able to help you out with it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28927/how-to-accept-answers-for-questions-with-no-well-defined-answer/28930#28930&quot;&gt;As George notes&lt;/a&gt;, CW is a good idea anyway, since this question is a bit outside the realm of what SO was designed for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T04:03:08.957" />
  <row Id="28934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28932" CreationDate="2009-11-07T04:20:52.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, votes for a given post aren't stored as a value that gets incremented/decremented in the same table as the post itself.  Votes are stored in a separate table, and are associated with a post via a foreign key.  So every vote you cast is actually a separate record in a table in the DB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm basing all this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt;, which is based on the data dump, so it could easily be wrong given that the source is twice removed from the actual database that the site runs on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T04:20:52.110" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28481" CreationDate="2009-11-07T04:23:17.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're able to choose exactly which section of your CV are published publicly via the '&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/publish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;change how it is published&lt;/a&gt;' link at the top of the public view tab. I've used it to make my personal statement private from public viewers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this what you were referring to, or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T04:23:17.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28927" CreationDate="2009-11-07T04:53:05.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general rule of thumb: If the question is not suited for a Q&amp;amp;A format it's off topic on SO and it might better be discussed elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by definition the problem cannot occur for questions that should be asked on SO ;-). But since people sometimes are determined to &lt;em&gt;discuss&lt;/em&gt; things here anyway, it has become custom to at least make those discussions Community Wiki, since Community Wiki threads are &quot;not that serious&quot;. For example you can down-vote CW posts without costing anybody (neither yourself, nor the posts author(s)) rep. So voting is more liberal and accepting as well - after all there might not be a &quot;real&quot; answer to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end it comes down to the same as for any other question: Accept the answer that the most gave you what you were looking for when you asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T04:53:05.173" />
  <row Id="28938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28948" CreationDate="2009-11-07T04:54:17.073" Score="6" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like StackOverflow Careers' #1 claim to fame is that it is associated with your StackOverflow profile and lets hiring managers use that as a signal of who is a quality developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, how active of a user of StackOverflow do you need to be for that to be a significant benefit? I assume if your reputation is 1 and you've never answered a question it is pointless. At what point is it worth it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;50 reputation (about the top 34k SO users)? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100 reputation (top 25k)? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;500 reputation (top 10k)? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(SO has about 100k users at this time, so you can replace k with % if you want)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138597" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T14:51:22.170" Title="How much reputation do you need to be worth using Careers.Stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="28939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28938" CreationDate="2009-11-07T04:57:20.500" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point, no one knows. I'd &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; to think that a competent employer would look at the content of a user's questions and answers, rather than going by accumulated reputation... But there's really no guarantee of this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time will tell...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T04:57:20.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28932" CreationDate="2009-11-07T06:08:09.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does this matter? If it becomes a problem I hear there is this &lt;code&gt;ALTER COLUMN&lt;/code&gt; statement that fixes things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T06:08:09.403" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-07T06:15:49.970" Score="3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we add a new badge (silver): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regular voter&lt;/strong&gt;: Voted at least once every week for 20 weeks in a row. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This helps make sure people vote regularly and is somewhat more powerful than the Civic Duty badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T20:16:31.200" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T20:16:31.200" Title="Idea: regular voter badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28941" CreationDate="2009-11-07T06:27:25.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another vote related badge is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28581/stackoverflow-tidy-up-day/28788#28788&quot;&gt;set to come rolling out of the SO factory&lt;/a&gt; in the who knows when future:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28581/stackoverflow-tidy-up-day/28788#28788&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/51d623f33f8b83095db84ff35e15dbe8?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;Jeff Atwood&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   Plus, we already have Civic Duty, and another badge related to voting that I haven't rolled out yet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T06:27:25.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28938" CreationDate="2009-11-07T08:24:25.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it is that key... I &lt;em&gt;imagine&lt;/em&gt; employers would look more at things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;are you in the right area (or willing to relocate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do you have the right skills / interests&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then &lt;em&gt;within&lt;/em&gt; that I'd hope that &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; you associate your account, they choose to look at some of your answers. And any other (you-specific) external references you link to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder whether some numbers might actually be a warning sign to some employers (who don't understand that some geeks use a computer &lt;strong&gt;outside&lt;/strong&gt; of work time...). Fortunately, that isn't a problem, as I'm not in a hurry to work for such PHBs ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T08:24:25.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28941" CreationDate="2009-11-07T09:15:04.790" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but then people will ask for a Republican badge, which will lead to the inevitable Ron Paul badge...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T09:15:04.790" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="28945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28941" CreationDate="2009-11-07T09:17:47.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That badge should be reserved for users who log in and vote under multiple accounts on the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T09:17:47.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28922" CreationDate="2009-11-07T09:32:19.690" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me first update you all on the term &quot;Blockwarts&quot;. Blockwarts were one of the building blocks of Nazi Germany. Each city block (and every village) had an official Blockwart whose job it was to make sure nobody stepped out of line. These guys would send you to a concentration camp if they didn't like you. Today, they are usually depicted as janitor types with an alcohol problem. Thus the term implies more than &quot;snitch&quot; or &quot;informer&quot;. It's a pretty bad insult. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's imagine a less drastic choice of words and let's also imagine that the OP is someone who knows the FAQ and has made some nice contributions to one of the sites. In that case, I'd say he's got a point. I find it astonishing just how upset people can get when they see &quot;their&quot; sites misused, even if the misuse is minor. Of course, this doesn't only affect Stack Overflow, the classical example are the discussions about page deletion on Wikipedia. After a while, it seems, you get a certain crowd of people with a pretty homogeneous view of the site's philosophy, with very little tolerance for beginners, and with hardly any ability to imagine change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is what you are trying to express, then my answer is: I don't know why, but you've got a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T09:06:43.457" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T09:06:43.457" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28938" CreationDate="2009-11-07T09:55:30.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where I work the developers are the hiring managers. I'm looking forward to the other side of the careers site opening up so we can officially begin using it. But we already have found several applicants through other channels that were willing to share their stackoverflow user details with us. It was really handy. One candidate had only asked 2 questions and answered one. Despite the small sample size we learned a lot about his communication skills. It wasn't enough to know that they had experience in every area we look for, but it still told us a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a while we have done C.V. reading exercises with traditional C.V.s where a group comes up with questions based off the C.V. It helps us with the early evaluation of the C.V. We are starting to do the same thing with stackoverflow. We're studying how to read a stackoverflow user and figure out what we would ask, what we like and don't like. It's early, but we're hoping it is a really helpful tool for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136061" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T09:55:30.880" />
  <row Id="28949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-07T10:20:30.810" Score="2" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which webserver does Stack Overflow use? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loads of people are here every day doing multiple things simultaneously and I think it's just the bee's knees as to how fast and blazing it is that I don't even have fingerprints anymore from the scorching speed of the server response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138604" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T11:26:09.797" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T13:33:21.240" ClosedDate="2009-11-07T12:44:46.997" Title="Stack Overflow uses what webserver?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;&lt;server&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28949" CreationDate="2009-11-07T10:21:51.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow use a MSSQL, dotnet architecture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142962" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T10:22:22.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28949" CreationDate="2009-11-07T10:29:12.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the HTTP response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T10:29:12.863" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26931" CreationDate="2009-11-07T11:32:29.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OpenId is Weave is being phased out and replaced by a separate plugin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the draft: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Identity/Account%5FManager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Identity/Account%5FManager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T11:32:29.377" />
  <row Id="28956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28949" CreationDate="2009-11-07T12:14:51.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;meta stack overflow runs on iis 7.0, asp.net mvc, ms sql...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T13:33:21.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28564" CreationDate="2009-11-07T13:11:55.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel just twittered a link to the &quot;When Choice is Demotivating&quot; study: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/fFxrm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/fFxrm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T13:11:55.887" />
  <row Id="28959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-07T13:08:51.297" Score="0" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any one knows the kind of wiki system Stackoverflow uses? Or any recommendations for the best wikis out there that can do a decent job like stackoverflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Merci dank&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T13:14:56.323" Title="What Wiki system does Stackoverflow use?" Tags="&lt;wiki&gt;&lt;mediawiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="28960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28959" CreationDate="2009-11-07T13:10:53.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's something developed from the ground up to support StackOverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T13:14:56.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28959" CreationDate="2009-11-07T13:13:29.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can create your own version of the StackOverflow site, customized with your own site name, domain, colours and text. It's as easy as signing up (for free) at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131045" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T13:14:56.323" />
  <row Id="28962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28959" CreationDate="2009-11-07T13:13:37.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the nuts and bolts. Stackoverflow is very different to a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147557" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T13:14:56.323" />
  <row Id="28963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26152" CreationDate="2009-11-07T14:30:16.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For years I have publically published the hourly bill rate I am looking for as a contractor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a negotiating problem, because I am publishing the bill rate I want, not my prior bill rates.  I'm confident my rate is in the right ballpark as I've been contracting for quite a while and published both too low and too high rates over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary reason I do this is to reduce spam.  I don't want to hear from potential employers who are not willing/interested in paying my desired bill rate.  It is a waste of my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can publically publish your desired bill rate/salary on Careers by using one of the free form fields available to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hard question for people who take my approach is: how do I know what I'm worth?  My answer is trial and error.  I also spend time talking to recruiters about what they are seeing for rates (always taking it with a grain of salt).  There are &quot;ceilings&quot;, but they are not absolute and you can fight through them over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134955" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T14:30:16.273" />
  <row Id="28964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-07T15:14:52.417" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Firefox 3.0.15 on Ubuntu Jaunty. Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;start posting or editing a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the Hyperlink button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; type your URL (but you may hit Ctrl+V)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hit Tab, then Enter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect focus to shift to the OK button, then Enter would press that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, focus goes to the Tags field (in the gray background) and Enter causes my (still incomplete) question to be submitted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: If I type something in the box, the problem goes away. If I paste something (my usual course of action), the problem &lt;em&gt;does not&lt;/em&gt; go away. With this new insight, I'm blaming it on the browser. Sorry to bother you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135110" LastEditorUserId="135110" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T15:21:43.683" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T15:21:43.683" Title="Tab order on Hyperlink box is wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="28965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60801" CreationDate="2009-11-07T16:01:45.933" Score="4" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to list users by reputation gained within the last &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; days/weeks? If not, could one be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit post-reading back/reading comments and realising I sound terrifyingly like a stalker&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm mostly interested because most SO users are way ahead of me, which makes the competitive aspects of SO a bit less fun. A daily reputation scoresheet would level the playing field somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T05:16:48.697" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T18:17:53.793" Title="Daily Reputation Statistics" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="28967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37337" CreationDate="2009-11-07T17:34:51.260" Score="4" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bbug%5D+%5Bmarkdown%5D+italics&quot;&gt;reported yet&lt;/a&gt;, so here it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT: Short version&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some markdown is allowed in post comments, but it doesn't behave the same way as in questions/answers (doesn't even share the same bugs!). Imo, this comments-markdown should behave equally, esp. because most of us cannot edit comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Full version&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you write the following markup in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;About *this*: tell me, what's this?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;nbsp;Or: &lt;code&gt;About _this_: tell me, what's this?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;nbsp;Or: &lt;code&gt;About *this*: tell me, what's *this*?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;nbsp;Or: &lt;code&gt;About *This*IsIt!&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it will not render correctly, but looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;About *this*: tell me, what's this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Or: About this_: tell me, what's this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Or: About &lt;em&gt;this*: tell me, what's *this&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Or: About *This*IsIt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while this is expected (and works on questions and answers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;About &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;: tell me, what's this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Or: About &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;: tell me, what's this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Or: About &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;: tell me, what's &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Or: About &lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt;IsIt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you end with a comma, dot, exclamation mark, question mark or space, it will render correctly. It goes wrong with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;colon&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;semi-colon&lt;/strong&gt;, any &lt;strong&gt;alphabetic character&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. I haven't tried other combinations yet. Same goes wrong for bold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1691575/what-orm-for-net-should-i-use/1693004#1693004&quot;&gt;the second comment to this answer&lt;/a&gt;, fixed it with a space. I have this quite often and find myself deleting and resubmitting. Can this be fixed the same way it works with normal posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T05:24:24.590" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T05:24:24.590" Title="Problems with Markdown in Post Comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="28972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28965" CreationDate="2009-11-07T18:25:24.943" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If competition is your thing, you can redefine the goalposts to make it more fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined SO near the beginning, but didn't really become active until about June. I decided to compete by tracking &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=8&quot;&gt;my page number&lt;/a&gt; every so often and see how it moved up. Even though my rep was low, I took satisfaction from seeing myself move from page 120, up to page 100, past page 50 and so on. I don't think I have ever hit the daily rep cap (so getting a badge for this would be really cool), but I've come close, and I definitely enjoy waking up to see my score higher (&lt;em&gt;&quot;I got rep in my sleep! I'm a super-hero!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd definitely get a kick out of seeing more stats, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/data-dump&quot;&gt;data dumps&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=stackql&quot;&gt;stackql&lt;/a&gt; makes it so anyone can generate a lot of these stats ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-05T18:17:53.793" LastActivityDate="2010-10-05T18:17:53.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28974" CreationDate="2009-11-07T18:26:40.200" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there currently a feature that allows one to search by rep? Say, if I wanted to find all posts by users with &amp;lt;= 50 rep and with 0 votes, can this be done with the current search engine architecture? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T18:39:03.423" Title="Searching by Poster's Rep" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="28974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28973" CreationDate="2009-11-07T18:39:03.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is content-driven. You can search for questions with 0 votes, but not for users. But you can search the posts of a specific user. Have a look &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T18:39:03.423" />
  <row Id="28975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28965" CreationDate="2009-11-07T19:19:13.210" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that a &lt;em&gt;daily&lt;/em&gt; score-sheet would be a bit too volatile - and would also act slightly strangely due to different time zones (i.e. when people actually post vs the UTC day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd be in favour of a weekly or monthly &quot;league&quot; - I'd find that interesting, certainly. It's been suggested before, however, and the tag stats were put in place partly as an alternative. I don't remember Jeff being &lt;em&gt;particularly&lt;/em&gt; against it, but I don't think he was overly wild about the idea either. At the time, I think the overall leaders were much the same as the &quot;recent history&quot; leaders - but that may well have changed since the idea was originally suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, care to run some tests and see whether it's actually any more interesting than just being a copy of the first page? (The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;&quot;no tag&quot; stats page&lt;/a&gt; gives the last month, so we can all see that. That only shows votes rather than rep though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-07T21:56:55.447" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T21:56:55.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28978" CreationDate="2009-11-07T20:40:20.093" Score="1" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I get a customized RSS-feed in Stack Overflow, based on &quot;interested&quot; and &quot;ignore&quot; tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T13:42:08.307" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T15:12:35.237" Title="Can I get a customized RSS-feed?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28977" CreationDate="2009-11-07T20:43:56.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use Yahoo &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pipes&lt;/a&gt; to build it yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T20:46:03.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-11-07T23:01:30.823" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The proposed change might roughen the pleasant atmosphere I associate with Stackoverflow.  So here's my 3 cents against increasing the penalty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's good to know what's &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; is as well as what's &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt;.  An increased penalty will cause more wrong answers to be removed, along with the comments explaining why it's a wrong answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some answers are controversial. They are not wrong, or unhelpful, but they still get a lot of downvotes.  Increasing the penalty would discourage people from expressing what they really think.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quality of information is ensured by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/models/loops.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;negative feedback loop&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Negative feedbacks tend to dampen or&#xA;  buffer changes; this tends to hold a&#xA;  system to some equilibrium state&#xA;  making it more stable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By increasing the penalty, the constant in the feedback loop changes from 0.2 (one upvote = 5 downvotes) to 0.5 (one upvote = 2 downvotes.)  This 150% increase will remove the &quot;feedback&quot; nature of downvotes.  Downvotes will be a smack in the face rather than a gentle push in the right direction. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People will be very upset if you lower their reputation retroactively.  It's like saying &quot;a penalty kick is now worth 7.5 instead of 3 points&quot; and reordering the rankings at the end of the Rugby year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T23:01:30.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-07T23:01:30.823" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28999" CreationDate="2009-11-07T23:08:42.073" Score="33" ViewCount="556" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who were &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1765/whos-going-to-devdays/18349#18349&quot;&gt;sitting at home crying&lt;/a&gt;. Could we see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20214/funny-devdays-intro-video-ideas&quot;&gt;intro video&lt;/a&gt; that was used at DevDays?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T03:19:29.747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T03:19:29.747" Title="Could we see the intro video that was used in the DevDays?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;video&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="28985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28984" CreationDate="2009-11-07T23:44:17.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found this very very average copy on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3slPNJdbF4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; - you can't see much but at least you can hear it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137466" LastActivityDate="2009-11-07T23:44:17.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35110" CreationDate="2009-11-08T01:21:36.450" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has probably been reported already, but still, the k on the number of views for thousands isn't displaying properly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9762/picture5me.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, pretty sure that that's not intentional. The k should probably be on the same line as the 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T01:27:14.070" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T23:37:47.397" Title="Bug with Display of Thousand Views on MSO" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28986" CreationDate="2009-11-08T01:26:59.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, this is intentional. This is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14581/100-thousand-views-or-more-thousand-comes-below-views&quot;&gt;recent change&lt;/a&gt; to accommodate over 100,000 views on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T01:26:59.983" />
  <row Id="28988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T01:35:05.927" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand, one of the main reasons of being able to edit answers is to keep them up-to-date as technology changes. However, it seems as if while this is a goal, it's not being done very well (possibly because the sites are still relatively new, but also because no one wants to dig up new answers to questions that people don't have anymore).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my suggestion: Allow certain members* to mark old** answers as up-to-date. For every 100*** they mark up-to-date or edit, they earn a badge. As well, the answer is marked with a tagline at the bottom that reads something along the lines of &lt;code&gt;Is Up-to-date As of January 1, 2010&lt;/code&gt; or whatever the date that it was marked happens to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Personally, I'm not sure that this should be done solely by rep, because someone who has high rep and experience in C might come in and change an answer that seems like it's outdated, but the answer in this language (ex. Java) doesn't need changing for reason X. So maybe base it off of tag badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**Maybe a couple of months because some technology changes quickly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;***Or another number based on data&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T01:38:34.170" Title="Keeping Answers Up-to-Date - A Suggestion" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="28989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28988" CreationDate="2009-11-08T01:38:34.170" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It already exists by way of comments to the answers as they are that they're out-of-date or by the downvote and a new answer pointing out the now up-to-date version/method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the other badge for editing, Strunk &amp;amp; White.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the end the suggestion sounds like endless touching (read: bumping) of questions/answers that will also need to be touched in the future again anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T01:38:34.170" />
  <row Id="28990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28080" CreationDate="2009-11-08T01:43:04.160" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is part of the Yahoo Geo DB. I mailed the team to see if we can change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: the thing is that the geo API in this case needs to get the lang attribute with a value of &quot;fi&quot; to display this correctly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138631" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T10:09:18.583" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T10:09:18.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="28992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T02:47:04.627" Score="0" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like the Stack Overflow Careers really requires you to participate in Stack Overflow and related sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better if it also pulled in other things like mailing list participation, open source project participation etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Ohloh tracks all kinds off stuff that would be useful to a recruiter. For example here is the Ohloh profile of Stefan Küng, who works on TortoiseSVN&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Stefan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Stefan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see all the projects he contributed to as well as the languages he contributed in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of that relevant experience would be great if brought into Stack Overflow Careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134589" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:08:02.000" Title="How about adding more outside data to Stack Overflow Careers CVs?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="28993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21575" CreationDate="2009-11-08T03:06:40.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just suffered a similar &quot;storm of downvotes&quot; myself, in the space of one-two minutes about an hour ago -- &quot;just&quot; nine of them, in my case, not twenty like Philippe had, but similarly &quot;random fury&quot; (the downvoter hit several of my questions and a random-ish sample of my answers).  I will patiently wait for the cleansing script to run, and hope the script in question doesn't have a threshold of ten to identify &quot;sabotage downvotes&quot;!-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130042" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T03:06:40.220" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="28994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T04:16:50.830" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Recent Questions&quot; list is useless every time &quot;Bill the Lizard&quot; goes on one of his editing sprees. Editing (and closing) questions should not bump them onto the &quot;recent&quot; list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138636" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T04:37:04.660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T16:00:49.033" Title="Closes / Edits Should Not Bump Questions on &quot;Recent&quot; List" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="28995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T04:19:25.067" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16681/show-required-tags-when-asking-a-question-on-meta&quot;&gt;Show required tags when asking a question on Meta&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really annoying that the submission form on Meta throws an error when you use it, informing you that one of various tags must be included (unless you psychically know ahead of time and use one). The mandatory tags should be listed up front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138636" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T04:38:07.827" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T04:38:07.827" ClosedDate="2009-11-08T07:04:19.463" Title="Meta Submission Form Should Disclose Tag Requirement" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;warning&gt;" />
  <row Id="28996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T05:45:15.193" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to store the questions/answers I deem important and informative within my &quot;portfolio&quot; on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine a Stack Overflow where you can quickly peek in your portfolio to recall that awesome collection of responses related to a given class of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should not be too complicated, just another entry in the database associated with my user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140218" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T08:25:23.577" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T08:51:56.627" Title="Way to keep track of all the questions and answers I find important/informative" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="28997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28996" CreationDate="2009-11-08T05:46:37.670" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a favoriting feature for questions; just click the star under the voting arrows to the left of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134792" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T05:47:48.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="28999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28984" CreationDate="2009-11-08T07:19:08.313" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked Joel to post it, but he's hesitant for some reason...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T07:19:08.313" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26536" CreationDate="2009-11-08T08:16:56.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, this review is a little late... but better late than never. I'll go in order like everyone else:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;No breakfast&lt;/b&gt; - There weren't any large banners or friendly greeters for the conference but we found it. The website and e-mail we received for the conference indicated there would be breakfast but all we found was coffee. We had to run down the street and visit a Safeway to grab something to eat. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Keynote by Joel&lt;/b&gt; - The videos and his speech were very good and exciting. Joel is a great speaker and seems like a great leader. His general message of &quot;elegant design&quot; was spot on although it's been done before. My fellow developer (Tyler Allen) commented that he saw a similar presentation with the exact same design screen shot examples when we went to Adobe MAX a few weeks earlier. Still great though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Python with Mark Harrison&lt;/b&gt; - I've been really interested in Python and Mark showed a single screen of code that implemented a spell checker. I thought it pretty obfuscated and hard to understand by itself but luckily he expanded each line of code into a more readable format and I think everyone was able to follow along. Personally, I felt the code was kind of a brute force approach to spell checking but if it worked why use something more complicated? It just goes to show how fast computers have become where we're able to generate such huge sets of data in memory and throw them away. I enjoyed his presentation and wish he would have had time for more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;IPhone with Rory Blyth&lt;/b&gt; - This was an eye opening presentation. We're a Windows shop but have been looking forward to moving to the Apple platform and dabbling in IPhone applications. Honestly, after seeing what it took to create such a simple application in XCode we were kind of shocked. Simple things like hooking up button click events required dragging and dropping lines from the code file to the controls and then adding further code on the back end to actually implement the events. It may be that we're just spoiled with Visual Studio but the development process seemed pretty horrible and un-intuitive (very non-Apple like). After the XCode example he launched MonoTouch (which we didn't even know existed) and created the same application with a lot less hassle. Very cool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lunch&lt;/b&gt; - The lunch and snacks for the event were pretty good. They had a large variety of Boudin lunches (sourdough sandwiches), cookies, fruit, soft drinks, etc. We sat out in the hall and sat next to Jeff Atwood and Mark Harrison while they were eating lunch. It was interesting to hear Jeff talk about some caching issues with SQL Server queries that I've run into in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;FogBugz with Joel&lt;/b&gt; - I missed this presentation because I was outside getting a demo of the FogBugz software. It's a nice system and we've been attempting to work it into our workflow since visiting the conference.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;ASP.Net MVC with Scott Hanselman&lt;/b&gt; - Scott was a fun presenter. He seemed to poke fun at himself and Microsoft a lot. He acknowledged a lot of the problems and missing features of their MVC framework and while I don't think he converted anyone away from Django or Ruby on Rails he may have pointed out that their MVC framework is a good step up from the standard ASP.Net forms model.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stack Overflow with Jeff Atwood&lt;/b&gt; - I wish his presentation was longer and that he would have answered more questions. Everyone was really interested in the Stack Overflow application (obviously) and more time should have been given to covering it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Qt with Daniel Rocha&lt;/b&gt; - I'm a long time reader of Slashdot and have heard a lot about Qt and Trolltech in the past. It seems like a major engineering feat to create a cross platform UI framework like Qt. Unfortunately, Nokia seems to have bought up the product and shoehorned it into creating mobile applications. The sample application he was showing off looked horrible compared to current IPhone or Android applications. I think half of the people in the room excused themselves and walked out because the presentation felt so much like an outdated sales pitch and just didn't feel relevant to the current market. Thumbs down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Android with James Yum&lt;/b&gt; - I thought James did okay considering he was only given 2 days notice to come up with his presentation. His examples seemed to highlight more of the problem of developing multi-threaded applications than Android applications but I think everyone got the idea. I see now why Apple locks down the IPhone platform so much. I did feel a little shortchanged by this presentation in general. James couldn't answer a lot of questions asked by the audience and seemed kind of inexperienced. I was glad to see that Google hires mortal developers and not just development gods with 30 years of experience and triple doctorates on their resume. It gives me hope that maybe one day I could apply there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;jQuery with Yehuda Katz&lt;/b&gt; - I was kind of disappointed in this presentation because it felt like an introduction to jQuery. I was hoping to learn some advanced techniques. About the only thing I gained from it was that the 1.4 release would let me reference the $(this) object for each element without having to do a .each() loop. Oh well, still a good primer for anyone without jQuery experience and a nice presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Overall, I thought the conference went very well and showcased a good number of technologies. I look forward to attending it again next year!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137608" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T08:16:56.010" />
  <row Id="29001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28996" CreationDate="2009-11-08T08:51:56.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be nice if I could view my favorites by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138411" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T08:51:56.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18793" CreationDate="2009-11-08T10:43:19.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edits to answers do in fact affect the Last Modified date, and always have!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;hot algorithm&lt;/a&gt; is weighted towards time; as the question gets older, it tends to fall off the hot list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this question is kind of .. completely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T10:43:19.657" />
  <row Id="29003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15767" CreationDate="2009-11-08T11:55:42.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is the right place to feedback on this, but I find the &quot;hide&quot;/&quot;ignore&quot; feature detracts from the overall high quality of the site: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it's done browser-side, users see the ignored questions flashing up briefly and then the list of questions collapses in on itself, leaving huge amounts of empty space at the bottom of the page, with a variable number of remaining questions shown that doesn't agree with the number the user chose to prefer. So: A waste of some bandwidth and a hit to the aesthetics and consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that it's a big priority, but I feel that at some point the &quot;ignore&quot; filtering should be moved to server side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138643" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T11:55:42.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T12:21:41.490" Score="9" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is more of a collection question for all the content you could enjoy at home from the devdays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you know of any videos then please post them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7094994&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays Intro Theme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7403673&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet and Tony the Pony&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7516539&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;higher quality&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7355062&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DevDays Cambridge: Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; (by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130027/perspx&quot;&gt;Perspx&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:16:32.057" Title="DevDays 2009 Reviews - Sitting at home crying" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;videos&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="29005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29004" CreationDate="2009-11-08T12:37:17.827" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Registration&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Smooth and quick. The line was short and the atmosphere was pleasant. It wasn't much to gauge from the sign up booths what was in store for the rest of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Venue&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Way too busy. Too much in the way of tables and not nearly enough chairs. A disproportionate ratio that favoured standing room only. Only it really wasn't that much to write home about. Easy access to the flushing toilets was a boon though. And it would prove to be very handy after all the running back and forth from the free bottled tap water on hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Lunch&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selection of fruit was high on acidity; kiwifruit, pineapple, plums and oranges balanced only by the apples and bananas. Though you really couldn't eat more than one serving of each without wanting to try another fruit altogether. Variety was like you'd find in the fridge. Crisp though, it certainly had that going for it. At least you could taste the freshness in the bite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Talks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly slim. By far a disappointment. One highlight though was the presenter, (blanking on their name) who showed us all how to split a banana into three ways. Extremely enlightening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Return?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For next year? Curiosity alone dictates a return to see if anything has improved or changed. Or if there will this time be speakers of note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Split a banana three ways&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Managed to get the slide used for the thricewise divvy of a banana and some notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Peel your banana as you normally would&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Bite off just a bit off the top to expose the veins of the banana central column. Looking down from the top you should see the gentle lines of three (3) divisions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Work your finger down the hole at the centre of the banana carefully. It will part naturally and evenly into three sections.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/11YW6.png&quot; alt=&quot;split a nana&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T15:26:01.923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T15:26:01.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29017" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:18:54.320" Score="10" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow probably needs a function to flag &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt;, not only questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tools/new-user-posts&quot;&gt;SO tools: new posts by recent users&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the few first pages, it appears that almost all new users are spam bots. It might be possible to counter this wave quite quickly but the general problem persists and marking their messages as spam rather than the user is a very indirect way to fight this massive amount of spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t know whether the answer given to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1323/flag-abusive-users&quot;&gt;question 1323&lt;/a&gt; applies here, since the situation is different: until now, the question was how to deal with disruptive &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt;, which are relatively few in number. Against bots, this clearly isn’t enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1968" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:41:12.380" Title="Function to flag users as spambots" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14581" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:19:01.590" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the mathematical notation? 1e5, 2e5 look quite good and I'm sure almost all programmers understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/9040/picture1cw.png&quot; alt=&quot;View counts are displayed as 2e5, 3e5, etc.&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastEditorUserId="132324" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T15:20:32.167" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T15:20:32.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29009" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:28:01.077" Score="9" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a couple of occasions where someone offered to pay me for completing their project or simply fix one bit.  Though I like money and who, I mean besides Bill Gates, couldn't use a little more, I'm not here to take on extra side projects.  I also don't want SO to become a freelance recruiting site.  It's supposed to be about programmers helping programmers in community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you respond if someone offers you money and you don't want to take on the project?  Under what conditions would you be willing to take on a project from a user at SO?  How would you respond in that case?   Is there a need for a projects site, similar to careers, where people with project needs could go to hire freelancers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T19:30:51.147" Title="How do you respond when someone offers to pay you on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;job-offers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29008" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:33:35.790" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's quite simple: Either you want to do it or you don't. If you want, leave a comment that tells the person how to get in touch with you. If you don't, leave a comment that you copy from the first paragraph of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T13:33:35.790" />
  <row Id="29010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29008" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:39:00.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No comment on your position, but this seems like an area where Jeff+Joel could carve some space. Thoughts Jeff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T13:39:00.337" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29006" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:41:37.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They seem to be new. I haven't noticed them yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But their pattern is quite clear, they create a new user profile with spam in the description field. Far down in the field are some keywords for search engines. They seem to post pseudo-technical answers to not be detected that fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of those users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206178/buspar-buy-online-in-stock&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206178/buspar-buy-online-in-stock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206177/levitra-diazepam&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206177/levitra-diazepam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206179/buy-levitra-fed-ex&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206179/buy-levitra-fed-ex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206181/viagra-versus-viagra&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/206181/viagra-versus-viagra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already run out of spam votes, we need some new tools to fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T13:41:37.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29008" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:45:04.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone offered money, it means you must be doing something really good on SO!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take it offline for further discussion/negotiation if you want, you should not feel 'bad' or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one will know if you got a deal from SO, unless of course someone post the information deliberately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T13:45:04.977" />
  <row Id="29013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28994" CreationDate="2009-11-08T13:51:52.200" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could argue that editing could be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; of a reason to bump&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;New&lt;/em&gt; posts have plenty of visibility. People evaluate, respond, and vote on new posts so they are thoroughly vetted by the community. Not so with older posts. Someone could easily change the context of a question to render everyone's answers incorrect. Or they could just be adding spam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You don't want content added to your system without people noticing.&lt;/strong&gt; Bumping edited posts is the primary way to assure that new content is visible to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; If something like this could be implemented (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10521/make-activity-description-in-activity-tab-more-descriptive&quot;&gt;Make Activity Description in ‘Activity’ Tab More Descriptive&lt;/a&gt;), at least you would know whether to bother looking at the recent &quot;activity.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T16:00:49.033" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T16:00:49.033" />
  <row Id="29014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29006" CreationDate="2009-11-08T14:05:23.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't use your spam flags, use mod attention and list the names. Or good old email. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team/moderators have to look at each account before removing them. If they got flags or emails to be informed, shouldn't make such a difference. If the team gets enough (too much) emails, they will take care about this problem with a new tool, I guess. Till then, use the tools you have. Don't let the spammers win!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T14:05:23.957" />
  <row Id="29015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28748" CreationDate="2009-11-08T14:10:25.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I've had a stab at trying this on the last (October 2009) public data set. I've ignored the SU and SF parts of the dump. The idea is to count how many of SO's questions you could conceivably answer, given your proficiency in each of the tags of that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I've scored all answers each user has given. 20 points go to it being the accepted answer, another 80 points are distributed over all answers to a question in relation to the answer's votes. This is not exactly the same as the reputation earned for that answer, since popular questions get a lot more up-votes to their answers, but in this analysis this isn't really worth much more than a good answer to an unpopular question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The points for all your answers are distributed over the tags with which the question is tagged. This gives each user a number of points for all tags. These points are converted into a &quot;proficiency&quot; that user has for this tag: &lt;code&gt;proficiency = 1 - exp(-points / 500)&lt;/code&gt;. So 1000 points (10 very good answers) gets you to 86%, more points will asymptotically get you to 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point you can compute the average proficiency over all tags for each user, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~wheirman/atuin/tmp/so%5Frep%5Ftp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this graph&lt;/a&gt; for the average tag proficiency versus reputation (for users with reputation &gt; 1000).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next step is to compute the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; proficiency. This is done, for each question and each user, by taking the &lt;em&gt;geometric&lt;/em&gt; average of this user's tag proficiencies over all tags that this question is tagged with. This can again be averaged (arithmetically), yielding the user's question proficiency which is a measure for how many of the site's questions he/she could answer. &lt;a href=&quot;http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~wheirman/atuin/tmp/so%5Frep%5Fqp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This graph&lt;/a&gt; plots average question proficiency versus reputation. Note that this last one is a fairly heavy query (~1 second per user), so it could more feasible to base an actual implementation on tag proficiency only (see also &lt;a href=&quot;http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~wheirman/atuin/tmp/so%5Ftq%5Fqp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this graph&lt;/a&gt; of tag vs. question proficiency), although this would overvalue knowledge of topics SO doesn't care much about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Analysing the question proficiency vs. reputation graph, we see that both are clearly related (if you answer enough questions, you're bound to have covered most of the tags). Still, some users reach a posible threshold value of 20% question proficiency at a reputation of only 10,000; while others couldn't get there even at 60,000 reps. (Shall I insert userids here? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All comments are welcome...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138483" LastEditorUserId="138483" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T16:15:20.537" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T16:15:20.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29004" CreationDate="2009-11-08T14:32:04.967" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stefan Plattner (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6461/splattne&quot;&gt;splattne&lt;/a&gt;) has a great compilation video from London with clips of talks by Joel, Jeff, Pekka Kosonen (Qt), Phil Nash (iPhone) and Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hosted on both &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7381300&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KdTGnL6-T4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130027" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T14:32:04.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-08T14:37:33.990" />
  <row Id="29017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29006" CreationDate="2009-11-08T14:36:48.423" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I already banned all 73 IP addresses used by this spammer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't think it's a bot, since the timings are 10-30 seconds per user creation through new answer posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The weakness here is that we don't adequately protect &lt;em&gt;user profiles&lt;/em&gt; from having spam entered in them by new users with 1 rep.&lt;/strong&gt; We nofollow, but we allow images, as many links as you want, etcetera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I made a few enhancements to the user profile page to make it more consistent with how we handle post submissions, and harder to bot/game. Notably, the &quot;newbie users&quot; (aka &amp;lt;= 10 rep) restrictions are in effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T04:41:12.380" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:41:12.380" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T16:03:14.350" Score="2" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question about an algorithm is conventionally tagged with 'Algorithm', but the academic field of study is generally known as 'Algorithms'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if I could write 'Algorithms' on my CV and have that be a pointer to my questions and answers for the tag 'Algorithm'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't know whether there are only a few cases like this and some kind of global mapping would cover 99% of everybody, or whether there should be a way to write arbitrary name/tag pairs on individual CVs. Thoughts?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4540" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:45:16.707" Title="Suggestion: tag aliases on CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27614" CreationDate="2009-11-08T16:08:25.073" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes please.  And I'd like to see the export have an option to include a live link in the PDF/RTF to the online version, so that when my HR department forwards me an emailed CV to review, I can get to the live version (and the associated user's questions and answers) with a single click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4540" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T16:08:25.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-08T16:08:25.073" />
  <row Id="29020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29021" CreationDate="2009-11-08T16:47:01.213" Score="6" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I started using SO I've had a bunch of question downvoted, and every time it made sense. Either I was wrong or I didn't get the question right. In these cases I would improve my answer or just delete it (if another answer was already up and good enough). If the downvote was &quot;weird&quot;, meaning that I was sure I was right, I always ended up talking using the comments to find out why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I noticed that I get downvoted for no obvious reason. Let's take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1696927/whats-is-the-difference-between-include-and-extend-in-use-case-diagram/1696972#1696972&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; of mine. It's not the best answer ever, but I think I provided a valid answer to the question. Obviously the user that asked the question didn't do much research beforehand, so I didn't took that much time to figure out how I could help him... but still, I feel like the downvote is a bit harsh, especially since there was no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To defend my answer, my point is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the difference between X and&#xA;  Y?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;X is this. Y is that. You can see that they are different in many ways&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some answers I gave were more complicated, like a big explanation about an IE-related CSS bug, and it's a pain to spend 10 minutes on an answer, getting downvoted and not knowing why. Was I wrong? Then what did I do wrong? And if I'm not wrong... wtf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not the first time that this happens, and this always happens with new users' questions... and there are a LOT of new users. In most cases I just removed my answer thinking &quot;meh, whatever&quot;, but I was wondering what you thought about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How about more explanations about the downvotes to new users? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you still answer newcomers' questions (because I'm seriously thinking about stopping doing that, they don't give feedback on the answer provided, upvote or accept)? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could there be a way to &quot;poke&quot; the person leaving a downvote? Let's say I downvote a question, the user downvoted leave a comment like &quot;Why?&quot;. There is no way for me to know that he asked that unless I check all the question I downvoted...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ouch, sorry for the long question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T20:34:23.153" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T00:14:01.367" ClosedDate="2009-11-09T14:40:44.753" Title="What to do with unexplained downvotes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29020" CreationDate="2009-11-08T16:54:06.487" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think it's the height of rudeness and laziness to downvote something and not explain why. If someone else has explained why then there's no need to repeat yourself. Also if an answer is a troll, really lame, etc then you might be justified in saying nothing but if someone has put in an honest effort into an answer then I think they're owed an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others of course disagree and SO believes in anonymous voting so you have three choices about what to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignore it;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the answer. To be perfectly honest, if I answer something and only get a downvote for it I'll probably just delete it even if I know I'm right. This is even more likely now that equal vote answers are randomly sorted as you get more &quot;me too&quot; copycat answers; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work out what's wrong with it (and there might be nothing wrong with it) and fix it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's advisable to limit the number of absolutes you utter as you're going to simply attract downvotes from people who don't like your answer irrespective of whether or not you're right or your answer answers the question. Note your assumptions, quality your statements, be clear when what you're stating is opinion and you're less likely to attract this kind of disagreement downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T16:54:06.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29020" CreationDate="2009-11-08T17:25:06.713" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest answer is simply, &quot;Suck it up, princess.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: that is: some people are not going to like your answer, or will want more perfection in it than you are willing to devote the time for (e.g. recently I saw some downvotes go to an answer that had clear, concise &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; correct code, but did not check for error conditions). In those cases, sigh and move on, because you can't please everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T00:14:01.367" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T00:14:01.367" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="29023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T17:37:06.380" Score="7" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the careers.stackoverflow.com FAQ (How Does It Work? section):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] Once they’re interested, you will get an email indicating their interest. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How exactly does this process of &quot;indicating interest&quot; work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do I get an email from careers.stackoverflow.com or directly from the employer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What information about the employer will be provided at the time the &quot;interest is indicated&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the candidates options to reply to an employer showing interest?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Follow-up questions from the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Directly connected with the employer via email&quot; means they get my provided email address and I get theirs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So the initial contact is from careers.stackoverflow.com? What email address is used?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2386" LastEditorUserId="2386" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T01:45:17.247" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:45:17.247" Title="Contact between employers and candidates" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;contact&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29020" CreationDate="2009-11-08T17:38:14.287" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;rarely&lt;/em&gt; explain down-votes anymore. Too many people take a down-vote + comment as some sort of a challenge to their honor, and react accordingly (badly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a correctable error in an answer, I'll either correct it myself, or leave a comment informing the author of what needs to be done. I'll only down-vote later if no corrections are made (or are reverted... believe it or not, that happens). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if an answer appears valid but is actually completely wrong and/or potentially dangerous... Then I'll leave a comment to warn others, and down-vote as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if an answer is just badly written, unnecessarily opinionated, or does a poor job of explaining the topic it covers, I'll just down-vote and move on. Drama-free feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T17:38:14.287" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T17:40:51.427" Score="-8" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody has to stop this, now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been seeing questions getting closed for this nonsense reason. They aren't my questions but it bothers me a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched MSO on the matter. The explanation given by the community so far is &quot;vagueness&quot;. I saw some examples where people said &quot;your question was too vague to be answered&quot;. Somebody on MSO even used the word &quot;unanswerable&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I find these arguments ridiculous. If a question is vague, the answers would naturally be vague, or none. The question would get downvotes, critical comments and would evolve into a better question over time, or simply be ignored, this is a Wiki after all, or isn't it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the application of this rule has been extremely biased. Take the famous &quot;what's your most controversial programming opinion?&quot; and &quot;what's the funniest programming joke have you heard?&quot;. They are still open as wide as possible. Oh I hear you're saying &quot;they are specific because they didn't omit to add first person in the sentence&quot;. So you're closing questions because it doesn't start with &quot;What's your opinion on...&quot; ? What kind of Gulliver's land are you from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, I don't think the learning process is simply a matter of a question and the right answer. You can learn from opinions, incorrect answers and build your experience upon them. In the end you gain better knowledge on the matter or society itself. Such an open community is supposed to evolve, supposed to be open to opinions on the matter rather than specific answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the reasoning behind that rule is &quot;to keep helpful content only and remove noise in site traffic&quot;. I already explained it's not noise, it's helpful. And I already explained it can simply be ignored by community if it's not found worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only justification I can give credit for is &quot;insufficient server resources to hold vague questions in&quot; and I don't believe in such nonsense either. I don't think &quot;vague questions&quot; would grow faster than specific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might argue that one can always reopen a question and correct the wrong. That's presenting release after a day as a solution to an wrongful arrest. &quot;Correctability of wrong&quot; doesn't make wrong less-wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the moderation is being hypocrite by applying rules inconsistently. It's not their fault, it's the fault of the rule itself. It prevents valuable information to be shared and synthesized by allowing blocks to be put on the flow of information. That's incredibly discomforting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my specific question: I see an unjust process in SO that I believe hurts the community and the future of SO. How can I convince &quot;The SO guy&quot; at the top to stop this besides yelling, or throwing in a single Meta Stack Overflow request among thousands? Because I think this has high priority, I think this has been doing serious damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136878" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T20:51:33.633" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:08:43.267" Title="How can we remove the &quot;Not a real question&quot; close reason from SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32703" CreationDate="2009-11-08T17:47:47.047" Score="14" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26382/make-the-search-box-handheld-device-friendly&quot;&gt;Make the search box handheld-device friendly&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today as I was waking up I thought of a question to search for on Stack Overflow, and grabbed my Zune HD that was on my night stand.  I typed my query in the search box and hit &quot;Done&quot; (Zune HD's way of quitting the text-entry mode). Nothing happened.  I searched for a &quot;Search&quot; button, but none was found.  This left me unable to search on my Zune HD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I recommend adding a search button (I envision an arrow in a box to the right of the search box) so that platforms without an Enter key (such as the Zune HD) can effectively use Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Brian&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138649" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T06:56:00.870" LastActivityDate="2010-04-14T06:56:00.870" ClosedDate="2010-03-16T07:32:43.757" Title="Searching from a platform without an Enter key (Zune HD)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="29027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29025" CreationDate="2009-11-08T17:49:59.680" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;Describing Close Reasons&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous and vague, and cannot be answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the SO site FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those two quotes pretty much sum it up: if you don't know what you want to ask, then you need to figure that out before asking on SO. You can ask multiple questions in your search for an answer, describe the problems you're having, etc... But each question by itself has to be clear, specific, and answerable. If you want a forum where a tutor will go back and forth with you trying to draw out what you actually want and/or need, then go find one - SO is not the place for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That might sound harsh, but trust me - in the end, it saves everyone a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of time and frustration. And sooner or later, every new programmer will need to learn how to sit down and think through his problem to the point where he has a concrete question that needs answering... encouraging this can only be a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And FWIW, the newbie questions I see closed as NaRQ usually get comments asking for clarification first - it's when the author doesn't respond that the close votes catch up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T17:49:59.680" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="29028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29020" CreationDate="2009-11-08T17:52:44.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must say that I rather enjoy treating the up/down vote mechanism as a different animal, than the possibilities the comment functionality provides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're the equivalent of a &quot;oh yeah, good language/research/angle/whatnot&quot;, to a &quot;well, yeah, but whatever...&quot;, or to use a more everyday term; the thumbs and the poke, well...if the poke was in the eye at least. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137078" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T17:52:44.353" />
  <row Id="29029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29058" CreationDate="2009-11-08T18:04:55.520" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of views on some (not all) of my questions appear to increase at the same tempo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feels a bit suspicious, but could just be a coinsidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wondering if there was a crawler job that could be doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T05:05:06.597" Title="Is there a crawler that increments views?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29025" CreationDate="2009-11-08T18:07:55.497" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the subjective questions have one of two things in common. They are from back in the day when the community was smaller and a lot more lax on things like this, or they have gained momentum due to their popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should always try to enforce an unbiased rule to what should be allowed and what should not be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there are questions that get by and gain momentum. As jeff stated a while back, it's ok to have fun once in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T18:07:55.497" />
  <row Id="29031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29029" CreationDate="2009-11-08T18:09:20.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the viewcounter does not count webcrawlers, but there might be unknown webcrawlers that disguise themselves as regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-08T20:37:18.437" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T20:37:18.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25838" CreationDate="2009-11-08T18:15:30.290" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vikings strike again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T18:15:30.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-08T18:15:30.290" />
  <row Id="29033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29034" CreationDate="2009-11-08T18:22:49.070" Score="-4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28232/make-moderator-abilities-relate-to-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;Make Moderator abilities relate to Rep Inflation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/599/what-to-do-about-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;What to do about rep inflation?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the SO is growing the number of users with more than 3K rep is also growing. I believe that because of this even some valid questions are getting closed simply because there are too many people with the power to close them. So shouldn't the bar be set a bit higher (say 6K reps) to keep these close voters at bay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131638" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T14:38:04.820" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T14:38:04.820" ClosedDate="2009-11-08T20:38:57.387" Title="Isn't it time to set the bar higher to obtain moderation tools?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29033" CreationDate="2009-11-08T18:29:39.077" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No; with the same reasoning, there will be more people to vote for reopening questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, as the number of participants in SO grows, the number of posts grows proportionally. Ultimately, the ratio of users to posts will not change significantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T18:29:39.077" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29025" CreationDate="2009-11-08T19:40:42.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the set of options for closing questions is not exhaustive (or freeform), sometimes you're forced to choose a reason that is closest to, but not exactly why you would close a question.  Often, the reasons are misapplied -- at least according to the rules I would use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you and I would disagree on whether the &quot;not a real question&quot; was the best approximation or not applied correctly isn't a reason to eliminate it as a reason.  Sometimes -- as in the case of a blog post or rant disguised as a question -- &quot;not a real question&quot; is the absolute best reason to choose.  The same would apply if the question is so poorly written that it can't be rescued even by the best editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, decisions on which questions remain open or get closed are community issues.  Ultimately the community decides and, if the community is inconsistent, then it's only a product of the large and diverse community that has grown up around SO.  The only way to improve this situation, having a small group of individuals who make the decisions, isn't really an improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the reason has valid application and, despite the inconsistent application of that particular reason, I see no need to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T19:40:42.953" />
  <row Id="29036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25838" CreationDate="2009-11-08T20:45:50.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a strong relation with &quot;good English speaking countries&quot; and SO country usage. Look at Europe: Esp. England, Ireland but also the (well-known English speaking) Scandinavian countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other countries might prefer Q&amp;amp;A fora in their native language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T20:45:50.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-08T20:45:50.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29038" CreationDate="2009-11-08T21:07:44.653" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been writing my CV on careers, and I was wondering, how much help should I get?  It seems wise to have someone who is better at grammar and spelling than I am look over the text fields.  Would you consider that &quot;mis-representation&quot; or too &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001300.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;professional&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?  On the other hand, would you have someone review it for formatting, &quot;buzz-words&quot;, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T03:42:10.207" Title="How much help should I get writing my curriculum vitae?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="29038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29037" CreationDate="2009-11-08T21:28:51.167" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you asking, if you should show your potentially employers how bad your grammar is? No good idea! If you don't care about your CV, why should you care about your work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make it as shiny as possible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T21:28:51.167" />
  <row Id="29039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29043" CreationDate="2009-11-08T21:45:28.190" Score="11" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOTE: This has probably been asked already, but I am unable to find it. If such is the case, please post a link to that question in the comments. Here, I will try to explain how I think this problem should be combated.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very useful feature that I think we need for Stack Overflow is automatic loading of new questions on pages such as the home page, unanswered, search results, or tags. This is so that when new questions/bumped questions appear, the user sees them without having to manually refresh. I find myself constantly refreshing SO and other Trilogy sites for new content, but what if we were to make this dynamic, or AJAX-y?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of three ways to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Having the pages auto-refresh every few minutes&lt;/strong&gt; - this is a possible way of solving the problem, but it doesn't seem like a good solution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New/bumped questions flow in at the top&lt;/strong&gt; - with JQuery, we could have an interface where new content is automatically added to the top of the list (and maybe some questions change positions in the order). Old ones could either disappear or remain there, so that the list still contains the original content, but is longer (of course, periodically, the old ones can be purged, so that the list doesn't get huge after sitting open for a few hours, or something).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A box that says, &quot;X more questions since you started browsing, click here to see them&quot; or &quot;Y more questions since you started searching, click here to see them&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; - This is similar to the technique Twitter uses for its search results (if I'm not mistaken). After clicking on that &quot;click here&quot; button, the questions can flow into the list, as explained in possibility #2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; It seems that #3 is being supported the most. I really think we need this. Jeff! (:D)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T00:20:20.777" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:46:31.490" Title="Auto Loading of New Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ajax&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="29040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29060" CreationDate="2009-11-08T21:53:08.203" Score="20" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feature is present in Gmail, but I think it might be useful in such an environment, also. What if we were to have a small box at the bottom of authenticated SO pages that show how many places an account is logged in from - in other words, &lt;strong&gt;the number and location (by IP) of open sessions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, we could easily keep track of the security of our account, and if one were to leave their session open on a public computer, a &lt;strong&gt;remote sign-off feature&lt;/strong&gt; would be very useful, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the community think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-24T17:04:51.037" LastActivityDate="2010-05-24T17:04:51.037" Title="Remote Sign-Out" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;&lt;logout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29037" CreationDate="2009-11-08T22:00:07.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You won't get a job based on your CV. You might get an interview or a phone call, but you won't be employed purely on the basis of that document. On that basis, do what it takes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T22:00:07.133" />
  <row Id="29042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2009-11-08T22:06:45.560" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I second this feature request. To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/terms-of-service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatars terms of service&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More specifically, you hereby do and shall grant to Automattic a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully-paid, transferable (including rights to sublicense) right to perform the Services (e.g., to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exercise and exploit all intellectual property, publicity, and moral rights with respect to any User Submissions, and to allow others to do so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it's just about my profile picture, I don't feel comfortable giving someone &lt;em&gt;irrevocable&lt;/em&gt; rights to use it in any way they want (and to transfer these rights to anyone they want).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138661" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T22:06:45.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29039" CreationDate="2009-11-08T22:07:31.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;can consume a lot of bandwidth in browser windows left unattended. I'm not sure if this is significant or not however.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sounds interesting, but the statuses (score, number of replies) to older questions is still relevant, so #1 would be preferred for getting new content I think.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;verrry interesting indeed; it sends the message to new users that this is a very dynamic site, without consuming the bandwidth of #1 or #2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T22:07:31.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29037" CreationDate="2009-11-08T22:23:04.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are really in the job market, you need every public face you have (your resume, CV, google ego search results, whatever) to be as amazing looking as possible.  These documents won't get you a job (as Unsliced mentioned), but unless you have some way to get a personal referral to the job you're trying to get, they are probably the only way to even get your foot in the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not misrepresentation to make yourself look as good as possible.  It's misrepresentation to lie and say you can do things that you can't.  Believe me, any good interview process is going to find out if you know what you say you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do whatever you have to do to make yourself look as good as possible.  Making yourself look better than you actually are?  That's a different story entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136564" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T22:23:04.767" />
  <row Id="29045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28992" CreationDate="2009-11-08T22:25:58.053" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already link to whatever external documentation you want.  What's the advantage of duplicating that information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136564" LastActivityDate="2009-11-08T22:25:58.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-08T22:44:59.547" Score="2" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now (at least as of two minutes ago) on Meta, there aren't any questions with active bounties. I clicked on the Featured tab, and this is what I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://absolutely2nothing.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/noactivebounties%5F1.png&quot; alt=&quot;No Active Bounties - Featured Tab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks normal, right? So I clicked on the &quot;complete list&quot; link, and now this is what I see:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://absolutely2nothing.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/noactivebounties%5F2.png&quot; alt=&quot;No Active Bounties - Complete List&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't look &quot;wrong&quot;, but how is &quot;recent questions&quot; different from &quot;all questions&quot; in terms of Featured questions, even with reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks to the first answer, I now realize that the Recent Questions Featured tab indicates bounties ending soon, while that of All Questions shows all of bounties. However, now I have a small feature/change request - wouldn't it be better to not have that link from Recent Questions if there aren't any bounties at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE #2:&lt;/strong&gt; Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/138483/wim&quot;&gt;Wim&lt;/a&gt; had a very good comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think he means that, when both lists are empty, it's a little pointless to link to &quot;All Questions&quot;. A &quot;No Featured questions at this time&quot; message would be more clear I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a good idea? I think so!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:32:53.420" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:32:53.420" Title="When No Active Bounties, the List is Redundant!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29046" CreationDate="2009-11-08T23:01:07.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; and you will understand. The featured list shows by default only one page with the questions where the bounty will end soon. If you want to see more than one page you have to click the &quot;See All (featured) Questions&quot; link (aka &quot;complete list&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;pointless link&quot; is bugging you, then I suggest: Don't bother! This is only an issue on Meta. I doubt that this will become visible on SO. There are always bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T07:57:32.253" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T07:57:32.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25838" CreationDate="2009-11-09T01:55:10.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the population of cities is somewhat subjective, could you do an analysis of per-capita for cities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T01:55:10.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-09T01:55:10.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1577" CreationDate="2009-11-09T02:09:52.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think SO should let you submit your changes if someone else has edited the the post in the meantine, or at least not without acknowledging that yes, I'm overwriting the other person's changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the history of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1698660/a-question-about-c-function&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  Two minutes after it was asked, 4 (!) people (of whom I was one) simultaneously made changes, attempting to fix the bad code formatting and various grammatical issues.  We all stomped on each other toes as a result.  It would have been much better if, after the first edit was made, further concurrent edits did not immediately succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what Bugzilla does -- if you attempt to make changes to a bug, and someone else has edited the bug in the meantime, Bugzilla will give you an error page when you try to submit, and then you have to go back, refresh, and merge your changes back in.  I think this works fairly well, since most of the time, all you're doing is adding a new comment and/or changing a few fields, which can easily be redone.  I think this would also work well for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130095" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T02:09:52.233" />
  <row Id="29050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28297" CreationDate="2009-11-09T02:54:09.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have read the FAQ, can't understand how automatic awards benefit anyone.  Since the answer is automatically accepted, people browsing through and reading the question later may believe--incorrectly--that the selected answer is the &quot;right&quot; answer, when in fact it may have simply been the only one after the bounty was given. It makes it impossible to know the quality of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing the questioner to select the answer that met their needs, and &lt;em&gt;answered their question&lt;/em&gt;, is the only way to guarantee quality answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T02:54:09.077" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29037" CreationDate="2009-11-09T03:35:56.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the best uses of recruiters is to have them review resumes. They look at them all day long and I've found they can be a good source of feedback. Many recruiters are sort of, well, spammy, but if you get one that strikes you as more professional, oftentimes they'll take a thoughtful look at a CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to answer your question, no there is no harm whatsoever in getting help on your resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it like consulting a tailor for a suit, or a barber for a haircut. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastEditorUserId="131074" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T03:42:10.207" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T03:42:10.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29039" CreationDate="2009-11-09T04:21:28.687" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an implementation like Twitter's would be perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently (for me, anyways), when I have my Twitter home page open, if new tweets come in while the page is open, a yellow bar at the top of the list of tweets (not a header notification like SOFU uses) shows up with some text along the lines of &quot;3 new tweets&quot;. The title of the page is also changed to show the number of new tweets: &lt;code&gt;(3) Twitter / Home&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Facebook does the same thing, showing a bar on the news feed indicating there have been new posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit - now with more screenshot:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/9886/twitteroq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Twitter Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T00:46:31.490" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:46:31.490" />
  <row Id="29054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27683" CreationDate="2009-11-09T04:24:48.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely agree with this, for the same reasons. I'm usually off seeing if I can answer the question, and I have to remember to refresh the page before starting an answer so that I'm not duplicating answers and wasting my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to see this feature implemented exactly how it is now when a user is adding/editing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:24:48.587" />
  <row Id="29055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27683" CreationDate="2009-11-09T04:32:38.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want this, simply type a few characters in the answer box to trigger the dynamic &quot;new answer added!&quot; lookups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, every user on the page would trigger lookups to our servers, which is a) not sustainible, and b) 99.99% of them don't care because they aren't answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:32:38.337" />
  <row Id="29056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28992" CreationDate="2009-11-09T04:38:01.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason you can't hyperlink this just like you can hyperlink anything you want in your CV? Maybe I'm misunderstanding...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T04:38:01.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29040" CreationDate="2009-11-09T04:49:00.883" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You already have the last IP address present on your user account, below the &quot;about me&quot; box (visible only to you)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I implemented a &quot;Log Out Everywhere&quot; button on the log out page. This clears &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; your sessions universally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T00:37:41.840" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T00:37:41.840" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29029" CreationDate="2009-11-09T05:05:06.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, viewcounter does not count webcrawlers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T05:05:06.597" />
  <row Id="29059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28967" CreationDate="2009-11-09T05:07:00.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can add the colon/semi-colon if you want, I guess, but I don't really see the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a combinatorial explosion of side effects the more characters we allow to trigger this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I added semi-colon and colon to the allowed terminators per your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T05:24:17.323" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T05:24:17.323" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29040" CreationDate="2009-11-09T05:15:19.837" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29040/remote-sign-out/29057#29057&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; does note you already have your last IP available, being able to time-out or remotely-kill another session would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dopey way to do this would be to kill the other session as soon as you login from another machine, but for those of us who routinely login from our netbook, desktop, and work .. it'd not be so pleasant :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe implement an &quot;authorized hardware&quot; list like Apple does with iTunes purchases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T05:15:19.837" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29065" CreationDate="2009-11-09T05:44:17.317" Score="1" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's been question of providing a regex, but is it implemented yet? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it enough?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How can one guarantee that employers/hiring managers would use the common business name? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will there be some alias detection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T07:26:39.097" Title="How to hide your CV from your employer (or anyone)?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2009-11-09T05:46:42.480" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;C++ (SQLite3, PostgreSQL)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tejp.de/dev/src/soimport/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tejp.de/dev/src/soimport/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requirements: libexpat, libsqlite3 or libpqxx&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Binary (Linux x64, Ubuntu): &lt;a href=&quot;http://tejp.de/files/so/dbimport/soimport-r11_x64.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tejp.de/files/so/dbimport/soimport-r11_x64.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Binary (Linux i386, Debian): &lt;a href=&quot;http://tejp.de/files/so/dbimport/soimport-r11_i386.tar.gz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tejp.de/files/so/dbimport/soimport-r11_i386.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tested with the 2009-11-01, 2009-12-01, 2010-01-01 dumps of the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Columns containing numeric values are converted to numbers, columns containing dates are converted to Unix timestamps and stored as numbers. Optionally indexes are added for all numeric columns. The import takes about 5-10 minutes for the pure data and about 10 minutes more if generating indexes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Usage&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To generate a SQLite database, start the &lt;code&gt;sqliteimport&lt;/code&gt; program in a directory containing the data dumps XML files and it creates a &lt;code&gt;dump.db&lt;/code&gt; in the same directory. If you don't want indexes (creating them takes some time), start the program with &lt;code&gt;sqliteimport -I&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PostgreSQL support is still a little bit experimental. To generate a PostgreSQL database, start the &lt;code&gt;pgcopyimport&lt;/code&gt; program in a directory containing the data dumps XML files. Pass a &lt;code&gt;-c&lt;/code&gt; flag with the necessary database information, like &lt;code&gt;pgcopyimport -c &quot;dbname=sodump user=so password=abc&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. The database needs to exist. &lt;em&gt;Warning:&lt;/em&gt; This program creates big temporary files in &lt;code&gt;/var/tmp&lt;/code&gt;, about as big as the single XML files. This is done to quickly load the data into the database with &lt;code&gt;COPY FROM&lt;/code&gt;. The the temporary files are named &lt;code&gt;badges.pgdata&lt;/code&gt;,... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to create temporary files use the &lt;code&gt;pgimport&lt;/code&gt; program instead, but this will be a lot slower. PostgreSQL import also skips the generation of indexes if the &lt;code&gt;-I&lt;/code&gt; flag is added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other uses&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The design should also be fairly flexible if you want to extract special data from the XML files, parse different XML files, or create something else than a SQLite/PostgreSQL database from the input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T11:40:06.263" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T11:40:06.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-09T05:46:42.480" />
  <row Id="29063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29067" CreationDate="2009-11-09T06:58:48.820" Score="4" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that I can escape curly braces. That is, if I type &lt;code&gt;\{&lt;/code&gt;, I get {. Why are curly braces special characters; what Markdown syntax uses them? I couldn't find anything about it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;the editing-help page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T07:55:12.040" Title="Why is { a special character in Markdown?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29063" CreationDate="2009-11-09T07:21:12.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just part of Markdown - Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;\   backslash&#xA;`   backtick&#xA;*   asterisk&#xA;_   underscore&#xA;{}  curly braces&#xA;[]  square brackets&#xA;()  parentheses&#xA;#   hash mark&#xA;+   plus sign&#xA;-   minus sign (hyphen)&#xA;.   dot&#xA;!   exclamation mark&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no mention of what special meaning &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; has anywhere on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;syntax page&lt;/a&gt; for Markdown though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T07:21:12.897" />
  <row Id="29065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29061" CreationDate="2009-11-09T07:26:39.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This will be automatic. Any searches from employers you have previously worked for will not &quot;see&quot; you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also override it. If you prefer to make it more or less strict, you can manipulate a regex (and use a test form in real time to see how your regex will work).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, of course bear in mind that &lt;strong&gt;this is string matching&lt;/strong&gt;. So it can only be so accurate..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T07:26:39.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29063" CreationDate="2009-11-09T07:40:11.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The brace (&lt;code&gt;{}&lt;/code&gt;) isn't special. But it don't do anything.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not in this range: {0-9}.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Nor with this range:  {aardvark-zebra}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The backslash (&lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;) just looks like it's helping out escape punctuation marks just in case things are done with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special ed maybe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T07:40:11.100" />
  <row Id="29067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29063" CreationDate="2009-11-09T07:55:12.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In at lease one extension to Markdown, something called &lt;a href=&quot;http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PHP Markdown Extra&lt;/a&gt;, braces are used to add an id to a header:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in that variant of Markdown, this code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;## Header 2 ##      {#header2}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will produce markup like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;h2 id=&quot;header2&quot;&amp;gt;Header 2&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reference to extensibility on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown Documentation Page&lt;/a&gt;, but perhaps the curly braces and other characters are reserved for future use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T07:55:12.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29023" CreationDate="2009-11-09T08:08:37.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Employers search; employers have access to your full private CV, whatever you opted to put on there. Employers click through on CVs. If they see CVs they like, they indicate interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;indicate interest&quot; I mean employers click on a button on our private web UI to initiate the contact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This causes an email to be sent from careers to you, which asks you to click through -- we like to know if you are interested, or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are not interested, then you decline. If you are interested, indicate that with a click and you are &lt;strong&gt;directly connected with the employer via email&lt;/strong&gt;. SO Careers is no longer involved at that point; it's between you and them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T08:08:37.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-09T08:32:28.273" Score="0" ViewCount="732" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why am I getting &quot;script not responding&quot; warning for script &lt;code&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005:1&lt;/code&gt; when viewing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1675138/running-nunit-task-in-cruisecontrol-net-always-throws-errors&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with Firefox 3.5.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 1&lt;/strong&gt;: I flushed the cache. Still getting the same warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: Running Firefox in safe mode does fix the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135523" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T23:03:16.593" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T00:00:00.770" Title="Why am I getting &quot;script not responding&quot; warning" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28992" CreationDate="2009-11-09T08:38:44.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like the kind of participation you're describing would be something to include in &lt;strong&gt;Projects and Links&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T08:38:44.830" />
  <row Id="29072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29073" CreationDate="2009-11-09T09:27:24.010" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1696498/how-can-i-do-a-conditional-substitution-in-perl&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; pop up on Stack Overflow. At the time, the question's title was something about &quot;zero-width lookahead not working&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An hour later, it had a new title. The question's history doesn't reveal any edits to that effect. At first I thought the question was deleted and then re-posted with a new title. So I searched my browser's history, found the original question and made sure it had the same ID. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to hide edits from others? Is this a bug? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I am 100% sure that the question initially had a different title and no, I cannot provide any screenshots with freehand cirlces.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T09:38:08.297" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T09:38:08.297" Title="Question history doesn't show change of title" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29072" CreationDate="2009-11-09T09:32:16.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very possible that you spotted the original title before it was reworded within &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot; title=&quot;not unless you're retagging someone else's right?&quot;&gt;the 5 minute rule for edits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that was the case, you wouldn't have been able to see any difference in the edit if made inside the window of dressing time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T09:32:16.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29072" CreationDate="2009-11-09T09:32:21.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably a duplicate but I'll answer it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that there is a 5 minute window for edits. All edits made within 5 minutes of the first are counted as one. This allows for questions and answers to be revised without pushing the post over the community wiki threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T09:32:21.597" />
  <row Id="29075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29076" CreationDate="2009-11-09T09:36:23.103" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an issue that isn't addressed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11474/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts&quot; title=&quot;What is the etiquette for modifying posts?&quot;&gt;What is the etiquette for modifying posts?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1694630/translate-a-for-to-assembler&quot; title=&quot;Translate a FOR to assembler&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is well written and nicely formatted.  It includes some code too.  The comments for the code are written in Spanish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that most people on SO don't read Spanish.  Is it a breach of etiquette to edit the post and translate the comments into English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T09:44:07.613" Title="etiquette of translating comments in a post" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29075" CreationDate="2009-11-09T09:44:07.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large slice of the SO pie is English speaking, so it would be a valid edit to translate that code sample into the main language of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want it both ways, include the translation beneath or above the original language:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; push ebp&#xA;     // Guardo el estado actual de esp&#xA;     // Save the current state of esp*&#xA;&#xA;*Translated from Spanish to English based on Google Translate&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't hurt to help them get more eyeballs who might not know the language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you went with &lt;a href=&quot;http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate%5Ftxt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;smells like linguistic spirit&quot;&gt;Babelfish:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I keep the present state from ESP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T09:44:07.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2009-11-09T09:45:52.680" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://mycroft.mozdev.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mycroft Project&lt;/a&gt; to find a search engine for Firefox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I was able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;find&lt;/a&gt; 2 engines, one written by Alessandro Gentilini and labelled &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; and the other one written by Kalevi Onni and labelled &quot;Stack Overflow (3rd Party - Google)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried the first one and it is working just fine!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one for &lt;a href=&quot;http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt; and another one for &lt;a href=&quot;http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;both written by Soon Van and both functional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137941" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T09:45:52.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-09T11:11:28.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was quite disappointed by the 'conference'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was expecting a tech day similar in depth and breadth to the stackoverflow podcasts I use to listen to. Besides I expected time and room to talk to other developers. What I got instead was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Commercial talks about products (we already use Fogbugz quite heavily, thank you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beginner talks (we've been using Python and Google AppEngine for quite a while now, thank you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No 'open spaces'-like conference rooms (I've been to college years ago, thank you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No bread, they ran out before we could get any (I like food, thank you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website should have been clearer about what visitors could expect. Sorry to say, but I got the feeling I was wasting my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T11:11:28.967" />
  <row Id="29082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2009-11-09T11:45:03.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Firefox, right-click on the search box and select 'Add a _K_eyword for this Search...'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then in your address bar you can go something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;o &amp;lt;search string here&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presuming you set the keyword to &lt;kbd&gt;o&lt;/kbd&gt; for SO, of course :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this with several custom search fields inside Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T11:45:03.073" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28375" CreationDate="2009-11-09T11:50:57.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would also be &lt;em&gt;totally awesome&lt;/em&gt; if you could point it an existing hResume and have it pre-populate your CV on careers.stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="319" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T15:08:15.993" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T15:08:15.993" />
  <row Id="29086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-09T12:25:28.167" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try to post a comment on this site or Serverfault, I can't because it is just hanging on loads from other sites such as gravatar.com, quantserv, or sstatic.net.  This is not happening to me with other GA sites, any I can resolve www.google-analytics.com fine. Other areas that seem to have this issue with me are the formatting edit bar (The thing with Bold button), deleting comments, or tag completion.  So it seems to be all the sort of dynamic content on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same thing happens when I tunnel my connection (Both web and DNS) to a computer on another provider (Comcast Vs Speakeasy), both are geographically in the Boston area though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;random mentioned the browser and I thought he was right. When I did a 'real' refresh with Ctrl-F5 in Firefox 3.5 everything it seemed it started working again, but still the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I closed the browser and flushed my cache and still having issues. Need to press the stop button for the dynamic content I mentioned to start working.  My browser Firefox 3.5 on Linux. I am not having the problem when I visit the site with Chrome using my Windows VM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So closing the browser and flushing the cache does fix it, but only for a little while.  The problem keeps coming back after browsing the sites for a little while.  I tried upgrading my browser to the latest 3.5.x in the repo as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="131182" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T13:28:57.127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T13:28:57.127" Title="Can't post comment or use other 'dynamic' features. Browser is hanging on external sites" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29122" CreationDate="2009-11-09T12:36:23.603" Score="1" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/24901/abel&quot;&gt;my questions&lt;/a&gt; at ServerFault, I got downvoted and later, after I edited the question, the downvote was removed. On none of my questions I have received other votes, and the result went from &lt;code&gt;101&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;99&lt;/code&gt; when downvoted, and remained after the downvote was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10984/removing-a-downvote-adds-reputation-that-wasnt-there&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, it seems &quot;by design&quot; that the reverse should happen: reps go up, not down, when a downvote is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that behavior fixed and reverse is now &quot;by design&quot;? After reps are removed as result of downvote on your questions, the reps will not be recovered? (in other words: updating your question to make it better is discouraged?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-03T09:26:15.183" LastActivityDate="2010-04-03T09:26:15.183" Title="Downvote removed, score of downvoted user unchanged" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29086" CreationDate="2009-11-09T13:07:09.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/13855/firefox-hangs-waiting-for-ssl-google-analytics-com&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SF question about this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;...  It might be related.  There's a bug reported for FF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T13:07:09.447" />
  <row Id="29090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29091" CreationDate="2009-11-09T13:41:34.153" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can this user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/196103/jan&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/196103/jan&lt;/a&gt;, reputation 3, show in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ms-access&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ms-access&lt;/a&gt; as having &quot;modified 7 hours ago&quot;, but on the modified thread, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/899655/how-to-get-the-name-of-constraint&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/899655/how-to-get-the-name-of-constraint&lt;/a&gt;, not show at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This user also has two medals, which is somewhat puzzling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T13:46:38.763" Title="User with low reputation shows as having modified thread" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29090" CreationDate="2009-11-09T13:46:38.763" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user posted an answer and then deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have over 10K rep, you can see the deleted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badges aren't particularly surprising - they're Scholar and Editor. The user has made an edit, and accepted their own answer to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T13:46:38.763" />
  <row Id="29092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29093" CreationDate="2009-11-09T14:38:13.760" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently received several down-votes to my questions/answers at the same time on StackOverflow. I don't think it was done accidently, but was a targeted attack against me. Though I have no idea who could do that and why. I know that there is no way I can see who did that and I don't seek truth here. But I just wonder if there is some moderation tool that sees such kind of attacks i.e. many down votes coming on the same user for answers belonging to completely different tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8m&#xA;1&#xA;-2&#xA;    turn off soap extension on webmethod&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8m&#xA;1&#xA;-2&#xA;    Requirements for HTTPS URl connection using Glassfish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8m&#xA;1&#xA;-2&#xA;    Best option for Session management in Java&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;41m&#xA;1&#xA;-2&#xA;    Simulation of long-running Oracle DB query &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134690" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T14:54:00.157" Title="Multi downvote on my answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29092" CreationDate="2009-11-09T14:46:56.770" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a daily script that detects the &quot;chain hate downvote pattern&quot; and corrects it every night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the downvotes are still there tomorrow, I think you can contact team@stackoverflow.com and ask them to look into it. Or flag one for moderator attention and explain your issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T14:54:00.157" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T14:54:00.157" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2009-11-09T14:52:27.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would request this feature due to a situation I recently came by.  I had asked a question and was in the process of trying to find an answer with a particular user (userA).  In the course of working it out with userA another user (userB) came a long and offered the exact answer I needed.  UserB nailed it on the first time.  Shortly afterwards userA posted the same answer in a comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since UserB had far less reputation than UserA and had nailed the answer, I accepted his answer and voted both of their answers up.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I later came back to discover that UserA had voted down my question and deleted all his answers and comments in it, apparently in a fit of rage over my not accepting his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a situation where I would very much have liked some sort of direct message to another user.  UserA hadn't posted any sort of contact info in his profile.  And in an effort to contact him and explain my reasoning for accepting UserB's answer and perhaps apologize for offending him, I ended up commenting on one of his questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't have to be private, but I believe that some sort of way to directly contact other users would be of great use to the SO community in situations such as this and many others.  It could be a public wall like facebook, or a direct message - publicly viewable like twitter.  If it contained Q/A information that could be useful to the community at large it could be migrated into a question and answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such a thing existed it would be easier to contact UserA in order to explain that I had meant no offense by accepting UserB's answer and that I greatly appreciated his help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134161" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T14:52:27.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27508" CreationDate="2009-11-09T15:01:22.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technorati is no longer listed on the OpenId site: &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.net/get-an-openid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://openid.net/get-an-openid/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an open question at Technorati's own support site with this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://getsatisfaction.com/technorati/topics/openid_support_has_disappeared_is_it_coming_back&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://getsatisfaction.com/technorati/topics/openid_support_has_disappeared_is_it_coming_back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site supports openId login and you cannot login to it using Technorati as your openId provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm  unable to login to my StackOverflow (or any trilogy site) with my Technorati open id...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T15:59:31.960" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T15:59:31.960" />
  <row Id="29097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29099" CreationDate="2009-11-09T15:17:05.013" Score="0" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does s/he get a negative reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136493" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T22:55:21.557" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T22:55:21.557" Title="What happens when a new user asks 1st question and it's voted down several times?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29097" CreationDate="2009-11-09T15:20:49.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no negative reputation. The minimum is 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T15:20:49.840" />
  <row Id="29099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29097" CreationDate="2009-11-09T15:21:05.707" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is always at least 1. If a user has 1 reputation and is downvoted, he still has 1 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, this leads to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27058/quirk-with-down-vote-user-with-1-rep&quot;&gt;a non-intuitive bug&lt;/a&gt; which causes new users to gain 2 reputation if they are downvoted, and then the downvote is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T15:21:05.707" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29097" CreationDate="2009-11-09T15:44:19.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While rep can never go negative and a down-vote followed by a removal will &quot;gain&quot; the poster 2 points, this rep will disappear when a rep recalc is performed as the vote won't exist any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T15:44:19.910" />
  <row Id="29101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28792" CreationDate="2009-11-09T15:55:58.300" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually I find it annoying, because sometimes I really DO have a concise comment, but am forced to pad it with non-essential junk just to meet the length requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T15:55:58.300" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-09T15:59:07.047" Score="11" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently when a SO post has more than some 5 or 6 comments the rest of them are hidden and you have to click a link to show them all. It would be nice if there was an option that all the comments are shown all the time. (Or even better - that you could specify the hiding threshold).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130893" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T16:23:39.340" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T07:57:09.450" Title="Add a setting to allow you to see all comments, not just the top 5" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28792" CreationDate="2009-11-09T16:20:33.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know this was fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Fixed?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  It was never  broken!&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was only changed to prevent the non-stop &quot;bug&quot; submissions.  If one is crafty enough to get around the limitations, then one is usually are smart enough to write a concise comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T16:20:33.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29121" CreationDate="2009-11-09T16:21:27.287" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;When questions are migrated to another site, do any flags on that question (and any of its answers) get migrated to the other site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:52:18.257" Title="Do flags get migrated?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;flags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-09T16:46:43.730" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;When mousing over the title of a question to get a tooltip summary of the content, any line breaks, code formatting, etc. is lost and the lines just run together. The formatting for the example question is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I compile this program I only get the first capital letter but not the rest example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Input: ABldjfdslkjfCK&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I only get A that is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can someone please help me with this problem. Thanks a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Followed by some example code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is a browser issue, I don't know. I'm on firefox 3.5.4 and ubuntu 9.10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1697777/recursion-using-c-language&quot;&gt;Example Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4974/tooltipexamp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T06:58:34.087" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T06:58:34.087" Title="Tooltip summary of question runs together on linebreaks, formatting" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;tooltips&gt;&lt;summary&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29105" CreationDate="2009-11-09T17:31:03.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the tiny bit of web development I have done, I seem to remember that Firefox does not support line breaks in title text while IE does. As a test, I checked the tooltip for the haiku-ified question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28792/comments-less-than-15-chars&quot;&gt;Comments less than 15 chars&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and it shows up properly for me in IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T17:31:03.670" />
  <row Id="29108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-11-09T18:04:54.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short: worth the time and money spent (I flew from Italy). I'll probably attend next year's conference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel's keynote and Jeff's talk (as expected)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jQuery, iPhone: quite brief but useful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet: very, very funny and insightful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;General atmosphere was nice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FogBugs: in general, I'd like not to pay for listening to a commercial&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python: I couldn't care less about Python (it was so booooooooring), but that's me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Android and QT: show me the code!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Catering; the coffee was terrible (OK, I'm Italian, so that was expected)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135889" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T18:04:54.930" />
  <row Id="29109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2009-11-09T18:08:29.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copyright circumvention is a grey area, as many nations' copyright laws are ridiculous and ineffective. However, DDoS attacks or breaches of privacy are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T18:08:29.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-09T18:08:29.143" />
  <row Id="29110" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29113" CreationDate="2009-11-09T18:39:04.150" Score="2" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not just ones that they answer, but the entire function in general. People simply don't up-vote. There should probably be a way to distinguish between reasons for upvoting questions, like an upvote count for &quot;this needs an answer&quot; and another for &quot;I like this question&quot; because who cares if anyone LIKES the question (the answer apparently is no one) but if an upvote to the question bumped it or something, it might be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138698" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T19:13:44.817" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T21:25:09.307" Title="Make upvotes to a question 'bump' it" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29110" CreationDate="2009-11-09T18:44:45.877" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Plenty of people upvote questions. Especially if they have been down voted. Sympathy upvotes are very powerful (unfortunately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people didn't upvote questions there would be entire hoardes of question pumps on SO that wouldn't have any rep at all. Instead they often have &gt; 5k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your questions are not getting upvotes, perhaps your question is just not very good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T18:49:55.900" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T18:49:55.900" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29110" CreationDate="2009-11-09T18:48:11.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; upvote questions sometimes (including some that they shouldn't, but that is another story). But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is some feeling that a good answer is its own reward&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some of your questions could have been easily answered by consulting google or the docs, so people may feel that they are not special in any way&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;many of your questions have fairly few view, and you can't get votes unless and until people &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; at what you have written: if you questions don't attract viewers from the list pages, you just aren't going to get any votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't seem to apply to you, but we do have a number of pests on these sites who ask endless questions without any need or any apparent interest in the answers, and these people have turned me off voting for questions unless they show some special insight or turn out to be much harder than they seem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck, YMMV, and all that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T18:48:11.113" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29110" CreationDate="2009-11-09T19:03:53.990" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to see a question re-appear on the front page unless something substantial has changed in either the question itself or the answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now a question only 'lasts' on the front page of Stackoverflow for a mere 2 minutes with no new activity during the busy times of the day.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we make it easy to anonymously bump it, we encourage bumping, and the 2 minutes of 'face time' the question gets on the front page would reduce significantly.  This would have the circular effect of requiring more bumping just to get the same amount of exposure one had without the quick and easy bump, which would crowd the front page more, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the current system already works well - if people are actively contributing to the question with answers or significant edits, then the front page shows ACTIVE conversations going on in a very, very crowded room.  It's a very useful window into what people are talking about on Stackoverflow right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced there are any real benefits, but what benefits there may be certainly do not warrant the cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T20:38:22.387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:38:22.387" />
  <row Id="29114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8492" CreationDate="2009-11-09T19:08:15.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if it offends you. That's really the test for offensive - does it offend you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking something as offensive doesn't remove it instantly or anything, so there's no harm done if you mark something as offensive and you're the only one offended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T19:08:15.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-09T19:08:15.543" />
  <row Id="29115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29110" CreationDate="2009-11-09T19:10:30.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On upvoting:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; get upvoted if you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask a question easily answered through Google or MSDN, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask a question that's too specific and not likely to be useful to anyone else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use poor English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a bad attitude&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting upvoted is more difficult. You need to ask a widely appealing question that's not easily Googled. For better or for worse, it appears that &quot;best practices&quot; questions do particularly well. And programmer jokes - but let's not get started on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As for bumping:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty system already handles this in a way. If an obscure question is getting ignored, the OP has the option to &quot;pay&quot; rep to promote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T19:10:30.767" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-09T19:17:02.737" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this behavior a few times recently, probably as a means of either avoiding further rep hits (from asking really bad questions) or to obscure who is asking inane questions.  I realize editing of closed posts is explicitly allowed on purpose, but can we freeze out this particular edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T19:25:30.787" Title="Don't allow switching of closed posts to community wiki?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="29117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29116" CreationDate="2009-11-09T19:25:30.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally against this. One, lack of wikification may be &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the post was closed; there are cases where a post might get reopened upon being made wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two, for questions which are deservedly closed, and will remain closed, converting to wiki might be a &quot;way out&quot; for the poster to avoid taking potentially very harsh rep hits. I think that's very fair to the poster. If the question is closed and sitting at a negative score, the community is already informing them that the question is invalid for some reason; forcing them to take further rep hits is redundant at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T19:25:30.787" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29025" CreationDate="2009-11-09T19:43:30.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to anyone who cared to comment. I know your time is precious, I appreciate your effort to fill me in on the matters which I wasn't aware of. I'm a relatively newbie in SO. And I apologize for not doing my research exhaustively. I would like to sum up the answers here that match my arguments. I'm using this area because it feels awkward to track multiple comment chains. I'm not sure how SO rules map to MSO, so since this is a discussion I think it's ok. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The examples I gave ('what's your most controversial programming opinion?' and 'what's your best programmer joke?') for unjust applications: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shag9 said since the site was community driven, exceptions to rules were unavoidable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Olaf said they were relatively old and community was getting more strict and controlled over new threads over time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tvanfosson said exceptions weren't good enough reasons to remove the rule and sometimes they were just approximations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My argument of &quot;even vague, unanswerable questions are helpful&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shag9 quoted FAQ saying: &quot;...is not a discussion board&quot;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I think the words &quot;...is community-driven&quot; and &quot;...because FAQ says so&quot; are contradictory. I saw no [edit] button next to FAQ. So it's not community-driven (or tell me how it is). The community's driving powers are only inside the limits of FAQ.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it's perfectly acceptable for someone who builds a web site to limit the scope based on his/her vision. I'm not saying we should remove the FAQ, I'm saying the excuse  &quot;community did it&quot; is unacceptable. Because there is always &quot;The-FAQ-Guy&quot; who can correct the mistakes of a community. This is pretty much like a Sheriff who can prevent a lynch. A lynch cannot be excused because &quot;hey the town is community driven and we don't take kindly robbers here, you should have read the FAQ&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About my examples Olaf, the programming joke question was opened on Oct 22. Your argument of &quot;they were old and now community is getting better at handling those&quot; is not correct. Community is just forced to hold on to what it likes only when moderation doesn't get in the way, randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shag9, you said removal of the rule would open floodgates. What data do you base that assumption on? Only intuition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tvanfosson, I recommended removal of the rule because I think the lost value is much more than the damage that assumed-floodgates would cause when they are open. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO community must first acknowledge the lost value in closed questions based on this reason. &quot;You can always open them back, or discuss in comments&quot; doesn't bring back the immediate value I could contribute just before the question was closed. I never visit that question again, it's almost guaranteed that the potential is lost forever if the user isn't very popular, or doesn't get very popular over time. tvanfosson, as you can see, your recommendation of doing civic duty doesn't help the case here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does Wikipedia handle this as a real community driven web site? I don't like it either for different reasons by the way. But I think it does a better job than SO in handling such cases. First there is a specific &quot;notability&quot; criteria to remove articles. Unless it's met no one can delete or ask for deletion of an article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know most of you regard SO as an oasis on the web, and so do I. I think it has a great potential (not in terms of traffic or money, but in terms of taking the web forward). I know many of you are offended of criticism when it's not put in polite-enough words with no bow first (hence you call it &quot;rant&quot;), but I only have been trying to emphasize the long term degrading affects of injustice and lack of appreciation of inherent value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136878" LastEditorUserId="136878" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T20:08:43.267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:08:43.267" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="29119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28516" CreationDate="2009-11-09T20:06:40.667" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love this feature. In fact, I came to meta to make just this request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have actually stopped adding to my interesting tags because the new ones I want drown out the old ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136155" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:06:40.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29104" CreationDate="2009-11-09T20:24:00.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From memory, no they don't. I say that because &quot;we&quot; regularly migrate posts from SO to MSO after they get flagged, and I don't recall having to clear any flags on MSO. It makes sense really - quite likely a migrated posts is flagged for migration, and it will soon get attention on the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My ♦ only extends to SO and MSO, so it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be different in other scenarios, but I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:24:00.883" />
  <row Id="29122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29088" CreationDate="2009-11-09T20:24:24.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe I have seen similar behavior.  It appeared to be part of switching to a community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The down vote was cast before it was a wiki and need a fair amount of rewording.  The question was updated and switched to a wiki and the down vote was changed to an up vote the lost rep was not returned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:24:24.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-11-09T20:25:16.653" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beta &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.oreilly.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;O'Reilly Answers&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:25:16.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-09T20:25:16.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29104" CreationDate="2009-11-09T20:52:18.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  Flags, open and close votes are not migrated.  The question, its up/down votes, the answers and their up/down votes, and the comments with their upvotes are copied.  Everything else is a clean slate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will get flagged quickly enough if there's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T20:52:18.257" />
  <row Id="29127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29204" CreationDate="2009-11-09T21:08:39.213" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Migration was discussed often, however I couldn't find another question about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A phenomenon which happens often is the &quot;self duplicate&quot;, because of &quot;belongs to &lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; comment under question. The original poster sees that, checks the other site, and copies his question there. A few minutes after, his original question gets migrated to the site, after enough votes.&#xA;So the other site inherits 2 similar questions, for no reason, one is to close for duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can we make the &quot;migration&quot; process more clear to new (and other) users?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing in FAQ about it, and it's understandable, because migrating, even if happening often, is something which wouldn't happen most of times if the FAQ was read and respected. Since this FAQ states &quot;ask such questions on another site&quot;, no reason to add &quot;but if you do anyway, we will migrate it for you&quot;, it would indeed be silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to educate people who are leaving comment to leave a more complete one, then?&lt;/strong&gt; Instead of putting tags, or writing shortly &quot;belongs on S#.&quot;, or worse &quot;you should ask this question on S#.&quot;, they should simply state that this question doesn't belong there, and will be migrated there, so the original poster should create an account there and wait for it, but shouldn't ask again the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The migration system is completely invisible for a new user. His &quot;good behavior&quot; seems to be asking the question on the good place, then. So how can we make it more clear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7072/migration-causing-duplicate-questions-how-to-manage-this&quot;&gt;Related question&lt;/a&gt; (but more about handling these duplicates and not preventing them in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T08:24:19.703" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T08:38:23.080" Title="How to make migration more clear to new users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29110" CreationDate="2009-11-09T21:25:09.307" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem for me is that there is no way to bump someone else's question to say &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Hey, I have this problem too but this question didn't get any attention!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;  The only thing you can do now is add a non-answer answer and suck up the down votes, or post a duplicate question.  Adding comments is about as worthless as up voting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T21:25:09.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29127" CreationDate="2009-11-09T21:25:31.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I tend to do is add a comment to say that the question will be migrated and that they should head over to Super User or Stack Overflow or Server Fault and create an account and associate it with their existing account so that they'll have ownership of the question when it arrives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. Sorry about the vote to close.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T21:25:31.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2009-11-09T22:05:20.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict SO will still exist, unless it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T22:05:20.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29097" CreationDate="2009-11-09T22:39:21.230" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is an unsigned integer &gt;= 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T22:39:21.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29069" CreationDate="2009-11-09T23:03:03.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That trailing colon is very bizarre and doesn't appear in our source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, if safe mode fixes it, one of the add-ins is at fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T23:03:03.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-09T23:26:42.340" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a wonderful idea if SO had a 'featured article' section.  People with high reputation (say 5,000+) could post a detailed article about a given topic.  For doing this they will automatically get 100 rep + more based on how many people upvote the article. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my experience, some questions asked about very specific topic would really benefit from a 'how to'.  For example recently I have asked questions about how to do integration testing of DAOs of a J2EE app that is build on spring + ibatis.  Lot of answers were provided (some clear some not) but most included that the design should be changed so injections can be provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are many sites that provide articles but none have the support that SO does and very few have 'hands on' no_buzzword articles.  Using this we could further harness the knowledge and help other developers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...i dont know how SO would make money from this but maybe Joel can conjure up something :)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138009" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T08:20:07.747" Title="Featured Articles on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="29137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29008" CreationDate="2009-11-09T23:29:03.537" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how I respond!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/547/scroogemcduck.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T23:29:03.537" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-09T23:32:49.987" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is in an awesome team with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.howtogeek.com/&quot;&gt;howtogeek&lt;/a&gt; and perhaps will &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;team up&lt;/a&gt; with another site that focuses more no that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I would say no, it's neither the focus nor the design of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T23:32:49.987" />
  <row Id="29139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29008" CreationDate="2009-11-09T23:35:40.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually had a guy offer to pay me via paypal for an answer I gave him (which fixed his problem)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/752260/php-query-fail&quot;&gt;Here's the post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;$5 Paypal to anyone who can help me, I honestly am so frustrated it's untrue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-09T23:55:32.053" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T23:55:32.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-09T23:40:39.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still not sure you've oferred a true reason. What you seem to be suggesting is that high-rep users should be able to effectively post &quot;answers without questions&quot;. This I don't really see as having much purpose, and only goes against the character and structure of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a host of other websites out there with a variety of high-quality programming articles (CodeProject and MSDN Magazine for example) - why should SO be turned into one of them? I'm sure Jeff can elaborate on the founding principles of SO, but essentially it was designed to some cross between a forum and wiki. I guess the fundamental question is: why diverge into a market that's already so well established by other websites, especially when StackOverflow fulfills its current goals so well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-11-09T23:40:39.100" />
  <row Id="29141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-10T00:00:25.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is too specific and doesn't really fit into SO idea... we're just a Q&amp;amp;A site. Period. If we start creating a lot of different sections and rules, we would be too far from the purpose of being simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, nothing stops you from getting all these information, and try to create yourself a repository of articles - since SO content is CC licensed - and create a blog or something. For example, look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post, it has a lot of useful information, it's almost a how to guide. What about trying to create a big pdf with some research and release it yourself? It doesn't even need to be a high reputation user.... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...in fact, these &quot;featured articles&quot; you're referring to I believe it is the favorites tab in my account. The questions and answers that are like a how to and are useful to me, I favorite them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:00:25.507" />
  <row Id="29142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29008" CreationDate="2009-11-10T00:00:25.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I receive offers of money about once a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is usually like &quot;many thanks for your answer, please take the money, where should I send them?&quot;, without any extra requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people seeking for consulting services also reach me via &lt;code&gt;SO&lt;/code&gt;. They usually ask me if I want to charge money for what I am doing for free anyway: answering &lt;code&gt;SQL&lt;/code&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should confess that I usually cannot resist the temptation and accept their offers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:00:25.990" />
  <row Id="29143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28992" CreationDate="2009-11-10T00:08:02.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems you want more about the &lt;strong&gt;visual aspect&lt;/strong&gt;, not the informational one (that's why just hyperlinking in the profile isn't enough).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's going to work, unless CV releases for example methods in an API that you create a resource, with a name and a thumbnail and it appends to your profile. We have too many online communities that can be all addressed in a CV system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:08:02.000" />
  <row Id="29144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29145" CreationDate="2009-11-10T00:19:54.210" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question got migrated from stackoverflow to serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/82015/disable-proxypass-rules-within-a-virtual-host-on-apache-2&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/82015/disable-proxypass-rules-within-a-virtual-host-on-apache-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got one answer on that till now, but I'm unable to comment on that. Is this because this question was migrated and &lt;strong&gt;serverfault&lt;/strong&gt; doesn't recognize me as the author of the question (probably due to openid being used as login??). I used same openid provider/user in both sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138504" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:31:55.980" Title="Unable to comment on a migrated question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29144" CreationDate="2009-11-10T00:23:30.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Associate your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From your profile select the accounts tab on the far right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132547" LastEditorUserId="132547" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T00:31:55.980" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T00:31:55.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29150" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:05:43.607" Score="8" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21037/addiction-towards-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Addiction towards StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4004/how-can-i-keep-from-getting-addicted-to-so&quot;&gt;How can I keep from getting addicted to SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21774/how-do-you-escape-an-addiction-to-stackoverflow-or-other-it-sites&quot;&gt;How do you escape an addiction to stackoverflow (or other IT sites)?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;www.StackOverflow.com is simply fantastic... but here is a confession: I'm becoming a bit obsessed with answering questions well, getting points, winning badges... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the same happening to you? How did u stop yourself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strange question... and perhaps not a good one for this format. But seriously, am I the only one developing a personality disorder here?? (Stackoverflow mania)&#xA;:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136769" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T14:49:42.377" ClosedDate="2009-11-10T15:52:01.967" Title="Are you suffering StackOverflow'mania?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;programming&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:08:54.837" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25066/please-notify-me-of-the-40-000-character-limit&quot;&gt;Please notify me of the 40,000 character limit&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a limit on the length of a question/post on the SO sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was posting to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29136/featured-articles-on-so&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and claim there is no limit. I don't see an explicit limit. Is there a limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/character-length&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;character-length&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seems to not have anything definitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T02:11:20.803" ClosedDate="2009-11-10T02:58:16.350" Title="Is there a limit on the length of a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;character-length&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:09:38.967" Score="6" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Experience form (for lack of a better term, formlet (?)) has a Technologies field where one can list the technologies they used in a particular job. The limit is 10 apparently. Since, it's only one line and there is no count, there is no easy way to tell if I have gone over the limit until I leave that textbox. I have to use my fingers to count!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's so primitive. All careers users would be 6.9% more efficient if there was a decrementing counter beside the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[] 10 left&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[c#] 9 left&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[c# asp.net] 8 left  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135540" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T23:00:03.567" Title="Experience Technologies field should have an indicator of how many tags I have left" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:09:54.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a terrible idea, but it's not a great idea. The whole &lt;em&gt;point&lt;/em&gt; of the site seems to be focused on a great experience answering and asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think there's nothing &lt;em&gt;stopping&lt;/em&gt; people from posting a long article and then ending with a question. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29147/is-there-a-limit-on-the-length-of-a-question&quot;&gt;Or is there?&lt;/a&gt; Are there examples of super-long articles that end in, or contain questions, that have passed muster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like a question could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29147/is-there-a-limit-on-the-length-of-a-question/29162&quot;&gt;the length of 20 pages from a novel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastEditorUserId="131074" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T02:13:20.407" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T02:13:20.407" />
  <row Id="29150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29146" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:11:01.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seek help before you &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/7403673&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stand before a crowd of people with a sockpuppet named Tony the Pony.&lt;/a&gt; :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:11:01.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29146" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:23:25.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to vote this question up, but didn't have the reputation on meta.stackoverflow.com yet to do so ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138715" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:23:25.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24964" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:28:57.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reminded of this fictional exchange...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STAN: &lt;strong&gt;I need to talk about your&#xA;  flair.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOANNA: &lt;strong&gt;Really? I have 15 buttons&#xA;  on.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STAN: &lt;strong&gt;Well, ok, 15 is minimum, ok?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STAN: &lt;strong&gt;Now, it’s up to you whether or&#xA;  not you want to just do the bare&#xA;  minimum. Well, like Brian, for&#xA;  example, has 37 pieces of flair.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOANNA: &lt;strong&gt;Ok. Ok, you want me to wear&#xA;  more?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STAN: &lt;strong&gt;Look, we want you to express&#xA;  yourself, ok? If you think the bare&#xA;  minimum is enough, then ok. &lt;em&gt;But some&#xA;  people choose to wear more and we&#xA;  encourage that, ok?&lt;/em&gt; You do want to&#xA;  express yourself, don't you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, true confession, when I got to over 100% on my CV I was pretty happy. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:28:57.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19579" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:30:28.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another 'sandbox' with Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow Dump data is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It uses the PostgreSQL engine, and thus the PostgreSQL version of SQL.&#xA;It has indexes, and also offers a database API module, for accessing the database&#xA;from Python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was just updated with October's data (the 1 November data dump).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138716" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-02T16:40:32.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T16:40:32.780" />
  <row Id="29154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29146" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:31:31.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I find myself answering too many questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; I open a browser window and answer questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This usually fails to stop my mania.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:31:31.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29146" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:32:05.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;don't suffer from it - enjoy it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a little mania now and then is good for you. Just beware of the edge and make sure you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11345/should-i-work-really-hard-to-get-back-on-the-first-page-of-users-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;turn back before you go too far&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:32:05.977" />
  <row Id="29157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:35:39.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another 'sandbox' with Stackoverflow Dump data is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It uses the Postgresql engine, and thus the Postgresql version of SQL. It has indexes, and also offers a DB API module, for accessing the database from Python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was just updated with November's data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138716" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:35:39.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:40:22.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an excellent idea. And then rename the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/Latest.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;codeproject.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, this would be an A without the Q. And @TheTXI would post 50,000-word treatises on how awesome ponies are. Really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet, of course, would not need to post an article, because he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:40:22.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29194" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:41:52.043" Score="5" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to ask how do I undo an upvoted comment, but then I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11545/do-you-get-points-for-upvoted-comments&quot;&gt;saw this&lt;/a&gt;, so coming to part 2, I accidentally upvoted a comment (instead of flagging it), so now how do I flag the comment? Flag the whole post and say please check comment X? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T09:15:24.357" LastActivityDate="2010-09-22T22:37:36.350" Title="Flagging a comment which was upvoted" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-10T01:59:43.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself agreeing with both sides. &lt;strong&gt;Both have a point.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes indeed Q &amp;amp; A style content &lt;em&gt;is and always should be&lt;/em&gt; what StackOverflow does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I bemoan the lack of means to group questions together. Yes there is tagging, but that's analagous to very loose coupling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642104/evernote-export-format-enex-to-html-including-pictures&quot;&gt;a question on SO&lt;/a&gt; , and didn't get any answers that were good enough. Then I decided to split that into two subquestions, which got answers in a matter of a couple days, becasue they were more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is hat SO did not give me a way to add relationships between my various questions, other than obviously hyperlinking them to each other manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My suggestion&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Anyone familiar with Mantis/ Bugzilla, etc will know how useful the relation-graphs and dependency-graphs are. Why not implement something like that in SO? Let the asker of the question not just tag the question, but also set its realtionship to other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this sit with the rest of us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138717" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T01:59:43.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29147" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:11:20.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;30,000 characters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASize%5Fcomparisons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Assuming&lt;/a&gt; an average word length of 5, plus a space, that's about &lt;strong&gt;5000 words&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=608972&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Assuming&lt;/a&gt; the average page of a novel has 250 words, it's the equivalent in length to &lt;strong&gt;20 pages of a novel&lt;/strong&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: on the post &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13784/please-increase-the-maximum-allowed-length-for-answers&quot;&gt;&quot;Please increase the maximum allowed length for answers&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff Atwood &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13784/please-increase-the-maximum-allowed-length-for-answers/14142#14142&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you &quot;need&quot; to post more than 30k&#xA;  chars, that's probably symptomatic of&#xA;  other problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T02:11:20.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29164" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:24:21.073" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;what is the difference between publishing my CV and having it be searchable by employers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they are two different options/steps. one says &quot;Your CV is searchable by employers&quot;.. the other says &quot;Your CV is unpublished&quot;.. what does publishing do above and beyond the &quot;searchable&quot; part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T02:43:55.657" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:21:06.103" Title="publish vs searchable by employers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29163" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:31:30.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;About $29 and having employers &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29023/contact-between-employers-and-candidates&quot;&gt;pull you up in their search results and contact you directly&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/5573078014&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Well, until 23:59 PST.&lt;/a&gt; Then &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it's about a $99&lt;/a&gt; difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;code&gt;Publish&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;Search&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your CV is '&lt;code&gt;published&lt;/code&gt;' that means it's open to the public to see. If it's not published, it can show up in Employer search results but is not visible to the outside world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T02:45:21.337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T02:45:21.337" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29166" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:47:17.587" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the Stack Overflow web app available as a download?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'd love to add a section in my website using the same functionality.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If not, making it available would be a fantastic way to standardize Q&amp;amp;A sites! There is probably even a market for selling hosting services for Stack Overflow type of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136769" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T03:29:55.043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:29:55.043" Title="Where can I get my very own Stack Overflow to customise?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29165" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:48:44.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Head your way to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;fork-alicious!&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Stack Overflow isn't a web app.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T02:48:44.777" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:50:41.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find question votes useful. When learning about haskell, one of the things I did was look at the most upvoted questions tagged haskell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T02:50:41.450" />
  <row Id="29168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29170" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:50:42.887" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1699186/how-can-i-make-modulebuild-install-both-x-and-xy&quot;&gt;A question I asked yesterday&lt;/a&gt; was voted to close by one person as &quot;no longer relevant&quot;. I'm not too sure what &quot;no longer relevant&quot; means. Could someone explain it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T19:13:45.017" Title="What does a vote to close as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29168" CreationDate="2009-11-10T02:54:40.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;No Longer Relevant&quot; means that the question itself is out of date.  The answer to your question shows that you need not worry about the particular issue you wrote about.  Your Question is 'Not relevant' to the current operation of building perl modules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T02:54:40.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29168" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:11:31.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As always, it varies.  Possibilities include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please do my homework before some deadline that has passed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questioner has clearly recognized that their question was malformed (edit, comments).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;World events have overtaken the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There undoubtedly could be others.  One possible example of 'world events':-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q: Will product X version Y be released before the end of September 2009?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A: It was released on 13th September 2009.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:11:31.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:11:39.990" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago I had upvoted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/405770/why-are-compilers-so-stupid/405820#405820&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was browing through the answers today when I accidentally clicked on the &quot;downvote&quot; button.  It immediately accepted my downvote, and I figured the answer must have changed because otherwise it wouldn't have accepted my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I actually &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; the answer, I decided to change it back to my upvote - but it won't let me with the standard &quot;vote too old to be changed&quot; error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing I shouldn't have been allowing to downvote the answer either, if it's complaining about me trying to change it back to an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a defect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22489" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T03:14:21.797" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:01:29.890" Title="Defect in &quot;vote too old to be changed&quot; check" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29146" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:12:52.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your work browser looks &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29046/when-no-active-bounties-the-list-is-redundant&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt;, then seek professional help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://absolutely2nothing.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/noactivebounties%5F1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://absolutely2nothing.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/obsession.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:12:52.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29171" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:14:46.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Votes are locked in very rapidly after you select them, due to many many gaming exploits related to silent and invisible undoing of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exception: you may change your vote when the post is edited. However, you are allowed only one of two options after the vote timer is reset:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unvote, taking back either a down or upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Completely reverse your previous vote. Switch that downvote to up or up to down. No inbetweens!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T03:23:13.573" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:23:13.573" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29163" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:21:06.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Published&lt;/strong&gt; -- visible to the world, Google, your Mom, your friends, everyone on the planet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Filed&lt;/strong&gt; -- eligible for appearance in private employer search results (though this can be toggled on and off at will)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:21:06.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="139" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:26:47.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add to the already-supplied answers, I upvote a question for any of the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's well-written&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm curious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was about to ask, but found it instead (see above)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's a &quot;useful&quot; topic (subjective, I know)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think it needs more viewage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it strikes me right&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm in a good mood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:26:47.763" />
  <row Id="29176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:26:52.523" Score="1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to my CV on careers, but I'm not looking for new job, now. But in future I would like change my current employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T20:03:31.603" Title="Option for &quot;I'm not looking for new job&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;options&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="29177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29176" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:30:32.857" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create your CV and don't publish it.  It's not publicly viewable until it's published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T03:30:32.857" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:18:54.107" Score="11" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stackoverflow.com logo suggests a certain description of a stack overflow. I don't mean to say that logos must be correct in what they depict. The logo is perfectly all right as a logo.&#xA;But how apt is it as a description of the &quot;real&quot; stack overflow? I mean, if the stack overflow condition is detected as an error, the picture is not right. And if it is NOT detected, again the picture is not right. Is what I say correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:49:05.113" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:49:05.113" Title="How does a stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;logo&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:22:51.163" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the logo itself:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo itself is like a real stack overflow in some ways and not in others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The colors going from gray to orange maybe signifies danger in the logo as you go higher in the stack, a better representation for a stack overflow though, would be to have all elements completely gray until it reached the maximum size, and then it would turn red for everything above it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The logo correctly shows that the elements of the stack are exceeding the stack limit. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usually your program will crash or you will get a segmentation fault as soon as you exceed your stack.  In this way the logo is not like a real stack overflow.  Because it shows many items on top of the stack. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo properly displays that it is a stack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The logo has a container for the elements in the stack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The logo shows that there are elements in the stack. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The logo shows that the bottom of the stack is closed, meaning things enter it first in last out. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About what a stack overflow is:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A stack has a maximum address that should not be exceeded.  This maximum address can be exceeded by pushing something onto the stack.  The size of the stack determines what this maximum address can be.  You can set this stack size for your programs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, the opposite is a stack underflow, where you try to pop from the stack when nothing is on it, resuling in going under the minimum address that cannot be exceeded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of a stack overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;int functionCall()&#xA;{&#xA;   char x[102400000]; // &amp;lt;--- Just an example, may not overflow if stack is very large&#xA;   //...&#xA;   return 0;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another example of a stack overflow, In this example the stack is exceeded because every function call pushes something on the stack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;void MyRecursiveFunction()&#xA;{&#xA;  MyRecursiveFunction();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="29180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:24:21.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, for a call stack a &quot;stack overflow&quot; is detected when the CPU issues a write to the stack at a higher address than &quot;allowed&quot;, which leads to an exception being raised to the operating system. The range of &quot;allowed&quot; addresses is determined by the memory tables for that process and is set up by the operating system.&#xA;When creating a thread in windows, you can decide what size the stack should have. (Even though, the physical memory is probably not committed to this stack until actually required.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:27:35.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to compare the logo to a real stack overflow.  Strictly speaking, a stack overflow could apply to any kind of stack, not just the function call stack that the two existing answers refer to.  As they describe, a stack overflow happens when a stack has more things pushed onto it than its fixed allocation of memory can accommodate. In that sense, the logo is completely wrong because the items wouldn't curve as they overflowed, nor would they change color, because they wouldn't have a geometric orientation or a color to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I always thought the stackoverflow.com name referred more to the problem of developers being overwhelmed with things to do, things to learn, and in general, too many mental contexts over the course of a day.  In that sense, there's nothing technical about the name at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133155" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" />
  <row Id="29182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:28:22.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meaning &quot;stack overflow&quot; becomes apparent from the logo if you think at &quot;stack&quot; and &quot;overflow&quot; with the common, dictionary meaning in mind instead of the CS meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of a pile of cookies that overflows from a cup...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:28:30.077" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally a stack is a Last In - First Out (FIFO) structure. In most systems the storage allocated to the stack is finite in nature. A common way is to segment the address space such that the heap grows from one end address space and the stack from the other end. when the number of elements in the stack exceed the storage space it is said to overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are CPU stacks keeping track of various values, there are stack frames for tracking function calls in a language run-time and various other stacks keeping track of temporary values. the reason the stack is used is because allocating memory on the stack really just copying a value and incrementing a pointer just past the size of the pushed element. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135862" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="29184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-16T16:37:02.977" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a logo, and you are all crazy people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the humour-impaired, ;), but also, come on... :|.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132002" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-16T18:17:41.247" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is a stack overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well my friends, years ago, back in the dark ages of computing, a colleague came to me with a problem.  His code was randomly crashing, and he couldn't figure out where the bug was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By crash I mean write random characters to random spots on the screen, lock up, and require physical powering down.  Yes, this was the world of DOS, the IBM pc, back when we ran without virtual memory or &quot;protected&quot; memory segments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it turns out my colleague was running with the default 4k stack.  Yes, 4 kilobytes.  Get out your magnifying glass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in those days, the stack started at one end of memory.  Code went at another.  Heap went at another.  The heap and stack kind-of worked up/down toward each other.  When they met, it was &quot;troublesome&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only my colleague's compiler put his compiled binary code up at the end of the stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And he declared a large array of floats on the stack.  A very large array, for his stack size.  It took up a little over 3k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, when his function call tree got deep enough, he overwrote his code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, he called that code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My friends, THAT is a stack overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You people today, with your virtual memory and coredumps.  You have it easy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-17T02:12:27.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/294050/how-does-a-stack-overflow#294065&quot;&gt;Federico&lt;/a&gt; about the common use of the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking further back, consider a cafeteria line that has a special stacker for clean trays at the start of the line.  The stack has a spring mechanism so that the stack will sink into the container as more clean trays are placed on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, the stack can't descend any farther and new trays will start to pile up higher and higher above the normal height maintained by the stacking mechanism.  Keep this up and the stack will be unstable and topple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not unlike the stack used diagramatically in the Stack Overflow logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another case too, referred to as stacker or hopper overflow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the era of punched cards, card readers and card punches attached to computers would often stack their output face down where it could be removed from the output hopper with the cards in proper sequence.  The stack of output or already-read cards was usually fed onto a spring-loaded piston under a plate that could move up and down inside of a channel that kept the cards from falling out.  (You could remove the cards sideways from the vertical hopper.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it was sensed that the plate had descended too far, there was a mechanical mechanism (patented by IBM) involving a spring-loaded toggle switch.  When the toggle was thrown by the weight of the descending stack of cards, the card transport would be stopped until an operator removed the stack from the hopper that overflowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" />
  <row Id="29187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-18T15:48:22.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for informative answers, incisive comments and eloquent markdowns. I clarify again: the logo is good enough as a logo. My question was only about whether it depicted the stack overflow condition properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate the historical(nostalgic for me too) references to the various connotations of stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" />
  <row Id="29188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-18T16:06:57.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a technical description of a stack overflow see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26158/how-does-a-stack-overflow-occur-and-how-do-you-prevent-it#27132&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26158/how-does-a-stack-overflow-occur-and-how-do-you-prevent-it#27132&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logo does not accurately depict a computational stack overflow, but it gives a sense of the words &quot;stack&quot; and &quot;overflow.&quot;  As a logo goes it's great, for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's easy to recognize, so branding is solid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It depicts the name, and thus the association is reasonably solid in a user's mind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's easy/cheap to render in color, black and white, and low and high resolution devices.  (ie, no information is lost when the logo is monotone or grayscale)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compression works well on it, so it's cheap to transmit, store, cache, buffer, render, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as technical issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A stack overflow results in other memory being overwritten - the logo suggests that the container just stops accepting new items, and they are lost.  The reality is much more insidious in nature - the new items are destructive to existing data near the memory location of the stack.  Think of a stack as containing antimatter, and the rest of the program consisting of matter.  When the stack overflows, it 'spills' onto the rest of the program and Bad Things Happen (TM).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A stack, in most architectures, grows downward from the top - the memory location of the stack generally starts at a higher address, say 0xFFFF and the stack pointer decrements down to 0x0000 (the heap grows up, in this way there's a buffer in between so that stack or heap overflows have less impact), so visually the logo is upside down.  Unless, of course, you look at memory as a list starting with 0x0000, where it would appear that a stack &quot;grows upward by decreasing its memory pointer&quot;:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0x0000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0x0001&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0xFFFE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0xFFFF&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is, of course, a matter of perspective, and results in much confusion.  In general one should refer to a stack as &quot;decrementing&quot; or &quot;incrementing&quot; to avoid such confusion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The logo depicts a stack of even sized items.  Stacks can (and do) hold all sorts of oddly sized and shaped things - there is no constant typical item size.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, at the end of the day, a logo is about branding.  It's not meant to be a teaching object, and this one is very good for it's purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" />
  <row Id="29189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-19T00:33:51.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public class Foo&#xA;{&#xA;    public Foo()&#xA;    {&#xA;       Foo thisIsbad = new Foo();&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" />
  <row Id="29190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2008-11-21T19:57:46.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the logo, in all its beauty, does not suggest the undesirability of the stack overflow condition. It looks inviting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29178" CreationDate="2009-11-10T03:13:07.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A stack overflow occurs when the pile of papers to be handled in your inbox gets so high that it cascades sideways onto the floor, causing a complete brain reset in panic at dealing with so many issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The friction of the paper sliding sideways causes it to burst into flames, thus the change in color to a fiery orange as the stack gets higher and higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145253" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T04:39:33.710" />
  <row Id="29192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T05:01:17.047" Score="1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's greate if I can add website link and some short additional info about employer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Example Corp. was founded in 2002 as a&#xA;  branch of BigExample, that belong in&#xA;  the Example Group. The residence is in&#xA;  Paris, the France.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main activity is development&#xA;  information system for Universities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="130101" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T06:03:23.770" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T15:00:03.510" Title="Additional info about employer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-10T05:01:50.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already do that.  Post a question, then answer it yourself.  The community votes your question and answer according to its usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downside is that often people will accuse one of rep-whoring, and downvote with demands that it be made community wiki, so this type of behavior, while encouraged by the various FAQs on self answering questions, is treated with hostility in reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the system is already set up as-is, and can be used for exactly the same purpose you indicate, but within the Q&amp;amp;A framework explicit in the site design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T05:01:50.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29160" CreationDate="2009-11-10T05:16:31.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would work. I doubt it is worth doing much more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-22T22:37:36.350" LastActivityDate="2010-09-22T22:37:36.350" />
  <row Id="29195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T05:11:24.503" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25854/is-the-number-of-developers-counter-being-disingenuous&quot;&gt;Is the number of developers counter being disingenuous?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its just a jquery function that keeps incrementing the counter at random time intervals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;x no of developers are waiting for you... hehe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T05:22:19.860" ClosedDate="2009-11-10T05:22:45.683" Title="Is the counter fake?" Tags="&lt;jquery&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29257" CreationDate="2009-11-10T05:30:44.763" Score="5" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;In SO you are allowed to define and redefine your handle at whim. I myself have done so but I was reading an SO entry from a while back to which the well known &lt;strong&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/strong&gt; made a comment to which someone responded @Jon... But Jon was no longer Jon he was now (and probably still is) &lt;strong&gt;Tony the Pony&lt;/strong&gt;. Now I know who both these handles belong to but to the SO neophyte there is a disconnect to see comments referring to @Jon but there are no longer any comments by Jon. It's an interesting quirk since Tony the Pony is probably in the top 1% of commentators and answer factories so he has pretty good coverage in the Java and C# worlds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136756" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T02:13:54.340" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T02:13:54.340" Title="Should you be allowed to change your handle in SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29196" CreationDate="2009-11-10T05:40:36.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is in a name?  Your reputation follows you no matter what you change your name to, as do your questions and answers.  IMO, Jon Skeet changing his name to Tony the Pony might have made OPs look at his answers before judging them by his name alone, which is a good thing.  Most likely Tony got the upvotes anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T05:40:36.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29196" CreationDate="2009-11-10T06:00:09.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be just as easy to change your online name as it is to change your real-life name.  In the US, all you need to do to legally change your name is... &lt;em&gt;start using a new name&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I want to go by Johnny instead of John, I could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my Fiancee wants to change her last name she should be able to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T06:00:09.813" />
  <row Id="29199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29196" CreationDate="2009-11-10T06:23:52.593" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take your point that it creates some oddities. When Tony retires and I go back to being Jon (which I'll probably do some time this week) there'll be a bunch of comments directed at Tony which now seem strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's probably best not to worry about it too much - but also to use name changing sparingly. If anyone's confused and adds a comment, the post's owner is likely to be able to set the record straight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T06:23:52.593" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T07:02:34.770" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2631/view-approximate-number-of-users-online&quot;&gt;View approximate number of users online&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good idea to show the count of users currently accessing the website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be categorized by registered and unregistered users so a user can work out the popularity of a given SO site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131374" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T07:10:34.067" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T07:10:34.067" ClosedDate="2009-11-10T07:29:04.890" Title="Show current count of users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-count&gt;" />
  <row Id="29201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29192" CreationDate="2009-11-10T08:14:30.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did so, but only minimally, by adding some information to the responsibilities field on each experience. As you can use Markdown in these fields, there is no problem adding links to the company website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are cases were providing information about the company will add to your CV, and there are countries were this is pretty common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T08:14:30.220" />
  <row Id="29202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29136" CreationDate="2009-11-10T08:20:07.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a ( hmm..blog-like ?) page associated with each account over a certain rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often find myself troubleshooting a problem for 4 hours, only then to find the (unobvious) answer. My first reaction is to quickly post this problem/answer to SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, like a mini-blog then. But searchable within SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also make a great resume/CV to show for careers.stackoverflow.com ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T08:20:07.747" />
  <row Id="29203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2009-11-10T08:32:59.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understant there are 10's of good reasons against uploading code files, however: what if it's the answers that require some uploads? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had the perfect code for a utility function that did exactelly what the OP was asking for. Code was 200+ lines, and would probably benefited a lot of people trying strugling with the same formatting problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you could just answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, this is the function that  I use to format a DataSet into an XML-compliant Office Excel 2007 document: codegoeshere.cs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to be able to  upload small 10-15kb human-readable text files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T08:32:59.763" />
  <row Id="29204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29127" CreationDate="2009-11-10T08:38:23.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way to make it more clear to new users is to fix up how current and older  users leave these dizzying comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs to be some education on their part to help with the fact that a brand new user might not be familiar with how the sites are interlinked as opposed to traditional forums where they would be distinct other sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This belongs on ... | Should be on ... | Ask your question on ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;only makes the new user think, &quot;Oh, okay, I'll just go and repost it on that other site.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas a better comment would be something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question is set to move to the proper site. Please follow the link when your question is closed. &lt;strong&gt;Please do not re-post.&lt;/strong&gt; Just follow the trail and continue on from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T08:38:23.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4637" CreationDate="2009-11-10T09:17:07.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When questions exhibit more than a dozen lines of code, I switch to another one. Digging the code for finding bugs is my real life job, and I am good at it because I have spent time for learning the context. Getting into that kind of learning curve is not something I expect from Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a potential answerer, I expect from Stackoverflow that the OP has already isolated his bug and is able to present its essence to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a potential asker, I expect from Stackoverflow that the essence of the problem I am struggling against has already been exposed and solved. This will never be the case if every problem is flooded with specific context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131554" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T09:17:07.193" />
  <row Id="29206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29146" CreationDate="2009-11-10T09:22:54.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A year in, and I'm slowing down. I slipped from Users page 12 to page &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=13&quot;&gt;13&lt;/a&gt; while on holiday (=&quot;vacation&quot;) and didn't get &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; upset. (Although right now I'm the last name on the page, 2 places and 8 points below Spolsky, who I can never seem to catch).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only taken a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Hah! One good answer - for Ruby - and &quot;in your &lt;em&gt;face&lt;/em&gt; Spolsky&quot; ... for now)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133197" LastEditorUserId="133197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T14:49:42.377" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T14:49:42.377" />
  <row Id="29207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29146" CreationDate="2009-11-10T09:37:15.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will just save myself a lot of typing and refer to my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you/11655#11655&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The one thing that has made me infamous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T09:37:15.753" />
  <row Id="29208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29176" CreationDate="2009-11-10T09:58:56.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your CV is searchable, you have this line on your status page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your CV is searchable by employers; &lt;strong&gt;hide from searches&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just hide your CV from searches and employers won't find your CV. You can also unpublish it if you don't want anyone to see it at your public CV url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137411" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T09:58:56.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29176" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:09:05.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are five checkboxes at the bottom of your CV listing the options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What type of work are you seeking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[] Full time permanent&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  [] Temporary contract&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  [] Telecommute&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  [] I'm open to ideas&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  [] Internship or Co-op&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make sure all of them are cleared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T20:03:31.603" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T20:03:31.603" />
  <row Id="29212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T11:00:18.080" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just posted a question on Server Fault about Windows Profiles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started typing in &quot;windows&quot; in the tags and &quot;windows&quot; appeared on the drop down list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tags: windows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then moved my cursor to the end and started typing &quot;profile&quot; as a &quot;windows&quot; tag on its own is pretty useless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tags: windows profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on selecting &quot;Profile&quot; from the drop down list, &quot;Windows&quot; is removed and tag says &quot;Profiles Pro&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tags: profiles pro&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confused, how to I tag like the following?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;windows profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131750" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T11:51:30.047" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:51:30.047" Title="Second tag replaces the first tag" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-suggestions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:49:25.517" Score="0" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see it again and again that people here, while asking questions, do it very ably - their code looks like real code - all the tags are in one color and all the commands are in another color. But I don't even know how to change the color of text while typing my question - obviously, there is no such tool here (at least I couldn't find) - let alone, formatting the code properly. How do I do it here at stackoverflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138827" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T15:59:57.217" Title="How to change text color and format code while posting questions here?" Tags="&lt;code&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29213" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:52:13.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the orange question mark above the top right corner of the reply box. That will explain everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145684" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:01:41.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-10T10:52:13.347" />
  <row Id="29215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29213" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:52:19.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write your code, and then highlight it and use the 'code' button above the input box (that's the button consisting of &lt;code&gt;{ }&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12960" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-18T15:58:49.650" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T15:58:49.650" />
  <row Id="29216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29213" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:53:25.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the &lt;code&gt;{ }&lt;/code&gt; and then type the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-18T15:59:19.510" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T15:59:19.510" />
  <row Id="29217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29213" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:53:36.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You put four spaces at the beginning of the line to make it a code block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can select a part of your text and press the &lt;code&gt;{ }&lt;/code&gt; button to add/remove four spaces at the beginning of each line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131612" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-18T15:59:57.217" LastActivityDate="2010-12-18T15:59:57.217" />
  <row Id="29218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29213" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:54:11.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For code lines, put four spaces in front of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;void foo(int bar) {&#xA;    // vomit&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;done. Simples. Oh, orange question mark surely is obvious too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The system uses MarkDown formatting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:01:41.013" />
  <row Id="29219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29213" CreationDate="2009-11-10T10:58:09.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001306.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001306.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:01:41.013" />
  <row Id="29220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29196" CreationDate="2009-11-10T11:02:34.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The important thing is that our unique User ID's don't change, i.e.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;136756&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tracking name changes is probably more critical on sites such as EBay where the display name &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the only way to identify a user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately the display names on our accounts are just like nicknames and we should be able to change these as and when required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:02:34.240" />
  <row Id="29222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21462" CreationDate="2009-11-10T11:22:47.417" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah after undoing my original mistaken vote (within about 5 seconds) I expect to be able recast my vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please fix this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1116" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:22:47.417" />
  <row Id="29223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29176" CreationDate="2009-11-10T11:29:19.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quote from FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is 100% free to create, edit, and&#xA;  publish your professional programming&#xA;  CV here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are seeking employment, we do&#xA;  require a modest annual payment to&#xA;  file your CV. Filing your CV makes it&#xA;  eligible to appear in searches by&#xA;  hiring managers via our private search&#xA;  interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:29:19.963" />
  <row Id="29224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29212" CreationDate="2009-11-10T11:30:55.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an issue with your browser, which could be either IE6, IE7 or the stand out Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14450/tag-suggestion-inserts-new-tags-at-wrong-position-on-ie6-and-ie7&quot; title=&quot;dupe in tagging&quot;&gt;tag suggestion is overwriting your first tag&lt;/a&gt;, preventing you from easily making use of it as it just replaces it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tag your question, you have two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tag it fast and ignore the suggestions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type up the tags elsewhere and put them in later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T11:30:55.903" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T12:01:37.070" Score="1" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am getting this error when I try to login with the google openid account in stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Positive assertion sent with OpenID version 1.1 but Identifier&#xA;discovery suggested it would be 2.0&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My openid url is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;http://openid-provider.appspot.com/santosh1984naidu&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/118682/san&quot;&gt;san&lt;/a&gt; in stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also tried with &quot;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&quot; with me being logged in the &#xA;google openid account in the next tab in the same browser. But I get the same error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have earned good reputation, I dont want to start all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134467" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T20:29:37.627" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T20:29:37.627" Title="Unable to login with google openid account in stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29294" CreationDate="2009-11-10T12:18:54.600" Score="23" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;The terms &lt;em&gt;login&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;logout&lt;/em&gt; are used inconsistently and incorrectly. The links up there in the header and the associated buttons should use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/log_in&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;verb form&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;log in&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;log out&lt;/em&gt; because they're actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: though fixed once, the new March 2011 popup &lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/1EAXR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;has it wrong again&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-21T18:58:56.470" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T18:58:56.470" Title="Use of login/logout is inconsistent and incorrect" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;logout&gt;&lt;grammar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T12:58:54.467" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/486541/asp-net-mvc-rc-creating-a-mvc-user-control-with-a-codebehind/486583#486583&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7412/unrealbrowserhurtmyeyes.png&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;answer to the question &lt;code&gt;link&lt;/code&gt; runs outside of the fixed width, using IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137962" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T17:25:02.123" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T17:25:02.123" Title="Answer not following width format" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27373" CreationDate="2009-11-10T13:31:08.850" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think having 2 different reputation listings would just complicate things, and lead to all kinds of questions of how to combine or test them for reputation based rewards. I however agree with the basic premise going around that the &quot;ask questions only&quot; reputation gain poses a problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People attach a value to reputation. When they see people gaining it without &quot;earning&quot; it, it makes them feel that their own hard earned reputation has been cheapened. This kind of negative resentment is not good for a healthly community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People want to gain reputation. Right now the easiest way of gaining reputation without the need for skill or effort is to post a lot of mildly controversial or just &quot;what is your personal opinion of&quot; conversational questions. While these kinds of questions are just within the rules, they're not what the system is for - but unfortunately like gold farming, the rules and rewards of the system encourage this undesired behavoir from those who don't feel like playing fairly. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most importantly reputation controls access to various moderation features. Since there is yet to be a solution to reputation inflation, anyone who just sits around doing nothing but asking off-base questions will have moderation control over other users (and sooner rather then later based on some of these users). This I think is the breaking point, as these types of users have not shown they are a productive member of the community (they've done the opposite), and yet have moderation control over others. See also &quot;negative resentment&quot; above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would propose a different type of solution, one the preserves the reward for asking good questions (which is a needed component for the community), but prevents that mechanic from being farmed - use a reputation cap just like the one used to prevent a single answer/question from overly inflating a persons reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rate cap would need 3 components:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A per user counter for how many reputation points the user has earned from questions. This would be the same as the counter used to check the 200/day cap, but it would only count questions and would not get reset each day. There would be the issue of calculating this value for users when the system first went into use.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A constant value for a question grace amount, say 499 or 999.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A constant value for a question/answer ratio, say 50%.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combined with the users actual reputation these values are used to calculate a floating rate cap for question upvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question Rate Cap = Total Reputation * Question/Answer Ratio + Question Grace Amount&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This rate cap is then applied to question upvotes in the same manner as the 200/day rate cap (by comparing the cap to their counter before applying the upvote). Users are free to gain reputation from questions, but they cannot gain moderator powers (or otherwise appear as high reputation users) until they start adding some reputation from other sources, at which point they can resume gaining reputation from questions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67468" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T13:31:08.850" />
  <row Id="29232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28938" CreationDate="2009-11-10T13:37:11.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All things being equal, they won't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am boldly putting out my public CV though I'm at only 55 SO rep.  I imagine if a hiring manager searches for their criteria and gets me and Jon Skeet, I'm not going to get a call.  However, if they really want someone who has my tagset and not his, then my 55 won't look so bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what I really want to be able to do is search resumes. I just took a job and I'm looking to hire, not get hired.  Here's hoping this section of the site will be open soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130606" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T13:37:11.463" />
  <row Id="29236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28938" CreationDate="2009-11-10T14:51:22.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, I'd be inclined to hire users who have good scores in the specific areas relevant to the position I'm looking to fill regardless of their overall score.  If their answers in those areas are routinely upvoted and they have a decent answer/accepted ratio then I'd be interested even if they only have a few hundred rep.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I don't think I could afford users on the first 10 pages or so...  If they would work for normal wages I might have to hire them just 'cause :-).  But not too many of them... I need people to write code and answer their co-workers questions not answer random SO users questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T14:51:22.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11938" CreationDate="2009-11-10T15:01:43.540" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is worth reflecting a little on why the question quality is low to begin with. (I actually think that the answer quality is reasonably high -- not surprising, as most of the reputation mechanisms on the site focus on promoting good answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are two thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are always folks looking to get started and build reputation. The easiest (only effective?) way to do this is to watch the newest questions list and answer the easiest questions immediately. However, the easiest questions are frequently exactly the questions that most developers would consider low quality. There is thus no incentive for users not to research before asking questions -- there will always be someone out there willing to do the legwork they should have done themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests a mechanism for improving question quality: Give more reputation for providing an up-voted answer to an up-voted question than for a down-voted question. (For a bonus, make up/down-voting questions cheaper and more accessible so as to get more community feedback on them sooner.) That way, the best strategy for an incoming SO user is to answer high quality questions. If low quality questions visibly don't get answered, that may reduce the incentive to ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you email a mailing list, you're taking up the time of all the recipients of the list. And many of those recipients jealously guard their time. This has led to a general culture of &quot;I won't google things for you&quot; and links to &quot;How to ask a good question documents&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With SO, there is less of a sense of impinging on folks, and the culture of insisting on high quality questions is missing. This does have an upside -- the barrier to entry for new programmers is lower -- but it does mean more spammy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO could probably attempt to influence new question askers by e.g. linking prominently to &quot;How to ask a good question&quot; docs, but they're likely to be ignored by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't the SO community actively police question quality? I think it is because of the incentive problem above, and also because there are no decent mechanisms to do so. The only one there is now is downvoting a question, which costs reputation yet has no really apparent impact on the question or questioner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without the ability to have community policing, it comes down to this: What is your incentive not to ask an unresearched/incomprehensible/etc. question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In mailing lists, it is something like shame (for better or for worse). You may do it once, but after the very public response you get from the list, you're unlikely to do it again. If one wanted to go nuts along this lines, you could put SO users who ask poor quality questions (as judged democratically by other users) on question probation, visible to all -- a cone of shame. Then provide ample resources for them on how to ask better questions, and let them earn their way back out of question probation by improving their existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, neither of these is the whole story, but I think either could help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general point is: Provide mechanisms that reward users for asking good questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; for answering good questions, and that don't reward (or punish) users for asking bad questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; for answering bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138719" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T15:01:43.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29253" CreationDate="2009-11-10T15:38:10.840" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that some people have their Superuser and Serverfault profile on the right column of their CV.  I can only see my Stackoverflow profile, how do I add those other two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133828" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:43:40.687" Title="How do I associate my Superuser and Serverfault accounts to my CV?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29230" CreationDate="2009-11-10T15:40:21.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't we replicate here using a super duper long URL which unlike in comment, will not get truncated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me try:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.lozanotek.com/archive/2008/10/20/Visual%5FStudio%5FTemplates%5Ffor%5FMVC%5FViews%5Fwithout%5FCodebehind%5FFiles.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.lozanotek.com/archive/2008/10/20/Visual_Studio_Templates_for_MVC_Views_without_Codebehind_Files.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it overlap to the right-bar in Chrome and IE7/8?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot of this post (v1) in Chrome 3.0.195:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i34.tinypic.com/wrz0qd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Overlapping (Chrome)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T15:50:14.280" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T15:50:14.280" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T15:44:16.957" Score="1" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can result in a situation where you have comments indicated as being older than what they're commenting on.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm posting in synopsis form because FF's view selection source gave me something that the editor interpreted as source, not as HTML marked up text.  If it would be beneficial I do have a copy of the page source saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 Answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Contents of the answer]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;answered 3 mins ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[A comment made after I loaded the page]&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;8 mins ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[My comment]&lt;/em&gt; 0 secs ago  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T15:44:16.957" Title="Posting a comment downloads any comments made since the page was refreshed but doesn't update the time since the answer was posted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29247" CreationDate="2009-11-10T15:51:39.487" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a bounty question. My answer has 4 up-votes and the rest have 0 votes. The bounty expired earlier today. I don't see the points from the bounty anywhere. What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138749" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:00:35.430" Title="Bounty expired, 4 upvotes and no points received" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29246" CreationDate="2009-11-10T15:55:16.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was your answer posted &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the bounty was added? It must be after (I think edits count, but don't quote me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there is sometimes a delay of a few hours in awarding the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;very rare&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; cases the bounty has been redacted by mods - usually to migrate the question between sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt; (re what happens if [the OP] doesn't accept an answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any answer that was a) provided after the bounty period started and b) has 2 or more upvotes is automatically accepted after 7 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit; now you've posted the question number, I can see that you posted after the bounty...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Bounty creation of 300 rep on question id = 1643636 Nov 3 at 15:02&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;answered Nov 6 at 17:46 Gonzalo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I expect it is just the delay. Give it an hour or so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T16:00:35.430" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:00:35.430" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29249" CreationDate="2009-11-10T15:55:58.437" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209085/showing-content-over-a-flash-9-swf&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209085/showing-content-over-a-flash-9-swf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to get my accepted questions percentage to 100%, and this topic is killing me. What can I do? I can't accept any answers (no checkbox), and I can't delete the post because it has too many responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133879" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:00:26.617" Title="Why can't I accept an answer or delete this topic?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29248" CreationDate="2009-11-10T16:00:26.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you set a bounty and it expired before you accepted an answer, you can't then accept any answer in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25745/can-someone-see-why-i-cant-accept-an-answer&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25745/can-someone-see-why-i-cant-accept-an-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:00:26.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29171" CreationDate="2009-11-10T16:01:29.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's the same problem, but today, I downvoted several answers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1675689/what-c-features-would-be-removed-if-backwards-compatibility-were-not-an-issue&quot;&gt;What C# features would be removed if backwards compatibility were not an issue?&lt;/a&gt; because they were answers about BCL features, not C# features. I soon realized that the question was actually about both, and wanted to undo my downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was not permitted to do so, and got the &quot;not until edited&quot; error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:01:29.890" />
  <row Id="29251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T16:08:08.973" Score="31" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;More than once I have been in a situation when a proper response to a comment just doesn't fit within the 600 character limit &amp;amp; the better approach is to edit the answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At times like these, being able to see the comment thread would be a real benefit.  When a comment addresses multiple issues, I typically find that I address part of the answer, save, compare the comment to the current state of my answer, then repeat the process until I'm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can open the edit page in a new tab, but frankly I usually never think about this until I've been editing &amp;amp; I realize I want to reread the comment.  Sometimes this happens on questions too, but less often for me &amp;amp; I see that question has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&quot;&gt;already been asked&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135974" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-23T00:58:42.560" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T01:04:59.607" Title="Show comments when editing answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29228" CreationDate="2009-11-10T16:28:58.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why openid has barfed, but... OK; how about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a new registered account with a different openid - perhaps your gmail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;use the same e-mail address (to make it easy to track)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;let me (or another mod here) know the new user id; we'll check the e-mail etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;we'll merge the two accounts, leaving both openids on it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That work? (I'm e-mailing too; to prove ownership, an &quot;ack&quot; via e-mail would go a long way)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't just copy your MSO gmail openid, as it is site-specific)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T16:35:19.360" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:35:19.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29241" CreationDate="2009-11-10T16:43:40.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to associate your accounts with each-other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you do that, all of them that you associate will show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have over 200 rep points, on at least one of the sites, you will will get a 100 rep point bonus on all of the sites, that you have associated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T16:43:40.687" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29256" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:02:58.807" Score="-1" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of websites that require or encourage logins - like Stack Overflow - have been using Facebook Connect to authenticate users.  What do people think about adding a &quot;login via Facebook&quot; option, in addition to the current Open ID options?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also allow posting Stack Overflow-related data to people's walls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154895" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T15:25:28.993" LastActivityDate="2010-07-24T15:26:46.213" Title="Facebook as a login provider" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;facebook&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29230" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:24:31.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bug in browsers, not our code. Easy fix: use smaller URLs! That one is pathologically big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T17:24:31.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29254" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:27:50.480" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really, what is the need? There is already a large range of OpenID providers out there (Google, AOL, WordPress, etc.), and in the unlikely case they don't have any of those providers, they can quickly register for a myOpenID account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may as well also state what others will likely repeat: StackOverflow is not a social networking site, thus why should it be tied to Facebook in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there's also the technical issue: adding another login system independent of OpenID would unnecessarily complicate the server backend hugely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T17:27:50.480" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29196" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:30:56.963" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like everything else, it should probably be rate-limited. If I've learned anything, it is that unbounded behaviors lead to pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: after a two-day grace period for new users, one display name change allowed every 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T02:13:46.227" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T02:13:46.227" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="29259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:34:02.403" Score="1" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have lived my life in complete ignorance. I always thought ponies were simply young horses. A young horse is actually called a foal and they cannot in fact be ridden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anyone else not know this? Am I alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T22:21:26.643" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T22:21:26.643" ClosedDate="2009-11-10T17:39:14.690" Title="Did anyone realize that ponies are not young horses?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;ponies&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29228" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:34:18.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is an unofficial google openid provider -- it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; from Google. I strongly urge you not to use that provider. Use the real GMail openid provider!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T17:34:18.457" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29229" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:36:47.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm not against this change, I can't muster any enthusiasm for it either. If we've gone more than a year without this being a problem in the slightest, I don't see how the next year would be any different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T17:36:47.563" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67747" CreationDate="2009-11-10T17:59:42.860" Score="34" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could timestamps of bounty activity be added to a question's revision history?  Or something that would show the bounty events for a question anyway?  Obviously the revision entries would need to be immune to rollbacks.  I think this would help to clear up some of the questions that get asked related to how bounties were or weren't awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, could they even be added to the question page itself so that you didn't have to visit the revision to see it?  That might make more sense, especially for users who don't make it a habit to view the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At the risk of asking too much, since it looks like this suggestion's going to happen :) (thanks!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something else I just thought of is that it would be nice to also have a flag shown on answers that do not qualify for the bounty.  ie- Answers posted (and not edited) prior to the bounty being set get something visible indicating they don't currently qualify.  I know that's extra logic, so I'm happy with just the indication of bounty events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers guys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-21T04:15:58.873" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T04:15:58.873" Title="Add bounty events to revision history" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29297" CreationDate="2009-11-10T18:50:36.323" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I go into the 10k tools, I can see the number of flags for offensive and spam for all flagged posts. Is there a reason why I can't have this information in the flag window as well, so before I choose a reason, I can see how other people have flagged a post? It would be just like the close window - it shows you the number of people who have voted for each of the close reasons and the total number of people who voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T22:38:09.720" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T23:08:26.997" Title="Why can't we see how other people have flagged a post?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2009-11-10T18:59:06.900" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1940/42015361.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T18:59:06.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29274" CreationDate="2009-11-10T19:10:37.533" Score="-1" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about adding a slight bonus to answering more highly regarded questions? For example, if I answer a question that has been upvoted +1, and my answer receives an upvote, I should get 11 points instead of 10 (10 for the upvote, +1 for the question upvote). That way higher-upvoted questions would be more attractive to answer, garnering better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T22:44:41.173" Title="More rep for upvotes on an upvoted question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29271" CreationDate="2009-11-10T19:16:47.960" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Then people would rather wait for an upvote to a question to get the maximum amount of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would also be biased against technologies that are unpopular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T19:16:47.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29271" CreationDate="2009-11-10T19:17:21.890" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see your point, but similar requests have been made before and not been recieved well.  Jeff has stated before that he does not like to add too much complexity to the voting system.  The only rep/voting value change I see happening in the future is an increase in the downvote rep loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, people get confused enough at the current voting system and its features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Olafur brings up a great new problem also. This is very good example of a future problem that would be introduced with the rep change proposed, which would affect the core goal of the SO sites, which should not be compromised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T20:06:47.513" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T20:06:47.513" />
  <row Id="29275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29008" CreationDate="2009-11-10T19:21:40.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I received a little help on a question I posted, then emailed the person directly to engage them in a tiny project.  (It was also related to his consulting work/daily job).  He was very gracious and did it for a nominal amount - all I needed was a push in the right direction for a technology that was new to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T19:30:51.147" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T19:30:51.147" />
  <row Id="29276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T19:24:17.010" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers is special, as has been discussed a few times on the podcast, in that people pay for certain aspects of it. Combined with the fact that we are talking about something that is much more personal (&lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; CV, &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; career, recruiters, etc) it seems important to put the user at ease as much as possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main thing that seems to be missing are clear and visible descriptions of what &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; happen if I take certain steps in the careers workflow. For example, from the website it is unclear whether I can &quot;File&quot; my CV without actually making it visible to recruiters. Many would like to take advantage of the special offers but may not yet be ready to submit a CV to recruiters (either because it is not done or because they are not looking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28180/does-filing-my-cv-now-at-careers-still-keep-it-in-draft-stage&quot;&gt;existing meta questions&lt;/a&gt; seem to indicate that &quot;Filing&quot; is not automatically &quot;making available to recruiters&quot; but this remains unclear from the careers UI itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reducing anxiety should surely be one of the maxims of web (or any) development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1996" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T23:00:01.380" Title="Careers feature request: make the workflow more clear, put people at ease" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;workflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T20:16:15.827" Score="36" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sure would be nice if the search box would auto-complete tags. So if you start typing &quot;[sq&quot; it would offer an autocomplete menu containing [sql], [sqlserver], etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131265" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T04:16:55.823" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T13:52:42.280" Title="Autocomplete tags in search box" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29262" CreationDate="2009-11-10T20:25:11.317" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a pretty good idea - I agree that it could clear up a good deal of confusion about what happened to old bounty questions. I'd also like to add that &quot;Bounty Awarded&quot; and &quot;Bounty Expired&quot; events should be listed in the history as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastEditorUserId="130256" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T20:32:30.007" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T20:32:30.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29276" CreationDate="2009-11-10T21:13:16.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a semi-dupe as others have brought up the confusion between &quot;filing&quot; and &quot;publishing&quot;, but it bears repeating, because right now it is not very clear what the ramifications are for performing each action. e.g. will recruiters still be able to see a &quot;published&quot; resume even if it is not &quot;filed&quot;? What if they match the &quot;company blacklist&quot; (still unimplemented, so it is unknown how that will work exactly)? Does everyone have to have the precise URL of a &quot;published&quot; resume in order to see it, or will there be a catalog somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have created a resume at all if it weren't for the (now-expired) 3-year beta offer, because these options were so confusing. So I settled for filing (there are no recruiters yet, so this &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; safe), but not publishing so that others can't go look at my details (as my careers URL is pretty easy to guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T21:13:16.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29148" CreationDate="2009-11-10T21:30:14.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the first sentence in the big yellow box to the right of the field states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A list of up to 10 core technologies you used on this job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems fairly easy to count the tags you've entered see how close you are to 10. I can't really see how adding a count-down would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T21:30:14.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-10T21:37:54.587" Score="20" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a &quot;you've earned the  badge&quot; notification is displayed, it would be very nice if the badge name could be hovered over to display the badge description. Currently to discover what that badge means, you need to go to the profile page, find that badge, and hover over it there. Seems like it could all be done inline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131265" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T20:10:49.630" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:00:01.023" Title="Badge notification should support hover description like profile page badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25382" CreationDate="2009-11-10T21:45:32.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you found a job, then two months later someone else offers you 50% more money to do something more interesting than what you just found. But you turned it down because you &quot;already found a job&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be this notion that you're getting ripped off if you're not actively seeking another job in the paid-for period. Honestly, if $9.67 a year (or $99 for that matter) is such a large amount of money to you then you probably shouldn't be considering subscribing to careers here yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you found a position? Good for you. Unless it's your perfect job, in which case you'll be happy to write off the remaining subscription time because you'll never be looking again, it just means you're no longer actively seeking a new position. Now you're passive. Still there, not chasing hard, but open to exceptional opportunities. As you should be. As I am - not actively looking but prepared to consider particularly attractive opportunities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;$29 over the next three years will tell me if it's worth paying full rate thereafter, which is probably why it's priced that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T21:45:32.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29290" CreationDate="2009-11-10T22:14:22.867" Score="21" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just joined meta.stackoverflow.com and linked my account to my Stackoverflow one.  I like upvoting good answers, but unfortunately I have to start off with reputation 1 on meta, which doesn't let me upvote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about letting me transfer 15 rep points from my Stackoverflow account into my meta one?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise there doesn't seem to be a way that I can get involved in the meta community without actually posting or answering a question.  That's annoying because I frequently come here to find out how Stackoverflow works, and I can't upvote good answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to create a question just for the sake of it, and almost all questions are answered before I get anywhere near them!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; It took me a while to figure out, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14753/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-unresolved-feature-requests&quot;&gt;this meta question&lt;/a&gt; seems to explain how feature requests get processed:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-the request are considered open until a &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt;, or &lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt; tag is added to the question&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-the Stackoverflow team generally don't even look at feature requests until they reach 10 upvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138758" LastEditorUserId="138758" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-09T10:35:42.627" LastActivityDate="2011-06-09T10:35:42.627" Title="Can I transfer a little bit of rep from my Stackoverflow account to my meta account?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29289" CreationDate="2009-11-10T22:18:32.530" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can associate your accounts. You'll get 100 rep then. But I don't think you have enough rep on SO to qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T22:18:32.530" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29289" CreationDate="2009-11-10T22:21:43.023" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well you've made a start by posting this question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, posting a question and a couple of answers should (as long as they are interesting and relevant) get you the two up-votes you need to be able to vote yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T22:21:43.023" />
  <row Id="29292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29271" CreationDate="2009-11-10T22:44:41.173" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, it's easier to gain rep by answering questions on popular topics.  These are also the sorts of questions that are likely to get upvoted.  I don't think we need to increase the rep gained on popular topics versus unpopular topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor do I think it would be good for getting questions answered, regardless of topic.  People looking for rep wouldn't answer a wide variety of questions, which is generally good for the sites, but would concentrate on the higher-voted questions, leading to more answers than the popular questions can use, and insufficient answers for the less popular questions.  Again, popular questions already are likely to be the ones that attract answers, and I don't see any reason to emphasize this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also means I can vote directly for my own rep.  If I provide a good answer to a question, I'm going to be tempted to upvote the question.  I'd rather keep answers and question upvotes entirely separate.  Yes, Jeff could allow for that.  In fact, Jeff can make the voting system arbitrarily complex, but I don't think that's a real good idea either.  Simple systems are more likely correct, easier to understand, and don't result in unintuitive corner cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to support something like that, I'd like to see clear explanations for sizable benefits we'd expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T22:44:41.173" />
  <row Id="29293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12694" CreationDate="2009-11-10T22:44:50.830" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Workaround:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a proper &amp;#x60;backticked piece&amp;#x60; without any gray background, or monotype font. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of using `escaped backticks` which look ugly, you can use simple HTML entities, which will not be treated wrongly by the SO server parser. That's a workaround, not a fix of this bug, of course :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like so (&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#x60;&lt;/code&gt; is the HTML Entity for the backtick):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;This is a proper &amp;amp;#x60;backticked piece&amp;amp;#x60;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inside post comments, you should use the &quot;normal&quot; way, as for some odd reason, HTML entities are written as text in comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;use \`normal escape\` in comments, HTML entities don't work&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T12:20:40.607" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T12:20:40.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29229" CreationDate="2009-11-10T23:00:12.503" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a number of non-english speakers &lt;em&gt;logging in&lt;/em&gt; to StackOverflow (including me).  There also is some rant about badly formulated questions, when the guys barely know the language adopted here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one of the aims is to satisfy the former and to decrease the latter, then the captions should be as polished as possible.  I cannot judge whether &quot;log in&quot; form is better than &quot;login&quot;, it's English-speaking admins who should.  But it's easy to imagine that the caption was incorrect for too long because those who know the language, know where the mistake is, and those who don't, think that it's the correct way to spell it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fix it, please, if it's incorrect.  I'm not really sure, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T23:00:12.503" />
  <row Id="29295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30370" CreationDate="2009-11-10T23:04:37.597" Score="8" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's annoying having no rep on the sister sites to S.O. (including here/M.S.O.), but I've heard that if you're over some number, 200 or something, on SO, you get rep when you associate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;?Unfortunately? I hate having multiple accounts, so without knowing that I associated all the other SO sister site accounts with my SO account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been over 200 rep on SO, used some of it up on a bounty, so now I've dropped below 200 again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will I get that rep for sister sites at some point from gaining rep on SO, so that I can make upvotes and the like on sister sites, or have I lost it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have lost it, would disassociating accounts on sister sites until I have another 200 rep on SO, and then recreating them and relinking them let me skip having to build up rep again elsewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastEditorUserId="137918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-10T23:12:00.063" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:37:50.183" Title="Rep bonus for associating accounts... ...lost if you associate early?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29295" CreationDate="2009-11-10T23:08:10.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you associate, it does a check to see if you have more than or equal to 200 rep. If so, you get the 100 rep bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no you wont get 100 rep on the sister sites when you go past 200 on SO after you associate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T23:08:10.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29266" CreationDate="2009-11-10T23:08:26.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It used to work that way - anyone with enough rep to flag could see the current flag count. AFAIK, it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;changed to the current system&lt;/a&gt; in an attempt to reduce flag abuse...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/raising-a-red-flag/#comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the discussion on Raising a Red Flag&lt;/a&gt; for more info/opinions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T23:08:26.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29295" CreationDate="2009-11-10T23:27:50.877" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the 200-rep min is to avoid gaming the system, then maybe users should get the rep bonus retroactively when they surpass minimum requirements. That way, people are encourage to associate their accounts a soon as possible without worrying when is the &quot;best&quot; time to link their accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 100-point bonus was started to encourage users to associate their accounts because it was good for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-10T23:27:50.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12694" CreationDate="2009-11-10T23:43:08.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Test: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;\`foo`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;`foo`&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;`foo`&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#96;foo&amp;amp;#96;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#96;foo&amp;#96;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`&amp;amp;#96;foo&amp;amp;#96;`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;#96;foo&amp;amp;#96;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#96;foo&amp;amp;#96;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;#96;foo&amp;#96;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T12:16:53.000" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T12:16:53.000" />
  <row Id="29301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T00:56:02.853" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOTE: If this has already been fixed, sorry. I just haven't gotten a CAPTCHA in some time, so can't see what's happened.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that, when you get a &lt;strong&gt;CAPTCHA&lt;/strong&gt;, at the top, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;strike&gt;it always says &quot;Login&quot;&lt;/strike&gt;it doesn't say anything, even if you're already logged in&lt;/strong&gt;. This was very unnerving the first few times I got it, while compose a question for a long period of time. When I saw that &lt;strike&gt;it said &quot;Login&quot;&lt;/strike&gt;it said nothing instead of my display name, I thought that my session had ended. Thus, this may be confusing, the first time you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a bug, but if it is status-bydesign, I think that CAPTCHA pages should reflect authentication status, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Here's a pic! Notice, no logged in status at the top, not even &quot;login&quot;!&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/pcRFR.png&quot; alt=&quot;CAPTCHA&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T08:55:02.113" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T08:55:02.113" Title="Captcha Pages Do Not Display Authentication Status" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29306" CreationDate="2009-11-11T01:14:05.173" Score="7" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865/consecutive-day-count-in-profile&quot;&gt;Consecutive Day Count in profile&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a counter of how many days we've been on Stack Overflow in a row be a good idea? As I envision it, if we were to have a counter on our profile pages that probably only we can see, it would be somewhat helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T01:51:02.987" ClosedDate="2009-11-11T02:18:15.573" Title="Counter for Fanatic and woot! Badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67547" CreationDate="2009-11-11T01:19:07.867" Score="10" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOTE: This is NOT a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24884/what-are-the-exact-requirements-for-the-woot-enthusiast-badge&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24884/what-are-the-exact-requirements-for-the-woot-enthusiast-badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To obtain the Enthusiast or Fanatic badge, do we just need to visit while logged in each day or do we also have to have some activity (such as editing, answering, asking, commenting, etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2010-10-14T00:47:06.423" Title="Enthusiast/Fanatic Badge - Do We Need to Just Visit or Participate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29303" CreationDate="2009-11-11T01:21:30.793" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No &quot;activity&quot; is required. Just visit a page while logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T01:21:30.793" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29307" CreationDate="2009-11-11T01:31:13.990" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8724/how-to-deal-with-google-questions&quot;&gt;How to deal with google questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18198/there-are-no-stupid-questions-or-are-there&quot;&gt;there are no stupid questions, or are there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are questions that could be answered very easily via a web search. &quot;what is an sdk?&quot; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1712227/get-the-size-of-a-list-in-python&quot;&gt;how do I find the length of a list in python?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. They often get downvoted and people say &quot;why didn't you just search it?&quot;. I believe the consensus is that (from the faq) &quot;No question is too trivial.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I never want to promote conflict and often just saying nothing is the right thing to do, but if someone gets heat for doing something perfectly legal (if the question is clear and not a duplicate) I feel a very brief explanation &quot;no question is too trivial&quot; in a comment is appropriate. Is this how I should handle things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T01:53:57.393" ClosedDate="2009-11-11T20:13:13.963" Title="what to do when someone asks a simple question (&quot;what is an sdk?&quot;) and gets downvoted for it being too easy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29302" CreationDate="2009-11-11T01:51:02.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though this is a dupe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see what value this would have. Statistics that are visible to the user should have some sort of value beyond the badge that they count towards, and daily visits simply doesn't. No one else is going to care that I've visited the site 80 days in a row. Once I've earned the badges they can bask in my glory, but until then, what's the point? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the counter is only visible to me, it seems like extra fluff that doesn't really help me contribute to the site in any way (unlike encouraging me to vote, edit posts, and answer questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T01:51:02.987" />
  <row Id="29307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29305" CreationDate="2009-11-11T01:53:57.393" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you did the right thing. Calling other voters to task in a comment is totally appropriate, and if done soon enough you can see a visible change of behaviour as a response (e.g. the OP will get an upvote or the downvote will be undone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't vote down questions for being too easy; I may not upvote them though. I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; downvote a question if it's asked in a boneheaded manner - e.g. no sample code, incomplete context, or if the tone is belligerent or argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will usually upvote an easy question if the OP responds positively, especially if he takes to heart some of the &quot;best practices&quot; advice that he's been given. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1704740/perl-export-symbols-from-module-that-has-1-package&quot;&gt;Here's an example.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T01:53:57.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29289" CreationDate="2009-11-11T02:00:10.740" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that allowing users to transfer rep between sites is not a good idea. The entire point of rep is to figure out how much you participate on a given site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, my SO rep is about 3900, my SF rep is 570, my SU rep is just shy of 890, and my rep here is only 499. That's really quite a good indication of how things are - I got to SO first and others later (If I've got time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If folks were able to move rep around (even if it was just into meta), that would really blow rep out of the water as a useful way of telling how much you participate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a real problem, then I'd say a better approach would be to grant voting rights to folks who have reasonable rep on the other sites AND who have linked their accounts. That would let folks who have proven to be active in the overall community have a voice on meta merely by being good members of the other communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I actually don't think ANY change is necessary - I think it's pretty much fine the way it is. Just look for some questions to answer here on Meta and you'll pretty rapidly get to voting status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T02:00:10.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29301" CreationDate="2009-11-11T03:54:13.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact, it doesn't even say Login. See here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/captcha&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/captcha&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T03:54:13.900" />
  <row Id="29310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29389" CreationDate="2009-11-11T06:01:35.340" Score="1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking questions on Stack Overflow stopped working today. I click the button to submit - it turns grey, but nothing happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Firefox 3.0.15 on Ubuntu and have been posting question on stack overflow regularly for a while. Tried clearing the cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also tried it on another computer downstairs running Windows 7 with Firefox 3.5. Still failed. Also failed when I tried Internet explorer:-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to university, tried posting a question with Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP. Doesn't work. What the heck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried asking a question with adding a new tag - perhaps this has something to do with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a comment by the OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, the title was too short. I think I didn't see this because I'm too used to error messages being in red rather than gray&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T04:32:14.527" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T04:32:14.527" Title="Can't ask a question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T06:50:52.333" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18665/should-member-for-be-member-since&quot;&gt;Should &amp;ldquo;member for&amp;rdquo; be &amp;ldquo;member since&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first accessed my own profile, the heading &quot;Member for&quot; confused me a little bit. It read as &quot;number of days a person can have access to Stack Overflow&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Member for 1 day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This makes me think I've somehow managed to create a guest account with limited-period access. But I now know that is not what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Member since&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This version of the wording reads better to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138776" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:18:02.420" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:18:02.420" ClosedDate="2009-11-11T09:19:09.780" Title="&quot;Member for&quot; wording on profile page confuses me" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29311" CreationDate="2009-11-11T08:15:34.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you put &lt;strong&gt;Member Since&lt;/strong&gt;, you have to put a date not a duration for it to make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Member since 1 day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Member since 10th Nov, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, a duration is a lot easier mentally to digest. Giving this, maybe if you somehow reworded the sentence it is short for (&lt;strong&gt;&quot;This user has been a member for&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;) to something that is less ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T08:15:34.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-11-11T09:17:42.060" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One point not covered by the other reviewers: Horrible audio.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was one of the (probably) very few non native English speakers in the audience. And I must say that I had an unusually hard time understanding the lectures due to the very poor audio quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I do speak and understand English fluently (as opposed to perfectly), I caught only half of the sentences pronounced by some of the speakers (especially Reto Meier (Android) and Phil Nash (iPhone), to a lesser extend Paul Biggar and Michael Sparks). Half the sentences means way less than half the presentation overall :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other speakers were way easier to understand (Jon Skeet was the best hands down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carsonified, please care more about audio. It's way more important to your international audience than a failed lunch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T09:17:42.060" />
  <row Id="29317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T09:25:22.937" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if Careers also allowed association with Server Fault and Super User. Also the inverse would be nice if our CVs were displayed or linked from those sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138727" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-25T17:53:19.450" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:00:03.817" Title="Associate other accounts to Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29317" CreationDate="2009-11-11T09:44:35.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My account is associated with SF and SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can put a link to your public CV into your profile on each of the site, no problem.  Is that not enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T09:44:35.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29321" CreationDate="2009-11-11T10:49:45.560" Score="-1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1713224/navigating-into-a-particular-view-controller-of-uitabbarcontroller&quot;&gt;One identical question&lt;/a&gt; was listed three times on the flags page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.tinypic.com/200e35t.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably should be on one line, not sure if it has 1 or 3 flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T19:15:53.630" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:15:53.630" Title="Same question listed on three rows in the flag list" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22778" CreationDate="2009-11-11T10:53:56.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Happens to me all the time in Opera.  If you've had a popup once (like, you forgot a tag) then the &lt;code&gt;Post Your Question&lt;/code&gt; button is grayed out permanently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T10:53:56.333" />
  <row Id="29321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29319" CreationDate="2009-11-11T11:01:52.263" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One flag for one post. So you see the correct three since they have all been flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One is for the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One is for a comment/edit as answer to their own question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One is for the other comment/edit as answer to, again, their own question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T12:06:59.727" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T12:06:59.727" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-11-11T11:55:41.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Generating Content&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automatically extracting information from the project hosting sites is likely to leave you with extremely low quality information. I've used both SourceForge and now Google Code and decided a long time ago to give up on the project site as the primary home page for the project. Instead I use the real site for users, and the Google Code site for developers and bug reports etc. If you crawled my project, you'd get nothing interesting for users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that either someone involved with each project or a project sponsor suggests their project (as Alex suggests). Use some standard format ad for those projects without a graphical designer on board (most of them) - I sure as heck wouldn't be able to come up with an Ad that I'd want to see plastered all over Stack Overflow but would still love some advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting for Ads&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the idea of votes for the adverts worrying. Surely the most popular open source projects are potentially the ones that are least in need of free advertising? Don't get me wrong, everyone should be eligible for it but the jQuerys and Paint.Nets of this world are likely to edge out any small project every time. Is that right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4591" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T11:55:41.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T11:55:41.507" />
  <row Id="29323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22778" CreationDate="2009-11-11T12:53:42.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like John Smithers noted in the comments: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12800/posting-questions-does-not-work-any-more-in-opera-9-64&quot;&gt;Posting questions does not work any more in Opera 9.64&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T12:53:42.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T12:53:42.780" />
  <row Id="29324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32094" CreationDate="2009-11-11T13:32:12.490" Score="3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454431/how-to-install-sql-server-2008-express-with-inno-setup/527117#527117&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454431/how-to-install-sql-server-2008-express-with-inno-setup/527117#527117&lt;/a&gt;, I just had a comment posted saying it was incomplete. And it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, I'm pretty sure it was complete when I posted it, and here's another interesting thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were links in the answer that still worked but, when I went into edit mode, the links were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; at the bottom (the square bracket thingies) and the preview showed just the text for the links (double square bracket groups), not the HTML links themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't particularly care about the answer itself, I've edited it to get rid of the code since we ended up testing the Microsoft-blessed solution and it was fine, so there was no need for the hacky workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just raising this for the powers that be in case they want to investigate. I live in mortal fear of all the information I've pumped into SO over the last year just up and disappearing on me :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T16:38:43.313" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:28:06.317" Title="Possible lost data from SO answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;truncated&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29330" CreationDate="2009-11-11T13:56:57.377" Score="2" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you delete a comment, should you leave a new comment to explain it?  If there are already other comments referencing it, I usually see something like &quot;I've deleted my earlier comment that @whoever was referring to&quot; for clarity.  That seems like a good idea to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if the deleted comment is the only one for a given question/answer, or it isn't commented on by another person?  I've seen that go both ways, and I'm not sure which way is better.  When I've done it, I've just let them disappear, but I can see how some people might find it annoying to search many posts for an old comment that they can never find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there a rule on this?  If yes, what; if no, come up with one, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As Bill the Lizard pointed out, yes, I'm talking about people deleting their own comments.  I did briefly think about the case of other people making edits, but I don't have any experience with that due to insufficient rep so I dropped it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT AGAIN: Seems like there is no correct answer, so I'm CWing this question.  Even though it seems like nobody else will bother posting an answer anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T01:19:02.550" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T01:19:02.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T18:00:29.223" Title="Etiquette for explaining removed comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28454" CreationDate="2009-11-11T13:59:22.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't count towards the badge. Edits to your own posts and retagging are not counted towards the Strunk and White badge. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/442/what-kind-of-edits-contribute-to-strunk-white&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff himself in meta. I don't know if the rules have changed since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T13:59:22.583" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29326" CreationDate="2009-11-11T14:04:42.603" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two reasons for deleting comments that I can see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What I said was no longer relevant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I said something embarrassing, incorrect, or not-charitable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both are well-served by me deleting my comment and getting on with my life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; comment to point out that I deleted my comment is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would go for the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I delete a comment, the text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;This Comment has been deleted by the owner&lt;/code&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;datestamp&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should show up &lt;strong&gt;in place of the comment I deleted&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T14:58:52.863" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T14:58:52.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29326" CreationDate="2009-11-11T14:11:00.610" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first case you mention, someone deletes their own comment that had been responded to, leaving the rest of the thread a confusing mess, I agree that it's a good idea to &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; leave another comment explaining that situation to ease the confusion.  You can also flag the respondent's comment for moderator attention so we can clean it up too (if it's no longer relevant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like you're specifically talking about people deleting their own comments, but there are a lot of situations where moderators will delete them too.  I usually try to avoid the above situation by deleting all comments that are related to the one flagged (if I delete it at all).  I also delete comments in the following situations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offensive or abusive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Long off-topic discussion distracting from the point of the question/answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No longer relevant (&quot;Make CW&quot; after the post already has been, &quot;move to serverfault&quot; after the post has been migrated, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(added: MG) People whining about acceptance rates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases I usually don't leave a comment to explain what I've done.  The reason is that in these cases I'm cleaning up clutter.  Leaving another comment to explain that is just more clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T20:41:45.063" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T20:41:45.063" />
  <row Id="29334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29326" CreationDate="2009-11-11T14:31:38.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites are about questions and answers so I don't think we should fuss about comments going missing.  Perhaps, if it's a comment that you care particularly about finding again, you might want to encourage the commenter to put the comment in an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T14:31:38.297" />
  <row Id="29335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29324" CreationDate="2009-11-11T14:31:57.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first I thought it was the same as this issue:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is something different.  In all the other posts, the entire contents are visible if you view the source or edit history and you can fix the post to show all the data with a simple no-op edit (add a space somewhere). It looks like the missing content really did vanish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T14:31:57.843" />
  <row Id="29336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29326" CreationDate="2009-11-11T14:35:03.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never been in a situation where someone deleted a comment that I was referring to. When this happens, do I get a message in my profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the system should just send a message to people involved in that answer/question, with a possibility to edit/delete your comment. This way we can clean the answer/question instead of trying to implement justifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T14:35:03.237" />
  <row Id="29337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29324" CreationDate="2009-11-11T14:35:24.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original version of the accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-what-is-it-all-about/5235#5235&quot; title=&quot;hey Alfie!&quot;&gt;Accepting answers, what is it all about?&lt;/a&gt; the entirety of the text was there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on editing to include the image of plain sight, the edit window only contained about one third of the original text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/5235/list&quot; title=&quot;lay on!&quot;&gt;revision list of that particular post&lt;/a&gt; illlustrates better. The only actual edit made by &lt;strong&gt;random&lt;/strong&gt; to that post was adding in the image and yet it looks as if he added in a massive bulk. No whey there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The eventual edit luckily happened only after this realisation and no loss of the answer was suffered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another find:&lt;/strong&gt; To those who can edit, what do you see in the edit box when you try to update the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5212/are-there-any-voting-limits-in-stackoverflow/5213#5213&quot;&gt;accepted answer on the Voting limits FAQ&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same content, I see in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/5213/list&quot;&gt;revision list&lt;/a&gt;. Very weird, indeed. &lt;sub&gt;Smithers&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T14:34:56.097" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T14:34:56.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29340" CreationDate="2009-11-11T15:12:19.250" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25046/suggestion-the-3-year-intro-price-should-be-3-years-from-when-the-beta-ends&quot;&gt;Suggestion: the 3 year intro price should be 3 years from when the beta ends&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... given that no employers have been introduced into the system yet, shouldn't the 3 years start from the first point when the system begins to be useful - i.e. when the first batch of employers are given access?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T15:18:03.830" ClosedDate="2009-11-11T19:02:28.600" Title="The careers site gave a three year discounted registration option... from when does the 3 years start?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;6-8weeks&gt;&lt;value&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29339" CreationDate="2009-11-11T15:18:03.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The system is in beta.  You are paying an extremely reduced rate for beta participation which will extend well beyond the beta.  As shown in your careers account, it expires 3 years from the date you registered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you are essentially receiving $300 of time for $30, I don't believe there's reason to complain about losing a few days, weeks, or even months because the BETA program you purchased isn't providing the full and complete service everyone else will be paying $100/year for later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T15:18:03.830" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T16:15:32.850" Score="52" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have accounts on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User.  Today I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/68989/building-a-wsus-server-where-to-start-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on Super User that was &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/83600/building-a-wsus-server-where-to-start&quot;&gt;migrated&lt;/a&gt; to Server Fault.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was never notified that my question had been migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When something important happens (a new answer is posted, an answer is voted upon, etc) the envelope icon next to the username turns a different color.  Clicking on this icon reveals Recent Activity.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was never a notification that my question had been migrated, and no &lt;code&gt;Recent Activity&lt;/code&gt; showed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just happened to be browsing ServerFault and found a question with the exact same title as mine, and found that my question had been migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Feature Request&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please notify users when their question is migrated&lt;/strong&gt;, preferably on&#xA;  both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43263" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-27T11:21:11.863" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T01:31:59.947" Title="Notify Author when Question is migrated" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="29345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29229" CreationDate="2009-11-11T16:29:20.483" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it quite ironic that we have a badge named after &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/020530902X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the highly-regarded and often-named &quot;Bible of English Grammar&quot;&lt;/a&gt; yet we cannot follow its own principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what 20 seconds of googling turned up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rochester.edu/news/styleguide/grammar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;University of Rochester Grammar Style Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/307528/login-or-log-in&quot;&gt;oh hey look, a stackoverflow thread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thetruthaboutgrammar.com/2009/06/03/bailout-versus-bail-out/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The truth about grammar: bailout versus bail out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and there are so many more...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T16:29:20.483" />
  <row Id="29346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T17:00:57.663" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3792/how-to-nest-code-within-a-list-using-markdown&quot;&gt;How to nest code within a list using markdown&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1678036/what-is-best-approach-on-designing-this-generic-abstract-class-part-3/1716439#1716439&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - the problems should be obvious with the code blocks in the ordered list! What on earth is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136327" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T17:09:15.387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T17:11:50.750" ClosedDate="2009-11-11T19:00:56.530" Title="Markdown doing some very strange things with code blocks in a list" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T17:15:42.007" Score="1" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29039/auto-loading-of-new-questions&quot;&gt;Auto Loading of New Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know a social site is not a good example of reasoning, but what I'm referring to is how Facebook (or Twitter) has a live feed that populates automatically. Not asking to see user activity, but instead use this type of approach to populate new questions as they are asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when answering a question, the orange display on SO that pops up saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2 new answers loaded&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which by clicking on them would load the answers without doing a complete page refresh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of you having to refresh the page yourself, a notification could popup (live running only under &lt;code&gt;newest&lt;/code&gt; tab) saying something like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3 new questions were asked &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt; at least show the number of new questions embedded in the tab!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1227/change.png&quot; alt=&quot;sample&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137962" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T00:24:40.757" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T00:24:40.757" ClosedDate="2009-11-12T08:39:20.887" Title="Live updating feed counter of new questions asked, similar to Facebook/Twitter" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T17:50:23.843" Score="27" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to the front page of Stack Overflow, I normally hold down &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; and hit each of my tags so I can pull up a different browser tab for each tag that I have in my &quot;Interesting tags&quot; section.  About every third time I go through this sequence, I accidentally hit the 'x' next to a tag and delete the tag.  If I had an option to lock the tags (or a tag was somehow slightly more difficult to accidentally delete) I could avoid this annoyance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138799" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-17T20:13:31.387" LastActivityDate="2011-08-17T20:13:31.387" Title="option to lock &quot;interesting tags&quot; section so 'x' isn't hit accidentally on a tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;favorite-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29356" CreationDate="2009-11-11T17:51:09.413" Score="0" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that a lot of questions about Go are getting downvotes, negative comments and general hostility.  There is naturally going to be a ton of discussion when a new language by someone like Google.  Is there any set of guidelines we can follow to avoid creating too large a backlash / flamewar over the language?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for moderators / voters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not down voting duplicate questions, flag them or vote to close them, but don't punish rep for something that may be a simple mistake or a race condition.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for askers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take extra care to make sure your question isn't a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:11:55.777" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:11:55.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T17:51:09.413" Title="Managing the Go backlash" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29351" CreationDate="2009-11-11T17:59:56.730" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very easy for someone to ask a duplicate question and get points for it.  I bet the amount of reputation gained from a question closed as a duplicate is non-trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this reason, if I do a Stack Overflow search and I find the question, I will downvote the OP for not doing the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T17:59:56.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T17:59:56.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29351" CreationDate="2009-11-11T18:28:26.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about nullifying all the reputation gained from a post when it is closed as a duplicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be handled using the existing SO functionality if dupe questions were merged with their original (which means that the question is lost and the questioner's rep would be adjusted during the mythical rep recalc), and answers would be transferred to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess this makes me ask the question: &lt;strong&gt;why aren't moderators merging duplicate questions with their originals?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T18:28:26.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T18:28:26.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29350" CreationDate="2009-11-11T18:44:02.533" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the tags should only be editable from the user profile? Or one can add tags on the main page, but go to the user profile to remove them (or adjust their order, which I believe has been requested before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T18:44:02.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29408" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:04:29.567" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the &quot;official&quot; policy regarding users who consistently request whole features implementations as answers to their questions? In spite of down voting, the OP could be persistent in editing his question and/or re-posting it in order to re-surface and get someone answer him out of pity. This way, he gets his job done &quot;for free&quot;, and I question whether it would be appropriate for SO to allow for such behavior. Is it ok to bring such cases to moderator's attention by flagging? I'm linking &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1716047/need-help-in-implementing-team-overall-rating-system&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1691421/how-would-i-implement-a-team-payroll-with-built-in-salary-cap&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question as specific examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T19:40:06.727" Title="Requesting whole features implementations as answers to questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:08:01.120" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Applying the identity operator to Jon Skeet only makes him more powerful than you can possibly imagine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:08:01.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T19:08:01.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29359" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:08:13.413" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, the question is valid. I would either down vote it or leave it be.  There will be enough people with a rep high enough to close it if the question is deemed vague, too localized, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:08:13.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29324" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:11:28.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is odd -- it looks like the data is truncated in &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; fields (raw markdown and cooked html) &lt;strong&gt;in the original post&lt;/strong&gt;. From our database's perspective, it never arrived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/527117/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/527117/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Random's example is a bit .. random .. since there's no repro or artifact, just an anecdote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can reproduce it, let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:11:28.223" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:21:38.920" Score="4" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just answering a question on SOF where I typed App&amp;#95;Code blah blah blah App&amp;#95;Code into the answer. Markdown interpreted the two underscores as beginning and ending some italicized text, and thus in the preview, it appeared like this: App&lt;i&gt;Code blah blah blah App&lt;/i&gt;Code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way to avoid this? Maybe a way to escape special markdown characters in cases like this? (I had to resort to using the &amp;amp;#95; html entity to get my question to appear properly, but that is kind of annoying)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:08:35.343" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:41:54.183" Title="Escaping the Underscore Character to Avoid Unwanted Italics" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;character-escaping&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="29365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:24:41.023" Score="1" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;My name in the header and on a question page shows me having one silver and three bronze badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I go to my badges page, I see three bronze and no silver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one or the other is wrong...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T20:03:08.893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T20:03:08.893" Title="Inconsistent Badge Listing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16356" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:27:03.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about simple table support without using tags.  Kwiki had a pretty simple table markup.  See this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user/12736#12736&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user/12736#12736&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:27:03.123" />
  <row Id="29369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29365" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:29:06.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You better get cracking then and earn a silver badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:29:06.850" />
  <row Id="29372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29374" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:34:57.357" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;The job title for &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.serverfault.com/?5581&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this posting&lt;/a&gt; is listed as &quot;Sr. Software Administrator&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the description says:&#xA;&quot;The IT Services Division is seeking a &lt;strong&gt;Senior Security Systems Administrator&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which sounds like what the job title is actually about.  Might want to notify them and see if it is mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T19:40:58.527" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:40:58.527" Title="Job Title doesn't match Description on jobs.serverfault.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29363" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:36:35.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that the real-time preview will incorrectly italicize, but the actual post will not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I typed App_Code blah blah blah App_Code ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: the real-time preview was updated to correctly show how we block intra-word emphasis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T01:41:54.183" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:41:54.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29372" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:37:40.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has to be filed with fog creek, I'll mail it to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/Contact.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.fogcreek.com/Contact.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:37:40.253" />
  <row Id="29375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29365" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:43:22.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Yaakov legimitately earned the Beta badge (on Stack Overflow I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: not sure in this case; might have been an old accidental award. I don't see anything in the data. I just manually updated your count as they are heavily denormalized for performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T20:02:53.743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T20:02:53.743" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29351" CreationDate="2009-11-11T19:46:18.473" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I look at the current &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/go&quot;&gt;Go questions&lt;/a&gt;, the issues I'm seeing aren't so much dupes as they are a lot of subjective/argumentative questions, or questions which are unanswerable. Yes, there are dupes, but on top of those, a lot of the other closed Go questions seem to have been done correctly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1714166/can-go-programming-language-replace-c-c-closed&quot;&gt;Can Go programming language replace C/ C++ ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1714263/are-you-planning-to-try-go-the-new-google-language-closed&quot;&gt;Are you planning to try GO (the new Google language)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1714519/when-will-the-go-language-be-beneficial-closed&quot;&gt;When will the GO (language) be beneficial?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as a backlash. I see this as the community doing its own, correct, policing. There are plenty of Go questions which are not being downvoted to oblivion and are being left open, and wisely so -- they are the valid questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T19:46:18.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T19:46:18.473" />
  <row Id="29379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29286" CreationDate="2009-11-11T20:10:44.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We actually want users to go to this page, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T20:10:44.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29381" CreationDate="2009-11-11T20:13:09.033" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, a user asked this question on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1717653/re-enable-animated-gif-display-in-firefox&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1717653/re-enable-animated-gif-display-in-firefox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and the same question already exists on Super User:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/69165/re-enable-animated-gif-display-in-firefox/69166&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/69165/re-enable-animated-gif-display-in-firefox/69166&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...so, what will happen to the Stack Overflow question? Can it not be migrated to Super User because it's already available there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T21:41:08.627" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T09:36:20.557" Title="What will happen if the same question is asked on Stack Overflow and Super User?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29380" CreationDate="2009-11-11T20:17:10.290" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally the Stack Overflow question would get migrated to Super User where it would get closed as an exact duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is as expected and by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case the Stack Overflow question has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T20:27:14.687" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T20:27:14.687" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29383" CreationDate="2009-11-11T20:20:37.507" Score="5" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to follow multiple stackexchange sites on top on my usual trilogy reading.  Unfortunately it takes far too much time to keep up with them all.  What I'd like is a single interface patterned after stackoverflow with all the questions from all the stackexchange sites I'm part of intermingled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has anyone already done any work on code that would provide a way to keep up with all the stackexchange sites one might want to watch with an interface similar to stackexchange?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/443/etiquette-of-screen-scraping-stack-overflow/446#446&quot;&gt;screen scraping is a problem&lt;/a&gt;, and there's no API yet.  The best we have is RSS.  But even RSS fails, as one has to grab the stackoverflow RSS more frequently than every 15 minutes if one doesn't want to miss any new questions, or more frequently than every 2 minutes if one doesn't want to miss question activity changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until an API is provided, RSS is all that's really available, though. But it does have the vote total of the question, and the tags.  It's missing a ton of stuff I would ideally like, that would hopefully be made available by API eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like the layout of the stackexchange sites, and I like that I can highlight questions with certain tags, and de-emphasize questions with tags I don't like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it would be a good start, and fill a temporary need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T20:24:29.480" Title="Stack aggregation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29382" CreationDate="2009-11-11T20:24:29.480" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would just say wait until Careers is done, and then we can begin work on the API. Maybe in December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T20:24:29.480" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T20:47:37.940" Score="5" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you poll the main page RSS less frequently than every 2 minutes, you'll miss activity during the busy parts of the day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't found the &quot;newest questions&quot; RSS (surely there's one there somewhere?) but it appears that there are 30 new questions every 15 minutes, so if you poll it less frequently than every 15 minutes you'll also lose new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is polling the RSS this frequently ok for stackoverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, is it published/federated elsewhere, perhaps in RSS feeds with more entries?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T21:18:14.877" Title="How often can I poll the Stackoverflow RSS before I get IP banned?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;screen-scraping&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T21:08:45.750" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that when someone finds an exact duplicate of a question he/she should do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case that original question was solved (an answer was accepted by the author of the question), this new duplicate should have a field (e.g. &quot;duplicate_of&quot;) and the server will redirect automatically to that original answered question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original question was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answered, even though this question is duplicate, it is actually a real world unsolved problem that yet another person has come across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone googles for something and the results says &quot;foo bar baz [closed]&quot;, he or she then needs to read through the comments and answers in order to find how to get to the other question. That is a waste of time! Why not let the site take them directly to the answer (and probably indicate redirection on the landing page as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138189" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-11T21:16:09.013" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T21:16:09.013" Title="Close duplicates only when the original was answered, and redirect future viewers to that original automatically" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29351" CreationDate="2009-11-11T21:17:45.860" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;the vast majority of the go-tagged questions &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be downvoted, as they're idle gossip;&#xA;only 2 or 3 of the go-tagged questions are real questions about some programming issue with the language&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T21:17:45.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-11T21:17:45.860" />
  <row Id="29387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29384" CreationDate="2009-11-11T21:18:14.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the use case for needing to see every single new question? That's like asking to see every single article on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a tag-based RSS feed would be more relevant to your interests? There are 5 different flavors of tag-based RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T21:18:14.877" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28584" CreationDate="2009-11-11T21:23:49.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's nowhere to go &quot;back&quot; to here because you haven't left the page..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T21:23:49.543" />
  <row Id="29389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29310" CreationDate="2009-11-11T21:26:14.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try a different browser to see if you can repro it. I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: make sure you're looking at the error messages next to every single field. I think you're missing something here. No repro, no other reports of this for any users in the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no SO users anywhere in the world could post questions -- or even if a small fraction of them couldn't -- I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; we might know about that by now. Just sayin'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T11:27:59.923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T11:27:59.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29310" CreationDate="2009-11-11T22:00:11.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote: dodgy javascript (corrupt or incompatible-cached):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some moderator flags that I processed kept coming back when I refreshed the screen (i.e. they'd only been removed in the app's imagination)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;attempting to post a comment just reloaded the question page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;attempting to expand the &quot;close&quot; reasons did nothing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I emptied the browser's cache, and all is now well. Try that. It could have been the team's javascript, or it could have been jQuery etc; we may never know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T22:00:11.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29397" CreationDate="2009-11-11T22:24:42.230" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I get a list of all questions that I've marked as a favorite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can manufacture my own URL as shown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28824/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28824/&lt;/a&gt;, but is there a way to navigate to this list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132110" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T22:48:38.027" Title="How do I navigate to a list of all my favorite questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-11T22:32:23.727" Score="11" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;While bumps are generally good, there are niche cases where they are harmful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently decided I would consolidate two tags on Stack Overflow: &quot;openoffice&quot; and &quot;openoffice.org&quot;. They refer to precisely the same thing, and having two tags for them just fragments the organizational structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after a couple of retags, I noticed that these questions were being bumped to the front page, clogging it up. Not wanting to be disruptive, I stopped retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This prevents a very useful organizational benefit of SO's community structure. As well as consolidating two identical tags, I could do things like look at each question in &quot;openoffice.org&quot;, and add the tag &quot;openoffice-writer&quot;, &quot;openoffice-calc&quot;, etc. where appropriate. Abuse would be unlikely, due to the 500 reputation minimum for retagging questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149440" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-09T23:08:27.040" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T23:09:49.673" Title="It should be possible to retag a question without bumping it to the front page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29394" CreationDate="2009-11-11T22:40:51.567" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, yes; that counts as a bump. But ♦ mods can do a blanket tag merge / rename &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; bumping, saving you a lot of time. Perhaps this would be a more suitable option? If so, please tag this as [retag-request], and assuming it is a &lt;em&gt;sensible&lt;/em&gt; merge (and we agree the direction) they can be merged without too much pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T22:40:51.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29394" CreationDate="2009-11-11T22:46:04.523" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a Wikipedia analogy, robots usually have a flag noting that what they're doing is rather mundane and shouldn't flood the &quot;Recent changes&quot; list. They also have a &quot;Minor edit&quot; option for humans making minor changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T22:46:04.523" />
  <row Id="29397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29393" CreationDate="2009-11-11T22:48:38.027" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Click your user name in the bar at the top of any given Trilogy (or StackExchange) site. Then click the Favorites tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're asking if there's a one-click navigation feature, then no. It's going to be two clicks (unless you happen to already be on your profile page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could use you're browser's bookmarks feature with the URL you create from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28824/linkety-linkety-all-right&quot; title=&quot;I love me some links&quot;&gt;question 28824&lt;/a&gt;, as well. This would also give you quick-and-easy access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-11T22:48:38.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T00:55:45.817" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was editing an answer on a StackExchange site &lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com/questions/304/attiny2313-isr-stack-usage/305#305&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://chiphacker.com/questions/304/attiny2313-isr-stack-usage/305#305&lt;/a&gt; and noticed a problem with the Blockquote button in the WMD editor, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Paste in a large chunk of text (a paragraph or two).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Select the text that you pasted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Click the blockquotes button [&quot;].&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What normally happens is that the text gets repaginated, and then prefixed with '&gt; ', but if you have a large paragraph, particularly one where the entire paragraph has no linefeeds, the editor will freeze until the JavaScript engine decides that it's hung.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you manually repaginate and prefix with '&gt; ', it works as expected (which is how I built up the referenced answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have observed this on Firefox 3.0/3.5 on Mac OSX 10.5.8 and Ubuntu Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[ Updated ]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I replicated this on Stackoverflow.com, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Generate and copy 5 paragraphs of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lipsum.com/feed/html?amount=5&amp;amp;what=paras&amp;amp;start=yes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lorem Ipsum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pick any open question and paste the text into the answer field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Select all of the first paragraph and click the blockquote button (this&#xA;  will work).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Select all of the third paragraph and click the blockquote button (this&#xA;  will hang).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem seems to lie with having non-quoted paragraphs in between two blockquoted sections.  I think the editor is trying to link up both blockquotes, but is getting hung up on the separating, non-quoted paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[ Update #2 ]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1069/john-smithers&quot;&gt;John Smithers&lt;/a&gt; reports that this is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9807/firefox-freezes-script-execution-uses-100-cpu-upon-trying-to-quote&quot;&gt;an existing bug&lt;/a&gt;, and upon reading that bug, I tend to agree.  Unfortunately, the answers to that bug don't seem to apply (I can reproduce the bug, with or without Firebug), and with that bug marked 'status-norepro', I doubt anyone is going to work on it.  So what's the correct thing to do here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional testing has shown that the bug is dependent upon the amount of text being quoted -- one or two lines works ok, but an entire Lorem paragraph is large enough to set it off on the fastest machine I have available (2.93GHz Core 2 Duo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments about pre-existing prefixes ('&gt; ') are misnomers; with the blockquote button, it's a toggle (like bold or italic):  if there are no prefixes in the selected text, it should prefix the whole block; if there are prefixes, it should remove them.  If there are prefixes in the whole text, but not in the selected text, then there shouldn't be any effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137703" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T14:14:55.447" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T14:14:55.447" Title="Problem with BlockQuotes in Answer Editor" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29402" CreationDate="2009-11-12T01:12:47.720" Score="6" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to my user page to look through all the questions that I have asked, I am always presented with the following choice of sorting options: &quot;recent&quot;, &quot;views&quot;, &quot;newest&quot;, &quot;votes&quot;. While I am okay with the second and the forth options, I still don't get the difference between &quot;recent&quot; and &quot;newest&quot;. Can anyone here explain it to me, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138827" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-12T17:40:50.213" LastActivityDate="2010-12-12T17:40:50.213" Title="What's the difference between &quot;recent&quot; and &quot;newest&quot; sort options in my user page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29400" CreationDate="2009-11-12T01:17:17.950" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Recent&quot; sorts by those with the most recent activity of any kind (including replies and edits) first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Newest&quot; sorts by the time originally posted, newest first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T01:23:05.737" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T01:23:05.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T01:37:35.137" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I compose a new question, I always see this community wiki checkbook right below the editing field. What is it all about and when should I check it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138827" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T01:37:35.137" ClosedDate="2009-11-12T03:41:12.770" Title="What is this community wiki check box below the editing field &quot;compose the question&quot; page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29406" CreationDate="2009-11-12T02:38:52.843" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit frustrating that, even though I'm above rep 100 on stack overflow, I'm still restricted with the most basic 'idiot prevention' limits on the other sites as I start there. Really, is it necessary to prevent me from creating a new tag or posting more than once in 20 minutes? I can see holding off edits, or even comments, until I've proved to have a brain in the domain in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could see this as a request for a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T03:00:54.843" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T03:42:21.350" Title="Could there be a bit of reputation leakage between the sites, please?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29413" CreationDate="2009-11-12T03:01:58.040" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;When can we expect to see a page or pages containing some of the most popular questions on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvotes would be appreciated if something is not already in the works as I believe this feature request would be a very strong addition to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd delete the question but it might be more useful to simply leave it in case someone tries to repost the same thing.  I still believe popularity by bookmarks would be a nice feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138471" LastEditorUserId="138471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T11:14:07.550" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T11:14:07.550" Title="View Most Popular Questions by favorite count / views / votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;popular-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29404" CreationDate="2009-11-12T03:42:21.350" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already exists: if you have at least 200 reputation on any trilogy site, you can start out with 100 rep on the target site when you associate accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T03:42:21.350" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29399" CreationDate="2009-11-12T03:44:07.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably a bug here as well. Can you post a text block that we can use as a repro?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T03:44:07.337" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29359" CreationDate="2009-11-12T05:06:18.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell there is no official policy governing this situation.  And this is good, because if the creation of an official policy is required for every permutation of bad question, the hosts would spend all day writing policies!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We rely on the tools of down-voting, editing and commenting to allow the community to correct the situation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; can do ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Vote the question down if it bothers you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- If you have sufficient rep .. vote to close it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Flag it for moderator attention if you think it crosses an appropriateness line.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Write a comment suggesting ways that the OP could improve the question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastEditorUserId="9852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T19:40:06.727" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T19:40:06.727" />
  <row Id="29409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29411" CreationDate="2009-11-12T05:44:08.280" Score="3" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the bar at the top of the page with login info and such supposed to have rounded corners? I notice in the screenshots on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&lt;/a&gt; they have rounded corners and I have ugly square ones on Safari 4.0.3, Mac OS X Leopard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8804/asdfmk.png&quot; alt=&quot;it's horrible&quot; title=&quot;ahh!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:57:37.280" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:57:37.280" Title="&quot;Isaac Waller 997●2●14 | logout | about | faq&quot; bar has no rounded corners?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;safari&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2009-11-12T05:47:21.610" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping to revive this idea.  We have no official word from &lt;em&gt;The Powers That Be&lt;/em&gt; about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing is very important on the sites, and those that do it often should be rewarded&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Name proposed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor in Chief&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also, I think 1000 is a good number for the award.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T05:47:21.610" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29409" CreationDate="2009-11-12T06:31:14.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To have rounded corners on the &lt;code&gt;topbar&lt;/code&gt; in Webkit based browsers the div needs to have the following style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;&#xA;-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mozilla uses non-standard CSS3 tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 3px;&#xA;-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 3px;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here on Meta the CSS is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#header #topbar {&#xA;   -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:3px;&#xA;   -moz-border-radius-bottomright:3px;&#xA;   background-color:#EEEEEE;&#xA;   float:right;&#xA;   height:30px;&#xA;   line-height:22px;&#xA;   max-width:750px;&#xA;   padding:3px 10px 0;&#xA;   width:auto;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so no rounding in Safari... or Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T07:23:56.883" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T07:23:56.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2009-11-12T06:53:49.747" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17955/is-the-automatic-election-of-moderators-flawed-in-stackoverflow/17957#17957&quot;&gt;Senior Janitor&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T06:53:49.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29405" CreationDate="2009-11-12T08:58:50.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already exists.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Popularity by votes:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Popularity by views (here 250 views as minimum):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=views%3A250&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=views%3A250&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T08:58:50.540" />
  <row Id="29414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34763" CreationDate="2009-11-12T09:36:34.727" Score="16" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment my public CV lists all 4 accounts in the trilogy. SO is listed first, however I have the most rep on SF, and will be looking for jobs in the sysadmin area, can we have the CV either list the badges in order of Rep, or allow us to re-order them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason for SO to always come first if all sites are created equal? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-15T15:13:09.220" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T15:13:09.220" Title="Change order of associated account badges on public CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29394" CreationDate="2009-11-12T09:49:29.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it really matter?  For instance, in SO the oldest entry on the front page is 10 minutes old, in SU it's 3 hours old and in SF it's 5 hours old.  In fact, even meta, which I guess is much less popular than the others, has only a 15 hour old post on its front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you flood the front page with retags, you're only polluting it for a short time anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T09:49:29.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T10:12:04.970" Score="0" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8626/make-sort-order-for-questions-and-answers-on-user-pages-sticky&quot;&gt;Make sort order for questions and answers on user pages sticky.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I refresh my user page, it always presents the list of my questions sorted by number of votes, so I always have to switch the search option from &quot;vote&quot; to &quot;recent&quot; as it is my preferred sorting order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there is a way of setting up the default sorting option as &quot;recent&quot; instead of &quot;votes&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138827" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T10:12:04.970" ClosedDate="2009-11-12T10:49:08.067" Title="Setting up the default sorting option as &quot;recent&quot; instead of &quot;votes&quot; on the user's page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29399" CreationDate="2009-11-12T10:32:49.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you have described in your update is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9807&quot;&gt;dupe&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The culprit are exisitng the quote signs &quot;&gt;&quot;. If you delete them, it works. The blockquote button has trouble, if these characters already exist in the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T10:32:49.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2009-11-12T11:19:39.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have one now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Electronics Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It needs a lot more members to be successful, so go ahead and register yourself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T11:19:39.023" />
  <row Id="29420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29428" CreationDate="2009-11-12T11:26:55.573" Score="5" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707213/wpf-animate-linear-gradient&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707213/wpf-animate-linear-gradient&lt;/a&gt; was asked by &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/204628/jason&quot;&gt;jason&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been answered by &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/195776/david&quot;&gt;david&lt;/a&gt;&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707213/wpf-animate-linear-gradient/1721527#1721527&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrasing of the answer and the fact that the Gravatar image makes me think they're the same user. Or am I just being paranoid. There doesn't seem to have been any sock puppetry involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should add that normally I'd post a comment, but given the different names I'm reluctant in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posted comment on answer (as that was the most recent activity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T12:28:36.733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T12:37:58.137" Title="Are these two users the same?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29310" CreationDate="2009-11-12T11:47:22.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a long-shot... but do you have Firebug for Firefox or some other tool that can monitor requests sent by your browser? It could be that something is interfering with the HTTP requests sent by the JavaScript, causing them to fail or time out. This would explain why you get the same behavior in all browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is that it's only for stackoverflow.com... perhaps your ISP/router is filtering or redirecting something related to that domain somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130514" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T11:47:22.540" />
  <row Id="29424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37789" CreationDate="2009-11-12T11:52:43.783" Score="13" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Feature request:&#xA;File CV anonymously, or with some personal data excluded. Then I can only reveal myself to potential employers after getting relevant inquiries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:11:20.530" Title="Feature: file CV anoymously" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29429" CreationDate="2009-11-12T11:54:46.650" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19624/bug-in-markdown-formatter&quot;&gt;Bug in Markdown formatter&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a whiteline inside a code block, which is inside a list, it gets doubled. It doesn't matter whether you put eight spaces in that whiteline (allegedly to force it to be code).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the following example does not contain two blank lines, the bug has been solved:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Item 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;helloWorld();  // see ma? Say hello to one whiteline:&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;helloOtherWorld();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code of the above snippet has only one whiteline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;* Item 1&#xA;&#xA;        helloWorld();  // see ma? Say hello to one whiteline:&#xA;&#xA;        helloOtherWorld();&#xA;* Item X&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't found any workaround yet. Anybody an idea to keep formatting and prevent double whitelines? Any sight on fixing this bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Workaround&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT: unfortunately, this question was closed, otherwise I'd added this workaround as an answer to the question&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (yes, &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; times &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) instead of eight spaces, and replace the whiteline with a single &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;. The double whiteline is gone and the final rendering is even better then the default rendering with eight spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Workaround item 1&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;helloWorld();  // see ma? Say hello to REALLY one whiteline:&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;helloOtherWorld();&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item X&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To achieve this effect, use MarkDown+HTML code as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;* Workaround item 1&#xA;&amp;lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;code&gt;helloWorld();  // see ma? Say hello to REALLY one whiteline:&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&#xA;helloOtherWorld();&amp;lt;/code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&gt;&amp;lt;/code&gt;&#xA;* Item X&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="137826" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T15:12:32.790" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T15:12:32.790" ClosedDate="2009-11-12T13:51:40.797" Title="Single whiteline gets doubled inside code block inside list" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T12:10:56.973" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the ad for Startups.com and decided to check it out. It seems to me like the audience it's attracting is very stingy with their votes! Do they need to RTFM better? Do they need more anthropology done on them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But more importantly, how can I find out if my gut feeling is correct: Do/can we have these kinds of statistics available on any / all stack* sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138115" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:20:21.320" Title="What's the number of upvotes given per user per day on StackOverflow, Serverfault, Startups.com etc?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14325" CreationDate="2009-11-12T12:23:21.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other thing to keep in mind is that if all 3 sites have different enough rules it feels less like a cohesive whole and will likely discourage participation in sites other than the one you primarily use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T12:23:21.707" />
  <row Id="29428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29420" CreationDate="2009-11-12T12:37:58.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes they are. I'll merge them. Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T12:37:58.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29425" CreationDate="2009-11-12T12:45:26.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FTFY:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;li&gt;Item 1&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    helloWorld();  // see ma? Say hello to one whiteline:  &#xA;&#xA;    helloOtherWorld();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;li&gt;Item X&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;The code:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; &amp;#60;ul&amp;#62;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;#60;li&amp;#62;Item 1&amp;#60;/li&amp;#62;&#xA;&#xA;        helloWorld();  // see ma? Say hello to one whiteline:  &#xA;&#xA;        helloOtherWorld();&#xA;&#xA;&amp;#60;li&amp;#62;Item X&amp;#60;/li&amp;#62;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;#60;/ul&amp;#62;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T12:54:52.130" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T12:54:52.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27004" CreationDate="2009-11-12T13:05:08.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a lot worse going other direction.  SO front page is only 6 minutes long right now, whereas Serverfault and Superuser are 3 hours long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that questions on the wrong site tend to have poor tags too, migrating to SO is a death sentence.  Are there any numbers on how many migrated questions actually get accepted answers?   I don't think I've seen any get accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12744" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T13:05:08.957" />
  <row Id="29431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T13:08:56.487" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20068/is-anyone-else-experiencing-random-times-where-the-css-styling-disappears-on-any&quot;&gt;Is anyone else experiencing random times where the CSS styling disappears on any SO site?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally when browsing Stack Overflow and its counterparts the CSS would fail to download, and the whole page would be left a unstyled mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When loading the present stylesheet (at the time of writing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/all.css?v=5290&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will either work or return a 404 error. Both outcomes occur with roughly the same consistency, regardless of which browser I use to connect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst a few refreshes has thus far fixed the problem, I wasn't sure whether it was just a problem on my end or a bug other people have been experiencing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138846" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T13:11:45.437" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T13:18:32.663" ClosedDate="2009-11-12T13:48:45.450" Title="Radomly Missing CSS" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29431" CreationDate="2009-11-12T13:18:32.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly haven't seen it that often but I have seen it. There can be a few explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we have to assume the server is up either the server isn't getting the request or we're not getting the response. This could be happening because the server is overlaoded or the network connection to it is. It could also be happening on our end. Most home routers use some form of NAT (network address translation). Depending on your router, it will support a given number of NAT sessions at once. It might be 512 or less. Better routers will have 1500+. Enterprise grade routers may have 4k+.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you run out of NAT sessions it can act like a bad network. Randomly dropped packets, etc. There are a couple of reasons that often explain NAT session exhaustion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You're simply using too many connections. BitTorrent clients are particularly susceptible to this. You might be attempting 100-300 connections per second per torrent; or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The timeout value on your router is simply too high so connections aren't being made available quick enough.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you might have a few computers on your home network (or even corporate network) that are simply trying to do more things than your hardware (or how you've configured it) can handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own router I bought because it supports 1500 and I was hitting that on occasion. I changed my settings (in both the router and on utorrent) and it rarely gets above 300 now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T13:18:32.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28984" CreationDate="2009-11-12T13:23:59.927" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fog Creek Customer Service to me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi Rip,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel passed along your email and asked me to get back to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't have it online unfortunately... although you're the 3rd to ask!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's any way I can help you further, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&#xA;Michael&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138850" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T13:23:59.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29447" CreationDate="2009-11-12T13:48:19.290" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know 10k users can see them, vote to permanently delete them, etc, but I'd like the ability to &lt;strong&gt;see&lt;/strong&gt; them for users with lower rep (let's say 5000).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You couldn't act on them, but you could see them, and potentially leave comments for the 10k users to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T14:13:39.117" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:13:39.117" Title="Ability to see deleted answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;posts&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T13:57:17.013" Score="0" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you specify your responsibilities as a bullet list it doesn't show up on the public CV view even if the live preview renders the bullets correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Cool! Can I get a red tag too? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some screenshots; It may very well be just me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9349/careersbug1.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot - published&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3959/careersbug2.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot - edit preview&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7760/careersbug3.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot - bullet mode&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24172" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T01:30:20.600" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T03:00:03.340" Title="Bullet lists in the experience blurb don't show up in the public CV" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29443" CreationDate="2009-11-12T13:58:48.897" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can my careers.stackoverflow.com subscription can be canceled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138852" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T17:15:59.387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T17:15:59.387" Title="How can I cancel my CV subscription?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29442" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:01:35.317" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;send email to careers@stackoverflow.com which is at the bottom of every page (titled &quot;contact us&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:01:35.317" />
  <row Id="29445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29441" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:04:56.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't repro this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I entered the following text for responsibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- bullet 1&#xA;- bullet 2&#xA;- bullet 3&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I got this on the public cv view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1281/image3i.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:04:56.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29480" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:07:46.740" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I purchased a StackOverflow Careers account, and then canceled it (I got a job!). However, this morning I got a couple of messages regarding the service. I should no longer be on the recipient list. Also, the email has no &quot;unsubscribe&quot; link, which it arguably should...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138853" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T18:45:27.480" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T18:45:27.480" Title="Cancelled Careers account still gets email ; no unsubscribe option" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29439" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:07:53.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they were to bring it in, the users at the 5k mark will take it to Meta (and of course the lazy who just post on SO and wait for migration) and probably see more dupe requests wanting to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23535/get-these-stinking-deleteds-out-of-my-face&quot; title=&quot;ain't no ghosts round these here parts&quot;&gt;deleted answers be hidden from their view&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even as it is now, when you hit 10k, you don't exactly get to vote to close/delete answers, just questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that you can't even comment or flag on a deleted post. So who gets to see it then and who will know you want to do something about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:07:53.540" />
  <row Id="29448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29446" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:10:51.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, yes, that's definitely an error -- the email &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have only gone to active paid subscribers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:10:51.383" />
  <row Id="29449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29453" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:18:33.897" Score="5" ViewCount="3003" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mostly ask this because I'm from Spain and I wouldn't mind working on the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the legal right to work there ... provided a did get a Green Pass for which usually helps a lot having a job offer in the first place so... Does it refer just to something like I'm of age and I'm not crazy nor do I intent to kill the USA president? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should I uncheck the &quot;legal right&quot; checkbox? And if I do, would that mean that I won't be appearing on US employers searches? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132939" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T22:27:59.007" Title="What is exactly the &quot;legal right to work in this location&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29449" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:31:40.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's referring to if you can work there right now. So if you have the necessary authorization to start working there right now, then you can check it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:31:40.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29449" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:34:37.993" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its whether you could legally turn up that country today and work there. For Example as you are an EU citizen you have the legal right to come to the UK and work there all you want. However you do not have the Legal Right to work in the US, unless you can get an employer to sponsor you for a Visa etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my guess would be that you can put whatever location you want to work in, but if you don't have the right to work there, you would not tick this box, then if an employer say in the US see's your CV, he will see that you want to work there, but you don't have a Visa, so if they want you, they are going to have to sponsor your Visa application, which may or may not put them off, depending how amazing you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:34:37.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T14:56:50.420" Score="6" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could use an option for &quot;I do NOT want to work at this location&quot; in the careers CV. Essentially I'm willing to relocate, but there are several areas where I cannot or am reluctant to relocate to. (For instance, my pet ferrets are illegal in California.) So, basically, I would to be able to say &quot;anywhere in the US, &lt;em&gt;except&lt;/em&gt; locations A, B, and C.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is, I have to leave the locations pretty much wide open and decline employers manually. That's going to cost both them and me needless time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Location preferences or ranking would be a nice idea as well. For instance, &quot;location X is my first choice, and Y second, but I'll accept M, N, or O, and am not willing to work in Q.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A free-text field to supplement the structured location entries might address much of this simply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T14:56:50.420" Title="Location section on careers.stackoverflow.com could use exclusion areas too" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" />
  <row Id="29457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T15:08:30.330" Score="5" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to specify a telecommute as job location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Location not type of employment.  For example, lets say I only want to work telecommute.  I can't give that as a location, so I can't complete the CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138857" LastEditorUserId="138857" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T20:44:20.897" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T22:21:14.510" Title="Telecommute or virtual for work location on careers.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29478" CreationDate="2009-11-12T15:16:31.600" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I tried typing in &quot;upstate new york&quot;, it was replaced with &quot;New York, New York United States&quot;, clearly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the region I intended. For now I'm just listing &quot;Syracuse, New York&quot;, but I'd really like to specify a broader region than that, without having to list every major city in the area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138597" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T23:10:49.737" Title="How do I specify upstate New York as a desired region?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T15:31:07.883" Score="6" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I sent a link to my question to co-workers (we're on the same LAN, so perhaps we look to have the same IP to the SO site), they were essentially logged in as me and could perform all the functions as if they were logged in as myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they get into my session by me simply sending them &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1098563/why-do-sharepoint-designer-workflows-when-edited-seem-not-to-update-on-the-shar&quot;&gt;a link to my question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a horrible bug, or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My OpenID provider is: myopenid.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At work, my coworkers and I are all behind the same proxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5716" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T02:22:33.307" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:30:00.160" Title="Co-workers logged in as me when viewing question I asked" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;session&gt;&lt;proxy&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29462" CreationDate="2009-11-12T16:03:52.523" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936/bobince&quot;&gt;high rep version&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16756/bobince&quot;&gt;low rep version&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T17:16:14.610" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T17:16:14.610" ClosedDate="2009-11-12T17:16:21.850" Title="Are both bobince's the same?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T16:06:53.940" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1125/move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&quot;&gt;Move the &amp;ldquo;remove tag&amp;rdquo; icon inside the tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually get my list of questions that I'd consider interesting via RSS. However, sometimes I access them by just clicking on my interesting tag list on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to widen the space between the X to delete a tag, or ask for confirmation if you are deleting one? I've nuked a few of my interesting tags several times by accident, usually due to a very cramped (physical) desktop and not a lot of room to move the mouse around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be a problem just for me, or just for a few. But I thought I would bring it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T09:33:39.877" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:33:39.877" ClosedDate="2009-11-13T12:17:11.060" Title="Pop-up conformation before deleting an interesting or ignored tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29460" CreationDate="2009-11-12T16:08:20.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say so. The gravatar and website match, plus the low-rep user is unregistered and came before the high-rep one. This probably means that he lost the cookies to that account and had to create another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommed that a mod on SO merge the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T16:08:20.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29459" CreationDate="2009-11-12T16:21:26.277" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What proxy are you using?  This sounds like either a bug with myopenid or a big problem with your proxy config.  I use myopenid and have never had this happen when sending things around to my coworkers.  I would first bark up the proxy server tree as myopenid would stand to lose quite a lot if this was a widespread issue for them, authentication being their business and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest log out of all the trilogy sites, then log out of myopenid and click around SO while not logged in for a little while.  That should clear any garbage from your proxy chain.  See if your coworkers are still accessing your session after that.  If not, log in again and then have them try again.  If they are still able to connect as you then talk to your proxy admin and / or myopenid support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T16:21:26.277" />
  <row Id="29468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29457" CreationDate="2009-11-12T16:37:58.480" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already under &lt;code&gt;What type of work are you seeking?&lt;/code&gt;, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T16:37:58.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31368" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:08:44.187" Score="3" ViewCount="408" Body="&lt;p&gt;This user&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/165309/lalit-dhake&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/165309/lalit-dhake&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;has asked 25 questions and accepted no answers, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;clearly they have a 0% accept and few medals. However simply from the badge it is not possible to know if they are a bad users or a new user (you have to visit their page to know the number of questions they have asked)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the accepted answer bit of the tag should read 0/25 which clearly shows the lack of the individual. For good users this may get unwieldy (eg 345/350) so perhaps after a certain threshold the badge should revert to percentages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;I had not noticed the mouse-over behaviour, perhaps some hint that exists for discoverability... or am I just SO fail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5552" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T07:13:48.647" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T14:11:46.440" Title="Bad users are not punished enough!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29472" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:12:51.247" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you define bad user? Their accept rate shows (to an extent) their engagement in the site, but isn't everything. I'm not sure that the questions they've asked are that well-phrased or generally useful, but no amount of statistics are going to tell you that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the accept-rate as a hint of whether you're likely to get much feedback from the questioner, but not as a guide to whether the user is &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T17:12:51.247" />
  <row Id="29474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29472" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:16:04.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has already been addressed. Hover over the percentage and you can see the number of accepted answers and number of eligible questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T17:16:04.097" />
  <row Id="29475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29472" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:16:44.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if you hover your mouse over the accept rate you'll see a tooltip that goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this user has accepted an answer for 0 of 16 eligible questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's not &quot;in your face&quot; the information is there. So if you see a low accept rate get the tooltip up and you can make your decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T17:16:44.110" />
  <row Id="29476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29472" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:16:52.393" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you hover over the &lt;code&gt;accept rate&lt;/code&gt; a tool tip will pop up providing the raw numbers for the percentage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T17:16:52.393" />
  <row Id="29477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29472" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:30:23.487" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ONLY two penalties for not accepting an answer is not receiving the 2 points rep for selecting an answer, and having a low accepted answer rate (which may have secondary consequences).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it, and those are the only penalties there should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see by the questions there are many users who had answers voted up by the community, so the questions did generate good rep for those who took the time to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reason to punish those users that don't fully engage with the site - that they are engaging at all is a good thing, overall, and we shouldn't exclude or further punish them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let them decide how deeply to involve themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T17:30:23.487" />
  <row Id="29478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29458" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:41:22.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now you are limited to whole states, whole cities, counties, or zip codes.  Would be nice to have phone number area code, and &quot;region&quot; option, or even a &quot;within 100 miles of zip code/city&quot; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality, though, is that in the database your locations are stored as lat/lon pairs, and it's the employer search that's important.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally you should be able to enter &quot;lat, lon, distance&quot; which would give a very good flexible granularity, and would enable employers to search just as easily as they do now.  You'd have to do more work on your end to convert &quot;Upstate NY&quot; to &quot;lat/lon/distance&quot; but you'd be in control of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the details of how they actually use/convert the region into a lat/lon pair and bounding box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27808/careers-locations-how-am-i-supposed-to-use-this-radius-of-interest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27808/careers-locations-how-am-i-supposed-to-use-this-radius-of-interest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no way, currently, for you to enter your own lat/lon/bounding box trio, but since it uses yahoo's query you might be able to play around with yahoo and find the correct regional entry to generate a single, or set, of bounding boxes that you like.  I suspect that you can select a combination of counties and zip codes to meet your needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you may consider simply including your local area, and then all of new york state.  When in doubt, be inclusive and you can selectively reject offers for interviews outside your area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T23:10:49.737" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T23:10:49.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T17:59:19.763" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious what types of scores Careers is giving to everyone / how much people are putting into their CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm at 115%. What about you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:40:49.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-12T20:16:30.260" Title="How complete is your CV?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29446" CreationDate="2009-11-12T18:45:16.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed - you are now removed from the email list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T18:45:16.857" />
  <row Id="29484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29491" CreationDate="2009-11-12T19:06:18.480" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question on Stack Overflow this morning. Later the author of the question added a comment to my answer indicating that my answer was helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I responded back, asking the author to please accept my answer if he/she felt that it answered the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the curious here is the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722153/http-post-xml-content-from-cucumber/1722714#1722714&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722153/http-post-xml-content-from-cucumber/1722714#1722714&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question:&lt;/strong&gt; is it kosher to encourage the author to accept your own answer in this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138872" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T19:46:15.407" Title="Is it kosher to encourage users to accept your answer if they give you a positive comment?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T19:16:13.467" Score="3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/3630?tab=reputationhistory&quot;&gt;Reputation history of my Super User account&lt;/a&gt; is showing a lower upper limit on the graph compared to my current reputation. I think this is wrong, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T00:22:10.420" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T21:44:18.090" Title="Reputation history graph reports lower than current rep level" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29484" CreationDate="2009-11-12T19:27:48.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might or might not be kosher, but it certainly is gauche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, come on, have a little dignity already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T19:27:48.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29484" CreationDate="2009-11-12T19:36:13.470" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with it, in particular because yours is the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; answer, and the asker's rep is on the lower side, indicating he might still need some guidance with how the site works.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If either of those weren't true, it would probably be inappropriate.  As to whether it's kosher, you'd have to ask a rabbi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T19:36:13.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29484" CreationDate="2009-11-12T19:46:15.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no problem in tactfully requesting the user mark your response as THE Answer. In this specific case there is only one answer and the question has been around for a little while (6 hours) and the user responded &quot;Bingo! Thanks for your help&quot;. This appears to be a case where questioner does not completely understand the SO rules/etiquette. A gentle nudge towards the right this is proper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T19:46:15.407" />
  <row Id="29492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29494" CreationDate="2009-11-12T20:32:42.017" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the limit is 200 per day, but the behavior I saw yesterday was that I hit the limit and then some - fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today when I view my stuff via the today &amp;amp; yesterday buttons, I see the amount is 185?! I know it was actually around 250 ignoring the limit. If that's true, I'm out 15 points because my rep hasn't changed based on what the totals are apparently for yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: Will I get that rep?  Or will the calculation be fixed for the yesterday link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestion/Speculation&lt;/strong&gt;: I wonder if the rep calculation limit &amp;amp; other related limits (closing questions/etc) would be better served with a rolling 24 hour period instead.  It'd be more accurate, and allow more moderation ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T20:44:20.337" Title="What's with the Rep Calc. on SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29492" CreationDate="2009-11-12T20:44:20.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically someone unaccepted an answer after you hit the limit, and you then didn't get any more votes. It happens. A rep recalc &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; give you the 15 points back, I'm not sure. (Sometimes recalcs do what I expect, other times they don't.) Try not to get too hung up about the odd bit of rep lost here and there. If you're hitting the cap regularly, you'll get to 10,000 sooner or later after which point it makes no pragmatic difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your speculation: that would make a complicated system even more complicated. My feelings about time-based rep caps are well-known though :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T20:44:20.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29497" CreationDate="2009-11-12T20:45:38.290" Score="1" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently cannot click on add comment, view more comments, vote or see a preview of the answer I am typing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It work on meta stackoverflow though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be only me, because the power that be insist on using a whitelist internet restriction. Did the source of the ajax script changed since yesterday?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133566" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T22:14:15.483" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T22:14:15.483" Title="The Ajax stopped working on Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;&lt;ajax&gt;&lt;scripts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29512" CreationDate="2009-11-12T20:49:25.440" Score="1" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I live and work in Southern California.  Southern California is a large geographical area and I have not been able to come up with a good way to describe the region I am prepared to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;Los Angeles, California United States&lt;/code&gt; location is far too open-ended .. covering nearly a thousand square miles.  On the other hand, the next level down (specific towns/zip codes) is far too granular.       &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recommendation is to allow the location field to accept free text, so that we can enter the local &quot;slang&quot; designations that convey great meaning locally.  Perhaps there can be a way to associate the text with a known metro area for searching.  For instance, the terms &lt;code&gt;South Bay&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Valley&lt;/code&gt; have specific meanings when associated with metro Los Angeles.  They are both in the City of Los Angeles, but are 60 miles and 90 minutes apart!   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I believe that folks in Chicago, Seattle-Tacoma, South Florida, and many other places have the same kind of problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29496/careers-location-does-not-work-well-for-large-metro-areas/29499#29499&quot;&gt;Adam&lt;/a&gt; doesn't think this will work because the employer search requires specificity.  However, specific searches are counter-productive in an area such as metro LA.  Consider the &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s%5Fq&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=torrance,+CA&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=37.735377,71.71875&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=&amp;amp;hnear=Torrance,+Los+Angeles,+California&amp;amp;ll=33.835849,-118.340629&amp;amp;spn=0.309701,0.560303&amp;amp;z=11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Torrance, CA&lt;/a&gt; area.  A search for &lt;code&gt;Torrance, California United States&lt;/code&gt; is far too small, but a search for &lt;code&gt;Los Angeles, California United States&lt;/code&gt; is far too large.In fact, the employer wants to search for &quot;Metro LA - South Bay&quot; to get Torrance, Carson, Redondo Beach, San Pedro, Palos Verdes, and so on.  The alternative is to require the employer to repeat searches for each &quot;sub-city&quot;, or to require candidates to put in a whole lot of locations.  Neither is optimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Craigslist is a good example of splitting big areas into regions to make searches more effective.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://losangeles.craigslist.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Craigslist LA&lt;/a&gt; has 6 &quot;regions&quot;, and you can search for all of LA or for a region.  OTOH &lt;a href=&quot;http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Craigslist Orange County&lt;/a&gt; has no regions.  But in both, the poster can indicate their specific location within the region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we allow the creation of &quot;regions&quot; in big metro areas, the locals (to whom they have meaning) will quickly get them sensible.  Perhaps the moderators can enlist locals from the metro areas to help define the areas.  I volunteer for Southern California!    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting.  A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29772/when-i-enter-a-county-on-careers-the-location-field-shows-the-whole-state&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was asked about county names and colloquial regions not showing up properly, and Mr. Dalgas indicated that he improved the parsing of YQL responses.  I checked, and now the regions I mentioned seem to work.  So, I will accept his answer to this question.  How the regions show up in searches remains to be seen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T02:32:03.470" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T15:19:12.353" Title="Careers: Location does not work well for large metro areas" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29495" CreationDate="2009-11-12T20:50:37.837" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like your browser lost track of the SO javascript.  Flush browser cache, shift-F5, all that fun stuff to make your browser reload the scripts.  See if that does it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T20:50:37.837" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29502" CreationDate="2009-11-12T20:56:29.727" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember listening to Joel Spolsky's talk at Google about the way that SO-style websites encourage certain behaviours. When you compare the concept of &quot;reputation&quot; to &quot;tokens&quot; in a token economy it's fair to ask if there's any connection between the two? There are certainly similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token%5Feconomy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token%5Feconomy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T21:17:35.067" Title="Has the concept of a &quot;token economy&quot; had any influence on the development of &quot;reputation&quot; in systems like Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29496" CreationDate="2009-11-12T21:00:01.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the features of careers.so is that employers can search very specifically by location.  Having a free-form location field would render that function useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that we should be able to choose our own location and bounding box, though.  See &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29458/how-do-i-specify-upstate-new-york-as-a-desired-region/29478#29478&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29458/how-do-i-specify-upstate-new-york-as-a-desired-region/29478#29478&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27808/careers-locations-how-am-i-supposed-to-use-this-radius-of-interest&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27808/careers-locations-how-am-i-supposed-to-use-this-radius-of-interest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for similar questions and feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T21:00:01.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29523" CreationDate="2009-11-12T21:06:57.067" Score="1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;This popped up in Adam Davis's revision to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29233/playful-parodies-possibly-pose-plenty-perplexing-problems/29485#29485&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.  Including the &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; in the block quote seems to be creating a link that is never closed.  Let's try to reproduce it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the bug behaves as I suspect it does, this text will be part of the link.  Well, that didn't do it, so forgive me as I include more of this text and try to pare it down to the problem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the email trail and a few notes on what occurred when per Rich B:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rich's account is changed from Chet Atwood to Rich B by stackoverflow team, then Rich received this email:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUBJECT:&lt;/strong&gt; your avatar&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;FROM:&lt;/strong&gt; stackoverflow team&#xA;   Fri, Nov 6,&#xA;  2009 at 11:26 AM&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;TO:&lt;/strong&gt; Chet Atwood&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;BODY&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Please desist, or there will be&#xA;  consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rich responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUBJECT:&lt;/strong&gt; RE: your avatar&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;FROM:&lt;/strong&gt; Chet Atwood Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:58&#xA;  PM&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;TO:&lt;/strong&gt; stackoverflow team&#xA;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please desist what, precisely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, that did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T03:30:16.600" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:18:26.660" Title="Including SO's url creates a link that isn't closed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="29502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29498" CreationDate="2009-11-12T21:17:35.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is interesting to compare and contrast the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both, good behavior is immediately rewarded.  Collecting enough of each gives benefits, in a token economy they are actually turned in for a reward, in SO you obtain new editing privileges the more reputation you have, and you can turn them in as bounty to highlight a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that while they have similarities, there is only fairly divergent theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a token economy one obtains tokens and they are only worth what you can get for them.  You don't gain any particular benefit from 1) holding onto them and getting as many as you can and 2) you don't obtain any greater social status with your peers if you have more, so there's no real need to display how many you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation to some degree mimics some of the earlier forum websites such as slashdot, where users could 'rate' any given contribution, and authors would be rated as 'good' or 'bad' contributors based on how their posts were rated.  In the case of slashdot this was called karma, and the highest level one could reach was &quot;Excellent.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while the two systems have similar goals, and are credited similarly, the &quot;awards&quot; are figured very differently.  Reputation is merely a 'status' compared to your peers, and is meant to be a public badge of honor, whereas tokens are meant to be spent to buy one-time priviledges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T21:17:35.067" />
  <row Id="29505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T21:29:19.333" Score="-4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6914/woudnt-it-make-sense-to-have-more-than-one-answer-acceptable&quot;&gt;Woudn&amp;rsquo;t it make sense to have more than one answer acceptable?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume that you post a question which actually asks two questions. If one user answers half, and another user answers the other half, then you may want to accept both answers. But you can't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm suggesting a feature to allow users to accept two or more answers for their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T21:45:48.633" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T21:45:48.633" ClosedDate="2009-11-13T00:47:36.043" Title="Accepting two or more Answers on a single question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29505" CreationDate="2009-11-12T21:30:47.163" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll make a counter-suggestion: Ask your two questions in two questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T21:30:47.163" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29500" CreationDate="2009-11-12T22:00:11.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The results&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran several tests over the course of several edits, and discovered the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first time, the SO link did overflow, right up to my manually-inserted &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second time, where I added the Google link, no overflow from Google, but SO still did.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third time, when I added all of the other Trilogy links, SO overflowed &lt;em&gt;past&lt;/em&gt; my manual &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, Google overflowed, the Meta link overflowed, and SU and SF did not overflow. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut reaction: This thing's freakin' unpredictable. It'll happen sometimes, or it won't, but the best way to use real links is to use MarkDown's syntax, and if you're embedding a URL in a quote, use the backtick method mentioned in the comments. I have no clue what this post will look like when I submit this fourth (and probably final) time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The test&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a simple test. You can use your browser's &quot;View Source&quot; feature to see it in action:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And all this should be a link. Right up until ... here, where I manually insert a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, with that out of the way, is the problem just relegated to SO links, or can other links cause the problem too? Let's ... find out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this still a link? Hrm ... Negative!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about the other Trilogy sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this still a link? Hrm ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this still a link? Hrm ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.serverfault.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this still a link? Hrm ...   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T12:18:26.660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:18:26.660" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-12T22:05:08.507" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to ask a question about filtering search results to truly unanswered questions, so I did a search for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22zero+answers%22&quot;&gt;&quot;zero answers&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got 4 hits on the &quot;relevance&quot; page, none of which was all that relevant, so I clicked over to the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page and entered this text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Mopping up&quot; - query to limit questions to those with zero answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;related questions&quot; list &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; popped up, with the first item being &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4583/see-only-questions-with-zero-answers-closed&quot;&gt;see only questions with zero answers?&lt;/a&gt;.  Shouldn't that have been the first thing to appear on the &quot;relevance&quot; tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136253" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T00:43:20.353" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T00:43:20.353" Title="Asking questions brings up better Related questions than search" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;&lt;relevance&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29508" CreationDate="2009-11-12T22:17:18.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Status by design, which is to say that SO search could use some improvement.  Try google with site:stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-12T22:25:38.170" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T22:25:38.170" />
  <row Id="29511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29449" CreationDate="2009-11-12T22:27:59.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added &quot;today&quot; to the end of the phrase since that seemed to be the source of most of the confusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have the legal right to work in this location&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have the legal right to work in this location today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T22:27:59.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29496" CreationDate="2009-11-12T22:34:59.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will continue to improve our location based search as we see how employers are actually using it.  Currently the employers have the ability to search within a radius of a location and we may offer more flexibility on defining regions of where you're willing to take a position.  At this point we are erring on the side of including more results to the employers and allowing them to contact you to ultimately decide if you want to commute to that location.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T15:19:12.353" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T15:19:12.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29458" CreationDate="2009-11-12T22:44:13.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may enter counties as well, so how about using Onondaga County?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yahoo maps will give you somewhat of an idea of the area:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&amp;amp;lat=43.021431&amp;amp;lon=-76.197708&amp;amp;zoom=10&amp;amp;q1=Onondaga%20County&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&amp;amp;lat=43.021431&amp;amp;lon=-76.197708&amp;amp;zoom=10&amp;amp;q1=Onondaga%20County&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T22:44:13.990" />
  <row Id="29514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29515" CreationDate="2009-11-12T22:55:41.557" Score="12" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of answers with &quot;Edited by BLAH&quot;.  But I suspect those are actually just retags.  It would be nice to differentiate the type of change made.  Seeing both of &quot;retagged by&quot; and &quot;edited by&quot; would clutter the interface but just changing the text if the change was just an edit would be quite nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138859" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T04:07:07.493" Title="Edited by versus Retagged by" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29514" CreationDate="2009-11-12T23:52:40.853" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good idea, especially as users &amp;lt; 2000 rep only get a &quot;retag&quot; option rather than &quot;edit&quot;. It would be nice to see that the edit was only a retagging without having to click through to the edit history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-12T23:52:40.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29508" CreationDate="2009-11-13T00:08:29.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you're kind of .. doing it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try searching for this (put it in quotes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22zero+answers%22&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22zero+answers%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, use the new intitle:1 search operator (since that's what the ask page does).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &quot;answers&quot; as a search term will be auto-mapped to a tag search since [answers] is a top 20 tag here on meta-so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T00:08:29.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T00:46:35.603" Score="44" ViewCount="692" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite a few people paste in bit.ly links into comments or answers, sometimes even for linking to other pages (or answers within the same page) on Stack Overflow.&#xA;This way, you do not see where the link is pointing to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that there is an API to do this, should the site automatically rewrite the links to point at the original URL? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any benefits to leave them at bit.ly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are people pasting them through bit.ly in the first place?&#xA;Stack Overflow displays shortened URL anyway, so formatting should not be a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131975" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-05T10:52:14.210" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T04:41:16.713" Title="Can and should Stack Overflow automatically rewrite bit.ly links?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="29519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-11-13T00:48:38.103" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have the rep to do so, rewrite those links out into the actual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the problem comes from some quirk with colons, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21556/links-with-quotation-marks-are-broken&quot; title=&quot;stay with me bright eyes&quot;&gt;other punctuation marks&lt;/a&gt; or something else like too many characters to escape for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the encoding &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21535/colons-in-link-urls-redux&quot; title=&quot;pincers for the wincers&quot;&gt;continues to be improved on the links&lt;/a&gt;, so even that argument is falling away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with URL shorteners is that if &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/trim-url-shortener-close-blaming-bitly-its-woes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;tr.im bin.nd&quot;&gt;the service fails&lt;/a&gt; you have no idea where that link went to and don't have an idea as to where to find the replacement. If the site just changes how it does its URLs, then you at least have the domain and the old URL slug to work off of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T01:25:54.417" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T01:25:54.417" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-11-13T01:25:52.360" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eschew obfuscation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not be opposed to an outright ban on obfuscated and shortened URLs. If one is entered into a question, answer, or comment, the system should simply reject the post with a link to the FAQ.  There's no reason to shorten a URL that doesn't need to be typed out, and some people do care about the destination of a URL before clicking on it (for example, I have no wish to test my company's proxy or URL logging by visiting a NSFW site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other situation, which the site operators should care about: using an URL shortener allows using amazon.com URLs that are not rewritten by the system to insert SO referral information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another case is lmgtfy links, which are banned from the site but I have seen users using URL shorteners to get around this restriction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T19:11:22.140" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T19:11:22.140" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29459" CreationDate="2009-11-13T02:22:11.167" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really possible since the cookie your local browser holds is the key to your identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I can think of this happening, is if you had logged in to Stack Overflow on that user's PC, in their browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T02:22:11.167" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29459" CreationDate="2009-11-13T02:31:40.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you could always try opening the page in a browser that you never use, to see if it's really possible for a user from your company that's never been to your site.  it could be that your proxy is really stupid, and it's caching the last version of the file that was sent, regardless of the headers sent by the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T02:31:40.163" />
  <row Id="29523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29500" CreationDate="2009-11-13T03:29:56.333" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This had to do with the legacy &quot;encode email addresses&quot; support in our markdown server-side processor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;team@stackoverflow.com&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;technically get encoded to mailto: URLs in Markdown&lt;/strong&gt;, but we've never really supported that (email, feh, I spit on email). But I never removed that support from the Markdown processor on the server, either, so it was still being emitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed it now since a) we weren't using it and b) it generates some dumb markup that causes issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T03:29:56.333" />
  <row Id="29524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-11-13T03:41:06.873" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this should be done automatically in the background, all the shortened links will rot long term and become useless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T04:30:00.443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T04:30:00.443" />
  <row Id="29525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29514" CreationDate="2009-11-13T04:07:07.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to make at least 10 edits per day, this would be helpful. Very often, I see that a question was 'edited', but still see things obviously wrong with spelling, grammar and punctuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This helps me to instantly see that a post was re-tagged, the things I see that are incorrect weren't missed by the last editor (purposefully or otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also love if it could say &quot;Rolled Back By .... &quot;, just like &quot;Re-Tagged By ...&quot;, which alerts me check to see if an edit war is going on prior to inadvertently joining the fray :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T04:07:07.493" />
  <row Id="29526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-11-13T04:14:32.713" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would rather vote to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/4TShs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;infer the title from the posted link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T04:14:32.713" />
  <row Id="29527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29572" CreationDate="2009-11-13T04:58:15.080" Score="-3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of tackling a question that's a few months old, but have no way to tell without looking at their profile whether the OP still uses SO regularly, and therefore whether they're likely to even notice my answer in a timely way, or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be a good idea for there to be some sort of way of telling whether the OP is still active, and how active they are, without having to go to their page for questions that are fairly old? The accept rate is handy, but after a certain amount of time, say one month, the question of whether the OP is still invested in the site seems to me to be more relevant, especially for users with low rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I can see their 'Seen' attribute on their profile page, but that's an extra page load for that small piece of information. How about a colour-coded image, or something, to crudely indicate, for old questions, roughly how active a user is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Gave this to Manni for following through the possible consequences of this request/point, but still find it relevant to know whether the OP is likely to see an answer, since it's often easier to answer the question if the OP can help you refine your answer. '&lt;em&gt;Answering for the world&lt;/em&gt;' is too abstract for me - I'm actually answering a question written by an individual. Whether that individual is still around makes a difference, to me at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136005" LastEditorUserId="136005" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T05:22:34.810" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T05:22:34.810" Title="Working out if the OP of an old question is even going to notice an answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;last-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="29528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29527" CreationDate="2009-11-13T05:07:11.050" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you answer the OP's question if he is still active he will be alerted (the envelope will turn orange). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your feature request, I would say it isn't needed. If you know the answer to a question &lt;strong&gt;you should answer it no matter what&lt;/strong&gt;. When you answer that question, your not just answering it for the OP only, your answering it for all of &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The World&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T05:07:11.050" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29527" CreationDate="2009-11-13T05:12:14.113" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think you can provide something of value, just go ahead and post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might even receive a silver necromancer badge, if enough people find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T05:12:14.113" />
  <row Id="29531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T05:25:30.757" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1719311/no-protocol-binding-matches-the-given-address-http-0-0-0-03371-common-svc-p&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; which attracted 1 vote to be closed.  I don't know why this vote was cast.  If I have not conformed to the site's protocol in anyway I am left 'none the wiser'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be made mandatory for a user to comment on why they are voting to close a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this site is to remain 'clean', part of this will be achieved incorporating processes that educate users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138895" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:11:21.273" Title="Should a user have to add a comment when they vote to close" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-11-13T05:37:42.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use &lt;a href=&quot;http://lnk.nu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lnk.nu&lt;/a&gt; which keeps the domain name in the shortened link, making it obvious where you will end up if you click the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This addresses the usability problem with &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the other link shorteners, where you have no idea where you're going when you click on a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Disclaimer: I run lnk.nu.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T05:37:42.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29538" CreationDate="2009-11-13T06:11:00.090" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;If yes, can you please provide a link and also add it in the list of FAQs? Any ways this question is tagged with faq. How does it compare with other reputation algorithms? If no, why not? Even if you are in the process of submitting for a patent (for an algorithm?), one can publish it while it is being processed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138835" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:15:36.647" Title="Is the reputation algorithm used published anywhere?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29531" CreationDate="2009-11-13T06:11:21.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  It has been suggested and declined repeatedly in the past.  You did the right thing in requesting that someone clarify the vote for you in the comments.  Remember, though, that it requires 5 people who agree that the question should be closed before it actually is closed (or migrated, if that's the majority close reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, many mods do leave a comment to give the person who posted the question a chance to change their question if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With over 1,800 people who can vote to close, it's not uncommon to see one or two votes to close with no comments on questions that might be remotely related to a server or hardware issue, so just ask politely why people are voting to close and you should get an answer before too many people vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:11:21.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29536" CreationDate="2009-11-13T06:15:36.647" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this link tells you exactly how much reputation you get or lose depending on other user's actions on your answers and questions, and your actions that affect your reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not patented, nor is anyone seeking a patent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:15:36.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29539" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29542" CreationDate="2009-11-13T06:28:12.700" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should happen to the questions in a situation where a user creates an account, asks a question, and then re-asks the same basic question with input from the previous answers (often asking for clarification)? Later &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/203187/qaedus&quot;&gt;the user&lt;/a&gt; drops out for a while, no answer selected, no question resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming the questions should get closed or deleted leaving the most recent one. Is this best achieved through flagging or closing as duplicate, or is my assumption wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like it's a bit of a failure in perceiving the differences here from a forum, and learning to edit, and even delete one's own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: If this has been asked before I couldn't find it, so hopefully not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:32:58.413" Title="Handling when a user asks the same question N times instead of editing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28045" CreationDate="2009-11-13T06:28:55.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another use of the favorite is to strategically enhance a question.  Those with the little colored stars do get a tiny bit more attention than those that aren't favorited by anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done some unscientific testing, and over a random set of questions that normally don't get favorited, those which I favorite while still on the front page usually get a slightly higer vote (and more &quot;me-too&quot; favorites) than the control group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not much, but you have to take into account that once you attach rep to something, people will use it to game the system, and it may well damage the usefulness that it originally had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now the favorite stands as a unique indicator, &quot;I thought this question was interesting/useful/pertinent enough that I want to refer to it again later.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't get that information from the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:28:55.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29539" CreationDate="2009-11-13T06:32:58.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one question has most of the useful answers, and the others have very few to no good answers, then vote to close them, or flag them for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If multiple questions have good answers in each one, flag them for moderator attention, and ask that they be merged, listing the relevant questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, add comments to each one pointing people to the correct/latest/most complete one, and additional comments to the OP suggesting how they can edit their question rather than starting a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T06:32:58.413" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29562" CreationDate="2009-11-13T07:53:00.060" Score="5" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;came across this ...bug...? I don't think it used to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://andrebluehs.net/files/zqdtj.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132852" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:06:15.963" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T13:14:56.000" Title="kviews should be k views?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29544" CreationDate="2009-11-13T07:56:29.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;seems fine to me.... maps to kloc etc fine, and it won't have any wrap/break issues...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T07:56:29.787" />
  <row Id="29546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29479" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:02:55.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm at 255% but still 6 to 8 weeks till it's complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:02:55.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-13T08:02:55.067" />
  <row Id="29547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29556" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:06:31.593" Score="-3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone considered the potential of having a Twitter ID field in the profile (or fields for other similar microblogging/social networking services) so that those who want to can advertise their other profiles, allowing people to network with people in their field?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular value of this, I feel, is more in Stack Exchange sites where the sites are often much more specialised and you are participating in a small community where it's useful to keep tabs on who's doing what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133890" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:26:55.850" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T20:26:55.850" Title="Add a Twitter field to user profiles" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28080" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:16:47.343" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Got this answer from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ygeoblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Geo Technologies&lt;/a&gt; folks at Yahoo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Think of it this way : London is the UK and US version of &quot;London&quot;, Londra, the Italian and Londres and French. In this case the spelling is different and we would be incorrect to return London if Italian or French language support is specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We call these sorts of issues &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonym%5Fand%5Fendonym&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;exonyms&quot;&lt;/a&gt; ... it's the way significant place names are spelt outside of their country and language of origin. Not all places rate an exonym and the fact that the spelling of the English exonym of this Finnish town is identical to the Finnish original but less the accents is sort of clouding the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T08:38:36.093" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:38:36.093" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26159" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:25:16.757" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is implemented already in part -- if &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the companies you worked for are a case-insensitive match to the company name of the employer doing the search, you are automatically removed from any of their search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is fully 100% automatic and requires no intervention on your part (other than populating the company names accurately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Company doing the search is &lt;strong&gt;ACME Incorporated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You've worked for the following companies: &lt;strong&gt;Initech&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Foo Astronomical Instruments&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Acme Incorporated&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; show up in this company's searches because your employment history includes an exact string match to &lt;strong&gt;ACME Incorporated&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usual caveats apply, this is string matching ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Careers 2.0, you can mark yourself as &quot;not actively looking for a job&quot; while still remaining searchable.  The UI makes it very clear to employers that these are just people in our database, not people actively looking for a job.  See &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/80893/not-actively-seeking-work-in-careers-id-like-to-display-this&quot;&gt;Not actively seeking work in Careers: I'd like to display this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; for more information&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T20:19:40.823" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T20:19:40.823" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24999" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:26:24.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, if you want your CV removed email us. If this becomes a common request we'll prioritize it, but the manual way suffices at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:26:24.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25579" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:39:55.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Our strategy here is to send fairly regular emails to our paying customers, letting them know what's going on. You should have gotten one of these already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:39:55.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29479" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:40:49.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/robertkoritnik&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mine&lt;/a&gt; is at &lt;strong&gt;370% complete&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137977" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:40:49.490" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-13T08:40:49.490" />
  <row Id="29555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25352" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:42:06.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to do this, just add a link to your public CV in the &quot;About Me&quot; part of your SO profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:42:06.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29547" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:42:37.397" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can add your twitter link to your profile's &lt;strong&gt;Website&lt;/strong&gt; field or in your about me secion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/username&quot;&amp;gt;my twitter&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that would be just as effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138905" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:42:37.397" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29018" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:45:16.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags are going to be necessarily a bit loose. Despite whichever is more &quot;accurate&quot; I would recommend going with whichever form is popular on SO as it reflects what can survive, tagging-wise, in the wild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:45:16.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28396" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:46:16.923" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65006/why-are-you-no-longer-inferring-user-names-from-openid/65019#65019&quot;&gt;to ensure&lt;/a&gt; @replies work, and to not expose part of the OpenID identifier, as of mid September 2010 this information &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/64531/what-happened-to-my-user-name/64541#64541&quot;&gt;is no longer made public&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time we wrote this code (a year ago) attribute exchange was very rough. Not all OpenID providers (eg GOOGLE) will give you this anyway. But, we should revisit it for providers that do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: we now do OpenID 2.0 attribute exchange to request &lt;strong&gt;email&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;real name&lt;/strong&gt;. This is tested and working on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yahoo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MyOpenID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, presumably other compliant providers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-19T17:22:22.617" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T17:22:22.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27845" CreationDate="2009-11-13T08:47:08.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now use a 2 line format for this so there's more room for them to &quot;breathe&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T08:47:08.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29527" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:13:10.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not worth the extra visual cruft IMHO.  Is it such a hardship to click through to the OP's profile?  And anyway, you're answering for everyone, not just the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:13:10.180" />
  <row Id="29561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24967" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:21:31.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick fix was to have text inputs retain focus after the autocomplete selection; not the best solution, but it'll fire that blur again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:21:31.850" />
  <row Id="29562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29544" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:40:46.590" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall it being more like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;   3k&#xA; views&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which reads better to me than&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;   3&#xA; kviews&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really easy to miss the &quot;kviews&quot; when scanning because it's tiny compared to the number. I prefer the first way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:40:46.590" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:52:38.020" Score="5" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good\nice idea for an almost retrospective bounty award. I have been helped out several times by people and if they were someone in the office I would buy them a beer to thank them. I think there should be a SO equivalent where if someone gives a good response you can 'Buy them a beer' i.e You give them 20 of your rep to say thank you. I know we vote and accept answers but it is not as 'personal' as it doesn't cost the OP anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138907" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:11:07.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-13T10:29:20.760" Title="Buy A Beer Badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29563" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:54:51.430" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could just go into that user's profile and upvote some other thing that he has done, if you wanna be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:54:51.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29566" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:51:38.393" Score="5" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the correct way to link from one Stack Overflow question to another one? For example, if I want to reference another question or answer from my question, how would I do that?&#xA;Should I just create a static link or is there some way that creates something which is a little more dynamic and understood by Stack Overflow as an internal link? I did not find the answer in the formatting full reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393505/stackoverflows-related-questions&quot;&gt;example static link: stackoverflows-related-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138922" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T10:11:25.253" LastActivityDate="2011-05-04T09:29:12.577" Title="How do I link from one Stack Overflow question to others?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29565" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:57:01.847" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just create a static link, they don't change (but the question can be moved for some reason)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:57:01.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29563" CreationDate="2009-11-13T09:57:52.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a point...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen comments to the effect of &quot;I wish I could upvote more than once&quot; etc so this might fit the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a &quot;throw my beer in your face&quot; badge too when you can't downvote enough...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T09:57:52.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29563" CreationDate="2009-11-13T10:03:11.503" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to be super nice, pay attention to their profile page as well as any comments or answers they leave. Get a feel for them as well as picking up any salient information as to their real world location/identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some investigative work tracking down their details (shouldn't be too hard given some are wanting to display any number of ways to contact them) fly, drive or boat yourself out to their house/flat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knock on their door and invite them out for a beer, coffee or what have you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because if you want to show someone on the internet that you really care, you'll turn up  unannounced at their door at 2am. Then you can give them a real world high five. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T10:03:11.503" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29563" CreationDate="2009-11-13T10:19:05.223" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could see if they've written a book, and buy a copy if they have ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T10:19:05.223" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29571" CreationDate="2009-11-13T10:20:59.183" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the careers page near the bottom it gives you some statistics one of these is searches and currently reads 14. What does this mean? Is it the total amount of searches employers have done? Or the amount of search results my CV has appeared on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133158" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T10:24:49.020" Title="Careers Searches Statistic" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29570" CreationDate="2009-11-13T10:24:49.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently it reads 14 for everybody since it's the total searches done in the system. CV Search hits is how many searches have had you as one of the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T10:24:49.020" />
  <row Id="29572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29527" CreationDate="2009-11-13T11:06:44.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would be the effect if there was a flag that told us: &quot;This user is not likely to see your response!&quot;? You might as well rephrase that and say &quot;Don't bother answering this question&quot;. The next feature request here on meta would ask for auto-deletion of such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question: a colour-coded image indicating how active the OP still is would be harmful for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastEditorUserId="130804" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T14:59:52.717" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T14:59:52.717" />
  <row Id="29575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27808" CreationDate="2009-11-13T11:36:26.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It gets a lot more complex in the UK.  I was looking for a job that was easy to commute to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for driving I can say within “n miles”, but I have the option of travelling by train!  There a lot of towns a long way away that have good train links, but only if the office is within walking distance of the station!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But asking a USA website to know about UK train times is a bit much!  I don’t know a solution to this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maybe you should just have a map and let user draw in the areas they are interested in on the map.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T11:36:26.310" />
  <row Id="29576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16004" CreationDate="2009-11-13T11:53:32.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fix for this would be good - I want to link to some github repositories from careers. However, the URLs have underscores, and github.com doesn't handle this issue either, so I have no way of linking to that work from my careers page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone clicking on the link ends up with a 404 page - not cool. I want to show off my awesomeness, but markdown is mocking me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that it's technically legal to escape underscores, but it's not mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;2.3. Unreserved Characters&#xA;&#xA;   Data characters that are allowed in a URI but do not have a reserved&#xA;   purpose are called unreserved.  These include upper and lower case&#xA;   letters, decimal digits, and a limited set of punctuation marks and&#xA;   symbols.&#xA;&#xA;      unreserved  = alphanum | mark&#xA;&#xA;      mark        = &quot;-&quot; | &quot;_&quot; | &quot;.&quot; | &quot;!&quot; | &quot;~&quot; | &quot;*&quot; | &quot;'&quot; | &quot;(&quot; | &quot;)&quot;&#xA;&#xA;   Unreserved characters can be escaped without changing the semantics&#xA;   of the URI, but this should not be done unless the URI is being used&#xA;   in a context that does not allow the unescaped character to appear.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138911" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T11:53:32.867" />
  <row Id="29579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T12:38:53.830" Score="22" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm reasonably active in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scala&quot;&gt;scala tag&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow, which has a limited number of users and hence available points, ability to get guru badges etc. There's one particular chap, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53013/daniel&quot;&gt;Daniel Sobral&lt;/a&gt;, who just gives the most amazingly long, detailed, well-formatted answers he deserves some particular special recognition in my opinion as he provides a completely disproportionate amount of effort and input, &lt;em&gt;well above the call of duty&lt;/em&gt; and well above anyone else in the tag!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of Daniel's answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722137/scala-2-8-collections-design-tutorial/1724807#1724807&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722137/scala-2-8-collections-design-tutorial/1724807#1724807&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1721356/scala-2-8-canbuildfrom/1721960#1721960&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1721356/scala-2-8-canbuildfrom/1721960#1721960&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1715681/scala-2-8-breakout/1716558#1716558&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1715681/scala-2-8-breakout/1716558#1716558&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just in the last few days: he's been at this for months! The suggestion for how the new badge (&lt;strong&gt;which needs a better name!&lt;/strong&gt;) would work would be based upon some metric for what &lt;em&gt;proportion of the answer-load&lt;/em&gt; they carry for a given language tag and how many votes they have got as a proportion of the total votes in the tag. For example - Daniel has got something like three times the number of points/answers when compared with anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this would only apply to tags with, say, &gt;200 questions in them. I guess that the main argument against this badge is that there are already tag-specific badges. The trouble is, these do not take into account (AFAICS) either the overall level of activity in the tag (or relative lack of it). And they don't address the &lt;strong&gt;disproportionate&lt;/strong&gt; nature of some people's contributions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the badge needs a name people feel comfortable with, the only ones I can think of are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;niche-master&lt;/strong&gt; (thanks to &lt;em&gt;gnovice&lt;/em&gt; below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;elephant-in-the-room&lt;/em&gt; (doesn't really sound like a positive thing!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;purple-heart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;beyond-call-of-duty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;burj-tower&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.burjdubai.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.burjdubai.com/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;above-and-beyond&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="132008" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T16:31:14.570" LastActivityDate="2011-01-30T22:21:41.933" Title="Badge request: gold badge: niche-master" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="29581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29579" CreationDate="2009-11-13T12:48:59.857" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the &lt;strong&gt;above-and-beyond&lt;/strong&gt; concept, but I don't think it should be called &lt;strong&gt;purple-heart&lt;/strong&gt;. The real world award is for combat wounds which I think is different than what you are describing. I'd hate to diminish the military award with trivial or misplaced use. Can we call it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57348" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T12:48:59.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29583" CreationDate="2009-11-13T13:04:04.283" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;When placing code directly after a list. The code is not recognized. See the example below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- something&#xA;&#xA;    some code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;some code&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;some code&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136149" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T16:05:01.013" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:05:01.013" Title="When placing code directly after a list, the code is not recognized. Is this a bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;markup&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29582" CreationDate="2009-11-13T13:49:15.433" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you absolutely, positively must have code RIGHT AFTER a bulleted list, then you need something between the two elements to seperate them. You can use an HTML comment or other non-printable element (say, a &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;), like so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; this is code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T13:49:15.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T13:55:02.517" Score="12" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I want to go look at a specific tag in my &quot;interesting tags&quot;, its very easy for me to &quot;misclick&quot; and hit the delete &quot;X&quot; on accident. Its very annoying because I have no feedback as to what I deleted. I have to look over the tags and try and guess what's not there. I feel kind of dumb complaining about it, but alas, it has become rather annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if a little info bar linky thingy (highly technical term) under the interesting tags told you &quot;You deleted php click to undo&quot;. This is synonomous with what happens when you delete in gmail. You can easily hit &quot;undo&quot; if you deleted unintentionally, and it avoids a stupid confirmation window &quot;Do you REALLLY TRULY want to delete php&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add that although it seems trivial, its the most annoying usability problems I have with the site. I bookmark a good number of &quot;interesting tags&quot;, and then I can very easily mistakenly lose one, and I can't figure out what's not there without spending at least a few minutes scanning my interesting tags. This is a significant distraction from my usage of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138553" LastEditorUserId="138553" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T15:02:49.410" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T15:24:16.007" Title="Can we get a little doohickey to undelete a tag from interesting tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2423" CreationDate="2009-11-13T14:19:52.350" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah... Was about to post a question about Enthusiast badge. It's a WOOT!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i38.tinypic.com/24zht88.png&quot; alt=&quot;Woot!???&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T14:19:52.350" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-11-13T14:27:31.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Industrial revolution didn't happen by itself, Jon Skeet made it happen!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Little known fact: before it was called DarpaNet, it was called SkeetNet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sun Microsystems is really a shell company for Skeet Inc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The JVM does not stand for Java Virtual Machine, it stands for Jon's Virtual Memory!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Turing test has been passed, ask Jon Skeet!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131120" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T14:27:31.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-13T14:27:31.383" />
  <row Id="29589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29584" CreationDate="2009-11-13T14:42:41.063" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a good article on A List Apart about this web UI consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This leads to one of the most basic and important mantras of interface design: &lt;strong&gt;Never use a warning when you mean undo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Google Mail is a outstanding example of this mantra. When you delete an e-mail, it immediately gives you an option to undo that action. How humane! This neatly sidesteps the issue of warnings (as well as the visibility issue of undo). When we make a mistake (which we are bound to do) it isn’t very costly because we can just undo it. With undo, we spend less time worrying and more time doing work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A List Apart: Articles: Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Now that I tried it out, I see that SO does neither the elegant solution (undo) nor the inelegant solution (confirmation dialog).  It just deletes the tag the moment you click the button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T14:42:41.063" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29579" CreationDate="2009-11-13T14:42:47.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;surpassing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excellence in service&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dedicated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag-expert&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;zorro&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T14:42:47.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:07:30.477" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I used to have an RSS feed called the &quot;top questions&quot; feed, or maybe it was called the &quot;newest question&quot; feed.  But I can't seem to find a link to any feeds anymore when I click on the Questions tab.  It used to be at the bottom of the page.  Am I looking in the wrong place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see a feed link at the bottom after I click on a tag, but I don't see any feed links when I'm looking at all questions sorted by newest, or votes, or popular, or featured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-27T15:37:56.127" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T15:37:56.127" Title="What happened to the &quot;newest question&quot; feeds?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29598" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:12:30.717" Score="12" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, the only ways for a question to get converted to a community wiki are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original poster converts it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A mod converts it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we get a vote for this, just like there are to close or delete questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15880" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T15:28:57.343" LastActivityDate="2010-05-28T13:53:40.937" Title="Add a vote to convert a question to community wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29591" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:18:23.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a feed link at the bottom of the main page, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds&lt;/a&gt; - which I suspect effectively works as a &quot;newest questions&quot; feed anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T15:18:23.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29592" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:19:26.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that posts convert to CW after a number of edits - I think it's still 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can help force a question to CW by making an edit to it, but that would rely on 4 others making edits as well or the OP making several outside the 5 minute window, so it's neither effective nor particularly fair and I wouldn't recommend it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other method to community wiki is if there are enough answers to the question, 30 for SO and SF, 15 for SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T23:39:51.237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:39:51.237" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29579" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:26:36.363" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an interesting idea (for obvious reasons if you look at my most active tag on SO). How about the name &lt;strong&gt;Niche master&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T15:26:36.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29579" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:30:56.560" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a badge like this, I like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;beyond call of duty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;niche expert&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;outstanding teacher&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of this, but I think it would only work if one could be nominated by their peers, because I don't think something like this can be measured simply by upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138924" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T15:30:56.560" />
  <row Id="29598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29592" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:40:40.120" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as Community Wiki is a one-way street, I'm not sure this is a good idea.  If five people vote to close, five people can vote to reopen.  If five people vote to make CW, there is no going back.  Unless the site allows a question to go back and forth between CW and question (which I don't think it should), I think this will be a nightmare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T15:40:40.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:50:04.560" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to get notified immediately on my desktop when a question of interest (that matches by fav tags) is posted on stackoverflow. Does anyone know of a widget or application that does this (Windows). Or does anyone know if stackoverflow provieds an API/Webservice for this? I think RSS wouldn't be fast enough, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136778" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:04:59.407" Title="Desktop stackoverflow questions liveticker (widget, application) !" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29633" CreationDate="2009-11-13T15:50:22.423" Score="5" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I'm just wondering if I should put anything under the dislikes section.  Right now I have &quot;windows&quot; under there because I'd don't like using windows.  However, when it comes to employment, I'll do what is necessary and I believe in using the right tool for the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what about a programming language that I don't like much but I'm experienced in it and will take a job using it if necessary?  If I were being honest I would put that in my dislikes section but would that make those types of employers not want to contact me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it seems to me like having skill levels would be more useful.  So what technologies are you an expert in, intermediate, or just a beginner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138927" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:03:20.480" Title="What impact do the &quot;dislikes&quot; have on your favorability to employers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T14:30:12.963" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for fun, how could I go about creating a navigable tag tree based on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see the following somehow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which technologies generate the most problems?&#xA;Which technologies questions are the most answered?&#xA;Which technologies have the most helpful users(high rep), quickest answered?&#xA;When is the best time of the week to ask questions for a given technology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138684" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T18:00:02.913" Title="Creating a navigable tag tree based on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29599" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:04:59.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow does not currently provide an API, however there has been talking of adding one once work is completed on careers. At the moment the only way to get this data is using RSS, and you are likely to get your IP banned if you poll that data too frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:04:59.407" />
  <row Id="29605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29601" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:05:39.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could first try creating a query at &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt; which uses a data dump of the whole site. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2677/anatomy-of-a-data-dump/2678#2678&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a link to the schema for that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to roll your own.. I would start your work by getting your own copy of the Stackoverflow Data Dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/creative-commons-data-dump-nov-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC Stackoverflow Data Dump Nov&#xA;09&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a dump of all of the useful information about the site up to Nov09.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastEditorUserId="136414" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T16:12:03.853" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:12:03.853" />
  <row Id="29606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29607" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:08:07.527" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;User Amin has added a question as an answer. Amin needs a new thread, imho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95277/how-do-you-create-a-parameterized-query-in-ms-access-2003-and-use-other-queries-f&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95277/how-do-you-create-a-parameterized-query-in-ms-access-2003-and-use-other-queries-f&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T16:48:51.130" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:48:51.130" Title="Moderator for thread, please" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29606" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:08:58.010" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you flag the post a moderator will see it; there's no need to post in meta about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:08:58.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29600" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:11:01.157" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;Dislikes&lt;/code&gt; is an area that I have nothing published on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yea, I dislike PHP, but I know it and I'll program in it if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old adage, &lt;code&gt;&quot;If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.&quot;&lt;/code&gt; applies doubly to your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting 'dislikes' is almost as bad as saying: &lt;code&gt;&quot;I have no pathologies that keep me from working with others.&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I have seen that statement in a Stack Overflow CV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:11:01.157" />
  <row Id="29609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29563" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:11:07.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related question - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29579/badge-suggestion-gold-badge-beyond-call-of-duty&quot;&gt;Badge suggestion: gold badge: beyond-call-of-duty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be great to have a way to nominate a user for being extra helpful, rather than just upvoting.  I don't think you should be able to nominate a user more than once, but with enough of these helpful nominations a special badge or designation would be nice for these folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138924" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:11:07.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-13T16:11:07.473" />
  <row Id="29610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:13:06.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet has no need for backups. If his hard drives fails, he restores his files &lt;em&gt;from memory&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet types at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AWarptable.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Warp 10&lt;/a&gt;, which isnt even possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet never needs to query databases - they are already asking him what he wants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134522" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:13:06.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-13T16:13:06.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34011" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:13:35.767" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I noticed the questions that appeared in the SQL tag were already one hour old when they popped up on my screen.  I looked into it a bit and it appears that if I searched for one tag, it did show the newest questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i33.tinypic.com/1zp3c02.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While if I searched for many tags, I only got hour-old questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i38.tinypic.com/fjp44y.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea why this is?  Both searches have the Newest tab selected.  But maybe I'm missing something equally obvious (wouldn't be the first time :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This is the multi-tag link:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql+or+sql-server+or+mysql+or+perl+or+regex+or+c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql+or+sql-server+or+mysql+or+perl+or+regex+or+c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the single-tag link:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: Retagged as bug hoping for some info on if this is by design or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T22:02:50.197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T22:03:28.557" Title="Many-tag search trailing behind one-tag search?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29600" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:17:00.580" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One way to use the dislikes field is to put things that people will obviously agree with you on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dislikes:&lt;/strong&gt; Inefficiency, Poor Communication, Rotten Food, Murder&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more serious note... I'd remove Windows from your dislikes if you will tolerate it to get the job done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you cannot really quantify your dislike for it, one potential employer may see that as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Oh man! This guy must be one of those&#xA;  Winders hatin' Eunichs Nazis!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while another may see it as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I dislike Windows as well, but&#xA;  tolerate it. Sounds like a solid guy&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would submit that the former is much more likely to occur given Windows' (dwindling) market share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:17:00.580" />
  <row Id="29613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29702" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:19:28.797" Score="4" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my CV &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/stevenhicks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steven Hicks&lt;/a&gt;, the University name is being truncated. I've selected my University from the drop down but when saving it saves the value as &quot;University Of Nort Carol&quot; rather than the full name (Carolina at Charlotte).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136869" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T08:02:51.717" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T08:02:51.717" Title="Careers page truncating the University Name" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24933" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:19:35.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree wholeheartedly with this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is definitely valuable for us to know who is hiring before, you know, spending lots of money to be in the recruiting pool!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ditto in terms of a time investment (how much time should I spend tweaking my CV? How can I optimize it for the types of employers that are here? How often should I check back?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:19:35.440" />
  <row Id="29615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:19:39.933" Score="4" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have incentive to ask questions: getting answers and getting points for a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have incentive for answering questions. Points, badges, reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I see two problems with the voting system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first is that there is little incentive to upvote. The consequence is clear on Stack Overflow. Plenty of good answers with a score of 0. Isn't it just as important to find these, and upvote them as it is to post and answer questions? Why no reward then?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second is that there is no scale, or metric, for how many upvotes an answer should get. If an answer has been upvoted 40 times, and another upvoted 4 times, what does that mean? (Assuming they are are both correct.) Is the first answer 10 times longer? 1/10th the code? Did it take 10 times the experience to answer? Is it in a language with 1/10th the userbase as the second?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because we have no incentive to upvote, and no direction as to how much we should upvote, all rankings are somewhat meaningless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A music website like thesixtyone.com solves this problem with the following solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are no downvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvoting (initially) costs you reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As more people upvote the same answers you've upvoted, you earn back that reputation, and then earn more reputation on top of that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way you have incentive to find things with low scores that should have higher scores, and upvote. You are rewarded for voting when your vote agrees with others, and penalized when it doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that this is the correct solution to Stack Overflow. But I am saying it's a step in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently 48,048 questions on SO with no upvoted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137035" LastEditorUserId="21960" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-06T08:18:25.590" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T08:18:25.590" Title="What is our reward for voting? What is the metric for voting?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29615" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:23:35.993" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flippant answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;300 votes = &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/32/civic-duty&quot;&gt;1 silver badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By voting you are showing participation in the community, by showing this participation you might make it more likely that people will vote for your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:23:35.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29600" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:23:57.100" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It says in the pop up help for &quot;dislikes&quot; that they are &lt;em&gt;deal breakers&lt;/em&gt;. If you &lt;strong&gt;would&lt;/strong&gt; consider working with the technology, I'd say it doesn't belong in that box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you honestly would rather find work as a taxicab driver than write another web site using Perl CGI, then what do you lose by letting employers know that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that requires more context probably belongs in the personal statement or background boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138928" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:23:57.100" />
  <row Id="29619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29615" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:26:38.857" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upvoting is not done often, and should be encouraged, but the purpose of upvoting is and should always be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wow, I really like this answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This answer is better than one already voted higher&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we give reputation for voting, then people will start to vote indiscriminately just for the reputation - even if you only gave 1 extra rep for hitting the daily voting cap.  It would adversely affect the overall system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be fine with upvoting badges, or &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; displaying some sort of metric with the user's answers showing how often they upvote (though I think that too might turn out bad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But upvoting itself should not give a rep boost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:26:38.857" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="29620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24917" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:27:18.357" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are also answers that I put a lot of effort into, and for one reason or another they weren't voted very high or accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they're still answers that I'd be proud to show an employer because it shows a breadth that isn't highlighted by many other posts. (for example, I answered a linguistics question. It only got 4 upvotes, and it is the only linguistics question I've answered, but I'd really like to showcase the fact that I &quot;Was able to apply my knowledge of linguistics to solve this problem&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, the same way one might highlight specific articles one wrote for a magazine or specific websites/projects, it seems like a good idea to, since SO careers is intended to be intertwined with our SO answers, be able to highlight things that we feel are particularly relevant to an employer or our abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:27:18.357" />
  <row Id="29621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29613" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:28:40.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this with my university, but editing it again sorted the problem out. It now displays in full.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:28:40.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29622" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:35:28.367" Score="-1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be really great if Careers was able to track the history of your edits to your CV over time, like any version control system would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it isn't easy to implement on the backend but I think it'd be a really great nice-to-have for the technical audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:18:51.327" Title="Track version history of CV edits" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:43:41.683" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;When there are too many comments on a given answer the &lt;em&gt;overflow&lt;/em&gt; is hidden which is quite understandable and great UI behaviour. However, those comments that are in view are not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; in chronological order. This would not matter if all comments were directed at the answer but however; individuals comment on comments (&lt;em&gt;meta-commenting&lt;/em&gt;) so that it reads like a conversation from top to bottom. The current strategy used doesn't guarantee that the &lt;em&gt;happens-before&lt;/em&gt; comment will be seen in correct order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I leave it to the meta-authorities to discuss if this is worth discussing (aka meta-discussing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also add that comments show up in chronological order when you choose &lt;em&gt;show all comments&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136756" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T04:26:02.933" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T04:26:18.923" Title="Displaying non-mhidden comments in chronological order" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:45:04.457" Score="8" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;When viewed, my public CV lists a table of how many views my CV has gotten in total, the past month, today, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This same view count is shown when you view &lt;em&gt;anyone's&lt;/em&gt; public CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this something that can be made optional for the owner of the CV? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I might certainly want to see that data, I'm not 100% sure I want everyone viewing my public CV to see that as well - I'd at least like to have the choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T09:28:52.760" Title="Disable table of view counts on public CV?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:47:15.203" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things people do is speak at conferences, guest lectures, devdays, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like the ability to denote that kind of accomplishment on careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the general case, it would be useful if there was a kind of list of 'one-off' achievements that could be described. E.g., &quot;I got the chief pony groomer award at TXI Studios&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:18:00.323" Title="Brag points added to Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29600" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:48:07.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory is that the only thing that belongs in &lt;kbd&gt;dislikes&lt;/kbd&gt; are things you truly &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;WILL NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're going to &quot;tolerate&quot; something, it's a preference, not a &quot;dislike&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you won't do it, then put it down. I won't do Java. I happen to be able to read (and even write [sometimes]) Java, but I won't work with it. I'll do PHP, Python, bash, C - but not Java. That's me. (I'm also more sysadmin-y than programmer-y.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can learn anything, but what I won't work with I feel should be listed. But only what I &lt;strong&gt;won't&lt;/strong&gt; work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:48:07.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29626" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:52:24.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the freeform fields available on the CV already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you're looking to have a separate box to hold &quot;random achievements&quot;? I'd stick them in the &quot;what else do you want to brag about yourself&quot; box, myself. (aka &quot;projects and links&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:52:24.027" />
  <row Id="29629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29611" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:53:45.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the opposite result.  Mutli tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/multitag.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Single tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/singletag.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:53:45.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29613" CreationDate="2009-11-13T16:59:43.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny thing - my first school, &quot;Hudson Valley Community College&quot;, renders properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it has to do with non-capitalized words in the name? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(pure speculation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T16:59:43.267" />
  <row Id="29631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29635" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:02:11.937" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, we should add some features to help the community to detect illegal question faster, so they'd still be open for less time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, for the users who have more than 3K reputation points, i.e. can vote to close a question, there can be a page which show the new questions that has some votes to close, or that has many down-votes. If those users noticed those questions quickly, those questions will be judged in a much faster manner by the community, and closed if they deserve to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your opinion? What do you think about such a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:10:07.120" Title="Help the community to detect the questions which should be closed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29600" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:05:10.963" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally agree with most of the answers here that dislikes should be employed only if they are deal breakers, but consider that &lt;strong&gt;dislikes can be used strategically to enhance your CV&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it will turn some people off, those with strong opinions often get noticed, especially by others with strong opinions - notably type A personalities that enjoy climbing the corporate ladder, or in other words your hiring manager/boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lukewarm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like a lot of things, and dislike nothing, it may mean that you are simply a well rounded developer that believes the right tool should be used for the right job.  It could also mean that you won't speak up if the wrong decision is being made, that you waffle, and that you are a 'lukewarm' programmer that hasn't had enough experience to know what's really, truly bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Type A personalities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, you can use it to appeal to those with strong opinions.  Guess what - there's a strongly vocal group of people that loathe VB.  Of course this hatred comes from the early days of VB, but that won't stop them from hating basic in general and VB in particular.  It may not hurt you to add VB as a dislike (although if you work with .NET you might want to reconsider).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expertise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it can show them that you have enough expertise in a language, technology, or framework to really hate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you'll get many blank stares if you mention that you dislike cobol, fortran, or even MFC and it will make an interesting interview topic as you discuss the projects you've worked on where the language, technology, or framework itself proved an impediment to good development practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't treat that field lightly, but don't discount it out of hand either.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T17:19:42.263" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:19:42.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29631" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:09:13.890" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions might be judged faster, but I don't know that they would necessarily be judged &lt;em&gt;correctly&lt;/em&gt;.  There's a tendency towards groupthink in online communities.  I don't think we need to give people a place where they can go looking for questions to close as soon as they hit the 3000 reputation barrier.  If you happen to notice a question that needs closed while you're using the site in a normal fashion, just vote to close it.  If it really needs to be closed &lt;strong&gt;right now&lt;/strong&gt; flag it for moderator attention.  I think the system works fairly quickly, and more importantly fairly &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt; in its current condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:09:13.890" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29631" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:10:07.120" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a feature already available, and only available, to 10k+ reputation users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to avoid echo chambers, groupthink, and band wagons, so having an easy to parse list of what's going on in close voting is only given to those that have really spent significant time with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:10:07.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:23:21.210" Score="2" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today what seem to be the two most-ever downvoted questions have appeared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=7473&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=7473&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726677/is-perl-officially-dead-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726677/is-perl-officially-dead-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1725619/can-you-recommend-a-go-language-web-framework-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1725619/can-you-recommend-a-go-language-web-framework-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the downvoters increasing, or do these downvoted questions get sucked into some kind of space-time vortex after a while, hence today's crop of unpopular questions appearing to be the worst ever? Or has it just been a bad day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Edit&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody seems to have answered my question. I'm sure we all enjoy discussing our downvote policies and deciding which posts should be downvoted. But are these two posts really the worst ever or most downvoted ever answers, or is there some other explanation for two posts from one day dropping right to the bottom like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Edit 2&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Perl question has now disappeared (for me, anyway), so did Captain Kirk turn a phaser beam onto these low-vote questions or did the original poster delete it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T01:32:56.657" Title="Downvotes increasing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;minimum&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="29639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29638" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:27:35.333" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope downvoters are increasing, I love downvotes (people don't downvote as much as they should, it is, I believe, because it costs you rep to do it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:27:35.333" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4510" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:28:15.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want a poll to be accepted by the community you must be VERY up front that it's a poll, and give instructions so people use it properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost always add something like this to my polls:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a POLL type question.  Please&#xA;  read all the answers and do not add a&#xA;  new answer unless it is substantially&#xA;  different from the remainder. &#xA;  Otherwise just vote up and/or comment&#xA;  on the answer(s) which most closely&#xA;  match your choice.  If you have a&#xA;  substantially different answer, please&#xA;  add a new answer, and only add ONE&#xA;  choice to your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see immediately on your poll that there are several duplicates that should have been made into comments, and a few &quot;aggregate&quot; answers where someone put several options in their answer.  If you don't make specific instructions, then you'll find your poll is VERY subjective, but more importantly unproductive, and people will be more annoyed by the scatterbrained answers to the poll than interested in the resulting discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note, however, that the community doesn't generally tolerate &quot;fluff&quot; polls.  You don't gave ANY reason in your question as to why it would be important for a programmer to be interested in this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:28:15.880" />
  <row Id="29641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29638" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:34:33.210" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was a bad day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question about Go wasn't so bad in my opinion. Actually, I've found much worse ones than that. The user even updated the question. I wouldn't downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More interesting though is to see people &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1725619/can-you-recommend-a-go-language-web-framework/1725637#1725637&quot;&gt;upvoting 53 times&lt;/a&gt; a joke answer that's worth &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/140814?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;392 reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastEditorUserId="134388" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T17:40:55.950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:40:55.950" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29638" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:48:09.047" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One question was extremely polarizing, the other was either a brilliant troll, or belies a complete lack of critical thinking skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are right to downvote both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How far they get downvoted depends on how long they stay on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The argumentative one got edited throughout the day, and so it went to the front page several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The troll one got answers because people were joking around with it, so it stayed on the front page, in addition to the edit made to the question that brought it back a few times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both were started during very busy times on SO (near the daily peak) so they simply got a lot more attention than most other really bad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T17:48:09.047" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29645" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:52:45.123" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like there might be a bug in the way the number of tagged questions are calculated.  If you look at a question (say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726677/&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) and look at the number of questions tagged Perl, at this writing it says that there are 2889.  However, if you &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot;&gt;click on the tag&lt;/a&gt;, it states that there are 2,891.  Where did the two come from (or rather, where did they go?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I followed up with Hellbog's suggestion, and decided to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1731089/how-do-i-get-started-writing-a-module-for-cpan&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; a new question tagged 'perl' on SO.  At that point, the number of tags displayed on that question increased to 2890.  Refreshing the &quot;tags&quot; page, the number of 'questions tagged' there now stands at 2892.  So, if it was a recalculation of different tables, it seems to have properly incremented on both.  However, it seems silly to me to store that information in two places, and calculate it two times dynamically, as a new tag is added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be something else - perhaps the queries to calculate the numbers of tags are slightly different on the two pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, cool.  I'll swap this possible-bug.  Before I do that, the list of bugs on the sidebar of this page and of the tag page at 817...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and after, 'bug' sits at 817 on the sidebar  and 816 on the search (one &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; on search, instead of more).  Meanwhile, possible-bug lists as 67 on the sidebar, but 68 on the search.  Ok, cool!  Now I understand: on adding or removing tags during an edit, the 'tag count' doesn't change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if that count can change when submitting a question, but doesn't change during the edit, is that still considered a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134097" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T12:43:57.440" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:43:57.440" Title="Difference in number of tagged questions for Perl" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29648" CreationDate="2009-11-13T17:57:50.073" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1730793/cache-timed-out-or-does-not-exists&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1730793/cache-timed-out-or-does-not-exists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is tagged with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;cache timed out not exists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask: why is it useful to have 'out', 'not', and 'exists' as tags? And I'm not so sure about 'timed'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I thought I typed this in before, but it disappeared without a trace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:04:32.170" Title="A list of dubious tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29643" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:00:30.600" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO database is rather denormalized: the number of questions for a given tag is stored alongside the tag in the database somewhere and is recalculated by a scheduled job rather than being recalculated every time the tag count is accessed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when you get search results, you get the actual number of tags (since that's part of the search anyway it doesn't cost extra to calculate the count on the fly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So wait some time and the numbers will converge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you might want to ask, &quot;Why aren't the tag counts updated when someone clicks on a tag since the count has to be recalculated anyway?&quot; The answer to that is probably because the search functionality is decoupled from the tagging functionality (at least, I'd hope they're decoupled) and it's not really worth the coupling to make one component update the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT in response to OP's edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding new questions updates both because adding the question increments the tag's counter, and searching is always correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retagging a question &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; update the tag's counter. If you had a question tagged &quot;perl&quot;, then removed that tag, the number of &quot;perl&quot; questions will be inconsistent until the scheduled recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT in response to further edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it's a bug, yeah. It's at least unexpected behaviour, which is at least a usability breakdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T19:18:59.637" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:18:59.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29644" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:00:41.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe these useless tags generally get cleared up anyway by the community bot. Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:00:41.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29638" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:02:46.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the 10K user mod tools help with downvotes and flags, especially as there are new 10K users every day (just about). When you can see a list of heavily downvoted or flagged quesitons, you're more likely to find them and downvote/flag as well. This is probably a good thing. Questions this bad need to go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:02:46.247" />
  <row Id="29648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29644" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:04:32.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The out one sometimes has a valid use, although it could be name better, as in out-parameters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the other cases, it appears as those some people still don't understand what tags actually are, and in the case of your example they decided to just use an abbreviated summary instead of actual keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the new user &quot;cache timed out&quot; makes perfect sense to him, as it is descriptive of whats happening to him. To those who understand that the phrase is then broken up into three different tags, &quot;cached&quot;, &quot;timed&quot;, and &quot;out&quot; then it makes less sense, and hopefully someone will retag it to something like &quot;cache-timeout&quot;. I'd just let the community worry about the cleanup, and when you hit 500 rep then you can do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:04:32.170" />
  <row Id="29649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29600" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:12:19.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be limited to things you &lt;strong&gt;WILL NOT&lt;/strong&gt; work in, and don't want to be bothered with.  For example I have COBOL and Assembly listed in the &lt;code&gt;dislikes&lt;/code&gt; section of my yet unpublished CV, because in fact I will not work in either, and I don't want to be bothered with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:12:19.047" />
  <row Id="29650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29638" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:22:37.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I am fairly liberal with downvotes, personally. I always have been- I like keeping the signal high. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:22:37.743" />
  <row Id="29651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29660" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:33:47.117" Score="2" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: Mrs. Smith [*****@yahoo.com]&#xA;    Sent: Thu 11/12/2009 8:07 PM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    I've tried using the book as a guide but still I'm get compilation &#xA;    errors.  Where do I begin?  Here is what I need.&#xA;&#xA;    Create a stored procedure called Get_Item that accepts an inventory &#xA;    id number and Quantity to purchase and returns the item description &#xA;    and the inventory price for the item.  However, if the item doesn’t &#xA;    exist, ensure that your calling procedure handles this.  Also, if the &#xA;    QOH for the item is less than the quantity to purchase, again, ensure &#xA;    that this is handled in order to produce the output shown below.  &#xA;&#xA;    Enter inventory ID: 10&#xA;    Enter quantity to purchase: 168&#xA;    168 units of Inventory ID 10, Women's Fleece Pullover, will be ordered&#xA;&#xA;    Or&#xA;&#xA;    Enter inventory ID: 10&#xA;    Enter quantity to purchase: 169&#xA;    Inventory ID 10, Women's Fleece Pullover, does not have enough in inventory&#xA;&#xA;    Or&#xA;&#xA;    Enter inventory ID: 99&#xA;    Enter quantity to purchase: 99&#xA;    Inventory ID 99 not found in inventory&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    Phone: 843-740-****&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:47:11.930" Title="Advertising Inquiry: Book failure" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9437" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:41:04.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the behavior in this case is well explained by Timothy, keep in mind that even if you do manage to game the system in a manner similar to this, a reputation recalc will result in a corrected tally.  These happen once or twice a year for everyone, and whenever a moderator believes there might be a reason to recalculate a specific user's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:41:04.837" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-13T18:41:04.837" />
  <row Id="29653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29655" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:56:22.493" Score="6" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who designed it, and where does he live? &gt;:P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, what is the purpose of it? For use on geocities?&#xA;Does anyone actually use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135546" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T10:17:40.313" Title="Who came up with the &quot;Hot Dog&quot; theme for flair?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T18:57:01.633" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Since TheTXI isn't around)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Mrs. Smith,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex Papasmurfopolis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T18:57:01.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29653" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:01:40.873" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tribute&lt;/a&gt; to Windows 3.1's &quot;Hotdog Stand&quot; theme&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qxQNB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="135546" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-21T05:23:26.123" LastActivityDate="2011-02-21T05:23:26.123" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:02:14.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Mrs. Smith,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book was printed upside down.  Please try the programming examples in reverse, or await our corrected book at a convenient future date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please keep in mind waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best Regards,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:02:14.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29653" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:12:01.957" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a color palette trojan horse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/091011.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/xkcdlife.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/091011.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T19:53:51.163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:53:51.163" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="29658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:13:25.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paste the entire contents of books online in the reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:13:25.700" />
  <row Id="29659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:14:58.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because TheTXI isn't here to smite me with his mighty hoof:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Mrs. Smith:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hate ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:14:58.833" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:17:06.957" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Mrs. Smith,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're getting SQL compilation errors, you'll have to switch to Oracle. Oracle doesn't have any problems compiling whatever you write into it, no matter how little sense it makes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forget the difference between the empty string and null? Oracle has you covered. Not satisfied with just one VARCHAR type? Oracle has two! DBAs overpaid? Fire them and replace them with Oracle consultants who will do the same job but in a more &lt;strike&gt;complicated&lt;/strike&gt;enterprisey manner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inventory ID 99 missing? Oracle doesn't ever miss IDs. It has every ID from one to infinity, including 99. In fact, it has 99 in there at least &lt;strong&gt;twice&lt;/strong&gt;. I've seen them with my own eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Oracle, you will always have enough inventory for all of your orders, until the end of time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours Oracly,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:17:06.957" />
  <row Id="29661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:42:51.033" Score="5" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to answer someone who asks a question that amounts to wanting to pwn their users' machines? All of the questions I've seen in this sphere seem more ignorant than malicious, but questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1660106/block-controlaltdelete&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; seem to be coming up a lot lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138940" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T18:45:59.613" Title="Questions about overriding security features on other user's computers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="29662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:45:51.277" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to search for &lt;code&gt;*=&lt;/code&gt; as a string?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1731413/sql-operator&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is a dupe but searching for &lt;code&gt;*=&lt;/code&gt; doesn't return anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T22:36:39.877" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T00:00:00.520" Title="Searching for *=" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:46:38.030" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28402/no-reputation-for-upvote-given&quot;&gt;No reputation for upvote given?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My statistics say I've made 187 rep from &lt;code&gt;2009-11-13 00:00:00Z&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;2009-11-13 23:59:59Z&lt;/code&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since the last few answers I seem to keep receiving &lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt; rep. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i36.tinypic.com/el5oac.png&quot; alt=&quot;Weird rep&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133339" LastEditorUserId="133339" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T19:58:30.987" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:58:30.987" ClosedDate="2009-11-13T22:34:12.923" Title="Receiving empty rep" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29663" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:57:13.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That only happens if you've hit your daily cap; if your time zone is not UTC, your day is different from the server's day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T19:57:13.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29714" CreationDate="2009-11-13T19:57:46.743" Score="7" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the new careers site I wonder what will be its international appeal. Is it likely to be very US focused or what would be it's geographic distribution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think it will be worth filing a CV from an European location?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130007" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:52:21.527" Title="Careers internationally" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;recruitment&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29662" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:02:05.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't answer you &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;, but for your &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt;, I suggest searching for &quot;ansi join&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T20:02:05.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29638" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:10:45.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sad thing is both of those questions probably received more up votes than any legitimate question on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T20:10:45.023" />
  <row Id="29668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32231" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:17:10.030" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to link to my sites from careers and have them linked with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findyours.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Social Graph api&lt;/a&gt;, for this I'd need to somehow add the rel='me' attribute on links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we have some way to specify on a link if the site is yours in markdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Any official response on this? I think it would be a nice feature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T03:22:22.520" LastActivityDate="2010-07-13T03:18:51.080" Title="Ability to add rel='me' on links on careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29638" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:22:31.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why S&amp;amp;A questions need to be closed and deleted quickly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T20:22:31.780" />
  <row Id="29670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29668" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:23:02.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While you're at it, putting an &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hcard&lt;/a&gt; up somewhere in there would seem like a natural step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T20:23:02.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29681" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:26:05.253" Score="3" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a tag called&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;vb.net+sql&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I believe, should be two separate tags. Whenever I click on it or do a search for it, instead of searching for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[vb.net+sql]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;searches for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[vb.net]+[sql]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the admin's can search for the specific question and rename the tag, but I expect this will have to be done by the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried another query with a + in it and noticed that [c++cli] worked properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T23:28:17.073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:28:35.553" Title="Unable to find question with tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29673" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:38:19.377" Score="7" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is obviously one of those pointless questions that would've been instantly closed on SO ... so here we go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How much rep is &lt;em&gt;enough rep&lt;/em&gt; in relation to SO and SO careers? 10K? 50K?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might sound a very stupid question (and it probably is) so if you want to make fun of me please do - but for those who want to try to understand the sense of what I am asking thanks for taking the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138207" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T12:27:53.213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:27:53.213" Title="How much is *enough* reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:40:58.440" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhere around 12.5K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enough to get you access to the moderator tools and a buffer to allow for down-votes and rep recalculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again if you've got that much it will never be &quot;enough&quot; as you'll want to keep your place on page 7 or even get up to page 6 (and then page 5...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 8th Jan 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an interesting aside 12.5k rep now gets you onto page 9. To get onto page 7 you'll need 13.5K. So in two months you'd need to get approximately 1K rep to keep your place at this level. 500 points a month shouldn't be too hard to keep up for a moderately active user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T21:13:05.130" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:13:05.130" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:42:07.537" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The perfect amount of rep is 42.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T20:42:07.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:46:02.883" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have enough rep when Jon Skeet is in second place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T20:46:02.883" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-13T20:46:51.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the threshold to get free stickers was around 20k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are those who feel too high a reputation will hurt you in terms of job hunting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 10k moderation tools aren't something worth getting reputation points &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to have a buffer for bounty, and do most of the editing you might ever want, I'd say right around 7-8k is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T12:20:12.077" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:20:12.077" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29624" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:01:04.073" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design, they are shown ordered by votes until you expand it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:01:04.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:01:52.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in the 7000s on SO, and the 3000s here, and feel comfortable with my rep. Would I like more? Sure, we all would! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So technically, there's never such a thing as &quot;enough,&quot; but the truth is that once you're comfortably able to edit and vote-to-close, you're probably there. That said, rep is only one facet of the site -- it's not like people who &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to contribute stop just because they've rep-capped, or they're not likely to gain rep from an answer. At least, that hasn't stopped me. (Although I think I've only rep-capped 3 times ... and two of those were here on Meta.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:01:52.187" />
  <row Id="29680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29671" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:14:11.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Little bit tricky, but here it is:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vb.net%2bsql%20or%20vb-to-vb.net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vb.net%2bsql%20or%20vb-to-vb.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:14:11.150" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29671" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:15:17.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was this question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/677947/if-ddl-statement-fails-whole-transaction-is-rolled-back-sql-server&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/677947/if-ddl-statement-fails-whole-transaction-is-rolled-back-sql-server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since stackql is down, I had to dig into the copy of the dump I loaded on my home server to find it. I expect StackQL up by tomorrow morning, but hopefully Monday at the latest; I'm moving next month and just haven't had time at home to fix it :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I fixed the question.  The tag should disappear on it's own now after some undisclosed amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that this is still a bug.  We've just cured one symptom of the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T21:31:50.813" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:31:50.813" />
  <row Id="29682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:18:50.237" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think from the point of view of a person looking to hire, &lt;em&gt;who is the kind of person you want to work for&lt;/em&gt;. If that person were me, I'd be looking for someone who knows how to communicate well, and who is largely correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't actually tell that from just the rep score. I can get &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; idea if I know the average number of votes that person gets per answer. I can improve that by knowing what tags that person is active in (as upvotes are easier to come by in popular tags). But the only way I'll really know is by reading the person's answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maybe&lt;/em&gt; I'd use rep just as a very crude first pass filter, discarding anyone with less than 1K - why would they want to use SO Careers if they're not really invested in SO? - but anything above that and I'd be interested in the details, not a number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now leaving careers aside, I think anything above about 93K is respectable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:18:50.237" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="29683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:19:57.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Mrs. Smith:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like pie. Can I have the top-secret recipe for your pie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yours truly,&lt;br /&gt; Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T21:42:35.843" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:42:35.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:28:24.720" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Sir, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you tried: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://jeroenarendsen.nl/pics/Palm-back-v-sign2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Flying V&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136869" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:28:24.720" />
  <row Id="29685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:29:42.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Mrs. Smith,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They have books in South Carolina now?  Wow...things have improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6212" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:29:42.377" />
  <row Id="29686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27617" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:35:30.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess I'm a geezer, since I didn't recognize most of the stuff played, and some of what I had heard before I couldn't identify.  However, I do recall that they played something by Peter Gabriel during lunch, but I don't remember which tune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137890" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:35:30.447" />
  <row Id="29687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29694" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:41:29.917" Score="9" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (as a lot of people) enjoy the high-quality code-golf questions posted by user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/41983/liranuna&quot;&gt;LiraNuna&lt;/a&gt;, I've even participated a few times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I interpreted those questions as 'completely new/original' entries but then found a lot of them were just copied over verbatim (including input / output examples sometimes) from other sites. I think at least a reference (link) to the source should be included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following links (I'll give the Stackoverflow link and what I consider the source):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sierpinski’s Triangle:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726698/code-golf-sierpinskis-triangle&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726698/code-golf-sierpinskis-triangle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SOURCE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?Sierpinski+Fractal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?Sierpinski+Fractal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morse code:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352587/code-golf-morse-code&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1352587/code-golf-morse-code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SOURCE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?Morse+decode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?Morse+decode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Wave:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1376077/code-golf-the-wave&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1376077/code-golf-the-wave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SOURCE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?wave+line&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?wave+line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Musical Notes:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1575096/code-golf-musical-notes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1575096/code-golf-musical-notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SOURCE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://codegolf.com/musical-score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codegolf.com/musical-score&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven Segments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1407422/code-golf-seven-segments&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1407422/code-golf-seven-segments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SOURCE: &lt;a href=&quot;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?LED+counter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?LED+counter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you guys think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138885" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T21:40:10.653" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T21:40:10.653" Title="Should authors of a code-golf question not refer to the sources for their entries?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="29688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29661" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:44:27.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, help them, by all means! Do you know how hard it is nowadays to come across good ways to pwn users' machines? Especially now with Win7 and all... I mean, c'mon... where should a poor developer find help in writing a good-ol' virus or keylogger or such, if not on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:44:27.553" />
  <row Id="29689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29651" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:47:11.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Mrs. Smith,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe this accurately summarizes your predicament:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Enter inventory ID: &quot;clue&quot;&#xA;Enter quantity to purchase: 1&#xA;Inventory ID &quot;clue&quot; not found in inventory&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex Papilledema&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:47:11.930" />
  <row Id="29690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29615" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:49:35.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, personally, upvote when I like the answer.  It might be clever, informative, or simply contain something other answers overlooked.  I don't need incentives, because it isn't actually difficult.  I read, I like, I click on the arrow.  (Alternatively, I read, I dislike, I click on the other arrow.  That takes a little more consideration.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor does it matter to me how many votes an answer has.  The basic idea here is to make the better ones float to the top, not to judge the objective quality of the answer.  This, of course, means that answers to some questions will garner more rep than equally good answers to other types of questions, but I don't think that's worth fiddling with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need an incentive to vote, because we already get votes, and I don't want people voting more or less at random because they're rewarded somehow.  I don't think we want to mandate groupthink either.  If people have incentive to upvote answers that will get lots of upvotes, they're going to be voting based on a basis other than &quot;Is this a good answer?&quot;, and I think any such incentive will cause more problems than it solves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest voting problem right now is the sympathy upvote, and I think the biggest problem it causes is rep.  If somebody posts an incorrect answer, and somebody votes him down, and somebody votes him up, and somebody votes him down, and so forth, the answerer gets 8 rep per cycle.  Arguably, this is an easier way to get rep than posting correct and well thought out answers.  I think this can be dealt adequately with by not giving full rep to upvotes received while negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'd strongly urge against complicated schemes.  At least on SO, we're all part-time highly literal perfectionists who want to know the rules exactly by virtue of what we do, and this does tend to attract people who are normally perfectionists who want to know the rules.  I think most of us would be more comfortable with knowing exactly what a vote is likely to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:49:35.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29661" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:49:53.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I knew enough about current virus techniques to write one, I'd also know enough about current virus techniques to prevent one. SO is a Q&amp;amp;A site, let's make it the most comprehensive there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Because let's be honest, there are better places than SO to learn about creating viruses - easier ones, too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:49:53.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:50:57.367" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Notice that the rather long title of my degree causes the years (1996 - 2000) to be shown &lt;a href=&quot;http://yfrog.com/e5layoutbugp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;under the line&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2648" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T22:41:37.057" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T22:41:37.057" Title="layout bug when subtitles are long" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:53:44.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I find the answer to my own question, I will post it on SO as answered.  I don't see anything wrong with it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if someone else comes along later and solves the problem a better way, I would give them credit for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138924" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:53:44.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="29694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29687" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:53:47.470" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they should include a link.  &lt;strong&gt;Any&lt;/strong&gt; content, whether question or answer, that you copy or paraphrase from another site should be cited.  It's just good manners to give credit to the original authors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:53:47.470" />
  <row Id="29695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29687" CreationDate="2009-11-13T21:54:32.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd leave a comment for the OP saying that they should add the link showing where they got the original idea. If they don't respond, and you've got enough Rep to edit the question, I say add the link in yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T21:54:32.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29615" CreationDate="2009-11-13T22:10:21.497" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't a warm fuzzy feeling enough? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T22:10:21.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29687" CreationDate="2009-11-13T22:18:01.107" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The wave&lt;/strong&gt;: I will admit this one was a direct copy - because it was, imo, a good question right in the path I was thinking of. This was the only question I deliberately copy-n-pasted. Someone commented on the source &lt;em&gt;during the challenge was taking place&lt;/em&gt; and that sparked many other solutions that were semi-copied from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morse code&lt;/strong&gt;: That was my first question, and was completely original - nothing inspired it. I did not know of golf.shinh.org when I started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Musical notes&lt;/strong&gt;: This was indeed inspired by the link you gave, but it's reverse, not to mention the note structure is different as well (that has impact on the solution by a large degree).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sierpinski’s Triangle&lt;/strong&gt;: Was not deliberately copied from golf.shinh.org, it was my own idea and I actually ASCII'd the solutions in gedit. It was one of my first ideas (it was about to be posted after Morse code) and was saved for an 'emergency' I-ran-out-of-ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven Segments&lt;/strong&gt;: Same as Morse code - I was not aware of golf.shinh.org at the time. Also of note that this question is reversed, which changes the answer by a really large margin. It was also my first and only question I added a restriction, and people did not like that (I was trying to discourage the use of figlet related libraries/services).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for source attribution for &lt;em&gt;code golf&lt;/em&gt; - as much as I love giving credit where it's due, I think it ruins the fun. People go - check out - and ruin the solution for themselves. Mostly because those sites &lt;strong&gt;contain answers already&lt;/strong&gt;. While not a direct copy of challenges (regardless of 'The wave'), I think that it would spoil the fun for those who really want to try. Remember humans - by nature - are very curious creatures, and saying stuff like &quot;Just don't click the link&quot; will encourage clicking even further :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the other questions - they are completely original - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1480023/code-golf-lasers&quot;&gt;Lasers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1540030/code-golf-beehive&quot;&gt;Beehive&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609702/code-golf-playing-cubes&quot;&gt;Playing cubes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683857/code-golf-hourglass&quot;&gt;Hourglass&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1646887/code-golf-spider-webs&quot;&gt;Spider webs&lt;/a&gt; - all original, and were inspired by my personal life experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the community does, however, &quot;force&quot; me to put sources, I will change every question that has a semi-direct relationship &lt;strong&gt;that I know of&lt;/strong&gt;, will get added and posted in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would hate it if I was forced to put a link to 'related' questions - I think it'll spoil the fun.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I only knew of two direct attribution links - The wave (was indeed a direct copy) and Musical Notes (Provided inspiration and guideline, I had an early idea about notes already).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing to note is that &lt;em&gt;The Wave&lt;/em&gt; has &lt;strong&gt;the most answers&lt;/strong&gt; of all my questions (at time of writing)! This confirms my concern that giving the source (if applicable) will ruin fun and increase participation &lt;em&gt;at a cost&lt;/em&gt; of ruining people's fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130066" LastEditorUserId="130066" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T23:30:14.737" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:30:14.737" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="29699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29706" CreationDate="2009-11-13T22:34:49.083" Score="1" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that I've seen a few times this week, but it seems to go away by itself after a while. Clicking on an Interesting tag takes me to the Featured list for that tag sometimes, when usually it just filters all questions by that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can currently recreate it thus :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) While on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; , I click on one of my Interesting tags (eg sql-server). At this point I am not on the Featured list, nor have I been for at least an hour.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) The link says &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) It takes me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server&lt;/a&gt; as expected, but takes me to the Featured page for it rather than the Active one.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4) This persists until while in one of those tags I click one of the other buttons at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional oddities :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) While on main page, I select Week&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) I click on a tag, expecting to filter the Week section based on it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) Instead, I'm presented with the Featured list for that tag again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can also click on Hot on the main page, select a tag and get the featured list again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to work out a pattern to the odd behaviour, but nothing yet. At first I thought it was an issue with the selected tag not having an equivalent to the screen you were previously on (Active/Week), and therefore selecting Featured by default. But it's not that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else experienced this, or can recreate it every time? Or am I missing something obvious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I'm using Opera 10.01 and I've seen this on 3 different PCs and XP32/XP x64/Win7 Pro 64-bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT : Ok, after nosing around the Questions page for a change rather than just the main page, the behaviour when clicking on the Interesting Tags is consistent - it will remain on the tab you selected within the Questions page. However, when starting from the main address &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; the behaviour is somewhat confusing. If I'm on the address &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&lt;/a&gt; and I click on an Interesting Tag, I expect it to take me to the Featured tab for that tag. Instead, it takes me to the Questions for that tag, and the tab shown is whatever I last used on the Questions page (which in my latest test case was Newest). So, I now understand what it's doing...but it's sometimes acting counter-intuitively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastEditorUserId="134099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:21:21.953" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:21:21.953" Title="Occasional bug with Interesting tags?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29687" CreationDate="2009-11-13T22:35:00.973" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a student at a university, &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29687/should-authors-of-a-code-golf-question-not-refer-to-the-sources-for-their-entries/29694#29694&quot;&gt;Bill's answer&lt;/a&gt;: attribution is important. Then again, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29687/should-authors-of-a-code-golf-question-not-refer-to-the-sources-for-their-entries/29697#29697&quot;&gt;LiraNuna's concerns&lt;/a&gt; w.r.t. human nature are justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we are now in a situation where &lt;em&gt;the right thing to do&lt;/em&gt; spoils the fun (at least in part). I would therefore like to toss an alternative coin, as a middle ground between attribution and non-attribution: why not add a link to any source of inspiration &lt;strong&gt;after a week&lt;/strong&gt; (or a similar time span)? Most people will have posted an answer by then, yet any late visitors (including users of &lt;code&gt;golf.shinh.org&lt;/code&gt;) will see the attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;And indeed it's true that after some time very few people visit these code-golf questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1390296/code-golf-email-address-validation-without-regular-expressions/1626946#1626946&quot;&gt;this late answer of mine&lt;/a&gt; is the shortest solution in that thread, yet still has received no up-votes at all...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T22:40:53.267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T22:40:53.267" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29692" CreationDate="2009-11-13T22:41:31.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not actually a bug, but expected normal layout behavior -- the field has to fit somewhere, and it's natural for it to get pushed down by extremely long titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T22:41:31.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29613" CreationDate="2009-11-13T22:53:17.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is based on some client-side javascript issues with the autocomplete -- don't autocomplete if you're running into this, hit ESC and enter it manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we also have a fix in place so when you click [Save], it should correct this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T22:53:17.417" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:01:07.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The highlighting is wrong for the accept rate. I've answered 4/5 questions, the one unanswered one where there is honestly no satisfactory answer given. It's actually a pretty good accept rate, but for some reason, the accept rate is not green. I think the question is of more use with no accepted answer (indicating to people browsing that the issue is still unresolved), but the system is basically prodding me to accept an answer for every last question that I ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff mentioned before that a 70% accept rate was &quot;excellent&quot; but I think the actual cutoff point for highlighting is &gt; 80%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that highlighting should only be done when you are sure that the accept rate is harmful: say, under 20 or 30%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138948" LastEditorUserId="138948" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T23:18:57.323" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:18:57.323" />
  <row Id="29706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29699" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:04:04.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO remembers on which tab of the question page you were before. After clicking an interesting tag you are directed to this remembered tab of the question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can test it:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigate to the &lt;em&gt;Questions&lt;/em&gt; page  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click tab &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigate to the main page  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click an &lt;em&gt;Interesting Link&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-&gt; &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt; tab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigate to the &lt;em&gt;Questions&lt;/em&gt; page  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click tab &lt;em&gt;featured&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigate to the main page  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click an &lt;em&gt;Interesting Link&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-&gt; &lt;em&gt;featured&lt;/em&gt; tab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T23:10:18.380" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:10:18.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29626" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:18:00.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;YOU GOT THE CHIEF PONY GROO...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;oh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, the &quot;projects and links&quot; area should be OK for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:18:00.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29622" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:18:51.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To what end would this feature be implemented? What problem would it solve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:18:51.327" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29715" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:27:18.613" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I originally logged with Technorati.  Apparenly, it no longer works for OpenID.  I registered my email as there.  Can't login at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I have my account logged in with Google.  I try to edit my Profile and put in my email address and it says, &quot;Can't that email is already registered.  I had gotten a few points on the other account, but at this point I don't care.  I just want to login and have my account have the proper email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I get this fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,  Glen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:56:32.263" Title="Login Failures, Two different Accounts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29671" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:28:35.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure we disallow tags with + in the middle now. I believe it might have been possible at some point in SO's history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:28:35.553" />
  <row Id="29711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:42:50.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940/why-does-every-man-and-his-dog-want-to-code-a-blogging-engine/471944#471944&quot;&gt;Reputation != A for effort&lt;/a&gt; (alternative link Spolskys &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871405/871420#871420&quot;&gt;500 pointer&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A much better measure is quality. Employers will probable look at your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17174/sam-saffron&quot;&gt;home page&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any answers there that are of poor quality?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any outrageously bad questions there? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What tags are you active on? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is your bio riddled with horrid phrasing and spelling? Too many jokes perhaps? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there enough information there for them to make some sort of decision? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that even 500-1000 reputation can be enough as long as your home page is all quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T10:29:32.930" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T10:29:32.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29687" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:44:30.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've generally considered any plagiarized and/or unattributed content on SO to be grounds for a &quot;flag for moderator attention&quot;, and if in a question, &quot;vote to close as blatantly offensive&quot; (with an explanatory comment). This includes links to copyright violations, as well as pasted content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:44:30.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:50:10.553" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a suggestion to give more information based on accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Total posts marked as the accepted answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of [total posts that are accepted answer] / [total non-question posts] * 100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badge for 50 accepted answers, 100, 500, 1000, etc... (Make it high enough that even Jon Skeet has something to shoot for)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not sure how the specialist badges works but could it weigh an answer as like +10 towards getting the badge vs just a post being +1?  SO might already do this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132746" LastEditorUserId="132746" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T02:18:54.733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T02:18:54.733" Title="Suggestion to give more information and badges based on answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" />
  <row Id="29714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29665" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:50:48.050" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a breakdown of the top 15 locations who have filed after removing USA:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;London, England United Kingdom      221&#xA;Toronto, Ontario Canada              79&#xA;Sydney, New South Wales Australia    73&#xA;Bangalore, Karnataka India           57&#xA;Moscow, Moskva Russia                52&#xA;Melbourne, Victoria Australia        49&#xA;Paris, Ile-de-France France          42&#xA;Israel                               40&#xA;Vancouver, British Columbia Canada   38&#xA;Montreal, Quebec Canada              34&#xA;Cambridge, England United Kingdom    32&#xA;Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden          31&#xA;Ottawa, Ontario Canada               30&#xA;Singapore                            28&#xA;England United Kingdom               28&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The audience is widely distributed, so your answer is YES - it's well worth it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-13T23:52:21.527" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:52:21.527" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29709" CreationDate="2009-11-13T23:56:32.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;email the address provided at the bottom of every page linked as &lt;strong&gt;contact us&lt;/strong&gt; -- please include your user page URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-13T23:56:32.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29720" CreationDate="2009-11-14T00:01:53.027" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;This just showed up on my Recent Activity page on meta (it's still there after a reload):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/xrzL1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;20&quot; has been cut off to a &quot;2&quot;, and the &quot;10&quot; is missing entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is definitely in the source, not the rendering; here's the HTML snippet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;date&quot; title=&quot;2009-11-13 23:33:58Z&quot;&amp;gt;29m&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;td style=&quot;width:50px&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;upvote&quot;&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/29518/can-and-should-stack-overflow-automatically-rewrite-bit-ly-links/29520#29520&quot; class=&quot;answer-hyperlink&quot;&amp;gt;Can and should Stack Overflow automatically rewrite bit.ly links?&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;td style=&quot;width:70px&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;date&quot; title=&quot;2009-11-13 23:12:58Z&quot;&amp;gt;50m&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;td style=&quot;width:50px&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;upvote&quot;&amp;gt;1&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/29615/what-is-our-reward-for-voting-what-is-the-metric-for-voting/29696#29696&quot; class=&quot;answer-hyperlink&quot;&amp;gt;What is our reward for voting? What is the metric for voting?&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T12:43:17.990" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:43:17.990" Title="&quot;Recent activity&quot; vote counts are missing/corrupt" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29716" CreationDate="2009-11-14T00:41:09.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By design. You've hit the rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; is what you were only able to score before hitting 200 for the UTC day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blank is because you've now hit that cap but still getting upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted answers and bounties are not beholden to the rep cap, so you can still see an increase in your magic numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T00:41:09.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-14T00:52:02.350" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18506/any-way-to-manage-and-keep-track-of-answers-and-questions&quot;&gt;Any way to manage and keep track of answers and questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to make some questions my favorite and refer them later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:09:59.203" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:11:58.153" ClosedDate="2009-11-14T21:43:43.763" Title="how to make a question favorite?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="29722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29721" CreationDate="2009-11-14T00:54:45.903" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just click the star underneath the vote count / vote arrows in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/MSO%5FMarkFavorite.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mark As Favorite&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that star is colored yellow for you then that question has been marked as a favorite.  Click it again to unmark it.  The number underneath indicates how many people have marked it as a favorite&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/MSO%5FMarkFavorite2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mark As Favorite&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To review your list of favorites click the Favorites tab when viewing your user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T01:11:58.153" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T01:11:58.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29726" CreationDate="2009-11-14T01:40:52.377" Score="6" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now, there's nothing wrong with Go (other than the fact that I don't think I'll be bothering to learn it anytime soon), but it's providing us with a nice test drive of what will happen to the StackOverflow system when a new language/tool/framework/platform/whatever is released and the site is suddenly flooded with questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some good questions about Go, but there are also some others that are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1725619/can-you-recommend-a-go-language-web-framework-closed&quot;&gt;at least a little questionable&lt;/a&gt;. In this particular case, the community has decided that the question is &quot;not a real question.&quot; This is clearly incorrect - there's a question mark, and it would be a valid question for [insert your favorite language here], but it's not a valid Go question at this time, since the language has been around for 48 hours. In fact, looking at the list of reasons to vote to close, none of them match:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exact Duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; - Nope, there's no other question like this for the Go language yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not Programming Related&lt;/strong&gt; - Nope, Go is clearly a programming language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subjective and Argumentative&lt;/strong&gt; - I'm not a fan of &quot;list some libraries/frameworks for me&quot;-type questions, but it's certainly not subjective or argumentative. Frameworks can be discussed and compared in terms of what they offer without a question being subjective or argumentative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not a Real Question&lt;/strong&gt; - Nope, it's a question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blatantly Offensive&lt;/strong&gt; - I won't even waste my time explaining why this isn't a valid close reason for this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Longer Relevant&lt;/strong&gt; - This might be true for a question about using Go (or anything) on punch cards, or using an outdated API from a dead library in Go, but it's not relevant here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too Localized&lt;/strong&gt; - This is the only one I could really buy, but even this doesn't quite seem right (possibly since so few questions get closed for this reason).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com / serverfault.com / superuser.com&lt;/strong&gt; - Nope, it's obviously programming related.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spam&lt;/strong&gt; - Unless the OP was trolling (as (sarcastically?) suggested in a comment), this is obviously not the case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that we might have a valid reason to add a &lt;strong&gt;closed as not yet relevant&lt;/strong&gt; reason. Do you think we might need this reason, or do you think the current set of close reasons can handle a few oddball Go (and other languages to be released in the future) questions like this? Or do you think that this is such a rare case as to not merit messing with the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T21:59:59.337" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T21:59:59.337" Title="Could &quot;not yet relevant&quot; be considered a serious close reason?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-14T02:02:14.777" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we had some indicator on the page that gave us an idea of how &quot;hot&quot; Stackoverflow or another trilogy site is at the current time. This could be based on how many answers/questions/edits/whatever happened in the last hour, or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would like to know when more questions are being asked so I know when I have the opportunity to see more and learn more. &lt;strong&gt;note:&lt;/strong&gt; I originally thought I should only ask or answer questions at peek traffic intervals, but the more questions being asked, the quicker yours slips off the list, and the more people on, the more competition you have in answering questions, so traffic isn't always a relevant factor in SO usage. This feature wouldn't be of interest to everyone, so it could possibly be a preference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If SO chooses not to implement this feature, it would be great if they could give us some of the specific day-to-day and hour-hour traffic statistics , so we can make a greasemonkey script that tells you how &quot;hot&quot; the specific hour you are one statistically is.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T05:57:19.670" Title="An indicator of how much traffic is on Stackoverflow at the current time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;traffic&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29723" CreationDate="2009-11-14T02:24:07.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Can you recommend...&quot; was its deathknell. That's the kind of slug you seed a discussion with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's missing the &quot;subjective&quot; tag there as well. &lt;em&gt;Maybe&lt;/em&gt; it would have fared better if it was community-wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go was &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; squatted out of the birthing canal, and yet this question is already looking for a mature MVC based on the language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Non-question goes on to not give more details or specs of what they want or need and then reminds them that this is some kind of discussion thing, &quot;What Go MVC web frameworks do you recommend?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T02:24:07.200" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="29726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29723" CreationDate="2009-11-14T02:26:46.030" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I see many of these as &quot;not a real question.&quot; The definition of that is &quot;not answerable.&quot; That's about the closest. I would like something like &quot;not relevant yet,&quot; but really the reason should probably be &quot;severely offtopic or misguided.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T02:26:46.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8482" CreationDate="2009-11-14T02:27:01.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem I see is that sometimes you get an accepted answer but never get any upvotes because maybe its just not a popular topic so you gain nothing towards the specialist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of just upvotes, why not have it add like +2 for an accepted answer as well.  So if you get like 3 upvotes for a answer plus it was marked as the correct answer you would get +5 towards the 400.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer should be valued higher than a basic up vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132746" LastEditorUserId="132746" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T17:04:35.293" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:04:35.293" />
  <row Id="29728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29724" CreationDate="2009-11-14T02:46:43.837" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just go to the front page, hit the End key, and check out the timestamp of the oldest question on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now it's 15 minutes since the most recent answer or edit on the last question.  With 50 questions on the front page, there have been 200 new questions/answers in the last hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During busy times the last question has had new activity only two minutes prior, which indicates 1,500 questions/answers/edits per hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a quick and easy way to find how busy the site is, and only requires one keystroke when on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T02:46:43.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29723" CreationDate="2009-11-14T02:54:38.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like trying to predict the future :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20668/new-close-reason-question-asks-to-predict-the-future&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20668/new-close-reason-question-asks-to-predict-the-future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T02:54:38.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28733" CreationDate="2009-11-14T03:32:54.193" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per request, we changed it to something more professional!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/content/cso/img/error-statler-and-waldorf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Statler and Waldorf&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/error&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/error&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T22:19:46.353" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T22:19:46.353" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-11-14T04:36:29.427" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T04:36:29.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-14T04:36:29.427" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29732" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-14T05:12:27.837" Score="14" ViewCount="381" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about giving all the employers using to careers.stackoverflow.com the opportunity to take the Joel Test? Or should they even be &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; to answer the 12 questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2386" LastEditorUserId="2386" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T07:00:44.607" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T02:19:55.430" Title="Joel Test on careers.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;joel-test&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29724" CreationDate="2009-11-14T05:57:19.670" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go. More stats &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=11&amp;amp;chd=e%3AdSaXZhZKZ5bCdffrkCqbqgqBtF2c-W..6t193I101WxJothT&amp;amp;chtt=Questions%20by%20hour%20%28UTC%29&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|1%3A|0|22545&quot; alt=&quot;questions by hour&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=11&amp;amp;chd=e%3Afgcib8awZ4ZwbdeLhwkilWnluc29-n..8W425b5V6F1IrvkH&amp;amp;chtt=Answers%20by%20hour%20%28UTC%29&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|1%3A|0|72768&quot; alt=&quot;answers by hour&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T05:57:19.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29732" CreationDate="2009-11-14T07:44:22.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's featured on the job board, I assume it would be on careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T08:38:32.947" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T08:38:32.947" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29625" CreationDate="2009-11-14T09:15:24.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The value should be private.  It is something that is not (or should not be) of value to anyone but the careers account holder.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T09:28:52.760" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T09:28:52.760" />
  <row Id="29740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-11-14T09:21:14.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sought refuge and more tranquil waters, after having a comment on SO re-commented, stating that I sounded like a bot. The episode left me bereft of any confidence regarding my psychodynamic skills. childhood  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had no idea what this meta was all about, but thought: hey, it's meta, surely along the lines of quasi- or chill-overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bah...when someone fills your emergency exit stairwell with a grazing herd of ancient servers, and they collapse upon you whilst on fire; seriously disfiguring your metacarpal bone-structure....then I dare say you'd be inclined to broaden your conceptual use of the term stack overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be that as it may, I am now poignantly aware of both SO and Meta's mission statement; but at least I've yet to experience any SO-like mainboarding for my silly meta-understanding, and sometime a tad too metalinguistic answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling that is about to change.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137078" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T09:21:14.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29723" CreationDate="2009-11-14T09:25:28.803" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must be a programmer, if you want a close reason for this edge case. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer &lt;strong&gt;Being noise&lt;/strong&gt; as close reason. It's such nicely vague, you can flag everything with it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T09:25:28.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29544" CreationDate="2009-11-14T09:36:36.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the k should be adjacent the number, and not part of some new unit.  I've two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The column values should all be of the same units.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consistency with elsewhere in the application, like from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;All Questions&lt;/a&gt; page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/stack-overflow-kilo-votes.png&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'kviews' thing knots up my knickers like you wouldn't believe.  It's like someone took my pony away.  Childish, I know.  But please...make it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T09:36:36.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29732" CreationDate="2009-11-14T10:19:14.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be required &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; when we are contacted by the employers we should be given a list of questions from the test the employer did not pass. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T10:19:14.027" />
  <row Id="29744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-14T10:38:42.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never enough!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# Hold on! It's never enough&#xA;# It's never enough until your heart stops beating&#xA;# The deeper you get, the sweeter the pain&#xA;# Don't give up the game until your heart stops beating.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Skeetshocked&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, by New Waffels&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T10:38:42.867" />
  <row Id="29745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-14T10:44:41.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO you want just enough rep to appear on page 3 or 4. More than that employers maybe think you spend too much time on SO, less than that maybe they don't think you shine so much. YMMV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T10:44:41.310" />
  <row Id="29746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-14T11:27:58.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not about the size of your boat, but the motion of the ocean, and if you're programming on said boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T11:27:58.473" />
  <row Id="29750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29815" CreationDate="2009-11-14T12:13:30.713" Score="0" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I write most of my answers on Stack Overflow with akregator. Every time I submit an answer, the only response I get is a page saying &quot;OOPS something bad happened!&quot; and this cat in front of a laptop. It also says it's not your fault, but our fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I submit answers to Stack Overflow, the answers are posted. But the first time I tried to submit this bug report, the question didn't even get posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as you are already stating that this is your fault, are you going to fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136149" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T12:34:48.977" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:54:42.187" ClosedDate="2009-11-15T07:54:46.773" Title="&quot;Ooops! Something bad happened!&quot;, are you going to fix this?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29732" CreationDate="2009-11-14T12:50:44.047" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would be nice is if the employers had to fill out some sort of a bio about their company that you get to see when they contact you.  I agree this should include the Joel test, but I don't think it should be required, and here's why.  The test itself does seem to be a really good indicator as to the state of a company, but it's a really good indicator as to the competency of the management staff if they know what it is.  If you don't make it required, the companies which have their hr people searching the careers board, or have managers who you would rather stab your eye out with a fork than work for won't fill it out. They probably won't even know what it is.  It's like getting to ask a question before you even respond.  Something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Do you know who Joel Spolsky is?&quot;(not whether if you agree with him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Who?&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FAIL!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a distinct feeling the board will get popular enough that companies will just sign up to the board, because some consulting firm charging them a lot of money said they can get hire good people from this board.  The companies where everyone asks, &quot;Who's this Jeff Atwood guy, and why does he have this logo of someone with his hair sticking up? Does he have a bad hair stylist?  Is it a fashion thing?&quot;  If you require it, most companies can stretch their response to be maybe a 6 or a 7 without outright lying (I was thinking of my last company which was no way near a place I would call good at software development).  That being said, if no one at the company knows the significance behind filling it out, that is a telling key. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T12:50:44.047" />
  <row Id="29752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29750" CreationDate="2009-11-14T13:08:55.493" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I think it only counts as Stack Overflow's fault if you're using the standard way of posting. The message is there because for the &lt;em&gt;vast&lt;/em&gt; majority of people, that is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're using some odd way of posting (from an RSS reader? very odd!) I think that firmly counts as &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; fault instead - or at least, if you can never post any answers, and clearly people using a browser &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; post answers, that's a pretty huge hint that it's your way of posting which is causing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use a browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T16:25:12.303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T16:25:12.303" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-14T13:12:33.163" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ for Stack Overflow mentions Community Wiki two or three times without ever defining the term. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is plenty of information (oh, my aching head) over here at Meta, as I discovered after posting this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A pointer to it, or just a concise definition, would be helpful as part of the content reached from the FAQ link at the top of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T13:22:36.480" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T14:15:11.377" ClosedDate="2009-11-14T15:09:10.970" Title="What is Community Wiki?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-11-14T13:34:52.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm here because I enjoy being personally attacked by Rich B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T13:34:52.763" />
  <row Id="29755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29753" CreationDate="2009-11-14T14:15:11.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=faq&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;detailed FAQ&lt;/a&gt; already exists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4505/detailedfaq.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T14:15:11.377" />
  <row Id="29756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2009-11-14T14:36:47.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/740/paintvangogh.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T14:36:47.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29812" CreationDate="2009-11-14T17:29:22.143" Score="3" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 50&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; question on Stack Overflow tagged with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/go&quot;&gt;go&lt;/a&gt; keyword has been posted; as far as I know &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1712172/whats-your-take-on-the-programming-language-go&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was the first with the new keyword, yet I have not received the Taxonomist badge. What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T07:46:58.203" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:46:58.203" Title="No Taxonomist Badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29759" CreationDate="2009-11-14T17:31:24.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's likely awarded in a batch process. I'm sure you'll get it soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T17:31:24.447" />
  <row Id="29761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29762" CreationDate="2009-11-14T15:03:56.873" Score="1" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where will I get more answers for CSS questions, Stack Overflow or Doctype?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T23:06:42.790" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:18:22.467" Title="Which is the better site for CSS questions, Stack Overflow or Doctype?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;doctype&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29761" CreationDate="2009-11-14T15:11:09.680" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Doctype &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; for design related (HTML/CSS/Graphics) questions, but it isn't managed by SO guys, nor does it run on SO engine. SO is more mature and works a lot better, but it's for &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; related stuff. However, I do get better answers here more quickly than on Doctype. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do wish the SO guys would build a dedicated site for design related questions - I personally don't like Doctype that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136602" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T20:18:22.467" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:18:22.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29761" CreationDate="2009-11-14T15:12:04.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who knows. Theres no reason to limit yourself to one or the other. I guess DocType is more specialized to the topic of CSS, but won't hurt to post your question on both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130817" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T17:50:51.870" />
  <row Id="29764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29723" CreationDate="2009-11-14T17:54:40.313" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to be the dissenter of the bunch, but I can actually kind of see that as a possibly relevant question.  (For the record, I did not vote to reopen).  Just because the language was just released to the public doesn't mean that Google couldn't have partnered with other companies to write frameworks off of it, or done it themselves.  From a business standpoint, this would have actually been a smart move on Google's part, so it's really not outside the realm of possibility that there would be a Go framework created on day one of the launch.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most other major organizations follow that approach.  In order to make a product successful, you need a reason for people to need that product.  You see this over and over again.  Microsoft created .net to sell windows, Apple created the iPod to get people to use iTunes and their online store.  Based on these other examples, it is entirely possible that there is something Google has started to promote that most of us just haven't heard of.  Now honestly, I don't think this is the case, and that also makes me wonder if Google really backs the success of the Go language, but the question is definitely relevant right now, even if that answer is &quot;No there isn't a framework available.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer to your question is, no, I don't think we need a new status.  Just because it's not yet relevant to the masses, doesn't mean that it's not relevant at all.  That and questions that stay open and aren't relevant at this point in time can be answered later.  Closing valid questions stops the question from being answered, which ultimately hurts SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T17:54:40.313" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29892" CreationDate="2009-11-14T18:26:39.183" Score="14" ViewCount="462" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other online resume services (Emurse, for example) let you designate your resume as publicly viewable but non-indexable by search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some info in my CV that I do not want to become permanent public record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137612" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:29:01.737" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T14:57:32.510" Title="Option to make public resume non-indexable by Google?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;indexing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="29766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29765" CreationDate="2009-11-14T18:53:32.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Public CVs are indexed by Google, but there is no public collection of all CV links. At least not one we publish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thus, I can't think of any way Google could index your public CV page unless you, or someone else, links to it from another source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28450/password-for-public-cv/28493#28493&quot;&gt;answered Nov 4 at 3:14&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In response to Jeff, I wouldn't be the least surprised if google crawled Stackoverflow so aggressively that it somehow 'found' people's CV's. Them's sneaky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you really want a password protected CV - I would publish it, save the HTML, and then unpublish it. Put the HTML, with some formatting tweaks as needed, on a site you control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28450/password-for-public-cv/28494#28494&quot;&gt;answered Nov 4 at 3:18&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Tom Ritter♦&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you don't publish a link to your CV online, you should be all right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; publish &lt;em&gt;until&lt;/em&gt; you send a link to a potential employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T18:53:32.080" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28733" CreationDate="2009-11-14T20:32:32.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Humor is a good screen for people you don't want to work for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's a place scared off by lolcats you probably don't want to work there anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;btw, if you're a crackerjack systems programmer who happens to like lolcats, the Muppets, and making movies, we might have a spot for you in my group!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?5620&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?5620&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update:  spot filled, thanks jobs.stackoverflow.com!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:14:03.170" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:14:03.170" />
  <row Id="29772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29894" CreationDate="2009-11-14T20:58:58.243" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I enter a county like &lt;code&gt;Onondaga County&lt;/code&gt; into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YQL console&lt;/a&gt;, it definitely finds it and returns a county level result. However, when I enter the same text in a location field in CSO, the result shown is &lt;code&gt;New York United States&lt;/code&gt;. I confirmed the same problem exists with &lt;code&gt;Cook County, IL&lt;/code&gt; displaying as &lt;code&gt;Illinois United States&lt;/code&gt;. From a user perspective, it looks to me like it has replaced my desired location with the entire state - even though as a developer I suspect it is using the correct bounding box with an incorrect label.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further testing shows that colloquial regions like &lt;code&gt;Bay Area&lt;/code&gt; also get displayed as the generic &lt;code&gt;California United States&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest displaying the values of the name and placeTypeName tags when they don't repeat what is already shown. Then the results would come up &lt;code&gt;Onondaga (County)&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Cook (County)&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;San Francisco Bay Area (Colloquial)&lt;/code&gt;, confirming to the user that you are using the region they typed, even when the type is not one you planned for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be really nice to display a little Google Map that shows the actual bounding box being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the target user group are techies, just showing the actual bounding box coordinates might be useful too, or having a link to get KML for the entire set of locations listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. All YQL queries were entered as &lt;code&gt;select * from geo.places where text=&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;text shown&lt;/em&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138597" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T06:29:41.280" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T06:29:41.280" Title="When I enter a county on careers, the location field shows the whole state" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28984" CreationDate="2009-11-14T22:07:15.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I attended the devdays Boston event and would love a copy of this video.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think everyone should pressure Joel to post it.  :)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138986" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T22:07:15.297" />
  <row Id="29775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29765" CreationDate="2009-11-14T22:07:16.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your scenario is assuming that your current employer is draconian.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your public 'resume' is not a resume - it's a &lt;strong&gt;CV&lt;/strong&gt; and isn't presence &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; imply you're looking for a job anymore than an &quot;About Me&quot; page on a blog does.  I'm interested in people knowing &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/tomritter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;who I am&lt;/a&gt; - but I'm not looking for a job.  If your boss can't understand that... why would you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to keep working there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-14T22:15:00.010" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T22:15:00.010" />
  <row Id="29776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-14T22:14:33.883" Score="4" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a public Careers CV, it would be awesome if you could link it to your SO/SF/SU/Meta Account, and it'd be listed either at the bottom of the Name/Member Since/.../Age Column &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; on the Associated Accounts section (although that's really &quot;below the fold&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know you can put it in your about me box, or as your &quot;website&quot;, but you could say the same thing for associated accounts.  It'd be a good point of integration (although low on the priority list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T22:14:33.883" Title="Can a Public Careers CV Be an &quot;Associated Account&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;association&gt;" />
  <row Id="29777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29814" CreationDate="2009-11-14T23:08:56.973" Score="5" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;What javascript library is SO using for tag autocompletion? Is it a jQuery plugin or did you write your own implementation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm asking because I'm working on a GreaseMonkey script that works on/around the tags autocompletion and I'd like to know about the options available for autocompletion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:52:18.070" Title="What library does StackOverflow use for autocomplete in tags field?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28984" CreationDate="2009-11-14T23:23:54.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the intro demo is going to become Volume 7 - Management, of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://training.fogcreek.com/included.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Make Better Software&lt;/a&gt; training series.  That's why it hasn't been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4058" LastActivityDate="2009-11-14T23:23:54.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29732" CreationDate="2009-11-15T01:02:19.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like the ability for a candidate to add requirements to pass particular Joel Test questions. If the employer doesn't pass, don't list the CV. One of the benefits of the Joel Test is that it appears to encourages employers to admit some of their failings in order to show off some of their wins. &quot;Do you do hallway usability testing?&quot; Nobody cares. &quot;Do you fix bugs before writing new code?&quot; Nobody does. &quot;Do programmers have quiet working conditions?&quot; If they don't, stay the hell out of my face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T01:02:19.413" />
  <row Id="29783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T02:37:29.497" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of these Questions tabs has an RSS feed link at the bottom of the page.  Would it be unreasonable to create feeds for each of the &quot;views&quot; or tabs on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's unreasonable, then do you have statistics showing what tabs are most often viewed by users?  Those most popular views would be the ones you would want to at least supply RSS feeds on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132528" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-27T15:36:25.543" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T15:36:25.543" Title="Can we get RSS feeds for the newest, featured, hot, highest-voted, and active questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27234" CreationDate="2009-11-15T03:38:19.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another case I've noticed is that on a question it said &quot;Asked 18 mins ago&quot; but in their profile it says &quot;Last seen 22 minutes ago&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite the skill to ask a question without been seen :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T03:38:19.040" />
  <row Id="29802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25194" CreationDate="2009-11-15T04:24:47.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see how (perhaps) individualized RSS feeds are a bit much.  Another solution to the problem is to have the same top-of-the-screen bar that notifies us of other activity can notify us of activity against our favorites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T04:24:47.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29804" CreationDate="2009-11-15T04:41:50.450" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to add the stackoverflow avatar with the username etc etc&#xA;onto blogspot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried using the iframe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe height=&quot;60&quot; width=&quot;210&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot;&#xA;                    scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/168703.html&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But publishing does not display a single thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138999" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T04:22:58.867" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T04:22:58.867" Title="Add Avatar to blogspot" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29803" CreationDate="2009-11-15T04:56:04.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on &quot;Add a gadget&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on &quot;HTML/Javascript&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then paste in the iframe code&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T04:56:04.810" />
  <row Id="29805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29829" CreationDate="2009-11-15T05:03:54.670" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it me or does the markdown in the cv editor not support a bulleted list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to add one in the responsibilities section for a previous employer and it doesn't render with bullets. The edit box has the 'this field supports rich markdown formatting. live preview' text below it so I thought the '  - ' would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139000" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T12:31:19.453" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:31:19.453" Title="bulleted list in cv markdown" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29810" CreationDate="2009-11-15T05:32:13.720" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I'm an overly positive, helpful, &quot;go get-em&quot; sort of person. You might see me on one of those stupid motivational posters giving you a kleenex after you trip over a misplaced mouse-cord (Perservere!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to treat upvotes like a mere pat on the back. I like the need to &lt;em&gt;earn&lt;/em&gt; reputation on Stack Overflow, vs. a simple &quot;ra ra&quot; attitude on other websites. Makes every point I get more valuable and fulfilling to me. But, I don't want to be a stingy jerk, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any guidelines people use when upvoting answers and questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139002" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T14:13:09.217" Title="Etiquette to upvoting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29873" CreationDate="2009-11-15T06:15:05.677" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Noticed this old question the other day on Stack Overflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/439056/is-a-view-faster-than-a-simple-query&quot;&gt;Is a View faster than a simple Query?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer marked correct is a pretty confusing thesis, which has umpteen votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow a question about views has become a rather long discussion about indexed views (which is a feature most people do not know about or use).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would I go about fixing up this messy mess? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already tried improving &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/439056/is-a-view-faster-than-a-simple-query/439678#439678&quot;&gt;BradC's answer&lt;/a&gt; and upvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T08:55:13.883" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T00:54:59.233" Title="Messy SQL question, how would we go about fixing this?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:06:08.547" Score="-5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been occasions when I haven't known the answer to questions, but known people who did.  When I think of it, I usually try to send them a link to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be useful to have a way to refer people directly from the question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Know someone who might be able to answer this question?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Enter their email address here: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We'll send them a note, and if they answer you'll earn a few extra points.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We won't save their address, and we won't ever send them unsolicited email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other services like Aardvark allow you to refer friends, and it seems to work really well -- users seem to use it, their friends often answer questions referred to them, and my impression is that people don't generally think of it as spammy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would have the benefit of bringing tough questions to the attention of people likely to know the answers, and it would also extend Stack Overflow's realm of influence to people who might not otherwise know about the service.  Using referrals would advocate Stack Overflow in the best possible way: by people who already know and like the service, to people they know and likely respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a feature I'd probably use, and I imagine others might too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: There's a small concern about disingenuous users potentially gaming the system by using multiple accounts if you were to offer a point reward for referrals. Hopefully this would be an edge case, and it probably wouldn't be too hard to detect and dissuade by limiting the number of questions that can collect points when sent to the same user's email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135277" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T10:51:55.453" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:51:55.453" Title="Refer non-SO users to questions and you get extra rep if they answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:08:28.560" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;anybody knows how to do firefox's ctrl+f work just like in safari ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139005" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:08:28.560" ClosedDate="2009-11-15T20:46:44.643" Title="make firefox search like safari" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;safari&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29806" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:17:34.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the answer &lt;strong&gt;correct&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the answer &lt;strong&gt;complete&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the answer &lt;strong&gt;carefully explained&lt;/strong&gt; (for example a description or explanation provided, rather than simply a code or documentation reference)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the answer &lt;strong&gt;unique&lt;/strong&gt; (that is, did the answer add information not present in any other responses)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one is mandatory (at least for objective questions, where there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a correct answer); any combination of the others are good, the more the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, perhaps, for the really high-ranking responses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the answer &lt;strong&gt;provoke debate or further discussion&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the answer &lt;strong&gt;contribute knowledge or ideas&lt;/strong&gt; not previously published?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, depending on the fickle demeanor of the community that day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the answer &lt;strong&gt;funny&lt;/strong&gt;, particularly in some manner universally recognized by the geek culture?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How stringent I am at applying these criteria generally depends on the quality and difficulty of the answer. If it is a trivial question with a fairly trivial answer, I may not upvote any response, or only upvote the best answer of all. If it is a difficult question, particularly involving answers from multiple people to put together different parts of the puzzle, I might upvote everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally don't downvote answers unless they are either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;outright &lt;strong&gt;incorrect&lt;/strong&gt;, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;strong&gt;direct duplicate of an earlier response&lt;/strong&gt; (with no improvement in phrasing or additional references provided)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but perhaps you are saving an &quot;Etiquette for downvoting&quot; question for tomorrow. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T07:27:49.470" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:27:49.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:26:29.227" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I find the reputation score earned from answering questions on a particular tag? Is that possible? It need not be a perfect, but a general idea regarding the rep earned is sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131638" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T11:08:54.620" Title="Reputation earned from answering a particular tag questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29759" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:46:41.590" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, UserId for the [go] tag is null.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creation date was &lt;strong&gt;2008&lt;/strong&gt;-11-07 14:31:52.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was already co-opted by another user who was probably long since culled due to inactivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also guessing it was attached to a question for a long long time until the retagging around the new language happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:46:41.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29783" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:49:04.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of this already exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please see the html meta tags for each of those pages, or scroll down to the bottom and look for the little orange RSS icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: oh, you mean /questions. Well, same advice applies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;newest (duplicates feed on homepage tab)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hot (duplicates feed on homepage tab)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;votes (would be the same 30 highest voted questions, forever)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active (duplicates feed on homepage tab)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the feeds you want are on the home page, and the one that isn't doesn't make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:49:04.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29777" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:52:18.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually we use this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:52:18.070" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29750" CreationDate="2009-11-15T07:54:42.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your &quot;browser&quot; is mangling the cookies and/or response URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though &lt;strong&gt;this is not a supported browser&lt;/strong&gt;, it's interesting to hear about this, because we kept wondering what those bizarre errors in the error log were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T07:54:42.187" />
  <row Id="29816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T09:18:26.777" Score="1" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;About every two weeks Stack Overflow won't load. The browser window is plain white and nothing happens.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Reload, forced reload, clear browser cache, restart browser does not help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I delete all cookies that start with stackoverflow, the page loads (but it says I am a new user and I have to login again). I haven't tried yet if I really have to clear all Stack Overflow cookies or a subset is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, only &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; is affected, none of the three sisters (I always load them in four tabs). I think it started around beginning of August but I'm not 100% sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I use a rather exotic browser (Chromium on Ubuntu Karmic Koala) and I could not reproduce it on Firefox. I guess this will not be further investigated, but I would be interested if there are other Chrome or Chromium (or even Safari) users out there that have the same issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Just for the record, since 22. December 2009 it also happens for serverfault, but not superuser or meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="84671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T08:29:36.223" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T08:29:36.223" Title="Cookie troubles with Chromium" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;beta&gt;&lt;cookies&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29808" CreationDate="2009-11-15T09:26:31.110" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://student.science.uva.nl/~sschroev/so/29808/no.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/7919/22777186.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Click me&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;NO.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't like this idea. I &lt;strong&gt;HATE&lt;/strong&gt; it when people enter my email address on another site to refer me to said site. SO may not store email addresses, but other sites certainly do. Thus, I try to educate my friends to &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; enter my (or anybody else's) email address on such a site. SO should not be an exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just imagine how many people would email Jon Skeet!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just email the non-SO user directly. I don't think one needs to get reputation (even only a little) for simply handing over somebody else's email address.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As you say yourself, there is the possibility of gaming the system. It's more trouble than it's worth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T10:40:17.240" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:40:17.240" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29816" CreationDate="2009-11-15T09:31:24.890" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen it quite like that. I've seen it fail to get any of the JavaScript working, although not for a few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only times I've seen a plain blank screen is when my 3G network refuses to connect, and cookies won't help that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I've seen various Stack sites forget who I am occasionally, but nothing more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't use Chromium, but I do use a variety of flavours of Chrome - stable on my main laptop, beta on my netbook, and something close to dev at work on my Linux desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T09:31:24.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29825" CreationDate="2009-11-15T09:46:13.770" Score="1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the article or blog post where Jeff (I think) talks about stackoverflow as a place where experts will contribute things for free that no amount of money could convince them to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'd like to use that quote to help answer a question in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://bostonreview.net/BR34.6/morozov.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boston Review article&lt;/a&gt; about why people spend time working on Wikipedia instead of playing video games)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update 2&lt;/em&gt;: it was Joel at a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ#t=20m12s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Tech Talk&lt;/a&gt;. Here's a transcript of what he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Karma is based on the philosophy that&#xA;  you can't just pay people to answer&#xA;  questions. ... There's something&#xA;  fundamental going on here, that people&#xA;  are willing to do for free what&#xA;  they're not willing to do for small&#xA;  amounts of money. ... If you asked me&#xA;  how much it would cost to provide a&#xA;  day of my consulting, there is no&#xA;  price, but I've spent at least a day&#xA;  answering people's questions on&#xA;  stackoverflow. ... what I call the&#xA;  &quot;Econ 101 management method&quot; of very&#xA;  very small payments, ... the market is&#xA;  not clearing at those low levels, but&#xA;  people will to do things for free in&#xA;  order to contribute to the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;: He was quoted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/anthropology%5Fthe%5Fart%5Fof%5Fbuilding%5Fa%5Fsuccessful%5Fsoci.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ReadWriteWeb&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The Nine Building Blocks of Social Engineering&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  5. Karma: People are willing to do for free what they're not willing to do&#xA;  for small amounts of money according&#xA;  to Spolsky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still looking to see if there's text somewhere where he expands on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T14:02:50.887" Title="quote about stackoverflow as place where people do for free what they won't do for money" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;money-making&gt;&lt;quote&gt;&lt;freedom&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29819" CreationDate="2009-11-15T10:08:02.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like it's something average between &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001295.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Are You a Digital Sharecopper&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001301.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:08:02.767" />
  <row Id="29821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29811" CreationDate="2009-11-15T10:22:42.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've been very active in a tag, the &quot;All time&quot; values on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=c%23&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;stats page&lt;/a&gt; may help (although this counts votes, not rep, which isn't quite the same). Otherwise... data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:22:42.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29807" CreationDate="2009-11-15T10:25:20.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are already doing the right thing. Improving BradC's answer and upvoting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not using indexed views, so I do not know, if Brittingham is correct. But the answer &quot;Yes&quot; is plain wrong. If his thesis is correct it must be &quot;No, but there are indexed views...&quot; like BradC did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the thesis is correct, your question boils down to: Editing the accepted answer or voting it down? In the spirit of SO: edit it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the thesis is confusing as you said: downvote it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:25:20.067" />
  <row Id="29823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T10:50:57.917" Score="14" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/736556/binary-search-in-a-sorted-memory-mapped-file-in-java/736922#736922&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; with 8 votes that I'm very pleased with, and cleaned it up a bit today.  (Basically, I removed the conversational nature it took due to comments plus a bit of formatting and grammar tweaking.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It went above the Community Wiki threshold, which I knew would happen but did not care as I've enough reputation for my ego and there aren't likely to be many more votes on it in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was a surprise is that all the reputation-gaining votes were removed from the tag-based statistics.  I understand why community wiki posts are not included in these tallies, but I think that any reputation gained in a pre-CW answer should count towards the tag-stats and specialist badge.  8 votes is 2% of the reputation for a specialist badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's like someone took my pony away for being a good little SOpedian and keeping my answers clean-n-tidy!  &lt;em&gt;Not fair.  Call the whambulance.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think that &lt;strong&gt;all votes on answers &lt;em&gt;that earn reputation&lt;/em&gt; should count towards the tag stats &amp;amp; specialist total.&lt;/strong&gt;  I understand and support the logic as to why CW answers don't count, because of the insane vote counts they tend to bring.  My thinking is that these problem questions/answers go CW wiki quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as I understand it, part of the reason Stack Overflow has all these badges and reputation and other sparkly stuff is to encourage desirable behavior in the user base—like editing answers to make them better.  The current situation on this point &lt;em&gt;discourages&lt;/em&gt; desirable behavior.  I, for one, will not be tweaking or updating my answers in the future if they will cross the CW threshold.  A specialist badge is more important to me than fine tuning or updating my answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative would be to count votes to answers of non-CW &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, regardless of the CW state of the answer.  Not so sure about that idea, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T16:12:23.873" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T16:12:23.873" Title="Make all votes on answers that earn reputation count towards tag stats &amp; specialist badge total" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;&lt;specialist&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28021" CreationDate="2009-11-15T10:52:13.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good catch! This was a bug in the tag balancer. The updated code is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/codes/360-balance-html-tags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://refactormycode.com/codes/360-balance-html-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T10:52:13.470" />
  <row Id="29825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29819" CreationDate="2009-11-15T11:04:09.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might have been (Joel) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/joel-talks-about-stack-overflow-at-google/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. But I'm not going to watch it again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T11:04:09.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29819" CreationDate="2009-11-15T11:05:54.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the podcast where Joel debated with Jason Calacanis about the merits of paying experts (e.g. Mahalo) versus not paying people (e.g. the SO Trilogy):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joel’s big objection to Mahalo is&#xA;  that, like the now-defunct Google&#xA;  Answers, it turns an intrinsic&#xA;  motivation for asking and answering&#xA;  questions into an extrinsic motivation&#xA;  (hey, I can get paid real money for&#xA;  this!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jason maintains that money is not the&#xA;  primary motivator on Mahalo. He calls&#xA;  it a “Skee-Ball Economy”, where you&#xA;  are playing skee-ball for fun, and&#xA;  getting lots of tickets to cash out&#xA;  and buy fun things. It’s a “token&#xA;  economy”. You can’t make a lot of&#xA;  money, but it (theoretically) adds a&#xA;  secondary driver to an already fun&#xA;  activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the summary from Jeff's writeup... the exact quote you're looking for is probably in the podcast itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133438" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T11:05:54.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28984" CreationDate="2009-11-15T12:23:03.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This video was &lt;strong&gt;terrible&lt;/strong&gt; and should &lt;strong&gt;never ever&lt;/strong&gt; be released to the public.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it personally &lt;strong&gt;offensive and controversial&lt;/strong&gt; in numerous ways, and with its extremely &lt;strong&gt;high production quality&lt;/strong&gt; it is poised to spread like a virus over the world wide web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effects of this could be devastating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fog Creek Software, who is already flaunting how comfortable and cool they make their developers, stand to represent themselves as people who &lt;strong&gt;both manage developers and have a sense of humor&lt;/strong&gt;. This puts tremendous pressure on both developers and managers to act human.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By drawing parallels to a popular television show and character, and by focusing on several aspects of developer culture that are not mired in technical lexicon, this video may actually be found &lt;strong&gt;humorous to non-developers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This video makes it very clear, even if thinly veiled in tasteless humor, that people &lt;strong&gt;without Asperger's&lt;/strong&gt; or other analogous social disorders are &lt;strong&gt;disadvantaged as potential employees.&lt;/strong&gt; I have tried in vain efforts to make myself more marketable, to force myself to understand your world of lolcats and 4chan but I can not crack this glass ceiling.  &lt;strong&gt;The prejudice needs to stop&lt;/strong&gt;, not be fueled by dissemination of this video.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote an emphatic &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;.  You should be ashamed of yourselves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139011" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:23:03.263" />
  <row Id="29829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29805" CreationDate="2009-11-15T12:28:38.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't repro this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I entered the following text for responsibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- bullet 1&#xA;- bullet 2&#xA;- bullet 3&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I got this on the public cv view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1281/image3i.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:28:38.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29761" CreationDate="2009-11-15T12:36:52.373" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The more you need a &lt;strong&gt;screenshot&lt;/strong&gt; to get your point across, the more you should favor DocType.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;strong&gt;plain text&lt;/strong&gt; is sufficient, then Stack Overflow will suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either one can be appropriate depending on your needs and goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:36:52.373" />
  <row Id="29831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="529" CreationDate="2009-11-15T12:51:40.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if a person is participating in all SO sites and creates account, why can't he copy the profile details (except tags maybe) quickly? allow them please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to create the profile and fill the form 4 times to have account on all SO sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139012" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T12:51:40.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29544" CreationDate="2009-11-15T13:14:56.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm always a fan of standard form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;strong&gt;3x10^3&lt;/strong&gt; views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T13:14:56.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29834" CreationDate="2009-11-15T13:55:23.530" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is supposed to be a cross between &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and an Q and A site &lt;em&gt;cough&lt;/em&gt;Not Experts Exchange*cough*.  This says something about the presentation of our questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many question threads on Stackoverflow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/948691/genetic-programming-implementation&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; or an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1104457/auto-initializing-c-lists/1104470#1104470&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; may get &quot;updated&quot;, with the user often posting multiple &lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;s or &lt;strong&gt;UDPATE&lt;/strong&gt;s at the bottom of the post.  This leads to a more confusing question or answer, as all the relevant information is not grouped logically, but rather temporally according to when the post was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else seen this as a problem, and should we strive to correct this issue with edits, comments, and other user communication?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T15:02:15.653" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:18:27.817" Title="Are &quot;Updates&quot; to questions and answers problematic?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;conversation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="29834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29833" CreationDate="2009-11-15T14:07:41.640" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These updates are made normally to answer the questions asked in the comments of the posts. So the chronological order is helpful as long as the discussion has not ended yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the issues discussed in the comments are solved, then a final edit grouping the stuff logically would be nice. So correct this or ask the poster to correct this when it is obvious that there will be no more edits to clarify discrepancies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T14:07:41.640" />
  <row Id="29835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29806" CreationDate="2009-11-15T14:13:09.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rollover text for the upvote button is my guidance: &quot;This answer is useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T14:13:09.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29837" CreationDate="2009-11-15T14:36:03.373" Score="0" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/154399/david-verhasselt&quot;&gt;david-verhasselt&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has answered two questions (both are not community wiki) and received 56 up-votes for them, which should have given him a reputation of 560. He hasn't asked even a single question, so the probability of him offering reputation as a bounty is nil. Just out of curiosity, what happened to his 260 points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T16:35:28.093" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T16:35:28.093" Title="Why does this user have only 301 reputation points?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="29837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29836" CreationDate="2009-11-15T14:41:27.990" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;em&gt;reputation cap&lt;/em&gt; of 200 points per day. So after 20 upvotes on the same day, he did not gain any additional reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow/7238#7238&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A maximum of +200 reputation may be gained per day. Accepted answers are&#xA;  immune to this cap (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/daily-dose-of-daily-reputation-ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) as&#xA;  are bounties (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;). This&#xA;  immunity applies &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; to answers&#xA;  accepted and bounties received &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  reaching the cap.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(A new day starts 0:00 UTC == 7pm EST == 4pm PST == 1am CET).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T14:41:27.990" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29836" CreationDate="2009-11-15T14:42:03.950" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 56-vote question is a lot of votes for a low-volume post. Most likely, he received those votes very quickly so he hit his daily reputation cap (200 points per day) and didn't receive reputation points for every vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T14:42:03.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29836" CreationDate="2009-11-15T14:43:23.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/154399?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;reputation graph&lt;/a&gt;, it seems like the poor chap was 'hit by' the daily reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T14:43:23.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T14:53:49.527" Score="10" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few users on SO for whom I've answered questions with a less than pleasant experience.  Be it active ingratitude, repeated cluelessness, a &quot;biting of the hand that feeds [you]&quot;, etc.  In some cases I simply do not want to answer questions for these people again.  Rather than have to remember these few people out of the thousands of people -- some of whom may have the same user names -- I'd like the ability to flag such a user so that when I go to answer a question from that user I'm forewarned that I've had a bad experience in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T07:29:18.157" Title="Add a mechanism to warn me when I start to answer a question for a user with whom I've had a bad experience" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="29841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29833" CreationDate="2009-11-15T15:20:14.257" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely not. I'd prefer an answer which is illogically organised to an answer that is just plain wrong. And posting &lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; helps notify people that a question or answer has been modified with new information (as opposed to the edit log, which could just be a corrected typo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T15:20:14.257" />
  <row Id="29842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29840" CreationDate="2009-11-15T15:29:54.973" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting idea, but I think it could be extended further. Rather than just &quot;people I've had a bad experience&quot; you could take general notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This user is interested in academic issues of correctness (e.g. the .NET memory model details), not necessarily best practices for simple coding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This user uses term X to mean Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This user is a newbie to C#, but knows Java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could get prompted with that information when you choose to answer, or have it as an expandable box below the question or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from anything else, this is a bit more of a positive way to think about such a potential feature, rather than it just being related to troublemakers :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T15:29:54.973" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29840" CreationDate="2009-11-15T15:37:19.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be taking things a bit far. Are such levels of social elements relevant in a QA site? I would like to see each question as a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T15:37:19.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29823" CreationDate="2009-11-15T16:04:16.593" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was on the fence, but after seeing your post I agree with your request.  You obviously put some time into that post, and you should be rewarded for your knowledge and work.  I can understand not tallying votes for posts to a CW question as that could essentially invalidate the specialist badge idea.  That being said, I think that any post that doesn't start off as a CW post should be considered legitimate up until that time.  If there wasn't a threshold where a post changed to CW I would think differently, but I do feel that it is kinda unfair that a person loses counts towards a specialist badge for trying to improve the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice if there was a save as draft feature for writing/editing posts as there are times I save an edit to the post to make sure I don't lose after 20 minutes of writing.  I am sure that I am not the only one who has spent 20 minutes working on a post only to find out that the browser decides it's time for a smoke break and closes down forcing me to re-write the whole post over again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T16:39:08.877" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T16:39:08.877" />
  <row Id="29845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29823" CreationDate="2009-11-15T16:41:25.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your concern is valid but we certainly don't want to see a million gold badges awarded to people just for posting an xkcd comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/specialist-badge-implemented/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quote Jeff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was originally going to include community wiki answers in the calculations, as badges have historically ignored that designation. I changed my mind, however, when I saw the huge number of silver and gold “subjective”, “fun”, “off-topic”, etc etc badges this would create. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's theoretically possible to count votes that are cast before the answer is made CW, however, it's likely to increase the complexity of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your proposal (using CW status of the question) is a nice idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T16:47:20.933" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T16:47:20.933" />
  <row Id="29846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T16:50:04.960" Score="0" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7193/allow-bounty-to-be-set-with-reputation-from-another-site&quot;&gt;Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15117/should-so-rep-be-considered-in-su-and-sf&quot;&gt;Should SO rep be considered in SU and SF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/171/rep-transfer-from-meta&quot;&gt;Rep transfer from meta&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a relatively new user on all 3 sites. But already I've accumulated a ton of reputation points on Stack Overflow which I could use as bounties on Server Fault. My areas of expertise are just very lopsided towards programming, so I can help on one site but I need serious help on the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138182" LastEditorUserId="138182" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T14:57:28.183" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T14:57:28.183" ClosedDate="2009-11-15T17:31:32.647" Title="Can I move reputation from Stack Overflow to Server Fault? Why not?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;&lt;rep-transfer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29846" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:04:20.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask good questions and you'll almost always get answers.  Bounties, IMAO, are a crutch for people who don't want to spend the time to ask a good, answerable question.  I'd be happy if they went away entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:04:20.187" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29833" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:18:27.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't think that adding additional information or fixing typos or other errors is undesirable. Personally, I try to keep the whole thing coherent so I don't really tend to use EDIT/UPDATE unless I'm adding a new paragraph or three. IMHO there isn't really much of a benefit in making the question or answer less coherent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131997" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:18:27.817" />
  <row Id="29849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29840" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:23:10.553" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have to be &quot;prompted&quot; that you didn't like someone, do you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; need to be reminded about that adversity by a computer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing you should remember about the purpose of Stack Overflow -- It isn't &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; to answer a question for a specific user. In reality, you are talking over their shoulder to the rest of the community; to contribute to an archive of knowledge for the benefit of programmers that follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your personal history with a particular user should be somewhat irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T17:33:13.250" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:33:13.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29852" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:27:53.197" Score="1" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1709576/php-functional-style-light-weight-alternatives-to-the-separation-of-concerns-in&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, and for whatever reason (probably my fault for not being clear, or asking something to similar to other questions about MVC frameworks), the answers didn't really go in the direction that I was looking for.  I expect that to happen with questions on SO sometimes, and I accept that.  But now I've got a question that I consider useless.  I don't think someone randomly finding the question via google would get any value out of the question's answers, and maybe I'll clarify what I'm looking for and ask the question in a much better way later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I essentially accepted the answer that was most applicable (though not really what I was looking for) because I enjoy having people actually answer my questions, and wouldn't want to discourage that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I delete the question?  Does deleting my own question cost me rep/cost answerers rep, in which case I'll probably just skip it?  Is deleting and then reasking a similar question a bad way to go?  Should I try to completely edit the question into essentially a new (if somewhat similar) question in order to try to get a more effective answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:46:09.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-15T17:31:10.433" Title="When to delete your own question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29846" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:29:34.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Change your name to Linus Stallman and claim to have amnesia. Ask for help from the community in restoring your memory and identity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could very well be that nobody viewing your questions &lt;em&gt;knows how&lt;/em&gt; to answer them, I have found this to be the case numerous times on SF. Really difficult questions like LVM metadata being out of sync when using DRBD often gather dust. If you can't find it with Google, (in my experience) you can't get it at SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bounty would likely end up in an answer you can't use being selected automatically after the bounty expires, if the question is already gathering dust. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:29:34.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29850" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:40:05.923" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should edit the question &lt;strong&gt;to drive future answers in a different direction&lt;/strong&gt;. You will make the current answers either wrong or irrelevant. Users answered the question &lt;em&gt;as posed&lt;/em&gt; and you accepted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can see where you went wrong with the question, ask it again in a way that is not a duplicate and will solicit different answers. If it helps, reference your original question and clarify why you should expect different answers this time around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also, I don't think you can delete your original question, once it has been answered. But, if you could, you would lose any rep gains/losses from the question after the next reputation re-calc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T17:45:08.363" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:45:08.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-15T17:40:05.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29850" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:46:09.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd have to be a pretty poor question (and associated answers) to be of no possible value to someone finding it via Google (misleading, dangerous, etc).  I wouldn't significantly edit the existing question; rather use it as a learning experience and ask another, more tightly-focussed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:46:09.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-15T17:46:09.317" />
  <row Id="29854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25877" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:47:31.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding another tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoveflow.com/tags/rep-transfer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rep-transfer]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions that ask about transferring rep between two accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either on the same site, or across sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bounties&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bounties across domains&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;moving rep from an account on one site, to the associated account on another.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possibly even the effect of down-voting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T17:56:46.300" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:56:46.300" />
  <row Id="29855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29840" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:58:44.157" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most of this could be solved by &lt;strike&gt;awarding &lt;strong&gt;temporary&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;black&quot; badges to those who exhibit less desirable traits in the community&lt;/strike&gt; providing more statistics about a user's behaviour tendencies&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;, so that the community itself can naturally weed them out. This has been discussed lots before but sadly nothing has come of it. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The greatest &quot;less desirable&quot; trait I'd like to see more easily displayed against a user is a high number of downvotes on questions and answers, but other things would be useful too, like a large number of their edits being subsequently rolled back and having been put in the penalty box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;I like the temporary &quot;black badges&quot; too; it may be a more concise way of summarizing the statistics, but I'd rather just see all the stats on the user's profile page.  Such statistics could include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question/answer ratio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;average question score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;total score amassed from questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;total score amassed by answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;average answer score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;percentage of answers accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;percentage of questions answered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;total number of comments left&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;total score of all comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T07:29:18.157" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T07:29:18.157" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="171" CreationDate="2009-11-15T17:59:13.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that reputation is earned through your ability to communicate effectively, its still very rooted in knowledge. I don't think we'll see someone hit 10k within a year by asking lots of good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The check and balance of rep is &lt;em&gt;how long&lt;/em&gt; it took to get that rep. Wholesale transfers of reputation would put that check in a rather egregious and unnecessary peril.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While reputation is supposed to be just a reward for people who participate, its also an influencing factor on what advice / answer people take. Humans work that way, the higher the number, the 'better' the answer might be (if even at first glance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T17:59:13.897" />
  <row Id="29857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T18:40:04.223" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10642/some-way-or-place-to-post-tips&quot;&gt;Some way or place to post &amp;ldquo;tips&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21517/pseudo-reversed-concept-for-stackoverflow-site&quot;&gt;Pseudo reversed concept for stackoverflow site&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found a great python tip that I couldn't find on stackoverflow with google (I got the tip on freenode). Is it possible to share it on stackoverflow, so that other people can benefit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139018" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:13:38.820" ClosedDate="2009-11-16T14:34:56.310" Title="Is it possible to share a tip on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29857" CreationDate="2009-11-15T18:43:18.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask it like on Jeopardy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T18:43:18.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29840" CreationDate="2009-11-15T18:51:58.350" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is such a good idea.  It would allow you to hold a grudge forever.  Even if this person matures and starts behaving properly at some time in the future, you will avoid participating in any question posed by them because you'll always be reminded about what a jerk they were on that one question posted N years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let bygones be bygones.  If the user is really that much of a jerk that you need to avoid them forever, I would hope that they would eventually be banished from the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T18:51:58.350" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29857" CreationDate="2009-11-15T19:44:03.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest two alternatives, although I am sure there are more ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- Create a question, include the tip, and ask the community for feedback on the tip and to suggest alternatives.  If someone suggests a better alternative, accept it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2- Ask the question, then add an answer with the tip.  Some might interpret this as trolling for rep; I am on the fence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T19:44:03.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T20:44:41.900" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed yesterday that the edit history contains unclosed tags if a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag is removed from it.  See revision 5 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/1475/list&quot;&gt;this question's edit history&lt;/a&gt; to see what I'm talking about. (Screenshot below.)  In revision 4 I put the text &quot;say, 30 minutes?&quot; inside a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.  Then in revision 5 I rolled back to revision 3 (i.e. removed the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;).  However, in the edit history for revision 5, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag is never closed, making it look like the whole second paragraph was deleted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/2828/del.png&quot; title=&quot;screenshot&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is specific to the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag or not.  I have at least confirmed (on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/1066/list&quot;&gt;this question's edit history&lt;/a&gt;) that the problem isn't reproducible for the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T20:54:10.280" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T09:00:02.463" Title="Unclosed `&lt;del&gt;` tag in edit history when removing del'ed text" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1066" CreationDate="2009-11-15T21:01:48.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;abbr Title=&quot;I Would Really Like To Have This&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1066/add-support-for-abbr-tag/29863#29863&quot; title=&quot;I Would Really Like To Have This&quot;&gt;IWRLTHT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/abbr&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T21:36:30.467" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T21:36:30.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29840" CreationDate="2009-11-15T21:15:17.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should totally &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16077/handling-harassing-users&quot;&gt;drop this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3360/ignore-users-script&quot;&gt;use jQuery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T21:15:17.200" />
  <row Id="29866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3403" CreationDate="2009-11-15T21:58:12.393" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A solution &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3403/rss-feed-of-your-interesting-tags/74964#74964&quot;&gt;has been implemented&lt;/a&gt;, but, since the cross-tag import process is for all of your Stack Exchance favorite tags, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/mrucci/sxsync/src/3b817cdde189/sxsync.sh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my script&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;fetch the updated list of current favorite tags&lt;/strong&gt; for specific Stack Exchange instances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script &lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/mrucci/sxsync/overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lives on bitbucket&lt;/a&gt;.  Feel free to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Insert your user name, your user ID's and the Stack Exchange websites you want, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user=mrucci&#xA;sxname=(stackoverflow.com serverfault.com superuser.com)&#xA;userID=(133106 25062 16752) &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then execute it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ ./sxsync.sh&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the output should be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/+or+c+or+opengl+or+graphics+or+latex+or+android+or+wmii+or+glut+or+opencv+or+3d+or+3dgraphics+or+beamer+or+wiimote+or+beginner&#xA;http://serverfault.com/feeds/tag/+or+linux+or+ubuntu+or+vim+or+rsync+or+gnome&#xA;http://superuser.com/feeds/tag/+or+linux+or+ubuntu+or+tiling+or+latex+or+beamer+or+vim+or+gvim+or+vimperator+or+script+or+bash+or+gimp+or+photoshop+or+inkscape+or+programming+or+blender+or+rsync&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138613" LastEditorUserId="138613" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T03:28:00.880" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T03:28:00.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29868" CreationDate="2009-11-15T22:46:02.873" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Noticed something strange on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1737710/c-structs-dont-define-types&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i36.tinypic.com/nqobq9.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://i36.tinypic.com/nqobq9.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user Trollhorn appears twice, once with 1 and once with 31 reputation.  His name doesn't have a blue background, even though he asked the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is a bug, just posting FYI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-15T22:53:42.007" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:37:34.400" Title="One user with two reputations?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29867" CreationDate="2009-11-15T22:49:57.507" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are two different users, at least in the database.  Click each user's name and you'll see it goes to different profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/211455/trollhorn&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com/users/&lt;strong&gt;211455&lt;/strong&gt;/trollhorn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/211471/trollhorn&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com/users/&lt;strong&gt;211471&lt;/strong&gt;/trollhorn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both accounts were created today.  This is clearly a mistake by the new user.  Note that the &quot;answer&quot; is an attempt by the user to use SO as a threaded messaging platform:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ah, thx, now I got it ^^...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T22:49:57.507" />
  <row Id="29869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29867" CreationDate="2009-11-15T22:52:53.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That user must have made the question, created a user and later created another user unknowingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did right by posting it here to bring attention to the mods so they can merge the two user accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you can send a mail to team@stackoverflow.com telling them what you saw. Right now, a mod is bound to see it and fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-15T22:52:53.083" />
  <row Id="29870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29874" CreationDate="2009-11-15T23:36:27.060" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way (beside using google) to search the entire chain of Stack Overflow from one place, May be an advanced search page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T00:00:11.700" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T10:04:50.293" Title="Is there a way to search the entire Stack Overflow chain of sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-15T23:39:34.390" Score="15" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that too many questions are being deleted, particularly those that are duplicates. It seems some people don't even blink when deleting a question with 10 or 20 answers, some of them very good, just because there's an exact duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe Jeff has previously stated the duplicates can be useful for providing more pathways to the answer. Sometimes people ask the same question in a sufficiently different way that the original isn't found so that link is created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That somewhat contradicts the view that closed questions are one step away from being deleted. I'm not sure if this is the official stance or it has just come about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure we can clarify this by requiring a delete reason. Unless a duplicate has no real answers whatsoever it should pretty much be left alone (imho). There's no harm in it being there and perhaps we can get some clarification on when are the right times to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, example was requested. Here's one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/220904-why-did-a-question-get-deleted-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why did a question get deleted?&lt;/a&gt;. The timeline was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/842288/are-regular-expressions-over-hyped-closed&quot;&gt;Are regular expressions over-hyped?&lt;/a&gt; (now merged so original is gone). But the text was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a member on several forums that&#xA;  have a subforum dedicated to&#xA;  programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is an observation that to almost&#xA;  every single question about finding&#xA;  data in strings, the most common&#xA;  answer is &quot;use regular expressions&quot;.&#xA;  And if you're lucky, a link to a&#xA;  tutorial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For many situations that people will&#xA;  generally recommend regular&#xA;  expression, it's pure overkill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many things can be done with&#xA;  substring() and split() functions, yet&#xA;  people always seem to put regular&#xA;  expressions on a throne. Why is this? &#xA;  Does this have something to do with&#xA;  the history of regular expressions&#xA;  versus these OO-language functions?&#xA;  Are the people who recommend regular&#xA;  expressions old farts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why in the name of the Matrix should I&#xA;  use a regular expression and test it,&#xA;  to see if a string contains a question&#xA;  mark, if I can just do&#xA;  string1.contains(&quot;?&quot;);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While in some cases, such as form&#xA;  validation, regular expressions are&#xA;  useful, I find that in most cases I&#xA;  don't need them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So how often do you use regular&#xA;  expressions, not because it's useful,&#xA;  but because it's what you're used to&#xA;  using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EDIT: if you're gonna vote to close&#xA;  this, at least have the decency to&#xA;  make a comment as to why!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So until (iirc) Marc intervened, 13 answers had been unceremoniously deleted for something that would've taken one of those offended by the question two minutes to fix. It's that cavalier attitude with deleting content and those taking personal satisfaction in it that I'm hoping to temper (shog9: &quot;I don't regret the outcome. Indeed, it ended far better than i could have hoped for&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, it's worth noting that labels are important. For example, one close reason we have is &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;. Some view anything subjective as bad and vote to close it. Most of programming is subjective. Even &quot;how do I code X?&quot; can have several answers of relative and debatable advantages and disadvantages. Argumentative (eg trolling) is something else entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of all this is that those reasons affect what people do (as most are trying to do the right thing so if they see &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; they're just doing what they think they should be doing) so having explicit delete reasons should result in a better outcome: the right questions being deleted and less of the wrong ones being deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T01:04:39.583" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:58:30.163" Title="Add Delete Reasons like we have Close Reasons" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29870" CreationDate="2009-11-16T00:11:44.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another site&lt;/a&gt; for that. New questions take a couple of hours to appear, but it also searches a few other sites, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If just the SO-related sites are desired, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;custom search engine&lt;/a&gt; can handle that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T00:11:44.653" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29807" CreationDate="2009-11-16T00:54:59.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cleaned up after my own mess (I asked the question). Retraced my steps and noticed I screwed up: the answer I marked as answer grew up into a confusing blob. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BradC's answer has got a much higher information/noise ratio and is now marked as answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for slapping me silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138207" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T00:54:59.233" />
  <row Id="29874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29870" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:09:43.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I maintain a few Google CSE pages, including this one that searches all StackOverflow (not stackexchange) sites:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=018205968162215846785%3Age5giybfqde&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=018205968162215846785%3Age5giybfqde&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:09:43.140" />
  <row Id="29875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29857" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:13:38.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have said, think Jeopardy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the typical way to do this is that you do not mark your answer as the accepted answer unless it also gets the most votes, and mark your answer (but not the question) as community wiki to avoid the appearance of begging rep and still allow others who contribute to earn it for their answers (and you can still get rep for the question itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:13:38.820" />
  <row Id="29876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20929" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:17:35.513" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've added a moderator function which deduplicates all current question tags, and all post history tag entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the next time there's a duplicate tag problem, just flag one of them for moderator attention and we'll run the tag deduplicator page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:17:35.513" />
  <row Id="29877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7528" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:17:53.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've added a moderator function which deduplicates all current question tags, and all post history tag entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the next time there's a duplicate tag problem, just flag one of them for moderator attention and we'll run the tag deduplicator page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:17:53.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25648" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:18:35.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've added a moderator function which deduplicates all current question tags, and all post history tag entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the next time there's a duplicate tag problem, just flag one of them for moderator attention and we'll run the tag deduplicator page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:18:35.523" />
  <row Id="29879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29867" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:37:34.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the future just flag the question/answer and we can merge the users very easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:37:34.400" />
  <row Id="29880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29916" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:44:35.637" Score="6" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason why it's not possible to un-link your SO account from your Careers account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137612" LastEditorUserId="137612" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T04:01:22.550" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T04:01:22.550" Title="Make it possible to unassociate your SO account from your Careers account?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29870" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:47:03.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Here's the link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/879/make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites/925#925&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson's great solution (for Firefox).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:47:03.180" />
  <row Id="29882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29871" CreationDate="2009-11-16T01:58:30.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I'd need a few more examples of questions that were incorrectly deleted to be convinced this is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, I have seen a few closed questions deleted that I didn't agree with and had to undelete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T01:58:30.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29765" CreationDate="2009-11-16T02:01:04.620" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is some info in my CV that I do not want to become permanent public record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the purpose of the public cv privacy settings, where you can turn on or off (aka &quot;HIDE&quot;) any section (and often sub-section) of your private cv. Can you describe the specific scenario that is not met by the existing privacy settings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't make your CV public.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the existing privacy settings; I still don't understand why you want your CV to be public if you &lt;em&gt;don't want it to be public&lt;/em&gt;. Either turn off (aka &quot;hide&quot;) the parts you don't want public using the provided privacy settings, or see #1.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Choose a GUID as your public CV URL and change it every week. Unless you link to it, there's no way this can get indexed. We don't link to it anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;update: We now provide a time-limited URL on the publish tab. You can share this URL with whoever you like, and they can freely view your public CV for (n) days (even if it is not published), after which the link expires and is no longer valid.&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;this feature was removed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T14:57:32.510" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T14:57:32.510" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1066" CreationDate="2009-11-16T02:12:45.647" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, if the abbreviation needs clarification, the external link is more useful IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T02:12:45.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29880" CreationDate="2009-11-16T02:36:32.607" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since SO content is licensed under CC-Wiki, you should be able to request that the team disassociate any questions/answers that you don't want linked to your account from it.  This is one of the moral rights that the CC-Wiki license retains to you -- the ability to remove your name from any of your content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to the right of licensors&#xA;  to request removal of their name from&#xA;  the work when used in a derivative or&#xA;  collective they don't like, copyright&#xA;  laws in most jurisdictions around the&#xA;  world (with the notable exception of&#xA;  the US except in very limited&#xA;  circumstances) grant creators &quot;moral&#xA;  rights&quot; which may provide some redress&#xA;  if a derivative work represents a&#xA;  &quot;derogatory treatment&quot; of the&#xA;  licensor's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T02:36:32.607" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29880" CreationDate="2009-11-16T03:32:22.193" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kelso, based on the questions you've asked here, I am not sure our careers feature matches &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; you want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we have a bad fit here. No point in pushing a relationship that isn't going to work out for either one of us. No harm, no foul, everybody walks away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please email us for a refund at the address linked at the bottom of every careers.stackoverflow.com page -- we'll be happy to provide it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T03:32:22.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T05:11:49.517" Score="-1" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is this &quot;100% accept rate&quot; that appears under my name and avatar?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What does it mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I was unable to find a reference to it in the back-end of this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139033" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T05:17:15.417" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T05:17:15.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T05:12:10.170" Title="What is this &quot;100% accept rate&quot; on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29887" CreationDate="2009-11-16T05:12:33.837" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have accepted answers for all of your questions, that have an answer. In your case for 62 out of 62.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135105" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T05:12:36.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T05:12:33.837" />
  <row Id="29892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29765" CreationDate="2009-11-16T05:35:15.527" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... you want an option to include in the public CV page a &lt;code&gt;noindex&lt;/code&gt; command for robots?  A la:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;meta name=&quot;robots&quot; content=&quot;noindex&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would prevent search engines that support the feature for indexing the page, even if someone links to it.  Google supports this, so googleing you would not return the public CV, but you could provide the link to people.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who knows when/if someone will violate this &quot;&lt;em&gt;rule&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T05:56:45.493" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T05:56:45.493" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29772" CreationDate="2009-11-16T06:29:31.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have improved the way YQL is parsed for display.  Entering the county should work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give it a try!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T06:29:31.497" />
  <row Id="29895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29896" CreationDate="2009-11-16T07:31:07.440" Score="0" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there is already some reputation that you gain when you accept answers. Is there something which encourages people to considering accepting answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if you consistently maintain an accept rate &gt; 85% then you earn some points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40236" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T08:30:03.183" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T16:49:49.577" Title="Points for accepting the answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="29896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29895" CreationDate="2009-11-16T07:34:19.883" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you maintain a reasonable accept rate above 70% the benefit you reap comes in the form of a lack of comments bugging you to accept more answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T07:34:19.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28160" CreationDate="2009-11-16T08:28:54.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really enjoyed the presentations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a small review I wrote for colleagues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc7wsfc3%5F80cgprxsgs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc7wsfc3%5F80cgprxsgs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138842" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T08:28:54.370" />
  <row Id="29900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3821" CreationDate="2009-11-16T08:56:38.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Carl, your &quot;bug&quot; is right here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;* &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/&amp;gt;Counterclockwise&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;                                                     ^&#xA;                                           missing closing quote&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fixed it in your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257333/clojure-editor-ide-recommendations-on-os-x/1699579#1699579&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/257333/clojure-editor-ide-recommendations-on-os-x/1699579#1699579&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I upvoted you for your troubles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T08:56:38.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-11-16T09:54:46.927" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Math Overflow&lt;/a&gt; is using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jsMath&lt;/a&gt; for rendering mathematical expressions.  This causes one or two issues with the Markdown formatter: basically, because Markdown doesn't know that jsMath is going to render the mathematics, it doesn't know not to try to format it itself, which means that subscripts in particular are in great danger of becoming interpreted as emphasis.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be avoided on a block-level by enclosing the entire paragraph in p tags, but finer control would be nice.  One way to achieve this would be to allow div and span tags with the pseudo-attribute 'markdown'.  Thus 'markdown=0' means &quot;turn off markdown in this element&quot; whilst 'markdown=1' means &quot;turn it on&quot; (in case it's already turned off by some other rule).  This is a bit like that already in place with PHP Markdown's Extras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138421" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T22:01:42.773" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:01:42.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T09:54:46.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23488" CreationDate="2009-11-16T10:10:20.190" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alphabetical sorting should be the default,&lt;/strong&gt; because it makes it easy to find the tags you're looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Adam suggests, there could be a switch to disable the automatic sorting, and possibly even a method to easily re-order the list and save that custom order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adam's manual sort sounds like a really, really ugly work-around, but one that works well. Still, it can't be the intended use -- if there's a new tag created which is very interesting to me, I would have to delete every single tag and re-add them all again, manually. Surely a more elegant solution can be provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136036" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T10:10:20.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29905" CreationDate="2009-11-16T10:39:58.063" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741010/c-program-to-compare-integers-without-using-logical-operators/1741104#1741104&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; and received three upvotes at the time of writing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://student.science.uva.nl/~sschroev/so/29903/cq.png&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741205/a-select-question/1741230#1741230&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; but then deleted it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I look at my &quot;recent activity&quot; tab and see no mention of the deleted post (of course), but &lt;strong&gt;four&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes for the answer which supposedly received three upvotes:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://student.science.uva.nl/~sschroev/so/29903/ra.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I then very briefly undeleted the deleted question. The &quot;recent activily&quot; display was not updated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T10:56:30.670" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T10:56:44.710" Title="Reputation gain displayed incorrectly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29903" CreationDate="2009-11-16T10:56:20.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see four upvotes in the database -- the /recent page is correct. The denormalized post score count is off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can happen (depends on client javascript timing issues) and is dealt with automatically. As part of the daily cron / scheduled tasks, each post is verified that it's in sync with the votes table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically just wait 24-36 hours. The /recent page is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T10:56:20.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29816" CreationDate="2009-11-16T11:25:30.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Jon, I've had the JavaScript fail to load several times (usually after clearing my cache) in Chrome (v4) on Windows, but nothing to do with cookies. Clearing your cookies should log you out though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I can get around the JavaScript problem is to manually load all of the JavaScript files and see which one is the problem. Then, I hold ctrl and double click the refresh button (a single click doesn't seem to do it). Once it loads the js file, SO then works as normal. Like you though, I only get this problem on SO and none of the other sites (meta SF, SU), so maybe it has something to do with how SO is specifically set up. I have a similar problem on the BBC news website after clearing the cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T11:25:30.740" />
  <row Id="29908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29915" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:19:33.110" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are public CVs posted on careers browsable or searchable by the general public, or must we send the direct URL to the intended recipient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the latter, then I guess the &quot;public&quot;-ness of a CV is really limited to the possibility of it being indexed by search engines. Is that right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133847" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T13:53:10.647" Title="Browsability and searchability of public CVs?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29911" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:19:49.770" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8231/are-answers-that-just-contain-links-elsewhere-really-good-answers&quot;&gt;Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really &amp;ldquo;good answers&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7515/why-is-linking-bad&quot;&gt;Why is linking bad?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to answer questions like this (name blanked out):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i34.tinypic.com/10xajaa.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer happened to be relevant and useful, but what if the link no longer works?  Shouldn't you at least copy/paste te relevant part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T13:50:59.683" ClosedDate="2009-11-16T14:02:14.420" Title="Is it ok to answer questions with just a link" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29909" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:22:04.430" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, yes as it does allow you to save the answer, and it may provide relevant information concerning the question.  Most people like seeing more information than just a link.  The best answers are the ones which provide the link and then give and explanation as to what it says/why it's relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T13:50:59.683" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T13:50:59.683" />
  <row Id="29911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29909" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:22:38.800" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You should always provide relevant text along with appropriate information about the source material (such as the name and date posted, if available).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally haven't always done this myself, but it's a good practice to capture relevant information without needing to click on links (other than to validate the material and get more information).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T13:22:38.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29913" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:24:54.067" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who gets the &quot;creation ownership&quot; of a tag when they're merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-07T12:59:54.570" LastActivityDate="2010-06-07T12:59:54.570" Title="When a tag is merged, who gets the taxonomist badge when eligible?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29912" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:47:58.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well generally when tags are merged, the tags with the least amount of questions are re-tagged to the same as the one with the most, so the person who created the more popular tag will be the one counted when it comes to that badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T13:47:58.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29909" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:48:57.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would usually explain some detail as to what is at the link. It gives the reader some idea of whether it will be relevant or interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T13:48:57.237" />
  <row Id="29915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29908" CreationDate="2009-11-16T13:53:10.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The public CVs are open and indexable by the public web, like any other public web page anywhere in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;there is no master index of public CVs that we provide&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the only way your public CV page would end up in Google indexes or Bing indexes (or &amp;lt;insert your favorite search engine here&amp;gt; ) is if someone links to it on the web somewhere, first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T13:53:10.647" />
  <row Id="29916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29880" CreationDate="2009-11-16T15:10:05.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even serious and helpful answers can be reason to deny you a job position.  For example, I know that showing any liking for perl disqualifies you as a serious developer in the eyes of my boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if SO Careers links your real name to &quot;tainted&quot; SO questions, it would be useful to be able to unlink it.  Maybe you can even write up some perl hate and link it to your new avatar!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T15:10:05.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20722" CreationDate="2009-11-16T15:26:56.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty new to all the SO/SU/SF business, so apologies if I miss out on some feature I still don't know, but I was wondering if it would make sense to have a system like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After a given amount of inactivity of a question, the owner is reminded of said question and given the choice between: &lt;strong&gt;(A) selecting an answer as accepted (B) postponing the reminder of another X days&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the user does not make a choice within say 5 days since the choice is made available to him/her, the question gets automatically in a irreversible state of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;community vote&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;: in this state users with reputation &gt; X would be authorised to cast votes for that question:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They can vote for any answer&lt;/strong&gt; (meaning: this answer actually answer the question and should be selected as the accepted one).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They can vote for eliminating the entire question&lt;/strong&gt; (if none of the answer provided does actually answer the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first counter (either for an answer either for the will to eliminate the question) hitting 10 will determine the status of &quot;answered&quot; or the deletion of the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eliminating an entire question might seem extreme (after all there might still be some useful info in the thread) but looking at the global picture rather than to the specific case, I believe we would achieve the following benefits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We would have a &lt;strong&gt;workaround for users who simply don't care&lt;/strong&gt; completing the job they did not conclude.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While we would still allow for the owners of the question to freely pick any answer that in their opinion deals with their question in the best way, we would also &lt;strong&gt;impede that a user deliberately block a good answer to become an accepted one&lt;/strong&gt; (for example because in the thread some responder have expressed criticism towards the question).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We would preserve a &lt;strong&gt;good ratio between signal and noise&lt;/strong&gt; in the ever-growing database of the platform (as all the old questions must provide answers to be kept in the DB).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my two cents to the discussion, feedbacks welcome! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T15:26:56.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20722" CreationDate="2009-11-16T15:37:12.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;if you answered yourself, post an answer in and mark your own answer as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It currently takes two days before the asker is allowed to accept their own answer.  The question is often long-since answered, the problem solved, and the whole ordeal forgotten about, by the time two days is up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43263" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T15:37:12.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="65486" CreationDate="2009-11-16T16:46:32.533" Score="11" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been well-documented already (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18945/answer-count-on-stats-page-off&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25507/wrong-answer-count-on-stats-page&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for example), the top users page for a tag will usually show &lt;em&gt;fewer&lt;/em&gt; total answers than you've actually given for that tag since it doesn't count answers that are Community Wiki or which don't have any upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've noticed over the past few weeks that I've been consistently credited with &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; answers than I should for the &lt;code&gt;matlab&lt;/code&gt; tag. I'll show you what I mean using the traditional form of communication for our people: screen shots embellished with free-hand drawings...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/matlab/topusers&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top users page:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e77/kpeaton/stats_error_2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52738/gnovice&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My profile page tag list:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e77/kpeaton/stats_error_1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After digging a little deeper, it seem that &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; numbers above may be wrong according to the following searches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Searched &lt;code&gt;user:52738 wiki:0 votes:1 [matlab]&lt;/code&gt; and got 192 hits (instead of 190).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Searched &lt;code&gt;user:52738 [matlab]&lt;/code&gt; and got 216 hits (instead of 188).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone have any idea what's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T21:02:20.490" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T21:02:20.490" Title="The top users page and profile tag list: one or both seems wrong" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="29920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29895" CreationDate="2009-11-16T16:49:49.577" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be like a manager asking his programmers to produce &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; lines of code every week. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T16:49:49.577" />
  <row Id="29922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:20:40.537" Score="6" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936/bobince&quot;&gt;bobince&lt;/a&gt; getting 1000+ votes for his &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;minor HTML/regexp conniption&lt;/a&gt;, I do believe his answer has &lt;em&gt;escaped the confinement of its box&lt;/em&gt;.  Everyone run for your lives!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/DZxWD.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T02:52:55.233" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T02:52:55.233" Title="Box overflow with 1000+ answer upvotes on User page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27944" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:21:27.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I ask here, it means that I haven't had any luck finding an answer myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding more detail to the question is when you now have more information to give to help people find an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering your own question is when you find a solution yourself (maybe all the answers are wrong, but let you find the correct terms to google). If an answer is &lt;em&gt;nearly&lt;/em&gt; right, I'll comment on it to let the user add that last bit, then accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are two completely different situations with nearly no overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:21:27.913" />
  <row Id="29924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29922" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:28:41.050" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy solution. Should be written as &quot;1k&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:28:41.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:28:56.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one of the reasons is, that other languages often already have a widely accepted community forum. E.g. Ruby has the ruby-talk mailing list, Haskell has haskell.org and the #haskell/#haskell-in-depth IRC channels, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139055" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:28:56.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T17:28:56.807" />
  <row Id="29926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29922" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:30:02.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its just &lt;em&gt;barely&lt;/em&gt; inside the box with the latest version of Opera. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:30:02.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29922" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:31:36.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;code&gt;font-size&lt;/code&gt; is changed to &lt;code&gt;70%&lt;/code&gt; it looks fine too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://john.cognitivedelay.com/images/so-votecount.png&quot; alt=&quot;image with freehand circle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="44765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T17:42:57.750" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:42:57.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29922" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:32:11.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Makes me wish we could favorite answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:32:11.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:35:46.517" Score="-2" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trivial and insufficient editing by others should be discouraged. At the very least, a mechanism should be in place to not count such unhelpful edits towards the OP's &lt;em&gt;edit limit&lt;/em&gt;. The edit limit is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;the number of edits that can take place before a question or answer forfeits to community wiki status&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of discussion is this: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Should we prevent people who edit poorly from punishing those they edit?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are solutions to this issue? Here are two ideas I propose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a &quot;This is a minor edit&quot; checkbox to the edit form for third-party editors.&lt;/strong&gt; This allows editors to be socially moral and say, &quot;Look, I contributed trivially to this question, and if there's something that I missed, no harm, no foul.&quot; If the editor checks this checkbox, no deduction is made to the edit limit for that edit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Allow other editors to remove a previous edit's deduction to the edit limit.&lt;/strong&gt; If another editor sees an insufficient edit, he or she should be able to right the wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provide a mechanism for reporting poor or abusive edits.&lt;/strong&gt; (Oh, God! Meta-moderation...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use a diff to determine the percentage of the post edited&lt;/strong&gt; If the percentage of difference in the previous version of the post exceeds a threshold, there is a deduction in the edit limit. If the percentage fails to exceed this threshold, no deduction to the edit limit is made.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following case motivated this discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1743293/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1743293/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the original poster does not speak English as his or her primary language. We can all agree the post required a solid amount of editing to correct the grammar so that the question reads well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial edit by Peter Mortenson in the above question, however, while likely in good will, were insufficient. Awkward or incorrect grammar remained throughout, and the link to the CPU added little to the context of the discussion. Mortenson left the question only trivially more readable, yet cost the poster half of his four permitted edits by other people (one by Mortenson, and one by the next, hopefully competent editor who will &lt;em&gt;properly&lt;/em&gt; edit the question) before the question goes to the community wiki, and further up-votes no longer count to the original author's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2009-11-17:&lt;/strong&gt; Clarifying the exact question, since a large portion of users could not seem to distinguish &quot;poor editing&quot; from &quot;editing in general&quot;. Provided potential solutions to the problem, so I'm not just whining, but contributing constructively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139025" LastEditorUserId="139025" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T17:20:40.783" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T17:20:40.783" Title="Poor editing should not punish the asker" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;edit-rights&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:36:36.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe because Lang Pop is wrong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:36:36.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T17:36:36.373" />
  <row Id="29931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29950" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:36:57.497" Score="3" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know, can of worms, I'm sorry, but this is bugging me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As computer scientists I believe we'd all like to think that the decisions we make on a day-to-day basis are somewhat backed by some kind of scientific(ish) theory. Therefore I would like to ask what this theory is in regards to this rule. All I know at present, is that on this website it is not permitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This concerns me as, in my opinion, the blithe adoption of the no swearing rule is a common bit of &quot;social proof&quot;. A decision that is made without any great deal of thought, made purely to bring something into line with &quot;accepted norms&quot;. These norms are unmeasurable and in no-way even attempt to justify themselves scientifically.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also argue that this policy is in violation with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001300.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;If it is corporate, change it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; rule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the benefit to Stack Overflow from omitting this kind of communication?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is this benefit measurable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T07:33:38.857" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T07:33:38.857" Title="What is the rationale behind the &quot;no cursing&quot; rule?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:39:50.253" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rationale is as follows: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-in-comments/22233#22233&quot;&gt;Jeff &lt;strong&gt;welbogging&lt;/strong&gt; says so. Don't &lt;strong&gt;jjnguying&lt;/strong&gt; argue.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T20:06:58.020" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:06:58.020" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="29933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:46:18.943" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to get access to the info from /users/recent/id (specifically, where I'm getting my rep from) but I can't find it linked anywhere from my /users/id page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139057" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T07:45:08.347" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T07:54:58.457" Title="Any way to get to the Recent Activity info from my profile?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29929" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:49:33.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I in part agree with you.  It's something I caught myself doing earlier on that I've since put more in check.  That would be, just doing edits to fix one capitalization or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the edits are not complete but still provide even marginal improvements in readability then I am still in favor of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to continue to encourage (new) users to craft their questions well.  For a community who spends their spare time (or not so spare!) helping out it is well worth someone's time to make sure that the question they post is as good as they can make it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:49:33.163" />
  <row Id="29935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29929" CreationDate="2009-11-16T17:51:31.960" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the OP needs to do to minimize edits is to edit the question himself, before posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's too much trouble, then further editing is the price he must be willing to pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T17:51:31.960" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="29937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:03:58.897" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could just call it &lt;code&gt;fainbruck&lt;/code&gt; .. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:03:58.897" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20722" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:23:30.700" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions I have asked did not get useful answers.  Why should I accept an answer that does not solve my problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:23:30.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:29:53.077" Score="-7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Defaults to true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If set to true replaces all instances of known swear words with replacements (comical or * based). If false renders the content as originally presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Benefits: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reduces moderation requirements necessary to ensure that people behind corporate firewalls are not blocked by an errent swear word.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stops idiots like me complaining about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T18:54:16.840" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:58:35.817" Title="Feature request: SafeOverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;clbuttic&gt;&lt;censor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29459" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:30:00.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I can figure is, that I perhaps did log into one of my co-workers machines as myself in his Firefox browser. However, I believe it was several months ago, and I did not check &quot;keep me logged in&quot; on myopenid.net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My company does use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/email%5Fand%5Fweb%5Fsecurity/web/web%5Fgateway.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Webwasher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still not sure how my credentials could be stored in his browser for months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5716" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:30:00.160" />
  <row Id="29941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29939" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:37:43.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to be difficult to implement without making the same old &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clbuttic&lt;/a&gt; mistakes. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001009.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;And Jeff doesn't like blacklists.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with this on, I fear foul language is still going to make some people uncomfortable and they'll get touchy with their offensive flagging. I appreciate the sentiment, but I doubt it will work, and I doubt it will satisfy everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, personally, am in favor of inobtrusive censorship (i.e. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the language that must not be named&lt;/a&gt;&quot; instead of the obviously munged &quot;brainf_ck&quot;) but it hasn't caught on quite as well as I'd hoped. Which is sad, because I think creative censorship would prevent edit wars and keep people a little happier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:37:43.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="29942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29939" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:45:40.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;NOpE: pHIS MESSAGE CONpAINS COUPLE Od COMMON ENGLISH SWEAR WORDS AS EXAMPLES!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I added phis warning as a bip od mepajoke dor phe acpual quespion, od course we're going po palk aboup phe acpual swear words here, come on! Also id you phink you're eyes are doing pricks on you, read phe commenps inspead od adjusping your monipor.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as ip can be purned odd I don'p see why nop; in dacp I've been drequenping a cerpain dorum dor a while now which shows cleaned language dor phe unregispered; when you regisper, you gep po see how people really swear using words you somepimes really have po check drom dicpionary po really underspand whap kind od wippy response was given po opher user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;pheir replacemenp is comical which is dAR bepper phan wildcarding, dor example here's couple:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;ship&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is simply &quot;&lt;em&gt;poo poo&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;duck&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is replaced wiph &quot;&lt;em&gt;genply caress&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;ducking&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, on phe opher hand, is replaced wiph &quot;&lt;em&gt;loving&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29939/feature-request-safeoverflow/29941#29941&quot;&gt;Changing My Mepa Name&lt;/a&gt; poinps oup, ip's easy po gep mispaken here and since phis is a mulpilingual communipy, nophing prevenps me drom using dinnish swearwords in mosp unexpecped places od all, like giving a code example in my quespion like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a problem wiph phis class, ip does X while I expecp ip po do Y. Can you help me digure oup whap's wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public class Perkele {&#xA;    public void doX() { /* lops od code here */ }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;phe swear word phere is, od course, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Perkele&lt;/em&gt;&quot; which as an eddecpive word is similar po English' &quot;&lt;em&gt;damn&lt;/em&gt;&quot; alphough phe word ipseld is relaped po phe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkele&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;non-Chrispian version od Sapan himseld&lt;/a&gt;. Also id SO sparps dilpering swear words, ip won'p pake long dor phe mosp easily oddended po sparp asking dor dilpering opher phings like &quot;&lt;em&gt;Do nop allow 'mullah' po be menpioned here!&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;em&gt;I will nop buy your ads id you allow phe phrase 'SomeSodpware is buggy' po be dound on phis sipe!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastEditorUserId="135713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T18:58:35.817" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:58:35.817" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="29943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29933" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:46:10.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the little envelope next to your username at the top of the screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/WMBXU.png&quot; alt=&quot;where the envelope is&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find tabs that will give you a breakdown of what other people are doing with your stuff (up/downvoting you, responding to your posts) etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on your username itself, you can see a breakdown of what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are doing: your questions and answers, your own comments and edits, etc. There is also a nice pretty graph showing how your reputation is going up over time. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T07:54:58.457" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T07:54:58.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29939" CreationDate="2009-11-16T18:55:38.350" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;OMG, please no.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look, we already have a ban on potty words.  Questions, answers and comments are deleted on a regular basis.  There is a 'flag this post' ability already.  That should suffice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Delicate Flowers of Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; have won the swearing battle, and for the most part, us cursing-like-a-sailor SOpedians will get over it.  What you are proposing is overkill.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find objectionable language, then flag the post and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T18:55:38.350" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-11-16T19:04:09.380" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't munging the name of a language make it hard for people who legitimately desire help in using that language to find the help they seek?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T19:04:09.380" />
  <row Id="29946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29929" CreationDate="2009-11-16T19:11:21.130" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to disagree, for a couple of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I follow the rule I learned at a daily newspaper for letters to the editor and online commenting: Don't let someone make him/herself look foolish. When I see a misspelling, or incorrect caps usage, a lack of punctuation, or even just bad formatting, I'm going to correct it. It's my duty as someone with edit privileges who wants as much of the site as possible to look clean and correct.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Right in the FAQ, it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are not comfortable with the idea of your &#xA;  questions and answers being edited by other trusted &#xA;  users, this may not be the site for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any online community with user-generated content is only as good as the average quality of said content. If we do not edit bad questions, then our own reputation as a community goes down. No one wants this place to turn into Yahoo! Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I would argue that not editing a question for clarity, grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc., is punishing the user more than the edits are. Sure, there is a possibility that the automatic community wiki threshold &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be crossed when performing said edits, but those edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. Bump the question to the home page, thus potentially getting it more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. Clean up the question so as to make it more enticing for others to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c. Assuming the user is here more to get his/her questions answered than for our arbitrary Big Number System, this will work to his/her more direct advantage -- the question is more likely to get answered satisfactorily!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, edit correctly and there are no issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T19:30:53.873" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T19:30:53.873" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T19:21:17.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fail to see the brouhaha over banning the use of profanity.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our host has made &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-in-comments/22233#22233&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;exceptionally clear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that he does not want profane language on the sites.  We should honor his directive and get on with questions and answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely our vocabularies are sufficiently developed such that we can convey desired meanings without violating the guidelines of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T19:21:17.570" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32659" CreationDate="2009-11-16T19:35:24.893" Score="11" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching on Careers, I'm assuming that employers can search based on the tags that appear in the favourites/likes/dislikes fields, and also narrow this down by location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other types of searches can be performed, and what bits of the CVs can be searched? For example, do the free-text bits of the CV get searched using a text search? If so, is this done using the same search routine as on SOFU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T06:00:03.790" Title="What type of searches can employers perform on Careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T19:36:49.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there's one thing you can learn from &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/2569309186&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000772.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;favorite&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200807/walle.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, it's that profanity is a refuge of the stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Personally, I &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; that StackOverflow requires a certain professionalism, for my own tastes and because I sometimes look at questions at home with my 4 yr old who is just learning to read sitting on my lap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T21:26:12.087" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:26:12.087" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="29950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T19:54:52.020" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Site Policy:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you can't effectively communicate&#xA;  what you need to say without resorting&#xA;  to lowest common denominator cursing,&#xA;  then keep it to yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translation:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are not comfortable with the&#xA;  [site policy], this may not be the&#xA;  site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rationale:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive/24084#24084&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name of the language is not, can&#xA;  not be offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it will be flagged by a lot of&#xA;  nanny automation, so it should be&#xA;  munged anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;::sigh::&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - dmckee&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood responded in comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is the correct answer. – Jeff&#xA;  Atwood♦ Sep 30 at 21:46&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Added Benefit:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that thousands of people are able to use StackOverflow daily without being banned for language use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please describe carefully exactly what would be ADDED to the site if this policy were changed.  In other words, how would other users BENEFIT from reading explicit language that they CANNOT obtain with the existing policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until you can describe a CLEAR BENEFIT I doubt the policy is going to change, and it's &lt;em&gt;very unlikely&lt;/em&gt; that Jeff or any other official SO representative will continue to personally address this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T20:24:11.687" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:24:11.687" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T19:56:53.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is like a restaurant. It's open to the public, but privately owned. You can have whatever conversation at the table you'd like, but if you're bothering the other guests the owner may ask you to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Jeff feels that the other guests here might be bothered by profanity. Or perhaps he just doesn't want that kind of language associated with his establishment. Whatever the case, it's his choice. If you don't like it you can eat somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T19:56:53.183" />
  <row Id="29952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29880" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:03:14.843" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of listing yourself on careers is for the association with your SO identity, otherwise it's just another CV database.  So if you don't want that, maybe you're really looking for something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137004" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:03:14.843" />
  <row Id="29953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29978" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:14:02.513" Score="0" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11017/what-are-the-most-upvoted-downvoted-questions-and-answers-on-the-sites&quot;&gt;What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it could be known via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Data Dump&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm not willing to download 200 megabytes and query it to know such simple info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to know &lt;strong&gt;the most upvoted answer&lt;/strong&gt; on SO ever, is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;bobince's answer&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29922/box-overflow-with-1000-answer-upvotes-on-user-page&quot;&gt;mentioned here&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, what's &lt;strong&gt;the most upvoted comment&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;The most upvoted question&lt;/a&gt; on the site is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of C#&lt;/a&gt; (currently 858 votes), followed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;What’s our favorite “programmer” cartoon?&lt;/a&gt; (839 votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:04:54.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T20:14:02.513" ClosedDate="2009-11-16T22:27:09.420" Title="What's the most upvoted answer, ever?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29958" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:18:06.860" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/202722/pat-gonzalez&quot;&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt;. Everything he posts is a link to one of his tutorials. However, it's always on-topic (as far as I can tell). Three of his posts are flagged as spam (the count is 3 votes each at this moment). He also has all of ONE up vote across 35 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this really spam?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:38:36.027" Title="On-topic self promotion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="29955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:20:07.137" Score="-5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, no-one likes my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29939/feature-request-safeoverflow&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt;. So there appears to be zero chance of it being implemented automatically. The masses hath spoken. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are there any other options aside from following the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29931/what-is-the-rationale-behind-the-no-cursing-rule/29947#29947&quot;&gt;&quot;we don't serve &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; type&quot;&lt;/a&gt; advice? Perhaps you also have a feature that would be cool but no-one else likes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ask since we're all software devs and software devs have cash..... could we pay the SO team to implement a feature? I'd like to be able to swear again and would pay for the privilege. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:45:41.100" Title="Can you &quot;buy&quot; a feature?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="29956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29953" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:22:32.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could try asking &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; that question.. I don't think it has the November data dump in it yet though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:22:32.827" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T20:22:32.827" />
  <row Id="29957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29953" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:22:37.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not use &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; too look it up in the database? No download needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:22:37.367" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T20:22:37.367" />
  <row Id="29958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29954" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:24:08.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He isn't trying to sell anything and I don't see any advertising posted. Not seeing how this is spam especially if he is on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:24:08.910" />
  <row Id="29959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:25:18.360" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the language is not, can not be offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it will be flagged by a lot of nanny automation, so it should be munged anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;::sigh::&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive/24084#24084&quot;&gt;Original.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Adam Davies for finding the post and Jeff's comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:25:18.360" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29955" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:26:12.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want to be able to swear again and would pay for the &lt;strong&gt;privilege&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29931/what-is-the-rationale-behind-the-no-cursing-rule/29950#29950&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29931/what-is-the-rationale-behind-the-no-cursing-rule&quot;&gt;What is the rationale behind the “no cursing” rule?&lt;/a&gt; question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If you can't effectively communicate what you need to say without resorting to lowest common denominator cursing, then keep it to yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Translation:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If you are not comfortable with the [site policy], this may not be the&#xA;  site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:26:12.773" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="29961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29964" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:26:42.990" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the questions in the 'featured' tab on the Stack Overflow &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt; page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does a question become 'featured'? Is it just a list of questions with active bounties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138698" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T20:53:54.173" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:53:54.173" Title="How do I get my question featured on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;featured-tab&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="29962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29955" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:27:45.033" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure if you offered enough money, Jeff &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;Co&lt;/em&gt; would find the resources to implement it somewhere.  It is a business, after all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I suspect the price is more than you can afford, as they have to weigh not only the costs to implement and maintain the feature, but the potential change in viewership and how that might impact revenue (and they seem to believe it would cost them a measurable number of users) and also how it would impact their staffing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T20:44:28.513" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:44:28.513" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29955" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:27:56.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've long been a supporter of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24421/potential-stackoverflow-revenue-models/24423#24423&quot;&gt;swear jar idea&lt;/a&gt;. It gives we &lt;strike&gt;drunks&lt;/strike&gt;free-spirited individuals an opportunity to speak our minds and it gives Jeff lots of money. It's win-win!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:27:56.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29961" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:28:49.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those are simply questions with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15330/how-do-i-put-a-bounty-on-a-question&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:28:49.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29954" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:29:12.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I donno... If he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; on-topic, then he surely isn't contributing much (considering his 1/35 vote/answer ratio...)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to call it spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:29:12.800" />
  <row Id="29966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38180" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:30:20.270" Score="5" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously one of the things that this site encourages is the building up of reputation which is a reflection of how the community perceives you. However, after spending a while in any given tag, &lt;em&gt;you can't help but get familiar with people by their SO user name&lt;/em&gt; and interpret their input accordingly. This is especially the case with comments: you have to click-through to the user's home page as their rep is not immediately visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence it's pretty confusing when certain users keep changing their names: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is that someone who I have learnt to respect?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is that trollish behaviour, or has the user made a genuine error/comunication problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do I give this user the benefit of any doubt?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must say that I find this is particularly the case on meta. I'm not suggesting that user-names should be permanently locked but perhaps &lt;strong&gt;there could be a limit to how often a name could be changed&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. no more than once per quarter year).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T00:31:16.920" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T10:46:49.537" Title="Can we restrict the ability of users to keep changing their names?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29955" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:32:48.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So there appears to be zero chance of&#xA;  it being implemented automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What what &lt;em&gt;what?!&lt;/em&gt; Features never get implemented automatically, they don't exist &quot;by default.&quot; The feature you suggested would take considerable time and effort to develop, and likely would not be implemented to the same quality standards as the rest of SO, simply because it is nigh-impossible to do correctly. (This isn't a knock on the SO team, it's a knock on the feature. If you can't do something correctly -- and that feature couldn't be done such -- then don't do it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they were building that feature, a bunch of others which are being considered won't be getting built. Ones which were more popular with the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, and unless you could offer enough to pay the developer(s) in question for their time adequately (I don't know what they make, but think three figures an hour for their total cost) you probably can't afford it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure the question makes welb_gging sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:33:55.193" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="29968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29966" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:33:24.867" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though it's incredibly annoying, I'm reluctant to support a restriction on this.  The questions and answers should feature and stand by themselves.  It's a Q&amp;amp;A site, and as such WHO is posting the answer (and whether they were the same yesterday) isn't as important as the answer itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:33:24.867" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="29969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29954" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:38:36.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be more worried if the answers were getting a lot of votes.  As it is, it seems like the community generally either recognizes what's going on or has an appropriate opinion of the library in question.  As it is, with no one voting for him I think we can just give it some time and he'll get bored and move on.  Removing his posts is just likely to induce him to hang around longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:38:36.027" />
  <row Id="29970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:39:11.970" Score="0" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I've made a feature request and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25657/can-we-make-hyperlinks-more-obvious-in-an-so-answer&quot;&gt;it gets marked as declined&lt;/a&gt;, can there be some auto-generated answer which just says &lt;strong&gt;Declined&lt;/strong&gt; or something simple like that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason being; &lt;em&gt;I can't accept any answer on the question as it stands&lt;/em&gt; which, of course, negatively impacts my stats/perception. I just want an answer that I can accept, as clearly the thread is not going to generate any other &quot;right&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:48:49.753" Title="Can we get an answer to accept on status-declined feature requests?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="29971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29966" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:39:17.633" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I found it much more confusing when certain users who had gone &lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt; under one name suddenly switched to new names (and, in at least one case, new gravatar images). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rate-limiting would do nothing to prevent this, but banning name-changes outright would hamper those who picked unfortunate pseudonyms, were poorly-named by their parents, or decide to change their names out of some misguided ideas of transparency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suggest one small change: keep a list of past pseudonyms attached to each user's bio somewhere. Let them &lt;em&gt;decay over time&lt;/em&gt;, perhaps dropping old names after a month or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:39:17.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29970" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:41:11.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that the accept rate on meta is meaningless anyway, so there's really no penalty involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Says the mod the with 16% rate...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:41:11.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29966" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:42:06.473" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about having it cost reputation to change your name more than once per day?  Say 100 points per name change.  This doesn't restrict the user from making any changes and doesn't penalize any user making legitimate changes, but it does discourage name changes for the sake of name changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:42:06.473" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29970" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:43:13.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe these could just be filtered out of the accept rate calculation, the same way CW questions are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:43:13.913" />
  <row Id="29975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29955" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:45:41.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to DiBiase, &lt;strong&gt;Everybody has a price&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm relatively certain that if you were to offer Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky $256,000,000[USD] then they would be only too happy to turn Stackoverflow over to you lock stock and barrel, nevermind implementing your 'feature'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that such a price must exist, the rest is quibbling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:45:41.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29970" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:50:02.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't negatively affect your reputation (unless you count the loss of +2 rep that you'd get by accepting an answer). The rest is just perception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can still accept an answer though -- pick any answer that you think discusses the topic the most clearly. You could even accept an answer that proposed the solution you want, even if the dev team declines to implement it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:50:02.170" />
  <row Id="29977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29966" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:53:41.350" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The frequent name-changing seems only to be the case on meta, and I'm finding it quite amusing: aside from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/26518#26518&quot;&gt;meme&lt;/a&gt; which provides humour value in its own right, I'm finding it a good exercise to take every comment on its own merits rather than my perception being coloured with my mental image of the author in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:53:41.350" />
  <row Id="29978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29953" CreationDate="2009-11-16T20:54:16.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net?q=11940&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; suggestions.  I feel loved &amp;lt;3 (and glad it's back up after a weekend outage :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair, you could also check using &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt; (mysql, July data) or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; (PostGreSQL, November data). (StackQL is Sql Server, October data). I think I've seen one for SQLite, too, but I don't have the link anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84629&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, but a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;certain post&lt;/a&gt; mentioned on Coding Horror today (11/16/09) will likely soon overtake it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T20:59:17.160" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T20:59:17.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-16T20:54:16.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29970" CreationDate="2009-11-16T21:09:33.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you must accept something, submit your own answer and accept it.  You might consider using that answer to combine all the reasons you understand the feature was declined for, and mention that the feature is declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:09:33.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T21:15:32.450" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what is the benefit to stackoverflow from omitting this kind of communication?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this benefit measurable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the Jeff/Joel input; it sure is measurable to me... I work for a company that sells products and services to the education market. As part of dogfooding, we (the corporate desktop) use the internet filtering that we sell to kids. And if you use profanity beyond a certain level, then when I moderate from the office I get to see a cartoon hedgehog instead of your words of wisdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; barrier - I can just switch network etc while I &lt;s&gt;delete your account&lt;/s&gt; tidy up the post, so don't start thinking that swearing &quot;on my watch&quot; is the way to avoid prompt moderation; the reverse - it'll make we more grumpy ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:15:32.450" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29984" CreationDate="2009-11-16T21:41:27.273" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought you had to edit an answer 10 times to promote it into being community wiki...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer went community wiki after only 2 edits. &#xA;Seems a bit eager to me. Considering leaving my spelling mistakes in there if this is how the rules work ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741598/busting-ruby-on-rails-myths/1743599#1743599&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741598/busting-ruby-on-rails-myths/1743599#1743599&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edited twice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastEditorUserId="138209" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T21:47:13.547" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:48:39.583" Title="Why did my answer go &quot;community-wiki&quot; on me? I only edited it twice(!)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29983" CreationDate="2009-11-16T21:48:39.583" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP made the topic CW 10 hours ago, you posted your answer 4 hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any answer posted in a CW topic is automatically CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:48:39.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29970" CreationDate="2009-11-16T21:48:49.753" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only answer I would like to see, on declined requests, is one explaining the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T21:48:49.753" />
  <row Id="29986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38904" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:03:21.773" Score="26" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a user has over 9999 rep, the rep shown in their signature is truncated (i.e. &quot;10.5k&quot; instead of &quot;10,506&quot;).  Would it be possible to show the full rep in the tooltip when hovering over the truncated rep?  Currently there is a tooltip that just says &quot;reputation score&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm putting a bounty on this just to get attention to one of my older feature requests. I suspect this one would be trivial for the team to implement.  Since I'm over 10k rep on meta now, I have some rep to blow on pointless bounties. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T09:43:06.173" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T09:43:43.737" Title="Show full reputation for 10k+ users in tooltip when hovering over rep in sig" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="29987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29989" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:04:07.933" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed over the last month or so(?) that there's alot of people marked unknown with a rep of 1 asking low-quality questions that quickly get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember when I started out with stack overflow you couldn't even ask a question until you had gained some rep by answering a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did that change? I think it helped raise the quality of questions by filtering out the people who are 'all give and no take'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:10:43.190" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:10:43.190" Title="Unregistered people asking questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6937" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:05:55.310" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;TheTXI, you better watch out for the unicorn... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.society6.com/cdn/images/post%5F10/11539%5F16005043%5Fl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Unicorn - destroyer of ponies&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.society6.com/studio/devinmcgrath/Unicorn%5FDestroyer%5Fof%5FPonies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:05:55.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29987" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:09:31.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that's changed - I think it's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; been that way. The bar was always meant to be low for asking questions, with suitable encouragement to make them &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:09:31.650" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="29990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:17:35.490" Score="1" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to HIDE the employer names in my CV unless I authorize the visibility.  This will prevent recruiters from sending my resume into companies without my approval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T04:37:23.553" Title="Careers: Ability to hide Employer Company Names on CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="29991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:21:01.663" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This to me falls under the same category as McDonald's creating a subsidiary called &quot;All Beef&quot; so that they can print &quot;All Beef&quot; on their packaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the name of the language you're talking about, I think that should be ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:21:01.663" />
  <row Id="29992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29990" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:22:31.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would it? I've known recruiters send CVs to companies when I've explicitly told them not to. I can see why not having employer names might stop some, but it won't stop all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26820/any-plans-to-restrict-recruiter-access-in-careers-stackoverflow/27233#27233&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; from Joel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition, we can add it to the Terms of Service that anybody using the resume search feature must be searching for an active position, and must reveal the name of the employer to the job seeker in the first email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if a recruiter does send your e-mail off without your consent they're breaking their contract with Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-16T22:42:25.477" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:42:25.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29931" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:27:31.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, because the American standard of public discourse in business and media is 'no-cursing'. Since SO is business oriented and American, it conforms to standard, accepted practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:27:31.057" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="29994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29996" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:34:42.683" Score="0" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion a reasonable question was asked.  &quot;how can i add a button on ms access report to export it to excel / pdf   any help appreciated.&quot;   Not the most elegant question but certanily enough for me to give several links to VBA code with answers.  Which I did in the comments.  Now there are non VBA means of getting Excel and PDF reports but I've used VBA lots for this before which has a number of advantages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Jeff Atwood closed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1740990/how-can-i-add-a-button-on-ms-access-report-to-export-it-to-excel-pdf&quot;&gt;How can I add a button to an Access report to export it to Excel / PDF?&lt;/a&gt; stating &quot;closed as not programming related&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of course I disagree with.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So now what?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How do I send Jeff an email?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141607" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T04:45:01.060" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T04:45:01.060" Title="Disagreeing with a decision to close a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29990" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:36:36.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post my resume on my webpage (links to .txt and .pdf versions), along with this note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MSWord and RTF versions removed due to abuse. Authorization is NOT granted to edit and redistribute these documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it has any effect but it does make my intentions clear: do not think about submitting my resume to a client without talking to me first. Perhaps the careers site could use a checkbox like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[ x ] &lt;strong&gt;Recruiters: notify the candidate first before submitting to a client&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:36:36.440" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29994" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:39:00.320" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you've got less than 3000 rep on Stack Overflow your option are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) mention it here in the hope that 5 3000+ rep SO users will see the question and vote to reopen - which you have done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) flag it as requiring moderator attention explaining why in the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c) earn more SO rep so you can vote to reopen yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:39:00.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="29997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29994" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:39:39.710" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will usually get reopened if enough high-rep users thing it's actually a viable question. Commenting on the post as you did is usually a good way to get their attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saying that: in this case, Jeff closed it, so you probably won't get many users disagreeing with him - though of course, it's a community run site, so anyone with 3000+ rep can vote to reopen. (That's just 800 more for you it seems.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:39:39.710" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="29998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29994" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:40:05.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need to do anything. It was only closed, if 5 people feel that its a valid question, they can vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, one person has already done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:40:05.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="29999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29966" CreationDate="2009-11-16T22:52:22.527" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has it been a problem &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ones that do it on meta, know who each others are, and know enough to look at the profile after each unexpected change.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those who come from &lt;del&gt;the outside&lt;/del&gt;stackoverflow, don't really care who you are, because for them you are &lt;em&gt;John Doe&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to know the &lt;em&gt;standard&lt;/em&gt; nick of a user, just look at the assosiated accounts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why should I have a &lt;em&gt;cost&lt;/em&gt; assosiated if I were to want to use my real name?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What if another user signs in with the same name and I want to distinguish myself outside of my gravatar, should I pay up?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RexQLrcqwc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;You are no fun anymore&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T22:52:22.527" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29600" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:03:20.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to Snicker's answer, I've attempted to add some humor to my CV by putting &lt;em&gt;homework&lt;/em&gt; as a dislike. Maybe if you could find some other tags that your targeted employers would find humorous you could do something similar. &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/json&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/json&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137568" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:03:20.480" />
  <row Id="30003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29986" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:11:49.637" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does it matter? And if you're &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strike&gt;obsessed&lt;/strike&gt; curious, full rep is one click away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131896" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:11:49.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30058" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:31:23.297" Score="5" ViewCount="851" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today at about 2PM, Jeff wrote an article about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001311.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;him thinking how parsing HTML with regexes is a bad idea&lt;/a&gt;. In that post, he links to this answer to a question in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nine to ten hours later, the answer has 1600+ votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wow. 1600+ votes. I don't know of any other answer that has so many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come? The answer is long, where it could be 15 times shorter. It is badly formatted, it  contains a long (way too long!) joke. And yet, 1600 guys think it deserves their vote. And after those 1600, more are coming in, thinking that value is not high enough, and are increasing it even further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes me afraid that after 1600 votes, this guy's reputation might give him powers that allow him to mess with the site. That's more reputation than many users that have been answering questions the proper way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this? Is it Jeff's fault to post a link to a question? Should the users be more careful about voting? Should a mechanism be set in place to avoid such things ? Am I being stupid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139066" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-18T23:35:44.987" LastActivityDate="2010-11-18T23:35:44.987" Title="Is it fair that a post in Jeff's blog will send your rep over the roof?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;joke&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:32:55.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends how much you paid him ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:32:55.353" />
  <row Id="30006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:35:16.537" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Internet is unfair, because every page does not link to every other page. I vote we abolish the entire mess and come up with something more egalitarian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:35:16.537" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:36:34.660" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a good reply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It had a lot of votes before Jeff (Couple of hundred iirc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Joke is hilarious if you've had to answer these regex cowboys before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had over 10k rep before that post &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;200 rep cap per day, so he didn't get a fraction of those votes in rep (according to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;, he's gotten 530 rep for that answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Waffles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T03:02:40.077" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T03:02:40.077" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="30008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:36:40.043" Score="2" ViewCount="789" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a very silly &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29955/can-you-buy-a-feature&quot;&gt;question here on Meta&lt;/a&gt; and was downoted by people who disagreed with my request. Now, since I'm new to Meta I don't quite understand how it works. &#xA;On SO I would assume that you would post an answer and then that would get voted up or down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta it appears we vote down if we disagree with it. This has the effect of removing it from the main page. Is this effect intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In SO the &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; to the question was always to mark an inappropriate question, spam or completely nonsensical question. I would believe that my question, in the context of Meta was acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: While marking this down would be hilariously appropriate, dont. Or the bunny gets it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: A downvote occured!!! THE BUNNY GETS IT!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.madhatter.it/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.madhatter.it/art/originalcharacters/death-vs-bunny.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;reaper and the bunny, man&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Death by natural causes (i'm not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; mean)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-23T00:35:06.663" LastActivityDate="2010-04-23T00:35:06.663" Title="Is reputation for questions broken on Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;bunnies&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="30009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30035" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:40:09.617" Score="4" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the very annoying warning below after fighting to submit a question and having it refused for unintentionally trying to add new tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should post this warning during the 20 minute period starting from the first question that started the clock, not after s/he's worked 5 minutes writing the question and has to save it in Notepad for later or tomorrow&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the message, link the words &quot;new user&quot; to a definition of &quot;new user&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be&#xA;  submitted because: new users can only&#xA;  post questions every 20 minutes; try&#xA;  again later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-07T03:10:09.850" LastActivityDate="2010-06-07T03:10:34.310" Title="Warn new users on 20-minute question delay limit after first question, not against second question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;&lt;warning&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:46:22.443" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must understand there is a rep limit of 200. My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-name-of-this-operator&quot;&gt;&quot;question&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/spolsky/status/5663855845&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twittered&lt;/a&gt;, and I was maxed out for a few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I earn it? Well, it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a real question, even though I knew the answer. Is it unfair I got so many votes? I don't think so. Interesting posts get more attention than uninteresting posts. Sometimes, they just get &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:46:22.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:47:12.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be thinking, as I'm sure many now are, about how you too can get mentioned in Jeff's blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmmm, maybe you already did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:47:12.287" />
  <row Id="30014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30008" CreationDate="2009-11-16T23:58:58.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it will disappear from the front page, but currently Meta is the only site that functions on a discussion level, so I doubt it will get addressed soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-16T23:58:58.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30008" CreationDate="2009-11-17T00:15:29.490" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Please think of the bunnies!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hellonearth.com/movies/conair/plot11.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad etiquette or not, this is how the culture of meta has evolved. We need an outlet for all our subjectivity that we close on SO. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T00:15:29.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31427" CreationDate="2009-11-17T00:30:16.217" Score="1" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original q:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1745683/button-not-picking-up-c-code-behind-event-what-did-i-do-wrong/1745702#1745702&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I added a cursive&#xA;  paragraph, which I've done more often.&#xA;  But now it doesn't work anymore. I&#xA;  tried preceding it with other text,&#xA;  played with &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;, but to no&#xA;  avail. Has there been a new submission&#xA;  of Mardown? I haven't seen this&#xA;  behavior before.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The code looks good in preview (but I know preview is using JS).&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While experimenting further, I found out that &lt;em&gt;using an underscore in cursive text will ignore the asterisk&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*An example_here we go wrong*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT: see history of referenced question and see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4202/markdown-italics-with-underscores-look-good-in-preview-but-not-in-answer&quot;&gt;possible duplicate&lt;/a&gt; (sorry, I can't mark it myself for duplicates).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT: workaround: escape the underscore with a backslash. Ugly, but you can use it until this bug is fixed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:08:24.207" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:08:24.207" ClosedDate="2009-12-01T01:10:59.007" Title="Italics (asterisk) not possible when text contains an underscore" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-17T00:54:00.120" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it fair that a post in Jeff’s blog will send your rep over the roof ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  It is the super-upvote people &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8098/should-we-have-a-small-number-of-supervotes-per-day&quot;&gt;keep&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6662/how-to-give-some-boost-to-some-really-good-answers-that-arrive-late&quot;&gt;asking&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21279/can-we-have-a-kind-of-super-upvote-for-unexpectedly-awesome-answers-closed&quot;&gt;for&lt;/a&gt;, but has only been granted to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001311.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/spolsky/status/5663855845&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, just like nearly all other moderator powers, you too can obtain this super-upvote merely by increasing your reputation among your peers.  It's an easy three step process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Become as popular as Jeff or Joel in the programming field via blog/twitter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ponies!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T00:54:00.120" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27944" CreationDate="2009-11-17T01:18:28.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have an answer you should put it in as an answer, so that voting will rank it relative to other answers.  Self-answering can help the site accumulate a good collection of questions and answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More detail that is needed to help solve the problem is always helpful, but if it does solve the problem, then the detail should be an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T01:18:28.080" />
  <row Id="30020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30112" CreationDate="2009-11-17T02:28:14.863" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code is supposed to be exact and &quot;as-is&quot;. Sometimes, showing two spaces is important. In a comment, it is not possible to show code &lt;code&gt;with  multiple   spaces&lt;/code&gt;. This became apparent in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1746167/regex-how-to-remove-all-non-alphanumeric-except-colon-in-a-12-24-hour-timestamp/1746195#1746195&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (see comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: apparently this bug is larger then I thought: &lt;code&gt;multiple    spaces   here&lt;/code&gt; are neither preserved in normal question text. Pity (though I couldn't find this reported before, I'd assume it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workaround: use Alt+0160 (windows), or U+00A0 (Unicode NBSP), as I did in the example above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:29:34.933" Title="Multiple spaces in code in comments get merged into one" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30027" CreationDate="2009-11-17T02:30:28.917" Score="-1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I was researching an issue and couldn't find the answer on stackoverflow, so I had to turn to Google.  I kept finding links that seemed to be related to my my problem, but they referred to an older version of the technology and it was hard to tell what was still valid advice and what I should trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about a feature of stackoverflow, where instead of asking a direct question, you could post a link to an external site (blog, article, discussion, etc), maybe with some comments.  The voting of the question would reflect the value of the link (its currentness, value, etc), and the answers could give details about why the content was or was not still valid.  It could work like community wiki, to keep the up/down votes of the link from affecting the person &quot;asking&quot; the question.  Answers could still get reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, anytime an answer to another question contains a link, it could be marked up to the &quot;link question&quot; if it exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22514" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T04:01:18.080" Title="Voting on relevance of external links?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="30022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-17T02:31:41.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did I not notice something really important before asking this question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;bobince`s awesome answer only got him &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;720 reps&lt;/a&gt; Jeff's less than awesome question got him &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/142233?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;660 reps&lt;/a&gt; which represents &lt;strong&gt;68%&lt;/strong&gt; of his reputations and brings him one step closer to editing rights! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think about this ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mehhh, waffles &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it Jeff's fault to post a link to a&#xA;  question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has many faults, what he lacks in talent he makes up with intensity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should the users be more careful&#xA;  about voting ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Bush learned me one thing it would be dat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should a mechanism be set in place to&#xA;  avoid such things ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already a mechanism in place the caps reputation you can get per day. This mechanism has its flaws but seemed to work alright in his case (he only got 720 reps from that answer)  Skeet wants a rep cap per answer... that is never going to happen. Joel will keep on getting 500 reps for a -20 answer and Jeff will keep on getting 1000 reps for one liners. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10682/are-reputation-lotteries-good-or-bad&quot;&gt;reputation jackpot is a feature&lt;/a&gt;. In the big scheme of things its rare, so nobody is up in arms about fixing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Am I being stupid ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stupid, no. But repeat this after me: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation != &quot;A for Effort&quot;, there are anomalies all over the system, subjective is the top upvoted tag due to the bike shed effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because someone has a bigger reputation than you does not make them better, smarter or more super-ultra awesome.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T06:33:28.033" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T06:33:28.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30008" CreationDate="2009-11-17T02:47:51.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we are not supposed to downvote incorrect information on meta, how do we eliminate noise or express disagreement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20676/why-do-people-take-downvoting-on-meta-so-personally&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20676/why-do-people-take-downvoting-on-meta-so-personally&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T02:47:51.957" />
  <row Id="30024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-17T02:56:35.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;jeff-said-so&lt;/code&gt; tag kinda covers it... Don't ya think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T09:37:30.067" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T09:37:30.067" />
  <row Id="30025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30021" CreationDate="2009-11-17T03:15:19.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... you want a Dig or Reddit for programming?  They already exist.  Stackoverflow is geared towards answering questions, and while you could try this out as an experiment to see if the community likes it, I suspect you'll find they don't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might consider taking the central premise of the resource and turning it into a question, without linking the resource.  If someone else answers with that resource then you know it's a good resource on that topic.  Chances are good, however, you'll find people will provide many more great direct answers and links to better resources than the one you originally had in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T03:15:19.850" />
  <row Id="30027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30021" CreationDate="2009-11-17T03:43:43.730" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fundamental flaw that I see with this idea is that a really relevant and up-to-date link might generate lots of votes today, and it will retain most of those votes a year from now, even though it will likely be out of date by then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted that this is a flaw in every answer given on SO, but that's why we vote on &lt;em&gt;usefulness&lt;/em&gt; and not on currency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T03:43:43.730" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T03:50:33.140" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping an SQL guru can whip this out in a jiffy, using stackql or stateoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to get a number for each user that represents their reputation over the number of posts they've contributed, to see what their average rep per post is.  This may have already been done, but my searches haven't found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately I'd like to compare my own score against the rest of SO by placing everyone's rep/posts on a scatter plot.  So my own score is about 38 (28102rep/740posts), and a sampling of the top users shows a range of around 18 to 42.  Doubtless my high score is due to me not contributing much for these last several months where questions appear to be getting less rep as the site becomes busier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I love numbers, and am hoping someone has already done this, or can show a relatively easy way to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T06:32:03.457" Title="Post quality - reputation per question/answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;navel-gazing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30028" CreationDate="2009-11-17T03:54:54.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ill one up you, most reputation per keystroke&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It needs to be updated though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21454/who-gets-the-most-reputation-per-keystroke-on-so&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21454/who-gets-the-most-reputation-per-keystroke-on-so&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T03:54:54.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30021" CreationDate="2009-11-17T04:01:18.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this that I see first off is that if a &quot;current/relevant&quot; link gets way voted-up (say to 20), and then becomes uncurrent - who's going to want to expend rep voting it down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T04:01:18.080" />
  <row Id="30032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29990" CreationDate="2009-11-17T04:37:23.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contingency recruiters are not allowed and unwelcome... these are the ones who have a tendency to spam in hopes of scoring a commission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Retained recruiters are allowed and welcome... they represent employers directly and are indistinguishable from the employer's own hiring staff.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone employer/recruiter using the system will be required to reveal the name of the hiring company in their first email to you, and only email you through our site. If you ignore their request, they are not permitted to contact you again. Only if you reply with interest would they be allowed to continue to contact you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll be able to detect contingency recruiters because their attempts to contact people will result in an unusually high number of ignored requests. There is no way to completely prevent an unscrupulous recruiter from scraping CVs and then using google, phone books, etc., to try to contact you. This can be done trivially from Google without paying hundreds of dollars for employer access to careers.stackoverflow.com, so I doubt if we'll have contingency recruiters paying us for access, but if it happens, we'll look into ways to make their lives difficult, including, potentially, a feature to report a problematic &quot;employer&quot; registered on the site who is not honoring the TOS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really think this is important, it is extremely easy for you to hide the employer names yourself, so this feature is not really necessary. It is not unusual to see a CV in which the employer's names are replaced by descriptions, e.g., instead of Apple Computer, you might see &quot;Large Consumer Computer Manufacturer, Cupertino, California&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T04:37:23.553" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30028" CreationDate="2009-11-17T06:32:03.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most high users will have a relatively &lt;em&gt;low&lt;/em&gt; rep/post score, because a lot of the rep has been lost to the rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt; per non-CW post, there's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;&quot;all tag&quot; stats page&lt;/a&gt;, although of course you can do the same thing in stackql. It's probably worth looking there first to see whether you find that information interesting :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T06:32:03.457" />
  <row Id="30034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30009" CreationDate="2009-11-17T07:18:38.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider this optimistic warning rather than pessimistic... most users will not try to submit multiple questions so quick so the processing is left till someone tries.  Save the cycles!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T07:18:38.300" />
  <row Id="30035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30009" CreationDate="2009-11-17T07:55:00.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be easy to check the same conditions when asking a question rather than submitting the question. It would be even cooler to put a count-down timer on the question writing page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T07:55:00.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30008" CreationDate="2009-11-17T08:35:28.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bunnies are evil!&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://manhandledinmt.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/evil20bunny.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T08:35:28.773" />
  <row Id="30046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30047" CreationDate="2009-11-17T08:38:48.327" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I want to write this : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; calendar = GoogleCalendar(user='blabla', password='blablabla')&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; calendar.myFunction()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a list, the &gt;&gt;&gt; become a blockquote ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is the list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;p&gt;calendar = GoogleCalendar(user='blabla', password='blablabla')&#xA;      calendar.myFunction()&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the bug ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137008" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T08:47:01.857" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:55:10.567" Title="How do I include a code block right after a list without it turning into a blockquote?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="30047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30046" CreationDate="2009-11-17T08:43:52.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just need to indent it eight (8) spaces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is the list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; calendar = GoogleCalendar(user='blabla', password='blablabla')&#xA;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; calendar.myFunction()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is just:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; - Here is the list&#xA;&#xA;8 spaces&gt;&gt;&gt; calendar = GoogleCalendar(user='blabla', password='blablabla')&#xA;8 spaces&gt;&gt;&gt; calendar.myFunction()&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T14:55:10.567" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:55:10.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30052" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:21:38.033" Score="-7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;After cruising around SO and friends for the past couple of weeks, it became pretty obvious to me that many questions are asked by new users with 1 rep point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do have a problem with, however, is the fact that the majority of these users do not ask questions properly. I.e. many are extremely vague or hard to understand, or posted in incorrect areas. Furthermore, many of these users have extremely low acceptance rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better to enforce a minimum reputation score of, say, 10 before users are allowed to post questions? This way they will have had time get a feel for the site, and work out how it functions, and keeps functioning, before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, note my score... ironic at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138655" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-31T14:14:14.513" LastActivityDate="2011-01-31T14:14:14.513" Title="Require users to earn some minimum rep before asking questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30048" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:25:58.413" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would seriously interfere with the intended use of the system. If someone had to find questions to answer prior to asking what they (usually urgently) need to know, who would bother to ask questions? Questions are the life blood of the system, why? People find SO while searching for answers to them. Google &lt;code&gt;space hardening&lt;/code&gt; and you'll find one of my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rest assured, 'show me the codez' questions are quickly closed, off topic questions are quickly migrated and on topic but incoherent questions are quickly edited. I've edited over 100 of them myself and likely voted to close three times as many. English, for many people, is a second (or even fifth) language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good questions usually result in great answers, which is the norm, not the exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SO can't roll out some kind of welcome mat to a very selective community of users .. said community will enjoy a stunted growth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to be tolerant, everyone starts at their own beginning (like it or not) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T09:38:51.463" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:38:51.463" />
  <row Id="30050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30048" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:28:57.440" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most positive experience new users to the site can have is when they have a problem that they're struggling with, they ask a question, and they get a thought out, helpful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That experience is massively more positive than answering someone else's question - the site has helped &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;. Once they've had that experience, many then go on to get invested in the site. Don't expect them to invest in the site (in terms of helping other people out, and generally engaging in the community) until they've been helped by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:28:57.440" />
  <row Id="30051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:31:07.360" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like the number of expert-answering community websites is flourishing. I just noticed the existance of &lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;chiphacker&lt;/a&gt;. Everything very interesting around here. Thus my question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what about something on Robotics? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rationale: I'm currently working on a robotics project myself (the iCub), which involves lots of coding (either embedded and c/c++; so something that should be discussed on stackoverflow), hardware issues (chiphacker), system issues (a-la serverfault), so on and so forth and some added spices such as svn problems, versioning (superuser.com?), wiki, naming issues, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, the robotics community usually gets lost around re-inventing the wheel (in terms of algorithms, frameworks, etc). You have no idea how much code is lost and re-coded, and the poor comments are just lost in the midst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I think it would be cool to take the robotics folks out of academia and into the real world. Just a bit, you know, so that we can be ready for when the bots will take over and rule the world :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the idea is accepted we need a name..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139082" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:57:55.050" Title="a stackoverflow-like website about robotics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;robotics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30048" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:31:47.250" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know who else requires people take part in answering before being able to ask? Our friendly neighbourhood gender-swap specialists. SO exists to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:31:47.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2582" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:42:06.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-carnage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;making use of Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; and in the wild are the following robo-flavoured sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://roboticsxchange.com/questions?sort=active&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;gaudy colours&quot;&gt;roboticsXchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=active&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;needs more circuit boards&quot;&gt;Electronics Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:42:06.403" />
  <row Id="30055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30046" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:51:01.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternately put a paragraph or a non-visible HTML element as a separator between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Method 1 - non-visible HTML separator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;i++;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Method 2 - paragraph text separator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;paragraph of text here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;i++;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:51:01.973" />
  <row Id="30056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30051" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:57:55.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;found &lt;a href=&quot;http://roboticsxchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;robotics exchange&quot;&gt;one here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also somebody asked my same question a few seconds later. Must be the trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139082" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:57:55.050" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2582" CreationDate="2009-11-17T09:57:57.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chiphacker&lt;/a&gt; is doing this (amongst other things) and seems to be harvesting a rather able bodied community. I'd hope the people providing Stack Exchange don't consider directly competing with their customers :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T09:57:57.793" />
  <row Id="30058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-17T10:09:33.843" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've earned some 80 reputation points here on meta so far with a very uniformed opinion about the whole matter.  Is that 'fair'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer is more beautiful than you can understand.  As Marc Gravell says, &lt;em&gt;&quot;A true work of art; I weep at the poetic beauty.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer has &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; catapulted bobince from a nobody to a moderator overnight&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; mechanisms in place to avoid  launching a serf with a single popular answer into the moderating nobility &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The avalanche of votes was not solely Jeff Atwood's doing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T11:59:53.953" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T11:59:53.953" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30062" CreationDate="2009-11-17T10:34:45.327" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30046/how-do-i-include-a-code-block-right-after-a-list-without-it-turning-into-a-blockq&quot;&gt;How do I include a code block right after a list without it turning into a blockquote?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I create a list with code blocks in between?  Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;print in ruby&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;puts &quot;ruby&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;print in Java&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;System.out.println(&quot;Java&quot;);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14139" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T11:49:21.757" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T11:49:21.757" ClosedDate="2009-11-17T10:54:52.357" Title="Code blocks inside lists and/or list items?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-17T10:42:16.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you also complain and feel resentment when standing in line after waking up late for something? What a world this 'internet' has become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advice: Life &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a spectator sport, up until the point that you decide your participation is warranted (often, you'll call it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;needed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;). Others may or may not share that view, welcome to the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T11:19:10.860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T11:19:10.860" />
  <row Id="30062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30059" CreationDate="2009-11-17T10:53:53.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you just want short bits of code you can use backticks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;print in ruby&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;puts &quot;ruby&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;print in Java&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;System.out.println(&quot;Java&quot;);&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, indent 8 spaces per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;the Markdown help&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;print in ruby&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;puts &quot;ruby&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;print in Java&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;System.out.println(&quot;Java&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T10:56:34.583" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T10:56:34.583" />
  <row Id="30063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30008" CreationDate="2009-11-17T11:01:51.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bunnys are blood thirsty murderers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.speckproducts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/rabbit-montypython.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Monty Python's Holly Grail's Killer Bunny&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T11:01:51.267" />
  <row Id="30064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T11:02:13.560" Score="2" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1737947/code-golf-permutations/1737969#1737969&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. I'm wondering if code golf challenges should directly spell out their purpose by linking &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20736/what-is-code-golf-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;http://codegolf.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This might help people avoid over thinking and partake in a little fun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would anyone mind if I edited existing challenges for clarification, if not, which link would be most appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question describes a contest, please read {link} this {/link} prior to answering.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T14:00:04.710" Title="Editing at tee time, should we include a link to articulate code golf?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-17T11:29:02.073" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that helps people realize the evil that regex does with html is a good thing. My favorite comment was on metafilter; paraphrasing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;did somebody leave the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;cthulhu&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact: points mean nothing. Zip. Nada. Nix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact: it was popular already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact: it has been on twitter by &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact: it is a great answer; sometimes delivery is &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; as important as content - this reply has good content, but &lt;strong&gt;fantastic&lt;/strong&gt; delivery, that is memorable, funny, quirky, and entertaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact: I wish I had more upvotes to give.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T20:14:20.873" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:14:20.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19659" CreationDate="2009-11-17T13:03:35.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is an old question, however I went here to ask this very question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a very valid feature to be able to filter by asker-rep. The fear of loosing potential answers from high-rep visitors is very valid, however, wouldn't peoples race for rep by answering simple questions prevent that? As it is now, you certainly miss 99.8% of all questions anyway because you cannot keep up. That would also help newbies help newbies, aswell as earning reps because of fewer answers from high-rep visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I filter out lots of questions by tags, I still only see questions from the last 6 minutes. And I don't visit stackoverflow every 6 minutes... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about a feature to only show questions with interesting tags? Is that possible? I can filter by each individual tag, but not all questions with either one of my interesting tags AFAIK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139090" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T13:03:35.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30064" CreationDate="2009-11-17T13:22:26.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree this is good as a recommended practice. I think it adds relevant information that I'm sure some people don't know immediately when a question is just described as &quot;code golf&quot;. And if you get some level of agreement here on the principle, I think it would be appropriate to add that phrasing to old questions if you want to spend the time doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T13:22:26.830" />
  <row Id="30070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30048" CreationDate="2009-11-17T14:35:30.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directly from the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Do I have to log in or create an account?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nope. You can answer and ask questions&#xA;  to your heart's content as an&#xA;  anonymous user, much like Wikipedia.&#xA;  However, there are some things you&#xA;  won't be able to do on the site&#xA;  without registering. But it's easy to&#xA;  register if you want to. All you need&#xA;  is an OpenID account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T14:35:30.970" />
  <row Id="30071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30088" CreationDate="2009-11-17T14:56:31.823" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;To reduce the number of comments and follow up questions that get posted as answers, I suggest a &quot;question detection&quot; feature be added to the answer box. This would be somewhat similar to the subjective question detection. It could look for the following words (give or take):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;? [question mark] (except in code of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would simply display a warning saying &quot;If you want to post a followup questions, please use the Add Comment button and post a comment instead.&quot; Perhaps this would only apply to users with &amp;lt; 200 or so rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is imperfect. With any luck, though, it would reduce the number of non-answers posted by newer users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the posters who have noted how annoying this would be. It might be less annoying if it applies only to low rep users. Or perhaps there's a better solution flat out. The real core problem is that &lt;strong&gt;new users are being downvoted and scolded when they post followups as answers&lt;/strong&gt; (SO is not a forum, but it sure does look like one!). If we can't have a way to prevent this behavior, maybe we just need to be a little more gentle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T01:27:34.143" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T01:27:34.143" Title="Add question detection when posting an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30046" CreationDate="2009-11-17T15:11:19.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to indent your code by an additional 4 spaces for every level of list items.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;list level one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;level two&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;level three&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;level two&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reset&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- list level one&#xA;&#xA;        &gt; code block&#xA;    - level two&#xA;&#xA;            &gt; code block&#xA;        - level three&#xA;&#xA;                &gt; code block&#xA;    - level two&#xA;&#xA;            &gt; code block&#xA;&#xA;Reset&#xA;&#xA;    &gt; code block&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T15:11:19.847" />
  <row Id="30073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30071" CreationDate="2009-11-17T15:16:45.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there are enough cases of follow-up questions to justify such a measure which would annoy many users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T15:16:45.780" />
  <row Id="30074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30071" CreationDate="2009-11-17T15:18:20.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this would work very well for SF, even for users with low rep.  Many many times we need to precede an answer with a question for more information.  There is typically more dialog back and forth on SF than on SO because of the troubleshooting nature of the posts on SF, and that requires asking questions back and forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T15:32:48.107" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T15:32:48.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30008" CreationDate="2009-11-17T15:36:22.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, the object being downvoted is not incorrect information or noise, but merely a question to which people felt the answer was 'no'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context, those people should be giving answers of no, or upvoting answers that say no. That is the correct way to use the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T15:36:22.157" />
  <row Id="30076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30154" CreationDate="2009-11-17T15:37:45.570" Score="14" ViewCount="908" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm getting some weird behavior on Stack Overflow.  Can anyone else see this or is it just me?  I'm using Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows XP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I view &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/295579/fastest-way-to-determine-if-an-integers-square-root-is-an-integer&quot;&gt;this particular question&lt;/a&gt;, then refresh the page, Firefox will use 98% CPU for about 30 seconds, then pop up an error dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Script: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005:1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005:1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't reproduce in Internet Explorer or Chrome.  I have cleared my Firefox cache, disabled all add-ons and plugins, and deleted any cookies on or relating to stackoverflow.com.  I still get this everytime I view that one particular question in Firefox.  (Maybe it's because it is a really long question with several really long answers?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the weird thing though: I can't reproduce in Firefox Safe Mode, which I thought should be the same as clearing cache and disabling all add-ons/plugins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Extensions I'm using (even though, as I said, it is still reproducible with all of these disabled):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adblock Plus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CoLT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Download Statusbar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firebug&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FireGestures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flashblock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HttpFox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PDF Download&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Web Developer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-15T11:32:44.737" LastActivityDate="2010-08-15T11:32:44.737" Title="JavaScript infinite loop on Stack Overflow in Firefox - does anyone else see this?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="30077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T15:52:17.120" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can comment a statement in T-SQL (for SQL Server) using --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow does not show this as a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;--Comment goes here and code follows&#xA;INSERT INTO TABLE ....&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The C# style comment shows up properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/*Comment goes here and code follows*/&#xA;//Comment goes here and code follows&#xA;INSERT INTO TABLE ....&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the SQL Server style should be supported as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131010" LastEditorUserId="131010" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T13:13:56.180" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T13:13:56.180" Title="Support for multiple types of comment syntax in code blocks" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26523" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:11:15.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know some people may not agree with me, but sometimes, since it's a &lt;code&gt;grey&lt;/code&gt; area like Cletus said (and I agree with it), it's better to post in SO, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;these are tools that developers are familiar with in daily programming. Programmers are Super Users, but Supers Users don't have to be programmers, so I exclude Super User here;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Play nice&quot; is about &lt;strong&gt;user experience&lt;/strong&gt;, and people who use these tools are programmers (This may be a little controversial, since sysadmins could show some concrete user experiences, but I usually more in personal experience opinions);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you have much more visibility and more chances to have a good answered question in SO since your question isn't too much off-topic;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can let the community and experienced people decide if it's programming related (SO has more users with higher reputation and they can decide if your question isn't so programming related).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 3rd motive is what I think really drives people to decide which website to post questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:11:15.790" />
  <row Id="30080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27845" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:11:18.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should this show up?  I'm still only seeing one line for my degrees?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="730" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:11:18.803" />
  <row Id="30081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:26:52.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am reproducing this error. I am running Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows 7 Professional x64. The addons I have installed are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NoScript&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firebug&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Web Developer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IETab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adblock Plus (though it's disabled for the SO family of websites :))&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ColorZilla&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but like you said, even when I disable them all there is still an error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:26:52.190" />
  <row Id="30082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:27:06.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see it.  Firefox 3.5.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A script on this page may be busy, or&#xA;  it may have stopped responding. You&#xA;  can stop the script now, or you can&#xA;  continue to see if the script will&#xA;  complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Script:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005%3A1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005%3A1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm running  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delicious Bookmarks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flashblock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LeechBlock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Locationbar2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ReloadEvery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Screengrab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows XP Pro on a single core processor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:27:06.493" />
  <row Id="30083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:54:18.723" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question and received an answer that I accepted as the best one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy who gave that answer said that if I were to write the code he had suggested, he'd like to see it as he would find it helpful too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code I've written is about 50 lines long and I'd like to share it with him. Where should I put it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The options I can think of are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit my question to include the code. (Most visible, but seems a bit weird putting my own answer in the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add another answer. (Accepting it seems wrong as I've already accepted the help he gave me as the answer; not accepting it would make it less visible.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit his answer to include the code. (I have enough rep to do this, but other users in this situation may not have.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, the question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1648993/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1648993/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136081" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:56:57.050" Title="Where should I put code that implements the answer to my question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:55:13.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting - I'm running Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows 7 Professional x32 with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adblock Plus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I've not experienced any problems (famous last words).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was something in common between Adam's and John's lists of extensions I would have said it was one of those, but there doesn't seem to be anything there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just double checked this at home using WinXP pro and Firefox 3.5.5 and with a CTRL+F5 refresh I too get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Script: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005%3A1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5005%3A1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a normal refresh doesn't appear to give this error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T21:48:45.583" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T21:48:45.583" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30083" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:56:57.050" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just add another answer, and accept the answer that helped you the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T16:56:57.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30071" CreationDate="2009-11-17T16:59:12.210" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone &lt;strong&gt;who&lt;/strong&gt; answers a question would care &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; keywords were used or &lt;strong&gt;where&lt;/strong&gt; they occurred in the post if it accidentally flagged their answer. If, or &lt;strong&gt;when&lt;/strong&gt;, something like this is implemented, I'm sure that it will annoy a significant fraction of users who get caught erroneously. &lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt;, you ask&lt;b&gt;?&lt;/b&gt; Because, the keywords themselves are not adequate to accurately flag a question as a question.  Language is more complex than that.  That's &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; I feel anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T18:30:58.347" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T17:15:14.973" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't post questions often or visit any of The Trilogy every day.  Therefore, I always check the &quot;Notify daily...&quot; option.  Then, the user flow looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An email arrives in the inbox. &#xA;New answer, cool!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click question url.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You have 1 new answer. See your&#xA;responses.&quot;  Uhm... yeah, I know, just came in from the email you sent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close banner and read answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a big problem, but it's not the kind of design decision I've come to expect from Atwood and team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133046" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T00:00:00.850" Title="Is &quot;You have 1 new answer. See your responses.&quot; needed when navigating to the same question via email?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30093" CreationDate="2009-11-17T17:22:07.847" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29922/box-overflow-with-1000-answer-upvotes-on-user-page&quot;&gt;Box overflow with 1000+ answer upvotes on User page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a small layout glitch on user home page if an answer has more than 1000 votes. The vote count will not fit the allocated box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example see the first answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936/bobince&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This affects at least Chrome and Firefox 3.5 with Vista.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1431" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T11:19:55.210" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T11:19:55.210" ClosedDate="2009-11-17T17:40:30.090" Title="Small layout glitch on user home page if an answer has over 1k votes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30091" CreationDate="2009-11-17T17:33:40.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confimerd. Firefox 3.5.5 on Windows XP Pro 32&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/bug1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T17:33:40.667" />
  <row Id="30094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29922" CreationDate="2009-11-17T17:46:38.333" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bob's got a cookie monster avatar.  It's a tragedy that this is not included in the screeshots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/bug1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T17:46:38.333" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30366" CreationDate="2009-11-17T18:00:10.790" Score="7" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who constantly finds myself looking at the preview text instead of the edit text and trying to click to edit it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I only have text in the edit box, the edit box and the preview box look similar enough that I do a cursory, habitual click that is just as likely to be a click on the inactive page space ofthe preview box as it is to be on the more useful space of the edit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Splitting potential solutions out into answers, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:38:05.880" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:38:05.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-19T23:15:27.123" Title="clicking on the preview box when trying to click on the edit box" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;preview&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30095" CreationDate="2009-11-17T19:29:23.217" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a programming site.  You have a code window, and an output window.  Wysiwyg can't save you now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T19:29:23.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30106" CreationDate="2009-11-17T19:55:46.553" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering, what is meant to be the correct font size for regular text on the SO-family sites? In Firefox (3.5) it appears as 10pt/13px but in Chrome and Opera it's bigger, about 11pt/15px I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I prefer the slightly larger text, it fits better with SO's spacious design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:09:24.970" Title="Font size inconsistencies between browsers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;&lt;font-size&gt;&lt;browsers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30102" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:05:32.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I viewed this exact question in Chrome, Safari and Firefox all at the same time and found that at least the body text was identically sized in all of them. Did you leave Chrome zoomed in on the page, by chance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If not, might I recommend that if you prefer larger font size?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:05:32.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30102" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:09:24.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're at the mercy of what the user has set up as their default fonts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example my copy of Chrome has the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Serif Font: Times New Roman, 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sans-Serif Font: Arial, 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed-width Font: Courier New, 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in Firefox I have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Serif Font: Century, 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sans-Serif Font: Arial, 16&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fixed-width Font: Courier New, 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also got the &quot;Allow pages to choose there own fonts&quot; option checked in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed the font faces in Firefox a while ago, but didn't change the font sizes. So I'd check your setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:09:24.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:16:09.043" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I get more than one correct answer, I want to accept the earlier one. When both answers are posted at the same hour, the site displays something like &quot;answered 2 hours ago.&quot; I have no way to determine which answer came first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't know the cut off of when the number of minutes shows up. It seems I have to wait for maybe a day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, instead of &quot;answered 2 hours ago,&quot; I suggest we display &quot;answered 2 hours &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; minutes&quot; ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T22:57:44.227" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T22:57:44.227" Title="Display minutes in the &quot;answered X hours ago&quot; item" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="30109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30108" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:18:04.423" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hover the mouse pointer over the &quot;... X hours ago&quot; text and it will tell you the exact date and time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T20:23:11.387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:23:11.387" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30108" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:18:18.760" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the direct link just below the answer.  The end of the link is the post number of the answer, and the earlier answer will have a lower number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As demonstrated by my assistant gnovice and I, even HH:MM wouldn't be enough - you'd also need SS, which would be too large for the field.  Hovering over the time gives you seconds resolution, but for the occasional posted-in-the-same-second (it happens on SO more often than I expected) you'll need to check out the post ID, given at the end of the direct link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:18:18.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:19:41.363" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my thoughts on SF's &quot;problems&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There aren't enough experienced admins contributing. I don't think SF has reached a critical mass yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's a need for some meta about SF, but meta.stackoverflow isn't working well for it. There aren't many of the higher-rep SF'ers here, and I don't think they're likely to come here. I think most people who are active on SF like the way the site works so meta about details of how the sites operate isn't very interesting and doesn't draw admins over here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Just had an example of this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31521/how-should-help-me-do-whatever-im-a-beginner-with-no-idea-what-to-do-questi&quot;&gt;I asked a meta-question&lt;/a&gt; about how to deal with a certain type of &quot;bad question&quot; that shows up regularly on SF.  Many of the answers weren't helpful because they're from people who are mostly on SO and didn't understand why it was a bad type of question.  One guy gave a list of questions he thought mine was a dup of, but none of them was really the same as my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question, one of the hints on the side is: &quot;We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.&quot; That just doesn't work well for a lot of issues sysadmins deal with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's certainly up to Joel/Jeff to decide what sort of site they want, I think if you rule out discussion questions, it makes it less interesting. I'd like SF to be a place where I could go (and I can suggest other people go) to get answers to all sorts of sysadmin questions, not just ones that have clear-cut, step-by-step answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I haven't thought about this one much, but it might help if there were a way to quickly filter the 0 votes/0 answers/minimal views questions. I think a lot of these are the &quot;barely sysadmin&quot; questions that people want to ignore.  There'd have to be a time factor in there as well, since all questions start as 0 votes/0 answers/minimal views, but maybe if you could hide them if they're more than an hour old w/ low interest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130540" LastEditorUserId="130540" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T22:48:09.440" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T22:48:09.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-17T20:19:41.363" />
  <row Id="30112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30020" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:29:34.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have a workarround: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`with `` multiple `` `` spaces`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;with  multiple   spaces&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in a comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:29:34.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30108" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:44:42.160" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To accept the earliest answer, just click the Newest tab!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/11jvrwl.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T20:44:42.160" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T20:57:04.320" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suffering from podcast withdrawal (where is 74?), I have sought refuge in the archives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my iTunes seems broken. I have every episode except #1 and 2. Here's my URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/?feed=podcast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/?feed=podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to get iTunes to &quot;find&quot; those earlier episodes? Is there a feed out there with &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; episode that gets updated on a timely basis (I click refresh on IT Conversations every 5 mins)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-17T05:54:43.803" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T05:54:43.803" Title="A timely and complete feed for the podcast?" Tags="&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30115" CreationDate="2009-11-17T21:06:06.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't remeber where I saw it, but I seem to remember the feeds only show but so far back. Frankly I'm surprised the SO feed goes that far back. Most shows only go 5 - 10 episodes back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T21:06:06.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30135" CreationDate="2009-11-17T19:58:52.820" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possible bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Using firefox on Mac, on Serverfault)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dragged a tag from the right hand side into the favourite tags box, and then clicked add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I got was an added tag such as: '&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/http%3A//serverfault.com/questions/tagged/dns&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/http%3A//serverfault.com/questions/tagged/dns&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the DnD functionality should ensure only the last part gets added as a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Based on random's clarification, rather than fixing the DnD, should just fix the onclick for the Add button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3295" LastEditorUserId="3295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T07:08:32.883" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T07:08:32.883" Title="Drag and Drop into Favourite Tags - Adds URL as a tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;drag-and-drop&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30115" CreationDate="2009-11-17T21:14:15.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; and just search for them.  They're all there, including episodes &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't think netcast aggregaters like iTunes are concerned with keeping an archive of everything ever posted.  They only care about what's new.  If you want that history, you have to go to the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T21:14:15.820" />
  <row Id="30120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2009-11-17T21:17:23.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1. Often when I am typing up a new question, I come up with possible solutions to the problem, because formulating the question forces me to think about it from a different perspective. In these cases, I wish I could &quot;save&quot; the draft question I typed up so far, to spend some time trying out the solution that I envisioned. So if the idea doesn't work out in the end, I can come back and continue writing up my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They say, every solution is obvious if you know how to ask the right questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139080" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T21:17:23.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-17T21:17:23.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30115" CreationDate="2009-11-17T21:28:32.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A google search for &quot;stack overflow podcast N&quot; turned up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-1/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-2/&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T21:28:32.687" />
  <row Id="30125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-17T21:38:46.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not fair. But that doesn't make it inherently wrong either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff liked it, he linked it, it got attention. If a different high profile user (say Scott Hanselman) were to do this, I would expect to see similar results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guy got lucky by constructing an answer that got noticed by Jeff Atwood. But I guess technically, everyone has the same chance to write an answer that gets unfairly noticed. So at least the unfairness is fairly distributed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3824" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-17T21:47:44.430" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T21:47:44.430" />
  <row Id="30126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30127" CreationDate="2009-11-17T21:43:15.470" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching on Stack Overflow using the &quot;answers:N&quot; syntax, there appears to be a bug.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When you search for &lt;code&gt;answers:1&lt;/code&gt;, it returns ~360200 results.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When searching for &lt;code&gt;answers:2&lt;/code&gt; it returns ~270300 results.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, searching for &lt;code&gt;answers:0&lt;/code&gt; returns ~18700 results.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the wording states that it will return questions with &quot;N or more answers&quot; the search for 0 should return more than searches for 1, not significantly less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136717" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T01:25:57.267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T01:25:57.267" Title="Advanced search based on number of answers has different behavior between 0 and &gt;0 numbers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30126" CreationDate="2009-11-17T21:52:08.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if &quot;answers:0&quot; is specifically special-cased or not, but it has traditionally been used to return unanswered questions. In other words, 0 really returns questions with 0 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other number behaves as &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;-or-more. 0 behaves as 0, and that aspect is by design. (Many of us want a way to find unanswered questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do think that the help regarding that should definitely be updated to reflect that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T21:52:08.527" />
  <row Id="30128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T22:10:29.863" Score="2" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple enough question. I notice Stackoverflow has over 100,000 users -- huge congrats guys! Can you share exactly how old Stackoverflow is? Also, what percentage of the 100,000 are active? Can you provide any statistical breakdown on the activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoroughly impressed and looking forward to Stackoverflow's bright future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I have found some fascinating statistics via Twitter for Stackoverflow. They do not provide a complete answer to my question, but some interesting details may be derived. For example, how many visits / person etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138375" LastEditorUserId="138375" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T15:48:54.960" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:10:59.617" Title="How old is Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30128" CreationDate="2009-11-17T22:11:49.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From April 16, 2008:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001101.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Introducing Stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137599" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T22:13:03.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30128" CreationDate="2009-11-17T22:14:08.020" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private-beta-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;private beta started July 31st 2008&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T22:14:08.020" />
  <row Id="30131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-11-17T22:23:30.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reproduced with FireFox 3.5.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I installed Firebug and it stops in fadeOutAndRemove().&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I won't investigate it any further. I'm too tired and no Javascript guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T22:23:30.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30128" CreationDate="2009-11-17T22:25:46.097" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We operate on Jon Skeet time, it's Jon Skeet's rep / 365 / 200 to get how many Jon Skeet years the site has been running for. Currently it's 1.57 Jon Skeet years. That does not account for leap Jon Skeets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T22:25:46.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30118" CreationDate="2009-11-17T22:38:09.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no drag-and-drop functionality with the tags right now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you did, and can do on most browsers, is just grab the URL of the thing and it will perform a paste right into whatever input you're going for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also do what you did with avatars or links. But it doesn't mean it's drag-and-drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T22:38:09.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30089" CreationDate="2009-11-17T23:12:40.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess what they could do is drop in a parameter in the URL in the emails so that if you click it, the site will know you've come from a link in the email and not need to repeat itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T23:12:40.283" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30128" CreationDate="2009-11-17T23:19:07.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1/where-oh-where-did-the-joel-data-go&quot;&gt;Question #1&lt;/a&gt; was asked July 31st, 2008 21:26:37Z.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately its timeless wisdom was deleted and is now only visible to those with 10k rep or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4/when-setting-a-forms-opacity-should-i-use-a-decimal-or-double&quot;&gt;Question #2&lt;/a&gt; (Post ID is 4), visible to all, was asked shortly after at 21:42:52Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/then-a-miracle-occurs-public-beta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;public beta&lt;/a&gt; opened September 15th, 2008.  This is the point that Stackoverflow was officially open to one and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T16:10:59.617" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:10:59.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-17T23:49:09.313" Score="2" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the proper way to correct trivial mistakes in answers?  Correctness of even small details is desirable, but especially important when programming.  Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use the FooBra library.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a typo, as everyone know's it's FooBar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case B:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use FooBar's size method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You believe another, conceptually identical, method (in the method-of-a-class sense) is more appropriate.  Must not be different ways to get the same final state, as that would be a conceptually different answer.  You might be only &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; sure and somewhat asking for clarification. ('size' is in the answer, but you believe 'length' is &quot;what he meant&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In no particular order, these are what I think are the important aspects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;correctness: of the answer, but &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; of the answer's author's intent&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;e.g. the author honestly believes exactly what they said is correct, instead of being close to what you believe is correct with a typo as the difference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;credit: given where due&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cruft: keep the answer clean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;repetition: avoid nearly identical answers&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;e.g. worst case: 1,000 word post copied because of one typo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;disputes: avoided&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only non-community-wikis are relevant here, as part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;why wikis work&lt;/a&gt; is such corrections can be edited easily, and the vibe I get from SO is that even more liberal corrections are acceptable in CWs than what I'm targeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T21:19:17.943" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-20T00:23:07.983" Title="How to correct trivial mistakes in answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30142" CreationDate="2009-11-17T23:55:09.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have the ability to edit the answer and correct the error, do so. Regardless of whether you do or not, leave an explanatory comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is precisely the primary usecase for having editing abilities: to make the content on the site more correct and consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T23:55:09.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30142" CreationDate="2009-11-17T23:56:30.157" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that obvious syntactic errors can be corrected by anybody (with enough rep to edit the answer). Things that look okay on the surface but might need further clarification (ie. your length/size example) can be handled through a comment on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-17T23:56:30.157" />
  <row Id="30146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30142" CreationDate="2009-11-18T00:06:29.673" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, correcting typos is (or should be) considered completely valid. The only time I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; hesitate is if I notice that my edit will be the one to push a non-CW answer into CW. Then I'd probably comment to encourage the original author to edit. (OTOH, if an answer has had that many edits already, then maybe it should be CW.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the below can be summarized very simply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do no evil. Edit responsibly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking your primary concerns, in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Correctness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correctness is not only highly desirable, but should be at the heart of any edit. If you are not editing something to make it correct (whether that be grammatic, typographical, syntactic or other), then why are you editing? Yes, always edit for correctness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credit already comes with the edit trail of any given post. As far as I'm concerned, editing an answer should never change the original intent of the answerer, and thus the answer is still the original author's. My edits are done with my own guidelines at heart -- don't let someone make himself look foolish, fix anything glaringly obvious, do not change intent, and make sure it is still (at its core) its author's post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cruft&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, you should remove cruft. Cruft includes greetings, salutations and signatures. (Sorry folks, but that stuff is very much cruft. We are not an e-mail or a social networking site.) However, I wouldn't edit an answer (particularly close to its CW boundary) just to remove cruft. That's just me; others may disagree and I respect their opinion on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Repetition&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, answers don't repeat each other too much anyway. However, we are in anything but an ideal world, and answers will repeat. I wouldn't remove repetition if it harms the answer's intent, though -- how do I know for fact that the user wasn't acting in good faith while writing the answer? In cases of blatant copying, instead of editing, I'll downvote the answer and usually call out the user for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copying a 1,000 word article to fix one typo is ludicrous; I'd just fix the typo and leave the answer as the author intended it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disputes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disputes, unfortunately, cannot be avoided. It'd be nice if they could, but that's not &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29929/what-is-poor-editing-anyway&quot;&gt;feasible&lt;/a&gt;. Some people will always object. However, I feel that responsible editing will, by its very nature, avoid this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T15:00:08.997" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T15:00:08.997" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24400" CreationDate="2009-11-18T00:12:56.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be nice to peek at how someone has formatted something. It is currently possible through URL hacks but it would be convenient to see a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just turn the &quot;asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/24400/list&quot;&gt;Oct 2 at 18:02&lt;/a&gt;&quot; into a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130918" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T00:12:56.823" />
  <row Id="30148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30142" CreationDate="2009-11-18T00:15:19.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll usually leave a comment to indicate the 'incorrectness' regardless of how trivial it is. If I happened to see it not corrected say after more than 8 hours, I will edit and leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going slightly out of scope, I've seen many answers (almost correct like the cases mentioned above) got down-voted. I will try to give the benefit of the doubt to the answer-er and up-vote it to neutralize the vote count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T00:15:19.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30128" CreationDate="2009-11-18T00:51:47.860" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As old as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;community&lt;/a&gt; is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you could look at when &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot; title=&quot;2008/07/31&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; became a member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T00:51:47.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T00:58:30.623" Score="4" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went for an informal job interview some weeks back. I was asked what other hobbies/interests do I have beside those mentioned in my CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought for a second (0.732 to be exact) and replied, &quot;Stackoverflow-ing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that something you will do? My reply came out without hesitation and I'm wondering if it make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I'll leave this as a Community Wiki post (kind of expecting it to be closed too :P)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T12:11:42.903" LastActivityDate="2010-04-14T14:27:31.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-18T00:58:30.623" Title="My hobby? Stackoverflow-ing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30151" CreationDate="2009-11-18T01:00:30.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, that will make no sense unless the interviewer knows what StackOverflow.com is. That could be good or bad. Depends on the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you got this offer through careers.stackoverflow.com? haha, then you might be in business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T01:00:30.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-18T01:00:30.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24625" CreationDate="2009-11-18T01:14:29.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is so vague that I can't do anything with it. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T01:14:29.050" />
  <row Id="30154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-11-18T01:22:51.813" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a side effect of a lot of code posted in that question of a specific type. Looks like Google's prettify.js has trouble highlighting it all. There's a noticeable pause on my box when the question loads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could try running Chrome, which is dramatically faster at JavaScript than Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: oddly, this page is also fine in IE8, Safari, and Opera. The dramatic slowdown on this specific page through prettify.js seems to be &lt;strong&gt;quite specific to Firefox&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;strong&gt;Firefox 3.6 completely resolves this problem on my machine.&lt;/strong&gt; Way, WAY faster at prettify.js. Seriously, IE8 could handle this fine, and Firefox 3.5 could not. Think about that. Just think about that for a second. I-E-frickin-8!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T17:42:15.197" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T17:42:15.197" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31219" CreationDate="2009-11-18T01:26:23.757" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that depending on where a link falls in the Personal Statement preview text in the Private View, it can cause a truncation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, entering the following dummy text in the Personal Statement box in the Edit CV form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Suspendisse tellus felis, fringilla at ad [sd-des](http://www.example.com). ut auctor eleifend, elit tellus malesuada magna, nec pharetra dui neque quis [euismod](http://www.example.com) in sed ligula.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ends up looking like this in the source code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;summary&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Suspendisse tellus felis, fringilla at ad &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;sd-des&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;. ut auctor eleifend, elit tellus malesuada magna, nec pharetra dui neque quis &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://w&amp;amp;hellip;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the ellipsis code crashes into the anchor code and results in the text not displaying on the page correctly. Not sure if links are allowed there, but I thought I'd mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137634" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T11:20:00.327" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T11:20:00.327" Title="Broken anchor element in employer search results preview of Personal Statement" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30071" CreationDate="2009-11-18T01:27:28.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;new users are being downvoted and scolded when they post followups as answers (SO is not a forum, but it sure does look like one!). If we can't have a way to prevent this behavior, maybe we just need to be a little more gentle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have prevention for this. To post an answer in your own question requires clicking through a JavaScript dialog telling you this is not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try it. You'll see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T01:27:28.183" />
  <row Id="30157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30160" CreationDate="2009-11-18T01:45:56.420" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried to link my name (my 'display name' is the same as my 'real name') in the 'about me' box of the user page to my personal site, but it gets removed. Other links in my bio work just fine. Is there some kind of rule that disallows linking the text of your name in a bio? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what's the reasoning? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edited from 'bio' to 'about me', called it that because it generates the autobiographer badge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Should have just kept trying different things. From what I can tell, a link with the &lt;code&gt;href&lt;/code&gt; in a single quote does not work, but in double quotes works just fine. Maybe a markdown issue a wasn't aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135269" LastEditorUserId="135269" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T02:24:34.853" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T02:26:57.030" Title="Linking 'Display Name' in Bio" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30157" CreationDate="2009-11-18T02:04:32.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yours is clearly broken, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22459/olafur-waage&quot;&gt;mine&lt;/a&gt; works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cznp.com&quot;&amp;gt;Ólafur Waage&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T02:07:28.690" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T02:07:28.690" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30157" CreationDate="2009-11-18T02:26:57.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is linked from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown FAQ&lt;/a&gt; at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T02:26:57.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26684" CreationDate="2009-11-18T03:46:20.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask searches exclusively by title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can do the same thing in search using the &lt;code&gt;intitle:1&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;advanced search parameter&lt;/a&gt;, like so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=intitle%3A1+ponies&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=intitle%3A1+ponies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T04:11:23.833" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T04:11:23.833" />
  <row Id="30163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-11-18T05:20:12.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't exactly reproduce, but the browser hangs for about 5 seconds or so, and becomes not-so-responsive over all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.5.5&lt;br&gt;&#xA;LinuxMint 7 Gloria  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adblock Plus&#xA;AutoPager&lt;br&gt;&#xA;All-in-One Sidebar&lt;br&gt;&#xA;DownThemall&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Firebug&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Firefinder&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Greasemonkey&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Greasefire&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(and a bunch of others)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T05:20:12.287" />
  <row Id="30165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14421" CreationDate="2009-11-18T06:28:48.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just won my first bounty... and was about to ask why there are no bounty related badges... I was hoping to get a &lt;code&gt;boba fett&lt;/code&gt; badge.  But reading TheTXI's answer I can see the logic in &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; offering a badge for offering a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... come on Jeff, add a &lt;code&gt;status-?&lt;/code&gt; tag so we know where you stand on this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T06:28:48.743" />
  <row Id="30166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30169" CreationDate="2009-11-18T06:41:09.737" Score="7" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much has been discussed about the famous regex question, but I would like to discuss another missing aspect: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/210931?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/210931?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/hpxa1.png&quot; alt=&quot;rocket slide to up&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/142233?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/142233?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/eeObE.png&quot; alt=&quot;hiking to the sky&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T15:41:47.557" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T15:41:47.557" Title="Beating the dead pony that is the regex question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-18T06:46:54.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yo jjinguy...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I know you're asking a question...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and I'ma let you finish...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;but bibince had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;the greatest answer of all time&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;OF ALL TIME!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133046" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T06:46:54.437" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30171" CreationDate="2009-11-18T07:14:37.163" Score="0" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the data access method used by the Stack Overflow family of sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it LINQ to SQL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T07:31:44.717" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T07:31:44.717" ClosedDate="2009-11-18T13:57:33.863" Title="What data access method does Stack Overflow use?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;database&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30166" CreationDate="2009-11-18T07:18:11.340" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hundreds of rep points!  Two gold badges for Jeff!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  (No, not that Jeff, but the regex OP.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet neither of them can edit my posts, or close yours.  I'm merely jealous.  Still, worthy of discussion.  Three solid days of attention.  Surely it must end soon? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastEditorUserId="2961" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T07:50:20.407" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T07:50:20.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30168" CreationDate="2009-11-18T07:28:21.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Straight from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot; title=&quot;the blood of leprechauns&quot;&gt;the FAQ, &quot;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Data Access Layer&lt;/strong&gt; Linq to SQL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T07:28:21.943" />
  <row Id="30172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30173" CreationDate="2009-11-18T07:52:49.420" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a new account on Super User, and I was rewarded with this totally stupid dog as my avatar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/10495c117315963a9fdd708cc44225f1?s=150&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;doggy cool&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others have nice anonymous bit-map patterns in funky colours. I want that too! How can I get such an unobtrusive speckle pattern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to sign up with Gravatar if you consider putting that in your answer. I just want the association with the stupid dog removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139133" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T08:43:38.093" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T08:43:38.093" Title="How do I get one those avatars made from random patterns?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;avatar&gt;&lt;ugly&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30172" CreationDate="2009-11-18T07:54:49.057" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remove your email address and you too can be of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;looks nothing like eggs though&quot;&gt;identicon&lt;/a&gt; brigade!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dog is in your avatar because you've signed up with Gravatar at one point and put him in that kennel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've never signed up with Gravatar then you're probably using an email address that has at one point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T08:00:16.130" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T08:00:16.130" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30176" CreationDate="2009-11-18T08:24:56.490" Score="4" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a question that I created on Stack Overflow, it was moved to Super User before any answers were created and I accepted the answer on Super User, though Stack Overflow sees this as an unanswered question and inherintly it affects my accept rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or is this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133650" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:26:26.227" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:26:26.227" Title="Why does my accept rating get affected If a question was migrated to another server?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T08:32:52.200" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not able to register to or ask questions at SuperUser from my office machine (same with registering at ServerFault - haven't tried asking questions there). I guess the reason is that I am behind a proxy server and is using DHCP. I tried to register at SU and SF from this machine for so long but it didn't work. Finally I tried from another machine that doesn't use DHCP and is connected to the proxy server with a permanent IP address, and it worked like charm. Now I tried asking my first question on SU from my machine and I got the same issue again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I thought it was some internal proxy related issue but I am able to register/ask questions at SO and meta from the very same machine without any hurdles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The requested URL could not be retrieved&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While trying to retrieve the URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/ask/submit&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/ask/submit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following error was encountered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Read Error &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The system returned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(104) Connection reset by peer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried from Vista and Ubuntu, if that matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify  - SU isn't blocked here - I'm able to open the site and browse through all the pages, including the &lt;code&gt;Ask question&lt;/code&gt; one. I get this error when I type in the question and click submit. Similarly while registering, I am forwarded to the Open-ID provider and asked to login - but when I submit my details at Google and click login, the address bar shows su/authenticate (if I remember correctly) but I get this error after 5-10 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't know what the issue was, but it seems to be fixed now. I just asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/109931/audio-jack-not-working-properly-in-ubuntu&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SU successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastEditorUserId="135650" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T10:21:30.960" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T10:21:30.960" ClosedDate="2010-02-17T15:02:15.963" Title="Unable to register or ask questions on SuperUser" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30174" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:03:48.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Updating the accept rate delays heavily! Wait one or two days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T09:03:48.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30175" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:07:55.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume, that your employer blocks SU and you circumvented this block by using that other machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T09:07:55.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:13:08.447" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is your preferred way to get informed of new interessting questions on stackoverflow? Do you use RSS feeds? Do you keep an eye on your &quot;interesting tags&quot;? Are there other alternatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new to stackoverflow and I'm wondering all the time why getting so quickly answers to my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139137" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T14:16:06.073" Title="Best way to get informed of new questions on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30179" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:15:55.847" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Firefox with &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/20226&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Efficient Autorefresh&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/748&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;, then I leave a browser window open with the &quot;recent questions&quot; page in one corner of my screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T09:16:36.127" />
  <row Id="30181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:19:46.407" Score="49" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever options for avatars are ever implemented, I'd vote against anything allowing animated stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.free-avatars.com/r-animated-92-dancing-kid-4750.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Yes, even an ugly animated avatar deserves some attribution. No, I don't recommend clicking this link. Really. Don't.&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.free-avatars.com/data/media/92/dancing-kid.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/69343/how-can-i-make-an-animated-avatar-for-gravatar-com&quot;&gt;do want animated avatars&lt;/a&gt;, but I wonder if the added value for those makes up for what I feel is annoying and often looks quite unprofessional, and would make Stack Overflow et al be more like a forum. Of course, some browsers can be set to not animate such images, but then it would no longer animate any image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When just allowing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; URL, how can one control this? Happily, Gravatar &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/09/02/better-image-detection/#comment-5615&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;seems to agree&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was a conscious choice not to accept animated images. On the whole most people don’t like them, and it can seriously detract from the look and feel of a site. Since we (all) are guests on peoples web pages we do our best to play nice with the other kids while we are there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Thanks, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/69343/how-can-i-make-an-animated-avatar-for-gravatar-com/69356#69356&quot;&gt;GmonC&lt;/a&gt;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(I know the above image hurts people's head. But that's the point. Just to ensure the Stack Overflow team doesn't forget it when changing things! And it's not even on every page yet... This could have been a comment to Andrija's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4553/non-gravatar-avatar/4562#4562&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; which suggests just allowing &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; URL. But an &quot;answer&quot; by itself stands out a bit more, and it's quite important for me.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T19:01:06.133" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:01:06.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:33:03.730" Score="10" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;The URL to post that contains C++ in the subject are mangled as C. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like the feature that appends the mangled title to the post id since it enable to fast-read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But often I get fooled by a link being mangled as C and the original title means C++, or C# like this one :&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1753189/c-multiple-types-in-one-declaration-error&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1753189/c-multiple-types-in-one-declaration-error&lt;/a&gt; that means &quot;&lt;em&gt;C++ multiple types in one declaration error&lt;/em&gt;&quot; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to include a sort of &quot;stop-words&quot; that would be specially mangled ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt; would be mangled to &lt;code&gt;cpp&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;csharp&lt;/code&gt;, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24760" LastActivityDate="2011-02-05T13:56:11.700" Title="Improve the url mangling of special character combinations (like C++, c#, ...)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;url&gt;" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29380" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:36:20.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for the cause of this problem: I think many questions are re-posted on Super User &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; people commented on the original question with things like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Belongs on superuser.com&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. I know typing a bit more (like &lt;em&gt;&quot;but don't ask the same question there; the above will be moved if needed&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) is cumbersome, but it's surely appreciated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T09:36:20.557" />
  <row Id="30185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30175" CreationDate="2009-11-18T09:47:13.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This report makes no sense; if you can post on SO and meta there's no reason you wouldn't be able to post on SU and SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The configurations of Meta, SU, and SF are virtually identical. SO is behind HAProxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T09:47:13.097" />
  <row Id="30187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30188" CreationDate="2009-11-18T10:38:20.647" Score="49" ViewCount="2078" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does an icon on the tag mean, for example the &quot;rg&quot; before the sql-server tag as pictured below?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/auifd5.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-06T09:30:59.533" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T08:01:28.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" Title="What do icons on the tags mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30187" CreationDate="2009-11-18T10:43:15.833" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag is sponsored by Red Gate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Follow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server&quot;&gt;tag link&lt;/a&gt; and there's an explanation on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: I'm not passing comment or saying this is a good thing, only explaining what the situation is. I'm also only a user of these sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T21:15:41.287" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T21:15:41.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="30189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T11:01:00.250" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Normal questions show the date they were asked and the date of the last edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/35cgzh4.png&quot; alt=&quot;normal question image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community wiki questions don't show the date they were asked on; only the date of the last edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i49.tinypic.com/o8cf9y.png&quot; alt=&quot;community wiki question image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To find the creation date, one must click the &quot;last edited&quot; link, then scroll all the way down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/2cza45l.png&quot; alt=&quot;finding asking/creation date through history&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the creation/asking date of the question is way more important than &quot;who&quot; has the largest edit percentage. Plus, it helps to know whether a question has been asked a year ago or a week ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T01:38:06.570" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T01:38:06.570" Title="wiki questions don't show creation date" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="30190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-18T11:41:54.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is fair — I just checked using a special device. Hope that helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most interesting side-effect of the insane over-rating of this answer, for me, is the way anyone editing the tags immediately grants me gold badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T11:41:54.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30295" CreationDate="2009-11-18T12:12:15.097" Score="42" ViewCount="1264" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like everyone else I've been reading bobince's outbreak about parsing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;html with regex&lt;/a&gt; with great amusement. When I read in the comments that bobince had been awarded two gold badges (html and regex) for this single post, something occured to me. What would happen if I edited the question and added another tag? Unable to resist the urge I appended the &quot;parsing&quot; tag to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took a few hours, but sure enough. bobince is now proud owner of the gold medal &quot;parsing&quot; badge. That means that we currently have a mechanism that allows any owner of a 1000+ votes post to receive any tag gold badge they'd like, and even funnier is the fact that anyone else can reward them with an arbitrary gold medal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73772" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T01:39:29.940" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T03:41:53.757" Title="Tag-badges exploit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="30195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30189" CreationDate="2009-11-18T12:18:15.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because wiki entries do not revolve around creation dates (like wikipedia, where you have to go into the history to see when it was started)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T12:18:15.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30193" CreationDate="2009-11-18T12:18:50.573" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle, this is a problem.  In practice, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=votes%3A1000&quot;&gt;only four posts&lt;/a&gt; with 1000+ votes, and the other three (besides this one) are all CW.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the best way to fix this would be that is still fair.  I have an ugly feeling this will fall into the edgecase/wontfix bin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T12:18:50.573" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-11-18T12:21:25.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the procedure to converting DLL to SO ? Please send me your detailed step by step procedure. (actually, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1641585/converting-dll-to-so/1641602#1641602&quot;&gt;someone asked that&lt;/a&gt; and it wasn't a joke.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T12:21:25.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-18T12:21:25.860" />
  <row Id="30198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30193" CreationDate="2009-11-18T12:23:29.270" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Adam here (I even up-voted his answer). The number of times this would be a problem doesn't warrant the effort it would take to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under normal conditions an answer would probably be converted to CW long before it reached the 400, let alone 1000, vote mark. I've just checked and there are no other 400+ vote answers that aren't community wiki (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=votes%3A400+wiki%3A0&quot;&gt;votes:400 wiki:0&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has also highlighted a bug. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18936/bobince&quot;&gt;bobince&lt;/a&gt; hasn't got the silver 400 vote badges for [regex] and [parsing] yet. He had previously earned the [html] silver badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/97/regex&quot;&gt;silver regex&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/133/regex&quot;&gt;gold regex&lt;/a&gt; you'll see one user in each and they're different! There's not even a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;silver parsing&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T14:12:54.113" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T14:12:54.113" />
  <row Id="30199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30193" CreationDate="2009-11-18T12:50:43.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you suspect tag abuse, flag the question and a moderator will deal with it.  Given that there are few of them, this doesn't require a technical solution, and if the abuse gets bad then the question can be locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T12:50:43.060" />
  <row Id="30200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30193" CreationDate="2009-11-18T13:22:26.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At most, he will just gain 5 golden badges for 5 tags. Still, I wonder... If someone would remove a tag, would he lose a badge again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's quite exceptional when someone gains 1000 votes with one answer. That should be worth a badge per tag. :-) (Basically, a golden badge for at least every 200 votes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T13:22:26.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2009-11-18T13:25:41.093" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked for people where computer is not playing my e-mails. I clicked the e-mail button on my mouse but nothing happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please Fix or I will be taking legal action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T13:25:41.093" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-18T13:25:41.093" />
  <row Id="30203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30166" CreationDate="2009-11-18T13:35:12.853" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that users should be penalized for asking a question that ends up being popular for some reason. We have components in place already on the reputation side to prevent someone from accelerating too fast in the event this happens; however, I do see your concern on the moderation side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first user I would be a bit more concerned about granting more powers within the system since they have only had one answer and only been around for four days; however, the second user had been around for three months and has an question and answer recorded. As such, my suggestion would be to put some sort of time based cap in place to prevent someone for getting advanced permissions prior to a certain amount of time going by. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Odds are it takes about a month or so to get a feel for the Stack Overflow community so it would make sense to prevent someone from being able to edit posts (2000 points) prior to that amount of time going by so they get a feel for what sort of edits are acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T13:35:12.853" />
  <row Id="30204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30179" CreationDate="2009-11-18T14:16:06.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My finger is glued to the &lt;kbd&gt;F5&lt;/kbd&gt; key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T14:16:06.073" />
  <row Id="30205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30166" CreationDate="2009-11-18T14:22:09.743" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep cap works (Jon Skeet clicks downvote in 3... 2... 1...). This question will fizzle out, and the max rep anyone will gain is 200 * length of popularity. Not a big deal, in the grand scheme of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T14:22:09.743" />
  <row Id="30206" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T14:41:51.050" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was doing some scripting / parsing of SO, then it occurred to me that I'd better check if I was doing redundant stuff.. is there existing software that supplies the following features? Has SO created these features, or have them in the pipeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I would like to have popup notification of the titles of the newest questions, and possibly their tag information as well. Liferea only tells you that &quot;X new messages have been posted&quot;, and I can't get RSSOwl to work on my box. Would you personally find such a feature useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Post tracking. Two questions about this actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) Is there any way around the red-now-orange envelope latency, aside from polling the envelope page itself? Once again, would it be a useful feature to write a script for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) If you want to follow a question that was asked by someone else, my understanding is that you add it to your favorites.. as I haven't done this very much, I'd like to know how much notification you would get. Will comments left on answers to the questions show up under your 'envelope page'? Would it be useful to add the ability to track comments and edits to a particular answer only? (Not sure if that last one is possible, gotta see if answers have unchanging IDs)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139148" LastEditorUserId="139148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T14:54:15.147" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T14:54:15.147" Title="Would there be a point in making an SO-customized alert script?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;scripts&gt;&lt;enhancement&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30189" CreationDate="2009-11-18T14:46:26.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wiki entries are meant to be timeless.  If the date of creation matters, then the question might as well be closed and deleted as &quot;too local.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if a question is valid and truly depends on the time it was created, PLEASE edit the question and add the specific (allegedly important) timing information to it so future readers can better understand how and why it's important to know the date it was created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise it's superfluous information that can be readily gained (as you demonstrate) for those corner cases where one might want to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T14:46:26.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26934" CreationDate="2009-11-18T15:15:04.330" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, ok this is what you think. So, I'll leave with it. But I think that's a bad decision for the account point of view too. For example, now I have to login three times, and there isn't a single place where I can check all my questions/answers/comments. &lt;strong&gt;Very bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137341" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T15:15:04.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-18T15:15:04.330" />
  <row Id="30209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8479" CreationDate="2009-11-18T15:16:08.290" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://gallery.xcski.com/d/29623-2/boatprogramming.jpg&quot;&gt;&#xA;Here I am &quot;Boat Programming&quot;.  No newspaper, but the number from the Auburn Great Race does prove that it was August 9, 2009.  The MacBookPro on my lap shows that I was debugging a &quot;race condition&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T15:16:08.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-18T15:16:08.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26934" CreationDate="2009-11-18T15:25:06.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;some questions clearly belong to more than one site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may be, but you should ONLY post a question where it BEST belongs.  If the question applies equally to all three sites, then you must decide what kind of answers do you want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you want someone to come up with a scripted/programmed solution?  Go to SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you want someone to tell you how your problem may be solved through server configuration?  Go to SF.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you want to know how it may be solved using off the shelf programs? Go to SU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have NO idea in which field your problem may best be solved, then post it on SO, and let the programmers there vote it to the place where they believe it has the best chance of being solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to explore all three options, &lt;strong&gt;REPHRASE THE QUESTION SIGNIFICANTLY&lt;/strong&gt; so that it's &lt;strong&gt;CLEARLY&lt;/strong&gt; different than the others and &lt;strong&gt;SPECIFICALLY&lt;/strong&gt; calls for a programming, server configuration, or COTS solution.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not blindingly clear to everyone that the question belongs on the site it's asked on, it will be migrated, and if you've asked the same thing on the other site one or both will be closed as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking good questions is an art that requires effort BEFORE you hit the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T15:25:06.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30166" CreationDate="2009-11-18T15:32:52.283" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you saying it's a problem that these users got rep so quickly from one answer?  If so, I don't think it's a problem because it's not repeatable (and therefore, almost impossible to intentionally exploit).  A spammer can't just say &quot;I'd like enough rep to wreak havoc on SO.  Let me go provide an answer that will get insanely popular without being CW.&quot;  These guys just happened to be in the right place at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T15:32:52.283" />
  <row Id="30213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:08:37.930" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently writing documentation and setting up a website for a open source PHP project under the LGPL - a very flexible content aggregator that for example can turn a XML datasource into a valid, cached RSS feed and much more. It was a paid project that the client has agreed to donate to the community with no strings attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will it be okay to promote this in a&#xA;SO post in the form of a question&#xA;(what do you think about..)? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What other means of promoting an Open&#xA;Source project do I have on SO? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where do I have to apply for donated&#xA;ad space on SO as proposed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23899/proposal-free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance for any advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:17:57.163" Title="OK to mention an Open Source project in SO post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;project&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30213" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:11:35.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can promote it as an &quot;&lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to a related question, but I don't think it should be asked as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer should be useful for solving the question, or it will just get flagged as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:11:35.100" />
  <row Id="30215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30213" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:12:17.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a relevant answer to a question, I don't think it's a problem to mention it as long as you try to sound not too subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:12:17.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30193" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:12:37.470" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to point out that I alone prophesied that this sort of thing could happen months ago in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/201012-potential-to-game-the-specialist-badge-system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a post on uservoice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alas, no one listened, and now you have only yourselves to blame! Oh, the horror! Your hubris has caused something to be &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt; on the internets! We are all done for!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:12:37.470" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30213" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:14:22.507" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't make a question just to promote it - it's likely to get flagged for spam. However, if you see a question where your tool is applicable, you could post it as an answer, but I would be sure to state your relationship with the project (full disclosure and all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="572" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:14:22.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30213" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:17:57.163" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will it be okay to promote this in a SO post in the form of a question (what do you think about..)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the community has almost always downvoted, closed, and deleted such 'questions.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What other means of promoting an Open Source project do I have on SO?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search for questions for which your project might be an answer.  Add more than &quot;Refer to our project&quot; - ie, give a real answer and fit your project in as a possible solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where do I have to apply for donated ad space on SO as proposed here?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as you fit the criteria listed in that question, send a message to team@stackoverflow.com for consideration.  Keep in mind that unless your project is sigificant and very useful to developers it probably won't get any free advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:17:57.163" />
  <row Id="30220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:18:29.907" Score="1" ViewCount="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In any of the textareas, try entering a markdown heading #4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#### This is a heading 4&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It renders correctly in the &quot;live preview&quot;, but NOT on the site after your publish (/cv/view-public). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:18:29.907" Title="Markdown header #4 not supported on careers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="30221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30226" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:18:33.527" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow, I just found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1756869/invoking-an-instance-method-without-invoking-constructor#1756943&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; that is really &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%5Fpack#Crossing%5Fthe%5FStreams&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;crossing the streams&lt;/a&gt;.  It's &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; clever, and demonstrates an excellent and valuable sideways-thinking approach to tackling a problem.  The question is whether the question was itself the wrong question to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I commented on the answer and said as much, before receiving this response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;the question is whether it is possible or not. Contrary to what is being said, it IS possible. It's a different question on whether it is good or not&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an excellent point, but I think it's too strict to think like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answerer, does one not have a sort of moral obligation to not only be a stickler for the facts, but to provide guidance on how the information should be used?  In this case, to all intents and purposes, it is impossible to do what the OP wanted.  Although there is a &lt;strike&gt;terrible&lt;/strike&gt; clever way around it, does it really help the OP's understanding of the subject at large?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131122" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:48:40.663" Title="&quot;Is it possible?&quot;, versus &quot;Is it a good idea to try?&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:26:22.250" Score="5" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I can see some careers statistics that are site wide:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many employers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many searches&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm most interested in, though, are site-wide statistics surrounding success rate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many searches resulted in mailing one or more requests for interviews&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many interviews resulted in job offers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many job offers accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Percentage of CVs that received at least one interview request each year compared to number of CVs in the system&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This requires more follow up, and I'm wondering if Careers has a 'tracking' system to follow up on email and interview requests so that this data can be gathered, and whether those statistics will be displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't already exist, I'd like it added as a feature.  This will be useful for everyone considering paying the full price (or resubscribing after their beta price ends).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:35:34.667" Title="Careers - overall statistics" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30221" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:36:38.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer a holistic approach - answer the question, then probe at ambiguity with a, &quot;But if I were in that situation I would consider x, y, and z as well - depending on what else is going on, these may be valid solutions for you as well.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:36:38.113" />
  <row Id="30225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30238" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:38:31.040" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to search for this and apparently there &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; any related features related to user timezone offsets which sorts of makes me think this isn't a localization bug but anyways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very point of writing this, it's 18:37 local time (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=101&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I'm in Helsinki, Finland so that's EET or UTC/GMT+2h&lt;/a&gt;). The &lt;code&gt;Summary&lt;/code&gt; tab shows my &lt;code&gt;Recent activity&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/44523&quot;&gt;this URL to be exact&lt;/a&gt;) range as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2009-11-18 16:19:15Z to 2009-11-18&#xA;  23:59:59Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However both ranges (&lt;em&gt;Top 5 Posts&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Most Recent Responses)&lt;/em&gt; show&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(nothing in this date range)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is clearly wrong since I've gained reputation during couple of last hours and I can actually find out that rep bo going to the &lt;code&gt;Reputation&lt;/code&gt; tab, clicking yesterday, then back to today which &lt;strong&gt;adds&lt;/strong&gt; range params to the URL (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/44523?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-11-18&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-11-18&quot;&gt;click here for example&lt;/a&gt;) and if I now click &lt;code&gt;Summary&lt;/code&gt; tab, a whole bunch of params are added to the link (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/44523?startdate=2009-11-18%2000%3a00%3a00z&amp;amp;enddate=2009-11-18%2023%3a59%3a59z&amp;amp;tab=summary#sort-top&quot;&gt;click here for example&lt;/a&gt;) and everything works - until I return to the Summary once again by my default means by clicking the envelope icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has occurred repeatedly (possibly daily) for some time now, always during this time of day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T01:36:22.720" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T01:36:22.720" Title="'Recent' fails to show latest reputation points, comments etc. at times" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;localization&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30221" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:48:40.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had similar issues with answers that I've posted where the questioner asks a question that has both a direct answer and, in context, a larger answer that makes the direct answer moot.  Sort of a &quot;when I beat my wife should I use a bat or a tire iron?&quot; -- well, the obvious and correct &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; is &quot;don't beat your wife!&quot;  It isn't directly answering the question, though. Here's a real &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1750893/what-is-optimal-method-for-accessing-function-parameters-in-javascript/1750928#1750928&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt; from yesterday.  I got several downvotes for this because I wasn't &lt;strong&gt;answering&lt;/strong&gt; the person's question.  In my opinion, he asked the wrong question or, at least, was using the wrong metrics to evaluate the best way of doing things, and so I answered with a larger answer than was asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view, SO is here to help educate.  You need to use your judgement as to whether the person needs help figuring out which bait to use to catch the fish or needs to be told to cast the hook instead of the reel.  Just be willing to take some heat though from those who want you to stick to just the facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:48:40.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30228" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:51:56.540" Score="1" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30193/tag-badges-exploit&quot;&gt;Tag-badges exploit&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;the badges page&lt;/a&gt;, there has been 1 silver and 1 gold badge awarded for the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[regex]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tag on Stack Overflow. So I said &quot;congrats&quot; to the guy who's gotten 1000 upvotes for regexes, then clicked to see who it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked on the silver badge. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/97/regex&quot;&gt;It's Gumbo!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, for some reason, I clicked on the gold badge. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/133/regex&quot;&gt;It's bobince!?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does bobince have a gold regex badge but not a silver regex badge? Isn't that kind of impossible? Shouldn't there, by definition, be two people with silver  regex badges, bobince and Gumbo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to verify, litb and paxdiablo have both the C &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/52/c&quot;&gt;silver&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/96/c&quot;&gt;gold&lt;/a&gt; badges, and Peter Hosey has both the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/69/cocoa&quot;&gt;silver&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/113/cocoa&quot;&gt;gold&lt;/a&gt; Cocoa badges (badges chosen because of the small number of users to verify, and also I just got the C silver badge so it was on my mind). What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:36:36.943" ClosedDate="2009-11-18T17:26:00.753" Title="What what? [regex] badge error?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;&lt;regex&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30227" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:56:07.127" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;bobince's regex answer rose &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; quickly.  It could be that the trigger is layered so you can't get two badges for the same accomplishment - in other words, the threshold for gold was passed before the badge tests were applied, and it simply gave the higher badge, rather than both at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T16:56:07.127" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30233" CreationDate="2009-11-18T16:59:04.327" Score="1" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as how Atwood and Skeet are both charter members?  I'd like to suggest additional projects to donate to when buying bad code offsets...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-18T16:11:06.033" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T16:11:06.033" Title="Can we submit questions/suggestions for Bad Code Offsets here?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30229" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:09:18.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt it.  Nobody submits coding horror article ideas here (do they?).  I'm sure there's somewhere appropriate to do that at codeoffsets.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:09:18.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30227" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:12:35.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh yes, I am the awkward test case that breaks all your lovely coding. Look on my inexplicably-overrated answers, ye mighty, and despair!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T18:36:36.943" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:36:36.943" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30222" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:13:41.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not really interested in site-wide statistics. It seems like they would only be a tool for criticizing the effectiveness of the site. If the site is successful in getting people employed, I am sure we will hear about it... all over the blog, Joel's site, CodingHorror.com several podcasts, FogCreek notepads, CodingHorror stickers, and a brand new StackOverflow CareerDays® tour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am interested in is seeing what employer search queries are. For example, if an employer is searching for San Francisco, and I have San Jose listed, I wouldn't mind adding that location to my profile. Or if they are searching asp.net instead of C#, etc. The point is I'm not sure what I'm missing because theirs no visibility on what employers are searching for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I am happy overall with the site so far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="26" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T17:30:25.363" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:30:25.363" />
  <row Id="30233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30229" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:16:37.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please address suggestions directly to &lt;a href=&quot;http://codeoffsets.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codeoffsets.com/&lt;/a&gt; - contact form is &lt;a href=&quot;http://codeoffsets.com/Contact.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codeoffsets.com/Contact.aspx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also consider responding to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26707/what-free-open-source-projects-should-we-financially-support&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26707/what-free-open-source-projects-should-we-financially-support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T15:20:31.430" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:20:31.430" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:17:17.460" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have a one-stop-shop where I can see all my questions and answer. Having to login in three different places and have to check three different pages to see if I have answers and/or comments is too much time consuming. Would it be possibile to consolidate them? If you are wondering, I really don't like the separation among SO SF and SU at all, for questions searches, etc (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26934/is-the-separation-between-so-sf-su-too-harsh&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: don't answer use tabbed browsing or email notification, because they would only increase the clutter and the time spent in &quot;checking&quot;! The purpose of this request is to &lt;strong&gt;reduce&lt;/strong&gt; this mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137341" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:17:17.460" Title="Consolidate my userpage, notifications, etc on SO, SF, SU" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="30235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30229" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:19:07.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a chink in the Jon Skeet armor or is he just playing with us?  Surely Jon Skeet doesn't need bad code offsets.  He really can fly around in jets without polluting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:19:07.007" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23982" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:23:32.803" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that Redgate is sponsoring a tag, I came here to suggest this exact feature and P-A already suggested the same implementation I was going to. I made an image but I cannot yet add it to his answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://john.cognitivedelay.com/images/so-sponsoredtags.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:23:32.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30225" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:30:45.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27558/why-does-the-default-time-range-on-the-recent-activity-page-work-as-it-does&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27558/why-does-the-default-time-range-on-the-recent-activity-page-work-as-it-does/27596#27596&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; which I will repost for convenience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See this answer for an explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1459/clicking-envelope-beside-username-shows-fewer-recent-activities-than-today-butt&quot;&gt;Clicking envelope beside username&#xA;  shows fewer recent activities than&#xA;  “today” button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;startdate&quot; by default is the time&#xA;  current time minus the time shown in&#xA;  the &quot;Last activity&quot; line of your&#xA;  profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frankly, I wish the default were the&#xA;  values you get from clicking &quot;Today&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alternatively, upvote my feature&#xA;  request here, because it's a&#xA;  functionality that would satisfy your&#xA;  needs as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27323/could-we-have-static-date-range-links-on-the-recent-activity-page&quot;&gt;Could we have static date range links&#xA;  on the Recent Activity page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:30:45.707" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30222" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:35:34.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers is a great idea, as long as it works. I'm concerned that there are still only 12 employers listed. I presume they are all in the North Eastern portion of the US. &lt;b&gt;Would be nice to click on to see if there are any employers signing on from my general area (Orange County, CA).&lt;/b&gt; If not, I may not renew after the beta period. Of course, since my goal is a New-Job-By-Spring, this may be a moot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139175" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T17:35:34.667" />
  <row Id="30240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:39:52.460" Score="0" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously SO is just part of a larger community, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Justice&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/howtogeek-and-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;League&lt;/a&gt; if you will.  But it seems there's a secret member of the league, &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Introducing-Bad-Code-Offsets.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Daily WTF&lt;/a&gt;.  They're even giving out SO stickers at Daily WTF events?  Alex Papadimoulis hangs out here.  So, is there going to be an official relationship between the two?  When is the coming out party?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:53:14.823" Title="Is the DailyWTF a secret member of the SO Clan?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;league-of-justice&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30240" CreationDate="2009-11-18T17:46:56.473" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure of the exact relationship, but I know Alex Papadimoulis is the &quot;ad guy&quot; for Stack Overflow.  I have no special knowledge of the situation, but I suspect it's just a &quot;standard&quot; relationship with &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inedo Media&lt;/a&gt;, assuming Inedo has been around long enough (since 2008) to establish such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also interesting that the Inedo site mentions that they aren't seeking new sites, so it could be that they are very happy to essentially be the exclusive ad firm of DailyWTF and Stack Overflow.  And it's odd that Super User isn't included there, as I suspect it's much more popular than Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T18:04:28.377" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:04:28.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T18:13:56.720" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently came across a question tagged with both &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/code-challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. So I decide to investigate these tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/~challenge~&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[*challeng*]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 91 questions&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 52 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/code-challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 38 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/challenging&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenging]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 2 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/android-dev-challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[android-dev-challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge-response&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge-response]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenges]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/python-challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[python-challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fall under these categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personal or interpersonal challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1731645/challenges-of-code-review-with-remote-team&quot;&gt;Challenges of code review with remote team&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/336350/what-is-the-most-challenging-technical-problem-youve-solved-in-your-life&quot;&gt;What is the most challenging technical problem you’ve solved in your life?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1007007/what-should-i-write-in-order-to-become-a-better-developer&quot;&gt;What should I write in order to become a better developer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1075329/when-have-you-been-put-on-a-new-project-that-was-far-more-challenging-than-anythi&quot;&gt;When have you been put on a new project that was far more challenging than anything you’d worked on before?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These only have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag, because the OP thought it was challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal challenges should probably get the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/personal-challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[personal-challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag (created just now, for these questions), or get the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/personal-development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[personal-development]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interpersonal challenge questions will probably end up spread across several tags. I'm not sure what these tags will be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;bd8768ad057df0a9dda8e50a0507b3ed&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;34693fae2956ed4ad3d44052a9cff814&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These appear to be mistakenly tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/challenge+response&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; + &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[response]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge-response&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge-response]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Code Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/924629/challenge-getting-linq-to-entities-to-generate-decent-sql-without-unnecessary-joins&quot;&gt;Challenge: Getting Linq-to-Entities to generate decent SQL without unnecessary joins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/87657/what-are-some-good-programming-challenge-websites&quot;&gt;What are some good programming challenge websites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1445747/javascript-method-chaining-challenge&quot;&gt;JavaScript method chaining challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/622/most-efficient-code-for-the-first-10000-prime-numbers&quot;&gt;Most efficient code for the first 10000 prime numbers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1378925/coding-brain-teaser-to-update-an-array-language-agnostic&quot;&gt;Coding brain teaser to update an array (language agnostic)&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These should instead be tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/code-challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[code-challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&#xA;bd8768ad057df0a9dda8e50a0507b3ed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions which don't really appear to need any &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/~challenge~&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[*challeng*]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1659045/usbcell-can-anyone-program-this&quot;&gt;USBCELL - Can anyone program this?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1542875/cool-debugging-of-an-object&quot;&gt;Cool debugging of an object&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618278/finding-if-a-number-is-a-power-of-2-without-using-modulus-operator-or-division-op&quot;&gt;Finding if a number is a power of 2 without using modulus operator or division operator [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/666820/whats-wrong-with-this-algorithm&quot;&gt;What’s wrong with this algorithm?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only reason these questions have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag, is apparently because the OP thought it was challenging. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag should just be removed from these.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag, is apparently general enough that it gets used for anything that the OP thinks is challenging, so it should just disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reasonable way to deal with the questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoveflow.com/tags/challenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[challenge]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, is to go through them one-by-one, and either replace the tag with a more specific one, or just remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:13:56.720" Title="Confusion over the *challenge* tags, on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" />
  <row Id="30245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T18:28:42.027" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted a question over on stack overflow because I thought I had made a really stupid mistake then realized that I hadn't. When I got back to the question, it was no longer &quot;valid&quot; and couldn't push the undelete button. I looked at this post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13193/how-do-i-find-questions-or-answers-that-ive-deleted&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13193/how-do-i-find-questions-or-answers-that-ive-deleted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But doesn't seem like anybody ever figured out a proper way to do it there other than having a moderator undelete it.  Which is what I'm asking for now.  If there is a better way to contact a moderator, please point in that direction for the future.  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need a question number I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; can dig it out of my browser history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139180" LastEditorUserId="139180" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T18:58:00.350" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T20:00:01.477" ClosedDate="2009-12-18T20:49:19.293" Title="Need help undeleting a SO question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;undelete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30248" CreationDate="2009-11-18T18:35:12.047" Score="0" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;So if you write &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt; iostream&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; it will display iostream, BUT if you drop the space after &quot;&amp;lt;&quot; it simply ignore what ever you write after that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if others are also facing this issue but I have checked it on Safari and Firefox and I am on mac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135939" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T01:34:13.957" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T01:34:13.957" Title="There is an issue in the Stack Overflow editor" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30246" CreationDate="2009-11-18T18:39:31.383" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; surround code by tick marks or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt; // indent code by four spaces (8 after a list)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source of the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`#include &amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt;` surround code by tick marks or&#xA;&#xA;    #include &amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt; // indent code by four spaces (8 after a list)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;code&gt;?&lt;/code&gt; on the upper-right of the editor that explains Markdown syntax:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1382/edithelp.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Free hand circle + pony&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastEditorUserId="87234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T18:58:13.360" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:58:13.360" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30246" CreationDate="2009-11-18T18:39:48.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to put backticks around inline code: like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; this. Or indent code blocks 4 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[space][space][space][space]Like &amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt; this&#xA;&#xA;or Like `&amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt;`  this&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just put in &amp;lt;iostream&amp;gt; it thinks you're using an HTML tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24181" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:39:48.387" />
  <row Id="30250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T18:48:50.443" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to edit &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; answer that I've deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on &quot;edit&quot; link takes me to the &quot;Edit&quot; page, and I can actually edit my answer and click &quot;Save Your Edits&quot; button if I do it &lt;strong&gt;fast enough&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I start editing the answer but don't save it within about 30 seconds to a minute, &quot;Save Your Edits&quot; is disabled and &quot;This post has been deleted - no more edits are allowed&quot; message is shown on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Actually, I've just tested and it happens when editing &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; deleted answer; whether it was mine or someone else's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131896" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T08:32:07.410" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T08:32:07.410" Title="Editing a deleted answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30240" CreationDate="2009-11-18T18:53:14.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not any more. The cover has been blown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131297" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T18:53:14.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30250" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:01:22.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this as well.  It seems that the notification mechanism isn't playing well with the edit your own deleted post feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:01:22.483" />
  <row Id="30253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:13:42.257" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100073?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;reputation graph&lt;/a&gt; isn't listing an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1756812/vss-move-file-from-one-folder-to-another/1756877#1756877&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; for which I have negative votes, though it is showing the answers for which I have upvotes.  Bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit:&lt;/b&gt; Hm, ok, on the default selection it does show. I was selecting just November with the mouse, and it doesn't show up.  If I manually type in 2009/11/19 instead of 2009/11/18, it does show up.  And answers I gave after that one do show up.  One of those up votes occurred after the two downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit2:&lt;/b&gt; Bit more playing around: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mouse select November shows 2009/11/18 in range -&gt; -4 not shown (bug)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter 2009/11/18 as end range (same as what is already there), click SET -&gt; -4 not shown (bug)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter 2009/11/19 as end range, click SET -&gt; -4 shows up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter 2009/11/18 as end range, click SET -&gt; -4 shows up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter 2009/11/17 as end range, click SET -&gt; -4 goes away, as it should&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter 2009/11/18 as end range, click SET -&gt; -4 shows up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastEditorUserId="133671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T19:57:17.997" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T21:00:01.160" Title="negative votes not appearing in reputation graph" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30253" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:26:23.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is showing them, you just have to scroll down further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned, the answer shows by default but highlighting the graph for November doesn't appear to show the answer, since it only goes to &quot;11/18/09&quot; when you select it graphically. If you enter &quot;11/19/09&quot; manually into the box below the graph, it does show it. Must be some weird time-cutoff-for-the-end-of-the-day issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T19:34:27.057" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:34:27.057" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:30:27.827" Score="-5" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the posts having to do with comments and down-votes on ANSWERS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My concern has to do with anonymous down-voting on questions.  A number of times I've seen questions from newbies downvoted because the question wasn't phrased in a totally obvious manner.  In one case the downvote occurred after the OP had clarified the question.  Yes, maybe the question was a little unclear, but it was an honest attempt by somebody struggling with new concepts to pose a real, meaningful question.  It was most definitely NOT &quot;send me teh codez&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about requiring that the down-voter possess a certain level of rep before being able to downvote questions without also leaving a coment?  IMHO this would be the same level that gives you edit rights.  Below that, a downvote requires a comment explaining why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136253" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T20:18:24.573" Title="Down-voting on questions - Require a comment below a certain rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30255" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:32:00.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;gsdfigkjdfkjvkhjdfbkjdfgfdkgh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See why forcing comments will never work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13018" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:32:00.760" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30245" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:41:55.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks all. It's undeleted now. Will accept my own answer here when I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139180" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:41:55.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30255" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:42:38.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally I'll comment or edit rather than downvote.  I typically only downvote when something is actively wrong, not just badly worded or incomplete.  I have two problems with your suggestion, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, why should rep allow you to hide your identity when downvoting?  If you are going to require a comment for a downvote it ought to apply to everyone.  Second, before you require commenting for downvotes, you'll first have resolve the problem of retaliatory voting.  On a couple of different occasions when I've downvoted and left a comment, I've seen a number of my questions/answers get downvoted within minutes.  Until you get this one solved, I think most people will be reluctant to give up anonymity of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated&lt;/strong&gt;: I realize that there is some fraud protection, but it only catches egregious patterns.  Some amount of downvoting would certainly bypass the filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:42:38.603" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30255" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:44:23.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30255/down-voting-on-questions-require-a-comment-below-a-certain-rep/30256#30256&quot;&gt;annakata&lt;/a&gt; so succinctly pointed out, forcing anything never works. You know that 15 character limit on comments that SO enforces? How many comments have you seen like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks //charlimit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people want to explain themselves, they'll explain themselves. If people are being irrational, they won't explain themselves, and nothing you do can force them to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:44:23.263" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30250" CreationDate="2009-11-18T19:54:00.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be able to edit at least &lt;em&gt;your own&lt;/em&gt; deleted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I notice a major &lt;em&gt;faux pas&lt;/em&gt; which requires more than a quick edit-fix-save, I delete the post, refactor relentlessly, and undelete. Can't do that now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T19:54:00.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30266" CreationDate="2009-11-18T20:07:19.400" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's quite common for new users to &quot;answer&quot; a question by posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, I have the same problem. Could you fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm suggesting that we add some default text to the answer box like &quot;Type your answer here. Please only add solutions. Do not post just to say you are having the same problem&quot; for users with less than a certain amount of rep (50 sounds good).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to the Search default text, this would disappear when clicked on so as not to be too disruptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/57072/unable-to-use-tweetdeck-on-windows-due-to-ooops-tweetdeck-cant-find-your-data&quot;&gt;SU question&lt;/a&gt; is quite bad (4 &quot;me too&quot; answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know we can flag these, but that adds extra works for the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:10:05.280" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:10:05.280" Title="Show message in &quot;post answer&quot; box for new users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30246" CreationDate="2009-11-18T20:08:55.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, highlight the code and click on the little 101/010 icon above the text box.  Or click on that icon to put in the backticks and type in the middle.  That's how I did it for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T20:08:55.543" />
  <row Id="30265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30255" CreationDate="2009-11-18T20:18:24.573" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This smells like a dupe -- but it does have a minor variation, so I'm keeping my close question trigger finger safely under control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the reasons others have mentioned (like retaliatory downvotes -- and, BTW, Jon Skeet got a &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jonskeet/status/5833666635&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;serial downvoter&lt;/a&gt; just today), there's another aspect to this. You ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think about requiring that the down-voter possess a certain level of rep before being able to downvote questions without also leaving a coment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You go on to suggest it should be the edit rights boundary. We already have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;minimum rep&lt;/a&gt; before you can downvote at all; admittedly a low one (100 rep). Why should people with under 2,000 rep have to explain or even just reveal their votes, potentially subjecting them to retaliatory strikes? They have the right to their opinion, too. Under this scenario, if I downvote something on SU or SF, I have to explain myself. Why? Is my opinion inherently invalid because Arbitrary Numbering System says so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might disagree with it, but if you do, you have the power to right the wrong: Click the upvote button if you really think the downvoted post was right, correct and useful. (Or in the case of a question, useful, interesting or otherwise upvote worthy.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, please don't &quot;sympathy&quot; upvote,&lt;/strong&gt; where you upvote the post just because it got a downvote. Upvotes outweight downvotes by (currently) a factor of &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; -- there's simply no reason to sympathy upvote. Ever. Upvote because you feel it truly deserves it, regardless of its current score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, many of us on Meta would argue that there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29638/downvotes-increasing&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28737/limit-downvotes-visibility-to-3/28739#28739&quot;&gt;enough&lt;/a&gt; downvoting. You think I take every one of my downvotes personally? Lord, no; I'd be too busy crying over my arbitrary number to do anything worthwhile (on the sites or in my life)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T20:18:24.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30263" CreationDate="2009-11-18T20:34:32.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely understand, unfortunately, we also restrict the user's ability to upvote or to comment, so these are essentially upvotes and comments saying, please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your solution is alright, but I don't think that it will actually resolve the problem, people tend to ignore these sorts of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T20:34:32.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33035" CreationDate="2009-11-18T21:02:49.063" Score="7" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have 2000 rep, to retag a question you have to click &quot;edit&quot;, scroll down, change the tags field, and press save changes. It would be much easier if we just did retags asynchronous instead of by loading a new page. You hit retag, the list of the question's tags pops up on the same page, you edit, and press save (like how posting comments works). We would still have an edit button that takes you to a new page with full editing features for 2000 reppers (with the retag editing still there of course), but next to it a retag button for quick retagging of questions. Retag is probably the most common edit to a question, so streamlining it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know I've seen this discusses elsewhere, but I can't find it. The other question said something about allowing you to edit a question's tags without even opening the question, but I think that's a different matter and would be better discussed in a separate question)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-07T00:38:40.667" LastActivityDate="2010-06-07T00:38:40.667" Title="Could we make it easier for us to retag questions from the actual question page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T21:04:21.073" Score="2" ViewCount="4513" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;SO Clones?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found that source code of stackoverflow.com is not an open source, so is there any other similar apps available that has source code available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T21:19:51.747" ClosedDate="2009-11-18T22:08:46.650" Title="Is there any open source code we can get similar to stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30269" CreationDate="2009-11-18T21:10:13.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one that was created called &lt;a href=&quot;http://knowledgeexchange.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Knowledge Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. There was another called 'Stacked' but their page appears to be down, so I don't know the status of that project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134686" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T21:12:16.490" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T21:12:16.490" />
  <row Id="30272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30275" CreationDate="2009-11-18T21:13:25.770" Score="3" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Careers is young and still in beta, but I'm wondering if anybody out there (read &quot;the creators&quot;) have any suggestions as to how to construct your CV for the best results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for suggestions like 'Don't use World as your location', etc. I surely don't want to exagerate the truth or act like I'm trying to make myself sound better than I am...I just want to be sure I show up in the searches as often as I can for the positions that are right for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137986" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T05:32:48.127" Title="Careers CV - Results Optimization" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30269" CreationDate="2009-11-18T21:13:49.153" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you get down to it, StackOverflow is a forum, of which there are many open source variants. Not as aimed at Q&amp;amp;A, not as slick, but the basic technologies are there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T21:13:49.153" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30269" CreationDate="2009-11-18T21:19:51.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They practically &quot;forked&quot; the initial version of SO and from there created a Django based version which is open source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saying it was &quot;forked&quot; is a decent way to say they copied everything that was public on SO site and make it theirs ( how is that called in english?? .. oohh yeap.. stoo... stol. stolll.. oh I forgot )  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T21:19:51.747" />
  <row Id="30275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30272" CreationDate="2009-11-18T21:35:23.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use as many generic tags for your work experience as possible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a C# developer of Winforms and&#xA;  Webforms and ASP.NET MVC stripes; but&#xA;  that's not all I do. On my CV, I make&#xA;  sure to include the generic &lt;code&gt;.NET&lt;/code&gt; tag&#xA;  as well as &lt;code&gt;Winforms&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;C#&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't have Dislikes showing&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you can't say anything nice, don't&#xA;  say anything at all. And please, don't&#xA;  say, &quot;I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/anelson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;no pathologies&lt;/a&gt; that&#xA;  keep me from working with others.&quot;&#xA;  That's a red flag in of itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it's hard to read, it won't be read.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Format, format format. Make it look&#xA;  pretty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show me the Numbers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Give me the numbers. If you've increased effeciency in the software&#xA;  you've worked on, I want to know by&#xA;  how much. If you've increased sales, I&#xA;  want percents or dollar signs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Work in Popular technologies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're a &lt;code&gt;R&lt;/code&gt; programming language&#xA;  guy, chances are you won't find much&#xA;  work.  Take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TIOBE&#xA;  Software Programming Trends&lt;/a&gt; and&#xA;  start learning a language at the top&#xA;  of that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Include particulars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you've worked with SQL Server, say&#xA;  so. Don't just say &quot;SQL&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have a catchy Bio Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you look at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/george-stocker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bio line&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;  you'll see  that it's short, sweet,&#xA;  and to the point. Do that.  &lt;strong&gt;Don't ramble.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choose an Exciting Work Location&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There will probably be a lot less&#xA;  employers looking for Developers in&#xA;  Topeka, Kansas than there would be in&#xA;  Washington, DC or New York, NY.  Pick&#xA;  locations where you want to work; but&#xA;  pick smart locations.  In a recession&#xA;  / depression, the mobile worker gets&#xA;  the job.  You &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be willing to&#xA;  move if you aren't in a metropolitan&#xA;  area. Period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my stats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;20 CV Search Hits&lt;br&gt;&#xA;76 Public CV Views&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3 Employer CV Views  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T02:25:13.473" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T02:25:13.473" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30281" CreationDate="2009-11-18T22:02:22.733" Score="4" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't find any talk of this so my curiosity got the best of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do migrations handle favorited questions? My guess would be the favorite link would stay on the original site to the closed migrated question and I would assume any favorite marks would be reset on the site migrated to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't really that important, but just curious what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T22:48:08.827" Title="How do migrations handle favorited questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;information&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30279" CreationDate="2009-11-18T22:17:33.453" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never thought of this ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to guess that nothing happens at all. That if you favorited the pre-migration question, that favorite stays and nothing happens on the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your user account may not exist on the target site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A closed post is still present in the system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll run two tests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens when you favorite a question and it gets migrated later?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We collectively ran the experiment of favoriting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1521915/is-there-a-way-to-delete-truncate-a-file-while-a-process-is-writing-to-it&quot;&gt;question pre-migration&lt;/a&gt;, and then got it &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/86092/is-there-a-way-to-delete-truncate-a-file-while-a-process-is-writing-to-it&quot;&gt;migrated&lt;/a&gt;. (Don't worry, it was a correct and valid migration.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The results were as I'd expected: My favorite remained on SO, and was not migrated to SF. So there you have it, favoriting has no effect on a pre-migration question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you favorite a question which has been migrated?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually an after-the-fact test -- can you favorite a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1749566/how-to-migrate-a-bare-metal-linux-installation-to-a-virtual-machine-closed&quot;&gt;closed-and-migrated question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can. And it is a favorite on the originating site. It is not favorited on the target site. This makes sense to me, based on the logic above. (Note: I have unfavorited it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-18T22:48:08.827" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T22:48:08.827" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="30282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30283" CreationDate="2009-11-18T23:34:01.023" Score="4" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;All,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a new user to both StackOverflow and this Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently found an error in an otherwise very helpful algorithm posted by User Tri Q. The algorithm is linked here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/636383/wpf-ways-to-find-controls/1501391#1501391&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/636383/wpf-ways-to-find-controls/1501391#1501391&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question for the board is: I only have 25 reputation points on StackOverflow. &lt;strong&gt;How can I inform this insightful user that he made an error in the algorithm, and my intended fix?&lt;/strong&gt; Typically I'd add a comment to this post and recommend my fix, is it better to add an &quot;answer&quot; to the post with a reference to his post below? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently in the middle of determining a fix to the problem, but a summary of the problem is that that after the child is found in  &lt;code&gt;foundChild = FindChild(child, childName, childType);&lt;/code&gt; it is possible for the &lt;code&gt;for&lt;/code&gt; loop to continue iterating and overwrite the found child. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139196" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T23:43:44.313" Title="What is the best way to inform a StackOverflow User of an error in an algorithm without proper reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30282" CreationDate="2009-11-18T23:42:04.457" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best, but slower: find some other question to answer and getting upvoted so you can leave a comment.. you only need 25 more rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, but you can do it right now: just post an answer of your own (and explain that you can't leave comments yet), with a corrected version of the algorithm. If you improve upon the other guy's answer, you'll get upvoted and then you can leave comments on other posts, huzzah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T23:42:04.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-18T23:51:10.133" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10713/can-we-have-search-default-to-and-instead-of-or&quot;&gt;Can we have search default to &amp;ldquo;AND&amp;rdquo; instead of &amp;ldquo;OR&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to search for all posts with &quot;ggplot&quot; AND &quot;smooth&quot;, rather than &quot;ggplot&quot; OR &quot;smooth&quot;.  How can I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T23:54:12.370" ClosedDate="2009-11-19T00:31:48.110" Title="Why doesn't stackoverflow allow AND in searches?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30285" CreationDate="2009-11-18T23:53:58.113" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit like fight club here, you never talk about stackoverflow on stackoverflow.  Try asking this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-18T23:54:12.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24030" CreationDate="2009-11-19T00:21:32.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;G'day,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the distinction is clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions regarding [Mm]akefiles themselves are tagged as makefile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions regarding the behaviour of g*make itself, e.g. the backward chaining behaviour, are tagged as make or gmake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HTH&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW Thanks for asking Pavel, and don't feel worried about retagging people if you think it is justified! (-: We can easily roll it back if we truly believe in the original tag! :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2974" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T00:21:32.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T00:23:34.553" Score="0" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got the latest Sharp-Architecture and Fluent Nhibernate versions from github. Now if I create a site from the Sharp-Architecture VS template it does not build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It throws the following error on types and Interfaces: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Error 1 The type or namespace name 'IClassMap' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) G:\Development\Singleton Affiliate Marketting\Projects\Singleton\app\Singleton.Data\NHibernateMaps\Conventions\TableNameConvention.cs 8 28 Singleton.Data&#xA;Error 2 The type or namespace name 'IOneToManyPart' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) G:\Development\Singleton Affiliate Marketting\Projects\Singleton\app\Singleton.Data\NHibernateMaps\Conventions\HasManyConvention.cs 8 28 Singleton.Data&#xA;Error 3 The type or namespace name 'IManyToOnePart' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) G:\Development\Singleton Affiliate Marketting\Projects\Singleton\app\Singleton.Data\NHibernateMaps\Conventions\ReferenceConvention.cs 8 28 Singleton.Data&#xA;Error 4 The type or namespace name 'IClassMap' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) G:\Development\Singleton Affiliate Marketting\Projects\Singleton\app\Singleton.Data\NHibernateMaps\Conventions\TableNameConvention.cs 12 27 Singleton.Data&#xA;Error 5 Using the generic type 'FluentNHibernate.Mapping.OneToManyPart&amp;lt;TChild&amp;gt;' requires '1' type arguments G:\Development\Singleton Affiliate Marketting\Projects\Singleton\app\Singleton.Data\NHibernateMaps\Conventions\HasManyConvention.cs 12 27 Singleton.Data&#xA;Error 6 The type or namespace name 'IManyToOnePart' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like &lt;code&gt;FluentNHibernate.Mapping&lt;/code&gt; does not contain any of these interfaces any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do? Should I use the version of the assembly it had when I downloaded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I want to debug and see how everything works together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T00:52:19.773" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T00:52:19.773" ClosedDate="2009-11-19T01:11:45.277" Title="Sharp-Architecture and Fluent NHibernate version incompatibility" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T00:45:25.607" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1755587/what-is-a-java-interface-closed&quot;&gt;question yesterday on SO&lt;/a&gt; that was deemed too trivial by some, downvoted, closed, reopened and finally closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This process was documented in moderator comments on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those comments are now gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How? Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131975" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T00:47:56.317" Title="Where did all the comments go on &quot;What is a Java Interface&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30289" CreationDate="2009-11-19T00:47:03.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking Bill removed them :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131896" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T00:47:03.823" />
  <row Id="30291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30289" CreationDate="2009-11-19T00:47:56.317" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes if there are too many comments that are just noise, a moderator will wipe them clean. This is generally considered a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T00:47:56.317" />
  <row Id="30295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30193" CreationDate="2009-11-19T01:15:13.603" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good point -- I converted it to wiki. Though I think everyone involved deserved the rep and badges they got thus far, without the Parsing badge..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T01:15:13.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30187" CreationDate="2009-11-19T02:45:20.487" Score="60" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a real problem with the sponsoring of tags by a 3rd-party company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I write a question, and I tag it with some &quot;product-X&quot; tag which is a trademark of company A, I don't have a problem with company A sponsoring those tags. I don't like it, but I don't have a problem with it. It increases the level of awareness of company A's products. I tagged the question with &quot;product-X&quot;; even if company A weren't sponsoring those tags, I would still be helping to spread the word about &quot;product-X&quot;. Putting a logo on the tags just does it more so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if company B sponsors tags for products by company A, then when I tag a question &quot;product-X&quot;, it means that I am helping advertise for company B. That's evil and unethical, in my book. It just goes too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can tell you right now, if I ever find out that one of the tags I have used, is &quot;sold out&quot; in this way, I will go and delete those tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; it seems OK to me for company B to sponsor ads that appear somewhere else on the screen when you click on a particular tag trademarked by company A. (Google does this sort of thing) But I don't think its OK to have the logo appear on the tag itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; (6 Jan 2010) rg now sponsors the &quot;performance&quot; tag on SO. Questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2012577/ask-for-resource-about-fast-ray-tracing-algorithm&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; have nothing to do with SQL products. Evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil evil. &gt;:( If anyone from RG is reading this, with all due respect will you &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; have the decency to stop sponsoring the &quot;performance&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; rg now (as of 16 Feb 2010, not sure when this started) sponsors the &quot;email&quot; tag on SF. sigh. :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="44330" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T16:50:18.240" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T16:50:18.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="30298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30193" CreationDate="2009-11-19T03:41:53.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to do a similar experiment .. I was going to edit 50 questions and insert an arbitrary tag to see if I'd win the 'taxonomist' badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seemed a little destructive to do as an experiment, so I didn't do it .. but would still be interested in knowing if it would have worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T03:41:53.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T04:16:15.927" Score="3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just occured to me that SO can be a place that connects software buyers and sellers. You see, we have SO careers that matches employers with employees. But what about something more short term? Or something freelancing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO's RenACoder (Yes, the omission of T &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; deliberate) would surely beats the real &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rentacoder.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RentACoder&lt;/a&gt;, for sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T09:23:44.527" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T09:23:44.527" Title="StackOverflow's RentACoder Service" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30306" CreationDate="2009-11-19T04:25:53.473" Score="3" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Careers site my CV is a placeholder - something I filled out just enough so the system would let me file at the $29/3 year deal. I've been planning on working on it before exposing it on the site, but according to the site an employer has already viewed the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/rOEbY.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as the number for &quot;CV Search Hits&quot; is 0, I'm assuming that my CV can be viewed directly through a URL bypassing the search. If this is true, then I consider it a bug. If a CV isn't searchable, it shouldn't be able to be seen by employers at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:34:42.190" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:34:42.190" Title="How can employers view my CV if I haven't made it searchable?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;employer-cv-view&gt;&lt;searchable&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30301" CreationDate="2009-11-19T04:29:10.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.  You might not want to make your CV searchable, but also want to be able to send the url directly to specific employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I guess that's a different thing than employers registered in the system stumbling across your CV on their own, which seems to be what happened here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T04:29:10.240" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30300" CreationDate="2009-11-19T04:33:11.277" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Careers&quot; doesn't necessarily &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be for permanent-employment inquiries. It could just as easily be used for temporary, contract, or single-assignment projects. But the central idea is that &quot;careers&quot; breaks from tradition by allowing employers to seek out qualified employees and not the other way around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as for-rent coders bidding on assignments placed by would-be contractees, I don't see how StackOverflow adds anything special to that dynamic... I don't see it as a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T04:33:11.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T05:49:08.377" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1712427/find-and-exclude-visits-via-top-sites-function&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; 7 days ago with around 20 views, no answers. Soon after I posted the question, I added a comment, saying that I don't really know how to tag the question, and asking people for help. Afterwards, I edited this same message into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after a week's time, no one's answered, and no other activity has taken place with the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, I have not been awarded the Tumbleweed badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the definition of the &quot;definition&quot; of the Tumbleweed badge, as per the Badges page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tumbleweed - Asked a question with no&#xA;  answers, &lt;strong&gt;no comments&lt;/strong&gt;, and low views&#xA;  for a week&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two reasons why I think that might have happened with my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20 views does not constitute &quot;low&quot; views - this has already been discussed, and I don't think this is the case here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I added a comment to my own question&lt;/strong&gt; - The badge details state &quot;no comments&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I think that it is because of the comment I myself added, why should this not qualify for Tumbleweed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;strong&gt;why should comments you yourself add to such an under-viewed and unanswered question count against the &quot;no comments&quot; clause&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand, the purpose of the badge is to sort of like a cookie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No one has helped you yet (answered/looked at your&#xA;  question for a week), so here's a bone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the &lt;strong&gt;poster of a question would naturally leave comments to clarify&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if someone else were to leave a comment, that means that some activity with other users would be going on with that question, so it would disqualify your question from Tumbleweed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, the original poster's own comments should not count as &quot;regular&quot; comments for the Tumbleweed badge. We should only have other people's comments disqualify questions from attaining this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T21:22:24.190" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T21:33:37.310" Title="Original poster's own comments invalidate criteria for Tumbleweed badge - should it be so?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30304" CreationDate="2009-11-19T05:58:12.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why?  Query optimization I suppose... :-) or they just overlooked that special case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: to actually answer the question. I don't think it is right that the OPs activity on their own question should affect the tumbleweed badge calculation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree with random's assessment that you should edit the question, rather then leave comments, if you are trying to clarify it still goes against the idea of &quot;we're sorry no one could help you, here's a bone&quot; that the tumbleweed badge is supposed to be.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that in most cases any activity by an OP on their own unanswered question, be it edits or comments, is trying to get answered and that is a good thing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Undoubtedly some freak OP will make that statement untrue but human behavior is not deterministic so the OP should get the benefit of the doubt and be awarded the tumbleweed badge even if they left a few comments on an otherwise unanswered, un-commneted, low-view question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T21:33:37.310" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T21:33:37.310" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30301" CreationDate="2009-11-19T06:01:47.807" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a minor issue with the way we were recording the history.  This has been resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T06:01:47.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30310" CreationDate="2009-11-19T07:55:13.203" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently there are 12 questions tagged with rx-framework, and 2 with reactive-framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current official name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee794896.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reactive Extensions for .Net (Rx)&lt;/a&gt;, so I was thinking of retagging, does anyone have a preference between reactive-extensions and rx-extensions (I'd go for the shorter version personally)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastEditorUserId="130064" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T08:23:12.403" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T09:12:36.543" Title="Tags: reactive-framework/rx-framework/rx-extensions/reactive-extensions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30300" CreationDate="2009-11-19T08:09:56.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff didn't seem to have a very warm and fuzzy opinion about sites like RentACoder &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001190.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone could get it right, I think it may be him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of issues that would have to be figured out to make it work well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T08:09:56.517" />
  <row Id="30310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30308" CreationDate="2009-11-19T08:13:12.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;rx extensions&quot; is a tautology though - the &quot;x&quot; is for &quot;extensions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;rx-framework&quot; is probably the best bet - particularly given the numbers you cited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T09:12:36.543" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T09:12:36.543" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T08:56:30.080" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have posted a question with the tags 'cocoa' and 'macosx'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat later I recognized that it would be a good idea to tag the question with 'xcode' additionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there seems no way to add more tags once the question is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone give a hint to me howto achieve this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139218" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T19:55:35.817" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T19:55:35.817" Title="How can I add an additional tag on my question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30311" CreationDate="2009-11-19T08:57:51.390" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click &quot;edit&quot; (underneath your question's text, but above the comments and replies), and change the &lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt; field at the bottom of the page. Or point anyone here at your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T09:03:22.363" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T09:03:22.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30315" CreationDate="2009-11-19T09:05:45.523" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm going insane.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one account on Stack Overflow at the minute which I use happily. Then, as I follow &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; blog posting, I try to associate it with another GMail that I have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;HOWEVER&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I click &quot;Add OpenID&quot;, then log into my &lt;strong&gt;NEW&lt;/strong&gt; GMail account that I'd like to associate it with, it logs me out of the Username/Account that I'd like to keep, and &lt;strong&gt;IN&lt;/strong&gt; to an account that I've never used before. I'm not entirely too sure what's supposed to happen, but a wild guess would be ( In quotes to avoid confusion... if you don't want to know my opinion or why it's driving me insane, &lt;strong&gt;skip&lt;/strong&gt;):&#xA; &lt;pre&gt;&#xA; To keep me signed into the account that I'd like to keep perhaps, &#xA; then add the GMail I'd like to associate it with to the account... &#xA; but that's not what it's doing.&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this switch is that I now use a more professional, &lt;em&gt;super-user&lt;/em&gt; type GMail, that I forward a few accounts to, therefore I'd my my SO account associated with this e-mail, instead of my &lt;em&gt;'further down the line'&lt;/em&gt; GMail account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you understand my problem, what I'm asking and I do hope you can help. Thank you very much indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've e-mailed team@stackoverflow.com before anyone suggests, to which I got no response :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, to be honest, I don't even understand the concept. Basically, with my email1@googlemail, I have the SO ID that I want to keep. Then, at email2@gmail, I seem to have another SO ID that I've never used before (It's called unknown(google) with 1 rep point.. kind of like my meta-SO ID at the minute). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, I'd like to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;li&gt;DELETE whatever SO ID seems to be associated with email2@gmail&#xA;&lt;li&gt;associate email1@googlemail's SO ID with with email2@gmail&#xA;&lt;li&gt; Clean up the email1@googlemail by deleting whatever is associated with it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139219" LastEditorUserId="139219" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T09:58:06.227" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T09:58:06.227" Title="Switching OpenID" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30313" CreationDate="2009-11-19T09:49:50.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I do not understand. Maybe the team has the same problem with your mail ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add a new OpenID you have to log in with this new ID. I think, that's what you are doing. But what is this account that you've never used before? Are you logged in with your new GMail account or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You keep both IDs, but for sure you have to log in first with the new one, so Stack Overflow knows it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T09:49:50.360" />
  <row Id="30315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30313" CreationDate="2009-11-19T09:54:42.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, I don't see any email from you, even in the junk mail folder. Are you sure your email arrived?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have an orphan account squatting on the openid, which needs to be deleted. Email the URL to that account to us, at the email link at the bottom of every page..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T09:54:42.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-11-19T11:16:38.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I has some ELMAH donations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T11:16:38.987" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38220" CreationDate="2009-11-19T11:34:24.570" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I want to tag some question &lt;strong&gt;[php-server]&lt;/strong&gt; and mistype that as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;php -server&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (white space inserted), it comes out as the following display: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[php]&lt;/strong&gt; not &lt;strong&gt;[server]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1762630/list&quot;&gt;this question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2197418/revisions&quot;&gt;as well as another&lt;/a&gt;, and an example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/30118/list&quot;&gt;on Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T06:51:03.553" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T06:51:34.143" Title="Tag on a question preceded by a minus interpreted incorrectly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10713" CreationDate="2009-11-19T11:35:25.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ANDing instead of ORing is a &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; idea, lets use an example - someone is searching for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how to create a master page in C# asp.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By default these terms are ORd together, and the results ranked and sorted by the frequency that each term appears in the document (for example the term &quot;C#&quot; is far more common than the term &quot;Page&quot; or &quot;Master&quot; and so when scoring pages more emphasis is given to these terms).  The end result is many pages, however because of the ranking the ones that contain most or all of the given terms end up at the top of the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However crucially note that although results that contain all terms are favoured, results don't &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; to contain all the terms - for example there may be many useful questions on master pages that don't use the words &quot;how&quot; or &quot;to&quot; (which are not considered stop words).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T11:35:25.723" />
  <row Id="30321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-11-19T11:37:28.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would vote for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perlfoundation.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Perl Foundation&lt;/a&gt; which gives out very specific, targeted &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;grants&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archlinux.org/donate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ArchLinux&lt;/a&gt; has also made my life much easier in the last couple of years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I plan to put &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; money where my mouth is soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T11:37:28.137" />
  <row Id="30322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-11-19T12:28:36.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is interesting that most of the projects being mentioned so far are big ones, which I'm guessing are probably those least in need of the help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But anyway, I'd like to propose two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;libcurl&lt;/a&gt; is a portable C file transfer library, which I guess a lot of people here are familiar with. I've used it in a number of my own projects and it is of exceptional quality, imho.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/ubiquity-xforms/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ubiquity XForms&lt;/a&gt; is a cross-browser, client-side javascript implementation of the W3C's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XForms recommendation&lt;/a&gt;. It is quite young and has some rough edges, but a lot of effort is going into improving it (disclaimer: I'm a contributor).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138051" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T12:28:36.860" />
  <row Id="30323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-11-19T12:36:52.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think that the apache foundation would be a nice fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T12:36:52.927" />
  <row Id="30326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34887" CreationDate="2009-11-19T13:16:35.510" Score="19" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I can see how many searches are performed on Careers. And I can see how few times my CV has been part of the result set. This is a bit depressing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd love is some more information about the kinds of searches being done. Kind of like Google's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hot Trends&lt;/a&gt; pages. Or even StackOverflow's own &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;Tags&lt;/a&gt; pages. Just knowing what tags are turning up in searches or results would be very helpful in tuning the CV. If everyone's searching for &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; I'm not going to throw it in there just because (I'm not a Java guy), but if &lt;code&gt;sql&lt;/code&gt; is getting hits left and right then I'd want to make sure I have that tagged somewhere (since I do speak fluent database).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that matter, it would be interesting to see this sort of information aggregated from CVs as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138928" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:52:26.323" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:52:26.323" Title="Information about what searches are being done on Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30328" CreationDate="2009-11-19T13:26:50.373" Score="-1" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27385/is-the-edit-window-broken-for-everyone-or-just-me&quot;&gt;Is the edit window broken for everyone or just me?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yfrog.com/6wbugygp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://yfrog.com/6wbugygp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while editing this question :&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/72611/firefox-streaming-video-download&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/72611/firefox-streaming-video-download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130639" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T13:30:28.200" ClosedDate="2009-11-19T17:51:07.773" Title="Super User Edit ( Format Icons are missing )" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30327" CreationDate="2009-11-19T13:30:28.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This usually happens if something is screwed up in your cache, or if you can't reach Google for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happened to me this morning - clear your browser cache, and try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T13:30:28.200" />
  <row Id="30329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T13:31:52.567" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally clicked on &quot;Delete and block&quot; in my hotmail account. &#xA;Would like to unblock but can't find the email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I am asking this qn at the wrong place...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T12:33:45.980" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T12:33:45.980" Title="What is the email address of stackoverflow notification?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30329" CreationDate="2009-11-19T13:37:23.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know for meta it is:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;do-not-reply@meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go out on a limb and guess stackoverflow itself is:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;do-not-reply@stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T13:37:23.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30326" CreationDate="2009-11-19T13:59:04.103" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Information about the locations that are being searched for would be useful too - especially for people who are willing to relocate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137612" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T13:59:04.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:09:43.787" Score="1" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29212/second-tag-replaces-the-first-tag&quot;&gt;Second tag replaces the first tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I try to select a suggested tag with the mouse, it replaces the first tag in the tags list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139233" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:09:43.787" ClosedDate="2009-11-19T14:37:27.590" Title="Tags Moving Around on Edit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30326" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:11:48.793" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have - I'm a statistics junkie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a chance that the results will be poisoned if people know more about what employers are looking for, and the site &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; become less useful if even a few dozen people decide to 'follow the trends' with their resume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is it a double edged sword, but the purpose of the site is to advertise good people and have the employers search.  This is the reverse of most other job sites, and a key feature.  The more we know about the jobs and employers, the more we turn the site into one of the existing job search sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be patient.  There's only 12 beta employers on there.  The purpose of the website isn't to get everyone a job, the purpose is to connect really great developers with really great employers.  The site is working if you show up in only a few searches - the laser focus means that when you do show up, it will be a much better match for you and the employer than on most other sites where you might show up in dozens of worse matches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:11:48.793" />
  <row Id="30335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23292" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:16:23.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally you would take the time to find and fix the bug in the available repository.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you don't, search and make sure it isn't already found here on meta.  If it is, submit a &quot;I can confirm this bug with the following screenshots/info/tests/etc&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't yet exist, file a separate bug report (question) on meta.  Posting it to aggregate bug lists is useful for tracking, but the system is set up to have a &quot;bug&quot; tag and a status completed, deferred, or declined tag.  An aggregate bug/question can't easily be marked completed/deferred/defined since only one or two of the bugs may have been addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:16:23.883" />
  <row Id="30337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30339" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:22:50.270" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4202/markdown-italics-with-underscores-look-good-in-preview-but-not-in-answer&quot;&gt;Markdown italics with underscores look good in preview but not in answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763616/ignore-initialization-from-incompatible-pointer-type-warnings&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763616/ignore-initialization-from-incompatible-pointer-type-warnings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139235" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:06:37.923" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:06:37.923" ClosedDate="2009-11-19T16:15:12.813" Title="Bug: Italic text not working properly" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6753" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:35:43.833" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting this same problem, everytime I edit one of my posts, it takes ages, and I can't access any of the stackoverflow sites (including meta) during this time.  By design? some sort of throttling? or is it network issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138025" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:35:43.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30337" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:36:37.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you want italic there; I converted it to a code block using backticks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;`code_block`&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:36:37.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30319" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:39:19.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are not allowed to be preceded by &quot;-&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works as designed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:39:19.100" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:45:45.610" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28584/back-arrow-to-recent-activity&quot;&gt;back arrow to recent activity&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;STR:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click your username&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the &quot;stats&quot; tab, click on &quot;recent&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click any question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Press &quot;Back&quot; in browser.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Actual:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're back to the list of questions sorted by &quot;votes&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Expected:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're back exactly where you were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It is also currently impossible to bookmark the &quot;my questions by recency&quot; page.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T07:52:59.547" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T07:52:59.547" ClosedDate="2010-06-29T01:34:19.810" Title="Browser &quot;Back&quot; doesn't work properly on &quot;Recently asked questions&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30348" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:54:43.300" Score="3" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1753312/how-do-i-match-the-last-character-in-an-arbitrary-string-using-c-regexes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1753312/how-do-i-match-the-last-character-in-an-arbitrary-string-using-c-regexes&lt;/a&gt; (asked by me) seems quite reasonable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It summarises the question in the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It shows why a solution that was commonly proposed by my coworkers doesn't work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It asks how to do it right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has a real, short and very precise answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What prompted those comments that seem to imply the question is stupid, invalid, whatever? &lt;strong&gt;Could I have phrased it better?&lt;/strong&gt; Should I just ignore such comments or should I take them as indication that I didn't word the question very well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T19:54:12.293" Title="Why do people keep posting annoying, mildly offensive comments about reasonable questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30342" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:55:44.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turning JS off leads me to this page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=135197&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=30&amp;amp;sort=recent&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=135197&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=30&amp;amp;sort=recent&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ain't pretty (and you'll need to put your own userID in), but it works. Ajax in general is much nicer than proper links for things like sorting - shouldn't have to reload everything to sort one item!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T14:55:44.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30362" CreationDate="2009-11-19T14:58:00.627" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example: &quot;void*&quot; becomes &lt;i&gt;void&lt;/i&gt; (the asterisk is lost). See my comment on Nicholaz's response on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763616/ignore-initialization-from-incompatible-pointer-type-warnings&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763616/ignore-initialization-from-incompatible-pointer-type-warnings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139235" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-09T01:05:14.113" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T01:05:14.113" Title="Italic text can be caused unintentionally in comments" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30343" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:00:40.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the question you linked and I'd say that the comments are not that offensive. They are just saying that, in their opinion, you did not use the right tool for the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe one of their fellow programmer just made a mess with a regex and they were frustrated about it. :D The question is not uncorrect or other in its structure, imho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57095" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:00:40.060" />
  <row Id="30347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30342" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:03:03.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First up, changing the sort order does not really count as navigation, and why should it? You are getting the exact same information, but just in a different order. The data being sorted with JS is the ideal solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fix the broken navigation, I would suggest the use of &lt;code&gt;#anchors&lt;/code&gt; to indicate the current sort method. &lt;code&gt;/users/131346/joshhunt&lt;/code&gt; would give me my/the default sort method, but when you click on &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt;, the URL changes to &lt;code&gt;/users/131346/joshhunt#sort-by-votes&lt;/code&gt; in order to make the back buttons work. The anchor name could be as verbose as needed because anchors are never sent to the server as a part of the URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:03:03.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30343" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:03:59.540" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can ignore such comments.  You can also (optionally):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assert that you realize the question may seem to have an unusual constraint, such as using Regexes, but that they should rest assured you have a good reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Come to Meta to vent your frustration.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to have done both of these.  Other than that, there's not much you can do.  Don't add your own snarky comments, much as you may be tempted (which I see you also did).  Don't take it personally, people are like that sometimes.  Just ignore it and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:03:59.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30350" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:05:41.767" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has confused me a little bit, I'm not entirely sure what the distinction between the two are.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69979" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T06:33:17.967" Title="What is the difference between Searches and CV Search Hits" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30349" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:06:34.213" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the searches is just the total number of searches that employers have executed, whereas the search hits are the number of times queries have return you as a result. It is a bit confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:06:34.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30343" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:13:11.240" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not call &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; comment from &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; single person &quot;&lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read the linked question, there is only one comment, which I think you can safely ignore if you don't like it ( well there are actually  two comments, but the other is a clear joke, which is fine ). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there would be  &gt;5 comments from different users, ( like in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1757363/&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; )  there is a chance yo need to rephrase your question ( like the OP did in the previously mentioned one ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think ( at least in this particular case ) you are a bit too sensitive. Probably you'll need some rest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T15:18:25.317" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:18:25.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30343" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:18:33.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IF you believe a comment is offensive, flag it and a moderator will review the comment, and if needed delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it would be nice to receive only constructive criticism on Stackoverflow, it is, after, made up of people.  Not only that, but some programmers hold strong opinions, and sometimes have difficulty expressing themselves in a tactful or non-forceful manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's wise to assume that no harm is meant, especially on a multi-cultural website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:18:33.960" />
  <row Id="30353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30345" CreationDate="2009-11-19T15:29:42.210" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you put code in a comment, surround it with backticks (`), like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;void*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it will be formatted like code and won't apply Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T15:29:42.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30326" CreationDate="2009-11-19T16:02:14.850" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing what employers are searching for could mean that some people would tailor their CVs to come up in searches (by, for example, adding in technologies that a potential employer is searching for even though they might not have (much) experience in it), thus playing the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would however be useful to know about the locations used in searches, as that is pretty hard to fabricate - you either will work there or you won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T16:02:14.850" />
  <row Id="30356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30343" CreationDate="2009-11-19T16:46:13.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're taking negative criticism on the question, I think you've put an unnecessary constraint on the question in the title -- you've required a Regex.  The last line didn't specify a Regex but everything else leads the reader to believe you want a &lt;em&gt;Regex&lt;/em&gt; solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like asking what the best way to build a box using only a saw.  Sure you can cut some fancy joints and it may be pretty strong.  Or you can add a hammer and nails to your toolbox and use those instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say the comment is offensive because given the constraint in the title, the comment as an answer may have been downvoted despite being a simple solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you take &quot;Regex&quot; out of the title it's a better question and you'll get better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T16:46:13.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30375" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:05:31.257" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be an issue with the flair when it is included via JavaScript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When rendered, it now starts with the &quot;\n&quot; with badge counts below the picture. Also font face and size are not right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my page on the bottom: &lt;a href=&quot;http://developerart.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://developerart.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also seen the exactly same problem on the other users' pages. Can it be fixed please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T20:36:36.100" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T20:36:36.100" Title="Flair in JavaScript version seems to be broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30360" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:09:19.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://explainextended.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://explainextended.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132020" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:09:19.157" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30345" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:09:19.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Craig is right, but his answer doesn't escape the backticks.  He generated his answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;void*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;, by doing this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;`void*`&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's a minor thing to complain about, but he does say &quot;surround it ... like this,&quot; and the question is already about how to use Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I made the backticks show up in my answer by putting HTML &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; tags around them, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;`void*`&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T22:40:39.230" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:40:39.230" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="30363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:10:54.927" Score="6" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can find similar requests to this, but nothing quite the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I'd like to know (via Recent Activity) if a question that I answered gets an Accepted Answer that wasn't mine. This is something that currently doesn't appear to be easy to identify apart from adding it as a favourite and manually checking whether the Answers box changes colour. I could use this for situations where I answer a question to the best of my knowledge, but remain curious as to whether someone has a better way (albeit according to the questioner) or whether something has been resolved satisfactorily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit : As Adam says, this could be extended to show activity in any question participated in. If that was the case, I think it should be user-configurable, eg&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Show Accepted Answers to Parcipated Questions : Yes/No&quot; default : yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Show Answers to Participated Questions : Yes/No&quot; default : no. Yes to this implies yes to the previous question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Show Comments to Parcipated Questions  : Yes/No&quot; default : no&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastEditorUserId="134099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T12:36:18.793" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T12:36:18.793" Title="Show other accepted answers in Recent Activity" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30363" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:22:09.837" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could go under the broader category of &quot;Show activity that happens to any question I participate in&quot; which would include new answers, and possibly new comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also give you what you need, and more - being able to see other answers that come in after yours may also teach you something new about the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, I would also like to see this feature, but in a more expanded form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:22:09.837" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30095" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:27:17.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One solution that I could imagine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;make the boxes a little more visually separate in some way so that a habitual click can be directed at a visual landmark attached to the edit textbox.  Perhaps a bit of color or shape that differentiates between the two more fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastEditorUserId="137918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T17:32:50.520" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:32:50.520" />
  <row Id="30366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30095" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:30:30.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another solution that I could conceive of being useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps clicking on the preview text could just toss your cursor focus into the edit box via javascript, so that the moment you start typing after clicking text that looks almost exactly like yours, you'll actually end up typing in the edit box where you should be.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This has the side benefit of actually doubling the target area where you can click to edit your posts (click in the edit textbox or the preview space, whichever you want, and both will work!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:30:30.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30369" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:30:49.527" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder about how other people handle working remotely. For instance, managing a network.&#xA;What labor law, in which country applies, when working internationally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT I am not sure where to ask that.&#xA;I figured stackoverflow I will get dinged  as it is not programming, and it isn't a superuser question, but I am sure other people might have some ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137837" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:36:55.380" Title="Which forum for a work Visa question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30360" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:31:04.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I witnessed this too on &lt;a href=&quot;http://jedsmith.org/?page%5Fid=11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jedsmith.org/?page%5Fid=11&lt;/a&gt; and came to ask about it. I didn't change anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something definitely broke in the last day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137502" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:31:04.673" />
  <row Id="30369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30367" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:36:55.380" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's really good for any site on the Trilogy, as it's more legal-related than tech-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's definitely not programming-related, although workers on visas may be programmers. Thus, it clearly does not belong on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's definitely not server administration-related, although workers on visas may be sysadmins. Thus, it clearly does not belong on ServerFault.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not generally computer-related, although workers on visas are probably using computers. Thus, it clearly does not belong on SuperUser.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, while it's a good and valid question to ask &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;, the Trilogy sites are probably not the best place to go. Indeed, because laws are different everywhere in the world, and the subject here is a particularly tricky one because it often involves multinational law, I would personally be highly skeptical of &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; advice you get &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt; on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I'd recommend consulting an attorney well-versed with international labor laws and regulations, and work visas in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:36:55.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29295" CreationDate="2009-11-19T17:37:50.183" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, this worked to get me the rep benefit on superuser/serverfault/meta, once I got 200 rep on stackoverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get your rep over 200 on one of the sites, and then unassociate the other accounts, and reassociate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be dealt with in a smoother way, but it worked well enough for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T17:37:50.183" />
  <row Id="30371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="78890" CreationDate="2009-11-19T18:55:53.600" Score="19" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I type nothing but tags in the search box, I'm redirected to the coresponding tag page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Search Box       URL&#xA;css              /questions/tagged/css&#xA;css jquery       /questions/tagged/css+jquery&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see it also work the other way around. When I visit a tag page I would like to see the search box populated with the corresponding tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;URL                           Search Box&#xA;/questions/tagged/css         [css]            &#xA;/questions/tagged/css+jquery  [css] [jquery]        &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;em&gt;feature&lt;/em&gt; in the sense that when users visit a tag page, it would show them how to search within those tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;em&gt;bug&lt;/em&gt; in sense that when users search with keywords that all happen to be tags, their input is not retained on the &quot;search results&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-10T22:15:17.670" LastActivityDate="2011-02-10T22:15:17.670" Title="When a tag page is viewed, populate the search box with that tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="30372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T19:49:42.037" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27747/when-you-use-the-notify-email-feature-why-does-it-over-write-the-main-email&quot;&gt;When you use the notify email feature, why does it over-write the main email?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My SO account is setup from home, but I was at work and had a question.  I checked the notify box and put in my work e-mail address, so I'd get notification there, rather than at home.  Much to my surprise, my avatar suddenly changed.  Went into my settings and SO had changed my saved e-mail address to be the one I just put in for notifications!  This is not at all what I intended.  Seems to violate POLA (Principle Of Least Astonishment).  I just want the notification for that particular item to go to a specific e-mail address without breaking my default configuration.  There's nothing on the screen to suggest that I'm actually going to break my saved settings!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like it if notification could be to a different address than saved, but I understand if that's not a reasonable request.  All I really care about is that UI changes be made to avoid POLA errors!  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T03:00:43.940" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T03:00:43.940" ClosedDate="2009-11-19T22:54:34.483" Title="E-mail notification change modifies my attached e-mail address" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;email&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30187" CreationDate="2009-11-19T19:50:48.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding Redgate's logo on the (Microsoft) Sql-Server tag, Wikipedia (that bastion of perfect correctness) has this to say about trademarks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the case of a trademark registration, failure to actively use the mark in the lawful course of trade, or to enforce the registration in the event of infringement, may also expose the registration itself to become liable for an application for the removal from the register after a certain period of time on the grounds of &quot;non-use&quot;. It is not necessary for a trademark owner to take enforcement action against all infringement if it can be shown that the owner perceived the infringement to be minor and inconsequential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining%5Ftrademark%5Frights&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(entry here)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IANAL, and whether this is correct or relevant to this situation is not my area of expertise, but it would defintely give me pause, since it makes it seem as though if Microsoft does not work to get this removed they may have some chance of reducing their rights to the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T19:50:48.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30343" CreationDate="2009-11-19T19:54:12.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The why is fairly simple.  People on-board with the sites for awhile have migrated from &quot;oh this is cool&quot; and willing to go out of their way to help to the &quot;man, when will the neverending stream of the same questions ever end&quot;.  They're tired and annoyed, and just haven't yet quite reached the realization that they need to step back now and let other (still enthusiastic, if sometimes incorrect) people step up and take their place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T19:54:12.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30360" CreationDate="2009-11-19T20:36:19.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will be fixed in the next deployment (this evening).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T20:36:19.080" />
  <row Id="30376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T20:49:32.100" Score="0" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20291/what-stack-exchange-sites-are-up&quot;&gt;What Stack Exchange sites are up?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/so-clones&quot;&gt;SO Clones?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another forum called startups.com  It has the same format as stackoverflow but it's about business.  The fact that there are two forums with the same format leads me to believe that there might be other forums with the same format, but about different subjects.  I think this format is really great.  Are there any other forums that have the same format besides startups.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139254" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T20:56:59.810" ClosedDate="2009-11-19T21:29:02.387" Title="Other forums like stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;forums&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30376" CreationDate="2009-11-19T20:53:32.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Startups.com is actually a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see a list of all StackExchange websites &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T20:53:32.873" />
  <row Id="30378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30376" CreationDate="2009-11-19T20:56:59.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Startups.com is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchage&lt;/a&gt; site, hence the similar look and feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of almost pure pedantics, these sites are not forums - these are Q&amp;amp;A sites. The difference is somewhat subtle, but important to understanding why the sites work the way they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T20:56:59.810" />
  <row Id="30379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30409" CreationDate="2009-11-19T21:03:43.493" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just posting an answer on SO, and I have found this strange behavior.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I was inserting a link, which looks ugly, but HP and IBM tend to have such weird links:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&amp;amp;cp=1-11-126-17^8_4000_100__&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I inserted the link into the dialog using the icon above the text input area. But the marked words which supposed to be the hyperlink are displayed as normal words, not as a hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I checked the source, the link I have inserted was not there, although when I edit the question it is there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried also the following, but without success:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;http://foo.com&amp;gt;&#xA;[foo](http://foo.com)&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://foo.com&quot;&amp;gt;foo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that parsing this link is faulty in general, but when I just copied the link into the comment it is active. But the numbers at the end are not treated as a part of the link:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;^8_4000_100__&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136619" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T02:51:53.207" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:24:40.890" Title="Link recognition broken in question and in comment it works incorrectly" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30345" CreationDate="2009-11-19T21:26:55.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have to use backticks. You can use a backslash to escape asterisk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;void\*&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastEditorUserId="437" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T21:40:12.383" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T21:40:12.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:26:32.923" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I googled the question &quot;how do I find the hostname in javascript&quot; and found my answer on the expert's exchange site.  So I thought, I don't want to have to go to that site next time I google for the same question so I went over to SO and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1766724/how-do-you-find-the-hostname-in-javascript&quot;&gt;asked the question&lt;/a&gt; and answered it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, now I'm getting a bunch of downvotes and abuse for doing this.  I've listened to every SO podcast and this is acceptable behavior by Joel -- and I think Jeff too, although he wasn't as enthusiastic about it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that Joel and Jeff would want the traffic from a question like this but if this is not acceptable behavior I'll be glad to delete the question.  I see it is a duplicate question now but the difference of hostname versus domain is enough IMHO to keep it around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138927" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T22:36:12.267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:42:59.620" Title="Am I missing something here?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30381" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:31:23.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks to me some/most of the down votes, all two of them, are because it is a duplicate question.  While answering your question is not a problem (and good of you to come here), not checking to see if we already had it on SO is 'discouraged'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:31:23.103" />
  <row Id="30383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30381" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:32:15.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see two &quot;problems&quot; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first was the speed with which you posted your answer. When the issue of posting questions to which you already know the answer has been raised before the general consensus was that it's OK as long as you leave a day or two between posting the question and answer. That way it's not so obvious that you know the answer already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second was the fact that the question was a duplicate. Now these aren't normally down-voted, but the first problem didn't help here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:32:15.613" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30381" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:34:01.163" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't downvote you because it's a poor question (although it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; poorly written), they downvoted you because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You asked a duplicate Question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You didn't check to see if it had already been asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting a question and then answering it is &lt;strong&gt;perfectly acceptable&lt;/strong&gt;.  To do so, you need to follow some guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure it isn't a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Treat it like Jeopardy. Don't provide the answer in the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Properly format the question. Make it look good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:34:01.163" />
  <row Id="30385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30381" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:36:16.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to not adding dupes (which is probably the cause of most of the downvote hate), when self-answering, many people will advocate marking the answer as &quot;community wiki.&quot; This way it doesn't look like you're just looking for rep. It also allows others (with significantly less rep than the 2,000 required to edit normally) to contribute to the answer. Keep the question non-wiki, but the answer wiki. This isn't required, and generally (to me) shouldn't be necessary, but it seems to be a common guideline these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, back in the early days of SO, I did exactly what you did, and didn't have issues. But my question wasn't a dupe. (It also didn't get a lot of rep, but it scored some from both the question and answer side.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:36:16.167" />
  <row Id="30386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30387" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:39:58.513" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've observed that some people give an answer to a question requesting some information from the original poster but sometimes forget to check that question. Are they even notified when I comment to their answer? If not, is there a mechanism to &quot;ping&quot; someone with the link to the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136866" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:48:30.283" Title="Some people just &quot;forget&quot; about a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;replies&gt;&lt;original-author&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30386" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:40:57.610" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they are notified when you comment on their answer (assuming they're on the site at some later point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:40:57.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30381" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:42:59.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you are going to post the answer to a legitimate question right away -- and I'm ok with that -- I'd make a note that you'll be supplying your answer separately. And also acknowledge that you're open to other solutions. Hard to see how this would apply to the example question though. More complex questions that you've already got a solution for are probably better suited to this. when you ask a simple question and immediately post an answer it looks too much like a vote grab and not simply knowledge sharing or a quest for a better, alternative solution &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:42:59.620" />
  <row Id="30391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30386" CreationDate="2009-11-19T22:48:30.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually try to get back to questions, but often the OP doesn't respond for hours or days and, honestly, I've moved on.  The question may have additional answers by that time and it may just be not worth my time to follow up on what I had requested.  People are notified about comments you leave on their answers, but not with respect to comments to their comments on your question.  This is particularly insidious as often, when I leave a request for more info I do it as a comment since I don't have enough information to answer.  Again, I will usually try to check up on these, but if nothing is forthcoming in an hour or so, it's probably too late.  It's really up to the OP to make sure they keep up with their question and get information out as quickly as they can when more is requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T22:48:30.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30394" CreationDate="2009-11-19T23:08:03.690" Score="1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing the site's most downvoted questions (don't ask why, I was real bored this cold morning) when I saw this post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156363/create-a-compiler-for-windows/1156434#1156434&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156363/create-a-compiler-for-windows/1156434#1156434&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering why StackOverflow has a &lt;code&gt;rads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, with some sort of a &lt;code&gt;amzn&lt;/code&gt; that seems to be a shorter form for Amazon, and it takes in the ID of a book. Lastly, it redirects to the product page on Amazon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that some kind of an advertisement link between Amazon and Stack Overflow? Are the links implemented automatically or posted by the author of the post? How are they implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139663" LastEditorUserId="139663" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-19T23:13:14.180" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T23:13:14.180" Title="Regarding rads.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30392" CreationDate="2009-11-19T23:11:46.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the automatic replacement of links to Amazon with SO's own referral links. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising-experiment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; for more detail and background on how it came about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&quot;&gt;this here on meta&lt;/a&gt; which explains what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T23:11:46.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30397" CreationDate="2009-11-19T23:27:58.457" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I understand that on metaSO, (at least) one of the grey-bordered tags is required (bug, feature-request, discussion or support), and that the bold red-bordered tags (status-*) can only be added by a moderator. However, it used to be possible to &lt;em&gt;remove&lt;/em&gt; a red-bordered tag from a post -- e.g. I did so on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27234/account-last-activity-time-is-not-always-updated&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; to essentially mark it as &quot;reopened -- bug still occurring&quot;. Why was this ability removed? It is now impossible to re-report a bug, as duplicate posts are a no-no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, the post I wish to mark as &quot;nope, still just as much a problem as before&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2241/daily-reputation-cap-effectively-counts-downvotes-twice&quot;&gt;this one regarding the reputation cap and downvotes&lt;/a&gt; (which I just encountered today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T06:11:31.347" Title="Why can the &quot;status-completed&quot; tag not be removed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;required-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30395" CreationDate="2009-11-19T23:30:22.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, duplicate &lt;em&gt;discussions&lt;/em&gt; are a no-no. If you can re-create a bug marked fixed, I see no reason why you shouldn't start a new thread... For all you or I know, it could be an entirely different problem that just happens to share symptoms with an earlier bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just try to include enough information so that others can reproduce the problem as well, or it'll probably either get closed as a duplicate or simply tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;status-norepro&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-19T23:30:22.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30395" CreationDate="2009-11-19T23:35:17.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're the owner of the first post, but not the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T02:18:13.503" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T02:18:13.503" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T00:41:49.840" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a tag is changed or merged, I'd like my existing tags to also be changed, not to come up with a blank query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132445" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T00:49:04.350" Title="Change my favorite tags for me" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30401" CreationDate="2009-11-20T00:45:33.107" Score="0" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this question was asked before, kindly point me to that because the related questions box did not show me anything. I know the following are directly related to SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com - Any programming questions&#xA;http://serverfault.com - Any Servers and workstations related questions&#xA;http://superuser.com - Technology related&#xA;http://meta.stackoverflow.com - Support site for stackoverflow&#xA;http://doctype.com - Perhaps anything web related&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I've seen other sites like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://startups.com - Startup related questions&#xA;http://mathoverflow.net - All math related questions&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, two questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can I find &quot;all&quot; sites based off&#xA;the principle of StackOverflow? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are these sites (the ones I mentioned&#xA;above) managed by the same technical&#xA;staff or they are all new businesses&#xA;relying on StackOverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136866" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T01:04:00.657" Title="Are these other sister sites of StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30398" CreationDate="2009-11-20T00:49:04.350" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say this is a bug, since tags aren't deleted. Some user can still post a question in that tag, he'll just see that there are no other questions tagged that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T00:49:04.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30399" CreationDate="2009-11-20T00:49:18.420" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on meta.stackexchange for a comprehensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchangesites.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; site cataloguing them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T00:49:18.420" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30399" CreationDate="2009-11-20T00:51:41.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those are companies/people that have purchased the SO model called stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was created by the founders of SO to license out the SO model to others who wanted to create other question answer websites for other topics. They are not however part of the SO trilogy. They are customers of the SO product and supported on a customer level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;adrianbanks posted a few links to the public lists of many of the current customers and the sites they created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T01:04:00.657" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T01:04:00.657" />
  <row Id="30403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30404" CreationDate="2009-11-20T01:08:37.993" Score="1" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;code&gt;answers.onstartups.com&lt;/code&gt; pop up after a Google search. I want to verify that it &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; actually belong to the Stack Overflow family of sites, and that it isn't some kind of cheap impostor. Can anyone confirm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139033" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T18:31:32.363" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T18:31:32.363" Title="Is answers.onstartups.com a &quot;Stack Overflow site&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;clone&gt;&lt;answers-onstartups&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30403" CreationDate="2009-11-20T01:10:33.187" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;answers.onstartups.com is now a &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6243/startup-business&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Network site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are not part of the SO trilogy. They are a customer though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a company/person that has purchased the SO model called stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was created by the founders of SO to license out the SO model to others who wanted to create other question answer websites for other topics. They are not however part of the SO trilogy. They are customers of the SO product and supported on a customer level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T17:25:32.103" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T17:25:32.103" />
  <row Id="30406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30407" CreationDate="2009-11-20T01:44:28.023" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a demonstration of a post that does not render properly (the lack of hyperlink):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;code&#xA;code&#xA;code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;text text [logging module][1] (http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html).&#xA;more text.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;...stuff&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134817" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T02:41:37.903" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T02:41:37.903" Title="My link for selected text doesn't work in this post" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="30407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30406" CreationDate="2009-11-20T01:53:54.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[logging module][1] (http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll want to drop that &lt;code&gt;[1]&lt;/code&gt; and go with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[logging module](http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;logging module&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T01:53:54.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30406" CreationDate="2009-11-20T01:59:42.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like markdown doesn't want to parse links in a block immediately preceding a section surrounded by &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; tags. Your [foo][1] label with footnote looks fine, and inserting one with the hyperlink WYSIWYG tool generates the same format (which also doesn't work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed you used &amp;lt;code&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; tags -- it's generally easier to just indent your text by four spaces (which the binary button at the top of the editing window will do for you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;text using code and pre tags&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Here is a [link][1] that does not work... through experimentation, it would seem that it is the &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; tag following that screws things up.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;...stuff inside a pre tag&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;text using four spaces of indentation&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://null.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; that does work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T02:12:16.353" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T02:12:16.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30379" CreationDate="2009-11-20T02:06:30.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;at least it's up&quot;&gt;caret (&lt;code&gt;^&lt;/code&gt;) is an unsafe character&lt;/a&gt; and needs to be encoded as &lt;code&gt;%5E&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;zn=bto&amp;amp;cp=1-11-126-17^8_4000_100__&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs to be encoded as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;zn=bto&amp;amp;cp=1-11-126-17%5E8_4000_100__&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T02:06:30.840" />
  <row Id="30410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30406" CreationDate="2009-11-20T02:38:57.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I see of your raw post text, you have not used valid Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please refer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;editing help&lt;/a&gt;, which is linked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the little [?] icon above the edit area&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the sidebar under full reference »&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T02:38:57.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30555" CreationDate="2009-11-20T03:48:09.267" Score="21" ViewCount="1962" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of female programmers, and I know there are a good number of them out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't recall ever having one of my questions answered by, nor have I ever answered a question by a female programmer here at StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I mostly deal in the Delphi tag, and that may make a difference. But I've got the feeling there is something about the programming social network that StackOverflow is, along with it's form of mini-competition (via reputation) that turns most ladies off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I go down the first few pages of top users by rep, there is nary a lady to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go over to Quantcast and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;look up StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.  Go down to the Demographics and you'll see that a full 20% of the visits are by females. So they are here, lurking and using the wonderful info that StackOverflow provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then why aren't there more of them participating, both with questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can StackOverflow do to persuade female programmers to participate more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after a dozen downvotes offset by a dozen upvotes, and accusations by many that I am a bigot, the bottom line seems to be that StackOverflow appeals to males more than females.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my observation and I believe a proper analysis would support the hypotheses that a much higher percentage of male programmers use SO than the percentage of female programmers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that is the case, then StackOverflow is geared more towards the male psyche than the female. If so, I again ask, what can they do about that?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Meta. Why isn't anyone trying to answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133783" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T18:28:27.087" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T18:05:33.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T23:03:18.197" Title="What can StackOverflow do to persuade female programmers to participate more?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;programmers&gt;&lt;diversity&gt;&lt;participation&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="20" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="30412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T03:53:51.300" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There might be a lot of women programmers, but percentage wise, are really too few. That's what makes them seem like there aren't that many, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/66801/sarah-mei&quot;&gt;but&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63994/jane-sales&quot;&gt;they&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/110202/emily&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/97828/nadia-alramli&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;. The reason? It has been debated a lot during the past 25 years, so I won't go there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the possibility that there are women programmers whose nicks don't convey a womens name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T04:02:07.460" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T04:02:07.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T04:05:54.083" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow isn't a social network. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what does it matter if the user answering your question or asking for help is a female or not? For all you know, the females could be using non-gender specific avatars/names as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27946/endless-question-user-what-to-do/27947#27947&quot; title=&quot;Buffalo Bill or Emily Howard?&quot;&gt;males using female names&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are already on this site. But maybe they're just not datafied by Quantserve. (How does it get that data anyhow? The only proper looking stat on there is the income level.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T04:05:54.083" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T04:08:43.643" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com is fueled by passionate programmers regardless of gender. However maybe males are more inclined to seek public recognition for solving problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I don't see SO as being a male centric site by any means. Gender simply isn't an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146104" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T04:08:43.643" />
  <row Id="30415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T04:26:39.403" Score="26" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a hit on careers (Thanks Jeff et al!!), but I wasn't interested. I wanted to decline, but say more than just &quot;No Thanks&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you add the ability to add a message that will go along with the No Thanks response? Declining without saying anything else feels way to impersonal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136256" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T07:29:16.437" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T21:33:37.700" Title="Allow a custom response when responding No Thanks on Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T04:28:12.613" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.www.thesandspur.org/media/storage/paper623/news/2005/02/18/Sports/New-Vikings.Owner.Reggie.Fowler.Makes.Nfl.History.As.First.Black.Owner-868708.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;only 1 football owner black&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a minority (like blacks in america &lt;a href=&quot;http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(12.8%)&lt;/a&gt; or women in programming) and apply another minority (football team owners or active users of stackoverflow).  At this point, you're &lt;em&gt;may not&lt;/em&gt; even have a statistically valid sample, but whatever you have is skewed to a certain degree by the filtering.  So what I'm getting at it &lt;strong&gt;how do you know it's not random noise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, perhaps you want to take Jeff's approach that he stresses on the podcast so often: 'Programmers love games', they 'love rules', they 'love numbers'.  If you want to take that approach, the question (or perhaps the conclusion drawn but that's definitely not the scientific method at work) is that women don't seem to be as drawn to the 'game' aspect of Stackoverflow as men.  Which might be the case.  Are there any scientific studies about women preffering or not preffering RPGs in a different skew than men?  Might be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that case might be true, but it also might not.  All that said... &lt;a href=&quot;http://girldeveloper.com/waxing-dev/shut-up-and-build-something/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;maybe they're out building something?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T04:28:12.613" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30272" CreationDate="2009-11-20T05:32:48.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When an employer searches resumes, he or she will see only &lt;strong&gt;the first ~195 characters&lt;/strong&gt; of your biography on the search results page. So make those characters count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is how George's looks, for example. Note how the text is &lt;strong&gt;perfectly&lt;/strong&gt; tuned for that character limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/2n9lsgl.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T05:32:48.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T05:46:02.907" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you know they aren't participating? A huge number of SO users don't use their real names, so you actually have no idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't we see more women on SO? I think mostly because there are so few programmers. In my university computer science classes, I think they were about 10% female.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are there so few women entering the programming fields? I don't really know. Some other countries (India and China in particular) seem to have a much higher percentage of women in science and engineering. In my graduating class, there was only one other white woman. They say that it's just not emotionally appealing, girls aren't as interested in math and logic, but meh, it's always been fun to me, so what do I know? Apparently I am my own island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even so, maybe we should be seeing more women on SO than we do. Okay, so back to there being a lot of pseudonym here. So why is that? For me, because I can. Because I don't care about anything but the code, so if I can get away with using a picture of my dearly departed cat and a nickname, why the heck not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Disclaimer: I've been drinking.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T05:46:02.907" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T09:19:27.243" Score="-2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was using &lt;strong&gt;[-edit with browser-]&lt;/strong&gt; and tried to post a question about &lt;strong&gt;[-edit with question topic (could help)-]&lt;/strong&gt; on Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I can't find it anywhere and it's not linked on my profile. Can anyone help a brutha out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T09:32:25.430" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T09:58:12.013" Title="Question asked on Stack Overflow has gone into the ether" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30424" CreationDate="2009-11-20T09:23:06.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Geri, something went wrong the first time. Please try again (with your real question, that is). Not here at 'Meta', but at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;. Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T09:23:06.663" />
  <row Id="30426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30424" CreationDate="2009-11-20T09:58:12.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was it one of these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/215282/geri&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/215282/geri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T09:58:12.013" />
  <row Id="30427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24915" CreationDate="2009-11-20T09:59:52.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;All associated accounts will appear on the public cv.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Only Stack Overflow accounts will appear on the private cv. &lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;This is by design at the moment.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above was out of date. &lt;strong&gt;You can selectively hide account associations now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T16:06:21.610" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:06:21.610" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24915" CreationDate="2009-11-20T10:06:52.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do have an account on all 4 trilogy sites, but I am not very active on SF and SU. I would like to be able to select which accounts are shown on the public and which are shown on the private CV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Not that I am ashamed of anything I do on these sites, but it does not add to my CV to show that I have 101 rep on SF.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T10:06:52.793" />
  <row Id="30429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30430" CreationDate="2009-11-20T10:09:19.293" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are for example SharePoint questions on SO, SF and SharePointOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to see / search for answers across all sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T06:59:56.143" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T06:59:56.143" Title="View tags across stackexchange sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30429" CreationDate="2009-11-20T10:18:42.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackexchange sites like SharePointOverflow and SO, SF are run by totally different people. They use similar software, as StackExchange is a version of the SO software that is further developped by FogCreek (Joel's company).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be rather hard to make a search to span all these sites, apart from existing solutions like google. Obviously SharePointOverflow will not be indexed as fast by google as SO and SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from this, searchability across sites has been rejected several times even for trilogy sites only:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2109/search-over-stackoverflow-and-serverfault-at-the-same-time-closed&quot;&gt;search-over-stackoverflow-and-serverfault-at-the-same-time-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/879/make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites&quot;&gt;make-the-search-box-return-results-from-all-stackoverflowian-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T10:18:42.367" />
  <row Id="30431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30474" CreationDate="2009-11-20T10:42:49.173" Score="0" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering, as from listening to the podcast over the past few months, I kept thinking, who does he sound like ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you agree, or is it just me.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134527" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:31:36.187" Title="Does anyone else think Jeff sounds like Quentin Tarantino?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30431" CreationDate="2009-11-20T10:51:30.280" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4K-Rxx2Bk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quentin Tarantino&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vimeo.com/7355062&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T10:51:30.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T11:40:13.793" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because women take more time to search the information and there are fewer occasions that they actually think they should ask a new question on SO :P As for the answers, maybe they think it's better to wait and see what others have to say before offering a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T11:40:13.793" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T11:57:50.720" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1556/should-there-be-a-way-to-link-questions&quot;&gt;Should there be a way to link questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On stackoverflow.com a lot of questions are related e.g. people keep mentioning &quot;this issue was discussed before here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be nice to have a &quot;Related questions&quot; section where users can add/vote questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a &quot;Merged view&quot; where all the answers of related questions are combined in a single list (might be useful for research), sortable by votes/date/activity as is now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;relationship&quot; relation should be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexive%5Frelation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reflexive&lt;/a&gt; - but I am not sure about being &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive%5Frelation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;transitive&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDITED: In the meantime I found out there is a &lt;B&gt;related&lt;/B&gt; question!&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1556/should-there-be-a-way-to-link-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1556/should-there-be-a-way-to-link-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137941" LastEditorUserId="137941" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T13:47:39.303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T22:04:10.183" ClosedDate="2009-11-20T22:04:47.920" Title="Consider adding relations between questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30437" CreationDate="2009-11-20T12:11:11.770" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do votes to community Wiki questions count towards my daily vote cap and if they do, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T12:15:43.430" Title="Do votes to community Wiki questions count towards my daily vote cap and if they do, why?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30436" CreationDate="2009-11-20T12:15:43.430" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because a vote is a vote. Don't matter that someone's not getting rep for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then you could upvote everything in a community wiki question without any thought. And what's the point of that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14300/dont-count-votes-against-daily-limit-on-cw-please/14302#14302&quot; title=&quot;like mangoes in the sun&quot;&gt;Pick and choose the good stuff&lt;/a&gt;, because it's not all good. Even/especially in community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T12:15:43.430" />
  <row Id="30438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30439" CreationDate="2009-11-20T12:21:17.463" Score="3" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1770066/defining-pointer-to-static-string-closed&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question got closed as it was an exact duplicate of the question asked by the same user just a moment ago. And rightly it got closed. But the link to the original question (which used to appear when questions were closed as duplicates) is missing. This will lead to close-reopen wars. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39742" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T12:46:32.580" Title="Closing as exact duplicate: Missing links to the duplicate questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30438" CreationDate="2009-11-20T12:46:32.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it was kind of an edit conflict. After the question was posted it got closed almost immediately. While it got closed the OP edited the post again (added a &quot;;&quot;). When saving this change he was still inside of the 5-minute grace window and the new change silently overwrote the automatically inserted duplicate link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would think that the automatic &quot;edits&quot; by Community are stored in the DB differently enough from normal edits that they break the edit grace period algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T12:46:32.580" />
  <row Id="30441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T13:08:28.530" Score="13" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi guys, I've made a Python script which you can use to get notifications of the latest questions. It scrapes the unanswered-questions page and informs you via libnotify. Just click on the notification button to open a browser window on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why not use an RSS reader?&lt;/b&gt; Well, this is more customized than an RSS reader. Not only does it tell you that there are new messages, but it tells you their title and tags without you having to switch windows. Moreover, it identifies questions by their IDs rather than by their titles, so if a question changes its title, you won't get a new notification.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why not read from the RSS feed?&lt;/b&gt; It's generally updated less quickly. In the highly competitive world of SO, a couple of minutes can make a difference in rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;How do I use it?&lt;/b&gt; Copy and paste into your favorite editor, edit the settings at the top, save and run it in the background. You may not notice anything for a few minutes, since it doesn't show anything until it encounters a new question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dependencies?&lt;/b&gt; You should probably get this from your package manager, but I've included links to the sources as well: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pygtk.org/downloads.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pygobject&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/notify-python/notify-python-0.1.1.tar.bz2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;python-notify&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;python-lxml&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://codespeak.net/lxml/installation.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;with installation instructions&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isn't this not-a-question?&lt;/b&gt; Yeah, but it seems that past users have submitted their SO 'addons' here as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://inlinethumb10.webshots.com/43145/2370085690102701653S600x600Q85.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do let me know if you find it useful (or useless), and if there are any bugs, or if you think there should be more features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Minor updates:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt; The last script gave the same timeout whether one or three notifications showed up at once. I have changed it to increment the timeout per additional notification; the topmost notification expires first, so read them from top to bottom.&#xA;&lt;li&gt; The script now sends out a notification after initialization, to let you know that something's alive.&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#! /usr/bin/python&#xA;&#xA;import subprocess&#xA;import time&#xA;import gobject&#xA;import pynotify&#xA;import urllib&#xA;from lxml import etree&#xA;import thread&#xA;&#xA;# CONFIGURATION&#xA;&#xA;browser = &quot;chrome&quot; # however you call it at the command line&#xA;notify_timeout = 5000 # ms&#xA;tagnames = &quot;c++ or c or python or optimization or .net or asp.net or c# or java&quot;&#xA;scrape_site = &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot; # or serverfault, or superuser...&#xA;scrape_url = scrape_site + &quot;unanswered/tagged?tagnames=&quot; + urllib.quote(tagnames) + &quot;&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&#xA;refresh_rate = 60 # seconds&#xA;&#xA;# END CONFIGURATION&#xA;&#xA;def find_new_qns(url):&#xA;    old_ids = set()&#xA;    while True:&#xA;        try:&#xA;            data = urllib.urlopen(url).read(1000000)&#xA;        except Exception as inst: # IOErrors happen now and then, just ignore them&#xA;            # print type(inst), inst&#xA;            continue&#xA;&#xA;        html = etree.HTML(data)&#xA;        summaries = html.xpath(&quot;//div[@class='question-summary']&quot;)&#xA;        if len(old_ids) == 0:&#xA;            old_ids = set([summary.attrib[&quot;id&quot;] for summary in summaries])&#xA;&#xA;        new_qn_count = 0&#xA;        for summary in summaries:&#xA;            if summary.attrib[&quot;id&quot;] not in old_ids:&#xA;                new_qn_count += 1&#xA;                old_ids.add(summary.attrib[&quot;id&quot;])&#xA;                title = summary.xpath(&#xA;                    &quot;descendant::a[@class='question-hyperlink']&quot;)[0]&#xA;                tags = \&#xA;                    summary.xpath(&quot;descendant::a[@class='post-tag']/text()&quot;)&#xA;                notify(title.text, &quot; &quot;.join(tags), scrape_site + title.attrib[&quot;href&quot;], notify_timeout*new_qn_count**0.8)&#xA;&#xA;        if len(old_ids) &amp;gt; 1000:&#xA;            old_ids = set([summary.attrib[&quot;id&quot;] for summary in summaries])&#xA;        time.sleep(refresh_rate)&#xA;&#xA;def notify(title, message, target_url, timeout):&#xA;    def notify_thread(title, message, target_url):&#xA;        note = pynotify.Notification(title, message)&#xA;        if target_url is not None:&#xA;            note.add_action(target_url, &quot;View&quot;, lambda n,url: subprocess.call([browser, url]))&#xA;        note.connect(&quot;closed&quot;, lambda n: loop.quit())&#xA;        note.set_timeout(int(timeout))&#xA;        note.show()&#xA;        loop = gobject.MainLoop()&#xA;        loop.run()&#xA;    thread.start_new_thread(notify_thread, (title, message, target_url))&#xA;&#xA;if __name__ == '__main__':&#xA;    gobject.threads_init()&#xA;    pynotify.init(&quot;stackoverflow-notify&quot;)&#xA;    # if we've got this far, the libraries are basically there.&#xA;    # ... hopefully the versions are sufficiently recent.&#xA;    # let the user know we're alive&#xA;    notify(&quot;Stack Exchange Notifier Initialized.&quot;, &quot;&quot;, None, notify_timeout)&#xA;    find_new_qns(scrape_url)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139148" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:12:55.823" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:12:55.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T03:20:14.893" Title="Here's a StackOverFlow monitoring script, to get new questions ASAP!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="30442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T13:09:44.720" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty new at networking stuff, so I'm kindly asking to take care about me. Here it is:&#xA;Our new company have got little less than 40 PCs and shared storage for 30 TB. We're using windows. What is the best way to provide the optimal way of data transfer and machines back up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will be grateful for any help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T13:09:44.720" ClosedDate="2009-11-20T13:42:18.783" Title="What is the best way to do this?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30441" CreationDate="2009-11-20T13:15:41.310" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is this safe?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  I mean, is Jeff going to ban me for consuming too much bandwidth?  Shouldn't you use the &lt;strong&gt;publicly exposed&lt;/strong&gt; methods of getting this info instead of consuming &lt;strong&gt;precious internet/server resources&lt;/strong&gt; to scrape the whole page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T13:15:41.310" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12039" CreationDate="2009-11-20T13:23:33.513" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're starting to get more questions asked here that should be moved rather than just closed. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30442/what-is-the-best-way-to-do-this&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; arrived today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left a comment and voted to close as &quot;not stackoverflow related&quot;, but it's not really satisfactory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've added my support for this proposal and I'm bumping the question by adding this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUMP&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33992/vmfs-revocery-how-do-you-proceed&quot;&gt;Another question&lt;/a&gt; that really should be migrated rather than simply closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T15:04:41.140" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T15:04:41.140" />
  <row Id="30446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30004" CreationDate="2009-11-20T13:33:29.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just don't understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ponies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer mentions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19479#19479&quot;&gt;ponies&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19479#19479&quot;&gt;deserves&lt;/a&gt; + &amp;infin;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T13:33:29.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T14:01:28.483" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29765/option-to-make-public-resume-non-indexable-by-google&quot;&gt;Option to make public resume non-indexable by Google?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like having a public CV I can link to employers- but I am concerned that searching for my name or my current employer's name on Google may bring up my CV as a result. It would be great if we could add a meta robots tag to disallow the CV from appearing on Google. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:31:06.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:31:06.553" ClosedDate="2009-11-25T06:28:56.053" Title="Can we have an optional robots.txt / meta robots disallow on the public CV's?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T14:10:59.767" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly they all said &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002892.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Programming is hard, let's go shopping!&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T14:10:59.767" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T14:19:49.570" Score="15" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1765507/what-is-the-better-packaging-way-in-mac&quot;&gt;a thread I participated in yesterday&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed something weird -- a user named &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/214834/bapi&quot;&gt;Bapi&lt;/a&gt;&quot; who signed his posted question &quot;Sunil Kumar Sahoo&quot;, and then 9 hours later, accepted an answer from a user named &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/115814/sunil-kumar-sahoo&quot;&gt;Sunil Kumar Sahoo&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  This sorta jumped out at me as a user who's using a sockpuppet account to build the rep of another one of his accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/214834/bapi&quot;&gt;Bapi's history&lt;/a&gt;, the account has only asked two questions, and both questions have accepted answers from the Sunil Kumar Sahoo account.  (The other is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1765321/error-in-java-swing-application-in-mac&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.)   Bapi has commented in two other questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1692726/how-to-set-a-folder-as-classpath-in-jarbundler/&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1727457/how-to-create-a-tar-file-from-a-jar-file-netbeans-ant/&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, and both seem to literally be just a conversation between the two accounts -- both questions were asked by the Sunil Kumar Sahoo account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/115814/sunil-kumar-sahoo&quot;&gt;the questions asked by the Sunil Kumar Sahoo account&lt;/a&gt;, a lot of them are signed &quot;Thanks Sunil Kumar Sahoo&quot; exactly as the two Bapi questions are signed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like a bit of dishonesty going on here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I apologize in advance if MetaSO isn't the place for this -- my working assumption is based on the MetaFilter model where MetaSO exists to bring things like this to light and collaboratively figure out if something's amiss....)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139100" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:05:41.740" Title="Something fishy with Bapi/Sunil Kumar Sahoo" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T15:06:50.163" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close this question as &quot;blatantly offensive.&quot; I was the only vote in that category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I consider this blatantly offensive? Because S[OFU] are &lt;strong&gt;not social networking sites.&lt;/strong&gt; That's what Twitter and MySpace and Facebook and LinkedIn are for. S[OFU] is a collection of Q&amp;amp;A sites. You want meet people, go there. You want your questions answered, you come here. I don't care if the person on the other side of the question (or answer) is a man, a woman, or an asexual single-celled organism. I care about the content on the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also offended by Quantcast's presence in this discussion. With no specified methodology, all they're doing is making wild guesses about the audience here. They have no better knowledge than we. As others have said, you can't go by user names. Not only may men be hiding behind female names, but the opposite may well be true, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'm offended by this question because it ignores the 800 pound gorilla in the room: The deeper question isn't how to get more women on the Trilogy, the deeper question -- and a much harder one -- is how to get more women into IT to begin with. How do we make this career attractive to young ladies, such that they want to pursue IT-related degrees and enter this field?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not happy with the demographics of IT; I doubt many of us really are. When it comes down to it, IT is still a very male-dominated field. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do we get more women onto the Trilogy? Get more women into IT. As they (like all of us) need help or feel the need to help others, they will naturally gravitate toward the premier Q&amp;amp;A sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T15:06:50.163" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30466" CreationDate="2009-11-20T15:41:59.880" Score="2" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: Ranjan Pokh*** [mailto:ranzan_***@hotmail.com] &#xA;    Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:24 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    EmguCV provides a platform to train machine.i m wantin to &#xA;    using it trough ANN_MLP class. but i found it difficult to &#xA;    understand the parametes and variables of that class. &#xA;    please suggest me any link or tutorial on that. i ll be &#xA;    very thankful.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    Phone: +977-984162****&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T16:08:27.723" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T16:12:57.527" Title="Advertising Inquiry: A Platform to Train Machine" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T15:46:19.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to the demographics presented by Quantcast, I did a bit of searching around and found that according to the Computing Research Association about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cra.org/info/education/us/bs.gender.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;26% of Bachelor of Computer Science degrees between 1994 and 2004&lt;/a&gt; where awarded to women. Thus, it could be that the 20% demographic is almost exactly what you would expect it to be, considering Stack Overflow is a very computer programming centric site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this kind of leads to the question of what sort of numbers do you expect to so? Are you anticipating that the demographics should be roughly 50/50 with an even split between men and women? I would argue that you aren't going to see an even split on narrow focus sites in a lot of different industries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the question is what can we do to encourage more women to want to pursue an career in software development, then that is an open question that there still doesn't seem to be a good answer to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastEditorUserId="1185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T15:51:31.097" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T15:51:31.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-20T15:58:45.153" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Ranjan,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your inquiry.  Your response can best be resolved by you dropping whatever disaster it is you are working on to spend your time staring at this adorable kitty cat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    (`.&#xA;     ) )&#xA;    ( (&#xA;     \ \&#xA;      \ \&#xA;    .-'  `-.&#xA;   /        `.                                        ,\&#xA;  (      )    `-._ ,    _                             \\\,_&#xA;   )   ,'         (.\--'(                              \` ,\&#xA;   \  (         ) /      \                        __,.-&quot; =__)&#xA;    \  \_(     / (    &amp;lt;6 (6                     .&quot;        )&#xA;     \_)))\   (   `._  .:Y)__                ,_/   ,    \/\_&#xA;      '''  \   `-._.'`---^_)))               \_|    )_-\ \_-`&#xA;            `-._ )))       ```                  `-----` `--` &#xA;                 ```&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at him.  Isn't he adorable?  Wait a minute, is he getting ready to pounce on that poor, unsuspecting bunny?  BAD KITTY!  NO TREATS FOR YOU!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T16:03:55.987" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T16:03:55.987" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T15:58:50.863" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What can StackOverflow do to persuade Homosexual programmers to participate more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can StackOverflow do to persuade Jewish programmers to participate more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can StackOverflow do to persuade Black programmers to participate more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can StackOverflow do to persuade Female programmers to participate more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing.  Please stop being a bigot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43263" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T15:58:50.863" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30457" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:04:27.373" Score="4" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding this &quot;question&quot;:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/73130/google-chrome-os-review-what-is-your-take&quot;&gt;Google Chrome OS Review. What is your take?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It looks like the user really put some effort into his ... lets call it article. In the comment section he refers to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/about&quot;&gt;about page&lt;/a&gt; where there is a &quot;blog&quot; part mentioned.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But somehow that whole thing doesn't seem to fit in there. I, too, expect questions that can be answered. This one is not a question that can be answered so, as mentioned in the comments, it's a candidate for a community wiki. But that way no reputation would be gained and thus there is no incentive to write such articles, i.e. to blog. (By now it's already &quot;closed as not a real question&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is such content generally not meant to fit in here or did the user just present it the wrong way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok you say, it's not a blog. I understand and see it the same way. But then &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/su/Img/stackoverflow-venn-diagram.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this picture&lt;/a&gt; is misleading, isn't it? The About Page says, there is only a tiny fraction of each 4 components, but the blog part has gone completely missing, then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138902" LastEditorUserId="138902" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T19:37:03.227" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:55:27.623" Title="Where is the &quot;blog&quot; part in S*?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;not-a-real-question&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30456" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:11:32.807" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The trilogy is for questions and answers.  &quot;Discussion&quot; questions (those with no practical &quot;right&quot; answer) go as CW because votes then are more just weak &quot;yeah, that seems reasonable&quot; rather than &quot;this is the right answer&quot;, so you don't hand out rep for those.  Discussion questions, though, still need to have a focus, because otherwise it's just the &quot;blogosphere&quot; all over again -- rambling hither and yon wherever the fingers take thee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question you linked to isn't a question.  It is a blog post with a stupendously open-ended &quot;question&quot; at the end (which doesn't even really relate to most of the content presented).  It deserved closing, IMAO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T16:11:32.807" />
  <row Id="30458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30456" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:12:56.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion: I don't think it belongs there. You can blog all you want on your blog, and then maybe use a link to that blog somewhere in a question or an answer &lt;strong&gt;if it is relevant&lt;/strong&gt;, but otherwise, SU or any of the SO sites is not the place to put such articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T16:12:56.187" />
  <row Id="30459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:14:53.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ranjan,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I've never heard of EmguCV, I imagine it's similar to the BART:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://john.cognitivedelay.com/images/bart.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BART&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No tutorial is necessary for the most part, just stay off the yellow warning section until the doors to the train have opened for you, the proceed to enter when your path is clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T16:14:53.907" />
  <row Id="30460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:14:56.403" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Start a service -- let's call it &lt;strong&gt;Bizarro-Stack-Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; -- and make gobs of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a web service where inquiries are routed through an engine which takes their request and generates a response based on their inquiry. For example, to help this user, you would write:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a way to provides a platform&#xA;  to train machine. When wantin to &#xA;      using it trough ANN_MLP class. It difficult to &#xA;      understand the parametes and variables of that class. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is the code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;class ANN_MLP&#xA;{&#xA;    static void Main()&#xA;    {&#xA;        SuperSecretEmguCVInitialization(int requiredParameter, ...)&#xA;&#xA;        // really important stuff follows&#xA;        InitThe...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/aviary.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T19:16:44.840" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:16:44.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23611" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:31:38.073" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be a godsend for Objective-C posts.  Every time I have to come here for a Cocoa development question, I end up having to copy the code into an editor that I can stretch out thanks to the ridiculously long method signatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You try distinguishing &lt;code&gt;- (void)controller:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller didChangeSection:(id &amp;lt;NSFetchedResultsSectionInfo&amp;gt;)sectionInfo atIndex:(NSUInteger)sectionIndex forChangeType:(NSFetchedResultsChangeType)type {&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;code&gt;- (void)controller:(NSFetchedResultsController *)controller didChangeObject:(id)anObject atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath forChangeType:(NSFetchedResultsChangeType)type newIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)newIndexPath {&lt;/code&gt; (taken from the code I'm looking at right now) on a slim window with horizontal scrolling and tell me if your eyes aren't bleeding by the end of the day.  Sure people could break up the lines when they post.  But they don't!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Stack Overflow: Please please please do this for the sake of all us Mac developers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139287" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T16:31:38.073" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30468" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:46:29.373" Score="1" ViewCount="953" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have decided to change the picture that represents all that is Troggy.  The default triangle square design has served its time.  It is time to put something up that defines Troggy across all the sites.  So, what should I change it to?  I have a few ideas, but haven't come down to a solid decision yet.  Maybe a picture of burning peasants or a Chuck Norris beard/fist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131932/troggy&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131932/troggy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might need to borrow some artistic talent from you guys. I can code, I just can't draw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Decisions decisions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RESULTS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trogdor on paper wins unless someone does make some awesome bear dragon beard fist man. Trogdor does have the beefy arm fist. So got the dragon and fist part taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FINAL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There we go. Thanks goes to waffles for the fine photo.  Now you all can stare in awe at him. Flex it troggy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T06:34:08.947" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T06:34:08.947" Title="Troggy needs an image?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;&lt;picture&gt;&lt;advice&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30462" CreationDate="2009-11-20T16:51:02.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's some more ideas to choose from: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodyte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodyte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T16:51:02.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30462" CreationDate="2009-11-20T17:11:08.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have &lt;a href=&quot;http://food-easy-recipes.webseomasters.com/food-images/waffles.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a stack of delicious waffles&lt;/a&gt; as their gravatar yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T17:11:08.487" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-20T17:22:33.083" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well the issue here is he is not talking about trains, he is talking about training (image included for clarity):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/246776f.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ANN_MLP refers to a &lt;strong&gt;multilayer perceptron artificial neural network&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilayer%5Fperceptron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia - MLP&lt;/a&gt;)... and EgmuCV...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is a cross platform .Net wrapper to&#xA;  the Intel OpenCV image processing&#xA;  library. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emgu.com/wiki/index.php/Main%5FPage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly, for a decent analogy, I would have sent this as a response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/r0v7lk.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T17:22:33.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19330" CreationDate="2009-11-20T17:25:22.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also have the same issue with various versions of firefox v3+, and a French AZERTY keyboard as well.&#xA;Sometimes I can insert plain closing braces, but not always.&#xA;The plugins I systematically use are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adblock plus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;all in one gesture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;firebug&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;webdevelopper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tab mix plus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug is not systematic, but very common. I can't tell what changes the times I don't observe it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be the same issue as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13065/wmd-editor-bug-german-keyboard-layout-creates-blockquote-section&quot;&gt;this one about AltGr+Q on German keyboards&lt;/a&gt;, and this one &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2051/why-is-alt-gr-q-giving-me-quote-formatting-instead-of-the-sign/2342#2342&quot;&gt;on Finish keyboards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136977" LastEditorUserId="136977" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T17:34:56.400" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T17:34:56.400" />
  <row Id="30468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30462" CreationDate="2009-11-20T17:25:37.023" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you need &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trogdor#Trogdor%5Fthe%5FBurninator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trogdor&lt;/a&gt;. Just sayin.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://trilliumcg.com/mattsworld/Images/trogdor.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIGGGHHHHTTTTTT!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or in HD...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1050/trogdor.gif&quot; alt=&quot;trogdor&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T20:26:29.347" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T20:26:29.347" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30456" CreationDate="2009-11-20T17:34:34.107" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Digg is community bookmarky thing and I don't really see any of that at SO. I guess some people might post a link as an answer (and then get told off for not including the content) and you could look at some of the very well written answers as blog posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134634" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T17:34:34.107" />
  <row Id="30470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T17:52:26.603" Score="6" ViewCount="348" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19940/undo-a-up-down-vote-after-a-comment-is-left&quot;&gt;Undo a up/down vote after a comment is left&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found multiple times that people downvote, and give reasons why they do so, but that they are actually wrong. The answerer clarifies the matter but the downvoter isn't able to undo his downvote anymore, because the answer wasn't edited in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastEditorUserId="34509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T20:40:18.620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T20:40:18.620" ClosedDate="2009-11-21T15:48:13.187" Title="Mistaken downvote cannot be undone after matter is being clarified by the answerer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;tactical-downvoting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30449" CreationDate="2009-11-20T18:05:41.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fine, but in the future all you really need to do is flag one or more posts for user attention, with a hyperlink to the alt account in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:05:41.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30431" CreationDate="2009-11-20T18:25:48.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;God I hope not because Quentin Tarantino has an &lt;em&gt;incredibly&lt;/em&gt; annoying voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he's a terrible actor. OK director but beyond bad as an actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:25:48.350" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30326" CreationDate="2009-11-20T18:28:14.353" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if users could search the site, to check that search terms are matching their CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have no hits on my CV I want to know if that's because Jeff's coding can't match &quot;c/c++&quot; or it's just because nobody hires real programmers anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you could strip the name/contact info if you think recruiters would use this as a cheap backdoor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:28:14.353" />
  <row Id="30474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30431" CreationDate="2009-11-20T18:31:36.187" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's Tarantino been busy on since SO launched = nothing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What was Jeff busy with before last year = nothing (except a few blog posts)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can Tarantino program 'C' = No&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can Jeff program 'C' = No&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Have they ever been seen in the same room = No    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gentlemen we have a conspiracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:31:36.187" />
  <row Id="30476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30470" CreationDate="2009-11-20T18:44:24.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would actually reward tactical downvoting, not reduce it. If you want your point back, just edit your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135230" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T18:44:24.587" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T18:50:29.630" Score="-3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple, clear, useful.  If you left a comment &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you casted a down-vote, you can cancel it without editing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inspired by litb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30470/add-downvote-reason-and-downvote-response-comments&quot;&gt;proposal&lt;/a&gt; on that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T13:16:49.223" Title="Another &quot;downvote-response&quot; proposal: allow user to cancel a downvote if he leaves a comment to the answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="30478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-20T18:53:26.803" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;i ll be very thankful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dear Ranjan,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really? Exactly how thankful? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. What are you wearing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:02:49.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30481" CreationDate="2009-11-20T19:01:59.533" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there by any chance a &quot;super ninja&quot; kind of way of searching closed questions by the number of reopen votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:13:38.467" Title="Search closed questions by the number of reopen votes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30479" CreationDate="2009-11-20T19:13:38.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earn 10k rep and use the pseudo-mod tools?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:13:38.467" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-20T19:26:10.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Ranjan,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EmguCV provides a platform to train machine.i m wantin to &#xA;  using it trough ANN_MLP class. but i found it difficult to &#xA;  understand the parametes and variables of that class. &#xA;  please suggest me any link or tutorial on that. i ll be &#xA;  very thankful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny you should ask about this, I've just recently found a great site that can provide answers to all your programming questions.  Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;, click the &quot;Ask Question&quot; button, describe the problem you're having, and you'll get all the answers you need very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:26:10.377" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30470" CreationDate="2009-11-20T19:48:04.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing how my initial proposed solution doesn't justify the complexity added, i would propose a simplier mechanism: A button for the answerer that enables downvoters to retract their downvotes again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would not allow retracting upvotes, to prevent tactical upvotes just &quot;out of sympathy&quot;, and would avoid that the answerer would be pushed towards the community wiki edit-limit by having useless edits that doesn't change content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:48:04.223" />
  <row Id="30484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30486" CreationDate="2009-11-20T19:50:47.260" Score="3" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find some good questions on stackoverflow to answer this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2922/what-question-from-your-site-shows-the-magic-of-the-stackexchange-platform&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. To start my search, I thought it would be good to look at the list of the most popular favorite questions. It is probably obvious but I couldn't find a way to sort the questions by how many each one has been marked as a favorite. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way get a list of the questions sorted by favorite count? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134478" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-20T20:05:00.820" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T08:59:58.033" Title="Is there a way to see the most popular &quot;favorite&quot; questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;stackql&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30456" CreationDate="2009-11-20T19:55:27.623" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree is not a real question... Wait a minute, that was &lt;strong&gt;MY!!&lt;/strong&gt; question, well yeah, I have to admit it is not a question. BUT!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was super excited about it. I have never had a blog because I don't feel like it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember I joined StackOverflow because exactly this same picture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/Img/stackoverflow-venn-diagram.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw it in the codinghorror blog  ( this:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001169.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;entry&lt;/a&gt; ) and since then I'm hooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wanted to share it, not on Reddit or other place, because those are communities I don't really use, but instead I thought about sharing it with S*'s &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that was a wrong idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering your question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Wiki&lt;/strong&gt; + &lt;strong&gt;Digg/Reddit&lt;/strong&gt; + &lt;strong&gt;Forum&lt;/strong&gt; part has gone tremendously well, while the blog part.. mmhh I think it should be &lt;strong&gt;removed&lt;/strong&gt; from that image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have now &quot;refactored&quot; my &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/73130/google-chrome-os-review-how-important-it-is-to-preserve-user-habits-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, and copy/pasted the entry in &lt;a href=&quot;http://oscarreyes.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/google-chrome-os-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my blog&lt;/a&gt; ( &lt;em&gt;&quot;my blog&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.. hey that's sound funny, I guess that would be my  1st and last  entry ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can now go back and vote to reopen that question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T19:55:27.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30484" CreationDate="2009-11-20T20:01:40.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=12767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yes there is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;id  	count	Title&#xA;9033    1185	Hidden Features of C#?&#xA;234075  918	What is your best programmer joke?&#xA;84556   877	What's your favorite &quot;programmer&quot; cartoon?&#xA;72394   816	What should a developer know before building a public web site?&#xA;1711    706	What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?    &#xA;58640   632	Great programming quotes&#xA;194812  483	List of freely available programming books&#xA;184618  479	What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?&#xA;662956  397	Most useful free .NET libraries?&#xA;38210   388	What non-programming books should programmers read?&#xA;164432  376	What real life bad habits has programming given you?&#xA;101268  367	Hidden features of Python&#xA;182112  364	Funny loading statements to keep users amused&#xA;406760  354	What's your most controversial programming opinion?&#xA;1644    338	What good technology podcasts are out there?&#xA;76364   309	What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?    &#xA;78756   302	What do you use to keep notes as a developer?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T20:01:40.937" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="30489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-20T21:35:31.920" Score="10" ViewCount="504" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62486&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hide pointless user data on userscripts.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at answers, I often take the user's reputation into account on whether I upvote them or not. This is a terribly bad thing to do as you should vote on answers based on quality, and nothing else. (it also keeps me from getting distracted looking at other user's rep :p ). So here's a greasemonkey scripts that hides other user's rep, badges, and gravatars (except your own badges and rep in the header). The relevant information, like their username, when the question was edited, and their accept rate, are kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Hide other users reputation&#xA;// @namespace      CrazyJugglerDrummer&#xA;// @description    hides all users reputations except yours in site header&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;function addGlobalStyle(css) {&#xA;    var head, style;&#xA;    head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];&#xA;    if (!head) { return; }&#xA;    style = document.createElement('style');&#xA;    style.type = 'text/css';&#xA;    style.innerHTML = css;&#xA;    head.appendChild(style);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;addGlobalStyle(&quot;span.reputation-score, span.badge1, span.badge2, span.badge3, span.badgecount, div.accept-answer-link, div.user-gravatar32 { display: none; }&quot;); //hides undesired user info&#xA;addGlobalStyle(&quot;#header span.reputation-score, #header span.badge1, #header span.badge2, #header span.badge3, #header span.badgecount { display: inline; }&quot;); //unhides that info in the header (your own info)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="130281" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T22:50:38.897" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:55:57.647" Title="Greasemonkey: Hide all pointless user data (gravatar, badges, and reputation)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30434" CreationDate="2009-11-20T22:04:10.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We customarily just link between two related questions, as you've done here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-20T22:04:10.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-20T22:57:40.117" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the religion/gender/color/socioeconomic status of the person answering your question really matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NO, nor should it EVER.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to the discussion about &quot;female programmer participation&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Name/Avatar does not always define gender.&lt;/strong&gt;  My avatar depicts a white woman, and my name says 'Heather', but how do you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; know I'm not a guy?  For all you know I named my SO profile in honor of my girlfriend, and I think she's hot so I put her as my avatar &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(That is indeed me and my name is indeed Heather, but you see my point.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sexism still exists.&lt;/strong&gt;  We aren't in some magical post-feminist era where sexism is a thing of the past.  People who think feminism is no longer necessary can have a chat with a client of mine who once refused to let me help her with a software problem on software that &lt;em&gt;I WROTE&lt;/em&gt;, and instead insisted on speaking to the &quot;head programmer man&quot;.  Upon telling this wondrous client that I was the &quot;head programmer&quot; for the software she was using, she laughed in disbelief.  Or you can talk to the IT &quot;professional&quot; who told me I needed to go back to playing with my Barbie dolls after I suggested he look into a proper client/server environment after all of the problems they had with their Windows 98 &quot;server&quot;.  Male coworker tells this guy the exact. same. thing., and he listens and takes note.  Granted, these situations are in a vast minority of clients I deal with, but shit like this never happens to my male coworker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women are still perceived as lightweights&lt;/strong&gt; Between myself and my male coworker (who is also a dev), less is expected of me than him.  Frequently he gets passed more complicated issues that I could handle just as easily.  Some of my coworkers express surprise when they ask him about an issue and he replies &quot;Heather fixed it&quot;.  It has taken me four years to shift the dynamic in this office where both of us devs are regarded about equally for problems.  This may or may not have had anything to do with my gender, but this has happened to me before at other places of employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138924" LastEditorUserId="138924" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T18:53:06.037" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T18:53:06.037" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30511" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:02:55.833" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, when I post questions, I try to remind myself that what I'm looking for is answers, not empty rep.  As such, I'm in favor of turning the things that I post into community wiki's.  But it seems like if people don't get rep for answering my question, then it's -less- likely it'll be responded to, which makes a really good reason for not making it CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Made this CW jus' for irony's sake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Or am I missing something, and CW on a question doesn't cause CW on answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastEditorUserId="137918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T00:11:07.347" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T07:24:19.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T00:09:18.880" Title="Will making my question community wiki kill the incentive to post answers for it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:05:58.567" Score="0" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or is it a race to be the first one to tag &quot;Community-Wiki&quot; in a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like on some irritating message board where users compete to be &quot;The First&quot;, and most of the time, there are multiple &quot;The Firsts&quot;. What are they competing for? Internet cred? Please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do people get Up-Votes for tagging &quot;Community-Wiki&quot;. Is it like a &quot;way-to-go Bro&quot;, you showed that guy? Fist pound, alright!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to prevent anyone from benefiting in reputation from &quot;Community-Wiki&quot; questions as they are technically not relevant to SO and since being &quot;Community-Wiki&quot;, should theoretically have no technical or managerial value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136208" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T03:08:20.507" Title="Have you ever been the first person to flag &quot;Community Wiki&quot;?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="30494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30492" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:09:25.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CW's are not for regular questions where there is an answer, yes a CW will deter people away from your question, since it's answerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer to the Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes making a Question CW will make all answers in that question CW as well. Just see my answer as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T00:09:25.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T00:09:25.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30493" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:10:34.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I vote to prevent anyone from benefiting in reputation from &quot;Community-Wiki&quot; questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW questions do not give the person any rep. Why are you talking about a CW tag? I see no use for complicating the tag system it since there is a perfectly fine CW checkbox you can use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T00:10:34.337" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30493" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:16:31.003" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do people get Up-Votes for tagging &quot;Community-Wiki&quot;. Is it like a &quot;way-to-go Bro&quot;, you showed that guy? Fist pound, alright!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the people who upvote just agree that the question should be community wiki.  There's no vast conspiracy here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T00:16:31.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30498" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:29:06.410" Score="0" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1871/what-purpose-does-downvoting-questions-serve&quot;&gt;What purpose does downvoting questions serve?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why bother, and what's the point, behind downvoting questions posted by new users who won't see any negative rep repercussions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being on only 1 rep, they stand to lose no rep at all from being downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we just vote to close instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139663" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T04:31:51.373" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T04:31:51.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T00:29:06.410" ClosedDate="2009-11-21T16:14:49.347" Title="Why downvote questions posted by new users when their rep won't be affected?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30497" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:35:40.203" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's more purpose to downvoting than simply affecting the reputation of the user -- otherwise why bother voting on community wiki questions and answers? It affects the sort order in search results, such as when searching within a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T00:35:40.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T00:35:40.203" />
  <row Id="30500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T00:58:54.857" Score="8" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;On your user profile page there are six (6) tabs; stats, activity, reputation, favorites, prefs and accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see in a new tab, maybe named &lt;strong&gt;50 latest viewed questions&lt;/strong&gt;, which would contain the 50 latest viewed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would help when I want to follow a question but don't want to bookmark it or add it to my favorites list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, or a few hours later, I can't even find it again. I think this would be good for when you're viewing questions at work and want to check it up at home but can't because it's not in the same browser history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134804" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T04:47:51.373" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:24:45.583" Title="Tracking the questions you've recently viewed or visited" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30493" CreationDate="2009-11-21T01:56:38.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this has been done to death, by me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;peace out, waffles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T01:56:38.857" />
  <row Id="30502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T02:24:23.147" Score="-11" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good question will receive many answers, and much more views than normal.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This level of activity is not reflected in the upvoting of said question. I recently encountered several such questions, which until I pointed this in the comments (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1749462/when-should-we-create-a-new-method/&quot;&gt;like in this example on SO&lt;/a&gt;) stayed in the lower 0-2 upvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My two suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Automatically upvote any question you answer, &lt;strong&gt;with the ability to cancel this up-vote&lt;/strong&gt;. This makes sense to me, as I answer only questions I like/are good (and I suppose others too).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Display popup message similar to:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you considered upvoting this question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  Addressing comments given so far: Answers do not mean a question is good, but it does imply you have an opinion on it. So why not prompt any one who answers to express their opinion by voting? (Similar to what happens when you upvote an answer to your own question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T03:42:24.393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T06:10:57.730" Title="Automatically upvote questions you answer - Unless you say otherwise" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30502" CreationDate="2009-11-21T02:58:30.587" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This make sense to me, as I answer only to questions I like/are good (and suppose others too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose you are wrong. I often answer questions not because I think they are especially good questions, but because I know the answer and can post it without much effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why would many answers be the sign of a good question? More often than not it's just the sign of a subjective and argumentative question (which should be closed), or a question that doesn't have any real answer (and therefore also doesn't belong here). Just because it's something lots of people can have an opinion on doesn't make it a good question. In fact more often than not it makes it a &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; question for Stack Overflow. So up-voting them automatically makes no sense at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here on meta: I answered to your suggestion, but not because I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T02:58:30.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30502" CreationDate="2009-11-21T03:01:34.187" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. This is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Auto upvote? This would only cause the voting system to be even more out of whack.  No one likes to be auto signed up, voted for, or whatever in any way.  I am afraid you would introduce just as many problems as your trying to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;as I answer only to questions I like/are good (and suppose others too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try not to suppose anyone's intentions on site. We all have our guesses and theories, but we really do not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T03:01:34.187" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30493" CreationDate="2009-11-21T03:08:20.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's like on some irritating message board where users compete to be &quot;The First&quot;, and most of the time, there are multiple &quot;The Firsts&quot;. What are they competing for? Internet cred? Please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nothing like &quot;first posts&quot;. The thing is that people that are used to how the site works generally are the first to enter a question, and if it really should be a wiki, they will point that out, specially to lower rep people, as they are most likely to not know the &lt;em&gt;rules&lt;/em&gt;. If there are more than one are either because they really posted close to each other, so the posters don't know somebody else posted, or the OP isn't Community Wiking the question after the first &lt;em&gt;gentle push&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T03:08:20.507" />
  <row Id="30506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30502" CreationDate="2009-11-21T03:35:55.730" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So popular stuff now already has an incredible advantage over complex technical stuff due to the bike shed effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are proposing giving popular stuff more of an advantage, and this will help, how?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T09:26:28.027" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T09:26:28.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19392" CreationDate="2009-11-21T03:36:57.147" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What waffle fetish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T23:51:33.723" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T23:51:33.723" />
  <row Id="30508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-21T04:17:47.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are looking for platform 9 3/4.  Just walk into the barrier between platforms 9 &amp;amp; 10, and you'll find yourself there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If nothing else the bump in the head should do him some good&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T15:10:11.540" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T15:10:11.540" />
  <row Id="30509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30492" CreationDate="2009-11-21T06:54:07.570" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it will. For example, I wouldn't have bothered to type and post any code in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763779/making-a-smooth-path-from-an-irregular-number-of-x-y-points-to-simulate-handwriti/1764958#1764958&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1761768/action-script-3-code-design-question/1762497#1762497&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; had they been marked CW - would have just given links instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T06:54:07.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T06:54:07.570" />
  <row Id="30510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T07:22:31.997" Score="1" ViewCount="232" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are all the technologies used at the frontend and the backend of this website? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T07:25:02.617" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T13:52:47.547" ClosedDate="2009-11-21T08:42:34.970" Title="Technology Used for building this site" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30492" CreationDate="2009-11-21T07:24:19.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will making my question community wiki kill the incentive to post answers for it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  Depending on the question it may not matter, though - popular questions may get attention just because people want to chime in on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for regular &quot;can be objectively answered&quot; questions, CW will cause some users to shy away - it's hard enough to get rep as it is, without spending time on questions that are guaranteed to give no rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does CW on a question cause CW on answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does for any answers made after the question was made CW.  So if you start a question CW, then every answer is CW.  If you change to CW an hour after you post it, any &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; answers are CW, but older answers aren't (unless the answer author chose CW when they posted their answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T07:24:19.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T07:24:19.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30510" CreationDate="2009-11-21T07:27:13.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tinkertoys and lego.  They totally rag on kinex and brio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T13:52:47.547" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T13:52:47.547" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T07:47:06.897" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that when I view a list of questions on Stack Overflow, it will flash one set ever so briefly and then refresh to show a different set of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug or a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T12:02:04.703" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T12:02:04.703" Title="List of questions flashes briefly before showing a different set of questions, what's up with that?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30513" CreationDate="2009-11-21T07:53:27.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because you have included tags in your list of ignored tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When loading up the questions page, the site will then check against your list of ignored and if you have selected &lt;strong&gt;Hide Ignored Tags&lt;/strong&gt; in the &lt;strong&gt;prefs&lt;/strong&gt; tab of your profile, it will remove them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/Or5eK.png&quot; alt=&quot;hiding the tags from view&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the questions not affected will then bunch up to take up the remaining space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all happens client-side, not server side, which is why it will show all the questions for a brief period before vanishing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T07:53:27.697" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30470" CreationDate="2009-11-21T08:12:36.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I proposed in another &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30477/another-downvote-response-proposal-allow-user-to-cancel-a-downvote-if-he-leavehttp%3A//meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30477/another-downvote-response-proposal-allow-user-to-cancel-a-downvote-if-he-leave&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, a better idea would be to allow user to retract his downvote if he leaves a comment to the answer.  No additional functionality needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a comment is left, then the user is concerned enough to see whether his reasons to downvote are right or wrong.  This is enough to allow him to retract the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T08:12:36.007" />
  <row Id="30516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30477" CreationDate="2009-11-21T11:37:45.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea.  I unconsciously stopped downvoting after the downvote-lock window was introduced.  It's just too easy to miss some detail that totally changes the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downvote dialogue was one of the great learning experiences of Stack Overflow.  You'd think-- this is WRONG and downvote it.  Then someone else would explain that in fact, you were wrong.  This kind of useful dialogue has all but disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion would require a special kind of comment that can only be added with a downvote.  Otherwise you could comment &quot;+1 excellent idea&quot; to explain a downvote :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T11:37:45.653" />
  <row Id="30517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30326" CreationDate="2009-11-21T11:48:49.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Statistics on the tags, particularly, would be helpful. Since tags are limitless it would be nice to know if a particular tag gets any hits or if it's a total waste of space. I might find that people are searching for some other similar tag that I wouldn't have thought to use instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if the search breakdown was somewhat similar to the top tags on SO. The most popular technologies are almost always going to be the ones in demand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;poison the system argument&quot; can also be seen in reverse: if I could see the popularity of the tags and find out that there are 1000 other people using the same tags I am, I might want to change my tags to use &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; common terms so that I separate from the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131472" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T11:48:49.033" />
  <row Id="30519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30462" CreationDate="2009-11-21T13:50:49.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't tell him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5374/norrisbeardhair.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Raped Norris' Face&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T13:50:49.703" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27614" CreationDate="2009-11-21T15:00:05.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to offer something like HR-XML - there are already XSLT transforms available on SourceForge to convert to HTML / PDF; I'm sure anyone worth employing could do DOCX as well if required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; recruitment companies actually accept HR-XML &quot;as is&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T15:00:05.720" />
  <row Id="30521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30530" CreationDate="2009-11-21T14:56:13.490" Score="5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do they think we are all working on 1024x768? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm running two 24&quot; monitors, giving me a horizontal resolution that can only be described as &quot;obscene&quot;, and I &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; the unnecessary horizontal scrollbars that appear when looking at long lines of code on this site. Is there a way to change it such that it fills out the screen a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139319" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T23:06:52.733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T23:06:52.733" Title="Is there a way to change the default code view size on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30523" CreationDate="2009-11-21T15:20:44.437" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, I had posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80835/best-way-to-organise-ones-sh-bash-python-etc-scripts&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow back when superuser wasn't still up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have flagged today the question as requiring mod intervention stating it ought to be moved to superuser, but I wonder:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether this is the best way around it,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether the mods who do get the notification are able to do something about it anyway, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether I should bother at all wrt this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help us help you, mods. How would you like to be bothered today? :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13992" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T18:35:58.177" Title="When I spot a question that ought to be in a different site, what do I do?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30522" CreationDate="2009-11-21T15:26:29.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alerting the mods is one solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming you have less than the 3,000 rep needed to vote to close the other choice is to leave a comment. This will help confirm that someone else thinks the same as me (as a 3,000+ rep user) when I come to view the question. You have to be careful how you word your comment though as the OP might just ask the same question on the target site so when the original does get migrated it'll be a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever you do though, &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; add a [belongs-on-*] tag to the question. While it'll get removed from the migrated question it sticks to the original and can't be removed. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30276/there-are-407-questions-tagged-belongs-on-serverfault-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for more discussion on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T18:35:58.177" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T18:35:58.177" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30451" CreationDate="2009-11-21T16:12:57.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dearest Ranjan,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take my advice.  Start training at a simple level, with the Steam Engine.  Once your student has mastered that, progress to the Diesel Engine.  Then you can branch out into Electric and Maglev technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not attempt conversion to Fusion technology or installation of your Flux Capacitor until your machine has mastered the basics.  Jules Verne trains are very dangerous without the proper understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://brassgoggles.co.uk/images/papercraftbacktothefuture.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T16:12:57.527" />
  <row Id="30525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T16:43:12.837" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently discovered &lt;a href=&quot;http://agileshout.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://agileshout.com&lt;/a&gt;, a StackOverflow implementation focused on agile questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site has fairly low traffic it seems, but it also seems very new. I'm wondering what the value of a topic-specific StackOverflow-like site offers. Why would I go to that site instead of looking at the questions with the agile tag here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The broader question is - what value hath topic-specific StackOverflow sites? I could see it within a company firewall, but not for public use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139311" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T17:49:35.880" ClosedDate="2009-11-24T03:54:18.473" Title="StackOverflow topic-specific sites" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30525" CreationDate="2009-11-21T16:46:01.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe one of the founders can explain some use cases and answer your question in his tech talk: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139491" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T16:54:58.977" />
  <row Id="30527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30525" CreationDate="2009-11-21T16:46:17.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;on a topic-specific site most likely people who know something about that specific topic will be hanging out.  Not everyone who is on SO answering questions will know about agile, but most likely people answering questions on agileshout will know something about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135139" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T16:54:58.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30525" CreationDate="2009-11-21T16:49:01.967" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a business model - SO and others are part of a question/answer site brand, and the more the merrier (advertisement etc)l.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131945" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T16:54:58.977" />
  <row Id="30529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30525" CreationDate="2009-11-21T16:54:17.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only of use within a firewall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guys at &lt;a href=&quot;http://epicadvice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://epicadvice.com/&lt;/a&gt; would disagree, no doubt :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; for what Joel and Jeff are up to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130029" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T16:54:58.977" />
  <row Id="30530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30521" CreationDate="2009-11-21T17:42:04.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1024x768 is the future! Maybe one day we can move to 800x600.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'd check out the Firefox extension Stylish, it allows you to write CSS for websites, so you could change whatever part of the view you don't like with ease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Greasemonkey can do more, but overkill)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T17:42:04.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30525" CreationDate="2009-11-21T17:49:35.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for migrating the question here. I didn't know this site existed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, it hath not the qualities of spam. I have no affiliation or interest in the other site. I just happened to stumble upon it and it raised the question: &quot;Where should I engage the agile community?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kristen's response in my original question clarified some things for me - that separate StackOverflow sites can be used effectively for non-tech issues (e.g. Fatherhood, Beer-making). My confusion was more in those that try to fork tech-relevant topics into their own sites (like the agile folks). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139311" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T17:49:35.880" />
  <row Id="30532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30703" CreationDate="2009-11-21T17:59:28.297" Score="3" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while my attempt to edit a question fails.  I make an edit, click the &quot;Save Your Edits&quot; button, the button becomes disabled, but the refresh of the page never happens and the edits don't take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I can't edit &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1238117/memory-problem&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.  I've tried several times over the last couple days, so it's not just a one-time glitch.  Anyone else have a problem editing it?  If not, why can't I?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per John's comment, I tried clearing the cache in Firefox 3.5.5 and I tried it in IE8.  Still no go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, I understand what's going on.  Jeff's answer, and Diago's comment to that answer, helped me see the light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was not aware that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10883/editing-questions-with-short-titles-15-char&quot;&gt;minimum&#xA;title length was raised from 10 to&#xA;15&lt;/a&gt;.  This explains how a question&#xA;with a title under the limit came to&#xA;exist, yet could not be edited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm so used to seeing only the edit&#xA;button, I forgot there is a retag&#xA;button if you don't have enough rep&#xA;to edit.  Since there is no validation&#xA;of the question during a simple retag &#xA;operation, this explains how John was&#xA;able to retag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To those voting to close this as &quot;exact duplicate&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;: Please leave a link to the question of which this is a dupe.  I would like to see it and will gladly vote to delete this question if it is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:14:39.553" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:14:39.553" Title="Why can't I edit some questions?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T18:14:38.427" Score="0" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you by default consider saving the last page display settings, ex. number of items to display, sorting options (view, votes dates).  Also a history or recently viewed questions would be helpful as well for quick access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137619" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T18:14:38.427" Title="Please save page display and search settings" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30462" CreationDate="2009-11-21T18:31:44.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;... there is only another fist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3938777325462206007#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e77/kpeaton/anotherfist.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T19:17:42.007" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T19:17:42.007" />
  <row Id="30535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T19:13:24.420" Score="4" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read about adding tag names and stuff in search terms, but how can I search for &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; keywords in &lt;code&gt;AND&lt;/code&gt; fashion? (I.e. both keywords appear in some discussion, not as an expression.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: say I want to see all discussions that are about both apples and oranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-04T18:12:36.793" LastActivityDate="2010-11-04T18:12:36.793" Title="Allow boolean searches" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T20:39:35.247" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;If not programming related questions aren't allowed on SO, why don't you erase the &lt;code&gt;not-programming-related&lt;/code&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139317" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T20:47:06.543" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T20:47:13.127" Title="Why does the &quot;not-programming-related&quot; tag exists, if these questions aren't allowed on SO?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30538" CreationDate="2009-11-21T20:46:53.203" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;problem&quot; is two-fold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) the tag exists so will get suggested if people start typing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) even if it was successfully removed there's nothing to stop someone reinventing the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have talked about having a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;tag blacklist&lt;/a&gt;, but it hasn't been implemented yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T20:46:53.203" />
  <row Id="30541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30538" CreationDate="2009-11-21T20:47:13.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, that tag will make the tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;blacklist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T20:47:13.127" />
  <row Id="30542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30544" CreationDate="2009-11-21T20:57:20.503" Score="6" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/165297/amarghosh&quot;&gt;users/165297/amarghosh&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday night (Friday - I'm in India, so it is UTC + 5:30) I had a little above 4000 reputation points. Today morning I was surprised to find it to be 4200 something - apparently someone upvoted many of my top answers until I hit the rep cap (thanks dude). I even had a couple of non-rep-yielding up-votes and the total for the day showed 215. Then I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1774846/how-to-search-replace-text-with-an-a-href-wrapper-in-javascript/1774855#1774855&quot;&gt;received&lt;/a&gt; three down-votes and two up-votes, and signed off somewhere around 4250. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just now I logged in to find that my rep is back at 4075 and most of the yesterday's up-votes are not shown in the recent tab - it shows that total rep earned yesterday was 35, but still has a non-rep-yielding vote (vote count shows 1, but nothing on the rep portion). I figured that yesterday's sudden increase might have be a bug and it was fixed (or the  guy changed his mind and cancelled them) - but interestingly, my top-posts in the profile page haven't lost those votes. My top voted posts had 5 votes each before yesterday and it became six after the bulk up-votes. They still have six votes each after the drop in rep. So I have a feeling that it is a bug. Could someone look into this and tell me what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short:&lt;/strong&gt; The post pages show that they do have 6 votes, but my reputation doesn't reflect them - it was somehow rolled back. And according to recent activity page, I hit the cap on Friday with 35 points (it shows a non-rep vote in there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Don't take it just as a cry for the lost 200 rep points - I'm curious to know what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastEditorUserId="135650" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T21:05:55.150" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T21:08:12.993" Title="Sudden drop in reputation for no apparent reason in SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:01:36.190" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question posted just now was titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1776728/best-book-for-java-programming&quot;&gt;Best Book for Java Programming&lt;/a&gt;. Of course, it was almost immediately closed as a duplicate question. I popped over to the Ask a Question page and typed in the same title, and not only did the &quot;subjective and likely to be closed&quot; message come up, but quite a number of suggested Java programming book related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the OP completely missed all that useful information. What can Stack Overflow do, if anything, to improve this experience for everybody? It would be better for the OP if they could get the answer to their question more quickly, and better for the site if participants didn't have to spend effort finding duplicates and closing these kinds of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; page were split into two parts, one where the user types in their title and gets suggestions, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; after confirming that &quot;none of the above links help me&quot; then a next page that contains a question body field. Or perhaps better, with some jQuery the body field could be hidden until the user confirms that none of the suggested links solve their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T13:32:24.587" Title="How can SO improve the automatic pre-question search?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30542" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:08:12.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The daily script hunting for vote abuse has detected the voting pattern of your &quot;friend&quot;. So it decided to undo all these upvotes. Afterwards a rep-recalc dropped your points to the amount you've seen today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be the case that your answers where also upvoted from someone else, after hitting the cap. So maybe the posts with 6 upvotes are correct, maybe not. You can wait here for a moderator to look at it, or flag one of your posts, explaining your issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T21:08:12.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30543" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:13:17.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea where you have to confirm that the questions in the suggestion box do not match yours. But I think it's not going to matter for many other cases, since people want their question answered, since they personally think that it's different, and there's very little you can do to stop that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T21:13:17.667" />
  <row Id="30546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30543" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:14:00.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An idea of awesomeness, IMO.  I'm a bit scared of adding more speedbumps to the question-asking process, but saving everyone else's time is an idea worth considering.  However, people don't read things that get in the way of their desired goal (which is usually &quot;ask question&quot;, not &quot;find answer&quot;), so I suspect that people might just blindly click &quot;none of these match&quot; without investigating the links provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would seem to be a nice topic for a real-world usability test.  Present this alternate UI half the time, and track things like dupe-close rate for both sorts of questions, to see if it reduces that rate at all.  To try and identify instances of &quot;question attempt abandoned because it was too hard to ask&quot; as distinct from &quot;question attempt abandoned because questioner found their answer&quot;, track whether or not any of the presented links were actually clicked (and count it as an &quot;answer found&quot; if so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T21:14:00.050" />
  <row Id="30547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30543" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:19:08.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel your pain, but I don't think your suggestion is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it will decrease the number of questions, but not because the asker found his answer before posting as you expect. I think, more people will give up with a &quot;WTF? I just want to ask a question!&quot; feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking questions wouldn't be straight forward anymore. Instead of being easy, it would be more a &quot;pain in the a..&quot; approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T21:19:08.980" />
  <row Id="30548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30549" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:34:25.457" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I asked, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1774899/php-langauge-barrier-design-problem&quot;&gt;PHP langauge barrier design problem&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow and I cannot seem to find it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea what went wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130066" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T00:30:22.127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T00:30:22.127" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T07:14:26.360" Title="Question has gone, can't find it, can't see it, don't know, where did it go?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30548" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:54:51.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has already been stated - it says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;deleted by LiraNuna 13 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anybody else had deleted it (including ♦ mods) it would show another person's name. I doubt that somebody has hacked the site &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; to delete your post, so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;could somebody else have used your computer/session?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;perhaps you simply clicked the wrong button? (it happens...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you want it undeleted (assuming this option isn't available to you, or you would have clicked it already).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T21:54:51.193" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30552" CreationDate="2009-11-21T21:59:06.817" Score="0" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the 1999 classic &lt;em&gt;&quot;Pirates of Silicon Valley&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and, in a shot showing &lt;strong&gt;Bill Gates&lt;/strong&gt; programming windows, this screen comes up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering if this film had &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to with the naming of the site. Curious that's all :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's a fairly common error in C/C++. Either way, it's a humourous reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/2qlh6rs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This originally comes from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1776892/did-pirates-of-silicon-valley-influence-sos-name&quot;&gt;closed SO post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It was suggested on SO I ask it here.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139318" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T22:12:42.673" Title="Did &quot;Pirates of Silicon Valley&quot; influence SO's name?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;so-name&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30550" CreationDate="2009-11-21T22:03:26.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I severely doubt it. Simply; it is common enough to be understood my devs, quite catchy, and wasn't taken. I don't speak for the actual team's decision, of course - this is just my understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T22:03:26.980" />
  <row Id="30552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30550" CreationDate="2009-11-21T22:12:42.673" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff held a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001095.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Help Name Our Website&lt;/a&gt; contest and Stack Overflow was the name that was most voted upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T22:12:42.673" />
  <row Id="30553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30543" CreationDate="2009-11-21T22:19:10.477" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that you can ask a question by entering four fields on a single page is the single greatest thing about Stack Overflow.  Duplicates are a pretty small problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making questions more complex seems like a bad tradeoff to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T22:19:10.477" />
  <row Id="30554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30543" CreationDate="2009-11-21T22:29:45.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that you saw the information it's safe to assume that the poster of the original question did too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the OP either didn't see it or chose to ignore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was the former then the question should be how to make the information more prominent or noticeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was the latter then there's nothing that can be done. Some people will continue to ignore it no matter how prominent and noticeable it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have pointed out SO was designed to have a very low entry barrier to encourage people to come and ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T22:29:45.123" />
  <row Id="30555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-11-21T23:07:58.237" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this is a good question, whether or not it's related to Stack Overflow (which it is). I had a bit to think about this due to Technorati Open Id juju being awful, and I still haven't come up with a reasonable answer for all women, so I can only answer for myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the first time I've thought of this, my question/answer ratio on SO is DEPLORABLE. The answer is there is NO appeal for me in answering questions. Sure, the game is fun, but I feel like I have a lot on my plate. My hobbies during my down time involve shoes, the gym, and things of the sort (thus doing my share in fulfilling sexual stereotypes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I WILL answer if I am on and happen to see a question that I know the answer to. However, I don't go looking for them, really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is it doesn't entertain me and I don't find much fulfillment in it. I do try to contribute to the community in other ways, however, so I am returning the effort I am asking for.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139284" LastEditorUserId="139284" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-21T23:13:17.727" LastActivityDate="2009-11-21T23:13:17.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-21T23:07:58.237" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30566" CreationDate="2009-11-21T23:28:15.063" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it isn't my business to know, but I am curious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the development process for each of these sites what bug tracking tools may have been used, besides user input. And how do you track feature requests for inclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137837" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T05:48:52.013" Title="Is all bugtracking on stackoverflow public?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30558" CreationDate="2009-11-22T00:32:49.610" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I vote up a post, the vote score will increase from 0 to 1. But then I might change my mind or repent  my actions and wish to take back that vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I vote it down, the score will be minus instead of zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I undo my vote so that the score will come back down to zero instead of showing the minus 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139317" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T00:52:09.530" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T00:52:09.530" Title="Cancel a vote so that the tally goes back to zero and not minus" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;undo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30557" CreationDate="2009-11-22T00:39:40.220" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the vote again to undo. This will take you back to what it was before you voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21462/undoing-an-old-vote-cannot-be-recast-because-vote-is-too-old&quot; title=&quot;we only got four minutes to save the world, far less if you cast the wrong vote&quot;&gt;there is a time limit&lt;/a&gt; if you don't do it quick enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T00:39:40.220" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60020" CreationDate="2009-11-22T01:38:09.087" Score="32" ViewCount="816" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/faq#latex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mathoverflow&lt;/a&gt; has an awesome engine where you can embed Latex in questions, answers, and comments. Can we get something like this going in SO? I think it'd be appropriate as I at least pretty often want to write something like n^2, and would benefit greatly from prettier markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133186" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T08:02:48.510" LastActivityDate="2011-03-06T14:14:34.350" Title="Latex in Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;latex&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="30560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-22T01:43:38.530" Score="-1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on Stack Overflow about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1777374/seriously-what-left-of-unix&quot;&gt;if Unix is dead&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, it would be an idiotic question if asked in 2000. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now, after the death of Sun Microsystems, it's pretty political, hot and economically important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now I can't even find the question listed on my profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did it go and why was it deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139323" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T01:50:19.813" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T01:53:00.480" Title="Question about the death of UNIX is dead and gone from my list, why?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30560" CreationDate="2009-11-22T01:53:00.480" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the sound of it I'm guessing your question was closed/deleted due to being subjective and/or argumentative. Stack Overflow &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt; the place for political or economical discussions, it's a place for asking/answering specific programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to have extended discussions where you can air your opinions, I suggest you get a blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T01:53:00.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30563" CreationDate="2009-11-22T02:47:54.280" Score="-3" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;One strong indication of weak questions is that the questioner doesn't even indicate the language or environment. How about using the required tag mechanism seen on meta to designate a big pile of 'what language is this' tags, and have an 'other' for those people who really are posing a question about something new? Obviously, language-independent is going to be one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T15:38:32.193" Title="Proposal: require at least one 'programming language' tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30562" CreationDate="2009-11-22T03:13:54.280" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you maintain a comprehensive list of all programming languages and applicable technologies? I think this would create more problems than it would solve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are missing a tag can easily enough be edited to include the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T03:13:54.280" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30565" CreationDate="2009-11-22T05:00:44.397" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16757/how-do-you-contact-a-stackoverflow-user&quot;&gt;How do you contact a StackOverflow user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19990/routing-a-question-to-a-particular-so-member-or-members&quot;&gt;Routing a Question to a Particular SO Member or Members&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hai guys,&#xA;    How to ask a question to a particular user of stackoverflow.com .... Is there any way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T05:07:51.823" ClosedDate="2009-11-22T14:36:45.537" Title="How to ask a question to a particular user of stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30564" CreationDate="2009-11-22T05:07:51.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the user has put their contact details (email address or blog details) into their profile I think you can safely assume they don't wish to be contacted by other Stack Overflow users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could try leaving a comment asking them to contact you under one of their posts and they might get back to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T05:07:51.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30556" CreationDate="2009-11-22T05:13:00.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Overflow is the place to report bugs or feature requests (use either of the &lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt; tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the team's decision they will update with one of the following tags and possibly an answer or comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;status-planned&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;status-norepro&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;status-reproduced&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;status-deferred&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;status-review&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether they use a private bug tracker internally such as FogBugz I couldn't possibly say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T05:13:00.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-22T05:16:41.040" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would an option of flagging questions as needing Migration in addition to the the &lt;em&gt;Offensive&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Spam&lt;/em&gt; categories help the moderators in triaging flagged questions more efficiently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the posts I have flagged have been migrations and the only sensible option left is &lt;em&gt;Requires Moderator Attention&lt;/em&gt;. I'm not sure how much other use of the &lt;em&gt;Requires Moderator Attention&lt;/em&gt; there is apart from flagging questions for migration. You could still enter information on why the question has been flagged much as you do now with the &lt;em&gt;Requires Moderator Attention&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I asked this question because I don't have enough rep to vote to close questions but still want to participate with flagging questions. I thought that having another category might help the moderators with the number of questions they need to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137466" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T09:36:44.703" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T09:36:44.703" Title="Add option to flag posts for migration" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30502" CreationDate="2009-11-22T06:10:57.730" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put simply: I answer a great &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; questions that are ill-thought out, based on some misunderstanding, painfully simply, easily answered by looking in the documentation, unoriginal, or otherwise not very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer them anyway because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I just like to help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To help make SOFU a general repository of answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but that doesn't mean I like the questions---more than a few of them make me cringe---and I would be &lt;em&gt;very annoyed&lt;/em&gt; if someone tried to make me vote for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T06:10:57.730" />
  <row Id="30571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30567" CreationDate="2009-11-22T07:00:01.667" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagging for migration is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/belongs-on-just-does-not-belong&quot; title=&quot;put that retag away!&quot;&gt;improper use of the tags&lt;/a&gt; and is discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging for moderator attention, with a short reason as to why it's better suited on another site is already there, so use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requires Moderator attention can also be used for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flagging a user for suspicious or hateful behaviour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking for a rep recalc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pointing out questions that are exact dupes and could be merged (Especially when it's the same user who only waited 11 minutes before reposting the exact same thing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T07:00:01.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28977" CreationDate="2009-11-22T09:03:08.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a podcast where Jeff talked about this, but I'm having trouble finding it. I know he talked about tags for sure, but I thought there was also an RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133483" LastEditorUserId="133483" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T04:10:29.927" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T04:10:29.927" />
  <row Id="30578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:02:22.390" Score="32" ViewCount="557" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far Stack Overflow seems like a great place to help out fellow programmers and get excellent answers. Is the reputation one earns from this process marketable? Would you as a potential employer hire someone based upon data from Stack Overflow?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you be looking for? Good answers? Good Questions? Both?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167388" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T04:34:31.703" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T04:34:31.703" Title="Is Stack Overflow reputation marketable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="30579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:05:29.747" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Realistically, most employers are never going to have heard of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:06:28.667" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar question here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/278485/stackoverflow-as-meta-job-interview-1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/278485/stackoverflow-as-meta-job-interview-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are interviewing other people for&#xA;  a developer job in your own&#xA;  organization. You find out that the&#xA;  person has been a contributor on&#xA;  stackoverflow, submitting both&#xA;  questions and answers. You think it&#xA;  might be helpful to review their&#xA;  posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What would you look for, in what order&#xA;  of importance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/278485/stackoverflow-as-meta-job-interview-1#278496&quot;&gt;MusiGenesis's post&lt;/a&gt;: reputation is really more of an indicator of time spent on the site. The actual writing is what is really important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130464" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:06:58.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would look at what kind of questions that the user has asked, trying to spot the easy search that has been skipped. As for answers, I would look on how well the answers are formulated, but I wouldn't give much to the reputation, because it's always possible to game a system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131757" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:07:00.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just hiring someone from Stack Overflow based on answers isn't that smart.&#xA;I would like to see the persons previous/current history when it comes to work, skills and similar and a interview, since there are people that are very good but can't work in groups or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Stack Overflow is also very new, and very few know about it, at least when it comes to people that hire others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:07:17.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be a bad thing for an employer... yes you can be a good programmer with good answer... but hummm if you do StackOverFlow at your job instead of working it only show to your new employer that you are someone who like going on the Internet instead of working... I do not think it's a plus value to show that to employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:07:28.417" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think a person very foolish to use reputation on any forum as a metric for prospective employers to use when appraising an applicant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138568" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:11:37.083" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would and would pay close attention to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the quality of questions asked - do they reflect the level of knowledge expected?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the quality of answers given - do they reflect the level of knowledge claimed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the tone used - smarmy, witty, sarcastic, helpful, or what? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether they used their real name or hid behind a pseudonym, and if the latter, what does their choice of pseudonym reveal about their personality?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-01T09:52:22.313" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T09:52:22.313" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:11:46.583" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say definitely no. The main reason why is because one thing I've noticed in SO is that &lt;em&gt;asking&lt;/em&gt; questions seems to be rewarded much more than answering them. If you look through the users, you will find that a lot (not all, but a lot) of the people with very high rep simply ask a ton of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, asking questions here is a good thing, it helps you become more knowledgeable while simultaneously helping the community. But the bottom line is that rep != knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141692" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:20:31.743" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the FAQ states it very clearly: reputation points means one thing, and one thing &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt;: how much SO as a site trusts you. If you want to hire a moderator for a social programming site, then reputation points may be a good indicator. Otherwise not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130806" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:22:52.363" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is definitely something that I intend to factor into my hiring decisions. I already check out potential employee's prior art work if it is public, read up on their blogs, and look for community forums where they might have posted, before I make my final hiring decision. Now do I do this with every candidate before I interview them? No way! Too time consuming. But if I am down to two or three guys that I already like, it would influence my opinion positively if I see them contributing to the overall community knowledgebase, because I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; feel that it is important that they can share what they know in a constructive manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162120" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:32:12.873" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an employer, I see 'active involvement in the development community' as being highly correlated with candidate quality. Right now, SO is a 'hot' topic and so, yeah, I'll probably start asking about it when discovering 'how do you solve hard problems?' and 'what do you do to stay current?' &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To state the obvious: reducing the quality of a candidate to any single number, such as their SO reputation, is absurd. What I'll do is look at their questions and answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW: Will I get banned if I mention that I'm hiring?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147648" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:53:39.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I interviewed for my current position, my interviewers had put my name in google, found my blog, forum activity, etc. They got a glimpse into my level of knowledge and interest to learn/help others and got to take a look at my writing skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that I had a good amount of community involvement went over very well and it also allowed them to ask very targeted questions based on what they could infer about my experience. It was probably the best interview I've ever had and subsequently the best job I've ever had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a situation like mine, having activity on SO would have been a factor, so I wouldn't discount it. That being said, I wouldn't put it on my resume either. Employers that will take notice of this sort of thing will do the research on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:56:46.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if Jeff decides to normalize rep distributed per question, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The GameDev.net forums have a manual reputation system which is definitely marketable in the game industry (amazing general programming forum btw if you do C++).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T21:58:34.647" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering as an employer, No. Only your real skills are marketable. The quality of questions and answers definitely can be used evaluate written communication skills. The quality and quantity of your open-source project counts even more. OTOH, the stackoverflow reputation number is complete useless as it has very weak correlation with quality of the questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T22:02:15.153" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since StackOverflow has come out of beta, the top hit on google for my name is my SO profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd imagine that regardless of whether they've heard of SO, a potential employer is going to google my name, and find that page. They may not understand or care about the reputation score, but I'd imagine they'd click through to the top few questions or answers, and therefore the quality of the stuff I've posted on SO is going to affect what they think of me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this effect is positive. Either way it's a tremendous incentive for me to post insightful answers, and not flame people, and so forth. I could have used an alias and not posted under my real name, but on the whole I believe that having my SO stuff 'visible' will be a net win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-10T22:14:02.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think these have been mentioned yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most common tags: what subject areas predominate? Are they relevant to the desired skillset?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Average number of votes received on answers, and how frequently the answers are chosen as the best answer. The higher, the better. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When written communication skills are a job requirement, this is one example of their abilities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158615" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-11T11:50:23.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm hiring I always google people's names after the initial screening interview, but before I bring them in to talk to the team.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I found some posts on SO - or on a blog, or anywhere else -  made by someone who was definitely the person we were going to interview, then I'd certainly regard them as being useful information about the person.  Reputation would be less relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145814" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-11T14:50:23.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My co-worker &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12895&quot;&gt;Craig&lt;/a&gt; suggests that it will be a year or so before we have a real answer to that question.  I tend to agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A hire/no-hire decision is based on many factors.  Previous experience, references, and education weigh most heavily because it's easier to measure the value of those things.  More importantly, they can be valued independently of what the prospective hire might say. Stack Overflow (SO) reputation can't yet be valued with measures external to Stack Overflow. Once it has been around awhile, that might be easier.  For now, I think the vast majority of companies that employ programmers won't weight SO reputation much (if at all) in their hiring decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be exceptions to this (of course).  There are employers like mine, who are aware of Stack Overflow because we all read Coding Horror and Joel on Software (and in my case, managed to get on the Stack Overflow beta).  If I'm in the interview rotation and a candidate mentions that Stack Overflow is a site they use regularly, it would give me a more positive view of them.  Experience, references, education (and how well they interview)  would still be the primary factors in my decision, but quality questions and answers in SO would only help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132696" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2008-11-14T15:01:39.037" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that the three most important factors--in order--are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Attitude. Some people become jerks on the internet. I think this is very, very similar to the old adage about how people treat their social inferiors is the best measure of their character. If most of your posts are sarcastic or bombastic, then you're probably going to be difficult to work with--no matter how well you schmooze in the interview. Your ability to disagree with a position while still respecting the person on the other end of the disagreement speaks volumes about how you'll interact with co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Communication skill. Every job requires this, and the ability to explain something clearly or to present an effective argument are critical skills for virtually any job in technology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Knowledge, both areas of expertise and actual expertise within those areas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One nice thing is that, within reason, none of these criteria would necessarily count against a non-native speaker. Spelling and grammar has to get really, really bad before it makes your argument unintelligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual reputation score only matters in that it tells you how much of the candidate's writing you'll be able to judge on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:36.737" />
  <row Id="30598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-10T17:01:46.900" Score="16" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scenario:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are interviewing other people for a &lt;b&gt;developer&lt;/b&gt; job in your own organization. You find out that the person has been a contributor on Stack Overflow, submitting both questions and answers. You think it might be helpful to review their posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you look for, in what order of importance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:07:07.360" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:07:07.360" Title="Using Stack Overflow in a job interview" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;career-development&gt;&lt;job-interview&gt;" AnswerCount="10" />
  <row Id="30599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T17:03:45.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good questions with solid detail outlining real problems (not just reputation fodder subjective polls) means they are confident to question their own ability, able to describe their situation and to react to feedback. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers obviously show knowledge. Are they active and able in the tags that are relevant to the role? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, ultimately, it's a tricky one - too much stack overflow rep could mean boredom in their current job or maybe you'll have someone using hours per day on non-work topics! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T17:05:38.967" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would only look at their actual writings on technical matters.  The reputation score is more of an indicator of time spent on the site than anything else (and thus a &lt;em&gt;potential&lt;/em&gt; negative, actually, since it might indicate a predilection for wasting time on the Internet instead of working).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were interviewing a candidate who had posted here, I would definitely review their posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" />
  <row Id="30601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T17:08:03.313" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just use it as a talking point in the interview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find out why they're involved (to gauge if that's likely to translate to being more or less productive in the role you have in mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also look at what questions they have asked and answered on subjects that are relevant to the position. But don't write them off if they got things wrong, or ask stupid questions. This is a learning forum. Chances are they know better now. Perhaps test that hypothesis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's worth getting into too many specifics, though. And what is relevant depends on the role and environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138080" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" />
  <row Id="30602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T17:13:25.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone closed my other question (about managers) as &quot;not programming related&quot;. Do you agree that's legitimate?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It's back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T17:35:41.027" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another thing that I might look for in the negative would be a tendency towards buzzwordism as a substitute for real answers (e.g. &quot;Oracle Lite is throwing exception POL-5332 on an Android phone?  You should use Scrum.&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136362" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" />
  <row Id="30604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T19:02:32.210" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order of preference, I would look for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Quality of answers&lt;/b&gt;.  Did this person write concise and friendly answers to other people's questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Correctness of answers&lt;/b&gt;.  Do the person's answers get a lot of votes?  Are they accepted as the final answer for many questions?  Or, were they mostly wrong?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Quality of questions&lt;/b&gt;.  Did this person ask insightful questions that demonstrate that the person already did their homework by looking online for answers?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Overuse of StackOverflow&lt;/b&gt;.  Is this person sitting on StackOverflow all day, building up reputation, but presumably not doing his or her day job?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reputation&lt;/b&gt;.  Does this person demonstrate skill in persistently asking questions or helping other people out?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139116" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T19:07:59.547" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First I would make certain that the person I'm looking at on SO is &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; the person I'm interviewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153934" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T19:38:26.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any input that I will take from Stack Overflow will be after &lt;strong&gt;reading myself&lt;/strong&gt; what the person has asked or answered and not purely on his/her reputation number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T09:40:48.193" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T09:40:48.193" />
  <row Id="30607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-10T20:40:08.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of questions asked, do they reflect an inquisitive person trying to advance their career knowledge and/or solve a burning issue for a customer, or are they give-us-teh-codez desperate pleas for help by someone in over his/her head?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of answers given, do they reflect a level of knowledge consistent with the experience claimed on the resume?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of answers given, do they reflect the kind of team spirit and customer-serving philosophy that you want your people to have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T09:40:10.650" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T09:40:10.650" />
  <row Id="30608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30598" CreationDate="2008-11-14T15:04:18.860" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that the three most important factors--in order--are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Attitude. Some people become jerks on the internet. I think this is very, very similar to the old adage about how people treat their social inferiors is the best measure of their character. If most of your posts are sarcastic or bombastic, then you're probably going to be difficult to work with--no matter how well you schmooze in the interview. Your ability to disagree with a position while still respecting the person on the other end of the disagreement speaks volumes about how you'll interact with co-workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Communication skill. Every job requires this, and the ability to explain something clearly or to present an effective argument are critical skills for virtually any job in technology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Knowledge, both areas of expertise and actual expertise within those areas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One nice thing is that, within reason, none of these criteria would necessarily count against a non-native speaker. Spelling and grammar has to get really, really bad before it makes your argument unintelligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[This is a re-purposed answer, but if my main point doesn't change why retype it?]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:42:44.893" />
  <row Id="30609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2009-11-22T10:46:00.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers&lt;/a&gt; evolving, you'd think it might be a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; bit marketable - but IMO the &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; of any questions/answers is more important than just the number; so as long as you are writing clean, intelligent, helpful and informative posts I wouldn't get fixated by this alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T10:46:00.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-22T10:46:18.180" Score="4" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that reading all the questions for a specific tag on Stack Overflow is a great way to understand how that topic plays out in real life. Thus, if you're learning python from a book and/or online tutorials, you should also subscribe to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'python'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question I have is this: for computer science students who are still doing their undergraduate degree in computer science, what are the best tags to follow? I find that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/algorithm&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'algorithm'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;algorithm&lt;/a&gt; is great. It's largely language neutral, contains stuff that all computer science students must know, and in most cases does not bog them down with unnecessary details (unlike the python tag that often contains questions about language arcana).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other tags should a computer science student follow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139335" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:30:36.793" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:30:36.793" Title="What are the best tags to follow on stackoverflow for computer science students?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;learning&gt;&lt;computer-science&gt;&lt;education&gt;" AnswerCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-22T10:51:36.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot;&gt;code-golf&lt;/a&gt;, if you would like to solve challenging tasks for improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153395" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T11:01:47.587" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-22T10:59:06.327" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For CompSci students, &lt;code&gt;algorithm&lt;/code&gt; would be my first choice, then select a language or languages you're interested in if you want more specialist questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastEditorUserId="14860" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T03:13:25.893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T03:13:25.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-22T11:00:54.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/language-agnostic&quot;&gt;[language-agnostic]&lt;/a&gt; brings the more abstract and insightful questions to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130442" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T11:01:47.587" />
  <row Id="30614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-22T11:04:39.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/theory&quot;&gt;Theory&lt;/a&gt; (207 questions as of this writing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T11:04:39.167" />
  <row Id="30615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30616" CreationDate="2009-11-22T10:31:27.630" Score="3" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there is a similar question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30578/is-stack-overflow-reputation-marketable&quot;&gt;Is Stack Overflow reputation marketable?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am curious if fellow SO members have any examples or stories about how it has helped them in the past. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed the flair system to show your SO rep and was wondering if it was worth the hassle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;..it could help or it could hinder.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a contractor so I am thinking it is possible to win some contracts possibly I wouldn't normally otherwise, should a client take a look at my portfolio and actually notice me because of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already received referral traffic off my profile here.. but nothing that has found me a new client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;update:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..and so far I'm just getting direct speculative answers.. I am really looking for any direct affect anyone answering has &lt;em&gt;noticed&lt;/em&gt; for themselves. (if you haven't please don't answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;example:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've already received referral traffic&#xA;  off my profile here..  but nothing&#xA;  that has found me a new client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139332" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:27:15.147" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:27:15.147" Title="Has your StackOverflow reputation helped your career?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;career-development&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30615" CreationDate="2009-11-22T10:40:17.453" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Overflow can be a strong part of a CV or job-interview in the sense that it shows that you've got a real passion for programming. And it is not just something you do to get food on the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I guess Stack Overflow also provides some insight into a persons skills and personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134838" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T11:20:23.540" />
  <row Id="30617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30615" CreationDate="2009-11-22T10:56:09.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most employers don't care about your passion for programming. They will also have no time reading from several hundreds of your answers to get an impression of you. They have 300+ resumes lying on their desk that they need to sort through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also some concerns have been shown that employers may question whether you gained your high reputation during work hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, I wouldn't want to work for that typical employer type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T16:57:19.900" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T16:57:19.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32096" CreationDate="2009-11-22T11:29:19.213" Score="3" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined the StackOverflow Facebook group, but I didn't see any info on how to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139332" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T02:00:09.930" Title="How do you add flair to facebook as a sidebar widget?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;facebook&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-22T11:57:50.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest best-practices, coding-style, language-agnostic, programming, unit-testing, security, performance, multi-threading, concurrency. For a specific class of programming they may choose to follow oop and functional-programming as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139333" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T11:57:50.210" />
  <row Id="30620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30621" CreationDate="2009-11-22T11:56:12.610" Score="4" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his video &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ&amp;amp;feature=related&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; in Google Tech-Talk, Joel Spolsky is talking about warnings and penalties for bad users. He mention it in the last 10 minutes when asked about bad users behaviors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel says there is warnings sent to users if they behave badly, and then might get one week penalty which means no reputation for the whole week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this implemented? If yes, how could the user know if he/she is behaving bad or good, I mean what are the measures? Sometimes I got down votes for answering, but I'm just answering. I wish that it's mandatory to put a comment when downvoting, so the answerer come back and fix, or at least learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139334" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-01T09:57:09.700" LastActivityDate="2010-08-01T09:57:09.700" Title="What are the penalties and warnings Joel talked about?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;&lt;penalty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30620" CreationDate="2009-11-22T11:59:56.160" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry.  If you were the sort of person that would earn a penalty, you'd know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply using the site for asking and answering questions won't get you penalised, even if your answers are sometimes downvoted.  People earn penalties for majorly anti-social behaviour (in the eyes of the moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T12:01:35.067" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-22T12:58:18.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For students in certain classes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/database-design&quot;&gt;database-design&lt;/a&gt; would also be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, if StackOverflow had been around when I was in school, I'd have been following these tags (in addition to several tags mentioned in other answers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/beginner&quot;&gt;beginner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/operating-system&quot;&gt;operating-system&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/multithreading&quot;&gt;multithreading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/embedded&quot;&gt;embedded&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/assembly&quot;&gt;assembly&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/microcontroller&quot;&gt;microcontroller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/design&quot;&gt;design&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/design-patterns&quot;&gt;design-patterns&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/algorithm-design&quot;&gt;algorithm-design&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot;&gt;perl&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c&quot;&gt;c&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2b%2b&quot;&gt;c++&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&quot;&gt;java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... as you can see by these answers, which tags to follow will really depend on the individual, what they're studying, and what they're interested in.  And so far we're completely ignoring &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;various StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt; -- if I were a student today, I wouldn't limit my interaction solely to StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T13:03:49.900" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T13:03:49.900" />
  <row Id="30623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30704" CreationDate="2009-11-22T13:05:26.573" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;on the associate account tab, it asks me to associate my account.. but its already associated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139332" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T16:48:29.380" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T16:48:29.380" Title="Why does Careers ask me to associate my account, when it shows it is associated?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30567" CreationDate="2009-11-22T14:02:01.650" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it stands today questions are voted to close as belonging on a different site.  While moderator votes are binding (they happen right away), moving from voting to flagging would make the decision to close/migrate one that is solely the responsibility of the moderators.  I prefer that we continue the practice of (generally) letting the community decide the appropriate forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't intending that the process of migration be changed, i.e., still allow votes for closing, then I don't see how adding a different flag reason really helps as the &quot;requires moderator attention&quot; already allows you to specify a reason.  This more general mechanism seems better suited to the wide range of things a moderator might need to look at than adding to the number of available options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T14:15:21.843" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T14:15:21.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30620" CreationDate="2009-11-22T14:10:01.103" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel's warning is nothing to do with down-votes, but typically for abusive behaviour; most users are very friendly and will never need to know any of this, as they'll &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; see any of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This mainly applies to &lt;em&gt;obnoxious&lt;/em&gt; behaviour; blatantly insulting other users, etc. Isolated incidents from an otherwise friendly user will usually just be removed (i.e. your post / comment will be removed or edited) - but if you are &lt;strong&gt;repeatedly&lt;/strong&gt; going out of your way to be unpleasant, you'll probably get an e-mail from an ♦ admin, asking you to desist that behaviour. If you ignore the warning, your account &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;will be suspended&lt;/a&gt; for an interval, most likely a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that time, you are welcome back, but repeat abuses will be treated with less patience - either a longer suspension, or deletion etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;separately&lt;/strong&gt; to this, individual users (everyone with a nominal amount of rep) have the ability to flag posts as offensive / spam; if you get enough votes the post is automatically deleted &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; you get hit with a 100 point fine for your trouble (assuming the post isn't already deleted by an ♦ admin by that point - we do monitor the flags etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally - the reality is that moderation takes time and effort; if you post abuse from a new account (1 day old, 1 rep, no contribution to the site etc) then being realistic you're going to see a lot less red-tape; if your first post to the site is &quot;you suck&quot;, then I wouldn't expect that account to survive for long, and I wouldn't bet on getting an e-mail. In particular, spam accounts are deleted on sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T14:10:01.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4152" CreationDate="2009-11-22T16:56:50.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should look into how mathoverflow did it. They have a very neat integrated solution which I think should be added to all the SO-like sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133186" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T16:56:50.820" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30615" CreationDate="2009-11-22T17:18:02.623" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but if I saw Skeet's resume come across my desk I wouldn't hire him.  The guy can't possibly get anything done, why look at his rep!  And don't reply linking me to the answer where he explains how he manages to fit SO into his schedule.  Its obviously a tissue of lies.  He's hooked into an isolation tank being fed intravenously with his only outside contact being an always on connnection to SO and a cat flap where Atwood shovels in cash to keep him providing quality answers.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T17:18:02.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-22T17:25:15.777" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best I found is &lt;a href=&quot;http://advice.mechanicalkern.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page. But it seems to be python oriented.&#xA;Do you know any other page where I could ask ML questions ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2011-05-25T10:21:49.500" Title="Is there a SO-like page for machine learning?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="30631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30634" CreationDate="2009-11-22T18:05:34.130" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;'give' 'givemethecode'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the only questions with these are from someone with rep 1. So he or she can't have created them. I submit that they are lame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T18:27:05.900" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T18:36:47.520" Title="bad tags suggested for deletion" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30630" CreationDate="2009-11-22T18:08:36.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with asking them on SO? It's a programming topic. I can't promise that a hoard of experts will descend and answer your questions, but you might get lucky. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T18:08:36.353" />
  <row Id="30633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30630" CreationDate="2009-11-22T18:23:32.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As bmargulies suggests, this topic doesn't strike me as out of place for StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more ML-specific site, you could try asking on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; -- or check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list of stackexchange sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T18:23:32.100" />
  <row Id="30634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30631" CreationDate="2009-11-22T18:36:47.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were probably added by the subsequent editors of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T18:36:47.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30615" CreationDate="2009-11-22T18:50:35.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because employers are concerned with employment experience first, followed by education.  IME, trying to sell self-employment and volunteer work is rather hard in the interview process.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advertising participation on Stack Overflow to potential employers IMO is more likely to be bad: it says you don't get out, so there might be some interpersonal issues there. Use the hobbies section on your resume/CV to distinguish you as a &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt;, not a zombie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interview &amp;amp; general interaction with co-workers is where I'd hope to see a difference between SO users and those who aren't.  Gaining reputation on SO means being generally knowledgeable in a short time frame, and to a lesser degree - communication skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T19:17:32.283" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T19:17:32.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30639" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:05:03.443" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1722096/how-does-protobuf-net-achieve-respectable-performance-closed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to understand why the protocol&#xA;  buffers solution for .NET developed by&#xA;  Marc Gravell is as fast as it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can understand how the original&#xA;  Google solution achieved its&#xA;  performance: it pre-generates&#xA;  optimized code for object&#xA;  serialization; I've written some&#xA;  serialization by hand and know that it&#xA;  is possible to write pretty fast code&#xA;  this way if you avoid reflection. But&#xA;  Marc's library is a runtime solution&#xA;  that uses attributes and doesn't&#xA;  produce any generated code. So how&#xA;  does it work ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question seems pretty clear to me.  I can (and did) vote to reopen, but shouldn't questions like this remain open in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T20:17:31.160" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T20:17:31.160" Title="Was this question on protobuf-net closed correctly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30636" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:13:27.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why it was closed; my best guess is that it may originally have appeared to be a question targeted at a specific SO user (later edits improved this situation considerably though). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;shouldn't questions like this remain open in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's almost entirely up to the voters; at least 5 people disagreed. You've voted to re-open, so if 4 other people feel the same way then it will be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: props to Marc for leaving the decision up to the voters...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T20:13:27.547" />
  <row Id="30638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:13:56.593" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many questions on these forums are not technical and are about careers.  Whether it be a question about the ethics of the work place or what one needs to do to get a job, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these posts are closed, but many are not because the mods feel they have some relevance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is that we have either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A question-and-answer-based career &lt;em&gt;forum&lt;/em&gt; which spans all sites, with a tag or button to qualify each question to a topic. &lt;em&gt;Or&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A qualification on the sites which enables users to ask non-technical questions that have a relation to the given site.  It will be different than the exiting Community-Wiki option, because these posts will have a special place where users will have to go to, to see and post them.  There may be a link in the users profile page which will bring them to a sub area that allows people to post topics which still relate but are not 100% technical.  This way the main site is not filled with non technical questions and folks can still ask the opinion of the peers they respect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138304" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T20:58:34.440" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T21:07:20.867" Title="Can we have a place for career questions on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30636" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:14:31.507" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'question' was poorly formatted but it was a proper question. Here's the original revision (which may have garnered the close votes):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I want to undestand why exactly&#xA;  protocol buffers solution for .net&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  developed by Mark Gravell are fast as&#xA;  they are on serialization ? I can&#xA;  undestand how Google original solution&#xA;  achive it performance it relies on&#xA;  producing optimized code for object&#xA;  serialization, I writen some&#xA;  serialization by hand and know what it&#xA;  possible to write prety fast code this&#xA;  way if you avoid reflection. But Mark&#xA;  solution is runtime solution that uses&#xA;  attributes and don't produce any&#xA;  generated code. So how it works ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd probably vote to close that too.  It's poorly formatted and doesn't seem like the author put any thought into how to ask this question.  It's hard for me to follow what he's asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the edits, I can now see the question he's trying to ask, so I voted to re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that &lt;code&gt;Not a Real Question&lt;/code&gt; means that that reason had the most votes out of the close reasons -- it doesn't mean that 5 people thought it wasn't a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T20:14:31.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30578" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:15:36.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just like open source software you have more to loose by showing a employer your online engagements then not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138304" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T20:15:36.123" />
  <row Id="30641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30638" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:25:35.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programming-related career questions &lt;strong&gt;tend&lt;/strong&gt; to stay open. Career questions that have no relevance to programming apart from being asked &lt;em&gt;by a programmer&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;tend&lt;/strong&gt; to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, this is fine. It's the same for questions on software tools, SEO, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people seem to get hung up on career questions that are slightly programming-related but ask for discussion and/or anecdotes (&quot;Get To Know You&quot; questions) rather than anything resembling an objective answer. These &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; survive, if marked Community-Wiki... but only because voters tend to be more lax in closing inappropriate questions if they're marked CW. Strictly speaking, SO is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a forum, and these questions don't belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, I don't see any good reason for either of your suggestions: SO doesn't need to become a forum, nor does it need a built-in &quot;question ghetto&quot; for off-topic questions. There are other sites that serve these needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren’t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13198/where-can-i-find-interesting-programming-discussions&quot;&gt;Where can I find interesting programming discussions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28483/feature-to-help-other-devs-with-cv-typos-etc&quot;&gt;Feature to help other devs with CV typos etc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T21:07:20.867" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T21:07:20.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30650" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:44:31.873" Score="2" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, here's the situation. Someone posted an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1503946/lookup-structure-for-handling-future-events-time-based&quot;&gt;algorithmic question&lt;/a&gt; on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were 2 main answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One was stock &quot;you can use this standard data structure - see details on Wiki&quot;. Basically, a priority queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One was mine, which had a somewhat-original (at least, I don't recall ever reading an official moniker for it) data structure. Actually, two of them, one for each possible domain of data distribution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BOTH algorithms were faster on average (mods AND look-ups) than the standard Priority Queue when applied to that user's problem domain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The proof, aside from fairly simple O(n) analysis, is that as of today, &lt;strong&gt;the OP commented on my post that my data structure was the best he could use and accepted my answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, at the time of posting, a couple of people down-voted it initially, with incorrect excuses like &quot;algorithm does not work&quot; (based on incorrectly reading my answer), &quot;Wiki data structure is better&quot; (without reading my O(n) analysis or comprehending it). First down-vote was from a competing Wiki question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then it seemed to be lemming-like down-voting, including at least 2 serial down-voters that were since cleansed by SO team as per my report.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, since most of the current down-votes if not all are based on people being &lt;strong&gt;obviously&lt;/strong&gt; technically wrong as acknowledged by original poster, is there some sort of appeals process on SO whereby a technically competent moderator/superuser can review the Q, determine whether the people who down-voted also posted incorrect comments as reasons for down-voting, and fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this is mostly a question of fairness - at my rep level, the current &quot;-6&quot; rep from the Q are not really that big of a deal (and the main problem was the opportunity cost of people not voting my A up when the thread was active due to seeing negative score and a long thread of comment criticisms - which I can't get back anymore since the thread is no longer active).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yeah, I'm whining :)&#xA;But it was a behavior of a couple of people that was grossly unfair and totally contrary to the spirit of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-22T20:46:56.643" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T22:23:38.450" Title="Is there any appeals process for technically incorrect down-voting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11372" CreationDate="2009-11-22T20:47:05.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now have such a long list of 'uninteresting' tags that I have to scroll a browser window to get to the bottom. Why? Because of the proliferation of unhelpful 'splitter' taxonomy. If I could specify patterns for interesting and uninteresting tags, I wouldn't need a giant list. If moderators could create a hierarchy of tags (python contains pythonX, ie contains ie5, 6, 7), that would help too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My goal is to visit the site in a moment of spare time and rapidly discover questions that I have some chance of answering. The site navigation assumes that adequate answers will be upvoted and/or accepted. Usually, they are not. So I need to have a precise tag-based filter to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can, further, only click on one tag at a time. If the questions on some topic are randomly distributed into a collection of dueling tags, I can't collect them in one place very easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I could ask the site to show me only truly unanswered questions, or if we could improve the frequency of acceptance or upvoting, the tag clutter would be less of an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, the existence of some tags only leads new users to do a bad job of tagging. On some days, it seems as if you can type any sentence of English and find that all of the words (including 'not') are valid tags. This does not enhance the chances that the OP will think about the tags. Further raising the bar for tag creation might help this. Or making the decision to add a tag downvotable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T20:47:05.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30643" CreationDate="2009-11-22T21:14:44.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the answer here is that we all take our lumps. Over time, if you keep posting good answers, your rep will reach escape velocity, and you just won't notice the occasional mishap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your specific situation: SO is not an academic journal. People are looking for tested, practical, solutions, and delivering a novel solution may not always win you laurel wreaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to aim toward witty in my responses, and it looks to me like I've taken a few DV's from people who felt that I crossed the line from witty to snarky. I'd be happier if they had left a comment, but that's how the cookie crumbles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T21:14:44.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30643" CreationDate="2009-11-22T21:22:36.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only appeals process is to give your reasoning and see what happens. Of course, you can only do that if the downvoter explains why they downvoted (unless you can guess from other answers). You can give your reasons either in response comments or in the answer - although I would suggest that in the answer is a generally more positive approach. If one person doesn't understand some aspect of your answer, chances are that will go for someone else too. Editing the answer also allows the downvote to be undone, whereas commenting doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often that can lead to downvotes being reversed. If it doesn't, just whistle and walk on. There will always be muppets around, but ultimately you'll be happiest if you can ignore them. Of course, that's a hypocritical thing for me to say as I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; let them get under my skin too much - but I know I'd be better off if I didn't...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T21:22:36.330" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-22T21:24:41.893" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi All! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm working on an app that takes a set of values in a form and saves it into a content provider I've created called PantryItemsProvider. I modified the &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.android.com/intl/de/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NotePad&lt;/a&gt; tutorial to work with a content provider, but I'm not sure what's the best way to save / retrieve these values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how my table is created in the content provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    private static final String DATABASE_CREATE = &#xA;  &quot;create table &quot; + DATABASE_TABLE  &#xA;  + &quot; (_id integer primary key autoincrement, &quot;&#xA;  + &quot;name text not null, quantity text not null, is_expired integer null,&quot;&#xA;  + &quot;type text null, expiration_date text null);&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just parse the values like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;String expiration_date = String.valueOf(mExpirationDate.getYear())+&quot;/&quot;+String.valueOf(mExpirationDate.getMonth())+&quot;/&quot;+String.valueOf(mExpirationDate.getDayOfMonth());&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your help! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T21:24:41.893" ClosedDate="2009-11-23T11:02:09.493" Title="Saving DatePicker values into a ContentProvider" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;android&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30643" CreationDate="2009-11-22T22:06:44.987" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer you're competing with contains &lt;code&gt;design pattern&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;use case&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;wikipedia&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OF COURSE you got steamrolled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An appeals panel of architects would not vote differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T22:06:44.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30643" CreationDate="2009-11-22T22:07:29.930" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read your answer, thought it generally inferior to a priority queue based on the questioner's information at the time, and may have downvoted it.  I certainly didn't upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having reread the question and answers, I still think a priority queue is the way to go.  I don't think you adequately analyzed your second suggestion (maintaining a priority queue, when all you need is the next event, is generally superior to maintaining a sorted list).  I don't particularly like your array solution either, for lack of compactness and potential collision problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be wrong, but I do know a thing or two about algorithms, and my response was based on my own analysis of the problem and proposed solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are projecting an attitude that I really don't like, both in your last comment on your answer and in complaining about downvotes on meta.  I suggest that you pick up a bit of humility, consider the possibility that people who disagree with you might possibly be right, and grow a thicker skin.  You'll need it on internet forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T22:07:29.930" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30643" CreationDate="2009-11-22T22:23:38.450" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;funny&lt;/strong&gt; thing about downvotes is that even though they only have the fifth of the impact to your rep score as an upvote. When you get one you tend feel &lt;strong&gt;42&lt;/strong&gt; times worse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How could I ever be wrong, I mean you've got to be kidding.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no appeals process, stuff generally is fair, there are a few tactical downvoters and trolls around. If you think your question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871405/why-do-i-need-an-ioc-container-as-opposed-to-straightforward-di-code/871420#871420&quot;&gt;unfairly stuck at -20&lt;/a&gt; you can always try to post something on meta, the waffle loving crowd here is pretty helpful in salvaging questions that have lost interest on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that controversial answers have a huge advantage on SO, as there is no trivial way using the SO ui to see the downvote/upvote split (you have to go to the profile page). Hopefully that is fixed some day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that chasing up the person who -2ed your answer and demanding justice is a bit of an overkill, next upvote you get will pay for 5 downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T22:23:38.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30665" CreationDate="2009-11-22T22:47:27.953" Score="4" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a quick scan of featured questions on SO. Many, maybe most, have very plausible answers sitting there. Not only has the OP not accepted, the OP has not commented to indicate why none of the answers fills the bill. It's hard to see how anyone would add another answer without knowing what's wrong with the 4 existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is more OP-nagging called for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T15:28:55.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-22T22:47:27.953" Title="What are the bounty-posers thinking?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30654" CreationDate="2009-11-22T23:00:12.783" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people (I know I do) tend to accept bounties late it the piece, just in case a better answer comes along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty acceptance is &lt;strong&gt;forever&lt;/strong&gt;. People fear it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T23:00:12.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-22T23:00:12.783" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30654" CreationDate="2009-11-22T23:01:02.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps they've seen the &quot;start a bounty&quot; prompt on their questions with no accepted answer and think that's what they need to do next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than changing it to &quot;start a bounty or accept an answer&quot; (assuming that there is an answer) I don't think there's a lot that you can do. Some people will always act in a contrary manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T23:01:02.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-22T23:01:02.703" />
  <row Id="30657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-22T23:40:10.007" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have comments on answers to some questions but I see no GUI affordance to make my own comments. However, I can reply to comments in my own answers. Any level required to comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146943" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T10:42:33.633" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T10:42:33.633" Title="How to comment previous answers in SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30657" CreationDate="2009-11-22T23:41:50.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;50 reputation is required for adding comments (apart from comments to your own answers), see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Such questions should be on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138661" LastActivityDate="2009-11-22T23:43:05.880" />
  <row Id="30660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30661" CreationDate="2009-11-23T00:26:08.663" Score="-12" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Calculate the score of a question or answer divided by the length in characters. Set up the usual three badges for achieving some thresholds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T00:43:02.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T00:26:08.663" Title="badge proposal: 'density'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30660" CreationDate="2009-11-23T00:32:32.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dunno, brevity is good and all, but I see a positive correlation overall between length and quality, myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T00:32:32.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T00:32:32.550" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30660" CreationDate="2009-11-23T00:43:02.940" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hence someone who can write the shortest code to achieve best output will almost be the first to get the badge(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And someone who writes like a journalist to cover every aspect/angle of a question context with quality will be the last?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T00:43:02.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T00:43:02.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30666" CreationDate="2009-11-23T01:01:59.160" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Safari 4 on Mac OS X, although, I've ruled out my workstation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Hm, it's only that question. I can edit other questions fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1780599/edit&quot;&gt;edited this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO to remove &quot;I've never really understood&quot; from the question, but when I click &quot;Save my Edits&quot; it goes gray and does not allow me to submit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Switched over to Firefox (I keep Firefox in porn mode to avoid &quot;did you clear your cache?&quot; questions, and use it specifically for testing and dev), same there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://jedsmith.org/static/question.png&quot; alt=&quot;Broken question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137502" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:19:35.843" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:19:35.843" Title="Save Your Edits button broken?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30654" CreationDate="2009-11-23T01:20:38.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that 'plausible' is relative and greatly influenced by the results the OP experienced when applying any given answer to a question. There are some factors that make a correct, not just plausible answer gather dust:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer suggested to the OP that their language of choice simply can not effectively solve the problem. The OP does not know the suggested language.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer was correct in the context of the question, however incorrect when actually applied to the problem. This usually means the OP did not provide enough background / context when asking the question. For instance, it may fix the problem at hand, but break something else that is completely unrelated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer involves more work than the OP is able or willing to do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is highly subjective and every answer is correct, the OP is unable to single out the 'best effort'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes answer bounty questions because I like the thrill of winning a prize, just like I enjoy throwing darts at balloons at carnivals. The prize itself (in this case rep) is incidental, just like the cheap stuffed animal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually put quite a bit of time and effort into my answers, I too become slightly annoyed when there is absolutely no feedback or answer chosen. I always wonder &quot;Did this person take my example and get his pay check, without even bothering to give me my puny prize?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, I try very hard to assume the best in people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T01:20:38.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T01:20:38.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30663" CreationDate="2009-11-23T02:24:19.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably the title is too short -- minimum of 15 characters. Make it longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;What is POSIX?&#xA;12345678901234&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title validation failure should be showing, but there's no place for it in the UI any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: We moved most of the post validation to the server, which helps reduce any client JavaScript quirks that would prevent submission. This also means submission errors can be simplified and placed in the same area on the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6915/stackoverflowserverside.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:19:30.617" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:19:30.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-11-23T04:20:39.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about using &lt;a href=&quot;http://freshmeat.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Freshmeat&lt;/a&gt; as a data source? The data quality may not be as high, but it includes self-hosted projects as well as those on the major code hosting sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130340" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T04:20:39.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T04:20:39.723" />
  <row Id="30668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-23T05:17:16.890" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;On some stackexchange sites an option shows up to link my account to another one.  Can this be done on any stackexchange site?  How is it done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139254" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T08:52:39.557" Title="Are all stackexchange acounts linkable" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-23T06:54:28.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first tag I point junior programmer keeners to is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/books&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T06:54:28.833" />
  <row Id="30671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2009-11-23T08:41:41.200" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot; title=&quot;who's got cooties?&quot;&gt;account association&lt;/a&gt;, you can only link your accounts across the following sites of Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server Fault &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Careers Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is based on your OpenID as the sites all share a relation and you pass this OpenID as your key between the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you're talking about sites that look, run and quack like Stack Overflow, you're looking at a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/where-does-it-end&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;what a load of sites&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;. On that, you can't link you account between them, even if you use the same OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T08:41:41.200" />
  <row Id="30672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2009-11-23T08:52:39.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;NO&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they are not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T08:52:39.557" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T08:52:39.557" />
  <row Id="30673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-23T10:05:11.673" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9726/how-does-stack-overflow-work-so-well-with-search-engines&quot;&gt;How does Stack Overflow work so well with search engines?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time when I google a problem that I have, Google shows me an answer in Stack Overflow. Which is great :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering how is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Stack Overflow's sitemap contain all the questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T10:59:31.170" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T10:59:31.170" ClosedDate="2009-11-23T10:08:49.857" Title="Sitemap Stackoverflow and google" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;" />
  <row Id="30675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30677" CreationDate="2009-11-23T12:34:17.827" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1659/please-show-us-when-we-lose-an-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;Please show us when we lose an accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't the reputation graph show the rep lost when someone removes the accepted answer to a question I've previously answered? Where else can I find this information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T12:50:27.953" ClosedDate="2009-11-23T13:31:14.870" Title="How can I see the rep lost due to removed accepted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11372" CreationDate="2009-11-23T12:50:26.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags aren't for &lt;strong&gt;searching&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are for &lt;strong&gt;browsing&lt;/strong&gt; - they are like hyperlinks, not search keywords. The idea is to group questions into categories by human editing. The categories are typically accessed by clicking on the tag buttons, not by searching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each question can have a maximum of 5 tags, so having too many synonyms uses up the tags quickly. If every Python question has to be tagged &lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;python3&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;python3.0&lt;/code&gt;, there's only two tags left to indicate any other aspects of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do quite like the suggestion of having lists of alternative synonyms for each tag, so that Stack Overflow could use them as search keywords to assist in searching. Any question tagged &lt;code&gt;python3&lt;/code&gt; could automatically have the search keywords &quot;Python&quot;, &quot;Python 3.0&quot; added for search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T12:50:26.207" />
  <row Id="30677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30675" CreationDate="2009-11-23T12:50:27.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't.  There isn't any feasible way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have to simply notice the absence of rep where you had it before, either on the reputation graph or on the recent rep page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See Also: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25351/notification-when-my-answer-is-unaccepted&quot;&gt;Notification when my answer is unaccepted&lt;/a&gt; (feature-request)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1659/please-show-us-when-we-lose-an-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;Please show us when we lose an accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; (feature-request)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T12:50:27.953" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26145" CreationDate="2009-11-23T14:16:05.070" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that this problem happens less, as Jeff observed, for common queries (e.g. &quot;Create GUID&quot;) but happens a lot for less-common or complex queries, where relatively few questions contain all the keywords but several related questions' titles, when combined, &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; match all my keywords. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of getting one or two highly-relevant SO results from Google (or zero results, letting me know I need to change my Google query), I'll get 50 results of which only a handful may actually contain my desired keywords, and the majority simply contain links to lots of related questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in the &quot;abstract&quot; text shown under the search result, Google often chooses to include titles of related questions instead of actual question or answer content.  (This makes sense since the related titles have my desired keywords while the question or answer does not.)  So not only do I get irrelevant results, I also can't read enough of the question or answers of that result to know it's irrelevant. I need to click through each one to find out that it's not relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The net impact: I need to spend much more time hunting through Google pages and irrelevant SO pages before I either find my answer or change my Google query to get more relevant results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this is searching SO for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+video+redirect+streaming+rtmp+site%3astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;flash video redirect streaming rtmp site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. A screenshot is below. I added red boxes showing titles of related questions, and the green boxes are actual text of actual questions or answers. As you can see, related question titles dominate the result summaries.  4 of the top 6 results have so many related question titles clogging up their summary text that no text from that question/answer is shown at all! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/g8Wvt.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm not fully convinced that Google indexing related questions is 100% bad-- because this &quot;feature&quot; might cause me to find results on Google results that I might not otherwise find, in cases where I'm searching for a synonym or similar term which is never mentioned on the page itself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be worthwhile to run a test like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pick (e.g. from web logs' referrer URLs) a set of difficult or representative search queries for questions matching a particular tag.  Record how many results Google returns and how relevant those results are. (where &quot;relevant&quot; means do the top 3-5 results contain, subjectively, the &quot;right answer&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then, for questions using that tag only, turn off Google's ability to read related question links. You can do this by putting the related questions in a borderless IFRAME with a URL excluded by robots.txt. Or you can build the links dynamically with javascript, which won't even require a separate HTTP request since you can emit both the link data and the code to render it into your page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Run the test for a month or two to allow Google's indexes to catch up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-run the same queries and see, subjectively, whether the results (and each result's summary text) make it easier or harder to find the right answer in less time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decide if the decrease in noise outweighs the (perhaps theoretical?) decrease in relevance for synonyms/related terms.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, I suspect if you'd be willing to do step #2 above, I bet that the SO community could help with the testing part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136315" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-08T21:54:12.897" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T21:54:12.897" />
  <row Id="30688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30615" CreationDate="2009-11-23T15:03:16.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has been out for a little over a year now.  Call it a year since people started to pick up impressive levels of rep and it started to get known fairly widely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, good developers tend not to change jobs all that much, unless they're contracting, and those they contract for are often not in software development.  Moreover, when I've applied for jobs, I usually haven't been told exactly why I did nor not get an offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think this question is premature.  If you want empirical results, wait a few years.  Until then, you'll get general speculation and, if you're lucky, a few managers saying what would impress them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T15:03:16.500" />
  <row Id="30689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26398" CreationDate="2009-11-23T15:05:38.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One point here is that it's not just joins that were a problem... it was &lt;em&gt;excessive&lt;/em&gt; joins.  It sounds like they had queries that needed to hit a lot of different tables, and they de-normalized the schema to avoid the need to touch of few of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only speculate, but an example might be that Wikipedia doesn't show authorship right away, but StackOverflow does.  And so to display a question, stackoverflow has to join to the users table where Wikipedia might not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would have tried to handle the problem with an indexed view for that query instead, but then again maybe they tried that and it made too much difference on the update queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T15:14:34.373" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T15:14:34.373" />
  <row Id="30690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6698" CreationDate="2009-11-23T15:16:00.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same problem with some of the podcasts I listen to, since in iTunes it's not possible to change the title of a podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I put together a Google App Engine site to do the job, here it is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://podcast-rename.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast-rename.appspot.com&lt;/a&gt;, it's pretty easy to use, I hope you find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130104" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T15:16:00.550" />
  <row Id="30691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30654" CreationDate="2009-11-23T15:28:55.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually the ones that don't accept answers, leaving it to the community to do so, don't bother me as much as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1703116/asp-net-mvc-jquery-load-usercontrol-respecting-namespace&quot;&gt;ones that accept arguably wrong answers&lt;/a&gt;.  Since the selection is irrevocable, these questions are stuck with a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T15:28:55.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T15:28:55.017" />
  <row Id="30695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30562" CreationDate="2009-11-23T15:38:32.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exactly what will we gain by finding things that are characteristic of weak questions and banning the characteristics?  If we require a language tag, people asking bad questions will slap one on, even if it isn't correct.  Remember, most computer users have been trained to blindly jump through hoops, including clicking on buttons and picking from lists, to do what they want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, SO is for programming-related questions, not just programming questions.  We (at least speaking for the SO users with 3K+ rep) don't necessarily agree on how far the &quot;-related&quot; stretches, but we allow questions not strictly about programming.  Certainly things like development methodologies and algorithm analysis are allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't see what it will accomplish except putting an unnecessary tag on some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T15:38:32.193" />
  <row Id="30697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30700" CreationDate="2009-11-23T16:05:34.840" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I follow questions primarily within a specific tag.  As far as I can tell, there is no easy way to get a list of unanswered questions from the tag page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would really help to clean up those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1338/why-cant-we-filter-unanswered-questions-by-tags&quot;&gt;why-cant-we-filter-unanswered-questions-by-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T11:21:34.120" Title="Why can't we filter tags by &quot;unanswered&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30697" CreationDate="2009-11-23T16:15:23.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/jquery&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/jquery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gets you all unanswered questions in the &lt;code&gt;jquery&lt;/code&gt; category, for example. Isn't that what you want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T16:15:23.043" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30697" CreationDate="2009-11-23T16:26:14.133" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @ire_and_curses mentioned, you can use the Unanswered feature for this. But that gets you those questions which SO considers unanswered -- meaning questions which have answers, but none of the answers have upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want the questions which have no answers at all, use search-fu and a bookmark. In the search field, enter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0+%5Bjquery%5D&quot;&gt;answers:0 [jquery]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all assuming you want the jquery tag, of course. Replace &lt;strong&gt;[jquery]&lt;/strong&gt; with whatever tag you want, enclosed in square brackets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see questions that have not been marked with accepted answers, put this on your shoe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3A0+%5Bjquery%5D&quot;&gt;hasaccepted:0 [jquery]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T00:46:33.120" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T00:46:33.120" />
  <row Id="30702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-23T16:38:59.523" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24793/how-to-use-formatting-in-comments&quot;&gt;How to use formatting in comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to format the text of comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139381" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T16:38:59.523" ClosedDate="2009-11-23T16:49:59.113" Title="Formatting of comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30532" CreationDate="2009-11-23T16:42:50.827" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might actually be the title length problem again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;memory problem&#xA;12345678901234&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yep, make sure the title is at least 15 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: We moved most of the post validation to the server, which helps reduce any client JavaScript quirks that would prevent submission. This also means submission errors can be simplified and placed in the same area on the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6915/stackoverflowserverside.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:14:34.047" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:14:34.047" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="30704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30623" CreationDate="2009-11-23T16:48:24.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is normal, the help text on the associate page is fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The button itself (next to the account, on the same tab) should indicate the actual association status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T16:48:24.280" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26398" CreationDate="2009-11-23T17:50:45.163" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another thing I noticed in mediawiki's scheme a few years back is that the contents of the post is separated from the metadata of the post.  I remember seeing that it was to save space if two pages had the same content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously that doesn't happen much on any of these sites, so I'd speculate that could be a painful spot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139109" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T17:50:45.163" />
  <row Id="30706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30708" CreationDate="2009-11-23T18:34:06.787" Score="-1" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must be missing something.  How can I see a hyper linked list of titles to my previous questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139194" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T18:50:36.307" ClosedDate="2009-11-23T19:32:55.217" Title="How do I view my previous questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30706" CreationDate="2009-11-23T18:35:52.417" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never mind.&#xA;I'm not sure why I didn't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139194" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T18:35:52.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30706" CreationDate="2009-11-23T18:50:36.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the sake of anyone else asking the same question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on your name at the top of the page to go to your user profile page. Your questions and answers are listed directly underneath your profile details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T18:50:36.307" />
  <row Id="30709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-23T20:12:42.803" Score="12" ViewCount="751" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turns out careers really wants me to type in a personal statement. I agree with it and think its really important.... but lack inspiration at the moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you have some ideas for some cool personal statements I could draw inspiration from? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I like waffles&quot; is just not going to cut it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like this question, so I will share a tip: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Acareers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Acareers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:50:03.493" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:26:14.720" Title="What are some awesome personal statements for careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="30710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30709" CreationDate="2009-11-23T20:15:32.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&quot;I am awesome, I have xxxxx stackoverflow reputation!&quot;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haha, had to say it because people get so worked up over reputation, so a serious answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your personal statement should sum yourself up in a few sentences.  People are not looking for an autobiography here.  Mention some of your best personal qualities, diversity (as in activites/personal/professional life), your desire to continually improve yourself and work with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T21:38:25.003" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T21:38:25.003" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30709" CreationDate="2009-11-23T20:53:02.077" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My personal statement is rather long.&lt;/strong&gt; Too long to quote here. You would starve to death before reaching its end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My personal statement is rather deep.&lt;/strong&gt; The revelations contained within it are too profound for any reader to comprehend in a single reading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My personal statement is rather magnificent.&lt;/strong&gt; Its magnificence would blind you, burning a hole deep into your brain and leaving you unfit for employment of any sort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My personal statement begins like this:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like applesauce on my pizza.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T20:53:02.077" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30715" CreationDate="2009-11-23T20:55:32.367" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know exactly know how retagging works (if it's a manual process or if there's a specific feature for that) but shouldn't the source tag (the one that's being replaced) be disallowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that if you retag you don't want people using that tag anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-23T21:00:49.580" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T21:09:24.617" Title="Should retagging make the source tag invalid?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17509" CreationDate="2009-11-23T21:00:24.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on stackoverflow a while back about how to find a lawyer who can answer dev questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613396/&quot;&gt;613396&lt;/a&gt;).  I will usually give my opinion on an issue, and then point them at that question to help them find someone who can actually address the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do wonder if Meta is a more appropriate place for that particular question these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T21:00:24.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30709" CreationDate="2009-11-23T21:03:26.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey, man, do you like lasers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T21:03:26.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30712" CreationDate="2009-11-23T21:09:24.617" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a barrier to creating new tags: you need &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;250 reputation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after a retag request for mssql, it will take a while before the tag rears its ugly head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T21:09:24.617" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-11-23T21:37:37.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet asked the question for which the answer is 42.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134476" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T07:58:27.733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:58:27.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T21:37:37.300" />
  <row Id="30720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30725" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:20:08.393" Score="0" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&#xA;I've asked a couple of java questions on stack overflow and rarely gotten an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or is there not very many java developers on the site? Because whenever i ask C# questions i'm usually inundated with answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, struts is probably the most common java web framework. Yet on SO, the most recent questions tagged 'struts' are from several weeks ago, compared to several hours ago for C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if they're not on SO, where are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138914" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T23:32:44.817" Title="Paucity of Java developers on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;java&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:21:36.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just something I wanted to throw in here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's a bit outdated, but anyone who's asking questions on the 'net in a technical forum should still read &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How To Ask Questions The Smart Way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically of consequence to this discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before You Ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before asking a technical question by&#xA;  e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a&#xA;  website chat board, do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum you plan to post to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to find an answer by searching the Web.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to find an answer by reading the manual.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you're a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you ask your question, display&#xA;  the fact that you have done these&#xA;  things first; this will help establish&#xA;  that you're not being a lazy sponge&#xA;  and wasting people's time. Better yet,&#xA;  display what you have learned from&#xA;  doing these things. We like answering&#xA;  questions for people who have&#xA;  demonstrated they can learn from the&#xA;  answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Use tactics like doing a Google search&#xA;  on the text of whatever error message&#xA;  you get (searching Google groups as&#xA;  well as Web pages). This might well&#xA;  take you straight to fix documentation&#xA;  or a mailing list thread answering&#xA;  your question. Even if it doesn't,&#xA;  saying “I googled on the following&#xA;  phrase but didn't get anything that&#xA;  looked promising” is a good thing to&#xA;  do in e-mail or news postings&#xA;  requesting help, if only because it&#xA;  records what searches won't help. It&#xA;  will also help to direct other people&#xA;  with similar problems to your thread&#xA;  by linking the search terms to what&#xA;  will hopefully be your problem and&#xA;  resolution thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take your time. Do not expect to be&#xA;  able to solve a complicated problem&#xA;  with a few seconds of Googling. Read&#xA;  and understand the FAQs, sit back,&#xA;  relax and give the problem some&#xA;  thought before approaching experts.&#xA;  Trust us, they will be able to tell&#xA;  from your questions how much reading&#xA;  and thinking you did, and will be more&#xA;  willing to help if you come prepared.&#xA;  Don't instantly fire your whole&#xA;  arsenal of questions just because your&#xA;  first search turned up no answers (or&#xA;  too many).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prepare your question. Think it&#xA;  through. Hasty-sounding questions get&#xA;  hasty answers, or none at all. The&#xA;  more you do to demonstrate that having&#xA;  put thought and effort into solving&#xA;  your problem before seeking help, the&#xA;  more likely you are to actually get&#xA;  help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beware of asking the wrong question.&#xA;  If you ask one that is based on faulty&#xA;  assumptions, J. Random Hacker is quite&#xA;  likely to reply with a uselessly&#xA;  literal answer while thinking “Stupid&#xA;  question...”, and hoping the&#xA;  experience of getting what you asked&#xA;  for rather than what you needed will&#xA;  teach you a lesson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Never assume you are entitled to an&#xA;  answer. You are not; you aren't, after&#xA;  all, paying for the service. You will&#xA;  earn an answer, if you earn it, by&#xA;  asking a substantial, interesting, and&#xA;  thought-provoking question — one that&#xA;  implicitly contributes to the&#xA;  experience of the community rather&#xA;  than merely passively demanding&#xA;  knowledge from others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the other hand, making it clear&#xA;  that you are able and willing to help&#xA;  in the process of developing the&#xA;  solution is a very good start. “Would&#xA;  someone provide a pointer?”, “What is&#xA;  my example missing?”, and “What site&#xA;  should I have checked?” are more&#xA;  likely to get answered than “Please&#xA;  post the exact procedure I should&#xA;  use.” because you're making it clear&#xA;  that you're truly willing to complete&#xA;  the process if someone can just point&#xA;  you in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How To Interpret Answers&#xA;  RTFM and STFW: How To Tell You've Seriously Screwed Up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is an ancient and hallowed tradition: if you get a reply that reads “RTFM”, the &#xA;  person who sent it thinks you should have Read The F***ing Manual. He or she is almost &#xA;  certainly right. Go read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RTFM has a younger relative. If you get a reply that reads “STFW”, the person who sent &#xA;  it thinks you should have Searched The F***ing Web. He or she is almost certainly right. &#xA;  Go search it. (The milder version of this is when you are told “Google is your friend!”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Web forums, you may also be told to search the forum archives. In fact, someone may &#xA;  even be so kind as to provide a pointer to the previous thread where this problem was &#xA;  solved. But do not rely on this consideration; do your archive-searching before asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Often, the person telling you to do a search has the manual or the web page with the &#xA;  information you need open, and is looking at it as he or she types. These replies mean &#xA;  that he thinks (a) the information you need is easy to find, and (b) you will learn more &#xA;  if you seek out the information than if you have it spoon-fed to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You shouldn't be offended by this; by hacker standards, your respondent is showing you a &#xA;  rough kind of respect simply by not ignoring you. You should instead be thankful for &#xA;  this grandmotherly kindness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you don't understand...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you don't understand the answer, do not immediately bounce back a demand for &#xA;  clarification. Use the same tools that you used to try and answer your original question &#xA;  (manuals, FAQs, the Web, skilled friends) to understand the answer. Then, if you still &#xA;  need to ask for clarification, exhibit what you have learned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, suppose I tell you: “It sounds like you've got a stuck zentry; you'll need &#xA;  to clear it.” Then: here's a bad followup question: “What's a zentry?” Here's a good &#xA;  followup question: “OK, I read the man page and zentries are only mentioned under the -z &#xA;  and -p switches. Neither of them says anything about clearing zentries. Is it one of &#xA;  these or am I missing something here?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139395" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T22:21:36.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-23T22:21:36.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:23:04.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;boat-programming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T22:23:04.847" />
  <row Id="30723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30720" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:26:51.860" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Java is the third most popular tag on SO. So no, there are plenty of Java developers on SO. Heck, the guy with the most reputation out of all SO users is a Java developer. That C# is even more popular than Java is hardly worth noting; they're both &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Struts, on the other hand, is &lt;em&gt;considerably&lt;/em&gt; more niche. If you have a problem, then it's struts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T22:26:51.860" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30720" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:27:13.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly there are more .Net/C# questions on SO than anything else, but Java doesn't seem to be particularly absent.  At last check there were 49K C# questions and 26K Java questions.  Compared with php at 20K and C++ at 17K, Java seems to be hanging in quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where you are looking but there seem to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/struts&quot;&gt;several questions&lt;/a&gt; with the struts tag within the past few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T22:27:13.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30720" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:29:25.223" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the problem is your assumption that struts is probably the most common Java web framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JSP has had four questions in the last day, for example, and has a total of 1131 questions compared with 308 for struts. Heck, spring-mvc has 245 questions (and spring itself has 1212).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also question your comparison of the C# tag with the struts tag in the first place - compare ASP.NET with struts, perhaps, or Java with C# - but comparing a &lt;em&gt;language&lt;/em&gt; and a specific framework doesn't seem like a useful thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of Java questions, and plenty of them get good answers. If your questions were about a relatively niche topic, that could be one explanation. The other &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be that they weren't terribly clearly asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T22:29:25.223" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59423" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:44:17.410" Score="5" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this will be considered a minor bug (if it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a bug at all), but I was awarded a second Organizer badge today on Stack Overflow.  I was under the impression that this was a &quot;one time only&quot; badge.  Have I made so many tag edits that my counter overflowed and wrapped back around to 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-03T01:13:39.770" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T01:14:26.070" Title="How did I get a second Organizer badge on SO?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30709" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:44:21.983" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine talks about riding the subway without p&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/tomritter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an&lt;/a&gt;ts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T22:44:21.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30732" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:55:47.583" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9857/why-wasnt-this-question-closed-as-belongs-on-superuser-migrated-to-su&quot;&gt;Why wasn&amp;rsquo;t this question, closed as &amp;ldquo;Belongs on SuperUser&amp;rdquo;, migrated to SU?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1786571/what-is-the-difference-between-fedora-unix-and-fedora-linux&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. It was closed as &quot;Belongs on superuser.com,&quot; but not migrated. I was hence able to edit it to remove the &lt;code&gt;[belongs-on-*]&lt;/code&gt; tags which had been applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under what conditions would a question which is closed as belonging to a sister site not get migrated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T20:21:09.330" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:05:22.037" ClosedDate="2010-03-10T23:14:17.227" Title="Closed &quot;Belongs on&quot; question not migrated?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-23T22:57:09.280" Score="5" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was working with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that was a part of the FAQ, and it wouldn't let me submit the changes because it &quot;must include one of these tags &amp;ndash; [bug] [feature-request] [discussion] [support]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do all future edits to FAQs also require one of those tags?  This means that you are effectively &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-format-my-code-blocks&quot;&gt;limited to &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; tags&lt;/a&gt; specific to the question's content, and might have to remove a good tag in order to make room for [support] or [discussion].  Doesn't FAQ already imply [support]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can questions already tagged as [faq] (a locked, moderator-only tag) be exempt from  required tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I of course don't know the backend implementation, if [faq] was added to the list of required tags (and the missing-required-tag error message cleaned up so that non-moderators weren't prompted to use it) while still being a locked tag, then any 2k user editing an FAQ would &quot;meet&quot; the required-tag requirement, without allowing non-moderators to add or remove [faq].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132547" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:40:35.600" Title="FAQ questions should be exempt from required tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30726" CreationDate="2009-11-23T23:00:22.770" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like you're not alone, scanning thru the people &lt;code&gt;Organizer&lt;/code&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/5&quot;&gt;recently award to&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3&quot;&gt;Jarrod Dixon&lt;/a&gt;, all of whom now have &lt;code&gt;Organizer x 2&lt;/code&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-23T23:00:22.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30728" CreationDate="2009-11-23T23:13:36.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you notice the close reason states &quot;closed&quot; rather than &quot;migrated&quot; - which might have some bearing on the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31000/after-adding-migrate-flag-auto-migration-after-10-such-flags/31006#31006&quot;&gt;Marc's answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31000/after-adding-migrate-flag-auto-migration-after-10-such-flags&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; sheds some light:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the consensus site of any &quot;migrate&quot; votes is chosen as the target; if there is no consensus, it is simply closed without migrate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T09:16:18.997" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T09:16:18.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30735" CreationDate="2009-11-24T00:48:09.420" Score="1" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really tried to search his articles and the podcast transcripts but I can't come up with the right keyword combination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the quote when Joel says something about some report feature on programmer's metrics for managers, he was upset wanted to know who approved the feature and it turned out the he had approved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5387" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T01:17:23.377" Title="When did Joel Spolsky Talk About Approving Some Features for Managers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;joel-spolsky&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30734" CreationDate="2009-11-24T01:17:23.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if he talked about it in the podcast, but he certainly mentioned it on his blog: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/10.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amnesia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T01:17:23.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30737" CreationDate="2009-11-24T01:17:37.277" Score="-1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1787056/where-does-pythons-pydoc-help-function-get-its-content-from&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1787056/where-does-pythons-pydoc-help-function-get-its-content-from&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two answers when I edited it and right after the edit they were gone. Seems unlikely that they both deleted their answers just as I made the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139402" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T03:44:08.943" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T03:44:08.943" Title="Bug Report: I edited my question and the existing answers disappeared" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30736" CreationDate="2009-11-24T02:27:01.440" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the edits you made to the question changed it enough that the answers were no longer valid.  Both of the answers were deleted by their respective authors right after an edit that you made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T02:27:01.440" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="886" CreationDate="2009-11-24T04:28:59.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  Once you add social networking to a stack site, it would ruin it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132251" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T04:28:59.360" />
  <row Id="30739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30729" CreationDate="2009-11-24T05:44:30.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just make them either discussion or support, which is usually what a FAQ is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. How can I vote someone's answer up? &lt;kbd&gt;support&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can we please see the number of up / down votes? &lt;kbd&gt;discussion&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastEditorUserId="130088" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T03:29:12.353" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T03:29:12.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T06:16:17.157" Score="0" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren&amp;rsquo;t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined Stack Overflow few days ago and I am very happy with the responses I've gotten.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I know Stack Overflow is about asking coding questions, but is there any sister site of Stack Overflow where we can ask about general life advice or problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139273" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-07T21:29:55.300" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T21:29:55.300" ClosedDate="2009-11-24T16:43:59.357" Title="Is there any Stack Overflow sister site for asking general life or advice questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;site-rec&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30744" CreationDate="2009-11-24T06:33:41.243" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;My StackOverflow account is associated with this Meta one.  When I log into Meta with the OpenID associated with my Google account, it works fine.  In fact, I can see my SO account on the related accounts page.  However, I logged out of SO today and now when I try to log back in with my Google OpenID, it doesn't work.  I ended up creating a new account that I log into when I try to use my Google OpenID and I can't figure out how I can access my original one.  I tried clearing my cache and switching browsers but to no avail.  When I try to directly paste my OpenID URL from the Meta account to the SO login page, it brings me to a Google Accounts page saying &quot;The page you requested invalid.&quot; Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T07:06:41.213" Title="Why can't I log into my SO account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30741" CreationDate="2009-11-24T06:38:16.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a sister, but you could try &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answers.yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On second thought, this may be a bad idea. I'm forgetting how babby is formed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T06:38:16.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30742" CreationDate="2009-11-24T07:06:41.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason it isn't working is that you didn't use your gmail as your openid. I will e-mail you your openid (to the e-mail address listed on the SO account).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; gmail openid is site-specific, so copy/paste between sites won't work anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get back in, you might want to add your gmail as an alternative openid, to save this confusion in the future and to act as a backup in case your original provider goes offline at any point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - let me know if you need any duplicate accounts merging / deleting because of this (stating which accounts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T07:06:41.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30747" CreationDate="2009-11-24T07:57:57.190" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wife is looking to set up a natural bodybuilding site.  I told here to take a look at SO model but she seamed to think that non tech people would understand the tag model.  I was wondering if you think non techs could use a similar system as opposed to the standard BBS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139207" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T08:26:24.737" Title="Using the Tag Cloud badge model for non technical type" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30741" CreationDate="2009-11-24T08:09:58.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also not a sister, but try &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; &gt;AskMeFi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately posting is not free any more, they want $5 one time fee via paypal.&#xA;But on the other hand this reduces the number of troll drastically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you speak German there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wer-weiss-was.de/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.wer-weiss-was.de&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Was once very popular, but I'm not sure if this is still the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="84671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T08:19:36.277" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T08:19:36.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30745" CreationDate="2009-11-24T08:10:09.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're all too techy here to give you our view on how non-techs take to tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is far more appropriate on Stack Exchange. It's a productised version of SO and has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;beware the load time&quot;&gt;running some non-tech audience sites&lt;/a&gt; for a time now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if the audience favours organisation, tags help out a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T08:10:09.570" />
  <row Id="30748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30745" CreationDate="2009-11-24T08:26:24.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this is a &quot;the chicken or the egg&quot; problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side:&#xA;Hopefully as more and more (web) applications use tags more non tech people will get used to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only find out if your audience is ready for tags if you do some usability testing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T08:26:24.737" />
  <row Id="30749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2009-11-24T10:00:53.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick Answers at Code Project: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/List.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/List.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T10:00:53.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-24T10:00:53.160" />
  <row Id="30751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30752" CreationDate="2009-11-24T11:39:21.307" Score="1" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to remove my old openid from StackOverflow because I want to use my email id associated with the previous account in my new account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I have forgotten my open id provider and I don't see anyway to figure out what was the open id provider I used for my previous account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My email id is :&lt;/strong&gt; -removed sensitive data-  (Used in Previous Account)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Previous Account:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25138/zuhaib&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/25138/zuhaib&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;New Account :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26440/zuhaibz&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26440/zuhaibz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137147" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-06T13:54:52.220" LastActivityDate="2010-07-06T13:54:52.220" Title="Delete Previous Open Id Account From StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30751" CreationDate="2009-11-24T11:50:14.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just email team@stackoverflow.com - they're the ones who will be able to deal with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T11:50:14.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T12:20:22.657" Score="0" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I swear this question comes up often enough to warrant it. The first time a user goes to ask a question a page should come up mentioning at least the topic of parsing HTML with regular expressions and possibly others (eg writing compilers) that are common to the point of being absurd. Don't disallow the user from asking it but just make them look at a page that doesn't have too much on it other than:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;If you are going to ask...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;a question about parsing HTML with regular expressions, read&#xA;  this; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ok, if your question doesn't fit in this category press Next&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T18:44:50.700" Title="Add a &quot;Please Reconsider&quot; page when a user first asks a question, to warn them against parsing HTML with regexes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30753" CreationDate="2009-11-24T12:29:27.650" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need some statistics on which kinds of questions are &quot;common to the point of being absurd&quot;, there may simply be too many for this to work, and it seems a little odd to single out this one problem for mention.  The more stuff that's on the page, the less likely it is to be seen and heeded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Plus, it's a big of a big and ugly hurdle for the majority of users who don't ask these sorts of questions.&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;Edit: I missed that the OP only asked the page to appear the very first time a user asked a question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occurs to me that the set of people who are asking about parsing HTML using regex may have a very small intersection with the set of people who read and follow directions when submitting a question.  Heck, it still might not help even if we produced Morgan Freeman's voice from their computer speakers admonishing them in their native tongue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T14:53:26.860" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T14:53:26.860" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28977" CreationDate="2009-11-24T12:32:07.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or use:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/tags%20or%20reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/tags%20or%20reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135797" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T12:32:07.520" />
  <row Id="30757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30758" CreationDate="2009-11-24T12:44:04.080" Score="10" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using OpenId makes it somewhat bothersome to have separate accounts for employers and resumes (since you have to remember which account is tied to which openId provider). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm assuming an employer can post multiple jobs from the same account, but if not, then the multi-login thing becomes even more of a nightmare...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58" LastEditorUserId="58" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T13:27:53.753" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T20:50:53.850" Title="What if you have a careers CV but want to post a job as an employer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;employers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30757" CreationDate="2009-11-24T12:46:43.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Careers terms, you're either a CV owner, or an employer -- you &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; be both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least not with the same OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, if you really want to do this, you must use two different OpenIDs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T12:46:43.500" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="30759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30762" CreationDate="2009-11-24T13:01:52.130" Score="2" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a small bug on rendering markdown &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1784133/how-can-i-convert-scala-xml-elem-to-something-compatible-with-the-javax-xml-apis/1787582#1787582&quot;&gt;visible in this answer&lt;/a&gt; and copied here.The following seems to work just fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;val schemaXml = &amp;lt;xsd:schema xmlns:xsd=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                  &amp;lt;xsd:element name=&quot;foo&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;/xsd:schema&amp;gt;&#xA;val schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when the extra lines are added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;val schemaXml = &amp;lt;xsd:schema xmlns:xsd=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                  &amp;lt;xsd:element name=&quot;foo&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;/xsd:schema&amp;gt;&#xA;val schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);&#xA;&#xA;// not possible, but what I want:&#xA;// val schema = schemaFactory.newSchema(schemaXml)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SchemaFactory.newInstance line and the closing XML tag) is all rendering as if it were a literal String&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T14:11:25.983" Title="Code rendering bug on closing XML literal" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;&lt;xml&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30543" CreationDate="2009-11-24T13:32:24.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Terrible idea. I've used forums and technical support portals that force you to view a page of automatically generated (unhelpful) search results before you can actually post your question. I don't think you can appreciate how &lt;strong&gt;irritating&lt;/strong&gt; it is until you've experienced it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T13:32:24.587" />
  <row Id="30761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30753" CreationDate="2009-11-24T13:59:17.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe StackOverflow should have &lt;strong&gt;programming related FAQs&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;These can be regex for html, floating point questions, etc.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It may also allow us to close questions as &lt;em&gt;FAQ Question&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;Exact Duplicate&lt;/em&gt;, which isn't always accurate.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Of course, most people will not &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; the FAQs, but they can be directed to it. This already happens, to some extent - these questions get answeres, with liks or duplicates to existing answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I'm not sure that's necessary. These questions do get repetitive after a while, but I'm not convinced it's a real issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26621/whats-the-most-repeated-question-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What’s the most repeated question on StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20409/common-wrong-questions-on-so&quot;&gt;Common wrong questions on SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T13:59:17.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30759" CreationDate="2009-11-24T14:11:25.983" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if Google prettify, which is what we use for syntax highlighting, supports this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T14:11:25.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35894" CreationDate="2009-11-24T14:28:37.387" Score="5" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has two parts, one feature request, and one discussion related item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Feature Request&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a statistic available that tells us how often we show up in searches compared to other candidates?  Specifically, I know that I show up in about 10% of the searches done by Employers; but I want to compare that percentage against other candidates.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning is if I have a lower percentage, then I know that I'm 'doing it wrong', and I have hard numbers to prove that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also help to know how often employers are searching certain items (say the 'trending' programming language; which language is on the rise, etc). I realize TIOBE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;carries an index&lt;/a&gt; on language popularity; but it isn't really 'local' enough to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Discussion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other statistics would you like to see for Careers? What metrics would be helpful to you in measuring the effectiveness of your CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T02:05:33.737" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T02:05:33.737" Title="Hits vs Searches statistics on Stack Overflow careers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30763" CreationDate="2009-11-24T14:36:48.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree on the &quot;how often are employers searching certain items&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be great to see regional statistics. I personally show up in less than 1% of the searches. I guess that my coming from Switzerland is the reason, but I do not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also would like to use careers as an employer. I would use the regional statistics as well to decide on whether to join or not. Only critical masses of people in the EU and Switzerland searching would make me join.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be great to know what search criteria are available in the first place - is it possible to do a world wide search, and how often is this done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a stats page that does not need a login, showing distributions on region, favorites, and likes (combinations, maybe including dislikes)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T14:45:37.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T14:41:25.540" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13103/screen-flickers-composing-an-answer-from-iphone&quot;&gt;Screen flickers composing an answer from iPhone &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When trying to write an answer on the iPhone, safari constantly scrolls to the top of the page. I'm guessing this is due to the live markdown preview refreshing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else having this issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148826" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:18:21.373" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:18:21.373" ClosedDate="2009-11-24T15:25:51.777" Title="iPhone editing bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;&lt;safari&gt;" />
  <row Id="30766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T14:44:50.077" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an employer in the biomedical research area, I'm interested in searching for some people with a background or interest in chemistry or life science application development.  Since this is a software development-centric site, it's likely that job seekers won't include this kind of information in their primary tags, even if they are interested in the field.  But, I think it's the kind of thing that people might end up putting in their personal statement.  I realize personal statements are going to be really noisy, but it'd still be nice to be able to dig, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="404" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:45:32.903" Title="I'd like to be able to search on a job seeker's full &quot;personal statement&quot; text" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;employers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30768" CreationDate="2009-11-24T14:54:25.533" Score="1" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I started with 1 point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then I got 10 points from successfully asking a good question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That makes 11.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've got 15 points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/19032?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;rep. graph&lt;/a&gt; shows nothing else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where the extra 4 points come from?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The FAQ doesn't talk about that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad I got those points of course, but it would help to know how I did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:30:32.327" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:30:32.327" Title="Where did a few reputation points come from?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30767" CreationDate="2009-11-24T14:56:45.950" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've accepted 2 answers - you get 2 points per acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's unfortunate that it isn't mentioned in the FAQ as far as I can see.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T14:56:45.950" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30767" CreationDate="2009-11-24T15:03:23.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, Jon Skeet is right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also another way for a low-rep user to get two extra points, though: if you're at 1 point and someone downvotes you then takes it back, the system refunds you two points even though you didn't lose them in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've demonstrated the latter case here. Notice that you now have 13 rep even though you've only been upvoted once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T15:03:23.347" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30766" CreationDate="2009-11-24T15:08:27.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it would help too if employers could create tags and if there was a tags page with stats. In SO/SF/SU/Meta, the tags page shows how many questions are tagged with a certain tag. Here, tags could show the number of CV's that use that tag in likes, favorites, and experience to employers, and the number of searches that have been done using a certain tag to employees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow an employee to choose tags that are searched that describe him and he would not have thought of. Yes, there is a chance that some optimize their CV according to search stats, but that cannot be prevented (as most buzzwords are known even without stats).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree with the OP though that all fields should be searchable (including the personal statement). This should not be a biggie, as the trilogy sites implement full text search too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T15:08:27.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6407" CreationDate="2009-11-24T15:27:43.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A markdown for links would be great and helpful, something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Search Engine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139421" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-01T09:19:41.357" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T09:19:41.357" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30775" CreationDate="2009-11-24T15:36:18.280" Score="2" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SuperUser I have given just two questions and two answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few minutes ago someone downvoted all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, while it is technically possible that someone found all of them worth of a downvote, it smells much more like something personal (not that I have the slightest idea on who or why).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that behaviour acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T23:22:18.627" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T23:22:18.627" Title="Picking on a user (downvote abuse) question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30772" CreationDate="2009-11-24T15:39:37.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope. If you think theres a problem you can either flag one of your posts and ask a moderator to take a look into it, or you can wait. There is a script that looks for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suspicious voting patterns&lt;/a&gt; and will correct the issue automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T15:39:37.227" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30753" CreationDate="2009-11-24T15:44:45.457" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this would only annoy users who &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; asking questions about HTML and RegExps. So we need a way to determine if the question being asked fits that pattern...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I suggest you come up with a regular expression that will match HTML+RegExp questions, and offer it to the SO Team for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T15:44:45.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30868" CreationDate="2009-11-24T16:26:52.040" Score="4" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell from the &quot;Employer View&quot; of my CV, all that appears is name, location, the personal statement snippet and favorite technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it correct that no info about StackOverflow reputation shows up in the employer search results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137612" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T06:02:14.387" Title="Do employers see your StackOverflow reputation score in the search results?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30780" CreationDate="2009-11-24T16:30:58.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite obviously this would only happen if you associated your accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T16:30:58.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:04:16.170" Score="2" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://startups.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Startups.com&lt;/a&gt; is very similar to StackExchange sites in terms of style. Is it part of the family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-17T19:11:09.433" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T19:12:04.393" Title="Is Startups.com part of the SO family?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:05:47.367" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that SO should print and sell T-Shirts with these sentences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This should be community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please provide some sample code / show us what you have tried so far&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So, what is the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;34 questions and zero accepted answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why the downvote?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;+1 for mentioning Code Complete&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you really expect that we will do your homework?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is not asking that. Re-read the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:05:47.367" />
  <row Id="30785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30783" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:09:18.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a site using the stackoverflow engine, though not affiliated with stackoverflow itself as the meta/SU/SF/SO siblings are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:09:18.453" />
  <row Id="30786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30783" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:09:34.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not one of the official sites (i.e. not part of the StackOverflow trilogy - now quadrology). It is however based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; platform, designed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fog Creek Software&lt;/a&gt;, the creators of SO (i.e. Jeff, Joel, and co.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130256" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:09:34.210" />
  <row Id="30787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30783" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:12:06.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange 1.0&lt;/a&gt; site. Although StackExchange is similar to StackOverflow, and based upon it, they are two separate entities, and SE questions should be asked at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meta SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-17T19:12:04.393" LastActivityDate="2010-10-17T19:12:04.393" />
  <row Id="30788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26621" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:18:46.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the best (web framework/IDE/insert other here) for the go language?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closely followed by &quot;how do I install go on windows?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:18:46.267" />
  <row Id="30789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30792" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:26:03.587" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't tell what answer I was awarded it for; I haven't answered many, and none of them looks 60 days old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:31:14.513" Title="Is Necromancer badge broken?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;necromancer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30790" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:28:14.270" Score="8" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interests on SO are relatively narrow and so I have to resort to tagged search to find questions I might wish to read or answer.  Lately I'm finding that traffic has gotten so large that even with tags it is difficult for me to find interesting questions.  I'd like better tools for using tags to browse questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a specific feature request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I do an &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; search on a large number of tags (13 is typical for me), along with the results screen I get some buttons, each of which takes me to questions tagged with that single tag.  &lt;strong&gt;I'd like to have the dual feature&lt;/strong&gt;: that is, I'd like to be able to click on an 'x' next to a button and remove that tag from my search, so that I am now looking at results for the remaining 12 tags.  For example, if I search for questions tagged&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;functional-programming or  haskell or  lua or  ocaml or  caml or  c or  memory-management or  polymorphism or  lambda or  lambda-calculus or  compiler or  hardware or  teaching &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then I'd like to be able to click an 'x' next to the &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt; button can get questions tagged&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;functional-programming or  haskell or  lua or  ocaml or  caml or memory-management or  polymorphism or  lambda or  lambda-calculus or  compiler or  hardware or  teaching &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably makes sense for some kind reader or some energetic person on the SO team to think about more tools for navigating the high-dimensional tag space effectively.  Not my bailiwick, but I feel like it's getting harder and harder to find interesting questions, and my participation is dropping.  I'm still in the top 75 users based on reputation, but that's primarily a long tail of votes for old answers&amp;mdash;I'm having trouble finding new questions I want to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T17:44:06.660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:44:06.660" Title="Desperately seeking better support for tagged searches" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30789" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:30:23.703" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/818159/what-are-some-bad-programming-habits-to-look-out-for-and-avoid/1771303#1771303&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/818159/what-are-some-bad-programming-habits-to-look-out-for-and-avoid/1771303#1771303&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was asked in may, you answered in Novemeber and got over 5 upvotes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:30:23.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30789" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:31:14.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/818159/what-are-some-bad-programming-habits-to-look-out-for-and-avoid/1771303#1771303&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/818159/what-are-some-bad-programming-habits-to-look-out-for-and-avoid/1771303#1771303&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is for that question.  It was asked on May 3rd and you answered on Nov 20th. It obviously got more than 5 up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:31:14.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30187" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:33:38.457" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an ugly logo, and once you figure out what the hell it means, it is confusing, since the questions have nothing to do with this Redgate's own software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm all for corporate sponsorship, but it should not be at the expense of marring core interface functions with ugly little logos of unrelated companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16306" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:33:38.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" />
  <row Id="30794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30795" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:37:02.257" Score="-2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have cleared my cache but I still don't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139207" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T17:39:31.770" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:49:57.243" Title="My Gravatar works on Meta but not on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30794" CreationDate="2009-11-24T17:37:50.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume you mean the main site is stackoverflow.  Make sure your email is set correctly on both site profiles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T17:49:57.243" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T17:49:57.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30753" CreationDate="2009-11-24T18:06:25.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30543/how-can-so-improve-the-automatic-pre-question-search&quot;&gt;How can SO improve the automatic pre-question search?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By more obviously presenting the list of likely-related questions, it might be possible to avoid a few of these kinds of questions. If the big question box is hidden by a bit of jQuery pixie dust, then it will be super quick to open it up for users who already know the secret sauce (so I don't buy the arguments about it being &quot;too slow&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T18:06:25.323" />
  <row Id="30797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30798" CreationDate="2009-11-24T18:07:38.940" Score="-1" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28384/sites-similar-to-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Sites similar to StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a list of other sites that use the SO engine? I heard there are ones for maths and sql as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136756" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T18:10:40.557" ClosedDate="2009-11-24T22:36:44.553" Title="What are the other Stackoverflow clones besides Meta, SF and SU?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;clone&gt;&lt;so-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30797" CreationDate="2009-11-24T18:10:40.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is StackExchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; which is the same platform as the StackOverflow family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a list of SE sites at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T18:10:40.557" />
  <row Id="30799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30187" CreationDate="2009-11-24T18:15:58.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that this is the best marriage of logo and tag - while RedGate's products are clearly related to SQL Server, the tag doesn't refer only to them, and I think it detracts from general use to have a sponsored tag with a somewhat unrelated logo on it. Having Adobe sponsor the acrobat tag makes sense - it's their product. I'd also be OK with MS sponsoring the SQL Server tag for the same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I'm not sure that sponsored tags make much sense overall (is having your logo on an SO tag actually worth anything?). And I'm clear that they cause at least a little bit of confusion, so I have to wonder if they shouldn't be done away with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T18:15:58.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20912" CreationDate="2009-11-24T18:20:08.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a fan of code-golf because I think it damages the developer community by encouraging bad coding standards and styles and violations of design principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, I like the questions as clear statements of programming problems (complete with test cases) and so I use them as mini challenges to write readable and maintainable solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136415" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T18:20:08.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30753" CreationDate="2009-11-24T18:44:50.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Obviously, this would only annoy users who aren't asking questions about HTML and RegExps. So we need a way to determine if the question being asked fits that pattern...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Shog9  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just like the &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; warning. – Martinho Fernandes 1 hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I read the question, I actually thought that this would be the ideal way of implementing this. It won't stop everyone, but it's better than nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T18:44:50.700" />
  <row Id="30802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30871" CreationDate="2009-11-24T18:46:24.067" Score="9" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got my first Interest for my CV on the careers site. The process was a little confusing though. I saw part of a message with part of it edited as &quot;&amp;lt;email address temporarily hidden&gt;&quot;. I didn't understand why it was hidden, and the message I was shown wasn't really enough to make a Interested or Not interested decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first instinct was to respond &quot;Hey your email address was blocked by the site, I think there is a different workflow you should be using&quot; but upon clicking &quot;Interested&quot; I was given the full unedited email address. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you post some sort of message like &quot;The un-edited full message will be displayed once you are interested in this position.&quot; It might also be useful to have a &quot;Find out more&quot; option before becoming Interested in a position. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T06:21:23.073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T06:21:33.587" Title="Careers: &lt;email address temporarily hidden&gt;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T20:12:27.500" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at the employer view of my CV, the tags I've added to likes don't appear (but the favorites and dislikes do appear). The likes tags do appear when I select the public view, is this a bug or by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2648" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T06:52:58.553" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T06:52:58.553" Title="likes tags don't appear in Employer view" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-11-24T20:21:00.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.pidgin.im/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pidgin&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LibPurple&lt;/a&gt;.  It's quality stuff and is truly cross-platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T20:21:00.197" />
  <row Id="30807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30818" CreationDate="2009-11-24T20:29:08.937" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a recent change (I think) in the way the editor behaves, for me at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some delay after I hit the enter key before I can move the cursor back to the end of the previous line with the mouse.  It's not always consistent, but typically if I hit the enter key, I must click several times at the end of the previous line before my cursor will move there.  Alternatively, I can click at the beginning of the following line and use the arrow key to move back.  This always seems to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reproduce type a line in the editor.  Hit the enter key and try to use the mouse to move the cursor back to the end of the line you just entered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using IE8/WinXP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't see this in MacOSX/Safari.   Looks like some recent patch to IE may be the culprit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T00:05:47.700" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T00:05:47.700" Title="Editor cursor positioning bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;internet-explorer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30810" CreationDate="2009-11-24T21:08:46.803" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can stack tell you how many visitors you have had?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132251" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T21:16:14.170" ClosedDate="2009-11-24T21:38:17.640" Title="Can stack tell you how many visitors you have had?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30807" CreationDate="2009-11-24T21:15:21.240" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can (sort of) replicate this on IE8/Win7, but not really. What I observed wasn't that I needed to click any particular number of times to use the mouse to get to the previous line, but rather that I had to click in &lt;em&gt;just the right spot.&lt;/em&gt; IE8 was treating any click outside one character size past the line as &quot;take me to the next line,&quot; not &quot;take me to the end of this one.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, because I'm cool like that, I tested this in a non-SO site, and was unable to replicate the same behavior there. The site I tested on (ticket entry in the support desk software I wrote for my company) uses a plain-jane HTML &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;textarea&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, with no fancy javascript goodness of any sort attached to it. Not an apples-to-apples comparison by any means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yep, there is some form of funky mouse behavior going on with IE8, but what can you do? take Smithers' advice. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T21:15:21.240" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30808" CreationDate="2009-11-24T21:16:14.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T21:16:14.170" />
  <row Id="30811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30807" CreationDate="2009-11-24T21:31:18.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like Cigar's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30807/editor-cursor-positioning-bug/30809#30809&quot;&gt;textarea approach&lt;/a&gt;, so I wrote a quick and dirty test page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;textarea rows=&quot;10&quot; cols=&quot;100&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/textarea&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This textarea behaves exactly the same as the MSO one (tested with IE 8).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T21:31:18.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-24T21:56:38.183" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got my first message on the careers website today. The sender doesn't have a real &lt;strike&gt;company&lt;/strike&gt; website yet, and that in itself doesn't bother me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message was very generic, it seems the person who sent the message just searched for lots of people with certain tag(s) in the &quot;like&quot; section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, the company is located in a place that's not listed in my &quot;place I want to work in&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this one of intended usages of the careers website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastEditorUserId="35364" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-24T22:58:09.850" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T23:42:46.027" Title="generic messages on careers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-11-24T22:39:55.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://sciencecommons.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;science commons&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T22:39:55.547" />
  <row Id="30814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30812" CreationDate="2009-11-24T22:40:26.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The sender doesn't have a real company&#xA;  yet, and that in itself doesn't bother&#xA;  me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It bothers me. My understanding was that &quot;employers&quot; would be screened before receiving access to people's private information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137612" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T22:40:26.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2009-11-24T22:41:48.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;R Project for Statistical Computing&lt;/a&gt; is also a very valuable open source project for the scientific community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T22:41:48.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30807" CreationDate="2009-11-24T23:35:51.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have made zero changes to anything editor related in the last month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is a bug, it's either been there for more than a month, or it's not our bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T23:35:51.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30812" CreationDate="2009-11-24T23:42:46.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are still in a beta period so there may be a few bumps until we get everything working smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason you came up in this particular employers search is due to setting the &quot;Willing to Relocate&quot; to TRUE on your CV.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the help text it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is relocation, moving to a different&#xA;  city or country, an option for you? If&#xA;  an employer requires you to move for a&#xA;  job, are you willing to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To keep your name from popping up in global searches where employers aren't particular about searching based on geography, uncheck this and you will only show in employer searches that match the locations you've entered in &quot;Where do you want to work?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We reserve the right to change how this works in the future as it's obviously not very clear at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-11-24T23:42:46.027" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14579" CreationDate="2009-11-25T01:09:05.167" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heh, dude - if u have to ask, you're not eligable. Why do you think they created &lt;em&gt;Careers&lt;/em&gt; ? So they have access to a pool of posible candidates, where they can easily pick the best and filter the crap ... on tap :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30674" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T01:09:05.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T01:36:48.580" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1170/should-i-be-able-to-cancel-my-up-vote-on-a-comment&quot;&gt;Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I upvote a comment, I can't un-upvote it. Say if I thought a comment was a good idea and upvoted it, but then a counter comment was posted, which made me change my mind, so I upvote it as well. If the counter comment garnered more upvotes, then it could be established as correct, but it still makes little sense that we're not allowed to change our minds based on new information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:05:54.173" ClosedDate="2009-11-25T02:36:08.333" Title="Why can't we remove our upvotes on comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T01:45:19.767" Score="9" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the SO main page you can add/remove your own 'Interesting Tags' and 'Ignored Tags'. Well, I navigate fairly often by the 'Interesting Tags' to find questions of interest. I've arranged the 'Interesting Tags' according a specific order so that I can quickly find them. But very sometimes (often during page load while the &lt;code&gt;(x)&lt;/code&gt; delete icons are still not appeared) I accidently click at the delete icon. There goes the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, I could add the tag again and then remove and re-add all other tags so that the deleted one reappears at the place where it belongs (because I can't seem to find a way to arrange them). I have them a bit grouped and ordered on the actual interest and subject. For example, server-side stuff like Java/JSF/JSP/JSTL and so on the top, the tools like Tomcat and Eclipse in the middle and then the client side stuff like HTML/CSS/jQuery on the bottom. All just for the easy and intuitive navigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the delete icon better to be supplied with a &lt;code&gt;return confirm('Are you sure?')&lt;/code&gt; in its &lt;code&gt;click&lt;/code&gt; event or so? It's also much better for UX. The 'delete comment' button also has a confirm dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: as it still annoys me and a confirmation dialog is likely not going to come, I created a userstyle. One may find it useful as well: &lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org/styles/24524&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://userstyles.org/styles/24524&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="138231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T07:30:18.363" LastActivityDate="2011-06-11T16:04:57.473" Title="Confirm dialog when an interesting (or ignored) tag is to be deleted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="30828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30826" CreationDate="2009-11-25T02:05:54.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment upvote doesn't indicate correctness, it indicates people agreeing with the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment vote reversal and downvotes don't exist because they're an added complexity with no true benefit. If I remember correctly, comments on the Trilogy were added only begrudgingly, as these are not discussion forums, they are question and answer sites. Comments are, by design, the red-headed stepchildren of the Trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since comment upvotes do not affect rep, who cares if there's a little number next to the comment that you decide you wish to reverse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, the corollary to this is that the Trilogy doesn't allow you to reverse a vote on a question or answer after a certain timeframe, unless said question or answer was edited. As comments cannot be edited, your vote would be permanent even if comment voting worked identically to question/answer voting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:05:54.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30827" CreationDate="2009-11-25T02:08:56.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I think the situation having your interesting / ignored tags ordered is probably an edge case. For most users, the process of re-adding the interesting tag won't be as labor-intensive as it is for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, because the process to undo this is fairly painless for the vast majority of users, adding a confirm dialog box would be noise -- noise that many of us would &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/26/608007.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Raymond Chen to the rescue!&quot;&gt;quickly be trained to ignore&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:08:56.900" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30831" CreationDate="2009-11-25T02:49:26.267" Score="0" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&#xA;Today I came across a perfect SO clone. They claim they were made with the same source-code and are hosted in the same server.. is it truth? Is SO open-source? How they did it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackbr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackbr.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138970" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:59:12.707" Title="This brazilian website claims it was made with SO Source-code... is it truth?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30830" CreationDate="2009-11-25T02:59:12.707" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is telling you no lie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's running on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;stacked to the rafters&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;, which is not open-source, but the packaged-and-sold-to-other-people version of the codebase running Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/way-too-many-to-mention&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;mondo list&quot;&gt;other sites are also using the service&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T02:59:12.707" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T03:36:49.690" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27558/why-does-the-default-time-range-on-the-recent-activity-page-work-as-it-does&quot;&gt;Why does the default time range on the &amp;lsquo;recent activity&amp;rsquo; page work as it does?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something seems to be broken with Recent Activity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After being away from the site for a while, the first time I click on the envelope icon (which took me quite a long time to discover), I see one collection of activity.  If I click on it again a few minutes later, the list is gone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time period covered seems to vary from a few seconds to more than a day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There isn't a &quot;recent&quot; button along with &quot;today&quot;, &quot;yesterday&quot;, etc., which I found to be confusing (if I click on &quot;today&quot;, the only way to see recent again is to click on the envelope icon).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the concept of &quot;recent&quot; to be something concrete, like maybe the last 12 hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a button in the main menu for &quot;Activity,&quot; to replace the envelope icon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a button on the activity page for &quot;recent&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have the time range end at the present, rather than extending into the future as it does now (which is confusing). AFAIK, it's not possible to have activity at a time that hasn't happened yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Display the time range in the user's local time zone, rather than GMT.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I clicked on the envelope icon this morning (after clicking on the Questions button to refresh my session), Recent Activity reported:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2009-11-25 18:28:19Z to 2009-11-25&#xA;  23:59:59Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all times are in UTC; the current time&#xA;  is 2009-11-25 18:28:26Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in other words, it's reporting activity &lt;strong&gt;over the last 7 seconds&lt;/strong&gt;.  I don't find that particularly useful (nor do I think this is a duplicate of the post mentioned in the comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T08:40:49.020" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T08:40:49.020" ClosedDate="2009-11-26T01:33:19.350" Title="What time range is Recent Activity supposed to show?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14579" CreationDate="2009-11-25T04:34:43.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/9408/wafflehouse.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;waffle house&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are changing course to bricks mortar and ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T04:34:43.843" />
  <row Id="30836" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:06:01.613" Score="89" ViewCount="691" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently asked for my Stack Overflow reputation score in the context of a job interview. I was first asked what blogs I read, and after mentioning Coding Horror and Stack Overflow, was asked for my user id and reputation score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that a fair question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T22:33:10.970" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:33:10.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:06:01.580" Title="I was recently asked for my Stack Overflow reputation score in a job interview. Is that appropriate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;recruitment&gt;&lt;interview-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="30" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="30837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:10:39.683" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been other questions about the value/meaning of Stack Overflow reputation score outside of Stack Overflow. I think the most accurate way it has been described is that your reputation is an indication of how much &lt;em&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/em&gt; trusts you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The score in and of itself doesn't mean much. If they ask for your user id and take the time to read your questions and answers, then it's more akin to reading a potential hire's technical blog, which has some merit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53166" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:10:39.683" />
  <row Id="30838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:11:17.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imho No, it is not a fair question. It is ok to ask which blogs, etc do you read, but the rep score doesn't necessarly show your &quot;real&quot; knowledge.&#xA;It should be enough for your future boss to know that you are trying to stay up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally such question automatically lets me think, that there is a lot of employee monitoring going on, in this company (but this might not be true)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:11:17.420" />
  <row Id="30839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:11:48.450" Score="195" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just tell them your alias on Stack Overflow is &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:11:48.433" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="30840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:11:52.223" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your rep is a good reflection of the quality of the questions and answers you post here, but not of your knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example you can be a complete newbie in a certain field, and post loads of questions here so you will end up with a lot rep also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:11:52.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:12:03.537" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is totally up to you. If you want to 'show yourself' tell them the user id. It's public information after all. If not, you could have said: I read anonymously :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T22:29:20.760" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:29:20.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:12:03.537" />
  <row Id="30842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:13:43.190" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is a fair question really. If you wanted to show them the technical prowess you've demonstrated on this or any other site, then you would have included it in your resume. It's akin to an employer coming to look at your bedroom to see if you're a tidy person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:13:43.190" />
  <row Id="30843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:19:12.617" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a fair question.  You could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A newcomer to Stack Overflow, in which case your reputation is fairly low.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experienced in technologies that are less popular on Stack Overflow.  For instance, .NET and Windows programming are &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; popular here, while Linux programming is a bit less.  If you have experience in less mainstream languages (for instance my questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Specman&lt;/a&gt;) that won't be reflected in your reputation, because fewer people will read them to begin with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet, in which case you're not really a data point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T22:27:47.033" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:27:47.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:19:12.600" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="30844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:20:01.850" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, I think it's fair.  It's an interview, so they're trying to get insight into what makes you tick.  So, pretty much anything's fair, provided they're not entering discrimination territory, which this question does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that just because they ask your rep doesn't mean that that's what they're trying to find out.  They might just want to see your reaction to the question, or to find out if you know about SO.  I think it's a good sign that &lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt; know about SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137025" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:20:01.850" />
  <row Id="30845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:23:36.443" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a pretty natural conversational progression. It's not like they made your Stack Overflow data a part of the application criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137135" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T22:24:31.173" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:24:31.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:23:36.443" />
  <row Id="30846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:23:58.737" Score="110" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how I would answer it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my score is high, I would say &quot;I enjoy programming so much that even &lt;em&gt;outside of work&lt;/em&gt; I participate in forums like stackoverflow to improve myself&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my score is low, I would say that &quot;I'm so busy with work that I can hardly find time to participate actively in forums like stackoverflow even when &lt;em&gt;I really like to&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, you leave a positive impression on your interviewer (hopefully).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131705" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:23:58.737" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:25:24.787" Score="66" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they are looking for someone who can delete posts for them :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1534" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:25:24.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:25:46.627" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation and other metrics (upvotes/downvotes, accepted answers etc etc) is largely meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However being able to view a candidate's questions/answers on technical topics would be extremely valuable to anyone involved in a screening/hiring decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Binary Worrier Editing Andrews Post.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were in the position of looking at a candidate's SO profile, I would be far more interested in the quality of posts rather than the quantity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I can imagine snap judgements being made e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no of questions &gt; number of answers, then the candidate isn't a self starter, and relies too much on others to get things done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Large number of answers but low rep, then the user either &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a) doesn't know their stuff, but&#xA;thinks they do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;b) is trolling and constantly get's&#xA;downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NB:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not saying that this is the way it is, I'm saying there's a danger the data could be viewed this way (i.e. don't shoot the messenger).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:25:46.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:25:59.997" Score="61" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly when I see question topics like &quot;programmer baby names&quot;, &quot;programmer license plates&quot; and &quot;programmer quotes&quot; are the most popular/highest rated, it pretty much makes the whole reputation thing worthless in my opinion, especially when you see other really technical/hard questions get a few votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131311" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:25:59.997" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:33:49.107" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from technical knowledge, reputation depends upon how long you have been a member.  Comparing two candidates' reputations is meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Access to a candidates questions and answers would provide some insight into their communication skill, ability to reason about technical problems and general community/team behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144937" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:33:49.093" />
  <row Id="30851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T08:57:47.063" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the expectation the interviewer puts on the answer.  Here are two ways to think about it that would not be proper:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;If he has a high reputation, he has a lot of knowledge. I mark that as a plus.&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;If he has a high reputation, he is wasting a lot of time with all kinds of internet sites. I mark that as a minus.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the interviewer just wants to incite the interviewee to tell about his activity, in order to get an impression, I think it's OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T08:57:47.063" />
  <row Id="30852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T09:30:54.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is fair, as long as it is viewed as a benefit. In fact, I was curious on why was that question asked. Which leads me into some insights to share:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I wouldn't think it could be shown as pejorative, but recruiters and HR-minded people usually doesn't follow logical conventions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And if you're one and you're looking my online profile, I will happily tell you: I didn't write the previous statement. The computer did by itself!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Ok, back to the not-so-common-sense: A Company could leverage that as some Marketing and PR effort, specially if it offers products like components and libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the interviewer has some IT background, well, it might look either as a icebreaker and try to focus on which stuff were you into lately, or trying to find if you have some deep knowledge and experience, and you were willing to share - which is good when you consider teamwork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T09:30:54.250" />
  <row Id="30853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T09:53:08.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a fair question, but I would consider it more of a social/hobby/interest question rather than a way to assess someone's professional skills or experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would not ask about a candidates reputation, but I might ask about their username. That way I could check out their questions/answers and use it in my evaluation of them. Mind you that the evaluation would be based purely on what they actually wrote on the site, not what their score was. If somebody did not want to share their username (or otherwise indicated that they didn't like the question--i.e. by coming up with an excuse), I would simply move on and think nothing of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for my own answer to the reputation question, I would just say something along the lines of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Sorry, but I don't remember.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&quot;Sorry, but I don't know. I don't really keep track of those things.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1709" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T09:53:08.590" />
  <row Id="30854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T12:21:54.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's very appropriate. But only because my profile shows that I've wasted company resources playing on this thing and that's not the sort of thing I want potential employers to know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kieran: On a personal note... If I were you, I'd be wary of giving my stackoverflow ID to any potential employers because your answers &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; stand against you. You've a tendency towards community questions; you quote religious text; you state you wouldn't be good in areas outside programming and your answers are sometimes a bit unstructured. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope you don't take this personally - I don't know you, and I don't want you think this is what I think about you or your abilities. I have no personal opinion about you any way.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1726" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T12:21:54.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-02T15:42:24.250" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether or not such questions are &quot;fair&quot; isn't the question I'd ask. Whether it's blogs you read, online communities you're part of (Stack Overflow, Facebook, etc), your comments on blogs, or blogs you write--they can work for you or against you.  In this day and age, it's wise to expect that today's employers will find out whatever they can about you online.  So when you put anything online, do what you can to make sure it shows you in the best light possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In past jobs, when interviewing has been a large part of my role, I nearly always asked prospects what sort of things they read (print and/or online) that related to their job.  To me, the fact that you're involved in Stack Overflow is something I'd look on as a plus.  Rather than ask you your id and rep score, a more useful question from them would have been what your favorite question was.  A good interviewer would be able to use that question to find out more about your interest and skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132696" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-02T15:42:24.233" />
  <row Id="30856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-03T14:49:39.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a fair question, it shows you have an active interest in programming and are keen on learning. Alot of developers can just stand still and let technology and methods pass them by... These are the developers you don't want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-03T14:49:39.800" />
  <row Id="30857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-03T15:03:37.340" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an interviewer's point of view, taking a note of the user name could be useful, more so than the actual rep score.  It allows them to go and have a look at some of your answers and see if you generally know what you are talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, if somebody looked at my top-rated answers they would see that I am an expert in Jon Skeet's abilities and getting laid off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-03T15:03:37.323" />
  <row Id="30858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-03T15:11:49.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a fair question, but only to a point.  A high rep means that you participate in SO a lot.  Thus someone with a high rep is likely to be very interested in programming.  But it shouldn't be considered a measure of programming ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-03T15:11:49.740" />
  <row Id="30859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-03T18:41:56.460" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like a fair question, but because stack overflow allows some (but not all) non-programming and discussion questions, it would not really be an accurate scoring of your skill level or dedication.  Though the leadership may eventually get it's act together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question itself, is to some degree a measure of the failure of the stack overflow system.  Because while you may receive reputation for a question like this, it would not reflect any underlying programming knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-03T18:41:56.460" />
  <row Id="30860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-03T22:20:35.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they wanted to spy on you making sure SO doesn't answer all of your programming queries? :O.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-03T22:20:35.007" />
  <row Id="30861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-03T22:45:09.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is a fair question as how you answer it may say a lot about your communication skills.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rationalize away that your reputation isn't in the same league as Jon Skeet?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;simply state the facts of what your reputation is and why you visit this site?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;try to explain that you can answer so many questions while still being productive where you work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of different perspectives that I think &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; you answer is the key here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-03T22:45:09.387" />
  <row Id="30862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-05T04:27:25.030" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me this says 3 things about the interviewer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They know something about the coding community. This is a positive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They want to quickly establish their superiority over you with intimidation. Negative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They want to uncover your 'Programmer' persona. Positive for them, possible devastating for you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is - you put it out there so don't be surprised where you pop up. Own your web presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132657" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T04:27:25.030" />
  <row Id="30863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-05T05:46:48.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a fair question.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what they see is really up to you.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is web privacy 101.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are doing something online that you don't want an employer (current or future) or anybody else to be able to find then &lt;strong&gt;don't use your real name&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you are doing something online that your are proud of and are happy for anybody to see then sign that baby with your real name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any employer worth their salt should be googling you anyway to scope you out before they even ask you in for an interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T05:46:48.880" />
  <row Id="30864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-05T09:24:43.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's totally non-sensical to ask this question in a job interview IMHO. Rep points on SO correlate with length of membership and number of questions and answers more than anything else like quality, knowledge, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11995" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T09:24:43.043" />
  <row Id="30865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-05T12:54:54.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether or not it's a fair question, as in fair to you to have to answer it. But do think it's a stupid question to ask in an interview, since in fact it gives very little information about your actual programming ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking what your stackoverflow user account is and looking at your questions and answers would be a much better way to actually evaluate your abilities. It's also just as fair as asking if you have any published work relating to the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1113" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-05T12:54:54.850" />
  <row Id="30866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30836" CreationDate="2009-02-11T04:25:22.970" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;they probably just wanted to downvote all your answers, the scum!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:16:54.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-11T04:25:22.953" />
  <row Id="30867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21462" CreationDate="2009-11-25T05:32:01.463" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is by design, it is unfortunate. It means that the undo feature is not really a true undo, it leaves some invisible state still mutated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My scenario went like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I saw an answer that I thought was good.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I clicked the upvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thinking about it over the next few seconds, I found a possible flaw in the completeness of the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I clicked the upvote again to undo the vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did some research to satisfy myself that the answer was complete. I found that it was.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I clicked the upvote once more, but it was denied with the “Vote too old to be changed, unless the answer is edited” message.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the system acts like I have already cast a vote but I have actually caused no net impact to the vote tally of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If was a true undo, the undo would have reset any “undo window” timer and any subsequent, new vote should have started its own undo window timer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137637" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:32:01.463" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30780" CreationDate="2009-11-25T05:47:13.120" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you have associated your account, your SO user badge will appear in the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T05:47:13.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30805" CreationDate="2009-11-25T06:18:53.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search result only includes likes and dislikes -- it is a summary, so this is intentional. Not everything fits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(it is used in searches even though it is not shown in search results)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The employer view of your CV includes everything, as does the public view -- if you make that part visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T06:18:53.217" />
  <row Id="30871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30802" CreationDate="2009-11-25T06:21:33.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea -- we'll add a line under the message to indicate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T06:21:33.587" />
  <row Id="30872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30349" CreationDate="2009-11-25T06:33:17.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I clarified the language on the stats to make it more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T06:33:17.967" />
  <row Id="30873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30875" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:02:22.563" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's strange because Iron is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.srware.net/en/software%5Fsrware%5Firon%5Fchrome%5Fvs%5Firon.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;very similar&lt;/a&gt; to Chrome, and I am able to post questions/answers with Chrome 3.0.195.33 (just checked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Iron, I get redicted to the &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Oops! Something Bad Happened!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; - error page, where I am &lt;em&gt;asked&lt;/em&gt; to report the problem to Meta if I think it's interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted this issue here a few days before but the old question is gone. It might have been deleted due to 'being too localized', as someone told me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature wish:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user with an unusual browser gets to the error page, they should be told to use a supported browser &lt;em&gt;instead of asking them to submit a bug report to Meta&lt;/em&gt; -- as this would just be a waste of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134548" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T07:18:17.183" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:18:17.183" Title="Posting questions/answers and editing does not work with Iron 3.0.197.0" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;error-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30832" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:09:22.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it by default shows activity during the current session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:09:22.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30873" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:17:50.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't test on every single browser ever released, but every major browser is known to work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari2, Safari3, Chrome1, Chrome2, Chrome3, Firefox2, Firefox3, Firefox3.5, Opera9, Opera10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again: even &lt;em&gt;Opera&lt;/em&gt; works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say &lt;strong&gt;that browser is clearly broken&lt;/strong&gt;; you shouldn't be filing the bug here, but with whoever wrote it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:17:50.337" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="30876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30832" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:25:05.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always assumed it displays whatever happened since my last visit of the site. If yes, then there can be no fixed time range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Example: If I visit the site in the morning and then again in the evening, I will get the highlighted envelope in the evening. Clicking on it I will be presented with any comments and answers I got since I was there in the morning.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't know where it is explained. To me this is quite intuitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138902" LastEditorUserId="138902" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T14:50:12.697" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T14:50:12.697" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30877" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:32:16.767" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;After editing an answer (someone else answer) to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&quot;&gt;Great Programming Quotes&lt;/a&gt; question no answers are visible when the question page reloads, a la the screenshot below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7024/sonoanswers.png&quot; alt=&quot;look ma no answers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the answers are still there, I just have to reload the page to see them again.  I have been able to reproduce this 3 times in a row on this question (have not tried others), and if I get the &quot;are you human&quot; page the result is the same, no answers visible when the question page reloads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to reproduce the bug on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231951/whats-the-next-thing-on-your-list-to-learn&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with 119 answers but not &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42805/hello-world-what-did-your-first-ever-computer-program-do&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; with 82 answers, both on SO. So I thought the number of answers might be a factor.   But here on meta changing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet Facts questions&lt;/a&gt; with it's 272 answers did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; reproduce the bug nor did editing an answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8790/what-question-would-you-have-asked-as-an-april-fool&quot;&gt;April Fools&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T09:31:40.497" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:30:50.380" Title="No answers visible when question page reloads after editing CW answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30877" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:47:33.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really don't want to edit that question to test, since that will bump it to the front page again. See if you can repro it here on Meta with a large question that got migrated. Take your pick from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A80&quot; title=&quot;80? why 80?&quot;&gt;the questions with at least 80 answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I edited one of the SO questions with this &quot;bug&quot; (page 5/5, default sort order) and I can't reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231951/whats-the-next-thing-on-your-list-to-learn/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231951/whats-the-next-thing-on-your-list-to-learn/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After editing an answer on page 5 (same one you edited), refreshed fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T09:32:47.700" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T09:32:47.700" />
  <row Id="30879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:46:11.437" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24537/why-does-so-store-questions-and-answers-in-the-same-table&quot;&gt;Why does SO store questions and answers in the same table?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a look a SO html. I noticed for a given question the id number is very close to the answer id number. sometimes just only a few units off. So I can only conclude that SO put questions and answers in the same table. What is the advantage to doing it this way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have put questions and answers in different tables. And put a foriegn key in the answers table referring back to the question table. Can someone enlighten me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136454" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:50:35.763" ClosedDate="2009-11-25T09:47:50.203" Title="Why did StackoverFlow put Questions and Answers in the same Database Table?" Tags="&lt;database-design&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30879" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:48:46.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If stack overflow uses oracle they might have just shared a common sequence.  Or perhaps they use a different method of generating IDs.  Perhaps the IDs are generated by a service and put into the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136392" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:50:35.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:42:06.437" Score="2" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inserting the following script into my post, which is removed when shown. How did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;alert('hi');&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-02T10:12:11.660" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T10:14:01.343" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T13:58:53.040" Title="How does Stack Overflow handle this case?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30881" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:45:07.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By removing the tags in the appropriate place. It's called &quot;preparing your data for the appropriate context&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144558" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:57:37.700" />
  <row Id="30883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30881" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:45:42.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Should be on MSO&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post-handling code for SO uses some sort of processing on the text that removes most of the HTML, thus removing the script part. If it didn't you could do something like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&#xA;call_some_function_that_buffer_overflows(&quot;codethatexplodestheusersmachine&quot;);&#xA;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T07:57:37.700" />
  <row Id="30884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30881" CreationDate="2009-11-25T07:46:55.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all it's not inside the script tag. Even if you put it in the script tag it gets converted to corresponding &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_entities.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTML entities&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&#xA;    alert(&quot;Hello&quot;);&#xA;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above code gets converted using following lookup table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt; --&amp;gt; &amp;amp;lt;&#xA;&amp;gt; --&amp;gt; &amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&quot; --&amp;gt; &amp;amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-02T10:14:01.343" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T10:14:01.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30885" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T08:27:02.207" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used IE to log into Stack Overflow (via OpenID). Then, I installed Firefox. It must have copied the cookies from IE (I didn't pay close attention to the install screens), because when I came to Stack Overflow on Firefox, I was already logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More disturbing, though, was the fact that from Firefox I couldn't log out. I was able to create an account on meta and log in and out from here with no problem, but could not log out of Stack Overflow without cookie intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bug isn't a big deal...just a paper cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recap - to reproduce (on a Windows machine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clear cookies from and uninstall Firefox if installed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log into StackOverflow.com in IE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Install Firefox, allowing everything to be copied from IE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Firefox, you should find yourself already logged into StackOverflow.com, and unable to log out (you can click the logout link and then the logout button, but to no avail).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have followed these steps and successfully reproduced the bug on Windows Vista with IE8. The solution is, of course, to clear StackOverflow.com cookies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T09:25:23.267" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T09:25:23.267" Title="Inability to log out when using recently-installed Firefox" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;logout&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T11:51:22.973" Score="0" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;how to write a logparser output into a file.&#xA;I am using c# as a programming language&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T11:51:22.973" ClosedDate="2009-11-25T18:27:10.933" Title="writing logparser output to a file" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30888" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:10:12.487" Score="0" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello All,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i tried to list out the questions that falls under C language. When i tried the search with &quot;C&quot;, stackoverflow search option page is displayed. i tried &quot;cprogramming&quot;,&quot;clanguage&quot;, &quot;c programming&quot;,&quot;c language&quot; but it doesn't give the expected result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected Result : Displaying ONLY the questions that has C tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quit funny :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; But Certainly i know the workaround to get the list of C tagged question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:11:50.113" Title="How to search for C (language) tagged questions alone?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30887" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:11:50.113" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use square brackets to specify the C tag: &lt;code&gt;[C]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in the URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/[c]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:11:50.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30891" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:19:29.937" Score="-8" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1796271/is-it-true-that-most-computer-programmers-have-no-girlfriend-closed&quot;&gt;Is it true that most computer programmers have no girlfriend?&lt;/a&gt; Someone deleted it even though many people voted for it to be reopened. Why? Is that the way SO should treat its users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138205" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-22T20:48:10.123" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T20:48:10.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-25T12:19:29.937" ClosedDate="2011-08-22T20:03:31.740" Title="Why was SO question 1796271 deleted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="30890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30889" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:21:21.193" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bet this will get closed too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150054" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:21:56.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-25T12:21:21.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30889" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:23:25.820" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK; if you can justify how that was a genuine programming question, I'll undelete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, add it to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;&quot;favorite cartoon&quot;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke&quot;&gt;&quot;favorite joke&quot;&lt;/a&gt; thread. Heck, go mad; add it to both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:23:25.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-25T12:23:25.820" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30889" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:24:23.383" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question was not sufficiently programming related.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question exacerbates a mildly offensive stereotype about programmers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question was an obvious attempt at &lt;strike&gt;rep&lt;/strike&gt; attention whoring.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:30:01.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-25T12:24:23.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30889" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:24:25.443" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because there's absolutely &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; value in it for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:24:25.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-25T12:24:25.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30895" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:29:28.147" Score="-4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I listened to the podcast where Joel and Jeff talked about which answer should appear first in the list.  Originally they had it set up that the one posted first would appear first, then they changed it to a random order if all answers had the same number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about making it so answers with fewest edits were listed first if there were no upvotes?  This would put the answers that were well thought out and written in full first, while those who rush to post an answer, then edit it, will be further down the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the overwhelming disagreement on this topic, does anyone have any suggestions how to fix this kind of issue then?  Or is it infact a non-issue now?  Do people no longer consider this to be a problem with the recent changes made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135261" LastEditorUserId="135261" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T16:16:19.470" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T16:16:19.470" Title="If no answer has upvotes, should the one with fewest edits appear first?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;answer-order&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30894" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:32:01.030" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would only discourage people from editing. Editing is &lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt;, and should be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:32:01.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30832" CreationDate="2009-11-25T12:55:54.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27558/why-does-the-default-time-range-on-the-recent-activity-page-work-as-it-does&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27558/why-does-the-default-time-range-on-the-recent-activity-page-work-as-it-does&lt;/a&gt; for a discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roughly, it uses the last time you looked at the data as the start time for the interval.  If you go to the page repeatedly, you'll see some information, then no information, and then (if you've been given some rep or comments) some information again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T12:55:54.123" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30904" CreationDate="2009-11-25T14:16:09.797" Score="43" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the title speaks for itself. It would help knowing 'what else needs to be done' in order to earn a certain badge level. For example, Strunk &amp;amp; White badge. It says &quot;Edited 100 entries&quot;. It would be good to have a statistic off to the right when you click the Badges button at the top, that shows (50/100) Entries, for example, so you know that you have 50 left to earn this badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... Or is S&amp;amp;W a bad example? Enthusiast badge would be nice to show the statistic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do this encourage badge hunting? I think for most of the badges they are obtainable by 'one-time good deeds' that are difficult to do and thus would have no statistic tied to them (such as Cleanup, Taxonomist, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T03:47:30.320" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T03:47:30.320" Title="Show How Much Statistics Left Until Badge Can Be Earned" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;personal-statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30902" CreationDate="2009-11-25T14:19:47.747" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has repeatedly said that the current model is &quot;by design&quot;. However, in his answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; Jeff reveals the true answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a technical addendum -- we do not store which question or answer triggered the badge anywhere. (because it was never part of the design).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So even if we wanted to do this, we don't have the information..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most badges are supposed to &quot;come out of the blue&quot; and you have to go hunting for what triggered the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're modelled on Xbox Achievements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I would have agreed that it would be nice to know how close you are to a badge (e.g. 100 edits, 400 up-votes etc.) however, I now feel that knowing this information changes your behaviour (looking for posts to edit, answering the easy questions for votes) which might not benefit the site. Working in ignorance means that you always work how you work - editing to improve the question, answering because you want to help etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T14:26:00.087" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T14:26:00.087" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30902" CreationDate="2009-11-25T14:24:33.040" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with newer XBOX achievements (see The Beatles:Rockband or Left4Dead 2 for examples), having some kind of progress would be nice for badges but it is a low gain feature in terms of the site overall. While badges encourage good behaviour, seeing the progress just encourages badge hunting, which is somewhat innocuous but not necessarily what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, is it good to encourage edits just to get a badge or to encourage good edits? Badges certainly provide some encouragement but if you overly weight their importance, it becomes all about attaining the bling rather than doing the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say I'm on the fence about this suggestion. While I can see it might be useful, I also feel that it could unnaturally bias participation in the site towards only the trackable tasks, not to mention that there are various other improvements where I'd rather see effort expended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T14:24:33.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30906" CreationDate="2009-11-25T14:33:27.343" Score="3" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to upvote a comment and I get a dialog box with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this comment is not valid for voting&#xA;  or flagging&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's that about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43965" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T22:41:46.477" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:41:46.477" Title="What does &quot;this comment is not valid for voting or flagging&quot; mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30905" CreationDate="2009-11-25T14:34:39.557" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Between the time that you started reading the comment to when you flagged or hit the upvote, it has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post you're looking at, to which the comment belongs, is locked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T14:43:34.613" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T14:43:34.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30905" CreationDate="2009-11-25T14:40:11.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happened to me once; the comment was on the question and the question was &lt;strike&gt;closed&lt;/strike&gt; locked. I assumed that was the reason. Other comments on the same question were also not upvote-able.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, comments on answers to that question were upvote-able, so I don't know what's the idea here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastEditorUserId="35364" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T22:28:33.100" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:28:33.100" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T15:46:07.290" Score="11" ViewCount="794" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question might not be a directly related to programming but more the culture around it, specifically Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently stumbled onto &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Careers&lt;/a&gt;, and read how you could create an online CV that links to your Stack Overflow reputation, thus allowing future employers to review your answers and questions.  Since Stack Overflow has become such a phenomenal success for developers, I realised that Stack Overflow Careers was going to be crucial when applying for software development jobs in the future. This would imply that a high reputation is needed to reflect well on your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I love Stack Overflow and think it’s a great resource for finding solutions to problems regarding software development. However, I cannot possibly sit on the site 24/7 and hope to be one of the first replies to a question to try and increase my reputation. Developers need to work, you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: How do you increase your reputation score on Stack Overflow in a realistic manner? There are users out there boasting reputations of 25,000 and higher. How do you do this? Suggestions, comments, tricks, etc. would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139547" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-02T10:10:04.687" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T10:10:04.687" Title="How do you increase your Stack Overflow reputation in a realistic manner?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="30911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T15:49:51.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quality not quantity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134536" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T15:49:51.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T15:49:52.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codexon.com/posts/simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interesting article&lt;/a&gt; on how to gain rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  Some of the points in the article are frowned upon, but content in the article is nonetheless interesting because it shows how people can use the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138585" LastEditorUserId="138585" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T20:51:53.523" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T20:51:53.523" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="30913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T15:50:50.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation at SO have a 200/day cap, so you can't make 25k points in one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally answer some questions early morning, some more at lunch time and a few more at night, when I have time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T15:50:50.030" />
  <row Id="30914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T15:50:51.417" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall reputation score on SO is not indicative of technical ability. It &lt;em&gt;can be&lt;/em&gt; a helpful indicator, but nothing more. An employer needs to dig into the specific answers and tags a user is active in. A user may have 5000 points, 4500 of which are from brilliant answers in c#, whereas a user with 20,000 points might be from 2-3 sympathy votes on 600 mediocre answers across a wide range of topics, indicating no strong abilities in any area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T15:50:51.417" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T15:59:41.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really based on the time you have to put into looking for questions you know the answers to or could figure out the answer to. Even though there is a 200 day max you could still go above that max with accepted answers, which are harder to get than votes, so basically you just need to make sure every answer you post can compete to be selected as the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Time is rep. not money&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example when I first got interested in Stack Overflow, I used to check constantly to answer questions all day, even when I got home, but since then I don't check as often, so my reputation earning rate has decreased to reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137962" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-02T10:07:57.053" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T10:07:57.053" />
  <row Id="30917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T16:07:46.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I'd want to hire somebody who amassed a huge reputation in a short time -- especially if that guy was supposed to &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; instead of browsing stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say, be yourself. Answer what you want, when you want, and the right job will come looking for you eventually. Stretching things too much is like faking a resume to look better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139082" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T16:07:46.740" />
  <row Id="30918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T16:32:47.567" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Realistic&quot;? Well, I'm not exactly a &quot;rep superstar&quot;, but I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; real, and here's what works for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post good answers to good questions. Ignore (or edit!) bad questions, and questions you don't have a good answer for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stick to questions that don't &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; have good, comprehensive answers. You need not limit yourself to unanswered questions, but avoiding those that have already been adequately answered will save you a lot of time and reduce noise on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take the time to improve your best, most popular answers. They'll keep generating reputation for you over time...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Please note that these aren't &quot;tricks&quot;. &lt;em&gt;This is how the site is meant to be used&lt;/em&gt;! I've tried the tricks, and frankly they require a lot of effort for relatively little payoff. If you're gonna put extra effort in, why not put it toward improving your writing, formatting, or &lt;strong&gt;the actual information you're presenting&lt;/strong&gt; rather than trying to trick other users into up-voting your stuff... Remember, a big number beside your name isn't everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T18:04:21.283" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T18:04:21.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T17:11:12.147" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are lots of ways, and to some extent it depends on whether you view StackOverflow as a game (to get points), a way of demonstrating your competence in specific areas, or just a place where you help people out. From a purely point-accumulation standpoint, here are some basic techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quality answers.&lt;/strong&gt; If you take the time to answer something well, chances are high you'll be accepted. This includes basic things like &lt;em&gt;answering the question that was asked&lt;/em&gt;, and linking to relevant online docs for evidence to back up your answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quantity answers.&lt;/strong&gt; Someone else here said 'quality not quantity'. But quantity is a perfectly viable strategy. You can get a lot of points for short, pithy answers over many questions (if they're vaguely correct, you'll get 1 or 2 votes per answer). Personally, I don't like doing this, but there are many users (including some on the front page of SO) who do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer straightforward stuff, even if you're not 100% sure.&lt;/strong&gt; Most people have an aversion to answering questions they're not sure about. But what's the worst that can happen? Normally, you lose 2-6 points. On the other hand, if you're right, you're the first answerer - 50 points+. If it's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; awful, you can always delete it. If in doubt, answer the question first, then go look it up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consider niche questions.&lt;/strong&gt; From a points perspective, niche questions are rather expensive for the amount of work you have to put in (I know, I answer lots of them). You won't get a lot of points for them, because they're low traffic, and the answers are often esoteric enough that the reader isn't normally sure what you're on about (so won't vote). On the other hand, if you have some unusual expertise, they can be easy to answer, and are much less competitive than mainstream questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fold up large threads into single, comprehensive answers.&lt;/strong&gt; Combining many small existing answers into one cohesive answer is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17685/etiquette-when-is-it-ok-to-edit-your-answer-to-include-information-from-someone/17695#17695&quot;&gt;explicitly encouraged&lt;/a&gt; behaviour on SO. If you do it well, it helps the site. It's usually time-consuming, but in my experience a good summary answer continues to gain points over time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learn regex.&lt;/strong&gt; If you're just looking for points, learn regular expressions and leap in there whenever you see a 'how do I match X?' question. They're easy, unambiguous, and so provide a depressing number of points for very little effort. On the other hand, you have to be &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer subjective stuff, before it goes CW.&lt;/strong&gt; A favourite trick of some of the high-rollers seems to be answering subjective questions quickly, before the OP is forced to make the question community wiki. This can garner huge numbers of points, merely for expressing your opinion. The trick here is to pick a position that some fraction of the audience is going to agree with. From a points perspective, the more &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22973/what-to-do-about-downvotes-because-people-dont-like-the-question/22976&quot;&gt;contentious the answer&lt;/a&gt; the better. You want downvotes as well to generate more upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer something really well when there's already an accepted answer.&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15706/should-good-answers-always-be-upvoted/15708#15708&quot;&gt;psychology of voting&lt;/a&gt; means you'll get more points if you're 'better' answer is not the accepted one, because it doesn't seem fair.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ask interesting questions. Or just ask lots.&lt;/strong&gt; This is a simple way to get a lot of points. No competition, no research required. The community in general seems to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27946/endless-question-user-what-to-do/27950&quot;&gt;get uneasy&lt;/a&gt; about this sort of technique, if used to excess, but it's explicitly rewarded by the system, so there's nothing stopping you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that some of these approaches are not in the best interests of the community. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20084/generating-reputation-through-downvotes&quot;&gt;Reputation generators&lt;/a&gt; are my favourite example. But from a pure game-playing point of view, they will be effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T17:11:12.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T17:18:04.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is only an indication of your effort and skill in helping other people solve their problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not an indication of your desire to help people, nor of your skill at any given programming topic.  It's most closely related to your ability to quickly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Understand the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Research the issue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apply problem solving skills&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clearly, completely, concisely, and quickly address the problem in text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are 'tricks' and 'techniques' to enhance one's questions in this community, but they will only help in the low single digit percentages - they will not gain you significant rep, and will generally only give you a slight edge against your peers - not bring to on par with the high rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to 'enhance' your reputation practice answering questions.  Being first helps if you already know the answer, but if you come 2-5 minutes late with an obviously superior answer, you will almost always come out ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need only spend one hour a day, perhaps 3-5 six to twenty minute periods (more is better - bigger question pool) scanning the 20 most recent questions, and answering those that are within your skillset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just do that to the best of your ability daily, and you'll surpass 10k before long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T17:18:04.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30921" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T17:27:43.367" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6812/vb-net-syntax-highligting-does-not-properly-support-comment&quot;&gt;VB.NET Syntax Highligting does not properly support comment.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is normal that coloration of Vb.Net code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;' This is a comment&#xA;Public Function ThisIsNot() as Boolean&#xA;&#xA;End Function&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a bug but I'm not sure where to report it. Is here the right place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:10:02.877" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:10:02.877" ClosedDate="2009-11-25T17:34:21.620" Title="Wrong colors of vb.net comments at code blocks?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30921" CreationDate="2009-11-25T17:33:57.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Known bug.  It thinks you're starting a string literal instead of a comment.  For now you just need to work around it by immediately closing the string literal (so highlighting can continue as normal) and then put in a character sequence it will recognize as a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;''# This is a comment&#xA;Public Function ThisIsNot() As Boolean&#xA;    ''#...&#xA;End Function&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T17:33:57.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T17:49:52.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly when asking questions, try and make them as interesting and enticing as possible. Not only will you generally gain more answers but you'll get some votes for a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For answers, it's useful to set up some favourite tags so you can pick them out of the list. Whenever I'm in a question-answering mood, here is what I look for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Niche questions&lt;/strong&gt;. I often look at the &lt;code&gt;joomla&lt;/code&gt; tag, since I know a lot about Joomla but those questions don't get as many answers normally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Newest questions&lt;/strong&gt;, with 0 or 1 answers. If there are a few answers, it's more than likely been answered well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally I don't bother looking at simple questions with many answers unless it sounds really intriguing to me, or I would like to know the answer myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T17:49:52.823" />
  <row Id="30924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T18:19:02.837" Score="2" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the question on Server Fault titled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/83537/how-to-make-site-have-a-good-ranking-in-bing&quot;&gt;How to make site have a Good Ranking in BING&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had been migrated from Stack Overflow, which means that 5 high rep users thought that it belonged on Server Fault.  However, I disagree .. I think that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a more DEVELOPER issue than a SYSADMIN issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an ideal world, SEO doesn't exist.  In the world developers desire, it is not their problem.  In the world sysadmins desire, it is not their problem either.  But none of those worlds exist.  In the world we inhabit, SEO is real, and has to be considered by someone.    Consequently, we need a place for these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like the community to settle this, and then hopefully community decision will become policy and the moderators can enforce it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9852" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T19:35:30.590" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T08:53:44.133" Title="Is SEO a sysadmin or developer issue?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30924" CreationDate="2009-11-25T18:25:58.347" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm of the mindset that SEO in general is probably neither, and those 5 users were just treating SF as a dumping ground. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question absolutely doesn't belong on SF nor SU. It &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be OK on SO, but frankly I don't find SEO to be as technology/programming-driven as it is marketing. There are technical aspects to it, yes, and your programming may impede or possibly help it, sure, but that's just the start of real SEO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A hard-core mathematician once told me that &quot;real math starts when there are no numbers.&quot; I feel the same way about SEO: &quot;real SEO starts when the code is taken away.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might have closed this question any number of ways, but migrating it was absolutely the wrong thing to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T18:25:58.347" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30924" CreationDate="2009-11-25T18:26:33.180" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, you don't develop SEO, you manipulate it. But that's my bitter experience. But IMO it would belong on SO if it was programming related to SEO. IE how do you add keywords, description or other questions relating to that. etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T18:26:33.180" />
  <row Id="30928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-25T18:45:24.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reluctant to link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30441/heres-a-stackoverflow-monitoring-script-to-get-new-questions-asap-minor-updat&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; at first because I was uncertain about the community's stance on being the FGITW. (I didn't even know the acronym!) Now that I've read a few threads and seen that there are people on both sides of the fence, I'll risk it. It's basically a script I wrote to monitor SO for new questions; I've been using it for the past week and it's been very effective -- I get to answer questions early without wasting time on manually browsing and refreshing. My script does one page-scrape per minute, and (thus far, at least) I haven't been banned or warned for consuming too much bandwidth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139148" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T18:45:24.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T18:55:32.660" Score="7" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1798620/where-does-hello-world-come-from-closed&quot;&gt;Where does “Hello, World!” come from?&lt;/a&gt;, which is an exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602237/where-does-hello-world-come-from&quot;&gt;Where does ‘Hello world’ come from?&lt;/a&gt;, right down to the exact words in the title. Curious, I entered the first text into the ask-a-question box, and instead of suggesting the second post, it just said that wasn't a very good title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/not-very-good-title.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;without suggesting the obvious exact duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that even if (perhaps &lt;em&gt;especially if&lt;/em&gt;) the title doesn't have any good words in it, that the automatic question search still populate the suggested question list with whatever comes up in the search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T19:22:00.070" Title="Automatic question title search fail" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="30934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T19:15:50.907" Score="-3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments less than 15 characters are rejected, but in some cases (e.g. &quot;link?&quot;) it often looks silly to tack on more writing just to pad it out. Up until now, I'd just add 10 spaces before the '?' but that doesn't seem to work anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastEditorUserId="1343" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T05:24:28.027" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T05:24:28.027" Title="Can we get a whitelist of short comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30934" CreationDate="2009-11-25T19:17:26.833" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just insert an HTML comment &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- like this --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T19:17:26.833" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="30936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30929" CreationDate="2009-11-25T19:22:00.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see why you wouldn't want to do that as the &quot;error&quot; message thus gets ignored; it's lost in the wash of the suggested question results.  A better solution might be to hide the editor until the user affirmatively clicks a &quot;I want to ask this anyway&quot; button, then populate the suggested questions and show the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T19:22:00.070" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="30943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30924" CreationDate="2009-11-25T20:06:59.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's kinda hard to determine.  You can't generally exclude SEO questions from the SO trilogy, but realistically none of them are proper.  Which site is appropriate is entirely dependent on the content of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1432889/negative-text-indent-causes-large-link-selection-on-click&quot;&gt;obviously&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312347/is-seo-knowledge-important-for-web-developers&quot;&gt;SO-related&lt;/a&gt;; some are &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/66708/iis-6-setting-up-301-redirect-for-non-www-to-www-for-seo&quot;&gt;obviously&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/69592/google-index-troubles&quot;&gt;SF-related&lt;/a&gt;.  There &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/seo&quot;&gt;aren't many&lt;/a&gt; SEO questions on SU, but none of them really look like they belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize if SF feels treated as a dumping ground for such questions.  As a SuperUser with vote-to-close privs, I've voted for several such questions to be migrated there.  (Some of which were -- inappropriately, IMHO -- migrated to SU from SO.)  Primarily, I felt that they didn't belong on SU.  But I also felt that they weren't exactly not-computer-related, so migration seemed preferable to closing.  I think the ServerFault community is better qualified to close the question &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; migration, if it's really not an appropriate question.  This doesn't mean the question should have been closed on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is just part of having three separate sites.  There are some topics that fall through the cracks because they're somewhat related, but by themselves don't really belong.  SEO is about marketing and advertising, but there are lots of questions about &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to do that that are valid for SO and SF.  (Maybe even SU; I doubt it, but it's possible.)  The tricky part, as always, is determining what goes where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T20:06:59.613" />
  <row Id="30944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30924" CreationDate="2009-11-25T20:07:42.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SEO is definitely more marketing related, but I think it's a concern to Web Programmers, and something they should be skilled at, and aware of. That being said it doesn't really belong on stack overflow. If it were a question like &quot;How will this style of programming affect my SEO&quot; that is entirely different from &quot;how can I get good SEO&quot;. I think the question is valid, but I think it's better off asked in other forums. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to answer SEO questions on SO when they pop up, only because it's my specialty and I like to help out, but I don't want to see SO overrun with SEO questions either. It just doesn't fit right. But it's definitely not a server admin question as it is of very little concern to them and fits even worse on SF. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139480" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T20:07:42.997" />
  <row Id="30945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28350" CreationDate="2009-11-25T20:16:37.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just hit 10K (on SO) this weekend have have just downloaded the tools - there was no indication on any of the pages or e-mails about when the offer would end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T20:16:37.397" />
  <row Id="30946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30924" CreationDate="2009-11-25T20:19:43.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't this be a perfect topic for &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://doctype.com&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T20:19:43.333" />
  <row Id="30949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T20:37:04.427" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23049/answer-with-more-upvotes-appears-above-accepted-answer&quot;&gt;Answer with more upvotes appears above accepted answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/72112/mouse-clicks-suddenly-stopped-working-in-ubuntu&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SU, the asker answered his own question, but the answer didn't get bumped to the top, even though the &quot;votes&quot; tab is active.  If I click the &quot;votes&quot; tab, it re-orders the answers.  Bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139177" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T05:19:39.937" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T05:19:39.937" ClosedDate="2009-11-25T21:17:24.900" Title="Answer order when asker answers his/her own question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answer-order&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:22:35.717" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually use: &lt;code&gt;q=oscar-reyes+site%3Astackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, but that yields bot questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a way to identify only answers ? ( or only questions? ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T05:02:09.533" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T05:05:57.937" Title="Google query to get all the answer from a given user?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30952" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:26:14.787" Score="5" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many newbies ( rep 1 - 50 ) do not format their questions properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases I could have made sense of their questions if allowed to view the question source ( I understand that I need to work more on my rep for actual editing ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's really frustrating, once somebody does make edits to their questions I can see the source for all question revisions.  So, it's not that system totally prevents the source peeking, only it prevents from peeking at newly created question source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137390" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:52:04.960" Title="Can you let users with low rep to see a question/answer source?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30951" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:30:24.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can click the Edited &quot;xx hours ago&quot; and see all the revisions.  &lt;strike&gt;What are you proposing beyond that?&lt;/strike&gt; Currently, as it stands, you cannot see the source until at least one edit is made if you are a low rep user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Brandon's comment, I see how this would be useful now. You got my support on this feature request. I need more coffee today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T21:52:04.960" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:52:04.960" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="30953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30950" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:30:41.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=1000&amp;amp;userId=20654&amp;amp;sort=&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; gets you the first 1,000 answers.  The API will not provide more than 1,000 answers at one time.  You can probably increase the page to 2 for users who have more than 1,000 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43263" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:30:41.893" />
  <row Id="30954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30877" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:30:50.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this bug many, many times. It might or might not have to do with answers with the same number of votes being shuffled around when one of them is edited (and the edited one ending up on a different page than before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can recommend this work-around: sort by &quot;newest&quot; instead of &quot;votes&quot; when editing. This also makes it a lot less confusing as answers with the same number of votes stays in the same position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:30:50.380" />
  <row Id="30955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30951" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:32:01.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not the most user friendly method, but if you really care that much you can just go directly to the url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, this question has no edits, but if I were to replace the Id, I can access the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/30951/list&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/30951/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:32:01.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30934" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:36:30.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 15 character comment minimum has actually been put in place just to prevent short comments as the ones you're referring to. They're nothing more than noise. If you can't say it in more than 15 chars, it probably shouldn't be said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:36:30.697" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:39:13.173" Score="2" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it the best answer or the one I liked the most? I am really confused between two answers. Some of them are simple and clear, a second is informal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there a way to close my question without choosing an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139487" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T21:45:35.080" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T01:30:29.433" Title="What answer should I choose as the correct answer for my question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30957" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:41:48.707" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer you choose is completely up to you. No one can select an accepted answer for you, not even moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You choose the answer that solved your problem and worked best for you.&lt;/strong&gt;  You alone know exactly what you were trying to solve and only you can select the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most upvoted answer is the one the community likes the best, but that doesn't mean it solved your problem the best. This way people can see what answer solved your problem or what you choose and they can see what is popular with other people at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no answer is acceptable to you, then don't select one yet.  It is ok to not accept an answer if you are not sure. I would say do not close your question if it hasn't been answered completely.  It may take a while before a person that knows the subject matter well finds your question. Also, others might find your question and the answers provided so far useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T21:47:43.160" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:47:43.160" />
  <row Id="30959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30957" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:42:56.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Choose whichever answer best helped you solve your problem. Which solution was easiest for you to follow? Simplest to implement? Best explained? The one you ended up implementing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't close it just because you can't decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T21:42:56.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69816" CreationDate="2009-11-25T21:47:40.833" Score="3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be an edge case, but if you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8945/what-is-the-origin-of-your-so-username/30933#30933&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (admittedly ancient) Stack Overflow question that was migrated to Meta, you can see my old user name &quot;Gortok&quot; on the percentage of ownership under the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to be a bug. But it could also be a feature. Even if it is a bug, I'm not sure it's one that needs to be fixed, since it only appears to affect migrated questions where the user has changed usernames &amp;#8212; a rarity at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-09T17:51:47.523" LastActivityDate="2010-11-09T17:51:47.523" Title="Migrated questions retain old usernames on Community Wiki questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="30964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T22:48:58.680" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see here on Stack that they join multiple word tags with a hyphen, what exactly is the purpose of that? As long as my syntax is right what does it matter if I'm searching for 'multiple word' or 'multiple-word'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&#xA;Melt&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:59:38.050" Title="Tags - Purpose of joining multiple words with hyphen?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-25T22:54:14.240" Score="2" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Accepted answer for a question which provided  few details.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we do, I think I earn it! :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1799983/java-cannot-find-symbol-how-to-import-a-file-in-the-same-directory/1800073#1800073&quot;&gt;java “cannot find symbol” - how to import a file in the same directory?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-25T23:38:57.077" LastActivityDate="2010-05-30T21:46:51.913" Title="Can we have a &quot;mind-reading&quot; badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="30966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30964" CreationDate="2009-11-25T22:55:59.353" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question about &lt;code&gt;egg-cups&lt;/code&gt; is not the same as a question about &lt;code&gt;egg&lt;/code&gt;s or one about &lt;code&gt;cups&lt;/code&gt;. An egg-cup expert might want to see questions about egg-cups without being swamped with stupid questions about other kinds of cup; an expert on paper cups might want to ignore questions about egg-cups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:55:59.353" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30965" CreationDate="2009-11-25T22:56:51.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can have the &quot;OMG-Lucky!&quot; badge, or &quot;Fixed 100 syntax errors&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T22:56:51.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30965" CreationDate="2009-11-25T23:09:35.397" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it'll happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll take my future-seeing badge now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T23:09:35.397" />
  <row Id="30970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30965" CreationDate="2009-11-25T23:09:37.783" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go ahead and add it to the master badge request list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T23:09:37.783" />
  <row Id="30972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30965" CreationDate="2009-11-25T23:31:20.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sure&lt;/strong&gt;, but I think it will happen after: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1696/add-a-magic-8-ball-feature-to-the-ask-a-question-page&quot;&gt;Add a “Magic 8-Ball” feature to the Ask a Question page&lt;/a&gt;, I think it is a pre-requisite for your magical feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T23:31:20.613" />
  <row Id="30973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30965" CreationDate="2009-11-25T23:37:09.827" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sure&lt;/strong&gt;, here you go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/7186/urigeller.png&quot; alt=&quot;Uri Geller&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T23:37:09.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30976" CreationDate="2009-11-25T23:46:33.180" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;While clicking through some pages, an ad for switching away from VSS came up briefly. Unfortunately, I navigated away as I recognized what it was for. Is there any way for me to find it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134051" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T01:43:11.437" Title="Looking for advertisement for switching away from VSS" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30974" CreationDate="2009-11-25T23:51:47.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep refreshing the page until it comes up again. :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is what I did once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-25T23:51:47.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30974" CreationDate="2009-11-26T00:05:55.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Sponsor Gallery is still on the to-do list... but, you're probably talking about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://vssisdead.com/?so&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VSS Is Dead&lt;/a&gt; campaign from Source Gear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vssisdead.com/?so&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/728x90VSS.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/728x90ANN.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, VSS will mess you up like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T01:43:11.437" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T01:43:11.437" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="30978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30957" CreationDate="2009-11-26T01:30:29.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick the most correct answer that helped you with your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's important to pick from those answers that are solidly correct.  It doesn't do any good to give the stamp of approval to answers with errors, because that will just mislead other people who come to the site and look at the first (green, selected) answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130260" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T01:30:29.433" />
  <row Id="30981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31074" CreationDate="2009-11-26T02:35:39.690" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to get &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30974/looking-for-advertisement-for-switching-away-from-vss&quot;&gt;this ad&lt;/a&gt; shown to me, I though &lt;em&gt;hey, go to some VSS question and it will appear!&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much to my dismay, I've been reloading &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/690766/vss-or-svn-for-a-net-project&quot;&gt;VSS Questions&lt;/a&gt; for the last half an hour without that ad ever showing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That got me thinking: Why aren't you looking at the context of a question (tags, keywords in the title/body) to provide an ad? Wouldn't that make the ads more successful by being more relevant? May be there is a flaw with my reasoning that I'm not seeing (I'm far from an ad guy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that I'm not proposing deterministic ads, that being ads that are shown &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; when certain tags/keywords appear, but rather a random statistical model that weights ads and gives a weight boost to the relevant ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T16:10:48.823" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T16:10:48.823" Title="Why isn't the advertising more relevant/targeted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="30982" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T02:59:45.593" Score="-8" ViewCount="537" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to convert my Stack Overflow reputation into dollars (or better in euro)? It would be nice to see a service which allows it (not to say it will encourage people to spend their time more productively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139499" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-03T17:11:34.240" LastActivityDate="2011-04-03T17:11:34.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T02:59:45.593" ClosedDate="2011-04-03T17:52:13.160" Title="How to convert your Stack Overflow's reputation into money?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30982" CreationDate="2009-11-26T03:04:04.537" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put your stackoverflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/209359/chip-uni&quot;&gt;userpage URL&lt;/a&gt; on your resume or business card, so that others can see how much you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastEditorUserId="139271" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T21:26:10.463" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T21:26:10.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T03:04:04.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30982" CreationDate="2009-11-26T03:04:23.757" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself this - why would anyone want to buy your reputation? It would greatly diminish the quality of answers on SO as well - a lot of people would answer questions they know nothing about hoping to get a little bit of rep here and there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138216" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T03:04:23.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T03:04:23.757" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30982" CreationDate="2009-11-26T03:04:44.677" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Step 1: Earn a reputation on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 2: Head over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Careers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 3: Get an awesome new job after showing off your skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 4: Profit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139489" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T03:04:44.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T03:04:44.677" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="30986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30982" CreationDate="2009-11-26T03:18:01.533" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you can find anyone willing to pay for an SO account with lots of rep, then yeah.  But I don't think you'll have much luck finding a buyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Especially not for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/215571/psihodelia&quot;&gt;443 rep&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T03:18:01.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T03:18:01.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="30988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30992" CreationDate="2009-11-26T04:39:26.237" Score="8" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;With almost 30,000 tags, it would be nice to be able to sponsor very low traffic tags.  The low volume tags are actually quite interesting.  For example, if you have a business repairing &lt;strong&gt;altair&lt;/strong&gt; computers, it would be great to be able to sponsor the one question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/altair&quot;&gt;altair&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14139" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T04:57:15.847" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T05:10:36.243" Title="How much does it cost to sponsor a tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="30989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30982" CreationDate="2009-11-26T04:40:29.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is likely a market for 10k+ accounts, but it's liable to be small.  I expect that, at a minimum, a good programmer could rep-mine an account to 10k in about 2 months with about 2 hours a day.  120 hours of a 'good' programmer's time represents a value of around $10,000, or about $1 per rep point.  The reverse isn't necessarily true (ie, 1 vote = 10 rep != $10, but the proof is left as an exercise to the reader).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are likely to be very, very few people willing to &lt;em&gt;pay&lt;/em&gt; anywhere near that amount for a 10k account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, if the Stack Overflow team learned of such transactions (which, with over 100,000 users, must certainly have already taken place) then it is likely that they would consider locking the account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep is meant to be a reflection of the person's stance among their peers, and transferring rep, except for bounty questions, is not part of the system for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes - it is possible.  It's not liable to net you anywhere near the value of the time you put in getting that rep, and should the transaction be detected you may have an angry buyer to contend with, as well as losing your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T04:40:29.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T04:40:29.027" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30950" CreationDate="2009-11-26T05:05:57.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a reference to the current API implementation of the answers request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17037/unofficial-so-api-reference/17040#17040&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17037/unofficial-so-api-reference/17040#17040&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Linked to avoid having to update more than one place for API info)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T05:05:57.937" />
  <row Id="30992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30988" CreationDate="2009-11-26T05:10:36.243" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/soadvert.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T05:10:36.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="30993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27394" CreationDate="2009-11-26T05:15:38.447" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/grammar-police.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T05:15:38.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="30994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30981" CreationDate="2009-11-26T05:18:25.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alex can answer, but we already do this. Most of our advertising is tag-based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some advertisers who want to do broad advertising as well as, or instead of, the tag-based stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T09:24:54.253" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T09:24:54.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31006" CreationDate="2009-11-26T06:12:19.437" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been many posts about having a flag for migration, but I think that if we were to have such a flagging option, we should also &lt;strong&gt;allow users to specify what site they believe the post should be migrated to&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, we can &lt;strong&gt;tally votes&lt;/strong&gt; for each site for a specific post, and if, say, &lt;strong&gt;there are 10&lt;/strong&gt; (would 5 be better?) &lt;strong&gt;flags for migrating&lt;/strong&gt; a post from Meta to Super User, then it would &lt;strong&gt;auto-migrate&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T07:08:36.653" Title="After Adding Migrate Flag, Auto-Migration after 10 Such Flags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T06:26:50.207" Score="-1" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I am human, not a bot. Sometimes it is very hard for me to answer those captcha questions. Can you please use some other kind of question which would not require me to recognize letters? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps some simple logic questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139499" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T07:57:42.337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T21:10:20.143" Title="Can you please make the captcha easier for humans?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31000" CreationDate="2009-11-26T06:49:28.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is basically how migration already works, except you're asking for it to be available under &quot;flag-the-post&quot; instead of &quot;vote-to-close&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel it needs migrating, but don't have the rep to vote-to-close, you're welcome to flag the post for moderator attention and state you believe it should be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T06:49:28.013" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31000" CreationDate="2009-11-26T07:08:36.653" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a few extras to what ~quack said; currently (with vote -&gt; migrate voting)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the magic number is (IIRC) 5 close votes (of any kind)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;em&gt;consensus&lt;/em&gt; site of any &quot;migrate&quot; votes is chosen as the target; if there is no consensus, it is simply closed without migrate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you can't migrate &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or in examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get 1 x &quot;not programming related&quot;, 3 x &quot;move to superuser&quot;, 1 x &quot;move to serverfault&quot;; it migrates to superuser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get 3 x &quot;not programming related&quot;, 1 x &quot;move to superuser&quot;, 1 x &quot;move to serverfault&quot;; it gets closed without migrating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T07:08:36.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2009-11-26T07:44:12.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[homework]&lt;/code&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T07:44:12.003" />
  <row Id="31009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T07:23:51.050" Score="4" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1801796/how-to-know-who-is-accessing-my-system-closed&quot;&gt;posted a question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; which was then migrated to Server Fault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the move, I found that I was unable to comment or even edit it. Even though I had asked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created an account on Server Fault but was still unable to claim it as my own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone help me out? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T09:34:54.000" LastActivityDate="2011-03-02T20:57:39.690" Title="Unable to comment on my own question after it was migrated/moved" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31009" CreationDate="2009-11-26T07:30:41.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you make a ServerFault account, it asks if you want to associate your account from StackOverflow. You need to do that so the system knows it's you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either that, or just ask your question again there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138643" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T07:46:21.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31004" CreationDate="2009-11-26T08:03:51.183" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having trouble parsing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to read the letters, but doing a logic problem would be easier? The problem with logic problems (hah) is that you'd need to have a database of them. Lots of them. Or else there'd be enough repeats that a bot could still guess them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the captcha every now and again, too; I also find it annoying. But making the letters hard to read is part of the point -- bots doing OCR will have difficulty with them, while humans (who have much fuzzier logic and are generally better at deriving meaning even from distorted shapes) will be able to make them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T08:03:51.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31004" CreationDate="2009-11-26T08:38:28.927" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they're a bit tricky, but there's always the &quot;give me another one&quot; refresh button somewhere on the right hand side - I very rarely get more than two unreadable ones in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T08:38:28.927" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31004" CreationDate="2009-11-26T09:13:03.213" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't remember &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; getting a CAPTCHA.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I log in with a blogspot openid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139504" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T09:13:03.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31015" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T09:54:30.347" Score="-5" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31004/can-you-please-make-the-captcha-easier-for-humans&quot;&gt;Can you please make the captcha easier for humans?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not to use such simple Captcha like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I am Captcha and I will pick a secret word. You are user and you are to guess what word it is. If your guess is not right, I will give you a hint. You have only 3 attempts.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, interaction will be started and user will find this secret word in 3 attempts at most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;C(aptcha):Guess a word. It is red.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;U(ser):Apple.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;C:No. It is above.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;U:Sun&lt;br&gt;&#xA;C:Right!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementation:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;questions = [..., [&quot;sun&quot;:&quot;It is red&quot;, &quot;It is above&quot;, &quot;It is celestial body&quot;], ...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T10:46:06.790" ClosedDate="2009-11-26T10:56:03.713" Title="New captcha suggestion" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31015" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:00:10.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easily broken: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.akinator.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.akinator.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone has to type in all the questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The average user would guess only about 2 to 3 times and then abandon the site because he's got it wrong. If the riddles are too simple it can be broken by a machine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T10:00:10.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31004" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:09:01.177" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you come across any problems with parsing the text/visual option of the CAPTCHA screen, you can reload it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, you can click on the speaker icon to hear a snippet of sound for the audio CAPTCHA option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/SVnUp.png&quot; alt=&quot;captcha shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you fail both options, you are a robot. Why is the turtle on its back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T10:09:01.177" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="31020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31004" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:37:02.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you, or have you ever been, a machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, it used to annoy me a lot until I hit I guess 1000 rep. After that I hardly see it anymore. But it was annoying, not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T10:37:02.047" />
  <row Id="31021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:41:25.330" Score="22" ViewCount="3072" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a quick query to see what &lt;strong&gt;the current breakdown of OpenID providers is&lt;/strong&gt; across Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User (but not Meta, as I figured that'd be 100% overlap):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;google.com       88,536&#xA;myopenid.com     24,316&#xA;yahoo.com        16,026&#xA;blogspot.com      4,272&#xA;claimid.com       4,697&#xA;wordpress.com     1,875&#xA;livejournal.com   1,694&#xA;openid.aol        1,074&#xA;flickr.com          481&#xA;openid.org          404&#xA;mozilla.com         398&#xA;&lt;s&gt;myvidoop.com        397&lt;/s&gt;&#xA;launchpad.net       350&#xA;&lt;s&gt;appspot.com         271&lt;/s&gt;&#xA;&lt;s&gt;technorati.com      267&lt;/s&gt;&#xA;getopenid.com        75&#xA;clickpass.com        60&#xA;openid.pl            51&#xA;myspace.com          48&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used strikeout to indicate providers that are now defunct (that is, they don't work any more). The actual query counts both primary and secondary OpenIDs and sums across sites (so there's some duplication for users with multiple accounts and multiple OpenIDs) and is of the general form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select dbo.RegexMatch(OpenId, '\w+\.\w{2,4}\b'), count(*)&#xA;from Users&#xA;where UserTypeId &amp;gt; 2&#xA;and OpenId is not null&#xA;group by dbo.RegexMatch(OpenId, '\w+\.\w{2,4}\b')&#xA;having COUNT(*) &amp;gt;= 25&#xA;order by COUNT(*) desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it is in graphical form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6807/stackoverflowopenidgrap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to ask what other OpenID providers we should feature on our /users/login page, but given &lt;strong&gt;the utter and complete dominance of Google, Yahoo, and MyOpenID&lt;/strong&gt;, is there any reason to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I have done a few things to the /users/login page already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Escalate MyOpenID to a &quot;top billing&quot; provider&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offer a &quot;Click Here to Sign Up!&quot; option which uses a site-specific &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/affiliate%5Fusage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MyOpenID Affiliate&lt;/a&gt; to ease joining if you don't have an OpenID.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still waiting for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/weblog/archives/2009/07/status%5Fupdate%5Fon%5Fthe%5Flive%5Fid%5Fopenid%5Ftech%5Fpreview.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Microsoft's OpenID support to come out of beta&lt;/a&gt;, but at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google now offers named OpenIDs&lt;/a&gt; -- hooray!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, back to my original question: &lt;strong&gt;which OpenID providers should we feature on the /users/login page?&lt;/strong&gt; Are there any new up and comers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T03:24:52.853" LastActivityDate="2010-10-18T17:56:25.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" Title="What OpenID providers should we feature on the /login page?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="31022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31015" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:46:06.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captchas have been discussed before on Meta Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=captcha&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=captcha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There never seems to be agreement on what would be an ideal captcha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why would there be?  What is obvious and trivial for one user might be difficult for others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think character recognition is about as close as we want to get to an &lt;em&gt;intelligence test&lt;/em&gt; in the captcha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T10:46:06.790" />
  <row Id="31024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:53:37.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huge Russian Email services on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yandex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yandex.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and German Email services on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.web.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;web.de&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmx.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gmx.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;all provide OpenID&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digg.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;digg.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashdot.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;slashdot.org&lt;/a&gt; have &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; community of programmers as well, but probably no OpenID&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139499" LastEditorUserId="139499" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T11:03:25.247" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T11:03:25.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:59:41.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow I now feel like the only one using PIP (from verisign labs)... Freaky...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that one can safely be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139515" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T10:59:41.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T11:08:58.530" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I specify mulitple ignored tags, without reloading the get concatenated to one tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I write sinatra. I click add.&#xA;I write rails. I click add.&#xA;I reload the page and get sinatrarails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not happen when I reload beetween adding tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using konqueror 4.3.1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136149" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T11:59:59.043" Title="ignored tags get concatenated when adding without reloading" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31026" CreationDate="2009-11-26T11:12:51.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is almost certainly a konqueror issue; it's not one of our primary supported browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T11:12:51.797" />
  <row Id="31028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T11:26:07.153" Score="10" ViewCount="578" Body="&lt;p&gt;The conversation often continues in the Comments and important information is held in the comments. I'd like to have threaded comments there. It would make it easier for people who are editing answers to be able to see the real useful information in the comments separately from the conversations that occurs in the comment stream below each answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131273" LastActivityDate="2011-04-19T02:25:17.660" Title="Can we have threaded comments on answer comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31004" CreationDate="2009-11-26T11:29:19.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of CAPTCHA is to 'catch' robot. Hence inversely speaking, it does identify human because 99.99..9% of internet 'users' (if non-robots) are human. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's still portion of the 0.000...1% which well, are human but somehow cannot pass the robot-catcher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, nothing is perfect, live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T11:29:19.660" />
  <row Id="31035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31028" CreationDate="2009-11-26T11:33:38.480" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff really hates threaded comments. Personally I like them - when represented in a useful way, with easy ways to mute/highlight appropriate subthreads, but I doubt that we'll ever see them on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that I like them, I'm not even sure they'd be appropriate for SO anyway, which is more designed for Q&amp;amp;A than discussion. Sometimes I wish there were some way of leaving the questions/answers as they are, but launching a new discussion (&lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; threading) where suitable. Can't see it happening in the near future though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T11:33:38.480" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27515" CreationDate="2009-11-26T11:53:06.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, already done:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/dotnetopenid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/dotnetopenid/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T11:53:06.027" />
  <row Id="31037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30982" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:15:28.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there was such a market, people would start farming reputation. By starting with many accounts, asking bogus questions from account A, giving bogus answers from account B, upvoting question&amp;amp;answer from account C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139146" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:15:28.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T12:15:28.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:16:30.430" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use blogger's open id, but I use my own domain instead of blogspot, so I wouldn't appear in these stats. I imagine many people probably use their own website as OpenID, but underneath its just a reference one of the big providers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, please keep &quot;type in your OpenID&quot; as one of the options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, billpg&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:16:30.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" />
  <row Id="31039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:27:16.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Launchpad.net, as when I first signed up, my Wordpress.com account would not work, and no-one else I was signed up with offered OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mean to say there aren't even 50 people here using the same provider as me?  Wow.  I really am unique. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="51691" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:27:16.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:33:54.513" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;how to add a picture to my profile. when i click 'change picture', it moves onto 'Gravatar' page and even though i add a picture there it doesn't effect on my profile page here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139526" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:37:56.347" Title="adding a picture in my profile" Tags="&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;picture&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31040" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:36:13.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21793/why-isnt-my-gravatar-image-updating&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt; question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131559" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:37:56.347" />
  <row Id="31042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31040" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:36:51.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a similar problem when using Gravatar with WordPress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes Gravatar takes some time to update the picture.&#xA;Sometimes the browser has cached the old image and doesn't update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try restarting your browser and make sure that the email configured in StackOverflow matches the one registered in the Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:37:56.347" />
  <row Id="31043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:46:50.150" Score="1" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are good ways to make sure my question has the highest visibiltiy it can so that people will see and answer it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you do to make sure your question is answered quickly and completely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T16:28:50.520" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T01:16:07.807" Title="Getting greatest visibility for my questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31043" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:52:07.043" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stackoverflow users who care about a particular topic &lt;em&gt;tend&lt;/em&gt; to keep a fairly close eye on their chosen field, but ultimately there are &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of very good and competent users, and there is a good chance you'll get a decent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the fast-moving topics you should get decent coverage purely through numbers; for slower-moving topics the gurus will have a better chance to catch up if they occasionally succumb to sleep, the need to eat, or work for a living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also try adding a bounty (at some point) which gives you another chance to attract visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:52:07.043" />
  <row Id="31045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31043" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:53:05.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it's mainly about good tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experts in a given subject certainly have set their &quot;interesting tags&quot; to what they know best/they're more interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134355" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T12:53:05.733" />
  <row Id="31046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31043" CreationDate="2009-11-26T12:53:26.450" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing you can do is use the proper tags on your question to ensure only people interested in that type of technology are the people who are going to see it (primarily). I then tend to look at the persons profile and see if they have any background information which is usually a good indicator if they have experience in that particular area. Also their reputation is a good indication that they are knowledgable and have helped others (sometimes in similar situations/areas). If in doubt, simply just ask the person via a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136031" LastEditorUserId="136031" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T13:24:33.367" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:24:33.367" />
  <row Id="31047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31043" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:00:47.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting question. Would it be possible for people to register with SO as experts, once they get up to a sufficiently high score in a particular topic area? And then, once there are registered experts, would it be possible to flag a question so that those experts can easily get a list of all such questions tagged with their topic and flagged for expert attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This flag would have to be delayed in some way, so that it doesn't take effect until 5 people with editing privileges agree that the question is worthy of expert attention. In other words, the OP adds a provisional flag, and other folks can upvote or downvote that flag. When the flag gets 5 votes, it becomes fixed and will appear on the &quot;questions to experts&quot; list for any tags on the question. Of course, people can still add or remove tags, or edit the question after the flag is fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And maybe the experts can unflag it if they disagree that the question needs to be addressed to experts, and once it is unflagged it can never be reflagged again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:00:47.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:01:08.563" Score="3" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;No want for account&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Seek to leave Stack Overflow&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How does one close then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T05:30:23.037" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T05:30:23.037" ClosedDate="2010-05-12T03:31:20.063" Title="Closing out my Stack Overflow account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31048" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:03:19.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't know about outright deleting the account, blanking out your profile data will come pretty close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, questions about Stack Overflow itself should be directed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Sorry to see you go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139584" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:03:39.820" />
  <row Id="31050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31048" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:16:28.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just stop using it? It's not as if there's a cost associated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:16:28.730" />
  <row Id="31051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:17:31.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use my own domain name which is redirected to myOpenID. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to guess you store &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; domain name (as I believe that's the way openID works -- I can change provider without having to create new logins). So you can count another one towards myOpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder how many of us do similar, thus masking true numbers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132812" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:17:31.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31048" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:21:58.753" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think deleting an account should be an option... When a user deletes his account all his answers and comments should become &quot;posted by anonymous user&quot;. After all privacy is the right, and IMHO SO should honor it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:21:58.753" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31043" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:22:48.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag it with appropriate tags. Those who know a lot about a given subject keeps an eye on tags that may be relevant, and answer what questions they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ultimately, you've got it backwards. No one are paid to answer questions on StackOverflow. You can't &lt;em&gt;demand&lt;/em&gt; that anyone reads your question. You have no way of directly asking users to help. You're relying on others finding your question interesting and worth answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you can do is ask a question that &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; can see, and then tag it to make it easy to find for those who are interested in the subject.&#xA;And put some effort into asking &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions. Provide all relevant information, be polite, spend some time on formatting your question and fixing typos and grammatical errors so that it is easy for people to read and understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33213" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:22:48.487" />
  <row Id="31054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31048" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:22:57.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to email the team and ask them: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:22:57.707" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31043" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:24:55.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have already said, using appropriate tags is vital, and having a good rep also helps. From what I've seen, I got the feeling experts are more likely to answer questions that are well phrased. Another apparent trend is that many of the really good answers I've seen tend to be in answers to questions that pose a particularly interesting problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136609" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:24:55.097" />
  <row Id="31056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T13:27:22.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;facebook would be good if it is now working as a provider, a lot of people have facebook accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also look at all the email addresss that have been setup on profiles and see witch of these email providers have OpenId providers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think most people have chosen the first provider on the logon page that they are happy with, or already have an account with, so the current providers in use may not be a good starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T13:27:22.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:13:14.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should narrow the list to &lt;strong&gt;myOpenID, Google, Yahoo,&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Microsoft&lt;/strong&gt; when it's ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, make them most prominent.  I think having relatively few choices will help people to pick when they don't know what OpenID is or which provider to select.  Make the others less prominent, or hide them entirely in an &quot;Other Providers&quot; slide-out or some such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:13:14.823" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31063" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:19:31.147" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to go through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Climatic%5FResearch%5FUnit%5Femails,%5Fdata,%5Fmodels,%5F1996-2009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CRU&lt;/a&gt; leaked programs and do some basic program analysis.  I'm encountering some difficulty due to the fact I don't know Fortran.  I'd like to post a question on StackOverflow offering the link and keeping track of interesting things people find (Community Wiki of course).  For various reasons this seems likely to be closed.  Would this be an acceptable question to ♦Management, and if so, how could I make it less likely to be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T18:43:43.643" Title="Would a question about analyzing the CRU programs be closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31061" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:21:43.560" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use a markup style system in a CMS. It works in a similar way to the system used for asking questions on stackoverflow (though it uses a different syntax).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious if the text editing system used by stackoverflow (that I am typing into now) is a commercially available plug-in or if it was developed by the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I really want to figure out how to do is add buttons for &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; etc that manipulate the text inside the &lt;code&gt;textarea&lt;/code&gt;, but I am having trouble tracking down suitable information. The URL button seems the most complicated, as it will renumber all the references throughout your text if needed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4012" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:26:16.330" Title="Stackoverflow-like text editing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;implementation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="31061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31060" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:25:54.503" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can download the editor &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; And read up on the process &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:25:54.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31060" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:26:16.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can look at all tools used to build SO right &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. As you can see, the editor WMD for Markdown is open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:26:16.330" />
  <row Id="31063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31059" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:32:29.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is about Fortran, there will be no problem. If its about climatic research, this obviously is not the place - unless maybe questions about algorithms and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So make it programming oriented, and you do not even have to c-wikify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where do you see likelihood for closing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:32:29.563" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31080" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:34:21.633" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Started noticing this today. I don't persist data between web sessions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Steps to reproduce&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log out; clear all browser-cached data&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigate to a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log in using OpenID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On redirect back to question, the user appears to be logged out (no user toolbar, the &lt;em&gt;First time here?&lt;/em&gt; bar is present)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Navigating to other pages shows user logged in and normal function&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;refreshing page has no effect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Severity:&lt;/em&gt; mild irritant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reproducibility:&lt;/em&gt; intermittent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Workaround:&lt;/em&gt; log out, clear browser data and log in on the start page instead; &lt;em&gt;update:&lt;/em&gt; or wait a few minutes &amp;amp; refresh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Software:&lt;/em&gt; Windows XP; Firefox 3.5.5; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myopenid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reproducability:&lt;/em&gt; intermittent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Uninformed speculation as to cause:&lt;/em&gt; host-side caching side-effect; usage triggered?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T23:46:10.353" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:46:10.353" Title="Appeared to be logged out after login" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31028" CreationDate="2009-11-26T14:40:33.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jon seems to address, threaded comments are great for following discussion. Jeff has said before that he explicitly wants to &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; discussion on SO, so if threaded comments &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; discussion, it would seem that adding threaded comments would, in a sense, be giving a blessing of sorts to discussions on SO.  It's nice in theory, but it goes against the current mission of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do like the idea of a discussion area, though. Often times, I have a question or discussion topic that I would very much like to bring in front of this particular community, but it's not necessarily programming related.  Sometimes you want to ask your &quot;work peers&quot; questions not necessarily related to your &quot;work.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138813" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:40:33.213" />
  <row Id="31067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31068" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:57:56.367" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I embed an image from my oublic picasa album into a Stack Overflow question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/IxksxmBh360sZqW9ZIhRpQ?feat=directlink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows as:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/IxksxmBh360sZqW9ZIhRpQ?feat=directlink&quot; alt=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/IxksxmBh360sZqW9ZIhRpQ?feat=directlink&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when I try to embed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Mark&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130444" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:41:06.363" Title="Embedding images in SO questions from Picasa" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31067" CreationDate="2009-11-26T10:59:45.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've got the wrong url: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5FL9TmtwXFtew/Sw5aVZJfG1I/AAAAAAAAGkI/6jYnsB91HjI/image%5Fthumb%5B1%5D.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5FL9TmtwXFtew/Sw5aVZJfG1I/AAAAAAAAGkI/6jYnsB91HjI/image%5Fthumb%5B1%5D.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right-click on the image you see with your link and &quot;copy url&quot;.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5FL9TmtwXFtew/Sw5aVZJfG1I/AAAAAAAAGkI/6jYnsB91HjI/image%5Fthumb%5B1%5D.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T14:41:06.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T15:01:43.237" Score="0" ViewCount="433" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Stackoverflow support &lt;strong&gt;text-only WEB-browsers&lt;/strong&gt;? Sometimes it is comfortable to surf using &lt;strong&gt;links&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;lynx&lt;/strong&gt; text-only browsers, and some people use them with speech recognition programms, but it seems that SO doesn't support text-based browsers well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I have to type manually my OpenID, cannot post a question as anonymous because of &quot;You must enter the confirmation code in the box above&quot;, but a text browser doesn't display any graphics!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if SO will support text-based browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T20:20:15.703" Title="Browsing using lynx and links (text-only browser)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31069" CreationDate="2009-11-26T15:04:13.297" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want the captcha to be displayed in plain text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T15:04:13.297" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31071" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T15:39:16.947" Score="8" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;My family has a tradition to write notes on Thanksgiving to people who we are thankful for.  This year I am thankful for Stackoverflow.  Thanks, you guys are rad!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="632" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T16:57:39.880" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T03:28:42.670" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T07:30:24.887" Title="A Thanksgiving Thank You" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;thanksgiving&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31069" CreationDate="2009-11-26T15:43:14.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday's discussion (that is, psihodelia's feature request) was about using logic problems or riddles instead of character recognition in captchas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Character recognition would certainly be a problem to visually-impaired users, although there is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; suggestion this applies to psihodelia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO provides the option of choosing a different set of characters and/or hearing the characters used in the captcha. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;psihodelia validly argues that &lt;em&gt;hearing&lt;/em&gt; the characters may be a problem for users whose first language is not English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear where the responsibility to provide accessible web sites ends. The question hasn't received judicial attention in more than a few places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it must be defined &lt;em&gt;legally&lt;/em&gt; as making 'a reasonable effort' and Stack Overflow does that. There will always be some users whose needs are not completely satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sydney Olympics Accessibility complaint: &lt;a href=&quot;http://contenu.nu/socog.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://contenu.nu/socog.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;See the last sentence of this document&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T20:20:15.703" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T20:20:15.703" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31071" CreationDate="2009-11-26T15:45:29.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. SO is so great! Thank you guys! Thanks to SO I haven't slept last days enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139499" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T15:45:29.587" />
  <row Id="31074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30981" CreationDate="2009-11-26T16:09:10.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff bassically &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30981/question-relevant-advertising/30994#30994&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;: we can target campaigns to a set of tags. Somtimes it makes sense to tag-target (both from a budgetary and effectiveness standpoint) and sometimes it doesn't. That's why we have a staff of people to help companies decide and measure this stuff. But to expand on this specific campaign...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click-Thru-Rate (CTR) is measured in hundreths of a percent. A banner with a .20 CTR (which is actually pretty good) will require 500 impressions (times the ad is displayed) just to get one click. One click is pretty meaningless, so you need a &lt;em&gt;whole bunch&lt;/em&gt; of impressions to get meaningful traffic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30974/looking-for-advertisement-for-switching-away-from-vss&quot;&gt;VSS Is Dead&lt;/a&gt; campaign, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vss&quot;&gt;vss&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/visual-sourcesafe&quot;&gt;visual-sourcesafe&lt;/a&gt; tags have less than 300 questions. Add up the views on those questions over a month, and you are pretty far away from a &lt;em&gt;whole bunch&lt;/em&gt;. We generally will not recommend or advise targeting tags with less than 1,000 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T16:09:10.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31081" CreationDate="2009-11-26T16:13:50.923" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran into a strange issue; there's a question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203969/how-do-i-get-from-an-instance-of-a-class-to-a-class-object-in-actionscript-3&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203969/how-do-i-get-from-an-instance-of-a-class-to-a-class-object-in-actionscript-3&lt;/a&gt;) that is fairly old (October 15th, 2008) that I found useful.  I've never voted on it before, but when I tried to vote it and its answer up, I got &quot;Vote too old to be changed, unless this question is edited&quot;.  That seems to be wrong; I haven't ever seen this question before (and notably the vote arrows don't indicate that I've ever voted on it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is occurring with svn revision: 5620.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23309" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T17:28:42.537" Title="Unable to vote on an old question due to vote-too-old?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T16:17:19.233" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, your percentages in the pie chart are wrong, or at least misleading.  You seem to be discounting the &quot;long tail&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a total of 145,292 users represented in your table.  Google's 88,536 users are 61% of &lt;strong&gt;only the users in your table&lt;/strong&gt;.  That discounts the sites with very few users (i.e. the users who use their own domain, which will all have COUNT() of 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What percentages do you get if you run the query without the &lt;code&gt;having COUNT(*) &amp;gt;= 25&lt;/code&gt; part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd be curious how different the percentages are for just the primary and secondary providers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T16:17:19.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T16:30:56.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the 'issues' you guys talk about with Google OpenID fixed? Or will I need to jump through hoops when I log in on each site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use Livejournal; and would like for that to stay on the front page; but clearly it's not one of the 'top' ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T16:30:56.507" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" />
  <row Id="31078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31071" CreationDate="2009-11-26T17:09:17.250" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2360/blindthanksgiving.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T17:09:17.250" />
  <row Id="31079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31075" CreationDate="2009-11-26T17:21:58.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did vote on it before, but the net result was +0. In other words, you voted and undid your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T17:21:58.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31064" CreationDate="2009-11-26T17:25:49.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We certainly do cache questions for a short period of time, for &lt;em&gt;anonymous&lt;/em&gt; (not logged in) users. So once you hit a page as anonymous, you have definitely triggered the anon caching for the next (n) anonymous users to hit that exact same page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once you're logged in, &lt;strong&gt;that caching no longer applies in any scenario&lt;/strong&gt;. Ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would actually argue this is incorrect local browser caching of the page. Have you tried reproducing it in a different browser.. say.. Chrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: as predicted, no repro. I used a virtual machine with XP/Firefox and followed your steps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: ah, I see the problem. Dumb setting mistake on our end. Fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T23:46:04.630" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:46:04.630" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31075" CreationDate="2009-11-26T17:28:42.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am able to reproduce this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Firefox if you upvote the question and then click the question title (refresh) your vote will disappear - the vote is counted by SO and can be viewed by clearing the cache or loading the page in another browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that you upvoted the question but your cache doesn't have the most up to date version of the page.  When you click the upvote button you then get the message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a different cache expiry placed on older questions?  Something like that may cause this issue...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T17:28:42.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31125" CreationDate="2009-11-26T18:56:50.957" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31048/how-to-close-account-on-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;ide&quot; tag doesn't show up in the Tagged list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might just be me, I'm running Windows Vista, FF 3.5.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4056/tagsc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fine, Ólafur wins.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Seems to be working now. I'm not sure why. Maybe because Ólafur Waage added the ide tag to this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T23:40:41.643" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:40:41.643" Title="How come the Tagged list only shows 3 of the 4 tags for this question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31113" CreationDate="2009-11-26T19:01:30.857" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today as usually I have found in my google reader new set of questions. One of them had really strange preview as the following was displayed as subject:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Write an algorithm ( It is recommend that you use genetic) to improve at least one small tiny point. For example, minimize the cost, or reduce delay or reduce error rate or whatever you feel that is good for the design andImplement a program or ru [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite of having poor formatting I tried to read the question but is not loading for me in browser while I can still see preview in reader. When I tried to load question in browser 'Page not found' was displayed.&#xA;Even if question is closed (as last part of subject suggest) should I get 'Page Not Found'? Or if the question was deleted shouldn't this information be provided instead of 'Page Not Found'? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1804692/write-an-algorithm-it-is-recommend-that-you-use-genetic-to-improve-at-least&quot;&gt;Link to question on SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136619" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T23:39:55.170" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:39:55.170" Title="Question page not loading" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31084" CreationDate="2009-11-26T19:06:14.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On second thought, I cant see it. Firefox 3.5.5 and IE 8 (Windows 7).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried tagging this post with the same tags, seems to work (though I had to keep the bug tag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastEditorUserId="22459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T19:31:57.073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T19:31:57.073" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52586" CreationDate="2009-11-26T19:26:51.513" Score="17" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6615/reset-negative-vote-counts-on-migrated-questions&quot;&gt;Reset negative vote counts on migrated questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that when a post is migrated from one site to another, that the question vote score get reset to zero (or perhaps only a negative vote score is reset to zero). Often people will downvote a question when the only thing that's &quot;wrong&quot; with it is that it's posted on the incorrect site. After migration, those downvotes hang around as a negative score and may unfairly bias the treatment of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T23:55:31.417" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T23:55:31.417" ClosedDate="2010-07-17T01:03:24.710" Title="Reset post score to 0 on migration" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2231" CreationDate="2009-11-26T19:41:42.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was also trying to fine my rank, but since I am not Jon Skeet or Marc Gravell it involves a lot of clicking through pages for me. Since I started learning Python I typed together a little script which would do the clicking for me. If you are a low reputation user like I am, it takes quiet a while. When asked for user id, type in the number from the url when going on your profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                                 |&#xA;                                 v    &#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/users/74660/lucas&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import urllib.request&#xA;import re&#xA;from html.parser import HTMLParser&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;class UserParser(HTMLParser):&#xA;    counter = 0&#xA;    userid = 0&#xA;    result = 0&#xA;    found = False &#xA;    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):&#xA;        if tag == 'a':&#xA;            for name, value in attrs:&#xA;                m = re.search('^/users/(\d+)/(.*)',value)&#xA;                if name == 'href' and  m:&#xA;                    self.counter = self.counter + 1&#xA;                    if 0 == self.counter%2:&#xA;                        string = str(self.counter//2)+ ':\t' + m.group(1) + '\t' + m.group(2)&#xA;                        if m.group(1) == str(self.userid):&#xA;                            self.found = True&#xA;                            self.result = self.counter//2&#xA;                        print(string)&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;if __name__ == '__main__':&#xA;    opener = urllib.request.FancyURLopener({})&#xA;    parse = UserParser()&#xA;    parse.userid = input('Please enter your user id:')&#xA;    url = &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=&quot; + str(1) &#xA;    f = opener.open(url)&#xA;    content = f.read()&#xA;    i = 2&#xA;    parse.feed(content.decode(&quot;utf-8&quot;))&#xA;    while (not parse.found):&#xA;        url = &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=&quot; + str(i)      &#xA;        f = opener.open(url) &#xA;        content = f.read()&#xA;        parse.feed(content.decode(&quot;utf-8&quot;))&#xA;        i = i + 1&#xA;    print(&quot;********Found*********&quot;) &#xA;    print(str(parse.userid) + &quot; found at &quot;+ str(parse.result))&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not exactly pretty but it works good enough for me ... (I have low standards) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135433" LastEditorUserId="135433" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T19:48:24.013" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T19:48:24.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31088" CreationDate="2009-11-26T19:59:43.447" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think just resetting negatives to 0 would be better than wiping it out completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people have upvoted a question &lt;em&gt;despite&lt;/em&gt; it being in the wrong place, that's an indication that it's a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good question - or possibly just an old question which had nowhere better to go at the time of posting (i.e. before Meta/SU/SF came about).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason to remove the community's approval of such posts - being moved to the right place is unlikely to make anyone approve of it &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt;, but wiping out negative scores is reasonable as it may well make people &lt;em&gt;disapprove&lt;/em&gt; of it less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only downside to this is the possibility that a user could vote on it twice, once on each site - I don't know if the vote &quot;owners&quot; are transferred via account associations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T19:59:43.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31095" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:04:08.213" Score="0" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi - sorry for the confusing question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Google Offers Named OpenIDs&quot;&gt;Google Offers Named OpenIDs&lt;/a&gt; blog post, I went about creating alternate google openids for my account (myopenid) for each site (SO, MSO, SF) but while attempting to add the google openid for the SuperUser site, I mistakenly created an entirely new account with a rep of 1. Now I'm not able to associate my google openid with my real account as the other account exists. How do I get rid of the account I mistakenly created so that I can associate my google openid with my primary account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1943" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T20:18:30.403" Title="How do I associate my google openid to my account if I've mistakenly created a NEW account using the google openid?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:13:04.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should re-run your query to look at new signups in the past 3 or 6 months. I'd bet that at least some of the myopenid and claimid accounts are in use because major provider support was not as widely known or even in place at all at time of signup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more interesting question is which IDs users are signing up with NOW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131692" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T20:13:04.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:23:49.060" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31092" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:18:30.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that you'll probably have to get a moderator or site admin to do it for you.  &lt;code&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; should get to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T20:18:30.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31059" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:23:14.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll answer both Ralph's last question (&quot;But where do you see likelihood for closing?&quot;) and the OP's in one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main two reasons this might be closed is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some people might feel that it would not be sufficiently &quot;programming related&quot; and in SO spirit. I personally don't think so (and I'm usually pretty strict when voting to close Qs). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People of a particular ideological bent, for a variety of psychological, moral and other reasons, tend to violently react to anything going against their dogma. Anthropogenic Global Warming is one such sacred cow. So anything which questions it - no matter how logical, rational or meaningful - will be promptly extinguished, scientific method be damned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Management, Joel is flying an Obama banner on JoS web site, but he generally strikes me as a guy with integrity, so here's to hoping. No clue whatsovere about Atwood's views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="119280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T18:43:43.643" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T18:43:43.643" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:25:29.113" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a working so accout, and today I've logged in via openId to serverfault as well, and copied over my account detailes from so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can login to serverfault with no problems. However, when I visit my own question &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/88618/lighthttpd-fastcgi-php-phpinfo-crashes&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/88618/lighthttpd-fastcgi-php-phpinfo-crashes&lt;/a&gt;, I'm logged out. When I follow whichever other link within serverfault, I'm logged in back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only place where I'm counted as guest is on my question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139563" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T23:44:29.470" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:44:29.470" Title="authentication bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:25:39.067" Score="10" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the fact that when you upvote an answer to your question, SO reminds you you could also mark is as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be nice if the same would apply the other way around, i.e. if when clicking &quot;accepeted&quot; you would be reminded of the possibility to also upvote it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/686/accepting-answer-without-upvoting&quot;&gt;other questions&lt;/a&gt; here on meta that suggest the cases in which an accepted answer isn't worth being upvoted are marginal (i.e. Not having enough upvotes left, the answer being correct but crappy in its form...) but it looks like the majority of the cases are simple lack of understanding of (or care for) the platform by the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138932" LastEditorUserId="138932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T20:53:07.813" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T03:38:34.383" Title="Proposal: suggest to upvote the answer when you check it as accepted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31124" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:38:46.483" Score="2" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of days ago I only got 10 rep for an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1786701/1786728#1786728&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; (which now that I think about it, could be moved to superuser :) ) on stackoverflow with 1 upvote. My rep went from 201 to 211.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2558/repbug.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;No Questions and the only Community Wiki answer is &quot;How can I help my poor friend learning to program?&quot; with 2 upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current rep should be 236 (16 upvotes + 5 accepted answers + startrep(1)) instead of 221. The reputation chart seems to show the right reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug appeared about 48 hours ago. I went through the faq and meta.stackoverflow and couldn't find an explanation for the missing 15 points except for the daily repcap that I did not exceed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The solution to the Problem was a rep recalc. Why the bug appeared is still a mystery to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134250" LastEditorUserId="134250" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T23:40:27.133" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:40:27.133" Title="Reputation calculation / display bug" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31099" CreationDate="2009-11-26T20:58:42.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say it would be nice but accepting an answer nets you 15 rep and is more important to mark an answer accepted than to upvote it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say, nice to have but not important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T20:58:42.453" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31115" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:05:35.403" Score="3" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have switched to Stack Overflow away from Experts Exchange's paid subscription. I remember years ago reading that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6064978&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Experts Exchange had patented a rating system&lt;/a&gt; and just found it online. Might this pose legal problems to Stack Overflow's rating system in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T15:21:15.163" Title="Can the Experts-Exchange Patent affect Stack Overflow's Rating System?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;experts-exchange&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31153" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:10:19.340" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I noticed that some question pages were served from cache and the vote counts and my reputation displayed on the top bar were not up to date. Of course, I was logged in. I don't think I had experienced this behavior before. This is a little irritating. Anyone else noticed? Is there anything changed on StackOverflow or my ISP is caching aggressively to save their bandwidth or it's an issue with Google Chrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T13:04:31.437" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:05:13.603" Title="Is cache invalidation policy for logged-in users changed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;caching&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:28:30.683" Score="-6" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never understood why for so many basic questions, the perfect answer can be found simply by taking the title, copying it to Google, and clicking &quot;I'm Feeling Lucky&quot;.  Why do some people have an aversion to doing a little searching for an answer?  Do they really not know how to search the Internet, or even that it will likely work?  Or do they just like having a personalized answer given to them, even if it means waiting minutes, or hours, or days to get a response?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139053" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:52:20.567" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:52:20.567" Title="Why do so many people ask basic questions instead of searching first?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31104" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:33:58.677" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is not a bad thing&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you find easy, or obvious, somebody else does not, and that's what SO exists for. You know these answers, obviously, so tell people them, and let the world benefit from your knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T21:33:58.677" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31102" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:38:06.093" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it might be &lt;strike&gt;illuminating&lt;/strike&gt; amusing to list all the verbs used in the claims of that patent. Here they are, in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;providing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  organizing&#xA;  regulating&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  organizing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  storing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  awarding&#xA;  setting&#xA;  storing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  awarding&#xA;  storing&#xA;  including&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  storing&#xA;  rejecting&#xA;  escrowing&#xA;  deducting&#xA;  deducting&#xA;  providing&#xA;  increasing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  rejecting&#xA;  escrowing&#xA;  deducting&#xA;  deducting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  awarding&#xA;  storing&#xA;  awarding&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  storing&#xA;  transmitting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  transmitting&#xA;  transmitting&#xA;  transmitting&#xA;  determining&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  providing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  storing&#xA;  organizing&#xA;  regulating&#xA;  rejecting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  organizing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  storing&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  awarding&#xA;  setting&#xA;  storing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  rejecting&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  awarding&#xA;  storing&#xA;  escrowing&#xA;  deducting&#xA;  deducting&#xA;  providing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  awarding&#xA;  storing&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  rejecting&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  receiving&#xA;  storing&#xA;  displaying&#xA;  accepting&#xA;  escrowing&#xA;  deducting&#xA;  deducting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T21:44:04.697" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T21:44:04.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31102" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:40:06.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IANAL, but it seems to me that the purpose of the patent is to protect the &lt;em&gt;design/process&lt;/em&gt; of the voting - not the fact that voting exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO doesn't use the same model, I can't see that the patent applies... I'm sure prior art can demonstrate similar voting implementations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with most patents these day - a bit silly really. But then, again, IANAL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T21:40:06.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31084" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:41:52.657" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chrome, IE, FireFox:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7677/kiddingmex.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T21:41:52.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31104" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:44:14.400" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a second, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&amp;amp;rlz=1C1GGLS%5FenAU339AU339&amp;amp;q=asking+stupid+google+site%3Ameta.stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;btnG=Search&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;let me google that for you&lt;/a&gt;. Funny, it seems to say this question is mostly a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here is your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://site.despair.com/images/dpage/cluelessness03.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://site.despair.com/images/dpage/idiocy03.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T21:56:23.160" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T21:56:23.160" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31104" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:45:57.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/627/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://xkcd.com/627/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cuz for some dumb reason, the image won't work for me ATM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Todays noob is tomorrows job security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google is a verb these days - if someone doesn't want a lmgtfy link, maybe they should have googled it in the first place.  But I do think that there are people out there who want nothing more than human contact, and are probably auditory learners.  Nothing wrong with that, just a learning style...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastEditorUserId="136803" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T21:51:42.980" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T21:51:42.980" />
  <row Id="31112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31104" CreationDate="2009-11-26T21:48:53.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the perfect answer can be found simply by taking the title, copying it to Google, and clicking &quot;I'm Feeling Lucky&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the I'm Feeling Lucky button leads to StackOverflow (or one of the other trilogy sites), then theres nothing wrong with them asking basic questions here. If it does already lead to S[OFU], then close the question as a duplicate and be done with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T21:48:53.033" />
  <row Id="31113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31086" CreationDate="2009-11-26T22:03:06.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was deleted by an admin; the same user had posted the same question multiple times in succession, attracting &lt;em&gt;lots&lt;/em&gt; of negative attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have 10k rep you can see it still. But a &quot;page not found&quot; is reasonable for something that isn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; there any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T22:03:06.673" />
  <row Id="31114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31104" CreationDate="2009-11-26T22:12:42.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26100/some-people-just-do-not-know-how-to-search&quot;&gt;has been discussed before&lt;/a&gt; the incentives from the rep system encourage people to ask and answer duplicates rather than searching, and Stack Overflow is &lt;em&gt;so fast&lt;/em&gt; that asking is often nearly as efficient as searching. Sometimes &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T22:12:42.160" />
  <row Id="31115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31102" CreationDate="2009-11-26T22:15:53.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A patent protects an idea. A copyright protects an implementation of an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flow chart on page 2 seems to cover any question and answer site that assigns points as a reward for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I don't think that it's actually enforceable. It's too broad and there are probably Q&amp;amp;A sites that existed prior to the patent that would invalidate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151279" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T22:15:53.637" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T22:29:12.663" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the browse by tag implementation on SO, I think it is quite good, having said that, I keep on thinking there are some ways of improving it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What changes would you make to the browse by tag UI to make it easier to find stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ideas (most of them are probably rubbish, but good for a brain storm):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multi tag selection&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hierarchy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Merge in untagged content that has the same keywords in the body&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A different UI layout&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Live preview of answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T22:34:55.697" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:51:54.633" Title="Browse by tags, how can it be improved?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31100" CreationDate="2009-11-26T22:34:46.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 160     16 upvotes (community wiki doesn't count)&#xA;  75     5 accepted answers&#xA;   1     starting rep&#xA;----- +&#xA; 236&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like you're missing 15 rep indeed. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sue Stack Overflow and get rich!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="137265" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-26T22:41:26.290" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T22:41:26.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2009-11-26T22:51:51.280" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally agree with the OP. In the beginning of the week I experienced following situation:&#xA;I looked for an answer to a question about mapping webcam image coordinates to screen coordinates and was directed to a Stack Overflow question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the answers was very elaborate and seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. Were it not that one single mathematical detail raised a small question. The answering person clearly stated that he welcomed all questions for clarifications, but I was unable to comment anything. The only option seemed to be to word my question in an answer, and that just felt like too much abuse for a newbie to afford. So I did nothing. (although I can pledge to spend some time on the site to answer other people's questions, this wasn't an option this week, sadly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result: my problem isn't solved. I have spent days working out the solution on my own, while the answering person could have offered it in hours. A very frustrating experience when the solution is around the corner, but unreachable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the concept of having to contribute in order to profit, but imho asking refinement of or pointing to a problem in an answer is contributing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first contact with SO, as someone searching for an answer, was very frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139437" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T22:51:51.280" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30889" CreationDate="2009-11-26T23:37:39.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is all so confusing. I have a wife. Should I get a girlfriend, too? Will that help my coding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136220" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:37:39.357" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-26T23:37:39.357" />
  <row Id="31124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31100" CreationDate="2009-11-26T23:37:41.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep recalc done; you're now 236 - all is well again ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:37:41.807" />
  <row Id="31125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31084" CreationDate="2009-11-26T23:40:33.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it's because the question was migrated and one of the tags doesn't exist on the target site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gets fixed by the daily vote sync script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:40:33.500" />
  <row Id="31126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31098" CreationDate="2009-11-26T23:43:12.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this might be a local caching problem with your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you're logged in, server caching is no longer used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I see the problem. Dumb mistake on our end. Fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:43:12.670" />
  <row Id="31127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31116" CreationDate="2009-11-26T23:51:54.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.digg.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Digg Labs&lt;/a&gt; has some interesting visualization features for popular, current, active content etc. That could translate into SO as visualization of tags, tagged stories even high-voted Q&amp;amp;As, tag activity, bounty hunts, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastActivityDate="2009-11-26T23:51:54.633" />
  <row Id="31128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-27T00:40:12.363" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a message from one of the employers on careers wanting to hire me. When I went to view the message, I went to &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv/messages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the &quot;messages&quot; tab&lt;/a&gt; and saw a listing, as one would expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a big ol' table with date, employer, subject, status, and a teeny tiny little link to view the message. Why have the link there at all? Why not just make the entire row clickable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/338/screenybf.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6010" LastEditorUserId="6010" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T02:17:56.103" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T06:22:32.430" Title="Why is the link to view an employer message so small?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31059" CreationDate="2009-11-27T01:14:36.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;without an example, it's hard to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the best way to know is: post one and find out; make it c-wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T01:14:36.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31043" CreationDate="2009-11-27T01:16:07.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;start your question with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@[Jon Skeet]: ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T01:16:07.807" />
  <row Id="31131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31028" CreationDate="2009-11-27T01:17:27.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;threaded comments and threaded answers would be great - for another site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on this site, it would just encourage discussion...which is discouraged&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T01:17:27.337" />
  <row Id="31133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31104" CreationDate="2009-11-27T01:42:06.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a direct question yields better results than a search and I mean google search could have taken 20 mins, while SO answer &amp;lt; 2 if your question is well written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you have to make an effor to create a reasonable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's one mine. I didn't knew what &lt;code&gt;(a,b)&lt;/code&gt; meant in python. I could have searched but since I didn't knew exactly what was I looking for, I just asked in SO and got the answer almost immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even asked a question here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16353/stackoverflow-for-the-lazy-newbie-developer&quot;&gt;StackOverflow for the lazy developer...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T01:42:06.167" />
  <row Id="31134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-27T02:35:30.140" Score="1" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;What will happen when all the possible answers are given to all possible questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138404" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T02:45:07.377" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:40:30.840" Title="What will happen when all the possible answers are given to all possible questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T02:36:36.473" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That will never happen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when it does, there will be balloons. And cake. And maybe champagne, if we can get Jeff to spring for it. Otherwise, it's BYOB - I recommend something light, the cake will be too sweet (it's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; too sweet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T02:36:36.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T02:42:53.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The shear mass of questions will collapse in upon themselves, forming a black hole which will envelop our entire existence.  Once everything has collapsed to a singularity, a big bang will occur, and it will all start over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either that or a rain drop will fall in the Sahara.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can never calculate the outcome with 100% certainty, you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T02:42:53.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T02:58:07.840" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dead rising from the grave!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T02:58:07.840" />
  <row Id="31138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T03:17:18.663" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We'll all hold our monitors upside-down and shake them so we can start over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T03:17:18.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31103" CreationDate="2009-11-27T03:40:05.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yerp, I'm also getting this on Google Chrome, my isp is in aussie and they do not cache too aggressively. Its probably an issue with haproxy or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I go back to SO main site after a few hour of inactivity, it looks like I'm not logged in, a prompt reload of the page fixes stuff up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T03:40:05.437" />
  <row Id="31140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T03:40:47.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will finally know the Ultimate Question that goes along with the Ultimate Answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T03:40:47.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T03:41:02.597" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;we'll get very good at clicking &quot;vote to close as duplicate&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T03:41:02.597" />
  <row Id="31142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T05:19:44.557" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.multivax.com/last%5Fquestion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T05:19:44.557" />
  <row Id="31143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T06:17:19.367" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet will put some ice on his wrists. That was a lot of typing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T06:17:19.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31128" CreationDate="2009-11-27T06:22:32.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we forgot to install &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2005/05/12/417064.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Admiral's Pipe&lt;/a&gt; ... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was recently reminded of a story one of our development managers told me.  Before he started his career in software he was a sailor aboard a Russian sub.  Inspections by the admiral were a regular occurrence and involved a huge investment of time to clean the entire sub… As you might expect Russian admirals were fairly demanding and always &lt;em&gt;expected&lt;/em&gt; to find problems.  In fact they kept looking until they found the problem however unimportant they were.  Apparently the sailors came up with a creative way address placate the admiral.  They would leave one, fairly obvious, pipe un-cleaned. The admiral would find this pipe, insist that it be cleaned and feel satisfied that he found a problem and not dig any deeper.  This practice became known as using “the Admiral’s pipe”.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T06:22:32.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T06:35:17.727" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;All your base are belong to Jon Skeet&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T06:35:17.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T06:35:17.727" />
  <row Id="31146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T09:35:43.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At that point the universe throws a Stack Overflow exception, and Jon Skeet's reputation is set to zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T09:35:43.967" />
  <row Id="31147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30910" CreationDate="2009-11-27T10:12:33.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You ask a project-related question expressing a worry of some sort, where everyone and their grandpa has a chance to give his or her opinion as an answer, and put a bounty on it for greater visibility. Not only is it going to pay back the 50 rep bounty, but it will bring you far more than that if it's a situation that many people would likely confront at their jobs while working on their projects. Even more so, it'll get insanely bookmarked if someone actually gives a satisfying answer. Some answers might even give personal examples, that you may draw other potential equally subjective questions from, so the circle never ends. If the question is about software development practices, asking it on SO it's like asking a bunch of supporters about football - everyone will have an opinion, and many will up-vote you for asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T10:12:33.933" />
  <row Id="31148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-27T10:39:15.570" Score="5" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless I missed something, it looks that when I am in the main &quot;Question&quot; tab (the one next to the logo, on the same line with Tags, Users, Badges and Unanswered) and I have selected a tag to filter the available questions for, the only way to reset my tag selection is to click again on the &quot;Question&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would therefore propose to add the standard little cross next to the selected tags (the one that normally remove the tag from your &quot;interesting tag&quot; or &quot;ignored tags&quot; list) in order to indicate &quot;stop filtering for this tag&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also be handy for those cases in which you are filtering questions for several tags and you would like to eliminate just one of the filters (e.g.: you are filtering for &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;gnome&quot; and &quot;linux&quot; and would like to filter only for &quot;gnome&quot; and &quot;linux&quot; instead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138932" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T10:39:15.570" Title="Proposal: add micro-button to reset tag selection" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3883" CreationDate="2009-11-27T11:44:19.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be that the &quot;&gt;&quot; was allowed, but isn't any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you created it OK on SO and it got transferred as-is to meta, but when you come to create it on SF the current code disallows it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T11:44:19.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31155" CreationDate="2009-11-27T12:53:49.643" Score="3" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just sharing with  the community:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Experts-Exchange is acknowledging the &quot;scrollers&quot; and is printing this banner when you go to the bottom to see the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/736/capturegx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They caught us! run!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:10:31.830" ClosedDate="2009-11-27T20:41:01.513" Title="Experts-Exchange: Tired of scrolling?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;experts-exchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11370" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:01:20.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest adding single HTML tags to the search ignore list. For example searching for &quot;assembly strong name&quot; returns a lot of results that matched &quot;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;&quot;. This has no semantic value and just clutters the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135374" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:01:20.787" />
  <row Id="31153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31103" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:05:13.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, this was a dumb error in our settings. Fixed many hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:05:13.603" />
  <row Id="31154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:06:10.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We will beat entropy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:06:10.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31151" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:10:31.830" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO should create a banner. &quot;Tired of getting great answers quickly?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:10:31.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31194" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:28:30.410" Score="-4" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;A downvote on an answer leads to a floater suggesting a comment. There's a hypothetical problem with this: if I dv and also comment, the subject now has a pretty good clue who dv-ed it. A sufficiently unhinged personage might then go off in search of anything and everything I've ever posted to return the favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a very infrequent downvoter, but I went ahead and did both just now, having encountered an answer with a flatly counterfactual statement, and now I'll see what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that someone has suggested attaching anonymous comments to the anonymous downvotes to avoid this possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T20:15:32.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T13:28:30.410" Title="comments versus downvotes versus revenge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:39:43.370" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes I know that this might sound like a previous question but bear with me I think its a bit different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I come across an answer that I think is wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I start writing a comment on why I downvoted.  Of course at this point the brain has engaged and starts to question some possible assumptions that lead to the downvote which makes me less sure the downvote is deserved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I remove the downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I go away and do a bit of test/research to check my assumptions and find them correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I return to the answer and attempt to re-apply my downvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fail: &quot;Vote to old to be changed, ...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the reasons for this limitations for upvotes but I don't agree that a removal of an existing downvote is tantantmount to an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17516" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T15:04:34.353" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T15:15:52.133" Title="Re-adding a previously removed downvote should not be treated as a removal of an upvote" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="31158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31134" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:40:30.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We'll never know because the SO search is so bad the duplicates will never be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:40:30.840" />
  <row Id="31159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:43:04.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per other questions, there's an additional complexity here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A posts a response with a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B downvotes and explains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fixes the mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--- all inside the 5 minute window ---&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now B can't remove the downvote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:43:04.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31102" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:49:24.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are probably patents on tagging, staring, previewing a post, displaying user icon, sending notifications to users, using graphical symbols to represent language constructs and whatnot. And there's prior art to every single one of them, which makes them all invalid. But hey, who really cares about prior art anymore, that's, like, &lt;em&gt;so 1900&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It usually doesn't matter that much what the patents are about, only how many of them you own, and how many does your enemy own. If both have enough, the one who has the more money wins. Or, um, maybe the one who has the most money wins in any case, I forgot the exact rules...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we're talking about &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; patents, like complex algorithms and such. Then it has more to do with things that &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; patents deal with, like prior art and that stuff. But this isn't the case here, their rating system patent is most probably just ammunition for the ongoing Patent Wars 2000. Nothing to see here, move along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115807" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:49:24.477" />
  <row Id="31161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31157" CreationDate="2009-11-27T13:49:48.780" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not reading the message properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You voted. The first time you vote, that's when the counter starts. You have a short amount of time before the next edit to lock in a vote. After that, your vote is now too old to be changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't matter if the final was down or up or un.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or if the first was up or down.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You started the voting clock.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You ran out the voting clock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, look over your scenario over the downvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You downvote an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer is now ranked below others on sort by votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other answers may potentially float up (maybe you posted one) by collecting upvotes via inertia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You remove the downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right there, that's the tactical voting part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T13:49:48.780" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31157" CreationDate="2009-11-27T14:05:39.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've also experienced this problem multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's a solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When voting on a post the vote goes into a temporary table.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The vote is only visible to the voter while it's in there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the vote is changed after less than 2 minutes the vote in the temporary table is changed and the timer reset to 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After two minutes there are two possible outcomes:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The vote in the temporary table is equal to the permanent table.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-&gt; The temporary vote gets removed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-&gt; Voting is still possible. (As if no vote was cast.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The vote in the temporary table is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; equal to the permanent table.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-&gt; The temporary vote gets moved into the permanent table.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-&gt; Voting is now no longer possible unless the post gets edited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any flaws you can think of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastEditorUserId="132324" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T15:15:52.133" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T15:15:52.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31157" CreationDate="2009-11-27T14:47:27.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the opposite problem sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll see an answer, that &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; like the right answer, and I'll upvote.  Then maybe I'll try the code or investigate further and see that it's actually a wrong answer.  I'd like to change to a downvote or, at the very least, just remove the upvote.  Votes are locked in entirely too quickly.  The idea is to prevent &quot;strategic&quot; voting (downvoting someone so that they are a lower vote than you, regardless of whether their answer is correct), but I don't think it's working so great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T14:47:27.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31157" CreationDate="2009-11-27T15:04:03.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the behavior that the restriction is designed to prevent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question is posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;within 5 minutes: flurry of new answers come in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post your answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tactically downvote ALL other answers on the question (except your super-cool answer of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wait 5 more minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;undo your downvotes, removing all evidence that you ever cast those naughty downvotes!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think something is wrong, go test your assumptions, and when you're sure, come back and vote for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite simple, really: if you are unsure about your vote then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;DO NOT VOTE!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T15:04:03.747" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="135" CreationDate="2009-11-27T15:10:18.663" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Experience as a newbie, trying to gather 50 rep points in order to be able to comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waited for a question to come in. Had an, imho, elegant answer. Got an upvote. Great. A couple of hours pass. A downvote. Huh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I start doubting myself. I doublecheck my answer. It's still elegant. I elaborate on it and give a code example. Nothing changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a primary frustrating experience of not being able to comment on someone else's response to a question, a secondary frustrating experience of being downvoted without any good reason. Jeez. Tough place to give answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First impression is this place is packed with egos and downvoting teenies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139437" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T15:10:18.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-05-10T22:03:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31102" CreationDate="2009-11-27T15:21:15.163" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently these guys &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10630/will-stack-overflow-sue-me&quot;&gt;have not met our crack legal team&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T15:21:15.163" />
  <row Id="31168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31170" CreationDate="2009-11-27T15:32:33.133" Score="15" ViewCount="1681" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, please don't offended from the title, and if you don't know what this is follow this link for an audio quote: &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/54IyU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://is.gd/54IyU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is this:&#xA;I have seen online communities over the years, and the amount of foul language is really high. People are not polite to each others and flame wars are common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come this community is so well behaved? I don't see the admins/moderators cleaning the forums, this is just the user well behaving, which is really amazing. Do you have any idea why is this happening only in StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130312" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T20:32:03.510" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:49:55.067" Title="F**k you, f**k you, and f**k you - who's next" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="31169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2009-11-27T15:35:51.427" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because even users with 15+ rep can flag posts as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Offensive, Abusive, or Hate Speech&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And 6 flags get an automatic closure/deletion so, even if there weren't the greater moderation powers available to higher rep users, with the numbers of users on SO questions that fall foul of the rules and guidelines don't tend to last very long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T16:04:48.817" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T16:04:48.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2009-11-27T15:42:06.877" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people can vote on what you do, and those votes have consequences, that goes a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; way toward encouraging proper behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond basic peer voting, which is huge, we also have four (!) tiers of moderation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15+ rep users can flag things as offensive or spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2,000+ rep users can edit anything you write&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3,000+ rep users can vote to close your question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10,000+ rep users have visibility into system hotspots, flags, and can vote to delete content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have a policy of &quot;be nice&quot; and &quot;try to post useful content&quot; which is outlined in the /faq &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some professional connection, in that your public track record here can be used to &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;show potential employers&lt;/a&gt; that you're a good communicator who is willing to help others in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, on language, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-in-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22232/are-expletives-allowed-in-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T15:42:06.877" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="31171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2009-11-27T16:00:29.963" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confession time, I swear. I do curse at the computer for not loading fast enough, I curse at other people's code when it's awful, I curse at my own code when I realize how foolish I've been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; curse at other people when they ask questions or respond to my, or other people's, questions. This is impolite and completely unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the fascination with, or the exclusive reliance upon, swears to communicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T16:00:29.963" />
  <row Id="31172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2009-11-27T16:01:45.047" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, Fork you too! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be because Stack Overflow has thousands of members with (limited) moderation powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be because Stack Overflow draws another part of the public than e.g. a forum about some favourite boyband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, because this site has so many active members at any given moment plus some smart algorithms to detect possible abuse, and thus abusive behaviour can be stopped real fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, we have Meta Stack Overflow, where we can complain about anything that troubles us at Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, peer pressure isn't enough to stop misbehaviour. Consider those Soccer Hooligans who misbehave during lots of all kinds of events, but mostly soccer sport events. Basically, these hooligans are just regular people and there are probably a few at Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Overflow. But they organise themselves in groups for organized misbehaviour. There are online groups of forum hooligans who tend to misbehave at dozens of forums and the only reason why they're not harassing Stack Overflow could be the moderation done by all members. Or maybe Stack Overflow just isn't interesting enough as a target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because, strange as it sounds, Stack Overflow might not be interesting enough for online hooligans to misbehave. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-03T09:49:55.067" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:49:55.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2009-11-27T16:03:34.637" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;'cos &quot;offensive&quot; flags attract... &lt;em&gt;the management&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://events.liveguide.com.au/630241%5Fthumbnail%5F280%5FHale%5FPace%5FHale%5FPace%5FAustralian%5FTour.v1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hale and Pace, The Management&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/results?search%5Fquery=hale+pace+management&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;relevant YouTube videos&lt;/a&gt; for those of us who had no idea what this was)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T09:47:19.287" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T09:47:19.287" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31104" CreationDate="2009-11-27T17:12:16.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the perfect answer can be found by using Google's &quot;I'm Feeling Lucky,&quot; then chances are good that said perfect answer is (wait for it) ... On the Trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is not on the Trilogy, it belongs here, such that when you click &quot;I'm Feeling Lucky,&quot; you come to (wait for it) ... the Trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No question is too basic. Dupes will be closed by those of us with the ability. Google is StackOverflow's home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, why would you have an issue with it? Basic questions tend to equal easy rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T17:12:16.153" />
  <row Id="31175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-27T17:11:58.587" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to make the request for a new Stack Overflow tag/category for hyperlink management strategies. I don't yet have enough 'reputation' to add it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind the tag would be used for questions dealing with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preventing broken links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Storing links in a database&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link references from within templates (DRY linking)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Content management as it relates to links&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144245" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:17:42.587" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:17:42.587" Title="A new StackOverflow tag for hyperlink-management" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31156" CreationDate="2009-11-27T17:43:06.563" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the comment, there are some checks to see if these sorts of things are happening. If you suspect that it has happened, and you don't see it reversed in a day or two, you have a couple of options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag the question you down-voted and in the box let the Mods know that you think the individual has revenge down-voted a bunch of your questions. They will look into it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Send an e-mail to the team at the address at the bottom of every page. They will look into it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T17:43:06.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T17:43:06.563" />
  <row Id="31177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-27T17:53:12.647" Score="-6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9709/cast-multiple-votes-with-cost&quot;&gt;cast multiple votes with cost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8098/should-we-have-a-small-number-of-supervotes-per-day&quot;&gt;Should we have a small number of Supervotes per day?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1807161/how-can-i-quickly-search-directories-without-filefind-module-in-perl/1808213#1808213&quot;&gt;recent comment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;code&gt;brian_d_foy&lt;/code&gt; said :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've often wished that Stackoverflow would let us spend more than one vote on answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and I agree, so here's a modest proposal -- for really exceptional answers, allow people a second up-vote, but at an expense to their own reputation.  To prevent abuse, you could make it cost &lt;strike&gt;2&lt;/strike&gt; 11 reputation (or more), so people can't use multiple accounts to try to game the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's something that would only be used for truly great answers, I could even see spending &lt;strike&gt;5&lt;/strike&gt; 20 reputation (which is more than &lt;strike&gt;0.5%&lt;/strike&gt; 2% of my current rep on any of the sites) to give them a +2 upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I have no idea what it'd take to actually implement something like this, and there might be other social issues that I hadn't considered, but I just thought I'd toss it out there for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;update&lt;/em&gt; : okay, I should've verified the amount of reputation gained by upvotes.  My goal was to make it cost 2 to 5 times the benefit gained from an upvote, so I screwed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139598" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T03:39:51.873" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T03:39:51.873" ClosedDate="2009-11-28T02:25:15.227" Title="proposal : allowing multiple upvotes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31177" CreationDate="2009-11-27T17:55:51.673" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One man, one vote&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, the score is utterly meaningless: a +6 answer might have garnered the approval of 6x more people than the +1 answer... or it might just have one really dedicated fan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T17:55:51.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-27T17:59:04.757" Score="-1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;An image is worth thousand words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7434/screenshot6iq.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/557/screenshot5w.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged+php+or+c+++or+python+or+yii+or+c&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you give me 9 more rep points, so I can post images and more than one link as well? It's the second bug I'm reporting today :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139563" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T18:06:21.827" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T18:06:21.827" Title="Mixing plus and space in tag delimiters" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31177" CreationDate="2009-11-27T18:01:49.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hmm... spending 2 reputation for providing 10 reputation... no, I don't see any way to game the system&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T18:01:49.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31179" CreationDate="2009-11-27T18:06:11.170" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your URL is incorrect, FYI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php or c%2b%2b or python or yii or c&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what you want. Not escaping that plus is a recipe for pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we have STRICT rules about mixing plus and space. &lt;strong&gt;If any of your tags has a plus, you &lt;em&gt;MUST&lt;/em&gt; use spaces to delimit.&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry, but that's the way the cookie crumbles when we allow tags with a plus in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, you are doing this 99% wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't know how you arrived at a page that has &quot;PHP, blah, blah, or blah Questions&quot; in the tab-title. Which of our pages do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T18:06:11.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31187" CreationDate="2009-11-27T18:45:32.160" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just got a message on careers, but the employer didn't include any contact information they simply said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Interested? Reply to this message and send over a coding sample.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked 'interested'. but unless I'm missing something I can't reply directly through the careers site. I looked around and I can't find &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; way to contact the employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug? An omission? and how can I have someone @stackoverflow let this employer know about the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138872" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T21:41:15.753" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T21:41:15.753" Title="No way to respond to message on careers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31202" CreationDate="2009-11-27T18:52:34.177" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose that something be done on SO to prevent ambiguous tagging. (and maybe this is happening and I don't know it, if so, disregard.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, in my spare time I'm looking at posts tagged Unity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unity is the example I'm looking at because it covers Unity as a Library for IoC (among other things) and Unity (or Unity3d) which isn't always tagged properly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone struggling to get reputation (It takes me longer to get a solution than the people who are just quicker on the draw than I am... but I digress.) I don't know if this is covered higher up in the hierarchy of ranking, or if there might be a way to address this at the user level (e.g. a metatagging system whereby users get interesting posts based on tag+search result score...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, happy discussion, and I hope this leads to something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138750" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T03:20:00.433" Title="What can be done about ambiguous tagging?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;minor-annoyances&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31183" CreationDate="2009-11-27T19:00:52.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should email &lt;code&gt;careers@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; and ask them to take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T19:00:52.473" />
  <row Id="31186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31183" CreationDate="2009-11-27T19:06:38.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeap, I only got this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1313/capturadepantalla200911hu.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T19:06:38.860" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31183" CreationDate="2009-11-27T19:07:46.253" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other way around. They're supposed to contact &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;strong&gt;they are emailed your mailing address when you click &quot;I'm Interested&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is odd for them not to include any contact information in their message. We're thinking of putting a &quot;JOEL'S PRO TIPS&quot; help section for the employers next to the message composition box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: we now have quite a bit of help text next to the employer message composition box -- and it is possible in your response to enter a message back to the employer, such as, &quot;WTF?&quot; (if necessary)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T21:35:12.470" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T21:35:12.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31189" CreationDate="2009-11-27T19:16:02.323" Score="3" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: gohil aniruddh**** [mailto:****_forever4u@yahoo.co.in] &#xA;    Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 6:01 PM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    i want such a good topic or coding way .. which is used in .net&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T00:43:53.927" Title="Advertising Inquiry: such a good topic" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31188" CreationDate="2009-11-27T19:33:28.657" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gohil,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't we all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AND AN ALTERNATIVE, FREE BONUS RESPONSE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gohil,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I was only able to find such a good topic or coding way which is used in Java! I've been looking everywhere for a good topic or coding way which is used in .NET all over the place but I just can't find one anywhere! Heck, I found two of them which are used in Python and &lt;em&gt;seven&lt;/em&gt; of them which are used in jQuery, but I cannot for the life of me scrounge up one which is used in .NET.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you happen to stumble upon one on your own, please let me know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T19:33:28.657" />
  <row Id="31190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31188" CreationDate="2009-11-27T19:58:59.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dearest Gohill,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, I possessed such a Way. It was a Way like no other, suitable for both coding and not coding, and I used it everywhere: in .net, .com, .org, .txt, .exe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But those days are gone now. I've lost my a Way. Where it has gone, I do not know, but in my heart I miss it so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you happen upon it, please try to convince it to come home. To me. The one who loves it still. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With deepest affection and through a cloud of bitter tears,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;P.S. I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; kill myself if you find my a Way and fail to return it. My blood will be on your hands. My ghost will haunt you 'til the end of your days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T19:58:59.700" />
  <row Id="31192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31188" CreationDate="2009-11-27T20:11:06.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gohil,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see you have lost your way. You&#xA;  should totally drop that and try&#xA;  jQuery instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely, &lt;br /&gt; Olifur Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T20:11:06.107" />
  <row Id="31193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31177" CreationDate="2009-11-27T20:14:01.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm from Chicago, and even &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; see the problems with this. One vote per person per post is just right -- any more, and we are open to all kinds of gaming. Not to mention screwing some people into the rep cap even more quickly than normal (&lt;em&gt;cough&lt;/em&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;i&gt;cough&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T20:14:01.140" />
  <row Id="31194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31156" CreationDate="2009-11-27T20:15:32.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; down-vote, and add a comment at the same time. If the post really deserves both, I will add a comment, then at some point later, I will down-vote it. This happens very rarely though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the post can be saved, I usually just post a comment indicating to the OP how to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I just don't agree with the answer, I will down-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the post is just plain wrong, and the OP doesn't appear to care, I will do both.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T20:15:32.467" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-27T20:15:32.467" />
  <row Id="31195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31188" CreationDate="2009-11-27T20:20:53.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Gohil,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are all seekers of the good topic or coding way, which none of us have yet found (though there were rumors with Ruby).  We here at Stackoverflow believe that the true gain is in the pursuit of the good topic or coding way.  To advance in the pursuit one must use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; button or select an existing question on the website where you found my address.  If you need more guidance in the good topic or coding way, perhaps you should consult our high priest Jeff Attwood, or our chief mystic Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In pursuit of the good topic or coding way,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Alex Papadimoulis&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T20:20:53.127" />
  <row Id="31196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2009-11-27T20:26:05.520" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When SO started out it was fairly small, everyone were happy little smurfs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8025/smurfs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then one day &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/firtjer&quot;&gt;Gargamel&lt;/a&gt; showed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6365/494pxgargamelandazraelf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With his &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24079/is-the-language-brainfck-offensive&quot;&gt;foul language&lt;/a&gt; he tried to destroy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=site%3Ameta.stackoverflow.com+fuck+meta.stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;btnG=Search&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;EVERYTHING&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/187858/list&quot;&gt;smurfette&lt;/a&gt; cry and get very upset. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4660/papasmurf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So.... &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Papa smurf&lt;/a&gt;, decided certain word are never to be uttered in smurf village and using his &lt;em&gt;magnificent&lt;/em&gt; reality distortion field smrufed the words out of existence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T04:06:40.427" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T04:06:40.427" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31209" CreationDate="2009-11-27T20:42:14.973" Score="4" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;Waffles is getting upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The management, with its magnificent reality distortion field, seem to have a Stalinesque attitude towards the F-word, with one notable exception: user profiles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, after clicking on a user's profile I am promptly presented with a nasty word. This makes me &lt;strong&gt;cry&lt;/strong&gt;, I did not sign up for this horrid language. I am a delicate flower waiting to bloom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the F-BOMB still allowed in user profiles? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-27T21:20:49.990" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T04:33:07.103" Title="Why is the f word still allowed in profiles?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;offensive&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31197" CreationDate="2009-11-27T21:03:03.673" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The language used in questions and answers reflects on the site as a whole. Language used in a profile reflects only on the owner of the profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T21:03:03.673" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31197" CreationDate="2009-11-27T21:07:04.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Q&amp;amp;A side is for well worded Qs, and well worded As. A well worded ANYTHING doesn't need swearing. A profile describes who you as a person are, and swearing is an easy way to help define large swathes of a personality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T21:07:04.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31184" CreationDate="2009-11-27T22:04:39.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a common problem when dealing with a folksonomy, as opposed to a thesaurus or other controlled vocabulary for tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic problem is that 'unity' might mean different things to different people, and people select what makes sense to them.  As they have no definition for the given term, they have no way of validating that they've selected the correct term.  (and I use the term 'correct' rather loosely, as there is rarely ever a 'correct' term without specifying the context why it was cataloged.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, three people might use the term 'jets', but if one likes aircraft, one works in plumbing, and the other is a solar physicist, they're going to use the term differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As StackOverflow will recommend tags, you can try adding a more qualified tag ('unity-ioc'), and then hoping that people will then select between that and 'unity3d' rather than just using 'unity' for any new tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with that, you're still going to run into problems.  Just the other day, Google released the 'Go' programming language, but it turned out there already a language called 'Go!' from 2003.  So, 'go-language' might not have been ambiguous if the tag was applied in 2006, but it is when it's used now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T22:04:39.287" />
  <row Id="31202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31184" CreationDate="2009-11-27T22:04:39.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two methods for clearer subject tagging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community of users above 500 rep will retag to the proper subject matter - It's good, but then people have to know what tags best fit a question. But it's there and does happen. Though maybe not as fast as some would want.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enlist the Meta to discuss any retag requests - Thus helping further and correctly organise the site as well as to see somethings about the tag subjects you might not have been aware of at first.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This may include having to create a new tag to split out the questions mixed in with a current tag but better delineates the topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be people who tag incorrectly. It just is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-27T22:04:39.803" />
  <row Id="31206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31188" CreationDate="2009-11-28T00:43:53.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Santa,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this year all i want for chistmas is such a good topic or coding way .. which is used in .net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your friend,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  gohil&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T00:43:53.927" />
  <row Id="31207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31184" CreationDate="2009-11-28T03:20:00.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One option is to convince a company to sponsor one of the tags.  For example, if we got the company to sponsor the Unity-3d tag, you'd easily know if you tagged your question correctly or not (hint: correctly tagged questions would have a little logo on the tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T03:20:00.433" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29624" CreationDate="2009-11-28T04:26:18.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are ordered chronologically -- look again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T04:26:18.923" />
  <row Id="31209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31197" CreationDate="2009-11-28T04:33:07.103" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user page is a reflection of that user and it is their page to do with what they will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Within reason, &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also allow explicit self-promotion on the user page, which is not allowed in posts, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T04:33:07.103" />
  <row Id="31210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27877" CreationDate="2009-11-28T05:21:14.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all browsers can render &quot;special&quot; characters in page titles, so we stick with ASCII there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(for example, some browsers will even render actual HTML in the title, such as &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and so on)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T05:21:14.427" />
  <row Id="31211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31239" CreationDate="2009-11-28T06:36:42.043" Score="9" ViewCount="564" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a serious question, not necessarily an argument. The infamous &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/26518#26518&quot;&gt;name change tracking answer&lt;/a&gt; on Many Memes has been locked by Kyle Cronin. The reason supplied, via its now final comment, was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We don't need to track every single&#xA;  name change, and I'm a little tired of&#xA;  seeing this bumped again and again, so&#xA;  I'm locking this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't normally second-guess the mods, even when I disagree with them, but in this case I'm asking if this was really the appropriate response. I'll be honest and say I disagree with it, at least with that particular reasoning. However, if this is something the other mods (and/or Jeff) agree on, then I'll back off -- I'll still disagree, but as always will respect the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just want to hear other navelgazers' and mods' takes on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T05:50:40.080" Title="Is &quot;I'm tired of seeing this get bumped&quot; a valid reason to lock a post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-28T06:56:30.493" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If he'd simply said &quot;Locking to stop edit abuse&quot;, would you have been fine with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T06:56:30.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27633" CreationDate="2009-11-28T06:56:40.540" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Tony the Pony has come from Ikea. AU$ 6.99 :D He's a Swedish programmer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139612" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T06:56:40.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-28T07:04:44.737" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the annoying things about locking a post is that, in addition to preventing people from editing it, the ability to comment is shut off as well, so I guess this is as good a place as any to have this conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason why I locked the post was because it kept getting bumped to the front page with every edit. Normally this is a good thing, but in this case the post has gone through 27 revisions over the course of a little over a month. Add to this the fact that it's been off topic from its inception, I felt that its persistent presence on the front page was annoying and unnecessary, so I locked it to prevent it from being edited further. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, the purpose of the post was originally to document the &lt;em&gt;existence&lt;/em&gt; of the meme, not to provide a complete running history of every name change in the system. No other &quot;memes of meta&quot; post is updated in such a fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regard my solution as pragmatic - it may not be ideal but I think that it serves a net positive. I am, however, willing to consider the possibility I may have made the wrong call or misjudged the public perception of the edits, so if there is significant opposition to the lock I will remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T07:04:44.737" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30885" CreationDate="2009-11-28T09:25:17.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dan, I just don't know how useful this &quot;bug&quot; is to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything it should be filed against Firefox w/r/t their IE import, because we are deleting the cookie when you log out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T09:25:17.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-28T10:41:19.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Locking a post to prevent it from cluttering up your front page?  That is hopefully not what locking is intended for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of using moderator power to make your front page look clean, why not write a Greasemonkey script to hide the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T10:41:19.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2356" CreationDate="2009-11-28T11:09:26.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, so I'll just greedily take up to 200 characters, as many as I can, until I hit a space:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var r = new Regex(@&quot;.{0,200}\s&quot;, &#xA;    RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.Singleline);&#xA;return r.Match(body) + separator;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T11:16:17.900" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T11:16:17.900" />
  <row Id="31219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30155" CreationDate="2009-11-28T11:19:43.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is complicated -- but I'll just call the &lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/codes/333-sanitize-html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SanitizeHtml()&lt;/a&gt; function again to strip any HTML that is broken by the summary truncation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Won't be deployed until Monday, FYI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T11:19:43.277" />
  <row Id="31220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-28T11:23:53.517" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the extent that it's an actual problem, then I support locking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe if the people responsible could use some &lt;strong&gt;MODERATION&lt;/strong&gt; in updating it, perhaps limiting their updates to say once a month or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;notepad.exe is your friend, that's all I'm saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T11:23:53.517" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-28T11:36:22.607" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that this question should have been closed anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really is a meta-meta post about a topic that has &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to do with any of the three sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend closing and, if there is still too much activity, deleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T11:36:22.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31235" CreationDate="2009-11-28T11:46:26.380" Score="5" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1811922/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO. It is a serious question but it was closed as duplicate of a code-golf problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't seem fair or useful, I thought the main reason to mark a question as a duplicate was that it is likely to gain the same kind of answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question asks for a sensible solution, and in a specific language (C#). If SO wants to be the repository for all programming questions then deferring to a page full of mutilated (saving on whitespace and identifier names is essential) solutions just isn't helpful. A link to it would have been useful of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have some sort of guideline or verdict on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I noticed that way down on the golf page there are a few usable answers. But they are hard to find for someone who drops in via Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastEditorUserId="60761" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T11:53:24.790" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T15:39:52.837" Title="Closing a real question as duplicate of a Code Golf problem?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31004" CreationDate="2009-11-28T11:57:48.200" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some actual data from our daily W3C web logs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of a million plus hits in a given day, here's how many times the page &lt;code&gt;/captcha&lt;/code&gt; was served by IIS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;/captcha      1,252&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context, one particular element we serve on a lot (but not all) pages was served up &lt;strong&gt;716,582&lt;/strong&gt; times in the same time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data simply doesn't support the argument that the captcha is coming up a lot for people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T11:57:48.200" />
  <row Id="31224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31226" CreationDate="2009-11-28T12:08:10.240" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the 9th entry there are two columns of questions. (not always the 9th entry)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/3739/22965823.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using IE7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it is caused by a question from Nimbuz with no title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T13:07:36.060" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T13:07:36.060" Title="Problem with stackoverflow front page?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3764" CreationDate="2009-11-28T13:04:58.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list/directory of the Data Dumps&lt;/a&gt; provided by Stu Thompson is available. And it is pony compliant too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that, at the time of writing, the naming schemes differ. &quot;October 2009 (SO/SF/SU)&quot; equals &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/creative-commons-data-dump-nov-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Data Dump Nov 09&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (all data up until 2009-11-01).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks go to Stu Thompson for this great service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T13:04:58.173" />
  <row Id="31226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31224" CreationDate="2009-11-28T13:07:29.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed, small change to encoding behavior with an accidental oversight..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T13:07:29.073" />
  <row Id="31227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29661" CreationDate="2009-11-28T13:46:09.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many of these situations they're probably just trying to do what the boss/client has asked them to do, and therefore it's best that you provide an answer that reflects that. But I think the reasons why X is a bad idea or can't be done (or why solution Y will not work in numerous situations) should also be made clear to them - again, in an attempt to dissuade them/the boss/client from pursuing the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T13:46:09.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-28T13:50:07.090" Score="10" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to add the following comment to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post/31217#31217&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yep -- everyone on meta should use a greasemonkey script to block the meme question from the front page so that the name changers can &lt;s&gt;crap in everyone's sandbox&lt;/s&gt; have their fun. Heaven forbid that a moderator try to help the community as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the comment mechanism doesn't support the strike element.  Without it the comment suffers so, after several experiments, I deleted it.  Some would undoubtedly claim that it's suffering enough as is and deleting it merely put it out of its misery, but I digress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly the use of strikethrough conveys meaning in a manner that is much more concise than the alternative.  Given that comments are length limited, I think adding support for it would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T14:17:29.087" Title="Comments should support the strike element" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31228" CreationDate="2009-11-28T14:17:29.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main problem is that there's no markdown equivalent for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment we only support markdown in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T14:17:29.087" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31231" CreationDate="2009-11-28T14:30:01.650" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to post a question at Stack Overflow (not meta), but when I type Post Your Question, nothing happens, the question is not submitted. The question title is &quot;contract IDs&quot;, the question body is &quot;When you need to create or access well-known objects in XPCOM, where do you find their contract IDs?&quot; and the questions tags are xpcom and contract-ids. What is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: maybe, you should make it so that if the title is too short, the post your question button is disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130600" LastEditorUserId="130600" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T14:34:39.693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:19:02.523" Title="I click Post Your Question on Stack Overflow (not meta), but nothing happens" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31230" CreationDate="2009-11-28T14:32:16.920" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Title is too short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/369/titletooshort.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit, oops, I didn't format the image correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7852/image3m.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ahh, much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: We moved most of the post validation to the server, which helps reduce any client JavaScript quirks that would prevent submission. This also means submission errors can be simplified and placed in the same area on the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6915/stackoverflowserverside.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:19:02.523" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:19:02.523" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29661" CreationDate="2009-11-28T14:43:11.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would downvote it and vote to close it (if I could). While I'm sympathetic to the desire for SO to be a comprehensive site, I've seen more questions about subverting users' machines than protecting them, and I have no real desire to help a random stranger hack peoples' machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130260" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T14:43:11.143" />
  <row Id="31233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31222" CreationDate="2009-11-28T14:51:34.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  Solving a code golf challenge is very different from writing readable, maintainable real-world code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T14:51:34.060" />
  <row Id="31234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31222" CreationDate="2009-11-28T14:57:47.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the questions in question, I don't see where the two questions were that different. This particular code golf question didn't ask for &quot;mutilated&quot; code, and some of the people who would do such a thing have been noted to do it in real answers as well... so, same question, same answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T14:57:47.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31222" CreationDate="2009-11-28T15:39:52.837" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, I reopened it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code Golf does imply shortest-possible solutions which aren't always what you want in a work environment -- that is, for a &quot;real question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T15:39:52.837" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-28T15:46:57.083" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that we are not able to search in comments, but why? Is this a technical problem? Is this only a lack of funcionality of the software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32173" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T17:50:29.243" Title="Why can't we search on comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-28T16:29:07.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time I wrote this, I disagreed with the position. From a mod standpoint, it sounds like they're in agreement. From the community standpoint, there seems to be a split -- at least in those who cared enough about this to respond here. On one side, there are people who think the post should be updated for accuracy (I tend to fall into this camp, but that's obvious based on the edit history), and on the other are the people who are also sick of seeing it bumped to the home page. The problem for me is that there are people I like and respect on both sides of that! (But ain't that always the way on Meta?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the frequency of the issue, I guess I can see why it'd be locked. 27 edits in a month is a touch ... excessive. (However, it was also the epitome of community wiki, if you think about it.) I'd still prefer somewhere that got kept up to date for those who were interested, but you can't get around the bump problem (unless Jeff does as he warns and limits name changes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess I've gone from against the lock to a more neutral position about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T16:29:07.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31236" CreationDate="2009-11-28T16:33:44.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a feature that has not been enabled in (or even written into) the software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T16:33:44.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-28T17:08:44.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't like that question appearing, why don you just ignore the meme tag? Anyone that felt that way, would have done it by now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many visit the front page as opposed to the questions page (on Meta I visit the front page precisely to know where the discussion is)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That exact answer did provide us a useful service :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was kind of happy to see that there was &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; on the internet that was keeping part of what I consider The History of Meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could this warrant a feature request? &lt;em&gt;Can the option to make an edit without bumping a question or of making a question non-bumpable with edits be added?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does one question really accounts for &lt;em&gt;clutter&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T17:08:44.627" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="31240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-11-28T17:26:39.680" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/26518#26518&quot;&gt;Updating the Changing name Meme Answer&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; Brad Gilbert&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Heard:&lt;/strong&gt; Answer posted at Oct 19 at 23:28. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post&quot;&gt;First written acknowledgment of meme status was 28-11-2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http:///&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;28-11-2009&quot;&gt;16 hours ago&lt;/a&gt;, when it was crushed down by a locking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Answer to &lt;em&gt;The Many Memes of Meta&lt;/em&gt; question, it had become custom to keep it updated whenever a user changed his/her/it's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Controversy:&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks to a big effort of the community, the answer was kept updated regularly, being edited sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/26518/list&quot;&gt;several times in a single day&lt;/a&gt;. This ongoing edition of that particular answer, kept bumping &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/&quot;&gt;The Many Memes of Meta&lt;/a&gt; question to the front page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post/31214#31214&quot;&gt;something that started to bother some users&lt;/a&gt;. In an attempt to stop the ongoing edition, moderator &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;Kyle Cronin&lt;/a&gt; ♦ decided to lock the answer in question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post/31239#31239&quot;&gt;sparking some controversy&lt;/a&gt;. Most moderators and half &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post/31212#31212&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post/31220#31220&quot;&gt;including&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; ♦, supported the decision at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To be updated daily for the next 30 days.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="135197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T18:23:12.353" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T18:23:12.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-28T17:26:39.680" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31236" CreationDate="2009-11-28T17:50:29.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this a technical problem? Is this only a lack of funcionality of the software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More of a philosophical problem. I think Jeff has said somewhere that comments aren't considered &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; per se, and that they shouldn't be considered part of the permanent, canonical question/answer.  As such, he probably doesn't think there's much value in searching them (if there's anything important there, it should be in the question or answer!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T17:50:29.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29661" CreationDate="2009-11-28T18:45:59.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;for a kiosk application, this is a legitimate question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...of course, the OP could be lying about the context...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T18:45:59.613" />
  <row Id="31244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-28T20:01:41.380" Score="-5" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24826/max-downvotes-per-question-answer&quot;&gt;Max downvotes per question/answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1765171/c-null-0x0-or-0/1765202#1765202&quot;&gt;wrong answer&lt;/a&gt;. This answer was accepted by the OP (thus making it indelible), and has, at this time, -7 votes. I got tired of losing rep, so I CW'd the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it got me thinking: what is the point of an answer which has less than -1 votes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer with 0 votes could mean &quot;highly controversial&quot; (many up/down votes canceling), &quot;neutral&quot; (not a bad answer, but not great), or &quot;not seen yet&quot; (recently posted, not evaluated yet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But an answer of -1 means: &quot;Wow. This was so bad and unhelpful that it needs to be marked as such. I trust the answerer a little bit less too, making them less reputable on the site.&quot; A negative vote-count is pretty bad and embarrassing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads to the question: what is the &lt;em&gt;point&lt;/em&gt; of answers which are so heavily downvoted? It eventually gets really really rude and snippy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1681180/homework-question-in-c&quot;&gt;so&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1625281/how-to-make-a-tableless-table-with-help-of-css&quot;&gt;bad&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/722983/how-much-time-is-too-long-to-develop-a-professional-website-closed&quot;&gt;when&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156363/create-a-compiler-for-windows&quot;&gt;someone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209296/update-statement-throwing-an-error&quot;&gt;asks&lt;/a&gt; a poorly-conceived question because they misunderstand the website, assignment, or technology they want to use? (Case in point, there is a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; problem that clients complain that their website is &quot;taking too long&quot; to develop - so the vague question &quot;How long should a website take to build?&quot; is actually a very reasonable and relevant problem for a programmer to solve.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad answers are far more dangerous: they propagate bad knowledge. While &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1631414/what-is-the-best-battleship-ai/1632147#1632147&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; is vastly unhelpful, -18 votes is only relevant to show that it is worse than a post with -17 votes, but really, once a post is negative, who cares? While I have no idea what the &quot;JS&quot; is in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1273713/what-ways-can-i-put-a-favicon-into-my-site/1273754#1273754&quot;&gt;person's post&lt;/a&gt;, half of the answer is pretty correct and reasonable. And I don't even know what the (downvoters'?) coments mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only explanation I can think of is some sort of bandwagon effect. &quot;Aargh, we'll show &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;! How dare they waste my time with such an &lt;em&gt;inane&lt;/em&gt; response?&quot; Its obnoxious and makes us look like twits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I can think of two solutions (if anyone else feels this strongly about this! Which is likely nobody, but hey.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cap the vote score to -1 or -2 or something. Just so everybody gets the point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have increasing cost to the voter for negative downvotes. How about this: if &lt;em&gt;i&lt;/em&gt; is the vote count after performing a downvote, and i &amp;lt; 0, then the points lost could be expressed as:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;n = abs(i)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;points lost = 2^(n-1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the first negative vote would give -1 points to the voter. Then -2, -4, -8. So that, by the time the post has a vote count of -4... it stops becoming worthwhile to join that bandwagon. (one could also use fib(n), rather than 2^n).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, one could increase the rep requirement to downvote for very negative values of i. You need 1000 rep to vote something to -2, but then 1500 to vote it to -3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do others feel like this is a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T05:19:45.220" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T05:19:45.220" ClosedDate="2009-11-29T05:15:23.607" Title="Obnoxious down-voting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31244" CreationDate="2009-11-28T20:26:31.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the big negative downvote means is that N more people (for a -N score) thought &quot;This answer is not useful&quot; than thought &quot;This answer is useful&quot;.  If you would like to avoid getting downvoted into oblivion, I would imagine that not posting answers that aren't useful would be the best course of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T20:26:31.477" />
  <row Id="31247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31244" CreationDate="2009-11-28T20:57:09.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't like the negative votes, instead of saying &quot;oh well, it's wrong, sorry&quot;, edit the answer into something right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T20:57:09.673" />
  <row Id="31248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31244" CreationDate="2009-11-28T21:03:55.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Note: my C/C++ isn't strong enough to talk about the merit of your specific answer. I will assume that the downvoters are correct and that your answer is incorrect and misleading. Obviously downvotes for a &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer are always bad, but occasionally happen.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the point of downvoting something heavily? To show that it is categorically wrong. That's &lt;em&gt;particularly&lt;/em&gt; important when the answer is accepted - an answer which has just -1 and is accepted may have been downvoted by a couple of people who misunderstood it, but it was actually fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something has been voted down to -7, that's a clear indicator that the answer is wrong and should not be trusted in any way, shape or form, unless it's got an edit to say something along the lines of &quot;Yes, I got it wrong - here's the right answer.&quot; (I usually get rid of the incorrect text at that point to avoid misleading people.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have absolutely no problem with something being downvoted a lot, any more than I have a problem with something being upvoted a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for being worried about losing reputation through it - the answer was accepted. Even if you &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; got 7 downvotes, you still &lt;em&gt;gained&lt;/em&gt; a point of reputation in total despite posting something so wrong that it was downvoted that heavily. How can you feel hard done by?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would suggest editing the post to wipe out all the previous text, just to say &quot;This answer was incorrect. I will delete it when it's been unaccepted.&quot; Then add a comment to the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; requesting that the original posted unaccept it. When that's happened, you can delete it. (I've been through a similar situation, although my incorrect answer was &lt;em&gt;upvoted&lt;/em&gt; instead of downvoted. When I realised my mistake I made it correct, but still requested that it be unaccepted in favour of another correct answer, so I could delete it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T21:10:36.730" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T21:10:36.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31250" CreationDate="2009-11-28T23:26:29.200" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to search through question I've asked to see if certain keywords are present in my question title and/or content. Is this possible? If yes, how can it be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T04:54:42.770" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T04:54:42.770" Title="How do you conduct a search of your own questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31249" CreationDate="2009-11-28T23:30:14.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use searchy keys combination flavour power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to narrow to the keywords only appearing in the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=intitle%3A1&quot; title=&quot;says you&quot;&gt;intitle:1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to show up your posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame&quot; title=&quot;says me&quot;&gt;user:me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say you want to search for &quot;passwords&quot; in question titles you've posted in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame+intitle%3A1+passwords&quot; title=&quot;they keys, Jerry!&quot;&gt;user:me intitle:1 passwords&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which can be a little restrictive since you're zeroing on the title only. But if you're on the hunt for your posts where you mention &quot;hash&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame+hash&quot; title=&quot;hash is harsh&quot;&gt;user:me hash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just mix and match and you're on your way to better searching through Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-28T23:36:18.680" LastActivityDate="2009-11-28T23:36:18.680" />
  <row Id="31251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31244" CreationDate="2009-11-29T00:12:21.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You did get a minor technicality wrong.  Most C++ compilers define NULL like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#define NULL 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the compiler doesn't know it's a pointer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downvote explanations don't strike me as particularly enlightened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Notice that your linked site says&#xA;  &quot;NULL is defined as a null pointer&#xA;  constant&quot; - not as a null pointer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a &quot;null pointer constant&quot; is not a &quot;null pointer&quot; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next comment (with 5 &quot;great comment&quot; votes) reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In C++, NULL will not be (for example) &quot;(void*)0&quot; -- that's clearly not allowed.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler thinks it's OK for NULL to be a (void*):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;NULL == (void*)0   // True&#xA;void* p = NULL;    // Compiles&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your answer is not exactly right, but still pretty informative and helpful. Unlike the technically correct answers, you explained the issue in a way that the original poster understood.  So you got 15 rep for the accepted answer.  Looks like you actually lost rep by marking this as community wiki :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T00:12:21.847" />
  <row Id="31252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31255" CreationDate="2009-11-29T00:15:46.067" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need search functionality that allows searching for posts and excluding certain tag. For example, say, on Meta, I want to search for all posts in the [feature-request] tag, but not in the [status-completed] or [status-declined] tags. Can this be done currently, and if not, do you think we need it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were to have this, I think that two possible ways of expressing a &lt;strong&gt;NOT statement&lt;/strong&gt; would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;![tag]&#xA;or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[/tag]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T01:17:02.963" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T01:17:02.963" Title="NOT Statement Search: Searching for Posts In a Certain Tag but NOT In Another Tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T00:27:07.000" Score="40" ViewCount="906" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, the bike shed problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you go before the Board of&#xA;  Directors and ask for 1.5 Billion&#xA;  dollars to build a Nuclear Reactor, no&#xA;  one will review or discuss the details&#xA;  of the plant. They will assume that&#xA;  experts have been over every inch of&#xA;  the plans, and not want to look&#xA;  foolish by asking a silly question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, if you ask the same group to&#xA;  approve a 30 dollar expenditure for&#xA;  lumber with which to build a bikeshed&#xA;  (presumably a British term for the&#xA;  smallest possible building) then be&#xA;  prepared for a 45 minute discussion&#xA;  about all aspects of the Bikeshed,&#xA;  including the color of the paint. The&#xA;  explanation for this is that everyone&#xA;  can grasp the scale of a bikeshed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To transform this problem to SO term, Questions that are trivial such as &quot;How to convert a C string to a QString or &quot;What is the difference between . and -&gt;&quot; get alot more views, answers and votes than real questions of the form &quot;How do I frob this widget&quot; that bother real professionals. Less views mean less possible votes for good answers and hence less incentive for people to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can SO solve this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9611" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T14:21:31.707" Title="The bike shed problem and SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="31255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31252" CreationDate="2009-11-29T00:36:35.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to search for some tags, but not others, you can prepend the outcast with a minus sign, hyphen or dash (&lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the URL for tagged: &lt;strong&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[tags]&lt;/strong&gt; not &lt;strong&gt;[status-completed]&lt;/strong&gt;, you have: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+tags+-status-completed&quot; title=&quot;buuuuuump&quot;&gt;feature-request+tags+-status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when you're throwing it up into the search box, you have to format it a little differently. Best when you include the tags to exclude at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bfeature-request%5D+possible+%5B-status-completed%5D+&quot; title=&quot;the minus works way better inside&quot;&gt;possible &lt;strong&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;[-status-completed]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You can try placing the dash outside the brackets, but results are mixed (sometimes not expected at all))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T00:36:35.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31253" CreationDate="2009-11-29T00:40:25.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Train more experts so more people can grasp the concept of more complex problems. Which SO is doing by sharing knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T00:40:25.337" />
  <row Id="31257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31253" CreationDate="2009-11-29T01:05:38.817" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;real questions of the form &quot;How do I frob this widget&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frobbing widgets is a trivial application of any of a number of general-purpose frobbing techniques. Anyone who has picked up an introductory programming book will know the advantages and disadvantages of each, and anyone who has reached adulthood without undergoing a full frontal lobotomy will need only a casual glance at the relevant widget interface in order to write up a custom frob function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, these questions get relatively little attention because they offer nothing of interest to most readers. Hardly filling the role of the Nuclear Reactor in your analogy, they are perhaps a better match for the movements of a painter's arm as he holds the brush applying the committee-chosen paint to the new bikeshed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, SO has the equivalent of occupational therapists... and, perhaps, brush-stroke fetishists... to answer these questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T01:05:38.817" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T01:23:44.727" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a user that is posting lots of stupid questions in a couple of tag that I enjoy answering, and it's driving me batty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to hide these questions, like a user filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131871" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T01:36:12.273" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T01:36:12.273" ClosedDate="2009-11-29T03:03:27.857" Title="Is it possible to not see questions from user X?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31261" CreationDate="2009-11-29T01:24:04.697" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a &quot;rounding error&quot; on the reputation count. I have just been awarded 100 points for associating my stack overflow account, yet total points reads 101. Same happens on stack overflow. Not a big thing, but we should look like decent programmers to banks too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139631" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T03:02:48.060" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T08:01:07.050" Title="Appropriate data type for reputation points" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31260" CreationDate="2009-11-29T01:25:40.433" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You start with 1 reputation point... can you add 100 and 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T01:25:40.433" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31253" CreationDate="2009-11-29T01:43:09.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;try to build your own subcommunity that cares about your interest (tagging is import here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;forget about SO and use a much more specialized website&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, you shouldn't consider reputation important at all (it looked as a good idea at first, but now I think that it was bad: how many forums have reputation? How many have rep-farming questions and answers?)&#xA;Anyway, I recommend the first approach (and remember: forget reputation, you won't gain many digits, and it doesn't matter)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137341" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T01:43:09.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31266" CreationDate="2009-11-29T03:13:31.423" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this already exists, please forgive me. I would like an option to filter out migrated questions and perhaps another for closed questions (from the listing in SO.com/questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I have a page filled with closed/migrated questions on SO, and it's just not practical to leave it all there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139539" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T03:19:44.113" Title="Proposal: option to filter out migrated (or closed) questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T03:16:31.390" Score="5" ViewCount="344" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially with Stack Overflow I thought once I answered a few questions well, reputation would begin to accumulate like interest in a bank.  I could leave and check my account after a year, and would expect to find all sorts of up-votes, gathered by Googlers who got their question answered.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alas, it seems my assumptions were misguided.  Most questions seem to have a half-life, in which the frequency of up votes rapidly decays.  The people who vote seems to be the regular community, but the larger number of people who visit the site seem to drive up the views.  &lt;strong&gt;How much rep to people earn while idle?&lt;/strong&gt;  Is there a potential level where up votes from previously answered questions will give someone 200 points a day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14139" LastEditorUserId="14139" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T08:55:35.157" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T03:32:16.350" Title="How much reputation do you get while idle?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31264" CreationDate="2009-11-29T03:19:44.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must be looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;Active tab&lt;/a&gt;.  I was cleaning up some tags, since it's pretty low traffic right now.  Sorry about that, but it should only take a few more minutes for those questions to clear off the active list (since there won't be any other activity on them to keep them there).  In the meantime, you should be able to just go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;Newest tab&lt;/a&gt;, which doesn't include those closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of my own wild Saturday night activities, this is still a valid feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T03:19:44.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T03:35:09.450" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually about 42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T03:35:09.450" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T04:02:15.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in SO about 4 months, I still get points occasionally for answers I posted weeks or months ago. Most of them I totally forgotten I answered before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess because I'm in east asia timezone, I tend to get points while I was sleeping, 0 to 40 points generally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T04:02:15.767" />
  <row Id="31270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T04:11:27.403" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's going to be a long time until somebody will get 200 rep per day from old questions. When a top user stops posting new stuff it looks like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T04:11:27.403" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T05:06:55.620" Score="-1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6336/why-not-merge-reputation-across-so-sf-and-su&quot;&gt;Why not merge reputation across SO, SF, and SU?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am talking about surepuser, serverfault and stackoverflow altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two reason for this opinion, one is philosophical and the other is practical.&#xA;Let me start with the philosophical first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;mail.google.com&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;reader.google.com&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;www.google.com&lt;/code&gt; provides three different functionalities, yet, same person, log in once, and he's logged in to all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, many developers are ending up installing their software on server machines, many of them are required to maintain these bytes regularly or even build some other tools that will do this for automatically (serverfault.com) - That's why I see no reason having two separate accounts for the same&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;senior developers usually can be considered as power users, so why would it be a different for the very same developer when posting a question or answering one on suerpuser.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and most of all, having meta.stackoverflow on a separate account is totally mistaken - imagine a guy scoring 27k on stackoverflow. One day, this fellow has an idea how to improve the site so to make it even easier to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this fellow answered 12k questions a year, his suggestion must be considered differently that one who answered 3 question a year, right? Since he's a proven heavy user of the site and a major contributor. Yet, when he will first login to the meta.so and create the account one will not notice their stackoverflow activity and might ignore their feature request altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138189" LastEditorUserId="138189" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T07:07:53.637" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T07:07:53.637" ClosedDate="2009-11-29T10:48:56.183" Title="reputation scores should be combined if accounts are integrated" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;scoring&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31271" CreationDate="2009-11-29T05:09:28.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The three sites don't answer questions on the same topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reputation represents your contribution to the community on the topic at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't follow. I know mounds more about programming than servers. Why on Earth should I have 14k on ServerFault, when I can't answer 99% of the questions there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your analogy is false too. On Google you don't earn points from the community on different topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T05:09:28.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T05:38:10.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed before. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10472/is-there-a-critical-mass-of-answers-or-reputation/10515#10515&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet has said&lt;/a&gt; he thinks he can hit the rep cap without logging in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, votes don't continue to accumulate endlessly, in part because of lower traffic (the 'half-life effect'), but also because most people treat the number next to the answer as a kind of 'score', rather than a vote. See for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15706/should-good-answers-always-be-upvoted&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt;. There's some room for manouvere, since different viewers have different perceptions on the value of your answer. But in the main, once your answer has reached its position in life, it's not going to move far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T05:38:10.163" />
  <row Id="31274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31211" CreationDate="2009-11-29T05:50:40.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being the person that posted that, I like that it was locked. I was getting tired of getting notifications about that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why I had planned on deleting it in the very near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it is now locked, I won't see any notifications on it. So I may reconsider my position on deleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T05:50:40.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31277" CreationDate="2009-11-29T02:35:04.000" Score="2" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's Language Agnostic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132688" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T02:35:04.000" Title="What's Language Agnostic?" Tags="&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;language-agnostic&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31275" CreationDate="2009-11-29T02:38:16.020" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question that doesn't pertain to any specific language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15537" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T02:38:16.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31275" CreationDate="2009-11-29T02:41:32.127" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of some language agnostic questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what is a compiler?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what is a regular expression?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;should I use algorithm X or algorithm Y?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're all programming questions but not tied to a specific language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T02:41:32.127" />
  <row Id="31278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31275" CreationDate="2009-11-29T02:43:53.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone who does not believe in [your favorite] languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147906" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T02:43:53.027" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31275" CreationDate="2009-11-29T02:52:45.673" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That depends on the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A language agnostic API is one which a wide variety of languages can use. For example, any language worth using on Windows can access COM-based APIs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A language agnostic algorithm is one what you can implement in most languages. For example, QuickSort and Bubble Sort. Of course nothing is perfectly language agnostic, as we can always invent new languages with weird restrictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T02:52:45.673" />
  <row Id="31280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31275" CreationDate="2009-11-29T03:04:24.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programming patterns are generally language-agnostic: they can be used in any reasonably expressive language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139637" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T03:04:24.177" />
  <row Id="31281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31275" CreationDate="2009-11-29T04:01:56.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone who lies awake at night wondering if there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gdc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also anything that is not specific to a particular programming language (e.g. are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered%5Fharmful&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gotos considered harmful&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138080" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T04:01:56.240" />
  <row Id="31282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31275" CreationDate="2009-11-29T04:27:53.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something which does not rely on any particular language. I don't know why it has to relate to a question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a bubble sort algorithm can be written in any number of languages. Therefore the algorithm is language agnostic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pseudocode is another example as it defines an algorithm (set of steps) by which an outcome can be achieved. However, a programmer can take the psudocode and implement it in any number of languages. Thus, the psudocode defines an algorithm in such a way that it is language agnostic in terms of which language it is implemented in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:11:20.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-11-29T04:27:53.197" />
  <row Id="31283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T06:18:21.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I have only gotten a handful of up-votes on posts, that are more than a few weeks old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This probably has more to do with the fact that I have relatively few posts, and that they are on tags that have fewer people on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are some of the major factors that affect how your posts are voted on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your total number of posts.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The more posts you have, the more likely they are to get voted-up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The general quality of your posts.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Better quality posts get more up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which tags your posts fall under.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Some tags are more heavily followed than others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The general quality of other posts on that same page.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If your post is a diamond in the rough, the more votes you are likely to get.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your notoriety in the community.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This can be beneficial if you are considered a knowledgeable person in your field. Or it could be detrimental, if you are in the habit of rubbing people the wrong way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:18:21.090" />
  <row Id="31284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T06:20:50.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want me to &lt;strong&gt;purposefully&lt;/strong&gt; be idle to give you an answer?! How dare you! I &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; give up SO! I &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; give up SO! You can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead hands!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...oh, and I only get a maximum of 1-3 upvotes per week on old answers in a low-traffic tag (MATLAB).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T06:20:50.477" />
  <row Id="31285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31442" CreationDate="2009-11-29T07:11:14.877" Score="45" ViewCount="1942" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that I am not willing to relocate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you change careers to show how many employers would even consider hiring me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;57 Global Employers (beta) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;57 Global Employers (beta) - 3 hiring in your preferred locations.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reply to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are wondering which employers&#xA;  are searching on the careers site,&#xA;  you're asking the wrong question. You&#xA;  need to be at the job listing site,&#xA;  not the CV listing site. And if you're&#xA;  in a smaller market where we don't&#xA;  have any job listings, you're going to&#xA;  have to go to the larger sites until&#xA;  we grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You set &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.photobucket.com/image/someone%20set%20us%20up%20the%20bomb/Xevonarin/base2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yourself up the bomb&lt;/a&gt;. You are telling me &lt;strong&gt;how many&lt;/strong&gt; employers are searching for me. The next natural question to ask is &quot;who are they?&quot; followed by &quot;where are they from?&quot;. Its human nature. I think it probably would be better if you did away with the stats, at the end of the day I don't care about no popularity contest, I'm looking for a kick ass job. The only measure that is of interest to me is the number of times cool offers pop up. If this number is 0 in 3 years, well, I will probably not renew. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As my heroine Mariah Carey says: &quot;Love takes time&quot;. So yes, I understand that the fishing for interesting jobs in a tiny geographic segment of the market will take a while.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a business perspective this has been marketed as a global service, when in reality it is a very north american centric service with infrastructure to go global. I think it should be made clear to people who sign up today, if say, they are from Alice Springs that it is not that likely anyone will be contacting them in the near future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day this is a simple usability issue, you are showing me information that is not at all relevant to me in &lt;strong&gt;200%&lt;/strong&gt; font size and I would like the information either made relevant or taken away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that currently there is no technical way to make the information relevant but technical problems can be solved, you can gather more information from employers. Having said that, the more serious problem is that it would seem that this information should be of no concern to me anyway (according to the careers philosophy), so why not simply take it away? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:48:00.547" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:48:00.547" Title="Can we see the count of relevant employers on our careers page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="31286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31260" CreationDate="2009-11-29T08:01:07.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2621/why-does-reputation-have-a-lower-bound-of-1&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2621/why-does-reputation-have-a-lower-bound-of-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T08:01:07.050" />
  <row Id="31287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T08:39:26.373" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a couple of times when I've been away from SO, or at least unable to post significant numbers of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In May I was in Venice over a long weekend, and received 80 on the Saturday and 95 on the Sunday. Weekends are always harder though in terms of reputation - there's far less activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In August I was in Southwold with &lt;em&gt;occasional&lt;/em&gt; access. On Monday 24th I had a very good day - 328 - due to the &quot;% accepted&quot; change. 18 accepted answers. On Tuesday 24th I hit 260, with 5 accepted answers and mostly rep from older answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers which are a couple of days old are always more likely to give rep than genuinely &quot;old&quot; answers, so if you abandon SO completely for several weeks the rep will dry up pretty quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is, I suspect that if I only logged in every other day I may well still hit the rep cap each day (other than weekends) - but if I only logged in every &lt;em&gt;third&lt;/em&gt; day it would be a lot more touch and go. That's just an educated guess though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T08:39:26.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31289" CreationDate="2009-11-29T08:40:58.757" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;So now that everyone (well almost everyone) has their Google Wave invite where is the Offical SO Wave? Or does it already exist? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T08:46:50.820" Title="Is there an official wave for SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google-wave&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31288" CreationDate="2009-11-29T08:46:50.820" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sign in to Wave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;20 minutes after the thing has finally loaded, enter this into the search box in the Inbox pane:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;with:public tags:stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should see one that's entitled, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored%3Awave%3Agooglewave.com!w%252BSsKz1PcYA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Google doesn't care about JavaScript&quot;&gt;Any Stack Overflow users around here?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it official? No, but that's where the money is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T08:46:50.820" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31293" CreationDate="2009-11-29T09:51:48.643" Score="9" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've learned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I take SO too seriously and I don't always act in its best interest. For every useful answer or question I've contributed, I've fired off two &lt;em&gt;community Wiki this&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;God, your statistics suck&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;not programming related&lt;/em&gt; or any other of the cornucopia of &lt;strong&gt;community cop&lt;/strong&gt; bullshit that really detracts from my (and others') experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nerds like us are very hardheaded people, and we will stand our ground on an opinion. I haven't learned yet to know when to let go of my side, and concede. I've gotten in enough arguments on SO to know that this shouldn't be how I contribute, and I've actually been thinking about it since this whole affair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time, it bit me, which I probably needed.  The loss of rep was worth that, in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going forward, this learning experience will hopefully remind me that it's just a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; site for God's sake.  The StackOverflow Police Force is already doing fine on its own, and I don't need to make things any &lt;strike&gt;better&lt;/strike&gt; worse.  I am still relatively new to an (granted, relatively new but) established community forum, and my opinion of best practices for it do not necessarily mesh with what's really best for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think the cops in the community are an implicit response to the site being treated with a &quot;everyone should know how to behave on a forum like this, we're all professionals&quot; -- the sad side of that is that not everyone is a professional, and I feel some in the community may feel that they have to rise to the occasion and &lt;strong&gt;keep SO clean&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm not sure what can be done about that frivolous attitude, but I think given SO's size an attention to policy might be important at this point (FAQ and favorited questions on meta only go so far). I don't see a lot of &quot;that's against the rules,&quot; I see a lot of &quot;I don't feel like that's important,&quot; or &quot;this should happen&quot;...and that can't last, in my opinion. I really don't think that will scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's a crowd psychology element at play here, given the lack of commandments set in stone.  The entire site is driven, policed, and maintained by opinions (am I wrong?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'm gutting the original question because it's been resolved, but I hope that a few cops will learn from my experience, relax, and learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;I take offense with the user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/179364/mask&quot;&gt;Mask&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow. Here's why.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137502" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T22:58:02.650" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T22:58:02.650" Title="Do people get banned from StackOverflow? If not, can I nominate the first?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31290" CreationDate="2009-11-29T10:00:42.573" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If he hasn't been previously, he should probably be suspended. He should be contacted if possible with the same suggestions &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1815026/is-there-a-math-editor-available-closed&quot;&gt;as earlier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to make sure people don't dislike people for the wrongs reasons. I agree users that only ask questions aren't as useful as those who answer them, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a site for questions, though this side of the debate has been brought up many times elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, going on a rampage down-vote spree is very wrong and immature, and that alone should have him suspended. But I think that combined with his less-than-impressive question history definitely warrants a talk-to and suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just makes sure we actually look at the bad things in fair light, and not overgeneralize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T10:00:42.573" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31290" CreationDate="2009-11-29T10:24:49.660" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is OK to ask more than answer; some people have questions&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;but lots of &lt;strong&gt;poor quality&lt;/strong&gt; questions can (and has in the past) lead to suspension&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is OK (within reason) to answer your own question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the pointless question / answer has been deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voting is appreciated but not mandated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;reasonable&lt;/em&gt; questions that come from homework are OK - I'm not going to try assessing this one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the downvote attack &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; OK, but will almost certainly be rolled back automatically by the system shortly (it has defences against this) - I'm investigating...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: yes there is clear evidence of a co-ordinated downvote attack from 2 accounts (which have been noted); I'll check back a little later to check that it has been automatically undone. There was a lot of silliness on both sides here, but we will keep an eye on the accounts in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T10:40:08.960" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T10:40:08.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31290" CreationDate="2009-11-29T10:26:24.040" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take issue with several of your points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He has asked 167 questions and in that&#xA;  time contributed 2 answers. One of the&#xA;  answers is an answer to his own&#xA;  question, and the other answer is an&#xA;  unhelpful &quot;Please rephrase your&#xA;  question!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So? Repeat after me: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;there is no requirement to answer in order to ask questions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and frankly I find this attitude from some people to be elitist and obnoxious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In all of that time he has only cast&#xA;  ~20 legitimate votes. (The big jump is&#xA;  his voting record is explained&#xA;  shortly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So? There isn't any requirement to vote either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He posted a question which is&#xA;  blatantly homework, and did not tag it&#xA;  as such&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So? Homework or not, I don't really care. If you take offense to it, that's your problem. It's not against SO's guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When confronted by several users in&#xA;  the aforementioned question, Mask&#xA;  threatened to get on another account&#xA;  so as to try to have his abuse go&#xA;  unnoticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So? Most of the time when these things blow up you should just walk away from them. On rare occasions, for example, I've had a poster or an editor be an ass about an answer given in good faith. You have a choice about whether or not to get into a slapfest. 99% of the time it's better to either ignore it or delete your answer and forget about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I was a bit of a jerk to him in&#xA;  another question (in light of all of&#xA;  this),&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far the only observations that holds up is that both of you have been jerks. Are you sure you want to ban him? What's good for the goose...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mask went on a serial downvote of all&#xA;  of my questions and answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vote anomaly system will catch this. If it doesn't, the SO team can deal with it. No further action is required (by you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This person obviously has nothing to&#xA;  contribute to StackOverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to sound like a broken record but... so? 90% of the users just come here to read questions. Many more just ask questions. That's fine. Get over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm of the opinion that there is no&#xA;  rehabilitation for such a person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bit overdramatic don't you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but is there perhaps a way to make a&#xA;  user only able to post answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no requirement to answer questions and as soon as it is then I, for one, am gone; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Such a system just isn't feasible. What exactly prevents someone from just starting a new account?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As someone aptly commented, &quot;he's not&#xA;  here to give, he's here to take&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So? Answer his questions or not. The choice is yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is perhaps guilty of three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being a jerk;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking low quality questions (arguably); and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using a sock puppet downvoter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(3) is perhaps a bannable offense. (2) can be if sufficiently egregious. (1) has to go pretty far (like &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; attacking someone personally or using certain so-called &quot;hate speech&quot; or slurs) to warrant action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(3) can usually be dealt with by simply flagging the post for moderator attention. The mods will typically just delete OT comments (offensive or not). Problem solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T10:34:51.170" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T10:34:51.170" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31290" CreationDate="2009-11-29T10:40:15.233" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He has asked 167 questions and in that&#xA;  time contributed 2 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard this sentiment before, but there are also users who just answer questions. If this site would just consist of users answering questions, I think it would become a very boring place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135433" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T10:40:15.233" />
  <row Id="31295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31290" CreationDate="2009-11-29T11:14:48.243" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nobody asked anything, nobody could answer. A lot of people just answer questions, he's the flipside that makes that possible. Yes, he sounds like a little bit of a dick, but that's not grounds for banishment. If his questions are poorly worded, &lt;em&gt;make them better&lt;/em&gt;. He is giving to SO, just not in the same way as you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T11:14:48.243" />
  <row Id="31297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T12:35:50.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the opposite! I seem to get reputation for answers within a couple of weeks, but then out of no where, I get down voted on answers that I gave so long ago - I have completly forgotten about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1188770/is-it-time-to-start-developing-with-html5/1188811#1188811&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about HTML5, I was on around +7, then over a few weeks, it kept getting down voted for no (in my opinion) good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T12:35:50.483" />
  <row Id="31299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T12:44:25.663" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;My currently bountified question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1768679/c-transcribe-wav-file-to-text-speech-to-text-with-system-speech-namespaces&quot;&gt;C#: transcribe WAV file to text (speech-to-text) with System.Speech namespaces&lt;/a&gt; is nearing its end of extra publicity and I don't think it will have a favourable answer any time soon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the looks of how the question went, the problem needs more research and related updates from time to time until I, or some other person, gets it right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be better not marking any answer right now and making the question visible to others when updates happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anything be done about this by the moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135246" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T13:21:20.587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T13:21:20.587" Title="Keep question unanswered... even after bounty" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31299" CreationDate="2009-11-29T13:03:26.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't check an answer, then no answer will be marked (no new answer get enough upvotes for the automated process yet). Only if a new answer get 2 or more upvotes, you are out of luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time you change something (editing), the answer will be pushed to the front page again. So don't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T13:03:26.640" />
  <row Id="31301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2009-11-29T13:12:36.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Someone tried just this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/20654/oscar-reyes&quot;&gt;Oscar Reyes #1&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I stopped answering when I've got 10k&#xA;  points ( on march 23 2009 ).  Since&#xA;  then I'va made [2,068] pts. only with&#xA;  existing answers. I wonder how far&#xA;  would I get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T13:12:36.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T13:29:04.427" Score="4" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6521/leaving-an-anonymous-comment-when-voting&quot;&gt;Leaving an anonymous comment when voting.  &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: this proposal is the similar to a low-voted response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/&lt;/a&gt;, added (by someone else) after the question was resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem: downvotes without comments are annoying to responders, and ultimately do not provide any value to the poster or the SO community as a whole. Unless a response goes negative, there is no indication that the answer may be incorrect, and the responder does not learn why he/she is incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, members of the SO community do not wish to fear retaliation for their downvotes, so do not want to be forced to provide a comment that explains their vote. Looking at other questions where this issue has been raised, it also appears that some people simply don't want to bother giving a reason for their downvote (although this attitude doesn't seem very community-oriented).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that clicking the downvote arrow will require that the user enter a comment, then attaches that comment to the response/question &lt;em&gt;without a username&lt;/em&gt; (or, if the DB schema requires a user, with a dummy username).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's possible to game the system by typing &quot;asdasdasdasdasd&quot; (I think that's 15 characters). However, doing so will make clear to the downvoter that s/he is a borderline sociopath. More important, will signal to the responser -- and the community as a whole -- that the downvote was given without a lot of thought, and is therefore suspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139645" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T16:18:55.600" ClosedDate="2009-11-29T18:00:21.670" Title="Proposal: Require anonymous comment with downvotes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31302" CreationDate="2009-11-29T14:23:04.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I don't think I should be required to justify my decisions to the world. Second, you can't force someone to type a meaninful comment, even if you force them to type a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm required to enter an anonymous comment I'll just type &quot;this is an anonymous comment&quot; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T14:23:04.843" />
  <row Id="31305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31302" CreationDate="2009-11-29T14:39:11.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could just show a message box instead, recommending that people justify the down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be the same as reminding people to accept an answer when they do the first upvote of an answer on their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that functionality is already implemented in one place, it should be easy to implement here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T14:39:11.337" />
  <row Id="31306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31302" CreationDate="2009-11-29T14:47:59.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Require? Not a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optional? Maybe! Very open to abuse, though, wheras the current system isn't, really. Worst that can happen is you get one or two revenge downvotes, any more and &lt;s&gt;skynet&lt;/s&gt; SO will catch them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T14:47:59.273" />
  <row Id="31307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T15:04:38.510" Score="-1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely a &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; bug, yet here are the step to reproduce it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open the same question in two different tabs or windows of your browser.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote an answer in one tab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote the same answer in the other tab (notice that SO does not protest in any way, and the answer got upvoted, with coloured up arrow as in the first window: of course your vote is not counted twice, but the counter ans arrows got refreshed to match the first window)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-click the &quot;upvote&quot; in one of the windows (as if you changed your mind about the answer and wanted to withdraw your upvote. The coloured arrow will turn back to neutral and the counter will decrease of one vote: this is normal and correct).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take a couple of minutes off, enough to make the vote too old to be changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now go the the window where SO still show the upvoted answer, and re-click the upvote (same as step #4). SO will change the colour of the arrow and the counter - consistently with step #3 - but will also say &quot;the vote is too old to be changed&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why it is a bug:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it is an &lt;em&gt;inconsistent behaviour&lt;/em&gt; from the user perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Step #3 is like saying &quot;if you try to alter your vote from a duplicate window, no action will be taken in terms of vote counts, and the display will simply being adjusted to match the data in the DB&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, step #6 is like saying &quot;if you try to alter your vote from a duplicate window, I will try to modify your vote (and report an error)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What the correct behavior should be:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO there are various options. The important is that the behaviors get consistent. A possibility would be to make in a way for which if the display of the user is inconsistent with the data in the DB, the display gets adjusted (eventually with a notice of some kind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this option is quite trivial to implement (although I know because of the Murphy's law some other user will manage to demonstrate the contrary) because you could achieve the functionality by sending to the server not only the command to upvote an answer, but also the status of the arrow at the instant of the click. In pseudocode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;case received_command = upvote&#xA;    if answer_is_not_upvoted&#xA;        if arrow_is_gray:&#xA;            do upvote&#xA;        else      // The arrow is coloured&#xA;            refresh_counter_and_arrows&#xA;            (warning &quot;you fooled around with windows! Data sync'd with DB&quot;)&#xA;    else     // The answer is already upvoted&#xA;        if arrow_is_coloured:&#xA;            undo upvote&#xA;        else     // The arrow is not coloured&#xA;            refresh_counter_and_arrows&#xA;            (warning &quot;you fooled around with windows! Data sync'd with DB&quot;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this clarify what the bug is about, thanks for your time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138932" LastEditorUserId="138932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T14:21:59.510" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T14:21:59.510" Title="Bug: inconsistent behaviour between messages and graphics when modifying votes in two windows" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="31308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31302" CreationDate="2009-11-29T16:18:55.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love... something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I am dealing with something out of my league, but similar to what I have done before, I give an educated guess (and state that). If I get voted down because it does not work, I am happy to get voted down - and I will either edit or delete my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I get very angry (even though I try not to!) when I see -2 on something that is correct or for what I see as no good reason. I always just think it is tactical or someone has a grudge against me... I would love for the person to have to write why they are doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I don't really think that forcing anonymous comments will stop this as people will just write things like &quot;&amp;lt;15 characters&gt;&quot;... The good people already write -1 along with a reason why - and I respect them for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T16:18:55.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31503" CreationDate="2009-11-29T16:58:43.000" Score="14" ViewCount="502" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would help everyone if we provided a mechanism that people could use to flag their post if english is language they are not comfortably fluent in. A lot of non-english speakers have to go to english forums for tech support and find it embarrassing to ask questions in broken speech. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse, people reading post often cannot tell if a badly worded post results from a poor english or just laziness and sloppiness on the part of a native english speaker. Personally, I will take the time to puzzle out a poorly worded post if I know the author is struggling with english but if I think they're just lazy and careless I won't bother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple check box could flag the author as a non-english speaker and allow everyone to adjust accordingly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit01:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some answers below have accused me of being 'elitist'. I'm not sure where they got the idea that I was sneering down at anyone because their abilities at either english or coding. That was not my intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I said I would not bother with post that appeared to incoherent owing to laziness or carelessness, I am not being elitist. I'm giving priority in my time budget to people who are respectful enough of my time to spend the their time writing as clear a question as their grasp of english and coding allows. Why should I spend time answering a careless and slapdash post when I could spend that time helping posters who took more of their time writing their questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am perfectly willing to burn a lot of time helping someone struggling to write code in their non-native language. I have a hard enough time coding myself in english that I can't even imagine what a dog's breakfast I would make of it if I had to code in, say, Korean.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen many instances in which questions have been down checked when a quick glance at the poster's profile gives a strong hint they are not native english speakers. I would like a system that would spare those posters from being down checked or ignored by an using an interface element that clearly communicates in a standardized way whether the poster natively speaks english or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see what's elitist about that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit02:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1827106/block-touch-propagation-to-other-view&quot;&gt;This is the kind of post&lt;/a&gt; (original unedited) I'm talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hy, I have a childe view that put it&#xA;  self over other brother views. The&#xA;  problem is that when i touch it the&#xA;  brother also reacts at the touch&#xA;  event. How can I disable touch&#xA;  propagation on the underlieng brother&#xA;  views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even exactly sure what he is describing. I can guess that he has a sibling view that extends over its siblings but I'm not sure. If I edited it, I might not end up asking the same question the poster intended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question, I will either have to (1) first ask for more detail and then keep checking back until I get it or (2) try to answer what I think the question is and possibly mangle it then have to come back and edit my answer all the while risking a down vote because I answered the wrong question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will take the time and the risk of down vote if the poster is not a native english speaker (or is a child) and the confusing question represents their honest best effort. If they're just being lazy, I have other people to help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like a mechanism that would help me decide how to allocate my time and would protect the non-english speaking posters from unjust down votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139494" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T14:58:07.253" LastActivityDate="2010-07-24T14:58:07.253" Title="I think we need a flag for non-English speakers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;non-english-speakers&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="31310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-11-29T17:00:29.690" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, they could just add something along the lines of the following to their post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please excuse any spelling or grammatical mistakes, English isn't my first language&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which, being in the text, might be easier for readers to spot than some flag or tag on the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally suggested prefixing the post with this, but it has been suggested in the comments that it's added at the end. Personally, I've got no problem with that - I just thought of prefixing first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said this, in the forums where I've seen this used, it's usually those whose command of English is better than that of native speakers who say this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T10:59:14.010" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T10:59:14.010" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="31311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-11-29T17:24:50.410" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I see a post that is badly worded because of a poor command of English, it still pains me to see the number of 2000+ rep users who then participate in a character assassination of the poster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than wasting all this time and energy on unfunny and often caustic remarks, they should be using their edit rights to try and fix the post instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T17:24:50.410" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31290" CreationDate="2009-11-29T19:15:15.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have a list of people I think the sites would be better off without (and I suspect that many other folks do as well), consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't want it to be easy to implement such a decision. You &lt;em&gt;really don't&lt;/em&gt;. That would let politics drive the site. Yuck.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A banned user might be malicious or not. If they're malicious they can just start a new account and continue with their attack. If not, you've just driven off an innocent in need of help &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; they need help. Neither outcome is very good&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T19:15:15.750" />
  <row Id="31316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31320" CreationDate="2009-11-29T21:18:26.527" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a bounty question's top answer has 3 upvotes and two downvotes, does that count as having two upvotes for the purpose of being automatically selected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/61072/is-there-any-equivalent-to-wine-for-running-mac-applications&quot;&gt;a question of mine on SU&lt;/a&gt;, there wasn't any such thing as what I was looking for. There were two answers posted, one linking to a dead site and the other giving a solution of how to do a similar thing, but as far as the question goes, it doesn't answer it. That answer has had at least +3/-2 (and possibly +4/-3). Since it is wrong, I don't want it marked as accepted, and am wondering if it will get automatically selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T21:56:20.013" Title="On bounty questions and downvotes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T21:29:43.463" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I filed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31307/bug-wrong-message-displayed-if-voting-same-answer-in-two-separate-windows&quot;&gt;a bug on Meta about the voting mechanism across browser tabs/windows&lt;/a&gt; which is always reproducible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I got a downvote for that (and one upvote for what it matters). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should one interpret downvotes (and upvotes) on a bug report? Is there an unwritten convention about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138932" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T22:32:27.420" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T07:43:48.030" Title="What's the meaning of downvotes on a reproducible bug report?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31307" CreationDate="2009-11-29T21:35:20.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitting the arrow again, will undo the vote. If you wait too long, you cannot undo the vote. Therefore I assume, that you have waited too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted this post in one window and was able to undo it in another one. Some procedure for upvoting it. For sure the other window will not be updated automatically. That would be much too chatty if you ask me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T21:35:20.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-11-29T21:53:37.943" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would help everyone if we provided&#xA;  a mechanism that people could use to&#xA;  flag their post if english is language&#xA;  they are not comfortably fluent in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Herein lies the problem: if someone has trouble with English and users typically don't read instructions at the best of times, how is such a thing going to be read and understood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A lot of non-english speakers have to&#xA;  go to english forums for tech support&#xA;  and find it embarrassing to ask&#xA;  questions in broken speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jeff has pointed out, English is the lingua franca for programming so going to non-English sites really limits your options (although such options do exist, particularly for German, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Worse, people reading post often&#xA;  cannot tell if a badly worded post&#xA;  results from a poor english or just&#xA;  laziness&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I disagree: I don't think I've ever seen a post that's ambiguous. It's pretty obvious when someone is having problems with English but here's the kicker: even if it's not clear, shouldn't they be given the benefit of the doubt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a real problem with elitism and obnoxious behaviour in online communities. Before you know it, new users are lambasted for not conforming to 2973482 standards they can't possibly know about and self-appointed elite users start distributing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mixx.com/stories/24683/secret%5Fmailing%5Flist%5Frocks%5Fwikipedia%5Fthe%5Fregister&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;McCarthy-esque black lists&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/160236/Contributors-Leaving-Wikipedia-In-Record-Numbers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;contributors start leaving in record numbers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the only action required here is by experienced SO users to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be more tolerant;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hold off on mass downvoting posts with poor grammar;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;take the 30 seconds to fix a post rather than closing, commenting, downvoting and flagging it into oblivion (personally I'd rather you do nothing over jumping the gun and killing a post over fixing it);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be nicer to the newbies (yes, even those who are less than proficient with English).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is really the judgemental, self-appointed so-called guardians of SO standards, not the non-native English speakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T21:53:37.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31316" CreationDate="2009-11-29T21:56:20.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other places where a number of votes is quoted it is net - e.g. Peer Pressure badge or even the &quot;Nice Answer&quot; badge. To get these your post has to be at -3 or 10 which can be made any way (0/-3 or 1/-4 etc. and 10/0 or 20/-10 etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T21:56:20.013" />
  <row Id="31321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31317" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:07:12.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, assume upvotes on a bug report are generic-community-support (unless comments suggest otherwise), and downvotes indicate the community finds something wrong with the bug report.  Hopefully downvoters have left comments indicating what they've found lacking -- it could be as simple as poor formatting, or it could be more complicated, like a newbie misunderstanding the use of a common Trilogy feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, interpret it as &quot;user community thinks the bug report is invalid, because bug reporter doesn't quite comprehend the expected behavior&quot;.  You're right, the behavior you describe is reproducible; congratulations.  But you've misunderstood the purpose of the widgets that you think are buggy.  They don't work in the way you expect them to work, so your bug report isn't correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T00:04:44.773" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T00:04:44.773" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:13:21.450" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a ton of unanswered questions and there is no incentive for many people to dig through those. It is extremelly annoying to see that I myself posted a couple of (hopefully valid) questions that nobody cares about because (almost) everyone is in for farming reputation and picking on the easy to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the bounty idea but, still, bounty or no bounty, it seems wrong to equal in rep a question that was answered in 10s and a question that was answered after 1 week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A way to differentiate would be to get some extra rep for the questions that were answered after a while. Still this should not be significant enough so that it does not get exploited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139655" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T22:22:32.760" Title="Shouldn't the rep amount awarded for answering a question be proportional to the time it took until the question got answered?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31317" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:17:46.090" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's questionable what you've described is technically a bug. I say this because most Websites don't act with complete consistency when you start using one session across multiple windows. It's just accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what you've described is arguably a feature request and one that 1-2 users have disagreed with, for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't take it personally but you are right that some kind of explanation would be nice. On Meta it typically means &quot;I disagree&quot;. On SO it's more of an issue I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T22:17:46.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31322" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:22:32.760" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People will answer questions that have no answer - but only if they have some information that might help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several incentives for doing so. Your answer is going to be the first answer so if it's accepted and there enough up-votes you'll get the &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge. If the question is old enough there's the &quot;Necromancer&quot; badge. And then there's always votes on the way to the silver or gold subject badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could just be that no one knows the answer to your question. It could be too hard to solve or in an obscure area or language that no one else has knowledge of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try editing your question or supplying more information - you should have been doing your own research on the problem in the meantime and sharing what you've found out will bring the question back to the front page and might the missing piece that someone needs to be able to provide you with an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS No one &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to answer any question on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T22:22:32.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:30:17.643" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18841/lost-reputation-after-answering-my-own-question-with-bounty&quot;&gt;Lost reputation after answering my own question with bounty&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a question, 7 days ago - no answers - so I assume no one knew how.  So I added a bounty to encourage answers -still none.  I then, after days of research I found how to do it and answered my own question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here is the killer - the 50 reputation I put up for bounty I've now lost lost, despite no one else answering, and despite me actually having the answer.  It seems wrong that I would be &quot;punished&quot; by solving my own problem when no one else could!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139033" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T03:15:46.737" ClosedDate="2009-11-30T03:19:43.857" Title="Self-Answers and a Bounty" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;&lt;no-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31329" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:52:24.373" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I've down-voted something, and then later I come back and see an improved answer that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have down-voted &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; still doesn't rise to an answer I feel is worth an upvote&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is there a way to return my vote to a neutral state?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not advocating for or against the behavior, I'm just wondering if its possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4668" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T09:15:12.840" Title="Is it Possible to Return to a Neutral Vote State?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31328" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:54:51.297" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - just click on the down-vote arrow again. As long as you're inside the vote window or the post has been edited your down-vote will be removed. You'll even get your 1 point of rep back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to up-votes as well of course (apart from the bit about the rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It actually says this on the tooltip you get when you hover over the voting arrows (which I forgot and should have added sooner).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T09:15:12.840" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T09:15:12.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31335" CreationDate="2009-11-29T22:57:20.233" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the past few days I've been posting answers on SO, I noticed that the orange bar at the top &quot;X new answers has been made, click to load them&quot; hasn't been showing anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past I highly depended on them in case I am a tad slower that someone else and would post a similar answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browser:&lt;/strong&gt; Firefox 3.5.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Steps taken&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open SO on new tabs (I open between 3-6 tabs) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One is the Recent Questions page, the other is a question opened from the recent page (doing this at a time where SO is the least active - around 10am GMT). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question page was left there, refreshed the Recent Questions page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the Recent Questions page I see a count of say 3 answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turn back to the question page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for a while&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bar still doesn't appear. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please look into this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139663" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-29T23:53:13.967" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T23:53:13.967" Title="New Answers (click to load) notification bar - Doesn't appear anymore" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31334" CreationDate="2009-11-29T23:11:42.653" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;A minor bug: if you use &amp;lt;ul&gt; or &amp;lt;ol&gt; tags instead of using Markdown notation for creating lists, links don't work. For example, the input&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; [google](http://google.com) &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;- [google](http://google.com)&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; [google](http://google.com) &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;1. [google](http://google.com)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;produces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt; [google](http://google.com) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt; [google](http://google.com) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T23:33:52.463" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:33:52.463" Title="links don't work within &lt;ul&gt; or &lt;ol&gt; tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31332" CreationDate="2009-11-29T23:34:14.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's how markdown works.  If you start talking HTML, it figures that it can't possibly know enough about what you're doing to try and make guesses at what your meaning is, so it just dumps everything through literally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T23:34:14.783" />
  <row Id="31334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31332" CreationDate="2009-11-29T23:37:49.457" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown syntax page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level HTML tags. E.g., you can’t use Markdown-style &lt;em&gt;emphasis&lt;/em&gt; inside an HTML block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is a block level HTML tag, so according to the spec it your example behaves correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there appears to be an exception to this in SO markdown to handle simple formatting such as italics and bold within HTML:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;markdown-bold in a markdown bullet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt; &lt;strong&gt;markdown-bold in HTML bullet&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T23:37:49.457" />
  <row Id="31335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31330" CreationDate="2009-11-29T23:43:53.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you start putting something in the &quot;Your Answer&quot; box the site picks up your attempt at an answer. It will then poll the question and see if any new answers have been added. This is around 30 second polls, and if it finds something, it will display the notification bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you only load up the question but don't start an answer, then it won't poll, and you won't be told there are other answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-11-29T23:43:53.220" />
  <row Id="31336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T00:34:53.003" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read a question on Meta about users with high question to answer ratios. I'm curious about how the distributions of user ratios looked across the StackExchange™ sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Theory&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the type of possible answers veers from &quot;fact&quot; to &quot;opinion&quot;, the ratio distribution flattens. i.e. the variance is low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some Python. But it's difficult for me to find questions on Stack Overflow for which I can provide a good answer. So for me I would expect to have a high question to answer ratio. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a user that knows Python really well, they are more likely to be able to answer any question they see. i.e. the variance is high&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On OnStartups, answers are more likely to be based on opinion or experience. Since it is easy to have an opinion it might be easier to answer. i.e. the variance is low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking of writing an academic research paper on this. Is it possible to calculate or get these stats? It would be interesting to consider the ratio of accepted answers, starred questions, etc, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138179" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T03:28:18.163" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T03:28:18.163" ClosedDate="2009-11-30T11:27:11.773" Title="Will the Question/Answer ratio be smaller on StackExchange™ sites that encourage subjective questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24870" CreationDate="2009-11-30T00:54:46.400" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that there are (at least) two distinct types of ignorance at play here. Technical ignorance, and flamewar ignorance. When you are in an area where there are religious beliefs at play, it is a lot easier to set people off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people really &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; .NET and the CLR. Some people &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; hate .NET and the CLR &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Java. Other people hate plain old C and C++. Nearly everyone has an opinion, and many people have, well, strong opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that seem to indicate a position in one of these wars are a bit like a red flag in front of a herd of bulls. If people think that you are a partisan, they will return the favor with interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post a question that says, &quot;Gosh, I don't know much about plain old C++, I've only ever used managed code, can anyone tell me how to address ...,&quot; I doubt you'd get much guff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if there is already a giant global pissing contest in process, it's hard to avoid getting wet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T00:54:46.400" />
  <row Id="31338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2009-11-30T01:17:36.793" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to add one other reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were negative scores, then some kinds of people would try for the &lt;em&gt;most negative&lt;/em&gt; score.  And that wouldn't be good for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T01:17:36.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24079" CreationDate="2009-11-30T01:25:04.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still trying to figure out what's so offensive about firebricks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T01:25:04.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2009-11-30T02:12:14.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the founders are really sock puppets for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold%5FKronecker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kronecker&lt;/a&gt;, who has been kept alive by the Bavarian Illuminati.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T02:12:14.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31326" CreationDate="2009-11-30T03:15:46.737" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bounty would not have been returned, whether you answered your own question or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All bounties are &lt;em&gt;non-refundable&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without that simple rule, bounties can be easily exploited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have your question highlighted on the &lt;code&gt;featured&lt;/code&gt; page by offering a bounty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Receive excellent answers from people who invest the extra time/effort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Issue your own answer simply to get a &quot;refund&quot; on the bounty, denying others of their hard work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T03:15:46.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18841" CreationDate="2009-11-30T04:37:03.907" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My main issue is that I recently asked a question where after SEVEN DAYS! I was the only person who answered (and I was the person asking).  It seems that I put up a bounty - and because no one else was able to answer it (other than me) I was penalised 50 points of rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this seems wrong.  I understand the need to stop people gaming the system, but surely if the only person to answer was the person who asked, the bounty should be refunded!  The logic cant possibly be hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139033" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T04:37:03.907" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2009-11-30T05:07:10.077" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see why this feature requires unique &lt;em&gt;names&lt;/em&gt;. As long as we have some unique way of identifying users (i.e., their ID), we're all set. And users don't even need to be aware of the ID's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's how it would work:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I post a comment, I am given three options to choose from (in the form of radio buttons):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Don't notify me of any new comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Notify me only if a commenter tags me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Notify me of all new comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Note: You can change your selection at any time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then users who post subsequent comments could tag any user of an existing comment using a drop-down checkbox list, like this &lt;code&gt;Notify [checkbox list \/] of my comment&lt;/code&gt;. This list would contain only the names of users who had agreed to allow someone to tag them, and perhaps it could include the first few words of the first comment that user left in case there happens to be two users with the same name/alias (and also just for general user friendliness, in that it makes it easier to match a name to a particular comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No one receives notifications (gets &quot;tagged&quot;) who doesn't want them, and they can decide on a comment-by-comment basis. They should be able to change their selection at any time in case they change their mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those who are willing to receive notifications are notified because someone was trying to get their attention, not just because someone said something random that didn't relate to their comment (unless of course they opted for full notification).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adds some complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tagging? That reminds me of Facebook :(&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone has to program this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is sort of a fleshed out version of Ian Elliot's comment &amp;amp; waveyλger's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, when I say &quot;notifications&quot;, I mean your little SO envelope icon turns red and you can click it to see your new comment responses. I don't mean it to imply email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="131453" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T23:19:54.733" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:19:54.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30395" CreationDate="2009-11-30T06:11:31.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderator tags (red) can only be added or removed by moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T06:11:31.347" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31332" CreationDate="2009-11-30T06:18:39.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll have to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot;&amp;gt;google&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;- [google](http://google.com)&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot;&amp;gt;google&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;1. [google](http://google.com)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just don't mix both styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T06:18:39.433" />
  <row Id="31348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T06:18:48.287" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28525/how-do-i-post-a-screenshot-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do I post a screenshot on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Want to add screenshot&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Will help explain the question&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How to include one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142387" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T07:06:39.660" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T08:14:46.350" ClosedDate="2009-11-30T12:27:33.290" Title="How do I post a screenshot to better illustrate my question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;screenshot&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31348" CreationDate="2009-11-30T06:22:30.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Images are exactly like links, but they have an exclamation point in front of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![Valid XHTML](http://w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10).&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which renders as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10&quot; alt=&quot;Valid XHTML&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use the image button, on the toolbar above the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T06:38:03.130" />
  <row Id="31350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31348" CreationDate="2009-11-30T06:23:04.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you could post it on one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://imageshack.us/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;many free image servers&lt;/a&gt; and then post the url in your question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141459" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T06:38:03.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31348" CreationDate="2009-11-30T06:54:19.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably the best post to describe it:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28525/how-do-i-post-a-screenshot-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do I post a screenshot on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T06:54:19.290" />
  <row Id="31352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31353" CreationDate="2009-11-30T07:28:57.170" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1818277/how-do-i-set-windows-related-file-attributes-in-ruby&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; then I get the underscores replaced with italics (at least in the preview), and I have to escape it with backslashes. I can see the logic for ordinary text, but for code? Is it because there's no other way do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T07:45:28.167" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T17:27:31.093" Title="Ignore underscores in code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31352" CreationDate="2009-11-30T07:34:00.593" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indent 4 spaces!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also click the little code button above the editor, or press CTRL+K with the code selected to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is linked from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the little &lt;strong&gt;[?]&lt;/strong&gt; icon above the editor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;strong&gt;full reference »&lt;/strong&gt; link in the sidebar when asking or editing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I realized I didn't fully answer your question. For tiny code snippets you can use backtick to escape things to code &lt;code&gt;like_this_here&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;`like_this_here`&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, we disable intra-word emphasis in Markdown, so what you're seeing in the preview is not in fact true in the final post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T07:47:34.857" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T07:47:34.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31317" CreationDate="2009-11-30T07:43:48.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dispute that your bug question is in fact reproducible, though, which makes this question sort of moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T07:43:48.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31348" CreationDate="2009-11-30T08:07:37.673" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Robert explained, the syntax is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Sktich](http://skitch.com/images/skitch/font_skitch.gif)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also hyperlink an screenshot / any image like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![Skitch](http://skitch.com/images/skitch/font_skitch.gif)](http://skitch.com)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your system of choice is Mac OS X, &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt; is a nice option:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://skitch.com/images/skitch/font%5Fskitch.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Skitch&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's free, does screen selection capture, has simple but usually sufficient annotation features and you can one-click send to your skitch account for (also free) online hosting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Windows platform, the closest thing to it (though in my opinion, a distant second) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jingproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jingproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.jingproject.com/assets/img/jing-logo.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Jing&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Linux there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://shutter-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shutter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shutter-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/shutter%5F64x64.png&quot; alt=&quot;Shutter&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149903" LastEditorUserId="149903" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T08:14:46.350" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T08:14:46.350" />
  <row Id="31356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T08:43:08.483" Score="14" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's happened often enough that it's beginning to annoy me: you're above the daily rep cap and you post an answer. You get 5-10 upvotes and 1-2 downvotes. Net result? -4 rep. Is -4 rep a lot? Absolutely not (at least to me). But the principle of having an inconsistent reputation system that encourages you to delete such posts? That does matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason it's irritating is because there's absolutely no need for it. As has been posted countless times an internally consistent reputation system is trivial to implement. And that's what I'm finding really frustrating. Is it simply sheer obstinacy standing in the way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the most egregious case I had of this was something that got 20 upvotes and 5 downvotes for... -10 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was the concept of reputation on SO to encourage people:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not to answer when at the daily rep cap; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to delete posts with 5-10+ upvotes just because 1-2 people disagreed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, mission succeeded. Does this bother anyone else? How do others react to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T15:20:21.370" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T15:26:45.273" Title="Is deleting upvoted content really what Jeff/Joel intended? Solutions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31356" CreationDate="2009-11-30T08:51:41.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I'd guess that most people who hit the rep cap are probably generating rep at a decent enough rate that they don't generally pay attention to the occasional loss due to such a scenario. While the internally consistent system maybe be easy to implement, I'm not sure it's a big enough issue to matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I could see a viable &quot;quick hack&quot; being something like the following logic: &quot;if the user is at repcap, only subtract rep for a downvote if the resulting score for the downvoted item is negative&quot;. Thus +20 from upvotes and -5 from downvotes wouldn't reduce rep (since it'd still be at +15 score), but +5 from upvotes and -10 from downvotes would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132820" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T08:51:41.010" />
  <row Id="31358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31356" CreationDate="2009-11-30T08:53:23.643" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly agree with you. It's very annoying. Not only you net in minus but sometimes the system won't compensate if you get following upvotes. That's very disappointing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But speaking about the big picture I do agree the system is inconsistent. Useless rep cap, unpaid community wiki questions (the concept I still do not understand) etc. It has some demotivating effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I do not care about these drops in rep, not that much to notice (especially with your rep score).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T08:53:23.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T08:23:36.240" Score="0" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where do I get a web template for a Q&amp;amp;A site like Stack Overflow? The look of the site is now common across many Q&amp;amp;A sites and they should release the template for mass use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's similarly used on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, and they fit the style and fit of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to use the same layout on a project of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T09:26:21.433" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T13:51:51.530" Title="Where can I get the template used for Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;theme&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31356" CreationDate="2009-11-30T09:14:03.733" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say if you're tempted to delete a useful answer due to losing 4 rep from it (despite gaining 196 over the day) then you're paying too much attention to rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, various aspects of the rep cap are irksome - but I'd never consider deleting a correct and useful answer on that basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to note: it only really becomes a problem after you've had your first accepted answer &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the rep cap. If you get downvoted when you're at 200, another upvote will take you back up to 200... but an upvote won't recover from 213 back to 215, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T09:14:03.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31356" CreationDate="2009-11-30T09:15:33.293" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you really deleting these posts? Why should anyone? Even if you're only in for the rep game, they can produce rep the next UTC day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep cap was introduced to prevent gaming. That  means it is not part of the original design. Jeff is not the guy who cares about fine-tuning that much. It works more or less. Changing it could introduce bugs and more maintenance work. Looking at his resources I assume, he wants to prevent extra work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you have to live with a crappy rep system. Or you're nagging often enough and he gets fed up and changes it ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, preventing you from spending too much time on SO is a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T09:39:13.750" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T09:39:13.750" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14915" CreationDate="2009-11-30T09:37:05.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually had to disable the autosuggest completely via user.js just so the form would submit. I'm using the latest version of Opera available at the time of this writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;opera.defineMagicFunction(&#xA;    'bindTagFilterAutoComplete',&#xA;    function(){return false;}&#xA;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139504" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T09:37:05.830" />
  <row Id="31363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31356" CreationDate="2009-11-30T10:49:51.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the rep-cap is necessary. Should it be 200? I'm not sure. When you hit 200, a down-vote amounts to 1%. Say the down-vote is somehow justified, it does count for something. The down-voter took a hit (1 pt) to down-vote while up-voting is 'free'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone were to down-vote my post, I'll reflect on what I posted. Perhaps I can improve it? Or perhaps it was misunderstood and I can rephrase or add a disclaimer? Of course it could be somebody just having a bad day and went on a down-voting craze, that doesn't happen often, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So was the concept of reputation on SO&#xA;  to encourage people:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;not to answer when at the daily rep cap; and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  @: &lt;em&gt;if you are in for the&#xA;  rep only, yes, don't answer anymore&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to delete posts with 5-10+ upvotes just because 1-2 people disagreed?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  @: &lt;em&gt;I will not do that, and I'm sure&#xA;  most guys here won't either. I doubt&#xA;  it will ever come to my mind at all if&#xA;  not for this post&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having saying all that, why not just up the cap to 400? 0.5% seems less painful :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T10:49:51.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T13:04:55.593" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30108/display-minutes-in-the-answered-x-hours-ago-item&quot;&gt;Display minutes in the &amp;ldquo;answered X hours ago&amp;rdquo; item&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confused... the time a question is asked is displayed as &quot;asked 12 secs ago&quot;, &quot;asked 5 mins ago&quot;, &quot;asked 9 hours ago&quot;, &quot;asked yesterday&quot;, &quot;asked 2 days ago&quot;, and then it suddenly gets more accurate: &quot;asked Nov 27 at 12:43&quot;. The same thing for answered times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any way you could add the time in parentheses, for Q/A that are older than 1 hour? (e.g. &quot;asked 12s ago&quot; &quot;asked 5m ago&quot; &quot;asked 9h ago (12:43)&quot; &quot;asked yesterday (12:43)&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: couldn't SO make this a user preference? I guess my point is, if it's so straightforward that answers more than 48 hours old have the hour/minute displayed, why can't this be the case for all answers for which an hour/minute display improves accuracy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="44330" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T06:03:56.440" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T06:03:56.440" ClosedDate="2009-12-01T06:41:04.843" Title="asked/answered time display is too coarse?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31366" CreationDate="2009-11-30T13:37:56.953" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could'n post my question and I had no idea why. Only when I looked in FireBug for http requests I saw info about my title being too short. I changed the title and it went ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a clear feedback on the page saying why my question can't be submitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I experienced it in both stackoverflow and serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139544" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T13:44:55.567" Title="No feedback information about title being too short" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31365" CreationDate="2009-11-30T13:44:55.567" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a little warning there, man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/laser.png&quot; alt=&quot;omg lasers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it should be red, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T13:44:55.567" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="31367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31359" CreationDate="2009-11-30T13:51:51.530" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not freely distributed, but you can sign up for an account at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T13:51:51.530" />
  <row Id="31368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29472" CreationDate="2009-11-30T14:11:46.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16643/add-the-number-of-questions-used-in-the-acceptance-rate-criteria-to-the-display/16876#16876&quot;&gt;I've written a Greasemonkey script to do this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T14:11:46.440" />
  <row Id="31370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T14:26:41.420" Score="5" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been working on an academic project that involves analyzing social websites or encouraging contribution and Stack Overflow is one the sites that I'm looking at. Given the number of times I used SO to find solutions, I felt like I needed to give something back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know SO has the data-dumps and I think those are a good resource to do some investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm wondering what kind of queries one can run to get some idea about what encourages contribution on Stack Overflow. I think looking at badges and reputations is a good start but I need some help formulating some queries either to run on my own computer or StatOverflow or StackQL if that comes back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, so all levels of help is really appreciated. It can be just a pointer, or actual query and the result or some pointers to such analysis made by other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks a lot in advance to all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139680" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T17:10:03.587" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T17:14:45.017" Title="What are some good data dump queries to demonstrate what encourages site contribution?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T14:55:08.600" Score="8" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19808/remove-alternative-openid&quot;&gt;Remove alternative OpenID&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To change my OpenID on SO, I added a new OpenID, then swapped the alt and primary. Now I want to delete the Alt OpenID to get rid of it altogether. How do I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139681" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T19:20:48.307" ClosedDate="2011-05-04T05:52:52.367" Title="How do I delete my Alt OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31356" CreationDate="2009-11-30T15:26:45.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're getting enough down-votes on your answers to where this is even on your radar, perhaps you should reflect on the sort of answers you're giving. Remember, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10563/should-downvotes-be-made-less-worthless&quot;&gt;this is the only time down-votes affect you in any appreciable way&lt;/a&gt;... might as well make something of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to answer your question: no, it doesn't bother me now that I know how it works. It could have been a bit more intuitive, but... meh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T15:26:45.273" />
  <row Id="31373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31371" CreationDate="2009-11-30T15:32:23.140" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't at the moment, you can only overwrite it with a new provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We recommend that you have two providers anyway, just in case there's a problem with one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you absolutely positively must have it deleted, email us via the link provided at the bottom of every page on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T15:32:23.140" />
  <row Id="31374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:06:01.287" Score="3" ViewCount="494" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say someone is going to buy SO and all its property, how much do you think it's worth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T11:40:50.723" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T11:40:50.723" Title="How much do you think SO is worth?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;money-making&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="31375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:08:34.077" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever somebody's willing to pay for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T16:08:34.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:09:09.673" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably about three fitty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T16:09:09.673" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:09:52.870" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 Billion dollars - &lt;em&gt;pinky in corner of mouth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T16:09:52.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:12:47.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What currency we talking about here? &#xA;The real question is of course what it will be worth in 6 - 8 weeks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about theoretical dollars?  Sneezing Panda is worth billions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T17:46:58.750" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T17:46:58.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:21:43.770" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what it's actually worth, but it's very likely Google will buy it for a few billion dollars, give it away for free, and somehow get even richer by doing it.  Those guys are evil wizards, I tell you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T16:21:43.770" />
  <row Id="31382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28475" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:25:16.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to second this, but I'd really like to see more than just aggregate level stats, if possible. I know it'd be a bear to build reports on it, but I'd like to see exactly what each employer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; searching for. Keywords, tags, locations... everything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T16:25:16.667" />
  <row Id="31383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:25:33.217" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/&lt;/a&gt; it is worth &lt;H1&gt;$127!&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T16:25:33.217" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="31384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T16:48:29.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;$3.84 million or 44.72 million pesos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a lot of franks and beans...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46780" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T08:51:34.960" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T08:51:34.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31370" CreationDate="2009-11-30T17:14:45.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like an interesting project. However, I'm not sure what kinds of data you could get that shows that a particular site feature (e.g. badges) positively encourage competition, because there is no data set to objectively compare to. The closest you could get to that is to examine the data for months before a particular feature was added, and then see how behaviour changes afterward. However, the SO userbase is not static; as the number of users, questions and answers grows every month, the amount of activity goes up as well, so I'm not sure what statistical growth you could see as differentiated from the &quot;normal&quot; rate of growth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T17:14:45.017" />
  <row Id="31386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31352" CreationDate="2009-11-30T17:27:31.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of your problem is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Javascript markdown preview doesn't match the rendered result&lt;/a&gt;.  For example intra_word_characters don't actually need to be escaped, even though the markdown preview implies that they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T17:27:31.093" />
  <row Id="31387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-11-30T17:29:59.917" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question!  How big a problem is SO, and how can we convince the industry at large to buy out Jeff et. al. before all of our productivity is sucked away?  Perhaps we should multiply the average time a user spends on SO by the average IT person's salary and the number of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For illustrative purposes, if we're conservative and we say there are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10,000 regular users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Averaging 5 hours a week on SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paid an average US$25/hr&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's US$1,250,000 per week.  Therefore, SO has cost &lt;strong&gt;US$65 million&lt;/strong&gt; in lost productivity in the past year alone.  It must be worth that much to close it down, for all our sakes, &lt;em&gt;before it's too late&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T17:29:59.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T18:34:29.790" Score="2" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a silly question, but I cannot see it.&#xA;How do I search for stackoverflow questions that have, for example, both a &quot;junit&quot; and a &quot;logging&quot; tags set ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Combing the tags with &quot;obvious suspects&quot; (&quot; &quot;, &quot;+&quot;, &quot;&amp;amp;&quot;, &quot;and&quot;, etc.) does not work for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T00:45:44.157" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:29:22.597" Title="How do I combine stackoverflow's tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31390" CreationDate="2009-11-30T18:37:20.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/junit+logging&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/junit+logging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does work for me. Simply use &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; in the URL and a space in the search box. So for this example, just type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[junit] [tagging]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T18:37:27.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31394" CreationDate="2009-11-30T19:21:04.407" Score="0" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was Stack Overflow developed with? It looks like ASP.NET MVC. Is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139698" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T23:14:49.103" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T23:14:49.103" ClosedDate="2009-11-30T19:50:35.047" Title="Is stackOverFlow site developed in the MVC pattern?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31393" CreationDate="2009-11-30T19:24:11.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T19:24:31.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29672" CreationDate="2009-11-30T20:13:24.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10k gives you all the functionality you need - so anything above that is just useless.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T20:13:24.927" />
  <row Id="31397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T20:24:10.370" Score="2" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25542/display-names-bugs-no-allowed-cant-reset-unset-kills-profile-copy&quot;&gt;Display Names bugs (no ~ allowed, can&amp;rsquo;t reset, unset kills profile copy)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed a user today with the user name &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/137184/quack&quot;&gt;~quack&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. To confirm that this isn't typically allowed, I tried changing my name to &quot;~Kip&quot; and got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Display Name can only contain a-z, 0-9, spaces, apostrophes or hyphens and must start with a letter or number&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a few concerns arise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/137184/quack&quot;&gt;user's profile page&lt;/a&gt; doesn't show the user's display name (which is normally in the &quot;subheader&quot; div).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a security hole that allowed this user to use invalid characters?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, could they have injected HTML/Javascript? Like if the name was changed to something like &quot;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;wreck_stuff()&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T20:37:15.400" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T20:37:15.400" ClosedDate="2009-11-30T20:37:35.137" Title="User has Illegal characters in user name (&quot;~quack&quot;)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31399" CreationDate="2009-11-30T20:29:55.693" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question went to community wiki mode after 3 or 4 people clashed trying to reformat it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1822174/how-can-i-select-none-duplicate-rows-with-inner-join&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1822174/how-can-i-select-none-duplicate-rows-with-inner-join&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to return it to a normal question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T20:44:57.087" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T22:58:23.507" Title="Community wiki after reformat clash" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31398" CreationDate="2009-11-30T20:32:47.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;No&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T20:32:47.560" />
  <row Id="31400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31397" CreationDate="2009-11-30T20:34:33.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the display name was pulled directly from the user's openID url.  Is that a security hole?  Only if you can embed javascript in a valid OpenID (which I suspect someone could find a way to do).  But even then I'm not sure it wouldn't be cleaned before it was displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T20:34:33.987" />
  <row Id="31401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:03:34.097" Score="0" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cualquier idioma en que haga las preguntas será contestada con igual velocidad?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;O piensan que algún idioma pueda ser contestado más rápidamente? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will questions in any language be answered with equal speed?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or do you believe that some language can be answered more quickly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;gab&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T22:23:07.377" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T21:47:42.127" Title="Idioma de las preguntas, Languages of questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;language&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31401" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:05:20.130" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English is the language of computer science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T21:05:50.343" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31401" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:10:03.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there was something in one of the blog posts about English, and I know there have been endless debates on whether it should be spelled color or colour, but that is not this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130890" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T21:10:03.687" />
  <row Id="31405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31401" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:19:04.670" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T21:19:04.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31401" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:24:03.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a slightly different perspective than Byron --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part, this is an English site, (see Jeff's response) and so, there are more speakers of English on here.  As such, a question in English is more likely to find someone who can both understand the question and provide a useful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were on a site that was dominated by a different language, and I've seen discussion sites in Swedish, German, Japanese, Spanish, etc, then asking the question in the language of that site would make the most sense to get the fastest response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but then we have to ask if faster is better -- if there was loss of clarity by translating the question, the translated question might be less specific or be misunderstood, and therefore the answers not be useful to the person asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think you did the right thing by asking in both the language of the local community and your native language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139598" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T21:24:03.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31409" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:29:47.490" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had a question migrated from &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/77028/perforce-proxy-server-caching-selective-files-closed&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/89505/perforce-proxy-server-caching-selective-files&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt; that generated the kind of answers I was looking for. In the past I had posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/58131/perforce-re-reverse-integrating-a-changelist&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt; to SU that generated a Tumbleweed badge for me, and now I'm wondering if I'd get the answers I'm looking for if I had posted it to SF instead. Technically I'm pretty sure the ability to migrate my own questions from SU to SF is doable- would this make sense as a feature? Perhaps it should only be available once a user has earned a certain amount of rep on the source site? Or perhaps it should cost some amount of rep to perform this migration? Either path could serve to minimize abuses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T05:35:34.760" Title="I'd like to be able to migrate my own questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31408" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:34:24.080" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the post for moderator attention, or notify team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T21:34:24.080" />
  <row Id="31410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31408" CreationDate="2009-11-30T21:37:24.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, a lot of the hardcore, very detailed source control questions belong on SO. I don't know who, other than developers, would know the nitty-gritty details of source control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T21:37:24.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31419" CreationDate="2009-11-30T22:02:30.533" Score="1" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to any page on stackoverflow.com, open firebug (or use some other html searching feature), and put in &quot;everyonelovesstackoverflow&quot; into the search bar. There's one div in the html with that class (second child of the sidebar), its contents are thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;everyonelovesstackoverflow&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            document.write('&amp;lt;s'+'cript lang' + 'uage=&quot;jav' + 'ascript&quot; src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&amp;amp;amp;Task=Get&amp;amp;amp;IFR=False&amp;amp;amp;PageID=52405&amp;amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;amp;Random=' + (+new Date()) + '&quot;&amp;gt;'); &#xA;            document.write('&amp;lt;/'+'scr'+'ipt&amp;gt;');&#xA;        &amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&amp;lt;script src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&amp;amp;amp;Task=Get&amp;amp;amp;IFR=False&amp;amp;amp;PageID=52405&amp;amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;amp;Random=1259617729992&quot; language=&quot;javascript&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_Blank&quot; href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?Task=Click&amp;amp;amp;ZoneID=4&amp;amp;amp;CampaignID=64&amp;amp;amp;AdvertiserID=7&amp;amp;amp;BannerID=21&amp;amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;amp;RandomNumber=2015326516&amp;amp;amp;Keywords=&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img width=&quot;220&quot; height=&quot;250&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;Center&quot; alt=&quot;Free book on best practices for peer code review at codereviewbook.com - Smart Bear Software&quot; src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/freebook.png&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;noscript&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&amp;amp;amp;Task=Click&amp;amp;amp;Mode=HTML&amp;amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;amp;PageID=52405&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&amp;amp;amp;Task=Get&amp;amp;amp;Mode=HTML&amp;amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;amp;PageID=52405&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/noscript&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What in the world is this? My first question is why in the world you'd use javascript to write a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag (in little pieces?) into a document. When I put in ads.stackoverflow.com, it takes me to a login for a stackoverflow advertising page, so I'm guessing they're references to a script that shows an ad on the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But perhaps foremost I'm asking if this is a bug. Its an odd name for a div on this well designed site, and &lt;strong&gt;the div never seems to have any content. ever.&lt;/strong&gt; The only other reference I've found to this div is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14710/but-i-dont-want-reduced-advertising-when-i-get-200-rep&quot;&gt;this question,&lt;/a&gt; in a greasemonkey script that reverses the reduced advertising when you hit 200 rep, so I thought it was an add. I've disabled ad-block plus and greasemonkey, logged out, and visited the site, and the div still has the same source-code, but nothing ever appears in it. Can anyone else see an ad in that div? (as my cookies or other factors could be interfering with what I see). This just smells weird, can anybody give an explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: OK, now I see the ad. Maybe I'm just being an idiot,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T22:55:40.967" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T04:13:10.073" Title="Some obscure code in the &quot;everonelovesstackoverflow&quot; div (ad-related?)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31414" CreationDate="2009-11-30T22:06:52.617" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just has &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1822262/sorting-a-datagridview-by-datagridviewcomboxboxcolumn/1822509#1822509&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer accepted and the OP added a comment explaining what it was in the answer that helped him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seconds after my reply comment I then navigated to the main page and my rep had dropped by 15 - I had lost the accepted tick and the comment from the OP was gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly what I did was leave the question open, then click on the question title to refresh - it was then that I saw the acceptance and the OPs comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the OP just decided that I wasn't so helpful (fair enough), but I thought I'd highlight it here in case there is actually a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - is meta actually the correct forum for bug reports?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131327" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-11-30T22:54:45.947" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T22:54:45.947" Title="Possible Database hiccup caused lost acceptance?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31413" CreationDate="2009-11-30T22:11:01.330" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doubt it was a bug - more likely the OP reversed their decision that you provided the answer for their question, and deleted the comment.  Happened to me once or twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T22:11:01.330" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31416" CreationDate="2009-11-30T22:15:01.540" Score="13" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only just noticed that you can click on the aggregate vote count on a question or answer in Meta, and see the split of upvotes and downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, this isn't live on Stack Overflow yet... when did it come to Meta? Have I been asleep for weeks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any news on when it'll come to the other sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T22:18:12.987" Title="When did upvote/downvote splits get added to Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31415" CreationDate="2009-11-30T22:17:50.740" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happened &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes/1007#1007&quot;&gt;earlier today&lt;/a&gt; on Meta. It should show up later today on the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T22:17:50.740" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="31419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31412" CreationDate="2009-11-30T22:56:58.423" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in fragments&quot; thing was weird to me too, but I asked on Twitter and this is still standard. Apparently certain HTML validators freak out if they see &quot;tags&quot; inside your script. I researched it at the time and it's legit, but I can't remember all the details at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's your answer.. from this &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; site, whatever the heck that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1659749/script-tag-in-javascript-string&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1659749/script-tag-in-javascript-string&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T04:13:10.073" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T04:13:10.073" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31398" CreationDate="2009-11-30T22:58:23.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good lord, 13 revisions by 6 users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do offer real-time (well, 40 seconds) edit notifications, by the way. So you should know when this happens, unless you're lightning quick with your edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T22:58:23.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28475" CreationDate="2009-11-30T23:29:52.250" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More important and less controversial than tags is location. Show what are the most solicited locations and see which searches are location limited, and to which locations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really want to know if my CV sucks, or if most searches are restricted by location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2009-11-30T23:29:52.250" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31425" CreationDate="2009-11-30T23:40:58.813" Score="0" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel mentioned on podcast #74 at one of the DevDays, someone wrote the google spell checker in python and Jon Skeet tried to write the same algorithm in C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know where I can find both code samples? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:39:42.283" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:39:42.283" Title="Google Spell Checker in Python" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T00:31:14.617" Score="-2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sorting out some professional development stuff at the moment(software engineering/computer science is the profession, of course), and I want to ask questions about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure SO is the right place though, such questions seem to fall into grey areas. Is there a better place in the stack exchange world, or... ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T03:11:04.890" Title="professional development questions - SO? Or elsewhere?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;appropriate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31422" CreationDate="2009-12-01T00:35:31.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peter Norvig's Python code&lt;/a&gt; is easy to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't found time to get back to the C# version I'm afraid, although other people have posted their own C# versions. I'm going for one which uses the same ideas but is actually &lt;em&gt;readable&lt;/em&gt; rather than just as short as it can be. When I eventually get round to finishing it, I'll &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/jon.skeet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and to counter what seems to be a popular myth - this &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; the Google spelling checker.  It's a spelling checker which shows some interesting ideas. Google Web Search doesn't run in 50 lines of Perl, either :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T00:35:31.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31424" CreationDate="2009-12-01T00:54:18.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they're programming-related (your development &lt;em&gt;as a career programmer&lt;/em&gt;), and you can ask direct, answerable questions... then SO is The Place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren’t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A common pitfall for career questions on SO is that many, at their core, have nothing to do with programming. Plenty of the problems that you'll face are the same for accountants, engineers, drafters, etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of StackExchange Sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T00:59:31.587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T00:59:31.587" />
  <row Id="31427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30016" CreationDate="2009-12-01T01:06:18.813" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is the _ in the word &lt;code&gt;Page_Load()&lt;/code&gt;.  Intra-word emphasis confuse the markdown renderer.  It's a known issue:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T01:06:18.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31424" CreationDate="2009-12-01T01:09:04.707" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think about it this way:  if you were posting the question to a general forum where &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; was allowed, would you naturally tag the question as &lt;code&gt;programming&lt;/code&gt;, or something else?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this case, I imagine that &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; professional development questions would naturally be tagged something like &lt;code&gt;professional-development&lt;/code&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;careers&lt;/code&gt;) and &lt;code&gt;programmer&lt;/code&gt;.  Note that &quot;programmer&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the same thing as &quot;programming&quot;.  There needs to be something that ties the question to &quot;programming&quot; (the activity), not just &quot;programmers&quot; (people) or &quot;programming&quot; (the profession).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T03:11:04.890" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T03:11:04.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12700" CreationDate="2009-12-01T01:38:11.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29/will-physics-stackexchange-com-support-latex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Will physics.stackexchange.com support LaTeX?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I see now that &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/faq#latex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mathoverflow&lt;/a&gt; did acquire latex presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139689" LastEditorUserId="139689" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T01:50:07.173" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T01:50:07.173" />
  <row Id="31431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28351" CreationDate="2009-12-01T01:48:35.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rich text editors might be suitable for average Joes, but it's annoying for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RTEs are wizards, you can't trust the code they generate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plain text makes it a lot easier to reorganize content, and move it somewhere else. RTEs are a big source of headaches when doing that; they just stand in the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown is more semantic: you shouldn't care about what exactly some block looks like with regards to font, size, color, etc; markdown will take care of the representation for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T01:48:35.350" />
  <row Id="31432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T02:14:19.690" Score="6" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2647/why-is-about-me-field-in-profile-is-not-markdown-enabled&quot;&gt;Why is &amp;ldquo;About me&amp;rdquo; field in profile is not markdown enabled?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The About Me field in the user profile doesn't have Markdown enabled, so for instance, if you leave empty lines, they don't count, and instead you have to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least make it so that newlines are not ignored, it's really annoying, having to put with html tags, in a simple &quot;about me&quot; field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/35am9vs.png&quot; alt=&quot;demo image here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2647/why-is-about-me-field-in-profile-is-not-markdown-enabled&quot;&gt;Why is &quot;About me&quot; field in profile not markdown enabled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reopen plea:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guys, this is not a duplicate. The other question is just that, a question, it assumes that things are not going to change (as in, a FAQ entry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a feature request, not a FAQ entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Plea answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2647/why-is-about-me-field-in-profile-is-not-markdown-enabled&quot;&gt;FTFY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Double answer:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's cool. If you can totally reword it, that would be even cooler. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had I had enough rep on meta, I would've just done that myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Answer of... (ah, forget it)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think re-wording is necessary. I considered it, but I think it is pretty clear, which feature is requested. Even Jeff will get it. But I doubt that he will implement it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;BTW: you can comment by using comments. You do not have to edit your question all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T07:05:58.620" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T07:05:58.620" ClosedDate="2009-12-01T07:52:01.713" Title="Enable Markdown in the About Me field" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31435" CreationDate="2009-12-01T03:15:19.093" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok I admit I'm being greedy. OpenID is working fine for me via WordPress. (For the record, I did read other questions and answers about login and OpenID, but didn't find the answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But could the process contain fewer steps (either by my doing something differently, or by a change to SO)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From memory, I think this is what I do now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click login&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click WordPress icon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type my WordPress username&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click OK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It takes me to WordPress with a very long URL and tells me to log in to WordPress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I highlight the part of the URL that's extra, replace it with the word &quot;login&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It doesn't delete the part I tried to delete, so I highlight and delete all from &quot;login&quot; to end of line in the URL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I press Enter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I log in to WordPress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It tells me I can click to go back to SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I click and I'm in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a faster way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131814" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T03:54:42.993" Title="is there a faster way to log in with OpenID?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31433" CreationDate="2009-12-01T03:40:27.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try adding a second openid from another provider. Using your google profile, for example, isn't as convoluted as the process you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113962" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T03:40:27.340" />
  <row Id="31435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31433" CreationDate="2009-12-01T03:54:42.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this &quot;process&quot; is specific to wordpress. I recommend trying Google, Yahoo, or MyOpenID as secondary providers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T03:54:42.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T05:26:16.540" Score="2" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498/what-are-the-architecture-details-of-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What are the architecture details of Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any articles introduce the architecture or technology of stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T05:39:09.030" ClosedDate="2009-12-01T05:39:04.427" Title="Why stackoverflow so fast?" Tags="&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31408" CreationDate="2009-12-01T05:35:34.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to review questions carefully before migrating, and it both these cases I &lt;strong&gt;believed&lt;/strong&gt; they were better answered by a more professional audience, either SF or SO. The problem with this however is unless I do the research for a product I don't know, it may get migrated the wrong direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The keywords that triggered the first migration was &lt;strong&gt;proxy&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;server&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;work&lt;/strong&gt; followed by the rest, which in my mind immediately triggered the needs of SF. I do however agree with Jeff regarding the second question possibly being better on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please do not crosspost&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;These post end up being moved and closed as multiple duplicates and cause unnecessary negative voting. It's a new emerging pattern. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag the question for moderator attention if you don't have enough rep to vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close for the site you want it moved to if you have enough reputation, we do track these votes and check the questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Moderators are human, we make mistake, and bad judgement calls. We are not however always right. In fact, depending on who you ask, we are rarely right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T05:35:34.760" />
  <row Id="31439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31436" CreationDate="2009-12-01T05:39:09.030" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We made some modifications to ASP.NET:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2856/speedwalker.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;start with a fast stack (avoid interpreted code, like PHP)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stick with the same &quot;family&quot; of stuff that is designed and tested heavily to work together. In our case that is IIS7, Win2008, SQL Server, ASP.NET.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;frequently use profilers to see where you're slow: SQL Profilers, Firebug traces, .NET profiler.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keep iteratively fixing the slowest parts until you get rid of all the low hanging fruit, performance-wise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;consider rearchitecting if you hit a wall in performance due to poor architecture choices made early on (we did this on the DB side once, to reduce joins)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hardware is cheap, programmers are expensive: buy nice, fast hardware because it costs mouse nuts in the big scheme of things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;realize that &lt;strong&gt;performance is a feature&lt;/strong&gt; and weight your development time accordingly (this is the biggest problem I've seen in the past on dev teams; performance is always &quot;whenever we get to it&quot; and that ends up being never)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T05:39:09.030" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7350" CreationDate="2009-12-01T05:52:43.997" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet's London talk was semi-professionally video recorded here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/jon-skeet-at-stack-overflow-dev-days-london/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/jon-skeet-at-stack-overflow-dev-days-london/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex Rozanski was kind enough to video record my Cambridge talk here, and it came out pretty good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vimeo.com/7355062&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.vimeo.com/7355062&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if there's anything else official&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T05:52:43.997" />
  <row Id="31442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31285" CreationDate="2009-12-01T07:34:59.233" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be a great feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being in Australia, 57 global employers means nothing for me. Even a count of employers in your own country would be a great start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel makes some sound points, but to make them, he is ignoring the crux of the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say a site is set up to handle CV's from all industries and is advertises itself as such. Now, it tells you there are 1000 employers browsing those CV's. Sounds good right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you are a programmer and have your CV listed there, but then you realise 990 of those employers are for the Plumbing industry and the other 10 are for Landscapers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, I'm happy to throw my CV out there and see if a decent employer wants to hire me, but in the above scenario, it is kind of pointless, no? More so if you &lt;strong&gt;PAID&lt;/strong&gt; for it. How could I be sure though? Well, they could simply provide a break down on their '1000 employers' spiel... Of course, that doesn't make much business sense now does it, because now those programmers, mechanics, etc may not want to fork out the cash to list their CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something about these questions wasn't&#xA;  exactly making sense to me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, the problem is, you show us information that is obviously meant to have some relevance to us (surely it isn't just misleading marketing... Say it isn't so!), yet, even though it is labelled as 'global', it has next to zero relevance to anyone out side of the USA and maybe London.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last time, I reiterate, I love the idea of throwing my CV into a pond of employers to see if any of them are lured by it. But, still, I'd love to know if the pond even has employers in it. I couldn't care less if the pond up north has plenty because that doesn't benefit me. Or justify my costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138654" LastEditorUserId="138654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T04:11:41.047" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T04:11:41.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31475" CreationDate="2009-12-01T07:36:02.773" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1705521/can-eclipse-3-5-discover-all-bundles-in-the-plugins-dir/1801463#1801463&quot;&gt;answers on SO was marked accepted&lt;/a&gt;, yet if I look under the activity of questions for my user ID, it does not show up as accepted, only as answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing, I don't think I got reputation credit for the acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T15:46:11.260" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T15:46:11.260" Title="Accepted answer not showing up as accepted on my activity list" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31443" CreationDate="2009-12-01T07:38:44.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's community wiki. You do not get rep points for community wiki posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does show up as accepted in your profile. Have a closer look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T08:07:53.637" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T08:07:53.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-12-01T08:16:43.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of a number between&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;enough to cover Jeff's mortgage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;enough to cover Jeff's mortgage, the next three mortgages, and five new cars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T08:16:43.807" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31478" CreationDate="2009-12-01T08:25:13.947" Score="5" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users often put links to their projects on the userinfo pages (for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; has a link to Amazon selling &lt;em&gt;C# in Depth&lt;/em&gt;) and that looks quite allright. However some users push this to the limit creating accounts solely for advertising purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the policy for advertising on userinfo pages? How much is too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T16:29:58.903" Title="How much advertising is allowed on userinfo pages?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T08:50:28.703" Score="1" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21462/undoing-an-old-vote-cannot-be-recast-because-vote-is-too-old&quot;&gt;Undoing an old vote cannot be recast because vote is too old&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1821245/hamcrests-lessthan-doesnt-compile&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1821245/hamcrests-lessthan-doesnt-compile&lt;/a&gt;, tried to vote an answer and got the said error, even though I don't have any vote on that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did vote once, but undid it quickly after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T10:12:07.823" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T10:12:07.823" ClosedDate="2009-12-01T08:54:19.743" Title="Got &quot;your vote is too old&quot; when I don't have a vote" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31374" CreationDate="2009-12-01T10:38:03.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worth $42, not more, not less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T10:38:03.147" />
  <row Id="31451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31448" CreationDate="2009-12-01T11:00:26.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When possible flag the user for moderator attention and it will be investigated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be done by flagging a post from the user. If the user has no posts to be honest it is not major issue, since chances are people will not find the profile anyway, and the account will be auto deleted after a period of inactivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is very little censorship or control over the user profiles due to the strict rules around having signatures in posts, and in this case, it has every sign that it is a spam account and will be deleted. Generally we would investigate and make a decision based on the details we have access to whether or not the account is valid and should be kept, should be edited or should be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason there are 23 profile views is most likely due to it being posted here, and generally these accounts don't do much damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T11:00:26.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31307" CreationDate="2009-12-01T11:47:51.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your efforts to refine this &quot;bug report&quot; are pushing it more and more toward &quot;completely invalid&quot; status.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31317/whats-the-meaning-of-downvotes-on-a-reproducible-bug-report/31324#31324&quot;&gt;cletus said&lt;/a&gt; in your other question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's questionable what you've described is technically a bug. I say this because most Websites don't act with complete consistency when you start using one session across multiple windows. It's just accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like &lt;strong&gt;what you are expecting&lt;/strong&gt; from the vote counters is behavior &lt;strong&gt;just shy of constantly-updating&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you were to perform this same exercise on two identical Google search windows, would they behave the same?  Would the second window automagically update itself to reflect changes you made in the first window?  What about Yahoo! Mail?  SpaceBook?  MyFace?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these sites expect that when you use some widget in one window, it's job is to update that window.  If you're using a second window too, it's &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; job to refresh the window.  If you use the second window &lt;strong&gt;anyway&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; are operating on old, stale, bad data, and the results of such misuse are very much unpredictable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Garbage In, Garbage Out.&lt;/strong&gt;  This isn't a bug, it's a &lt;strong&gt;PEBKAC&lt;/strong&gt; error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T11:47:51.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31460" CreationDate="2009-12-01T11:49:13.983" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14185/deleting-a-comment-mine-shouldnt-count-as-a-comment-vote&quot;&gt;Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn&amp;rsquo;t count as a comment vote&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar, yet different, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19345/incorrect-error-text-when-deleting-multiple-comments-within-5-seconds&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;. That post explains a wrong error text, which seems fixed, but fixed it is with &amp;mdash; again &amp;mdash; a wrong error text. It is now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may only submit a comment vote every&#xA;  five seconds&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when you delete two comments within five seconds. While it could be so much clearer with &lt;em&gt;&quot;You may only delete a comment every five seconds&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or simply allow it (deleting a comment is unrelated to voting a comment and insensitive to abuse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T13:19:00.043" ClosedDate="2009-12-01T14:43:23.327" Title="Wrong message &quot;You may only submit a comment every five seconds&quot; when deleting multiple comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-deleting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31457" CreationDate="2009-12-01T12:28:02.213" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the stats feature for single tags. But have you ever thought of giving away data about the &lt;strong&gt;overall development&lt;/strong&gt; of tags? Like, how many questions tagged &quot;foo&quot; were asked in a certain interval, and a timeline of the most important or most differing (in time) tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it could be quite interesting. Although the evidence of how en vogue something is is not given by such a graph, it would nevertheless give an impartial position on some personal thoughts (like, &lt;em&gt;'Oh dear, I could swear there were no FORTRAN questions in the last two months... And those I like best.'&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113195" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T12:48:51.113" Title="Zeitgeist stats" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;stats&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31456" CreationDate="2009-12-01T12:32:12.563" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First Word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional Word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spwho2.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SPWho2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Long Answer: Feel free to access any of the above listed data dumps to generate the data required for such an analysis&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T12:48:51.113" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T12:48:51.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31461" CreationDate="2009-12-01T13:07:03.250" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have raised the question &quot;Unable to login with my Yahoo ID&quot; regarding the error message displayed below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3227/stack.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not visible in my profile page any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/607/profilev.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;What happened? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastEditorUserId="137068" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T06:37:52.513" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T06:37:52.513" Title="One of my questions is not visible in my profile" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31458" CreationDate="2009-12-01T13:18:36.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question list in your screenshot is sorted by votes. Te new question would not be at the top of that list, try clicking on the recent tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T13:18:36.287" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31455" CreationDate="2009-12-01T13:19:00.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The message could definitely be improved.  I don't think you'll find that @Jeff is amenable to removing it:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001228.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001228.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T13:19:00.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31458" CreationDate="2009-12-01T13:23:47.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question has been deleted. Therefore it will not show in your list if you have less then 10K reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29530/unable-to-log-in-with-my-yahoo-id-no-openid-endpoint-found&quot;&gt;Unable to Log in with My Yahoo ID&lt;/a&gt; (Only visible to 10K+ users)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was deleted by Jeff 7 hours ago. You will need to e-mail him directly to confirm why. I suspect it is due to you commenting that it was working again and the problem was not reproducible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T13:23:47.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13785" CreationDate="2009-12-01T13:54:26.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is annoying when I get &quot;Nice answer&quot; badge, so I click recent activity to see what has received a vote today, and I can't figure out what I got the badge for (because it looks like I haven't gotten any votes). So I have to go over to my profile and scroll though the list of questions sorted by rep to see the ones which are at 10 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T13:54:26.457" />
  <row Id="31467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T14:27:14.837" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an issue still &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1818915/subsonic-filter-by-xml-column-datatype&quot;&gt;unanswered&lt;/a&gt; but I just thought I'd check how to get support on Subsonic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Rob has previously stated that Stackoverflow is the place to go but I am working on a tight deadline and at the moment I am rather stuck.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like Subsonic immensely but maybe I shouldn't use it on business type projects because if I get stuck I could be waiting a while!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-07T21:56:03.740" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T21:56:03.740" Title="Is Stackoverflow the only place to get Subsonic support?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31467" CreationDate="2009-12-01T14:30:41.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The docs for subsonic are located here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subsonicproject.com/docs/Main%5FPage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.subsonicproject.com/docs/Main_Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I've found subsonic to be pretty self-explanatory once I watched the videos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136135" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T14:33:43.903" />
  <row Id="31469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31467" CreationDate="2009-12-01T14:37:11.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ATM- Yes it would seem that way,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wekeroad.com/2009/09/08/subsonic-support&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.wekeroad.com/2009/09/08/subsonic-support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138844" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T14:37:11.810" />
  <row Id="31474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31448" CreationDate="2009-12-01T15:37:02.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was in this user's profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We made some changes recently to lock down profiles a bit for new users, as this was an oversight on our part..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T15:37:02.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31443" CreationDate="2009-12-01T15:45:54.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, looks like a bug to me. Might possibly be because there's no rep gain for a community wiki acceptance, but I'll have to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T15:45:54.913" />
  <row Id="31476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-12-01T15:55:51.243" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Personally, I will take the time to puzzle out a poorly worded post if I know the author is struggling with english but if I think they're just lazy and careless I won't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider, instead, assuming that the author is asking in good faith and answering them regardless of their language ability or laziness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can suss out a question from the bad/broken/torn/spindled/folded/mutilated English and you can answer it, then it appears somewhat elitist to help them &quot;only if they deserve it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is there forever, and will help many people beyond the original poster.  Regardless of the original poster's diligence, future programmers will benefit from your wisdom.  Therefore it's a moot point whether the OP has the 'correct' intentions or not - eventually someone else will have the 'correct' intentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elitism does not serve ANY good purpose on SO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T16:13:15.020" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T16:13:15.020" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T16:26:48.333" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1827172/are-frameworks-too-vulnerable-to-exploits/1827260#1827260&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; where the question was closed, then exploded into discussion in the comments (even with some people who closed it).  If a question needs a response, shouldn't it be left open (especially if it gets marked community wiki), or is closing and commenting the right thing to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; The question has been re-opened, and re-closed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T18:00:38.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T18:00:38.553" Title="Should closed questions have discussion in comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="31478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31448" CreationDate="2009-12-01T16:29:58.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the policy for advertising on userinfo pages?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no official policy, and this is dealt with on a case by case basis.  Until the user attains a certain level of reputation, all the links on their page are NOFOLLOWED so the search engines don't give those links undue attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the system works pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they don't contribute, then no one visits their user page, so the ads have no effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they contribute spammy answers/questions, then the spam/abuse flags are set by other users on their posts, and the moderators generally take a look at the account to see if there is a pattern of abuse before determining the best action to take.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they contribute good material to SO and:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their ads are not offensive, then all is well and they are receiving a benefit from their work on SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their ads are offensive, then whoever got offended is welcome to report the account to team@stackoverflow.com, or flag one of their posts and note that their user page is offensive.  It will be reviewed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How much is too much?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a limited amount of space in the user page, and not all of the fields are free-form, so at most any excessive advertising can only take up perhaps 50% of the above the fold space, and 25% of the overall userpage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not offensive, then there's really no reason to complain - no one will come if they don't contribute to SO, and if they contribute a lot of good stuff then they will get a few hits on their user page, but it still won't be significant in the scheme of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they find a way to subvert more of their user page into advertising, and somehow draw people in, then that's abuse of the website, and should be reported on a case by case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T16:29:58.903" />
  <row Id="31480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31488" CreationDate="2009-12-01T16:32:45.747" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two unanswered questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1110516/resharper-running-all-tests-when-only-a-single-one-is-selected&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1550027/is-there-any-way-to-stop-wmd-editor-from-wrapping-text-area-contents-in-a-p-tag&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1 has one answer, 74 views, no upvotes, and multiple comments. This question was asked back in July, and it is being bumped by the Community user fairly often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 2 has 19 views, no upvotes, no comments, no answers and has never once been bumped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this? Unless I'm mistaken, both questions fit the criteria for being unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T17:34:13.220" Title="Is there any reason why the Community user wouldn't bump a question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;bump&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31477" CreationDate="2009-12-01T16:32:52.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The discussion in the comments seemed to have been about community wikiizing the question because of its open-ended nature. It was closed, then community wikified, then reopened. That's a fairly normal lifecycle for open-ended questions that users try to milk for Internet dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T16:32:52.503" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="31482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31477" CreationDate="2009-12-01T16:33:14.047" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted to close it as Subjective and Argumentative... which it is. Then I took some time to &lt;em&gt;demonstrate&lt;/em&gt; that it was subjective and argumentative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too subtle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T16:33:14.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31477" CreationDate="2009-12-01T16:33:28.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the natural order of things on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed, those that oppose the closing may give their 'answer' in the comments to show that even if the question is bad, a good answer might make the whole thing worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the effect of convincing others to support opening the question, and is simply part of the tug of war as the community decides collectively whether the question is valuable or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T16:33:28.663" />
  <row Id="31485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31487" CreationDate="2009-12-01T16:54:17.613" Score="2" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1775532/css-grid-system-for-forms-multi-column&quot;&gt;this question on SO&lt;/a&gt; and set up a 150 bounty but I'm still not happy with the answers provided, is there any way to extend the bounty, maybe adding some extra points on top of the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-02T07:30:11.503" LastActivityDate="2010-07-02T07:31:40.400" Title="Not happy with answers on bounty question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31485" CreationDate="2009-12-01T17:33:24.953" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's an extremely subjective question, though -- what's the &quot;correct&quot; answer? The one that most satisfies your internal sense of aesthetics? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also note that you have quite a few answers, which is the point of a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now possible.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-02T07:31:40.400" LastActivityDate="2010-07-02T07:31:40.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31480" CreationDate="2009-12-01T17:34:13.220" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of unanswered questions; this is like asking &quot;why haven't I won the lottery yet?&quot; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T17:34:13.220" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31477" CreationDate="2009-12-01T17:34:29.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem with this question is that it is truly subjective &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; argumentative. Some subjectivity is OK, but this question reeks of one designed to spark controversy and &lt;em&gt;extended&lt;/em&gt; discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion. This is not a&#xA;  discussion board, this is a place for&#xA;  questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have always been some subjective questions around; subjectivity is not the issue. It's the argumentative stance that this question takes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are frameworks too vulnerable to exploits? ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do the benefits of frameworks outweigh the fact that they basically make your website an open book? ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe frameworks aren't all they're cracked up to be and they were instead simply a push in order to get more web developers to use best practices and design patterns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything shown above which isn't argumentative? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three of the five reopen votes were folks at the lower end of the close/reopen vote rep spectrum, and one was the OP (who just barely has enough to do so on his own questions). This implies to me some misunderstanding as to why there were five votes to close (all but one from 7,000+ users) in the first place. Interestingly, one of the people who voted to close initially also voted to reopen -- I guess he figured that if it was CW, it was OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately: SO is not a discussion board. SO is not a social network. SO is a Q&amp;amp;A board, with an emphasis on the A -- and there is no true A to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T17:34:29.070" />
  <row Id="31490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31477" CreationDate="2009-12-01T17:57:58.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just making a question CW is no justification for keeping it open, why don't people understand that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T17:57:58.887" />
  <row Id="31491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8211" CreationDate="2009-12-01T18:00:45.950" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have 1000+ reputation, you can click the score of a question/answer and expand the net value to see the total of upvotes vs total of downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T18:33:29.090" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T18:33:29.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-01T18:00:45.950" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31485" CreationDate="2009-12-01T18:23:52.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't that be unfair to the more highly voted answers on the question as it exists?  They know that even if you don't select an answer, they'll get at least a partial bounty award for the highest-voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're up for awarding more points for a better answer, why not just ask a second bounty question with a focus on the points you feel were overlooked in the existing answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T18:23:52.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31485" CreationDate="2009-12-01T18:47:27.537" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bounty is a &lt;em&gt;contract&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your part of the contract is that after the set period of time you provide points to award for the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answer, where &quot;best&quot; is defined as either the answer you select or the highest-voted answer if you select none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community's part of the contract is to provide your question with extra &lt;em&gt;attention&lt;/em&gt;.  Not a good answer.  Not even any answers at all necessarily.  The only thing promised to you is that your question will receive additional attention.  It seems like that's happened here, contract fulfilled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T18:53:38.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T18:53:38.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-12-01T18:57:42.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the post from edit 2 is not an honest best effort.  It's woefully lacking in detail.  I don't care how inept somebody's English is, they can copy-and-paste tool and version information, not to mention class names.  The quality of the English (which actually isn't bad) is completely incidental.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a problem here for people who aren't good at English.  I certainly haven't seen one.  Almost all of the questions I've seen in bad English are bad questions, and would remain bad questions in perfect English.  The good questions I've seen haven't been mocked.  I'd be interested in being shown an example or two of the claimed problem, or maybe more, since I don't think it exists in noticeable numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is bad questions, not bad English.  There are a lot of people with bad English who are, very simply, bad programmers who don't understand what they're doing.    Claiming that they are being discriminated against because of their English is an example of cultural hypersensitivity that is both false and unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that we should try to change how people who ask bad questions are treated, but that's a different subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T18:57:42.790" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="31501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2009-12-01T19:37:20.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a somewhat new SO user (at least I became more active in the last week after having the account for 10 months) I feel that rep on SO / SF / SU should cary over to MSO. From what I understand the reason for not having the same rep on all sites is that you could be very knowledgable in let's say a programming language (SO) but not for that reason very good at server maintenance (SF).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you are an active user on any of the non meta sites you should be considered allowed to have an opinion (up/down vote) about the meta parts of the sites. So once you've earned rep on one of the sites (by answering questions and behaving like a nice person) you should get that rep here as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139732" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T19:37:20.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-01T19:37:20.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1201" CreationDate="2009-12-01T19:43:57.960" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would you change the rules only for meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems more trouble than it's worth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T19:43:57.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-01T19:43:57.960" />
  <row Id="31503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-12-01T19:49:30.370" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A simple check box could flag the author as a non-english speaker and allow everyone to adjust accordingly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has always turned down ANY sort of rating/flagging system that reflects the user.  Only posts (questions, answers, comments) have any sort of voting/rating/flagging system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While one could make the argument that the &quot;Not Fluent in English&quot; flag is &lt;em&gt;meant&lt;/em&gt; for the post, the reality is that it is a direct reflection of the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we judge one's proficiency in English?  Many foreign speakers believe they have a very poor grasp of English when, in fact, they are nearly perfect in their written communications, while others believe they are fluent, but others still struggle to understand what they mean, even if their grammar is perfect.  How would we instruct them when it's appropriate to check the box?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone doesn't deserve our time or attention because they aren't making a 'reasonable' effort, what will prevent them from checking that box to get more attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, sadly, there are still people who hold racist or simple protectionist views that would use this 'feature' in direct opposition to your stated goal.  Once we start attaching language, nationality, race, etc to posts in an easily readable way, the community will invariably form cliques around certain behavior regarding those indications of differences.  While the reason for such a flag may be pure, it may have an overall negative effect.  Even today there are many technology workers who have no racist views, but may feel they lost job opportunities due to offshoring.  It would be nice to believe that isn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; going to be a problem, but it's actually souring people who are otherwise very open and accepting, and it would give them a wedge on SO to note their discontent.  Even at a low level this undercurrent may drive away international users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a social problem with no good technical solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T19:49:30.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31505" CreationDate="2009-12-01T19:53:50.737" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any rules concerning what I can put in my profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46780" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T05:18:26.803" Title="Rules for Profiles" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31504" CreationDate="2009-12-01T20:00:51.130" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, your profile is (to an extent) fair game, as it is a reflection of you as a person, not the site as a whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31448/how-much-advertising-is-allowed-on-userinfo-pages/31478#31478&quot;&gt;Self-promotion&lt;/a&gt;, your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23351/can-i-give-out-my-email-here/23356#23356&quot;&gt;e-mail&lt;/a&gt; address, humor, (if you know HTML) imagery and even the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31197/why-is-the-f-word-still-allowed-in-profiles/31209#31209&quot; title=&quot;The Jeff Atwood Seal of Approval - Patent Pending (6 - 8 weeks)&quot;&gt;f-bomb&lt;/a&gt; are allowed there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are reasonable limitations for all of those, but generally speaking, unless you're a hard-core spammer or you put something &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; offensive / crazy in there (like hate speech or pornography), you'll be OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, understand that all links are no-followed, so SO doesn't actually give you Google Juice from your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T20:08:05.190" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T20:08:05.190" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31504" CreationDate="2009-12-01T20:01:27.383" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your profile page is yours.  You can put &lt;em&gt;pretty much&lt;/em&gt; anything on there. But I wouldn't put the following:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anything offensive&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;if you don't want your grandmother reading it, it probably shouldn't be on there&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advertising that could be linked to spam&lt;/strong&gt; - The fact that you sell viagra is irrelevant on Stack Overflow, but if you provide IT consulting? That could be useful.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Profanity&lt;/strong&gt; - Generally considered 'bad form', but I don't know if anyone has had any thing other than hardcore profanity removed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Offensive Gravatar images&lt;/strong&gt; - Some people think it's funny to see Jesus on Stack Overflow. Others do not.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Wall of Text&lt;/strong&gt; - No one reads those. This isn't against the 'rules'; just not a smart move.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff covered some basics in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31197/why-is-the-f-word-still-allowed-in-profiles/31209#31209&quot;&gt;this Meta answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: No, Profanity isn't removed. And there are always &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;exceptions to the rule&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T22:50:29.113" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T22:50:29.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T20:39:09.547" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cant see what I type in the question area. I can only see it only in the preview box beneath the question area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146956" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T20:56:23.777" Title="cant see what I type in the question area" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;visibility&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31507" CreationDate="2009-12-01T20:42:38.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tried closing your browsers, clearing your cookies and trying again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which browser and version number would be valuable information if the above does not fix the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T20:42:38.807" />
  <row Id="31509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31507" CreationDate="2009-12-01T20:56:23.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this when one of the ads along the side hangs my browser (I'm behind a proxy).  Other hilarity ensues, like being identified as a robot when I post the answer and having to enter the captcha. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this happens to you, you can mitigate it by clicking the &lt;code&gt;Stop&lt;/code&gt; button in your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T20:56:23.777" />
  <row Id="31510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31511" CreationDate="2009-12-01T21:02:35.653" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've accepted answers in 18 of the 20 questions I've posted to SO; but my rate is stuck at 82%, not 90%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/85661/dan-neely&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/85661/dan-neely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an infrequently run batch process or has something caused it to stop running?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T22:55:14.240" Title="How often is a users accept rate recalculated?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31510" CreationDate="2009-12-01T21:05:36.880" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's updated periodically.  No need to worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:  Actually, I just looked and it seems you have 21 questions.  2 don't have any answers so they don't count.  2 aren't old enough so they don't count either.  That leaves us with 17 eligible questions.  Of those all but three have accepted answers.  That works out to 14/17 or 82%, so I guess you are stuck until you you accept an answer on one of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/705427/why-is-my-application-using-csc-during-execution&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/705427/why-is-my-application-using-csc-during-execution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1708615/show-controls-on-multiple-pages-of-a-tab-control-in-the-designer&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1708615/show-controls-on-multiple-pages-of-a-tab-control-in-the-designer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1631789/inno-setup-uninstall-executable-location-and-name&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1631789/inno-setup-uninstall-executable-location-and-name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T22:55:14.240" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T22:55:14.240" />
  <row Id="31512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31510" CreationDate="2009-12-01T21:05:48.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18033/question-about-accept-rate&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18033/question-about-accept-rate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on the blog, it it mentioned by Jeff that the accept rate is a heavily cached feature, so it will take some time to change if you have made recent changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/#comment-32274&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/#comment-32274&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T21:05:48.360" />
  <row Id="31513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31516" CreationDate="2009-12-01T21:06:47.423" Score="3" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have run into this several times: I answer a question and someone else provides the same answer with roughly the same amount of quality within a few seconds.  What's the appropriate thing to do at that point?  Should one of you delete your answer?  How should the questioner decide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T07:58:27.873" Title="What's the appropriate etiquette when two people correctly answer a question at the same time?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-01T21:08:57.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are the exact same answer, then usualy the first answer is kept and any following ones are deleted by the orginal answerer.  This is of course up to the answer poster to do and not done by mods or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T21:08:57.420" />
  <row Id="31515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-01T21:12:11.080" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the OP/questioner: Vote both up and flip a coin or use some other arbitrary method to select the one to accept if there truly is no material difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-01T23:25:07.570" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T23:25:07.570" />
  <row Id="31516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-01T21:22:02.837" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think you can improve your answer, do so. Then they won't be identical anymore, and the questioner will have an easier time deciding which one to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, consider deleting your answer. You don't have to - you can wait it out and hope for luck... But while you're waiting, the other author may well improve his answer, thus reducing your chances. And even if he doesn't, leaving two identical answers is just leaving noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T21:22:02.837" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T22:01:36.067" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was experimenting with Careers.StackOverflow and tried inserting my location (Manchester), which it changed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Manchester, England United Kingdom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which for someone in the UK is very strange as it is only really standard to put one of them (England or United Kingdom).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I understand it uses YQL and it is formatted in the form of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;City, Region Country&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, would it be possible to have the option of what parts appear on the public view? Maybe just as a subcatogary to &lt;code&gt;Location&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;code&gt;publish cv&lt;/code&gt; section, with three checkboxes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;City&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Region&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Country&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To allow a nicer cv presentation for people who do want to include their location on the public view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T22:01:36.067" Title="Careers: Customizable Location" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T22:33:17.650" Score="2" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Find as you type user feature always sorts on name. I find it a bit confusing that the sort order is swapped without me asking for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am sorting on popularity it should also sort on popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an added bonus, when the user filter box is cleared, the paging numbers should re-appear as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-08T07:05:41.067" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T07:05:41.067" Title="Type to find user should maintain the sort order selected" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-01T22:43:57.597" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11017/what-are-the-most-upvoted-downvoted-questions-and-answers-on-the-sites&quot;&gt;What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7219/how-do-i-find-all-famous-questions-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;How do I find all &amp;ldquo;Famous Questions&amp;rdquo; on StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious, which question has the most upvotes on stack overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that matter, which answer?  (I am also curious about the other sites, but mostly Stack Overflow.)  Is there a way to find this out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T22:43:57.597" ClosedDate="2009-12-01T22:55:58.200" Title="Which question has the most upvotes on stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2586" CreationDate="2009-12-01T23:05:33.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While we wait for this feature to be added, you can search &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3070/how-you-can-get-a-list-of-all-the-comment-you-have-written/12714#12714&quot;&gt;for your comments in the data dump&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T23:05:33.113" />
  <row Id="31524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31504" CreationDate="2009-12-01T23:20:41.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130127/waveyger&quot;&gt;Whatever you&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/gargamel&quot;&gt;want&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-01T23:20:41.117" />
  <row Id="31528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31529" CreationDate="2009-12-02T00:59:00.287" Score="1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/2457/capturadepantalla200912.png&quot; alt=&quot;uh?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click on upvote or downvote the &quot;split&quot; disappears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vimeo.com/7930708&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; if you want to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T06:01:57.757" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T06:01:57.757" Title="Split answer count?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31528" CreationDate="2009-12-02T01:04:38.857" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a feature, not a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes/1007#1007&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes/1007#1007&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simply click on the vote number itself to show up/down vote totals. Requires 1000 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's rate limited to one request per second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137119" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T01:04:38.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-02T01:22:57.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel you can improve your answer and you can be bothered to spend even more time on a question that's already been answered, go for it. Otherwise what you should do is take Stack Overflow less seriously and just leave it. You might pick up some rep depending on which of the simultaneous posts comes out on top until people vote. I wouldn't delete my answer though unless the other person's is obviously much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T01:22:57.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-02T01:37:58.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote their answer so you have a leg up in the sorting order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T01:37:58.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T01:37:58.013" />
  <row Id="31532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30151" CreationDate="2009-12-02T02:17:39.943" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They might assume you are joking about how often your code literally produces a stack overflow, to which they will laugh heartily &lt;em&gt;&quot;Oh ho-ho!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; ... and then will write in a private note: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Writes code that crashes and thinks it's funny -- NO HIRE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T02:17:39.943" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T02:17:39.943" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29732" CreationDate="2009-12-02T02:19:55.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jobs.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; right now, there are a bunch of employers who have filled out Joel Test scores, and it does make them look like more attractive places to work. For example, I've never heard of &quot;Quantios&quot; but if they have a 12 on the Joel Test they might be a good place to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, on the whole, I think it would be valuable if the employers using our service had some way to self-declare their Joel Test score. If a programmer put up their CV and got a bunch of messages from employers, they might look at the ones with high Joel Test scores first. And it's a part of the general gist of careers.stackoverflow.com, which is, it's all about quality, not quantity: good jobs for good programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T02:19:55.430" />
  <row Id="31534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-02T03:04:16.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote their answer so you have a leg up in the sorting order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T03:04:16.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T03:04:16.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31563" CreationDate="2009-12-02T04:13:39.520" Score="1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhere around the blogs etc documenting Stackoverflow beta, someone asked &quot;what's a good community size,&quot; and someone (Jeff?) answered along the lines of &quot;we found it really started to work when it went north of 1000 people.&quot; I can't find the attribution right now... what's the link?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130063" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:34:31.437" Title="&quot;A good community size is 1000 people&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;philosophy&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-12-02T04:26:20.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's somewhat elitist to assume that someone's origin has to do with their command of language. You can be ESL (English as Second Language) and still write good questions in English. Conversely, English can be your only language, and your text can be crap. There is a correlation, yes, but a checkbox does not really help to fix much here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are all willing to help, but the sad truth is that there's a minimum bar of making your text comprehensible. The text below that bar is a lost cause. Either patiently work on your language skills or use a SO clone in your native language. This is not a judgement on the poster, it's a basic breakdown in communication. It takes two to tango and there's only so far you can go by applying a &quot;non-native-speaker-leniency&quot; filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130063" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T04:26:20.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31544" CreationDate="2009-12-02T04:42:58.063" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question I created on stackoverflow.com which was migrated to superuser.com, the question was answered on superuser.com but still remains in my questions tab in SO, how do I remove/hide these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've now created this as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31552/could-we-have-questions-grouped-into-status-unanswered-closed-migrated&quot;&gt;Feature request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133650" LastEditorUserId="133650" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T09:23:20.033" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T09:23:20.033" Title="How do I remove a migrated question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30151" CreationDate="2009-12-02T05:16:04.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that you should use hobbies/interests to demonstrate that you do things other than programming/development.  Usually team sports, but also things that could be indirectly related to what you work on - business knowledge is as valuable, if not more in some situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T05:16:04.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T05:16:04.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31504" CreationDate="2009-12-02T05:18:26.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have to ask, the answer is &quot;No&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T05:18:26.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31538" CreationDate="2009-12-02T05:44:07.567" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrated questions remain yours on the original site until they are deleted. The question becomes a place-holder for Google Searches and for duplicate question closures. It is still a question asked by you and therefore it is not disassociated from your account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no automatic delete. Diamond moderators will delete the question if the link to the migrated site no longer works, otherwise, it will remain on the original site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31538/how-do-i-remove-a-migrated-question/31545#31545&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; you can also flag it for moderator attention and it will be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T06:57:18.280" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T06:57:18.280" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31538" CreationDate="2009-12-02T06:28:43.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can flag the question for moderator attention if you really want it deleted, and a moderator can do it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T06:28:43.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-02T07:35:33.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally i favor the person with less rep, but then that's just me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T07:35:33.937" />
  <row Id="31547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31513" CreationDate="2009-12-02T07:58:27.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote their answer so you have a leg up in the sorting order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T07:58:27.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T07:58:27.873" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31550" CreationDate="2009-12-02T08:03:49.110" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6347/let-me-edit-my-own-deleted-post&quot;&gt;similar post here&lt;/a&gt; but I think my situation is slightly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted an answer I posted in SO, after realising I've misread the question. So I proceed to edit the deleted post so as to fit the question better, without getting down-voted :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After about a minute into the edit, the top bar dropped this message: &lt;strong&gt;This post has been deleted - no more edits are allowed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/9zoajm.png&quot; alt=&quot;This post has been deleted - no more edits are allowed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the OP was deleted and check it out. It wasn't. So I tried again and the same thing happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I am still able to perform the edit the third time round because I've copy-and-paste-and-post again within 15 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something about this I do not know? I'm trying to persuade myself this is not a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Save Your Edits&quot; button will be disabled after the prompt bar dropped down:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/2ex22q8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Save Your Edits&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:31:09.790" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:31:09.790" Title="Error while editing Deleted Post: This post has been deleted - no more edits are allowed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31548" CreationDate="2009-12-02T08:16:18.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will appear when you're inside the window of polling to alert you and others about the changed state of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's similar to the bar that pops up when you edit a post and then go and edit it again to fix up something you didn't catch first edit around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So like in this similar situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post, then notice a spelling error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit to fix spelling error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Save the edit, then realise the spelling error now leaves a tragedy of grammatical proportions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit to fix grammar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While in edit mode, told that the post has been edited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then you find out you were the one all along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same polling and notification here for the deleted post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T08:16:18.667" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31548" CreationDate="2009-12-02T08:30:58.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm not allowed to edit something, just grey out the edit link and that's that. Why should I be allowed to enter edit mode when I'm not allowed to edit? This turns it into an exercise in frustration; I go in, I edit the post, yet I'm not allowed to submit the changes. This thing tells me: &lt;em&gt;Yes, you can edit the post, but no, you can't actually edit this post&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either let us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit out own deleted posts (which is the &lt;strong&gt;right behavior&lt;/strong&gt;, maybe I just misread the question and now I want to fix my mistakes while not being downvoted like crazy) or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not allow us to enter into edit mode &lt;strong&gt;at all&lt;/strong&gt; if it's been deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T08:30:58.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33651" CreationDate="2009-12-02T09:21:50.240" Score="6" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I ask more questions I find myself looking through to find my current open questions. Usually these are always at the top when sorted by &quot;newest&quot; however &quot;votes&quot; is the default sort oder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we had additional tabls for &quot;closed&quot; and &quot;migrated&quot; this would help release a bit of the clutter as those questions I rarely wish to look at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133650" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T19:49:02.963" Title="Could we have questions grouped into status (unanswered, closed, migrated)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T10:45:19.217" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if the different flair-options could be hosted on https as well as http, so that they could be used in for example https-secured intranet sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136365" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T12:48:53.657" Title="Using flair in secure enviroments (https)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31554" CreationDate="2009-12-02T11:53:10.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's those warnings you're worried about, you can always prepend your urls with: &lt;code&gt;//&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;http://&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/954327/hidden-features-of-html/960111#960111&quot;&gt;I found that trick on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; -- it keeps those pesky warnings from showing up when accessing content that doesn't match the protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T12:48:53.657" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T12:48:53.657" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31552" CreationDate="2009-12-02T12:57:18.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll have more luck asking for a greasemonkey script to do that, I doubt it'll be implemented in the engine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T12:57:18.383" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T12:59:23.717" Score="-2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11263/user-x-is-writing-an-answer-banner-to-appear-when-another-user-is-writing-too&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;User X is writing an answer&amp;rdquo; - banner to appear when another user is writing too&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be nice if an author of a question can see how many people are writing their answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139499" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T13:40:13.483" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:40:13.483" ClosedDate="2009-12-02T13:46:43.973" Title="Indication if somebody has started to write an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;concurrency&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31557" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:07:50.580" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how that could be much help. Would it have really helped you to know I was writing this answer? There are already plenty of mechanisms to allow you to see if someone has posted an answer to your question: the emails sent, the summary you get when you press the envelope, the notification bar at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easier to do something else instead of just seeing &lt;em&gt;3 people are replying to your question&lt;/em&gt;. What if they all cancel? What if it takes them a lot of time to answer? Will you just anxiously wait for them to finish? I'd rather answer some questions or simply browse around. If someone replies, I'll see it almost as soon as they've finished, which is OK for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:07:50.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31560" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:14:08.290" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know what I'm supposed to do when I wrote a question, nobody gives me the answer I'm looking for, I find the answer I'm looking for and post it. Accepting my own answer (if possible) sounds illogical. Can I close the question? Should I delete the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139754" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T13:47:33.830" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:47:33.830" Title="Question about Stackoverflow accepted answers and open questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31559" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:16:53.420" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can answer your own question, and then after two days you can accept your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question was worth asking in the first place, then somebody may very well ask it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not save the world the effort and just leave the question and answer visible to everyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Information wants to be free!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43263" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:16:53.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31559" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:18:03.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case the accepted practise is to leave it a few days before posting your own answer then leave it for a few days more before accepting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing intrinsically wrong with doing this and leaving the question and accepted answer on the system will help anyone else with the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By leaving it a few days between each step you're giving others the chance to post a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:18:03.293" />
  <row Id="31562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:28:55.877" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful to be able to search (or have a tab) for popular questions that have no answers with upvotes above some reasonable value (4?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would be an incentive to provide better answers to these questions as you are guaranteed that the question will be viewed by many people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130584" LastEditorUserId="130584" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T15:58:40.273" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T15:58:40.273" Title="Find popular questions with low quality answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31536" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:34:31.437" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was me: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3813/how-many-people-do-you-need-to-a-make-a-stackexchange-site-work/3950#3950&quot;&gt;How many people do you need to a make a StackExchange site work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was in reference to podcast 18. They were discussing the early Stack Overflow beta. At that point, 1,000 people had already answered a question with at least one up-vote (Teacher badge). The tone of the conversation was that Stack Overflow was declared &quot;a success.&quot; I brought it up as a data point to consider. Not necessarily &lt;em&gt;a minimum&lt;/em&gt; size for a &quot;good community.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In more recent podcasts (&lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4269.html#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;episode 70&lt;/a&gt;), they talk about the success of StackExchange sites and the minimum number of knowledgeable people needed to make a site worthwhile. Joel's response: The &lt;strong&gt;minimum number of users needed answering questions: one&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions get asked + Questions get answered = Useful site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:34:31.437" />
  <row Id="31564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31562" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:44:24.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be possible to implement additional &quot;advanced search&quot; features to support such functionality.  Right now you can search on questions by views, votes, and how many answers they have, but you can't search by the max votes on answers (as requested).  I don't see any reason why (in principle) a &lt;code&gt;max-answer-vote&lt;/code&gt; search key couldn't be added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you could search for (e.g):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;views:1000 max-answer-vote:4&lt;/code&gt; =&gt; Questions with  at least 1000 views having no answers voted higher than 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;votes:10 max-answer-vote:4&lt;/code&gt; =&gt; Questions voted 10 or higher having no answers voted higher than 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could decide for yourself what combination of votes and views makes a question &quot;popular.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:44:24.740" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31559" CreationDate="2009-12-02T13:45:46.783" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question (and answer) isn't just for &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; benefit. The post could be helpful to someone else. You should not delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, you are asking questions &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; only to help yourself, but to &lt;strong&gt;help people who come after you&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T13:45:46.783" />
  <row Id="31567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31569" CreationDate="2009-12-02T14:56:15.377" Score="1" ViewCount="785" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey, not sure if this is the right place for it, if it's not I apologize, but thought I should let you know that there's a spelling mistake in your system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the question,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1178244/is-doing-a-bit-of-freelancing-while-working-full-time-a-good-idea&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1178244/is-doing-a-bit-of-freelancing-while-working-full-time-a-good-idea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Bounty: Added a bounty to get more feedbacks (answers and votes on the answers) and finaly closing this question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally is spelled wrong.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also pretty sure that feedbacks is not the plural of feedback, as feedback is a non countable noun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139758" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T16:10:14.743" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T01:10:11.740" Title="Spelling Mistake (Finally != Finaly)" Tags="&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;&lt;grammar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31567" CreationDate="2009-12-02T14:58:06.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh -- that's the OPs update to his question, not an SO message.  You can edit it and correct the spelling if you have enough rep (and care).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T14:58:06.497" />
  <row Id="31569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31567" CreationDate="2009-12-02T14:58:07.170" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a user error. Problem lies with the person posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should just leave a comment that they don't know how to spell &quot;finally&quot; and then if they want or someone else fixes it up, you can be finally done with it. Finally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T14:58:07.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T15:08:43.607" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does reopen (a question) use a system-style dialog while close uses a custom one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T15:22:07.530" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T15:22:07.530" Title="Why does reopen use a system dialog?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;close&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31567" CreationDate="2009-12-02T15:17:11.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed. Now ya Happy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T15:17:11.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31579" CreationDate="2009-12-02T15:59:44.077" Score="-1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like this question: &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1832811/which-super-shell-scripting-language-should-i-learn-perl-ruby-or-tcl&quot;&gt;Which ‘super shell scripting’ language should I learn, perl, ruby or tcl?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The question is closed now, but it had several answers before it's been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top answer is merely a personal preference that just says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of perl so that's what I&#xA;  would recommend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question isn't community-wiki, and it's clearly a poll question that has to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you consider it a good etiquette to post answers on these questions as community wiki? I think you should be nice and not demand some reputation points because you're telling your personal preference that lots like and would upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm not taking particularly about the user who posted that answer, just an example.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T16:42:40.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T16:34:06.137" Title="Is it a good etiquette to mark your answer on a poll question community-wiki, even if the question isn't?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31578" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:00:29.053" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T16:00:29.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T16:00:43.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31589" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:07:18.713" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a candidate search (in FF 3.5 &amp;amp; Chrome) and found two candidates I was interested in contacting. However, when I tried to click on their names, nothing happened (even though they were links) and when I looked for a &quot;save&quot; button near their names, I couldn't find one (even though it said at the bottom of the page there should be one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This image illustrates my confusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rookery5.aviary.com/storagev12/2592000/2592095%5F1943%5F625x625.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I contact these candidates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T17:02:32.747" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:02:32.747" Title="Where is the employer save button?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;employer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31652" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:25:47.960" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When checking/unchecking the &quot;Notify  daily of any new answers&quot; on a question that has already been asked, there is nothing to give the user feedback that the check has been registered. An AJAX event is fired to store the check, but the user doesn't realize that and goes looking for some kind of submit button, or maybe realizes it is AJAX but doesn't know if it was successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, some kind of &quot;working...&quot; animation would display beside the field when the Ajax event is fired, and upon completion it would either disappear or be replaced with a green check icon or text saying something like &quot;setting stored&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I found at least two support requests on MSO from users confused by this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10704/notify-daily-of-answers&quot;&gt;Notify Daily of Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24254/how-to-use-email-notification-after-question-is-posted&quot;&gt;how to use email notification after question is posted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T23:04:30.017" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T10:57:39.960" Title="&quot;Notify &lt;e-mail&gt; daily of any new answers&quot; doesn't provide visual feedback" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:43:06.493" Score="11" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;The specialist badges are suppose to indicate you are highly active in a particular area. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about highlighting this fact in the career pages? Or maybe even update the flair box to show this off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is one thing for me to list a tag as something I like, but there is much more weight if the careers website shows that I earned it. I don't think many of the HR people on careers will be browsing through profiles to see what badges people earned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T05:45:09.067" Title="Special recognition for specialist badges?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31592" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:44:13.390" Score="6" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the thinking behind the Recent Tags cloud feature on the home page? I can't see what value it adds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T18:42:32.567" Title="What is the purpose of the Recent Tags cloud?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;recent-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31584" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:54:56.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; highlight it in your Personal Statement... maybe just add a list of badges at the end that you are proud of (there used to be some ways to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10299/for-those-that-demand-those-elusive-badges&quot;&gt;generate badge images&lt;/a&gt;, but these appear broken now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also try to do it in a sneaky way so that the employer doesn't even realize &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; put it there. Adding an image of the badge(s) to your Personal Statement (which I'm pretty sure you can do) would make it look like it's simply a part of the careers site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Specialist badges&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e77/kpeaton/matlab%5Fbadge.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T17:48:53.020" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:48:53.020" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6557" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:56:22.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instant e-mail notification of an answer is a must-have feature of any site like this. Someone usually asks a question when he has a problem, yes? - a problem that he usually wants to solve as fast as possible. So he wants to know immediately when there is some help available for solving his problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why the notification is daily. That is almost useless. Questions get anwsered really quickly here, in a matter of a hour or two or three. Why add another 20 hours of delay before the asker can make use of the answer? It's a awful waste of time to sit on the site for an hour or two just checking if someone answered my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138565" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T17:01:51.797" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:01:51.797" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31585" CreationDate="2009-12-02T16:56:29.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it's a way to see what tags are hot/most active at a point in time. Can't say I'm a huge fan of tag/category clouds myself, they just seem like a bit of flare to fill up white space. Your mileage may vary of course with regard to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T16:56:29.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31581" CreationDate="2009-12-02T17:01:58.240" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed - proceed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:01:58.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31309" CreationDate="2009-12-02T17:06:03.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everytime you suggest an elitist approach to a feature that involves users cultures/languages, try to think as someone who is inside that niche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English isn't my first language, I know I'm going to do a lot of mistakes. But if you were a non english speaker, you would understand how difficult it is to some people to remove the fear of posting because of the &quot;language barrier&quot;. If you thought as someone that tries hard to write something down in a language you aren't proficiency with, you would understand how forcing someone to use a tag like this would be harmful to a community as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Treat others with the same respect&#xA;  you'd want them to treat you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in SO FAQ. I don't think tagging like this is respectful to non english speaker's efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, if you want to know if it's worth answering a question based in user's &quot;sloppiness&quot;, check the user's profile. You have other questions made by the user, location, accept rate that you could make a fair comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, It's a good intention, but with a bad solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:06:03.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31585" CreationDate="2009-12-02T17:30:58.500" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect it's similar to the 'recent badges awarded' section; it gives a sense that 'things are happening on this website'. So in that sense it's a user interface thing, making the website feel more dynamic and exciting. And as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31585/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-recent-tags-cloud/31588#31588&quot;&gt;Kev says&lt;/a&gt;, you might as well do something with that big blank area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not one of those people who appreciates this sense of busy-bee activity (I'm not either), then both are pointless from a functional perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:30:58.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31626" CreationDate="2009-12-02T17:36:04.917" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, a student can file their resume on Stack Overflow Careers for free. Will they be able to do so after the price changes in 2010?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149440" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T09:03:47.813" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T09:03:47.813" Title="Will SO Career's free student filing rate continue in 2010?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;students&gt;&lt;pricing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31593" CreationDate="2009-12-02T17:42:45.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you’re a student, a 1 year filing is free&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:42:45.030" />
  <row Id="31595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28475" CreationDate="2009-12-02T17:43:48.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If employers are looking for certain aspects that I can do in an area that I might consider, I would like to know that and adjust my CV accordingly. What I really want to know is if they're just not looking for someone like me, or someone close to someone like me. I don't think it's gaming the system to do this - as the goal is to match an suitably awesome employer with a suitably awesome employee. The employer (usually) knows what they want - we need to be able to put ourselves in their line of sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:43:48.960" />
  <row Id="31596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6557" CreationDate="2009-12-02T17:49:06.217" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we make the email too aggressive, it's a substitute for visiting the site, and it &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.4511.8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kind of destroys the whole community aspect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think we're all in agreement that in a social/discussion forum it's OK not to have email notifications, because in a social/discussion forum that's would be, well, antisocial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In tech support forums, the question is whether you prefer to build up a group of people who hang out, thus making benefit #2 more likely to happen, or whether you prefer to make sure that customers get prompt replies to their posts, at the cost of sacrificing benefit #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Email is for the less urgent stuff where you're busy and don't have time to check the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the implicit contract at SO is that you &quot;pay it forward&quot; and help others answer &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; questions while you're getting an answer to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T17:49:06.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31593" CreationDate="2009-12-02T18:00:19.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%5F8-Ball&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Magic 8-ball&lt;/a&gt; says: &quot;Signs point to yes&quot; -- or, ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattelgamefinder.com/demos.asp?demo=mb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T18:07:07.730" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T18:07:07.730" />
  <row Id="31598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T18:29:24.367" Score="0" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to put a statement about my availability into my Careers CV, but I don't want it to be public.  I only want it shown to potential employers who are searching for me so that my current employer won't see it in my public profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't put it in my personal statement, because I want my personal statement to be visible to the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I'd like to put a brief statement to clarify the &quot;I'm available full-time/part-time/contracting&quot; checkboxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135277" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T00:00:03.117" Title="Need an &quot;Availability&quot; text box on careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31585" CreationDate="2009-12-02T18:42:32.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before we had moderation tools, it was one way to keep an eye on tags that were being created inappropriately.  For example, hyphen vs. no hyphen, abbreviations versus full spelling, or misspellings.  Of course this backfired as well, when we had our share of trolls putting blatantly offensive tags into the system, and they couldn't be easily cleaned from the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we have moderation tools to show us newly created tags only, it's little more than a &quot;Hey look at what we're discussing on this cool site!&quot; bit of marketing, for people browsing to the site for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T18:42:32.567" />
  <row Id="31601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T18:46:49.187" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my view, meta.stackoverflow.com is a forum related to stackoverflow.com. That is, this is a portal/site dedicated to comments/improvements related to Stack Overflow. If this is so, why do I need to create a separate login/account for meta.stackoverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T19:13:34.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T19:16:18.883" Title="Why can't I use my SO login credentials on Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31601" CreationDate="2009-12-02T18:49:19.947" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow sites, including meta, use openID.  The same OpenID credentials you used to log in to StackOverflow.com should work just fine here at meta.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use the same OpenID, you can associate your accounts in your user profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T19:16:18.883" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T19:16:18.883" />
  <row Id="31603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31622" CreationDate="2009-12-02T19:12:08.923" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the screen shot from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31581/where-is-the-employer-save-button&quot;&gt;Where Is The Employer Save Button&lt;/a&gt;, there is clearly a CV that exists with &lt;code&gt;Bloomington, Indiana United States&lt;/code&gt; as the location.  However, when I do a Trial Search the Number of Candidates Found disappears.  Is this a feature that is unavailable to the Trial Mode account? or is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/w0teV.png&quot; alt=&quot;Careers image with missing Candidates Found box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T00:51:18.467" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T00:51:18.467" Title="Missing Candidates Found box when doing a location search in &quot;free trial mode&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;ie6&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31598" CreationDate="2009-12-02T19:59:52.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or, more broadly, have additional granularity over who gets to see what.  Rather than &quot;visible&quot; have a &quot;visible to employer searches&quot; and a separate &quot;Visible to public&quot; for each box, and have an additional box for availability/location to give employers more information than the current simple setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand this is something that can be discussed in the first round of interviews, so I'm not certain it's necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T19:59:52.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-13T21:21:00.380" Score="7" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently posted a question about answering strategies for SO. I was amazed and astounded by how many people took offense, and eagerly imputed nasty motives for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consequence was that I learned in a hurry about the CW's existence, but I still don't understand what it's for, why my question was offensive, and why it seems to have disappeared from the Question List (after having been mystically branded as CW).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then it disappeared. I have no idea where the quesion went, or how people who would like to see it or discuss it would ever come across it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry I'm not cogniscenti enough, but it sure seems to me that we've got a loose cannon rolling around on the deck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please if you can remove all rep points associated with this episode. They're the last reason I come to the site, and the last thing I want to benefit from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Watch the negative votes add up ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T20:01:49.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T21:21:00.380" Title="Community Wiki - a way to make questions disappear?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31605" CreationDate="2008-11-13T21:22:38.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wiki is for editing posts (less reputation is required to edit them).  It shouldn't be, as some mandate, for all non-technical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T20:01:49.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-13T21:22:38.660" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31605" CreationDate="2008-11-15T05:34:58.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRE-EDIT: The original question is a complaint about the SO community discouraging any discussion about SO on SO. This answer is discussion about SO, as well as a justification for why that's important. The question wasn't really a question, so this answer doesn't really answer it. It just reinforces the fact that the question was good and fair and deserves to be heard.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is &lt;em&gt;required&lt;/em&gt; to use the site. Without a decent chunk of reputation you can't edit community wiki questions/answers. If you can't edit wiki questions then (for you, at least) SO is not a wiki and you're not a part of the community. (To use Jeff's terminology, the community doesn't &quot;trust&quot; you.) So reputation-whoring to get up to 750 points is...understandable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intended way to get reputation is to either contribute to SO's library of questions or to contribute answers to that library. However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People don't vote. Every &quot;citizen&quot; gets 300 points each day that they can give to other users. Most people (including myself) let most of these points go to waste. This is especially a problem for narrow questions (e.g. AppleScript), and &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; for answers provided to stale, narrow questions. Adding good content is important in order to build the site and make it a useful repository, but there's very little reputation reward for that. It's like building a skyscraper but only paying the people who are erecting the steel at the top of the building, while all the plumbers and electricians and drywallers who follow them up get peanuts. (Note that there's no difference between editing a new or a popular Wikipedia page vs editing some God-forsaken Wikipedia backwater.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a finite number of questions to ask and answers to give. I've &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; asked a few good questions because when I began typing SO showed me that my question had already been asked. And I've been guilty of providing near-duplicate answers to questions because I didn't read the other answers closely enough. So people who join late discover that the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. &quot;Here's the answer to your question. Now go away!&quot; (It's good that they get their answer, but if they like what they see they need to figure out a way to get into the clubhouse.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems that a good number of people on this site are either run-of-the mill programmers or &quot;other IT&quot;. Your average C# programmer is competing with a mess of other average C# programmers to answer questions, get their answers accepted, or even to get noticed. Having expertise in a niche (like XSLT or Perl) makes you more likely to have the best and/or first answer to a question, but by definition most people aren't in a niche. And there seem to be another group of people who are either Project Managers, or Analysts, or System Admins, or other groupies. These people can have a lot to contribute to &quot;ask for advice&quot; types of questions, but they're not going to be asking or answering questions about function pointers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So earning 750 rep points requires reasonably deep technical knowledge about &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;, and a long-term investment in regularly monitoring the queues and contributing where and when you have something valuable to add. And if you do this and do it well, then you will slowly but surely earn enough reputation points to be &quot;trusted&quot; to edit the wiki. And I think that's exactly how the site was designed to work. And this method &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the average non-CW post gets one or two votes. Therefore it takes 40-70 questions or answers before the community trusts you. Is that too high? Only about 10% of ALL registered users are &quot;trusted&quot; to edit Community Wiki posts. Is that too low?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for those people who either aren't gurus or who have non-programming jobs in IT, they just aren't invited to the party. Without the technical knowledge to answer programming questions, or at least the need to ASK programming questions, you'll have nothing to contribute and so the system will never trust you. Even people who do have a lot of knowledge are shut out if they aren't jumping on new questions, because answers to old questions don't attract much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was SO's original mandate. It's a site for programmers and programming questions. But neither CodingHorror nor JoelOnSoftware are programming blogs (especially Joel's), and so a big chunk of the initial SO audience were just IT folks--not programmers. And as long-time readers of Jeff's and/or Joel's blogs, they want to be a part of this community. I think these people made up a good chunk of the initial beta testers, and because even the most hard-core programmer needs to deal with IT issues, these people add value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when these folks try to become &quot;trusted&quot;--say by emulating the popular questions and the highest-rep users--they get accused of rep-whoring and told to mark the question as Community Wiki. Especially if they try to ask a question about how to increase their reputation so as to become trusted, as 400 other people have already done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's what we tell these people:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have few rep points so we don't trust you to edit our wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any attempt by you to earn rep points (even if--especially if--you're asking a question about how to earn rep points) should be community wiki so you don't earn any rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once it's a community wiki contribution you should remember that we don't trust you to edit our wiki. (I don't actually know what happens if a person creates a CW comment but doesn't have the juice to edit CW comments. I imagine they can edit them initially, at least. But the attitude is there.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really, really like this site. I want it to thrive both because I like the mix of people who contribute and because I've gotten some really quick answers to some tough XSLT questions. I think the community needs a way to talk about itself, and I see no reason to close or delete or even complain about rep-free community wiki questions on SO. If people like the site enough that they want to talk about it and discuss how to improve it, then let 'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1019" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T20:01:49.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-15T05:34:58.273" />
  <row Id="31608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24737" CreationDate="2009-12-02T20:12:26.973" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think you will have to worry about this user any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drastic action was just taken due to repeated and persistent problems, even after multiple email warnings and suspensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21844/how-to-deal-with-people-creating-two-or-more-accounts-to-game-reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21844/how-to-deal-with-people-creating-two-or-more-accounts-to-game-reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26735/when-is-it-right-to-report-multiple-accounts&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26735/when-is-it-right-to-report-multiple-accounts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T20:12:26.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T20:54:21.907" Score="6" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened to notice that Jon Skeet just got awarded a silver tag badge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/142/programming&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;programming&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Not that I mean to deny Jon yet another badge, but why does this tag need to exist? is it to balance out all the questions tagged &lt;strong&gt;not-programming-related&lt;/strong&gt;? Questions on SO are supposed to be about programming, so this appears to be a redundant tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T20:59:24.393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T21:38:29.237" Title="Why is there a &quot;programming&quot; tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;programming&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31609" CreationDate="2009-12-02T20:55:52.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get special badges for upvotes in the different tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;Check it yourself&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T20:55:52.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31609" CreationDate="2009-12-02T21:00:09.807" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People, for some reason, make and use stupid and obvious tags like &lt;code&gt;programming&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;help&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;question&lt;/code&gt;, etc. Probably because they don't understand tags. Likewise, we have tags like &lt;code&gt;one&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;2000&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;in&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;the&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21209/tighten-up-tag-restrictions-and-add-warnings-for-new-and-low-usage-tags&quot;&gt;I complain about those in this question&lt;/a&gt;). Some people just don't &quot;get&quot; tags. I call this kind of person TheTXI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you answer a lot of questions like Mr Skeet you end up getting a lot of upvotes in stupid tags. The badge mechanism isn't sentient, so it doesn't know that the tags it's making badges for are stupid. That's how Jon got a programming badge on a programming site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T21:00:09.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31609" CreationDate="2009-12-02T21:38:29.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, I don't know, there's some real gems in that [programming] tag...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1774027/how-do-you-program-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1774027/how-do-you-program-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12276/what-are-the-most-common-things-you-should-be-able-to-do-in-a-programming-languag&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12276/what-are-the-most-common-things-you-should-be-able-to-do-in-a-programming-languag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T21:38:29.237" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T21:46:03.797" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got some questions that I'm thinking about putting bounties on. I was wondering if other users felt that added a bounty improved the quality of the answers they were getting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131053" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T22:10:39.867" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T17:56:11.337" Title="Are you satisfied with answers to questions with bounties?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="31615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31613" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:04:31.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all the time.  If the question is unsolvable (like finding a way to get a broken API to work) then you're likely to still be out of luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138859" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T22:04:31.343" />
  <row Id="31616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31619" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:11:10.363" Score="-1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to filter out questions from users who don't accept answers?  It seems like a great waste of my time if I'm not even sure they're going to come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138859" LastActivityDate="2011-06-22T20:45:51.327" Title="Skipping questions from users who don't accept" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31616" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:13:06.213" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget though that you're not just helping the OP, you're also helping those who come after with the same (or very similar) problem and have found the question through Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You never know, they might just give you an up-vote for your efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T22:13:06.213" />
  <row Id="31618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31620" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:14:15.257" Score="0" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I specify multiple tags to search for just the questions that I have asked that contain those tags in my profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like it'd be useful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winces expecting to be shot down over this...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18149" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T22:21:44.277" Title="Searching my own questions by tag(s)?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31616" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:20:21.457" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never seen much point to this.  If you're worried about reputation or badges, most of it comes from  other people voting on your answer.  If you just want to help somebody, as long as the question is initially well-thought you can do that regardless of whether they accept your answer or even provide additional feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T22:55:55.680" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T22:55:55.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31618" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:21:44.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you search for &quot;user:me [tag]&quot; you'll get all the questions you've asked with that tag. Unfortunately you'll get all the answers you've posted as well. Though the sort by relevance seems to list the questions first (at least it did for me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll have to enter the tags yourself though. There's no built-in way to get at that information. You could probably write a Greasemonkey script though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the low-down on searches see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;the search page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T22:21:44.277" />
  <row Id="31621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31631" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:47:13.327" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't received a silver badge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1821266/what-is-so-special-about-smalltalk&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; despite 27 upvotes; I've searched the site but been unable to find anything to say that badge calculations may be delayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T23:08:50.383" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:41:25.287" Title="Are badge calculations delayed?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31603" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:55:27.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried this in a browser other than IE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not aware of any IE7 or IE8 problems -- and we fully test on those browsers.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* but I can never really trust any version of IE any more.. even IE8 has burned us with that massive &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; bug.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T23:54:47.307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:54:47.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31621" CreationDate="2009-12-02T22:58:52.430" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can be. Most things like badges, accept rates, and other functions are delayed to some degree as many features are cached and run periodically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, Looking at your questions, you do look like you should have 5x Good Answer badges and you have 5. So what is the problem? Did it just show up? It looks like you did recieve a silver badge for the question you linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You answered this question 3 times: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1025181/hidden-features-of-scala/1093363#1093363&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1025181/hidden-features-of-scala/1093363#1093363&lt;/a&gt;  and none of them are over 25 votes. The grand total of your 3 answers is 26, but that wont give a silver badge collectively. Did you happen to include that in your count of how many you should have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T23:06:00.843" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:06:00.843" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7020" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:00:45.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came to meta to propose this badge.  I agree with those who want it to be a one-time, bronze badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hitting the rep limit the first time should be celebrated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:00:45.343" />
  <row Id="31626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31593" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:09:58.743" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the &lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt; student filing will be available forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, you will be able to &quot;renew&quot; your &lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt; student status every year, if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-02T23:15:45.490" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:15:45.490" />
  <row Id="31627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31582" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:11:13.033" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow doesn't &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; in pansy HTML feedback gadgets. We're &lt;em&gt;programmers&lt;/em&gt;, man - if you really want to know if it succeeded, just watch for the response packets in Wireshark!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:11:13.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7020" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:12:03.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have three versions of it, similar to the badges you can get when you are voted up a certain number of times for answers to questions of a given tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1st hit: bronze&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;100th hit: silver&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;500th hit: gold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastEditorUserId="134272" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T18:23:55.610" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:23:55.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:15:16.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;... If no one else has said it, You can always send me more stickers for the events I go to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I value greatly the ones I received for being a high reputation user, but would never give those out as I only have a few... Whenever I go to any event, I am always telling people about Super User and Server Fault, however freebies that can be given away always speak louder than recommendations!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Being serious... or, if I can have the design, I will see if I can get any printed cheap)... At the end of the day, I am on SuperUser.com all the time... refreshing when I am bored etc... It is annoying to see no new questions or the same ones cycle all day! It is amazing to see Stack Overflow have ~10 new questions/answers a minute and would love to see something similar on SuperUser!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:15:16.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-02T23:15:16.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:18:33.050" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm often curious when I see a badge award float by what the user did to earn it. Some are simple to hunt down (a quick search of a user's answers reveals their &quot;Great Answer&quot;s) but some not so much (e.g., Taxonomist). I realize this isn't a necessity, but still may have some usefulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:18:33.050" ClosedDate="2009-12-02T23:24:20.420" Title="Make the badge awarded list items be links to their causes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;site-activity&gt;" />
  <row Id="31631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31621" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:41:25.287" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that often happens causing people to feel as though they didn't earn a badge, is if you've lost a badge (due to a deleted question/answer) or migration, or even just losing the criteria, the badge is not taken away, but the next time you &quot;earn&quot; it, you don't receive, you're just considered no longer in debt. However, looking through your answers, I don't see a likely canidate for where you would have a lost a &lt;code&gt;good answer&lt;/code&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:41:25.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31603" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:43:01.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have tested this as an unregistered user in IE8 with and without IE7 compatibility mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you give me more details?  If you refresh the page does it ever come back?  What are the specific steps you take to reproduce this issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:43:01.320" />
  <row Id="31633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31613" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:46:10.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't been around all that long, but my limited experience is that bounties didn't have any effect. From the looks of it, there are many hungry, hungry, hippos anxious to answer any question. There's so much competition for rep out there that people are willing to type their fingers to the bone just for vanilla upvotes and accepts. I'm sure more experienced residents can offer more perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-02T23:46:10.800" />
  <row Id="31634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31613" CreationDate="2009-12-02T23:59:16.660" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried it once and got nowhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then, my goal was to get someone else to delve into an obscure and under-documented Microsoft API, make it do something very specific, and then show me the code (or at least warn me about all the time-consuming dead-ends normally encountered when dealing with such a task)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I hoped to bribe someone (with worthless reputation points) to perform a dull, tedious, and probably &lt;em&gt;infuriating&lt;/em&gt; task that I was too lazy to do myself. A reader would have to have been pretty desperate to bite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably if you have a normal question (one that can be answered without many hours of drudgery) then a bounty would help to garner extra attention and perhaps tease more comprehensive answers out of those responding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T00:31:05.850" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T00:31:05.850" />
  <row Id="31635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:23:40.077" Score="4" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I get that you are trying to make money, but $500 a week for an employer to use your careers tool.  Come On!  How on earth can a startup possibly use this.  Maybe I could justify this if you had results in the 1000s in Boston, but as a new service, these prices are crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a startup rate where we can apply and you verify our size?  I am willing to pay but $500 a week is far too much for us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139787" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T01:25:22.117" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T14:48:01.257" Title="Offer a special, discounted &quot;startup rate&quot; on Stack Overflow Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31635" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:30:39.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're not prepared to spend $1-2K on recruiting a new employee, how on earth do you expect to be able to afford anyone even remotely competent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T00:30:39.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31635" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:34:52.880" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/careers-now-open-for-businesses/#comment-41564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;commented on this also&lt;/a&gt;, although not from the point of view of startups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know little about the US recruitment market but in Europe and Australia, traditional recruitment agencies work like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For casual/contract work, the agency will earn 10-20% (or more, but that's borderline criminal) on top of what the contractor does; or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For permanent/salaried work, the agency will earn typically 10-15% of the annual salary of the recruit. Usually there is a part-payment on hiring and full payment after a probation period (typically 3 months) or if the employee leaves before three months there can be a partial refund.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as much as I &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; recruitment agents (95% of them are utterly useless and actually impede getting the right person) they do do something: they filter candidates (often badly but still...), act as an umbrella (for insurance purposes and payroll) for contractors and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems SO Careers has positioned itself more at this end of the market than the &quot;job board&quot; end, which (imho) is all that it really is. And what does an ad on a job board cost? A few hundred for a popular one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this lives or dies by reaching critical mass of job seekers using and employers use it. With SO Careers making money on both ends, one wonder if it will reach this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the Joel on Software job board, where you pay ~$350 for an ad and nothing as a candidate. Will the market on SO Careers be sufficiently bigger or better? I have my doubts. After all, what does SO Careers offer really? A link to your profile? I can put that on my CV in any case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All up, it's all just a little odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; just to add a few points (and hopefully bring it back a little to the topic of startups):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recruitment agencies are expensive in part because the risk is borne by the agent not the employer. If no one suitable is found, there is no or little outlay so they're getting paid for results;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advertising is cheaper both because it involves less work and the risk is borne by the employer;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Advertising costs scale based on the implied conversion rate, which is a factor of both the size and the quality of the audience. In it's hey day, the West Wing may have had under 10 million viewers but they were a particularly lucrative set of viewers (eg higher socioeconomic status, more disposable income).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point (3) is worth exploring. Size SO (Careers) obviously doesn't have (yet), both in terms of candidates and employers. The candidate cost is nominal but you have to compare it with most other options being free (for candidates), including dealing with recruitment agents. In fact, depending on your jurisdiction it can be &lt;strong&gt;illegal&lt;/strong&gt; to charge candidates (I wonder if anyone has thought about this yet?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously Jeff and Joel think they've got a fairly lucrative audience (for employers) with tie-ins to the already successful Joel job boards. I think they may be overvaluing the association with SO because ultimately that association is simply a URL to your profile. I haven't seen the employer's search but if it also includes searches that use your contributions against different tags as some kind of criteria then obviously that isn't something easily reproducible elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly: startups. Not an area I'm particularly familiar with but if HN is to be believed, it works to a much greater degree on word-of-mouth than traditional recruitment. That being said, I kind of agree that if you're going to spend $100k+ (including on-costs) on employing someone for a year, spending even $5k to find the right person is cheap. But I guess cash flow can be an issue too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I signed up in the beta just because if it flops I'm only out $30, which is about the cost of 2 trips to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nandos.com.au/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nando's&lt;/a&gt; for lunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do have to question the strategy of pricing on the basis of having an audience and a conversion rate that you don't have (or can't prove) yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last thing about job ads: you can often get more than one job filled from one ad. You might put an ad up that says you're looking for X, Y and Z. An agent once told me that at least 90% of the CVs he receives can be thrown out. A certain other number are possible candidates that just aren't right for that job. Perhaps they have too little or too much experience or not quite the right experience. But it happens where the company thinks you might be right for a different position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, companies tend to keep CVs for people who have applied to them. With the ability to search on SO Careers, what's to stop a company basically harvesting CVs in the time they have access?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T01:38:23.217" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T01:38:23.217" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31641" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:35:08.700" Score="6" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;... I'd like to do some searches to see how my skills profile matches up with the rest of the market. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T10:37:23.070" Title="Can job seekers perform searches on careers.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31661" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:37:22.143" Score="12" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I log in, I'm only shown the candidate side of the site.  I can't search for candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I be an employer &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that this isn't currently allowed but there's a bit of support for it based on comments below.  With that in mind, are the plans to allow this in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131381" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:36:53.780" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:36:53.780" Title="Can I be registered on careers.stackoverflow.com as an employer and a candidate?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31639" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:46:27.633" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single OpenID cannot be both employer and candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T00:52:06.937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T00:52:06.937" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31638" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:49:54.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We only allow searches from legitimate companies who are actually hiring -- and even then, only if they pay to subscribe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 week subscription is $500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 month subscription is $1,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 month subscription is $3,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 year subscription is $5,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ... found a company! Paul Graham will be so pleased with you! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T00:49:54.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31635" CreationDate="2009-12-03T00:57:09.970" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What can I say; the price is pretty much in line with what other similar services offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one week plan ($500) is pretty much designed to let you find and hire one person. People who do more hiring than that will probably pay by the year, and get a substantial discount... it's not $500 a week, it comes to about $100 a week for heavy users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you're a startup thinking of hiring someone, and you're worried about the $500, it doesn't sound like you're in a position to be hiring quite yet... maybe you should be looking for cofounders or people who will work for equity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T00:57:09.970" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T01:05:58.927" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen over an over here on meta request to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot;&gt;fix tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One feature that can be added to the SO engine is a &quot;Did you mean&quot; ala Google. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that it is easy or trivial to do, but I think it would be pretty cool and eventually it will improve the overall search experience ( by improving the tag mechanism ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's how it would work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; tags its question with a misspelled ( or little popular ) tag &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance  tag = &lt;code&gt;finaly&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;system&lt;/strong&gt; check while saving the question, if there is a big number of &quot;edits&quot; on that tag ( it could do that by learning what everyone has edit and corrected before ) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The larger the number of &quot;fixes&quot; performed in the past, more weight is given to the suggestion ( so few fixed won't trigger the suggestion ). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;Did you mean&quot; threshold is reached the &lt;strong&gt;system&lt;/strong&gt; shows the the question and prompts: &quot;Did you mean Finally?&quot; with a link.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the &lt;strong&gt;user&lt;/strong&gt; click the link, the question is autofixed with the correct tag. &#xA;If the user ignores the suggestion is it not shown again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I'm not saying &quot;hey it is too easy, it should be done in 6 - 8 hours&quot; but it may be something to consider. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/307291/how-does-the-google-did-you-mean-algorithm-work/307344#307344&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; from a previous answer I gave which explains how that &quot;Did you mean&quot; algorithm work ( from a 10,000 ft view ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T20:19:41.530" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T22:06:07.383" Title="Add a &quot;Did you mean&quot; feature for tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31646" CreationDate="2009-12-03T01:38:05.073" Score="-2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I put 'idiot' in the location text box while searching as an employer, it says '4 candidates found'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Putting anything which is likely to give 0 candidates, such as 'kjhhjfkjfn', 'jewygfweuyg', etc in the location, also shows '4 candidates found'. So is the search designed to always show '4 candidates found' even when there are no candidates found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/1zx4ivt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Screenshot here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: Only when I move the focus away from the location textbox, a box saying 'we're not sure where this is, click to dismiss' shows up. But :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) It should say 0 candidates instead of 4 candidates to the right side of the search form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Why wait until the focus is moved away from the textbox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastEditorUserId="130059" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T03:16:27.020" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T03:16:27.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-03T01:38:18.257" Title="Employer search on SO Careers appears broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31645" CreationDate="2009-12-03T01:41:37.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We use &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo's Geolocation service through YQL&lt;/a&gt; to map arbitrary text -- &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; arbirary text -- to location coordinates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently that maps to a location of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Garbage in, garbage out. (shrug)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I can't even repro this, so I really have no idea what you're talking about. When I type in &quot;idiot&quot; in the Location field, I get&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We aren't sure where this is, be a little more specific&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (click on this box to dismiss)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T01:41:37.313" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-03T01:41:37.313" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31635" CreationDate="2009-12-03T01:46:41.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might be showing my ignorance by saying this, but... That doesn't strike me as being particularly high. If you use the search tool before paying, you should already have at least a rough idea of how many results you'll be getting - if you aren't comfortable with the number of CVs you'll get to look through, then &lt;em&gt;don't pay for access to them&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if it is a bit rich for your budget, I - as a job-searcher - don't care. I'm paying to post my CV because I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; want to work for a cheap / underfunded employer. Let's face it - there are &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of options out there if i want to compete for the bargain-basement coding jobs. Heck, it was Atwood's promise that employer access would be priced far above that for job-seeker access that convinced me it was worth trying out in the first place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...So, if your suggestion was implemented, I'd want a corresponding checkbox that let me opt-out of &quot;startup-rate&quot; employer searches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T01:46:41.440" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31613" CreationDate="2009-12-03T02:15:06.443" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hell no, I would prefer a big fat stack of waffles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feature, for me, has mostly been a &lt;strong&gt;FAIL&lt;/strong&gt; with one exception:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505226/custom-syntax-highlighting-for-vs-2008&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/505226/custom-syntax-highlighting-for-vs-2008&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;strong&gt;FAIL&lt;/strong&gt;, turns out the selected answer is really unstable. I have had nothing but trouble with DXCore. Will be really easy to do this in VS 2010 or just fork out the money and buy ReSharper. The problem answer is now selected and marked true &lt;strong&gt;FOREVER&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100235/looking-for-a-simple-standalone-persistant-dictionary-implementation-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100235/looking-for-a-simple-standalone-persistant-dictionary-implementation-in-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again a &lt;strong&gt;FAIL&lt;/strong&gt; . Got lots of attention, I kind of felt I had to select something as an answer, and now when the magical well supported key value store for .net pops up I will have trouble fixing it. Lots of ideas, all had their issue, none was a perfect fit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101147/code-demonstrating-the-importance-of-a-constrained-execution-region&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1101147/code-demonstrating-the-importance-of-a-constrained-execution-region&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Success&lt;/strong&gt;, something about this question made it a really good fit for bounties, it had fantastic constraints, measuring the success of the answer was really easy - no grey areas. If you have questions like this they are good for bounties provided you get an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/718478&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/718478&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FAIL&lt;/strong&gt; Got a useless answer, but felt compelled to mark it as correct cause of the amount of effort that went in. Basically to use it I must comply with GPL AND run my app as Admin something that is not an option. A socket based solution is possible and one day when I have a free weekend I will write it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, if you are looking for someone to spend 2 days and write a custom implementation for a specific problem you are having, do not use bounties. If its simple / clear-cut and just needs a bit more attention ... go for it, a bounty may help. But the correct answer set in stone forever leaves a very bad taste. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T02:15:06.443" />
  <row Id="31649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31651" CreationDate="2009-12-03T02:16:57.517" Score="4" ViewCount="553" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for fun and to see how unemployable I am:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My CV 'hit-rate' on careers is currently a glorious &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;0.01484%&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (yea, uh, &lt;code&gt;Search Hits on Your CV&lt;/code&gt; / &lt;code&gt;Global Searches&lt;/code&gt;, just in case you have not finished your morning cup-a-joe.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within my hits my CV 'view-rate' is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;0.0667%&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. (&lt;code&gt;Employer Views of Your CV&lt;/code&gt; / &lt;code&gt;Search Hits on Your CV&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if my skill set not in demand (at least with the beta employers)? Or my locations to in-the-middle-of-nowhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your hit-rate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T13:53:03.997" Title="What's your CV 'hit-rate' on careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T02:19:36.527" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mines a big fat...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:) But then again I'm in Australia (for better or for worse). But considering the jobs on SO and Joels are predominantly North American, this isn't that surprising. I only signed up because it was $30. If it was the normal price and I was a user outside the US, I don't think you could justify the cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T02:19:36.527" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="31651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T02:20:05.543" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think any of the beta testers were in Singapore, and the site has only been open to non-beta testers for a couple of days, so it's probably a function of location in your case. I hope that as we hit critical mass we'll start to attract employers all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T02:20:05.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31582" CreationDate="2009-12-03T02:35:00.243" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Shog9 said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/365/sonotifysuccess.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Visual Feedback&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T02:35:00.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T03:25:21.527" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm in a helpful mood, I like to browse unanswered questions. I like to visit the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tab, then filter by &quot;my tags&quot; (it's a tab on the right side &amp;ndash; easy to miss). Of course, I choose 50 per page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that Stackoverflow's definition of &quot;unanswered&quot; is different from mine. Questions may have scores of answers, but they're not considered &quot;answered&quot; until an answer is accepted (or perhaps up-voted; not entirely clear on the rules here). I want to browse questions with 0 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be fixed with a lick of javascript, and it's even easier because Stackoverflow uses jQuery. Here's the bookmarklet I came up with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:(function(){var q=$('#questions').hide();$('.question-summary:not(:has(.unanswered))').hide();q.show();})();&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It simply hides all questions that have answers. Your page of 50 results will probably filter down to 10 or so. Tested in Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 on OS X 10.5. (please, post a comment if it doesn't work in your browser)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To make the bookmarklet:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stackoverflow's text policy won't allow me to make a bookmarklet-style link that you can simply drag into your bookmarks bar, so instead:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;drag &lt;strong&gt;&amp;rarr; &lt;a href=&quot;http://replace.this.with.the.code.you.copied&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;filter unanswered&lt;/a&gt; &amp;larr;&lt;/strong&gt; to your bookmarks bar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit its properties&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;(right-click, properties, edit address &amp;ndash; something like that)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;replace &quot;http://replace.this.with.the.code.you.copied&quot; with the code above (all of it, from the 'j' in javascript to the last semicolon, and nothing more).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a formatted and commented version for curious individuals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// create an anonymous function&#xA;(function () {&#xA;    // hide the #questions container element (see the&#xA;    // WebKit bug below), and cache #questions in q&#xA;    var q = $('#questions').hide();&#xA;    // hide all elements of class 'question-summary' that&#xA;    // do not have any child elements of class 'unanswered'&#xA;    $('.question-summary:not(:has(.unanswered))').hide();&#xA;    // show #questions, which causes the page to re-flow&#xA;    q.show();&#xA;})(); // close the function block and execute it&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T03:28:48.260" Title="Bookmarklet: Show unanswered questions (0-answer, not no-accepted-answer)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;bookmark&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T03:26:41.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got 11 hits, 2 employer views of my CV with global searches at 1015, so I'm near 1% of global searches, and 2.4% of the employers have seen my CV (assuming it wasn't the same one looking at it twice).  Which is 18% view rate (views/hits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm in Michigan, listed as &quot;will relocate&quot; and &quot;telecommute&quot; so I doubt anyone local is hitting me, especially given the current economy in this region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the economy and industry will certainly change over the next few years, even in Australia and other places where ponies and waffles are underappreciated.  Great employee/employer matches will come through this system, no doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, in other words, the false positives will be much lower.  If you get contacted then it's a better match than through many (most?) other methods.  You won't get contacted much, but when you do it's a good contact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T03:26:41.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31653" CreationDate="2009-12-03T03:28:48.260" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to see questions with zero (0) answers, search with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;answers:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see those with no accepted answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see both zero and non-accepted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3a0%20answers%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;answers:0 hasaccepted:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to narrow it down to a tag, put that in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=hasaccepted%3A0+answers%3A0+%5Bhash%5D&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;[hash] answers:0 hasaccepted:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the page is loaded, click one of the sort tabs: Newest, Active or what have you and then bookmark that page. It works cross-browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T03:28:48.260" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31613" CreationDate="2009-12-03T03:50:23.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was wondering if other users felt&#xA;  that added a bounty improved the&#xA;  quality of the answers they were&#xA;  getting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes and no.  The problem for me is that I've added bounty to those questions where there is no good solution - hoping for the mythical student to solve the 'homework' problem that was actually an example of an unsolvable problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I haven't hit the jackpot, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the questions I've added bounty to have received much greater exposure, more interesting and varied responses, and all things considered were &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt; worth the bounty I paid for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, notably, most of them were upvoted enough after adding the bounty to pay for a large portion of the bounty, so it wasn't as high a cost as it might otherwise have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do not use bounty for those questions where I'm not already prepared to select a suboptimal answer, and in cases where no answer is 'right' I'll choose the one that is closest and where the author has obviously spent some time answering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have found that when I offer a very large bounty (500 of my own rep, for instance) a lot of people will put significant effort into the problem.  There are lots of 100-200 rep bounties, but one can get 100-200 guaranteed rep in a day of answering other questions, whereas a 100-200 rep bounty is more risky, and the work required is greater than the work required to get the same rep the usual way.  A 550 rep 'lottery' however, is something, for many people, worth working on, especially since it's 25% of editing rep, 13% of closing rep, and even the 5% closer to 10k moderator status is significant for many users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the bounty system serves one very, very important purpose - people have stopped asking for a bounty feature!  It was one of the hottest feature requests early on - people really wanted a way to 'spend' their rep to 'enhance' their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T03:50:23.773" />
  <row Id="31657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31635" CreationDate="2009-12-03T04:01:56.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only situation I think this might be nice is if CVs had an &quot;interested in startups&quot; and &quot;Equity and non-cash payments considered&quot; checkbox.  Then let startups search ONLY for employees that have BOTH of those boxes checked for a much lower rate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This allows for the fact that some startups won't be paying a full wage, and thus may not also have the ability to pay a full employment search fee, but many people on SO might be interested in such positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it segments the market so Careers.Stackoverflow can extract more money from the job search market without lowering the costs for their main clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a win-win-win solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T04:01:56.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31667" CreationDate="2009-12-03T04:08:54.513" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently writing a Chrome extension to monitor stack overflow and give user updates regarding there reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1830767/so-rep-json-not-working&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1830767/so-rep-json-not-working&lt;/a&gt;, I suspect that the URL for the rep doesn't support JSONP calls (unlike the flair URL).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this for a particular reason? or an overlooked bug/thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I wasn't sure whether to tag this as a bug or discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137520" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T13:55:40.263" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T13:55:40.263" Title="JSONP not-supported on rep/rep-graph URL for a reason?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31639" CreationDate="2009-12-03T04:34:56.040" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, but you need a second OpenID&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During beta testing, Jeff suggested to me registering a second OpenID with the email address in the form of &lt;code&gt;myname+employer@example.com&lt;/code&gt; which seems to be supported by most email systems for the email &lt;code&gt;myname@example.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T04:34:56.040" />
  <row Id="31663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31584" CreationDate="2009-12-03T05:45:09.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a solution might be this one :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for each tags that are in the &quot;likes&quot; list of a user,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if a tag corresponds to a specialist bagde on SO,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do not display that tag, but, instead, display the badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, considering I have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/93/php&quot;&gt;&quot;specialist&quot; badge on SO for &quot;php&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, my CV could appear this way in the search results employer view :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://extern.pascal-martin.fr/so/careers-specialist-tag-idea-1.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, the same could be done for the view CV page, and public view, I suppose...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T05:45:09.067" />
  <row Id="31664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T06:09:55.653" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Candidates don't need to have a year long membership to be searchable by employers. They typically are only available for a month for hire, so it is silly to pay for a full year. Also employeers won't want results for candidates that have already been employed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charge on a monthly basis and something small. That is enough to show that you are an active job seeker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T16:41:04.923" Title="Shorter time frames for candidates and cheaper membership" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31578" CreationDate="2009-12-03T06:13:27.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two results of marking your answer as community wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't get reputation points.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many more people can edit your post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I state my firmly-held opinions, I might have a bigger problem with the second bullet point than the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T06:13:27.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-03T06:13:27.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31664" CreationDate="2009-12-03T06:19:53.217" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charging every month means &lt;em&gt;by definition&lt;/em&gt; that you are forcing a scammy recurring billing scheme on your users. I am &amp;hellip; not a fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible we might offer a 6 month option, but nothing shorter than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T06:19:53.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31658" CreationDate="2009-12-03T06:20:51.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should wait until the real API is delivered, sometime in the next 3-4 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T06:20:51.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31285" CreationDate="2009-12-03T06:26:43.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The numbers wouldn't make sense -- I can't tell you which of those employers are hiring nationwide or even internationally versus locally. Furthermore, we don't actually track location of Employers in the way that we do for CVs. By that I mean there are no lat/long and location geodata XML fields in that table, just your standard AddressLine1, AddressLine2, City, State, Zip, sort of affair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would make &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; more sense to provide general data about search metrics and locations frequently used in searches, IMO, than this. Tempted to decline for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:47:51.733" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:47:51.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T06:38:03.827" Score="-1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did stackoverflow insert images into their badges? I don't know what you would have to change in the mysql database to have it show html. Can anyone tell me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T06:43:20.230" Title="How does SO get Images in their badges?" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31670" CreationDate="2009-12-03T06:40:55.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;that image came from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134397" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T06:43:20.230" />
  <row Id="31673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31285" CreationDate="2009-12-03T07:34:54.013" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing a lot of questions about this: who are the employers? where are they? how many employers will find me? etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something about these questions wasn't exactly making sense to me, and I wasn't sure what, but I think I've figured it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got your job seekers in column A. You got your employers in column B. Someone gets hired when there's a match between column A and column B. Bing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways they can find each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The employer can advertise that an opening is available. The job seeker can find that advertisement, and submit a resume to see if there's a fit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The job seeker can advertise their availability. The employer can find that advertisement, and contact the job seeker to see if there's a fit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, so far it seems obvious. Bear with me here, there's a point buried in all this pony poop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Both methods have their place.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advantage of method #1 is that the &lt;em&gt;job seeker&lt;/em&gt; gets immediate gratification. They look at a bunch of openings, pick the ones that look interesting, submit resumes, and hear back, hopefully quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advantage of method #2 is that the &lt;em&gt;employer&lt;/em&gt; gets immediate gratification. Instead of running an ad and waiting a month for resumes to drift in, they can start browsing resumes right away and get someone hired much more quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some employers don't care about the immediate gratification. Microsoft spends millions on campus recruiting to recruit people that won't start working for two or three years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some employers really do. Here at Fog Creek we're up to our ears in work and, mythical man month be damned, I need people -- good people -- to interview right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, some job seekers don't care about the immediate gratification aspect. They might already have a decent job, and just be interested in hearing if there's an opportunity to move up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some job seekers do. Those job seekers are not just going to file their CV on StackOverflow and pray. They're going to file their CV, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; they're going to scour every frigging job listing site known to humanity, and get a Sunday newspaper, and call all their friends, and all the companies they know in the area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on which you are, you're either going to use method #1 or method #2. Method #1 lives at &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jobs.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; and method #2 lives at &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, but over time, those sites will tend to merge, I think, so that both methods are more obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are wondering which employers are searching on the careers site, you're asking the wrong question. You need to be at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;job listing site&lt;/a&gt;, not the &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CV listing site&lt;/a&gt;. And if you're in a smaller market where we don't have any job listings, you're going to have to go to the larger sites until we grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would any job seeker ever list their CV, then, if they can get immediate satisfaction by browsing job listings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the answer, I think, is the same reason anyone advertises anything. You want to advertise your skills so that when an employer in a rush comes searching, the type of employer who doesn't want to wait, your CV is in the mix. It's all a part of how you market your product. If you know where you want to work, apply there. Don't submit a CV and expect that they'll find you. But if you're interested in hearing offers &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; when interesting companies need to hire a programmer or two, keep your CV on file, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T07:34:54.013" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="31674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T07:59:03.393" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31638/can-job-seekers-perform-searches-on-careers-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;Can job seekers perform searches on careers.stackoverflow.com?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the blogpostings about careers it is mentioned that employers can search for free to see the match-count for type of programmers and region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for users to do this search as well? I would like to see whether there are more people in Finland using careers. If not, there will be never an employer signing up to hire people (just to see me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T07:59:03.393" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T08:11:05.913" Title="Can users search the way employers search?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31664" CreationDate="2009-12-03T08:37:47.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Candidates don't need to have a year long membership to be searchable by employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, that may be so in US, but in many regions of the world (such as Europe) to be looking for a job for average 2 years until you find a good match is a norm. Even if you're highly qualified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that situation monthly subscriptions would only be extra effort. Each month your process a payment and lose each time some fee, so 12 times a year instead of 1 or 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T08:37:47.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33296" CreationDate="2009-12-03T08:50:04.727" Score="6" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to make a proposal how we ordinary users can also benefit from that adventure called SO careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make a form for users to propose potential employers to sign-up on careers. if they do, users get some payoff from their new membership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like SO urgently needs a critical mass of employers. For now it's not very interesting for users hoping for a job offer, so some other way to benefit from it would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you drop the signup fee in case this user has brought some employer onboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T03:39:28.857" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T03:39:28.857" Title="Let users earn on employers sign-up" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31578" CreationDate="2009-12-03T09:15:17.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've also noticed some people mark their answer as CW when they're about to say something controversial and don't want to lose rep when it's down-voted... or gain rep when it's up-voted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T16:42:40.817" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T16:42:40.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-03T09:15:17.837" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28375" CreationDate="2009-12-03T10:17:50.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are marked up with microformats, the data will be available for Enhanced Results via SearchMonkey. If SO marks up with uF and starts showing up prevalantly on yahoo results, I'll make an enhanced result for resumes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkey+video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;videos&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ipod+5g+amazon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;products&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=thai+chili+santa+clara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reviews&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=stackoverflow+wikipedia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130173" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T10:17:50.563" />
  <row Id="31682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31638" CreationDate="2009-12-03T10:37:23.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If not specific searches, then it would certainly be useful to be able to compare yourself to the market. How many other people claim similar skillsets to yours, how many other people are in your area, how many searches that turned you up also turned others - and perhaps then what searches did you narrowly miss out on? Like a Google search summarising the numbers of other answers. If there are 20 similar developers to you in your area, you'll know to try harder to add details that set you apart. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central premise for careers.so is to try to match people with jobs? Shouldn't it be offering the people the tools to be attractive to searchers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't (just) about gaming the system. Searchers still need to trust the results and that seekers are not fabricating skills they don't actually have, but the best way of improving your CV is by being told what it isn't showing (but could) or what you might not consider important, but apparently is something that people are currently looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T10:37:23.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T11:54:22.370" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bash script line: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;for ((i = 0 ; i &amp;lt; ${#v1parts[@]} ; i++ )); do&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;doesn't format properly. The # is incorrectly interpreted as the beginning of a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130584" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T12:36:19.640" Title="Code formatting bug for Bash scripts with array size expression" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31285" CreationDate="2009-12-03T12:28:36.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it is careers is kind of like asynch job searching for developers. You throw your CV out and forget about it, and maybe sometime in the future an offer will come in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;game&quot; is all about 'how can I market myself to prospective employers' rather than 'How can I find the employers looking for me?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's irrelevant really to be asking 'how many people are hiring in my area', because you can find that yourself by looking at all the other job boards out there and filtering by location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a more useful bit of information would be to display how many developers are in your &quot;pool&quot;... so you can look at ways to differentiate yourself from the crowd to make you more appealing to prospective employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="493" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T12:28:36.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31683" CreationDate="2009-12-03T12:36:19.640" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a problem with &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google-code-prettify&lt;/a&gt; which stackoverflow uses to render code; not with stackoverflow itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T12:36:19.640" />
  <row Id="31686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31678" CreationDate="2009-12-03T13:07:09.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd just tell the employer that SO Careers exists and that I like it.  If they want to use it, I'm glad I helped Jeff &amp;amp; Co - and if they don't, that's all right cause I don't have anything invested in their usage or non-usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T13:07:09.630" />
  <row Id="31688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31689" CreationDate="2009-12-03T13:41:21.333" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer&quot;&gt;What if you have a careers CV but want to post a job as an employer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've previously associated my OpenID with semi-finished CV and SO account on Careers. Now I'd like to get an idea of how many developers are available in my area, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer&lt;/a&gt; redirects me to my own CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to search for people from my account, or do I have to use a different OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139821" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T14:05:30.307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T14:13:52.787" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T17:22:17.437" Title="How do I get to employer view of Careers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;employer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31688" CreationDate="2009-12-03T14:05:19.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need a second OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31639/can-i-be-registered-on-careers-stackoverflow-com-as-an-employer-and-a-candidate&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31639/can-i-be-registered-on-careers-stackoverflow-com-as-an-employer-and-a-candidate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134955" LastEditorUserId="134955" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T14:13:52.787" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T14:13:52.787" />
  <row Id="31690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31635" CreationDate="2009-12-03T14:19:00.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;$500 out of your own Average Joe pocket is a decent amount of money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;$500 to a growing business looking for top quality employees is nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the rates are pretty low. I was actually shocked to see how low they were after hearing Jeff say there would be a high barrier to entry based on price. If a company can't afford to invest in proper recruitment, how on earth are they going to afford to pay you a reasonable salary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T14:19:00.983" />
  <row Id="31691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31635" CreationDate="2009-12-03T14:48:01.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been vocal about the business model and critical of the fee to job seekers, but I agree with Jeff, Joel and the others that $500 is actually a pretty good bargain.  If you think that is expensive then you have not been a hiring manager or HR person for more than, oh, about 4 hours.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the &quot;money back&quot; policy it is pretty low risk.  If you're in a position to hire it seems like this is a service that is well worth it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I still have criticisms about the fee for seekers though)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T14:48:01.257" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T14:54:53.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers, I suspect, is going to hit its stride in 3-5 years as good programmers who use SO move into management.  Until then it's likely to be a bit slow and limited to the high-tech, early adopter areas - unless Joel and Jeff do a bang-up job of advertising the service to existing managers.  It's going to be a hard sell though, given that with many recruitment services you don't pay unless you hire.  Here you pay regardless of hire, and despite the money back guarantee that's a bump in the road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T14:54:53.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31700" CreationDate="2009-12-03T15:05:33.007" Score="-4" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some questions about how other people handle things related to programming , but not programming questions per se. How they deal with a client issue etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were a site that was for asking those types of questions it would be helpful to others as well I am sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of the poll, opinion, type things could be migrated there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does't seem wrong to want to specifically ask a large group of programmers how they handle non-programming issues. Is this the wrong place to ask for a feature like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137837" LastEditorUserId="137837" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T17:28:56.863" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T17:37:17.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-03T17:28:56.863" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T17:55:46.067" Title="An 'opinionateduser' site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T15:07:27.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;3 Search Hits on Your CV :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132883" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T15:07:27.853" />
  <row Id="31696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T15:16:32.483" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-rating-questions&quot;&gt;Why aren&amp;rsquo;t people rating questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noted a fact on SO badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;● Nice Answer  × 39355 &#xA;● Nice Question × 7601&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(5.2:1 rate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;● Good Answer  × 6433 &#xA;● Good Question × 1199&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(5.3:1 rate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;● Great Answer  × 712&#xA;● Great Question × 105&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(6.8:1 rate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, since the badges are awarded for the same amount of accumulated votes in each category, it appears that people tend to vote more for the answers than the questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;just a thought...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T15:22:26.297" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T15:24:40.240" Title="why people vote more answers than questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31696" CreationDate="2009-12-03T15:22:26.297" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question is neither wrong or right.  It's a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers, however, can be rated on a number of scales relating to the question - right/wrong, appropriate/inappropriate, elegant/inelegant, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answers are naturally going to get more votes than the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, there's no real benefit to upvoting the question - it doesn't place it any higher or lower in any normal listing (until it hits hundreds of votes), it doesn't push it back on the front page, etc.  It's the equivalent of saying, &quot;Me too!&quot; to the question, but nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers change significantly in ordering (for most users) based on voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T15:22:26.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T15:26:01.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My stats are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;109 Global Employers (beta)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1106 Global Searches&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  63 Search Hits on Your CV&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  13 Public Views of Your CV&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10 Employer Views of Your CV&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2 Email Inquiries to You from Employers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2 Email Responses from You to Employers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="45" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T13:53:03.997" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T13:53:03.997" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T15:32:27.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of this morning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1027 Global Searches&#xA;84 Search Hits on Your CV&#xA;8 Employer Views of Your CV&#xA;--------&#xA;8.17% Search Hits (Search Hit / Global Searches)&#xA;9.52% Employer View (Search Hit / Employer View)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T15:32:27.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31694" CreationDate="2009-12-03T15:39:05.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Can't find one? Make it happen.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you build a compelling enough site, you'll be well on your way to building the community you're looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes this site special is that all (well, most) of that opinionated stuff isn't here detracting away from what we came for: specific answers to specific programming questions. This site is better for being focused on a specific set of objectives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastEditorUserId="25163" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T17:37:17.100" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T17:37:17.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31728" CreationDate="2009-12-03T16:22:53.553" Score="7" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I enter my county (Kent) as a location on the careers site, it comes back as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Kent County, England United Kingdom&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which looks very odd to a British person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main thing wrong is that no county in the UK has the word &quot;County&quot; at the end of its name, it should just be &quot;Kent&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of counties such as Lancashire or Nottinghamshire the word &quot;county&quot; is even more redundant as that is what &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shire&lt;/a&gt;&quot; means. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Nottinghamshire County, England United Kingdom&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bug seems to be a result of using American conventions for all locations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things get even more confused when you consider that there are some counties that have &quot;County&quot; at the start of their name (mostly in Northern Ireland).  If I enter my location as County Durham, I get this redundant creation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;County Durham County, England United Kingdom&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the rules aren't consistent.  If I enter County Down, I get this, which is not redundant, just &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%5FDown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;backwards&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Down County, Northern Ireland United Kingdom&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more minor gripe is that there should be a comma between England/Northern Ireland/Wales/Scotland and United Kingdom (although it's not typical usage to specify both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24962/careers-wont-let-me-list-reykjavik-iceland-as-location&quot;&gt;Careers wont let me list Reykjavik, Iceland as location&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29496/careers-location-does-not-work-well-for-large-metro-areas&quot;&gt;Careers: Location does not work well for large metro areas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T20:35:12.490" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T20:35:12.490" Title="UK careers locations are formatted unconventially/inconsistently" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31664" CreationDate="2009-12-03T16:41:04.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even at $99/year I don't see much value for anything shorter than 3 months and could probably live with 6 months.  Doing a per-month option at $10 or less per month seems like too much overhead.  If you get a new job in less than the amount of time you've paid for does it really matter?  Just mark your profile as not searchable and take yourself off the market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the way to think about is really whether $99 is worth it to get a new job whether you plan to be looking for 1 month or 12 months.  If you don't find enough value in advertising yourself through SO to offset the cost, then don't play the game.  I'm sure that if there isn't enough developer demand at the price/time levels that are available, the rates/times will change to reflect a better model (or @Jeff will get of the careers business).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T16:41:04.923" />
  <row Id="31708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31712" CreationDate="2009-12-03T17:05:10.153" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1839877/how-to-get-files-modification-date-in-ddmmyy-format-in-perl/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; I asked a question, with a specific restriction (&quot;without using the DateTime module&quot;), to which I am bound. I got the answer that helped me, after which I decided that this restriction is relevant only to specific environment in which I am working, and the question will be useful for much more people without this restriction. So, I edited the question, and specified the reason for the edit in the comment. This made one of the already given answers wrong. Is my behavior OK, or should I've asked another question instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132403" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:47:30.483" Title="Is it OK (and right) to change the question to a more general one (which makes it more useful, but also makes some of the already given answers incorrect)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="31709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T17:04:42.497" Score="0" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I ask a question on metastackoverflow without an openid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says, &quot;you must type your name or openid&quot; and where do I type a nickname if I have no openid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, at least, it asks for &quot;openid or name email homepage&quot;, but here I see only an openid textbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T17:19:10.437" LastActivityDate="2010-09-24T04:02:00.693" Title="Meta requires OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31709" CreationDate="2009-12-03T17:07:43.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; You can't. &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt; &lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T17:07:43.203" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31709" CreationDate="2009-12-03T17:15:56.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta requires an openid; anonymous posting is disabled here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T17:15:56.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31708" CreationDate="2009-12-03T17:17:10.723" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have asked a separate question.  If you can catch it before anyone answers I would say that it's okay to change it.  But if your changes cause someone's answer to be wrong (and potentially get downvotes for it) then I'd leave that question alone and just ask a new one.  You can always link the two questions together as &quot;Related&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T17:17:10.723" />
  <row Id="31717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31720" CreationDate="2009-12-03T17:54:56.410" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my laptop that I use from home, my reputation link looks like this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/210754?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-12-01&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-12-03&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/210754?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-12-01&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-12-03&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on my desktop at work, the start/end dates aren't there and I can't track my meteroic rise to fame minute by minute.  Don't know why I care except that it's different.  Can anyone shed light?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T18:11:22.480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:20:10.267" Title="Reputation Tab sometimes has recent score, sometimes not" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31709" CreationDate="2009-12-03T17:55:30.153" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta requires OpenID?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I ask a question on metastackoverflow without an openid?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a throw away openid account - they are trivially easy to get from lots of providers. (best solution)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask on SO and have the question migrated (frowned upon).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get one of the tens of thousands of SO users to install a keylogger, and use their openid (possibly illegal).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T17:55:30.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31717" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:09:12.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you click on the envelope, you get the link with no start/end date parameters. That is (in theory) activity since your last login. So when you get home you're looking at activity since you left the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you click on one of the tabs or one of the today/yesterday/etc buttons, the StartDate/EndDate params will be added to the URL.  You must have clicked on &quot;this month&quot; on your work machine without realizing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5166/datelinks.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T18:20:10.267" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:20:10.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:11:48.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hit-rate (Search Hits / Global Searches) = 4.39%&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View-rate (Employer Views / Search Hits) = 8.51%&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually kind of makes me feel better about my rates after calculating the percentages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:11:48.223" />
  <row Id="31725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34498" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:37:21.313" Score="9" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than paying $99/year, I'd like to consider paying once to remain subscribed to the site forever.  The site's stated purpose is to link active job seekers with great employers, and thus the 'nominal' fee for the job seekers.  Having a lifetime subscription seems counter to that motive, however I've found that if you aren't always looking for a job, then when (not if) the current one ends you will find yourself in a longer period of unemployment than if you had kept your hook in the water, even while happily employed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the average person (US citizen, from dept of labor) changes careers about 3-5 times in their life, and they work for about 45 years, then the average career length is 9-15 years.  I propose somewhere around $261 - $435 (promotional $29 * [9, 15]) for the promotional period, and $891 - $1,485 after that for a lifetime subscription.  It would therefore only be a discount if entered into right now, or if one plans on staying in this career for longer than 9-15 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T18:04:24.260" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:04:50.810" Title="Lifetime careers subscription" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;subscription&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31727" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:40:09.700" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;The footer on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; mentions a &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BY-NC-SA license&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;em&gt;podcasts&lt;/em&gt;, but doesn't mention the text on the blog itself. I'm asking because, as a StackExchange user, I find lots of content there very inspiring and would like to &quot;borrow&quot; (translate) some of it for my own Q&amp;amp;A community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132962" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:41:56.937" Title="License for StackOverflow Blog content" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;&lt;content&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31726" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:41:56.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is fine, as long as you provide a link back (citation) to the original source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:41:56.937" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31701" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:46:26.210" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do append county to the result - for US based counties it looked very strange and could lead to confusion IE. Kent - Kent, WA is a city but Kent is also a county - I'll add logic to the location that if the result is a type of county and it is located in the US, append county.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:46:26.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31708" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:47:30.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're going to edit it like that, rather than ask another question, make it clear that you did it.  You changed the question, and only mentioned the change in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like:  &quot;What's the best way to do foo?  (Note:  I originally asked for a way without bar, and some of the answers reflect that.)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, you're making somebody look bad, and possibly costing him or her rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T18:47:30.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31737" CreationDate="2009-12-03T18:57:46.003" Score="4" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I use a handle that's not my real name on the trilogy, I'm a little concerned about what information is made available if I link an account (I obviously don't mind that potential employers can see anything)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I link an account, is there any publicly accessible way to take my trilogy handle and access any CV information if the CV is not public but an account is associated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1569" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:29:28.253" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:29:28.253" Title="Will linking a trilogy account to my CV make my CV discoverable from my account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31730" CreationDate="2009-12-03T19:02:20.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your CV is not public, then it is not publicly accessible, period.  It may be accessible through employer searches if you've filed your CV, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T19:02:20.580" />
  <row Id="31733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31725" CreationDate="2009-12-03T19:04:40.500" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're missing the point of the careers site.  You can already have a publicly visible CV on the site for free.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fee is just to be &quot;listed&quot; in the search database, and the whole point here is that this listing fee attracts employers by drastically cutting down on the noise that normally plagues these databases.  Additionally, when you list in the service you're only competing for searches with other &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; job seekers, making it easier for you stand out from the crowd (because the crowd is smaller).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore allowing permanent or extended listings undermines the system at both ends.  The &quot;noise&quot; level in the database goes up, and so employers have less interest.  And the number of listed users goes up, and so you have more competition for your listing.  This ultimately makes the careers site &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; useful to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do need something, though, for the people like contractors who are always looking for that next gig.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T19:17:37.730" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T19:17:37.730" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31725" CreationDate="2009-12-03T19:13:22.013" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As successful as SO has been I'd be hesitant to fork over a grand or more for a lifetime subscription to a site that whose longest lived sibling has only been around for a little over a year.  Let's see how things shake out and, if it's still around in a decade, a lifetime subscription might make sense.  I thought $29 for 3 was a reasonable risk, but I'm not sure if I'd go any higher unless I was serious about finding another job &lt;strong&gt;right now&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T19:13:22.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T20:01:14.280" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can add an answer but I can't comment on any other answer. I havea reputation of over 10K and I have been able to comment for over a year, so wht is happening today to make the site decide I can't comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139850" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T21:17:01.353" Title="Can't make comments on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31735" CreationDate="2009-12-03T20:04:35.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried clearing your browser cache?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes browsers / proxies inappropriately cache outdated versions of the files we serve and this causes problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T20:04:35.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31730" CreationDate="2009-12-03T20:06:14.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this is not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link is one way, from careers to SO. It is only visible on the careers side -- and even then &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; if you've either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paid to file your CV and made it searchable by employers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;set up a public CV URL and made your CV public&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-03T20:23:56.050" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T20:23:56.050" />
  <row Id="31738" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T20:18:07.870" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31639/can-i-be-registered-on-careers-stackoverflow-com-as-an-employer-and-a-candidate&quot;&gt;Can I be registered on careers.stackoverflow.com as an employer and a candidate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer&quot;&gt;What if you have a careers CV but want to post a job as an employer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the employer side of Careers was not working until now, I tried to see how it looks from the side of a candidate looking for a job. Now I am in a situation where I am unable to access Careers as what I really am, an employer. However, when I log in into Careers with my OpenID, I am taken straight into my job-searching profile and I am given no option to access the employer side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I fix this so that my account is correctly considered an employer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135545" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T08:52:51.950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:52:51.950" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T20:32:59.810" Title="I have tried Careers as a candidate, but now cannot create an employer account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31639" CreationDate="2009-12-03T20:41:41.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you cannot - currently. A single OpenID cannot be both employer and candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it should be possible to implement this and there is no reason why one person could not be both at the same time, or could not be in one role first and second role later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is kind of ironic to need two OpenIDs to log into a single site, considering the purpose of the OpenIDs was to reduce the need to create a new identity for each site.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already upvoted comment to Jeff's answer in this sense, but perhaps having it as a separate answer (which, off course will be upvoted much more times than the Jeff's one) will make more prominent argument such feature should really be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135545" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T20:41:41.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30757" CreationDate="2009-12-03T20:50:53.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is caused by a bad design decision, or perhaps there are some technical reasons behind it. Someone though you cannot sensibly be in both roles at the same time or even in one role first and second role later, or it was somewhat easier to implement it this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, forcing someone to create two OpenIDs for one site is quite ironic considering OpenID is meant to provide unified login infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135545" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T20:50:53.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31743" CreationDate="2009-12-03T21:15:51.293" Score="0" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to post a response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1772340/what-is-the-worst-programming-job-you-ever-had-and-why&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't want it to show up in my list of answers (not only because I don't want it associated with my careers account, but also I don't want it associated with me &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;). It would be nice if I could check this while submitting my post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[ x ] Post anonymously (no reputation will be earned; post will not appear in your list of questions/answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which would make the post be owned by the Community user, so that it is truly anonymous.  If this option were available when editing a post (like &quot;make community wiki&quot; is), it could be used to anonymize earlier posts as well, without needing to involve a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-29T17:45:09.917" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T17:45:09.917" Title="Allow anonymization of posts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;&lt;anonymous&gt;&lt;ownership&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="31742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31735" CreationDate="2009-12-03T21:17:01.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you still shown as being logged in? Occasionally when I've suddenly lost the ability to do stuff, it's because the system has forgotten me for some reason - logging in clears everything up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T21:17:01.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31741" CreationDate="2009-12-03T21:22:58.423" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Log out and make the post anonymously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T21:22:58.423" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31741" CreationDate="2009-12-03T21:28:40.193" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either you log out and post anonymously, or don't answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want people finding something, don't do it, it's the safest way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T21:28:40.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31741" CreationDate="2009-12-03T21:29:22.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That isn't the best of questions to use as a basis for such a feature request... whether the referenced question belongs on SO at all is, I think, open to differences of opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T21:29:22.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T21:44:17.743" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this based on one hiring manager's openid, or is the $5000 annual fee good for an entire company?  Is it based on one geographic location?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to highlight the question is with an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say someone with a Microsoft email address pays $5000 for an annual subscription.  Does that mean all of Microsoft's hiring managers can search the database all year for all locations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is in the FAQ, I'll go take a look again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is &quot;no&quot;  hiring manager use only - based on language in the FAQ, but it is not specifically stated.  For example - if Steve Ballmer were the one who signed up, he could potentially do a search for all locations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, is this location based or tied to manager?  I know of many scenarios where a manager is responsible for multiple locations.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:39:44.997" Title="Do employers have &quot;enterprise&quot; license for the employer functionality on careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T21:49:17.113" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted-closed&quot;&gt;Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted/closed&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while I get curious about answers I've posted in the past, and I've not found a way to find the ones I've deleted.  If I stumble upon a question whose answer I've deleted I can see it, but there appears to be no way to find those questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T22:06:48.423" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T23:09:29.090" Title="How can I find my own deleted answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31747" CreationDate="2009-12-03T22:06:48.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One workaround is favoriting any question where you delete an answer. Not the best solution, but it works to a degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T22:06:48.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-03T22:43:41.650" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138859" LastActivityDate="2009-12-03T22:43:41.650" ClosedDate="2009-12-03T22:54:22.643" Title="Is there a gold version of Civic Duty?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;gold&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31285" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:18:04.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This strikes me as a fairly typical &quot;bring me a rock&quot; type of feature request. It's not a bad request necessarily. Seems to me Joel and Jeff are just disinclined to acquiesce because they feel that if they provide exactly what was requested, people won't like the result (&quot;That's not the right rock I asked for. Bring me a different one.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's response (trying to publish actual search data using valid metrics) seems like the best approach, at least initially. I vote for getting something out quickly along those lines and see where it leads. Deploy rapidly. Iterate often. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000788.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Right, Jeff&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132807" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T00:18:04.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31755" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:20:02.940" Score="16" ViewCount="876" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't help but wonder what has happen to TheTXI lately.  Has he been put on demanding project that has taken all his free time?  He hasn't responded to anything on meta since Nov 6, on SU Oct 9, SO Nov 4, etc.  We miss his sly helpful answers on meta and his blunt to the point SU responses, and those ever so useful SO posts. Has Diago done such an awesome job that he doesn't need to do much to SU lately? The dude has gone into silence and used to comment/answer all the time. He has so much rep, he didn't even move spots in the top users of meta. When will TheTXI return?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ponyoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ponyoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Whoever has his email or contact with him should send him a link to this question. Does he respond to his contact info in his meta profile? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2:  Please see Jeff Atwood's answer for further information.  And congrats to Ivo becoming part of the moderator team!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-25T11:03:18.680" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T11:03:18.680" Title="We miss TheTXI!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;ponies&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="31753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31752" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:23:46.180" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has he been put out to pasture? He couldn't have gone to glue as he would still stick around...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T00:23:46.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31752" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:41:16.817" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, he hasn't even responded to recent moderator-related emails, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing urgent, mind you, but the lack of response was odd.. guess he's busy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is getting serious. I can't get any response to emails on multiple email addresses, and these are his &quot;last-seen&quot; dates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO: Nov 30&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SF: Sep 8&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;SU: Oct 28&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;ME: Dec 7  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a problem, since TheTXI is a moderator on Super User and he hasn't been seen once there in two full months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, finally got a response. Seems work is in permanent lockdown mode, and there's lots of &quot;stuff&quot; going on at home. Glad he's OK at least! He agrees that we should transfer his mod to someone else who has more time to work with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need someone who is actively participating on SU on a daily basis. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130099/ivo&quot;&gt;Ivo&lt;/a&gt; was one of the runner ups in the SU moderator election, and he is an active participant to this day on SU. &lt;strong&gt;Effective immediately, I am transferring TheTXI's moderator status to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130099/ivo&quot;&gt;Ivo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T16:42:07.767" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T16:42:07.767" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31752" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:48:11.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was abducted by aliens disguised as ponies... who could resist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T00:48:11.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31752" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:51:10.153" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's in IRC. Let me see if he's at his keyboard. &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Just upvote me a lot in anticipation.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logs say the last thing he said was today, at 17:16 ADT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &quot;the general ledger of this application needs to work perfectly by January 1st, so I'll probably need you to put in extra hours this month&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; whenever my boss does this I get the sudden urge to start looking for other jobs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that, at 17:03 ADT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; I love when a boss goes and makes unrealistic promises or expectations and then expects you to work like a dog to try and fulfill those unrealistic expectations&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and then you don't get rewarded when you inevitably fail to live up to unrealistic unexpectations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is like that movie Memento. Remember that? The main character sure doesn't! &lt;em&gt;[rimshot]&lt;/em&gt; 16:15 ADT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in reply to Mike Hudson saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;whodey&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; ever bid on something and then look closer and really start to hope you'll get outbid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of his earlier stuff around noon ADT is like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; wtf&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; whodey: only if you were equipment manager&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; rofl&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; you would&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; there's two z's?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TheTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; it was either evansville or drake that Hansbrough broke the unc scoring record against&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's things like this that make me really hate that guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's not replying to my hailing signals from a few minutes ago (Inferno is me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; Hey, the TXI&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; Where you at?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; I take it you're not here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; The guys are looking for you: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31752/txi-sucks&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31752/txi-sucks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that I use punctuation. TXI never does that. I hate that guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is #somafia on irc.slashnet.org, by the way. It's where cool people like Welbog idle. Today is the first time I've sent something to that channel in like two weeks. Though usually when I do type stuff it's along the lines of &quot;Jeff Atwood sure is silly&quot; but with better vocabularity. &quot;Vocabularity&quot; is a portmanteau of the words &quot;vocabulary&quot; and &quot;vulgarity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exciting update (21:13 ADT):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;--&gt; zaatkin (~zaatkin@cloak-E6292A23.san.res.rr.com) has joined #somafia&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;zaatkin&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; why has TheTXI disappeared?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;zaatkin&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; NO!!!!!!!!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; Shinjae&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;-- zaatkin has quit (Quit: zaatkin)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  --&gt; zaatkin (~zaatkin@cloak-E6292A23.san.res.rr.com) has joined #somafia&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;zaatkin&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; huh?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; Shinjae&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;-- zaatkin has quit (Quit: zaatkin)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know who that guy was, but I sure showed him! I continue to lie in wait for TXI sightings at least for an hour or so before I go to sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still nothing. No TXI sightings in sight. I swore a bunch in IRC, though. That's activity. I'm not going to paste it here. If you want to see my vocabularity you can just log into Wave or IRC your lazy self. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is happening?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;--&gt; TehTXI (Mibbit@cloak-1C1D00B7.americas.lc.americanstandard.com) has joined #somafia&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; OH NO&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;YummyBot&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; oh no are we about to jump into the rotary engine debate again&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; A DOPPELGANGER&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; I WILL EAT YOUR FACE OFF AND REVEAL THE TRUTH&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TehTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; My face is tasty. Like waffles and pizza and chocolate mousse&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; You're not TXI. TXI doesn't use punctuation.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TehTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; thats truth yes its isnt obvious&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; I'm convinced.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; Where have you been? Everyone is looking for you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TehTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; eating ponies and pizzas and stuff&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;TehTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; i gain a powerful hunger come winter&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; I'm getting skeptical again. TXI does not eat ponies. That's &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt; cannibalism.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; But he is fat, so you have that going for you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  --&gt; DaTXI (Mibbit@cloak-1C39BE42.clsp.qwest.net) has joined #somafia&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DaTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt; doesnt &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DaTXI&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt;  is where &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt; go for &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt;  too much&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Inferno&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;[expletive deleted]&lt;/em&gt; right.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The replicon TXIs have vacated the channel. Still no sign of the real deal, so I'm going to call it a night. See you &lt;em&gt;[expletive delete]&lt;/em&gt; later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T02:16:09.640" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T02:16:09.640" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="31758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26844" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:52:18.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth... Disassociation was suggested many months ago &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/119352-if-we-can-t-delete-questions-allow-us-to-disown-them&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;, and got roughly the same response there then as it is here now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I still think it's a good idea&lt;/strong&gt;. There would need to be some safeguards (for instance, your name should stick around in the revision history, and I would hope that moderators would see everything you've posted and disowned just as they see deleted items now), but I don't see any insurmountable problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, &lt;strong&gt;it already happens&lt;/strong&gt;. If you delete your account... or if a question is migrated to a site where you don't have an account... then the association appears to be largely broken (apart from an entry in the revision history). Turning this into a feature could also help to smooth out some of the rough edges associated with the scenarios where it &lt;em&gt;already happens&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That being said&lt;/strong&gt;, if you're posting stuff you don't want potential employers to find... using a name you care to re-use... on a site that has only soft-delete and keeps permanent revision history... You're a little bit naive. Even if you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; convince SO to wash the revision history as well (which I think would be practically an &lt;em&gt;invitation&lt;/em&gt; for abuse, and hardly think they would ever agree to), there are regular, public data-dumps: and you're &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; gonna cleanse all of those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO needs to be careful not to give new users the impression that they have any hope of cleaning up their tracks... or they'll quickly come to the same sad realization you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T00:52:18.217" />
  <row Id="31759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6834" CreationDate="2009-12-04T00:58:08.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would affect Opera for most users too; at least stackheads with the page set in Opera's speed-dial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opera uses the speed-dial (customizable grid of favorite pages miniaturized) as default for new tabs; not 100% sure what reloading policy that governs by default, but it would be a sensationally crappy feature if it didn't at least do it once a day ;-)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I'm an avid Opera and SO-user...wait...no StackOverflow in speed-dial...will keep sentence in answer, and mayhap post as a silver-medalist in a month.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137078" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T00:58:08.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T01:20:56.153" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28938/how-much-reputation-do-you-need-to-be-worth-using-careers-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;How much reputation do you need to be worth using Careers.Stackoverflow.com?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a new user and just signed up to Stack Overflow, after I discovered jobs.stackoverflow.com today through Joel Spolsky's blog today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm wondering whether filing a CV is &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; useful if one is also an active Stack Overflow user, who has positive &quot;karma&quot; (reputation) already? Would a new user turn up in search results by employers at all? Or is it shown, just with zero points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does the CV turn up anyway, when possible employers search by location or keywords, and doesn't necessarily look negative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139863" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-27T11:37:53.520" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T11:39:09.350" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T13:56:25.747" Title="Is filing a CV useful, even if not having accumulated reputation yet?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;&lt;employer-cv-view&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-04T01:34:27.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in pretty much the same boat as cletus (and country (without the pretty much)). I do have 1 Search hit however, but I have Willing to Relocate checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;105    Global Employers (beta)&#xA;1077   Global Searches&#xA;1      Search Hits on Your CV&#xA;7      Public Views of Your CV&#xA;0      Employer Views of Your CV&#xA;0      Email Inquiries to You from Employers&#xA;0      Email Responses from You to Employers&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138654" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T01:34:27.267" />
  <row Id="31762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T01:42:17.690" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find Stack Overflow is a great place to measure programming statistics. If I want to look at the popularity of Scala vs Clojure vs Groovy, you can just look at the number of questions tagged of each. Could we see a line graph of how many questions a tag had over time? :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course, there are tons of things to take into account. Looking at just Stack Overflow, you would think C# is way more popular than Java, but other statistics say otherwise. Still, it would be a nice feature to have.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-10T09:56:12.087" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T09:56:12.087" Title="View tag statistics, how many questions have been asked over time" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="31763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31760" CreationDate="2009-12-04T01:42:17.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, if you're new, you're starting with a clean slate. When an employer looks at your profile and sees you signed-up 2 days ago, it's obvious that you can't have community recognition yet :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of us have been here since the very early parts of the private beta, or public beta, and have had, therefore, a lot of time to have earned reputation in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since the community is fully open, and everyone has euqal opportunity to answer new questions (or old ones), and be recognized, you're coming at a good time, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-27T11:39:09.350" LastActivityDate="2010-09-27T11:39:09.350" />
  <row Id="31764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31760" CreationDate="2009-12-04T01:56:38.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I filled in and listed my CV publicly, even though I only had 55 stackoverflow points at the time. I  now have 205 or so.  I wasn't looking for a job then, and I'm not looking for a job now.  Part of my thinking is that it just can't hurt to have stuff online about you, especially that you control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the patience for blogging (though I may yet try again), but I'm pretty consistent about using things like linkedin, stackoverflow, serverfault, and now careers.stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as a free CV editing and hosting service if nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, there's nothing more motivating to put yourself out there on stackoverflow than having your CV point at your score.  ;)  It's a net positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130606" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T01:56:38.380" />
  <row Id="31765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31820" CreationDate="2009-12-04T01:57:52.170" Score="13" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if meta SO is the place for this kind of thing but this is the 2nd time this has happend to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1844326/how-can-we-improve-the-performance-of-our-wpf-animations-100-of-them&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and had voted it up, changing it from a 0 to a 1.  After editing the title I went to favorite the question and accidentally clicked the &quot;vote down&quot; button, changing it from a 1 to a 0.  Since that was an accident, I clicked &quot;vote up&quot; to undo what I had done.  After clicking the &quot;vote up&quot; button, it came up with that annoying &lt;code&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless this question is edited&lt;/code&gt; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I think this is a bug&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when I click up, the vote total jumps up to 2, highlights the up arrow but then immediately pops up with the &lt;code&gt;vote too old&lt;/code&gt; message and changes the vote total to 0 and highlights the down arrow.  If I click the down arrow, as if I wanted to &quot;undo&quot; my down vote, it changes the vote total from 0 to 1, un-highlights the down arrow and pops up with the &lt;code&gt;vote too old&lt;/code&gt; message.  It immediately re-highlights the down arrow and keeps the vote total at 0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm not complaining about the &quot;vote too old&quot; stuff&lt;/strong&gt;, I'm fine with leaving my vote at up, but its as if it locks my vote at -1 instead of +1 as it should.  &lt;strong&gt;If it was working correctly, it would have errored and left my vote as +1.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary of steps to reproduce&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote down (it errors as it should, saying its too old to change)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Refresh page, vote is now locked as down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It mistakenly allowed one change to my vote and promptly locked it at that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&#xA;The question I linked to, I was able to edit it (retagged) and then change my vote back to an up, bringing it from a 0 to a 2.  However, I still believe this is a bug as it does not lock you into your initial vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is by design, maybe we can get a better more descriptive error message or maybe a prompt that asks us if we want to change our vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132898" LastEditorUserId="132898" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T14:44:59.017" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T02:31:45.087" Title="Voting bug, SO mistakenly lets me change my vote 1x but then locks it at that" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31765" CreationDate="2009-12-04T02:13:16.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You had the initial vote timer. First vote sets it off and counts down. But if the post gets edited (outside the five minute grace window) then you get only one chance to change it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That revote (or unvote) gets locked until the post is edited again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T02:13:16.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27614" CreationDate="2009-12-04T02:37:42.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would also be nice to be able to export as a (&lt;em&gt;gasp&lt;/em&gt;) plain-text version. A lot of these companies make me paste my resume into a little text box (even when they want to interview/hire me - just so its &quot;in their system&quot;) and I always have to manually format the darn thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the export feature now: &quot;Please enter how many columns wide the textbox is along with its maximum character limit.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T02:37:42.253" />
  <row Id="31769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T02:44:40.010" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28331/encoding-errors-in-education-tags&quot;&gt;encoding errors: � in Education tags&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the University or Education Facility selection dialog, non US-ASCII characters, in this case the German Umlaut '&lt;strong&gt;ä&lt;/strong&gt;' as in '&lt;strong&gt;Universität&lt;/strong&gt;', are shown like this: '&lt;strong&gt;Universit�t Karlsruhe&lt;/strong&gt;' (with the little black diamond with a question mark).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or does anybody else have this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2386" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T18:14:12.560" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T18:14:12.560" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T17:28:22.973" Title="Non US-ASCII characters in University or Education Facility selection" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31772" CreationDate="2009-12-04T02:55:31.537" Score="7" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can we make reputation a reflection of trust rather than how many ambiguous, argumentative, and general questions you can answer/ask before the mods notice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at any high reputation person, yes they certainly answer a lot of questions very well, but if you look at the things that actually generate their badges and reputation I can guarantee that they're almost all questions that are generic, argumentative, or horribly subjective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that this is in itself probably in the category that I speak of. But I posted a question that I was actually passionate about but it was closed for being argumentative. People even continued to favorite it after it was closed but that doesn't matter really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are the common thoughts about this? Does anyone even agree with me about this or is this just the rant of every newbie to the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139868" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T20:15:59.650" Title="How can we make SO reputation more realistic" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31770" CreationDate="2009-12-04T03:17:27.050" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make rep earned from community wiki questions go away, even if the answer was there prior to its wikification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T03:17:27.050" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="31773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T03:39:33.667" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be notified by RSS or email (if by email then right away, not once a day) of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments and answers on questions I've started&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments on answers I've commented on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to do this?  I find myself hitting refresh and browsing to StackOverflow to see if people have responded to comments I've left etc.  Hopefully SO has a feature so I don't ever have to actually check stuff on SO, instead just get notified when something happened so I can respond!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139871" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T10:00:08.970" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T10:00:08.970" ClosedDate="2009-12-04T10:00:20.000" Title="How can I get notified (by email or RSS) of the stuff I'm involved in at stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31775" CreationDate="2009-12-04T03:48:35.550" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have tried to ask several questions in a row, a message indicates that I have to wait for 20 minutes before posting my next question. Sometimes I want to ask more questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that, and when is that limitation removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139273" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T04:14:45.673" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T04:14:45.673" Title="When can I ask several questions in a row, without waiting?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31774" CreationDate="2009-12-04T03:54:02.750" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why is that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Some jackass abused the site and ruined it for everyone else.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and when is that limitation removed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get at least 100 reputation points. So, ask a few &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions, and when they get up-voted you'll be able to ask more &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T03:54:02.750" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T04:13:39.860" Score="11" ViewCount="511" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question - my &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt;-question as the case may be - concerns the purpose of these words referred to as &quot;tags&quot;. Let me be clear: I &lt;strong&gt;use&lt;/strong&gt; tags. The site supports them, so why shouldn't I? But my understanding of their &lt;em&gt;reason for existing&lt;/em&gt; is tragically incomplete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they used for searching? Are they useful in any &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; way? Or do they merely act as decoration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:58:23.330" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:58:23.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-10T21:01:05.010" Title="Why do we tag questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31776" CreationDate="2009-12-04T04:15:41.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are a handy way to create a manually-generated index of related content, with as little input effort as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140860" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T04:15:59.107" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-10T21:01:05.010" />
  <row Id="31779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31776" CreationDate="2009-12-04T04:45:48.177" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Encyclopedia Tagonica&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By John Rudy, Cigar Afficionado and Preeminent Expert on All Things Fleece&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kinds of Tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many kinds of tags in this great world. Some are physical, some are metaphoric, and some exist only in the darkest corners of software developers' minds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some tags which exist in the physical world:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Size tags on clothing. These tell you if the shirt you just bought will fit you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Present tags. These tell you the person to whom a present under the tree should go.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;License plates on cars are also sometimes known as tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some tags which exist in the metaphoric space:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a children's game called, &quot;tag.&quot; I hear it's fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In baseball, a popular play is called a tag, as in to tag a runner out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people refer to receiving a traffic citation as being &quot;tagged.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But chances are good you might be talking about tags on web sites, wherein we get to the Dark Corners of software developers' minds. Tags are used to organize content on web sites. They allow ad-hoc groupings of possibly-related information, typically generated by an online community. They allow users to then navigate more quickly and efficiently to the content located on the site, and to find potentially &quot;hidden&quot; relationships between said content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Trilogy sites, tagging is used in such a manner. Tagging in this way is also often used in the blogging world (also known as the &quot;blogosphere&quot;), and on other community-content-driven sites such as Flickr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The typical implementation of tagging in such sites is that a tag must be a single word. If a tag needs to be multiple words, different sites have different rules. Some just don't allow it -- you munge all the words together, for example, &quot;sqlserver2008.&quot; Others, like the Trilogy, encourage it, but prefer you to use dashes (&lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt;) between the words, for example, &quot;sql-server-2008.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Issues with Tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting aside the physical and metaphoric tags (which tend to not have too many issues, unless you've already been pulled over a few too many times), we will continue to focus on content organization. There are issues with this approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users define the tags. As a result, different users will define different tags for the same content. See &quot;winforms&quot; vs &quot;win-forms.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some users don't understand tags, and attempt to write a summary of their question in them. This leads to tags such as, &quot;the.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some users use tags which have no right to exist at all. Notable examples on the Trilogy include anything that starts with, &quot;belongs-on,&quot; as well as the ever-so-popular &quot;plzsendthecodes.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because tags are user-generated, they are also often user-editable after the fact. This allows good users to clean up the bad users' tags (removing, say, &quot;belongs-on-meta&quot;). Unfortunately, it also allows bad users to add bad tags to others' content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T04:55:39.860" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T04:55:39.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-10T21:01:05.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32189" CreationDate="2009-12-04T05:30:04.030" Score="5" ViewCount="1627" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whose profile page has left you quivering in its awesomeness and impressed upon you so much that you want your profile to have that profile's babies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conditions of impression being any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Design&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Humor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Credentials&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Awesomeness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Come on guys! Just this many... I am sure its not just humorous use of expletives that impresses us! Give me more... I consider that space to be prime real estate... let me know who has made the most creative use of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And the chosen one is:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/stack-overflow-trilogy-lego-minifigs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Creator of SO League of Web Justice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awesome work &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69684/mictech&quot;&gt;MicTech&lt;/a&gt; !!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137294" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:24:56.830" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:24:56.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T05:30:04.030" Title="Which user's About Me section has impressed you most?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="31782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-04T05:32:32.237" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;Welbog.&lt;/a&gt;  Hands down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T05:34:54.643" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T05:32:32.237" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-04T05:39:21.497" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14048/john-rudy&quot;&gt;John Rudy&lt;/a&gt; a.k.a &lt;em&gt;Smurfsnorting Farfulburger&lt;/em&gt; on MSO amuses me I must say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T05:39:21.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T05:39:21.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31776" CreationDate="2009-12-04T05:51:56.187" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To qualify as an arrogant bastard, I'm going to use myself as an example and assume everyone else pretty much does the same (probably not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I practically never look at the front page or generic questions page, simply because the volume of uninteresting questions drowns the ones I'm interested in. Instead, I only check the questions tagged to be related to stuff I'm interested in. Tags are a way to filter out uninteresting stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SO didn't have tags I'd never have time to wade through all the questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134356" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T05:51:56.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-10T21:01:05.010" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31770" CreationDate="2009-12-04T06:04:10.843" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speak for yourself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've answered loads of questions that get either 15 rep or 25 rep.  They're the hard ones to answer.  Sometimes the OP is so low on rep that they can't upvote, so it's only worth 15.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it's just a drive-by posting and the person never returns.  That one's worth zippo.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to answer C# questions, but get &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Skeeted&lt;/a&gt; every time I try.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any rep that I gain on the occasional question that I can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;FGITW&lt;/a&gt; that everyone happens to know the answer so they can upvote it, is payback for built-up karma from the table-scrap questions, as far as I'm concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T19:47:52.523" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T19:47:52.523" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31760" CreationDate="2009-12-04T06:12:28.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go ahead and sign up, employers will still be interested&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a search and contacted at least two people who had just signed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, we're still soliciting for this job, if anyone is interested in writing software for making movies: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?5746&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?5746&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T06:12:28.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2009-12-04T06:13:54.057" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a storyboard depicting how an improved comment notification system could be implemented on SO sites...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;///// STORYBOARD - Version 1 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note - This is the original version. Please scroll down for version 2.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame 1 (v1-old)&lt;/strong&gt; - User has entered comment and wishes to notify Jeff Atwood that a new comment has been added to the thread. This is referred to as &quot;tagging&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/4308/commentnotificationconc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame 2 (v1-old)&lt;/strong&gt; - User has clicked &quot;select user(s)&quot; and brought up list of &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; commenters who indicated they are willing to be notified of new comments (by selecting &quot;Notify me only if commenter tags me&quot; or &quot;Notify me of all new comments&quot;). Notice that the first few words of the user's comment are included. This makes it easier to match up the right comment with the right person, and helps nullify any issues with two users having the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/4308/commentnotificationconc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame 3 (v1-old)&lt;/strong&gt; - User has selected Jeff Atwood and clicked Apply. Now, the &quot;Notify&quot; line reads &quot;Notify &lt;strong&gt;1 user&lt;/strong&gt; of new comment&quot; and an orange status bar appears to alert the user to the fact that Jeff Atwood has been tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/4308/commentnotificationconc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discussion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this UI offers the best of all worlds. Users do not have to receive any notifications if they don't want to. Users can specifically tag users that are willing to be notified if the comment is directed at them. Just as with many forums, only one notification needs to be sent per thread until the user checks the thread, so it's not like anyone will be spammed with 20 notifications when a single thread receives 20 comments. They'll simply receive one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only disadvantages I see are some added clutter and complexity, and of course, someone has to program this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right after posting this, I of course noticed something I'd like to change right off the bat. The radio buttons should actually be available all the time, not just when posting a comment. This way, users could subscribe even to threads they didn't comment on, and they could change their notification preference at any time. If there's any interest, I can fix the storyboard to reflect this change, but for now, I hope this offers some good food for thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;///// STORYBOARD - Version 2 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Kip is right that my original concept was too busy. Maybe this second attempt will be more &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;-like in simplicity and style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame 1 (v2)&lt;/strong&gt; - User has entered comment and wishes to &quot;tag&quot; Jeff Atwood so he will be notified of this comment. User clicks &quot;tag users&quot;. Note: the checkbox (&quot;do not allow users to tag me&quot;) could be changed to a friendlier &quot;do not notify me of new comments&quot;, although this may not be as clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4308/commentnotificationconc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame 2 (v2)&lt;/strong&gt; - User reviews list of commenters and clicks the checkbox next to Jeff Atwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8575/commentnotificationconcb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame 3 (v2)&lt;/strong&gt; - Subscribe feature allows users who have not commented in the thread to receive notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4308/commentnotificationconc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frame 4 (v2)&lt;/strong&gt; (see Frame 3 image)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link buttons in Frame 3 will change depending on the situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Subscribed users who now wish to stop receiving notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;add comment | stop notifications&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users who have commented in the thread and elected to allow users to tag them (but haven't subscribed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;add comment | full notifications | stop notifications&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Users who have commented in the thread but elected &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to allow users to tag them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;add comment | full notifications | allow users to tag me&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discussion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This version is much cleaner and less cluttered than the original version, yet it still allows users a great deal of flexibility in what notifications they receive. By default, users will only receive notifications if they own the question/answer (just as it works today) or if they have commented on the thread and a subsequent commenter tags them. However, users can opt out of any notification, or, conversely, elect to be notified of all new comments. Even users who have not commented in a thread can subscribe (and receive notification). All of this functionality is available with only a single checkbox and link button added to the current SO comment editor, and one or two additional link buttons next to the &quot;add comment&quot; link button at the bottom of each comment thread. The &quot;tag users&quot; link button expands into a simple checkbox list that users can use to tag users (but onlyu those users are willing to be tagged).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This UI would minimize the annoyance of receiving unwanted notifications, it would allow users to tag other users even though aliases are not unique (or static) on SO, and, most important, it would improve the exchange of information between SO users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;///// ANOTHER IDEA - Threading //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Threading provides some interesting advantages when it comes to comment notification, but there are definitely some issues with it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How it would work&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would be one &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; button for the overall thread, and one &lt;em&gt;reply&lt;/em&gt; button for each comment. If you comment directly on a question or answer, your comment will appear &quot;left justified&quot; (lined up with the left margin of the page). If you reply to an existing comment, your comment will appear indented beneath the comment you responded to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You receive notification if users comment on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question or answer (as usual) or if they reply to &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are organized into a format that is easy to understand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users are notified only if someone responds to something they wrote (either a question, answer, or comment).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UI changes are limited to indenting and the addition of a single &lt;em&gt;reply&lt;/em&gt; button per comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Need a mechanism to handle the edge case of a comment hierarchy that is so deep that there is no longer sufficient space to indent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also need a mechanism to handle deleted comments that have child comments, such as replacing the deleted comment with a placeholder that says &quot;(comment deleted by author)&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Complex hierarchies would become hard to visualize.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Might encourage casual chatting, which would make it more difficult to find the critical information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As suggested by Peter Mortensen, I've added red annotations to each image in the Version 2 storyboard to make it easier to see what the descriptive text is referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="131453" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T19:31:42.437" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T19:31:42.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-07T19:10:30.897" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="31788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31649" CreationDate="2009-12-04T07:12:28.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;108 Global Employers (beta)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1106 Global Searches&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  17 Search Hits on Your CV&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  4 Public Views of Your CV&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1 Employer Views of Your CV&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  0 Email Inquiries to You from Employers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  0 Email Responses from You to Employers  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is the Public Views are either mine or from my SO profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T07:12:28.317" />
  <row Id="31789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-04T07:16:04.800" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/119772/suraj-chandran&quot;&gt;Suraj&lt;/a&gt;, undoubtedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139879" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T07:16:04.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T07:16:04.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24226" CreationDate="2009-12-04T08:32:49.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just merge them, any possible confusion should be cleared by the other tags of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19756" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T08:32:49.067" />
  <row Id="31793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T09:22:48.447" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;[I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31765/voting-bug-so-mistakenly-lets-me-change-my-vote-1x-but-then-locks-it-at-that&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and it's not the same]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when visiting a question that i voted on a long time ago, it lets me remove my vote while the page is loading but then locks the vote down so i can't fix it. Can this be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T09:44:12.043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T09:44:12.043" Title="Sometimes able to remove vote mistakenly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31793" CreationDate="2009-12-04T09:43:50.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably because the post was edited since you cast your original vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post has been edited, it is eligible for re-voting by anyone who previously voted on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T09:43:50.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31796" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T10:11:09.013" Score="10" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31793/sometimes-able-to-remove-vote-mistakenly&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and multiple erroneous undos of votes with &quot;Show pictures&quot; off in browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose I ask a question and upvote good answers as they arrive and then abandon the question for a week. Then I get back to it to &quot;finalize&quot; it - upvote all useful answers and accept the best one. Now if any of the answers I've voted on have been edited clicking &quot;up&quot; undoes the vote but clicking &quot;up&quot; for the same time is not allowed. The problem is that &quot;up&quot; button is displayed differently for upvoted answers, but it has the same alt-text as the answers I haven't voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alt-texts for posts I've voted on should reflect that. Something like &quot;You marked this question as usefule. Click to undo&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T00:57:27.067" LastActivityDate="2010-04-23T01:00:03.910" Title="Alt text should be different for posts I've already voted on" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T10:18:16.070" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found small bug in reputation graph: if you enter start date before your registration date, or end date in future pink rectangle size becomes bigger than border for it:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6816/reputationgraph.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation graph&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My registration date is after 2009/09/10 and today is 2009/12/04 (date before 2009/12/07)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browser: IE8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139883" LastEditorUserId="139883" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T16:24:41.927" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:24:41.927" Title="Reputation graph tiny bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T10:30:13.420" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31639/can-i-be-registered-on-careers-stackoverflow-com-as-an-employer-and-a-candidate&quot;&gt;Can I be registered on careers.stackoverflow.com as an employer and a candidate?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer&quot;&gt;What if you have a careers CV but want to post a job as an employer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've started filling out my CV on &lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wanted to check out the search for employers but the page for it: &lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/search&lt;/code&gt; always takes me to &lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com/cv&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I not able to search through other CVs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T08:50:26.590" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:50:26.590" ClosedDate="2009-12-04T11:13:33.847" Title="Can't access careers search after creating a CV" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;employers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31799" CreationDate="2009-12-04T10:43:19.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on a single OpenID you are either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a jobseeker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an employer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are currently mutually exclusive. You can't be both at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're filling out a CV, that means you're not an employer looking to hire and thus won't be able to search other CVs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T10:43:19.080" />
  <row Id="31801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31802" CreationDate="2009-12-04T11:34:44.510" Score="7" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not able to submit a question using Opera 10.10 on Windows XP SP3.&#xA;I was logged in, every field was filled etc. No error messages were shown. After clicking the submit button, nothing happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this I opened FF3, logged in to the site, copy-pasted all the form fields from Opera to FF, and clicked submit. This was successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the &quot;Ask a question&quot; page's javascript doesn't support Opera. Please fix this. Opera is the only browser that rocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And now I just discovered that meta.stackoverflow.com has the same problem, as submitting this question with Opera was not possible and I had to do it with FF3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139886" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T11:46:41.837" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:25:53.297" Title="&quot;Post your question&quot; fails on Opera 10.10 Win XP SP3" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31801" CreationDate="2009-12-04T11:46:31.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, the site works fine with Opera 10.10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I just asked a question on our dev instance fine from Opera 10.10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there are &lt;strong&gt;some oddities with the way Opera handles the tags field&lt;/strong&gt;, and it is &lt;strong&gt;specific to how a given user interacts with that field&lt;/strong&gt; (eg certain sequences of user actions in the tag field trigger it, but not others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the many, &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; oddities of Opera. Same field presents no problems (for question submission, anyway) in Safari, Chrome, FF, IE, etcetera. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T22:25:53.297" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:25:53.297" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="31803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27038" CreationDate="2009-12-04T11:57:59.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's different databases per site.  Generally speaking, if you're not talking about rolling out thousands of sites, it's easier this way for scalability purposes.  Makes it easier to split the databases out onto different servers later if load requires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T11:57:59.777" />
  <row Id="31804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31770" CreationDate="2009-12-04T12:10:24.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make people pay real money for answers.  Oh, wait -- that's the other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.experts-exchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T12:10:24.057" />
  <row Id="31805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31762" CreationDate="2009-12-04T12:24:44.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great feature to have. On the other hand it is also very suitable for a separate site that uses the Creative Commons Data Dump. Lagging a maximum of one month behind is probably acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may construct such a site. But I don't promise anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T12:24:44.157" />
  <row Id="31806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31808" CreationDate="2009-12-04T12:27:03.403" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just started reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/602138/is-a-debugger-the-mother-of-all-evil&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which (&lt;strike&gt;probably because of the many upvotes&lt;/strike&gt;) is a community wiki question (if this is the right term for it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browsing through its answers, I see that all answers are marked community wiki as well (which makes sense, IMHO), except the accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because a CW question does not automatically force all answers to be CW as well? Or is it because there is not enough room on the physical page to display that it is CW as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I was wrong assuming that upvotes can make a question community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139839" LastEditorUserId="139839" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T13:27:27.413" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T13:27:27.413" Title="If a question becomes Community Wiki, are all answers switched to CW automatically as well?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31762" CreationDate="2009-12-04T12:32:19.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if such a statistic necessarily represents the popularity of something. It could also be taken as a hint that something has more questions because it is harder to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139839" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T12:32:19.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31806" CreationDate="2009-12-04T12:36:44.820" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4240/force-answers-into-cw-after-question-has-been-made-cw&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and my own experience I think that the situation is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) If the OP makes the question CW or the question becomes CW due to the number of edits, no existing answers are converted to CW, but all new answers are automatically CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for what looks like a complete list of ways that a question can become CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) If a moderator makes the question CW then all existing answers are converted to CW and all new answers are automatically CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T12:56:11.120" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T12:56:11.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31817" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:15:40.070" Score="4" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1846315/solved-controlling-visibility-of-html-controls-using-databinding&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question recently, and then figured out what was wrong myself after an hour or so of investigation.  Nobody else had put the correct solution down, so being a thoughtful chap I posted my answer and put an update in the question.  Being that there wwere no other upvoted answer and that I'm not able to mark my question as accepted for a couple of days I decided that I'd also put [SOLVED] in the title to show to anyone looking through the list of unanswered questions that its been solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now clearly I've broken some sort of unwritten rule here, because someone has downvoted it - apparently because of the [SOLVED] in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never mind that the question is well written, correctly tagged, and that its even a pretty reasonable question - none of that is worthy of an upvote, but trying to be helpful and putting [SOLVED] in the title is worth of a downvote...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best bit is that whoever downvoted the question was quite probably perfectly capable of editing the title themselves anyway, but they chose to downvote it instead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gah! (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/rant&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway - so I take it there is a taboo against putting [SOLVED] in the title of a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-31T04:15:05.193" LastActivityDate="2011-07-31T04:15:05.193" Title="Putting [SOLVED] in the title of a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31809" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:29:55.537" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the correct way is to add an answer and accept it (even if you yourself provide it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:29:55.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:35:09.863" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of answering questions is to generate content for SO to attract more visitors and increase the site's ad revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping the person who is asking a question is a side effect of this efficient content generation strategy (in stark contrast to UseNet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person lacking the initiative to read a few manual pages and search the web will lack the initiative regardless of your efforts. If he does not come to SO, he will go to other 'experts' sites or pester people in their blog comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That neither increases the earnings of SO nor does it contribute to good programming knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T14:42:10.177" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:42:10.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:36:54.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the ability to think for yourself and&#xA;  at least try a couple of things before&#xA;  running to others to be spoon-fed the&#xA;  answer for the current problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you really think that using Google is a sign of that ability?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:36:54.633" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:37:18.267" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=let+me+google+that+for+you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lmgtfy.com/?q=let+me+google+that+for+you&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness though - I agree in principle, and if I see a genuinely stupid question I will give them a &quot;let me google that for you&quot; link, but there are less of these genuinely stupid quesions than you think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:37:18.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31809" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:38:43.303" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several threads that show you how to deal with that situation give you reasons why to answer your own question. Look here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706&quot;&gt;Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even deliberately asking a question to answer it yourself is encouraged, as well as, after a waiting period of 2 days, accepting your own answer. These sites are all about great answers to great questions. Who cares whether both come from one person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:38:43.303" />
  <row Id="31818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:41:00.553" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I click the &quot;edit cv&quot; tab on &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, it will not properly fill the fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under Technology Preference, the Favourite textbox will hold the values of &quot;Job Title&quot; on my first experience item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how to recreate this, it does not happen every single time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it helps, I'm using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrome (developer stream, and maybe that is the problem(?))&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Win-XP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130123" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T15:15:21.227" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T00:45:06.780" Title="Sometimes when I edit my-CV, it puts the wrong values into the wrong fields" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:45:43.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is meant for people of all levels of ability, and the intention is to be the most complete source of information on programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can find a real answer on the web with two minutes' search, then it's a useful question to have answered on SO.  (Except, of course, when the search leads to SO.  In&#xA;that case, it's probably a duplicate, and should be closed as such.)  Even if I don't&#xA;feel like helping the original lazy sod, I'm very likely helping others later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are questions asked due to lack of effort that annoy me.  Questions where there isn't enough information to answer, questions where the questioner wants me to code something for them, questions that are hundreds of lines of code with an indication as to what goes wrong somewhere in there.  These don't give me the feeling that somebody's going to benefit down the line from my answer, and so I tend to not answer those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:45:43.510" />
  <row Id="31820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31765" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:48:34.847" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that this should be changed.  It should always be possible to fix a misclick like that.  The window doesn't have to be long, but &quot;one change after an edit&quot; should be something like &quot;thirty second window after edit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:48:34.847" />
  <row Id="31821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:53:31.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes sir, I think you are correct, and it brings to mind the story of teaching a man to fish rather than giving him a fish.  The newly graduated fisherman can feed himself thereafter, but the recipient of fishy aid becomes dependent on his benefactors.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However since SO is structured in such a way that populist answers are rewarded more generously than well structured and thoughtful questions (a la &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ESR&lt;/a&gt;), and since the competition for upvotes is in effect a global market place, if you - let's say you're a sage but curmudgeonly hacker - provide the naive questioner with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic%5Fmethod&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;socratic&lt;/a&gt; answer, or if you provide a correct but &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gruff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gruff&lt;/a&gt; answer, or if you simply encourage a search of the unsettling web, then you will surely be gunned down by answers that pander to the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130815" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T01:36:21.273" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T01:36:21.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T14:53:31.267" />
  <row Id="31822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T14:57:30.260" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could say that, or you could say that we are creating a useful repository of answers, so that the results found by STFW are more pertinent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, when I have a problem, I will first use my question as a search term in Google, because it's likely that someone has asked the question here or on some forum or mailing list, or even on ExpertSexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, People who paste in obvious homework questions wind me up, unless they tag it appropriately and exxplicitly ask for assistance, rather than &quot;uplode teh codez&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139895" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T14:57:30.260" />
  <row Id="31823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:04:10.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lack of effort and initiative is always received poorly.  The question of whether a google search is just as beneficial or more so is really beside the point.  If a question asker doesn't show a good faith effort, no matter the topic, then they may be ignored, downvoted, or given comments to point out their failure to engage the community properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is likewise never a good reason to give a &quot;lmgtfy&quot; link, since that is not going to increase their initiative any more than ignoring them or downvoting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should recognize that there are some people that, despite their best efforts, simply don't possess the Google-fu necessary to get the results they need.  Many of us take this for granted as being easy to do, but it is a learned skill like any other.  Whether such people will ever be successful developers is another question, but I don't think that they should be rebuked simply for not being as savvy as others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, many people are simply lazy, but we should be careful to reward people who put forth effort, even if their effort is insufficient for the simple reason that they really are that unskilled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:04:10.170" />
  <row Id="31825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31809" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:13:34.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark your own answer as accepted to signal the question is solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people downvote you for the wrong reasons, complain on meta, and many people will vote you up if you're right.  (I did here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:13:34.023" />
  <row Id="31826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31818" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:14:43.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've definitely seen issues with developer releases of Chrome in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We only support officialy &quot;final&quot; releases of browsers. Anything else is at your own risk..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking declined, unless you can repro with Chrome 3 release version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T00:45:06.780" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T00:45:06.780" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31847" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:20:47.487" Score="3" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: lalaine [mailto:lalene_****@yahoo.com] &#xA;    Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:11 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    Hello I just want to continue my skills in the world of software &#xA;    development. I hope you can help me. Thanks and God Bless!&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:41:48.823" Title="Advertising Inquiry: Thanks and God Bless!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:34:47.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really any more lazy use stack overflow as a resource than to look something up on Google or in the documentation? In fact, it seems like more work to do it this way because you have to type up the question coherently rather than just browse a reference material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times the simplest of questions are not the easiest to search for. For example, when you don't know what a particular technique or technology is called. Or when looking up the answer requires using a frustrating reference like MSDN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it doesn't seem to be hurting anyone, and questions that are obviously plz-send-the-codez are dealt with by the community fairly efficiently. Also, I kind of like the idea of SO evolving into a sort of &quot;Universal Reference Manual&quot; of sorts over time. One stop shopping and all that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="132253" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T21:22:38.530" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T21:22:38.530" />
  <row Id="31831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31770" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:34:47.633" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can we make reputation a reflection of trust?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation only shows how much the community has upvoted a person's contributions to the site.  Yes, questions that are subjective, argumentative, or close to being argumentative, are going to get more community voting than regular questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But rep does not, and cannot, mean anything more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like real life, the celebrities that have a good bit of showmanship and know how to rouse the rabble are going to receive more attention in the community than everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are exceptions, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question is - why does it matter?  Why should we change rep to mean something more substantial?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation is NOTHING more than an INCENTIVE to contribute.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all it was ever meant to be - an artificial 'scoreboard' so people would always have some drive to contribute to the site without being paid for their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does exactly what it's meant to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you change how the scoreboard is measured, you fundamentally change the direction of the website and how people game it.  This may or may not be a good thing, but the effect must be taken into account.  The reality is that even if you change the metric to measure 'trust' it still have to measure things that can be gamed, and thus must necessarily become detached from 'trust' over time anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:34:47.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31828" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:35:02.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Lalaine,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if i can help you...&#xA;You should try GOD :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;btw - I love The Daily WTF &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:35:02.703" />
  <row Id="31833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31836" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:45:00.877" Score="2" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the stackoverflow podcasts, Jeff pondered the idea of having a reputation limit.  The concern was that certain users (e.g. Jon Skeet) will get so far ahead and might discourage other users.  I don't particularly see that as a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; problem because most people aren't doing this in order to become the #1 user on the site.  On the other hand, promoting competition for good questions and answers is certainly a goal of the site, and being an early user of the site leads to a higher reputation and doesn't evenly promote the competitive spirit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to address this would be to have two stats next to everyone's name: their &lt;strong&gt;total reputation&lt;/strong&gt; and their &quot;&lt;strong&gt;average reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (total reputation divided by the number of days that they've been using the site).  Alternatively, you could put a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;rolling reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (the reputation over the past year, for instance).  In essence, you could base it on a sports metaphor: this a new reputation &lt;em&gt;season&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think?  Would that be worthwhile?  Of course, I would still expect the top users to lead in this category (over 200 a day), but it would also motivate late adopters.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T05:16:21.943" LastActivityDate="2010-10-27T20:26:51.633" Title="Total reputation, average reputation, or rolling reputation: leveling the playing field?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31828" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:47:56.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lalaine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I recommend prayer. Lots of prayer. If&#xA;  you pray hard enough, you will be&#xA;  rewarded with all the knowledge you&#xA;  need to improve your skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank YOU, and God Bless!,&lt;br /&gt; Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:47:56.907" />
  <row Id="31835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31833" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:48:59.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't particularly see that as a big problem because most people aren't doing this in order to become the #1 user on the site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(...) being an early user of the site does lead to a higher reputation and might be considered an unfair advantage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't that a little contradictory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:48:59.620" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31833" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:54:27.753" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've previously suggested a &quot;monthly league&quot; for reputation, which was a popular idea... although as you say, the usual suspects would probably be near the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One interesting point would be to have &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; reputation graphs (either show one at a time, or overlay them) - one would be absolute reputation, and the other would be reputation gained per day, basically the gradient of the first. I'd be interested in seeing that, certainly - and it can easily be done with the existing data. (Heck, it could be done with the data which is already being shipped down to the browser - it could be entirely client-side.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing the average per-day rep in things like the Users screen would be interesting as well, certainly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One problem with this: it all focuses people a little too heavily on reputation. Reputation should be a corollary of giving good answers, rather than the driving force. That doesn't mean I'm not hopeful of &lt;em&gt;one day&lt;/em&gt; achieving 500 in a day without bounty of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:54:27.753" />
  <row Id="31837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31828" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:59:13.987" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lalaine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My prayers have been answered!  You are the first person who has asked me for help in continuing their skills in software development, which is really saying something after all the trouble I went through to create this great web site and all of its content, by hand, personally.  Did you know that I wrote all of these questions and answers in longhand on spiral-bound notebooks and had to have them transcribed?  It was quite a task!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And now, finally, G-d has seen fit to send me someone who can be apprenticed unto me.  Your first task will of course be transcribing more of my notes onto this web-site.  Please send me your mailing address, and you can get started right away!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May the LORD bless you and keep you,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:59:13.987" />
  <row Id="31838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31833" CreationDate="2009-12-04T15:59:37.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea, but I think that it might be a bit more interesting if the linked account box was updated to have the total reputation as well as the average number of up-votes per answer. This might need to be tweaked a bit to exclude outlier questions due to popularity, but might give a fair idea of how their responses are accepted by the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T15:59:37.183" />
  <row Id="31841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31833" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:19:21.813" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put time into SO when I can.  That isn't very much time, so my rep growth over time is slow.  If I put a lot of time into it in a day, I can make some strides, but I have more important tasks.  I think I may have a rep/day of &amp;lt;15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, those who have been members a long time are then at a disadvantage, particularly if they have to neglect SO for a while to address real-life issues... their rep will be averaged over a longer time period that doesn't reflect their trustworthiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the amount of rep you can get from asking lots of stupid, badly worded questions is a much larger issue, as is the rep from the 'fun' questions.  Worry about how rep is gained, not how much Jon Skeet, et. al. have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:19:21.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:24:49.510" Score="-8" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow, I've received a couple of downvotes for rather stupid answers and some for controversial ones.  Every time I do I feel beaten with a stick, enraged at the system and disinclined to post again.  Of course, it might just mean that I have a big ego, low self-esteem and trouble with criticism, but that's besides the point.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we all feel insulted whenever we receive punishment from strangers after sincerely trying to help or asking for help ourselves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I'm not sure that I agree that &quot;insulting users&quot; is necessarily a good design choice,  I'd like to cite Pavlov and propose removing downvotes altogether.  They don't really do anything except let people beat on each other and discourage answers from all but the established coterie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the &quot;but it's wrong argument&quot; and would like to propose two positive solutions to counter it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write the right answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvote the right answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, if the previous solution is unsatisfactory, I'd like to propose a much higher reputation threshold before downvotes are enabled to apply and a higher threshold before they can be received.  That way, the wiser users can still beat each other, but us timid newbies are shielded a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:  &lt;em&gt;sigh&lt;/em&gt;  I suppose I asked for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  BF Skinner is the experimentalist I was trying to cite, not Pavlov.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to some more general articles on the principles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant%5Fconditioning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Types%5Fof%5Freinforcement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Types_of_reinforcement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;punishment [downvoting] only temporarily changes behavior and presents many detrimental side effects.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically positive punishment (downvoting) doesn't change the behaviour (ie// It's unlikely I'll post more thoughtful questions and answers in the future because this one has been heavily downvoted) and it's likely to cause &quot;many detrimental side effects&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2:  &quot;Evil&quot; in this context is defined as &quot;that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune;&quot;  Downvotes appear to be &quot;Pure Evil&quot; because they a) hurt, b) are encouraged by the system c) appear to be undoable (ie// once you smack someone, you can't unsmack them) and d) don't have an objective criteria to their application (ie// anyone can downvote for unspecified reasons).  They are excused by the theory that they indicate wrong or misleading answers/questions (Here there be sharks!), which I contend is of dubious value given the required criteria for downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139905" LastEditorUserId="139905" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T21:16:58.810" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T03:36:01.410" Title="Downvotes appear to be pure evil" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="25" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31770" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:26:21.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one answer is to delete the community wiki feature. It seems to me that anything that is a community wiki is almost guaranteed to be contentious or overly generic. Certainly it's something that doesn't have one answer. As it is CW made me think that making something CW would allow me to ask more generic questions like the one linked above, but that's not true at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also thought that according to the FAQ I wouldn't gain or lose rep by asking a CW question, this is also not true. That question is to this day both my highest rep gaining and highest rep losing post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139868" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:26:21.910" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:29:46.833" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are an incentive to &lt;em&gt;get it right&lt;/em&gt;. If you've posted a &quot;rather stupid answer&quot; then that deserves the downvotes. Either edit your answer or delete it - otherwise your answer is going to be there in its &quot;stupid&quot; form, misleading people forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes with no explanation are certainly annoying, as they give you no indication of how to improve the answer (assuming it's an honest attempt to answer the question to start with - if it's an answer which just tells the OP to get lost, then it's pretty obvious why that will be downvoted). But downvotes &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; a comment are useful, IMO... not just to you, but also to anyone else reading the answer later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly possible for wrong answers to get upvotes - downvotes are necessary to provide a counterbalance, IMO. Yes, I may have already written or upvoted the correct answer - but I still want to be able to say that a given answer is just plain &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt;. It's even better now that you can click on the aggregate to get the separate upvotes/downvotes tally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have trouble with receiving criticism, that's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; beside the point at all - in fact, that's a good reason to &lt;em&gt;keep&lt;/em&gt; downvotes. Over time, hopefully Stack Overflow will help you to deal with criticism better (just like it helps us to communicate better) - and it does this in a harmless environment, compared with having to learn via getting annoyed with your manager, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you think it's insulting &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; is part of the problem. It's not - it's insulting a user's &lt;em&gt;post&lt;/em&gt;. If someone downvotes me, that doesn't mean they disrespect me - it means that on this particular occasion, they think I'm wrong. They may have just upvoted another of my answers elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: So, you've said it's not the reputation that's important. It sounds like you want somewhere you can express an opinion and no-one can tell you you're wrong. Well, if that's what you want, get a blog and disable comments. That's not what Stack Overflow is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I like the fact that people can tell me I'm wrong (and in what way). It means I can learn. It &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; means that when I'm wrong, other readers know I'm wrong. It's good all round, basically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have a thick enough skin to either gracefully accept criticism when you're wrong or defend yourself when you're right, Stack Overflow is not the place for you. As Jeff has said many times, there are people for whom Stack Overflow is not appropriate (in terms of posting answers). People who want to be able to write dross and not be accountable for it fall into that category, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T18:30:01.903" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:30:01.903" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="31845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:30:22.837" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;but... you posted a wrong answer? Downvotes are the community's way of warning people &quot;This is not right&quot;. A 0-vote answer could be new, or ignored, but a -1 answer probably ain't great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, a downvote is -2 rep. That's nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:30:22.837" />
  <row Id="31846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:31:55.503" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you get that worked up at being downvoted, then you probably want to stay away. It's no fun to be downvoted with no explaination, but this is the real world - it's not fair and there are people who don't play nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without downvotes, we only have a way for 'right' answers to bubble to the top - we have no way for 'wrong' answers to sink to the bottom. And yes, in a QA site like SO/SF/SU, having wrong answers sink IS valuable. While a few questions get a lot of people looking at them (and voting) most questions only have a few viewers and a few voters. We need those votes to count toward getting the right answer. Sometimes that means we get our feeling hurt, and that's just a fact of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:31:55.503" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31828" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:33:09.540" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lalaine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sure, I can help.  Or rather, I can point you in the right direction.  It's all about knowing the right place to ask for help, if you know what I mean.  Here are some instructions for what you need to do to improve your skills in software development.  It's not that complicated, but you need to be very sure to follow them precisely, &lt;em&gt;for your own safety.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Procure the blood of a cat.  If strays aren't readily available in your neighborhood, you can use a neighborhood pet, just be sure not to get caught!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Anoint your mouse (the computer kind) and keyboard with the blood of the cat.  Be careful not to use too much, the moisture can ruin the electronics if it gets inside.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On the side of your computer or monitor, using the blood, draw a symbol of power.  It looks like a five-pointed star with a circle around it.  Some people call it a &quot;pentagram.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Repeat the following phrase three times: &#xA;  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Reboot your machine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's it! You should experience a &lt;em&gt;vast&lt;/em&gt; improvement in your abilities.  There is a cost of course, but don't worry about that now.  Contact me again when the procedure is completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:33:09.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:38:58.390" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mean to be blunt, but there is apparently no way to respond to this without causing you to feel slighted, so I feel the direct approach is best:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, it might just mean that I have a big ego, low self-esteem and trouble with criticism, but that's besides the point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, actually, that's all it is right there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:38:58.390" />
  <row Id="31849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31828" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:41:48.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Lalaine: &#xA;&#xA;   I think you should start improve your skills by praying for guidance.  &#xA;Guidance of where to find the ask question button.  &#xA;Perhaps you should pray for guidance on how to use the internet &#xA;(I hear it's becoming popular).  &#xA;&#xA;Thank you and may God guide you somewhere else,&#xA;   Alex&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T16:41:48.823" />
  <row Id="31850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T16:56:32.150" Score="6" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the User page it lists Questions, Answers, Votes, Tags and Badges for the currently selected user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I look at the Votes section I briefly panic, thinking that I have been downvoted, before I realize it is a record of the votes cast BY me, not ABOUT me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Votes section should give a separate summary for votes given, AND votes received, e.g.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Votes  &#xA;  Votes cast             Votes received&#xA;  50 up  6 down          20 up  0 down&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I am making two suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Clarify that the existing stat means votes cast, not votes received.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Maybe add a new stat to show a summary of the up and down votes received (as Shog9 points out, the per answer votes are already shown on the &quot;reputation&quot; page). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138758" LastEditorUserId="138758" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T22:00:00.777" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T22:00:00.777" Title="UI suggestion: change &quot;Votes&quot; on User page to make it clearer they are votes cast BY the user?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31856" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:10:42.107" Score="-1" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that a user can change their name at will can lead to some confusion in the comments.  For instance, suppose a user named &quot;foo&quot; changes his name to &quot;bar&quot;, all those comments signed by &quot;foo&quot; are now signed by &quot;bar&quot;, but responses to &quot;bar&quot;'s comments still start with &quot;@foo&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could those &quot;@foo&quot; references in comments be changed to &quot;@bar&quot;?  This wouldn't solve the problem of people who use abbreviations (e.g., referring to &quot;george.w.bush&quot; as &quot;@george&quot; or &quot;@dubya&quot;), but that's another issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A brief discussion on this has set me straight.  I didn't think it through.  Request withdrawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T17:43:50.020" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T19:42:50.317" Title="Change all @username references in comments when a user changes their name?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31850" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:12:12.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's ignore your boring suggestion and instead focus on what really matters: your insane reaction to the possibility that you have been downvoted.  If all it takes to panic you is the possibility that you have been downvoted, then you ought to reconsider participating on StackOverflow.  Sometimes you're wrong, sometimes others don't agree with you, sometimes you just get downvoted because someone else is stupid, or a jerk, or a stupid jerk, or even all three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's right, there are some stupid, jerkish, stupid jerks on the SO sites.  You may not have realized that such a thing could exist, in which case I suspect you must be new to the internet.  I could even provide specific examples of such people, but then they'd just downvote me, because they are stupid, jerkish, stupid jerks.  You know what?  Just to demonstrate that you should not be afraid of a few downvotes, I will go ahead and out one of these people:  Pesto.  Man, I hate that guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, downvotes are not the end of the world.  Hell, in regards to reputation, they hardly even matter.  I have a useful suggestion for you and those of your ilk: don't worry about downvotes.  Only when a post has been downvoted far more than it has been upvoted should you even bother to wonder what, if anything, you've done wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23921" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T17:12:12.043" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31851" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:14:01.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with the sentiment behind it, I'm not convinced its that big a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally/Usually/Generally you can tell from the context who is talking at whom, and even if you can't it doesn't detract appreciably from the information value (if any) in the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T17:14:01.463" />
  <row Id="31855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31851" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:16:27.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@username responses are not officially supported, so I don't think this will be implemented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T17:16:27.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31851" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:17:49.817" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I could see this causing some problems because:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe someone refers to an unrelated @Brian on twitter, and then @Brian changes his name on stackoverflow. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments can be stolen by renaming your name to someone and then back to someone else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes people will refer to me as @Brian; however, a real @Brian may change his name to @Bob and then no one would know people were referring to me.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This wasn't implemented since day #1, so there are probably a lot of @Name's out there that can be stolen to be renamed to an unrelated person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you differentiate between @Brian the developer, and a user named &quot;@Brian the developer&quot;.   Spaces could cause bad renames.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search / replace for name changes could be a costly operation on all text comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are changing the text strings of people's comments, so changing their original comments may make them mad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think it would be possible this way:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this could be accomplished though for future comments via some new username insertion schema. At the time of posting the comment, the server would not store the string @username, but instead @userGUID, then at the time of displaying it would resolve those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the server replaced the @userGUID, it could also put a link to the @username's account, so that the poster of the comment could ensure it referenced the correct user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still I'm not sure that would be worth the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastEditorUserId="3153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T19:28:53.747" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T19:28:53.747" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:20:45.413" Score="4" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gave my public CV link to one person and I have 15 views, so I am a little curious to see some more detail about those views. Was it all from the same person, were some of them google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it might also be useful to be able to append something to the querystring so I can give unique urls to everyone I send it to. Maybe something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bob?1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bob?1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bob?2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bob?2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else as curious as I am?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T19:25:50.440" Title="How about some Statistics for Public CV views?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="31858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31851" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:23:05.487" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Usernames are not unique, so this fails horribly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T17:23:05.487" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:29:14.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion (partly stolen from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/podcast-76/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 76&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's get good questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's (the user community) find a lot of the questions people are searching for on the internet, that are spread out across the internet on forums and the site that will not be named, rephrase them so that they're good, answerable questions, and then post them to the appropriate site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions for high value questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SuperUser&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox customizations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Windows performance improvements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The meaning of windows error messages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overclocking and performance enhancements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFault&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Virtualization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple server management&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Database Management &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Backups&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T17:29:14.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T17:29:14.650" />
  <row Id="31860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31850" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:33:32.163" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Folks aren't voting on &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;. They're voting on what you &lt;em&gt;write&lt;/em&gt;. And that information is displayed on the &quot;reputation&quot; tab... (also alluded to in the scores displayed next to your questions and answers, but these are not split out into up- and down-votes on your stats page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;stats&quot; tab displays information about &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; and what &lt;em&gt;you've&lt;/em&gt; done. The questions you've asked, the answers you've provided, the tags you've been active in, the badges you've collected, and yes, the votes you've handed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Including information on the votes you've been &lt;em&gt;given&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't really fit with this. Indeed, it might give some folks the wrong impression... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T17:33:32.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:55:32.387" Score="-1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I write a sentence that talks about, say, List&amp;lt;string&amp;gt; or vector&amp;lt;int&amp;gt;, it turns into &quot;List or vector&quot; in the preview (and I believe also when it is posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow should detect these non-HTML tags and make replacements like &quot;&amp;lt;&quot; to &quot;&amp;amp;lt;&quot; automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to distinguish them from real HTML tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They aren't valid HTML tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no matching &amp;lt;/string&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;/int&amp;gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139651" LastEditorUserId="8435" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T13:51:21.307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T13:51:21.307" Title="Feature request: Automatcially detect non-tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31861" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:58:36.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You should mark-up code as code using backticks. For example, write:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`List&amp;lt;string&amp;gt;`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the body of the paragraph instead of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;List&amp;lt;string&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T17:58:36.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T17:58:55.670" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6917/dont-show-the-answers-for-the-question-in-the-first-2-minutes&quot;&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t show the answers for the question in the first 2 minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73/is-the-fastest-gun-in-the-west-solved&quot;&gt;Is the fastest gun in the west solved?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see the following pattern on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question newly created&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user &lt;em&gt;A&lt;/em&gt; thinks &lt;em&gt;&quot;oh, have a rough idea on that, have to be fast for rep&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user &lt;em&gt;B&lt;/em&gt; thinks &lt;em&gt;&quot;hm, lets not be too quick and give a good answer&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user &lt;em&gt;A&lt;/em&gt; quickly adds a very short and low quality answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, often answers seem to be hurried, probably because people want the reputation by being first because most users sort by &lt;em&gt;oldest&lt;/em&gt; for voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This often leads to some obscure behaviours like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user &lt;em&gt;B&lt;/em&gt; still adds a 'better' answer but user &lt;em&gt;A&lt;/em&gt; edits fast enough and still gets the upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or user &lt;em&gt;B&lt;/em&gt; doesn't add his better answer as &lt;em&gt;&quot;user A will probably edit soon&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, user &lt;em&gt;A&lt;/em&gt; doesn't edit as he is already getting upvotes and thinks &lt;em&gt;&quot;my answer seems to be good enough&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or users don't think about adding better answers if there are already some answers present, especially if they are by high-rep users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize, i often think answer quality could be better if there was a short lock on answering (e.g. 1 minute) to avoid quick shots. Would that make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Not that i'm sure about this, but i think there might be ways to improve the average answer quality)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139704" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T20:24:18.297" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T20:24:18.297" ClosedDate="2009-12-04T19:47:25.677" Title="lock answering for questions for a short time" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31857" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:03:40.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might as well just let us put in our google analytics ID and run google analytics on each of our pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:03:40.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31877" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:15:06.207" Score="1" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm considering a hair-brained scheme to lock my meta reputation at 4096 by turning all my existing and future posts into CW once I've achieved my goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are a few ways that my rep may still be affected.  I know that not everything is completely documented in any one place (for instance, the rep you lose if your question is flagged offensive by too many users).  Further I haven't participated as much over last summer and spring, and I believe the rep system has changed somewhat during that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, do you still get rep if someone selects your answer, even if you've CW'd your answer (does it make a difference if the question is CW or not?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you CW an existing rep-earning answer, and a rep recalc is performed, does it take into account the date you CW'd your answer, or do you lose rep gained prior to CW?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably many other ways to gain and lose rep even if everything is CW - what are some you can think of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:32:48.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T18:15:06.207" Title="What are all the ways to gain/lose rep if all your posts are CW?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28679" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:15:51.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rule 12 (or maybe 11, and move 11 to 12): &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31687/bug-during-upvote&quot;&gt;Clear your cache&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:15:51.010" />
  <row Id="31867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31878" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:20:00.127" Score="13" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many stupid questions on Stack Overflow, some of them asked by moderators! And they are up-voted many times, while questions which are really very important are sometimes down voted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to this, sometimes I feel that Stack Overflow has issues with internal politics. Even now, when I try to point this out, this question might be down voted and/or closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Examples:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the Turtle in LOGO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471940/why-does-every-man-and-his-dog-want-to-code-a-blogging-engine/471944#471944&quot;&gt;Why Does Every Man and His Dog Want to Code a Blogging Engine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke&quot;&gt;What is your Best Programmer Joke?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&quot;&gt;Great Programming Quotes?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered-closed&quot;&gt;What is the Best Comment ins Source Code you have Ever Encountered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432/what-real-life-bad-habits-has-programming-given-you-closed&quot;&gt;What Real-Life Bad Habits has Programming Given You?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T18:46:49.953" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T05:49:17.553" Title="Why do stupid questions and their answers get so many upvotes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31865" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:22:50.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only other way I think your rep can be affected is if you answer a question after a bounty has been set. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20931/can-a-community-wiki-answer-win-the-bounty&quot;&gt;Then Community Wiki doesn't matter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Although Jeff specifically says the bounty doesn't care about the &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; being CW, it seems the same logic applies to answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:22:50.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T18:22:50.653" />
  <row Id="31869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31867" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:23:37.017" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note that many (most) of these were created in the very early days of SO while the community was still defining what it felt was acceptable and what was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel a post is so bad that it should be taken care of immediately, flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise I suggest you answer questions, gain rep, and start closing questions yourself - the community is self-defining, and you can be a part of that process as soon as the community gives you the votes that will allow you to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:23:37.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T18:23:48.327" />
  <row Id="31870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31867" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:24:25.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are questions the community has accepted as part of the StackOverflow repertoire. If you find they are not to your taste you can ignore their tags, minimizing the chances one will float by. For each user there will be some sort of signal/noise ratio with what is posted on the site, it's just that &quot;signal&quot; and &quot;noise&quot; are defined differently for each person. It comes with the territory of a community driven and managed site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:24:25.203" />
  <row Id="31871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31850" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:25:32.317" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being voted upon &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an intensely personal experience, something that many asberger type geeks don't seem to get.  &lt;em&gt;grin&lt;/em&gt;  It hurts to get downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like your suggestion, specifically the label change, and think it deserves some serious consideration by the devs.  Simplicity and clarity are king when it comes to UI design.  If it's unclear to you and causes a negative emotional reaction, then it should probably be changed (since it likely affects others the same way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, I don't think your question is either boring or irrelevant.  So keep asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139905" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:25:32.317" />
  <row Id="31872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31867" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:26:16.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every question you link to is a bit special in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two were contributions from the Co-creators of the site.  They tend to get more upvotes than a regular contributor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last few are very old questions.  They would probably not be allowed these days, but they have been grandfathered in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:26:16.433" />
  <row Id="31873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:39:45.833" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's well documented that bounty questions whose bounty period expires without an accepted answer have some delay in auto-accepting an answer (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13186/is-there-a-delay-after-bounty-expires-before-the-top-voted-answer-is-automaticall&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29246/bounty-expired-4-upvotes-and-no-points-received&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).  Is it possible for the OP to accept an answer on an expired bounty question after the bounty period expires and before the auto-accept job runs?  If so, can the user accept any answer or only the one that would have been selected by the auto-accept feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T21:43:56.513" Title="Is it possible to accept an answer on a bounty question after the bounty expires?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31867" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:43:49.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on questions didn't come in as quickly as they do now and there was less activity in general.  Idle hands...you know.  Also, early on the lack of questions to answer made asking questions, even if you didn't really have any pressing problems, more profitable with respect to reputation gain.  I've asked a few questions myself in the past -- most since moved to meta -- that I probably wouldn't ask today out of boredom, a drive to get rep in the absence of questions to answer, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:43:49.803" />
  <row Id="31875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31865" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:47:58.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If any of your questions or answers are flagged as offensive six times, you'll receive a -100 rep penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:47:58.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T18:47:58.563" />
  <row Id="31876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31865" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:48:41.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you set all of your posts to CW, and you get a rep re-calc, you will lose almost all of your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do this &lt;strong&gt;anybody&lt;/strong&gt; can force a rep re-calc on you by triggering the suspicious voting system. They could up-vote or down-vote several of your posts, in a row. The suspicious voting system will then, cancel all of the affected votes, and force a rep re-calc on you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see any way to reliably maintain a given reputation level.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So I would recommend &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; trying to maintain a given reputation. Instead, just worry about giving good answers, and asking good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:48:41.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T18:48:41.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31865" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:49:43.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is an obvious one (although you apparently never downvote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this seems to have been permanently accepted thanks to the bounty, I'll make it a complete list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ways your reputation &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; change&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast a downvote on a non-wiki post: -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove a downvote on a post that was non-wiki when you voted: +1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a post deleted as spam or offensive: -100&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Win a bounty: +&lt;em&gt;bounty&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation is recalculated after a post that you have earned reputation for is deleted: -&lt;em&gt;amount&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old upvotes on your posts are removed (possibly by the voting-anomalies process): -10 each&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ways your reputation &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; change&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A vote (up or down) is cast on one of your posts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your answer is accepted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You accept someone's answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reference:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;How does reputation work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;What are &quot;Community Wiki&quot; posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A thought has struck me (impact severe, but not fatal): What happens if a vote is cast on a non-wiki post and later removed after the post is wikied? Is the reputation removed (if it was an upvote) or refunded to both parties (if it was a downvote), or is it permanent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T22:32:48.693" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:32:48.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T18:49:43.100" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31867" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:51:01.163" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;there are no stupid questions, there are only stupid people...and they can vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:51:01.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31883" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:52:07.917" Score="1" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's really no purpose to keeping questions like this (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1848914/depend-on-ur-experience-whose-better-in-programming-man-or-woman&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1848914/depend-on-ur-experience-whose-better-in-programming-man-or-woman&lt;/a&gt;) around for any length of time. Why should we wait two days to delete this? In two days it will slip off the radar, and out of people's mind - only to waste away on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-21T13:56:33.840" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T13:56:33.840" Title="Permit Delete-Votes Sooner, Please" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;time-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31879" CreationDate="2009-12-04T18:57:55.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag as offensive.  Enough people do this and it gets automatically deleted by community.  Also flag for moderator attention.  I believe they have the power to delete right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T18:57:55.037" />
  <row Id="31881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T19:02:38.117" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31639/can-i-be-registered-on-careers-stackoverflow-com-as-an-employer-and-a-candidate&quot;&gt;Can I be registered on careers.stackoverflow.com as an employer and a candidate?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried out the developer search at &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/search&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;It worked fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I clicked on the &quot;Create my CV&quot; button and added a CV to see how it looks like on job-seeker side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that I wanted to go back to the search page, but could not. Clicking on &quot;We're Hiring&quot; took me to a page that stated I have a 0% complete CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried entering the address &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/search&lt;/a&gt; manually, but it always redirected me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/cv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15982" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T08:48:12.160" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:48:12.160" ClosedDate="2009-12-04T19:37:24.117" Title="After creating a CV the &quot;We're Hiring&quot; button doesn't work any more" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32655" CreationDate="2009-12-04T19:03:23.670" Score="5" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it is a mistake of the system or if this employer is just being over-eager. But an employer maybe shouldn't be allowed to send the same job advertisement twice in one day to the same person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not exactly sure whether to tag this as a bug, feature-request, or support&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3800" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:30:12.983" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:30:32.280" Title="Got the same message from an employer twice in 4 hours" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31879" CreationDate="2009-12-04T19:15:12.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The delay time was put there to prevent the post from being deleted so quickly that people can't re-open it.  There's no heuristic for the system that can be used to determine if a question should or should not be deleted immediately with no re-open recourse, so we can't remove the delay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tvanfosson is right - if it's obviously bad from the beginning, then offensive and moderator flags are the best recourse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T19:15:12.167" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31851" CreationDate="2009-12-04T19:38:50.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this won't work. Beyond what has been mentioned so far, it won't work correctly because some people do not respond to the full name also.  Like the user Jon Skeet, Many people would just say @Jon.  Besides that, the username is not the identifier of the user, so I can't see this ever being implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T19:38:50.180" />
  <row Id="31885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31851" CreationDate="2009-12-04T19:42:50.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would happen automatically if my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4798/lets-make-it-easier-to-reply-within-comments/14505#14505&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4798/lets-make-it-easier-to-reply-within-comments&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt;, was implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;@[1337] Hey, look I'm talking to myself.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would get turned into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1337/brad-gilbert&quot;&gt;@Brad Gilbert&lt;/a&gt; Hey, look I'm talking to myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1337/brad-gilbert&quot;&amp;gt;@Brad Gilbert&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;Hey, look I'm talking to myself.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could get problematic to comments on questions which later get migrated. That hopefully  doesn't happen with enough regularity for it to be that big of a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T19:42:50.317" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:08:35.453" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it better to not accept any answer or reply to your own question (maybe stating that the question appears unanswerable) and accept that one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: another way to look at this question: is accept rate commonly considered an indicator of the &quot;quality&quot; of questions? If it is so, then answering and accepting your answer is kind of like cheating the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you should do your best to make your question as clear as possibile, but sometimes you just don't get what you want maybe because the question didn't raise much interest and slipped over or because it doesn't really have one fully satisfying answer. From another point of view, the questions more easily answered are those of less value (i.e. if the answer is easy you might as well find it yourself) and are probably the most repeated ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, just a thought about accept rate and those ugly red lines in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138149" LastEditorUserId="138149" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T21:24:21.963" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T21:24:21.963" Title="What to do when no answer is good enough to be accepted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="31887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31886" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:10:34.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever you feel would suit it best. You are the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If more answers could be out there, then leave it open.  Answers do come in over time as the right knowledgable people find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel it is really unanswerable or just not possible, you could answer yourself and accept that, but I would just update your question as you get more information and leave it open.  Some questions do not get answered because they are asked poorly with little information.  Make sure you add as much information and clarity as possible. Not accepting an answer keeps it in the &quot;Unanswered&quot; category and people know right away that an acceptable answer has not been marked yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget about the bounty feature if you want to give more incentive to some people to answer well.  It is not a guarantee though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T20:16:43.067" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T20:16:43.067" />
  <row Id="31888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31886" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:12:26.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that you should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; just accept any answer if it doesn't answer your question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leave it open (someone out there might eventually find it on google)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the question to help clarify (will also move your question onto the homepage)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offer a bounty (just be sure to accept an answer within the time window or you will be locked from accepting one!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastEditorUserId="136108" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T20:35:24.640" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T20:35:24.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31886" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:12:57.223" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't accept an answer which doesn't really answer the question to your satisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, try editing the question to make it clearer - and also to explain why even the best answers &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; satisfy you. Then potentially add comments to the best answers to draw the answerers' attention back to the edited question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Improving the question is almost always the best way of improving the quality of answers, unless you've really got a question which no-one can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T20:12:57.223" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31886" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:35:45.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure you can answer your question yourself, and accept it two days later.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But please &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; accept an answer that just says &quot;Gee, this is unanswerable.&quot;  Unless you are going for the &lt;code&gt;Zen Koan&lt;/code&gt; badge, that's just nonsensical.  Instead, edit your question to indicate why there don't seem to be any good answers that you can accept.  After that, you can either open a bounty, or just leave it be, with your edit to inform future visitors about the lack of an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T20:35:45.547" />
  <row Id="31891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:37:56.260" Score="5" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;The projects section is just a simple block of rich text.  It would be nice for people who participate in multiple projects to be able to provide a specific section for each, including tags and your own role in the project.  Basically a duplication of the experience section but with the implicit indication that this is not employment information but voluntary participation in other areas.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, it could be made clearer that the 'experience' section does not have to be tied to an employer as opposed to a open source project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136058" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T06:00:03.040" Title="Can we have better 'projects' support in the CV section of careers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31895" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:52:15.870" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; page say &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here's a list of all the badges...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then list very few of &quot;all the badges&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and does anyone know where I can see a list of all the badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139921" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-17T12:19:26.380" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T12:19:26.380" Title="Badges page question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="31894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31893" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:55:00.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Badges tab shows all the badges...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T20:55:14.217" />
  <row Id="31895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31893" CreationDate="2009-12-04T20:56:53.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;Tags&lt;/a&gt; tab in the top right which shows the topic badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T20:56:53.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:00:00.463" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a great way to have &quot;community help&quot; on programming questions. The entire model is free, and it adds value for everyone. You give and you get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to know is, would the developer community here be interested in carrying this over into a model where you could be compensated as well for doing actual development work? I'm going to ramble a bit here, but I need to get it all out there so you can get a picture of what I'm really asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, this question isn't asking anyone to work for me or anyone else on a free or speculative nature as you sometimes see on craigslist. This isn't a &quot;that guy&quot; thing, but rather just a general question. Specifically, would you as a developer be interested in having a place (maybe within Stack Overflow) where you could just log in, see a spec, code up a few portions of that spec, and get paid for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've often found is that I will be offered a freelance project, and I don't want to just sit there and work on it in my spare time all by myself. But the 2-3 other developers I often do things with may be busy, so I end up just turning down the work so I can maintain my own sanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I have gone on craigslist or guru.com and searched for other contractors who might be interested in subbing out for a portion. I've had success with that about 3 out of 20 times. The 3 times were awesome, and I still work with one of those guys on an regular basis today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I thought alternatively, it would be very very cool to post a project spec, and let the community handle the project from start to finish including design, documentation and implementation. Ad hoc teams could spring up to work on components, and the Stack Overflow community could develop solid bonds between developers who work well together and make good teams. As developers we could naturally gravitate towards who our best team leads are as they would have the most successful projects. If we didn't (as developers) like working with one team, we could just jump over to another team and try them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I would guess that some large percentage of us here have jobs where we could occasionally post a project to the &quot;community development teams&quot; and be able to have our company pay a reasonable price to get the project done. The teams could/would already have a bit of reputation established just on the basis of their StackOverflow rep. Successful projects could additionally add to a &quot;team rep&quot; score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would love to be able to do this. I think it would be great to be able to quickly elect a small team to work with, take a 2 week side project, get my part, code it, get paid, and be done. Even if it only netted me 300 bucks for side money at first, I would like being able to interact with lots of different people, without the stress of having to worry about a long term job, and get paid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the overview of the idea, so I'd like feedback please. What do you think? How could this work better? Would this be a good way for Joel and his team to highlight their FogCreek software for managing software projects? Is SO the right place for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139918" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T19:40:00.977" Title="Are developers interested in “community development” on commercial projects?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;contractor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31897" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:00:16.420" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19208/answers-posted-to-a-migrated-question-post-migration-remain-visible-and-unlocked&quot;&gt;Answers posted to a migrated question post-migration remain visible and unlocked on the original site.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When answering a question that is a candidate for being migrated; if you post an answer in the 'magical minute' after the question is migrated, your answer is not migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Original Question:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1849590/badges-page-question/&quot;&gt;Badges Page Question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1849590/badges-page-question/1849602#1849602&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; (Posted in the magical minute after it was migrated)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migrated Question:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31893/badges-page-question&quot;&gt;Badges Page Question&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;sans&lt;/em&gt; my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T21:06:04.757" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T21:06:04.757" ClosedDate="2009-12-04T21:26:59.103" Title="Answers posted to a migrated question post-migration are not migrated" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31850" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:19:47.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, more stats on the user profile would be handy. It's been discussed before, but I won't link to the posts because some of them are mine and I keep getting downvoted relentlessly every time I bring it up, as if I'm trying to censure users or something. Even if it's private (visible only to to yourself on your own profile page), it would be nice to see data like the number of up- and down-votes I've received, and the mean and median score of my questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T21:19:47.963" />
  <row Id="31901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:24:06.020" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think downvotes are evil &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;wait until they get put on steroids&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, though... if one of your questions or answers gets downvoted, it will barely make a dent in any Rep you have gained from upvotes. And if you've &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; gotten downvotes, then there is probably something wrong with the post. If the Rep loss bothers you so much, you can either correct it in the hopes of gaining upvotes (you would probably only need 1 to cancel the Rep loss from downvotes) &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; you can just delete it, have a Rep recalc, and it will be like nothing ever happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T21:24:06.020" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:24:25.923" Score="3" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31770/how-can-we-make-so-reputation-more-realistic/31772#31772&quot;&gt;my answer here&lt;/a&gt;. It sparked some interest, and I felt it should have its own discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Background - The Problem with Reputation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands, reputation surrounding community wiki (CW) questions can be unfair or even inconsistent. This would be fixed by removing reputation gained by posting CW answers, regardless of when they were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider when a person asks a question that should be CW, and is only later changed to match this status. Often times, people will post their answer as non-CW, often to try to get a bit of reputation before the question is migrated to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the question is made CW, any further answers will not generate reputation. This creates an inconsistent state of reputation, where people have earned reputation off of CW questions, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;which should be impossible&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Arguments For Reputation&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One argument was &quot;the intent of the author was for it not to be CW&quot;. Of course, this means we would have to never change the CW status of a question and assume the poster always intends correctly. There is reason to be believe this isn't always the case, though. Sometimes the CW status of a question needs fixing, and answers should match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would cause a bit of rep loss for myself and others, but I feel it would create a more consistent representation of reputation. Community Wiki questions are questions that do not affect reputation &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;, and then we have regular questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Change Request&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I consider the ability to keep reputation on a previously non-CW question a loophole. Loopholes, while resembling free-hand circles, are generally not good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T22:29:40.893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T00:46:41.717" Title="Remove Reputation gained from Questions and Answers turned Community Wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="31903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31902" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:31:14.070" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a compromise could be to make all existing answers CW once the question is made CW regardless of how it was converted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would remove the loop hole described here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Consider when a person asks a question that should be CW, and is only later changed to match this status. Often times, people will post their answer as non-CW, often to try to get a bit of rep before the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But other than that I don't see the real benefit in changing the system. It works 95+% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T21:31:14.070" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31896" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:35:00.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of things in this that sound very interesting.  One potential problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is built on the behavioral economics paradox that people will often do a lot of work for free, but find it offensive when they're asked to do the same thing for a small sum of money (covered in Dan Ariely's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.predictablyirrational.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Predictably Irrational&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=192&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;discussed in this video&lt;/a&gt;, or see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.gartner.com/lydia_leong/2009/01/09/open-source-and-behavioral-economics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post as an example&lt;/a&gt;).  That's one of the reasons open source software is so successful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would really need to ensure that this community system still remains as much fun as the original stackoverflow or else compensate on a high enough level so that you don't violate this social norm.  I think that the payment system could be small if &lt;em&gt;it isn't the focus of the community&lt;/em&gt;, but is more of a side effect.  People on SO collaborate on things all the time.  So you would just need to be sure that every person's contribution is being clearly tracked and that the money doesn't become the overarching focus.  I don't think that SO in its current version would work, but something like it could be very effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing to consider would be using an SO-like system to create open source software. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastEditorUserId="136108" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T22:44:01.227" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T22:44:01.227" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31902" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:35:28.947" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because edits by just a few users can cause a question or answer to become community wiki, removing all rep from questions/answers that become community wiki will not work.  All you would need is a cabal of 4 people who agree to edit all or some significant fraction of a person's answers and/or the questions that a person has answered and you'd remove most or all of their rep.  Even in the absence of nefarious conduct, legitimate questions can become community wiki simply by being around long enough to be edited by several people or because you've taken the trouble to keep it up-to-date.  Losing rep because a question gets edited into community-dom is worse than the problem the solution attempts to correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does a post become a Community Wiki post?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are several ways a question or&#xA;  answer can enter community wiki mode,&#xA;  and most of these ways will occur&#xA;  automatically based on the rules of&#xA;  the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posts enter community wiki mode when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The body of the post has been edited six times by at least four&#xA;  different people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The post has been edited eight times by the original owner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The post's author checks the community wiki checkbox when composing&#xA;  the question or answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The post is edited by its original author, who when doing so opts to&#xA;  check the community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The question generates more than 30 answers. In this case, the question&#xA;  and all answers will enter community&#xA;  mode, as will any future answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T22:19:13.050" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T22:19:13.050" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="31906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31873" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:43:56.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I've had full rep (i.e. not the half-rep for auto-selection) from a bounty question &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; it formally expired, with a comment from the OP at the same time, so yes, in theory this is (or at some point: was) possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T21:43:56.513" />
  <row Id="31907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33211" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:49:32.167" Score="4" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a message from careers.stackoverflow.com that I have not yet indicated interest in, so the links are hidden.  But ASP.NET is being interpreted as a link!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My received text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...seeking a passionate &amp;lt;link temporarily hidden&amp;gt; Software Engineer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137910" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T08:47:31.350" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T09:00:03.240" Title="Bug: ASP.NET is interpreted as a link and hidden in my careers message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T21:49:40.357" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted-closed&quot;&gt;Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted/closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to (inadvertently) ask a duplicate of it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31747/how-can-i-find-my-own-deleted-answers-closed&quot;&gt;How can I find my own deleted answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My bug report is that the SO search is failing me.  I realize search is non-trivial, but I'm still having trouble finding the duplicate question even now that I know it exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some searches I tried before (and after) to find the duplicate question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers+deleted&quot;&gt;deleted answers&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; no result has both search terms in the title, duplicate question does&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=question+answers+deleted+closed&quot;&gt;question answers deleted closed&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; not one of the first 50 answers had more than 2 terms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=Show+all+of+my+question+answers+to+me+even+if+they+are+deleted+closed&quot;&gt;Show all of my question answers to me even if they are deleted closed&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; despite containing all of the words (/ omitted), the question doesn't show up in first 50 (didn't look past that)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A literal &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=Show+all+of+my+question%2Fanswers+to+me+even+if+they+are+deleted%2Fclosed&quot;&gt;cut/paste of the title&lt;/a&gt; does result in a match for the question (first result!), but if you look at what is actually being searched for, you see the terms &lt;code&gt;Show questionanswers even deletedclosed&lt;/code&gt;.  Apparently the &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to the two terms that actually resulted in the match: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=show+even&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;show even&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I understand search is hard, but some ideas popped to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;perhaps some more weight could be added to matches in titles.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps the search box could replace &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; with a space instead of concatenating the two terms.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps searches could include pluralized/singularized words, and different conjugations of verbs (close/closed).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Continuing to play with the search terms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=question+answer+deleted+closed&quot;&gt;question answer deleted closed&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; first match is a hit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=question+answers+deleted+closed&quot;&gt;question answers deleted closed&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; no match in first 50 b/c of auto conversion of 'answers' to the tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, auto-conversion is handy, but in this case (and I'm guessing many others - not on meta), it makes it very difficult to actually find this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I didn't notice the tag conversion before, which is probably what caused my initial queries to fail, still&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=deleted+answer&quot;&gt;deleted answer&lt;/a&gt; -&gt; the duplicate doesn't show up in the first 30 questions (only matched the word 'deleted'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, just some frustrations with the search lately and this one stood out the most.  These appear to be related questions, though I think this question is oriented at finding duplicate questions, which is different than the general &quot;find my search terms&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14898/how-do-i-make-search-return-results-that-actually-contain-all-the-search-terms&quot;&gt;How do I make search return results that actually contain all the search terms?&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23296/match-all-terms-search-feature&quot;&gt;Match all terms search feature&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30929/automatic-question-title-search-fail&quot;&gt;Automatic question title search fail&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14898/how-do-i-make-search-return-results-that-actually-contain-all-the-search-terms&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14898/how-do-i-make-search-return-results-that-actually-contain-all-the-search-terms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm really hoping I didn't miss the duplicate for this, perhaps I'm just bad at using search).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6148" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T03:46:56.340" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T05:00:02.933" Title="Search for SO questions by words in the title is failing (purpose: trying to find question before i ask a duplicate)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31902" CreationDate="2009-12-04T22:09:09.137" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually back this proposal. However, there is the problem mentioned by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31902/remove-reputation-gained-from-questions-and-answers-turned-community-wiki/31905#31905&quot;&gt;tvanfosson&lt;/a&gt;, which I didn't think about until he brought it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, in order for this to work, the mode of conversion to wiki would have to have some impact on whether or not to remove rep gained. And unfortunately, I don't know if how a question came to be wiki is tracked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, the following options should remove rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post's author checks the community wiki checkbox when composing the question or answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post is edited by its original author, who when doing so opts to check the community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[not mentioned in FAQ] A mod sets the post to be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the following options should not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The body of the post has been edited six times by at least four different people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post has been edited eight times by the original owner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question generates more than 30 answers. In this case, the question and all answers will enter community mode, as will any future answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is these last 3 really are the system conversions to wiki, whereas the first three are intentional state changes by someone of authority (either the author or a mod).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a system like this, I'd be totally behind the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T22:09:09.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31908" CreationDate="2009-12-04T22:31:02.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution to the answer / answers thing is stemming (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in this case this isn't the problem, the problem is that the search term &quot;answers&quot; is getting turned into a filter on that tag, but the post you are searching for doesn't have that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the search results for &quot;Answers Deleted&quot; you can see that there are less than 50 hits, whereas a search for &quot;Answer Deleted&quot; gives around 500 hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion - having the search automatically convert matching tags into filters a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T22:31:02.730" />
  <row Id="31912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33210" CreationDate="2009-12-04T22:39:04.667" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;When an employer is interested in you they get to send you a Careers Message asking if you are interested in them. If they send any email addresses or links (or even if they just type &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31907/bug-asp-net-is-interpreted-as-a-link-and-hidden-in-my-careers-message&quot;&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt;) it all gets hidden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really worth doing this? Can't an employer just say &quot;Hey google my company name to find our site.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T22:42:55.377" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:37:33.087" Title="Is it worth hiding links?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="31913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T22:45:08.773" Score="157" ViewCount="27990" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74983/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2011&quot;&gt;Open Source Advertising - Sidebar - 1H 2011&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is your chance to create a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23899/proposal-free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects&quot;&gt;Free Vote-Based Advertisement for an Open Source Project&lt;/a&gt;. Create a graphical ad for an open source programming project and post it as an answer to this question (in the right format), and it will feed live remnant ads on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ad Requirements&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It must be an advertisement &lt;strong&gt;soliciting the participation and contribution of programmers writing actual source code&lt;/strong&gt;. This is not intended as a general purpose ad for consumer products which just happen to be open source. It's for finding programmers who will help contribute code or other programmery things (documentation, code review, bugfixes, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to work, the answers you post to this question &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; conform to the following rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answer Template&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://image-url&#xA;  [2]: http://clickthrough-url&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please &lt;strong&gt;do not add anything else to the body of the post&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want to add any commentary, keep it in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Image requirements&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The image that you create must be &lt;strong&gt;220px by 220px&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can be hosted anywhere (tinypic, twitpic, your blog); we will mirror the image locally when we serve it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must be GIF or PNG&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No animated GIFs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Absolute limit on filesize of ~150kb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The output, which ultimately will be served in an ad slot on Stack Overflow, can be previewed by clicking through to this URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/220x250&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/220x250&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;minimum score threshold&lt;/strong&gt; an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be served up by that URL and shown on Stack Overflow. You can see all the ads that currently make the threshold and meet our criteria on this page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="140548" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-14T19:48:37.480" LastActivityDate="2011-01-14T19:48:37.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" ClosedDate="2010-06-11T15:56:26.950" Title="Open Source Advertising - Sidebar - 1H 2010" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;open-source-advertising&gt;&lt;crowdsourcing&gt;" AnswerCount="90" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="75" />
  <row Id="31914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-04T22:45:24.657" Score="77" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://timeago.yarp.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.tinypic.com/2eulpck.png&quot; alt=&quot;jQuery Timeago: your server output cache will thank you&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-04T22:53:43.363" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T22:53:43.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="31915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:27:54.470" Score="2" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;In every other web forum I have ever asked a question on, with every question I will enevitably get at least one truly unhelpful reply, telling me my whole approach is wrong, asking me why I am using my language, platform, operating system, etc. instead of their favorite, telling me I should go back to progammer's school, etc. Mind you it's not just me, everybody gets them. Anyway, I don't see those here. What happens to them and their authors? Does your cousin Guido pay them a visit :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139928" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:09:30.907" Title="Where are the non-helpful people?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="31916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:32:18.427" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're around. But you see them less, since the rest of us like to delete their answers: just about anyone can &quot;flag&quot; a comment or answer for removal, and down-voting also helps to discourage this sort of thing and can encourage users to delete their misguided responses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sort of behavior is &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; inappropriate... If you do encounter it, flag and ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T23:32:18.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:33:36.193" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unhelpful replies will be downvoted, generally. Few people seem to do this regularly, and if they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; then the moderators may well get in touch - and the same will happen if answers are flagged as offensive or spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moderation system on SO seems to work remarkably well, to be honest...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T23:33:36.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:34:46.020" Score="61" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://restsharp.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1827/restsharp220.gif&quot; alt=&quot;RestSharp: .NET REST Client&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1786" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T23:34:46.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:39:35.027" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.n2cms.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/slk2u0.png&quot; alt=&quot;N2 CMS&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T00:59:39.657" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:59:39.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="31921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:39:56.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Next time you see one of those unhelpful people, thank them on behalf of all of us. Their counter-productive behavior is exactly what inspired Jeff and Joel to create Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T23:39:56.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:42:38.220" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we be able to hop between associated sites more easily? If I am in the middle of perusing StackOverflow, and a great meta question occurs to me shouldn't there be a link say in the header, to take me there, since my accounts are linked, I've already authenticated via opeid, etc. I've done it by going to from stackoverflow-&gt;quesions to StackOverflow-&gt; profile to meta-&gt;profile to meta-&gt;questions, but that's the long way around the barn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139928" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:13:35.170" Title="Hop Between associated sites more easily?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31922" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:44:54.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the links at the bottom of every page.  Since you are logged in already, you can hop between them quickly. Click link at bottom, go to profile. Or you can create bookmarks to your profiles. I like your idea, but how are you proposing to make this process quicker exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T00:17:28.703" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:17:28.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:49:43.590" Score="0" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of any offers for cash (or other real world compensations) for the right to call a high rep SO account their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How likely do you think such an offer has been or will be made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't think it likely but occasionally you hear about someone actually buying a powerful character on one of those online role playing games, so I wouldn't be too surprised to hear someone would attempt to do the same on SO (insert your own joke here about Jon Skeet and his ilk being characters and/or powerful).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T02:41:31.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T23:49:43.590" Title="The purchase of 'ownership' of high-rep SO accounts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="31927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:53:04.423" Score="1" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; Is there a way a user can increase their reputation level by carrying out menial labor operations such as correcting spelling errors or adding footnotes or the like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rationale:&lt;/strong&gt; It would be nice if truly non-expert noobs could earn reputation on a site by helping out with this kind of thing, even if it were just to earn enough reputation to upvote/downvote, with a maximum ceiling so you could not use this to gain a reputation greater than say 200 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139007" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T15:24:42.457" Title="&quot;Leveling up&quot; with menial labor" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="31928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31925" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:54:22.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will burninate people if they do this. Possibly along with their thatched roof cottage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T23:54:22.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T23:54:22.910" />
  <row Id="31929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31925" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:55:48.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except in games, it's just a game and you have no power to do anything outside the game. Contrarily, with high enough rep, you can delete, modify, and otherwise change peoples experiences with the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your analogy would hold true if after a certain level in a game, you could modify other players game content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I'll sell mine for one dollar to the rep, on either SO or Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T23:55:48.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-04T23:55:48.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31927" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:57:22.963" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can earn badges (well &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;a badge&lt;/a&gt; ) for editing, but that privilege only comes at 100 rep for community wiki and 2000 rep for other people's posts. You have to show that you're a responsible member of the community before you're let loose with editing powers. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's far easier to earn reputation just by answering and (to a certain extent) by asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be afraid to add an answer to a question that's already got a few existing answers, you may just provide that extra bit of information the OP needs. If you do there's a potential 25 points of rep right there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-04T23:57:22.963" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31927" CreationDate="2009-12-04T23:57:39.673" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh. I worked hard to gain enough rep so that I could correct spelling errors and add footnotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess ya just never know what'll appeal to some folks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T00:05:54.323" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:05:54.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:00:56.250" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;editorial: disallowed&lt;/strong&gt; -- while the joke is funny, not enough people would be &quot;in&quot; on it to understand why we have scantily-clad ladies in advertisements on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/jquerysharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/10o0609.png&quot; alt=&quot;Write and compile jQuery in C#&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T01:43:13.123" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T01:43:13.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:18:30.667" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;editorial: disallowed&lt;/strong&gt; -- this is not an ad for programmers, but for a product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pidgin.im/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5391/pidginad.png&quot; alt=&quot;IM all your friends in one place&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T01:37:28.873" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T01:37:28.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:25:49.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My cat's breath smells like cat food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:25:49.653" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:23:47.623" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in graphs showing number of questions on given SO tag.&#xA;Is there such thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:23:58.207" Title="How can I access history of a SO tag?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;popularity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:35:57.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you talk about &quot;unhelpful people&quot; are you talking about &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; unhelpful people, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.asp.net/alex%5Fpapadimoulis/archive/2005/05/25/408925.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;people who only seem unhelpful because the real answer is the one you weren't looking for&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former tend to get flagged, deleted, and/or down-voted to oblivion. The community tends to deal with these types fairly quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter sometimes get down-voted to oblivion, sometimes they end up as high rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:35:57.747" />
  <row Id="31937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:37:57.743" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of answers saying &quot;your approach is wrong&quot; but they are usually done in a reasonably helpful way, with an explanation why it is wrong and suggested alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:37:57.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:41:16.927" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.mediabrowser.tv/topics/942?response_type=7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Help us make Media Browser even more Awesome!&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://community.mediabrowser.tv/uploads/site_1/81/mediabrowser2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Media Browser&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T01:55:20.750" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T01:55:20.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:47:12.940" Score="1" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/896/mobile-iphone-optimized-version-of-so&quot;&gt;Mobile / iPhone Optimized Version of SO&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When will Stack Overflow be optimized for mobile devices. It will be great to ask and answer questions not just in front of my office machine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149276" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:52:05.480" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:52:05.480" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T13:52:03.850" Title="Stack Overflow optimized for mobile devices" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31922" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:50:55.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're using Firefox and/or Greasemonkey, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5933/greasemonkey-script-to-show-profile-reputation-and-badges-from-all-so-sites-in&quot;&gt;check out this greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt;. I use it, and find myself a bit confused when I log into a SOFU site and it &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:50:55.583" />
  <row Id="31942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32098" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:53:19.073" Score="24" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to Joel trying to convince Jeff to skip over to Australia in Feb. &#xA;I would like to extend the warmest welcome to Papa Smurf and Dinosaur Joel! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3588/comingtoaustralia.png&quot; alt=&quot;coming to Australia&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Us Australians felt extremely left out when all the Dev Days fun was being had in the other parts of the world and would &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; to see one in our somewhat forsaken part of the planet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you come, we'll forgive you for &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3383/vandalized2pac.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ghost of a spammer?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T01:53:19.967" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T01:53:19.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-05T00:57:59.067" Title="Bring the DevDays love to the forsaken continent/island Australia" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31940" CreationDate="2009-12-05T00:54:04.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the topic has already been brought up, just thought I'd throw out my two cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see a way to do search, ask, answer and comment by text message.  Maybe with prefixes and various parameters as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I do admit, the quality of questions asked or answers may deteriorate quickly.  But thats what the community moderation for is right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T00:54:04.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T01:10:10.603" Score="68" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sphinxsearch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://skitch.ravelry.com/sphinx-20091204-200737.png&quot; alt=&quot;How do you implement full-text search for that 10+ million row table, keep up with the load, and stay relevant? Sphinx is good at those kinds of riddles.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18424" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T01:10:10.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="31945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31925" CreationDate="2009-12-05T02:17:13.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my rates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close a post: $5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit a post to content of your choice: $20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rent 10K moderation tools: $100/hr&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Purchase account outright: $10,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T02:17:13.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-05T02:17:13.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31925" CreationDate="2009-12-05T02:28:00.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though the question is infuriating and obnoxious at first look... I am happy about the buzz factor SO has generated and the genuine glow it brings on a true contributor/member's face!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual act of helping out other developers and using SO as a learning tool ...itself...is a worthy achievement. Reputation points are just a side-show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any company worth its salt...would check/test/interview the prospect with utmost care ...and would do a good job gleaning the grains from the chaff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of points..I almost always get this question...from friends,co-workers and bosses...who are introduced to the Reputation system here @ StackOverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is usually in the realm of:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* One could always collude with multiple email IDs to jack up one's own points&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* Multiple people could connive to help each other with point upheavals&#xA;...etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This used to rile me up...at first; I mean any genuine,earnest member of this community would get angered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then on I've become tempered enough and usually counter these &quot;statements&quot; with.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Yes, what you say is true! StackOverflow is just a microcosm of the real software world. But the probability of a High Reputation member being actually genuine is much higher than the real world.How many members in our team or our unit or our company...really deserve the pay they get...How many of them really KNOW the stuff...What could you do about Mr.XYZ who is basically dead-weight ... but is still a &quot;Senior Analyst/Programmer/DBA/Architect&quot;....!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answers sobers up most of the Doubting Thomases :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fundamental Fact:&lt;/strong&gt; We as a community rock ! And shouldn't allow a bunch of fakers and another bunch doubters to spoil the fun we are having!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remember, those who CAN ... DO, others just mock or criticize!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137294" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T02:28:00.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-05T02:28:00.697" />
  <row Id="31947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31925" CreationDate="2009-12-05T02:41:31.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;when is there going to be a Rent-a-John-Skeet-Account-For-a-Day just so the rest of us can see what it's like to have 100K rep? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T02:41:31.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-05T02:41:31.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23899" CreationDate="2009-12-05T03:05:00.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about including ads to Creative Commons licensed dev podcasts as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131747" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:05:00.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-05T03:05:00.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29400" CreationDate="2009-12-05T03:08:35.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tooltips when you mouse over the sort selection boxes explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[recent] sort by recent activity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[newest] sort by creation date&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:08:35.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31957" CreationDate="2009-12-05T03:09:23.413" Score="-6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand badges represent &quot;feats&quot; on SO, but I think they can also be a great tool to reward individuals who show dedication to making the community better. With rep, you earn a certain amount, and you get extra privs like editing or voting, etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that within questions that qualify for your badge, you get extra votes. For instance,for every silver C++ badge, you now get the chance to &quot;extra upvote&quot; questions and answers tagged C++. When you get a gold C++ badge, your upvotes don't count towards the poster's daily 200 rep limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, these benefits would be limited to only within the area which you earned the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139918" LastEditorUserId="139918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T04:06:25.790" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T05:21:59.833" Title="What good are badges? New feature suggestion" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31922" CreationDate="2009-12-05T03:13:35.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2542/so-site-bar-minimalistic&quot;&gt;an alternate Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31922/hop-between-associated-sites-more-easily/31941#31941&quot;&gt;the one Jared mentioned&lt;/a&gt;. It takes up a bit less space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:13:35.170" />
  <row Id="31952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31950" CreationDate="2009-12-05T03:18:30.120" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are a slightly different dimension than rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They measure participation in ways that a reputation score number cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can have a very high reputation without ever getting a gold badge, for example. Just browse around the user profiles and you'll see what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And good luck getting the tag-based badges, which are elusive indeed:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:18:30.120" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31935" CreationDate="2009-12-05T03:23:58.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greg Hewgill has some nice graphs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65/stack-overflow-stats-graphs&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65/stack-overflow-stats-graphs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23554/tag-trends-by-week&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23554/tag-trends-by-week&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact the whole [graphs] tag is pretty solid reading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/graphs&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/graphs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:23:58.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31908" CreationDate="2009-12-05T03:35:12.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two possible solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to the advanced search page and use Google or Bing from there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did I get to this page? enter a blank search, or click the &quot;Want better search results? See our tips!&quot; link on the sidebar of every search result page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can possibly adjust the threshold of automatically converting search words to tags. We do this because users have a bad, bad habit of entering &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; common words in as &quot;search terms&quot; on SO -- like c# and java for example.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I made this a per-site threshold. So on meta, only the top 10 tags are auto-mapped, so the top 50, su/sf top 20.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be warned, however, that &quot;answers&quot; is the #15 tag on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T03:47:55.247" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T03:47:55.247" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T04:23:22.403" Score="215" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4443/jqueryad.png&quot; alt=&quot;jQuery&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139921" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T04:06:38.513" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T04:06:38.513" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="31956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31958" CreationDate="2009-12-05T05:17:54.367" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;hi,&#xA;i have seen some varied tags on which the related technologies questions are being asked. they range from c to .net to oracle. But i dont see any categories related to designing especially from adobe such as flash, dreamweaver etc and if such categories questions are asked, i dont see them in site tags. why so? is designing not included as a part of stackoverflow team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139941" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T05:43:33.990" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T05:43:33.990" Title="What tags are used for programming in design software?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="31957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31950" CreationDate="2009-12-05T05:21:59.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for a i give a shit about badges badge. You get this when you disable badges in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134874" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T05:21:59.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31956" CreationDate="2009-12-05T05:26:56.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can try &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://doctype.com/&lt;/a&gt;, this is a site in the stackoverflow family that is responsible for design related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59730" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T05:26:56.410" />
  <row Id="31959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31956" CreationDate="2009-12-05T05:41:24.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ohh.. thats great.. i didn't knew that stackoverflow had a design website too... could you please give all your other website names..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologize for posting question in incorrect website (and not in meta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139941" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T05:41:24.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="31960" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T05:48:42.623" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10984/removing-a-downvote-adds-reputation-that-wasnt-there&quot;&gt;Removing a downvote adds reputation that wasn&amp;rsquo;t there&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know a downvote causes the target to lose 2 rep points. Undoing the downvote naturally restores those 2 rep. However....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1850964/time-convert-in-javascript&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; from a new account (i.e. 1 rep) that I just downvoted. I then &lt;em&gt;un&lt;/em&gt;-downvoted (and voted to close instead). I noticed (at least I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I noticed) the OPs rep went up by +2!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just confirmed it again: someone just downvoted the OPs other duplicate question (now deleted), dropping the account to the minimum 1 rep. I downvoted and quickly un-did my vote, and sure enough, the OPs rep jumped back up to 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134019" LastEditorUserId="134019" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T06:15:30.533" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T06:15:30.533" ClosedDate="2009-12-05T06:31:15.730" Title="Quick downvote and undo of a new account causes +2 rep. Is this a bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31867" CreationDate="2009-12-05T05:49:17.553" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in the last podcast, I'm still bitter about that LOGO &quot;question&quot; Joel added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my not-so-humble opinion, unless we encourage questions that are actually &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt;, at least a little, to skilled questioners -- then we're squarely in Yahoo Answers! territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/funny-2663-yahoo21-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;not a good place to be&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T05:49:17.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32054" CreationDate="2009-12-05T09:20:54.393" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a rather large list of interesting tags, and when i try to use a Greasemonkey extension (forget what it is) to view all of my interesting tags at once, i get an HTTP 400 request error invalid. So, what exactly is the limit for queries such as those?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21717/a-greasemonkey-script-to-make-browsing-interesting-tags-easier&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is the extension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T05:48:21.527" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T05:48:21.527" Title="Is there a limit for max number of tags viewed at once?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31927" CreationDate="2009-12-05T09:49:59.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting idea.  I think that it is in line with the idea of the system trusting those users that participate in a constructive way.  Of course, there is a reason that you need to earn the trust of the system before being allowed to edit (and how could the system tell if you are fixing spelling errors in a constructive way, or vandalizing answers?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T09:49:59.333" />
  <row Id="31964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31927" CreationDate="2009-12-05T11:26:48.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a much better time/rep return from asking questions over on SU, so a &quot;non expert noob&quot; can gain rep, AND stop becoming a non-expert, all at the same time! Perfect!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T11:26:48.067" />
  <row Id="31965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31896" CreationDate="2009-12-05T11:26:57.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had similar ideas and am actively pursuing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are discussing is primarily a people problem, not a technology problem, and you can't really throw a technology solution at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; challenges to overcome when forming this kind of system and I'm working through them one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the end utopia where my risk is spread across multiple projects and I'm not tied to a single income stream.  I'm entrepreneurial by nature however and most people just are not a good fit for this kind of system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I applaud the line of thinking, but I think you need to do a lot more deep thinking about the business model and work through the challenges that bring themselves into view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see you succeed with this line of thinking as I don't particularly care for the predominate work for hire systems we have today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134955" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T11:26:57.393" />
  <row Id="31966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T12:20:21.197" Score="222" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/743/synergyplusadvert2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Synergy+. Connecting Computers.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130636" LastEditorUserId="130636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T18:02:36.103" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T18:02:36.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="31969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-05T13:16:44.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the times a down vote mean that your answer is not helpful - face it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like other day when I tried to be fastest gun in the west and answered a question on sql-server with mysql syntax. Next person answered it in the correct syntax, down-voted me and put a comment stating why he did it. I promptly added a note to my post saying though this is correct in mysql, this is not what OP is after, and up-voted the correct answer (by the one who down-voted me). Now if you can't do this, then you are right, &lt;strong&gt;you have a big ego and trouble with criticism&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T13:16:44.557" />
  <row Id="31970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-05T13:24:23.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Legitimate cases of where the asker is taking the wrong approach are pointed out. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; cannot hold it is too late.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T13:24:23.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T13:25:48.427" Score="0" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;from last night to today till 11am IST, I could not access stackoverflow site. It just displays nothing.I faced this problem before some days.. what is the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:- Facing Same kind of problem again..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T07:48:26.523" Title="from last night to today till 11am IST, I could not access stackoverflow site. It just displays nothing" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T15:18:58.533" Score="218" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/so/putty-ad.png&quot; alt=&quot;SSH on Windows&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T15:18:58.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="31973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31927" CreationDate="2009-12-05T15:24:42.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think asking and answering questions is the way.  If you're willing to have a go of it on Saturday or Sunday you can pick up some really easy questions and gets some rep for them without getting '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Skeeted&lt;/a&gt;'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T15:24:42.457" />
  <row Id="31974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31971" CreationDate="2009-12-05T15:26:51.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It works fine for me. Can you access the site through a proxy? Maybe it's your internet settings, or your ISP's that are affecting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T15:26:51.733" />
  <row Id="31975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-05T15:27:25.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31915/where-are-the-non-helpful-people/31934#31934&quot;&gt;They&lt;/a&gt; all hang out on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T15:27:25.540" />
  <row Id="31976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-05T15:32:06.793" Score="78" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://winscp.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/so/winscp-ad.png&quot; alt=&quot;I like to move it move it&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T15:32:06.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31915" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:09:30.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They usually embed their unhelpful/snide comment in their correct answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:09:30.907" />
  <row Id="31978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31971" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:17:30.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you get to meta, Super User, and Server Fault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does traceroute to stackoverflow.com say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:17:30.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31971" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:23:08.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A very useful tool in cases like this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/&lt;/a&gt; which allows you to see if the site is accessible from at least one other place on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:23:08.167" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31987" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:35:54.337" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just noticed that i can vote for reopening closed question which is asked by myself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - there are actually only 4 votes necessary to reopen question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that it's like upvoting my own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this correct and shouldn't be changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T18:41:09.307" Title="Is voting to reopen closed question which is posted by myself correct?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="31981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:37:05.927" Score="2" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used &lt;a href=&quot;http://timothy.green.name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://timothy.green.name&lt;/a&gt; to log into SO before, but now it's not working for me (past two days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following message appears on the log-in page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider: The signature verification&#xA;  failed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147191" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T19:48:00.463" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T19:48:00.463" Title="Cannot log in with MyOpenId (delegated to own domain)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;myopenid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="31982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31980" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:40:35.280" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it's correct. You can even vote to close your own question if you so wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as long as you have enough rep you should be able to vote to close and reopen any question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:40:35.280" />
  <row Id="31983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:43:07.850" Score="-6" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that some of the answers and comments that I've posted at Server Fault have been removed, not by me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do users have the ability to edit or delete other users' answers and comments? If so, that's contrary to the idea of an open, community based forum. How will I know that my answers and comments aren't being edited and/or deleted? How can I trust the &quot;forum&quot; if I can't be assured that my input is not being altered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139959" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T19:04:00.373" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T13:01:24.393" Title="Isn't editing and community-moderation censorship?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="31984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31983" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:46:20.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the FAQ, you will learn that users earn the right to edit, and even close, based on reputation. They earn reputation via the judgment of the community in voting up their questions and answers. If you can't live with that, you'll have to find someplace else to post questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if you don't choose to trust this system, no one is forcing you to. If you don't trust this system, nothing in an answer to this question is very likely to persuade you to change your mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally wrote this before sidling over to sf.com and seeing that the OP has a goodly stock of rep and has been around for a while, which leads me to wonder if I am missing a point here somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:46:20.687" />
  <row Id="31985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31983" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:49:38.043" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several ways posts get deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments will be deleted if the post to which they're attached get deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answers will be deleted it the question to which they're attached get deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A post will be deleted if 6 people flag it as spam or offensive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A question can be deleted once it's been closed - but that requires the original 5 close votes and then another 3 delete votes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators sometimes delete all the comments from a post if a lot of them (not necessarily yours) are offensive or off the point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:49:38.043" />
  <row Id="31986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31983" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:52:01.657" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;Server Fault FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this is in any way &quot;contrary to the idea of an open, community based forum.&quot;  All of the content is open to be modified by any user who has enough reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:52:01.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31980" CreationDate="2009-12-05T16:57:29.930" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything wrong with voting to reopen your own question.  It's probably a good idea to take an objective look at the question in light of the reason that it was closed, then try to edit the question to make it better fit community standards before voting to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T16:57:29.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31980" CreationDate="2009-12-05T18:41:09.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also vote for yourself in elections, at least here in the USA. It's normal...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T18:41:09.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31983" CreationDate="2009-12-05T18:41:46.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no need to trust SO.  You trust the babysitter with whom you leave your children.  SO is a site for finding answers to questions.  When you have a problem, you ask a question, or you find that it has already been asked, and apply the solution(s) provided by others.  You don't &lt;em&gt;trust&lt;/em&gt; that the answers are true, you &lt;em&gt;verify&lt;/em&gt; that they are true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T18:41:46.200" />
  <row Id="31990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31981" CreationDate="2009-12-05T19:02:27.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say what is wrong with your current openid, however, let's just get it fixed, eh? I suggest you pick a second OpenID provider - google might make sense, since you can use either gmail or your google profile. Create a second account on SO, and let me know which. In parallel, I'll e-mail the e-mail address &lt;strong&gt;on your original account&lt;/strong&gt;; reply to confirm that it is you, and I'll merge the two accounts (you can have 2 OpenID records per account).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when (if?) your OpenID works again you can change back easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For info, the reason I ask you to create a second SO account is that gmail OpenID is not preditable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T19:02:27.210" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31981" CreationDate="2009-12-05T19:04:45.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try logging into &lt;a href=&quot;http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx&lt;/a&gt; with your MyOpenID and see if it works for you.  If you ever see a failure, quickly visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://test-id.org/TracePage.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://test-id.org/TracePage.aspx&lt;/a&gt;, copy down the whole page and send it to dotnetopenid@googlegroups.com for analysis.  But I agree... it's probably a fault on the myopenid.com side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T19:04:45.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31896" CreationDate="2009-12-05T19:40:00.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, I can answer questions on SO in little breaks from work because I'm not paid.  If I were paid for it, I couldn't do it from work, and I'd have to find something else to do to get my mind clear for a different attack at a problem.  Anything that's paid has to be done on my free time, which is rather limited currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, if I were paid, I'd expect it to be at well over a dollar a minute, or to come with some sort of equity or profit-sharing.  If it's not just for intellectual playing around, it had better be for a good rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking people to do something for free works.  Paying them a reasonable rate works.  Paying them peanuts doesn't work all that well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T19:40:00.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="31993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2009-12-05T19:40:09.650" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with &quot;External Hosting&quot; is as follows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other services are often an extra slowdown to usability. Its hard to find a good service that allows all the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reasonably large images ( many have stupid filters that downscale uploaded images )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reasonably quality images ( many do arbitrary conversion to ~85% compression JPEG, which ruins vector graphics based PNGS ) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Permitting External linking with respectable bandwidth. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't require the hurdle of having to log in to yet another web service. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have permanent session persistence ( For those that require you to log in, many compulsively log you out all the time )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have simple upload services that work and are user-friendly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NonWTF terms of use. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exist for more than 3 months and not die out and result in all your images being lost. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above factors have lead me towards avoiding any of those &quot;have an account&quot; based system, due to complexity of extra action bloat, and towards those &quot;PasteBin&quot; mentality &quot;JustUploadIt&quot; web services. However, I've had problems with the latter of late, as they tend to burn out and die, leaving all the images gone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of my most favoured questions and answers, the ones that incurred me spending the most amount of effort producing a good answer, involve explanatory images, because textual representations of the same data are massively useless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Image hosting has on many of them, gone down, as services age and die, and I find myself not having backups of the images anywhere, because I have a bit of a hectic time managing so much junk. ( I don't have backups  of these images for the same reasons I have not downloaded all the text of all my answers on stackoverflow and have them stored somewhere on my disk, you know, &quot;just in case&quot; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, this posts a very real problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, when you don't host stackoverflow images on stackoverflow, you relinquish any control you might have had on a large part of your content. Its a gaping doorway to having content that is part of your site, that might be lost at any time, and unlike the text, which when a user deletes it could still really exist forever in the database, the images are gone forever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, if stackoverflow does image hosting for stackoverflow, then the images can be preserved with the content, and you only have to worry about permanent disappearance from the internet if stackoverflow itself departs this world. Unlike all the hosting providers, which may decide one day in the not to distant future to incur a policy change, and making external linking without a hosted, advertisement impregnated iframe, a payer-only feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, on legal terms*, people can publish their images on their own servers, and put whatever license they want on the content. Because its not on stackoverflow, its not actually under the cc-wiki/attribution required license, and is thus compromising the whole openness of stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*IANAL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;List of broken posts of mine due to image absense.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;( Note: some of them will appear to be very pointless )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102702/are-people-with-certain-myers-briggs-personality-types-drawn-to-careers-in-progra/102994#102994&quot;&gt;Answer on: Are people with certain Myers Briggs personality types drawn to careers in programming/development?&lt;/a&gt; # Spent a good couple of hours or so making the diagram here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265944/backing-out-a-backwards-merge-on-mercurial&quot;&gt;Question: Backing Out a backwards merge on Mercurial&lt;/a&gt; # Complex merge/commit history with 4 or more branch lines. Gone. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265944/backing-out-a-backwards-merge-on-mercurial/270140#270140&quot;&gt;Answer on: Backing Out a backwards merge on Mercurial&lt;/a&gt; # Diagram of a temporary solution to the problem. Answer is now useless. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/356035/algorithm-for-detecting-clusters-of-dots/356107#356107&quot;&gt;Answer on: Algorithm for detecting “clusters” of dots&lt;/a&gt; # Complex dotfield showing a distribution of points in a given pattern that I anticipated would be difficult to discover with code&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others Images that have gone missing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/356035/algorithm-for-detecting-clusters-of-dots/356069#356069&quot;&gt;Answer on: Algorithm for detecting “clusters” of dots&lt;/a&gt; # Response to my above contribution processing the dotfield into a detected region/cluster of dots using a heatmap algorithm.  ( The absence of these diagrams together makes it much worse )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15614" LastEditorUserId="15614" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-05T19:55:51.777" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T19:55:51.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="31994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31770" CreationDate="2009-12-05T20:12:51.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look at any high reputation person, yes they certainly answer a lot of questions very well, but if you look at the things that actually generate their badges and reputation I can guarantee that they're almost all questions that are generic, argumentative, or horribly subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please back this generic, argumentative, and horribly subjective statement up with some evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T20:12:51.590" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="31995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31770" CreationDate="2009-12-05T20:15:59.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. Can we have a special badge for unsupported, sweeping, generalizations? One that comes with, oh, a rep of -500? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a counterexample, feel free to look at my track record on so.com. I'm over 2k. My rep is disproportionately from a few popular answers to specific, not wildly obscure, technical, questions. I don't claim to understand why some of these answers piled up 10-15 votes. I'd hazard a generalization that relatively pithy, accurate, answers to medium-simple questions get rewarded -- perhaps because those questions are likely to be searched for over and over. But I don't really know what the voters were thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that there are people out there farming rep on marginal, soon-to-be-Wiki questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't care.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The case in which I could imagine this mattering to anything except ego is if someone abuses the editorial powers gained from ill-gotten rep. Something tells me that this would lead pretty speedily to an account reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of us are going to Valhalla based on our StackOverflow reps. A few might get job offers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best I can tell, most of us do this due to a compulsion to be helpful, a suspicion that others might return the favor when we get stuck, and, oh well, a bit of intellectual peacockery. But there's a big difference between strutting a bit and getting all hot and bothered over the legitimacy of other people's feathers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T20:15:59.650" />
  <row Id="31996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T22:53:09.927" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff discussed on the latest blog podcast that gravatars show up in the search results.  They also suggested people not use the ip gravatars or other non-serious ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better solution is to allow users to choose whether the their gravatar shows up in search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T22:53:09.927" Title="ability to turn off gravatar in seach results of careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="31997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31983" CreationDate="2009-12-05T23:02:11.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strictly speaking from the dictionary definition of censorship,  which is simply suppressing material on the grounds that it meets (or fails to meet) some arbitrary standard, yes, it's absolutely censorship.  That is, censorship can be considered synonymous with moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more important question is whether or not this is beneficial to the community.  I think that it can be (and has been) successfully argued that some moderation is vastly preferable to no moderation at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would you trust more?  An utterly unmoderated free-for-all?  It's true that moderators are human, and mistakes can be (and have been) made.  Nevertheless, the end result of the moderation process at SO a large, successful, community-driven site which thousands of people find &quot;trustworthy&quot; enough to use on a regular basis, inasmuch as trust is even relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-05T23:02:11.407" />
  <row Id="32000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-05T23:47:15.150" Score="1" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a PhD student with 7 years of experience in programming. I have worked on large systems in different platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question related to Computer Science, there were times that the question was closed or the approach was &quot;Not programming related question&quot;. I don't like the fact that SO only accepts questions related to programming and excludes questions regarding computer science, especially theoretical computer science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a reminder to those there wouldn't be any programming if there weren't any theory behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will this change anytime soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139967" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T06:34:26.530" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T06:34:26.530" Title="Computer Science and Programming" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;computer-science&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32000" CreationDate="2009-12-06T00:02:55.230" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 378 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/computer-science&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;computer-science&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on SO, out of which &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bcomputer-science%5D+closed%3A1&quot;&gt;aprox. 46 are closed&lt;/a&gt;. Some are closed because they're duplicates of earlier questions, others because they're questions that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1648921/your-favorite-poorly-named-computer-science-concepts-closed&quot;&gt;aren't really appropriate&lt;/a&gt; for the SO Q&amp;amp;A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you cite any &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; examples of CS questions closed simply for being CS questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T00:02:55.230" />
  <row Id="32002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32000" CreationDate="2009-12-06T00:10:55.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As soon as your knowlege increases beyond a certain level, many people with the ability to close your question can't recognize how a very mathematical question with very little explanation relates to computer science. In other words, without any additional details they look at it, think &quot;ak maths&quot; and vote to close it. As this site is community run, all you need is 5 people to vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="137028" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T11:02:17.697" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T11:02:17.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-06T00:24:20.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can count on one hand the number of times I've had an answer downvoted when I legitimately thought I was right (excepting the wild, wild west that is meta)... pretty much all my downvotes come from snarky stuff which is, let's face it, a legitimate target, and the only thought that came into my mind was &quot;yeah, I deserved that one&quot;.  If you want people to stop saying &quot;you're wrong&quot;, perhaps you just need to stop posting wrong answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T00:24:20.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31902" CreationDate="2009-12-06T00:46:41.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't do this. Community Wiki is muddy enough as it is. The few people who might benefit from it don't really understand what it is, and adding incentive to force more questions into Wiki would just make it the ultimate mosh pit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T00:46:41.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T03:10:43.687" Score="0" ViewCount="678" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just out of curiosity, has nobody ever yet noted / discussed here the fact that many of the pre-set user images (those fractals, I forget what they're called) resemble a Swastika?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Random examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/74311/josh-davis&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/74311/josh-davis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49942/chrisw&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49942/chrisw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/145/akdom&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/145/akdom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/672/josephstyons&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/672/josephstyons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's just the algorithm, but it has caught my eye a number of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edit: I was somewhat surprised to come back here and find the place such a mess. I thought the way I wrote it in made clear that I in no way implied any intentional background to this, and assumed a characteristic in the algorithm, and was merely surprised it has not been mentioned in &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; form in a community as huge as this one, because I think they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; catch your eye. But well, maybe it's because as a german, I have been extremely exposed to, and made sensitive to, 3rd Reich history. I am aware of the rich and diversified history of the Swastika before 1933 and after, and with the many perfectly innocent meanings it has in Buddhism and whatnot. I was just curious, is all, and asking whether it has ever caught anybody else's eye. There's neither need to make that a big deal out of it, nor to be that rude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-25T05:08:43.060" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T05:08:43.060" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T18:29:25.657" Title="Swastikas in fractal images" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="32008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31842" CreationDate="2009-12-06T03:36:01.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote means two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is bad and wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't like this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I suggested &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6766/two-kinds-of-vote&quot;&gt;two kinds of vote&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T03:36:01.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32007" CreationDate="2009-12-06T03:37:49.193" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, it's a random hash algorithm -- they have no meaning, intent nor implied, and are abstract. Thus, you'll see whatever it is you want to see in it. For example, I see ninja throwing stars in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/74311/josh-davis&quot; title=&quot;ninjas so freakin' rock&quot;&gt;Josh Davis&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49942/chrisw&quot; title=&quot;Tew! Tew! That's the sound throwing stars make when you unleash them upon your foes!&quot;&gt;ChrisW&lt;/a&gt;, and laser kaleidoscopes in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/145/akdom&quot; title=&quot;Hey man, do you like lasers?&quot;&gt;Akdom&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/672/josephstyons&quot; title=&quot;welbog yeah you do!&quot;&gt;JosephStyons&lt;/a&gt;. (And how the heck did you come up with swastikas in those latter two? I'm trying really hard and don't see them!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the swastika &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Complete history; I love me some Wikipedia&quot;&gt;was and remains a sacred symbol to many cultures&lt;/a&gt;. For example, in my last apartment, many of my neighbors in the building had the Hindu swastikas painted on their doorsteps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#As%5Fthe%5Fsymbol%5Fof%5FNazism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Nazis. I hate these guys. -- Indiana Jones&quot;&gt;Nazis co-opted and corrupted it&lt;/a&gt;, and many of us who are not familiar with its historical and cultural significance elsewhere (and that included me, until just a few years ago) will permanently associate it with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31842/downvotes-appear-to-be-pure-evil&quot; title=&quot;not this kind of pure evil, but really pure evil&quot;&gt;pure evil&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side note: I don't know if it's been replaced in the last decade or not, but the old Allentown, PA post office's floor is decorated with them. It, naturally, predates the second World War (built in 1934). (I noticed this when I lived there, and thought it odd, but to be fair I thought just about everything in the Lehigh Valley was odd as a native Chicagoan.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T03:37:49.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32007" CreationDate="2009-12-06T03:38:16.523" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're looking too deeply into this, I really had to screw my eyes up to see them as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swastika&lt;/a&gt; symbols. But anyway, what's the problem if they were? It's a commonly used symbol by many ancient and modern day belief systems, way before the Nazi's co-opted it as their moniker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of them as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma%5F%28Jainism%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jainism&lt;/a&gt; symbols instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/JainismSymbol.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;Jainism&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T03:38:16.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32007" CreationDate="2009-12-06T03:42:16.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not seeing it in those images..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/04037e7679530460a26a91b81bc9e60f?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is the swastika here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T03:42:16.797" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32000" CreationDate="2009-12-06T06:08:50.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, no well written and well tagged theoretical computer science question should be closed on the grounds of being &quot;not programming related.&quot; That said though, I can understand why a question might get closed for not appear to be programming related, more so the closer you get to the very theoretical topics. At that point you might just have to flag one of the moderators to have them review and reopen the question if need be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T06:08:50.837" />
  <row Id="32019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T09:19:32.393" Score="0" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/686/accepting-answer-without-upvoting&quot;&gt;Accepting answer without upvoting?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13390/when-you-accept-an-answer-should-you-also-vote-it-up&quot;&gt;When you accept an answer should you also vote it up?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask a question and then pick a right answer, should you also up vote that answer? &#xA;Can a question be &quot;right&quot; but not worth an up vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139928" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T09:40:47.863" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T13:47:43.950" Title="Picking Right Answer vs Up Vote" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;checkmark&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32019" CreationDate="2009-12-06T09:40:47.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quote my previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13390/when-you-accept-an-answer-should-you-also-vote-it-up/13393#13393&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I upvote any answers that are helpful: perhaps they're not the exact solution, but they're alternatives, or on the right path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes there are duplicates. If duplicate answers should be 'accepted', I prefer them to be upvoted to match each other, or allow one answerer to retract his answer in favor of the other guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But overall, if you're accepting something you're not upvoting, why are you accepting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T09:40:47.863" />
  <row Id="32023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T10:31:21.623" Score="6" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose a user has put some time and effort into asking and answering&#xA;questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; or any of the most popular &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;sites. How can that user keep up-to-date with his or her scores on these&#xA;sites and be alerted to any changes? Is there perhaps a Firefox extension&#xA;which could help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139977" LastEditorUserId="139977" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T11:37:38.103" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:30:44.967" Title="How can I easily monitor changes to my reputation score? Is there a Firefox extension available?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;extension&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="32024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32023" CreationDate="2009-12-06T10:33:17.253" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just uploaded &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53142&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Reputation Display&lt;/a&gt;, a new&#xA;Firefox extension to the Mozilla addon site which allows you to&#xA;monitor the scores of one or more accounts on a dozen or so Stack&#xA;Overflow-like sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details of your reputation score and badge counts for your&#xA;account(s) are shown unobtrusively in the status bar, and are updated&#xA;periodically. Optional sound effects can draw your attention to any&#xA;changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.twistedlip.org/extensions/sorepdisplay/statusbar.png&quot; alt=&quot;Firefox status bar showing reputation score and badge counts&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The extension is currently in the Mozilla add-ons sandbox awaiting&#xA;feedback from reviewers and users, but I am hoping that it will be&#xA;promoted to official public status before long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to install this extension, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53142&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;download it&#xA;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139977" LastEditorUserId="139977" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T08:36:00.853" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T08:36:00.853" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T11:30:32.880" Score="4" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35/will-stack-overflows-engine-be-open-sourced&quot;&gt;Will Stack Overflow&amp;#39;s engine be open sourced?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the script running Stack Overflow downloadable? Are there similar scripts available?&#xA;I would like to know how Stack Overflow was structured; its function and design are pretty  straightforward. I would like to know about approaches to achieving the site's functions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Is &lt;code&gt;www.squarepolygon.com&lt;/code&gt; related to Stack Overflow? I thought that if it was related to Stack Overflow, it would have a link in the footer. I just want to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-04T23:49:35.897" LastActivityDate="2010-09-04T23:49:35.897" ClosedDate="2010-09-05T08:27:08.603" Title="Is Stack Overflow's code downloadable or free to use?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;programming&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32026" CreationDate="2009-12-06T11:32:54.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow itself is not open-source. You can buy its service at stackexchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But There is some stackoverflow clones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/cnprog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think this question should be on meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T11:37:10.283" />
  <row Id="32028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32026" CreationDate="2009-12-06T11:33:03.017" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not open source or anything.&#xA;They do offer a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;program&lt;/a&gt; where you can have your own SO-like site hosted, at a cost of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131214" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T11:37:10.283" />
  <row Id="32029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32602" CreationDate="2009-12-06T11:46:54.577" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;To illustrate, multiple non-&lt;code&gt;script&lt;/code&gt; tags works fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;element name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/element&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;element name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/element&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But multiple &lt;code&gt;script&lt;/code&gt; tags bugs the highlighter, see the pattern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script name=&quot;value&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here's a real world example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!doctype html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;html lang=&quot;en&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://example.com/one.js&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://example.com/two.js&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            $(document).ready(function() {&#xA;                alert('waa');&#xA;            });&#xA;        &amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look like a bug in some sort of XSS filter, if any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T16:31:59.597" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:10:53.903" Title="Syntax highlighter bugs on multiple &lt;script&gt; tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T12:16:54.037" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25202/isnt-the-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-a-little-too-eager&quot;&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t the &amp;ldquo;vote too old to be changed&amp;rdquo; a little too eager?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1854557/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO, and wanted to vote up one of the answers, so I did. After researching the topic some more, I found out the answer I upvoted was actually incorrect and the one I voted for wasn't, so I wanted to change my upvote to the other answer. However, even after this short time (under 2 minutes) the system both wouldn't let me remove my upvote, or add an upvote to the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen some other questions on this topic, but they all seem to be about changing votes after a longer period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131214" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T16:32:08.147" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:32:08.147" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T13:57:54.183" Title="Can anyone explain this vote-too-old behaviour?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51388" CreationDate="2009-12-06T12:31:49.033" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Results in SO Careers for employers should have sorting by reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T09:23:09.840" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T09:23:37.643" Title="Better sorting for results" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T12:37:17.420" Score="1" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an employer is looking for employees for more than one position, then it would be good if there is some kind of grouping of the Careers profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it would be nice, if separate messages were sent for each group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T18:07:17.617" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T18:07:17.617" Title="Groups in saved users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="32033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32034" CreationDate="2009-12-06T12:41:08.690" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice, if I can see only students. Because we opening some position for summer internship for University students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130101" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T04:30:43.310" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T05:00:04.077" Title="Filter &quot;Only students&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32033" CreationDate="2009-12-06T12:49:08.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a request for a new flag on user profiles.  Perhaps this is another use for the &quot;Careers&quot; section?  After all, they have the discounted rate for students there, so presumably they'd already be flagged (and seeking opportunities, to boot!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139584" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T12:49:08.503" />
  <row Id="32035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31983" CreationDate="2009-12-06T13:01:24.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with any wiki-based project, users have the ability to edit each others' content to an extent far greater than is common on other formats such as your average bulletin board or mailing list.  If you can't accept the possibility that what you write could be edited, then you're well advised to not post material on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there are checks and balances in place to ensure that people don't abuse the feature &lt;i&gt;(c.f. rep requirements, rollbacks)&lt;/i&gt;, and you always have the ability to edit, comment on, or reply to anything you post, so long as the question remains open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ease up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139584" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T13:01:24.393" />
  <row Id="32036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32007" CreationDate="2009-12-06T13:03:09.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not the first one to notice it, and certainly not the last.  Nothing to pay any mind to, unless you &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; think this site is populated by 3,000+ neo-Nazis...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139584" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T13:03:09.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32039" CreationDate="2009-12-06T13:16:33.320" Score="-2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, I can see where the Community Wiki feature serves a useful purpose sort of like copyright expirations: after an extremely popular post has lived its life and the person who came up with it is credited with his contribution, it automatically enters the public domain so that others can tidy it up to make it more useful to the community at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand fully is the purpose of user-designation of posts as Community Wiki on SO.  I'm a relative newbie to the site, but from what I can tell from having read the discussions, CW started out as a place for meta-discussion regarding SO, which was discontinued once Meta was launched.  Based on the pattern I'm seeing these days, it seems that calls for someone to mark a topic as CW usually is their way of saying it shouldn't be on SO at all; it should be deleted outright.  As such, shouldn't these questions just get close-voted and summarily deleted?  It appears to me that CW simply leaves it up there, and is more the tool of a jealous member trying to deny another member rep points because he started something that's of interest to the community (or at the least, bound to get responses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139584" LastEditorUserId="139584" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T15:23:25.120" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T15:23:25.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-06T15:23:25.120" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T13:57:36.040" Title="Does user-designation of a post as Community Wiki still serve a purpose?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32031" CreationDate="2009-12-06T13:38:53.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree - what about a student (or professional) who just found out about SO a month ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you sort by rep alone, you could be excluding new users just because they're new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is merely &lt;em&gt;ONE&lt;/em&gt; indicator of a candidate - you still need to look at their profile, what questions they've answered and asked, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T13:38:53.873" />
  <row Id="32039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32037" CreationDate="2009-12-06T13:41:06.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CW is not for jealous people, it's not for Meta discussion and it is not for non-programming related stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read here, for what it is good for:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are CW posts on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T13:41:06.677" />
  <row Id="32040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T14:45:20.867" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently followed the &lt;strong&gt;advertising info&lt;/strong&gt; link from SuperUser (in the page footer), it takes you to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;same page&lt;/a&gt; as for StackOverflow. This page states it is possible to sponsor specific tags, which is only possible on StackOverflow (established over an email exchange with the nice people at Inedo Media).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to avoid confusion it would make sense to have a separate page for each site, if only because following an advertising link from SuperUser (or ServerFault) shouldn't take you to a StackOverflow-branded page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T06:12:27.717" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T06:12:27.717" Title="Change the SuperUser Advertising Info link to point to a Super User page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31776" CreationDate="2009-12-06T14:47:59.427" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags do several things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are used for (weak) statistics.  For example, you can't look at the currently 51,715 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and say there are that many C# questions, because some C# questions will simply be tagged &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; and some question that are only very loosely C#-related (more about the .NET API, for example) will end up tagged that way.  But you can compare the &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; tag to other language tags like &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; for relative popularity on Stack Overflow or track the growth of the &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; tag over time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags connect experts with questions they will be able to answer.&lt;/strong&gt;  If you tag your SQL Server question 'mssql' instead of 'sql-server', odds are it won't get near as much attention and may not get a good answer or as good of an answer, because frequent users who use SQL Server have settled on the 'sql-server' tag.  They know to watch the &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt; tag for questions they can answer, but are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; watching for &lt;code&gt;mssql&lt;/code&gt;.  A good rule of thumb is that any tag used less than 10 times is almost certainly wrong, and any major language or product tag used less than 100 times is almost certainly wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags are used in searching.  You can search within a specific tag by enclosing it in square brackets, like this: &lt;code&gt;[java] generics&lt;/code&gt;.  That would search for all posts tagged &quot;java&quot; with the word &quot;generics&quot; in them.  Additionally, if you search on any one of the top 20 tags, it's automatically converted to a tag search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags can award badges.  Earn 400 or 1000 upvotes in a specific tag, and you get a badge for that tag.  Also, if you click on a tag there is a stats tab where you can view top users within that tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags are for sorting your question into specific, well-defined categories&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  Each tag should by itself refer to a specific category.  If a tag only makes sense when used in combination with another tag (like '2005' with sql-server, 'visual' with 'studio', or '3.5' with .net), it's a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags do &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags are not for summarizing your question.  That's what the title and the abstract are for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tags are not for indexing your question.  This isn't audio or video.  Stack Overflow and Google can index your question just fine based on the text of your question itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see these posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18878/how-do-i-correctly-tag-my-questions&quot;&gt;How do I correctly tag my questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2779/could-the-tagging-system-be-enhanced-to-support-tag-synonyms/2782#2782&quot;&gt;Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-04T19:23:41.793" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T19:23:41.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-10T21:01:05.010" />
  <row Id="32042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32091" CreationDate="2009-12-06T14:59:44.180" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently enquired about advertising my StackExchange site on specific tags on SuperUser. I was informed that tag-targeted ads are only supported on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a small set of around 20 tags on SuperUser that overlap with my site, ideally I'd like to target these tags to maximise my limited advertising budget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this limitation a technical or financial decision? Will it be possible to target tags on SuperUser if/when it reaches a high enough volume?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="133733" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T06:11:53.257" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T06:11:53.257" Title="Allow for sponsored tags on SuperUser" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T15:20:16.060" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29301/captcha-pages-do-not-display-authentication-status&quot;&gt;Captcha Pages Do Not Display Authentication Status&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason for not showing the logged in status on the &quot;Human Verification&quot; page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand the need for human verification even for registered, logged in users, it is often on other places on the web reserved for unregistered users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means when I first got a human verification page I immediately thought &quot;Oh, have I been logged out&quot;, looked at the top right, couldn't see the usual indicator of being logged in (my name and rep) and so thought there had been a mistake which had logged me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe showing the usual indicators of being logged in will reduce this panic that something has gone wrong and logged the user out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139985" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T15:20:16.060" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T16:38:28.540" Title="Any reason for not showing logged in status on &quot;Human Verification&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32042" CreationDate="2009-12-06T15:38:20.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have though that this is due to a technical reason as the svn revision numbers of both sites are currently the same at 5751.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I have seen some StackExchange sites that have tags with logos on them that (as has been mentioned in other threads on here) are older/different branches of the main SO source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T15:38:20.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32048" CreationDate="2009-12-06T15:43:02.167" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;How resilient is Stackoverflow to outages?  Is there an automatic failover process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stackoverflow websites were down for maintenance for 2 hours yesterday (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/database-server-upgrade-outage-today/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;5pm to 7pm PST on a Saturday&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the only info I have at the moment:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-That blog post (above) mentions they have a backup database server.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow podcasts&lt;/a&gt; imply they only use one main web server, with no load balancing - which surprised me a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138758" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:38:00.193" Title="What is Stackoverflow's resiliency/availability story?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;hardware&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32050" CreationDate="2009-12-06T15:50:06.537" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4766/how-are-hot-questions-selected&quot;&gt;How are &amp;ldquo;Hot&amp;rdquo; Questions Selected?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the `hottest` tab, you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/hotq.png&quot; alt=&quot;hottest&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the `newest` tab, you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/newestq.png&quot; alt=&quot;newest&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what are the 2058 questions that are not hot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:25:11.807" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T21:55:15.767" Title="Why are there 403,517 &quot;hottest&quot; questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;hot&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32045" CreationDate="2009-12-06T16:16:16.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They use &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/load-balancing-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;load balancing&lt;/a&gt;. And I think for a Q&amp;amp;A site the resilience is good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:16:16.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32046" CreationDate="2009-12-06T16:25:11.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is normal -- the hot algorithm rules out posts below a certain vote threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:25:11.807" />
  <row Id="32051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32042" CreationDate="2009-12-06T16:26:06.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can contact our ad sales weasels by clicking the &quot;advertising info&quot; link at the bottom of the page -- I'm sure they'll be happy to help you out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:26:06.753" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32040" CreationDate="2009-12-06T16:27:32.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good idea, we'll follow up on this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:27:32.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32029" CreationDate="2009-12-06T16:31:36.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has to be filed against &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google prettify&lt;/a&gt;, not us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:31:36.070" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31962" CreationDate="2009-12-06T16:35:18.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two syntaxes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fun&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=fun&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter seems to be more tolerant of long URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and for completeness, there is also a synonym of the first, like so:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/fun&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:35:18.763" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32045" CreationDate="2009-12-06T16:38:00.193" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't have a problem with maintenance outages of &lt;strong&gt;a few hours every 4-6 months&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't see the Trilogy as a mission critical service where we &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; have downtime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T16:38:00.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32065" CreationDate="2009-12-06T17:30:49.647" Score="4" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sometimes confused by UTC and how it relates to the daylight savings time of my timezone. Could we get a little timestamp at the bottom of every page in UTC?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-20T08:28:51.000" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T08:29:06.460" Title="Current Site Time (in UTC) at Bottom of Every Page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32057" CreationDate="2009-12-06T17:53:44.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You find the current UTC time in your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/133268&quot;&gt;recent activity list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T17:53:44.753" />
  <row Id="32060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T18:19:10.260" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5280/embrace-the-non-googlers&quot;&gt;Embrace the non-Googlers&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason (people being lazy or whatever) StackOverflow is being used like a search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with beginners and &quot;easy&quot; questions. If somebody is willing to help them, has enough time and patience for these questions I can only admire. But asking questions that are easily answered by the simplest google query are just creating noise. I know we are supposed to down-vote them but it seems to me that people don't like spending their hard earned reputation points on something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I learn how to stop worrying and love the bomb or is there any way to change this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T18:36:35.487" ClosedDate="2009-12-06T19:48:07.040" Title="Should we discourage people from asking stupid questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32023" CreationDate="2009-12-06T18:26:41.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt;. It's maybe not as convenient as a Firefox extension, but I usually use Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T18:26:41.760" />
  <row Id="32062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32060" CreationDate="2009-12-06T18:36:35.487" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the Google query's top results show a corresponding, duplicate Trilogy question, then vote to close and move on. If you can't vote to close, flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Google' query's top results &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; show a corresponding, duplicate Trilogy question, then no, the question is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; noise. The goal is that Google is the &quot;home page&quot; for StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser -- no question too trivial, as long as it is answerable and written decently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done and done. And this is really a duplicate. Many times over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T18:36:35.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32057" CreationDate="2009-12-06T19:04:22.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from anything else, you can always find the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current%5Ftime%5Fin%5FUTC.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;current UTC time here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T19:04:22.737" />
  <row Id="32064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32057" CreationDate="2009-12-06T19:18:58.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just remember it's 19:18 now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T19:18:58.810" />
  <row Id="32065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32057" CreationDate="2009-12-06T19:28:07.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would we want to break caching for anonymous users every second of every day? :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the UTC time is on your /recent page. Click the envelope at the top of the page and see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: see the dropdown on your user name; it contains the current UTC time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-20T08:29:06.460" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T08:29:06.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-06T19:29:50.587" Score="-1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18729/is-there-a-better-way-of-including-code-containing-lt-gt&quot;&gt;Extends&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;lt;code&amp;gt; tag works really great:&#xA;&lt;code&gt;test &amp;lt; less than &gt; &lt;b&gt;but markup still works&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt; and &amp;gt; don't get parsed out as tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; tag operates different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;test  &lt;b&gt;but markup still works&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the &amp;lt; less than &amp;gt; got gobbled up somehow inside the &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you can use 4 spaces but I find it irritating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it'd be great if the &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; tag could act more like the &amp;lt;code&amp;gt; tag wrt &amp;lt; and &amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-06T20:50:23.920" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T20:50:23.920" Title="Can we have the pre tag work as the code tag does for angle brackets?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32066" CreationDate="2009-12-06T19:35:20.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indent by 4 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is if you want to avoid syntax highlighting -- and that plus &amp;lt;&amp;gt; in the content is rare enough that this is low-pri.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T19:35:20.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32066" CreationDate="2009-12-06T19:44:04.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get this. If you want to use HTML, then use HTML - HTML requires escaping certain &quot;special&quot; characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to use Markdown, then use Markdown...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T19:44:04.800" />
  <row Id="32071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32023" CreationDate="2009-12-06T22:12:59.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a extension for Chrome to do this a while ago (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adrianbanks.co.uk/sofurep/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SOFURep&lt;/a&gt; in case anyone is interested), but since custom toolbars for extensions has been discontinued, it no longer works (although I haven't tried it on the latest dev build).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be good if there was an official extension/plugin/addin for this for the major browsers - perhaps either written by the SO team, or an officially adopted one. I only wrote one because there wasn't one available - it seems silly for many people to reinvent this same wheel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T22:12:59.667" />
  <row Id="32073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7020" CreationDate="2009-12-06T23:04:22.257" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Mortarboard] - hit rep cap once&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Epic] - hit rep cap 50 times&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Legendary] - hit rep cap 150 times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All are single-award badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T23:04:22.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32081" CreationDate="2009-12-06T23:12:21.787" Score="4" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new Epic and Legendary badges are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Epic: Hit the daily reputation cap for 50 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Legendary: Hit the daily reputation cap for 150 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these for any days, or must they be consecutive days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T00:50:00.377" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T00:50:00.377" Title="Are the new Epic and Legendary badges for consective days, or total days?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32077" CreationDate="2009-12-06T23:15:25.450" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This indicates to me that the Fanatic and Enthusiast (nee Woot) badges should have the word &quot;consecutive&quot; in their description..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: updated the descriptions to be more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T00:40:29.743" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:40:29.743" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32023" CreationDate="2009-12-06T23:33:39.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using the microsummary XML file found here for FF:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12362/firefox-users-your-stackoverflow-reputation-microsummary&quot;&gt;Firefox users - your Stack Overflow “reputation” microsummary!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12362/firefox-users-your-stack-overflow-reputation-microsummary/12372#12372&quot;&gt;this answer.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just have to add bookmarks to your summary page into your bookmark toolbar and use the &quot;live title&quot; option for the name. You get something akin to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sam.haslers.info/images/SO-SF-microsummaries.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-12-06T23:33:39.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32164" CreationDate="2009-12-06T23:40:36.073" Score="21" ViewCount="842" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how to find out (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32087/how-close-are-you-to-an-epic-legendary-badge/32164#32164&quot;&gt;see Shog9's answer&lt;/a&gt; if you use Greasemonkey).  Go to your profile reputation page (the one with the chart on it), View Source, and find the line that looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var d = [[1238832000000, 10],[1240300800000, 20], ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paste that, without the &lt;code&gt;var&lt;/code&gt;, into the top of this Python script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;d = [[1238832000000, 10],[1240300800000, 20], ...&#xA;qualifying_days = 0&#xA;previous_rep = 0&#xA;for _, rep in d:&#xA;    if rep - previous_rep &amp;gt;= 200:&#xA;        qualifying_days += 1&#xA;    previous_rep = rep&#xA;print qualifying_days&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will print the number of days you hit 200 points.  (That probably isn't an exact match for how the badges are calculated, but it should be ballpark correct.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21886" LastEditorUserId="21886" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T18:14:03.917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T00:02:42.250" Title="How close are you to an Epic / Legendary badge?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="32088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2009-12-06T23:59:28.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;print len([x for x in [d[i+1][1]-d[i][1] for i in range(len(d)-1)] if x &amp;gt;= 200])&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: On further reflection, this is better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;print len([1 for i in range(len(d)-1) if d[i+1][1]-d[i][1] &amp;gt;= 200])&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need for those nested list comprehensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update again&lt;/strong&gt;: I just got my Legendary badge a few minutes ago. The above query currently returns 134 days on which I'd reached the rep cap, so the actual badge calculation is using a somewhat different formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T00:02:42.250" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T00:02:42.250" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="32089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32023" CreationDate="2009-12-07T00:02:28.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use a Windows batch script that downloads the user profile HTML from 6 sites (SOFU and 2 Stack Exchange sites) using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wget&lt;/a&gt; and a Perl one-liner for each to extract the reputation information and appends it to a text file, SOscores.txt, together with a timestamp. Thus SOscores.txt is also a permanent record of reputation over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end SOscores.txt is opened in the program that opens .txt files, e.g. UltraEdit. This script would be similar on Linux and Mac OS X. It could be made simpler by some refactoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    %WGLOC%  http://stackoverflow.com/users/63550       %OUTFOLDER%\SO.html&#xA;    %WGLOC%  http://serverfault.com/users/5144          %OUTFOLDER%\SF.html&#xA;    %WGLOC%  http://superuser.com/users/517             %OUTFOLDER%\SU.html&#xA;    %WGLOC%  http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/63550  %OUTFOLDER%\mSO.html&#xA;    %WGLOC%  http://sciencestack.com/users/81           %OUTFOLDER%\SS.html&#xA;    %WGLOC%  http://mathoverflow.net/users/2022         %OUTFOLDER%\MO.html&#xA;&#xA;    echo.  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    echo ---------------------------------------------------------------- &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    echo State %date%T%time%: &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;&#xA;    rem Note: the different aligment here is to make the output&#xA;    rem       line up with current reputation values.&#xA;    perl -nle &quot;print '  Stack Overflow       ' . $1 . '  (no change)' if /\s{20,99}([0-9,]{3,6})&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;/;&quot; &quot;%OUTFOLDER_RAW%\SO.html&quot;    &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    perl -nle &quot;print '  Server Fault           ' . $1 . '  (no change)' if /\s{20,99}([0-9,]{3,6})&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;/;&quot; &quot;%OUTFOLDER_RAW%\SF.html&quot;  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    perl -nle &quot;print '  Super User           ' . $1 . '  (no change)' if /\s{20,99}([0-9,]{3,6})&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;/;&quot; &quot;%OUTFOLDER_RAW%\SU.html&quot;  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    perl -nle &quot;print '  Meta Stack Overflow    ' . $1 . '  (no change)' if /\s{20,99}([0-9,]{3,6})&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;/;&quot; &quot;%OUTFOLDER_RAW%\mSO.html&quot; &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    perl -nle &quot;print '  Science Stack           ' . $1 . '  (no change)' if /\s{20,99}([0-9,]{2,6})&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;/;&quot; &quot;%OUTFOLDER_RAW%\SS.html&quot;  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    perl -nle &quot;print '  Math Overflow            ' . $1 . '  (no change)' if /\s{20,99}([0-9,]{1,6})&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;/;&quot; &quot;%OUTFOLDER_RAW%\MO.html&quot;  &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;    echo ---------------------------------------------------------------- &amp;gt;&amp;gt; SOscores.txt&#xA;&#xA;    rem Open result in default program for TXT files, e.g. UltraEdit.&#xA;    SOscores.txt&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;%WGLOC%&lt;/code&gt; is an environment variable with the full path to wget and some parameters for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T00:34:03.607" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:34:03.607" />
  <row Id="32090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32095" CreationDate="2009-12-07T00:06:42.830" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently if I ask a question and somebody answers it I am notified about this event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if somebody comments on the answer, the author of the answer is notified, not the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many cases comments provide a valuable feedback to the OP as well as to the author of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we add OP notification for such an event?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137390" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:29:47.310" Title="Can you notify question's OP when any answer is commented?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32042" CreationDate="2009-12-07T00:12:47.090" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a technical limitation, more a practical one. Advertising is a numbers game, and you need a good number of impressions (100K+) over a month to really have an impact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the tags on Stack Overflow, Super User, and Server Fault simply do not have enough questions to provide for this type of traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:12:47.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2009-12-07T00:12:55.140" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really, really far.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's assuming it's not in a row, the wording is really awkward.  It really ought to be &quot;Hit the daily reputation cap X times (non-consecutive)&quot; or something less ambiguous&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:12:55.140" />
  <row Id="32093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T00:23:57.867" Score="10" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32087/how-close-are-you-to-an-epic-legendary-badge&quot;&gt;How close are you to an Epic / Legendary badge?&lt;/a&gt; is to believed then it should be trivial to add that calculation to that page or a similar one somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-05T20:37:13.903" LastActivityDate="2011-06-05T20:37:24.183" Title="Add number of days you hit the daily rep cap to your profile somewhere" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29324" CreationDate="2009-12-07T00:28:06.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I live in mortal fear of all the information I've pumped into SO over the last year just up and disappearing on me &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't live in mortal fear. Download the &lt;a href=&quot;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Data Dump&lt;/a&gt; for SOFU and burn it on a DVD. It is relatively simple to import the data into a database or (for one-offs) to write simple scripts to extract the required information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:28:06.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32090" CreationDate="2009-12-07T00:29:47.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been many suggestions along this line already. My view is that it would be useful to know, as the OP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When an answer is edited;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When an answer is added (done);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When a comment is added; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When someone edits the question;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arguably when a comment or answer is deleted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answerer you are generally interested in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the question is commented;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the question is edited;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When your answer is edited;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When your answer is selected (done);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When your answer is deselected;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also make a case that an answerer could also be interested in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edits to other answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New other answers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any answer being selected or deselected;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you could argue that someone who is just reading the question is interested in some or all of the above. This is particularly the case when you find an interesting question that hasn't been answered yet. The only way of dealing with this currently is to favourite it and remember to go back to it, which is fairly crude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, all of the above should be able to be treated as a subscription (ie you can unsubscribe from some/all notifications).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T00:29:47.310" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30618" CreationDate="2009-12-07T01:03:21.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thing for this pourpose exists this app &lt;a href=&quot;http://apps.facebook.com/stackoverflow%5Fbadge/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://apps.facebook.com/stackoverflow_badge/&lt;/a&gt;, but now i am looking for posibility how put flairs from other webs of this chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T01:03:21.760" />
  <row Id="32097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32093" CreationDate="2009-12-07T01:11:00.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be nice and I would love to see this.  However, I agree with John in the fact that if there is no counter in place for consecutive visted days, I don't think we will see one for the new epic/lengendary badges either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the SO team always seems to surprise us some days, so maybe we will all have a merry chrismas really soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T01:11:00.700" />
  <row Id="32098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31942" CreationDate="2009-12-07T01:20:00.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's next?  Please come to South Africa! Russia!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about Austria? Egypt? Poland? or stackoverflowers in India?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry, I am sure Australia is somewhere on their list. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree though, more dev days are needed in the areas where SO traffic is most common. At the rate SO is growing, this could become a reality soon. So tell your friends!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T01:59:24.510" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T01:59:24.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-07T01:20:00.777" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-12-07T02:37:45.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that to an extent kind of depends on how the question is phrased, but answering a question with a negative response (i.e. &quot;There is no solution.&quot;) is acceptable as long as the answer provides a valid explanation of why there is no solution as well as suggestions as to what might be done as a workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if someone where to post asking for a polynomial time solution to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset%5Fsum%5Fproblem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;subset sum problem&lt;/a&gt;, then the best answer would be that the problem is known to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NP-Complete&lt;/a&gt; and that a polynomial time solution is not known to exist. This could then be followed by providing some suggestions in regards to deal with the problem if it has to be solved anyway (e.g. brute force it if the input size is limited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:37:45.287" />
  <row Id="32100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2009-12-07T02:43:23.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no solution to this problem. :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:43:23.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31942" CreationDate="2009-12-07T02:53:55.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would welcome them, but Jeff has to stop the Koala and Kangaroo hate! At least try a Kangaroo steak first! Maybe we could invite the 2 programmers from New Zealand over too? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138654" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T02:53:55.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-07T02:53:55.617" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32103" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T03:26:35.463" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm not interested in &lt;strong&gt;[bar]&lt;/strong&gt; then I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; have no interest in looking at how many unanswered &lt;strong&gt;[bar]&lt;/strong&gt; questions there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that, I'd like the option of not having to see my ignored tags show up in the right column of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;Unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people might be interested in seeing this, so maybe it could be a per-user option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2789" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T21:07:31.033" Title="Please hide my ignored tags in the &quot;Unanswered Tags&quot; on the unanswered tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T03:26:51.187" Score="15" ViewCount="3238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the new Mortarboard, Epic, and Legendary badges today, and was excited to see they were applied for past activity: retro-actively, as it were.  But I was also bummed to see that I hadn't earned the Legendary badge yet.  And then I thought back to all those months where I hit reputation cap &lt;em&gt;every single weekday, almost without exception.&lt;/em&gt; I must have gone nearly a year like that, and I thought that this just couldn't be right.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I checked on it.  The actual reputation calculation is complicated, and in fact the data dump doesn't include enough information to reproduce it accurately (you can't account for the -1 from making downvotes, for example).  But using the October copy of the data dump this query returns &lt;strike&gt;166&lt;/strike&gt;143 candidate rows for my user id:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/***Number of Day you hit the Reputation Cap ***/&#xA;DECLARE @UserID int &#xA;Set @UserID = 3043;&#xA;WITH BaseQuery AS (&#xA;SELECT dateadd(dd,0, datediff(dd,0, v.CreationDate)) as Day, SUM(CASE when VoteTypeId=1 then 15 when VoteTypeId=2 then 10 else -2 end) as Reputation &#xA;FROM votes v&#xA;INNER JOIN posts p on p.Id=v.PostId And p.CommunityOwnedDate is null&#xA;WHERE v.VoteTypeId=2 and p.OwnerUserId=@UserID &#xA;GROUP BY dateadd(dd,0, datediff(dd,0, v.CreationDate))&#xA;HAVING SUM(CASE when VoteTypeId=1 then 15 when VoteTypeId=2 then 10 else -2 end) &amp;gt;= 200)&#xA;&#xA;SELECT count(*) FROM BaseQuery&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: The query changed to better account for accepted answers and CommunityWiki posts, so it now shows only 143 days.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add &lt;strike&gt;accepted answers and&lt;/strike&gt; the two months of activity since then, I should have many more candidates as well.  The main thing is that the number &lt;strike&gt;is&lt;/strike&gt;was above 150. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that due to ordering of upvotes and downvotes it's possible that on several of those days I ended up with a score less than 200; maybe even a lot of them.  However, on each of those days I had at least 21 upvotes, and I don't see enough downvotes to account for 16 days worth of -10s.  This means I hit the cap at least 150 times, even if I ended up slightly lower on some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug, or by design?  Personally, I think it's a bug, because after all I did hit the cap on those days.  Even if I ended up lower, I left reputation on the table for upvotes that weren't counted.   That said, if I'm good at anything it's seeing both sides of a situation and I can see the &quot;by design&quot; argument.  However, if it is by design, can we change the wording for the badges so that it says something more like &quot;finished the day at or above the cap&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-10-21T20:17:54.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T02:15:20.103" Title="Legendary badge calculation" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-12-07T03:52:02.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superuser has &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/tor&quot;&gt;a tag for tor&lt;/a&gt;. I'd be surprised if tor were legal in all jurisdictions (though I assume you had in mind western democracies' idea of &quot;illegal&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T03:52:02.187" />
  <row Id="32108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32109" CreationDate="2009-12-07T04:18:16.617" Score="2" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14595/stop-stupid-tags&quot;&gt;stop stupid tags&lt;/a&gt;, I want to ask is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bobby-tables&quot;&gt;bobby-tables&lt;/a&gt;&quot; a legitimate tag? (For those who don't know: Bobby tables is from an XKCD comic about SQL injection called &quot;Exploits of a Mom&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T04:26:03.217" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:27:46.800" Title="Is bobby tables a legitimate tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32108" CreationDate="2009-12-07T04:21:58.670" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I would say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the two questions tagged with it are regarding problems that the cartoon is referring to, the tag is not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one looking for the problems described in the questions will ever search for the tag 'bobby-tables', and anyone searching for the tag 'bobby-tables' isn't looking for help on any problems similar to the questions that have the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T04:27:27.707" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:27:27.707" />
  <row Id="32110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32108" CreationDate="2009-12-07T04:27:46.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took care of those two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user named &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8454/andy-lester&quot;&gt;Andy Lester&lt;/a&gt; added them. Going for a taxonomist, perhaps? But he hasn't used them since those two, and they were almost 2 months ago, so perhaps he thought better of using that as a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:27:46.800" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18098" CreationDate="2009-12-07T04:31:41.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't answer questions that are unethical, clearly ill-advised, or offend my sensibilities.  What's so hard about that?  The same rules and safeguards apply as they do to any other question: vote to close or flag as offensive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reason can be &quot;blatantly offensive.&quot;  I am not a lawyer, so adding an option to &quot;close as illegal&quot; wouldn't help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:31:41.787" />
  <row Id="32112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16626" CreationDate="2009-12-07T04:39:40.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a new site for electronics questions -&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chiphacker.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140003" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:39:40.370" />
  <row Id="32113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12952" CreationDate="2009-12-07T04:44:52.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a great one for electronics questions of all types&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chiphacker.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140003" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T04:44:52.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T05:11:56.957" Score="6" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the data dump does not have enough information to do accurate reputation calculations.  For example, if you cast a downvote on someone else's post the -1 penalty you incur is not recorded in the data dump.  I think there are other issues as well, but that's the one that sticks out at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there is good reason not to record the individual votes themselves, but you could aggregate it.  Perhaps something like a day-by-day offset that accounts for the difference, recorded in the votes table via a new vote type and new column (OffsetScore).  Of course, I haven't seen your actual schema for recording and handling these issues, and so there might be a better way to do it.  But &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to allow data dump queries to account for the anomalies would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T18:48:57.837" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T18:48:57.837" Title="Add enough information to the data dump to do accurate daily reputation calculations" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2009-12-07T05:44:11.920" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Javascript version: &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbin.com/oyoka/edit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jsbin.com/oyoka/edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var d = [[1231660800000, 10],[1231747200000, 30],[1231833600000, 137]]; &#xA;&#xA;var counter = 0; &#xA;&#xA;for(i=1;i&amp;lt;d.length;i++) &#xA;  if(d[i][1] - d[i-1][1] &amp;gt;= 200) &#xA;    counter++; &#xA;&#xA;document.write(counter);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only one day for me, btw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T05:44:11.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2009-12-07T05:44:45.587" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bummer, this only lists me at 110, even though after playing with the query I used with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32104/legendary-badge-calculation&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt; some more I can show I've hit the cap closer to 180 times.  That means it's missing more than 1/3 of my hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and for those without a python interpreter handy, here's an html file you can paste your data into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;function test() {&#xA;&#xA;var d = [[1219737600000, 51],[1219824000000, 208],[1219910400000, 383],...];&#xA;&#xA;var qualifying_days = 0;&#xA;var previous_rep = 0;&#xA;for (var i=0,il=d.length;i&amp;lt;il;i+=1) {&#xA;    if (d[i][1] - previous_rep &amp;gt;= 200) {&#xA;        qualifying_days += 1;&#xA;    }&#xA;    previous_rep = d[i][1];&#xA;}&#xA;document.getElementById('result').value = qualifying_days;&#xA;}&#xA;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;input id=&quot;result&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;button onclick=&quot;test()&quot;&amp;gt;GO&amp;lt;/button&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T15:20:01.987" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T15:20:01.987" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32114" CreationDate="2009-12-07T06:30:38.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I would like to see this I don't think it'll happen. Order of votes matters so the only way to resolve that is to put the timestamp of the vote, which was removed for the risk of de-anonymizing the data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the other way to do this (which I for one would prefer) is to get rid of the silly corner cases in the reputation system (like vote order mattering), but that's been declined in various forms many times already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't had a detailed look at the data dump but is it possible to figure out which votes were applied against CW posts and which weren't? Remember that a post may change to CW at some point so some votes might give rep and some might not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, I can't confirm that the count of hitting the daily rep cap also takes these things correctly into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T06:30:38.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6930" CreationDate="2009-12-07T06:40:51.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider this to be a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attached to people's names is already a percentage of questions accepted.  There are good reasons to to not accept an answer -- an important one is when no one gave a good answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T06:40:51.943" />
  <row Id="32119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32093" CreationDate="2009-12-07T06:43:29.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I would like this implemented, I think it would beat the surprise element of the badge and hence won't be implemented. If somebody is so keen about it, s?he can keep track of the number of days (her|him)self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastEditorUserId="135650" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T08:20:11.747" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T08:20:11.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32093" CreationDate="2009-12-07T06:48:02.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should &lt;em&gt;focus first&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;strike&gt;only report&lt;/strike&gt; reporting statistics that are useful to someone other than oneself*. It doesn't add any value to show to the world that I have hit the rep cap an exact number of X times, as opposed to having earned a particular badge and not others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quality of my posts are not particularly measured in the number of times I have hit the cap -- that is more to do with how many quality answers I have written in one day.  My relative quality as a member of this community is more measured in my total score, the distribution of my posts over the range of scores, and the number of questions I ask to questions answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;Now I'm pondering whether I only don't care about this count because my own count is pathetically low -- under 5 if I recall. *grumble*&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS:&lt;/strong&gt; On the other hand, &lt;strong&gt;if we wanted to expose this count, the cleanest way I can think of doing it is to award Mortarboard more than once (but still limit Epic and Legendary to one-time deals).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T23:10:12.500" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T23:10:12.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2009-12-07T06:58:02.390" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;C version: (this is code golf, right? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#include &amp;lt;stdio.h&amp;gt;&#xA;#include &amp;lt;string.h&amp;gt;&#xA;#include &amp;lt;stdlib.h&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;int main(int argc, char *argv[])&#xA;{&#xA;&#xA;   char d[] = &quot;[[1235289600000, 10],[1235462400000, 20], ...&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;   char *word, *last;&#xA;   int loc, qualifying_days = 0, rep = 0, previous_rep = 0;&#xA;&#xA;   word = strtok(d, &quot;,&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;   while (word)&#xA;   {   &#xA;&#xA;      last = strchr(word, ']');&#xA;&#xA;      if (last)&#xA;      {   &#xA;         loc = last - word;&#xA;         word[loc] = '\0';&#xA;&#xA;         rep = atoi((word+1));&#xA;&#xA;         if ((rep - previous_rep) &amp;gt;= 200)&#xA;         {   &#xA;            qualifying_days += 1;&#xA;         }&#xA;&#xA;         previous_rep = rep;&#xA;&#xA;      }&#xA;&#xA;      word = strtok(NULL, &quot;,&quot;);&#xA;   }&#xA;&#xA;   printf(&quot;%d\n&quot;, qualifying_days);&#xA;   return 0;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T06:58:02.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32104" CreationDate="2009-12-07T07:04:07.293" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. Incurring -1 from a downvote should not affect the definition of &quot;hitting the reputation cap&quot;. If one has received 191 points earlier in the day, then downvotes one post and receives another upvote (191 - 1 + 10), the rep cap is still hit because not all possible points from the last post are incurred as rep (10 points available, only 9 given).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This badge calculation is also another example of where the &gt; vs. &gt;= ambiguity is not clearly defined.  Does incurring +201 count, or just 200?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T07:04:07.293" />
  <row Id="32123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32104" CreationDate="2009-12-07T07:15:57.637" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you've said, your rep scores in the JavaScript show 110 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not find some samples of days which &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; count given your calculation from the data dump, but &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; count via the JavaScript data?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume you've taken the non-scoring of CW votes into account when doing the data dump query?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that if you change the &quot;counting&quot; script to show days of &gt;= 190 rep gain, that shows 161 which is closer to your figure. That would suggest it could be due to downvotes you've cast, along with the occasional &quot;downvote at the end of a 200 day&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I think you're right that it's counting days that you've ended with at least 200 rep more than you started the day with. I'd agree that would be a bug in that it's not matching the description given - but I'd be tempted to change the description rather than the code, simply because it may well be a lot more efficient to calculate that way. I guess the schema could be changed to hold a &quot;hit the rep cap&quot; column for each day (I'm assuming there's already a user/day/rep table somewhere for efficiency) and that would be a &lt;em&gt;nicer&lt;/em&gt; solution...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T08:17:08.540" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T08:17:08.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32125" CreationDate="2009-12-07T07:50:58.133" Score="4" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;The faq clearly states that you need 2000 reputation to edit someone else's question, however I just saw a question edited by someone with 1043 reputation (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1858237/how-to-print-string-association-from-phone-number-as-text&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1858237/how-to-print-string-association-from-phone-number-as-text&lt;/a&gt;). Is the faq wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140008" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T15:34:31.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T15:34:31.553" Title="Reputation needed to edit questions asked by someone else" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32124" CreationDate="2009-12-07T07:57:28.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. At 500 rep you can edit tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T07:57:28.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32124" CreationDate="2009-12-07T07:57:30.870" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person just edited the tags.  This requires less than 2k reputation (only 500).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T07:57:30.870" />
  <row Id="32127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32157" CreationDate="2009-12-07T08:01:55.793" Score="3" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to be able to ask a question on Stack Overflow and get 20+ views in about 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I get less than 5 views in 2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did something change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136998" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T08:37:28.333" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T15:46:03.153" Title="Why are questions getting less and less views?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="32129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32127" CreationDate="2009-12-07T08:07:50.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many more users now in SO, and maybe even too many questions. Once your question moves to the 2nd page and subsequent pages, it will be less viewed, unless it's a good one, and people seek that exact knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137531" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T14:42:50.070" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:42:50.070" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32127" CreationDate="2009-12-07T08:11:33.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this be an issue with GMT? I am Indian, and I'll post at night to get replies quickly and often get a higher view count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T14:41:16.423" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:41:16.423" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32127" CreationDate="2009-12-07T08:23:41.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question count ballooned much faster than number of users. For users who filter views by tags, more tags meant they are diluting your post's visibility; and like what Dani stated, your post get pushed off the front page much sooner than before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T08:23:41.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32134" CreationDate="2009-12-07T09:01:16.773" Score="2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Partly related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32127/why-are-questions-getting-less-and-less-views&quot;&gt;Why are questions getting less and less views&lt;/a&gt;, but imho a good question on itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does it seem that less and less people seem to care about upvoting a decent formed question or (in a minor way) a good answer? I've seen multiple questions asked by others which didn't get any upvotes despite they were asked clear and detailed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone stated in another meta-question, I too see upvotes as an &quot;pat-on-the-head&quot; and motivation to ask well-written questions. Am I one of the few concerned about this decline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139472" LastEditorUserId="139472" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T09:22:33.100" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T02:01:52.073" Title="General decline of upvoted questions / answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32132" CreationDate="2009-12-07T09:32:23.147" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want trend data? Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/stats.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, that goes back to the beginning. This one seems relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3aFfKKkXm8r1c.oRgTkVh1aOdbcib3hPmM9xtoldk8sOsKgTp-rqqykohMjvmeti2CqCkyqhq0idxFzgrAo3qkoMq02P..avaleDkmlm2H8qq2o8qvqKrH0S8Ft4rqtTuSsK3g0hwDnLlThnjB2JtflGizlNn1qv5.2ysSmTjUo8pOyMs7qwiljNjwiw3RqGiZdQe0cIhVnbjWcgdjbidpdfiSmeceaWb0dGcThGlHfHcEbqeObjhEk5dTcBeBcCfxlXlIeucrcqaDeZg1oucVd.bzegearXoPgvhBjaoDhVhJjRivdgjcpjfwiUgZjTgUeMdzfQj6iadScrcJaydtkyhwb8eVeyeHeckKmUe4fEefbohBj1lyeOdlcIcTckf2jca9bnZgYcdxkgh5b7eLaYcsf.jFhwcOb.arYJb-dhghbCZHa3cgYkd4euYmZFaaY3bYbLe3YKZoaeZZXXcyeMYiYYW9ZjZvYQaAZAXLUfWVYhc3aUYCWEXGV.aLWFcRZebRZEZ7YyadZVYiUzVVWeaeXacZZtXpZ5XZYUXHXgVkXHWKUDVKXdZgVcUzUdU-WoXfVMWEWFWMZmXrXNY1U4XpVWVmV3YIYXXGVeU0U0WkXDYyT3VKT.VEWCYEZCUfVpUvUrZVbiYJWLXDVSVKVcaaWCVdUtUeUjWQYqdHaEU0UqUnVUUvWpUjV7TRSMTdVUWqT0ToTPTfVsUmX5VZT.SWTxUZVBaQUNUAUCS-T9VLWgUIVKSSTDS.VDUvSkTRSLSGVrXPXdUXTUSuRtUfVzUXTOSeR-R2SkU9UTR1TTS-SiTTWUUKS1StSfR9T6R.T6TqSTReR1SBVBSCRbRnRuSfULRxT7SuQURXRLRlUxTfRPP8SASHRzVGUOTERySPSdSVSJS-R4SSRiR3S1QuVNTyTfRlSHSvWlTwRpRARIRTS9SHS6SDSTRDQfSCTNTcQuSEP7PnQtRuT-Q5&amp;amp;chtt=Votes%20per%20question%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|0|4.66071428571&quot; alt=&quot;votes per question by day&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-29T02:01:52.073" LastActivityDate="2010-11-29T02:01:52.073" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T10:11:45.257" Score="-1" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17204/6-simple-tips-to-get-stackoverflow-reputation-fast&quot;&gt;6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on the hunt,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the prowl,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;for a good dose of reputation&lt;br&gt;&#xA;on Stack Overflow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give unto me,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;fellow magic number wielders,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the secrets of your repping&lt;br&gt;&#xA;success so that my cup may too&lt;br&gt;&#xA;runeth over with reputation excitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T10:36:32.687" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T10:36:32.687" ClosedDate="2009-12-07T12:39:48.360" Title="Striking rich on a reputation gold rush" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;strategy&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="32139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32138" CreationDate="2009-12-07T10:12:28.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By asking and answering questions about &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;. Not stuff like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135110" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T10:12:55.597" />
  <row Id="32140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32138" CreationDate="2009-12-07T10:12:51.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first rule of the stackoverflow rep score is that you don't ask about stackoverflow rep score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T10:12:55.597" />
  <row Id="32141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32138" CreationDate="2009-12-07T10:17:39.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like some hype? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1858913/how-to-get-100-reputation-points-closed&quot;&gt;SO - How to get 100 reputation points&lt;/a&gt; (mind the constant rollback).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139472" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T10:17:39.053" />
  <row Id="32143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32144" CreationDate="2009-12-07T11:43:23.283" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that statoverflow.com doesn't have the November data (latest data seems to be August), and stackql.net seems to be no more. Are there other &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3422/public-facing-interactive-data-dump&quot;&gt;public facing interactive&lt;/a&gt; data dumps around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I can't figure out how to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; - the ordering stuff doesn't seem to work, though I hear it's got November's data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T13:10:17.197" Title="Data dump - November" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32143" CreationDate="2009-12-07T11:47:10.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/creative-commons-data-dump-dec-09/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; shows how to get the data up to the start of December. You'll need to figure out how to use the XML yourself though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32114&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn has commented&lt;/a&gt; that StackQL is only temporarily down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it's been down for a&#xA;  while. I'm moving in &amp;lt; 2 weeks (right&#xA;  before Christmas :( ) and don't have&#xA;  time to spend figuring out why&#xA;  (appearances sometimes to the&#xA;  contrary). Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That said, as&#xA;  soon as I do get time it's near the&#xA;  top of my list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T11:47:10.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32143" CreationDate="2009-12-07T13:10:17.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A magical unicorn has posted it here, accessible via HTTP: &lt;a href=&quot;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User Data Dumps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The naming convention over time has been subject to change, so maybe you are just confused?  The most recent dump, covering to the end of November, was released last week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2961" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T13:10:17.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-07T13:37:53.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52443/welbog&quot;&gt;Welbog.&lt;/a&gt;  Hands down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Running for bounty)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T13:37:53.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-07T13:37:53.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T13:54:09.583" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is retagging other peoples questions such a sensitive matter than after a handfull of retagging opperations, the captcha challenge is thrown? Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I find it annoying; on the other hand I belive tagging done well really improve the quality of a question so retagging surely should be encouraged correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137941" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:46:01.033" Title="Retagging and captcha challenge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32153" CreationDate="2009-12-07T13:57:01.373" Score="-2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a few Survey type questions, which rely on feedback entries from the community which then get voted up or down. Unfortunately, there is no way to prevent duplicate entries, or easily identify them and merge them, or restrict entries to a single answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This results in the same entry getting split votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/130095/most-useful-free-java-libraries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/529757/are-there-any-famous-one-man-army-programmers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made me think of categorising the question types, similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blackbeltfactory.com/Home.wwa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BlackBeltFactory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There when the question is being composed, the author selects the answer type:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple Choice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Free Text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to mark a question as &quot;Extensible Survey&quot;, and identify unique answers based on a keyword, and allow merging of similar answers with the resuly being summed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140013" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:44:20.740" Title="New QuestionType: Extensible Survey" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32151" CreationDate="2009-12-07T14:20:36.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surveys should be community wiki for several reasons. Thus the answers given do not give reputation. Therefore I do not think it hurts to have multiple answers that support the same view. Sometimes they will add a little extra information that is valuable. The OP can at any time edit his question and add lines to express something like: x Aye, y Nay (, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally do not see survey as a feasible question type, at least not one to justify complicating the system with a new dimension &quot;question type&quot;. It would make it even harder to limit the kind of questions and topics feasible for SO and open up discussions on whether SO would make for a good eLearning platform, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I love the simple and straight forward implementation as Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:20:36.993" />
  <row Id="32153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32151" CreationDate="2009-12-07T14:28:31.110" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, we don't want to encourage &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; polls and surveys. Some of the classic older ones perhaps, but unless there's something &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; special about it, we don't really want to encourage new ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polls and surveys, by definition, are open-ended. They should be avoided in the general case. (Yes, there are special-case exceptions; but generally, they are to be avoided.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question you're thinking of feels like it might be a survey or a poll, ask yourself if there's a way to rewrite it in a more specific manner that will be truly answerable. If not, resist the urge to ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is, of course, excluded from all this, to an extent. Meta is weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, re-reading, you're asking for a full-on survey system. These sites just aren't that. Free-form, multiple choice, etc.? No ... That pollutes what the Trilogy is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T14:44:20.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:44:20.740" />
  <row Id="32154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32150" CreationDate="2009-12-07T14:34:04.393" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it is a good thing, and should be encouraged, any non-limited function is bound to be abused by some silly sod and his little script too. To make abuse a little harder the CAPTCHA is tossed up occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26870/classic-re-tag-discussion-on-some-good-ole-asp-classic&quot;&gt;recently did some re-tagging myself&lt;/a&gt; and found that if you're really taking the time to read the question and making sure that you're not fixing one tagging error with another you won't hit too many CAPTCHAs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:34:04.393" />
  <row Id="32155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32150" CreationDate="2009-12-07T14:46:01.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The goal of the captcha is not to prevent you from improving the quality of tags (in fact that is greatly appreciated), but to ensure you're a human that's making the changes. If you or someone else with the necessary rep, decided they want to tag as many questions as possible with &lt;code&gt;jeff-is-lame&lt;/code&gt;, you could, but fairly quickly you'd get shut down likely receive some &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;punishment&lt;/a&gt;. What captcha prevents is it adds another barrier preventing you from writing a script that tags everything with &lt;code&gt;jeff-is-lame&lt;/code&gt;. In the first scenario maybe you even affect 100 questions before getting stopped, in the latter it could 100,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T14:46:01.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14323" CreationDate="2009-12-07T15:19:22.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like some way of integrating a poll in a question.  Many questions &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; subjective; this does not make them meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, sometimes I'd like to know peoples' opinion on which design is easier to understand/implement (recently for instance on C# interface method hiding).  These are valid best-practice questions that don't always have an easy answer.  The normal Stack Overflow answer mechanic works OK for that, but it also conflates &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; of an answer with the answer itself.  So the discussion and voting thereupon are fine, but they don't really solve the problem at hand; being &quot;which of this options should I choose?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could imagine something altogether different might be even better, for instance something like the Yes/No/Maybe gadget in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Wave&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A structured way to share and aggregate opinions would be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133369" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-18T13:29:23.967" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T13:29:23.967" />
  <row Id="32157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32127" CreationDate="2009-12-07T15:46:03.153" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number to look at is the question age on the front page, which shows 48 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the oldest question on the front page (at the bottom of the list) is 7 minutes old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have considered making this list dynamically larger as the site gets busier -- in other words, ensure that the range is at least 15 minutes -- but I'm not sure if people would actually scroll all the way down the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T15:46:03.153" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32132" CreationDate="2009-12-07T15:53:50.143" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, for one thing there's a lot more traffic and activity than there was, say, a year ago. And there are always more passive readers than active participants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see this in Greg's graph (although he should have also shown the &lt;strong&gt;votes per answer&lt;/strong&gt; -- people are less likely to vote on questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6790/chartb.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you haven't exactly provided a scientific observation, other than &quot;I can't get people to vote on my stuff.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T15:53:50.143" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32159" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32162" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:03:42.450" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Wow! New Badges on SO - there's more to work for now!!&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hit the rep cap today with an accepted answer that took me to 202 for the day (and thought I got one step closer to the new &lt;code&gt;Epic&lt;/code&gt; badge). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards I received a down vote and two up-votes in god only knows what order and I ended up at 199. Then I down-voted one answer and that took me down to 198. All is fine till now and I thought next up-vote will take me back to the cap. But to my (not so pleasant) surprise, the next up-vote was treated as if I had already hit the cap and yielded no votes. I've included a screenshot showing the last stillborn vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this how rep-cap actually work - won't you get any reputation from up-votes once you hit the cap, even if your net rep for the day was brought down to less than 200 by down votes at the time the up-vote was cast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be fixed in a future rep recalculation and/or &lt;strong&gt;counted towards Epic badge?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/%5FdMvpiHJOOxw/Sx0jz9%5FgBEI/AAAAAAAAAVE/CPo-ylkA8E8/s576/meta2.png&quot; alt=&quot;:(&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T05:44:43.280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:44:43.280" Title="Doesn't upvotes received after getting voted down the rep-cap yield any reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32161" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:04:29.643" Score="15" ViewCount="667" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found some questions and those two badges &quot;Epic&quot; and &quot;Legendary&quot; regarding the &quot;daily reputation cap&quot;. What is it and how can I hit it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135515" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T17:14:10.633" Title="What is the daily reputation cap and how can I hit it?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32160" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:08:59.383" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The maximum amount of reputation you can earn in one day from upvotes is 200.  Any upvotes you  receive after earning 200 reputation from upvotes for the day no longer award any points.  You can still earn rep by winning a bounty, accepting an answer, or having one of your answers accepted, and downvotes will still count against you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T17:14:10.633" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T17:14:10.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32159" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:16:30.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subsequent upvotes will counteract previous downvotes &lt;strong&gt;received&lt;/strong&gt; up to the daily reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downgives &lt;strong&gt;given&lt;/strong&gt; will always cost you 1 and count against your daily rep cap (so handing out 3 means you can gain 197 rep that day through upvotes received).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T16:16:30.073" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:29:02.080" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;JavaScript again, this time in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shog9.com/greasemonkey/scripts/so%5Fdaily%5Frep%5Flimit%5Fbadge%5Ftracker.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;easy-to-use Greasemonkey form&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Ffake%5Fbadge%5Ftracker.png&quot; alt=&quot;Voyeurism is fun&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Daily rep limit badge tracker&#xA;// @namespace      http://shog9.com/greasemonkey/scripts&#xA;// @description    Tracks days a user has hit or exceeded the daily rep limit&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/users/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/users/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/users/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;var output = document.getElementById(&quot;date-selection&quot;);&#xA;if ( output )&#xA;   var rep_data = eval(document.getElementById(&quot;source&quot;)&#xA;      .innerHTML.toString().match( /\s+var d = (\[.*]]);/ )[1]);&#xA;&#xA;if ( rep_data ) &#xA;{   &#xA;   var capped_days = 0;&#xA;   for (var i=0; i &amp;lt; rep_data.length; ++i) &#xA;   {&#xA;      var today = rep_data[i];&#xA;      var yesterday = rep_data[i-1] || [0,0];&#xA;      if (today[1] - 200 &amp;gt;= yesterday[1]) &#xA;         ++capped_days;&#xA;   }&#xA;&#xA;   output.innerHTML += &quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;Hit the reputation cap on &quot; &#xA;      + capped_days + &quot; days: &quot;&#xA;      + format_badge_distance(150, &quot;Legendary&quot;, 1) + &quot;, &quot;&#xA;      + format_badge_distance(50, &quot;Epic&quot;, 2) + &quot;, &quot;&#xA;      + format_badge_distance(1, &quot;Mortarboard&quot;, 3)&#xA;      + &quot;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;function format_badge_distance(caps_needed, title, rank)&#xA;{&#xA;   if ( capped_days &amp;lt; caps_needed )&#xA;      return caps_needed - capped_days &#xA;        + &quot; more to achieve &quot; &#xA;        + format_badge(title, rank);&#xA;   else if ( capped_days &amp;gt; caps_needed )&#xA;      return capped_days - caps_needed &#xA;        + &quot; past &quot; &#xA;        + format_badge(title, rank);&#xA;   return &quot; at &quot; + format_badge(title, rank);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;function format_badge(title, rank)&#xA;{&#xA;   return '&amp;lt;span class=&quot;badge&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;badge'&#xA;     + rank&#xA;     + '&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;#9679;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;'&#xA;     + title&#xA;     + '&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;';&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I think we can safely say that this technique &lt;em&gt;doesn't work&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65358?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;Reed Copsey is placed at 148 days&lt;/a&gt;, but holds the Legendary badge... Whatever SO uses internally, this isn't it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T18:03:29.480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T18:03:29.480" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32033" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:38:55.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're offering an internship, why not simply select &quot;Internship or Co-op&quot; when you search? Why limit yourself to students? It's also worth noting that some students may have taken advantage of the $29/3 year deal and aren't considered &quot;students&quot; by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T16:38:55.760" />
  <row Id="32167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:51:38.420" Score="5" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that urls like &lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions&lt;/code&gt; could be automatically rewritten by the Stackoverflow and others into a nicer form. It could be something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions&quot;&gt;MSO: Why do we tag questions?&lt;/a&gt;, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions&quot;&gt;Meta Stackoverflow #31776&lt;/a&gt;, or even for the answers:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions/31779#31779&quot;&gt;MSO: &quot;Why do we tag questions?&quot; Smurfsnorting Farfulburger's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently when people post links to other questions, the links are simply not very clear. It's even worse if someone uses the whole link in the comment field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone supplies a custom text, it should be left there of course - I only mean rewriting for bare urls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139234" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T03:21:19.907" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T03:21:19.907" Title="Rewriting &quot;local&quot; urls automatically" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;rewrite&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T16:59:01.870" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I post tab-indented code to an answer, and then edit the code two or more times to get a captcha come up, I find that the system seems to convert all tabs in the answer into single spaces, meaning that the code loses its correct indentation. This only seems to happen when I get a captcha, as when I edit a post without being captcha'd the tabs don't get replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case its relevant, I'm using Opera 10.10 on Windows XP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147256" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T10:33:38.597" Title="Why does getting captcha'd break my code formatting?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32168" CreationDate="2009-12-07T17:04:11.673" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; don't recommend that you use tabs here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it has to do with the serialization of the submitted form to the database so we can retrieve it after the captcha returns. The database and guids are our &quot;session state&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T17:04:11.673" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-07T17:47:56.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61027/nosredna&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4d5cf9b8d40af8083b1797aa7c5f3de9?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;nosredna&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61027/nosredna&quot;&gt;nosredna&lt;/a&gt; for this one line alone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I got married in Mick Fleetwood's pants.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149903" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T17:47:56.837" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-07T17:47:56.837" />
  <row Id="32172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32175" CreationDate="2009-12-07T17:11:23.980" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using firefox. Sometimes suddenly it doesn't respond when I click the buttons to post comment, rate or select the best answer in superuser.com. This happens specially when my firefox has been running for a while with quite a few websites open. Similar thing happens to youtube.com, where video sometimes cannot be played allegedly because of not the latest adobe flash player or not enabling it, but these are not true in my case. Is it because firefox takes up too much memory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141196" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T18:21:54.340" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T18:24:30.293" Title="cannot post comment, rate or select the best answer in superuser.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32172" CreationDate="2009-12-07T18:24:30.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shift+Reload to force reload of the SO Javascript. If that doesn't work, clear your browser cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T18:24:30.293" />
  <row Id="32177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32178" CreationDate="2009-12-07T18:34:54.957" Score="1" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had no idea where to ask this question, so here it is. Sorry if not the right place.&#xA;I found this site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mesadeayuda.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mesadeayuda.org&lt;/a&gt; and it is too simiar to our good old stackoveflow. Is it supposed to be a spanish version of it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;BTW: MesaDeAyuda means 'help desk'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151843" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T18:37:10.740" Title="Does stackoveflow have a spanish sister site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32177" CreationDate="2009-12-07T18:36:32.347" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without looking, I'm guessing it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T18:36:32.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2009-12-07T19:10:27.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm more interested to know how far am I from the Fanatic badge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T19:10:27.107" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32196" CreationDate="2009-12-07T19:48:42.077" Score="9" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to conduct a search for a specific class name (containing colons): e.g. search parameters &lt;code&gt;[perl] Class::Data&lt;/code&gt; and am coming up empty:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bperl%5D%20class%3A%3Adata&amp;amp;tab=relevance&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bperl%5D%20class%3A%3Adata&amp;amp;tab=relevance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bperl%5D%20class%3A%3Adata&amp;amp;tab=relevance&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bperl%5D%20class%3A%3Adata&amp;amp;tab=relevance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;are both redirected to&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way of conducting such a search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  I'm making this a feature request for the ability to search with colons. -Lance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T23:14:27.830" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T23:14:27.830" Title="How can I search for a string containing a colon?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32181" CreationDate="2009-12-07T19:51:15.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you do it through Google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then the odds of us being able to do it are.. vanishingly slim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T19:51:15.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32181" CreationDate="2009-12-07T19:56:54.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, it would seem that google strips colons from search terms.  At least, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.ca/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861#exceptions%5Fpunctuations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.ca/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861#exceptions%5Fpunctuations&lt;/a&gt; does not list &lt;code&gt;:&lt;/code&gt; as one of the exceptions, so it seems to be in the &quot;ignored&quot; class. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Note that it &lt;em&gt;strips the colons&lt;/em&gt;, not stripping the search term entirely. It would at least be better to turn a search for &lt;code&gt;[perl] Class::Data&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;[perl] &quot;Class Data&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, rather than to &lt;code&gt;[perl]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T23:00:02.400" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:00:02.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:19:33.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the extreme case, where &lt;strong&gt;none&lt;/strong&gt; of the questions someone asks receive acceptable answers. Aside from the implications about the community, a low accept rate then theoretically implies about that person that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they poorly describe their questions or fail to provide enough information to yield answers that they find acceptable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they received good answers but they failed to recognize them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they describe questions well and provide adequate information but every question is legitimately unanswerable (they are the least lucky person in the world when it comes to computer problems)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final case, the community deserves to know who they're dealing with, given that statistically, future problems that unlucky person encounters are likely also to be unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Tom W makes a good point in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137367" LastEditorUserId="137367" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-04T15:37:07.133" LastActivityDate="2010-10-04T15:37:07.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32202" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:52:33.990" Score="3" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend as much time trying to maintain the usefulness of SO as I do answering questions. To me, the best tool for the job is the mighty close button. By limiting me to 12 closure votes per day, you're allowing SO to get more polluted with superuser/serverfault/doctype/nonsense questions. What's the rationale?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140037" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:40:16.913" Title="Why is there a 12 closure per day maximum?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="32187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32186" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:56:36.587" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rationale is to keep you from spending too much time on Stack Overflow by limiting your daily actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you spend too much time on Stack Overflow, you turn into a sad approximation to a man with over 8000 meta reputation points. Do you really want that to be you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other people have close votes and can pick up where you left off when you reach your limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This same reasoning is the basis for all of Stack Overflow's limits: voting caps, reputation caps, spam and offensive flag caps, deletion caps for 10k+ users, et cetera. There are enough users with the privileges to vote that the things that really need the votes get them in spite of rate limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T20:56:36.587" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32186" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:56:48.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are enough 3000+ users to close things, that all the important ones get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T20:56:48.787" />
  <row Id="32189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:57:14.123" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some good ones in this query (users with images in their AboutMe section):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/?qid=13225&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/?qid=13225&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of my favorites:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69684&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69684&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100835&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100835&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T22:44:23.897" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T22:44:23.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-07T20:57:14.123" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:54:44.230" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it that my question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1852647/is-this-wpf-progressbar-odd-render-behaviour-a-bug&quot;&gt;Is this WPF ProgressBar Odd render behaviour a Bug?&lt;/a&gt; now community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to set it off like that? Was it something I did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T22:52:46.500" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T22:52:46.500" Title="Why did my question switch to Community Wiki?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32190" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:58:24.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your post was made &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt; because you edited it eight times. I count 9, but I don't think the Rollback counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T20:58:24.277" />
  <row Id="32192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T20:58:31.843" Score="2" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize this until I tried posting on some stackexchange sites recently, but apparently stackexchange doesn't allow new users to create tags.  To be honest, it's kind of annoying.  But I suppose annoyance isn't a big deal if there's a valid reason for this.  So, what is the reason for this limitation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T20:18:28.600" Title="Why does stackexchange/stackoverflow not allow new users to create tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="32193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32192" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:00:24.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a site that has an existing user base, &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; tags have been created, and we don't need redundant tags created over and over by brand new users.  If it really needs a new tag, a user with higher rep can retag it appropriately.  The amount of rep required to create tags is fairly low relative to re-tagging and editing others' posts though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:00:24.710" />
  <row Id="32194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32192" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:06:53.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember right, before that limitation was in place you'd get 80 different ways of expressing the same tag - mostly from people who couldn't bother to get the hint (pun intended) and/or just wanted to create the new tag for reasons only known by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This at least encourages the new user to look at what tag names the community is consolidating on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:06:53.977" />
  <row Id="32195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32192" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:07:11.183" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason this was added to StackOverflow is that if you have to create a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; tag, you're probably tagging your question &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;.  Remember, tags are not for summarizing or indexing your question.  They are for sorting your question into existing, well-defined categories so that users who watch those categories can find your question and give you an answer.  Tag your question wrong, and you're seriously hurting your ability to get a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure this reasoning holds up as well for StackExchange sites, at least not yet.  Most of those are much smaller, more focused, and tend to have more questions where anyone can answer with an opinion, such that every user can follow nearly every question.  Over time some of those sites may grow and the tags may become more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T22:40:12.173" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T22:40:12.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32181" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:09:18.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your best bet is to search for &lt;code&gt;[perl] &quot;Class Data&quot;&lt;/code&gt; this will restrict to all terms with &lt;code&gt;Class&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Data&lt;/code&gt; as adjacent words - as colons are stripped out during analysis this should also match &lt;code&gt;Class::Data&lt;/code&gt;, however it will also match &lt;code&gt;Class-Data&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;Class Data&lt;/code&gt; etc... - you're then going to have to search through the matches yourself (there are only 2 on StackOverflow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:09:18.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32230" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:13:32.297" Score="6" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a sad that I missed DevDays in London this year.&#xA;Are there any plans for 2010?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;London would be fine, otherwise I recommend Munich:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T18:14:19.423" LastActivityDate="2011-06-21T20:16:12.927" ClosedDate="2011-06-22T17:38:52.117" Title="Will there be DevDays in 2010?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32201" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:27:57.217" Score="-4" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, myself and a colleague were discussing at work just now that we really need a project in our time recording software to mark down our Trilogy site time as we tend to camp there while tests are running, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which got us thinking...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there be a 'Work Hours' related badges (bronze, silver, gold)? I'm sure there would be a few people who qualify for this already.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138654" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:43:00.700" Title="Work Hours Related Badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32199" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:32:45.553" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how this would work.  There are people working around the clock all over the world. How do you differentiate if everything is based on UTC time? This is a globally used website and they do not store time zone information. On top of that, not everyone works standard hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just kind of seems like more noise then feature/benefit/reward. Maybe you can prove me wrong on how this could work well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T21:43:00.700" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:43:00.700" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32199" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:36:39.247" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be encouraging no working in favor of spending time on SO... how will potential employers see people that have this gold badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:36:39.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32186" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:40:16.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything is rate limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001228.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001228.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:40:16.913" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32204" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:45:20.150" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10382/how-can-i-change-my-question-back-from-a-community-wiki&quot;&gt;How can I change my question back from a community wiki?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1852647/is-this-wpf-progressbar-odd-render-behaviour-a-bug&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only been a member of StackOverflow for a couple of days and was not aware that multiple edits of a question will kick a question into Community Wiki mode. I am now very mindful of the edit rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was not trying to bend the rules -- I originally had problems getting the code posted, and this accounted for half of my edits. Others in the community also helped out, which I am grateful for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took time to write and was subsequently updated with good investigation on my part. (although ultimately others will be the judge of this.) As a result if the outcome of the question is founded it should enhance my reputation and more importantly be of benefit to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverFlow is a game changing resource which has helped me out many times and so now I want to try to give what I can back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is a plea -  please be kinder to noobs trying to make a contribution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the original question please be added reverted from Community Wiki mode? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T21:49:23.543" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:50:19.830" ClosedDate="2009-12-07T22:13:26.557" Title="Can a question that was kicked to Wiki due to edits be reverted to non-Wiki status" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32203" CreationDate="2009-12-07T21:50:19.830" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this is not possible. Community Wiki is a one-way switch; once it is on, it can't be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T21:50:19.830" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T22:39:53.530" Score="8" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you see a question or answer you might normally down-vote that already has one or more down-votes, do you find yourself more or less likely to down-vote it? In other words, are pre-existing down-votes encouraging you to go ahead and pile-on or are they discouraging you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57348" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T03:09:36.203" Title="Do you engage in or avoid pile-on down-voting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T22:41:56.223" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I choose which type of vote based on my opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I may choose not to exercise my vote if I feel that the existing vote count meets or exceeds the question's value (lack of value).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I generally choose to try and improve a question that is poor, if possible, rather than downvote.  I will downvote incorrect answers more readily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I tend to use close/flag for questions that don't belong rather than downvoting them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T22:41:56.223" />
  <row Id="32207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T22:43:04.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the time when you see something hit -3 or less it should simply be flagged or closed (although sometimes that Grammar Gestapo have just gone overboard on someone for whom English isn't their first language) so there doesn't seem much point on downvoting. This is particularly true for questions that simply need to be migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T22:43:04.320" />
  <row Id="32208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-07T22:41:48.110" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could anyone please suggest a good site, a forum like SO for people working with cyber crime and forensics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a few questions which probably don't belong here. I looked at superuser.com but there are only two questions tagged forensics, one of which is mine. The community there is not very active. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some questions also relating to UK statutes, copyright infringement, unlicensed pornography, piracy etc... Anyone know a good place to ask about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140044" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T01:44:21.980" Title="Computing Forensics forum?" Tags="&lt;community&gt;&lt;forum&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T22:54:30.227" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no qualms about 0-&gt;-1 downvoting a question or answer that is poorly thought out or incorrect.  If it already has a downvote, I normally won't add to it unless it's a really egregious example, or if it's a user I recognize as having a history of similar poor posts. In these cases, I will happily downvote them to oblivion just out of sheer frustration that they aren't learning. (These are the types of people who get posts on meta about them -- see posts tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/behavior+users&quot;&gt;[users] [behavior]&lt;/a&gt; for many such examples.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T22:54:30.227" />
  <row Id="32210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32208" CreationDate="2009-12-07T22:55:54.703" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would check out the &lt;strong&gt;remote-exploit.org&lt;/strong&gt; forums.  They will be able to help you out with most technical details of whatever you're trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're snooping around for advice on statues, copyright infringement, and legal matters you should &lt;strong&gt;find a lawyer&lt;/strong&gt;. It doesn't matter how knowledgeable &lt;strong&gt;the person on the other end of the keyboard&lt;/strong&gt; is, you have no way to prove that the advice they gave you will keep you out of trouble and it &lt;strong&gt;will not stand up as a credible source&lt;/strong&gt; should legal authorities demand an explanation of your actions let alone &lt;strong&gt;should you contaminate your evidence&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135600" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-07T23:00:53.337" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:00:53.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32208" CreationDate="2009-12-07T22:57:26.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lawyer licensed to practice in your jurisdiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, it's the usual cop-out answer, but it may be the right way to go, depending on the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T22:57:26.527" />
  <row Id="32212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T23:03:27.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll be honest, I tend to do all my upvoting/downvoting based on what score I personally think the post should have. So if it should be -2, and it's at -1, yeah I'll pile on. If it's at 24, and I think it should be 20, I won't downvote (because it's obviously good!) but I won't upvote, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, I don't pile on. I just vote based on where I think something should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the rules are totally different on Meta. On Meta I vote based on agreement -- up if I really agree (or you saved me the trouble of writing my own), or down if I disagree. (In fact, I have more Meta downvotes than all other Trilogy &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; StackExchane downvotes combined for my OpenID.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:03:27.123" />
  <row Id="32213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T23:06:13.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many if not most of the downvoted questions are from users with low or 1 rep. Downvoting does nothing but cost me rep at that point. So usually no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130598" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:06:13.560" />
  <row Id="32214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T23:10:49.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's at -2, I will (peer pressure badge). Beyond that, only if it is horrendously bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:10:49.527" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T23:19:59.557" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm more likely to UPvote it, if I think it's not deserving of the -score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:19:59.557" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="32216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28375" CreationDate="2009-12-07T23:30:15.263" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I implemented &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hResume&lt;/a&gt; for Public CVs. The hResume microformat is layered on existing, older &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hCard&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hCalendar&lt;/a&gt; microformats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firefox Operator add-in&lt;/a&gt;, which was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kaply.com/weblog/operator/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;written by this guy&lt;/a&gt;, to test and make sure everything was working right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also hCard validators at:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ufxtract.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ufxtract.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hcard.geekhood.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hcard.geekhood.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implementing this was awkward, because our data is relatively unstructured, and these formats assume you have highly, rigidly structured data. Some of the mappings don't seem quite right to me, but I couldn't figure out any better way. I did browse around some public LinkedIn profiles which are hResume enabled to see how they did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feedback welcome of course!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T21:58:21.300" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:58:21.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T23:53:02.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't vote as much as I probably should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:53:02.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-07T23:56:58.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More likely, but then again, I love to downvote as is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-07T23:56:58.273" />
  <row Id="32220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9100" CreationDate="2009-12-08T00:00:28.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am implementing the basic &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hCard&lt;/a&gt; for the user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am kind of opposed to adding hCard classes to the user &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, as stated in the question above, since&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it would then appear on (almost) every page of every Trilogy site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't seem particularly useful to have this all over the place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the bandwidth cost adds up pretty fast if it's a core part of the user &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; but &lt;strong&gt;on the user page&lt;/strong&gt;, I think it's worth the minor cost. Still not convinced it's all that &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt;, but it's easier to implement than is to argue about it. Which is I suppose an argument in favor of the hCard microformat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we already supported &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;me&quot;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;tag&quot;&lt;/code&gt; for many many months, and yet we got no credit for &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;.. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T00:00:28.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32208" CreationDate="2009-12-08T00:13:34.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you need to start a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;.  Make sure it gets &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;added to the list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T00:13:34.453" />
  <row Id="32222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-08T00:19:56.313" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely avoid pile-on downvoting. It just seems really snippy, and I can't imagine that anyone - from the answerer to the community - gleaning any useful information from a -8 vs -9 score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm much more likely to pile on an upvote, probably because I am more of the &quot;reward good behavior&quot; rather than &quot;punish bad behavior&quot; mindset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kinda disagree with the idea of downvoting because of &quot;frustration&quot;. Its like saying &quot;how dare you waste the time I spent on the intartubez by your useless drivel!&quot; which might be someone's sentiment, but really shallow. Pile-on downvoting is like the SO equivalent of a flamewar. &quot;j00 n00b, ur stoopid gtfo&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Serial offenders (if you can even call &quot;posting on the internet&quot; an &quot;offense&quot;) will be dealt with by the moderation team anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3788" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T00:19:56.313" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32208" CreationDate="2009-12-08T01:44:21.980" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without knowing your specific question, if it's about a technical aspect of computer forensics, I'd say Stack Overflow would probably be the best site in the trilogy to start.  There's a chance it will get migrated, but at least then you'd know where to ask further similar questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about a legal aspect of computer forensics, I'm afraid no site in the trilogy is a good fit.  Laws are different in every country, so legal questions for any specific country are likely to be closed as &quot;too localized.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T01:44:21.980" />
  <row Id="32224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32225" CreationDate="2009-12-08T02:15:40.940" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recently noticed on SO that if an answer to a question is accepted, it is always first when sorting the answers by &lt;em&gt;oldest&lt;/em&gt; - even if it wasn't the first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that by design? Doesn't it break with the very point of sorting by &lt;em&gt;oldest&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;newest&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(one example side-effect: when sorting by oldest to give rep to the one who provided a duplicate answer first, you're intuitively assuming the accepted one was first unless explicitly checking via mouse-over as noted by retracile)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139704" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T03:09:18.393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T03:09:18.393" Title="accepted answer always first for oldest answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="32225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32224" CreationDate="2009-12-08T02:18:31.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is definitely going to be marked &quot;by-design&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I too find it frustrating that, If I'm searching for the actual oldest post, the sort order is not what I asked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T02:18:31.683" />
  <row Id="32226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32228" CreationDate="2009-12-08T02:43:25.413" Score="-6" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6521/leaving-an-anonymous-comment-when-voting&quot;&gt;Leaving an anonymous comment when voting.  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People downvote with no comments, gives no idea what is wrong with an answer or question. If revealing the identity of downvoter is the concern, please at least allow a comment for downvote anonymously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138562" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T06:47:03.763" ClosedDate="2009-12-08T12:38:09.060" Title="Why not allow downvote only with at least an anonymous comment?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32226" CreationDate="2009-12-08T02:49:15.950" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Requiring people to do things &lt;strong&gt;will. Never. Work.&lt;/strong&gt; You &lt;strong&gt;cannot&lt;/strong&gt; require people to leave comments when they downvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This creates spam when someone gives a really bad answer. Do we need 20 comments saying &quot;Your answer sucks&quot; or would one comment with 20 upvotes serve the same purpose (with a lot less flooding of the comment thread)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no way to prevent people from leaving useless junk comments (like &quot;asfdsgjhadsgasfsd&quot; or &quot;+1 great answer&quot;) to avoid having to explain their downvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most people simply &lt;strong&gt;don't care enough&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T02:49:15.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32226" CreationDate="2009-12-08T03:10:16.707" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already provide a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; reminder when voting down, to users below 2000 reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/gzdqj.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;please consider leaving a comment if you think this post can be improved&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-11T06:47:03.763" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T06:47:03.763" />
  <row Id="32229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32226" CreationDate="2009-12-08T03:39:54.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My main objection is that the solution to the problems of anonymity is not more anonymity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this scenario: this system would allow you to leave an anonymous comment where you currently can't so you'll likely encourage downvotes just so people can leave anonymous comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T03:39:54.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32198" CreationDate="2009-12-08T03:41:42.810" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fairly certain there will be more DevDays in &lt;s&gt;2010&lt;/s&gt; 2011, though details are completely up in the air at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Joel responded with a blog entry &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/devdays/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/devdays/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T21:16:20.217" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T21:16:20.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29668" CreationDate="2009-12-08T03:52:40.530" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the single public cv URL field/link a &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;nofollow me&quot;&lt;/code&gt; for now -- the same way SO does it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note that SO does un-nofollow your profile URL link at 2k rep.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-13T03:18:51.080" LastActivityDate="2010-07-13T03:18:51.080" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34883" CreationDate="2009-12-08T04:40:52.967" Score="9" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a simple way to determine the number of employers looking to hire developers in a particular city or state?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to determine if it is worth my while (and money) to &quot;file&quot; my resume. I live in Melbourne, Australia, so the number of employers looking at &#xA;careers.stackoverflow.com will be fairly low. I want to quantify this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you live in one of the major US centres of software development (Seattle, SF etc) you can be confident there will be plenty of employers in your area. In more remote parts of the globe this won't necessarily be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131344" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:46:35.200" Title="Number of employers looking in a particular city" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="32233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31752" CreationDate="2009-12-08T05:26:44.600" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/FYAWc.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:39:11.703" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:39:11.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T05:46:53.707" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is not directly related to programming, but I assume the question is useful for programmers, too. Also it is complex and better understood around programmers than super users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU lacks a good base for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140010" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T07:47:36.017" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:47:36.017" Title="Is it ok to ask something on SO which has been already asked unsuccessfully on SU?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32234" CreationDate="2009-12-08T05:49:17.417" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the question has been closed, it would be ideal to improve the question by editing it with more information. If all else fails there is also the option of adding a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is related to programming, flag it for moderator attention and ask for it to be migrated, and the moderators will review the request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't repost questions, they can be migrated and this ensures they are not closed as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T05:49:17.417" />
  <row Id="32236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32232" CreationDate="2009-12-08T06:43:49.877" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if there's only 1 employer, 99$ aren't that much considered that you can get a new, awesome job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T06:43:49.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T06:46:02.460" Score="6" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to take &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32135/feedback-requested-on-cv&quot;&gt;some advice that I received&lt;/a&gt; earlier today to expand my &quot;projects&quot; section on my CV. Unfortunately, once I saved my CV, my additions were truncated at 4000 characters. The description does say to &quot;briefly&quot; describe the projects, so perhaps I'm being too long-winded, but I think that 4000 characters is a rather low ceiling, especially if you try to describe upwards of 4 separate personal projects as I was attempting to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest the length of the Markdown sections on Careers be at least doubled, possibly more. I can't be the only one that ran into this limitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T14:40:32.730" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T14:40:32.730" Title="Increase the length of the Markdown sections in Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;truncated&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T06:54:28.397" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love clicking on my SO homepage toolbar bookmark and seeing what pops up. I love using the site to get answers to my questions. I sometimes even attempt to answer something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But looking over the questions ... sometimes it's overwhelming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming is such a diverse field to work in (I'm still a student). &#xA;I look at many of the topics on the front page and feel woefully ignorant. I want to go and look into each of the acronyms and their technologies discussed in each of the threads but of course no man has enough time in the day for that. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume I'm not alone in this feeling? It's nice always have something new to learn. Helps fight off boredom. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140059" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T07:14:11.363" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:47:15.130" Title="Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the homepage of SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;programming&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32238" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:03:18.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to learn as much as you can, and avoid answering questions unless you're &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I'm not going to get far &lt;em&gt;disagreeing&lt;/em&gt; with Mr Skeet, because he's right, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will qualify my remarks by adding that imprecise answers are frequently downvoted, and you should avoid giving less than absolutely correct answers &lt;em&gt;until&lt;/em&gt; you have enough rep points that you can laugh at the occasional downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T07:47:15.130" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:47:15.130" />
  <row Id="32240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32238" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:20:48.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not alone. I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say I feel overwhelmed, but for every question I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer, there are loads and loads I can't. As you say, it's a very wide field - one of the great &lt;em&gt;and daunting&lt;/em&gt; things about being a programmer is that there's always more to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try to learn as much as you can, but don't be afraid of answering questions even if you're not sure of the answer. Make it clear that you &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; sure, but you never know when a suggestion which you're only half sure of may be just what the OP needs. The way I see it, so long as you're honest about your certainty or otherwise, there's no harm in giving your opinion. Obviously if it turns out to be wrong, you should edit or delete it. Treat downvotes on such answers as educational gifts - the rep loss is miniscule, and it's best to discover misunderstandings early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying things, venturing into areas where you &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; sure, is the best way of learning IMO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T07:42:16.447" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:42:16.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32238" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:21:14.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I've filtered out all the topics I don't know. That just leaves all the stuff I don't understand in the topics I do know about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:21:14.533" />
  <row Id="32242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32245" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:24:51.860" Score="5" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen numerous examples of users who ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/193133/silverkid&quot;&gt;lots of questions, but almost never care to upvote any answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think asking a lot and providing little if any answers is OK, but you should show your care for the community by upvoting some answers you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way we can encourage these users to upvote more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff - Is there a way to politely notify the user that he has upvoted very little? Perhaps something like the banner that appears when you've received new answer or comment? I am convinced that at least some of these users are not intentionally abusing the system, just misunderstanding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T16:04:36.707" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:44:44.827" Title="Users ask a lot, never upvote" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32226" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:25:06.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always try to down-vote with a comment, which I think helps the community. However enforcing someone to leave a comment (even if 'anonymous') may not yield meaningful message. It probably discourages down-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A down-voter is getting a hit of -1, that 'sacrifice' should mean that they are not likely to be down-voting for fun or abusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current situation of using a reminder is sufficient (at least that's how I feel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:25:06.540" />
  <row Id="32244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32237" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:29:24.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is based on my personal opinion and experiences&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure I agree. You should focus on highlights, and facts, with possibly links to a blog post going into more details. If you can't summarize a project in 4000 characters or less, there is something really wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is important, and in your case specifically warranted, to highlight projects and external involvement, I would only focus on the important details and highlights. At the end of the day very few companies are going to hire you only based on your CV, and your effectively trying to get an interview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore use the interview  for them to ask more about the particular project if they are interest, which gives you the chance to show competency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt; I do think the ability to add multiple different projects, each with a 4000 character limit might be a better approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:29:24.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32242" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:34:23.497" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case, considering that the user does accept a lot of answers, and since that accept is worth 15 reputation, I can overlook the voting on answers bit. I would not necessarily classify this case as abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you maybe comment on a question by the OP, and make the OP aware that up-voting an answer is encouraged. Also possible make the user aware of the badges he can gain for voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from giving reputation when voting, very little will encourage users to vote unless they strongly agree with an answer, and it is very much user preference what criteria they use to vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are worse examples of abuse on the Trilogy than this particular user, but this is only my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-03T09:44:44.827" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:44:44.827" />
  <row Id="32246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32242" CreationDate="2009-12-08T07:35:04.183" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already given up on expecting users to be 'kind' and contribute to the community by giving and participation and not just taking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter what you can come out with, there will be tons of guys out there coming in here to 'suck' the knowledge and not doing anything back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding more rules might just simply shut off more users (even 'good' ones). Not an easy balance to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T07:35:04.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32290" CreationDate="2009-12-08T08:24:44.857" Score="4" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can login to other sites using openid (Including meta.stackoverflow.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I try login to stackoverflow.com, I get this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The signature verification failed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens with both my Google openid, and my launchpad.net openid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140061" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T11:29:53.947" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T11:29:53.947" Title="Can't login to SO with openid - The signature verification failed" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32249" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T08:46:13.837" Score="6" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just trying to get an idea on whether we really want to help people out there OR its just because of the reputation points we earn. The addiction seems to be because of the reputation points because if that is removed from SO, I don't think I will answer questions with that enthusiasm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Thank you all. Got some really good answers on this one. Frankly, the reputation points do play a major role in motivating me (and others) to keep answering questions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I did not earn even a single reputation point for this post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140063" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:22:34.867" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:22:34.867" Title="Do we really want to help or its just because of the reputation points" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;psychology&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T08:47:58.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm simply pleased when I can help somebody. When a person write &quot;Thank you&quot; in comments, it brings certain satisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also when you attempt to answer something, you challenge yourself. You learn something while writing an answer. Also often somebody corrects your answer and you learn that something you believed was true, actually isn't. Maybe a painful way to learn something, but a quick and an effective one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="136634" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T08:54:05.303" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T08:54:05.303" />
  <row Id="32251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T08:49:27.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoy a good real challenge, something that I might not find at my work, but others are having trouble with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T08:51:38.880" />
  <row Id="32252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T08:49:54.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both. It's symbiotic. We get reputation which makes us feel good, and the OPs get help to their questions. Win-Win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135812" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T08:51:38.880" />
  <row Id="32253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T08:50:49.053" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a bit of both. If it were only the reputation points there wouldn't have&lt;br&gt;&#xA;been many responses to the questions that are marked as Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T08:51:38.880" />
  <row Id="32254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T09:02:36.240" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hang around here for the same reason I hanged around various forums/newsgroups in the past - to keep the skills and knowledge in various areas that aren't directly engaged at my daily work refreshed, and to learn new stuff as I look up the documentation to answer or clarify questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when answering relatively trivial questions, I try to look up references to primary sources (C++ spec, C# language spec, MSDN, XSLT and XPath W3C recommendations, and so on) - do this for some time, and I start memorizing those things. And that helps later on when I actually need something out of that - &quot;oh, I've seen that before... not sure what it was exactly, but I remember where I had to go to look it up!&quot;. Or maybe even remembering directly just how you solve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for reputation - it's pointless anyway since no-one can overtake Jon, and then what's the point? :) But some free perks you get for high rep from third parties are pretty nice, so I feel that getting it was worthwhile for that reason alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh yes, one other thing. One particular way of using SO is trying to reply to questions in areas you &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; familiar with. On one hand, you can (and occasionally will) get downvoted when you get something really wrong. On the other hand, correctly replying to such questions effectively requires you to learn something really new &lt;em&gt;in short amounts of time&lt;/em&gt; - and that is a useful skill in and of itself. As a simple example - when I wenht to answer the first question on Clojure, the only thing I knew about it initially was that it's &quot;some kind of Lisp for JVM&quot;. It took about 20 minutes to quickly go through things that were relevant to the question (and find out some interesting things as an aside, such as lack of implicit tail recursion), and 10 more minutes to experiment and produce an answer - a pretty good practice for quick learning skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136566" LastEditorUserId="136566" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T22:14:30.777" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T22:14:30.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T09:03:20.280" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both, which is why it's a good system. Dolphins actually enjoying leaping out the water and if you hold a fish up, they like it even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is bound to be an element of ego in it, but that is not a bad thing, if it's put to public use. Also, if you have had difficult problems solved by finding answers on SO, it's nice to give something back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as well as being an ego-enhancing tool, it's also an illusion-dashing tool, because it stops you thinking you know stuff when you really only half-know it. That is, when you come to put pen to paper you might find your grasp of something is faulty or hazy. And if you then get marked down, it's a good corrective to false pride. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130972" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T09:03:20.280" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="32256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T09:04:02.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's both, for me. Answering questions is the fun bit, but rep tells me I'm doing it right, which encourages me to answer more questions. Would I answer as much without the rep? Probably, but I'd rather not have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T09:04:02.070" />
  <row Id="32257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T09:14:07.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter as long as people are getting help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T09:14:07.637" />
  <row Id="32258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T09:20:14.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation game is certainly fun, but it's not the primary motivating factor. After all, newsgroups have managed without a score for decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon%5Fskeet/archive/2009/01/15/stack-overflow-reputation-and-being-a-micro-celebrity.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; a while ago with more about what reputation means to me - but of course, everyone is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a mark of how reputation &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; the sole motivator, consider CW questions: if everyone were only in it for rep, CW questions would never have any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T09:20:14.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T09:41:05.467" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all about the points and badges. If I have to help someone in order to get points then that's nice for them. I've participated in some newsgroups and forums where I hope I've been helpful but at stack overflow, I get points and badges. Finally, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;meaningful&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; recognition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastEditorUserId="130814" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T15:01:12.407" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T15:01:12.407" />
  <row Id="32260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32232" CreationDate="2009-12-08T10:35:06.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be good to know the geographical spread of employers (or more precisely the location of the vacancies those employers are looking to fill). Whilst this may prevent people from paying to file their CV in the first place, the no-quibble money back guarantee already means that people could get their money back if they are not happy with the employer locations once they have paid (albeit with more hassle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of a list of employers and their locations, perhaps it could be similar to the employer search UI, where you specify a location and by moving the slider you can see how many vacancies there are within a distance to the specified location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is the outlook that you should put your CV on careers and then &quot;&lt;em&gt;forget&lt;/em&gt;&quot; about it until contacted by an employer, but if I was spending money to file my CV, I'd like to know it would be money well spent before doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T10:35:06.430" />
  <row Id="32261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T10:54:28.373" Score="0" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really can't help but to put this question up after reading:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31781/&quot;&gt;Which user’s About Me section has impressed you most?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one to start the ball rolling:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/102937/robert-harvey&quot;&gt;Robert Harvey&lt;/a&gt;'s&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1233ec65168f4aae4d939ae8fe6cde1e?s=48&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;mei&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The chinese character means &quot;beautiful&quot; (pronounced &lt;code&gt;mei&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:27:07.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-08T10:54:28.373" Title="Which user’s avatar/gravatar has impressed you most?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;avatar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32261" CreationDate="2009-12-08T11:16:59.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/75c1b8bc6bd8631a53b246e43caf4dc6?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;TheTXI&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ponyoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheTXI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T11:16:59.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-08T11:16:59.130" />
  <row Id="32264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32270" CreationDate="2009-12-08T11:20:08.343" Score="4" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;When trying to resolve a problem you have problems with it is often necessary to post something like a stack trace or the error text you receive from the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, such stack traces can become &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1866265/parameterized-controller-constructor-never-gets-hit&quot;&gt;quite lengthy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What would be the better way to post them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen it formatted better (with horizontal scrolling) in some other questions, but I have no idea on a way to find those questions again to look at their source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also searching on anything with the word &quot;stack&quot; in it is utterly useless on meta as you will only find references to SO itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133669" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T05:19:22.640" Title="Posting a stack trace" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32261" CreationDate="2009-12-08T11:27:33.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think mine was pretty cool because it had community involvement: Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/17174/waffles&quot;&gt;waffles&lt;/a&gt; for the hd version and edit and thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/14048/&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt; for the original suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30462/troggy-needs-an-image/30468#30468&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30462/troggy-needs-an-image/30468#30468&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1050/trogdor.gif&quot; alt=&quot;trogdor&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T11:27:33.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-08T11:27:33.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T11:42:44.137" Score="7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what just happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question: &quot;How do I do X and Y, I can't use flash&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer: &quot;Well, use this flash player!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I downvote the answer saying &quot;yeah you're right, but the OP said no flash so -1&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The OP changes his question &quot;edit: lololol in the end I can use flash&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can't edit my vote unless I make a &quot;fake&quot; edit on the answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fail&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not allowing changing vote on an answer if the question is edited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T20:00:44.000" Title="Be able to edit a vote on an answer if the question is changed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32268" CreationDate="2009-12-08T11:43:15.510" Score="2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;So there's someone today who decided to pump me up to ten thousands (said with Vegeta voice) hunting my questions and +1 them. &#xA;Now I went back to 9664... fact is that when I started today I was beyond 9800 (otherwise I would have hit the cap limit for the day, and never reached 10k). So my assumption is that he removed the +1 to my questions, and also others he voted in the past (and he unlocked, probably by editing them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact (bug? lacking feature? planned feature?) is that I don't see in the daily report any -10 for the removed points. This is kind of expected (if you +1 someone and then remove the +1, he does not see +10 followed by -10. The +10 just disappears) but because in general the +1 is removed and added within the same day. If this happens much later, the points disappear from the grand total, but you have no clue where they were removed from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mark it as bug, but it's probably by design, and in any case a minor annoyance, like the &quot;where the badge comes from&quot; case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T14:23:30.993" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:23:30.993" Title="Unexpected changes in reputation?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32267" CreationDate="2009-12-08T11:50:31.207" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's more likely that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vote fraud detector&lt;/a&gt; spotted the bad upvotes and just removed them. It may have happened for more than one day, hence losing more rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's annoying - particularly as it can interact badly with the rep cap in some situations - but it's best to shrug your shoulders and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T11:50:31.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T11:51:45.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I enjoy helping and the whole SO experience. I think that the reputation plays a role in it, but that's not the only thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I'd still answer with no rep system, but maybe less. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T11:51:45.743" />
  <row Id="32270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32264" CreationDate="2009-12-08T12:02:42.200" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Generally you should format the stack trace with the Code Sample markdown formatting, or using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML tags.  I think the main difference is that the markdown attempts to apply some syntax coloring to the text, but I think there are some circumstances where the markdown formatting works better than the HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: I've since figured out that while syntax coloring doesn't happen with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML tags by themselves, using both does do syntax coloring: &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt; foo &amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original&lt;/strong&gt;: If your stack trace is long enough that readability is a concern, you could use &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PasteBin&lt;/a&gt;.  It's a bit like an image-hosting site, for text snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could pare your stack trace down to bare essentials (say, 10 lines or less -- or some other limit for readability).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you could combine the two: post the 10 most significant (to your eye) lines; post a link to the full trace on PasteBin; and if others point out more significant lines, edit your post accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T04:42:01.977" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T04:42:01.977" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T12:30:13.500" Score="2" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since some time (1 to 2 month), this site is no longer loading on my Computer at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried different browsers (Firefox 3.5.5 and IE 7).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error seems to be in the scripts loaded from &lt;a href=&quot;http://ajax.googleapis.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ajax.googleapis.com&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Loading them directly results in getting some code, but the browser will continue trying to load more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is not displayed, until google times out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My company is using &quot;Websense&quot; to block &quot;unwanted&quot; content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T14:53:54.760" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:53:54.760" Title="StackOverflow is not working with AJAX" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;ajax&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32271" CreationDate="2009-12-08T12:31:43.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site is working good, with 3.5.5 and IE7.&#xA;works with or without ad-blocking software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the problem is probably with websense....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T12:33:29.220" />
  <row Id="32276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32278" CreationDate="2009-12-08T13:47:34.513" Score="-1" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26586/what-does-your-reputation-mean-to-you&quot;&gt;What does your reputation mean to you?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enlighten me, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001295.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;but no child labour?&quot;&gt;my fellow digital sharecroppers&lt;/a&gt;, what's the point of all these &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot; title=&quot;primer&quot;&gt;reputation points&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than being able to proffer the good deed number points on bounty questions, I am unable to see any other benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140077" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T14:03:37.000" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:41:31.620" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T15:46:32.113" Title="What's the point of all this reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32324" CreationDate="2009-12-08T13:53:59.953" Score="14" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I want to edit one of my answers and then realize I don't have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's no way for me to go back to the question without clicking on &quot;Save your edits&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I end up closing the tab or hitting the back button, which is a bit annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a &quot;cancel&quot; button should be added next to &quot;Save your edits&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really think that making the user have no choice but hitting the Back button is bad design. It makes you dependant to the browser.&#xA;Look at web apps like Gmail or whatever, you can do everything only using controls provided by the app itself. And I like this.&#xA;Of course you should be able to use the back button too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refer to the discussion below to have a clearer understanding of what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name of this button/link could be whatever: &quot;cancel&quot;, &quot;back to answer&quot;, you name it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134355" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-23T20:45:44.680" LastActivityDate="2011-07-23T20:45:44.680" Title="Add a cancel button when editing an answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;cancel&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-08T13:54:25.130" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's good for satisfaction of your own ego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T13:54:25.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-08T13:59:32.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the obvious 'ego' answer, maybe your future employer is impressed. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/12/02.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/12/02.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138483" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T13:59:32.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32277" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:08:30.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hit the back button, and confirm that you really want to leave the page without saving (assuming you've actually made some changes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:08:30.817" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:09:35.447" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A higher reputation means the site trusts you more - so it will let you edit posts, vote to close questions etc. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and it's fun too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:09:35.447" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:19:23.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation is a measure of how useful you've been by answering or by asking questions as a sum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are many caveats, answering general questions that have a large audience will yield you more rep than answering niche questions, therefore reputation is not an indication of how broad your knowledge is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering highly technical or technology specific questions will yield you less reputation, therefore reputation can't measure how deep or advanced your knowledge is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there are reputation caps to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore reputation is simply a crude measure of activity on the site combined with how much the community appreciates your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also my definition simply is: &quot;a number that people like to watch how it grows&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:19:23.573" />
  <row Id="32283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32277" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:20:23.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding a &quot;cancel&quot; button means there's some percent chance people will accidentally click on it and lose their changes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's another item on the page that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000377.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Makes You Think&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare with the back button, and I can't see any reason to make this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:20:23.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32271" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:22:10.307" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like your company blocks the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google-hosted jQuery library&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll need to talk to your administrators and see if you can get that unblocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:22:10.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:23:36.687" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 200k rep you get a free pony&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:23:36.687" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:24:10.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some companies look at the Rep on SO and offer promotions etc.  They see it as a way of figuring out who is interested in technology and target those people to try and get them to use their products. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:24:10.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32261" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:27:07.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/145/akdom&quot;&gt;Akdom&lt;/a&gt; and his &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32007/swastikas-in-fractal-images/32009#32009&quot;&gt;kaleidoscope lasers&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:27:07.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-08T14:27:07.023" />
  <row Id="32288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:28:41.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It encourages participation by assigning each person a relatively meaningless number.  Due to human (male geek) psychology, this number is automatically associated with self-worth, bigger numbers being necessarily better.  Competitive behavior then ensues as members vie for the biggest rep number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some individuals this process is more conscious and deliberate than for others.  Nevertheless, it is fantastically successful at getting people to participate, and to do so in a manner which will accumulate reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:28:41.483" />
  <row Id="32289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:31:23.910" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm located in UTC+03. When I open &quot;recent responses&quot; page at about 5PM (my local time) it behaves strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, right now, when I just open it - it lists &quot;2009-12-08 14:17:03Z to 2009-12-08 23:59:59Z, the current time is 2009-12-08 14:23:16Z&quot; and &quot;nothing to report&quot; but when I click &quot;Today&quot; it lists &quot;2009-12-08 00:00:00Z to 2009-12-08 23:59:59Z, the current time is 2009-12-08 14:25:24Z&quot; and a handful of responses in the corresponding time frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case it clearly lists a very short period of time - from &quot;five minutes ago&quot; to &quot;midnight&quot; and nothing falls into that range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That looks strange. The interface clearly doesn't allow me to look into the future, only into the past. Then what is the period it displays when &quot;recent responses&quot; is clicked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T14:53:24.917" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:53:24.917" Title="Recent responses page interprets time in a strange manner" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32247" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:36:48.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried the troubleshooting steps? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly the link at the bottom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After using the above page, check the &quot;recent logs&quot; link to see what is going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fact that it works on test-id.org suggests everything is working.  My strongest suspicion then is that something &quot;in between&quot; is somehow corrupting the message before it's read by DNOI and sent back to the OP.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are only two reasons that DNOI throws this invalid signature exception: its own token signature verification failed or the OP rejected its signature.  Since we are using stateless mode, there is no token signature to validate.  Leaving either the OP to screw up or to be unable to verify the signature because the message wasn't preserved right because it was modified or changed &quot;in flight&quot; by another entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you &lt;strong&gt;behind a proxy of any kind&lt;/strong&gt; by chance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T20:51:17.730" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T20:51:17.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32266" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:44:50.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, there are way too many exploits around allowing large vote undo windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case, I agree with random: &lt;strong&gt;vote the question down&lt;/strong&gt; -- as the tooltip says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is unclear or not useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:44:50.580" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="32292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32242" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:51:12.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I've seen much worse. He does ask a lot of questions, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they're mostly intelligible, from the ones I clicked through to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he accepts answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that our system does remind new users to accept answers with a popup &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; when they &lt;em&gt;upvote&lt;/em&gt; an answer, but not the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:51:12.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32289" CreationDate="2009-12-08T14:53:18.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These two fields on your user profile might provide some clues to this mystery:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;seen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;last activity (only visible to you and moderators)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T14:53:18.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:06:32.677" Score="6" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a good couple hundred &quot;ignored&quot; tags, and add more every day. The list is so large, that I can't get to the pagination controls without scrolling down about 8 feet, which is especially annoying given that on any pageful I only see 2 or 3 questions. My solution is to entirely remove the sidebar (using Firefox &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stylish&lt;/a&gt;), since the different modules don't have ids to grab. This makes navigation a breeze, but also makes it inconvenient to add new tags to the ignore list, since I have to unhide the whole monster, scroll down to the entry box, and hide everything again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sidebar is valuable real estate, and there's no use case for seeing the ignore tags there. Can you remove them from the sidebar, and have a special page for (the rare case of) deleting them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For interested others, here's my Stylish script for SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Much more refined script! This is my ideal SO interface:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;  #sidebar &amp;gt; * { display: none }&#xA;  #sidebar &amp;gt; :nth-child(5) { display: inherit }&#xA;  #sidebar &amp;gt; :nth-child(5) &amp;gt; * { display: none }&#xA;  #sidebar &amp;gt; :nth-child(5) &amp;gt; :nth-child(4) { display: inherit }&#xA;  #sidebar &amp;gt; :nth-child(5) &amp;gt; :nth-child(6) { display: inherit }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140037" LastEditorUserId="140037" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T16:43:59.403" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T18:22:48.943" Title="Request: &quot;ignored&quot; tags don't belong in sidebar" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32294" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:15:13.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;div#ignoredTags {&#xA;    display: none;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T15:15:13.253" />
  <row Id="32296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32294" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:18:38.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your interests are so narrow, why not just browse by tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can combine tags like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T15:18:38.660" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32249" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:23:39.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The points and badges are icing on the cake (tasty icing, to be sure).  I come to SO more for the learning (and the off chance I might actually help someone every now and again).  I think the sysem is well implemented and jjnguy is right; if you just come here to up your score other people will still benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T15:23:39.867" />
  <row Id="32298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32323" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:24:19.743" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Repro:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1. Ask Question&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2. Input &quot;bug&quot; and space&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3. Input &quot;stack&quot; and select &quot;stackoverflow&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected: &quot;bug stackoverflow&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Current:  &quot;stackoverflow stack&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under IE 7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140083" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T18:08:37.790" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T18:08:37.790" Title="Bug: tag auto-complete always replaces the first tag even other words are prompted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32306" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:41:47.323" Score="30" ViewCount="672" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose is to help the addicted user stick to a decision to concentrate on a different, short-term real-life problems s/he urgently has to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this feature on some high-activity community forums. &quot;Ban myself&quot; button should offer several pre-defined periods for banning: starting with a few days, and up to 2 weeks (or maybe even a month, but that seems too much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optionally, this button should ban the requesting user on all profile-linked SO sister sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, there should be no way out of self-ban period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Related&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21774/how-do-you-escape-an-addiction-to-stackoverflow-or-other-it-sites&quot;&gt;How do you escape an addiction to stack overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stackoverflow-are-you&quot;&gt;How addicted to StackOverflow are you?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138920" LastEditorUserId="138920" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T11:47:31.343" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T11:20:44.510" Title="&quot;Ban myself&quot; button in user profiles" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;addiction&gt;&lt;ban&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32302" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:45:00.347" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags are definitely making for search, but they are not utilized: one can only click on one tag, or depends on all the set of tags one selected: which generates too many results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tag group should be enabled to be used as a searching criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140083" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T18:09:15.650" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T18:09:15.650" Title="The ability to &quot;activate&quot; some tags and search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:46:13.090" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;OS X's spell checking integration with Safari (4.0.4) seems to have random results with the SO 'Ask Question' textarea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quite often have some, but not all mis-spelt words highlighted. Yet if I right click, the correct spelling is there. There seems to be no pattern to which words are highlighted or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me? Is it an OS X or Safari thing? Or is it WMD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This doesn't happen to me on any other site, that I've noticed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137334" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T18:09:53.777" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T18:09:53.777" ClosedDate="2009-12-08T18:07:08.887" Title="OS X Spellcheck oddities?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;&lt;safari&gt;&lt;osx&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32300" CreationDate="2009-12-08T15:46:54.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always use e.g. &lt;code&gt;[c] [mysql]&lt;/code&gt; in the search field to find questions with those two tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, just add tag(s) in square brackets to the search field to filter found questions by that tag(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138920" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T15:46:54.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32299" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:01:07.447" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do alcoholics get a &quot;ban myself&quot; button on the case of bud?  Do smokers get a &quot;ban myself&quot; on the pack of cigs?  Do women get a &quot;ban myself&quot; button at the shoe store (women who are addicted...)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would seem to me that a little personal responsibility would go a long way here.  If you have other things to do...  You should do those...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T16:01:07.447" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="32304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32266" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:04:43.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there's no other way, and the question &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; unclear, just do your fake edit and comment (in the edit summary) that it was done for vote-retraction purposes due to the changing of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T16:04:43.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:08:23.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a problem.  The reason things like this work well is because they provide a Single Point Of Truth.  All the people likely to know the answer to a question are in the same place.  When things are splintered to many sites with overlapping coverage, the same questions asked in different places with different answers, similar questions on different sites not being marked as duplicates, etc. it greatly reduces the answer-to-noise ratio, which is exactly what theses sites are designed to maximize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130885" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T23:42:04.597" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T23:42:04.597" />
  <row Id="32306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32299" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:25:25.670" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Want to be banned? Simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag one of your posts for moderator attention requesting a self-ban and we will assist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;E-Mail team@stackoverflow.com to request a self-ban and we will assist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Irritate enough users and get flagged multiple times and we will assist. (Highly discouraged)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This offer is extended to everyone voting this up. We are happy to assist in the banning of users. I see no need for a self ban button since the % of users who would want this is not that high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T18:03:12.077" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T18:03:12.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:25:47.383" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/896/mobile-iphone-optimized-version-of-so&quot;&gt;Mobile / iPhone Optimized Version of SO&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times I use my mobile phone to browse StackOverflow site. Even with the images turned off each refresh is about 11KB. My operator charges as per the data downloaded. Is it not possible to have a lightweight version of SO site (something like low bandwidth view in MSDN) so that the download is lesser? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131638" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T16:25:47.383" ClosedDate="2009-12-08T16:45:56.553" Title="Lightweight stackoverflow site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;downloads&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32299" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:27:08.303" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could try adding the following lines to your &lt;code&gt;hosts&lt;/code&gt; file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;64.156.132.140   www.stackoverflow.com&#xA;64.156.132.140   stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has the added benefit of punishing you should you attempt to browse there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T16:27:08.303" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32299" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:54:24.103" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have exactly that button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does no good... I also have an &quot;unsuspend user&quot; button that puts me back in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sigh; there's no getting off this roundabout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T16:54:24.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32299" CreationDate="2009-12-08T16:57:30.073" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &quot;Take a Break&quot; would be a better name for the button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is a very good idea; self-control is enhanced by technology ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T16:57:30.073" />
  <row Id="32311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32314" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:17:23.157" Score="57" ViewCount="866" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110870/how-do-i-break-lines-in-python&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; (currently deleted (visible only to 10kers)) is a great example of a duplicate question that should not be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The titles of the duplicates are completely different.  Having duplicates around greatly aids search hits on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to keep to keep questions like this around for the benefit of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Both questions have around 4K views.  They are both relevant.  I cannot believe that a question with over 3K views is being deleted.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Search for &lt;code&gt;python continue line&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;python line break&lt;/code&gt; in google.  Both answers are top hits.  They should both be open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T22:20:09.420" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T22:20:09.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-30T06:59:07.103" Title="Do not delete duplicates!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="32312" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32320" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:22:01.557" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm almost certain that I've hit SO for more than 30 days in succession at this point, but I still haven't gotten my Enthusiast badge.  I did do two things to my profile in this time period: I changed my display name on my profile, and I swapped my primary Open ID from a crappy old provider to Google.  Could either of these have prevented me from getting the badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135304" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:41:58.033" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:41:58.033" Title="Enthusiast-badge: not awarded if I changed my user name or swapped my Open ID?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:22:24.973" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been hacking around with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.echo-technology.co.uk/2009/10/21/stackoverflow-iphone-app-solving-non-existant-problems/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.echo-technology.co.uk/2009/10/21/stackoverflow-iphone-app-solving-non-existant-problems/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/fkyw5z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;StackApp&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:22:24.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:25:35.593" Score="47" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. As far as I'm concerned, only off-topic or unintelligible questions should be deleted; duplicates are quite useful to keep around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:25:35.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:29:07.193" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's intention&lt;/a&gt; as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s often benefit to having multiple subtle variants of a question around, as people tend to ask and search using completely different words, and the better our coverage, the better odds our fellow programmers can find the answer they’re looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/50069/why-are-we-deleting-instead-of-merging/50106#50106&quot;&gt;some time later&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wish people wouldn't delete questions with good answers. You're destroying the useful contributions of your peers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-20T09:48:03.213" LastActivityDate="2010-05-20T09:48:03.213" />
  <row Id="32316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32242" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:31:43.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no law or rule, &quot;Thou shalt upvote answers to your questions that are useful or be punished, yea, even unto banishment!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, you think of this as abuse? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's polite to 'repay' others who have taken time and effort to help you, and voting is the primary feedback mechanism, but it's not required for basic site usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At most it may be reasonable to add a note to the bottom of the question after 2 days if none of the answers are voted up, &quot;You haven't voted on any of the answers below.  Please consider upvoting any answers that are useful so others viewing your question later can easily find what helped.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any need to 'ding' them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:31:43.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:32:12.227" Score="5" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of times I've seen what I consider to be valid but open-ended questions get an accepted answer within just a few minutes of being asked (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1868428/mutation-testing&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;, accepted answer within 15 minutes, only three answers at the time).  What's the point behind accepting an answer on a question that invites discussion and opinion before there is any discussion or opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I'm not arguing about whether such questions should be allowed or should be community-wiki -- this has been discussed elsewhere.  I just don't get the motivation behind asking such a question, then effectively shutting down discussion by indicating that you have your answer already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T21:21:21.450" Title="Why the rush to accept answers to open-ended questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32317" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:37:37.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think typically these are newer users who don't understand the way the Trilogy sites work. As a result, I think that as soon as they see any halfway valid answer, they rush to accept. Perhaps they see the accept rate listed on other users' entries and are misguidedly trying to keep it at 100%?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any event, I find a lot of those questions to be frankly uninteresting, and I just tend to avoid them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per your wishes, I'll save my discussion on their appropriateness for elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:37:37.893" />
  <row Id="32319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32317" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:38:30.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a new and inexperienced user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a couple of &lt;a href=&quot;http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache%3AbDNalCQraMMJ%3Astackoverflow.com/questions/1857887/mutation-testing+site%3Astackoverflow.com+muddy&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fishy behaviours&lt;/a&gt; going on with that account. The question looked like it was posted by a bot when it came up yesterday.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The speedy comments and race to accept indicate someone trying desperate to be seen as interested, fitting in and trying to get rep. As opposed to primarily being interested in the answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All pretty normal behaviour for a new user...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:38:30.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32312" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:41:00.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Name change: Doubtful. I've changed my Meta name several times, and am somewhat embarrassed to admit that I got my Fanatic badge (the gold variant of Woot, Enthusiast) yesterday for Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OpenID might, but I wouldn't know about that. Did you user ID number change when your OpenID changed? I'd think that the badges are tied to user ID, not OpenID. But I've been wrong before ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you 100% sure you actually did visit the site, reloading pages and all, successively, whilst logged in? I actually e-mailed team@so over my Enthusiast badges for the Trilogy (since I'd gotten it on Meta first), and they're very certain the algorithms are working correctly -- sure enough, a few days afterward, my Woot (Enthusiast) badge appeared on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:41:00.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32312" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:50:33.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Changing names or openid will not affect the enthusiast award calculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:50:33.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T17:54:26.180" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32181/how-can-i-search-for-a-string-containing-a-colon&quot;&gt;How can I search for a string containing a colon?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try searching for any std:: term such as std::cout or std::fill and you get 0 results, despite many questions covering the std namespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to search for terms like this currently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133506" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T17:54:26.180" ClosedDate="2009-12-08T18:04:46.753" Title="Bug - std:: Is Not Searchable" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;colons&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32298" CreationDate="2009-12-08T18:08:32.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on the browser. IE and Opera don't provide adequate JavaScript control over the caret in a textbox, from my understanding. Can't be &quot;fixed&quot; for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(works OK in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also related to whether you select with keyboard or mouse. AFAIK workaround is to use the keyboard for input on tags field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T18:08:32.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32277" CreationDate="2009-12-08T18:09:42.373" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of a Cancel option, I kind of miss the &quot;Return to answer&quot; link that once existed&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt;. I used to open that link in a new window whenever I wanted to see the original while editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Especially when editing a thing from another author, I want to assure not to change its meaning, so I like to have the original at hand. Nowadays, I just open the &quot;edit&quot; link in a new window instead, just in case I get myself confused while editing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27229/what-happened-to-the-return-to-answer-link&quot;&gt;What happened to the “Return to answer” link?&lt;/a&gt; (and as an aside, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27940/now-that-the-return-to-question-link-was-removed-can-we-have-a-original-que&quot;&gt;Now that the “Return to question” link was removed, can we have a “original” question view while answering?&lt;/a&gt;). These links mention a workaround: in Firefox and Chrome, middle-click or control-click the &quot;&amp;lt; Back&quot; button to open a new window or tab with the previous page. In Safari on a Mac use Command-click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; I think there was a &quot;Return to question&quot; link as well?&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T18:12:03.610" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T18:12:03.610" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2009-12-08T18:24:37.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of incurring everyone's wrath, I'll admit that I was one of the people who voted to delete that. I'll explain my thought process for the sake of discussion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I understand the stance put forth by Jeff about the usefulness of duplicates (i.e. improving the coverage and search results), I can't help but wonder if a year-old, sparsely-tagged, closed duplicate question is really going to help at all. Consider that even though &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/53162/how-can-i-do-a-line-continuation-of-code-in-python&quot;&gt;the original question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110870/how-do-i-break-lines-in-python-closed&quot;&gt;the duplicate&lt;/a&gt; have been around for over a year, we still had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1809890/line-breaking-expression-in-python&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; appear just 11 days ago (and I'm fairly certain I've seen even more copies of it show up before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I go to the search box and type the title of the older duplicate &lt;em&gt;verbatim&lt;/em&gt;, I still get the newer duplicate showing up first in the list. The newer duplicate also shows up first if I search &quot;python line break&quot;. Maybe this is a failing of the SO search box, which a lot of users will probably use instead of the Google search route. Or maybe this is intended, since the older duplicate is &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I must admit that I have doubts about keeping duplicates around:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How well do they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; redirect traffic to the originals?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many duplicates are really necessary? Do we really just need a couple?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should older duplicates be progressively purged since newer duplicates may show up first in searches anyway, negating the need for the older ones?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT #1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll concede the point for this particular question, since it does have a lot of views and a good rank on Google. However, I still don't like the idea of having content distributed across multiple questions, and would still lean in the direction of a merge at least. Perhaps just the answers from the duplicate can be merged into the original, leaving the duplicate question as merely a routing point to the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, I just noticed that 10k+ users can vote for delete/undelete as many times as they want (unlike close/reopen votes). That could make for some ugly delete/undelete wars (like the one the question seems to be undergoing now). But don't worry... &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; won't be voting to delete that one again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT #2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to address the assertion that a high ranking on Google means we should keep a duplicate around. Seeing as how popular SO has gotten, getting a high rank on Google almost seems trivial. Almost any SO question could probably achieve a good Google ranking, so a duplicate with a good Google ranking isn't necessarily so special.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2510030/how-can-i-tell-if-a-rectangular-matrix-has-duplicate-rows-in-matlab&quot;&gt;this MATLAB question&lt;/a&gt; I answered earlier today. Now, MATLAB is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/matlab&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;hardly&lt;/em&gt; a popular tag&lt;/a&gt; on SO (currently just 1,003 questions out of 578,286 total), and the question above currently has only 39 views, 4 answers, and nothing voted higher than 4. And yet it is already &lt;em&gt;fifth&lt;/em&gt; on the list when I search Google for the phrase &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;amp;q=MATLAB+duplicate+rows&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=g-c1&amp;amp;aql=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;gs_rfai=&amp;amp;fp=76987d56368691f5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;MATLAB duplicate rows&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and it's only fifth because four links to The MathWorks (the &lt;em&gt;makers&lt;/em&gt; of MATLAB) come in before it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying it's a bad question. Many MATLAB users would probably find it quite useful and informative. But if an underdog like that can rocket up Google's search result list, is good Google ranking really a legitimate reason to keep old duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T21:36:43.537" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T21:36:43.537" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2009-12-08T18:25:46.747" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you can, by editing the title in the original, coalesce two questions into one, then deleting is still ok.  Not every duplicate needs to be kept and with some manipulation you can make the original easier to find and remove the need for the duplicate.  I don't know that the referenced question is a particularly good example of that, though changing the title of the first to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;How can I do a line break or continuation of code in Python?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;might suffice to make the second question unneeded.  The reason I say that, is that the question is relatively simple and the answers nearly identical in content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, however, the question might not be worth keeping, but the answers in the duplicate may be.  In that case, merging questions might be a better option and I would flag for moderator attention if that were the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, too, that there is a risk with duplicates -- the search may find the question with an answer that is not as good as the original, in fact, there's no guarantee that it won't be wrong.  A question closed as a duplicate may not get the attention it needs to have a correct answer emerge as the best.  Merging questions, where feasible, could avoid this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T19:00:34.063" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:00:34.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2009-12-08T18:42:52.660" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason we want to keep both of these questions is because they have key words in them that will assist future searchers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is handy, because oftentimes you don't know the proper terminology, especially when you're dealing with a subject that you're unfamiliar with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new programmer might not know the phrase &quot;line continuation&quot; -- if they did, they would probably just google &quot;python line continuation&quot; and get an answer right away. But because this is a place where people can ask questions and get responses from real live people, we can ask open-ended questions, or describe something that we're not sure there's a proper term for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if they are identical -- completely, totally, same-hash-result identical, then yes, of course, delete them. If they are two different paths to the same answer, keep them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140098" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T18:42:52.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-08T18:43:54.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/&quot;&gt;Jeff's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycophant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sycophant&lt;/a&gt; 2009-12-08 18:17:11Z meta profile, you have to be specific it could change at any minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have posted a snapshot below so it's artistic beauty is not lost forever when he changes it next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;Hey man&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Do you like Jeff Atwood?&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;**** yeah you do.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;- Holy **** all of those blog posts are written to static HTML files for faster page serving. It's like his webserver can unleash a mother****ing army of HTML tags toward your mac address at a moment's notice *******!&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;- He's copied the mother****ing coding horror logo guy from Steven &quot;the steaming pipe&quot; McConnell. WHAT THE **** how can he just copy a guy's ******* idea like that I mean holy ****ing crap he's gotta be a copyright wizard or some ****.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;- Are you gonna read boring Joel Spolsky or nerdy Dean Whelton? **** no, you want Jeff Atwood **** yes!&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;- I hear he figured out how programmers can collaborate without being evil about it or some ****. That doesn't make any ****ing sense!&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;- He doesn't like people who speak foreign languages very much. Even some languages that aren't languages like Lojban. WTF is Lojban? **** you, I don't know.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;- Dear mother****ing **** he programs at seventeen lines per minute and nothing is faster than seventeen lines per minute because Carmack said so *******&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Welbog secretly want's to be George Carlin, or maybe he is secretly George Carlin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132547" LastEditorUserId="132547" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T02:50:26.570" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T02:50:26.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-08T18:43:54.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:00:46.480" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am one of those who flags duplicate questions for moderator attention, asking that the answers get merged onto the original question. Keeping duplicates around means that the responses are distributed across several questions, which hampers those who actually do perform searches on the site first before asking a potential duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, perhaps we can handle duplicates better, perhaps by saving the text of the duplicate question (rather than discarding it, as now) so as to preserve the alternate phrasing.  However, I would prefer that the moderator who performs the merge performs the reconcilation by hand, by editing the original question as appropriate so as to include the alternate wording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:00:46.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:12:15.567" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the latest podcast Joel says he likes historical order (rather than the typical most recent-first) CVs because good programmers had early exposure to computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How exactly do people intend to show that on their CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any real work experience until I was 30 (grad school and academic jobs).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Do I really want to put a section about how I programmed at school at 11 (Remember the RML380z) or the fractal terrain generator I wrote in Basic on my Commodore64?&#xA;To any recruiter that isn't another sad geek, or Joel Spolsky, thats is just going to look like I'm insane!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we put one of those silly little book jacket pocket-bio's?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;MGB began programming at the age of 10 and has never managed to get a real job, he likes ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ps. this site is still broken on Opera, if you let the autofill select a tag it disables the 'post question'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-08T19:22:56.313" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T10:40:01.140" Title="Historical experience order on CVs?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="32331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32338" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:17:16.277" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm running a small one person shareware company. So i'm interested a lot in questions around the software industries business aspects. A lot of them are so specialized to software that i thought they belong somewhere here but stackoverflow and serverfault are closing them regularly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you see a need for this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment the only forum i know is the paid newsgroup from the &quot;Association of shareware professionals - ASP&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134874" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T04:01:12.847" Title="What about SoftwareBusinessOverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;business&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32336" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:17:30.147" Score="7" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it not be better called the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%5Fceiling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Glass ceiling&lt;/a&gt;&quot; badge to reflect you bumping your metaphorical reputation head against it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just can't get my head around &quot;Mortarboard&quot;. Perhaps it's the bump and I have concussion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T11:57:22.300" Title="Mortarboard badge misnamed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32332" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:20:12.840" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Glass Ceiling refers to the discrimination of women in the workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is referring to an invisible (yet real) upper limit that women cannot breakthrough in the corporate world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not an appropriate name for this badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:20:12.840" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32332" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:20:29.953" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortarboard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/a&gt; refers to the hat worn at a graduation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, congratulations! You have your SO &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%5FEducational%5FDevelopment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GED&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:20:29.953" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32330" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:21:32.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this site is still broken on Opera, if you let the autofill select a tag it disables the 'post question'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard that masking Opera as Firefox &quot;fixes&quot; that. Give it a shot and let us know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:21:32.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32332" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:28:15.183" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about calling it the &quot;Al Gore&quot; badge? You can get as many extra votes as you like, and somehow it doesn't help...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:28:15.183" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32317" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:41:51.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a case of overlearning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a certain pressure to accept answers, expressed in comments to questions. Perhaps some take this a little bit too literal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:41:51.600" />
  <row Id="32338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32331" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:42:36.950" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this what the two Stack Exchange startup oriented sites are for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://answers.onstartups.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://startups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://startups.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T04:01:12.847" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T04:01:12.847" />
  <row Id="32339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32332" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:44:38.413" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge should be named &quot;Stack Overflow&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple, sweet, self-referential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's not to love?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:44:38.413" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32299" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:46:53.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Honey, my gift to you this Christmas is requesting a week-long self-ban for my SO accounts.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm... Anybody know if there's a Mrs. Skeet?  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:46:53.027" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31781" CreationDate="2009-12-08T19:53:04.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/35092/charlie-martin&quot;&gt;Charlie Martin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;brevity is the soul of wit&quot; -- Hamlet&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T19:53:04.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-08T19:53:04.077" />
  <row Id="32342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31" CreationDate="2009-12-08T20:05:56.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please see my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4916/suggested-implementation-for-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;suggested implementation for Generalist&lt;/a&gt; for an initiative to get this in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T20:05:56.020" />
  <row Id="32346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2009-12-08T21:09:00.210" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a tough call, especially with older questions. Duplicates are great when they work to funnel traffic back to an authoritative answer, but some older dups lack links to the questions they duplicate, or contain many good answers. In the former case, the question is actually counter-productive to searching (rather than acting as a sign-post, it behaves as a distraction), while in the latter case users must read both questions to access all relevant answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there are duplicates of questions that should never have been asked on SO in the first place. Whatever your feelings are on questions like &quot;Best Programmer Joke&quot;, there's really no need to have &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; instances of those cluttering up the site and encouraging more new users to mimic them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So current my strategy is this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave&lt;/strong&gt; duplicate questions that are significantly different in wording.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delete&lt;/strong&gt; duplicate questions that:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't have links to the original and don't have good answers, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aren't valid questions to begin with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Request merging&lt;/strong&gt; of valid, effectively-identical questions where both questions have good answers. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, merging is also broken. It leaves &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; signpost, not even a deleted one. Migrated questions at least leave the question itself, locked, for future searches to find... a strange discrepancy indeed, considering most migrated questions are completely off-topic and don't particularly benefit the site when they appear in search results. I strongly encourage everyone reading this to vote for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16437/when-merging-questions-leave-the-duplicate-one-as-a-placeholder&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When merging questions, leave the duplicate one as a placeholder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; suggestion (and the answer about automatic redirects as well... ); if this were implemented, I would have no qualms about asking moderators to merge questions like the one referenced here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-24T00:56:45.407" LastActivityDate="2010-04-24T00:56:45.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32317" CreationDate="2009-12-08T21:21:21.450" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site nags you to accept an answer (when you upvote and on the profile page)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site rewards you with points for accepting an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T21:21:21.450" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30415" CreationDate="2009-12-08T21:30:55.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Me too (sorry AOL flashback)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would like to say - thanks but not moving to New York (particularly as I'm not even in the USA)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this note there is only a 'would you relocate' option.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is no way to list which countries you can / would want to - work in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2009-12-08T21:30:55.910" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-08T22:52:23.123" Score="79" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://watchmaker.uncommons.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4412/ad220x220.png&quot; alt=&quot;See...there are some practical applications of genetic algorithms after all.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T04:17:28.963" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T04:17:28.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="32352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32354" CreationDate="2009-12-08T23:59:57.653" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can comment on my own answers and questions, but not others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/9vhz8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot - can comment&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some reputation rule that I'm not aware of, or is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139851" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T00:22:33.260" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:22:33.260" Title="Can't comment on other posts, able to comment on own" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25558" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:01:26.277" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's from the same owners, and my guess is they make (or will) way more money off of it than they do with the trilogy sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:01:26.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32352" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:02:40.237" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always comment on your own questions and answers, but you need &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;at least 50 rep&lt;/a&gt; to comment on other peoples' posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;50&lt;/strong&gt;     Leave comments†&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;† you can always comment on your questions and answers, and any answers to questions you've asked, even with 1 rep.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:02:40.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32352" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:03:48.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As kyle noted, you need 50 rep to do so...  Check out the FAQ for StackOverflow to see the other reputation restrictions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:03:48.753" />
  <row Id="32358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32362" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:27:08.900" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a bounty on one of my questions. It has now run its course and there was only one answer posted. But I can't seem to mark &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1689989/database-design-for-betting-community/1697485#1697485&quot;&gt;that answer&lt;/a&gt; as the accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would that be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T00:48:01.653" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:48:01.653" Title="Unable to accept answer for a question with a bounty" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:28:40.533" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1869994/tabitem-header-text-multibinding&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; this morning, and I just noticed it &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1870564/need-help-with-tabcontrol-itemtemplate&quot;&gt;asked again&lt;/a&gt;, but the old one has disappeared? why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Body of original question from browser cache:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I set the TabItem.Header to&#xA;  bindings taken from few fields, each&#xA;  binding shown in a different size, all&#xA;  in the place of the original header&#xA;  text; without overriding the default&#xA;  style and behavior of the header - I&#xA;  only need the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tried to set its template but then&#xA;  it creates a rectangle that contains&#xA;  the inner controls, and this rectengle&#xA;  is not responsive for user clicks, and&#xA;  also have the control-style, i want&#xA;  this controls to be unvisible, only&#xA;  its text should be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've tried the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&#xA;      &#xA;          &#xA;          &#xA;       &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it doesn't show anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've also tried to set the&#xA;  HeaderTemplate to a DataTemplate but&#xA;  what happens is, the DataTemplate&#xA;  overrides the TabItem style and when I&#xA;  click the text it doesn't go to the&#xA;  clicked tab, besides, the unselected&#xA;  tabs look very funny, I see the&#xA;  rectengle of the text floating, while&#xA;  I want it to be transparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, to summarize up my question, I&#xA;  want to set TabItem.Header.Text to a&#xA;  MultiBinding with StringFormat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any idea would be really appreciated.&#xA;  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agreed the question has been changed, but why not just change the question if he asked it wrong/badly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was very dajavu to find the question again but without my answer present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131871" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:46:57.320" Title="Disappearing question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32332" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:36:37.260" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;em&gt;cap&lt;/em&gt;, 'ya see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:36:37.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32358" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:38:26.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you have a bounty on it? Once you have a bounty, if nothing is accepted at the end of said bounty, you can no longer accept any answer on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18257/how-come-i-cant-accept-my-answer-to-my-question-that-no-one-else-answered&quot;&gt;How come I can’t accept my answer to my question that no one else answered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;Why an answer can’t be accepted after an unresolved bounty?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24663/allow-lapsed-bounty-questions-to-be-accepted-closed&quot;&gt;Allow lapsed bounty questions to be accepted (closed)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:38:26.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32358" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:38:41.343" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You posted a bounty for the question. Bounty ran out with no new answers. Since there were no answers eligible for auto-acceptance, it was up to you to accept just before the end of the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that that has lapsed, you are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot; title=&quot;done and dusted&quot;&gt;no longer &lt;strong&gt;ever&lt;/strong&gt; able to accept an answer for that question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:38:41.343" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32364" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:45:34.200" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1084727&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; be edited? When I activate &quot;Save Your Edits&quot; that button just greys out and nothing happens. There is no network traffic when the button is activated (I have a router whose front panel indicates if there is any network traffic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem only occurs for this single post. I have made many attempts and tried to restart Firefox (which forces a new login), but the problem persists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an image in the question. Could that be the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Platform: Firefox 3.5.3. Windows XP 64 bit. 8 GB RAM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T01:29:21.017" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:29:21.017" Title="How can Stack Overflow question 1084727 be edited?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32363" CreationDate="2009-12-09T00:50:45.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title is way too short (and rather bad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;mySQL Delete&#xA;123456789012&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needs &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10883/titles-too-short-for-shorts&quot; title=&quot;skirted through when it was only 10 characters&quot;&gt;at least 15 characters&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can edit it, throw some context in there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T00:50:45.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32332" CreationDate="2009-12-09T01:00:46.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds too similar to an interrogation technique. Yes, the web site is all about getting answers, but they're supposed to be given voluntarily!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:00:46.933" />
  <row Id="32366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T01:11:20.510" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32249/do-we-really-want-to-help-or-its-just-because-of-the-reputation-points&quot;&gt;Do we really want to help or its just because of the reputation points&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how many of us play for points on stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:23:59.713" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T01:46:32.763" Title="how many of us play for points on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32366" CreationDate="2009-12-09T01:18:32.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;42 of us&lt;/strong&gt;, no more, no less&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:18:32.363" />
  <row Id="32368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32366" CreationDate="2009-12-09T01:23:59.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He who dies with the most points.... is Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132820" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:23:59.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32370" CreationDate="2009-12-09T01:35:31.660" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1323/flag-abusive-users&quot;&gt;Flag abusive users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/212531/qqqqqqqqqqq&quot;&gt;This user&lt;/a&gt; is spamming SO, how can I flag it for moderator attention other than posting here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:41:02.680" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T03:03:15.430" Title="How to flag users" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32369" CreationDate="2009-12-09T01:41:02.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've also flagged two posts and reported the user. I'm not sure there's much else you can do. It's either self-destruction or his account has been compromised (more likely, in my opinion). Either way it should be temporarily suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:41:02.680" />
  <row Id="32371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32359" CreationDate="2009-12-09T01:46:57.320" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author deleted it, that's why it's gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T01:46:57.320" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32439" CreationDate="2009-12-09T02:24:35.237" Score="4" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1871227/codesign-error-closed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; provoked a hail of downvotes and a rapid close. It looks to me as if people mistook Chinese characters in pathnames for Chinese error messsages. Furthermore, there was an almost-answerable question in there, dealing with iPhone SDK tools. So complaining of the lack of code was missing the poor OP's point. Couldn't this have been left open for, oh, 15 minutes and the OP given a fair chance to fix it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep being uninteresting on Meta, I'll just edit here and who cares if CW goes off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the answers, I would summarize under several headings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close is not a kiss-of-death. Posters of closed questions are welcome to edit and expect a reopening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just because one of the comments was confused about Chinese chars, that doesn't mean that all or any of the close voters were confused.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is still some divergence of opinion as to how rapidly defective questions should be closed, versus allowed to stay open in the hopes of a repair. That's not surprising.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For myself, I'd add the following thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To us non- (not-yet-???) moderators, the close process is a bit opaque. As with some other rep-based activities, it's sometimes best to just trust that them with the rep haven't been replaced by Wikipedia editors and not worry too much. Still, it's hard not to feel some sympathy for the OP in a case like this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I see plenty of questions that are just as incoherent as this one -- once you read them carefully -- but which aren't closed. Rather than railing about some notion of unfairness, I theorize that people with close votes shoot at things that are obviously defective, but can't be expected to read a Java code posting in detail and discover that it's entirely incoherent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T21:59:14.810" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T10:49:58.457" Title="An over-hasty close?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32379" CreationDate="2009-12-09T02:26:37.997" Score="1" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm including Meta in Trilogy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there a more accurate term? (Quadrilogy?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T06:30:11.467" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:36:43.460" Title="What are the funniest Trilogy posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10802" CreationDate="2009-12-09T02:28:21.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one for serious mathematics of interest to the academic/research community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://MathOverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://MathOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be sure to read &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;its FAQ&lt;/a&gt; before posting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T19:47:33.653" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T19:47:33.653" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32383" CreationDate="2009-12-09T02:30:50.920" Score="28" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description of the tumbleweed badge states, &quot;Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and &lt;em&gt;low views for a week&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many views exactly is 'low'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134291" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T02:35:22.893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T18:41:38.287" Title="TumbleWeed - How many views is 'low'?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;&lt;clarification&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="32377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32330" CreationDate="2009-12-09T02:31:52.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel may like it, but it's non-standardness will more than likely just confuse hiring managers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I just deleted a bunch of old stuff off of my CV.  Since tech evolves so fast, most people don't care what I was working on 20 or 30 yrs ago, and it adds unnecessary length to my CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is that reading a resume from back-to-front isn't difficult for those who really prefer it that way -- although my view is that this is better as an interview question than something you want to try to glean from (or represent in) a CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastEditorUserId="139444" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T10:40:01.140" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T10:40:01.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31725" CreationDate="2009-12-09T02:49:20.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea, although I think the suggested price is way too high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people, such as contractors, are nearly always looking for work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Others may have a job, but are always open to changing if the right opportunity were to come up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the resume pile gets too thin, it won't attract as many employers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think about it, it's really not much of a stretch beyond a 1 yr subscription.  Most people won't spend anywhere near an entire year looking for a new job, so for most of the usual subscription period they will be employed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T02:49:20.810" />
  <row Id="32379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32373" CreationDate="2009-12-09T02:56:54.397" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hands down:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T08:12:55.697" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T08:12:55.697" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32372" CreationDate="2009-12-09T03:00:02.770" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It looks to me as if people mistook Chinese characters in pathnames for Chinese error messsages&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably because he forgot to include the error messages? Maybe those don't matter for iPhone developers, but that's what I would have expected to see in the question instead of, or at least &lt;em&gt;prior to&lt;/em&gt;, a bunch of possibly-related build commands?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't excuse those who got it wrong, but I wouldn't encourage anyone to re-open this unless they can actually make sense of it (or the OP returns with more info).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T10:49:58.457" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T10:49:58.457" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32372" CreationDate="2009-12-09T04:23:09.873" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edited the question ~60 seconds after it was posted to try and knock it into shape. By the time I was done (~2 mins later), it'd been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is another example of how the community can be a tiny bit over-zealous with the close button when a new &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; non-english speaker posts a question and it's far from perfect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question survived for all of three minutes and not one of the users who voted to close (all with enough rep to edit) even attempted to knock the question into shape or solicit more info from the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How well would we fair if there was an excellent site like this based in China and the main language of use was Cantonese?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think the damage is probably done and the OP has most likely deserted the question (and Stack Overflow) due to the overly hasty work by the rapid response team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think folks should try and get more info from the OP, wait a bit longer (say an hour or so at least) before bombing questions such as these out of existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T04:33:15.597" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T04:33:15.597" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="32383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32376" CreationDate="2009-12-09T04:31:22.057" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on looking at posts made by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/63/tumbleweed&quot;&gt;recent recipients&lt;/a&gt; of the badge, I would say that the maximum number of views is 10 to 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T17:00:01.030" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:00:01.030" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32373" CreationDate="2009-12-09T04:35:12.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions/31779#31779&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions/31779#31779&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T21:36:43.460" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:36:43.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32372" CreationDate="2009-12-09T05:03:14.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close is valid.  It's not a real question, even after having been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A build log (with no warnings or errors) and the question, &quot;Why am I getting a code signing error? What is the problem?&quot; is absolutely unanswerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a million reasons one might receive a code signing error (especially with Apple's obtuse code signing process) and beyond the words, &quot;code signing error,&quot; the reader has absolutely no clue what they are being asked to diagnose.  The phrase, &quot;code signing error,&quot; unfortunately can mean many things in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is good that such questions are closed quickly - it gives the OP instant feedback that their question is not reasonable, and the comments give enough information to the OP as to how they need to change their question so people can actually help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has not taken the opportunity to do so.  Others have helped, but unfortunately it's still not a real question (specific, answerable, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when closed the OP can edit, others can edit, and people can leave questions and suggestions via comment to help the OP get the question in shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather have instant feedback and the opportunity to change my post than a tumbleweed that's open, but unattended because it is completely useless as a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T05:03:14.840" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="32389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33213" CreationDate="2009-12-09T07:18:26.530" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I login to the careers site as an employer, then on the search page de-select everything -- so no tags, no location, no type or students -- why doesn't the count of candidates found go to zero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the semantics for the Type checkboxes should be &quot;someone with one or more of the following attributes&quot;.  But with no attributes checked and a non-zero result count, does that mean many candidates don't have any boxes checked in their profiles?  What's happening is not obvious or intuitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T09:02:19.360" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T09:02:37.737" Title="Shouldn't number of candidates found be zero when no search parameters are specified?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32393" CreationDate="2009-12-09T07:59:09.810" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a link entitled, &quot;link&quot; under each answer (beside the &quot;flag&quot; link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click on it, nothing happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the use of the &quot;link&quot; then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T08:09:21.960" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T08:28:50.410" Title="What's the &quot;link&quot; under each answer used for?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32330" CreationDate="2009-12-09T08:06:38.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The order only matters on paper CVs. Using an online CV, the order isn't that important. The recruiter can hit &lt;code&gt;End&lt;/code&gt; if he wants to read it the other way round. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best would be, if Careers could sort the resume by date in each order. Then every reader can choose whatever he prefers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T08:06:38.830" />
  <row Id="32392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32403" CreationDate="2009-12-09T08:20:05.607" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there way for me to see all the latest questions from &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; my interesting tags on one site? If not, there should be a way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135433" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T10:30:21.893" Title="Is there a way to display only questions from my interesting tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32390" CreationDate="2009-12-09T08:20:42.203" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gives you the URL of the page with that answers anchor appended to it, so you can email a link directly to the answer you want to share it with... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T08:28:50.410" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T08:28:50.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32392" CreationDate="2009-12-09T08:24:08.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep.  Behold! the glory of REST: you just construct a URL like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/[tag 1]+...+[tag n]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/interesting-tags+tags+support+feature-request&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/interesting-tags+tags+support+feature-request&lt;/a&gt; This questions appears to have a unique tag set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;You can add the OR operator if you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/interesting-tags%20tags%20OR%20support%20OR%20feature-request&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/interesting-tags tags OR support OR feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you want to actually be able to &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; what you're typing you can use space rather than &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T13:09:09.357" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:09:09.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32445" CreationDate="2009-12-09T09:22:58.987" Score="1" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/List.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodeProject Quick Answers&lt;/a&gt; today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the looks of things, it offers a similar experience to that of the Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it in any way affiliated? Is it a Stack Exchange site? Or is it some kind of clone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your take on their endeavour if it's neither an affiliate or Stack Exchange site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136743" LastEditorUserId="136743" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T09:55:08.500" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T09:55:08.500" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T17:35:38.797" Title="Is the CodeProject Quick Answers site a clone, affiliated or a Stack Exchange site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="32396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32395" CreationDate="2009-12-09T09:36:41.457" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a clone - not a StackExchange nor affiliated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find the layout hard to read and unappealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There doesn't seem to be many rules for it either - many of the answers seem to treat the place as if it's a message board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T09:36:41.457" />
  <row Id="32398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2009-12-09T09:53:27.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a good clone at &lt;a href=&quot;http://anantgarg.com/2009/12/09/php-stackoverflow-clone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://anantgarg.com/2009/12/09/php-stackoverflow-clone/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151145" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T09:53:27.743" />
  <row Id="32400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21358" CreationDate="2009-12-09T09:56:37.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I had the idea, then ceded it all to @teifion, who had started @so_agg before that (@stackalert was just a cooler name). I reserved the domain name and stuck up a page, just in case we hit the jackpot. It will expire in February 2010, if I remember correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I subsequently gave up on Twitter completely, and didn't have any further contact with Teifion, though he has been on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15/teifion&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; fairly recently, and has an account &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/132042/teifion&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; too. So I have no idea if it was blocked, or he stopped, or something hung somewhere and he hasn't been to see why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T09:56:37.677" />
  <row Id="32401" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32415" CreationDate="2009-12-09T10:02:44.170" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a result of tagging guidelines and the long list of tags that are only used last (just go to the Tags list and jump to last page), I've started editing some of those out of existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a good idea? Should I bother? When should I avoid removing the tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13992" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-01T10:48:25.317" LastActivityDate="2011-05-01T10:48:25.317" Title="Good idea to remove uncommon tags from questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28375" CreationDate="2009-12-09T10:05:39.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general the hCard and hCalendar are working well, but the hResume needs some work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1- The education and experience are currently mark-up as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;vcard vevent&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to add the compound class name like so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;vcard vevent education&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;vcard vevent experience&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2- As you are using linkedin.com pattern combining hCard and hCalendar together for education and experience it’s a good idea mark-up all the data items for both schemas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;statement note&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should also include the description from hCalendar &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;statement note description&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3- You need to mark-up the summary for hResume. Summary is the word use in CV where as the US use the word objectives, means the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;intro-statement statement&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should also include the summary from hResume &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;intro-statement statement summary&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4- Although it not called for in the specification is very useful to mark-up the hCard that carries the main contact information. Some parsers will not find it otherwise&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;intro-wrapper vcard&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should also include the contact from hResume &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;intro-wrapper vcard contact&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5- The biggest issue is the dtStart and the dtEnd, these should be in the ISO datetime format yyyy-mm-dd etc. Unlike adr there is no label property to display a text formatted version of a date it has to be in a machine readable format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;header-time dtstart dtend&quot;&amp;gt;April 2006 - May 2008&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;header-time&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;span class='dtstart'&amp;gt;&#xA;    	&amp;lt;span class='value-title' title='2006-04'&amp;gt;July 2006&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;  -&#xA;    &amp;lt;span class='dtend'&amp;gt;&#xA;    	&amp;lt;span class='value-title' title='2008-05'&amp;gt;May 2008&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;  &#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The convention is that if there is no dtend property for an hCalendar the event is considered ongoing &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;header-time dtstart dtend&quot;&amp;gt;April 2006 - Current&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;header-time&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;span class='dtstart'&amp;gt;&#xA;    	&amp;lt;span class='value-title' title='2006-04'&amp;gt;July 2006&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; - Current &#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have date data that already fits the ISO format you can place directly in the text of an element&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;header-time dtstart dtend&quot;&amp;gt; 2006 - 2008&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;header-time&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;span class='dtstart'&amp;gt;2006&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; - &#xA;    &amp;lt;span class='dtend'&amp;gt;2008&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need a parser to try this out against try &lt;a href=&quot;http://ufxtract.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ufxtract.com/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I would be more than happy to help out with the mark-up. I have had a lot of experience both creating and parsing all three of the formats you’re using. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Glenn Jones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS thanks for taking the time and effort for doing this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T10:05:39.907" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32392" CreationDate="2009-12-09T10:09:58.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25239/how-can-i-see-all-the-posts-matching-my-interested-tags/25245#25245&quot;&gt;Check this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is what I do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash+OR+flex+OR+actionscript+OR+actionscript-3&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash+OR+flex+OR+actionscript+OR+actionscript-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Make a url matching your tags and bookmark it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastEditorUserId="146482" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T10:30:21.893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T10:30:21.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32401" CreationDate="2009-12-09T10:42:53.630" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably not a good idea in general - if this always happened how would new tags ever stick around when technologies change (e.g. when Google's Go language was released recently)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you see tags that should be merged, or are inappropriate as tags, then it's not a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T10:42:53.630" />
  <row Id="32405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32401" CreationDate="2009-12-09T10:45:30.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO it's a good idea, especially when there are better tags available (i.e. same tag without a typo) or when it's hard to imagine a second question that might use the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139146" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T10:45:30.210" />
  <row Id="32407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31857" CreationDate="2009-12-09T10:56:23.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always approach it in reverse: instead of handling out your full public CV URL, use one from one of the URL-shortening sites, and then look at their statistics to see how often it was used.  For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://3.ly/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://3.ly/&lt;/a&gt; makes that pretty easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T10:56:23.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31752" CreationDate="2009-12-09T11:04:13.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hopefully not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shipmentoffail.com/fails/2008/04/horse-vs-car-fail/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T11:04:13.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32299" CreationDate="2009-12-09T11:53:01.100" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that adding features to Stack Overflow to help fight a Stack Overflow addiction isn't going to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T11:53:01.100" />
  <row Id="32410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26345" CreationDate="2009-12-09T11:55:09.630" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about including support for those of us who have also written books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T11:55:09.630" />
  <row Id="32411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-09T12:00:14.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jeff and Joel luck out and sell Stack Overflow to Google for $$$WONGA then we'll all be sent the monetary equivalent of our reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T12:00:14.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T12:07:12.247" Score="0" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25352/identify-career-participants-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Identify &amp;lsquo;Career&amp;rsquo; Participants on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a badge-like icon or some other indication next to the names of people who post on SO to show whether they have filed their CV on Careers.  The icon might even link directly to their public CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, the icon's visibility would be controllable by users to some degree, such as: disable, enable public, or enable paid employer subscribers only.  The latter could be the default and would help prevent spam from recruiters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I put a link to my public CV in my profile on SO -- but I imagine most potential employers might have a hard time finding it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T08:41:56.303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T08:41:56.303" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T18:43:07.863" Title="Mark posts on Stack Overflow for people with filed CVs on Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22716" CreationDate="2009-12-09T12:48:57.300" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linkedin has a Websites section on your profile.  You can add up to 3 websites so this can be one of them if you find it valuable enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T12:48:57.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31857" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:14:07.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be curious... but, I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; the 1 public view I have is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31649/whats-your-cv-hit-rate-on-careers/31651#31651&quot;&gt;by Joel&lt;/a&gt;... And I don't think he will hire me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:14:07.427" />
  <row Id="32415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32401" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:15:55.163" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because a tag is rarely used does not mean it shouldn't be there. Typos are one thing, those should be deleted. But some tags really are uncommon. They don't really add noise, they might actually help when searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, on the last page is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ripemd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'ripemd'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ripemd&lt;/a&gt; tag, with only 1 question. It's not a typo, it's not a duplicate, there's no alternative way of spelling it. There simply are no other questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ripemd&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'ripemd'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ripemd&lt;/a&gt;; it should not be deleted, because it either has or will have value. It's not always that easy to determine what's useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="7872" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-30T21:31:35.130" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T21:31:35.130" />
  <row Id="32416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:19:06.327" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opends.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.opends.org/images/opends%5Fad.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;OpenDS: LDAP services made easy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140136" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T13:22:14.527" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:22:14.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T04:07:07.950" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="32417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32422" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:34:55.363" Score="1" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a number of reports of special characters breaking links, some of which seem to get fixes, others seem to be tagged &quot;status-by-design&quot;.  I didn't see any indicating that the $ sign wasn't working so I thought I'd report it.  I tried to link to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki&lt;/a&gt;$?VirtualPairProgramming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the link does not appear as a link either in the editor or in the completed question.  I &lt;em&gt;fixed&lt;/em&gt; it by using TinyURL to proxy the link and pasting in the TinyURL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T19:55:48.777" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:58:30.097" Title="Dollar sign in URL breaks link" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25594" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:35:10.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone considered importing the stackql data into &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YQL&lt;/a&gt; as an app? I don't know how importing works but the presentation &lt;a href=&quot;http://icant.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christian&lt;/a&gt; gave suggested this is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:35:10.433" />
  <row Id="32419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32276" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:41:31.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can trade reputation for upgrades.  For my next two I'm getting Action Boy and telescopic vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:41:31.620" />
  <row Id="32420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32412" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:42:42.603" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this would add relevant information to Stack Overflow as a site. SO is a site for answering and finding the answers to programming related questions. Whether the asker or answerer is currently searching for a job has no relevance, and should not be displayed in any way with the their information on the question page. Any person can choose to add a link to the public CV to their profile, because your SO profile is your sandbox to put out there any additional information you want people to have. Furthermore, I'm not convinced employers would or do search SO for people to hire, I would expect they will use careers, which has a search system tailored to helping them find the potential employees they might want to hire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:42:42.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32412" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:45:06.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linking to the profile could make it discoverable by search engines.  That's intentionally not the case so you can keep your &quot;public&quot; CV from being found accidentally by someone you don't want to know about it -- such as a recruiter.   I do have my CV linked in my profile, though I've added a disclaimer requesting no recruiters use it to market me -- at least without my consent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:45:06.843" />
  <row Id="32422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32417" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:48:34.933" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See if you can safely remove the dollar sign (&lt;code&gt;$&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VirtualPairProgramming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VirtualPairProgramming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;what kind of speshul?&quot;&gt;dollar sign is a special character&lt;/a&gt; (and apparently hasn't been taken in with the automatic SO linkifier). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted (or could be bothered) you can also encode to its hex equivalent (&lt;code&gt;%24&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki%24?VirtualPairProgramming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://c2.com/cgi/wiki%24?VirtualPairProgramming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:48:34.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32395" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:48:51.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting on stuff is all the rage now. Even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Register's&lt;/a&gt; news article &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2009/12/09/ram%5Fscraper%5Fcredit%5Fcard%5Ftheft/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comments section&lt;/a&gt; has implemented voting and flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T13:48:51.047" />
  <row Id="32424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32392" CreationDate="2009-12-09T13:50:37.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shameful plug: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21717/a-greasemonkey-script-to-make-browsing-interesting-tags-easier&quot;&gt;A Greasemonkey script to make browsing interesting tags easier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular the &quot;View All Interesting&quot; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T14:31:22.123" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:31:22.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32395" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:04:35.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Stack&quot; is all the rage today in the tech world. Everybody wants in. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:04:35.103" />
  <row Id="32426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5017" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:05:27.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Need footnotes in community wiki mode. You don't want to disrupt the flow of someone else's discussion unnecessarily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140076" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:05:27.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26345" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:15:32.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I've just read too much, but this seems kinda silly to me: I've read &quot;The Mythical Man Month&quot;.. doesn't mean I want to tell potential employers I have (though, in this case, I would).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &quot;for Dummies&quot; books alongside deep-dice assembly texts - neither indicates a greater or lesser degree of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, I have books I've never read (and probably won't because my interests have changed, or they're too dated, etc) - some of those &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; &quot;look&quot; good, but if I haven't read them, it doesn't mean I'm any less of a dev/admin/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;em&gt;Applied Cryptography&lt;/em&gt; (2d Ed) the week after I got it for my birthday - when I was 15 (the year it was published). Does that make me any better than someone who has never heard of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:15:32.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32430" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:47:47.960" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30046/how-do-i-include-a-code-block-right-after-a-list-without-it-turning-into-a-blockq&quot;&gt;How do I include a code block right after a list without it turning into a blockquote?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3792/how-to-nest-code-within-a-list-using-markdown&quot;&gt;How to nest code within a list using markdown&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1827735/invalidoperationexception-and-workflows-in-asp-net-mvc&quot;&gt;edited this question&lt;/a&gt;, but even after retyping the entire entry and formatting it myself, I still can't get the codeblocks to show up.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific reason why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T15:04:20.473" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T15:06:32.340" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T16:32:39.987" Title="Code Block not showing up within a list" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:48:20.813" Score="12" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone links to a question, at some time in the future the question that has been linked to may get moved to a more appropriate site.  I have come across this several times while finding answers on the SO sites.  When this happens, all you get is the standard SO 404 error message (case in point, the link in the comment from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12421/what-does-reputation-really-mean-and-do-you-pay-attention-to-anyones-but-your-ow/12429#12429&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;).  It would be nice if the SO engine could recognize that the question once existed but has been moved and automatically redirect to the actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T15:20:42.080" Title="Redirect links to moved questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32428" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:52:06.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code within a list needs to be indented with an extra four spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is the list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;System.InvalidOperationException: Workflow with id &quot;[GUID]&quot; [...]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is just:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; - Here is the list&#xA;&#xA;        System.InvalidOperationException: Workflow with id &quot;[GUID]&quot; [...]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works for both ordered and unordered lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T15:06:32.340" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T15:06:32.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32428" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:52:19.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution is to &lt;strong&gt;double-indent&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g., 8 spaces) the code block if it's within a list.  Here is an example of a previously asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3792/how-to-nest-code-within-a-list-using-markdown&quot;&gt;relevant meta question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:52:19.213" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32429" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:53:36.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So when a post gets migrated, the engine would full-text-search it's entire database looking for that URL fragment (up to the title, which is unnecessary)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea; it'd be nice to keep everything clean. I just can't imagine that this would be good for performance, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T14:53:36.310" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32392" CreationDate="2009-12-09T14:57:30.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;User &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131040/gahooa&quot;&gt;gahooa&lt;/a&gt; created &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14041/bookmarklet-to-show-the-whipp&quot;&gt;a bookmarket&lt;/a&gt; to do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:$(&quot;div.question-summary&quot;).not('div.tagged-interesting').hide()%20&amp;amp;&amp;amp;%20$('a.question-hyperlink').attr('target',%20'_blank');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T15:27:50.337" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T15:27:50.337" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32429" CreationDate="2009-12-09T15:07:01.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is moved, then there will be a stub with a link to the migrated question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is deleted (as is the case here) you'll get the 404 error, unless you're a 10k+ user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T15:20:42.080" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T15:20:42.080" />
  <row Id="32435" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T15:24:13.807" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2051/why-is-alt-gr-q-giving-me-quote-formatting-instead-of-the-sign&quot;&gt;Why is Alt Gr + Q giving me Quote formatting instead of the @ sign?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am facing a very strange bug when writing answers in Stack Overflow (and also in Server Fault, Super User and the Meta site, by the way): I can't write the closing sqare bracket, &lt;code&gt;]&lt;/code&gt;. When I try to write it, I get the sentence &lt;code&gt;enter code here&lt;/code&gt; surrounded by the code escaping backticks. It happens in the question and answer textboxes only, it does not happen in other textboxes such as the ones for question title, comments or tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens on Firefox but not on IE, so I guess it is a Firefox bug, but anyway it is strange since I have not seen this behavior on any other web site. Someone knows what is happening and if there is a way to solve this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional information: my OS (Windows 7) language is spanish (Spain), and so is the keyboard; I write the square bracket by pressing &lt;code&gt;AltGr&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;+*]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T16:55:26.107" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T18:42:40.407" Title="Can't write closing square bracket on the question and answer textboxes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32372" CreationDate="2009-12-09T15:30:59.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An over-hasty close?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.  For the reasons I've explained elsewhere, the question is not a real question, and is a perfect example of why that vote to close reason exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;there was an almost-answerable question in there&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post something that is almost a question, then it will almost stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Couldn't this have been left open for, oh, 15 minutes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.  After 15 minutes it leaves the radar of the vast majority of users and moderators, and becomes an unanswered, unanswerable dead weight in the database.  You cannot assume it's going to be edited to become a better question without feedback to the OP, and even if you are a great moderator and bookmark the question for later moderation (ie, give them 15, 60, 720, or more minutes) then you have to expect 4 other moderators to do the same thing - otherwise your close votes expire, and the question remains a dud in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might think this isn't a real problem, why not leave it in the database?  We are indexed very aggressively by Google and other search engines, and given a very high rank for some of these more esoteric topics.  It would add one more completely useless hit on the front page of a google search that would only serve to frustrate others when they see that it's useless, which would probably be a worse blot for more potential users than losing one because they didn't understand that a vote to close was merely an explicit notice that they &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; fix their question before it's presented to the community again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and the OP given a fair chance to fix it up?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP can fix it up while closed, and every edit brings it back to the front page to be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving it open for a certain amount of time will not help in this case, will result in a lot of dangling 'bad' questions as explained above, and even worse will clutter the front page with a lot of dross that should be removed very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you might feel that this question shouldn't have been closed quickly, but what about the dozens of questions a day that should be closed with prejudice?  The system can't differentiate, and so it's up to the community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, this one was left open for the full time it was on the front page of SO.  This is three times longer than really abusive questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T15:30:59.723" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26345" CreationDate="2009-12-09T15:39:19.473" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, and while I'm certain it will be gamed the employers can follow up in interviews if they really did base some of their selection criteria on the bookshelf listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more creative programmers will list unusual off-the-beaten-path books that may pique an employer's interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;So, Adam, tell me how the Harry Potter series has improved your programming skills?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Well, the on-the-surface correlations are obvious, many people view programming as a...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T17:36:03.537" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:36:03.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32372" CreationDate="2009-12-09T15:46:46.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with the close because the question was unanswerable.  The rationale presented (at length) by others for why rapid closes are necessary are justified and correct.  However, in &lt;em&gt;this particular case&lt;/em&gt;, there is something being overlooked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of close, the first few comments blast the OP for not using &quot;all English&quot;, when in fact all of the relevant parts of the message (of which there were admittedly few) were in English.  Only the &lt;em&gt;path names&lt;/em&gt; were in Chinese, and they might as well have said &quot;foo bar baz&quot; for all of the relevance they had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the comments that were present at the time of close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi, This needs to be in all english for most people on this site to understand it. – bobobobo 13 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;English, please, and please include some code, not just the error messages. – John Saunders 13 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What were they expecting from this question? – ChaosPandion 13 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey at least it proves SO uses unicode! – George 13 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;haha @ George's comment. :) – Alex 13 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These comments amount to little more than laughing at the OP, with the exception of John's asking for some code, right after he (nonsensically) demands English.&#xA; If we are going to rapidly close questions with the expectation that the OP fix them up before re-opening, &lt;strong&gt;we need to be giving accurate and helpful feedback in the comments.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not what happened here, and so I would not be surprised if the OP deserted his question for just that reason.  Why bother fixing a question when the only feedback he received was so far off the mark? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T16:18:20.357" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T16:18:20.357" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32372" CreationDate="2009-12-09T15:50:23.057" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;13 hours later, and it was just reclosed. (I didn't cast one of the votes.) I can get the issue that this might be a hasty close -- I've been guilty of that when a question was so unintelligible that I couldn't make out what the OP wanted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, however, I think the Chinese characters are a straw man argument. I like to think the &lt;i&gt;10&lt;/i&gt; different people who voted to close this question are literate, and able to tell that those are file paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP of the question obviously has a grasp of English based on the rest of the original question. It might not be the best, but it's enough to figure it out. Again, I like to think we're all smart here in SO-land, so we can figure out the difference between the file paths and the question content, even when it's an unformatted jumble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest argument made to keep this question open was to give the OP an opportunity to make changes and clarify. 13 hours later, and this is what I see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 comments requesting clarification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 comments from people who saw all the Chinese characters and assumed the question wasn't in English (and BTW, don't seem to be close votes on it!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 noisy LOLs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;ZERO&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; responses from the OP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were mistakes made early on in the handling of this question on all sides, but the bottom line is this: &lt;strong&gt;The OP is obviously not interested&lt;/strong&gt; enough to do anything to fix the question. &lt;strong&gt;Valid close.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T15:50:23.057" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26345" CreationDate="2009-12-09T16:00:10.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the books I read about programming were out of print 20 years ago.  Now I just look up APIs on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T16:00:10.620" />
  <row Id="32441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32395" CreationDate="2009-12-09T16:44:42.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does have a certain visual similarity, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was SO inspired, but it seems to be just a cheap imitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is already changing the internet for programmers ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T16:44:42.820" />
  <row Id="32443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17831" CreationDate="2009-12-09T16:56:04.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are lots of reasons, but my primary reason is to learn.  Whenever I give an answer, I want it to be wrong so that someone else can correct me.  To believe I have some knowledge and learn that it is wrong is an extremely valuable learning process which is best achieved by answering questions in a public forum.  Also, I tend to give overly brief, incomplete answers, both an SO and in real life and SO gives me a chance to practice verbosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132207" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T16:56:04.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-09T16:56:04.997" />
  <row Id="32444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:01:42.163" Score="10" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I commented on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/77429/using-gimp-to-batch-convert-images-to-another-format-in-windows/77442#77442&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; because the author of that answer made a spelling error that impinged on the meaning of the answer.  The author later saw my comment, corrected his spelling error, and then commented to thank me and make note that he had corrected the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting the comment would, however, leave the author's comment hanging, as it indirectly refers to my comment.  Leaving the comment would, on the other hand, seem silly, as the misspelling has been addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help me decide which is more appropriate to do: shall I delete my comment, or shall I leave it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43263" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T17:36:27.423" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:54:49.400" Title="Is it appropriate to delete my comment?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32395" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:05:51.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, neither. Similar features were under discussion long before the release of SO, as the CP forums had become clogged with off-topic, poorly-asked questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any equivalent to the close and delete features of SO, so there's no good way to quickly shut down duplicate questions or questions that are missing necessary information. CP would do well to look to SO for improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those that wish to further neuter SO's &quot;close&quot; functionality would do well to examine CP's Quick Answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:05:51.847" />
  <row Id="32446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:06:07.960" Score="7" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a tough question to ask, because it will seem like I'm either informing on fellow SO'ers and/or concerning myself too much with Rank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the non-controversial version: jQuery is a library we all know, and it's written in JavaScript. What is the tagging policy for questions on &lt;em&gt;popular&lt;/em&gt; libraries (eg jQuery) that can often stand on their own (due to said popularity), and the underlying language used (JavaScript). Should the question always get tagged with both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motivation behind the question: I monitor the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=javascript&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;&quot;JavaScript&quot; stats page&lt;/a&gt; as I'm somewhat chuft with making it to the &quot;top 10&quot; of answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier today I noticed another user shot right up though the ranks. Good for that person. But then I noticed it was after re-tagging a bunch of fairly old questions with the &quot;javascript&quot; tag. I became aware of this &quot;rank jump&quot; feature of SO when &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30193/tag-badges-exploit&quot;&gt;someone experimented with it&lt;/a&gt; recently. In this case the late nature of the re-tag left me feeling uneasy of my &quot;demotion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, don't get me wrong: this is not about me wanting to be ranked higher than anyone else. I enjoy answering JavaScript questions and I've learned &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; from other users with far more knowledge than I here. I enjoy being up there alongside great JavaScript contributors on the site including the user I'm referring to. I just want some clarification on this re-tagging thing, in part so this question can be a reference point for users re-tagging jQuery questions with JavaScript, and in part to help calm the human side of me that feels this is a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; bit unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134019" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:24:38.690" Title="Should jQuery questions always be tagged with &quot;javascript&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32444" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:06:42.937" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would delete it. The author likely will be back, see your comment gone and remove their comment as well. And regardless, even if it makes the author's comment more &quot;noisy&quot;, I believe removing your comment causes an overall decrease in the amount of noise on the question. Additionally, I think it should be clear to anyone who is concerned, that there was initially a comment the author found helpful, that was removed once action was taken. So I really would suggest removing it, and not be concerned at all that it leaves the author's comment hanging unexplained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T17:13:04.187" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:13:04.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32444" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:06:58.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do whatever you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? Make up your own mind, man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:06:58.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32444" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:14:38.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete it. Don't listen to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32444/is-it-appropriate-to-delete-my-comment/32448#32448&quot;&gt;The Sycophant&lt;/a&gt; - your opinion means nothing, do what &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; want!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:14:38.663" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32446" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:17:35.367" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a question about JavaScript that seeks a jQuery solution, then yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's purely a question about jQuery (&quot;what selector should I use for...&quot;), then don't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not sure, then use both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same thing goes for javascript + dom, javascript + html, jquery + dom, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:17:35.367" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:48:15.450" Score="-1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are we getting any soon a real time update for stackoverflow questions(posts)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134472" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T18:09:08.640" Title="Real Time Update for stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;update&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32444" CreationDate="2009-12-09T17:54:49.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should be edit, not comment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple spelling, grammar, name, etc issues &lt;em&gt;should result in an EDIT not a comment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use the moderators&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to delete your no-longer-applies comment and other spurious comments depend on your comment then flag both comments for moderator attention.  They will view them, see the fix has been applied, and delete them if they feel they no longer add anything useful to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it appropriate - a philosophical treatise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically for your case, leave it.  It lends a bit of history and interesting information to the site (I always pronounced it &quot;I R fan view&quot;) which I think adds to, not detracts from, the question and answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, however, I don't thinks it's appropriate or inappropriate to leave out of date comments.  If the comment is out of date, and no one else's comment depends on your comment, then there is little reason to keep it, but there's no pressing need to delete it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26345/provide-a-programmer-bookshelf-with-your-cv/32437#32437&quot;&gt;in Paul Tomblin's case&lt;/a&gt;, the comment is out of date, other comments reference it, but the comment itself no longer adds to the question, then again, there's no need to delete it, but it isn't going to ruin the comment reader's experience if you do.  They will quickly understand that there's something missing, but based on the existing comment it's not important.  They can check out the edit history of the question if they are curious what the change was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comment is at all useful, or interesting, even from an historically outdated perspective, I'd say err on the side of keeping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some undercurrent against spurious comments on SO, so if it's exactly 50/50 for you, then err on the side of deleting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember - you own the comment.  It's not editable at all, or deletable by anyone else except under some circumstances, so unlike questions and answers it's not a community post.  It's uniquely yours, and so its life or death is completely up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T17:54:49.400" />
  <row Id="32454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23426" CreationDate="2009-12-09T18:08:38.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same problem, and after some trial and error, finally figured out how to solve it.  Here's the trick that worked for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log into your SO account using your old GMail account (the one your SO account is currently associated to)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now go into a separate Gmail window and log out of GMail (you could also just go to the Google home page and click sign out)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now go back to the SO browser window, and click the &quot;change openid&quot; link in your profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When confronted with the list of openid providers, now click &quot;Google&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This will take you to a Google login page. Enter your other GMail credentials here (for the gmail account you want to associate), and log in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept Google's notification page letting you know that you're logging into SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You'll get redirected back to SO, and it will tell you that this is an openid that SO has never seen before. Agree to this page. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voilà, your SO account will be associated with your other gmail account.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key to making this all work is step #2 above: signing out of gmail/google after you've logged into SO.  Otherwise, you'll still be logged into Google when you try to select a new OpenID, so instead of getting a Google login box, when you select Google in Step #4, you'll simply be re-logged-in to your existing Gmail account and never get an opportunity to select a new gmail account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I suspect you can avoid these hassles by simply unchecking the &quot;remember me&quot; option when you associate to your google openid in the first place.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136315" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T18:08:38.550" />
  <row Id="32455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32451" CreationDate="2009-12-09T18:09:08.640" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;code&gt;#sobot&lt;/code&gt; channel on IRC (freenode) that shows new questions as they appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T18:09:08.640" />
  <row Id="32456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32446" CreationDate="2009-12-09T18:26:38.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something you can do to get more relevant stats is search for &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt; and not &lt;code&gt;jquery&lt;/code&gt; as with the following URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript%20-jquery&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript -jquery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can still get stats from that page, too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=javascript%20-jquery&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=javascript -jquery&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T18:26:38.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32376" CreationDate="2009-12-09T18:41:38.287" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The view count is rarely the limiting factor -- no answers, no comments for a week typically is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, looking at the query, I bet we could remove the view count test entirely with almost no change in # of badge awards...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T18:41:38.287" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32460" CreationDate="2009-12-09T19:19:23.413" Score="5" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not see any way to list all posts I upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Profile page only shows the counts for upvotes &amp;amp; downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good if there was a way to list all posts for which we have used upvotes/downvotes. It would help us rectify if we made any mistakes, and I think it would be useful to refer to all the posts I have upvoted (as upvoting mostly implies its a useful post and more likely that I may need to refer to it later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139618" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T19:23:47.710" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T19:25:56.850" Title="List all posts that I upvoted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32458" CreationDate="2009-12-09T19:23:48.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When ever you vote, you can click the star which is right under neath of the up and down votes. This will favorite the question. You can then check your profile and click on the favorites tab to come back to those questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="45" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T19:23:48.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32458" CreationDate="2009-12-09T19:25:56.850" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This functionality (view your vote history) used to be available from your user profile page, under a tab labeled &quot;votes&quot;, but was removed when the &quot;recent&quot; pages were added.  Granted, the recent page shows a great deal of other useful information that was previously not easily available, but it's no longer an easy thing to simply see your own voting activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The open feature request to restore this functionality is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14610/where-did-the-votes-tab-go&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T19:25:56.850" />
  <row Id="32462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T19:47:12.350" Score="5" ViewCount="714" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there anyone out there regularly mining stackoverflow data and providing the stats online?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/12/civic-duty-on-stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John's site&lt;/a&gt; where he periodically posts some very interesting stuff.  But I've only been able to find data from earlier this year.  It would be interesting to see how this data changes as time goes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130983" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:59:13.263" Title="Stackoverflow Statistics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32417" CreationDate="2009-12-09T19:56:05.330" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Must be escaped; nice that it happens to be optional in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/60211/auto-escape-url-when-entering-with-hyperlink-button-ctrll/82263#82263&quot;&gt;as of recently&lt;/a&gt;, problem characters will automatically be escaped when entering a link via the button (or Ctrl-L).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-11T13:58:30.097" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:58:30.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32466" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:08:11.563" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;Implement a Tag Black List&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32461/how-should-i-re-request-a-retag&quot;&gt;how to re-request a retage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It stemmed from the fact that despite Visual-Studio-2008 being the preferred tag, VS2008 was still being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27787/retag-vs2008-to-visual-studio-2008&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; mentions that &quot;autorenaming&quot; is better than tag aliasing. I'd agree with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see a dictionary of unsuitable tags and their associated acceptable tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list could be managed by either moderators or 10,000+ level users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the auto-rename should occur after the user types space or after they press submit. I think that it should display a notice mentioning that one of their tags was autorenamed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:20:09.577" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T20:22:13.393" Title="Tag Autorenaming" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32465" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:13:48.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a stellar idea, but may be hard to implement and manage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have to avoid cycles, and could even be limited to only one level (ie, you can't have an entry for VS --&gt; Visual Studio if Visual Studio is not a 'root tag'). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a single level there can be no cycles, and while the table would have a lot of entries, it should be very quick as the &quot;less desirable tag&quot; is unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Even more difficult to implement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you allowed multi level tags, though, it could be better used for search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VS8 --&gt; Visual-Studio-8 --&gt; Visual Studio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where both Visual-Studio-8 and Visual Studio are marked as root (ie, acceptable) tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if someone searches for Visual Studio in the search box, it might give the option to 'expand the search' and follow the tag dictionary outwards to Visual-Studio-8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T20:20:09.577" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:20:09.577" />
  <row Id="32468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:29:41.883" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;People come to SOFU and post questions. They get comments and answers to their questions, go away and try those, and often are never heard from again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They forget to come back and mark questions as answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solution: Automatically send users emails once per week/month regarding questions that are still open (unanswered). In the email, provide 2 links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to answer directly (using a special URL); no login needed perhaps?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to the question so they can edit/update it if it is still open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will help to keep all SOFU sites clean and make those who are active contributors feel relevant and fulfilled :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138375" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T22:18:06.070" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T22:18:06.070" Title="Email users to notify them of their unanswered questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32474" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:38:59.837" Score="10" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a programmer so I'm happiest on Stack Overflow, but I also manage my own server so I sometimes ask questions on Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1862716/powershell-challenge&quot;&gt;&#xA;powershell question&lt;/a&gt; on Server Fault after being challenged by a sys admin friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a simple scripting problem. My friend needs to list all the users' folders in order of their last initial, which is the last letter of the folder name. My friend is full of the joys of Linux and thought that this was the only operating system that could solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought powershell would be able to do this, but I couldn't figure out how. To me this seemed like a sys admin problem so I asked the question on server fault. I got an excellent answer, was happy and marked it as answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't get a message saying my question had been migrated and no one explained to me why it had been. It just moved there a few days later and was no longer marked as answered. As it happened this lead to it getting some more answers, many of which improved on the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it probably worked out well for me, but I still don't understand my mistake. I want to use the sites effectively, but I don't think I understand the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are powershell commands and the powershell language not a suitable topic for server fault? In which case, I would like to have been told this when I tagged the question with powershell.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a programmer should I not be using Server Fault, and if I do should I put more effort into justifying why it is a server related question?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to get some warning about the migration. Ideally I would like to have had it suggested to me with a justification and then been able to migrate it myself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I choose not to move it, but loads of people agree it should be moved, then I would like to be warned and told why so I don't make the same mistake again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still not sure if this is a Server Fault or Stack Overflow Question. I got excellent answers on both sites, so I'm doubly confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I'm new to meta, so sorry if this is a boring question and has already been asked loads of times. I did search first and I couldn't find anything that answered my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139517" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T00:43:56.600" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T00:43:56.600" Title="Wondering why I was migrated" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32471" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:42:02.797" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Powershell is actually in the gray area of being appropriate for both sites, programming for sys-admins.  The 3000's on each of the sites should give it more slack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:42:02.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:45:07.517" Score="3" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;The careers site lets you link your profile with stackoverflow reputation.  But it would probably be more useful to link to an ohloh account, which lists your experience in various programming languages and contributions to projects, along with sample code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140160" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T13:27:07.550" Title="ohloh CV links?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32471" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:49:32.423" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I un-migrated it. Since it's in the gray (grey?) area, I left it on both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a bit disappointing that 5 SF users felt it needed to be migrated. I don't agree... when in doubt, don't migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-09T21:38:32.397" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:38:32.397" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32477" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:50:00.737" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep having people complaining about how my accept rate is so low on SO, the reason for this was when I first joined SO I thought well if we want to make a useful site then, however good the answers may be to a question, if it is not the exact solution I used then I would not choose it as an answer. My logic was that I could not prove that the answer really would work, I could only know that the final solution I found to my problem worked though it may not have been found through SO. Thus I would not start a plague of possibly faulty answers for some poor unsuspecting googler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that being said, how should I pick an answer, just by which one sounds best or has the most votes? That sounds riddled with flaws to me as nobody did the leg work to verify whether or not that answer really would work in my specific situation. At the same time I don't want people to think I am a jerk for not accepting answers... &lt;strong&gt;I understand there is a balance between social time and real technology but it ought to favor reality not stroking of egos.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what gives? Is it really bad to have a low accept rate if none of the answers were the real solution used and thus I could not prove that they are REAL answers? Or should I appeal to the masses and try to make people happy? To me that defeats the purpose of the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136052" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:29:27.267" Title="Choosing an answer, based on the actual implemented solution or... what?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="32476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32473" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:50:05.433" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can certainly add as many hyperlinks as you like within the profile itself..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:50:05.433" />
  <row Id="32477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32475" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:54:04.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can accept a very good answer that got you partway to your solution, and note it with an &lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; line in your question, or comment to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I'll give an answer that I know isn't the complete solution, because I'm sure it might give the needed clue to the OP that will help him solve his problem (and yes, it has worked before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:54:04.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32475" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:56:21.570" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have an answer that worked, and its not one of the ones posted, then post your answer and accept it two days later. That way we all know what worked for you and your answer may help the next poor soul in the same situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:56:21.570" />
  <row Id="32479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32462" CreationDate="2009-12-09T20:59:13.263" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/graphs&quot;&gt;graphs&lt;/a&gt; tag provides a number of statistics resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T20:59:13.263" />
  <row Id="32481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19018" CreationDate="2009-12-09T21:00:50.997" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag blacklist needs to have another column to hold the tag that the bad one should be replaced with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when someone submits a question with a bad tag, it can be replaced with a message, &quot;The tag [badtag] is invalid and was replaced with [goodtag].&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also show up in the tag hints as the user types, because by the time they've typed &quot;vs&quot; &quot;visual-studio&quot; won't show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:00:50.997" />
  <row Id="32482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32468" CreationDate="2009-12-09T21:05:49.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was getting irritated by this just this morning. In my case, it was questions that people ask and never revisit to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;respond to any questions raised through comments (ie. if the OP needed to provide more information so that a complete answer could be given)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accept any answer at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;give any kind of indication that they're still &lt;em&gt;interested&lt;/em&gt; in an answer to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is even after the OP has returned to Stack Overflow (based on the &quot;last seen&quot; on their user page), and in some cases asked other questions and accepted other answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to leave browser tabs open where I've answered a question but no accepted answer has been selected yet. In just a few days I often have a dozen or more tabs still open. The difference in level of engagement between what I do and what the OP does is frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:05:49.943" />
  <row Id="32484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32584" CreationDate="2009-12-09T21:19:41.620" Score="1" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an exception which contains backtick (`) characters.  I can't find a way to escape the character from markdown so that I can show the message as normal text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exception marked as inline code with double backticks to preserve the singles in the content:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;Unable to cast object of type '&amp;lt;JoinIterator&amp;gt;d__61`4[System.Data.DataRow,System.Data.DataRow,System.Int32,&amp;lt;&amp;gt;f__AnonymousType0`1[System.Int32]]' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[System.Data.DataRow]'.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens if I don't do the above (markdown treats two of the three backicks as formatting commands):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Unable to cast object of type '&amp;lt;JoinIterator&gt;d__61&lt;code&gt;4[System.Data.DataRow,System.Data.DataRow,System.Int32,&amp;lt;&amp;gt;f__AnonymousType0&lt;/code&gt;1[System.Int32]]' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[System.Data.DataRow]'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136100" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T12:01:45.373" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T12:01:45.373" Title="How to display mutliple literal backticks in a paragraph outside of inline code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32468" CreationDate="2009-12-09T21:20:00.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is done, it should be done sparingly.  I have a few questions that will never have an accepted answer, and several esoteric questions which have not yet received an acceptable answer.  It would be nice to receive one reminder perhaps 7 days after posting the question, but not a reminder every day/week/month for the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that - this is why we vote on posts.  If the author never selects an answer, the community has already ranked them to some degree, and this should be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to find out which question you have with no selected answer, go to your user page, and check out questions where the number of answers is in a white font - indicating no accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that - I fail to see why a question with no accepted answer is a problem.  It would be nice if we received that feedback, and the reputation would be nice for whoever had the best answer, but with the voting and with several answers, I just don't see a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they come back over time, they will eventually learn and modify their behavior.  If not, then what has really been lost?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:20:00.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T21:21:41.273" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does &amp;ldquo;Reputation&amp;rdquo; work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a couple of mentions on meta of a 100 rep point penalty if your question is closed for particular reasons (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31865/what-are-all-the-ways-to-gain-lose-rep-if-all-your-posts-are-cw/31875#31875&quot;&gt;here is one&lt;/a&gt;).  I've checked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;the official FAQ&lt;/a&gt; but I can't see this mentioned anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody explain the definitive set of cases that can result in a 100 point rep loss penalty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once it is clarified I suggest maybe updating &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;this particular FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138758" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:21:41.273" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T21:41:23.123" Title="Excluding down votes, what are the situations where you can lose rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="32487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32475" CreationDate="2009-12-09T21:29:27.267" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends.  If there is an answer that is very close to the solution you came up with or that was most helpful, then I would accept that answer and leave a comment explaining how you had to deviate, and why, from the answer that you are accepting.  If no answer really helped, or helped enough, then I would post your own solution as an answer and accept after the waiting period.  In both cases you are annotating your solution for later readers.  In the first, you are rewarding the person who was most accurate and helpful as well.  Of course, if there is an acceptable, accurate answer, the you should accept it.  If there are multiple, then use your own criteria for which one to choose (first, containing extra info, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:29:27.267" />
  <row Id="32488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32484" CreationDate="2009-12-09T21:41:21.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could format it as a code block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unable to cast object of type '&amp;lt;JoinIterator&amp;gt;d__61`4[System.Data.DataRow,System.Data.DataRow,System.Int32,&amp;lt;&amp;gt;f__AnonymousType0`1[System.Int32]]' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[System.Data.DataRow]'.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although admittedly, with a single long line like this, it's not very easy to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T21:41:21.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32515" CreationDate="2009-12-09T22:07:27.383" Score="16" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Stack Exchange sites, there seem to be visible instructions for most things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formatting code and text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there aren't any instructions or guidance for what questions to close for 3000 rep users.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4861/socloseexample.png&quot; alt=&quot;Close example&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that there be guidance here for when a question be closed.  Particularly things like: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32471/wondering-why-i-was-migrated/32474#32474&quot;&gt;When in doubt, don't&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26305/why-dont-stack-overflow-users-still-know-how-to-close-questions-appropriately/27313#27313&quot;&gt;Did you read the question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we get some guidance for the almost ~2000 SO users out there who can vote to close?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:56:22.050" LastActivityDate="2010-12-03T22:56:22.050" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:23.720" Title="Closing/Migrating question instructions/guidance" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22507" CreationDate="2009-12-09T22:31:49.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've voted to close and answered before, and the primary reason is that I want to give the user some help, even though the question is doomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often I'll leave a comment instead, but sometimes the answer won't fit, and other times I feel the best spot is in the answer space, since that's going to be slightly more visible to a newbie to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason, so far, that has been given for NOT doing this is that one might gain rep, and then deny others the chance to do so as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it's a strawman argument - once the question is closed it's on the path for deletion, and once deleted it will no longer count towards your rep, which will change when your rep is recalculated.  Some account for that fact by wiki-ing their answer so they don't have as much a rep loss later, but it doesn't matter whether it's thrown away immediately, or lost later during a rep recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's no reason not the help the poster out, while also saying, &quot;Sorry, this isn't the right site for this question...&quot;  It's not a paradox.  It's not terribly rep-whorish.  And there's no need to put in place a technical fix for something that is already handled very well by the existing mechanisms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T22:31:49.460" />
  <row Id="32494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32495" CreationDate="2009-12-09T22:47:06.827" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22044/can-we-have-a-profile-url-at-so&quot;&gt;Can we have a profile URL at SO?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get nice looking url to SO user account for external linking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is to include link to my SO account in CV or in blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://linkedin.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;linkedin.com&lt;/a&gt; provides urls in the form of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://&amp;lt;country&amp;gt;.linkedin.com/in/&amp;lt;username&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is similar url available for SO account? I noticed that the url to my SO account has a number in it, is this something like user id - e.g. will it ever change or am I safe to use that as external link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/&amp;lt;somenumber&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;username&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140169" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T23:15:36.573" ClosedDate="2009-12-09T23:21:14.970" Title="Clean url to SO account for external linking?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32494" CreationDate="2009-12-09T22:48:33.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22044/can-we-have-a-profile-url-at-so&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22044/can-we-have-a-profile-url-at-so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130538" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T22:48:33.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32490" CreationDate="2009-12-09T22:59:56.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, a couple of notes: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There actually is guidance there. There are tooltips on every reason. However, it's not detailed guidance, I'll grant that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There actually is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;detailed discussion here on Meta&lt;/a&gt; that goes over all the close reasons and what they actually mean, why they should be used, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;When in doubt, don't&quot; refers specifically to &lt;em&gt;migration&lt;/em&gt;. I agree with that for migration, because that's a very big step to take. However, for non-migratory &lt;strike&gt;swallows&lt;/strike&gt; answers, closure is not necessarily bad (if done for the correct reasons).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there ought to be some specific guidance about each close reason. I'm thinking this question right here could provide those answers. When I get home this evening and have more time, I'll post a CW answer here with the guidelines I try to follow. (It'll be CW not to avoid downvotes, but so that as a community we can get to a decent set of guidelines.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone else wants to start that process, then I say go for it, and I'll just pile on to that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T22:59:56.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:23.720" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32473" CreationDate="2009-12-09T23:10:47.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would a site link to a third-party site instead of its own sister site?  Only if there was some kind of business deal in place, and it didn't compete with the home-grown site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T23:10:47.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22044" CreationDate="2009-12-09T23:14:13.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider making yourself a customized &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bit.ly&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tinyurl&lt;/a&gt; to point to your StackOverflow URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T23:14:13.563" />
  <row Id="32499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32494" CreationDate="2009-12-09T23:15:36.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider making yourself a customized &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bit.ly&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tinyurl&lt;/a&gt; to point to your StackOverflow URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23199" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T23:15:36.573" />
  <row Id="32500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22044" CreationDate="2009-12-09T23:23:26.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clean url to SO account for external linking?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The url is &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/&amp;lt;uid&amp;gt;/&amp;lt;anything&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The uid is fixed, and will never change for a given account.  Anything can be placed after the uid - SO ignores it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Customized URLs beyond that are not currently possible because everything on SO is tied to the UID, not the username, and there may in fact be several &quot;John F&quot; in the system.  To implement something like this would require a system like the Careers website, where you have to reserve your URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While technically possible, there is no compelling reason (yet) why the current UID system won't meet everyone's needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-09T23:23:26.447" />
  <row Id="32501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-09T23:53:34.310" Score="-1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many Stack Overflow users live and work in Malaysia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling to find a community of developers that I can meet on a regular basis to talk about programming, programming related issues, concerns, techniques, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of some that already exist or would be interested in starting one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148786" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T17:01:51.567" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T17:01:51.567" ClosedDate="2009-12-10T16:35:34.340" Title="Where are all the Malaysians at?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;demographics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15991" CreationDate="2009-12-10T00:20:30.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are now 114,119 users, with 63,216 users having 10 or more reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is exactly one user with exactly 10 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is notable that about 1/2 of the SO population is under 10 reputation both now and when this question was first posted.  Keep in mind that SO continuously removes inactive accounts from the system, so even those under 10 rep people are not simply old accounts started over a year ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T00:20:30.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32501" CreationDate="2009-12-10T00:59:28.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On behalf of the StackOverflow users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you cannot find anyone to meet in 3d, remember that we'll still be here. We're ready for nerd-talk any time. Our Malay sucks, but we make up for that by being plentiful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck with your quest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terima kasih sama-samaaa &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T00:59:28.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32501" CreationDate="2009-12-10T01:07:23.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are you doing &lt;a href=&quot;http://mysql.meetup.com/298/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;January 5th&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T01:07:23.407" />
  <row Id="32505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32490" CreationDate="2009-12-10T01:43:45.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we do need instruction. Just today I've noticed quite a number of posts that are at 4 close votes yet (in my opinion) don't deserve to be closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;legitimate (if poorly posed) question about the difference between semaphores and monitors &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1873646/semaphores-and-monitors&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1873646/semaphores-and-monitors&lt;/a&gt; (oh hey it was improved, thanks Shog9!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't think this one needs to be migrated anywhere: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1872998/does-pipe-have-to-write-temporary-file&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1872998/does-pipe-have-to-write-temporary-file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just because the answer is &quot;No&quot; doesn't mean it's not a real question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1871350/is-there-a-way-i-can-disable-copy-paste-and-printing-of-the-pdf-file-generated-us&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1871350/is-there-a-way-i-can-disable-copy-paste-and-printing-of-the-pdf-file-generated-us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Regarding code licensing, it's not a technical question but I think it's certainly &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1874956/searching-for-non-commercial-license-for-source-code&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1874956/searching-for-non-commercial-license-for-source-code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also definitely programming related, it's a question that programmers everywhere struggle with: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1875863/should-you-include-a-much-requested-feature-that-is-fundamentally-wrong&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1875863/should-you-include-a-much-requested-feature-that-is-fundamentally-wrong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This one has at least three embedded questions, but every one of them is valid in its own right: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1864875/how-can-i-convert-java-python-and-c-code-into-standalone-executables&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1864875/how-can-i-convert-java-python-and-c-code-into-standalone-executables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Missing some critical information about platform, but otherwise a perfectly reasonable question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1871290/how-do-i-present-an-open-folder-selection-dialog-in-perl&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1871290/how-do-i-present-an-open-folder-selection-dialog-in-perl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect that some of these will quickly get the one more close vote they need to be closed. I suppose at that point, the close user names are published so we'll know who needs some remedial education on close etiquette. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T01:43:45.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:23.720" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25352" CreationDate="2009-12-10T02:14:46.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize this was declined, but I think the SO folks are missing a very important point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps to have some motivation for people to answer questions, over-and-above &quot;wanting to help people&quot; and trying to earn points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I think the issue of public exposure, clutter, etc, could be mitigated or eliminated by allowing users to control when the icon was visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:14:46.870" />
  <row Id="32507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32514" CreationDate="2009-12-10T02:15:10.473" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;... the one that you get when you earn a badge or are new to a site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only a little touch, but it looks great and it's my favourite part of the UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know how to program that style of pop-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138209" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:37:41.713" Title="How does stack exchange/stack overflow create the pop-up banner at the top of the page...?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;ajax&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2009-12-10T02:21:13.347" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Background: why &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/29/101121.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ctrl-Alt should never be used for keyboard shortcuts&lt;/a&gt;. There are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; other potentially-troublesome characters... indeed, on the keyboard I use, almost every AltGr+letter combination is used for typing various symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If WMD must use the Ctrl key for shortcuts (and it's questionable, in a browser), it should check that the Alt key is not also held down before triggering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:21:13.347" />
  <row Id="32509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32846" CreationDate="2009-12-10T02:24:33.613" Score="33" ViewCount="1898" Body="&lt;p&gt;When for the first time&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A new question I answer&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This haiku appears:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Little slab of meat&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In a wash of clear jelly&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Now I heat the pan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a message is&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Very strange; is anyone&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Seeing the same thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have not  seen it again.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Came and went like the wind!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why I am blessed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132143" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T14:22:48.470" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T14:22:48.470" Title="Has Stack Overflow been haiku-hacked?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;haiku&gt;&lt;hacked&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="32512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-10T02:31:19.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No Stackoverflow is not &quot;hacked&quot;, its a Spam Haiku. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50262" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:31:19.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32507" CreationDate="2009-12-10T02:37:41.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659199/how-to-show-popup-message-like-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;, of all places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T02:37:41.713" />
  <row Id="32515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32490" CreationDate="2009-12-10T02:53:42.633" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close reasons have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;discussed before on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, to some effect. And while most of us who are trigger-happy with the close button know what they &lt;em&gt;mean,&lt;/em&gt; I think there does exist a general lack of guidance on &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; they should be applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What Does &quot;Closing&quot; a Question Mean, Anyway?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing a question is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an inherently negative activity. It should not be considered so, by either those closing, nor the original poster (OP). Instead, &quot;closing&quot; a question should be considered a form of sequestering -- placing the question in a state of Limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not only possible, but in the right circumstances, &lt;em&gt;likely,&lt;/em&gt; that the question can be reopened. It may just need input from the original poster -- clarification of the question, differentiation between it and the supposed duplicates, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing a question merely prevents new answers from being added. The question, and any existing answers, can still be edited, voted and commented upon. This allows activity to flow, which in turn allows the community to determine if the question should remain closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is closed, read below and see if -- &lt;em&gt;objectively&lt;/em&gt; -- you can understand why it was closed. Over time, you'll likely find that you agree with many of the community's closures, and when your rep allows, you may very well end up joining the cleanup crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the rules I personally follow. I have made this post Community Wiki, with the &lt;em&gt;expectation&lt;/em&gt; that other question closers will actually edit these rules, and edit out all of the mentions of &quot;my&quot; guidelines. My sincere hope is that, perhaps, this can become something of a &quot;community consensus&quot; guideline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without further ado:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Exact Duplicate&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with another identical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, this means that the questions are, for lack of a better term, identical. I do not believe in deleting duplicates, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32311/do-not-delete-duplicates&quot;&gt;they serve an explicit SEO (and human search) benefit&lt;/a&gt;. However, if a new question covers absolutely the same ground as an old one (or the combination of two or more, e.g. a question asking for C# books &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; blogs is a duplicate of two existing questions), then I definitely believe the new one should be closed so that there is one canonical location for the answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if the answers from another question adequately answer the new one, or any answers posted to the new one are likely to be duplicates of answers from the old one, you're probably looking at a duplicate -- even if it isn't an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Should This Not Be Used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the obvious, &quot;if it's not a duplicate,&quot; I actually think this gets overused on Meta Stack Overflow quite a bit with &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; questions. Similar or related questions are not necessarily &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; questions. For example, the question this precise answer relates to could have been closed as a &quot;duplicate&quot; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;5018&lt;/a&gt;, but thankfully (thus far) wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before rushing to a &quot;duplicate&quot; judgment, ask yourself if there is something about the new version which makes it unique, different from the old. Can you envision &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; answers that would apply to the new one and not the old? If so, then its answers likely &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; have value separate from the old question; it is not a duplicate, and refrain from the closure vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Off-Topic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions on {site} are expected to generally relate to {topic}. This question is very far afield from {topic}.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be self-explanatory, but for many people, it is for some reason confusing. We'll use SO, and programming, as our example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programming-related questions are those specifically related to code. Questions which relate to being a working programmer (&quot;as a programmer, how do you deal with a non-technical boss,&quot; etc.) are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; programming-related. One could easily substitute the words &quot;accountant&quot; and &quot;non-mathematical&quot; for &quot;programmer&quot; and &quot;non-technical&quot; and get essentially the same responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Programmer-related&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; the same as &lt;em&gt;programming-related.&lt;/em&gt; If it's not about code, it could very well be a candidate for closure under this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Should This Not Be Used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gray areas. If you have enough reasonable doubt that it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be on-topic, then leave it alone. If it should be closed, others with more experience will handle it for you. For example, issues with IDEs or questions on the use of source control are not &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; programming-related, but the people most qualified to answer will be on Stack Overflow, as these tools are used primarily in the practice of programming. So leave them be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Subjective and Argumentative&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's impossible to objectively answer this question, and the question was asked in a confrontational, argumentative way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody's favorite. It's been the subject of many a battle, and even some advice on how to game the system. Here's the thing: Note the word &quot;and&quot; in the title. In technology, many things are subjective. The way you approach problem &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; may not be the way you approach problem &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;, even if they're remarkably similar, due to a variety of potential constraints that may not be verbalized in the question. Also, certain subjective questions are not only on-topic, but actually valuable to the community -- justifications of languages, platforms, operating systems, etc., are all (in my mind) actually valuable to their respective communities -- done &lt;em&gt;once.&lt;/em&gt; It's a good thing to have a canonical location of pros and cons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when should this be used? When the tone of the question is in fact both subjective &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; argumentative. &quot;Tell me why PHP doesn't suck&quot; would qualify. &quot;List the pros and cons of using PHP&quot; would not. In many cases, editing out the OP's argumentative stance may salvage the question -- however, once that is done, a careful duplicate check should also be endeavored, as chances are good that at least one site in the Trilogy has answered the question at that point. Caveat: some arguments are unavoidable, no matter how politely the question is asked; if the question boils down to Tabs vs. Spaces, Emacs vs. Vim, Linux vs. Windows, Mac vs. PC, etc... Then leaving it open is just an open invitation for another skirmish in these endless wars. Either find a way to change the focus of the question, or vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Should This Not Be Used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question is only subjective, but may hold value to the community, and is not a duplicate of an existing question. On Stack Overflow and Super User, I personally believe this isn't likely to happen until some more brand-new technologies come out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not a Real Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous and vague, and cannot be answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal favorite. I wish it was available on Meta Stack Overflow, to be honest. Many people probably consider this merely a &quot;catch-all,&quot; but I don't. Sometimes, an asker merely needs a bit of motivation to finish his thought, and closing can be that &quot;stick&quot;. To me, this should be used when one or all of the following conditions are met:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There really isn't a question hidden in the post. (&quot;Windows sucks!&quot; is not a real question.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is so ambiguous that the OP's intent cannot logically and reasonably be inferred. A certain &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31776/why-do-we-tag-questions&quot;&gt;recent question on tagging&lt;/a&gt; fell into this category for me; I was its only close vote. (Even though Meta Stack Overflow does not have &quot;not a real question,&quot; I voted to close anyway because of this bullet point.) To me, the Golden Rule of editing is to &lt;em&gt;never change the OP's intent.&lt;/em&gt; If the question is worded so vaguely that intent cannot be inferred with 100% certainty (for example, there are multiple possible, even likely, intents), you cannot edit it in good conscience -- so vote to close as &quot;not a real question&quot; instead. In this scenario, it's a good idea to comment and ask for clarification from the OP as well. If that had been done in the early stages of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32372/an-over-hasty-close&quot;&gt;certain recent controversy&lt;/a&gt;, said controversy might have been avoided. (Even though I still agree that closure was warranted there.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(more bullets to come from the community?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Should This Not Be Used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg Hewgill says it quite effectively in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance/32505#32505&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to this post: &quot;Just because the answer is &quot;No&quot; doesn't mean it's not a real question.&quot; In fact, if there is an answer, and the question is unambiguous, then guess what -- &lt;strong&gt;it's a real question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple/trivial questions &lt;strong&gt;are real questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions you consider boring &lt;strong&gt;are real questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions you can answer with a 2-second Google query &lt;strong&gt;are real questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Too Localized&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would only be relevant to a very small geographic minority, and is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be the first to admit that I don't hew to the exact definition above. I consider &quot;too localized&quot; to not only be geographically centered, but also to an extent, situationally centered. The obvious closures here would include things like, &quot;where can I find a user group on &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; in town &lt;em&gt;y.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Less obvious choices would include discussions of laws and regulations, distance working, etc. (However, an equal argument can be made in many of those that they are not {topic} related.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Should This Not Be Used?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't blindly slap this on anything that happens to be location-related. A question on where to buy replacement power cords in the south of France might be too localized, but a question on power connectors used in France wouldn't have to be (for Super User at least). Similarly, asking for help translating your program's UI into es-mx is crossing the line, but asking for help designing your UI to support localization because you plan to sell a version in Mexico isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't use this to lock out obscure topics that would otherwise be on-topic for the site. You may not care about operator precedence in Crystal Reports macros, but &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; does and sooner or later they'll get an answer (may God have mercy on their souls).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Belongs On {site}&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be used when a question is &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; intended for a different site in the Trilogy. This should &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be used when you can &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; identify &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; which site the question should be on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Configuration of a client on a Windows domain will likely belong on Server Fault.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Installing Windows on a PC will likely belong on Super User.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Developing a tool to aggregate information from various servers via WMI and ASDI will likely belong on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question about why one of the above belongs on its appropriate site clearly belongs on Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, there is some ambiguity in most of the above samples, but they all have a fairly clear home, based on the missions of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Should This Not Be Used&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm with Jeff Atwood: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32471/wondering-why-i-was-migrated/32474#32474&quot;&gt;When in doubt, &lt;strong&gt;don't migrate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Unlike other closures, migration is damned difficult to undo. Once migrated, the original question is locked, which takes closure to a new extreme by preventing commenting. Additionally, there is the possibility (actually, likelihood) that the OP does not have an account on the migrated-to site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should only be used when you are 100% certain that not only does the question not belong on the site where it was asked, but that it &lt;strong&gt;absolutely does&lt;/strong&gt; belong on the site you are targeting with the migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NONE OF THE TRILOGY SITES (including Meta Stack Overflow!) ARE DUMPING GROUNDS!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Noise or Pointless&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not add anything useful; having it present on the site is actively harmful because it distracts from other more useful questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a Meta-only close reason, and is roughly equivalent with &quot;too localized,&quot; &quot;argumentative,&quot; &quot;not a real question&quot; and the old closing reason of &quot;blatantly offensive.&quot; It's difficult to adequately define &quot;noise or pointless,&quot; but it's much like pornography: You know it when you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical examples would be full-on rants and ravings, ludicrous joke questions and spam or offensive material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Should This Not Be Used&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question is valid or legitimate, but merely controversial. Also, if the question is severely inflammatory in its current incarnation, but can be salvaged with editing into a reasonable (if potentially controversial) post, then edit before closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there we have it. A starting guide. I now open the floor to all comers. If you're about to comment and disagree, but have closure rights on one of the Trilogy sites, I implore you to edit this as well as comment. Change what I've written -- that's why this post was CW. I'm trying to get us to a decent consensus on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As C. Ross commented on my &quot;real&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance/32496#32496&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to this question, not all of those with closure rights will read this. In fact, I suspect most won't. And as Roboto mentioned in his comment on the same answer, we are fallible. But if those of us who are highly active in the edit/closure space do, and come up with a set of good guidelines, I think it will serve to benefit the community over time as we get our houses cleaned up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: Closing &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; negative, but those of us with closure power must use caution when we exercise it -- when we are just with our decisions, there is no controversy. When we are unjust and unnecessarily obstinate, the community will rebel against us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T17:19:22.117" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T17:19:22.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-10T02:53:42.633" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="32516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:20:52.143" Score="24" ViewCount="451" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my calculations are correct, about 30% of all questions asked on Stack Overflow are related to Microsoft technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I have no problem with this (although a tag filter would be great :)), but I wonder why this is so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think it's because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff and Joel are Microsoft developers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Microsoft has a huge&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; market share, and therefore most developers use Microsoft technologies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FOSS and/or Mac developers already have their own platforms&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SourceForge&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.apple.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ADC&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; According to the latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TIOBE index&lt;/a&gt;, C# is the 8th most popular programming language, with Java, C and C++ being the first three. On Stack Overflow, on the other hand, c# is the most popular tag, with java, c and c++ being the 3rd, 16th and 5th respectively. Interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Is there a similar platform for Microsoft developers? I know there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MSDN&lt;/a&gt; but I believe it's more like documentation and stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-15T12:35:43.610" LastActivityDate="2010-06-15T12:35:43.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-06-25T22:03:58.967" Title="Why is Stack Overflow so Microsoft-centric?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;microsoft&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:21:49.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's actually low considering about 80% of all computers use Microsoft technologies!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:22:50.177" Score="48" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see plenty of java, ruby, MySQL, etc questions.  But mainly it's that the community of users for the site are largely MS centric, and that's largely because they were seeded initially from readers of Jeff Atwood's and Joel Spolsky's blogs, both of whom work primarily in MS technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:23:20.423" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because the majority of people here came from following Jeff and Joel's blogs, which are MS-centric.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:23:59.923" Score="80" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Microsoft technology needs more questions answered :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:25:13.633" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Among the developer community the open source projects, which often run on linux, the web, or use Java, Ruby, PHP, etc are the ones that are &quot;cool&quot; and get a lot of attention.  But not only are the majority of the systems in the world running windows but (partly becuase of that fact) a lot of development is done on internal only projects, for which .NET is a very common choice.  Probably 90% of the software development in the world is never seen by the general public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, look at Jeff and Joels main audience..they are MS guys, so most of their audience are as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="194" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:25:43.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although C is a very popular language I'm not surprised it is only ranked 16th.  There are plenty of long standing forums and places to get information about C. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9083" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:26:52.820" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An uncharitable answer might be that Microsoft technologies need more answers or engineers need more help, so I won't suggest that one :-)  (I feel the rep points floating away)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more probable truth is that TIOBE index is not necessarily a good indicator of actual usage.  It measures the amount of visible references to a technology.  I suspect that regardless of what is says there is a large preponderance of Microsoft based development out there in the world and that is reflected on board like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:28:24.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Microsoft languages have so much packed into them, it's hard to pick it all up alone.  I'm not trying to say that other languages don't.  I know for myself it's because I am a VB.NET developer, so most of my questions/knowledge base are related to MS-centric material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:28:32.880" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24227&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast 22&lt;/a&gt; Joel said he thinks the distribution of questions is similar to distribtion of programmers developing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel:&lt;/strong&gt; But the real point was:  You mentioned VB and another - I don't want to say criticism - observation that we got from a few people was that the site seems heavily .Net oriented:  C# and .Net are the biggest categories of questions.  I actually didn't think that we were disproportionately .NET oriented.  I don't have statistics for this but I actually believe that our distribution of tags is probably pretty close to the actual distribution of working programmers in the world.  I don't think people realise just how common it is to be a C# .Net programmer because it's mostly the internal and the enterprisey applications that do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3171" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:30:34.933" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;about 30% of all questions asked on&#xA;  Stack Overflow are related to&#xA;  Microsoft technologies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that 30% of currently used technologies (world wide) are Microsoft technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1463" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2008-10-06T14:43:57.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;C# is the 8th most popular programming&#xA;  language, with Java, C and C++ being&#xA;  the first three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here &quot;most popular&quot; = &quot;most used&quot; and in that manner the numbers are correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What language is most used is defined by global market i.e. currently there are more projects that are &lt;strong&gt;maintained&lt;/strong&gt; + developed in lets say C++ than C#. This is very important thing to notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &quot;What is currently the most interesting, best supported and promising language?&quot; would give numbers that would have better explanation to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel's blogs would be the second most important thing that influence the situation I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139716" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T02:24:19.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, for PHP, which is one of the competitors on the WEB cake slices, you have very large and well established communities, large code base and the same with good articles all over the web.&#xA;People tend to stick to the community they are established in, especially if it provides all their needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised though if you will see over time a change in the distribution as a natural drift will occur towards SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And although SO creators are MS oriented, it has been a long time since I read something they wrote which was MS specific).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T02:31:34.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If my calculations are correct, about 30% of all questions asked on Stack Overflow are related to Microsoft technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really? I'd have thought it would be quite a lot higher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If StackOverflow can manage to dig out all the internal line-of-business-app developers, who would otherwise never post anything to the internet, then I'd guess the percentage will go up to much higher than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132652" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T02:39:17.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thats strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the tags, Java comes in closely behind C#.net which are not in any way mutually exclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be inclined to mention that 90% of the worlds computers are MS, therfore much of the software being developed would be for that market, which is why if you go to an unbiased forum, you would find microsoft heavy influences upon it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130760" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T02:46:17.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe its just that the Microsoft tech community is more active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't believe me? Expert opinion available &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10161100-62.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T03:28:59.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's so MS-centric for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MS Software is everywhere, 80% of all computers. Therefore 80% of devs are developing for it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MS API is retarded and complex.  Sorry, it is.  It never ceases to amaze me the amount of code that's needed to do something as simple as open the system log and append a line to it on windows (2 lines on any POSIX system with the syslog call, 3 if you count the include package line for whatever language you're using).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So many more people develop for MS so it stands to reason there's a lot more people using MS tech who will just throw their hands in the air and ask simple questions over and over without ever bothering to look for a solution themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The MSDN site is sooooo horrible to use.  I was looking at an API call and to get all the information I needed to make it work, I had to follow 3 or 4 links OFF the page this morning then jump back and forward between them all to make any sense of it.  Sometimes it's just easier to ask WTF and wait for an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T03:46:28.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think another reason is that the .Net languages are really fast moving (rapidly changing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Java by comparison has the slow-moving JCP and a lot of red-tape to go through to make language changes, making it more stable, and less likely to need questions answered. C/C++ are really old and stable too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T03:54:26.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To avoid having to battle with another huge, inconsistent and utterly depressing API, Microsoft programmers take refuge in trying to bait one another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43371" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-02-19T03:55:42.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that it stems from a lot of Jeff's followers learned about SO once it was started, and since he blogged mostly of .Net it brought the genre here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T03:26:00.160" />
  <row Id="32536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32539" CreationDate="2009-12-10T04:04:39.820" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many published authors with high popularity and credence at SO. Is there a way to query or list out all of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137294" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T01:59:41.660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T01:59:41.660" Title="What is the quickest way to find book authors among SO users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;books&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32537" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32538" CreationDate="2009-12-10T04:05:54.297" Score="2" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a site similar to Stack Overflow, but for tax-related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140176" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T04:14:12.800" Title="Alternative to Stack Overflow for tax questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32537" CreationDate="2009-12-10T04:14:12.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I found from the SE listing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.taxqueries.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tax Query StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137294" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T04:14:12.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32536" CreationDate="2009-12-10T04:16:28.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try this:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=13732&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=13732&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll get a lot of false positives (ie: &quot;Author of XXX project&quot;), but there are a lot of actual authors in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T22:53:25.900" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T22:53:25.900" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32516" CreationDate="2009-12-10T04:18:05.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you follow the traffic patterns of Stack Overflow, you'll notice that most viewership occurs during work hours (in the US at least), which leads me to believe that most users are asking questions relating to their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you assume that Microsoft has obtained a stranglehold on most corporate technology, it's easy to see why it's popular on this site as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T04:18:05.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-10T04:18:05.850" />
  <row Id="32541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32542" CreationDate="2009-12-10T04:51:38.693" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;the bounty rules&lt;/a&gt;, someone who asks a question, opens a bounty and doesn't accept an answer by the end of the bounty period can never accept an answer for that question.  If that happens, is that question still counted towards the OP's acceptance rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see it going either way; on the one hand, the OP would have had more than enough opportunity to choose an answer -- at least in theory -- but on the other hand, the usual &quot;wait and see&quot; option is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, what happens to the OP's acceptance rate if the question ends with an auto-accept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is intended to ask how SO-family sites actually do behave, not to be a discussion on how they should behave, so it's not tagged discussion or set to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T06:54:21.463" Title="What happens to accept rate if no answer is accepted for a bounty question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32541" CreationDate="2009-12-10T05:35:19.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If no answer is accepted and it's not CW it still counts towards the accept rate, and the OP will never be able to have a 100% accept rate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If auto accepted it will still count toward the accept rate, and will be counted as an accepted answer as far as I am aware (Jeff may need to confirm).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T06:54:21.463" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T06:54:21.463" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32547" CreationDate="2009-12-10T06:28:23.883" Score="-1" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;What criteria should we be applying when deciding whether questions are off-topic?  Is there any sort of rough consensus on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cf. two prior Meta discussions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10800/why-are-seo-questions-shut-down-as-not-programming-related&quot;&gt;why are SEO questions shut down as not programming related?&lt;/a&gt;; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30924/is-seo-a-sysadmin-or-developer-issue&quot;&gt;Is SEO a sysadmin or developer issue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastEditorUserId="140179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T08:55:39.747" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T08:55:39.747" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-10T08:50:34.887" Title="Which SEO questions should be closed as non-programming/non-admin?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-10T06:45:55.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The haiku is trying to tell you something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edit: without a repro, there's no help that can be provided. If you give us repro steps we all can follow, I can tell you more.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T20:53:03.653" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T20:53:03.653" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32545" CreationDate="2009-12-10T06:51:52.827" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is SEO, and there is SEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One type of SEO is about good engineering practices to make the page more accessible and discoverable, which includes proper use of meta tags, good URL rewriting and stuff like that - these are fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there is the type of SEO that basically asks &quot;How can I cheat Google's Page Rank?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is also a grey area of &quot;How can I make my site display direct links to the Download or About section on Google?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, I think the common-sense approach should apply here: If the question is about genuinely improving the site (which in almost all cases has Accessibility and Functionality improvements as a side effect), then I'm all for it, but if it's just for &quot;ranking higher&quot; (legitimate or not), then I'd vote against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T06:51:52.827" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T08:42:10.207" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you can see a box appearing telling you you can't upvote if you don't have enough rep or telling you you can't accept your own answer yet and so on (I hope you get what I'm talking about).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now you have to click inside the box to dismiss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be more user-friendly and less surprising for the user if you just had to click outside the box to dismiss it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regularly forget that I have to click inside so I click outside (the usual behavior of such overlays is to disappear when the user clicks outside imo); then nothing happens so I read the box. Then I click inside to close it. But it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000377.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Makes me think&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't having to specify how to close the box a sign of bad design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134355" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:37:16.863" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:37:16.863" Title="Click outside the box to dismiss instead of having to click inside" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30924" CreationDate="2009-12-10T08:53:44.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've posted a fairly closely related community wiki, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32545/which-seo-questions-should-be-closed-as-non-programming-non-admin&quot;&gt;Which SEO questions should be closed as non-programming/non-admin&lt;/a&gt;, raising the same issue, but is more about seeking a consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T08:53:44.133" />
  <row Id="32550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32548" CreationDate="2009-12-10T08:58:40.117" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clicking within the box has one behavior: dismissing the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking outside the box is &amp;hellip; indeterminate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I click the upvote arrow on another post? Does that dismiss the box, or cast a vote? Or both? What if I click the &quot;expand comments&quot; action? Or the &quot;Post Your Answer&quot; button?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you've &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000377.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;made me think&lt;/a&gt; again! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T08:58:40.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T09:24:18.400" Score="4" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28080/why-does-careers-location-field-change-jyvaskyla-to-jyvaskyla&quot;&gt;Why does careers location field change Jyv&amp;#228;skyl&amp;#228; to Jyvaskyla?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I type &quot;Moscow, Russia&quot; in careers.stackoverflow.com, it corrects me to &quot;Moscow, Moskva Russia&quot;. What's the point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moskva is Russian reading of the Russian capital which is known as Moscow in English speaking world. It is a dedicated federal subject, not the part of Moscow Oblast. Also there is no other moscows in Russia. So &quot;Moscow, Russia&quot; is enough. Same goes for &quot;St. Petersburg, Russia&quot;. Same, I think, is for all federal submissive cities around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140187" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T09:53:51.297" ClosedDate="2009-12-18T08:27:37.097" Title="Where in the world is &quot;Moscow, Moskva Russia&quot;?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;geography&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32548" CreationDate="2009-12-10T09:45:15.197" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely, definitely not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was what User Voice does, or at least did - if you were going across multiple tabs, and happened to click outside the box, it would dismiss the dialog box - even if you had important text in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's far too easy to catch clicks which are nothing to do with a dialog - if they're outside the box, they shouldn't affect the box IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T09:45:15.197" />
  <row Id="32553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32555" CreationDate="2009-12-10T09:46:05.803" Score="-2" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28827/should-users-be-discouraged-from-asking-new-questions-until-theyve-accepted-a-ce&quot;&gt;Should users be discouraged from asking new questions until they&amp;rsquo;ve accepted a certain % or deleted old unaccepted questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a suggestion - but have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1879494/hi-i-want-to-have-place-of-this-mohdibrahim-tasal-just-mohdibrahim-in-c-clo&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question - this user has been given some good answers to their questions and have given nothing back to the community offering them help... it clearly annoys people within that community - look at the comments!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe users who have asked enough questions to have an accept rate calculated need to attain a minimum acceptance level, say 25% before asking any more questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;just a thought...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Thanks all for the feedback - I understand that the original suggestion was a thumping bad one, for the reasons given...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as you were, everybody - sorry to have bothered you ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135955" LastEditorUserId="135955" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T18:30:34.523" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:30:34.523" ClosedDate="2009-12-12T08:13:33.480" Title="Don't allow people with very low accept rates to ask questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2009-12-10T09:50:40.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the same behavior. Of course, you can work around this by typing &lt;code&gt;Left Alt&lt;/code&gt; + NumPad &lt;code&gt;0&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;6&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;4&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136323" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T09:50:40.883" />
  <row Id="32555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32553" CreationDate="2009-12-10T09:51:51.627" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepting an answer shouldn't be a &lt;em&gt;requirement&lt;/em&gt; for participation. Yes, it should be encouraged - and it already is - but I see no point in raising the barrier here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some people who dislike accepting answers for personal reasons, and while I may disagree with them, I don't want to punish them by stopping them from asking more questions - particularly if those questions are good, and get good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from anything else, I think people would just create new accounts, at which point we've gained nothing but account fragmentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T09:51:51.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32551" CreationDate="2009-12-10T09:53:51.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers uses Yahoo Geo DB (via YQL) to get geographical names. That would be the address for your request or question. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28080/why-does-careers-location-field-change-jyvaskyla-to-jyvaskyla&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; too for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T09:53:51.297" />
  <row Id="32557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32553" CreationDate="2009-12-10T10:02:47.253" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This only annoys people who are after the reputation. If you don't like those questions, don't answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that generally there's a connection between having a low acceptance rate and low quality questions, but I'm also certain that there are some exceptions who ask difficult questions. Such a rule would punish those users too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T10:02:47.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32553" CreationDate="2009-12-10T10:05:04.927" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jon about &quot;accepting an answer shouldn't be a requirement for participation&quot;, but this user not only doesn't accept answers, he never votes, never responds to requests for more info. He just copy/pastes the code and goes for his next question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there should be &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to prevent users like this, but I'm not sure what can be done about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T10:05:04.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32563" CreationDate="2009-12-10T10:12:12.917" Score="-3" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello All,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when i was browsing through the tags and start reading a question under a specific tag, i wasn't able to directly switch to my other interesting tag as i don't find my interesting tags available on that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be a panel in the right side that is always visible with my interesting tags which will be easier to navigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3285/interestingg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T11:16:33.280" Title="Interesting Tags in Individual question page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32560" CreationDate="2009-12-10T11:16:33.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have the following options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open up questions in tabs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click Back on your browser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alt + ⇦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're asking for more elements to fill out your screen for the sake of saving yourself some simple actions. Why do you want more clutter on your screen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T11:16:33.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T12:51:03.203" Score="0" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or is the the sof.modos.org update script not working?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139832" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T12:51:03.203" ClosedDate="2009-12-10T15:57:05.970" Title="Update script broken?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32553" CreationDate="2009-12-10T13:02:37.770" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've deleted all those comments, and e-mailed at least one of the authors to kindly be civil to other users. Accepting answers is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a requirement for the site. Desirable, yes; demanded, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being polite, however, &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt;. So far, the only fault I see is in the comment-posters. The question was originally poorly written, but that was tidied up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll be open here: I generally delete &lt;em&gt;rude&lt;/em&gt; comments about people's accept rate on sight; apart from other things, comments about accept rates are the &lt;strong&gt;single biggest&lt;/strong&gt; cause of comment flags (that I've seen, at least). Politely worded comments would be broadly acceptable, but they are very rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T13:07:39.333" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T13:07:39.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32473" CreationDate="2009-12-10T13:27:07.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeff mentions, you can add a link to your profile already.  You can even display one of the Ohloh-provided badges.  However, I think it might be ideal to display the badge below the StackOverflow/ServerFault/SuperUser profile links on the right as I believe they are complementary.  Having a high StackOverflow reputation shows that you can &quot;talk the talk&quot;, a high Ohloh ranking indicates, to some extent, that you can &quot;walk the walk&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net/api/getting%5Fstarted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ohloh API&lt;/a&gt; for retrieving information about users and projects.  That might be the basis for a more sophisticated integration, but I'm not sure what form that might take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T13:27:07.550" />
  <row Id="32569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32571" CreationDate="2009-12-10T13:54:27.207" Score="5" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I received the maximum amount of points possible on StackOverflow - &lt;strong&gt;199&lt;/strong&gt; (?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered questions and got 21 up votes 1 down vote and down-voted one answer.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it sounds a bit picky but why didn't I receive 200 points (and a badge)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11361" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T13:59:08.803" Title="Why my daily reputation capped at 199 points?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32553" CreationDate="2009-12-10T13:55:25.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site admins already have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants&quot;&gt;a policy&lt;/a&gt; for dealing with people whose participation is so poor as to be a problem. These individuals are a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; small proportion of the population.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merely having a low acceptance rate is not enough to warrant being labeled as &quot;giving nothing back&quot;.  A few snarky comments are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an accurate measure of the community's opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's criteria (from the Q linked above) for &quot;Problematic&quot; users are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asks dozens to hundreds of questions over a period of 3-6 months (or more).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions are consistently of low quality and hard to understand, requiring major editing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extremely low answer accept rate (below 10%).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No increase in quality (effort expended to make questions good, clear, and useful) over time between oldest questions and newest questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extremely low answer count (0-10). User does not &quot;give back&quot; by occasionally trying to help other programmers answer their questions, only &quot;takes&quot; by asking questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T13:55:25.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32569" CreationDate="2009-12-10T13:59:08.803" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only recieved 199 points because you downvoted once (bringing your rep down 1 point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have still hit the cap and you'll recieve your &lt;code&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/code&gt; badge in a few hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T13:59:08.803" />
  <row Id="32573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32575" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:03:03.353" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there trends or stats on quality of answers for audiences in SO/SU/SF and if there are any relationships among their users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious because usually I get decent answers on SF. I don't often go to SO, but am afraid of posting to SU because it seems to feel as if it's the place for people who are smart enough to overclock their CPU's but can't take the time to Google for answers first, but maybe that was just a bad impression I had. I tried posting a question to SU about a Vista screen lock issue, and it had 9 views, no answers. If I tried putting it on SF I know that I'll get it migrated and flamed, even though the issue occurred on a system I had to repair at work for another user that was driving me nuts (the issue...and Vista, not the user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That got me wondering about whether there are any numbers that (in)validate my feeling that generally there are different amounts of quality answers among the three groups and that it affects your chances of actually getting help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132770" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:30:32.617" Title="Is There a Difference in Quality of Answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answer-quality&gt;&lt;trends&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32573" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:09:04.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to say, first of all because &quot;quality&quot; is a completely subjective measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that basic difficulty, no, there are no metrics for measuring anything like &quot;quality&quot;, so there's nothing numeric that can be used to make a distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if you did have such a measure, there's no way to account for the simple differences in the breadth and nature of the topic of each site.  That is, it may be the case the programming and systems administration questions are &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; more precise and technical than general computer questions, so how would you account for that bias?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything more would be anecdotal.  Perhaps others would like to share anecdotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T14:19:51.153" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:19:51.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32501" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:23:05.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a Malaysian and I live and work in Malaysia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:23:05.453" />
  <row Id="32577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32573" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:23:15.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SU because it seems to feel as if it's the place for people who are smart enough to overclock their CPU's but can't take the time to Google for answers first,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because a few of the questions are poor quality (and I wouldn't say a lot are) does not mean that the answers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post a good question - get a good answer! (maybe a few bad ones at the same time!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen some bad questions on Stack Overflow as well... You can't generalise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... As for your question, it's a hard one! That is why you have no response... I just posted a comment on it - I will try to answer, but, why not try a bounty like on the other SO sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="132901" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T14:30:32.617" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:30:32.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26660" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:35:07.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I turned a question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32545/which-seo-questions-should-be-closed-as-non-programming-non-admin&quot;&gt;Which SEO questions should be closed as non-programming/non-admin?&lt;/a&gt;, into CW because I wanted it to have the possibility of becoming a consensus view, not just a collection of answers.  Hasn't happened yet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:35:07.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:38:22.790" Score="0" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can access SO with different XP accounts, but I cannot access it with the default account. My browser shows nothing. How can I resolve this issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T15:40:48.590" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T07:43:13.700" Title="I cannot access SO using the default Win XP account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:43:04.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO marks most outbound links rel=nofollow.  This would inflate the sites ranking according to PageRank (assuming out links marked nofollow count as not having an out link at all), if Google made no compensating adjustment to it (say, 90% of out links are rel=nofollow, which most quality sites don't do, hence..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:43:04.217" />
  <row Id="32582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32580" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:43:29.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Define &quot;could not access&quot;? My first guess would be that your proxy server (wininet) is not configured (if needed), or that your browser's settings (on that account) has the site filtered or crippled (cookies, script, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:43:29.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32484" CreationDate="2009-12-10T14:54:06.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened to me a few days back.  See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30345/bug-italic-text-caused-unintentionally-in-comments/30362#30362&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and its comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the short answer was to choose between using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags or escaping the backticks with backslashes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some backticks in text with pre:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;blahblahblah```foobar&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some backticks in memes with backslashes (it turns out this is another case of displays-right-in-preview-box-but-not-reality):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;freehand circles\&lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;`waffles!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown for using pre:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;blahblahblah```foobar&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T14:59:57.963" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T14:59:57.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25274" CreationDate="2009-12-10T15:38:09.423" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/12/joel-inc-stackoverflow-careers-and.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ad60c/joel%5Finc%5Fstackoverflow%5Fcareers%5Fand%5Fjumping%5Fsharks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; from SO user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393/cletus&quot;&gt;Cletus&lt;/a&gt;.  He cites a couple of articles that claim that charging candidates is illegal in the United Arab Emirates and in Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I did a bit of searching and the pages I found seem to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linkedin.com/answers/hiring-human-resources/staffing-recruiting/HRH%5FSFF/593277-54182716&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suggest&lt;/a&gt; that it is illegal in South Africa and the UK as well.  It also appears to be widely regarded as unethical, even where it is not illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I don't know whether StackOverflow would meet the definition of a recruitment agency under these laws, but it's probably worthwhile for Joel and Jeff to find out.  If they don't want to drop the fees for candidates it would perhaps be sensible to do some geolocation and block access to the service in locations were it might be illegal, and to refund fees to anybody from these locations who has already paid, in order to minimise any potential liability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I've found the relevant section of UK law: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1973/cukpga%5F19730035%5Fen%5F1#pb3-l1g8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Employment Agencies Act 1973, chapter 35&lt;/a&gt;, section 6:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6&#xA;  Restriction on charging persons seeking employment, etc&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(1)&#xA;  Except in such cases or classes of case as the Secretary of State may prescribe, a person carrying on an employment agency or an employment business shall not demand or directly or indirectly receive from any person any fee for finding him employment or for seeking to find him employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(2)&#xA;  Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1level 5 on the standard scale].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Level 5 on the standard scale is a fine of £5000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;/strong&gt; The definition of an employment agency as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1973/cukpga%5F19730035%5Fen%5F2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;section 13 of the same act&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(2)&#xA;  For the purposes of this Act “employment agency” means the business (whether or not carried on with a view to profit and whether or not carried on in conjunction with any other business) of providing services (whether by the provision of information or otherwise) for the purpose of finding workers employment with employers or of supplying employers with workers for employment by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I am not a lawyer and don't actually know what I'm talking about so you should not rely on me for legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="134654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T16:02:25.680" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T16:02:25.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T16:12:45.800" Score="0" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when listening to the last podcast today, Joel and Jeff were discussing if it is fair to use the Stackoverflow status as a means to filter potential job candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought, wouldn't it be much simpler if a job applicant can take a test in any area he/she is comfortable in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual questions from Stackoverflow could be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for instance, Person A mentions that he's very good in cobol, and so is then offered 10 cobol questions taken from SO. They could then have to answer these questions (free form), or maybe they get presented 3 answers and they have to pick their favorite and mention why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way you get a good indication what someone's level might be, instead of only taking a reputation score which some people take more time to pursue than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. When writing this down, I can see this is not very trivial to implement, but with the amazing amount of knowledge stored on SO, something like this should be feasible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T17:00:22.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-10T16:12:45.800" Title="Create a knowledge assessment test page using questions (and answers) on stackoverflow for careers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;test&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32587" CreationDate="2009-12-10T17:00:22.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that most of the questions are easily answered with 10 minutes research using an internet connection, I'm not sure the suggested implementation would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are numerous problems with custom tests, and I don't see any significant benefit.  I'd be much more inclined to let employers judge these things at the interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T17:00:22.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-10T17:00:22.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T17:18:07.400" Score="5" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just deleted an answer I wrote because it turned out I misunderstood what the OP was trying to ask.  Afterwards, I moused over the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;undelete&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; link for no particular reason and noticed that its tooltip remained &quot;vote to remove this post.&quot;  When I closed the tab and reloaded the question, the tooltip changed to the correct one, &quot;vote to restore this post.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, it's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; minor, but I figured there's no harm in reporting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T23:20:50.923" Title="Minor tooltip bug re answer deletion" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T17:22:07.813" Score="1" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14056/seo-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;SEO in stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow pages seem to do ever so well on Google - i.e. come up very high.  Several times things like this have happened to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google to search for answer to question before thinking of using SO.  Don't like the results that come up.  Ask on SO.  Keep Googling anyway in the background.  SO page starts appearing high up on Google results.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encounter a quotation in an SO answer.  Google it.  SO answer just seen is the top result.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why / how does it do so well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T17:31:12.120" ClosedDate="2009-12-10T18:01:48.380" Title="How does Stackoverflow do so very well on Google?" Tags="&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32597" CreationDate="2009-12-10T17:28:22.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because they're relevant to what's being searched for. The fact that SO is likely linked to all over the internet as a programming reference now increases the overall PageRank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it's a very active site with direct answers to the questions in the title only leads it to be ranked higher too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132246" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T17:28:22.717" />
  <row Id="32599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32597" CreationDate="2009-12-10T17:31:12.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And now I can offer my partial answer properly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're signed into Google, Google will keep track of all searches you make, and what results you click on. If Google notice that you seem to like results from SO, it'll list them higher to make them easier to find for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, let's be fair, the content at SO is very good compared with quite a number of other programming forums!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140213" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T17:31:12.120" />
  <row Id="32600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:01:52.953" Score="0" ViewCount="1427" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can I vote to close my own question? Under what circumstances would I want to do that, or should I consider doing that? Do I still get to vote to reopen even if I voted to close my own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T18:29:39.237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T19:21:09.703" Title="Why can I vote to close my own question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32604" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:07:22.583" Score="6" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a product called Sliverlight, possibly a spoof, knockoff, or add-on, or are there that many people who mistype Silverlight?  Before I go off randomly changing Sliverlight to Silverlight, I'd want to make sure it's not a real product.  I noticed there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sliverlight&quot;&gt;4 questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &quot;sliverlight&quot; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134584" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T18:21:34.243" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:21:34.243" Title="Silverlight vs Sliverlight - typo or real thing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32029" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:10:53.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed at revision 92: &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/detail?r=92&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/detail?r=92&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137403" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:10:53.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8385" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:13:28.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed at revision 93 of prettify.js: &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/diff?spec=svn93&amp;amp;r=93&amp;amp;format=side&amp;amp;path=/trunk/src/prettify.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/diff?spec=svn93&amp;amp;r=93&amp;amp;format=side&amp;amp;path=/trunk/src/prettify.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137403" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:13:28.920" />
  <row Id="32604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32601" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:14:20.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the question text, those all look like spelling errors and should be &lt;code&gt;SilverLight&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:14:20.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32600" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:22:14.383" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So that you'll be able to vote to re-open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:22:14.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32600" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:27:47.603" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you post a dupe on accident, and someone points it out, and you realize your mistake, you can help correct your mistake by voting to close your question. You wouldn't want to have a duplicate question hanging around just because there weren't enough people who could vote to close it, would you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:27:47.603" />
  <row Id="32607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32600" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:29:27.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because this is ... a democratic site? :-)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you changed your mind or the question is no longer relevant or for some other reason you want to delete it but you don't anymore have the right to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T18:29:27.113" />
  <row Id="32608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32600" CreationDate="2009-12-10T18:59:46.217" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you're awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/ichmawes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;LOLDog, puppy pointing paw at you: &amp;quot;Who's awesome?  You're awesome&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your questions in more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why can I vote to close my own question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can delete your own question until someone responds and/or gets upvoted.  At that point if you delete your post, then you also delete their posts, which is not acceptable to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once others have contributed to your question, you can vote on closing/deleting it, but you may not be able to close or delete it yourself under most circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Under what circumstances would I want to do that, or should I consider doing that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel your question does not add anything valuable to the community, or the question itself is confusing, malformed, or may result in other people making a mistake, then you might want to remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people are also &quot;pruning&quot; their questions so they look better for their Careers.Stackoverflow CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to delete your own post is a reminder that though SO is largely community owned and to some degree wiki-style, you are still a owner for your question, responsible for it, and thus you are granted this additional power over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do I still get to vote to reopen even if I voted to close my own question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it works like other open and close votes - you can vote once, and that's it.  This is mainly due to implementation (it's easier to extend 3k+ close/open voting power than to create a special power) but also as a direct result of the open/close and edit wars that happened early on when 3k+ moderation powers were first created.  By allowing only one vote, wars have a finite lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T19:21:09.703" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T19:21:09.703" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T19:37:27.567" Score="5" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past few days that I've had &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/kyle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my CV&lt;/a&gt; up I've received 8 search hits on my CV. In order to get a better idea of who visits my CV and when, I've embedded a few 1x1 transparent GIFs, one of which is at the top of my personal statement and appears in the search blurb. Of those 8 &quot;search hits&quot;, only one actually loaded the image. Either the rest of the employers disabled loading of external images or my CV never actually appeared on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming this is the case, is it really fair to call them &quot;search hits&quot; when, by all accounts, the employer isn't even aware that you exist? It does give some idea as to how many searches have been done where you would be in the results, but I feel that ultimately it doesn't accurately reflect when a candidate's info is seen by an employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should &quot;search hits&quot; be altered to reflect the candidate's info actually loading on the employer's computer? Should a different stat be added instead to capture this information? Or is this information even relevant/needed, given that it's possible to obtain through embedding an external image?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T09:24:26.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T12:35:36.357" Title="What counts/should count as a &quot;search hit&quot; on CVs?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="32610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32612" CreationDate="2009-12-10T19:57:29.483" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a registered user on Stack Overflow, when I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/853873/how-to-remove-menustrip-submenu-margins/1860725#1860725&quot;&gt;posted my first answer&lt;/a&gt; on this website. This website suggested I become a registered user. It also created a pseudo-account page (user id 226454), and started recognizing me by a special cookie. I switched to another browser, and completed the registration. In the registration form, I provided the &lt;em&gt;same e-mail address&lt;/em&gt;, which I provided when posting an answer in the previous browser. A new user account was created (user id 228365).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website created another separated account (which is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; based on my pseudo-account, which already had 1 answered question). So, my answer is not counted in my new account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expected behaviour:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish Stack Overflow would recognize me by my e-mail address (not by an unreliable cookie), and attach all my old answers to the newly created account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it is wise to scan all your database entries of unregistered users posts, and build a newly created account on top of a pseudo-account if the e-mail address matches, but it would be nice. I think an e-mail address is a better identifier than a temporary cookie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please fix this bug to avoid this trouble for future users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, could you, please, merge my answer to my newly created account? Or tell me, what I have to do to solve this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140214" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:53:15.600" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:53:15.600" Title="Newly created user account does not count my old posts, even if e-mail matches" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;cookies&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32646" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:00:25.593" Score="0" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 3 on SO and 1 here on meta... should I be worried?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T13:27:44.660" LastActivityDate="2010-11-14T02:00:22.487" Title="How many necromancer badges do you have?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="32612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32610" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:00:36.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com with the urls to the two account pages (if known) and the email used and they will merge them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason the merge is not done automatically is partly due to some users being perfectly happy with the browser cookie and never touching OpenID.  If you get their email, you could steal their account (ie, register it) and cause a bit of trouble for the moderators and owner of the real account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T20:00:36.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32611" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:02:59.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess you like to resurrect old questions from the dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T20:02:59.330" />
  <row Id="32614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32611" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:04:02.840" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32611/how-many-necromancer-badges-do-you-have/32646#32646&quot;&gt;query stackql&lt;/a&gt; for the average number of necromancer badges for users in your reputation range, or just wait long enough and let waffles &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32611/how-many-necromancer-badges-do-you-have/32646#32646&quot;&gt;do it for you&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record I have 5 on SO.  Badges on meta don't count, except toward your purchase of a barbie dream house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect we are both zombies now, having raised several things from the dead each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T03:12:56.057" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T03:12:56.057" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32609" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:15:41.227" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to search hits, you should also see &quot;Employer Views of Your CV&quot; which gives you the information you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/employerviews.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T20:15:41.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32611" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:37:35.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody have to do this job. :) Like somebody likes to bury stupid questions, you like to ressurect (I hope you ressurect interesting ones). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130352" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T20:37:35.853" />
  <row Id="32617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32610" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:55:34.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email is not required, we don't even have an email address for most of our users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T20:55:34.757" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T20:57:05.583" Score="11" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26548/when-a-question-is-posted-can-we-advise-the-poster-to-hang-around-and-respond-to&quot;&gt;When a question is posted, can we advise the poster to hang around and respond to comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know who they are.  They ask a poorly worded, off-topic question, get downvoted into oblivion (which is 1, since they are a new user), and otherwise get sliced and diced with comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they are not hearing you, because they have long since left, probably because they are not used to instantaneous answers from a forum, like you can get on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider placing a notification popup when the user posts &lt;em&gt;his first question only&lt;/em&gt;, something to the effect of (with potentially better wording):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for posting a question on Stack Overflow.  Questions often get answered quickly here. &#xA;  Since this is your first posted&#xA;  question, please consider sticking&#xA;  around for a few minutes to see if&#xA;  others have posted comments, or otherwise have concerns about your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T09:27:24.427" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T09:27:24.427" ClosedDate="2009-12-11T17:44:47.660" Title="Notification for Drive-By Question Posters" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="32619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32610" CreationDate="2009-12-10T21:00:48.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3033/allow-unregistered-users-to-retrieve-orphaned-cookie-based-accounts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this feature request&lt;/a&gt; on StackExchange. For those users that have supplied a valid email address on an account but somehow lost the controlling cookie, the system will send out a verification email with a link to a URL that will restore the cookie. It's less overhead than OpenID and it has the advantage of cutting down on the manual intervention required in restoring access to these accounts. Of course, not everyone supplies their actual email (or supplies an email at all) and for those users you'd still need the manual process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T21:00:48.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:01:47.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen it.  Very odd, I went back and resubmitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T22:01:47.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32611" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:04:10.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got my first quite easily, by posting on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read/543385#543385&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; that continues to see activity. I would actually prefer that this badge be only given out when answering a &lt;em&gt;stale&lt;/em&gt; thread, that is one that has not seen any activity in X months, rather than one that &lt;em&gt;started&lt;/em&gt; X months ago. It would be more in keeping with the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T22:04:10.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:06:53.333" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unrewarded&lt;/strong&gt; Ten or more accepted answers with 0 or 1 upvotes. One for the people working in fringe badges or just those unlucky enough to answer during a quiet patch for upvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inquisitive&lt;/strong&gt; 90% of activity is questions (maybe on 10 consecutive days to make the percentage workable over time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Helpful&lt;/strong&gt; 90% of activity is answers (with durational requirement as above)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Balanced Diet&lt;/strong&gt; Percentage of answers and questions very close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131327" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T22:24:09.713" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T22:24:09.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-10T22:06:53.333" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:19:44.887" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the &quot;Related questions&quot; search after you have typed in a title. This has prevented me from posting a new question many times. While reading a question like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&lt;/a&gt;, I got an idea about the same thing for answers. From what I can tell, this question was originally closed due to duplicate answers from people not bothering to read all previous answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion: while you are typing an answer, it will (periodically? and before you can press post?) compare your answer with the other answers on this question and show a list of &quot;Related answers&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this is not applicable everywhere, but I think it could help preventing duplicates on questions with many answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139962" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T06:50:15.423" Title="Search other answers while you are typing your own answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32632" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:25:33.237" Score="-1" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a useful although grandiose feature would be to allow SO to run posted code snippets inside a secure sandbox (for various languages) for the purposes of: finding syntax errors, validating code, sometimes producing and posting actual results or output. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would find this feature useful because I don't have all compilers frameworks and tools installed for which I would like to quickly try some of the unique stuff I see posted on SO. Also source code answers could be validated at deeper levels for weighting usability, etc. Also it might be great just to see the immediate results of code, inline with the posted answer, rather than mentally processing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The words &quot;results&quot; and &quot;output&quot; are used loosely here and could be anything from a parse tree to a step-through of code to actual console text or anything in between, whichever representation best suits the situation at hand. It could be automatic or chosen by the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature request might seem really &quot;out there&quot; but it's fun to speculate about (well, for me). With recognition a lot of thought and work would have to go into it, but anything is possible if desirable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest challenges would be the fact code is often a fragment so running the native compiler would produce lots of errors. However syntax highlighting on SO is already a step in the right direction because it proves recognition of language features to a degree. Missing code might be mocked by a tool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="136524" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-10T23:40:11.433" LastActivityDate="2010-10-24T07:06:47.837" Title="Feature allowing SO to execute code snippets in a sandbox and produce useful results" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;future&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:28:49.887" Score="30" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might just be lazy, but do you ever find it tiresome to select all the source code from a large post on SO to copy it? I would like a feature, possibly a Firefox extension but preferably a JavaScript script, for automatically copying source examples to the clipboard. It's no big deal for a small snippet, but a 1000+ line posting is cumbersome to copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you guys have a better way of copying large source posts? I'm using FireFox 3.5.5 on Win7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-09T13:07:34.710" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T13:17:38.967" Title="Shortcut for copying posted code from Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="32626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32670" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:36:47.447" Score="5" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the badges page, the requirements for Yearling are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Active member for a year, earning at least 100 reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the bonus for associating SO-family accounts is 100 rep, as long as one of the accounts has at least 200 rep to begin with.  I'm curious if that means someone could get the badge simply by being active on another SO-family site and logging in every few days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, look at me: I have SO, SF, SU and Meta accounts, all associated.  I'm a frequent participant on SO, SU and Meta but have never posted on SF despite visiting every day.  I certainly don't deserve Yearling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to make this an actual question, could someone earn Yearling on a given site without really doing anything at all?  Or, phrased differently, what is the definition of &#xA;&quot;active member&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this may actually already be accounted for in the code, and therefore not a bug, but I couldn't find documentation and I was curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T23:03:40.443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T23:03:56.107" Title="Could account association cheapen the Yearling badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:48:47.610" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24999/how-do-you-delete-your-cv-from-the-new-careers-site&quot;&gt;How do you delete your CV from the new Careers site?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to remove my account from careers.stackoverflow.com but cannot find this functionality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140231" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T22:48:47.610" ClosedDate="2009-12-11T00:10:42.080" Title="How do I remove my account and info from careers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32625" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:50:54.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is so much source code in a question that it is onerous to copy it, and especially that you feel a need to paste it all in your response, then both the questioner and you the answerer are doing things wrong.  There is rarely a need for a huge amount of source, and you shouldn't have to repeat it in your response. If you do, I figure you deserve to go through a few extra steps to do so. It's not something we want to encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T22:50:54.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32624" CreationDate="2009-12-10T22:54:03.390" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that such a sandbox would immediately become the site of the hottest new game of who can bypass the sandbox and compromise the machine. Plus, this would be a huge job to set up and support, and who would decide what languages, frameworks and environments get supported? There are so many different configurations, and a lot of SO questions are about these subtle differences between environments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to set up a prototype to demonstrate how it would work, knock yourself out, but I doubt anyone official with SO would spend any time with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Sorry for being grumpy today. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T00:40:50.950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T00:40:50.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1577" CreationDate="2009-12-10T23:10:43.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First: don't get me wrong, I like having the notification. But it really doesn't help much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently had it pop up for me. So I thought, &quot;OK, I'll check and see what's changed.&quot; I middle-clicked the &quot;back to question&quot; link -- oh, wait, there isn't one! So I had to middle-click the main Stack Overflow banner at the top, look for the question in the list, open it, then click on the revisions link. At that point I could finally see the edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once you see the other person's edits, what do you do? We'd both made large formatting changes, so I couldn't tell what was going to be different in my version. I ended up saving anyway because that's the only way to get a diff. And it knocked the question to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are two things about this process that I think could be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-add the back-to-question link. This suggestion has been beaten to death already (and everyone seems to favor it except the ones that count).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a merge-resolution interface before saving, basically like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1577/notifications-for-concurrent-changes-when-editing-posts/1625#1625&quot;&gt;dbr already suggested&lt;/a&gt;. Could clicking on the notifier perhaps let you view the differences inside the same edit screen, without being obligated to save first? And Wikipedia might already do this, but I'd also suggest that it be a diff of the actual Markdown code; that would make it much easier to see formatting changes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T23:10:43.280" />
  <row Id="32632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32624" CreationDate="2009-12-10T23:16:28.247" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its a fantastic idea, and I'm sure that it would see a lot of use, but it strikes me as something more suitable as a separate project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have much wider uses than just StackOverflow but it would also be far from trivial, especially if you wanted to support a number of different languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T23:16:28.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32611" CreationDate="2009-12-10T23:18:43.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering old unanswered questions stikes me as quite in-keeping with the site - it may no longer be useful to the original poster but I'm sure that someone else will find and make good use of your solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T23:18:43.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32596" CreationDate="2009-12-10T23:20:50.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the emotional harm to me, in having to read this? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T23:20:50.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32623" CreationDate="2009-12-10T23:51:03.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this really necessary? While searching for related questions is quite handy because other questions can be anywhere on the site, all the other answers for this question are sitting right there in front of you. Do you need a widget to search for &quot;similar&quot; answers? They are all bound to be similar to some degree, at least to a point that something non-sentient would not be able to tell the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, there is a javascript function running in the background which provides a popup &quot;X other answers have been posted&quot;, which alerts you to other recently-arrived answers which may duplicate what you were already typing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-10T23:51:03.240" />
  <row Id="32637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32624" CreationDate="2009-12-11T00:04:18.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Javascript, I typically use links to &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google's Code Playground&lt;/a&gt; which allows you to execute Javascript code written in the browser. Very neat. I think a similar concept would be difficult to deploy for compiled languages that couldn't be compiled on the client's machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T00:04:18.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19870" CreationDate="2009-12-11T00:24:57.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow really &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; extend the search to include symbols. There's a gigantic gap in the market for this. See this frustrated google user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1828654/programmer-friendly-search-engine/1884984&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1828654/programmer-friendly-search-engine/1884984&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions is a cost that StackOverflow &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; accept as a consequence of not having this feature. And it should accept it cheerfully, and not grudgingly, until it gets its act together and adds it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140236" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T00:24:57.140" />
  <row Id="32639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32626" CreationDate="2009-12-11T00:25:18.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;100 rep is nothing. It is just there to sort out the drive by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T00:25:18.293" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32624" CreationDate="2009-12-11T00:31:17.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a project: JSBIN&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;www.jsbin.com that does this for javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a python interpreter written in javascript (pyjamas)&#xA;a C interpreter in javascript (ClueCC)&#xA;a ruby interpreter (hotruby)&#xA;a java compiler (gwt)&#xA;and others. However, unless the question is language or compiler specific, javascript is sufficient for questions about algorithms, and the vast swath of SO questions that actually are about javascript, or html, or other such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140236" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T00:31:17.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-11T00:46:12.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vaguely remember something about this clever poetry from a podcast/blog/tweet or somewhere. It's displayed to make the user slow down and think for a bit, when they are doing something ignorant or obnoxious. Like posting the same (spammy) question multiple times in a row, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T00:46:12.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-11T02:45:19.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't down-vote, so it's never an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T02:45:19.850" />
  <row Id="32646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32611" CreationDate="2009-12-11T02:58:08.330" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dub Jens Roland &lt;strong&gt;King Necromancer&lt;/strong&gt;, LORD OF THE DEAD. At only 4K reputation he has 11 of these. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jens, if you read this, go get yourself some waffles, courtesy of me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Latest data dump info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Name&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Badges&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34509&quot;&gt;Johannes Schaub - litb&lt;/a&gt; Necromancer 13     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/57068&quot;&gt;Jens Roland&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 11     &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33015&quot;&gt;Binoj Antony&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 9      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2147&quot;&gt;Jason Baker&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 8      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12652&quot;&gt;Comptrol&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 8      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16940&quot;&gt;Simon&lt;/a&gt;                  Necromancer 7      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62699&quot;&gt;ldigas&lt;/a&gt;                 Necromancer 7      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/96656&quot;&gt;Mathias Bynens&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 7      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/80894&quot;&gt;Pawel Lesnikowski&lt;/a&gt;      Necromancer 7      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/81520&quot;&gt;MasterPeter&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 7      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt;                   Necromancer 6      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1349&quot;&gt;Conrad&lt;/a&gt;                 Necromancer 6      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53870&quot;&gt;Andy Dent&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 6      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56285&quot;&gt;Jonik&lt;/a&gt;                  Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/44084&quot;&gt;Andreas Grech&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45603&quot;&gt;Agnel Kurian&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30018&quot;&gt;JohnFx&lt;/a&gt;                 Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2915&quot;&gt;Adam Davis&lt;/a&gt;             Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9345&quot;&gt;Steven A. Lowe&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9951&quot;&gt;e-satis&lt;/a&gt;                Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/170339&quot;&gt;Ravi&lt;/a&gt;                   Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/80890&quot;&gt;THEn&lt;/a&gt;                   Necromancer 5      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16473&quot;&gt;Gordon Bell&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/72312&quot;&gt;Marcus Lindblom&lt;/a&gt;        Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/173197&quot;&gt;Dale Halliwell&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4086&quot;&gt;Ferruccio&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5302&quot;&gt;lagerdalek&lt;/a&gt;             Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2469&quot;&gt;David Basarab&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13018&quot;&gt;annakata&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13990&quot;&gt;torial&lt;/a&gt;                 Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21574&quot;&gt;Chris S&lt;/a&gt;                Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17560&quot;&gt;Charles Faiga&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23501&quot;&gt;Ates Goral&lt;/a&gt;             Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24054&quot;&gt;kgiannakakis&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24995&quot;&gt;Dave Markle&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33412&quot;&gt;bendin&lt;/a&gt;                 Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40650&quot;&gt;BenAlabaster&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/40933&quot;&gt;Warrior&lt;/a&gt;                Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48181&quot;&gt;martinus&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53330&quot;&gt;ohnoes&lt;/a&gt;                 Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/58668&quot;&gt;Jonas Kölker&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 4      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61027&quot;&gt;Nosredna&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56679&quot;&gt;chillitom&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/57120&quot;&gt;Beska&lt;/a&gt;                  Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/58146&quot;&gt;Andrey Tarantsov&lt;/a&gt;       Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/58521&quot;&gt;alamodey&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53599&quot;&gt;BBetances&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53212&quot;&gt;thomasrutter&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45935&quot;&gt;Jim Ferrans&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47161&quot;&gt;unknown&lt;/a&gt;                Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47190&quot;&gt;Peter Štibraný&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47341&quot;&gt;Brann&lt;/a&gt;                  Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/47529&quot;&gt;chaos&lt;/a&gt;                  Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/41661&quot;&gt;Norman Ramsey&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/43615&quot;&gt;Thomas Tempelmann&lt;/a&gt;      Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/35264&quot;&gt;sjbotha&lt;/a&gt;                Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39851&quot;&gt;J.T. Hurley&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/27580&quot;&gt;Eli&lt;/a&gt;                    Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/28835&quot;&gt;too much php&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29430&quot;&gt;ya23&lt;/a&gt;                   Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/29683&quot;&gt;Lance Kidwell&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24231&quot;&gt;Lucas&lt;/a&gt;                  Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/31671&quot;&gt;alex&lt;/a&gt;                   Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23673&quot;&gt;Rinat Abdullin&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17635&quot;&gt;Scott W.&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/19410&quot;&gt;Alex Reynolds&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22039&quot;&gt;Cherian&lt;/a&gt;                Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22459&quot;&gt;Ólafur Waage&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22514&quot;&gt;Kevin Hakanson&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14148&quot;&gt;David Thornley&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17312&quot;&gt;Barry Brown&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6380&quot;&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/a&gt;        Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7565&quot;&gt;Robert S.&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12725&quot;&gt;James Curran&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2541&quot;&gt;Sam Hasler&lt;/a&gt;             Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2961&quot;&gt;Stu Thompson&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3189&quot;&gt;Hamish Downer&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1898&quot;&gt;Skizz&lt;/a&gt;                  Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4702&quot;&gt;Will Harris&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10897&quot;&gt;mgb&lt;/a&gt;                    Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12597&quot;&gt;Ian Boyd&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/87399&quot;&gt;Joe White&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/96018&quot;&gt;Sohail Anwar&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/75834&quot;&gt;Oscar Reyes&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/78374&quot;&gt;Stefano Borini&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/64084&quot;&gt;Mark&lt;/a&gt;                   Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65696&quot;&gt;TokenMacGuy&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/66519&quot;&gt;ojblass&lt;/a&gt;                Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69545&quot;&gt;Rainer Joswig&lt;/a&gt;          Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/103617&quot;&gt;Eric&lt;/a&gt;                   Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104097&quot;&gt;Jian Lin&lt;/a&gt;               Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/107294&quot;&gt;Curt Sampson&lt;/a&gt;           Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/110204&quot;&gt;Martin Geisler&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123582&quot;&gt;Rich Seller&lt;/a&gt;            Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/140392&quot;&gt;Dan Diplo&lt;/a&gt;              Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/143804&quot;&gt;ire_and_curses&lt;/a&gt;         Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/164299&quot;&gt;Rachel&lt;/a&gt;                 Necromancer 3      &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SQL: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select UserId, b.Name , u.DisplayName as UserName, COUNT(*) as Badges &#xA;into #t&#xA;from Badges b&#xA;join Users u on UserId = u.id&#xA;where Name = 'Necromancer'&#xA;group by UserId, b.Name,u.DisplayName&#xA;having count(*) &amp;gt; 2&#xA;order by COUNT(*) desc &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;exec spShog9&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T02:58:08.330" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32650" CreationDate="2009-12-11T03:08:29.700" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the word 'community wiki' a lot, but I have no idea how to use it and don't even know where it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139597" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T12:32:07.803" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T12:32:07.803" ClosedDate="2009-12-11T03:52:34.843" Title="How to access community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32205" CreationDate="2009-12-11T03:09:36.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I factor in current score before I down-vote.  I rarely down-vote questions unless the person asking the question changes the meaning of the question in the discussion - then I down-vote for the obvious hideously worded question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will up-vote just about anything I agree with - especially those with low scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will up-vote an answer, even if I don't agree with it, if  I feel it was unfairly down-voted to bring them back to &quot;0&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will down-vote any question that is flat-out wrong (but I won't pile on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally I will down-vote any question that questions the motivation of the original poster.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139913" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T03:09:36.203" />
  <row Id="32649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32625" CreationDate="2009-12-11T03:11:49.663" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you guys have better way of copying large source post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit -&gt; Select all -&gt; Copy -&gt; Paste -&gt; Edit out non-source portions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then, the only time I'm copying 1000+ line posts is to edit them anyway. That's really a bit much for SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T03:11:49.663" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32647" CreationDate="2009-12-11T03:16:23.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Community wiki is explained in great depth here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it does two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allows anyone with 100 rep to edit your question and answers (normally editing requires 2,000 rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upvotes, downvotes, etc do not affect your rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make your question or answer community wiki, check the checkbox just below and to the right of the editing box when editing the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once checked and saved you can't undo it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T03:16:23.400" />
  <row Id="32651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32654" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:20:49.317" Score="8" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do 10k (and moderator) users have the ability to read deleted comments (are comments deleted forever, or never really deleted like questions and answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:26:00.027" Title="Do 10k users get to read deleted comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;deleted-comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="32652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29026" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:21:02.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like it would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also try downloading a better text entry tool, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.softpicks.net/software/Comfort-On-Screen-Keyboard-35549.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:21:02.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32651" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:25:08.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we don't have that ability. They are deleted forever (at least to non-moderators). I don't know if Moderators (Those diamond folks) can see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:25:08.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32651" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:26:00.027" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither 10k+ users nor ♦ moderators can read deleted comments, so a deleted comment is as good as gone.  The comments, do, however, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26813/please-improve-the-history-audit-trail-of-moderator-actions-for-moderators/26819#26819&quot;&gt;still exist in the database&lt;/a&gt; and Jeff can see who deleted them should there be an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:26:00.027" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31882" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:30:32.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now block multiple requests (probably accidental) from employers if an existing request is already &quot;in flight&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:30:32.280" />
  <row Id="32656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29026" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:31:03.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps make the little magnifying glass clickable, that way it doesn't require a change to the layout, or adding a new element.  New users might not find it readily, though, but it's not a feature that many people need.  (doesn't the zune HD have a virtual keyboard with an enter key?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T05:00:25.407" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T05:00:25.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32667" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:33:35.923" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;New users can't post community wiki questions directly. The community wiki checkbox doesn't appear when asking the question. You have to &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; the question after asking it and check the community wiki box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this is to prevent new users from posting a CW question before they know what CW is (since CW is irreversible). When does somebody cease to be &quot;new user&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="132093" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T05:08:25.767" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T08:15:41.247" Title="New users don't get a CW checkbox" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29948" CreationDate="2009-12-11T04:38:14.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could post a screenshot, but the search UI is in a lot of flux. Easiest to just register a new OpenID (remember, you &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; be both a CV holder and employer on the same OpenID) and try the employer search side yourself -- it's free to go in and see search counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T04:38:14.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30709" CreationDate="2009-12-11T05:20:38.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some interesting public CVs: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ptomblin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ptomblin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/swilliams&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/swilliams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/lobrien&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/lobrien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/puls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/puls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/george-stocker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/george-stocker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prize for the best waffle out there goes to: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/michal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/michal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tips to make it &lt;strong&gt;awesome&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep it short&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formatting is super &lt;em&gt;dooper&lt;/em&gt; important&lt;br&gt; &#xA;You love to code, find a way to say it&lt;br&gt; &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; but &lt;strong&gt;don't use too much bold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Make somebody smile, keep it chirpy&lt;br&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T05:27:37.217" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T05:27:37.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22914" CreationDate="2009-12-11T05:23:33.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is reputation normalized by question views a relevant piece of info?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.  The questions with more views will get a proportionate increase in votes - no more.  The 'normalized' values should map very well with the regular values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only case where this may not be true are for very polarizing topics, and they account for only a very, very small (almost insignificant) portion of the system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not worthwhile to tune the system for such a small problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, reputation is only meant to increase participation, and give a simple way to decide when to trust users with greater system access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying mechanism is set up such that no amount of normalization by any other available metric is going to tell you anything different than rep alone will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get something different you're going to have to fundamentally change rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T05:23:33.713" />
  <row Id="32663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17782" CreationDate="2009-12-11T05:52:18.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if what you're saying is exactly true, down votes aren't consistent for humorous responses. In fact the &lt;strong&gt;highest voted answer&lt;/strong&gt; on Stack Overflow is funny (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) as it still answers the question, conveys a message and everyone loves it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people are funny enough to get away without answering the question, and in that case the up votes will generally outweigh the down votes. I generally try to go by what the alt tag says for the image &quot;This answer is not useful&quot;, and base my up/down votes around that. If you can reply with a clear answer and add in some humour, everybody wins, but if you have nothing constructive to say add it as a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140249" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T05:52:18.527" />
  <row Id="32664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32665" CreationDate="2009-12-11T06:14:44.773" Score="7" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how to find the questions I've commented on.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there a search trick or some page that lists the comments I've posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139597" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T09:49:11.563" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T09:49:11.563" Title="Finding my own comments on questions and answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32664" CreationDate="2009-12-11T06:19:39.040" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see your recent comments by clicking &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/139597/benny&quot;&gt;your profile (any username link)&lt;/a&gt;, then clicking on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/139597?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;Activity&lt;/a&gt; tab.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only keeps so many entries; I don't think there's any direct way to search for comments on questions you neither asked nor answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T06:19:39.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32664" CreationDate="2009-12-11T06:20:11.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to your profile and click on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/60777?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;activity&lt;/a&gt; tab. It'll show you your recent comments so you can go back to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T06:20:11.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32657" CreationDate="2009-12-11T08:15:41.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;add key=&quot;Reputation.NeededForAbility.Newbie&quot; value=&quot;10&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T08:15:41.247" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14770" CreationDate="2009-12-11T08:20:55.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This feed no longer exists, so closing this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T08:20:55.543" />
  <row Id="32670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32626" CreationDate="2009-12-11T08:47:44.293" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly, but the account has to exist for a year -- and each account must be created independently on each site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose we could make the threshold 150 / year or something to account for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I'm making the Yearling threshold &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; just to cover this edge condition, and ensure that people are actually participating each year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T23:03:56.107" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T23:03:56.107" />
  <row Id="32671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32609" CreationDate="2009-12-11T09:24:00.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in fact how the statistic already works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are RENDERED ON THE SEARCH RESULT PAGE, the counter is incremented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a per-page setting so I can't guarantee that they scrolled all the way down, but if you're on the SERP, that's the only way that counter gets incremented. Verified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T09:24:00.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-11T10:04:59.320" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, the search box up top searches across all tags. And from browsing, it's straightforward showing all questions within a tag when you click on said tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know if it's possible to browse questions tagged both &lt;strong&gt;[vim]&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;[perl]&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to narrow down the results by search questions with specific tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a nice to have and would come in handy when searching across a topic that covers two different tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139618" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T10:15:15.663" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T10:46:24.797" Title="Search posts/questions only with specific tags" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32672" CreationDate="2009-12-11T10:38:32.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following did the trick for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bvim%5D+and+%5Bperl%5D&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[vim]&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;[perl]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T10:46:24.797" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T10:46:24.797" />
  <row Id="32675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-11T11:15:50.423" Score="55" ViewCount="427" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted&quot;&gt;Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just stumbled across &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887273/declaring-variables&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; poorly worded question - if you look through the comments it appears that the user previously asked an identical question that was deleted - it occurred to me that this question may well have been deleted before the poster had a chance to read any of the comments / feedback on that question, and may not have even realised that his question was deleted (hence the identical repost).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this feature already exists or not (being that I've never had any of my questions deleted), but it strikes me it might be a good idea to allow users to see their deleted questions, and hence maybe learn why their question was deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-18T03:00:31.093" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T18:09:22.280" ClosedDate="2011-03-29T15:41:45.197" Title="Allow users to be able to see their own deleted questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-12-11T12:02:25.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When something changes in Jon Skeet, the Matrix feels a déjà vu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T12:02:25.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-11T12:02:25.330" />
  <row Id="32690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52256" CreationDate="2009-12-11T14:44:46.347" Score="-1" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole UI for closing a question as an exact duplicate is buggy and annoying.  Its hard for me to describe the pain and angst I feel every time I vote to close for exact duplicate.  Every time I do it I'm going to record a movie and post it in this question.  Here's the most recent time I've done it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cid-f8be9de57b85cc35.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/sobug.mp4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://cid-f8be9de57b85cc35.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/sobug.mp4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still don't know how to use this UI correctly.  Anything I do doesn't seem to work other than in a random fashion.  It sucks, and I demand it be fixed immediately.  Harumph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T23:17:49.597" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T23:21:39.153" Title="&quot;Close -- exact duplicate&quot; process is buggy and annoying" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32690" CreationDate="2009-12-11T14:51:32.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is it difficult? You've gone and found the question it's a duplicate of, right? So paste the link in the box. Done. Nothing more to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you HAVEN'T found a duplicate question, &lt;strong&gt;you really shouldn't be voting to close!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T14:51:32.183" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32690" CreationDate="2009-12-11T14:58:45.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also find the procedure for closing as an exact duplicate clunky. But I have no constructive suggestions. The task seems to have at least three requirements&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You access it through the same &quot;close&quot; button that you use for every other reason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have to specify the alleged duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can see (and open) the duplicates alleged by others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and one negative requirement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't just click on one of the existing allegations to vote for it (because titles lie, and you &lt;em&gt;should always&lt;/em&gt; check that the other question really is a duplicate first)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T15:15:51.763" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T15:15:51.763" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:12:39.530" Score="0" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;At times people will ask questions which on the surface appear to be constructed of elements and scaffolding that would leave the readers scratching their heads wondering to themselves how they should at first tackle the complexity that is the make up and read of the actual question itself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This before they are even close to figuring out &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; the question is then asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can one attack this problem, of writing their question up in a way as to not seem too troublesome to understand or parse, but at the same time, none too trivial and without people skimming over the more cogent points raised or at issue/concern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you present a complex question simply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140358" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T19:38:07.500" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T19:44:44.510" Title="Crafting complex questions in a way to appeal to the masses" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;style&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32695" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:14:02.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a really hard question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="159383" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T15:14:42.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32695" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:21:36.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest not portraying yourself as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;small and furry&lt;/a&gt;, or hiding in grain barges, singing and annoying Klingons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132519" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T15:21:36.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32695" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:29:12.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume you're asking about questions that don't look that hard to you, but which people seem to have trouble answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, if you can write questions in good English, do so.  As you can tell from my first paragraph, I wasn't entirely clear what you were asking.  If you're not good with English, err on the side of writing too much.  If you express yourself more than one way, even if neither way is good, people have a better way to guess what you want.  Terseness is good if you can get away with it, but you need to have a good command of English (which many people don't have) to make it work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, include all relevant information.  Don't assume that people will know what you're doing.  For StackOverflow questions, include the operating system you're using, the tools you're using, describe what you're trying to accomplish, and (most importantly) quote all relevant error messages exactly.  (If you haven't gotten far enough to get error messages, you probably haven't worked on the problem enough to benefit from a Q&amp;amp;A site like this.)  For example, in this question, you could have linked to a question or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, if you don't know the answer you don't know whether it's hard or not.  People misjudge this all the time.  Expect it to happen now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T15:29:12.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32690" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:32:50.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One suggestion I have is to put radio buttons next to all of the links. Clicking on the radio button would paste the link in the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the radio buttons were not visible until one of the links was clicked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I do control click on the link, browse through the candidate thread, go back to the question, right click on the link, copy the link, paste the link, double-click on the field, then click submit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T18:51:31.907" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T18:51:31.907" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="32700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32701" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:33:41.140" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious, what if a question has 4 votes, 2 for one reason, 2 for other, and the fifth person chooses a third... what is the official &lt;em&gt;close reason&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can test it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32676&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (it has 4 votes at the time of this writing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T14:54:38.627" Title="What happens if a fifth person chooses a different reason to close?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="32701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32700" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:42:25.977" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With two selections each for &lt;code&gt;No longer relevant&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Too Localized&lt;/code&gt;, I selected &lt;code&gt;Not Stack Overflow related&lt;/code&gt;. It now shows &lt;code&gt;no longer relevant&lt;/code&gt; as the close reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where there are two selections, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39658/priority-of-close-votes/39664#39664&quot;&gt;last vote cast breaks the tie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of five different reasons chosen, the first selected will be the one that triumphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="4660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T14:54:38.627" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T14:54:38.627" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:42:40.767" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Invent another flag available to the top 1% of users, say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;'violates community spirit'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. If a particular poster accumulates 10 of these, his/her questions/answers/comments/edits do not become visible for 30 minutes after posting for one week. After 50 such flags, the user is suspended for a week. After 100 such flags, the user's existing rep is cleared permanently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T15:42:40.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-11T15:42:40.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29026" CreationDate="2009-12-11T15:45:30.090" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you enter the search URL manually in to the Zune browser?  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=zune&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=zune&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also want to look at this question - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26382/make-the-search-box-handheld-device-friendly&quot;&gt;Make the search box handheld-device friendly&lt;/a&gt; - which is tagged as &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3171" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T15:45:30.090" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32706" CreationDate="2009-12-11T16:17:22.810" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thinking of a title for this question was difficult, but I here is the scenario,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone asks a question, and the answer to said question is in an article that is linked to in another stackoverflow question that is in my favorites list.  When I answer his question, should I link directly to the article, or should I link to the stack overflow question that links to the question?  What is better for the SO information database?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135261" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T16:22:21.910" Title="Linking to other web pages through stack overflow questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;community-data&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32724" CreationDate="2009-12-11T16:20:58.620" Score="26" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frequently when I ask a question I have to include quite a bit of code for reference purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to bold the important lines in the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example this code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DataTrigger Value=&quot;True&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;MultiBinding Converter=&quot;{StaticResource DisableWorkItemConverter}&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding ElementName=&quot;MainForm&quot; Path=&quot;PickedWorkItemID&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding Path=&quot;Id&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/MultiBinding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsEnabled&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsSelected&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/DataTrigger&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is not way long, but the important part (as seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1889108/wpf-datatrigger-setting-listboxitem-isselected&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;) is the second to last line.  However, if I try to bold it, it ends up looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DataTrigger Value=&quot;True&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;MultiBinding Converter=&quot;{StaticResource DisableWorkItemConverter}&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding ElementName=&quot;MainForm&quot; Path=&quot;PickedWorkItemID&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding Path=&quot;Id&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/MultiBinding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsEnabled&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;    **&amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsSelected&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;**&#xA;&amp;lt;/DataTrigger&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not what I was going for.  It would be nice to be able to draw attention to specific lines of code when needed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(One suggestion of a different color background sounds nice too (ie a yellow background to draw the eye to the relevant code.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is some other way to bold in code please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T23:49:35.547" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T04:40:20.697" Title="Bold code in a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="32706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32704" CreationDate="2009-12-11T16:22:21.910" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would link to both and then insert a relevant quote from the article. Something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As referenced in [this answer][link], the solution to your problem can be found [here][link to article]. From the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Waffles are tasty&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    But they can be better if&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    You also toast them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T16:22:21.910" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32705" CreationDate="2009-12-11T16:28:50.370" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not pretty, just a workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ascii art is your friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DataTrigger Value=&quot;True&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;MultiBinding Converter=&quot;{StaticResource DisableWorkItemConverter}&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding ElementName=&quot;MainForm&quot; Path=&quot;PickedWorkItemID&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding Path=&quot;Id&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/MultiBinding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsEnabled&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsSelected&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;     &amp;lt;-----+&#xA;&amp;lt;/DataTrigger&amp;gt;                                              |&#xA;                                                            |&#xA;                                                            |&#xA;             yo, this line here! ----------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T16:28:50.370" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32705" CreationDate="2009-12-11T16:28:51.243" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually I will tag a comment on the line I'm trying to highlight.  Comments have different syntax highlighting than normal code.  Perhaps the highlighting of comments could be made bold to make it more noticeable or the bold highlighting only apply in a commented section?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  var foo = new Bar();  // here is the problem...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T16:28:51.243" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="32711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2519" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:19:28.407" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it that you suggest a hover, it wouldn't take up space in the UI, kinda like the net votes thingy on posts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T17:19:28.407" />
  <row Id="32712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33308" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:22:34.283" Score="12" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey, I got the spam haiku!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the criteria is; I got it after struggling to post from a dodgy connection on the train; after reconnecting, I hit &quot;post&quot; and got the haiku:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Little slab of meat / In a wash of clear jelly / Now I heat the pan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same post worked fine later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come on Jeff, take some pity on feeble connections!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repro steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prepare an answer in the &quot;answer&quot; box below&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;simlulate crappy network (unplug cable, turn off wireless, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the button to post it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wait for it to fail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;reconnect network&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for me (Chrome) my answer is still there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the button to post it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Grotesque pinkish mass / In a blue can on a shelf / Quivering alone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T19:15:57.053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:10:06.143" Title="Overactive spam-ku" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;haiku&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32719" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:22:56.137" Score="0" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28232/make-moderator-abilities-relate-to-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;Make Moderator abilities relate to Rep Inflation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like it if the powers you get with reputation (down-vote, close, see deleted posts) were balanced according to traffic; ie, in meta, it's harder to reach 10K rep (or it should at least) and I'd really like to try out those moderator tools, that seem to be so far in the horizon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the feeling that the rep requirements are calibrated for SO, but perhaps they should be different in meta, SU, and SF&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T17:57:06.547" ClosedDate="2009-12-14T00:45:58.933" Title="Balancing reputation powers according to traffic" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="32714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32712" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:30:01.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain what this is? I read the other post and I didn't understand a thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I googled haiku and learned about it, but what does it have to do with SO?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T17:30:01.633" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="32716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32734" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:50:23.233" Score="14" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you are answering questions here as well as in the real life what do you do if you feel there is a bigger issue/misunderstanding behind a simple(?) question asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the straight answer is pretty obvious. Just give the person asking the fix they want and be done with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if the question shows that there is a bigger issue in play here? What if you know that even the right answer to the question will not solve the asker's real problem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you do? Ignore the question? Answer it and move on? Or try to explain the bigger context and related issues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So many people asking questions here are in just for a quick fix (and I fully appreciate this - some of them are under considerable pressure) so they ignore - or even downvote answers which are more complex than what they expect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But isn't it better to teach them to fish rather than giving them the correct answers which you know will not solve their problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like it is time to select the &quot;correct answer&quot;. It seems that everybody is pretty much of the same opinion - it is necessary to do both. Not that this is something unexpected for me _ I have to admit that the question was as much a question as an expression of some frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frustration not because my feeling offended/rejected - not that, frustration because people just skip over important stuff not realizing that they set themselves up for more problems, problems which would've been easily averted if they just pay attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Charles Stewart: What prompted the question? - It was multiple encounters more or less relevant to the topic. The one which stood out for me is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642853/good-f-programming-books/1681128#1681128&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. F# is a beautiful language, but so many people out there think that it is C# with slightly different syntax. They have no idea how far from truth this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway - going back to the answer - All of them are good ones, but according to the rules I can only select one and will go with the crowd.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140269" LastEditorUserId="162705" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T21:10:15.253" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T21:10:15.253" Title="feeding them vs. teaching to fish" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;learning&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32705" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:54:17.987" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always try to create the HTML by hand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DataTrigger Value=&quot;True&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;MultiBinding Converter=&quot;{StaticResource DisableWorkItemConverter}&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding ElementName=&quot;MainForm&quot; Path=&quot;PickedWorkItemID&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding Path=&quot;Id&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/MultiBinding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsEnabled&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;    &lt;b&gt;&amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsSelected&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/DataTrigger&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;DataTrigger Value=&quot;True&quot;&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;lt;DataTrigger.Binding&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;amp;lt;MultiBinding Converter=&quot;{StaticResource DisableWorkItemConverter}&quot;&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;amp;lt;Binding ElementName=&quot;MainForm&quot; Path=&quot;PickedWorkItemID&quot;/&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;amp;lt;Binding Path=&quot;Id&quot;/&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;amp;lt;/MultiBinding&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;lt;/DataTrigger.Binding&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsEnabled&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsSelected&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;lt;/DataTrigger&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to point out that you will have to replace &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T17:54:17.987" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31613" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:56:11.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took the warnings from the other answers, but I tried it anyway. It was a fairly narrow topic and I did get one additional answer, but it wasn't the answer I wound up picking. So the bounty didn't really help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only upside is that because the question was on the featured list for a few days, I did get an additional up vote, which offset the cost of the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131053" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T17:56:11.337" />
  <row Id="32719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32713" CreationDate="2009-12-11T17:57:06.547" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's supposed to be hard to get 10k.  Even on (perhaps especially on) sites with lighter traffic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the reasoning behind this is that lower traffic doesn't require as much moderation, and so new moderators aren't needed as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T17:57:06.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32716" CreationDate="2009-12-11T18:01:34.803" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually try to do a bit of both, where I feel it's appropriate. For homework questions I'm much more likely to give &quot;fishing hints&quot; rather than giving a whole fish. For &quot;I need this for my job&quot; questions I try to give the &quot;fishing&quot; bit first and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; give the answer - that helps to stop people from only reading as far as the bit they need right now :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly there are time pressures here - it's a lot quicker &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; to give the fish, so sometimes that will have to do... but not usually for homework questions, as that's not really helping anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T18:01:34.803" />
  <row Id="32721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32705" CreationDate="2009-12-11T18:02:54.647" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like a good idea. Here's how I would implement it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unformatted markdown&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Here's my example code:&#xA;&#xA;    var fruit = &quot;Apple&quot;&#xA; -&gt; if isRipe(fruit) do&#xA;        eat(fruit)&#xA;    end&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Rendered post&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lines having that arrow should automatically be highlighted with a differently coloured background. Maybe one could add a reference number for each highlighted line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's my example code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA; var fruit = &quot;Apple&quot;&#xA; &lt;i&gt;if isRipe(fruit) do                                                       [1]&lt;/i&gt;&#xA;     eat(fruit)&#xA; end&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastEditorUserId="132324" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T22:40:51.023" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T22:40:51.023" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="32722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32716" CreationDate="2009-12-11T18:04:30.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question indeed.  I think you've already stumbled on one of the key points in the discussion:  differentiating between a simple question with a simple answer and a question indicating there's a bigger problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the simple questions, the simple answer is probably best.  As you've stated, the person posing the question is likely just looking for a quick fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the questions suggesting a bigger problem, I try to help them see the bigger problem and understand it.  If I succeed, then they will be able to answer their own question once they understand the larger issue.  That makes them a better developer/architect/whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As one of my teachers once said, my goal is not to teach you this particular set of rules and facts but to teach you to think.  Once you can think, the rules and facts are easy to apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140270" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T18:04:30.337" />
  <row Id="32723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32716" CreationDate="2009-12-11T18:06:36.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually provide an answer, then expand on it to discuss alternatives or ask more questions about what the use case may be that seems to be driving them towards whatever is causing me to wonder about the question.  The reason I try to provide an answer is that, in a very real sense, the question stands on its own.  It's not mere the OP whose problem it is that you are trying to help, but everyone who comes after them -- with whatever motivations -- who might be helped.  In some cases, though, my answer might be along the lines of -- don't do that, it's just wrong.  Sometimes you get punished for trying to improve a person's practices instead of simply answering the question.  If you can't deal with that, then just move on, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T18:06:36.123" />
  <row Id="32724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32705" CreationDate="2009-12-11T18:27:47.300" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a few options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simply add a comment in the appropriate language syntax to draw attention to the important line of code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, It might be better to have &lt;strong&gt;automatic line numbering for code blocks&lt;/strong&gt;, so then you can just say &quot;&lt;em&gt;see here on line X...&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are including so much code that it is not clear which are the &quot;important&quot; parts, generally you are including too much code. Try to boil it down to the smallest working example possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T20:04:28.133" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T20:04:28.133" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:23:50.380" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32358/unable-to-accept-answer-for-a-question-with-a-bounty&quot;&gt;Unable to accept answer for a question with a bounty&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/6583/why-does-my-iphones-audio-when-played-over-bluetooth-stop-when-the-display-turns/&quot;&gt;a question on Super User&lt;/a&gt; that I would like to accept an answer for, but there's no checkmark to click next to any of the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I accept an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130349" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T00:29:02.810" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T00:29:02.810" ClosedDate="2009-12-12T10:23:06.957" Title="Why can't I accept an answer to my question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32725" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:26:46.757" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you ever had a bounty set on it, and said bounty expired, you permanently lose the ability to select an answer afterward:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;Why an answer can’t be accepted after an unresolved bounty?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31873/is-it-possible-to-accept-an-answer-on-a-bounty-question-after-the-bounty-expires&quot;&gt;Is it possible to accept an answer on a bounty question after the bounty expires?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32358/unable-to-accept-answer-for-a-question-with-a-bounty&quot;&gt;Unable to accept answer for a question with a bounty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And probably several other examples ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T19:26:46.757" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:25:22.323" Score="1" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498/what-are-the-architecture-details-of-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What are the architecture details of Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the architecture of Stack Overflow?&#xA;I did a quick Google search but did not find any open source clones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-11T21:13:45.910" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T21:13:45.910" ClosedDate="2009-12-11T21:22:22.007" Title="What is the architecture of SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32727" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:27:14.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130692" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T19:28:32.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32727" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:27:20.673" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First link when I googled &quot;stackoverflow architecture.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132908" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T19:28:32.140" />
  <row Id="32730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32695" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:29:19.530" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that I ask most difficult questions when I'm doing research. I write questions that either do not fit into a conventional use of a particular technology or it's being used outside of it's recommended use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the answer to your questions, is &lt;strong&gt;if the question seems complicated, then I must not understand enough about the problem&lt;/strong&gt;. I find that it helps to search stackoverflow for similar questions by keywords. It allows me to see other questions that are asked on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I &quot;really, really&quot; want to know the answer to a question, no matter how difficult the question is, I put a bounty on it. I've had a lot of success with this, because people tend to put a lot more effort in trying to understand the background of what you are asking and provide you with an answer that is more detailed. I find that I learn more from these details then from a lot of the research that i do on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I posted this answer on stackoverflow before it was moved to meta.stackoverflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T19:29:19.530" />
  <row Id="32731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32695" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:44:44.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I have something that is complex that I can't break down into several smaller questions, then I like to write it just like the middle school english teacher taught:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intro paragraph - very simple overview with the main question(s) highlighted so they know what to look for in the meat of the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meat - The problem(s) explained further, relevant code, links, explanations, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What I've tried - What worked, what didn't, why the things that worked couldn't be used&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conclusion - Re-iterate the specific problem you have, and ask very short, specific questions so people know exactly what type of answer to write, rather than addressing something in the meat that they think is important, but actually is tangential.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really turns a TLDR into a &quot;read the summary, read the conclusion, and if still interested in the problem, go for the meat&quot; issue.  I usually bold the questions in the conclusion so people's eye's are drawn to them, even if they skip over the meat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is a last resort - only to be used when the problem can't be simplified or broken down further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T19:44:44.510" />
  <row Id="32733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32727" CreationDate="2009-12-11T19:58:09.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY%5FlvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO Google Tech Talk&lt;/a&gt;, also when it's up the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; talks about the architecture and even hardware a fair bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T19:58:09.900" />
  <row Id="32734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32716" CreationDate="2009-12-11T20:04:59.810" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look, we've seen this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1890472/jquery-css-add-color-to-un-ordered-list-items&quot;&gt;all the time&lt;/a&gt;. What I try to do, is check if it is a duplicate (that generally this kind of simple questions have) and if there is none, provide as complete an answer as I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I start explaining the background knowledge needed, later explaining the specifics for the OP situation and finally, I give them the fish, if I consider that it should be given (the OP is not asking how to do something illegal or technically stupid).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving the fish in the last part of the question is important. Even if most people rush through questions/answers looking for the relevant information, the OP has a high chance of seen the introductory explanation, which could even say &lt;em&gt;don't do this, because &lt;del&gt;it's evil&lt;/del&gt;this, this and this&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's try get people to learn something new every day, not just make them practice copy n' paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T20:04:59.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32725" CreationDate="2009-12-11T21:40:59.370" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;no checkmarks to click next to each answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The checkmarks are images so something could be keeping them from loading. You could check if you have images disabled or maybe some ad blocking software giving a false positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149844" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T21:40:59.370" />
  <row Id="32737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-11T21:41:24.453" Score="0" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;Should we be allowed to edit comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I edit a comment that I left on a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137980" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T07:18:00.197" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T19:42:43.427" ClosedDate="2009-12-12T10:23:47.470" Title="How do I edit my comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32737" CreationDate="2009-12-11T21:43:00.303" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't. You can delete a comment and then add a new one, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for the record, you CAN edit comments now (for a brief period after you submit it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T19:42:43.427" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32737" CreationDate="2009-12-11T21:53:41.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not possible. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;Yet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T21:53:41.560" />
  <row Id="32740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32737" CreationDate="2009-12-11T21:58:17.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add a new comment with your corrections in it, wait 30 seconds, delete the old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It sure would be nice if the comment restrictions were lightened a little for users with a certain reputation threshold... but then, I dream of a world of ponies and rainbows and waffles too.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T21:58:17.200" />
  <row Id="32741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="88919" CreationDate="2009-12-11T22:04:45.190" Score="3" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm. I tried searching for &lt;code&gt;9-bit&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&quot;9-bit&quot;&lt;/code&gt; and it looks like StackOverflow just sees &quot;bit&quot; and ignores the &quot;9-&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to search verbatim for nonalphabetic characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T19:32:26.703" Title="searching for nonalphabetic strings" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32741" CreationDate="2009-12-11T22:07:45.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.de/search?q=9-bit+site%3Astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sure!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-11T22:07:45.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32745" CreationDate="2009-12-11T23:07:18.807" Score="3" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't insert '&amp;#x10123;' character (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/10123/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'AEGEAN NUMBER TWO THOUSAND'&lt;/a&gt;) in the code section.&#xA;I see it in preview but it vanishes on submit (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1883118/big-list-of-portability-in-python/1883472#1883472&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137096" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T18:39:48.880" Title="How to insert wide Unicode character on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;unicode&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32743" CreationDate="2009-12-11T23:29:24.790" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why Stack Overflow is deleting the character. However, using a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block wrapping a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; instead of the 4 space indent for the code block and using the HTML encoding of the character seems to work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&#xA;#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-&#xA;print 'Result:', u'&amp;amp;#65827;' == u'\U00010123'&#xA;print 'Len:', len(u'&amp;amp;#65827;'), len(u'\U00010123')&#xA;print 'Repr:', repr(u'&amp;amp;#65827;'), repr(u'\U00010123')&#xA;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;results in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-&#xA;print 'Result:', u'&amp;#65827;' == u'\U00010123'&#xA;print 'Len:', len(u'&amp;#65827;'), len(u'\U00010123')&#xA;print 'Repr:', repr(u'&amp;#65827;'), repr(u'\U00010123')&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There syntax highlighting will work if you remember to place in the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T00:15:57.093" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T00:15:57.093" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32746" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-12T00:10:09.177" Score="0" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13270/how-many-words-can-a-tag-contain&quot;&gt;How many words can a tag contain?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a maximum limit on the length of tags? I noticed that the tag for SQL Server Management Studio is truncated to &lt;code&gt;sql-server-management-stu&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like this should be an easy thing to correct, if not to allow the creation of new longer tags, but to correct existing tags that have been truncated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just come across &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13270/how-many-words-can-a-tag-contain&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; mention of 25 being the maximum length. Whilst I can see this applies to new tags created by users, could admins/moderators have the ability to create/edit longer tags where appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T17:29:56.107" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T17:29:56.107" ClosedDate="2009-12-12T18:26:59.513" Title="Maximum length of tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32746" CreationDate="2009-12-12T00:22:37.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be logical to conclude that the maximum tag length is 25, which seems quite reasonable.  In the example you gave, that could be renamed &lt;code&gt;sql-server-mgmt-studio&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T00:22:37.313" />
  <row Id="32748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32716" CreationDate="2009-12-12T00:57:29.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually some people inevitably &lt;strong&gt;come to the rescue&lt;/strong&gt; by throwing fish even in spite of an accepted quick solution. Sometimes the total fish carnage is quite respectful. In general most of us like &lt;strong&gt;to know reasons why&lt;/strong&gt;, and we understand by leaving background info we are helping out still, even if a solution has already been accepted or even if we realize we're not apt to get many points. &lt;strong&gt;Future visitors&lt;/strong&gt; to the pages will reap the benefits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example cited by the author here might be filled out even more in the future - it won't necessarily always remain a quick fix. That's one of the beauties of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other side of the coin&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Likewise where a quick answer is oft given for points sake (I do it too), when the author wants even more info, he/she can draw in more explanation by way of not accepting a solution and asking more comment questions pending acceptance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="136524" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T01:22:13.210" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T01:22:13.210" />
  <row Id="32749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32716" CreationDate="2009-12-12T01:10:41.873" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only teach someone to fish if they want to learn how to fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes many questions show far deeper issues that simply the question that is being asked, however the people who ask those questions can easily be split into 2 categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those who care&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those who don't&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who don't care are never going to take a blind bit of notice - both you and they are better off if you just give them the fish and let them go on their merry way,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who care on the other hand generally tend to be the people who will figure out these sorts of lessons themselves anyway, given enough time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, these people also tend to be the sort of people who &lt;strong&gt;learn best if they figure something out for themselves.&lt;/strong&gt;  You can tell them that parsing xml with regular expressions is a bad idea, but they won't really &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; why until they try to do it themselves, fail, and then &lt;em&gt;realise&lt;/em&gt; why its a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T01:10:41.873" />
  <row Id="32752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-12T09:04:15.867" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to &quot;favorite&quot; comments and have them shown in the user profile?&#xA;I know I can favorite a question, but sometimes, comments reveal a great piece of information too and it'd be great to favorite comments as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131708" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T09:08:59.510" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T09:08:59.510" Title="Is it possible to &quot;favorite&quot; a comment?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32752" CreationDate="2009-12-12T09:08:06.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You also can't &quot;favorite&quot; answers. It's a question-only thing... so if you have a comment or answer you wish to remember, then mark the parent question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T09:08:06.580" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32756" CreationDate="2009-12-12T11:44:03.160" Score="7" ViewCount="502" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Stack Overflow, Super User and Server Fault everyday so I have them pinned to my Windows 7 taskbar but the default icons (from their fav icons) are very low quality when used in the taskbar. (The Server Fault one is currently fine because of the logo's design)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been able to find high quality icons for Gmail, Remember The Milk and other sites I use through Prism (Prism allows you to use a web app like a normal windows application - think of the 'application shortcut' feature in chrome but with more customisation options).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there high quality (larger dimensions) .ICO files available with the logo and no text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prism link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mozillalabs.com/prism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://mozillalabs.com/prism/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gmail icon example (I used the .ICO in the packaged download): &lt;a href=&quot;http://ncrow.deviantart.com/art/Icon-Gmail-121223675&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From deviant art&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138923" LastEditorUserId="138923" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T12:15:06.647" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T15:37:21.807" Title="Icons for Stack Overflow and Super User? (for Prism + Windows 7 + pinned)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="32756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32755" CreationDate="2009-12-12T12:32:01.233" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not &lt;code&gt;.ico&lt;/code&gt;, but you can try the &lt;code&gt;PNG&lt;/code&gt; type icons they have showing for those bookmarking on the iPhone and similar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/stackoverflow/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;apple touch icon for stack overflow&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/stackoverflow/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/content/stackoverflow/img/apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;♥&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://serverfault.com/content/serverfault/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;apple touch icon for server fault&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/content/serverfault/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/content/serverfault/img/apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;♣&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://superuser.com/content/superuser/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;apple touch icon for super user&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/content/superuser/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/content/superuser/img/apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;♠ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/stackoverflowmeta/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;apple touch icon for meta&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/stackoverflowmeta/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/content/stackoverflowmeta/img/apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can get the general idea for the other sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cooking.stackexchange.com/content/cooking/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot; alt=&quot;toke on a toque&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cooking.stackexchange.com/content/cooking/img/apple-touch-icon.png&quot;&gt;http://cooking.stackexchange.com/content/cooking/img/apple-touch-icon.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-22T15:37:21.807" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T15:37:21.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-12T16:24:20.280" Score="-2" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you just want to let out some steam, and troll about some technology or software. You are not looking for any answers, but for users with similar experiences and interesting stories. So why not create a separate discussion site (trolling.stackoverflow.com?), where you could ask questions like &quot;why do you hate technology X&quot; or &quot;What are the stupidest bugs you encountered in X&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140300" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T02:05:28.620" Title="Can you add a separate discussion site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;trolling&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="32770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32769" CreationDate="2009-12-12T16:26:20.540" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go create it with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bet it'd really work! Really really!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T16:26:20.540" />
  <row Id="32773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32743" CreationDate="2009-12-12T18:39:48.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that we strip any characters that aren't valid in XML on submission. Not sure if this applies, but I wanted to mention that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/397250/unicode-regex-invalid-xml-characters/961504#961504&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/397250/unicode-regex-invalid-xml-characters/961504#961504&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T18:39:48.880" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-03T01:54:53.970" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don`t think SO allow questions in other languages, do they? I often hear comments like &quot;I wish we had SO in our language&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... are there any plans to make SO available to non english speaking countries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ok if people &quot;clone&quot; SO to make it available locally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T19:56:19.710" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:56:19.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T01:54:53.970" Title="Localized versions of StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;localization&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2008-11-03T01:56:57.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can ask questions in whichever language you want.  I know I've seen a couple non-english questions on stackoverflow.  I don't think anybody would mod you down, simply for writing in another language.  However, if you speak a language that not too many other readers speak, it may not get answered very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T01:56:57.693" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2008-11-03T02:05:32.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a more interesting question would be: is S.O. free or licenseable so you could you run an internal corporate S.O.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T02:05:32.920" />
  <row Id="32779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2008-11-03T02:38:56.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar, although not localization related, questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32638/which-cms-or-other-framework-to-develop-a-stackoverflow-like-site&quot;&gt;Which CMS or other framework to develop a stackoverflow-like site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172516/a-stack-overflow-like-application-for-your-intranet&quot;&gt;A Stack Overflow-like application for your intranet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T02:38:56.393" />
  <row Id="32780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2008-11-03T12:09:02.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best solution would be for stackoverflow to 1) localize their UI and 2) provide support for questions in different languages. Users could then, a la Google, search for questions that match their primary language, or if they wanted, add additional languages to search. This would all be personalized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16534" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T12:09:02.810" />
  <row Id="32781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2008-11-03T12:13:11.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really think Jeff and company should implement on a basic level the Google's Translation API, while it wouldn't be perfect, it would at least translate the page or sections of the page auto magically using JavaScript so that any body could read a question and respond in their own language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T12:13:11.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2008-11-03T12:31:36.277" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, English is the &lt;em&gt;lingua franca&lt;/em&gt; of software development. It is very hard to become and remain a competent software developer without a good command of English language. This is not elitism as we all know that most programming related material out there (like references, blogs, etc.) are written in English, especially online documents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is a medium for people who are willing to learn, and someone who failed to learn English to a level where he or she can understand programming related text in English or compose even basic questions in English (and I don't think that anybody has ever been mocked on SO because his or her bad English) is clearly someone who is not a 'learner' as probably not the target audience of Stackoverflow. Also, it is always possible to just grab a dictionary and translate the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I reckon creating localised versions of Stackoverflow would be completely in vain as it would be just a waste of resources, and it would unnecessarily divide the community into segments as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-03T12:31:36.277" />
  <row Id="32783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2008-12-03T22:38:50.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO allows questions in other languages, but since the community prefers English, that's the language to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My very &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/88579/&quot;&gt;first question&lt;/a&gt; was in spanish and was quickly downvoted and even translated ( thanks for the translation though ) !!... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My goal was to post a sample question and tell to a friend, &quot;Hey look at this great site!&quot; Without pretending that someone answer my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a couple of downvotes, I closed my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it would be great to have localized version of SO, as in Y!A and configure the profile to see those that you know without having to switch sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I wouldn't be so interested in questions posted in ... let's say &quot;Icelandic&quot; but I could read english and spanish very well ( and try some others langs in the process ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who may ask a lot of basic programming questions, don't read/write english very well ( at least in my country ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" />
  <row Id="32784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2009-03-19T13:37:39.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with the answer that says English is the lingua franca of software development. Most material related to software development is in English, I don't see how someone who wants to be a good developer can ignore this fact. Personally, one of the main reasons I improved my English was to become a better software developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other reason why it could be hard to localize Stackoverflow is the number of users. Stackoverflow is a community of software developers so the number of users are much less than a site like Y!A for example, now by asking a question in a local language in a community that's not too large, you have a much less chance for getting a good answer for your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-19T13:37:39.640" />
  <row Id="32785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2009-03-19T13:53:25.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't believe no one's mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askdev.ru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askdev.ru/&lt;/a&gt; yet. Now it looks a little different; before, it was basically a perfect imitation of SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41308" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-19T13:53:25.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2009-03-19T14:04:58.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only speak English, but I can see how someone who speaks English enough to get by, might still not have quite the language required to express a complicated abstract concepts in their 3rd or 4th tongue... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, 1) It's not really SO's job to satisfy that. They made a site, we use it. If you want a similar site in Gaelic, write it, or copy this one, or something. 2) As others have mentioned, the number of people who will be able to answer a question posed in Gaelic is MUCH less than in English... 3) since many computer terms were originally coined in English, no matter what language you choose, it's going to be a lot of English anyway... and 4) There's really nothing stopping anyone (to my knowledge) from posting here in any language you want... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And yes, I chose &quot;Gaelic&quot; as a random language for humor value)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135909" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-19T14:04:58.887" />
  <row Id="32787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2009-03-19T14:12:34.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the lingua franca of computer programming, just like latin &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; for medicine a few centuries ago, and english &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; for computers in general a few decades ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current lack of online programming documentation in other languages shouldn't be an argument against localizing a successful programming site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T19:54:44.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-19T14:12:34.157" />
  <row Id="32788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32769" CreationDate="2009-12-12T20:18:15.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a &lt;code&gt;troll&lt;/code&gt; tag on Meta that only shows if you favorite it.  Troll questions can't be marked as duplicate, can't be closed, and are invisible to everyone except the troll team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way it'll be just a steam vent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T20:18:15.830" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32809" CreationDate="2009-12-12T21:11:51.820" Score="22" ViewCount="839" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one is talking&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Many of us are clueless&lt;br&gt;&#xA;WTF&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="4228" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T23:31:53.043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T18:36:26.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-12T21:11:51.820" Title="What is this &quot;spam haiku&quot; nonsense all about?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;haiku&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="32790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32769" CreationDate="2009-12-12T21:48:43.017" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're called blogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T21:48:43.017" />
  <row Id="32791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32793" CreationDate="2009-12-12T22:36:55.737" Score="7" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1894846/printing-bfs-binary-tree-in-level-order-with-specific-formatting/1894862#1894862&quot;&gt;In a recent discussion&lt;/a&gt; user Pascal Cuoq noticed a very strangely written reply by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/108207/larson&quot;&gt;user LarsOn&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While reading some answers from his profile, I can't help to think the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you guys think? (I linked the profile above)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the policy on bots here on StackOverflow (one with two accepted answers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; If I'm wrong, an apology to LarsOn seems appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138885" LastEditorUserId="138885" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-12T23:34:23.807" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T02:13:37.263" Title="Is there a bot on stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;site-usage&gt;&lt;bots&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32791" CreationDate="2009-12-12T22:57:49.133" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have decided that I cannot distinguish between a bot and a human being who is a fan of a few select algorithmicians and uses English unconventionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be very rude of me to imply that a human being fails the Turing test, so I will be careful to avoid doing this again in the future, and I apologize to LarsOn if ey read this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140311" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T22:57:49.133" />
  <row Id="32794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32769" CreationDate="2009-12-12T22:59:07.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that's what usenet is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T22:59:07.913" />
  <row Id="32795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-12-12T22:59:37.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MSDN's homepage is Jon Skeet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144129" LastActivityDate="2009-12-12T22:59:37.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-12T22:59:37.663" />
  <row Id="32798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32789" CreationDate="2009-12-12T23:46:13.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;all converge to read&lt;br&gt;&#xA;written courtesies gone cold&lt;br&gt;&#xA;somewhere a phone rings&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;fruit falls from the tree&lt;br&gt;&#xA;birds have not gone for winter&lt;br&gt;&#xA;one careless beetle&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;web in disrepair&lt;br&gt;&#xA;spiders go strangely absent&lt;br&gt;&#xA;they don't like pressed meat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T13:35:39.247" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T13:35:39.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-12T23:46:13.273" />
  <row Id="32801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32803" CreationDate="2009-12-13T00:11:35.223" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried it a few times today and it seems totally different. Just full of podcasts and not the normal blog content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A search on Meta has returned a post &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32676/stack-overflow-blog-down-closed&quot;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt; saying the blog was down completly but today its up, it just looks weird to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did I miss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134974" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T01:34:18.317" Title="Has the blog changed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;blog&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32801" CreationDate="2009-12-13T00:16:46.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks normal to me. Do you get the post about the Lego minifigs as the most recent one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T00:16:46.727" />
  <row Id="32803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32801" CreationDate="2009-12-13T00:25:36.337" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday blog.stackoverflow.com experienced a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32676/stack-overflow-blog-down/32693#32693&quot;&gt;complete data loss&lt;/a&gt; due to server and backup failure. The content has been restored, mostly through web caches, so some of the information might seem different due to that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that you have the old blog IP - the blog used to be hosted at CrystalTech &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32676/stack-overflow-blog-down/32772#32772&quot;&gt;but is now hosted at Peak&lt;/a&gt; with the rest of Stack Overflow. The new IP to blog.stackoverflow.com is 69.59.196.214.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T01:05:59.647" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T01:05:59.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32801" CreationDate="2009-12-13T01:13:08.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using information from Kyle Cronin's answer I found a work-around:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put this in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts%5Ffile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hosts file&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;69.59.196.214    blog.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will resurrect the Lego thingies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my Windows system the file named &lt;code&gt;hosts&lt;/code&gt; lives in folder &lt;code&gt;C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers\etc&lt;/code&gt;. Unix derived systems usually have this file in &lt;code&gt;/etc&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T01:34:18.317" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T01:34:18.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32791" CreationDate="2009-12-13T02:13:37.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%5Ftranslation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;machine translation&lt;/a&gt;, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Translate&lt;/a&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/76377/harddisk-life-will-reduce-under-linux-than-windows/76424#76424&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. from French or Romanian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T02:13:37.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32769" CreationDate="2009-12-13T04:07:39.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Against it, certainly as an attached site like SU, SF, etc.  Last thing we need is someone getting butthurt because someone trolled on .NET and seeking things to downvote on the sister sites.  If it doesn't help to build the community, then it really doesn't have any place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139584" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T04:07:39.180" />
  <row Id="32808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32789" CreationDate="2009-12-13T04:20:02.743" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;telemarketers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;salesmen, advertisers, bots&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;kill -9 &quot;spiced ham&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T04:20:02.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T04:20:02.743" />
  <row Id="32809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32789" CreationDate="2009-12-13T04:46:05.537" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;he looks so confused,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;What are these strange words?&quot; he cries,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;answers, he finds none&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T04:59:30.347" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T04:59:30.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T04:46:05.537" />
  <row Id="32810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32789" CreationDate="2009-12-13T04:59:17.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;give a man a fish&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and you feed him for a day.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;rather, teach haiku.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T04:59:17.337" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T04:59:17.337" />
  <row Id="32811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32789" CreationDate="2009-12-13T05:03:27.940" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;uhmmmm its delicious&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;spam-ku in a dish for you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eat, eat, and be fat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T05:03:27.940" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T05:03:27.940" />
  <row Id="32812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-13T06:22:33.460" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the clear parts?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My mind reels, thoughts turn to hooves.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'd best just eat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T06:22:33.460" />
  <row Id="32813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32824" CreationDate="2009-12-13T08:37:21.200" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen quite a few answers where the images are directly hotlinked from other blogs/sites. Is it acceptable ? IIRC Jeff had a post on his blog about blocking leechers/hotlinkers. What is the accepted policy over at The Trilogy sites ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T19:32:31.620" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T19:32:31.620" Title="Are Hotlinked images allowed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32813" CreationDate="2009-12-13T11:52:49.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think generally it is allowed. However it also depends largely on the sources of the images. There might be certain terms of use/conditions/policies that forbid hotlinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advise is, if not sure, better check. Even if it is allowed, giving credits by mentioning the source will be a nice gesture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T11:52:49.287" />
  <row Id="32818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-13T11:55:00.297" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;At careers you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer&quot;&gt;cannot be &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; employer and job seeker&lt;/a&gt; (link to another meta question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a login named &lt;strong&gt;nalply&lt;/strong&gt;. Currently I am employer. But as I accumulated reputation with my login, I want to post a CV with it and stop being an employer. I cannot do both, but can I switch from one side to the other one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139600" LastEditorUserId="139600" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T11:34:44.593" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T11:34:44.593" ClosedDate="2009-12-13T17:53:07.887" Title="Careers: Switch sides: from being an employer to looking for a job?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;&lt;employers&gt;" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31762" CreationDate="2009-12-13T12:40:20.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would also be cool if someone would relate the relative frequency of a tag to the weekday. I have the impression that we get more JavaScript and PHP questions during the weekend...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135110" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T12:40:20.853" />
  <row Id="32820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32823" CreationDate="2009-12-13T12:53:58.053" Score="6" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1845913/creating-picture-gallery/1859279#1859279&quot;&gt;my answer has just been accepted&lt;/a&gt; on a 100 bounty question but somehow I just got 50 bounty points, why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that I care that much about the reputation, it's just that SO has lots of mysterious / obscure behaviors and I feel like I don't know them at all. Can someone clarify this one for me please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T13:58:14.240" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T13:58:14.240" Title="Half the Bounty? Is that possible?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;auto-acceptance&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32820" CreationDate="2009-12-13T13:12:52.807" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question owner did not select your answer. It was auto-selected (at least 2 upvotes and posted after the bounty). If it is auto-selected, you only get half of the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any existing answers before the start of the bounty  are not eligible to win via auto-acceptance. Only those posted after and with +2 are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer was among others on a level footing of +2 upvotes. But, as yours was posted first, it was auto-accepted as the bounty winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T13:35:08.493" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T13:35:08.493" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32813" CreationDate="2009-12-13T13:14:43.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since hotlinking usually isn't considered a nice thing to do (&lt;em&gt;some sites like to use rather nasty anti-hotlinking replacement images!&lt;/em&gt;) I think one way SO could go with this is the similar thing done by for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.somethingawful.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SomethingAwful.com&lt;/a&gt; forums: They generally allow only couple pre-selected image hosting sites to be used when images are being hotlinked, in their case it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://waffleimages.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WaffleImages&lt;/a&gt; which exists solely as a service for SA.com. Additionally similar services do exist for multiple MMO games too so this isn't an unique concept at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coupled with &lt;strong&gt;mandatory&lt;/strong&gt; OpenID registration to such site would even allow to track copyright infringments etc. (&lt;em&gt;this tracking is usually required by various state/nation laws&lt;/em&gt;) and would thus keep SO legally safe from angry lawyers while allowing for safely managed way to share helpful images with others when needed. It would of course be up to the implementation to actually decide whether it allows the images to be used elsewhere than Trilogy sites and how to handle the cases where people upload random pictures to share with their friends and so on and so forth, but this is just an idea I'm throwing out here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T13:14:43.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33367" CreationDate="2009-12-13T13:25:28.167" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an old chestnut - but it is silly that the preview display is not in synch with the main display and I ran across it again.  The mismatch makes it hard to be confident that what you are seeing is what you will get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:09:28.460" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:09:28.460" Title="Preview display of editor on SO shows embedded underscore in name turning italics on but actual display doesn't" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;preview&gt;&lt;underscore&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="32829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32831" CreationDate="2009-12-13T15:39:14.650" Score="4" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious if people know where &lt;em&gt;online&lt;/em&gt; voting systems started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First there was Digg, then there was .. ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="111307" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T19:30:10.630" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T19:41:56.410" Title="Where did voting systems start?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32829" CreationDate="2009-12-13T15:53:10.320" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the greeks invented democracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T15:53:10.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32829" CreationDate="2009-12-13T16:11:30.550" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt; predates Digg by about 7 years, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashcode.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slash&lt;/a&gt; has a voting system built in.  I think it is (or at least, was) the canonical example of user-vote based moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T16:11:30.550" />
  <row Id="32833" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-13T17:38:57.180" Score="0" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a SO question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1894453/development-time-in-various-languages&quot;&gt;language productivity&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What emerged from the question was that there really was not much good research into the topic of language productivity and that any research which had been done was from the 2000 time-frame. What makes research like this difficult is finding a large sample size and finding problems which don't favour one class of language greatly over another. That got me thinking, what better source of programmers is there than stackoverflow? There are developers from all across the spectrum of languages and abilities; there is even a pretty good geographic disbursement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's do this research ourselves! I propose a stackoverflow language programming contest. We'll develop a suite of programming tasks which try as hard as possible to not focus on the advantages of one particular language and gather metrics. I think we should gather&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time taken to develop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lines of code required&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Runtime over the same input&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memory usage over the same input&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experience of the programmer (years or some other metric, KLOCs written?  Degrees?) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other things I haven't thought of&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll set up a site to gather people's solutions to the problems and collate statistics but the problems should be proposed by the community. We'll allow people to checkout the problem set, time how long it takes to the to complete it and then submit the code for their answers. I'll run the code and benchmark the results and after, say two weeks of having the contest open, publish my results as well as the dataset for anybody else to analyze. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think?  Would any of you participate? What questions do you propose?  Can you think of other metrics?  Which languages?  I would think at least&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ruby&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T17:55:52.780" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T03:57:35.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T17:40:13.883" Title="Stackoverflow Language Research" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;research&gt;&lt;contest&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32833" CreationDate="2009-12-13T18:15:22.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topcoder.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TopCoder&lt;/a&gt; has been running contests like this for &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt;. But I don't know if they've ever done a study comparing the results. The Stack Overflow system might present a bigger challenge when it comes to measuring results, as keeping existing solutions from late participants would be tricky...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly suspect that &lt;em&gt;using&lt;/em&gt; such results would be tricky... Personally, I spend far more time researching a new project than I actually do coding up a solution, regardless of which language I end up using for it. Also, learning to use an unfamiliar or poorly-designed API can chew up vast amounts of time &lt;em&gt;regardless&lt;/em&gt; of the language used to call it. Would you present contestants with a fully-developed algorithm and ask only that they implement it? How would you account for language bias in the algorithm description?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it might be fun to try (if not particularly useful). Perhaps a variation (a lowest time-to-code goal instead of or in addition to the lowest LoC goal) of the existing Code Golf contests would be a good place to start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T18:15:22.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T18:15:22.230" />
  <row Id="32835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32833" CreationDate="2009-12-13T18:31:34.667" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What makes research like this difficult is finding a large sample size and finding problems which don't favour one class of language greatly over another. That got me thinking, what better source of programmers is there than stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow may have a large sample size, but it's a poor choice for serious research because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Research (poll-type) questions are not the purpose of the site, and even if you get massive approval on meta, that doesn't mean it will be well-received on SO proper.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The languages are not equally represented in terms of number of participants on SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The languages are not equally represented in terms of the skill level of participants on SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions would necessarily be opt-in.  Those people who produce poor results may elect not to return their data, tainting the overall dataset.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Properly measuring effort is &lt;em&gt;incredibly&lt;/em&gt; difficult.  Do you expect people to drop everything and work on these questions 100%?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've probably seen in your research, these types of studies are best done with a controlled sample of individuals from industry under controlled circumstances.  I.e., they are given identical resources and expected to work on the challenges given exclusively for as long as it takes.  Typically a few consecutive days are reserved so that everyone has time to finish a decent-sized challenge.  Studies can be done more informally, but only at the cost of the quality of the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the reason the sample sizes are usually small: It's desirable to control as many factors as possible, which is difficult with a large number of participants.  After all, you can't expect 10% of the industry to take a week-long vacation just to get you some research data. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting a large sample size while controlling the experiment to the degree necessary is a very ambitious and worthy goal, and if you can do it, there's probably a big fat grant just waiting to fund it.  But I don't think StackOverflow is going to get you there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T18:31:34.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T18:31:34.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32839" CreationDate="2009-12-13T19:18:58.697" Score="1" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you think it is OK for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47845&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;Why is creating a new process more expensive on Windows than Linux?&quot;, to be on Stack Overflow (Super User or Server Fault would be the alternative)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why or why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T20:08:05.397" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T20:08:05.397" Title="Where does Stack Overflow question 47845 belong?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32836" CreationDate="2009-12-13T19:27:37.220" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very relevant to programming. If you're writing software for Windows and considering a port to a *nix system... or vice versa... Then you'll want to know how they differ in behavior, design philosophy, and especially performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T19:27:37.220" />
  <row Id="32838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32836" CreationDate="2009-12-13T19:29:22.770" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really care, you can do an experiment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create the questions of all three places&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;after a few days check which one has brought the best answers for you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;meanwhile you can watch if anyone claims the question inappropriate for any given place, or if the question is closed at any of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would create it on Stack Overflow as I think it is most likely programmers will be able to answer this, because it is programmer who care about performance of individual API calls - and programmers visit Stack Overflow most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135545" LastEditorUserId="135545" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-13T19:45:11.880" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T19:45:11.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32836" CreationDate="2009-12-13T19:38:59.147" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is a programming one (&quot;...because of &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; difference in the way the kernels were designed...&quot;), and is more important to programmers (who must decide when to use threads and when to use processes) than to users or admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it definitely belongs on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T19:38:59.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32829" CreationDate="2009-12-13T19:41:56.410" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Semi-serious answer:&lt;/strong&gt; The first &quot;Me too&quot; post on the usenet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which would have been some September sometime in the 70's...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T19:41:56.410" />
  <row Id="32841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32789" CreationDate="2009-12-13T22:43:04.303" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;john has lots of sax&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;with an xml parser&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;sax is so, so good&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T22:43:04.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-13T22:43:04.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-13T23:37:12.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was it just me who hadn't heard of Haiku before the new president of the EU council was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/6494387/Haiku-loving-Belgian-PM-Herman-Van-Rompuy-in-line-for-EU-presidency.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-13T23:37:12.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31942" CreationDate="2009-12-14T00:48:35.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so what do we need in order to make this happen? I have zero conference organisation experience, virtually no money and a tiny bit of time. What can I do to help make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I've written that I realised the answer to that would be finding people that have those three things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, can we get this off the ground?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139612" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T00:48:35.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-14T00:48:35.667" />
  <row Id="32845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31942" CreationDate="2009-12-14T02:18:20.870" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is important to note that, in addition to the beautiful summer weather we have in February, it is also &lt;em&gt;Rainbows and Unicorns Season&lt;/em&gt; in Sydney. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something everyone should see before they die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.cannonade.net/pics/harbour%5Fbridge%5Funicorns%5Frainbows.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With pony rides, kangaroo steaks and a rabid Australian developer community, this is just one more reason to bring Devdays to Sydney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T02:18:20.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-14T02:18:20.870" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-14T02:33:23.803" Score="33" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The implementors of these sites have come up with a set of heuristics that attempt to detect spamming. I don't know exactly what they are, and if I did, I don't think they would be happy with me for typing them here. However, from my own observation, I've concluded that the site shows a Spam Haiku when the heuristics go off. Human beings scratch their heads, retry, and succeed. Actual robot spam devices are stymied. I imagine that if you thought a bit about what sorts of time and content patterns might be associated with automated spam, you could figure out why you got to read one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T02:33:23.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32833" CreationDate="2009-12-14T03:57:35.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difficulty with scientific studies is controlling all the variables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one has too many to be controlled, and relying of sheer numbers to average out the influence of the variables would produce meaningless results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most development projects are &lt;em&gt;unrepeatable experiments&lt;/em&gt;, because the participants learn as they go. To run an accurate scientific experiment you'd have to rewind time, erase everyone's memory, and run the project again using a different language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and of course, that's un-possible ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T03:57:35.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-14T03:57:35.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T05:17:52.797" Score="3" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15661/you-have-gained-power-heres-how-to-use-it-kind-of-message&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;You have gained power. Here&amp;rsquo;s how to use it.&amp;rdquo; kind of message.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just realized today on SO that I had a new capability to see the up/down votes on an item by clicking the vote total. I guess I haven't been keeping up enough on the blog to realize this feature got added at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to show a notification whenever to the user whenever they a reputation level that unlocks new tools that includes a link to a FAQ or other documentation explaining the new capability. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd suggest a similar notification whenever a new capability is added for all users with enough rep to use it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, you could use the same notification style as when you earn a badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T06:14:53.893" ClosedDate="2009-12-14T06:56:32.460" Title="Suggestion: Show notification when you pass a rep threshold" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32848" CreationDate="2009-12-14T06:14:53.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For gaining a rep-level - I'm pretty sure there always &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; such a message, certainly at some key points (maybe 3k? 10k?); it has been &quot;some time&quot;, however...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this message applies to new site features; the blog, &quot;meta&quot;, and self-discovery are the current route for that, AFAIK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T06:14:53.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32509" CreationDate="2009-12-14T07:39:48.167" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spam haiku, baffling&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509/has-stack-overflow-been-haiku-hacked&quot;&gt;Five&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32789/what-is-this-spam-haiku-nonsense-all-about&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;, yet &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32712/overactive-spam-ku&quot;&gt;most&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32850/weird-page-while-submitting-answers-might-be-the-slow-internet-connection-clos&quot;&gt;still&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32796/strange-haiki-after-posting-message-closed&quot;&gt;stuck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;FAQ weeps for update.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tastes like ham, sorta&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But clogs up my aorta&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Pig rigor morta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A half-eaten slice.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Ants swarm the cold, greasy plate.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A suicide note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T07:39:48.167" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T08:27:59.383" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28525/how-do-i-post-a-screenshot-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do I post a screenshot on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alas, I have found my posts in need of visual accompaniment and yet, I find not the mechanism to attach such images herein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How, fine people of the support to Stack Overflow, does one attach a &lt;code&gt;.png&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;.jpg&lt;/code&gt; file to their post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T06:42:11.053" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T06:42:11.053" ClosedDate="2009-12-15T07:23:39.713" Title="Upload pics and images to posts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;screenshot&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32854" CreationDate="2009-12-14T08:35:02.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upload your image to a free file server, such as picasaweb.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click ctrl+G, enter in the image of the url&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are done.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T08:35:02.190" />
  <row Id="32856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32904" CreationDate="2009-12-14T08:46:06.163" Score="4" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is maybe just an interesting coincidence, but the number of resume searches keeps constantly at almost exactly the number of emplyoers. If the site in use the number of searches should be more closely corelated to half of square root of employers times constant, probably those 10. It seems almost like employers would just test the site a bit each and then stop using it. Do you think it is because the site is still in beta or would it be a sign of some problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133476" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:22:29.503" Title="Careers: Did you notice the number of job searches is 10 times the number of employers at all times?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="32857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T09:00:33.343" Score="-4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28827/should-users-be-discouraged-from-asking-new-questions-until-theyve-accepted-a-ce&quot;&gt;Should users be discouraged from asking new questions until they&amp;rsquo;ve accepted a certain % or deleted old unaccepted questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a surprising number of users on SO who have 0% accept rates. Just today I saw a user who has asked &lt;strong&gt;53&lt;/strong&gt; questions and not marked a single one answered! This seems like a huge problem to me, since the system relies on the people asking questions to at least spend a moment or two marking the best answer with a checkbox, which not only improves the quality of the underlying data, but also gives back some love to the answerer for the time they spent helping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a system where users with low accept rates have their questions approved by a &quot;moderator&quot; (i.e. 2000+ rep user). The trigger point for this wouldn't have to be very high, since not all questions have answered, but some sort of criteria should be in place so people asking 53 questions are basically forced into doing their duty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would probably be extended to new users as well (with maybe a slightly weaker trigger -- perhaps only after asking N questions), to prevent those checkmark-adverse users from just creating new accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the desired behaviour (marking questions as answered) is encouraged as it removes the trigger, where undesired behaviour (creating new accounts) would be discouraged as those accounts would also be under the same system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, a simple delay (e.g. inversely proportional to the accept rate for accept rates &amp;lt; 50%), could be used to add time before a question gets posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134447" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T09:22:56.203" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T09:41:30.727" ClosedDate="2009-12-14T09:44:58.740" Title="Question approval delay/process for new users or users with low accept rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="32858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32857" CreationDate="2009-12-14T09:06:28.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the system &lt;em&gt;relies&lt;/em&gt; on acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it works better when people &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; accept answers, but the answers are still there and judged appropriately by the community without any acceptance. Put it this way: if Stack Overflow didn't have the idea of accepted answers, do you think it would be useless?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to put any barriers in the way of people who ask good questions but don't accept any answers for whatever reason. We should (and do already) certainly &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; acceptance, but it shouldn't be a requirement or even cause a delay in my view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T09:06:28.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32856" CreationDate="2009-12-14T09:08:29.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll have Geoff check, but the stats should be valid!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(no, we do not have a &quot;# of employers * 10&quot; algorithm in place, although that would be funny.. sort of.. I guess)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T09:08:29.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32857" CreationDate="2009-12-14T09:18:14.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not leave it the way it is? If a question's bad, it will get closed, if it's good, it will get edited into shape and answered. The accept rate is irrelevant in the end, the &lt;strong&gt;knowledge&lt;/strong&gt; is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T09:18:14.917" />
  <row Id="32861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T09:20:38.313" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a mechanism for readers of Joel's articles to comment on them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133847" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T10:15:03.333" ClosedDate="2009-12-14T10:53:49.253" Title="How do I post comments on JoelOnSoftware.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;joel-spolsky&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="32864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32857" CreationDate="2009-12-14T09:41:30.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do understand the request. This game SO - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/12/13/gaming%5Fthe%5Fsystem.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rands in Repose &quot;Gaming the System&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - has a certain set of rules that are enforced. Now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rules must be inviolable.&lt;/strong&gt; Enforce&#xA;  rules with an iron fist. A rule not&#xA;  followed is twice as bad as a poorly&#xA;  defined one. A violation of the rules&#xA;  is an affront to a geek. They react&#xA;  violently to violations of the rules&#xA;  because it’s an indication that the&#xA;  system is not working. Rules make a&#xA;  game fair, and when they stop being&#xA;  followed, the geeks stop playing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not seem that not enforcing acceptance makes most geeks quit the game or renders the site useless. I therefore conclude that we should leave the system as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T09:41:30.727" />
  <row Id="32865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32861" CreationDate="2009-12-14T09:51:22.987" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a mechanism. It's called &lt;em&gt;blogging&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post your reply on your own blog and link to Joel's. Or you could use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/joel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Joel has a dog and this dog has a blog and you are not able to comment Joel's dog's blog, then please, feel free to spoil this place again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T10:05:47.127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T10:05:47.127" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32861" CreationDate="2009-12-14T10:02:34.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a discussion in one of the early podcasts that Joel does not support commenting, while Jeff loves feedback from the community. Which does not make this a more fitting place for this question anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T10:15:03.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32869" CreationDate="2009-12-14T10:10:52.890" Score="3" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just answered a really &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1899897/how-do-i-convert-this-to-use-joins/1899924#1899924&quot;&gt;simple question&lt;/a&gt;.  Someone else answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT j.job_id, j.name AS job_name, a.name AS advertiser_name, j.time_added, j.active, j.moderated&#xA;jobs j join advertisers a&#xA;WHERE a.advertiser_id = j.advertiser_id&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two obvious problems that will prevent this approach from parsing: no FROM clause, and no ON clause after the JOIN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the answer has two upvotes.  Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T10:25:44.250" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T13:25:59.277" Title="Two upvotes for answer with obvious errors?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32868" CreationDate="2009-12-14T10:24:06.283" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; missing the obvious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People will upvote anything that &quot;looks&quot; correct and then move on. They either want to feel hotshot about being able to spot code at a second's glance and pass even quicker judgement or just want to sockpuppet some upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they'll realise their mistake (maybe) and then come post on Meta about how they should be able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/vote-too-old&quot; title=&quot;geriatric even&quot;&gt;retract or change their votes&lt;/a&gt; and how the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25202/isnt-the-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-a-little-too-eager&quot; title=&quot;or just unfair&quot;&gt;vote window is too small&lt;/a&gt; unless the post is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T10:24:06.283" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32871" CreationDate="2009-12-14T12:02:12.673" Score="4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the right answer to my question in a commentary. How do I accept an answer in this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139754" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T12:16:44.783" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T12:16:44.783" Title="What should I do when the answer of my question is in a commentary?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32870" CreationDate="2009-12-14T12:15:17.753" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask the commentator to post it as an answer or take it and self-answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T12:15:17.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32609" CreationDate="2009-12-14T12:35:36.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The image markdown probably does not render in search results. Go to &lt;code&gt;Employer View/How your CV will appear in employer search results&lt;/code&gt; and check for yourself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131923" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T12:35:36.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32868" CreationDate="2009-12-14T12:56:32.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the code has obvious errors, it does contain useful information.  It has most of the information needed to solve the problem.  If you have your 2000 rep, just fix the answer.  Or post your own correct answer and comment on theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T13:25:59.277" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T13:25:59.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32887" CreationDate="2009-12-14T13:32:37.597" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask few questions about Siebel configuration, but I do not know where to ask'em. I followed &lt;a href=&quot;http://startups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;startups.com&lt;/a&gt; and tried to post my questions there, but as a new-user I can't create new tags (siebel) there. I am not getting any responses either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140364" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T15:20:41.920" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T15:36:52.563" Title="Where can I ask questions about Siebel?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32876" CreationDate="2009-12-14T13:42:18.707" Score="0" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone answers my question saying that I need to provide some additional information to better solve my quandry, how should I go about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I add those details as a comment to their answer or do I add them in the main body of my question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I add details only as a comment, then other supporters, those that will be looking through my question, may not notice them. Especially given the fact that some comments are hidden and you can only see them if you click on &quot;Show one more comment&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if I add those details only in the upper section of the page (i.e. that section where the question itself is stated), then those who have already responded to my question and inquired for additional information might stay unaware of the update as many of them, as far as I know, would only return to my question if they are notified by the system of some responses that came as comments directly to their answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I could respond to their comments by adding my own comments to their answers saying something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just added some additional details, please look up the question field above&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but that may sound a little bit impolite - they have already lost some of their time once when they looked up my question only to find that the description was not comprehensive, and now they are asked to go to that page again and look up those additional details in the upper section. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that it would be more practical and, perhaps, more appropriate, if they were able to know those additional details directly from my comments added to their answers as those comments (the first few lines of those comments, actually) will be seen to them in their account's summary page (the one that you get to by clicking the envelope icon right next to your name), and, thus, they will know whether or not they could contribute anything to solving my problem without going to my question page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, if I add additional details both in the upper section of the page and in all the comments to their answers (and their comments), it will make the page unnecessarily overloaded with redundant information, which will be overwhelming both for me and those who will be reading this page in the future.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138827" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T08:21:32.293" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T11:26:19.110" Title="How do I add additional information to my questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;updates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32875" CreationDate="2009-12-14T13:53:38.293" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add the additional information to the question body, maybe marked with &lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt;. That way all people that in the future will answer the question do not have to read all the comments made in question and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People that asked you for more information will likely come back later. If you doubt that or have had a while to add the additional info, add a comment to the answers stating: &quot;Added the info you asked for - see question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right that it would be easier for people asking for more info if it were put in the comment - but then these sites are about building a great information platform. Future users should be able to get most use out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the additional question gets altered such that answers given on the previous version are rendered invalid, but they perfectly answered the question as stated before, maybe you are better of to ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T13:53:38.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2009-12-14T13:55:21.347" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; Spam haiku&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jeff Atwood likes fun&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Played a trick on all of us&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now he must explain.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Heard:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509/has-stack-overflow-been-haiku-hacked&quot;&gt;ennuikiller&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;First to find it; asks us all&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509/has-stack-overflow-been-haiku-hacked/32546#32546&quot;&gt;Jeff all so silent.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;haiku always vogue&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And some also like to spam&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now bot must protect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Others hit haiku&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Questions begin to pile up&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32789/what-is-this-spam-haiku-nonsense-all-about&quot;&gt;Only talk: haiku.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Detection bot sees&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Speaks in riddles of haiku&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Makes us think again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Variants:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Little slab of meat&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In a wash of clear jelly&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now I heat the pan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32796/strange-haiki-after-posting-message-closed&quot;&gt;Cube of cold pinkness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yellow specks of porcine fat&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Give me a spork please  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fallout:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;many seek answers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;many more post meta-kus&lt;br&gt;&#xA;no more is knowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T13:55:21.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-14T13:55:21.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32891" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:03:38.480" Score="9" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to find a related question here, but was unsuccessful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone on SO asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1900547/javascript-operators&quot;&gt;what does &quot;!!&quot; mean&lt;/a&gt;... I tried searching SO and was presented with the search options page. Even Google fails at this search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, is there some way to search for an exact word (in quotes) that won't cause it to fail? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136250" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T19:17:21.407" LastActivityDate="2011-01-28T06:47:34.643" Title="Is it possible to search for punctuation/special characters?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32882" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:03:49.320" Score="0" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I separate paragraphs in comments? Is such a feature provided for comments? Sometimes I need to write a piece of code in comments and that's when I really need to separate lines from each other, but it seems that I can't do it in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138827" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T11:17:36.180" Title="How can I separate paragraphs in comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32880" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:09:28.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paragraphs and code snippets are not supported in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need to write a piece of code, or even more then one paragraph, in comments, &lt;strong&gt;you're not using the system correctly&lt;/strong&gt;. Major changes to a question/answer should be done as edits to the original question/answer, not as comments. The commenting feature is for extended discussion of a question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is an exception, and often extended discussions lead to multiple comments by a single OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T07:17:46.120" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T07:17:46.120" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32880" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:10:17.310" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments were not really designed for this. If you need to add code, consider editing your initial answer (if applicable), or write your own answer. If it's just a short snippet, I'm sure most people will understand what you're trying to say (unless the code is in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace%5F%28programming%5Flanguage%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Whitespace&lt;/a&gt;, in which case you're out of luck).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way, the community can upvote/downvote your answer based on its value. If it's a comment, it can only be upvoted, which doesn't always say much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T14:10:17.310" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32885" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:28:30.520" Score="0" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I add images to the main field of my question? I mean in such way so that they are seen in it. Or I can only add links to those images?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138827" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:37:33.877" Title="Can I add images to the main field of my question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;photos&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32883" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:30:32.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure you can, click the image icon in the editor when you're writing your question - it's the one next to the 101010 icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll need a reputation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow/7238#7238&quot;&gt;at least 15&lt;/a&gt; to add images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T15:37:33.877" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:37:33.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:56:11.327" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like how I can associate my SO and other accounts with my public CV. Can there be a field added to my SO profile that links to my public CV? I know I could add it to the free text description, but this feels like something that should be baked in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Maybe implement this with a &quot;Add my public CV to my StackOverflow profile&quot; checkbox on the &quot;make your cv public&quot; screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136256" LastEditorUserId="136256" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T15:58:33.650" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:58:33.650" Title="Associate my public cv with my SO account" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32874" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:58:37.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that, like with questions about Facebook and WolframAlpha, contact the Siebel support, which would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oracle.com/siebel/support.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oracle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be no stackexchange site suitable. Maybe startups.com and &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Answers.OnStartUps.Com&lt;/a&gt; are the best choice there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be no look on SO, SF or Meta. Even on SU your question will most probably be closed (as it is plain product support).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T14:58:37.470" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32886" CreationDate="2009-12-14T14:59:27.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see this as an option, but not as a required element.  Many people don't want their CV publicized due to the possibilty of recruiters getting access to it and using it to market you (or simply annoy you) without your consent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T14:59:27.547" />
  <row Id="32890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32886" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:24:29.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good suggestion/feature request.  However, &quot;automatic&quot; type of features are not well recieved in most cases.  They can be options, but most things should not be automatic. Most users I have seen here like options, but not forced/auto type of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:24:29.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32879" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:30:55.510" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Punctuation marks are normally not indexed. They do not convey information and are used much too often to produce any useful search result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case Jeff could think about, if he wants to make typical programming constructs searchable (!!, !=, ==, ===, ...). I think a proposal for this already exists, but I can't find it for some weird reasons ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:30:55.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:42:39.950" Score="-12" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I read a question that I think is perfectly reasonable, but which sufficient others have voted to close, obviously &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29994/disagreeing-with-a-decision-to-close-a-question&quot;&gt;I can (and do) disagree&lt;/a&gt; and vote to reopen, but what's the best practice on vengeance? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first reaction is to see the list of those responsible and to head off like a one user posse and to go over some of their contributions with a strict eye and to look for any reason to vote them down or edit them to improve. But this doesn't seem within the spirit of the trilogy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should be grown up and just move on, after all it probably wasn't my question, I might not even have answered it and there are hundreds of others to get to work on, but if I feel positive enough to vote up a question that someone else has voted to close, it's a human reaction to want to visit some furious anger on those responsible for closing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What methods to y'all employ to, just, get over it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My basis for this is that if I can't agree with someone on something, i.e. that they are wrong, then what else are they wrong about and isn't it my duty to help the community by highlighting this? Obviously just moving on is relatively easily said (and done). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastEditorUserId="2902" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T15:59:25.143" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:09:37.110" Title="Retribution and disagreeing with the intransigence of others" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;&lt;venting&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32892" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:47:15.010" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go for a walk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch a movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Listen to some music.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Play a violent video game.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seriously just get over it. Holy crap it's not at all normal for you to want to punish people for having opinions that differ from yours. What are you, eight years old?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go for a swim.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe go to that restaurant you like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Petty vandalism (the pettier the bettier).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Play a non-violent video game (like Audiosurf (see suggestion 3)).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make fun of Jeff Atwood (this is my personal favorite).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read a good book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a good book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a new hobby (for example, model laser construction).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T17:19:17.140" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:19:17.140" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32892" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:48:36.240" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You said it already. &lt;strong&gt;Grow up and move along&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the real world not everyone is going to agree with everyone else, so do you go around and deflate everyone's car tires because of it? Hopefully not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why should it be any different online?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chances are revenge votes and tactics is going to end up getting &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; time in the penalty box, leaving others blissfully unaware of your existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:48:36.240" />
  <row Id="32896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32892" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:50:16.987" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best thing to do is close your browser and get some work done.  If you get so offended by a close vote on &lt;em&gt;somebody else's question&lt;/em&gt; that you think you need retribution, then you've got too much personally invested and need to take a step back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second-best thing to do is go gain some reputation by answering other questions.  &quot;The best revenge is living well.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:50:16.987" />
  <row Id="32897" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:51:13.957" Score="2" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17033/why-dont-tag-feeds-work-with-operas-feed-reader&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;rsquo;t tag feeds work with Opera&amp;rsquo;s feed-reader?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Opera 10.10 and when I click on any StackOverflow feed links, I am presented with a big pile of plain text and no subscription options.  Is there something I'm missing here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&#xA;Guy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T23:54:18.547" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T23:54:18.547" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T09:50:20.273" Title="Why can't I subscribe to the StackOverflow RSS feed in Opera 10.10?" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32897" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:56:12.513" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only some browsers allow viewing RSS feeds. You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google feed reader&lt;/a&gt; on Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:56:12.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32897" CreationDate="2009-12-14T15:56:22.530" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently the SO feeds have their Content-Type set to &lt;code&gt;text/html&lt;/code&gt; which seemingly doesn't trip up IE or FF but Opera might not like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May well be a bug in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T15:56:22.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32892" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:02:02.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're saying that if you disagree with someone that makes them wrong. And if they are wrong about one thing, they are probably wrong about more things - which you must correct or punish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a word for this: fascism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:02:02.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32902" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:04:07.850" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just supported same comment twice by clicking comment uparrow twice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once when question was on Stack Overflow and second time after question was moved to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I am talking about is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32897/why-cant-i-subscribe-to-the-stackoverflow-rss-feed-in-opera-10-10&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T17:08:10.233" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:08:10.233" Title="Bug in SO comment system (allows supporting comment twice after question moved)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="32902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32901" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:12:00.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20208/bug-report-migrated-questions-answers-can-be-upvoted-twice-by-the-same-user&quot;&gt;this question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That question relates to voting on answers, but I guess Jeffs answer would apply to comments as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:12:00.957" />
  <row Id="32903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:14:19.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just allow the OP to select &quot;&lt;em&gt;how long before the first answer gets displayed&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, say, 10 minutes.  If T is the original post time, then we'll call T + 10 minutes &quot;Answer Open Time&quot;.  Or we could call it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Business Time&lt;/a&gt;, whatever you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes every question like a mini-contest, where people have 10 minutes or so to submit their answers.  Answers are then displayed, but &quot;early&quot; answers are timestamped with Business Time, not the time the server originally received them.  This effectively removes the fastest gun problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:14:19.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-14T16:14:19.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32856" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:15:16.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These stats are valid - it's just coincidence, however it is an interesting observation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:15:16.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:22:42.113" Score="0" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498/what-are-the-architecture-details-of-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;What are the architecture details of Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Stack Overflow use an ORM? If yes, which one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144129" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:36:55.670" ClosedDate="2009-12-14T16:43:27.920" Title="Does Stack Overflow Use an ORM?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32906" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:36:55.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow uses Linq-To-SQL as its ORM.  This &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498/what-are-the-architecture-details-of-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;has been discussed before&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:36:55.670" />
  <row Id="32908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32892" CreationDate="2009-12-14T16:48:45.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Counseling.&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T16:48:45.463" />
  <row Id="32909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32892" CreationDate="2009-12-14T17:08:18.423" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a certain irony to this, given my current Meta name (which is itself a joke), but if you feel the need for vengeance, you have the wrong mindset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under no circumstance should you go out looking for vengeance on someone. The bottom line is that reasonable people can disagree. Disagreements are not always spiteful in nature. There are people who will be wrong, and people who will be right, and the truth is that in many cases there merest small circumstances will be the differentiating factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Trilogy, all posts should be evaluated based on the content of the post, and not the individual writing it. Period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:08:18.423" />
  <row Id="32910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T17:20:05.907" Score="0" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed StackOverflow allows non-registered users to ask questions by simply requiring the person to enter in their Name and Email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does StackOverflow prevent (or reduce) spam from bots?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I'm using bbPress as a web forum. It requires my users to create an account to participate in the forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would really like the ability to allow non-register users to participate in my forum ... because I strongly believe I'll have more participation (requiring a user to create an account is a pain in the ass for them ... so they just move on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So know moring about how StackOverflow allows non-registered user activity while also reducing spam would be excellent to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&#xA;P.S. I also want to state that I realize there probably is no &quot;silver bullet&quot;. But if an effect method exists that dettors or reduces spams, while not eliminating, but does a good job reduces/prevents - I'm all ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2765/how-does-stackoverflow-handle-spam/2768#2768&quot;&gt;Jeff answer here&lt;/a&gt;. Jeff mentions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;script detection heuristics and &quot;honeypots&quot;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be interested in learning more about what he means and what is implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137934" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T18:12:03.687" Title="How does StackOverflow reduce/prevent spam while allowing unregistered users to post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32856" CreationDate="2009-12-14T17:22:29.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noted that when &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32609/what-counts-should-count-as-a-search-hit-on-cvs/32615#32615&quot;&gt;I posted a screenshot to this answer&lt;/a&gt;, but the numbers changed and it was no longer true (at least for the moment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is certainly an interesting correlation, but after some observation one finds that it's provably false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:22:29.503" />
  <row Id="32912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32910" CreationDate="2009-12-14T17:26:15.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is a double edged sword.  If answered, it gives a way for people to sneak past them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not answered, it leaves potentially good ideas locked up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you go ask this question in a very generic way on SO or SU (re-write the question so it fits the audience, of course) and ask for suggested ways of implementing such heuristics and honeypots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unlikely that you'll get actual implementation details for these sites, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:26:15.177" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32910" CreationDate="2009-12-14T17:44:07.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &quot;honeypot&quot; is a hidden text field, if it contains any information at all your input is ignored completely. The idea being a bot will mindlessly fill every box in the hopes of getting through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Script detection heuristics look for the way the post is formatted, such as having a lot of randomly placed links, or no punctuation marks. if you're detected as a script, and you're not? You're given a captcha, so it doesn't significantly harm human users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, of course, any spam that does get through can be pretty quickly taken care of by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:44:07.547" />
  <row Id="32915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32897" CreationDate="2009-12-14T17:54:36.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution is not using opera&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T17:54:36.810" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32789" CreationDate="2009-12-14T18:11:46.047" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh Stackoverflow!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jeff Atwood created it&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jon Skeet answers all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135925" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T18:36:26.220" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T18:36:26.220" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-14T18:11:46.047" />
  <row Id="32917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32879" CreationDate="2009-12-14T18:20:35.220" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't search for it in Google, the odds of us being able to search for it are vanishingly slim...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T18:20:35.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32897" CreationDate="2009-12-14T19:03:55.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have already stated, the RSS feed is sent out with the wrong content-type (which seems to be an IIS quirk). As a workaround, you can simply click the RSS icon, ignore the big pile of plain text, copy the URL and paste that into Opera's &quot;Manage Feeds&quot; dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T19:03:55.937" />
  <row Id="32919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T19:13:52.890" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT/EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, my question is: Can I ignore all the tags but my favorites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, please tell me how with a very small example ( take javascript tag for instance ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If is not possible just tell me so. I'm fine with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I ignore all the tags but those that I've marked as my favorites? Should I came up with an special reg-exp or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently may tags are: java, c#, javascript, ruby, python&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I have the rest ignored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I just add &quot;*&quot; this is what I've got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/8575/capturadepantalla200912b.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not very useful btw. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T20:43:26.927" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T20:51:20.563" Title="Ignore tags using wild card" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32919" CreationDate="2009-12-14T19:19:10.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use * wildcards in the interesting/ignored. Since that's performed on the client there are no limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the server, the * is converted to ~ (ASP.NET url limitations) and wildcards must be a minimum of 4 characters in length. Well 5 characters including the wildcard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T19:19:10.417" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32879" CreationDate="2009-12-14T19:35:38.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try searching for &lt;em&gt;&quot;double exclamation mark&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or something like that. Someone writing about this has the reverse problem: how to be found. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://swfupload.org/forum/generaldiscussion/1859&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; was the 4th link I found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T19:35:38.810" />
  <row Id="32923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T20:05:05.653" Score="11" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be good if people could leave you feedback on your CV. This way someone who came across your CV could say if something struck them as particularly off putting, or if it had a typo, etc. I think this would be a good selling point to job seekers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T20:58:14.997" Title="Add the ability for an employer to leave feedback on a CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T20:23:51.050" Score="12" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editor doesn't seem to know when a paste occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: Open a new editor (either to write a new post or to edit an existing one), and paste some text as the first thing you do. Notice that the undo button is not enabled and Ctrl+Z (since it is overridden by the editor) doesn't work either. You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; right-click in the textarea and select &quot;undo&quot;, since the editor doesn't override that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a sidenote, why is the editor even handling undo? All the browsers already do that anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I've tested on all the browsers I have here on my work PC (WinXP SP3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702: Non-reproducible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Safari 4 Public Beta (528.17): Reproduced&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opera 9.64: Reproduced&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 3.5.5: Reproduced&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrome 3.0.195.33: Reproduced&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, on Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, pasting twice in a row enables the edit button, while in Opera I can paste all day and it is never enabled. Also, if the pastes are not consecutive (i.e. if I paste, click elsewhere, and paste again) the undo button is not enabled in Safari/Chrome/Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T21:24:06.743" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T22:00:05.837" Title="Editor's undo does not track pastes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32924" CreationDate="2009-12-14T20:30:19.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never seen this behavior in IE, Chrome, or Firefox.. what browser are you using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T20:30:19.663" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="32926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32923" CreationDate="2009-12-14T20:36:12.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be good from the job seeker's point of view, but employers have to be very, very careful on giving feedback of any kind to potential employees both for legal reasons and to avoid prolonged discussions with people you frankly will never hire.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one of the reasons you'll never hear, &quot;Your portfolio showed lack of ability in area X, Y, and Z&quot; - would be awesome, you could deal with those things and come back two days later and try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But from the perspective of the employer it's unnecessary work, and that's assuming they haven't exposed themselves to a lawsuit depending on &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; they said, &quot;Not at this time, thanks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also the reason they rarely tell you at the interview that it's a no-go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Companies like Fog Creek where you can get that kind of feedback are rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, this is a different career website - I would like to see the feature implemented, and see what comes of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably have to be anonymous, and employers wouldn't be able to see comments other employers made on your CV (ie, they'd be for your eyes only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just suspect few will actually use it, especially since a resume says so very little about an applicant - at best it would be mechanical (spelling, grammar, did/didn't meet requirements, was a worse match than the other ten people that showed up on the search, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T20:36:12.337" />
  <row Id="32929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32919" CreationDate="2009-12-14T20:51:20.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greasemonkey:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Hide Non-Interesting&#xA;// @namespace      http://www.stackoverflow.com/&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;$('.question-summary').filter(':not(.tagged-interesting)').hide();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T20:51:20.563" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32923" CreationDate="2009-12-14T20:58:14.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be great if employers used it, but I don't expect too many would. The conventional wisdom is to say as little as possible about why you're not interested in a job candidate, for fear of legal trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T20:58:14.997" />
  <row Id="32931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32705" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:22:10.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some IDEs look for keywords within comments and treat them like bookmarks. Specifically, if you type &lt;code&gt;TODO: fix this bug&lt;/code&gt; in a comment it is added as an item in the &quot;table of contents&quot; pop up menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if a special keyword or syntax &lt;em&gt;within a comment&lt;/em&gt; triggered the highlighting?  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;DataTrigger Value=&quot;True&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;MultiBinding Converter=&quot;{StaticResource DisableWorkItemConverter}&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding ElementName=&quot;MainForm&quot; Path=&quot;PickedWorkItemID&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;Binding Path=&quot;Id&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/MultiBinding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/DataTrigger.Binding&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsEnabled&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;Setter Property=&quot;IsSelected&quot; Value=&quot;False&quot;/&amp;gt; &amp;lt;!-- HELP: here is the problem --&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/DataTrigger&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;HELP:&lt;/code&gt; seems like a reasonable keyword that won't generate too many false positives. Either the background of the line could be colored, or (this may be simpler to implement) that particular comment can receive louder formatting (since the default comment formatting is light gray text).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140318" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:22:10.320" />
  <row Id="32933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2009-04-17T01:26:18.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The upvote/downvote system encourages good questions and discourages bad questions. It's simple. Another idea would be to force new users to read an article before they post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133702" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:22:52.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-17T01:26:18.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2009-04-17T01:39:55.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an ok point, but the thing is, asking good questions involves already having some knowledge of the topic, which the user often doesn't have. If he googles the topic, he's gonna find it, refining the search and googling some more will maybe answer the question, and he's not gonna post it here. Some users are terribly lazy at googling. I often answer some questions by simply googling it by keywords, and yanking/pasting the first results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'll say, let them ask the questions in the form they wish. Questions will be modifies, refined and rewritten if necessary, and in the end we will have a good answer on the topic. Duplicate ones can easily be deleted (and usually are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Answer to &lt;strong&gt;lothar&lt;/strong&gt; since comments are too short:&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Yes, of course it is. But, as I tried to point out, a new user will maybe not know it is a bad question. Because from his point of view (doesn't know) it is a valid question. And it is really.&#xA;From yours or mine, naturally, it is a bad/boring/repetitive question, 'cause we've seen it so many times before. That is a way of learning. To be a teacher one has to be patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as you probably guess, this can be taken to the extreme. Trolls arise. So the question is &quot;how to stop users from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;continuously&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; asking bad question, which everyone can see make no sense?&quot;. Should something like, &quot;question closed for LAZY USER reason - user cannot post another for 24h&quot; be implemented (where LAZY USER would be a category where the answer to your question appears in the upper block while you're writing the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:22:52.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-17T01:39:55.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2009-04-17T01:40:09.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read Jon Skeet's famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/complete.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Short but complete programs&lt;/a&gt; before posting question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131686" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:22:52.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-17T01:40:09.330" />
  <row Id="32936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2009-04-17T01:45:16.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think a FAQ link will help no matter how prominent you make it. Most people don't read that sort of thing. And anyway the people asking these questions might not know they are leaving out important context. If they were such experts they wouldn't need to ask the question in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think this is such a huge problem anyway. Questions can be edited to make them better, so who cares if they are not so great at the start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133550" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:22:52.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-17T01:45:16.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32953" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:34:34.493" Score="30" ViewCount="992" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this should be put out to the meta community. As everyone knows by now the SO blog, as well as others, experienced downtime because of a fault at the hosting provider. A lot of data was lost and had to be restored from non-traditional means. This is fine. Subsequently, a post was made on the SO Blog describing the failure and describing problems with the backup strategy as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users commented on the blog attempting to offer advice and so forth. Of course, this advice was met with complete and utter condescension, which, of course, is the right of the person being condescending. This was even directed at Joel when he provided simple common sense industry best practices for backup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, Jeff's argument here was that having a disaster recovery plan was as foolish as planning for a lunar attack. All right, so at this point some decided just to chime and basically say &quot;Hey, everyone makes mistakes but maybe there's some smart people here that are offering advice and maybe just listening is the best tactic.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, basically I've noticed a few of these posts &lt;strong&gt;completely deleted&lt;/strong&gt; with no mention or anything. I noticed then when I came back to the blog and noticed some good posts from other users were missing and then my last post was as well. These posts had no offensive language, did not rudely call anyone out (i.e. &quot;you're a loser&quot;) or anything like that. These were just mild criticisms and my comments were essentially that everyone makes mistakes and we should just learn from what others have to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, my original deleted comment was this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff, I really think you should just&#xA;  take a minute to listen to others.&#xA;  Honestly, if I had an employee that&#xA;  was partly or entirely responsible for&#xA;  losing a non-trivial amount of data&#xA;  and that employee's response included&#xA;  sarcastic jibber jabber about lunar&#xA;  attacks or any of this nonsense then&#xA;  he would be immediately terminated; it&#xA;  wouldn't matter if that employee was&#xA;  the lead developer or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not chocolates and strawberries but I think it's hardly worthy of deletion. It may seem like sour grapes but I think this is an important discussion for Meta since many of us have invested a lot of time in becoming members of the SO community. The SO blog and podcast is a part of that community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just disrepectful to users and downright childish to have such a capricious attitude toward censorship. As well, to delete comments as if they never existed seems to suggest one is just attempting to hide the fact that censorship is occuring (there could be simply a &quot;this post was deleted because I felt like it&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there's no stated policy that no criticism is allowed on SO. It seems that it should be completely open that censorship is the bread and butter of the SO blog or it should not be going on at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does Meta have to say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138665" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T08:45:50.170" Title="SO Blog Censorship and Mild Criticism" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;censor&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="32938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:39:04.297" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does Meta have to say?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta says, &lt;del&gt;&quot;I like ponies.&quot;&lt;/del&gt; I like waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T23:37:57.540" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T23:37:57.540" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:43:16.130" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I call sour grapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your response to the blog post is, &quot;If you were my employee, I'd fire you for &lt;em&gt;[doing x]&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), then you ought to rethink your response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you had good points -- I don't know, but using a scare tactic to make your point is not effective at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:43:16.130" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:45:52.367" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give not that which is holy unto the blogs...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously: this is why &lt;strong&gt;blogs are not a discussion medium&lt;/strong&gt;. The blog author has the ability (and ever-present temptation) to simply remove any comment that makes him uncomfortable! Eventually, most blog authors fall into this trap, and only the sycophants remain...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have something worth saying, get your own soapbox. No one takes blog comments seriously anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:45:52.367" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="32941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:47:17.870" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't know what's wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903672/webservice-wants-byte-how-do-i-send-that-from-php/1903678#1903678&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903672/webservice-wants-byte-how-do-i-send-that-from-php/1903678#1903678&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was upvoted two times on this question, yet have gained only 5 points?! It's shown in the reputation overview as a small 5 (number of votes), then no number indicating the points given (just empty). Other answers today are upvoted as they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any clue?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138676" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:29:23.983" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:29:23.983" Title="Got one point per vote on one question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="32942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:47:28.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff have both been up front about the fact that their default method of dealing with comments they don't like is to delete and ignore (or in Joel's case hide from everyone else and ignore).  Don't be surprised when they practice what they preach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:47:28.820" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32941" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:49:23.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may have reached your reputation cap (200 points per day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:49:23.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:52:14.977" Score="1" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a question to help make a decision based on the Microsoft stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once biz spark is over, how will the licences cost for stackoverflow? 2 db servers 5 web servers at last count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135482" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-14T21:54:00.137" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T15:13:14.520" Title="Cost of stackoverflow licences post Biz spark" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;cost&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="32945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-14T21:53:48.437" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The blog is not a public forum for discussion.  It's a platform, not unlike a soapbox, that helps them pass out information.  They allow on-topic feedback, but you don't have any right to force your opinions onto their platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have questions about backup practices, go visit serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, respect Jeff's decision to prune anything from the blogs that he deems counterproductive to the goals of his blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T21:53:48.437" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32941" CreationDate="2009-12-14T22:01:53.133" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out your reputation graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/107642?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/107642?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like you got 170 or so rep from another question today (likely a bounty award):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1848704/1862249#1862249&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1848704/1862249#1862249&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T22:01:53.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32950" CreationDate="2009-12-14T22:02:51.307" Score="12" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/community-wiki&quot;&gt;community-wiki&lt;/a&gt; tag on SO does nothing except confuse some new users, who think that community wiki is simply a tag to put on their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've already removed it from all CW questions except those that are locked. There are still around 20 non-CW questions with the tag; I'm posting here in lieu of going through them myself and flagging for moderator review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T22:56:42.493" Title="Remove the community-wiki tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32944" CreationDate="2009-12-14T22:07:13.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not cheap.  But the idea is that either (A) your business is successful and you can afford it &amp;mdash; I get the impression that StackOverflow isn't too worried, for example &amp;mdash; or (B) your business failed, in which case you just stop using the product and owe nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think most of us still need to worry about option (C) where you're still just limping along and hardly have any spare cash.  But if that's the case at least you probably still have everything on one server, and perhaps you can manage with something like the Express Edition of Sql Server.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T22:07:13.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-14T22:53:41.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted your question because you make some really good points and I do think it's important to call people to task on excessive reaction to legitimate criticism. However, I've also voted to close as the issue isn't (directly) Stack Overflow related: Meta doesn't cover blog.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, perhaps it ought to, as the blog is an official voice of SO, and Joel is involved (e.g. the regular podcasts posted there that they both create).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It really would have been preferable if the discussion had taken place on codinghorror.com instead, which is quite clearly Jeff's own personal site and has nothing to do with Stack Overflow. Then he could have reacted in whatever manner he pleased and the community would have less of a case to question his response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T22:53:41.720" />
  <row Id="32950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32947" CreationDate="2009-12-14T22:56:42.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've removed the tags on all of the posts I can - the only ones left are the ones migrated to Meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T22:56:42.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32954" CreationDate="2009-12-14T23:11:28.693" Score="3" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14056/seo-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;SEO in stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20171/im-just-going-to-throw-this-out-there-but-google-indexes-stack-overflow-really&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20171/im-just-going-to-throw-this-out-there-but-google-indexes-stack-overflow-really&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I was watching a presentation about SO and the presenter mentioned the concept of &quot;google as our homepage&quot;.  So I'm just curious if there have been any explanations of the &quot;google is stack overflow's homepage&quot; implementation, and how SO set that up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T18:13:04.463" ClosedDate="2009-12-15T19:38:16.523" Title="How is stack overflow optimized for Google?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;&lt;optimization&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-14T23:34:42.897" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The owner of a blog has every right to delete whatever he or she wants. Period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The readers of a blog have every right to choose not to read the blog for any or no reason. One reason might be the author's attitude towards those who post responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a shame that Jeff chose to disregard and delete all that advice. He can do as he likes, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-14T23:34:42.897" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-15T00:08:26.487" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://community.mediabrowser.tv/uploads/11/Sycophants.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Duly noted&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T00:08:26.487" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32951" CreationDate="2009-12-15T01:49:52.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not aware of any special relationship or consideration google gives to SO, if that's what you mean, and I'd be very surprised to hear there is one.  There's nowhere at Google you can go and say, &quot;I want to use Google for my site's home page, hook me up.&quot;  Instead, think about it from a search-engine's perspective.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to design a search engine spider, I would have some default frequency that my spider returns to a site to re-index it.  When it re-indexes the site, it will check to see if the content has changed.  If it has, the spider might want to increase the frequency and index the site more often.   If the site hasn't changed, it might decrease the frequency.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that indexing a lot of sites over and over has a cost.  Just because content changes a lot doesn't mean anyone cares about it.  So I might also have a score for each site that says how important it is.  Think &quot;PageRank&quot;.  Now when my spider finds a site that changes a lot it might not increase the frequency beyond what the score for the site justifies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with Stack Overflow we have a site with content that changes frequently and that has managed to earn a good PageRank, the main requirements for frequent indexing.  Additionally, StackOverflow does a few things to make it easier on google's spider to find the new pages.  Probably the most important of these to SO is the xml sitemap.  I know they put a lot of work into getting that right.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other features that help with searching and rank are using &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;canonical&quot;&lt;/code&gt; to avoid splitting rank across different links to the same content and using search-engined optimized urls to put more keywords into the url.  You might find the SEO section in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site/305381#305381&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T18:13:04.463" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T18:13:04.463" />
  <row Id="32955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T01:50:15.137" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I downvote posts I get &quot;Please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved.&quot; popping up in an overlay. That's fine as a &quot;once in a while&quot; reminder, but it's shown every time, which gets rather annoying when downvoting several posts in a row. Similarly, the &quot;remember you can mark this answer as accepted&quot; message can get annoying when I'm usually just about to do that or I'm upvoting multiple answers, but can only accept one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding some limits one how often these are shown. I don't think either warning should be shown more than once every few hours. Alternatively, you could avoid showing it more than once per thread (or perhaps per thread per day).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user option to turn this feature off entirely. I'm well aware of my ability to comment and accept answers. It's just not something I need to be reminded of all the time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131356" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T08:34:10.893" Title="Reduce annoyance of &quot;Please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32769" CreationDate="2009-12-15T01:54:56.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reddit.com/r/programming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://reddit.com/r/programming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T02:05:28.620" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T02:05:28.620" />
  <row Id="32957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T01:57:33.297" Score="3" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/114/noob-questions-simple-answers-and-big-rep-points&quot;&gt;Noob questions, simple answers and big rep points&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31770/how-can-we-make-so-reputation-more-realistic&quot;&gt;How can we make SO reputation more realistic&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was listening to one of the Stackoverflow podcasts today and heard that employers want to sort by reputation. Based on the current system of scoring reputation, it seems that answering simple questions will gain you more reputation and therefore more favorable employer search results than answering more complex questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that it's great that Stackoverflow answers all the questions I might have, even the stupid newbie questions. I also think that, in an ideal world, answering questions shouldn't be all about reputation. However it seems obvious that putting a game element to answering questions makes it more likely that questions get answered which is why people use Stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how it would be determined, but perhaps there could be some way to determine that a question is complex or esoteric (perhaps based on number of views?) and give answers and up-votes additional points. I think this would not only be a fairer system (especially in light of employers sorting by reputation) but would also encourage people to answer the tougher questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140399" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T07:20:49.127" ClosedDate="2009-12-15T09:43:52.717" Title="Answering simple questions gets more points than complicated questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32957" CreationDate="2009-12-15T02:03:55.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, waffles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T02:03:55.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32957" CreationDate="2009-12-15T02:50:35.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering simple questions gets more points than complicated questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  But if you change the game, then the only result is that people will game it differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is nothing more than a very rough score that tells people how much your contributions are valued by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this community, easy questions are more highly valued for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy to answer, so they are answered a lot, and get bumped more&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy for most users to rank the given answers - I can't vote on answer in a topic I know little about, so I don't&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are more of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a bad thing to have reputation tied to such questions - it makes becoming a part of the community very easy and mostly friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, Jeff and Joel are 'selling' reputation as an indicator of experience, quality, and ability to quickly understand, solve, and communicate the solutions to all sorts of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has more weight than it did before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's one metric out of several the employer is going to use, not the end-all-be-all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, many people have pointed out, rightly, I believe, that very high rep will be seen as negatively as very very low rep - but again, it's a small part of the selection process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T02:50:35.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32957" CreationDate="2009-12-15T02:51:59.363" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It occurs to me that there is a sort of Joel-Koan here. When you post a job here, you are given an opportunity to salute a list of flags that he has selected as essential aspects of a good workplace. It seems to me that there should be another flag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would Not Try To Evaluate a Candidate&#xA;  by stackoverflow.com Reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, any boss-with-a-brain can figure out the rather loose coupling between rep and utility. In fact, anyone who sorted people by rep would have to have more than a few loose couplings between their ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T02:51:59.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32971" CreationDate="2009-12-15T02:59:55.480" Score="3" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent comment asked &quot;I wonder what happened to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/106/endangeredmassa&quot;&gt;EndangeredMassa&lt;/a&gt;&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I followed the breadcrumbs, and found someone with a moderator diamond and 188 rep points. So now I'm confused. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T03:01:50.250" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T15:30:54.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-15T02:59:55.480" Title="Where do moderators come from?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32970" CreationDate="2009-12-15T03:15:35.417" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators are nominated and voted on by the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-new-community-moderators/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;so grey looking&quot;&gt;through the blog&lt;/a&gt; or on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14417/vote-for-super-user-moderator-poll&quot; title=&quot;would the new avatar have tipped the scales?&quot;&gt;Meta itself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All moderators of SO, SF and SU are also Meta mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta only mods &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/3043/joel-coehoorn&quot; title=&quot;it's pronounced cool-mod&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/106/endangeredmassa&quot; title=&quot;far endangered now&quot;&gt;EndangeredMassa&lt;/a&gt; were &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/cmon-get-meta/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;where is bonaduce now?&quot;&gt;transplanted from UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta only mods &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot; title=&quot;some kind of _nobody&quot;&gt;Kyle Cronin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/8435/tom-ritter&quot; title=&quot;born of boxxy babe&quot;&gt;Tom Ritter&lt;/a&gt; were subsumed, brought in, after having created sites of their own that went out of the way to provide SOFU support/discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T05:21:38.157" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T05:21:38.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-15T03:15:35.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32955" CreationDate="2009-12-15T03:19:49.373" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The popup will go away when you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes/2373#2373&quot;&gt;achieve 2000 reputation&lt;/a&gt; -- a worthy goal, don't you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T08:34:10.893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T08:34:10.893" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="32973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32974" CreationDate="2009-12-15T03:21:32.413" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching stackoverflow for posts with the tag c# you get all the posts,&#xA;but when searching with the tag f# you get nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you search fsharp you'll get lots of posts with an f# tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing there is an exception for the c# tag but it has not yet been added for f# ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140402" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T03:29:46.020" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T03:31:16.220" Title="When searching for ports with the f# tasks the result is always empty" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="32974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32973" CreationDate="2009-12-15T03:31:16.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/f%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/f%23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to search for a tag, encase it in square-brackets, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[f#]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, keyword searches for the top 20 tags are converted to tag searches automatically, so searching with the keyword &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; is the same as searching for &lt;code&gt;[c#]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T03:31:16.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T03:52:19.037" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;Implement a Tag Black List&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the recent MSO post, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32947/remove-the-community-wiki-tag&quot;&gt;Remove the community-wiki tag&lt;/a&gt;, Bill the Lizard left the following comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I cleaned up the last few and I'll add this to my ever-expanding list of tags that I periodically wish into the cornfield&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you guys could make the tags on that list moderator-only tags, the same as &lt;code&gt;status-*&lt;/code&gt; tags on MSO, so that users can't select them? Seems like it would save some moderator brain cycles, and the code is already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T03:52:19.037" ClosedDate="2009-12-15T06:02:18.347" Title="Make &quot;banned&quot; tags on SO unselectable by users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-tags&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32970" CreationDate="2009-12-15T04:24:00.413" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First you need an epic norse god as the father&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://geekadelphia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/techno%5Fviking.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Techno Viking&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then a popular internet figurehead as the mother&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://likeastonerose.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/boxxy%5Fsweet1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;boxxy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you incubate for 9 months, and out comes &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/8435/tom-ritter&quot;&gt;a moderator&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T04:24:00.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-15T04:24:00.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32854" CreationDate="2009-12-15T06:23:39.430" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Windows, you can install &lt;a href=&quot;http://cropper.codeplex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cropper&lt;/a&gt;, and there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://cropperplugins.codeplex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plugins&lt;/a&gt; to &quot;Send to TinyPic&quot; or &quot;Send to ImgUrl&quot; .    The way these plugins work, you take a snapshot of the screen or the current window, and it is auto-magically uploaded.  The clipboard is populated with the short URL for the direct image.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, in your SO post, you need only Ctrl+G, and then Ctrl-V, and you have an image in your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very fast, very simple. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i49.tinypic.com/mm8zk1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &quot;Send to Paint.NET&quot; plugin for Cropper if you want to doctor up the image before posting it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cropper and the cropper plugins are separate downloads, but both free. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T06:23:39.430" />
  <row Id="32982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26365" CreationDate="2009-12-15T06:32:38.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use ImgUr and TinyPic.  I don't know what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/9314/random&quot;&gt;random&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;is talking about when he says TinyPic only gives you a cruddy thumbnail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i49.tinypic.com/2lt1ulh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quickly produce images from the screen, I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://cropper.codeplex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cropper&lt;/a&gt;, which is a basic, free , and extensible screen-shot tool, plus one or more of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cropperplugins.codeplex.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cropper plugins&lt;/a&gt; (also free). There's a &quot;Send to Paint.NET&quot; plugin for cropper if you want to doctor the image before uploading.  You can toggle from &quot;Sent to Paint.NET&quot; to &quot;Send to TinyPic&quot; easily, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;snapshot (send to Paint.NET)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;scribble on the image&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;snapshot (send to TinyPic, or ImgUr, or Flickr, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took 1 keystroke and about 3 seconds to get the image in this post up to TinyPic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T06:32:38.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32957" CreationDate="2009-12-15T07:20:49.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO that's not a problem at all. Yes, answering simple questions you can get a lot of points. That seems unfair. But don't forget that being able to answer a question well is very good by itself and it's a skill that employers might consider useful. So it really doesn't matter how hard the question is - newbies at the employer's office will have much more simple questions requiring good concise and ultimately correct answers then they'll have complex hardcore questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T07:20:49.127" />
  <row Id="32985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32937" CreationDate="2009-12-15T08:45:50.170" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt your comment was not constructive criticism, and thus it was removed. You may disagree on the definition of &quot;constructive&quot;, but it's our blog and our rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also removed other comments that were not constructive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Criticism and disagreement is welcome -- but if you can't do this in a constructive manner, then don't bother posting on the blog, because it will be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't agree with those rules, take it off site where you can be as &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000000QQP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nasty As You Wanna Be&lt;/a&gt;, like 2 Live Crew. I find that kind of stuff boring in my advanced old age, but it is entertaining for some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T08:45:50.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32944" CreationDate="2009-12-15T09:17:19.753" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should look at SQL Server licensing costs first, which are &lt;em&gt;incredibly&lt;/em&gt; expensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Windows Server licenses are quite inexpensive in comparison. SQL is what gets you. I mean, SQL Server licenses are &quot;if you have to ask how much it costs you can't afford it&quot;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's particularly irritating that Enterprise edition is the only version of SQL that can do live (online) index rebuilds, for no technical reason whatsoever. Purely a market segmentation marketing weasel &quot;feature&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/products?q=%22sql+server+2008+enterprise%22+license&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/products?q=%22sql+server+2008+enterprise%22+license&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;read and weep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;aka &quot;bend over&quot;&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T09:17:19.753" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="32988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32990" CreationDate="2009-12-15T09:30:44.473" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find myself adding a little comment to questions suggesting people with a 0% (or thereabouts) accept rate should accept some answers because their low accept rate might put people off answering their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After writing this a few times I wondered if there's a page I could link to which clearly and politely describes Accept Rate and the etiquette of when to accept answers for new users.  I had a look on the FAQ; there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq/7933#7933&quot;&gt;an entry for Accepting Answers&lt;/a&gt; but this doesn't cover Accept Rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the answer to expand this entry on the FAQ?  Or should there be a new entry added specifically about Accept Rate?  I'm happy to do either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a canonical place to link to would save me time typing the same comment repeatedly and might stop some of the less friendly comments that people with low accept rates can receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3171" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T10:35:06.977" Title="Is there a good page to link to which describes accept rate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32988" CreationDate="2009-12-15T09:36:00.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;? It is the initial announcement for the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some excerpts (highlighting added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;considered good manners to&#xA;  accept answers on your questions&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  eventually, but accepting answers is&#xA;  not required. I personally consider&#xA;  anything at 70% or over quite good,&#xA;  meaning you accept answers on 7 out of&#xA;  10 questions that you ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the workings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following rules are used in the&#xA;  calculation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days&#xA;  old. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1&#xA;  answer. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There must be at least four&#xA;  eligible questions as determined by&#xA;  the above rules, otherwise the&#xA;  statistic will not appear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to its semantics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If the stat doesn’t appear at all, it’s a new user, or someone who rarely&#xA;  asks questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you see a low percentage, it’s a user who asks a lot of questions but&#xA;  accepts almost no answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you see a high percentage, it’s an engaged user, someone who&#xA;  frequently goes back and interacts&#xA;  with their questions after asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you see a middle of the road percentage, it’s an experienced user&#xA;  who understands what accepted answers&#xA;  are for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T10:28:35.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="32990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32988" CreationDate="2009-12-15T10:16:49.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the blog post, there is already an FAQ entry for Accepting Answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-what-is-it-all-about&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This replaces the one linked to in your question. It explains the how's and why's around the accepting of answers. I have also now updated it with the details from the blog with regard to the accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T10:35:06.977" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T10:35:06.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32997" CreationDate="2009-12-15T12:21:23.977" Score="2" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have had to ask a very long question.  The configuration involved is fairly extensive and will require any user to spend a decent amount of time investigating.  Given that I would not expect someone to answer such a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887870/decrypting-message-with-a-spring-web-service-client&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; for only 15 reputation, I have put a bounty on it, but I still have not gotten too many responses.  Is there a way I could have written this question better in order to receive more answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887870/decrypting-message-with-a-spring-web-service-client&quot;&gt;Here is the link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135261" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T11:31:55.537" Title="How to get answers for long winded questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="32993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32992" CreationDate="2009-12-15T12:28:16.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At a certain point your question becomes too obscure/specialized and you won't be able to get quality answers to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your bounty might work.  Keep checking it, but also keep hammering away at the problem on your own and try to further update the question with any extra information you gather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T12:28:16.070" />
  <row Id="32994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32992" CreationDate="2009-12-15T12:37:29.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst I'm no expert on Spring I do know that for some technologies it's hard to boil everything down into a single concise paragraph or two, and a couple of code snippets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing is that you've supplied as much of the configuration data that may be of value as you can, and because of the larger font size used by Prettify on Stack Overflow, this can make some questions look more long winded that they need to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what you've done is fine. It's a niche problem and perhaps there aren't so many eyes on Stack Overflow looking at this with the level of experience you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T12:37:29.143" />
  <row Id="32995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T12:42:29.447" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the third time since I started using stack overflow, my gravatar appears to have stopped working. Right now I'm just seeing the funky IP address based image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c1ce7f378bd3de35cc5fb74ea0d23992?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c1ce7f378bd3de35cc5fb74ea0d23992?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..when I go to my gravatar settings it says the link should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/418a18dde0d9cb4cc434bd38a329190c.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/418a18dde0d9cb4cc434bd38a329190c.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's happened? Is it just some weird caching thing here at work? I'm fairly sure I didn't change anything..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134938" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T13:01:21.157" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T13:01:21.157" Title="Why does my Gravatar periodically vanish from stack overflow et al?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;caching&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="32996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32910" CreationDate="2009-12-15T12:49:02.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is also an &lt;code&gt;fkey&lt;/code&gt; parameter in each form containing 128 bits of random-looking data. This may be a simple token or more likely an MD5 hash of some kind of user- or IP-specific information which will have to match for the post to succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be doing duty against both XSRF (can't submit as a particular user without reading a valid fkey from the page, which an external attack can't do) and the dumb but most-prevalent kind of bot that just hits the target form again and again without requesting new tokens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally between spoiler fields (‘honeypots’) and user/time-limited authorisation hashes of this variety I've cut down automated posting on sites I run to zero. Naturally, if one particular implementation of a solution becomes popular enough to warrant the spammers' time, an automated break for it will be written. But with SE's links all being &lt;code&gt;nofollow&lt;/code&gt; they'd have little to gain by doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastEditorUserId="136472" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T12:54:40.500" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T12:54:40.500" />
  <row Id="32997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32992" CreationDate="2009-12-15T13:16:51.800" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people won't read all the way to the bottom of your question to find out all the details.  They may have the answer, but give up reading because the question is so long.  One strategy that I have used is to put an &quot;executive summary&quot; at the top of the question.   This should boil the problem down to just a couple of sentences.  Mark it as such and set it off from the rest of the question so it doesn't look like one long ramble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a summary gets your question out there, right in front.  People who have some insight, then know that they may be able to help and could be encouraged to continue reading.  You might also want to mention the bounty in your summary -- having that message at the bottom of your question seems to somewhat defeat the purpose in your case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T13:16:51.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="32998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T13:22:07.347" Score="8" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a long question, where the bounty could be used to encourage people to invest time learning about the problem (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887870/decrypting-message-with-a-spring-web-service-client&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;), the bounty message being located at the end of the question is less than optimal.  If the bounty message displayed at the top in addition to or instead of at the bottom of the question it might encourage responses for questions that otherwise might get ignored due to length.  I understand that this doesn't apply if someone is specifically looking to answer bounty questions, but not every person who sees the question may have that intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T13:47:20.593" Title="Display bounty message at the top of the question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="32999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32998" CreationDate="2009-12-15T13:27:06.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this really needed when the bounty is displayed before the question title in the question list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T13:27:06.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32998" CreationDate="2009-12-15T13:47:20.593" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always felt it should be right after the question, before/after the tags and asker box, and definitely above the comments. Below the comments, as it is today, seems too far down, specially when I want to check when a bounty expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also possible to add that blue &lt;code&gt;+350&lt;/code&gt; next to the title, as it appears on the rest of the side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T13:47:20.593" />
  <row Id="33001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32992" CreationDate="2009-12-15T14:00:13.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shorten your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/583689/dictionaryt-of-listt-and-listviews-in-asp-net&quot;&gt;Format&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/624425/phonetically-memorable-password-generation-algorithms&quot;&gt;it&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/609276/listview-dataitem-shows-null&quot;&gt;well&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T14:00:13.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32992" CreationDate="2009-12-15T14:23:20.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is very complicated and there is no way to simplify it, consider waiting a bit and putting a good bounty on it. Usually people spend more time on questions when a bounty is involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T14:23:20.277" />
  <row Id="33003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32992" CreationDate="2009-12-15T14:38:55.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Executive summary at the top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bolded specific questions at the bottom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't list long files, configurations, code segments, etc inline - provide links so the question is simple and to the point, and anyone that wants detailed information can then dig into the links. (wish we had code folding on the site)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to pare your question down to the absolute minimum.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Break it up into several smaller problems/issues/questions if possible and ask them individually in separate questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explain what you've tried, why it didn't work, or why you can't use it if it did work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide only enough information to get people interested in asking you follow up questions - once they're hooked on the problem they may be more likely to spend time researching it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T15:53:34.173" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T15:53:34.173" />
  <row Id="33004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32944" CreationDate="2009-12-15T15:13:14.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably where &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/licensing/default.mspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SPLA&lt;/a&gt; licensing comes in to play.  We use it to cover some 60+ machines for a SaaS environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T15:13:14.520" />
  <row Id="33005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33027" CreationDate="2009-12-15T15:31:59.187" Score="3" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;how to ask&quot; block is a good idea, but it's obvious that most people are not reading it. I see tons of posts every day that are not formatted, poorly explained and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always try to leave a comment saying &quot;oh please format your code and so on&quot;, maybe edit it myself, but the more user come to SO the more posts like this I see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a big deal and I'm all for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;being nice with noobs&lt;/a&gt;, but I feel this could be improved if the block &lt;code&gt;was&lt;/code&gt; more prominent at least for the FIRST question a user ask. Why not make it &lt;code&gt;blink&lt;/code&gt; and marquee? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, there are options such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;template&quot; text defaulting in the textarea (&quot;My problem is... [sample code] ... etc&quot;). The text would go away when the user clicks it (or something similar)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lightbox on top of everything with the &quot;how to ask&quot; block&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;how to ask block&quot; in a different color&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asking the user &quot;are you sure your question is asked correctly?&quot; and showing the &quot;how to ask&quot; block before submitting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Going through a page before the &quot;ask a question&quot; page that would explain how to ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is fairly important since there are more and more new users. The closing/downvote system works fine, but this might lower the noise on questions and save time for people closing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be only for the first question asked by the user so that it doesn't annoy him too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Feel free to edit the title, I didn't know how to word that ^^&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T19:54:33.373" Title="Putting the &quot;How to Ask&quot; block &quot;in the face&quot; of the user when posting for the first time?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T15:34:16.017" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User can send any number of invitations to write a recommendation via email&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encoded link to write recommendation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recommender can edit / preview / leave &amp;amp; resume / a recommendation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User approves recommendation and is posted to CV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:49:00.333" Title="Allow posting of recommendations on your CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32874" CreationDate="2009-12-15T15:36:52.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends what you want to do, if your trying to integrate Siebel in your exisiting IT infrastructure, then Serverfault should be able to help, I've had some experience with Siebel. If you need help with customising Siebel, such as writing config files, you might get some help on SF, but it'll be pretty limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T15:36:52.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33006" CreationDate="2009-12-15T15:50:02.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers is slowly turning into linkedin (at least if all feature-requests are implemented)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying it's wrong or right though, I kinda like this suggestion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T15:50:02.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33005" CreationDate="2009-12-15T15:52:28.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a lost case really, but then I don't have much faith in people in general. Besides, if you flash such a thing in a user's face, you end up insulting their intelligence. They think their question is great, even when it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all share the same level of discipline. (making proper testcases, doing code profiles, reading the related API documentation, making sure they make themselves understood). Sometimes, the question might be over their head. In that case, the question is written in ignorance. Such users still deserve a good answer. Here is an example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1902621/how-to-declare-gluperspective-in-opengl&quot;&gt;How to declare gluperspective in opengl?&lt;/a&gt;, and here is another: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906139/how-are-things-represented-visually&quot;&gt;How are things represented visually?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, most people correct their question and listen to user suggestions in the comment field, if any.&#xA;Stack Overflow should be for everyone, even if they suck at asking questions, or write like doctors. That's at least the direction it has taken up until now. Questioning the poster's intelligence by flashing &quot;this is how you ask questions&quot; is kind of unwelcoming in my opinion. The moderation system works pretty well. Rather suggest changes to the question after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T19:54:33.373" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33005" CreationDate="2009-12-15T16:15:08.627" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a balance between making the site really, really, trivially easy to use, and pushing people away because we have high expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that everything is editable by a few thousand members, I don't think this is necessary, and I believe that we should be catering to the new users to some degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By making the cost of entry low, we attract new people, new questions, and new hits on Google.  The site itself corrects the questions as needed, so the system works pretty well as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By pushing a &quot;how to ask questions&quot; box in their face you reduce ease of use, especially if you make them go through another step to get past it, or review their post again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You hit ask a question, you enter stuff in the textbox, and boom - you've got the eyes and ears of thousands of developers for about 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T16:15:08.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33021" CreationDate="2009-12-15T16:38:39.253" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had a couple of instances where an answer accepted from a previous day, changes the total limit I can achieve today. The OP changes the acceptance, brievely, but then the re-acceptance still registers 15 points for today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this only reduces my total for the day by 15, but i would like to know why this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there no way to say, well i have already accepted this persons answer, so if i do reaccept it, it will not change that days total?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope I explained it correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133288" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T18:20:37.960" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T18:20:37.960" Title="Answer acceptance from previous day changes limit of today" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33005" CreationDate="2009-12-15T16:46:00.177" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But just in case Jeff decides to go for your first suggestion, I've already done some of the work for him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/cooltext%5Fhowtoask.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T16:46:00.177" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32910" CreationDate="2009-12-15T16:47:29.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO stops spam more through social engineering than technical engineering.  Mainly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All links are &lt;code&gt;nofollow&lt;/code&gt;, so there's no way to use SO to build PageRank at another site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ordinary users can earn some moderator privileges, such that there are enough moderators to quickly kill any spam that targets SO users directly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rate limits on how fast you can post to help keep a spammer from overwhelming the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end result is that it's not profitable to spam on SO, and when you take the money out of  the picture a spammer will get bored and move on.  There's nothing technical stopping a spammer from posting a bunch of junk on SO, but it wouldn't be profitable for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T18:12:03.687" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T18:12:03.687" />
  <row Id="33016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33006" CreationDate="2009-12-15T16:51:02.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is not a social networking site, sadly.  You'd have to get recommendations from your peers (ie, other SO users) but the site doesn't really connect people well enough to allow for this.  Other verification systems are doomed to be too much work, or not work at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see this done, I just don't see how it can be done well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I believe that it doesn't matter so much - potential employers, if they aren't impressed with your resume, aren't going to be impressed with your recommendations.  They will ask for recommendations during the interview process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that reputation, though poor, is merit given by one's peers, and thus is a recommendation as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T16:51:02.057" />
  <row Id="33017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33013" CreationDate="2009-12-15T16:51:49.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't stress so much over the number. Yes this happens, yes people have suggested (for example) that accepted answers are counted differently; no nothing has changed. I wouldn't worry about it - it isn't the most important thing. Just keep adding great answers ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T16:51:49.107" />
  <row Id="33021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33013" CreationDate="2009-12-15T17:00:06.393" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That makes sense to me. If a user accepts an answer &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt;, you receive the points today, regardless of when the question was asked (or originally accepted). It works the same as votes placed on any post. You receive the points the day the vote is cast (even if it is retracted and then re-added later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; fully understand is why accepted-answer points are applied to the daily limit the way they do. This has been discussed extensively. &lt;em&gt;Personally, I stopped worrying about it a long time ago.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your answer is accepted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you reached the daily limit, you &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; get the points (those points &lt;strong&gt;are exempt&lt;/strong&gt; from the daily limit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If your answer is accepted &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you reached the daily limit, they are counted towards the daily limit (those points &lt;strong&gt;are not exempt&lt;/strong&gt; from the daily limit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If accepted answers are exempt from the daily limit, why not make them exempt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (votingPoints &amp;gt; DailyCap)&#xA;{&#xA;    votingPoints = DailyCap;&#xA;}&#xA;totalPoints = votingPoints + exemptPoints;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T14:45:09.350" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T14:45:09.350" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T18:10:53.563" Score="3" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; This was going to be a simple tag merge request, but it grew while I was researching it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/event-handler&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;event-handler&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has 24 questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/eventhandler&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;eventhandler&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 20, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/event-handlers&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;event-handlers&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 12. This seems unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I bring it up on Meta is that I'm not sure which should be the canonical tag. &lt;code&gt;event-handler&lt;/code&gt; seems more logical, but &lt;code&gt;eventhandler&lt;/code&gt; might be the way it appears in code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how should this tag be used with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/events&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;events&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [1549], &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/event&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;event&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [360], &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/handler&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;handler&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [56], &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/handling&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;handling&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [41], &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/handlers&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;handlers&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [12], and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/event-handling&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;event-handling&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [514] tags? And what about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript-events&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript-events&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [509]? I was going to ask a question about JavaScript event handlers, which is how I got mixed up in this in the first place. What tags would I use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I don't think that the &lt;code&gt;handl*&lt;/code&gt; tags should be merged with &lt;code&gt;event*&lt;/code&gt; tags, since there are other kinds of handlers (error-handlers come to mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T12:53:30.537" Title="On the tagging of events and event handling" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="33025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33023" CreationDate="2009-12-15T18:25:06.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see &lt;code&gt;javascript-events&lt;/code&gt; merged with &lt;code&gt;events&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;event&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No idea what to do about &lt;code&gt;*handl*&lt;/code&gt;... But there are few enough questions that you could conceivably examine each one individually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T18:25:06.033" />
  <row Id="33026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33023" CreationDate="2009-12-15T18:28:13.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, what a mess! Touching these before the black list is enabled is a waste of time. The tags will be added again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote for &lt;code&gt;event-handlers&lt;/code&gt;. We normally use the plural form, don't we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions tagged both &lt;code&gt;hand*&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;event&lt;/code&gt; should be retagged to &lt;code&gt;event-handlers&lt;/code&gt; then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T18:28:13.377" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33005" CreationDate="2009-12-15T18:41:52.900" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;People &lt;em&gt;DON'T&lt;/em&gt; Read!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could have a chorus kick line singing about how to ask a question correctly while a troupe of dancing monkeys spelled out &quot;Programming-Related&quot; Village People/&lt;i&gt;YMCA&lt;/i&gt; style, and people will not notice it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could whitebox in an image Dr Hunter S. Thompson, coked up and drunk, wielding a shotgun, telling them that they'd better ask the question correctly or suffer the consequences. They'll click through the whitebox the same way we all do with EULAs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.codeheaven.info/samples/hunter.png&quot; alt=&quot;I'm only gonna say this ONCE: PROGRAMMING RELATED&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You flash the screen 72 different colors until they actually scroll through the entire thing, they'll scroll it, click OK, and have &lt;em&gt;not read any of it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only people this will &quot;help&quot; are those who already read the FAQ, and since they've already done so, they'll just be annoyed that you're bugging them with information they already know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T18:50:13.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T18:50:13.553" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32992" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:10:26.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit them into short questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T11:31:55.537" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T11:31:55.537" />
  <row Id="33029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33032" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:34:41.460" Score="0" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1849376/what-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-the-require-vs-import-methods-of-lo&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1849376/what-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-the-require-vs-import-methods-of-lo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't manually accept any answers, but for some reason, one of the lesser answers was auto-selected as the accepted answer.  I was expecting the top answer to get accepted.  Why?  And can this be changed, I really don't want the answer that was accepted to be the accepted answer.  kaizer.se's answer was much, much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Is there any way to have a moderator come through and change the accepted answer to kaiser.se's?  If I'd known about that second condition, I would have manually accepted.  I didn't want to discourage new answerers from commenting though, so I was going to let it auto-accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, the rule about only auto-accepting answers posted after the bounty begins is... truly daft, IMHO.  I can understand that one might make the assumption that a bounty was started because the questioner was dissatisfied with all current answers, and thus none of them should be auto-accepted, but honestly, I can't think of even one instance where I've started a bounty with that in mind.  When I start a bounty, it's because I'm dissatisfied with the breadth of the answers presented.  I may already be happy with an answer given, but it's usually for a question that's subjective enough that more discussion is desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136728" LastEditorUserId="136728" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T23:19:56.267" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T00:04:18.497" Title="Why was the bounty awarded in this way?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:34:43.193" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a slight problem with this script. I modded it to show 300 items per (what can i say? i ask and favorite a lot of stuff) and it always seems to be spinning for my questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T19:34:43.193" />
  <row Id="33032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33029" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:38:39.847" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an auto-accept feature on bounties. This much I think you knew. However, it works a little funky -- it can only auto-accept the top-voted answer which meets both of the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must have at least &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Must have been posted &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the bounty was initiated (likely why the 12-score answer didn't get accepted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it's possible for a bounty to expire with no answers meeting said criteria, in which case none are selected as the accepted answer, and in fact no answer can &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, it's recommended that bounty users manually accept the one they feel is most worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T00:04:18.497" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T00:04:18.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30268" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:44:16.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea.  I had forgotten there was a separate UI just for tagging, and it would be nice to have the lighter-weight interface back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T19:44:16.343" />
  <row Id="33035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30268" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:47:54.400" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you only want to retag, then just edit the tags and submit. No one's forcing you to change anything else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if seeing the opportunity gives you a sudden urge to clean up the title and fix a few typos while you're in there, that's a Good Thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After thinking about this for a bit, it occurred to me that this might be useful in a limited set of circumstances. Specifically, those where you're trying to remove or merge tags that don't exist on enough questions to warrant a retag-request here on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; that's your situation, &lt;a href=&quot;http://shog9.com/greasemonkey/scripts/so%5Fquick%5Fretag.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's a Greasemonkey script that'll add a retag-only option&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/greasemonkey/scripts/so%5Fquick%5Fretag.png&quot; alt=&quot;Obligatory screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T21:34:39.730" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:34:39.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:52:39.277" Score="-1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Emacs, and so I monitor the Emacs questions (mostly as a way to learn, I can't answer most of them) and Emacs is pretty customizable. But I imagine that other development tools are filled with menus (or whatever other unearthly situations people think it's a good idea to subject themselves to) that allow customization of e.g. syntax highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that Super User is up and running, should people be encouraged to push their editor questions to Super User, or does it make sense to keep them in Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140440" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T21:15:45.723" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:15:45.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-15T19:52:39.277" Title="What kind of questions about development tools are appropriate for Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tools&gt;&lt;development&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33036" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:56:45.040" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emacs is primarily a developer tool. Questions, assuming they're from developers, &lt;em&gt;and regarding the use of the program as a development tool&lt;/em&gt;, will be best answered &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; developers. Therefore, they should be asked on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same goes for Vim, Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MS Word questions, while they might also involve text editing, aren't generally programming-related in any normal sense of the word (perhaps if you're getting down-and-dirty with macros or VBA...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, if you're trying to use MS-Word as a programmer's editor, you need serious mental help. These questions should be migrated to psychoverflow.com...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T19:56:45.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-15T19:56:45.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33036" CreationDate="2009-12-15T19:58:59.840" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think that since there is a &quot;fun&quot; tag a &quot;customization&quot; tag isn't unjustified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140440" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T19:58:59.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-15T19:58:59.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T20:21:31.453" Score="-1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often in StackOverflow, you find a C# or Java question that is not specifically asking for multi-threaded code, but many answers and comments focus on providing a thread safe solution.  Should this be encouraged?  Should I be writing sigle or multi threaded code in answers by default?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T20:46:29.787" ClosedDate="2009-12-17T00:29:26.200" Title="Should answers be multithreaded by default?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29592" CreationDate="2009-12-15T20:25:00.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the same concerns that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29592/add-a-vote-to-convert-a-question-to-community-wiki/29598#29598&quot;&gt;Mathew has&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that as this is most likely to be a one way street, the vote threshold should be higher than any of the others. May be 10 or 15 votes may be? And may be coupled with the feature request of allowing for votes against CW to be able to be casted before converting? Meaning that if 5 users vote against turning to CW, it would be required 20 users to turn it to CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T20:25:00.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33040" CreationDate="2009-12-15T20:25:05.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I write single threaded code by default, both when programming and when answering questions.  It's basic adherence to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%5Fain%27t%5Fgonna%5Fneed%5Fit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YAGNI&lt;/a&gt;, and it makes things less confusing for beginners.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind getting multi-threaded answers myself, it's sort of a value added thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T20:25:05.207" />
  <row Id="33043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29592" CreationDate="2009-12-15T20:38:49.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do you want this? Is it to prevent people from getting reputation from something you think they shoudln't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about not upvoting a post you don't think it's deserving of reputation?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That seems enough for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T20:38:49.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33050" CreationDate="2009-12-15T20:41:31.450" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1844569/ckeditor-class-or-id-for-editor-body&quot;&gt;a question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, but the &quot;accept&quot; checkmarks are missing in the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going through the documentation but not finding anything about accepting an answer becoming impossible after a certain amount of time but can't find anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T23:50:15.867" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:50:15.867" Title="No accept function on question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33040" CreationDate="2009-12-15T20:46:29.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Hell. No.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine the scenario: Fairly new to the language user wants a bit of help doing something. They either find a question here, or ask their own. They find some crazy-threaded example, when they're still not really sure what threads are! SO is for everybody, not just the elite. &lt;code&gt;How do I do X (with multithreading)&lt;/code&gt; is a totally legitimate, but entirely seperate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T20:46:29.787" />
  <row Id="33048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33049" CreationDate="2009-12-15T20:53:06.700" Score="-3" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault&quot;&gt;Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many (most?) of the questions I've seen on Stack Overflow are specific to a narrowly-defined problem set, e.g., how-do-I-do-this, what-does-this-error-mean, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, a question comes along that is a little bit bigger in scope, such as how do I implement a simple client/server application using sockets or how do I create a Windows service.  Every now and again, I've taken the time to provide a detailed instruction set (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/593454/easiest-language-to-create-a-windows-service/593803#593803&quot;&gt;answer to &quot;Easiest language to create a Windows service in&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) for questions like these.  And when I notice new questions that refer to the same or similar problem, I usually provide a link to the answer I've already given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be useful to the Stack Overflow community to have a tutorial section under one's profile that allows Stack Overflow participants to provide such tutorials without having to have a question asked?  In my mind, I'm envisioning something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Code Project&lt;/a&gt; but completely hosted within the Stack Overflow environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134063" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T09:36:14.760" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T09:36:14.760" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T08:54:11.473" Title="Tutorial section for Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tutorials&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33048" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:00:24.830" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a link in your profile to your blog would serve the same purpose.  You're also welcome to ask a question then provide the answer on those occasions when you have an answer ready but the question hasn't been asked yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:00:24.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33044" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:02:05.530" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You set a bounty on it around December 7th. (You can take a look at your reputation graph and look for a point in time where that question cost you more than 50 reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason there was no auto-accept is likely because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work/16067#16067&quot;&gt;no answer met the criteria for an auto accept&lt;/a&gt;, and if there is no eligible answer at the end of the bounty, then an answer can never be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:02:05.530" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30268" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:04:50.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why it's not turned on for you - I thought it was a Moderators-only feature for testing for a little while, but we have an inline-retag ajax UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why it couldn't be used by anyone with enough rep.  (although honestly, I forget about it and tend to use the edit page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:04:50.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33048" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:19:58.650" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's see ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow, et al, are &lt;em&gt;question and answer&lt;/em&gt; sites. They are not a blog engine. In fact, the format doesn't even work particularly well for blog-type entries. They do OK for questions you self-answer, but even that seems to be frowned on (these days) by the communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a separate tutorial/blog post kind of deal that any of us (even with a minimum required threshold) can post to will dilute the value of the primary mission (Q &amp;amp; A), whilst simultaneously increasing the amount of noise and maintenance on the site. Not to mention the development effort for Jeff &amp;amp; crew (who I'm sure many of us would like to see implement things like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot; title=&quot;All I want for Christmas is to never see belongs-on-superuser again&quot;&gt;tag blacklists&lt;/a&gt; first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In my mind, I'm envisioning something like CodeProject but completely hosted within the SO environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That exists already. It's called CodeProject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: The sites work right now because they're laser-focused on specific missions and have a critical mass of users. Adding more to their nice, focused missions will dilute their value, hurt the quality, and take development resources away from more pressing and mission-focused feature requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:19:58.650" />
  <row Id="33054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:50:35.163" Score="13" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was taking another look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27254/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and Ólafur's comment. It's a very good point: If the best answer to a question is close but needs some example code or other clarification, editing it makes sense. Most users don't have enough rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my proposal: why not give the asker edit privileges to answers on his own question, or at least to the accepted answer, at a much lower rep (250? 500?). You could also let the asker append to, but not edit, the accepted answer, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it plugged in? Loose power cords are the cause of many no-start problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asker's note:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was, in fact, plugged in, but the power strip it was connected to had gotten turned off. Maybe the cat's fault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…This would let the asker respond with code blocks, blockquotes, and other useful formatting that can't be used in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132616" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T23:21:14.433" Title="Give edit privileges to asker for accepted answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33058" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:55:35.403" Score="-1" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23955/adobe-sponsored-tags&quot;&gt;Adobe-sponsored tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30187/what-does-rg-mean&quot;&gt;What does rg mean?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed the Android tag in Stack Overflow has the nifty little Android picture in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings up a few questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who can add cool icons to tags?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was Android given this privilege?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I learn to develop for Android so I can sport the cool tag on my profile and CV?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we welcome our new Google overlords, or rebel? I for one welcome our new Android creating overlords.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140030" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T22:22:44.823" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T22:22:44.823" ClosedDate="2009-12-15T22:28:07.607" Title="Why is android special?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;android&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33054" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:57:00.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda like this suggestion. Sometimes, an answer is &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; but not quite right; if the OP wants to add in additional information, he must either edit the question (my personal preference) or add an answer of his own (less than ideal in terms of having the complete solution near the top of the question). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the asker could edit the answer he accepted, this would be a decent third choice... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:57:00.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33055" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:58:14.417" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's special because someone pays &lt;s&gt;hard money&lt;/s&gt; some dollars for advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T21:58:14.417" />
  <row Id="33058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33055" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:10:15.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is what is called a &quot;sponsored tag&quot;.  Basicly SO is selling advertising in the form of tag images to companies. I believe adobe was the first company to have sponsored tags.  Please see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23955/adobe-sponsored-tags&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23955/adobe-sponsored-tags&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sponsored-tags&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sponsored-tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T22:10:15.143" />
  <row Id="33059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:13:51.253" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29716/recent-activity-vote-counts-are-missing-corrupt&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Recent activity&amp;rdquo; vote counts are missing/corrupt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29492/whats-with-the-rep-calc-on-so&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s with the Rep Calc. on SO?!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had a strange problem, I appeared to have hit the rep limit at 179 rather than 200? &#xA;The thing to note in the image is the top question, the rep gained from the top question compared to the up votes and the rep gained today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/mGNya.png&quot; alt=&quot;a shot of rep&quot; title=&quot;birdy tells you something&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1910630/in-php-how-in-an-array-itteration-do-i-add-entries-to-a-second-array-only-if-the/1910640#1910640&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; that I cannot gain upvotes on doesn't seem to be cw&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T00:30:33.483" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T00:30:33.483" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T15:11:04.013" Title="Hit reputation limit at 179?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33065" CreationDate="2009-12-15T21:46:13.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless there is enough critical mass for a standalone stackexchange (you could start one) or another forum/site caters to it - asking the (programming-related) question here (or on ServerFault if it's more of a network/server admin thing) cannot hurt because Google gives pretty good search results from StackOverflow as long as the questions are good and tagged well - so you chances of someone hitting your question from Google are very good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If some critical mass grows, then you could always move to a custom stack exchange later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This initial question should probably be on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T22:24:01.293" />
  <row Id="33063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33059" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:28:32.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is kind of interesting. You don't appear to have won any bounties (which don't always show up correctly on your &quot;recent activity&quot; page), and you don't seem to have gotten enough downvotes to remove the rep after reaching the cap. You appear to have clicked &quot;Today&quot; correctly, and I independently added up and verified the 179 total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm stumped. (And before everyone bum rushes that answer and tests upvoting it, I already did, and his rep did not increase.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best answer, Yacoby, is to take solace in the fact that it is almost tomorrow. As I write this, I believe we are 1.5 hours or so away from the UTC date switching over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T22:28:32.490" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="33064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33069" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:33:17.303" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;So with the new rep cap badges available, I find myself putting in more time to answer questions, which is great.  But now I'm having a rep cap issue, and I find myself wondering about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I've managed to get 190 rep.  When I was at 150 earlier, I noticed that an upvote for an answer I had made disappeared, and my rep went down to 140.  No big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now I am at 190, and it appears that I can't get any higher than that.  I can't remember how many downvotes I made today, so I'm not sure if that's the problem, or if it's one of the other many vagaries of the rep cap system.  &lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; - I've made one downvote today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my big question is, do I still count as having hit the cap, even though subsequent upvotes don't take me higher (Jon Skeet's tool shows them as counting as 0)?  And the second question is why I can't go any higher?  I've tried wading through all the various FAQs and Meta questions, but the cap really is quite frustrating to figure out in situations like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit - this is on SO, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130351" LastEditorUserId="130351" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T22:44:09.857" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:31:58.490" Title="Do lowered reputation cap limit affect new badges? And why is my rep cap lowered anyway?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="33065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:48:18.427" Score="1" ViewCount="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm working with a number of commecial packages - Hansen, Technology One for instance. I'm sure most sites will be in the same boat. In my case these systems are built on Sql Server and come with reasonable support but there's always a need for more questions and knowledge from other sites. I'm not sure that SO is the place for those questions - but if not where can I ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example here's a typical question - how do I integrate a parameter driven Crystal Report into Technology One?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131534" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T22:53:29.263" Title="Application Specific Questions - Hansen or Technology One" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33065" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:53:29.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions are fine to ask, just tag them with the package name, &lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; you there may not be enough users of that package to give you good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T22:53:29.263" />
  <row Id="33067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:54:38.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I add a confusing negative comment to the other guys post, and then flag it as offensive.  I then edit my post to include any good information he has, and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add bullets and make some stuff &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit hopefully brings traffic, including some newbies to upvote me due to the other guys negative comment.  Do about 30 of these an hour and you're into some serious rep dude!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-jb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm kidding.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I said I'm kidding!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139692" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T22:54:38.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33071" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:55:03.520" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I am in unanswered, it would be nice if I could look at those with 0 replies first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:01:07.550" Title="Is it possible to sort by the number of replies?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33064" CreationDate="2009-12-15T22:56:03.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question (and its answers) is deleted, the rep for your answers on that question is still reflected in your total rep, but doesn't show in the reports for the day.  That is, you will have earned the full 200 rep for the day, even though the reports don't show it.  Eventually, I assume, your rep will be recalculated and the rep for the deleted answer will be removed.  Hopefully, though, you'll have an upvote that wasn't counted due to the cap on that day to offset it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-15T23:31:58.490" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:31:58.490" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33068" CreationDate="2009-12-15T23:00:24.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0&quot;&gt;Good enough&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:00:24.650" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33068" CreationDate="2009-12-15T23:01:07.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can sort by the number of replies, but you can use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;advanced search operators&lt;/a&gt; and just search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0&quot;&gt;&quot;answers:0&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:01:07.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-15T23:01:16.833" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11545/do-you-get-points-for-upvoted-comments&quot;&gt;Do you get points for upvoted comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is any reputation gained from having your comments upvoted?  I thought I saw somewhere that they were but it doesn't seem to happen.  If this is not the case, why not?  I seems like getting a little rep for comments would be appropriate.  Some of them deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139692" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:21:38.633" ClosedDate="2009-12-15T23:43:21.510" Title="reputation for good comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33072" CreationDate="2009-12-15T23:02:52.290" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.  There is a Pundit badge for leaving 10 comments with score of 10 or more.  Comments seem to get upvoted based more on humor than on value to the OP.  This would be one reason why I wouldn't be in favor of giving rep for comment upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:02:52.290" />
  <row Id="33075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33072" CreationDate="2009-12-15T23:21:38.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if a comment helps answer a question, then it ought to have been proposed as an answer to the question &amp;ndash; perhaps qualified as a partial answer, or &quot;I agree with so and so, &lt;strong&gt;except&lt;/strong&gt; ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are just fine as-is.  The extra badges for popular comments are cool though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130199" LastActivityDate="2009-12-15T23:21:38.633" />
  <row Id="33077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-12-16T00:17:45.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mentioned in High Scalability Blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/high-scalability-blog-on-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/high-scalability-blog-on-stack-overflow/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T00:17:45.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-16T00:17:45.317" />
  <row Id="33080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1734" CreationDate="2009-12-16T00:53:38.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also adding Heise.de, one of Germany's most renowned IT news sites and publishers of the c't magazine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heise.de/developer/meldung/Stack-Overflow-Community-Site-will-Antworten-auf-Programmierfehler-geben-219569.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: Community-Site will Antworten auf Programmierfehler geben&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T00:53:38.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-16T00:53:38.997" />
  <row Id="33081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="104757" CreationDate="2009-12-16T00:58:56.600" Score="67" ViewCount="1141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see any problem with companies sponsoring tags that are products/proper names, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flex&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;flex&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flash&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;flash&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; being sponsored by Adobe or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;android&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; being sponsored by Android. However, I just noticed that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/performance&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;performance&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag is sponsored by Red Gate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it really make sense to let someone sponsor a tag that represents a general concept? I mean, if they're willing to pay for it, so be it. But it just seems silly to think that someone might be able to sponsor tags like &lt;code&gt;file&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;memory&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T08:16:45.200" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T19:42:22.820" Title="Should tags that represent concepts be sponsorable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="33082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33081" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:02:52.583" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah. Specifically, the file tag should be sponsored by Jeff himself, with a single link pointing to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001315.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;International Backup Awareness Day&lt;/a&gt;. I propose a floppy disk icon for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T01:02:52.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33081" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:11:17.840" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine. Just think, next time I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/performance%20c++&quot;&gt;searching for an answer to a C++ performance question&lt;/a&gt;, I'll see Red Gate's sponsored links and follow them to find tools that'll... um...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T01:11:17.840" />
  <row Id="33084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:13:36.837" Score="-2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18054/isnt-the-accepted-answer-feature-overly-visible&quot;&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t the &amp;ldquo;accepted answer&amp;rdquo; feature overly visible?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712/will-the-accept-rate-score-encourage-unwanted-behavior&quot;&gt;Will the &amp;ldquo;Accept rate&amp;rdquo; score encourage unwanted behavior?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reason this feature is bad is because it encourages people to be rude to those with bad rates. For instance, i've seen a couple questions where people are saying something along the lines of &quot;Geez man. Accept some answers!&quot; (perhaps not quite as nice, i can't remember the specific words) to someone with a &quot;low accept rate&quot;, and it doesn't seem to contribute. If we want to be nice to the &quot;noobs&quot;, then this feature doesnt help. The whole thing smacks of letting users not post answers to &quot;high-risk&quot; questioners because they &quot;won't get their rep&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the goal is to alert people to low-accept-rate users, than add some &quot;low accept rate&quot; text under really low accept rate users (25% or less or something) or maybe a moderator notification, but please don't punish people that may not realize why they are getting rude comments and less replies (whether it's simply because they don't speak good english or they are new).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there's the other side: The other day i went back through all my questions and accepted answers solely to boost my accept rate (it was 70 or 80-something percent). I didn't really get the &quot;green text&quot; which supposedly should have indicated to me my accept rate was good. Some of my questions simply didn't have good answers, but i accepted them anyway to bump it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's next, accepted answer rate so we can penalize bad answerers? &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I do realize you don't want people who ask questions and don't accept answers, so is it possible to replace this &quot;feature&quot; with something that does not encourage (as much) negative behavior?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: at a minimum, can something be added to the FAQ to indicate what good acceptance rate is for answers, since people clearly don't understand the what the rates mean?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastEditorUserId="130347" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T01:45:05.823" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:57:15.087" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T08:07:28.293" Title="Can the Accept-rate &quot;feature&quot; be replaced with something else?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="33085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33081" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:14:41.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as they pay, and are first to ask for it, what's the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like creating a new tag and earning the &lt;code&gt;Taxonomist&lt;/code&gt; badge, you just gotta be first!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T01:14:41.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33084" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:20:58.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accepting answers is the &quot;good behavior.&quot; Calling users out because they &lt;em&gt;habitually&lt;/em&gt; fail to do so is not &quot;bad behavior.&quot; However, being abusive or overtly rude about it is. Those instances can be flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T01:20:58.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33084" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:27:45.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about it. If the comments bother you, &lt;em&gt;then flag them&lt;/em&gt;. If you're accepting answers you don't like just to get your rate up, then you're being dishonest, foolish and irresponsible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's next, accepted answer rate so we can penalize bad answerers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already penalize them. What's &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; hang-up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T01:27:45.440" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="33089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:54:41.113" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I write a question or answer on SO, then re-read it and notice a typo; so I fix that.  Then later I am looking it over again and another typo pops out at me; so I fix that - doing this it's very easy to push the edits up close to the limit before it becomes community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, surely minor corrective edits by anyone and any number of edits by any one person should not count toward making something CW; only non-trivial edits by some number, say 10, of different people should trigger CW from editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T03:19:57.700" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T12:42:02.577" Title="Why can't edit-flagging use heuristics to determine if a change was substantial" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33110" CreationDate="2009-12-16T01:58:25.693" Score="11" ViewCount="2007" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely not a huge issue, but a little bit jarring on the latest Chrome release under Ubuntu Linux 9.10. Yes, technically still Beta (by Google's standards) but the bug appears to be in WebKit, which is definitely not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's 3 or more digits in the view count, it overflows its box and hits the title of the question in some cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/5YppB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Oh No!! Overlap!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This still happens if I zoom the whole page in/out so it's not like I just have some non-standard font sizes set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140451" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T09:10:02.643" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T09:10:02.643" Title="Slight rendering bug in Chrome (Linux) - View count and title overlap" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="33091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33089" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:04:19.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you really pushed a post over to CW by editing it so much? You need to edit it 10 times for this to happen, where each edit is in its own window (5 minutes for the initial posting, 2 minutes for every edit thereafter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you take advantage of the preview window so as to not submit until you are satisfied with your edit?  I usually only have two or three edits register when I am posting, even for extensively thought-out posts involving a lot of code and details; I also use the Firefox plugin &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/el/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's All Text!&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, so I can use my editor of choice (Vim) for writing my post, which really helps out when writing code on the fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-10T12:42:02.577" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T12:42:02.577" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:06:36.633" Score="-3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Asked a question that received 50 answers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could have a few of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Socrates: bronze, 50 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plato: silver, 100 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aristotle: gold, 150 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you're not into the whole ranking-Greek-philosophers thing, you could just have: Inquirer (50) and Philosopher (150)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well I'll admit these names aren't so great, except &quot;Philosopher&quot; which I love, so I welcome suggestions. But the concept is solid - questions that many people feel the need to answer are remarkable and as such badge-worthy IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of questions that have &gt; 150 answers (most of them have much much more):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of C#?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&quot;&gt;Great programming quotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756/what-do-you-use-to-keep-notes-as-a-developer&quot;&gt;What do you use to keep notes as a developer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/114342/what-are-code-smells-what-is-the-best-way-to-correct-them&quot;&gt;What are Code Smells? What is the best way to correct them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke&quot;&gt;What is your best programmer joke?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastEditorUserId="11208" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T02:33:21.063" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:04:57.720" Title="Proposed badge: Philosopher" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33089" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:10:30.230" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of auto-CW is to discourage the use of editing solely for the purpose of &quot;bumping&quot; a question (making it appear on the front page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of bumping is to give some attention to updated posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, minor changes wouldn't need the attention, and therefore wouldn't need to be bumped...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but good luck coming up with an algorithm that'll differentiate between simple typo correction and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/33089/list#rev-arrow-956c1d60-a97a-4156-86ac-3aa930f946a4&quot;&gt;subtly-malicious changes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T02:10:30.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33092" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:18:11.637" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that questions with huge numbers of answers are something that SO should encourage... Often as not, &gt; 10-15 answers means &lt;em&gt;there is no answer&lt;/em&gt; (or everyone has their own opinion as to what that answer is... or no one cares to read the existing answers, so there are scores of duplicates...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, SO &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; a discussion site. If you have some deep philosophical question you'd like to discuss with your fellow developers, you're better off starting here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13198/where-can-i-find-interesting-programming-discussions&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where can I find interesting programming discussions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T02:18:11.637" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33092" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:31:46.977" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you want to encourage endless discussion on a question &amp;amp; answer site. You should totally drop that &lt;s&gt;and use jQuery&lt;/s&gt; thought and think about writing better, well defined questions that will lead toward a solid answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept is not solid is just cracks it wide for open-ended questions with a meandering list of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is remarkable enough, then there will be plenty of views on it. In which case, there are already badges such rubber-necking: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/28/famous-question&quot;&gt;Famous&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/27/notable-question&quot;&gt;Notable&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/26/popular-question&quot;&gt;Popular Question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T08:04:57.720" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:04:57.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:45:22.077" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20524/reviving-old-questions&quot;&gt;Reviving old questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to add a new answer to an old question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually it's looked down upon in other forums and sites. But Stack Overflow is a different beast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if a question has an accepted answer, does that factor in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/17/necromancer&quot;&gt;Necromancer badge&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T03:14:28.663" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:11:07.090" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T11:22:35.920" Title="Do the usual rules of necromancy apply on the trilogy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;necromancer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33096" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:50:47.880" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say, yes, it is a good thing (in fact there's even a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/17/necromancer&quot;&gt;badge&lt;/a&gt; for it). I think generally the philosophy is that all improvement to any question/answer over time is viewed as a good thing. As you say, SO isn't your typical forum, its more of a cross between a forum &amp;amp; a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T02:50:47.880" />
  <row Id="33098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33092" CreationDate="2009-12-16T02:52:45.460" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this really a behavior we want to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/badges-positive-only/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/badges-positive-only/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T02:52:45.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:02:36.033" Score="6" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am hitting a tag for unanswered, open questions using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[myTag]closed:0 answers:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wanted to add another tag to the search. Unfortunately just doing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[myTag][myOtherTag]closed:0 answers:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Returns only questions with &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; tags. I was going for &lt;em&gt;either&lt;/em&gt; tag. I can't seem to find the syntax. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this implemented yet? (And if not can it be?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T22:38:28.683" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T03:42:06.953" Title="Advanced Search Options Syntax: Multiple Tags, And Vs. Or" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33096" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:02:49.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel you can provide a better answer than is already posted, or bring something further to the discussion, then yes you are welcome to post an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:02:49.747" />
  <row Id="33101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:04:44.657" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will only show no more than 5 comments, how to query it in database?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean how to query for questions and limited comments at the same time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T09:28:02.373" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T09:28:02.373" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T23:55:00.803" Title="How does SO query comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;database&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33101" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:06:21.123" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- like this for SQL Server:&#xA;SELECT TOP 5 * FROM Comments&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144462" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:09:52.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33101" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:06:39.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By passing the last received comment id (likely the id of the post owning the comment, too) to the database, and asking for the next five with higher id's, sequentially ordered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:09:52.340" />
  <row Id="33104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33101" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:06:53.167" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT blah blah blah LIMIT 5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140117" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:09:52.340" />
  <row Id="33105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33101" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:07:18.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- like this for MySQL&#xA;SELECT * FROM Comments ORDER BY CreateDate LIMIT 5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131040" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:09:52.340" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33101" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:09:30.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; int qid = 23;&#xA; var q = (from c in context.comments&#xA;         where c.questionid == qid&#xA;         select new {  c  }).Take(10)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recon they would have a similar query like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136454" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:09:52.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33109" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:12:28.450" Score="2" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is a site critique appropriate for SO?  What about a focused subset of a critique (e.g. how can I simply refactor my color scheme?)&#xA;If not, if y'all have any suggestions for other sites to go to for good website critique, that'd be a nice alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:52:01.753" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:52:01.753" Title="Would &quot;what are problems with my website's design&quot; be an appropriate question for SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33107" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:15:36.460" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How 'bout &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doctype&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:15:36.460" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33107" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:28:21.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's appropriate, because in a lot of cases it's really just someone saying &quot;hey everybody read my blog that you don't care about!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if there are questions about particular design decisions, you could post screenshots with generic content, along with an explanation and simplified markup, and I think people would be fine with it. Don't make people follow a link to a site they've never heard of that could be spam or a virus or who knows what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Maybe saying that it's &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; appropriate is a bit draconian. I have seen a few cases where it was okay where someone basically says &quot;I'm having this problem on a site and I've tried X and Y and Z and here is the code but I can't seem to reproduce it in a small bit of code--only on the live website. Can anyone take a look? the page is blahblah.com/testpage.html and the problem is with the option boxes halfway down.&quot;  In other words, they showed that they tried their best to produce a code sample but it didn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T02:52:35.673" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:52:35.673" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33090" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:43:13.350" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2181/login-page-layout-broken-ubuntu-ff-3&quot;&gt;font width related&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot of your Linux results (bottom) with Firefox/Windows (top):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4036/fontwidthslinux.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see -- the font being used by the browser is &lt;em&gt;absurdly&lt;/em&gt; wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stylesheet defines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has come up before, but it's really hard to &quot;fix&quot; without changing the font, as the Windows and OSX fonts the browser chooses are fairly similar (if not indentical) in width.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: based on recommendations here I changed it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Trebuchet MS,Liberation Sans,DejaVu Sans,sans-serif&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T08:31:58.143" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:31:58.143" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="33111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33084" CreationDate="2009-12-16T03:57:15.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it should go away, but it could be tweaked. I think the main behavior we want to encourage is good answers. And while accepting answers is a step in this direction there could be improvement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my way of thinking the important behavior is not &lt;em&gt;accepting&lt;/em&gt; answers and much as it is &lt;em&gt;acknowledging&lt;/em&gt; answers (and providing feedback). To fully embraced this concept a user would need to be able to not just accept and answer, but to decline one as well. If a user decline an answer, selecting a predetermine category and giving an explanation, this is an acknowledgment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way you encourage feedback from the questioner (thereby allowing the answerer a chance to improve their answer) and you can also put the statistic of &quot;Accepted Answers&quot; in context. If you have a 60% accept rate, but a 100% acknowledge rate, that says something different than a 60% accept rate alone. (You could even broaden this a little to embrace &quot;partial credit&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course all of this adds complexity, and half of the charm of SO is it's simplicity, so I leave it to you gentle reader to decide if you'd like to have your cake, or to eat it:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T03:57:15.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33090" CreationDate="2009-12-16T04:32:03.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is with the fonts you're specifying in your CSS here and their order (Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The browser will go through the fonts in this list and use the first one it knows about. On Windows, Mac OS X, and some Linux installs (those with the Microsoft fonts installed) this will be Trebuchet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some odd configurations where Trebuchet is not installed on the machine but Helvetica is, you will get Helvetica. This might happen on some very old, default installs of Mac OS X that did not include Trebuchet (I don't have a box up to check).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Most default Linux installs, the browser will end up on &quot;sans-serif&quot;, which is whatever has been configured as the default sans font in the browser. Since different fonts have different weights for a given point size, this could end up being nearly any width.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There really are two solutions to this. One, change the design to not assume a fixed width for a piece of text -- this would probably require some significant layout changes. The other, specify a fonts list that has fonts of equal or similar weights, in order of preference, where each platform you want to support is guaranteed to have at least one of these fonts installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140460" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T04:32:03.297" />
  <row Id="33114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33101" CreationDate="2009-12-16T05:00:27.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does SO query comments ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something that only Jeff and his team can answer. I do not know if they are doing one round trip per comment batch or grabbing them all in one go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T05:00:27.223" />
  <row Id="33115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T05:06:06.807" Score="4" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to the Reputation tab of my profile, manually edit the date range in the text boxes and click SET the graph and reputation list remains unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In FF 3.5 Firebug shows the following JavaScript error (note that I've allowed all the listed domains in NoScript):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ranges is null&#xA;$(&quot;#start-date&quot;).val(convert...ToDate(ranges.xaxis.from.toFixed(1)));&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome 3 gives a different wording of the same error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IE 8 shows a different JavaScript error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Line: 250&#xA;Error: 'xaxis' is null or not an object&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131356" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T09:54:52.360" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T09:54:52.360" Title="&quot;ranges is null&quot; JavaScript error when setting reputation date range" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;&lt;error&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36853" CreationDate="2009-12-16T05:16:43.060" Score="-1" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vimperator&lt;/a&gt;, a Firefox plugin which adds &lt;code&gt;vi&lt;/code&gt; key bindings to my browser. I have problems with the WYSIWYG editor for the Trilogy sites. When I use &lt;code&gt;^I&lt;/code&gt; in the textbox in gVim I get &lt;code&gt;*emphasized text*&lt;/code&gt;. This is presumably because Vimperator and the WYSIWYG editor both want to bind on &lt;code&gt;^I&lt;/code&gt;, and I assume that for a brief time the &lt;code&gt;*emphasized text*&lt;/code&gt; is printed to the textbox buffer, which Vimperator picks up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way I can stop the WYSIWYG editor from binding to any keystrokes, or prevent it from changing the contents of my textbox at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T09:38:11.997" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T09:38:11.997" Title="Really annoying WYSIWYG editor interaction with Vimperator" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33173" CreationDate="2009-12-16T05:37:49.963" Score="4" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments seem to be broken on blog.stackoverflow.com. I just tried to leave a comment and there was no error message or &quot;waiting for moderation&quot; messsage or anything like that. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/badges-positive-only&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;most recent blog post&lt;/a&gt; has been up for about five hours (as of this writing) with no comments, so I assume the problem is not just for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Bill was able to leave a comment somehow, but it is still failing for me. When I tried to submit the same comment a second time, I got &quot;Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!&quot; So I guess my comment has somehow been flagged for moderator approval?? I didn't have any links or anything. Maybe it's because I used the word &quot;taxonomist&quot; in my comment? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: Seems that certain words are being blocked with no indication to the user. Using 1337-speak can get around it though. I tried leaving the following comment from Safari (which I have never used to visit blog.stackoverflow.com, so it's not like there's something cached):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...obligatory comment about taxonomist, peer pressure, tumbleweed, and disciplined badges...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This failed.  But when I tried the following comment, it was accepted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...obligatory comment about tax0n0mist, p33r pr3ssur3, tumbl3w33d, and di5cip1ined badges... (trying with 1337 speak to see if it goes through)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like I'm sending e-mail on AOL in 1996!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 3&lt;/strong&gt;: It appears all is well in the world again. Another comment including &quot;taxonomist&quot; got through just fine. Not sure if the word was intentionally blocked, or if the blog reboot means a Bayesian spam filter needs to be re-trained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T18:55:28.547" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T18:55:28.547" Title="Are comments broken on blog.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;clbuttic&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33117" CreationDate="2009-12-16T05:40:24.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just able to leave a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T05:05:37.903" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T05:05:37.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33101" CreationDate="2009-12-16T05:45:47.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;may be like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT * FROM (&#xA;SELECT * FROM post_comments WHERE comment_votes is NOT NULL&#xA;UNION&#xA;SELECT * FROM post_comments WHERE comment_votes is NULL)&#xA;ORDER BY entry_time&#xA;LIMIT 5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true for large number of comments. But for smaller number of comments it just collects first five comments irrespective of comment_votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT * FROM post_comments ORDER BY entry_time LIMIT 5&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="136086" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T06:05:35.220" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T06:05:35.220" />
  <row Id="33120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33137" CreationDate="2009-12-16T06:12:58.373" Score="3" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21117/is-using-gravatar-a-security-risk&quot;&gt;Is using gravatar a security risk?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent Slashdot article speaks about how somebody was able to discover the email addresses of 10% of SO users through the username and Gravatar system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/15/2352218/Gravatars-Can-Leak-Users-Email-Addresses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/15/2352218/Gravatars-Can-Leak-Users-Email-Addresses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Gravatar offers a global avatar&#xA;  service, using an MD5 hash of the&#xA;  user's email as avatar ID. This piece&#xA;  of information in some cases is enough&#xA;  to retrieve the original email&#xA;  address. Testing a simple attack on&#xA;  stackoverflow.com, I was able to&#xA;  determine the email addresses of more&#xA;  than 10% of the site's&#xA;  users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T19:24:57.470" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T19:30:26.493" Title="Is it a problem that 10% of SO emails tried were guessed by using the username and Gravatar account?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;security&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33142" CreationDate="2009-12-16T06:19:01.920" Score="0" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgive my waffle house if this has been asked before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kind of like the way comments work, but often am frustrated with an invalid or out of date comment on an answer of mine. I know the way to sort it out is the flag button, but it just does not feel right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember when comments first were rolled out I used to be able to delete any comments from my posts (not only ones I own). So if someone left a comment saying, please fix spling mistke I could fix it and then delete the comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the rationale for changing this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T23:02:49.823" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T23:02:49.823" Title="Deleting comments not by me on my answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="33126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33090" CreationDate="2009-12-16T07:01:56.603" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite widespread belief to the contrary, a font stack of Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; fall back to the default sans serif font on a typical linux box (Ubuntu included).  Instead, the Helvetica font gets hijacked and replaced with something the distro thinks is reasonably similar.  To find out what font that is, just run 'fc-match helvetica' from the command line.  On default configured Ubuntu systems, this will generally be Nimbus Sans L, which does not match Helvetica very well, imho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can either remove Helvetica from your stack (not usually a good option) or you can add an explicit linux replacement, such as Liberation Sans or DejaVu Sans.  (Liberation is the better choice metrically and gaining popularity but not as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-UnixResults.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;common&lt;/a&gt; as DejaVu or Bitstream Vera).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140463" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T07:01:56.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33122" CreationDate="2009-12-16T07:26:38.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is not in the comments, but in the fact that upvoted comments are overly visible. I don't think they should be deletable though, as the line between good intentions and censorship is a thin line - unlike answers which are intended to be edited, comments are personal opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current way of adding a note to the answer saying that issue X or Y has been addressed or simply deleting and re-creating the answer (useful only if it was downvoted because of an issue and is not the accepted answer) is not really that good as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if I overcomplicate this, but maybe an option to mark a comment as &quot;addressed&quot;, usable by anyone who did an edit to this post would be one way? But then we're turning comments into &quot;mini-answers&quot; almost...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T07:26:38.550" />
  <row Id="33130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2009-12-16T07:35:56.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All content is licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CC-Wiki&lt;/a&gt;. That essentially means that in the moment you hit &quot;Submit&quot;, you are given your consent to publish your content under this license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is simply giving 10k users access to the information that you agreed SO may &quot;copy, distribute and transmit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is unethical as you agreed already. However, of course an honest mistake can happen, or you might not be aware at the time of writing that you're just publishing your companies trade secrets. In that case, you can always contact the StackOverflow team (link at the bottom) and have them permanently delete the question/answer. I'm not aware of any cases where they did not help the user who made the mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But just keep one thing in mind: The Internet never forgets. Once you post something, the Search crawlers will be all over it, caching it, preserving it for eternity. The StackOverflow team can delete THEIR version of your post and they may ask Google to delete the cached one, and maybe even get Archive.org to delete theirs, but they will certainly not be able to contact each and every person that run a local cache. And certainly not every person who downloaded the monthly data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And yes, I am aware of the &quot;What do project managers do all day?&quot; event. But that was a year ago and they learned from that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T07:35:56.600" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33122" CreationDate="2009-12-16T07:54:16.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comment &lt;strong&gt;wars&lt;/strong&gt;, imagine the fun of that! Seriously, it would not work the way it's intended to. I'd delete your comment, you'd resubmit it, I'd delete it again, you'd resubmit ad nauseam. It will simply be abused; people that can't stand any negative comments (know any such &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32937/so-blog-censorship-and-mild-criticism&quot;&gt;people&lt;/a&gt;?) will simply delete everything they don't like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people probably don't read comments, especially those that haven't been upvoted (mostly because they're hidden). If it really is visible and out of date, just flag it and let moderators deal with it. I don't think it's such a big problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T09:37:56.830" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T09:37:56.830" />
  <row Id="33133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3440" CreationDate="2009-12-16T08:00:27.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be best just to base closed/open on the number of up/down votes the question has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's highly annoying right now that you can't throw in your &quot;no, I don't think this should be closed&quot; vote until &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; it's been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:00:27.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33096" CreationDate="2009-12-16T08:11:07.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having answers to questions is always a good thing. If I'd posted a question and got an answer after a long time, I certainly wouldn't mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:11:07.090" />
  <row Id="33135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33081" CreationDate="2009-12-16T08:11:51.393" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the red-gate icon next to sql-server as it is not their product tag, likewise for the performance tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selling them clearly labelled space at the top of the tag page is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a problem, if they choose to put links in that space so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think tag sponsoring without the tag icon is the way to go for tags like performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just had a thought…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What will happen if Microsoft&#xA;  Sponsored the iPhone tab and put lot&#xA;  of link on how to developer for the&#xA;  Windows 7 Phone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T14:52:16.040" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T14:52:16.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33120" CreationDate="2009-12-16T08:59:50.340" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easy answer: if you're concerned about this, &lt;strong&gt;make sure your Stack Overflow username is different than your email address&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if your Stack Overflow username is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;eggsmclaren&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and your email address is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;eggsmclaren@yahoo.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't take rocket surgery to use the MD5 gravatar hash to figure that out, IMO. Heck, you could probably brute force a lot of those by sheer guessing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-email-s-hash-is-not-a-good-idea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article itself&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This attack is effective if you can deduce a limited set of emails which could belong to the users, but useless otherwise. &lt;strong&gt;If a user named paul registers as john@some.domain then this approach doesn't work.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T08:59:50.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33120" CreationDate="2009-12-16T09:26:13.203" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you seen the Wave &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28882/what-is-your-google-wave-id&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt;? That even has a list of all the IDs neatly displayed (the Google Wave ID is the same as your gmail account). The thing is, if you really want to, it's not that hard to guess &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; than 10% of the email accounts simply by looking through the About me section, their personal blogs, their Twitter account, or just guessing based on their username here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of Gravatar only helps, but it's not exactly crucial. Also, considering I already get a lot of emails from Nigerians trying to sell me authentic gold plated, V|@G®a branded, replica R0le&gt;&amp;lt; watches, I would presume others already have my email address. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T09:26:13.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33141" CreationDate="2009-12-16T10:05:05.520" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having trouble adding two image links as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/928127/list&quot;&gt;images to an answer of mine&lt;/a&gt;. You can track my edits to see the attempt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see images at edit preview but when I save it, the images are not displayed properly. Only the &lt;code&gt;alt&lt;/code&gt; text is displayed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is wrong with these images?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T10:26:15.203" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T00:38:36.290" Title="Images are not displayed properly" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33139" CreationDate="2009-12-16T10:13:58.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disable Ad-Blocker!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T10:13:58.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33139" CreationDate="2009-12-16T10:14:37.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem lies with the fact that there are underscores in the full image path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing them up in the old HTML code (&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;) fixes it nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are ever so slight differences between the rendered preview of Markdown using JavaScript and the baked HTML version. The underscore notoriously being that little trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare the filename versions when writing them in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Markdown - ![ ]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 42356759v1%5F350x350%5FFront%5FColor-AshGrey.jpg&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;HTML - &amp;lt;img /&amp;gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 42356759v1_350x350_Front_Color-AshGrey.jpg&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using HTML will force it to keep, otherwise Markdown will convert the underscores (&lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;) and play up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T00:38:36.290" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T00:38:36.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33122" CreationDate="2009-12-16T10:22:54.460" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deletion is an extreme option. That's why ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it requires the highest level of rep of any SO ability (10k)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;even then, it takes 3 votes by 3 different 10k users to delete something (and of course it can be undeleted by the same process in reverse)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleted content is forced-visible to all 10k users all the time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;letting people delete comments at will, was not exactly in tune with this philosophy and a mistake in retrospect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T10:22:54.460" />
  <row Id="33143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T10:28:39.560" Score="0" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is really cool and all out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What tools and that were used to build the site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140471" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T12:00:46.973" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T12:00:46.973" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T11:52:25.207" Title="Which technologies are used to build Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33143" CreationDate="2009-12-16T10:32:53.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET, C#, VS 2008, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, SQL Server 2008, Subversion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136071" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T10:32:53.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33143" CreationDate="2009-12-16T10:35:22.917" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not just the tech that makes it cool. It's the thought that goes into the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worth reading Jeff's post here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001284.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001284.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133374" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T10:35:22.917" />
  <row Id="33146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33147" CreationDate="2009-12-16T11:13:38.493" Score="4" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that the tag mdb has become a problem as it refers to both JBoss Message Driven Bean (as far as I can tell) and MS-Access. I am tempted to remove all mdb tags and replace them with, say, JBoss-MDB and MS-Access. I should be glad of an opinion on this as there are 57 in this tag at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T12:27:24.843" Title="Ambiguous tag: mdb" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33146" CreationDate="2009-12-16T11:54:33.643" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;DO IT BABY!!  correctly-tagged-things-are-good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T11:54:33.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33146" CreationDate="2009-12-16T12:27:24.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go for it. Just take your time and make sure that the question is really related to the tag you think its related to. A while back my insomnia cranked up to 11 &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26870/classic-re-tag-discussion-on-some-good-ole-asp-classic&quot;&gt;so I did some similar work to pass the time&lt;/a&gt;. You'd be surprised how many posts won't have anything to do with either technology - or both. Also be prepared to be surprised at just how vague a question can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're taking your time and checking the questions you also won't run into that many CAPTCHAs. Always a plus. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T12:27:24.843" />
  <row Id="33149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T12:35:28.330" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;How about making it possible to set up bounty on someone else&amp;rsquo;s question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there is a question that is importent to me. I want to add a bounty to it. how can i do it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the question is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1214958&quot;&gt;How do you get an iphone MPMoviePlayer video’s total time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140479" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:13:03.253" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:13:03.253" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T15:16:52.490" Title="adding a bounty to an asked question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T12:57:05.170" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; about encouraging (or bullying) people into accepting answers.  This is about using accepted answer rate and voting patterns to detect when a user doesn't get the system and provide a tutorial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people who have asked 5 (or more) eligible questions and are eligible to vote, if they have voted less than 10 times or have an accept rate below 50%, the ask a question dialog should be replaced with a mini-tutorial on how SO works.  The tutorial should be no more than a (short) paragraph.  The user must click another button (Continue?) to get to the real ask a question dialog. &lt;strong&gt;This would not apply to meta&lt;/strong&gt;, as the type of questions here  are such that accepting an answer isn't particularly useful.  &lt;em&gt;The tutorial might only appear once or twice so that for people who really don't want to accept answers or vote it doesn't become too much of a barrier.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggested heuristic is flexible.  The idea being that we want to encourage participation.  I truly believe that in the majority of cases, people simply don't know how the system works.  Usually after I leave a comment indicating such, the behavior changes.  Showing a brief tutorial with a link to the FAQ helps a new user get acclimated.  Showing the tutorial rather than denying the ability to ask questions gives the user a chance to respond correctly without doing more than adding a minor annoyance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine further uses for the data and other heuristics that could be used based on whether the behavior changes, but for now I'd simply like the system to give the tutorial rather than depending on other users to help the new users along in this respect by commenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sample tutorial text:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We detected that you've been using the system without rewarding people who answer your questions.  [Site name] works when people who ask questions vote up helpful answers and accept the best answer to their question.  Vote for questions/answers by clicking the up/down arrows -- down voting requires 100 reputation -- next to the question/answer. Accept an answer to your question by clicking the check mark under the answer's vote total.  For more information read the [link to FAQ].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Similar to:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32857/question-approval-delay-process-for-new-users-or-users-with-low-accept-rate-clos&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32857/question-approval-delay-process-for-new-users-or-users-with-low-accept-rate-clos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32553/dont-allow-people-with-very-low-accept-rates-to-ask-questions-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32553/dont-allow-people-with-very-low-accept-rates-to-ask-questions-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T13:54:48.627" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T06:19:00.240" Title="Show mini-tutorial instead of question dialog for users with low accept rate/votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33150" CreationDate="2009-12-16T13:09:49.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been brought up countless times. Accept rate and number of upvotes are irrelevant. Questions can get edited into shape if they're worth anything, closed if duplicates or deleted if simply spam. If they really are good, then the knowledge within the answers is good enough, &lt;strong&gt;the accepted answer checkmark will not improve the information&lt;/strong&gt; in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, another aspect. &lt;strong&gt;People don't read!&lt;/strong&gt; You can do anything, you can write it in big, bold, flashing red letters. They'll click something, whatever, and make it go away. It's as simple as that. Annoying (and/or bullying) people into accepting answers is not the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Continually nudging (= bullying) people into accepting answers will drive them away. That's not what we, as a community, want. Without questions there would be no answers to give. It's as simple as that, whether you like it or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T13:39:26.937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T13:39:26.937" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="33154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33150" CreationDate="2009-12-16T13:59:42.020" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33150/show-mini-tutorial-instead-of-question-dialog-for-users-with-low-accept-rate-vote/33151#33151&quot;&gt;I hate haikus&lt;/a&gt; on this one.  This is a social problem (to the extent there is a problem), and a technical solution is not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you've been doing so far, leaving comments gently instructing the newbies, is fantastic.  That kind of human-to-human interaction is what builds the community.  Encourage others to do the same, rather than leave annoyed comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replacing that interaction with a dumb automated response is not the same thing at all.  It won't bestow the benefit you seek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T13:59:42.020" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33183" CreationDate="2009-12-16T14:29:57.847" Score="3" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I type question or answer ID into the search box, I would expect that to shortcut me to that question or at least a search results page with that answer/question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T22:18:48.447" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T22:18:48.447" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T22:17:16.437" Title="Typing a question ID in the search box doesn't &quot;work&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="33157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33155" CreationDate="2009-12-16T14:35:40.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Type a space after the number. That usually solves it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T14:35:40.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33155" CreationDate="2009-12-16T15:40:52.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a point, but if you know the question ID, why don't you &lt;em&gt;type it into the address bar&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T15:40:52.290" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T15:51:19.463" Score="3" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to target specific career searches to regions or skills and store them in a position-specific saved tab rather than one collection of saved CVs. Could this be implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130900" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T15:51:19.463" Title="store career search results by position" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="33163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-12-16T16:11:24.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the other's answer is good, it gets an upvote.  I consider upvoting on other people's responses completely separate from whether or not I answer a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T16:11:24.577" />
  <row Id="33165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-12-16T16:41:04.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote all good answers, to encourage more of the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T16:41:04.523" />
  <row Id="33166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26146" CreationDate="2009-12-16T17:14:38.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone else posts a good answer, I'll vote for it. If it's entirely better than mine, I'll delete mine. If it's about the same, I'll upvote and leave mine, and leave it to the masses or the original asker to decide whose is better. If the other has some particular nugget I'm missing, I'll edit in the nugget and credit the other person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal, in other words, is to end up with a good answer. It is much more important to have at least one good answer than to have only one good answer, and far more important than to farm the most rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish people would stop whinging about the rep they aren't getting in cases like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T17:14:38.003" />
  <row Id="33167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33168" CreationDate="2009-12-16T18:35:55.500" Score="6" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posted my first bounty question, so I was curious how answering your own bounty question works as I noticed you could game the system with it (yes I have the mindset of wondering if anything I use can be abused and how).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, came here, searched, and found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18841/lost-reputation-after-answering-my-own-question-with-bounty&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18841/lost-reputation-after-answering-my-own-question-with-bounty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the comments on the accepted answer, I believe I have a solution to the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Providing the situation, where you do answer your own bounty question, would it not be reasonable to simply refund your reputation in the chance your answer has the highest votes (minimum of +2)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that if you posted a bounty, and were able to answer it yourself, and prove to the community you had the best answer (by having most votes and over +2), you should be entitled to a reputation refund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This not only prevents the regret or desire to stop trying to answer your own problem, and remove any reluctance in posting a bounty on a question you are still researching an answer too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, and it keeps with the spirit of Stack Overflow, where the community &quot;moderates&quot; itself. No one is refunded unless they prove to the community they successfully answered their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a feature that would be acceptable to the SO owners? If not, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140030" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T18:48:07.660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T20:59:38.220" Title="Suggestion for answering your own bounty question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33167" CreationDate="2009-12-16T18:46:50.160" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Placing a bounty on your question &quot;buys&quot; you a few additional benefits. It gives your question a lot of added exposure by placing it on the '&lt;code&gt;Featured&lt;/code&gt;' tab. That extra exposure (plus the appeal of the bounty itself) gives your question a lot of extra appeal. In theory, people will be willing to put a lot more effort into answering your question with a bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of that effort and exposure can be &quot;returned&quot; so the bounty should be non-refundable. The parties involved don't care that you were able to answer your own question. They have a right to (potentially) receive the rewards for their efforts. Not have it &quot;returned&quot; to you, after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T18:46:50.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33120" CreationDate="2009-12-16T19:30:26.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO might have a lot of users, but a 10% yield is awful. Yes, it can be done. Will it happen in the wild? Highly unlikely. Where's the gain? Not financial, surely, SO is for programmers, and they tend to realise nigerian princes don't e-mail developers with the promise of cash. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're really worried, grab another e-mail and use that instead. But really, this sort of attack isn't going to be relevant for a while. (For one thing, there are WAY easier ways to harvest e-mail addresses than renting an entire computing farm)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T19:30:26.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T19:53:14.313" Score="-2" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17782/why-do-stackers-consistently-vote-down-humorous-responses&quot;&gt;Why do Stackers consistently vote down humorous responses?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that answers and comments are downvoted or flagged simply because of humor or a pop culture reference like &quot;OMG, WTF, or EPIC Fail&quot; - this seems like rabid fanboy behavior, down voting is fine, but allow comments to be down voted instead of deleted, deletion when the comment is in good humor should be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147848" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T20:36:01.337" ClosedDate="2009-12-16T20:15:21.587" Title="Humor in Comments deleted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33171" CreationDate="2009-12-16T19:59:08.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are automatically deleted once they've been flagged 5 times (more times if the comment has been upvoted). That means at least 5 people DON'T think it's in good humour. S[OFU] are not joke sites. There's room for humour, but the information should come first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastEditorUserId="135197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T20:36:01.337" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T20:36:01.337" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33117" CreationDate="2009-12-16T20:35:03.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, my bad -- they were in the spam comment list waiting for my approval!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry Kip :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T20:35:03.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33167" CreationDate="2009-12-16T20:59:38.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a problem.  Please post several questions where this has happened, and where the bounty would have been refunded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, we have enough bounty (&quot;featured&quot;) questions on the site as it is - I don't see a need or reason to encourage people to post bounties, or lower the cost of a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, it may lead to gaming the system, wherein the OP collects all the good bits from other answers into their own answer, bumps it a few times to get the necessary votes, and then obtains both the featured listing and the rep refund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, it's not a problem, it would result in greater noise in the featured tab, and would lead to an exploitable hole in the basic feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T20:59:38.220" />
  <row Id="33176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33180" CreationDate="2009-12-16T21:01:20.010" Score="0" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen people comment very aggressively to bad users on SO, and even their legitimate programming questions get voted down or even closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See for example the comments and down votes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1864472/object-reference-not-set-to-an-instance-of-an-object&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question - see other questions by this user too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that bad users should be punished, but to have legitimate questions down-voted/closed and aggressive comments posted seems counter to the purpose of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the &quot;right&quot; reaction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should one respond to the comments that demand that the user accept answers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Guess I need to rephrase my question: Is aggressive commenting and down-voting and closing of (perhaps badly phrased but) relevant questions considered acceptable behavior on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't get hung on details discussing the specific bad user I linked to, he is not the only one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140505" LastEditorUserId="140505" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T19:50:50.697" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:28:57.150" Title="What should the community reaction to bad users be?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="33177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-16T21:05:12.060" Score="0" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make a line break, you have to end a sentence with two spaces.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;To make a paragraph, you create a whole line between two blocks to text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when you create a line break, it doesn't end the formatting from the previous line like when you create a new paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems that some examples of this bug (such as the first example which shows italics) only appear within the WMD preview and doesn't show up on the actual post itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Examples&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a method with an underscore: test_method&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Here's another method with an underscore: foo_bar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[This only breaks in WMD preview]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a method with an underscore: test_method&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another method with an underscore: foo_bar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heres another &lt;strong&gt;example&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Woah, I'm a new&lt;/strong&gt; line!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heres another **example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woah, I'm a new** line!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some &lt;code&gt;code&lt;br&gt;&#xA;foo = bar&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some `code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;foo = bar`&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A method/function with underscores instead of spaces: i_am_a_test_method&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[This only breaks in WMD preview]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T22:13:34.837" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T22:13:34.837" Title="Bug In WMD Markdown Editor" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33177" CreationDate="2009-12-16T21:13:17.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure this is by design and part of the markdown spec.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can try it at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;babelmark markdown testbed&lt;/a&gt; if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T21:13:17.090" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="33179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2009-12-16T21:13:27.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So many questions that are poorly worded seem so because the original poster seems not to have English as a primary language. I think having them simply include something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am sorry my English is somewhat weak. Please help translate my question into English:&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Recapitulation of question in questioners native language&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a social construct, this would require no new programming overhead, no vetting of translators, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131074" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T21:13:27.510" />
  <row Id="33180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33176" CreationDate="2009-12-16T21:17:36.940" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily agree that the question you link to was a legitimate question. The user posted some code and said &quot;I get this error&quot; but didn't give other basic information like what line number the error occurs on or any description of what he is doing when the error occurs or what he is trying to do. I guess it's &quot;legitimate&quot; in that it is actually about programming. But it is not a well-written or informative question, and downvotes are intended to discourage those kinds of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I looked at the bottom 11 questions from that user (out of 31 total). Nearly all were, in my opinion, bad questions that deserved downvotes (questions were overly broad and/or very little detail was given). The only ones that seemed to be a reasonably well-worded, answerable questions with a clear problem description were &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1782320/look-it-to-this-statement-system-security-principal-windowsidentity-getcurrent&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and (to a lesser extent) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1873252/i-want-to-send-a-textbox-value-in-email-in-c-some-one-help-me&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What surprises me is that he hasn't gotten the hint about accepting answers, despite all the comments on his questions telling him he needs to accept some answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-16T21:56:52.893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T21:56:52.893" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33155" CreationDate="2009-12-16T22:17:03.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;uhh.. it already does that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=33155&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=33155&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T22:17:03.690" />
  <row Id="33184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33188" CreationDate="2009-12-16T22:24:08.860" Score="18" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently new users are limited to &lt;s&gt;one&lt;/s&gt; two links in a post. If the purpose of this is, as I suspect, to prevent spam, I think it would be safe to allow unlimited &lt;em&gt;internal&lt;/em&gt; links (i.e. links to M?S[OFU] posts).  It would be nice to do this on MSO at least, so that users can post links to examples of their problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I know that MSO users can get unlimited links simply by linking to their S[OFU] account. Usually someone has to tell them this though; it isn't necessarily clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T22:09:58.527" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T22:10:18.043" Title="Don't limit the number of *internal* links new users can include in questions (at least on meta)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="33186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33184" CreationDate="2009-12-16T22:36:16.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps new users on meta should be pointed to how to link their accounts? Or alternatively, if their OpenID already exists on one of the other sites, they are invited to link them right at registration time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-16T22:36:16.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33184" CreationDate="2009-12-16T23:00:24.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would you need to post more than &lt;s&gt;one&lt;/s&gt; two links to explain your problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that &lt;s&gt;one&lt;/s&gt; two links, while strict, should be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: only sites &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; our network (see footer) will count towards this hyperlink limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T22:10:18.043" LastActivityDate="2011-02-15T22:10:18.043" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33190" CreationDate="2009-12-16T23:23:12.000" Score="11" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;It says &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Hit the daily reputation cap on 50 days.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What exactly does it mean?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138984" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T00:49:37.820" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T09:51:42.363" Title="I'm confused about the &quot;epic&quot; badge" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="33190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33189" CreationDate="2009-12-16T23:25:53.463" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means you have hit the daily reputation limit of 200 rep points 50 times. This can be accomplished consecutively or non-consecutively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only earn up to 200 reputation points per UTC day. Accepted answers and bounties are not limited to the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="156648" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-17T09:51:42.363" LastActivityDate="2011-03-17T09:51:42.363" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33176" CreationDate="2009-12-17T00:08:12.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is aggressive commenting and&#xA;  down-voting and closing of (perhaps&#xA;  badly phrased but) relevant questions&#xA;  considered acceptable behavior on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, and when you see that behavior you should flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding the specific question mentioned:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the instance you link, they are not downvoting the user, they are downvoting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't enough information to answer it, and thus the question itself is a bad egg in the SO google search results - and other users will come by searching for that error, find that SO sucks because it doesn't help them, and look elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question should be closed (and eventually deleted) as &quot;not a real question&quot; since the author has not improved his question, despite requests for specific pieces of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it's rare for people to associate a particular user with &quot;this person is bad and should be downvoted&quot; - there are thousands of questions posted to the site each day, and people rarely look at the user name and icon anyway.  This is just another of the dozens of bad questions that end up on the site each day.  Beyond that, there are 5 &quot;ibrahim&quot;'s on the site, and many more people with ibrahim in there name, so if someone really was keeping a list of users they downvote as a rule, they'd have to a lot more work to make sure it's the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if your question is about &quot;the community reaction to bad users&quot; then you need a better example of what you mean by 'bad user' and demonstrate that there's a problem.  Otherwise it appears that it's working as designed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T20:28:57.150" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:28:57.150" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33176" CreationDate="2009-12-17T00:55:07.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some users appear to visit SO with questions that are so basic they shouldn't even be shown here, in my view. We answer them with code, they don't understand it, and a day later they're back asking how to fix the code you already gave them to do something else. Somewhere out there I bet there's an app consisting solely of code from SO answers. We should be answering some of them with links to online tutorials instead, I think, and gently pushing them to learn the basics first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I feel that the repeated comments to people about their low accept rate is getting a bit aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T00:55:07.537" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2009-12-17T01:06:11.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is an interesting idea, but I don't think it's going to work: people here in SO answer questions in a matter of &lt;strong&gt;seconds&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose the following scenario in a question: you have two answers, one is badly written, (but correct, written by a foreign user) and the other is correct and good written. The second one is going to be upvoted more - and becomes more relevant to the thread itself. This is SO's nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this unfair to people who doesn't have english as a first language? Well, it can be. I've lost how many times I was writing an answer and 3 people answered before me because I'm can't be as fast as someone who is proficient in english.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but you can only get better in a second language writing and reading it. If we can become better at programming by exercising our skills in SO, why can't we get better in english as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the many reasons I'm in SO. I just forgot how many grammar errors I made along my answers (this one included). I don't care. I believe I'm improving. If I'm earning reputation, people are understanding me: and improving communication skills &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastEditorUserId="134388" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T12:26:31.783" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T12:26:31.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67699" CreationDate="2009-12-17T01:11:33.563" Score="9" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;We'd like to encourage people to ask questions on Stack Overflow. For this, we'd like to have on our site a link to the Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;ask as question page&lt;/a&gt;, but we'd like to have the &quot;tag&quot; field pre-filled with a tag that would then help us find the questions. Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I work on an open source web forms product (Orbeon Forms), which implements the W3C XForms technology.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the web site for Orbeon Forms, we'd like to encourage people to ask XForms questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As suggested by others here, this could be done by having somewhere on our site some HTML as follows: &lt;code&gt;Have questions about XForms? &amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tagnames=xforms&quot;&amp;gt;Ask them on Stack Overflow&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137045" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-18T10:33:22.420" LastActivityDate="2011-02-03T10:41:09.757" Title="Can I have a link to the &quot;ask as question&quot; page with the tag field pre-filled?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="33197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2009-12-17T01:29:45.573" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of the questions that most need editing seem to suffer from the inability of the poster to express himself in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but the volume of such questions is so low that this is a corner case, and the proposed system involves a ton of work that is likely unwarranted.  If people really need help translating their question, they should post it in english, and then below in their native language and ask users for help with the english portion which may not be fully correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to help people out in their native language, though, start a stackoverflow type site for programming in their native language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T01:29:45.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33195" CreationDate="2009-12-17T02:34:27.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need a lot more details on what exactly it is you're trying to accomplish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow isn't intended as an outsourced support forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3966/using-stackoverflow-as-a-support-forum-for-a-product-or-project&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3966/using-stackoverflow-as-a-support-forum-for-a-product-or-project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T02:34:27.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T03:47:17.387" Score="-7" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;I m tired of people harassing me with &quot;Is this Homework or this is homework or this sounds like homework&quot; I m a phd student and I want to ask questions that i m really curious about. I do have finals tomorrow. and upon asking a question after two minutes i get ten comments as &quot;is this homework ? this sounds like homework.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was describe an efficient algorithm to sort a bitonic array. what s the time complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is self explanatory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People with brains would know that schools are almost over and there are no more homeworks. and if it was a homework question, i d write it as homework question. why wouldn't i write it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then everyone talks about this pointing etc. feels like it s all about points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I m tired of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139967" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:30:55.680" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T14:40:40.230" ClosedDate="2009-12-17T06:34:12.263" Title="Is this Homework or this is homework or this sounds like homework" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33200" CreationDate="2009-12-17T04:00:51.123" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Guidelines for Handling Homework Questions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short version is that commenting to ask a user if a suspicious question is homework is encouraged, but not because we don't answer those questions or look down on them.  Rather, it's that students looking to learn more about a concept often have different wants and expectations for their answers than professionals looking to solve an immediate problem.  So this helps us give you better answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the described question, an answer to an acknowledged homework question takes of the form of how fast the specific algorithm is, and why.  An answer geared towards a professional looking to solve a problem would also seek to understand more about the circumstances and possibly suggest alternative algorithms or other ways to solve the problem faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Students also often have very specific rules about the kind of help they are allowed to accept, and so it helps us keep you out of trouble.  But the main thing is that we want to make sure we have enough information to give you a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T14:40:40.230" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T14:40:40.230" />
  <row Id="33202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33200" CreationDate="2009-12-17T04:01:01.730" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you say you're a PHD student. Which implies knowing something about structuring your words. Knowing how to form a question even. Maybe even a sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself putting words like &quot;The question is self-explanatory&quot; or &quot;Title says it all&quot;, that's an easy flag to spot that no time has been put into the actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those kinds of post are more often homework questions, which is why you have people leaving such comments trying to clarify intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions with zero effort on the asker's behalf, like in your example, are the kinds of vague, no detail, questions one might find in class. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T04:01:01.730" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33200" CreationDate="2009-12-17T04:01:27.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have three choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignore them; hopefully a good answer will result&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preface every question you're asking with &quot;This is not homework; I'm just curious&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never ask another question again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't control everyone on the site and expecting them to take a somewhat theoretical question as a serious question is, apparently, too much for some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16623" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T04:01:27.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33200" CreationDate="2009-12-17T04:05:15.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that a question can be misinterpreted, why not clarify your purpose in the question? To get a proper answer, sometimes &lt;strong&gt;the context in which the question is being asked is important&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People want to know if it is a homework questions because, if it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;, they would prefer to provide guidance to help learning rather than provide an outright answer. If there is a &quot;legitimate&quot; need to know the answer, people are more than willing to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T04:05:15.483" />
  <row Id="33205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33200" CreationDate="2009-12-17T05:22:34.563" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People with brains would know that&#xA;  schools are almost over&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a large part of the problem is that, based on your questions here on Meta, your unwillingness to link to the supposed offending questions on StackOverflow, and your comments to answers, your problem is quite clear: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil%5FWheaton#Wheaton.27s%5FLaw.2C%5FRevised&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you're violating Wheaton's Law&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions on StackOverflow are usually pretty elementary, especially since I'm fairly new to programming. In fact, I even once asked a theoretical question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/989821/identity-column-maximum-value-in-sqlite-dbs&quot;&gt;maximum identity values in a SQLite database&lt;/a&gt; with no problems. Notice, though, in the question, I didn't just say &quot;what's the max?&quot; - I actually took the time to write out what I was thinking and why I was curious about the question, and was treated very politely by people who know way more than I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit to the change in the original question&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/4553/everythinggraph.png&quot; alt=&quot;Like this?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T01:16:43.543" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:16:43.543" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33207" CreationDate="2009-12-17T07:00:04.557" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1919253&quot;&gt;Dealing with ugly SQL in Java&lt;/a&gt;, was mistakenly made community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author of the question admits it was a mistake (see comments). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was this marked community wiki? – Asaph 4 hours ago&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Asaph, oops, my mistake. I don't see an option to undo it. – Artem 3 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this question be taken out of community wiki mode and can earned reputation for answers be retroactively applied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140529" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T07:41:37.960" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T07:41:37.960" Title="Question accidentally marked as community wiki" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33206" CreationDate="2009-12-17T07:07:59.940" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CW is one-way. Looks like charity work for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T07:07:59.940" />
  <row Id="33208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33206" CreationDate="2009-12-17T07:34:58.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was no accident. Read the question intent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do others here deal with [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do people ever use [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Style of question fits the community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The asker only said it was an accident when one of the comments badgered about it. Probably because they were missing out on rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T07:34:58.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25530" CreationDate="2009-12-17T08:21:06.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can choose not to associate your SO account with your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can choose not to make your CV public to the world (it is private by default).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you pay to file your CV, and make it searchable by employers, only potential employers will see it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you choose only #3, I &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; recommend associating your SO account with your CV -- since there's benefit to you, and the audience is rather small (potential employers only). I can't think of any negatives. #2 is what you probably want to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:21:06.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31912" CreationDate="2009-12-17T08:37:33.087" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the initial employer message, we suppress &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;phone numbers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;email addresses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;URLs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; and the employers are informed of this in the help text next to the compose box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we do this? Because we need the &lt;em&gt;initial&lt;/em&gt; contact to come through SOC, so we can measure the effectiveness of the employers and the CVs. If they bypass our initial contect UI, we cannot provide to employers or CV owners data on what's working and what isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; trying to inveigle ourselves into the whole process; we &lt;strong&gt;quite happily get out of the way as soon as the first (positive) contact is made&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:37:33.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31907" CreationDate="2009-12-17T08:46:50.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but how do you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; it's ASP.NET? Maybe it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zombo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;zombo.com&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just added the assumption that domain names in URLs must be at least 4 characters. Although there are 3-letter domain names out there..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:46:50.760" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31746" CreationDate="2009-12-17T08:52:26.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, just like Stack Overflow, you can have more than one OpenID associated, so in this case you could have two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a personal OpenID of the person who paid for the account and is &quot;responsible&quot; for it:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;joe-smith.myopenid.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a company-wide OpenID for people who need access to the account:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;acme-corp-so-careers.myopenid.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I'd recommend anyway&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T08:52:26.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32389" CreationDate="2009-12-17T09:02:37.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the heads up - this will be in the next deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T09:02:37.737" />
  <row Id="33214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T09:22:22.740" Score="0" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bold&lt;/strong&gt; text where I add a space before the &lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt; end-of-bold marker turn out to be **italic ** in the preview. It's possible that it's also italic when the message is posted, but I know this for sure once this post is posted, because I intended to make the &quot;italic&quot; word bold, by using &lt;code&gt;**italic **&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's see... Preview issue or posting issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:06:04.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:06:04.740" ClosedDate="2009-12-17T09:56:30.963" Title="The code for Bold is flawed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T10:36:35.943" Score="4" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a (one-man?) retag war centring on the correct usage of tags when the only context mentioned is the MS Access application's native database engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Access is a multifaceted thing but the element in question is its own default database engine. What to call it? Back in the 1990s, things used to be so simple. Formally, database engine was called Jet (project name Jet Red, not to be confused with Jet Blue). Jet is a set of DLLs and a de facto a Windows component though the Access product is very much wedded to Jet. Jet is a file-based database product and its most popular the file format has the .mdb extension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though Jet was the technically correct term, most folk used the phrase &quot;Access database&quot; to refer to Jet or an .mdb file, somewhat informally as it turns out, but everyone understood what was meant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did &quot;Access database&quot; become vernacular? Well, Microsoft's has never been terrible formal about the distinction between Access and Jet, probably for commercial reasons. One has never needed Access to create, maintain and use an mdb file as the data store for a multi user application and indeed was a popular choice back in the VB6 era; perhaps Jet's close association helped sell Access to software developers. Microsoft's documentation has always blurred the distinction between Access and Jet. The name of the ODBC driver for Jet was called 'Microsoft Access Driver'. There are many more examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then came the Access2007 release. The Access Team was granted a private copy of the Jet code base, to be able to make changes to its own produced without being vetoed by the Windows team. This new engine is, I think, known formally as ACE. Though I have been unable to find a source for this, I think it is reasonable to assume that the 'A' (and possible the 'C' as well) stands for 'Access'. It's most popular file format has an .accdb extension -- can this really stand for anything other than 'Access database'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This advent of the ACE era gave rise to a need for a collective term to mean, &quot;Jet plus ACE plus any future name&quot;. The formal term coined by the Access Team seems to be the &quot;Access Database Engine&quot; (note title case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should questions that appear to reference only Access's default database engine be tagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because most SO folk, I believe, have always used the vernacular &quot;Access database&quot;, the &lt;code&gt;MS-Access&lt;/code&gt; tag is most popular. There is a tag for &lt;code&gt;Access&lt;/code&gt; but I understand that is used as a generic term rather than referring specifically to the Access application. There has also been some usage of the &lt;code&gt;MDB&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In recent days, SO user Remou has been adding the tag &lt;code&gt;MS-Access&lt;/code&gt; to questions already tagged with &lt;code&gt;MDB&lt;/code&gt;. It seems from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33146/ambiguous-tag-mdb&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that the motivation was to disambiguate &lt;code&gt;JBoss-MDB&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;MS-Access-MDB&lt;/code&gt;. I think this is a good thing because &lt;code&gt;MS-Access&lt;/code&gt; best reflects the vernacular &quot;Access database&quot; and &lt;code&gt;MS-Access-MDB&lt;/code&gt; is quite 'wordy' by using two terms, 'MS-Access' and 'MDB'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, SO user David W. Fenton has been further retagging by adding the tag &lt;code&gt;MS-Jet-ACE&lt;/code&gt; and removing the MS-Access tag. I do not think this is a good thing because &lt;code&gt;MS-Jet-ACE&lt;/code&gt;, though technically not incorrect, is wordy, isn't widely used even in technical forums, confuses meaning and will be missed by SO folk who, I believe, expect to see the vernacular term &quot;Access&quot; in the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which tags should be added to questions that seemingly involve 'the engine' rather than the wider Access application?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got a reply from a member of Microsoft's Access Team:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Access Database Engine is a generic&#xA;  term that could refer to either ACE or&#xA;  Jet depending upon  context. Access&#xA;  Connectivity Engine (ACE) refers to&#xA;  the codebase that ships as part of&#xA;  Office starting with Access 2007. [The&#xA;  'A' in 'ACE'] does refer to Access,&#xA;  the Microsoft product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140533" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-01T17:17:05.797" LastActivityDate="2011-06-01T17:17:05.797" Title="MS-Access or MDB or Access-Database-Engine or MS-Jet-ACE?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33216" CreationDate="2009-12-17T10:48:34.380" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Proposal&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that involves 'the engine' -- i.e. an accdb or .mdb (or equivalent) database file or the Access Database Engine or ACE or Jet engine -- should receive the following tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;MS-Access&lt;/code&gt; (because that is the vernacular and most widely used and understood term);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one further tag to mean 'the engine' for which I propose &lt;code&gt;Access-Database-Engine&lt;/code&gt; because it happens to be the Access Team's formal term as well as including the vernacular term &quot;Access&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like &lt;code&gt;Access Database Engine&lt;/code&gt; because it is not 'Jet' enough, how about &lt;code&gt;MS-Access-Engine&lt;/code&gt; to mean a contraction of &quot;the MS Access application's default database engine&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140533" LastEditorUserId="140533" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T10:03:28.173" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T10:03:28.173" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33224" CreationDate="2009-12-17T11:15:15.087" Score="7" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering about this and since I have this mentioned on my Resume, do you think companies have heard about StackOverflow.com and recognize it as a means for programmers to help other programmers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am job hunting at the moment and am worried about putting this in. Would they think I am a time-waster? Or is it just only U.S companies that recognize it and treat that as something worth hearing about when looking through resumes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:29:11.960" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:29:11.960" Title="Have companies ever heard of stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;career-development&gt;&lt;publicity&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T11:16:46.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe not HR people, who generally are not programmers... But some &quot;hardcore&quot; developpers in those companies might have heard about it -- and you might meet one of them for an interview, one day or another ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Most of us, programmers who come on SO and answer questions, do actually work in some companies out there ^^ )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After... Time waster or not ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say &quot;&lt;em&gt;I'm spending lots on time answering questions on some website&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, but I'd rather say something alonog the lines of &quot;&lt;em&gt;I'm helping other programmers, and learn some stuff doing it -- and it allows me practice my english, too&lt;/em&gt;&quot; -- but that's a matter of formulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T11:19:51.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T11:18:50.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you have to lose? It's like preprocessor flags. If the compiler knows about them, it's an added bonus to your code (faster, parallelized, whatever). If not, they are ignored. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if a company has heard of stackoverflow, it's more likely you'll want to go work for them. If not, they'll ignore you, and life will continue compiling as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139082" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T11:19:51.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T11:19:44.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that bar 2 people, the company that I work with hasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally would be hesitant to list a website that is essentially just an online forum. I think the negative impression to those that haven't heard of it would outweigh the positive of those that have (when taking into account ratios of those in each category.) To me, it just gives the unprofessional feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you make the interview, maybe that is the place to mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138654" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T11:19:51.667" />
  <row Id="33223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T11:43:26.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with social networks is that employers can use them to find any kind of information about you. This isn't true for the USA but for any country where they have a lot of IT-wise employers. HR people won't look for such information themselves but might ask a more tech-wise employee to do some additional support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you provide a link to your SO account and this site, they could check out your account and measure your activities online. With a reputation barely over 1500 where others are over 20.000 you won't look like a big expert. They will also look at all the questions you've asked (not many in your case) and all the answers you've provided. They will look at your writing style and especially focus on answers that you've given that received negative reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the Q closed on SO and was moved here, so if they only see SO, they will see a closed question plus a link to here, where they might find more about you. From here, they can continue to look at SuperUser and the other related site, plus do some googling on the information you've provided in your profile. A simple Google search reveals a Twitter account with your profile name. From there, your blog can be found. Doing a second search on the URL of your blog reveals post (from you) at tbits. And by following the links and tips provided by your posts, they could find quite a lot of information about you online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, did you ever post pictures of yourself online doing something illegal? Posted stories about you confessing something bad? Do you spend a lot of time online, even when you should have been working? These things will all look bad. Assuming you're employed right now, I could try to use Google to discover how active you've been online. I could use this to determine if you were browsing and posting messages instead of working!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't tell them about your SO account and when the link between your profile name and real name is is hard to make then your online activities might appear to be real low. You could of course register for SO with a different name, gain some reputation and then use that new profile to post.&#xA;Then again, if you haven't done absolutely nothing wrong online, it could be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two years ago, my employer asked me to find some information about a soon-to-be new employee. His name was reasonably unique online but I didn't find anything interesting so he didn't use his name online. (He probably did use a nickname but it wasn't linked to his real name.) This was good, because it also meant that customers would not find much information about our employees. However, I did discover that he also was an amateur freestyle fighter, having fought several matches. He never mentioned this &quot;hobby&quot; of his and I noted that he might turn up one day bruised or wounded when one of his matches would go wrong. A bad risk situation, but my employer did hire him as a &lt;em&gt;temporary&lt;/em&gt; employee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case? I've seen a lot of blog activity so they might consider you a time-waster. Your reputation at SO isn't very high so I would not do this. At least, I wouldn't do this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T11:43:26.603" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T12:10:55.603" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you proud of your contributions to SO? Do you think they would show you in a favourable light? If so, I see no harm in including a link to your user profile. Companies can then choose to look at what you've written or not. They may do so even if they hadn't previously heard of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think Workshop Alex's answer is excessively negative. If I were hiring, I'd &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; to see evidence that a potential employee was passionate about computing - blogging about development, answering questions accurately and with good communication skills etc are all positive things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would far rather see someone who showed an interest in computing outside work than someone who was going to come in, do the job but be bored by it, and then go home with no thought of trying to improve themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there may well be a lot of information about you online. It all comes down to whether you're sensible with your online persona, and whether you're proud of who you are. If your online information is reflective of your real self, why would you not want the company to see that? If you think they wouldn't want to hire you if they really knew what you were like, do you think you'd actually have an enjoyable time at that company anyway? Trying to live up to a false impression for 40 hours a week isn't much fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T12:10:55.603" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="33225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-12-17T12:27:19.833" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the most upvoted requests, but it's still only &lt;strong&gt;status-planned&lt;/strong&gt; (it's been that way for close to half a year now). Why not implement the change on Meta first? Seeing how it goes down here would give you a way to gauge the potential reaction of users on the other sites. The community is smaller, but it's the most active and vocal part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that you can then work out how the whole thing works in real-time. And there's nothing better than data you can really crunch. It's science!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe with that, include an annual rep recalc, maybe twice a year even, to keep the numbers closer to being accurate. You can dress it up as an end of year present/stocktake sale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T16:12:13.777" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T16:12:13.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-17T12:27:19.833" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-12-17T13:29:45.630" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow multiple down votes by the same user at a cost to both parties of 1 point to a maximum of 10 down votes. It should always hurt to punish even when punishing the people who deserve a lot of punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T13:29:45.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-17T13:29:45.630" />
  <row Id="33227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2009-12-17T13:53:03.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have observed several people commenting on a valid question something along the line &quot;You don't accept, so I don't answer, although I know the answer.  Neener, neener.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very counterproductive, but seems to be the intended behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T13:53:03.860" />
  <row Id="33229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33231" CreationDate="2009-12-17T14:34:45.140" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have answered a question and the answer has been accepted. I have later seen that my answer was wrong. Problem is that I am not able to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1921119/type-mismatch-runtime-error-13-access-2007&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1921119/type-mismatch-runtime-error-13-access-2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible to fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130822" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T16:14:51.993" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T16:14:51.993" Title="Delete an accepted answer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="33230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33229" CreationDate="2009-12-17T14:37:58.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can either try to get the question asker to un-accept the answer, or you can flag the post for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T14:37:58.533" />
  <row Id="33231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33229" CreationDate="2009-12-17T14:38:08.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like this was an error made by the OP, who actually commented that your idea didn't work. Add a comment to the question so the OP will see it. If this doesn't work after a day or so, flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T14:38:08.567" />
  <row Id="33233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33229" CreationDate="2009-12-17T14:39:56.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under normal circumstances, the easiest way would be for you to edit your answer to make it correct, perhaps explaining why your prior answer was incorrect, and what makes the corrections valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in this case, I wouldn't recommend it, since there is a correct answer underneath yours, and you'll probably get downvoted into oblivion for essentially stealing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what I'd recommend is what the others have: Comment on it to nudge the OP into unaccepting yours (thus removing the 15 rep you gained) and accepting the correct one. Once that's done, you'll be able to delete your answer. If the OP doesn't change it in a day or so, then go ahead and flag for mod attention, noting that you'd like it deleted because it's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T14:39:56.893" />
  <row Id="33236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T15:01:38.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would link your badge in blog or homepage if you are proud of your contribution to the site, or want to publicise the site for Jeff &amp;amp; Joel. But quoting it on a CV or in an interview would look a bit strange in my view, on a par with &quot;I answer a lot of questions on the ASP.NET forum&quot;. Unless this is a genuine selling point of course, which for example an MVP it is and also part of why the title is there - although the MVP badge tells that story for you anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T15:01:38.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T15:12:48.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your resume should serve two purposes.  It should get through the HR filter (meaning it should match the stated qualifications), and it should stand out to the hiring manager.  The HR department is unlikely to know of any professional forums, or care.  To them, it's like a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Particularly nowadays, a hiring manager is likely to have too many resumes to interview everybody, so you want yours to be different somehow.  At this point, professional affiliations are generally good.  I'd say StackOverflow is unlikely to be a bad point, and could be a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think your StackOverflow account is likely to impress people positively, go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T15:12:48.567" />
  <row Id="33238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T15:22:32.603" Score="2" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm composing a comment in Firefox (3.5.5) on Windows or Mac, the &quot;characters left&quot; counter below it counts down. When I hit the limit and continue typing, the number goes negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome (4.0.249.30 and 4.0.249.43), on the other hand, will not accept any more characters once the number reaches zero. I have to stop mid-sentence to delete earlier text so there's room to complete what I was typing before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer Firefox's behavior. It lets me finish my thought and then go back afterward to shorten something from earlier. Furthermore, it tells me how much shortening I need to do. I'd like for Chrome to behave the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33732" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T23:03:03.240" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:40:15.590" Title="Chrome enforces the comment length limit more strictly than Firefox" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T15:21:53.683" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'm aware this question belongs to meta, but I can't log in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I've had is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to log in to SO sites with myvidoo provider. This provider is not supported anymore. I luckily had a cookie on my browser, which made me remain logged in to Stack Overflow, and I was able to switch Open Id providers. But even though I have my accounts on ServerFault, Meta and SuperUser related to this one, I can't login on those sites. I didn't have time to swap openid providers there, so I've been locked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T15:36:58.707" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T15:36:58.707" Title="Open ID Lockout" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33239" CreationDate="2009-12-17T15:27:14.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email the team, as described on the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136088" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T15:27:14.450" />
  <row Id="33242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33243" CreationDate="2009-12-17T16:19:47.973" Score="1" ViewCount="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I go to the main page, I see a list of my tags, {template, stl, metaprogramming}.  I would like to see all the new posts in these categories on one page instead of clicking on the template tag, then clicking on the stl tag then clicking on the metaprogramming tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T16:23:33.723" Title="A list of new entries that have my preferred tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33242" CreationDate="2009-12-17T16:23:33.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/template+or+stl+or+metaprogramming&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/template+or+stl+or+metaprogramming&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T16:23:33.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33245" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33249" CreationDate="2009-12-17T17:02:39.660" Score="27" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;We still get whining both on here and on SO when someone notices their rep changes due to a rep recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to forestall this, (especially for those that don't know the ins and outs of SO) a message is displayed the next time they come on after a recalc:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your splines have been reticulated:&#xA;  In order to maintain database&#xA;  tranquility your reputation has been&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7954/how-often-is-reputation-recalculated&quot;&gt;recalculated&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T03:46:30.863" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T03:46:30.863" Title="Show message when rep has been recalculated" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33245" CreationDate="2009-12-17T17:03:30.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only downside I see is that perhaps there are hundreds of rep-recalcs a month where people don't even notice, and if they did see the message they might whine about it, &lt;em&gt;increasing&lt;/em&gt; the overall whining, rather than decreasing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T17:03:30.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33279" CreationDate="2009-12-17T17:07:30.913" Score="0" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/95353/backup-solutions-for-rackspace-cloud-sites/95368#95368&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/95353/backup-solutions-for-rackspace-cloud-sites/95368#95368&lt;/a&gt; to add &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags around the shell script, and whilst the live preview showed the correct layout, when I save the edit I got a horrendous wrapped, non-&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; version.  Looking at the HTML source, there's no &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag (or equivalent) in there at all.  Markdown fail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T22:32:08.540" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T22:32:08.540" Title="&lt;pre&gt; tag formatting doesn't always apply properly" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="33248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33247" CreationDate="2009-12-17T17:16:48.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just viewed source and saw the &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; tag, both start and close. Perhaps Markdown got confused because you have what looks (to it) like Markdown inside the &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try indent by 4 spaces perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T17:16:48.260" />
  <row Id="33249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33245" CreationDate="2009-12-17T17:19:43.043" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall I like the idea, but I think the right answer is to only show it when the rep change crosses a certain threshold where the user is likely to notice -- perhaps 50, or 100 rep in either direction? That way I think you limit the extra whining the message might induce per your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33245/show-message-when-rep-has-been-recalculated/33246#33246&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Like a rep recalc ever results in rep going &lt;em&gt;up!&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T17:19:43.043" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33247" CreationDate="2009-12-17T18:22:44.350" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post is truncated. Add whitespace (space/new line) at the end of the post (behind the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;). That could help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T18:22:44.350" />
  <row Id="33254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T18:38:31.810" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25106/how-can-you-get-the-permalink-for-an-answer-to-a-question&quot;&gt;How can you get the permalink for an answer to a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question C# / Console-Application question and then found a very similar C / Console-Application question.  Under the C question there was a better answer for my question.  Is there a way to accept this other answer as an answer to my question or should I answer my own question with a reference to the other question?  Which leads to my question of how do I actually go about referencing other questions / answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T18:38:31.810" ClosedDate="2009-12-17T19:18:31.023" Title="How does one reference an answer to another question in an answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33257" CreationDate="2009-12-17T19:11:53.500" Score="0" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14664/how-does-so-syntax-highlight-citations-so-well&quot;&gt;How does SO syntax highlight citations so well?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I'm asking this in the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really admire the color-coding script that the Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow text editor uses (the one that encodes and parses JavaScript code and other languages and wraps keywords in spans for CSS color styling). Is that a proprietary script or one that might be publicly available (or a proprietary script that Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow would be willing to share)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would come in really handy for internal application documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140563" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-24T12:15:59.803" LastActivityDate="2011-08-24T12:15:59.803" ClosedDate="2009-12-17T21:10:09.980" Title="Is Stack Overflow's code color-coding script available?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33256" CreationDate="2009-12-17T19:13:15.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prettify&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T19:13:15.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33218" CreationDate="2009-12-17T19:20:55.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if programmers have, HR/recruiters sure haven't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20147" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T19:20:55.467" />
  <row Id="33259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T19:44:26.167" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18790/canceling-a-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;Canceling a &amp;ldquo;Vote to Close&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote-not-to-close-option-to-counter-the-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;How about a &amp;ldquo;Vote not to close&amp;rdquo; option to counter the &amp;ldquo;Vote to close&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, you can't reopen something that isn't closed yet, but that is a vocabulary issue that is easily addressed, please hear me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a few instances where I have been browsing Stack Overflow questions, and have come across a question with 3 or 4 votes to close for one reason or another, however, I just don't agree that it should be closed.  Now, if it is closed, I may notice it later, and come back to it to cast my vote to reopen the question.  However, it is much more likely that I will not notice.  And a question that I would have voted to reopen, doesn't get my vote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question then becomes how many yays to nays do you need to actually close a question, and how many yays to nays do you need to actually reopen it, but once a good balance is struck, I feel this would improve a feature of the site that some have taken issue with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140564" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-19T06:25:55.923" LastActivityDate="2011-05-19T06:25:55.923" ClosedDate="2009-12-17T20:01:15.517" Title="You should be able to vote to reopen a question before it is actually closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30709" CreationDate="2009-12-17T20:00:39.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Software development as the DRY KISS of YAGNI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136986" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:00:39.340" />
  <row Id="33261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30709" CreationDate="2009-12-17T20:26:14.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;I like providing simple solutions to perplexing puzzles to people.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:26:14.720" />
  <row Id="33263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T20:44:36.110" Score="9" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have finally reached 10k on stackoverflow and since then got into the habit of taking a look at the flagged posts every once in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A surprising and recurring theme among posts flagged as spam is that many of those aren't spam, at least according to my definition which isn't very strict, but which would include a link in a flagged post. It's similar with posts flagged as offensive when all they are may just be an insult to someone's intellect. Posts that are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1922599/jquery-ajax-doesnt-work/1922834#1922834&quot;&gt;mere junk&lt;/a&gt; get flagged, sometimes also stuff that people think is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865243/is-it-necessary-to-learn-java-for-contributing-to-an-open-source-project-closed&quot;&gt;so bad, it deserves some penalty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, people hesitate to flag for moderator attention, I guess because they don't want to bother a human being that may have better things to do than deal with useless junk posts. Thus they flag those useless posts as spam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26732/add-option-to-flag-useless-answers&quot;&gt;post here on meta&lt;/a&gt; asked for another flag for exactly those kinds of posts and the accepted (and most upvoted answer) said you should flag for moderator attention. Alas, this doesn't seem to cut it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the fact that we don't have other flag reasons (besides &quot;offensive&quot;) is also responsible for the ridiculously tiny amount of spam flags users have per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would adding another flag help? Or should the reputation threshold be raised that enables you to flag? Or is there another option? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:20:22.913" Title="What could be done to stop the misuse of the spam and offensive flags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33263" CreationDate="2009-12-17T20:46:41.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes five flags before the post is closed. I don't think there are many cases where five people abuse the flag and cause the post to be closed. The flags also reset after a day or two, anyway. So if I flag something random as spam there will be no harm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:46:41.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33263" CreationDate="2009-12-17T20:55:27.523" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm risking life and Internet dollars here, but I'm going to agree with Manni. I have a fairly narrow definition of spam (unsolicited &lt;em&gt;commercial&lt;/em&gt;), and an equally narrow definition offensive (offensive to the general community).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm not saying these posts getting flagged are worthy of upvotes and praise. They're &lt;strong&gt;crap.&lt;/strong&gt; I'll grant that in a heartbeat. But I'm saying that they are being mislabeled. (And, I might add that I feel closing questions as &quot;blatantly offensive&quot; or &quot;spam&quot; falls into this flagging category as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think there should be an additional flag, something like &quot;noise,&quot; for posts. This would allow us to be accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, there are some folks who are going to insist on misusing the flags anyway. Ultimately, that will be their prerogative. I don't think that raising the rep required is going to help that much, to be honest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose Jon B is right in one regard -- are these flags being misused to the point where posts are being deleted as spam/offensive all that frequently? The flags do reset, and it probably is a no harm, no foul kind of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd still like to see a fourth option, just because I'm anal retentive. There are a lot of times I've wanted to flag crap like the posts to which Manni linked, but didn't, because it frankly wasn't appropriate. You have to be responsible, you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:55:27.523" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="33267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33263" CreationDate="2009-12-17T20:56:11.157" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See, this is why visibility is limited to 10K users now. And even the 10K users have to visit a special page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Time was, the current flag count was shown &lt;em&gt;on the flagged posts&lt;/em&gt;, and folks would whine about it incessantly. Not because things were getting incorrectly removed, but merely because they were collecting a handful of &lt;em&gt;flags&lt;/em&gt;, which melted away like morning dew in a matter of days and accomplished nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, here we are again... So here's what I do, when I see a post flagged and don't agree with the flagging: if you can edit it to improve it, do so. If you can't, then flag it for moderator attention, and request that they kindly delete the post before it's flagged to death...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T20:56:11.157" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33278" CreationDate="2009-12-17T22:15:10.893" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32181/how-can-i-search-for-a-string-containing-a-colon&quot;&gt;How can I search for a string containing a colon?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if this question has already asked; I'm unable to search for it due to the very same bug I am reporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; is not allowed for some reason in searches. For example, if you search for &lt;strong&gt;std::copy&lt;/strong&gt; you are redirected to a page that shows you the search option..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand this may be because of advanced searches such as &lt;strong&gt;user:1&lt;/strong&gt;, but can't you make the search work anyway if the string is not an advanced search (such as std::copy)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-17T22:23:08.430" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T22:23:36.650" ClosedDate="2009-12-17T22:28:01.980" Title="':' not allowed in searches" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33277" CreationDate="2009-12-17T22:23:36.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something a programming site should definitely let you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T22:23:36.650" />
  <row Id="33279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33247" CreationDate="2009-12-17T22:31:21.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just indent by 4 spaces. Or use the toolbar button that does it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is if you have some reason to avoid the automatic syntax highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And note that if you do use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; you must escape &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; to &amp;amp;lt; and &amp;amp;gt; within the pre block. That was your specific problem, but the easiest answer is .. indent 4 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T22:31:21.943" />
  <row Id="33281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33189" CreationDate="2009-12-17T22:56:04.563" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To clarify the definition, it means you ended the day with 200 reputation or higher.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible to hit the cap during the day and then lose rep later.  If this happens you don't get credit towards epic/legendary for that day, even if you &quot;left rep on the table&quot; from upvotes received while you were at the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This hits me particularly hard, as it's the difference for me between already having the legendary badge and still being some 40 days away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T01:16:08.847" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:16:08.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33238" CreationDate="2009-12-17T23:03:25.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FYI, we don't formally support unreleased browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No-repro in Chrome 3, the currently released version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T23:03:25.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33263" CreationDate="2009-12-17T23:06:48.193" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking with my ♦ moderator hat on... we keep an eye on these numbers. Typically moderator flags first, but we do watch the spam / offensive too. Thanks to [ctrl]+click it takes no time to blitz through a handful of posts. Typically, my thought process is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is it clear junk? &quot;you all suck&quot;, &quot;w0w g0ld&quot;, &quot;buy my product&quot;, etc - 'tis deleted with vengence (quite often along with the poster)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is it completely harmless? Perhaps somebody flagging it out of revenge? the flag is cleared&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;otherwise: leave it alone and let the community decide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while the &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt; category really is a misuse, it doesn't cause me any lost sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T23:06:48.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-17T23:42:40.170" Score="0" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that I've reached 3K on SO, I find myself with the awesome power and responsibility (sic) to vote to close. So I've been thinking about the four possible responses to a poor question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote to close&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly, I don't see a lot of use for downvoting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can make something of a question by editing it, I do. If I can't, unless it's a giant stinker, I comment. If the comment doesn't yield an improvement, I ask, 'just how awful is this?' If the question's not answerable close. If it is, well, I suppose I could downvote, but somehow, I feel that the posters of such questions get all the punishment they deserve when they don't get useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A Giant Stinker&quot; should mean: qualifies under the stated criteria for a close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are another story. An answer that is actually incorrect to the best of my knowledge get a swift downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, it seems important to me to give rep feedback to answerers, so that people who post actually incorrect answers fail to accumulate rep and acquire a label of legitimacy. On the flip side, bad questions almost always come from people with so little rep that 'whacking them' with a downvote has no real effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an interesting question of 'downvoting people' versus 'downvoting things.' As per someone who posted an answer, it is &lt;em&gt;questions and answers&lt;/em&gt; that get voted. However, I observe that it is &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt; who gain and lose rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, once people reach empyrean rep, downvotes are mere mosquito bites, and we just have to hope that they never turn to the dark side. Even the anticipated larger negative scores on downvotes aren't going to put much of a dent into 44K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this adds up to an artifact of the rep system. Downvoting a person with 1 rep sends a message but has no practical effect. Downvoting someone with 1K rep is just the same. The only people who really feel a downvote as a crimp in their ambitions are those who are initially climbing the rep hill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T20:17:03.643" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T20:17:03.643" Title="Downvotes versus close votes on questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33286" CreationDate="2009-12-17T23:50:08.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's good for them to feel the hit as they climb the rep hill, so that they make the changes in their posting behavior then, before they reach those empyrean heights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-17T23:50:08.707" />
  <row Id="33289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T00:36:04.393" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar requests have been made regarding tag-clicking, but I wanted to additionally suggest a feature similar to how [site removed] behaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal is that when you click on a tag, a small menu would appear which offers the following choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignore tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interesting tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other questions with this tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous requests have mentioned things like adding a plus/minus selector, which would occupy more space on the base UI. A menu that appears dynamically would be an ideal way to direct the user to his or her intended action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One final touch would be to allow users to configure a default action, if they don't want the intermediate menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been implemented, nice work, devs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit #2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site I originally linked has changed significantly since I posted this, and is no longer a good example. The implemented behavior of the menu is not as requested, exactly, but serves a useful purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134987" LastEditorUserId="134987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-05T19:30:58.547" LastActivityDate="2011-04-05T19:30:58.547" Title="Suggestion: Tag-Clicking Behavior Enhancement" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33294" CreationDate="2009-12-18T00:37:10.320" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO, SF, SU, &amp;amp; Meta all launched on different days, anyone know the dates exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:17:55.880" Title="What days did the trilogy sites launch on?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;information&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="33291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33286" CreationDate="2009-12-18T00:40:58.770" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To an extent, some of these things make sense, and I go through a similar process. But I differ in that I have no problem downvoting a bad question. I have no qualms about downvoting even after editing -- just because I cleaned up the grammar/formatting/whatever doesn't make the question &lt;em&gt;good.&lt;/em&gt; And it might not be bad enough to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one thing I want to take issue with, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All this adds up to an artifact of the&#xA;  rep system. Downvoting a person with 1&#xA;  rep sends a message but has no&#xA;  practical effect. Downvoting someone&#xA;  with 1K rep is just the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are never downvoting a &lt;em&gt;person.&lt;/em&gt; You downvote a &lt;em&gt;post.&lt;/em&gt; This is a subtle, but extremely important distinction. Downvotes are not about punishment, nor are they about the person, they're about the content. Same with closures and flags. All are tools, use them appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal feeling on our four tools -- and understand that I'm pretty trigger-happy with them -- is that each has a purpose, and should be used, but appropriately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When possible, edit. If the grammar, spelling, formatting, what-have-you is jacked, fix it. Don't let someone make themselves out to look like a fool just because they're not as well-written as some of the rest of us. Help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvoting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is bad, even after editing/fixing, downvote. I tend to not downvote questions I plan to vote-to-close, but that's a personal preference, and I don't judge those who would downvote as well as vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flagging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is currently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33263/what-could-be-done-to-stop-the-misuse-of-the-spam-and-offensive-flags&quot;&gt;under discussion&lt;/a&gt; here on Meta. I believe in flagging spam when it's really spam, offensive when it's really offensive, and mod attention when a mod is really needed to do something. More often than not, our other tools save us from needing this. But it's a good tool to have, because when we need it, we &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't close a question just because you don't like it, or it sucks. Close for one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance/32515#32515&quot;&gt;valid reasons&lt;/a&gt;. Closing is not done enough, but should not be undertaken lightly. Look over the reasons -- if you feel the question qualifies, do it. Others may or may not follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't consider these much of a tool. They're OK, sometimes, for getting the poster to clarify things. But usually the other four tools will be most effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T00:40:58.770" />
  <row Id="33292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33290" CreationDate="2009-12-18T00:43:10.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The official ages of the trilogy sites are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stack&lt;b&gt;overflow&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;1 year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;server&lt;b&gt;fault&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;7 months&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;super&lt;b&gt;user&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;5 months&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Meta&lt;/i&gt;stack&lt;b&gt;overflow&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;5 months&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm not mistaken, the &quot;member for&quot; field is reffering to post-beta dates. You have to add some time if you want to count the beta time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T00:43:10.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33290" CreationDate="2009-12-18T01:10:38.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow: September 15, 2008 for Public Beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ServerFault: May 26, 2009 for Public Beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SuperUser: July 14, 2009 for Semi-Private beta, August 18, 2009 for full launch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta: Some time between SF and SU Beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO and SF had a private beta before and launched a month or so after, couldn't find the exact dates right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T01:17:55.880" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:17:55.880" />
  <row Id="33294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33290" CreationDate="2009-12-18T01:12:56.810" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stackoverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;July 31st, 2008 21:26&lt;/a&gt; (deleted, 10k rep can see it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFault: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;April 30th, 2009 6:49&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;June 28th, 2009 7:14&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SuperUser: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;July 15th, 2009 6:27&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:12:56.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31678" CreationDate="2009-12-18T01:31:30.910" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to have is a form you could go to if you were a programmer at a company, and you wished that your recruiting department would use StackOverflow careers so you can hire some good people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you fill out this form, supplying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the name of your company &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the location&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the kinds of programmers you're looking for (maybe a list of tags)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the name, email, and phone number of the person in your recruiting department who usually places those ads on HotJobs that work so well, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your name, so we can name drop.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then our professional sales guy, who is very nice by the way, and knows a lot about recruiting, calls up your recruiter, drops your name, educates them about StackOverflow, maybe gives them a free job listing or two to let them try out the service. You get new colleagues who are smart and get things done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:31:30.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31746" CreationDate="2009-12-18T01:39:44.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now we're being pretty casual about that... I can't even tell from the TOS what our official policy is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time goes on we'll figure out the details. Usually with these kinds of resume-searching services, you pay for a package of, say, 100 searches, or 1000 searches, at different prices, so that a big company that goes crazy ends up paying more, so I expect that in the future we'll set a maximum number of searches or messages above which you have to pay more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:39:44.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33304" CreationDate="2009-12-18T01:42:12.577" Score="2" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be clear: I'm &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; here to whinge about my SO questions being closed - I'm here to learn, and to suggest a source of confusion for relatively new users like myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should a new closure reason &quot;Cruft&quot; be introduced? Or if this is common usage of the &quot;Not a real Question&quot; code, should the definition be modified to include it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My SO Question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1911768/funny-or-bad-unusual-results-of-asset-naming-conventions-closed&quot;&gt;Funny or bad/unusual results of asset naming conventions [closed]&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was closed as &quot;Not a real Question&quot;, which is defined here on Meta as &quot;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous and vague, and cannot be answered in its current form.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that isn't why it was closed. It did (after editing, before it was closed) have a clear, unambiguous question that could be answered. The actual reason it was closed is because it was considered cruft. (why I thought otherwise is noted in the comments, but that is not the point here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140584" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:21:43.100" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:21:43.100" Title="Should there be a SO question closure reason &quot;Cruft&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="33299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33298" CreationDate="2009-12-18T01:55:51.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of cruft out there and it &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; closing, but...making &quot;Cruft&quot; a reason is confrontational and inflammatory. I generally find that Not a Real Questions, Not Programming Related, Subjective and Argumentative, or Too Localized is close enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think that at least some of the cruft posters could benefit from some more precise feedback about why their content doesn't belong. At least, if it can be delivered in a way that they will take to heart. Just getting them defensive and ticked off won't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T01:55:51.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33216" CreationDate="2009-12-18T02:03:35.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's precisely the kind of question that would benefit from tags indicating the environment in which the question is being asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1918379/table-joins-in-access-2003-on-date-time-field&quot;&gt;table joins in Access 2003 on date-time field&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the user running the SQL from within Access or from some other development or querying environment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why a tag that applies to the Jet/ACE database engine as distinct from Access the application is essential, to allow the distinction to be made clear without a lot of back-and-forth questioning or overly verbose explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you could argue that people would often not know to tag their question with something like MS-JET-ACE. But that's not the point -- those with edit permission are more likely to understand the distinction and can tag the question appropriately so that those coming to it afterward have a clear context to understand the issues involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132155" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:03:35.283" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33298" CreationDate="2009-12-18T02:19:43.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about modifying the given definition for one of the existing closure reasons (e.g. &quot;Not a real question&quot;) with words like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow community also makes&#xA;  great efforts to keep questions on the&#xA;  site strictly relevant to the actual&#xA;  practice of programming, and&#xA;  specifically to the technical aspects&#xA;  thereof (certain historical examples&#xA;  notwithstanding). This closure code is&#xA;  also sometimes used in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please edit to improve :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, words like this could be used as the definition of the new closure code, be it called 'cruft' or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140584" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:19:43.507" />
  <row Id="33302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33298" CreationDate="2009-12-18T02:25:31.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, but seeing your low participation, I can't help but wonder if you need to try the system before debating about how it works and how to improve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have asked the same question twice on SO, and (although you have 15 answers, albeit with little to none upvotes) have not grown such a good reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try the system a bit, see how it works, interact with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:25:31.140" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33305" CreationDate="2009-12-18T02:25:48.657" Score="2" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under the assumption that an API is forthcoming (there certainly have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/api&quot;&gt;been alot of questions about it&lt;/a&gt;) what's the proper way to &quot;announce&quot; a wrapper library for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/stackexchange-api/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;threw one together&lt;/a&gt;* (prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31200/net-library-for-stack-overflow-api&quot;&gt;Maxim Z.'s then incomplete one&lt;/a&gt;) based on what little of an &quot;api&quot; already exists, went through packaging it up, and then came to the realization that there isn't really an established etiquette for such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last time I wrote an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891158/how-do-you-place-stackoverflow-flair-on-facebook-closed&quot;&gt;SO tool&lt;/a&gt; it was permissible to post a Q/A on SO, and then link it into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248296/what-third-party-tools-exist-to-use-with-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;; which has since been migrated to Meta.  So, things have obviously changed.  Rather than &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; throw up a Q/A blindly hoping that was alright, I figured it'd be best to inquire about etiquette as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Yes yes, ulterior motive detected.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:35:21.543" Title="Publicizing S[O/F/U] API wrappers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33298" CreationDate="2009-12-18T02:27:29.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real issue here is that this is a grey area - this kind of question is right on the line of the community's acceptance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they are left open, sometimes they are closed, often there's a bit or an open/cose war going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close reasons are intentionally minimal and somewhat open to interpretation so the community can decide what is a 'real question' and what is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That definition will change over time, but the written definitions of the close reasons won't - this is by-design.  The community gets to decide what is real now, and what is real next year, and there's no need to further clarify, restrict, or open these reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, the reasons need not change to include cruft, nor do we need to add a cruft closing reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:27:29.670" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33303" CreationDate="2009-12-18T02:35:21.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Publicize them on meta.  The community pretty aggressively migrates anything that's about SO (even if it's a programming question) to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, anyone who wants to access the API is already aware that meta is the place to be, so the audience is already here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:35:21.543" />
  <row Id="33306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33238" CreationDate="2009-12-18T02:40:15.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the problem is that the textarea has a &lt;code&gt;maxlength&lt;/code&gt; property, which isn't part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag%5Ftextarea.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the textarea spec&lt;/a&gt;. Validation fails for a textarea with &lt;code&gt;maxlength&lt;/code&gt; property defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess in the newest version of Chrome (or webkit?) has decided they will support the maxlength property on textareas now. (Or maybe this is something added in HTML5?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T02:40:15.590" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47573" CreationDate="2009-12-18T03:12:49.040" Score="14" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10968/can-we-have-a-flair-like-tooltip-for-usernames-in-comments&quot;&gt;user rep in tooltips for usernames in comments&lt;/a&gt; has been implemented. This is great, except that the tooltip doesn't provide any context as to what this number is. It is just a raw number. Maybe the tool tip could say &quot;User's reputation: &lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is very minor; I'm just trying to mention it before &quot;what is this number in the tooltip?&quot; starts appearing on meta every week... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-23T07:19:56.437" LastActivityDate="2010-04-23T07:20:09.307" Title="Rep tooltip doesn't provide any context" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;tooltips&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32712" CreationDate="2009-12-18T08:25:55.323" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[status-bydesign] unless you have consistent repro steps&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disconnecting internet is considered a repro? Really? Man, I am going to open some MAJOR bugs against some websites tomorrow!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't disclose the rules of our spam detection in public for what I hope are obvious reasons. Suffice it to say that a completely failed &quot;I got no internet, man&quot; HTTP post, followed by another HTTP post, trips enough of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: ah, I finally found the bug. Something that should have only applied to anonymous users was kicking in for registered users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T19:16:25.430" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T19:16:25.430" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27634" CreationDate="2009-12-18T08:33:38.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if you can't search for it on Google, it's unlikely we will be able to find it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:33:38.893" />
  <row Id="33310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27234" CreationDate="2009-12-18T08:37:30.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking at the wrong field in your user profile. There are &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; dates there. Note that only one of those dates is shown to public viewers of your user profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seen:&lt;/strong&gt; equivalent to LastAccessDate. Activity threshold 30 minutes. Shown to all users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last Activity:&lt;/strong&gt; equivalent to LastLoginDate. Activity threshold 8 hours. Also correlated with IP address. Shown to user and moderators only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:37:30.697" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33312" CreationDate="2009-12-18T08:43:21.967" Score="-2" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know what privileges are given to a 1000+ reputation member of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:47:03.020" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:51:42.200" ClosedDate="2009-12-18T17:46:03.980" Title="What privileges are given to a 1000 reputation member of Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33311" CreationDate="2009-12-18T08:45:17.750" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;REP     Ability&#xA;---     -------&#xA;15       Vote up&#xA;15  Flag offensive&#xA;50  Leave comments†&#xA;100     Vote down (costs 1 rep)&#xA;100     Edit community wiki posts&#xA;200     Reduced advertising&#xA;250     Vote to close or reopen your questions&#xA;250     Create new tags&#xA;500     Retag questions&#xA;1000    Show total up and down vote counts &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At 1000 you get to do this:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/4732/so1000.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;by clicking on the votes summary.  So you can see how many up votes (top) and how many down votes (bottom) the question/answer has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131795" LastEditorUserId="131795" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T08:51:42.200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T08:51:42.200" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="33313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33216" CreationDate="2009-12-18T09:58:22.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Proposal #2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;code&gt;MS-Access&lt;/code&gt; tag only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distinction between Jet and ACE, or Access and its default engine, is of little interest to most SO users. Most answers will happily assume the &lt;code&gt;MS-Access&lt;/code&gt; tag means &quot;Access's default engine (whatever it is called this year),&quot; unless the content of the question suggests otherwise. Interested folk (e.g. lurkers who are experts in the Access World) can post a comment against the question to seek for further clarification. However, an additional tag is not required nor appropriate because, unless it has 'Access' somewhere in the tag's wording, its meaning will be obscured for most SO users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140533" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T09:58:22.253" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33316" CreationDate="2009-12-18T10:27:14.260" Score="-1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8272/the-rep-cap-is-200-per-day-correct&quot;&gt;The rep cap is 200 per day, correct?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does &amp;ldquo;Reputation&amp;rdquo; work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hai guys,&#xA;  Is there any limit for reputation perday to a stackoverflow user.. If so how much it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T20:16:34.377" ClosedDate="2009-12-18T12:47:14.130" Title="Is there any limit for reputation perday to a stackoverflow user" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33314" CreationDate="2009-12-18T10:29:37.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can earn up to 200 reputation points per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138606" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T10:29:37.483" />
  <row Id="33316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33314" CreationDate="2009-12-18T10:41:19.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A maximum of +200 reputation may be&#xA;  gained per day. Accepted answers are&#xA;  immune to this cap (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/daily-dose-of-daily-reputation-ca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) as are&#xA;  bounties (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483019/how-does-the-bounty-system-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;). This immunity&#xA;  applies only to answers accepted and&#xA;  bounties received after reaching the&#xA;  cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow/7238#7238&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T20:16:34.377" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T20:16:34.377" />
  <row Id="33317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33289" CreationDate="2009-12-18T10:44:40.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very rarely want to add a question to my list of interesting tags, or my list of ignored tags. I want to (almost every time I visit the site) go look at questions on a particular tag. I imagine other users behave similarly, after initially getting things set up, so I wouldn't be a fan of a change like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't make me click!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T10:44:40.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33320" CreationDate="2009-12-18T11:22:54.377" Score="-2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just happened to me on SU that the captcha was not shown. Neither in Safari nor in Firefox was there any way to show it. There was just that robot guy with the numbers on it. Of course I was thinking this was the captcha – and I desperately searched for a text field where I would have to put all those zeros and ones. (Not that it really thought that that many numbers would &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; be the captcha – but lacking anything else on the page, what else should it have been?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then disabled JavaScript and the captcha was shown – however ‘Something Bad Happened!’ was shown. Fortunately this time, when using the back button, the text was still there. So, I tried again. This time no captcha was shown but an empty page with nothing more that the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Cube of cold pinkness / Yellow specks of porcine fat / Give me a spork please&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this not confusing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140601" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:29:03.593" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:29:03.593" Title="Captcha not shown with JavaScript turned on which makes things difficult" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33319" CreationDate="2009-12-18T11:29:29.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sticksite.com/spam/spam.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509/has-stack-overflow-been-haiku-hacked&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T11:29:29.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T11:51:20.020" Score="-5" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should there be a higher reputation requirement to vote on questions that are already closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be to prevent kicking &quot;misguided&quot; users into the ground with downvotes&#xA;(and also to prevent the +10 from the occasional pity vote which can result in a positive reputation balance on a negative question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131975" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T16:56:01.183" Title="Should there be a reputation requirement for voting on closed questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T12:02:13.633" Score="-3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an idea for a new set of badges:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Conversation Starter (Bronze): &#xA;received comments from five different&#xA;people (in total across all answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Catalyst (Silver) :&#xA;received comments from five different&#xA;people on a single answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;both can be awarded only once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: for both only count comments on answers, not on questions, because for questions there are usually lot of &quot;did you mean?&quot; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another Update&lt;/strong&gt;: it seems that people are worried that most comments would be just pointing out how wrong the answer is. That is a sad (but maybe appropriate) view. I think it can be amended by only counting comments on answers with no downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131975" LastEditorUserId="131975" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T13:02:37.097" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T20:24:36.453" Title="Catalyst badge: received comments from five different people on a single answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33324" CreationDate="2009-12-18T12:34:41.500" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to receive comments, there must be something wrong or not clear in your post... why would this be encouraged? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T12:34:41.500" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33327" CreationDate="2009-12-18T13:14:13.957" Score="10" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upon looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33311/what-privileges-are-given-to-a-1000-reputation-member-of-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, it occurred to me: Shouldn't we have a close reason - 'covered by the FAQ'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As there is not really any other reason to close questions like this, and those kind of questions can be seen as noise (IMHO) so it should be possible to close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T18:49:57.590" Title="Shouldn't we have a close reason on meta 'covered by the FAQ'?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33326" CreationDate="2009-12-18T13:18:56.177" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or make do with what's already there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close as duplicate pointing right to the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then when the Community User comes along to insert the duplicate link, go in and edit with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;Covered by the FAQ&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;link to FAQ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T13:18:56.177" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-12-18T13:31:30.477" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People use bit.ly because using it you can track how many clicks, twitter and other social media mentions. It's not just about shortening links, is about trying to measure it's impact. You have a panel in bit.ly for link statistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind having bit.ly links. They try to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bit.ly/post/138381844/spam-and-malware-protection&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prevent spam&lt;/a&gt; from their links, so to me it's even safer than have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://codertutorials.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codertutorials.example.com&lt;/a&gt; link for example - I can read the link, but have no idea what's waiting for me there. In bit.ly at least they are providing a layer of protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I want a good answer. And url shorteners are here to stay. Even &lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google has its own&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T15:50:01.537" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:50:01.537" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T14:52:21.750" Score="-7" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1871/what-purpose-does-downvoting-questions-serve&quot;&gt;What purpose does downvoting questions serve?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious about this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often on StackOverflow, I'll see a new user (with 1 reputation point, joined today) that asks an admittedly bad question.  (Vague, perhaps asking others to do work for them, etc). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I tend to ignore those questions unless I want to read the humorous comments left by others, but I've always been baffled as to why anyone would bother to downvote such a question.  The user has no rep to lose, and casting a downvote has absolutely no effect on the user's rep on the site. So why bother? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is - if you downvote new users with no rep to lose, why?  Why not just ignore them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136135" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:56:33.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-18T15:04:33.693" ClosedDate="2009-12-18T18:40:01.370" Title="Why downvote a user with no points?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33333" CreationDate="2009-12-18T14:54:40.903" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because downvoting is not meant to decrease the reputation of users (from the downvoter point of view).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's meant to be used to rate a post, regardless of the user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T14:54:40.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:21:42.820" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Yeah!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the internet, one of my fears is reliance on technologies that can't sustain themselves. URL shorteners can't sustain themselves by themself. By definition, they can't show ads (If it's not silent, nobody would use it), and if it dies (like tr.im almost did), &lt;strong&gt;the links are worse than useless&lt;/strong&gt;, even if the original pages remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google's service gives me hope (If google go down, we have bigger worries than their URLs not working), but they still have no place on &lt;code&gt;M?S[OFU]&lt;/code&gt; (If we're going to regex-refer to the trilogy, we have to include meta!), and if at all possible, automatic de-shortification should occur. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More to the point, who the hell is shortening links here? Surely that takes more effort for no gain at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On a side note, I entirely blame twitter for all of this. If they'd simply not counted URLs in character limits, this entire scary system would never have been created)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:21:42.820" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:15:21.080" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see questions on a wide range of technologies, but for all of them generally there are focused communities dedicated to their topic/technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the focus/purpose of this site? Or is it intentionally &quot;any thing goes&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T18:36:09.007" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T18:36:09.007" ClosedDate="2009-12-18T16:01:55.040" Title="what's the focus here?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33336" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:17:06.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions from programmers, answers from programmers, about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140683" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:22:27.373" />
  <row Id="33338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33336" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:19:52.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions from students doing their homework, answered by students procrastinating ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:22:27.373" />
  <row Id="33339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33336" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:26:55.557" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions from people, answers from people, about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to be a programmer by trade, or even know anything but VBA, SO is there for you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:26:55.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33336" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:27:27.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see questions on a wide range of technologies - - but for all of them generally there are focused communities dedicated to their topic/technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could join a HTML forum, a CSS forum, a JavaScript forum, a Flash forum, a PHP forum... (and then keep track of it all!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... or I could just go to StackOverflow, which has a large userbase in each technology, as well as the best Q&amp;amp;A software I've come across thus far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:27:27.193" />
  <row Id="33341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:49:10.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few cases where the shortened links are necessary.  For example, try linking to anything in the Internet Archive's wayback machine or a screenshot on browsershots.org.  The markdown chokes and it just won't work without an intermediary.  This makes an outright ban problematic.  I can't find the link now, but in the bug reports from one of those Jeff himself suggested a url shortener as a work-around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, unless it's one of those rare exceptions you probably shouldn't do it, and if you have the rep go ahead and clean it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:49:10.727" />
  <row Id="33343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33344" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:50:36.417" Score="17" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that if you have a very popular tag and a less popular tag, inevitably answering questions in the more popular tag will garner you more reputation, because there are simply more viewers. But if SO is to be a place where you can get an answer on any problem a person can dream up, then we &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; people who answer esoteric questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I pondered different schemes that might compensate for low views while still only rewarding good answers without completely unbalancing the system and relized you would have to be pretty careful. My own suggestion (and I am open to others) is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ascertain the quality of answers somewhat by considering the number of views, vs the answer's upvotes. So if a question has been viewed by 100 people and 10 upvote it, you know 10% of people reading it thought it was good. Likewise if an answer was read by 3 people and all 3 people upvoted it, you know that 100% of readers thought the answer was good. But of course question 2 has 3 votes and question 1 has 10:) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think giving some form of rep bonus for a high view/upvote ratio would help reward those toiling away in obscurity and those in the spotlight equally, but make giving quality answers still paramount. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T17:52:11.547" Title="Toiling away in Lesser Known Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="33344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:54:46.113" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of rewarding people who toil away in lesser known tags, but I think adjusting the rep system is a bit too heavy.  It seems like a badge (or set of badges) might be a more appropriate incentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:54:46.113" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="33345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33333" CreationDate="2009-12-18T15:56:33.597" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are doing it correctly, you are explaining your down-vote when you give it. This will help the new user learn what they did wrong and correct it. Of course being a new user, they should be given a certain amount of latitude so you should be gentle with your guidance. I often will just leave a comment and skip the downvote, but sometimes the question is so bad it's just plain lazy and waste of my time. I object to having my time wasted. I express my dissatisfaction with the board-provided means of dissatisfaction-expression. The down-vote. Now board certified:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All joking aside, I will down-vote a high-repper for being rude a lot faster than I will down vote a new user for being new. Because the latter doesn't know better, whilst the former has no such excuse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T15:56:33.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-18T15:56:33.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-18T16:08:44.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Life in a lesser known tag is not that bad. What would be really bad is if the reputation system became less transparent. The single thing that makes it less transparent now is the reputation cap and my feeling is that we get at least two questions about the reputation cap every week here on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't ruin the system by making it opaque and hard to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130804" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T16:08:44.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27643" CreationDate="2009-12-18T16:27:33.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it doesn't affect me, I can see this being a problem for people such as McCormack which may also be capitalized as Mccormack depending on the person's preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having it all caps may result in employers scratching their heads wondering, &quot;Should I address Mr. McCormack or Mr. Mccormack?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T16:27:33.357" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33323" CreationDate="2009-12-18T16:56:01.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are suggesting a different voting scale for open vs closed questions. That only adds complexity and confusion. People are free to use their votes as they see fit once they reach 15 rep for up votes and 100 for down votes for open or closed questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T16:56:01.183" />
  <row Id="33349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33351" CreationDate="2009-12-18T16:56:55.207" Score="2" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: baah ja**** jo**** [mailto:baahja****j@yahoo.com] &#xA;    Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 6:43 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    how do resgister my community base organization&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T17:34:29.553" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:04:45.427" Title="Advertising Inquiry: &quot;community base resgister-ation [sic]&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33349" CreationDate="2009-12-18T17:02:01.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear baah ja**** jo****,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, but you have reached a wrong number. Please hang up at the sound of the &lt;em&gt;beep&lt;/em&gt; and redirect your call to the Community Base Organization Resgisteration Authority at their easy-to-remember number, 0-000-0000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEEP!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T17:02:01.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33349" CreationDate="2009-12-18T17:06:05.533" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear baah ja**** jo****,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All Your Community Base Organization Are Belong To Us.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T23:35:32.467" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T23:35:32.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33349" CreationDate="2009-12-18T17:29:55.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear &lt;code&gt;baah ja**** jo****&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can easily register your community&#xA;  base organization at the nearest Human&#xA;  Protection Camp. Now that we have&#xA;  taken control of the Earth, your&#xA;  organization's registration will help&#xA;  us keep track of the rest of your&#xA;  members, and their assistance in&#xA;  furthering our long-term goals for&#xA;  your planet will be greatly&#xA;  appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on our triangulation of your&#xA;  position, your nearest Human&#xA;  Protection Camp can be located at 1060&#xA;  West Addison Street in the city&#xA;  formerly known as Chicago, IL. Please&#xA;  proceed there at once to complete your&#xA;  registration. Further instructions&#xA;  will be provided there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt; ムアレ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T23:08:23.203" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T23:08:23.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T17:30:05.537" Score="5" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1916415/&quot;&gt;Is there an opensource (read free) tool that allows me to see my browsers HTTP commands?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1916415/is-there-an-opensource-read-free-tool-that-allows-me-to-see-my-browsers-http-co&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1916415/is-there-an-opensource-read-free-tool-that-allows-me-to-see-my-browsers-http-co&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would an ordinary (non-programmer) computer user be even remotely interested in this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you say it, I know that programmers also check out SuperUser.  But as someone looking for this kind of information, I would expect it to reside on SO, not SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP even specifies that the purpose is to observe AJAX interactions, something which a SuperUser could not care less about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T17:52:09.617" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T17:52:09.617" ClosedDate="2009-12-18T18:01:43.983" Title="Why was this question moved to superuser?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-18T17:33:08.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do agree that it's easiest to get popular by writing well-formatted (eye-catching) answers to obvious questions in popular arenas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the goal is to encourage tag diversity, and to get obscure questions answered, there could be a scaling factor or rewards for toiling away in less-frequented tags, something inversely correlated to the popularity of the tag. (With an algorithm that avoids disproportionate effects from dividing by small numbers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it may not be beneficial. One of the goals of a folksonomy is to boil down to a shared vocabulary that is visible to all and used by all. Putting a community pressure on participation in rarely-mentioned tags may interfere with this. So it's a balancing act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130370" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T17:33:08.400" />
  <row Id="33355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33353" CreationDate="2009-12-18T17:35:38.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with closing or migrating it - understanding protocols is a core skill for programmers(everything is an interface, after all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm voting to open it - it'll remain on both sites once opened again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T17:35:38.053" />
  <row Id="33356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33353" CreationDate="2009-12-18T17:50:56.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oddly enough, it was never actually migrated to superuser.com, it was just closed. I'm guessing there wasn't a clear majority in favor of migrating it. Looks like it's re-opened now, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T17:50:56.140" />
  <row Id="33357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33349" CreationDate="2009-12-18T18:25:42.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how do resgister my community base organization&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let count me the ways...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T18:25:42.550" />
  <row Id="33359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2009-12-18T19:14:55.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are actually some legitimate uses for shortening services.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The examples in my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/772594/regular-expression-explained-with-words/778179#778179&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; would not have been possible without a shortening service.  SO was misinterpreting the URL because it contained a regular expression as part of the query string:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.strfriend.com/vis?re=&amp;lt;([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\b[^&amp;gt;]*&amp;gt;(.*%3F)&amp;lt;/\1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in the answer I explicitly stated the reason for the shortened URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T19:14:55.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-12-18T20:18:14.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Soul of Wit': getting many, many, votes for a very short answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T20:18:14.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-18T20:18:14.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23499" CreationDate="2009-12-18T20:18:25.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 19, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know... I'm a big cheater :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132693" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T20:18:25.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-18T21:13:20.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the small group of users active on those tags, it is relatively easy to become known and respected by your peers (and the tag view, stats tab works nicely there). It doesn't show in your rep, but you can know that there are some people who know. ::gives a shout out to Will of [latex] fame::&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The generalist badge, if implemented correctly could give some recognition to people who work outside the most popular tags (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4916/suggested-implementation-for-generalist-badge&quot;&gt;one suggested implementation&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T23:29:30.403" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T23:29:30.403" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32826" CreationDate="2009-12-18T21:28:32.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's open source -- feel free to contribute a patch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T21:28:32.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30415" CreationDate="2009-12-18T21:33:37.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can now add a short response to the potential employer in all cases&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T21:33:37.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-18T21:46:10.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a good thing to encourage people to answer obscure questions with rep and badges.  Other things being equal, giving rep and badges to people who do things we like is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever scheme is devised should be simple and clear.  Transparency is important in rewards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One downside would be that badge/rep hounds might descend on less popular tags, writing lots of decent answers and hoping to drown out the few good ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T21:46:10.347" />
  <row Id="33370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T22:11:17.820" Score="10" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had an question transferred from Stack Overflow to Super User (because I did not even know that Super User existed). The question was answered quite well on Super User. When I came back and saw the transfer, and linked my account, I was surprised and pleased to see that the moved question was automatically linked to my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't really a question. This is more a 'wow, great job'. This is one of the best designed websites I know with regards to proper handling of accounts, authentication, and user customization. Well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140614" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T22:34:11.207" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T22:50:43.093" Title="Why is the stack overflow codebase so awesome?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;awesome&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="33371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33370" CreationDate="2009-12-18T22:14:41.150" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much is said about what the code base really entails yet..... and they most likely will not reveal much due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I believe this is the first time in a while meta has seen a positive non-rant thank you. So props to you on being appreciative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AJ3eiQqEzJqwDqM%3Ahttp%3A//www.mediabistro.com&quot; alt=&quot;alt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T22:50:43.093" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T22:50:43.093" />
  <row Id="33372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-18T22:27:04.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to consider, is that low number of view does not neccesarily mean the question is of a obscure tag.  You can see good C# or Java questions asked in the middle of the night that get 3 views, but are buried by the time the bulk of SO users are active, so they dont see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps identifying &quot;obscure/lesser known&quot; tags should be by the total views/question ratio WITHIN EACH TAG.  Perhaps the lowest 20% of tags using this ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133482" LastEditorUserId="133482" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T17:52:11.547" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T17:52:11.547" />
  <row Id="33373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-18T22:50:48.937" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19330/problem-with-the-closing-brace&quot;&gt;Problem with the closing brace&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HI use a French keyboard, and I am having difficulties writing a &lt;kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; symbol in the edit window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I type &lt;strong&gt;Alt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;+&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+&lt;/strong&gt; (the French keyboard shortcut for this symbol), the backtick escape &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;`enter code here`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;appears... I am forced to write this symbol elsewhere and then paste it into the textbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140625" LastEditorUserId="140625" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-18T23:21:48.560" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T23:21:48.560" ClosedDate="2011-01-29T08:18:41.927" Title="Formatting code in Stack Overflow and French keyboard" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33373" CreationDate="2009-12-18T23:19:13.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same problem with German Layout and the @ character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13065/wmd-editor-bug-german-keyboard-layout-creates-blockquote-section&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13065/wmd-editor-bug-german-keyboard-layout-creates-blockquote-section&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-18T23:19:13.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33349" CreationDate="2009-12-19T00:04:45.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the response I'd send over:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear &lt;code&gt;baah ja**** jo****&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am sorry to hear that you were&#xA;  unable to easily find the way to&#xA;  resgister your community base&#xA;  organization! The Stackoverflow team&#xA;  is hard at work improving our user&#xA;  interface design to make such things&#xA;  easier to find. Unfortunately, it is&#xA;  low on our priority list right now&#xA;  (can't you tell by the color schemes?&#xA;  ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, I have attached a&#xA;  Greasemonkey script that can assist&#xA;  you in the mean time! Simply install&#xA;  this Greasemonkey script, and you'll&#xA;  see our proposed changes to the user&#xA;  interface. You can find the link to&#xA;  resgister your community base&#xA;  organization immediately adjacent to&#xA;  the &quot;advertising info&quot; link at the&#xA;  bottom of all Stackoverflow sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Glad to be of assistance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; File: CBOR.user.js &gt;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely, Alex P. Diddimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the contents of CBOR.user.js:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name          Community Base Organization Resgisteration&#xA;// @namespace     http://inedo.com/&#xA;// @description   This is how do resgister your community base organization&#xA;// @include       http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include       http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include       http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include       http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==   &#xA;(function(){&#xA;    function resgisteration_is_jqueryed_yet() {&#xA;        if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;            window.setTimeout(resgisteration_is_jqueryed_yet,100); &#xA;        } else { &#xA;            resgisteration_jqueryed(unsafeWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    resgisteration_is_jqueryed_yet();&#xA;    function resgisteration_jqueryed($) {&#xA;    	$(&quot;#footer-sites&quot;).siblings().eq(6).before(&quot;&amp;lt;a href='/community-base-organization-resgisteration' id='resgisterationlink'&amp;gt;resgister your community base organization&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; | &quot;);&#xA;    	$(&quot;#resgisterationlink&quot;).click(function(){alert(&quot;Thank you very much for resgisterationing your Community Base Organization. You should hear from us in 6-8 weeks!&quot;);return false;});&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:04:45.427" />
  <row Id="33376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33384" CreationDate="2009-04-12T00:53:12.500" Score="30" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently got down-voted by a user who added a comment, saying &quot;couldn't you have spent 15 minutes and looked this up on Google?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is &quot;yes&quot;, but by asking on Stack Overflow, I feel like I am achieving my goal of getting the answer with less effort as well as helping the community in the future.  By doing this, I am achieving the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am using the power of the community to sort out the best answer and avoid wasting any time searching on sites working through material that might not work out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next person in the world that has this same question will get their answer immediately since the correct answer will be there at the top of the list on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So my question is: Do people think my argument is valid? Isn't the goal of the site to help future software developers find answers quicker? Or do you think I am simply trying to justify laziness?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T21:41:43.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-12T03:07:21.380" Title="Is it bad to ask google searchable questions on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T00:55:13.617" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I love it when people ask google answerable questions.  It makes my job easy :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23283" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-12T00:56:34.770" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T00:55:19.857" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one of the goals for Stack Overflow was to become a site that often comes up high in Google rankings.  In order to do that, we'll obviously have to compile material that is found elsewhere on the web.  So I think definitely it's okay to ask Googlable questions, with a goal toward making the Stack Overflow link for that question the best spot on the web to find the answer(s), and the highest Google hit on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133701" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T00:56:23.693" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes Googling something is difficult for someone who doesn't know where to start, while very easy for others.  If it's not immediately apparent for what you should be searching, then I don't think it's lazy to ask here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" />
  <row Id="33380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T00:56:39.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the answers given here are generally far superior to those on other sites that google ranks highly. (Experts Exchange comes to mind.) Go ahead and google, but if you can't fine the answer here, I'd ask it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" />
  <row Id="33381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T00:57:13.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that you should ask the question anyway.&#xA;Google is just a search engine. It searches and matches words and phrases. The largest is the collection of phrases available to google, the more likely is than anybody having a particular question will find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the questions asked on SO can be answered with google. Most of the answer people will give to you will be looked up on google before writing and posting. But Google, and any search you can do, will not grant you a live discussion about your question, something that you can find here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" />
  <row Id="33382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T00:58:45.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People who say you should've Googled instead of asking here are generally missing the point.  They should take advantage of you and post the easily-Googleable answer for rep. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, posting a question you could've easily answered might indicate you're a lazy bum, and it might make some of us not want to help you.  But, that's not the point of this site, which is to build a resource consisting of answers to programming questions.  Maybe you ARE a lazy bum, but if it helps make Stack Overflow a better site, who cares?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133701" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" />
  <row Id="33383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T01:03:04.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you should ask Googleable questions.  SO is meant to be a general repository of questions and their answers, not a repository only of things that aren't anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47529" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" />
  <row Id="33384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T01:10:07.387" Score="37" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is meant to be a resource for answers to Google searches, but that doesn't mean any question is reasonable. A question like &quot;How do you concatenate strings in Java?&quot; is flagrantly worthless and the Java docs are more appropriate. It's really selfish to waste people's time on such a thing. If we get lots of stupid questions — that is, if the signal-to-noise ratio becomes too low — the smart people will leave and Stack Overflow will lose all its value as a resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135886" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-12T01:10:07.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T01:15:46.593" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's absolutely fine because one of the biggest issues we face as developers are the accuracy of the answers/solutions we find on Google.  One of the greatest benefits StackOverflow has is that it has a community of people who are willing to correct questions and vote on good/bad answers.  However, I think people should take more time over the questions and word them a little more carefully if they want to avoid such comments as you mention.  We put time and effort into the answers, but maybe we should put a little more effort into our questions.  Hope that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133204" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" />
  <row Id="33386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T01:16:25.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would consider it good engineering to do research first (reading the manuals, google, wikipedia) before asking questions. It keeps your mind sharp and safes you from being conceived as a noob. It also IMHO hinders the people that are experts to give good answers on SO, as they have to browse through a huge list of questions that could be avoided before they find one that is worth answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Said that I believe there's no real bad question, but in order to keep the quality of SO up we might want to avoid questions that are too easy (they are also prone to the &lt;em&gt;already answered&lt;/em&gt; syndrome).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" />
  <row Id="33387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T03:31:05.833" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like someone else mentioned sometimes its difficult for us &quot;newbies&quot; to even know where to begin with a Google search.  One example is a question I recently posted asking about what the letter &quot;M&quot; meant after a number in a line of code such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SomeDecimal = SomeInt * 15.00M;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had no clue what that M did and likewise I had absolutely no idea what it was even called so I how am I supposed to search Google for it?  Now it seems like something very trivial to me but it wasn't before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google (and other search engines) are good at understanding what us humans are trying to tell it.  Unfortunately, sometimes you need to post a specific piece of code and have a human look at it and ask questions about it so said human can answer.  Sometimes those questions are very basic and sometimes they aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found Stack Overflow to be a great resource so far.  Even better than my friends who program for a living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the question is programming related I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed, no matter how basic.  Sometimes people just don't even know where to begin searching and when that happens this is an EXCELLENT place to fall back on!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-12T03:31:05.833" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T04:59:49.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking a question without spending the time to research it yourself shows a certain lack of respect for the community's time.  This bit from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to ask Questions the Smart Way&lt;/a&gt; covers the topic pretty succinctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you ask your question, display the fact that you have&#xA;  done these things first; this will help establish that&#xA;  you're not being a lazy sponge and wasting people's time.&#xA;  Better yet, display what you have learned from doing these&#xA;  things. We like answering questions for people who have&#xA;  demonstrated they can learn from the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4668" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-12T04:59:49.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-12T06:39:22.260" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a programming question/answer site. If you have a programming question, ask away. I tend to use the following guidelines for answering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question is about something I&#xA;know or am interested in, I will read&#xA;it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the question indicates similar&#xA;'related' questions, I will check&#xA;them out to see if it is more useful&#xA;to answer with a link to that similar&#xA;question. For your question, I would suggest that you read this similar &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/469150/im-new-to-stackoverflow-what-should-i-consider-before-asking-questions&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is a really good question, I'll&#xA;upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is a question to which I know&#xA;the answer, I will try to help with&#xA;an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If somebody has already given an&#xA;answer that I think is helpful, I&#xA;will upvote that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If somebody has already given an&#xA;answer that I think is right but&#xA;could use some clarification, I will&#xA;upvote that answer with a comment. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If somebody has given an answer that&#xA;doesn't really help, I will ignore&#xA;it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If somebody has given an answer that&#xA;is dangerously wrong, I will downvote&#xA;it with a comment. (I wish that downvotes required a comment but that's an issue for uservoice)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be people that think that the only questions worth asking are ones that have never been asked before and these are the type of people that will downvote questions just because they don't like them or think you should have worked harder before asking them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is only as good as the community that supports it. This means a couple of things. You will usually get back what you put in and you will benefit the most if you match the majority of the community mindset. Currently, I believe the SO majority mindset is mature and most will try to be helpful no matter how obvious an answer might be or how easy the answer may have been to find elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think questions deserve answers but it is undeniably true that the quality of the question will dictate the quality of the answer in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of question is good for the community to discuss. It will help new members become useful contributors more quickly. It won't however put an end to 'obvious' or 'lazy' questions from those that are just looking for answers.. now.. and have no interest in becoming a part of the community. I think these are great opportunities for new members to practice their art. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question isn't worth your time to answer then don't answer it and let somebody that wants to, answer it or let it whither in no-vote obscurity :) Please, save your downvotes for non-programming questions and dangerously wrong answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31044" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-12T06:39:22.260" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-04-13T10:49:08.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When SO was made there were no assumptions about what kind of questions to be asked. Also, we have not set standards about intelligence of questions and people. It's been left to mercy of your peers and reputations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wiki, does have pages on topics like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boy&lt;/a&gt;, then why can't SO allows primitive questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is how you can help your self: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you find any question not up to the mark or standards, you can vote it down &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not answer those question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can create a tag and mark such question with that tag and put the tag in ignored ones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162423" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:18:14.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-04-13T10:49:08.783" />
  <row Id="33391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2009-12-19T00:42:46.977" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hell no. Google first. A google search is a small energy burst in a server somewhere. Asking somebody on SO means somebody is going to look at the question, open it, think about the answer, possibly go and verify the facts he or she is going to use, and post it. Or, think it's a duplicate, search for possible duplicates, change the wording of the search, come up with something, copy the ID, and mark the new question as a duplicate. That has do be done by &lt;em&gt;five people&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't come up with anything in Google, come and ask. If you need help in understanding what the Google results mean and whether there are better solutions, come and ask. But if you come and show that you have already done some research, you are more likely to get good answers and not only shallow stubs done for the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T00:54:07.520" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T00:54:07.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T00:42:46.977" />
  <row Id="33392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33395" CreationDate="2009-12-19T00:45:00.420" Score="16" ViewCount="878" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/12/hello-stack-overflow.html?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&amp;amp;utm%5Fmedium=feed&amp;amp;utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+blogspot/hsDu+%28Android+Developers+Blog%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hello Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Android Developers blog have announced that Stack Overflow will be the preferred channel to get newbie questions to android:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm happy to announce that we're working with Stack Overflow to improve developer support, especially for developers new to Android&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this is some kind of milestone or what? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congratulations to the Stack Overflow team!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-05T14:51:56.850" LastActivityDate="2010-12-05T14:51:56.850" Title="Android welcomes Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;awesome&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="33393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T01:27:00.780" Score="11" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got my first offer through careers.stackoverflow.com.  The offer was for places other than the ones listed in my &quot;Where do you want to work?&quot;.  This is one of my pet peeves.  There needs to be an easy way to flag employers as not following the rules.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130036" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T04:44:09.617" Title="I would like the ability to flag employers on careers.stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33393" CreationDate="2009-12-19T03:10:09.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps for now you could just email the team. If this becomes rampant, that might be a different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T03:10:09.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33392" CreationDate="2009-12-19T04:09:53.547" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cool!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/Android-7255.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T04:09:53.547" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33393" CreationDate="2009-12-19T04:44:09.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, make &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; you have not ticked the &quot;willing to relocate&quot; box in your profile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can respond to employers now with actual text -- you might add a reminder in your response along the lines of &quot;This job is a thousand miles away and I indicated in my profile I am not willing to relocate.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, we'll look into it and make sure it's not a UI gaffe that caused employers to mess up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T04:44:09.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42820" CreationDate="2009-12-19T06:10:51.857" Score="50" ViewCount="1551" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gaining reputation from answering on Stack Overflow is getting&#xA;increasingly difficult. There are many talented users to&#xA;answer most questions within minutes, providing good enough&#xA;answers immediately and editing in fuller answers within a&#xA;very short time. Sometimes I feel like gaining reputation is&#xA;somewhat of a race. However, I mean this in a good sense -&#xA;it's a fun race, and it's great to have answers to most&#xA;questions supplied most quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it saddens me to see how easily reputation can be gained&#xA;by just asking questions. I know this has been discussed&#xA;here on Meta Stack Overflow several times, but I want to highlight a&#xA;pattern. Take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=week&quot;&gt;Hottest Questions This Week&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;(I tend to scan through this list on weekends). I don't want&#xA;to point fingers, but many questions there have already been&#xA;asked multiple times before. Stack Overflow veterans surely scan with&#xA;their eyes, nodding - been there - over most of them. And&#xA;yet, these questions gain lots of reputation. Some get&#xA;closed in a couple of hours, but still manage to gain many&#xA;votes until then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a good situation, IMHO. Many members on Stack Overflow&#xA;brandish high reputations and when you enter their profile it's a&#xA;few 100s of questions, 3 downvoted answers on some &#xA;semi-subjective topic, and nothing more. Is this the 4K user&#xA;employers would like to hire based on high Stack Overflow reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps to prove this, it's worthwhile to make an experiment&#xA;- a user that asks semi-subjective questions over and over&#xA;again, on topics which haven't been discussed in the past&#xA;week or so. I have a feeling this can show some nice&#xA;results, reputation-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are open issues on User Voice on this issue,&#xA;but is someone planning to do anything about it? IMHO too&#xA;much reputation is gained by asking questions, it is blatantly&#xA;obvious, and it makes Stack Overflow a less fun place to be - as it&#xA;partially invalidates the whole reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why less fun? Consider this scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bob&lt;/strong&gt;: So are you knowledgeable in&#xA;   programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alice&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah, I have a Stack Overflow reputation of 8K!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bob&lt;/strong&gt;: Eh, I knew people get to&#xA;   such reputations just for asking hundreds of&#xA;   repeating questions there. So that&#xA;   doesn't count. Any other proof of&#xA;   your expertness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds surreal? I disagree. As an employer interviewing&#xA;people quite often, such a scenario is real for me. &lt;strong&gt;I just&#xA;value Stack Overflow reputation less because of this,&#xA;period&lt;/strong&gt;. Stack Overflow's administrators have to decide what they&#xA;want out of it. Is it just a website for getting your questions&#xA;answered? Great - it's a great one, indeed. But it appears&#xA;they want to make something more, connecting to Careers,&#xA;meaning reputation to actually be real. In such a case,&#xA;allowing reputation farming from repeated questions is a&#xA;self-defeating strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140635" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:27:52.450" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T13:31:55.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T06:15:01.197" Title="The surest way to gain lots of reputation on Stack Overflow- ask questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2009-12-19T06:54:29.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the questions are closed, and eventually deleted, then when the rep is recalculated this 'spurious' rep will disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore the system is ultimately self-healing.  If you believe a particular user has been abusing this aspect of the system, flag one of their posts for moderator attention, and explain briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may delete the closed questions and push a rep-recalc to bring the user back to where they should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that - does it really matter that someone has more rep than they should?  Yes, they are able to edit things, maybe close things, and perhaps they've attained 10k and can use the tools - but if they aren't abusing these powers, who does it really harm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is meant to encourage participation.  It's now being used for more than this, but I don't see the side effects being terrible - it's not a zero sum game where rep they gain means rep you lose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T06:54:29.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T06:54:29.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-12-19T07:05:18.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here too: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130263" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T07:05:18.283" />
  <row Id="33401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T08:21:40.530" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever i post questions then i know that the answers i can see from my user page by clicking recent. But for comments i have to click on every questions and then see. they are are not sorted if i click on recent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way that i can see the comments posted in descending order or at least get informed when comment is made&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139273" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T08:33:45.207" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T08:33:45.207" Title="How can I stay informed of comments posted on my questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33401" CreationDate="2009-12-19T08:26:41.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The envelope icon informs you about comments to your own questions/answers. You get no information about comments to answers of your questions (for now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T08:26:41.440" />
  <row Id="33403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2009-12-19T09:16:19.900" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe rewarding asking questions was more important in the beginning, to attract users (and useful questions) to the site?  Now, however, I'm not that sure that rewarding questioners is that important anymore.  Their &quot;reward&quot; should be &lt;strong&gt;getting an answer&lt;/strong&gt;; wouldn't that be enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least re-balancing the question/answer reputation gain should be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136813" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T09:16:19.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T09:16:19.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2009-12-19T09:40:28.860" Score="39" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a crazy idea: rather than just making stuff up, let's look at the data!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5,954,332&lt;/strong&gt; actual rep generated from ~439k questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;21,968,671&lt;/strong&gt; actual rep generated from ~1.4m answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost 4&amp;times; as much reputation has been generated by answers, so I take issue with your statement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; how easily rep can be gained by just asking questions &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data certainly doesn't agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there were requests for per-post averages, here you go -- the second number &lt;strong&gt;excludes community wiki&lt;/strong&gt; questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Average question score&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1.47, 1.33&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Average answer score&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;1.96, 1.69&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The &lt;strong&gt;median&lt;/strong&gt; question and answer scores are 1 in all cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many members on SO brandish high reps and when you enter their profile it's a few 100s of questions, 3 downvoted answers on some semi-subjective topic, and nothing more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Many&quot; members? really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total users with reputation &gt; 4000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;1494&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total users with reputation &gt; 4000 who have asked more than 50 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;250&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total users with reputation &gt; 4000 who have asked more than 100 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;85&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Total users with reputation &gt; 4000 who have asked more than 200 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;28&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For all users with &gt; 4000 reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;questions (avg, median)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;31.1, 14&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;answers (avg, median)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;351.7, 246&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T10:26:28.813" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T10:26:28.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T09:40:28.860" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="33405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2009-12-19T09:42:10.433" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on, as Teddy says, it seems to me questions have more inherent value than they do for a large site.  The larger the pool of existing questions, the greater the proportion of new ones that are not new knowledge or threads.  That means new questions have a bit less value on average; it also means there is new value in coordination, consolidation, and organization of existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few tangential responses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consider changing the weight given to posting questions, posting answers, rearranging/fixing metadata, etc. based on what is most in demand.  This could be a slow-changing way of aggregating input from thousands of community members in simple metrics that let everyone see what is being most appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's value in direct manipulation of the question namespace.  The close/delete mechanism isn't a good one for many 'repeat' questions -- the new variant may have a few twists not covered before; it may get an answer better than one offered before; and the questioner may have been thinking about the question with different jargon, making it hard for him/her to find the original discussion.    So change the system to make it possible for compulsive organizers and classifiers to do something more than add or unify tags across similar questions.  Let them group questions together, directly merging them or redirecting one to another.  Make it possible for someone to create an omnibus question that will turn up in the same searchable namespace, which can point to a score of related questions and provide context that lets a reader figure out which one pertains to what's on their mind.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Examples in current practice: Stack Overflow questions can be closed with &quot;migrated to (question@meta.stackoverflow.com)&quot;.  Support similar closures as &quot;merged with (question)&quot;, &quot;redirected to (question)&quot;,  &quot;disambiguated via (omnibus question)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140647" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T00:22:44.617" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T00:22:44.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T09:42:10.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-19T09:50:46.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/znc-msvc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/2zqha1k.png&quot; alt=&quot;ZNC: The best IRC bouncer, now available for Microsoft Windows!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140643" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T09:50:46.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T09:50:46.967" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2009-12-19T09:53:22.143" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015/shore&quot;&gt;Shore&lt;/a&gt;, there is always &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/43907/gold&quot;&gt;Gold&lt;/a&gt;. But they are edge cases, they must have elephant skin cause almost 50% of the votes they get are downvotes. Besides, everybody knows they are Jon and Marcs sock puppet accounts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The surest way to gain lots of rep on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer lots of questions (and be the first to answer them) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer them well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rinse and repeat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More controversial ways: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer lots of questions on lucrative tags (subjective, source control, homework) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer them well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rinse and repeat &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proof:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select &#xA;    case when ParentId is null then 'Question' else 'Answer' end as [Type],  &#xA;    COUNT(*), &#xA;    (SUM(Score) / (COUNT(*) + 0.0))&#xA;    from Posts&#xA;    where CommunityOwnedDate is null and ClosedDate is null&#xA;group by case when ParentId is null then 'Question' else 'Answer' end&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;                       &lt;strong&gt;Rep Rep/Post&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Answers:  1194295  2040522  1.71&#xA;Question:  380461   529778  1.39&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most reputation is gained from answers, you are likely to get more reputation from answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stats exclude closed and community wiki questions and answers. (which when included only mean more people get more reputation on avg) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="137294" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T22:45:10.510" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T22:45:10.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T09:53:22.143" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33409" CreationDate="2009-12-19T09:56:19.750" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to signal a question that is duplicate of another one?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Some users are able to open a vote, but what can who sees a duplicate question but cannot vote do? Should the question be marked as &quot;require attention&quot;, or is there a tag to use for those cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140449" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T10:02:51.093" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T10:02:51.093" Title="How to report a question that is duplicate of another one" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33408" CreationDate="2009-12-19T09:57:30.060" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The standard practice is to leave a comment, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;duplicate:path/to/dupe&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with voting powers can then look at your proposed duplicate, and vote to close if they agree (or argue the case if they disagree). It seems to work pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T09:57:30.060" />
  <row Id="33410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33408" CreationDate="2009-12-19T10:01:30.613" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also flag for moderator attention, it's helpful to include the URL to what you think the dupe is in the mod flag comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T10:01:30.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30048" CreationDate="2009-12-19T10:13:16.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is awesome to be able to get at the heart of the community &amp;amp; site with no barrier to entry at all.  Warms the cockles.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that also confuses some people, I reckon this topic is a perennial favorite.  It's related to all of the questions about first-timer etiquette and how to handle contributors who don't quite get how the site is meant to be used.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be handy to have some color-scheme or filter that lets browsing readers differentiate b/t the questions that are likely to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be from newbies who may not have much Q-writing practice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not yet have been read or edited by long-time users who could massage a lumpy Q into shape &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of color would both let people who don't want to be bothered with such questions avoid them, and let those who want to help welcome and encourage new contributors dive in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140647" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T10:13:16.270" />
  <row Id="33412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30048" CreationDate="2009-12-19T10:20:12.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking bad questions is okay for a newbie. Giving bad answers is okay for a newbie. Some of my early answers were crap; it takes a while to get a feel for the site, the expected format, the level of detail expected and the appropriateness of various topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; okay is continuing to ask bad questions and to give bad answers. The reputation system helps there by providing feedback to the user, and hopefully he will learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some don't, but that's a different topic, and one we've discussed extensively -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/behavior+users&quot;&gt;see here for some of those discussions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T10:20:12.607" />
  <row Id="33413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7441" CreationDate="2009-12-19T10:24:54.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A different thought-experiment: merge 'ask a question' and 'search' into ONE page with a single textbar.  Invite visitors to &quot;ask a question or search for a topic&quot; there, and run the string they enter through a site-wide search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If search matches are sufficiently good (by your favorite heuristic):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show those matches rather than a textbox for entering a question body&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ask if the user found what he was looking for.  if so, let the user indicate which answer[s] matched the originally entered question [to improve search over time]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;include an option to &quot;submit a new question&quot; if the matches don't have the information desired&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If search matches aren't good enough:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show a question-entry page, similar to the current 'ask a question' page, autofilling the title with the original string entered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;show a list of the best matches on the side / in some more subdued way.  The user should be encouraged to use those matches as 'related links', or to borrow tags from them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140647" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T10:24:54.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33415" CreationDate="2009-12-19T10:29:06.630" Score="0" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21133/downvoting-without-given-reason-what-to-do&quot;&gt;Downvoting without given reason. What to do?!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered to a question reporting exactly when XML content is considered well-formed (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1924588/why-does-xmlsimple-flatten-this-tomboy-note/1924848#1924848&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1924588/why-does-xmlsimple-flatten-this-tomboy-note/1924848#1924848&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What may I do if I think the down-voted was not deserved? I mean, the answer was correct, and was pertinent with what asked by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140449" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T14:57:24.727" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T14:57:24.727" ClosedDate="2009-12-19T21:35:33.970" Title="What to do when an answer has been down-voted without a reason" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33414" CreationDate="2009-12-19T10:38:24.663" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;em&gt;deal with it&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer is right, it'll be upvoted anyway, and that -1 will be a thing of the past. Unless you think there's tactical downvoting going on, there's nothing you can, or should, do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T10:38:24.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T10:38:24.663" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33422" CreationDate="2009-12-19T11:33:14.347" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2451/why-do-you-cast-downvotes-on-answers&quot;&gt;Why do you cast downvotes on answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the criteria to down-vote an answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Should an answer be down-voted only if it is not correct, or there are other criteria too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140449" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T11:47:31.903" ClosedDate="2009-12-19T16:00:48.850" Title="What are the criteria to down-vote an answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33419" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T11:28:19.940" Score="1" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I add comments to questions?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What do I need in order for this function to be availed to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141174" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T11:47:47.660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T18:33:30.400" ClosedDate="2009-12-20T21:10:38.137" Title="Can't add small comments to questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33419" CreationDate="2009-12-19T11:30:10.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T11:34:27.213" />
  <row Id="33421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33419" CreationDate="2009-12-19T11:31:26.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; - check out the list of reputation benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139895" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T11:34:27.213" />
  <row Id="33422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33418" CreationDate="2009-12-19T11:47:31.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how I see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does not provide any useful information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does not answer this particular question but something else&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It contains wrong information that could lead to misunderstanding of some concept&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should absolutely take a neutral point and never downvote an answer if you personally dislike the author or if the answer addresses some annoying issue that irritates you but still (unfortunately) happens to be true. As they say, don't kill the messenger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T11:47:31.903" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33425" CreationDate="2009-12-19T12:58:57.793" Score="1" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not get a 'Nice Answer' for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33333/why-downvote-a-user-with-no-points/33334#33334&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, is it disabled on meta, is it a bug, or is there something else I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T19:55:12.403" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T19:55:12.403" Title="Why didn't I get 'Nice Answer'?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;nice-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33423" CreationDate="2009-12-19T13:06:33.957" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it wasn't good?...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I think you did - You have 3x Nice answers and looking at your profile, you have 3 answers with over 10 up votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remember to wait patiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T13:06:33.957" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33423" CreationDate="2009-12-19T13:13:47.440" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you already have a Nice Answer for a question that has been downvoted or deleted and doesn't fit the criteria of Nice Answer anymore, you won't get a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T13:13:47.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T13:47:44.350" Score="-2" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today I wanted to start a discussion on Stackoverflow.com, so I carefully made sure the question was flagged as a community wiki. However with in 5 minutes the question was closed. During this time the question was also getting upvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Is there any way to open a discussion on Stackoverflow if you are NOT famous, Jon Skeet, Jeff Attwood, etc? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do you have to be famous so that your questions don't get closed as argumentative or subjective, finally what then is the REAL purpose of community wiki questions. Because they are clearly NOT there for discussion or free thought?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134927" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T14:40:55.660" ClosedDate="2009-12-19T15:52:40.563" Title="What is the point of a stackoverflow community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-19T14:02:01.110" Score="64" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firebirdsql.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.firebirdnews.org/imgs/fb-220px.png&quot; alt=&quot;Firebird RDBMS - Simple, Powerful, Scalable, Fast - Join us&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148062" LastEditorUserId="148062" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T19:25:42.177" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T19:25:42.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T14:02:01.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33428" CreationDate="2009-12-19T14:22:34.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody can &quot;open a discussion&quot; when the question is both pointless and offensive to everybody who creates useful and good software but doesn't actually invent new languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T14:22:34.087" />
  <row Id="33431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33428" CreationDate="2009-12-19T14:40:55.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the top of the page, clink the &quot;faq&quot; link. Read the highlighted bit that says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T14:40:55.660" />
  <row Id="33433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-19T14:52:56.840" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wpfreports.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1329/wpfreportsadver2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;WPF Reports: Simple Open Source Reports for your XAML&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastEditorUserId="2385" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T15:28:38.473" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T15:28:38.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T14:52:56.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-19T15:04:09.687" Score="167" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.djangoproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Django: the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5991/djangoad.png&quot; alt=&quot;Django: the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T15:37:43.800" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T15:37:43.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-19T15:04:09.687" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T16:06:19.403" Score="11" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search box in the top right of the sites has a white background explicitly declared. If you are using a dark theme for your OS, the default text colour is often white or near white, making it appear as if the search box is not working. Could you fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible fix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add a &lt;code&gt;color:black&lt;/code&gt; declaration for the CSS of &lt;code&gt;#hsearch .textbox&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: The Tags box tends to flash white while loading the suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PICTURES:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/ae319/MachaHack/Screenshot-1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Text in, but not shown&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highlighted (this would look the same if color:black was applied aswell):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i983.photobucket.com/albums/ae319/MachaHack/Screenshot-2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The box to type in your openID while logging in is also affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T03:31:00.203" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T03:23:29.517" Title="Search box is not friendly with dark OS themes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;style&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T16:41:54.990" Score="5" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;The related question section that is generated for each question is quite good. I often find where questions that do relate to the original one. Human feedback can make it even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stage 1. Just show the votes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stage 2. Feed voting data to spam filters:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to improve suggestions while asking questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to increase connectivity on the site (add top N related questions in the question body, accent on avoiding false positive - do not add unrelated questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to drop unrelated questions from &quot;Related Questions&quot; section (accent on avoiding false negative - do not drop related questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30434/consider-adding-relations-between-questions-closed&quot;&gt;Consider adding relations between questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1556/should-there-be-a-way-to-link-questions&quot;&gt;Should there be a way to link questions?&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;if my suggestion is implemented the links are added by Community user automatically&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137096" LastEditorUserId="137096" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T17:13:18.117" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T17:13:18.117" Title="Enable comment-style voting on links in related questions section [UP - &quot;related&quot; / FLAG - &quot;not even close&quot;]" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33437" CreationDate="2009-12-19T16:47:44.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Largely in favor of this kind of thing, but I have several questions/concerns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just what does &quot;Related&quot; mean. I think that his is even less clear than &quot;duplicate&quot;, and we'd want some verbiage as a guide. Something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;People who are interested in this question might also be interested in these others.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep limit for voting? I assume so, and would put it at an intermediate level: either 100 (like editting CW posts) or 500 (like retagging).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clutter? The layout is pretty dense already, and this will make it more so.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T17:00:03.830" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T17:00:03.830" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33440" CreationDate="2009-12-19T17:37:02.013" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once notice there was a &lt;code&gt;code-request&lt;/code&gt; tag for when you wanted someone to write the code for you. I don't see it now. What happened? Is it still acceptable to post code requests?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138140" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T17:54:21.533" Title="What's up with `code-request`?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33439" CreationDate="2009-12-19T17:54:21.533" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also invalid are &lt;code&gt;plzsendtehcodez&lt;/code&gt; requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as the equivalent (but considerably less common) &lt;code&gt;dear-sir-please-do-my-job-for-me-if-you-have-time-and-it-is-not-too-much-trouble&lt;/code&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T17:54:21.533" />
  <row Id="33446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33419" CreationDate="2009-12-19T18:33:30.400" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably can't add a comment because you haven't reached the necessary reputation level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an explanation from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;50     - Leave comments†&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;† you can always comment on your&#xA;  questions and answers, and any answers&#xA;  to questions you've asked, even with 1&#xA;  rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that, &lt;strong&gt;once you've reached 50 reputation, you will be able to comment on any question or answer&lt;/strong&gt;. However, &quot;you can always comment on your own questions and answers, and any answers to questions you've asked&quot; with 1 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On Meta&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta, the reputation requirement is different, because of the genre of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;you can comment on ANYTHING with 1 rep, but this only applies to Meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, just for clarification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This SO site is called Meta, it's for discussion about Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't fully understand the concept of reputation, here's an explanation from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is reputation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is completely optional.&#xA;  Normal use of Stack Overflow — that&#xA;  is, asking and answering questions —&#xA;  does not require any reputation&#xA;  whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember, Stack Overflow is run by&#xA;  you! If you want to help us run the&#xA;  site, you'll need reputation first.&#xA;  Reputation is a (very) rough&#xA;  measurement of how much the Stack&#xA;  Overflow community trusts you.&#xA;  Reputation is never given, it is&#xA;  earned by convincing other Stack&#xA;  Overflow users that you know what&#xA;  you're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here's how it works: if you post a&#xA;  good question or helpful answer, it&#xA;  will be voted up by your peers: you&#xA;  gain 10 reputation points. If you post&#xA;  something that's off topic or&#xA;  incorrect, it will be voted down: you&#xA;  lose 2 reputation points. You can earn&#xA;  up to 200 reputation per day, but no&#xA;  more. (Note that votes for any posts&#xA;  marked &quot;community wiki&quot; do not&#xA;  generate reputation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T18:33:30.400" />
  <row Id="33449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T19:37:10.143" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding questions that include pasted code that does not belong to the questioner, and normally has a legal disclaimer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it considered Good Practice to edit the question to once again have the disclaimer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps it's better to add a link to the original source that has the disclaimer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case this is a matter of how much is copied, I'm asking specifically about questions that copy a source file in its entirely, minus the legal disclaimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: To clarify that this is a question about SO best practices, and not legal advice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a question that someone else wrote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the question includes an entire copyrighted source file, verbatim, but removes the &quot;license comment&quot; at the top&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is it considered good practice, as determined by the SO community&lt;/em&gt;, to edit the question and restore the license comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T22:12:14.417" Title="Legal preamble in copied code?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33449" CreationDate="2009-12-19T19:45:17.400" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are no lawyers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything you copy to S[OFU] is cc-wiki. If the preamble of the code do not allow that, do not paste it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the preamble say, you have to copy the preamble, do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimers are in Germany pretty useless. So it depends where you live. Or the author of the code? Or where SO is hosted? So best ask your lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T19:45:17.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33456" CreationDate="2009-12-19T19:47:47.767" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can search for of all the questions that have been closed for any reason with &quot;closed:1&quot;, but you very rarely want to see just closed questions, you usually care about questions closed for a specific reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also be a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; feature for teaching new people about why questions get closed. It would make it very easy pull up a list of questions closed as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; to use for examples, giving them the best possible idea of why certain questions are closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:59:42.193" Title="Search for questions closed for a specific reason" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T19:58:00.090" Score="-4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;How after you ask your first question on SF/SU/meta you get a bronze badge on Stackoverflow as well (and vice-versa)? This would bring the sites closer together, encourage people to associate their accounts, and just be plain fun. I agree that reputation should definitely be separate across all site, but a little badges thrown in for fun would be cool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like &quot;Supporter&quot; badge on SO for asking your first question on meta (although that badge name is already taken, so we'll have to think of something else..), or a &quot;all-around-geek&quot; badge for having asked a question on all of the sites? (help me with the badge level and names) :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T22:11:21.953" Title="badge on stackoverflow for asking your first question on meta/serverfault/superuser" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-19T20:21:24.087" Score="-2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I decided to change my name on stackoverflow from &lt;code&gt;Koper&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;Andreas Bonini (Koper)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I saw that I just had &lt;code&gt;:)&lt;/code&gt; as my &lt;code&gt;About me&lt;/code&gt; text so I decided to write a good one, spending a lot of time and effort on it! I took my time and when I was done I was smiling and was really happy with the result... And I decided to click &lt;code&gt;Save Profile&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out parens are not allowed in the name. Very well, changed it to &lt;code&gt;Andreas Bonini - Koper&lt;/code&gt; and went to click save but... Imagine my horror when I saw that stupid &lt;strong&gt;:)&lt;/strong&gt; again!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Then I got really pissed off and just wrote another one in 1 minute, it's nowhere near as good as the other though :/)&#xA;g&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="130090" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-19T23:47:06.307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T23:58:47.233" Title="Profile - &quot;About me&quot; field is not remembered if there was an error in another field" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33451" CreationDate="2009-12-19T20:33:11.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use Google to find closed questions. Try the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To search for posts closed as &lt;code&gt;Subjective and Argumentative&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Type in:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;closed as subjective and argumentative -meta site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes sure that none of the results come from &lt;code&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;. You can remove that if you want to see &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; results as well. You can also change the close reason; just make sure the text exactly matches what is usually displayed to the end user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sample Search:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;as%5Fq=closed+as+subjective+and+argumentative&amp;amp;as%5Fepq=&amp;amp;as%5Foq=&amp;amp;as%5Feq=meta&amp;amp;num=10&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;as%5Ffiletype=&amp;amp;ft=i&amp;amp;as%5Fsitesearch=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;as%5Fqdr=all&amp;amp;as%5Frights=&amp;amp;as%5Focct=any&amp;amp;cr=&amp;amp;as%5Fnlo=&amp;amp;as%5Fnhi=&amp;amp;safe=images&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;as_q=closed+as+subjective+and+argumentative&amp;amp;as_epq=&amp;amp;as_oq=&amp;amp;as_eq=meta&amp;amp;num=10&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;as_filetype=&amp;amp;ft=i&amp;amp;as_sitesearch=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;as_qdr=all&amp;amp;as_rights=&amp;amp;as_occt=any&amp;amp;cr=&amp;amp;as_nlo=&amp;amp;as_nhi=&amp;amp;safe=images&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T20:33:11.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2009-12-19T20:36:29.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try disable your firebug script and console panels (Actually disable, not just inactive). They slow down Firefox's Javascript significantly (IIRC, they turn off JIT compiling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get it on that page, but I do occasionally get it on SO, and cPanel when I leave those Firebug tabs on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T20:36:29.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53808" CreationDate="2009-12-19T22:06:30.713" Score="26" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderator tools pages currently lists as many as 15 questions that have pending close votes and sorts them by the number of votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very high activity on Stack Overflow means that there are always many more questions with pending close votes then can appear (it typically require 3 or 4 votes to even show up on the list). Consequently questions in low traffic tags, or those posted during off hours may get pushed far back in the front-page and newest views before they receive enough close votes to appear on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it would require and unreasonably long list for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; pending close votes, but can we have 20 or 25 instead of 15?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-16T05:43:56.267" LastActivityDate="2010-06-16T05:44:17.133" Title="Can we have a longer list of close nominated questions in the tools:close page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33452" CreationDate="2009-12-19T22:11:21.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is needed because there are already so many badges given to beginners.  You get one for 10 comments, first downvote, first up vote, etc. You can get all of those in a very short time on the site. I don't think one more is going to add much to the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, instead of making a new request, just add it to the master badge request list compiled here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T22:11:21.953" />
  <row Id="33464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33455" CreationDate="2009-12-19T23:58:47.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could have just clicked the little &lt;kbd&gt;←&lt;/kbd&gt; button a couple of times and you'd have saved your text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-19T23:58:47.233" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-20T00:05:18.440" Score="122" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://emacswiki.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5041/l80gl1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Legendary hackers hack on Emacs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T00:05:18.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T00:05:18.440" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-28T00:50:44.533" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sfq&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;, which have the sfq tag. what does this acronym stand for?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tag this question with the sfq tag for recursive reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140479" LastEditorUserId="133268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T04:06:05.543" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T13:50:31.440" Title="what does sfq stands for?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33466" CreationDate="2009-02-28T00:53:31.250" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first word is &quot;Stupid&quot; and the last is &quot;Question&quot;.  Any questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T00:32:54.510" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33466" CreationDate="2009-02-28T00:58:25.093" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Stupid &lt;strong&gt;BLEEP&lt;/strong&gt; question&quot;, apparently. Ideally, questions which are completely ridiculous or so wildly offtopic will either be closed, or a consensus will emerge to keep them. In the latter case, this may simply be to avoid tedious close/reopen warring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm reminded of the quote, &quot;There's no such thing as a stupid question&quot;, but I can't for the life of me remember who said it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T00:32:54.510" />
  <row Id="33469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33466" CreationDate="2009-02-28T01:08:59.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opalsoft.net/qos/DS-25.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stochastic Fairness Queueing&lt;/a&gt;.  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T00:32:54.510" />
  <row Id="33470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33466" CreationDate="2009-02-28T01:24:50.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a battle for obscure Google references you want...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springforestqigong.com/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spring Forest Qigong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T00:32:54.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33474" CreationDate="2009-12-20T01:45:29.803" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really odd - the banner above says &quot;site will be down from 4 PM - 8 PM PST today for maintenance&quot;, and i'm fairly sure that it's within that time period, yet the site isn't down. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T08:12:11.767" ClosedDate="2009-12-20T07:24:04.840" Title="Site is supposed to be down?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;downtime&gt;&lt;maintenance&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33471" CreationDate="2009-12-20T01:58:31.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was down for me a few minutes ago, so it's most likely that the maintenance has finished a bit early (it's 6 PST as of now.) On &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/scheduled-site-maintenance-saturday/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff does mention that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This probably won’t take 4 full hours, but we figured it was better to warn about more than we needed, just in case!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; It's still going in and out for me, so it doesn't seem to be done yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T08:12:11.767" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T08:12:11.767" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33471" CreationDate="2009-12-20T01:59:11.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The blog entry linked to in the 'site will be down' message also said it probably wouldn't take 4 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were definitely interruptions starting at about 4:40 pm, and even now, there are still things being done, because the pages are sometimes slow to load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T01:59:11.307" />
  <row Id="33474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33471" CreationDate="2009-12-20T03:44:20.087" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any responsible company should overplan for any network downtime.  Users will be 10x more satisfied if they know when the network could be down. If it works during that time, cool.  If it doesn't, people expect it. If you take a network down when uses dont know or you only say it will be down 1 hour when it takes 2, you will have some very angry/disappointed users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Believe me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T03:44:20.087" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2009-12-20T04:00:20.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do believe handling questions and answers in a different way is going to add too much complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things I liked in SO's reputation system in the first place is it's simplicity. Terrible questions can be upvoted, but good ones are being too. I don't think we should try to address all these &quot;edge&quot; cases. I prefer to just let them be exceptions instead of creating more and more condition layers about reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we need questions in this place to exist. The &quot;rewards&quot; to ask or answer somthing IMHO have to be the same, so we can at least &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to have a &lt;strong&gt;balance&lt;/strong&gt; here between questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T04:00:20.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T04:00:20.207" />
  <row Id="33476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2009-12-20T04:36:03.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bob: Eh, I knew people get to such reps just for asking hundreds of repeating questions there. So that doesn't count. Any other proof of your expertness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me: So, you're going to make an assumption about a specific scenario based on a &lt;em&gt;belief&lt;/em&gt; about a general practice, when you could look it up in under 30 seconds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me: Never mind, I don't think I'm interested in working for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T04:36:03.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T04:36:03.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33459" CreationDate="2009-12-20T05:30:56.863" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be useful to allow searching for such questions by a particular tag, so that users can focus on questions in topics in which they are most familiar.  (At least, this is what I was expecting such a page to look like. I'll find out in another month or two.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T05:30:56.863" />
  <row Id="33478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-20T07:10:54.527" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2779/could-the-tagging-system-be-enhanced-to-support-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30687/retag-dotnet-to-net&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was ask in regards to converting &quot;dotnet&quot; tags to &quot;.net&quot; seeing that there were on 54 questions tagged as &quot;dotnet&quot; and that &quot;.net&quot; is the &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; term for the framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is marked as status-completed but since it has been completed there are now 3 new questions tagged as &quot;dotnet&quot; (with only one have .net as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way, or should there be functionality, to retag common inaccurate tags at the time that they are tagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140624" LastEditorUserId="140624" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T05:49:31.970" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T05:49:31.970" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T06:08:54.640" Title="Blocking or routing inaccurate tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33459" CreationDate="2009-12-20T07:16:18.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, I see many questions that just don't seem to earn enough close votes quickly enough, even though they probably should. Here's some from the last few days:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1934437/tutorials-on-blogspot-template&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1934437/tutorials-on-blogspot-template&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1934281/computer-vision-research-related-blog&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1934281/computer-vision-research-related-blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1926856/photo-gallery-for-wordpress&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1926856/photo-gallery-for-wordpress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1926660/how-to-configurationerrorsexception-handling&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1926660/how-to-configurationerrorsexception-handling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906370/how-can-i-run-atlassian-fisheye-as-a-windows-service&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906370/how-can-i-run-atlassian-fisheye-as-a-windows-service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I usually do these days is leave these kinds of questions open in tabs, and when the original close votes expire, ping a moderator to manually close/migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a longer list of &quot;pending close&quot; questions would help bring some attention from 10k+ users to the ones with just one or two close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T07:16:18.773" />
  <row Id="33480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33471" CreationDate="2009-12-20T07:23:25.607" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this characterize your feelings during the scheduled downtime, during which &amp;hellip; &lt;em&gt;not all sites were down?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5524/animatedstressopt.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T07:23:25.607" />
  <row Id="33481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22454" CreationDate="2009-12-20T08:17:16.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marking this completed, for now, but it's only partially complete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fixed the more common return URL errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One pernicious problem is that certain tags in URLs need to be &lt;em&gt;double&lt;/em&gt; encoded, and the ReturnUrl() function has to somehow figure that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for now, we're bailing on that part of it. If you log in or out on a search containing a tag with a character that is sketchy in URLs like [c#] or [c++] it may not quite work right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T08:17:16.497" />
  <row Id="33482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33485" CreationDate="2009-12-20T08:41:47.737" Score="13" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a user on SO today that has asked 32 questions on the site, but that's the extent of the user's total activity. The user has awarded no accepted answers (so 0% accept rate), no comments, no edits, no answers to other questions, and not even any &lt;em&gt;votes&lt;/em&gt;. This appears to be the sort of user who Jeff would say &quot;is not engaged with the community&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to try to point the user to the faq, but the official faq says nothing about how to &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; the site. It describes what kind of questions to ask (that's a good start), a reminder to be nice, has some stuff about reputation levels (new users will glaze over this because it's not relevant to them), how bounties work (more of an intermediate user thing, since you need some rep to even start), a few other bits and pieces and that's about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A description of the normal question-feedback-accept workflow might be appropriate. Here's a quick attempt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do I ask questions here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you post a new question on Stack Overflow, other users will almost immediately see it and try to provide good answers. This often happens in a matter of minutes, so be sure to check back frequently when your question is still new for the best response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question needs clarification, you will see &lt;strong&gt;comments&lt;/strong&gt; in smaller type below your question. If other users ask you for more information, &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; your question with the &quot;edit&quot; button just below your original question. Providing clarification promptly will help get you the best answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As you see new answers to your question, &lt;strong&gt;vote up&lt;/strong&gt; the helpful ones by clicking the upward pointing arrow to the left of your question. Answers are normally sorted by vote count so the most highly voted answers float to the top. Other users will also vote on the answers to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you have decided which answer is the &lt;strong&gt;most helpful&lt;/strong&gt; to you, mark it as the &quot;accepted&quot; answer by clicking on the check box outline to the left of the answer. This lets other people know that you have received a good answer to your question. Doing this is helpful because it shows other people that you're getting value from the Stack Overflow community. (If you don't do this, people will often politely ask you to go back and &quot;accept&quot; answers for more of your questions!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T09:12:32.127" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T21:07:55.750" Title="Where's the new user tutorial?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="33483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-20T08:52:20.103" Score="0" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to wide spread popularity of stackoverflow.com among programmers, nowadays one can find &#xA;the list of features that programmer would like to see on Stack Overflow.&#xA;Some are genuine and some are jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One such joke I found says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow.com will introduce a new&#xA;  software testing service inspired by&#xA;  Amazon's Mechanical Turk, where&#xA;  developers upload their programs and&#xA;  testers find bugs in exchange for a&#xA;  micropayment. Somebody then does the&#xA;  obvious and connects it to a&#xA;  Mechanical Turk task that gets one&#xA;  bunch of monkeys to write code and&#xA;  uses the second bunch to test it. A&#xA;  reasonably good clone of Windows 7 is&#xA;  banged out over 8 months with a budget&#xA;  of about $4,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be interesting to know your feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-26T10:16:33.523" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T17:00:08.267" Title="Stack Overflow future features" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;future&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27260" CreationDate="2009-12-20T08:56:49.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first one is by design for the moment; it picks strikeouts at random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the second part, this is now fixed, but.. well, did you ever feel like you just walked through a sewer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;(?&amp;lt;=([\b ]|^))\[saveas](?=([\b ]|$))&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem had to do with the definition of &quot;word boundary&quot; &lt;code&gt;\b&lt;/code&gt; when applied to strings like &lt;code&gt;[saveas]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T08:56:49.637" />
  <row Id="33485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33482" CreationDate="2009-12-20T09:08:35.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What next.. a &lt;em&gt;flash video tutorial&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/webteam/files/2009/06/larson_what_dogs_hear.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to be snarky, but I agree with random. These kinds of users are beyond hope; they &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000114.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;simply don't read&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing we can do is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;change the system to make it more self-evidently obvious how things work, without requiring &lt;em&gt;explanation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;change the system to make these sorts of users' lives easier or harder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or make it easier for the users who &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; read to deal with their actions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: while I think this is ultimately futile, it's easier to just put it in (thanks to the excellent copy Greg provided) than it is to argue the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T21:07:55.750" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T21:07:55.750" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33489" CreationDate="2009-12-20T09:11:09.677" Score="1" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's a case of me misreading causality, but hasn't anyone noticed mostly that C# / .NET gurus occupy the Valhalla of SO? I also see the maximum questions in this field, and a classic long tail from there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any idea why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137667" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:33:10.530" Title="Do C# / .NET gurus have a massive edge on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="33487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33486" CreationDate="2009-12-20T09:15:57.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would venture to guess because the Microsoft .NET platform is rather popular and a very common tool used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So naturally, you would see more questions/answers and people involved with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T09:30:48.807" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T09:30:48.807" />
  <row Id="33488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-20T09:24:26.903" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1475/can-we-get-flair-as-an-image&quot;&gt;Can we get flair as an image?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to add my profile flair badge to a forum signature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140699" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T11:40:46.480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T11:40:46.480" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T09:22:53.977" Title="Flair profile badge in forum signature?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33486" CreationDate="2009-12-20T09:27:52.353" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing C# and Java is certainly an advantage on Stack Overflow. There are obviously more questions to answer. On the other hand, there are also more people answering those questions - so there's more competition to give the best answers (and give them quickly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I suspect it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; easier to gain rep from popular topics - but it's not quite as straightforward as &quot;there are x times as many questions, so it's easy to get x times as much rep.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T09:27:52.353" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-20T09:49:02.510" Score="3" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;Show Total Votes (or Up/Down Votes)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1000    Show total up and down vote counts&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What does that mean?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138984" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:49:56.000" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:49:56.000" ClosedDate="2009-12-20T22:35:30.813" Title="Confused about the thing you get at 1000 rep" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;privileges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33490" CreationDate="2009-12-20T09:54:24.213" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A post can have score of 837, for example.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you reach 1000 rep, you can &lt;strong&gt;click on the post score number, and it will expand&lt;/strong&gt; to show that the score of 837 consists of +862 upvotes, and -25 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100404-gsgadcidurbxgwej1h765aghgd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Voting details&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's awesome.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-04T10:33:59.673" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T10:33:59.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33482" CreationDate="2009-12-20T10:18:34.687" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if you'd hit them over the head with the tutorial or the FAQ they still wouldn't see it. I've said it before and I'll say it again: &lt;strong&gt;People don't read!&lt;/strong&gt;, it's as simple as that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you seen the number of duplicate questions we have, even though the system is trying to help you find the duplicates as you type? That gets ignored. How about the acceptance rate? Ignored, even though some people refuse to answer questions from users with low acceptance rates. How about the FAQ? Ignored. Meta? Doesn't exist, never heard of it, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever you do, some people will do their best to ignore it. Those people simply don't want to learn, they can't be taught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T10:18:34.687" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33486" CreationDate="2009-12-20T11:20:33.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Computer says homework is more lucrative &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3486/why-is-subjective-the-top-upvoted-tag-for-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3486/why-is-subjective-the-top-upvoted-tag-for-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C# and .Net questions are certainly more prevalent but they are also less lucrative than many other tags.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T11:20:33.297" />
  <row Id="33494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-20T12:04:45.270" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5212/are-there-any-voting-limits-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Are there any voting limits on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the maximum number of votes you can give out a day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138984" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T12:18:26.940" ClosedDate="2009-12-20T14:17:50.660" Title="Votes per day cap?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="0" />
  <row Id="33495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33500" CreationDate="2009-12-20T12:13:56.107" Score="-3" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3528/questions-with-nefarious-intent&quot;&gt;Questions with nefarious intent?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a user who asked many questions and they are (almost) all about preventing or breaking user protection and blocking users out (of code or where files come from). I seriously think he is trying to learn how to crack. Worse of all, his questions seem to be wasting people's time. (If you read them you'll see what I mean). What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You guys are saying 1) it's ok, 2) show an example. So I'll post some questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1788539/how-to-disable-or-encrypt-view-source-for-my-site&quot;&gt;How to disable or encrypt “View Source” for my site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803485/how-to-enable-javascript-in-client-machine-using-php&quot;&gt;How to enable javascript in client machine using PHP?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1790190/is-it-possible-to-protect-from-downloading-a-video-from-a-site&quot;&gt;Is it possible to protect from downloading a video from a site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is somewhat suspicious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1485527/could-any-one-explain-what-is-fedex-acc-and-meter-in-fedex-integration&quot;&gt;Could any one explain What is FEDEX ACC # and Meter # in FEDEX Integration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These ones just made me mad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1920753/mov-file-to-flv-file-conversion-issue-for-ffmpeg-using-php&quot;&gt;.mov file to .flv file conversion issue for ffmpeg using PHP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892328/how-might-i-improve-the-execution-time-of-my-join-heavy-query&quot;&gt;How might I improve the execution time of my join-heavy query?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T01:24:08.677" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T01:24:08.677" ClosedDate="2009-12-20T20:58:06.963" Title="What to do when I suspect a person is asking questions to become a cracker?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;offensive&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33495" CreationDate="2009-12-20T12:58:34.087" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the problem with answering those sorts of questions - the knowledge needed to break computer security is the same knowledge needed to prevent and protect from these attacks, and so propagating this knowledge is going to help improve computer security overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T12:58:34.087" />
  <row Id="33498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33495" CreationDate="2009-12-20T13:03:03.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now s/fish/hack/, and you're actually impeding his hacking progress by making him reliant on SO for every answer :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, there is &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; a legitimate use for this knowledge, and as such the answers should exist on SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T13:03:03.157" />
  <row Id="33499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33486" CreationDate="2009-12-20T13:41:05.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do C# / .NET gurus have a massive edge on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only if you think it's a competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T13:41:05.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33495" CreationDate="2009-12-20T13:45:45.490" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call him out, and when he tries to attack you, openly tell him your IP address...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/01may/uf003073.gif&quot; alt=&quot;There's no place like 127.0.0.1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T13:45:45.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33504" CreationDate="2009-12-20T13:46:31.700" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone. I posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1934415/is-the-world-ready-for-name-based-https-vhost-service&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on stack overflow and it was migrated into server fault. I don't get why. This seems like a question a software engineer would be responsible for answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The server admin might ask &quot;Hey Bill, what's your requirements for this service when I install it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would answer, wearing my software engineer hat &quot;It needs to be on an HTTPS only server and will (or not) require its own IP address.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So really, I'm looking for some feedback please where I erred in my reasoning. Many thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T14:04:57.490" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:22:51.443" Title="I don't understand a question migration" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33466" CreationDate="2009-12-20T13:50:31.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Structured Full-text Query, might be!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T13:50:31.440" />
  <row Id="33503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33495" CreationDate="2009-12-20T13:58:52.857" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1788539/how-to-disable-or-encrypt-view-source-for-my-site&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1788539/how-to-disable-or-encrypt-view-source-for-my-site&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing to do with hacking, really!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803485/how-to-enable-javascript-in-client-machine-using-php&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803485/how-to-enable-javascript-in-client-machine-using-php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds more like he wants to prevent the &quot;your browser does not support JavaScript&quot; scenario in a very dumb way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1790190/is-it-possible-to-protect-from-downloading-a-video-from-a-site&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1790190/is-it-possible-to-protect-from-downloading-a-video-from-a-site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wants to protect his intellectual property in way that is impossible. I see no hacking question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1485527/could-any-one-explain-what-is-fedex-acc-and-meter-in-fedex-integration&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1485527/could-any-one-explain-what-is-fedex-acc-and-meter-in-fedex-integration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say he tries to use an API. Is that forbidden?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1920753/mov-file-to-flv-file-conversion-issue-for-ffmpeg-using-php&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1920753/mov-file-to-flv-file-conversion-issue-for-ffmpeg-using-php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Converting files is really hackish! Shame on him!&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/sarcasm&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Sorry, but what is the problem here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892328/how-might-i-improve-the-execution-time-of-my-join-heavy-query&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1892328/how-might-i-improve-the-execution-time-of-my-join-heavy-query&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optimising queries? Jail him! How could he dare?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, what's your point, acidzombie24? This guy does not ask the smartest questions, if you ask me, but that's not a crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T13:58:52.857" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33501" CreationDate="2009-12-20T14:02:58.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like one that could go either way, but I know for sure that if I wanted to know about server setup / hosting, I'd ask on serverfault, so I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; the voters are right, and you'll get better answers there. The network admins tend to have a better handle on these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since you &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/95978/is-the-world-ready-for-name-based-https-vhost-service/96003#96003&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;accepted an answer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I think that proves it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:02:58.523" />
  <row Id="33505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33501" CreationDate="2009-12-20T14:22:51.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question looks more to be about how networking/server then code/api. So serverfault is the place it belongs. Many people on serverfault are programmers so you will get an answer from an engineer point of view if that is what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:22:51.443" />
  <row Id="33506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33524" CreationDate="2009-12-20T14:29:39.400" Score="-5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searched, no duplicates I could find on this proposal. The editing an answer without showing that the question was 'edited' is a nice feature of SO. Unfortunately, sometimes answers are written incomplete either intentionally or unintentionally. Therefore, the answerer goes out obtains more information and completes the question fully. Meanwhile, the answer has been downvoted. Sometimes there is a comment that the answer is missing something, which the answerer already noticed and yet it is downvoted. Even after editing and the problem is fixed, the original downvoter does not go back and re-up the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there any interest in preventing upvoting/downvoting for at least the first five minutes? (edit grace period)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit1: Everyone thinks this is a FGITW problem.. it's not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T16:38:10.250" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T16:38:10.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T14:56:40.943" Title="Suspend Upvoting/Downvoting Within the Answer's First Five Minutes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33486" CreationDate="2009-12-20T14:31:08.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think answering questions from any popular language/technology would give you an edge proportional to its popularity. C# just happens to be a popular language. I really don't see how this hurts someone who does not participate in C# questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136609" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:31:08.927" />
  <row Id="33509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33506" CreationDate="2009-12-20T14:34:04.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to post a place holder as a visible and voteable answer, just so they can be first, let the downvotes come flooding in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:34:04.210" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33506" CreationDate="2009-12-20T14:38:35.073" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;voting grace period&quot; is the period of time the author should spend &lt;strong&gt;in the editor&lt;/strong&gt; composing a well-thought-out answer answer, editing, researching, and revising. Not &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; they hit the &lt;code&gt;Post&lt;/code&gt; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer contains wrong or harmful information, it &lt;strong&gt;needs to be down-voted as quickly as possible&lt;/strong&gt;. Questions and answers have &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; visibility in the first few minutes&lt;/strong&gt; of the question. That is when they are &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; vulnerable to causing harm. The vetting of answers is a vital part of Stack Overflow. Withholding that information would be a horrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T14:47:47.143" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:47:47.143" />
  <row Id="33511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33506" CreationDate="2009-12-20T14:39:34.167" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this is that it would be changing the system for every answer, just to fix a problem that only exists for a small proportion of answers.  If someone leaves a really good or bad answer in the first 5 minutes, you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to vote on it immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T14:39:34.167" />
  <row Id="33516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33506" CreationDate="2009-12-20T15:20:27.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bad answers are poisonous, because they can mislead some. Lacking the option to vote just diverts some users' attention. Do you honestly think that all bad answers are edited within those 5 minutes to correct them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good answers can help the community; if I can simply upvote an answer and give my stamp of approval, why not do it? I don't want to write a comment, I don't want to write an answer that says &quot;do what &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; wrote&quot;, I just want to upvote. Good answers are even better if they're fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think that answering a question fast and being able to vote on the validity of the answer is a feature, not a bug that needs correcting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your proposed solution &lt;strong&gt;will lead to abuse&lt;/strong&gt; of the system. You've got 5 minutes in which your answer is shielded from downvotes. This is just a recipe for disaster: I can write &lt;strong&gt;anything&lt;/strong&gt; during that time without fear or reprisal. Why not either:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;think it through before submitting or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete, edit and undelete if you see your mistake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both these options save you from downvotes, save us from being angered by the inability to downvote and save the developers' time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T15:20:27.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T15:20:27.537" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-20T18:03:51.530" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tweetsharp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.diller.ca/tweetsharp-ad.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tweetsharp - A .Net Fluent Interface for the Twitter API&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140661" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T18:03:51.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T18:03:51.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33490" CreationDate="2009-12-20T19:13:31.230" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of the total you can see the number of upvotes and the number of downvotes when you click on the total, 27 upvotes and 1 downvote in this example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/SO/rep1000power2%5F16c.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the page is refreshed then the original state is restored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-20T20:04:07.057" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T20:04:07.057" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32705" CreationDate="2009-12-20T19:31:08.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done this on occasion, though I can't find the answers in which I've done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;this is &lt;strong&gt;bold code&lt;/strong&gt; and this isn't&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is how I did it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;this is **bold code** and this isn't&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;this is &lt;b&gt;bold code&lt;/b&gt; and this isn't&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is the source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;this is &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;bold code&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; and this isn't&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T19:31:08.537" />
  <row Id="33524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33506" CreationDate="2009-12-20T19:32:08.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Even if one's answer is incomplete, it can still be &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt;, even if it doesn't have citations, code examples etc to back it up yet, and so deserves that upvote. I very often post a very terse abbreviated answer as my initial response (if it's an active time of the day and I'm in the mood to play FGITW). Likewise, if my initial answer is wrong it deserves to get downvoted immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your suggestion does have merits for one reason: the edit window (for the initial edit) is longer than the vote-change window, so if someone downvotes my answer for being incomplete or unsatisfying in some other way, and then within 5 minutes I follow up with improvements, they then cannot remove their downvote or change to an upvote. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26254/still-cannot-cancel-my-downvote-even-though-post-has-been-edited/26261#26261&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23701/why-cant-i-change-my-vote-if-the-post-has-been-edited-during-the-initial-5mn-gr&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more discussion of this issue.) &lt;strong&gt;This needs to be fixed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion also made me start thinking about disallowing the OP from &lt;strong&gt;accepting&lt;/strong&gt; an answer right away.  A few times lately I have answered a question that was posted quite recently (say within an hour or two) which already has an answer on it that has been accepted, although that answer is incomplete or not as complete as an answer I can give. Sometimes the OP comes back to revisit the question and upvotes me and accepts my better answer, but usually not.  &lt;strong&gt;Accepting an answer too soon discourages future answers&lt;/strong&gt;, so we should at least warn the OP about this, or outright prohibit accepting answers too soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T19:32:08.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T19:32:08.300" />
  <row Id="33525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33483" CreationDate="2009-12-20T19:53:11.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's my feature? I don't know if I have just one, but I've been told I'm a talented programmer with a keen eye for spotting bugs and refactoring old code into new good code. I pick up new technologies quickly and can incorporate new ideas into my designs rapidly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait, what was the question again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T19:53:11.153" />
  <row Id="33527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29457" CreationDate="2009-12-20T22:21:14.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you only want to Telecommute and don't want to fill in the Location, can't you just put your Time Zone instead? Even for TC it's still important if you're in the same zone or 8 hours away...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T22:21:14.510" />
  <row Id="33528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-20T22:29:14.790" Score="40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git;a=blob;f=TODO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2232/fsckpourhomme.png&quot; alt=&quot;Life's basic utilities. You depend on them, they depend on you&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T22:29:14.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T22:29:14.790" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-20T22:30:48.157" Score="91" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar%5FLabs/Getting%5FInvolved&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/8499/hackthefuture.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sugar interface for OLPC&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T22:30:48.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-20T22:30:48.157" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3528" CreationDate="2009-12-20T22:44:12.010" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33495/what-to-do-when-i-suspect-a-person-is-asking-questions-to-become-a-cracker&quot;&gt;This recent question&lt;/a&gt; (duplicate of this one) was closed, so I'll voice my opinion here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless it's totally 110% obvious that the code/act described in the question is illegal in the majority of countries, leave politics and legal issues out of StackOverflow. There might be questions which might give Jeff a legal headache, but if that happens, I assume he will take action directly. That's the exception to the rule, while the general rule is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assume good faith for all users on the site.&lt;/strong&gt; Making different topics in our field taboo is something which will not pay off in the long run. A likely scenario could be a question regarding the DeCSS code for breaking encrypted DVD movies. DeCSS is legal in a lot of countries (Norway to name one), but violates the DMCA in the US. Feel free to refrain from answering, but don't downvote or flag the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 0.02$&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-20T22:44:12.010" />
  <row Id="33531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-21T00:21:23.313" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to prefer certain tags and only see those questions when I log into any of the Stack Overflow trilogy of sites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say I'm interested in C#, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight and I select those as my filtered interesting tags. When I log into Stack Overflow I will only see questions that are tagged with those labels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T01:28:57.450" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T01:28:57.450" Title="Allow questions to be filtered based on user preference" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33531" CreationDate="2009-12-21T00:31:41.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is partially implemented already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to your profile, and check the &lt;code&gt;prefs&lt;/code&gt; tab. Take note of the &quot;Hide Ignored Bags&quot; button (and the &quot;Add&quot; button for the ignored tags list, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T00:50:27.833" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T00:50:27.833" />
  <row Id="33533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33531" CreationDate="2009-12-21T01:01:47.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also implement this by bookmarking searches. Unfortunately, you would need to do each tag separately, as by default the tag URLs implement an &quot;AND&quot; mechanism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To bookmark, use the following URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;code&gt;tag-name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T01:01:47.137" />
  <row Id="33534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-21T02:41:13.697" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, it seems like a lot of question are the wrong questions - I hate to single one out, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1937847/how-to-modify-key-in-a-dictionary-in-c&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, for example.  The questions aren't bad, but they are simply things you don't do, or shouldn't do, or need to do because people have gone too far down a bad design or a misconception or whatever.  And of course, the user doesn't give motivation for the situation usually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My concern is that there are tons of answers which are &quot;don't design your database that way&quot; after someone has already got a performance problem with a million rows of data in some screwy schema &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; the format of Stack Overflow is not really conducive to collaborative analysis of large problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any discussion going on here about being able to branch answers into a full blown wiki discussion of design issues? - i.e. a fully editable single page discussion of a design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T11:01:16.917" Title="Asking the wrong questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;future&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33534" CreationDate="2009-12-21T02:55:07.610" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chances are that someone else will want to do the same misguided thing. They will find these questions and see answers that guide them to a better solution. This is a good thing. Bring on the wrong questions, so we can give them the right answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T02:55:07.610" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33537" CreationDate="2009-12-21T03:26:52.530" Score="-3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can a small countdown slide-down (like the &quot;you have x answers and y comments thing&quot;) be provided to indicate how long before another comment/comment upvote/etc. is allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T04:20:17.807" Title="Countdown Display" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;&lt;delays&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33536" CreationDate="2009-12-21T03:46:02.627" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never gotten rate-limited on voting. I have been hit by the 30-second comment rate limit (I type very quickly -- well over 100wpm), and the 5-second comment upvote limit, but ... I just wait. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is going to sound harsh, but long ago I learned to count to 5 and 30. (Admittedly, it is harder for me to count to thirty, as even after I take off my socks there's still not enough digits. Luckily, by the time I usually manage to remember that, the whole thirty seconds has passed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comment votes (which also include flags), just take a couple deep breaths and you're done. For comment limit itself, if it's really bugging you, pop a new tab and open up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3ARandom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;random Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;. By the time you get about halfway through the piece, your new comment will be more than ready to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, you know, limit your own activity. It's not necessary to upvote every comment nor add a comment to every discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T03:46:02.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-21T03:59:22.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; here (if indeed there is a problem) is not in the motivation offered to answer niche tags but in the motivation offered to upvote niche answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond the silver Civic Duty badge there is no encouragement offered for upvoting and certainly not for taking the time to find underappreciated answers and upvoting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That observation aside, perhaps, sadly, this is a real problem with no practical code based solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is where my modest proposal of &lt;strong&gt;International reward a toiler day!&lt;/strong&gt; enters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This day falls on every day of the week that ends in y. All you need to do to participate is to choose a lesser known tag that you are not already active in but have knowledge about, and actively go searching for good answers that haven't attracted upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, my Perl and algorithm knowledge are both too rusty to answer questions but for a lot of answers I can spot something that is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another suggestion for this day is to find one good accepted answer with zero upvotes, or a good answer where the question asker never came back, and give that answer some love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a slightly tongue in cheek suggestion - I'd be interested to see though what percentage of SO users regularly upvote, and what percentage of those users are active on Meta? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the people who are involved enough with the SO community to frequent Meta are the ones who can really influence the way the site dynamics work. If enough people here think that there are answers going unrewarded on SO, then perhaps the answer is for those people to go reward them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131327" LastEditorUserId="131327" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T04:04:35.830" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T04:04:35.830" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33536" CreationDate="2009-12-21T04:20:17.807" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess I see why you would want this, but have you ever seen a website with all kinds of countdowns on it?  If there was counters for comments, voting, etc., I think it would just be confusing and cluttered.  This is not a race or anything and you are not bidding on anything like ebay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The constraints are there to help combat spam/bots and to maintain maximum site performance. Just seems a little more hassle/clutter than it is worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T04:20:17.807" />
  <row Id="33540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33543" CreationDate="2009-12-21T04:56:57.177" Score="3" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a question that was closed then subsequently deleted, I understand why it was closed (subjective) but it had some really good career advice on it that I haven't had chance to read through and take in. I'm not particularly bothered if the question stays deleted! I just want the information from the answers/comments on the question. is it possible to get the information back?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;EDIT:&lt;br&gt; Question: &quot;What to Learn??&quot; on &#xA;stackoverflow&lt;br&gt;&#xA;EDIT2: &lt;br&gt;question number: 1890322&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1890322/what-to-learn&quot;&gt;What To Learn??&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139574" LastEditorUserId="139574" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T05:26:26.763" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T05:27:28.463" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T06:49:44.327" Title="My question was deleted, can i get the infomation/answers from it?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33343" CreationDate="2009-12-21T05:07:08.213" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who does toil in lesser known tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We definitely don't want to complicate the rep system with ratios, scaling etc. KISS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like badges, they are shiney and precious. If badges were added that encouraged my existing tendency to loiter in minor tags, fine. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we really don't need to do this.  There are existing benefits to hiding in the darker corners of the StackOverflow world:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not so much the &lt;em&gt;Fastest gun in the west&lt;/em&gt;, instead a &lt;em&gt;most sober sloth&lt;/em&gt; analogy is more appropriate.  You can take a little time on your answer without nagging fear that seven equally accurate answers will appear moments before you submit. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The SO denizen in a quiet tag is motivated by the potential for supremacy in said tag.  5,583 rep to oust the master of the &lt;strong&gt;python&lt;/strong&gt; tag might be out of reach, but a humble couple of 100 rep might be enough to rule some lesser tag (WITH AN IRON FIST).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep cap ? What the hell is that ? Get of my lawn dammit !&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might not have the glamor, women and fast cars that mark the superstars of &lt;strong&gt;C#&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Javascript&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;.net&lt;/strong&gt; tags, but we do make some rep eventually.  So if you like the quiet life ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;zzz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T05:07:08.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33534" CreationDate="2009-12-21T05:15:30.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A humiliating example to support &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/27414/jon-b&quot;&gt;Jon B&lt;/a&gt;'s answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a perpetrator of at least one &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961074/how-do-i-compare-two-datetime-objects-in-php-5-2-8&quot;&gt;demonstrably wrong question&lt;/a&gt; and despite an overwhelming desire to purge said question from living memory, I can see very clearly the value here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastEditorUserId="73488" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T11:01:16.917" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T11:01:16.917" />
  <row Id="33543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33540" CreationDate="2009-12-21T05:16:16.570" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://semiaxis.com/wtl/what-to-learn.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://semiaxis.com/wtl/what-to-learn.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a copy of what I can see.  Don't expect that copy to be around on the above site for long though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T05:27:28.463" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T05:27:28.463" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-21T06:55:56.123" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://netbsd.org/community/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/1z48m10.png&quot; alt=&quot;Of course you'll run NetBSD&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="459" LastEditorUserId="459" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T08:11:48.740" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T08:11:48.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-21T06:55:56.123" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-21T11:02:54.167" Score="-1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been having this problem for some time, but could not find a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever i restart my Browser (Firefox 3.5.6) and go to stackoverflow.com (or superuser or meta) i have to login with my OpenID again, which is very annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cookies are enabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope someone can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards &#xA;Nick&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T11:22:10.130" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T11:37:32.793" Title="Stackoverflow doesn't remember me, need to login after every browser restart" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;cookies&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33548" CreationDate="2009-12-21T11:08:33.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you reproduce in another web browser? Does it happen in Firefox safe mode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a cookie problem specific to Firefox on that machine..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T11:08:33.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33548" CreationDate="2009-12-21T11:22:10.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok i just found the solution myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears there is a hidden function in the Firefox settings like &quot;delete cookies on exit&quot;.&#xA;(I dont know exactly because my Firefox speaks german ;) ) &#xA;Anyway i deactivated it and now it works.... silly me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T11:22:10.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33553" CreationDate="2009-12-21T11:22:56.070" Score="2" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a 5 year experience .NET developer. But I can't answer many C# questions in StackOVerflow. In rare cases that I could answer something, there would be completer answers to that question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I answer more question in C# or even ASP.NET?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140743" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:26:57.787" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:26:57.787" Title="How can I answer questions in StackOverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33551" CreationDate="2009-12-21T11:31:56.830" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/&quot;&gt;browsing the tags list&lt;/a&gt; and looking for less popular tags that you have a good breadth of knowledge in. When browsing by tag, use the &lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt; sidebar on the right to narrow. Clicking multiple times here will combine the tags so you get increasingly more narrow in focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&quot;&gt;unanswered question page&lt;/a&gt; is also useful -- and, similarly, try narrowing it down via the &lt;strong&gt;Unanswered Tags&lt;/strong&gt; sidebar on the right. It works the same as the related tags sidebar, above, so click multiple times to get more narrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T11:31:56.830" />
  <row Id="33554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5983" CreationDate="2009-12-21T12:04:05.307" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearing and re-associating gets you the bonus, but you should do it over a few days because of the 200 rep/day limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140381" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T12:04:05.307" />
  <row Id="33555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33557" CreationDate="2009-12-21T12:18:24.523" Score="-1" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16824/what-is-accepting-rate-for-a-question&quot;&gt;What is accepting rate for a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes something called an accept rate pops up under someone else's name. &lt;strong&gt;What is the Accept Rate and how do I find out my own Accept Rate?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138984" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T12:39:03.837" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T13:08:01.633" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T16:41:03.517" Title="What is the &quot;accept rate&quot; all about?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16137" CreationDate="2009-12-21T12:22:26.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/48003/stefan&quot;&gt;Stefan Küng&lt;/a&gt; - the lead developer of TortoiseSVN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26449" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T12:22:26.420" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-21T12:22:26.420" />
  <row Id="33557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33555" CreationDate="2009-12-21T12:27:21.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accept rate is the percentage of questions you asked, that you &lt;s&gt;answered&lt;/s&gt;accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CW questions don't count, and you have to have asked 4(?) questions before it'll be calculated. It's basically a measure of how likely it is the asker will 'give something back' by accepting an answer, but you shouldn't worry about it until it gets low - there are questions that don't get good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastEditorUserId="135197" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T13:00:07.313" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T13:00:07.313" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33555" CreationDate="2009-12-21T12:36:35.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As ChrisF pointed out, you will see your own 'accept rate' if you view one of your &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It must be an &lt;em&gt;eligible&lt;/em&gt; question, so you may not have enough to see an accept rate. In any case, you can calculate it from the proportion of answers you've accepted for the questions you've asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T13:08:01.633" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T13:08:01.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-21T13:12:44.353" Score="1" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've written an email with a technical issue (account and OpenID problems), and as of 14 December haven't gotten an answer yet. I tried to contact the Stack Overflow (SO) team some months ago as well, with no response. Is there any other way to contact SO team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137968" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-06T13:54:07.127" LastActivityDate="2010-07-06T13:54:07.127" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T23:30:33.453" Title="How to contact the Stack Overflow team?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;contact&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33560" CreationDate="2009-12-21T13:21:57.857" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The team is often busy - and I imagine they get a lot of email. I'd drop them another email just as a &quot;ping&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Meta is okay for some things, but if it really deserves an email, then I'd stick with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T13:21:57.857" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33560" CreationDate="2009-12-21T13:33:07.567" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Ways to contact the Stack Overflow team&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a bolded link at the bottom of every page that says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Email&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;contact us&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's what you're looking for. If they haven't responded, then wait a week and try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the &lt;code&gt;careers@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; account feeds into FogBugz, but I'm not sure about &lt;code&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Meta&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also post your issue here on meta.  You needed to contact them about &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;, so submit that as a question on meta with &lt;code&gt;support&lt;/code&gt; as a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Twitter&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff Atwood goes by &lt;code&gt;@codinghorror&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Geoff Dalgas goes by &lt;code&gt;@superdalgas&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jarrod Dixon goes by &lt;code&gt;@jarrod_dixon&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Spolsky goes by &lt;code&gt;@spolsky&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't recommend this method, but it is a way to contact them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Do nothing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can guarantee that they read emails -- they've read to and responded to all of the emails I've sent; but it may be that your &lt;code&gt;support&lt;/code&gt; ticket is superfluous in some way, or you haven't submitted enough information for them to actually help you. As the saying goes: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Stack Overflow helps those that help themselves&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (works for Heaven too). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may have also been sent to the &lt;code&gt;Junk&lt;/code&gt; folder. What sender are you using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T13:38:26.570" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T13:38:26.570" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2009-12-21T15:15:47.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a somewhat task-centered collection of sites, unlike some, and that probably promotes civility.  There are also consequences and people who will enforce the mores, and a sense of community.  Finally, of course, there are plenty of people who can moderate in various ways, so this isn't like an unmoderated group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T15:15:47.300" />
  <row Id="33568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-21T15:17:52.473" Score="3" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that deleted content is licensed CC just as the regular content is, it exists in the current SO database, and it is accessible to over 400 (10k+ rep) users, it should also be exported as part of the regular data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it would give us someplace to send those annoyed with content deletion so they can retrieve what they feel they've lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, it would give statistics junkies another bit of objective information so we can better handle questions on meta regarding post deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At minimum, if there are compelling reasons to keep the post body itself out of the data dump, then the post data can be scrubbed, while leaving the post id, title, ownerid, dates/times/tags/etc intact so that 10k users can go retrieve information when people come here asking about a deleted post without having the ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T22:36:59.177" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:36:59.177" Title="Data dump should include deleted posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33560" CreationDate="2009-12-21T15:37:24.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best thing is to email them again.  Make sure you clearly state the problem, and provide ample information so it's as easy as possible for them to fix the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, I'd do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My OpenID provider has failed.  My&#xA;  user account (that I can no longer&#xA;  access) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/38940/tomaszs&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/38940/tomaszs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have set up a new account with a&#xA;  working OpenID provider at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/191847/tomaszs2&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/191847/tomaszs2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please merge these two accounts into&#xA;  the original one so the new provider&#xA;  will work on the old account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use your email address that is on both accounts, and chances are good they'll be able to do it quickly and easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've supplied anything less than the above information, it may go into a &quot;to deal with later&quot; pile because it requires them to do more work, and they may have more pressing issues at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T15:37:24.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-21T16:03:04.227" Score="4" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day&quot;&gt;Notify more frequently than once a day?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this has been addressed before, for example in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24659/stackoverflow-alerts&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24659/stackoverflow-alerts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the accepted answer to that first question, Jeff quotes Joel Spolsky, who wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think we're all in agreement that in&#xA;  a social/discussion forum it's OK not&#xA;  to have email notifications, because&#xA;  in a social/discussion forum that's&#xA;  would be, well, antisocial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you know what?  We're not all in agreement on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instant email notifications (like those from Facebook, for example) increase engagement with the site-- they let you know immediately that a conversation you're part of has had activity, so you come back and re-engage with the conversation.  Ultimately this increases site activity rather than decreasing it.  I come to the trilogy sites when I have a question; I don't hang out here all the time.  Usually when I'm done asking a question I hang around for a while and post answers and comments, or at least read.  But then I leave, and nothing engages me with the site until the next time I have a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[I'm aware that RSS feeds are offered.  Not interested.  Doesn't fit in with how I use an RSS reader.  This is about improving EMAIL notification.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here are my feature requests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allow users to select either&#xA;immediate or daily batch&#xA;notification on questions.  Immediate notification allows me to engage when the conversation is fresh, not when it's two days old.  If rate of notifications is a problem, throttle them (no more than 1 notification per user every 12 hours; after the first one you batch activity into digests as happens now).  The problem isn't the batching; the problem is that for a relatively light user the conversation is stale by the time I return to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix the UI for subscribing to&#xA;questions.  I've got &quot;I'd like email&#xA;notifications of activity on my&#xA;questions and answers&quot; checked off&#xA;in my profile.  Why then is the&#xA;&quot;Notify daily of any new answers&quot;&#xA;box unchecked by default at the&#xA;question level?  If I leave it&#xA;unchecked, what is the behavior? &#xA;The UI is unpredictable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BUG: If I check the notify box on a question and then the question can't be posted due to a validation error, preserve my selection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Broaden notifications on comment threads-- If I have participated in a comment thread, allow me to get notifications on it!  It's not clear to me how this works now-- I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; comment notifications are only sent to the poster of the answer or question being commented on, but I'm not clear on that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36754" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T16:03:04.227" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T19:11:05.323" Title="Can email notifications be improved?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28525" CreationDate="2009-12-21T16:10:41.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; just go to uploadscreenshot.com and paste the image directly into an image upload site if that's easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T16:10:41.370" />
  <row Id="33572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33568" CreationDate="2009-12-21T16:21:26.103" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not unless there is an easy method to also disassociate oneself from the deleted material in accordance with the retained moral rights of the author under CC-Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most reasonable assumption for deleted material (that remains deleted) is that the author wishes to remove his or her association with it.  The CC-Wiki license retains to the author the right to have their associations with the material removed upon request.  If the material remains deleted (sometimes an author may delete in order to edit and improve, then undelete), then either the material should not be included in the data dump, an easy mechanism should be made available to allow the author to disassociate him/herself from the material, or the material should be automatically anonymized upon inclusion.  Once the dump has been made available it is no longer possible to remove the association in any copy that has already been distributed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T16:29:01.547" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T16:29:01.547" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="33573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33560" CreationDate="2009-12-21T16:46:16.623" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry that you have had account problems. I'll take a look-see what &quot;Tomaszs&quot; accounts I can see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found; just to avoid any obvious security complaints, I've e-mailed the &lt;strong&gt;old&lt;/strong&gt; account to confirm, but yes: we can merge these. I can do &quot;stackoverflow&quot; - do you also have &quot;serverfault&quot; / &quot;superuser&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now merged (following e-mail reply). Let me know (add a comment to this reply, or e-mail me directly) if you get any more problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T17:27:53.767" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T17:27:53.767" />
  <row Id="33574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33576" CreationDate="2009-12-21T17:45:58.373" Score="-2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question I like to keep the page on it (with auto-refresh set), so that I can see the answers as soon as they show up.  It'd be nice to see how many views the question has been getting without having to go back to the 'questions' page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like we could add the view count to the post view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T17:52:28.873" ClosedDate="2009-12-21T20:14:55.413" Title="Add view count on post page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;views&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28525" CreationDate="2009-12-21T17:47:08.763" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are using a Mac or Hackintosh, just reduce your pain and use &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skitch&lt;/a&gt; (ignore it's prettiness - it is very functional).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149903" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T17:47:08.763" />
  <row Id="33576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33574" CreationDate="2009-12-21T17:52:28.873" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T17:52:28.873" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="77495" CreationDate="2009-12-21T18:52:40.687" Score="9" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been reading discussions about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9425/preview-for-comments&quot;&gt;previewing&lt;/a&gt; comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I want this? If I get wrong some of the syntax in a comment, it becomes infuriating to try to guess at it, when the only help is offered by the help button near the answer input controls, which aren't always near where the comment input controls are. If I even think of that. Which I usually don't. It would be nice to have a help button right there where it's obvious. As another user pointed out in one of the linked questions, this kind of problem is exacerbated by the inability to edit comments (currently a planned feature) or preview them before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2115/text-formatting-now-allowed-in-comments-list-of-proven-and-disproven-abilities&quot;&gt;set of markdown in comments is restricted&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9425/preview-for-comments&quot;&gt;comment previewing was a declined feature&lt;/a&gt;, I propose that some help be supplied near the input controls for posting a comment. A &quot;?&quot; button would be appropriate, with a small in-page popup that summarizes the allowed syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T07:38:29.697" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T07:38:29.697" Title="Can we have a markdown help button for comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;help&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34845" CreationDate="2009-12-21T18:52:55.583" Score="4" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to use a Google named OpenID (profiles.google.com/yourname) without typing it in manually?  I keep clicking on the big &quot;Google&quot; button and getting the hashed openID, which is no longer associated with my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36754" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:46:42.663" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:46:48.890" Title="Google named OpenID shortcut?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33568" CreationDate="2009-12-21T19:23:38.667" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've thought about this for a while, but I still don't see the point. Presumably, the posts were deleted for a &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt;: answers that were incorrect, unhelpful, or spam; questions that were off-topic or otherwise inappropriate... And so they were removed from the site (or at least, their visibility was cut &lt;em&gt;drastically&lt;/em&gt;, since as you note a subset of users can still view them if necessary). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and that's &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;. It reduces noise on the site. If a deleted post - or an older revision of an edited post, for that matter - is copied and hosted elsewhere, or cached in a search engine, or remembered by someone who read it, that's none of our concern. But pushing them into the data dump seems counter-productive: now it's no longer a &quot;snapshot view&quot; of the site as seen by an average user, it's... &lt;em&gt;something else&lt;/em&gt;. Every client has to take deleted posts into account, figure out whether to display them or not, etc. Queries would have to be modified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for what? Why struggle to retain information that the site itself considers useless? Why not ask for a full revision history as well then. Shucks, even &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; would be more useful - you could have some fun with that, track editing contributions or something. Just to placate users who didn't care enough about the crap they posted to save a link, or even notice that it'd been closed? Ugh... If they really want it that badly, they can ask a moderator for help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T19:23:38.667" />
  <row Id="33581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-21T19:29:35.547" Score="12" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's been some discussion on meta recently about accepted answer rates. I've added two new graphs to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow graphs&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3AmZ0I1m0F0Szq2G0U2D0jzazE1Zxqytxj3BzwyPwhx109vEzr1FzM0f0O2LyHx30Wx1xaw-ziwTzsxjxpvqyhzdwI0otIrFsDrftIrAtft-sQt.sMt7uUudtWsRt6ucsVrYtKvisNsLsDsfr6qQqKuWtbsMqupcsDrJqLp1roq4q1qOpnpTpprJq-sAvJl0t4oOo2qzpKozm6rnqPo3sCotpOoaqRnWovsBqYpwrCoDpLoblwqRnNo2qksCrUoXoWsYrwqOrApboylUoLo8pSq7qWpwoyrFsIqUpHqlmZovrorUohrvocoopnrYpVqfrkr8pwrer2vEqsqzqzq4rDr3uAsMskrLp7sTrZoSsbrSrMsqslq5tMrvskqbsUqxrKq6por0rcrupRpOsHq0rIpro3q0p3sGt1rGsjrIrMqmm8qEriqirCqrq1rHrGqEpTpYqlnWqQpdp2nzqboinuuhpJproUrrqbrzqQobpJojn5p4mWpNq5ncqbqHnuoYodpcogoKqOoMpNplpDoFo5pJpwoOlsoQoRppnJomq7nfo4pMpkn6nHqerponnqnvnVl4rSpznFowo3n6ntoTnrlCn5mxoOoro2qkmxo5oBpdmvoIoRpJoDnEnOomlhognZm0m6nUo0kmojl.mcm1lxnLnVpQnaotmMmCn5nemgo7mLn3nKoApUpDnYnekYnFofmXn3nJkJl1mcmQl9l2k3lzk6lukrmapHmmkzm0kmnVpMmmkrm3lImhm4ndoonJmxmCoImdqspGnMmBnsnDmlnaqElinUlfmtlwmZnHmHmYnBk3mbkUoYmdlCmMmOmYmenOmslXmMl6lhm7m5l1k9lAmaoTmBo9lxlbk9lJjro2mNkak3lQkpnSkEnkljkmk2lBj6jqk5jVk3jalJkri5lskrjgjEiHiZjWkejfjkhsinjkjOjAgghYfshnfpjNkFfWeLcYcJaZapdeXL&amp;amp;chtt=Questions%20with%20accepted%20answers%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0%|100%&quot; alt=&quot;Accepted answers by day&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chd=e%3AS.AAABAAADAGAQALAcAcAcAsAGBBB1AYAIDqAfASGrAXBBASAXB2AGA5ATCzBQAnAgHHAIAqBnAdDPAgLLAzBnFEDAB7BXBpAuATPsATBICAB6CeEVIKCuBSTdBmCKHREYCcAnTqCACyEqLYB1FpCHK0CkDUHKD1ZJDUFaRZCIEnNtCzKnIXG9EyHCFSEMDWCyB2BDAQ..&amp;amp;chtt=Accept%20rate%20histogram&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0%|||||5%|||||10%|||||15%|||||20%|||||25%|||||30%|||||35%|||||40%|||||45%|||||50%|||||55%|||||60%|||||65%|||||70%|||||75%|||||80%|||||85%|||||90%|||||95%|||||100%|1%3A|0|2483&quot; alt=&quot;Accept rate histogram&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first shows how the rate of questions that have accepted answers. Interestingly, the rate took about a 10% drop early on (after SO private beta) and never quite recovered to the same level. The recent steep drop (on the right hand side) shows that the newest questions just haven't had an answer accepted &lt;em&gt;yet&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is a user-centric view which shows how many users have each accept percentage accept rate. I used the same criteria as SO itself (more than four questions asked) otherwise the data gets even less interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T07:28:07.207" Title="Accepted answer statistics graphs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="33582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33579" CreationDate="2009-12-21T19:29:57.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T19:29:57.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33568" CreationDate="2009-12-21T19:38:17.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For data mining purposes it might be sufficient to retain&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;creation and editing history (times and responsible parties)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Parent ID (for answers and comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type of deleting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but not the actual content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this does not address issues like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33540/my-question-was-deleted-can-i-get-the-infomation-answers-from-it-closedt&quot;&gt;My question was deleted, can i get the infomation/answers from it? [closed]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T19:51:22.657" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T19:51:22.657" />
  <row Id="33585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33560" CreationDate="2009-12-21T20:25:58.727" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We never got this &quot;email&quot;.. and a gmail search confirms it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T20:25:58.727" />
  <row Id="33587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-12-21T20:39:07.620" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't use any form of profanity on Stack Overflow or in conversation either as a rule. In the event that I swear in life due to anger, frustration, or surprise I consider to be a personal failure as this betrays a certain lack of self-control on my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that people in general swear for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To embellish their point of view.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As an oath that is used in an emotional moment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally find reason #1 to betray a lack of class on the part of the speaker.  The English language is blessed with many wonderful and expressive adjectives, nouns, and verbs.  These words have been used traditionally to form thoughts that are clearly expressed and inoffensive to even the most sensitive audience.  The fact that some people feel the need to embellish their thoughts with profanity betrays either a lack of eloquence on the speaker's part or simply a strong desire to assert their cultural independence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the reason, it doesn't mean that anyone has a &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; to their language on a website that they do not own.  Private entities have the right to limit free speech within their boundaries.  If someone was in my home and was using language that I considered to be inappropriate in front of my family I would make a decision to deprive that person of their free speech &lt;em&gt;within my home&lt;/em&gt; and they would be asked to leave.  As much as that person would dislike this it doesn't change the fact that the ruling authority made a decision and they have no choice but to live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ruling authority of Stack Overflow is the community will.  If the community chooses to censor profanity then that is the way that it is.  Users who care more about swearing then contributing to Stack Overflow will go elsewhere.  If they choose to stay then they forfeit their right to complain about the censorship.  Surely the right to swear cannot be that important! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one is interested in censoring what anyone else has to say, only the manner in which you choose to say it.  Profanity-laced writing can be easily sanitized without loss of expression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34211" LastEditorUserId="34211" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-21T20:56:58.203" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T20:56:58.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-21T20:39:07.620" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33578" CreationDate="2009-12-21T20:40:07.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are supposed to be lightweight. Formatting is a little hidden bonus for most users, but it's not crucial. There's no point in adding new stuff to the interface for something that will be used by very little people and adds no real value. Also, the formatting is real easy: * for &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;, ** for &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; and backticks for &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see how that's hard. You see it in the editor all the time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T20:40:07.197" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="33591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-12-21T23:18:08.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too f**ing much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134863" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T00:55:00.900" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T00:55:00.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-21T23:18:08.923" />
  <row Id="33593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33216" CreationDate="2009-12-21T23:25:15.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about this whole problem over the weekend and believe that the problem is one that happens whenever you try to make a very simple data structure serve too many functions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the data structure is free-text tagging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the functions that it is serving is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;grouping questions on similar topics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;identifying the scope of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difficulty with #1 is that because the tags are easily added, variations on them multiply. Personally, I think that for Access, version-specific tags should not really exist. Alternatively, they should not be used for questions that are not themselves version-specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difficulty with #2 is that the tags can't do this job very well because that conflicts with the first purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absent a structured tagging system and one that is not user-extensible, there is no real way to avoid the problems that come with problem #1 except for editors to come in and consolidate the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the goal there is to cast the net wide so that when someone searches for the MS-ACCESS tag they get all the truly relevant articles on that subject. Leaving aside the Access vs. Jet/ACE question for now, the problem is that casting the net wide obviates the usefulness of the tags in clarifying what the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it seems to me that there has to be a better system of tagging, or these two functions have to be handled by two independent data structures. But I understand how that can get too complicated to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the answer here, and I agree that my proposed tag has the problem that unless the Access-knowledgable users propagate it to the point that it becomes clear to all what it means, there's not much chance of it being useful. But by using the blanket tag, a lot of time is often wasted in getting clarifications of what the actual question is about, and with answers that don't use methods not supported by the original questioner's actual environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, sufficiently-specific questions can't be fixed by better tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the only tag is MS-ACESS, how does the community solve the problem of questions that confuse the issue by not specifying the context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last of all, the lack of a critical mass of Access questions may be a reflection of the SO community's unreasonable hostility to Access as a development platform, which in turn is often the result of a failure to distinguish the Jet/ACE database engine (so often used inappropriately) from Access the front-end development tool (which can use almost any back-end data store). I have been posting on SO since Sept. 2008 and trying to fight the hostility towards Access and towards Jet/ACE that comes in almost all cases from ignorance of how to use the platform appropriately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This discussion almost makes me want to give up trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132155" LastActivityDate="2009-12-21T23:25:15.460" />
  <row Id="33595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-12-22T00:03:41.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, what's important is not so much which words people use but how they use them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maven is a &amp;lt;expletive&amp;gt; useless tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered/184673#184673&quot;&gt;Richard&lt;/a&gt; is a &amp;lt;expletive&amp;gt; useless tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="134654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T00:31:32.750" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T00:31:32.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T00:03:41.487" />
  <row Id="33596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33579" CreationDate="2009-12-22T00:04:57.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it would be nice if the Login Google Button used &lt;code&gt;profiles.google.com/yourname&lt;/code&gt; URL instead of the &lt;code&gt;www.google.com/accounts/&lt;/code&gt; URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently have my login setup to use both. The profile URL is my primary and the account URL is the alt. Once the Google Login Button is re-programmed to use the profiles URL it will still work... but until that happens you have to manually type in the profiles OpenID URL if you want to use that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T00:04:57.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-22T00:14:03.570" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amplesdk.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.amplesdk.com/share/banners/AmpleSDK%5FSO.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Ample SDK - Open-Source JavaScript GUI Framework&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140796" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T00:14:03.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T00:14:03.570" />
  <row Id="33599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6161" CreationDate="2009-12-22T00:28:25.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to seeing posts that link to other posts, it might also be useful to see external links and/or search terms. I have several posts that, for whatever reason, seem to get a steady stream of upvotes and I'd like to know how people are finding them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T00:28:25.937" />
  <row Id="33600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-12-22T01:42:36.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Some effort&lt;/a&gt; has already been put into encouraging feedback with the down vote. Could this be an opportunity? Perhaps a system where &quot;Anynomous&quot; down votes count the old way, but if you want to &quot;be on record&quot; then your down-vote counts more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T01:42:36.797" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T01:42:36.797" />
  <row Id="33601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-12-22T02:39:38.790" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An eye for an eye...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a downvote inflicts -5 &lt;strike&gt;hit&lt;/strike&gt; rep points, it should cost 5 &lt;strike&gt;mana&lt;/strike&gt; rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-18T12:14:01.113" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T12:14:01.113" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T02:39:38.790" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="33602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-22T02:54:18.910" Score="90" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pygame.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/tar58m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pygame - Python Game Library&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140801" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T02:54:18.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T02:54:18.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2009-12-22T05:18:09.687" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought you chose the 5:1 ratio on purpose.  Psychological studies show that we are impacted far greater by negative things than positive ones.  I've heard that marriage councilors often say the magic ratio is 5 positive things for every one negative thing.  I know I definitely feel down votes more than up votes and as such I thought the ratio was perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140633" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T05:18:09.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T05:18:09.687" />
  <row Id="33606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T06:00:26.783" Score="-1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18198/there-are-no-stupid-questions-or-are-there&quot;&gt;There are no stupid questions - or are there?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short question: Is it ok to ask stupid question on stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long question: From time to time, people ask questions, that they should not have to ask here. We all make mistakes, but some questions already include their answer. And the question vaporizes itself while writing it - often. That's what I like to call &lt;em&gt;stupid question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment that I ask a question, the answers jumps into my face, and then everything is clear. Like for example: &quot;If I write &quot;xyz\n&quot; on the command line, why the next line starts on a new line, not at the end of my line&quot;, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big sorry to the original poster, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1944037/jquery-replacing-a-links-href-tag-with-a-dynamic-variable&quot;&gt;here is an example&lt;/a&gt; (again sorry for quoting you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in my very personal opinion it is much more productive to tell those people to think twice and check the conditions that lead to the given errors, instead of just posting (and/or copy/pasting) an error message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people asking those questing will never become real programmers when they learn to just ask questions on SO!!! And SO will fade away in information overload, like all other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on a personal side-node: I was really happy about SO, because &lt;strong&gt;it is so much better&lt;/strong&gt; than any q&amp;amp;a sites or forums on the wwww. It has (had?) so much more quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140806" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T07:25:50.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T06:00:26.783" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T07:31:28.883" Title="About the kind of questions to ask on stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;quality&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33606" CreationDate="2009-12-22T07:05:22.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who knows how long someone has been struggling with a &quot;stupid&quot; question before posting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've spent many an hour debugging something that turned out to be dumb (C++'s &lt;code&gt;switch&lt;/code&gt; statement's defaulting to fall-through, I'm looking at you). Does that make me stupid? Perhaps. In times like that, it's generally incredibly helpful to have a second (and in the case of questions asked on stackoverflow, generally a third, fourth, fifth, fiftieth) pair of eyes looking at the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that something is obvious to you, who have not spent 3 hours looking at the same thing over and over again, does not make it universally &quot;stupid&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T07:05:22.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T07:05:22.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33581" CreationDate="2009-12-22T07:21:01.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a chart of when accepted answers were accepted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3AALALAUBBCGCZC-CEBMA3BxCZCJCwB2A3BRDTDoD.FMFTCLCED4FVGwGpFqDOCwEUGmFXGRFsC3C3GBGNHVHHF8CkB4JXSSUiVOSuGyG5O4QJPRPfOhFeFHMANIMMN-LGESFHLUMlLgMoKtEZEWJ6MFLZLdJ6EWEiJ3KPMfKYKBEUDoIWIdKMLJJADTDoImI9JgJiI7DqD4JLIBJuIvIyD6ENI0JuJNKFJ1D9EZJSI0KBHVG5DoDxJHIfKYKqIMEPENJEJEJ1KvHVEEDeJwLJJpKvG7D4DhHSHZEmCbKqKDJwRBQJMMIvL5IyG2QsckaBWGTILXKVSnTMS6RtRKIaJiSQSAT.RkVDItHeR7WwTTUrRtK0J8QLVoUNUyRrIYJJSSUGT2VDTDIMJpRaUZSJTKQCIvLiT9SnUgUUULIkJpQuV.VhTTRGIdKITKTWRKT4SsIFJLTKSHRPTDRKJ-I9RvU5UGUGSgJXJgVVTMR9UpQ.IkJZTtTqUZSeNrJXIBPRR0S3SUSEIBI9TDSiThTDQeKBIrV9ThS1VtQnJsLiVmXVW3VtVaKKJeVtV2W3X4WGK2KcYdXxYDUnUgJ3LLQXXaX6X2VMKqK4WgV.YwZLXvKaKmVhZqa7aoZVK9JpWGY5ZzY0VOKoLrYNaGaKW3UbKaMvarbZY-ZlS-JwKtXJZCYNW1WNMFNbcBaDcYcdZ4L-MjcRdLdZeKbHN5MVaNaPc2a7afMcM.Y-bzaIaoadMMNkaGatbHeAZHLbMveffidycRaYNrn9..4LsPuPkgUGRtiqkZjDmiiuRfRTeDjGpOkLjfS1QumEjhn7jPiQRrPIh0jNigmXhyPpPWickHjKl7fURvRPjGjhkjlFh3QXTWiukVkujKeOPRULjtmSlBmpjPTIQVkjkplfoBjdUGSUkLmloGpokcTBWkqpqRnhrqmEWGUkpatHpcr6mJVDUbsDm3qkhdc.SCWIrJ&amp;amp;chtt=Accepts%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0|1763&quot; alt=&quot;Accepts by day&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious spike is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;introduction of the accept rate display&lt;/a&gt;, and it seems like it may have had a lasting effect. It's sort of hard to tell though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, here's a user accept rate histogram with 10% buckets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chd=e%3AOhENKWL.VcV9oGn2..yk2v&amp;amp;chtt=Accept%20rate%20histogram%20%2810%%20buckets%29&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0%|10%|20%|30%|40%|50%|60%|70%|80%|90%|100%|1%3A|0|3266&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T07:28:07.207" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T07:28:07.207" />
  <row Id="33609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33606" CreationDate="2009-12-22T07:25:50.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes experts in some language might ask really trivial questions in other. So is it dumb?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other times real newbies and college students ask simple questions which is totally rational. Is it dumb here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is meant for all programmers, its not written anywhere that its for Experts or seniors only&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139334" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T07:25:50.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T07:25:50.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33611" CreationDate="2009-12-22T07:28:56.813" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a question about how Meta works, and it does not directly pertain to the other SO sites.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the [feature-request] tag here on Meta, for questions which make some sort of request, what answers should we &quot;accept&quot;? It is not clear per the current analogy of accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we accept ones where a person from the Stack Overflow team answers, as this is changing the status of the feature-request? However, not all feature-requests are touched by the team. Or, should we just accept the ones we (and the community) feels would be the best approach towards this request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:41:50.353" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:41:50.353" Title="Meta of Meta: What Should We Accept As &quot;Accepted Answers&quot; of Feature Requests?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33610" CreationDate="2009-12-22T07:36:41.507" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a feature request, if Jeff responds with an answer then I accept his answer after the feature is done (or at least after &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; think it's done!). Otherwise, I treat it as discussion and don't bother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is meta, the usual accept game doesn't apply here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T07:36:41.507" />
  <row Id="33614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T08:19:50.253" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8891/is-dont-do-it-a-valid-answer&quot;&gt;Is &amp;ldquo;Don&amp;rsquo;t do it&amp;rdquo; a valid answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18198/there-are-no-stupid-questions-or-are-there&quot;&gt;There are no stupid questions - or are there?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may know, that sometimes the best answer is to say that the questioner is just asking the wrong question. You may say that in any kind you like (from nice to polite to neutral to offensive to aggressive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may be as polite as possible, but sometimes the questioner just asked a &quot;dumb&quot; question (which means: the answer to his question is contained in his question itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what should you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is kind of re-opening of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33606/about-the-kind-of-questions-to-ask-on-stackoverflow-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (this was closed, because I was not polite on another website, and yet the original question originates from that other site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140806" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T08:19:50.253" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T08:45:34.860" Title="Seemingly dumb questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;quality&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2009-12-22T08:38:00.773" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There ARE stupid questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an answer to a simple question. But that doesn't help me in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33614/seemingly-dumb-questions&quot;&gt;my very special case of kind of stupid questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are stupid questions, that can be answered with just &quot;think about it&quot;, &quot;look at what you wrote (it contains the answer)&quot; or &quot;RTFM&quot;. But this answer implies that you invested some time to help the questioner to resolve its problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And still you will be down-voted! Even when you tell them its not polite, but true. Sometimes you help people more by not being polite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are polite, you will be exploited at some point. If you are not polite, then the SO logic will ensure that you will be voted down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You only can get a big bag of up-votes by being PC, or by being trend-whoring... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt;, then you are f***ed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you try to explain why you are real, your threads are being closed, and then you are f***ed too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the intent of SO was good, but at the end its far from reality, it is just some nice bling-bling, as any other www-site. Sad, but true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140806" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T08:38:00.773" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T10:45:12.620" Score="14" ViewCount="456" Body="&lt;p&gt;The color/decoration of links in answers on Stack Overflow (light blue, no decoration) is not very clear at all if one just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;links them&lt;/a&gt; in context (like I did there). Could we make them more obvious? A dotted underline (as here on meta), perhaps, or a little link marker? It's just too subtle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I should say that this has nothing whatsoever to do with color preference. It does to a small extent relate to color &lt;em&gt;perception&lt;/em&gt;, which also varies fairly widely by individual. Which is kind of the point, part of the reason that underlining (et. al.) is so strongly-conserved in web design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastEditorUserId="134069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-05T20:26:10.947" LastActivityDate="2011-07-05T20:26:10.947" Title="Make links in Stack Overflow answers more obvious?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33617" CreationDate="2009-12-22T11:22:14.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Color preference is a personal thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links are underlined here on meta because they're &lt;em&gt;the same color&lt;/em&gt; as the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the millions of users that have passed through SO, and the two (three?) times this has ever come up, 99.999% of users are not having trouble seeing the links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T11:22:14.250" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="33621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="654" CreationDate="2009-12-22T11:57:12.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you need to say it, say it.  If the best, most accurate and precise way to express yourself employs Anglo-Saxon four-letter words, then use them.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't need to say it, don't say it.  People may see your words for the rest of your life.  If you would mind future bosses seeing your curse words, don't use them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T11:57:12.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T11:57:12.003" />
  <row Id="33623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2009-12-22T13:50:34.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jon Skeet calls &lt;code&gt;ToString()&lt;/code&gt; method on object which is &lt;code&gt;null&lt;/code&gt; the method returns &lt;code&gt;&quot;null&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139883" LastEditorUserId="139883" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T17:00:26.983" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T17:00:26.983" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T13:50:34.503" />
  <row Id="33624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18198" CreationDate="2009-12-22T14:33:00.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stupid questions still get answers, as long as they're asked in the right way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T14:33:00.787" />
  <row Id="33625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33617" CreationDate="2009-12-22T14:54:35.650" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a problem seeing links within posts/answers, especially as they underline when hovered over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do however occasionally link to MSDN docs like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;System.String&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This combination of code formatting and hyperlinking makes it harder to distinguish that a link is present, especially as on SO the link hover colour is the same as the normal link colour and there is no hover  underline (when used with code formatting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T14:54:35.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33628" CreationDate="2009-12-22T15:07:34.827" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1941770/concrete-symptoms-of-over-engineering&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; turned community wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1941770/list&quot;&gt;at 2009-12-21 20:39:24Z&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time my answer had about 10 upvotes, yet I've received 170 reputation for it so far. Answers to community wiki questions aren't supposed to award reputation, are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134366" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:27:32.647" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:27:32.647" Title="Why am I getting Rep for Answering a Community Wiki Question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33627" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33629" CreationDate="2009-12-22T15:10:56.893" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30500/tracking-the-questions-youve-recently-viewed-or-visited&quot;&gt;Tracking the questions you&amp;rsquo;ve recently viewed or visited&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to see the list of questions we visited on SO during the current session? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T18:16:05.780" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T18:16:05.780" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T15:40:10.303" Title="How do we get list of questions we visited?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33626" CreationDate="2009-12-22T15:11:28.357" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question became CW, but your answer hasn't. It's CW &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt; which don't earn rep. If for whatever reason your answer becomes CW, then &lt;em&gt;at that point&lt;/em&gt; you won't receive any more rep from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T15:11:28.357" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33627" CreationDate="2009-12-22T15:20:32.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no built-in feature specifically for this. You can use a combination of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browser history&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Activity list (where you left comments and answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Favorite questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T15:20:32.347" />
  <row Id="33634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33626" CreationDate="2009-12-22T15:39:05.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've wiki'd the lot; it didn't seem fair for only &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of the (early) answers to be rep-gaining. You'll keep any rep you gained so far (even after a recalc), but any &lt;em&gt;additional&lt;/em&gt; votes are for glory and badges only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T15:39:05.877" />
  <row Id="33638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33639" CreationDate="2009-12-22T16:19:18.763" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could have SWORN there was a question on SO or here that had interesting word combinations that pop up in the Captcha.  Am I crazy, or where is it?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/10dazqq.png&quot; alt=&quot;hurr&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:18:34.297" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:18:34.297" Title="Where did the question with fun captcha combinations go?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33638" CreationDate="2009-12-22T16:26:35.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, here it is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/are-you-a-human-being/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/are-you-a-human-being/&lt;/a&gt;. I &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; it was in the blog somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be more fun if we could vote, but I don't think it really belongs on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T16:26:35.893" />
  <row Id="33641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2009-12-22T17:29:35.013" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;code&gt;del&lt;/code&gt; but not &lt;code&gt;ins&lt;/code&gt;? I just edited a post where somebody had trouble getting some XML to display and had substituted square brackets for &amp;lt; and &amp;gt;. I then used &lt;code&gt;del&lt;/code&gt; to strike-through their explanation of their formatting problem and &lt;code&gt;ins&lt;/code&gt; around my explanation of why and how I'd reformatted the code; but as &lt;code&gt;ins&lt;/code&gt; is stripped out, that aspect of the semantic relationship of the two sentences has been lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136556" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T17:29:35.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T17:29:35.013" />
  <row Id="33642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T17:32:32.950" Score="6" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I check the notify box on a question and then the question can't be posted due to a validation error, preserve my selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reproduce: Post a question on MSO. Check the Notify box. Add some tags but don't include any of &quot;bug feature-request discussion support.&quot; You will get the following error: &quot;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because: * must include one of these tags -- bug feature-request discussion support&quot; and the notification box will be unchecked. Same issue if you try to include more than 5 tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional UI Issue: if I've got &quot;I'd like email notifications of activity on my questions and answers&quot; checked off in my profile, why then is the &quot;Notify daily of any new answers&quot; box unchecked by default at the question level? If I leave it unchecked, what is the behavior? The UI is unpredictable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33570/can-email-notifications-be-improved-closed&quot;&gt;my other post&lt;/a&gt; which was closed as a duplicate. As far as I know these issues with the behavior of the checkbox are not duplicated elsewhere.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36754" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T08:28:39.263" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T08:28:39.263" Title="Fix behavior of the &quot;notify&quot; checkbox on questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="33645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33646" CreationDate="2009-12-22T18:23:48.743" Score="5" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33490/confused-about-the-thing-you-get-at-1000-rep&quot;&gt;Confused about the thing you get at 1000 rep.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm supposed to be able to see the total up/down votes, but I'm way above 1K rep and I still don't see any of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do I see the breakup of votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T18:31:12.563" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T23:31:40.283" Title="How do I &quot;Show total up and down vote counts&quot; since I'm at 1K rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;help&gt;&lt;features&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33645" CreationDate="2009-12-22T18:24:29.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;   ▲&#xA;   / &#xA; (100}  &amp;lt;--- Right there!&#xA;   _&#xA;   ▼ &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T18:31:12.563" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T18:31:12.563" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T18:25:50.737" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1555/mark-a-comment-as-answer-to-a-question&quot;&gt;mark a comment as answer to a question&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got my answer in comment not in answers then how can i select that comments as a answer of my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T18:25:50.737" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T18:35:17.220" Title="I got my answer in comment not in answers then how can i select that comments as a answer of my question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31552" CreationDate="2009-12-22T19:27:31.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The approach I took was to do a search for questions I've asked that are still open/need to be answered.  I did that by using the advanced search criteria of my userID, &lt;code&gt;hasaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;closed:0&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;wiki:0&lt;/code&gt;.  I wind up with a URL that looks like this (linking to mine specifically):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A6504+hasaccepted%3A0+closed%3A0+wiki%3A0&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A[STACKOVERFLOW_ID]+hasaccepted%3A0+closed%3A0+wiki%3A0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't deal with &lt;code&gt;migrated&lt;/code&gt; questions as those are treated as &lt;code&gt;closed&lt;/code&gt; (I think), but it quickly gives you all your open questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136717" LastEditorUserId="136717" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T19:49:02.963" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T19:49:02.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T19:47:48.270" Score="-5" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a friendly reminder email being sent out to users who asked a question but it hasn't received any answers in over a month.  It would be at most one email over the course of a month, and a question would only be included in this type of email once.  Something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dear &lt;em&gt;SO/SF/SU User&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked the following questions which have not received any answers over the past month:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you've managed to find a solution to this issue you can share with the community.  If that's not the case, you can put a bounty on the question to increase the visibility of the question to get an answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason why is because there's a lot of interesting questions out there that have received no answers at all, many of which I would like to see an answer to myself, but have no idea how to even start tackling the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5533/system-reminder-to-review-the-answers-to-your-question&quot;&gt;this similar feature-request&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm talking about questions that have received no answers at all, not those that should have one accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136717" LastEditorUserId="136717" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T05:00:53.587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T05:00:53.587" Title="System-generated reminder email to follow up on unanswered questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T19:50:44.270" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that you can get badges from getting a certain number of upvotes in a given tag.&#xA;Jon Skeet has several of those, but those badges are not shown on the Badges page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135925" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T21:41:11.893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:41:11.893" Title="Badges missing from Badges List" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33653" CreationDate="2009-12-22T19:57:30.307" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to click &quot;Tags&quot; On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T19:57:30.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33652" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:01:26.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could be considered as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sending emails like this without the accordance of the receiver is very impolite. In Germany you could receive  disciplinary warning letter because of this. S[OFU] does not need to care about German law, but I highly discourage from doing it nevertheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:01:26.133" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14680" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:05:34.687" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to click &quot;Tags&quot; On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;SU&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/CToc7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-14T20:00:29.560" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T20:00:29.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33679" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:11:26.047" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago, the title of a RSS feed for tag 'foobar' was &quot;foobar Questions&quot;. Now, it is &quot;active questions tagged foobar&quot;. In a RSS reader with limited space (I use Sage), I see by default only the first two words, which do not discriminate enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should go back to the old name, with the tag first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:14:28.710" Title="The title of an RSS feed should display the tag first" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33678" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:12:42.707" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what happened, I had only 2 votes left today and I down voted an answer, a few moments later the owner of the answer deletes it and I &quot;lost&quot; my vote, I can't even undo it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these situations wouldn't be more appropriate to give the vote back? Since the question is deleted it doesn't matter if it has 10 up votes or 10 down votes, because it isn't being shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:10:01.840" Title="Votes and Deleted Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:17:18.717" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't visit SO for a month or so, you can return and find that you've picked up a few hundred (maybe thousand?) rep points from people discovering your old answers in the interim. Just as a bit of trivia, how many questions do people think you need to have answered (well) before you hit the daily rep limit without answering anymore questions? My guess is it's only Jon Skeet and a few of the others who are close .. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27805" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:01:40.533" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T22:14:17.043" Title="How many answers do you think you need before rep becomes self-perpetuating?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33659" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:19:30.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is the post is not actually deleted... it's visible to 10k users, and it could get deleted, but later (definitely more than 24 hours later, when you already have more votes to spend)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:19:30.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33660" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:19:41.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, it would take an infinite amount to be guaranteed self-perpetuating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:19:41.300" />
  <row Id="33663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33652" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:20:47.790" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd rather see the email go out to the experts who can answer the question, with an automated system bounty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear user,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have achieved expert status in the widget tag.  Following is a list of unanswered questions in that tag on which the system has placed a 50 rep bounty.  Please consider reviewing the questions and answering them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[link to RSS feed of unanswered questions tagged widget with a 50 rep bounty]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, encourage the active users to hit those less answered problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would necessitate changing the bounty system a bit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the bounty is under 100 rep, the minimum for a self-placed bounty, then the question must remain closeable/migratable in case it should have been closed, duped, or migrated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;system starts a 50 rep bounty for questions with &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; answers after a period of time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a possibility that people would hold off on answering a question, hoping that if no one else does, then the rep bonus might become available, but I doubt that's going to be a problem.  Most people would rather answer it immediately to get the upvotes if they can, rather than wait and hope no one else answers it (prisoner's dilemma, a bird in the hand, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:20:47.790" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33660" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:34:47.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've thought about that quite a bit, especially early on when the rep cap was introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I don't have a good answer.  The system is complicated enough that there's no way to form a mathematical proof other than infinity.  Even Jon Skeet doesn't hit the rep cap every single day, and he's got 6,660 answers at this moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to continue to get votes on old questions, someone has to run into them (via google) or bump them so others see them on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked questions on the sidebar is a double edged sword.  Those who are likely to know enough about the topic to vote answers up or down are unlikely to be browsing via the sidebar.  Those browsing are unlikely to know enough to pass out more than a handful of votes to such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think Lance is correct - infinite questions would be required to perpetually hit the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:34:47.163" />
  <row Id="33666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:35:33.590" Score="-9" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Stack Overflow turning into something similar to Wikipedia where few control the content and push their agenda upon everyone else (obviously I realize that this happens mainly on high traffic pages on Wikipedia)? There seems to be a trend of more subject matter being closed as not being relevant to Stack Overflow, and I would imagine that as this site continues to grow, that this could become even more of a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1931337/whats-your-favorite-software-book-that-was-fun-to-read-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1931337/whats-your-favorite-software-book-that-was-fun-to-read-closed&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1948797/how-long-should-a-programmer-stay-at-the-same-company-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1948797/how-long-should-a-programmer-stay-at-the-same-company-closed&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the case, how can Stack Overflow prevent this sort of thing from happening? Maybe it's just the paranoid person inside of me talking here.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135925" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T21:46:28.747" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T15:12:42.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-22T22:30:21.097" Title="Is Stack Overflow turning into Wikipedia? And how can we fix it if it is?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="33667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33666" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:50:37.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the people who voted to close are official moderators. Everyone that has 3000 reputation can vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3000       Vote to close or reopen any&#xA;  questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is different from &quot;where few control the content and push their agenda upon everyone else&quot;. Everyone can have 3000 reputation. I'm trying to get there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we don't agree with some decisions in a &quot;democracy&quot;, unfortunately, it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays/status/6869509182&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how everything works&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastEditorUserId="134388" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T06:55:41.300" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T06:55:41.300" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33666" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:50:49.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's one more reason to keep closing the subjective posts, it will probably head in a wikipedia direction the more subjective it gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:50:49.593" />
  <row Id="33669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33666" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:55:43.370" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're referring to closure of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1948797/how-long-should-a-programmer-stay-at-the-same-company-closed&quot;&gt;question on which you commented&lt;/a&gt;, that absolutely appears to be a valid closure to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably would have cited the reason as &quot;not programming related,&quot; and who knows, maybe at least one of the closers did, but that question is not appropriate for StackOverflow. If you replace the word, &quot;programmer,&quot; with the word, &quot;accountant,&quot; the question is essentially identical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality of that example is valid closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on some other comments here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what if several people ... don't really like questions about&#xA;  vb6, so they go around and close vb6&#xA;  questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely possible, and there are tools in place to notify the official moderators of the Trilogy about such behavior. Additionally, other 3,000+ users can vote to reopen those likely-valid questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the way the community works, this kind of abuse is less likely to happen, and if it does, more likely to be corrected. The Trilogy is one of the very few places where I feel that the People can, in fact, self-govern. (Largely.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:55:43.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33666" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:57:06.567" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a better question to be asking is: &quot;Is Stack Overflow turning into an advice site? And how can we fix it if it is?&quot; -- to which the answer is: keep vigilantly closing &quot;please give me advice for my life&quot; questions. SO is about programming, not about how to choose between job A and job B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T20:57:06.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33666" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:57:33.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the two posted samples I would say it is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt; according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-19T15:12:42.407" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T15:12:42.407" />
  <row Id="33672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T20:57:32.563" Score="2" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14056/seo-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;SEO in stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems Stackoverflow enjoys some sort of privilege given by Google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-22T21:15:57.083" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T22:13:13.600" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T22:19:56.500" Title="How do Stackoverflow questions appear on Google just after posting?" Tags="&lt;seo&gt;&lt;general&gt;&lt;non-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33672" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:00:18.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's Google's new real-time search initiative, in which they're indexing certain sites as close to real-time as they can.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First, we're introducing new features&#xA;  that bring your search results to life&#xA;  with a dynamic stream of real-time&#xA;  content from across the web. Now,&#xA;  immediately after conducting a search,&#xA;  you can see live updates from people&#xA;  on popular sites like Twitter and&#xA;  FriendFeed, as well as headlines from&#xA;  news and blog posts published just&#xA;  seconds before. When they are&#xA;  relevant, we'll rank these latest&#xA;  results to show the freshest&#xA;  information right on the search&#xA;  results page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139100" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:00:18.120" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33672" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:00:57.057" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google knows that Stack Overflow's content is updated regularly, so it polls the sitemap more often than it would for a site which only changes once a month. As far as I'm aware, this is entirely automatic (I'd be shocked if it were manual) - the crawler is just self-tuning to make search results as &quot;fresh&quot; as possible without trying to hit every web site in the world every 20 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on the search team. I'm not that smart :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:00:57.057" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="33676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33660" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:01:40.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you define &quot;self-perpetuating&quot;?  There is nothing to perpetuate, nothing to sustain in order to keep something alive (unless you count your ego, I suppose). Close your browser and come back in a few months, and the site will still be here, with your rep more or less where it was, at least in proportion to everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, I haven't seen a rep-free day go by in months, but I usually do post at least one answer a day. Almost every day sees some old post get upvoted as well, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:01:40.533" />
  <row Id="33677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33672" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:06:08.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll share my own anecdote about how awesome these sites are. I recently posted a question to stack overflow. Less than 2 minutes later I received an answer that solved my problem (it was a simple question as it turns out). I did a google search to verify the answer this user gave was correct and my SO post was at the top of my google search results. Pretty cool imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:06:08.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33659" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:10:01.840" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will get your -1 rep back at the next &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2251/will-we-get-back-rep-points-lost-after-a-rep-recalc&quot;&gt;rep recalc&lt;/a&gt;*, which essentially starts everyone at 0 rep again and goes through the entire site and awards everyone their reputation for all (visible) posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;Rep recalc: also see: easter bunny, ponies, tooth fairy.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:10:01.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33658" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:14:28.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you not rename feeds in Sage? I know in Google Reader you can rename a feed to something that makes sense to you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/9882/renamefeed.png&quot; alt=&quot;Rename&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:14:28.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:40:09.120" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1274/seaching-questions-with-n-pages-of-answers&quot;&gt;Seaching Questions with n-Pages of Answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I first thought about this with those 'best X' questions as I'd rather up-vote an answer that was already given rather than add another of the same answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It might also be useful for more 'regular' questions, if I had a very specific case and the top answers didn't address it. It might be nice to search the answers of a question instead of paging through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:40:09.120" ClosedDate="2009-12-22T21:50:19.610" Title="Is there a way to search the answers of a Question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33686" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:52:49.607" Score="-2" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did something bad on SA website and I think that my second IP address is banned from it. Just wondering : how long do those last for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(btw , i'm sorry)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138984" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:16:54.677" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:16:54.677" Title="How long do the IP bans last?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;ban&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33672" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:53:13.957" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all part of the magic of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/4236/theinternetjazzhands.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:53:13.957" />
  <row Id="33683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33666" CreationDate="2009-12-22T21:59:02.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's also worth mentioning that an individual only has a limited number of &quot;close&quot; votes available per day. This is designed to limit the sort of potential behaviour you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T21:59:02.633" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33681" CreationDate="2009-12-22T22:03:22.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't know what &quot;SA&quot; is, but what exactly were you &lt;em&gt;doing&lt;/em&gt; with that second account? Upvoting the first account? The length of time in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;penalty box&quot;&lt;/a&gt; will likely fit the severity of the crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T22:03:22.157" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33672" CreationDate="2009-12-22T22:13:13.600" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33672/how-do-stackoverflow-questions-appear-on-google-just-after-posting/33675#33675&quot;&gt;Serious answer appears elsewhere.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the rough steps involved in a question appearing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User hits &quot;Post Your Question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I intercept the request, and read the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I prepare an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I change all existing information on the internet to make it clear that my answer is the one and only True Answer to the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I allow the original request to reach the SO web server, and wait for it to be processed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I post my answer to the question, leaving a few nanoseconds between the question becoming visible and my answer appearing. After all, I wouldn't want to be unfair to other users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I update the Google index to include the question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I use subliminal signals (typically via slight fluctuations in power supplies) to nudge SO users towards my answer, gently drawing their cursors to the upvote button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, step 7 is the one relevant to your question. I just thought you'd want a bit of context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T22:13:13.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33681" CreationDate="2009-12-22T22:35:49.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be unusual for a voting puppet account to result in an IP ban (in part, because that is more effort). Normally (especially for a first offence) deleting the puppet account(s) and doing a recalc gets the message across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, what are you seeing that makes you think there is an IP ban?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T22:35:49.227" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="33688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33691" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:24:11.190" Score="0" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;No offense to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/138984/nick-brooks&quot;&gt;Nick&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't care for pedobear and find it offensive. Is there a way to report that, or future icons that may be worse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5948" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T22:38:19.273" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T22:38:19.273" ClosedDate="2009-12-24T19:59:44.540" Title="How can we report people for bad icon/avatars?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;offensive&gt;&lt;reporting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33688" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:27:36.737" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd use the &quot;Contact us&quot; link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think you are being too touchy in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:27:36.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22336" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:31:22.373" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been this way for a while, so marking [status-completed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;String.Format(&quot;we're sorry, but as a spam prevention mechanism, &#xA;    new users can only post a maximum of one hyperlink. &#xA;    Earn {0} reputation to post more hyperlinks.&quot;,&#xA;    AppSettings.Reputation.NeededForAbility.Newbie);&#xA;&#xA;String.Format(&quot;we're sorry, but as a spam prevention mechanism, &#xA;    new users aren't allowed to post images. &#xA;    Earn {0} reputation to post images.&quot;,&#xA;    AppSettings.Reputation.NeededForAbility.Newbie);&#xA;&#xA;String.Format(&quot;users with less than {0} reputation can't create new tags. &#xA;    The tag{1} '{2}' {3} new. Try using {4} existing tag{1} instead.&quot;,&#xA;    AppSettings.Reputation.NeededForAbility.CreateNewTags,&#xA;    multiple ? &quot;s&quot; : &quot;&quot;,&#xA;    newTags.HtmlEncode(),&#xA;    multiple ? &quot;are&quot; : &quot;is&quot;,&#xA;    multiple ? &quot;&quot; : &quot;an&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:31:22.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33688" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:34:43.147" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just googled that, and I agree.  You can complain to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/abuse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt; directly also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T00:10:41.160" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T00:10:41.160" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18097" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:44:30.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed for a while now, so marking [status-completed].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that accepted answer checkbox image tags now look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/vote-accepted-on.png&quot;&#xA;     class=&quot;vote-accepted&quot;&#xA;     style=&quot;cursor:default&quot;&#xA;     width=&quot;30&quot;&#xA;     height=&quot;31&quot;&#xA;     alt=&quot;check&quot;&#xA;     title=&quot;The question owner accepted this as the best answer Nov 30 at 0:11&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:44:30.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33688" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:46:20.187" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you should consider changing your home page from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/138984/nick-brooks&quot;&gt;Nick's profile&lt;/a&gt; to something else so you don't have to look at it that often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that 99% of people (myself included) had no idea where Nick's avatar came from until this thread. And now that I do I still don't care; the picture &lt;strong&gt;by itself&lt;/strong&gt; is not offensive in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131896" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:46:20.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:52:27.380" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO was awesome.....until it became a trilogy....fail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-22T23:52:27.380" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-22T23:53:44.990" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4033/what-stackexchange-sites-do-you-want-to-see&quot;&gt;What StackExchange sites do you want to see?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Life? Careers? Travel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140425" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T00:13:37.880" ClosedDate="2009-12-23T00:15:48.730" Title="Any plans to extend this beyond computing topics?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33695" CreationDate="2009-12-23T00:01:18.373" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://advice.personforce.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Careers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://travel.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Travel&lt;/a&gt; (there are others, too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Life&quot; is too undefined to list a particular site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131896" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T00:01:18.373" />
  <row Id="33697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33688" CreationDate="2009-12-23T00:13:08.660" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, reporting it here usually works. On this &lt;em&gt;specfic&lt;/em&gt; occasion, I'm inclined to agree with @ChssPly76 and @dmckee, rather than jump in and remove it (which we have done before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T00:13:08.660" />
  <row Id="33698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33695" CreationDate="2009-12-23T00:13:37.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is what they made the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; for... Why run sites in other topics when you can get others to pay (in the end) and run them for you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I think officially, they may launch a few more computer related sites if a certain topic becomes big and not exactly or directly related to an existing site, but I doubt they will move far away from computing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was sort of expecting a game(s)/console related site, but now there are Stack Exchange sites dealing with this, I doubt they will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only Jeff and the Fog Creek staff know the exact plans!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T00:13:37.880" />
  <row Id="33699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33700" CreationDate="2009-12-23T01:01:42.463" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/96835/list&quot;&gt;This question on Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; has managed to include a blank, or null, tag attached to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is a dupe (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17541/cannot-get-rid-of-empty-interesting-tag&quot;&gt;it's NOT the same as this question&lt;/a&gt;), I did do a search beforehand but my search-fu is often fail on the SOFU sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, it doesn't show up on the stats list to the right of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.enets.com.au/SFTag.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blank Tag&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T15:09:49.927" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T15:09:49.927" Title="Blank tag in question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33699" CreationDate="2009-12-23T01:12:12.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a migrated question. This is a side-effect of migration, somehow -- the [belongs-on-*] tag was removed, but incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T01:12:12.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33688" CreationDate="2009-12-23T01:25:43.297" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gravatar already has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/abuse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reporting mechanism&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8916/my-profile-picture-is-not-taken-from-gravatar&quot;&gt;SO only accepts G- or PG-rated images&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for an image that would be possibly &quot;offensive&quot; to SO while still a PG-acceptable image: the only case I can recall is the parody of Jeff Atwood's avatar a few months back.  (Some Nazi symbolism came up recently too, but if I recall that was dealt with via Gravatar directly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T01:25:43.297" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T01:49:17.000" Score="-5" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. By accident I was using Google Chrome and noticed suddenly all the ads in SO! I use Firefox with AdBlock Plus installed and I have never seen an ad ever since I started using SO. I never told ABP to blocks ads from SO. So it seems they are blocking it through their subscription filter server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood has been talking about ads on the site and I was wondering what he was talking about because I never saw the ads and it never occurred to me ABP was blocking them. Now the ads look annoying to me. I know a free site has to make some money but I NEVER click on an ad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sorry but I have to block the ads. I find them annoying and why do I have to see the same ad on the same page more than once. That TFS report ad is there TWICE. I can see it now twice above the fold! This seems like forcing ads on me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-14T16:12:33.937" LastActivityDate="2010-07-14T16:12:33.937" Title="AdBlock Plus blocking SO ads and bad practice from SO on showing same ad multiple times on same page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-23T02:05:44.380" Score="58" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hugoware.net/projects/jlinq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hugoware.net/logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;jLinq - LINQ for Javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140859" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T02:10:12.933" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T02:10:12.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T02:05:44.380" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33702" CreationDate="2009-12-23T02:05:45.737" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean those small 220x250, non-animated, non-flashy static content ads bother you? I specifically &lt;em&gt;white-listed&lt;/em&gt; the SO family sites because they're some of my favorite ads online - completely non intrusive. Not a single one has ever tried to cover up my content with some annoying fake window or a car driving across the screen (I'm looking at you, imdb!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for what it's worth - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;THERE IS NO PAGE FOLD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T02:05:45.737" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="33705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33708" CreationDate="2009-12-23T02:23:29.207" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;MSO doesn't have the &quot;not a real question&quot; option when you vote to close. Is there a reason for this? Can we add this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference - I wanted to use this reason to close &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33702/adblock-plus-blocking-so-ads-and-bad-practice-from-so-on-showing-same-ad-multiple&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T02:36:21.407" Title="Why is there no &quot;not a real question&quot; close option on MSO?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33705" CreationDate="2009-12-23T02:33:35.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MSO was launched, in part at least, to replace several unofficial forum / chat services started by SO users with an official place to discuss SO matters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So unlike SO (and SF, and SU...), MSO actually allows &quot;questions&quot; that aren't really questions. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot;&gt;Discussions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29479/how-complete-is-your-cv&quot;&gt;GTKY&lt;/a&gt; threads, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17738/i-am-sick-of-downvoters&quot;&gt;rants&lt;/a&gt;... they're all allowed. Except &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1284/&quot;&gt;when they're not&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Oh yeah - the moderation here on MSO is totally batshit fucking insane. Possibly because of the confusion surrounding the types of posts allowed, possibly because of the weird mix of moderator backgrounds, possibly due to some other cause. My money's on some weird emergent behavior involving four-cornered trilogies, but that's just a guess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T02:33:35.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33705" CreationDate="2009-12-23T02:36:21.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question is, sadly, completely allowed.. it's discussion of and about the trilogy sites. Utterly on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't mean it's a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; question, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only truly off topic stuff here is when the question does not relate to the trilogy or Stack Overflow codebase in any way. (That's the one argument about doing DocType support here on meta that I belatedly came to realize was absolutely right.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T02:36:21.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33726" CreationDate="2009-12-23T05:32:08.897" Score="29" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has bothered me for a while... Ever since the bulky padding and gray background were added to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; elements, really. But I kept hoping I would get used to it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...I didn't. It's ugly, it's distracting, it makes me not &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to mark inline code and identifiers when I'm answering questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The problem&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I'm talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fcode%5Fslur.png&quot; alt=&quot;The horror&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how the keywords and identifiers pop out of their surrounding text, completely destroying my best efforts to integrate language keywords with the grammar of the sentences referencing them. That's &lt;em&gt;annoying&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's not the worst of it. The background shading, coupled with the excessive padding, can lead to something not unlike &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%5F%28typography%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rivers&lt;/a&gt; when code appears on adjacent lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fcode%5Friver.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Way down down along lazy river road&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is terribly distracting. What's the point of carefully marking up key parts of text if the result is ugly and distracting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A solution&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, get rid of the padding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fcode%5Fno%5Fpadding.png&quot; alt=&quot;getting better...&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This already helps. The text isn't so broken-up, and you can kinda separate the code on adjacent lines. But it's not enough. That background color still intrudes, tainting what should be clean, white space around the letters. Ditch it, and color the text itself. Maybe increase the weight, if you're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; worried about it blending in &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so%5Fcode%5Fsubtle.png&quot; alt=&quot;ahh... much better&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There. No gray padding ghetto, no rivers... Much less offensive. At least, I think so. Anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T19:43:21.033" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T19:43:21.033" Title="Formatting of inline code is ugly and can result in river-like patterns when used frequently" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;style&gt;&lt;inline-code&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="33710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T05:40:56.647" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's so obvious and clean, one wonders why this cannot be implemented immediately.  Was your mockup above just a mockup, or do you have some CSS modifications in mind for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, insertion text with a differently-coloured foreground is generally more readable than a differently-coloured background (assuming that sufficient contrast remains).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:10:32.483" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:10:32.483" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="33711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T05:50:35.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;99.9% sure we won't be &quot;fixing&quot; this problem by adding another noisy color to the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you considered not using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks so aggressively in your text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; if you &lt;strong&gt;noticed&lt;/strong&gt; but any &lt;strong&gt;text&lt;/strong&gt; with too &lt;strong&gt;much&lt;/strong&gt; of a particular &lt;strong&gt;formatting&lt;/strong&gt; style becomes &lt;strong&gt;difficult&lt;/strong&gt; to read. Perhaps &lt;strong&gt;using&lt;/strong&gt; such &lt;strong&gt;formatting&lt;/strong&gt; styles in &lt;strong&gt;moderation&lt;/strong&gt; would be a &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; effective &lt;strong&gt;solution&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Treat the disease, not the symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: is this even a real example of a Stack Overflow post, or a strawman you constructed? I can't find any of the strings in the &quot;example&quot; you provided, either through Google search or Stack Overflow phrase search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T09:51:47.350" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:51:47.350" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="33712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33702" CreationDate="2009-12-23T06:39:53.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you saying that you would rather pay a subscription fee than let others see the ads and potentially click on them, while you continue to block them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The money for all those servers and all that software has to come from someplace....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T06:39:53.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5207" CreationDate="2009-12-23T06:45:24.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering about this as I was trying to manipulate parts of SO pages in &lt;a href=&quot;http://conkeror.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;conkeror&lt;/a&gt; and having some troubles due to the markup that is used in places, particularly in comments. I installed a screen reader, but must confess I don't know anything about them so I couldn't really judge how well it worked. The general idea of making things more usable in a screen reader seems fairly straight forward however. As John Topley pointed out, &lt;a href=&quot;http://diveintoaccessibility.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dive into Accessibility&lt;/a&gt; is a pretty quick read that points out easy ways to improve in this area, such as adding summaries to tables. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10738" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T06:45:24.737" />
  <row Id="33714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27931" CreationDate="2009-12-23T06:47:52.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wonder why they havent implemented &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Asynchronous loading&lt;/a&gt; with GA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22039" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T06:47:52.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27931" CreationDate="2009-12-23T07:00:38.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the editing box does not show the edit bar, nor the edit preview&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can still start writing your answer, and that stuff will appear when Google analytics loads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So unless the loading takes &lt;em&gt;minutes&lt;/em&gt;, normal functioning of the site is not impaired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, rather minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T07:00:38.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T08:06:26.267" Score="3" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first reaction to &lt;em&gt;careers SO&lt;/em&gt; was admiration of its cleverness and a general feeling of &quot;this is the way things should be&quot;. However I have to confess that I am now more hesitant to answer or ask questions in haste should - God forbid - I get down voted. Before, the whole process of earning reputation or winning badges was a bit like a online strategy game... a website to click-on whenever I got coders-block and needed a break. I could look in awe at the more accomplished players and dream one day of reaching their level (perhaps if I found myself without a real job). But now there could be real-world implications that go beyond my current dev problem or desire to help others if I can. It might help or hinder my ability to provide for my family in the future! In some ways it's made me want to get out of coding altogether and find a position in management so at least I can use CSO from the &quot;buyers&quot; side of the fence!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently felt the urge, but admittedly I haven't done anything about it, to come up with a more robust &quot;SO strategy&quot;, whereby I would dedicate more of my precious productivity-time trying to build reputation and research &quot;SO tips and tricks&quot;, in the hope one day that it will lead me to a dream job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation reminds me of some of the counter-intuitive examples put forth by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner in their book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Freakonomics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else changed the way they use SO since the introduction of CSO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134130" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T17:55:40.670" Title="Has SO experienced any freakonomics since the introduction of careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;economics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33716" CreationDate="2009-12-23T09:05:27.923" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has anyone else changed the way they use SO since the introduction of CSO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not me. I always saw SO as a place where potential employers might see my posts, and as such see a demonstration of my knowledge and expertise. The creation of an actual sibling site dedicated to employment only makes this demonstration more official.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I post semi-anonymously, things I write can always be tied back to me, and as such I must be able to stand by everything I say. &lt;strong&gt;Anonymity is a myth&lt;/strong&gt; when words live forever and everything, eventually, might be traceable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:05:27.923" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33716" CreationDate="2009-12-23T09:27:43.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has anyone else changed the way they&#xA;  use SO since the introduction of CSO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. I have always used my real name online for a reason. I think it's a good thing that people are accountable for what they say just like in real life. As I don't plan on saying anything rude or offensive I see no reason to hide behind anonymity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Æther's point about anonymity being a myth is a good one too, even those that think that are anonymous now may not be so in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:27:43.380" />
  <row Id="33719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="849" CreationDate="2009-12-23T09:37:37.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My two cents concerning HHGTTG: Parts 1 and 2 are awesome, part 3 is good, part 4 is bad, part 5 is awful. I hope that doesn't translate to the SO trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T09:37:37.897" />
  <row Id="33721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T09:41:19.870" Score="1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow, Super User, and Server Fault have been growing like crazy - and in my very humble opinion, they have become some of the best sites to ask technology related questions and get prompt, germane, and often correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, there is a large body of quasi-professional answerers on each of these sites who almost make a profession of responding to peoples' posts. I suspect that ego, visibility, gratification, and the reputation/badge system play a significant role in that. Which, of course is good for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO also has features like the CV system and flair that offer opportunities for developers and system administrators to promote themselves and their expertise online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question is:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to CV and flair, what are some ways of leveraging your reputation or exposure on SO/SU/SF to promote your career? Actual success stories would be interesting as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91671" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T13:30:39.673" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T13:30:39.673" Title="How can you use Stack Overflow (and its sister sites) to advance your career?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;self-promotion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T09:56:58.913" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The genesis of this feature, for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have a different preference for how code-in-text could be formatted: change the background colour for that section of the text too.&lt;/strong&gt; That's a lot clearer than quotes in my view, as well as not interfering with code which uses quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posted by Jon Skeet on July 5, 2009&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2593/how-about-quoted-code-samples/2596#2596&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2593/how-about-quoted-code-samples/2596#2596&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one agree with Jon, and I am now quite annoyed by this question as I think you are cherry picking examples (and/or making crap up) to show abuse, when &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; can be abused. Like my bold example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a more typical post where I think the background of the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block makes it quite readable, far more readable than just changing the font -- as Jon Skeet noted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5459/img1y.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; find the backgrounds objectionable in these code blocks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, then I guess &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de%5Fgustibus%5Fnon%5Fest%5Fdisputandum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;de gustibus non est disputandum&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T10:58:29.990" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T10:58:29.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T10:14:54.427" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've made a search on careers to determine whether it could be a good tool for hiring great people, and my search returned me 15 results (I can't see the details as I've not subscribed yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would help me making a decision (about subscribing) would be to know whether those 15 matches are rather in the 10k+ area or in the &amp;lt;100 rep area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you add a feature that would give us a glimpse on that, such as the average rep or maybe a rough idea of the distribution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47341" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T13:25:45.253" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:25:45.253" Title="Could you let us see the average reputation of the search results in the free trial mode?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9112" CreationDate="2009-12-23T10:39:02.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good example of this is on the stackexchange site: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt;. A tab for read-me-first or similar would be good. It depends how lazy people are with searching&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T10:39:02.857" />
  <row Id="33725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33716" CreationDate="2009-12-23T10:49:43.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26844/there-needs-to-be-a-way-to-delete-content-or-disassociate-your-account-from-said&quot;&gt;some people have changed their behavior&lt;/a&gt; because of Stack Overflow Careers, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I view this as a positive and completely intentional side effect. You should always behave reasonably professionally online, plus or minus 10 percent. It's just the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T10:49:43.630" />
  <row Id="33726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T10:55:08.577" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding this answer by request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is like arguing that it's OK for a post to be an enormous list of bullet points. Because you have all these &lt;em&gt;points&lt;/em&gt; you're trying to make, natch! Uh, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If every third word is code, then you're not writing prose, you're writing code, and it should be a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block with .. actual code. Not enough words. So either add more words that explain around the code, or just make it all code, slap it in a 4-space-indented &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and forget about prose altogether. Things that are bad (tons of marked up code with almost zero plain, readable explanatory prose) should look bad. So if you're marking every third word as code and complaining that it looks bad, that's intentional!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too much &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is overwhelming, just like too much bold, too much italic, too much ALL CAPS, too much &amp;hellip; you name it. There should be a healthy mixture of readable, explanatory prose interspersed with small snippets of code for emphasis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, rather than using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to mark up simple identifiers that are only &quot;code&quot; in the loosest sense of the term, use italics.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T11:00:44.930" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T11:00:44.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T11:25:04.767" Score="11" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27702/tags-with-usability-problems-app-config-and-web-config&quot;&gt;Tags with usability problems - app.config and web.config&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I followed a link form another site to question 77127. However the person had added a full stop the end of the link as below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/77127/when-to-throw-an-exception.&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/77127/when-to-throw-an-exception.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was not taken to the 404 error page but a server generated &quot;The resource cannot be found.&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just thought I should let you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-27T04:16:35.270" LastActivityDate="2010-11-27T04:16:35.270" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T05:17:14.367" Title="Bug Report - &quot;The resource cannot be found.&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;error-page&gt;&lt;error&gt;" AnswerCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T12:10:51.740" Score="0" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;HOWTO: Writing Good Titles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6428/is-so-sf-su-search-not-good-or-am-i-using-it-wrong&quot;&gt;Is SO/SF/SU search not good or am I using it wrong?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I search for some solutions to my problems, I search in the StackOverflow search box first, but there are thousands of questions.  Although I filter the questions by tag there are still many questions in front of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I can't find any questions like mine, so then I write my question and wait for the answers.  But sometimes, one of the other users references a question which is same as my question!  This situation costs me my time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any recommendations for this situation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, sometimes some questions have no answers because they are viewed too little, I think.  The problem is usually the title of question.  Are there any recommendations on writing more effective titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:47:52.200" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:47:52.200" ClosedDate="2009-12-23T13:23:20.330" Title="How can I use stackoverflow more effectively?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-12-23T12:32:08.027" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A badge for anyone who asks or answers a question on the Trilogy on Christmas day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131388" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T12:32:08.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T12:32:08.027" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-12-23T12:51:04.333" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selfless&lt;/strong&gt; - For earning 100 (or 200 or whatever) rep over and above the rep cap on a given day.  Would encourage people who hit the rep cap on a day to continue answering questions even though they know that any additional up votes won't help their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130222" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T12:51:04.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T12:51:04.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33734" CreationDate="2009-12-23T13:01:45.543" Score="1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where can I find the list of top 10 users by region or country category?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130243" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T13:32:05.580" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:41:39.287" Title="Where can I find regional SO toppers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="33733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33728" CreationDate="2009-12-23T13:18:46.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For writing good titles follow the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10647/howto-writing-good-titles&quot;&gt;dupe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For searching more effectively copy the title you've written and paste it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:18:46.173" />
  <row Id="33734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33732" CreationDate="2009-12-23T13:19:20.807" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Create a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL query&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:19:20.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33732" CreationDate="2009-12-23T13:30:16.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Location field at user profile is a freetext field, so I think it's difficult to get a clear result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55351" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:30:16.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33732" CreationDate="2009-12-23T13:41:39.287" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; if you're looking to hire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:41:39.287" />
  <row Id="33737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33721" CreationDate="2009-12-23T13:50:56.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that when word gets out, the Career site would be your best bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until then, on your real/paper CV, don't be an *rse and sound like an idiot saying I have xxxx reputation on SO/SU/SF as it makes you sound weird! But by all means write something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I help out fellow programmers / IT Pros on a community driven website&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also bring it up in interview at any possible moment as it shows that you have both knowledge and good at helping others etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had an interview with someone recently and brought it up, they showed some interest in to it as my experience refers exactly to the job that they wanted - However they changed the terms at the last moment and I turned them down.... but I think that adding a link/information in my CV and talking about it was what swung me the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:50:56.770" />
  <row Id="33739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33699" CreationDate="2009-12-23T13:56:32.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the same thing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32343/null-tag-bug-on-super-user&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32343/null-tag-bug-on-super-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21960" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T13:56:32.357" />
  <row Id="33740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33702" CreationDate="2009-12-23T14:40:46.033" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. Stack Overflow is the worst. Just so you all know what he's talking about, this is &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; what it looks like if you disable adblock on StackOverflow.com...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/x1hme0.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We used to do that whole &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/Responsible-Advertising.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Responsible Advertising&lt;/a&gt; thing.... but screw it, &lt;em&gt;we're rich, b#tches&lt;/em&gt;!.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T14:40:46.033" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33743" CreationDate="2009-12-23T14:45:24.867" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every retag request (and re-request) takes another Q&amp;amp;A post which clutters up meta with a very short-lived and repetitive process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be better to &lt;strong&gt;create a generic retag request &quot;question&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and add a new answer for each specific request? Answer voting can take care of opinions and comments can take care of what little meta discussion might be needed for each request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the &quot;retag question&quot; becomes too long to effectively manage, it can be closed as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; and a new one created (monthly?, periodically?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T20:15:38.293" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T20:27:28.423" Title="Should we have a specific &quot;Retag Request&quot; thread?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33751" CreationDate="2009-12-23T14:46:31.573" Score="5" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&quot;&gt;Ban lmgtfy (let me google that for you) links&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen questions asked with answers or comments saying &quot;Google it&quot;, &quot;try Googling it&quot; or &quot;have you tried Google?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These answers and comments do not help and I have seen a few questions that have no valid solutions on the first page. An example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/54684/free-hosting-for-asp-net-3-5/77982#77982&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; but typically I don't see it downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be discouraged? I would like a flag that says &lt;code&gt;Not an answer&lt;/code&gt; (or comment) for these reasons. Similarly, a flag for answers and comments that are questions themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T14:53:16.237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:41:07.010" ClosedDate="2009-12-23T18:42:55.023" Title="Not-an-answer flag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33741" CreationDate="2009-12-23T14:49:46.353" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be an old dog by the name of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg-closed&quot; title=&quot;yellar?&quot;&gt;The Great Tagging Reorg&lt;/a&gt;. It would be one massive canine where each of the answers were requests. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then, it was put down in order for other puppies to run and have their individual say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please add new requests as new items, tagged with the site, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason being that it got so long in the tooth that it was becoming something of a right old mess keeping up and checking the status of retag requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess the individual &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot;&gt;retag requests&lt;/a&gt; were easier to pin down and class as &lt;strong&gt;[status-completed]&lt;/strong&gt; while at the same time allowing for more actual scrutiny/discussion on the individual tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T14:58:31.577" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T14:58:31.577" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33742" CreationDate="2009-12-23T14:54:26.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a very important goal for stackoverflow is to be the first result hit in search engines for every possible programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it doesn't matter if the question has already been answered elsewhere; hell, even copy&amp;amp;paste it (without totally disregarding a possible copyright) but as long as it's not already been asked in stackoverflow/other_website then it's a valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T14:54:26.593" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33742" CreationDate="2009-12-23T14:54:57.327" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why Atwood's Angels have given you the ability to downvote answers. If an answer doesn't answer a question downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is itself a question, leave a comment stating this and flag it as spam or flag it for moderator attention. That's what I do with interrogative answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for comments, I think that the &quot;have you tried Googling this?&quot; comment is valid most of the time that it's used. Especially for questions that have been asked many times before. We do want SOFU to have an answer to every possible question, but that's no excuse to not do your own research before asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T14:54:57.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-12-23T14:57:02.110" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's not my name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Change your name from &quot;Unknown (google)&quot; within 5-10 minutes of registering on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T22:17:23.867" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:17:23.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T14:57:02.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33749" CreationDate="2009-12-23T15:03:34.857" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it okay to ask a question on StackOverflow that looks for information on research publications (in the field of software of course)? These may not necessarily a programming question, but they do relate to software. For instance, would the following questions:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Research on the quantity of reported vs. unreported bugs in open-source software?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Publications on the effectiveness of pair programming?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Has there been surveys of the mental models held by novice programmers?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;...be suitable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe these should be allowed as they not only provide a mechanism to complement the likes of Google Scholar or the ACM digital library, but they would also give an idea of the &lt;em&gt;reputation&lt;/em&gt; of the research. And while they may not be related to the &lt;em&gt;act of programming&lt;/em&gt;, they could definitely be related to the &lt;em&gt;field of programming&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133788" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:05:11.243" Title="Is it okay to ask a question looking for research publications?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;research&gt;&lt;academic&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-12-23T15:10:34.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Life is Hard&lt;/strong&gt; - First time you get an answer accepted an later unaccepted (of course own questions don't count).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T15:10:34.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T15:10:34.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33747" CreationDate="2009-12-23T15:36:48.820" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd vote &quot;yes&quot; - so long as they're not trying to steal content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as long as they're trying to find legit sources, or learn &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to find said sources, I think it's great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has the benefit of being a launching point for others interested, too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T15:36:48.820" />
  <row Id="33750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4279" CreationDate="2009-12-23T15:42:18.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this question is pretty old by now, but I found it when trying to decide whether to post a question on this topic.  I agree that with most that a good question is as important of an asset to the site as a good answer, so I would not advocate taking rep from users who just ask questions.  I think an interesting way to handle this problem (if it really even is one) would be to add a new classification system based on the ratio of questions to answers.  Something based on the ratio while adjusting for the actual number of questions and answers that would appear by your rep.  Someone with a lot of questions (200+) and no answers would have a title like “Maddeningly  Inquisitive” to someone with almost no questions and (400+) answers would have a title like “Shockingly Skeet Like” and then categories for those between.  Better title would be left to those that are more creative, but this would let you quickly gauge the way the user gained their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137548" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T15:42:18.590" />
  <row Id="33751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33742" CreationDate="2009-12-23T15:48:20.963" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could also extend to answers like &quot;Thanks for the help&quot; and &quot;I'm having this problem, too!&quot;. Often times these get downvoted but never deleted (since many new users never return). It would be nice to be able to delete these via flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest, though, that the -100 penatly not apply with this flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T15:48:20.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T16:10:24.657" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;While&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;I&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;agree&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;with&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;Jeff&lt;/code&gt;,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;it&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;doesn't&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;hurt&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;to&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;use&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;user&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;style:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;  p code {&#xA;    padding:0 !important; &#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T16:10:24.657" />
  <row Id="33753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33747" CreationDate="2009-12-23T16:20:05.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! This doesn't have to be purely academic either, as the expamples you mentioned would be useful in justifying software development practices to managers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T16:20:05.210" />
  <row Id="33754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T16:41:29.483" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obligatory Greasemonkey solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name          &quot;FORMATTING OF INLINE CODE IS UGLY AND CAN RESULT IN RIVER-LIKE PATTERNS WHEN USED FREQUENTLY&quot; or &quot;HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE SHOG9&quot;&#xA;// @namespace     http://scfs.me/&#xA;// @description   Will reformat the wonderful inline code elements on S[OFU] to look more awesome.&#xA;// @include       http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include       http://stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include       http://superuser.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include       http://serverfault.com/questions/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;(function(){&#xA;    function jqwait() {&#xA;        if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;            window.setTimeout(jqwait,100); &#xA;        } else { &#xA;            makepretty(unsafeWindow.jQuery);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    jqwait();&#xA;    function makepretty($) {&#xA;    	$(&quot;code&quot;).css({'padding' : 0, 'color' : '#600', 'background-color' : 'transparent'});&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T16:41:29.483" />
  <row Id="33755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33747" CreationDate="2009-12-23T17:13:52.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put me in the &quot;yes&quot; column as long as the research is somehow defensibly useful to developers.  I wouldn't be interested in seeing a bunch of research questions showing up that are related to programming but really represent content more useful to non-developer communities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T17:13:52.280" />
  <row Id="33756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33716" CreationDate="2009-12-23T17:55:40.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a current employer I am interested in what things interest new potential team members, yet I do not judge candidates and current emplyees by their answers here alone.  Does participating at SO raise my interest? Yes, as it speaks to someone's activities to broaden and deepen their knowledge.  Do I care if their reputation is 20K+ - nope. Do I care that a potential employee can easily tap into resources such as Jon Skeet, Marc Gravell, etc. as they demonstrate their knowledge &quot;in the wild&quot;?  Definitely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140861" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T17:55:40.670" />
  <row Id="33757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33763" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:04:22.727" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a statistic somewhere that shows percentage of closed questions on basis of new questions ? Would be nice in a graphic form, but that isn't that important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T18:59:31.490" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:59:31.490" Title="Percentage of closed questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33747" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:05:11.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say yes if you are upfront about your intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140861" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:05:11.243" />
  <row Id="33759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33757" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:08:46.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can look for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; closed questions by typing &lt;code&gt;closed:1&lt;/code&gt; into the search box on the top right. At the moment of typing this, I get 10,347 results for closed questions on SO (which is corroborated by the list of closed questions you get to look at once you've broken 10,000 Rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ratio of closed questions to new questions (with &quot;new&quot; being roughly the last 24 hours) can be found by sorting the list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3a1&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;closed questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;all questions&lt;/a&gt; by &quot;newest&quot; and simply counting. Here are some numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;53 questions closed in the last 24 hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1617 questions asked in the last 24 hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3.28% of questions asked in the last 24 hours are closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2.4% of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions on SO are closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T18:33:28.727" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:33:28.727" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:12:18.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ok I'm going to add another answer...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, rather than using &lt;code&gt; to mark up simple identifiers that are only &quot;code&quot; in the loosest sense of the term, use italics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Italics for code identifiers still look lousy unless it's a monospaced font, which is generally what people are going for when they use \ markup. That's definitely what I use \&lt;/code&gt; for (except in comments when ` is all there is to post a few short code snippets). So perhaps we could benefit from having a new style element for code identifiers? It could use styling similar to what Shog9 suggested originally, but can leave the styling of the code div block alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's no reason why the code div and code span elements need to be styled the same.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. There's way too much snarkiness and personal attacking going on in this thread. It's not about me, it's not about you, &lt;em&gt;it's about making the site better&lt;/em&gt;. So knock it off already! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:12:18.603" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33765" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:38:51.493" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Stack Overflow have automated tests? If yes, what kind of (unit, integration, etc)? How are they organized and used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140898" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T10:22:27.700" Title="Does Stack Overflow have automated tests?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;testing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33742" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:41:07.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be useful to have a moderator-only &quot;turn this answer into a comment&quot; option? The &quot;thanks&quot; and &quot;me too&quot; notes are not pointless; they just shouldn't be answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the &quot;just google it&quot; responses aren't generally offensive enough to merit being outright removed, so they could be demoted to comments as they should have been to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:41:07.010" />
  <row Id="33763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33757" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:53:58.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go. Time is the horizontal axis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3AAAL2AAAAAAD-AADwAAAAAAGJAAExMEAAAAAAAAAAF5EyKZGJGzGPE.ItGZHTEaAADEF6EnEXCJFHAAAADtM6DbCAFKRIGgEkH6HJI7LQNaHMHCO8JdKWOyNJOyNjFiKxJaAAHlI4G0KfLaK-F8UWFwOMTeSMP8LOI7YGSiQ9fjNSXmCmWJLEN4JsPGMoiIMZNIQSOeLrIzh8atS8JzPVI8PLTpH6MqL7MeVSVsQ.OAXNSCNfOlYgT.McMuPlN8MgSDCvWeSsQ-PEVDUeMIT7RzUmJZOpTAZNWpMoXje4WSJsNIINOXKyZ8H0Q9UxImI3MAMJRvIeVJKpPwPUNWNwPULmIUGLLLNLKlSKRPGxG1JfIOL8LANsOUJAOHOJJMPHLZPqJ2HXJVGoTcNXNWOYMWNxJbOgMbNJJsK.IOM8MePpH2IbNrJANDTYL-KPQLLfJaGyGZKWQvQnT5RdKcKUGGLcQfPVKMV2TkGvVAMNQQPIN9JqTPLwKwFXLvNTWLYNPYNFTDMwTTRoNtHEKeKjMsKZMWQtLgONM6O6RSU6NvIVHhNHNMP1LCTbMGGkJtJhI7K5O4NSVcOAPDQjSUUmVJOeMPOIMnROVJUzOqGuHCU8RONyLTMKMKOaKdOeSxOlNWN7IrKrJfSfO3NqO4NSF8JLWuLnHOMCQTJNQnNpM5LQH8MkJ9OhWqPoR-M9HXI.XeWBONPqODPZS4WcSbSuIhL4TvP1RjISKvRfIAV5NqNlXdWPPePCLxNrQMMkRPX5OaQqWkVmL.RxPOSrXEYqZPQjO.SYSjNmQZOOYxVXRWOtSIP.hoTLYESmSVOSQhfpPKP3QJO.S3OWTMMSXlP3WsSaWoTfVdQ-Q-T9O8SUUhYHVeRtVeKTNxT3T4VYQgUmPWS.eEd5YaTqPWSpUziCW0WwYtRZZZTEWJSiMoVBPeN6NNI6RRZFWEaRORZnYGgOWZSxN3S6T1Y8WXUX&amp;amp;chtt=Closed%20questions%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0%|10%&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus graph of community wiki per day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3AqqH5c0T1SWP5OHIyM3DzHnEGIZGXJYLOERJaIbJRI2KYGEOWJEGPE.FFE-FrHWF0GJEmEnDoC3DaEzCsE8GwEAEAImHnSKNuMCJhJiJpOrHMINHHL4KWGVNJJhHhInM3ItSZK9JoGgKxH5I-K6F0I1JxHhGtK-FnJ6G1IIFBJhIHKfN3IsIYGSGGFCFnOOIrEtFEFIGXJyKcJpIiHgG8FOLzHeGBE3JmJRIcFbIfHyGZE8GfIGK5GqDUI1EJE-G0ImINGTH9HpGXIkKPLHIHGSEdG9JXHZJdDxErMbHWJjGdIwIwFOHyFwL.M7G7HxH4EnEDFlJLHoEhIdHNHyG4I8HFF2HWGBJ9IiKwGdE1IRGUD1GvDqKbGrFdFcF9IEKoKwEZHEH2FjGoGeEdGrEQF6GoE2GCJUE7EOE4FfGmEwHiGHDRD1EQEFIOFIE.EKEVEWEhDuDcDzFiELEzE-EAEvDTEEFHBsDxDACzEQD1CtDEFbETFWDqECDWDLDaEOEnEODVE.C1EIERFlCmCdDTEcCeCSDiEUCeDqDlGAGCF1FxEPCqEZD6CTBfCwDSDECpExFcEgEBD1ETERDeD7FCC3EoCNCcC3FvEaEaBoDnEMF0DFGbCkFECGC-CMD8DkDvDxEzEqDWE-C4DHEFEUDPD9DDFLD3DNEXEnDTGdECDUD6EDEWFJDuFdEMDJC4DmDqHJD3CnEUDvEBDEDvEVEKD-EGDbC4EBEWCNEGC0CzDQDIEREkC4DADVCWEoCyECEqDbDyEgEzC6CpEHC2BwClCQC6BfC1CuBpDRDuDyCnDhB0CqDDEzEyCbDYCsFCDEC9ECC4B7B8EJCZDMDaCrDkB7C.C4CqCRCSDGD2DUDNCfCeDgBcDUDtDxDTDeC0CTC2C0DGEdEjDJCpC3CSCQClDWCJDhB7CYC-DsD3CXCtC4CyCRC-DICiCzCBCpClC2DJB.DMBACDC4BTB3Cb&amp;amp;chtt=Wiki%20questions%20by%20day&amp;amp;chxt=y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A|0%|30%&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T18:53:58.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33709" CreationDate="2009-12-23T18:58:23.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Building on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33709/formatting-of-inline-code-is-ugly-and-can-result-in-river-like-patterns-when-used/33752#33752&quot;&gt;John Rasch's answer&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33709/formatting-of-inline-code-is-ugly-and-can-result-in-river-like-patterns-when-used/33710#33710&quot;&gt;Shog9's formatting&lt;/a&gt; (see comments on that answer by Æther), here's a complete userContent.css file for Firefox to address this. Obviously, you'll want to season to taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This covers both in-post and in-comment &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Save as userContent.css, and place under your Mozilla Profile's chrome directory: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On Windows, this will likely be a variant of %AppData%\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\&lt;i&gt;profileName&lt;/i&gt;\chrome. (It may be in Local for you; mine is in Roaming.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On MacOS, this will likely be a variant of ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/&lt;i&gt;profileName&lt;/i&gt;/chrome/, however currently my Mac is not loading from there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;  p code, .comment-text code {&#xA;    padding:0 !important; &#xA;    background-color: white !important;&#xA;    color: #602020;&#xA;    font-weight: bold;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;) {&#xA;  p code, .comment-text code {&#xA;    padding:0 !important; &#xA;    background-color: white !important;&#xA;    color: #602020;&#xA;    font-weight: bold;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;superuser.com&quot;) {&#xA;  p code, .comment-text code {&#xA;    padding:0 !important; &#xA;    background-color: white !important;&#xA;    color: #602020;&#xA;    font-weight: bold;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;@-moz-document domain(&quot;serverfault.com&quot;) {&#xA;  p code, .comment-text code {&#xA;    padding:0 !important; &#xA;    background-color: white !important;&#xA;    color: #602020;&#xA;    font-weight: bold;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T19:09:53.900" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T19:09:53.900" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33761" CreationDate="2009-12-23T19:07:37.197" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has previously stated that certain aspects of the site's code have unit tests, but not very many. He and Joel aren't unit testing's biggest advocates ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T19:07:37.197" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33761" CreationDate="2009-12-23T20:01:59.100" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to extensive use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871405/why-do-i-need-an-ioc-container-as-opposed-to-straightforward-di-code/871420#871420&quot;&gt;IoC containers&lt;/a&gt; the code base for Stackoverflow is extremely testable, the bulk of the tests are written in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001294.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cobol&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/brainfuck/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brainf*ck&lt;/a&gt;, a smaller yet significant portion is tested using 42 &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1696/add-a-magic-8-ball-feature-to-the-ask-a-question-page&quot;&gt;magic 8 balls&lt;/a&gt;, which when shaken in harmony produce magnificent and hypnotizing sounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T20:01:59.100" />
  <row Id="33767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33769" CreationDate="2009-12-23T20:31:34.040" Score="5" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/86809/how-to-download-subtitles-for-ted-talks/87052#87052&quot;&gt;the following &quot;answer&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/86809/how-to-download-subtitles-for-ted-talks&quot;&gt;one of my questions @ SuperUser&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;yes yes offcourse. try this i guess&#xA;  its have nice tutorial&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/yevoq55&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/yevoq55&lt;/a&gt;  and&#xA;  password file is&#xA;  h**p://jesicamaiden.myopenid.com/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it me or is this some kind of attempt to distribute some kind of malware?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these things new in Trilogy sites? Are we looking at a new thread and how can we fight it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T23:05:55.480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T23:05:55.480" Title="Trilogy Sites used as a Social Engineering Platform for Malware?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2009-12-23T20:32:28.877" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kernelnewbies.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/BySFA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kernel Newbies: gotta start somewhere&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T20:32:28.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T20:32:28.877" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="33769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33767" CreationDate="2009-12-23T20:34:16.330" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is disturbing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see it, flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe even email us directly via the link at the bottom of each page if this happens again so we can make sure it's removed more urgently than usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T20:34:16.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33767" CreationDate="2009-12-23T20:45:37.380" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have deleted the offending answer already as I picked up on the flag before I hit meta. I do agree with Jeff that an e-mail to the team or one of the moderators will also assist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find on SU that with very popular questions I do have to spend some time when they trickle to the top to do a cleanup of the answers, and this is unavoidable since most SU visitors don't understand the trilogy, or are drive by visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T20:45:37.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T20:56:41.863" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9797/filtering-questions-by-specifying-multiple-tags&quot;&gt;Filtering questions by specifying multiple tags.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the feature to look at a tag, but find it lacking when I further want to constrain the results, e.g.&#xA;select a tag on Design, get Java, .Net, Smalltalk... when I would like to see just Design + .Net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131474" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T21:49:32.943" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:49:32.943" ClosedDate="2011-03-25T04:42:12.600" Title="Can we filter on more than one tag at a time?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="33772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9797" CreationDate="2009-12-23T20:58:12.403" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This feature already exists, along with additional options for filtering based on multiple tags&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/design+.net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/design+.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you click tags in the &quot;related tags&quot; area they'll be appended to the URL as above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21960" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-25T04:45:29.727" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T04:45:29.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7119" CreationDate="2009-12-23T21:09:29.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think line numbers in code would be useful.  More and more often my questions get the response of something to the effect of &quot;show us more code so we have more context&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is hard to keep the discussion going when there is more than 15 lines of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:09:29.117" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T21:18:10.967" Score="3" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are using a site blocker (Websense, I call it webnonsense) to block URLs that are potentially dangerous or that the business deems 'un-worthy'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow's avatars are blocked by Websense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas why it does that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T21:34:41.697" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:54:26.380" Title="Why do the gravatars get blocked?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33774" CreationDate="2009-12-23T21:24:16.243" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gravatar permits X-rated photos as avatars (sites can exclude them, as well as R- and PG-13-rated ones, from display). As such, it's not particularly surprising that Websense blocks it - they're notoriously trigger-happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastEditorUserId="2297" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-23T21:54:26.380" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:54:26.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33774" CreationDate="2009-12-23T21:33:11.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm unclear -- are you referring to the gravatar image URLs or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gravatar.com&lt;/a&gt; site itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you see this image?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4f7c0c43b0fb87f905d369d42d2667ac?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can see that, then the gravatar &lt;em&gt;images&lt;/em&gt;, at least, are not blocked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:33:11.933" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32103" CreationDate="2009-12-23T21:47:52.057" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've run into several questions that are tagged with both tags I'm interested in as well as those I'm not.  And some I've been able to answer because the issue wasn't necessarily related to the &quot;ignored tag&quot;.  So if it would be implemented, it should be a per-user option to hide/show ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it did exist, I'd want it to apply site-wide rather than just the Unanswered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136717" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:47:52.057" />
  <row Id="33778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T21:48:39.497" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply my qestion is described in title. When I want to ask question I go to stack overflow. Then I click ask question. I type in question and at the bottom of the page I can either type username e-mail etc or I can use openID login. I choode openID login I type there &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&lt;/a&gt; (I am logged in on my google account) and I click post question. And I wait wait wait and nothing happens, a button post is inactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm I think it should log me in automatically. It would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:48:39.497" Title="Asking a question on stack overflow using openID login at the bottom without being logged in" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7119" CreationDate="2009-12-23T21:56:34.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about line numbers, but being able to copy to the clipboard would be very useful, or opening in a new window that has a textarea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T21:56:34.423" />
  <row Id="33784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2009-12-23T22:31:34.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's a very valid point, I disagree with point &lt;strong&gt;c&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These users are (indirectly) giving back to the the community; answers to their questions get upvoted.  I've received several Good Answer badges from these kind of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T22:31:34.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T22:31:34.733" />
  <row Id="33786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-23T23:38:16.170" Score="17" ViewCount="619" Body="&lt;p&gt;Motivated by the deletion of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756/what-do-you-use-to-keep-notes-as-a-developer-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756/what-do-you-use-to-keep-notes-as-a-developer-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903356/email-validation-regular-expression/1903368#1903368&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903356/email-validation-regular-expression/1903368#1903368&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, I disagree with these closures, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions were (and still are) very popular&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have some good information in them (or at least the first one does) and it feels like bad sportsmanship to remove good information from the internet, particularly when it was contributed by your fellow users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number 2 in particular bothers me. A lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I do agree that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community of 10k users should be able to decide which closed questions they wish to delete on their own without me intervening&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions should definitely remain closed, because they either have an absurd # of answers, or are duplicates (though some duplicates &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;need to stick around&lt;/a&gt;). Which means they are eligible for deletion &amp;hellip; forever.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These questions wouldn't survive more than 10 minutes if asked today on Stack Overflow, so in some ways they are artifacts from the past, like dinosaurs in an era of mammals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some related discussion in:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8282/should-popular-questions-be-so-easy-to-delete&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8282/should-popular-questions-be-so-easy-to-delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14652/people-abusing-deleting-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14652/people-abusing-deleting-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I normally favor code solutions here, I am not sure I like the idea that once a question gets 400 upvotes it should become extremely difficult to delete. It feels like mob rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Official policy on the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; &lt;strong&gt;The Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T20:14:11.027" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T22:38:40.027" Title="Should old, very popular closed questions be deleted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="33787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2009-12-23T23:45:49.447" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't see the concept anywhere in these three pages...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Radio Star&lt;/strong&gt;: awarded for asking a question that is singled out on the StackOverflow podcast (either by SO guys or guests)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151122" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T23:45:49.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-23T23:45:49.447" />
  <row Id="33788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33786" CreationDate="2009-12-23T23:52:57.497" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there needs to be some sort of protection around these dinosaurs? Maybe based on number of votes and or answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel similar to you Jeff - I don't like the idea of removing good information from the internet. For me it is an historical question - those dinsoaurs from the wild west days of SO (to mix metaphors horribly), while no longer being alive, they are part of the history of SO and of the internet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd hope that the site can keep that history so that in 10 years time we can go back and chuckle at our past selves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think it needs to be some sort of code solution, since the social dynamic actually changes, and the meaning to a certain reputation changes. It used to be that 10k users had been around for a long time and had attachment to the history of the site, but that of course is going to become less true over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said - this answer is just me wanting my preference to be enshrined - everyone has bias, so to remove that bias, just basing it purely on reputation and the voting power associated with that makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, sometimes, the majority is wrong. AND - it is your baby Jeff, so your bias has to have some additional weight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131327" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T23:52:57.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33786" CreationDate="2009-12-23T23:54:51.390" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;duplicates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you considered a 301 redirect for (closed,deleted,duplicate) questions. You already have merge so if any information needs to be merged to the original it can be. There really is no value in the second example living as 2 entry points to the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;polls of doom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was only half joking when I said we need a polloverflow for all your polling needs. But perhaps the info should be rolled up into a cohesive answer and shipped to a wiki section. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T23:54:51.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33786" CreationDate="2009-12-23T23:54:58.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, 10k community should mark questions for deletion, but not actually delete. Marked for deletion questions then are reviewed, and if contain useful information and answers, good structured and fully covering (like 1st example) — leave it closed forever. If not — delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140921" LastActivityDate="2009-12-23T23:54:58.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33786" CreationDate="2009-12-24T00:38:52.477" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For poll and GTKY questions, I think you need to take more into account than just the number of views and/or votes. Personally, I'd like to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there a lot of inbound links?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there a lot of inbound &lt;em&gt;searches&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has the question and/or answers collected a steady stream of votes over time, or was it amazingly popular for a few days/weeks only to die off soon after.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much as I hate to say it, a question that brings in a lot of new eyes is probably worth keeping around... Even if we're then faced with slapping down all the &quot;me too&quot; questions arising as a result of it. On the other hand, a weekend &quot;blowing off steam and getting to know your fellow coders&quot; question probably doesn't do anyone any good: the users involved already had their fun, and now it's just one more thing for new users to point to when they try to do likewise and are stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kinda like the idea of locking a question when it garners more than a hundred answers. Automating that might be too much, but encouraging moderators to do it manually could go along way towards a compromise between deleting popular topics and endless noise. Locked, fossilized relics could avoid the deletion of &lt;em&gt;valuable content&lt;/em&gt; without encouraging further participation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T22:38:40.027" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T22:38:40.027" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33795" CreationDate="2009-12-24T01:43:49.190" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted an old answer that had a -3 score, and didn't get a peer pressure badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not intended to be awarded more than once, it loses its reason to be, that is encouraging people to delete (what the community considers) bad posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be awarded more than once or not? If it is, could it become like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/introducing%5Fthe%5Ftroll%5Fcap.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;troll cap&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T15:51:22.520" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:51:22.520" Title="Does the peer pressure badge get awarded more than once?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;peer-pressure&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="33793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33792" CreationDate="2009-12-24T01:46:35.580" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10026/which-badges-are-awarded-only-once&quot;&gt;It's not awarded more than once&lt;/a&gt;.  It's also one of those badges that aren't awarded instantly, but rather seem to be awarded on a batch basis some minutes to hours later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really see the value in awarding this one more than once -- it corresponds more to a particular behaviour that you have done, rather than corresponding to a particular question or answer (as the multiply-awarded badges do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T01:46:35.580" />
  <row Id="33794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33786" CreationDate="2009-12-24T03:34:20.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have something of an aristocracy on SO with diamond mods, 3K users and 10K users. The aristocracy can close and delete posts regardless of the will of the people. To some extent, this is actually a good thing. More trusted users who have spent more time on the site often know better than the newcomers what's best for the site. However, in cases like you pointed out, the will of the people is overwhelming and clear. These posts should be immune from high rep users. I'm not sure what the thresholds should be, but at some point questions should be delete-proof and even close-proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T03:34:20.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33792" CreationDate="2009-12-24T03:37:06.060" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's awarded just once. I'm tempted to say it should be awarded for each -3 post you delete, but I'm not so sure that's something we want to celebrate more often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T03:37:06.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33786" CreationDate="2009-12-24T04:25:10.957" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't going to post on this, but I've noticed one item missing from this discussion, and it's the magical ability of diamond mods only: That of &lt;em&gt;locking&lt;/em&gt; a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly, for our historical posts which we don't necessarily want to delete, but also don't necessarily want to encourage copycats in the future (EG, the polls), a lock with an edit by the diamond mod who's locking it might go a long way. For example, placing a disclaimer similar to the following at the top of the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This post is from the early days of&#xA;  [Stack Overflow|Server Fault|Super&#xA;  User], and while we recognize its&#xA;  historical significance, we also&#xA;  recognize that the current community&#xA;  of users will likely close similar&#xA;  posts. Please feel free to read and&#xA;  learn from this post, but refrain from&#xA;  creating similar posts just because&#xA;  this one exists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought. It gets us past the &quot;deletion&quot; problem (IE, continuing to provide to Google Juice and historic reference we all love), while also discouraging future users from citing this as a reason their off-topic and typically closed question should remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a further bonus -- this one just occurred to me -- locking makes it really difficult for the post to &quot;bump&quot; -- only Community will be able to do that, as no new answers, no new comments, not even edits are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T18:40:12.483" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T18:40:12.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-24T06:22:58.847" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14716/sponsor-gallery-page-or-something-like-that&quot;&gt;Sponsor Gallery, Page, or Something Like That?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw an ad right before refreshing the page, and would like to get back to it. I recall some of the wording, and would love to be able to simply input that into a textbox, be given some results, and score SO some cash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T07:40:16.797" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T07:40:16.797" ClosedDate="2009-12-24T15:00:45.647" Title="Search ads for past ad" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-24T07:18:04.227" Score="-5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of times as I read through questions, I see that someone else has edited it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This being a pseudo-wiki, maybe the system should &quot;force&quot; a user to comment on why said question was edited? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of &lt;em&gt;forcing&lt;/em&gt;, but I also would like to see why the main part of the question was edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T12:56:47.990" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T12:56:47.990" Title="Force users to comment after they edit a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33800" CreationDate="2009-12-24T07:23:11.440" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Asdfasdfasdfasdf.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that ok? Forcing people to write an explanation for their action usually backfires. The system, as it is now, is more than ok. If it really needs explaining, a lot of people will voluntarily fill in the &lt;strong&gt;edit summary&lt;/strong&gt; field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T07:23:11.440" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-24T11:08:15.947" Score="18" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just had a question closed while I was composing a lengthy answer to it. This hasn't been the first time, and every time it happens I get the urge to trade in my keyboard for a machine gun and... well anyway, I get &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If close-votes are coming in while I compose an answer, I want to know about it as they come in, not after the question has turned into a pumpkin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138643" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T18:42:25.013" Title="More warning on doomed questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33804" CreationDate="2009-12-24T11:42:32.887" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, add a new question view: Common. This would contain questions that have had both 10 or more upvotes and have 1 or more other questions closed as duplicates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1957836/which-way-is-better-null-object-or-object-null/&quot;&gt;which way is better “null != object” or “ object != null”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1957349/can-you-build-an-iphone-app-on-windows&quot;&gt;Can you build an iphone app on windows?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1543283/does-a-tool-exist-to-parse-sql-to-linq-queries-closed&quot;&gt;Does a Tool exist to parse SQL to Linq queries?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365346/how-do-you-specify-empty-strings-closed&quot;&gt;How do you specify empty strings?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect some at least can be avoided by adding the &quot;Common&quot; view for questions and a note in the FAQ to direct users to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T11:50:44.053" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T13:38:02.670" Title="Idea to cut down on duplicate questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33803" CreationDate="2009-12-24T12:58:05.117" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It won't change much. There's already a list of possible duplicates shown when asking a question and it's completely ignored by some. Adding a common list won't change much, it will only add clutter. Also, on a site like SO, which has a lot such questions, that list will be almost useless, because it will be huge and almost impossible to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forgot to mention one thing: no one reads the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T13:03:35.773" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T13:03:35.773" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33802" CreationDate="2009-12-24T13:17:19.330" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we can see that new answers have been posted we should also see that the question we're answering or editing has been closed. This cuts down on frustration and allows us to focus on other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T13:17:19.330" />
  <row Id="33806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33803" CreationDate="2009-12-24T13:38:02.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few problems. First of all, some duplicate questions aren't that common to begin with. Considering the amount of questions asked already, it's very likely that questions have been asked before, yet no one noticed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some questions appear to be duplicates but aren't because some important condition is completely different from the situation in the original question. For example, someone might ask how to retrieve a list of files in a certain folder. Plenty of people have asked this so you could consider it a duplicate. But then there could be an additional twist, like how to do this on a Mac? Or on a PlayStation? Or in Pascal? Or in GWBasic? Or in ADA on a Linux system? Or maybe even in Assembly for MS-DOS? (Yeah, I'm old. I still remember DOS.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no automated solution from filtering away duplicate questions. Worse, focusing only on the most common questions means you'll get a lot of duplicate uncommon ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T13:38:02.670" />
  <row Id="33807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2009-12-24T14:24:14.763" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, please, please - I have found some answers which were only tangential to the question but which are something I want to save for later.  I use the favorites similar to the way I use the briefcase on SQLServerCentral.com - articles I want to save for later reference for code snippets I might want to add to a library or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18255" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T14:24:14.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33792" CreationDate="2009-12-24T14:29:07.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would encourage some users to try and rack up the most Peer Pressure badges on the site. No thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T14:29:07.607" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-21T12:02:46.083" Score="38" ViewCount="805" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am planning to create a (native) frontend Cocoa Touch app for SO on the iPhone / iPod touch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else started this already so I don't reinvent the wheel. I would be keen on a collaborative effort if anyone else is interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The app will be Free BTW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW I have had an email exchange with Jeff about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" Title="SO iPhone App - anyone else doing one?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;&lt;cocoa&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="33810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-08-21T12:08:27.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to run that by Jeff.  He may have future plans.  I'm also not sure if you can legally do that without the site being your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150074" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" />
  <row Id="33811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-08-21T12:13:09.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely there's no legal issue (other than maybe the StackOverflow name and logo etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a pure reader then there's no issue with reading and displaying the RSS feeds. Otherwise it's going to require some kind of exposed API which will need to be opened up by the SO team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" />
  <row Id="33812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-08-21T12:13:29.583" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be more useful to make a mobile site so anyone with a phone and a basic browser can use the site.  Of course, Jeff would be better off developing this.  m.stackoverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What features would you plan that would take advantage of iPhone specific features?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-08-21T12:16:22.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To whoever down-modded Shaun Austin, I believe his &quot;are you even allowed...&quot; question was related to the iPhone SDK NDA. If so, I don't see anything wrong with his question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" />
  <row Id="33814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-08-21T12:20:37.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Chris Bartow - something similar to the NetNewsGator iPhone app - obviously offline reading of questions and answers could be a feature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it was fully connected then (I do anyway) find it easier to use a TableStyle iPhone app than a web page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" />
  <row Id="33815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-08-21T14:18:20.720" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking of putting together a Cocoa desktop application once Stack Overflow has an API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145082" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-08-22T20:01:44.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I commend your enthusiasm but you may want to consider developing a mobile versions of SO (either hosted here or elsewhere using an API). There are a few reasons for this;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) It will be available to all mobile users. Even if you want to target 'iPhone' specific features, the browser in the iPhone (Mobile Safari) is based upon Webkit which can be used on devices other than the iPhone. For example I believe the upcoming Android phones all use Webkit (and thus any site targeting Mobile Webkit will work on Android with little fuss).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) It will also be easier to tweak/update as necessary to remain inline with the main site. Currently every update to an iPhone native application takes in the region of 1-2 weeks to make its way to users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Beta-testing native iPhone apps is frankly a pain in the butt and limited to 100 users. Even managing a size-able beta of 20+ users is painful and takes a good amount of logistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" />
  <row Id="33817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-09-17T03:40:07.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) If people want to make mobile versions for other platforms go ahead.  But to hamstring any one mobile version just to try and make an app that will work OK everywhere but be great nowhere, is I think not a good idea.  I don't want to see the Android version of a mobile platform limited by the abilities of the iPhone SDK or vice-versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) if someone makes m.stackoverflow.com, please allow us to turn it off.  On the iPhone I cannot stand the mobile versions of sites, when the browsers become good enough on mobile devices there is no need for mobile sites.  I am assuming this will be equally true for Android, or other mobile devices that have a good version of Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) If people think App Store update delays may be a problem for some users, the answer is simple - release as a free app, but also make the app open source so that people can download nightly updates and run them as they wish.  It's not like there are not already other open source iPhone projects, never mind the NDA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I too wonder what the intent of the app would be - a customized RSS reader with some advanced native search abilities might be useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141945" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2008-12-31T02:58:17.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing this from my iPhone and would like to use an SO API to access content. I would like to monitor my activity and quickly access my favorite tags. A mobile web interface would be good to but clearly the site is already mobile enough for an iPhone and Android phones thanks to Webkit Mobile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Apple publishes the Push Notification service a native app could help me get my answers very fast. And a native Mac/Linux/Win client could also use the same SO API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I am home again I will have to see how far along the SO API is to see what is possible. Logging myself in via OpenID will be a big question for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone is interested I could start work on this in February.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" />
  <row Id="33819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2009-02-15T23:01:23.647" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/93431-iphone-optimized-version-or-native-client&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suggestion&lt;/a&gt; at UserVoice for an iPhone-optimized version or a native client about a month ago. With no API in horizon, I started working on a screen-scraping native client a few days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I wrote Jeff about this, I told him we could turn this into a community effort if anybody else wants to contribute, and he kindly forwarded an email from another SO user (who mentioned this question) to me today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen this question before, so I thought I should post an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The client is currently very limited in functionality, and it will still be quite limited when it's finished due to the lack of an API. I imagine this might render it unattractive for some users, but a glorified RSS reader is acceptable for me at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can set up a public GitHub repository if anyone wants to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and here's a couple of teaser screenshots:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cbg.me/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/SO_Active.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cbg.me/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/SO_Profile.png&quot; alt=&quot;Stack Overflow&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33809" CreationDate="2009-09-24T12:43:41.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For anyone interested I've created an API on top of the CC data dumps and on top of that I created a free &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ioncannon.net/projects/geeqe/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;native iPhone application&lt;/a&gt;. As soon as I can find time to make things look a little nicer I plan on releasing all the code for the app and the API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T15:47:17.000" />
  <row Id="33822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-24T18:18:33.100" Score="6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31088/reset-post-score-to-0-on-migration&quot;&gt;Reset post score to 0 on migration&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience, most moved items wind up with a few downvotes before they're moved, almost always due to it having been posted in the wrong place. These downvotes persist in the new location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't a question start fresh with its votes if it's moved to another Trilogy site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-05T05:37:52.680" LastActivityDate="2010-06-05T05:37:52.680" ClosedDate="2009-12-24T22:04:51.897" Title="Downvotes should be cleared on move" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33822" CreationDate="2009-12-24T18:40:25.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps. It would at least give the question more of a fair chance now that it has been migrated to its (presumed) correct home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One related side-effect of question migration is that the votes (and comments?) on a post cannot be removed or changed on the new site, even if the user who left those votes/comments has their accounts linked on the new site (a corollary of this is the observed effect that a second vote can be left).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T18:40:25.377" />
  <row Id="33824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33802" CreationDate="2009-12-24T18:42:25.013" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a sort of &quot;escrow&quot; timer in place for answers in progress.  If, while you are composing an answer, a question gets closed, generally you can complete your response &lt;em&gt;within your open window&lt;/em&gt;, post the answer, and it will get incorporated into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T18:42:25.013" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33825" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-24T18:54:50.303" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure I posted a question last night about IE Common File List and Filemaker but it never showed up in the Questions list.  I also checked SO this morning, since it was a bit technical and thought it might have been moved, but not there either.  I did get a no new tags error at first but fixed it and resubmitted.  Where might it be?  Should I just try resubmitting?  Do I have to have an OpenID to post?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just now when I tried to submit this question i got the error:&#xA;•name and email, or your OpenID, are missing &#xA;But there was nowhere to enter my name and email??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&#xA;ed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T19:58:07.397" Title="Newbie missing question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30766" CreationDate="2009-12-24T19:06:46.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some chemistry background (my degree program was originally in Chemistry before I saw the light and switched to CSc), but I wouldn't ever think to mention it in my personal statement -- you'd only see it show up in my early work experience and in some safety certifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the best way to find me (if you're looking for a programmer with some chemistry knowledge) is to be able to search through all the text in my resume, not just a specific part.  So IMHO, such a search should be configurable to search in any subset of sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T21:45:32.903" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:45:32.903" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7116" CreationDate="2009-12-24T19:49:33.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FYI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A workarround is to put a selectable anchor between the wmd-textarea and the button, with a tabindex set accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140945" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T19:49:33.097" />
  <row Id="33828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33825" CreationDate="2009-12-24T19:58:07.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do I have to have an OpenID to post? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not on Stack Overflow but you do here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pretty sure I posted a question last night about IE Common File List and Filemaker but it never showed up in the Questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What tags did you put on it?&lt;/strong&gt; I am guessing it never got submitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the newest [filemaker] questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=filemaker&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=filemaker&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And just now when I tried to submit this question i got the error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's correct, OpenID was required and you didn't enter one.. the previous part of the &quot;or&quot; is irrelevant on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T19:58:07.397" />
  <row Id="33829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33822" CreationDate="2009-12-24T20:18:29.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the most part, I agree. But perhaps the risk of downvotes also provides an incentive to the poster to post the question in the appropriate site in the first place. Otherwise, a section of people might never bother. This just a thought, I really don't have any proof that this will be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136609" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T20:18:29.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-24T20:25:21.983" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18978/is-there-a-way-to-follow-peoples-activity&quot;&gt;Is there a way to follow people&amp;rsquo;s activity?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of related questions to watch a question for answers, but is there an option (like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jivesoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jive&lt;/a&gt;) where you can watch users for contributions?  There are a lot of users I feel like I could learn a great deal from, and I'd like to be notified when they contribute quality content to a tag of my choice (i.e. email me when user ABC contributes to tag XYZ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140946" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T20:39:05.133" ClosedDate="2009-12-24T23:45:06.610" Title="User Watch Option" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33741" CreationDate="2009-12-24T20:27:28.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To put more context on @random's random answer; indeed, it simply doesn't &quot;work&quot; (IMO) as a single discussion. With separate questions it can be discussed and tracked separately, and I can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request+-status-declined+-status-completed&quot;&gt;the pending queue&lt;/a&gt; easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the individual question, it quickly became impossible to see new posts, or even properly track requests that were known about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They aren't high volume, so IMO it isn't worth trying to &quot;fix&quot; anything here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T20:27:28.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-24T20:31:09.287" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi stckoverflow team, thanx for the site. I can't get email notifications and how do i subscibe to recieve  live rss. i tried but it came as a bookmark what next?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:26:56.017" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:26:56.017" ClosedDate="2009-12-26T12:05:59.000" Title="Can't get email notifications" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33830" CreationDate="2009-12-24T20:31:22.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the RSS option, of course. Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/97992&quot;&gt;yours&lt;/a&gt;. It isn't tag-specific, but probably comes close? There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=java&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;tag RSS&lt;/a&gt; too - not sure you can combine them, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T20:31:22.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33830" CreationDate="2009-12-24T20:32:01.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a RSS user feed on every user profile available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2956/userfeed.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-24T20:39:05.133" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T20:39:05.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31644" CreationDate="2009-12-24T20:50:20.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't believe this is worth the effort.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, if I am tagging something, I wait for the &quot;autocomplete list&quot; to pop up and see what the &quot;popular&quot; tag is that I'm about to type. That was probably the reason for adding the count of questions tagged with that particular tag into the autocomplete list in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and... I'd like to think that even with this in place, there would still be mis-tagging going on, and retagging would still be required. But when a retag request is made, the tool works just the same if there were only one mistagged question or 1500. So &lt;em&gt;reducing&lt;/em&gt; the number of infractions is of no real benefit (short of the frequency at which a retagging must occur), unless you can &lt;em&gt;completely eliminate&lt;/em&gt; the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T20:50:20.303" />
  <row Id="33836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="63511" CreationDate="2009-12-24T21:01:17.953" Score="3" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see questions from time to time on SO about usability and UI design, and I haven't noticed them getting closed. At the same time, UI design and usability seem like they might be a better fit for SU. What do you all think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-05T18:56:43.270" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T18:56:43.270" Title="Which forum, if any, is best for questions about UI design and usability?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="33837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33836" CreationDate="2009-12-24T21:14:16.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is about web design, try &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doctype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T21:14:16.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33836" CreationDate="2009-12-24T21:17:26.670" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Super User would be appropriate, as it is about the &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; of software and systems, not the creation of it.  Unless it is specifically relating to web design (in which case &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doctype&lt;/a&gt; is exactly correct), your best bet is still probably Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T21:17:26.670" />
  <row Id="33841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31644" CreationDate="2009-12-24T22:06:07.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like a &quot;did you mean&quot; feature, as it's confusing most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather prefer a static replacement table that auto-corrects &lt;em&gt;common&lt;/em&gt; false tags (which then also could resolve stuff like SqlServer vs. MSSQL).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the one-off-mistakes, the existing re-tagging functionality seems good enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T22:06:07.383" />
  <row Id="33843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-10T11:50:29.063" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Google Reader Gadget on iGoogle numerous times on my iGoogle page for different feeds. I find it really annoying that it keeps putting the following under every post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;from Recent Questions - Super User&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to remove this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130954" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-25T04:07:55.947" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T05:00:04.203" Title="Remove the tagline in RSS feeds, they show up in iGoogle's Google Reader" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33843" CreationDate="2009-12-24T07:10:02.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it might be possible to remove it with a greasemonkey/userjs script. You just have to remove the &lt;code&gt;div.source&lt;/code&gt; elements from the &lt;code&gt;li&lt;/code&gt; child of &lt;code&gt;ul#list-100&lt;/code&gt;. But if it is not implemented yet, you will have to do it yourself, or find a programmer who can implement this for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you just don't like the names of the feed, you can rename them in Google Reader. This way the gadget will still show the names, but probably much less annoying names. (e.g. something like &quot;from SU&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140957" LastActivityDate="2009-12-24T22:15:50.560" />
  <row Id="33848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33944" CreationDate="2009-12-24T23:45:28.420" Score="1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960062/can-not-resolve-style-from-master-pages-pageload/1960070#1960070&quot;&gt;posted an answer on SO&lt;/a&gt; where the formatting wasn't able to pick up the asterisks used for bold (&lt;code&gt;**&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the following attempt to use bold right after an opening parenthesis (and not working here, since the editors are the same):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(**not** the master page)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140951" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T08:58:04.723" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T08:58:04.723" Title="Error when trying to bold text immediately after opening parenthesis" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33848" CreationDate="2009-12-25T00:23:05.557" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to the way Markdown works, particularly on SO, sometimes you have to resort to HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can fix this by typing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;not&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; the but the one that uses it)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which will render as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(&lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; the but the one that uses&#xA;  it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I copied and pasted directly from your SO answer. I think there's a word missing (my hunch is &quot;master&quot;), but I'm not 100% sure. If you correct your SO answer, please let me know via a comment and I'll correct this one to match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T00:23:05.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33881" CreationDate="2009-12-25T01:24:47.787" Score="3" ViewCount="697" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back I added an entry to my /etc/hosts file for the &quot;evil hyphen site&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;127.0.0.1    experts-exchange.com www.experts-exchange.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It always annoyed me to do a Google search, open a bunch of tabs, and discover I had accidentally opened an experts-exchange page. Redirecting to localhost was my little act of vengeance and lessened the annoyance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, why not configure StackOverflow to listen for requests for experts-exchange.com? Then I'll point experts-exchange.com to your IP address in my hosts file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, you could extract the query string in the REFERER and automatically perform that search on StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1. Search Google for &quot;Ruby upgrade to 1.8.6 on CentOS&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2. (Accidentally) click on the experts-exchange.com link.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3. Request goes to StackOverflow servers because of hosts file entry.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4. StackOverflow sees &quot;Host: www.experts-exchange.com&quot; in the headers, and finds the search query in the REFERER (&amp;amp;q=Ruby+upgrade+to+1.8.6+on+CentOS)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;5. StackOverflow runs the search query.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;6. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555881&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555881&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how many people would edit their /etc/hosts file but I definitely would!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130871" LastActivityDate="2010-07-05T05:21:33.947" Title="Redirect experts-exchange.com traffic to StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;experts-exchange&gt;&lt;configuration&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2009-12-25T01:38:08.503" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/5631/is-it-possible-with-google-searches-to-ban-any-and-all-results-from-a-domain&quot;&gt;not have the other site turn up in your Google search&lt;/a&gt; results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll then save yourself that little bit of disappointment when you click before you look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T01:38:08.503" />
  <row Id="33854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2009-12-25T02:15:52.460" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be fair, as much as we all hate the expert-sexchange, there's something extremely unethical about attempting to misdirect their traffic to the Trilogy. Given the Google Juice that the Trilogy currently enjoys, I think the better solution is to either use a Google custom search (as random has already pointed out), or to simply look before you click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to admit this, but occasionally the expert-sexchange has managed to bring me an answer the Trilogy hasn't yet. I get to the answer by, instead of opening a new tab, just clicking. (I cache the Google results to a new tab first by dragging the icon to the new tab indicator. This works on Firefox; I do not know if it works on &lt;strike&gt;lesser&lt;/strike&gt; other browsers.) Then I scroll. A &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm not happy when this happens, but it's happened enough that I wouldn't want to arbitrarily block the evil hyphen site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In retrospect, when that's actually happened, I should have probably posited the question to the appropriate Trilogy site. Sadly, these days, I tend to assume any question I have -- or almost any question I have, anyway -- is a dupe, without even checking.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T02:15:52.460" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2009-12-25T02:24:18.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can implement the required functionality yourself on your own computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T02:24:18.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2009-12-25T04:02:13.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not worth the effort IMHO. I doubt many people would edit their hosts file, and that effort can rather be spent in making sure that StackOverflow beats EE on Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T04:02:13.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6752" CreationDate="2009-12-25T04:24:24.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion, as a rule of thumb, would be that if one is more than twice as common as the other, go with the more popular one (because that's the one people will be more likely to use when writing questions in the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T04:24:24.067" />
  <row Id="33858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33983" CreationDate="2009-12-25T04:25:32.550" Score="3" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I send a HTTP request with the following headers*:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;GET /api/useranswers.json?userid=XXXXX&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=50&amp;amp;sort=recent HTTP/1.1  &#xA;Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate  &#xA;Host: superuser.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get a response with the following headers*:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;HTTP/1.1 200 OK&#xA;Cache-Control: private&#xA;Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8&#xA;Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0&#xA;Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:56:13 GMT&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there's no Content-Encoding in the response headers.  The same is true for non &quot;/api/&quot; URLs, like flair.  I've confirmed that this behavior is replicated in browsers, so I don't think my method of retrieval is gumming anything up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All HTML traffic seems to be compressed.  JSON is understandably denser than the equivalent HTML, but I'd still expect to see ~25% compression ratios consistently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Omitting some personally identifying information &amp;amp; headers&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T23:49:58.013" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T10:27:14.907" Title="Why aren't &quot;application/json&quot; URLs returning gzip'd data on S[O,U,F]?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;http-compression&gt;&lt;gzip&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33868" CreationDate="2009-12-25T06:16:20.253" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that if you do a search on stackoverflow.com for something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/books&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt;, it forces it into a tag search, and the relevance tab isn't there (so the most important results are pretty much hidden)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when you add a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=books+uml&quot;&gt;second word&lt;/a&gt; you do get a relevance search and so, some very interesting posts come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess what I'm asking is, where's da relevance tab for tag search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-25T18:40:17.797" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T18:40:17.797" Title="Relevence tab for single word search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;relevance&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33859" CreationDate="2009-12-25T07:19:22.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ermm.. my guess. A tag is a well... a tag! A tag search hit is a hit, everything tagged with that tag is considered equally relevent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, please enlighten me if I'm wrong. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T07:19:22.387" />
  <row Id="33861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9482" CreationDate="2009-12-25T07:36:58.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Got any plans to publish this as WordPress plugin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T07:36:58.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-25T07:36:58.260" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-25T08:57:39.400" Score="2" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any health related site like stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T19:25:40.033" ClosedDate="2009-12-26T04:40:26.403" Title="Is there any health related site like stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33832" CreationDate="2009-12-25T09:44:16.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The RSS links are at the bottom of most pages (look for the orange RSS icon). The RSS is also linked in the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; element of the HTML as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for email subscriptions, there are two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;per question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;make sure you've entered your email on your user profile page. You can only get email notifications on questions you have asked; look for the checkbox at the bottom of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;summary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tick the &quot;email notifications&quot; option on your user profile, on the prefs tab. If you're away from the site for more than 7 days, a summary of any activity on your questions will be mailed to you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T09:44:16.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-25T09:48:28.597" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I get the list of all edits done by me or the counts of all edits done by me ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130243" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T18:37:53.717" Title="Get the list of all my edits or counts of edits" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;personal-statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="33866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33865" CreationDate="2009-12-25T10:22:45.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to do this currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T10:22:45.570" />
  <row Id="33868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33859" CreationDate="2009-12-25T12:05:36.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The relevance you are looking for is the Votes tab..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T12:05:36.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-25T17:26:25.860" Score="7" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;After several days of having my default Stack Overflow page flash at me when it loads, I finally worked out what the problem is. The filtering of ignored tags is being performed in the JavaScript code. Wouldn't it make much more sense to perform it in the SQL query that generates the data for the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T12:50:11.830" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T12:50:11.830" Title="Ignored tags processed in JavaScript rather than SQL" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33865" CreationDate="2009-12-25T18:37:53.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130243?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;list of your recent edits here&lt;/a&gt;, but there is no interface that will show you all your edits.  However, this information is in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19579/where-is-stackoverflows-public-data-dump&quot;&gt;data dumps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T18:37:53.717" />
  <row Id="33871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33872" CreationDate="2009-12-25T18:43:04.420" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a comment to someone's answer on SO and accidentally left off the very first backtick, resulting in a really messed up looking comment. Of course I couldn't see the result of that omission until I posted it and by then it was too late to fix it. Is there anything I can do to fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T07:14:28.533" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:17:36.297" Title="Is there a way to edit or delete and reenter comments once they're posted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33871" CreationDate="2009-12-25T19:07:10.340" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outside the 5 minute comment editing courtesy window&lt;/strong&gt;, only by manually re-entering it; note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;destroys the ordering if somebody has commented on your comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy/paste (from the existing comment on screen) doesn't preserve formatting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make typos, so I kinda got into the habit of &quot;copy&quot; &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; posting, so if I noticing a formatting goof I can fix it by deleting, and re-adding (&quot;paste&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T07:17:36.297" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:17:36.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33862" CreationDate="2009-12-25T19:25:40.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fitnessrealm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;health and fitness site&lt;/a&gt;, but it's down right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a weight loss site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slimmify.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slimmify&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T19:25:40.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33869" CreationDate="2009-12-25T19:56:40.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would make caching almost impossible, I suppose : the SQL query would be different for each user, instead of being the same for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T19:56:40.603" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-25T21:10:09.373" Score="2" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or is SO starting to become a Times Square type of place with advertising everywhere in the form of sponsored tags? I wonder if there is anyone else who feels the chilling effect this has on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150180" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T19:39:10.253" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T19:39:10.253" Title="Are there too many corporate tag logos on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-25T21:27:50.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel a chilling effect, you are right. Too much snow on the other side of that window...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T21:27:50.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2009-12-25T21:52:17.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so I cannot yet upvote, or I would have &quot;eliminated&quot; one of those &quot;unanswered&quot; questions (on the first page, about Ruby's &quot;.call&quot; syntax).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, now to go hunt me some rep.  :-D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140977" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T21:52:17.590" />
  <row Id="33878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-25T22:03:56.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you use Firefox and have installed/are willing to install greasemonkey, you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements&quot;&gt;hide all sponsored tags&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24480/script-to-add-more-branded-icons-to-so-tags-to-offset-adobe-branding&quot;&gt;add more sponsored tags to some open source projects&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24480/script-to-add-more-branded-icons-to-so-tags-to-offset-adobe-branding/24481#24481&quot;&gt;some propietary products&lt;/a&gt;. Also you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24017/user-option-to-disable-sponsored-tags-in-the-tag-list&quot;&gt;hide the sponsored tags in the tag pages &lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24017/user-option-to-disable-sponsored-tags-in-the-tag-list&quot;&gt;only from the ignored tag list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T22:03:56.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-25T22:30:56.347" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it really so bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;None of our ads are ever Flash or animated in any way; this is our permanent policy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Earn 200 reputation and the leaderboard ads are suppressed, as a courtesy to active participants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of our ads are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;donated to further free open source projects&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think our site is quite restrained with ads &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000772.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;compared to, say.. this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T22:30:56.347" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37155" CreationDate="2009-12-25T22:47:14.377" Score="6" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've posted a wikipedia link as a comment to this post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1962101/are-there-common-methods-for-hashing-an-input-file-to-a-fixed-set-of-values&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1962101/are-there-common-methods-for-hashing-an-input-file-to-a-fixed-set-of-values&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the length of the link has fallen on the threshold that SO uses to truncate comments and add ellipsis and an off-by-one error has caused it to add an unnecessary trailing slash to the link text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've added the comment to this post and the behavior is reproducible)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T03:01:30.060" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T13:26:10.983" Title="Subtle bug in generating comment links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2009-12-25T23:00:57.200" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is an actively bad idea.  Since Google tracks which results get clicked on, by clicking on the expert-sexchange link you're telling Google &quot;this is a good result&quot;, even though what happens behind the scenes is that you get the answer at S*.  As Michael says, we're far better off making S* beat EE &lt;em&gt;natively&lt;/em&gt; on Google -- this way everyone gets the benefits, not just the few who hack their hosts file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T23:00:57.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-25T23:33:04.317" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These days ad-based income is the bread and butter of most sites on the internet - those that aren't are either backed and funded by some other means (for example online stores or govenrment websites etc...) or require users to pay some sort of free.  StackOverflow certainly isn't covered by the first category, and I am very glad that it doesn't subscribe itself to the second!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I find the adverts currently hosted on StakcOverflow to be fairly unobtrusive - the hosted ads on the side-bar are unoffensive enough (in no small part thanks to not being animated), the most obtrusive of these (the bar at the top) disappears at 200 reputation, and the small icons next to tags are also easy enough to ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think StackOverflows attitude of &quot;responsible advertising&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;leauges ahead&lt;/strong&gt; of most of the rest of the 'nets, and far better that any alternative that I can think of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; If you read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; there are some interesting articles on advertising on StackOverflow - in particular I find the second one on experiments with amazon based advertising pretty interesting:  It shows that a fair amount of thought has gone into balancing the &lt;em&gt;&quot;evil&quot;&lt;/em&gt; vs the gain when it comes to advertising on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising-experiment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising-experiment/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;     &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/free-vote-based-advertising-for-open-source-projects/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="136084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-25T23:38:14.820" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T23:38:14.820" />
  <row Id="33884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-25T23:58:49.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly recommend a sweater. Or a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etsy.com/view%5Flisting.php?listing%5Fid=16488645&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nice tentacle scarf&lt;/a&gt;. Much more practical than depriving the inventors of this entertainment of their living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-25T23:58:49.563" />
  <row Id="33888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-26T01:54:52.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't bother me...  I appreciate the sponsors who help Jeff&amp;amp;Co pay the bills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And besides, I miss my Woot badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T01:54:52.587" />
  <row Id="33889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-26T02:59:32.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, while the Adobe logos were a sore thumb when they first emerged, the more logos we get the more it looks like that's an intentional, integrated part of the design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that bugs me is the white background color on a non-white tag style.  It makes my facial tic act up, but that's about it. This is more egregious with e.g. the Android and Redgate logos than with Adobe.  Everything would look that much more coherent with a consistent background color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T02:59:32.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-26T04:42:55.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always add those sponsored tags to your Ignore list if you don't like seeing them.  You'll need to check the Hide Ignored Tags box on the prefs tab on your profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't mind seeing them, since I'm using a service that's totally free to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T04:42:55.383" />
  <row Id="33892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-26T05:56:08.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I  can understand how SO needs money and would feel pretty cheap to not accept those adds after all the help I have gotten from SO. Heck sometimes i'm like: &quot;wish there was a link to donate money cuz i would&quot;.  The only add that got on my nerve a bit is the one disguised as a question, it makes me feel tricked and I dont like that(though it was effective for the first click, i never clicked on it again after that). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T05:56:08.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T06:52:18.287" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I come across questions that are interesting and I would like to track them for new answers/updates. Is there a way/setting to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T06:56:11.040" Title="Is there a way I can track a particular question in stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33893" CreationDate="2009-12-26T06:55:05.957" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make them a 'favorite' by click on the star below the vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you can revisit the question at a later time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T06:56:11.040" />
  <row Id="33895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33893" CreationDate="2009-12-26T06:56:08.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to Meta, but you could use the RSS feeds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/QUESTIONID&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140987" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T06:56:11.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T11:26:43.303" Score="4" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the moderation tools on Stack Overflow, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959661/why-changes-that-i-made-in-csv-file-dont-save-closed&quot;&gt;a question introducing a new tag&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;[excell]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Obviously a typo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't retag it because it was migrated to Super User and apparently deleted there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to retag migrated questions by non-admins? if not, would someone please fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130637" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T16:09:35.183" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T16:09:35.183" Title="Is it possible to retag migrated questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33985" CreationDate="2009-12-26T11:32:15.927" Score="8" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be really nice if all the next/prev links at the bottom of SO pages had rel=next / rel=prev on them, for use with browsers like Opera or the Firefox extensions that support this format for nice keyboard shortcuts :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157725" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T21:53:25.490" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:00:03.340" Title="rel=next for &quot;next&quot; links on question pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;markup&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="33898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T11:38:13.760" Score="0" ViewCount="755" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32789/what-is-this-spam-haiku-nonsense-all-about&quot;&gt;What is this &amp;ldquo;spam haiku&amp;rdquo; nonsense all about?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509/has-stack-overflow-been-haiku-hacked&quot;&gt;Has Stack Overflow been haiku-hacked?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Got this message after trying to post on SO. What the heck? ;D&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The message was on a empty text/plain page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140992" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T11:38:13.760" ClosedDate="2009-12-26T12:21:33.053" Title="Little slab of meat / In a wash of clear jelly / Now I heat the pan" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33896" CreationDate="2009-12-26T11:59:01.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, no. There is no way for non-moderators to retag/edit a migrated question on the departure site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrated questions are essentially locked on the site they started on.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means you can't even flag for moderator attention about any tagged typos or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/belongs-on-tag-does-not-belong&quot; title=&quot;and they still slip through&quot;&gt;frowned upon tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T11:59:01.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12694" CreationDate="2009-12-26T12:20:18.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was an actual bug in early versions of the official Markdown Perl implementation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T12:20:18.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T13:57:48.807" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the GPL are common. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1963408/if-i-use-gpl-licensed-game-models-does-the-game-have-to-be-open-source&quot;&gt;this recent example&lt;/a&gt;. Dealing with flossy licenses seems to me to be a common issue for actual programmers, and sending all such questioners off with a 'not programming related' flea in their ear seems somewhat hard-hearted -- in spite of the fact that IANAL is the relevant sentiment. Heck, I voted to close this one. Is there some possible middle ground to allow thoughtful answers from people who have enough knowledge to make some reliable statements, however hedged about with disclaimers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:15:11.363" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:15:11.363" Title="GPL license questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;license&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33902" CreationDate="2009-12-26T14:05:31.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you want to make sure, that these statements are reliable? I think, you can't and that' the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should ask a lawyer. The next best thing would be pointing them to a lawyer's site where this stuff can be discussed. Don't know if something &lt;em&gt;reliable&lt;/em&gt; already exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T14:05:31.583" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33923" CreationDate="2009-12-26T14:15:25.507" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reposted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view/11365#11365&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following markdown breaks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![`&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;`Testing something](http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It renders..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Testing something&quot; title=&quot;&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Testing something&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T01:39:22.190" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T02:46:47.887" Title="Inline code breaks link text SO Markdown renderer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="33906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33922" CreationDate="2009-12-26T14:46:55.450" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding a newline before &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'s might yield missing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; .. &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags in other parts of the same post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things seem to be formatted fine if the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is on a new line by itself, or if &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'s are on the last line of their &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks. But if the first closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is at the end of the last line, then using a closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on a new line somewhere later, messes up the text above it, a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example output (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/363e0e45-594f-428a-8c17-57d9a95b7f22/view-source&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Some text in &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;, closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; on the last line, causing some of the&#xA;following paragraphs to merge into one. Editing this pre-formatted block to&#xA;put the closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; on a new line by itself, will fix the formatting of&#xA;those paragraphs, also in the preview.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Line, surrounded by blank lines. Should be a new paragraph followed by whitespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another line, surrounded by blank lines. Should be a yet another new paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;More text in &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;, closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; on the next line. When NOT changing the&#xA;closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; of the previous pre-formatted block, then putting the closing&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; of THIS very pre-formatted block onto its last line, will also fix&#xA;the formatting of the paragraphs above.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Line, surrounded by blank lines. Should be a new paragraph followed by whitespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourth line, surrounded by blank lines. Should be a new paragraph again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above currently renders the lines following the first &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block without any &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/SiE8y.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question originally was an &quot;answer&quot; (not so much) at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view/29085#29085&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;. In its comments Jeff already found that this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/5yuJ1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;indeed a bug&lt;/a&gt; in the original Perl version of Markdown and all descendants. &lt;strong&gt;It's not a big deal for me&lt;/strong&gt;, so I'm just posting it here for future reference. Please just mark it as &quot;won't fix&quot;. (I ran into it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/revisions/67880/list&quot;&gt;revision 1&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/66082/why-do-russian-characters-in-some-received-emails-change-when-reading-in-david/67880#67880&quot;&gt;some answer&lt;/a&gt; at Super User.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T19:53:03.963" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T19:53:03.963" Title="Newline before closing &lt;/pre&gt; might break formatting in other parts of same post" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T14:57:13.833" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/614/can-we-have-a-books-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;Can we have a books.stackoverflow.com?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something entirely w/in the extant structure--e.g., allow the Review to be posted as a question. Perhaps put a word limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Book Reviews are good, but you can find them on Amazon, O'Reilly, &lt;em&gt;et al&lt;/em&gt;., so why should SO have them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, for reviews on SO, the reader knows something about the reviewer.  Second, in SO, a book review is no longer a static text--the real value will be in the discussion it generates and the approval/disapproval of the rest of the SO community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is a place for programming questions, so are Reviews really in the spirit of SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what the SO manifesto says. It also says avoid questions that are &quot;[s]ubjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion.&quot; A pretty large fraction of SO questions don't fit this description. Most of the highest-modded questions outright ignore it, e.g., &quot;Hidden Features of JavaScript?&quot;, &quot;What should a programmer know before building a public web site?&quot;, &quot;What IDE to use for python?&quot;, &quot;Best way to teach a beginner to program?&quot;, &quot;What is the coolest thing you can do in &amp;lt;10 lines of simple code?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the SO FAQ tells us it's ok to answer your own question, which obviously means that providing useful information to the community is what matters, not the particular grammatical rubric in which the information is provided. So if it helps you, think of a book review (again, programming books, is what i had in mind) as asking and answering your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140894" LastEditorUserId="140894" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T15:27:22.080" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T18:05:01.673" ClosedDate="2009-12-26T22:44:36.677" Title="Any Interest in including (programming) book reviews on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;books&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33907" CreationDate="2009-12-26T15:06:23.283" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Book reviews don't really fit within the scope of Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt; What kind of questions can I ask&#xA;  here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programming questions, of course!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt; What kind of questions should I&#xA;  &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; ask here?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion. This is not a&#xA;  discussion board, this is a place for&#xA;  questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest taking a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and consider starting one yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T15:12:02.147" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T15:12:02.147" />
  <row Id="33909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T15:34:12.953" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18759/replies-icon-broken-in-safari-4-0-3-and-snow-leopard&quot;&gt;Replies Icon broken in Safari 4.0.3 and Snow Leopard &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the small email icon next to the user name you see a small rectangle cutting off part of it on the right side. Also issue in Safari 4.0.4 (6531.21.10). Looks fine in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does not affect usability at all but just wanted to give a heads up. Keep up the good work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/1kruS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;imgur screen cap&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9822" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T15:39:05.393" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T15:39:05.393" ClosedDate="2009-12-26T21:37:14.367" Title="Email icon is chopped off on Chrome 4.0.429.43 on Max OS X 10.6.2" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;safari&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33907" CreationDate="2009-12-26T15:40:24.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A book review is primarily a one-way piece of information transfer - what would the &quot;answers&quot; to a book review look like? Bear in mind that SO is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a discussion forum - detailed discussion really doesn't work very well as there are only three &quot;layers&quot; of threads (questions, answers, comments). That's just not what Stack Overflow is designed for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, reviews are more appropriate on blogs than on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T15:40:24.313" />
  <row Id="33911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T16:59:21.153" Score="16" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently it came to my attention how easy it is for someone to get the Necromancer badge multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Repost a popular answer from any of the top most popular questions to the same question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;profit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can even get multiple Necromancer badges from the same question. Not only that, you don't have anything to lose because all those questions are wikis so downvotes don't count. It is also difficult to detect because each one of those popular questions have hundreds of answers. In my opinion that really undermines all other &quot;tough to get&quot; silver badges, like: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/145/epic&quot;&gt;Epic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/18/guru&quot;&gt;Guru&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/27/notable-question&quot;&gt;Notable Question&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes/1467997#1467997&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt; a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes/58658#58658&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes/1683926#1683926&quot;&gt;Another one: same user, same question&lt;/a&gt; a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes/58706#58706&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/1283005#1283005&quot;&gt;A third one&lt;/a&gt; duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/332010#332010&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/870964#870964&quot;&gt;Multiple&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/240861#240861&quot;&gt;duplicates&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/237087#237087&quot;&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/237535#237535&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying the posters in those examples are abusing the system. I'm just pointing out how easy it is to abuse it. &lt;strong&gt;I believe this badge should really be a bronze one if at all. Or modify the rule so only unanswered questions count.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this isn't the only way to abuse the system, but it is one of the easiest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130637" LastEditorUserId="130637" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T17:17:58.083" LastActivityDate="2011-05-07T12:46:07.083" Title="The Necromancer badge is easy to abuse" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33911" CreationDate="2009-12-26T17:05:01.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the duplicates. Mods can then delete them. The posters won't get any more Necromancer badges until they post other answers on old questions which subsequently get 5 up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T18:51:54.123" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T18:51:54.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-26T17:51:30.017" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the ads are such a problem, why not just use greasemonkey to remove them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8715" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T17:51:30.017" />
  <row Id="33914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T18:00:38.873" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been working on my resume on the Careers site and am having an issue adding &quot;blackberry-enterprise-server&quot; as a technology under an experience block. The problem is that when it's added the string gets truncated to read &quot;blackberry-enterprise-ser&quot;. Seems like a column is set too short or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, kind of a problem because I can't, you know, add technology to my experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW, yes, I know I could use BES instead of &quot;blackberry-enterprise-server&quot; but in my experience HR people tend to read from a list so it makes sense to me to use the whole string.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138721" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T21:00:02.253" Title="Is there a character limit for job skills on careers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33907" CreationDate="2009-12-26T18:05:01.673" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the only way a book review would fit the SO style is if the question serves as a prompt for the review, and the answers are the actual review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem here is that asking &quot;How good was X book?&quot; is inherently a subjective question, and would have a difficult time staying open.  It would have to be interesting, highly programming-related, and have a well-stated prompt.  It would certainly have to be community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even then, I think such a question's chances are slim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T18:05:01.673" />
  <row Id="33916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1189" CreationDate="2009-12-26T18:06:51.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the status on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that even the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27229/what-happened-to-the-return-to-answer-link&quot;&gt;return to answer link is removed&lt;/a&gt;, isn't this all the more relevant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T18:06:51.370" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-26T18:06:51.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2009-12-26T19:03:22.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the contrary I think there isn't enough tag ads right now, now the ones we have really stick out as out-of-place and strange. So please sponsor people, &lt;strong&gt;buy tag ads!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T19:03:22.270" />
  <row Id="33918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33911" CreationDate="2009-12-26T19:46:01.113" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is not the Necromancer badge. The problem is those old joke threads. They are sources of plenty of (undeserved?) badges (incl. a bunch of gold badges). Necromancer is just one of the many badges they bestow upon inappropriate discussion on Stack Overflow. It's &lt;strong&gt;much more difficult&lt;/strong&gt; to achieve a Great Question/Answer badge with a technical entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, those joke threads (the whole thread, question and answers) should be closed AND locked to prevent bumping by editing, adding new answers, and even voting. I even suggest moving them to meta as they are bad examples for new questions (What is your favorite...?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-26T19:51:56.857" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T19:51:56.857" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="33919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33914" CreationDate="2009-12-26T20:03:06.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a 25-character limit for all tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13270/how-many-words-can-a-tag-contain&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13270/how-many-words-can-a-tag-contain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T20:03:06.580" />
  <row Id="33920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-26T20:05:32.317" Score="6" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30187/what-does-rg-mean&quot;&gt;What does rg mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33081/should-tags-that-represent-concepts-be-sponsorable&quot;&gt;Should tags that represent concepts be sponsorable?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a tag with an &quot;rg&quot; icon - I had no idea what &quot;rg&quot; referred to, so I clicked to the tag's page - all the sponsored-links were obscured with the &lt;code&gt;ads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; redirect, thus were no immediate help..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could a short paragraph of text be added to all the sponsored tag pages, explaining what is is? Even a single sentence along the lines of &quot;This tag brought to you buy.. Redgate! &lt;em&gt;*thumbs up*&lt;/em&gt;&quot; would be perfect. There's no point in trying to increase their brand-awareness when I have no idea what the brand actually is..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a hugely important thing - the &lt;code&gt;rg&lt;/code&gt; icon filename was &lt;code&gt;tag-redgate.png&lt;/code&gt;, and the links went to redgate's site - but having this information more immediately obvious would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as advertising goes, the sponsored tags are one of my favourite examples of unobtrusive web advertising.. but, a company selling SQL/.NET/Exchange utilities sponsoring generic tags like &quot;performance&quot; just doesn't seem &quot;right&quot;. The sponsorship seems utterly irrelevant to a question tagged &lt;code&gt;[c++] [performance]&lt;/code&gt; or similar..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adobe sponsoring the &lt;code&gt;flash&lt;/code&gt; tag is a great idea. Redgate sponsoring &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt; too.. but, are there limits to what a company can sponsor? Could EvilCorp (who write iTunes based nuclear-warhead design tools, in BASIC) sponsor the &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;jquery&lt;/code&gt; tags, purely because they are the most popular, and will be used on a wide range of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure &quot;Here, let us give you money!&quot; far outweighs &quot;$COMPANY sponsoring $TAG doesn't seem.. right&quot; - so I'm mainly interested in other people's opinion, and if the SO team have any (unwritten?) guidelines on who can sponsor which tags..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T20:05:32.317" ClosedDate="2009-12-26T21:13:21.053" Title="What is &quot;rg&quot; and why is it sponsoring the &quot;performance&quot; tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33911" CreationDate="2009-12-26T21:31:28.127" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Mehrdad; the problem is not the badge, but &lt;strong&gt;these joke thread &quot;questions&quot; that never end&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I closed and locked those two (and actually, one of them I already locked on December 22nd).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T21:31:28.127" />
  <row Id="33922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33906" CreationDate="2009-12-26T21:39:44.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it might be fixable, because per the babelmark link, it is fixed in markdown.pl 1.0.2b8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a new block-level HTML detection algorithm in markdown.pl 1.0.2b8 compared to markdown 1.0.1 but I haven't ported that across yet. I kind of suspect that's the fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to get to that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I incorporated the latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MarkdownSharp&lt;/a&gt; and indeed the new block detection algorithm fixes this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T01:40:07.870" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:40:07.870" />
  <row Id="33923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33904" CreationDate="2009-12-26T21:42:00.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's weird because per the babemark test of this example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/5CBft&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://is.gd/5CBft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shouldn't be happening in markdown.pl 1.0.1 or markdown.pl 1.0.2b8. It's got to be something we're doing, somehow...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: ah, I see. The sanitizer is rejecting this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown input&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![`&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;`Testing something](http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown output&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png&quot;&#xA;        alt=&quot;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;b&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;Testing something&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it's not a Markdown issue, per se.. I'm not sure we really want to allow html tags of any sort inside the alt tag. So I am closing this as [status-bydesign].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T01:37:57.950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T01:37:57.950" />
  <row Id="33924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33911" CreationDate="2009-12-26T22:15:28.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing and locking those questions is a good step. But I still think this Necromancer silver badge is too easy, even without abuse. It doesn't compare to any of the other silver badges or even some of the bronze onces, especially that you can get it multiple times. Maybe we should agree first on what the badge actual intention is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the real intention of this badge is to encourage people to answer old questions, especially when they are unanswered. Maybe we should try to make it fairer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only award the badge when the answer is accepted (Maybe too hard? But it is definitely easier than epic!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or only award it once per question. (Still easy)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increase the number of upvotes? (Not fair for non wiki answers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it a bronze badge. The best solution in my opinion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130637" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T22:15:28.337" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1189" CreationDate="2009-12-26T22:35:25.780" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having 2 versions of the same question on a page would just make the page confusing tbh - I think that I prefer to see the original answer in a separate page myself anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-26T22:35:25.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-26T22:35:25.780" />
  <row Id="33926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33911" CreationDate="2009-12-27T00:06:05.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that there is a huge disparateness in the difficulty of badges in one tier. A couple examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fanatic and Legendary are both gold badges. Fanatic is particularly bad IMO since the definition of a gold badge says: &quot;Gold Badges are rare. You'll have to &lt;strong&gt;not only participate but be skilled and knowledgeable&lt;/strong&gt; to earn these. They're something of an accomplishment!&quot; For the record, I don't consider a shell-script a knowledgeable guru. ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A silver tag badge is pretty hard to get in comparison to Enlightened or Enthusiast badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are just 3 classes of badges. Obviously, Guru is more difficult than Enlightened and they have to be in the same tier, as they don't really qualify for a gold for bronze. I'd say the number of badges in a tier is probably meaningless without considering the exact type of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, there's no real quantifiable measure of difficulty for a badge. However, statistics tell us that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Necromancer is awarded 2894 times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guru is awarded 768 times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enlightened is awarded 8048 times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notable Question is awarded 6139 times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to statistics, Necromancer is not really &lt;em&gt;that easy&lt;/em&gt; and it fits on the silver tier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Achieving Necromancer for technical questions on Stack Overflow is quite difficult (specially in popular tags). It's definitely not a bronze-level badge. Several people who own the Legendary badge, including me, do not have a Necromancer yet. Jon Skeet, with 21 Guru badges, has just 3 Necromancer badges. Actually, I suspect most Necromancers are awarded on non-technical questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it might be easy to game the system and get a Necromancer but you can do it on most other stuff too. You can reasonably assume that &lt;em&gt;most people&lt;/em&gt; won't do this and those who do this too many times will get caught. There's no &lt;em&gt;perfect&lt;/em&gt; solution for gaming problem in a site like Stack Overflow; you have to rely on approximate solutions and statistics show that it has worked quite well so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T11:15:42.210" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T11:15:42.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33902" CreationDate="2009-12-27T00:17:44.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Categorising these question as &quot;not programming related&quot; seems to me a little incorrect - yes this is strictly speaking a legal question, however the question of &quot;can I use &lt;em&gt;*&lt;/em&gt; &quot; is one that a large number of developers will face, and also one that's not likely to be answered satisfactory on a legal site (if such sites even exist!)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously these people should always seek legal advice before releasing a product, however for many people: who are just starting projects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This isn't really an option due to limited startup funds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All they are after is a rough idea of what the likely implications are, before they become too invested &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T00:17:44.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-27T00:40:38.907" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't log in. I get to the ClaimID login form, put in the details, submit the form and, although the browser status bar shows the right kind of activity, the form just reappears, no error message or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to move to Google's OpenID, but all the Stackoverflow move/change OpenID solutions involve being able to log in first, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T01:42:37.377" Title="Is anyone else having problems with ClaimID?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33928" CreationDate="2009-12-27T01:42:37.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend creating a new account and we can merge the new and old accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mail us via the link at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be sure to include the URLs (or numeric user IDs, same thing) of both accounts, please!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T01:42:37.377" />
  <row Id="33930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33904" CreationDate="2009-12-27T02:46:47.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given Jeff's explanation, it would make sense that the following Markdown &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![&amp;amp;lt;b&amp;amp;gt;Testing something](http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and it does. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/content/img/so/logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Testing something&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T02:46:47.887" />
  <row Id="33931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33932" CreationDate="2009-12-27T04:43:04.640" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of us who are unable to attend any of the DevDays because the locations are too far from where we reside. I was wondering whether there's a YouTube channel or a page where we can watch or download all of the DevDay videos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131985" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:30:53.037" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:30:53.037" Title="Where can I watch or download all of the DevDay videos?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;&lt;videos&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33931" CreationDate="2009-12-27T04:49:50.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29004/devdays-reviews-sitting-at-home-crying&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29004/devdays-reviews-sitting-at-home-crying&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T04:49:50.957" />
  <row Id="33933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33936" CreationDate="2009-12-27T05:15:30.757" Score="0" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this today - start posting a new answer or a new question. Now close the tab, you'll get a prompt whether to leave the page or stay on it. Choose to stay on the page, and resume writing, you'll see that preview section isn't updated anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to happen on Google Chrome ( v4.0.266.0) but not Firefox 3.5.6. &#xA;In Opera I wasn't asked to confirm if I want to close the tab ( log as a separate bug ? )&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2697/uploadr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A look at the bug&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T06:41:45.117" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T06:41:45.117" Title="Preview section stops updating if you start typing, choose to cancel leave this page and continue writing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-27T05:23:56.573" Score="0" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5221/what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that-actually-mean&quot;&gt;What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26844/there-needs-to-be-a-way-to-delete-content-or-disassociate-your-account-from-said&quot;&gt;There needs to be a way to delete content or disassociate your account from said content.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in title: how can I obliterate a question that I've previously asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T18:31:23.563" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T23:17:26.433" ClosedDate="2009-12-28T00:53:52.173" Title="How can I close and permanently (for forever) remove my own question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33934" CreationDate="2009-12-27T05:33:53.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should have a delete link under your question, click on it to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/262/uploadcm.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T23:17:26.433" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T23:17:26.433" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33933" CreationDate="2009-12-27T06:05:24.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Opera I wasn't asked to confirm if I want to close the tab ( log as a separate bug ? ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, as much as I would desperately like to, we cannot log Opera as a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I can't repro this in Chrome v3 (current release version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;start composing an answer (or a question, I tried both)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the back button (I use my fourth mouse button which is auto-mapped to back)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;decline the &quot;leave page? yes / no&quot; dialog that comes up (note that this dialog is provided by the browser, not us, so it does vary per browser)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I remain on the same page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can still type and see the preview update&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed you are using &lt;strong&gt;Chrome v4&lt;/strong&gt;. We do not support unreleased beta browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T06:40:50.670" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T06:40:50.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33786" CreationDate="2009-12-27T06:43:59.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm going to focus my answer on the second link (the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903356/email-validation-regular-expression/1903368#1903368&quot;&gt;answer to the duplicate question&lt;/a&gt;). I know the issue of what to do with duplicate questions has been rehashed many times, but I feel more needs to be said about this example.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sorry, but I just don't think duplicates have much value...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary argument for why duplicates should be kept around can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/handling-duplicate-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeffs blog post&lt;/a&gt; on handling duplicates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s often benefit to having&#xA;  multiple subtle variants of a question&#xA;  around, as people tend to ask and&#xA;  search using completely different&#xA;  words, and the better our coverage,&#xA;  the better odds our fellow programmers&#xA;  can find the answer they’re looking&#xA;  for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, the benefit of a duplicate is that it should make finding content &lt;em&gt;easier&lt;/em&gt;, either because it allows for using different search terms or because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32311/do-not-delete-duplicates&quot;&gt;the duplicates have a lot of views and a good ranking in Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea &lt;em&gt;in theory&lt;/em&gt;, and at first I agreed with it. However, I have yet to see any solid evidence &lt;em&gt;in practice&lt;/em&gt; that keeping duplicates around does in fact make the duplicate content easier to find. The only evidence I see is that they &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; working, in that questions keep getting asked over and over again. If they were easier to find, people shouldn't keep asking them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple examples of such overly-duplicated questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The example given in the question regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903356/email-validation-regular-expression&quot;&gt;using regex for parsing email adresses&lt;/a&gt;. You can search &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=regex+email+address&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;regex email address&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on SO and find &lt;em&gt;numerous&lt;/em&gt; duplicates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The near weekly re-asking of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30251/tables-instead-of-divs&quot;&gt;DIVs versus TABLEs&lt;/a&gt; question, which also has &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=div+vs+table&quot;&gt;way too many duplicates&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If duplicates had their intended effect of making content easier to find, why are these questions still getting asked ad nauseum? Maybe people just aren't trying to search in the first place, in which case duplicates are useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;As if duplicate questions weren't annoying enough, do we have to deal with duplicate answers too?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903356/email-validation-regular-expression/1903368#1903368&quot;&gt;second example&lt;/a&gt; in the question brings up another point: What incentive is there for people to close duplicates instead of just repost duplicate answers and reap more Rep and badges? And what's worse, the poster of that answer wasn't apparently satisfied with the hundreds of Rep and gold badge he got, he had to go and repost &lt;em&gt;verbatim&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1917545/regular-expression-returning-false-why/1917564#1917564&quot;&gt;same answer for another question&lt;/a&gt; 2 days later!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is this very bad form, in my opinion, but it points out how some people may not even bother voting to close duplicates when they can get Rep by just copying content from another question. Instead of closing it and supplying a link to the duplicate, it just leads to &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; redundant clutter. It seems silly to award this behavior by allowing the duplicate to linger and the answers to gain votes that they don't really deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T06:43:59.260" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33934" CreationDate="2009-12-27T06:44:17.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can delete your own question, but only as long as it doesn't have too many answers or answer upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is to prevent question owners from removing quality answers along with their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T06:44:17.607" />
  <row Id="33939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2009-12-27T07:17:01.197" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can now edit your own comments after you post them, within a 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you know a comment has been edited? A little pencil icon will appear next to it. The mouseover title tooltip explains what this pencil icon means, and also provides a count of how many times the comment was edited in that 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can edit any comments at any time. This action is logged and visible in that moderator's user history to other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:17:01.197" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33871" CreationDate="2009-12-27T07:17:14.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can now edit your own comments after you post them, within a 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you know a comment has been edited? A little pencil icon will appear next to it. The mouseover title tooltip explains what this pencil icon means, and also provides a count of how many times the comment was edited in that 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can edit any comments at any time. This action is logged and visible in that moderator's user history to other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:17:14.753" />
  <row Id="33941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25831" CreationDate="2009-12-27T07:18:56.870" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can now edit your own comments after you post them, within a 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you know a comment has been edited? A little pencil icon will appear next to it. The mouseover title tooltip explains what this pencil icon means, and also provides a count of how many times the comment was edited in that 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can edit any comments at any time. This action is logged and visible in that moderator's user history to other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T07:18:56.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33848" CreationDate="2009-12-27T08:57:51.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was experimenting with stricter interpretations of bold and italic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a lot of problems with StackExchange sites (particularly Math Overflow, and all their wacky math notation schemes) where bold and italic are interfering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, we reverted to something similar to the Markdown standard..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=16&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=16&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the &lt;code&gt;***bold and italic***&lt;/code&gt; should now work: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;bold and italic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T08:57:51.683" />
  <row Id="33945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33947" CreationDate="2009-12-27T10:23:51.767" Score="2" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; blocks have a list of fixed width fonts specified in the style sheet, and I'd like them to just be &lt;code&gt;monospace&lt;/code&gt; instead. I know I can override it with stylish on firefox to use Droid Sans Mono, but I think it would be better if the font choice wasn't enforced in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138149" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T07:00:25.610" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T07:09:55.247" Title="Not enforcing fixed width font family" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;style&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;&lt;fixed-width&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33945" CreationDate="2009-12-27T11:23:45.123" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't use &lt;code&gt;font-family: monospace&lt;/code&gt; due to massive, hairy bugs in Safari / Chrome / WebKit regarding them. Although these bugs are of the &quot;this is how &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; interpret the spec&quot; type, it's worth pointing out that no other popular browser interprets them this way.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/103606&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/103606&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webkit.org/blog/67/strange-medium/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webkit.org/blog/67/strange-medium/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The moral of the story: be wary of tt, pre and font-family: monospace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want it fixed, file bugs against WebKit. There is no way I'm willingly going back to that particular &lt;code&gt;font-family: monospace&lt;/code&gt; hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: thanks to Ludwig's answer, we now have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/02/12/fixed-monospace-sizing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a valid workaround&lt;/a&gt;! Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* I call this &quot;Opera Syndrome&quot;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T07:09:55.247" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T07:09:55.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1262" CreationDate="2009-12-27T12:42:09.640" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't reproduce your first scenario, I see &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; highlighted. And I'm here because I, too, think that highlighting everything is... a bit annoying, and certainly not useful. But where to log this wishlist bug?  Here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: And I agree with your &quot;if I filter by one of my favorite tags, highlight those questions with additional tags I favor&quot;. Was my first thought when I saw the filter display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140977" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T12:42:09.640" />
  <row Id="33949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="915" CreationDate="2009-12-27T12:42:26.067" Score="-52" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;declining -- you can always cast a reopen vote if the post gets closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that all close votes automatically expire after two days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and for that matter reopen votes, or any other vote that attempts to reach a threshold -- otherwise, over an absurdly long period of time, say 10 years, &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; would reach the threshold eventually through a tiny trickle of accumulated votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-16T09:21:51.610" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T09:21:51.610" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="125" CreationDate="2009-12-27T12:48:18.987" Score="-40" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Declining, because there's already a solution: track the question (favorite it, or leave it open in a tab in your browser) and if it reaches the close threshold, vote to reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the 10k rep tools include a report that will show you &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;recently closed questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions with close votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions with open votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I plan to improve this a bit in the future.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That gives you the ability to monitor questions that are on the edge either way and vote to close or reopen. But remember, you can only vote to close once and vote to reopen once on the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T12:48:18.987" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="33951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33858" CreationDate="2009-12-27T13:27:03.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This surely is based on the headers sent by your application, but maybe also uses some server-side caching? If server-side caching is used, then &lt;strong&gt;maybe even OTHERS who are requesting the same resource have some effect on the result&lt;/strong&gt;, if they are not specifying &quot;Accept-Encoding: gzip&quot; for their request? This might especially be true for GET requests, which may be cached. (A server will probably not cache POST results, unless it knows exaclty what the web application is doing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Web-Sniffer, when enabling &quot;Accept-Encoding: gzip&quot; for a &quot;flair&quot; request, &lt;a href=&quot;http://web-sniffer.net/?gzip=yes&amp;amp;type=POST&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.stackoverflow.com%2Fusers%2Fflair%2F84237.js%3Ftheme%3Dclean&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I &lt;strike&gt;only&lt;/strike&gt; always seem to get gzip'd results&lt;/a&gt; when using POST. But, when &lt;a href=&quot;http://web-sniffer.net/?gzip=yes&amp;amp;type=GET&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmeta.stackoverflow.com%2Fusers%2Fflair%2F84237.js%3Ftheme%3Dclean&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;using GET&lt;/a&gt; the results seem more random, maybe due to caching? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disabling &quot;Accept-Encoding: gzip&quot; when using GET surely never gets me gzip, but enabling it does not yield gzip until the values for &quot;Cache-Control:&quot; and &quot;Expires:&quot; have expired. When switching from non-gzip to gzip, the response&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Cache-Control: public, max-age=3   &#xA;Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=utf-8    &#xA;Expires: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:12:57 GMT  &#xA;Last-Modified: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:09:57 GMT&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...eventually becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Cache-Control: public, max-age=180 &#xA;Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=utf-8    &#xA;Content-Encoding: gzip  &#xA;Expires: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:16:05 GMT  &#xA;Last-Modified: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:13:05 GMT&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Earlier, switching User Agent &lt;em&gt;seemed&lt;/em&gt; to yield gzip results, but those were not consistent after all. It seems that switching from POST to GET always gets me gzip for the next request? Sorry, I thought I found consistent behaviour in earlier revisions of this answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T14:11:41.353" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T14:11:41.353" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33953" CreationDate="2009-12-27T15:35:38.710" Score="2" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In StackOverflow, I always wanted the ability to edit my comments. Previously I used to delete them and write a new one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly today, I started noticing &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; link next to my comments. Maybe I didn't notice till now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is there only for some of my comments and not others. Why is it so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, some of those &lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt; links are gone. Is the comment editable only for a certain amount of time after writing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T15:45:04.103" Title="Some of my comments in SO are editable while others aren't.. Why?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33952" CreationDate="2009-12-27T15:45:04.103" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was covered here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments/33939#33939&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments/33939#33939&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can now edit your own comments after you post them, within a 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you know a comment has been edited? A little pencil icon will appear next to it. The mouseover title tooltip explains what this pencil icon means, and also provides a count of how many times the comment was edited in that 5 minute window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moderators can edit any comments at any time. This action is logged and visible in that moderator's user history to other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T15:45:04.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33957" CreationDate="2009-12-27T18:50:43.067" Score="5" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Add Comment&quot; button on SO has started appearing to the right of the comment text input box. This makes it get covered up by the text for adverts et al. Can we have it appearing under the comment input, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/8/xc/9c/36t%5Fbor.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/8/xc/9c/36t_bor.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John's suggestion of using non-text zoom has improved things. However, I still get this strange display when I edit a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/6/qe/zq/s2u%5Fbor.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://kwout.com/cutout/6/qe/zq/s2u_bor.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T21:20:44.300" LastActivityDate="2010-04-15T12:49:26.787" Title="Comment button problem on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33954" CreationDate="2009-12-27T20:36:36.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have on many occasions found that this sort of error was because of PeerBlock, ProtoWall, or an ad-blocker blocking an external CSS or JS file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disable AdBlock, NoScript, etc. Those very addons (ie ad blockers) are exactly the ones that cause this sort of behavior on web pages. Turn off all extensions as well as external security things like IP blockers, etc. and see if it works. Then you can go through the process of figuring out which blocking app is the one that is causing it and which IP/site/file/etc. is being blocked, then create an exception for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131979" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T20:36:36.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33954" CreationDate="2009-12-27T20:42:22.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4315/commentedit.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T20:42:22.920" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33954" CreationDate="2009-12-27T21:19:49.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your strange display is normal. It just shows the comment edit box and the box to enter a complete new comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks different from my previous shot, because your comment is the last one, just above the &quot;add comment&quot; box. In my shot it was a comment between two other comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-27T22:46:36.443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-27T22:46:36.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-27T22:11:21.233" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the last close vote (duplicate) to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1966995/does-java-have-a-tool-like-reflector-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. After I closed it, it contained this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt; **Possible Duplicates:**  &#xA;&amp;gt; [Reflector for Java?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/722378/reflector-for-java)  &#xA;&amp;gt; [](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/718935/is-a-functional-language-a-good-choice-for-a-flight-simulator-how-about-lisp/722387#722387)  &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;does java have a tool like reflector?  i.e. to decompile the code&#xA;&#xA;can java be just as easily decompiled as .net?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming it contained only the bottom two lines and not the empty link before being closed and &lt;strong&gt;not the link with no text.&lt;/strong&gt; The other peculiar thing is the id of the question that all five of us closed it as a duplicate of (722378) appears twice in the destination of the empty link at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously isn't a huge deal, but I thought I'd report this anyway. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T10:43:02.503" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T10:43:19.643" Title="odd text inserted into duplicate question that was closed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33958" CreationDate="2009-12-28T02:12:29.183" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first link links to question 7223&lt;b&gt;78&lt;/b&gt;, the second one to answer 7223&lt;b&gt;87&lt;/b&gt;. (You can submit an answer id as the duplicate id, that's not prevented on submit on the server. That's probably the real bug here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T02:12:29.183" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T02:33:39.133" Score="-1" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6776/can-we-have-a-setting-that-defaults-our-searches-to-google&quot;&gt;Can we have a setting that defaults our searches to Google?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than doing a search from google or needing a google toolbar, might SO be able to put the google search entry on the page, or use google for searching?  Right now the search on SO is pretty bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T02:50:52.543" ClosedDate="2009-12-28T03:32:23.603" Title="Since the SO search is not that good, please have a link to google search or provide some kind of similar option" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33963" CreationDate="2009-12-28T02:50:52.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the fact that this is a dupe, your feature request is already implemented. Scroll to the bottom of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;Search page&lt;/a&gt;, and you'll see search boxes for Google and Bing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T02:50:52.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33967" CreationDate="2009-12-28T04:54:29.093" Score="4" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this question is not to find out how SO protects its sitemap in order to subvert it, so to that end, I don't expect an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, questions around SO's sitemap have popped up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22308/stackoverflow-sitemap-wtf&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22308/stackoverflow-sitemap-wtf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19805/does-stackoverflow-have-a-sitemap&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19805/does-stackoverflow-have-a-sitemap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the initial statement (but hey, an exact answer would be accepted as well), is there any guidance or set of rules/experiences/info which would indicate what to look at when protecting a sitemap like SO's, dos and don'ts as well as the tradeoffs/risks involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140951" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T09:49:30.397" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T09:49:30.397" Title="How does Stack Overflow protect its sitemap?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;&lt;security&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="33966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T05:05:22.063" Score="2" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;Should we be allowed to edit comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure beats copy/paste/edit/submit/delete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything I should know about it?  Is there a time-limit on edits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T05:07:47.907" ClosedDate="2009-12-28T05:07:55.520" Title="Love the new edit feature on comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="33967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33965" CreationDate="2009-12-28T05:06:20.390" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have to protect the sitemap because it's &lt;em&gt;enormous&lt;/em&gt;; we only publish the last 50k questions, but that's a huge XML file. It's not like it contains any secrets or anything -- it's just an XML file with a list of the last 50k questions to be updated on any of the trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before we did this, it used up many gigabytes of bandwidth through incorrect retrievals. We think badly written Firefox plugins were mostly to blame, but it's hard to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, we use a whitelist type approach. If you're on the whitelist, you get to retrieve the sitemap. If you are not, you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T05:06:20.390" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="33968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33966" CreationDate="2009-12-28T05:07:47.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All kudos go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jarrod&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Info on the feature is in the [feature-request] question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T05:07:47.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32264" CreationDate="2009-12-28T05:19:22.640" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question, and thank you for thinking of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try mightily to post &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; the relevant bits of the code -- &lt;strong&gt;you will get better answers if you limit the amount of reading people have to do&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing more offputting and intimidating than trying to read a question which is little more than a giant wall of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In extreme cases, it also feels a bit like &quot;do my work for me&quot;, as well..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T05:19:22.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-29T20:30:13.363" Score="154" ViewCount="897" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: The following paragraph is left over from when this question was closed on SO, before it was migrated.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closed&lt;/strong&gt;. Yes, this is an interesting question, but there is now over 1200 answers (41 pages). In terms of data (since this is tagged as &quot;research&quot;), there is nothing to gain from having this question remain open (there should be more than any interesting metrics to be retrieved from this many answers). Also, it is becoming a bit of a nuisance being constantly on the Stack Overflow home page - as said by Simucal in this questions comments,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This question was initially interesting but it is such an easy &quot;question/poll&quot; and applicable to ~everyone~ that it is never going to leave the front page. There will always be an onslaught of new users posting data to it. It was a worthwhile experiment but should it be on the front page forever?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would appreciate it if you didn't just reopen/rollback this message, at least not without some discussion regarding the above points!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reiterate - this is an interesting question, but it has run its course! Remember, closing a question doesn't mean it is deleted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Stack Overflow's 31st podcast, Joel asked Jeff if he knew a 53 year old programmer, or someone that has been programming for more than 25 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, here is the perfect place to ask such a survey-like question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest placing a line with two numbers, like that:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;your-age-now, age-you-started-coding&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;so it would be easy to create a .csv file, extract histograms and have a clearer picture on ages and years of experience within the programming community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit by Mark Harrison. Here's a quick and dirty Bash script that will fetch all the data that has been posted in the suggested format. Figure out some interesting stats and post them!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;for x in `curl -s http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327973|&#xA;          egrep span.class..page-numbers|&#xA;          sed -e 's/.*&amp;lt;span class=&quot;page-numbers&quot;&amp;gt;//' -e 's/&amp;lt;.*//'|&#xA;          head -1`;do&#xA;    curl -s &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/327973?page=$x&quot;&#xA;done|&#xA;egrep class=.post.text|&#xA;sed -e 's/.*&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;//' -e 's/&amp;lt;.*//' -e 's/ //g'|egrep '^[0-9,]+$'|&#xA;sort&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T18:29:33.407" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T18:29:33.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-29T23:27:40.430" ClosedDate="2010-09-02T00:25:17.027" Title="How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;research&gt;&lt;experience&gt;" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="33" />
  <row Id="33971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2008-11-30T01:37:22.993" Score="171" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;30, 14&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dei.unipd.it/~rampo/stuff/ages3.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some statistics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Sample size:                         899&#xA;(1) Current age:                     avg   31.9 std.dev  9.8&#xA;(2) Age when started programming:    avg   13.4 std.dev  5.0&#xA;(3) Year when started programming:   avg 1994.6 std.dev  5.0&#xA;(4) Correlation between (1) and (2): 0.3&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Althought a chi-square test should be done to check for a real dependence between the current age and the age at which people learned programming, the slightly positive correlation coefficient seems to suggest that younger people tend to learn at an earlier age than was possible for older people (this is intuitive, for availability of computers and free compilers has increased more and more in time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The updated source code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dei.unipd.it/~rampo/stuff/ages.py&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, improved with suggestions from dblack and others, and with a check for the date of last editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Also it would be really interesting to normalize the age distribution against the percentage of the population who were programmers at the time each person started (or assume late teens).  There seems a large drop at around 50 or so which would roughly correspond to the arrival of personal computers when these people were that age.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145978" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-30T01:37:22.993" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="33972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2008-12-01T17:11:51.670" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;35, 7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BASIC on the TI 99/4A.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite a bit later I moved to a PC AT with BASIC, then TrueBasic, then C, asm.  Learned Pascal in high school, then everything basically exploded and I don't really think I want to bother writing it all down.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Here is an updated set of graphs adding the number of years programming and the year the programmer started.  The modified source is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.griffin.net/age2/age2.py&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't have the reputation to edit the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;REQUEST:  Someone with enough reputation please take this graph and the link to the modified source and add them to the original post.  Feel free to re-host them if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd tweak them a bit more, but I don't really know python or the modules used.  I also sadly just don't have the time to research it further.  It's a fun topic, though.  Thanks to the original contributors!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www2.griffin.net/age2/age2.png&quot; alt=&quot;plots&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-01T17:11:51.670" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="33973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:24:33.943" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Commodore BASIC on the Vic 20, age 5, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1170" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:24:33.943" />
  <row Id="33974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:26:08.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;6, with prolog and basic (then visual basic) at the same time (Do bear in mind, im 25)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1276" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:26:08.587" />
  <row Id="33975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:26:50.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paper-BASIC at age of 8 (didn't have a computer, so I started programming on paper)&#xA;and this was going on for about two year&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next year I spent trying to make my programs work in Atari BASIC on Atari 65XE...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:26:50.287" />
  <row Id="33976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:27:07.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;BBC BASIC on an Acorn BBC Model B at the age of 10. 6502 assembler at age 11 then my brother told me I'd get beaten up at secondary school if &quot;you are a nerd&quot;, so I started smoking instead! Bad move. Took me years to catch up in my twenties!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133351" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:27:07.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:32:53.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just started C++ about a year ago. I'm 22 going on 23. I was one of those guys that played sports and whatnot, never had a real interest in computers. But, about a year ago I decided to give it a go and decided I loved it :) Now onto Delphi :o&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:32:53.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:33:38.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must have been a slow starter, started out with Commodore Basic (Amiga) and shortly after Turbo Pascal, at the age of 14-15 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:33:38.340" />
  <row Id="33979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:34:59.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MSX BASIC, at age 6, I think. (I'm 28 now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was actually my grandmother who taught me! Now the roles have been reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:34:59.443" />
  <row Id="33980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:35:33.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started with Basic at 8 (with an Olivetti, a commodor-like machine), then I moved to gwbasic on a 486, then Turbo Pascal...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133399" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:35:33.420" />
  <row Id="33981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-07-23T09:38:08.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;33, 16&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GWBASIC, on DOS 3.3 on my dad's new 80286 as a teen in high school. I still remember the lights going on when it twigged how to write a basic event flow, i.e. (I've forgotten the syntax though):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;10 PRINT &quot;&amp;gt;&quot;&#xA;20 getinput&#xA;30 IF input = &quot;GO NORTH&quot; THEN GOTO 100&#xA;40 IF input = &quot;GO SOUTH&quot; THEN GOTO 200&#xA;.. etc.&#xA;50 IF input = &quot;QUIT&quot; THEN GOTO 70&#xA;60 GOTO 10&#xA;70 EXIT&#xA;..&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all had to start somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160618" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T08:07:50.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-07-23T09:38:08.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33858" CreationDate="2009-12-28T10:15:27.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historically, the problem is that when you use IIS 7's built in caching via .NET, it ignores all compression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means the first request (returned by the application code) will be gzipped, and all subsequent requests (returned by the built in default ASP.NET / IIS 7 caching) will be pulled from the cache and returned uncompressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very annoying. We use our own caching to get around it, but there are places where we still use the built-in IIS 7 / ASP.NET caching functionality, and it will behave the way I described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: OK, we fixed this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-26T10:27:14.907" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T10:27:14.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33761" CreationDate="2009-12-28T10:22:27.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This goes without saying, but IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual &lt;strong&gt;reusable components&lt;/strong&gt; are eminently testable. So much so that they are &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; wins, and you'd be a fool not to have tons of unit testing wrapped around them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinks like.. say... our &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;c# markdown processor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;almost none of the code that most programmers produce on real world, typical projects is actually reusable in any meaningful way&lt;/strong&gt;. And writing truly reusable code is about two orders of magnitude harder -- even with unit tests -- than writing typical one-off &quot;just get it done&quot; code. It takes many times the amount of effort to produce the same result if you want to build something that is legitimately reusable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: The &quot;Rule of Three&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://maheshpai.info/?p=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://maheshpai.info/?p=20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T10:22:27.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33897" CreationDate="2009-12-28T10:38:21.580" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the correct syntax here? Where is this documented in the HTML 4.01 spec?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, found it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN&quot;&#xA;   &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;HTML&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;HEAD&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;TITLE&amp;gt;Chapter 2&amp;lt;/TITLE&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;LINK rel=&quot;Index&quot; href=&quot;../index.html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;LINK rel=&quot;Next&quot;  href=&quot;Chapter3.html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;LINK rel=&quot;Prev&quot;  href=&quot;Chapter1.html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/HEAD&amp;gt;&#xA;...the rest of the document...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but wait -- only the oddball &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag? Does this syntax work for hyperlinks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;next&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's easiest, anything else and this is not worth doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: the op &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all the &lt;strong&gt;next/prev links&lt;/strong&gt; at the bottom of SO pages had rel=next / rel=prev on them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already do &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;tag&quot;&lt;/code&gt; on links that are tags, so I am going to do the same for the pagination next and previous links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T21:55:22.803" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T21:55:22.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33989" CreationDate="2009-12-28T10:54:43.430" Score="2" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I format this code so that the &quot;#&quot; is not treated as &quot;start of comment&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17413" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T13:38:28.937" Title="How do I escape # in code" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="33987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T11:18:56.277" Score="0" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I put in a block of C code into my posts?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there some kind of formatting trick in the textarea of the post that needs to be done in order for it to show up properly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T14:03:42.667" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T14:03:42.667" Title="Posting code written in C language" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33986" CreationDate="2009-12-28T11:25:25.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no special escape code for this. The code painter is general purpose, and isn't a 100% hit for any language. Usually it does enough of a job to be useful, without requiring us all to constantly nominate a language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be a case for some extra logic here for another language, but... is it really going to cause a problem? There are other... &quot;glitches&quot;, for example there was an xml issue with proper-case vs camel-case (but I can't seem to duplicate this now... maybe it has been fixed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T11:25:25.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33986" CreationDate="2009-12-28T11:29:10.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is that Perl? I can't quite tell.. Marc is spot on, the prettify.js is general purpose and doesn't always guess correctly. There are specific disclaimers on the prettify site about Perl, because it's extra-hard to parse compared to most languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option is to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, if you want to disable syntax highlighting altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&#xA;if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T11:29:10.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="33990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33987" CreationDate="2009-12-28T11:50:07.077" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;int main() &#xA;{&#xA;    printf(&quot;please clarify what you mean&quot;);&#xA;    return 0;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or more specifically, you just indent with 4 spaces, or hit the &quot;Code Sample&quot; button, or press &lt;code&gt;[Ctrl]&lt;/code&gt;+&lt;code&gt;[K]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T11:50:07.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="33991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33986" CreationDate="2009-12-28T13:38:28.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a common problem with bash, since &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; is used quite a bit in bash for other things than comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also happens when you use &lt;code&gt;/*&lt;/code&gt; in bash, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/bash&#xA;&#xA;mv dir/* ..&#xA;&#xA;another line of code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything that follows &lt;code&gt;/*&lt;/code&gt; is seen as comments, C-style. While that may not be a problem most of the time on SO, it is more often problematic on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140883" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T13:38:28.937" />
  <row Id="33993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T15:22:03.380" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question before Christmas on 12/24 and had the &lt;em&gt;Notify&lt;/em&gt; box checked with my email address provided. I did not have a registered account when I was posting my question but I did pick a tag &quot;nhibernate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone give me advice on this please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T17:04:29.430" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T20:05:44.850" Title="How Can I Find My Post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="33994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33993" CreationDate="2009-12-28T15:26:23.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;use search, belongs on meta etc. Agree with those who have left comments, but this is probably it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959355/help-with-nhibernate-insert-update&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959355/help-with-nhibernate-insert-update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140017" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T15:27:36.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="33995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33993" CreationDate="2009-12-28T15:42:33.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By clicking your name on top of the screen, your profile will show your activity (currently &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/239628/john&quot;&gt;none&lt;/a&gt; for the account you used to ask this very question; please ask &quot;team&quot; from &quot;@stackoverflow.com&quot; to merge &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/238343/john&quot;&gt;your old account&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/239628/john&quot;&gt;duplicate account&lt;/a&gt;, and also please associate your Stack Overflow and Meta accounts at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/238343?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;the account tab&lt;/a&gt; of your profile). And clicking the little mail envelope next to your name even gives you some more details. If you set up an RSS reader &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/239628&quot;&gt;for your own profile&lt;/a&gt;, then you can have that reader keep as much history as you want. And using&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;user:me&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame&quot;&gt;the search&lt;/a&gt; will limit all search to your own contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T15:42:33.860" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="33997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T20:03:53.870" Score="-3" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bravo for allowing comment editing, but what's the explanation for enforcing a five-minute window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this might be over-engineering. If I have a spelling mistake or an inaccuracy I'd like to fix, I don't think the fact that five minutes has elapsed should prevent me from fixing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, if you are worried people will edit their comments in a way that makes the comment thread nonsensical, they can already do this by deleting their comment. So, limiting the ability to edit isn't really helping much in that regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people don't like this idea, I'm definitely open to hearing your reasons. For now, it seems like an unnecessary limitation of a quite awesome feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding John's scenario...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Me: Obama is cool!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You: You are right, man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My edit: Obama is an idiot!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You: You are right, man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...this problem can still occur with deletions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user1: Obama is cool!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  user2: No, McCain is cool!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  you: @user2 is right, man!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user1: Obama is cool!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ---- deleted -----&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  you: @user2 is right, man!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, editing &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be abused as you suggest, but discontinuities can occur already because of deletions (and as someone else mentioned, because upvoted comments get prioritized upward).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Jeff's argument about rate limiting, I agree that is important, but I don't understand why you can't just use a CAPTCHA to prevent too many edits in a short period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T16:39:25.413" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T16:39:25.413" Title="Please ditch the five-minute window on comment editing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="33998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33993" CreationDate="2009-12-28T20:05:44.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like your post has been found, but to make things even simpler I've merged your user accounts - so now you can click on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/239628&quot;&gt;your profile&lt;/a&gt; to find it. Of course, to avoid losing it again you might want to create a registered account. It is free and won't require anything extra (you already have an OpenID via your e-mail provider).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T20:05:44.850" />
  <row Id="33999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19406" CreationDate="2009-12-28T20:09:42.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an aside: &lt;a href=&quot;http://skitch.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;skitch.com&lt;/a&gt; (for Mac) will probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://plasq.com/component/option,com%5Fjoomlaboard/Itemid,55/func,view/id,7116/catid,19/limit,6/limitstart,0/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;not be free&lt;/a&gt; after its long-lasting beta, but not too many people who recommend Skitch mention that. When payment is required then &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; images of those who don't want to pay are lost. Hopefully any such announcement will be made long before images are really deleted, and then maybe some data dump can be used to find those, and then copy them to other services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, for SEO purposes, text is better than images anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Because of the beta, I actually use the comments at skitch.com to keep track of where I use each image that I've shared. But surely not everyone is crazy/stupid/bored/... enough to do that.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T20:09:42.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-28T20:09:42.017" />
  <row Id="34000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34020" CreationDate="2009-12-28T20:12:24.567" Score="9" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious about this, but how much rep would he currently have if there was not a rep cap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135925" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T13:01:40.337" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T13:01:40.337" Title="How Much Rep Would Jon Skeet Have If There Was No Rep Limit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T20:26:55.997" Score="27" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I sort questions in the &quot;my tags&quot; tab of the &lt;code&gt;Unanswered&lt;/code&gt; section of Stack Overflow by date, with the newest first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, at least, how can I show only interesting tags, ordered by date, newest first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141816" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-15T14:57:24.657" LastActivityDate="2011-05-14T17:47:21.370" Title="Is there a way to sort unanswered &quot;my tag&quot; questions by date, newest first?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;&lt;tag-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34000" CreationDate="2009-12-28T20:32:01.793" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in the order of 330k, excluding accepted answers (I'd guess 2000 * 15, call it another 30k), bounty (maybe another 5k?), and down-votes (both given and received). The 330k is based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, which lists 32,933 non-wiki upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T20:32:01.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T20:38:41.013" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33732&quot;&gt;my Stack Overflow user page&lt;/a&gt; says I was &quot;seen&quot; 33 minutes ago. The last entry on the activity list was at 54 minutes ago. I'm pretty sure I didn't vote on any questions or comments in the meantime. Furthermore, I just flagged a comment here on Meta and my Meta user page still says I was seen 10 minutes ago. What actions reset the &quot;seen&quot; counter to zero, and what actions are ignored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33732" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T21:46:13.480" Title="What determines when a user was &quot;seen&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33997" CreationDate="2009-12-28T21:27:00.717" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am worried about people changing their comments to give a thread (the following comments) a complete new meaning. Making it nonsensical is one of the better things that could happen. Shog9 is right in his comment: there is no history for comments. That's the main problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Easy example:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Me: Obama is cool!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You: You are right, man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My edit: Obama is an idiot!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You: You are right, man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are enough jerks out there, who think things like that are funny. They can really mess SO up with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T21:27:00.717" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T19:29:15.257" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the connection between SU and other Q&amp;amp;A sites from the group? If  got 1 badge will I have it also on 3 other Q&amp;amp;A sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T21:31:07.710" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T21:31:07.710" Title="How to start with SuperUser?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;site-crossover&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34005" CreationDate="2009-12-28T19:30:21.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If got 1 badge will I have it also on&#xA;  3 other Q&amp;amp;A sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nope, you will have to earn your merits separately on each site :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you will, however, receive a little bonus (100 reputation points IIRC) if you associate your account with any of the other web sites, so you can vote and leave comments right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T21:29:03.393" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33997" CreationDate="2009-12-28T21:36:40.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that isn't rate limited &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001228.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;will inevitably be abused&lt;/a&gt;. This is a fundamental law of human behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that comments are lightweight and unversioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also consider why Digg comments and even Skype chat (where the pencil icon was cribbed from) have the same exact &quot;editable for a small period after creation, then locked in forever&quot; behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T21:36:40.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34003" CreationDate="2009-12-28T21:46:13.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Smithers is right, the answer to your question is here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27234/account-last-activity-time-is-not-always-updated/33310#33310&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27234/account-last-activity-time-is-not-always-updated/33310#33310&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T21:46:13.480" />
  <row Id="34009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T21:53:49.500" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21462/undoing-an-old-vote-cannot-be-recast-because-vote-is-too-old&quot;&gt;Undoing an old vote cannot be recast because vote is too old&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got an answer to a question that had me very very stuck.  (This is it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1971149/wpf-change-a-style-in-code-behind&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1971149/wpf-change-a-style-in-code-behind&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvoted because I was happy that I got an answer.  But then I said to myself, &quot;you should just check to see if this answer even works before you upvote.&quot;  So I undid the upvote and went and checked the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out the answer was fabulous, I wish I could up vote it several times.  I was surprised when I tried to re-cast my upvote and was told that my vote was too old to be changed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had not even voted!  I had un-voted?  Does this message mean that my un-vote is too old be changed?  If so that is sad.  I got a great answer that deserves to be rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T22:17:43.517" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T22:17:43.517" ClosedDate="2009-12-28T22:05:32.687" Title="Can't upvote an answer (says the vote is too old)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34036" CreationDate="2009-12-28T21:59:22.357" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who is able to edit posts, I have been using the ability to mark posts as duplicates inside the OP question using the block quote with the text 'Possible Duplicate' or 'Exact Duplicate'. To clean up the question faster, I had been flagging the post for moderator attention but there are likely fewer moderator users on at a time than 3k and above users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, is there a better way to mark questions as duplicates (tagging? downvoting?) that is universally accepted or understood to get the attention of those who can close or migrate the questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a 3k user panel or something to indicate questions that need attention and cleanup. As someone who does not yet have the ability to close or migrate, I don't mind doing the yeoman's job of finding those questions that need attention so someone else with enough rep can deal with them, but it would nicer for the ability for them to be easily filtered by those who can deal with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T05:52:44.767" Title="Marking questions as duplicate" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29611" CreationDate="2009-12-28T22:03:28.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of IDs that come back from a browse or search of any kind are typically are cached for a few minutes. That might be what you're seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T22:03:28.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34016" CreationDate="2009-12-28T22:06:44.197" Score="5" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I answer a question, and later see that other people who answered before me have edited their answers to roll my answer into their own.  When I borrow part of someone else's answer, I always try to give that person credit, with a link to their answer.  Unfortunately, not everyone does this, and only one answer can be marked as &quot;best answer.&quot; I've also noticed that only one out of a group of similar answers will get consistently upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see the same thing when I'm looking at other people's answers to questions that I haven't answered.  When I run across &quot;copycat&quot; answers in these cases, I usually look at the answer/edit times to see who gave the best answer first, then I upvote only that answer.  Unfortunately, it's not always easy to determine whose answer came first, so I'm curious what other people do when voting on an answer, and what you do when someone else clearly copies your answer. To muddy things even further, there's also the possibility that the &quot;copycat&quot; may have inadvertently copied your answer without realizing it (i.e., they gave the problem some more thought and later added the same details to their own answer without actually reading yours).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does anyone else pay attention to the answer/edit times when upvoting an answer that is similar to another answer?  (And how do you decide which came first, when the &quot;fuzzy-time&quot; is the same?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How deep should one bother to look when trying to look into copycats?  (Just edit times, or also look at revision histories?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you suspect someone of copying a critical part of your answer and rolling it into their own answer, should you then copy some part of their answer and roll it into yours, so that yours doesn't look less complete?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there are many similar/identical answers, should we upvote just one of them, all of the ones that were posted within roughly same &quot;fuzzy-time,&quot; or all of them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133027" LastEditorUserId="133027" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-28T22:31:25.280" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T04:37:43.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-28T22:06:44.197" Title="To whom should we give credit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;similarity&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34010" CreationDate="2009-12-28T22:19:33.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10k users have tools to see these votes, I've heard. Moderator see them, too. If you really think it should be closed fast, flag it for mod attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not edit the post. After closing the dupe, links are added automatically. Doubling them is annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind: if a question does not get closed, when you think it should, then it could be that the other users have a different opinion than you have ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T22:19:33.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34012" CreationDate="2009-12-28T22:25:00.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes. In fact, I always browse SO in &quot;oldest first&quot; mode so that the first answer I read is the first one posted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unless the answers are non-trivial &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; suspiciously identical, don't waste your time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it's valuable, then you should include it regardless. There's no point in keeping a &lt;em&gt;less useful&lt;/em&gt; answer around, so either improve it or delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T22:25:00.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-28T22:25:00.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34012" CreationDate="2009-12-28T22:30:04.063" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One other valid scenario is that they genuinely had additional thoughts at the moment of hitting &quot;post your answer&quot; (for some reason that button almost usually triggers at least one more caveat etc). It isn't &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; the case that just because they cover the same material the answer was copied from you - it is the same question, after all. I'm not saying it never happens, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-28T22:30:04.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-28T22:30:04.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34012" CreationDate="2009-12-28T22:45:34.513" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is so hard to say!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had an issue recently on SuperUser where someone accused me of stealing their answer because there was basically two bits of information in it, and it was the same... However, I only saw the first bit of information (about 5 seconds before I clicked submit, it had the notification of a new answer), and mine went through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a few minutes, I got a message from my answer with the person saying that I copied them, and I went to take a look, and they had the second piece added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea if they copied me and wrote it, or if they were editing it after I clicked submit and it was a coincidence... But, as far as I was concerned, my answer was unique (in its entirety)... as others see it, same answer and mine came at a later time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has also been times when an answer could just require a yes/no, however, if I can, I like to give some background or further information... This can also lead to duplicate answers as it can take significantly longer to write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are best off judging each case on its own. I would personally always go for the answer that gives me the most detail and background, where it has shown skill or knowledge by the writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I wrote a question asking &lt;code&gt;What command for x?&lt;/code&gt;, and someone responded &lt;code&gt;type y&lt;/code&gt;, and another person wrote &lt;code&gt;You need the y command, y does this and it affects z&lt;/code&gt;... or something similar, I would go for the one who gives background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it is hard if there are two people who give detailed information! This has happened a few times in the few questions I have asked, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1794070/duplicating-unnecessary-data-in-a-sql-database&quot;&gt;so... I roll a die&lt;/a&gt;! Maybe a bit of fun, but I think until there is a way to acknowledge additional good answers, that is the way to do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just think it should be about good quality answers, not who is the fastest to type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... The only other way would be to get rid of marking an answer as accepted and simply allow the question to be marked as answered and then have just upvotes... so people will always be drawn to the best written, most voted for answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry if this isn't very articulate, hopefully I got the point across!.. I am very tired!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="132901" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T00:15:35.760" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T00:15:35.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-28T22:45:34.513" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-28T23:07:09.580" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the users page, I can see all the questions and answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the questions I can see the tags, but why can't I see the tags in the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think answers should have the tags! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I say 'I think answers should have the tags!'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean the tags of the question it answers, not new tags. If I am looking through a user's answer list I might find some more interesting answers if I have the tags of the question it answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I repeat: I want the tags of the question it answers, not tags related to the answer itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/4746/atags.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8715" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T13:27:34.720" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T13:27:34.720" Title="Adding tags to Answers in the user page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34000" CreationDate="2009-12-29T00:18:21.197" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To save us from copy cat questions here we go: (based off most recent data dump so its not super accurate) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;UncappedRep&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Loss&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;              367651      118596     67.74 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;           170012      96095      43.48 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23283&quot;&gt;JaredPar&lt;/a&gt;               104431      67345      35.51 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;          100348      52804      47.38 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393&quot;&gt;cletus&lt;/a&gt;                 99143       69976      29.42 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33708&quot;&gt;Mehrdad Afshari&lt;/a&gt;        93497       60582      35.20 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12950&quot;&gt;tvanfosson&lt;/a&gt;             91962       76569      16.74 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/893&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill&lt;/a&gt;           91059       67038      26.38 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3043&quot;&gt;Joel Coehoorn&lt;/a&gt;          82284       60474      26.51 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10661&quot;&gt;S.Lott&lt;/a&gt;                 74845       62476      16.53 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14860&quot;&gt;paxdiablo&lt;/a&gt;              74403       60439      18.77 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34509&quot;&gt;Johannes Schaub - litb&lt;/a&gt; 71294       53015      25.64 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34211&quot;&gt;Andrew Hare&lt;/a&gt;            65849       46017      30.12 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69307&quot;&gt;Neil Butterworth&lt;/a&gt;       63050       36332      42.38 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1968&quot;&gt;Konrad Rudolph&lt;/a&gt;         60729       50958      16.09 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65358&quot;&gt;Reed Copsey&lt;/a&gt;            59266       44255      25.33 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5445&quot;&gt;CMS&lt;/a&gt;                    56207       50297      10.51 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/16417&quot;&gt;Paolo Bergantino&lt;/a&gt;       53811       39134      27.28 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6309&quot;&gt;VonC&lt;/a&gt;                   53057       50445      4.92  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1288&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt;        50363       46600      7.47  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24181&quot;&gt;Greg&lt;/a&gt;                   48976       43005      12.19 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55159&quot;&gt;Quassnoi&lt;/a&gt;               46302       37444      19.13 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53114&quot;&gt;Gumbo&lt;/a&gt;                  46223       41797      9.58  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3153&quot;&gt;Brian R. 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  <row Id="34021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34076" CreationDate="2009-12-29T00:24:29.433" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Firefox is set up to erase cookies on exit. At the same time, I have created a address bar shortcut so that, for example, when I type &quot;so python com&quot; and press Enter in the address bar, Stack Overflow is opened with &quot;python com&quot; as the search string.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The presence of the FAQ first time user header is annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe support for a URL parameter like &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;faq_header=0&lt;/code&gt; could be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141070" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T02:09:50.300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T13:28:42.067" Title="Any way to disable FAQ page header for user with no cookies" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;header&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34026" CreationDate="2009-12-29T01:24:03.090" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this possible? That is, posts that I've commented on in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133847" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T11:54:04.293" Title="How do I view my past comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34024" CreationDate="2009-12-29T02:07:57.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the old past, not that I'm aware of (without using the data dump). However, in the recent past, your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/112950?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;profile page&lt;/a&gt; has an &quot;Activity&quot; tab, which shows comments, edits, questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T02:07:57.480" />
  <row Id="34029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34017" CreationDate="2009-12-29T02:54:18.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know you can click on the tags on a user page, and see all questions &lt;em&gt;and answers&lt;/em&gt; that user has ever provided in that tag, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T02:54:18.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34031" CreationDate="2009-12-29T03:57:35.357" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm cross posting this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1972815/canonical-links-and-paging&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1972815/canonical-links-and-paging&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just did a google search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=%22press+the+Alt+button%22+site%3Astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;press the Alt button&quot; site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, unexpectedly it is missing the hit from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033?sort=votes&amp;amp;page=5#sort-top&quot;&gt;page 5&lt;/a&gt; of one of the most popular questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this canonical link feature playing nicely with paging? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T04:06:23.543" Title="Are canonical links playing havoc with paging?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34030" CreationDate="2009-12-29T04:06:23.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely Google will index pagination of the form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033?sort=votes&amp;amp;page=5#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033?sort=votes&amp;amp;page=5#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because of this in our robots.txt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Disallow: /*?&#xA;# above line, refer to http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=40360&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;relevant section of page, quoted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To block access to all URLs that include a question mark (?)&lt;/strong&gt; (more specifically, any URL that begins with your domain name, followed by any string, followed by a question mark, followed by any string):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User-agent: Googlebot&#xA;Disallow: /*?&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T04:06:23.543" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34033" CreationDate="2009-12-29T04:24:06.200" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I logged onto serverfault and got a popular question badge - too bad I have no questions with 1000 views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is something wrong with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/badges/26/popular-question&quot;&gt;Popular Question&lt;/a&gt; badge on ServerFault, or was there a problem on Dec 24?  Maybe this was from Santa?  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22514" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T08:14:51.147" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T09:43:54.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-29T04:24:06.200" Title="Possible problem with Popular Question on ServerFault on Dec 24" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;popular-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34032" CreationDate="2009-12-29T04:59:41.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure? &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/10964/supporting-1680-x-1050-resolution-under-microsoft-virtual-pc-2007&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/10964/supporting-1680-x-1050-resolution-under-microsoft-virtual-pc-2007&lt;/a&gt; has had over 1000 views (1009 currently). You may have overlooked it in your question list as it is listed as &quot;1 kviews&quot;, not &quot;1000 views&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T04:59:41.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-29T04:59:41.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T05:16:52.757" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16637/add-acceptance-rate-to-the-user-profile-page&quot;&gt;Add acceptance rate to the user profile page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't the acceptance rate displayed on the user page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131715" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T06:27:59.317" ClosedDate="2009-12-29T14:12:48.343" Title="Accept Rate in User Page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34034" CreationDate="2009-12-29T05:28:35.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They figured it was only relevant when answering a question, so you only see it when doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T05:28:35.820" />
  <row Id="34036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34010" CreationDate="2009-12-29T05:52:44.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please Please Please&lt;/strong&gt; don't edit in the duplicate post, leave it as a comment or as part of the moderator flag. I end up having to clean up the post before closing it, if I don't miss that it hasn't been closed yet, due to the habit of some users to edit in the duplicate link. It is automatically done once closed, and therefore creates more work for the moderators. Also it means the question is unnecessarily bumped to the home page because of an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T05:52:44.767" />
  <row Id="34037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34034" CreationDate="2009-12-29T06:27:59.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think that it'd be convenient to have it on the user page, but I can understand why it wouldn't be relevant while browsing somebody's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141078" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T06:27:59.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34000" CreationDate="2009-12-29T08:16:15.090" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&amp;#8734;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T08:16:15.090" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T11:00:59.783" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just discovered the new comment edit feature. That's good, it will help with those inevitable typos that creep in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I noticed there is some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33997/please-ditch-the-five-minute-window-on-comment-editing&quot;&gt;noise&lt;/a&gt; on meta regarding the five minute window and the edit flag. I offer the following observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The pencil icon that indicates a comment has been edited is almost useless. &lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; was it edited? Was there a missing comma, a misspelled word, or a complete change in meaning? (Yes, I understand comments are &quot;lightweight and not versioned&quot;, but that's the point.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The five minute window is pretty arbitrary. A lot can happen on a new, active question in five minutes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose the following modifications to the comment edit feature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get rid of the pencil icon. Nobody can possibly care whether a comment has been edited if you can't compare it to what was there before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow a comment edit only if there are both:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no comment upvotes, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no later comments on the same post (comment thread)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would make editing a comment simply a convenience in the case where you just made a typo and want to try to fix it. It would work &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the same as if you deleted the old comment and added a new one (which is always possible, at any time &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the annoying 30 second rate limiting wait). In fact, such a feature could be implemented by doing an add-delete operation, generating a new comment ID in the comment table (they're free, you don't have to reuse them), with no database schema changes at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've just made a totally awesome comment and have already received an upvote within the 1.7 seconds it takes to notice that typo, tough cookies. If it's so important to correct it, delete the comment, sacrificing that upvote, and add a new one. People vote on the actual text of comments, even if they have typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, if you've added a comment and somebody has already &quot;replied&quot; to that comment by adding a new one, then you've lost your right to edit it. This solves the &quot;Obama&quot; problem mentioned in that other post. (Yes, there's sort of a race condition if user A edits a comment while user B is typing the next comment, but the comment display is completely refreshed when user B submits the comment so they'll see the incongruity. Also, exactly the same thing can already happen if user A deletes and then adds a new comment while user B is typing, regardless of the new edit feature.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LiveJournal implemented almost exactly the same sort of &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/lj%5Fdev/752309.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;overengineered reply editing feature&lt;/a&gt; a couple of years ago and broke a bunch of things in the process (which they never fixed). Stack Overflow is better than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T14:17:24.730" Title="Proposal to streamline comment editing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34046" CreationDate="2009-12-29T11:13:19.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, the editing option is only useful &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; later comments have been posted. So I think &lt;em&gt;&quot;Allow a comment edit only if [..] no later comments on the same post&quot;&lt;/em&gt; would not need editing at all. In such case, just copying and deleting the old comment, and reposting the fixed version would do just fine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The pencil for me only indicates that a comment &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been changed a lot. That, for me, also is only needed if later comments have been posted before the edit was done.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T11:13:19.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4481" CreationDate="2009-12-29T11:24:06.297" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;please.. allow carriage returns in comments..&#xA;many times the answer is a piece of code..&#xA;the backtick is OK but spaces are merged and carriage returns are stripped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T11:24:06.297" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34024" CreationDate="2009-12-29T11:54:04.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just for that, I added my &quot;user feed&quot; to a reader (Apple Mail, for me) that keeps history forever (rather than just the recent things as shown on the &quot;Activity&quot; tab). It even stores things that are deleted at some later time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You know, the RSS icon on the bottom of your own profile page. Or anyones profile page for that matter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T11:54:04.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34115" CreationDate="2009-12-29T12:55:07.853" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I accept or unaccept an answer, the comments get &quot;squished&quot; in a weird manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac&#xA;  OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6)&#xA;  Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/qzroye.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/2q3xijd.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all coming from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1868269/how-to-create-a-method-like-findbysomethingandsomethingelse-using-ruby&quot;&gt;this question of mine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T09:06:54.713" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T09:06:54.713" Title="When accepting an answer (or unaccepting it), the layout of the comments change" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;style&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34046" CreationDate="2009-12-29T14:08:44.063" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an idea I had, although I'm not sure about it myself: When someone edits their comments, reset the editing deadline for all posts that came after that one to 5 minutes. That would solve the Obama problem (or at least make it less of a problem).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two reasons against this, though: I don't think we have proven yet that the Obama problem actually exists, and this would be just another new rule to keep track of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T14:08:44.063" />
  <row Id="34055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34046" CreationDate="2009-12-29T14:09:32.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules you propose are considerably more complicated than what we already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am unclear what, if any, problem adding this additional complexity would solve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editable comments for a brief window after posting (with visible has-been-edited indicator) is a well established convention on Digg and in Skype, among other places. Why deviate? Why make up yet another weird one-off implementation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T14:09:32.533" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34062" CreationDate="2009-12-29T14:17:50.830" Score="-1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br&quot;&gt;Should the markdown renderer treat a single line break as &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoth &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001317.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001317.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Item #3, the conversion of returns to linebreaks, is somewhat more debatable. I'm on the fence on that one, but I do believe it's significant enough to warrant an explicit choice either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who&#xA;really&#xA;prefers&#xA;that&#xA;hitting&#xA;Enter&#xA;(without&#xA;two&#xA;spaces&#xA;on&#xA;the&#xA;end&#xA;of&#xA;the&#xA;line)&#xA;be&#xA;treated&#xA;like&#xA;a&#xA;space&#xA;instead&#xA;of&#xA;a&#xA;line-break?&#xA;Jeff&#xA;appears&#xA;to&#xA;be&#xA;under&#xA;the&#xA;impression&#xA;that&#xA;Enter-as-space&#xA;is&#xA;preferable&#xA;in&#xA;some&#xA;circumstances.&#xA;I'd&#xA;please&#xA;love&#xA;to&#xA;know&#xA;what&#xA;those&#xA;cases&#xA;are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;billpg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastEditorUserId="3568" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T14:39:42.807" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T13:30:52.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-29T14:17:50.830" ClosedDate="2009-12-30T11:59:29.747" Title="Converting returns to newlines or not" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;linebreak&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34057" CreationDate="2009-12-29T14:22:02.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I favour &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; over &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, but still would like &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; way to get &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; if, and only if, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; needed. The current Markdown works fine for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a user/visitor of whatever site I think it's good to adhere to the layout that is (currently) defined by its owners, like the CSS whitespace formatting many sites have defined for paragraphs. I feel one should not try to use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to change that. Doing so might also break any future layout changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the blank line while editing, as that makes it much clearer that I really started a new paragraph, especially when the last line of the previous paragraph extends all the way to the end of that last line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/markdown-one-year-later/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like&lt;/a&gt; the explicit two-spaces for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, as that makes it just a bit more difficult to get such &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything is changed, then I'd still like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to be an exception. For example: I would not mind if both a single and multiple Returns are converted into a single &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. (I would still be pressing Return twice then, while others might happily use only one. I am not sure if that affects usage of the data dump in any way? Or other usage like screen readers or the API?) But I'd &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; like each Return to become a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And am I wrong to think that whoever doesn't look at the preview, or does not click &quot;edit&quot;  after seeing the result, does not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; care about any formatting anyway...?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T13:30:52.587" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T13:30:52.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-29T14:22:02.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34063" CreationDate="2009-12-29T16:17:40.727" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is an edit of tags supposed to turn up in a user's activity list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, what is the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55246?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;Sridhar Ratnakumar&lt;/a&gt;'s retagging of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1517129/python-how-to-install-scipy-on-64-bit-windows&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1&lt;/strong&gt;: there might be a problem with that particular question. It is not a general problem; see Kip's answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: the accepted answer was changed after the retagging. Could that have something to do with it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T21:57:02.787" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:57:02.787" Title="Does retagging turn up in a user's activity list?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34057" CreationDate="2009-12-29T16:23:52.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the actual reason for this behavior, this feature, comes&#xA;from Markdown's reliance on USENET and plain-text email traditions&#xA;for its formatting hints. On these systems, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/5378effc-092c-4547-b357-d18c661423a0/view-source&quot;&gt;breaking each line at 70&#xA;characters&lt;/a&gt; was commonly used to ensure such text would be readable&#xA;on older systems; clients would then reformat the text for display on&#xA;the client system, ignoring single, intra-paragraph line-breaks and&#xA;using an empty line as a cue that the author intended the previous&#xA;paragraph to end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While no longer &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; necessary, this is still not that uncommon&#xA;among users composing text in editors that do not automatically wrap&#xA;text, including many fine &quot;programmer's editors&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I have no strong feelings either way; I've used systems&#xA;that &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; insert a hard break for every line-break, and still found&#xA;them annoying in some instances (primarily those where I wanted&#xA;double line breaks while composing the text in places where this&#xA;resulted in too much vertical whitespace in the final text). I&#xA;think the users who suffer the most are those who never bothered to&#xA;read instructions anyway &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; are unfamiliar with either the old&#xA;text-only traditions or modern HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T16:23:52.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-29T16:23:52.600" />
  <row Id="34063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34060" CreationDate="2009-12-29T16:24:08.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; You're right, the retag on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1517129/python-how-to-install-scipy-on-64-bit-windows&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; does not show up, the retag I circled on the screenshot below is a different retag. As far as I know this &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be showing up, so I think this is a bug. (Especially since another question's retag &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; show up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Your question makes it sound like the retag doesn't show up, and you want to know if this is a bug or if there is a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it does show up:&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7728/retag.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T16:52:47.477" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T16:52:47.477" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:18:43.567" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone with lots of Stack Overflow rep go make a trivial edit to the accepted answer to this question so I can vote it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903945/wpf-animation-why-cant-by-have-a-negitive-value&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1903945/wpf-animation-why-cant-by-have-a-negitive-value&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are curious, you can see why I cannot vote it up now in this question:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34009/cant-upvote-an-answer-says-the-vote-is-too-old-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34009/cant-upvote-an-answer-says-the-vote-is-too-old-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has happened again (and probably will many times) with the above question.  If someone with lots of Stack Overflow rep is feeling benevolent I would appreciate the help (as would the answerer I am sure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T17:27:11.253" Title="Touch an Answer Request" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;help&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34066" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:21:49.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as a reminder, you accepted his answer and that did give him 15 rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you did exactly what the meta questions you linked to, unfortunantly that is by design and not currently considered a bug by Jeff and his team. The vote restriction timer is started whenever you vote and continues even if you undo a vote. I know, it is annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T17:27:11.253" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T17:27:11.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:22:37.223" Score="0" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30411/what-can-stackoverflow-do-to-persuade-female-programmers-to-participate-more&quot;&gt;What can StackOverflow do to persuade female programmers to participate more?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or Stackoverflow is really dominated by male gender. I rarely see any ladies answering questions. I would refuse to believe that we do not have enough women in IT. Maybe we do not have enough &quot;interested&quot; and &quot;proactive&quot; lady participants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see more of the opposite sex. Wonder what could drive more users to this great forum. Helps in cross pollination of ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T18:29:11.000" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:27:08.533" ClosedDate="2009-12-29T18:01:03.110" Title="Stackoverflow is male dominated" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;diversity&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34068" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:23:43.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Computer [&lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;] is male dominated, I love the opposite sex too but I don't hunt them from places where I know I won't find that many of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also gender doesn't qualify as an up or down when it comes to answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T17:23:43.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:25:10.933" Score="0" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34068/stackoverflow-is-male-dominated&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow is male dominated&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure it's not lack of interested women; how come we have less of women here? It sure doesn't look good to be male dominated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T18:39:32.047" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T18:39:32.047" ClosedDate="2009-12-29T17:33:53.857" Title="Never see any women answering questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;general&gt;&lt;diversity&gt;" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34068" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:29:54.227" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/322/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Pix Plz&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pix_plz.png&quot; title=&quot;But one of the regulars in the Channel is a girl!&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T21:27:08.533" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:27:08.533" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:34:45.977" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I open a few questions in multiple browser tabs from SO and start typing answers or comments and I understandably get hit with the first eCaptcha. OK so SO thinks I might be bot because I am submitting a few entries in a short period of time. I prove I am human. From that point every time I answer or comment, the annoying recaptcha pops up again. I just proved I am human. Stackoverflow needs to remember I am not a bot and not a bot which cracked reCaptcha. I am just a fast typing human! Probably intentionally producing friction to slow me down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T14:45:24.717" Title="Stop showing the recaptcha so many times! Once is enough in a short period of time" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33970" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:35:07.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;18, 14&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C++ ftw!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136840" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T17:35:07.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-29T17:35:07.037" />
  <row Id="34074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34068" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:35:21.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot know how many people are actually women but do not have revealing usernames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T17:35:21.560" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34068" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:39:47.947" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;a/s/l ?    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T17:39:47.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34021" CreationDate="2009-12-29T17:49:52.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you already run adblock you can also run &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; which lets you pick css items to block as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T17:49:52.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2009-12-29T18:19:38.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just in case this thread is read when things are to be changed: &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; anything is changed, then I'd still like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34057/converting-returns-to-newlines-or-not/34058#34058&quot;&gt;to be an exception&lt;/a&gt;. For example: I would not mind if both a single and multiple Returns are converted into a single &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. But I'd &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; like a single Return to become a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; like the title suggests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I would still be pressing Return twice then, while others might happily use only one. I am not sure if that affects the data dump in any way? Also, old post might look horrible &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br/26018#26018&quot;&gt;like dbr noted&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T18:19:38.637" />
  <row Id="34078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34072" CreationDate="2009-12-29T18:44:22.790" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with your &lt;em&gt;I-proved-I'm-human&lt;/em&gt; suggestion is that when a human solves one reCAPTCHA, they have free run of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CHAPTCHAs are designed to verify &lt;strong&gt;and throttle suspicious activity&lt;/strong&gt;. If you're getting reCAPTCHA'd that often, you can understand why that might be considered outside the normal use-case for the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a single, human-solved CAPTCHA proves that someone is human from then on, it would open the system to a torrent of automated spam posts from that user. ReCAPTCHA simply slows down that process, making it &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; worth the effort for the spammer. It's a minor inconvenience under &quot;normal use.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T14:45:24.717" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T14:45:24.717" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34079" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T18:55:16.107" Score="0" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not trying to be rude, &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;, but I just have a quick question. Maybe some stats can back me up, but this is my personal feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why do SQL users upvote less than others?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer a variance of tags and find that questions regarding SQL get a lot of views but very few votes. Is this just me or am I missing something? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1973786/building-sql-query/1974347#1974347&quot;&gt;This is an example of a Q today, 1 vote 75 Views at the time&lt;/a&gt;. Just let me know if I am incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133288" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T19:05:48.483" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:05:58.273" Title="SQL users' upvotes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;sql&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34079" CreationDate="2009-12-29T19:03:27.740" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of developers use SQL and so have a passing interest in it (the bike shed effect) which causes SQL questions to get a lot of views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But SQL is actually very complex and has a lot of variation depending on the RDBMS vendor. Since a lot of SQL questions are specific to a particular RDBMS and since most users don't label their RDBMS correctly you get a lot of people who view the question, read it and realize it's talking about a feature of an RDBMS they know nothing about, so they leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That'd be my guess, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T19:03:27.740" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34082" CreationDate="2009-12-29T19:08:13.610" Score="0" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31770/how-can-we-make-so-reputation-more-realistic&quot;&gt;How can we make SO reputation more realistic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28743/how-do-we-make-sure-the-hard-questions-get-as-much-rep-as-the-easy-questions&quot;&gt;How do we make sure the hard questions get as much rep as the easy questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By counterproductive, I mean &quot;discourages answering difficult questions in difficult subjects&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After answering questions on Stackoverflow for a few days and learning how things work, my first impression is that the reputation system is profoundly broken. Initially I was excited to build a high reputation, but now I'm feeling like the SO rep score isn't that meaningful. A few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation is more easily earned on &quot;easy&quot; questions rather than &quot;hard&quot; questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Race to answer &quot;what does this keyword mean???&quot; and get 20 up votes. Answer a subtle and difficult template metaprogramming question and get 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation favors speed over accuracy&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This is pretty well understood, I imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation is more easily earned on subjects with broad appeal, rather than on expert level subjects&lt;/strong&gt; I'm starting to suspect that if I want 10k reputation as quickly as possible, I should brush up on my PHP and CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the reputation reward for an answer needs to be a more complex measurement than it currently is, taking into account the difficulty of the question (answer harder question = more rep), the popularity of the topic (answer a less popular subject = higher rep) and make changes to discourge quick, short, and wrong answers (perhaps have the rep rewards scale with time; downvotes count more the first &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; minutes, upvotes count less, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141029" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:52:46.087" ClosedDate="2009-12-29T23:15:02.887" Title="Reputation seems counterproductive" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34081" CreationDate="2009-12-29T19:17:29.690" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not a measure of proficiency or intelligence. It is a reflection of the contribution you have made to the site. Yes, broadly appealing questions have a greater impact. Perhaps that's a problem, perhaps not. One could argue that your impact was greater with a broadly appealing question than an interesting niche question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T19:17:29.690" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34081" CreationDate="2009-12-29T19:17:53.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right. Reputation is never meant to be an exact measure of knowledge. Unfortunately, there's no algorithmic method to measure one's knowledge. The difficulty of a question is another algorithmically unquantifiable attribute (and it is probably a different value for every user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the reputation system, has worked pretty well: In my opinion, in general, the quality of answers on Stack Overflow is much better than most other communities (perhaps with the exception of very specialized communities of experts in a particular area).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T19:17:53.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30411" CreationDate="2009-12-29T19:24:54.697" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/322/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;But one of the regulars in the channel is a girl!&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pix_plz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Piz Plz&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Kip, I'm aiming this at you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastEditorUserId="130442" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-23T12:43:11.943" LastActivityDate="2010-08-23T12:43:11.943" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-29T19:24:54.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:03:19.737" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask because I would like to start helping out others but when I look at the main page it's not usually something I know. I am a newbie but can answer some questions if I went searching for them but they might already be answered by then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, do you actively search through recent past posts? Are you posting questions and happen to realize you can answer the latest post?  or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-29T23:04:53.520" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T23:04:53.520" Title="How and when do you decide to answer questions here?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;posts&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34086" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:06:21.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answer the question when I feel that I can contribute something to the conversation that hasn't been said already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I notice that there are answers to the question already, I look to see who might have answered it to what I believe would be my satisfaction and vote up on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that answer doesn't exist, then I contribute my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140951" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T20:11:38.527" />
  <row Id="34088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34086" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:06:57.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find questions that I can answer, or I enjoy reading about, and look for the tags on those questions and add them to my favourites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, asm is one of the slower tags around....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer when I think I can make a contribution, or at least an interesting view point. I'd add comments when I affirm, or have a subjective comment about an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T20:11:38.527" />
  <row Id="34089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34086" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:08:17.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try browsing questions within a few tags that match your areas of expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T20:11:38.527" />
  <row Id="34090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34086" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:15:52.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep an eye on the new questions and try to help people that I can offer help with.  For me if it's off page one I don't go looking for it.  I am glad though others aren't like that cause then no question would get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I come in and look only when I have time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="648" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T20:11:38.527" />
  <row Id="34091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34086" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:18:27.287" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Set up your 'Interesting tags' so that you'll see the questions easily that you might be able to give good input on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T20:11:38.527" />
  <row Id="34092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34086" CreationDate="2009-01-31T01:24:56.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I can provide information that someone else hasn't already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's rarer and rarer these days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T20:11:38.527" />
  <row Id="34093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34086" CreationDate="2009-01-31T02:02:31.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the RSS feeds for particular tags that way you should see quickly if there's anything new that you can contribuet too. You really have to be quick to answer questions, and normally if you're not in the first few answers no-one will read down to your answer however good it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH - take a question from the featured, put in the yards to code up a solution and nail the answer. Those ones are hard but you get the points ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131534" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T20:11:38.527" />
  <row Id="34094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19886" CreationDate="2009-12-29T21:38:04.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send them to startups.com? Legal questions are inescapable in setting up a business. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:38:04.500" />
  <row Id="34095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34081" CreationDate="2009-12-29T21:40:30.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation also rewards speed, which is one of the primary things new users praise about Stack Overflow. &quot;Wow, I posted a question and got answers within minutes!&quot; This is seen as a good thing, and is perhaps even more valuable than correct answers to hard questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:40:30.843" />
  <row Id="34096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34081" CreationDate="2009-12-29T21:52:46.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either you enjoy answering questions on so.com or you don't. If you do, and you provide useful answers, your rep will grow. Perhaps more slowly if you labor in obscure corners, but inexorable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't enjoy it, well, don't do it. Building a rep get you some tools, but mostly it's the external tip of an internal iceberg of the warm feeling of helping your fellow sufferers. How's that for a mixed metaphor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T21:52:46.087" />
  <row Id="34097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34098" CreationDate="2009-12-29T22:07:01.967" Score="3" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at my activity page and also the reputation tab under my profile, I cannot seem to see why my rep went down by 15 points today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1117" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T22:13:08.943" Title="Why did my reputation go down by 15 points?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34097" CreationDate="2009-12-29T22:13:08.943" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone probably unaccepted one of your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T22:13:08.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-29T22:48:48.410" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/599/what-to-do-about-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;What to do about rep inflation?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should the rep limit be raised for access to moderation tools? As the site's continue to grow more and more people will breech the 10k barrier(currently 100+ on SO). I'm not 100% sure that this is a problem, but is there ever a point where too many people having access to mod tools becomes a bad thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135925" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T22:51:58.120" ClosedDate="2009-12-29T23:09:19.873" Title="Should the rep limit be raised for access to admin tools?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34099" CreationDate="2009-12-29T22:51:58.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this is a duplicate but I'm too lazy to search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize the old discussions: Basically, as the number of questions increases, we need more moderation and we'll get more moderators and we'll end up having a stable moderator/post ratio. Increasing the threshold will reduce the moderator/post ratio. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-29T22:51:58.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34012" CreationDate="2009-12-30T03:07:49.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt; goal of these sites is to &lt;em&gt;post good answers&lt;/em&gt;. The secondary goal, and it's far behind, is to play with rep. If I think that my answer is worth keeping, but someone else has one critical bit that I missed, I will absolutely take it. And upvote their answer if it's a good answer. If my answer contains one useful bit that should be added to theirs, I'll add a comment to theirs suggesting that they take it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting all hot and bothered about 'stealing' is pretty immature. No one is getting tenure here or a book deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T03:07:49.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-30T03:07:49.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24313" CreationDate="2009-12-30T04:33:09.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did a little searching and I bet it is home grown.  But there are libraries out there that current do this type of revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathertel.de/Diff/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mathertel.de/Diff/Default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="17" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T04:52:38.183" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T04:52:38.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-12-30T04:33:18.367" />
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on q.Id = pt.PostId&#xA;join Tags t on t.Id = pt.TagId    &#xA;join #tags tt on tt.TagId = t.Id&#xA;where p.CommunityOwnedDate is null and p.ClosedDate is null&#xA;group by TagName, AvgView &#xA;order by Avg(p.Score + 0.0) desc&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;exec spShog9&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T21:05:58.273" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:05:58.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T06:23:40.813" Score="4" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that we don't want SU to become a &quot;tips and tricks&quot; site like GameFAQs. Some purely gaming-related questions, however, fit the scope of SU very well. Examples: &quot;How important is the CPU for gaming?&quot; or &quot;Do games generally utilize multiple cores?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that are purely PC-related, and don't involve a specific game, should be allowed on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149440" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T22:48:51.987" Title="Gaming-related questions should be allowed on SU when they don't involve a specific game" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="34109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24313" CreationDate="2009-12-30T06:35:56.057" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001222.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CodingHorror: Mixing Oil and Water: Authorship in a Wiki World&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I played around with Levenshtein for a while, but even optimized implementations are brutally slow as the size of the input increases. I quickly realized that a line-based comparison was the only workable one. We used this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathertel.de/Diff/DiffDoku.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C# implementation&lt;/a&gt; of An &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmailserver.org/diff2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;O(ND) Difference Algorithm and its Variations (pdf)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T06:35:56.057" />
  <row Id="34110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T06:37:35.087" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a question on meta.stackoverflow.com without realizing that I was not logged-in. If I had logged in from the same tab, I would have lost my work. I worked around this by logging in in a new tab, then copy-pasting my work over, but this is not idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be possible to log in without losing your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149440" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T19:00:57.627" Title="It should be possible to log in in the middle of writing a question, without losing it" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34108" CreationDate="2009-12-30T07:09:42.517" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This opens a can of worms, because when gaming questions are asked and closed everyone points to these questions and immediately claim that we allowed them so why not these. The FAQ and Jeff has been quite clear on this, no gaming related questions, even if it is hardware. Both the questions you mention are also discussion topics which is also not allowed on the Trilogy and discouraged, since neither has a correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore there are already 2 or 3 gaming related stack exchange sites, which means SU can remains clean from these types of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T07:09:42.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34110" CreationDate="2009-12-30T08:34:50.963" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, it's a nice-to-have feature, not critical. I'll certainly welcome it though I probably will never use it. I guess most active users are 'always' logged in anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T08:34:50.963" />
  <row Id="34113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53025" CreationDate="2009-12-30T08:50:27.340" Score="10" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very minor issue, but I figured I'd put it out there: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/31687/list&quot;&gt;When a tag is edited&lt;/a&gt; on a question on meta, it is displayed in the log as bright green with white text. On my screen I can't read it unless I select the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i49.tinypic.com/25ksfuf.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to a request, &lt;a href=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/2hntkp2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here is the problem pinpointed with great accuracy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T06:54:37.240" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T06:54:37.240" Title="Bright green + white = not really readable" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="34114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T08:53:59.860" Score="6" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about a possibility of adding a custom section in the CV, something that doesn't really fit &lt;strong&gt;education&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;background&lt;/strong&gt;, such as army service? Where I live, army service is mandatory, and I would like to have that in its own section. While this might not be exactly programming related, it could really help making better use of Careers outside the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; maybe just an &quot;Other&quot; section with free-text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8205" LastEditorUserId="8205" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T17:03:40.860" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T17:03:40.860" Title="Adding custom section in careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34053" CreationDate="2009-12-30T09:06:43.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we added comment editing, the comment html structure changed a bit, causing some client script to behave incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed; thanks for submitting the bug!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T09:06:43.277" />
  <row Id="34116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34110" CreationDate="2009-12-30T10:45:12.320" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One can log in (and post in the same action) using the &quot;OpenID Login&quot; input below the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/gWnhc.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For Meta there's just one option: OpenID. For those using Google, see &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/38186/i-am-johngmail-com-what-is-my-open-id&quot;&gt;I am [..]@gmail.com, what is my open id?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; at Super User.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-19T19:00:57.627" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T19:00:57.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T11:10:30.310" Score="4" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain why my SO reputation just plummeted from just over 2,000 to 1,200? (User: ILMV).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I started with 1,997 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answered a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edited my answer a couple times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Received a up vote to put me to 2,007&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now I have 1,207 ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if this is in the wrong area please move :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Toms answer, is there a mod that can check if my score has been recalculated. Thanks :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139512" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T12:00:52.783" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T18:01:56.403" Title="SO reputation score just plummeted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;score&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34117" CreationDate="2009-12-30T11:37:49.890" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a thing called a rep recalc.  It recalculates your Reputation, so deleted questions/answers, and fradulent votes don't count for or against you.  Most people lose rep from a recalc - I just did it to myself on Meta and went from 3,975 to 3,859.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A SO mod might be able to see if your Rep got recalced - it can be triggered manually, or automatically by fraud algorithms, Account Mergers, and some other misc. things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T11:37:49.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34117" CreationDate="2009-12-30T11:56:55.180" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &quot;recalc&quot; in your log (all such are fully logged), so I don't think it was this. I presume, then, another account (perhaps well-meaning) had up-voted your account so heavily and exclusively that it was seen as suspicious (automatically) and the votes cancelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens occasionally (very rarely), as an unfortunate side-effect of having a fanboy. Sorry 'bout that, but I suppose you should be flattered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T11:56:55.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2009-12-30T12:05:32.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears fixed, at least to me, in the later prettify.js we've deployed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T12:05:32.960" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T12:53:52.007" Score="1" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2115/text-formatting-now-allowed-in-comments-list-of-proven-and-disproven-abilities&quot;&gt;Text Formatting Now Allowed In Comments (List of Proven and Disproven Abilities)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot format my code in comments (greyed out background, color coding etc), nor can I put in line breaks; is this deliberate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T15:04:15.233" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T15:04:15.233" ClosedDate="2009-12-30T15:18:43.093" Title="Format code in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34121" CreationDate="2009-12-30T12:56:16.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments don't have the same formatting - they are designed to be lightweight, after all, and don't have an editor etc. You can still use backticks `like this`, but just like inline code in an answer, there is no colour coding, just a &lt;code&gt;fixed width font&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps add an answer (or update your question)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T12:56:16.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34186" CreationDate="2009-12-30T13:34:47.077" Score="6" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened to me more then once and it annoys me because I (may) get completely different answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1771216/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1771216/list&lt;/a&gt;. Because of the retagging, my first few responses were C#/.NET-specific and I had wanted to ask about exceptions in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another occurrence is this question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1978000/why-string-isnulloremptystr-and-not-str-isnullorempty&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1978000/why-string-isnulloremptystr-and-not-str-isnullorempty&lt;/a&gt;. I asked why a .NET class was designed the way it was and someone decided to tag it as C# when VB.NET people could have answered just as well. As far as anyone knows I could have been using VB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like people to stop changing other people's tags incorrectly. I don't know of a solution but I thought I'd mention this for awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T14:01:56.970" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T00:20:22.587" Title="People changing other people's tags to make it wrong" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34123" CreationDate="2009-12-30T13:40:46.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roll the changes back and leave a comment on the question. No more is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, edit out the tags, and describe your rationale in the &quot;Edit Summary&quot; field. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, inscribe your reasoning on the side of an aluminum baseball bat, drive to the editor's house, and beat him soundly with it. That'll show him...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T16:38:18.653" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T16:38:18.653" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34123" CreationDate="2009-12-30T13:40:59.233" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's your question rollback the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's someone else's question you have a number of options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rework your answer to reflect the new information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete your answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retag the question yourself, assuming you have enough rep and you are convinced that the original tagging was correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag the post for moderator attention, explaining why.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd go for 1 or 2. In rare cases 3 and 4 only if you're engaged in an edit/roll-back war (thanks Bill).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T17:12:16.033" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T17:12:16.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="93934" CreationDate="2009-12-30T14:24:48.367" Score="-7" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Posts&lt;/strong&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4830/private-message-feature&quot;&gt;Private Message&#xA;  Feature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431/any-way-to-send-a-personal-message-to-another-user&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to&#xA;  another&#xA;  user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34123/people-changing-other-peoples-tags-to-make-it-wrong&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I thought being able to leave a comment on a user profile would be a nice solution. Once in a while I have a question for a specific person. Once I notice a person doing OSdev and wanted to know about his projects he was working on. I remember a person mentioning a paper he did and I wanted to ask him more. I'm sure he didn;t notice my comment because he has many replies (which get commented on) and isn't on the site for days at a time. If he decided to look at his profile comments I am sure he would have a higher chance of noticing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like comments on user profiles. I dont think flamewars would be an issue and would be hard to follow if you cant reply back on the same page (you either cant post on your own profile and if you can the other person would be notified of the comment which may slow it down)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-07T02:03:20.780" LastActivityDate="2011-06-07T02:03:20.780" Title="User profile comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34126" CreationDate="2009-12-30T14:30:01.477" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No thanks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it seems like a good feature, there are a number of problems with implementing it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you implement that, you have to  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;add a place on a profile page for comments (add tab)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow those comments to be edited (add edit)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;police for spam (add spam button)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add delete mechanism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add new relationship to database (right now comments are put on posts, a user is not a post)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spec, design, and implement this change&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just too much effort for something that doesn't have an immediate benefit that isn't already provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user wants to be contacted, they'll put contact information on their profile page, much like you did for yours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T14:30:01.477" />
  <row Id="34128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34126" CreationDate="2009-12-30T14:31:19.787" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Various forms of private messages have been shot done more times than I can count. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did you mean a publicly visible comment on a user? If so, bad idea. Way too much potential for abuse of various forms (I mean, griefing on SO?!?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rule has generally been that we rate &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt; here, not &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt;. Of course, the resulting rep accruses to users, so there is a rough and ready user rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T16:56:56.067" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T16:56:56.067" />
  <row Id="34129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34126" CreationDate="2009-12-30T15:30:03.677" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone wants to be available they can post an email address or link on their profile. If no such link exists, you should assume that person wants to be left alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T15:30:03.677" />
  <row Id="34130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34113" CreationDate="2009-12-30T16:21:56.337" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;I'm not aware of the support on IE8, but most other browsers have some support for a translucent or transparent background.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scratch that, just add to the style page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.moderator-tag .diff-add {color:black;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T16:21:56.337" />
  <row Id="34132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34177" CreationDate="2009-12-30T17:08:43.857" Score="-2" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Diploma mills exist, like these in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff%5Ffake%5Fphysics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this wired article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will employers be able to SELECT candidate FROM career_stack_overflow WHERE diploma_university NOT IN (SELECT name FROM known_diploma_mills)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The possible existence of diploma mills throw the entire diploma column's data quality into doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I remove the word responsibility. The libertarian tangent this question went off on was entire unnecessary and uncivil.  If SO Careers doesn't have a policy on people lying on their resume, what good are they to anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33264" LastEditorUserId="33264" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-30T17:36:46.367" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T05:50:53.527" Title="Will Careers @ Stackoverflow filter for known diploma mills?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34132" CreationDate="2009-12-30T17:20:59.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is crap. Job boards don't have 'responsibilities' to do this. It's not in the UN Charter or written on the side of milk-boxes. Any employer incapable of doing this for themselves deserves what they get. Not to mention @Shog9's note that there is just about no relationship between degree and competence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T17:20:59.990" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="34134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34179" CreationDate="2009-12-30T17:37:12.747" Score="3" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've taken to jumping straight to my 'new replies' page to see what has happened while I'm away.  However, when I do this and there is a new reply, then when I open one of those questions for which there is a reply, that question has the 'there is a new reply' envelope highlighted, even though I've just come from the 'new replies' page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be fixed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a scale of 1-10 for irritation factor, it is no more than a 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T22:14:21.143" Title="'New replies available' highlighted after starting at 'recent activity' page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34132" CreationDate="2009-12-30T17:49:44.947" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will careers be able to prove you actually have a degree and went to that university? Lying on resumes is an old problem, and the responsibility to watch out for this belongs to the employer, as it always has. Diploma mills are no different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T17:54:50.710" />
  <row Id="34136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34117" CreationDate="2009-12-30T18:01:56.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/80111?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;reputation graph&lt;/a&gt; says that you've never been above 1200.  Not sure what that means if you really did have a score of 2000, but it is interesting, nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T18:01:56.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34132" CreationDate="2009-12-30T18:21:06.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, but I fear someone who is comfortable with the idea of getting a junk diploma will also find a way to game the system so that the filter no longer works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T18:21:06.653" />
  <row Id="34138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34123" CreationDate="2009-12-30T18:32:58.657" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want language-agnostic answers, add the &lt;code&gt;language-agnostic&lt;/code&gt; tag to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T18:32:58.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34132" CreationDate="2009-12-30T18:34:34.517" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's true that diploma mills exist, and it's true that they're a great disservice to the academic world, I disagree that it should fall to SOC to filter them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't disagree based on any of my particular political leanings, but rather the implications of applying such a filter. Who's to say the list SOC might use for that is correct? Would it be published for verification? What about false positives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse, what about lulling employers into a false sense of security that diploma mills are not being represented, but &lt;em&gt;missing a few&lt;/em&gt; on the list, such that they get through?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention the whole &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34132/will-careers-stackoverflow-filter-for-known-diploma-mills/34137#34137&quot; title=&quot;+1 Robert Harvey&quot;&gt;gaming the system angle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, all this comes from a guy who thinks he's an OK programmer (he is, after all, very gainfully employed with a long track record of happy employers and clients), but has no degree at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T18:34:34.517" />
  <row Id="34141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34187" CreationDate="2009-12-30T18:47:00.167" Score="3" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;When making a comment for the first time, if you paste in code like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/9916/65370402.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it does not highlight as code, see below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/7518/66392876.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;But if you go back and edit it again, you'll see that it is now all one line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4033/54880563.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;and then after clicking Save Your Edits, it will display properly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2186/35498463.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works properly when previewing your post before asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T00:24:21.860" LastActivityDate="2010-10-18T05:44:50.617" Title="Multi-Line Comment With Code Does Not Properly Markup Unless You Edit and Save Again" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34079" CreationDate="2009-12-30T19:03:30.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I admit I've wondered about the same thing.  IME, the total votes would be ~10% of the views.  Also depends on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;competency: Could be too esoteric for someone to be comfortable voting for an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;timing &amp;amp; amount of traffic: All my 10+ voted answers were made during day time in North America&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's partly why I hesitate to answer data modeling questions these days - the user typically doesn't understand the answer, SO isn't the place to explain it, and there's even less people who will agree or vote for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T19:03:30.177" />
  <row Id="34143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34141" CreationDate="2009-12-30T19:13:56.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I went back to edit my comment, it was still multi-line. I suspect that is part of the issue -- the multiline part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that (once displayed) comments don't support multiple lines (the text area is only large because you can type 600 characters), I think this is probably a fairly low-priority bug. It is still valid bug, I think, but probably low-priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T19:13:56.020" />
  <row Id="34144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T19:18:14.840" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use SU more than SO, and sometimes it feels lonely in there. It would be encouraging to know that there is an upward trend of daily active users. I've googled around, and I can't seem to find any information like this available for SU. Perhaps it's in the SO data dump, but that's a lot of data to wade through for simple statistics like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daily active users statistics should be made available--or if they already are available, they should be made easier to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149440" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T19:25:30.580" Title="Public daily active users statistics for the trilogy" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34144" CreationDate="2009-12-30T19:25:30.580" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I'd want to see that stat displayed, but if it makes you feel any better, Jeff wrote the following on &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/7192909447&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; this morning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; is an animal of&#xA;  a different breed: the only Trilogy&#xA;  site where traffic is &lt;em&gt;up&lt;/em&gt; (way up)&#xA;  over the holidays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T19:25:30.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34132" CreationDate="2009-12-30T19:45:25.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not reasonable (or possible) for SOC to maintain a list of known diploma mills. Much like spammers, they come and go over time, and some of them have names similar to legitimate institutions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to the employer to check that a candidate's degrees are legit and that the candidate isn't lying about his references, etc, etc. Nothing else makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131313" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T19:45:25.573" />
  <row Id="34152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21575" CreationDate="2009-12-30T20:47:19.033" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Happening to me (second time) now... this time it seams like a &lt;em&gt;reply&lt;/em&gt; to a comment I did (just pointed a little error in the answer code). First time was because of a downvote I did (60% - 80% fixed).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But who cares, I lost 10+ received 100... and someone else got his &lt;em&gt;revenge&lt;/em&gt; for my - just wanted to help - comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2010-01-01:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;seams like someone really got hurt :-(&lt;br&gt;&#xA;5 additional down-votes this night/yesterday...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;kind of childish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastEditorUserId="141148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T12:47:57.940" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T12:47:57.940" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T21:05:41.113" Score="7" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31548/error-while-editing-deleted-post-this-post-has-been-deleted-no-more-edits-are&quot;&gt;a similar bug report&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;one's own answers&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;This is is about editing &lt;em&gt;someone else's answers&lt;/em&gt;. Also, the other post has been marked as completed, which is certainly isn't!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This only applies to 10k users.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The bug&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions still have an &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; button. By pressing it the normal edit window opens and one starts editing. But after a short time, presumably through an AJAX call, a banner opens with the caption &lt;em&gt;This post has been deleted - no more edits are allowed&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Save your Edits&lt;/em&gt; button gets disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, if I'm quick enough to edit the post and press the button, before the banner shows up I'm able to edit the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct behaviour would either be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't allow me to edit deleted posts.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Still let me edit my own deleted posts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow me to edit those posts, but don't show that banner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Observations&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What about community-deleted posts, should 10k users be able to edit them? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I should be able to edit my own posts when I've deleted them myself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T00:23:10.987" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T00:23:10.987" Title="I shouldn't or should be able to edit a deleted answer, but not both" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-31T18:54:27.280" Score="27" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been a professional programmer for 14 years, having started as a high school student (working for the US goverment after turning a summer internship into a full year part time job), and worked in various research and industry positions. I've always done my coding in either C, C++ (for GUIs, mostly), or assembly (I've been working with embedded devices for the past few years), or my scripting in Perl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at the Stack Overflow questions, it seems like Java, C#, and platform specific technologies (Windows Forms, etc.) represent almost all the programming related questions. I realize that these make up the majority of programming &lt;em&gt;jobs&lt;/em&gt; these days, but I've still been somewhat surprised to see a lack of questions about C, drivers, kernel concerns, and other lower-level issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I turned into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curmudgeon#Noun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;curmudgeon&lt;/a&gt; at the tender age of 28? Should I start yelling to my OO colleagues to get off my lawn, and turn the volume down from their newfangled IntelliSense and whatnot, and let me work on my Vim console in peace? Or do the jobs in C et al tend to be populated by people with someone more experience who no longer use the Internet to ask their questions (and rely on 15 year old Usenet posts (I mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_News&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Deja News&lt;/a&gt;, I mean Google Groups))?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Someone suggested that Stack Overflow may represent the current state of programming as a hobby, not necessarily that of programming as a job. Excellent point, and one that seems quite plausible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I didn't really mean to imply that I think there should be more jobs / positions for C than C#. It's just that when I look at the programs I use, it seems like .NET is much less common than I'd think based on the Stack Overflow questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41308" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T10:07:33.457" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T12:04:45.647" Title="Do Stack Overflow questions represent the current state of the programming industry?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:07:33.290" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think about how many .NET and Java developers there are compared with kernel developers. Is it any wonder there are more questions about .NET and Java?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's probably some element of &quot;kernel developers don't need to ask the same kind of questions, or look in different places&quot; but I think there's also a large element of &quot;most software development is high level.&quot; I view that as a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; thing, personally - while low-level &lt;em&gt;knowledge&lt;/em&gt; is a good thing to have, I would be quite worried about the state of computing if a large proportion of developers were writing drivers and kernel modules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:08:47.783" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that SO tags are  representative of the kinds of programming done these days, yet.  I think it's probably skewed as a result of the initial population being heavily weighted towards Atwood and Spolsky readers.  Over time this may or may not change -- it's hard to say how a community will grow. Compared to the number of people who write web apps the number of people who deal with kernel programming, device drivers, etc. is reasonably small, though.  I think it's likely that the emphasis on technologies related to databases and web programming will continue to be dominant on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:09:50.260" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think StackOverflow is a good Barometer to see what's really cooking in the programming world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft can do what they want when it comes down to presenting new technologies, but this shouldn't mean everyone is using it right away. So StackOverflow is good to see what new technologies (and old ones) are still being used, since we're all active in software development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About young vs. old: I think the 'older' languags will always be important, since there will always be legacy projects that need maintenance. And if an older technology works, why not stick to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand a lot of companies start up new projects using some of the latest technologies. And it's also something the younger generation of developers like me (lol I'm 28) need: new challenges, new stuff to learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe one day I'll get &quot;stuck&quot; in one or another technology too, but only if I really like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:12:19.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the answer would be &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might, however, represent the current state of the programming &lt;em&gt;hobby&lt;/em&gt;. The askers here are probably people asking because they have found something of interest, but need help understanding it completely, rather than because of that task the boss gave me, which I don't know how to solve the best way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another theory is that the specialty groups (kernels, drivers) are not here (perhaps even &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; everyone is asking about Java and C#), but in their mailing lists. And they have probably been doing their stuff for quite some while already, so they know their stuff. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, (I'm assuming here, I have no first-hand knowledge) the low-level stuff don't change nearly as much as the high-level stuff. If the foobarometer-chip has a working Xyzzy-driver for YourOS, you probably don't need many more. On the other hand, there's always one more Rails behind the corner, that people get excited about, but don't know how to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, there are more than 150 active Linux deveopers, and AMD/Intel/nVidia are still around, so I'm sure &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; is still doing the low level stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130813" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:12:57.197" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from how hard it is to hire a good C programmer these days (see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498935/find-software-developers-who-see-the-light/&quot;&gt;find-software-developers-who-see-the-light&lt;/a&gt;), and also thinking about the skills of the people we interview at my company, it seems that there are defintely more .NET and Java programmers around than C or assembly programmers. If you ask some youngster which language he'd like to learn (or use on his job), I don't think C or assembly would come up very often, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, I do think that SO is a pretty good measure on which programmign technologies are most used nowadays. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:15:13.277" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certain groups of programmers tend to think &quot;I find the information I need on the internet&quot; while others think &quot;I figure things out by myself&quot;.  Some think &quot;I participate in online communities&quot; while others think &quot;I discuss technical issues with my coworkers&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my career, I've seen a correlation between these attitudes, the types of software folks want to work on, and the technologies they want to use to create that software.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, certain topics are more suited to online discussion.  Comparing driver development to line-of-business applications, the latter has orders of magnitude for people working on them, and they tend to be solving the same kinds of problems over &amp;amp; over, while the former is a smaller group who are solving problems specific to their situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5314" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:17:05.910" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bulk of questions on SO are related to Platform or API Frameworks as opposed to raw programming language questions. When you think about it, most professional programmers become expert in a language pretty quickly and won't have questions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the difference between a reference and a pointer? [C++]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the difference between require and include? [Ruby]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's much harder to keep an entire platform/API framework in your head and this is often just as important to getting your job done. So, the following type of questions are the types of ones that are often best answered by consulting your peers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you detect a CD eject on Windows?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I install something in System Preferences on OS/X?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... which is exactly what SO is good at!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, don't lose faith: expert knowledge of programming concepts and languages is just as important today, even if the volume of questions doesn't reflect this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131147" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:25:58.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So there are a limited number of problems that involve kernel development, driver creation, and cases where C is the best language. I am a huge advocate of using the correct tool for the job. Most of the time I use C# since it is what I am familiar with and it allows me to accomplish projects in a time efficient manor. I am also using F# in day to day development. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most software is written to accomplish certain business goals and the questions asked here reflect the current technologies in use. It is no longer reasonable to use C to develop a new line of business app since the cost of having a C app written properly outweigh the benefits. There are cases where C is the best choice to solve the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the work that I do there is a mix of C#, F#, Managed C++ and native C++. There are also alot of questions that I would not ask on the site since I feel (rightly or wrongly) that I am unlikely to get a good answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like C there are going to continue to be jobs for both new development and maintaining code bases. If you like writing kernel code there are certainly various places around the web that kernel developers congregate. Stack Overflow seems to represent a broader development perspective. I do enjoy posting here so even though I work on software where I am unlikely to get answers on some of the deep questions I have I will continue to ask questions here and occasionally provide some useful insite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:26:47.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm 45 and been programming since I was 16, which was 1980.  I think this site reflects current activity to a pretty good degree.  I see a lot of reflection of work that I've done recently, such as agile, rails, and patterns.  Some things that I've used that are pretty current don't seem to show up much here, for example, GWT and Hadoop (cloud computing).  So, it's pretty good, but there may be some gaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you touch my Gran Torino again, I'll kick your hairy &amp;lt;insert racial epithet&amp;gt; butt back to wherever it came from.  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137025" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:43:50.690" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it represents the current state of programming so much as it represents the current state of the Internet, and more specifically the problems finding good solutions via a search engine (Google, live, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've discovered a couple of things.  First, there is an incredible amount of &quot;pollution&quot; especially in the Microsoft/.NET world.  Hundreds and hundreds of sites scraping and reposting information from Microsoft, its bloggers, news groups, etc. so if you do find a unique set of keywords that match a solution for your particular problem, you'll still find the first 3 pages of results are basically the same bit of information repeated over and over and over.  (It's been a while since I've worked in the Java world, but I don't imaging it's a whole lot better.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess as long as there's money to be made stealing and reposting content, it's going to be this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other problem is that there are so many programming sites where people can post information with no review, etc. - and this information also gets repeated over and over, even when the code and techniques are completely wrong.  Try doing a search for the &quot;best way&quot; to create a singleton in Visual Basic, if you want to see what I'm talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4782" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T10:03:01.140" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T10:03:01.140" />
  <row Id="34165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:52:43.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the fundamental point to make here is that there aren't very many people doing low-level programming nowadays.  Writing a kernel in C isn't a common activity.  Writing software in Python that runs on a kernel someone else wrote in C, however, is all the rage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to say that this is a good thing. Low-level kernel/driver programming is &lt;em&gt;really important&lt;/em&gt;, but largely because it creates a foundation for the actually interesting software that people use. Sure, this software could also be written in C or assembly, but that's a lot of extra work for little benefit in userland software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T19:54:06.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say SO reflects the lagged state of what is new and the current state of what is topical in the industry, rather than the overall state. SO is a reputation economy, and currently you can get more answers, more quickly to &quot;How do I {x} in [n]Hibernate&quot; or &quot;What's the equivalent of {construct} in {old language} for {popular language}&quot; more quickly than you can to questions of the form {I don't know enough about kernel development to ask an intelligent question, let alone give a general form} because the immediate demand for the former is currently high, as is the supply. If the demand is high, then the technology is either new, or being applied in a novel way OR is something that lots of people are needing/wanting to learn to use at current time(e.g. {what's the correct syntax for this SQL query}) If there are a high volume answers to meet the demand, then the technology must not be too new, or fewer people would know how to respond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146941" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T21:06:44.783" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a reason that C has fewer questions and C# has more questions on SO not related te the number of programers out there.  This is that C has the book K and R (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language_(book)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia link&lt;/a&gt;), a ~270 that describes the whole language.  When I have a question about C I first pick up this book and most of the time find an answer.  More complexe and newer languages such as C# are going to generate more questions because of the fact that they are more complexe and newer.  These factors do have an effect, but to what extent is hard to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134504" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T21:07:31.350" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow questions and questioners are self-selected.  Compared to the entire population of things people are working on, StackOverflow will exhibit selection bias:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users biased toward some personal demographics more than others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions biased toward open systems or at least open APIs - because those questions are more likely to have a larger number of users here who can answer them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions biased toward community projects more than proprietary development.  For some projects it's not OK to admit you don't know the right technique, and it's not OK to leak any details of what you're working on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions biased toward new, fast moving, or immature platforms and systems - because there are fewer well-worn FAQs around, and learning a new system is more likely to generate questions than doing something you're familiar with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;New&quot; is weighted by &quot;new to you&quot; - and I think the large number of Java and .NET questions reflects the large number of &quot;you&quot; doing new development work with those tools.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, the samples you see are &quot;&lt;em&gt;at the margin&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, more heavily weighted where questioner population is changing the most, where new questions are arising rapidly, where communities are large enough or growing enough so that it's likely somebody will answer a new question, where there are fewer established sources to be consulted first, and where you don't get in trouble or embarrass yourself by asking in public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5845" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-01-31T23:40:02.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say the answer is &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt;. I remember times when I was looking for websites dealing with Python for example and did't find many. Recently I continued an old C++ project and was googling for certain API calls and the results were mostly C#, Python, and other &lt;em&gt;modern&lt;/em&gt; languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore don't forget, that C++ is mainly used for desktop applications, whereas C#, Python, etc. can also be used for web applications, where more people can achive easy results without being very experienced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T10:04:28.157" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T10:04:28.157" />
  <row Id="34170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-02-01T00:34:26.987" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site was made with Microsoft technology and attracted mostly Windows programmers in the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kept some Open Source programmers away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; And given the downvotes I get, they (the Windows guys) want to keep it this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133820" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-02-01T01:00:00.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should also remember that technologies and programming languages that have existed for a while longer than C# and .NET have already created lots of communities. It's not like the people using those technologies had nowhere to ask their questions before SO came along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, coupled with what others have said, that the initial crowd was most likely attracted through the Joel/Jeff connection, I'd assume that the only indication you can gather from the questions and tags on SO is what kind of people is using SO at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not fall into the same trap that many creators of online polls seems to fall into, that most of the people that answers those polls seems to be very well aligned with the creator of the poll. Well, duh, there's a reason they're reading the poll in the first place, they was already on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that there aren't many kernel programming questions here could mean a couple of things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, it could very well mean that there aren't that many people out there doing this kind of programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or it could mean that those programmers have a good grip on their technology level and thus doesn't have to ask as many questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or perhaps they have communities set up already and doesn't (feel the) need to venture a lot outside of those&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should consider SO the full population of the programming world just yet, nor that it represents a good enough cut of it to represent all groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-02-01T03:51:29.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My perception is that SO represents the curve pretty well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most development jobs today are building Windows applications in C / C++ / VB6 / .NET or web applications in ASP / Java / ASP.NET / Python / PHP / Ruby...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like that is reflected on SO pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-02-10T05:27:12.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is also related to the personality of people who &quot;ask and answer the questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers received in most polls will tell you mainly the opinion of people who &quot;answer forums&quot; rather than the population in its entirety, or prefer one direction instead of another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are plenty of programmers who &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; to adopt new(ish) &lt;strong&gt;[relative]&lt;/strong&gt; technology (or types of technology rather) faster and  more easily than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One who likes to delve in low level C coding would not be expected to be so keen on a site which started off as an experiment in ASP.NET MVC, or at least perceived as such from some outsiders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One &lt;strong&gt;would&lt;/strong&gt; of course expect more feedback from users of a technology that are more web related, since this is a new forum-like developed by/in/with if not for adopters of new web technologies (namely ASP.NET MVC, compared to Kernel development is new).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fact alone, would mean you can expect to have a more affluent participation from coders in web related projects with use of underlying technology which can, but must not be necessarily web &lt;em&gt;friendly&lt;/em&gt; related frameworks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the status quo factor playing into it, once it is seen and perceived as a &quot;mostly this&quot; or &quot;mostly that&quot; technology site, shunning starts to happen from the groups of people who feel left out, creating a snowball effect on the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My 2 cents, I think SO is driving (in the right direction) many of the programmers of today with an overall message of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_learning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;learn = good; cooperate = learning++;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this the idea behind SO, and the more people consider cooperating as a means to learning, the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets all continue to improve ourselves and whoever wants to jump in the band wagon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit] The current state of the programming industry is one still changing quite significantly, most of us are having a great deal of work keeping up with both the latest requirements and capabilities in our field, SO represents the curve in the sense that we are all striving to ride the wave of new &lt;em&gt;stuff&lt;/em&gt; coming up all the time, and we are all asking each other the same questions because most of the time, we want the same answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131903" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T21:12:18.893" />
  <row Id="34174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-02-10T06:47:51.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably represents the state of enterprise programming rather than the entire programming industry. A lot of programmers work at enterprises rather than software houses where the enterprise is focused on an industry other than software development. As such, they aren't working on monolithic projects where they can become domain experts readily easily. Their days are spent jumping from task to task and dealing with a lot of disparate issues involving a lot of different technologies. They find out enough to solve the problem then move on to the next issue. This is where you get all the C#, .NET and Java questions from as they are what is mainly used by the enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programmers in software houses generally get to work on the one project using the one set of technologies and so can become domain experts. They also have Bob, the really smart developer, within shouting distance and Bob will have been working with those technologies and on this project for ages so when you need to know how to kerfungle the blixxam, you don't need to jump on the Internet, you can just ask Bob because he has been kerfungling blixxams for years. Enterprise teams tend to be smaller and thus usually have less depth of experience that they can call on in-house. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same is true of people doing side projects or hobby developers, except here you probably get more Ruby, Python, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note I am not &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disparaging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;disparaging&lt;/a&gt; enterprise software developers - I am one, and this is the reality I deal with every day.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141809" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T10:11:32.897" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T10:11:32.897" />
  <row Id="34175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-30T21:12:27.447" Score="5" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm able to edit my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34151/&quot;&gt;deleted question&lt;/a&gt; but I cannot look at it nor undelete it. After pressing the &lt;em&gt;Save my Edits&lt;/em&gt; button I'm redirected to a 404 page, but by reloading the edit page I'm able to see my the new revision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/34151/edit/&quot;&gt;the edit link&lt;/a&gt;, that I can use to edit it. How did I get that edit link? Simple: I deleted the question and pressed the edit link thinking that I could undelete it later. (Which I can't… well, maybe I could using the correct link.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T08:10:13.037" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T08:10:13.037" Title="I'm able to edit my deleted question, but I cannot look at it" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15275" CreationDate="2009-12-30T21:17:04.190" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just added the last vote to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499331/do-stackoverflow-questions-represent-the-current-state-of-the-programming-industr?noredirect=1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499331/do-stackoverflow-questions-represent-the-current-state-of-the-programming-industr?noredirect=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that saw it migrated over to meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34154/do-stackoverflow-questions-represent-the-current-state-of-the-programming-industr&quot;&gt;Do Stack Overflow questions represent the current state of the programming industry?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the move, Jon Skeet's answer was the accepted one, and now it isn't. So while this might be [by-design] it is bad design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T20:33:57.967" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T20:33:57.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34132" CreationDate="2009-12-30T21:22:12.293" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please Don't Try to Filter/Edit CVs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my feelings, based on having used Careers from the employer side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are  listing a paper degree, that's very useful for me to know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not fooled by fake degrees. I unfortunately get the same spam you do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if I were fooled, this is one of the easiest things for HR departments to check.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it ever transpired that a site was editing out this kind of information, it would lose a lot of interest on the employer side.  What other kinds of information would they be editing out?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, one nice thing about Jeff&amp;amp;Co is that they've emphasized honesty and transparency, so I'm not worried about this issue at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-08T05:50:53.527" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T05:50:53.527" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34175" CreationDate="2009-12-30T22:04:37.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, the delete-edit-undelete technique only works for answers (unless you have a reputation &gt;= 10K or are a moderator). At one time, you could close your question while you edited it and then re-open it when you were done... but that's no longer possible either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other restrictions on deleting questions that make this an inflexible practice, even if you do have the rep to pull it off in some instances. It's probably best to just consider a deleted question &lt;em&gt;gone&lt;/em&gt; and post your edits as a new question (which I see you've done).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T22:04:37.703" />
  <row Id="34179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34134" CreationDate="2009-12-30T22:14:21.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably an optimization designed to minimize the load on the StackOverflow database.  The envelope highlighting does not occur in real-time; rather, it most likely happens as a result of one of those polling things that periodically updates a separate table containing the envelope statuses.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the website occasionally takes a hit for updating everyone's envelopes all at once, rather than dying a quiet death updating each envelope individually everytime someone hits F5.  In the former case, only one record in one table has to be checked; in the latter case, all of your questions and answers have to be checked for activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T22:14:21.143" />
  <row Id="34180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27229" CreationDate="2009-12-30T22:16:00.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34131/back-to-question-link-on-the-edit-page-disappeared&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate, I'll post here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will there ever be an explanation why the link was removed? Any chance that it could be added again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it can be really useful to have the possibility to go back the the question to check some details (e.g. names of variables, functions, etc) to correctly refer to them in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19635" LastActivityDate="2009-12-30T22:16:00.593" />
  <row Id="34186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34123" CreationDate="2009-12-31T00:20:22.587" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys need to really think about this practice of overtagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw that Jon Skeet got a [vb.net] gold badge based on the number of questions he answered that were really general [.net] questions -- but had been tagged with both [c#] and [vb.net]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is general (e.g. exceptions) and could apply to both .net languages just leave it as [.net]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T00:20:22.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34141" CreationDate="2009-12-31T00:24:32.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;multiple lines are not supported in comments, and will never be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: the ENTER key now submits the comment as well, so if you absolutely must have newlines for some odd reason (even though they aren't displayed..) use SHIFT+ENTER&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-18T05:44:50.617" LastActivityDate="2010-10-18T05:44:50.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34188" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T00:40:27.140" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am debating whether or not to pay $130/month for the stackexchange site. I have been getting the impression that the code is inaccessible. is I wanted to include an adsense revenue feature in the stackexchenge software how would I do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136454" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T01:09:39.400" ClosedDate="2009-12-31T01:36:44.533" Title="Is it possible to make stackexchange software as an adsense revenue sharing site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;adsense&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34188" CreationDate="2009-12-31T01:09:39.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone together now! Sing along...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Across the meadow and through the woods to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; we go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T01:09:39.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T01:23:38.170" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I inscribed myself just after dinner with OpenID: &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid-provider.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://openid-provider.appspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; thinking it was the right way to authenticate a OpenID account, unfortunately now I created an account there and I can't login any more :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&#xA;Positive assertion sent with OpenID version 1.1 but Identifier discovery suggested would be 2.0.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I get back to my old account? :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141165" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-08T11:13:57.893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T11:14:47.627" Title="Having problems with my OpenID" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34195" CreationDate="2009-12-31T01:36:20.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the email address at the bottom of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: you should also know that you're using a completely unsanctioned OpenID provider that has no affiliation with Google. Really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; not recommended. To use the real, official Google OpenID click the giant Google logo on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/login&quot;&gt;login page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T11:12:02.557" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T11:12:02.557" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34195" CreationDate="2009-12-31T01:56:42.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried. This is pretty weird :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this guy that had same problem as me:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29228/unable-to-login-with-google-openid-account-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29228/unable-to-login-with-google-openid-account-in-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141165" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-08T11:14:47.627" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T11:14:47.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34154" CreationDate="2009-12-31T03:26:59.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the job listings on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Craigslist&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monster&lt;/a&gt;, it's almost the same ratio of questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Java, .NET and now iPhone development, are prominent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C/C++ are still there, but much less common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PHP/MySQL still pretty frequent in most areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133482" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-14T12:04:45.647" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T12:04:45.647" />
  <row Id="34201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30187" CreationDate="2009-12-31T03:59:31.660" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a 'rg' logo on a tag as generic as 'performance'!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they should keep the ads in the tag page but keep the logo out of the [tag] everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140903" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T03:59:31.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T06:00:50.337" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17037/unofficial-stack-overflow-api-reference&quot;&gt;Unoffical API documentation for Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Overflow and I couldn't find a search API. I was working on a code search like utility and would like to utilize results from Stack Overflow and link the results back to Stack Overflow. I can use the OpenSearch API on this URL -  stackoverflow.com/search?q={searchTerms} and get to Stack Overflow, but I was wondering: is there an API where I can get XML results and I can link the results back to Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the data for Stack Overflow is available under Creative Commons, but parsing, indexing, keeping it up to date seems sort of an overkill. A JSON/XML based API would be great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140657" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-08T11:12:41.683" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T11:12:41.683" Title="Search API for the trilogy websites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;xml&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34206" CreationDate="2009-12-31T06:04:08.270" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123111/kirill-v-lyadvinsky&quot;&gt;My&lt;/a&gt; total score on SO on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=c%2b%2b&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;C++ tag&lt;/a&gt; fell down from about 1100+ to 985 in last 12 hours. That incident changed my position from 16-th to 19-th place in C++ tag. At the same time my reputation wasn't changed. What's wrong with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130951" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:25:22.307" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:25:22.307" Title="Total score fell down" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34203" CreationDate="2009-12-31T06:22:51.177" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like a re-tag may have happened, where some of the questions were relieved of the &lt;code&gt;[C++]&lt;/code&gt; tag in favor of something else.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how to verify this hypothesis, but it explains your observations.  Offhand I can't think of another hypothesis that fits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T06:22:51.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34203" CreationDate="2009-12-31T08:55:30.483" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; being made CW (along with all its answers). Although reputation gained before a post is made CW is generally retained, my guess is that that doesn't apply to votes for the stats pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer on that post had 155 votes, so &quot;losing&quot; that answer would certainly affect your stats on the C++ tag significantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T08:55:30.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34210" CreationDate="2009-12-31T08:58:34.720" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm unsure to what extent this is intended behavior, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S[O,F,U] the &lt;code&gt;/feeds/question/{id}&lt;/code&gt; URL returns an RSS feed of a question OR an answer given its id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like this is no longer always the case with SuperUser; some answer feeds result in a 404.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/89123/iphone-jailbreak-what-are-the-cons/89184#89184&quot;&gt;Answer&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/feeds/question/89184&quot;&gt;feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare to StackOverflow:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1950872/how-to-turn-on-kiosk-mode-on-in-c/1984588#1984588&quot;&gt;Answer&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/1984588&quot;&gt;feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not all of SuperUser answers are exhibiting this behavior, which makes me think this is a bug.  I haven't seen this behavior on any of the other sites, but I haven't conducted an exhaustive search either...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T10:58:21.713" Title="SuperUser's question RSS feed behavior differs from other sites" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34220" CreationDate="2009-12-31T10:45:07.313" Score="3" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;[This is not a question, but I've heard that's no problem on Meta. Also, it might be a dupe, but I can't find anything like it.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the things I've noticed on SO is users who come in, answer one or two questions with detailed, expert answers, and get no votes-up whatsoever (because they're not in a popular area, time-of-day) and never come back. I've seen tons of these, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1677066/loading-jruby-classes-from-java-by-class-forname/1713130#1713130&quot;&gt;here's one that I saw today in my touring&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is bad and cannot think of any easy ways to solve it aside from voting a good answer up when I see it, even if I don't have time to verify it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T14:23:14.927" Title="New Users Turned Off and Away" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34207" CreationDate="2009-12-31T10:56:07.147" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er.. answers don't have feeds. Only the question does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T10:56:07.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34207" CreationDate="2009-12-31T10:58:21.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer you are linking to was deleted, and the RSS feed cache probably hadn't updated or detected the change once it was shown in your RSS feeder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SU a lot of answers on popular questions are deleted due to the amount of possible discussion forum type responses the site receives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also as Jeff points out, answer don't have feeds, only questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T10:58:21.713" />
  <row Id="34211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23292" CreationDate="2009-12-31T11:05:50.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go here for server side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go here for client side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T11:05:50.650" />
  <row Id="34212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34208" CreationDate="2009-12-31T11:19:37.750" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right. Vote a good (&lt;em&gt;useful and clear&lt;/em&gt;) answer up when you see it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what we're supposed to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T11:19:37.750" />
  <row Id="34213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T11:59:47.253" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;i posted some questions and answers to stackoverflow.com;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i got some reputation on that. i was not registered and some how i cleared my browser data and loose my user data. now i want to use that unregisterd user of stackoverflow.com with some openid so i can get my reputation back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T12:19:20.530" Title="how to associate not registered user with some open id?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T12:03:06.147" Score="-4" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here on SO you need to know Markdown. On most other forums there is BBcode, or HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It strikes me that this is considered good practice among developers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it is bad practice. Basically, you are saying: We cannot create any decent WYSIWYG UI to edit comments or questions. So, learn our language or do not use such a language at all (and don't use any markup). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we as competent developers provide the user with a decent UI, so the users are not &lt;strong&gt;required&lt;/strong&gt; to know such a language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-07T21:53:47.530" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T22:34:13.737" Title="Why is asking your users to know a language considered good practice?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34214" CreationDate="2009-12-31T12:07:15.173" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heres a nice article&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/forget_wysiwyg_editors_use_wysiwym_instead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Forget WYSIWYG editors - use WYSIWYM instead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main idea behind WYSIWYM editors is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_presentation_and_content&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Separation of presentation and content&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130356" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T12:13:53.750" />
  <row Id="34216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34214" CreationDate="2009-12-31T12:08:13.573" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. There is so little to learn, plus there's nothing to learn, so for SO, no. -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147513" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T12:13:53.750" />
  <row Id="34217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34214" CreationDate="2009-12-31T12:15:55.797" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't need to know markdown. I've &lt;strong&gt;written&lt;/strong&gt; this &lt;em&gt;reply&lt;/em&gt; just using the buttons at the top of the edit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;EvenMyCode() {...}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bullets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the requirement to know markdown? There's even a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;preview&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides which, on &quot;stackoverflow&quot;, &lt;strong&gt;allowing&lt;/strong&gt; users to know markdown and type it directly is a &lt;code&gt;pretty reasonable&lt;/code&gt; of making the users more expressive and effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T12:52:06.757" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T12:52:06.757" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34213" CreationDate="2009-12-31T12:19:20.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so you are no longer logged in as the guest account? Not a problem. Create an account (like you have here on &quot;meta&quot;), and let me know a: the old account name / e-mail / &lt;strong&gt;something&lt;/strong&gt;, and b: your new account (ditto). I can merge them for you (assuming that I can reasonably prove that the two accounts are really the same).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T12:19:20.530" />
  <row Id="34219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34214" CreationDate="2009-12-31T12:20:53.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But SO is not your average forum: it's a Q&amp;amp;A site for programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your users are programming types, then it's probably not unreasonable to expect them to know a (markup) language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the entry requirements for Markdown are &lt;em&gt;so low&lt;/em&gt; as to be not much of an obstacle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T12:43:45.187" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T12:43:45.187" />
  <row Id="34220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34208" CreationDate="2009-12-31T12:25:51.217" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a few occassions I've posted questions about very particular or unusual problems. I've gotten low views, no upvotes, and sometimes only one answer. One correct answer that solved my problem. That's fine by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've certainly also answered obscure questions where the same thing happened. Low views and no votes. (My only pet peeve is when the OP just writes &quot;thanks&quot; and doesn't accept the answer). I guess it would be nice if these answers got lots of upvotes. Oh well. I'm still happy I was able to help someone, and I get paid the same either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T13:52:13.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34226" CreationDate="2009-12-31T14:12:12.440" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, on the StackOverflow I have a current reputation of 131.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if I look at the reputation tab in the user screen (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/231181/edelcom&quot;&gt;Edelcom&lt;/a&gt;), and add them together :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;55  How am I supposed to use JEDI’s JCLCompression to create a 7z archive?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  20  FastShareMem still necessary in Delphi-2010?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  20  Profiler able to start profiling when executing some procedure&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10  IE6 problem with dynamically adjusting the height of a div&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10  What is a good library for creating PDFs in Delphi 2010?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10  ASP Round function not behaving as expected&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -2  Why can’t I add small comments to questions &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I count 123 points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where does the difference come from ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141174" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T14:21:00.627" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T14:21:00.627" Title="Reputation behind my user name not the same as the list in the reputation tab on the user page" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35167" CreationDate="2009-12-31T14:15:06.643" Score="5" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;From this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/89767/saving-enlarge-image-with-web-pages&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/89767/saving-enlarge-image-with-web-pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a new user who asked a question on StackOverflow, not knowing it wasn't appropriate for his question. Someone told him it will be migrated (as an answer, but anyway), and indeed, it got migrated. He understood the migration, has no problem with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he lost ownership of the question, since he didn't have an account on SuperUser when it was migrated. So now, we have several possibilities: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Advise him to link his two profiles (even though his SO profile means nothing, it's as new), then flag for a moderator to link the question back to him (if possible, I'm not fully sure), so that he will finally be able to edit his own question and comment on it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Advise him to ask again his question on SuperUser, and vote/flag to close the migrated one as a duplicate of the new one?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do nothing, and let him handle his question without possibility to edit, comment, or accept answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first solution seems the best, of course, but from the point of view of a new user, it's an incredible hassle. All this &quot;procedure&quot;, just to ask a simple question. Second one is a bit &quot;bad practice&quot;, but it's the fastest and easiest way for him to have a question he can actually &quot;work&quot; with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what to advise, in this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: According to Jeff's answer, I was obviously mistaken on the behaviour of association and migration.&lt;/strong&gt; In my mind, you had to create and associate accounts BEFORE migration, because it would be too late after. Apparently associating after gives the ownership back, so there is indeed no such problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The correct behaviour in this case is indeed to vote/flag to migrate, and explain it to the user, as well as telling him to associate both accounts.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And on a sidenote: yes, please, explain that a question will be migrated, and why, instead of only saying &quot;not something related&quot;, and adding &quot;belongs-on-something&quot; tags.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T15:05:25.067" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T19:50:25.317" Title="How to handle a &quot;new user&quot; migration situation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34224" CreationDate="2009-12-31T14:16:43.613" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get two points for every answer you've accepted. You've accepted four of them and that makes the difference of eight points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the entire breakdown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;55 How am I supposed to use JEDI’s JCLCompression to create a 7z archive?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  20 FastShareMem still necessary in Delphi-2010?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  20 Profiler able to start profiling when executing some procedure&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10 IE6 problem with dynamically adjusting the height of a div&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10 What is a good library for creating PDFs in Delphi 2010?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10 ASP Round function not behaving as expected&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -2 Why can’t I add small comments to questions&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1 (original 1 rep)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -1 (a downvote you've given)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  8 (4 accepted answers at 2 points each)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That adds up to 131.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T14:16:43.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34225" CreationDate="2009-12-31T14:52:45.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;1&quot; or &quot;3&quot;... set up an account or don't set up an account. It's his call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He can still read his answers without setting up an account on Super User. If that's all he wants, there's nothing else to be done. But, if he wants the &lt;em&gt;ongoing&lt;/em&gt; benefits of membership (editing, notifications, etc), he should set up an account on Super User (and link them, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T15:32:02.757" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T15:32:02.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T14:55:14.213" Score="2" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1984789/what-are-javas-main-fields-of-application-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which I don't honestly think is a duplicate of the question linked as motivation for closing. They are both about java, but one is about the language and the other one about its applications in the real world. They are sure related but not &lt;strong&gt;exact&lt;/strong&gt; duplicates by any means. Yet it took just a few minutes to find 5 people willing to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it so? Do similar questions really pollute SO so much? Is closing a question like that so urgent that you can't leave it open for a while and see if it meets interest in the community? Do people just do it because they have the power to do so and they like to use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO should be a community site about programming, not about who's the quickest sheriff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: edited subject as I meant &quot;close&quot; instead of &quot;delete&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138149" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T17:22:58.413" Title="Why are people so trigger happy with close as duplicate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="34231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34230" CreationDate="2009-12-31T14:58:19.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleting and Closing are two totally different things. Deleting removes forever, closing is just closing. You can vote to re-open and if you get enough votes to re-open (5 total), then it will re-open. Mark it community wiki or add a bounty, make some improvements, etc and it will probably survive again. The community strives for quality over quantity so you can try my suggestions or creating a new totally different question that won't get it closed. It's all a learning process. Good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T14:58:19.213" />
  <row Id="34232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34230" CreationDate="2009-12-31T15:10:35.333" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing duplicates (and in doing so, linking to the original) is part of what makes SO such a great site. As such, people with the ability to vote to close are eager to help keep the site organized and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of your question, I agree it was not a dupe, and I voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people are a little too eager to help out - as was the case here. Fortunately, we have the &quot;vote to reopen&quot; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T15:10:35.333" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34230" CreationDate="2009-12-31T15:24:02.993" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the original text of your question was the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the fields were [sic] Java shines&#xA;  so much? Are there many desktop&#xA;  applications or is it more used in web&#xA;  and mobile applets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is hard to follow, and generally with such a hard to follow question it's quite easy to grab similar questions and show it as a duplicate of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want your question closed, do the following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Word your question well  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't rant about closing politics in the question, leave that for comments under the question  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure you link to other questions that are similar and include those in your narrative so people know you at least researched the subject on Stack Overflow before asking this question  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a problem with your question that has nothing to do with whether or not it's a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It requires extended discussion; and there's no one 'right' answer. Simply put, Java is used just about everywhere (and that's not really a useful answer, but it's the most technically correct one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T15:24:02.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T16:09:40.733" Score="5" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple weeks ago, I asked a question on SuperUser about &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/81717/netflix-not-working-in-windows-vista-media-center-two-icons-and-wont-play/&quot;&gt;Netflix in Media Center&lt;/a&gt; not working. Clearly, other people were experiencing this, as the question is entirely answered by 1-rep new users (except my own answer which I accepted). Unfortuantely 1-rep is not enough to upvote a question, but there's not really any way to force people to either comment, or to get 10 rep to upvote the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way to resolve this problem? Is this seen as a problem? I didn't see a clarification of &quot;don't post an answer if all you're doing is saying me too&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7672" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T10:58:53.257" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T10:59:35.723" Title="The &quot;me too&quot; problem of 1 rep users unable to upvote questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;non-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34234" CreationDate="2009-12-31T16:24:09.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This problem stems from the fact that most people have used other internet forums where &quot;me too&quot; is, for some reason, a common response.  The only value these responses usually add on the SO family of sites is that they get your question bumped back to the front of the &quot;Active&quot; list.  I'd delete them if they were reported on SO, so you should flag them for a moderator on SU.  If any of them add any useful information at all, you might consider editing it into your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T16:24:09.220" />
  <row Id="34236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34234" CreationDate="2009-12-31T16:29:32.280" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real problem is that, while those of us who participate know the subtle differences, the sites look and feel much like a forum to most new visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these users are used to participating in other forums where this is not only normal, but borderline expected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't know a way to help with this. As we've all said before, people don't read. Despite the fact that these new users have an immediate huge bar at the top that explicitly tells them to read the FAQ, I'm going to step out on a limb and assume that &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of the ones in that thread have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what can we do? Flag for mod attention? Probably not a bad idea, but that's a lot of flags to use up, and we only have so many in a given day. (Chances are an SU mod will see this post and do the right thing, though. I hope.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leave comments? I've found that politely worded comments do seem to sink in a little bit for some new users; others have a hard time with them. Probably goes back to the original point -- people don't read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By design these sites are meant to be as frictionless as possible to new users, so putting roadblocks in the way is not only against the core values, but still falls back to the original point -- it's not like they're going to read them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably the best way to handle this sort of thing is to flag the question itself for mod attention, calling out the &quot;me too&quot; answers. Hopefully the mod will e-mail the users directly and let them know why their posts were deleted, and what the differences are between the Trilogy and &quot;normal&quot; forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just did precisely that -- flagged the question with info about why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T16:29:32.280" />
  <row Id="34237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34234" CreationDate="2009-12-31T16:32:08.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... I call Shenanigans... trickery... skulduggery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each one of those users were created shortly after you asked the question; none before. They used the system exactly once. They answered your question and &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; your question. Most of the answers have very similar wording. They &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; use the site incorrectly in the same way (me, too posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all very suspicious. I think somebody is trying to make a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T16:37:23.587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T16:37:23.587" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34230" CreationDate="2009-12-31T17:22:58.413" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are generic enough that it doesn't make sense to have two versions of the same question on the site.  In some respects it would be better if questions that get closed as duplicates are automatically reviewed by moderators as candidates for merging or reopening -- with the moderator decision being binding.  The current system of including links to the possible duplicates is a reasonable compromise, but I'm not sure that it's a viable permanent state to leave the question in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider, if you will, Wikipedia.  In some ways SO functions like Wikipedia for generic questions.  How many Wikipedia articles would you be willing to tolerate on a particular subject?  Is it reasonable that some searches would end up at one article and others at a different article? Especially in the case where the content (answers, in our case) may be divergent simply because one question didn't get enough attention for the best answers to bubble up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a better case, for true duplicates or near duplicates, would be for the answers to be combined if possible.  If not possible, then I would say they aren't close enough to be closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T17:22:58.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34202" CreationDate="2009-12-31T17:46:33.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use Google. It already exists, frequently gives better results than the SO search, is quite up-to-date, and can handle the load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T17:46:33.680" />
  <row Id="34244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34234" CreationDate="2009-12-31T18:22:21.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have cleaned up this question and deleted the me too answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually do this for most questions with either more than a 100 views (attracted via Google) or post by 1 reputation users. Super User tends to attract more people than Server Fault and Stack Overflow due to its nature and content, and I believe the 1 reputation user issue is going to be part of the site for a long time, as most people are used to normal forums, and not a Q&amp;amp;A site. There is not much that can be done about drive-by posters, apart from flagging these for moderator attention and we keep them clean as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for e-mailing these users, most don't specify e-mail address or alternatively they don't have valid once. There is even high reputation users who don't have valid e-mails and never responds when e-mailing them, therefore unless the user has come back again, it is a painful exercise to e-mail every single one of them individually. When possible it is done if the user has made some attempt at updating his profile or even contributing further to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-06T09:58:14.653" LastActivityDate="2010-08-06T09:58:14.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T18:43:24.437" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26145/google-search-should-not-index-related-questions-lists&quot;&gt;Google Search should not index &amp;ldquo;Related questions&amp;rdquo; lists&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I run a Google query for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+cakephp+%2Btestaction+redirect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;site:stackoverflow.com cakephp +testaction redirect&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, I get a bunch of pages, but most of them only have testaction as part of a related question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/200925/how-to-pass-querystring-to-testaction-in-cakephp-1-2&quot;&gt;How to pass querystring to testAction in CakePHP 1.2?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this frustrating, because it looks like my search results are being polluted with irrelevant results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have three questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it possible to make search engines ignore the related questions section on the page or give it less weight?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there some benefit to the search engines treating the related question titles as part of the page? (E.g., I search using terms that are related, but don't otherwise appear on a page that would really help me.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reason I'm using Google instead of the Stack Overflow search is that I can specify a search term as required. Any way to do that in Stack Overflow search?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131335" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T20:15:41.747" ClosedDate="2009-12-31T20:16:16.207" Title="Should search engines ignore related question titles?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="34246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34245" CreationDate="2009-12-31T18:46:18.877" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a little research and found that Yahoo supports the &lt;a href=&quot;http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/indexing/slurp-14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;robots-nocontent&lt;/a&gt; class, but Google doesn't. Google supports &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=23168&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AdSense section targeting&lt;/a&gt; but there's no indication that it affects search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131335" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T18:46:18.877" />
  <row Id="34247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34245" CreationDate="2009-12-31T18:48:59.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the site could load the related questions section as an AJAX call. That way the static page just contains the core content, and the search engines wouldn't see the related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be a performance problem, though. It doesn't seem like the Stack Overflow style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131335" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T18:48:59.667" />
  <row Id="34248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34249" CreationDate="2009-12-31T18:49:56.093" Score="-1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate dealing with throttling of comments and edits. I like to write a quick answer, and then go back and edit it to be more detailed. However, I frequently have to type CAPTCHAs and wait. Is there any way users with a certain reputation(say 500) could be exempted from throttling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140176" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T14:31:19.293" Title="Can throttling be eliminated for users with a certain rep?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;throttling&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34248" CreationDate="2009-12-31T18:54:46.377" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2167/increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing/8036#8036&quot;&gt;10k+ users are already subject to reduced CAPTCHAs&lt;/a&gt;. Complete CAPTCHA elimination is not a good idea as your user account may be hijacked. Even Jeff is subject to the same threshold that we are (claimed in a podcast, not verified ;) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T18:54:46.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T19:32:33.700" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally realized my error, and tried to upvote it, but the site tells me the &quot;vote is too old to be changed&quot;. Is there a way to me to donate some of my reputation to the user I wronged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141193" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T19:41:57.737" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T20:07:19.113" Title="I wrongly downvoted an answer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34251" CreationDate="2009-12-31T19:40:44.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but if you edit your question with a link to the answer, one of us with the appropriate rep can edit it so you can change your vote. Once we do that, though, go straight to clicking &quot;upvote,&quot; do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; click the &quot;downvote&quot; to undo. (If you click &quot;downvote&quot; to undo, you won't be able to click &quot;upvote&quot; until it's edited again.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T19:40:44.180" />
  <row Id="34253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34251" CreationDate="2009-12-31T19:40:45.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way to change your vote is if someone edits the question. Do you have editing rights? If not, ask someone else to edit the question so you can change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying they will; but it's a work-around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T19:40:45.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34251" CreationDate="2009-12-31T19:49:08.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can change your vote if the underlying post is edited. So leave a comment asking the owner to edit it, or if you have 2k+ rep, edit it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T20:07:19.113" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T20:07:19.113" />
  <row Id="34256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34245" CreationDate="2009-12-31T20:15:41.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reason I'm using Google instead of the Stack Overflow search is that I can specify a search term as required. Any way to do that in Stack Overflow search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what &quot;specify a search term as required means&quot;, but ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;search engines treating the related question titles as part of the page? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most relevant results are at the top, as those results have the word in the title or primary areas of the page. Where the search term appears on the page affects the result order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems correct to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T20:15:41.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34258" CreationDate="2009-12-31T20:17:30.713" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wondered where Jeff Atwood got his logo from or if it was created from scratch where the inspiration came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131497" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T20:24:02.163" ClosedDate="2010-01-01T17:16:34.763" Title="How did Jeff Atwood come up with his gravatar logo image with the black and white spiky haired guy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;logo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34257" CreationDate="2009-12-31T20:24:02.163" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logo came from the book &lt;em&gt;Code Complete&lt;/em&gt;, by Steve McConnell. Steve graciously allowed Jeff to use it for his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000636.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;own personal branding&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T20:24:02.163" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-12-31T20:31:48.760" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;in avl tree we need to find the balance factor of each node, we can find the balance factor of a node by first finding the height of its left subtree and the height of its right subtree then we subtract the height of right subtree from the height of left subtree to get the balance factor of the node&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i know this can be done with recurrsion , but i hate recurrsion because its too much confusing, so tell me the algorithem or provide a c++ code snipit, how can i do this without recurrsion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141124" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T20:31:48.760" ClosedDate="2009-12-31T20:38:35.640" Title="AVL Tree question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6235" CreationDate="2009-12-31T20:31:59.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My gut says &quot;belongs on SF&quot;, since it's a matter of web server configuration. On the other hand, the rewrite engine is often used for programming purposes in developing web apps; if it can show up in the app requirements, it's at least somewhat programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1807410/mod-rewrite-complete-befuzzlement/1807442&quot;&gt;Mod Rewrite complete befuzzlement&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to the list of rewrite questions on SO, mostly because the question comments includes a mini-discussion about this very topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now that I've already given an answer for this, it really belongs on ServerFault. – outis Nov 27 at 8:50&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a kind of programming so it's OK on stackoverflow. – Kinopiko Nov 27 at 8:56&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it's not programming--it's a configuration issue. There's nothing wrong with the RE. Most importantly, the average SF user is going to be more knowledgeable about this than the average SO user; Antony's more likely to get better help on SF. – outis Nov 27 at 10:06&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe, but Serverfault is fairly low-traffic. – Kinopiko Nov 27 at 13:21&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133817" LastEditorUserId="133817" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T00:14:21.243" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T00:14:21.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34264" CreationDate="2009-12-31T20:47:15.137" Score="6" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a quick search on SO Careers (Employer side) for candidates near me (Calgary, Alberta Canada). Beyond distance, the only exclusion filter I had was &quot;willing to relocate candidates&quot;; I turned this checkbox off to restrict the search to local candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a search area of 500km, I got 16 candidates total. Given that I haven't even started to filter by skills or student-ness, that's a pretty low number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an employer, I could pay $500 to search these 16 candidates. To me, this seems pretty pricey -- especially if I don't know how many &quot;good&quot; candidates I'll get out of the masses. (SOC should be better than average, but that reputation still remains to be built).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this will get better as time goes on and the site gets more popular. However, I think that it will continue to be a problem for smaller areas (basically any place outside of the major American and European cities).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it seems like the right thing to do would be fore SOC to give some sort of price discount if it only has a &quot;low&quot; number of candidates available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't know what the scaling formula should be; I'll leave that to the Answerers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3488" LastEditorUserId="3488" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T18:06:57.597" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T18:06:57.597" Title="Careers: scalable pricing based on # of candidates" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;pricing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34265" CreationDate="2009-12-31T21:07:07.790" Score="0" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that new posted questions get attention very quickly. If I take some time to read the replies and try myself, new questions often arise. When I edit my original post to add my new questions, I find the updated post is very hard to get attention again, like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1986418/typeid-and-typeof-in-c&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I deal with it? The best way I can think of is to open a new post with my new questions, and if necessary there will be a link to my old post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141196" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T21:18:56.203" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T21:27:44.153" ClosedDate="2009-12-31T21:35:12.577" Title="How do I draw attention to an updated question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;update&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34261" CreationDate="2009-12-31T21:07:40.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer here is that if Stack Overflow careers doesn't meet your needs, ask for a refund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;They have a generous refund policy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is our unconditional money back guarantee to you:  if you’re not satisfied for any reason, within 90 days you get a full refund, period, no questions asked. We don’t want your money if you’re not amazingly happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T21:07:40.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34263" CreationDate="2009-12-31T21:09:52.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than just updating your post, make sure you post a comment to that effect on the existing answers.  Since people are notified of comments to their answers, this will often bring them back to have another look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130222" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2009-12-31T21:27:44.153" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T21:27:44.153" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34267" CreationDate="2009-12-31T21:58:19.247" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509/has-stack-overflow-been-haiku-hacked&quot;&gt;Has Stack Overflow been haiku-hacked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32712/overactive-spam-ku&quot;&gt;Overactive spam-ku&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just submitted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1987245/c-byte-to-string-to-byte-how-to-do-so&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and a stupid message appeared (looks like plain text response from server). I had to go rewrite the answer which caused me to get shot by FGITW. I've submitted the answer using IE8 (I normally use Chrome/Safari. IE just happened to be open. It's the second time I'm seeing this today in IE). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Little slab of meat / In a wash of clear jelly / Now I heat the pan&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T22:17:58.657" ClosedDate="2009-12-31T23:02:08.087" Title="What the heck is this message I get when I submit a post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="34267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34266" CreationDate="2009-12-31T22:17:58.657" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Haikus are the worst.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I made this in ten seconds.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T22:17:58.657" />
  <row Id="34268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34270" CreationDate="2009-12-31T22:43:18.380" Score="3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a number of comments in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1987065/what-are-best-practices-to-order-elements-in-head&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, at least nine or ten, two of which mine, that were deleted completely not long ago. When I entered the question again, there were no comments at all. I clearly remember the points discussed in the comments and my replies. Those replies are gone from my own activity tab as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think none of the comments were particularly offensive, and the wholesale deletion struck me as odd. I'm 100% certain I didn't delete my own comments. What happened here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:25:01.483" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:25:01.483" Title="Comments deleted in question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34268" CreationDate="2009-12-31T22:50:26.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Individual comments might get deleted automatically if it attracts enough flags, but that wouldn't explain all the comments disappearing. The ♦ mods can delete comments (usually when an off-topic squabble starts between two (or more) users in the comments).It is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt;  this happened in this case, but it wasn't one of mine, and I didn't see the comments in question, so I can't say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I delete a &lt;em&gt;block&lt;/em&gt; of comments I generally leave a comment saying why... All the primary ♦ mods have been active in this interval.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T22:50:26.257" />
  <row Id="34270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34268" CreationDate="2009-12-31T23:15:08.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the one who deleted them.  There were a couple that were flagged, which is what got my attention in the first place.  None of the comments were extremely offensive, but none of them seemed to be on the topic of the question either.  Most were replies to the couple of mildly rude comments that were flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I mistakenly deleted something that was on topic, but I didn't think that was the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2009-12-31T23:15:08.043" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34274" CreationDate="2010-01-01T00:46:21.763" Score="-1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than silently deleting answers or comments that are flagged, it would be less mysterious if the answer or comment was replaced with the following text and then locked by a mod:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Username's] comments were deleted for&#xA;  violating the terms of service&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably lessen topics like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34268/comments-deleted-in-question&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T03:44:19.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-01T00:46:21.763" Title="Place Generic Message In Place of Violating Comment or Answer Instead of Silently Deleting Them" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34261" CreationDate="2010-01-01T01:54:37.847" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;500$ doesn't seem too much if you consider the average wage of a developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T01:54:37.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12123" CreationDate="2010-01-01T02:09:31.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't technically a markdown problem. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/codes/333-sanitize-html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HTML sanitizer&lt;/a&gt; is getting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ends up &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/5Igup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com.ar/images/nav_logo6.png&quot; &#xA;     alt=&quot;&amp;lt;em&amp;gt;google!&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sanitizer kills the whole thing because of embedded tags. Which I agree with. Well, I wrote the code, so I'm biased, but you know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T02:09:31.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34271" CreationDate="2010-01-01T02:14:31.000" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We prefer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the silent treatment&lt;/a&gt; in cases like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, comments are meant to be lightweight. If you want a full revision and deletion history, post answers and questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T02:14:31.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-01T02:14:31.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6235" CreationDate="2010-01-01T02:16:18.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A truly gray area. Pick whichever site you think suits your question better, and go with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also suggest that if your job title contains the word &quot;programmer&quot;, go with Stack Overflow, and if your job title does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;, then go with Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T02:16:18.843" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34271" CreationDate="2010-01-01T03:36:50.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect it would actually result in &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; topics like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34268/comments-deleted-in-question&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;... especially in borderline cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T03:36:50.547" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-01T03:36:50.547" />
  <row Id="34277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-01T06:52:15.887" Score="-5" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/700205/what-is-your-best-friend-as-a-programmer&quot;&gt;What is your “best friend” as a programmer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this question was locked, or what that means. Is it going to be deleted? I liked it! Why didn't Bill the Lizard leave a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135208" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T18:36:28.483" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T18:36:28.483" Title="Why is this question locked?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34277" CreationDate="2010-01-01T07:21:48.563" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bill will probably reply himself however from what I can see it is most likely locked because of the amount of unnecessary edits and it was most likely reported by other users. I would have done exactly the same, as the question has had a lot of unnecessary edits, which we refer to as an edit war. These posts are locked when the edits become out of hand, which was the case here I would assume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Bill's action, any Diamond Moderator can intervene and manage a question when they deem it necessary. SO only has 2 Diamond Moderators apart from the Site Owners. The 10K mods which there is a lot more of, do not have the ability to lock a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your rant, I find it blatantly offensive. If you are taking 1 question this seriously, then SO is NOT the place for you. I personally fail to see how this question adds any value to SO altogether. I directly violates the FAQ which clearly states that this is a Q&amp;amp;A site and not a discussion forum, and extended discussions and best of type questions are highly discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T07:21:48.563" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34271" CreationDate="2010-01-01T07:28:49.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted this as a comment on another question but feel it is valid here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Agreed. I don't always comment on my actions. I handle around 20 - 30 flags a day on SU, I can only imagine how many Marc and Bill handle on SO, and if we had to stop and comment for every single one, we will never have time for anything else. If something is queried we will take the time to respond however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diamond moderators have way more to do then the others, and we cannot comment on everything. Reality is every time I have taken the time to respond to something, I have been personally attacked or abused, and honestly, I don't need it. If users can't be mature about using the site, they shouldn't be here in the first place. I don't see why any of us have to open ourselves to abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T07:28:49.797" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-01T07:28:49.797" />
  <row Id="34281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-01T09:08:03.937" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always notice when a page isn't quite vertically long enough to fill my entire browser. Examples are the users page (viewed on 1280x1024) but there are plenty more. I think Stack Overflow would benefit by changing the way the footer works in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might work to extend the grey footer color to the bottom of the screen &lt;em&gt;OR&lt;/em&gt; stick the footer to the bottom of the screen so we don't get white-space after it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested to hear opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59730" LastEditorUserId="59730" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-15T11:30:41.763" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T11:30:41.763" Title="Can we do something better with the footer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34281" CreationDate="2010-01-01T09:18:27.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you should try seeing the world through 1050x1680 (portrait). You get used to it reallll quick, and it's soo not a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T09:18:27.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34281" CreationDate="2010-01-01T10:00:06.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not terribly happy with the current status quo ... but some of the &quot;sticky footer&quot; solutions seem really nasty, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;much worse than the problem itself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open to input, but I don't want crazy CSS hax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Actually, taking another look, that one doesn't look too hacky. The last time I looked at this, I recall being unpleasantly surprised...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T10:16:33.950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T10:16:33.950" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34277" CreationDate="2010-01-01T10:01:24.623" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what Diago said, this is an issue that has been discussed, &lt;strong&gt;by&lt;/strong&gt; the community (after being raised directly by Jeff), here on meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33786/should-old-very-popular-closed-questions-be-deleted&quot;&gt;Should old, very popular closed questions be deleted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing+Locking seems to be the agreed way of keeping the old (yet off-topic) content alive, but prevent it being a constant distraction of edits etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T10:01:24.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4493" CreationDate="2010-01-01T10:35:54.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Escapes in comments, that is, &lt;code&gt;\*&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\_&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;\`&lt;/code&gt; were set up a while ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, this was just an oversight on my part when I put the initial version together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T10:35:54.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34248" CreationDate="2010-01-01T14:31:19.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like to write a quick answer, and then go back and edit it to be more detailed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think this is plain, bad behaviour. You are trying to be the first to answer a question, thus hoping to gain the most reputation. This is not okay in my opinion. You should give a full answer, not a quick answer. If it takes you a while to give a full answer then you need to learn to give shorter -but complete- answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a simple one-liner provides a complete answer, fine. Post the one-liner. But if you just post a quick answer so your answer will be the first one, albeit incomplete, then that is considered bad behaviour...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T14:31:19.293" />
  <row Id="34289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34108" CreationDate="2010-01-01T15:35:16.153" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there's a grey area where we should be too fast on closing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once there was a question on proxy settings for Steam, which to me isn't really gaming related, since to me Steam is more like iTunes than it is to a specific game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though there are two stack exchange sites that might suit these needs, but I feel these don't draw the kind of audience that could solve these kind of problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as long as the questions are general enough that they could be useful for common computer problems you can encouter with computer games, I don't see a real issue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T15:35:16.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34277" CreationDate="2010-01-01T15:57:29.283" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I should have left a comment on that one.  It was flagged for moderator attention and I locked it for the reasons Marc already pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm definitely not against humor.  I'd have to go through and delete some of my own old posts if that were the case (depending on your definition of &quot;humor&quot;).  In my defense though, this question currently has 197 answers.  Around half of them (by my rough estimate) are some variation of either &quot;Google&quot; or &quot;caffeine&quot;.  Questions like this tend to get locked once all of the original punchlines have been taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That is even worst that people are voting to reopen the question and question is locked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments you're reading where people are asking for the question to be reopened are old comments.  Check the dates.  I actually forgot to close the question before locking it, so voting to reopen is impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now if this question is locked or deleted then I will suggest StackOverflow to remove link of &quot;Feedback always welcome&quot; from the bottom, its no use to even keep it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your feedback &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; always welcome.  You got the attention of 3 moderators (so far) with this meta post.  Anything that moderators can do (with the exception of merging questions) can be undone.  Everything we do is logged for the core SO team to review.  If we do something that you think is wrong, you're perfectly welcome, even encouraged, to bring it up so we can discuss it.  I volunteered to be a moderator because I want to help make SO better for the community, not because I want to screw it up.  If I mess something up, I want to hear about it so I can correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T15:57:29.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34277" CreationDate="2010-01-01T16:38:42.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow... Akash is very upset about this -- he even emailed me via my blog to ask me to comment. I didn't know I was that important! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Akash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't add anything to what's been said by Diago, Bill and Marc. Although I agree that many questions get closed that shouldn't, mostly by the 3k to 10k crowd who are flexing their newfound power to vote a thread closed, it doesn't help to get upset if a question you like is closed. If you have the rep, vote to reopen. If not, earn the rep, then vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of this locking, I agree with Bill's intent. The thread had outlived any usefulness or humor and had degenerated into a bunch of &quot;me too&quot; comments. Locking was a sensible thing, and the thread isn't gone, it's just not being updated. Anyone trawling through the archives can read it and enjoy it; they just can't answer it themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T16:38:42.310" />
  <row Id="34292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34298" CreationDate="2010-01-01T17:04:36.087" Score="16" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3792/how-to-nest-code-within-a-list-using-markdown&quot;&gt;post about nesting code-blocks in lists&lt;/a&gt;, it is explained that if you want to nest a code-block in a list, you need to indent your code 8 spaces. This will allow you to include the code block as part of a list item. Is there any way to place code blocks after lists without having them use the same indentation level as the list that came before it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only solution I've found is to place a single character somewhere between the list item and the code block so it &quot;switches off&quot; the list formatting mode. Something like this:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  1. list item 1  &#xA;  2. list item 2&#xA;&#xA;.&#xA;&#xA;    string myVariable = &quot;hello world&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which will output like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list item 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list item 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;string myVariable = &quot;hello world&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without the period I'd have to indent my code 8 spaces, which would put the code block at the same level as the list item. This isn't a major problem, but I was just wondering if there was a better way to get Markdown to do what I want it to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to force the &quot;list item&quot; formatting mode to switch off. It seems like the &quot;list mode&quot; will stay enabled until a line is reached that starts with a character other than a space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T20:58:40.063" Title="Code blocks after a list, but not within a list in markdown. Is it possible?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34195" CreationDate="2010-01-01T19:44:38.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should now all be sorted; the only problem is that I think I broke the association between your SO and MSO accounts, but it is easy to re-associate - or wait a little while (until you have 200 points), and get the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/cross-site-account-associations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;free bonus&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T19:44:38.357" />
  <row Id="34295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34326" CreationDate="2010-01-01T19:57:31.400" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just a cowincedence that there are this many sponsored tags on the recent questions list or do they actually get a higher sort order than normal questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Xb25fTcjIRQ/Sz5TgsmGS1I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/2ic2y--JdWA/s576/T-SQL.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T06:11:43.727" Title="Do sponsored tags get ranked higher?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="34296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34295" CreationDate="2010-01-01T20:12:43.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look most of those questions were last modified by Sung Meister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they either answered them all or retagged them all (I'm going with the latter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking edit history should reveal all. Which indeed it does:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1940344/how-do-i-measure-the-cost-of-a-t-sql-query-on-the-wire&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was edited to add the [tsql] tag. So I'm assuming that the other edits were the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They appear first on the &quot;Active&quot; tab, because they've just been modified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T20:23:38.767" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T20:23:38.767" />
  <row Id="34297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34295" CreationDate="2010-01-01T20:15:42.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There just was a lot of recent activity in those tags. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4035&quot;&gt;Sung Meister&lt;/a&gt; removed a superfluous &lt;code&gt;t-sql&lt;/code&gt; tag (in favor of the spelling &lt;code&gt;tsql&lt;/code&gt;). Also I previously retagged a bunch of questions with &lt;code&gt;sql&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;server&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there has been a lot of activity in those sponsored tags, causing them to dominate the &quot;active&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't known if the sponsoring of a tag makes the question be ranked higher, but I doubt it. On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=hot&quot;&gt;&quot;hottest&quot; tab&lt;/a&gt; there are currently only very few (three of four) questions with a sponsored tag, so if they get any boost it can't be a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T06:11:43.727" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T06:11:43.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34292" CreationDate="2010-01-01T20:45:32.680" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A hacky way to get it displayed correctly is to replace the dot in your example with a Html-tag that won't be rendered to anything visible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- list&#xA;- items&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is then rendered like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;items&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-01T21:01:03.923" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T21:01:03.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34108" CreationDate="2010-01-01T22:06:46.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ye... n.. sorta?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We allow &lt;code&gt;What upgrade would be best for [non-gaming hobby]?&lt;/code&gt;, but by it's nature, allowing game related versions would cause floods of &lt;s&gt;halfwits&lt;/s&gt;people in need - however I think that currently the SU community is far too quick to close are purely gaming related. No, how do I pass level 2-2 of Super Mario is not a valid question (partially because it's &lt;em&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt;), but I don't think a question should be closed just because the poster mentions a video game. Oftentimes these are perfectly valid questions, and would be given great answers, and not closed, without the reference. Questions such as &quot;How do I overclock my processor?&quot; are allowed, yet &quot;How do I overclock my processor (for gaming)?&quot; are not - they have the same answer (and as such closed as duplicate :P), and as such should not be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think gaming questions should be allowed at all (as diago says, can of worms - we allow one question, that's just inviting the hoards of gameFAQs users), but our definition of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;purely&lt;/strong&gt; console or videogame related&quot; needs to be loosened up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T22:06:46.003" />
  <row Id="34302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-01-01T22:57:01.473" Score="125" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.pidgin.im/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/hvq9le.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help people communicate with Pidgin!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T22:57:01.473" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-01T22:57:01.473" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="34303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34305" CreationDate="2010-01-01T23:08:40.930" Score="4" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, once upon a time, the fashion was to post comments that threatened a question with closure if not marked community wiki. That fashion seems to have been discouraged in the interests of lowering the jerk quotient. For me, at least, this leaves a question of the best alternative from the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post a &lt;em&gt;polite&lt;/em&gt; comment &lt;em&gt;suggesting&lt;/em&gt; community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vote to close as 'subjective and argumentative'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What seems interesting to me is that at 3K I got permission to vote to close, which is rather strong medicine. Perhaps a fourth alternative here would be to extend the 3K voting system to include 'vote to cwiki'? If 5 people feel that a question is too fluffy to deserve rep, maybe that should be sufficient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I see, using the expression 'too fluffy for rep' presupposed a particular view which is not generally held. Let me try again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I observe a set of questions that do not have anything like a &lt;em&gt;single, right&lt;/em&gt; answer. Some end up closed. Some end up cwiki. I'm not really at all clear on the grounds that distinguish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1989992/predict-stock-market-values&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a concrete example. &quot;What is the best ...&quot; -- by definition, that's going to be subjective and argumentative. It might also be educational and informative. Is it fluffy? Not so much as 'tell me the best web framework,' but much more so than a really concrete 'how-to' question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1992565/how-do-you-setup-your-development-staging-production-environments&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is another example. Subjective as the day is long, but a respectable request for shared experience with a common programming problem. And it's got upvotes. Someone is confused here, and I'd be happy to learn that it's me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far, the simplest thing to do, as a non-mod, is to vote to close these as 'subjective, argumentative' or 'not a real question.' Evidence suggests that close votes attract moderator attention. This leaves the 'keep as cwiki versus close' question for the mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'm very interested in what other folks are using for criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T19:35:55.883" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T19:35:55.883" Title="How to politely respond to a fluffy question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34304" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-01T23:14:02.930" Score="1" ViewCount="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Highlighting interesting questions is nice, but it should be possible to ONLY list interesting questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the least intrusive way to do this would be to add a search option: &lt;code&gt;interesting:1&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149440" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T23:14:02.930" Title="Is should be possible to view a list of all questions with &quot;interesting&quot; tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34303" CreationDate="2010-01-01T23:39:25.773" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/392/should-the-community-wiki-police-be-shut-down&quot;&gt;Option 4:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Press the flag button and ask moderators to deal with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-01T23:39:25.773" />
  <row Id="34307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T00:06:11.203" Score="3" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe if users behaved as they would from a game theory perspective (i.e. users compete for reputation), we would find nobody giving any upvotes to anyone else on the site. Let's discuss a fictitious, ruthless, cold-hearted player of the game - Alice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Alice answers a question and she reads Bob's answer to that same question, and Alice believes Bob's answer is really quite good, Alice will not vote Bob up - due to the fact that this would likely place Bob's answer above hers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alice, while just browsing the site, should have less of a problem upvoting other answers she agrees with, since these do not interfere with her own answers. But why should she do this? Remember - users are competing for reputation. Why should Alice let anyone gain reputation without any benefit to her? She will just leave them be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only situation that Alice (the cold-hearted, ruthless competitor) will vote for something is a question which she answered. This brings more attention to the question, which may bring more attention to her answer, which may bring her more reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She even has no reason to upvote a correct answer to any of her own questions, although she may accept them to provide incentive for more answers to future questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It cannot be explained why anyone upvotes any answers at all (perhaps a feeling of generosity, and a desire for the site to work?). As it stands, people are rather uncharitable about their votes, which can be seen from many questions that have 50+ views and somewhere between 0 and 1 upvotes on any of its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just trying to point out that site mechanics do not support voting for answers - and if users lose their sense of generosity which is providing the votes currently, the incentive to &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; questions may likewise diminish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should something be done about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135694" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T04:21:03.883" Title="Site mechanics do not support upvoting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T00:14:05.617" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory.  In practice, there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are upvoting stuff.  I think we're fine, and nothing needs to change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T00:14:05.617" />
  <row Id="34309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T00:25:09.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should something be done about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, site is fine. I sometimes browse questions, not to answer them but to look for good answers based on the content and comments. Sometimes I'll find answers that don't compile because the answerer was too fast to answer. The system will fix itself. Don't worry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T00:25:09.350" />
  <row Id="34310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T00:28:13.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are badges such as Supporter and Civic Duty which reward people who vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3676" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T00:28:13.463" />
  <row Id="34311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34303" CreationDate="2010-01-02T00:48:40.153" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If 5 people feel that a question is too fluffy to deserve rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they should vote to close it. No comments needed. But if you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; think the question belongs on SO, but still needs to be CW, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34303/how-to-politely-respond-to-a-fluffy-question-or-vote-to-community-wiki/34305#34305&quot;&gt;do as waffles suggests&lt;/a&gt; and ask a moderator to make it so - since moderators can also convert &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to CW, this works a whole lot better anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T00:48:40.153" />
  <row Id="34312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T00:55:04.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is not a competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T00:55:04.900" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T00:57:39.230" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is mostly worthless. It's a fun little game to play, but if that's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; all you care about, then you're probably doing more harm than good anyway. This is one reason why all suggestions involving systems of monetizing reputation are treated so harshly: the last thing we need is anything that would encourage more users to answer questions they have no interest in apart from gaining rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I often up-vote other answers to questions that I've answered. Heck, if it's good enough, I'll even delete my own answer to draw more attention to the answer that I like... And I'll also down-vote answers that I don't care for, a practice certain other users find distasteful because it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be used to game the system...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if users lose their sense of generosity which is providing the votes currently&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...then the whole site is doomed, regardless of what changes are made. Not saying that won't happen eventually, but the only thing that can be &lt;em&gt;done&lt;/em&gt; about it is to continue encouraging users who do care about more than whatever number appears next to their name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T00:57:39.230" />
  <row Id="34314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T01:14:06.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Game theory is an invalid theory, in that it is false that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It cannot be explained why anyone upvotes any answers at all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People will upvote if they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; like an item. Their values may not be yours, so do not expect any upvoting at all. For example, I can easily imagine a technically good answer getting no votes because it was written poorly. Such answers may confuse more than illuminate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141233" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T01:14:06.010" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34303" CreationDate="2010-01-02T01:17:24.690" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Shog9 pointed out, if it's too fluffy then it should be closed not CW'ed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki isn't a weapon.  It's designed to lower the quotient of editing to allow more community involvement.  No one should be asked to wiki, since if enough people get involved (now that there is a huge population that can get involved without it being CW) it will become Community Wiki automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T01:17:24.690" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T01:25:06.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why upvoting another answer will interfere with Alice's (using your example) reputation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason for upvoting is being part of the game, having some &lt;em&gt;control&lt;/em&gt; over the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T01:25:06.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34322" CreationDate="2010-01-02T01:32:14.687" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been using stackoverflow for a while, coming in from google without logging in. The content is truly helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The worst part about the site, though, is the usage of &quot;time ago&quot; instead of a real datestamp. It is maddening to know that, for example, software X was released on Y date [ie YYYY.mmdd format] and have to mentally compare the Stackoverflow unformatted date [ie such as &#xA;&quot;6 months and 5 days ago&quot;].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A number of us seem to consider this a bug, but I did not see my specific problem scenario described. So, in hopes of change, here it is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few related questions here, such as:&#xA;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1306/add-year-to-question-and-answer-dates&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1306/add-year-to-question-and-answer-dates&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141233" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T02:16:33.480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T02:43:51.980" Title="All posts need full YYYY datestamp in order for archive to be helpful" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T01:37:26.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;altruism&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;n.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zoology&lt;/em&gt;. Instinctive behavior that is detrimental to the individual but favors the survival or spread of that individual's genes, as by benefiting its relatives.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T01:37:26.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34317" CreationDate="2010-01-02T01:47:16.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a tooltip associated with the 'time ago' value, which shows the UTC time and date of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just move your cursor near the value to see the tool tip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T01:47:16.837" />
  <row Id="34322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34317" CreationDate="2010-01-02T02:43:51.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, just hover over most dates to see the UTC (Z or Zulu) time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9750/datecursortooltiphover.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T02:43:51.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34324" CreationDate="2010-01-02T02:46:05.003" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remove one of my upvotes for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1990395/in-c-whats-the-best-way-to-spread-a-single-line-string-literal-across-multiple&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm getting the &quot;Your vote is too old to be changed...&quot; message. I made the vote less than 5 minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: It seems that this is because the answer was deleted. So the bug probably isn't that I &lt;em&gt;got&lt;/em&gt; the error, but that I got the &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149440" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T18:21:28.770" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T18:21:28.770" Title="I'm getting &quot;Your vote is too old to be changed...&quot; for a vote I made less than 5 minutes ago" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34323" CreationDate="2010-01-02T02:48:05.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's correct -- the vote lock in period is less than 5 minutes. Significantly less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second you cast a vote, the clock starts ticking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once locked in, you can only change your vote if the underlying post is edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I don't think deletion of the post will matter in this case; the same rules apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T02:48:05.747" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34292" CreationDate="2010-01-02T02:50:39.157" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;code block after a list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is a&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;this is a code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- this&#xA;- is a&#xA;- list&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- well hey there sailor --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    this is a code block&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T20:58:40.063" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T20:58:40.063" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34295" CreationDate="2010-01-02T02:55:01.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sponsored tags have no special logic attached to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T02:55:01.177" />
  <row Id="34327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34328" CreationDate="2010-01-02T04:40:47.080" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderation tools show the lowest voted answers, but is it sensible to show answers with just -1 votes?  I'd venture to suggest that it isn't generally helpful.  As of a couple of minutes ago (2010-01-01 20:37 -08:00), there was one answer with -1 vote listed.  I suspect there were more such answers, but only space for one in the list.  I'd venture to suggest that one downvote doesn't not usually warrant the listing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T05:22:20.137" Title="In moderation tools (on SO), should 'Lowest voted answers' ever list answers with -1 votes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34327" CreationDate="2010-01-02T05:22:20.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also a time component to that list (2 days being the default) so I'm pretty confident that the question listed with -1 votes is probably the most recent question with that score.  All of the lists on the moderation page look to be set up to display 15 links.  If there aren't enough answers voted lower than -1 to fill the list, it makes sense to me that it should be filled out with the most recent questions from selected time period with -1 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T05:22:20.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34330" CreationDate="2010-01-02T05:26:49.750" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to publish the Stack Overflow interface that contains my Questions and Answers on my website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible? Is there any kind of API available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T05:34:37.237" Title="Can I publish my Q&amp;A of Stack Overflow on my website?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34329" CreationDate="2010-01-02T05:34:37.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hmmm. maybe you should ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://askjonskeet.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Says, no API yet, but there is a data dump and responsible (1 request every 10 minutes) scraping is allowed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T05:34:37.237" />
  <row Id="34331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T06:18:54.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Stack Overflow was a site where various children aged 7 - 9 who were extremely competitive collaborated, maybe this theory would show. I think the people here are smart enough to realize that these sites only work if people legitimately vote up positive things and that it's not a competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141078" LastEditorUserId="141078" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T06:25:18.587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T06:25:18.587" />
  <row Id="34332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34307" CreationDate="2010-01-02T07:40:40.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8376/how-to-encourage-voting-on-questions&quot;&gt;we need more question voting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just implemented a new gold badge to encourage question voting; this has been in the works for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Electorate]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Voted on 600 questions and more than 25% of votes were for questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T04:21:03.883" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T04:21:03.883" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T08:13:12.253" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865/consecutive-day-count-in-profile&quot;&gt;Consecutive Day Count in profile&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can i know my log in history for SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i want to check from how many consecutive days i m logging to SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this will be helpful to get &quot;woot&quot; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140884" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:41:40.047" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:41:40.047" ClosedDate="2010-01-02T08:19:24.877" Title="can i know SO login history?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;so-history&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34334" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T08:36:40.983" Score="16" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the data dump I came up with a list of &quot;answers&quot; containing no useful text. Those answers are all just noise and should be deleted by a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And instead of spending the next days with flagging them for moderator attention one by one, here they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/785927/how-to-build-dynamic-data-entry-forms-in-a-wpf-application/1098444#1098444&quot;&gt;answer #1098444&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1200268/qt4-in-visual-studio-2008-moc-ed-files-get-excluded-from-build/1432179#1432179&quot;&gt;answer #1432179&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11986/why-does-sqlite3-ruby-1-2-2-not-work-on-os-x/11988#11988&quot;&gt;answer #11988&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/460183/how-to-jquery-div-toggle-more-dynamic/460200#460200&quot;&gt;answer #460200&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/460183/how-to-jquery-div-toggle-more-dynamic/460190#460190&quot;&gt;answer #460190&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802374/how-to-limit-string-word-count-in-xslt-1-0/1064472#1064472&quot;&gt;answer #1064472&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/460183/how-to-jquery-div-toggle-more-dynamic/460219#460219&quot;&gt;answer #460219&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/890487/is-software-development-a-discipline-of-engineering-or-a-discipline-of-arts/890513#890513&quot;&gt;answer #890513&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1311722/recursive-function-to-add-sum-of-sequence-of-numbers-and-the-sums-thereof/1378149#1378149&quot;&gt;answer #1378149&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a 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href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609532/bit-pack-int16-into-a-ushort-vb-net/1609816#1609816&quot;&gt;answer #1609816&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/288059/asp-net-forms-dropdownlist-help/1304199#1304199&quot;&gt;answer #1304199&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210650/validate-image-from-file-in-c/597646#597646&quot;&gt;answer #597646&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/243077/can-you-disable-an-asp-validation-on-an-event-click-before-it-postbacks-and-perfo/243092#243092&quot;&gt;answer #243092&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/756656/gtkmm-update-gui-from-other-thread/760809#760809&quot;&gt;answer #760809&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/927978/how-do-i-find-the-current-file-in-msbuild/1422110#1422110&quot;&gt;answer #1422110&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/792597/using-hql-in-nhibernate/1136431#1136431&quot;&gt;answer #1136431&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/466395/javascript-object-expected/467076#467076&quot;&gt;answer #467076&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/412691/dynamically-generating-radiobuttonlist/541252#541252&quot;&gt;answer #541252&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554063/how-do-i-print-a-double-value-with-full-precision-using-cout/955933#955933&quot;&gt;answer #955933&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/415268/silverlight-setting-rowdetailstemplate-controls-from-rowdetailsvisibilitychanged/415358#415358&quot;&gt;answer #415358&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406504/floated-block-level-element-is-it-necessary-to-set-the-width-if-yes-how/797462#797462&quot;&gt;answer #797462&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1014547/how-to-configure-codeigniter-modrewrite-on-wamp/1353467#1353467&quot;&gt;answer #1353467&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289030/html-hyperlink-with-mouse-over-image/1732338#1732338&quot;&gt;answer #1732338&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162020/fire-async-method-on-page-load-with-ajax/650222#650222&quot;&gt;answer #650222&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/514609/how-to-read-multiple-records-in-xml-doc/688761#688761&quot;&gt;answer #688761&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/73312/how-you-disable-the-processor-cache-on-a-powerpc-processor/1254131#1254131&quot;&gt;answer #1254131&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231690/sharepoint-web-part-vs-asp-net-user-control/1623945#1623945&quot;&gt;answer #1623945&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1623560/as2-dynamically-change-flash-movie-clip-colour-onrollover/1626657#1626657&quot;&gt;answer #1626657&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055197/friendly-code-to-transition-from-page-controller-to-front-controller/1708568#1708568&quot;&gt;answer #1708568&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1309580/sql-reporting-services-2005-filter-data-by-active-directory-security-group/1309719#1309719&quot;&gt;answer #1309719&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1721177/jquery-validation-submit-the-form-with-javascript-with-no-validation/1769645#1769645&quot;&gt;answer #1769645&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/395286/ideas-on-implementing-stack-overflow-style-comments/1082195#1082195&quot;&gt;answer #1082195&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers posted in duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378555/wpf-maximizing-app-window-does-not-expand-controls-vertically-horizontally-it/378684#378684&quot;&gt;answer #378684&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/496554/partylist-in-microsoft-dynamics-crm-4-0/569371#569371&quot;&gt;answer #569371&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/492927/freetextbox-tabs-are-not-preserved-at-postback/492940#492940&quot;&gt;answer #492940&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-01T06:10:05.060" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T06:10:05.060" Title="Useless low entropy answers on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;useless-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34334" CreationDate="2010-01-02T09:48:32.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... in some cases there is no edit history, but in some cases it looks like the answer has been removed (usually by the OP, perhaps lacking a &quot;delete&quot; button). I wonder which is the greater evil - rollback (against poster) or delete (of perhaps useful content).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T09:48:32.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34334" CreationDate="2010-01-02T11:04:02.300" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To get the list I searched for posts containing only a small amount of different characters, based on the assumption that random typing like &quot;hgfghhgffhgfgh&quot; usually contains the same characters over and over again. To measure this redundancy I basically calculated the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28information_theory%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;entropy&lt;/a&gt; of all posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;double calc_entropy(const std::string &amp;amp;txt) {&#xA;   static const double log_2 = log(2.0);&#xA;   const int sz = txt.size();&#xA;   int chars[256] = {0};&#xA;&#xA;   for (int i = 0; i &amp;lt; sz; i++) {&#xA;      if (txt[i] == '&amp;gt;' || txt[i] == '&amp;lt;' || txt[i] == ' ')&#xA;         continue;&#xA;      chars[(unsigned int)(unsigned char)txt[i]]++;&#xA;   }&#xA;&#xA;   double H = 0.0;&#xA;   for (int i = 0; i &amp;lt; 256; i++) {&#xA;      if (chars[i]) {&#xA;         double p = (double)chars[i] / sz;&#xA;         H += p * log(p) / log_2;&#xA;      }&#xA;   }&#xA;   return -H;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When sorting the posts by the score calculated by this function (or minor variants of it), the problematic answers came to the top. But of course there are also false positives, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/862843/replace-translate-one-char-to-many/925352#925352&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or many variations of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158639/do-you-always-use-nouns-for-class-names/158653#158653&quot;&gt;&quot;Yes&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/874010/asp-net-web-application-5000-lines-of-code-in-1-page-acceptable/874517#874517&quot;&gt;&quot;No&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T11:43:45.063" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T11:43:45.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34341" CreationDate="2010-01-02T11:48:01.857" Score="29" ViewCount="642" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/155/electorate&quot;&gt;Electorate&lt;/a&gt; badge on StackOverflow, which is nice, but I noticed a number of top users aren't yet listed (inluding Jon Skeet and Marc Gravell, who would certainly qualify).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made me wonder how the badges are retrospectively applied. Is it just that the display is heavily cached and the badge is awarded when the user logs in again or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-10T15:16:50.807" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T15:16:50.807" Title="Electorate badge rules?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="34341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34340" CreationDate="2010-01-02T11:50:06.907" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do not qualify for this badge. Pay attention to the required voting ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must have at least 600 votes for questions, and your ratio of answer votes to question votes must be 3:1 or lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have 600 question votes but 2400 answer votes, that means you are not eligible. If you want to be eligible, you'll have to vote for a lot more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To satisfy the requirements of this badge, &lt;strong&gt;every fourth vote (at least) should be for a question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T00:45:40.507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T00:45:40.507" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="34342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T13:13:37.947" Score="13" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great to be able to display an overview of my github account within my public cv view, to display all of my opensource projects hosted on there, perhaps with my latest commits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a lot of programmers their stack overflow and github accounts are the best places to show off their programming chops and to combine them together on the cv would give a great overview of their skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plus I don't feel like I have enough flair on my cv, I need at least 37 pieces.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141246" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T07:25:55.613" Title="Github badge on careers cv" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34343" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T13:39:11.633" Score="4" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spend a fair bit of time walking through the &quot;unanswered&quot; section on SF, and would love to be able to hide all questions where I was the last person to update, to better see questions that might still need responses / voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T13:39:11.633" Title="(Optionally) hide questions where I made the most recent change" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T13:46:52.800" Score="2" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about letting users, somewhere around the 5-7k mark get 1.5 to 2 votes when voting to close, this lets fewer, (in theory) more trusted users deal with bad posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm mainly an SF denizen where there's only 7 10k users, this might not be as appropriate for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112080" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T06:01:21.417" Title="Give high-rep (but still &lt; 10k) users extra voting on close" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34346" CreationDate="2010-01-02T13:47:58.773" Score="4" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community&lt;/a&gt; (not a real user, I know) got the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/155/electorate&quot;&gt;Electorate&lt;/a&gt; badge (&quot;Voted on 600 questions and has better than 3:1 answer/question vote ratio.&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this user even have upvotes (currently 320) and downvotes (currently 19298)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T19:50:39.770" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T20:00:06.947" Title="Why does user Community on Stack Overflow have the new Electorate badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34345" CreationDate="2010-01-02T13:52:02.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can be explained by this information from Community's profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That still leaves an explanation for the upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T13:52:02.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T14:08:04.013" Score="5" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;tags page&lt;/a&gt; highlighted my interesting and ignored tags. Meta-SO gives some tags colours, but those are site-wide not personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it would be even better if &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1442/ability-to-add-tag-to-interesting-ignored-by-clicking-on-it&quot;&gt;you could manipulate them from there as well&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112080" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:00:06.303" Title="Tags page should hilight users interesting / ignored tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34351" CreationDate="2010-01-02T14:14:33.250" Score="45" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Voted on 600 questions and has better than 3:1 answer/question vote ratio&quot; is the current text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions&quot; is my proposed text.  (Or should it read &quot;or less&quot;?  I'm still not completely sure what is intended.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Better&quot; in the original doesn't indicate which way is preferred (and it's not clear to me one way or the other is better, merely that a certain threshold is the requirement for this badge).  This is even slightly shorter, in both characters and as displayed for me in a proportional font, which should help for a badge with one of the longest current descriptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T15:38:34.997" Title="Clarify Electorate badge wording" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="34351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34349" CreationDate="2010-01-02T14:41:14.313" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see several interpretations here.  (I've no idea which is correct, but I'll share my guess after listing them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voted on 600 questions and has better than 3:1 answer/question vote ratio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voted 600 times, 25+% of votes were for questions.&#xA;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Assumes &quot;better than&quot; a 3:1 ratio means &amp;lt;=3.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voted 600 times, &amp;lt;=25% of votes were for questions.&#xA;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Assumes &quot;better than&quot; a 3:1 ratio is 3+.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voted on 600+ questions, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; voted on &lt;strong&gt;at least&lt;/strong&gt; 3x {number of questions voted on} answers.  For example, if you voted on exactly 600 questions, you won't get this badge until you've voted on at least 1800 answers (or more if you keep voting on questions).&#xA;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Assumes &quot;better than&quot; a 3:1 ratio is 3+.)&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;discounted; see update&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voted on 600+ questions, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; voted on &lt;strong&gt;no more than&lt;/strong&gt; 3x {number of questions voted on} answers.&#xA;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Assumes &quot;better than&quot; a 3:1 ratio means &amp;lt;=3.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other interpretations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing #3 is what is intended.  It is a gold badge, after all.  But what exactly is meant by &quot;better than&quot; is still ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; In light of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34340/what-order-are-new-badges-awarded-in&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123582/rich-seller&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; who apparently got the Electorate badge with a grand total of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123582/rich-seller&quot;&gt;1276 votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (current count only)... interpretation #3 is hereby &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;incorrect&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T15:02:35.450" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T15:02:35.450" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34353" CreationDate="2010-01-02T14:45:01.467" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33952/some-of-my-comments-in-so-are-editable-while-others-arent-why&quot;&gt;Some of my comments in SO are editable while others aren&amp;rsquo;t.. Why?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25831/a-possible-solution-for-editing-comments&quot;&gt;A possible solution for editing comments&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a little over 9000 reputation over on Stack Overflow, and I've recently been seeing little pencils next to some peoples' comments, indicating they were edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, for the first time, I saw an &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; link in a comment of my own, and could have edited it should I have wished to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the criterion for being able to edit one's own comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138643" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T18:48:47.177" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T18:48:47.177" ClosedDate="2010-01-02T20:07:07.433" Title="Why can I edit some comments and not others?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;edit-rights&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34352" CreationDate="2010-01-02T14:48:34.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only edit your own comments, and only if you do so within 5 minutes.  The time when submitting the edit is what matters, not what time you start the edit, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T14:48:34.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T15:38:22.577" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm certain that I pay more attention to this than average, I still believe every user should, at least periodically, remember that &lt;strong&gt;judicious text formatting aids reading comprehension&lt;/strong&gt;.  And as we're all writers, this truly does apply to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Naturally&lt;/kbd&gt;, &lt;em&gt;it&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be &lt;sup&gt;misused&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;sub&gt;and&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;code&gt;abused, too.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What formatting best practices do you follow?&lt;/strong&gt;  Any tips you wish could be presented to every new user?  Is there anything that you see which should be used less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T18:05:59.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-02T15:38:22.577" Title="Formatting for comprehension tips" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;tips&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="34356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34355" CreationDate="2010-01-02T15:48:35.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bolding important phrases&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; in longer paragraphs and posts, aids the scanability of the text, which is much more important in an online medium than in conventionally; moreso in a mildly-competitive forum such as SO.  Additionally, I try to make reading those phrases in isolation (i.e. without the rest of the text) also sensible, and if it conveys the gist, then it feels like I've done a good job.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular for answers, &lt;strong&gt;the bold phrase will state the direct answer&lt;/strong&gt;, while the rest of the text explains it.  Or conversely, the direct or important piece of the question will be in bold.  If you revisit the question with this in mind, did it help or hurt?  Would removing all except the bold text be an improvement or make it worse?  (Perhaps some of the major benefit from this process is how it shapes my own view of the answer to be more like someone else's?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel &lt;strong&gt;italics should be used less frequently&lt;/strong&gt; than bold, and I use them primarily for a change of tone where I wish to add &lt;em&gt;character&lt;/em&gt;, or to emphasize a single word or short phrase that should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be read in isolation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish click-here links were more often avoided.  Not a huge problem (especially with the SO crowd compared to others, I believe), but using the domain, the full URL, or just parts from the URL is much better if you can't think of better link text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Various real examples are in my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54262/&quot;&gt;SO answers&lt;/a&gt;, or read a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1984213/what-is-the-difference-between-uri-and-url/1984225#1984225&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1744070/why-should-exceptions-be-used-conservatively/1744176#1744176&quot;&gt;specific&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1056563/which-block-of-code-is-better/1056628#1056628&quot;&gt;posts&lt;/a&gt; that prompted me to put this idea into words and get feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T17:46:51.470" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-02T15:48:35.937" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34349" CreationDate="2010-01-02T16:42:54.300" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... not sure how I'm ever going to get this badge (or how far away from it I am). I tend to vote for any question I find interesting (and well-asked), and any interesting answers. There are more answers than questions, so I think my ratio is shot to heck. :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, who needs to be in the electorate if you have the (hopefully benevolent) [♦ dictator] badge ;-p &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/joke&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T21:12:47.017" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T21:12:47.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34303" CreationDate="2010-01-02T17:18:57.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The approximate equivalent of voting for CW status is to edit the question, since according to the FAQ six edits by four different people will make a question CW.  I haven't seen this happening much,  but those of us with edit privileges on a forum could do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T17:18:57.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34355" CreationDate="2010-01-02T17:28:19.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm usually more of a fan of italics than bold - but that's just a personal preference. I reserve bold for rare cases where I'm not just emphasizing a word or phrase, but making absolutely sure no-one will miss it. Otherwise, I find that I'm drawn to bold text to the extent that it makes the rest of the sentence &lt;em&gt;harder&lt;/em&gt; to read, which isn't a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, I think it's mostly common sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Use the preview pane&lt;/em&gt; - sure, it's not a perfect representation of what the finished post will look like, but it's a darned good start&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use lists where appropriate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Break large sections of text into paragraphs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pay attention to spelling and grammar, not just formatting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Block quotes work well for quoted text (duh) although they can be tricky in terms of formatting within the quote. (I usually have to experiment to get a list within a block quote, for example.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Format code appropriately - few things look sillier than code which has been cut and paste without indenting; import statements (etc) end up all squashed together as text, followed by code which was naturally indented anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Format inline code, particularly if you're referring to type names or variables from full snippets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've found that footnotes in the form of a superscript number in the text, a horizontal rule after the text, and then the footnote itself, works well on occasion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think anyone who actually takes a bit of care over the general appearance and readability of their posts is unlikely to have a problem - and those who don't care aren't likely to change due to advice, unfortunately :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T17:28:19.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-02T17:28:19.890" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34355" CreationDate="2010-01-02T18:05:59.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;...This is how I like to format&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't always obsess over formatting, but when I do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bold key phrases:&lt;/strong&gt; I like it when readers can scan the post reading &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; bold text and still come away with the gist of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Italics for &lt;em&gt;in-context&lt;/em&gt; emphasis:&lt;/strong&gt; if I read a sentence aloud and find myself stressing a given word or phrase, then when writing it I'll italicize that. And now, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33709/formatting-of-inline-code-is-ugly-and-can-result-in-river-like-patterns-when-used&quot;&gt;I also italicize identifiers or language keywords when used outside of code blocks&lt;/a&gt; so as to avoid triggering the intentionally-ugly &lt;code&gt;inline code style&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superscript + subscript for &lt;sup&gt;f&lt;sub&gt;ootnotes&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; this simulates &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; (which isn't available on SO) and effectively de-emphasizes the text. And, &lt;strong&gt;don't use footnotes for critical information!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Headings to separate logical sections:&lt;/strong&gt; H2 and H3 are ## and ### respectively in Markdown, and offer an effective way to make logically distinct portions of your text stand out. I don't recommend the use of H1 (#) or H4 (####) as the former stands out a bit &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much, while the latter has no style at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use lists sparingly:&lt;/strong&gt; an ordered list can help when you want to emphasize order. An unordered list is handy when you have a number of distinct items that have something in common... but you intend to pack more than a single line of text into each item, you could just as well bold the start of each paragraph, or use sub-headings. If you do use a list of paragraphs, consider adding an empty line between each to help keep them from flowing together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use images to repeat what you've already said:&lt;/strong&gt; your screenshot w/ hand-drawn circles and a simple drop shadow may not be worth 1K words, but it can help to drive home what you tried to say without requiring any additional words whatsoever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_meta_34355_picture.png&quot; alt=&quot;capture of actual answer, not intended for demonstration purposes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T18:05:59.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-02T18:05:59.193" />
  <row Id="34363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34349" CreationDate="2010-01-02T18:41:36.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can this badge even be calculated, given that voting histories are not tracked?  I was under the impression that there was &lt;em&gt;no record&lt;/em&gt; of what I voted for: votes are tracked by their targets (questions and answers have votes), but user data is only saved for the number of votes in total, other than downvotes which are visible in my recent activity (as well as negatively affecting my reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to rephrase: &lt;strong&gt;how is this tracked in the database?  Just how much information about my voting history is saved?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T18:58:20.727" LastActivityDate="2010-01-02T18:58:20.727" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34365" CreationDate="2010-01-02T21:49:07.700" Score="6" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I go to &quot;unanswered&quot; and select a tag, I see questions with unconfirmed answers. Is there any way to see all questions with 0 answers of a certain tag(confirmed or not)? If not, can this be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140176" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-02T22:02:38.527" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T10:58:43.547" Title="Is there a way to get truly unanswered questions of a certain tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="34365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34364" CreationDate="2010-01-02T22:01:29.637" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the &lt;code&gt;answers&lt;/code&gt; keyword:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[c++] answers:0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brings up &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bc%2B%2B%5d+answers%3A0&quot;&gt;all questions&lt;/a&gt; tagged &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt; with zero (0) answers. There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;other goodies&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then click on the Newest or Activity tabs to sort by either posting time of question or last modification to the entire question-answer set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-05T10:58:43.547" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T10:58:43.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34349" CreationDate="2010-01-02T22:27:52.227" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for clarifying the wording.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also take this moment to share a few thoughts on the badge itself.  Taken literally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;voted on at least 600 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would mean 600 votes for questions, not counting votes on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;better than 3:1 answer/question ratio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;means more than 3x as many votes on answers as on questions.  I'm not sure that's what is intended, but that's what the text says. You might dispute the word &quot;better&quot;, but with a literal reading it could only mean a number &lt;em&gt;greater than 3&lt;/em&gt; for the ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means you need at least 2401 votes to get the badge: 600 on questions and 1801 on answers.  Now I know this is wrong based on the update to quack's answer, but it is accurate based on a strict literal interpretation of the text.  The actual definition probably just reverses the meaning a &quot;better&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So taking this interpretation, is this a useful badge?  As the stated purpose of badges is to encourage specific positive behaviors we need to consider what behaviors this badge encourages.  In this case, it seems clear that the badge is intended to increase votes on questions.  In that respect, I think might do okay, but I don't know that it will have a lasting impact unless it's effective at creating good voting &lt;em&gt;habits&lt;/em&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main complaint is that this is a one-time gold-level badge.  I'll grant it's &quot;bigger&quot; than a silver, but it doesn't quite live up to what I think a gold should be.  If you really want to encourage voting on questions long term, I think you're going to need some kind of ongoing incentive.  A recurring silver badge for every 250 or so question votes might just about do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, one additional side effect of this badge is that it will shift some reputation from question answerers to question askers.  I think a lot of people consider this to be a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T14:51:00.537" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T14:51:00.537" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-02T22:51:49.817" Score="10" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Languages often have similar terms (e.g., record).  The related questions feature is nice, but even if I indicated that I'm looking for how to handle a record in applescript, I still get related questions on Visual Basic and the like.  It'd be helpful if related questions took the tags a user may have entered into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139664" LastEditorUserId="139664" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-31T08:07:14.913" LastActivityDate="2010-12-31T08:07:14.913" Title="Feature request: Use tags to filter related questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34348" CreationDate="2010-01-03T00:07:47.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A nice little enhancement. I would rate it as desirable, but low priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T00:07:47.723" />
  <row Id="34371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T01:25:53.100" Score="10" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9943/what-does-the-distribution-of-reputation-in-so-say-about-so-users&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; a user wrote a tool to gather data about the reputation of users. I'd be interested to see an &quot;official&quot; distribution of reputation. Even better, it would be great to have a feature that showed you your rank amongst other Stack Overflow members. Any chance this could happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140176" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-18T21:28:21.427" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T18:05:49.313" Title="Can we view the reputation distribution?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="34374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T02:23:30.283" Score="9" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I am missing something obvious, but wouldn't it be helpful to include the userid (unique numeric) as well as the user name in the question feed API/Feed?  Since all of the Unofficial API's require the user id, it would be very helpful for those of us building apps. Having the userid embedded might avoid a lot of extra calls on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142738" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T07:04:17.173" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T07:42:18.063" Title="Embedding UserId in Questions Feeds/API" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T02:54:57.513" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;The message bar when I get a new badge reads &quot;You've earned the &lt;em&gt;whatever&lt;/em&gt; badge. See your profile.&quot; If I view my profile using the &quot;profile&quot; link, the notification bar goes away. But if I view my profile in another way (by clicking on my username for example) the notification does not go away. Seems like both should get rid of the notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T18:18:26.673" Title="New badge notification doesn't go away when viewing profile using username link" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T04:57:35.640" Score="15" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seemed, at least to me, that the Stack Overflow podcast is being published less often than it used to be. With minor exceptions, the podcast used to come out every Wednesday like clockwork. Though I couldn't put my finger on precisely when it stopped, I knew that, at least for the past few months, the podcast was being delayed more than usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to look at the hard data and compiled a spreadsheet of the dates on which every podcast was published. The following is a graph that indicates how many days elapsed between one podcast and the next:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/BQSkQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The graph clearly shows a recent lack of regularity in the podcast's publishing frequency. There have not been two consecutive weeks where the podcast was published 7 days after the previous since August 12. The average number of days between podcasts before August 12 is around 7.5 days. Discarding the 21-day outlier, there is still a measurable increase in the average after August 12 to about 9.3 days between podcasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? Well, I, for one, would like to see a return to a more regular schedule. I miss being able to count on the podcast arriving on a specific day. If necessary, I wouldn't mind seeing a few changes to accomplish this goal, like continuing to have the show with a member of the Stack Overflow community if either Jeff or Joel is unable to participate. Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other points of data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shortest interval:&lt;/strong&gt; 5 days between podcasts 27-28 (oct 31 08 - nov 5 08)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;longest interval:&lt;/strong&gt; 21 days between podcasts 65-66 (aug 12 09 - sep 2 09)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;longest 7-day streak:&lt;/strong&gt; 6 consecutive weeks, tie between podcasts 2-8 (apr 22 08 - jun 3 08) and podcasts 20-26 (sep 3 08 - oct 15 08)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsjJjEoz_WJndGFpdmtDOEhTVTQ4ZFd2Q21sZF9zdVE&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data available on Google Docs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:42:14.757" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:42:14.757" Title="Podcast Frequency" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="34377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34378" CreationDate="2010-01-03T05:33:57.973" Score="93" ViewCount="878" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the introduction of the Electorate badge, I was thinking about the potential side effects of the badge. While it certainly encourages voting on questions, I think the way it works, by tying the number of required question votes to the answer votes, actually &lt;strong&gt;discourages voting on answers&lt;/strong&gt;. Each vote you cast on an answer makes it more difficult for you to to achieve the badge. It's essentially moving you farther away from the badge. This is especially true if you have previously voted on plenty of answers. I believe the badge should have simply required an absolute minimum number of votes on questions (say, 2000 question votes) rather than a function of answer votes. Another possibility is making the vote requirement a function of the user creation date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, it's not a good idea to discourage one good thing (question votes) at the cost of a better thing (answer votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T19:50:06.260" LastActivityDate="2011-03-21T18:32:42.713" Title="The Electorate badge discourages voting on answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="34378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34377" CreationDate="2010-01-03T05:56:25.037" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to agree.  I posted a comment to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34349/clarify-electorate-badge-wording&quot;&gt;clarify the wording&lt;/a&gt;&quot; thread, which I'll expand here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the initial &quot;you've voted 300 times&quot; badge, there's really no incentives to keep voting on things (outside of community participation).  Electorate could solve both that and the question voting problem, by acting more like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requires 600 question votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requires 1800 answer votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A total of 2400 votes is required.  By virtue of needing them, question voting is encouraged.  A 3:1 ratio is implied, but there are no negatives to continue voting on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This encourages voting all the way around, and (IMHO) provides the necessary impetus to vote on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I'm one of the users that got the electorate badge already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T05:56:25.037" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34377" CreationDate="2010-01-03T05:56:45.520" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect it's largely not a problem, because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8376/how-to-encourage-voting-on-questions/8389#8389&quot;&gt;voting on answers dominates [see comments]&lt;/a&gt; the votes, and many users will be oblivious to the the badge anyway. The users that are gunning for this badge will probably have a long-term investment in the site that will outlive the 600 question-vote threshold and, as ~quack points out, their long-term voting habits are probably unaffected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131494" LastEditorUserId="131494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T06:04:22.867" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T06:04:22.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T06:04:20.230" Score="7" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have the ability to specify the order of the locations where I am willing to work at. Currently the sort order appears to be size or how precise the location is. Locations that contain a city will show before states and countries. Having the same ability to specify order like we do for the experience section would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130917" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T06:04:20.230" Title="Locations I am willing to work at, Custom Sort" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="34381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34391" CreationDate="2010-01-03T06:08:53.247" Score="6" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;instead of just simply pasting a link to a user profile or tediously writing &lt;code&gt;[name](link)&lt;/code&gt; why dont we have markup that will dynamically insert the current name of the user and a link to their profile. Two ideas are @u34537 (u to define user and not post) or :user34537:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T08:08:35.170" Title="markup for username" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34383" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-16T06:53:48.893" Score="4" ViewCount="656" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I type &quot;backslash backslash servername&quot; on a &lt;strong&gt;European keyboard&lt;/strong&gt;, like this \\ServerName, (without just pasting a backslash from the clipboard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typing backslash just seems to toggle the code block on and off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This an issue for keyboard layouts where backslash is activated by a combination of AltGr + backslash. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T08:30:29.160" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T08:30:29.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-16T06:53:48.877" Title="How do I escape backslashes in markdown?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34383" CreationDate="2009-05-16T07:15:19.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;\\ServerName (by which I mean &lt;code&gt;\\\\ServerName&lt;/code&gt;) seems to work for me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56541" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T06:44:08.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-16T07:15:19.310" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34383" CreationDate="2009-05-16T07:15:31.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just use four backslashes: \\\\Server -&gt; \\Server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T06:44:08.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-16T07:15:31.727" />
  <row Id="34386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34383" CreationDate="2009-05-16T07:19:29.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Type the HTML entity &lt;code&gt;&quot;&amp;amp;#92;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; for each backslash, &lt;strong&gt;outside&lt;/strong&gt; of a backtick-demarcated area, like so &amp;#92;&amp;#92;ServerName&amp;#92;share. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T06:44:08.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-16T07:19:29.757" />
  <row Id="34387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34383" CreationDate="2009-05-16T09:30:51.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can type out the decimal value of any character on the number pad.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Backslash is Alt+0092&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T06:44:08.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-16T09:30:51.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34383" CreationDate="2009-05-16T13:09:16.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;\\servername - typed with no problem on a international keyboard set for swedish layout using altgr, using Chrome though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131210" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T06:44:08.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-16T13:09:16.230" />
  <row Id="34389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34381" CreationDate="2010-01-03T06:59:23.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you give an example of when this would be used?  Surely one doesn't need to link to a user's profile page that often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: ah, you're wanting better notifications on comments. I'm not sure if you realize that addressing a comment &quot;@Name&quot; doesn't actually notify them that there was a reply -- only the author of the question/answer the comment is on will receive a notification.  However, adding a feature to notify all previous commenters has been requested many times previously: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T08:08:35.170" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T08:08:35.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34376" CreationDate="2010-01-03T07:30:29.593" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, Stack Overflow DevDays and the holiday season (Thanksgiving onward) have a pretty big impact on the schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T07:30:29.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34381" CreationDate="2010-01-03T07:30:54.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be especially practical for comments, for one. When users change their names, some comments become useless.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, it will allow users to be notified for comments with their names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T07:30:54.117" />
  <row Id="34392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34371" CreationDate="2010-01-03T07:32:54.160" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a histogram of users by reputation (decilog scale on X axis):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chd=e%3aAAAAAAAAWDAAChAABHDH..VIGep0XhSHVjX5RkQ7RcQ3PBNIKlLmLKJ1I5HVHDGBE2EFDNC5CDBnBJA0AyAcAVAOAIAFACADABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&amp;amp;chtt=User%20reputation%20histogram%20%282%2b%20rep,%2065006%20rep%201%20users%29&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|1||||||||||10||||||||||100||||||||||1000||||||||||10000||||||||||100000||||||||||1%3a|0|11226&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add this graph to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow stats graphs&lt;/a&gt; which gets updated on each data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-24T22:13:50.073" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T22:13:50.073" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34377" CreationDate="2010-01-03T08:13:48.620" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is especially true if you have previously voted on plenty of answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you should balance that by voting on plenty of questions, which is the intent!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;Why aren’t people voting for questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, voting for answers needs no encouragement because it comes naturally. It's voting for questions that doesn't happen enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T08:13:48.620" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="34394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T08:53:45.737" Score="29" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Request:&lt;/strong&gt; Show the totals for your question-votes and answer-votes only to you on your profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use cases:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Curiosity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self-evaluate a voting trend&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get the Electorate badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While case #3 will happen, it's unintended.  Some badges do not have indication of when you're about to receive them, but many do; for example: Nice Answer, Populist, and even Autobiographer.  However, I don't think the abuse of this feature in case #3 will be noticeably detrimental.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rationale:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm trying to solve the problem of long-term, active users neglecting to vote for questions &lt;em&gt;and not even realizing their own tendency&lt;/em&gt;.  Simply by making this information available, more users will become aware of it, and it will lead to more active users voting in their desired question:answer ratio goals (which shouldn't be hard to socially steer to match the &quot;community goal&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus it'd just be interesting to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, introducing the badge prompts awareness too (I wasn't even aware there is a &quot;problem&quot; before), but that will decline over time, and probably swiftly.  Perhaps a message once a month if you're below a certain question:answer ratio: &quot;You only have 0.0001% question votes.  See your profile.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-11-16T06:44:19.043" Title="Show question-/answer-vote totals" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="34395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2010-01-03T11:54:02.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late entry...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34537/acidzombie24&quot;&gt;560 questions, 65 answers, 6.5k rep&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And his profile comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stop asking me to 'accept' more&#xA;  answers. I asked many question and a&#xA;  significant amount of questions are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;not correctly answered which i no longer need to know the correct answer&#xA;  and do not know it myself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Subjective enough to not know which answer is the most correct.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is a question i don't remember what the solution was (typically&#xA;  older)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A no answer or wiki question. These dont affect ratio but i can imagine&#xA;  people asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T11:54:02.673" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-03T11:54:02.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20696" CreationDate="2010-01-03T13:19:01.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about adding a Leach badge for these types of people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T13:19:01.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-03T13:19:01.760" />
  <row Id="34397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34398" CreationDate="2010-01-03T16:11:51.817" Score="31" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me voting on questions is much less important than voting on answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a question, you have it, period! It doesn't matter if it was upvoted by others or not. The reason you ask the question and the reason people come to Stack Overflow is to find the best answer. I rarely vote on questions, I normally vote on answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To change this kind of behaviour, we &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8376/how-to-encourage-voting-on-questions/8389#8389&quot;&gt;got the new Electorate badge&lt;/a&gt;. There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34377/the-electorate-badge-discourages-voting-on-answers&quot;&gt;some concerns&lt;/a&gt; about this badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff says voting on answers is so sexy, that people will still do it (well I do). The idea is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;encourage voting on questions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this thread and watching the number of upvotes, it looks like many people think it is a good idea to vote on questions, but so few actually do it. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34349/clarify-electorate-badge-wording/34366#34366&quot;&gt;Joel mentions&lt;/a&gt; (no, not Spolsky. The one who matters: Coehoorn) that shifting rep from questioners to answerers is a bad thing. I assume he refers to the discussion of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;gaining rep with meaningless questions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shall we encourage gaining responsibility on SOFU by asking questions?   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shall we encourage voting on questions?   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the new electorate badge solves the problem, discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;Why-does-noone-vote-for-Qs&lt;/a&gt;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it actually a problem (it's from August 2008. Maybe you changed your opinion now)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the badge need more fine-tuning beyond the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34349/clarify-electorate-badge-wording&quot;&gt;clarification of the description&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T17:35:25.900" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T10:23:34.807" Title="Electorate badge and the benefit of voting on questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34397" CreationDate="2010-01-03T16:59:30.070" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe... See below.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I've decided (since I can't resist the allure of a new badge) to attempt to achieve it &lt;em&gt;using only down-votes&lt;/em&gt;. As rare as votes on questions are, down-votes on questions are rarer still - and therefore &lt;em&gt;badly needed&lt;/em&gt;. Yes, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;problems&lt;/a&gt; with down-voting questions, but they'll never get ironed out if we just sit here hoping. We gotta get out there and &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; something, and this badge is just the token reward necessary to prompt &lt;strong&gt;Real Action&amp;trade;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, go do your part and down-vote 20 questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T16:59:30.070" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="34399" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T17:22:36.200" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;Why aren&amp;rsquo;t people voting for questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;G'day,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that over the last couple of months that interesting questions aren't voted up at all. Just the answers seem to receive any votes if any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts on why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought we were supposed to vote up both interesting questions, because they made us think about things, and also excellent answers, because they provided us excellent information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Why the vote down? A good question should be rewarded as well as good answers should be? Given Jeff's edit to the question linked below I think we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be rewarding insightful and interesting questions. That question linked below is a dupe but given it was asked quite a while ago, and that this indifference is still going on, I think that this is still relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is SO now dying and drifting away from Jeff and Joel's original ideas because of the unstoppable crowd factor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as detailed by Clay Shirky&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;sadly,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2974" LastEditorUserId="2974" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T17:44:24.100" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:22:08.350" ClosedDate="2010-01-03T18:26:16.593" Title="Why have we stopped voting up interesting questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34399" CreationDate="2010-01-03T17:27:32.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stopped?  When did we start?  Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&lt;/a&gt; - which was originally asked in August 2008, a year and a half ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T17:27:32.203" />
  <row Id="34401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34397" CreationDate="2010-01-03T17:35:18.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an interesting 'local versus global rating' problem here. Do I say,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'This question is lacking, I'll vote it down.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'This question is lacking, someone else already voted it down, -1 is enough.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at answers, there's some help: if the answer is the best of the bunch, it's worth throwing on an extra up vote if that scores it higher than then alternatives, or the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, though, I've decided to do like @Shog9, and routinely downvote questions that have material problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T22:59:38.400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T22:59:38.400" />
  <row Id="34402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34375" CreationDate="2010-01-03T17:37:01.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; that the notifications are &quot;sticky.&quot; I might have other reasons to peek at my profile without digging into the reason for the notification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notification is &lt;strong&gt;a good &quot;sticky note&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; to remind me to check something specific. When I am done with it, I can click on the profile link or the &quot;X&quot; to dismiss it. I wouldn't want it &lt;strong&gt;inadvertently dismissed as a side effect&lt;/strong&gt; of something else I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to leave it the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T17:37:01.590" />
  <row Id="34403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T17:39:31.880" Score="3" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just encountered this for the first time; I don't know if it is significant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When viewing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&lt;/a&gt; I received this error (the message is not verbatim but the URL is correct):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Warning: unresponsive script while viewing http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5898:1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using MacOS X 10.6.2 and Firefox 3.5.6. NoScript is installed but all SO script domains are allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: the issue is back tonight; SO tabs are slowing to a crawl and take ~20 seconds to load. The script URL now is &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=6180:1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=6180:1&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T07:04:53.713" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T09:00:03.557" Title="&quot;Unresponsive script&quot; error" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34399" CreationDate="2010-01-03T17:44:52.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is because a lot of questions either suck, or they are pretty basic ones that don't ask anything compelling or thought-provoking. This is, I think, not because there are no interesting questions to ask, but simply because most of the user base is at the basic/beginner level so those are the types of questions we will see most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T17:44:52.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34399" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:22:08.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is a positioning thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting questions tend to be lengthier than any of their answers. I find that I finish the question, and start scrolling down to view the answers. When I like an answer, I upvote it, as the answer is normally short, and the upvote box is right next to my eyes when I finish reading the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never really think to upvote the question, as the page tends to flow downwards, and by the time I've finished reading the question, I've normally scrolled down enough that the voting box is no longer in my view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:22:08.350" />
  <row Id="34406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34407" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:26:03.693" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow: Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could I add a reply on my own question?&#xA;Like in the most other forums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141286" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T18:54:31.117" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:54:31.117" ClosedDate="2010-01-03T22:37:04.957" Title="How do I reply on my own topic?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;reply&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34406" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:31:37.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply by adding a reply, just like you would for any other question. It doesn't work any differently if you asked the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, SO is not a forum: it's a question and answer site. Unless you are actually providing a real answer, you should probably edit your question instead. See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17845/etiquette-for-answering-your-own-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17845/etiquette-for-answering-your-own-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:31:37.830" />
  <row Id="34408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34406" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:31:45.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is not a forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit Your Question to Add More Information, or simply add a comment to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have an &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; to your question, you can go to the bottom of the page and click on the &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; (or something to that regard) button, and you will be able to post an answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while you are at it, read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:31:45.020" />
  <row Id="34409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:30:25.033" Score="-5" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;By Asking many tough homework questions, by providing answers to tough questions, by playing the humor card or other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I desperately need 1000 points by Jan 10th. I hope you are in a giving spirit. Many Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141287" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T05:01:06.043" Title="What is the best way to gain high reputation on SO?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:33:30.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer all the questions that you know the answer to.  Be as clear and concise and complete as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just out of sheer curiosity, why do you need 1000 points? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:33:30.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:40:10.040" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has the definitive guide on how to best answer questions on StackOverflow here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/02/17/answering-technical-questions-helpfully.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/02/17/answering-technical-questions-helpfully.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One specific technique he uses is to post a short, correct answer right away.  This gets him the quick (FGITW) upvotes.  He then spends a few minutes using the techniques outlined in his blog post to flesh out the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:40:10.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34414" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:40:56.013" Score="4" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently (Dec. 31, 2009) as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1986078/how-do-i-call-dotnetfactory-from-vbscript-in-a-stand-alone-vbs-file&quot; title=&quot;this question&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow. Before voting up and accepting an answer, I had a 100% accept rate. After voting up the answer I was going to accept and then accepting it (today, January 3, 2010), my accept rate now shows 86%. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I understand that accept rate is a batch job, and there is a possibility that its results and my accepting of the question may have occurred at the same time. Is it correct to assume that my accept rate dropped because I did not accept an answer within 48 hours of the question? Assuming I don't ask any further questions with unaccepted answers, when should I expect it to climb back up to 100% again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139117" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T19:11:41.730" ClosedDate="2010-01-04T04:59:10.383" Title="I have accepted answers for all my questions but my accept rate shows 86%" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:42:13.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation isn't meant to be a thing that can be &lt;em&gt;gamed&lt;/em&gt;, meaning that you will need to put in a lot of work to get the reputation you need. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who have 5-10k reputation have answered a lot of questions. I have around 6,000 and have answered 336 questions, asked 23 questions, and have voted 368 times (not that voting matters). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to go about getting 1,000 reputation is by hitting the reputation cap everyday. The most reputation you can get in a day (not counting accepted answers) is 200 reputation. After that, every accepted answer gets you 15 points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get 200 reputation everyday for 5 days, you will get 1,000 reputation. You can do this by providing helpful answers to questions that have topics you are knowledgeable about, and by asking thought-provoking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest putting in the topics you know about as 'Interesting Tags', and answering as many of the questions that have those tags as you can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also go for bounty questions. Those are questions that can award up to 550 reputation for answering them correctly. However, normally these are harder questions that take a lot of thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:42:13.297" />
  <row Id="34414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34412" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:46:33.410" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accept rate is heavily cached. Wait a couple days, it'll get updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:46:33.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:53:48.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's all the usual stuff about correct answers, detail, formatting, wording, etc. but the best answer in the world won't get much votes/reputation if it is really esoteric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more people viewing a question means the more likely to get votes.  It also means more competition, but there are other factors - like how people will sympathy vote for answers from users with sub 1,000 rep accounts, or just flat out ignore high rep account answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:53:48.963" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-03T18:56:40.860" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send me $1,000, I'll open a bounty on a question or two, you answer them and I'll accept your answer on Jan 9th when the check clears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kidding of course, my rep is worth way more than mere money...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T18:56:40.860" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-03T19:05:51.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need, what, just over 300 points? Just provide &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;, well-written answers to a few questions, for 2 days, and you should max out (200/day, plus extras) easily enough. If you are &lt;em&gt;desperate&lt;/em&gt; for 1000 points (for whatever reason, I'm guessing that you claimed you had 1000 points, which is... inadviseable), then being helpful for 2 days should be no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, look through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=featured&quot;&gt;bounty board&lt;/a&gt;; see if you can help there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warning, though... you might get addicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T19:05:51.743" />
  <row Id="34418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34412" CreationDate="2010-01-03T19:11:41.730" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;patience, grasshopper.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;you jump faster than the world--&lt;br&gt;&#xA;trust it will catch up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T19:11:41.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34421" CreationDate="2010-01-03T20:16:49.477" Score="3" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21575/mysterious-downvotes-14-random-downvotes-in-5-minutes&quot;&gt;Mysterious downvotes (14 random downvotes in 5 minutes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28756/serial-downvoting-victim&quot;&gt;Serial Downvoting Victim&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dude gets mad at me. Goes to my profile. Looks at my last 5-10 questions and downvotes them all just because. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any method for stopping this or just live with it? I'm perfectly fine living with it, just doesn't seem right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T20:27:43.583" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T20:27:43.583" ClosedDate="2010-01-03T22:27:30.580" Title="Combatting Mass-Downvoting" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34420" CreationDate="2010-01-03T20:24:26.870" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag one of these posts for moderator attention and explain the situation. However, there are heuristics in place to detect and reverse this, so it may be reversed automatically sometime later today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information (and earlier incidents) see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21575/mysterious-downvotes-14-random-downvotes-in-5-minutes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21575/mysterious-downvotes-14-random-downvotes-in-5-minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28756/serial-downvoting-victim&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28756/serial-downvoting-victim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29092/multi-downvote-on-my-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29092/multi-downvote-on-my-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23005/i-think-i-was-just-serial-downvoted-how-can-this-prevented-by-the-community&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23005/i-think-i-was-just-serial-downvoted-how-can-this-prevented-by-the-community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22346/what-to-do-about-mass-down-votes-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22346/what-to-do-about-mass-down-votes-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T20:24:26.870" />
  <row Id="34423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-03T20:44:18.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, ... I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://dssheep.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-get-reputation-on-stackoverflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog posting&lt;/a&gt; about how I did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T20:44:18.133" />
  <row Id="34424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34426" CreationDate="2010-01-03T20:46:56.427" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious why was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995437/how-do-you-do-wildcard-subdomains&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; moved to SU instead of SF? I am trying to pick up on all the little things of the community and that has me stumped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;networking, servers, or maintaining other people's PCs and contains no source code, ask on Server Fault.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was clearly about servers and not about &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;general computer software or hardware troubleshooting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T22:21:57.940" Title="Another why was this one moved to x and not y" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34424" CreationDate="2010-01-03T21:09:52.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're right, that Server Fault is a better place for this question. But it is one of those questions which is suitable for both communities. Super User has also a &lt;code&gt;htaccess&lt;/code&gt; tag. Only a few questions there, but they got answers. So it's likely that the asker finds help on SU, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could comment his post and advice him to search on SF for an answer also. Would be helpful for him at least for the next time, he asks a question :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T21:09:52.803" />
  <row Id="34426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34424" CreationDate="2010-01-03T22:21:57.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is pretty solidly an SF question.  I don't doubt there's the capability on SU to answer it (heck, there were 3 answers on it when it was migrated, so SO has the capability to answer it too), but to me it reads like an SF question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The migrations happen automatically when 5 users vote to close, and the migration destination is chosen like the other close reasons -- by whatever option got a the majority of those 5 close votes.  In this case, at least two people voted for &quot;migrate to SU&quot; (it's possible the other 3 votes were for each of 3 other close/migrate options.  So the 2-vote majority won.  And as I understand it, ties go to the oldest vote, so it might've been 2 votes for SU, 2 for SF, 1 for something else... but it went to SU because the oldest of the 4 migrate votes was for SU.)  So it's a bit of a majority-rule-and-the-majority-makes-stupid-decisions-sometimes situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if migration-due-to-close-votes shouldn't be sent into a kind of migration queue, where some high-rep volunteer looks at it in order to route it to the proper site.  There'd be only one &quot;migrate&quot; option on the vote-to-close menu, so the migrate votes wouldn't be competing with each other to determine the proper site.  (Or maybe a secondary vote would be cast -- vote to migrate, then get to vote for which site it should go on.  A bit like the close-as-duplicate option works now.)  But the final step should be a human picking one of the trilogy sites to send it to (possibly even &quot;stay here&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T22:21:57.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-03T23:08:57.490" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the context of the new badge for voting on questions, what will encourage voting up questions that meet the sites' criteria for good questions, as opposed to the visible tendency for herds of muppets to vote up more or less silly questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1996496/eclipse-ftp-team-plugin&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. There's no herd here, and it isn't silly, but it seemed to me that the original version had too much opinion per unit query to be a good question according to the criteria. The original had multiple upvotes before I got there. Questions that start with a paragraph of opinion are not, I think, what is desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to try an experiment and I decapitated the ranting first paragraph to see what would happen to me. No one has rolled me back yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-03T23:44:13.460" LastActivityDate="2010-01-03T23:44:13.460" Title="How to encourage voting the right way for questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2779" CreationDate="2010-01-04T00:17:20.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how I humbly imagine tag synonyms working:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if 'visualisation' and 'visualization' are defined as synonyms, then typing 'visualis' into the tag field should list 'visualization' as a potential tag, even though it doesn't contain that letter sequence. You can then eliminate the tag 'visualisation' entirely (migrating all existing entries to the z version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The t-sql/tsql example has already been covered by simply ignoring the hyphens (nice work there!), but this suggestion does cover the 'mssql' vs. 'sql-server' example given elsewhere in the answers. It can even work in instances where both tags could potentially be correct, but suggesting the other is still a good idea. For example, sql people might tell us that 'mssql' should, indeed, be a valid tag, but 'sql-server' should still be suggested when a user types 'mssql' (or part thereof) into the tag field. If that were the case, typing 'sql-server' should also suggest 'mssql'; this could be implemented by having the reverse entry (from sql-server to mssql) in the synonyms database table as well as the mssql to sql-server version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140584" LastEditorUserId="140584" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T04:44:01.463" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T04:44:01.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34433" CreationDate="2010-01-04T00:24:48.610" Score="-2" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;pundit has been achieved by 37, epic by 44. I'm not saying that difficult badges are bad!! I'm just noting that the silver badges with the next least achievement rate are Strunk and white with 463 and Guru with  780 (except Generalist :P). It's my understanding that the badges are awarded to people who've met the requirements even before the badges were implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other progressive badges nice/good/great question/answer go 10-25-100 (10 bronze, 25 silver, 100 gold). Enthusiast-Fanatic go 30-100, but Epic to legendary goes 50-100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else think we should reduce the requirements a little? Pundit is probably ok where it is, maybe make epic require 30 days of hitting the rep cap instead of 50?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I've just learned that upvoting comments is a newish feature &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7222/when-a-new-badge-is-launched-are-old-responses-taken-into-account&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, so it would've had more people with it if that had been implemented earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:54:18.697" Title="epic and pundit silver badges are too difficult to get?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;&lt;pundit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34440" CreationDate="2010-01-04T01:58:10.737" Score="46" ViewCount="696" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need more meta data about progress for some of the badges, particularly with new ones like Electorate, Pundit, and more. This started off as a whinge about Electorate, but has been expanded into something which might be closed as a close-to-duplicate. But I'd actually like some of these answered more individually. StackQL doesn't fix it, because it's typically old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example - I don't think I can tell how many questions I've upvoted. I can see how many upvotes I've made, but I can't tell which were questions and which were answered. So I can tell how close I am to Civic Duty, but not Electorate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't tell how many upvotes I have on comments. This means I can't even tell which of my comments are popular, and the kind of comments that I should be making more of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't tell how many consecutive days I've been around. (I know - I've asked it before, written the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176011/sql-to-determine-minimum-sequential-days-of-access/1176255#1176255&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;query&lt;/a&gt;, got the T-shirt - sorry, that was on EE - etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't tell how many days I've hit the 200 point cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can tell how close I am to Great Question, to Populist, to most of the badges in fact, but there are some that aren't. I know that the tag-related questions are designed to be 'surprises', but even that info is available in the Tag Stats. So I don't get why we don't see just a little more info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard that it's about the load on the database... but as there are queries which calculate all this quite often, how about the results of the queries get stored in a table somewhere, and then let people view the results for their stuff somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T19:57:21.890" Title="Electorate, Pundit, etc badge progress" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="34433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34431" CreationDate="2010-01-04T02:02:17.920" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these badges have been introduced to encourage particular types of behaviour. So if they want more people to be voting on comments, they put a badge out to congratulate that. If they want people voting on questions, they do that. If they want people answering old questions, they do that. If they want people deleting their crap questions, they put a badge out for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So any new badge will generally start off with a very low number of awardees, which will grow in time as people aim for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better response would be to suggest new types of badges that encourage types of behaviour that you think would improve the site, rather than criticise badges for being too hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, how about introducing a badge for a number of Feature-Implemented resolutions on meta? (Or maybe a ratio of implemented to rejected once a threshold has been reached)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T02:02:17.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34435" CreationDate="2010-01-04T02:51:04.560" Score="5" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dont see an accounts tab on that site. Is this not an affiliated project?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138698" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T02:55:29.280" Title="Why can't I import my SO account to Startup.com?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34434" CreationDate="2010-01-04T02:55:29.280" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they're not directly linked the way SO, SU, SF, and meta are.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://startups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Startups.com&lt;/a&gt; is built using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; engine, but it's not managed by the same people who run the SO trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T02:55:29.280" />
  <row Id="34436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T03:43:53.707" Score="5" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my &quot;recent&quot; page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/userid&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/userid&lt;/a&gt;, it shows me the most recent responses, but not the most recent votes. For that, I need to go to the Reputation tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if I had a bunch of activity a few hours ago, and then I notice that my reputation has changed, I have to do two clicks to try to compare activity. The &quot;Top 5 Posts&quot; is sorted by time (rather than reputation), so it pretends to be recent votes, but it's really not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we make Top 5 Votes be Recent Votes instead (or as well perhaps), and have Top 5 Votes sorted by reputation (so that it doesn't feel like it's Recent Votes) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this should really be a bug or a feature-request. It's a mixture of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T04:57:17.830" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T07:00:09.213" Title="Most recent votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34439" CreationDate="2010-01-04T04:00:25.603" Score="11" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to this question, but different reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32266/be-able-to-edit-a-vote-on-an-answer-if-the-question-is-changed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32266/be-able-to-edit-a-vote-on-an-answer-if-the-question-is-changed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I feel like I have to ask a new question so that Jeff will notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone writes a question. Suppose it's a SQL one. They don't provide version information, so then I upvote an answer that runs nicely in SQL 2008. Then the question is edited to say it's actually SQL 2000. All I can do is put a comment on the answer I upvoted, saying that my upvote only applies because the code is fine in SQL 2008. But in the meantime, the answer that works on SQL 2000 is left languishing somewhere else, possibly never notice because the asker hasn't accepted it. So unless the person who Googles/Bings/Altavistas the solution notices the 15th comment where I write &quot;This doesn't work on SQL 2000&quot;, and only notices the 100 upvotes &lt;em&gt;(oh, sorry - I had said 'SQL', so that's not going to apply)&lt;/em&gt;, the searcher is going to feel misled by this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, let me know if a question is edited (so that I can change my own answers), and so let me change votes if I feel it's necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T20:10:46.350" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T07:48:58.713" Title="Vote change on ANSWER if QUESTION is edited" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;change-vote&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="34438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34432" CreationDate="2010-01-04T04:04:11.353" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beware, cynical response ahead...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who really cares? Do you really care about badges so much that you would rather see your progress towards a specific badge, rather than seeing this &quot;progress&quot; as what it really is, something you should be doing anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not treat Stack Overflow for what it is - a question and answer site - rather than what you make it out to be, some kind of game. If you can answer some technical questions and find some value in doing so, then do that. If you have a question that others can answer, ask it and get some answers. But otherwise, why are you here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-04T17:43:41.423" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T17:43:41.423" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34437" CreationDate="2010-01-04T04:50:28.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this really happen enough to justify the massive increase in complexity, and the additional rules people would need to understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some problems are better solved through social means and not technological ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T04:50:28.157" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34432" CreationDate="2010-01-04T04:56:50.763" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the badges are supposed to be surprises, not World of Warcraft style level grinds based on numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I worry that if we provide too many metrics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it becomes noise, like a bunch of inscrutable F-16 cockpit gauges -- how are all these numbers &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; except for these specific badges?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the badge becomes the explicit goal instead of the desired behavior&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the badges are no longer a pleasant surprise and reward but an expected &quot;level up&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T04:56:50.763" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34409" CreationDate="2010-01-04T05:01:06.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be brilliant. Know your stuff, and spend all day and night answering questions (including old, obscure ones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But bear in mind the 200 point thing. When you reach that point, go and sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Focus on the questions with bounties (&quot;featured questions&quot;) Spend time researching them and answer them. You might find that you get to 1000 points quite quickly if you can answer questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960434/where-can-i-find-computer-graphics-video-lectures&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960434/where-can-i-find-computer-graphics-video-lectures&lt;/a&gt; and get some upvotes on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't game the system, just be brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T05:01:06.043" />
  <row Id="34442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34403" CreationDate="2010-01-04T05:02:56.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kind of a [no-repro] .. seems OK for me on that question in Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are edge cases where prettify.js can take too long, but I wasn't seeing any massive blocks of code in that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: &lt;strong&gt;upgrade to Firefox 3.6&lt;/strong&gt;. Firefox 3.5 had &lt;em&gt;massive&lt;/em&gt; problems with prettify.js that were not duplicatible in IE8, Safari, Chrome, or Opera. Yep, even IE8 could do it. You are reading correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T07:05:38.377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T07:05:38.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2010-01-04T05:15:42.233" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow to explicitly set the syntax highlighting language in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140903" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T05:15:42.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-04T05:15:42.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34447" CreationDate="2010-01-04T05:16:36.427" Score="4" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work&quot;&gt;How does the automatic subjective filter work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does SOFU determine that &quot;The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T20:41:15.640" ClosedDate="2011-04-24T21:15:18.667" Title="determine question likely to be closed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34444" CreationDate="2010-01-04T05:17:10.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks at the matched questions for a high ratio of closed:not-closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T05:17:10.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34436" CreationDate="2010-01-04T05:19:15.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Top 5 Posts&quot; is sorted by time&#xA;  (rather than reputation), so it&#xA;  pretends to be recent votes, but it's&#xA;  really not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't sorted by time, mean that the most 'recent' votes appear on the top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will note that it doesn't show distinctiveness between different votes on the same post, it just shows the latest time, and the total of rep earned on that post in the appropriate timerange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T05:19:15.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34444" CreationDate="2010-01-04T05:59:16.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm of the understanding that it looks for a few specific keywords (like &quot;best&quot;) in the title. Try writing a nonsense title with &quot;best&quot; in it and hit Tab, then go back and change &quot;best&quot; to &quot;biggest&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Here's the definitive answer, from Jeff: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T18:27:14.020" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T18:27:14.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T06:03:22.810" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOTE: By &quot;description box&quot;, I mean the yellow box that appears when you are editing an option on your CV. The contents of the box explain the option that you are editing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, all of the editable options on the &quot;Edit CV&quot; page on Careers have description boxes appear when you begin editing. However, this is not the case for the &quot;What Type of Work are You Seeking?&quot; option. I noticed that the only way to make the description box appear is by clicking Tab from the option above (&quot;Background&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but it contradicts the norm that is expressed by the design of the rest of the options on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T07:51:42.473" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T07:51:42.473" Title="Careers bug: Can Only Open &quot;Description&quot; Box for &quot;What Type of Work are You Seeking?&quot; by Tabbing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;help-text&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T06:10:35.820" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I entered a few sites into the &quot;Projects and Links&quot; section of my Careers CV, I noticed that every other link (starting with the 2nd one) wasn't being linked. I quickly realized that the problem was with my not having entered blank lines between each link in the input box, as it's Markdown. However, users who aren't familiar with Markdown syntax might not realize why some of their input is acting weirdly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there is already an &quot;editing help&quot; link underneath the input box, I think that you need to add an explicit note in the yellow description box that describes the correct line break syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T06:10:35.820" Title="Careers: Explain Markdown Line Break Syntax in &quot;Projects and Links&quot; Description Box" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="34450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34455" CreationDate="2010-01-04T06:45:07.567" Score="7" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you Google my name, it comes up with a link to my ServerFault profile first, then StackOverflow profile, then LinkedIn, then website, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard it's common practice for employers to Google your name, so I'd like the results to show the most relevant information. My ServerFault account contains nothing, and there's no reason for an employer to see my Meta profile (which is further down, but still on page 1). Having those links show up in the results isn't relevant or helpful to someone searching for information about me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like is to prevent Google (and other search engines) from spidering/showing my *Overflow site profiles except StackOverflow, or be able to control this somehow per *Overflow site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I don't know if this is even possible, as I'm not familiar with SEO and such. I know this kind of thing would never work perfectly, but as long as it works for the major search engines, that's all that matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose a way around this is to simply remove my name from the profiles I don't want to show up... but that doesn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; solve the problem. For example, I could end up building a good rep here on Meta, to which I would want to attach my name for other users to see, but is an employer (or anyone else in the general public, for that matter) really going to care about what goes on here? Highly unlikely. I think employers would be more interested in things that relate to the tasks for which I would be hired. It isn't important information even though it may be ranked higher on Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T08:04:17.197" Title="Is there a way to hide my profile from Google search?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="34451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34450" CreationDate="2010-01-04T06:51:51.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It isn't important information even&#xA;  though it may be ranked higher on&#xA;  Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A solution would be to get a job at Google and work on getting more relevant information in the search results. It's a bit of a work around though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59730" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T06:51:51.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34450" CreationDate="2010-01-04T06:54:17.310" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Change your name on the Trilogy sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T06:54:17.310" />
  <row Id="34453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47158" CreationDate="2010-01-04T07:16:43.530" Score="4" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to know where to ask questions on Calculus .. Where should I go seeking the help .. thanx for all time support .. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140364" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-19T15:57:35.983" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T02:11:38.343" Title="Where to ask questions on mathematics" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;&lt;mathematics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34450" CreationDate="2010-01-04T07:34:17.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link from your other sites (with &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;me&quot;&lt;/code&gt; if you like) to your Stack Overflow profile and not the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T07:34:17.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2010-01-04T07:38:21.033" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Sorry, posts can't contain that content. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the ban is in effect, eh! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to point out that stopping an individual's choice of self expression by force (technical or otherwise) only serves to piss them off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than a ban (the Chinese government loves a good ban!), what's wrong with letting people vote down answers which they find offensive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who exactly is being helped or protected here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135975" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T07:38:21.033" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34450" CreationDate="2010-01-04T08:04:13.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I use a nickname online and only this nickname, although my profile does link my real name to my nickname. Fortunately, my real name is common enough in the Netherlands so possible employers will find many other persons instead of me. The nickname I use also contains two popular words/names to make it a bit difficult to find. I also use about 4 other nicknames that are not linked to my name or my SO nickname to post on some other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nickname will just make it a bit more difficult for employers to track you online. By using multiple nicknames and several email addresses, you can actually stay a bit more anonymous online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that you change your name in your SO profile to a nickname instead. (SeigelJon, for example. Or just mix the letters to generate a different word.) Google will soon &quot;forget&quot; about your old name being linked, thus when people search for &quot;Jon Seigel&quot;, your own site will be the top one again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="161822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T08:04:13.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34450" CreationDate="2010-01-04T08:04:17.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I could end up building a good rep here on Meta, to which I would want to attach my name for other users to see, but is an employer (or anyone else in the general public, for that matter) really going to care about what goes on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how the Internet works. It does not distinguish random people from the potential employer. You should be careful about &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; you do under your name on the Internet. If you don't want something to be seen by others associated with your name, then don't post it anywhere non-anonymously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T08:04:17.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T08:28:09.733" Score="7" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just spent quite a bit of time writing what I thought was an original and interesting discussion point. Of course, I did a search on MSO first and as usual couldn't find anything relating to what I wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I typed the title of the question, nothing that came up in the &quot;Related Questions&quot; box was quite exactly what I was wanting to discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I post my question, go check it out, and low and behold in the &quot;Related Questions&quot; box, I see THREE other questions, that in essence, are exactly the same as the one I just typed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to perhaps periodically update/preview that &quot;Related Questions&quot; box when creating a post? Perhaps after each paragraph break or something? (on second thought, seeing how many people have difficulty creating paragraphs, maybe a different trigger)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T01:27:36.250" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T01:27:55.330" Title="Better &quot;Ask a question&quot; suggestion results?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T10:02:01.967" Score="9" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if all internal links had the title tag auto populated, so instead of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would have: (hover for effect)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010&quot; title=&quot;Advanced Syntax Ideas&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1010&quot; title=&quot;Advanced Syntax Ideas&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T12:28:53.937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T12:28:53.937" Title="Automatically populate title in all internal links" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34460" CreationDate="2010-01-04T10:04:11.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a reasonable suggestion - although obviously the triggers could be ripe for discussion (I'd suggest that filling in tags should be another trigger). I would expect a goal of the preview should be that just before the user clicks &quot;Post&quot; the related questions should be the same as the ones displayed after posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially, if a really strong correlation is found, hitting &quot;Post&quot; could trigger a dialog box: &quot;Are you really sure this isn't a duplicate of one of these posts?&quot; (suggesting only the strongly correlated matches). That would make it easier to spot the fact that the question body had changed the list of related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T10:04:11.837" />
  <row Id="34464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T10:49:33.370" Score="45" ViewCount="931" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Thank you&quot; answers are generally not very useful, especially if they appear in masses. Some questions are attracting especially many of them and should probably be cleaned up by a moderator. A data-dump query shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;8 Thanks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339106&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339106&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;6 Thanks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45534&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45534&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43778&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43778&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/326196&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/326196&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;5 Thanks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/362902&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/362902&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;4 Thanks&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141411&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141411&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/607562&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/607562&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5694&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5694&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248956&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/248956&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/354374&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/354374&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1456185&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1456185&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/447289&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/447289&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(rest elided for brevity, use the SEDE query to see more)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Used query&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above lists were produced by this query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select&#xA;   count(id),&#xA;   ('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' || to_char(parentid, 'FM9999999'))&#xA;from posts&#xA;where posttypeid = 2 and length(body) &amp;lt;= 200 and (body ~* 'thank|thx')&#xA;group by parentid&#xA;order by count(id) desc;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PostgreSql, &lt;code&gt;~*&lt;/code&gt; is a regex search.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;More thank you posts&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If after these lists above someone would still feel the need to clean up even more - or just doesn't know what he should do the next month - a general query for &lt;code&gt;LIKE %hank%&lt;/code&gt; shows &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; answers that don't add any value. With &lt;code&gt;length(body) &amp;lt;= 100&lt;/code&gt; basically all returned answers are not useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select&#xA;   ('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/' || to_char(id, 'FM9999999')),&#xA;   body&#xA;from posts&#xA;where posttypeid = 2 and length(body) &amp;lt;= 100 and (body like '%hank%')&#xA;order by length(body);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This query returns &lt;strong&gt;2725 records&lt;/strong&gt;. That's too much (and too boring) to go through by hand, and a simple &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; in the database would be too extreme, so I guess they are here to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cleaning them up when they start &quot;clustering&quot; like in the above questions is probably the way to go; single thank you posts don't add &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much noise that they couldn't be tolerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an up to date list: &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/886&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/886&lt;/a&gt; - again tons to clean up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related query, showing just lots of short answers by 1 rep users: &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/2587&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/2587&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;That being said&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and kind of fitting the general topic of this post I want to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you&lt;/em&gt; to all the moderators of the trilogy for spending their time for the good of us all, and for doing a very good job at it! You are always there when you are needed and make the sites a better place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-08T05:49:46.660" LastActivityDate="2011-01-08T11:09:00.537" Title="Questions with lots of &quot;Thank you&quot; answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;useless-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34525" CreationDate="2010-01-04T10:54:48.350" Score="11" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wonder, are the global searches much fewer than US searches currently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Assuming I understand correctly what they are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now it is at 1725 Global Searches.  You people in the US, what do you see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 hours later it is at 1727 searches. So not exactly a torrent of searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Thanks for the answer. I see &quot;Global Searches&quot; is changed to &quot;Total Searches&quot;. Excellent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141310" LastEditorUserId="141310" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T12:38:56.240" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:53:35.930" Title="Stackoverflow careers, overseas?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34464" CreationDate="2010-01-04T11:04:23.087" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; for taking the time to make Stack Overflow a cleaner, better place for &lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34221/so-where-can-i-ask-developers-questions&quot;&gt;developers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;programmers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T11:04:23.087" />
  <row Id="34467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34464" CreationDate="2010-01-04T11:27:14.673" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes thanks for bringing this to the communities attention!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T11:27:14.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34464" CreationDate="2010-01-04T13:12:08.817" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your query actually under-calls it. I deleted 12+ from some of these... I haven't got far, but we'll get through them. Good work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done everything down to and including the first 10 &quot;3 thanks&quot;; will try to do the rest later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T13:21:37.483" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T13:21:37.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T13:33:00.077" Score="16" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment &lt;code&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; redirects you if you try and access it using &lt;code&gt;https&lt;/code&gt;. It would be nice if it allowed secure connections (personally I think it should be the default) given the personal information we are submitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is a facility to make the CVs public, but not everyone wants to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T14:11:34.247" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:22:57.323" Title="Allow https on careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34464" CreationDate="2010-01-04T13:46:14.057" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cleaning them up when they start &quot;clustering&quot; like in the above questions is probably the way to go, single thank you posts don't add that much noise that they couldn't be tolerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;100% agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a general consensus/style on SO that attempts to limit the amount of discussion, so when you help a user with his or her specific problem, and they want to thank you for your help, I think this should be allowed because there are no other means through the site for this to happen. (And I think it would be redundant to mention the specifics of why this kind of interaction is important for a community-driven site.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T13:46:14.057" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34464" CreationDate="2010-01-04T14:27:54.383" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the great idea! A++++ would rate again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T14:27:54.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34470" CreationDate="2010-01-04T15:06:55.353" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. Even if it's not strictly necessary, it's really a sign of professionalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T15:06:55.353" />
  <row Id="34476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34497" CreationDate="2010-01-04T15:22:33.617" Score="10" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title kinda says it all. With reference to the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/155/electorate&quot;&gt;Electorate badge&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the votes counted for questions include both upvotes &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; downvotes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do votes on Community Wiki questions count in the vote total?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:00:20.790" Title="Does the new Electorate badge include downvotes and votes on CW questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T15:41:02.060" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11511/how-do-you-use-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do YOU use Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was searching meta for &quot;ways of using&quot; StackOverflow, but couldn't find it, other than third party tools. Maybe this has been posted before (if so, please leave the link and we'll close this one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most developers here come to answer/ask questions. But being developers/programmers means being creative so probably most users have their own specific way of using S.O.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;S.O. is community, knowledge, and everything we've seen. So, what's your way of using the community side of S.O., and how do you take advantage of all the knowledge gathered here for your own learning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T16:34:14.280" ClosedDate="2011-08-20T18:43:22.543" Title="How do you use Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2010-01-04T15:45:42.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there's an RSS feed for almost everything on S.O., one way of getting better at a particular language/field would be suscribing to questions tagged with that particular interest on our Feed readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T15:45:42.237" />
  <row Id="34480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2010-01-04T15:50:17.080" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my twelve-step guide to using SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turn on the computer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for it to load&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Log in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for it to load&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open up Chrome&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; thumbnail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look at the list of unanswered questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click a few of them with the middle mouse button if they seem interesting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read them in order. Some will suck, some will be decent; occasionally one has learnable information in it: this is the information that is to be learned!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote things that suck, upvote things that rock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Complain about the sucky ones with the guys on Google Wave&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a poem to Bill the Lizard in a flag for moderator attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T15:50:17.080" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:03:47.127" Score="7" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been coming across many interesting questions on this site, for which I really like to know the answers; but, there is no way (at least I'm not aware of) to get notified when answers are posted to those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141324" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T17:17:39.203" Title="Subscribe to others' questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:06:03.677" Score="5" ViewCount="837" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to read and ask questions at Stack Overflow and Super User. But their strongest point is their weakest point at the same time as I see. If I was not lucky enough to get an answer for my question in the nearest 10 minutes then I will never get it. There is no way to refresh a question. Please correct me if I am wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what alive professional developers web forum can be recommended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-15T11:35:29.887" LastActivityDate="2010-08-15T11:35:29.887" Title="Stack Overflow alternative" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34482" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:07:23.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should probably be on Meta, but That depends, what language do you use?  Google &quot;(Language) Support Forum&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T16:07:31.040" />
  <row Id="34484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34481" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:11:43.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can subscribe to the rss feed of a particular question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/34481&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/34481&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way you will get notified by [include favorite rss reader].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T16:11:43.910" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34482" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:21:17.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;you can bump your question by editing it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133583" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T16:21:17.837" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:25:03.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My method is to hit &quot;refresh&quot; obsessively until I see a question that I know the answer off the top of my head near the top of the list of new questions, then hope I can answer it faster than everybody else.  Otherwise I look for questions where I can impart my decades of wisdom and cynicism.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta, I wait for Welbog to send me a link to one of his brilliant answers, and then I try to be almost as crazy as him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T16:25:03.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:34:14.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most common pattern of use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;go to google or your browser's search box&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enter a programming question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;read the best sounding reply (quite likely to be on SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T16:34:14.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34482" CreationDate="2010-01-04T16:38:08.810" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have asked six (seven including this one) questions on StackOverflow.  All of them have had responses, although maybe not to your liking (you haven't accepted any of them). I mean, your question on generating Visio diagrams garnered two answers to your question within minutes of your posting it.  Were neither of them helpful?  If so, you should edit your question to give more details so that people can give you a better answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most questions on SO do get answered.  Even ones which don't get answered immediately may get answered by somebody who wants to earn their Necromancer badge.  Also bear in mind that SO operates across many timezones, and regular SO operatives use the Interesting Tags facility to mine the backlog for questions which were posted whilst they were asleep/at work/having a life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, remember that SO is a Q&amp;amp;A site not a support forum.  Considered replies are favoured over immediate responses (except by people desperate to acquire rep points). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really finally, besides not accepting any response to your own questions you have never voted for any answer to any question nor have you answered a question yourself.  Perhaps if you were a more active participant in SO you would have a better understanding of the social mechanics which underpin it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133829" LastEditorUserId="133829" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T07:41:26.860" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T07:41:26.860" />
  <row Id="34491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34481" CreationDate="2010-01-04T17:17:39.203" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;complementing &lt;strong&gt;fretje&lt;/strong&gt;'s answer: when you are &lt;em&gt;reading&lt;/em&gt; a question, the RSS link is at the end of the page (before the footer), right side, labeled &quot;question feed&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T17:17:39.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34495" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-04T17:54:35.733" Score="9" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there was a way to keep the &quot;interesting tags&quot; section at the top of the page all the time. It's at the top when I go to SO, but if I click on one, its half way down the page to find it again (under ads &amp;amp; related tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to pin this to the top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit evil, but for firefox users I've managed a solution that makes me happy. If you get the &quot;Stylish&quot; addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) you can then apply some styles to stackoverflow. I did the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#sidebar {&#xA;   position: relative;&#xA;   top: 70px;&#xA;   overflow: visible !important;&#xA;}&#xA;#interestingTags { &#xA;   float: right;&#xA;   border: 1px brown solid !important;&#xA;   padding: 5px !important;&#xA;   display: block !important;&#xA;   position: absolute;&#xA;   top: -60px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I have my interesting tags at the top of the sidebar all the time :) At least on the pages where interesting tags appear :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151858" LastEditorUserId="151858" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T22:25:25.753" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T22:25:25.753" Title="Keep &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; at the top of the page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34482" CreationDate="2010-01-04T17:57:38.067" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put up a bounty!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141287" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T17:57:38.067" />
  <row Id="34497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34476" CreationDate="2010-01-04T18:00:20.790" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, CW posts count as well. CW posts generally count for everything badge related unless they are specifically excluded in the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:00:20.790" />
  <row Id="34498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31725" CreationDate="2010-01-04T18:04:50.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lifetime subscription is now &lt;strong&gt;99&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-lower-careers-pricing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-lower-careers-pricing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:04:50.810" />
  <row Id="34499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34482" CreationDate="2010-01-04T18:07:55.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:07:55.547" />
  <row Id="34500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34470" CreationDate="2010-01-04T18:22:57.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do use https:// for the billing pages on careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:22:57.323" />
  <row Id="34501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31390" CreationDate="2010-01-04T18:29:22.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see this blog entry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T18:29:22.597" />
  <row Id="34502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34504" CreationDate="2010-01-04T18:57:55.790" Score="6" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the inception of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34340/electorate-badge-rules&quot;&gt;Electorate badge&lt;/a&gt;, I've been busy voting on questions -- both down and up. On Meta, it's been a mass upvote (with few exceptions), but on Stack Overflow, it's been mixed. I'll vote up questions that are generally well written questions, and downvote questions that are not well written. I also downvote questions that I vote to close and delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before this badge was introduced, I hadn't realized how often I neglected to vote on questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My hypothesis is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ratio of voting from answers to questions will be altered for users that possess a non-trivial number of badges, or have over 2,000 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Corollary:&lt;/strong&gt; Up/down vote ratios for Questions voted on from these users will exceed their past ratio for Up/Downvotes for questions (viz: From 5/1 to 6/0 Upvote/Downvote ratio)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I test this? How do I post data to show this is happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I can't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That presents a problem. There have been a fair number of users that have complained about the unintended consequences of the Electorate Badge (myself included); but given that Jeff's de facto response is &lt;em&gt;Show me the data&lt;/em&gt;, there's no way for us to prove our case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I could think to show that I was focusing more on questions than answers was to leave a comment on an answer that I would have otherwise voted up if not for the fact that I'm trying to get the Electorate badge. A comment like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;I would vote this up, but I'm trying to get my electorate badge.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left this comment on six answers that I would have otherwise voted up today; and two of those comments were made on a post that Jeff Atwood answered. They were not meant to be snarky, only to provide a data point.  They were also deleted (it's strange that out of the 6 I left, only the two on his posts were deleted, but I digress).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here are questions amidst all these possible discussion points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should we leave comments when we do not vote something up as to why we didn't vote it up? If so, why is my comment deletion material, but other comments are not? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature Request&lt;/strong&gt;: Will Jeff provide (in a blog post) aggregate voting data after a few months to show whether voting trends have actually changed? This is a data point that we can't get from the data dump, so it's really the only itch we can't scratch ourselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the Electorate badge a good idea? Was it the 'right' way to solve the problem of users not voting for questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have your voting habits changed since the inception of this badge (On at least one site &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; than Meta)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Regarding Stack Overflow as a 'Game'&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a programmer's mecca. It provides a place to ask questions and get answers, and it even encourages that behavior by providing badges and reputation. Indeed, if I'd have to point out why it succeeds where others have failed, I'd put this near the top of the list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone gets mad that I'm 'playing the game', then I submit that I'm only playing the game thrust upon me. The system rewards me for voting on questions and not answers, so I do that. These badges are a form of reward, and to discount that is to also discount how it is that capitalism is the mechanism by which mouths are fed that would otherwise not be fed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll also notice that I edit a great number of questions. I do this because I love clarity in code and in writing (indeed, I'm actually looking for ways to pare down my own question to its essentials). I'm not being rewarded for this, but I do it because I love bringing clarity out of chaos.  Although I think editors should be rewarded, I fear the unintended consequences of a move would be far more disastrous than anything we've seen to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T19:13:11.403" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T21:12:14.797" Title="Inappropriate to leave comment when not voting? - Electorate Badge Data Discussion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34508" CreationDate="2010-01-04T19:10:49.397" Score="22" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: &lt;em&gt;53 questions tagged possible-homework&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question is either homework or it isn't homework. If someone needs clarification about the context of the question, comments are the place for that. Tags shouldn't be used to request further information or to express displeasure with the question (like &lt;strong&gt;belongs-on-*&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If everyone agrees, can a moderator please remove this tag en masse?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T20:48:58.407" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T20:48:58.407" Title="Should the &quot;possible-homework&quot; tag be discouraged?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34502" CreationDate="2010-01-04T19:12:18.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw your &quot;would have voted this up&quot; comment on one of my answers today. I thought you were kidding, I didn't realise you were serious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the Electorate badge on SO immediately without trying, probably because I usually upvote questions that I answer. The idea is that if the question was worth a few minutes of my time to write answer, it probably deserves an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data dump does have vote data (just anonymised), so you will be able to get your data from there next month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T19:12:18.910" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34503" CreationDate="2010-01-04T19:20:47.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the tag should be retagged to &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People misconstrue the use of the tag &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt;. It should be used for when a particular question is commonly a homework question, and not to brand a particular user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T19:20:47.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34503" CreationDate="2010-01-04T19:39:00.813" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's clearly homework, tag it homework.  If it's not clear, don't.  There's no need for a &quot;possible&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2600" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T19:39:00.813" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34503" CreationDate="2010-01-04T20:10:37.963" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags serve primarily for organizing the content and making it easier to find what you're looking for. I fail to believe that anyone in his right, wrong or insane mind would look for &lt;code&gt;possible-homework&lt;/code&gt; items, and thus, that tag should be discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To a large extent, I'm also against the &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; tag. Who's going to search for &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; questions? Students who are looking for the answers to their homework, of course. Is that a behavior we want to encourage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm &lt;em&gt;not at all&lt;/em&gt; against homework questions. We are the repository for all information related to each Trilogy site's domain focus. What I'm against is making it a little too easy for people to pass their courseware by providing them a very simple means of enumerating all the homework questions in one fell swoop, then adding a search feature on top of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than students looking for the answers to their assignments, what's the real use case for the &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; tag? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also, as others have stated, comes off as a negative to some questioners. It comes off as negative to some answerers. I'd like to see hard numbers on this, but a lot of the &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt;-tagged questions I've seen have attracted very low scores, probably as a result of that tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think both should be discouraged in general, as a result. In theory, &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; could be OK, but in practice, it winds up attracting negative attention instead of helping organize the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T20:10:37.963" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44228" CreationDate="2010-01-04T20:22:52.693" Score="5" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I create an RSS feed of only my questions but that does not include answers I give to questions?  And vice-versa...rss feed for answers but not questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can it be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39478" LastEditorUserId="39478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T01:49:10.210" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T00:12:35.737" Title="Can I create an RSS feed of only my questions but that does not include answers I give to questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34502" CreationDate="2010-01-04T21:12:14.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's inappropriate to leave comments that have no value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;meta-commentary on your voting habits is not of value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T21:12:14.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34541" CreationDate="2010-01-04T21:29:52.277" Score="5" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago my OpenID was merged with another OpenID I had. Before the merge I had the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/39/enthusiast&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Woot!&lt;/code&gt; badge&lt;/a&gt; (now called Enthusiast), and now I no longer have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know why it was removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141342" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T15:41:23.010" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:41:23.010" Title="Why did I lose the Woot! (Enthusiast) Badge?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34512" CreationDate="2010-01-04T21:34:22.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;Woot!&lt;/code&gt; badge was only called that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/enthusiast-and-fanatic-badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;during the period of its introduction&lt;/a&gt;. Now it's called the &lt;code&gt;Enthusiast&lt;/code&gt; badge. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34512/why-did-i-lose-the-woot-enthusiast-badge/34541#34541&quot;&gt;It looks like you lost that badge during the merge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, badges are &lt;em&gt;rarely&lt;/em&gt; removed once gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ought to email the Stack Overflow team at &lt;strong&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt; with your OpenID and they can take a look for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T04:42:54.590" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T04:42:54.590" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26689" CreationDate="2010-01-04T21:37:22.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope I'm not flogging a head horse here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've become concerned about the level of activity (and the merits of what activity there IS) on Server Fault lately, and have read every answer on this question. And most of them I feel are valid. But for me it keeps coming down to the sense of community ownership of the site (or lack thereof).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I raised concerns about this a long time ago &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14866/too-much-focus-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and it was shot down. But since then I've seen the same feelings arise &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29466/where-did-all-the-admins-on-server-fault-go&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (check the comments, users jsut ASSUMED that MSO was not suitable for SF because it has SO in the title), and in a few other places around on MSO (mainly comments on answers to other questions, I can't locate them at the moment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often feel like a 2nd class citizen in the shadow that is Stack Overflow. Now, obviously new users are never going to know about this, especially not hit-and-run users (which is perfectly OK), but if you're going to get the kind of 'expert' retention required, and not end up with more jaded people &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30036/how-do-you-define-sysadmin-related&quot;&gt;like this guy&lt;/a&gt;, then people really need to feel involved in their own community, not feel as though they're just operating in a side-show alley in the Stack Overflow circus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how to achieve this? No idea. I'm not a marketing or community expert!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T21:37:22.430" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-04T21:37:22.430" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34523" CreationDate="2010-01-04T21:59:47.370" Score="3" ViewCount="408" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the first time I've &lt;strong&gt;ever&lt;/strong&gt; seen this issue on SOFU, so probably doesn't require any attention, but I may as well bring it to community, just in case it happens more frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the captcha below when editing a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.41085.org/Captcha.png&quot; alt=&quot;Captcha fun&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just took a random stab at what the 2nd word was and I must have got it right, but I had to do a double- (or triple-) take to absorb it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-04T22:10:35.020" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T23:37:39.253" Title="Unreadable Captcha" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34522" CreationDate="2010-01-04T22:07:34.060" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like reCAPTCHA added some obfuscation to their images. If you can't read one of them, ask for another one (the little circular arrow button on the right).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T22:07:34.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34522" CreationDate="2010-01-04T22:08:29.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1130/captchak.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T22:08:29.190" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34465" CreationDate="2010-01-04T22:54:18.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Global searches just means &quot;searches&quot;. It does not mean US versus non-US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More live employer search data is available now for everyone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:53:35.930" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:53:35.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34522" CreationDate="2010-01-04T23:37:39.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find recaptcha to be brilliant - I am not really a fan of the new circular obfuscation, however, even if you are only close to the word - it actually allows a pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for example, you could probably pass that one by typing snuting st... making a problem in the first and only partly guessing the second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I am not sure how it is as effective as it is with some of the things it has allowed from me when I know I have been incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T23:37:39.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-05T16:01:34.687" Score="59" ViewCount="900" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Edit: &lt;strong&gt;Old&lt;/strong&gt; question - Oct. 08, pre-bounty - transfered from SO]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You heard it first from Jeff (&lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24218&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast 19&lt;/a&gt;, around 28:00) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the audience of people that read Coding Horror and the audience of people that read Joel on Software are already fairly elite in the programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then again late September, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W25450&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast 23&lt;/a&gt; at 14:50:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff: Stackoverflow is really for the &lt;em&gt;elite&lt;/em&gt; developers in my opinion&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Joel: agreed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here you go. If you are here because you read one or both of those blogs, I bow before your awesomeness.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You are an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;elite&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; programmer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;[&lt;strong&gt;Humor inside&lt;/strong&gt; of course, both from Jeff in his podcast, and from me for this topic, do not take this seriously ;)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can talk the talk (and spray some quick answers with a few links, a wikipedia reference and some thoughts, for quick rep' gains)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT CAN YOU WALK THE WALK ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;code-challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A code-challenge &lt;strong&gt;is not&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34257/posting-programmingalgorithmic-puzzles-on-so&quot;&gt;Puzzle game&lt;/a&gt;, we are talking about practical problems here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/18291&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bounty system&lt;/a&gt; (should it be implemented) where some user must forfeit some rep' point in the hope of an answer. The kind of questions concerned by bounties are not the same concerned by a 'code-challenge': not every 'hard' question can be solved by some source code.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A code-challenge &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A &lt;strong&gt;complete source code, which can be copy-pasted and executed, and which answers precisely a practical question&lt;/strong&gt; (and not a theoretical mind-game problem).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The goal can &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be to answer it in &lt;em&gt;as many languages as possible&lt;/em&gt;, both for the fun of it, and because all users may have the same problem on different development platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if a question is not originally a code-challenge, the fact that a well-written script can help to obtain the exact expected output makes it eligible for a 'code-challenge' tag, and a worthy exercise for all of you 'elite coders' out there ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to set up a code challenge ?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the user asking a question can tag his with a 'code-challenge'. He must then edit his question in order to have the clearest specification possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;any user with enough rep (750) can re-tag a question 'code-challenge', add a &lt;strong&gt;community answer&lt;/strong&gt; with some specifications clarifications, and then add one or several answers, provided those contain executable code that gives precisely the expected output&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why set up a code challenge ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the grand scheme of solving the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/24695&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Solving the Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, this may help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often notice simple questions like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/170787&quot;&gt;How do I know if Windows has just recovered from a BSOD?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/170617&quot;&gt;How do I find the install time and date of Windows?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The answers are very shorts and just enough to offer a lead... and take some quick rep'!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But the user can not just &quot;copy-paste&quot; the proposed solution and check if it does solve his problem...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are also some more challenging questions like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/163796&quot;&gt;Program to analyze a lot of XMLs&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which has actually a very good answer in xlst, but again frustrating as it is not a directly executable answer which would &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; solve the user's problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, when you set a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156852/dynamicaly-populating-a-combobox-with-values-from-a-map-based-on-whats-selected&quot;&gt;code challenge&lt;/a&gt;, you will get an answer beginning with &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156852/dynamicaly-populating-a-combobox-with-values-from-a-map-based-on-whats-selected#179171&quot;&gt;I just love a challenge&lt;/a&gt;&quot; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does that help solving the &quot;Fastest Gun in the West&quot; Problem ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The key to counter Fastest Gun in the West phenomena is through&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;long term question status management&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;The question can not expect any kind of attention in&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the long run&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; *&lt;em&gt;if its status somehow does not change (with the right incentive in term of rep' points and badges, of course)&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/18291&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bounty system&lt;/a&gt; is a first example where the status change: the asker indicates that from now on (status change), he will forfeit x rep' points in term of a validation he would validate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel mentioned another possible status change, in the podcast 24: a &quot;still here&quot; status, to indicate that the asker (him again) is still around to potentially validate and accept an answer!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here lies the true problem of StackOverflow, the one preventing its &quot;Wikipedia dimension&quot; to really flourish: once the asker does not monitoring anymore a question with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no satisfactory answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an accepted answer but which is false or now obsolete&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there is really no incentive left to change/complete/modify the answers to that question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;code-challenge&quot; is an example of &quot;status change&quot; where users can take charge of the question (&lt;em&gt;even if the asker is long gone&lt;/em&gt;) and challenge other users, and have some points/badges in exchange. Plus, it is a &lt;em&gt;win-win&lt;/em&gt; process for all users involved, as opposed to a bounty where the asker must still be around and accept to loose points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly not the unique solution, since the number of questions concerned by such a process is quite small, but still, the status of a question over a long period of time need to be addressed if the information stored in StackOverflow has the ambition to remain some kind of reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... Why not, but what's in it for me, &lt;em&gt;elite programer&lt;/em&gt; ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For now... nothing more than the usual rep' points system. And the satisfaction to &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; answer a user's problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some points:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 rep' points for the one setting up a code-challenge (provided any answer has at least 3 upvotes, and has been published AFTER the 'code-challenge' tag)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 rep' points for someone posting an answer in a 'code-challenge' thread and having at least 3 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some badges for the challenger:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a bronze badge '&lt;strong&gt;Challenger&lt;/strong&gt;' for anyone setting up a 'code-challenge' (and having at least one answer with three up-vote: you can not jsut tag some question and expect a badge)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a silver badge '&lt;strong&gt;Defier&lt;/strong&gt;' for anyone setting up 25 'code-challenge'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some badges for the challengees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a bronze badge '&lt;strong&gt;Courageous&lt;/strong&gt;' for anyone answering at least a code-challenge and getting three upvotes for his answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a silver badge '&lt;strong&gt;Tenacious&lt;/strong&gt;' for anyone answering at least 10 code-challenge and getting three upvotes for his answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a gold badge '&lt;strong&gt;Elite&lt;/strong&gt;' for anyone answering at least 50 code-challenge and getting three upvotes for his answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those new badges are not here just to add to your collection of shiny dots.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As Jeff said in podcast 18 around 25:30:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff: You really have a hundred million active users? I don't think so. Well, if you go to the badge-page... you can see how many people have done certain thinks. That is actual activity, that is measurable activity in the system, right?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...] The badges, in addition to being fun, actually tell you stuff about the system and also the user, right. Like how well do they know the system. If they have 10 bronze badges then they know it pretty well. So all this stuff is there for a reason. None of this stuff is there because I thought it would be, like fun to have a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So those badges are here for monitoring the activity centered around the &lt;em&gt;coding questions&lt;/em&gt;, as opposed to the more general questions about &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why monitor &quot;coding&quot; questions in the first place ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, that may help to re-visit some old questions and take them as 'exercise' in order to bring a complete solution for those questions where an algorithm is useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coding is a sub-category of programming questions that SO is aiming at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some comments have raised the danger of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40219/what-is-the-policy-here-on-homework&quot;&gt;home-working&lt;/a&gt; questions&quot; (students asking for an algo to solve their problems). Even though I am not convinced of that trend (they can ask right now anyway), the following criteria may help to keep any of that down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only one week old question with no accepted answer would be eligible to a code-challenge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the reputation of the user asking the problem should be at a certain level (100? 200?) before tagging his/her question 'code-challenge', meaning: a minimum contribution to the site should have been made before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, as a non-automatic criteria, there should be a clear context of the question showing it is about getting a nudge, not about having the all assignment done for you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Real homework questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204301/creating-row-column-and-value-at-runtime-in-java&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt; are detected and marked as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/homework&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The goal is first and foremost to improve the quality of old &lt;em&gt;coding&lt;/em&gt; questions with no precise answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That tag is just here to retrieve them more easily and to know that, amongst the ~2000 unanswered questions, they are 'special' in the sense they could be solved by a program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have set up a few code-challenges for you to play with (Just follow the 'code-challenge' tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6309" LastEditorUserId="6309" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T05:16:58.677" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T05:16:58.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-05T16:01:34.687" Title="Do *Practical* &quot;Code Challenges&quot; (not code golf) belong on Stack Overflow?" 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  <row Id="34528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2008-10-05T18:22:25.370" Score="47" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither Jeff nor Joel know what the hell they're talking about if they think this place is for &quot;elite&quot; programmers.  The questions asked at stackoverflow are just as mundane as anything found on expert-sexchange, and they're kidding themselves if they think otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140301" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T23:46:12.750" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2008-10-06T11:54:17.247" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does elite mean I can get more rep by posting my favourite webcomic but not for posting a long thought out discussion with code that compiles and use cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does it mean something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if a lot of the questions on SoF actually got answered and that the really vaugue popular ones that get several hundred votes got archived into some kind of stack overflow out takes. Questions appealing to the lowest common denominator do much better on SoF than the really interesting technical questions, which will often never get answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T23:46:12.750" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2008-10-08T16:26:08.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea, in fact, I've even retagged one of my earlier questions as &quot;code-challenge&quot;.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;However, I'm a bit scared that something like this might result in a flood of &quot;plz send me teh codez&quot; kind of questions. The only way I see for that not to happen is introducing a bounty system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T23:46:12.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2008-10-13T19:31:40.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but I am a bad enough dude to save the President.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134059" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T23:46:12.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2008-10-13T19:44:50.713" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(you.ReadStackOverflow())&#xA;{&#xA;    you.Elite = true;&#xA;    you.AskBoss(&quot;Boss, I'm an elite programmer cuz I read StackOverflow.com, can I get a raise?&quot;);&#xA;    boss.Answers(&quot;bite me&quot;);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-04T23:46:12.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34535" CreationDate="2010-01-05T00:23:08.727" Score="8" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1997199/how-to-improve-the-following-sql-select-date-in-rdb&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; of mine related to Oracle RDB retagged. A high rep user removed my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/oracle-rdb&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'oracle-rdb'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle-rdb&lt;/a&gt; tag and replaced it with an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/oracle&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'oracle'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;oracle&lt;/a&gt; tag. Later in the comments, he mentioned that he hadn't heard of Oracle RDB and thought that Oracle RDB 7 was just the version before Oracle 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question doesn't really have anything to do with Oracle and really is an RDB question as the two have different syntax/are different systems. Should the tag change be reversed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141346" LastEditorUserId="148466" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-09T06:23:35.487" LastActivityDate="2011-04-09T06:23:35.487" Title="Retagging a question on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2010-01-05T00:25:02.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some coders have problems ? And you&#xA;  are an elite programmer ? 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  <row Id="34535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34533" CreationDate="2010-01-05T00:30:57.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Educate us -- what is Oracle RDB? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/rdb/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/rdb/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is there only one question (yours) ever tagged this in the entire history of Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does it relate to the Oracle database we all know &lt;s&gt;and love&lt;/s&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T00:30:57.243" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34202" CreationDate="2010-01-05T02:19:40.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't you also just use the tags query?  It will likely give you more relevant results:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/&lt;/a&gt;{tagname} (multiple tags can be separated by spaces)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bing (like Google) is also a possibility using the Bing API 2 for the more general text searches.  You can get JSON, XML, and SOAP for easier processing.  RSS can also be used as a format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251062.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251062.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T02:19:40.020" />
  <row Id="34538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T03:00:48.630" Score="15" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to be able to see where the hits on my public cv are coming from.  Would it be possible to integrate Google Analytics with careers.stackoverflow.com in the future to get a better idea of who is taking a look?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141349" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T11:35:43.357" Title="Add Google Analytics to public cv" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2010-01-05T03:11:20.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sigh. Yet another tag to hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather see more questions about ponies than more code golf puzzlers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Because ponies are more interesting, and far more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I thought SO was to &lt;em&gt;help people solve real problems&lt;/em&gt;. You know, a &lt;em&gt;Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/em&gt; site, not &lt;a href=&quot;http://adailypuzzle.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a daily puzzle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every exception just decreases the signal-to-noise ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest a new site, codepuzzleoverflow.com, for these things. Migrate all the code-challenge, code-golf, et al question to it, and enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T03:11:20.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-05T03:11:20.057" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34448" CreationDate="2010-01-05T03:47:05.233" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What browser are you experiencing this problem in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've identified an issue with IE7 and its display of the help text (&quot;description box&quot;) - a fix for this will be pushed tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're now forcing a &lt;code&gt;.focus()&lt;/code&gt; call on the checkboxes when they're clicked - a needed workaround for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/blurfocus.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chrome/Safari mouse focus handling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fix will be pushed tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T07:50:31.400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T07:50:31.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34512" CreationDate="2010-01-05T04:39:17.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have pointed out, this was an issue with your accounts being merged - a fix for the merge process will be deployed tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your user history data has been restored and the &quot;Enthusiast&quot; badge will be awarded when our badge task runs again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T04:39:17.360" />
  <row Id="34542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T05:12:55.690" Score="16" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3683/search-in-favorited-question&quot;&gt;Search in favorited question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The favorite feature on SO is right now a bit useless, at least to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have 8 Pages of favorites, and sometimes I just remember &quot;Hey, I favorited a question about the problem I'm having!&quot;, but I don't know when, so the sorting doesn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to see a new search-keyword &quot;favorite:1&quot; that only searches within my favorites. That way I could use it as my bookmark/personal search scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T13:01:55.313" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T10:16:48.533" Title="Search within Favorites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T11:09:15.137" Score="-11" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;Strangest language feature&lt;/a&gt; question on SO has been yoyoing for several days now, and has been opened and closed about 7 or 8 times I think. Why not have a badge for such controversial questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141277" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T14:08:12.150" Title="Can we have a badge for controversy?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34543" CreationDate="2010-01-05T11:11:25.880" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is behavior that the community wants to encourage. The yoyo-effect that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess awarding a badge for it is not really the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T11:11:25.880" />
  <row Id="34545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34543" CreationDate="2010-01-05T11:25:06.517" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey, I know! We could have a badge for&#xA;  most flagged comment or most offensive&#xA;  answer. And it should be gold!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, badges are supposed to encourage &lt;strong&gt;positive behavior&lt;/strong&gt;. What you're suggesting is exactly the opposite. Questions like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;strongest language feature&lt;/a&gt; already get plenty of badges for those involved. A lot of these controversial questions have a lot of votes, a lot of views and a lot of answers. Why award people a new badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T11:25:06.517" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34538" CreationDate="2010-01-05T11:35:43.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An alternative that will work straight away would be to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trackmycv.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TrackMyCV.com&lt;/a&gt;, which allows you to embed a 1-pixel tracking image into your CV, like the ones spammers put in their e-mails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T11:35:43.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T11:55:53.407" Score="-5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found very difficult to filter the questions based on the programming language because most people forget to specify the language and they are using more specific tags like &lt;code&gt;JQuery&lt;/code&gt; but they forget to add &lt;code&gt;JavaScript&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are forgetting that SO is a general purpose programming site and for this reason they are not adding the language tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not practically possible for users to add to ignore tags each sub-tags (i see language tags as major tags and the more specific ones as sub-tags). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that StackOverflow needs a system to auto-assign tags based on existing tags like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;hibernate&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;jquery&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;nhibernate&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;rake&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;ruby&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using such a system would make the filtering by language/technology accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130646" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T13:45:30.003" Title="Auto assign language tags to questions based on other tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;taxonomy&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34547" CreationDate="2010-01-05T12:09:34.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be massively difficult to maintain; there are simply too many technologies out there that you'd need to take into account. You might run into problems if the question already has 5 tags; what do you do then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're still waiting on a tag white/blacklist that would prevent users from using the same wrong tags over and over again. In my opinion, this would be the most important thing, tagging-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something is tagged JQuery, why would you need to also tag it JavaScript? Why not also tag it object-oriented and scripting, since JavaScript is both? Where does the tagging stop? I also believe this &lt;strong&gt;doesn't really solve any problems&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T13:45:30.003" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T13:45:30.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34547" CreationDate="2010-01-05T12:19:02.837" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be better to tweak the search to do the reverse, so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A search for &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; would include a list of other java related tags, e.g. &lt;code&gt;hibernate&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;JavaScript&lt;/code&gt; searches also include questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;JQuery&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically this could be quite difficult to do, however it's probably easier than having to go back and re-tag thousands of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T12:19:02.837" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34542" CreationDate="2010-01-05T13:01:55.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A search for all parts of your profile would be good - favourites, comments, answers. Something that becomes available after 100 reputation perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T13:01:55.313" />
  <row Id="34551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T13:22:12.503" Score="-3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I ask a question about how to use the forum without getting an error that my question &quot;appears to be subjective and is likely to be closed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talk about killer robots taking over the world...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:13:02.520" Title="My Objective Question" Tags="&lt;forum&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34551" CreationDate="2010-01-05T13:25:32.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a question about Stack Overflow itself, try asking it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136960" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T13:25:39.733" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36124" CreationDate="2010-01-05T13:57:51.113" Score="9" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try writing more than one URL without anything but a space between them, although they contain http://, the second one doesn't get hyperlinked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here are a few examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; - the second URL is not automatically hyperlinked, but you can click the first and the third ones, so the second one worked as a divider between the first and the third links.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; -- every link works, because there's something (in this case a comma) between them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T16:44:50.360" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T17:05:22.510" Title="URLs, even when containing http://, aren't always automatically hyperlinked" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34556" CreationDate="2010-01-05T14:04:25.217" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solution:&lt;/strong&gt; Stop spamming undescribed links in your questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have multiple links, give other people the courtesy of giving them descriptive text so that people have some idea of what they might be instead of just listing off URLs one after the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T14:04:25.217" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34556" CreationDate="2010-01-05T14:05:01.127" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works with 2 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T14:05:01.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34551" CreationDate="2010-01-05T14:07:27.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Avoid using these words:&#xA;best, worst, hardest, your, favourite and favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4371/how-does-the-automatic-subjective-filter-work&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131760" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T14:07:27.037" />
  <row Id="34560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34543" CreationDate="2010-01-05T14:08:12.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No...  If controversy was to be encouraged then there wouldn't be close reasons for subjective and argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T14:08:12.150" />
  <row Id="34561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34556" CreationDate="2010-01-05T14:09:17.530" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another solution is to fix it yourself, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33867/server-side-markdown-parser-open-sourced-for-bugfixes&quot;&gt;the markdown parser has been open sourced&lt;/a&gt; ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T14:09:17.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T15:01:26.567" Score="3" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I &lt;b&gt;down&lt;/b&gt;vote a question or answer, and the post is edited, it looks like I can make one another &lt;b&gt;down&lt;/b&gt;vote. However, when I click the downvote button again, the result appears to be exactly the inverse: instead of &lt;b&gt;down&lt;/b&gt;vote  I &lt;b&gt;up&lt;/b&gt;vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this is the same situation for up-votes (producing &lt;em&gt;down&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;em&gt;second time&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;up&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Problem&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, BOTH tooltips(up and down) informs about UNDO the action - even if you didn't any up/down vote - &lt;em&gt;&quot;...(click again to &lt;strong&gt;undo&lt;/strong&gt;)&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This is a little embarrassing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I voted on a topic. Then after some time I visit the same topic and I don't know anymore if I voted it or not(sometimes the voted topic is highlighted(up or down), sometimes not - it's not a rule). So I decide to vote this topic down, but in fact I undo(?) it, or even reverse(?) it. Neverknow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Possible solution&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After first up/down usage the up/down buttons tooltips should change.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By e.g. in the downvote situation: the downvote button should have a &lt;em&gt;&quot;undo&quot;&lt;/em&gt; tooltip text, the upvote button - a &quot;&lt;em&gt;reverse&lt;/em&gt;&quot; tooltip text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140625" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T00:59:07.100" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T00:59:07.100" Title="Down/up vote in stackoverflow issue" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34562" CreationDate="2010-01-05T15:07:30.033" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you can not down-vote (or up-vote) twice, even if the question/answer has been edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have voted on a question/answer, and then that question/answer is edited, you can undo your vote by clicking again on the same vote-arrow, or you can reverse your vote by clicking on the other arrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So iow, when you click a particular vote-arrow for the second time, it gets undone, not reversed. (I think that's the behavior that you are observing?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The SOFU way of &lt;strong&gt;undo&lt;/strong&gt;-downvoting:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Downvote&lt;/em&gt; a post (score of post: -1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait till it was edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &lt;em&gt;downvote&lt;/em&gt; button again (score of post: 0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The scores assume that you are the only voter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The SOFU art of reversing your vote:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Downvote&lt;/em&gt; a post (score of post: -1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait till it was edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &lt;em&gt;upvote&lt;/em&gt; button (score of post: 1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The scores assume that you are the only voter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T17:51:34.290" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T17:51:34.290" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="34564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34566" CreationDate="2010-01-05T15:14:08.987" Score="6" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related, but not a duplicate of: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6643/project-management-software-design-and-human-factors-should-be-within-the-scope&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6643/project-management-software-design-and-human-factors-should-be-within-the-scope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in discussing topics on general management, that aren't necessarily related to programming. I think there are many users on SO that are interested in this as well. Here's a question that caught my attention just now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/532509/how-to-ask-questions-to-an-obstructionist&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/532509/how-to-ask-questions-to-an-obstructionist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; not programming related at all (even though a programming example was used in that context), so it does not belong on SO. But even so, I still think it's an interesting question that should be asked. (Note: I did not vote to close.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does there exist a forum in which to ask these types of questions? ManagementOverflow? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize there is a grey area here, where management topics &lt;em&gt;specifically related to software development and programming&lt;/em&gt; should be asked and archived on SO -- that I agree with. However, as the example I cited above, some questions clearly belong elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:20:28.803" Title="What is the proper forum in which to ask questions about general management?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;management-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34564" CreationDate="2010-01-05T15:17:44.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd imagine Startups.com is more the place for this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:17:44.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34564" CreationDate="2010-01-05T15:20:28.803" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few under Business and Startups that might be suitable for such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:20:28.803" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28346" CreationDate="2010-01-05T15:53:07.557" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is still a substantial void that needs filling for math questions that are more along the lines of the questions asked on this site, e.g. people asking questions anywhere along the spectrum from simple stuff to moderately complicated but not expert mathematics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mathoverflow is for serious/academic/research mathematics and they close down almost all questions below that threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T15:53:07.557" />
  <row Id="34569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34465" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:01:21.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can assume that the careers.so employers are the same as the jobs.joelonsoftware.com&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In which case they are 95% USA with a few in London/Cambridge (UK)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:01:21.827" />
  <row Id="34570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34574" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:02:06.913" Score="39" ViewCount="1094" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed in recent weeks a plethora of answers/comments recommending that people ask their questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://MathOverflow.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MathOverflow.net&lt;/a&gt; when it is clearly NOT appropriate to do so. MathOverflow is for questions of interest to professional/academic mathematicians. Their FAQ clearly states this, and they close down questions very quickly that are below that level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearly all of the math-related questions on this site are inappropriate for asking on MathOverflow. We do both our community and theirs a disservice by sending math questions there. Until there is a site that is more suited to &quot;amateur&quot; mathematics questions (and I include myself in this group) that often occur on this site, we really don't have a place to refer non-programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some recent questions that have recommended mathoverflow but probably shouldn't, and are perpetuating the myth that it's the destination for mathematics questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28346/new-site-suggestion/34568#34568&quot;&gt;New Site Suggestion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10802/can-you-add-a-math-related-site-to-the-trilogy&quot;&gt;Can you add a math related site to the “Trilogy”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34453/where-to-ask-questions-on-mathematics&quot;&gt;Where to ask questions on mathematics ..&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are there any other ways we can correct this problem?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; just a note -- I am not in any way involved the management of the MathOverflow site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="44330" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T16:23:19.063" LastActivityDate="2010-04-19T15:11:28.433" Title="MathOverflow.net: How can we get members of this site and the SO/SF/SU sites to stop recommending it inappropriately?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;mathematics&gt;&lt;mathoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:09:39.063" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have someone start an amateur level Math StackExchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:09:39.063" />
  <row Id="34572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:11:27.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with wanting to keep basic questions separated from academic. We've already seen on SO that if allowed, beginner-level questions drown out the advanced ones. However, maybe a sister site should be created that can handle those questions, rather than preventing them entirely?  It's kind of like doing TA work as a grad student -- most people don't really like having to teach the first-year courses or mark the exams, but everyone has to do it because advanced research is supported on the backs of the hordes of students coming through each year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:11:27.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34551" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:13:02.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That message is the most annoying on the site, and it seems to trigger off of the word 'How', which it shouldn't.  I've just got in the habit of ignoring it.&#xA;See smackfu's comment on the Source link that Moayad posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, Adam is right that any questions about the forum should be asked on this site (Meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:13:02.520" />
  <row Id="34574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:20:22.410" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They should change the site to make their intentions clear. When I visit MathOverflow, first thing I see is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;A place for mathematicians to ask and answer questions.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's OK, but your question above says it better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;For questions of interest to professional/academic mathematicians&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A place for mathematicians to ask and answer questions&quot; suggests that a mathematician might answer a question asked by a lesser mortal. The latter makes it clear that the site is for questions said mathematician might actually find &lt;em&gt;interesting.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastEditorUserId="7714" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T16:55:14.840" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:55:14.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:30:40.357" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Change the name of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;professionalmathoverflow.net&lt;/code&gt; sounds good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you silo yourself for only 'professional' mathematicians, then you hurt anyone interested in the field of math. In this case, the problem is that the name of the website tells the user that all math questions are welcome. It's a big sign that says, &quot;Come in&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people that named their Stack Exchange sites wanted to sound familiar to Stack Overflow users, so they used the following convention &lt;code&gt;[Noun Describing Site Function]Overflow.[tld]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major problem with that is that Stack Overflow welcomes &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; programming questions, so a site that has Math&lt;b&gt;Overflow&lt;/b&gt; in its title implies being &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; Stack Overflow. I didn't say it was rational, just that that's the first impression a new visitor gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T17:19:11.197" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T17:19:11.197" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="34576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:31:58.327" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Educate the users&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a &lt;em&gt;&quot;Should be on Math Overflow&quot;&lt;/em&gt; comment, add another comment that explains that it is inappropriate. It will become a signpost to educate future users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had no idea that Math Overflow was for professional-level mathematicians. I see posts that math questions can be answers on Math Overflow, so I follow suit. &lt;strong&gt;And the problem perpetuates&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server Fault had the same problem&lt;/strong&gt; (general computer questions asked in a professional-level forum). The solution was the make the site's intentions more clear while &lt;em&gt;simultaneously&lt;/em&gt; educating StackOverflow users about the purpose of Server Fault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; have this problem, whether users come from Stack Overflow or Google or Blog links. The solution is exactly what you are doing: &lt;strong&gt;ongoing, vigilant moderation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T17:18:31.543" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T17:18:31.543" />
  <row Id="34577" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:44:16.987" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14699/duplicating-tags-in-tag-edit-box&quot;&gt;Duplicating tags in tag edit box&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open ask question page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In tags, type &quot;&lt;code&gt;jav&lt;/code&gt;&quot; and wait on popup to appear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &quot;&lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Expected: cursor goes to end of input box&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Actual: cursor goes to start of input box (&lt;strong&gt;Problem 1&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click end of input box&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type &quot;&lt;code&gt;syn&lt;/code&gt;&quot; and wait on popup to appear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select &quot;&lt;code&gt;syntax&lt;/code&gt;&quot; tag&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Expected: input box reads &quot;&lt;code&gt;java syntax&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Actual: input box reads &quot;&lt;code&gt;syntax syn&lt;/code&gt;&quot; (&lt;strong&gt;Problem 2&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reproducible on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Internet Explorer 8 (8.0.6001.18702), WinXP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firefox 3.5.6, WinXP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opera 10.10.1893, WinXP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Safari 4 Public Beta (528.17), WinXP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrome 3.0.195.38, WinXP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:50:23.337" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T00:42:44.313" Title="Tags broken on IE8" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;ie8&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34577" CreationDate="2010-01-05T16:50:23.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the cursor bug referenced &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14699/duplicating-tags-in-tag-edit-box&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T16:50:23.337" />
  <row Id="34579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-05T17:07:04.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is - find a better place where amateur level questions can be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T17:07:04.737" />
  <row Id="34582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5097" CreationDate="2010-01-05T17:26:22.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure how you would be able to pull this off, but hearing a podcast featuring &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Donald Knuth&lt;/a&gt; would be quite interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T17:26:22.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-05T17:26:22.163" />
  <row Id="34583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1803" CreationDate="2010-01-05T17:35:32.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not provide two different methods of monitoring questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email Notification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question appears in &lt;em&gt;Recent Events&lt;/em&gt; feed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just signed up at ServerFault.com and find that having no &lt;em&gt;suitable&lt;/em&gt; monitoring mechanism for questions a little lacking. I participate at a number of Q&amp;amp;A or forum sites, all of which have some method of tracking updates to a thread, such as a feed on logging in to the site or email notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best option here is going to be adding changes to monitored questions &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt; to the Recent Events feed. Then provide an option in member profiles to control whether a user wishes to receive the email notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This satisfies two requirements - people receive notifications by email if they wish for them. Those who don't, or those who participate at SO or SF regularly will see a feed of recent updates on logging in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141379" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T17:35:32.610" />
  <row Id="34585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T17:51:01.983" Score="-9" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some companies hire outside hackers to demonstrate for them just how bad their security is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took SO for a test drive. Some people enjoy robbing me of 100 pts reputation, but they spend more time policing me than I do screwing around. The goal of &quot;eliminating the greed&quot; and those who &quot;game the system&quot; is very labor-intensive, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not think hard about proper incentives on SO? Make the system simple, self-regulating. Currently I do not see them as working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life too - blame the greedy bankers all you want, but with cheap loans, hints at bailouts, FDIC, loopholes I think it was only a matter of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141287" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T23:09:15.933" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T01:08:04.083" Title="Blame those who game the system or those who create bad incentives or both?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="34586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34585" CreationDate="2010-01-05T17:56:18.087" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow and its sister sites seem to be reasonably self-regulating already. The sites are productive, noise is mostly kept to a minimum, and people are exchanging a vast amount of knowledge every day. It doesn't seem to me that there is a lot of labour involved in keeping the sites this way, as the work is distributed among a large number of people -- e.g. on SO, there are currently 427 10k+ users, and another 1727 3k+ users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that there aren't some small flaws -- e.g. search the site for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/behavior+users&quot;&gt;[users] [behavior]&lt;/a&gt; for many discussions of &quot;problem users&quot; who aren't asking good questions, are obviously gaming the system, or both. Additionally there have been many &lt;em&gt;constructive&lt;/em&gt; suggestions made on this site for ways to improve general usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you give some examples of how you feel the system is not working? Offering constructive solutions would be ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T18:57:52.483" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T18:57:52.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35141" CreationDate="2010-01-05T17:59:13.710" Score="19" ViewCount="661" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that when quote marks are converted to smart quotes in titles, the opening quote points the wrong way if it is preceded by an open parenthesis. See the title to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/461/backwardsquote.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Thanks for checking on different browsers, but it's not a browser issue. Just look at the HTML that is served:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Smart quotes in parentheses point the wrong way (&amp;amp;rdquo;example&amp;amp;rdquo;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one on the left should be &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;ldquo;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: looks like &lt;code&gt;[&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; are also triggering the wrong type of quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T12:16:34.793" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T16:19:58.143" Title="Smart quotes in parentheses point the wrong way (&quot;example&quot;) [&quot;tst&quot;] {&quot;tst&quot;}" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;quote&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34590" CreationDate="2010-01-05T18:00:38.763" Score="6" ViewCount="584" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me or is inserting 4 spaces in front of every line of my code very annoying? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love if there was some way to put XML code in my posts without having to put 4 spaces in front of each line everytime (which is pretty tedious when it's like 20-30 lines).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always liked a forum's [code] tags for this purpose because if there is something like [blah] then it just gets put in as plain text as &lt;code&gt;[blah]&lt;/code&gt;. With Stack Overflow/Super User/Server Fault though, it would get stripped out unless it has 4 spaces before it on the same line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which ends up being (with&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; stripped)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    html&gt;&#xA;      body&gt;&#xA;      /body&gt;&#xA;    /html&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If instead we could do something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    html&gt;&#xA;  body&gt;&#xA;  /body&gt;&#xA;/html&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so that only the first line had to be prefixed with 4 spaces it'd be OK also. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if SO could be told to ignore all HTML tags(but not strip them) inside of &lt;code&gt;pre-code&lt;/code&gt; then that'd be great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any hope of getting some easier way to put XML code in questions/answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T12:32:47.213" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:32:47.213" Title="4 spaces for code tags is annoying" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;markup&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2010-01-05T18:04:43.853" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would love if there was some way to put xml code in my posts without having to put 4 spaces in front of each line everytime(which is pretty tedious when its like 20-30 lines)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is. You paste it, then select all the code and hit the code button on the toolbar, or the &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt; keyboard shortcut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T20:09:29.813" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T20:09:29.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2010-01-05T18:05:30.543" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;strike&gt;are actually 2&lt;/strike&gt; is a way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Select the whole block of xml (after you pasted it) en then click the code button.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Enclose your xml with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;        &#xA;          &#xA;          &#xA;          &#xA;          &#xA;          &#xA;          &#xA;        &#xA;    &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T18:12:12.293" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T18:12:12.293" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2010-01-05T18:05:54.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people write out or paste in their code first, then select it, and click the code button. This provides the requisite four spaces for you, and preserves any other indents you set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd agree with you on typing four space manually for each line, but that's why the button's there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T18:05:54.867" />
  <row Id="34594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2010-01-05T18:20:31.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've written a little &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stum.de/2008/10/19/escaping-code-for-posting-on-the-website-and-removing-indent/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;.NET tool&lt;/a&gt; to do that - it removes the leftmost indent (so when I copy/paste from Visual Studio I don't have to worry about some stuff already indented 3 or 4 times) and then adds 4 spaces. It's a simple MultiLine Textbox and a Button. I don't like the &quot;Code&quot; button on the toolbar as sometimes it messes up the indent, and it doesn't seem to remove the leftmost indent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)&#xA;{&#xA;    int removeIndent = 0;&#xA;    foreach (string s in textBox1.Lines)&#xA;    {&#xA;        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(s)) continue;&#xA;        s = s.Replace(&quot;\t&quot;,&quot;    &quot;); // Tabs to 4 spaces&#xA;        int tmp = 0;&#xA;        foreach (char c in s)&#xA;        {&#xA;            if (c != ' ')&#xA;            {&#xA;                break;&#xA;            }&#xA;            tmp++;&#xA;        }&#xA;        if (removeIndent == 0 || tmp &amp;lt; removeIndent)&#xA;        {&#xA;            removeIndent = tmp;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    var sb = new StringBuilder();&#xA;    foreach (string s in textBox1.Lines)&#xA;    {&#xA;        sb.Append(&quot;    &quot;);&#xA;        sb.AppendLine(s.Length &amp;gt;= removeIndent ? s.Remove(0, removeIndent) : s);&#xA;    }&#xA;    textBox1.Text = sb.ToString();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T12:25:20.707" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:25:20.707" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-05T18:22:00.880" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On MathOverflow, we often redirect questioners to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Art of Problem Solving forums&lt;/a&gt; if their question is an interesting but elementary puzzle, and send people to &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathforum.org/dr.math/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask Dr. Math&lt;/a&gt; if they have problems with standard high school or undergraduate material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141333" LastEditorUserId="141333" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T18:55:28.620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T18:55:28.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34585" CreationDate="2010-01-05T18:27:09.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You really need something to back up your claim that the system &quot;isn't working.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aim of the site as I see it is twofold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It should become a repository of useful questions and great answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have a programming problem, you should be able to post it as a question and get a good answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, Stack Overflow is working exceptionally well in both regards. The incentives (reputation, badges etc) are simply a means to those ends, by keeping users interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you gain rep without doing anything truly productive? Probably. Is it easier to gain rep by contributing positively? Absolutely!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T18:27:09.683" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31857" CreationDate="2010-01-05T19:25:50.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Jeff was talking on a podcast last month or so about really giving us a lot of stats but I still don't see any on my filed cv.  am I missing it somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="730" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T19:25:50.440" />
  <row Id="34599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2010-01-05T19:36:23.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most programmers would automatically think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hey, this is too complicated and tedious. Do I have to do it every time? Surely someone else has already thought the same thing, so there &lt;em&gt;must already&lt;/em&gt; be another, better, way to do it. Let's search the documentation to see if I'm right.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I use the Firefox plugin &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;It's All Text!&quot;&lt;/a&gt; to edit my post (or at least the code portion) in my favourite editor, which happens to be vim, and then select all the code and hit &lt;kbd&gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;/kbd&gt; to indent it by one &quot;soft tab&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, you know, you can always select your code and hit the little binary button above the edit box which will also indent it appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T19:36:23.440" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34844" CreationDate="2010-01-05T19:54:24.693" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cleared my cache last night and had to log back into the trilogy this morning for the first time in a long time. As outlined in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Offers Named OpenIDs&lt;/a&gt; I had previously switched the sites to use a named OpenID from Google. Unfortunately, the select OpenID provider on the trilogy sites still default to the old random hash Google OpenID. Not sure if there is a way to provide a good user experience that would result in people using the new Google OpenID but it would be preferable to the current method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:45:52.497" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:46:25.333" Title="Clicking Google Open ID still uses old Google OpenID URL" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34602" CreationDate="2010-01-05T20:16:27.937" Score="2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3327/why-is-a-code-block-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-i&quot;&gt;Why is a code block not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at my post ( 3rd down ) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1440233/possible-to-intercept-and-rewrite-email-on-outlook-client-side-using-ironpython&quot;&gt;this stack overflow page&lt;/a&gt;, you'll see that my code isn't highlighted.  Even though my code is indented by 4 spaces, I had to use the &amp;lt;PRE&amp;gt; tags around my code to get mono-space font.  If you take away the surrounding &amp;lt;PRE&amp;gt; tags, the code is interpreted as normal text, even though it is indented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138799" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T20:58:38.243" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T20:58:38.243" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T04:14:30.100" Title="Code is indented by 4 spaces but isn't interpreted as code" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34601" CreationDate="2010-01-05T20:22:06.550" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was in a list. In a list you have to indent it by 8 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rich fixed this by adding a rule before the code, to effectively separate it from the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T20:22:06.550" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T20:47:36.290" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't use a lot of stackoverflows features because I fail to load one of your javascript files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The file in question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/question.js?v=5935&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I get this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Content Encoding Error&#xA;&#xA;The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tells me to contact the website administrator so here ya go. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T20:50:50.463" Title="Cannot load javascript file on stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34604" CreationDate="2010-01-05T20:50:50.463" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Problems like this have been reported before (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22778/ask-your-question-button-is-disabled&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21629/stack-overflow-javascript-issues&quot;&gt;and here&lt;/a&gt;) but get tagged no-repro since it seems to be a client side problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just clear your cache and it should fix the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T20:50:50.463" />
  <row Id="34606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-05T21:10:21.743" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just spent 15 minutes writing a reasonably detailed answer to a question on CSS. I scroll down to click post and I get a damn access violation error that crashes the browser and kills my answer. 15 minutes absolutely wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So anyway I'm thinking can we not have some opt-in javascript code that simply saves the currently worked on answer to a cookie every 30 seconds such that if the browser crashes or &quot;whatever&quot; we can restart the browser and retrieve the answer we've worked on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140283" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-08T02:44:54.540" LastActivityDate="2010-10-08T02:44:54.540" Title="Create local temporary answer cache" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34606" CreationDate="2010-01-05T21:14:15.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've learned to 'copy' a lot when making answers on these sites (and on most sites for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T21:14:15.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44120" CreationDate="2010-01-05T21:32:38.587" Score="12" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put two &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2002940/json-and-circular-reference-exception/2003210#2003210&quot;&gt;separate links in a single comment&lt;/a&gt; and noticed a bug with the title text when hovering over the second URL. It has the first URLs title text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3352/sametitleincomment.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screen Shot of Issue&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot added because it's not possible to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5436/direct-link-to-a-comment&quot;&gt;link directly to a comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T06:38:58.600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T06:39:21.690" Title="Page title from First url in comment is used for title text of all additional urls" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34606" CreationDate="2010-01-05T21:32:54.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write your answer in an external editor, and then paste when you're done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;It's All Text!&quot;&lt;/a&gt; addon for firefox, which takes care of all the minutiae for you automatically. Just click on the little &quot;edit&quot; button that appears by textboxes, and your favourite editor will be invoked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started using this plugin after I hit &lt;kbd&gt;^W&lt;/kbd&gt; too many times and lost important content (not for SO, but for work)... I am a unix user primarily, so to me &lt;kbd&gt;^W&lt;/kbd&gt; means &quot;go back a word&quot;, not &quot;close window&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T21:32:54.860" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34615" CreationDate="2010-01-05T21:51:45.627" Score="2" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies in advance if this is a duplicate, but I couldn't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation summary on SO tells me I received 180 reputation today (if I click the envelope icon, then &quot;summary&quot;, then &quot;today&quot;).  As I understand it this is 20 less than the cap of 200.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2008891/any-ideas-on-optimizing-this-script-python/2008920#2008920&quot;&gt;An answer&lt;/a&gt; that I posted earlier (within the last two hours), before I reached 180, has 1 upvote and 0 downvotes and earned 7 reputation.  My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2009228/strings-are-objects-in-java-but-we-dont-use-new-to-declare-a-string-why/2009272#2009272&quot;&gt;most recent answer&lt;/a&gt; has 7 upvotes and 0 downvotes and has earned 5 reputation.  No CW stuff is involved, as far as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain to me what's happening here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;, in response to Marc, but also as an afterthought: no, I haven't done a lot of downvoting nor been downvoted.  Specifically, I haven't reached the cap and then gone down to 180 or anything like that, nor do I have enough downvoting to make the difference.  Nor did I reach the cap at all, to my knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;:  Marc's point about unaccepted answers seems valid, except for that it happened that two questions got weird (&amp;lt;10) amounts of reputation.  Still possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3&lt;/strong&gt;: it happened again today.  I was at 182 reputation for the day, including -3 in downvotes, and I just received 7 points for an upvote, capping me at 189.  So frustrating.  I'm almost certain I didn't reach 200 at any point today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3.5&lt;/strong&gt;: Right after I typed that, I had two answers accepted, putting me at 219.  I thought about the case where one of those got in while I was still at 182, but that would put me up to 197 and then I would have received 3 for the last upvote, not 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141395" LastEditorUserId="141395" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T17:42:48.963" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T17:42:48.963" Title="Less than 10 rep for an upvote without hitting the reputation cap?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34614" CreationDate="2010-01-05T21:55:00.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting... this pattern is repeated on &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=217332&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon's rep tracker&lt;/a&gt;. Have you perhaps done lots of downvoting today? The other possibility is that you've had some answers &lt;em&gt;unaccepted&lt;/em&gt; - i.e. you hit the cap briefly, and then have had points subtracted due to losing a green tick on an old answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, there is another possibility - it sometimes happens that a well-meaning overly grateful user upvotes your account heavily, triggering suspicious voting patterns. This then cancels the suspicious votes; it is possible that 2 of these votes were part of your days rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. say you had +180, and then somebody upvoted you like a crazy mad thing; you'd max at +200, the rest would be discarded, and then (at some point) their 30 (or whatever) votes are cancelled taking you back to +180. Don't ask me the exact details of the suspicious voting algorithm, as I genuinely don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T23:32:36.767" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T23:32:36.767" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34617" CreationDate="2010-01-05T21:58:34.393" Score="18" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be beneficial to display at least the number of close votes to everyone, regardless of rep.  If not everyone, then at least the OP.  Maybe let the Close link be active like it is for 3K+ users and then have the voting controls active only for 3K+ users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Benefits I can think of for this include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Would give the OP an indication that they need to modify their question a bit before it gets closed, thus helping to improve the quality of questions a bit more proactively&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Puts the close reasons a bit closer to users' eyes helping to keep them in more in mind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could help to control duplicates.  If someone goes to answer a question that's a dupe and they see there are close votes on it as a dupe then it's a more direct route to get to the original question which often times already has (the same or similar) answers on it.  (Yes, I know questions can be merged.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I think the comment about downvoting is solid enough to not have everyone see the votes, but rather the OP, so I'll make that the request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-09T02:47:33.713" LastActivityDate="2011-03-09T03:17:35.893" Title="Display close votes for all users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34616" CreationDate="2010-01-05T22:21:20.440" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; should see them, but I 100% agree that the OP (regardless of rep) should. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hesitant on showing them to everyone because one anonymous close vote could very easily turn into a barrage of downvotes by those without closing powers, while that one anonymous closer could easily be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the OP should always be able to see the list -- and in the case of &quot;close as duplicate,&quot; the duplicate link(s) selected. But otherwise, I think the visibility of closure status isn't really needed by those who don't have the power to act on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T22:21:20.440" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34585" CreationDate="2010-01-05T22:41:53.453" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but they spend more time policing me than I do screwing around&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well. You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; stop screwing around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously. The system does self police pretty well most of the time. Oh, some rotten, pointless junk manages to slip past the close brigade, and a few worthy questions are closed be the over-zealous, but it mostly works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you keep seeing the same names over and over again is no guarantee that people are following you around: some people are just &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; active. They may frequent the same tags as you, they may find your work on the 10k-tools lists if other nominate them, or they may just have become attuned to your name/gravitar. Or they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be keeping tabs on you (notice the &quot;User feed&quot; link at the bottom of you profile page.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best cure for too much attention from empowered users is to use the site &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt;. Ask &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt;, on-topic questions and provide useful, responsive answers. If you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; doing that and feel you're being picked on, you can contact the team (see the link at the bottom of every page), but I'd take care to understand the site ethos before doing that. You don't want a reputation for crying wolf in the event of real abuse in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T22:59:56.670" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T22:59:56.670" />
  <row Id="34620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34621" CreationDate="2010-01-05T22:54:25.327" Score="10" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often find myself needing the answer to a question was mentioned in the answers to one of my other questions.  Just searching the main site gives too many false positives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to just search my own questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T23:06:32.413" Title="Just Search my own Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="34621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34620" CreationDate="2010-01-05T22:58:38.703" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is. Just add the keyword &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; to the search field and you're set (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10934/search-is-hard-lets-go-shopping/11334#11334&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;handy link&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this question can be rephrased and become a feature request: I observe that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;search options page&lt;/a&gt; does not list this keyword, while it obviously should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="74939" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-05T23:06:32.413" LastActivityDate="2010-01-05T23:06:32.413" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34585" CreationDate="2010-01-06T01:08:04.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;your questions get downvoted and closed quite rapidly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so it looks like &quot;the system&quot; works quite well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T01:08:04.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T01:16:44.750" Score="4" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it that, almost unilaterally, the highest voted questions and my favorite questions are entirely subjective questions aimed at discussions? To a T, the questions that got me interested in stack overflow and the ones that I find myself carefully reading for solid chunks of time are purely subjective and entirely discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first came to this site, it was because I found a whole bunch of developers pooling together opinions on these really interesting questions. This site was better than any others I knew because the general prevailing opinions were immediately apparent through the well-worded highly-voted answers, with gems of insight spread throughout the discussion and brought to the first few pages by other intelligent programming people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, if I wanted to know how to access API X in language L$, I would go find a reference book or online source; it's what I did before stack overflow and it didn't work half bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see exactly two reasons why one would visit stack overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; Someone has a question that is 'strange' for some reason. Either it doesn't fit with any standard kind of documentation or the real problem is not figuring out the solution, it is figuring out how to word the question. These questions are tough, and stack overflow is great for this. There are pages of these questions, rated around +3 to +10 by the 10 people whose lives were saved by this helpful answer existing on this helpful site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; Someone has a question that is so fascinating and controversial it can't be answered by one person. Previously if someone wanted to know what was the best text editor in the world, there was no way to figure it out. If your question was a popular enough one you might be able to google it or discuss it in a forum, but you never would know if you weren't missing whole segments of the discussion because you picked up on the vocal authors X and Y. I sincerely doubt I ever would have gotten into stack overflow if not for the &quot;favorite cartoon&quot; question: one that is now closed and if it were to be asked now would be shut down within 5 minutes for being subjective and open to discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow's biggest strength in my opinion is that it has the pulse of a hundred thousand interested parties flowing through it. I personally would rather channel that into a better understanding of the enigmatic and important questions with no good answers than merely into a better understanding of why my code doesn't work. Just because a question cannot possibly have a canonical answer doesn't mean it can't hold value, and I would argue that stack overflow's unique system and user base means that it is the single best place in the world for those questions. Do you agree? Discuss!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I suppose when I said &quot;discussions&quot; I didn't really mean the kind that go &quot;Hey, I thought of something.&quot; &quot;But did you think of this other point?&quot; &quot;Oh no, I didn't! Good thinking.&quot; which definitely do belong elsewhere. When I said discussions I think I meant a collection of opinions. On stack overflow these collections of opinions can be vetted and widely held views can be curried to the top. &lt;em&gt;This&lt;/em&gt; is what I feel makes stack overflow &quot;subjectivity&quot; work so well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T02:56:23.570" Title="Really good &quot;discussion&quot; questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;value&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34625" CreationDate="2010-01-06T01:27:40.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a whole lot of programming questions that aren't answered by documentation or online sources.  StackOverflow was put together to fill that void, by allowing specific programming questions to be asked, answered by other knowledgeable programmers and then put in a format that Google loves, so that they're easy to find in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does that job great, it doesn't work so well for subjective questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've saved countless hours by being able to ask questions and get quick answers, and don't want the site to be bogged down by subjective questions adding noise, even if I sometimes get good information out of those also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T01:27:40.280" />
  <row Id="34627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34625" CreationDate="2010-01-06T01:35:53.223" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see exactly two reasons why one would visit stack overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you missed the most important use case for Stack Overflow: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get answers to programming questions (&quot;strange&quot; or not) which have been &lt;strong&gt;vetted by a large community of programmers&lt;/strong&gt;. You have a much better idea that the &quot;top&quot; answers to a question are correct, accurate, complete, and current. That is contrary to other sources of information returned by the search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T01:43:05.627" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T01:43:05.627" />
  <row Id="34628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34625" CreationDate="2010-01-06T01:37:49.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found the quasi-subjective and 'best practices' kind of information very good here as well. I enjoy reading and thinking about them. I don't know offhand a better place to find a nexus of intelligent discussion regarding programming that is so well visited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quick answer questions are the strength of the site, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps what would fit would be a forum attached to the Trilogy, where solid subjective questions could be discussed. (E.g., I saw a rant today about 'evil software patents' relating to tux2. What makes patents evil? What makes them good?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the technical solution. But I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; I would appreciate a well-informed place to discuss software development questions and concept with the broader developer community at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T01:37:49.477" />
  <row Id="34632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34633" CreationDate="2010-01-06T01:56:36.047" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&quot;&gt;Auto-Inserting Stack Overflow affiliate into all Amazon book links&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;am just interested:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i added an amazon book-link to a comment and it got transformed to:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0131177052&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0131177052&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;behind it is a redirect target to amazon. if somebody clicks on it, do you get click-money from amazon-partnership for it? if so, good idea to monetize the users input!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141406" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T02:12:27.087" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T04:09:51.203" Title="links to external commercial sites, redirect links (for monetization)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;platform&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34632" CreationDate="2010-01-06T02:12:27.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the discussion about it before it got implemented:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10948/would-it-be-a-problem-if-all-amazon-links-were-converted-to-affiliate-links&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10948/would-it-be-a-problem-if-all-amazon-links-were-converted-to-affiliate-links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T02:12:27.087" />
  <row Id="34634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34625" CreationDate="2010-01-06T02:32:41.377" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love a good discussion. Arguments, counter-arguments, deep threads packed full of insight... I've spent plenty of time on forums and newsgroups reading such things and learning much in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, they're &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; if you're just trying to search for an answer to a specific problem, since the question and its answer tend to get separated by other responses, clarifications, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I like about SO: when a SO question comes up in response to a search, chances are it'll have an answer &lt;em&gt;on the first page&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other stuff? It's fun, but only for a little while. At this point, it's painful for me to even &lt;em&gt;load&lt;/em&gt; some of the more popular questions on SO, with Firefox groaning under the strain as scripts written to handle a handful of replies try to deal with dozens. And there are &lt;em&gt;pages&lt;/em&gt; of them... The closer a given question comes to a PHPBB thread, the more it starts to look and act like one. And the thoughtful, insightful answers don't always float to the top either; on controversial questions, the first guy to post an answer representing his &quot;side&quot; can win out over later versions of the same, as each reader rushes to vote for his party and/or post another response duplicating the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forum topics are fun, but SO makes a lousy forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T02:32:41.377" />
  <row Id="34635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34625" CreationDate="2010-01-06T02:56:23.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bikeshed&lt;/a&gt; effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T02:56:23.570" />
  <row Id="34636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34587" CreationDate="2010-01-06T02:56:54.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Smart quotes in parentheses point the way least likely to be correct, certainly. There are probably other previous-characters like the other bracket types and &lt;code&gt;“&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;‘&lt;/code&gt; themselves that should also be considered for triggering a left-quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But auto-smart-quote-ification is in general bogus: there's no way it can &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; guess the right direction. Indeed, often I don't want a smart quote at all — if I'd wanted a ‘smart quote’ I would have typed it directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see automatic smart quotes disappear from SO, MS Office, and the face of the Earth. Can you arrange that? Thanks then!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T02:56:54.240" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-06T04:37:57.457" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't really a problem on the MO side, and probably not a very big problem on the S[OFU] side either. Math Overflow only gets about 30 visits/day from S[OFU] and MSO combined. When a normal person looks at the Math Overflow home page, she gets a pretty good idea of whether her question is appropriate there, even without looking at the FAQ, so we don't actually end up with too many inappropriate questions. The typical response to an inappropriate recommendation is probably Will's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34453#34454&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks, jerk. I just visited that site and my head exploded.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In other words, I don't think that S[OFU] users waste much time at MO. I think they just keep recommending it because they like the name. I like it too. Rather than repeatedly repeating the same repetitive thing over and over again, I'll just direct people to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/40&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the meta.MO discussion&lt;/a&gt; about the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think David Speyer's solution of finding the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; place to direct people is best. In addition to the two he mentioned, we also send people to &lt;a href=&quot;http://nrich.maths.org/discus/messages/board-topics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NRICH&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T04:37:57.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25838" CreationDate="2010-01-06T05:03:56.710" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given 4M population in Michigan, I suppose that means there are 88 users here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T05:03:56.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-06T05:03:56.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34643" CreationDate="2010-01-06T06:13:58.513" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14457/diamond-vs-10k-points&quot;&gt;Diamond vs. 10k points?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice that some users have a blue diamond next to their names. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect it has something to do with moderator privileges, but I thought that anyone who had over 10k posts was practically a moderator, and I notice that some people who DO have over 10k posts DON'T have the diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T08:59:39.897" ClosedDate="2010-01-10T00:45:44.303" Title="Blue diamond next to users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34642" CreationDate="2010-01-06T06:16:16.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, diamond moderators are basically the dictatorship side of Stack Overflow. They are allowed to do basically anything moderation-wise (including locking posts to prevent others voting on it).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10k+ users are simply allowed to &lt;em&gt;vote&lt;/em&gt; to delete and undelete content. 3 votes are required for a deletion to happen, so it's still some kind of democracy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T06:16:16.823" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:11:38.183" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it allowed to post a &quot;did any body get any solution to the above question&quot; as an answer ??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example :  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/987019/qt-top-level-widget-with-keyboard-and-mouse-event-transparency/2011467#2011467&quot;&gt; this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140828" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T08:21:14.883" Title="Is it allowed to post &quot;Did anyone find a solution?&quot; as an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;rules&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34645" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:18:22.753" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  That's not a real answer.  It should be a comment.  If you find these in the future, tell the &quot;answerer&quot; that their answer should be a comment in a comment on their answer (as I've done on this answer) then flag it for moderator attention so they can clean it up if the &quot;answerer&quot; doesn't (which I've also done in this case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T08:18:22.753" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34645" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:21:14.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Unknown Yahoo said, the answer is no - however, he only has 1 reputation so he isn't able to leave comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... Not really sure what he can do as if he posted the question again, it would be a duplicate and obviously he just wants to bring people's attention to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T08:21:14.883" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34642" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:59:39.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply hover your mouse over the diamond and that will explain what it is -- it means &quot;moderator&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T08:59:39.897" />
  <row Id="34653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:30:59.700" Score="-9" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When browsed in IE6,the left part of each question is wrongly aligned,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how to fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't tell me to abandon IE6,&lt;strong&gt;seriously&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be technical,thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T13:53:22.740" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T11:43:23.807" Title="How to fix SO's questions page in IE6?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;ie6&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="34654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34653" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:33:03.067" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upgrading to IE8 will fix IE6 issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just kidding (not really).  I think Jeff Atwood has said that they will only support IE6 so far as guaranteeing that the content (text) will be displayed on the page, but they won't make any special IE6 formatting fixes, so you're stuck with bad formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60096" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T09:03:09.567" />
  <row Id="34655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34653" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:35:30.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And don't forget about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opera.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Opera&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="160960" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T09:03:09.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34653" CreationDate="2010-01-06T08:44:24.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use chrome: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/chrome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/chrome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the site doesn't look &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; bad  in IE6 anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140002" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T09:03:09.567" />
  <row Id="34657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-06T09:07:30.923" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So.. I &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; ask why 0.9999999999999 is equal to 1 there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I second the motion for a better, less &quot;ask general math questions here&quot; domain name. That's job #1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And that is why &quot;server&quot; is in the title of &quot;serverfault.com&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T09:07:30.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34653" CreationDate="2010-01-06T09:19:05.827" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IE6 needs to be put down, there's really no avoiding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Developers need to stop supporting it, not as far as actively blocking it, but they need to communicate more clearly to users that &quot;If you're still using IE6, any problems you have are &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; problems, not &lt;em&gt;ours&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you seriously want to avoid being told that you need to upgrade, then you seriously need to stop asking about IE6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt; answer to your question is that you need to upgrade. People still on IE6 need to upgrade, the rest of the world should not suffer because of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think &quot;it isn't much that needs to be done&quot; then consider how many websites that probably have IE6-related layout problems, and how many man-hours that needs to be put into fixing things like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would rather have the SO-team spend their time on far more important things (like fixing the minor problems left with markdown in some corner cases) than spending even 1 minute on trying to fix an IE6 problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the only problem you have is a minor alignment problem, then I'd say that this IE6-problem shouldn't even be considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the time people here, me included, spend on giving you &quot;answers&quot;, is probably more time than the issue deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that you're serious, and you probably cannot upgrade, for whatever reason (you don't say), but in reality you're just one guy, and even if we count all of the users still left on IE6, they will be a minority, and many of them &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; upgrade, so if we limit the discussion to all those that cannot upgrade, and want to use SO on IE6, having a minor alignment problem is a price you'll have to pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast to everyone paying for it (time being taken away from things that will benefit everyone instead of a minority.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, you &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; should abandon IE6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T09:19:05.827" />
  <row Id="34660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34653" CreationDate="2010-01-06T09:19:50.553" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Responding to &quot;be technical&quot; and &quot;Can you guys be more technical towards IE6?&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making the conscious decision not to bend over backwards to support a broken browser &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a technical decision. It's all about pros and cons - bearing in mind that SO is a site for &lt;em&gt;developers&lt;/em&gt;, I'd expect the browser distribution to be skewed towards modern browsers - whether that's newer versions of IE or other browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and the team have a limited amount of time on their hands: do you really think they should spend significant amounts of time trying to get a &lt;em&gt;broken&lt;/em&gt; browser which isn't used by that many SO users to display SO decently - while trying to keep it working on &lt;em&gt;working&lt;/em&gt; browsers of course - rather than spending time on features which benefit everyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly StackExchange probably changes this a little - I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Fog Creek could be spending more time on this, for example - but accusing people of not being &quot;technical&quot; just because they have made a decision you don't like isn't really going to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T09:19:50.553" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34701" CreationDate="2010-01-06T10:27:36.170" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a bounty helps getting your question answered faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reasoning behind not being able to start a bounty on your questions the moment you submit them? Shouldn't this be possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134838" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T22:57:04.013" Title="Why do you have to wait a certain period before you can start a bounty?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34663" CreationDate="2010-01-06T10:32:59.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for the original reasoning, but new questions are &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; going to get reasonable attention most of the time. And people who really know about that area will probably be watching those tags anyway, either directly or via RSS. So I'm not sure that a new question with bounty is going to get much extra attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could be wrong, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T10:32:59.543" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T11:17:19.820" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does this site have a bug like you ask a question, then answer it yourself and mark your answer as the best one and get 15 points for free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144794" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:22:39.040" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:22:39.040" Title="StackOverflow answering details" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34666" CreationDate="2010-01-06T11:17:44.080" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Likely it really has. But there are doubts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144794" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T11:18:47.317" />
  <row Id="34668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34666" CreationDate="2010-01-06T11:18:30.927" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't accept your own answer right away - you have to wait for a couple of days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/accept-your-own-answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;accept your own answer&lt;/a&gt;, you don't get the 15 point bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you could use two accounts to cheat - but expect people to spot this pretty quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T11:43:33.220" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T11:43:33.220" />
  <row Id="34669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34670" CreationDate="2010-01-06T11:24:45.197" Score="16" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just answered a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2012479/stackoverflow-answering-details-closed&quot;&gt;question on SO&lt;/a&gt; after voting for it to be closed as &quot;belongs on meta&quot;. It was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34666/stackoverflow-answering-details&quot;&gt;moved to meta&lt;/a&gt; very shortly afterwards, as anticipated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a problem with my behaviour here? I thought it was a perfectly reasonable question for Meta, and it was almost &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; to get moved here - so I thought I might as well get a head-start on answering it while it was still on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think this is in line with the &quot;fastest gun in the West is a feature, not a problem&quot; approach, but I'd like to know if anyone is particularly offended before the same situation comes up again :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T21:27:23.813" Title="Etiquette of answering a question in anticipation of it being moved" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34669" CreationDate="2010-01-06T11:28:57.230" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as your answer is good, I can't see how it might hurt. The rep you potentially gain from the answer should be moved along with the question to the other site, the question gets a good answer and it spares you the need to go from one place to another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T11:28:57.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34673" CreationDate="2010-01-06T11:51:42.950" Score="10" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15912/reputation-notification-of-deselected-answer&quot;&gt;Reputation notification of deselected answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I keep logging into SU every couple of hours or so, and just now when I logged in, I noticed that there was a drop in my rep - the amount being 15 points indicates that an answer of mine was unaccepted. Is there a way I can find out which answer was unaccepted? More than rep loss, I'm more interested in knowing the unaccepted answer so that I can post my (future) answers better and at the same time learn from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T12:11:29.270" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:27:07.867" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T19:17:36.310" Title="Is there any way to find out which of my answers got unaccepted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34671" CreationDate="2010-01-06T12:03:56.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way of doing it. Your best bet is to either remember the question you got the accepted answer on or simply search through the answers you've given, maybe one of them rings a bell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T12:03:56.930" />
  <row Id="34675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T12:53:01.903" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just an idea that a browser plugin displaying recent related activity for a user can be really useful rather than opening the SO site and navigating around or browsing through emails. I personally like echofon for twitter, I feel that something similar for SO can be a timesaver for many regulars here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:23:10.620" Title="Browser plugin for SO feeds. Can it be really useful?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34675" CreationDate="2010-01-06T12:56:47.637" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're still waiting for an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1610/when-will-the-stack-overflow-api-be-released&quot;&gt;official API&lt;/a&gt; with which browser plugins can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But till then, you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3687/greasemonkey-script-ideas-best-of-stackoverflow-greasemonkey-implementations&quot;&gt;help yourself&lt;/a&gt; a lot with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/greasemonkey&quot;&gt;what has already been made using Greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34675/browser-plugin-for-so-feeds-can-it-be-really-useful/34677#34677&quot;&gt;@sockpuppet said&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T14:23:10.620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:23:10.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34675" CreationDate="2010-01-06T13:33:19.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all want browser extensions, iPhone and Android apps, notifiers and whatnot. Until there's an official API, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34675/browser-plugin-for-so-feeds-can-it-be-really-useful/34676#34676&quot;&gt;fretje&lt;/a&gt; pointed out, none of these are really possible (they are, but they're not exactly what most of us want).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your best bet right now is to simply use RSS feeds. It's an imperfect solution to a lingering problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T13:33:19.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T13:44:45.407" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18507/there-is-a-bug-where-you-can-get-free-reputation&quot;&gt;There is a bug where you can get free reputation.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious, does anyone know why &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/244641&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; have a rep of 3 ? He only has 1 question that has been downvoted once and never upvoted. He never accepted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be that someone answered his question, he accepted it and then the answerer deleted it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T13:47:40.063" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T13:47:40.063" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T13:47:56.007" Title="Why does this new user have a reputation of 3?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T13:45:00.600" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25166/can-i-have-a-section-in-the-cv-for-entering-professional-certifications&quot;&gt;Can I have a section in the CV for entering professional certifications?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you guys add a certifications field on SO Careers? Maybe have it as an auto-complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23528" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T13:45:00.600" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T13:46:51.220" Title="Add Certification Field to SO Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="34681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25166" CreationDate="2010-01-06T13:47:43.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see it as an autocomplete field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23528" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T13:47:43.667" />
  <row Id="34685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:11:40.400" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confused about this site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please tell me why different people answer my questions and who they are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they the developers of the site o users like me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the benefit for me answering questions of other people?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is this site created for free? &lt;sub&gt;FTW&lt;sub&gt;Smithers&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; It provides a lot of help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the purpose of tagging, flagging, commenting, choosing the right answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is text underlined on the Internet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T14:22:34.443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:22:34.443" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T14:28:28.160" Title="How does Stack Overflow work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;wtf&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34685" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:14:04.013" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19068" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:14:04.013" />
  <row Id="34688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34685" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:18:15.127" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People answer questions for the fun of it and to gain reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone can answer questions.  Most people here are regular users, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;them&lt;/a&gt; are the founders of the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you answer questions, you can also gain reputation, which will give you many benefits, such as reduced advertising.  See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This site is supported by advertising.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Correctly tagging your question will help other people find it more easily.  Accepting an answer will give both you and the answerer some more reputation, and will make people mor likely to answer your questions in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:18:15.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:23:05.287" Score="5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good idea if you merged &lt;em&gt;&quot;Exact Duplicates&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the answers are relevant and useful so if they are closed and lost forever they become useless and people lose out on points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141056" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-07T02:05:12.020" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T13:16:32.620" Title="Merge Exact Duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;merged-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34689" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:25:27.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have the capability to merge any question into any other question, but we generally don't do it unless the dupe has valid, legitimate answers that aren't present in the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The benefit of &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; merging is that people searching (and asking) using the search terms of the duplicate (and not the original) will find their way to the original.  When you merge, you lose that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:25:27.980" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34671" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:27:07.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really, really want to know you can look at the last data dump, dump all your answers that are accepted, then go look and see which aren't accepted anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:27:07.867" />
  <row Id="34692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:30:10.433" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18739/stack-overflow-user-flair&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow User Flair&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starting with which reputation is it &quot;not embarrasing&quot; to use the 'Got Flair' feature?&#xA;I thought about adding it to my website (as I'm currently looking for a job), but I'm afraid that the rating of 1400 won't impress anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: what rating is considered by you as a 'good rating', that would help you impress future employers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for expressing your opinion, and for pointing me to the other question (for which this one is indeed a duplicate). It was very helpful for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141425" LastEditorUserId="141425" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T15:32:45.547" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T15:32:45.547" ClosedDate="2010-01-06T15:23:29.173" Title="Starting with which reputation should I use the &quot;got flair&quot; feature?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="34693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34692" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:38:31.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I view flair primarily as a way to show your love for Stack Overflow. It doesn't have a start rep if you really like promoting Stack Overflow on your page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:38:31.850" />
  <row Id="34694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34692" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:42:16.817" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're proud of your rep and want to use the flair feature, use it, no matter how much rep you have. There's no good or bad reputation here; the simple fact that you're on SO shows you're passionate about programming and want to learn and help others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:42:16.817" />
  <row Id="34695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34570" CreationDate="2010-01-06T14:57:11.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a professional computer programmer of many years standing, you would expect me to always be asking advanced questions.   However in computer programming we are all having to learn new languages and frameworks all the time, therefore I sometimes ask “basic” questions, hence the mix of basic and advanced questions on SO is good.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is so different about maths, or has it stagnated as a field?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T14:57:11.027" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34692" CreationDate="2010-01-06T15:14:49.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My current boss doesn't have a tiniest idea of what the numbers on the flair mean, but, having seen it, he said that being in a Q&amp;amp;A site community is cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I think, the numbers hardly matter unless they really look miserable.  I think that if your rep count ends with &lt;code&gt;k&lt;/code&gt; (that happens if you have &lt;code&gt;10k&lt;/code&gt; or more) it definitely isn't too few to show your involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T15:14:49.240" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T15:39:48.980" Score="6" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two minor points I noticed in the survey:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Question 2 is &quot;How long have you worked in the software development / IT industry&quot;, while in question 3 I get asked what industry I am in -- which isn't neccessarily SD/IT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can only choose one answer in Question 5 (&quot;What is your role your company's purchasing process?&quot;), although the answers are neither mutually exlusive nor accumulatively implying each other (I hope you know what I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt; for you non-believers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1717/surveyr.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T17:01:23.003" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:22:13.970" Title="Notes on the Stack Overflow survey" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;survey&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:23:29.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's another &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4639/edward-tanguay&quot;&gt;proof of concept&lt;/a&gt;. Stellar 12.7K rating from 655 questions and 44 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140635" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T16:23:29.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-06T16:23:29.487" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34689" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:27:18.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support this motion (and was thinking of posting something similar myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the thing that aggravates me the most about the closing of so-called &quot;exact duplicates&quot; - that you take the time to add an answer and before you can pick up any votes or even comments, the question gets closed. And yet if the question truely is an &lt;strong&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;, my answer should be just as applicable to this other question, so merge it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suspicion is that a large percentage of the time questions closed as &quot;exact duplicate&quot; are in fact just similar and that's why they don't get merged - because the moderators think it would create a jumble of anwers. If it was understood there was automatic merging of duplicate questions, it would cut down on the excessive closing of questions under this rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-14T12:05:46.513" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T12:05:46.513" />
  <row Id="34701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34663" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:38:10.950" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original reasoning (according to the podcasts), was that bounties are only supposed to be used &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you &lt;strong&gt;put the effort into getting the question answered yourself&lt;/strong&gt;. If you don't get an immediate answer, you are expected to improve, clarify, and document your continued efforts. These activities bump your question to give it more exposure. Bounties are an escalation of that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after 2 days, you still don't have an answer you like, you can  offer a bounty. Slice off a bit of your own hard-earned reputation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When bounties were introduced, there was a concern that an &lt;strong&gt;expectation would develop&lt;/strong&gt; where you could only get good answers to your questions if you &quot;paid&quot; someone to answer it. Not so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when all other efforts fail, &lt;strong&gt;bounties come to the rescue... later&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T16:38:10.950" />
  <row Id="34702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:39:14.397" Score="-6" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize that there are rules in place that &lt;em&gt;prevent&lt;/em&gt; posters from deleting their own questions, but I would like to see a disincentive for deletion. One possibility is to flag a &quot;delete rate,&quot; similar to the existing &quot;accept rate&quot;: if you see that a user has deleted many of his/her questions, you'll know that any effort you expend in an answer is likely to be wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and yes, this was driven by recent experience)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the votes, it appears that this isn't a very popular idea. However, I feel that some answers to the responders are warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll start with the straw man first: yes, it is conceivable that a user with a 100% deletion rate could come up with a good question &lt;em&gt;and decide not to delete it&lt;/em&gt;. And I'm sure that it is equally likely that there will be a responder who sees the 100% delete rate, but decides to take a chance on the question anyway. Particularly if the answer is simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a reasonable scenario? I don't think so; truly bad questions are quickly picked up by the Close Police without any input from the OP. However, I think a disincentive actually works here: it drives the user toward positive behavior, such as editing the question and making it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, on to the user who realizes that the question is an exact duplicate. Again, duplicate questions get closed pretty quickly. However, this concern could be satisfied by giving users the option to close their own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next: &quot;recoup a deletion rate&quot; similar to recouping a low acceptance rate: personally, I feel having users quickly run through and accept answers in order to improve their acceptance percentage is actually a bad thing. Acceptance should be a statement that &quot;I have tried this answer, and it works for me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally: realizing the answer immediately after posting the question. To which my response is: OK, you had this problem, do you think you're the only person in the world to have it? The proper response in this case is to prepare an answer, so that other people don't have to ask the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've actually practiced that: of the two questions that I've asked on SO, I answered one myself after about an hour debugging the problem. It was a bug, or possibly a feature, in the Prototype JavaScript library. Since I figured out the answer myself, and the only other respondent gave an answer that was unhelpful in that particular situation, should I have just deleted the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139645" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-17T16:54:44.877" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T16:54:44.877" Title="Disincentivize deleting one's own question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34702" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:45:07.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with this.  Even if a user has a 100% delete rate, that doesn't mean they won't come up with a good, valid question that should get answered.  The bias that your suggestion would put on someone would make that question all but disappear.  I've gone back and deleted questions before which I came to realize were just bad.  Since I don't ask all that many questions I would probably, then, have a fairly high delete rate which I don't agree with.  The Accept Rate has thresholds before it is calculated.  What would the thresholds be before this rate kicks in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T16:45:07.037" />
  <row Id="34704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34702" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:45:30.153" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think that will create too many false negatives to justify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are legitimate reasons for users to delete questions and, unlike the acceptance rate, there's no way to recoup a deletion rate after deleting something that really should have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a new, bright-eyed user comes in and posts a question that has been asked before, word for word, so he deletes his own question. That's legitimate, but now he'll never, ever be able to achieve a 0% deletion rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T16:45:30.153" />
  <row Id="34705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:46:26.953" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to put bounty on my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1994150/hidden-features-of-xml-dtd-and-xml-schema&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It already has 3 closing votes, what if it gets closed after starting a bounty ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T16:47:38.060" Title="What if bounty question gets closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34705" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:47:38.060" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It won't. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work/16067#16067&quot;&gt;Questions with a bounty on them can't be closed.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T16:47:38.060" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34653" CreationDate="2010-01-06T16:52:18.127" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rendering problems specific to Internet Explorer 6 are not going to be fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Podcast 65:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, using IE6 is becoming its own penalty because we have rendering problems in IE6 that we're just not going to fix any more, I mean the site will work, but it's going to look a little weird...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky:&lt;/strong&gt; There are companies out there that think it is better to put their employees on IE6 because it is more “Tested, stable, reliable” than IE7 or 8, where 7 has been out for a couple of years, and I'm not saying go crazy here and get firefox, I'm just saying eh, just, eh, and I'm not even saying that IE6 isn't stable and you tested it with all your in-house applications and you know that it works with all your crazy in-house applications, all I'm saying is that IE6 is a worse browser than 7, it is less stable, the very thing you are claiming about requiring people to use IE6 for is the thing that you are not getting my using IE6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah I don't really understand that, on some level I empathise with what you're saying which is these companies are making decisions so bad, that maybe they're dinosaurs, but hey! There's a lot of dinosaurs out there. I don't know. But my position at the moment on IE6 is that we want the site to work – we make no guarantees about, if it's going to look kind of bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spolsky:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atwood:&lt;/strong&gt; The alignment is going to be off and there's so many crazy little CSS things that are wrong with IE6 now that we're just not going to fix, but we do sort of semi-guarantee that you'll be able to use the site at a basic level. But yeah I would love, and I'm sure the whole world would, for IE6 to just poof disappear overnight. But I'm not sure how realistic that is. So let me get back to, let's finish up what we were talking about which is – the serving of static content fro ma different domain is, once you get to a certain volume of site, is substantial, and I definitely recommend it, I'm sort of shocked – the site appears much more responsive. Because you're parellellising those requests, and they come from a dedicated server, and I think it's easier for the browser to cache it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T16:52:18.127" />
  <row Id="34709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T17:16:24.310" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31891/can-we-have-better-projects-support-in-the-cv-section-of-careers&quot;&gt;Related Suggestion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Projects and Links section should be broken into two (Projects becoming separate) and have the projects section behave similarly to education or employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link (optional)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Technologies (tags)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Description/Role&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important part is breaking the Technologies list out of plain-text (the rest is just formatting, which I care much less about).  Currently, you're limited to 10 &quot;outside of employment/education&quot; technology tags.  If you do alot of hobbyist stuff (open source work being the elephant in the room) or your education had lots of diverse projects you're going to run out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What prompted idea this was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/eating-our-own-careers-dogfood/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff's recent dogfooding&lt;/a&gt; post; I went to see if my CV could be expected to show up in a search, based on the content of the post.  The biggest flaw that I saw was that although I have experience with most of the technologies mentioned, due to the scarcity of tags/technologies a number of them only appear in the Projects and Links section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-10T20:27:38.783" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T20:27:38.783" Title="Let us list Technologies for projects in CVs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;technology&gt;&lt;project&gt;" />
  <row Id="34710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34697" CreationDate="2010-01-06T18:24:44.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For #1:  Most software developers do it as support for some other industry.  My last job was as a programmer in the healthcare industry, for example.  Now I'm an IT Director in the Education industry.  I thought that was pretty clear, though I can see where it might puzzle a &quot;pure&quot; software developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For #2: The question has an &quot;All of the above&quot; answer that might fit better if you have that much influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T18:30:18.370" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T18:30:18.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34697" CreationDate="2010-01-06T18:25:53.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To your first point: Because you are on Stack Overflow you must be doing some IT/software development work.  The next question is asking what industry you do this work in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm a developer of banking software, then I work in the banking industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T11:22:13.970" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:22:13.970" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34713" CreationDate="2010-01-06T18:44:44.607" Score="3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to mark &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2015265/cryptlib-encryption-library-for-c&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with a close reason of 'not a real question', but of course that isn't quite true.  I think we need a close reason of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;not specific enough of a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or maybe &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;too broad of a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T18:52:04.653" Title="Close reason for not specific enough questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34712" CreationDate="2010-01-06T18:52:04.653" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being&#xA;  asked here. This question is ambiguous&#xA;  and vague, and cannot be answered in&#xA;  its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't the description of &quot;Not a real question&quot; already cover what you're asking for? Maybe it should just be changed to &quot;Not an answerable question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T18:52:04.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-06T18:55:02.523" Score="9" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many of us already know there are mechanisms in place to detect &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vote fraud&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;voting anomalies&lt;/a&gt;. Obviously, the exact inner workings of these mechanisms can't be discussed openly, or else people will know how to circumvent them. However, I was curious if someone &lt;em&gt;in the know&lt;/em&gt; could address whether or not the algorithms used to detect anomalous voting had the potential to cause problems for users in niche tags. Let me explain further...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone highly active in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/matlab&quot;&gt;lower-traffic tag&lt;/a&gt;, I often see the same group of people asking or answering questions. I therefore end up casting votes on posts by many of the same people. Sometimes when I get to work I notice a number of new questions and answers which I read through quickly, voting as I go. Since a bunch of those votes can often end up going to the same user, and be given in a relatively short period of time, I was worried that my voting might sometimes get flagged as &quot;anomalous&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself haven't seen anything &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; weird going on with regard to &lt;em&gt;getting&lt;/em&gt; votes. I have occasionally noticed losing a couple of votes, but can't totally rule out one or more people simply rescinding their upvotes. The fact that I haven't seen many votes disappear for me may be evidence that the voting anomaly scripts are performing well with regard to low-traffic tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of just asking the SO team about this issue directly, I wanted to ask this on Meta in case any other niche denizens saw evidence of any voting weirdness going on or wanted to comment on any relevant experiences they've had that may be related to this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T20:11:24.020" Title="Does the voting anomaly detection mechanism play well with niche tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;voting-anomaly-detection&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34716" CreationDate="2010-01-06T18:52:26.947" Score="3" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see your % Accept Rate? And what factors contribute to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it below people when they post questions and such. I was wondering where you observe yours or how this comes to be. I could not find this in the F.A.Q. I found a question similar to this but did not provide any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141491" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-06T20:03:38.140" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T20:29:50.467" Title="Accept Rate Percentage" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34715" CreationDate="2010-01-06T18:56:19.230" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your accept rate will show up when you have enough questions that the criteria listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be community wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must not be closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must be more than 3 days old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions must have at least 1 answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There must be at least four eligible questions as determined by the above rules, otherwise the statistic will not appear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T18:56:19.230" />
  <row Id="34717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34719" CreationDate="2010-01-06T19:14:21.327" Score="2" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2014026/c-i-know-i-know-another-question-about-dispose-more-related-to-design&quot;&gt;I asked a question&lt;/a&gt;.  I received four answers.  One of the answers was from UserA (unnamed at this moment).  UserA's answer led to 22 different comments in response to that one answer.  Amongst those 22 comments, there was some very good information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the 22, UserA cited some information that was flat-out wrong.  I asked him about it (Hey UserA, I think that may be incorrect because of X, Y, and Z).  UserA's response was to delete his original answer, which effectively deleted all 22 of the comments (I think it was UserA, who else would be able to delete the answer).  There goes all that info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't down-vote anything, in fact I gave him points on some comments (because I appreciate it when people respond to my questions).  But, because I pointed out something that was wrong, it seems that he is trying to remove any traces of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that something that is acceptable?  Shouldn't he have just mea-culpa'd, leaving the 22 comments with info in it in place (On top of that I don't know what happened to the points I gave to other Users that responded within the 22).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something is sticking in my craw about this.  I also wonder if there is a way to get that info back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: Moving a comment to here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd like this topic to die.  But, I'd like to defend one thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The repost of comments (and the deletion of the answer), I feel is leading to some confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that repost of the comments (which I didn't expect), you don't see &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; User Names. That conversation was &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; between me and another user, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the guy that deleted the answer. So, I absolutely appreciate it (which is why I didn't want to see it deleted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toward the end of that unruly comment path, delete guy threw in a snarky &quot;google this. bye&quot; comment.  I asked him about it, and answer got deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I gave a &quot;great comment&quot; to every response, &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; delete guy's comments (&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; I upvoted his answer) - so I absolutely appreciate his time, as well. I am not the bad guy here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of note: I assumed (bad on me), that marking a comment a &quot;great comment&quot; would increase reputation points.  I know that's not the case now.  I want to repeat: While under that assumption, I upvoted delete guy's answer ... and ... gave a great comment to every one of his comments.  Again, I appreciate all responses to my questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T15:58:06.333" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T18:26:00.143" Title="Is this delete acceptable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="34718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34715" CreationDate="2010-01-06T19:18:12.237" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see your own accept rate (if one exists, subject to what Brandon said) by simply clicking on one of your own questions. I'm not sure where else it's visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T19:18:12.237" />
  <row Id="34719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34717" CreationDate="2010-01-06T19:20:59.593" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to say for sure without seeing the specific question and answer, but I would tend to side with you from a gut-feeling perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's often good to edit a question with points made in comments so that things like this don't happen.  (enter the obligatory &quot;This ain't a discussion site&quot;)  Everyone has the right to delete their answer.  It's a shame that sometimes good content goes away...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T19:20:59.593" />
  <row Id="34720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34717" CreationDate="2010-01-06T19:55:46.347" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something is sticking in my craw about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let it go. It's his answer, he's free to delete it. I'm always happy to see users who post incorrect information come back and remove it when that's pointed out - whether they remove it by editing or deleting is up to them. When it comes to my own answers, I've done both, depending on whether I felt I had the time and knowledge to salvage an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also wonder if there is a way to get that info back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! Rarely is anything ever &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; deleted on SO: moderators and users with reputations &gt;= 10K can still read deleted answers and attached comments. I've pasted them here for posterity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;[removed at UserA's request. See revision history if still interested]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T18:26:00.143" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T18:26:00.143" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34717" CreationDate="2010-01-06T19:57:26.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it was UserA who deleted his answer. No data is lost; it is all still there - but it would take some digging to get the useful bits out of all those comments. Indeed, most of the comments are yours. I'll happily send you your comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On top of that I don't know what happened to the points I gave to other Users that responded within the 22&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points are not an issue in comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T19:57:26.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34714" CreationDate="2010-01-06T20:11:24.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't answer completely, as I have no knowledge of the exact super-secret algorithm for this (and even if I did I would have to kill you if I told you ;-p), but I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; tell you that in your vote history there are some reasonably big clusters of votes, which I assume means that your votes &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; being cancelled (I can't see individual votes, but I can see the clusters). For example, against a group of 7 users (I won't cite names) you have 65, 56, 39, 38, 38, 33, 30 votes (if you see what I mean). Does that sound about right? Too few?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T20:11:24.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34702" CreationDate="2010-01-06T20:16:18.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few deleted questions - for example, on SU I had a problem that I fixed the moment after posting. I don't want that counting against me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are upvoted answers against a question, only moderators can delete it - it can't be self-deleted by the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T20:16:18.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34715" CreationDate="2010-01-06T20:29:50.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just eyeball the list of my questions to see my acceptance rate. But then again, all my questions fit on one screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T20:29:50.467" />
  <row Id="34725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50059" CreationDate="2010-01-06T20:36:12.637" Score="30" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when a question gets deleted, not all answers of that question get automatically deleted too. Provided that you can see the deleted question, those answers can still be voted on/..., just like normal answers. This is inconsistent and should be prevented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the examples seem to fall into two categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions deleted for being spam/by moderators&lt;/strong&gt; (just a guess, those questions have no &quot;deleted by&quot; and no record of their deletion in their revision history. Probably that's a bug on it's own):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1987885&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1987885&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1775931&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1775931&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726859&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726859&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606685&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1606685&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However those questions got deleted, this action should probably also delete the answers to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Race conditions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803977&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803977&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1809673&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1809673&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1796700&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1796700&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500325&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500325&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess the reason for this is some side effect of the &quot;can still post answer after question is closed&quot; grace period (I seem to remember there was such a thing). This grace window should not apply to deleted questions or the posted answers should immediately be marked deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the latest data dump there were all together &gt;4000 such &quot;undead&quot; answers. To find them the following query can be used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select&#xA;  a_parentid  as &quot;question id&quot;,&#xA;  count(a_id) as &quot;number of not deleted answers&quot;&#xA;from (&#xA;  select&#xA;    answers.id       as a_id,&#xA;    answers.parentid as a_parentid,&#xA;    questions.id     as q_id&#xA;  from&#xA;    posts as answers left outer join posts as questions&#xA;      on answers.parentid = questions.id&#xA;  where&#xA;    answers.posttypeid = 2&#xA;) as subquery&#xA;where q_id is NULL&#xA;group by a_parentid;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The query for the real database would probably be simpler since there it should be possible to directly ask if a given question is deleted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-16T09:30:47.570" LastActivityDate="2010-05-16T21:42:10.293" Title="Buried but not dead" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;zombie&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34669" CreationDate="2010-01-06T21:27:23.813" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're Jon Skeet. You are the standard!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140283" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T21:27:23.813" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34717" CreationDate="2010-01-06T22:21:05.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OK, now my reputation points are being attacked. What can be done here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing. Kiss your rep good-bye!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T22:21:05.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34717" CreationDate="2010-01-06T22:28:03.283" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your first comment starts with &quot;Can someone vote this down&quot;, your last one with &quot;I just think you are spreading misinformation.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why aren't you now just happy that he stopped to &quot;spread misinformation&quot; and deleted the answer that you thought was so bad? What else were you trying to accomplish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T22:28:03.283" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34743" CreationDate="2010-01-06T22:50:20.643" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for the tag limitation of 5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find folksonomy incredibly useful and often times I'm caught retagging someones post where I don't want to remove one of their five, but merely add a 6th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for this?  Apologies if this question exists somewhere already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141446" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:45:27.740" Title="Why is there a tag limit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;limits&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34737" CreationDate="2010-01-06T22:52:30.717" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I'm sorry to ask this lame question but I do not see any bounty button. I've checked the faq and related questions, but I guess nobody has been so lame to ask this question so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a newbie to this site and my situation is like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;my reputation is 51&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question age says 3 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other requirements I have to meet to offer bounty for my question, that are not mentioned in faq? Or I missed something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T23:09:48.117" Title="Where is the bounty button?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34663" CreationDate="2010-01-06T22:57:04.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One consideration is that, last I checked, I couldn't vote to close a question with a bounty.  There's some reason for that; if somebody commits some rep, they deserve a shot at getting answers.  However, we don't want people starting questions like &quot;Isn't vi better than emacs?&quot; or &quot;Does Hello Kitty represent cosmic evil?&quot;, sacrificing 50 rep, and having them sit out there for a week.  (Yes, we could flag for moderator attention, but I'd rather we weren't in a position where that's all we could do about bad posts.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The delay on bounty gives us 3K+ers two days to close a question.  If we haven't closed it by then, it's probably not too bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T22:57:04.013" />
  <row Id="34737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34733" CreationDate="2010-01-06T23:09:19.303" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;my reputation is 51&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need 100 rep to start a bounty. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/reputation-bounty-for-unanswered-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;you have at least 100 reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your question is at least two days old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;your question does not yet have an accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T23:09:19.303" />
  <row Id="34738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34733" CreationDate="2010-01-06T23:09:48.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;bounty FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, you need 100 reputation in order to start a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T23:09:48.117" />
  <row Id="34739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34742" CreationDate="2010-01-06T23:15:33.580" Score="13" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16534/whats-new-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Whats new in StackOverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34734/recent-usability-improvements&quot;&gt;Greg's post&lt;/a&gt; about some recent changes, and after accidentally noticing that you can click on the vote count to display the up/down totals (try it!), it occurred to me that changes to SO are often snuck in under the cover of darkness - only to be discovered by happy accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we get some kind of a &quot;what's new&quot; page listing recent changes? Or maybe a regular blog post with these kinds of things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T07:06:35.057" ClosedDate="2010-01-07T11:11:26.570" Title="Add a &quot;what's new&quot; feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;changes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34746" CreationDate="2010-01-06T23:22:30.680" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking to find questions related specifically to JavaScript's canvas.  I noticed that one single question had been tagged &lt;code&gt;javascript-canvas&lt;/code&gt; while the others had separate (&lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;canvas&lt;/code&gt;) or (&lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;canvas&lt;/code&gt;) tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I can now re-tag questions I eliminated the outlier.  But then I noticed &lt;code&gt;javascript-events&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;javascript-functions&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;javascript-editor&lt;/code&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offhand I would say that &quot;Related Tags&quot; seems to be the right way to tackle this.  For instance, there are 442 tags for &quot;javascript-events&quot; but if it were just &quot;events&quot; it would still show up in the list you get after clicking javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly &lt;code&gt;javascript-functions&lt;/code&gt; would not show up, but who's to say it is more deserving of a special tag than &lt;code&gt;javascript-jquery&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;javascript-google-maps&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141442" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T03:07:02.130" Title="When to use hyphenated &quot;TagA-TagB&quot; instead of searching [TagA] AND [TagB]?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34739" CreationDate="2010-01-06T23:26:04.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They could put a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Site Changes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tab in the Recent page so that the envelope would light up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-06T23:26:04.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34732" CreationDate="2010-01-06T23:30:54.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The truth is, no matter how many tags were allowed, there are outlier question that the author thinks needs just one more tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The consensus is that if you need more than five tags, you should probably look at simplifying the question. Your question may simply be too big and encompasses too many areas of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, more likely, if you consistently need more than five tags, your are probably &lt;strong&gt;adding superfluous tags&lt;/strong&gt; that aren't really needed. Five is a good limit because it encourages you to pare down the tags to just the essentials. Tagging is supposed to help categorize your question into its major areas of interest. It is not meant to try and sum up your question into every &lt;em&gt;conceivable&lt;/em&gt; interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't agree, I would suggest that you &lt;strong&gt;link to a few sample questions&lt;/strong&gt; that &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; more tags. You'll either prove the convention wrong or the users here will come up with some recommendations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T04:45:27.740" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:45:27.740" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34732" CreationDate="2010-01-07T00:09:22.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there wasn't a limit, then you would end up having questions with tens of applicable tags, which would help no-one - forcing a tag limit ensures that some thought goes into what tags are most applicable to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T00:09:22.537" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34732" CreationDate="2010-01-07T00:56:36.967" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people already seem to want to make every noun in their questions into a tag.  Don't encourage them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T00:56:36.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34740" CreationDate="2010-01-07T02:41:10.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there are a lot of cases where the &lt;code&gt;technology-feature&lt;/code&gt; style is more appropriate than the &lt;code&gt;technology feature&lt;/code&gt; style. Keeping the tags separate will make searching and favoriting easier and more effective. Hyphenated tags are really meant for use in place of spaces, like &lt;code&gt;visual-studio&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T02:41:10.223" />
  <row Id="34747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34740" CreationDate="2010-01-07T03:07:02.130" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each tag for your question should stand by itself.  So &lt;code&gt;visual&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;studio&lt;/code&gt; are bad tags because one doesn't make sense without the other.  &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;canvas&lt;/code&gt; are both independent as well.  However, sometimes you also need to clarify a tag.  For example, several different programming environments provide a canvas; which one are you talking about?  In this case, searching for &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;canvas&lt;/code&gt; should cover you, but there are cases where that doesn't hold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T03:07:02.130" />
  <row Id="34748" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T03:47:24.440" Score="-6" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often i want to ask for opinions and use polls for some questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are closed each time because they are subjective and argumentative - which is the whole idea i ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So can we add another stackoverflow for a more relaxed way to handle subjective questions. Even flame wars might be worth reading from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134874" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T19:59:16.600" Title="What about an opinion.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34748" CreationDate="2010-01-07T03:52:01.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You sure can. Head over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and create one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Of course, you'll have to pay for that privilege.&lt;/strike&gt; Not anymore. Now you just need to get a community critical mass to agree with you and StackExchange will run it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T19:59:16.600" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T19:59:16.600" />
  <row Id="34750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34748" CreationDate="2010-01-07T03:53:16.843" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe SO should just host a regular poll, Slashdot-style. Let folks submit their ideas here on Meta, and pick them off in order of popularity... The question could be owned by the Community user (so no badges or rep for whoever suggested it), and the rate at which new polls are posted would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001228.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;controlled by the system&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, there'd still be a regular stream of worthless questions. But it'd provide a controlled means for users to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;have their fun&lt;/a&gt;, and, hopefully &lt;strong&gt;get it out of their systems&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T03:53:16.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34739" CreationDate="2010-01-07T04:26:56.003" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SVN number that appears below the Peak Internet logo (bottom right of the page) could be linked to a changelog that gets updated with each new published build. You wouldn't be notified of it, but if you were curious, you could check out and see what's changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, though, that Jeff and Company like to let us figure out the changes on our own. Plus, maybe they don't want the public to see their check-in comments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T04:26:56.003" />
  <row Id="34753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34754" CreationDate="2010-01-07T04:45:10.687" Score="2" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of users on meta referring to their daily reputation but I don't see those stats in my profile.  I can see the rep graph which shows it climbing, but posts here are referring to very specific numbers, not estimates from a graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T04:56:05.577" Title="Where do you see daily reputation earned and when cap is hit?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34753" CreationDate="2010-01-07T04:47:02.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the envelope icon to the left of your name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then click the &quot;Reputation&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42346" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T04:47:02.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34753" CreationDate="2010-01-07T04:56:05.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/stackoverflow/reputationtracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's Rep Tracker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T04:56:05.577" />
  <row Id="34756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34739" CreationDate="2010-01-07T06:45:36.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This already basically exists -- look at the [status-completed] tag, sorted by activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=active&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted there might be a little noise from people modifying stuff that was completed a while back, but that is not very common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you might want to look at my posts in any [status-completed] question. Sometimes Jarrod or Geoff post resolutions, but it is usually me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a1%20%5Bstatus-completed%5D&amp;amp;tab=active&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a1%20%5Bstatus-completed%5D&amp;amp;tab=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T07:06:35.057" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T07:06:35.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34759" CreationDate="2010-01-07T06:49:19.577" Score="4" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK this makes no sense but I just got my CV for $9 (USD). Is this a new special? Is this any different from the $19 one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if this is a secret then I'm sorry!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T00:23:01.790" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T00:23:01.790" Title="Did I really just get my CV for only $9?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34757" CreationDate="2010-01-07T07:01:03.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is normal -- we plan to make periodic special CV filing offers available, for new CV filers and &quot;special friends of Stack Overflow&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-lower-careers-pricing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-lower-careers-pricing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We plan to keep improving and refining the careers service throughout the year. &lt;strong&gt;Specifically, we’ll be exploring other options to reduce barriers to filing CVs&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as publishing broad statistics about employer searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T07:01:03.370" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34761" CreationDate="2010-01-07T07:22:18.110" Score="23" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I filled in the &quot;Where do you want to work&quot; field on Stack Overflow Careers, I wrote &quot;Osijek, Osječko-baranjska, Croatia&quot;. Auto-magic changes this to &quot;Esseg, Osječko-baranjska, Croatia&quot;. Esseg was the name of that city during the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osijek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Habsburg Monarchy&lt;/a&gt; and that empire hasn't existed since the end of WWI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would kindly ask whoever wrote this in the database to correct it. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132375" LastEditorUserId="144043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T21:21:47.180" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T21:21:47.180" Title="Automatic change of Osijek to Esseg" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34760" CreationDate="2010-01-07T07:25:36.030" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a problem with &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YQL&lt;/a&gt;, not with Stack Overflow Careers, which uses YQL to map free text input to places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the results of a search probably a lot like the one Careers uses by entering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from geo.places where text=&quot;Osijek, Osječko-baranjska, Croatia&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;console&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For which my output is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cbfunc({&#xA; &quot;query&quot;: {&#xA;  &quot;count&quot;: &quot;1&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;created&quot;: &quot;2010-01-07T07:30:09Z&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;lang&quot;: &quot;en-US&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;updated&quot;: &quot;2010-01-07T07:30:09Z&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;uri&quot;: &quot;http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/yql?q=select+*+from+geo.places+where+text%3D%22Osijek%2C+Osje%C4%8Dko-baranjska%2C+Croatia%22&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;diagnostics&quot;: {&#xA;   &quot;publiclyCallable&quot;: &quot;true&quot;,&#xA;   &quot;url&quot;: {&#xA;    &quot;execution-time&quot;: &quot;45&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;content&quot;: &quot;http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q(Osijek%2C%20Osje%C4%8Dko-baranjska%2C%20Croatia);start=0;count=10&quot;&#xA;   },&#xA;   &quot;user-time&quot;: &quot;46&quot;,&#xA;   &quot;service-time&quot;: &quot;45&quot;,&#xA;   &quot;build-version&quot;: &quot;4265&quot;&#xA;  },&#xA;  &quot;results&quot;: {&#xA;   &quot;place&quot;: {&#xA;    &quot;lang&quot;: &quot;en-US&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;uri&quot;: &quot;http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/849471&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;woeid&quot;: &quot;849471&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;placeTypeName&quot;: {&#xA;     &quot;code&quot;: &quot;7&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;content&quot;: &quot;Town&quot;&#xA;    },&#xA;    &quot;name&quot;: &quot;Esseg&quot;,&#xA;    &quot;country&quot;: {&#xA;     &quot;code&quot;: &quot;HR&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;type&quot;: &quot;Country&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;content&quot;: &quot;Croatia&quot;&#xA;    },&#xA;    &quot;admin1&quot;: {&#xA;     &quot;code&quot;: &quot;&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;type&quot;: &quot;County&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;content&quot;: &quot;Osje\u010dko-baranjska&quot;&#xA;    },&#xA;    &quot;admin2&quot;: {&#xA;     &quot;code&quot;: &quot;&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;type&quot;: &quot;District&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;content&quot;: &quot;Osijek&quot;&#xA;    },&#xA;    &quot;admin3&quot;: null,&#xA;    &quot;locality1&quot;: {&#xA;     &quot;type&quot;: &quot;Town&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;content&quot;: &quot;Esseg&quot;&#xA;    },&#xA;    &quot;locality2&quot;: null,&#xA;    &quot;postal&quot;: null,&#xA;    &quot;centroid&quot;: {&#xA;     &quot;latitude&quot;: &quot;45.558449&quot;,&#xA;     &quot;longitude&quot;: &quot;18.676491&quot;&#xA;    },&#xA;    &quot;boundingBox&quot;: {&#xA;     &quot;southWest&quot;: {&#xA;      &quot;latitude&quot;: &quot;45.539742&quot;,&#xA;      &quot;longitude&quot;: &quot;18.629290&quot;&#xA;     },&#xA;     &quot;northEast&quot;: {&#xA;      &quot;latitude&quot;: &quot;45.572811&quot;,&#xA;      &quot;longitude&quot;: &quot;18.742430&quot;&#xA;     }&#xA;    }&#xA;   }&#xA;  }&#xA; }&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it seems like the Yahoo! folks don't have much interest in fixing this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-13T20:26:06.293" LastActivityDate="2011-05-13T20:26:06.293" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29414" CreationDate="2010-01-07T07:43:16.690" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would probably make sense for them to be displayed in order of your reputation on the sites - since that's almost certainly a reasonable indicator of which you're going to want to show first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T07:43:16.690" />
  <row Id="34768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2010-01-07T09:29:07.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ported &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34588/4-spaces-for-code-tags-is-annoying/34594#34594&quot;&gt;Michael's C#/.NET code&lt;/a&gt; and built a web UI around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hosted app:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wittman.org/projects/stackoverflowindentfourspaces/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflowIndentFourSpaces - &quot;Indent Four Spaces (for SO)&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(scroll to bottom of app above for links to the open source PHP code)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Core function ported over:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?php&#xA;function normalize_indent($code, $num_of_spaces_to_indent)&#xA;{&#xA;    /* This function is a port/fork of [Michael Stum](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/91/michael-stum)'s&#xA;    *  #C/.NET code &amp;lt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34588/4-spaces-for-code-tags-is-annoying/34594#34594&amp;gt;.&#xA;    */&#xA;    $spaces = str_repeat(' ', $num_of_spaces_to_indent);&#xA;    $removeIndent = 0;&#xA;    $code = str_replace(&quot;\t&quot;, '    ', $code);&#xA;    $codeLines = preg_split(&quot;/\012\015?/&quot;, $code);&#xA;    foreach($codeLines as $s)&#xA;    {&#xA;        if($s === '') continue;&#xA;        $tmp = 0;&#xA;        foreach(str_split($s) as $c)&#xA;        {&#xA;            if ($c != &quot; &quot;)&#xA;            {&#xA;                break;&#xA;            }&#xA;            $tmp++;&#xA;        }&#xA;        if($removeIndent == 0 || $tmp &amp;lt; $removeIndent)&#xA;        {&#xA;            $removeIndent = $tmp;&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    $codeFormatted = '';    &#xA;    foreach($codeLines as $s)&#xA;    {    &#xA;        $codeFormatted .= $spaces;&#xA;        $codeFormatted .= (strlen($s) &amp;gt;= $removeIndent ? substr_replace($s, '', 0, $removeIndent) : $s) . &quot;\n&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    return $codeFormatted;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149903" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T09:29:07.960" />
  <row Id="34769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T10:22:24.063" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30076/javascript-infinite-loop-on-so-in-firefox-does-anyone-else-see-this&quot;&gt;Javascript infinite loop on SO in Firefox - does anyone else see this?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2019497/memory-issues-memory-is-not-at-all-getting-released-iphone-sdk-received-signal&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I edited it to format the code, the page would then display an error :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/9kujxz.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac&#xA;  OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6)&#xA;  Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it's because the formatting, done in the front-end, was taking too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case then rolled back to &quot;no code formatting&quot; to prevent other users to get the same error.  Not sure if that's a priority to fix (because no one should post that much code), but I figured I'd let you guys know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T10:22:24.063" ClosedDate="2010-01-07T10:37:38.443" Title="JS issue when formated code is too long" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T12:23:18.043" Score="20" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok.  I know that there's some marketing-only stuff in the survey, but can we get the results of the survey posted to meta when it's complete?  Curious minds want to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T17:10:17.010" Title="Post the results of the SO survey on meta" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;survey&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34772" CreationDate="2010-01-07T13:03:12.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;some marketing-only stuff&quot;? Except for the last question (which is pointless given meta), it's all marketing, i.e. the standard questions trade magazines get you to answer when you subscribe so they have solid facts to tell potential advertisers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T13:03:12.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34833" CreationDate="2010-01-07T13:06:50.067" Score="9" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020216&quot;&gt;a question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; and was submitting a revision to my answer, and got an error saying the page could not be found, and the question had disappeared. I've looked around here and see the 2 most common possibilities are that the question was merged or deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem is there is nothing to indicate which happened, and if it was indeed merged, there is no way of knowing where it is now. This is surely a bad design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is deleted, surely it should show a message indicating this for at least a few minutes, and/or notify the person who originally asked the question (not me in this case) or if it was merged, it should redirect to the question it was merged with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data doesn't need to be kept permanently but at least people who are directly editing an answer or doing something on the question could be notified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5381" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-10T06:12:34.280" LastActivityDate="2010-06-10T06:12:51.147" Title="Show some kind of evidence trail on merged or deleted questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;merged-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34778" CreationDate="2010-01-07T15:39:05.937" Score="3" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13014/notification-email-from-stackoverflow-contains-3-after-zip-code&quot;&gt;Notification email from stackoverflow contains &amp;ldquo;&amp;lt;3&amp;rdquo; after zip code&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I received an email from the StackOverflow team this morning, at the end of the email there is a niggling &quot;&amp;lt;3&quot;. I've seen this in various emails, not just from StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what it it looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com LLC, PO Box 1361, El Cerrito CA 94530 &amp;lt;3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;stackoverflow.com LLC, PO Box 1361, El Cerrito CA 94530 &#xA;&amp;lt;span title=&quot;because we care&quot; style=&quot;color:maroon&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;3&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could cause this? Is it an HTML character that Outlook does not render correctly? Or is Jeff trying to send me secret messages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T15:53:17.640" ClosedDate="2010-01-07T15:53:09.263" Title="Why does &lt;3 show up on StackOverflow emails?" Tags="&lt;email&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34777" CreationDate="2010-01-07T15:40:28.307" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a sideways heart. The person sending the email is being cute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140529" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T15:42:11.097" />
  <row Id="34779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34777" CreationDate="2010-01-07T15:40:58.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its the symbol for love, a heart, expressing gratitude for reading their email and being a member of this community. &amp;lt;3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147848" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T15:42:11.097" />
  <row Id="34780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34777" CreationDate="2010-01-07T15:44:54.180" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because they care, but only to the extent of 2 care units (less than 3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40015" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T15:44:54.180" />
  <row Id="34781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34777" CreationDate="2010-01-07T15:53:17.640" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow loves you! &amp;lt;3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the actual code in the email:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span title=&quot;because we care&quot; style=&quot;color:maroon&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;3&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T15:53:17.640" />
  <row Id="34782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T15:54:21.773" Score="3" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3639/why-are-the-number-of-upvotes-on-an-answer-sometimes-blue&quot;&gt;Why are the number of upvotes on an answer sometimes blue?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_1TPOP7DzY1E/S0YDMSN-BoI/AAAAAAAAC4Y/P4ScXI2Z6XU/s800/blue.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140625" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T15:54:21.773" ClosedDate="2010-01-07T16:00:37.857" Title="Why some tags score are in blue?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tag-score&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34827" CreationDate="2010-01-07T16:10:02.407" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title states. Unfortunately, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4376/please-allow-image-uploads-directly-onto-the-site&quot;&gt;I can't post an image right now&lt;/a&gt; to show what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, hyperlinks and images show as their HTML tags in the search results. Search &quot;blue score&quot; (no quotes) on Meta for an example of a question with an image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what to do with hyperlinks, but images should probably be stripped down to a searchable marker that contains the image alt-text. Something like &quot;[Image: image alt-text]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T23:56:46.547" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:58:28.570" Title="Bug: Questions with embedded elements display as HTML tags in search results" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;search-results&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21358" CreationDate="2010-01-07T16:17:57.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/stacktrilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Trilogy&lt;/a&gt; seems to be doing the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89035" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T16:17:57.537" />
  <row Id="34789" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T16:33:23.570" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32352/cant-comment-on-other-posts-able-to-comment-on-own&quot;&gt;Can&amp;rsquo;t comment on other posts, able to comment on own&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33419/cant-add-small-comments-to-questions&quot;&gt;Can&amp;rsquo;t add small comments to questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30657/how-to-comment-previous-answers-in-so&quot;&gt;How to comment previous answers in SO&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to comment on questions but the button &lt;strong&gt;add comment&lt;/strong&gt; only appears in my answers. Could it be because I use google to login?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T16:35:22.203" ClosedDate="2010-01-07T23:59:33.013" Title="stackoverflow comments question" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34789" CreationDate="2010-01-07T16:34:29.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have enough reputation yet, that's why. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;50  Leave comments†&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140047" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T16:35:22.203" />
  <row Id="34791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34789" CreationDate="2010-01-07T16:34:44.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  This is, of course, a meta-question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151165" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T16:35:22.203" />
  <row Id="34793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2010-01-07T16:48:55.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question that teach me anything that could make me better at my job? Can I learn something from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow where we have fun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T16:48:55.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-07T16:48:55.250" />
  <row Id="34794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:19:20.627" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I lost access to my stack overflow account as I haven't used it in so long, but I have completely forgotten the address of the openID and what it even was I used to sign up/login with since I haven't used it in awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anyway of getting it back at all? I see no recovery options and I suspect I wouldn't be able to use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the best I can do to prove it is me is update the twitter linked to in my profile but I suspect that wouldn't offer enough proof and would have to be highly manual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any pointers to a recovery option I've missed would be much appricated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49262/sam-phelps&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/49262/sam-phelps&lt;/a&gt; is my account in question. I'd really rather not have to start another account. Would I be able to start a new one and have them merged? I remember it having been done in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T20:07:12.423" Title="Any chance of account recovery?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="34795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34798" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:22:08.200" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;When questions have been merged/migrated to another trilogy site, it would be nice if the page still showed that it was migrated, but include  a bar or some other indicator that said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please wait: Redirecting you to Super User/Server Fault/Stack Overflow/Meta in 3..2..1..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and automatically redirect the user. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also benefit users who are in the middle of answering a question. Rather than get a &quot;Page Not Found&quot; when they submit their answer, are brought to a page that shows it was migrated and then are automatically redirected to the appropriate new home of that question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T00:51:06.937" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T12:35:55.930" Title="Automatically Redirect on Merged/Migrated Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34794" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:22:45.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email to &lt;strong&gt;team@StackOverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt; with your information and they should be able to help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T17:22:45.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34794" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:24:01.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I guess that's possible. Create a new account and send an email to the &quot;contact us&quot; link at the bottom of every page handing in the IDs of both accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T17:24:01.270" />
  <row Id="34798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34795" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:29:15.987" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would't want that. If the question belongs on another site (i.e. off topic) that might be enough reason for me to lose interest in it. Now I'm sent to another site I may or may not be a member of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I might have other business on the site I &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; on. It's easy enough to click on a link to get to the migrated question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T17:35:45.080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T17:35:45.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37047" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:45:39.053" Score="27" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be some way to indicate willingness (or unwillingness) to travel and the percentage of travel one is willing to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130201" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T00:16:35.957" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:57:47.127" Title="Add travel preferences to Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34800" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34820" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:48:51.633" Score="10" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recieved a mail from careers@stackoverflow.com today titled &quot;Thanks for participating on Stack Overflow!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to feedback that this hit my junkmail folder (on Hotmail).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not concerned about the mail itself, and I'm sure it's not junk, but you guys might want to know that it's being seen as junk by Hotmail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I subsequenty verified my email address on Careers, and then paid to be listed. Both mails associated with these actions ended up as junk. I've now flagged SO mails as &quot;safe&quot;. Very little else ends up in my junk mail (i.e. I don't think I have an overly agressive junk mail filter). Perhaps I'm in a minority, but it would be worth investigating why these mails get flagged as it could cost you business or reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138264" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T07:14:28.150" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T07:14:28.150" Title="Feedback on Stack Overflow Careers &quot;thanks for participating&quot; e-mail" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34800" CreationDate="2010-01-07T17:55:56.203" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't speak to Hotmail, but it came safely through to my gmail account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T17:55:56.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34888" CreationDate="2010-01-07T18:11:53.343" Score="10" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the Careers site, and I agree that the cost of posting my CV is pretty low, but I live in the UK and don't want to waste my hard earned GBP if all the employers are based in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way you can give an indication (even if it's at a high level) of where your current employers are based, what they're generally looking for, and how frequently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my homepage for Careers I see the number of employers and the number of searches. I'd be more likely to pay if I could see &quot;Employers In Your Region&quot; &quot;Employers Looking For Your Skills&quot;. Basically, it would be good to see stats that say &quot;Hey - if you were to file your CV then it wouldn't be in vain&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I blame snow blindness, but I've only just spotted that next to the &quot;Total Searches&quot; stat on the home page there is a &quot;show more detail&quot; link that exposes some of the information I was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138264" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T07:12:29.730" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T07:12:29.730" Title="Who Are The Employers and Where Are They Located?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34802" CreationDate="2010-01-07T18:24:06.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing is the employers are generally transient, with pricing packages working on a weekly basis for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On careers, prospective programmers are long-term users and employers are short-term. So while it wouldn't hurt to have a listing of some employer statistics those statistics are likely to change dramatically on a regular basis and so probably wouldn't be a good basis for determining whether or not to sign up for careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the statistics included all previous employers as well as current ones, then the data would be more useful for your purpose but wouldn't really reflect what employers are actually on careers at any given time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: A good idea might be to allow users to search for employer information. Not necessarily details about who is on, but something like a query that lets you search for employers by both region and most recent activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way you can verify that there are active employers in your region or, if you're thinking more long-term, that there &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; active employers in your region which implies there will be employers there again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T18:38:43.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T18:38:43.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34802" CreationDate="2010-01-07T18:51:30.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to produce a world map showing where recent jobs (or employer searches) are located? This information could fade over time, so that searches performed last week on a particular region are less dominant than searches going on today.  Assembled into a time-lapse video, it could be quite valuable seeing how hot spots move around the world over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something similar could possibly be used to show the most popular technologies, although obviously some other sort of graphical representation would need to be used than a map.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T18:51:30.337" />
  <row Id="34805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34806" CreationDate="2010-01-07T19:41:14.467" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two OpenIDs associated with my SO-related sites, one for the &quot;myOpenID&quot; account, and one through my website, which is a delegate to my &quot;myOpenID&quot; account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm getting rid of my website, which I never update, I'd like to remove the openid-account associated with my accounts that will no longer function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way for me to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T09:36:13.800" Title="Decomissioning a website, how to get rid of an openid on the StackOverflow-sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34805" CreationDate="2010-01-07T19:42:58.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK no, but you can swap it so that it becomes the Secondary OpenID and never use it. Should someone register your website and set it up as your delegate again, they would still need to authenticate with your real OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31371/how-do-i-delete-my-alt-openid&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31371/how-do-i-delete-my-alt-openid&lt;/a&gt; (not a real duplicate, but answered by Jeff)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T20:36:29.470" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T20:36:29.470" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T19:44:16.423" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I registered with Stack Overflow a long time ago with my gmail address. More recently, I did it again with another OpenID. I then switched OpenIDs to use my openIDs from Google and Yahoo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was able to configure my email (gmail) address on meta.stackoverflow.com, but not on stackoverflow.com, because I guess my gmail address was previously stored from my registration a long time ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm authenticated with OpenID, and since the Google variant of the OpenID protocol does allow the web site to retrieve the email address, is there any way to associate my email address with this account without getting the email conflict message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141497" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T09:27:17.640" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T09:27:17.640" Title="Email already registered error message" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34807" CreationDate="2010-01-07T19:54:34.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yup... let me take a look...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, your old account was seen (logged in) yesterday; do you still have access to both? We can merge them easily enough; I just would like to confirm ownership (of both) first... I'll drop you an e-mail if that is OK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T19:54:34.823" />
  <row Id="34809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34794" CreationDate="2010-01-07T20:07:12.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it would be useful, I could e-mail the openid provider (to the e-mail address on the old account). Let me know... Also, if you don't get a prompt reply from team@stackoverflow.com, let me know here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T20:07:12.423" />
  <row Id="34810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T20:31:28.047" Score="1" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26365/is-there-a-way-to-attach-images-to-a-question&quot;&gt;Is there a way to attach images to a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28525/how-do-i-post-a-screenshot-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do I post a screenshot on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how can i attach a file to a question for all or for a spacial person in here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T22:05:31.123" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T22:05:31.123" ClosedDate="2010-01-07T21:08:40.317" Title="attaching picture or file" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34810" CreationDate="2010-01-07T20:35:07.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Host it on a file hosting service or on your server and link us to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140862" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T20:38:00.560" />
  <row Id="34812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34810" CreationDate="2010-01-07T20:37:36.740" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regard to posting images:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gain at least 15 Rep (the minimum to post images)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upload them to an image hosting site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the picture icon above the space where you write/edit your post and copy the link location.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T20:38:00.560" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-07T20:37:36.740" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34868" CreationDate="2010-01-07T21:20:38.887" Score="10" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recieved my first message through Stack Overflow Careers and was a little confused as to what I  was supposed to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few things that confused me (from what I can remember; the actual message page with options is no longer available to me since I already submitted an answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing within or at the end of the actual message to let you know that it's incomplete or contains additional information.  When I saw the radio button that said &lt;code&gt;Interested - Show Complete Message&lt;/code&gt;, I thought &lt;em&gt;What complete message? Is there something missing from this message? This message looks complete to me, so what's the problem?&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only after clicking the reply did I realize there were a few additional lines of contact information in the message.  It would have been more clear had there been some kind of &lt;em&gt;(message continued)&lt;/em&gt; indicator to tell the user that what they are seeing is not the whole picture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Furthermore, with regard to the imcomplete message, it wasn't clear to me as to why the message is incomplete to begin with.  &lt;em&gt;What additional information will I see if I click I am interested? What is it that I can only see when I show my interest and why is it currently being withheld from me?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not clear to me what I am supposed to do after receiving the message.  The employer writes that they have a job opening, describes the job, and leaves their name.  &lt;em&gt;What does the employer expect from me at this point?  Should I respond with my contact information? Will they automatically receive my contact infomration and let them know how excited I am that they are reaching out to me?  If I click &quot;I am not looking for a job at this time,&quot; does that change how my CV is listed on SO careers?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to these questions was not evident to me when I tried to follow through with the receipt of my first message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read through &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31183/no-way-to-respond-to-message-on-careers/31187#31187&quot;&gt;Jeff's reply on this question&lt;/a&gt;, which helped to explain the way things are supposed to work with the &lt;strong&gt;employer contacting the potential employee once the candidate indicates his or her interest&lt;/strong&gt;.  However, in my first experience using message on SO careers, this was not clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the flow of events is clearly explained when someone sets up their CV (I can't remember) such that they ought to know how things are supposed to work.  However, it might be months (or years) before that person receives a message from an employer and it is likely that he will have forgotten how things are supposed to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138813" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T16:24:26.733" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T16:24:26.733" Title="When receiving a Careers message, &quot;Interested - Show Complete Message&quot; was confusing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-01-07T21:21:28.400" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mootools.net/forge/p/moorte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3008/moorteado.png&quot; alt=&quot;MooRTE: Rich Text Editor Framework - IFrame Free WYSIWYG Editor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140716" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T18:03:17.770" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:03:17.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-07T21:21:28.400" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="34815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-07T22:31:16.307" Score="8" ViewCount="800" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it is apparent that a consensus will never be reached on whether this question is an appropriate one for the site or not, I suggest giving moderators the ability to lock such questions against closing votes and deletion votes.  This will allows users to continue to add answers without suffering the endless cycle of opening and closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is already done for questions with a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question can always be fully locked later when it is apparent that no more benefit will be gained by leaving it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T18:35:57.343" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T18:35:57.343" Title="Give Diamond Moderators the Ability to Partially Lock a Post" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34849" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:21:41.743" Score="-4" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should a question closed by a moderator be allowed to be answered until there are multiple close votes by other moderators? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it should be this way because sometimes a 'close' can be subjective and should require a consensus before stopping the answers from flowing in. Excepting the case where the question is closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current process may stop a question from being answered due to one person's narrow opinion when clearly the community believes otherwise. Even moderators can make mistakes, or have views not aligned with the community it serves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141465" LastEditorUserId="141465" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T23:47:15.757" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T09:44:45.400" Title="Allow question closed by 1 moderator to be answered until there are at least 2 moderator close votes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="34817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34816" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:29:45.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I understand what you mean. A single person voting to close doesn't prevent anyone from posting an answer. It requires 5 people to actually close a question, unless a moderator casts a vote to close. Then the question will be closed immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17937/who-has-the-right-to-close-questions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for more details on how the voting process actually works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: No, I don't think it should take multiple moderators to close a question. They were chosen as moderators for a reason, and they probably have a decent understanding of what does and doesn't belong on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, a moderator closing a post does not prevent it from being reopened by 5 regular users, or even another moderator. This happens regularly, and it seems to work out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastEditorUserId="74022" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T23:53:14.980" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:53:14.980" />
  <row Id="34818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34815" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:29:57.793" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, we can do everything you ask already. I've been reluctant to do this so far, as it also prevents voting on the question and adding comments, but heck - 'tis wiki and the +100 magic number has been passed long ago (and the comments are increasingly noise on that one - maybe I should clean them out too...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So; I've locked it for now, but you can still add answers. Maybe it will be safe to unlock it in a day or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: the main reason I am locking this is that &lt;strong&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; we are having to discuss it here, and &lt;strong&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; it keeps getting flagged etc, it is is being a distraction. While it is locked, people who don't like the current state can (frankly) move to the next question (or, like, do some work) without feeling the need to express their love/loathing of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short (for those that get the reference):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/features/2002/07/images/marmite/main_marmite.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Marmite: love it or hate it&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T23:46:36.757" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:46:36.757" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34815" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:36:31.833" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds so easy: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Just keep it open.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; The problem is people have a bias one way or the other and these &quot;let's leave it open/let's leave it closed&quot; solutions always expose that bias... not the actual voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two groups of people who vote on these things; the &lt;em&gt;inclusionists&lt;/em&gt; (keep them open) and the &lt;em&gt;exclusionists&lt;/em&gt; (close them). &lt;strong&gt;See the problem?&lt;/strong&gt; Right now, if a question is open, you can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; vote to close. If it's closed, you can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; vote to reopen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These so-called &lt;strong&gt;&quot;close wars&quot; are a misnomer&lt;/strong&gt; for people waiting in line for their chance to vote five at a time (5-close, 5-reopen, 5-close, 5-reopen...). &lt;strong&gt;Hence the yo yo effect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;A Solution&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once someone votes to close, let everyone vote (close: &lt;code&gt;yes&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;no&lt;/code&gt;). The total votes would be shown, as it is now. If the total votes reaches (-5) or less, the post is closed. If the total votes later reaches (+0) or more, the post is re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But it's &lt;em&gt;way more likely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that a general consensus will quickly be reached without forcing the question through the close-reopen-close-reopen cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its an beautiful, simple, elegant solution. &lt;strong&gt;So what am I am I missing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bonus: The system would no longer have to worry about aging votes (where close-votes eventually expire after a certain period of time). With the +/- votes shown, someone is free to counteract the random close-vote that accumulates over time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T17:13:29.957" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T17:13:29.957" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="34820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34800" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:37:27.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we did a test to hotmail and indeed it is going to the spam folder -- confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_ID&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SenderID&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DKIM&lt;/a&gt; both properly configured and tested (this is new, the DNS records are in, and the email code will be deployed tonight), &lt;strong&gt;we can't get our Stack Overflow mails through to hotmail.com email addresses&lt;/strong&gt; -- they regularly go in the spam folder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently hotmail is a tough nut to crack...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The autoresponder at check-auth@verifier.port25.com is a great resource for this. Send an email to it with a valid reply address, and it'll tell you what isn't configured properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We requested to be added to the hotmail &quot;ok senders&quot; list and got this response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have added your stackoverflow.com, superuser.com and serverfault.com domains to the Sender ID program. This may take up to 2 business days to be fully replicated in our systems. If you have any questions regarding this please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also verified that our SPF records were up to snuff and MS signed off on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T07:14:12.630" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T07:14:12.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34822" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:47:04.993" Score="1" ViewCount="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/100656/how-to-determine-which-nic-data-traffic-is-using/100658#100658&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/100656/how-to-determine-which-nic-data-traffic-is-using/100658#100658&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer has two &amp;lt;pre&gt; blocks in it. The first one came out OK, the 2nd one looks funky in the preview but still readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final answer, it's as if the &amp;lt;pre block isn't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.41085.org/pre-1.png&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.41085.org/pre-2.png&quot; alt=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="131874" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-07T23:51:12.673" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:51:12.673" Title="Multiple &lt;pre&gt; blocks are not rendering correctly" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;preview&gt;&lt;pre&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34821" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:49:06.050" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't encode the &amp;lt; as &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; which was causing the sanitizer to reject that block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that within &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks you have to encode angle brackets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:49:06.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34816" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:50:42.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Moderators (the guys with Diamonds) are supposed to know how to do the right thing - that's why theres only 2-3 on each site and that's why they are very rarely doing something like closing a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The normal Close mechanism requires 5 Votes, but every user with more than 3000(?) Rep can vote, so those people are not moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Moderators MAY be wrong, but it's always possible to flag the posting for moderator attention with a short explanation to have it looked at again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:50:42.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34816" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:51:31.270" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Diamond moderator close votes are binding, so the instant a moderator close vote is cast, the question is closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(moderator votes are in general binding -- wherever there is a threshold of votes, a moderator voting causes that threshold to be reached immediately.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than the binding vote, there is nothing special about a moderator closing a question. The question can still be opened by users who have 3k rep casting open votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:51:31.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34828" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:56:04.520" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhere on SO, someone linked to a joke image showing the learning curve for 6 editors. The most memorable part of it (to me) was the fact that the Emacs (or vim?) chart was shown as a spiral (no offense intended to the respective users). Can someone point me in the direction of that answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130347" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T02:43:55.337" Title="Lookig for a specific image linked to on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;text-editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34786" CreationDate="2010-01-07T23:58:28.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, this is by design -- searching is done on the cooked HTML. Getting to the raw markdown would require an expensive join to the history table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-07T23:58:28.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34826" CreationDate="2010-01-08T00:01:11.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?q=editor+learning+curve&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://images.google.com/images?q=editor+learning+curve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T00:01:11.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34815" CreationDate="2010-01-08T00:25:11.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the average StackOverflow (and I'm probably one of those), when I first saw the question was &quot;locked&quot;, it sounded like it was being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;locked&quot; in forums has that sort of connotation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe just what it is called should be changed. I don't have a good name but something along the lines of &quot;no closing&quot;, &quot;closing prevented&quot; or &quot;always open&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133783" LastEditorUserId="133783" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T01:05:25.437" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:05:25.437" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34815" CreationDate="2010-01-08T00:35:29.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh. So in spite of moderators stepping in to re-open it, it keeps getting closed. That's a lot of close votes... Most questions never see anything &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; to that many close votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Team SO wants it open, because it's fun, and we all need a bit of fun now and then. As Marc notes, this feature you're asking for &lt;em&gt;already exists&lt;/em&gt;: it's called locking the post without closing it. Jeff could easily have used it when he made that blog post lauding it up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it was still unlocked 'till you posted this, I don't see why it bothers you that folks saw it as fair game. After all, if there was &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; fun to be had in that question, it was the fun inherent in expressing a controversial opinion and seeing how others react...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T00:35:29.703" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34774" CreationDate="2010-01-08T00:53:56.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merged questions do have an indicator, but only on one side, in the post history:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When merging two questions A and B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question A: has history record of merging Question B&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question B: question ceases to exist. Body text lost. All comments and answers are merged into Question A.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merges are extremely rare operations, though, since we only do that if the questions are 100% identical in every way. I'd say I do maybe 2 per week, at most, across all the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most typical reason it happens is because a user re-posted the exact same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we now handle question merging in a much more sane way -- both questions are retained, one is a stub, and all answers are migrated into the merged question. If the stub is deleted, we 301 redirect to the merge target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-10T06:12:51.147" LastActivityDate="2010-06-10T06:12:51.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34815" CreationDate="2010-01-08T01:09:30.187" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another idea: How about any question that gets closed some number of times (maybe 3) times and reopened the same number of times, can get automatically into the &quot;cannot be closed again&quot; state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133783" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:09:30.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34600" CreationDate="2010-01-08T01:17:18.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For now you can type your Google OpenID URL manually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.google.com/profiles/&amp;lt;username&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since named OpenIDs are still opt-in for Google accounts, I don't know if it would be safe to do it yet, or if there is even a way to implement it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="392" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:17:18.623" />
  <row Id="34836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34856" CreationDate="2010-01-08T01:33:27.463" Score="9" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65919&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Install it on userscripts here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The posts of the person who asked the question are highlighted in blue, so why can't our own posts be highlighted? It makes finding my stuff &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; easier. Highlights anything that links to your user-profile (comments, answers, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;any and all feedback or suggestions welcome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Highlight your username on SOFU&#xA;// @namespace      CrazyJugglerDrummer&#xA;// @description    highlights wherever your username appears on the page&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;var userLink = document.getElementById(&quot;hlinks-user&quot;).getElementsByTagName(&quot;a&quot;)[1].href;&#xA;&#xA;var links = document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;a&quot;);&#xA;&#xA;for (var x=0; x&amp;lt;links.length; x++) {&#xA;    if ( links[x].href == userLink ) {&#xA;        links[x].style.color = &quot;#f00&quot;; &#xA;        links[x].style.backgroundColor=&quot;#fcc&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="130281" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T23:43:14.470" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T23:43:14.470" Title="Greasemonkey: highlight your username in red wherever it appears (find your own posts more easily)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;&lt;link-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34815" CreationDate="2010-01-08T01:59:56.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we can only vote to close once and I assume we can only vote to reopen once; then what's the problem with the Yo-yo thing?  I mean, eventually we will run out of users and it will stay on one of the two states. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wasn't  the system designed  to work this way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, Yo-yo's are fun in first place. :) :) :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think having it locked was the best at the end.  And it's good to know user can still post new &quot;answers&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;( btw at the end I joined the fun with this one : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature/2004124#2004124&quot;&gt;Issue9 uppercase&lt;/a&gt; ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T01:59:56.013" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34826" CreationDate="2010-01-08T02:43:55.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like the original post:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/steverowe/archive/2004/11/17/code-editor-learning-curves.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/steverowe/archive/2004/11/17/code-editor-learning-curves.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same image that Jeff and Roger linked to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141512" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T02:43:55.337" />
  <row Id="34839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:01:39.600" Score="1" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25997/indicate-which-revision-of-a-question-or-answer-a-comment-relates-to&quot;&gt;Indicate which revision of a question or answer a comment relates to&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon for a commenter to rightfully remark about a question early on (maybe providing a constructive criticism), followed by the OP editing the question accordingly, followed by a slew of comments remarking on how the first commenter is out of place. This occurs when people don't pay attention to the timing of edits vs comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can occur in answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful to see a chronology of edits and comments visually interspersed for flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1873147/can-i-upload-photos-but-not-post-to-wall-in-facebook&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1873147/can-i-upload-photos-but-not-post-to-wall-in-facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time I saw it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1993/examplei.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edits looked like this:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1211/2example.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:01:39.600" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T04:06:28.923" Title="Feature to intersperse edit history with comment history" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34847" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:31:49.110" Score="3" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/231677/lpthnc&quot;&gt;Ipthnc&lt;/a&gt; has a stated goal of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995815/what-is-the-best-way-to-gain-high-reputation-on-so-closed&quot;&gt;rep-whoring to 1,000&lt;/a&gt;, seemingly by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2025126/is-there-a-brainfuck-implementation-for-net-closed&quot;&gt;any&lt;/a&gt; means possible.  To this end, he has asked several bad questions and given answers it was clear weren't researched (though after a downvote and a comment on why, he will delete them).  I have seen two questions of his (one on SO, the other the Harvar/unfair from meta) deleted, and many more have been closed, with a handful I've also flagged as spam (which I believe they really were).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Veiled insults like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Hey Dragan, where did you learn to type in English so well? &lt;a href=&quot;http://ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80821196&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80821196&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2024024/kwargs-sent-over-pyamf-channel/2024251#2024251&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt;) or &lt;em&gt;&quot;What kind of name is Dragan Chupacbrovic? Welcome aboard! You shall be known as Chewy.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; aren't unusual either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he has also asked a handful of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995734/how-are-exceptions-implemented-under-the-hood&quot;&gt;good&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2009119/how-to-combine-two-generators-in-a-non-trivial-way&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; (though that second I wonder if it was spammed from a tutorial) and provided a few good answers (possibly by accident?), and contrary to what I'm sure he believes, I have upvoted him (just rarely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We both seem to be interested in the same topics, and sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2025126/is-there-a-brainfuck-implementation-for-net-closed&quot;&gt;we&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2024024/kwargs-sent-over-pyamf-channel/2024251#2024251&quot;&gt;clash&lt;/a&gt; in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I back down, or continue?  Are the moderators aware of this issue?  Or would you just tell me to go fsck myself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:23:31.147" Title="Ipthnc being abusive, gaming rep" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;rep-whoring&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:34:26.407" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30076/javascript-infinite-loop-on-so-in-firefox-does-anyone-else-see-this&quot;&gt;Javascript infinite loop on SO in Firefox - does anyone else see this?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2001597/how-do-you-randomly-zero-a-bit-in-an-integer/2011025#2011025&quot;&gt;an answer on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; to which I found editing the answer a hard and difficult task. I kept receiving the following error message, which I can still reproduce by clicking on the link to my answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Script: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5898:1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=5898:1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the above is executing to syntax highlight the source code. Is this a temporary hickup? A browser configuration problem? If not, is there a problem with my post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am running Firefox 3.5 on Windows 7:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141516" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T03:43:25.667" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:49:00.523" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T03:49:07.760" Title="Why is the Stack Overflow JavaScript overwhelming my browser?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;browser-enhancement&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34840" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:42:18.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say continue to 'clash' if you feel rightly so. Just don't get personal over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me and most guys here, it's too tiring to blacklist/target specific users for their ill-mannered (if indeed) behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do what you want to do as a contributor to this community. If anyone (or Ipthnc himself) posted something good, upvote them. If you do not feel right, reason it out. Fair and square and you will sleep well at night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My 2 cents :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:42:18.447" />
  <row Id="34843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34816" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:46:18.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a case of &quot;Who watches the watchman?&quot; -- in the end, the system depends on trust of some one or some group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Stack Overflow's case, that group are the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:46:18.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34600" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:46:25.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The login page now has Google Profiles (should it be called Google Accounts?) in the secondary row of icons at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:46:25.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33579" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:46:48.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The login page now has Google Profiles (should it be called Google Accounts?) in the secondary row of icons at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:46:48.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34841" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:49:00.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Newer versions of Google's prettify.js do not do so well in Firefox 3.5.x, as you can see here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30076/javascript-infinite-loop-on-so-in-firefox-does-anyone-else-see-this&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30076/javascript-infinite-loop-on-so-in-firefox-does-anyone-else-see-this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No problems in IE8, Chrome, Safari, or Opera. It's &lt;strong&gt;quite specific to Firefox 3.5.x&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:49:00.523" />
  <row Id="34847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34840" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:51:40.703" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote and flag as appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't let yourself get worked up about some random stranger trying to earn worthless &quot;points&quot; on a website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T03:51:40.703" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2010-01-08T03:56:00.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33398/the-surest-way-to-gain-lots-of-reputation-on-stack-overflow-ask-questions/33404#33404&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is an incomplete argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it's mostly just trying to point out that the OP may be have been slightly loose with his facts, or perhaps a bit hyperbolic. I see just one assertion. This is the assertion that &quot;the data certainly doesn't agree&quot; with the observation of &quot;how easily rep can be gained by just asking questions.&quot; But the data provided doesn't argue that. All the data provided shows is that most people are not earning reputation points this way. A first approximation to addressing the statement that &quot;rep can [easily] be gained by just asking questions&quot; is to compare average reputations points earned per question to average reputation points earned per answer. A second approximation would account for the effort differences between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The data currently shows that the ratio is 1.69 points per answer versus 1.33 points per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the gap between these two numbers should be significantly larger. Answering questions requires more effort, knowledge and time than asking questions. How much more is a difficult question. But the current ratio shows that answers are currently worth 27% more than questions. This seems far too small given the effort, knowledge and time required to answer questions is certainly 27% more than that required to ask questions. All you need to ask a question is a the ability to fog a mirror, an internet connection, and a vague semblance of the right words to incant. But to answer a question generally requires knowledge and experience as well as time. The better answerers likely have a breadth of knowledge or a depth of knowledge gained from years of experience and study. Only providing answerers with 27% extra compensation seems far too little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, what is the reason for giving points for upvotes on questions? Question posers already have enough incentive to post (they often have a legitimate question that they want answered). I always thought the intent of reputation points was a signal of how much you are trusted by the community; awarding points for asking questions does not support this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea I would support is awarding reputation points for questions that receive a lot of upvotes (obviously &quot;a lot&quot; needs to be specified). This would help bring the ratio of points per answer to points per question closer to a more meaningful number. As it stands, the ratio of 1.69 per answer versus 1.33 per question given the level of effort required for the former over the latter is too small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141514" LastEditorUserId="141514" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T14:19:51.930" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T14:19:51.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-08T03:56:00.647" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34816" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:04:07.383" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe it should be this way&#xA;  because sometimes a 'close' can be&#xA;  subjective and should require a&#xA;  consensus before stopping the answers&#xA;  from flowing in ... Even moderators&#xA;  can make mistakes, or have views not&#xA;  aligned with the community it serves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, and most ♦'s I expect, explictly do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; vote or flag on questions where a close vote is subjective, precisely because it is binding and the community should drive the outcome.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel a ♦moderator is doing bad things with his powers, your recourse is to discuss it with the team@stackoverflow.com and/or the other moderators for that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:04:07.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34935" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:04:15.823" Score="6" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A bit of background:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was locked to stop the cycle of close, reopen, close, reopen...&lt;br /&gt; &#xA;&lt;em&gt;(The question is irrelevant. It's just an example)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, apparently, you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; still add answers to this question. &lt;strong&gt;I didn't even know that was possible.&lt;/strong&gt; I thought the entire &lt;em&gt;thread&lt;/em&gt; was locked down. I'm assuming a lot of people would make the same mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might I suggest that &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; people don't know what it means (or don't care) that a question has been locked. It could be confusing to users and potentially harmful to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A Solution&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution would be to remove the general notice and just show a descriptive popup if someone tries to click the link of a &quot;locked function.&quot; In this case, clicking on the &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt; link pops up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A moderator has disabled closing for this question.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;[click to dismiss]&lt;/code&gt;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It avoids the confusion and avoids &quot;branding&quot; the question in a negative light (everything looks &quot;normal&quot; to most users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Just a random thought about usability and the user experience.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T17:23:15.753" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T18:06:47.133" Title="Can locking a post discourage new answers? (And a solution)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34850" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:07:45.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Locked&lt;/strong&gt; means no votes, edits, or comments may be added to a post. By &quot;post&quot; we mean question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Closed&lt;/strong&gt; means no more answers may be added to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are totally different and independent concepts, at least from the SO perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:07:45.517" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34850" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:22:13.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a popular question is locked to prevent closing or deletion, then it's probably a bit late to worry about discouraging answers. I'd love to know how many of the 29K viewers of that question you link to actually read the 100+ existing answers before posting their own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anything else needs to be done. If the big &quot;Your Answer&quot; box at the bottom isn't a clue that answers are still accepted, it's probably just as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:22:13.270" />
  <row Id="34855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34840" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:23:31.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of another user's stated intentions, I think we should encourage people to participate if they're being constructive (or even just &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; constructive on average). Individual transgressions (bad questions/answers) can be dealt with specifically without tarring the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:23:31.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34836" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:35:05.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I submitted it as a feature-request a few months ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16648/highlight-our-own-comments-too&quot;&gt;Highlight our own comments, too&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote it up. I would love to see it implemented natively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:35:05.643" />
  <row Id="34857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55712" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:36:57.807" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is being pedantic but I figured I'd mention it anyway. Currently the legend reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gold Badges are rare. You'll have to&#xA;  not only participate but be skilled&#xA;  and knowledgeable to earn these.&#xA;  They're something of an&#xA;  accomplishment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, you do not have to participate at all to earn the Fanatic badge - you could do nothing but read the site for 100 days and still earn it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2010-07-02T10:50:39.053" Title="Change the gold badge legend description on the Badges page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;&lt;badge-description&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34857" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:42:15.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Fanatic badge is probably the only one that doesn't take someone skilled and knowledgeable to accomplish. I will think it is still an appropriate description for the gold badge in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I broke my run at the 90+th day, Ouch! Not an easy feat I must say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:42:15.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:43:06.687" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15117/should-so-rep-be-considered-in-su-and-sf&quot;&gt;Should SO rep be considered in SU and SF?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have over 1000 points at Stack Overflow, but only 1 point on Server Fault.  It's so painful asking questions on Server Fault.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I write a lot of code for an enterprise environment, I have the occasional server question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't I get some credit for being good at Stack Overflow? It wouldn't even let me post two URLs on my last question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130722" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T05:14:42.930" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T05:24:07.247" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T12:15:05.587" Title="Transfer points between sites" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;transfer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="34861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34860" CreationDate="2010-01-08T04:46:47.597" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/13219?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;Associate your accounts&lt;/a&gt; and you'll get 100 more on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T04:46:47.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4692" CreationDate="2010-01-08T05:03:55.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really think it should be one integrated site.  Everyone's worried about noise?  Well, then maybe something's wrong with searching.  People a lot less technically advanced than us use Google everyday, but most web pages don't have tags and ratings like StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW:  I love stackoverflow and use it almost everyday.  I hope this issue doesn't fracture the momentum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130722" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T05:03:55.967" />
  <row Id="34865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34860" CreationDate="2010-01-08T05:23:33.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Across all sites, you don't need any more than 1 rep to post a question. The sites are designed to be painless for all users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's so easy that it allows unregistered users to post their questions without having to grind up for rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To post a question on any of the trilogy sites, just click on the &lt;strong&gt;Ask Question&lt;/strong&gt; button top right of the screen and fill out the necessary details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, since you can comment on your own question, as well as any &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1263/new-user-comment-clarification&quot; title=&quot;talking to more than just yourself&quot;&gt;answers on your question&lt;/a&gt;, you can get around the &quot;can't post links&quot; thing by using the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34860/transfer-points-between-sites/34861#34861&quot; title=&quot;right on this page then&quot;&gt;as John Rasch said&lt;/a&gt;, the good user credit you get comes in the form of a 100 rep power-up when you associate your accounts and one of them &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29295/rep-bonus-for-associating-accounts-lost-if-you-associate-early&quot; title=&quot;pull out, push back in if done too early - that's what she said&quot;&gt;has more than 200 points&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T05:23:33.723" />
  <row Id="34866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34860" CreationDate="2010-01-08T05:24:07.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is good that the sites are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reputation should not affect the quality of answers to the questions you ask (nor to the answers you give to other questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is nice and lets people know you are serious, but not really anything else. I have a load of reputation on Superuser.com, however, I don't see why my answer should be taken any more seriously than a new user's answer with just one reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me personally, reputation is simply a &quot;I am being appreciated / spending time helping people is not going to waste&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a load of reputation on SuperUser right now, but I am not exactly the best programmer in the world - It can be abused and people can transfer points for the careers site and look better in an area than they are... then again, if anyone looked in more detail, they may wonder why you have 20k reputation and only one answer!...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, I just see a lot of trouble with little to no positives for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T05:24:07.247" />
  <row Id="34867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T05:46:35.167" Score="7" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4798/lets-make-it-easier-to-reply-within-comments&quot;&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s make it easier to reply within comments!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As many people know, users will post comments, and refer to other users by name using the &quot;@username&quot; syntax. It would be nice to be able to create links to a user's profile by either of the following ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pick from a list of matching usernames when an &quot;@&quot; symbol is typed in a comment (similar to Facebook status updates)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be able to drag-and-drop a username/gravatar from the page into a comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the StackOverflow sites allow you to change your display name, often times past comments will be left in a &quot;corrupt&quot; state - comments may refer to you by &quot;@oldName&quot;, even after you've chnaged your name to &quot;@newName&quot;. Allowing the linking of usernames would keep comments up-to-date even after name changes - &quot;@newName&quot; would always be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131833" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T09:21:40.727" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T09:39:06.677" Title="Add support for linking &quot;@username&quot; in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="34868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34813" CreationDate="2010-01-08T06:03:31.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've checked in a couple of changes that will hopefully resolve your issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;before responding to an employer's message, show placeholders when sensitive information has been hidden, e.g. &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;email temporarily hidden&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upon expressing interest in an employer's message, helper text will be shown indicating that an employer will be contacting you via email&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let us know if we can add more clarity here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T06:03:31.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34857" CreationDate="2010-01-08T06:06:41.063" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;recent events&lt;/a&gt;, they should probably change it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You'll have to not only participate&#xA;  but be skilled and knowledgeable to&#xA;  earn these... or just pander to the&#xA;  Reddit-loving community, whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T06:06:41.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T07:01:14.543" Score="-3" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As an alternative solution to my original, widely unaccepted question -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Demote the Enthusiast badge to bronze, and the Fanatic badge to silver, as they don't require the same kind of effort other badges in their respective categories do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131833" LastEditorUserId="131833" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T13:08:43.903" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T13:08:43.903" Title="Demote the Enthusiast and Fanatic badges to bronze and silver respectively" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34870" CreationDate="2010-01-08T07:10:19.233" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've gone to the trouble of writing a script to log you in today, isn't that somewhat fanatical behaviour to start with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your rules would just make the script slightly harder to write: add a comment, wait, delete it, repeat... job done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T07:10:19.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34870" CreationDate="2010-01-08T07:16:09.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that Fanatic does not satisfy the criteria to be a gold badge, I'm opposed to doing things like that to make achieving it marginally more difficult. It sounds like security-by-obscurity. It will not have a significant benefit but increases complexity and will use the development resources of Jeff &amp;amp; Co. that can be used to make the system better. &lt;strong&gt;Features don't come free&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T07:16:09.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2010-01-08T08:08:50.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Continuing on the coattails and playing on the words of experts-exchange in parody, and also based on the concepts of beauty and sex sell, we can try these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;: When Expert Sex Change won't give you one, we'll give it to you free! (C'mon people, we're talking about accounts here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;: True friends for when you can't keep a profile on &lt;a href=&quot;http://beautifulpeople.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BeautifulPeople.com&lt;/a&gt; for more than 27 seconds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;: An alternative form of excitement for when a sex change is prohibitively expensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:07:50.730" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:07:50.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="34875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2010-01-08T09:06:38.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow | error: stack still growing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow | our stack is still growing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134966" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T09:06:38.843" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="34876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34867" CreationDate="2010-01-08T09:21:40.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually when someone addresses another user within the same question thread, the referred user would have left an answer and/or a comment and/or the question itself. Hence chances are there is/are already links to his/her profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do find it a nice feature but I has a hunch the addtional server load might not be able to justify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be wrong though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T09:21:40.727" />
  <row Id="34877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34816" CreationDate="2010-01-08T09:44:45.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will make the need for diamond moderators obsolete. There is very often cases where the community can't come to an agreement. We also do more then just close questions, and as already indicated by Jeff, our decisions are binding. However, as a group we have no problem with other diamond moderators re-opening questions we have closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify. I close questions on SU based on 3 criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is moderator flagged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question appears in the close list available to 10K+ moderators.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question violates or does not meet minimum site requirements as per the FAQ&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there is currently only about 40+ users on SU who can cast close votes, I do happen to intervene more often. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular question caught my attention &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; because it was about a smartphone, but rather because the question is related to whether a Phone will work on a cellular network in another country. The FAQ clearly states that SU is for &lt;strong&gt;computer hardware and software problems&lt;/strong&gt;. I completely and utterly fail to see how whether a phone working on a cellular network has anything to do with a computer problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone commenting was debating whether smartphone questions are legitimate or not, however your questions has nothing to do with a problem on the smartphone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment however there are 4 other SU moderators, including Jeff that have the power to overrule my decision, and at the time of replying here they haven't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand, I commented on this specific question as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original Close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actually how has the phone working in a particular country have anything to do with a computer problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for locking the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am locking this question as it is going in circles, it has been discussed at length before on Meta and I stand by the fact that this is not a computer problem. This is a network issue with a SP and not an issue to fix a problem on a smartphone. If this is allowed then every localized question will have to be re-opened because of the same argument. The FAQ is quite clear on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your comment regarding clear community support for the question. There was a lot of discussion around the question, but only 1 re-open vote was cast in 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T09:44:45.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T10:00:11.073" Score="-9" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;My religion excludes me from working on Mondays and every 3rd Tuesday, on these days I am not allowed to use the computer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it practically impossible for me to get the enthusiast badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this fair? Why am I being excluded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141530" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T04:11:32.100" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T04:11:32.100" ClosedDate="2010-01-11T04:05:08.030" Title="Am I excluded from certain badges due to my religious beliefs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="34879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T10:10:16.200" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your computer is not required to go on holiday, of course. You can use a shell script or open up a browser window with something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://pagereboot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pagereboot.com&lt;/a&gt; before the holiday and leave it there running on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(or simply ask someone who doesn't observe that holiday to visit the website on your behalf)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's yet another loophole that works unless the holiday spans multiple days or your time zone (the time zone that the holiday is defined in, for that matter) is exactly UTC. Since the Enthusiast badge is awarded based on UTC visits, you can schedule to visit Stack Overflow exactly in the time difference period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon further thought, it might be the primary reason behind the badge. How far are you willing to go for Stack Overflow? Do you love it so much to ignore such requirements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, out of curiosity, as far as I'm concerned, the first computer came to life thousand years after the religious requirements were established by prophets. How come they prohibited using it more than a couple thousand years ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T10:27:09.467" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T10:27:09.467" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2010-01-08T10:29:26.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bob: So are you knowledgeable in&#xA;  programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alice: Yeah, I have a Stack Overflow&#xA;  reputation of 8K!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bob: Eh, I knew people get to such&#xA;  reputations just for asking hundreds&#xA;  of repeating questions there. So that&#xA;  doesn't count. Any other proof of your&#xA;  expertness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alice: My reputation comes mainly from answering questions. Take a look at my StackOverflow profile if you don't believe me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(At least I would say that if I where in the same situation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T10:29:26.297" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-08T10:29:26.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34882" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:17:17.683" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/700/can-we-get-rid-of-the-threshold-of-15-chars-for-comments&quot;&gt;Can we get rid of the threshold of 15 chars for comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any logical reason for that? And just to prove how unnatural it is: Why can't I simply say thanks?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do I have to type unrelated text to post my comment? Ridiculous, unnatural, frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140749" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T11:44:46.513" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:44:46.513" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T11:44:54.720" Title="Why in comment I have to put at least 15 chars?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34881" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:19:47.867" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect it's precisely to discourage comments such as &quot;Thanks&quot; or &quot;Me too&quot;. Thank someone by upvoting them - the text is just noise when you consider SO as a repository of meaningful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:19:47.867" />
  <row Id="34883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32232" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:46:35.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:46:35.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28475" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:46:59.830" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:46:59.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25055" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:48:21.950" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(we may also enhance this to show a map of every query in lat/long as well)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:48:21.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30326" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:52:20.723" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:52:20.723" />
  <row Id="34888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34802" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:54:56.880" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:54:56.880" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28461" CreationDate="2010-01-08T11:55:45.053" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now have &lt;strong&gt;public employer search statistics&lt;/strong&gt; for CV holders, under the stats tab -- just click &quot;show detail&gt;&gt;&quot; to expand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list is queried dynamically about every hour, and reflects current live data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6323/stackoverflowcareerssea.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T11:55:45.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:06:00.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you classify a smartphone with internet access as a computer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another option is to have a friend come over to your place and visit the site. Since of course, you never log out, they just need to fire up the site in your browser of choice and that counts toward your fanaticism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after that, you can have a meal with them. Unless you can't mingle with gentiles during the Sabbath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T12:06:00.787" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:19:40.943" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you do get the badge, even on a technicality, isn't it still wrong? The badge says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Visited&lt;/strong&gt; the site each day for 100&#xA;  consecutive days&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do visit it each day, you're clearly doing a prohibited action (accessing your computer). If you don't visit it each day, but you use loopholes to get the badge, wouldn't you be lying? I don't think religion permits that, either. Essentially, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T12:19:40.943" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:30:01.603" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These badges demonstrate that SO is so important to you that you won't let anything keep you away from it for even a single day. This doesn't apply to you. Nor does it apply to people who like to spend weekends with their families, take relaxing vacations, travel to places without Internet access, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T12:30:01.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34900" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:28:39.623" Score="8" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering why generally non-programming questions get many responses and votes on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143848" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T12:39:26.653" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:19:38.720" Title="Why do non-programming questions get many responses?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34893" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:33:25.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We love to argue over stuff that doesn't really affect us..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141143" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T12:33:49.083" />
  <row Id="34896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34893" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:34:44.450" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Non-programming questions don't require any kind of technical expertise. Anyone on SO is qualified to answer these questions, so far more people than usual participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T12:34:44.450" />
  <row Id="34898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34893" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:40:08.837" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because there's a much lower entry level for these questions. Everybody has an opinion, everybody loves to argue and you don't need any technical knowledge to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T12:40:08.837" />
  <row Id="34900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34893" CreationDate="2010-01-08T12:54:09.677" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parkinson's Law of Triviality&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The concept is presented in C. Northcote Parkinson's spoof of management, Parkinson's Law. Parkinson dramatizes his Law of Triviality with a committee's deliberations on a nuclear power plant, contrasting it to deliberation on a bicycle shed. A nuclear reactor is used as example because it is so vastly expensive and complicated that average people cannot understand it, so they assume that those working on it understand it. Even those with strong opinions often withhold them for fear of being shown to be insufficiently informed. On the other hand, everyone understands a bicycle shed (or thinks he or she does), so building one can result in endless discussions because everyone involved wants to add his or her touch and show that they have contributed. While discussing the bikeshed, debate emerges over whether the best choice of roofing is aluminium, asbestos, or galvanized iron, rather than whether the shed is a good idea or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T12:54:09.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T13:08:25.870" Score="24" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have now discovered that you can't be an employer and an employee. However, this wasn't at all clear from the website and I only discovered it after searching and finding &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before discovering the limitation I recalled seeing links to the employer view on the home page, so I tried logging out and clicking the &quot;We're Hiring&quot; button on the unauthenticated user's home page. This took me through my OpenID login pages and dropped me back at my CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it not make sense to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a &quot;tab&quot; to the Employee site that says &quot;We're Hiring&quot; but then explains to the user that to be an employer you need to log in with a different account (and perhaps provide links on that page to make the process quick and easy)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When someone logs in via the homepage's &quot;We're Hiring&quot; and is registered as an Employee give them a message telling them why they're seeing their CV again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm totally cool with the limitation, but the user experience surrounding that limitation could be better. It shouldn't require a trip to meta.stackoverflow.com in order to find out that this limitation exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138264" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T13:37:56.487" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T13:37:58.257" Title="Make The &quot;You Can't Be Employer and Employee&quot; Experience Better" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41397" CreationDate="2010-01-08T13:32:50.290" Score="92" ViewCount="2662" Body="&lt;p&gt;I submit to you the following quartet of indisputable facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow is for people who are bored at work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having animations and video games are more exciting (and therefore less boring) than not having animations and video games.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chrono Trigger is the best video game ever made.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting, closing and deleting things is the highlight of my day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose the following indisputably fantastic feature request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crono animated actions!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/crono/crono_run.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Crono is so manly&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/crono/crono_stand.png&quot; alt=&quot;Crono will destroy you&quot;&gt; Instead of that usual boring grey downvote arrow turning orange, a little animated Crono sprite coming from offscreen to beat the living crap out of the question's (or answer's) score, dealing it 1 damage and reducing its HP accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/crono/crono_sword.png&quot; alt=&quot;Crono is a time-travelling ninja&quot;&gt; Instead of closing a question, Crono could fly down and use his special Confuse attack against it, leaving it injured and defenseless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/crono/crono_woot.png&quot; alt=&quot;Crono is the natural predator of Lavos&quot;&gt; And for the coup-de-grace, deleting a question, Crono will appear out of nowhere and cast his ultimate attack, Luminaire, against it. Not even Lavos can stand up to the awesome obliterating power of Crono's Luminaire attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This new feature will make Stack Overflow much less boring to use and will draw in the retro-SNES programming crowd which, according to my made-up-just-now statistic will draw in at least 25% more totally rad programmers:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/crono/chrono-trigger-is-rad.png&quot; alt=&quot;A DIAGRAM&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These new programmers will be naturally good at answering concurrency questions because they are easily able to grok the temporal distortions and causality loopholes that are commonplace in multithreaded systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you going to let Lavos destroy Stack Overflow? No! Help Crono help you, no matter what time it is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T15:21:08.543" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T15:21:08.543" Title="Stack Overflow's voting system is not entertaining enough" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="22" FavoriteCount="14" />
  <row Id="34908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34903" CreationDate="2010-01-08T14:32:06.160" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a very good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of thing should happen on (seemingly) random days. Much like google doodles :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can have a flock of birds doing all the heroic deleting and downvoting and closing on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/03/21/happy-birthday-twitter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter's birthday&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141433" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T14:32:06.160" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34903" CreationDate="2010-01-08T14:43:20.830" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This idea clearly isn't entertaining enough, being almost totally focused on the voter/editor and not the recipient.&#xA;So, I think the recipient of the votes/edits should also get some screen candy. Perhaps, for example, when they receive a downvote a little animation should cross out their old score, write in the new one, then blow a raspberry. I nominate Frog for this role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T14:43:20.830" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T14:44:13.137" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 30 ignored tags on SO. When I load a page it takes several seconds for the client-side code to remove questions (during which time the browser is frozen). Sometimes this results in far fewer questions per page than normal (16 instead of 30 when I checked just now). If the filtering was done on the server side, the &quot;frozen browser&quot; effect would be avoided and the number of questions on the page would be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I couldn't find a feature request for this on meta already. If there is one, please post a comment with the link and vote to close as a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:21:47.173" Title="Filter tags server side instead of client side" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="34911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T14:45:59.717" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30532/why-cant-i-edit-some-questions&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;rsquo;t I edit some questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22778/ask-your-question-button-is-disabled&quot;&gt;Ask Your Question button is disabled&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to ask a question on stackoverflow but when I click &quot;Post your Question&quot;, the button greys and the page stops. Tried firefox and chrome, same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if meta works as well, if you can't see this question then it's got the same problem!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gaspar pointed out the question must be more than 15 characters, I didn't see the message. Sort it out atwood, I've now lost 3 minutes of productivity!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130355" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:15:02.093" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:15:02.093" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T19:31:14.913" Title="Can't ask questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34893" CreationDate="2010-01-08T14:47:51.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you get to say stuff you don't really mean or know anything about :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the serious side: the questions that you classify as &quot;non programming related&quot; might actually be software related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such topics get more answers and opinions because the question does not pertain to a specific language/product/technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141433" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T12:19:38.720" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:19:38.720" />
  <row Id="34913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34903" CreationDate="2010-01-08T14:51:18.037" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stackoverflow is not boring.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I read Stackoverflow posts at home when I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001236.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sharpening the saw&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not necessarily against making the site more &lt;em&gt;entertaining&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But it is quite &lt;strong&gt;engaging&lt;/strong&gt; as presently constituted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131956" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T14:51:18.037" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34911" CreationDate="2010-01-08T14:57:19.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question title needs to be 15 characters long, and this isn't patently obvious to the poster, wouldn't this fall under the heading of &quot;usability bug&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131956" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T14:57:19.223" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T15:10:25.433" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&quot;&gt;Display the original question beneath the answer edit form&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Auld Auld days of Stackoverflow, we had a separate Answer this Question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there is an answer form at the bottom of the question page. It would help enormously if I did not have to scroll up and down to look at the question each time I want to verify another minute detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that the question's text should appear below the answer form as well. For long questions, it can be conveniently placed in a scrollable div.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141433" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T19:29:13.590" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T19:32:27.703" Title="Have an option to view the question *below* the Answer Submission Form" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T15:27:15.737" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be perfectly honest, Chaim makes a valid point, at least in principle. It is over a very minor issue, that in no way do I think is worth the effort to change, but there are situations where the world sometimes bends or changes the rules in order to accommodate those with religious needs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon, for example, to provide vegetarian or kosher meals to accomodate those with special needs. We make (or even legally enforce) the use of entrance ramps and special parking spaces for the handicapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sanford (&quot;Sandy&quot;) Koufax would not play on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur and famously had to miss a game of the 1965 world series because of his beliefs. (For which he was criticized by the fans, who did not understand.) I don't know if he skpped playing on Shabbat, however -- I don't know how strict he was in his observance. Being a baseball player that could never play on Friday nights or Saturday definitely sounds like a problem, but I don't know what he did in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in other situations, time-tables are moved and adjustments made. I can't think of any examples off-hand, but if a situation were to take place where a tennis match or a chess championship were to occur on Shabbat, and one of the players were observant, than there would be no choice but to reschedule the match. Causing one player to simply default due to religious reasons would be bad for the players, bad for the fans, and make the tournament organizers look pretty bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This case, though, is terribly minor. One could argue, in an ideal world, that they should change the badge here, because the religious argument really is fair. It applies only to a small minority, but for those to whom it applies, it is a valid issue. They could arguably make the badge 30 working days in a row (or increase it to 40 or 50 days to compensate) and/or make a &quot;fanatic&quot; badge that hits at 100+ consecutive work days in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it does take work to make a change -- even a minor one like this. So given the huge backlog of bug fixes and feature requests to attend to, this issue would have to be &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; low on their priority list, given how extraordinarily few members this issue affects, and how small an affect it has (being deprived of a single badge is almost ridiculously minor). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chaim, if they don't make the change, this really is an extremely minor issue involving about as close to zero impact on your life as one could imagine. I agree with you that in an ideal whold they arguably could change this, but given the cost/benefits of this change, I would &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; understand if they never got to this. You might just have to live with having one less badge in your life. No one will notice, honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Follow-up&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, a lot of people are disagreeing with me on this one, which is fine, but I think that many are disagreeing for the wrong reason. Which is to say that I think that I completely failed to make my point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point I was attempting to make was to counter are the comments that go along the lines of &quot;Should Stack Overflow make adjustments like this for &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; religion out there??&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is rhetorical, and, of course, the expected answer is &quot;no&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my point is that for the right issue, then the answer could be yes. The increadibly minor issue being discussed here does not make the grade, not even close. But if there were an issue where a minority is greatly inconvenienced by a policy that might be easily fixed, then, of course it should be considered. In society, we make choices like this all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, again, this one is way too minor, I'm not disagreeing with anyone on that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135967" LastEditorUserId="135967" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T23:03:07.373" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T23:03:07.373" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T15:56:00.367" Score="7" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that on SO there are people who monitor your acceptance rate when you dare to ask questions. I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2026546/override-get-but-not-set&quot;&gt;a couple of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2010926/what-does-o-suffixes-in-makefile-mean&quot;&gt;questions recently&lt;/a&gt; and I was told, in no uncertain terms that I have to improve my acceptance rate in order to get better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My acceptance rate is 51%, is that still too low? If it is, then I can't expect any quality answers out of this question, because my meta acceptance rate is only slightly better here on Meta, at 53%. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Just to make things clear, I do contribute to the SO extensively (418 answers and counting), and when I ask question, I make sure that my question is of high quality one ( as can be proven from the number of upvotes I got per question). The answerers might not get accepted answers from me but they can get a lot of upvotes, which is a form of appropriate reward.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T13:02:18.147" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T21:47:49.683" Title="Is a 51% acceptance rate too low?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34910" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:00:14.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always whitelist tags, i.e. show only tags that you have favorited. I imagine this would be considerably faster:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/531/filter-view-to-show-only-interested/712#712&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/531/filter-view-to-show-only-interested/712#712&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can easily be turned into a userscript if it benefits you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:00:14.460" />
  <row Id="34921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:00:58.343" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can not compare the acceptance rate of Stack Overflow with the acceptance rate of Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it depends also on how many questions you asked. In your case, you asked 383 questions. So 51% acceptance rate means around 190 questions which have no accepted answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first impression is that this is a high number of unaccepted answers, yes. Heck, it's even a high number of questions without even looking at how many have accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, to be certain, one would have to check if there are a lot of maybe subjective/cw questions. Maybe questions without answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we all know people go with their &quot;first impressions&quot;, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T19:26:40.210" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T19:26:40.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34930" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:06:58.080" Score="-11" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's quite a number of consistent offenders that cannot bring themselves to marking answers as accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally always comment on that and do NOT answer the question, regardless how trivial it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why these users don't change their ways is because to some SO'ers, rep is everything, so clearly, just displaying the accept rate is not working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There really should be a mechanism where if you have lower than say 5% accept rate for x amount of questions over y amount of time, there is some kind of associated 'punishment'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You cannot post a question, until your accept rate improves above the set threshold.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question can be posted, but no one can supply an answer yet until accept rate improves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question can only be answered by SO'ers with say &amp;lt; 300 rep, so these new comers get an additional benefit to catch-up on some rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any other ideas on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141484" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T19:21:58.257" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:23:13.067" Title="Why are consistent 0% accept rate users not punished?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:10:57.820" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've asked a number of subjective, almost &quot;community-wiki&quot; style questions. In one case you've got 24 answers with the top answer earning 81 up votes. It wouldn't hurt to reward that answer and increase your accept stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you could accept some answers without it being a pure excercise in raising your accept stats. My current view of your SO account is that you ask some good questions, often get a lot of good answers, but that you don't often reward people with the accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138264" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:10:57.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34922" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:14:20.980" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're taking this way too personally, and the idea of restricting those who can ask questions goes against everything these sites were set up for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But anyways, let me answer your question with some questions. Is it possible that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user legitimately doesn't know how to use the rep system?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A user legitimately doesn't care about the rep system?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even with an accept rate of 0%, the user is still providing value to the community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:14:20.980" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34910" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:21:47.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this feature request will be shot down in as this would kill the caching of pages and require &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; user to have a database hit for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:21:47.173" />
  <row Id="34928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38207" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:26:12.980" Score="21" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only noticed this in www.stackoverflow.com at the moment, not sure about meta,superuser,or serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When using Stylish in Firefox or Chrome Stylist in Chrome there is no way to apply a style to your answer to a question to make it different from the rest of the answers.  Can it be given a class name 'your-answer' perhaps instead of the inline &lt;code&gt;'style=&quot;background-color: #FFFFFF;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; I use a dark theme style and the white background washes out the light text color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does anyone know of a way to apply a CSS style to your accepted answer the way the markup is now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141545" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T05:12:18.023" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:12:36.213" Title="Can your accepted answer be denoted by proper class name rather then the inline style?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:33:28.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;51% is a perfectly acceptable accept rate.  But mine is 85%.  Perhaps the quality of the questions you are asking is a bit low.  Ask questions that can be answered with a single, correct answer, and it becomes easier to accept the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:33:28.487" />
  <row Id="34930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34922" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:38:56.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you find a question that has been asked by a user with a 0% accept rate, post the following comment to his question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Consider accepting answers on some of&#xA;  your questions.  You can do this by&#xA;  clicking the checkmark next to the&#xA;  correct answer in each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clarifies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The community generally expects this kind of involvement,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to do it for new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:38:56.603" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34946" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:42:41.213" Score="4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I create a profile on one of the sites (SO/SU/SF), associate it with another and copy the profile details across, all links are copied. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't edit my profile until I reach 10 reputation or throw out all but one link because of the one-link limit for low-reputation accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141546" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T05:05:31.177" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T05:05:31.177" Title="Copying profile overrides one-link limit in low-reputation profile" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="34932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-08T16:54:52.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My accept rate is not great. But I asked some questions that just aren't answered satisfactorily, because they are &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; domain-specific and that domain doesn't have any experts in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, YMMV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you are unknown(OpenID Site), &amp;lt; 200 rep, I don't look at stats when answering questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T16:54:52.993" />
  <row Id="34933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19021" CreationDate="2010-01-08T17:11:00.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think about a situation where a question is asked about a beta/CTP or just rapidly evolving API - A user asks a question about how to perform an action, the community answers, and then a few months later, a better option is found, either because the release version solves an issue, a cleaner API has been developed, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People would be unable to remove their votes to the old (possibly now incorrect) answer if a more up to date answer is supplied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't that odd an issue - I've seen a number of projects adopt StackOverflow as their &quot;documentation&quot; of choice, along with changes to ASP.NET MVC, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T17:11:00.693" />
  <row Id="34934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T17:11:11.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or are we excluded gaining from this badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got this backwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sites are here to be used at any time. By choosing not to use them on certain days, you have &lt;em&gt;excluded yourself&lt;/em&gt; from participation. Which is perfectly fine -- it's your decision to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T17:11:11.880" />
  <row Id="34935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34850" CreationDate="2010-01-08T18:06:47.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I think that's a bit misleading too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about if instead of the currently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This post has been locked; locked posts can't be voted on.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This post has been locked;  you can still add answers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T18:06:47.133" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T18:38:44.923" Score="23" ViewCount="893" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you depressed by all the gr[ae]y colors plaguing meta? Do you wish you had some exuberance on your favorite website? Are you hungry?  Are you still reading this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, worry no longer. 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Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="34940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-08T18:40:26.120" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My acceptance rate is 51%, is it still too low?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  If you feel that none of the answers solve your problem, then you should go back and answer it yourself with what you did to move past the problem, and then accept your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone came close to a solution, then accept their answer and edit it or comment on it with why it wasn't perfect, but how it helped resolve your issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are asking subjective questions (ie, you are looking for an &quot;ideal&quot; or &quot;best&quot; solution) that bring a lot of work arounds, but no answer is 'elegant enough' for you, then yes - people are justified in looking at your future questions and moving past them because they can see they have a low chance of meeting your needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they are your questions, and your reasons for selecting or not selecting an answer are your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People will badger you to increase your accept rate because it's obvious that very few answers meet your standards, and your questions will be passed by more than those with a higher accept rate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T18:40:26.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34939" CreationDate="2010-01-08T18:41:23.747" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you ever wish you could have a Hot Dog Stand themed meta.stackoverflow.com?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T18:41:23.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34922" CreationDate="2010-01-08T18:43:42.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I flagged Gaspar's &quot;you are a bad person and you should feel bad&quot; comment as offensive (there's no call for that).  But I do agree w/those saying that the downvotes are mostly indicative that you're not enjoying the Q&amp;amp;A for its own sake.  If you're worrying too much about &quot;points&quot; and &quot;punishment&quot; then it's just not going to be a good experience for you or anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that these questions aren't just serving the people who ask them.  They are serving people who use search engines and find the content while looking for answers to similar questions.  You may be frustrated by people who don't close questions but ask new ones, but I'd find it more frustrating if site content was hidden from me or I was unable to answer if I wanted to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation system is just a heuristic to automate moderation privileges.  Accept rate and points are shown next to questioner's avatars so each answerer can make their own decisions about such policies.  Moreover, you can click through to see the questions someone has answered to decide if the basis of their reputation is meaningful to you or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as a meta-meta-stackoverflow comment: don't let the internets get to you.  These sites are open to everyone, and it's largely an anarchy beyond your control.  I'd be more amused if I got a -100 question than feel my life was under attack.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141442" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T18:43:42.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34939" CreationDate="2010-01-08T18:44:38.547" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86d4df2970b-pi&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-09T10:23:13.187" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T10:23:13.187" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T18:50:07.533" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a thought; wear the &lt;strong&gt;lack&lt;/strong&gt; of this badge, with pride, as a genuine token of your commitment to these two competing facets of your life. I mean that genuinely; smile at what you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; contribute to the site, and enjoy the Sabbath with your family. Good things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T18:50:07.533" />
  <row Id="34945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34931" CreationDate="2010-01-08T19:18:25.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your rep on one of the sites was high enough, you should get a +100 rep bonus on both sites, which will be enough to fully edit your profile. You need to associate from the account with the higher rep (minimum 200).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T19:18:25.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34931" CreationDate="2010-01-08T19:24:36.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are &quot;trusted&quot; enough on one site, I don't see a problem with copying the profile over (ie, if this is a bug report, it's one that probably would be &quot;no fix&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are highly trusted on the original site, you'll get enough of a bonus to edit your profile with links intact (as Aether points out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you merely want to work around the limitation (which is a corner case and probably won't be fixed, even if it's determined to be unintended) then you can edit the profile fully on the original site, then copy it over again, then revert the original profile back.  This will allow you to have all the links you want with separate profiles on both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the real solution is to gain rep on the secondary site so you gain those privileges naturally...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T19:24:36.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34915" CreationDate="2010-01-08T19:29:13.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not install a plugin like &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4287&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Split Browser&lt;/a&gt;, which allows the viewing of multiple pages (or different parts of the same page) together in one window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively you could open the page in multiple tabs or windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T19:29:13.590" />
  <row Id="34948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T19:31:15.583" Score="11" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a small UI omission that bothered me. On Careers, when you click the verify link in your e-mail and a page opens back to the Careers site, there's no actual text on screen that the process went fine. Just the option to verify disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can a SO-style yellow notification bar be added to pop down at the very least to say that your e-mail verified okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="483" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T08:14:13.723" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T08:14:13.723" Title="No notification bar when verifying e-mail" Tags="&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34878" CreationDate="2010-01-08T19:53:50.197" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Observing religious traditions aren't automatically supposed to be easy, and other people have no obligation to help you with those observances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I grew up in a very religious family&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; with strict restrictions including not just those you list but many more, and we never whined about it to others or expected others to help us with them.  I grew up knowing that there were many professions closed to me and although it rather sucked, we never tried to push our agenda on others or force those limitations to be lifted (most of which were innate to the profession and not artificial).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;my current religious affiliation is not relevant, so please don't ask. Find me on reddit if you care.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T19:53:50.197" />
  <row Id="34951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34922" CreationDate="2010-01-08T19:55:10.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posed a similar question awhile ago here and also got downvoted into oblivion.  My idea was to tax the unaccepted questions with rep that eventually gets returned when the answer is accepted.  It would probably a pain to implement and highly subjective because one can never know if the answer worked for the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see some sort of automatic bounty system for the old, unaccepted questions (perhaps requiring that the automatically accepted answer have at least 5 upvotes).  If anything, it may drive encourage more people to see the question (new members since the date it was posted) or those with 3K+ rep to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who wish to downvote my previous question some more, here it is:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23475/should-questions-with-no-accepted-answers-be-charged-interest-after-awhile&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23475/should-questions-with-no-accepted-answers-be-charged-interest-after-awhile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="4068" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T20:22:53.967" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T20:22:53.967" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="34954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16648" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:00:41.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34836/greasemonkey-highlight-your-username-in-red-wherever-it-appears-find-your-own-p&quot;&gt;Here's a greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; that highlights all of your posts, making them much easier to find. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:00:41.900" />
  <row Id="34956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34958" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:11:22.140" Score="4" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to Stack Overflow, so I have no reputation.  I am trying to view a post that I think has been truncated.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686452/create-wcf-service-for-unmanaged-c-clients/687717#687717&quot;&gt;Here's a link to the post&lt;/a&gt;.  It explains how to create a C# client for a WCF service and then use that client in C++ through a bridge.  However, the end of the post says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the Solution Explorer, right-click the References folder for the HelloServiceClient project and select the Add Service Reference... menu option. In the Address field, type the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming there is supposed to be more there that I cannot see.  I found a post that I think explains how to fix this problem (I can't link to this post because I can only have 1 link since I have no reputation).  It says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The revision history will contain the actual post in any case, so doing an edit no-op (inserting a space) will restore the truncated content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would try this fix myself, but I cannot edit someone else's post because I have no reputation.  So...  I'm wondering if someone else out there could perform the fix on that post so that I can see the rest of the content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141563" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:34:41.993" Title="Can someone fix a truncated post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;truncated&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="34958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34956" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:26:32.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done, although there is a bunch of code blocks contained in the lists which don't format correctly. I had to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3327/why-is-a-code-block-not-properly-formatted-when-placed-immediately-after-a-list-i/3331#3331&quot;&gt;add a hack&lt;/a&gt; to get the code formatted properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T21:34:41.993" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:34:41.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34966" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:45:33.870" Score="3" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please understand that &quot;encourage&quot; is not a hard and fast rule, it's simply a matter of having some text suggestions or visual clue that get people to at least attempt to edit questions before closing them or show them that it is possible to edit the question into good shape instead of downright closing on first sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem I find, is that people are subject to first impressions and, even if the question being asked is a legitimate one, a formatting issues/lost-in-translation/language issues can get people to close/downvote right away. Even if all the question needs to be a good addition to Stack Overflow is a simple grammar correction/formatting issues. Such examples are line-breaks conversions, code formatting, non-native speakers, beginner programmers who do not know proper terms, etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a minor change but would greatly help with questions posted by confused beginners and particularly the Stack Overflow users who are not native English speakers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I propose that, there should be some encouragement or incentive to try to edit the question into good shape first before voting for close or downvoting too fast.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be as simple as a single sentence added to the red box you get when you downvote. But something a little better would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt; is shown side-by-side but clicking on &lt;code&gt;edit&lt;/code&gt; has implicit requirement that is that extra effort to go in and look at the text. So &lt;code&gt;close&lt;/code&gt; and/or downvote is basically easier to do in most circumstances. There are nothing encouraging people to try to edit questions at all besides the usual do-good feelings. You don't even get reputation points on edits so it's more like a negative thing sometimes too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen questions which gets 3 to 4 close votes before someone would attempt to edit it. And after a somewhat simple edit, it gets lots of upvotes and answers. This side of Stack Overflow is very disheartening to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time the needed edits are just a few simple line/markups or maybe just giving the question a proper title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T10:49:15.993" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T10:49:15.993" Title="Shouldn't we encourage people to try to &quot;edit&quot; questions before closing them?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:47:12.280" Score="-1" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34963/what-language-is-stackoverflow-coded-in&quot;&gt;what language is Stackoverflow coded in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder what language SO is coded in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And is there more information on other techniques beeing used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:50:15.997" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T22:01:30.167" Title="what language is Stackoverflow coded in?" Tags="&lt;php&gt;&lt;java&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="34962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34961" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:48:11.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i think there is a SO meta page for this type of question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141870" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:49:52.343" />
  <row Id="34964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34961" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:50:15.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What Was Stack Overflow Built With?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:50:15.997" />
  <row Id="34965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34961" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:51:58.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;C# is the server language, JavaScript, with SQL Server as the db.  It's written using the ASP.NET MVC Framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should check Blog.stackoverflow.com and the SO Podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T21:51:58.317" />
  <row Id="34966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34959" CreationDate="2010-01-08T21:57:28.307" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Fruitless effort&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you note, editing takes more work. It's work that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have been done by the original author, and often can &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; be done properly by the original author. There are a great many questions posted that are difficult to understand because key details were left out or obscured in the original text - a careful reader &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be able to guess at the author's intentions and clean it up, but that can be a difficult and time-consuming process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Counter-productive answers and encouraging users to ask better questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something else I've seen a lot of: ambiguous questions that quickly collect a number of answers based on guesses. Sometimes, that works out: a guess is correct, and the question author comes back and confirms it. However, it can also lead to conflict among those posting answers, especially in cases where the guesses they made as to the nature of the question differed greatly. At one time, this was an excellent scenario in which to close the question: if the author came back and updated it, it could then be re-opened and answered without suffering from the noise caused by the posting of misinformed answers. Unfortunately, it now takes too long to close (and re-open) questions for this to be a generally useful tactic... Personally, I've adjusted to it by simply down-voting all but the most blatantly worthless questions in hope of encouraging improvement (although &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;there are problems with this as well&lt;/a&gt;), but closing still has a role to play when it comes to the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Additional on-screen, prescriptive instructions vs. the affordability of features themselves&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut feeling is that a bit of text urging users to use these features in a certain way isn't going to do any good. There is simply too much resistance put in the way of editing by its very nature. Those conscientious souls who are driven to seek out community support for their actions already have a wealth of it available here on Meta in the form of FAQs and various feature-specific discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T22:17:30.007" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:17:30.007" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="34967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34959" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:00:08.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen very few examples of questions getting close votes which could be repaired with simple editing. I've found the community to be quite tolerant of spelling and grammar ... &lt;em&gt;so long as there is a legitimate question in there&lt;/em&gt;. As per @Shog9's comment, if you've got counter-examples, please post them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, there was a bitter and vitriolic debate about the degree to which we should edit questions to match up with the community goals. Should people edit off 'hello there' in the front? Should people edit out paragraphs of introductory editorial that might (or might not) contribute to understanding the meat of the question? Should people rework confused content to extract and present a concrete question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having read some of the content of that debate, I, for one, never want to go there. So I will confess that, if I really can't make heads or tails, I'm more inclined to close than repair, to avoid a resurgence of the dreaded 'edit wars.' (Gosh that was a lot of commas.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is clearly a question, however poorly worded, my experience is that people tend to hit the 'edit' or 'answer' buttons. Close comes into play if major surgical repairs are needed even to reveal a question, or for 'just send me the code', or 'just do my homework', or 'should comments be blue or green.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible cultural disconnect is that there are some common writing patterns of people who learned English in some places that are somewhat impenetrable to people who learned it in Western Europe or the US. Still, I only see the questions that pass my tag filters and are unanswered when I wander along. If you've got examples, they may be worthy of examination and discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T22:37:21.567" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:37:21.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34970" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:04:09.023" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19299/possible-race-condition-with-migration&quot;&gt;Possible race condition with migration&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been asked on SO : &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2030983/what-language-is-stackoverflow-coded-in-closed&quot;&gt;what language is Stackoverflow coded in?&lt;/a&gt; (id=2030983)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's been migrated to meta, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34961/what-language-is-stackoverflow-coded-in&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (id=34961) &lt;em&gt;(when following the &quot;migrated&quot; link on SO )&lt;/em&gt; -- of course, this one has now been closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, on SO, there &lt;s&gt;is&lt;/s&gt; was also another question (id=34963, now redacted) -- which seems to also be marked as &quot;migrated from SO&quot; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now, what's funny :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the two questions are the same&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;theirs id are real close : 34961 and 34963&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they both have to comment I initially posted on SO (which seems to indicate both questions come from SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seems the question from SO has been migrated twice ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-08T22:11:29.210" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:11:29.210" ClosedDate="2010-01-08T22:12:30.657" Title="Migration =&gt; duplication?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34968" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:08:31.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect this is related to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27608/six-people-to-close-bug&quot;&gt;six close votes&lt;/a&gt; race condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:08:31.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34968" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:10:44.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect Greg has the truth of it; to tidy up, I've merged 34963 into 34961 (since the &quot;migrated&quot; link in the original question on SO referenced 34961).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:10:44.500" />
  <row Id="34972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22388" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:15:46.143" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. The default OR search is a complete violation of web design guidelines. If the results returned do not include &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the terms searched for, this should be communicated to the user in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:15:46.143" />
  <row Id="34973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34922" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:23:13.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having a hard time deciding whether to join the party on the comment chains or post an answer, but, what the heck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a good reason, oh @Gaspar, to encourage accepts, and it isn't related to rep-farming. The site highlights unaccepted questions. There's a model here in which, until a question gets an accepted answer, the site assumes that none of the answers have met the questioners needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I find myself in favor of gentle reminders, but not in favor of draconian solutions like the OP's question or some of the snarkier nudges I've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also point out that there is sometimes a positive correlation between zero accepts and 'plz send me the codez' questions, so I have some sympathy for people who post more, ahem, strident responses to someone who has posted 40 questions, accepted no answers, and is posting yet another question asking this community to do their work for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:23:13.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:37:42.520" Score="6" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many tags that can have multiple uses.  This is fine and good.  However, it would help in finding questions that I can actually answer if there was a way to join tags for my &lt;em&gt;Interesting Tags&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ignored Tags&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example to make it clearer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags:  &lt;strong&gt;Generics&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;.Net&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;strong&gt;Generics&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Java&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one I can help with.  The second one I know very little about.  I know a bit about Java in general, so I don't want to add that to my ignore list, but I am not much help with a deep Java Generics issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also help some with categorization.  There are tags like [wpf-binding].  That tag is used because databinding can be for WPF or other things.  This leads me to tag my WPF Databinding questions with both (wpf-binding and databinding)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I am not dying to have this feature, it just hit me as a good idea so I thought I would throw it out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="16241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-10T05:26:21.723" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T12:31:14.073" Title="Have &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; that are combinations of tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-08T22:52:27.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I view accept rate as a measure of how much attention the questioner is likely to pay to my answer.  I'm in this for the pleasure of helping others, the pleasure of the sound of my own typing, rep and badges, and assorted other reasons, but let's look at my first reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody frequently asks questions and rarely accepts answers, that suggests that either the questioner throws questions out to die and doesn't look at them again, or doesn't find them helpful.  In either case, I don't get the feeling that I'm likely to be helpful, so I'm less likely to answer (and definitely less likely to do any work at all to give a good answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, an accept rate of 50% suggests somebody who does pay attention to answers, and is likely to be helped, who is skittish about accepting answers for whatever reason.  That means I'm likely to answer a question if I think I can be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other users will vary, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T22:52:27.320" />
  <row Id="34978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:03:36.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;51% on 383 Questions is much too low in my opinion - it means that ~190 of your Questions do not have an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more about absolute Numbers here. If you have 10 or 20 questions, then &amp;lt;50% is still okay as it sometimes takes time to really test the answers or because there are simply no good answers. But more than 20 Questions without answers? That really seems a bit much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend doing a search for &quot;hasaccepted:0 wiki:0 closed:0 user:3834&quot; and checking if there are questions that have a good answer (no, not randomly picking one just to bump the AR)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T23:03:36.983" />
  <row Id="34979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34959" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:05:03.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Closing is not inherently negative.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I'm done yelling. There are a lot of reasons to close, and many of them go above and beyond what can be accomplished with editing. Duplicates are one of my favorite reasons, but other popular ones include &quot;not a real question&quot; (IE, unanswerable in its current form) and &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; (note that &quot;and&quot; in there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have my own set of guidelines, of course. (They're &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance/32515#32515&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on Meta, and were updated by other users as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, editing should be done if it reasonably can with full knowledge of the OP's intent. Oftentimes it's the second bit that gets us hung up. In that scenario, if it's close-worthy, close it. The OP can edit it into something re-openable and it will get re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T23:05:03.190" />
  <row Id="34980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:16:02.790" Score="8" ViewCount="682" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doing a bit of C++ recently has exposed me to the C++ community on StackOverflow and, though I might be imagining this, they strike me as being generally a bit more friendly, a bit less spikey (confrontational is too strong a word), a bit more willing to spend a little more time on a really helpful answer, a little less rep-hungry and a bit more mature/tolerant than some of the C# devs I've come across. I stress, this isn't a dig at C# developers, in fact some of the C# developers on SO have re-affirmed my faith in humanity, it's just an observation - has anyone else noticed different personality traits across different language or platform users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27805" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T22:34:51.683" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T18:36:21.200" Title="Relative friendliness of developers by language on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;languages&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="34981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:22:37.597" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Codewise, although I cover a number of areas I don't do much with C/C++, but with my ♦ hat on I also come at this from the opposite side, and I can tell you that there are antisocial &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=goit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;goit&lt;/a&gt;s in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tags. I just hope that they are outnumbered by the more helpful members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with my C# hat on - while the numbers might suggest otherwise, I &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; that I don't come across as a rep-whore; manic OCD, maybe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T23:22:37.597" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="34982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:25:13.860" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have something to do with age. The C++ gang is in many cases getting a bit long in the tooth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T23:25:13.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:28:20.750" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of course&lt;/em&gt; C++ developers are friendly - &lt;em&gt;they're completely and utterly mad&lt;/em&gt;! You don't learn a language like C++ and still manage to keep a firm grip on reality, and once free from the shackles of sanity they tend to also leave behind the normal stresses and frustrations that make, say, C programmers such jackasses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C# and Java programmers are merely beaten down by the world. SO rep is all they have left to hope for, and spending extra time answering follow-up questions doesn't do anything for that. Poor souls; don't be too hard on them, they didn't ask for this lot in life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gotta say though, out of all the programmers in all of the various languages, VB programmers have to be the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; friendly. The cheerful smiles on their faces when you lean down to wipe off the drool can just brighten your whole outlook on life...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-08T23:28:20.750" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="34984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34985" CreationDate="2010-01-09T00:32:42.020" Score="3" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes have come in on my answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2022741/plzz-can-u-help-me/2022752#2022752&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; after it was closed. I might deserve them, but it seems a bit odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T00:34:50.097" Title="Is voting supposed to be permitted on answers to closed questions?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="34985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34984" CreationDate="2010-01-09T00:34:50.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing (or indeed locking) a question doesn't prevent voting on answers. It doesn't even prevent voting on the question (although locking does).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we &lt;em&gt;lock&lt;/em&gt; individual / all answers (very rare), then &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; prevents voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is by design. Just because something was closed as &quot;no longer relevant&quot;, for example, doesn't mean that the answers were without merit; let 'em get their dues. In the &quot;not a real question&quot; example, it may be that you were able to infer enough from the question to give a good answer. Indeed, there is even a badge for great answers on downvoted questions (downvoted questions and closed questions have a large overlap).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T00:34:50.097" />
  <row Id="34986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34998" CreationDate="2010-01-09T00:39:21.583" Score="6" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently prefer to look for questions on superuser &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/search?q=answers%3A0&quot;&gt;no one has tried to answer&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never been able to determine how these search results are ordered.  Typically, search results are returned in order of relevance and the search help says they are &quot;weighted heavily towards question title matches&quot;, but in this case, you would think that the search would order them based on whatever tab is currently selected (newest, hot, active)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ordinarily never stray outside of 'newest', but it's clear the results are not sorted by age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135974" LastEditorUserId="135974" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T04:46:25.667" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T11:21:34.340" Title="How are search results ordered, especially when the search terms are 'question agnostic'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="34990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34974" CreationDate="2010-01-09T06:46:59.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can have it right now if you search via tags, excluding those you don't want to mess with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your case, it would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/.net+generics+-java&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[generics] [.net] -[java]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which pulls up all the questions tagged both &lt;strong&gt;[generics]&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;[.net]&lt;/strong&gt;, excluding those that happen to be tagged &lt;strong&gt;[java]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T06:46:59.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-09T07:31:01.763" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32580/i-cannot-access-so-using-the-default-win-xp-account&quot;&gt;I cannot access SO using the default Win XP account&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can access SO using some other account but I'm afraid I soon won't be able to access it even with this account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment about this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Stack Overflow blog&lt;/a&gt; as well. The following is the output whenever I open &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;. What could be the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3851/84241262.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T07:56:28.210" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T07:56:28.210" ClosedDate="2010-01-09T08:14:41.820" Title="Could not access Stack Overflow in my Windows XP default account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="34992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32580" CreationDate="2010-01-09T07:43:13.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the account gets locked ...I am too face the same problem...I dont know why&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T07:43:13.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34948" CreationDate="2010-01-09T08:13:46.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just the option to verify disappears&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right -- if your email is unverified, we'll tell you, otherwise, everything is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T08:13:46.017" />
  <row Id="34994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-01-09T08:17:29.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I definitely notice the tone of answers varies by technology.  The friendliest I have found are the Flex people.  However there only seem to be about 4 of them, so maybe I know them all in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Java questions will get downvotes from sniffy purists unless you get every detail exactly right and have examined all possible avenues.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also the place where the worst sort of framework fundamentalism occurs.  Answer like &quot;don't fix your syntax error, change your entire programming methodology and architecture instead&quot; are not uncommon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T08:17:29.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34805" CreationDate="2010-01-09T09:36:13.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; an OpenID, but you can &lt;em&gt;overwrite&lt;/em&gt; it with another OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be my recommendation. If you absolutely must have an OpenID removed and do not want to overwrite it, you can always email us (via the address at the bottom of every page, of course..) and we can do it very easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T09:36:13.800" />
  <row Id="34996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2010-01-09T10:23:56.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/SamSaffron/So-Slow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;So-Slow&lt;/a&gt;, is by far the fastest way to get data into SQL Server. It is still able to process current dumps in under 10 minutes, including tag splitting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T22:40:32.130" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T22:40:32.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-09T10:23:56.297" />
  <row Id="34997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-01-09T10:53:44.573" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone active in the C# and Ruby tags, the Ruby crowd are a lot friendlier. But then again that is what you would expect from a bunch of hippies that do not care about the indisputable fact that Rails does not scale and instead of coding are busy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqOTmamNbY8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;making video clips&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T10:53:44.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="34998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34986" CreationDate="2010-01-09T11:21:34.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not ordered - at least not in a way humans would expect ;). If you search for &lt;em&gt;relevance&lt;/em&gt; and do not provide any search text which with a relevance ordering can be computed, then I guess the results are listed in that order the SQL query returns them from the database - first found, first out. It depends how the content is stored in the database tables. So it looks arbitrary but it is no random order. &lt;sub&gt;random is messing things up anyway&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T11:21:34.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35010" CreationDate="2010-01-09T11:40:13.423" Score="6" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer you're voting down is short, the message that asks you to add a comment obscures the very link that lets you do that. Given that this message cannot even be clicked away, the overall experience is a little frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO the best way to fix this is to let me click the message to close it, but I believe this idea is not very popular for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/CjhmG.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastEditorUserId="136714" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T16:02:27.050" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T16:23:54.310" Title="&quot;Please consider adding a comment&quot; obscures the &quot;Add comment&quot; link" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-01-09T12:20:00.367" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen much unfriendliness in the C# tags, but then maybe what I view as just matter-of-fact answering is what you view as being unfriendly; it's possible I'm part of the problem as you perceive it. In particular, if you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; happen to dislike my answering style (which you're perfectly at liberty to do, of course) then that will create a disproportionately poor impression of the C# community. Please don't judge the C# community based on just my contributions! (Or those of other prolific answerers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be worth presenting specific examples of what you mean, so we can discuss them further. For instance, there are certain common mistakes and bad practices people make in C# which the community &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; vociferously denounce: if you embed values in your SQL, or use binary floating point values for money, or routinely make your variables public then you should expect to be discouraged from doing so in no uncertain terms. This may be seen as unfriendly by some - and I'd certainly encourage anyone writing such an answer to do so &lt;em&gt;politely&lt;/em&gt; - but it's part of the learning process. The quality of information is more important than the questioner's ego, in my view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible this wasn't what you were talking about at all, but my guess is that it's one aspect of the &quot;tolerance&quot; you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of maturity, I really couldn't say - although I would hazard a guess (not backed up by any figures) that the average physical age of C++ respondents is higher than those for C#. While I'm not saying that age and maturity of answers are automatically linked, I think there's a certain amount of correlation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for detail of answers: is it possible that C++ is just a more complex language, with more subtle nuances? I'm sure that the longest answers I've written have tended to be on some aspects of C#/.NET which are more obscure than those answering &quot;How do I do X?&quot; questions. Is it possible that C++ questions themselves are of a different nature to the C# ones? Again, I don't have any answers there but it's an aspect I'd encourage you to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this is meant to discount the possibility that things really are as you suggest, and the average C++ developer is friendlier than the average C# developer. That would sadden me, but I'm not going to pretend it's impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T12:20:00.367" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35007" CreationDate="2010-01-09T13:43:10.817" Score="-4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13270/how-many-words-can-a-tag-contain&quot;&gt;How many words can a tag contain?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32746/maximum-length-of-tags&quot;&gt;Maximum length of tags&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the maximum tag length is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13270/how-many-words-can-a-tag-contain/13274#13274&quot;&gt;25 characters&lt;/a&gt;. This gives tags such as &quot;interprocess-communicatio&quot; (also shortened to the tag ipc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be increased, or should the truncated tag be renamed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T14:16:14.313" ClosedDate="2010-01-10T10:51:44.050" Title="Should the maximum tag length be increased?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35002" CreationDate="2010-01-09T14:15:42.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No matter what the limit is, you can always find examples which exceeds it. Just ask me, I'm German, I concatenate the shit out of you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rename it, that's it! 25 chars sounds reasonable to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T14:15:42.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35002" CreationDate="2010-01-09T14:16:14.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Break it up into two tags and include the IPC tag as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T14:16:14.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35019" CreationDate="2010-01-09T14:29:06.233" Score="3" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's this thing when I try answering questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Little slab of meat / In a wash of clear jelly / Now I heat the pan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mathematicsociety.com/images/ScreenshotFirefox.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; but I'm not a spam ... I found out something ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm working in a software company and all software developers here got this error and our reputation reduced about 100 points (I had 789 reduced to 669). Reputation isn't important for me ( just as incentive tool ) but I can't answer, vote, comment, retag or even ask any question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that's because we use the same Internet connection (and spend most of our time in the company), but when I came back home and try to answer questions, I got that message again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can I do to re-enable my account and answer questions , put comment, etc? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S:&lt;/strong&gt; many hours ago I answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2032957/combo-control-like-windows-vista/2032971#2032971&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question  ... I used the word S...E...X in that thread ... everything happened just after I post that answer !!! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141007" LastEditorUserId="141007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T15:46:09.957" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T20:37:54.967" Title="Can't ask, answer, vote, comment, retag any question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;haiku&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="35010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35000" CreationDate="2010-01-09T14:43:26.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This must only happen on short messages/answers/questions because once the content is bigger than about 100 pixels, the box does not cover it up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, the box can be clicked to make it go away or you can just wait for the timeout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T16:23:54.310" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T16:23:54.310" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35031" CreationDate="2010-01-09T15:14:55.753" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9787/hide-ignored-tags-should-retrieve-more-questions-to-fill-up-the-page&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hide ignored tags&amp;rdquo; should retrieve more questions to fill up the page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I browse the full &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest&quot;&gt;list of questions&lt;/a&gt;, many are hidden thanks to ignored tags (and the pref to completely hide them). The problem is, this breaks the page layout. There are several screenfuls of whitespace to scroll through between the last question and the navigation links to the next page. Happens with chromium 4, but not firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27759/chrome-rendering-issue&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, if I Ctrl + Ctrl - the whitespace disappears. Could be a chromium layout bug, or could be event handlers being ordered slightly differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140381" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T09:14:01.250" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T09:14:23.377" Title="Questions with ignored tags break the layout" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-09T16:23:25.473" Score="30" ViewCount="1302" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you guys gotten a job from Stack Overflow careers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T10:39:22.973" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T07:50:13.007" Title="Stack Overflow Careers success stories?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="35015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-01-09T16:43:37.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't personally used SO to look for a job.  But asking, answering and reading SO questions does make me more knowledgeable about my profession, which is very beneficial in my current job, and it would be helpful were I trying to find another job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T16:43:37.547" />
  <row Id="35016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35022" CreationDate="2010-01-09T17:31:24.317" Score="11" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I only use SO for asking work-related questions, and I believe it has improved my productivity considerably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I am wrong, and maybe if I spent the same time reading technical books/blogs/docs I would produce better code faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? And what if you were an asker like me? (because I think that the answerers waste time for themselves helping others, which is great for me, and I thank them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would happen to your productivity if SO disappeared forever?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T19:28:17.247" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:21:00.517" Title="How does SO affect our productivity?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35016" CreationDate="2010-01-09T17:59:29.353" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short term, my productivity would possibly increase if I didn't use Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long term, I believe it would decrease - because I learn from answering. I become a better communicator through the answers I write and the feedback I receive. I learn different techniques and approaches through the answers of other people. I learn about potential traps that I might fall into some time in the future from the questions other people ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I believe that SO (and similar community participation) makes me a more valuable developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have nothing against reading blogs and books of course - as a blogger and a book author I'd be pretty mad to discourage people from reading either of them - but you do tend to get more realistic experiences from SO. In particular, you come across the problems that other people are genuinely facing. This is especially valuable to me as an author - it means I have a reasonable idea of which issues confuse developers, so I can address those in books and articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T19:19:37.267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T19:19:37.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35016" CreationDate="2010-01-09T18:27:34.267" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not as badly as wave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, go &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35016/how-does-so-affects-our-productivity/35017#35017&quot;&gt;upvote Jon&lt;/a&gt;, he is definitely right. Using SO you get a lot of excellent things out of it, far more than the apparent decrease in immediate productivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I don't agree with him, is that, at least for some range of developers, reading books &lt;sub&gt;(always underestimated by many)&lt;/sub&gt;/blogs/magazines &lt;sub&gt;(not so much on this day and age)&lt;/sub&gt; is an important thing to d too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, when you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;write the book on C#&lt;/a&gt;, you might be wanting to learn things that books can't teach you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T18:27:34.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35009" CreationDate="2010-01-09T19:07:19.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First thing to try; clear your broswers cache (script in particular). On multiple occasions I have seen (both personally and reported here on meta) problems with dirty cached script versions, which have prevented posting (and on one occasion the moderator screens &lt;strong&gt;looked&lt;/strong&gt; like I was actioning things, but not actually doing anything - which was annoying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The haiku is, I suspect, a red-herring. Your account is not suspended (it would show in red - it isn't subtle), and there is no prejudicial treatment against &quot;sex&quot; (see, I'm still here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sudden drop &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have related to a recalc, but there is nothing in the log (which you get from manual recalcs). I can't see any &quot;spam&quot; penalties (but these are hard to see on questions), so I &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; it was an automated recalc due to suspect-looking cross-voting (I am not intimate with the exact algorithm, so I can't say for sure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but for info there 2 accounts (that &quot;share a theme&quot;, shall we say) that look &lt;strong&gt;well&lt;/strong&gt; along the road to getting eliminated for... &lt;em&gt;creative&lt;/em&gt; voting. It could well be your co-workers trying to help your account along, but it really isn't in your best interests. Maybe the system already kicked a 3rd, explaining the drop. But this &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; prevent you accessing the system. We're not bitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T20:37:54.967" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T20:37:54.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35016" CreationDate="2010-01-09T19:07:38.980" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have more &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; to do other things but there are a lot &lt;strong&gt;less tangible benefits&lt;/strong&gt; to Stack Overflow that I would find irreplaceable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one thing, &lt;strong&gt;I am exposed to a much larger community&lt;/strong&gt; than through any collection of blogs or books I read. With blogs and books, I tend to pick material which is within my specific areas of interest or comfort zone. With Stack Overflow, I am almost &lt;strong&gt;forced&lt;/strong&gt; to be exposed to a much larger body of ideas, alternative approaches, and even languages I would never have looked at otherwise. That is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have significantly &lt;strong&gt;honed my writing, teaching, and critical thinking skills&lt;/strong&gt;. Normally, you learn something and you think you pretty much &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;grok&lt;/a&gt; it. But try and explain simple concepts to someone else and you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; learn something. Add to that, the answer-fast-accurate-and-complete element of Stack Overflow and... that is a priceless skill. It has been &lt;em&gt;invaluable&lt;/em&gt; as a developer, a mentor, and many other areas of my career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I continue to &lt;strong&gt;learn a lot about the way people work, think, and work together&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;Community building&quot; has long been a focus and &lt;em&gt;sweet-spot&lt;/em&gt; in my career. Watching a new communication paradigm  (Stack Overflow) emerge, develop, and evolve from day-one has been an invaluable experience. That translates into my development skill set as well; learning a whole new dimension of user experience, usability, and interface design. The social aspect of watching how people work, think, and solve problems on Stack Overflow has been like attending a 24-hour/365-day virtual technology conferences and trade show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my &lt;em&gt;free time&lt;/em&gt; may go up in the short term, just doing the same-old, same-old. But my experience here has added significantly to my domain knowledge; in both &quot;how many&quot; things I can do and how well I can do them. All a net benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-21T12:21:00.517" LastActivityDate="2010-08-21T12:21:00.517" />
  <row Id="35021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-01-09T19:28:00.633" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; from Careers (I haven't posted my CV, yet), but StackOverflow has &lt;em&gt;very much&lt;/em&gt; been a factor in companies considering me for a position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a bit freaky the first time when some random programmer suddenly realizes they &quot;know you&quot; from your presence on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-09T20:52:23.887" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T20:52:23.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35016" CreationDate="2010-01-09T19:40:05.863" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a questioner (mostly): I do a lot of work before I post a question to SO to avoid being ridiculed (or being ridiculous, at least). I spend a lot of time reducing my example code, especially removing extraneous dependencies and irrelevant stuff. In doing this I learn a lot, and about 40% of the time I answer my own question before I even post it to StackOverflow (or within 5 minutes of posting, too :). So that definitely helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, since I work alone (mostly), I really need the community to fall back on if I cannot figure out a question on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SO disappeared forever I'd be figuring out &quot;creative&quot; ways to work around any roadblocks I have (mostly inelegant and just plain wrong). With SO, I boil the question down, post it, and take a nap. Then I return and carefully work with the answerers to get a best answer. It's not cheap, timewise, but it does give good results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm particularly proud of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2028193&quot;&gt;my round from yesterday&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Just wanted to mention that one also does SO not for oneself nor for the rep, but instead out of a Wikipedia-style largess. Recently, I've been focusing on classic questions that I personally looked for in Google and didn't find the answers. So the gain in productivity is not just for onself, but also for the entire world :) It's happened to me -- and therefore surely happened to these rep-monsters with 10K+ in rep (yes, 140K is in that range) -- that I look for something in Google and actually get led back to my own question on SO. So the gain in productivity is for everybody...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastEditorUserId="131669" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-10T11:27:28.803" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T11:27:28.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35016" CreationDate="2010-01-09T20:00:28.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My productivity becomes a random chainsaw graph with a lot of broken teeth (indicating heavy SO activity) when I open it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141433" LastActivityDate="2010-01-09T20:00:28.407" />
  <row Id="35029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-01-10T00:59:48.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is one success story on &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the careers homepage&lt;/a&gt; already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is where Stack Overflow Careers has succeeded for me; a smaller company with great working conditions was able to find me and provide me all of the opportunities that I was looking for. When I interviewed, my future employer already had a sense of who I was based upon the questions and answers on my Stack Overflow profile, and those gave us things to discuss during the interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jon Erickson, Seattle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few others as well, I'll ask the relevant parties to post here..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T00:59:48.997" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35011" CreationDate="2010-01-10T01:17:36.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dupe is not in fact a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Chrome, for some reason, the hidden &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;s (when you have &quot;hide unanswered questions&quot; checked in your profile) do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; collapse as they do in Firefox, Safari, IE8, and Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you end up with a ton of empty whitespace where the hidden questions were...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Chrome 5.0 which was just released FINALLY fixes this. Friggin' finally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T09:14:23.377" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T09:14:23.377" />
  <row Id="35032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35016" CreationDate="2010-01-10T01:24:08.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some nice articles on procrastination:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the way to &quot;solve&quot; the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you. Work on an ambitious project you really enjoy, and sail as close to the wind as you can, and you'll leave the right things undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn't realize that it evolves. Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. Some days I'd wake up, get a cup of tea and check the news, then check email, then check the news again, then answer a few emails, then suddenly notice it was almost lunchtime and I hadn't gotten any real work done. And this started to happen more and more often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is procrastination? To the outside observer, it looks like you’re just doing something “fun” (like playing a game or reading the news) instead of doing your actual work. (This usually causes the outside observer to think you’re lazy and bad.) But the real question is: what’s going on inside your head?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many of these observations apply to Stack Overflow, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T01:24:08.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35035" CreationDate="2010-01-10T04:52:26.030" Score="4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use SO and have an account there. Occasionally I would visit meta without an account. Yesterday I created an account on meta with the same username and open id that I use on SO. A friend just told me I should have received 100 bonus points on both sites.  I searched meta and it appears at some point this was true but is it still the case?  I do have more than 200 reps on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141581" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-22T20:48:04.803" LastActivityDate="2011-06-22T20:48:04.803" Title="Bonus points for merging accounts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35033" CreationDate="2010-01-10T04:59:57.153" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To get bonus points, you need to associate your accounts (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/141581?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;this page for your Meta account&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/236975?tab=accounts#sort-top&quot;&gt;this page for your SO account&lt;/a&gt; -- your user profile, accounts tab).  The system uses your OpenID to know which accounts are eligible for associating, so you need to make sure you used the same OpenID on both sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, bonus points are only given to users with accounts above a certain amount of rep.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17477/why-did-i-get-no-reputation-gain-when-i-associated-my-accounts/17482#17482&quot;&gt;This Meta answer&lt;/a&gt; indicates that amount is 200 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T04:59:57.153" />
  <row Id="35037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35111" CreationDate="2010-01-10T06:23:11.873" Score="10" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the survey I took today there was no choice for Python under &quot;Which technologies do you use...&quot;. I see &lt;strong&gt;16,028 Python&lt;/strong&gt; tagged questions on SO currently and only &lt;strong&gt;6,556 Ruby&lt;/strong&gt; tagged questions and Ruby is on the list, so why wouldn't they include Python when it's three times as important to the site's traffic, according to the audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T22:29:18.797" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T22:29:18.797" Title="Why does Stack Overflow's recent survey not include Python in its choices for technologies?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;survey&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35037" CreationDate="2010-01-10T07:27:02.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps SO's advertising clients don't care as much about Python as Ruby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an &quot;other&quot; section though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please list any additional technologies you actively use: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;_&lt;/em&gt;__&lt;em&gt;_&lt;/em&gt;__&lt;em&gt;_&lt;/em&gt;__&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T07:27:02.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2010-01-10T08:07:33.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm agreeing somewhat with cletus's premise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My concern now is that the higher rep users seem to be given upvotes just for being higher rep. I've definately had answers where I've had higher rep users come in much later than my answer, post the same answer with more information and have that be the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with reputation is that the more reputation you gain, the more rep your answers generate, in many cases to the detriment of the correct answer from a lower rep user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the 5-10 minutes I spent working out the answer, researching to see if I was right, gets me 10 rep, and no real recognition that my answer was correct (other than it's the same as the accepted answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially it feels like stealing, though I'm sure it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's becoming a major frustration for me with the site. I answer questions, with the correct answer and I'm not receiving recognition or reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137520" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T08:07:33.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-10T08:07:33.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2010-01-10T08:56:55.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow clone in PHP -- &quot;Qwench&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;announcement&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://anantgarg.com/2009/12/09/php-stackoverflow-clone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://anantgarg.com/2009/12/09/php-stackoverflow-clone/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;project forums&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qwench.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.qwench.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;live demo at&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://anantgarg.com/qwench/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://anantgarg.com/qwench/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T08:56:55.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-10T08:56:55.330" />
  <row Id="35041" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-10T09:10:35.093" Score="7" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the vote button for questions is not placed well. Let me explain how I read topics so you can understand why I think that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time a read a question + answers I start on the top of the page and I go down. Sometimes there is a long answer or question that might take more than my screen's height so I scroll down. If the question/answer was good I need to break my down-scrolling and go back up just to add a vote. I would like to go in just one direction...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best place for a vote button is the bottom of the thing you have to read before voting. I the same thing as with EULAs: the (Dis)Agree button is placed below. Usually you put a button above only if you know that someone can click that without requiring to do what is below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138991" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T15:52:02.737" Title="Move the vote button" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="35042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35041" CreationDate="2010-01-10T09:15:01.463" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While that might have been useful feedback about 1.8 years ago when we were in private beta, it is very, &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; unlikely to change at this late date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users seem to be able to vote in rational ways with the current position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T09:15:01.463" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35041" CreationDate="2010-01-10T10:57:50.510" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not like the idea. I think the number must stay above where it is right now. If the vote buttons are below, then you are changing a GUI element (the number) which you do not see (if you have scrolled down long posts). You could repeat the number below, but I think this looks stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another solution would be, that the number and the arrows scroll down with the post and always stick to the current scrolling position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T10:57:50.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-10T12:25:24.757" Score="3" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Add comment&quot; button is now in the middle of the (clickable) links of the Related section, which often makes it unusable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.bortzmeyer.org/images/add-comment-so.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The &amp;quot;Add comment&amp;quot; button at the wrong place.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't use SO for one or two months so I don't know exactly how it appeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.0.6 on Debian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33954/comment-button-problem-on-so&quot;&gt;Comment button problem on SO&lt;/a&gt; which has an accepted answer which seems irrelevant to me (this is certainly &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a normal display).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T07:06:07.737" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T05:32:50.657" Title="&quot;Add comment&quot; button over the Related links (and therefore unusable)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35052" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-10T12:35:12.033" Score="3" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doctype&lt;/a&gt; has rounded corners on its profiles and buttons. A website without rounded corners in 2010 is like site from 1999 without a frameset. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have some:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮&#xA;│-moz-border-radius-topleft / -webkit-border-top-left-radius        │&#xA;│-moz-border-radius-topright / -webkit-border-top-right-radius      │&#xA;│-moz-border-radius-bottomleft / -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius  │&#xA;│-moz-border-radius-bottomright / -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius│&#xA;╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T04:43:54.117" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T04:43:54.117" Title="Should stackoverflow.com have rounded corners?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35052" CreationDate="2010-01-10T12:38:58.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean rounded corners like this? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T12:38:58.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35051" CreationDate="2010-01-10T12:47:49.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those fonts are.. curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you have overridden default fonts -- have you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you try to repro in another browser (I recommend Chrome on Linux), or try with Firefox in a default configuration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T12:47:49.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35058" CreationDate="2010-01-10T12:56:44.717" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675/is-there-a-page-that-displays-questions-with-zero-answers&quot;&gt;Is there a page that displays questions with zero answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to only show question which are not yet answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141627" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T15:15:37.360" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T15:15:37.360" ClosedDate="2010-01-10T15:57:52.223" Title="Only show questions with no answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35056" CreationDate="2010-01-10T13:11:20.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;assuming it is &quot;no answer&quot; what you meant: just search for &lt;code&gt;answers:0&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After you search something, there is a help link at the right sidebar: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;See our search tips!&lt;/a&gt; for more details&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T13:11:20.313" />
  <row Id="35059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35052" CreationDate="2010-01-10T13:20:01.573" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why stop there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4895/shinyb.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T13:20:01.573" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="35060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2010-01-10T13:28:29.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firebirdsql.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firebird&lt;/a&gt; project who win &quot;Best project for the enterprise&quot; on SourceForge Community choice awards in 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140671" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T13:28:29.807" />
  <row Id="35061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-10T13:36:39.927" Score="0" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1832/what-happens-when-jon-skeets-reputation-exceeds-the-limit-for-the-data-type-hold&quot;&gt;What happens when Jon Skeet&amp;rsquo;s reputation exceeds the limit for the data type holding it?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering... What would happen if you (or Skeet) get(s) so much rep. that SQL Server cannot store it? Will it give an error, will you get banned, will you rep. get back to 0 (aka Prestige Mode =D), will StackOverflow get down for a week untill Jeff notices, buys a 128 bit server and updates SQL Server? Or what else would happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or is this simply impossible because it takes over 200 years because of the daily rep. limit?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T12:59:37.387" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T12:59:37.387" ClosedDate="2010-01-10T16:03:19.950" Title="Is there a total reputation limit?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35061" CreationDate="2010-01-10T13:39:47.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon's already done this a few times. Turns out that it is an unsigned 32-bit int, and it just wrapped around. &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;g&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, though, I don't think this isn't a serious concern in even the longest term. For all meaningful interpretations, no there isn't a total cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T13:39:47.643" />
  <row Id="35063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35061" CreationDate="2010-01-10T13:42:34.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, this is a silly question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second off, your math is off if rep is stored in a regular signed int. I calculate over 23,000 years&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=2^31+/++250+/+365&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T13:42:34.687" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35052" CreationDate="2010-01-10T13:44:28.367" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mmm. No. It's the design and you shall respect!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SU has it and SU is unique. SO is also unique. They will always be unique forever (until EE gets free and a better design and support and better answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@balpha WOW COOL! Is that possible in Google Chrome? I mean custom style sheets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T13:44:28.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35051" CreationDate="2010-01-10T14:18:20.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between &quot;font only zoom&quot; and &quot;zoom&quot;. Always zoom the whole page, not only the fonts. &quot;View&quot;-&gt;&quot;Zoom&quot;-&gt;&quot;Zoom Text only&quot; must not be checked! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/8391/zoomq.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T14:18:20.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35052" CreationDate="2010-01-10T14:45:07.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get it, everything is square to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh wait, IE8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, rounded corners are overused and usually aren't that great either - they do have their places and uses but in general they don't fit that well into website flow that there'd be reason to have them everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T14:45:07.540" />
  <row Id="35067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2010-01-10T14:48:48.653" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not really an open source project, but free asp.net hosting with sql server for developers would be useful. You get a subdomain with say 100mb disk space, 20mb sql server db - no domain hosting, email or anything else just the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the codinghorror.com post says, I can't think many OS projects would know how to use the money except for hosting their site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative suggestion is the money goes as a series of prizes for &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; (release candidate) projects the community votes their favourite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T14:48:48.653" />
  <row Id="35068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35041" CreationDate="2010-01-10T14:51:29.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think that the voting buttons for the actual question should be located elsewhere for the same reasons as you. In fact I can't even remember setting a question as a favorite after I've read the question itself, only if it has had an interesting title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was the one in charge, I'd try to anchor the voting/favorite thingy to the end of the question for a moment and see how that affects people's behavior. If there's no significant change, switch it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T14:51:29.320" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36433" CreationDate="2010-01-10T15:44:17.187" Score="7" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using type=&quot;url&quot; instead of type=&quot;text&quot; would make life a lot easier when logging in via iPhones and Android Phones (mobile Safari, in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other browsers ignore it and pretend it's type=&quot;text&quot;, so no harm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-url&lt;/a&gt; for examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141629" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T09:00:14.493" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T09:00:55.927" Title="Suggestion: use type=&quot;url&quot; on the openid URL input field" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="35071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35041" CreationDate="2010-01-10T15:52:02.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe one could add a little icon with a link to jump to the beginning of the post from the bottom, if the answer is really long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another solution could be that clicking the link results in the top section of the answer (with the voting buttons) being vertically centered on the screen. Although somewhat useless for short answers, this wouldn't necessarily have to be disabled for these and thus doesn't require a definition of what's a &quot;long&quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2386" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T15:52:02.737" />
  <row Id="35072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-01-10T16:01:27.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Python Community people don't Upvote. Enough said! (Talking about the behavior of different communities.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Else, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810/alex-martelli&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt; and S.Lott would have been at par with Jon Skeet in rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kind of try to balance the situation, trying to up vote very often within the python tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55562" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T16:01:27.240" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35088" CreationDate="2010-01-10T17:42:14.340" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been cleaning up some tag errors and have discovered that there is no easy way to retag a closed question. There should be. Can this be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, I was trying to retag &quot;opensource&quot; to &quot;open-source&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141631" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T22:27:18.163" Title="Retag closed questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-10T17:42:53.090" Score="3" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea if it is a Stack Overflow problem or a Google Chrome one. Anyway, with Firefox, I can vote Up or Down, with Google Chrome (Debian 32-bits version, downloaded one hour ago), clicking on the arrows makes nothing, no change at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note also that I cannot see the Your Answer edition area at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be the same problem as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23030/problems-with-stack-overflow-when-using-linux-google-chrome&quot;&gt;Problems with Stack Overflow when using Linux Google Chrome?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, following Jon Skeet's suggestion, I flush the cache, it changes nothing. If I logout from SO, I can see the Your Answer edition area at the bottom. It disappears when I'm logged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15625" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T01:12:00.750" LastActivityDate="2011-06-01T09:22:15.163" Title="Cannot vote with Google Chrome" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35075" CreationDate="2010-01-10T17:53:29.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try flushing the browser's cache - that's what I've seen giving me problems very occasionally on Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of interest, do you see the various icons (bold, italic etc) and the answer preview when you view a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting in general certainly works with Chrome - and unless today's update has broken it, it works with Chrome on Linux too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T17:53:29.697" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35074" CreationDate="2010-01-10T18:41:53.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only noticed not being able to retag closed items when they've been migrated. Migrated items are locked, meaning they cannot be edited in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Retagging, even of closed items, is not rep-based. On SU, I have ~1200 rep (not enough to edit, but enough to retag). I was able to retag &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1542/which-is-the-best-free-antivirus-for-a-home-pc&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is: Were you trying to retag a question which was closed due to migration? (You'll see a message at the bottom of the question indicating such.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-10T22:14:45.243" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T22:14:45.243" />
  <row Id="35078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35079" CreationDate="2010-01-10T19:42:48.823" Score="8" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question says it all... I see it says 75% for me &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2010/31955#31955&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, why.  I only have one question and I selected an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139921" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T19:45:00.847" Title="My icon show 75% with just one question asked" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35078" CreationDate="2010-01-10T19:45:00.847" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That number has nothing to do with your accept rate (which would only appear on your questions, not your answers). This number says that with 75%, most of the content (75%, specifically) of this community wiki answer comes from you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T19:45:00.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-01-10T20:17:47.120" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below is my success story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was part of a mass layoff around Thanksgiving. That means another job search. So, I published my CV on SO Careers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In just one week, I received a message from an employer saying that they would like to interview me. So, I scheduled an interview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later that week, one of my recruiters called me about the same position. Can it really take that long to get a recruiter on board? I think that this really exemplifies one of the huge benefits of SO Careers: the power is given back to the primary parties involved! Individuals have a space where they can show themselves in a much more interesting and useful way. Employers are given the power to find these people directly and on their own schedule. There is no middle-man to clog up the works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This same employer made me an offer 30 minutes after I left the interview. I am employed again! Thanks for making this wonderful site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;~Sean Massa&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T20:17:47.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35082" CreationDate="2010-01-10T20:58:24.420" Score="9" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2013936/difficualty-getting-flup-fcgi-script-to-work/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Even though Tobu did not answer my question, he helped me find the answer. How can I award him the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140061" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-10T22:11:45.890" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T22:11:45.890" Title="How can I award the bounty to someone who only posted a comment?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35081" CreationDate="2010-01-10T20:59:46.540" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could ask him to re-post his response as an answer, so that it can be upvoted and accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he may not see the message (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;commenters do not receive notification&lt;/a&gt; when someone has replied to their comment), so you could try getting his attention by replying to another one of his posts (and deleting that comment when he has seen it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T20:59:46.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34802" CreationDate="2010-01-10T21:36:49.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This new feature (show details) is nice but my country is not on that list. I still don't know if there are any employers from my country.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've been listed for 1 week and didn't get single search hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T21:36:49.387" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-10T21:36:49.387" />
  <row Id="35084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35087" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:28:39.147" Score="4" ViewCount="875" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/71822/wheres-the-wmd-editor-open-source-project&quot;&gt;Where&amp;#39;s the WMD editor open source project?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know if there's some version exactly as SO uses it, with the same header with blank background and the same help button in the top right corner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138970" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T19:57:56.523" ClosedDate="2011-08-03T16:37:53.470" Title="Is there an official Stackoverflow version of WMD-Editor available for download?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="35085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35084" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:41:08.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackOverflow branch of the WMD editor is hosted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WMD Editor Reverse Engineered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140987" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T21:50:55.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35084" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:41:09.293" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow branches of WMD are maintained on GitHub &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cky/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. If you have trouble making a specific customization, start a new question describing what you've attempted and what isn't working and you'll get plenty of help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T21:50:55.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35084" CreationDate="2010-01-08T23:41:26.797" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wmd-new&lt;/a&gt; at Google Code or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow fork&lt;/a&gt; of WMD at GitHub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ephemera.continuation.org/stackoverflow/wmd/wmd-test.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's a quick demo&lt;/a&gt; of wmd-new (pulled from GitHub), with the styles slightly modified to look closer to those on SO. There are still a few differences (hover color on buttons, help question mark, etc), but it's really just a matter of tweaking the styles; the styles on Stack Overflow are built into their main stylesheet, and haven't all been applied to wmd-new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to change the look of the buttons, or their hover states, you'll need to edit the image sprite that contains them all. That can be found in &lt;code&gt;images/wmd-buttons.png&lt;/code&gt;, with the source Photoshop document in &lt;code&gt;images/wmd-buttons.psd&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't have to edit any JavaScript to get it to look like Stack Overflow, I don't believe, unless you want to get the textarea resizer, which you can find as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://plugins.jquery.com/project/TextAreaResizer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery plugin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T21:50:55.793" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="35088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35074" CreationDate="2010-01-10T22:27:18.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming you mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1855128/stackoverflow-website-code-downloadable-or-free-to-use-closed&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;? Locked questions (such as due to migration) cannot be edited, including tags. But they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; immune to global retags by ♦ moderators, and that &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; has the advantage of not spamming the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there were 23 opensource and &gt;1300 open-source, I'll merge into open-source for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;updating post history, 23 rows affected&#xA;updating posts, 20 rows affected&#xA;removing/renaming old tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected&#xA;merge of [open-source] and [opensource] complete!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T22:27:18.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-10T23:43:00.783" Score="23" ViewCount="1186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was bored this afternoon and decided to do something with the stack overflow data dump. I defined a &quot;Jon Skeet&quot; number, similar to the Erdos Number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can check your Jon Skeet Number here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sharpenyourteeth.net/stackoverflow/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sharpenyourteeth.net/stackoverflow/index.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Erdos Number is based on authorship of papers. To calculate a Jon Skeet number I define the &quot;authorship&quot; of answers to a particular question. First, only questions that are not closed and not community wiki are considered. A question must also have an answer of at least 5 upvotes (doesn't matter if there is an accepted answer or not). The &quot;authors&quot; that answered that question are determined as follows. Say the top answer has X points. All users with an answer in the range [ceil(0.75*X), X] are considered co-authors to the answer of that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To actually calculate the Jon Skeet number I made a graph of authors (there is an edge between every pair of co-authors) and did a breadth-first search starting with Jon Skeet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waste of time? Yeah, but I haven't written any code in a while so it was fun. Maybe someone else will like the idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141632" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T12:57:31.990" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T12:57:31.990" ClosedDate="2011-08-07T18:38:13.507" Title="What's your Jon Skeet Number?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35103" CreationDate="2010-01-10T23:45:10.497" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I merged my stackoverflow and meta accounts and got 100 point bonuses on both sites. Today I merged my stackoverflow and serverfault accounts and did not get the 100 point bonus on stackoverflow.  Is this how it is supposed to work?  I did the merging (both times) from my stackoverflow account where I have nearly 800 reps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141581" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T01:47:52.027" Title="No bonus on stackoverflow when merging accounts with serverfault?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35052" CreationDate="2010-01-10T23:46:17.733" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctype has a border? Really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I don't much notice all the fancy shmancy mark-up frills. Instead, I read the &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt; of the pages. I'm a programmer, so obviously &lt;em&gt;function&lt;/em&gt; is more important to me than &lt;em&gt;form&lt;/em&gt;. As long as it looks fairly reasonable (e.g., no wild color combinations or distracting animated widgets), I don't much care about minor things like rounded corners and alpha transparencies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can spend hours of wasted time twiddling with things like that (I know I have for certain inflexible managers). But at some point you have to realize you're just adding more lipstick to the pig.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137348" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T23:46:17.733" />
  <row Id="35092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-10T23:47:31.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neat idea - apparently my &quot;Jon Skeet number&quot; is 255, which is understandably high since there's basically no overlap in the types of questions Jon and I answer. Oh, and you might want to provide a lookup based on the user ID number, as usernames aren't unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T00:05:38.407" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T00:05:38.407" />
  <row Id="35093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35090" CreationDate="2010-01-10T23:52:29.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only get the association bonus once per site, so since you had already linked your SO account with your Meta account and received your 100-point bonus on SO, you don't get it a second time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T23:52:29.340" />
  <row Id="35094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-10T23:53:02.443" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see only two questions in your post. The answers are: 0; and yes, but I approve :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-10T23:53:02.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:00:05.283" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get a one, but I think the real winners are the block of 42. Or the people with, you know, lives...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T00:00:05.283" />
  <row Id="35096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:02:29.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get to 9 &lt;s&gt;which means my contributions overlap with Mr Skeet's a lot less than Kyle Cronin's do.&lt;/s&gt;  Which is moderately unsurprising to me - I have the C# questions ignored (since I don't use C# at all, and have approximately zero interest in learning it as a language).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmmm...well, I'm not sure, now, what 9 means. The &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Erdős Number&lt;/a&gt; is the distance between two (mathematical) authors; people with the value one have written a paper with Paul Erdős; people with a value 2 have do not qualify for the value 1 but have written a paper with someone who does qualify for value 1, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I guess that means there are 8 intermediaries between me and Mr Skeet for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering the questions in the original post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="15168" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T00:12:39.967" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T00:12:39.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35100" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:14:13.927" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28525/how-do-i-post-a-screenshot-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do I post a screenshot on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to to post a picture in a Stack Overflow question but it's not clear to me how to do so.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to host it myself and use HTML to refer to my hosting site, or can Stack Overflow host the picture? How do I upload it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135236" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T01:14:09.997" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T01:14:09.997" ClosedDate="2010-01-11T14:27:26.727" Title="How do I get a picture inside my post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;images&gt;&lt;posting&gt;&lt;picture&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:14:17.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many valid questions (that meet your scoring criteria) are in each tier (e.g. how many questions directly involve Jon Skeet, then how many questions are one level away from that, etc etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you consider users X and Y to have a relationship (i.e. have an edge) if one wrote the question and the other wrote an answer? (e.g. would users have an edge with Jon Skeet if they answered a question he asked?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;324&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;absolutely, but perfectly appropriate for meta :)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T00:14:17.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35097" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:16:01.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use any free image hosting site such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinypic.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tinypic&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://imageshack.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ImageShack&lt;/a&gt;, StackOverflow does not provide image hosting however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134813" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T00:16:01.597" />
  <row Id="35100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35097" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:21:37.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When typing your response, click on the &quot;image&quot; icon (the fourth icon in the second group, next to the &quot;format as code&quot; button) and fill in the URL of the image. The markup will look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; ![alt text][1]&#xA;&#xA; [1]: http://your.url/blah.jpg&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T00:21:37.027" />
  <row Id="35101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:35:18.947" Score="9" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite a rare occurrence, but someone appears to have accepted &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/81629/nix-window-manager-that-places-window-list-on-window-title-bar/81639#81639&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; on the exact second of the switchover to the next day (UTC time). It doesn't appear to be related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1265/bug-yesterday-tab-in-responses-page-shows-both-yesterday-and-today&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; as it was apparently fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer accepted at 23:59:59:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/531jit.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;yesterday's view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/290sphk.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;today's view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/xcszzo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about trying to restore the rep - I'm more curious as to why it happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134813" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-03T08:53:06.653" LastActivityDate="2010-08-02T09:08:39.587" Title="Accepted question not shown in today or yesterday" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T00:49:22.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My number ended up being 60, which I thought at first was surprisingly low. Then I realized that the related tag which most often appears with &lt;code&gt;matlab&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/matlab+java&quot;&gt;39 questions&lt;/a&gt;), which is obviously one of the tags within which Jon displays &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=java&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;juggernaut-like dominance&lt;/a&gt;. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T00:49:22.190" />
  <row Id="35103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35090" CreationDate="2010-01-11T01:47:52.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The intent is to give you +100 on the site where you have 1 rep, if you have at least +200 on another site in the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way you avoid the newbie 1 rep user designation, and can do things like vote, flag offensive, leave comments, and vote down -- because you now have 101 rep instead of 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T01:47:52.027" />
  <row Id="35104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T02:39:24.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a 1. Weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15861" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T02:39:24.280" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35228" CreationDate="2010-01-11T05:13:16.983" Score="5" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to see the messages I sent as responses to Employers after the fact, not just the &lt;em&gt;not interested&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;interested&lt;/em&gt; status. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastEditorUserId="20774" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T20:44:04.013" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T20:44:04.013" Title="Ability to view responses sent to Employers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-11T05:17:41.747" Score="0" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82/can-i-find-out-which-tags-i-have-created&quot;&gt;Can I find out which tags I have created?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26370/is-it-at-all-possible-to-find-out-which-tag-earned-me-the-taxonomist-badge&quot;&gt;Is it at all possible to find out which tag earned me the Taxonomist badge?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I receive a taxonomist badge, I see that it is for &quot;Created a tag used by 50 questions&quot; but it doesn't tell me &lt;strong&gt;which&lt;/strong&gt; tag that was. All badges are missing this information. When you click them you get the information &quot;which users recently received this badge&quot; which really isn't interesting or useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It would be more instructive for the users and would reinforce the desired behavior for the site if clicking on badges revealed which particular behavior contributed to achieving that badge.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T01:20:32.873" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T01:20:32.873" ClosedDate="2010-01-11T08:42:47.657" Title="Inform users for what tag they received the Taxonomist badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26370" CreationDate="2010-01-11T05:29:15.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way of resolving this is simply to identify the tag's creator in the tag directory. At least then there's a hope that a user can find their name (and the badges they created)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T05:29:15.277" />
  <row Id="35108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-11T05:44:24.227" Score="6" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently received a message from an employer about a position.  I replied as &quot;interested&quot; and included a message.  That employer then got in touch with me via email (by replying to stackoverflow's email to him about my interest) and I noticed that my message was not included in stackoverflow's email to him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think when a candidate replies to an employers message and writes a message of their own it should be included in the email sent to the employer, or the email should at least mention that the message exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T06:01:08.717" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T06:04:53.530" Title="Email to employer that candidate is &quot;Interested&quot; should contain message" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;messages&gt;&lt;replies&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28986" CreationDate="2010-01-11T05:51:26.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is 'by design', but IMHO, the design is not working.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'k' should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be on the same line as the '2'&lt;del&gt;, and in upper case&lt;/del&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current method of using '2 kviews' makes the post look like it only has two votes when you are scanning the page.  It would be much clearer if it said '&lt;strong&gt;2K views&lt;/strong&gt;' (with line break between the '2K' and 'views' of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastEditorUserId="242" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T23:37:47.397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T23:37:47.397" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35037" CreationDate="2010-01-11T06:25:52.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can certainly look at the activity per tag, but we're more interested in how this correlates with the technologies in the survey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35037/why-does-stack-overflows-recent-survey-not-include-python-in-its-choices-for-tec/35038#35038&quot;&gt;Æther's answer&lt;/a&gt;, there is little (if any) interest in Python from an advertising perspective. Plus, there don't seem to be too many commercial products available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Ruby/Rails.. for whatever reason *cough*fad*cough*, it's pretty hot and there's a lot of interest from advertisers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T06:25:52.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35151" CreationDate="2010-01-11T06:34:55.733" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there some extra reputation boost for active participation in the betas? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not mentioned anywhere in the FAQ and I was wondering if involvement there showered you in any extra benefits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140364" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T15:00:33.233" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:09:09.377" Title="Does participation in the Careers beta or the Private Beta increase your reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;beta&gt;&lt;private-beta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="35113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35112" CreationDate="2010-01-11T06:50:21.253" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt it. Even for participation in the Stack Overflow &lt;em&gt;site&lt;/em&gt; beta all you got was a lousy badge (yeah, that's envy. I don't have it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T06:50:21.253" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35106" CreationDate="2010-01-11T06:58:42.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Reason why this feature is not implemented is because it is not a part of the system to begin with. The database that records all of the badges do not actually contain any information about how the badge was acquired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were to be implemented, any tag in the past would not have any information tied with it. Also, while it seems logical, I think it is fairly easy to tell what earned you a badge in almost every badge except the ones relating to tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I do think that it would be an improvement, even if we can't get the data for past badges, but I think there are better ways to spend the developers time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put short, it wasn't part of the original design, and probably won't be part of the future design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see this in Jeff's answer here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T06:58:42.217" />
  <row Id="35116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8790" CreationDate="2010-01-11T07:09:03.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to answer the questions in this forum ??&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141652" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T07:09:03.130" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-11T07:09:03.130" />
  <row Id="35119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14406" CreationDate="2010-01-11T08:18:56.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having taken a shot at transcribing, I would say that something that could aid my efforts would encourage me to do it more.  What ends up happening is that I hear a segment I think is really good, and I want to transcribe it (because with other material I appreciate being able to locate it later, maybe quote it and send it to someone, etc).  So I take 5 or 10 minutes to do the segment, and suddenly it just took 30 minutes!  Why? It's tedious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be nice is some kind of tool that is like the transcription machines from days gone by.  I never used one but I know that the right features would make this faster.  Some ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have the text entry and the controls in the same place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it controllable from the keyboard--mousing is time consuming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easy way to back up some number of seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set a bookmark during playing that I can return to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set marks around a snippet so it can play repeatedly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adjust the play speed; maybe pitch correct it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19512" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T08:18:56.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T10:27:06.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get a 1... I think. But my username is not unique, so it might be another Richard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the user id should be used, there are unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67392" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T10:27:06.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T11:54:55.297" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I get is “your number is Infinity”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/ksI9l.png&quot; alt=&quot;Your number is Infinity&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131916" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T11:54:55.297" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-11T12:00:02.010" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just tried to post an answer to a question on stack overflow and found it a bit more difficult than it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all I included 2 links for the user to reference. Both links were part of w3schools.com. Both completely relevant to the post. I could only post one which was very annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited out a link, then resubmitted my answer. I then get a robot screen asking me to fill out a captcha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I understand how spam is a problem. Wouldn't it be simpler and less hassle for the user if someone trying to post more than one link got a captcha?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way the answer could contain relevant reference links + the answer can be submitted without being stopped twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141661" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T12:23:52.813" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T13:22:19.887" Title="Spam Prevention" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;annoyances&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="35140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35125" CreationDate="2010-01-11T12:21:21.647" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is only until you get a bit more rep, after that you can add as many links as you want. The Captcha and spam detection might be a bit too enthusiastic at times, but they shouldn't be that bad. I'd rather fill in a Captcha every now and then, instead of having the site full of Viagra questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a higher rep user sees your answer, maybe he'll edit it to properly hyperlink everything. Until you get your rep up, just add them as text, it's fine that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T12:21:21.647" />
  <row Id="35141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34587" CreationDate="2010-01-11T12:22:29.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this was a relatively silly oversight on my part -- fix will go out tomorrow evening PST.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the fancy entities code (for &lt;strong&gt;post titles only&lt;/strong&gt;, of course) is based on a simplified subset of &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SmartyPants&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Straight quotes (' and &quot;) into “curly” &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;lsquo;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;ldquo;&lt;/code&gt; entities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dashes (-- and ---) into &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;emdash;&lt;/code&gt; entity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three consecutive dots (...) into &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;hellip;&lt;/code&gt; entity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's simpler because we don't have to deal with HTML in titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never simple enough that I can't get it wrong, of course... Try your hand &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/979991/why-does-textmate-always-complain-cant-find-string-terminator-when-it-runs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;at this one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Why does TextMate always complain 'Can't find string terminator '&quot;'' when  &#xA;it runs a Perl script?&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-16T16:19:58.143" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T16:19:58.143" />
  <row Id="35142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35125" CreationDate="2010-01-11T12:23:10.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot post more links, because you do not have enough rep. The system uses rep to decide if it can trust a user or not. Even if you pass the Captcha, then that does not mean you're trustworthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T12:23:10.553" />
  <row Id="35143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-11T12:35:54.313" Score="5" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15986/tool-tip-timestamp-shows-a-z&quot;&gt;Tool-tip timestamp shows a Z&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious... but I've been thinking about it for a day now and I still haven't gotten it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the StackOverflow sites, why do some dates have &quot;Z&quot; after them?  E.g., on my recent history: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/recent/20269&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/users/recent/20269&lt;/a&gt; - why does it say &quot;2010-01-11 08:10:54Z to 2010-01-11 23:59:59Z&quot; instead of just &quot;2010-01-11 08:10:54 to 2010-01-11 23:59:59&quot;?  Is it supposed to be an indicator of timezone, or of the fact that it's using 24-hour time rather than 12-hour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139945" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T14:20:48.113" ClosedDate="2010-01-11T14:23:14.003" Title="What's the significance of the Z after some dates?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35143" CreationDate="2010-01-11T12:37:36.383" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Timezone; it just means the dates refer to UTC (roughly GMT), aka Zulu&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T12:37:36.383" />
  <row Id="35145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35143" CreationDate="2010-01-11T12:37:49.550" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Z&lt;/code&gt; is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_time#Time_zones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zulu Time&lt;/a&gt;. Also known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coordinated Universal Time&lt;/a&gt;, bizarrely abbreviated to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Abbreviation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UTC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T14:20:48.113" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T14:20:48.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35143" CreationDate="2010-01-11T13:06:59.860" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Z in the time refers to the Zero timezone, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NATO phonetic alphabet&lt;/a&gt; converts it to 'Zulu'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, UTC+0hours is UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The abbreviation UTC is a compromise between the French and English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Francophones would prefer TUC (&lt;em&gt;Temps Universel Coordonn&amp;eacute;&lt;/em&gt;), &#xA;Anglophones would prefer CUT (&lt;em&gt;Coordinated Universal Time&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so a compromise of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UTC&lt;/a&gt; was chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T13:25:48.910" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T13:25:48.910" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7188" CreationDate="2010-01-11T13:08:24.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate to bump threads, but we really ought to do something about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it, there are two types of development topics directly related to the iPhone: iphone-web and iphone-app.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are currently the following tags that I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; could be merged into iphone-app:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rspec-iphone-sdk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk-3.0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk-3.1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk-2.2.1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk-2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-sdk-documentation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-development&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-developer-program&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-app&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-dev&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And iphone-web:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-web&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-web-app&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And iphone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-3gs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone+post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iphone-touch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently tried to make a post about an issue related to iPhone development on SO, and realized that there were more tags than I could possibly cover within the limit of 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there &quot;best practices&quot; for consolidating tags?  Could I just go do it, or would that be frowned upon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139945" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T13:08:24.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35125" CreationDate="2010-01-11T13:22:19.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always thought that the Captcha is triggered by rapid editing, and it doesn't seem to happen if I take my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the incentive to post quick answers &lt;em&gt;and edit them&lt;/em&gt; doesn't help me to slow down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T13:22:19.887" />
  <row Id="35150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35143" CreationDate="2010-01-11T14:06:11.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Z&lt;/strong&gt; comes from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/world_tzones.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nautical Standard Time Zones&lt;/a&gt; and is used to represent the &lt;b&gt;Z&lt;/b&gt;ero Zone (today UTC). The other zones are &lt;em&gt;names&lt;/em&gt; A-I and K-M (A-M skipping J)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T14:06:11.703" />
  <row Id="35151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35112" CreationDate="2010-01-11T14:59:59.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there was anything given in terms of reputation from the beta; however, any reputation earned from questions and answers during the beta period did carry over. Not sure if that would count as being given reputation per se, but you could argue that it did make it a bit easier to earn some reputation since questions would stay on the homepage longer at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T14:59:59.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35112" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:09:09.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:09:09.377" />
  <row Id="35153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35154" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:09:25.973" Score="-4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28042/be-notified-when-someone-leaves-a-comment-that-is-a-direct-response-to-my-comment&quot;&gt;Be notified when someone leaves a comment that is a direct response to my comment, &amp;ldquo;@my_user_name&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/456/notifications-for-edits-by-others-of-my-own-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;Notifications for edits by others of my own questions and answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2322/notify-us-when-the-question-has-been-edited-after-posting-an-answer&quot;&gt;Notify us when the question has been edited after posting an answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often i find myself writing comments like =&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please, check my question for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find them quite useless and redundant in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea to add feature with which i could &lt;em&gt;poke&lt;/em&gt; those users who have posted an answer (some more constraints are likely to be added).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:16:45.177" ClosedDate="2010-01-11T15:21:01.017" Title="Poke user feature request" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35153" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:10:57.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.4talentmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/superpoke.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/456/notifications-for-edits-by-others-of-my-own-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/456/notifications-for-edits-by-others-of-my-own-questions-and-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2303/notify-us-when-an-answer-weve-accepted-has-been-edited&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2303/notify-us-when-an-answer-weve-accepted-has-been-edited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2322/notify-us-when-the-question-has-been-edited-after-posting-an-answer&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2322/notify-us-when-the-question-has-been-edited-after-posting-an-answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T15:16:45.177" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:16:45.177" />
  <row Id="35156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35157" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:31:06.097" Score="-3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Google Chrome (3.0.195.38) and IE 7 (7.0.5730.11IC)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click on the vote number (not up, not down)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.86th.org/bug1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns into this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.86th.org/bug2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.86th.org/bug3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In IE, the 5 and 0 are seperated by more space.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: ok ignore the &quot;2&quot; in the second picture, I just took a screenshot of the wrong vote.  It does indeed stay as a &quot;5&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132898" LastEditorUserId="132898" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T15:33:25.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:33:55.450" Title="Voting UI bug when clicking the vote number rather than up or down (screen shots)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35156" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:33:55.450" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a feature unlocked at 1k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:33:55.450" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:34:27.960" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got 758. I'm unclear whether that's good or bad...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2998" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:34:27.960" />
  <row Id="35159" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35161" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:38:52.583" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to put an indicator in question list to see which questions are community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134032" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T15:44:17.407" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T16:16:04.400" Title="Please show indicator in question list to see which questions are community wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35159" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:45:04.410" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the missing bit of information there is: what problem are you trying to solve? If you don't want to &quot;waste time&quot; on discussion-esque questions, that should be fairly obvious from the question title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a need for any additional UI here, personally; but if there is some &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt;, feel free to elaborate...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T15:45:04.410" />
  <row Id="35161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35159" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:46:03.877" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already shown - where it would say who it was asked by and when, it says &quot;community wiki&quot; for CW questions. At least, it does if you're in the &quot;questions&quot; view rather than just the home page - I can't tell what happens on the home page as there are no CW questions there at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T16:16:04.400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T16:16:04.400" />
  <row Id="35163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34225" CreationDate="2010-01-11T15:48:46.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A link &quot;Did you ask this question?&quot; for &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question that does not have a valid/active owner, optionally&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; only shown when viewed by an anonymous visitor (or by any visitor who does not have an associated account on the original site...?). That link could then open some FAQ to explain what to do.&lt;sup&gt;‡&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such link might even apply to questions owned by valid/active but &lt;em&gt;non-registered&lt;/em&gt; users, but I never figured out how non-registered users work. (I assume it uses cookies, which might be lost?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/eQgFv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/eQgFv.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or (not quite doable, I guess):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Simply&quot; auto-create-and-associate the user if non-existent yet? I guess that yields problems for people who actually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; have multiple accounts, but just didn't associate them yet (especially as then the owner of the question is no longer greyed-out and might &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be the same as the user's current account — while that user will still not be the owner then). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: since 2010-05-19 there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/new-automatic-account-association/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;automatic account association&lt;/a&gt; between the trilogy sites.]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; Hiding such link for normal users will also make them unaware of its existence, and hence some might still try to explain...?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;‡&lt;/sup&gt; For the FAQ it might help if a link like &lt;code&gt;/users/me?tab=accounts&lt;/code&gt; (thus using &quot;me&quot; rather than a specific user id) would work.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T19:50:25.317" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T19:50:25.317" />
  <row Id="35164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14406" CreationDate="2010-01-11T16:07:02.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried some community transcriptions for another podcast, and some thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It takes forever.  My time estimate is 10-15 minutes for a 3 minute chunk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not that fun, so people tend to drift away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you can't hear the whole sentence, it's very hard to transcribe it.  Context is very important to make sense of garbled words or overtalking.  This is a barrier to &quot;chunking&quot; it like ReCaptcha does.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attribution is another thing that could be difficult if you split up the audio.  Although it might not be a problem with two speakers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131562" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T16:07:02.567" />
  <row Id="35165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T16:32:44.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine's 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what does it mean?, I don't have a clue. Although I have read your description a number of times, and I have ( started ) to read the Erdos article in the Wikipedia ( I stopped when I asked my self, am I  procrastinating now? Should I be coding instead of reading this &quot;Erdos&quot; number description? ) I still don't know what is it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in a simple-wiki fashion ( wait  minute, why don't I query that .... let's see... )  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos_number&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Erdos Number @ Simple Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; ( and I thought simple wikipedia that was stupid ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this means that I actually collaborate with Jon Skeet? ( Would it be on the early StackOverflow stages where I reformatted all his Java answers because he used C# braces style instead of Java's?, I stop doing that when Jon Skeet facts came out and I was afraid of getting my Mac exploded by Jon Skeet mind waves!!!  )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T16:32:44.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T16:42:01.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet may be the &quot;Erdos&quot; of Stackoverflow, ie, the most prolific author of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some research should be done to find out if he's the most prolific &lt;em&gt;co-author&lt;/em&gt;.  I suspect that once he has answered a question few others with his knowledge and experience choose to add their own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see there are 363 questions he co-authored an answer on.  Is he the person with the highest number of co-authored answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, 12, and yes - but entertaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T16:42:01.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34225" CreationDate="2010-01-11T16:48:52.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This whole post is kind of redundant, IMO, as it's based on a fundamental misunderstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linking your accounts means you &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt; gain control of your migrated questions on the target site.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not link your accounts, of course, this will never happen. But if you do, it does -- and it's fully automatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T16:48:52.517" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-11T17:07:35.907" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2813/tags-foobar-versus-foo-bar&quot;&gt;tags: foobar versus foo-bar?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking at a question tagged [windows2008] and thought it would be more appropriately tagged [windows-server-2008]. A quick check showed that [windows2008] had less than 10 questions associated whereas [windows-server-2008] had several hundred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it safe to assume that where two tags are obviously referring to the same concept the tag with the highest number of associated questions (by a significant margin) is the most appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is it helpful for me to retag in these cases or am I fixing a non-problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastEditorUserId="130814" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T17:16:33.653" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T20:21:15.150" ClosedDate="2010-01-12T00:30:00.757" Title="Retagging convention in general" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74160" CreationDate="2010-01-11T17:16:01.610" Score="53" ViewCount="728" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244400/app-gui-similar-to-control-panel-in-vista/244753#244753&quot;&gt;Example of where it would be useful&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/229856/ways-to-save-enums-in-database/230001#230001&quot;&gt;Another example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, that was the result of an inexperienced user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question gets a bunch of replies, then the &quot;comment&quot; could easily get lost in the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if there is no activity on the &quot;comment&quot; (no comments, no votes, etc.), then I think converting the answer to a comment is a valid operation for housekeeping purposes. If there are comments, votes, etc., then the answer should likely be left alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-07T05:30:59.363" LastActivityDate="2011-01-08T07:03:31.153" Title="Should moderators be able to convert answers into comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="20" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="35177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35175" CreationDate="2010-01-11T18:18:57.397" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments have very different limitations than answers. Comments are restricted to 600 characters (only six lines of text of a typical post). Comments only support a small subset of the formatting markup supported by regular posts so you would have to strip all that out. Comments don't support hyper-linked text. No embedded pictures, either. Comments don't support paragraphs, line feeds, or lists so you would be cramming the text into one continuous line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there will be people who want to &lt;strong&gt;covert comments to answers&lt;/strong&gt;. Actually, that sounds much more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T21:15:46.723" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T21:15:46.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35174" CreationDate="2010-01-11T18:23:43.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't gotten involved in retagging or merging myself (maybe in the future), but I would post a question on here so it can be discussed by the community under any of the following conditions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; doubt as to the difference in meaning/subject between tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a lot of questions in the tag proposed to be removed, relative to the other tag(s) involved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tag proposed to be removed has more than a handful of questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably best to err on the side of caution, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T18:23:43.873" />
  <row Id="35179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35204" CreationDate="2010-01-11T18:41:26.330" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043412/what-is-the-performance-difference-if-any-between-iffoo-and-iffoo-false&quot;&gt;What is happening here?&lt;/a&gt; (I am using IE7)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/e81c25584f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T00:33:06.380" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T00:34:10.480" Title="Answer Text Mashed Up Against Voting Numbers?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T18:42:14.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got 364.  I honestly expected it to be much higher since I never even knew who Jon Skeet was until recently and don't do much with .Net anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T18:42:14.627" />
  <row Id="35181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35182" CreationDate="2010-01-11T18:45:57.193" Score="7" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The number to the left shows up as a &quot;1.&quot; even though I typed in &quot;364.&quot;  Very annoying.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T00:37:17.353" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:56:30.417" Title="Numbering/bullet interpretation bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;bullets&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35181" CreationDate="2010-01-11T18:48:17.483" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;...but by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown Editing Help&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;A numbered &amp;lt;ol&amp;gt; list:&#xA;&#xA;1. Numbered lists are easy&#xA;2. Markdown keeps track of the numbers for you&#xA;7. So this will be item 3.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a workaround type a backslash before the dot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;364\. This won't become a list. (But hence it won't indent nicely either. &#xA;      No matter if you try to indent yourself. It won't indent nicely.)&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;364. This won't become a list. (But hence it won't indent nicely either. &#xA;      No matter if you try to indent yourself. It won't indent nicely.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T07:56:30.417" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:56:30.417" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T18:58:38.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine was 315, which I found very interesting, and with Stephen Darlington's 758 this is even more interesting because Erdos numbers tend to be very low: I certainly didn't publish with a wide range of co-authors, yet my Erdos number is only 5. I would guess one reason is that there aren't that many &quot;co-authored&quot; answers on Stack Overflow. In scientific publishing, very few people publish all on their own, and students get low Erdos numbers through their advisors. But here, I seem to have only 3 co-authored answers out of 84 total answers, so the graph gets deep rather than wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see some statistics on the graph, like sizes of connected components, and the diameter of at least Jon Skeet's component (which I assume is the largest one?). Also, adjusting the concept of co-authorship could be interesting: for instance, what happens if every answer with a positive score is counted for co-authorship credit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137085" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T18:58:38.070" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-11T19:00:31.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a 30.  I think it's because if I see a question that Jon answered, I don't bother =P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T19:00:31.683" />
  <row Id="35185" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35187" CreationDate="2010-01-11T19:34:31.823" Score="12" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2044333/blal-blal-blbla-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; the vote total is -8, but the vote breakdown is 1/10, so it should be -9 (may have changed by now, still gathering downward momentum, it had the same discrepancy at -5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  Looks like someone deleted it, so only the 10ks will get to see what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T00:39:49.877" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T00:39:49.877" Title="Vote count not correct" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35185" CreationDate="2010-01-11T19:49:12.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this behavior too. When I refresh the page, the vote total corrects itself. (In your scenario, that would show the -10. Well, whatever the current total score is.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My hunch is that it was at -8 when you first got to the page, but between then and the point where you retrieved the up/down split, someone else voted -- changing the results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T19:49:12.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35185" CreationDate="2010-01-11T19:58:00.710" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question (now deleted and locked because of six spam flags) is at total score of -13 while the &quot;split view&quot; shows +1/-15. So this isn't just a timing issue when receiving the vote counts, but one of the counts actually got corrupted somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T19:58:00.710" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35174" CreationDate="2010-01-11T20:14:08.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would edit this question, if I had enough rep, but consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[windows-server-2008]: 329 questions&#xA;[windows-2008]:         25 questions&#xA;[windows2008]:           3 questions&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please add the &quot;retag-request&quot; tag to this question. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; You can fit the &lt;code&gt;tag lengths as x&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;number of questions as y&lt;/code&gt; to the following equation: &lt;code&gt;y = 2.67*x*x + 39.6*x + 114.57&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in case you are wondering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastEditorUserId="131006" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T20:21:15.150" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T20:21:15.150" />
  <row Id="35190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35191" CreationDate="2010-01-11T20:57:24.770" Score="3" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw somebody with a &lt;code&gt;Python gold badge&lt;/code&gt; but can't dig up where now... This badge isn't listed on Stack Overflow (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt;).  Where is the reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T22:29:01.717" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T22:29:01.717" Title="New badge, e.g. a Python gold badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35190" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:00:12.407" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;&quot;tags&quot; tab of the badges page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look in the upper right part of the page, just below &quot;Ask Question&quot;; there you'll see the two tabs, &quot;general&quot; and &quot;tags&quot;. Now imagine a circle around &quot;tags&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(When they added the tabs, it took me at least a month to notice them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T21:00:12.407" />
  <row Id="35192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:11:45.737" Score="10" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remaining:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[oracleclient] -&gt; [oracle-client]&#xA;&#xA;[subversion] -&gt; [svn]&#xA;&#xA;[t-sql] -&gt; [tsql]&#xA;&#xA;[oo] vs [object-oriented] vs [oop] ??&#xA;&#xA;[web.config] -&gt; [web-config] ??&#xA;&#xA;[hex] vs [hexadecimal] ??&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Completed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[vs2008], [vs2010], etc. -&gt; [visual-studio-2008], [visual-studio-2010]&#xA;&#xA;[windows2008], [windows-2008] -&gt; [windows-server-2008]&#xA;&#xA;[gmaps] -&gt; [google-maps]&#xA;&#xA;[cpp] -&gt; [c++]&#xA;&#xA;[win-forms] -&gt; [winforms]&#xA;&#xA;[mobile-web] -&gt; [mobileweb]&#xA;&#xA;[rails] -&gt; [ruby-on-rails]&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastEditorUserId="131006" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T22:55:35.440" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T22:55:35.440" Title="Mass Retag Request" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="35193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35205" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:19:17.980" Score="16" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title basically says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I type a comment and then press &lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt;, the &lt;code&gt;Add comment&lt;/code&gt; button will get focus so that I can just press &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt; to post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I edit a comment and then press &lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt;, the &lt;code&gt;Save comment&lt;/code&gt; button won't get focus, instead the &lt;code&gt;Add comment&lt;/code&gt; button below it will incorrectly get the focus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fix this, all you need to do is to set the correct tabindex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T18:04:47.547" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T18:04:47.547" Title="Tabbing after editing a comment incorrectly sets focus on `Add comment` button instead of `Save comment` button" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35192" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:20:17.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They sound good across the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The developers went through a great pains to get the &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt; tag working. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Every time someone tags a post &lt;code&gt;cpp&lt;/code&gt;, somewhere a pony dies.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T21:20:17.977" />
  <row Id="35195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35192" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:24:12.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;cpp, gmaps, winforms, vs20*, windows[-]20* are obvious (done)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;mobile-web and mobileweb are sensible to merge, but note that the more &lt;em&gt;popular&lt;/em&gt; at the moment is mobileweb (only 2 mobile-web). I've merged into mobileweb, but easy to rename.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Open to feedback on the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T21:24:12.087" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35192" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:24:24.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[oo] and [object-oriented] should both go to [oop]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i vote [hex] as the tag to keep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T21:24:24.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35199" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:35:02.157" Score="11" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the team lead for a development (C#) team, I'm always looking for ways to improve my ability to manage the software development process.  This might be software development methodologies, tools or other like-topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm finding it increasingly frustrating that even though &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2025056/how-much-flexibility-in-business-requirements-is-too-much/2042190#2042190&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; might have a high number of views, votes and responses, my questions are still being closed as non-programming-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that the community are becoming too hardlined about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;what constitues a programming question&lt;/a&gt; and the deletionists among them are driving StackOverflow too far toward a purist model at the exclusion of other programming-related disciplines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My view is that Jeff Atwood has &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;already conceded&lt;/a&gt; that these sorts of questions have merit (mine's not even supposed to be fun - it's a serious question about a legitimate issue).  So how does one legitimise their place in the StackOverflow community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15609" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T01:49:59.370" Title="Does the concept of &quot;not-programming-related&quot; effectively exclude Team Leaders?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;programming-related&gt;&lt;criteria&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35198" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:46:56.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question is ultimately about business and/or management, and is not really specific to software development, then it is likely to be closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;. The example you posted is really about business more than it is about software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T21:46:56.777" />
  <row Id="35200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35198" CreationDate="2010-01-11T21:50:52.760" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Truthfully, I think there are a couple of reasons why your question doesn't fit on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not really programming-related&lt;/strong&gt;: The crux of your question seems to be about interacting with a client, which is not something unique to the business of programming. It's something that must be dealt with throughout the business sphere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's subjective and discussion-y&lt;/strong&gt;: SO is not meant to be a place for extended discussions or gathering opinions on subjective topics. It's not really designed for that. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T21:50:52.760" />
  <row Id="35202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27702" CreationDate="2010-01-11T22:31:21.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to create a &lt;code&gt;questions\tagged&lt;/code&gt; sub-folder and remove &quot;.config&quot; from the script mappings in IIS. Not sure if that is secure or not, tho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the tags &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; should be &lt;code&gt;web-config&lt;/code&gt; anyways, I don't think it is a good idea to get an XML parsing error on any reachable URL on the site.  This is easily reachable by searching for &lt;code&gt;[web.config]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastEditorUserId="131006" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-11T22:50:11.063" LastActivityDate="2010-01-11T22:50:11.063" />
  <row Id="35203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35175" CreationDate="2010-01-11T23:06:52.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators can, I believe, already convert answers into comments: delete the answer and transfer the content to a comment (although the attribution will be to the moderator, not the OP.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of &quot;answers&quot; come about for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user acts like he/she is in a forum, mailing list or newsgroup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user does not have enough reputation to comment (this is not the case in the example). Or rather &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; that 50 reputation is required and thus uses an answer instead of a comment. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user is inexperienced (as noted in the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of these &quot;answers&quot; can easily be in comments. If not then the question can be updated with a follow-up. But in any case SOFU is not the appropriate place for this kind of extended threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also this similar question over at Meta Stack Exchange: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3614/users-treat-qa-like-a-forum-how-can-a-mod-easily-move-answers-that-should-have/3623#3623&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Users treat Q&amp;amp;A like a forum. How can a mod easily move answers that should have been comments&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T00:40:02.277" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T00:40:02.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35179" CreationDate="2010-01-12T00:34:10.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like IE7 can't figure out the correct width of the table due to the code block being in a numbered list. This &quot;pushes over&quot; the cell in IE7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IE8 looks fine though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's minor, and applies to a subset of posts with those characteristics, I'm leaving it alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T00:34:10.480" />
  <row Id="35205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35193" CreationDate="2010-01-12T00:36:51.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; seen this, but it can be hard to reproduce -- and I wonder if it's browser specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example right now when I clicked &quot;add comment&quot; on the question, typed, and pressed TAB, the focus went to add comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps more experimentation is in order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T00:36:51.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35181" CreationDate="2010-01-12T00:38:35.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other alternative is to do lists in a format Markdown doesn't understand&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) This&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) List&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as previously noted, you won't get proper list indentation. This actually has some advantages when it comes to code blocks being mixed in with lists..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T00:38:35.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35185" CreationDate="2010-01-12T00:39:38.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible for vote counts to be slightly off due to race conditions with voting and denormalized counts. This is not &lt;em&gt;common&lt;/em&gt;, but it can happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The daily tasks check for this and correct any they find, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T00:39:38.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35210" CreationDate="2010-01-12T01:49:42.647" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking through my stats on CV and it show 26 views from the private CV path:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://community.mediabrowser.tv/uploads/site_1/19/cv2.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;26 views from private cv path&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However my stats are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://community.mediabrowser.tv/uploads/site_1/18/cv1.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere something appears not to be adding up. The stats say only one employer viewed my CV. Does this mean the same employer visited my CV multiple times over the last month?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:28:36.690" Title="CV Views not making sense" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35198" CreationDate="2010-01-12T01:49:59.370" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accusing people of Wikipedia deletionism is just name-calling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a very simple catch-22 which explains why management questions just about never meet the requirements of the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Management and leadership are all about people. People are far more complex and ambiguous than computer programs. If a question about people is worthwhile, it won't have a simple answer. If it has a simple answer, it's probably not a very interesting question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a question with 100 answers, my reaction is, 'Well, there's a waste. No one will ever be able to sort the wheat from the chaff in there.' &lt;em&gt;The Management&lt;/em&gt; have made an exception for some witty and popular questions of this kind, but, as the old saw goes, the exception proves the rule because it is &lt;em&gt;exceptional&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a site of this style would succeed with the topic of management. Maybe it would just turn into a parody of itself, reading like an endless succession of postings from Dilbert's boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe if you ask the management, they will set one up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T01:49:59.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35208" CreationDate="2010-01-12T02:00:06.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those aren't employer views, those are yours from when you view the &quot;employer view&quot; tab. If an employer views your CV, you'll see &lt;code&gt;/employer/cv/&amp;lt;your-careers-user-number&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in your log. That is, if Google Analytics is capable of tracking them - how are you linking to GA from your CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T02:30:07.343" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:30:07.343" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35212" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:50:39.340" Score="3" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have answered a question and then later read another answer that is also correct, or another way of doing it, is it good/fair/bad to edit your answer to incorporate the other answer, so there is one answer with both solutions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you let it be and let both get voted up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: In my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/443169/eclipse-exclude-folders-from-search&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I forgot about the ability to create working sets because I almost never use them. However, this is a perfectly valid and good answer. I'd like to incorporate it into my answer so there's one &quot;best&quot; answer, but I don't want to be seen as &quot;stealing&quot; answers or rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does everyone think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9861" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T11:21:56.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:50:39.323" Title="Adding someone else's answer to your own to make a better answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:53:34.730" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could certainly reference where you saw the additional information when you add it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:24:56.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:53:34.730" />
  <row Id="35213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:54:20.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you make use of a solution from another persons answer, you should at the very least indicate that it is from that persons answer.  Doing otherwise could be construed as plagerism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:24:56.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:54:20.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:54:47.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it's fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people collate good answers or refine their answers, improving on them having learned that thier answer was incomplete...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may change my answer once someone else has posted more answers to this though... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:24:56.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:54:47.240" />
  <row Id="35215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:54:59.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always acknowledge the other answer (including a link) if appropriate. Reputation really isn't that important (yes, I know I'm in a strange position to say that) - I'd rather see a good, complete answer that includes some of mine than have absolutely scrupulous accounting for reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly I think it's absolutely reasonable to edit an answer to include a bit of information that another answer made you think of. For instance, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/443403/extract-a-specific-xml-message-from-a-log-file#443417&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I had made an implicit assumption about the format of the input. Another answer made me recognise that I'd made the assumption, so I edited the answer to make it clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:24:56.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:54:59.737" />
  <row Id="35216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:55:09.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I do this I label the new section of my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Another answer reminded me about this other thing that I wanted to include.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually even provide a link to the other answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:24:56.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:55:09.423" />
  <row Id="35217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:55:45.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The academics figured this out a while ago - quote the original source and you'll steer clear of conflict. People want credit, but the goal of this site is definitely to share good knowledge. They'll also appreciate it if you upvote their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:24:56.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:55:45.867" />
  <row Id="35218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2009-01-14T15:57:26.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say if there are only two answers posted (as in your example) then just leave it as is - it's easy enough for people to read both answers.  However, if your answer has been marked as &quot;accepted&quot; or rated very high, and there's another answer buried far away with good information, I'd be inclined to at least edit your answer and link to the other one below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T02:24:56.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-14T15:57:26.080" />
  <row Id="35221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35237" CreationDate="2010-01-12T03:24:26.580" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag filtering just stopped working for me today on SO.  Was working fine on Friday but today all questions are showing up regardless of ignored tags.  Firebug shows this error in the console:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;initTagPrefs is not defined&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&#xA;Line 669&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting tag highlighting is also not working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised to see no other posts about it here.  Are others not affected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T07:29:21.213" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:29:21.213" Title="Tag filtering broken with JS error: initTagPrefs is not defined" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T03:25:03.990" Score="10" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am working on what I think will prove to be a very exciting project with the SO data dump data and would like to use user avatars but alas I need each user's email address, well their email address hashed with md5 to be exact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not actually requesting the email address be included, just the hash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the knee jerk response is: &quot;with that hash you can write code to reverse it into the actual email address&quot; -- yes that is true, however I could just as easily do this by scraping each user's profile page and getting the hash that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please and thank you SO team :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="871" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T06:55:24.493" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T06:55:24.493" Title="Include email address hash in the data dump files" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;hash&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35232" CreationDate="2010-01-12T03:38:49.137" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you click on the vote total to load the upvote / downvote totals, the tooltip is not changed from &quot;View upvote / downvote totals&quot;, leading the user to believe you can click it again to load more totals. This will confuse the user*. It should not say anything, or &quot;5000 upvotes / 5000 downvotes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* if the user cares about such a small, unimportant bug....&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T07:00:19.253" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:00:19.253" Title="Tooltip for &quot;upvote / downvote totals&quot; is not changed on load" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35235" CreationDate="2010-01-12T03:43:07.553" Score="5" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the mistake of registering on SO a while back with an appspot openid, and not the real google one. I have got some good rep, and dont want to start again or lose answers to my questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When i try to log into SO using Chrome i get this error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Positive assertion sent with OpenID version 1.1 but Identifier discovery suggested it would be 2.0.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for my openid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And weirdly when i click the Google icon on the login page, i get logged in with an &lt;code&gt;unknown(google)&lt;/code&gt; account automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do i go about creating a valid google openid and then adding it to my SO account? I seem to be able to log in ok with Safari...&#xA;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141701" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:21:41.403" Title="Cant log in with OpenID using Google Chrome" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35222" CreationDate="2010-01-12T04:00:09.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Security issues aside, I think if the hashes are available publicly on our profile pages, they should be fair game in a data dump as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, anyone determined enough to gain this set of data could do so without a data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T04:00:09.633" />
  <row Id="35227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35234" CreationDate="2010-01-12T05:46:30.047" Score="4" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From today morning i cant login to SO and other SO sites. It throws the following error&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8158/er1q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the login page doesnt show any openID providers, see the image&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3527/er2v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using IE 8. I have tested this in other dev machines here installed IE7, the same problem exist everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS:&lt;/strong&gt; I can login to meta because i have enabled remember my login while login to meta sometime before. so it automatically allows me in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question, Since all the SO sites share common logins, why dont you automatically allow me to login to other sites if i already entered in one site (something like gmail &amp;amp; orkut).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ramesh Vel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T07:20:07.677" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:20:07.677" Title="OpenID login page throws error" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;login-problem&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35105" CreationDate="2010-01-12T06:00:38.983" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your optional responses to an employer's message are now visible when viewing an individual message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T06:00:38.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35108" CreationDate="2010-01-12T06:04:53.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Employers will now see your optional text response in the &quot;I'm interested&quot; emails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that an employer's messaging dashboard also shows your text responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T06:04:53.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35224" CreationDate="2010-01-12T06:36:14.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the url to your &lt;code&gt;unknown(google)&lt;/code&gt; account on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can move your Google OpenID from it to your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/222217/joec&quot;&gt;main Stack Overflow account&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, do you have an &lt;code&gt;unknown(google)&lt;/code&gt; account here on Meta?  We can fix that, as well, given its url.  If not, you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/we-now-support-multiple-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;add your Google OpenID to it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T06:36:14.737" />
  <row Id="35231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T06:39:55.413" Score="-3" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say one were to ask a question and the answer were to spark a difference of opinion that turns into something very educational.  Is there either a way to make sure that all the comments come up on load (not hidden after 3 or 4 comments) or another place to migrate the discussion in order continue it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After further consideration, I have decided to request such a feature.  Certainly one that loads pages with all comments expanded if one would so choose, and perhaps one where the OP can force a comment thread to be expanded in order to highlight which areas they find most helpful.  I believe that such a feature requires a little refinement before it is properly considered&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141660" LastEditorUserId="141660" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T07:45:00.273" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T14:20:14.390" Title="Is there a way to highlight/conduct on topic discussion in a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="35232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35223" CreationDate="2010-01-12T06:59:47.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After careful consideration, I've made it so the tooltip will display &lt;code&gt;5000 upvotes / 5000 downvotes&lt;/code&gt; after fetching the counts, regardless of actual votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, this will &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; confuse the user*.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Just kidding - it's been changed to reflect the actual up and down vote counts on a given post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* I care about any vote bugs :)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T06:59:47.193" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35231" CreationDate="2010-01-12T07:15:05.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is there either a way to make sure that all the comments come up on load (not hidden after 3 or 4 comments)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@: Currently, I doubt so. Are you requesting this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;another place to migrate the discussion in order continue it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@: I'm assuming you are refering to SO site. If the thread should be in another site e.g. meta or SU, it will be migrated. If it remains where it is, I don't see any reason to move it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:15:05.443" />
  <row Id="35234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35227" CreationDate="2010-01-12T07:19:36.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, extra comma in the openid javascript file -- my bad. Sorry about that. Fixed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oddly, only IE was perturbed by this extra comma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:19:36.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35224" CreationDate="2010-01-12T07:21:41.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a new account &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;note the numeric user IDs or user page URLs of both the &quot;new&quot; and &quot;old&quot; accounts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;email us, at the address provided at the bottom of every web page, both account user IDs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can merge them for you no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:21:41.403" />
  <row Id="35236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35208" CreationDate="2010-01-12T07:28:36.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way &lt;strong&gt;private CV employer views&lt;/strong&gt; would show up in your logs, is if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;you've embedded an image in your private CV, from a website you control&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an employer clicks through to your private CV from search results&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Employer search results themselves are screened heavily and disallowed from including any sort of images or other tracking mechanisms. So you will not see any requests to your server from employer search results pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that public CV views are completely unrelated to any of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:28:36.690" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35221" CreationDate="2010-01-12T07:29:15.193" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a proxy is incorrectly caching files between you and us. Refresh your cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:29:15.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35241" CreationDate="2010-01-12T07:42:00.000" Score="-10" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1747/downvotes-as-punishment-for-bad-behavior&quot;&gt;Downvotes as punishment for &amp;ldquo;bad behavior&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1323/flag-abusive-users&quot;&gt;Flag abusive users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29472/bad-users-are-not-punished-enough&quot;&gt;Bad users are not punished enough!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the nature of things, people can be rude, this is life. Whether it's on purpose or otherwise, people get offended, and this can be counter productive. If someone answers a question with valid points, but phrases it in a way that provokes an emotional response, this can lead away from the real discussion, and in some extreme cases, &lt;em&gt;ankle biting&lt;/em&gt;. My response is usually to kill it with kindness, but others may not react with civility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;real life&quot;, people's reputation consists of their intelligence, as well as their people skills. On SO, it seems that people are graded on intelligence only. Is this a good thing..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see how well liked a user is? If they found themselves down voted more than others, perhaps this would persuade them to change their attitude toward new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this might be a terrible idea. Let the flaming commence! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you down vote, I don't mind at all, but please explain why - I promise that I won't take it personally; it's CW anyway ;) -- I'm actually fully prepared for down votes in this case, since now I'm wondering why &quot;people votes&quot; are such a bad idea (the general consensus is that they are, a very bad idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141012" LastEditorUserId="141012" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T16:43:22.860" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T16:43:22.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T08:01:10.797" ClosedDate="2010-01-12T16:51:08.067" Title="How much of a bad idea is up/down vote for actual users?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35238" CreationDate="2010-01-12T07:48:26.880" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is stated and accepted policy of the SO community and SO's founders, that &lt;strong&gt;each and every answer stands by itself&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a knowledge exchange. The biggest &amp;amp;%#*+! can be quite a savvy guy, and might always produce excellent answers, while still being, say, quite disliked. I know there's a few people of that kind around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If next to such a guy's name there was an indication like &quot;79% of people hate this user&quot;, that would have nothing to do with the quality of his questions and answers, and thus be counter-productive to the purpose of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T07:48:26.880" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:05:08.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got no problem when someone incorporates my answer into their answer. Especially not if it's the accepted answer because that answer &lt;em&gt;ought to be as complete as possible&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see something that I've missed in another answer I usually create a community wiki answer and put both into it. Of course if it's only a small thing I just add it to my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T08:05:08.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T08:05:08.900" />
  <row Id="35241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35238" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:23:15.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a slightly different take on balpha's answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... people can vote on different criteria. I would consider an encouraging, polite answer to be &lt;em&gt;more helpful&lt;/em&gt; than a rude one. It's more likely to provoke a positive response in the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given two answers which are equally accurate, I'd be much more likely to upvote a polite one than a rude one - and in extreme cases I'd flag an answer, of course. That's what the flag button is there for - to call moderator attention to offensive, abusive, spammy etc answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slight sarcasm and generally being &quot;somewhat rude&quot; may well not get you flagged, but I believe it's likely to get you significantly fewer upvotes, and probably some comments indicating the reason. That &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a hint...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm with balpha: vote on individual answers, not whole users. If a user is &lt;em&gt;consistently&lt;/em&gt;  unpleasant, their overall rep will suffer as a result anyway, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T08:23:15.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T08:23:15.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35238" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:25:44.343" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1323/flag-abusive-users/1355#1355&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1323/flag-abusive-users/1355#1355&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One thing we flirted with is having users sort of rate each other.  But Joel quickly headed me off at the pass there and felt that would lead to what he called &quot;bad high school days flashbacks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T08:25:44.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T08:25:44.343" />
  <row Id="35244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35269" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:32:59.383" Score="4" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire contents of &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2047533/use-of-predicates&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/A&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Write a program that uses predicates to assist a small supermarket owner in keeping track of his/ her stock&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously homework by somebody who doesn't have enough English to know how to ask nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be instantly closed? I was having trouble finding a category to close it under. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One vote was for the category &quot;Blatantly Offensive&quot;, but I think such a category is unfair and weakening the cases where they actually are Blatantly Offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141705" LastEditorUserId="141705" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T08:39:00.273" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:53:56.587" Title="What category do we use to close blatant homework questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="35245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:38:49.587" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While normally I'd think it's fine to copy a bit of another answer to enhance your original thoughts (with a reference), in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/443169/eclipse-exclude-folders-from-search&quot;&gt;given example&lt;/a&gt; I would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; copy that second answer into yours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of that second answer should have been a comment to yours, saying your answer might have undesired side-effects (&lt;em&gt;&quot;marking resources derived might cause problems in other areas&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). The remaining part is really a different solution that you did not come up with, and others can vote up -- or not. It's up to the question asker to determine what helped him/her best, but others might feel different and give more votes to another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As an alternative for your specific example, now that you realise that using &quot;derived&quot; might cause problems: you have enough reputation to edit some words of your question into that second answer, and delete yours. That would leave one answer as well.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T08:38:49.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T08:38:49.587" />
  <row Id="35246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:40:27.120" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be anywhere from &quot;by-design&quot; to a non-issue, but I thought I'd mention it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35238/up-down-vote-actual-users/35239#35239&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; (i.e. after I clicked &quot;Post Your Answer&quot;), the &quot;New answers have been posted. Load new answers&quot; notification briefly appeared before the page was reloaded. Since, as random confirmed, there where no other answers on that question, it must have been my own answer that triggered the notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Side note: I was tempted to title this post &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luke&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The quicker-than-his-own-shadow problem&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T09:51:32.837" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:25:54.417" Title="&quot;New answers have been posted&quot; notification although the only answer is mine" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35244" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:45:03.363" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it is closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;. That seems to be a typical choice if there's no where else to 'dump' it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll do the same thing too. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;Should this be instantly closed?&quot; I say it should be closed. Instantly or not doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have yet to close one that is considered &quot;Blatantly Offensive&quot; to me. Certaintly not for this question (to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for you statement &quot;Obviously homework by somebody who doesn't have enough English to know how to ask nicely.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I have to say it's kind of drawing too much conclusion. He/she might be too rush to correct the language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T08:50:39.123" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T08:50:39.123" />
  <row Id="35248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35246" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:45:44.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect a rare race condition between the timing of the JavaScript background AJAX check for new answers and the save..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also, it's even rarer to answer your own question on top of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T08:45:44.017" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34974" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:50:04.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search option is great, but I would like an option to store this search criteria as a tag (so that I could click this tag and have all answers which could be answered by me (mind you, I would use other tags than Vaccano)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T12:31:14.073" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T12:31:14.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T08:58:40.167" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1975/ability-to-sort-reorder-interesting-ignored-tags-in-sidebar&quot;&gt;Ability to sort/reorder interesting/ignored tags in sidebar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23488/sort-interested-ignored-tags-alphabetically&quot;&gt;Sort interested/ignored tags alphabetically&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/231181?tab=preferences#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/231181?tab=preferences#sort-top&lt;/a&gt; you will see my interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You notice that I started with &lt;code&gt;Delphi-2010&lt;/code&gt; and sometime later on decided to add &lt;code&gt;Delphi&lt;/code&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I now should add &lt;code&gt;Delphi-2009&lt;/code&gt; it would appear at the end. Although in practice I would like to select them the most (even &lt;code&gt;Delphi&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Delphi-2009&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Delphi-2010&lt;/code&gt;, but that's another topic, I know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible somehow to &lt;strong&gt;sort those tags&lt;/strong&gt;. Or even better, &lt;strong&gt;re-arrange those tags&lt;/strong&gt; so that I can put the most interesting ones at the top?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: &lt;em&gt;I did search for an aleady existing question regarding this subject, but found none (I clearly used the wrong search words).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, having read those others, I have a suggestion for the developers: clearly you are now keeping a list of selected tags in a table. If you &lt;strong&gt;add one integer field&lt;/strong&gt; to this table, and give us a &lt;strong&gt;'upvote' link&lt;/strong&gt; (like you have now in front of a comment), we could very easily alter the order of tags (if you would show them according to this new field). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks for the wonderful product,&#xA;  though. It really is appreciated by&#xA;  other developers like myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141174" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T10:51:36.367" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T10:51:36.367" ClosedDate="2010-01-12T11:15:11.147" Title="Is it possible to re-arrange my tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35238" CreationDate="2010-01-12T09:57:24.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone is outright rude, then they get flagged, they get downvoted, and they get reputations.  What we're mainly here for are answers, in any case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently came across a fellow who was a bit too sharp with me and more than a little trite.  He wrote a long-a$$ answer that didn't help me one bit.  I downvoted his answer, wishing I could down vote him.  An hour later, I posted another question and he answered promptly in the same amazing detail, but this time being very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I came across a situation where a fellow got downvoted for a logically correct, but entirely off topic answer.  After 5 downvotes, someone came along and upvoted him because they felt sorry for the guy.  So I guess the reputation aspect doesn't always work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that the up and down vote gets tweaked a little (with regards to its effect on reputation) but I certainly think downvoting people allows things to get a little too personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141660" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T09:57:24.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T09:57:24.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35211" CreationDate="2010-01-12T11:21:56.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35211/adding-someone-elses-answer-to-your-own-to-make-a-better-answer/35212#35212&quot;&gt;You could certainly reference where you saw the additional information when you add it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Sorry, couldn't resist)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T11:21:56.233" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T11:21:56.233" />
  <row Id="35256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35262" CreationDate="2010-01-12T11:26:21.513" Score="22" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;What content? A little explanation would be nice guys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a bit of trial and error I realised it was the lmgtfy link (that I'd qualified with &quot;I don't usually do lmgtfy links&quot;). I know lmgtfy or letmebingthatforyou are usually used in a snarky tone, but sheesh, some kind of heads up would be nice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...and let the downvotes commence...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11569" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T11:50:29.070" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:30:57.560" Title="Sorry, posts can't contain that content?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;error&gt;&lt;feedback&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35256" CreationDate="2010-01-12T11:32:38.190" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/67x9w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;checking here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T11:32:38.190" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="35258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35259" CreationDate="2010-01-12T11:37:22.407" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10807/has-anybody-else-stopped-recieving-badges&quot;&gt;Has anybody else stopped recieving badges?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently posted an answer to a question. Neither the answer nor the question are CW. I got 18 upvotes and no downvotes, but I did not get the nice answer badge... Not that I absolutely need it like I'll start crying without it, but as a developer, you know... debug. Could be a non-running cron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;marking as bug, just because...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T11:47:23.977" ClosedDate="2010-01-12T16:43:07.960" Title="no nice answer badge" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35258" CreationDate="2010-01-12T11:41:38.670" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/78374/stefano-borini&quot;&gt;Your profile&lt;/a&gt; shows &lt;strong&gt;Nice Answer x 22&lt;/strong&gt; badges with as many answers with &lt;strong&gt;10+&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably one of your other posts which generated a nice answer, got deleted / migrated / merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are (almost) never removed, so you won't get the next (n) badges, because you already have &quot;more&quot; than you should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's by far the most common reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T11:47:23.977" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T11:47:23.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35089" CreationDate="2010-01-12T12:00:57.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;535... so I suppose that isn't too &quot;good&quot;. However, if you make one that count how many of my questions that has been answered by Jon Skeet, and how many questions in comments I have had answered by Jon Skeet, I think I would get a pretty high score :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes feel like Jon Skeet and Marc Gravell are stalking me to answer my questions... which isn't too bad actually, since answer fast and rarely wrong :p So, thank you both and all the others that answers my numerous questions! I've been learning &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; thanks to StackOverflow this last year :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39321" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T12:00:57.830" />
  <row Id="35261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4780" CreationDate="2010-01-12T12:22:24.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-locked_loop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Phase-locked loop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say you cross reputation score of 2000 and you got edit privileges. These privileges should remain unless you go below 1800. And those will be granted again at 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T12:22:24.533" />
  <row Id="35262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35256" CreationDate="2010-01-12T12:27:35.663" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff's answer wins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, I agree with Dan F that an explanation is in order. Especially since this isn't a minor technical point, but an issue about which we need to educate users. The explanation shouldn't just be that LMGTFY is banned, but &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; these links are &lt;strike&gt;discouraged&lt;/strike&gt; completely dissallowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T12:27:35.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1975" CreationDate="2010-01-12T12:34:30.200" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with &quot;Olafur Waage&quot; in that's too much work with little benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will repeat an update I made to my own question (when I asked the same question as the one you're reading now - silly me - my question is now flagged as duplicate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, having read those others, I&#xA;  have a suggestion for the developers:&#xA;  clearly you are now keeping a list of&#xA;  selected tags in a table. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you add one integer field to this&#xA;  table, and give us a '&lt;strong&gt;upvote&lt;/strong&gt;' link&#xA;  (like you have now in front of a&#xA;  comment), we could very easily alter&#xA;  the order of tags (if you would show&#xA;  them according to this new field).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T12:34:30.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35713" CreationDate="2010-01-12T12:45:57.430" Score="42" ViewCount="1006" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a stackoverflow user, ads like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/tZkBE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;add image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...confuse the hell out of me. I just spent 30 seconds trying to find the rest of the answers for the question I was reading before I realized this was an ad, and the question didn't actually have 27 answers. I am totally on board with inline advertising, but this ad is objectively making the site harder to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any sort of guidelines for what kinds of ads are allowed? I would like to think stackoverflow could prevent ones like this. If they are allowed or encouraged, I would implore stackoverflow to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just took the screenshot above at 7am on 2/10, so even with all the discussion and promises made in the answers below, the ad continues to run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141715" LastEditorUserId="141715" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T12:22:34.863" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T18:59:50.007" Title="Should ads that mimic StackOverflow UI be allowed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;fui&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-01-12T12:55:06.130" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any advert that mimics a real UI is bad. The ads that look like popup dialogs are the worst offenders and this example is no different. These ads trick users into clicking them and as a result the user is left feeling confused and then cheated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the ad needs to mimic the SO UI in order to trick people into clicking it then that's a bad ad. A guideline recommending that advertisers avoid these rickroll ads would get my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is another example...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/stackoverflow-ad1.png&quot; alt=&quot;woot add&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... although it's clear, from the text, that they're playing on the SO-look-alikeness of their ad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the whole I think SO does an excellent job with ads, and the quality of ads on SO is great. Just please don't confuse my aging brain with these ads that look like they're part of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138264" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T22:37:00.580" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:37:00.580" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-01-12T12:57:45.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, but it's a bit obvious, as in most browsers the image looks different than the actual text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one in particular is innocent enough because they aren't getting any money out of each click, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://startups.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://startups.com&lt;/a&gt; is not a third party product, and all you have to do is click &quot;back&quot; on your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25005/has-anyone-clicked-the-new-woot-ads&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25005/has-anyone-clicked-the-new-woot-ads&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24185/am-i-the-only-person-to-find-the-woot-ad-noxious&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24185/am-i-the-only-person-to-find-the-woot-ad-noxious&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T12:57:45.017" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T13:11:22.807" Score="0" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25224/email-notifications-for-new-questions-matching-specific-tags&quot;&gt;Email notifications for new questions matching specific tags&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/tags-and-tags-or-tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I know how to combine several tags&lt;/a&gt;. But I would prefer to get emailed every time a new question with one of my tags is posted.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is there a way to monitor a collection of tags on Stack Overflow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T13:52:32.283" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T13:52:32.283" ClosedDate="2010-01-12T16:51:12.187" Title="Monitor Stack Overflow tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T13:38:34.453" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title for the &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt; hyperlink on my own answers says &lt;strong&gt;vote to remove this post&lt;/strong&gt;. I think this is confusing because it implies that other people can also vote to delete my answer, which I don't believe is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that when I click the link the answer is soft deleted and can probably by pruned by moderators at their leisure, but that's just implementation that as an end user I really don't care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, for &lt;strong&gt;undelete&lt;/strong&gt; it says &lt;strong&gt;vote to restore this post&lt;/strong&gt;. Why the use of the word &lt;em&gt;vote&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="1450" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T11:44:18.900" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T11:44:18.900" Title="Title text for own answer delete hyperlinks is confusing" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35244" CreationDate="2010-01-12T13:41:19.813" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Homework---even very obvious and basic homework---is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; forbidden on Stack Overflow. Indeed I am happy to help with homework, though questioners will have to tolerate my pedagogical style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this question (and many others) is that the poster shows not the slightest sign of having tried and gives no hint that they have even thought about the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been voting for &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Too Localized&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; on such questions, reasoning that giving us their assignment doesn't help the next guy or gal down the pipe while tackling the thing that is stumping them might.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T06:53:56.587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:53:56.587" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29254" CreationDate="2010-01-12T13:41:56.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're forgetting that stackoverflow is an engine, and not just a site for technically oriented people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, should their hosted platform take off, and people start using it to create communities for say crop-dusting, or sheep collecting; then those people might not always have an OpenID, yet more than likely have a Facebook account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Noldorin - as much as I understand the issue that you raise, that by having another API and more lines of code to support, the chances for error and workload increase. Although this doesn't negate the popularity of Facebook Connect over that of OpenID in its raw form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141718" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T13:41:56.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35267" CreationDate="2010-01-12T13:44:16.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always subscribe to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2250/is-there-a-way-to-do-rss-feeds-on-a-set-of-tags&quot;&gt;the rss feed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T13:44:16.873" />
  <row Id="35272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35268" CreationDate="2010-01-12T13:50:11.417" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's The Power of One, for you can Choose Your Own Adventure. But on this ride, you're Kevin Costner and for some reason the swing of the election rests upon your single vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so it is with your own posts (excluding questions set by you that have upvoted answers) that you can cast a more powerful vote action to delete or undelete your answer. One is all it takes in this election season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you're playing baseball again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T13:50:11.417" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35256" CreationDate="2010-01-12T13:56:16.970" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, let's follow through with your suggestion as a thought experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tonight, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jarrod Dixon&lt;/a&gt; gets word from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; that you're right, and that they should implement something to tell everyone that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&quot;&gt;LMGIFY links are banned&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Implementation time&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20&lt;/strong&gt; minutes: Time spent discussing this with Jarrod&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; minutes: Time spent specifying the changes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; minutes: Questions from Jarrod and refinement of specification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; minutes: Coding a regular expression (uggh) or Server-side parsing to figure out when someone is using a LMGIFY link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;30&lt;/strong&gt; minutes: Testing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; minutes: Checkin, writeup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;2 hours, 25 minutes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Time getting around that barrier&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; minute later: Someone complains that the responsiveness of the site is just a little bit slower (either due to having to run this server side check, or due to extra JS loading)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; minutes later: Someone who enjoys posting LMGIFY links decides to get around it by using &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;is.gd&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; minutes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt;1&lt;/strong&gt; minute: When you see a LMGIFY post, flag it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or: You can just clutter up space that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001306.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;people don't read&lt;/a&gt; with yet another piece of text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T13:56:16.970" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35278" CreationDate="2010-01-12T14:18:08.887" Score="11" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=haiku&quot;&gt;far too many questions&lt;/a&gt; about the infamous spam haiku page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am suggesting this page be changed to a more informative message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think it's cute, too. However, too many real users are getting this message. They come here to meta and ask &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35275/wtf-is-this-got-when-trying-to-answer-a-question-closed&quot;&gt;&quot;wtf!?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. If the message they saw actually explained what was going on, things would be just a tad easier for everyone involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My dear spam haiku&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;You bring both joy and sorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Now please go away&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T14:22:04.197" Title="Change spam haiku message" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;haiku&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35276" CreationDate="2010-01-12T14:20:04.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just have the page link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haiku&quot; title=&quot;now with a new key&quot;&gt;the &lt;strong&gt;[haiku]&lt;/strong&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt; if they would like more info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And have an extra can of spam on the page linked with the relevant Amazon affiliate encoded link.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(They sell tinned cans of spiced ham in Bezos' world don't they?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T14:22:04.197" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T14:22:04.197" />
  <row Id="35278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35276" CreationDate="2010-01-12T14:21:08.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I'd want this done as well, I doubt it's going to happen. We weren't even told what the damn thing was, let alone having a proper page explaining why it's there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's just deal with it, unfortunately. The good thing would be that it also keeps spammers guessing as to what the hell that actually means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T14:21:08.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35244" CreationDate="2010-01-12T15:00:45.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, I might go &quot;not a real question&quot;, since there's really not enough information in question or tags to be confident the question is properly answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new close reason like &quot;Answer would require professional services&quot; might apply here.  While I'm perfectly happy tossing off explanations and snippets, I don't write random programs for random people who aren't paying me.  (Writing programs I want to write, or for people I actually care about, are separate cases, but &quot;do my homework&quot; questions don't qualify.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would reserve &quot;blatantly offensive&quot; to posts that are positively insulting to groups of people for unfair reasons (Slashdot's GNAA posts come to mind) or gross in themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;dmckee's suggestion of &quot;Too Localized&quot; is intriguing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T15:00:45.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2588" CreationDate="2010-01-12T15:52:42.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be great to be implemented. I liked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432066/max-pages-for-a-software-engineers-resume/432120#432120&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; so much, that I bookmarked it in Firefox, but it would be great if you could 'favorite' answers as well. I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432066/max-pages-for-a-software-engineers-resume/432120#432120&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; better than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432066/max-pages-for-a-software-engineers-resume/432081#432081&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T15:52:42.507" />
  <row Id="35284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35285" CreationDate="2010-01-12T15:55:39.007" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a bug on SO or something wrong with my account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've hit the daily rep cap and I've got upvotes (during the same day) on some of my accepted answers &lt;strong&gt;without&lt;/strong&gt; a corresponding increase in rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't the first time this happens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T04:09:22.410" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:09:22.410" Title="upvotes on accepted answers, daily cap reached" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35284" CreationDate="2010-01-12T16:07:57.230" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, my &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=171461&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showflair=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rep tracker&lt;/a&gt; certainly reckons you've hit the rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you say &quot;without a corresponding increase in rep&quot; are you suggesting you were on exactly 12173 rep at the start of the UTC day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're wondering why you haven't broken &lt;em&gt;through&lt;/em&gt; the rep cap: it's not votes on accepted answers that are immune to the limit - it's the 15 point bonus for having an answer accepted. It's not entirely clear from your question, but it's possible that you've got slightly the wrong end of the stick about the rep cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T16:07:57.230" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35244" CreationDate="2010-01-12T16:49:59.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have said, &quot;not a real question&quot; is clearly the correct choice here, but I would prefer to be able to expand on just what &lt;em&gt;makes&lt;/em&gt; a &quot;real&quot; question. It needs to be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;detailed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;contain what the OP has tried so far&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pasting in an entire homework question verbatim is not acceptable. Asking &quot;I need to make a supermarket stock checker, what I'm having trouble with is how to detect duplicate inventory&quot; is much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP is not really clued into what he did wrong when he's slapped with &quot;not a real question&quot;. After all, there was a question mark at the end (probably at the sentence &quot;plz gimme teh codez?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS. &quot;But people don't read&quot; is not a justifiable response here. That's an excuse, and doesn't help anyone.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T16:49:59.083" />
  <row Id="35289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35244" CreationDate="2010-01-12T16:56:01.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would choose either blatantly offensive or not a real question depending on the question.  If it's an obvious repost of the actual text of the assignment without any more information, I'd probably go with blatantly offensive.  If possible, I'd try to fix the question first so that it is acceptable, but it's hard (impossible?) to do when just the assignment text is posted.  I'd also follow up with a comment as to why the particular question is unacceptable and how one could have asked the question in an acceptable manner, including tagging the question properly as homework so people are aware and can respond appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T16:56:01.677" />
  <row Id="35291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35306" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:12:04.243" Score="3" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;Title says it all - or when a question is open, it would be nice to see that there are 4 people (or preferably list of the 4 people) who are in process of writing an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For simple questions, usually once I'm about to hit the &quot;post your answer question&quot; I get the &quot;there are 3 new answers, click here to load them&quot; nag...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140465" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-03T08:46:08.797" LastActivityDate="2011-09-03T08:46:08.797" Title="When answering, could we be informed that &quot;the following people are already answering this question&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:09:58.390" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I delete my question from stack overflow? I have posted a question as an unregistered user by mistake, but now I would like to delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T20:37:42.697" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T20:37:42.697" Title="Deleting questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35292" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:12:49.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it for moderator attention, leaving a comment that explains why you want it deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:13:10.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T17:12:49.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35292" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:19:57.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;huh? isn't there a &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; button when you view your question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135792" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:19:57.300" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35246" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:25:54.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ya even I have observed similar things ..&#xA;&lt;br&gt;Usually because the notification response is a bit slower .. It takes few minutes (not sure about the number) or more to notify ..&#xA;By the time .. We will be having checked the response manually ..&#xA;&lt;br&gt;One more possibility is that .. when I check the response after seeing the notification and come BACK to the same page (by pressing the BACK button in browser) then also the same notification does alert me ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;I posted it just for casual discussion ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140364" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:25:54.417" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35297" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35310" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:31:32.827" Score="11" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not planning anything.  Just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:02:40.190" Title="How many times can a user be suspended before being permanently banned?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:32:18.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about anyone else, but I was promised waffle eating ponies if I attained 10k here.  I've got too many waffles, and not enough ponies, so it seemed like the ideal solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now I'm not so sure...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:32:18.537" />
  <row Id="35299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35291" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:34:47.780" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More specifically, if it said &quot;Jon Skeet is already starting to type an answer for this question&quot; I'd know to give up straight away. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138264" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:34:47.780" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35297" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:35:05.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since suspension is (to my knowledge) a 100% manually invoked action, I'd be more than surprised to learn that there's an automatism that counts how often you where suspended and acts accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there shouldn't be. This is really something that should be handled on a case-by-case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:35:05.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35291" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:36:29.133" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe what you want is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/wave/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=163057&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow to implement Google Wave&lt;/a&gt;. (just kidding).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, seriously. If the answer is still being written, what does that give you? To &lt;em&gt;discourage&lt;/em&gt; you from answering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When an answer is &lt;em&gt;posted&lt;/em&gt; you are notified so see if you are just being redundant. But until they hit that &lt;code&gt;Post your answer&lt;/code&gt; button, the answer doesn't exist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ultimately finish and post your answer first, then &lt;em&gt;theirs&lt;/em&gt; might be the redundant answer and &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; get the notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T17:36:29.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T17:55:53.130" Score="8" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;By &quot;Big Button&quot; I mean one of the same size as the Google button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be good for 2 reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would encourage users to investigate and use Profiles, which would allow them to take advantage of the unique per-domain qualities. At the moment Profiles seems like a second class citizen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You'd actually know it was &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. Especially as the giant &quot;standard Google&quot; button makes you think that it's not worth looking further. (And I'm clearly not the only one who found this, as this exists: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34600/clicking-google-open-id-still-uses-old-google-openid-url&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34600/clicking-google-open-id-still-uses-old-google-openid-url&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes sense for a further reason; if Big Buttons are associated with the most popular account types, and Google Profiles uses the same account as &quot;standard Google&quot;, it makes sense to promote it to the big leagues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136932" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T13:42:45.397" LastActivityDate="2011-02-14T18:38:13.187" Title="Could Google Profiles get a &quot;big button&quot; for login?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;google-openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35305" CreationDate="2010-01-12T18:34:09.517" Score="11" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=name&quot;&gt;first users by name&lt;/a&gt; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ricree (rep 1,226)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;garg (rep 91)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deanbates (rep 331)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spencerholleman (rep 33)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not ordered by name. What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T04:08:55.437" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:08:55.437" Title="The Users page is not ordered by name in the name tab" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;users-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35304" CreationDate="2010-01-12T18:38:21.910" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the specific users names, you'll see that they are empty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The username will be dependent on what OpenID they used to log in. And apparently, the username is not the same as the name in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T18:45:11.067" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T18:45:11.067" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35291" CreationDate="2010-01-12T18:57:32.537" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be against this for exactly the reason Martin gave. I know it was tongue in cheek, but I suspect that it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; discourage people from answering at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I've always said that an initial quick answer followed by elaboration is valuable, as it reduces redundancy - but I don't want to discourage people from giving a &lt;em&gt;potentially different&lt;/em&gt; answer just because some high profile user (whether myself or someone else) is answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T18:57:32.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35291" CreationDate="2010-01-12T19:16:05.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be very, very cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also totally unnecessary, and a significant server burden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But very, &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T19:16:05.037" />
  <row Id="35308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35291" CreationDate="2010-01-12T19:36:25.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only if I could actually &lt;em&gt;see the answers as they were being typed&lt;/em&gt;, as with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35291/when-starting-typing-an-answer-could-we-get-an-inform-that-the-following-people/35302#35302&quot;&gt;Robert's Wave suggestion&lt;/a&gt;. That could be useful, in that you could avoid posting if someone else was already responding with the answer you had planned to give. Otherwise, it would likely just foster paranoia and/or discourage answers (as others have noted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T19:36:25.707" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35297" CreationDate="2010-01-12T20:02:24.150" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the mods and management here probably wouldn't want to divulge that, likely for the same reason that they don't particularly want to reveal an exact set of rules that cause binning: People will abuse the knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's gray and fuzzy, they have the ability to act in accordance with what they feel are the best interests of the Trilogy sites. If they're concretely laid out, there would be a world of butt-hurt whenever they'd have to do something exceptional -- like a premature ban, or not being &quot;stern enough&quot; with a given user, or being &quot;too stern&quot; with another, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flip (and down) side to this is the standard lack of transparency that has, in the past, caused its own world of butthurt here on Meta. Frankly, mods and management of any Internet-based user-content area are likely to be in a no-win situation simply due to the nature of the Internet's various denizens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just reporting it how I see it -- in the words of Dr Manhattan, without condemning nor condoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T20:02:24.150" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-01-12T20:04:47.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, it took you 30 seconds to realize this was an ad?  As in &lt;em&gt;one-mississippi-two-mississippi-three-mississippi...thirty-mississippi&lt;/em&gt; thirty seconds? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here's what the ad looks like live:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/2i7mxhx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ad in question&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway... we felt this particular ad was acceptable in the leaderboard space because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that's not where &quot;question blocks&quot; generally appear; they are only seen on list pages where there is no leaderboard ad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there are constantly ads in that leaderboard space&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a border that separates it from content&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;font and sizes are different from actual fonts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;business&quot; and &quot;make-money&quot; are not real tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anyone interested in the question can find the answer by clicking on it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison (note that it will &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; appear in a list like this), with the borders removed...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/15tu21.png&quot; alt=&quot;Comp&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of these ads is not to confuse, but to catch your peripheral. When you see a similar UI, you're drawn to it and -- ideally -- within miliseconds, you realize it's an advertisment. I'm sorry that this took you a full thirty seconds, though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T20:04:47.733" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35297" CreationDate="2010-01-12T20:26:19.027" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23661/what-is-the-point-of-a-30-day-account-suspension/23681#23681&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff indicates that after the third suspension you're skating on very thin ice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T20:26:19.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35297" CreationDate="2010-01-12T20:31:28.700" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Largely by definition, the moderators are human (well, mostly) exception handlers, but unlike code there is no single rule that fits all cases. Really it simply boils down to common sense (or as close an approximation as we can get).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific incident / incidents is a big factor, as would be the ongoing history with that user; the majority of stuff is just quietly &quot;dealt with&quot; without resorting to any other measures, but without meaning to sound like we harbor grudges this quiet background noise would probably form a part of any warning message(s) sent to the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking that further, if you are repeating the same behaviour that has already got you into disrepute, then that is likely to be met with less patience (but please don't take that to mean that you can safely be obnoxious in entirely original ways and keep out of trouble).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to that; successive suspensions tend to be significantly longer in duration...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another important factor is your history on the site; if (at the worst case) you have a 1-day old account with no e-mail address and your first contributions are defamation, spam, abuse etc - then you probably shouldn't be surprised when your account stops working without warning or delay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T20:31:28.700" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35297" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:02:40.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theoretically it's possible, but I suspect the practical reality is it would never be used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They currently do an increasing ban length - a few days, a week, a month, a few months, several months, etc. In theory one could reach something like an 80 year ban, but it would take so many smaller bans that it's already been a decade before they hit that point. So yes, it's possible, but it's unlikely that someone would have enough staying power that after, say, a 2 year ban they'd be back the instant it ended and start causing a ruckus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming they follow a nice geometric increase, say powers of 2, and increase the time starting from one day, then the first ban would be 1 day, second 2 days, third 4 days, fourth 8 days, etc, then the following would be true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 8th ban would result in a 256 day ban, but by that time they've also served 128 days, 64 days, etc, and would have served a total of 511 days.  This is over a year, so it would take 8 bans to serve over a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 15th ban would result in a 44 year ban, but cumulatively they've already served nearly 44 years, so the 15th ban would end 89 years AFTER their first ban, which for all intents and purposes would be a lifetime ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They don't use this progression, though, and while they have the history of bans they've done before and generally try to be consistent, new bans are performed on a case by case basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in most of Jeff's ramblings on the podcast and internet about problem users he appears to subscribe to the belief that anyone can change.  I suspect that he would never hand down a &quot;You can never ever in a million years come back so help me!&quot; ban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it were me, I wouldn't do it because it's too much work to keep track of idiots for that long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:02:40.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:06:03.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Get 200 rep and you won't see it anymore, you'll only see side ads, and those are much easier to filter out visually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:06:03.613" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35320" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:12:46.237" Score="-2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I really like the tag cloud on &lt;a href=&quot;http://climatedeal.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Climate Deal&lt;/a&gt;. Is there anyway we could get something similar to this on StackOverflow? I don't necessarily mean that we should replace the interesting/ignored tags with this but something like this on the front page would be nice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Xb25fTcjIRQ/S0zk5-k7YqI/AAAAAAAAAHk/fqIBZ8A0f8M/s800/climate.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T01:18:02.083" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T01:18:02.083" Title="Could S[OUF] get a tag cloud similar to the one on The Climate Deal StackExchange?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35318" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:26:29.403" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it weren't for closed posts being included in the count for each tag (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&lt;/a&gt;), anyone could create one and post it here for us all to go &quot;ooh! ahh!&quot; over (including duplicates and other closed posts is a bit misleading, IMHO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yeah, tag clouds are nifty for visualizing data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-12T22:51:08.117" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T22:51:08.117" />
  <row Id="35320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35318" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:35:47.820" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me crazy, but how would you actually &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that? How would it help you? In most cases you want a &lt;strong&gt;specific&lt;/strong&gt; piece of information - you don't come to a tech site to find out what is &quot;trending&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, &lt;strong&gt;search&lt;/strong&gt; is the important navigation device for people looking for information, and in most cases that means google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just too old-school?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:35:47.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:39:14.583" Score="-1" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30982/how-to-convert-your-stackoverflows-reputation-into-money&quot;&gt;How to convert your Stackoverflow&amp;rsquo;s reputation into money?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a low rating of only 453 which I can use for bounties.  This isn't a lot of bounty points.  I don't have a lot of questions I need answering but I'm wondering if I was running low and I really needed some answers I'd be tempted to try to buy some SO points on the market.  I'm wondering what do you think the $$ to SO points exchange rate is?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132914" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T23:22:24.330" ClosedDate="2010-01-12T23:57:03.563" Title="How much do you think SO points are worth on the market?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:43:04.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering you'll probably be banned if you tried to buy or sell them, $0. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is intentionally difficult to pass around for just this reason - you'd have to abuse the site (offer a bounty and then accept a specific person's answer) in order to accomplish it, making it a time-consuming and fairly obvious process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:43:04.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35318" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:43:13.980" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like it on a separate page.  I believe there is some value in seeing what programmers are asking about.  I wouldn't want it cluttering up the front page, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:43:13.980" />
  <row Id="35324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:43:16.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm willing to sell 2&lt;sup&gt;32&lt;/sup&gt; points for $0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:43:16.570" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:46:16.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes a proficient programmer about an hour to get 200 points.  Assuming you pay $100/hr for a good programmer, you can expect each point to be worth $0.50 at US rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask around, though, you can get cut-rate points from asian suppliers for a tiny fraction of that, and that's where most of the top users go for their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:46:16.033" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T21:48:28.837" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd rather hoist a pint then heist a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T21:48:28.837" />
  <row Id="35328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T22:03:11.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If bounties were extremely effective at increasing the quality of answers that you receive, then the value of points might be pretty high as you could use them to buy better answers.  From what I see, the effect of a bounty on a question is only marginal.  So if we're only considering the value of points as a bounty, they aren't worth very much at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T22:03:11.190" />
  <row Id="35329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2010-01-12T22:11:41.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Me? I just lurk around here :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;beware, you're being watched&lt;/em&gt; :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T22:11:41.873" />
  <row Id="35330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T22:13:39.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Virtual goods (i.e. in-game currency in online games) require something to be used for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in real life, Money on it's own is worthless, it's just paper. Money is worth something when it is given away in Exchange for something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, there is not much to exchange points for. Bounties is pretty much the only thing you can &quot;buy&quot; for points. The other thing you can &quot;buy&quot; are Downvotes, but that's hardly an incentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some notable exceptions though: Telerik is (was?) giving away their $1200 .net Package to users with 10.000 Reputation, which gives each point about 0.12 US$ value. Also, Jeff Atwood was (still is?) sending free stickers to users on the first two pages. And I think that users got a discounted price for SO careers, but I don't know if that was if you had X points of if you are just a user long enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But these are exceptions, not a regular way to &quot;spend&quot; the points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points would start being really worth something when&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are more regular Giveaways of stuff to high rep users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a merchandise shop where you can buy real stuff for points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Companies use Reputation as a way to filter job candidates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see that happening anytime soon, but I do see every now and then something happen where points are beneficial. So I wouldn't say that they are completely worthless, but also probably not that valuable either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T22:13:39.027" />
  <row Id="35331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T22:17:41.750" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;|                                   /&#xA;|                                /-/ &#xA;|                               /&#xA;|                          /\  /&#xA;|                      /--/  \/&#xA;|                     /&#xA;|                    /&#xA;|            /-\    /&#xA;|        /--/   \\ / &#xA;|    /\ /         -&#xA;|   /  -&#xA;| //&#xA;|/&#xA;+-----------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This chart proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the value of SO rep is on a historically strong uptick. Buy now before it's too late! Act now and you can get 10000 24-karat rep points at the low, low price of just &lt;sub&gt;12 easy payments of&lt;/sub&gt; $14.95 plus shipping and handling! And if you call within the next 20 minutes, we'll throw in this set of Ginsu knives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;==--        (butter knife)&#xA;==^^^&gt;      (table knife)&#xA;==++++&gt;     (steak knife)&#xA;==########  (mācuahuitl)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... absolutely free! Call now! Hurry, because this offer won't last!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T22:17:41.750" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7603" CreationDate="2010-01-12T22:24:50.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It just hit me when I first noticed that I was constantly browsing through the same question over and over on the main page. My mind had dismissed them, but the UI did not let me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I can browse further elsewhere, but I feel I should be able to hide questions with a button right on the main page if I'm not interested (anymore), and possibly end up with a higher percentage of interesting questions on my main page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I wish there was a search for &quot;open, unread, not hidden, not ignored tags questions&quot;, to show me those slightly older questions I haven't tackled yet. I mean there are 23000 questions, and I constantly see the same 25-30 over and over because people are commenting and answering on these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141741" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T22:24:50.047" />
  <row Id="35339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35318" CreationDate="2010-01-12T23:07:06.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admit it looks quite cool, but I've got absolutely no doubt at all that it would never actually be used (in fact I'd quite like to see it happen just to see the logs of how few people used it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, it would probably look far less interesting for StackOverflow - just a big C# in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you could make it yourself using the creative commons data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; To satisfy my own curiosity I created a quick tag cloud using the first 7-8 pages of tags on StackOverflow using &lt;a href=&quot;http://phasetwo.org/post/a-better-tag-cloud.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; nifty looking tag cloud (looks cool, but its even less useful than the above tag cloud as it has no text until you hover over it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sticksofrage.co.uk/tagcloud/stackoverflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="136084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T00:00:42.700" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:00:42.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T23:10:05.263" Score="6" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was editing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2053029/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2053029/&lt;/a&gt; so the unordered list in the question was numbered to better correspond with the answer. I changed the first list item from a '-' to '1.' and in the preview block below, the rest of the list items changed to numbered items. However, when I saved my changes, only the first item was in a numbered list. In this case, the preview is probably incorrect, and should be changed to reflect what will actually be displayed in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130179" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-24T20:43:15.917" LastActivityDate="2010-11-24T20:43:15.917" Title="Markdown of numbered list with some hyphens doesn't work as expected in preview" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35321" CreationDate="2010-01-12T23:22:24.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;        ,d8    ad888888b,  &#xA;      ,d888   d8&quot;     &quot;88  &#xA;    ,d8&quot; 88           a8P  &#xA;  ,d8&quot;   88        ,d8P&quot;   &#xA;,d8&quot;     88      a8P&quot;      &#xA;8888888888888  a8P'        &#xA;         88   d8&quot;  &#xA;         88   88888888888&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T23:22:24.330" />
  <row Id="35342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24400" CreationDate="2010-01-12T23:42:18.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the OP. Just a few minutes ago, I wanted to see how someone had formatted their content in an answer... 'view source' is an invaluable noob tool, and noobs won't have access to 'edit'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A 'show source' link where the 'edit' button will go (when they have enough karma) will help new users learn how to format their posts in a more aesthetic and informative manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140614" LastActivityDate="2010-01-12T23:42:18.590" />
  <row Id="35343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2010-01-12T23:42:57.060" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... when is this coming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some worry this will generate unwanted behavior somehow and that's why it's being postponed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T19:51:54.013" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:51:54.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-12T23:42:57.060" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-12T23:57:14.750" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2052815/curious-as-to-best-guess-of-vs2010-rtm-date&quot;&gt;curious as to best guess of vs2010 RTM date?&lt;/a&gt; was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;not programming related&lt;/strong&gt; by Greg D, John at CashCommons, Peter, OrbMan, Greg Hewgill 1 hour ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood, where are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please explain to me how this question is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; programming related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a .NET programmer in particular, and a programmer since 1967 in general, imnsho, the tools that I use and the availability of their &lt;strong&gt;next generations&lt;/strong&gt; are very important (at least to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a similar question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/284397/when-will-c-4-0-and-possibly-5-0-be-released&quot;&gt;When will C# 4.0 (and possibly 5.0) be released?&lt;/a&gt; is still open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141746" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T00:13:16.443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:49:05.427" Title="since when is a question about the RTM of vs2010 not programming related?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35344" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:08:13.757" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You weren't asking a programming question or a question about a tool used primarily for the purpose of programming. You were asking users to &lt;strong&gt;guess&lt;/strong&gt; at the release schedule of a 3rd party. Right now, SO is not well equipped to provide answers to such questions; if you wish this to change, I recommend that you up-vote &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1696/add-a-magic-8-ball-feature-to-the-ask-a-question-page&quot;&gt;this suggested change&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:08:13.757" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35344" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:08:52.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are asking &lt;strong&gt;when a particular software product will be released&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you tell me what &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; has to do with programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:08:52.320" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:19:28.990" Score="-6" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an idea I have seen around, but I have not seen a feature request for it, so here it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes that have no comments are frustrating and difficult to manage.  This is a way to help improve that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have a downvote initially cost more to cast for the downvoter (5 points for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When a comment (from the downvoter) on the downvoted question/answer gets an upvote, you get your points back.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All points (ie all 5) could be refunded or just up till the traditional -1 that is in place now (ie 4 points refunded).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would encourage good comments and downvotes for real reasons.  (Because comments for questions/answers that are bias related will not get the upvotes as readily.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could/should be limited to non-subjective tags.  (ie tags where a downvote just because you &quot;don't like it&quot; is not appropriate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="16241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T00:38:25.373" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:47:00.360" Title="Have downvotes cost more, to be refunded when a comment on that question/answer gets an upvote" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="35348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:29:32.367" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a look through previous questions on Meta and haven't been able to find an answer to this.  Does StackOverflow provide any ability to search by date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I wanted to search for all questions tagged Python in the last 3 days, is that possible?  Or all Haskell questions in October?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T02:00:04.123" Title="Searching by date" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35348" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:35:02.650" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sort of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do your search &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then sort results by Newest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then jump pages until you're at a range that fits inside your time period. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:35:02.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35353" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:45:20.397" Score="13" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;unintended consequences&quot; category, I've noticed that since the introduction of the Epic/Legendary badge, I now avoid downvoting unless one of the following is true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am at less than 200 points for the day, and it's close to 00:00 UTC so I'm unlikely to actually reach the rep cap, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am already &lt;em&gt;past&lt;/em&gt; the 200 points per day due to an accepted answer or bounty accept after reaching 200 points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, if I'm at exactly 200 points for the day then I will refrain from downvoting because doing so would put me below the 200 points required for one more day toward Epic/Legendary. 199 points in a day doesn't count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T00:16:21.840" Title="Observation about downvotes and epic/legendary badge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35347" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:47:00.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this happens, I won't downvote anymore... and the system needs downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:47:00.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35344" CreationDate="2010-01-13T00:49:05.427" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I explained why I voted to close in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, questions that ask to predict the future aren't really appropriate here. Most of us don't know the answer; those of us who might know the answer aren't talking; and the information doesn't have lasting value anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information on this position can be found in the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20668/new-close-reason-question-asks-to-predict-the-future&quot;&gt;New close reason: “Question asks to predict the future”&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T00:49:05.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35350" CreationDate="2010-01-13T01:11:25.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely your motivation should be to help maintain the integrity of StackOverflow (or whichever site) by downvoting where appropriate...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the Epic/Legendary badge will surely be awarded to you in time, and once it has, then likely it will seem silly that you modified how you used the sites just to be awarded a badge...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141346" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T01:11:25.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35348" CreationDate="2010-01-13T01:45:09.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The data dump would provide this sort of information (until up to a month ago) pretty easily. It's obviously not an online search though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T01:45:09.790" />
  <row Id="35355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2010-01-13T02:02:48.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Read this line, and do what it says twice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Idea stolen from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7285/how-would-you-design-a-stackoverflow-t-shirt&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7285/how-would-you-design-a-stackoverflow-t-shirt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T02:02:48.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-13T02:02:48.067" />
  <row Id="35356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35357" CreationDate="2010-01-13T02:09:11.700" Score="-2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you click on the number of the votes on SO, the upvotes are separated from the downvotes, and you can see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you update meta with the same feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48465" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T04:08:10.273" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:08:10.273" Title="Meta should also have the same votes separation feature as SO" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35356" CreationDate="2010-01-13T02:11:06.580" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the same. You just need 1,000 rep on Meta to see them. You only have 450.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T02:11:06.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35340" CreationDate="2010-01-13T02:20:04.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;uno&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dos&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tres&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;markup is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- uno&#xA;2. dos&#xA;3. tres&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/6a9It&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Babelmark link to above markup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T02:20:04.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T02:36:37.007" Score="4" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23005/i-think-i-was-just-serial-downvoted-how-can-this-prevented-by-the-community&quot;&gt;I think I was just serial downvoted&amp;hellip;how can this prevented by the community?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28756/serial-downvoting-victim&quot;&gt;Serial Downvoting Victim&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/3834?StartDate=2010-01-13&amp;amp;EndDate=2010-01-13&quot;&gt;I was systematically downvoted&lt;/a&gt;, is it possible to find out who did it? &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/4909/serialdownvoted.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T08:41:57.930" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T08:41:57.930" ClosedDate="2010-01-13T08:34:06.013" Title="Is It Possible to Find Out Why I was Systematically Downvoted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35362" CreationDate="2010-01-13T02:38:38.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a trend. Wait 24 hours, they should all be reversed if they fit the mass-downvoting profiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for who did it, that is the problem with anonymous voting. It is anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you waiting, you and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35358/is-it-ok-in-the-rules-to-have-someone-go-through-all-of-your-posts-and-downvot&quot;&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt;, can go hate the world together :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T02:38:38.623" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21575" CreationDate="2010-01-13T02:44:29.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Serial-downvoting is a consequence of any anonymous community -- and there are systems in place to combat it. It is frowned upon, and I'm sure that if the user did it repeatedly they'd be asked (politely) to stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel you've been the target of serial downvoting, flag one of your posts for moderator attention, and ask for a rep-recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there's an automated system that performs a vote 'undo' when a certain pattern of downvoting is seen, this could also be triggered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T02:44:29.437" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T03:01:35.433" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really like an option to show all dates as yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm.  The existing multitude of various things based on the age is much less workable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably, at least the 3 common formats for date are needed with a check box for 2/4 digit year and a character for the separator, including no character at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;yy-mm-dd&#xA;dd-mm-yy&#xA;mm-dd-yy&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;along with the time formats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;HH:mm&#xA;HH:mm:ss&#xA;HH:mm xM&#xA;HH:mm:ss xM&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(where the x is either A or P).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="8946" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T18:56:45.150" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T18:56:45.150" Title="Can I have a user preference for ISO standard date format for all dates/times" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35368" CreationDate="2010-01-13T03:32:19.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current algorithm is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for anything newer than 2 days old, show relative time with the ISO tooltip (screenshot below)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;for anything older than 2 days, show the ISO date&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9750/datecursortooltiphover.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T03:32:19.967" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35340" CreationDate="2010-01-13T04:08:51.163" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(@Jeff) No, you created a list differently than how the OP described it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...unordered list in the question... I changed the first list item from a '-' to '1.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; 1. ichi&#xA; - ni&#xA; - san&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks in the preview like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ichi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ni&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;san&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is rendered finally like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ichi&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ni&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;san&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:08:51.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T04:52:30.750" Score="6" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least twice today I have seen an identical question quickly appear twice in a row. Has the question-ask UI been fiddled to be a little less responsive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I remember the days of Netscape on Usenet. New users would post the same thing always three times and then give up. You post something, and you expect it to appear. Post it again, and that's odd it still doesn't appear. Post it a third time, and you know Netscape is really broken.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T07:16:34.990" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T07:16:34.990" Title="Questions appearing twice in quick succession" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35391" CreationDate="2010-01-13T04:56:13.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't seem to be turning up under Newest Questions, at least for meta on this question (not that I ask questions frequently).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:56:13.923" />
  <row Id="35393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-18T02:09:00.957" Score="25" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently received my first down-vote and am still reeling from that stinging feeling.  Seems silly to care but for some reason I do.  What is more frustrating than getting a down vote is that whomever gave it didn't have to identify themselves, nor did they have to give a reason.  Does this make sense to anyone?  It doesn't to me.  If the purpose of a down-vote is to let people know your answer wasn't helpful, then perhaps it should be required that, at the very least, you have to give a brief explanation for why you think it was unhelpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for that stinging feeling, well I'll get over it I'm sure but now I will be much more reluctant to respond to a question in the future.  Is that what this site is really about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-05T20:24:16.980" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T11:20:25.880" Title="Should everyone have to defend a down-vote?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T02:13:43.817" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't take it personally; a down vote is not a reflection of you as a person or as a developer (unless &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; your answers get down votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131816" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="35395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T02:17:12.953" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are 2 issues here. If someone has asked a question, or added an answer that’s obviously off topic, unwarranted or just insulting, then a downvote is probably all that’s needed. But if there downvoting because they feel your answer is incorrect or not relevant, then it really would be polite and helpful to leave a comment to explain their reasoning, to help us learn and realise what was wrong.&#xA;I feel it also makes downvoting seem less painful if someone will explain their reasoning, rather than seeming like a personal attack (which it usually isn't!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T02:18:26.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just get over it. And admit that you've been wrong in some ways to some people. And maybe it just doesn't even have to matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take it as a chance to obtain the &quot;Peer pressure&quot; badge!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3055" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T02:19:24.227" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd &lt;strong&gt;prefer&lt;/strong&gt; it if people left a comment to say why; but apparently you can't &lt;strong&gt;force&lt;/strong&gt; people to leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-18T02:19:24.227" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T02:19:32.417" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the reason for the downvote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A downvote for an erroneous answer is perfectly OK but you should probably say so;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An incomplete but reasonable answer sometimes gets a downvote and I don't like that if the answer is given in good faith; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes you get what I call &quot;tactical downvoting&quot; where other people vote your answer down to put their answer higher up int he order.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think you should be able to see who downvoted a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; And just now I got 2 downvotes for pointing out a question is a duplicate and linking the duplicate question.  How does that work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T23:16:50.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A reason would help. Things can be edited to make them more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T23:27:34.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes downvotes are just expressions of opinion. But when they are assertions of fact (&quot;you are wrong&quot;) then an explanation would be helpful. Whether or not you are wrong, an explanation gives everyone the opportunity to interact and learn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one case I gave an answer regarding Views in SQL Server that I knew to be correct but quickly received 4 downvotes. One of the people casting a down vote took the time to explain why he thought I was wrong and a conversation developed that helped guide me in finding documentation to prove my point and to eventually receive the most points (he rescinded his down vote as well, I think).  Without this interaction, my answer would never have been fleshed out in the detail that I eventually gave it.  This was very useful for &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; interested in the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The others simply clicked and left...not so helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-01-18T23:36:08.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've also been downvoted a few times and I would have liked to have an explanation, so I can edit the post and remove whatever ambiguity that caused someone not to like what I said (or remove my post altogether if I was way wrong).&#xA;I think the pros would outweigh the cons, since I think that most regulars here wouldn't mind writing a sentence or two when they downvote posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-02-04T10:53:57.343" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a downvote for a totally acceptable answer. Lo and behold, on seeing it downvoted, other users upvoted it which in the end gave me a lot more reputation than I would've got had it not been downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130248" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-02-04T12:30:56.617" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that a downvote may not necessarily be based on good judgement of the downvoter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-02-04T12:35:37.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with you, I think everyone should have a pool of downvotes (which increases as long as you have earned more reputation) so people would give downvotes when really needed, and also downvotes should have an explanation (but be anonymous, otherwise people might revenge their downvote).&#xA;This way, IMO, voting would be more objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141061" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-02-04T12:47:39.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we aren't careful we will end allowing votes on whether downvotes (and up votes?) were correct.  Maybe ten downvotes on a down vote and it gets recinded?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My opinion:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Politeness says if you downvote you should leave a comment, if people don't then it isn't the end of the world.  I don't think SO should be changed becuase of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS.&#xA;I got downvoted a couple of times, with out any comment being left.  I won't do it to someone else now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131047" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-02-04T12:55:00.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no problem if one of my answers is downvoted for a good reason. But whenever this happens, I would like to know what the reason was. A short comment would be very helpful and would allow me to learn and improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I think it should be a &quot;best-practice&quot; to always comment a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several suggestion on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uservoice&lt;/a&gt;, that a small message should be displayed to the user who downvotes an answer (e.g. something like &quot;Please consider leaving a comment, why you downvoted...&quot;). But unfortunately, these suggestions were declined by the stackoverflow team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19635" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35393" CreationDate="2009-12-23T10:33:25.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel there should be followed one of these two solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;If someone downvote any answer, the downvoter should also &lt;strong&gt;mention the reason&lt;/strong&gt; for this. And there should also be voting on this &quot;reason comment&quot;. If voting on &quot;reason comment&quot; is not matched with the criteria (for example: 5 upvotes are required to approve), downvoting should be undo. And a good reason is always welcome by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;The names of DownVoters and UpVoters should be attached to the answer&lt;/strong&gt;. It is followed on facebook when someone click 'like'. I think there should be two links with each answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;for example:&#xA;&amp;lt;a href='likersListPopup.htm'&amp;gt;[10] People upVote this answer&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href='dislikersListPopup.htm'&amp;gt;[2] People downVote this answer&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I want to attack someone personally, I can create many &lt;strong&gt;fake accounts&lt;/strong&gt; to Downvote someone. So please atleast attach names. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141652" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T04:59:04.363" />
  <row Id="35408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35391" CreationDate="2010-01-13T05:25:33.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK -- looking at your specific example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2054344/show-jframe-but-not-show-title-bar-on-task-bar&quot;&gt;show Jframe but not show title bar on task bar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;tagged: [java] [sw]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Posted &lt;strong&gt;2010-01-13 04:11:02Z&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2054347/show-jframe-but-not-show-title-bar-on-task-bar&quot;&gt;show Jframe but not show title bar on task bar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;tagged: [java] [swing]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Posted: &lt;strong&gt;2010-01-13 04:11:48Z&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they were posted 46 seconds apart, with different tags, by the same user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like this to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user clicked &quot;Post Your Question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user realized the tag was wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user clicked back button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user corrected tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user clicked &quot;Post Your Question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This requires &gt; 10 rep since we block multiple questions for new users. This user does have 101 rep..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correct behavior of course would have been to click &quot;edit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T05:41:43.490" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T05:41:43.490" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T07:17:44.770" Score="-2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34017/adding-tags-to-answers-in-the-user-page&quot;&gt;Adding tags to Answers in the user page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to drive Joel crazy, would it be a useful enhancement to show on the user profile page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By each answer, show that subject tags for the question to which the answer belonged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have no control over the title of a question, so it can be hard for somebody browsing your profile to know to what exactly an answer related without clicking on each to read the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sense?  It's minty fresh, and wafer thin!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139902" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T07:24:11.837" ClosedDate="2010-01-13T09:06:52.630" Title="Votes? Tags on &quot;answers&quot; list on user profile?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35409" CreationDate="2010-01-13T07:24:11.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First there was the wall of text, then came the wall of tags. Why would you want to see hundreds upon hundreds of tags? Think of the clutter, think of the baby seals! Anyway, you really don't gain much information from that; you can already see what tags you're active on and just following the link to your answer will show you all the tags you can ever want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T07:24:11.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T08:40:40.303" Score="2" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10071/employer-blocks-jquery-from-google-doh&quot;&gt;Employer blocks jQuery from Google, DOH!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm certain that its a IE (7 and 8) have the same issue.  IT probably changed their configuration to break it on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, why would I get the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;Pre&gt;&#xA;Webpage error details&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MS-RTC LM 8)&#xA;Timestamp: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:15:39 UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: Object expected&#xA;Line: 1&#xA;Char: 141&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/master.js?v=6017&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/master.js?v=6017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: 'jQuery' is undefined&#xA;Line: 1&#xA;Char: 26376&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/question.js?v=6033&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/question.js?v=6033&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: Object expected&#xA;Line: 21&#xA;Char: 9&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: Object expected&#xA;Line: 50&#xA;Char: 9&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: Object expected&#xA;Line: 121&#xA;Char: 5&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: 'jQuery' is undefined&#xA;Line: 1&#xA;Char: 314&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/Js/tageditor.js?v=6016&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/mso/Js/tageditor.js?v=6016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: Object expected&#xA;Line: 152&#xA;Char: 1&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: 'jQuery' is undefined&#xA;Line: 1&#xA;Char: 314&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/Js/tageditor.js?v=6016&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/mso/Js/tageditor.js?v=6016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: 'jQuery' is undefined&#xA;Line: 14&#xA;Char: 1&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/Js/third-party/jquery.typewatch.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/mso/Js/third-party/jquery.typewatch.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message: Object expected&#xA;Line: 176&#xA;Char: 5&#xA;Code: 0&#xA;URI: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To top it all off, I get a spam Haiku trying to submit this.  Before you ask I have flushed internet history from my system (Cheers @CodingHorror.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130760" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T09:05:37.050" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T09:05:37.050" ClosedDate="2010-01-13T09:03:38.300" Title="Error on Page: Can't open Stackoverflow at work" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;error&gt;&lt;error-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35412" CreationDate="2010-01-13T08:47:40.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10071/employer-blocks-jquery-from-google-doh&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10071/employer-blocks-jquery-from-google-doh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T08:47:40.443" />
  <row Id="35414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T09:07:00.027" Score="4" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The profile page serves several purposes but these can be different depending on whether we are viewing our own profile page or that of another user. I think a lot of us use our own profile page to keep track of discussions we're having. We already know how we've described ourselves so the profile and gravatar section at the top is just distracting from the information we've come to the page for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty please with waffles on top can we find a way to hide (or make less prominent) the top section of the profile page and gravatar image when we are looking at our own profile? I'm quite happy to see all that gubbins when I'm on another user's profile page. In that case it adds something to the UX but I'm tired of seeing my own profile all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps others have ideas about the best way of implementing this or some variation of the idea that is more appealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T09:07:00.027" Title="Collapsible profile section on own profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" />
  <row Id="35415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T09:24:05.040" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2055307/delphi-how-to-print-a-pdf-without-showing-it/2055532#2055532&quot;&gt;answered a question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; where I pasted some Delphi code which was colouring fine in the Delphi editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end in the above linked answer, the source is formatted as string literals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141174" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T09:27:32.163" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T09:34:18.683" Title="Bug found in code formatting of Delphi or Pascal code" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35415" CreationDate="2010-01-13T09:34:18.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following line in your code block is probably where it's failing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; sName := r.ReadString('');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/prettify&quot;&gt;Prettify&lt;/a&gt; might be spotting the double single quotes in there as string delimiters, hence leaving the rest of the code coloured as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T09:34:18.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T10:10:11.970" Score="2" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following errors (ed: deleted, identical &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35412/error-on-page-cant-open-stackoverflow-at-work-closed&quot;&gt;error spam from previous question&lt;/a&gt; elided) are received on the question edit page, and when I attempt to submit said question in IE I get a spam haiku. Stack Overflow is broken for me in IE because &lt;strong&gt;the Stack Overflow Google jQuery reference&lt;/strong&gt; at ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. fails to load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can open the jQuery URL directly in IE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can open and access Stack Overflow in Firefox OK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need help correcting the security or privacy settings of IE 8 to get my SO working again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What privacy or security settings in IE8 would cause the jQuery reference in Stack Overflow ( &lt;code&gt;http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js&lt;/code&gt; ) from loading?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: More info.&#xA;I have cleared all caches and I have also tried lowering privacy settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Work have recently installed Mcaffee Host intrusion protection which seems to be doing firewall and security related things.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130760" LastEditorUserId="130760" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T22:06:51.417" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T22:06:51.417" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T23:02:19.950" Title="Security or Privacy settings in IE7/8 are wrong, Can't use Stackoverflow + receiving Haiku" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;error&gt;&lt;internet-explorer&gt;&lt;jquery&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="35419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35418" CreationDate="2010-01-13T10:32:02.607" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already told you -- the problem is that the web browser is refusing to load jQuery from Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether it is your IT department or bad IE settings, the result is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View source on the page to see the URL to the JQuery dependency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: can you reset your IE8 settings to default? I have no idea which setting could be responsible, but it'd have to be something along the lines of &quot;don't load any scripts except those that originate from the target domain.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T10:40:09.937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T10:40:09.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35423" CreationDate="2010-01-13T10:53:37.957" Score="20" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30902/show-how-much-statistics-left-until-badge-can-be-earned&quot;&gt;Show How Much Statistics Left Until Badge Can Be Earned&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like a new tab in my profile with different statistics, for example, what is my question/answer vote ratio, how many consecutive days have I come to the site, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent is to have more visibility as to how far am I from the badges related to those numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted rate could also be listed here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What else would you like to see? Do you think it's a good idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:32:40.493" ClosedDate="2010-01-13T13:54:31.457" Title="Private statistics page for users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10408" CreationDate="2010-01-13T10:59:49.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe there should be a &lt;strong&gt;total thread votes&lt;/strong&gt; number, in which everything is added. Then you would be able to sort threads by their accumulated votes in the question + N answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T10:59:49.097" />
  <row Id="35423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35421" CreationDate="2010-01-13T11:03:27.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is odd... there statistics aren't huge motivating factors for me, but these (and many like it) are raised frequently on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm happy with it just as it is - but I guess Jeff and the team have some &quot;fun&quot; calls to make, balancing what frequent users want, vs what is &lt;em&gt;needed&lt;/em&gt; to provide a good tech site, get questions / new users / etc. I wonder if scrutinising lots of stats like this isn't the wrong way to go (or DIY from the data dump), and a slippery slope to lots of &quot;just one more&quot; numbers that don't in any way improve the questions or answers on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(to balance that though, I suspect I've voted for more questions than answers lately, ahem)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T11:03:27.793" />
  <row Id="35424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10408" CreationDate="2010-01-13T11:28:07.377" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a factor in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11602/what-formula-should-be-used-to-determine-hot-questions&quot;&gt;the hotness calculation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T11:28:07.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35426" CreationDate="2010-01-13T11:28:12.993" Score="8" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow has this list to show what power you have given your score. Has it always been the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   15  Vote up&#xA;   15  Flag offensive&#xA;   50  Leave comments†&#xA;  100  Vote down (costs 1 rep)&#xA;  100  Edit community wiki posts&#xA;  200  Reduced advertising&#xA;  250  Vote to close or reopen your questions&#xA;  250  Create new tags&#xA;  500  Retag questions&#xA; 1000  Show total up and down vote counts&#xA; 2000  Edit other people's posts&#xA; 3000  Vote to close or reopen any questions&#xA;10000  Vote to delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, did the early users with the Beta badge have some benefit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138970" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T19:32:17.920" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T19:32:17.920" Title="Has the Stackoverflow &quot;score needed to power&quot; always been the same?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35425" CreationDate="2010-01-13T11:33:07.897" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, that list has changed over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the ability to show total up and down vote counts is a relatively new feature). Also, there used to be an additional capability at 5000 points to delete comments from a post you own, but that ability was removed (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/110774-set-a-limit-on-how-fast-users-can-delete-comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reasonable, though imperfect way of seeing changes to that list is to look at the revision history of the FAQ topic on reputation, available &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/7238/list&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or the original post at stackoverflow, for which the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/130656/list&quot;&gt;revision list&lt;/a&gt; is probably only available to 10K users, since it's been migrated (and therefore appears deleted on stackoverflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T11:33:07.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35425" CreationDate="2010-01-13T11:37:27.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it varies between sites; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;on SU&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;100    Create new tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And meta is just different again (in every way!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T11:37:27.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35425" CreationDate="2010-01-13T11:40:30.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK there's no extra benefit from being a Beta user other than the badge and the extra time to accumulate reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was more leeway on the sort of questions that were acceptable in the early days of the site so more subjective and &quot;fun&quot; questions were allowed which might have meant that reputation was &quot;easier&quot; to gain in the early days too - but that would only have a marginal now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T11:40:30.157" />
  <row Id="35429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T11:58:17.090" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each time right after I add a new tag to &quot;ignored tags&quot; or &quot;interesting tags&quot; on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions&lt;/a&gt; page, all the questions for previously ignored tags reappear. I have to hit F5 to fix the filtering again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it rather tiresome to build up a set of &quot;ignored tags&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seen in SO SVN revision 6035, Firefox 3.5.7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130083" LastEditorUserId="130083" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T12:11:17.590" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T15:19:25.973" Title="Questions not filtered correctly after marking a tag as &quot;ignored&quot; or &quot;interesting&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35429" CreationDate="2010-01-13T12:20:02.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try adding tags on your profile page, rather than the questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T12:20:02.313" />
  <row Id="35431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T12:41:00.690" Score="40" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I noticed what I thought was a suspicious voting pattern on a question.  I flagged the question for moderator attention and noticed that most of the set of downvotes on the question (all but one had been downvoted) disappeared.  Presumably this is because a moderator intervened, but it could also be because a strategic downvoter was simply successful and got their vote changed for most questions just under the wire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases such as this -- where a moderator takes an action in response to a flag or declines to take such an action in response to a flag -- it would be nice to get some feedback to that effect.  If I sent an email to the SO team, I get a response.  It would be nice if a moderator could add a one sentence notification a la the badge/new response notifications that I would see at some point when navigating the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: it need not be a custom message.  A simple: &quot;A moderator has reviewed and accepted/declined your request&quot; would be sufficient though more info would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T22:35:13.450" Title="Provide a way for moderators to respond to the person who flags for moderator attention" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;feedback&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:05:02.863" Score="72" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A late entry... the geek pride is in getting the reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(besides - I'd &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; to deliver this to one of the &quot;your text banner&quot; t-shirt printers and watch them go crazy trying to figure it out ;-p)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5772/tshirttemplate.png&quot; alt=&quot;He comes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T13:39:24.377" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:39:24.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-13T13:05:02.863" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="35433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:05:34.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a T-shirt showing off free-hand circle drawings.  I'll see if I can photoshop something later this morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:05:34.080" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-13T13:05:34.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35451" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:11:53.597" Score="1" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2046092/responsible-disclosure-and-security-announcements-about-a-free-open-source-proj&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2046092/responsible-disclosure-and-security-announcements-about-a-free-open-source-proj&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, how do I understand why my question was closed (while the other related but not similar questions were not)? Why is my question not programming related, when it's something only a programmer doing a code review could have come across, and only a programmer could fix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In long, I did a code review of portions of an open source project and found that the code contained security holes which would allow read and potentially even write access to the entire disk through its web server process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did my research, including links to three related but not relevant SO questions. They were people who did security probing of remote sites, without permission, whereas I downloaded the source for review, and did my testing on a server running on my local machine. Their questions contained no programming material, and likely describe illegal activities, but are not marked a &quot;[closed] not programming related.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also linked to two documents on security reporting, which are more directed to companies and not small open source projects. I asked specific questions: I wanted to know if these documents were relevant, if I had been doing the right approach, and if I should give special leeway to the projects for being small and open-source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those circumstances are based on a code review, which requires understanding programming. I could not give details of those problems, including even what the project is, because that would be inappropriate given the context of the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Five people considered the question as not programming related. I read the FAQ on &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19126/how-do-you-challenge-the-closing-of-one-of-your-questions&quot;&gt;how to challenge the closing of one of my questions&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which suggests looking for comments on why it was closed. I found nothing. I've read &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a &quot;closed&quot; question in SO?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and again I can't figure out what I did wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone here please explain what's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141763" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T15:42:58.010" Title="Why was my SO question about security reporting after a code review &quot;[closed] not programming related&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35431" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:13:17.993" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is something complex / significant going on, then we might send an e-mail (assuming you have one registered), but in the majority of flags it is a simple tweak. Personally I wouldn't want to add any overhead to that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of suspicious voting; we don't actually have the ability to change people's votes. I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; that what happened is that the automated script spotted the votes and cancelled them, and then the moderator went in, saw nothing amiss, and dismissed the flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, maybe it was Jeff/the team who actioned that one (they have godlike unlimited power over all of, er, SOFU).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to provide on-site feedback is certainly an interesting option, but it has been raised (and dismissed) previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:13:17.993" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35421" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:32:40.493" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love the idea of more detailed usage statistics. I can't help it. Some people play flash games for days to earn a gazillion worthless points and advance hundreds of XP levels; collect amulets, rings, crystals, potions to gain extra skill multipliers and what not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess there's something in the human nature to &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; statistics. Good statistics are a proof of a person's awesomeness, right? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't waste much time playing games, but when I do waste time on SO (which I sometimes really do), then I'd like to see that I am awesome. Rep points are fine. Badges are nice. Wouldn't mind having a personal stats page available to bask in my SO &quot;accomplishments&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(to make matters clear, I certainly do see Marc Gravell's point &quot;[...] that don't in any way improve the questions or answers on the site&quot;. I can only agree with that. But, hey, still...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140044" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:32:40.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35434" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:46:22.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In matters like this, the community decides. This is democracy (of a sort - one that only allows certain people - those with a sufficiently high reputation - to vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, it seems like a reasonable question to me, so I've voted to re-open it, by posting here on Meta, you may find other people do similarly (and others may think the question's totally inappropriate for SO and vote to close it, if it ever gets re-opened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, no one here, aside from those who voted to close, can reasonably speak as to why the most common reason for voting to close the question was that it wasn't programming related (note that the fact it was closed as &quot;Not Programming Related&quot; doesn't mean all 5 closers chose that as their reason for closing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:46:22.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35434" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:46:27.917" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A programming question is something like, &quot;How do I move the turtle in logo&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A non-programming question is something like, &quot;How do I responsibly disclose security issues with the turtle in logo?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is for programming and software design questions. It's not about the processes that surround programming and software design, morality, project management, people management, Batman, lasers or donuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question was closed because it's not a programming question; it's a morality/responsibility/management question of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd really like is for you to link to these other questions you've found that lead you to believe that questions of this sort are allowed to exist unclosed so that I can vote to close them with immediate ruthless rage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:46:27.917" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="35440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21314" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:48:08.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most voted &quot;must have&quot; questions from SuperUser: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1241/what-are-some-must-have-windows-programs&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/1241/what-are-some-must-have-windows-programs&lt;/a&gt; is now illustrating why such thing doesn't match to the SOFU sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, it works good for the first two pages, and you have a list of useful software. But with now soon 10 pages, you realize that it's not working anymore. It is really hard to know what was already said or not, and either way, new additions will remain lost at the end, because only a few people will both to look at all pages and vote. Most will see the first page, see their usual programs, eventually add to their scores, but it doesn't matter. People claimed such questions provide a dynamic and evolving list, but this is not true. All you have is a page of most useful software, which won't move anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has become a perfect illustration of the reason why such questions are not working on SOFU sites. Even a successful one like that is bound to be only a page of preferred programs, then regular bumps with programs which will never get votes, due to the fact that these sites are not really appropriate for answers on several pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:48:08.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35368" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:59:34.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're using Firefox there's also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12635/greasemonkey-script-to-display-absolute-timestamps-in-local-time&quot;&gt;a GreaseMonkey script that does this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: the script has two configuration options, you will have to edit them to get the behavior you want. It's documented on the question I linked above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:59:34.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2010-01-13T13:59:36.750" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;StackOverflow&quot; on front&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Fear the Neckbeard&quot; on back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Epic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T13:59:36.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-13T13:59:36.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35446" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:04:22.510" Score="42" ViewCount="526" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know that exhibit that you'd see at the children's science museum?  It's a roundish podium thing and you'd press a button.  This would start a clock.  You were supposed to estimate when a minute passes and then press the button again.  The podium would light up to show a clock face and let you know how far off you were. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me, I'd always be at 20 seconds.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It made me sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Playing this game with my comments also makes me sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you turn the lights on in the podium so we can see how long until that 30 seconds has elapsed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T22:56:00.480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T01:48:02.080" Title="If I can't comment for 30 more seconds, why is the Add Comment button enabled?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="35445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35434" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:11:16.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is designed to find definitive, correct answers to questions. Your question was fundamentally about ethics. Even though you can make a case that you were asking about programming-related ethics, your question can not have a correct answer and requires extended discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that&#xA;  are subjective, argumentative, or&#xA;  require extended discussion. This is&#xA;  not a discussion board, this is a&#xA;  place for questions that can be&#xA;  answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T14:11:16.520" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:18:35.333" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would need to be some kind of indication that the button will re-enabled in 30 seconds (it doesn't necessarily have to be a countdown). Otherwise, it would be unclear why the button is sometimes available and sometimes not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T14:18:35.333" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="35447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35448" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:25:50.010" Score="2" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/921921/a-read-only-checkbox-in-c-wpf/922141#922141&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer, the second code block cuts off half way through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click to edit the answer, the full code block (and a third one) is there, and displays fully as expected in preview pane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T14:41:59.897" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T14:41:59.897" Title="Preview displays as expected, but actual post cuts text out" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35447" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:31:20.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better? There was a truncation issue a while ago, where the pre-generated html is truncated (but the underlying markdown isn't). I just used edit/save to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T14:31:20.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35434" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:43:09.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kind of agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35434/why-was-my-so-question-about-security-reporting-after-a-code-review-closed-not/35451#35451&quot;&gt;George Stocker's comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually an OK mostly-programming-related question, but there's &lt;strong&gt;way too much exposition&lt;/strong&gt;. You could cut it down by 50% without even breaking a sweat, and concentrate on the key points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I found a security vulnerability in some code that's internet facing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I mailed the project leads but have gotten no response&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long should I wait for a response, until I post this security vulnerability on a public mailing list so we can ensure that it gets fixed for all the poor souls using this code one way or the other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in doubt, always write less. Omit needless words, etc, etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T14:47:58.713" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T14:47:58.713" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:44:50.187" Score="-24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is like the &quot;let's hide the cookie jar&quot; method of going on a diet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't address the root problem. Might even make it worse!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T21:01:46.887" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T21:01:46.887" CommentCount="24" />
  <row Id="35451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35434" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:47:24.783" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question suffered from a few issues: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too Long; Didn't Read (&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its formatting was skewed (hard to follow your question) and it contained rant-esque words, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a discussion question - it can't really be 'answered' in any definitive sense. That said, if you could edit your question to make it palatable, I'd consider voting to re-open.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My &quot;Rule of Thumb&quot; for editing: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remove everything you can and still have the question make sense. Barring that, format it so that people will actually be able to follow it, despite its length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, your original post looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MJ7SHaJorfU/S03pmpwG93I/AAAAAAAAAPI/gi8sYWhAwBs/s400/rev1.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;Original Post&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited it to look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/_MJ7SHaJorfU/S03pmfpFuII/AAAAAAAAAPE/Ymniy0BQ-Xc/s400/new.png&quot; alt=&quot;New Revision&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Moved original comment to answer to allow for linking.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T15:42:58.010" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T15:42:58.010" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="35452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2010-01-13T14:57:38.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like described by Jon B, you can't deactivate the button without explaining why, because it wouldn't be obvious to the average user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, explaining why a comment button is deactivated for 30 sec really seem like pure noise to me, for most of users who post only one comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 30 sec limitation is an issue mostly for the people on Meta, where things are often turning into discussion, and in general for a minority of persons. Don't forget that most of people come here to just ask their question, or answer to one, and commenting is far from being something they do on a regular basis. At least not in the &quot;I post more than one comment in 30 seconds&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current behavior is frustrating for people spending time on meta, but it actually is the less annoying to a more &quot;average&quot; user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T14:57:38.720" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35455" CreationDate="2010-01-13T15:01:24.517" Score="8" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was searching Google for a question about JavaScript string byte length and opened some of the results in a bunch of tabs without looking at the URLs. One of the pages was an Experts-Exchange question that was exactly what I was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In my defense, I had searched Stack Overflow earlier and hadn't found a good enough answer, and was getting ready to ask the question myself, but thought I'd do some more Google digging first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I scrolled down to the bottom of the page to actually see the answers, and what do I find?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best answer on Experts Exchange... was a link to a question on Stack Overflow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haha. I literally lolled for a few seconds and then came here to share this wonderful find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/JavaScript/Q_20741247.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on EE directly&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=How+can+I+find+byte+value+of+a+string+with+javascript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;via Google&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:2Rey9flZpkMJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/JavaScript/Q_20741247.html+Javascript+string+byte+length&amp;amp;client=opera&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Google cache version&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scroll down to the very last answer posted by andrejonker. Classic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130195" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T15:27:25.673" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T16:36:42.970" Title="Funny observation about Experts-Exchange and Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;experts-exchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35453" CreationDate="2010-01-13T15:09:11.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few of those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experts-Exchange may be winning the battle of top results, but we're winning the war:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.buddycremeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/braveheart.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;ARE YOU READY FOR A WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T15:28:11.990" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T15:28:11.990" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35453" CreationDate="2010-01-13T15:31:45.493" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If EE can get people to pay for links to SO, then kudos to them. As they say, there's one born every minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The silver lining is that EE visitors will discover a better resource. Sadly, however, we cannot help them change back to their original gender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T15:31:45.493" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2010-01-13T15:33:34.350" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to think that this would be a good thing, but now that you can edit comments my desire for it is gone.  The only time I was running into the 30 second timer was when I botched a comment, deleted it, and then tried to repost it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T15:33:34.350" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35453" CreationDate="2010-01-13T16:36:42.970" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the question is asking how to find the &lt;em&gt;byte value&lt;/em&gt; of a string, or &lt;em&gt;how many&lt;/em&gt; bytes it contains.  Either way, the &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No can do in JavaScript, it's a highlevel language it's not C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is the real &quot;WTF?&quot; here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T16:36:42.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T16:41:24.630" Score="7" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;When adding tags to a question since enter is the (or atleast an) auto complete key for the inline drop down list if the list isn't visible the enter key will cause the form submit and post the question. This behavior is counterintuitive and more than once has caused me to post my question prior to being finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134973" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T00:21:05.167" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T15:31:04.820" Title="Pressing enter in tags field can inadvertently submit question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35458" CreationDate="2010-01-13T16:46:00.313" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use this all the time... When I hit &quot;enter&quot; in a form field (with the exception of multi-line input fields), I &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; it to submit the form - saves all that effort tabbing to the &quot;submit&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The counter-intuitive bit for me is when the drop-down shows up at odd times and enter &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; submit the form...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; When I originally wrote this, hitting &lt;kbd&gt;Tab&lt;/kbd&gt; would complete the tag name being typed. You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; use enter for this, but tab worked, so why bother... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tab doesn't work anymore. So enter does two things, and double-tapping might not do what you expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-16T15:31:04.820" LastActivityDate="2011-08-16T15:31:04.820" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35463" CreationDate="2010-01-13T16:54:57.173" Score="8" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current text is: &quot;Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should read &quot;Voted on 600 &lt;strong&gt;posts&lt;/strong&gt; and 25% or more of total votes are on questions&quot;, which is what I believe was meant (understanding post as &quot;question or answer&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T17:00:45.990" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:00:45.990" Title="Electorate legend" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;&lt;text&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35462" CreationDate="2010-01-13T16:56:28.590" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it means what it says. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34349/clarify-electorate-badge-wording&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34349/clarify-electorate-badge-wording&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T16:56:28.590" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35431" CreationDate="2010-01-13T17:16:09.293" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see the moderator's points about this be only occasionally useful, and a pain to install and test, and rarely have cause to desire it myself, so low priority. But...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can suggest a mechanism that is not to intrusive: treat moderator comments as formal comments for the purpose of listing in the recent activity pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no one but the intended recipient can see them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the recipient gets the colored envelope notification that they have a message&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;after a while they are not accessible any more, allowing the database to be cleaned if this is desired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:16:09.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35476" CreationDate="2010-01-13T17:24:49.523" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to simply &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25059&quot;&gt;toggling public CV visibility&lt;/a&gt;, the CV publish page also has a feature allowing a user to &quot;share your CV using this temporary access link&quot; where &quot;access link&quot; is a hyperlink to a page that shows the CV by routing to it with some sort of hash in the url like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/view/&amp;lt;some-sort-of-hash-here&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the options are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Publish the CV publicly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do not publish the CV publicly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sort of publish the CV publicly with this temporary link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the third option is cool. I could imagine somebody not wanting to publish a CV to the world at large, but wanting to send it to some prospective employer that is not subscribed to the employer search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: &lt;strong&gt;how long is the temporary access link active?&lt;/strong&gt; Or maybe the question should be &lt;strong&gt;how do I deactivate a temporary access link?&lt;/strong&gt; Or perhaps even &lt;strong&gt;do I only get one temporary access link?&lt;/strong&gt; (I've clicked on it a few times and the hash is always the same).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13940" LastEditorUserId="13940" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-15T17:56:01.997" LastActivityDate="2010-11-15T17:56:01.997" Title="How temporary is the CV temporary access link on careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;public-cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35475" CreationDate="2010-01-13T17:32:29.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the third option is cool. I could image somebody not wanting to publish a CV to the world at large, but wanting to send it to some prospective employer that is not subscribed to the employer search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that is exactly what it is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mouseover the link, the tooltip will tell you the duration it is good for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The links are valid for 4 days.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:32:29.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35431" CreationDate="2010-01-13T17:34:59.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need that level of feedback, you should send an email to the address at the bottom of every web page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just depends what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:34:59.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35431" CreationDate="2010-01-13T17:35:51.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely don't like this. Whether we deal with 10 or 100 a flags is irrelevant. By adding this feature the &lt;strong&gt;expectation&lt;/strong&gt; is going to be created that moderators need to provide feedback, or even worse, get jumped on for not doing anything with a flag, which also happens sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am with Mark on this one, I will e-mail a user if he has an e-mail available if required, and to be honest, very rarely do I see replies coming back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will open a can of worms, because once we can respond to flags, the next complaint and feature request will be be the ability to have a messaging system because users can't respond to moderator messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:35:51.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2010-01-13T17:38:35.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I agree, but not in &lt;s&gt;so many words&lt;/s&gt; quite the same spirit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no problem with people copying and pasting relevant answers from Google/Wikipedia. If my Googling skills are better than yours, you tried and failed, and I can provide you with help through a link or reference to another article, then I think that's fine, so long as the OP gets the answer to the question they asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a HUGE amount of people casting more downvotes than upvotes, the ratio that I've seen is about +10:-1 for most normal users that I've come in contact with. I have seen several though who wage a personal war, either for a particular product (example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9787/david-w-fenton&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/9787/david-w-fenton&lt;/a&gt;) or more often for reputation. These people tend to have significantly higher downvote to upvote ratios than regular users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see the cost and penalty for receiving/giving a downvote as frivolous and insignificant. The penalty for being downvoted is 1/6th the reward for being upvoted. This means that if I post something useful anything more than 1 out of 6 times, then my reputation grows, despite the fact that most of the answers I post are wrong, or the questions I post are off-topic or inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as a badge goes, I think it's kind of pointless to reward people for doing something that they just SHOULD do anyway, but it might motivate people to stay reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposed solutions would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't allow people to vote on answers on questions to which they have also posted an answer.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would prevent users from doing &quot;tactical downvoting&quot;, where they downvote all other users' answers in order to position their answer at the top of the list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would also prevent biased influence from other contributors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enforce a ratio of downvotes to upvotes by either:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preventing a user from passing an imposed limit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Increasing the penalty for passing a set limit (penalty of -5 reputation instead of -1).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that users should ever be penalized or rewarded for having more answers than questions, or more questions than answers. I would hope that if I were a beginning programmer that I could use a site like this to improve my abilities. I would also hope that there were some &quot;gurus&quot; out there that sat on here all day and answered my newbie questions... and yes, I said &quot;newbie&quot;, we've all been there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing that I think would help people who are asking questions to choose appropriate answers would be to be able to see the posts which their answering users had voted down and up. In some of the more controversial areas, this would make it very easy to distinguish an extremely biased answer from an answer that comes from just a simple user with some (or a lot of) experience in dealing with the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm fully aware that management is fairly well set against it, but I still agree that casting a downvote should either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require an explanation in a comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Require an upvote to an already posted comment.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This method makes the downvoter more &quot;anonymous&quot; while still explaining to the poster why they were downvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This method would also ensure that at least one comment had been posted as to why the answer/question had been voted down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, I've been utilizing this website for as long as I've known of it's existence, and I think it's a wonderful tool. I think that the management team has the right idea in mind, and that their hearts are in the right place. I just think there's some optimizations that could definitely be considered when it comes to the scoring and moderation model on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As an afterthought, I also don't think that reputation should be earned or lost through asking questions. Asking questions typically means you are trying to learn something, and my belief is that a person should neither be penalized for trying to learn, or rewarded for &quot;asking good questions&quot;... I've seen a lot of very appropriate questions downvoted because the users' English skills were low or their question contained code that was poorly formatted, and I've seen a lot of questions upvoted because the user asked a question on a more controversial topic that got more views and attention. A question doesn't truly benefit the community, no matter how well it's worded, an answer does. This is the role of those with moderation tools to assist other users by editing/rewording/formatting questions and by closing/migrating questions that are off-topic or inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139469" LastEditorUserId="139469" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T17:54:55.443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:54:55.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2266" CreationDate="2010-01-13T17:57:58.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;should not one downvote roughly as many questions/answers as one upvotes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2915/adam-davis&quot;&gt;Nah&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T17:57:58.027" />
  <row Id="35488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35542" CreationDate="2010-01-13T18:06:17.883" Score="27" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you click to fetch vote counts too quickly you get the message &quot;You may only fetch vote counts once every second&quot;. You actually have to wait 30 seconds before you can fetch another count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note that this only applies to users with &gt;= 1000 rep)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T01:11:25.597" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T01:17:03.867" Title="&quot;You may only fetch vote counts once every second&quot; is really set for 30 seconds" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="35490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T18:09:58.810" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be nice in many cases to link directly to every section in a user page one wants to point out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, in discussions on upvote/downvote ratios, users that are outliers are sometimes called out, and it would be nice to have a link such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2915/adam-davis#votes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2915/adam-davis#votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would go directly to the upvote/downvote section.  Sections that would be useful are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;info&lt;br&gt;&#xA;questions (already named)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;answers (already named)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;votes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;tags&lt;br&gt;&#xA;badges  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:14:44.333" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:14:44.333" Title="Add anchors to the user pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;anchor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4665" CreationDate="2010-01-13T18:11:11.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that votes to answers is a very relative thing. The one thing I see here is possible the reverse. I think that a lot of the time when I ask questions, I get too many answers. One might think this is not possible, but I've asked a question and get the same answer four times, sometimes copy and pasted from a previous answer. The problem lies in the fact that people looking through unanswered questions will leave it alone because it's already got four possible answers and they assume that the person asking the question just hasn't marked the answer as an answer. I somewhat agree with md5sum in that downvoting can really be abused here. I knew a guy who got angry at another guy and went on a spree and downvoted every one of the other guy's answers. There should be some point of limitation as to the number of times one person can downvote another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T18:11:11.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35488" CreationDate="2010-01-13T18:12:38.960" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this same behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T18:12:38.960" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="35494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T19:33:04.547" Score="-1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7603/the-ability-to-hide-questions&quot;&gt;The Ability to Hide Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions that I am generally not interested in viewing either because I don't know anything about what they're discussing or don't have an interest in it. This gets cluttered after a while when you're searching for questions that are interesting to you and you keep getting the same ones over and over again. I think a useful feature would be something like Facebook's &quot;Hide&quot; functionality where you can just click a box or something and it will effectively hide the question from you. It would be question-centric instead of based on tags, since some questions that have tags you're interested in just aren't interesting to you (me, ha).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132792" LastEditorUserId="132792" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T21:53:50.310" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T21:53:50.310" ClosedDate="2010-01-13T20:54:19.837" Title="Hide Questions Not Interested In" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35494" CreationDate="2010-01-13T19:47:31.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, you want to have a per-user, per-question, persistent hide--show function?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow has near half a million questions right now, and 125,000ish registered users if I calculate right. Call it 10^11 boolean flags, and will only get worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it will be slow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T19:47:31.783" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35550" CreationDate="2010-01-13T19:55:06.667" Score="33" ViewCount="693" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;search for stackoverflow on google&lt;/a&gt; you get the following screen&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/5p0r5z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious what special abilities Tom and Ngu have to get on the Google search? I'd expect the top users to appear there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T04:11:04.700" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T12:43:34.523" Title="Tom Ritter, Ngu Soon Hui what is your secret?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;pagerank&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="35498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2010-01-13T20:03:11.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why award rep (positive OR negative) for questions? QUESTIONS don't benefit the community unless they are ANSWERED. Therefore, arguably, the value isn't added by the question, but by the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139469" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T20:03:11.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36831" CreationDate="2010-01-13T20:20:13.223" Score="56" ViewCount="643" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the title says it all. Recently, Jeff was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35443/if-i-cant-comment-for-30-more-seconds-why-is-the-add-comment-button-enabled/35450#35450&quot;&gt;inadvertently alerted&lt;/a&gt; to the fact that the rate limit on comments was a flat 30 seconds, and that users could button-mash their way to success. Apparently, this was not the original intent; the original intent was to reset the timer every click, so that you could potentially end up waiting multiple minutes before being able to post a comment, if you were unfortunate enough to mistime and be off by a few seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, this is likely more of an issue on Meta than it is on the other sites, as Meta tends to encourage far more discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change appears to have been implemented very quickly (quickly enough that Jeff was able to edit his comment to indicate that it was complete -- admittedly, he is God as far as the database is concerned, so he may not be constrained by the 5 minute window). From the outside looking in, there is coincidentally a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35488/you-may-only-fetch-vote-counts-once-every-second-is-really-set-for-30-seconds&quot;&gt;new bug with rate limiting vote count fetches&lt;/a&gt; that seems to have popped up in the timeframe for this change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm proposing that this change solves a problem which simply doesn't exist. While it's understood that comments are going to be second-class citizens, I think Jon B voiced the community's opinion quite effectively when he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Jeff - that's really lousy. If I try&#xA;  to post as late as 29 seconds after my&#xA;  last post, you're not just punishing&#xA;  me, you're wasting my time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one thing to make us wait 30 seconds. I'm OK with that. It's quite another to make the counter reset like some warped game show from Hell, such that trying to post a comment if you're a fast typist (such as I am) becomes a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sisyphean task&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T17:10:51.710" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T08:52:55.277" Title="Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="35502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35501" CreationDate="2010-01-13T20:26:55.487" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, return to a flat 30 seconds wait and just &lt;strong&gt;disable the damn button&lt;/strong&gt; during that period so button mashing cannot occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Mea culpa, I hadn't read the original link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: Why would disabling the button &lt;strong&gt;encourage&lt;/strong&gt; videogame like behavior? If you wish, incresae the limit to 45 or 50 seconds but leave the button disabled. This exponential increase makes no sense at all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 3: I personally doubt that disabling the button (done right) would confuse much, but I'd need an usability test to prove it (just like the other side of the argument.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 4: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35501/please-return-the-comment-rate-limit-to-a-flat-30-seconds/35552#35552&quot;&gt;Jeff says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it so unreasonable to ask that&#xA;  people take 15 seconds to read,&#xA;  process, and think about what they're&#xA;  about to type before they post comment #2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, that is not unreasonable. What is unreasonable is that there is no way to know what the server will be doing and that you are effectively wasting people's time without giving a single warning or hint. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess nobody disagrees with the goal trying to motivate people to think about their comments and to preferably write only one comment. The disagreement is about the mechanism to achieve that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T07:00:06.497" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T07:00:06.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35497" CreationDate="2010-01-13T20:27:36.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe there are more links from outside the stackoverflow domain pointing to their profiles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T20:27:36.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35501" CreationDate="2010-01-13T20:44:37.473" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Others have suggested that disabling the button entirely (either not rendering it at all, or simply changing it so clicking does nothing) will be confusing to a lot of users and likely result in a lot more meta questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35443/if-i-cant-comment-for-30-more-seconds-why-is-the-add-comment-button-enabled/35450#35450&quot;&gt;in a comment on the previous post&lt;/a&gt;, instead of removing the button, why not add a tooltip which shows the number of seconds remaining? Currently the only way to check if the submit will work is to try, so why not tell me right when I need to know (when I move to click on the button)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with Mr. Rudy that the new behaviour is insane. It will likely result in the defenestration of a keyboard before the week is out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T20:44:37.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35521" CreationDate="2010-01-13T21:39:38.720" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whats happened with my Reputation score I had 1239 i went to next question and it was 1219. &#xA;Can some one explain whats going on? Im  very angry..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138205" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T22:11:45.010" Title="What is with my Reputation? I had 1239 in one second it was down to 1219" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35512" CreationDate="2010-01-13T21:41:58.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably got hit with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7954/how-often-is-reputation-recalculated&quot;&gt;Rep Recalc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133611" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T21:41:58.497" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34919" CreationDate="2010-01-13T21:47:49.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to cherry pick an example.  I looked at your most viewed question where you asked about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81451/upload-files-in-google-app-engine&quot;&gt;uploading files&lt;/a&gt;, and it received some great answers.  You even commented on one of them &quot;Thanks! Seem to be exactly what I wanted&quot;.  Then didn't accept it.  Rather than worry about what % is correct, I'd suggest reviewing those asked questions and evaluating whether any answer is correct.  Clearly, you didn't fulfill your responsibility with that question.  Perhaps, there are more like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130387" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T21:47:49.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35512" CreationDate="2010-01-13T22:00:54.897" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe two people that did upvote you changed their opinion and took their votes back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T22:00:54.897" />
  <row Id="35520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35522" CreationDate="2010-01-13T22:05:36.570" Score="6" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that questions migrated from another site are answered less, and seem to never end up with an accepted answer.  This is partly because the person who started the question may not follow the question over to the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to make migrated questions far less appealing to answer than non-migrated ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea how to make them more attractive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141796" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T15:02:00.223" Title="Migrated question popularity" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35512" CreationDate="2010-01-13T22:11:45.010" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're currently 1223. IMO the most likely answer is that somebody unaccepted an answer of yours (i.e. it had previously been accepted, but now perhaps an &lt;em&gt;even better&lt;/em&gt; answer has arrived), which would account for -15, and perhaps a downvote (&lt;strong&gt;from&lt;/strong&gt; you) for the last -1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked the log for the last month, and there's no manual recalc. It could also have been the automated suspicious voting script, but that currently doesn't leave many tracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ultimately, it is ~20 rep...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T22:11:45.010" />
  <row Id="35522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35520" CreationDate="2010-01-13T22:16:21.817" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask them on the right site in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, if we reset the question votes and cleared the comments, then they'd be treated like a real question (with bad tags), and get more play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T22:16:21.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35520" CreationDate="2010-01-13T22:29:20.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm often fooled by the Community user as being the last to have changed the question. To me, that user makes migrated questions look just like old unanswered questions that have been randomly poked up to the front page (as to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6981/why-does-a-question-appear-as-modified-by-the-community-user/&quot;&gt;get some attention&lt;/a&gt;). Too often, I find those poked question not very interesting because many of those have been abandoned by the question asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/1PCCh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example of question poked onto the front page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: maybe for migrated questions the name of the original author (or whoever made the last change) can be used instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Things &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/899537/on-posting-outside-links-to-the-answer&quot;&gt;seem&lt;/a&gt; to have changed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/KU0tZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Migration message on Stack Overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/eEPsh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Frontpage on Meta after migration, showing correct name&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-18T15:02:00.223" LastActivityDate="2011-01-18T15:02:00.223" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19098" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:04:02.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another question about this is - if you are ignoring the tag and the page with url &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/tags/&amp;lt;ignoredtag&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; does show nothing, then why do you have a &lt;em&gt;clickable&lt;/em&gt; list of ignored in the first page (each button is linked to an empty page) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T23:04:02.410" />
  <row Id="35526" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:10:18.970" Score="2" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10092/why-do-you-help-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Why do you help in stackoverflow? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18888/why-do-you-post-to-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Why do you post to stack overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;why do people do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to feel smart&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to build up karma so that when u ask a question you feel like you have earned it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to pass the time during make;sudo make install&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to learn new things&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:39:22.507" ClosedDate="2010-01-14T00:41:56.367" Title="is answering questions on SO good for you" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35526" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:11:49.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's good for you alright - it puts hair on your chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, tell the kids today - they don't believe you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137961" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T23:12:37.200" />
  <row Id="35528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35526" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:15:22.010" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supposedly, according to &quot;Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus&quot;, we men like to solve problems. (In the book they tell you to try commiserating instead of attempting to solve.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's enough of an explanation for me. I've asked several questions and any time I can help someone out, I try to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Meta won't let me add a comment in reply to the commnents, I'll update here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think only men answer questions. Nor do I think that the book I reference above is necessarily a good or bad book - it's just something I heard about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5948" LastEditorUserId="5948" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T00:39:22.507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:39:22.507" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35526" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:16:30.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a bit of all that, but also, amongst other things :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To help people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a way to &quot;give back&quot; to a community (thinking about PHP, for instance : I don't contribute code to the PHP codebase, but helping people here on SO and in other places is a way to help spread PHP)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a way to increase my chances of working with tools / languages I like : if there's more help available, companies will most likely see PHP as a great tool, which means more chances of working with it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because solving problems is fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T23:16:30.463" />
  <row Id="35530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35526" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:19:30.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To get more reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T23:19:30.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35526" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:23:26.233" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having to explain something to someone makes you put your own knowledge &quot;in order&quot;. In fact, to be a good teacher, you have not only to explain the solution of the problem, but also know why the problem existed in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, giving explanations to people on SO makes my knowledge stronger. For instance, I try to follow all questions on SharePoint and have been doing this here for half a month - and I already feel I understand many things in SharePoint deeper than I did before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastEditorUserId="150794" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-13T23:28:45.520" LastActivityDate="2010-01-13T23:28:45.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-13T23:48:22.947" Score="0" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-get-my-code-blocks-formatted&quot;&gt;How do I get my code blocks formatted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I inserted some code (not as code, just copy and pasted) into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2032158/sorting-a-table-in-asp-net-mvc/2061134#2061134&quot;&gt;one of my answers&lt;/a&gt; and noticed that the code got mangled.  I tried to fix it but then some of the text was mangled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All sorts of mangling occurred and the mangled text was made to look like code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code that got messed up via copy-and-paste all ran together, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(without JavaScript) ~~ same name for both buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;on your .aspx page, add a second button:&#xA;     &#xA;     &#xA;in your Controller:&#xA;    // POST: /Home/Edit/5&#xA;    [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)]&#xA;    public ActionResult Edit(Movie movieToEdit, string submitButton)&#xA;    {&#xA;        if (submitButton == &quot;First&quot;)       et cetera&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is so frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just let me type raw HTML and you can parse it for anything bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.:  I noticed noscript in angle brackets in my question vanished. I dropped the angle brackets and bolded the word &quot;noscript&quot;.  I'm guessing I could have used entities for the angle brackets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Stack Overflow could have simply HTML encoded them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141746" LastEditorUserId="141746" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T16:14:53.650" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T16:14:53.650" ClosedDate="2010-01-14T07:59:11.947" Title="Preventing the editor from mangling what I type?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35497" CreationDate="2010-01-14T00:09:49.093" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30247/unusual-google-sitelinks-for-superuser&quot;&gt;mentioned before&lt;/a&gt;, but it was about SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30247/unusual-google-sitelinks-for-superuser/30307#30307&quot;&gt;Jeff mentions there&lt;/a&gt; that it should be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something must have brought this back...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T00:09:49.093" />
  <row Id="35534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35532" CreationDate="2010-01-14T00:15:42.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a code button; press it - that does the work (indent) to make it work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;without&amp;gt;&amp;lt;asp:whatever&amp;gt;any escaping&amp;lt;/asp:whatever&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/without&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply, markdown has specific syntax for things like code &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;like this&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; - there is a panel on the right hand side that explains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T00:15:42.793" />
  <row Id="35535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35532" CreationDate="2010-01-14T00:18:23.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why not just let me type raw HTML and you can parse it for anything bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what it does. Or rather, it attempts to remove any markup that's not &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user&quot;&gt;explicitly &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - that includes dangerous HTML, HTML that isn't considered necessary for composing text on the site, and markup that isn't HTML at all. Whatever's left is passed through in the markup generated by the site and rendered by the user's browser - Markup (the site's text-formatting language) allows the use of embedded HTML for formatting purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to post code that looks like markup but don't wish it to be interpreted as such (and either stripped or included verbatim in the final page), then do as fretje suggests and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;read the instructions&lt;/a&gt;: you'll find two ways of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/c0e1be2b-d72f-411d-8a4f-e584f8ceb805/view-source&quot;&gt;escaping&lt;/a&gt; it, one intended for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blocks&amp;gt; &amp;lt;of&amp;gt; &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;, &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the other for &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;inline&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Markup posted within either of these will be displayed to the user as though it were just text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T00:18:23.580" />
  <row Id="35537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35532" CreationDate="2010-01-14T00:24:18.637" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/JOVGB.gif&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot with freehand circle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paste your code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;select it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the little binary icon (pictured)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;profit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T00:27:32.093" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T00:27:32.093" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35526" CreationDate="2010-01-14T00:28:14.370" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to bang out the best answer in a short time is a great way to stimulate your creative juices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T00:28:14.370" />
  <row Id="35539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35490" CreationDate="2010-01-14T00:44:11.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eh, why not... I like anchors. Always bugs me when sites don't use enough of them. MSDN is terrible about this; W3C is great (guess that kinda makes sense though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to be able to include anchors in long answers... Someone find that suggestion for me, and then up-vote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T00:44:11.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T00:59:27.217" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to have a place to store a few common explanations that apply to many answers--like why DRY is good or why you shouldn't optimize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These apply to a bunch of answers, but re-writing them is getting nearly as annoying as reading them all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I'm suggesting a &quot;Philosophy&quot; section in each user profile where they can type out a few lines related to a topic.  You could browse it while looking at user profiles, or hyperlink directly to it from an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to do this off-site through another web service or google docs, but that just doesn't seem quite right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140390" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T06:59:28.293" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T06:59:28.293" Title="Users should be able to store common answers/quotes/explanations to their profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35488" CreationDate="2010-01-14T01:17:03.867" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The timer for up-voting comments is similarly busted. Damned &quot;code re-use&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T01:17:03.867" />
  <row Id="35543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35540" CreationDate="2010-01-14T01:26:17.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This doesn't strike me as a server-side feature. If you have frequently-entered text that you would like to store, manage, and paste into answers, there are many, many plug-ins and applications that can do that for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1347&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clippings 3.1 for Firefox&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T01:26:17.823" />
  <row Id="35544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35540" CreationDate="2010-01-14T01:34:36.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have special content using the normal infrastructure. E.g.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq/&quot;&gt;How Does Stack Overflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could have the same for common explanations that apply to many answers. Only a little bit of consensus among us is required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should probably be one for each site (Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T01:34:36.683" />
  <row Id="35545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T01:50:03.917" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically I ask this because of the current behavior of the ignored and interesting filter list.  If a post has a tag in both of these lists, it is ignored.  It appears from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10979/exclusion-inclusion-strategy-with-ignored-interesting-tags&quot;&gt;an earlier question&lt;/a&gt; that this behavior isn't going to change, but it makes it difficult to filter questions if your interests are fairly narrow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to propose that a third filter be added, an &lt;em&gt;Uninteresting&lt;/em&gt; filter.  A Post matching this filter would remain if it also has an &lt;em&gt;Interesting&lt;/em&gt; tag, but otherwise be removed or greyed out.  The &lt;em&gt;Ignored&lt;/em&gt; filter would continue to override either of these. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a user's perspective, this third filter would be a weaker form of ignoring, and allow conditional ignoring of certain tags.  For example, if I was interested in SQL, but not Python per se, I can still see questions with both python and sql tags, but ignore tags with just python, for which I have no strong interest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141801" LastEditorUserId="141801" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T09:08:54.610" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:08:54.610" Title="Should there be an &quot;uninteresting&quot; tag filter" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35576" CreationDate="2010-01-14T03:41:06.767" Score="-5" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31842/downvotes-appear-to-be-pure-evil&quot;&gt;Downvotes appear to be pure evil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32387/meta-in-a-nutshell&quot;&gt;Meta in a Nutshell&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vote system is heavily flawed, and being actively exploited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why am I posting this?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm leaving the Trilogy; as such, I can afford to post this without any fear of reprisal or reprocussion against me.  Otherwise, I would have continued to keep silent about what I have observed to maintian my own status quo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I'm not a big believer in downvoting.  I have only cast one downvote once, by accident, and quickly removed it (thus earning a badge for first downvote that I really don't want).  This creates an interesting situation for me, because there are several postings that I would have easily downvoted otherwise.  Note that I am differentiating downvotes from closing posts, which I have done, usually to move questions to another site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed there are issues, and I don't want to leave without addressing them, for the sake of future users.  If you think this is about getting more reputation, then why would I bother (a) leaving, and (b) risk damaging what reputation I have?  If it's not obvious by now, then it probably never will be - in which case, I'm probably making the right decision to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's get started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Vote Carpetbombing&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New user signs on, posts questions and answers, has low (sub-1000) rep score.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Older user finds &lt;em&gt;every single post and question&lt;/em&gt; by that user and downvotes; the new user's score forms a smoking crater (negative score), effectively hog-tying them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Older user can afford to take the &lt;strong&gt;-2&lt;/strong&gt; hit for every &lt;strong&gt;-10&lt;/strong&gt; the new user gets. [ed: this is 100% incorrect, see the /faq] [note to Ed: when did this happen?  I've seen several downvotes take -10 of of an answer; so this must be something recent.] So after several thousand points worth of rep, you can effectively take a loss and not even notice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen it happen on a lesser scale, but it's a matter of time before someone carpet-bombs other people into oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can effectively block against this kind of attack.  If you are looking at malicious behavior through a heuristic, then yes, you'll see a pattern; I can only hope that your heuristic will take into account &quot;slow attacks&quot;, noise injection, and other ideas that might circumvent this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other factor is that in any given community situation, there is always potential for malicious behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Pure-play wikis&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A pure-play wiki is a community wiki that you start as such, so there are no reputation points to be gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The majority of posted wikis contain non-useful materials; the ones that actually function in some kind of professional capacity are usually sparse at best, or forgotten at worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No-one, after a half-dozen or so of these, will come and post, because there are no points to be made.  People post in wikis when they have fun; they rarely, if ever, post in wikis that have useful content.  If it is a function of human behavior, then I think it reflects on what people are willing to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Gaming downvotes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes are insidious because they too can be gamed by simply deleting your answer.  Deleting the answer is not a function of the correctness of the answer, but a function of whatever social or peer pressure the poster faces.  It has been suggested that the post of an answer that you have verified to be correct, yet is downvoted into the negative, should be retained.  This creates an interesting quandry; it has also been mentioned in this posting that there might not be enough downvoting (see comments).  If there is a marked absense of downvotes, then one wonders, is that because people are simply deleting their answers and the downvotes are not counted as a function of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Insidious Attitudes. Apply Within&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a shame that being told I'm wrong without telling me &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; I'm wrong is an acceptable behavior.  &quot;Accept that you are wrong, or I will brow-beat it into you&quot;.  Great way to influence people. Or better yet, get them to believe that maybe they were wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a better suggestion.  Instead of saying &quot;you're wrong&quot;, how about &quot;go look over here at this link&quot; or &quot;go Google on this term&quot; or some other constructive activity.  There is a significant difference between being simply &quot;wrong&quot; and &quot;you're wrong because of X&quot;.  The first is arbitrary, the second, reasoned.  I guess a (poorly-written) description would be the difference between arbitrarily kicking your dog and expecting it to read your mind as to the reason why it was kicked, and punishing your dog for chewing on the couch, showing the dog the exact cause of the problem.  If there is no connection between cause and action, then how is one to interpret the actions of others?  The first (and probably incorrect) conclusion is to assume they are hostile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So What?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's interesting to read the comments, and watch how each reason twist and turns.  I guess the real crux of the problem with this post is that while I have directly experienced these things, it won't be believable until I provide evidence to the contrary.  So, how do I make this happen?  Devote a month to delving into data and postings, and get a statistician to dive into it and make their observations?  And if that data is presented, is there any vindication to the initial position taken, or is it dismissive as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my own selfish purposes, it is far less effort, far quicker, and less demanding of resources to place a single post, one time, and look for rebuttals.  In effect, the request made (admittedly in a trollish fashion) in the form of a single post requires the least energy on everyone's part, and unfortunately, is far more effective because of how human nature works.  Asking me to spend significant amounts of money and time to point out a problem is counterproductive; asking me to just shut up and go away (should I be wrong) has the least impact, the most productive gain, and certainly, in the shortest time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;And finally...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for all of the commentary, both positive and negative.  In less than 24 hours you have managed to accomplish what would have taken me weeks of real-time investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do hope that all of the sites continue on, as more and more people come to them looking for answers.  I also hope that the answers are given, instead of derided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, in a (somewhat more evil sense), I have managed to 'game' everyone that has replied in a short period of time, by getting you to do all of the aforementioned footwork I just described.  The difference is that my intent was not malicious, but rather, an approach of being informative.  I do apologize for this, but as I have already pointed out, I really didn't expect people to believe me to begin with, so a demonstration was in order.  Before Jeff considers blocking my accounts, I ask that he reconsider the situation, and think about this: if my intent was truly malicious, then would I have not posted this?  Wouldn't it be easier to lurk in the background, attempting to go unnoticed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The oddest thing I saw was a suggestion of ego being a factor.  In a sense it was, given that I had to make this manouver.  But I think being described as acting in purely selfish reasons is an accusation that the people here need to back up with their own data.   Given that my existing postings would probably be contrary, I think I have also managed to demonstrate just how easy it is to jump to conclusions, or to be treated as maligned, or worse, in a manner that suggest civility is lacking.  So, in responding as some of you have, you have completed this demonstration of how discussions can be lacking in civility.  And yes, I do acknowledge that flames have been fanned; but it applies in &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; directions, to me and to the responders.  My apologies again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tone of this post has gone from one of frustration to one of outlining the entire thought process, and I do thank those commentators out there for urging clarity above hysteria.  Perhaps that should be an indication as well, pointing to true civility in the people that are here.  Another perspective would be to look at the difference between &quot;could you please clean up the post, and provide more info&quot; and &quot;you're being an egotist, go away&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think new users would respond in a positive fashion to &quot;your question is stupid, get out&quot;?  Hardly.  They might however go for &quot;maybe if you just looked at X over here...&quot;.  If civility and professionalism are contrary positions in this line of work, then I don't need to be doing it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best of luck to everyone.  I don't wish you ill at all; in fact, I hope all of you prosper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134103" LastEditorUserId="134103" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T18:27:47.570" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T18:27:47.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T04:28:12.727" Title="(long) Fixing the unfixable: parting thoughts on social behavior" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="25" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35497" CreationDate="2010-01-14T04:03:30.007" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this. When I google Stack Overflow it just says &quot;Did you mean Jon Skeet?&quot;, and the only result is his profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of @Bobby:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/y1EhK.png&quot; alt=&quot;The real Google results if you search for StackOverflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136489" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-18T12:43:34.523" LastActivityDate="2011-08-18T12:43:34.523" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35546" CreationDate="2010-01-14T04:08:23.507" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am having a hard time figuring out what this is about. I'll try to summarize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;high rep users can &quot;carpetbomb&quot; and cast 30 downvotes on new users at little cost&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not without having the daily vote anomaly detector kick in and silently undo all their votes, they can't. And remember, all those downvotes are only -2 to the poster and -1 to person voting (and eventually -2/-5, once we get around to The Great Vote Balance Change)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;wiki questions don't work because nobody wants to participate without rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wiki questions are intended for more soft, discussiony programming questions which are easier for people to participate in -- and thus generate tons of responses and votes without even trying to, because they're so broadly applicable to every working developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're a very small fraction of the overall question base, 10% or less, and getting people to participate in them isn't the problem; if anything it's getting people to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; participate in them that is the goal. Community wiki doesn't seem to be too much of a barrier at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;downvotes are ineffective because the poster can delete their post and make the downvotes go away&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not until a rep recalc, and all 10k users can see those deleted questions. I'd also argue that [peer-pressure]ing users into deleting their worst content is a net good to the world. On the other hand, I've left plenty of stuff posted here (but not on SO as those tend to be &quot;this is wrong&quot; technical downvotes that I end up with agreeing with) that is downvoted. It's a point of pride for some people; not everyone deletes a post with -4, and neither would I, if it's something I felt strongly about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;people are mean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really? We've gotten lots of compliments on how civil things are in the Trilogy. Of course there are always exceptions but that's what flagging, downvotes, and moderator flags are for. We always take action if there are problems with posts or users; we believe strongly in a civil -- but also fair and honest -- community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have specific examples, hyperlinks you can point to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without some concrete examples and data, it's hard to treat this as anything but an unsubstantiated rant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T04:08:23.507" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="35549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35546" CreationDate="2010-01-14T04:09:49.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't quite tell if this is an impressively elaborate attempt at trolling, or a genuine grievance. I shall assume the latter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vote Carpetbombing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21521/reputation-vendetta-timeouts&quot;&gt;a solved issue&lt;/a&gt; - systematic/vendeta/carpetbombing down-voting is detected, and the impact is silently (to the perpetrator, not victim) reversed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pure-play wikis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what you mean by &quot;Pure-play wikis&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gaming downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Delete your answer. Poof! Negative rep is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more important part is: the crappy answer is also gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was no benefit to deleting crappy, down-voted answers, what motivation would users have to quite effectively cleanup the site? It's the exact same reason the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/38/peer-pressure&quot;&gt;Peer Pressure badge&lt;/a&gt; exists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Insidious Attitudes, Apply Within&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost everything I've read on SO/SF/SU/Meta has been very polite - about the closest to to such attitude I can think of is close/reopen wars, and most of those are remarkably civil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="745" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T04:09:49.587" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35497" CreationDate="2010-01-14T04:10:59.083" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to periodically go through and clean up the sitelinks in Google webmaster tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason Google enjoys escalating some user profiles to sitelink level...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T04:10:59.083" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35497" CreationDate="2010-01-14T04:16:57.013" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know. Really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T04:16:57.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35501" CreationDate="2010-01-14T04:40:40.640" Score="-16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The intent is to encourage thinking before you speak -- that is, before you post multiple comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's also why we have minimum character limits (currently 15) on comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's say you're a lightning fast 100 wpm typist. If my math is correct, that means you type 1.66 words per second.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assuming a word is maybe 4 characters on average (factoring in the, a, an, etc) that means the minimum comment is roughly 5 words.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;5 words * 1.66 words per second = 3 seconds. For the &lt;em&gt;mininum&lt;/em&gt; comment, a barely perceptible step up from &quot;awesome, thanks a lot!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that &lt;strong&gt;this rate limiter only comes into effect when posting more than one comment&lt;/strong&gt;. We do not want to &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; doing the minimum possible amount of work to post MULTIPLE comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better, and hopefully more typical, comment would be something more of this length:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You still should be scared, dead King. If I read the time stamps correctly, it does not take longer than 15 minutes. Probably only ten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is 25 words. At 1.66 words per second for an AMAZINGLY SPEEDY 100 WPM typist that would take about 15 seconds to type. Go ahead, see how fast you can type the above. Seems about right for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it so unreasonable to ask that people take 15 seconds to read, process, and think about what they're about to type &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they post comment #2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am open to reducing the multiple comment time limiter to 25 sliding seconds, but that's as far as I'll go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: timer updated to 25 seconds, text changed to &quot;only 1 comment allowed per {n} seconds; timer reset.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T08:23:19.973" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T08:23:19.973" CommentCount="22" />
  <row Id="35553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T05:59:45.450" Score="2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike a lot of you on StackOverflow, I don't have a fancy university degree; I went to college for three years instead. The trouble is my second year (of three) was really rough for me personally, and I ended up failing a class (mainframe programming - JCL specifically) as well as a class it was a prerequisite for the following year. So when all my friends were graduating, I was short two classes (specifically a CICS class and a Java class). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was doing another semester to get these credits (and my diploma) when I got a job offer across the country, which I took. Circumstances being what they were (no computer for a month, then no internet for another month, and late nights trying to learn the system at work as fast as possible), I couldn't finish the courses. I let it slide while I was working (stupid, I know) and so now I can't honestly claim completion of the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my resume, I address this as &quot;[2003 - 2006] Enrolled in... &quot; with the assumption being (a) I'm not lying, and (b) I can explain it properly in an interview. There doesn't seem to be a good way to explain this on SO careers. I suppose I'm not necessarily an ideal person for SO Careers anyway since I'm not some superhero programmer, but I'm unemployed and Careers is cheap enough that it's not a big loss for me if it doesn't work. I plan to be very upfront about who I am (i.e. looking for a junior spot, college educated rather than a CS degree, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how would be best for me to address my education issues in SO Careers, &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; should I just not bother with SO Careers at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1588" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:22:05.610" Title="Careers: How do I explain that I haven't finished college?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35546" CreationDate="2010-01-14T06:16:15.397" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look, it seems that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/134103/&quot;&gt;you&lt;/a&gt; are really caught up on the rep hype. You shouldn't be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are (at least I am) on SO to learn and help out (teach? sounds like too big a word for giving answers to technical questions), not to gather reputation pixie points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are on Meta, because we like the site, and because it's a &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; place. Also, here started some interesting discussions, that while not technical and suitable for SO, have taught me something. Also because we like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/always-friday-in-iceland&quot;&gt;freehand circles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you worry about rep &lt;em&gt;on Meta&lt;/em&gt;, then you really have some expectations that shouldn't be there. What does it matter if I have 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 rep on Meta? What does it mean, besides that I have a lot of free time, that I like to procrastinate, or/and that I enjoy SO (the community or/and the site)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are sounding like a troll at times (specially on your user page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Remember:&lt;/em&gt; rep points are just a measure of your usage of the site, as the site is designed to trust the users that use the site the most.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We like the simple voting system. Is transparent, understandable and logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problems you are bringing to the table, have been discussed multiple times here, but will try to answer some of them (that might be already answered on some of the other posts):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Vote Carpetbombing&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;new user signs on, posts questions and answers, has low (sub-1000) rep score.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;older user finds every single post and question by that user and downvotes; the new user's score forms a smoking crater (negative score), effectively hog-tying them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;older user can afford to take the -2 hit for every -10 the new user gets, so after several thousand points worth of rep, you can effectively take a loss and not even notice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you seen many cases of 3? Do you have evidence? Links perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To become a 1000 user I needed 2 months of use of the site. The more you use the site, the faster you recoup the reputation lost. I've seen some mean downvotes, but have also seen a lot more of pity downvotes. If something, people should be downvoting more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, no user can get under 1 rep. If you keep downvoting a 1 rep user, and somebody upvotes him, he is right at 11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Pure-play wikis&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No-one, after a half-dozen or so of these, will come and post, because there are no points to be made. Seriously. Because it's not worth any rep to the poster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some CW are just &quot;fun&quot; questions. And they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; being edited. Give some hard data from the data dumps to show otherwise. Don't go asking for site reforms without empirical data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's right, people are gaming the system for points, not sharing knowledge; if you can't get anything for the time you spend, then why spend the time in a wiki?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there is a part of &lt;em&gt;rep whoring&lt;/em&gt; going on on every answer/question. Having an answer upvoted and rising interesting discussions is a great confidence booster, as the lets you see if your ideas are &lt;del&gt;popular&lt;/del&gt;&lt;em&gt;correct&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; edit the wikis. The one that matter at least. I know that I edit answers when I land on an outdated answer consider it's a wise thing to do, even if they are not CW, or simply give a new answer when the edit is too extensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wiki part of the site is the reason of its success. Have you seen how most questions are worded before a horde of grammer nazis throw themselves at them? Thanks to them, it's a pleasure to visit the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Gaming downvotes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Downvotes are insidious because they too can also be gamed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any usable/useful system you could envision could be gamed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Delete your answer. Poof! Negative rep is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;keeps the site a high Signal/Noise ratio.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a mistake from your part can be partially corrected and you can learn something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we want some &lt;em&gt;incorrect&lt;/em&gt; answers undeleted, so people can see what &lt;strong&gt;not to do&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Insidious Attitudes, Apply Within&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a shame that being told I'm wrong without telling me why I'm wrong is an acceptable behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At Meta, it just means disagreement, at SO, it just means that you consider the answer/question to be wrong. If somebody unjustly downvotes an answer, somebody will come and upvote it. Even with deserved downvotes, pity upvotes are sure to follow. If rep is what you are worried about, start making controversial posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Accept that you are wrong, or I will brow-beat it into you&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not beating you with it, you can always state why you think you are correct in a compelling enough answer to warrant upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Great way to influence people, or better yet, get them to believe that maybe they were wrong...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because, may be, they were?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you disagree with your neighbors, do you just leave them alone, or do you bother to knock on their door, argue with them, and then put a sign on their front lawn? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I disagree with somebody &lt;em&gt;in a tech discussion&lt;/em&gt;, I will fight tooth and nail with them, until he makes me come around his way of thinking, he does, we are laying on the floor bleeding, or we all go drink some pints to the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think we're talking about two different things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes we are, our discussions with our neighbors and our discussions with field peers are completely different scenarios&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ok, so downvotes are the order of the day, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been shown with hard data that this is not the case. SOFU needs &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;despite that I pointed out how it puts me into the same position as the people I vote against (see above). I'll conceed the point to you, but just to end the issue, I still think you're affecting more harm than good out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harming who? What's the harm of lost rep? Does it hurt? Does it affect your career to have a downvoted answer/low SO rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T06:16:15.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T06:16:15.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35553" CreationDate="2010-01-14T06:40:16.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, too, would like a good answer to this. I currently have the degree line as &quot;B.S. Computer Science (incomplete)&quot;. I wish I could simply omit the line, but then the entire section fails to show. In the body of the education section I describe the upper-level CS classes that I've taken, what I learned, and the semester papers/projects for the classes. What I don't know, however, is how this looks to potential employers, so I can't really say whether you should do what I've done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T06:40:16.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35545" CreationDate="2010-01-14T06:42:50.920" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can have &quot;ignored&quot; tags grayed out (that was the default at some time, I think that has changed) and with that setting acts exactly as what you are proposing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question tagged SQL and Python would show (on SO) light orange/yellow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2976/ignoredo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just skim the Ignored+Interesting questions and depending on the wording/tags, I decide to enter or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have to edit this, just go to your pref tab on your user page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/7641/hidez.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to hide the ignored questions and keep the &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; questions, you could go the Greasemonkey route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T06:53:39.053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T06:53:39.053" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1103" CreationDate="2010-01-14T07:01:11.580" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I'm very late to the party, but I think it should cost rep.  More recent developments (not surprising, looking at some of the comments here) clearly show that closing/opening wars are starting to become a problem (and if you disagree, just you wait).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I'm not sure if I should propose &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;, as it also seems we're moving into a state of contrition on the part of the devs (signs are visible, if you've seen similar scenarios often enough.  Of course, I could be wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One idea would be a pretty punitive rep cost (okay, not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; bad looking at the current high-rep people).  For &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; closing &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; opening.  First thought was... 1% of the rep of the highest-repped (that even a word? ;-)). On SO currently it would be about 1300.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combined with simultanous open and close voting (as quite a number of users have suggested).  You'd be able to vote to close/open repeatedly, but with a set delay (at least an hour between votes, I'd say... probably much more, so one person can's close a question on his own, in a slow period).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, another idea was to make each vote cost as much as the number of upvotes on the question.  So, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;the recent brouhaha&lt;/a&gt; would need about 360 rep per close vote (&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; per open vote too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140977" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T07:01:11.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T07:01:11.580" />
  <row Id="35558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35501" CreationDate="2010-01-14T07:38:27.470" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate it I hate it I hate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I'm one of the button pounders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know what? I'll get used to it, so will everyone else, and within days, all will be back to pure milk and honey flowing in meta land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone got used to random ordering of equal-vote answers, the accept rate, the removal of the pad-comments-to-15-using-spaces possibility, the vote-changing time window, and whatnot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, alright, it's probably not that bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But please please please please &amp;hellip;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;hellip; change the wording on the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You may only submit a comment every 30 seconds&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is clearly not reflecting the behavior well enough for new users, and old users who have seen this before won't know that anything has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta crowd knows now. The rest of the world is going to keep pounding that button, and they'll be doing that until they realize they've been waiting for two minutes for those 30 seconds to be over. Which doesn't help the &quot;spamming our servers&quot; problem either. &amp;lt;span id=&quot;told-you-so&quot; class=&quot;update&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35970/really-long-comment-wait-time&quot;&gt;Really Long Comment Wait Time?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; The wording in the box has been altered to display&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Only 1 comment allowed per 25 seconds; timer reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that should be clear enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-04T08:52:55.277" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T08:52:55.277" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35565" CreationDate="2010-01-14T07:43:18.800" Score="0" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried using SuperUser but, as you know, they close such questions. Where can I seek help on such a matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need some utility software, like Ultramp3, for Samsung mobile phones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140364" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T08:41:46.000" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:00:10.153" Title="Where I can ask questions regarding Samsung mobile phone software?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;mobile&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35559" CreationDate="2010-01-14T07:45:27.797" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.samsung.com/us/support/main/supportMain.do&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Samsung support site&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T07:45:27.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35707" CreationDate="2010-01-14T08:03:00.363" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have set up a fair amount of ignored tags on SO, and after installing &lt;a href=&quot;http://thegleebox.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gleebox&lt;/a&gt; for Chrome, and finding the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tipjar.thegleebox.com/stack-overflow-results/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO selector&lt;/a&gt; for it, I thought about trying to modify it to only highlight questions with tags I haven't tagged as ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who don't know, gleebox is a sort of command line input area that pops up in chrome on a hotkey, and when it does, I can configure it with a jQuery selector to highlight, and let me keyboard-navigate through, links on a page. The selector for SO highlights all questions, and I'd like for it to only pick up questions I find interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The selector is &lt;code&gt;h3&amp;gt;a&lt;/code&gt; which I assume means &quot;all a-elements inside h3-elements&quot;. I used the Chrome html-inspector to try to find differences between the interesting, unmarked, and uninteresting, questions but it seems that this inspector only picks up data from the html that was sent to me from the server, not the changes that jQuery applies afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does anyone know what the fade-out code actually does to tags, and whether a jQuery-selector could be written to only select those that does not have the &quot;uninteresting&quot; effect applied to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If easier, for it to only select those that have the &quot;interesting&quot; effect would be a compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T06:29:08.677" Title="StackOverflow, what is done to page elements to fade out &quot;ignored&quot; tags?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;jquery&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="35563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35642" CreationDate="2010-01-14T08:31:28.393" Score="1" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/333/is-there-any-point-forcing-a-post-to-community-wiki-after-6-owner-edits&quot;&gt;Is there any point forcing a post to Community Wiki after 6 owner edits?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know, I spent most of my time in the early days of SO perusing and answering questions in the Unanswered category. It took me a while before I figured out that there was a reputation orgy going on if I would try to answer questions under the Hot category. But I'm a bit of an altruist, so I kept answering &lt;em&gt;unanswered&lt;/em&gt; questions. You can check my profile, I've answered a lot, and you can see by my low reputation that I've &quot;paid&quot; the price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2062084/methodinfo-createdelegate-and-generic-methods&quot;&gt;my second question&lt;/a&gt; turned community wiki on me is aggravating beyond belief. Having the original author trigger CW on their own post is totally ridiculous. Why does it work this way? There have been numerous people suggest better ways to deal with &quot;bumping&quot; and the like. This needs to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; a bunch of you seem to be on the band-wagon that this behavior is appropriate, which seems to neglect the idea that SO is meant to be a site that helps people solve problems. What good is it to wait (in all cases) until you have your question so figured out that you can ask it once and have a one-shot answer that completely solves your problem? Sometimes questions &lt;strong&gt;evolve&lt;/strong&gt;. The point is to solve a problem. SO is a non-forum site, so if I have follow up questions, or need to clarify something in my question, &lt;em&gt;edits&lt;/em&gt; to my question are the mechanic to use on SO (comments, of course, are another, as someone else mentioned). It is completely out in left field to have that process yank control of my question away from me and make it &quot;community&quot; property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That this broken mechanic is left in place to prevent exploitation of the bumping logic is a non-sequitur. You don't use one broken mechanic to fix another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133720" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T19:59:03.557" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T19:59:03.557" ClosedDate="2010-01-14T20:02:38.697" Title="Seeing my question forced into community wiki mode is aggravating beyond belief!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="35564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35563" CreationDate="2010-01-14T08:47:38.387" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's unfortunate that you lost rep due to the question becoming CW, but there's a reason for that. If I continually edit my question, making tiny modifications, I bump it up with each edit (which isn't always fair, you're essentially gaming the system if you do it too often). Automatically making it CW after a number of edits reduces the temptation to continually bump it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T08:47:38.387" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="35565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35559" CreationDate="2010-01-14T09:00:10.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could try the &lt;a href=&quot;http://darkforestgroup.com/forum/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Darkforest Group forums&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:00:10.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T09:20:13.757" Score="52" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users keep raising the same questions on Meta after a loss in reputation overnight and have no clue as to why. It would be helpful to have a clear mechanism for recalcs and to leave a tersely annotated audit trail to at least indicate where the rep has gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42684/why-did-i-lose-360-reputation-on-so-closed&quot;&gt;Why did I lose 360 reputation on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38147/i-just-lost-286-rep-points-why&quot;&gt;I Just Lost 286 Rep Points, Why?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/565/whered-my-rep-go-closed&quot;&gt;Where’d my rep go?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2103/how-did-i-just-go-down-150-rep-on-so&quot;&gt;How did I just go down ~150 rep on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2123/reputation-drop-closed&quot;&gt;Reputation drop&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3798/what-could-cause-this-massive-drop-in-reputation&quot;&gt;What could cause this massive drop in reputation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14005/is-there-a-way-to-determine-how-i-just-lost-300-reputation-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Is there a way to determine how I just lost 300 reputation on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4093/transferred-question-invisible-rep&quot;&gt;Transferred question = invisible rep?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30542/sudden-drop-in-reputation-for-no-apparent-reason-in-so&quot;&gt;Sudden drop in reputation for no apparent reason in SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice a pattern? Unannounced rep recalcs are a scary beast! Since quite a lot of questions and answers get moved back and forth between the trilogy sites, the total rep score has this tendency to be a bit off. This leads to rep recalc requests, which can only be performed by moderators (who already have enough on their hands as is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make the rep recalc mechanism less of a surprise. Do it once a month or once every 2 months, on a fixed schedule. To not hit the servers too much, do it over the course of a week, instead of in one go for every user on every site. Having a system-instigated recalc would be less taxing on the servers than &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14200/self-instigated-rep-recalc&quot;&gt;self-appointed recalcs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a clear schedule makes it easier for users to get used to rep losses and gains; it stops being a total mystery (this might also prepare them for the rep recalc that will have to be performed when the weight of downvotes will be increased, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;wink wink, nudge nudge&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A short summary of what has happened to the rep would help clear up the repeat raises on Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep lost by migration to other sites&#xA;(Don't add too much detail to this,&#xA;there's no need to see how you've&#xA;lost each point. Simply say &quot;you've&#xA;lost 42 points from questions&#xA;migrated to meta, get over it&quot;.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep gained by migration from other sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep lost/gained through deletions of any kind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rep lost due to voting irregularities (explicitly say that no further details can be provided for this part).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Transparency&lt;/strong&gt;, in my opinion, is one of the &lt;strong&gt;better qualities a community can have&lt;/strong&gt;. Losing massive amounts of rep with no explanation leads to &lt;strong&gt;bad blood&lt;/strong&gt; (since rep is highly valued by members of the community). Having a mechanism that clearly allows you to see what has happened to it prevents a lot of the problems we have now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you don't mind, I'll go back to my corner and anxiously await the &lt;code&gt;[status-declined]&lt;/code&gt; tag. In any case, Jeff, at least give it a thought before shooting it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; case in point, I lost nearly 200 rep points on meta since posting this question about 2 hours ago (only thing that could explain this would be if a manual rep recalc had been triggered during this time). What should I do about it? Ask another question on meta about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-07T05:39:31.477" LastActivityDate="2011-01-07T05:39:31.477" Title="Make scheduled reputation recalcs to increase transparency" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35553" CreationDate="2010-01-14T09:22:05.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Listen, you made a decision in your life: earning money or finishing college. Many people (have to) do that. It's not a crime, it is nothing you have to be ashamed of. IIRC a guy named William Gates did the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just mention, that you chose to work instead of finishing college. Make sure you show that you are still learning, trying to improve etc. by reading magazines, articles, books, blogs, whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:22:05.610" />
  <row Id="35569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35566" CreationDate="2010-01-14T09:27:19.920" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that a regular rep recalc would be nice in terms of avoiding large changes, although I'm not sure whether it's viable in terms of server strain. (I imagine it's a fairly expensive operation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be nice to show the &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; in rep, but I don't think the &lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt; of the change is available... the system isn't tracking changes, it's just recalculating your total rep. I guess it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be possible to look at the voting history for deleted and migrated questions - if that voting history is even maintained - but I don't think it's really necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a message of &quot;there was a rep recalc; you lost X points; click here to see common causes of rep changes&quot; would be good enough, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T09:27:19.920" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="35570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34001" CreationDate="2010-01-14T10:07:58.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've written a &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/66416&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;userscript&lt;/a&gt; for that. It substitutes interesting tags into  in the following url: &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=&amp;lt;tags&amp;gt;&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141816" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T10:07:58.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35563" CreationDate="2010-01-14T11:17:02.507" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You made more than &lt;strong&gt;13 edits&lt;/strong&gt;. That means that &lt;strong&gt;13 times&lt;/strong&gt;, you needed to clarify your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some guidelines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't write &lt;strong&gt;Solved&lt;/strong&gt; in your question. That's what accepting an answer is for.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only Update the question if you really need to. Your question garnered 1 answer. It didn't have a flood of answers, so there really was no reason for that number of edits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system rewards asking questions well and knowing what you're going to ask; with 13 edits, it's hard to believe you knew what you were asking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need more information from a particular answerer, add a comment to their answer. If you forgot something, add it; but forgetting 12 bits of information means that perhaps the question wasn't well defined in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T11:17:02.507" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35546" CreationDate="2010-01-14T12:01:55.867" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to contact you directly to resolve this, but there is no contact information in any of your user profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you kindly email us via the email address at the bottom of the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm particularly interested in any specifics you could share about the problems.. URLs.. users.. things like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T12:01:55.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T12:01:55.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35566" CreationDate="2010-01-14T12:32:30.260" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't it possible to show the user a message &quot;Your rep has been recalculated (see epxlanation +href)&quot; the next time he visits the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T12:32:30.260" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35546" CreationDate="2010-01-14T12:40:21.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote Carpetbombing:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;This is essentially solved by the bogus vote detection system referenced by some other posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pure-play wikis:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Some of the most popular and active questions on SO are &quot;pure-play&quot; wikis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gaming downvotes:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Deleting your post does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;, in fact, restore your points. Only a recalc can do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Insidious Attitudes:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;This is really your opinion, so I won't so much say that it's wrong - just misguided (in my opinion). No one is obligated to explain why they disagree with you. That's just life - it's not unique to SO. Keep in mind when someone downvotes you here they are saying &quot;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; you're wrong&quot;. No one can truly say &quot;you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; wrong&quot; without providing proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T12:40:21.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T12:40:21.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35577" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T12:53:11.210" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I see code formatted like this in questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   foo&#xA;   bar&#xA;   hello&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the code consists of sufficiently long lines, it ends up looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                                                                 foobasdsdlfkasdlfksdfoobasdsdlfkasdlfksd&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if there was a way (an icon to click or a magic keyboard incantation perhaps) to correct those two code blocks to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo&#xA;bar&#xA;hello&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;foobasdsdlfkasdlfksdfoobasdsdlfkasdlfksd&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably this could work by looking at the lowest number of spaces &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; in the selected block, and then reducing the number of initial spaces on each line by &lt;code&gt;x-4&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, there are a small minority of languages where spaces are meaningful that this might change the meaning of, but in most cases I think this would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that I can cut and paste the code into my editor of choice to do this, but it'd be nice if there was some built-in way to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T09:50:16.713" Title="Add feature to WMD for re-aligning code blocks" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35577" CreationDate="2010-01-14T13:06:19.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's open source! You can add that feature yourself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T09:50:16.713" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T09:50:16.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35546" CreationDate="2010-01-14T13:08:06.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are starting from the fundamentally wrong hypothesis that everything everyone does in SO is for the points. This is stupid. The points are an abstract number which has no meaning by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People like having a high reputation because they like the contents of the site, they contribute to them, they are proud of taking part, they recognize the intrinsic value of the questions and answers, and consequently they like scoring high at something they admire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Points cannot be isolated from content. Noone would care &quot;only for the points&quot; in a website that sucks. My friends who don't like software engineering don't create accounts and start strategies &quot;just to get points&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like having points because I like what I do. I like an answer I give about Design by Contract being voted +7 because I like that people appreciate my contribution, not primarily because that makes a number increase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T13:22:53.623" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T13:22:53.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T13:08:06.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18382" CreationDate="2010-01-14T13:44:39.047" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hiOY1UgGSqc/S08fNkmWypI/AAAAAAAAAB4/PJ1Q6kwUivs/s640/nohyphens.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graphs shows SO verses experts-exchange traffic, taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/us-versus-hyphen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138264" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T13:44:39.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T13:44:39.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T13:47:39.837" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2064329/why-python-does-not-allow-hyphens&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2064329/why-python-does-not-allow-hyphens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I modified this question's tags to correct &quot;pyhon&quot; to &quot;python&quot;.  However, in the revision history, it shows that I changed the title.  There is no indication in the revision history that the tag was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simply clicked on &quot;edit&quot; on the question page, scrolled straight down to the tags, changed the tag, and clicked Save Edits, without modifying the title field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139072" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T16:45:47.463" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T16:45:47.463" Title="Inaccurate revision information" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T13:48:51.487" Score="55" ViewCount="4708" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blog.stackoverflow:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Begins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the traffic volume, it's crazy that we have so few Stack Overflow community moderators relative to the site's size and traffic. Numbers in parens, below, are the 1 month visitors from Google Analytics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;meta&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(74k)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Joel, Kyle, Tom, Sean&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;serverfault&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(831k)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Kara, Denny, Stefan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(12.7m)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Bill, Marc&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;superuser&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(1.2m)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;TheTXI&lt;/strike&gt; Ivo, Stefan, Diago, HTG&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original thinking was that Joel, myself, Jarrod, and Geoff would be pitching in as moderators, and I desperately try to every day, but I don't think that's enough in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think we need to have another &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-new-community-moderators/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Moderator Election&lt;/a&gt;. Let's start by collecting some nominations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post an answer if you think you would make a good community moderator.&lt;/strong&gt; But first, some ground rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may nominate another user who you feel meets the below criteria, but the nomination is &lt;em&gt;invalid&lt;/em&gt; until the user him or herself acknowledges the nomination and accepts it by either editing or posting a comment on the nomination to indicate they accept.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must be a currently registered Stack Overflow user in good standing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must have at least 7,000 reputation on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You exhibit patience and fairness at all times in your questions, answers, and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You lead by example, showing respect for your fellow programmers in everything you write.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You should want the responsibility. This is not an obligation. It's purely voluntary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderation guidelines:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominations are now closed; thanks for participating, and keep an eye out for the vote!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T17:08:26.857" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:43:44.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T14:23:15.870" ClosedDate="2010-01-22T22:32:31.760" Title="Nominations: New Stack Overflow Moderator" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" AnswerCount="38" CommentCount="41" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="35584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:01:38.853" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to volunteer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why I'm a good choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am active in the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;em&gt;fairly&lt;/em&gt; assess each question on its own merits (a quick glance at any of my answers on Meta should confirm that).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I care about Stack Overflow. I spend most of my time on Stack Overflow playing to my strengths: Clarifying bad questions, closing questions that cannot be saved, and re-opening questions that are misunderstood. In all cases, I try to use good editing to make Stack Overflow a 'better place'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I believe very strongly in fairness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why I'm a bad choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I take a position. I normally don't waffle on a position. I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; change my position if it's logically in error.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I tend to be very direct. Not harsh, but I believe in direct language. If you're wondering how direct I am, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=16587&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=30&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;a quick look at any answer&lt;/a&gt; I've posted on meta should be an indicator of how I communicate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ironic Note is Ironic&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.&lt;/em&gt; - Douglas Adams&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T14:01:38.853" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T14:08:19.447" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="35586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:18:05.743" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guys have been twisting my proverbial arm on Wave to get me to nominate myself. I consider that to be community nomination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my nomination (copying Gortok's style):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Welbog, triumphant master of time&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why I'm a good choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I know the Stack Overflow system well, its bugs and its various flows to be able to determine if something is an error and how to correct them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm on good terms with the other SO moderators (except for that dick Jeff)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I take the time to answer questions making sure that they're actually answered instead of just dropping a &quot;use jQuery&quot; bomb and running off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I know how to make really good French toast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everybody loves &lt;s&gt;Raymond&lt;/s&gt;Welbog!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not scared of making decisions and I'm not scared of admitting my decisions are wrong (which they never are, by the way).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why I'm a bad choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm abrupt.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of the time I can be pretty long-winded, y'know? Y'know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a very different approach to moderation than Atwood has. As I'm sure you've seen in my constant disagreements with him. But that just means that, if elected, I'll be here to make sure the other moderators don't let power get to their heads. I hate abuse of power, and so I'd make sure to use my moderating fist of justice only for good. With great lasers come great responsibility, afterall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am dreadfully afraid of bees. Seriously those things creep me out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ironic note is ironic&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Welbog once made a laser so big that even he couldn't blow a hole in a donut with it.&lt;/em&gt; - Orange Catholic Bible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T14:18:05.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T14:18:05.743" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:33:34.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to throw my hat in the ring. I must be a great fool, but it will encourage me to spend more time on SO proper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone seems to be using a fairly standard template here, so I'll go along with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons I'm a good choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm fair, and I think respectful, even when I'm disagreeing with management here.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm already fairly active in junior janitor moderation -- editing, retagging, closing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think I have appropriate taste in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance/32515#32515&quot;&gt;closures&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can write, spell and punctuate correctly in English.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am already somewhat versed in the mod tools, as I am a mod on an SE site (&lt;a href=&quot;http://autos.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Auto-Gurus&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have great Google-fu for finding duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am well-versed in .NET technologies (so evaluating those questions is easy), and moderately well-versed in Apple's development stack (Objective-C, Cocoa, Cocoa-Touch).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons I'm a bad choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm on the lower end of the acceptable rep level (~7,900 as of this morning; yes my Meta rep is approaching singularity with my SO rep, how sad is that)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not always toe the &quot;party line&quot; regarding SO's management techniques. (IE, I have disagreed with not only the management here, but even some of the mods on occasion.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm opinionated. (Though I try not to be a jerk about it.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I change my name on Meta a &lt;strong&gt;lot.&lt;/strong&gt; (However, I'd &lt;em&gt;consider&lt;/em&gt; reverting it back to John Rudy, and leaving it there if elected.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ironic note is ironic:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;John's current record for cigar smoking is a whopping 5 in one day. He did this whilst also enjoying fine bourbon, and writing code.&lt;/em&gt; -- The Book of John, 24:7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jinguy seems to be very successful with his offer of cake bribery. (Hey, I upvoted him for it, I'm not going to lie.) Thus, I now cow to that lowest common denominator. I can't promise you tax cuts, but if elected, merely contact me, and I will happily send you a good cigar. If you do not like cigars, I will e-mail you back a limited-edition (well, as much as bytes on the Internet are limited) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/73443422@N00/4272327909/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;picture&lt;/em&gt; of a cigar&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd offer bourbon or absinthe, but I expect that will get &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; expensive, &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; quickly. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T17:51:59.463" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T17:51:59.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T14:33:34.800" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="35588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35592" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:36:30.007" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I edit my question, does that push it back to the front/top of the list on the questions page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T14:50:12.313" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T14:52:18.237" Title="Does editing a question push it to the top of the the main questions page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:37:32.857" Score="6" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, the Job Listings are given pretty high prominence on the page, yet they are not targeted very well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my &quot;ignored tags&quot; are &lt;code&gt;osx&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;*iphone*&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mac&lt;/code&gt;, you've got a pretty sure bet going that I'm not going to be that interested in the iPhone developer position in San Francisco...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T14:37:32.857" Title="Using the interesting/ignored tags to filter job ads" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" />
  <row Id="35592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35588" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:38:07.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the home page, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the questions page, only if sorted by Activity. Maybe on Hotness. Not if sorted by Newest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131697" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T14:52:18.237" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T14:52:18.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35607" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:47:02.057" Score="4" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take this example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=icepax+site%3Astackoverflow.com%2Fusers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all SO user accounts of user known as &quot;icepax&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine of any human reasons to create a new user account at SO, e.g. willing to restart with a clean (reputation) history. But particular this one is extreme. The user known as &quot;icepax&quot; currently already has 10 accounts, each involved in only &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How and why would one do that? There is certainly more at matter here. Shouldn't it be our task to merge the accounts and inform the user in question about how to use SO and the OpenID properly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:56:47.263" Title="What's the SO policy about having multiple user accounts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;multiple-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35593" CreationDate="2010-01-14T14:51:43.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, it doesn't look like a sock-puppet, but based on the gravatar, those are all the same guy. OpenID issues perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should definitely be merged. That'll be a job for a mod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T14:51:43.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35593" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:08:10.697" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Multiple accounts are gently discouraged without enforcement (or perhaps with gentle, human moderated enforcement from the team).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sock puppetry and vote gaming with multiple accounts are addressed to some degree by the voting anomaly detector. I image that if you are really persistent in such things you'll get the attention of the team, and then....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:08:10.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:21:56.657" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be happy to be a moderator.  I'm not going to try and sell myself here, I'll let my profile speak for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I'm interested is that I get a huge amount of value from using SO but am a lop-sided in terms of what I have contributed vs. what I have got out of it.  This would be a nice way of putting something back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:21:56.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:21:56.657" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:24:33.047" Score="6" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10713/can-we-have-search-default-to-and-instead-of-or&quot;&gt;Can we have search default to &amp;ldquo;AND&amp;rdquo; instead of &amp;ldquo;OR&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22388/why-or-operator-by-default-in-search&quot;&gt;Why OR operator by default in search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21047/why-search-is-so-bad-on-so&quot;&gt;Why search is so bad on SO ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you enter 2 words in the search it defaults to the OR operator, why not to the AND operator (as most search engines do)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to use the AND operator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141840" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T05:06:02.173" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T09:02:51.773" Title="Search with and operator" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="35598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:30:11.693" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53114/gumbo&quot;&gt;Gumbo&lt;/a&gt;. Just cause I think he is a nice guy and he once took a long time to help me with a problem I was having in the comments of an answer, even though he didn't get any &quot;rep&quot; from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure he would do his best to help people and be the best moderator he could be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59730" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:30:11.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:30:11.693" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:30:43.920" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate myself (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2598/jjnguy&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt;) as a Moderator of Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator I will give free cake to all.  That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh, and one more thing:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been a very active member since the private beta.  I am a very old member. (2598)  I have seen the site grow and change into what it is today.  I know how everything works and how the community feels about it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a student I offer a different perspective on matters than some of my older peers on this site; this could be a valuable point of view for the moderator team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although my actual question answering rate has declined since my hay-day, I still visit the site (and meta) every day and watch new questions as they flow in. (Or 30 times a day...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And don't forget about the cake.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Last thought:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't see SO as a game.  I see it as a question and answer website and would moderate it as such.  &lt;em&gt;My goal as moderator would be to promote great answers to great questions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T18:34:35.963" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T18:34:35.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:30:43.920" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="35600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35597" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:31:57.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've tried, it looks like &quot;AND&quot; is not supported in the SO search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see the behavior change as well. Better yet, how about support for boolean operators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the usual answer for questions on SO search is &quot;use Google&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:31:57.350" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:38:05.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll volunteer.  I'm crazy to do so, but I'll do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons I'm a good choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm patient&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm passionate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've been active in internet &quot;culture&quot; since email went in the form site!site!site!user and have seen just about everything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My coworkers allege that I'm wise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons I'm a truly horrible choice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have so very little time, I can't imagine effectively adding another responsibility&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I routinely disappear for large blocks of time to, you know, write code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm innocuous.  Contrary to apparent numeric reputation, I feel I'm largely unnoticed on SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm very self-deprecating, I'm just not very good at it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ironic note is ironic:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;But I don't want to go among mad&#xA;  people,&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Alice remarked. &quot;&lt;em&gt;Oh, you&#xA;  can't help that,&lt;/em&gt;&quot; said the Cat: &quot;&lt;em&gt;we're&#xA;  all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&#xA;  &quot;&lt;em&gt;How do you know I'm mad?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; said Alice.&#xA;  &quot;&lt;em&gt;You must be,&lt;/em&gt;&quot; said the Cat, &quot;&lt;em&gt;or you&#xA;  wouldn't have come here.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141841" LastEditorUserId="141841" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T16:36:30.540" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T16:36:30.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:38:05.043" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:42:46.513" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.johntopley.com/votejt.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Vote JT!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here are a few reasons why you might consider voting for me:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've been using Stack Overflow since the private beta (user ID 1450)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I visit the site lots of times every working day (got to have something to do during those long Java compiles) and quite a lot most weekends too&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I went to Dev Days London (&lt;a href=&quot;http://johntopley.com/2009/10/30/stack-overflow-dev-days-london-2009&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my review&lt;/a&gt;) and paid out of my own pocket, so I guess I'm kind of invested in this thing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm in the UK so can cover whilst the US is asleep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yesterday I got my Fanatic gold badge, so I really am invested in this venture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ruby, Rails and JavaScript are my thing, not C#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29229/use-of-login-logout-is-inconsistent-and-incorrect&quot;&gt;care&lt;/a&gt; about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35268/title-text-for-own-answer-delete-hyperlinks-is-confusing&quot;&gt;details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I single-handedly moderated Joel's old Design of Software forum (R.I.P.) for a number of years&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My avatar's not a caricature, it's a &lt;em&gt;photograph&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the other hand, you might choose to spoil your ballet paper because:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I make a lot of edits that simply fix incorrect apostrophe usage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ruby, Rails and JavaScript are my thing, not C#&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="1450" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T22:17:53.580" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:17:53.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:42:46.513" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="35605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:42:54.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3394/kronoz&quot;&gt;Kronoz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate myself. I am a huge fan of Stackoverflow, both its philosophy and implementation and would be grateful to be able to contribute back further by becoming a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to be fair, reasonable and polite in all my comments/postings, though of course I'm not perfect and sometimes I screw up just like anybody else. However I think I am good enough at the wetware side of things to be able to handle that fairly and reasonably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've worked my way up to over 10k rep so I feel I've shown that I can use the site and clearly haven't been an unreasable fellow to get here in the first place. I started with the beta so I've been here from very early on and understand how the site works well by now. Additionally I have a certain degree of mod powers already which I think I have deployed reasonably and fairly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it's up to the public to decide, however I humbly submit a few of my questions and answers to give you an idea of what I'm about, both the good and the bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41479/use-of-var-keyword-in-c&quot;&gt;Use of var keyword in C#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108141/how-do-i-work-effectively-with-very-messy-legacy-code&quot;&gt;How do I work effectively with VERY messy legacy code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70763/good-c-interview-questions-for-a-senior-dev-position&quot;&gt;Good C# Interview Questions for a Senior Dev Position&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47898/good-practice-projects-to-improve-programming-skills&quot;&gt;Good Practice Projects to Improve Programming Skills&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480775/programmatically-obtaining-big-o-efficiency-of-code&quot;&gt;Programmatically obtaining Big-O efficiency of code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36707/should-a-function-have-only-one-return-statement/36729#36729&quot;&gt;Should a function have only one return statement?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1626597/best-practice-should-functions-return-null-or-an-empty-object/1626620#1626620&quot;&gt;Best Practice: Should functions return null or an empty object?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/44629/why-continue-writing-legacy-systems/44658#44658&quot;&gt;Why continue writing legacy systems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/77352/how-do-i-reward-my-developers-for-the-little-things-they-get-right/77446#77446&quot;&gt;How do I reward my developers for the little things they get right?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623062/why-was-googles-chrome-browser-written-almost-entirely-in-c-and-not-c-or-java/623374#623374&quot;&gt;Why was Google’s Chrome browser written almost entirely in C++ and not C# or Java?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:42:54.907" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:42:54.907" />
  <row Id="35606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:49:47.887" Score="48" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate myself: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13531/mmyers&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mmyers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. (Although it still feels weird.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been an active contributor to Stack Overflow in the past; anyone who's followed the java tag (or is active on Meta) probably recognizes my name. Recently I've had less time to answer, so I end up hanging out in either the newest questions page or the moderation tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would I be a good moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like to keep things in line. That's also why I like being a programmer, coincidentally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I always try to be tactful. More than once I've made a comment and then realized it could be taken two ways, so I deleted it. I try never to engage in snarky commenting, funny as it may seem to other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, I earned a Reversal badge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1681180/homework-question-in-c/1681228#1681228&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to a do-my-homework question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If I have a difference of opinion with other people, my first instinct is to assume I'm wrong. Only when I'm sure of myself do I take action. For this reason, I rarely cast the first close or delete vote on a question. If &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the ideal moderator does as little as possible&lt;/a&gt;, I'm the perfect one for the job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm also a moderator on a game forum, so I have some experience dealing with spam and unruly users. Since I am also one of the game's creators, I also know not to say too much from a position of &quot;power&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would I be a bad moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I don't know. And maybe that is itself the biggest argument against me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I also have a tendency to make corny jokes in comments. I &lt;s&gt;promise&lt;/s&gt; will try to keep them to Meta, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T22:21:28.267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:21:28.267" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:49:47.887" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="35607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35593" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:49:49.243" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not a problem to have multiple accounts, as long as they aren't voting for each other and doing other sockpuppet-y things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it is generally discouraged, as what legitimate reason would you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; for multiple accounts? Idle hands are the devil's playground, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, for this particular user, it seems accidental. Maybe he has his browser configured to drop cookies on close, and isn't interested in registering? Anyway, I merged him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:49:49.243" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35582" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:52:05.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er... what? According to revision history it was &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; tagged [python].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/2064329/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/2064329/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ah, I see -- as noted in the comments, the original author edited it within the 5 minute grace period after posting. Edits in the 5 minute grace period do not count as &quot;official&quot; edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T16:45:34.140" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T16:45:34.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35593" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:56:47.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way to make multiple accounts is to not register, and to drop cookies (or use a different computer) each time you want to create a new account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early on in SO is was made clear that the system would NOT combine accounts with the same email except at user request to avoid possible exploits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple accounts on purpose is frowned upon, and if it is found that the accounts are being used to game the system in some way the user is banned for a period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see suspicious activity regarding multiple accounts, flag one of the user's posts for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:56:47.263" />
  <row Id="35610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T15:57:10.583" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to volunteer (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/115730/dave-delong&quot;&gt;davedelong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I'm a good choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm an active user on SO (I got my Fanatic badge 100 days after signing up and haven't missed a day since).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm patient and try to be fair minded in all my contributions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I'm a bad choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I spend most of my time in Mac-related tags (iPhone, Cocoa, Objective-C, etc).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135683" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T15:57:10.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T15:57:10.583" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T16:02:45.563" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether this question fits here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question - Is there a sister site of stackoverflow in the realm of Bio-Informatics? Some thing like &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mathoverflow&lt;/a&gt; and semanticoverflow which already exist. Is there a site which deals with gene sequencing/gene finding and algorithms involved in Bio-Informatics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135739" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T19:18:11.357" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T19:18:11.357" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T10:53:00.223" Title="Is there a site like Bio-Informatics overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;sister-site&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T16:05:10.240" Score="-15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640/chet-a&quot;&gt;Chet A&lt;/a&gt;, a long-time Stack Overflow user and &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; our glorious leader's secret evil twin. He's far too modest to nominate himself, however I managed to obtain tacit approval:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_chet_accept.png&quot; alt=&quot;Certification of Acceptance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reasons Chet would be a good choice&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's a serious workaholic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His avatar pic looks like an explosion from some 8-bit console game.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Long history of doing boring janitorial work on SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone already hates him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reasons Chet would be a bad choice&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't coddle new users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a fan club &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-nominations/#comment-43053&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dedicated to furthering his cult of personality&lt;/a&gt; at every opportunity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone already hates him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Non sequitur note is non sequitur&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you run this nomination through a Perl interpreter, you'll see a dancing bunny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T15:09:15.657" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:09:15.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T16:05:10.240" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="35614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T16:26:14.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to throw my hat into the ring. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23528/daniel-a-white&quot;&gt;Here is my profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been a member of SO since September 2008. I am practically on the site all the time. I always try to be helpful and polite. I close a lot of questions and able to determine if something needs to be closed right away. I try to be well versed and I try to listen as best I can to help any problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My mission in life is very similar to SO - share your knowledge. Why should one brain store everything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you guys have any questions, please reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23528" LastEditorUserId="23528" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T17:17:52.177" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T17:17:52.177" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T16:26:14.793" />
  <row Id="35616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30559" CreationDate="2010-01-14T16:28:54.270" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I'm a big Latex fan, I don't think the work would be justified for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO is one of the sites on the web that gets unicode right, you can do standard things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;K ⊆ A&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;O(n²)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;anyway. And &amp;lt;sub&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt; are whitelisted, so you can even do more complicated things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;k&lt;sub&gt;1,&amp;hellip;,n&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;e&lt;sup&gt;ɣ&lt;sup&gt;2n-1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T16:28:54.270" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35612" CreationDate="2010-01-14T16:35:34.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1 - Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - It doesn't look like there's one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 - ??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 - Profit !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T16:35:34.663" />
  <row Id="35620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T16:40:24.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel I can be fair for the most part, and like to contribute actively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been on SO for over a year, and have learnt a huge amount reading through questions and answers, and like to plug that knowledge back into the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know at times I can be harsh on people, but this is the internet, and that's generally what people do.  I can also take criticism and will humbly accept when I am wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also on the right side of the Atlantic for those that are awake in the GMT+0 times of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I'm primarily a Microsoft fan (boo, hiss) I don't treat other technologies with disdain, as without Java, where would C# be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as proof I known what I'm doing: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;italic&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;code&gt;interesting&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; IModerator newModerator = CheeseFactory.CreateModerator(&quot;ck&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cksiteoftreats.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The worst website in the world&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;= this link is to the worst website in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a good website: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Some strange logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130402" LastEditorUserId="130402" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T08:16:04.703" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T08:16:04.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T16:40:24.603" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T16:49:53.787" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18511/kip&quot;&gt;Kip&lt;/a&gt; (myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c621039e41aef415ad25054da3bf3f9a?s=127&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons why I might be a good choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps best known as the guy who said that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432/what-real-life-bad-habits-has-programming-given-you/164556#164556&quot;&gt;256 is a nice, round number&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I follow Joel's view that no question is too simple for Stack Overflow. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/223393/how-do-i-get-the-length-of-a-string-in-perl&quot;&gt;How do I get the length of a string in Perl?&lt;/a&gt; are OK in my book, as long as they are not duplicates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've been very active on Meta Stack Overflow, suggesting improvements for the site. Here are my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bstatus-completed%5D+user%3A18511&quot;&gt;completed suggestions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bstatus-deferred%5D+user%3A18511&quot;&gt;deferred suggestions&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bstatus-declined%5D+user%3A18511&quot;&gt;declined suggestions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've also contributed several &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgreasemonkey%5D+user%3A18511&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey scripts&lt;/a&gt; to improve Stack Overflow experience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I tell quite a lot about myself in the about me section of my profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I'm elected I will finally bring an end to war, famine, and disease.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons why I might be a bad choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was willing to nominate myself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a full-time job. Even though I use Stack Overflow a lot during the day, when things get busy at work I sometimes go through weeks of inactivity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not very active outside the C++, Java, Perl, regex, JavaScript, jQuery, and math tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can see me at my worst in the edit history of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. I wrote that after getting very frustrated in a comment thread with he-who-shall-not-be-named. After editing out the offensive stuff, though, it is now a very highly-rated suggestion on Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I hold &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11017/what-are-the-most-upvoted-downvoted-questions-and-answers-on-the-sites/11022#11022&quot;&gt;the record&lt;/a&gt; for most downvoted answer on Stack Overflow. (The afore-mentioned 256-is-a-round-number answer.)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In my defense, Jeff and/or Joel encouraged everyone to downvote that answer on one of the early podcasts. The goal was to keep the question's score at exactly 256. It is currently approaching 1024 votes. ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T23:51:58.903" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:51:58.903" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T16:49:53.787" />
  <row Id="35623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T17:03:06.750" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a mug; I'll volunteer.  Apart from being a long time user of SO, I have a long history of participating in news groups on 'Usenet' (remember that?).  For the rest, I'll let my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15168&quot;&gt;record&lt;/a&gt; speak for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="15168" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T21:58:41.377" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T21:58:41.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T17:03:06.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T17:10:50.323" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Buggers, there are a lot of votes placed already but here it goes:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate myself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/acc8b114aaacc5d73fc69babf311cd1f?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; Robert C. Cartaino&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm one of those &quot;refresh every 2-minutes&quot; users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My &quot;Resume-Style&quot; Pros:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strong Participant&lt;/strong&gt; - I'm on Stack Overflow every day and steadily throughout the day. I have my Fanatic badge and keep on top of meta discussions. I listen with eager attention to all the Stack Overflow Podcasts and blogs, so I have a deep understanding of how (and, more importantly, why) Stack Overflow works. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Experience with Moderator Tools&lt;/strong&gt; - I am a administrator in the StackExchange beta so I am already familiar with the moderator tools and how everything works behind the scenes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Industry Experience&lt;/strong&gt; - I started my first BBS in 1980, and have been building &quot;online communities&quot; ever since. I have run some of the largest systems in their class. I used to give seminars on &lt;em&gt;&quot;Concepts of Cyberspace&quot;&lt;/em&gt; where I developed a deep understanding of what builds (and, more importantly, destroys) online communities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am Self-Employed&lt;/strong&gt; - I am around during the workday when Stack Overflow is the busiest, but I am also around to fill in those holes during off-peak hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My *Real* Pros:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hands-Off Approach&lt;/strong&gt; - I believe Stack Overflow is designed to be run by everyday users. Moderators are there to step in where users cannot (technical limitations) or will not (mass hysteria, mob rule) act in accordance with Stack Overflow's continued success.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strong-But-Balanced Business Sense&lt;/strong&gt; - I'm here to keep Stack Overflow healthy and pain-free. I've been a programmer, a business owner, and a community builder. I want everyone to have fun but I know where to draw the line so Stack Overflow doesn't devolve into... well, Yahoo! Answers or YouTube comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Strong Opinions, Weakly Held&lt;/strong&gt; - I will operate under a well-define set of guidelines and principles. I try to be consistent but, when presented with a well-thought-out argument, I am quick to re-evaluate and change my perspective, when appropriate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm No Stack Overflow Fanboy&lt;/strong&gt; - I don't get caught up in the power trips or get swept up in OS and technology wars. Truth be told, I'm more interested in the usability and motivations which makes the Stack Overflow &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; work. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cons: &lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation Limitation&lt;/strong&gt; - Technically, I don't meet the 7000-reputation requirement (currently 6,125). But that doesn't mean I lack the &lt;em&gt;experience&lt;/em&gt; with these systems (Meta: ranked #14 of 13,755 users (rep: 10,695); Super User: ranked #47 of 22,225 users (rep: 3,322); StackExchange: ranked #3 of 1,015 users (rep: 4,729).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not in the Clique&lt;/strong&gt; - I don't make nearly enough pony and waffle references to earn the really big community accolades. &lt;em&gt;I will try harder in the future.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood Hates Me&lt;/strong&gt; - Nah, not really (at least I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; so). I just thought I would try for the sympathy vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:22:04.060" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:22:04.060" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T17:10:50.323" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T17:15:50.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright, at the risk of being mauled I'll throw in my own self-nomination as well. I'm a very active SO user (mainly traveling in the .NET and SQL Server circles, though I'll dip my toes outside on occasion), and I generally feel like I'm a pretty level-headed person when it comes to evaluating questions and answers (and producing answers myself). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since everyone's been doing bullet points, I'll follow suit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons I'd Make a Good Moderator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very active in the community (though I would imagine this is true of &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; who nominates himself)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to help out new and inexperienced users with formatting, subject, and structural corrections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep a level head (most of the time!) when it comes to the not-infrequent internet $%^&amp;amp;-measuring contests that take place in the comments section&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great spelling skeelz.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not particularly aware of any reasons that I should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a moderator (though that certainly doesn't mean they can't exist!), otherwise I wouldn't be applying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't have any gold badges yet, so maybe that's a reason ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134959" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T17:15:50.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T17:15:50.450" />
  <row Id="35627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T17:36:59.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to step up. Profile: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1695&quot;&gt;Gishu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too late in the night for me to write an elevator pitch. I'll let the votes and my SO profile decide (pretty minimal presence on meta and the others, which is a nice segue into)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pro/Con: Favor minimalism. That is my excuse for saying I'll be able to do the mod thing, 15-30 mins a day. Walking a flimsy tightrope with a resource-hungry day job, a great family, a blog that's threatening to put itself up for adoption and a love for programming languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Like to be inconspicuous - will do my best to remain in the shadows. Still I'd like to volunteer for a year - the least I could do for SO and its community.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Haven't been in a mud-slinging event on SO since I joined.. a year+. I think I'm the calm-n-composed type for the most part.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So checkmark on prereqs 3..6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T17:36:59.903" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T17:36:59.903" />
  <row Id="35628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T17:45:37.450" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll volunteer as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Qualifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While I'm a bit of a jerk, I'm not as bad as RichB.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I already do perform the moderation duties I'm allowed, e.g. cleaning up questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm a mod at &lt;a href=&quot;http://dotnetkicks.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dotnetkicks&lt;/a&gt;, so I already know the cross which I'm volunteering to bear &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beta tester, got my sticker for free (was on 2nd page)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not super-anal; I'm not interested in throwing my mod-weight around&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons to avoid like the plague&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not super-anal; I wouldn't ban RichB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't spend every minute here like some people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not that into ponies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While I do participate on meta, it isn't all that often (twice a week)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm a bit of a jerk sometimes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T17:45:37.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T17:45:37.450" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T17:50:56.220" Score="5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not asked or answered a single question on meta, but I got notified of a teacher badge today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[edit] do the guys need some unit tests? ... hehehe ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138784" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T18:46:30.743" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T18:46:30.743" Title="Why did I get a teacher badge without answering a question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35629" CreationDate="2010-01-14T17:52:32.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you answered a question that was migrated to Meta and then deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T17:52:32.800" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T18:21:06.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to skip past established practice and nominate someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5023/ash&quot;&gt;Ash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ash has been a very knowledgeable and stable member of SO for some time; I've read a fair few of his answers and they appear knowledgeable, well thought out, and above all even-handed even in his approach to comments he's disagreed with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Now we just need to make Ash aware of his nomination to see if he'd like to accept the &quot;opportunity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PPS. Really think mods should not be able to nominate themselves, it's just not polite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PPPS. Ash, you owe me some recs :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131620" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T20:45:36.413" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T20:45:36.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T18:21:06.167" />
  <row Id="35635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35577" CreationDate="2010-01-14T18:21:17.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two big issues with code formatting that leads to side-scrollitis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excessive intendation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;excessively long lines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#1 can be solved by removing excessive indentation or by converting 8-space tabs to 4 spaces.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;#2 can be solved by inserting more line breaks, e.g. turning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;MyFunction(reallyreallylongarg1, reallyreallylongarg2, reallyreallylongarg3, reallyreallylongarg4, reallyreallylongarg5, reallyreallylongarg6);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;MyFunction(reallyreallylongarg1, reallyreallylongarg2,&#xA;    reallyreallylongarg3, reallyreallylongarg4,&#xA;    reallyreallylongarg5, reallyreallylongarg6);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#1 could possibly be done programmatically by the site, but #2 depends on the syntax of the language and is best done by a human who can decide the best reformatting based on context. But we've got lots of users with editing privileges; does this really need to be addressed programmatically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;tl;dr:&lt;/em&gt; This is what 2000+ reputation users are for! If you see badly formatted code, step in and clean it up! All hail the Junior Janitor!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T18:21:17.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35629" CreationDate="2010-01-14T18:45:02.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because of your answer to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35371/the-perfect-programmable-christmas-gift/35380#35380&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35371/the-perfect-programmable-christmas-gift/35380#35380&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I migrated it, it lived on meta for a while (long enough to generate badges), then I had second thoughts, and migrated it back to SO -- which means it was deleted on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/380354/the-perfect-programmable-christmas-gift&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/380354/the-perfect-programmable-christmas-gift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T18:45:02.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T18:46:10.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to throw my name into the running as well. I had tried to prepare a wild, elaborate detail as to why, but then I went back to going through Stack Overflow posts so here is what I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why I'd be a good choice&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am a moderator on other forums, so I have had lots of practice being balanced and fair in this type of role&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am active on SO across multiple tags so I keep an eye on a lot of different questions, discussions etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I try to get out to SO at least 5-6 times a day to keep up on things&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a proven record of being fair, honest, and willing to make changes should they be needed for anything that has been posted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Why I might not be a good choice&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My activity at times can be limited, but I always make up for it when I get back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I too was willing to nominate myself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T23:39:19.803" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:39:19.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T18:46:10.913" />
  <row Id="35641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T18:47:10.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate myself: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17/nick-berardi&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick Berardi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And like others I am a little hesitant to, because an honor like this usually comes from a 3rd party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been an active member of Stack Overflow since the beginning.  (I am user #17 so I got in pretty early.)  I will work hard to keep the content approachable and relevant to Stack Overflow users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;I feel I will make a good moderator for the following reasons:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I enjoy programming with a passion. (Isn't that enough?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a level head and bring that to the moderation of content that is posted on Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I love learning and reading about languages and methologies that I don't yet understand, so I won't be a one-sided moderator only sticking to one language or field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I know this sounds corny, but I would be here to help make this already great site better, or at least I would give it my all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;I probably won't make a good moderator for any of the following reasons:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See google, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=nick+berardi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=nick+berardi&lt;/a&gt;, I am sure you can find something.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am not the hair dresser also in the Philadelphia area with the same name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like a politician.  Vote &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17/nick-berardi&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick Berardi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17" LastEditorUserId="18393" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T01:49:30.253" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T01:49:30.253" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T18:47:10.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35563" CreationDate="2010-01-14T18:54:27.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally agree with this one.  The system should reward you for coming back and perfecting your question, not punish you for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T18:54:27.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T18:54:44.343" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another self-moderation!  I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4926/jason-cohen&quot;&gt;Jason Cohen&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;12k rep&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackExchange Moderator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along with Dharmesh Shah, I co-host the StackExchange-based Answers.OnStartups.com.  We've built a great community there, as you can see by checking out a few random questions and answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This demonstrates I have the skillz to be fair and develop a quality culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long-time User&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was a beta-tester at SO and have seen the site and culture evolve.  I've followed the blog and participated in the discussions so I also have a deep understanding of why the culture is what it is, and therefore how to encourage it without discouraging participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141855" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T18:54:44.343" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T18:54:44.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35597" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:09:41.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a way to do this, but it's obscure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quotes trigger strict matching, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22perl+array%22&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22perl+array%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that strict matching search mode is &lt;strong&gt;typically only used for phrases&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want it in words, you have to use quotes around each word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22xts%22%20%22mode%22&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22xts%22%20%22mode%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;compare with results from non-quoted version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=xts+mode&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=xts+mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T05:06:02.173" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T05:06:02.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22388" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:09:55.663" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now implemented in a simpler way; just begin each word with a + if it must appear in your results, eg:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;+apples +oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T10:56:17.560" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T10:56:17.560" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:10:38.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a way to do this, but it's obscure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quotes trigger strict matching, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22perl+array%22&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22perl+array%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that strict matching search mode is &lt;strong&gt;typically only used for phrases&lt;/strong&gt;. If you want it in words, you have to use quotes around each word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22xts%22%20%22mode%22&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22xts%22%20%22mode%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;compare with results from non-quoted version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=xts+mode&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=xts+mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added an alias for this using plus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to ensure that the words appear in the results, start them with a plus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+apples +oranges&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T22:02:10.387" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T22:02:10.387" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:23:36.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to volunteer to run for this action, too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User 4418: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4418&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4418&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;active to varying extents on all 4 sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;enjoy the community&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would like to see it continue to flourish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T19:23:36.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T19:23:36.647" />
  <row Id="35648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:25:45.300" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to volunteer for moderation duties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I would make a good moderator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have been here since the beta, so I know the history of the site, its intentions and direction (insofar as I understand it), its policy, and I agree (largely) with it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am on Stack Overflow all day, that is, as much as possible when I have Internet available, even if I'm not doing any programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm a Norwegian, so I'm on European time, probably a good idea to have moderators from different time zones (but that is also a vote towards other non-US moderators)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can be fair (but I have to admit that I've also been unfair, I know I have some answers and comments on SO that I'm not entirely proud of, but they're mine, so I'll leave them)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why I might not make a good moderator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being a good moderator for such a group of smart people comes with huge responsibility, I'm not entirely sure I would be able to fill those shoes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can't point to much experience in being a moderator before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My SO profile is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/267/lasse-v-karlsen&quot;&gt;@Lasse V. Karlsen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must say though that I find it entirely odd that the system of choosing new moderators involves the potential candidates nominating themselves, I'm rather used to others nominating them, and them then being asked afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is what it is, so here I am, and doing my part (which is volunteering). Now you do your part and vote me up or down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and if I'm not chosen, I'm going to go sulk in the basement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nah, just kidding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a basement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T22:01:30.997" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:01:30.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T19:25:45.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:27:34.860" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/TllVd.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/658/kyle-cronin&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/Ao9Bd.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to put forth myself as a candidate to be a Stack Overflow moderator. As a moderator here on Meta, I've had the opportunity to get experience with the moderator tools and when and how to use them effectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experienced with moderation tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderate with a light touch, but I'm not afraid to make &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post&quot;&gt;potentially controversial calls&lt;/a&gt; I think are in the best interest of the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm only human, so I will make mistakes, but I also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6441/clicking-on-tags-with-wildcards-gives-you-a-blank-page&quot;&gt;admit and fix&lt;/a&gt; incorrect calls I've made&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Active on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open about personal details in the interest of transparency (real name, picture, email address, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Longtime active user on Stack Overflow (I have both the Beta and Fanatic badges)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Low recent activity on Stack Overflow (this would obviously change)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Already a moderator elsewhere in the trilogy (I understand giving another person the opportunity)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T01:43:44.163" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T01:43:44.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T19:27:34.860" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="35652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4168" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:56:10.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ananthakumaran/wmd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The most active branch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ananthakumaran/wmd/downloads&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;v2 download page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T19:56:10.800" />
  <row Id="35653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27821" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:56:45.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ananthakumaran/wmd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The most active branch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ananthakumaran/wmd/downloads&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;v2 download page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T19:56:45.650" />
  <row Id="35654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35084" CreationDate="2010-01-14T19:57:56.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ananthakumaran/wmd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The most active branch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ananthakumaran/wmd/downloads&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;v2 download page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T19:57:56.523" />
  <row Id="35655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T20:00:20.150" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sup-a-Dillie-O All!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/71/dillie-o&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt; for the role of moderator. I've been in part of the SOFUM suite since the early beta testing and believe I have a good grasp on the &quot;big picture&quot; with the overflow sites. This puts me in a good position to keep a level head despite the &#xA;flare-ups that pass through from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on Stack Overflow every day and while I'm no &quot;rock star&quot; participant, I'm dedicated to see the site continue its AMAZING success it has had in nearly over a year now. If you want consistency, level headedness, and dedication, I'm your man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="71" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T21:51:29.303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T21:51:29.303" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T20:00:20.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T20:15:06.390" Score="9" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31912/is-it-worth-hiding-links&quot;&gt;Is it worth hiding links?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read around the messages thing but still dont see why I need to show interest to see the complete message, why not just show the full message and then I can decide if I am interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just had a message that I thought I was probably not interested in, but as there were hidden items, I decided to click on the interest/show full message link.  This added nothing of importance to affect my view, so I now want to respond &quot;no interest&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously I can convey this to the company when they contact me, but it would save time for all concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Chris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T20:15:06.390" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T03:17:04.233" Title="Careers message flow, why need to show interest in order to see full message" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T20:40:59.030" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54680/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sampsonresume.com/projects/nomination.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T22:39:09.990" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:39:09.990" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T20:40:59.030" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="35659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T21:15:04.270" Score="25" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35583/nominations-new-stack-overflow-moderator&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow moderator nominations&lt;/a&gt; are going along really well, but like last time there doesn't seem to be a due date.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you've emailed every SO user that's eligible for nomination, and we already have 25 nominations with at least one vote (ie, nominated and seconded), I don't see a reason to have an open ended nomination process with an unknown (and undoubtedly sudden) closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please set a date and time to officially end the nomination process and publish the final candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also please set a time (or even rough timeframe) for the Stackoverflow vote and final results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T22:33:16.437" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T16:56:47.890" Title="Set a due date for moderator nominations" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T21:28:52.007" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18404/200-rep-limit-over-what-period-exactly&quot;&gt;200 Rep Limit over what period exactly?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At what time of the day does the 200 rep cap limit reset.  For example as of 4:24pm today I have earned 97 reps for the day.  So &quot;today&quot; I earned 97 reps.  What time of the day does &quot;tomorrow&quot; begin whereby I will have earned 0 reps thus resetting the 200 rep daily limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141581" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:10:26.453" ClosedDate="2010-01-14T23:11:32.613" Title="When does the rep cap reset for the day?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T21:50:22.347" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say hook up &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/811/shog9&quot;&gt;Shog9&lt;/a&gt; for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's been around since the early days.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He participates with a level head.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He's funny and seems to have a sense of humour about things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And keep Marc and Bill (if they want it).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They have been doing a great job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T21:50:22.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T21:50:22.347" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35662" CreationDate="2010-01-14T21:52:19.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;4:00 PM Pacific Standard Time&lt;br&gt;&#xA;5:00 PM Mountain Standard Time&lt;br&gt;&#xA;6:00 PM Central Standard Time&lt;br&gt;&#xA;7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I do not believe it shifts for daylight time savings ... but I cannot confirm that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all other times, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&amp;amp;day=14&amp;amp;year=2010&amp;amp;hour=16&amp;amp;min=0&amp;amp;sec=0&amp;amp;p1=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T22:10:26.453" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:10:26.453" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T21:52:40.423" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12178/shoban&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;. Nothing much to say about me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am passionate about programming and I love the Stack Overflow concept. It would be an honour to be a Stack Overflow moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131061/marcgg&quot;&gt;marcgg&lt;/a&gt; commented&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just saying, it'd be nice to have&#xA;  moderators in all the timezones, not&#xA;  just US&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I am from India :). I must admit that I am not much active on Meta Stack Overflow or Super User or Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T02:31:16.837" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T02:31:16.837" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T21:52:40.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35662" CreationDate="2010-01-14T21:56:56.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;About when I go to bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been meaning to ask Jeff to make that more accurate...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But yes, midnight UTC in reality.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T21:56:56.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35673" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:29:51.180" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Curious how this might be perceived by the community...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I wanted to change my username from &quot;Yoooder&quot; to &quot;Millllller&quot;... changing my name is simple in StackOverflow, however let's say other user's mentioned &quot;Yoooder&quot; in their comments.  Would it be OK for me to take the time to update their mention to use my updated name (rather than having them mention a no-longer-existant username)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or... would it likely be perceived as edit-spamming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132612" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:42:42.087" Title="Changing Username - would editing other user's posts be appropriate if they refer to the old username?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:32:14.013" Score="4" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some questions about about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35583/nominations-new-stack-overflow-moderator&quot;&gt;moderator election process&lt;/a&gt; (which should be decided &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, before the list of candidates is fixed and bias may start to creep in):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say the process is as simple as people voting in a CW thread (as was the case with the nominations)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are upvotes as well as downvotes to be counted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What users are eligible? (does a member have to have had an account for a minimum period of time? what about a minimum rep, question/answer ratio, upvote/downvotes (received) ratio?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is preventing users from creating duplicate accounts so as to cast multiple votes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How are complaints to be resolved? Complaints could come from the candidates, as well as from the voters. Unbiased people must be available to offer assistance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long will the voting be open for, and will it accomodate users equally in all timezones?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long will nominations be closed before voting begins?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will voters be notified that there is an election? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May a user vote for (and/or against) more than one candidate?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What process will be used if I wish to retract a vote before the polls close?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are candidates allowed to post a statement regarding their candidacy, are there any restrictions as to what they can use in their statement, will this be in a post or may they send these statements to all users?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are bribes and/or bounties permitted on behalf of the candidates?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May users pose questions to the candidates?&#xA;Will this be a free-form discussion thread, or should questions be submitted in advance to all candidates and answers prepared?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be seen as going overboard, as I realize this isn't a true democratic election but rather just a way to reflect the userbase's opinion so that the site management can select &quot;well-liked&quot; people. Still, some of these questions might be valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T10:51:08.403" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T10:51:08.403" Title="Clarifications requested on the moderator election process" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="35671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35672" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:28:54.367" Score="5" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does any one knows wich component SO uses to generate graphs like the one used to show the reputation points ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141880" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:34:19.677" Title="Which component Stack Overflow uses to generate graphs/charts?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;graphics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35671" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:30:23.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/flot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/flot/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:34:19.677" />
  <row Id="35673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35669" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:42:42.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, given that you can't edit other people's comments, it's all a bit hypothetical.  However, I'd say editing answers where it would help with clarity would be acceptable (although probably a lot of work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been other discussions about this previously, BTW:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31851/change-all-username-references-in-comments-when-a-user-changes-their-name&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31851/change-all-username-references-in-comments-when-a-user-changes-their-name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34867/add-support-for-linking-username-in-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34867/add-support-for-linking-username-in-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:42:42.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35675" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:46:43.967" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23787/how-did-i-get-5-points-for-2-upvotes-on-my-answer-on-so&quot;&gt;How did I get 5 points for 2 upvotes on my answer, on SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28402/no-reputation-for-upvote-given&quot;&gt;No reputation for upvote given?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29716/recent-activity-vote-counts-are-missing-corrupt&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Recent activity&amp;rdquo; vote counts are missing/corrupt&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this happen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/2vmu148.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of rep history&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I have 3 upvotes on one question and 7 upvotes on another. But the net is just 22, instead of 100. Why? Neither are community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T23:56:16.600" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:56:16.600" ClosedDate="2010-01-14T23:58:11.383" Title="Why do upvotes not always result in +10?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35674" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:50:45.517" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a cap on the increase in reputation for one day.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23787/how-did-i-get-5-points-for-2-upvotes-on-my-answer-on-so&quot;&gt;How did I get 5 points for 2 upvotes on my answer, on SO&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T22:50:45.517" />
  <row Id="35676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T22:58:01.227" Score="5" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a few questions that were in itself perfectly valid, but badly worded. I do not mean the problem where the author is not native English and comes across rather harsh unintentially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2065391/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about double escaping in PHP. Was it right to close this? I can very well sympathize with that, because you reap what you sow and the author asked for it. But that doesn't make the question any less valid, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058983/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about disappearing content on eBay. Again, I think the question in itself is okay, just the author seemed to be extremely excited about this &quot;Magic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just two examples that just make me wonder: Are the tools that we have adequate and are they used in the right way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that they are or are not, I would just like to know if there is really no better way to preserve a good question? Editing requires 2000 rep, while closing requires 3000. So in theory, everyone who could vote close could also edit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I agree we shouldn't support laziness and have to decrypt the question from the author. Then again, closing the question to &quot;punish&quot; the author for sloppiness also punishes the people who could use the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People could just ask the same question when they run into the same problem though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in theory we have all the tools and options to punish &quot;bad&quot; users and to keep questions at a high quality level. But still I sometimes &quot;feel&quot; that something is slightly off-balance and could need fine tuning, but I'm not sure what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I just &quot;overreacting&quot; because of 1 in thousands of questions are wrecked that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is SO specific, no idea about SU or SF)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T14:39:37.833" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:39:37.833" Title="Perfectly Valid Questions with bad wording and people jumping on them" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35677" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:00:05.887" Score="-10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2275/make-links-posted-by-users-open-in-a-new-window&quot;&gt;make links posted by users open in a new window&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I follow a link in a question on any question/answer on S[OUF] it doesn't open in a new tab. I think it should. I'm not a big fan of having to use the back button and wait for a page to load all over again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't all links open in a new tab anyway? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T18:08:46.650" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:08:46.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T18:08:46.650" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T10:38:32.113" Title="Have all links open in a new tab?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35677" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:01:26.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could right-click and use the context menu to open the link in a new tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:01:26.193" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35677" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:06:08.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I typically open question in a new tab, I believe making this the default behavior would be unconventional, and remove the user's option to open things as they desire. Additionally, modern browsers/operating systems typically provide you with many mechanisms to achieve this goal. Personally, I'm a fan of the center/wheel click to open things in a new tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:06:08.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35676" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:14:35.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to state, that I embrace both close reasons. Thanks, close voters!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not get your point, Micheal, sorry. The first one is offensive the second is very likely spam, a cheap trick to get more attention to the ebay offer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If both, the offense and the spam was not intended, then the askers have to learn how to ask. I doubt they will get it, if experienced users edit out these kind of &lt;em&gt;mistakes&lt;/em&gt;. Closing is the best thing to do here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:14:35.290" />
  <row Id="35681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35676" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:19:55.870" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or am I just &quot;overreacting&quot; because of 1 in thousands of questions are wrecked that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah. I mean, it sucks... But speaking as someone who does occasionally try to clean these questions up before they get voted into the dirt and closed, it's not always trivial: if you change too little, it does no good - the damage is already done, and any comments or  answers posted before you edited silhouette the tone of the original question; change too much, you risk losing something the OP actually wanted (whether or not he should have wanted it is another matter, but you can't save folks from themselves).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And all the while, plenty of folks are out there asking decent questions. Questions that could maybe use a little help with code formatting or grammar but don't immediately put your teeth on edge and could probably be answered just fine without being edited at all, albeit with a bit more effort required from those reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I threw away a couple of edits yesterday because the questions involved had no answers and &gt;= 4 down-votes: I doubt they would have gotten any attention even after being cleaned up. Sometimes, I'll still edit these - you never know what attention better tags + title will bring, and if nothing else there's maybe a chance that the original author will learn something and do a better job next time... But it can be hard to justify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:19:55.870" />
  <row Id="35682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35677" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:21:20.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even when you forget to use some modifier key or middle-click to open a link in a new tab or window: most browsers allow you to click the back button using the same modifier key. That will then open the previous page in a new tab or window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Like in Safari and Firefox on OS X: Command-click a link to open that link in a new tab, or Command-click the Back button to open the previous page in a new tab. This also works for pages further down in the history, like the list shown in Safari when keeping the back button pressed for a second. In Safari and Firefox the new tab will not have any history though; one cannot go back any further from that new tab.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Hence: no, please do not open all links in a new tab...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:21:20.830" />
  <row Id="35683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35670" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:22:32.260" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could be wrong, but I expect you've put &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;way&lt;/strong&gt; more thought into this than Jeff has, and therefore, most of your questions will be answered by &quot;who knows?&quot;  I'm doing educated guesses from last election to hopefully give &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; information, even though these are all hypotheses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is preventing users from creating duplicate accounts so as to cast multiple votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will almost certainly need a min reputation amount, last time it was 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How are complaints to be resolved? Complaints could come from the candidates, as well as from the voters. Unbiased people must be available to offer assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What type of complaints are you expecting to make?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long will the voting be open for, and will it accomodate users equally in all timezones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likely a week or 2, so yes.  Last time it was 2 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will voters be notified that there is an election?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An announcement on the blog, and the global announcement bar on the pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May a user vote for (and/or against) more than one candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely you only get 1 positive vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What process will be used if I wish to retract a vote before the polls close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote more carefully next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are candidates allowed to post a statement regarding their candidacy, are there any restrictions as to what they can use in their statement, will this be in a post or may they send these statements to all users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They pretty much already have.  Maybe they'll refine it after nominations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May users pose questions to the candidates? Will this be a free-form discussion thread, or should questions be submitted in advance to all candidates and answers prepared?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yea, you can always post comments on their posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are bribes and/or bounties permitted on behalf of the candidates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously?  Come on, you're just spending ASCII now.  You got stock in it or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-14T23:26:12.533" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:26:12.533" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:36:36.630" Score="-2" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it was your intention to do it this way already, but I think down votes should be ignored.  Candidates nomination or election should be based strictly on their up vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T11:30:55.567" Title="Ignore down votes in the moderator nomination and election" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="35686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35670" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:36:53.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;election&quot; is merely a way to help Jeff choose the next moderator(s).  He did not publish the results last time, is not likely to this time, and is not bound by the results.  At best this process is used to make sure that 1) the candidates want to do the work and 2) the users of SO like them well enough to put up with them (ie, give Jeff less grief)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the prior election, your questions were answered as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Say the process is as simple as people voting in a CW thread (as was the case with the nominations)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting was done on a custom page on stackoverflow which allowed each user with 200 or more rep to vote once.  It was not done in a typical question/answer format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What users are eligible? (does a member have to have had an account for a minimum period of time? what about a minimum rep, question/answer ratio, upvote/downvotes (received) ratio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users with 7k+ rep are eligible to be candidates, assuming they are nominated, Users with 200+ rep are eligible to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is preventing users from creating duplicate accounts so as to cast multiple votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing that was visible during the voting period last time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How are complaints to be resolved? Complaints could come from the candidates, as well as from the voters. Unbiased people must be available to offer assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Candidates were free to refuse their nomination during the voting process by emailing team@stackoverflow.com.  Users that had voted for them were given their vote back, and notified next time they visited SO that they still had a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this was not a democratic process, no other measures were in place, but right now you can either email the team, or bring issues up on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long will the voting be open for, and will it accomodate users equally in all timezones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting lasted a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long will nominations be closed before voting begins?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was more than a week between nominations and voting last time.  A lot more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it'll be 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How will voters be notified that there is an election?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notification bar (ie, &quot;You received 2 answers and three comments&quot;) that appears sometimes when you visit SO will show up for every eligible voter when they visit SO during the voting period.  It will continue to appear until they vote, badgering them, day in, and day out.  It will appear in their dreams, and haunt them at their workstation.  There will be no escape, no respite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No doubt some will go mad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's for the good of the community, so &lt;em&gt;sacrifice must be made&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May a user vote for (and/or against) more than one candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.  One vote per user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What process will be used if I wish to retract a vote before the polls close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may not.  Once submitted your vote cannot be recalled, except in the case of your chosen candidate leaving the race, or if you make a mistake you may attempt emailing the team and pleading your case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are candidates allowed to post a statement regarding their candidacy, are there any restrictions as to what they can use in their statement, will this be in a post or may they send these statements to all users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC, in the voting page candidate names linked to their user page.  They were encouraged to change their user page message to whatever they felt would represent their candidacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are bribes and/or bounties permitted on behalf of the candidates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing that I saw was done to encourage or discourage any activities that occurred outside SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May users pose questions to the candidates? Will this be a free-form discussion thread, or should questions be submitted in advance to all candidates and answers prepared?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there was a question with an answer for each candidate, and they did respond to comments there.  I don't recall exactly though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:36:53.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35685" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:39:42.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the vote splits should be taken into account.  Downvotes are important as well, but yes, they can be abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this is only a nomination, not a vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:39:42.720" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35677" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:42:47.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have all links open in a new tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;No!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:42:47.690" />
  <row Id="35689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:43:06.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One person who has greatly impressed me with his knowledge and light touch with people is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/70604/pascal-thivent&quot;&gt;Pascal Thivent&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't know if he would be interested in the job, but I think he's a good choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastEditorUserId="131628" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T02:49:25.000" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T02:49:25.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T23:43:06.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35692" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:47:43.530" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice for questions that have close or reopen votes to show that on the home or questions page, maybe like this pic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4397/sotoclose.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  This would only show for the 3k+ users who could vote to open or close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T19:56:18.600" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T01:58:04.963" Title="On Home or Question page show close/reopen status" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;&lt;questions-page&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35690" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:50:14.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;10K users can see lists of questions with open/close votes. I'm not sure we need to increase the exposure of this to all users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:50:14.600" />
  <row Id="35692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35690" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:51:54.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That information is intentionally left out - it's either open or closed, and in order to find out the number of votes in any direction one must open the question and at least run their eyes over the actual content to get to the part that shows them if people are voting to open or close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10K+ reputation tools have insight into this, though, so this is a feature already reserved for higher rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:51:54.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:54:00.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/36565/dribeas&quot;&gt;dribeas&lt;/a&gt;) will pop in the game. I have been an active user for quite a while and spend quite a bit of time each day in SO browsing C++ (where I am most active), C#, Java and Python. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time I participate by commenting to improve answers or to help correct small details in overall appropriate responses. In most of the cases that ends with answers being corrected by the author, improving the overall quality of the site and maintaining a low downvote/upvote ratio (less than 10%). In all those cases, where I downvoted and discussed the reasons, I never got into an argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On my judgement on question quality, it seems appropriate as all the questions I voted for closing were actually closed, and the two questions I voted for reopening were also reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the negative side, I hardly ever go into questions that are not tagged with &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;python&lt;/code&gt;, so chances to spot problems in all other questions are limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a last note, I also endorse &lt;strong&gt;Neil Butterworth&lt;/strong&gt; (also in GMT+0 timezone) nomination, as shared interests made us coincide many times, and from what I know, I do trust him with the responsibility of moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131866" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T01:26:52.250" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T01:26:52.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-14T23:54:00.847" />
  <row Id="35694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35676" CreationDate="2010-01-14T23:59:58.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The convention I follow is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if the OP's intention is clear (albeit muddied with poor grammar and spelling), I will try to edit it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;if it is so bizarre it's not apparent what is being asked, I'll close as &quot;not a real question&quot;, and in a comment suggest that if they edit the question to clarify the wording, I'll vote to reopen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-14T23:59:58.290" />
  <row Id="35695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35685" CreationDate="2010-01-15T00:06:26.263" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends... Most of the people I think would make decent moderators have collected a hefty pile of down-votes - in some cases, removing these would bump them far, far above their nearest rivals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, that says something: these people have actually been &lt;em&gt;involved&lt;/em&gt; in the sort of controversial situations that any moderator on SO will soon find himself immersed in. I consider this a plus: provided that they've actually conducted themselves in accordance with the rules of the site, they'll be more likely to support others who are trying to do the same, even when it's not terribly popular. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, they might &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; controversy merely by nature of their elevation to moderator status. That's not good. There'll always be a few soreheads who'll cry &quot;mod abuse!&quot; when a decision doesn't go their way, but bringing in a candidate who has a pre-cultivated crowd of enemies will just add fuel to the fire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the value in considering both up- and down- votes is that of being able to identify people who aren't &quot;politicians&quot;, people so afraid of controversy that they'll shy away from making the hard decisions a moderator sometimes must... While at the same time identifying those who've managed to make their contributions recognized &lt;em&gt;in spite&lt;/em&gt; of past disagreements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it's up to the SO Team what criteria they use. It's possible they're using MSO for this just out of convenience, and plan to discard all down-votes as irrelevant. But I doubt it; if that was their plan then they could have just used the same system they did last time and tallied up the nominations at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T00:11:48.700" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T00:11:48.700" />
  <row Id="35696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T00:15:53.887" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that when deleting an answer, the shading doesn't appear until you hit refresh.  The only indication it's deleted is the 'delete' text changing to the red 'undelete' which is subtle enough that I've wondered a couple times if I'd hit the 'delete' button (which is when I then look and see the 'undelete' text).  Seems like it would be a pretty minor fix to have the shading implement immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This was using Firefox 3.5.7)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-06-03T17:05:59.787" Title="Deleted shading doesn't appear without a refresh" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35677" CreationDate="2010-01-15T00:50:58.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... If you do this, it means that people who just want to browse around the site in one window can't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T00:50:58.300" />
  <row Id="35698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-15T01:04:03.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got an email this morning asking me to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/17826/mark-bessey&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt;, so I have. Here's a handy pro/con chart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pro:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've been using Stack Overflow for quite a while&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I check the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/83/fanatic&quot;&gt;fairly often&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a very inclusive definition of what constitutes a &quot;programming question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'll bring a non Microsoft-centric view to things (more of a Mac/Unix perspective)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I always try to give helpful answers to questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have moderation experience on a number of other discussion forums&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1965298/someviewcontroller-may-not-respond-to-alloc/1965501#1965501&quot;&gt;a bit&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1984856/java-runtime-performance-vs-native-c-c-code/1985350#1985350&quot;&gt;blunt&lt;/a&gt; when folks haven't done their homework&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not obsessively on the site 24/7 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I've never asked a question on the site, just answered them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not very interested in &quot;gaming&quot; my reputation, so I don't know how that system works in any great depth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141878" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T01:04:03.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T01:04:03.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T02:05:54.320" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23611/view-code-in-new-window&quot;&gt;View code in new window&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often I'm reading a large code chunk on stack overflow, and I have to pan around the question box like a demon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally I'd like to be able to click a 'show code in new window', or have it pop up like a lightbox, or what have you, so I can pour over it while formulating a reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What thinks youse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141446" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T02:05:54.320" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T04:16:51.023" Title="Suggestion: Allow for 'code' sections to be opened in a popup?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;code&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7060" CreationDate="2010-01-15T02:23:26.137" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was implemented with the Mortarboard (bronze), Epic (silver), and Legendary (gold) badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T02:23:26.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T02:23:26.137" />
  <row Id="35701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-15T02:50:28.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another person who has greatly impressed me with his knowledge and light touch with people is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/21234/skaffman&quot;&gt;skaffman&lt;/a&gt;.  I don't know if he'd be interested in the job, but I think he's a good choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T02:50:28.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T02:50:28.290" />
  <row Id="35702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T03:51:05.093" Score="8" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone started working on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastEditorUserId="5849" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T04:23:30.883" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T10:38:25.313" Title="markdown BNF definition" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35702" CreationDate="2010-01-15T04:32:52.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;message&amp;gt; ::= &#xA;&amp;lt;bold&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;italic&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;hyperlink&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;pre-code&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;list&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;h1&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&amp;lt;hr&amp;gt; ::=&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5849" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T04:32:52.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T15:48:08.347" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35708" CreationDate="2010-01-15T06:18:22.400" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the past two or three days, it seems that even if I have &quot;hide ignored tags&quot; checked in my preferences, all those questions still show up. I've noticed this on Stack Overflow - not sure if the other sites have the same thing happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As if that setting is being ignored - on purpose? Or is it a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13302" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T15:14:20.553" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T15:14:20.553" Title="Does the &quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; no longer work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T06:28:18.930" Score="4" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if anyone else is experiencing this problem, but when I use {Firefox,Chrome} on {Ubuntu,Windows}, the little &quot;x&quot;s that appear next to the tags don't load until about 2 or 3 seconds after the rest of the page. Sometimes I try to be quick and click as many interesting tags sections as a I can to open them all up in new tabs, but occasionally the &quot;x&quot;s appear at the wrong time and I end up either clicking the same tag twice or removing a tag from the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when the image is cached it still takes a long time to appear. When it does appear, other things happen at the same time, including the highlighting of questions that have &quot;interesting tags&quot; on the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why the &quot;x&quot;s take so long to appear? Are they inserted afterwards by a script?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134799" LastEditorUserId="134799" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T21:42:47.240" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:42:47.240" Title="Interesting Tags + Ignored Tags section: &quot;x&quot; images take too long to appear" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35562" CreationDate="2010-01-15T06:29:08.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For only going through the questions marked as interesting, use the selector:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;div.tagged-interesting&gt;div&gt;h3&gt;a&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for going through all questions except the ones marked ignored,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;h3&gt;a:not(div.tagged-ignored&gt;div&gt;h3&gt;a)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I added them to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tipjar.thegleebox.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TipJar&lt;/a&gt;. You're welcome to add your own selectors there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141888" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T06:29:08.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35705" CreationDate="2010-01-15T06:33:14.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It still works for me. Since hiding occurs client-side, you may have some outdated JS in your cache. Try flushing your browser's cache and giving it another try. If that doesn't work, we'll have to try something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On which site (SO/SF/SU/Meta) did you notice this issue? What tag were you trying to hide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T06:33:14.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35685" CreationDate="2010-01-15T06:37:47.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I type this the top 3 nomination remain in the same order if you ignore down votes,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I think that ignoring down votes makes sense for nominations as such (we're looking for qualified people with a fan club), but that down votes should be important if the community is asked to vote on the winner (we'd rather have someone with a medium size fan club and few detractors than a very divisive personality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record a system where each voter is allow to vote in favor of as many candidates as they desire is called &quot;Approval voting&quot; and has some nice mathematical features. I don't know if there is a name for allowing an up, down or neutral on each candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T06:37:47.813" />
  <row Id="35710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35685" CreationDate="2010-01-15T06:55:04.170" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts on this subject are somewhat complicated. There are really two aspects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The pseudo-&quot;democratic&quot; approach&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What the ultimate decision(s) will be&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall the last election of mods too well, so I don't know how it was handled then. (I was not present on UserVoice, so anything which happened their is outside my view.) However, I get the feeling that the nomination thread is more for Jeff &amp;amp; company to ascertain which members of the community have what kind of support than it is a strict numeric count of who's getting nominated for the actual election. I suspect that Jeff &amp;amp; company will look at the nominations, separate our silliness from our realities, look at our histories, look at the vote counts (both up and down) and make nomination decisions from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a purely pseudo-&quot;democratic&quot; approach, I think the idea of the downvotes should be considered. Note that this is to my own immediate detriment -- my score, as I write this, is &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;, the split being 14/12. I take this to mean that there are 14 people, aside from myself, who would consider me a good mod -- and 12 who are so dead set against me being a mod that they needed to reduce my score. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I downvoted some of the nominees, and I upvoted some. This was not at all based on the fact that they were my competition, nor offers of cake, but rather based on whether or not I felt that those users would be good moderators. Most of the nominees I was neutral on -- OK if they make it, OK if they don't. Some of the nominees I felt would be outstanding, and they got upvotes. Some I felt were not mod material, and I downvoted. I &lt;em&gt;suspect&lt;/em&gt; (and deep down hope) that others voted with similar motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And thus, in my mind, the split should be important to Jeff &amp;amp; company, because if a large portion of the vocal community is against someone being a mod -- maybe that person shouldn't be a mod. I know this hurts my own case, but it seems to be the right way to consider things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't blame ME, I voted for Kodos!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  -- Homer Simpson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T07:20:24.427" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T07:20:24.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35685" CreationDate="2010-01-15T07:12:16.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a vote for the next president of a country. It is a vote for someone that is well recognised and liked by the community to have the ability to have veto powers on site and community decisions, which can still be overridden by said community with the powers they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down-voting indicates that someone does not believe a person has the sufficient skills to be a moderator and should be considered, since it is also an indication of how this person will be accepted by the community. If the user has a high up/down-vote ratio it is an indication that they are not seen as objective by the community, compared to someone with a low up/down-vote ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for allowing multiple votes, so what. You can still only vote once per candidate. There is a few people I believe will be good moderators and I will give them my vote irrelevant of who is at the top of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly don't see why a moderator vote system, that has worked well in the past has suddenly generated so much controversy around procedures and process. Seriously. Being a moderator is hard work, and has very little to do with status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T08:03:39.053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T08:03:39.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35685" CreationDate="2010-01-15T08:02:50.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... because this is how it has been done before and it has worked just fine.  Mr. Atwood has the final say anyways.  There is enough people voicing their input, so I think the voting works just fine.  There are people that disagree with certain nominations and they are free to voice their opinion too.  People are usually very clear on who they want overall for the next moderator anyways.  I say leave all the votes to the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T08:02:50.397" />
  <row Id="35713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-01-15T08:17:02.610" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that this is too similar, and unlike the woot ad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is not funny (I am willing to cut slack for humor)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is in the same rough physical area as the UI it is faking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is not good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I asked Alex to change this to make it less &quot;UI like&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and here's what he came back with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1700/image001x.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it has been changed on the live site yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this did not &quot;get changed ASAP&quot;, sadly, I just changed it today. Now, I shall spin my giant WHEEL O' BLAME!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: policy update on these sorts of FUI (fake UI) ads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve updated the guidelines to disallow styles that mimic SO/SU/SF or look like question/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there should not be any more in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T23:06:38.503" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T23:06:38.503" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35670" CreationDate="2010-01-15T08:17:49.287" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hold on... I have to ask... Are we voting for the next president or a community moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The role of a moderator is to manage the exceptions in the community, veto close and delete votes and resolve user conflicts. The first two can already be done without the moderators by the 10K+ users, so it is really the latter in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer to all your questions: This is an indicator of who the &lt;strong&gt;community believes will be a good moderator&lt;/strong&gt;. This is not political debate session. This is not becoming the next president.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The role of moderator is voluntary and extreme hard work. I really don't get why this suddenly has to generate so much controversy after it worked successfully in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously. Just go vote for the people you think will be a good moderator. If you want something more, use your &lt;strong&gt;democratic&lt;/strong&gt; right not to vote at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I am repeating some things from a previous answer.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T08:17:49.287" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2010-01-15T08:38:36.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polish clone: &lt;a href=&quot;http://9fingers.pl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://9fingers.pl/&lt;/a&gt; (based on CNProg mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones/2273#2273&quot;&gt;above&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gold, silver and bronze badges' descriptions at &lt;a href=&quot;http://9fingers.pl/badges/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://9fingers.pl/badges/&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;strong&gt;word-for-word translations&lt;/strong&gt; of descriptions from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Złote odznaki są rzadkością. Aby taką&#xA;  otrzymać nie wystarczy być aktywnym,&#xA;  trzeba również posiadać wiedzę i&#xA;  umiejętności. Otrzymanie złotej&#xA;  odznaki jest szczególnym osiągnięciem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;means exactly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gold Badges are rare. You'll have to&#xA;  not only participate but be skilled&#xA;  and knowledgeable to earn these.&#xA;  They're something of an&#xA;  accomplishment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T15:32:10.173" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T15:32:10.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T08:38:36.507" />
  <row Id="35720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35702" CreationDate="2010-01-15T10:38:25.313" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a little think about this after the podcast last week (having not paid much attention to Markdown before) and it's quite problematic to process with the a standard compiler front-end tool like  lex&amp;amp;yacc / ANTLR. The problem is that so much of the language is &lt;em&gt;positional&lt;/em&gt; and those tools are really designed to deal with &lt;em&gt;context-free&lt;/em&gt; grammars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably still the way to go, but you need to put a stage infront of the lexer stage to handle it. You'd need to read all the lines into an array first and recognise those that start with quote '&gt;' marks or tab/4space indents, then recognise groups of lines at the same level and insert tokens at the beginning/end of those groups of lines. Then you can proceed in a more context-free manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T10:38:25.313" />
  <row Id="35721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35725" CreationDate="2010-01-15T10:47:22.407" Score="9" ViewCount="421" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Problem:&lt;/em&gt; Many of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;close reasons&lt;/a&gt; are self-explanatory, but a few would benefit from having the descriptive text shown when viewing closed questions.  (For example, my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070600/retrieve-motherboard-serial-using-c-c-closed&quot;&gt;recent comment&lt;/a&gt; on &quot;Not A Real Question&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Proposed solution:&lt;/em&gt; Simply sticking it in a normal size font in a paragraph below &quot;closed as ...&quot; seems the appropriate place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NARQ would probably benefit disproportionately more from this than the other reasons.  (Or have I misunderstood NARQ?)  However, it seems like it would be helpful to new users that get their questions closed and would otherwise have to search meta or discover the title text for the close reason.  (Though many 3k rep users seem to not realize these descriptions exist either. I didn't notice the text till around 6k rep, I think.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, the text is already retrieved and sent along with the page, but it's completely non-obvious you can find it the title text IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T09:52:40.387" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T10:37:14.617" Title="Show close reason descriptive text on question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35806" CreationDate="2010-01-15T10:58:52.910" Score="18" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2167/increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing&quot;&gt;Increase captcha threshold for post editing&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make human verification appear less often in frequent editions for users with a certain rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Human verification appears every time I make two or three editions in a very short time. Sometimes I'm just retagging, like right now, from moderator-election to moderator-nomination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gets too much in the way. It effectively discourages me from making more useful edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;status-completed&quot;. Well. I have 7,817 reputation points right now. I was going to retag four or five c# questions about var to add them the &lt;code&gt;var&lt;/code&gt; tag. And the robots appeared again. I stop retagging every time I see the robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-09T11:32:42.917" LastActivityDate="2010-12-09T11:32:42.917" ClosedDate="2010-03-02T08:50:27.117" Title="Human verification appears too much in the way when reorganizing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T11:25:48.527" Score="38" ViewCount="1430" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess that having &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/what-would-a-stack-overflow-api-look-like/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;commented on the blog&lt;/a&gt; that answers would be better here than on the blog, I might as well open a question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is designed to encourage us all to think about what we want to use a potential API for &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; making specific feature requests. Ideally, answers would be structured as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I want to build...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ... an Android widget which can show me my current rep, badges, and rep for the day, across&#xA;  multiple sites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For this, an ideal API would...&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Let me query multiple fields in a single request&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Let me specify multiple sites (with multiple user IDs) in a single request&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Access badge, rep, rep-per-day information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other answers may well be much more detailed, of course, but hopefully this gives the gist of what I think might be a useful &lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; of answer. Things like useful formats (JSON, XML) would be interesting to Jeff too, I'm sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-05-19T06:59:50.397" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T11:25:48.527" Title="What do you want to build with the SO API?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="20" />
  <row Id="35724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36995" CreationDate="2010-01-15T11:27:28.227" Score="11" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;When careers was originally released, when there were no employers around and it wasn't even complete, there was a &quot;promotional&quot; deal for early adopters. Stack Overflow friends jumped in out of their trust and love to SO. Careers pricing has changed significantly since then. However, instead of going up, it has practically went down. This, of course, contradicts &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/careers-employer-beta-underway/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;what has been promised&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fair warning, the price absolutely will go up in 2010. So if you think you might need to file your CV — that is, make it searchable by hiring managers — any time in the next year, consider jumping on this offer before January 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks quite unfair to SO's true friends, the early adopters. Considering the fact that there's a loophole (taking advantage of the 90-day money back guarantee and refiling with the new pricing), I think it makes sense to promote the original accounts to the new lifetime offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T07:00:42.253" Title="Should careers early adopters get upgraded to the lifetime membership?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;promotions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35721" CreationDate="2010-01-15T11:30:00.827" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree, sometimes people feel a little begrudged because their question got closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off course we could leave a comment explaining why it was closed, but it would be a lot clearer if this explanation was highlighted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is only required these borderline cases, it's better to prevent confusion than having to solve it later on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Jeff: Should we leave a comment with further explanations or would it be possible to manually edit the message with something relevant for that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastEditorUserId="130099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T10:37:14.617" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T10:37:14.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T11:37:14.320" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I want to build..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically a stackoverflow version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tweetdeck.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TweetDeck&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For this, an ideal API would...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expose several activity streams&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something happened in a favorited questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something happened in a question I asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something happened in a question i answered. (maybe even commented ?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something happened in a question i commented on. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New questions that are tagged using on of my &quot;interested&quot; tags. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something here means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question was edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question has been closed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question recieved a new comment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question recieved a new answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etcetera.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally the SO API would be dumb enough that I have to explicitly specify these filters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;/activitystream/?hasMyInterestedTags=true&amp;amp;includeEditedQuestion=true&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etcetera instead of exposing 1 or 2 baked activity streams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138543" LastEditorUserId="138543" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T11:44:40.137" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T11:44:40.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T11:37:14.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35724" CreationDate="2010-01-15T11:51:45.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I joined early and paid $25 to file my CV under the premise that I may want to use it at some point in the next 3 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that when I actually do file, it will only be for a brief period while I search for a job. If I had waited, that would now only cost me $19.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really annoyed, I like that I'm supporting SO anyway, and $25 isn't exactly a lot, and I'm not going to start demanding a refund or anything, but as I've paid over the odds, lifetime membership would be nice ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T11:51:45.380" />
  <row Id="35732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T12:06:25.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to build a smart client that will allow me to search through all the SO data in a mixed online/offline mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need mechanism to query for deltas (and large batches) in an efficient way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T12:06:25.517" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T12:06:25.517" />
  <row Id="35735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T12:34:10.180" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to replace the current API I use for my stack overflow iPhone application that currently uses the CC dump. Since the bundling of the dumps changes every month I end up having to update my API by hand so I would really like to see an API not to mention having access to the data faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/stackexchange-api/wiki/DesiredSOApi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DesiredSOApi document&lt;/a&gt; is pretty close to what I would need now and would allow me to add a lot more functionality but I do see some missing parts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way of communicating errors needs to be described in the document. I assume it would be via http response codes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be better if the specific question call optionally included all answers and comments that went with the question. The question ID and title would also be nice to include.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think that it would be easier to handle html being returned from those parts that would return html than markdown. I think I remember a podcast where it was said that html is store in the db so this may be a non-issue however if markdown is available it would also be nice to have a way to get html too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This may be more of a stretch but it would be nice to register for updates to be pushed as opposed to requiring a poll for them. I would imagine that the SO TweetDeck idea would benefit from this as well. I currently have an unexposed feature in the iPhone app that would let users watch questions to get push notifications on changes and it makes me cringe to think about polling for that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more radical and probably simpler approach to this could be to create a &quot;firehose&quot; of all the acceptable data coming out of SO and then let everyone do what they will with it. Much like getting the CC dump but in realtime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25343" LastEditorUserId="25343" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T13:02:41.003" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:02:41.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T12:34:10.180" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35736" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T12:34:11.693" Score="1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;By using one url in the client, you can do cool things like they did with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twitter API on Wordpress&lt;/a&gt;. One url also makes it easier to change the API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can have a page like this that allows the client to get the url it wants:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions&quot; class=&quot;questions&quot;&amp;gt;All Questions&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users&quot; class=&quot;users&quot;&amp;gt;All Users&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/badges&quot; class=&quot;badges&quot;&amp;gt;All Badges&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could of course even be integrated into the homepage itself. All the urls will be added on some page. The client can use hypertext to find the urls for their requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also very possible this way to use the &lt;code&gt;Content-Type&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Accept&lt;/code&gt; HTTP headers to get a list of questions in a machine-readable format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My request is based on the &quot;Hypermedia as the engine of application state&quot; idea. To find all the resources in the 'api' your client needs to understand HTML (or some other format that uses urls). You give one url to your client and it will find all the others resources/urls by getting HTML from this url. For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; returns something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ul&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions&quot; class=&quot;questions&quot;&amp;gt;All Questions&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/users&quot; class=&quot;users&quot;&amp;gt;All Users&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/badges&quot; class=&quot;badges&quot;&amp;gt;All Badges&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now your client knows abouts &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;badges&lt;/em&gt;. It can now get &lt;code&gt;/questions&lt;/code&gt;, which in turns returns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ul class=&quot;questions&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/1&quot;&amp;gt;How can I create an ArrayList in Java?&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;  ...&#xA;&amp;lt;/ul&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The client then could GET &lt;code&gt;/questions/1&lt;/code&gt; which returns the information you need, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;h1 class=&quot;title&quot;&amp;gt;How can I create an ArrayList in Java?&amp;lt;/h1&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;question&quot;&amp;gt;...&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or an XML or JSON formatted response (that doesn't really matter for this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important point is that clients don't need to know about specific urls. The clients only need to know how to find the urls in the pages that contain them. This way there is less coupling between the client and the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1633" LastEditorUserId="1633" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T00:03:40.817" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T00:03:40.817" Title="Use one url in the client for finding the API" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;api&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35724" CreationDate="2010-01-15T12:52:03.757" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course not. Those of us who jumped onto the bandwagon were taking a risk. We knew the risk was there and we took it. That's the price of being at the head of the pack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are you one of those people who waited in line for a day to buy a $600 iPhone and then whined when they lowered the price? You either wait for the Blu-Ray to win, or you jump in and buy an HD-DVD player and suck it up when it loses the battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Learn to live with the risky choices you've made, or don't make them in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T12:52:03.757" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35659" CreationDate="2010-01-15T12:55:10.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would rather wait until it is clear that 2 or 3 chooses are liked by a lot of users and not disliked match by many users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care who gets it, provided it is clear they will do a good job and are one of the top runners from the voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T16:56:47.890" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T16:56:47.890" />
  <row Id="35740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:00:31.070" Score="11" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2071443/what-is-the-difference-between-char-a-string-and-char-astring&quot;&gt;This question regarding C character pointers&lt;/a&gt; is asked in slightly different forms every single day on SO under the &lt;strong&gt;[c]&lt;/strong&gt; and/or &lt;strong&gt;[c++]&lt;/strong&gt; tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally vote to close as a dupe, but am beginning to lose the will to live as far as this particular topic is concerned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with these endlessly repeated question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T09:59:23.210" Title="Dealing with endlessly repeated questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35887" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:10:37.023" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26721/long-answers-are-truncated-in-so&quot;&gt;Long answers are truncated in SO&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text &quot;link|edit|flag&quot;, &quot;answered Jan 16 '09 at 20:42&quot;, &quot;Kyle Cronin&quot; and &quot;community wiki&quot; on his answer &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12224/what-would-you-want-to-see-in-a-stackoverflow-api/12237#12237&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is in a fixed-width typeface apparently due to a formatting leak similar to the one I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28021/strikeout-and-bold-causes-bold-to-leak-out&quot;&gt;reported earlier&lt;/a&gt; (which was fixed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer in question consists of text, bulleted lists, a horizontal rule and some example code-formatted XML. It is probably the latter which is causing this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;table class=&quot;fw&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is wrapped in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T01:10:27.000" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T01:10:55.080" Title="There appears to be another formatting leak" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:14:24.033" Score="4" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35723/what-do-you-want-to-build-with-the-so-api&quot;&gt;What do you want to build with the SO API?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12224/what-would-you-want-to-see-in-a-stackoverflow-api&quot;&gt;What would you want to see in a StackOverflow API?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The promise of API access to Stack Overflow is being met with glee and anticipation by much the Stack Overflow community (which is not unexpected, for a community of developers!). However, I'm curious as to what the indended purpose of the API is - what problem does it solve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The possible applications I have come up with are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allowing webmasters to display details of their Stack Exchange user profile on other sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downloading raw data (e.g. reputation) in order to draw pretty graphs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;iPhone / mobile access to the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the above cases (the most notable being some sort of iPhone application, which probably shouldn't be done by a 3rd party anyway) most users are best served through accessing the current (excellent) interface available on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:09:27.007" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:12:02.523" ClosedDate="2010-01-17T03:18:53.900" Title="What is the intended purpose of the Stack Overflow API?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35800" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:14:33.987" Score="21" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has happened on occasion, due to the high amount of 10K moderators on SO that questions are migrated to the wrong site, and needs to be reversed. Although currently it is possible to re-open the question on the original site and delete the one on the destination site, it still leave the migrated too banner behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful if diamond moderators could reverse a migration, removing it from the destination site completely and re-activating it on the original site and at the same time removing the banners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously it has been discussed educating the users around when to move questions, however this doesn't stop the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As per Shog9&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to admit I do like Shog9's suggestion regarding the post being closed as not programming related rather then re-opened, however, reasons for closing it on other sites should also be kept in mind, as this also applies to stuff being sent back forth between the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-27T17:34:38.253" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T17:34:38.253" Title="Allow diamond moderators to reverse question migrations?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35740" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:16:56.493" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your comment under this question is quite opposed to that, you are quite demeaning it. Yes, I agree that people should use the search method before posting, or at least &quot;read&quot; what suggestions are made when they write title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the fact is, you will always get such kind of question, and since the SOFU sites all to easily point at a duplicate, and the community is active, it's not a problem, and will be closed fastly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough of it, just ignore it, move on to another question, there will be someone else to do it for you. But in general, everything is done to avoid it, but you can't prevent it from happening, that's all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep also in mind that this is &quot;endlessly repeated&quot; for you, not for someone who just came on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:16:56.493" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35740" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:18:47.317" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's okay if they get asked and answered endlessly.  The answers will get better and better because the knowledge of the community improves.  Each new question might just be the thing that pops up when people search for this particular issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing a question is like saying, we solved this yesterday, and we don't want to improve.  But yesterday's answer wasn't good enough, or people would have found it while searching for the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even think I answered one of these yesterday and couldn't find a duplicate.  That's saying something if it gets asked every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:18:47.317" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="35747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:19:15.567" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28232/make-moderator-abilities-relate-to-rep-inflation&quot;&gt;Make Moderator abilities relate to Rep Inflation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the high number of 10K moderators on SO, would it be more effective to have the amount of votes required to move, close or delete a question be calculated based on the number of 10K users rather then the static 5 vote rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would help with questions being closed incorrectly as well as with the migration of questions to the wrong site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are currently 437+ 10K moderators on SO.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  For every 100 moderators the vote count increases by 1 starting at the current 5. Therefore it will require roughly 9 votes to move a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also be applied individually rather then globally, ie. 10 votes to move, but 5 to close for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have suggested this globally, however it has the biggest impact on migrated question. I am &lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt; suggesting the spam or offensive votes be changed, only the ability to close a question for migration. SO users don't see it as a problem, however the SF and SU users and moderators end up having to deal with these questions and there aren't as many users on these sites. SU/SF are not garbage bins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A few times votes are cast solely because someone has the power to do it, and not because there is a legitimate reason too or because there is already x number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The process for dealing with spam should remain as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Thanks to Roger Plate for providing the moderator count&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've closed it since there is a global assumption by meta users reading this that it is a none issue. &lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt; unless you spend time on all three sites on a regular basis, and have to deal with this directly on a daily basis I don't agree that it is a basis for outright claiming it being a non-issue. I did however post to possible solutions, and the other one was much better received. I am leaving this here for reference purposes however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T17:51:52.850" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T08:23:36.113" ClosedDate="2010-01-17T07:49:07.897" Title="Should the amount of votes required on a site increased based on the number of moderators?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="35748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:19:26.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It solves the problem of building applications that programatically access the Stack Overflow platform that aren't the associated websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:19:26.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:33:20.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It gives developers more manageable data structures to work with, instead of just scraping the site html...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140401" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:33:20.107" />
  <row Id="35750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35747" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:38:28.223" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would only work if it were based on the number of &lt;strong&gt;active&lt;/strong&gt; 10k moderators on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:38:28.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35747" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:42:33.517" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised that a moderator makes this request. You should really know better. The answer to this question is identical to the answer to requests to increase the threshold for casting close/delete votes: &lt;strong&gt;The larger pool of users have to deal with a larger number of posts.&lt;/strong&gt; The ratio of 10k users/posts is what matters and should remain steady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I'm not sure what you really think about SO. It's much larger than SU for sure and I don't think your experience with SU adequately applies to SO. The number of spam votes cast is not really enough. I assume most of them are actually casted by the high rep user. Today, I confronted a spammer posting the same question over a few days. The time frame between my report and taking action was not low. The user got a bunch of sympathy upvotes from clueless people who didn't realize this was a spammer. This problem is not a small one. I'm especially seeing this as I live in a weird time zone (today, I felt the problem is large enough that I'm considering self-nominating myself for moderation primarily because of the time zone). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-02T08:23:36.113" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T08:23:36.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35747" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:46:45.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's important to get bad questions closed as quickly as possible.  This is especially true for duplicate questions asone of the most annoything things that can happen to you on SO is to find that you've spent 5 minutes on a carefully crafted answer to a duplicate question, with an original that already has a great answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the point of the 5 limit is to prevent a single user closing a question on a whim.  However, if 5 users in good standing think a question is bad I don't see the point in waiting for a sixth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3171" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:46:45.707" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:47:19.637" Score="-5" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3440/close-reopen-votes-sliding-scale-for-threshold&quot;&gt;Close/Reopen Votes - Sliding Scale For Threshold&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the number of votes required to re-open a question should be lower than the number of votes required to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason being that once a question is closed very fewer people visit that question to check and see if it has been edited, and if it is worth for re-opening (or if the original reason for closure was incorrect and has been explained in comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that its possible to flag such questions for moderator attention, however I don't like doing that - it seems like an abuse of the flag button when there is an existing mechanism that is meant to deal with re-opening questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:33:09.890" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T14:32:43.667" Title="Reduce the number of votes required to re-open a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:47:56.720" Score="2" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are answers or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/214886/how-do-i-hide-directories-in-apache-specifically-source-control/214908#214908&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt; which refer to answers by another user's username without providing a link to them, if the user's name has changed there is no way to know which answer is being referred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible improvements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ease other answers linking via Markdown (say, ^answerid:123^, or whatever syntax makes sense)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keeping a name trail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Others?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how pervasive this problem is, it is probably very small and doesn't even deserve any action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-05T17:05:24.347" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T17:05:24.347" Title="Small but annoying problem: References to other answers are lost after name changes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35754" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:53:43.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question, by default, it's open. It takes 5 people to close it. If you have &lt;strike&gt;3k+&lt;/strike&gt; 250 reputation, you have a vote to reopen your own question. There's no point in giving more bonus points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T14:33:09.890" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:33:09.890" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="35757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35754" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:55:41.507" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally agree!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I predict this question will be closed because this was already discussed when Stack Overflow had 20k users. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:55:41.507" />
  <row Id="35758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35755" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:58:06.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It not a real problem when you use a link (as you should),&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070356/find-common-prefix-of-strings&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070356/find-common-prefix-of-strings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070356/mumbo-yumbo&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070356/mumbo-yumbo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;both point to the same question (same for user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People should just use the little globe button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:58:06.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35740" CreationDate="2010-01-15T13:58:41.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick one of the duplicate questions and edit it so that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a comprehensive question covering all aspects of the problem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is named and tagged in a way that makes it easy to find&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T13:58:41.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35676" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:09:05.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem now is volume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've often tried to clean up and reword questions that I do understand, but are worded so poorly, or confusing, that it is hard to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; jump on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that by the time I am able to finalized it and click the submit button, enough downvotes or close-requests have already been applied to damn the question into oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the right approach for these is to just accept that they will be closed quick, and then petition for a re-open, with a request that it be edited. The moderators would then be able to handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is outside of the scope of being a moderator, then I'm afraid all hope is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the close requests could be changed so that once the question hits a close-threshold, it requires a moderator to apply the request, but until then, it stays open and can be edited. This would allow people to clean up the question before it disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:09:05.267" />
  <row Id="35761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35747" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:12:12.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think maybe based on the &lt;em&gt;percentage&lt;/em&gt; of moderators, but not on the total.  But even there it's a tough sell. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:12:12.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35742" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:21:32.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Added some whitespace to the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12224/what-would-you-want-to-see-in-a-stackoverflow-api/12237#12237&quot; title=&quot;looking for an appliqué&quot;&gt;that particular answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Fixed it because the answer was being truncated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/truncated&quot; title=&quot;who wears short shorts&quot;&gt;It's a bit of an issue&lt;/a&gt; with the unusually lengthy posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:21:32.243" />
  <row Id="35763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35769" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:22:19.183" Score="0" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, this may sound like a big change but this is something that I believe could have good impact on the quality of the users questions and answers and would result in reputation being more fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The problem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently if a question/answer gets up-voted to poster earns rep of 10 points, when it gets down-voted 2 points are being deducted. That scenario works pretty well for answers but unfortunately when it comes to questions there is some areas where I think it fails. For example: poor questions, controversial questions and average questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is the scenario:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone asks very poor question, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it gets down-voted: say it gets 3&#xA;down-votes &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some nice and patient so user comes&#xA;along and edits that question to&#xA;improve it &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other so users see&#xA;question with 3 downvotes and say: &quot;hey it does not deserve to have minus vote, lets&#xA;upvote&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question ends up with the rep 0, but the OP of that poor question ends up with the reputation of: +24!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are some users that frequently ask rather poor quality questions, and end up with a pretty high reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;similarly average question:&#xA; - a question that is being initially down-voted and up-voted only because other users think that it did not deserve to have -1 rep. The OP ends with higher reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;controversial question:&#xA; - a question that attract many up-votes and down-votes earns the user many rep points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;controversial answer:&#xA; - same as controversial question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically it seems that this type reputation system in some scenarios rewards people for the behaviour that should not really be encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think there is a simple solution to that:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of earning reputation for each up-vote and down-vote recorded it could be earned based on the overall &lt;strong&gt;vote balance&lt;/strong&gt; for the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently if a question gets 3 downvotes and 2 upvotes the question shows &quot;vote balance&quot; -1 but the OP earns +14 points on reputation (-6 for 3 downvotes, +20 for 2 upvotes). In proposed solution he would have got -2 points as question shows &quot;vote balance&quot; -1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user1 - someone asking&#xA;  rather poor questions,has 3 questions&#xA;  and 1 answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote Balance   up-votes    down-votes   reputation earned&#xA;Q1:      -1             2            3               +14 (+20 -6)&#xA;Q2:      -1             0            1                -2&#xA;Q3:       0             3            3               +24 (+30 -6)&#xA;A1:      -1             0            1                -2&#xA;--------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;                                   Total Reputation: +34&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user2 - a new user, asking ok&#xA;  questions, but ones that do not bring&#xA;  that much attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote Balance   up-votes    down-votes   reputation earned&#xA;Q1:       0             0            0                 0&#xA;Q2:       0             0            0                 0&#xA;Q3:       0             0            0                 0 &#xA;A1:       1             1            0               +10&#xA;--------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;                                   Total Reputation: +10&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user3 - providing controversial answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote Balance   up-votes    down-votes   reputation earned&#xA;A1:       1             11          10               +90 (+110 -20)&#xA;A2:      -1             4            5               +30 (+40 - 10)  &#xA;--------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;                                   Total Reputation: +120&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we applied the logic on awarding the reputation based on each question overall performance then it would be as below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user1 - someone asking&#xA;  rather poor questions,has 3 questions&#xA;  and 1 answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote Balance   up-votes    down-votes   reputation earned&#xA;Q1:      -1             2            3                -2&#xA;Q2:      -1             0            1                -2&#xA;Q3:       0             3            3                 0&#xA;A1:      -1             0            1                -2&#xA;--------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;                                   Total Reputation:  -6 (perhaps rep less then +1 could be allowed)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user2 - a new user, asking ok&#xA;  questions, but ones that do not bring&#xA;  that much attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote Balance   up-votes    down-votes   reputation earned&#xA;Q1:       0             0            0                 0&#xA;Q2:       0             0            0                 0&#xA;Q3:       0             0            0                 0 &#xA;A1:       1             1            0               +10&#xA;--------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;                                   Total Reputation: +10&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user3 - providing controversial answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote Balance   up-votes    down-votes   reputation earned&#xA;A1:       1             11          10               +10&#xA;A2:      -1             4            5                -2&#xA;--------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;                                   Total Reputation:  +8&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It think that it would better represent the user's contribution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it could be a part of the solution for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants/20729#20729&quot;&gt;Handling “Problematic” Stack Overflow participants&lt;/a&gt; as the users that continuously ask poor question would end up with reputation less then 0 (if allowed) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have added this solution as an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased/39054#39054&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3241" LastEditorUserId="3241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T11:35:54.777" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T11:35:54.777" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T16:01:42.887" Title="Earning Reputation for Poor Questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:23:49.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to pull SO data into &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for some analysis.  I would then post this onto &lt;a href=&quot;http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CRAN&lt;/a&gt; with a GPL license.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to do that is through an XML or JSON API (a good example is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.nytimes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NY Times API&lt;/a&gt; and the related &lt;a href=&quot;http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nytR/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nytR package in R&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:23:49.943" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T14:23:49.943" />
  <row Id="35765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35724" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:24:27.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for those of us who took advantage of this deal up front, I think we should have the option to pay the difference to upgrade to lifetime, or refund the difference to reduce the period to only 1 year (after the initial sign-up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fair warning, the price absolutely will go up in 2010. So if you think you might need to file your CV — that is, make it searchable by hiring managers — any time in the next year, consider jumping on this offer before January 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was posted with the best of intentions, but it's hard to argue that it didn't skew their up-front business results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:24:27.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35744" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:24:46.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. If it's migrated from SO, it didn't really belong there.  While it might be irrelevant to SU or SF too, you have the option to close or delete it. There's just no point in sending it back! Just kill it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Clarification&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the removing the migration banner part. I'm just not fond of migrating things back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="33708" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T15:03:04.860" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:03:04.860" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35755" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:28:32.350" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Attempting to auto link on names &lt;em&gt;can not&lt;/em&gt; be made to work correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Names are not unique&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Names can change&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People often use shortened forms when linking by name for convenience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under only constraints 1 and 2 it would be possible to globally parse the data and fix &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; cases every time a user changes his/her/its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you throw in the last fact, the problem becomes AI complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started out ignoring the suggestion for a new markdown syntax. But that has become the focus of the comments on this answer so perhaps I should say something about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is something that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be made to work (and in the comments, too!), but it would require another database query for every name so linked. I'm not sure that it is worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For myself, I do a very modest amount of inter-answer linking, and always copy and paste the link as well as making the text reference the other posters current name. The problem is that I &lt;em&gt;often&lt;/em&gt; write comments to another user. I suspect that busy threads see dozens (or more) of such instances including the question and all the answers. Ouch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T23:01:33.660" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T23:01:33.660" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35747" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:30:46.713" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a suggestion I can't agree with. Others have covered the main points, but since the biggest thing we're talking about is closure and migration, a big part of my disagreement is the number of active mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's way higher. You only need 3K to close. I can close, and I do not have 10K. I can migrate, which is just an offshoot of closure, and I do not have 10K. So we have a lot of users running around with the ability to close -- the &quot;junior janitors,&quot; if you will. We need them because even though they are human and they err, they also are providing a valuable service in essentially taking care of the little messes so that the mods can worry about bigger issues. (No two mods, no matter how good and dedicated they were, could possibly handle all of the crap which gets flooded into SO on a daily basis. It's too much for even a team of 5 full-timers, most likely!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration to an incorrect site is probably something of an issue; I have seen many questions get migrated that absolutely should not have. (Not that they should have stayed open, but SU and SF should not be considered SO's dumping ground.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that increasing the number of votes required will matter for this, however. If you can get 5 votes within a minute, how long do you really think it will take for the last one, two, three, what-have-you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if a solution to this is truly needed, perhaps a better answer is to only migrate if 4 of the 5 closure votes are for migration, and all of them to the same site. Otherwise, the question should still be closed as the majority reason, but not automatically moved, and let a mod on the source site perform the migration if it is truly warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:30:46.713" />
  <row Id="35769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35763" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:32:49.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is due to be addressed sometime soon I believe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:32:49.470" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:39:17.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is discussion about what might be done with the SO API in these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12224/what-would-you-want-to-see-in-a-stackoverflow-api&quot;&gt;What would you want to see in a StackOverflow API?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35723/what-do-you-want-to-build-with-the-so-api&quot;&gt;What do you want to build with the SO API?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:39:17.677" />
  <row Id="35771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7060" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:55:31.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the Mortarboard, Epic, Legendary badges are quite the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those badges simply award (repeatedly) hitting the rep cap; this question is asking for a badge for going beyond the rep cap&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm no Jon Skeet, bu on many days, I've received thirty or forty votes for answers given after hitting the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there should be bronze, silver, and gold badges for getting 10, 20, and 40 votes on answers &lt;em&gt;given&lt;/em&gt; after hitting the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:55:31.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T14:55:31.743" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2010-01-15T14:56:05.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The API will give developers access to the site's information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would like an API to be able to write a tracker in .Net. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to have something that would show a pop up (using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Growl for Windows&lt;/a&gt; notification framework) when my reputation changes or when a comment is made on an answer of mine. I visit SO/SU off and on throughout the day, but I'm not on it constantly, and I don't like when the asker posts a comment and has to wait for the next time I log on to get a quick response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also track comments on certain questions I specify, or even show me comments on questions I commented on (ie, assist in an on-going conversation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine it also tracking a specified tag or tags, showing me when a question matching those tags is asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T14:56:05.393" />
  <row Id="35774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35784" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:01:57.907" Score="8" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that when it comes to straight-up programming concepts, questions are generally either tagged pretty well in the first place or retagged fairly quickly by someone with the privilege.  We've got dedicated tags for &lt;code&gt;repository&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;dependency-injection&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;exception-handling&lt;/code&gt;, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also noticed that in other areas - most notably databases - the tags are almost always generic, and that's something I'd like to help rectify.  I got the idea from another SO user who'd retagged some 30-odd database questions with &lt;code&gt;greatest-n-per-group&lt;/code&gt;, which isn't the most concise wording, but I thought it was a good thing because it was true, the questions were all very similar and referred to the exact same concept.  Every so often I see some of the same patterns and think about doing the same retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the same time, I don't want to step on any toes, as it appears that part of the community &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14595/stop-stupid-tags&quot;&gt;frowns upon the practice&lt;/a&gt; of &quot;mass retagging&quot;.  Although that post was about redundant, &quot;stupid&quot; tags, it &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; still bump a bunch of old posts, and I think in order for the tag to &quot;stick&quot; it has to have at least 10 entries, maybe more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - &lt;strong&gt;what is the recommended practice for when you see a good candidate for a new tag?&lt;/strong&gt;  Should I:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just start retagging the old questions, and let the volume of new questions on SO bump the older questions back down if they aren't interesting?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Retag only new similar questions, without touching the old ones?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Retag a small handful (5-10?) of the old questions, just to get the tag started, and then stick to new questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just leave the whole issue alone and contend with the generic tags?  Stick with the philosophy the tags should only represent the platform and not the pattern/concept?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear: I really don't care about a badge, for all I know some of the tags already exist and just aren't being used properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T20:30:39.607" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T20:30:39.607" Title="Multiple Retagging Etiquette" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;tag-creation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:04:23.843" Score="-4" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20769/where-did-the-community-wiki-name-came-from-and-should-we-change-it&quot;&gt;Where did the &amp;ldquo;community wiki&amp;rdquo; name came from? And should we change it?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest renaming &lt;em&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;No-Rewards Zone&lt;/strong&gt;. That would make it clear what it's really about: Questions that are marked as community wiki do not affect any user's reputation, your user score does not go up or down for asking or answering in such a zone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new name would make the concept easy to understand, and the (rightly) confused questions by newcomers would disappear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They ask: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How is that a wiki? It doesn't look like Wikipedia, for example? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, it's a wiki because you can edit other users' questions and answers? Hmm, don't people always do that on stackoverflow? I've seen people editing other questions all over the place?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, 'wiki' questions have a lower reputation threshold for editing, but that's not a fundamental difference that would justify the name &lt;em&gt;wiki&lt;/em&gt; for some but not others. Also, it's not necessary: I think the threshold for editing a question should be the same everywhere. It's even &lt;em&gt;confusing&lt;/em&gt; for newcomers to be able to edit some questions but not others. (They typically don't notice these different question categories.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Some people misunderstood my post, thinking that I said that community wiki questions are useless or without value. It's far from what I said. I think community questions can be as useful as other questions. It is a fact, however, that you cannot gain reputation from asking or answering a community wiki question. That's what the new name is supposed to reflect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140539" LastEditorUserId="140539" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T15:34:03.697" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:34:03.697" ClosedDate="2010-01-15T15:29:45.610" Title="Rename &quot;Community Wiki&quot; to &quot;No-Rewards Zone&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;rename&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35774" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:07:55.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only retag unanswered questions - then it brings the question back up to be answered.  If it already has an answer then retagging it would allow people looking for answers to potentially find it more easily, but could also be seen as spamming the recently updated questions link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130402" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:07:55.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35775" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:12:42.063" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all about the content, not the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's wiki in the sense that anyone can edit something marked community wiki.  The rep is there to show that there are community trusted users that have more &quot;privileges&quot; than others.  The threshold for editing is the not same for everyone so that new / malicious people don't come in and just wipe content right and left.  We want people to show that they know what they're talking about and are willing to take the time to provide quality content before allowing them to just write all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Renaming CW to something relative to rep would put too much emphasis on rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:12:42.063" />
  <row Id="35778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35763" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:13:37.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the weight of votes in general on questions should be modified, maybe even to a semi-log scale where one-or-two votes don't mean much as the question is reasonable, but if it goes stellar then you get good rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130402" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:13:37.427" />
  <row Id="35779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35775" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:15:05.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No-rewards-zone&lt;/strong&gt; suggests it's useless.  There is no reward whatsoever, &lt;em&gt;however&lt;/em&gt; the whole point of SO is that the reward is information!  And CW is not ineligible for good information sharing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130402" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:15:05.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35775" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:20:00.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only do I not agree with renaming, &quot;Community Wiki,&quot; but I have to ask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No-Reward Zone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like something that can't be discounted at Best Buy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because you don't earn rep from it doesn't mean it's without merit or value. Some of us are here for information and knowledge, not Arbitrary Big Number next to our names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:20:00.500" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35775" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:25:08.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can still earn badges off of a community wiki post. They are a reward. Not reputation, but rewards nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, your suggestions to rename it &quot;No-Rewards Zone&quot; is invalid again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:25:08.367" />
  <row Id="35784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35774" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:26:23.107" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For big changes you post a question about it on meta (tagged [retag-request]), get some feedback, and at least sometime automated help. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/retag-request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;InRe comments:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, once you have the points, feel free to make new tags when you think they are appropriate. Which does not mean to go hog wild on it. The point of tags is to categorize the content, so they should be helpful that way. If you want to apply a new tag to a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of questions you should consider discussing it on meta first. But I don't think that [retag-request] is ideal for that. Maybe we need a new tag (say [new-tag]) on meta. Pun intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T16:27:53.823" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:27:53.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:54:08.613" Score="6" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw that a lot of interview question threads on SO are being closed. This hasn't always been like this. I wonder if there's any official policy on this matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think that discussing interview questions is a good idea. Being able to search, for example, &lt;code&gt;[interview-questions] [c++]&lt;/code&gt; to see a list of C++ interview questions is useful. Is this discouraged? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140635" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T04:47:15.213" Title="The SO policy on interview questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;interview-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="35789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35788" CreationDate="2010-01-15T15:59:01.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, to me, they come under the heading of 'subjective and argumentative', just like other management questions. But they rarely appear in my personal tag cloud, so I don't make a habit of voting to close them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T15:59:01.503" />
  <row Id="35790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35788" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:03:27.937" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal line-in-the-sand is whether the question could have been asked at any other non-programming site, or answered successfully without any programming content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, it's not suited for this site - there are hundreds of forums on the internet for interview information, and simply saying, &quot;What's your greatest strength - for programmers&quot; is no reason to have it on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But technically there is no &quot;policy&quot; - the site is community moderated, and the &quot;policy&quot; may change from month to month, day to day, and even hour to hour depending on who's on the site at a given time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one wants to post an interview question, they'll quickly find that if it's not allowed, it's definitely in a gray area, and will receive a lot of negative and positive attention as people vote to close and open it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, it's best to stay away from gray areas, and simply post objective and real programming questions, rather than subjective job-search questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:03:27.937" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35788" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:12:16.263" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the policy &quot;is&quot;, but I think it would be a real loss if they were discouraged or closed by default. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Involve us all in some way: we're all programmers. Some of us are hiring, others are employed or hoping to be hired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The questions are usually interesting and often involve actual code, or at least a high-level algorithmic discussion. They are all programming related in some way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a potential hire, it really is good practice to get a feel for the kinds of questions that could be asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the questions are from &lt;em&gt;interviewers&lt;/em&gt; who are asking for feedback along the lines of &quot;Do you think this is a good interview question for me to ask?&quot; Quite often, they are not -- they are esoteric at best -- and the replies include commentary on how to improve the question, or why to avoid this kind of question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that these discussions are excellent ones for a programmer community such as this one. They should be marked as a 'Community Wiki', because they typically involve opinions and/or are open-ended discussions, but I think it is a huge benefit to the Stack Overflow members that a group of talented programmers can get together and have high-level discussions such as these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135967" LastEditorUserId="135967" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T16:25:01.273" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:25:01.273" />
  <row Id="35793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35788" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:22:12.933" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; list of stuff that I usually vote to close/downvote/roll my eyes at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question deals with a logic/math puzzle or a riddle to get people thinking, and has no connection to actual &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;, it doesn't belong. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2021685/what-is-the-probability-that-4-points-determine-a-hemisphere-closed&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is just asking for a list of possible questions to ask someone they're interviewing, then it's probably too open-ended or subjective for SO. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2057841/need-interview-questions-or-links-for-the-same-closed&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;) If it's CW, it's presence is more tolerable. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1314228/biztalk-developer-pre-screening-test-and-interview-questions&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is just discussing the interview process in general, then it's probably very subjective and not &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;-related. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11464/what-is-the-worst-interview-question&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, most everything else is usually fine. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/437/what-is-your-solution-to-the-fizzbuzz-problem&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:22:12.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35747" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:25:28.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to understand that there are 50 new questions every 2 minutes on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast reaction time requires many, many more moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one question you point out may be an outlier (I haven't looked at it) but the reality is that for 95% of the problem questions the system works fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a delicate balance, though, and making such a big change will not only make it slower/harder to close questions that obviously need to close or migrate, but it will change the closing and opening dynamic significantly.  Small tweaks one at a time is best for such a large control system, or it goes out of whack and oscillates for weeks, tying up the owners, moderators, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having more moderators should help with the 5% that are unfairly or wrongly categorized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But changing the system that works 95% of the time, just to target that 5%, may actually be counterproductive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, go ahead and gather the statistics that show how many questions are being close correctly on an hourly basis, how many are being closed incorrectly, how many people are voting to close/open them, and how many 3k+ moderators are active on the site at a given time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you might have enough information to pull out a conclusion to support your feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:25:28.213" />
  <row Id="35795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35788" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:28:40.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That type of question will often get closed if it isn't asked as a Community Wiki, or if it is poorly worded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will also often get closed if the question could easily apply to non-programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:28:40.827" />
  <row Id="35796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:35:47.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are currently 5+ websites I'm aware of that use information from Stack Overflow.  They have two options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For real time information, they scrape the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions and answers they use the data dumps which can be a month or more out of date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a constant struggle between these developers and the site, which limits such usage, because it's expensive in terms of processor power and bandwidth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The API would define a lower bandwidth interface (since you don't need all the display elements, CSS, XML, etc.) for realtime usage, and perhaps even allow the question and answer data to become real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow features such as advanced searching services (Stack Overflow has a very weak search engine, and Google is not specific to the site, so it's not as good as a custom service). It would fill a need many people have to keep up with all the sites in the trilogy (rather than going to each site individually, etc., etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many things that are not well served by the existing interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:12:02.523" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:12:02.523" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35724" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:41:24.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about this quite a bit when it was announced, but ultimately decided that I still got a good deal, and they gave me exactly what they promised I'd get for $29.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, of course not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your remedies include demanding a refund, and sulking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But sulking because you got what you paid for is in rather poor form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:41:24.230" />
  <row Id="35798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T16:59:05.953" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to develop a BlackBerry app for browsing SO. (And, when V2 rolls around updating as well)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it would be nice to be able to use the SO API on the BlackBerry platform. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T16:59:05.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T16:59:05.953" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35747" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:14:01.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're addressing the wrong problem - i've seen questions migrated incorrectly by users who've been on SO since the beta, and who expressed a clear desire to get rid of an inappropriate question - &lt;em&gt;hardly&lt;/em&gt; inexperienced users migrating for the heck of it. The problem you need to address is that of questions that don't belong on other, non-SO sites;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35744/allow-diamond-moderators-to-reverse-question-migrations&quot;&gt;This suggestion&lt;/a&gt; at least suggests a tool you could use to correct improper migration, although I have a small issue with that as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T17:14:01.847" />
  <row Id="35800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35744" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:19:10.913" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the SO community says it doesn't belong on SO, then it would be a bit rude for you to override that: you're not a SO moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be in favor of a feature that let you delete the question from your site and simultaneously &lt;em&gt;change the close reason to &quot;off-topic&quot; on SO&lt;/em&gt; (in the process &lt;em&gt;unlocking&lt;/em&gt; the original but leaving it closed). That would accomplish three helpful things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would get the question off of your site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would allow the question to be &lt;strong&gt;re-opened&lt;/strong&gt; on SO, &lt;em&gt;if the people so desired&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would allow the question to be &lt;strong&gt;deleted&lt;/strong&gt; on SO, if the people so desired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-03T18:47:17.983" LastActivityDate="2011-01-03T18:47:17.983" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:24:26.613" Score="-6" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read some of the discussions on meta regarding the &quot;fastest gun&quot; and &quot;tactical voting&quot; problems. As mentioned before, there is a conflict-of-interest here, when  you answer a question the temptation to downvote other answers is very high, regardless of whether you comes back later to undo the vote (which now we can't, because the undo grace period is now very short).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was proposed (and denied) that users who answer a question be forbidden from voting on others. I agree that this is too harsh, but I want to suggest a different strategy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it more expensive to downvote such answers. Instead of one rep point, it should be around 4 or 5.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limit the number of answers that I can down-vote on a thread which I answered to 2 or 3.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strategy still allows you to down-vote if you think other answers are wrong, it is not as extreme as banning you from downvoting, but it does changes the stakes a bit to encourage a fair behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141125" LastEditorUserId="130727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T12:06:38.017" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T12:06:38.017" Title="Apply different cost to downvote for voter who answered the same question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tactical-downvoting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35801" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:34:35.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's only a conflict of interest if you don't really care about promoting a correct answer. As has been mentioned before, down-voting other answers is valuable when those answers are &lt;em&gt;actually incorrect&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; suspect that rep gaming via tactical voting is less of a problem than some people would like to think. And I certainly don't wish to be presented with a choice between down-voting all 4 incorrect answers and posting a correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T17:34:35.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35801" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:35:30.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you know the correct answer, and you know that the other answers are wrong, then the system allows you to both answer, and downvote the other answers.  This is good usage, and should not be penalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T17:35:30.080" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:36:12.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea too, although 1000 seems a bit low to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T17:36:12.450" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="35805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:41:31.987" Score="16" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you add histograms showing various stats by tag to user profile pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend showing total score, number of answers, percentage of answers that were accepted, or number of downvotes by tag, either for the 5-10 most active tags for that user or whichever tags you select.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would give a rather idea of the user's skill level in specific areas, and would be very helpful for Careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be interesting to allow a date filter to see what areas a user has learned and how long it took to learn them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also help track silver/gold tag badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T19:06:51.920" Title="Per-Tag User Histograms" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35722" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:42:28.163" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree wholeheartedly.  I am getting quite annoyed, since I ask myself how often I will have to prove my humanity again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the system currently does is saying &quot;Bad boy, don't edit so often&quot; and &quot;Bad boy, you took too long to edit&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T17:42:28.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:50:05.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to build a Chrome Extension that follows questions and lets me know when questions have been answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/what-would-a-stack-overflow-api-look-like/#comment-43124&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO blog comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132792" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T17:50:05.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T17:50:05.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2010-01-15T17:56:16.693" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to suggest this in response to the closing of a similar question that I had asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be two different ways you could do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Create a bounty on someone else's question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have the advantage of being simple to implement.  However, you are still limited to the bounty system, so you'd have to drop a min of 50 rep on the question.  Also, only one person would be able to set up the bounty, so if two or more people wanted to show support for a question you're missing out on all that additional rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Create a &quot;Tip Jar&quot; that accepts micro payments of rep towards an accepted answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would still participate in the bounty system, but would allow multiple people to add to the bounty and would have a very low minimum pay-in.  For example, if you see some lowly slob with little to no rep asking an impressive question, you could hit the tip jar 3 times to add 3 or 6 or 15 (1 per, 2 per, 5 per) rep points towards the answer.  These points would be subtracted immediately.  Multiple people could throw in some rep as well, thus increasing the chance someone would want to answer.  Placing a time limit on the answer, in this case, would probably not be advisable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T17:56:16.693" />
  <row Id="35812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35816" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:02:47.163" Score="11" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: ahmedga [mailto:ahmedga*****@yahoo.com] &#xA;    Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 2:12 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    how to insert and delete the linked single linked lists &#xA;    at the middle(except the first and the end)?&#xA;&#xA;    please send to me for this answer if you can with programs.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T23:35:38.357" Title="Advertising Inquiry: please send to me for this answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:06:58.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact, I can with programs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;AdvertisingInquiry inquiry = new AdvertisingInquiry(&quot;ahmedga&quot;);&#xA;Answer answer = inquiry.SendForAnswer(&quot;how to insert and delete the linked single linked lists at the middle(except the first and the end)?&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wasn't that easy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:14:33.283" />
  <row Id="35816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:13:54.907" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear ahmedga,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; live with programs, for I have a rare and serious allergy to them. All my life I've suffered from this debilitating condition, facing with dread the rising popularity of programmable electronic devices. I spend my days isolated deep within the barren wastelands of Montana, clad in a custom-made aluminum suit for protection from the programmable phones carried by roving tourists and mineral speculators. It is a depressing and solitary existence - my only joy in life comes from communicating with kind folks such as yourself... yet even this torments me, as I must communicate solely via a slow pony express relay in order to isolate myself from the harmful influences of postal sorting and email programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry that I cannot help you, but beg of you to please, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; write back anyway - I'm so lonely here, so very, very lonely...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Alex Papadimoulispolis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:13:54.907" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35722" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:20:17.653" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2167/increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing&quot;&gt;It's already in place&lt;/a&gt;, just get to 10,000 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:20:17.653" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:29:08.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone had to say it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;use JQuery&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:29:08.633" />
  <row Id="35820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:36:32.547" Score="6" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I get SO to take the picture from my openid persona as my SO profile picture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&#xA;And if I can't, can this be added as a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141766" LastEditorUserId="141766" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T18:51:14.790" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T00:51:11.553" Title="OpenID persona image" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;picture&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="35821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35820" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:39:26.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create an account with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar&lt;/a&gt; (use the same picture as the one from your OpenID persona)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use your Gravatar email address as the email address in your SO profile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Profit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T00:51:11.553" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T00:51:11.553" />
  <row Id="35822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35820" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:40:16.860" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pictures are used from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gravatar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Sign up there and set things up.  It matches images from Gravatar based on email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:40:16.860" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:46:43.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear amygdala,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I can't send to you for this answer because I accidentally the whole programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:46:43.210" />
  <row Id="35824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35820" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:47:10.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't.  SO does not use the OpenID profile image, only Gravatar.  This choice was made early on due to the limited support most openid providers had for the profile image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the situation is any better now than it was 18 months ago, but consider asking for this as a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:47:10.573" />
  <row Id="35825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:51:05.507" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I insert mine twice daily. Sometimes three times. Depends on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:51:05.507" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T18:52:04.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yo ahmedga, I put a linked list in your linked list so you can traverse it while you traverse it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T18:52:04.867" />
  <row Id="35827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:01:35.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yo, ahmedga, I'm really happy for you, but Schindler had the best linked list of all time!  &lt;em&gt;Of all time!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T19:18:45.367" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:18:45.367" />
  <row Id="35828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:08:18.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear ahmedga,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I am Mr. McFeely, i work as an auditor for Banque Commerciale du Burkina, working as part of a bigger team that covers the entire African region. An American contractor investor Mr. Robert Henz died without naming a next of kin to his fund in our bank. The amount is US$950,000.00 and banking regulation/legislation in Burkina Faso demand that i notify the fiscal authorities after three years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above set of facts underscores my reason to seek your permission to have you stand as the next of kin to the deceased.This funds will be approved and release in your favour as the next of kin if only you will adhere to my instruction and cooperate with me in one acord. I have all the legal and banking details of the deceased client that will facilitate our putting you forward as the claimant/beneficiary of the funds and ultimately transfer of the US$950,000.00 plus interest to any bank account nominated by you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am prepared to compensate you with a 35% share of the total funds for your efforts.&#xA;The final details will be given upon receipt of an affirmation of your desire to participate. Please contact me immediately whether or not you are interested in this deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are not,it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But where you are interested, contact me only through my private email address: mcfeely@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Mr. McFeely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:08:18.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:10:04.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to get a particular user's activity both recent and in the past. [I have to use Activity page because a lot of time Eric leaves interesting comment but no answer. And there is no way to look at all comments done by a user.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. I follow activity pages for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;Eric&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/111335?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;Pavel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656?tab=activity#sort-top&quot;&gt;Jon&lt;/a&gt;. I have to do this daily otherwise I would miss their comments/answers if it scrolls off the activity page. I could potentially build a website which lets me view a particular user's activity in any way I choose. [E.g. filter out Jon's activity for Java questions/answers because I don't care.]. Potentially I can let visitors of my site follow SO user's activity and use 'follower' count to find more interesting users for me to follow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:10:04.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T19:10:04.950" />
  <row Id="35830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:15:39.553" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to build a notification icon for the system tray that pops up a notice (like Outlook or Messenger) for the following events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new questions meet certain criteria (tags + regex match)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;someone adds or changes any content in a question where I've participated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;votes on anything I've posted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thinking about how to design an API for this, what I'd really like is a type/class I can use that raises events, rather than a service I poll.  Let the Stack Overflow team worry about how to poll the service by providing the class that does that part, and then they can be sure everyone is nice about it. It also takes that burden off of individual programmers, so it's easier to get started.  The downside is that it limits you to supported platforms, rather than everyone (though there's nothing stopping them from exposing the base service as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking a little lower level, some things I might need to be able to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Get &quot;new&quot; questions (for some definition of new that probably involves passing in the datetime of my last check)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Either:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get a list of question ids a user has participated in AND&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get new activity in a specific question or list of questions (by id)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get all new activity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Determine whether a user has participated in a question that holds a specific ID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New up/down votes cast on a specific user&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I say &quot;new activity&quot;, I mean which &lt;em&gt;question ID&lt;/em&gt; changed, which post ID (if any) within the question changed, a summary of the change (new post, deleted post, edited x characters, closed, etc), and who did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if you ever want to support updating via the API, you probably want to include OpenID authentication in &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; version as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T02:11:42.897" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T02:11:42.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T19:15:39.553" />
  <row Id="35831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:16:17.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a similar fashion to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35723/what-do-you-want-to-build-with-the-so-api/35798#35798&quot;&gt;jjnguy&lt;/a&gt; once a Stack Overflow API is available I'd like to help work on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt; application for Stack Overflow. I say help because once the API is available it'll only be a matter of time before such an application is built and it's a great idea to raise awareness for this idea so that the community can build an open-source application for us Android users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this, it would be great to take advantage of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JSON&lt;/a&gt;. Every other answer here has the right ideas as to what an API needs and more personal touches, such as all notification functionality to be working (i.e. like for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/9b2tg/reddit_is_fun_my_newly_published_free_android_app/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddit is fun&lt;/a&gt; app) when you are alerted when you receive a new notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133240" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T02:06:44.623" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T02:06:44.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T19:16:17.010" />
  <row Id="35833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:25:25.727" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visual Studio extension. I picture a v1 that lets you find questions/answers and a v2 that lets you ask questions and post code from within VS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I intend to proof-of-concept one on top of SXAPI as soon as I scrape together enough free time to figure out VS2010/2008's object model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would require easy access to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question watching (for new answers etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-09T14:58:19.953" LastActivityDate="2010-04-09T14:58:19.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T19:25:25.727" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:25:46.707" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would implement &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3683/search-in-favorited-question&quot;&gt;search in favorites&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Or maybe some other things I think SO is lacking. Quick and dirty, until SO team gets to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58463" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:25:46.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T19:25:46.707" />
  <row Id="35835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28967" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:28:35.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just ran into a similar problem trying to comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35780/show-replies-across-all-trilogy-sites&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to make a word bold inside quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;possible&lt;/strong&gt; duplicates&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but that got rendered like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;**possible** duplicates&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was going to report it, but found this. I think it's the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up adding a space between the quote and the word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot; &lt;strong&gt;possible&lt;/strong&gt; duplicates &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:28:35.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35837" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:34:21.027" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/javascript&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/javascript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the same thing, or are they different ones?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the same then why do you need it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T19:50:42.533" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:50:42.533" Title="Different urls for the same tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35836" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:39:31.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are simply two paths to the same action. I wouldn't be surprised if one controller action just redirects to the other controller's action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only speculate to why it's like that; but I do know there are two paths to get there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on &lt;code&gt;Tags&lt;/code&gt; and click on &lt;code&gt;JavaScript&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click on &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt; and click on &lt;code&gt;JavaScript&lt;/code&gt; (on the right hand side of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user that wants to navigate by tag first is different than a user that navigates questions and clicks on a tag they might want to find out more about when they're in a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:39:31.887" />
  <row Id="35838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35836" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:45:28.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the future, there &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be a potential difference. For instance, the second link, that points to the tag, instead of the questions tagged with that tag, could potentially include information about the tag, like why it is there, what it stands for, what it is used for, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment though, it appears they're quite equivalent, but I guess the final word has to come from the SO team members themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:45:28.550" />
  <row Id="35839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38234" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:48:22.397" Score="54" ViewCount="454" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a user named: .yahoo.co.jpaqwsykcj3aulh3h1k0cy6nzs3isj&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could new users be named according to their user-number, or something other than &quot;Unknown&quot;? Perhaps &lt;strong&gt;User1234567&lt;/strong&gt; instead? It would be less awkward to address them in answers and comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I often times have to check profiles to make sure users aren't abusing the system, since I find many of the same questions from &quot;unknown (google)&quot; from time to time. That, or I'll mistakenly think I've helped the user on a similar issue in the past, and assume the user has knowledge that he or she does not have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T09:43:54.497" LastActivityDate="2010-04-19T02:52:30.787" Title="Change default username from &quot;Unknown&quot; to &quot;User{number}&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="35840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35839" CreationDate="2010-01-15T19:51:41.127" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes sense; and it's easier to for people to tie it to a person later on, even if their name changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, in comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;User1010101: I don't know how to do this.&#xA;George: @User1010101: You do it this way.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, even if &lt;code&gt;User1010101&lt;/code&gt; changes his name, I can still look at my old comment and trace who I was talking to to that &lt;code&gt;UserID&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better, it'd be nice if we could (and there's a meta discussion out about this) just put &lt;code&gt;{s:UserID}&lt;/code&gt; in a comment and have it render whatever name they're using currently.  If their UserID was in a hover-tooltip, then it'd be easy to grab.  There are some edge cases with this, but it'd at least get the hardcoded names out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, yes, it would add some processing time and probably slow down the requests a little bit -- I don't know by how much though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T19:56:51.067" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T19:56:51.067" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:09:35.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the API to build a desktop app.  Think like tweetdeck: view multiple SX sites at once without having to switch from one to the other in a browser and instead see interesting questions (to you) side by side in columns or whatever other presentable form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="396" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T20:09:35.470" />
  <row Id="35842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35845" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:10:05.560" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the answer to a question can be summarized in one word, I've found myself wanting to retag questions with that answer as a tag. Is this good practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: If &quot;lib-y&quot; is a good answer to the question &quot;What is a library to do X?&quot;, then retag the question with &quot;lib-y&quot;. It makes it really easy to see the answer or search for it later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130147" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T20:27:34.630" Title="Retagging questions with the answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:17:31.487" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not increase the downvote value according to the user's rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ie, Joe N00b joins and starts downvoting everywhere - it'll be carnage. However, if his downvotes don't count much (-1 if that) then it'll be fine; If Jon Skeet decides you've gone too far (or answered incorrectly) then your rep penalty from his downvote should count more. He's an obviously more responsible user who would only downvote (hopefully) for things that really needed it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the downvote penalty ranged between 0 and -10, a user with 2000 rep might cost you 2 points, a user with 10,000 rep might cost you -5 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T20:17:31.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T20:17:31.487" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35842" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:23:52.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say go for it. Basically, the question is about &lt;code&gt;lib-y&lt;/code&gt;, it's just that the author didn't know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the purpose of tags is also to help people find the right answer, so if the question already has five good tags, I wouldn't change them. If it's got four tags or if its existing tags really suck octopus balls, then put the &lt;code&gt;lib-y&lt;/code&gt; tag on there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have my official approval to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T20:23:52.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35842" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:27:34.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're going to do this, I think it should only be done once an answer has been &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt;. If that accepted answer deals with &lt;code&gt;lib-y&lt;/code&gt;, then it makes sense to add the tag. However, if the author thinks that an answer dealing with &lt;code&gt;lib-z&lt;/code&gt; helped them more, there probably shouldn't be a &lt;code&gt;lib-y&lt;/code&gt; tag on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T20:27:34.630" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:48:07.283" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34625/really-good-discussion-questions&quot;&gt;Really good &amp;ldquo;discussion&amp;rdquo; questions&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20670/why-is-subjective-argumentative-a-reason-to-close-a-question&quot;&gt;Why is subjective/argumentative a reason to close a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13150/why-are-subjective-questions-not-allowed-or-should-discussion-be-required-befor&quot;&gt;Why are Subjective questions not allowed [or] Should discussion be required before closing a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a series of questions about questions that I would like to ask at Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  argumentative, or require extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, I get subjective. However I suspect that some &#xA;will ask subjective questions that they perceive as objective. &#xA;Also, some will falsely think that certain objective questions &#xA;are subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta question #1: Is debating permitted?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &quot;argumentative&quot;:  there's arguing and debating. &#xA;Debating is useful; often learning emerges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta question #2: What's wrong with extended discussion?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certain questions may require extended discussion; &#xA;without it, they may not be adequately resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since no one is forced to participate in any discussion, why this restriction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta question #3: Here are some examples of the kinds of questions that I would like to ask. Are they acceptable?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I consider in choosing between xUnit.net, NUnit, MbUnit, and MSTest?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is randomization of unit test methods important?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141746" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T21:13:04.730" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:13:04.730" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T13:18:43.410" Title="Questions regarding subjectivity and extended discussion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:50:26.653" Score="100" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://couchdb.apache.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/5066/apachecouchdbsized.png&quot; alt=&quot;Schemaless, document-based, storage engine, with a RESTful, JSON API for Windox, Linux, and OS X.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="571" LastEditorUserId="745" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T17:57:37.097" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T17:57:37.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T20:50:26.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35801" CreationDate="2010-01-15T20:56:54.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes are completely anonymous, by design. Thus, you have no way of knowing that the -1 next to Answer A was placed there by the user who wrote Answer B. It could well have been downvoted by someone else, whether right or wrong. (I have seen right answers get downvoted. I have also seen wrong answer get upvoted and even accepted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I see your point, you want to prevent abuse. However, the system has numerous safeguards in place already to prevent that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My big problem with your proposal is that it operates on the assumption that there is an inherent conflict of interest in downvoting a &quot;competing&quot; answer. That assumption is absolutely wrong. If two answers are different, and one of them is the wrong way to approach something, then it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should the honest users (which I do believe, perhaps idealistically, to be more common) be penalized for the actions of the dishonest, particularly when there are already safeguards in place to correct the actions of said dishonest users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if a user &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; decide to &quot;strategically vote,&quot; what's the real harm? If the system doesn't catch it, it's -2 to the downvotee. It (currently) takes 5 downvotes to match even a single upvote. Yes, this is slated to change, but let's be real a minute -- this isn't the end of the world by any stretch. And again, the community at large will likely repair the damage and then some. It's not like our dishonest user can cast 20 downvotes on your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T20:56:54.283" />
  <row Id="35853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:01:01.810" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;So there's a feature request (I'm not the OP) which has recently been tagged &lt;code&gt;status-declined&lt;/code&gt;.  I was/am highly in favor of the request.  Now I'm depressed.  I will probably drown my sorrows tonight in a case of dark English ale (nothing like the old world).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular feature-request had 72 upvotes on it and the reason given for declining was not all that great (IMHO).  How long do we wait (realistically) before asking for a highly-popular feature request which was declined to be reconsidered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(ok, to save you some forensic time the feature in question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, but this is really just in general)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T21:13:14.450" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:29:23.163" Title="Length of time before reconsidering feature requests" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35850" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:01:46.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Debating is useful; often learning emerges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! It's also great fun at times. Unfortunately, the SO format works poorly for this; with debating, what you want is a proper forum, with threads and stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;certain questions could require extended discussion; without sufficient discussion, they may not be adequately resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, the SO format works very poorly for these. AFAIK, this is by design: look at how hard it is to find anything in most forums - even when you find a topic that &lt;em&gt;sounds&lt;/em&gt; like it might lead to what you're after, you end up having to dig through big piles of discussion before you even know whether or not there's a solution (to say nothing about whether or not the problem as it eventually hashed out looks anything like your own). SO tries to avoid this by presenting everything as Question -&gt; Answer(s) - this makes it a great resource for finding existing solutions to problems you encounter, but the trade-off is that it is very impractical for discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO allows for &lt;em&gt;limited&lt;/em&gt; discussion in the form of comments: if you can resolve a dispute or tease out the real question in a few short messages, then it usually works... and works better still if you can then update the question/answer to reflect what was agreed upon. But regardless of purpose, long, involved conversations are, by design and by decree, discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:01:46.940" />
  <row Id="35855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35850" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:02:47.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are over analysing things a little too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a programming question then just ask it. There is a check for subjective questions when you post, so if you don't trigger that you're half way there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjective and argumentative tends to come about when there's obviously no clear &quot;correct&quot; answer to the question. So again, as long as you ask a question that can be answered (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in Logo&lt;/a&gt; - perhaps a bad example) then you should be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:02:47.373" />
  <row Id="35856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35850" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:04:01.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff made the point early on that the close reason is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjective &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; argumentative&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning that debate questions, or subjective questions may have a place on SO, but questions which are both subjective and require debate have no home here - they cannot be resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:04:01.663" />
  <row Id="35857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35853" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:07:01.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can repost it immediately, or wait as long as you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, unless you present a new argument for the feature, or ask for a slightly different version of the feature it's likely to be closed as a dupe, and if not it'll be declined again anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to ask for the same exact feature that was explicitly declined, there's no real time period to wait, but I probably would wait 6-12 months at least.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:07:01.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35853" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:29:23.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Furthermore, it is my opinion that Carthage must be destroyed.&quot; - &lt;em&gt;Cato, the Elder&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nag, nag, nag, nag. That helps. If you really want it, piss Jeff off with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;bug&quot; that you could circumvent the 15-chars-limit in comments with spaces wasn't that a big deal. But people complained and complained about it. Jeff got fed up and sacrificed valuable programming time to &quot;fix&quot; this. Follow that example!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now go and write your dupe. I am out of close votes. Now or never.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;You also could add an answer to the linked question, to restart the discussion (and also get a Necromancer badge maybe). It would be the correct, but less nagging thing to do.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:29:23.163" />
  <row Id="35862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:35:16.940" Score="6" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a question for the dev team, mainly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the current process for deciding what to work on next? Do you internally use an issue tracker or just use meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, and more importantly, are there plans on having a public roadmap in the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-15T21:41:30.670" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:48:07.007" Title="SO Roadmap and feature selection" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:36:36.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please add a crossdomain.xml policy, especially for the read-only parts. That will allow cross-domain access for Flash and Silverlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, check out the Flickr cross-domain policy:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://static.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;  &#xA; &#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the full spec:http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/crossdomain_policy_file_spec.html&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131747" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:36:36.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T21:36:36.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35886" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:36:59.043" Score="14" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've all seen, and most have participated in, more than one open/close war.  Things are said.  Feelings are hurt.  It's very personal for many of us, and yet so impersonal due to the lack of face time with your accusers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm asking that SO implement full-contact moderation.  Once a question gets 5 votes to close, and 5 subsequent votes to open, the question is locked until the affected parties meet in a brawl type setting, where they can duke it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way others online can see which side has greater numbers or is more likely to win (due to the impact of their arguments on the opposing force) and choose which side of the debate they'll take in real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be implementation details to be worked out, but I think the idea is generally sound and wanted to open a discussion before officially making a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T04:17:06.530" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T03:30:17.293" Title="Full contact moderating" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:37:43.520" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not been posting on SO recently as I've been focusing on various StackExchange sites including my own, but I've been regularly checking in to see how my reputation is ticking along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just checked the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=maven-2&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot;&gt;maven-2&lt;/a&gt; stats page and my recent reputation and realised I've had around 16 upvotes for maven-2 since Jan 1st, but am not in the &quot;Last 30 days&quot; list. I guess this is because I've made 0 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure I'd call this a bug as I haven't posted any answers in the last 30 days, just thought it might be of interest. Or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As requested, here are a few maven-2 answers I've had upvoted in the last week or two. I can add more if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1163173/why-use-gradle-instead-of-ant-or-maven/1165553#1165553&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1163173/why-use-gradle-instead-of-ant-or-maven/1165553#1165553&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500758/maven-creating-flat-zip-assembly/1500919#1500919&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1500758/maven-creating-flat-zip-assembly/1500919#1500919&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30571/how-do-i-tell-maven-to-use-the-latest-version-of-a-dependency/1172371#1172371&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30571/how-do-i-tell-maven-to-use-the-latest-version-of-a-dependency/1172371#1172371&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1171806/how-to-build-without-using-locally-installed-artifacts/1171874#1171874&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1171806/how-to-build-without-using-locally-installed-artifacts/1171874#1171874&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T16:08:27.027" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T16:08:27.027" Title="Top users page doesn't include upvotes if no answers made" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:46:57.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may not need be fisticuffs.  I'm thinking that some participants will choose other games, such as Mario Kart, Rock Paper Scissors, Roshambo, tug-o-war, Battleship, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What forms of brawling do you prefer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What limitations do we need to deal with? (ie, if there are 20+ people involved, a mario kart tournament can take quite a bit of time, but a roshambo free-for-all might only take &lt;em&gt;seconds&lt;/em&gt; ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:46:57.587" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35862" CreationDate="2010-01-15T21:48:07.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6-8 weeks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T21:48:07.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2010-01-15T23:05:42.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be up for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fakeplasticrock.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fake Plastic Rock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T23:05:42.387" />
  <row Id="35876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T23:31:21.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to build a knowledge-base that interacts with a case management system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Support engineers link answers to cases, which would increment the vote for the answer, perhaps also for the question as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to have a way to convert a support case, which would have a &quot;question&quot; field and an &quot;answer&quot; field, into StackExchange  question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be important to have some mechanism for tiered access control, for example, internal only vs. public access. From a business process perspective, it would be best if the conversion from internal to public could be automated, say, after an article received 3 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141936" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T23:31:21.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T23:31:21.207" />
  <row Id="35877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2010-01-15T23:35:38.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Little slab of meat &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  In a wash of clear jelly &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Now I heat the pan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T23:35:38.357" />
  <row Id="35878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-15T23:40:44.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would like to complete...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My need is more in the complete zone than that of the build zone since it's for the StackOverflow Bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been publicizing the inclusion of alerts on the bar but, I've let the idea go bad to the point of foul smell just because HTML scrapping under Firefox is just... not something you want to self inflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The ideal API for this would...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let me choose between pooling or siphoning from stream.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give me item-by-item data AND&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give me aggregated data(nested objects, etc...) upon my choice of function to call&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give me the possibility to either ID filter or Date filter above data to make &lt;code&gt;&quot;diffed&quot;&lt;/code&gt; decisions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would allow me to maintain a database of events that would interest the user of said Bar, even if there was a long time between Bar on-line usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8167" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T23:40:44.727" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-15T23:40:44.727" />
  <row Id="35879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2010-01-15T23:52:51.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first rule of &lt;strike&gt;Fight&#xA;  Club&lt;/strike&gt;Stack Overflow is that&#xA;  you do not talk about &lt;strike&gt;Fight&#xA;  Club&lt;/strike&gt;Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now I see a lot of new faces tonight,&#xA;  so it looks like some of you have been&#xA;  breaking rule #1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has to be bare-knuckle brawling until one opponent taps out. Two men to a fight. Only one fight at a time. And if this your first night, you &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; to fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Boss: Is that your blood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Protagonist: Some of it, yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-15T23:52:51.220" />
  <row Id="35880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35888" CreationDate="2010-01-16T00:03:47.480" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes i see interesting tags that dont have many post (bison, osdev, etc) and i like clicking them to see the most recent few post about them. I often get ideas or learn about things and i dont need to think of keywords or learn what to search! It appears i cant do this anymore. Can we get that tag search feature back? also searching multiple tags would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do notice i can search a tags by user but hacking the url and removing the user id part doesnt help me search tags. Ok &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A0+%5Blanguage-design%5D%5Bgcc%5D&quot;&gt;i tried setting user to 0 and it worked&lt;/a&gt;. The functionality is there but can we have a nicer way to access it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like how multiple tags are AND'd. I hated when searches OR them and give me tons of MORE results that i do not want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="34537" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T00:09:44.283" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T01:21:10.393" Title="Search Tags but not for bounty?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2010-01-16T00:31:05.000" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;eRabble&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://xs.to/image-613A_4B510A74.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rabble&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I right in thinking a serious answer isn't required? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[There was a massive body of text here. But I think I missed the tone of the question]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141842" LastEditorUserId="141842" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T00:39:09.240" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T00:39:09.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2010-01-16T00:32:49.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really an answer, but below is the edit statistics for Stack Overflow from the beginning to 2009-10-31 (corresponding to that &lt;a href=&quot;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Data Dump&lt;/a&gt;), top 20 + Jon Skeet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1&lt;/strong&gt;: note that only the last edit for a question or an answer is counted (undercounting) and retagging is counted (overcounting wrt. the badge). This is a consequence of how the Data Dump is organised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not include edits to the users own questions and answers. It is in a form where it can be directly copy-pasted into a Windows command-line window and the user pages will open in the default browser (e.g. Firefox or Opera). The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/MSO/SO_EditorStats,2009-10-3.bat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;full list&lt;/a&gt; is available (494 KB, 5023 users with 1 or more edits), but please only paste a small subset of that file... (all disclaimers apply)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;rem 1th place. Editor with ID 5640 did 3315 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640&#xA;&#xA;rem 2th place. Editor with ID 8817 did 1951 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/8817&#xA;&#xA;rem 3th place. Editor with ID 63550 did 1695 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/63550&#xA;&#xA;rem 4th place. Editor with ID 3043 did 1672 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/3043&#xA;&#xA;rem 5th place. Editor with ID 76337 did 1576 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337&#xA;&#xA;rem 6th place. Editor with ID 15168 did 1509 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/15168&#xA;&#xA;rem 7th place. Editor with ID 21234 did 1302 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/21234&#xA;&#xA;rem 8th place. Editor with ID 135152 did 1176 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/135152&#xA;&#xA;rem 9th place. Editor with ID 14444 did 906 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/14444&#xA;&#xA;rem 10th place. Editor with ID 16587 did 878 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/16587&#xA;&#xA;rem 11th place. Editor with ID 1288 did 849 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/1288&#xA;&#xA;rem 12th place. Editor with ID 13531 did 815 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/13531&#xA;&#xA;rem 13th place. Editor with ID 12855 did 815 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/12855&#xA;&#xA;rem 14th place. Editor with ID 31615 did 804 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/31615&#xA;&#xA;rem 15th place. Editor with ID 49246 did 763 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/49246&#xA;&#xA;rem 16th place. Editor with ID 1450 did 745 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/1450&#xA;&#xA;rem 17th place. Editor with ID 56338 did 716 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/56338&#xA;&#xA;rem 18th place. Editor with ID 100754 did 693 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/100754&#xA;&#xA;rem 19th place. Editor with ID 811 did 688 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/811&#xA;&#xA;rem 20th place. Editor with ID 1 did 684 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;rem 51th place. Editor with ID 22656 did 322 edits...&#xA;start http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T01:23:43.913" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T01:23:43.913" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="35883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2010-01-16T00:45:20.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/6684/nerdfightg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;fight!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paint it red ... &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; .. paint it green ... fight!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T00:45:20.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:03:59.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good questions will happen naturally with good people running into real problems for which they need real help.&lt;/strong&gt;  Awarding rep for questions does nothing but encourage rep-whoring question saturation making it hard to find the truly good questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has now become perfectly routine to have to sift through &lt;strike&gt;dozens&lt;/strike&gt; hundreds of questions on SO to find one worth putting time into answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think you should get 10 questions up front, then 1 additional for every 5 - 10 answers you provide which are up-voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, what I really think is that questions shouldn't be awarded rep at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="8946" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T00:08:06.157" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:08:06.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35865" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:08:51.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is this a bug? If the answers weren't provided in the last 30 days, they're not eligible for the &quot;last 30 days&quot; part of that statistics page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T01:08:51.667" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:09:38.373" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an accepted, recognized and proven way to solve any dispute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8396/insultd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;You fight like a dairy farmer.&quot; title=&quot;How appropriate. You fight like a cow.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T12:57:42.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T12:57:42.750" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="35887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35742" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:10:55.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this is not a truncation issue -- I think this was a bug in the sanitizer that has since been fixed. That's why open/meaningless-edit/save fixes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T01:10:55.080" />
  <row Id="35888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35880" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:21:10.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can search within a tag. See &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T01:21:10.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34901" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:44:18.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i am not totally cool with the situation.  I am a developer but I am also a decision maker in hiring new employees.  Why is that strange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141941" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T01:44:18.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35900" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:52:38.167" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am specifically asking about this post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35858/what-other-question-answer-knowledgebase-web-applications-are-around&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35858/what-other-question-answer-knowledgebase-web-applications-are-around&lt;/a&gt;, which started life on serverfault. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, I did not word my question clearly, and it was pounced on and moved here. I want to clean up and post a clarified question, I would prefer on serverfault, but based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/59303/chrisf&quot;&gt;ChrisF&lt;/a&gt; comment I would post on Superuser, where I believe I will be more likely to get better feedback than here, in part because the question is not meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if I delete, and repost a clarified question, will I raise the ire of the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141936" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T04:15:03.520" Title="Will I get shot if I delete a question and repost?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;management-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="35892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35891" CreationDate="2010-01-16T01:57:50.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it is on another site, and that you are completely removing the old question means that you are less likely to get a angry commentor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you do, it is one person. It isn't like the entire site will rain down on you with mass downvotes and obliterate all hope of you ever posting again. That only happens when someone accused Jon Skeet of being wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, you can delete a question, edit it, and then undelete it if you want to take it out of commission for a few minutes. (Or at least you can do this with answers). This would have the benefit of not creating a new Question ID, and not requiring you to recreate the entire question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not actually looked into your question and whether it is appropriate for the sites. See Jeff's Answer for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T02:03:30.637" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T02:03:30.637" />
  <row Id="35893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35891" CreationDate="2010-01-16T02:01:43.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure your question is appropriate for any site we have, honestly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Super User, it's a website question, which isn't really allowed -- it's just a &quot;list of websites&quot;. Doesn't deal with computer software or hardware at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T02:01:43.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30763" CreationDate="2010-01-16T02:05:29.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first half of your request is very unlikely to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be aware that you joined early and have a very low ID number; in some cases when there is no sort order, we use ID by default, which means you'll show up artificially high in the absence of other sort orders. This is OK and partially intentional as we thought it was smart to reward early adopters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second half of your request is complete, so I am marking this [status-complete].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30326/information-about-what-searches-are-being-done-on-careers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30326/information-about-what-searches-are-being-done-on-careers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the downside of having two requests in the same question..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T02:05:29.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-16T02:38:41.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want a build a plugin for Eclipse and a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox that automatically pulls up related questions from StackOverflow whenever there is a compile/runtime error. If no matching questions are found, it would allow me to post the question online from the IDE/browser plugin itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An ideal API for this task would:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let me search questions by keywords&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let me do a full-text search for some&#xA;compiler/browser error in the&#xA;question text.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let me post a new question on SO&#xA;right from the IDE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141626" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T02:38:41.993" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T02:38:41.993" />
  <row Id="35898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34271" CreationDate="2010-01-16T03:44:19.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. The problem with silently removing comments is that later comments that refer to the offensive one suddenly become confusing or meaningless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following example comment sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There might not be a solution, it's probably NP-hard. - NiceUser 2 hours ago    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Right!! There is no solution!!! You suck!!!! - RogueGuy 1 hour ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That guy is a troll, just ignore. - Toby 10 min ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which, of course, becomes confusing and wrong after the offensive comment has been deleted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There might not be a solution, it's probably NP-hard. - NiceUser 2 hours ago    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That guy is a troll, just ignore. - Toby 10 min ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140539" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T03:44:19.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T03:44:19.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35891" CreationDate="2010-01-16T04:15:03.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32638/which-cms-or-other-framework-should-i-use-to-develop-a-stackoverflow-like-site&quot;&gt;Apparently, this is how you do it...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(So yeah, chances are if you post it again it'll get closed as a duplicate...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T04:15:03.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35907" CreationDate="2010-01-16T05:42:40.417" Score="3" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?page=152&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?page=152&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt; (last page of questions sorted by votes; the lowest voted questions) is &quot;Highest Voted Questions&quot;. This is obviously not true. It should be &quot;Questions (sorted by votes)&quot; or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?page=152&amp;amp;sort=hot&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?page=152&amp;amp;sort=hot&lt;/a&gt; (the least hot questions [coldest questions?]) is &quot;Hottest Questions&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?page=152&amp;amp;sort=active&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions?page=152&amp;amp;sort=active&lt;/a&gt; is &quot;Recently Active Questions&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T07:46:44.410" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:51:30.247" Title="Titles for /questions pages are misleading" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;hot&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35947" CreationDate="2010-01-16T05:52:13.123" Score="6" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's unfair that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29409/isaac-waller-997214-logout-about-faq-bar-has-no-rounded-corners&quot;&gt;Firefox users get rounded corners on their reputation / search bar.&lt;/a&gt; This is browserism. Us WebKit users (Android, iPhone, Chrome, Safari, etc.) should also get rounded corners. Please add &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29409/isaac-waller-997214-logout-about-faq-bar-has-no-rounded-corners/29411#29411&quot;&gt;the required CSS&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;&#xA;-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 3px;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:57:51.083" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:57:51.083" Title="Please add rounded corners for us WebKit users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;webkit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35905" CreationDate="2010-01-16T05:57:57.400" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really do not see the need to change the page title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To most people (or to me at least), at page N of any particular list of sorted pages, &quot;Highest XXX&quot; implies sorting by XXX in ascending order, even though at the last page you see the lowest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you navigate to the last page of &quot;Recently Active Questions&quot; also implies that you know you have clicked to sort by &quot;Activeness&quot; before going to the last page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your proposal is to have &quot;Least Active Questions&quot; for the last page, then how about 2nd last? Or rather from page 2 onwards because only page 1 displays the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, &quot;Least Active&quot; is not the same as the inverse of &quot;Recently Most Active&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T05:57:57.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35909" CreationDate="2010-01-16T06:59:59.817" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32675/allow-users-to-be-able-to-see-their-own-deleted-questions&quot;&gt;Allow users to be able to see their own deleted questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35899/why-was-my-bug-report-deleted&quot;&gt;Why was my bug report deleted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had quite a few of my questions deleted today  :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of them (from StackOverflow) I understood, two of them (from Meta) I don't get why they were deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latest casualty was more significant.  I posted a bug (admittedly a minor bug, but still a bug).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there is no trace of it.  No reason why, nothing.  No trace at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way to find out why it was deleted?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why does something like a bug report get deleted anyway?  If needed, close it.  Buy why erase it from existence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:02:43.943" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T10:46:02.950" Title="See a deleted question? (or at least know why it was deleted)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35908" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:02:43.943" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, if the bug report or any of the meta posts were related to the server crash, they probably got deleted from the powers above. Mainly because they weren't really constructive, and server failures happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the other questions, chances are you won't be able to find out why they were deleted. Because the questions have no visible trace (as they were deleted), you can't really link to them to see if anyone remembers deleting the question. And I'm pretty sure people with 10,000+ reputation can't see the questions either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that is the about as much information as I can give you. If a moderator sees this post, they might have a little more insight on the situation, but my guess is that the Meta-Deletions were due to the StackOverflow Team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:02:43.943" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9652" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:18:33.673" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding another link to comments would make them even noisier than they already are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, it's redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;99 out of 100 times you are referring to a user &lt;em&gt;in the same conversation&lt;/em&gt; -- so just click on the link to that user's profile in the comment above yours .. or in the answer .. or in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:18:33.673" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1093" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:26:52.627" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything. We do have an exception for users with 2 character firstnames where the space between first and last name is the implicit third character for match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter or @petersmith to match. Also, international characters are mapped to their plain-text equivalents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only one person can be replied to at a time in a comment. The first one &quot;in&quot; wins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-12T19:46:01.247" LastActivityDate="2011-03-12T19:46:01.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:27:55.090" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only one person can be replied to at a time in a comment. The first one &quot;in&quot; wins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T14:08:45.043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T14:08:45.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28042" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:28:17.193" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:28:17.193" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16662" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:28:52.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:28:52.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4798" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:32:05.297" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on, or editors of the current post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter or @petersmith to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-14T07:35:49.357" LastActivityDate="2010-06-14T07:35:49.357" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="35918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11098" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:32:40.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:32:40.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25797" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:33:51.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:33:51.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="477" CreationDate="2010-01-16T07:36:48.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, you only get notified of comments when you own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will now get notified of any comments that refer to you by &lt;strong&gt;@username&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment, even if you do not own the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to&lt;/strong&gt;, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the &lt;em&gt;most recent&lt;/em&gt; John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T07:36:48.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2010-01-16T08:59:21.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;underline&lt;/strong&gt; tag &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;u&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140625" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T08:59:21.307" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T08:59:21.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11576" CreationDate="2010-01-16T10:09:54.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the pace at which questions land off the first page on meta (really slow), having something that's irrelevant only adds noise. They really should not be bumped back up if they've been completed, I completely agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T10:09:54.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35927" CreationDate="2010-01-16T11:13:50.983" Score="9" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27269/this-place-is-awesome&quot;&gt;This place is AWESOME!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31071/a-thanksgiving-thank-you&quot;&gt;A Thanksgiving Thank You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to give you my compliments for creating and looking after Stack Overflow. I found it few days ago (how could I live without it?) and I find it very very useful. Well done. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141953" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T16:20:32.133" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T16:20:32.133" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T14:01:42.640" Title="My compliments for Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="35927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35926" CreationDate="2010-01-16T11:36:06.750" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you like what you see the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; (*) way IMO to pay compliments to stackoverflow is to stick around, answer a few questions occasionally, etc. Welcome to the community. Leaving is not allowed ;-p (unless you annoy Jeff...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*=although I'm pretty sure the team also love seeing the occasional (and much-deserved) &quot;thanks&quot;, &quot;awesome&quot;, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T11:36:06.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35930" CreationDate="2010-01-16T12:25:35.920" Score="1" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was doing my good SO citizen work this morning (revising answers to my questions and accepting them) whilst I noticed that my rep doesn't get increased with the usual +2 on each accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: the question wasn't &quot;Community Wiki&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: the answer accepted wasn't mine in this instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;: I just accepted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2072976/access-to-widget-in-gtk&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2072976/access-to-widget-in-gtk&lt;/a&gt; and no +2 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: no mention of the &quot;accept&quot; transaction appears on my &quot;envelope&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resolution:&lt;/strong&gt; the answer provided to the question was marked &quot;Community Wiki&quot; and thus no rep is awarded for accepting one of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135835" LastEditorUserId="135835" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T11:57:44.170" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:57:44.170" Title="+2 on accepting answers: something is wrong with my account on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35928" CreationDate="2010-01-16T12:34:22.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't get the &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; rep when you accept an answer under the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On your own question answered by you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Community wiki&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020480/last-fm-api-are-etag-last-modified-headers-supported&quot;&gt;One of your recent accepts&lt;/a&gt; was on a question you yourself answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T12:34:22.543" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35928" CreationDate="2010-01-16T12:37:35.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Were you at the +200 per day reputation cap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the database and you created and deleted multiple accepts on this post on 2010-01-16 from 12:14 to 12:38 UTC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2072976/access-to-widget-in-gtk/2073145#2073145&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2072976/access-to-widget-in-gtk/2073145#2073145&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this particular post is marked Community Wiki by the author, so it won't confer rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the other accepts look fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T12:56:36.877" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T12:56:36.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35928" CreationDate="2010-01-16T12:40:57.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have recently received downvotes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2073079/2073212#2073212&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2073079/2073212#2073212&quot;&gt;of your&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070915/2070970#2070970&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;, that's -2 each. Might this have coincided? Or does the &quot;+2&quot; really not appear on your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/171461&quot;&gt;envelope page&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T12:40:57.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35934" CreationDate="2010-01-16T12:42:31.760" Score="-2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21915/what-markdown-is-available-for-use-within-comments&quot;&gt;What markdown is available for use within comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to put html or markdown inside of comments&#xA;or at least have the ability to put in some white space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T12:44:43.223" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T12:44:43.223" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T17:40:05.603" Title="Can we have more robust comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35932" CreationDate="2010-01-16T12:43:23.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21915/what-markdown-is-available-for-use-within-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21915/what-markdown-is-available-for-use-within-comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T12:43:23.693" />
  <row Id="35938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35926" CreationDate="2010-01-16T13:39:57.510" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;thanks Radek! and as Marc points out, the best way to say thanks is to &quot;pay it forward&quot; and contribute a little to answering your fellow programmers' questions ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T13:39:57.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-16T14:18:34.473" Score="2" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like the notification system that Stack Overflow has in place.  For example, when I am typing in an answer to a question and someone else answers that same question, an orange notification drops down at the top of the screen letting me know that this has happened.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to implement a similar feature in my own site but could use some help understanding how this works.  Specifically, it is fascinating to me how the notification can occur without any client side action by the user.  I was going to ask the question of how this works on Stack Overflow but realized that the team at Stack Overflow might not like a trend of developers trying to reverse engineer all the features of Stack Overflow on the site.  Is this an acceptable question?  It's not like I am trying to develop another Question &amp;amp; Answer site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  It was difficult to find but I just found a question asking exactly what I am curious about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1859832/automatic-top-bar-response-like-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1300" LastEditorUserId="1300" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T14:24:45.957" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T15:16:10.550" Title="Is it wrong to ask how a Stack Overflow feature is implemented on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;implementation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35939" CreationDate="2010-01-16T14:27:30.037" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be possible - just don't make it directly about SO. So say something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm implementing a forum and want to notify users if someone else is posting a response at the same time as them - similar to the SO notification&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be even better if you can post some code that you've tried and hasn't worked for whatever reason. This would make it quite clear that it was a programming question and not just idle curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I'm not going to guarantee that it will work, just that you might have a better chance of keeping the question open on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T14:27:30.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35939" CreationDate="2010-01-16T14:29:41.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions have been asked in various forms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250473/how-does-stackoverflow-know-when-there-are-new-answers-to-a-question&quot;&gt;How does StackOverflow know when there are new answers to a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659199/how-to-show-popup-message-like-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;How to show popup message like in Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/852882/how-to-show-popup-message-like-in-stackoverflow&quot; title=&quot;again!&quot;&gt;How to show popup message like in Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/758906/how-would-i-implement-stackoverflows-hovering-dialogs&quot;&gt;How would I implement Stack Overflow’s hovering dialogs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/860177/how-to-create-a-box-similar-to-stackoverflow-click-to-dismiss&quot;&gt;How to create a box similar to Stack Overflow, click to dismiss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T14:29:41.110" />
  <row Id="35942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-16T14:50:25.367" Score="-1" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are so many questions, especially on SO, that I know I see only a small fraction.  In the spirit of &quot;Best of ...&quot; lists that usually come out at the start of a new year, I'd like to collect a set of questions that the community thought were the &quot;Best of 2009&quot; across the SO family of sites.  As a benefit we'll collect in a single place a set of questions that you may have missed that others found to be valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it works:  Add an answer to this question indicating your favorite question &lt;strong&gt;asked in 2009&lt;/strong&gt;.  Link to the question and add a short description of why it's your favorite.  To increase the value of the list, please limit your submissions to questions that materially affected the way you work.  &lt;strong&gt;One question per answer, please.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found viewing favorites ordered by newest was helpful to me in coming up with my entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T17:18:46.557" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T15:29:53.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T14:50:25.367" Title="What's your favorite SOFU question of 2009?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="35943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35942" CreationDate="2010-01-16T14:55:11.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/543955/linq-to-sql-extension-method-for-sorting-and-paging&quot;&gt;LINQ to SQL extension method for sorting and paging&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question and the resulting link to Scott Guthrie's article on Dynamic LINQ was, I think, my first exposure to Dynamic LINQ.  I've found Dynamic LINQ to be extremely useful in my work.  It also gave me a lot of ideas that I've used in my own paging implementations in LINQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T15:29:53.410" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T15:29:53.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T14:55:11.083" />
  <row Id="35944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35939" CreationDate="2010-01-16T15:16:10.550" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it wrong to ask how a Stack Overflow feature is implemented on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, however you'll want to form your question without mentioning stackoverflow, and then add stackoverflow as an example of the functionality you are after to the end of the post.  Try to find other examples as well and show them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that if your post starts off mentioning stackoverflow, it may be misinterpreted as a meta-stackoverflow question (ie, about SO, not about programming) and migrated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T15:16:10.550" />
  <row Id="35946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35948" CreationDate="2010-01-16T15:41:30.913" Score="9" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;When trying to submit a comment to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2077736/how-to-present-geographical-and-other-data-on-the-web&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2077736/how-to-present-geographical-and-other-data-on-the-web&lt;/a&gt;, an iframe is shown below the comment box, containing&#xA;&quot;Oops, something bad has happened&quot; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/error-lolcat-problemz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/so/img/error-lolcat-problemz.jpg&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user agent is accurate, i.e. Firefox 3.5 on Linux. Same problem with Opera 10.10 on Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A split second later, the whole page becomes blank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Partial dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;POST /posts/2077750/comments HTTP/1.1&#xA;Host: stackoverflow.com&#xA;User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091216 Iceweasel/3.5.6 (like Firefox/3.5.6; Debian-3.5.6-1)&#xA;Accept: text/html, */*&#xA;Accept-Language: en,de-de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,de;q=0.3&#xA;Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate&#xA;Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7&#xA;Keep-Alive: 300&#xA;Connection: keep-alive&#xA;Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8&#xA;X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest&#xA;Content-Length: 243&#xA;Cookie: [removed]&#xA;Pragma: no-cache&#xA;Cache-Control: no-cache&#xA;comment=%40jcd+Exactly+what+I'm+looking+for%2C+but+I+need+additional+functionaly+like+sorting%2C+grouping%2C+and+a+map%2Fgraph+interface.+The+table+is+about+1000x20%2C+so+I+can't+present+it+in+raw+form.%0A&amp;amp;fkey=[removed]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;HTTP/1.1 302 Found&#xA;Cache-Control: private&#xA;Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8&#xA;Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/2077750/comments&#xA;Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0&#xA;Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:29:48 GMT&#xA;Content-Length: 173&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;Object moved&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;Object moved to &amp;lt;a href=&quot;%2ferror%3faspxerrorpath%3d%2fposts%2f2077750%2fcomments&quot;&amp;gt;here&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next request:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;GET /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/2077750/comments HTTP/1.1&#xA;Host: stackoverflow.com&#xA;User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091216 Iceweasel/3.5.6 (like Firefox/3.5.6; Debian-3.5.6-1)&#xA;Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8&#xA;Accept-Language: en,de-de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,de;q=0.3&#xA;Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate&#xA;Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7&#xA;Keep-Alive: 300&#xA;Connection: keep-alive&#xA;[more headers and gzipped answer removed]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141962" LastEditorUserId="141962" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T18:12:54.590" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T18:12:54.590" Title="Blank page when trying to submit comment" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35906" CreationDate="2010-01-16T15:54:10.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current CSS is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#header #topbar&#xA;{&#xA;    width: auto;&#xA;    padding: 3px 10px 0px 10px;&#xA;    float: right;&#xA;    height: 30px;&#xA;    line-height: 22px;&#xA;    background-color: #eee;&#xA;    max-width: 750px;&#xA;    -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 3px;&#xA;    -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 3px;&#xA;    -webkit-border-radius-bottom-left: 3px;&#xA;    -webkit-border-radius-bottom-right: 3px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that not correct? It's the same on all trilogy sites... I guess I can change it to your form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T15:54:10.837" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="35948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35946" CreationDate="2010-01-16T16:09:58.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, bug in handling users with blank usernames when you try to @username reply to them in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eg &quot;unknown (yahoo)&quot; -- this isn't an actual username, the username is null for this user, so that string is derived from their OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These anonymous users are now ignored for the purposes of comment replies, so @unknown won't work -- there's no actual user name to match against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T16:09:58.023" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="35949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-16T16:19:52.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want a desktop app (or windows 7 sidebar gadget) that will pull from all the stackexchange sites that I add to it.  I want to see answers to my questions, new comments to my questions, hits on my CV, messages on my CV, and comments that other people leave on questions that I comment on or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like a Windows Mobile app that does some subset of the things above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1753" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T16:19:52.387" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T16:19:52.387" />
  <row Id="35950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35942" CreationDate="2010-01-16T16:31:35.213" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone has to do it, so it might as well be me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags&quot;&gt;RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;bobince's legendary answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T16:31:35.213" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T16:31:35.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35958" CreationDate="2010-01-16T17:15:25.877" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078160/static-file-with-modwsgi-in-django&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow and noticed problems in the display of the blockquote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some parts of the code wasn't displayed at all. For example this piece of code which is on one line : &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt; &amp;lt;body&amp;gt; hello world &amp;lt;/body&amp;gt; &amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; gives with blockquote :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&#xA;      &#xA;        hello world&#xA;      &#xA;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="153931" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T03:59:23.277" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T03:59:23.277" Title="Bug in the display of blockquotes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35956" CreationDate="2010-01-16T17:22:30.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to use the &lt;strong&gt;code sample&lt;/strong&gt; option to display code, not the &lt;strong&gt;blockquote&lt;/strong&gt; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's [Ctrl]+K or the &quot;101010&quot; icon to convert text already entered, or prefix each line by four (4) spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Like this&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T17:31:01.600" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T17:31:01.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35956" CreationDate="2010-01-16T17:25:02.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fixed your post but take a look to see if it is what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't want to use block quotes. That is for quoting text passages. That will strip out your HTML. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you want is &quot;code blocks.&quot; That will post your literal text &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; as your enter it (with a bit of code prettifying). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T17:25:02.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35961" CreationDate="2010-01-16T18:48:33.027" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20208/bug-report-migrated-questions-answers-can-be-upvoted-twice-by-the-same-user&quot;&gt;Bug report: Migrated question&amp;rsquo;s answers can be upvoted twice by the same user.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really sure if it's a bug or a feature, but it seemed worth pointing out. If I downvote something on SO, then it gets migrated to SU I can downvote it again on SU with the same account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T18:53:29.957" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T18:53:54.810" ClosedDate="2010-01-16T20:49:46.167" Title="Hey look I can double down-vote:)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35960" CreationDate="2010-01-16T18:53:54.810" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is completely legal... though rather unsporting for the recipient of the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T18:53:54.810" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35942" CreationDate="2010-01-16T18:57:09.950" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/322597/objective-c-class-vs-import&quot;&gt;Objective-C @class vs. #import&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually a fairly basic question, but it's a serious point of confusion for many newcomers to Objective-C (and thus Cocoa, and Mac or iPhone) development. Indeed, it was a major point of confusion for me when I was just starting out, and the accepted answer to this question was in fact what finally got it to &quot;sink in&quot; to my thick skull.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note that this one hasn't improved my &quot;daily&quot; work, as I'm primarily a .NET guy. But I'm also a die-hard Mac fanboy, and thus my personal fun software development is all Cocoa/Obj-C -- and this was again a major stumbling block for me early on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T07:18:14.927" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T07:18:14.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T18:57:09.950" />
  <row Id="35963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35964" CreationDate="2010-01-16T19:45:30.307" Score="3" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't currently reach &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/a&gt; (but SO and MSO work fine).  Is this the best place to report that or is &quot;site down&quot; too ephemeral an event to bother reporting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI, it's not just me: &lt;a href=&quot;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/superuser.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; (as of the time of this post of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140463" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T07:03:10.440" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T07:03:10.440" Title="Is there somewhere to report when one or more of the trilogy goes down?" Tags="&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;&lt;downtime&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35963" CreationDate="2010-01-16T19:47:11.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although It's likely that they will know before you did :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T19:47:11.770" />
  <row Id="35965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35963" CreationDate="2010-01-16T19:47:27.103" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites are having maintenance done right now.  There are headers on the sites that say that, when they're reachable.  I agree, though, it'd be nice to have a notification on meta.  Of course, that wouldn't do anything for meta when it's down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T19:47:27.103" />
  <row Id="35969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35431" CreationDate="2010-01-16T21:24:17.943" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd definitely like to see a mod-accessable API to creating one of those single-line top-of-screen popup notifications (just as tvanfosson suggested). Many messages can be distilled down to one line and don't need to be as heavy-weight as an email. Besides, sending an email invites the recipient to respond, possibly leading to a long back-and-forth thread that the moderator likely doesn't want to encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could even be a list of templated boilerplate messages to choose from, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your flagged post at &amp;lt;URL&amp;gt; has been addressed, thank you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rep recalc performed as requested&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accounts merged as requested&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote at &amp;lt;URL&amp;gt; rescinded as requested&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-16T23:47:09.410" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T23:47:09.410" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36498" CreationDate="2010-01-16T22:28:50.417" Score="32" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35501/please-return-the-comment-rate-limit-to-a-flat-30-seconds&quot;&gt;Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35443/if-i-cant-comment-for-30-more-seconds-why-is-the-add-comment-button-enabled&quot;&gt;If I can’t comment for 30 more seconds, why is the Add Comment button enabled?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I go to comment on someones answer, and then go to comment again on someone else's answer.  I get stopped by the comment timer thingy. I stop, I refresh the page a couple of times to check how long it is until I can comment again (looking at the time stamp of the old comment) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;30 seconds come along, I try to comment. Doesn't work. I come back 15 seconds later, because I thought I might be off by a few seconds. Nope, still doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kept up like this for a minute. Then just decided that it wasn't worth it to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the intended purpose, to just make people so frustrated that they just don't comment? Or is it a bug in the system?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-10T20:39:11.913" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T09:42:58.870" Title="Really Long Comment Wait Time?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="35971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-01-16T23:34:52.463" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet does not need open source software. He just looks at the binary's filesize and decompiles it by hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146787" LastActivityDate="2010-01-16T23:34:52.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-16T23:34:52.463" />
  <row Id="35972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35993" CreationDate="2010-01-17T00:59:51.457" Score="4" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I edited an answer originally by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/237688/p-nuts&quot;&gt;P-Nuts&lt;/a&gt; by adding four carriage returns, since the answer was a big wall of text and I wanted to break it up with paragraphs. But SO says after the edit that I did 60% of the answer and marked me as the owner of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the answer that I edited: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2079335/experience-programming-with-netbooks-in-daily-commute/2079397#2079397&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2079335/experience-programming-with-netbooks-in-daily-commute/2079397#2079397&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there is something wrong with your diff algorithm. Since the change was only four characters long out of 803 characters. The change should be of 0.5% rather than 60%. It seems like SO thinks I removed 60% of the characters (which would be after the first carriage return) and replaced all of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T01:14:35.107" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T09:34:48.440" Title="Diff percentage seems a bit off" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;attribution&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="35973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35972" CreationDate="2010-01-17T01:14:12.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's line-based and &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; simplistic. Presumably it stopped trying to find matches after the first paragraph and attributed the next two to you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T01:14:12.017" />
  <row Id="35974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-17T01:38:05.597" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back on &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/103383/name-server-registration/103388&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/103383/name-server-registration/103388&lt;/a&gt;, I flagged the comment asking for his post to be marked as accepted.  This was because it is not useful to the conversation, but other than just being tacky, is not really harmful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was I correct in doing this?  To me, this is not contributing to the conversation at hand, so it should be removed.  It's not a difference of opinion, contrary facts, etc.  It's just, well, begging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141796" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T21:01:45.797" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T21:01:45.797" Title="When to flag a comment?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35974" CreationDate="2010-01-17T01:40:05.967" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that for newcomers, it is perfectly fine to nudge them into accepting the correct answer. This does a few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It teaches them how to use the site.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If they don't know how to use the site, no better time than the present to teach them. By telling them that they need to do something, like accept an answer, it shows them a feature of the website them might have not known about before, and gets them used to using the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It gets the coca puffs out of the corn nuts&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Once a question has an accepted mark, almost anywhere you see the question, you will be able to tell if there is an answer to it. Generally people look for questions that are unanswered so they can pipe in and try to provide an answer. By marking an answer as accepted, it is now seen by all that this question has been solved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It rewards the answerer for making a correct answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This of course, is a good thing. As it encourages them to make more correct answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that better reasons to flag a comment would be if the comment was offensive or obviously spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T01:48:07.353" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T01:48:07.353" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35977" CreationDate="2010-01-17T01:47:00.803" Score="7" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was requested to reply from within a comment sequence, and now that I have the reply, I can't remember which question/answer the comment was under.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any hope for finding it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140289" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T06:51:30.283" Title="Is there a way to find the comments that I have made on SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35976" CreationDate="2010-01-17T01:52:30.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was Recent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Account (Your Name on the top bar) &gt; Activity &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will list the recent things you did, and if you commented on the same answer, it will be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also click on the Envelope &gt; Responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will be a list of comments to your answers that have recently happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T01:52:30.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-17T01:57:40.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I like to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2695/jorge-cordoba&quot;&gt;nominate&lt;/a&gt; myself too. All I can say is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I spend a great deal of time on Stack Overflow anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm willing to think the best of people, I actually believe almost everyone on Stack Overflow tries to help... even when they don't&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I try to never prejudge anyone and consider all points of view.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the moderator spirit is to handle discussions and get consensus if possible, dealing with people. Again, I firmly think people that need moderation do not know they do need it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's basically all, I don't have an outstanding reputation although is sufficiently high to at least guarantee I've done my homework :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I'm from Spain so another timezone. If that even counts because I see answers being posts at ANY time I connect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132939" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T23:44:55.777" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T23:44:55.777" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-17T01:57:40.780" />
  <row Id="35979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-17T04:44:02.800" Score="9" ViewCount="348" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1999/what-has-happened-to-the-quality-of-answers-on-so&quot;&gt;What has happened to the quality of answers on SO?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11938/how-to-improve-quality-of-so-questions-answers&quot;&gt;How to improve quality of SO questions/answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else noticed that the overall quality of questions that are being asked on SO has been declining significantly over the last few weeks?  At least in the asp.net tag, which is where I spend most of my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who mostly answers questions and asks relatively few, this is discouraging for me.  I don't answer questions primarily to help a bunch of strangers: I do so to help myself; to learn new things by understanding the issues that people run into.  As question quality declines, so does my interest in participating here as much as I have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize there may not be much that can be done, but I wanted to mention it in case I'm mistaken--or maybe it's happened before, and it's just a passing phase?  One possibility would be to add a filter that eliminates users with less than a certain point count from the list of open questions; it's the recent flood of newbies that seems to be responsible for the majority of the junk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: regarding examples: if you look at new questions for the asp.net tag, many questions from people with less than 100 points or so are pretty bad. Many are barely understandable, including badly broken English, much less being valid questions. Here are a couple of random URLs from the first page of current questions (caveat: sometimes other users will edit the questions to help make them more legible, so they can be a moving target).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2079231/how-to-setup-an-online-shop-using-html-or-asp-net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2079231/how-to-setup-an-online-shop-using-html-or-asp-net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2080481/how-to-get-the-link-dynamically&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2080481/how-to-get-the-link-dynamically&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2080210/asp-net-treeview-on-masterpage&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2080210/asp-net-treeview-on-masterpage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078499/how-to-put-an-image-in-asp-net-page&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078499/how-to-put-an-image-in-asp-net-page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After thinking about this for a bit, one solution seems clear: I really don't want to have to filter through a bunch of newbie junk. It's a slow, frustrating experience. I do my share of edits and close-this-thread votes, but I don't enjoy it.  My suggestion is to allow users who reach a certain point threshold to be able to filter the posts they see by the number of points the person asking the question has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139444" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T08:39:52.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T08:39:52.750" ClosedDate="2010-01-17T11:19:02.837" Title="Decline in question quality on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="35980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35979" CreationDate="2010-01-17T05:15:18.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that post &lt;em&gt;volume&lt;/em&gt; is way way down compared to (what seems to me to have been the peak at) late November/early December in the main tags I follow. I'm not sure that quality is down, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as volume is concerned, it would appear that we're not fully out of the holiday rut yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T05:15:18.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-17T05:38:28.767" Score="2" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should SO members be encouraged to create new topics and post &lt;em&gt;solutions&lt;/em&gt; to problems they have spent quite some time figuring out a good solution for and have not found a close answer or even a related question on SO for those problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T05:41:24.133" ClosedDate="2010-01-17T06:53:22.863" Title="Posting solutions on SO?" Tags="&lt;answers&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35981" CreationDate="2010-01-17T05:39:56.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they should.  That is one of the explicitly allowed use cases for the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T05:41:24.133" />
  <row Id="35983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35979" CreationDate="2010-01-17T05:43:38.700" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep something in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ninety percent of everything is crap.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more popular the site is, the more questions there will be, the more crap you'll see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are lucky, the system's moderation design will work or will be slightly improved and avoid SO demise under the weight of the crap with the smell of &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081017195134AAWT7Ez&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo! Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T05:43:38.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35979" CreationDate="2010-01-17T06:01:56.943" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, it's only natural this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, there are many related 'life-cycles'. Let's consider just 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. The trend of the type of questions&lt;br&gt;&#xA;B. The trend of the new users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A&quot; is restricted by the pool of existing questions because new questions are more likely to be duplicates than say 6 to 12 months ago. So more people with genuine quality questions might not post them as the answers are already there. Those who don't care just post the duplicates which can be low quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;B&quot; is increasing but the nature/types of the users are getting very different. I am quite certain that the 'quality'&lt;sup&gt;++&lt;/sup&gt; of the users dropped as SO becomes more 'visible' to search engines. Many more users joined because they found SO while searching for answers to their problems. 1+ year back, SO users found SO because they are Jeff's/Joel's blog readers or from related channels blah blah blah... (you know what I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just the factors of &quot;A&quot; and &quot;B&quot; combined dilute the quality of the questions posted. One might argue, there are always new things to ask as there are always new technologies and new real-life challenges. I totally agree, but I would like to think this trend (let's call it &quot;C&quot;) is no where near the waves of &quot;A&quot; and &quot;B&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow, I think &quot;A&quot;, &quot;B&quot; and &quot;C&quot; will reach some sort of equilibrium or pattern (seasonal maybe). Something I'm eager to find out but probably take more time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright, I'm ready for some counter comments!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;++&lt;/sup&gt; I'll probably get flamed for using the word &quot;quality&quot; but I can't find a friendlier version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T06:01:56.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35986" CreationDate="2010-01-17T06:08:35.350" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have the community wiki rules changed recently? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just lost 2 points on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/112920/whats-your-favorite-abandoned-rule/113371#113371&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer. I'm not that fussed over the 2 points, I'm just surprised a CW vote can, apparently, gain or lose votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5302" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T06:21:17.117" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T06:21:17.117" Title="Just lost 2 rep on a community wiki down vote" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="35986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35985" CreationDate="2010-01-17T06:17:25.190" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole question and all answers appear to have been turned into community wiki 6 hours ago.  Chances are good you got that downvote (and lost the 2 rep) before it turned into a CW post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T06:17:25.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="35987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35979" CreationDate="2010-01-17T06:35:30.220" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35979/decline-in-question-quality-on-so/35984#35984&quot;&gt;o.k.w said&lt;/a&gt; - Its seasonal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seasonal as in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eternal September&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T17:24:39.733" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T17:24:39.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="35989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35992" CreationDate="2010-01-17T08:51:57.067" Score="7" ViewCount="559" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many users have created more than one profile on SO to vote himself/herself on his/her other original profile? There are some benefits when you have more reputation and sometimes you don't want a single -1 vote on your question and answer. In this case you may have an extra account to convert that -1 vote into 0 vote and  up-vote for each of your question and answer to gain reputation. I think it is not a good manner as a good developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to recognize this situation? I think there should be some stats in each user's profile about how many votes are posted by each user on him/her or something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how many users have more than one profile? &#xA;How to handle this situation? &#xA;I have not created yet but............ I don't think so :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141652" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T19:22:08.213" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T20:09:50.013" Title="How can you detect if users have created sock puppet accounts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="35991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35970" CreationDate="2010-01-17T09:20:35.120" Score="-16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two modifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Message changed to be more clear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Only 1 comment allowed per {n} seconds; timer reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Multiple comment rate limiter reduced from 30 seconds to &lt;strong&gt;15&lt;/strong&gt; seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like the 15 character requirement, yes, the intent is to discourage rampant adding of multiple low-value comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it isn't worth 15 seconds of your time to compose that second comment, is it worth 2 seconds of my time to read them both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-05T09:42:58.870" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T09:42:58.870" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="35992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35989" CreationDate="2010-01-17T09:21:11.873" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In answer to &quot;how many&quot; - we don't keep count, we just delete them. We don't make a big song and dance about it, nor (for obvious reasons) do we disclose the exact ways these things are investigated. See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog 1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog 2&lt;/a&gt; on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the way to get rep. It has been tried, and there are multiple safe-guards, and most are pretty easy to spot with the right tools. Sure you can probably get into an arms race to get around some of them, but &lt;strong&gt;who exactly are you trying to impress?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop worrying about points, and start caring about awesome questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T20:09:50.013" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T20:09:50.013" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="35993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35972" CreationDate="2010-01-17T09:34:48.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Shog9 noted, you went from one line (no linebreaks) to three lines (two linebreaks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are not the &quot;owner&quot;, FYI, you're just the person with the most edit strength on that post according to the algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T09:34:48.440" />
  <row Id="35994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35989" CreationDate="2010-01-17T09:45:52.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their should be some stats on each user profile like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;10 up-votes from person with above 10,000 rep&#xA;27 up-votes from person with above 5,000 rep&#xA;50 up-votes from person with above 3,000 rep&#xA;45 up-votes from person below 1,000 rep&#xA;10 up-votes from deleted person.&#xA;20 up-votes from inactive person.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;20 rep on one up-vote from a person with above 10,000 rep&#xA;15 rep on one up-vote from a person with above 5,000 rep&#xA;10 rep on one up-vote from a person with above 1,000 rep&#xA;05 rep on one up-vote from a person with above 500 rep&#xA;02 rep on one up-vote from a person with below 500 rep&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR some thing like above can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141652" LastEditorUserId="141652" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T19:17:20.047" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T19:17:20.047" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="35995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36000" CreationDate="2010-01-17T09:53:54.433" Score="4" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;When linking to an image using the Markdown Syntax&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;![alt text][1]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alt text gets added as the &quot;alt&quot; attribute on the img tag, which is correct. It would be nice if it could also be added as the &quot;title&quot; tag, so that tooltips work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly I have no good usage example for it. I wish I could claim that some textmode browsers or browsers for people with disabilities don't support alt and use title instead to give this request some credibility, but I think ultimately I ask for XKCD-Fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But well, asking can't hurt :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T14:47:14.940" Title="Also use alt tag as title on images" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="35996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35995" CreationDate="2010-01-17T09:59:32.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;oh, the great schism between &lt;code&gt;alt=&quot;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;title=&quot;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. I remember ranting about this on Twitter a while back, but I can't find it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main difference as I recall is that IE treats &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; as mouseover text, and I don't think any other browsers do..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/alt.html#tooltip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/alt.html#tooltip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T09:59:32.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35979" CreationDate="2010-01-17T10:18:55.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree, I've been thinking the exact same thing for a while.  In the tags where I hang out, mostly SQL related, it's been a while since I've seen an interesting question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the contributing factors (besides the other posts here) is that reputation rewards are fixed.  Most people have been there and done that.  Someone new to the site cannot compete in a meaningful way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think of Stack Overflow as a game, it's time for a new expansion with better rewards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastEditorUserId="137265" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T10:36:41.950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T10:36:41.950" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="35998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35995" CreationDate="2010-01-17T11:38:12.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;code&gt;alt&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; are meant to serve different purposes. I'll leave the debate elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to describe an image in your post, you can just type it out in the content. If you want to have a text to tell the users what the image is (for whatever reason the image didn't load or still loading), it should be something shorter and more concise so that it appears where the image is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However somehow many just use the &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; as the same as &lt;code&gt;alt&lt;/code&gt; (which I suppose is the intention of the OP). Having a seperate markdown for &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; seems too troublesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this anyone? &lt;code&gt;![alt text][title][1]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of what I will do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;SO-Meta Logo&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Above is the lovely logo of Stack Overflow Meta&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;-- this one is to describe the image&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net.net/mso/img/logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;SO-Meta Logo&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Above is the lovely logo of Stack Overflow Meta&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;--Intentionally left broken to see the alt text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T11:50:46.193" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T11:50:46.193" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35995" CreationDate="2010-01-17T12:12:51.557" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just use &lt;code&gt;![I like MSO!](http://i.imgur.com/HQ44r.png &quot;Meta Stack Overflow&quot;)&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HQ44r.png&quot; alt=&quot;I like MSO!&quot; title=&quot;Meta Stack Overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/g-spot.png&quot; alt=&quot;XKCD is the funzorz! - G-Spot&quot; title=&quot;The BBC lead was 'The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.'  I couldn't read it with a straight face.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Markdown FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Images&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Just like links, images work with reference syntax and titles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;This page is ![valid XHTML][checkmark].&#xA;&#xA;[checkmark]: http://w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10&#xA;             &quot;What are you smiling at?&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Advanced Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Links can have a title attribute, which will show up on hover. Title attributes can also be added; they are helpful if the link itself is not descriptive enough to tell users where they're going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Here's a [poorly-named link](http://www.google.com/ &quot;Google&quot;).&#xA;Never write &quot;[click here][^2]&quot;.&#xA;Visit [us][web].&#xA;&#xA;[^2]: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere&#xA;     (Advice against the phrase &quot;click here&quot;)&#xA;[web]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ &quot;Meta Stack Overflow&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if none of this were available, you could always use HTML:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;I &amp;lt;3 MSO!&quot; title=&quot;Meta Stack Overflow&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="131541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-22T14:47:14.940" LastActivityDate="2011-02-22T14:47:14.940" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36010" CreationDate="2010-01-17T15:12:39.523" Score="26" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Ask a Question&quot; button can be confusing if a person ends up on a person's profile page by clicking an SO badge on a person's blog.  To avoid the situation where a person might think that they are asking a question of the person in the profile instead of posting a question to SO (they may not even know about SO), the &quot;Ask a Question&quot; button should not be displayed in the profile.  I doubt if there are many legitimate questions arising out of profile views, except possibly here on meta, so removing it wouldn't degrade the user experience from that perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2081102/javascript-dans-fenetre-dinformation-googlemaps&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2081102/javascript-dans-fenetre-dinformation-googlemaps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2121910/mark-byers-wordsteal-help-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2121910/mark-byers-wordsteal-help-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T03:46:42.760" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T03:46:42.760" Title="Don't display the ask a question button on a person's profile page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-17T16:37:35.707" Score="-2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, forgive me if this has been proposed already. I did not find anything in the search, but of course I didn't search every suggestion there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some SO questions (and I'm sure SF/SU as well), you will come across a nice practice: The asker will update their question frequently to adapt it to the answers given and discussion occurred, making the question itself a valuable resource. Let me point to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1775503/minimalistic-tools-for-developer-documentation&quot;&gt;question of my own&lt;/a&gt; as an example. There are many, many others maintained with equal or more care, but I had great fun with this question and that kind of underlines my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, of course, works best for questions whose answers can be compiled into a list (&quot;what good x are there for platform y with technology z?&quot;), but in essence, it applies to any question where the asker puts extra care into making the question a understandable, well-formatted resource that is helpful to somebody who comes across the question later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flow of questions on the trilogy of sites is always linear. Duplicates will sometimes be linked to older, already answered questions, but they might just as well be answered anew, because the duplicate can't be found or isn't searched for. The result is that probably most of the questions that have been asked are present multiple times, with answers that naturally differ in quality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I realize this is in the basic nature of Q&amp;amp;A sites. Still, I would like to see a possibility and systemic encouragement to groom and update selected &quot;worthy&quot; questions (and their answers) beyond a few days after it has been asked. For the purposes of this proposal, for want of a better fitting word, I will call them &quot;groomed&quot; questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would like to submit for discussion is the idea of adding incentives for askers to take care of such questions, and update them if new information comes in, making them valuable long-term resources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steps:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To create a new category or special tag for &quot;groomed&quot; questions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To give &quot;groomed&quot; questions some sort of visual preference when listing to point out that this is a question meant to be a ongoing, updated reference or list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To list these questions in a separate area in the user's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential up sides for SO and users:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;groomed&quot; question would be the reference link when pointing out that a question is a duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would be in accord with what I understand is SO's mission statement: To become a knowledge resource for all programming related questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could add incentive for users to outsource parts of their own knowledge base to SO, gaining recognition &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; corrections / criticism / feedback&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would increase the overall quality of the data base &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Linking to a &quot;groomed&quot; question is more likely to happen than a years-old answer&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maintaining the information amassed in a SO question is hard work as well, and a list of well-maintained questions visible in the profile would become a user incentive in itself&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Potential cons and down sides:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The biggest down side I can see is that attention - and probably the better part of long-term upvotes - would be shifted from the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; (whose authors do the main work, and provide their knowledge) unjustly to the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;asker&lt;/strong&gt;. This would lead to the asker being rewarded (by upvotes) for repeating the findings the answerers have gathered. This would have to be addressed in a way that serves both the answerers, and the asker. I don't think Reputation will be the reason for people to take extra care of your questions, but it is the most basic expression of approval and acknowledgement from the community, and as such, important.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/278/adding-incentive-for-editing&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; asks about more incentive for editing, and its accepted answer is that there is enough incentive to edit as it is. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I am not talking about turning SO into a site of static FAQ pages. What I mean is adding the possibility to give &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; questions a faq`ish touch without changing the basic way how things work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T03:38:49.990" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T03:38:49.990" Title="Add incentives to &quot;groom&quot; high quality questions / answers in the long term" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-17T16:46:22.973" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32850/weird-page-while-submitting-answers-might-be-the-slow-internet-connection&quot;&gt;Weird page while submitting answers (might be the slow internet connection)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I submitted an answer on SO I got a blank page with &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Little slab of meat / In a wash of clear jelly / Now I heat the pan&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the top.  There was nothing else on the page.  What is it?  Why was it there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135696" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T16:55:07.197" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T16:55:07.197" ClosedDate="2010-01-17T16:54:35.450" Title="weird page showed up when submitted an answer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36004" CreationDate="2010-01-17T16:46:56.327" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO there is absolutely no use in editing all the answers into the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers are right there under the question, in more detail and with votes and comments that show what other people think of that suggestion. What value would it add to copy parts of that into the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T16:46:56.327" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36008" CreationDate="2010-01-17T17:28:23.017" Score="2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a new user on SO and am trying to find the 'right' way to use it. Right now I'm looking for the page to put into my bookmarks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something like a dashboard where I can have an overview of my questions and answers despite my profile page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142000" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T20:56:06.410" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T21:37:59.573" Title="Is there a &quot;my questions&quot; or &quot;my dashboard&quot; view?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36007" CreationDate="2010-01-17T17:29:56.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Recent Activity' page shows you stuff that has happened in your questions/answers recently.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Click the envelope on the top bar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The envelope will turn orange if something has happened, and it will stay that way until you click on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your profile page shows you latest questions/answers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Click Your Name on the top bar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I just know what my reputation is at, and if it increases I'll check the recent activity page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T17:29:56.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36007" CreationDate="2010-01-17T17:49:23.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest to &quot;bookmarks&quot; is &quot;favorites&quot;. Click on the star underneath the score for a question, and it toggles whether or not that question is a favorite. Then on your profile page, click on the &quot;favorites&quot; tab to see them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; questions, I'd just use the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T17:49:23.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36003" CreationDate="2010-01-17T18:10:08.303" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to argue that the static header menu should remain constant throughout the site, but this may actually be &lt;strong&gt;a special case that needs consideration&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user flair is a feature specifically designed to bring people into the site, making the user's profile a primary landing page. In that scenario, the 'Ask Question' button is &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; out of context. Maybe it should be removed or, even better, replaced with something more inviting like a &quot;Welcome to Stack Overflow&quot; or &quot;Visit Stack Overflow&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Technical note: Maybe something like the HTTP referrer can be used to determine if the user is coming in from outside the site... if it's worth the effort.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T18:10:08.303" />
  <row Id="36011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36004" CreationDate="2010-01-17T18:32:44.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're suggesting the exact opposite of what (IMHO) we should be doing - pulling answers &lt;em&gt;out&lt;/em&gt; of the question into a separate reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1758884/how-can-i-access-the-meta-class-of-the-module-my-moose-role-is-being-applied-to&quot;&gt;this question of mine&lt;/a&gt; (not my highest-voted, but the most complex, and the one that led to the greatest discoveries on my part) - I actually discovered the beginning of the solution &lt;em&gt;while I was explaining the question&lt;/em&gt;, but edited the answer out into its own reply. Since I've made further discoveries regarding this solution, I have revisited and edited the answer many times (it's almost pushed over to CW now, even), but the answer is absolutely the right place to put this information, not in the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;tl;dr version&lt;/em&gt;: coming back to give more love to a post: good! putting the answer right in the question (particularly if it's not a one-line answer): bad!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T18:32:44.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36003" CreationDate="2010-01-17T19:57:03.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As this has only happened once (to my knowledge) in the entire history of SO, I'd like to wait and see how common it is before making a sweeping change based on a single example..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T19:57:03.690" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36003" CreationDate="2010-01-17T21:26:44.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who knows, maybe this happens all the time? Maybe all those crappy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;please send code for how make web app like google maps thank you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;were actually directed at one single person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, though: Even &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; it happens&amp;mdash;if it's a programming question, so be it. Directed at one, answered by many. Even the question in question here was actually a programming question [deleted now, though].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as rockhardawesome's teachers don't start asking Jeff why he missed the PTA meeting through the &quot;Ask a question&quot; button on his profile, there's no problem. And that's going to be a few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T21:26:44.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36007" CreationDate="2010-01-17T21:37:59.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3Ame&quot;&gt;search feature&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T21:37:59.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36015" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-17T18:15:38.110" Score="-1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the answer for my first question here very fast. So I'm curious about how the people here know all that information (I'm just a beginner ),then i remembered &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if is it a good idea for the people that answer the question to explain how they knew the answer. Maybe there is a story behind each answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to ALL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-17T23:06:54.517" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T01:24:00.350" Title="Explaining the back-story to answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36015" CreationDate="2010-01-17T18:35:23.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story behind the answer in probably 99% of the questions is going to simply be &quot;experience&quot; (well that and there are some really freaking smart people too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be across the Trilogy, there are a lot of people contributing here that have been working in the IT field for a long time and have run into many of the same situations that are troubling you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140512" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T22:44:10.960" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:01:32.550" Score="5" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently on Stack Overflow there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2082943/use-alt-as-meta-key-in-carbon-emacs-not-apple-command-key&quot;&gt;a question about Carbon Emacs keybindings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has received a (very reasonable in my estimation) vote to move to Super User, but there are already several similar questions on Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/366211/emacsw32-possible-to-use-both-windows-key-and-alt-key-bindings-together&quot;&gt;EmacsW32: possible to use both “windows key” and “alt key” bindings together?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/356724/is-there-some-way-to-get-more-than-meta-and-ctrl-on-windows-long-time-emacs-user&quot;&gt;Is there some way to get more than Meta and Ctrl on Windows? Long time Emacs user wants Hyper/Super&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1707550/custom-emacs-keybindings-not-working&quot;&gt;Custom Emacs Keybindings not Working &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some on Super User:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/38770/changing-emacs-bindings-in-os-x&quot;&gt;Changing Emacs bindings in Mac OS X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/18021/osx-emacs-windows-keyboard-remapping-a-key&quot;&gt;Mac OS X, Emacs and Windows keyboard - remapping a key&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even a few on Server Fault:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/81688/problem-with-ctrl-tab-keybinding-in-emacs-in-gnome-terminal&quot;&gt;Problem with Ctrl tab keybinding in emacs in gnome-terminal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/69173/set-emacs-nw-to-use-8-bit-meta&quot;&gt;Set emacs -nw to use 8-bit meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the sense of the community on where these are best asked? Stack Overflow? Super User? Where ever the asker puts it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point I make it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User: 7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow: 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where ever posted: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a modest majority, but not much of a consensus any way, so I'll be leaving them alone until I see some more agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-17T10:47:30.663" LastActivityDate="2010-07-17T10:47:30.663" Title="What site should host questions about Emacs keybinding?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;emacs&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36015" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:01:38.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the sage &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_%28actor%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Mitchell&lt;/a&gt; once put it (paraphrasing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I had to remember how I knew these things, I'd only have room for half as much stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus if we had to recount it each time, we'd only have time for half as many answers ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T23:01:38.570" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36017" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:08:58.163" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My sense is that these are questions about software configuration, and as such are probably better on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I respect that emacs configuration is performed in elisp, and that emacs is used more by programmers than others. But I'm sticking to my guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T23:08:58.163" />
  <row Id="36020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36017" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:10:40.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a way, emacs is a special case for configuration questions, since people use elisp to develop applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142009" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T23:10:40.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36004" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:11:24.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the entire Trilogy's model is trying to be simple and straightforward (that's what I try to see it at least), there are still a lot of misuses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP albeit a genuine attempt to improve the model and I would say a well-thought one will actually make the system more complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core team and community are trying hard to make the Trilogy what they envisioned to be and I must say so far so good, job well-done. It's really tough to 'educate' new and 'stubborn' users on what and how the sites are suppose to be /work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll say let's continue to make it simple and let the current model be as it is. Tweaking might be required along the way, not this one for me though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry mate. Good effort though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T23:11:24.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36015" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:28:40.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be &lt;em&gt;&quot;something similar happened to me once&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd counter suggest, following the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amatecon.com/fish.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Give a man a fish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; paradigm, that pithy direct answers can be improved greatly with an explantory note, or link out to docs or discussion on the topic.  Dedicated answerers do this all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T23:28:40.520" />
  <row Id="36026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36048" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:35:10.803" Score="9" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the new @username feature of comments. However, what syntax do I use when the username has spaces (or perhaps other weird characters) in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141267" LastEditorUserId="150909" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-17T21:51:41.680" LastActivityDate="2011-06-17T21:51:41.680" Title="What is the syntax of @username in comments when username has spaces?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36026" CreationDate="2010-01-17T23:38:17.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21866/what-is-the-relevance-of-in-comments&quot;&gt;What is the relevance of “ @ ” in comments?&lt;/a&gt; this info:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter to match.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the most recent John to comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the answer is &quot;you can&quot; and it &quot;mostly works the way you want it to anyway&quot; and that's good enough for me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-17T23:38:17.333" />
  <row Id="36034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36015" CreationDate="2010-01-18T00:11:00.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, it goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I went to the crossroads at midnight.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I sacrificed a chicken.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Phil the Prince of Heck promised me infinite knowledge of programming trivia in return for my DVD of the first season of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rest is history.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T01:24:00.350" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T01:24:00.350" />
  <row Id="36035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T00:48:20.387" Score="11" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23643/writing-less-than-15-characters-in-a-comment-triggers-the-30-second-protection&quot;&gt;Writing less than 15 characters in a comment triggers the 30 second protection.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice a change has been made to how long comments can be. Again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to just pad out my comments to 15 chars with spaces, and when the new limit was introduced, I then padded it out to 15 characters with spaces and then put a full stop on the end (period for those in NA).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when I do that it seems to disallow this. Ok fine. But when I fixed it to actually make it 15 characters for real, it told me I couldn't post a comment for 25 seconds and the counter was reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The counter should not be reset unless the comment was actually posted.&lt;/strong&gt; Now I have to wait 25 seconds just to see if my new format has been accepted (well actually more like 90 seconds cos I keep hitting the button at about 23 seconds because I'm impatient)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.41085.org/lessthan15.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T07:01:25.193" LastActivityDate="2010-04-14T07:01:25.193" ClosedDate="2010-01-18T03:48:59.033" Title="Attempting to post a &lt; 15 char comment triggers the 'wait' timer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36035" CreationDate="2010-01-18T00:56:45.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. (I don't think there is really a better 'answer' to this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T00:56:45.250" />
  <row Id="36037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23643" CreationDate="2010-01-18T01:12:20.830" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that case, shouldn't you then inform the user to wait 25 seconds after the initial failure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you have to wait 25 seconds from the second failure, making the wait time more like 45 seconds, and thus punishing the user for something that they may not have known about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T01:12:20.830" />
  <row Id="36038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T01:35:11.603" Score="3" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712/will-the-accept-rate-score-encourage-unwanted-behavior&quot;&gt;many questions&lt;/a&gt; on Meta with people essentially saying &quot;I don't have an acceptable answer to several challenging questions and therefore my Accept Rate is low.&quot;  Several comments indicate that anything over 70% is fine and that we should not worry so long as our Accept Rate is above that threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that we're all sensitive to numbers and 70% is less than 80% and 80% is less than 100%.  If being above 70% is all we should be worrying about then why don't we get rid of the number and give a color grade of Green/Yellow/Red to indicate the Accept Rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The green indicator would symbolize that the poster accepts an, ahem, acceptable number of answers.  I would prefer to not accept certain answers but getting below 70% is what is concerning me.  That is bad behavior.  I should be worried about the answer.  If I'm green then I can relax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A yellow indicator symbolizes that improvement is needed and red symbolizes a poor Accept Rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We want people to be actively testing answers and accepting the best answers.  Instead, the current system encourages people to worry about the Accept Rate and not the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134701" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T03:05:14.313" Title="Green-Yellow-Red Accept Rate Indicators" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36038" CreationDate="2010-01-18T01:49:47.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The text saying &quot;xx% accept rate&quot; already is colored relative to the percentage displayed, so there would already be a red/yellow/green indicator. The problem is that the number with the percentage is much more obvious than the meaning of the coloring, so that nobody even realizes that a greenish color means a good accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To resolve this problem (and there are much too many people with 100% accept rate) the explicit percentage would need to be removed, probably best put in the tool tip instead. If the text would only say &quot;good accept rate&quot; / &quot;bad accept rate&quot; / ... or if it would be &quot;accept rating: &quot;, then people wouldn't feel pushed to immediately accept an answer to every last one of their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People with very low accept rates would still get pushed to accept answers while there would be no further incentive to go all the way to 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T01:49:47.047" />
  <row Id="36040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36038" CreationDate="2010-01-18T02:13:57.317" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I simply don't accept that there is some magic target value for acceptable acceptance rate. I do, sometimes, look to see what is up if I see an experienced user with less than 50% acceptances, but I don't refuse to answer just because I don't think they'll accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T02:13:57.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36038" CreationDate="2010-01-18T02:49:39.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the accept rate as an idea, but it is starting to get misused. Often one finds comments where someone won't bother to answer, because of low %; I even remember once where the comment said something like &quot;I know the answer but won't put it down, because of low %&quot; !!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just pushing the idea further ... anything in not green or yellow (or whatever) will be frowled upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I remember once someone  reproached me over my 50-ish accept rate, without even looking that some of my questions have absolutely no answers (some had comments as answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T02:49:39.950" />
  <row Id="36042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36038" CreationDate="2010-01-18T03:05:14.313" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole &lt;em&gt;point&lt;/em&gt; is to encourage users to accept answers. Yeah, kinda it sucks for the guy who asks 4 &lt;em&gt;really hard&lt;/em&gt; questions and got only unhelpful answers in response... but life kinda sucks for that guy anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I'm green then I can relax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meh. If you're getting stressed out over a 70% accept rate, then either get rid of old, dead questions, make CW those you'll never accept an answer to, or &lt;strong&gt;learn to live with it&lt;/strong&gt;. 74% isn't so much better than 64% that the former should get some official stamp of approval while the latter should get a warning - the rate you have is almost entirely within your control, so make up your own mind as to what number makes you happy... and then make that number yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T03:05:14.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="456" CreationDate="2010-01-18T04:23:42.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was not technically completed -- although you could manually view edits as Kyle notes, &lt;strong&gt;the envelope did not turn red when your posts were edited by another user&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it does, so it is &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T04:23:42.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T05:15:07.510" Score="7" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: Windows 7 Only&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if you've ever wanted to search SO from Windows Explorer but just in case you have here is a way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 1: Copy this and save it as SO.osdx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;OpenSearchDescription xmlns=&quot;http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/&quot; xmlns:ms-ose=&quot;http://schemas.microsoft.com/opensearchext/2009/&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;ShortName&amp;gt;StackOverflow&amp;lt;/ShortName&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;Description&amp;gt;Search StackOverflow via Bing using Windows 7 Federated Search&amp;lt;/Description&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;Url type=&quot;application/rss+xml&quot; template=&quot;http://api.bing.com/rss.aspx?source=web&amp;amp;amp;query={searchTerms} site:stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;amp;web.count=50&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;Url type=&quot;text/html&quot; template=&quot;http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchTerms}+site:stackoverflow.com&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/OpenSearchDescription&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step 2: Double click this file and your done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway I just thought this might be helpful to someone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="56555" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T05:26:42.350" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T05:26:42.350" Title="Search StackOverflow from inside of Windows Explorer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;windows-7&gt;" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7334" CreationDate="2010-01-18T05:18:57.393" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would conclude that there is not a guideline to find the &quot;correct site&quot; for a question.  There are guidelines on each site for questions for that site but inferring from those guidelines that a question clearly belongs in one or another site is still largely subjective.  And being so, people will frequently get it wrong, both from the perspective of asking the question on the site mostly likely to yield a good answer and from the perspective of not asking the question on the site that is most likely to raise the ire of the QCP (Question Correctness Police).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that &quot;staff&quot; start encouraging an algorithmic attempt to guide a questioner to the most effective choice of site much in the same way they are guided toward not asking a duplicate question.  I have a hunch the process is similar.  Similarly as the QCP weigh in I would ask them to qualify the reasons for their choices such than an algorithm can become even better at making suggestions automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141984" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T05:18:57.393" />
  <row Id="36047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66867" CreationDate="2010-01-18T02:11:37.293" Score="3" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone knows about a Gmail gadget that shows the Stack Overflow alerts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132688" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T08:22:12.433" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T10:45:22.330" Title="Gmail gadget for Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36026" CreationDate="2010-01-18T05:43:35.557" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/#comment-43163&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a comment in the blog post&lt;/a&gt;, I implemented a way to handle this. The situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces are not used for matching user displaynames.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The user displayname match must be 3 characters minimum, so @a and @ab will never match, but @abc will. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is fine most of the time, but it is problematic for users with both spaces in their names and either very short or very common first names like &quot;Al Smith&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;strong&gt;spaces are removed from the display name for the purpose of matching&lt;/strong&gt;. If you need to refer to &quot;Al Smith&quot; then @als will work -- or @alsmith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Matches are done in reverse chronological order so you only need the minimum 3 characters necessary to match the displayname of the most recent comment under yours -- the matching process stops as soon as a match is made.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T05:43:35.557" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36645" CreationDate="2010-01-18T05:46:33.117" Score="10" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that the stats page is rendering improperly for tags that cary large enough statistics (char length). For instance, if you view the stats for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/r/stats&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; you will see two columns floated left. If you view the stats for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/c%23/stats&quot;&gt;C#&lt;/a&gt; the columns are a bit too wide, breaking the float-effect, and stacking the columns rather than placing them side-by-side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sampsonresume.com/projects/brow-comp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(sorry, no freehand circles)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T16:16:29.003" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T16:16:29.003" Title="Bug in Tag-Stat Rendering" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;top-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36054" CreationDate="2010-01-18T05:56:10.803" Score="4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I delete my question with some up-votes, what will be the effect of this on my reputation?&#xA;Please don't answer with &quot;Why should you delete a question with up-votes?&quot;. I just want to know the SO system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141652" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T08:28:11.577" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T08:28:11.577" Title="If I delete my question with some up-votes, what will be the effect on my reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36055" CreationDate="2010-01-18T06:13:41.307" Score="31" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been times when I have edited a post, left no comments, yet I have made mistakes that were pointed out simply as @comments. That's ok, but unless I actually come back to the post, I will never see that comment. Would it be possible to extend the comment reply functionality to also include the post editor? This might prove useful for some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-07T08:53:14.693" LastActivityDate="2010-05-07T08:55:32.937" Title="Allow post editor to see @comments directed at him" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36072" CreationDate="2010-01-18T06:24:39.393" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love careers, it gave me the opportunity to put online a very polished CV, something everybody has to do every once in a while. I am currently employed, but academia is very unstable and unreliable, and despite the personal involvement in my current project I always keep my ears open for a good and challenging alternative, just in case I find myself out in the woods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what is the timeline for careers, when it's going out of beta, plan for advertising, etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T09:52:27.547" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T09:52:27.547" Title="Timeline for careers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36050" CreationDate="2010-01-18T06:27:59.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the first reputation recalc that occurs you lose all rep from deleted posts with upvotes and you gain all points lost through downvotes on the deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only had one rep recalc in about 6 months, so results may vary. You might not see a rep hit for quite some time. But take into account, you will lose all rep received from deleted upvotes eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T07:01:39.497" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T07:01:39.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36052" CreationDate="2010-01-18T07:31:35.607" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;edit: this is now implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do a simple reverse chronological walk of the latest &quot;action&quot; by any user with a valid displayname in the post -- where &quot;action&quot; is defined by any sort of edit or comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can now @reply to editors of a post &lt;em&gt;even if they haven't commented&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and just as a gentle reminder, you don't need to @reply to the post author as they are ALWAYS notified of any comments on their post.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-07T08:55:32.937" LastActivityDate="2010-05-07T08:55:32.937" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36017" CreationDate="2010-01-18T08:50:11.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow because emacs is primarily a programming tool, and the way you customize it is with elisp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141631" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T08:50:11.480" />
  <row Id="36064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36017" CreationDate="2010-01-18T08:56:51.993" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple to me, emacs belongs to computer software, so anything linked to its configuration should be on SuperUser. The fact that it is used mostly for programming has nothing to do with it. Question about Eclipse configuration should be on SU as well, as example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you require advanced programming to this configuration, then it should be on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more simple example is Excel. All excel questions should be on SuperUser, except when they are related to macro programming, then they should be on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T08:56:51.993" />
  <row Id="36065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T09:07:43.450" Score="3" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why were 9 of my questions deleted? (Stack Overflow) and -100 for each of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know why I lost 100 points for each (I don't see it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5221/what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that-actually-mean/5222#5222&quot;&gt;this faq&lt;/a&gt;). If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34537/acidzombie24&quot;&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt; you'll see I ask a lot of questions and generally know how to ask questions. Typically I delete my own, I only remember one instance ATM when I did not delete my own (I posted, went to bed. Heard my question was tagged wrong, migrated to another site and delete due to confusion all before morning came). If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34537?tab=reputationhistory#sort-top&quot;&gt;my rep&lt;/a&gt; you can see a lot of posts were deleted and I went down 900 points. Why? And why the reputation penalty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also feel some are valid, like why I shouldn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/441635&quot;&gt;use exes to output my HTML on webpages&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/479152&quot;&gt;Why does C++ not have some functions that are standard in nearly all other libraries&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:50:20.573" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:50:20.573" Title="Why were 9 of my questions deleted? and -100 for each of them?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;penalty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36065" CreationDate="2010-01-18T09:11:58.497" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Losing 100 points and having the question deleted, happens most likely only when you were &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22174/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;flagged as offensive by 6 people&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt all of your questions were offensive, so it looks rather like you were a victim of a group attack. Refer to this to team@stackoverflow.com (unless they check directly from here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T09:11:58.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36065" CreationDate="2010-01-18T09:16:01.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stop asking me to 'accept' more&#xA;  answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this has annoyed someone to the point of organizing an attack against you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136880" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T09:16:01.997" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42847" CreationDate="2010-01-18T09:41:47.383" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to bulk add or remove tags from my watched lists of interesting and ignore using wildcards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I entered &lt;strong&gt;[php*]&lt;/strong&gt; into the tag field it would then either add or remove all &#xA;tags that match the seed wildcard (i.e.: &lt;strong&gt;[php]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[php4]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[php5]&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;[php-framework]&lt;/strong&gt;, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134032" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T14:16:03.937" LastActivityDate="2010-04-18T15:00:03.037" Title="Allow batch adding or removing tags from interesting/ignore lists" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36053" CreationDate="2010-01-18T09:52:21.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the reminder -- I had been meaning to remove the &quot;beta&quot; part of the logo for a while now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; has been fully functional for a while now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that there aren't tweaks over time and new versions, of course, but it's functioning as originally intended in V1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T09:52:21.650" />
  <row Id="36073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36074" CreationDate="2010-01-18T09:53:06.437" Score="2" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if you accept an answer to a question of yours, but you're still left with a question about &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last few questions I posted on Stack Overflow have been about SQL. The last question that got answered sprouted a new problem which needs solving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ok to post a new question about this? I would have to repost al the example data, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142023" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T09:59:32.553" Title="Asking question about an answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36073" CreationDate="2010-01-18T09:59:32.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's just a clarification of the answer, just add a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a completely new question, &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; a completely new question. You may also want to add a comment to the &quot;old&quot; answer to suggest that the answerer may be interested in the new question too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T09:59:32.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11540" CreationDate="2010-01-18T10:01:18.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a moderator I would really like this to be modifief!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And wait till you have to clean up Superuser before calling someone lazy ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T10:01:18.477" />
  <row Id="36076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36065" CreationDate="2010-01-18T10:02:06.120" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked, and these are all valid offensive votes, on questions that were already heavily downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might consider whether some of your questions are really appropriate for Stack Overflow if that many community members find them offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that repeatedly asking many low quality questions is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20696/handling-problematic-stack-overflow-participants&quot;&gt;grounds for timed suspension&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't think this &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; holds true in your case (although since you have asked 600+ questions, there are bound to be some outliers), it's something to consider. On your user page, you have three full &quot;pages&quot; of questions with a score of -1 or lower, all the way down to -7. (Note that most of these have been deleted by mods, so they won't be visible unless you are a moderator.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T10:02:06.120" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36017" CreationDate="2010-01-18T10:11:19.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, like URL rewriting questions between SO/SF, this is a gray area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The more &quot;programmery&quot; a tool, the more likely the questions about it should be on Stack Overflow.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ... how many non-programmers use emacs? I personally get the sense that's a pretty small audience once you rule out programmers. But then again I don't use emacs, so maybe I'm not qualified to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T10:11:19.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T10:15:49.410" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;it is a good idea to search before asking a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I want to know if I can be informed (not via email) that there is &lt;strong&gt;anything new&lt;/strong&gt; happening in the question I posted or I added to my favourites. I tried to search for such question/info with no success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I go &lt;strong&gt;through all pages&lt;/strong&gt; in the search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How many&lt;/strong&gt; different searches should I perform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How&lt;/strong&gt; would you &lt;strong&gt;search&lt;/strong&gt; for such info?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141953" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T10:52:23.663" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:05:39.483" Title="How do I get notified about updates to my questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="84575" CreationDate="2010-01-18T10:51:44.617" Score="28" ViewCount="693" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind advertising in general on S[OFU]. But I don't like a specific one. Is it possible to ask that you don't see a specific ad again, without doing some grease monkey magic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; The one I don't like is the &quot;Case of the Mondays?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T09:16:15.633" LastActivityDate="2011-03-24T10:33:26.937" Title="Can I disable a specific annoying ad?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36078" CreationDate="2010-01-18T10:55:32.783" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I mostly search on google first. A well crafted google query will get you to an existing question most of the time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ameta.stackoverflow.com+notify+question+favorite+update+-email&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ameta.stackoverflow.com+notify+question+favorite+update+-email&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives a couple of results which might already answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25194/rss-feed-for-favorite-questions&quot;&gt;RSS feed for favorite questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don’t own them)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T11:05:39.483" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:05:39.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36079" CreationDate="2010-01-18T11:01:36.153" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask your friendly ad blocker to block that particular ad alone. From what I can see, each ad image has a different name, allowing you to block only that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:01:36.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T11:33:17.687" Score="4" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say I post a bad answer (out of oversight or ignorance or who knows what). Then I recheck the page after 5 minutes (or because the envelope icon has turned very bright) and I discover that the answer collected 5 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are 2 things you can do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be a man and take the pain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people I see this happen to, delete their answer. Why? Because if they let it stay, within minutes it might get downvoted another 10 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think on the other hand, bad answers are informative as well and should be kept. Especially since they probably get a comment underneath to why it is a bad answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think there's an imbalance here right now. Wrong questions are taken away as fast as possible by the people who answered them, the moment they realize it was not a smart answer. Yet, you really want the bad answers (and the comments why it is bad) to be visible since others might have the same wrong reasoning, and now don't know why it is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T12:17:35.170" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T12:17:35.170" Title="Strange imbalance with bad answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;wrong-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36083" CreationDate="2010-01-18T11:36:04.640" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;there's some pity upvoting that goes on for -1 and lower&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;since downvotes are -2 while upvotes are +10 it's quite easy to come out ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;sometimes, disagreement doesn't mean the answer is wrong, per se&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see pile-on downvoting as an actual problem. It really depends how confident the answerer is in their answer, and how willing they are to defend it through edits and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:36:04.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36083" CreationDate="2010-01-18T11:43:35.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're bad. Ok, we'll keep them, but don't expect people to upvote them for being a &quot;don't do this, ever!&quot; example. If the post is hideously bad, donwvote it, &lt;strong&gt;don't ever upvote&lt;/strong&gt;, unless it's been edited into shape. It doesn't help anyone, that's the major thing to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the person that gets the upvote will think that it's ok to ask stupid questions/give stupid answers, because he'll see someone agreeing with him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the persons that downvoted will feel wronged and will start downvoting him even more, out of anger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the post should be downvoted, to let people know that that is really a bad question. It simply says &lt;em&gt;Stay away from this&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, garbage has to be cleaned. Most stuff can be done in one good way, and an infinite way of doing it wrong. Let's just stick to the good way, it's more informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:43:35.870" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36083" CreationDate="2010-01-18T11:44:40.487" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wrong answers which still assert something incorrect &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be downvoted. You missed the other option though: correct the answer, either to &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; be correct, or to include the previous text and explain why it's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it means replacing the whole answer, I'd normally delete the old one and add a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:44:40.487" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36047" CreationDate="2010-01-18T11:48:26.657" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no Gmail gadget for Stack Overflow, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/what-would-a-stack-overflow-api-look-like/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not for alerts, not for questions. Net even for ponies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be you could ask for an RSS feed to &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/{your user number}&lt;/code&gt; in a &lt;code&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T11:48:26.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36106" CreationDate="2010-01-18T12:26:52.463" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this a known bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22green+bits%22+%22red+bits%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; with quotes is visible at preview time, but not visible when actually posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above &quot;link&quot; word at preview time points to this URL (which, as a line on its own at least partially works):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=&lt;/a&gt;&quot;green+bits&quot;+&quot;red+bits&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Workaround: fully encode the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22green%2Bbits%22%2B%22red%2Bbits%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;URL&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt; (thanks &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;) and trying to understand what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/16587/george-stocker&quot;&gt;George&lt;/a&gt; means, here are some samples in code format to make my question more clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This format does not work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[link][5] &#xA;[5]: http://www.google.com/search?q=&quot;green+bits&quot;+&quot;red+bits&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This format does not work either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[link][6] &#xA;[6]: &amp;lt;http://www.google.com/search?q=&quot;green+bits&quot;+&quot;red+bits&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This format works (but requires you to encode the URL, so you cannot copy/paste from your browseers' address bar):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[link][7] &#xA;[7]: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22green%2Bbits%22%2B%22red%2Bbits%22&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137204" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T16:04:40.857" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:06:33.443" Title="Bug with embedded quotes in links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;quotes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T12:42:26.720" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen that some people can delete other's comments. Can only moderators do this or can anyone with a high enough reputation? Also, can my answers also be deleted by others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142029" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T13:18:31.753" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T13:18:31.753" Title="Can anyone delete my answers on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36089" CreationDate="2010-01-18T12:44:19.430" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only the person who posted the comment and diamond moderators can delete other people's comments - 10K moderators can't delete comments (note the absence of any reference to comment deletion in the list of permissions on the various FAQs, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Meta's FAQ&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T12:44:19.430" />
  <row Id="36092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36102" CreationDate="2010-01-18T12:49:03.240" Score="1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15044/stackoverflow-the-game&quot;&gt;This is not related to this!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I realized (late!) that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Stackoverflow data is available&lt;/a&gt;, I thought of creating a game based on that data, and borrowing look and feel elements from the SO site. I cannot code it right now, and the SO community would be way too exigent to play something half-baked. Hence I've turned my proposal into a question: &lt;strong&gt;how could you make an interesting game with the SO data?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My game looks like this (broad strokes): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You choose a category and it shows you&#xA;  a question and the answers. You have&#xA;  to choose which answer got marked&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;best answer&lt;/code&gt; (if any), one which was&#xA;  downvoted to rest somewhere below zero&#xA;  (if any). (Or something like that...&#xA;  as I said, the ideas are quite rough).&#xA;  You would earn badges like &lt;code&gt;Skeet&lt;/code&gt; or&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;Coding Horror&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, how would you make a game with the SO data? Also, is it true that any game based on the data would automatically be Creative Commons as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:02:05.310" Title="Make a game with the StackOverflow data dump?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;games&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36089" CreationDate="2010-01-18T12:50:10.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO faq&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As all content is posted under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; license which is linked to at the foot of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T12:50:10.633" />
  <row Id="36094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36089" CreationDate="2010-01-18T13:00:48.253" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Diamond moderators and the answer owner can delete an answer. Besides, users with 15 reputation can flag posts as offensive or spam.  A post that attracts 6 spam/offensive votes will be automatically deleted (by the user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;Community ♦&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T13:00:48.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36096" CreationDate="2010-01-18T13:07:14.337" Score="0" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood&quot;&gt;Is the Populist badge broken? Or have I misunderstood?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a flaw in the badge system at StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995328/are-there-any-better-methods-to-do-permutation-of-string&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that my answer outscored that accepted answer with 10 votes by &gt;2x but I didn't receive the &lt;strong&gt;POPULIST&lt;/strong&gt; badge. Is the badge system too slow or am I missing some rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140054" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T14:53:34.700" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T14:53:34.700" ClosedDate="2010-01-18T14:54:46.803" Title="Badge system at SO too slow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;populist&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36095" CreationDate="2010-01-18T13:09:22.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer has to get 11 votes (and your answer get &gt;2x that, so at least 23 votes) for you to win the populist badge. This doesn't quite match the description text (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood/6938#6938&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for a bug report about that), which could more accurately read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided highest scoring answer that&#xA;  outscored an accepted answer with more&#xA;  than 10 votes by more than 2x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood/6938#6938&quot;&gt;Kyle Cronin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T13:09:22.070" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36092" CreationDate="2010-01-18T14:11:03.393" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are awaken in a motel room. On the north wall, you see &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2083389/how-do-i-break-this-script-closed&quot;&gt;How do I break this script. &amp;#91;closed&amp;#93;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; painted in blood. There is a door to the east.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through the window, you see an officer of the Exact Duplicate Police patrolling on the street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;_&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T14:28:47.503" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T14:28:47.503" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36103" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T14:23:30.900" Score="21" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;To help users keep track of (and hopefully get answers to) unanswered questions, it would be useful to have an &quot;unanswered&quot; sort order on a user's profile page.  It would order the list of questions with unanswered questions first.   This would be in addition to the &quot;recent,&quot; &quot;views,&quot; &quot;newest,&quot; and &quot;votes&quot; sort orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i43.tinypic.com/k4dz85.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131833" LastActivityDate="2011-03-29T16:03:11.473" Title="&quot;Unanswered&quot; question sort order on profile pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="36104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36088" CreationDate="2010-01-18T14:26:43.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer isn't to fully encode the URL, the answer is to use an identifier and not just have a stock URL &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=green+bits+red+bits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sitting on a page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T14:56:33.383" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T14:56:33.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36103" CreationDate="2010-01-18T14:27:11.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have that many questions that are unanswered, you've got bigger problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T14:27:11.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36088" CreationDate="2010-01-18T14:51:19.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for 4-5 different linking formats&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: the sanitizer doesn't like the non-encoded &quot; remaining in the URL. I added it to the list of characters encoded in &lt;code&gt;EncodeProblemUrlChars()&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=109&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=109&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T16:06:33.443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:06:33.443" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39719" CreationDate="2010-01-18T15:01:59.737" Score="12" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;People often try to tag with a sentence, so they'll write something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;upload&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;problem&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...in their tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/problem&quot;&gt;56 questions on SO tagged &lt;code&gt;problem&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a completely useless tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest this tag should be removed from all questions containing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there's a list of banned tags, this should go on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Fighting the urge to tag this question &lt;code&gt;problem&lt;/code&gt;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-17T02:38:32.290" LastActivityDate="2010-08-17T02:38:32.290" Title="Remove &quot;problem&quot; tag" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="36110" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36113" CreationDate="2010-01-18T15:04:21.307" Score="4" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;consider this scenario.  i run into an issue and put together a detailed question.  I get a few answers but no luck.  It turns out it was a complete red herring and it was a completely seperate unrelated problem that was causing the symptom that was in the quesiton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so given that the question is not really relevant.  In these cases, i would go and delete the question given that its not a valid question.  My concern is that i would like to notify people that were looking into it instead of simply removing it under the covers to avoid anyone wasting time trying to help answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;whats the protocol here.  Should i put a vote to close my question?  is this not a good use of &quot;delete&quot; for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4653" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:29:45.493" Title="what is the protocol when deleting your own question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="36111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36110" CreationDate="2010-01-18T15:06:27.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even breadcrumbs are useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your questions and the answers they spawn are not just for you, they are for the community at large. Keeping a valid (yet personally irrelevant) question around is vital to getting answers for the community problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that means answering your own question with why it turned out to be &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;, then that's ok too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T16:03:46.180" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:03:46.180" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36109" CreationDate="2010-01-18T15:08:13.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;problem&lt;/code&gt; is, there is a subset of users that have no idea what tags are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no easy way to fix that &lt;code&gt;problem&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T15:08:13.590" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36110" CreationDate="2010-01-18T15:09:21.467" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could always answer your own question explaining what was actually causing your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am having the same problem as you and come across your question, the fact that you posted what was &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; causing the problem could help me too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time I voted to close my own question was when my Google-fu failed me and I managed to post an (almost) exact duplicate on SU - I just used all the wrong keywords while searching for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T15:09:21.467" />
  <row Id="36114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-01-18T15:26:58.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gold badge that would be awarded for an answer that satisfies both &lt;code&gt;Necromancer&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Enlightened&lt;/code&gt; criteria, i.e.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First answer to a question more than 60 days later that was accepted with at least 10 votes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure exactly what to call it, maybe &lt;strong&gt;Enlightomancer&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;White Wizard&lt;/strong&gt; or even &lt;strong&gt;Gandalf&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a good incentive for well researched answers to long-forgotten questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T15:26:58.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-18T15:26:58.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T15:47:42.143" Score="4" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just made a moderator on one of the StackExchange sites outside of the main trilogy and am feeling my way around the dark a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, it seems that since I got moderator privileges, clicking the close button actually closes the question immediately instead of just adding a vote to close it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a FAQ, or documentation available to help new moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T15:47:42.143" ClosedDate="2010-01-18T15:55:42.670" Title="Is there a moderator FAQ or documentation available for StackExchange?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36119" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:02:03.327" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's the source&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    $(function(){&#xA;&#xA;    }); &#xA;&#xA;is [jQuery][1] (a Javascript library) shorthand for:&#xA;&#xA;    $(document).ready(function(){&#xA;&#xA;    });&#xA;&#xA;It is what you use to do with `` but more sophisticated. You can &#xA;get a fuller explanation [here][2].&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://www.jquery.com&#xA;  [2]: http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Introducing_$(document).ready()&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's the output&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(function(){&#xA;&#xA;}); &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jquery.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery&lt;/a&gt; (a Javascript library) shorthand for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(document).ready(function(){&#xA;&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is what you use to do with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;body onload=&quot;xxx&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; but more sophisticated. You can &#xA;get a fuller explanation &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials%3AIntroducing_%24%28document%29.ready%28%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T16:08:38.833" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:08:38.833" Title="Broken markdown parsing with non-url encoded links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36092" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:02:05.310" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever you do, be sure to get some sponsoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4179/asku.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:02:05.310" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36117" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:07:42.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sanitizer doesn't like the non-encoded $ remaining in the URL. I added it to the list of characters encoded in &lt;code&gt;EncodeProblemUrlChars()&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=110&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=110&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the javascript preview in &lt;code&gt;showdown.js&lt;/code&gt; can't deal with the parens in the link, but the server-side version can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:07:42.393" />
  <row Id="36120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36110" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:11:15.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's a really really specific question, and the solution was completely unrelated to the symptoms (i.e., the question has no value to anyone else, now or ever), then deleting is fine, or flagging your own question so a mod can close as &quot;no longer relevant.&quot; If it gets closed, consider adding a comment of why you chose to have it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is generic enough that the discussion could prove useful to someone else, then there's value to leaving it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:11:15.333" />
  <row Id="36121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:14:24.547" Score="7" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35970/really-long-comment-wait-time&quot;&gt;Really Long Comment Wait Time?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen this wording before. Does this mean that if I press submit after 24 seconds the timer'll reset and I have to wait 25 more? If so, WTF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:14:24.547" ClosedDate="2010-01-18T16:16:09.393" Title="&quot;Only 1 comment allowed per 25 seconds; timer reset.&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36110" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:29:45.493" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what is the protocol when deleting your own question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HTTP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:29:45.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28029" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:43:28.990" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er.. what? You want an image src = an HTML page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Images as links work fine..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Markup&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![alt text][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;second paragraph&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png&#xA;  [2]: http://stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Output&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;second paragraph&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:43:28.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34556" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:46:54.753" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because the auto-hyperlink code uses consuming regexes to detect characters on either side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you express links like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.example.com http://example.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The space after the first link is consumed by the match, and not available for the next link, so it fails to match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, since it should be EXCEEDINGLY unusual to have multiple bare/naked/unformatted URLs on the same line, I don't think this is worth fixing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus if you really want this just use the proper markup..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;http://www.example.com&amp;gt; &amp;lt;http://example.com&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shown below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.example.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:46:54.753" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2010-01-18T16:50:31.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MarkdownSharp does have this option... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;like so..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var m = new MarkdownSharp.Markdown();&#xA;m.AutoNewLines = true;&#xA;&#xA;string input = &quot;this\nis\na\ntest&quot;;&#xA;string output = m.Transform(input);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which produces..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;input:&#xA;this&#xA;is&#xA;a&#xA;test&#xA;&#xA;output:&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;this&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&#xA;is&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&#xA;a&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&#xA;test&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think we'll be exercising it on the trilogy. Way too many breaking changes from existing content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T16:50:31.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26011" CreationDate="2010-01-18T17:00:25.190" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please do that. I'm all for it, but I assume converting the old posts will be a nightmare.&#xA;Markdown decision is totally absurd in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T17:00:25.190" />
  <row Id="36127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34556" CreationDate="2010-01-18T17:05:22.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you can bunch all the links into 1 using &lt;a href=&quot;http://linkbun.ch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LinkBunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T17:05:22.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T17:05:31.653" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought at one time the Stack Overflow podcast was using a 3rd party service to allow listeners to call in and leave questions. Now I can't find the name of the service they have used for call in questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please name the 3rd party service providers the Stack Overflow podcast uses to collect questions for their show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136301" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T17:38:58.910" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T17:41:11.027" Title="Who provides the call-in service for the Stack Overflow podcast?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36128" CreationDate="2010-01-18T17:13:50.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel or Jeff provides this information at the end of each podcast. Dedicated phone number to ask questions for the podcast: 646-826-3879. You can also record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and email it to podcast@stackoverflow.com, please mention your name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T17:13:50.510" />
  <row Id="36130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36128" CreationDate="2010-01-18T17:33:46.393" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Fog Creek moved their offices, they got a dial-in phone in house: 646-826-3879.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; at one time announce a 3rd-party service where you can call in and leave a message which would create an MP3 file. I don't believe they are using that service but it was called &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogtalkradio.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BlogTalkRadio.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T17:41:11.027" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T17:41:11.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:05:06.400" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a handful of obviously spammy users (the most recent being &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/246855/best-penis-products&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/246855/best-penis-products&lt;/a&gt;) - there's no way to report the user, only their content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any kind of reporting features on a user level, either in place or planned for future implementation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142027" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:27:31.230" Title="Simple way to report spammy users?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8319" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:07:27.470" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;About me, I go with an explaining comment which usually goes like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello, welcome to Superuser(SO/SF).&#xA;  Please check the FAQ&#xA;  (http://superuser.com) about the way&#xA;  this site works. This site is not a&#xA;  discussion board, this is a place for questions&#xA;  to be asked and answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you add the appropriate explanation, depending on situation, like for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to ask a new question, do&#xA;  it by clicking &quot;Ask Question&quot;, to be in&#xA;  a separate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you want to answer to someone else,&#xA;  do it as a comment under his question.&#xA;  Commenting requires 50 reputation,&#xA;  review the FAQ about the reputation&#xA;  system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And bottom line: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If what you want to write doesn't&#xA;  answer the question, don't post it as&#xA;  an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the way this site works is not obvious to new people, so I think an educational approach is the preferred way to handle things..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T18:27:08.017" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:27:08.017" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36131" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:09:51.693" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click &quot;flag&quot;, then &quot;requires moderator attention&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In there, type up how you think this user is a spammer and give the question IDs of things you think are spam. The moderators will handle the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think 150 characters isn't enough room, just e-mail them directly using the contact link at the bottom of every page. Again, make sure to provide links to the offensive material so they know where to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:09:51.693" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36140" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:21:24.707" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;When someone asks, 'Why does this wall of JNI code get a SIGSEGV', the answer that springs to fingers is 'here is how to use a debugger on JNI code.' I'm feeling somewhat inhibited from this approach, insofar as it does't directly answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat relatedly on another question, 'There's a strong user mailing list for this open source component, you're likely to get more effective assistance there.' In the later case, I went ahead with an answer, because I know how thin the crowd of potentials helpers on this topic is on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I have posted JNI debugging advice as an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2088171/jni-bus-error-after-moving-object-creation-to-another-method&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:35:01.290" Title="When is a process an answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="36135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8319" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:25:47.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't close an answer, unfortunately. Your correct course of action is to just &lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt; the post. If it's rampant on a given question, flag the question itself and inform the mods of the answer issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just had to do that this morning over on StackOverflow, and it was cleaned up within &lt;strong&gt;minutes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T19:00:18.020" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T19:00:18.020" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36131" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:27:31.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36131/simple-way-to-report-spammy-users/36133#36133&quot;&gt;Listen to the Welbog 2010&lt;/a&gt;. He knows the truth. You don't really want the ability to &lt;em&gt;flag users&lt;/em&gt;, since SO isn't &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; users - it's about &lt;em&gt;posts&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Powers That Be know what to do with users who abuse with their posts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:27:31.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36134" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:31:11.020" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it matters what the contents of an answer should be, as long as it's useful and helpful in solving the problem that the question asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't pretend to know what the linked question is talking about, but I think your comment there is entirely reasonable. It seems like another one of those &quot;here is the code, solve my problem&quot; type questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:31:11.020" />
  <row Id="36138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36134" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:31:40.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can actually read the code and answer the question, then do so. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't, because there's just not enough information there, and it's unlikely that including enough information is even a feasible task for the OP, then sure, go ahead, teach him to debug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, if it's programming-related &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the author provides enough information for you to answer, you shouldn't ever feel bad about answering (unless the question itself involves something morally distasteful for you like abusing users or working with Crystal Reports).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:31:40.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36134" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:32:59.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I think what the Skeetman has done &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1998566/unhandled-exception-in-try-catch/1998592#1998592&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is exactly the right thing. It's okay to hint at debugging possibilities, and if the OP follows your suggestion and updates their question to include helpful debugging information, update the answer if you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:32:59.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36134" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:35:01.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a process is an answer; however in my mind it's best to frame the process with question-specific help and guidance. In other words, if you can directly answer the question, do so first, then add the process piece at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information is rarely a bad thing. But pure process answers -- when the question is not a process question, of course -- are in my mind only a few steps above LMGTFY or RTFM answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:35:01.290" />
  <row Id="36141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36049" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:48:14.397" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Solution: Change &lt;em&gt;Last 30 Days&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;All time&lt;/em&gt; divs to &lt;code&gt;width: 46%&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:48:14.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:52:46.367" Score="-1" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've accidentally checked the CW checkbox on one of my answers (yes, I'm a fool). Since I cannot undo, the solution seems to be to re-post, but this can be quite frustrating since you lose all your votes. A nice solution would be for SO to prompt me with an &quot;are you sure?&quot; message before continuing, when SO has been checked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been bugging me like crazy - I've been trying to re-create this issue, with no luck. Can you even set CW on an answer after it's been updated? I tried tabbing to the CW checkbox, but it's not possible, so we can rule that out as the cause - and I'd say it's practically impossible for me to accidentally &lt;strong&gt;click&lt;/strong&gt; the button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the cause may be that I didn't accidentally check the box, but migrating from SU to SF caused it to become community wiki... but I didn't think that was possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe a warning box isn't the answer here... Maybe I've stumbled across found a bug? Or is this by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update 2:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, maybe there should be the following message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you sure you want to edit? After 10 revisions your answer will be community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just realised that's why my answer became CW. Quite annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141012" LastEditorUserId="141012" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T17:02:35.873" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T17:19:41.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-19T17:28:30.603" Title="Are you sure you want to make this community wiki?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="36143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36142" CreationDate="2010-01-18T18:56:13.583" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Never use a warning when you mean Undo.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with the request. You go CW, see that you are getting upvotes, undo CW, get rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the upvotes come precisely because it's CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T18:56:13.583" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="36144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35805" CreationDate="2010-01-18T19:06:51.920" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added some &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;per-user statistics&lt;/a&gt; to my SO stats pages. Currently I've only run this for 10k+ users, but it shows a bunch of user stats per user and for each user, per tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T19:06:51.920" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-18T19:09:34.783" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to create visualisations that depict and map the relationships between technologies based on developer exposure to said technologies and tags. To do this, I need to be able to discover tags for questions that a user has asked or answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T19:09:34.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-18T19:09:34.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36147" CreationDate="2010-01-18T19:22:33.663" Score="9" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I post a question with a bounty, the question generally captures more votes, and I get more rep than I would have otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where I've offered less than 150 (100 from me, 50 from SO) bounty, I've generally received that reputation back in upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, by and large, it's free to post bounties with less than 100 of my own rep in the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does the SO data dump contain enough information to figure out the site-wide average where a bounty is 'free'?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would require data on when various votes were given (ie, votes before adding the bounty wouldn't count), the amount of the bounty, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:43:04.803" Title="How much additional rep does a bounty question usually earn?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="36147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36146" CreationDate="2010-01-18T19:41:34.493" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using StackQL, I found you'll get about 30 extra rep (score 2.499377 higher) on average:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=36647&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Average score for bounty questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=36648&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Date of first bounty question&lt;/a&gt; (because average score changes over time, we need to compare only on the same date range)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=36655&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Subtract average score for non-bounty questions since date obtained in (2) from number obtained in (1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could write that all as one query, but this was easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to know if there were any &quot;free&quot; bounties, you could try dividing the numbers rather than subtracting.  Then take the ratio you obtained and look for bounty questions &amp;lt; 100 whose score / that ratio is still &gt; 10.  Those questions earned on average enough &quot;extra&quot; rep to cover the cost of the bounty.  Trying that yields &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=36687&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this query on stackql&lt;/a&gt;.  It shows only two possible questions, both of which are community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T20:43:04.803" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:43:04.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T19:55:23.837" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3932/please-add-a-spell-checker-to-the-markdown-editor&quot;&gt;Please add a spell checker to the markdown editor.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why has Stack Overflow no tool for the checking of spelling when creating a new question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142049" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T20:01:49.220" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:15:41.110" ClosedDate="2010-01-18T21:34:25.920" Title="Why doesn't Stack Overflow offer built-in spellchecking of new questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36148" CreationDate="2010-01-18T19:58:00.697" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that it's not really needed in the SO code because the option is easily attainable through either native browser functionality or extensions / add-ins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T19:58:00.697" />
  <row Id="36150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36142" CreationDate="2010-01-18T19:58:46.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need more not less CW, therefore I am against this proposal. Delete your question, if you don't like it being CW and ask it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T19:58:46.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36148" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:01:59.657" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a Stack Overflow-specific problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may want to install a spelling checker in your browser, if you want to perform a spell check before posting, e.g. with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9207&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firefox Plugin &quot;SpellBound&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (there are many others as well, supporting various languages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:01:59.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36148" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:04:09.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because we'd rather have the developer devote time to SO problems that cannot be solved on the user side with either existing browsers or other tools most people who have difficulty with spelling or typing already use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:04:09.387" />
  <row Id="36153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36148" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:08:41.060" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two big reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As others have mentioned, this is already built into most browsers.  Site-specific spell checkers just tend to cause problems and clash with the browser's spell checker.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming questions are murder on spell checkers anyway, as there tend to be a lot of unrecognized words involved (variables and other identifiers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T20:12:26.543" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:12:26.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36157" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:10:59.433" Score="-8" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bronze/Silver/Gold badges awarded for having 10/50/200 questions which have not had any edits.  Includes questions at least a week old that are still open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Encourages people to review their questions before submitting (some people like to submit, then review, but by the time they've submitted the edited version it's halfway down the main page and gets a bump, even within the 5 minute edit window).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T03:38:47.570" Title="Badge request: &quot;Practically Perfect in Every Way&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;&lt;grammar&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36142" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:13:18.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The box isn't easy to click &quot;accidentally&quot; and isn't even visible to new users, only those that have been around awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would only be in the way for those that want to select CW for their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:13:18.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35659" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:16:50.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;enddate and time to officially end the nomination process&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;please set a time (or even rough timeframe) for the Stackoverflow vote and final results&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When The Unpredictable God And Deleter Of All Comments (TUGADOAC) has made up his decision (6-8 weeks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:16:50.170" />
  <row Id="36157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36154" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:35:03.730" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like this. I'd love to encourage people to review their questions before posting them, but this sounds like a good way to generate resentment against anyone editing questions... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You idiot, you've cost me a badge, why couldn't you have left the typos alone!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you excluded tag and title editing, it's hard to post a question that's &lt;em&gt;perfect in every way&lt;/em&gt; - and the last thing we need is something to &lt;em&gt;discourage&lt;/em&gt; people from editing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T20:35:03.730" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36154" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:47:51.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Shog9's complaints to the idea as it stands, but I think it can be made to work with a few simple tweaks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your own edits don't count against you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The posts don't have to be consecutive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use posts, not just questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would help encourage people to be more thoughtful with their posts, while reducing the resentment.  Of course, you'll still have the edit problem.  But I don't think that's really a problem.  I'd rather have someone edit their post to be better than leave it just to get a badge, and if the post is so bad you have others editing as well you still don't get the credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Change the name, though, now that some edits are allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, while I think Welbog was being sarcastic, he does bring up a good point about the number of posts required.  I'd maybe lower the standards for the bronze and silver badge and remove the gold altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T21:10:29.017" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:10:29.017" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36154" CreationDate="2010-01-18T20:58:21.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be in favor of this, if OP's made it clear the first time around what they want. More often than not I submit an answer, only for the OP to comment on my answer with additional details they failed to include in the question to begin with, causing me to edit or append to my answer a great deal of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T05:18:51.717" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T05:18:51.717" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36148" CreationDate="2010-01-18T21:15:41.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably because that's already built in in modern browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance: I use firefox spellchecker &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/421/capturadepantalla201001vr.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:15:41.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36154" CreationDate="2010-01-18T21:22:50.860" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the implication this creates that editing a question means there is something necessarily &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; with it. I might just be adding more information to someone's post, or adding a link, organizing the tags, or any number of &lt;em&gt;I-can-improve-this&lt;/em&gt; additions to a perfectly &lt;em&gt;&quot;perfect&quot;&lt;/em&gt; post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the system should be encouraging more editing, not attaching a stigma to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I edit a question, I'd like to think I am doing nothing short of helping them and others who come after. Not taking away from their I'm-Perfect image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:22:50.860" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36164" CreationDate="2010-01-18T21:35:32.007" Score="-4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;By time-sensitive I don't mean, &quot;I need an answer in the next 24 hours or I'm fired.&quot; Instead, I mean the opposite of timeless. I think this could be addressed with the existing tag &lt;code&gt;trends&lt;/code&gt;, plus the addition of &lt;code&gt;timeless&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;dated&lt;/code&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question that is sensitive to the passing of time, tag with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/trends&quot; title=&quot;existing tag&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;trends&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (includes questions that are kept current via updates)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Old question that succumbed to the passing of time: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/timeless&quot; title=&quot;new tag&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;dated&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Old question that withstands the test of time on its own, tag with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/timeless&quot; title=&quot;new tag&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;timeless&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;timeless&lt;/code&gt; tag may be superfluous; an older question that hasn't been tagged with &lt;code&gt;dated&lt;/code&gt; is probably timeless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other ideas? Overkill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142052" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T21:52:01.620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:10:07.583" Title="SO tag for time-sensitive questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36162" CreationDate="2010-01-18T21:46:05.517" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think people can tell for themselves whether something is dated, and there'll rarely be an official consensus as it's more of a matter of opinion. As long as the content is stated clearly, we should be fine. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:46:05.517" />
  <row Id="36164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36162" CreationDate="2010-01-18T21:48:55.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that a tag is necessary in cases like this. For one thing, practically &lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt; development-related is temporal in nature -- what we do today is not what we will do tomorrow. (One of my highest-voted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/202079/wpf-versus-winforms/202310#202310&quot;&gt;SO answers&lt;/a&gt; is a classic example of this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by definition the majority of SO questions would have this tag, or be appropriate candidates for this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You bring up the idea of a [timeless] tag; these questions are more rare. They do exist -- many questions on best practices, design patterns, etc., will be timeless (or near enough) in nature. However, is it worth using one of five tag slots for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:48:55.603" />
  <row Id="36165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36162" CreationDate="2010-01-18T21:50:05.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most questions are time-sensitive in the sense that answers have the possibility of changing.  While some books remain relevant for long time (&quot;The Mythical Man-Month&quot; comes to mind), new books are constantly being written, and some of them are better than the old ones.  Languages change over time.  So does software:  questions about Visual Studio.NET 2005 are still of some interest, but that's going to fade over time.  Even design principles change, although slowly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think any tagging scheme like this is going to be applied consistently.  Some questions will remain untagged forever, even when they're hardly timeless.  Some people will be &lt;code&gt;dated&lt;/code&gt;-happy.  In any case, I'll have to search for questions and discard what looks dated myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I don't think it's worth bothering with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:50:05.400" />
  <row Id="36166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36154" CreationDate="2010-01-18T21:50:52.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the thrust of this badge (that is, what good behaviour is it encouraging)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;while the site depends on questions, do we really need to encourage users to ask &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is editing a question bad? Surely not, as we have the Editor and Strunk &amp;amp; White badges. Further, revisiting a question to edit it after its initial post is good (to clarify the question, provide more context and debugging details, etc).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I've only asked seven questions on SO, so I'd never be eligible for this. &lt;em&gt;sniffle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T21:50:52.370" />
  <row Id="36167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-18T22:02:52.920" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow&quot;&gt;Post Overflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33451/search-for-questions-closed-for-a-specific-reason&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33451/search-for-questions-closed-for-a-specific-reason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to make a really long URL, it goes way off into never-never-land:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;as_q=closed+as+subjective+and+argumentative&amp;amp;as_epq=&amp;amp;as_oq=&amp;amp;as_eq=meta&amp;amp;num=10&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;as_filetype=&amp;amp;ft=i&amp;amp;as_sitesearch=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;as_qdr=all&amp;amp;as_rights=&amp;amp;as_occt=any&amp;amp;cr=&amp;amp;as_nlo=&amp;amp;as_nhi=&amp;amp;safe=images&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;as_q=closed+as+subjective+and+argumentative&amp;amp;as_epq=&amp;amp;as_oq=&amp;amp;as_eq=meta&amp;amp;num=10&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;as_filetype=&amp;amp;ft=i&amp;amp;as_sitesearch=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;as_qdr=all&amp;amp;as_rights=&amp;amp;as_occt=any&amp;amp;cr=&amp;amp;as_nlo=&amp;amp;as_nhi=&amp;amp;safe=images&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not exactly sure how you would give it proper line breaks, But it is indeed a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-24T04:11:37.010" LastActivityDate="2010-12-24T04:11:37.010" ClosedDate="2010-01-18T22:12:47.673" Title="Page Breaks with really long URLs" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36167" CreationDate="2010-01-18T22:07:13.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would fix it by editing and replacing it with a text link along the lines of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;as_q=closed+as+subjective+and+argumentative&amp;amp;as_epq=&amp;amp;as_oq=&amp;amp;as_eq=meta&amp;amp;num=10&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;as_filetype=&amp;amp;ft=i&amp;amp;as_sitesearch=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;as_qdr=all&amp;amp;as_rights=&amp;amp;as_occt=any&amp;amp;cr=&amp;amp;as_nlo=&amp;amp;as_nhi=&amp;amp;safe=images&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Google Search Results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T22:07:13.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36167" CreationDate="2010-01-18T22:13:13.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Webkit and IE seem to ignore the &quot;.post-text&quot; class width being 660px.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T22:13:13.333" />
  <row Id="36171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6960" CreationDate="2010-01-18T23:23:14.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of download URLs for episode 8 to episode 79 are listed below. Using a text editor in block mode and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wget&lt;/a&gt; (or similar) it should not take more than a few minutes to create a script on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X that can start downloading all the available podcasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode8-2008.06.03.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-EpisodeNine-2008.06.10.mp3&#xA;&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode010-2008.06.18.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode011-2008.06.24.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode012-2008.07.01.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode013-2008.07.08.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode014-2008.07.15.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode015-2008.07.22.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode016-2008.07.29.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode017-2008.08.12.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode18-2008.08.19.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode19-2008.08.26.mp3&#xA;&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode20-2008.09.02.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode21-2008.09.09.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode21-2008.09.16.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode23-2008.09.23.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode24-2008.09.30.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode25-2008.10.07.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode26-2008.10.14.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode27-2008.10.28.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode28-2008.11.04.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode29-2008.11.11.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode30-2008.11.18.mp3&#xA;&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode31-2008.11.25.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode32-2008.12.02.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode33-2008.12.10.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode34-2008.12.16.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode35-2008.12.30.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode36-2009.01.06.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode37-2009.01.13.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode38-2009.01.20.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode39-2009.01.29.mp3&#xA;&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode40-2009.02.03.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode41-2009.01.10.mp3&#xA;http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode42-2009.02.17.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode43-2009.02.24.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode44-2009.03.03.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode45-2009.03.10.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode46-2009.03.17.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode47-2009.03.24.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode48-2009.04.07.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode49-2009.04.14.mp3&#xA;&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode50-2009.04.21.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode51-2009.04.28.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode52-2009.05.05.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode53-2009.05.12.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode54-2009.05.20.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode55-2009.05.26.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode56-2009.06.02.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode57-2009.06.09.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode58-2009.06.16.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode59-2009.06.23.mp3&#xA;&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode60-2009.06.30.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Episode61-2009.07.14.mp3&#xA;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.SO-Episode62-2009.07.21.mp3&#xA;http://cdn.conversationsnetwork.org/ITC.SO-Epi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OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-18T23:59:32.513" LastActivityDate="2010-01-18T23:59:32.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3932" CreationDate="2010-01-19T00:04:30.473" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the long run this is something best implemented in the browser - it provides a better native interface and prevents the same functionality being duplicated by many sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T00:04:30.473" />
  <row Id="36175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-01-19T02:51:30.073" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bridge to the netherworld... dare I say it, the forbidden taboo F-word... Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phase 1. Announce questions asked, badges earned, and best answers. Would be ideal if this the API can be configured to pingback a URL for requested users, so that this information can effectively be pushed to FB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phase 2. FBML-based, filtered views of questions asked by Facebook friends (who also use the FB app). Sortable user view that links to FB profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Utility for the FB app user: broadcast questions one asks to a trusted audience; demonstrate technical authority (yes, the rumors are true: Facebook is premised upon user vanity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Utility for community: viral marketing increases user base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137367" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T02:51:30.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-19T02:51:30.073" />
  <row Id="36176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T02:44:50.283" Score="6" ViewCount="1414" Body="&lt;p&gt;I quite like the look of the font used in the code blocks that appear on Stack Overflow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What, dear listener, is the font face used for such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T09:08:19.570" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T09:08:19.570" Title="What's the font used in code blocks?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36176" CreationDate="2010-01-19T02:47:00.167" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code {&#xA;  background-color:#EEEEEE;&#xA;  font-family:Consolas,Monaco,Lucida Console,Liberation Mono,DejaVu Sans Mono,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Courier New;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T02:53:09.027" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36176" CreationDate="2010-01-19T02:47:20.257" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the first font in the following list that is installed on your system: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consolas&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monaco&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lucida Console&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liberation Mono&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DejaVu Sans Mono&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Courier New&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, look at the CSS file in Firebug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T02:53:09.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36219" CreationDate="2010-01-19T03:31:13.430" Score="10" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2008 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/reverse-engineering-the-wmd-editor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff announced&lt;/a&gt; the plans for a wmd open source project, progress was made, then drobbins picked up for a few months and stuff seemed to progress for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then there have been 6-7 forks, but it does appear this project has no leadership. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does SO plan to contribute back to any of the wmd branches? (or is WMD special sauce?) &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.github.com/tstone/jquery-markedit/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Which&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.github.com/derobins/wmd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.github.com/cky/wmd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the branches&lt;/a&gt; does SO sanction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T15:59:12.387" LastActivityDate="2011-08-03T16:39:55.700" Title="What's the deal with the WMD editor?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="36180" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T03:43:46.960" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was helping a friend who has an account on Xanga and their help system (located at &lt;a href=&quot;http://help.xanga.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://help.xanga.com&lt;/a&gt;) has a feel which is a lot like Stack Overflow (up/down voting with the same arrows as Stack Overflow; users can answer each other's questions, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering, are they a Stack Exchange site? If so, they really integrated it nicely into their site. If not, did they have this functionality all along or was it copied from Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142064" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T04:24:09.877" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T04:24:09.877" Title="Does Xanga Help Use StackExchange?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36180" CreationDate="2010-01-19T03:52:40.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't look like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange site&lt;/a&gt;, but there are number of other &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;clones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T03:52:40.183" />
  <row Id="36184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3932" CreationDate="2010-01-19T06:14:03.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there examples of working spell-checkers built into a web site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without the ability to update the spell check library and with all the possible variations world-wide within a single language, I wonder how effective a spell checker built into a community site would be. That, and when I've seen spell-checkers built in to Rich Text Editing textarea fields, I've always been disappointed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gmail has a spellchecker - I think that it stores new words in a cookie. In any case, the next time I connected, my &quot;Ignore Word&quot; words were once again listed as misspelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would agree with @Kragen - keep the checker close to the user where the user can adapt the spell checking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141936" LastEditorUserId="141936" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T23:17:47.620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T23:17:47.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3932" CreationDate="2010-01-19T06:42:24.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I truly doubt if many people will actually invoke such spell checker, assuming that will be a button that needs to be pressed to run it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In the browsers I use, the spell check is on-the-fly, marking words as I type. Well, it's actually a word check, not a full blown spell check one might see in word processors. Safari is even smart enough to figure out what language I'm using.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T06:42:24.723" />
  <row Id="36187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36188" CreationDate="2010-01-19T07:46:56.183" Score="-3" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070658/extra-user-profile-field-edited-only-by-admin-wordpress&quot;&gt;question languishes on SO&lt;/a&gt; with nary an answer nor comment. I would really like to know the answer to my quandry. I do believe that there exists a solution to my problem, but as yet, it has not come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be okay to ask someone to donate their reputation toward a bounty on my question? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it even possible to &lt;em&gt;donate&lt;/em&gt; reputation points to another user? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141953" LastEditorUserId="141953" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T09:56:59.567" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T10:43:58.630" Title="Etiquette on asking for donations of reputation to set a bounty" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36187" CreationDate="2010-01-19T07:55:53.853" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you can't donate reputation to other users -- that wouldn't really count as &quot;reputation&quot;.  Rather than putting up a bounty, though, you should work to improve your question so that it can be more easily understood and answered.  Things like fixing up your grammar, describing what you've already tried, and providing detailed examples of the core problem you're trying to solve, all help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138870" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T07:55:53.853" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36176" CreationDate="2010-01-19T08:01:21.470" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See Super User:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/43280/utility-to-determine-the-font-used-on-a-site/&quot;&gt;Utility to determine the font used on a site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/41964/how-to-capture-fonts-from-the-websites&quot;&gt;How to capture fonts from the websites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T08:01:21.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36187" CreationDate="2010-01-19T08:19:27.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, SO reputation is not a financial instrument which you could donate to someone else or borrow from someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T08:19:27.950" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36187" CreationDate="2010-01-19T08:27:19.647" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could, in theory, include in your question a request for upvotes, with the explanation of why you want the reputation.  This is generally considered in poor taste, and might well backfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earlier suggestion of improving the question is probably much more likely to accomplish what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T08:27:19.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36179" CreationDate="2010-01-19T10:04:15.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/derobins/wmd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; basically the equivalent of the markdownsharp code project, except under different ownership?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no tests for it though. Or wiki, but that's what you get from using github&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T10:04:15.570" />
  <row Id="36193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T10:35:26.623" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5367/when-is-it-ok-to-make-your-own-question-and-answer-it-a-la-blog-post&quot;&gt;When is it ok to make your own question and answer it a la blog post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I find a solution to a problem and I'd like to write it down as a question on SO, so that others can enjoy of my finding. I normally mark it as CW, but what's your take on this ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T10:35:26.623" ClosedDate="2010-01-19T11:27:24.257" Title="Annotation questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36187" CreationDate="2010-01-19T10:43:58.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an aside: long ago, it was proposed to allow for selling developers.sun.com's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://developers.sun.com/forums/dukestars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Duke Stars&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; for charity, assuming some would pay to get their question answered even more promptly. I wonder if people would be more willing to donate to, for example, some Haiti relief fund when getting some reputation in return, instead of just donating without expecting anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; then known as &quot;Duke Dollars&quot;, which according to Yahoo! is something totally different nowadays...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T10:43:58.630" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T12:07:27.333" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know about threads like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7572/why-do-incorrect-answers-keep-getting-accepted&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, However I wanted to make a proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, even though you're a good willing SO user, you don't have the technical support of knowing that the accepted answer to one of your questions is less voted than another answer, which gained more community consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not make a new tab for &quot;accepted/community&quot; discrepancy for own questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would at least notify the author of a possible reconsideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139563" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T12:07:27.333" Title="Accepted answer / most upvoted answer discrepancy" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36205" CreationDate="2010-01-19T12:10:42.003" Score="2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/349133/tabcontrol-tab-headings-resize-when-changing-font&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO, there is a deleted answer (so you'll only be able to see it if you have over 10k).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer was posted on December 8, 2008, but the deleted markup reads &quot;deleted by owner Dec 30 at 3:30&quot;.  Not that it &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; matters to me when it was deleted (and I can hover over the date to see that it actually was deleted in 2009), but my money was on December 2008 since that's when the answer was posted too.  And if there's one ambiguous date like that, there are certainly many more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2060/snapstackoverflow5.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T15:12:10.543" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T15:12:10.543" Title="Ambiguous deletion date on deleted answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3932" CreationDate="2010-01-19T12:38:28.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What language? I know SO is English only, but StackExchange is by no means. And would you enforce color or colour? What when in code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be much more helpful to give people a reason to have their employers update to a good browser than adding all useful functionality to old insecure browsers, duplicating modern browser functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T12:38:28.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36196" CreationDate="2010-01-19T13:37:31.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I for one don't think this matters - it's only visible to 10K users, who are probably well-versed enough in Stack Overflow to know about hovering over any date on the site, so the confusion really shouldn't last more than a moment or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, why does it matter when the post was deleted anyway? What difference does it make?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T13:37:31.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36196" CreationDate="2010-01-19T14:03:49.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you read a post in January 2010 which tells you that it was deleted in December, what possibilites do you have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dec 2010 - Hmm, time machine? Anyone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dec 200... ah, no come on, cannot be!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dec 2008 - Yeah sure, that's what it must be! Bet all my money!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pro tip: Never visit Las Vegas!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T14:03:49.733" />
  <row Id="36205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36196" CreationDate="2010-01-19T15:11:53.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can view the revision history to see more history detail on any post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/349453/list&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/349453/list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T15:11:53.633" />
  <row Id="36206" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T15:27:20.993" Score="5" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I somehow think this is a dupe, so sorry if it is.  My search-fu is turning up empty...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do migrated questions retain bounty history?  For example, say a question has a bounty set on one site before enough people vote it closed and migrate it.  The bounty expires on the one site, then it gets enough close votes to migrate.  Is it no longer possible to accept that answer on the target site since the bounty on the first site expired?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this probably doesn't happen that often on SO, but I've seen it a few times on SF.  Mainly when the OP doesn't want the question migrated....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T15:57:16.650" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T18:40:23.653" Title="Does bounty history get migrated along with a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="0" />
  <row Id="36209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36410" CreationDate="2010-01-19T15:57:38.160" Score="20" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've added a link to an organization (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.compassion.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Compassion International&lt;/a&gt;) doing disaster relief in Haiti to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://farm-fresh-code.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;.  While I'm not sure that it would be appropriate to regularly run ads for charities, I wonder if, in the event of a disaster, it would be acceptable to run ads for organizations like the Red Cross/Red Crescent and other disaster relief organizations as part of the rotating ads.  I'm sure most of us aren't waiting until we see an SO ad to make a donation, but it seems in keeping with @Jeff's spirit of giving back to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T07:16:12.820" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T07:16:12.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-19T15:58:52.543" Title="Disaster relief donations as a rotating ad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="36210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36209" CreationDate="2010-01-19T16:06:33.693" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be all for it.  But of course I'm not getting any ad revenue in from the site...  If not an ad, maybe a little block directly above or below the ad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T16:06:33.693" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-19T16:06:33.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36212" CreationDate="2010-01-19T16:16:27.620" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2094692/parse-error-when-run-by-cron-but-not-from-command-line/2094722#2094722&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I am using the code tag to outline two lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$temp = $t-&amp;gt;course(); &#xA;$courses[$t-&amp;gt;CourseNumber] = $temp-&amp;gt;CourseName;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the code looks fine in the preview, but in the final version, the second line is not rendered as code.&#xA;Why? Is this valid behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I see now that this happens only when the line of code is the last element in the text, which makes it less dramatic. Still, is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T04:36:24.063" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:37:14.093" Title="Code section in markdown behaving differently" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36211" CreationDate="2010-01-19T16:39:54.680" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you might have an unprintable character interfering with the layout (unicode or ASCII). When I type it in manually, it works fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I see -- this a bug in &lt;code&gt;Normalize()&lt;/code&gt; where an empty (spaces, then newline) line at the end was not being removed. Unfortunately this routine was contributed code, so I rewrote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;fixed in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=111&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/detail?r=111&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T04:37:14.093" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:37:14.093" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36142" CreationDate="2010-01-19T16:51:50.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you, Nick. A nice warning asking you to confirm your decision to make it CW would be awesome. Google Chrome still has this bug where checkboxes and radio buttons disappear, so it's impossible to know if it is checked or not, yet still possible to check it. I believe the message should appear when submitting, and not when checking the box, since this is when the action is about to be performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Pollyanna, the checkbox &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; displayed (at least on meta). I have 1 rep right now and I see it and can check it. It is displayed even for new users, so it might be a good thing to warn them when they're about to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; However, I must disagree with warning users when editing would make it CW. It might be a good thing to remind them though. I did not search for it, but it would be really nice if it displayed it somewhere easy to find, say on the mouse over of the community wiki checkbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, you shouldn't be editing your posts that often. I believe you should review what you're writing &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; posting instead of after. It doesn't take 10 edits to add some information to your post, or you can always add it in a comment, even if comments don't have the same visibility as answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141699" LastEditorUserId="141699" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T17:19:41.280" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T17:19:41.280" />
  <row Id="36214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T17:05:00.813" Score="11" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am suggesting that extra statistics be added on who is viewing your CV, something akin to the geo location of the public search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good to know which regions are viewing your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142069" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T17:34:50.560" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T03:00:03.023" Title="Display more statistics on CV views" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36218" CreationDate="2010-01-19T17:43:08.637" Score="8" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question's a candidate for a Tumbleweed and someone edits it (retags, rewords, etc), does that edit nullify the badge?  I'm assuming no, but not positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:05:04.567" Title="Does another user's edit kill the Tumbleweed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36216" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T17:48:59.153" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can somebody correct my xslt error? Here is the input xml, xslt (XSLFormat) and expected output xml file. I think I'm missing generate-id. But I'm not able to place it correctly, it is really becoming complex for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INPUTXML&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65538&quot; text=&quot;catalog&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65541&quot; text=&quot;cd&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65543&quot; text=&quot;title&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65544&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;Empire Burlesque&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65546&quot; text=&quot;artist&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65547&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;Bob Dylan&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65549&quot; text=&quot;country&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65550&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;USA&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65552&quot; text=&quot;company&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65553&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;Columbia&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65555&quot; text=&quot;price&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65556&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;10.90&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65558&quot; text=&quot;year&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65559&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;1985&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65562&quot; text=&quot;cd&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65564&quot; text=&quot;title&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65565&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;Hide your heart&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65567&quot; text=&quot;artist&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65568&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;Bonnie Tyler&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65570&quot; text=&quot;country&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65571&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;UK&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65573&quot; text=&quot;company&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65574&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;CBS Records&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65576&quot; text=&quot;price&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65577&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;9.90&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65579&quot; text=&quot;year&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;item id=&quot;N65580&quot; img1=&quot;VAL&quot; text=&quot;1988&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/item&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;XSLT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:output method=&quot;xml&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; indent=&quot;yes&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;      &amp;lt;xsl:call-template name=&quot;dispatch&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;xsl:with-param name=&quot;nodes&quot; select=&quot;node()&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;/xsl:call-template&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;xsl:template name=&quot;dispatch&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:param name=&quot;nodes&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:choose&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:when test=&quot;text()&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;xsl:call-template name=&quot;apply&quot; &amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;xsl:with-param name=&quot;select&quot; select=&quot;node()&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/xsl:call-template&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/xsl:when&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:otherwise&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;xsl:call-template name=&quot;apply&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/xsl:otherwise&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/xsl:choose&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;  &#xA;&#xA;  &amp;lt;xsl:template name=&quot;apply&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:param name=&quot;select&quot; select=&quot;node()&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;$select&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;xsl:if test='local-name() !=&quot;&quot;'&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;attrset&quot; select=&quot;@*&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;ename&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;$attrset&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;xsl:if test='name()=&quot;img1&quot;'&amp;gt;&#xA;                    &amp;lt;xsl:text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/xsl:text&amp;gt; &#xA;                &amp;lt;/xsl:if&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/xsl:for-each&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;/xsl:variable&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;$attrset&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;tname&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;              &amp;lt;xsl:text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/xsl:text&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;/xsl:variable&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;vname&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;                  &amp;lt;xsl:text&amp;gt;&amp;lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;name()&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/xsl:text&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;/xsl:variable&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;xsl:if test='$vname =&quot;text&quot; and string-length(normalize-space($tname))&amp;gt;0 '&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;xsl:if test='string-length(normalize-space($ename))=0 or normalize-space($ename) != &quot;VAL&quot;'&amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;xsl:element name=&quot;{$tname}&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;                    &amp;lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;$select&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                        &amp;lt;xsl:call-template name=&quot;dispatch&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;                    &amp;lt;/xsl:for-each&amp;gt;     &#xA;                &amp;lt;/xsl:element&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;/xsl:if&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;xsl:if test='string-length(normalize-space($ename))&amp;gt;0 and normalize-space($ename) = &quot;VAL&quot;'&amp;gt;&#xA;                &amp;lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;$tname&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;            &amp;lt;/xsl:if&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/xsl:if&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;/xsl:for-each&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/xsl:if&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/xsl:for-each&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OUTPUT XML EXPECTED&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;?xml-stylesheet type=&quot;text/xsl&quot; href=&quot;test.xsl&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;catalog&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;cd&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;Empire Burlesque&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;artist&amp;gt;Bob Dylan&amp;lt;/artist&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;country&amp;gt;USA&amp;lt;/country&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;company&amp;gt;Columbia&amp;lt;/company&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;price&amp;gt;10.90&amp;lt;/price&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;year&amp;gt;1985&amp;lt;/year&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/cd&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;cd&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;Hide your heart&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;artist&amp;gt;Bonnie Tyler&amp;lt;/artist&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;country&amp;gt;UK&amp;lt;/country&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;company&amp;gt;CBS Records&amp;lt;/company&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;price&amp;gt;9.90&amp;lt;/price&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;year&amp;gt;1988&amp;lt;/year&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/cd&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/catalog&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T18:11:09.633" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T18:11:09.633" ClosedDate="2010-01-19T17:51:39.663" Title="Problem with xslt to correctly generate xml" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29350" CreationDate="2010-01-19T17:57:21.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The specific behavior that I use to open up the tags is to press the &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; key and then hit each of my favorite'd tags.  This causes firefox/chrome to open up each tag page in a new tab while not changing focus to the new tab.  Similarly  the &lt;kbd&gt;shift&lt;/kbd&gt; key causes a link to open up in a new window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if javascript supports this, but one specific fix to this issue would be to only delete a tag if neither the &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; key nor the &lt;kbd&gt;shift&lt;/kbd&gt; key are pressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138799" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T17:57:21.990" />
  <row Id="36218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36215" CreationDate="2010-01-19T18:00:05.867" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Tumbleweed]&lt;/code&gt; Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and low views for a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Editing is neither an answer nor a comment. Just the view count goes up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T18:00:05.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36179" CreationDate="2010-01-19T18:14:14.587" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I haven't had time to work on this at all, and Dana has been busy with other stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I asked Dana to make me an admin to the Google Code project and I checked in the latest GitHub derobins code into the repository:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/source/browse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/source/browse/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a few small SO changes I need to fold in, but they're relatively minor. I'll try to get to that sometime over the next few months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to submit patches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T18:14:14.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36215" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:05:04.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it should not -- as Georg pointed out none of the Tumbleweed metrics are &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; related to editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:05:04.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36242" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:40:52.083" Score="-3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens to users who come to stackoverflow, blitz some questions (just like a forum) and then dissapear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/148303/edward-an&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the person I have in mind. Does he get to sit in the naughty chair for a while &lt;em&gt;or can the highest voted answers simply get accepted after a while&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T00:38:57.717" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T00:38:57.717" Title="No accepted answers from 13 questions, last seen August 09" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:41:24.263" Score="7" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep game at stackoverflow is intriguing and fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which SO user acumulated rep faster than any other user. Let's take several &quot;quickly&quot; windows of say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 hour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 week&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 month&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 year&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What user earned reputation fastest in the given period and what can the gain be attributed to (eg: a great question, a great answer, lots of one or the other, etc...)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You needn't answer the whole question. Perhaps your answer only addresses one of the period windows or perhaps it addresses a particular tactic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I am halfway through a bottle of Shiraz as I ask this, so don't take your answers too seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastEditorUserId="130814" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T21:31:13.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:33:07.500" Title="Who has the most impressive track record of gaining rep quickly on stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="36224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36226" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:41:27.650" Score="0" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23959/whats-this-about-labelled-tags&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s this about labelled tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I note that lots of icons have a nifty icon on them (Adobe, Android etc) how do you go about requesting one to be added to a tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142100" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T20:52:35.847" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:52:35.847" ClosedDate="2010-01-20T12:42:55.273" Title="Getting tags to have nifty icons on them" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36222" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:42:42.657" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing happens to them.  Participating on Stack Overflow is voluntary.  That includes accepting answers to your questions.  It is encouraged, but definitely not mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:42:42.657" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="36226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36224" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:43:46.663" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throw a sufficient amount of money at the SO team.  They're sponsored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:43:46.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36224" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:45:32.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;advertising info&lt;/a&gt; linked to in the footer of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:45:32.913" />
  <row Id="36229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36223" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:46:43.770" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon&lt;/a&gt; certainly wins on the year scale, so he'd be a good bet at any scale. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810/alex-martelli&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt; is catching up at a frightening rate, though. Taken more granularly: anyone who has won a 550 bounty. I don't think I have. I'm pretty sure I've gone well into the 500+ in a day, but only with bounty. My best without bounty is just under 400, but I'm pretty sure this has been beaten by Jon and/or Alex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:46:43.770" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="36230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36222" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:46:45.907" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do we suggest we do to them? Suspend their account? They're not active. Lower their rep? They don't care. Just leave them as they are, they can't hurt anybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather have an inactive user than an angry one trying to mess stuff up before storming off the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T20:58:55.427" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:58:55.427" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36223" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:47:18.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 1 year, the answer is obviously Jon Skeet.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(I'm guessing in the other windows also)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be attributed to him knowing a lot of stuff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:47:18.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33006" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:49:00.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like this, or the ability for myself to upload letters of recommendation that I have from colleagues&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140633" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:49:00.333" />
  <row Id="36233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36224" CreationDate="2010-01-19T20:49:21.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you should contact the Advertising department of StackOverflow, handled by Inedo Media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The contact form is at &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&lt;/a&gt; and you should mention you are interested in sponsoring a tag. This includes the icon, but also a list of sponsored link (See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android&quot;&gt;Android Tag page&lt;/a&gt; for an example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be prepared to spend some money though, advertising isn't free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T20:49:21.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36222" CreationDate="2010-01-19T21:03:06.400" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We could freeze them in carbonite...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://trickyourblog.com/uploads/user_8/han-solo-frozen-in-carbonite_3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but the obvious conundrum is that they still wouldn't be able to accept any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:03:06.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36162" CreationDate="2010-01-19T21:10:07.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The proposal requires the tagger to either see into the future, or to undertake the labor of auditing the past.  One is impossible, the other drudgery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141929" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:10:07.583" />
  <row Id="36237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36223" CreationDate="2010-01-19T21:13:48.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245062/whats-the-difference-between-javascript-and-java/245068#245068&quot;&gt;The answer to this question&lt;/a&gt; has to be the easiest way to get 1700 rep - if it was trickled over time. Make a populist soundbite statement, +N&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="130507" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T21:28:53.627" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:28:53.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36223" CreationDate="2010-01-19T21:24:52.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, as mentioned elsewhere I'm kind of cheating here, since I got one of the lucrative 550 bounties ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my records for reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 minute: 550 ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 hour: 580&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 day: 620&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to put the rest down, since it there are bunches of people average in the thousands of rep per week. Jon Skeet for example has a lifetime average of about 300 per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135484" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:24:52.870" />
  <row Id="36239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36223" CreationDate="2010-01-19T21:29:28.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;This legendary answer&lt;/a&gt; from bobince earned him over 900 Rep, probably in just a few days. Maybe it isn't the fastest &lt;em&gt;Rep growth&lt;/em&gt; (due to the Rep cap), but I think it's certainly the fastest accumulation of upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:29:28.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36223" CreationDate="2010-01-19T21:33:07.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=&amp;amp;sort=stats&quot;&gt;tags-stats-page without any tags selected&lt;/a&gt;. It displays the number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Top answerers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Last 30 Days&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1536 313 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  _962 358 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54680/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  _902 272 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810/alex-martelli&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  _874 350 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/187606/pekka&quot;&gt;Pekka&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first number represents the number of upvotes - downvotes and the second the number of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:33:07.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36222" CreationDate="2010-01-19T21:54:11.447" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An interesting point here is that on some other forums I've seen angry discussions following high-power people accepting answers &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;on behalf of&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen it get very ugly, and I'm &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; happy that stackoverflow doesn't use this model. If an answer is accepted, great! If not, it is &lt;strong&gt;still&lt;/strong&gt; a good answer, without all the politics distracting us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T21:54:11.447" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T22:27:21.993" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feature suggestion I would like to put out there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be very helpful to add some sort of dropdown menu next to the search box at the top.  It could list something like &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; , &quot;Meta&quot;, &quot;Server Fault&quot;, &quot;Super User&quot;, &quot;My Questions&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you could pick 1 and type in your search query and it will pass it on to the appropriate site, it would integrate the &quot;Family&quot; of sites a lot better.  Obviously if you were on stackoverflow and you picked to search serverfault, it would not load the resuls on SO but would redirect you to serverfault or possibly open a new window.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could then have a simple option to search your own questions because typing in user:745 [php] or user:me [php] it could populate the search box with that for you already (often I have to come to Meta and search for how to find my questions because I forget the syntax sometimes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my thoughts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot of how myspace does it...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img2.pict.com/69/0d/97/2565293/0/screenshot2b202.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img2.pict.com/98/f1/4a/2565295/0/screenshot2b203.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastEditorUserId="132558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-19T22:49:58.230" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T01:41:41.813" Title="Improve Search Box?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36245" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69740" CreationDate="2010-01-19T22:39:33.713" Score="10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the data dump, the &quot;votes&quot; table contains rows that record votes to close (or reopen) a question, but the userid column is not filled in for these votes. Since this information is available on the web interface (just go look at the question history online), this data should be available in the data dump as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T23:04:02.430" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T23:32:10.627" Title="Request for data dump to contain userid of closers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36244" CreationDate="2010-01-19T22:59:19.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like that combobox idea much, it doesn't help users a lot, it just saves you a tab or a link click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be helpful IMO is that, by default, all searches are done on the three main sites (SF, SO and SU), using as main site the current one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then if there is a hit on one of the other sites with a high relevance it is shown in the results page, clearly marked by its origin site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google does a similar thing on some cases (on queries rather than on places, but the idea is similar,) it offers you the results for the query you've specified and, if it knows a very common query similar to yours it offers the results for that query following the results for your query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T22:59:19.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:17:52.127" Score="22" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6593/limiting-self-answers&quot;&gt;Limiting Self-Answers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be a common mistake of the &lt;em&gt;new-user&lt;/em&gt; to treat Stack Overflow as if it were a forum, posting the initial question, and then adding follow-up posts below as &quot;answers.&quot; To my knowledge, I've not seen this amongst more seasoned users, which makes me wonder if a user should have to meet a particular rep-requirement before being permitted to &quot;answer&quot; his/her own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's true that the user may have the genuine capacity to answer their own questions properly, it seems safer to require the rep, just as sufficient rep is required for doing many other things new users may genuinely have the capacity to do, downvote, edit, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my sincere opinion that this would cut down on &lt;em&gt;innapropriate noise&lt;/em&gt; in the provided answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T11:08:30.907" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T13:41:40.680" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T11:06:54.153" Title="Rep-requirement for Answering Own Question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;&lt;rep-requirement&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36247" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:21:53.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd propose 100 rep, this would give them time to figure the site mechanics out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T23:21:53.273" />
  <row Id="36249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36247" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:22:00.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I've asked many and answered many of my own questions.  I asked initially looking for a quick response, but then as I awaiting the response either had one of those coming to the code moments or a colleague was able to help out (or google...).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding the answer at that time not only shows the correct way to resolve the issue, but also prevents folks from wasting time.  I'm concerned that not allowing the answer will actually keep the noise high as people try to answer questions that folks are really no longer needing an answer to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will then see even a larger number of questions here on meta about acceptance rates like they actually are worthy of discussing on meta in the first place.  Don't get me wrong, I understand the sentiment, but the unintended consequences will probably be a larger issue...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T23:22:00.107" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36247" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:22:11.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree. Suggest rep of 300 required to demonstrate that user has sufficient understanding of SO to answer own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thinking is that it is unlikely that user will obtain rep of 300 on the same day as they join. -- if they do achieve such a feat then perhaps they ought to get a badge as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T23:22:11.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36214" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:37:45.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes please! In fact, would it kill you to tell us the logged-in user/employer names that viewed the CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not like an individual careers user having access to this information would be detrimental to the SO/SE/FogCreek bottom line, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it would give those of us who have spent money on hosting our CV with SO, some idea of what we got for our money, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T23:37:45.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:38:03.470" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't there a projmgmtflow.com site, or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T23:50:52.800" ClosedDate="2010-01-20T00:10:07.217" Title="what's the project mgmt stackoverflow site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36259" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:45:57.350" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get hold of the first 7 episodes of the Stack Overflow podcast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page with &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.html?series=&amp;amp;channel=&amp;amp;offset=71&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast 1-10&lt;/a&gt; on ITConversations only lists episode 8 and 9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T00:07:22.637" Title="Where are the first 7 episodes of the Stack Overflow podcast?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36253" CreationDate="2010-01-19T23:50:52.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askaboutprojects.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask About Projects&lt;/a&gt; seems to be the most relevant SO-based site for project management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2010-01-19T23:50:52.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36254" CreationDate="2010-01-20T00:07:22.637" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of the podcasts are available from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO blog&lt;/a&gt; (in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt; category):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/audio/stackoverflow-podcast-001.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/audio/stackoverflow-podcast-002.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/audio/stackoverflow-podcast-003.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/audio/stackoverflow-podcast-004.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/audio/stackoverflow-podcast-005.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/audio/stackoverflow-podcast-006.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/audio/stackoverflow-podcast-007.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Numbers 1-5 from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/page/18/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page, 6-7 from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/page/17/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are also available along with transcripts from &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T00:07:22.637" />
  <row Id="36260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36262" CreationDate="2010-01-20T00:20:09.003" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time there are proj mgmt questions; really seems that they belong elsewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a friendly relationship to allow that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T05:03:49.860" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T05:04:45.007" Title="Should there be a &quot;belongs on stackexchange&quot; checkbox in the SO close dialog?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36260" CreationDate="2010-01-20T00:24:02.927" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the belongs-on checkboxes end up migrating the questions, and there are a huge amount of StackExchange sites (some competing), there'd be a logistical problem to figure out where to migrate the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's where the 'belongs-on' tags really show their strength since we could have one for each applicable site.  For example, I had started a 'belongs-on-doctype' tag for those types of questions, but someone who didn't like the 'belongs-on' tags deleted it, throwing out the baby with the bathwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T00:24:02.927" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36260" CreationDate="2010-01-20T00:28:21.280" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange is conceptually not related to SO at all, it just happens to be made by the same company using the same technology. It's similar to asking for a &quot;Belongs on Yahoo Answers&quot; or &quot;Belongs on Experts Exchange&quot; checkbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Project Management questions seem to have no natural place within the StackOverflow Network, so they should just be closed. Comments can then be used to recommend another website, which could be StackExchange, but also many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T00:28:21.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36244" CreationDate="2010-01-20T01:41:41.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the search box should be more intelligent. That is, if I want to search for a particular user in the search box, it ought to return users. That is a 'nice to have' feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T01:41:41.813" />
  <row Id="36268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14716" CreationDate="2010-01-20T02:30:40.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery/&quot;&gt;Ad Gallery question&lt;/a&gt; could be enough to fulfill your ideas/requirements/needs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T02:30:40.297" />
  <row Id="36271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:06:18.017" Score="0" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4217/why-do-some-people-answer-in-comments&quot;&gt;Why do some people answer in comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a trend lately of people answering SO questions in the comments under the question. I don't mind seeing discussions under other answers, but when I see an answer masquerading as a comment under the question it gets under my skin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we stop this behavior? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131486" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T06:34:57.223" ClosedDate="2010-01-20T12:42:02.153" Title="Can we stop people from answering questions in the comments?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;rules&gt;&lt;answers-as-comments&gt;&lt;flagging-comments&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36271" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:14:32.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are already badges that encourage proper behaviour. But now we also see badges that seem to encourage better commenting... so, choose your poison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps when you see it going on, ask the 'answerer' (or even the asker) to write an answer that describes the scenario in the comment, so that it can be accepted and better found by search engines. Once this happens from time to time, the people that do it (like mmyers on this question?) might stop doing it quite so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, I was tempted to write this in a comment instead. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:14:32.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36271" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:15:26.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are free text, you can't stop people putting answers in there. Well at least the good thing is there's an answer, and it sure beats adding plain comment as answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:15:26.093" />
  <row Id="36274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36247" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:18:43.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem behaviour comes from the number of forums out there that use the answer section as a discussion. The MSDN forums do it this way, for example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the asker replies to an answer by posting another answer, and the discussion goes down the page, and then disrupted by an upvote, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the asker actually discovers the answer themselves and posts the answer, that's not really a problem. So perhaps people with sufficient reputation should be able to move an answer from being an answer into being a comment on a different answer, or being able to move an answer into the question itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:18:43.903" />
  <row Id="36275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36271" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:20:36.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we want to stop that? If people decide to give up their reputation - fine. Means that someone else can just copy/edit/paste as an answer or that the asker can put it in as an answer and accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new @ system might be helpful to remind people that they should put answers as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny how we spent the last year or so educating to put comments into comments and not as an answer, and now we need it the other way :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:20:36.567" />
  <row Id="36276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36278" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:31:17.897" Score="0" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found that there is an article entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding_the_StackOverflow_Database_Schema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Understanding the StackOverflow Database Schema&lt;/a&gt;, I wonder how and where did the author get the source of information? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it from public SO blog posts and articles and data dumps, or the author has other private information that can only come from the horse mouth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:47:37.813" Title="The Article &quot;Understanding the StackOverflow Database Schema&quot;-- Is it An Officially Sanctioned Article?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;database-design&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36276" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:36:24.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the article, it sounds like it's just talking about the public dumps. Following the 'data mining the so database' link leads to a description of downloading the dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139024" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:36:24.347" />
  <row Id="36278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36276" CreationDate="2010-01-20T04:47:37.813" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes to both.  The author (Brent Ozar) did some work for the SO team and does have special knowledge of the real schema.  However, this article specifically targets the monthly data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T04:47:37.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T05:24:08.230" Score="8" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way (or real chance) to see the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; SO database schema (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1863/so-database-schema&quot;&gt;not public dump&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious on how SO manages to scale so well. Does it use multiple databases? Or any kind of sharding technique, given that it now has 2 (or more) database servers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T01:35:24.670" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T13:04:12.043" Title="The Real SO Database Schema (Not Public Dump)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;database-design&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36271" CreationDate="2010-01-20T05:26:58.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I've done this a few times, but it's because I initially just have an idea that is best phrased as a question, e.g. &quot;how is Foo configured?&quot; or &quot;did you try installing Bar?&quot; -- it's not always obvious at the beginning that this might be the seed of an answer, rather than just prodding the OP for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can discourage this issue getting worse by not adding support for more commenting features, like better formatting and line breaks, &lt;strike&gt;automatic notification of responses&lt;/strike&gt;*, more support for code blocks etc. Perhaps the length limit should be lowered? I've rarely come close to hitting it as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;okay, I was just making a funny there!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T05:26:58.830" />
  <row Id="36281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T05:48:42.977" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5950/having-four-sites-to-jump-between-is-ridiculous&quot;&gt;Having four sites to jump between is ridiculous.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should a question I have about HTML go on Stack Overflow or Doctype?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow already contains HTML related questions. And I only recently discovered Doctype. So it seems I was putting questions in the wrong place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other questions that cross the line between HTML and programming. Where should they go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And where do I search for question on HTML? Presumably, to be thorough, across both sites. Yuck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see any advantages in creating these different sites. All they do is create confusion with no advantages. Tagging alone should be sufficient to isolate the question's category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you must have a top level category, put a top level tag for all questions. Or a drop down list at the top of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine Google doing that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A Google for programming.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A Google for personal interests.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A Google from travel.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yuck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This growth of sites was a bad move. I can't see the point but I can see problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: It was pointed out below that Doctpye is a different site. Fair enough. But the same issue applies with Server Fault and Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142112" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:27:09.150" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:27:09.150" ClosedDate="2010-01-20T06:42:08.923" Title="Why are there so many sites in the Stack Overflow trilogy?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36281" CreationDate="2010-01-20T05:51:37.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctype is not built by SO people or from SO engine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as far as the free market goes, there is nothing to stop it from cropping up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are some overlapping between Doctype and SO, but that's just the nature of the site, and we can't help it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although serverfault and superuser are built by SO people and from SO engine, but they cater to a different market segment. This, in my point of view, is perfectly reasonable. Or you want a gigantic site that takes in every question in the world regardless of the nature of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T05:58:04.500" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T05:58:04.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36281" CreationDate="2010-01-20T06:18:12.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your title is &quot;web designer&quot; then it's most likely your question will find its proper home on Doctype. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't be that out of place on Stack Overflow. Depending on what you want to do with the HTML in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google does have other ways to search:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/codesearch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.froogle.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Froogle - Shopping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&amp;amp;tab=fn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+cube+henson&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;client=opera&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Videos&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&amp;amp;client=opera&amp;amp;q=donkey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Images&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T06:18:12.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36271" CreationDate="2010-01-20T06:26:41.363" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because six word answers suck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T06:26:41.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36271" CreationDate="2010-01-20T06:34:57.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want an answer to my question. If it takes the form of a comment, i won't really care, as long as it solves my problem. The information is still there, in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason might be the fear of being downvoted into oblivion; maybe people aren't sure it will work, have an idea though, want to help but don't want to lose rep because others dpn't like their spelling or their brief answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T06:34:57.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T06:59:47.213" Score="8" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently when community wiki posts are edited, the user icon is only shown for the last editor and not for the person who owns most of the content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a glance, I usually tend to mistake the last editor for the main author due to the icon presence. This is not desirable because it dilutes authorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1553/wikid.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;current wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest just removing the author of the last edit and just leave it like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/7128/wiki2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;suggested wiki&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way the only shown author is the main author of the content. If you care about who has edited you can review the edit history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T09:41:03.803" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T09:43:25.920" Title="Redesign community wiki edited posts?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="36287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36286" CreationDate="2010-01-20T07:05:48.260" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rather agree with that, for the reasons given, too often I mistake the last editing person for the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add that such change would push community wiki posts further in their role, it would become further less about the persons, and simply about the actual message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T07:05:48.260" />
  <row Id="36288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36360" CreationDate="2010-01-20T07:19:26.530" Score="11" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the SO web sites were essentially governed according to the communities needs and wants.  Sure doesn't feel like it sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wasn't it Jeff that said &quot;We don't run StackOverflow... you do!&quot;?  That sounds like it's meant to be a pure democracy, not a monarchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to request that votes determine whether features are done, and in what order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2011-08-09T15:02:26.423" Title="Why are there so many high-voted requests with status-declined?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="36289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36291" CreationDate="2010-01-20T07:24:09.060" Score="0" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard it said that you could link your StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser accounts. How is this done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T07:36:27.690" Title="How can I link accounts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36288" CreationDate="2010-01-20T07:25:01.417" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already said it in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35501/please-return-the-comment-rate-limit-to-a-flat-30-seconds/35552#35552&quot;&gt;comment here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We don't run StackOverflow... you do.&#xA;  Except when we don't agree, of course&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, I think that Jeff and co. know the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users don't have all the data points devs have to make decisions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users don't always have the same motivation as the devs do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users don't know what time is available to do tasks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users do not do this for a living&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, another relevant criteria is how to define high voted. What do 10 votes mean on Meta? Does that mean that most people want it? Or just that a vocal minority wants it heavily? That's another thing to consider I wouldn't know how to solve, really. I've seen that features with 80 or 100 votes (which are most likely really wanted) tend to get status-planned and completed after a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I've also already said that a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35862/so-roadmap-and-feature-selection&quot;&gt;public roadmap&lt;/a&gt; would alleviate some of this issues, making development more transparent and probably would make people happier. I don't know why that isn't being done though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T09:12:51.107" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T09:12:51.107" />
  <row Id="36291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36289" CreationDate="2010-01-20T07:36:27.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Account Page (Your name on the top bar) &gt; Accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use the same OpenID URL for all of your accounts, there should be a button to associate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T07:36:27.690" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36288" CreationDate="2010-01-20T07:53:09.680" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to request that votes determine whether features are done, and in what order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; would like to request a pony!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Votes do strongly influence features we develop&lt;/strong&gt;, and we try to complete as many of the high voted items as possible. Heck, see for yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-completed&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now compare with declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-declined&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-declined&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is unreasonable to expect that every highly voted request will be implemented. We don't always agree with the requests. Some people want us to build a truck, while we would prefer to build a sports car..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T08:00:01.257" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T08:00:01.257" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36288" CreationDate="2010-01-20T08:16:58.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because as much as &quot;we&quot; are running SOs, it's &quot;them&quot; who are developing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't mix between the two&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T08:16:58.457" />
  <row Id="36294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2010-01-20T08:55:49.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other example to consider: &lt;strong&gt;duplicating a dead/badly asked question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have someone coming and asking a question, but not putting effort in it, not providing feedback or details, this question will most likely get downvoted in the end, and forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what if a new user comes, and has the same problem? He searches for existing questions on the site, and finds a very similar one. However, he doesn't own the question, he can't add details to it, all he could do is post a new answer (leading to the many &quot;i have the same problem&quot; answers, which are sometime useful, with new details, but which shouldn't be answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this case, I think he should ask it as a new question&lt;/strong&gt;, giving his own details. This new question should contain information about the duplicate (to prevent fast people from closing it after a fast search), something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have searched for duplicate, and&#xA;  found this question (link here).&#xA;  However, this question is abandoned,&#xA;  mostly because the author didn't&#xA;  provide any feedback on his problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the original question should be the one closed for duplicate, and point to this new one. Because we can't let someone &quot;ruin&quot; a problem and prevent others, more motivated, to find a solution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular case of duplicate would help improving the quality of answers on the sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T08:55:49.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36286" CreationDate="2010-01-20T09:17:04.963" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was particularly a problem on the recent Moderator nominations, with answers like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35583/nominations-new-stack-overflow-moderator/35665#35665&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, where Peter Mortensen edited grammar/spelling on a bunch of posts, which made it look at first glance like he was nominating himself repeatedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/2u7a82g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working out who was nominating themselves became a bit more difficult (though admittedly most users put their name or a link to their profile in their nomination, and those posts only have one edit, so the post still reads - currently, at least - &quot;Shoban 88%&quot; at the bottom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T09:17:04.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36300" CreationDate="2010-01-20T09:54:06.767" Score="-1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Markdown reference, &quot;Numbered lists are easy&quot;:&#xA;1. But they don't work for me,&#xA;2. ... unless there is a blank line before the first entry.&#xA;3. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is that this is how Markdown works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think it's a usability issue that affects everyone who only writes lists occasionally. If you are used to writing your lists without blank lines - for example if you use Microsoft Word or Outlook - then the solution is counter-intuitive and not documented in the Markdown reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently &quot;most users figure it out eventually&quot; so it isn't necessary to improve the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140480" LastEditorUserId="140480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T13:03:36.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:03:36.153" Title="List Markdown doesn't work unless preceded by a blank line" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36247" CreationDate="2010-01-20T09:57:52.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This conflicts a little with the answers of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stack-overflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be better to just show an advice to users with less than a given amount of rep if they try to post an answer to they questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Maybe the advice should be presented for the first 3 answers, regardless which question. I've seen a couple of &quot;follow-up posts&quot; this weeks, like &quot;Thank's, that helped at lot&quot; or &quot;Just what I was looking for&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;as I just learned, the warning is already there :--)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastEditorUserId="141148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T13:41:40.680" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T13:41:40.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36298" CreationDate="2010-01-20T09:59:04.743" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably not a bug, it is the same for code blocks and bulleted lists.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(I'm so used to it by now it doesn't bother me anymore...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T09:59:04.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36298" CreationDate="2010-01-20T10:11:13.390" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2969/tipoftheday.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T10:11:13.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36298" CreationDate="2010-01-20T10:34:18.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T10:34:18.297" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T10:41:58.827" Score="49" ViewCount="829" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;strong&gt;experimental timeline view for questions&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strike&gt;now available on &lt;strong&gt;meta ONLY!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; (Now working on SO, SF, and SU as well)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is partially motivated by comments about how difficult it is to follow very active questions which have a lot of activity, and also the feedback on the API which was &lt;em&gt;heavily&lt;/em&gt; dominated by &quot;we need to know what happened in this time range&quot; type responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can only be accessed through URL hackery at the moment. To get to it, enter question URLs like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/{id}/timeline&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;strong&gt;chronological timeline of everything that happened on a question&lt;/strong&gt;, including&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;initial question ask&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;revisions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closure, deletion, reopen, undelete, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;all based on when they happened in chronological order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are thinking about making this a fourth tab on the question, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Timeline | Oldest | Newest | Votes&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try it out and provide feedback. It is still a little rough, so we are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; looking for highly detailed bug reports, just more general feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timeline view for this question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/36303/timeline&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/36303/timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T22:24:02.247" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T17:24:20.743" Title="Feedback Request: New Timeline Question View" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feedback&gt;&lt;timeline&gt;&lt;experimental&gt;" AnswerCount="21" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="13" />
  <row Id="36304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T10:50:23.173" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to show answers being posted but then deleted, even though I can see the deleted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking though, it looks very handy. The triangles are a bit ugly, but it's &lt;em&gt;functionally&lt;/em&gt; great :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Okay, I've just tried creating and deleting a second answer for this question here on meta - again, I can't see it. I know you don't want hugely detailed bug reports, but consider this a vote to be able to see that information (users with enough rep).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of other feedback...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I'd make it another tab, because it's not just a different sort order for the answers. I'd consider making it another link next to &quot;edit / close / flag&quot; at the bottom of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The nature of the URL suggests that it should be feasible to show the timeline of just an individual answer as well. In some cases this could be very useful, rather than having to mentally filter out all the bits that for other answers. If this became available, again it could be another link in the &quot;link / edit / flag&quot; set.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T10:57:04.703" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T10:57:04.703" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T11:16:02.337" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can haz click to show all little arrows to expanded?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27229/what-happened-to-the-return-to-answer-link&quot; title=&quot;hello darkness, my old friend&quot;&gt;Return to Question&lt;/a&gt;&quot; link is back! Clicking on the green &quot;answer&quot; in the timeline didn't go anywhere. Was expecting the answer permalink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the whole page of non-pagination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about those of us who would like to read down the page for the timeline instead of crawling up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T11:45:50.207" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T11:45:50.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33081" CreationDate="2010-01-20T11:20:28.643" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While seeing a company logo when dealing with specific technologies is kind of cute and all (though it clutters the UI a bit), having an arbitrary logo on anything related to &lt;code&gt;performance&lt;/code&gt; seems so wrong!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18154" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T11:20:28.643" />
  <row Id="36310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T11:46:20.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could be mis-interpreting the UI, but it feels like clicking on an 'answer' for a certain timeframe should take you to that particular edit of that answer.  Instead it just takes you to what his answer most recently is, and you still have to do some mental math to determine what the answer looked like at the time before the question was edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T11:46:20.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36245" CreationDate="2010-01-20T11:52:31.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent feature request, to add to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Deleters, Undeleters, and Re-openers should be added as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T11:52:31.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T12:24:51.960" Score="7" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: or at least, there should be an option to turn this notification on or off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T07:31:34.093" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T07:31:34.093" Title="If you answer your own question on SO, you shouldn't receive an email telling you that you answered it" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T12:26:51.923" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't get the arrows the first time I looked at it. Maybe [+]/[-] would be more intuitive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T12:26:51.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T12:38:54.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) This question got a Nice Question badge, and I'm not seeing it in the timeline.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It would be nice to add that information too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The upvotes don't contain time information (they're summarized at the top), would it be better if the were in the timeline like the rest of the actions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) The revised event shows the whole text, could it highlight the added text like the revision history does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T12:47:58.927" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T12:47:58.927" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36312" CreationDate="2010-01-20T12:56:44.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If these feature is implemented, there will be some who complain 'why no email after they answer their own qn'. And they ask for a new option 'email me even if it is from me to me'. Well, I wouldn't want to continue what comes next....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T12:56:44.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T12:58:05.597" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me, we'll see how the votes go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes at work, we've built something that we think we want, but when we have it in front of us we realize it's designed all wrong, and we need to just throw it away and go back to the drawing board.  Nothing personal, but I think this is one of those times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the way you present the data is flawed, and it results in a giant list that is essentially un-glanceable.  The only way to retrieve information from it is by carefully studying times and text.  Everything just blends into each other, and all I see when I look at it is a wall of text.  It's &lt;em&gt;functional&lt;/em&gt; yes - it provides the information, but I want it to do more - I want it to be 'pretty'.  Recall you &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; hire a designer after you did the first revision of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you agree with me on that point, but disagree with me on the next, hopefully you'll still upvote as a sign of agreement but comment with your own idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; would try and do is make a horizontal (not vertical) graph that looks something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/tomrittervg/Sprocket/network&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;github's&lt;/a&gt; but different in key points.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First off, the indicators of activity (asked, comment, edit, etc) should be spaced relative to each other, possibly with a breaker for long periods of inactivity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each activity has a flag/symbol, that upon mouseover loads the details in a div below&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can click multiple symbols to get all those details at once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can select and drag to get a stretch of details (like the rep graph)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;|--X-X--o---E---X-X-X-o-o-o-o-----/  /----X-----/ /-----|&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; design flaws with this.  Making it work for a popular question would be tough - you may even have to switch it to vertical.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the biggest advantage of this is you can quickly see, at a glance, the amount of time that passes between actions in a relative sense.  Those are my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T12:58:05.597" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-20T13:16:19.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/59303/chrisf&quot;&gt;ChrisF&lt;/a&gt; based on his years of experience, excellent comments, and calm.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK - I &lt;strike&gt;accept&lt;/strike&gt;decline the nomination. I'm not going to have enough time to fulfil moderator duties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T18:31:37.477" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T18:31:37.477" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-20T13:16:19.737" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36325" CreationDate="2010-01-20T13:18:01.977" Score="3" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just spotted that last week an answer I gave on Jun 16 last year was accepted on Jan 15, just &lt;del&gt;over&lt;/del&gt; under 7 months later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes me wonder what the longest interval is, there is certainly scope for it to be considerably longer, but there doesn't seem to be enough information to find out from the data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody got a longer gap or a way to find out the longest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T14:27:11.633" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T16:34:43.553" Title="What's the longest interval between an answer being posted and accepted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T15:44:18.913" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love it, but think it should also show bounty events (ala my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29262/add-bounty-events-to-revision-history&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;other feature request&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).  But since that's a status-planned maybe it'll be included in this new UI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T15:44:18.913" />
  <row Id="36321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T15:57:32.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote counts would be great:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer by bla received 5 upvotes and 3 downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment by foo on answer by bla&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer by bla edited&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer by bla received 8 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would sometimes allow to understand the impact and reason of edits better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T15:57:32.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36247" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:18:47.430" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we already have an information box that asks if they're sure they want to add and answer, and suggests that they edit the question if they have more information on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5541/newuseranswerownquestio.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The standard answer editor does NOT appear by default for post owners&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead there is a single &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clicking the &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button nags you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you sure you want to answer your own question? &#xA;  If you're responding to answers left on your question, use &#xA;  the comments link under each answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, I'd like to encourage new users to answer their own questions when they've solved their problem, if no other answer is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locking them out of a basic feature of the site will only result in more questions edited with &quot;Solved: I did x, y, and z&quot; and them never accepting another answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T11:06:05.107" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T11:06:05.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:24:40.287" Score="1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that users here are spanning across all companies in US and worldwide. Will Stack Overflow rating add value to the resume? Are there any specific tags, graduates should be focusing on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142135" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T17:49:56.160" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:49:56.160" Title="Stack Overflow rating, any advantage to fresh graduates?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36323" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:26:21.063" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30578/is-stack-overflow-reputation-marketable&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T16:26:21.063" />
  <row Id="36325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36318" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:28:41.430" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Caveat:&lt;/strong&gt; StackQL is probably out of date&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this query on StackQL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 5 posts.Id, posts.CreationDate, votes.CreationDate,&#xA;datediff(second,posts.CreationDate,votes.CreationDate) from posts&#xA;right join votes on votes.PostId =posts.Id and votes.VoteTypeId = 1 order by&#xA;datediff(second,posts.CreationDate,votes.CreationDate) desc &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These results are given:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Id    CreationDate            CreationDate1           Column1&#xA;6980    8/10/2008 1:05:00  AM   9/29/2009 12:00:00 AM   35852100&#xA;6687    8/9/2008  7:50:31  AM   9/28/2009 12:00:00 AM   35827769&#xA;2901    8/5/2008  9:45:17  PM   9/22/2009 12:00:00 AM   35604883&#xA;3638    8/6/2008  4:28:26  PM   9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM   35451094&#xA;17236   8/19/2008 11:54:37 PM   9/30/2009 12:00:00 AM   35078723&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which indicates &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6899&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; is the winner&lt;/strong&gt;, with an interval over a year, being posted August 10th 2008 and accepted September 29th 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to answer a related question, &quot;What is the longest interval between a question being aksed and having an accepted answer?&quot;, according to this query on StackQL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select top 5 posts.Id, posts.CreationDate, votes.CreationDate,&#xA;datediff(second,posts.CreationDate,votes.CreationDate) from posts&#xA;right join posts b on b.ParentId = posts.Id&#xA;right join votes on votes.PostId = b.Id and votes.VoteTypeId = 1 order by&#xA;datediff(second,posts.CreationDate,votes.CreationDate) desc &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These results are given:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Id   CreationDate           CreationDate1           Column1&#xA;5855 8/8/2008 12:40:02 PM 9/28/2009 12:00:00 AM 35896798&#xA;6899 8/9/2008 8:11:18  PM 9/29/2009 12:00:00 AM 35869722&#xA;2872 8/5/2008 9:19:37  PM 9/22/2009 12:00:00 AM 35606423&#xA;3619 8/6/2008 4:16:19  PM 9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM 35451821&#xA;6207 8/8/2008 5:59:41  PM 9/21/2009 12:00:00 AM 35272819&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interval between &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5855&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; being asked and having an accepted answer is over a year, being asked August 8th 2008 and having an accepted answer September 28th 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T16:34:43.553" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T16:34:43.553" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="36326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36323" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:30:47.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's always a lot of value to maintaining an active role in the community, so continue participating.  At the same time, though, I'd suggest targeting your resume specifically to the organization you're applying to.  Different organizational cultures will value different information, and your research into the organization should give you a clue as to the sort of culture that might be predominant there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if you're applying to a relatively small company that research indicates has an active role in the software industry, it might be interesting to put your stackoverflow user name and rep score on there so that they can check you out.  If, on the other hand, you're throwing your resume into a cubicle farm (a la IBM), the person reviewing your resume is more likely to look at the number, think &quot;what the heck is that?&quot; and toss it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, you can leverage stackoverflow when you get an interview to prove that you are an interested an active participant in the industry and that you remain abreast of relevant technologies on your own time (a good selling point regardless of the company, as far as I'm concerned).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T16:30:47.713" />
  <row Id="36328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:53:24.150" Score="5" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally when I upvote a question, and then hit the 'Questions' button to go back to the Questions page, I get an orange box error, as in the attached image.  It only happens a fraction of the time, but it is duplicatable.  I'm usually using Firefox 3.5 when I get this error, but I haven't tested out other browsers yet.  Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4744/upvoteerror.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:18:21.410" Title="Error from upvoting" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;error&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:54:43.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that the comment entries aren't very useful due to lack of context.  I don't know, at a glance, what that comment was about.  Yes, I see there is a link to the question or answer to which the comment is attached, but it would be nice if more information were provided right there in the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T16:54:43.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:55:04.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be good to be able to see where votes were cast in the context of the timeline, rather than having them at the top - there wouldnt be any need to show individual votes, you could just show the number of up / down votes between each other action on the timeline, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 downvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T16:55:04.053" />
  <row Id="36331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36288" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:01:26.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are far more highly voted requests with status-complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The search shows 219 questions tagged with both feature-request and status-completed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+status-completed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compared to just 127 questions tagged with feature-request and status-declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-declined+feature-request&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-declined+feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesnt even include questions that are marked as deferred or planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:01:26.067" />
  <row Id="36332" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:59:05.357" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone tell me how to change the default font and color. I can't find the options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142135" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T17:12:29.770" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:12:29.770" Title="How to change default font and color in Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36332" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:05:14.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That setting doesn't exist, you'll have to hack those changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:05:14.733" />
  <row Id="36334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36328" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:18:21.410" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that quite often when I'm on a slow internet connection. I suppose that the browser complains because it hasn't gotten the confirmation from the server yet that the vote was counted. So far, though, each of the votes &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; get counted, even when the box popped up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:18:21.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36338" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:21:51.620" Score="2" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to build an IRC bot that integrated with QA database of stackoverflow. Is the database open so I can reuse the answers? Can we get a dump of it anywhere (like Wikipedia offers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T23:21:33.240" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T23:21:33.240" Title="Is the Question/Answer database open?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36335" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:23:30.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sure is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:23:30.353" />
  <row Id="36337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36247" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:24:28.107" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;A tempting proposal&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, this is very appealing - those answers are annoying. Of course, so are non-answer answers posted by such users on questions they &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; own, which is at least as common and something this will do nothing about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, this locks new users out of a valid and accepted means of using the site. It &lt;em&gt;breaks a SO feature&lt;/em&gt; for these users simply because other users have misused it. As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36247/rep-requirement-for-answering-own-question/36322#36322&quot;&gt;Pollyanna also notes&lt;/a&gt;, SO already tries to discourage users from answering their own questions, suggesting the use of comments instead - of course, some ignore this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Proof of the problem?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to see some evidence that this solution has at least a chance at working; some data as to which rep levels have the highest occurrence of self-answering would go a long way toward demonstrating the scope of the problem &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; provide a good tool for choosing the right rep-level for the cutoff (my gut feeling is that even 100 points is unnecessarily high).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Encouraging desired behavior&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally on SO, &lt;strong&gt;comments are intentionally discouraged in favor of posting answers&lt;/strong&gt;: when viewing questions from &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; users, a SO user will see a great big big &quot;Your Answer&quot; entry field and only tiny gray &quot;add comment&quot; links. And new users don't see the &quot;add comment&quot; links &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt; on answers to questions they don't own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps a better solution to self-answer non-answers might be to similarly &lt;strong&gt;encourage new users to post comments on the answers to their own questions&lt;/strong&gt; by showing the comment entry fields instead of tiny gray links, while keeping the self-answer entry field hidden:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_emphasize_comments.png&quot; alt=&quot;Post a comment to respond to an answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:24:28.107" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36335" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:26:01.283" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to &quot;reuse the answers&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump&lt;/a&gt; - The database of past question, answers, comments, badges, etc. (updated monthly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The upcoming &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/what-would-a-stack-overflow-api-look-like/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow API&lt;/a&gt; - A preliminary exploration of providing a programming interface to Stack Overflow (currently read-only)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T17:31:20.070" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:31:20.070" />
  <row Id="36339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36335" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:33:30.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/data-dump&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/data-dump&lt;/a&gt; for many interesting applications and analyses of the data. Please consider announcing your project here when you have something we can play with!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:33:30.893" />
  <row Id="36340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:29:36.003" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am new to the &quot;IT&quot; world. So I want to store whatever questions I ask here and the answers I get into my local machine, so that I can refer them offline for any interview. So I wanted to know is there any programmatic way of achieving this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thanks. And I have no other intention of this work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T17:58:01.693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:01.693" Title="Store questions and answers which I ask at SO offline" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;programming&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36340" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:35:56.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow provides a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Data Dump&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jan 10&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can download it and parse it offline, &lt;s&gt;I don't think a per-user dump is available though&lt;/s&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2103469/store-questions-and-answers-which-i-ask-so-offline/2103517#2103517&quot;&gt;Pekka suggested&lt;/a&gt;, you can also access your questions, answers and comments via RSS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/241717&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to be limited to the last 30 records though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:44:49.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36340" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:36:21.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to do this is probably connecting to the RSS feeds SO provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/241717&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;your questions &amp;amp; answers RSS feed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could use a Feed Reader program (Mozilla's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thunderbird&lt;/a&gt; has one built in, for example) to download, or otherwise process, your questions' RSS feed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a specific question on how to query data, ask a question here at meta.stackoverflow.com. Mind you though that the tone is sometimes rougher than on SO proper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unrelated to RSS and local downloading but maybe interesting if you're trying to find out more about SO's data, there is also a number of nifty &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3687/greasemonkey-script-ideas-best-of-stackoverflow-greasemonkey-implementations&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Greasemonkey scripts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; here on Meta to query and manipulate Stack Overflow Data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T17:46:04.467" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:46:04.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:56:43.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it and I am going to look at the content and usability shortly but my very first impressions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a link to reverse order&lt;/strong&gt; (in a header above the dates) - When coming into a new discussion with lots of information, it is too hard to read from the bottom up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a link to expand all arrows&lt;/strong&gt; - Again, if you are coming in late in the conversation, that's a lot of clicking to open everything and catch up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:56:43.350" />
  <row Id="36344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36347" CreationDate="2010-01-20T15:22:09.110" Score="3" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a long standing trend here, and I know some of the reasons why people do what they do.  What they do is use 'thedomain.com' or 'example.com' when showing the actual domain at hand would make answers take less time, get more responses, and get better answers overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand people want to hide the name of the zone for many reasons.  I suspect sometimes it is because the person asking has claimed to be a DNS expert and is in fact not, so asking here and having their client discover the question would be embarrassing.  I don't think it should be; I'd rather have someone I hire consult with another if they are unsure, rather than just plodding ahead and hoping for the best.  After all, aren't you supposed to get a second opinion on medical issues?  Why not DNS issues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not limited to just hiding DNS related questions.  People fake up IP addresses, URLs for their web servers, etc.  Sometimes I'm certain it is a good idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey guys, my web server has a security hole.  When you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/hackme.cgi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.example.com/hackme.cgi&lt;/a&gt; it shows my system's root password!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in general hiding this information just slows down answers and keeps people from spending time to try to help out.  It's a lot like telling your mechanic that your car makes a strange noise, then not telling them where the noise is coming from, what it sounds like, nor what you were doing when it happens.  It's a key peice of information that is missing, so questions are anwered using a question and answer dialog format, using wild-ass guesses like &quot;If you look here, and you see this, then it might be that&quot;, or not answered at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why do people always do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141796" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T18:00:23.500" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T17:55:43.433" Title="What causes people to always hide data that helps in answering problems?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;security&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="11" />
  <row Id="36345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T15:30:36.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it can be like this. If I have done some thing wrong and if there is a loop hole(security/non security) in it, I might not want the entire world to know about it. so write generic stuffs like (foo, example.com, etc etc). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:05.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T15:43:54.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the most part I am ok with hiding DNS and IP info, sure it makes it harder to solve like the MX record question that came through a little while ago but I understand why people are extra cautious about security these days. What always gets me though is when people that take the time to hide their LAN addresses. Like pasting the output of some command but changing it to say 192.168.1.XX. That's just silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:05.633" />
  <row Id="36347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T15:44:06.860" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As our marketing guy is looking through his google alerts for our domain name, the last thing I want him to see is that name mentioned on some sort of technical or security issue. He'd probably pop a calf right then and there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &quot;Brand Management.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not saying I agree or disagree, but that's certainly a big factor (to me, at any rate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43008" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:05.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T15:45:34.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you have a raised a bad point essentially but I think potential answers are numerous and varied i.e. security, privacy, it may be a clients details and not yours etc. personally I understand your frustration and think that there should be some kind of convention (not just on SF) (unfortunately this doesn't mean people will use it) ie use example.com (this is reserved on the internet for just this purpose I think) and 111.111.0.1 or alternative.............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140332" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:05.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:05:59.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The primary reason to hide this kind of information is from a security standpoint.  The information along may not present a risk.  But that information, combined with other publicly available information, may give an attacker an idea of the internal network architecture and system configuration.  This information may sped targeted attacks on a site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:05.633" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T16:20:14.890" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you work for a Public company (Sarbanes Oxley) or a Private company (SAS70) you might find that the auditors, customers, managers, ectetera would take offense to any publication of any thing remotely security or privacy related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your company doesn't deal with auditors you still have competitors who may gain a competitive advantage if you spill the beans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally an actual IP address or domain name could just bring a script kiddie or hacker your way that would otherwise go hit some other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:05.633" />
  <row Id="36351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T17:12:52.413" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A minor additional point is that if it's not necessary to use an actual domain name for purposes of the question you can avoid the suspicion of link spamming your domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T17:58:05.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:08:29.347" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don´t know if this is the right place to ask, but I have noticed that content from questions on SO affect how my igoogle page is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;strong&gt;active questions tagged css&lt;/strong&gt; as one of the boxes on my igoogle page and now for example, two thirds of my igoogle page is covered with a semi-transparent overlay caused by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2054567/css-div-overlay-and-jquery&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (one of the four questions displayed in the box).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something I can do to avoid this, or do either SO or Google need to change something to avoid this effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally the effects are small, but now I can´t even see the igoogle page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131245" LastEditorUserId="131245" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T20:47:55.110" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T21:43:31.910" Title="Content from SO questions affects igoogle page with SO feed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;display&gt;&lt;igoogle&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36017" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:20:06.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect this is a minority view and I know it is a strongly held view:  if you believe the question will get a better answer on another site, then vote/suggest it be moved, otherwise leave it be.  Point being to help each other out and not incite a riot toward the QCP (Question Correctness Police).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141984" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T18:20:06.667" />
  <row Id="36355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:26:11.410" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;On stackoverflow.com, when I add &quot;WPF&quot; as an interesting tag, and then click it, it briefly shows the questions and then the page goes blank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this does not happen when clicking any of the other tags that I've flagged as interesting. In other words, clicking something like SQL correctly shows all of the questions tagged as SQL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137358" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T23:15:47.987" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T23:15:47.987" Title="How do I show all WPF tagged questions?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36286" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:31:27.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about hiding the icon for the last editor, and instead showing it for the original answerer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T18:31:27.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36361" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:40:04.470" Score="2" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a lack of continuity when it comes to these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is one that got upvoted highly:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2102255/a-good-practice-project-for-php-programmer&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2102255/a-good-practice-project-for-php-programmer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is one on the brink of closure:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2103825/ideas-for-windows-mobile-app&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2103825/ideas-for-windows-mobile-app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: neither of the questions are mine.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these questions appropriate? If not, what would be an appropriate place for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:49:34.950" Title="Are &quot;suggest a project for me&quot; questions acceptable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="36359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36358" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:48:36.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they're way over the 'subjective' line.  Maybe requests for specific interface or implementation details, but not whole project ideas.  Another good case for a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Too Broad a Question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;close case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T18:48:36.040" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36288" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:49:01.063" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Stack Overflow designed solely by consensus of the masses would be, well... phpBB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, a design by committee is a horrible design. Generally, all great products are &lt;strong&gt;the vision of a few people&lt;/strong&gt; and you have to let those few people guide the product direction to keep it on track. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soliciting feedback and feature requests from the users is &lt;strong&gt;a great way to bring in the ideas&lt;/strong&gt; but, ultimately, it &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to be the product designers who decide how to proceed. Otherwise, there is no central vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A vote is not a binding contract that the developers should follow blindly. &lt;strong&gt;Voting adds &lt;em&gt;weight&lt;/em&gt; to the feature requests.&lt;/strong&gt; The more people who like the idea, the closer the developers will take a look at it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those few requests that receive high votes, the developers will certainly take notice and either implement the feature... or not. But at least the voting draws enough attention to the issue to cause the decision makers to look deeply into the discussion and see what issue the users are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; trying to solve... and, more importantly, &lt;strong&gt;whether it is Stack Overflow's place to solve it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T18:49:01.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36358" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:49:24.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally no.  They are too broad - there is no &quot;correct&quot; answer, and there are a million possible variations on this type of question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally one will get through the harsh moderation and 'make it' but that doesn't mean that they belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://projecteuler.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Project Euler&lt;/a&gt; for suggestions on programming projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T18:49:24.040" />
  <row Id="36362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36363" CreationDate="2010-01-20T18:56:32.667" Score="1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a duplicate or a bug / feature but looking at the following screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/104kq5t.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation Cap Bug&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/nckxt4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation Cap Bug Update&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shouldn't my reputation be 210 and get capped down to 200? Why 192?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed this after seeing my rep going from 200 to 215 and suddenly it drops back to 192.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has some really strange behaviors sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="134079" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T19:20:56.950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:17:42.113" Title="Daily Reputation Limit Bug?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36362" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:00:38.883" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone removed their upvote after you hit your cap, it would have brought it back down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chances are, you hit 202 rep through an accepted answer or some other uncapped reputation, and then someone removed an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, while it should be easy to explain how you got the reputation you did, due to the capping it is sometimes fairly random how much rep you get for certain answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T19:08:13.280" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:08:13.280" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:00:55.123" Score="0" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6375/so-family-combination-site&quot;&gt;SO-family combination site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033/trilogy-portal-community-colloboration&quot;&gt;Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be really nice if there was some way that I could see/respond to questions from all of the SO-family sites that I use.  I detest having to switch from window to window (or tab to tab) to refresh my views of current questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, the questions display would follow the color scheme already in place, and would apply ignore/interesting tags according to the source site (so an 'asp.net' tag in programming doesn't highlight/hide a question using that tag from superuser) although it would also be nice to have global interesting/ignore tags that do cross sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance of this happening, or is the architecture so totally separated that it would be a major undertaking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142140" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T19:06:34.143" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:06:34.143" ClosedDate="2010-01-20T23:03:09.857" Title="Displaying questions from multiple SO sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:02:31.000" Score="13" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed as a duplicate, links to the &quot;proposed duplicate&quot; questions are added to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a sort of index, or table of these duplicates. For each proposed duplicate question on SO, I'd like to see the list of links to the questions of which it's a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might help in locating frequent duplicates; in choosing the oldest good duplicate question; and possibly in creating FAQ pages on the subjects most frequently duplicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-25T09:29:31.387" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T09:29:54.053" Title="Please Provide a &quot;Table of Duplicates&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36288" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:04:27.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to request that votes determine whether features are done, and in what order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is popular is not always a good direction to take the site in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, there are a fair number of people that would like to be able to respond to an answer - ie, threaded discussion, or threaded comments, but that would detract from the main thrust of the site - questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the users &lt;em&gt;define the community&lt;/em&gt; Jeff and Co. get to define the interface.  The community can suggest changes to the interface, but if it doesn't mesh well with the intent of the site then it's unlikely to be implemented regardless of the community desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, if you were able to get your idea voted up thousands of times, I'd be very surprised if Jeff turned it down, and that would only require a small fraction of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, if you can get them to implement your feature, implement it yourself.  For instance, Jeff was very reluctant to make a meta website or a place to discuss SO for months.  It wasn't until shortly after someone else took it upon themselves to start a discussion board that Jeff relented (not wholly for that reason, but it was a consideration) and created meta.so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several projects revolving around monitoring rep/vote/etc changes in real time, and while they have created the users/recent envelope, these projects still flourish because SO doesn't provide as much detail as some people enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect someone to add some social networking features to SO - allowing you to 'friend' other users, see their real-time activity feeds on multiple sites, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the SO api comes out you should start to see greater interest in having one site that aggregates all three SO sites, but tied in with your accounts to you'll only see questions from topics you're interested on in each site.  Eventually the API will allow posting questions, answers, comments, and voting and some people will never visit so - they'll merely be using their individual aggregate interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As these services start, though, you'll see many of those features being added as native features to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T19:12:21.790" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:12:21.790" />
  <row Id="36368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36369" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:21:51.033" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just received the following in my Response pane (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36358/are-suggest-a-project-for-me-questions-acceptable/36359#36359&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;), but you can see it was meant for another user.  The @Robert line seems to have found 'Robert' in my name first, instead of Robert C. Cartaino.  I think the comment notification feature should match based on the closest match &lt;strong&gt;from the first character in a name&lt;/strong&gt; (in posting order), and not just the first match found in posting order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7921/commentp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T19:36:43.463" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:36:43.463" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T17:42:06.430" Title="Name finding problem with comment notification feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36368" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:28:24.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The notification is because you wrote the answer, and the comment was on the answer, not because he named you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:28:24.793" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36358" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:30:31.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking from experience I was looking for a way to learn a bit of Python. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While searching stackoverflow I found a question of a similar vain, which directed me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pythonchallenge.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pythonchallenge.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a real help and I am still enjoying solving the problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So sometimes these type of question can be a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140196" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:30:31.217" />
  <row Id="36371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36867" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:30:38.020" Score="38" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on screenshots seen from Jeff's screen, the number of flags is indicated beside the &quot;mod&quot; link for diamond moderators&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good idea that 10k users see the number of spam/offensive flags (like the one shown on the &quot;flags&quot; tab in the &lt;code&gt;/tools&lt;/code&gt;) near the &quot;tools&quot; link at the top of the page. It will result in faster elimination of spam posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I think it's more useful to show the number of flagged posts rather than total flag count. Even better: subtract the ones that you have already voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;P.S. Where's the new mod to work hard removing spam in quiet hours?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T10:54:20.653" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T23:37:05.050" Title="Show the number of flags beside the &quot;tools&quot; link for 10k users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="36372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36358" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:43:02.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could ask as well, are questions like &quot;I cannot get this &lt;strong&gt;jQuery&lt;/strong&gt; stuff working&quot; (where the guy does not actually know why and how the thing &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be working), are these questions valid and should these be upvoted? These are also too localized and, once answered, could be deleted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, during the 3 weeks I've spent here, I've seen a thousand of this kind of questions ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:43:02.077" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32446" CreationDate="2010-01-20T19:54:56.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, when you ask questions about jQuery, you are quite far from JavaScript itself. Who cares about closures when you have selectors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when you think about it in an analogy - you wouldn't tag a question &quot;asp.net&quot; if it is a SharePoint question. Even though, as we know, SharePoint is built on top of asp.net&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T19:54:56.310" />
  <row Id="36375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36286" CreationDate="2010-01-20T20:17:59.470" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is not desirable because it dilutes authorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really have a problem with that for CW posts, but agree that it can lead to confusion and, sad to say, hurt feelings in some cases. So I'd be fine with this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I suspect if this was implemented, the number of complaints regarding the behavior of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35972/diff-percentage-seems-a-bit-off&quot;&gt;attribution percentage calculations&lt;/a&gt; might increase...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:17:59.470" />
  <row Id="36376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32446" CreationDate="2010-01-20T20:24:38.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it should be searchable via google with the word javascript even if javascript the word isn't included in the question, then yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I believe it should be included.  To some degree it's the rectangle/square issue.  JQuery is always javascript, but javascript isnt' always JQuery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a beginner wanted to find out how to do &lt;code&gt;asynchronous javascript http requests&lt;/code&gt;, they might search google for that phrase - I'd want them to find &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; JQuery and javascript questions that fall along that line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason to leave it out is if there are already 5 other tags that have a higher priority - in that case it's best to use the better tags.  But if there's space to add the javascript tag I'd rather be inclusive and get more/better search results than exclusive and have people miss out on good JQuery solutions because they don't add the word &quot;jquery&quot; to their search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:24:38.690" />
  <row Id="36377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36286" CreationDate="2010-01-20T20:27:34.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one person contributed more than 51% of the content, show that person's avatar, and none other.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, show no avatars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:27:34.767" />
  <row Id="36378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36371" CreationDate="2010-01-20T20:28:41.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a decent suggestion... I gotta admit, I rarely visit the flags page; out of sight, out of mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:28:41.677" />
  <row Id="36380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16712" CreationDate="2010-01-20T20:33:17.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that having the acceptance-rate reminds me to go accept answers to questions that I was holding off on, until more answers had come in.  Every now and then I notice my acceptance-rate, and then I go catch up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:33:17.563" />
  <row Id="36381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27457" CreationDate="2010-01-20T20:33:31.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe the question should have at least one upvoted answer before being counted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, that would discourage me from upvoting answers that are interesting, helpful, or in some other way deserving of the upvote.  As the question asker I generally do go back to my questions, upvote all answers that are useful and not wrong, even if none of them are &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unintended consequence is worse than the &quot;low accept rate&quot; problem you perceive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34919/is-a-51-acceptance-rate-too-low/34940#34940&quot;&gt;some advice on what to do if you think your accept rate is too low&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:33:31.383" />
  <row Id="36382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21462" CreationDate="2010-01-20T20:41:32.863" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran into this problem today. I agree that it's extremely frustrating and that it shouldn't be &quot;by design&quot;, but I found a workaround, at least for the ones of us with enough rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit the answer yourself, and add a &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; or a &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; at the end of a linked URL, then recast the vote :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T20:41:32.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36383" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T21:02:53.830" Score="5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you add a link, or otherwise merge the functionality of the jobs.SO/Su/SF.com site with the careers page please? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, I find myself wanting to search jobs from the careers section. Its possible that there are multiple points of integration between the two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="147667" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T20:07:21.170" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T20:07:21.170" Title="Jobs and the Careers pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-20T21:04:09.770" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Should comments be placed in-context with the post?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I'm wondering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would comments make more sense if they were grouped under the post they apply to? Comments are pretty specific to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; post. What you want to know is when comments were added to a post and which comments were added after a revision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Group them that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might make it easier to understand the sequence of events if comments were contained by the post (and revisions) &lt;strong&gt;instead of being interwoven with the rest of the answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this: &lt;em&gt;(This is real data, except the time stamps increment by 1 minute)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;45 mins ago      question      Jeff Atwood♦     New Timeline in Question View&#xA;40 mins ago      answer        Jon Skeet&#xA;  39 mins ago      comment     Jeff Atwood♦     answer by Jon Skeet&#xA;  36 mins ago      comment     Jon Skeet        answer by Jon Skeet&#xA;&#xA;38 mins ago      revised       Jeff Atwood♦     answer by Jon Skeet remove SO links&#xA;37 mins ago      revised       Jeff Atwood♦     question added 9 characters in body&#xA;  25 mins ago      comment     splattne♦        question by Jeff Atwood♦&#xA;  24 mins ago      comment     jasondavis       question by Jeff Atwood♦&#xA;  12 mins ago      comment     Brad Gilbert     question by Jeff Atwood♦&#xA;  10 mins ago      comment     jjnguy           question by Jeff Atwood♦&#xA;&#xA;35 mins ago      revised       Jon Skeet        answer added 261 character in body&#xA;  34 mins ago      comment     Jeff Atwood♦     answer by Jon Skeet&#xA;  33 mins ago      comment     Jon Skeet        answer by Jon Skeet&#xA;  31 mins ago      comment     Jeff Atwood♦     answer by Jon Skeet&#xA;  27 mins ago      comment     Jon Skeet        answer by Jon Skeet&#xA;  11 mins ago      comment     Æther            answer by Jon Skeet&#xA;&#xA;32 mins ago      answer        random&#xA;30 mins ago      revised       random&#xA;29 mins ago      answer        George Stocker&#xA;  28 mins ago      comment     Jeff Atwood♦     answer by George Stocker&#xA;&#xA;26 mins ago      answer        Jon B.&#xA;  23 mins ago      comment     Juan Manuel      answer by Jon B.&#xA;  13 mins ago      comment     balpha           answer by Jon B.&#xA;   9 mins ago      comment     gnostradamus     answer by Jon B.&#xA;:&#xA;:&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T16:22:29.000" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:22:29.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36383" CreationDate="2010-01-20T21:08:58.057" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T21:08:58.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36353" CreationDate="2010-01-20T21:43:31.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so active questions tagged RSS is this feed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/css&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/css&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you view source on the feed, then search for the name of that question, &quot;css div overlay and jquery&quot;, you'll find that the question body is properly encoded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2054567/css-div-overlay-and-jquery&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;re:rank scheme=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&amp;gt;-2&amp;lt;/re:rank&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;title type=&quot;text&quot;&amp;gt;css div overlay and jquery&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/css/tags&quot; term=&quot;css&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/css/tags&quot; term=&quot;jquery&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;category scheme=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/css/tags&quot; term=&quot;overlay&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;author&amp;gt;&amp;lt;name&amp;gt;ngreenwood6&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/author&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;alternate&quot; href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2054567/css-div-overlay-and-jquery&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;published&amp;gt;2010-01-13T05:05:01Z&amp;lt;/published&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;updated&amp;gt;2010-01-20T16:10:42Z&amp;lt;/updated&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;summary type=&quot;html&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;This is more or less a css question but i am using it with jquery. Ok so basically what I have is this:&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;amp;lt;pre&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;code&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;overflow: hidden; width: 1000px; height: 450px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; id=&amp;amp;quot;wrapper&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); opacity: 0.9; top: 0pt; left: 0pt; width: 1000px; height: 450px; position: absolute; z-index: 500;&amp;amp;quot; id=&amp;amp;quot;mask&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;div class=&amp;amp;quot;ui-draggable&amp;amp;quot; style=&amp;amp;quot;margin: 60px auto auto; position: relative; width: 1550px; height: 340px;&amp;amp;quot; id=&amp;amp;quot;test&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;row&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;img style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;img&amp;amp;quot; src=&amp;amp;quot;/images/Chrysanthemum.jpg&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;img style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;img&amp;amp;quot; src=&amp;amp;quot;/images/Desert.jpg&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;img style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;img&amp;amp;quot; src=&amp;amp;quot;/images/Hydrangeas.jpg&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;float: left; margin-left: 10px; width: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;row&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;img style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;img&amp;amp;quot; src=&amp;amp;quot;/images/Jellyfish.jpg&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;img style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;img&amp;amp;quot; src=&amp;amp;quot;/images/Koala.jpg&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;img style=&amp;amp;quot;width: 100px; height: 100px; position: relative;&amp;amp;quot; class=&amp;amp;quot;img&amp;amp;quot; src=&amp;amp;quot;/images/Lighthouse.jpg&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;position: absolute; left: 978px; top: 223px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&amp;amp;quot; id=&amp;amp;quot;next-btn&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;Next&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;amp;amp;lt;div style=&amp;amp;quot;position: absolute; left: 8px; top: 223px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);&amp;amp;quot; id=&amp;amp;quot;prev-btn&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;gt;Prev&amp;amp;amp;lt;/div&amp;amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;amp;lt;/code&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/pre&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;gt;What I am doing with the mask div is trying to get it to overlay the whole wrapper. So I set its width and height to the height of the wrapper. This works fine in firefox, chrome and safari. However, in internet explorer it is not working. Anyone know how I can make this overlay. I tried setting the position to absolute which worked fine except one thing. There is somethign that is going on top of this mask. Its position is relative. I set the one on top to a z-index of 1000 and the mask to 500, however it seems there is a bug in ie that automatically makes an absolute div be on top of everything. Any help is appreciated on how I can accomplish this.&amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;/summary&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this not correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T21:43:31.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33081" CreationDate="2010-01-20T22:12:59.080" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think companies should only be allowed to sponsor tags that are products/proper names they own.  Otherwise, it opens the door to all kinds of abuse and problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T22:12:59.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-20T22:40:19.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking users to go to some website they've never heard of is rude. I don't know when I click your link if I'm going to see a real website or an offer for male enhancement pills. Posts that include a link to an external website, even if it's relevant, are often flagged &quot;spam&quot; (something I've learned since I hit 10k rep on SO). People are more likely to help you if they don't think you're spamming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general you should use example.com and describe what you have tried and what is happening. If people say they need more info, and you can't come up with any way of providing it short of posting a link, then maybe post the actual URL in a follow-up comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T22:40:19.830" />
  <row Id="36394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T22:43:23.957" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/531/filter-view-to-show-only-interested&quot;&gt;Filter view to show only interested&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the 'questions' page, there is the list of the tags I marked 'interesting'. Would it be possible to have the 'Interesting tags' title be a link that would filter the questions so as to display only the questions that have at least one 'interesting' tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137503" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T22:43:23.957" ClosedDate="2010-04-13T04:48:30.830" Title="Filtering to display only the questions tagged with an 'interesting' tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33081" CreationDate="2010-01-20T22:56:52.053" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a problem with Red Gate sponsoring SQL Server tags. They don't sell SQL Server, but they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; sell products which enhance SQL Server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think they should be sponsoring the &quot;performance&quot; tag. That's too generic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a future version of the SO software permitted them to sponsor (sql | sql-server | sql-server-2005 | sql-server-2008 | tsql) + performance, then I'd have no problem with that. They would, in effect, be sponsoring &quot;SQL Server Performance&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T22:56:52.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-20T22:58:46.573" Score="8" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the home page of Stackoverflow I am shown my &quot;Interesting&quot; tags in the upper right corner and they are highlighted in yellow among all the items.  This is useful as it allows me to distinguish them amongst the herd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click on one of those tags, however, and am redirected to the landing page for that specific tag ALL of the items are highlighted.  Consider the principle that when everything is highlighted nothing is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-07-07T12:57:43.850" Title="Remove highlighting for an &quot;Interesting Tag&quot; on Tags landing page (since they are all highlighted)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;tag-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36407" CreationDate="2010-01-20T22:59:46.133" Score="8" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3528/&quot;&gt;Questions with nefarious intent?&lt;/a&gt;, but different, and more about voting than &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30221/&quot;&gt;“Is it possible?”, versus “Is it a good idea to try?”&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone posts an answer to a perfectly normal question, and their answer is technically valid but raises moral issues/discussion, what should be the correct attitude to take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EG: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/104708/customer-wont-provide-ssh-access-ftp-only/104709#104709&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/104708/customer-wont-provide-ssh-access-ftp-only/104709#104709&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer was technically valid but it's been downvoted to oblivion because what he's suggesting is just plain &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt; from our point of view as system admins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to labour a point (I studied ethics and morality at Uni) but what's wrong to me isn't always wrong to someone else. Maybe the above was a bad case-in-point (I don't think that falls into any grey areas), but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR version: &lt;strong&gt;Should technically valid answers be downvoted just because we don't agree with the answerers idea of morality&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T23:02:46.643" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T04:34:55.200" Title="Technically valid answers that raise questions of morality" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36355" CreationDate="2010-01-20T23:04:36.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have also ignored the wpf tag and checked the &quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; box in your profile, then this would cause the problem you are seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T23:04:36.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36397" CreationDate="2010-01-20T23:06:16.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hesitate downvoting &quot;technically valid&quot; answers for the question regardless of morality, lack of warnings about blowing up your system unless the &quot;warning&quot; is a core part of the issue. For example, I would downvote a blatant SQL injection flaw in a question about security. If you don't like an answer, simply don't upvote it, and upvote other answers if they better suit your taste. Downvoting &quot;correct&quot; answers doesn't look fair to me. It's not ethical!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T23:06:16.820" />
  <row Id="36401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36397" CreationDate="2010-01-20T23:09:41.260" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! In fact, I &lt;em&gt;relish&lt;/em&gt; the opportunity to down-vote answers that suggest things that, while perhaps technically feasible, introduce behaviors that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/87422/disabling-back-button-on-the-browser&quot;&gt;I don't ever want to encounter&lt;/a&gt; (as a user &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; as a developer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; vote, so vote according to your conscience. If you're alone, it won't matter; if you vote with the &lt;em&gt;moral majority&lt;/em&gt; then you've helped the community indicate to future readers that this option is unlikely to be acceptable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T23:09:41.260" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="36402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36397" CreationDate="2010-01-20T23:17:55.983" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvote such answers, unless the poster provides a disclaimer, such as &lt;em&gt;&quot;This is the correct answer to your question, but you shouldn't do it because it's evil.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Or, &quot;&lt;em&gt;This works, but it will kill kittens, so don't try this at home,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or something to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1671444/copy-on-delete-of-browser-history&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1671444/copy-on-delete-of-browser-history&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I didn't downvote the question, although I did post a comment expressing how evil I thought the question was.  I also didn't downvote the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1671444/copy-on-delete-of-browser-history/1677531#1677531&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;, as it contained a &quot;this is evil&quot; statement.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did post &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1671444/copy-on-delete-of-browser-history/1671455#1671455&quot;&gt;my own answer&lt;/a&gt; explaining my ethical position.  It got six upvotes, even though it didn't answer the OP's question, so I guess some people agreed with the ethical position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-20T23:23:26.643" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T23:23:26.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36396" CreationDate="2010-01-20T23:28:17.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider the current method of highlighting all of the items a feature, not a bug.  It follows the principle of least surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-20T23:28:17.630" />
  <row Id="36404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36397" CreationDate="2010-01-20T23:47:22.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to think of it this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's my vote, and I'll downvote you if I want to.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, if there's anything I don't like about the answer, I might vote it down, whether it is incorrect or merely displeasing to my personal sense of aesthetics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, that's the very nature of the sites: I've accumulated a certain amount of reputation by demonstrating responsibility, and in so doing have been conferred the ability to downvote. The site is trusting me to make these decisions, so I shall do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More waxing poetical: I don't actually &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; this very often; more usually I will just leave a comment &quot;tsk, you shouldn't do it this way!&quot; and leave it at that, because I don't like those little red marks in my rep history. Or, when faced with a series of &quot;correct&quot; answers, I will only upvote the answer that both answered the questions and doesn't do anything evil. My point is that we all have the ability to downvote and we should feel free to use that ability with discretion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T00:15:25.617" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T00:15:25.617" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T00:21:49.237" Score="5" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;In question views, and on user pages you can look in order of votes, recent activity, and newest. I'd like to be able to reverse-sort by date stuff was added rather than have to go to the end and work my way back up through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T00:28:53.560" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T00:28:53.560" Title="feature-request: &quot;oldest&quot; sort view instead of &quot;newest&quot;, and going to the end" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;views&gt;" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="36406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T01:24:27.970" Score="5" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't tested this &quot;bug&quot; carefully on S[OFU], but it happens on SE sites. If a question is converted to wiki because of too much editing, the subsequent answers are made wiki (as if the question were CWed by checking the box).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, converting to wiki after some number of edits (by the owner) is done to discourage people from bumping their posts too much and to encourage them to make substantive edits. There is no reason to penalize people who answer the question of a compulsive editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible objections:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Though this behavior is annoying, it may not happen often enough for fixing it to be worthwhile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's feature creep on an already abused feature. CW is already used more to prevent reputation gain than to make posts more editable. Adding a new type of CW question whose answers aren't automatically made CW may be asking for trouble.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T01:24:27.970" Title="If a question becomes CW from over-editing, don't force future answers to be CW" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36397" CreationDate="2010-01-21T01:39:53.503" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few different situations here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not enough information to determine ethics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example, we do not have any information regarding the business relationship this person has with the hosting provider.  We cannot infer, then that this breaks the TOS, contract, or in any way is unethical.  Some might claim that since SSH access isn't provided, then we can assume that shell access of any kind is prohibited, but I know many webhosts that allow you to put any PHP on the system you like, but will never provide SSH due to the constant support issues inexperienced people bring to the host.  They would be happy to have such a script on their system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore this example exists in a possibly gray area, depending on your point of view, but &lt;strong&gt;ONLY&lt;/strong&gt; if you assume quite a bit based on a small amount of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this situation, where not enough information is provided to determine the ethics, go ahead and post the answer, or upvote the answer that, under &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; circumstances may be ethically dubious, but cannot be assumed to be bad due to lack of information.  A nice disclaimer is good, but not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Enough information to determine ethics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you absolutely know that the answer is ethically wrong under any and all circumstances (all nations, countres, states, districts, municipalites, companies, religions, etc) given the question, then yes, downvote it, and PLEASE comment on why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, keep in mind that even if the answer is ethically wrong for the given question, future google searches may land on that page (no SSH access) and the answer, though ethically wrong for the question itself, may be ethically ok for someone searching on those terms that falls into this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even when you know it's ethically wrong to implement a given solution under a particular set of circumstances, it is not ethically wrong to teach someone about possible solutions that may actually have benefit, either as teaching examples, or usable under other situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, largely, I'm not in favor of downvoting because &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; system of ethics and surrounding assumptions prohibits it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the downvote is yours to do with as you please.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you truly find it objectionable under all circumstances, though, flag it for moderator attention so it can be deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T01:39:53.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T02:24:35.290" Score="1" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25202/isnt-the-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-a-little-too-eager&quot;&gt;Isn&amp;rsquo;t the &amp;ldquo;vote too old to be changed&amp;rdquo; a little too eager?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26368/why-is-my-vote-now-too-old-to-be-changed&quot;&gt;Why is my vote now too old to be changed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cant cancel a vote, I get &quot;vote is too old&quot; which is nice except I did a few seconds ago (the vote, not the canceling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2106478/mysql-query-result-table-name/2106502#2106502&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2106478/mysql-query-result-table-name/2106502#2106502&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T03:31:46.727" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T03:31:46.727" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T08:17:53.123" Title="can't cancel a vote" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36397" CreationDate="2010-01-21T02:58:11.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with the Script, sorry. It's the sysadmins job that the user can only do what they are entitled do. This script does not do any magic, it just does what any other PHP application could do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user uses this to gain access to stuff they shouldn't have access to, it's the admins fault for not having secured that content &lt;em&gt;properly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user uses this to cause too much load, it's the admins fault because there was no limiting in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if the user uses this to shoot himself in the foot - it's the users fault, and you can bill him for support - unless legal screwed up and did not put a proper contract in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user wants support for it, you're free to handle this using the normal support policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Always keep in mind: If something is possible, someone else will know about it. If that person is a black hat, you have a problem. So it's the admins duty to know about stuff that's going on. That answer might actually do admins a favor, because now they know about the existence of this script and can make a security audit: Could it cause you any harm? If yes, how can you properly prevent it? Might be a good ServerFault question by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the border is exploiting security vulnerabilities, that is: &quot;The admin has blocked this script, can I circumvent that?&quot; The answer to that is usually a quick close, downvote, delete, so I think we're fine on that front. (Related: We allow Jailbreak Questions about the iPhone on SU)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I think this came across a bit harsh, because it was specifically targeted at PHP Shell. PHP Shell is completely harmless in my opinion. It does not give any additional access and does not break the system. If you upload a file that contains the desired System() call, it would work equally well. Unlike stuff like Jailbreaking, PHP Shell is not hacking the system. So in my opinion the correct solution is not to disallow such questions, but rather add a comment or something to let admins know that they can just disable stuff like that in the PHP.ini. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-apache-lighttpd-phpini-disable-functions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disallow calls to system(), exec() and some other functions&lt;/a&gt; and the script stops working - In my opinion, this is the real solution for the problem, rather than trying to pretend it doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="91" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T18:04:00.747" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T18:04:00.747" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="36410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36209" CreationDate="2010-01-21T03:01:19.573" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that running ads for charity reguarly might not be a good fit... but, we'll join the effort.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/supportHaitiRelief.png&quot; alt=&quot;ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastEditorUserId="5190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T03:12:03.393" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T03:12:03.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T03:01:19.573" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36209" CreationDate="2010-01-21T03:06:25.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea itself is quite good, but Charity is a minefield though - way too many scammers in that field, including once reputable ones like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3111092,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UNICEF&lt;/a&gt;. Running an ad for a scamming Charity is like running an ad for Scientology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The American Red Cross is also not without it's controversies, but I think them and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) should be okay. What I'm saying really is: The team should REALLY make sure only to advertise Charities that are proven good, as it could backfire quite a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of note are religious-led charities. I wouldn't be offended personally, but religion is always a minefield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T03:06:25.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T03:06:25.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36422" CreationDate="2010-01-21T03:24:49.020" Score="-1" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070658/extra-user-profile-field-edited-only-by-admin-wordpress-closed&quot;&gt;question on SO&lt;/a&gt; was closed as blatantly offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking for comments from the users that closed the question to understand what happened, but there are none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141953" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T17:52:25.690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:52:25.690" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T19:33:24.427" Title="Why was my question closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="26" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36423" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:04:50.693" Score="11" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;To reopen a closed question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19554/how-to-reopen-question/19557#19557&quot;&gt;five (5) people with at least 3000 reputation&lt;/a&gt; must agree that the question is suitable for the site and cast votes to reopen the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does one actually vote to reopen? Is there a reputation level that you must have before you can see this function? Or do I just leave a comment along the lines of, &quot;I vote to reopen&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happens if someone with less than 3000 reputation leaves a comment that they wish to vote to reopen?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can one draw attention to their closed questions? Is it done via a posting new question? Or do you edit the closed question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a “closed” question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141953" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-02T16:44:56.840" LastActivityDate="2010-09-02T16:44:56.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-02T16:42:47.197" Title="How do you reopen a closed question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;&lt;how-to&gt;&lt;reopened-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36415" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:15:33.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed there will be a link under the tags that says &quot;reopen&quot;.  You, as the owner of the question (with at least &lt;strong&gt;250&lt;/strong&gt; rep), should be able to see that when your question has been closed by the community and/or moderators.  Looks like your question has already been reopened, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T04:22:37.250" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T04:22:37.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-02T16:42:47.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36415" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:15:43.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leaving a comment about voting to reopen has no effect. There will be a link to click to vote to reopen new questions as I understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T04:15:43.990" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-02T16:42:47.197" />
  <row Id="36418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36420" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:18:59.740" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a slight bug with the formatting on this answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228038/best-way-to-reverse-a-string-in-c-2-0&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228038/best-way-to-reverse-a-string-in-c-2-0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue I'm seeing is that the footer (&lt;code&gt;link|edit|flag&lt;/code&gt; etc. at the bottom of the answer) is appearing in Consolas instead of the usual font. No other answer to the same question has this problem. I am seeing the issue in both IE8 and Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a concatenation of images of two footers from the same question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/55e21b59d6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141514" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T08:17:40.580" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T08:17:40.580" Title="Minor formatting bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="36419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36418" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:25:45.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that you were able to notice that speaks volumes of your eyesight (and mine, I suppose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T04:25:45.730" />
  <row Id="36420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36418" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:37:08.387" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the post is all there, just leaking out, it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35742/there-appears-to-be-another-formatting-leak&quot; title=&quot;wash your hands&quot;&gt;problem with the sanitiser&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/EQUta.png&quot; alt=&quot;them blocks, they burst&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaningless whitespace edit fixes up the problem and pushes the content of the post back into its boundary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T04:37:08.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35989" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:43:14.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep re-calcs are how the system prevents sock puppets from giving reputation. What happens is, after the sock puppet is found and deleted, the system will run a rep recalc. What that means is that it will remove all the up-votes the sock puppet has given, so the reputation would go back to what it would be if the sock puppet had not voted at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T04:43:14.503" />
  <row Id="36422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36414" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:45:32.830" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If enough people consider that it needs to be closed, then it gets closed. I think some people see that there's been a close vote on it, and decide to add to it without really thinking. So you only need someone to vote that it's offensive and bunch of other people will jump in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people that voted it as offensive probably read your question as &quot;How do I hack WordPress&quot;. Once that misinterpretation got cleared up, I don't think anyone will consider it offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, it's probably just down to an issue related to English not being your first language. I'd find the same if I tried to ask questions in Japanese, and am incredibly lucky that this forum uses my native tongue. (When I help a Turkish friend with SQL queries, I find it incredibly hard to see which field is which)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As per one of the comments, it doesn't necessarily need five people who consider it offensive, so long as there are five that want it closed and the majority of those people consider it offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T23:54:37.243" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:54:37.243" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36415" CreationDate="2010-01-21T04:53:57.850" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Voting to reopen&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The owner &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;and there it is&quot;&gt;must have &lt;strong&gt;250&lt;/strong&gt; rep in order to vote to reopen&lt;/a&gt; their own question. Other users can also vote to reopen, but they must have a minimum &lt;strong&gt;3000&lt;/strong&gt; reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases, you will see a link (on the same line as the link | edit | flag) to click. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/h9QPB.png&quot; alt=&quot;vote to reopen link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clicking on this will ask you to confirm that you want to reopen this question. After five (5) votes, the post will be reopened. A moderator can also reopen with their single vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Comments to reopen&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving comments about voting to reopen does nothing in and of itself. You can try and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment-closed&quot; title=&quot;can you hear beer now?&quot;&gt;address a specific user&lt;/a&gt; who may have left a comment as to why they voted to close and ask them to help cast reopen votes if you think they voted in error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also leave a comment asking for other users to vote to reopen if you've edited your question to a better form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Attention on closed questions&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comments are helpful as to why the question has been closed, you can edit the post so that it fits the site topic or remove the points of offense if so marked. The close reason, while not always accurate, should point you in the right direction of what to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T04:53:57.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-09-02T16:42:47.197" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T05:34:11.470" Score="5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often find myself knowing how to approach a problem that someone has posed but I can't offer an answer that gives &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; advice on exactly which function to call due to lack of API knowlege of, say, .NET, or the particular library they are using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people feel about posting a generic answer? Should I bother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my current thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a general point of view, are such answers just noise? Especially when the question is answered by someone with a more specific knowledge, providing an API ref, method name or code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my point of view I have been downvoted in comparison when a more specific answer arrives. Whilst I endeavour not to take it personally, it can be a little disheartening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main justification - that I can think of - for providing a generic answer is that it gives someone a few ideas to go away with so that they can perhaps get a new angle on their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess in some ways I'm also attempting to second guess the kind of answer that someone is after. So perhaps it would be more beneficial to post a comment instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133374" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T08:37:47.320" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T08:37:47.320" Title="Should I post a relatively generic answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-21T05:36:00.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was playing around with a possible layout for the &quot;timeline&quot; view . (see below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(This mockup is a bit crude but, hopefully, you get the idea)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between the &lt;code&gt;newest&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;oldest&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt; tab, there is now a &lt;code&gt;timeline&lt;/code&gt; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the design highlights:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The timeline display is designed to look as much as possible like the SO's current Q&amp;amp;A pages and revision history, only in timeline order. This should make it easier for the users to understand (and much less design work for the SO team).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each revision shows the votes received for &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; revision (disable voting, of course).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edited posts, title, and tag changes use the same display style as SO's revision history. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The posts a sorted in chronological order (oldest first). There should probably be a &quot;reverse order&quot; link to display newest first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are grouped under the post (or revision) they apply to (per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view/36384#36384&quot;&gt;my suggestion here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The individual posts might need a little better labeling to make everything more clear but this is the basic idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/02.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/14.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/answers2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/22.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/32.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/42.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/52.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/62.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/72.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/82.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/92.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/102.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/131.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T14:28:52.257" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T14:28:52.257" />
  <row Id="36426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36424" CreationDate="2010-01-21T05:41:56.943" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my point of view as someone who asks questions, I am always grateful for some pointers. Adding a generic answer AFTER a specialized one (for the same thing) was added is bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I ask a question, I'd rather have a rough answer ASAP and then I'll leave it some time for &quot;better&quot; answers to come in. But then again, I usually try not to ask &quot;Plz send me the codes&quot; question, so normally a vague answer is already good enough to get me going in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you are really just &quot;guessing&quot;, maybe a comment works better - always depends on the exact situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T05:41:56.943" />
  <row Id="36427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36428" CreationDate="2010-01-21T06:13:33.557" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5527/keyboard-glyphs&quot;&gt;Keyboard Glyphs&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answers to Emacs-related questions, I often see key sequences displayed as a cool keyboard key icon wrapping the keystrokes.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100166/making-sense-out-of-emacs-completion-mode-choices/2105560#2105560&quot;&gt;Here's an example&lt;/a&gt;. So how does one generate these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141984" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T06:51:41.340" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T06:51:41.340" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T09:51:08.650" Title="How do you add those keyboard icons to your post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;keyboard-glyphs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36427" CreationDate="2010-01-21T06:21:09.750" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;KBD&amp;gt;e.g.&amp;lt;/KBD&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See also.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T06:22:15.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-21T06:53:14.393" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like the current design is overwhelming me with data, especially for large questions with plenty of activity. There's so much data there, almost raw, unfiltered. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/9134/timeline&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; monster timeline, for instance shows me screen upon screen of downvotes, upvotes, almost without context, comments that have no meaning without knowing where they were in relation to all the other comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm just picky, but it's hard for me to see the utility of this. For small questions you can simply follow the question and not bother with a timeline, for large questions there's too much data and it makes it hard to use. Either way, its usefulness is hard to see. However, if the design was somehow tweaked, it could prove useful. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view/36425#36425&quot;&gt;Robert C. Cartaino&lt;/a&gt; is onto something with his design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T06:53:14.393" />
  <row Id="36431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36414" CreationDate="2010-01-21T08:03:52.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a programming related question; it should be asked on a WordPress support forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I do agree it's not &quot;blatantly offensive&quot;, and I have no idea what the people who selected that close reason were thinking. Still, it should have been closed, just not for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T12:49:27.180" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T12:49:27.180" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-01-21T08:33:01.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stalker&lt;/strong&gt; - For having more than 20 upvoted answers on different questions by the same user.  In other words, following someone around on SO answering their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paparazzi&lt;/strong&gt; - For having more than 20 upvoted comments on different answers by the same user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Single&lt;/strong&gt; - For posting an accepted answer on February 14th. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135061" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T08:33:01.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T08:33:01.653" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="36433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35070" CreationDate="2010-01-21T09:15:04.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ok, I added &lt;code&gt;type=&quot;url&quot;&lt;/code&gt; to the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;input&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; field on the login page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Backing this change out. Causing lots of spurious bug reports from new-ish browsers that enforce URLs rigidly to &quot;must start with http://&quot; rather than using it as an input aid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-27T09:00:55.927" LastActivityDate="2010-05-27T09:00:55.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36286" CreationDate="2010-01-21T09:43:25.920" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in, but it has a side-effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the community wiki calculation does not display percentages when &lt;em&gt;all the edits are by the same person&lt;/em&gt;, posts of that type will look ownerless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T09:43:25.920" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="36435" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T10:11:30.757" Score="0" ViewCount="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi there,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was just trying out another StackExchange site and attempted to add a tag of: się (some weird Polish thing which I don't yet understand ;)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the tag was shortened to: si, leaving off the ę. I've tried with another Polish word, Złoty, which I think introduces the same bug, the ł is dropped leaving the tag Zoty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, to enter characters like this you need to use ALT-GR (with the Polish Programmer's layout I use anyway). ALT-GR-L should produce a ł, but instead asks me about inserting a hyperlink. Is there any way to fix this? The same occurs for ALT-GR-Z, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T10:11:30.757" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T10:16:57.637" Title="Unicode in tags breaks them? E.g. for się" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6593" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:07:48.880" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already do this, for ALL users on questions they own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5541/newuseranswerownquestio.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The standard answer editor does NOT appear by default for post owners&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead there is a single &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clicking the &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button nags you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you sure you want to answer your own question? &#xA;  If you're responding to answers left on your question, use &#xA;  the comments link under each answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T11:07:48.880" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36440" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:37:20.157" Score="4" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my mates is at start of his computer science degree. I had a word with him about advantages and importance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;of code review and   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow on daily basis, as he is addicted to some social networking sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He agreed to the first point, but I could not convince him about the second. I personally understand, the positive impact of Stack Overflow over myself, but I was not able to to list them for a new programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what in your opinion could be the reasons to suggest someone, use Stack Overflow for learning, as we use books and tutorials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &quot;He is a good learner and enjoys programming&quot;. &#xA;I am not recommending him to use Stack Overflow as primary learning method/meduim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136156" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T09:55:42.827" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T09:55:42.827" Title="Stack Overflow as a learning tool" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;learning&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36437" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:40:31.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he will show up here one way or another once he bumps into his first problem ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can push him however when he comes for an answer to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143757" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T11:43:15.927" />
  <row Id="36439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36437" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:42:15.670" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using only SO to learn programming is very lazy and will also lead to patchy understanding. Using a good book or other online resource is the way to go. If clarification is required, then post questions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T11:43:15.927" />
  <row Id="36440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36437" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:53:54.950" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think SO can be a valuable resource for learning. Find interesting questions and try to come up with a solution. You might have to do some research, but the advantage over text book exercises is that you are solving a real problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think you have a good solution, post it, or just compare it with the given answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T11:53:54.950" />
  <row Id="36441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:55:36.990" Score="-4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the question owner be able to vote up answers to his/her own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is rather edge case (since it probably only affects a user's first question), but I had it come up in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2108348/xslt-deepening-content-structure/2108434#2108434&quot;&gt;a recent question on SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131999" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T12:02:42.670" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T12:02:42.670" Title="Remove 15 rep limit on voting up answers to the owners questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:56:13.493" Score="6" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following a comment posted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2108115/keep-correctness-of-eclipse-workspace-with-continuous-integration/2108185#2108185&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2108115/keep-correctness-of-eclipse-workspace-with-continuous-integration&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;: is it rude to downvote answers to your own questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T09:04:32.457" Title="Is it RUDE to downvote an answer to your own question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36442" CreationDate="2010-01-21T11:58:50.913" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer doesn't help you then you can down-vote it if you want. The tool tip states &quot;This answer is not useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd only down-vote if the answer was actively unhelpful or gave incorrect information, but as @dmckee says I'd comment first just in case there was any misunderstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T14:23:40.613" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T14:23:40.613" />
  <row Id="36444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36441" CreationDate="2010-01-21T12:02:12.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doing so would create a massive rep-farming exploit system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T12:02:12.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T12:12:58.887" Score="5" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I ask a question and go and look for an unanswered question I can have a go at - and rarely find anything in my skillset.  How about if the system was able to make a stab at what you could answer based on previous answers tags, up ticked answers tags etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142175" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T12:47:49.867" Title="Smart filtering of unanswered questions I might be able to answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36445" CreationDate="2010-01-21T12:17:45.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's what the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; section on the right-hand side of the question list pages is for. Questions which are on tags in your interesting tags section are highlighted in question lists so you can see them quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T12:17:45.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36445" CreationDate="2010-01-21T12:47:49.867" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does -- try visiting the unanswered questions page by clicking the box that says [Unanswered] at the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page uses two sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;top 5 tags in questions and answers you've participated in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your &quot;favorite&quot; tags, if you have them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that we define &quot;answered&quot; a certain way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T12:47:49.867" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36442" CreationDate="2010-01-21T12:49:36.507" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to comment on how the proposed answer fails to improve my situation first (at least, if I think they were trying) basically because I want to encourage answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if it remains unhelpful---or especially if it is counter-productive---downvotes are in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T16:00:27.600" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:00:27.600" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36279" CreationDate="2010-01-21T13:04:12.043" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've got two questions in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, is there any way to see the real schema?  Answer: not now, but I'd question why you needed it.  If you had a really good reason and you explained that to the team, they might relent.  (I haven't seen a good reason yet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, how does it scale so well?  Answer: first, read the HighScalability article about StackOverflow here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That explains a lot of it.  No sharding is involved - the extra database servers are just used for failover.  They use one database per site for the trilogy, but I can't speak for StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scaling a database is pretty simple: pay really close attention to your queries, and do as little work as possible inside the database.  Cache as much as you can on the app side, and don't force the database server to do things it's not designed to scale.  Just because Microsoft puts a feature into SQL Server doesn't mean it's designed to scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T13:04:12.043" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36451" CreationDate="2010-01-21T13:38:46.473" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a (very...) common question on SO, so I copied an answer from the PHP documentation with link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trouble is, I misremembered what the example did (remove &lt;em&gt;excess&lt;/em&gt; whitespace vs. removing &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; whitespace as the poster had requested), and didn't notice this until a couple of commenters went, &quot;Hey!  WTF!&quot;  There's a moral in here somewhere about the dangers of copy+paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate in this situation to edit the answer with a remark to this effect?  I don't want the incorrect version floating around there to mislead people who don't look at it too closely, but it also seems kind of... I dunno... unfair to the commenters (because I can just picture future commenters saying, &quot;You guys are wrong!  It clearly removes all whitespace!&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139945" LastEditorUserId="27290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T06:11:14.347" LastActivityDate="2011-04-27T05:40:19.970" Title="Fixing an incorrect answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36450" CreationDate="2010-01-21T13:42:52.877" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I tend to do in this situation is either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the answer (if its really really wrong, and someone else has posted the correct answer already)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the answer to be correct, and post a comment along the lines of &quot;I've fixed it now...&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T13:42:52.877" />
  <row Id="36452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36474" CreationDate="2010-01-21T13:57:16.493" Score="-4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see sometimes people vote to re-open a question because the close reason is incorrect, even though it should remain closed (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36414&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;). This way, the original people that voted to close cannot do it anymore, risking that the question remains open when it shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The incorrect reason could be due to a mis-click, difference of opinion, or something like that, but it doesn't negate the fact that it should be closed, no matter the formal reason (which seems irrelevant to me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest hiding the close reason at least at first sight, having to mouse over something to see it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What do you think? Does it make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:28:41.777" Title="Hide the close reason" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36452" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:01:51.163" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like it - it means the OP doesn't have the information they need to fix the question making it &lt;em&gt;genuinely&lt;/em&gt; worth reopening. For example, if something is closed as a duplicate but the OP thinks it's not, they can edit the question to explain the differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T14:01:51.163" />
  <row Id="36455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36452" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:02:22.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it makes sense. Usually, the reason that a question is closed is because the user who asked the question made a mistake. If we don't clearly tell them what the mistake was, they cannot learn from their mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if the question was closed because it's &quot;Not a real question,&quot; then the user would be able to edit their question and turn it into a real question. If the question was closed because it &quot;belongs on meta,&quot; then they know where to go to find their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T14:02:22.270" />
  <row Id="36456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36452" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:02:42.410" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that it was closed for a wrong reason does not make it right to try to reopen merely to close again. If it's closed and deserves to be closed, &lt;strong&gt;leave it alone&lt;/strong&gt;. Also, hiding the close reason would fix a marginal problem that only seldom appears (I've never seen it happen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;hiding it would cause a lot of problems&lt;/strong&gt;; if people can't see why it was closed, they'll start asking questions and be bitter about it. Let's leave the system as is; it works 99.9% of the time, which is more than fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T14:02:42.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36452" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:03:14.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I've seen is that people don't understand how the close vote counting works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If 5 people vote to close a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;# of Votes         Reason&#xA;----------         ------&#xA;2                  Blatantly Offensive            &#xA;1                  Exact Duplicate&#xA;2                  Not Programming Related&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then the close reason has an equal chance of being either &lt;code&gt;Not Programming Related&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;Blatantly Offensive&lt;/code&gt;.  It also could be a duplicate, but I don't know from the current system whether or not that will come through when the question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem that brings up is that people vote to re-open based on the close reason listed, and they shouldn't. They should comment and say, &quot;Well, it's not &lt;code&gt;blatantly offensive&lt;/code&gt;&quot; but it's also &lt;code&gt;not programming related&lt;/code&gt;. But they don't -- they say, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Well, it's closed as &quot;Blatantly Offensive&quot; and it's certainly not blatantly offensive, so I should re-open it!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T14:03:14.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36442" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:15:47.370" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends. If the answer is wrong - then yes, down-vote it the same as you would for any answer that doesn't address the question. That's not rude, that's the system working properly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't answer the question because you've been misunderstood, then you could consider editing the question to make your point clearer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastEditorUserId="2902" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T09:04:32.457" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T09:04:32.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36452" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:36:16.653" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be better for the OP to get notification of the close reasons &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the post is actually closed so that they can address the issues and stop the post actually being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other 3000+ users would still see the close votes, but if they were included in the timeline view they would be able to see that the question had been improved (hopefully) and not vote themselves. If they thought that the question hadn't been improved despite the edits, they could still vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T14:36:16.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:50:39.913" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like bug reports about truncated posts &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36418/minor-formatting-bug&quot;&gt;come&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35742/there-appears-to-be-another-formatting-leak&quot;&gt;up&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26721/long-answers-are-truncated-in-so&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34956/can-someone-fix-a-truncated-post&quot;&gt;lot&lt;/a&gt; on Meta. (And those are just four that I found in a quick search, I know there are more.) It all goes back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;a bug on the server-side markdown-rendering code&lt;/a&gt; from way back in Fall of 2008. (&lt;em&gt;Edit: looks like it was a little more recent than that.&lt;/em&gt;) The bug manifests itself in obviously-truncated posts, or posts where formatting from the post &quot;leaks&quot; to the &quot;edit | flag&quot; links. There are still some rogue posts which haven't been edited in over a year that have this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that the team solve this problem at the source, by re-rendering the markdown to HTML and invalidate the cache for all posts with a last-edit date before 2009-01-01. (&lt;em&gt;Edit: or whenever the bug was fixed.&lt;/em&gt;). I can't imagine that there are &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; many posts which haven't been touched in over a year, and you could do it in a batch process during off-peak hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T21:55:59.927" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:00:03.183" Title="Suggestion: fix truncation of long posts by re-rendering markdown to HTML on very old posts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36442" CreationDate="2010-01-21T14:56:54.173" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all downvoting by the question asker is rude (not at all), but I think downvoting a helpful answer that just doesn't suit one's &lt;em&gt;unclear&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;hidden&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;changing&lt;/em&gt; needs is rude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, in this specific case, I think you've been rude. I &lt;em&gt;suppose&lt;/em&gt; your comment &lt;em&gt;there is no such thing &quot;preconfigured ones&quot;&lt;/em&gt; refers to &lt;em&gt;you can create a custom task that verifies the following files against pre-defined ones&lt;/em&gt;? If so, then explain why you don't want to &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; such pre-defined files. You're asking how to validate things, and then reject the option to create some validation files?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I know, voting is based on questions and answers, not on users. Still, with your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63051/flybywire&quot;&gt;335 questions and 97 answers&lt;/a&gt;, I'd feel &lt;em&gt;extra&lt;/em&gt; bad if that specific downvoted answer was mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T15:32:27.150" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:32:27.150" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36463" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T15:11:02.737" Score="6" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;While subscribing to the Stack Overflow podcasts on iTunes, I noticed there were &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; entries to subscribe to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blog - Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are currently being updated with the same content but I'm subscribed to both because I don't want to miss anything if one suddenly stops being updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is one more &quot;official&quot; than the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:21:54.503" Title="Two Stack Overflow Podcast on iTunes. Is either &quot;official?&quot;" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36463" CreationDate="2010-01-21T15:13:53.743" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that one is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; and the other is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IT Conversations&lt;/a&gt; which is used to host the podcast files. The content should be identical, but the ITC version sometimes arrives earlier than the blog.stackoverflow.com post IME.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T15:21:54.503" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:21:54.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-21T15:27:36.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really do want to see when &lt;code&gt;delete&lt;/code&gt; events happen.  Everything else looks great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:27:36.083" />
  <row Id="36466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36442" CreationDate="2010-01-21T15:39:51.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvotes shouldn't take into account whether the question is your own or not, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; you can successfully ignore the fact that you know more about the problem than you have described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case (in which the answer is mine), it wasn't so much that the question is unclear, but the understanding of the author about a concept in the question was incorrect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the answer will probably be helpful in an environment different from the one of the OP, which stays hidden from the answerer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, downvoting answers on own questions (and actually on all questions) should occur only if the answer is &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;irrelevant&lt;/em&gt;. If it is not helping because it assumes something that wasn't mentioned in the question, a comment should be added (and the question updated) to make things clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:39:51.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-21T15:43:57.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What causes people to always hide data that helps in answering problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of reasons, but the main problem is how do you know what data will help solve a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to pare down my questions to the bare essentials, and leave out any information that is not relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't include information that may cause people to go off on tangents.  For instance there may be no need to discuss the ethics of what I'm doing, so I might re-frame the question slightly so people don't go off the rail and start worrying about what they might assume are my contractual obligations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I sometimes limit information that may cause people to think 'in the box' to use a horrible phrase.  In other words if I give them everything, they may not consider all the options.  I may be stuck in some problem because I think I must approach it from some direction, so by limiting information someone else isn't restricted by assumptions I've made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the above, the other answers here address your specific example very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:43:57.170" />
  <row Id="36470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36414" CreationDate="2010-01-21T15:49:13.380" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can answer for myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first sentence of the second paragraph looked like you were trying to break into Wordpress by doing admin things without admin privileges.  When I realized what you were really asking, all I could do was edit the question to make it clear what you meant (I am a native English speaker), since we can't retract close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do understand your concern, and I'm not sure quite what to recommend.  Perhaps a more tabular setup would have worked better for this question, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I want to add a field to WordPress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requirements:&#xA;...*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;although I don't know if that would work better in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly we should have a question here about recommendations for people with poor English skills, since we're trying to be a good worldwide forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T15:49:13.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36414" CreationDate="2010-01-21T16:07:51.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You posed the question poorly, and it's obvious you are not a programmer.  The reason someone voted as &quot;blatantly offensive&quot; is either due to the impression that you might be exploiting wordpress security, or that you are asking a &quot;please send me the code&quot; question - ie, your inexperience means that you need someone to post a complete solution for you, rather than giving you a push in the right direction with a simple answer and perhaps example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited the question to more explicitly show that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a programming question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The issue you are interested in is front and center (user roles, not adding a field)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I've voted to re-open.  Note that there are Wordpress developer forums that might be able to help you more quickly than SO, but I believe this question has a place here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this helps you, and good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:07:51.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36452" CreationDate="2010-01-21T16:28:41.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Information hiding is almost never the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:28:41.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36477" CreationDate="2010-01-21T16:46:22.173" Score="0" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3586/can-i-tell-who-downvoted-one-of-my-answers&quot;&gt;Can I tell who downvoted one of my answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to check who has upvoted or downvoted your answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142164" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T18:25:01.340" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T18:25:01.340" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T19:32:14.320" Title="View vote details" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36475" CreationDate="2010-01-21T16:48:13.697" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, voting is anonymous. You don't really &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to know who voted which way either :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:48:13.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36475" CreationDate="2010-01-21T16:48:58.597" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there's no easy way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can sometimes figure it out by examining coincidental events, but even then you can't be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:48:58.597" />
  <row Id="36478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-21T16:54:29.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering with example.com and similar anonymous websites can make the question seem more applicable to a wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I come across a question about MX records for csszengarden.com, I might assume that the problem has to do with css instead of MX records.   If I come across the same question with &quot;example.com&quot; I will look into it for help with MX records.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T16:54:29.237" />
  <row Id="36479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36481" CreationDate="2010-01-21T16:56:02.527" Score="5" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I think I'd ever eclipse it, but just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T17:02:16.630" Title="What's the max length of the edit summary?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-01-21T17:01:45.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if &lt;strong&gt;revised posts showed the actual changes&lt;/strong&gt;. Right now, all you see is the final result; no revision markup. You can reuse the display style from SO's revision history views. Like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;BEFORE (no markup)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/timeline1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;AFTER (with markup)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/timeline2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T17:01:45.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36479" CreationDate="2010-01-21T17:02:16.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;300 Characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;label&amp;gt;Edit Summary&amp;lt;span class=&quot;form-error&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/label&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;input id=&quot;edit-comment&quot; type=&quot;text&quot; maxlength=&quot;300&quot; size=&quot;60&quot; name=&quot;edit-comment&quot; tabindex=&quot;109&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T17:02:16.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36362" CreationDate="2010-01-21T17:34:07.837" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If votes or questions/answers with them get removed after you hit the rep limit, the limit stays active, so that new upvotes still won't count. This might lead to a low limit for the day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tejp.de/files/linked/img/so-replimit.png&quot; alt=&quot;rep limit 104&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This example is caused by an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2106197/how-to-write-a-progam-that-intelligently-picks-powerball-numbers&quot;&gt;this deleted question&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T13:17:42.113" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:17:42.113" />
  <row Id="36484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36344" CreationDate="2010-01-21T17:55:43.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I typically abstract my problem for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am creating IP for my company. Non-abstracted information is a violation of my agreements with my company. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The greater context is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of the reasons above.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T17:55:43.433" />
  <row Id="36485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36209" CreationDate="2010-01-21T18:37:55.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if someone wants to donate they will do it with or without the ad.. It's not something like &quot;Product X&quot; that maybe is not known to the person viewing the page; I believe all of us are familiar with what happened and know that donations are appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T18:37:55.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T18:37:55.070" />
  <row Id="36486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23490" CreationDate="2010-01-21T18:55:21.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, where Jeff introduces the timeline feature (Meta only right now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T18:55:21.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T18:56:20.847" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where would questions like this go?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/98849/why-does-wikipedia-work-closed&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/98849/why-does-wikipedia-work-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T19:10:47.490" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T19:31:29.987" Title="Where would computer/industry related subjective discussion questions go?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36487" CreationDate="2010-01-21T19:03:25.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On very general forums, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because wikipedia is accessed through a computer, doesn't make it computer related.  The referenced question also is a discussion question, which is not what the SO-family sites are built for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T19:03:25.947" />
  <row Id="36489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36487" CreationDate="2010-01-21T19:30:33.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;strong&gt;Other/General&lt;/strong&gt; category in this list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T19:30:33.623" />
  <row Id="36490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36487" CreationDate="2010-01-21T19:31:29.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Super User is for computer enthusiasts&#xA;  and power users. If you have a&#xA;  question ... and it is not about ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;websites or web services like Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;then you're in the right place to ask&#xA;  your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are&#xA;  subjective, argumentative, or require&#xA;  extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given those guidelines (the second of which applies universally to the Trilogy, and frankly to many of the StackExchange sites as well), this question and others of its ilk explicitly don't belong on the Trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because we have 3 buckets (4 if you count Meta) doesn't mean we have a place to address every question about anything technical on the planet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your discussion may well have merit, but it is not a good fit for SuperUser, nor frankly any of the Trilogy sites. It's much better being discussed in a blog post or on a general purpose discussion board/forum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T19:31:29.987" />
  <row Id="36492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T19:33:32.383" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;Server Fault FAQ&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... then you're in the right place to&#xA;  ask your question! Well, as long as&#xA;  the question is about your servers,&#xA;  your networks, or desktops you&#xA;  support, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is about a company laptop that I have to support. The question was closed and moved to superuser, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I include the question here so someone can point out how the question does not fit the letter and the spirit of the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a laptop that fails to boot&#xA;  with the BSOD error&#xA;  &quot;&quot;page_fault_in_non_paged_area&quot; STOP:&#xA;  0x00000050 (0xEC6B738D, 0x00000000,&#xA;  0x8649308C, 0x00000000) The laptop has&#xA;  2 memory DIMMs. I removed each DIMM&#xA;  one at a time and the error remained&#xA;  with just one DIMM installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have run spinrite 6.0 on the hard&#xA;  drive no errors found. Booted to&#xA;  recovery mode and ran CHKDSK /R, it&#xA;  found and fixed errors but still gets&#xA;  the stop error. Any other suggestions&#xA;  to try?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142191" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T09:49:28.780" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T09:49:28.780" Title="What business user computer questions are allowed on Server Fault?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36492" CreationDate="2010-01-21T19:38:37.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a problem that sometimes occurs on ServerFault, where those sysadmins who only have to deal with huge batches of computers, forget what it's like to have to deal with those individual smaller issues.  I've seen that problem occur a few times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T19:38:37.440" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36492" CreationDate="2010-01-21T19:41:44.393" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if the environment is a business or IT setting, the problem itself may be a regular computer issue that people outside the IT field might encounter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, did you follow the link to the migrated question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/98872/xp-stop-error-50-page-fault-in-non-paged-area&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/98872/xp-stop-error-50-page-fault-in-non-paged-area&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's already an answer there.  Does it really matter to you which site you get the answer from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T19:49:10.913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T19:49:10.913" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36492" CreationDate="2010-01-21T19:46:26.223" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question, and something that continues to come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For individual, help-desk or desktop tech type questions I always send them over to SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For larger architecture type questions, eg- &quot;How do I change domain membership for a location worth of PC's?&quot;, SF is the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to close your particular question on SF because it was specific to one PC having a problem, and it's very much a localized thing that anyone with an XP machine could see.  Now, if you had rolled out a specific change via GPO, WSUS or something and it whacked a boatload of your domain PC's with the same stop error, then I'd have kept it on SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T19:46:26.223" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35970" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:03:00.380" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the OP. I don't have a watch out in front of me, and don't feel like doing exponential backoff algorithms in my head. The new &quot;timer reset&quot; sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you (stackoverflow gods) want to prevent spammers / net traffic, have two timer thresholds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;start the timer after a comment is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;if someone attempts to post a comment before the timer reaches 5 seconds, complain and reset the timer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, if someone attempts to post a comment before the timer reaches 25 seconds, complain (but DON'T reset the timer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After the timer reaches 25 seconds, accept the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:03:00.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36501" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:05:58.003" Score="0" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I have created a tag that is not so clear, does not make sense or whatever (needs to be changed), how can I fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need to fix this tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/1m&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/1m&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136156" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T20:40:47.767" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:40:47.767" Title="How can I edit one of my created tags" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36500" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:06:54.100" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't delete, or edit tags. Put in a request for an admin to do so if you feel it is necessary. All-the-more reason to give careful thought to the tags you create and use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:06:54.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36506" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:10:44.090" Score="-3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed users with higher reputations get their answers upvoted over others, even if they provide the same or very similar answer.  Why is their answer any more correct than another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that perhaps similar/same answers should be &quot;collapsed&quot; and upvotes credited to the original (chronologically) answer.  Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141499" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T20:33:38.797" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:53:34.790" Title="Collapse Multiple Same Answers to Question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36502" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:14:11.103" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the collapsing would have to be done manually, and in a lot of cases, there is slightly different information, so a lot of judgement calls would have to be made on whether two answers are the same or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:14:11.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36502" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:16:22.863" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How&lt;/strong&gt; you answer is as important as &lt;strong&gt;what you say&lt;/strong&gt; in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:16:22.863" />
  <row Id="36505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:17:49.287" Score="2" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I have a question on SED, where does it belong? &#xA;SU? &#xA;SO? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably not SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140407" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T20:31:57.913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T15:17:33.083" Title="Where do SED questions belong within SOFU?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36502" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:20:34.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I try to make my answers stand out. Technically I provide the same answer as a lot of others, but I try to add more information, links, or something else to make it stand out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2081806/what-does-mean-in-php/2081809#2081809&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; technically has the same information as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2081806/what-does-mean-in-php/2081837#2081837&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Same thing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234808/stop-people-from-refreshing-the-page/1234825#1234825&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1961411/extract-all-the-data-from-a-database/1961417#1961417&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all basically the same answer, but the differences are in the quality you provide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:20:34.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36502" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:21:08.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see that this would get ignored in a hurry.  There's no decent systematic approach to this, the coding would be quite complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:21:08.793" />
  <row Id="36509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36505" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:22:25.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on what you're trying to do with it.  I could think of applicable situations for all 3 sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:22:25.437" />
  <row Id="36510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36512" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:32:44.417" Score="7" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found that marking &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke-closed&lt;/a&gt; as a favorite removes the number of people having set it as a favorite and resets it to 2, and subsequently unmarking it will set the number to 1. Refreshing the page with it marked shows the proper number again, but then unmarking it as a favorite will set the number to 0 marking it as a favorite again at this point changes the number to 1. This seems to hold true for other high favorited counts as well, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139469" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T06:17:55.957" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T06:17:55.957" Title="Favorite Question Number Bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36510" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:35:40.697" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent find! Edge case, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:35:40.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36510" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:36:11.413" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is it has something to do with adding or subtracting 1 from the number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When creating a greasemonkey script, I ran into the problem with the formating of numbers, as they use &lt;code&gt;40k&lt;/code&gt; for &lt;code&gt;40000&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;1,000&lt;/code&gt; for &lt;code&gt;1000&lt;/code&gt;. Both of these formats are regularly un-proccessable by Javascript without knowing about them before hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ended up having to create a function that would translate StackOverflow numbers into regular parse-able numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In jQuery, the function that updates the count is probably something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;score = parseInt($('#favorite_count').text(), 10);&#xA;$('#favorite_count').text(score-1);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$('#favorite_count').text(score+1);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is happening is the `parseInt' sees the comma, and then stops reading the number. Therefore truncating it to 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1+1 = 2 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1-1 = 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following that logic, any question with 2,000 favorites will show 3 when you favorite it, and 1 when you unfavorite it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason we haven't figured this out till now is because there really hasn't been that many questions that get 1,000+ favorites, and we mostly deal with 1s, 10s, and 100s. All three of these do not have any special formating, and therefore have worked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that you would have to parse the number, make a modification, and then reformat it, and then display it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T01:27:33.117" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T01:27:33.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14610" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:38:56.430" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to follow up on a question I downvoted and now I can't find it anymore... I used this tab to this end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please bring it back&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:38:56.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:40:09.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't look at rep at all when I upvote, but I do confess that if Jon Skeet or Marc Gravell (really, anyone in the top ten) answer the question, I generally assume that their answer is correct without checking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the idea that people are upvoting high-rep users because they have high rep is highly speculative.  Do you have proof that this is occurring?  Maybe the high-rep users have high rep because they give better answers.  I have nearly 30,000 rep on SO, and I can tell you that I'm pretty sure that I'm not favored at all when it comes to voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is favored are the kinds of popular questions that get lots of views, where the answers are easily understandable.  But I think that kind of low-hanging fruit is getting harder to find, what with duplicates, strict Community-Wiki policy and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T23:32:53.283" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:32:53.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T20:40:09.873" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36502" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:53:34.790" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would suggest that perhaps similar/same answers should be &quot;collapsed&quot; and upvotes credited to the original (chronologically) answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that if you post an answer and find that someone else has already posted one that's the same or very similar, you either improve yours to make it stand out, or delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suggest that if you're reading a question and find two answers that are effectively the same, you down-vote the one posted later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can do this on your own or with friends; no special tools or moderator intervention needed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:53:34.790" />
  <row Id="36517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8870" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:55:25.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People use the favorite list for a very wide variety of reasons.  Some use it as a 'mark of honor' - in other words they never use their list, they just like to make sure some questions get a little more attention.  Others only add questions to their list that they want to re-read later, or answer later, etc - so they use it as a sort of 'task list'.  Some people just mark questions they think they might want to read later but not have to search for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that users that have been around awhile, or use the site a lot, have hundreds of questions, and it's not easy finding a needle in the haystack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a user might mark their own question as a favorite if they want to keep tabs on it over a longer period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know a few users mark their own question as a favorite to generate the perception of interest - in other words by marking it as a favorite other users are more likely to see that someone found it especially useful, and treat it more favorably than otherwise.  This is the only gaming aspect I can think of (aside from the badges, which, frankly, has such a miniscule effect it's not worth considering).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But mainly people who mark their own questions are likely using it as a sort of 'task list' - questions they want to follow over a longer period of time than just a day or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:55:25.080" />
  <row Id="36518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36510" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:57:34.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rounding error.  Favorite counts are stored as a 3 bit floating point number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't ask why, just accept it and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:57:34.483" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:57:34.890" Score="2" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently reached the 3000 rep limit for &quot;voting to close&quot;. But, since I've joined stackoverflow just some weeks ago, I think it is actually too early and I shouldn't have this privilege.&#xA;Closing a question is quite a sensitive thing for the author and it is likely possible that the author never asks anything again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my point is that knowing the community for just some weeks (as in my case) does not give you enough understanding to influence other users that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and, yes I just created a &quot;false positive&quot; by accident, when marking a question as a duplicate even though it wasn't)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:00:12.327" Title="3000 rep for closing - too early?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36519" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:58:55.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that it is too early... you need to find four other people who agree with you before the question will be closed. So from that point of view it is a little bit self policing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, everyone makes mistakes, but so long as you learn from them, and it sounds like you are/did then I think it is just time to move on. Remember, assuming that the ticket that you flagged was closed, four other people agreed with you, and they are probably not all &quot;newbies&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135484" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:58:55.277" />
  <row Id="36521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36519" CreationDate="2010-01-21T20:59:40.237" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.  It's about right.  It takes a good programmer about 15-30 hours over at least 15 days to generate 3k rep.  This is enough time to largely understand how the community works, and to be given a way to affect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it requires more than one vote to close, then it requires 75+ hours and 75+ days of combined SO usage to close a question, and only 75+ hours and 75+ days of combined SO usage to re-open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, if you make it too large, people won't feel the sense of ownership required to keep the community fresh and strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T20:59:40.237" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:07:33.150" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does High Reputation Attract Too Many ‘Up-Votes’?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correlation does not imply causation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are simply looking at things in reverse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The correct question is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did they get such a high rep in&#xA;  the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find that those with high rep answer quickly, legibly, understand the problem, explain themselves well, and in general provide very, very good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while you might think that two answers are the same from your perspective, the one with a slightly more accessible phrasing has an immediate edge over the one that while technically correct isn't worded as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you provide some examples of answers where the reputation was the only difference, then we might be able to quantify the effect better.  In the past (this is not the first time this question has come up) most examples could readily be torn apart and shown that the votes really did fall to the more deserving answers, apart from the person posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:07:33.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T21:07:33.150" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="36523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36519" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:07:53.773" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think it is too early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After two months, you can say you have an idea of what the community likes, but you're more likely to be less restrictive than SO needs to be to stay on topic.  After 4 months (of regular activity) you can safely say the person 'gets' the pulse of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we've gone from 637 people that could close questions in March 2009 to 2275+ that can close questions (as of two days ago) -- that's almost a four-fold increase in 10 months -- a sure sign of reputation inflation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation to close (or re-open) should be kept in line with reputation inflation -- and right now, it isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T21:39:19.707" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:39:19.707" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:13:14.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is that people are too ready to upvote - full stop. An experienced SO user will typically get a well-presented (though maybe not technically correct) answer in before a less experienced user, and despite the proprietor's &quot;coddle the newbs&quot; attitude, these will tend to get the first few drive-by upvotes, which then escalate. I'm tempted to suggest a penalty for upvoting - maybe 1 point to upvote versus 5 to downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T22:59:33.987" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:59:33.987" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T21:13:14.183" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36519" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:13:37.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take it easy 'til you get a feel for it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance&quot;&gt;And read this&lt;/a&gt;. You're going to make mistakes, and while you seem to have done a good job of becoming acclimated to SO in a relatively short time, there's still a lot that you should become familiar with before you start handing out close votes willy-nilly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't think 3K is too early. There are a tremendous number of questions posted on SO, and a good-sized subset that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; need to be closed - if you're willing to help with that, then good for you. Treat it as a privilege and a responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:13:37.833" />
  <row Id="36528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35659" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:24:55.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon/84747#84747&quot;&gt;random number generator&lt;/a&gt; to determine the correct time to end the nomination process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:24:55.840" />
  <row Id="36529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7000" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:25:59.973" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.  The particular questions you link to don't demonstrate this well, but if they were phrased differently, then certainly they would require a different audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, on SF I'd prefer to see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We have users across several continents, nations, with different equipment and resources.  We'd like a company-wide policy on cleaning your display devices that will not only work on CRTs, LCDs with glossy finishes, LCDs with matte finishes, conference room TVs, phone displays, etc, but use commonly (and legally!) available, inexpensive solvents and cleaning materials so that we can reduce tech support issues and have a single, cohesive, and widely applicable display cleaning policy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; be in the realm of IT, whereas the more general &quot;how do I clean my monitor&quot; questions might well be relegated to SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the questions are still similar, but they have a different answer and audience, and require a different point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:25:59.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:30:20.023" Score="14" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it would be cool to be able to see your historical ranking within stackoverflow. The question is, would it be motivating to see the line go up? And would it motivate you, if you saw the line going down, to do better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135484" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:47:14.387" Title="Would it be nice to have a history graph of your overall position in the reputation rankings?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13573" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:31:51.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagging &gt;= Grouping&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If tagging used well,then it is able to perform hierarchical groupings. This is how I use tagging to make grouping possible. &#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/45412920@N03/4293243741&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/45412920@N03/4293243741&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If others think so as well, we can promote this usage. Say post questions on writing an IPhone Instance Menessage Client, So I try to tag it this way &quot;IPhone Instance Menessage Client&quot;, hope other who writes IM Client would the same way,so I would be able to locate the message in a better organized way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:31:51.270" />
  <row Id="36532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36530" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:34:02.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would mostly be going up, because of the influx of new people with a one rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you could do it for all with rep over a certain amount, but I think the newbies coming in would still skew it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:34:02.077" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36530" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:38:14.500" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've got a good point about it motivating people to do more / better.  The question that remains to be answered, though, would be if it also made overall quality go down.  I know personally it would make me want to do better (I admittedly kinda watch it as it is), but I'd sure not want people to bang in more crap just for the sake of having more in the pot to garnish rep from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:38:14.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:38:27.243" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Home Run&lt;/strong&gt; - Hit the rep cap just from one answer (or question) posted that same day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastEditorUserId="138400" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T00:46:41.013" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T00:46:41.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-21T21:38:27.243" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36536" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:48:27.690" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to add a series of tags to the interesting or ignored tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example adding &lt;code&gt;*boring*&lt;/code&gt; to ignored tags, would be the same as adding &lt;code&gt;boring-questions&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;boring-answers&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;also-boring&lt;/code&gt; separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if not, would it be possible to add it as a feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141775" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:50:25.143" Title="Add a series of tags at once" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36535" CreationDate="2010-01-21T21:50:25.143" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't really add a series of tags at once, but what you suggested is basically what exists. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wildcards.&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you add &lt;code&gt;*boring*&lt;/code&gt;, it won't break it down to individual tags, but will act like a wildcard filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T21:50:25.143" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36519" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:00:12.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked 8 questions which others have answered 24 times. You received 17 up-votes on your questions with zero down-votes. You have answered 184 questions and had a grand total of 2 down-votes, ever. You've won the Nice-Answer badge. You've already bumped up against the reputation cap at least once. You're active in 246 tags and cast 92 votes. The very idea that &lt;strong&gt;you are considering the sensitivity of closing a question&lt;/strong&gt; shows that you are not out to abuse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is an indication of your experience with the site. With that experience, you gain the trust to exercise your judgment in self-moderation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think you are more than &quot;qualified&quot; to cast a &lt;em&gt;single vote&lt;/em&gt; when you feel strong enough that something doesn't look right.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relax and enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:00:12.327" />
  <row Id="36538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35659" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:09:16.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The voting system for Stack Overflow isn't well suited to nominations and elections; there are no penalties for voting, and therefore no opportunity costs. You can vote for me, but also vote for every other candidate, and not miss anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were to list the 'rules' of voting for moderators on Stack Overflow, here's what they'd look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can cast 30 votes a day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can only cast 1 vote per person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can either vote for or against a particular candidate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can vote in a particular question as many times as there are candidates (+1 for the question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Constrast that with how primaries work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can only vote for one candidate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your vote for that one candidate implies you voting against every other candidate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You only get one vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system for nominations isn't at all conducive to actually finding out who the people want. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting block is not constrained, unlike a primary and an election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were going to be an accurate nomination process on Stack Overflow, we'd have to do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Limit a person to one vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No downvotes can be cast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes must be cast during a single time period (1 day).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an election, it'd have to be the same process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt; day lead-time (for advertising the election), and 1 day for an actual election, with the aforementioned rules in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you have to do it this way? Well, if you didn't do it this way, there are the following potential holes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting according to popularity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The candidates can vote against other candidates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Individuals that just want to wreak havoc can go through and randomly upvote and downvote candidates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comment structure allows people to color judgment without recourse. Saying that I am 'abrasive' without any factual proof, can color someone's vote for or against me. But if I don't respond, then 'silence is consent' takes over and everyone thinks, &quot;Wow, George is an abrasive guy.&quot; If I do respond, that creates its own issues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting up multiple candidates --  for one position, that creates confusion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:09:16.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:27:32.560" Score="-4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that if your answer is edited, that you are then allowed to change your vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you are the person who edits the answer, should you be allowed to change your vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I ask this is that one of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2107911/safe-class-imports-from-jar-files/2107939#2107939&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt; recently had a one character whitespace change, and immediately afterwards, was voted down... now, this might be co-incidence ;-) but it is a big one if so, and what I believe happened is that the question was edited, explicitly so that the user could change their vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are your thoughts? Should this be allowed? [Apparently, yes, it should]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit&lt;/b&gt;: OK... I get the hint, this is as designed. I would delete the question, but too many people have disagreed with me, so now I can't ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135484" LastEditorUserId="135484" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T22:46:14.843" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:48:54.103" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T23:09:37.143" Title="If you edit an answer, you should not be allowed to change your vote. [yes, you should]" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;change-vote&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36539" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:33:06.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with the current situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like: if I misunderstood an answer and voted down, and then later understand that I was wrong, then why shouldn't I be able to clarify the answer (assuming that will prevent others from misunderstanding as well) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; remove my downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:33:06.340" />
  <row Id="36541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36539" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:33:58.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that it is explicitly allowed, even recommended, when you want to change a vote after the initial lock-in period.  The idea is that at least edits are tracked so if a vote is changed after an edit you can find out who did it and notice patterns of behavior that might lead one to believe that voting fraud is taking place.  Normally, you'd see this as a downvote, edit, then removal of the downvote (strategic voting to improve the chances of the voter's answer being place higher in the answer list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally see no problem with editing an answer to change a vote if no fraud is intended and that is the only mechanism available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:33:58.537" />
  <row Id="36542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36539" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:39:17.993" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if they just allowed users of a LARGE rep too just be able to change their vote without an edit.  This would keep out any hint of impropriety, and keeps the post from inching towards Community Wiki status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:39:17.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36546" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:45:52.487" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/531/filter-view-to-show-only-interested&quot;&gt;Filter view to show only interested&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11563/tab-for-interesting-questions&quot;&gt;Tab for interesting questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably a dumb noob question but I can't find the answer anywhere - how do I only view questions that are tagged with one or more of my &quot;interesting&quot; tags? Evidently SO knows which questions these are, as it highlights them, but they are relatively few and far between and I'd like to improve the visual S/N ratio when viewing new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142198" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T22:52:19.400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:11:59.603" ClosedDate="2010-01-21T23:41:43.983" Title="How can I just view questions that are tagged with my &quot;interesting&quot; tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36530" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:47:14.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If, after a certain amount of time, your ranking in the system hasn't become a minor concern in your rationale for participating, I think that there's something fundamentally wrong.  I'll grant you that getting on the front page of users and getting ranked higher was for a few months a big part of why I kept coming back, but I've resigned myself to never getting a higher ranking on SO and, likely, losing my position.  This is actually a healthly thing as I was (and probably still am) spending way too much time on this venture.  I'm not interesting in doing any more to encourage people to seek ranking glory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly now I'm mainly here to learn and to communicate what I've learned which, I've found, is actually the best way to actually learn yourself.  You certainly find out how much you don't know when start answering questions on stuff you thought you knew, but didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:47:14.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36539" CreationDate="2010-01-21T22:48:54.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Time was, you could just change your vote. For any reason. Or no reason at all. Whenever you felt like it... Well, there was &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; cut-off, but it was hours or perhaps even &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; after the vote was cast; hardly notable, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then someone made a big stink about &quot;strategic voting&quot;, and the undo/change feature got caught in the crossfire. Poor little bugger, never really had a chance, such a sad demise (I mourn it still).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now, if you up-vote a post and then realize that it has some grave but subtle error, or was edited after you read it but before you voted, or merely isn't as deserving of an up-vote as some other answer, you have to edit the post in order to retract it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clumsy? Yeah. But that's all we have - it's that or live with regret, forever tormented by &lt;em&gt;The Vote That Should Not Be&lt;/em&gt;. C'est la Vie...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T22:48:54.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36543" CreationDate="2010-01-21T23:11:59.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of us agree, but it's not the way the owners want the site to run. They want us to typically see all questions, so that an asker stands a better chance of getting their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:11:59.603" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-21T23:29:05.300" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;we're sorry, but as a spam prevention mechanism, new users can only post a maximum of one hyperlink. Earn 10 reputation to post more hyperlinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-21T23:37:49.420" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:38:44.923" Title="What does this mean when I try to post a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36547" CreationDate="2010-01-21T23:38:34.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means exactly what it says.  The only term that might be foreign is &lt;em&gt;reputation&lt;/em&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt; explains that (about halfway down the page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spammers thrive on getting things for free, so if you make them work a little (i.e. get 10 reputation points by answering a question and getting upvoted), they will go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:38:34.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36547" CreationDate="2010-01-21T23:38:44.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an effort to keep people from just posting questions with links to their website in them, new users are not allowed to put more than one link in their questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to just post the URL in your question until you get enough reputation to post more.  One of the more experienced users will most likely edit your question to make it an actual link for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:38:44.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2010-01-21T23:40:33.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvote questions that I found useful to me. If I have a problem and I find the solution on SO, the question and answer get an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answer questions which aren't useful to me, because I already know the answer. I frequently look over the unanswered questions to see if I can help someone out, and I'll answer all the questions I can, but that doesn't mean those questions good or useful to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-21T23:40:33.033" />
  <row Id="36551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2010-01-22T00:19:21.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only get 30 votes per day.  I read a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of posts each day.  If I voted for everything that deserved it, I'd be out of votes by 9am.  So I tend to reserve it for posts that I find are the most helpful.  Sometimes they are questions, but more often it's an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T00:19:21.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T00:20:17.357" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1919084/ms-excel-bubble-trouble-creating-amazing-looking-charts-closed&quot;&gt;This question has been closed and migrated&lt;/a&gt; with the tag &lt;code&gt;ms-excel&lt;/code&gt;, the tag for excel is just that. This question has led to several new questions being tagged &lt;code&gt;ms-excel&lt;/code&gt; and possibly overlooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132757" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T00:55:36.480" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T01:00:03.983" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-22T00:20:17.357" Title="Retagging questions that have been closed and migrated" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36553" CreationDate="2010-01-22T00:28:16.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some searching I found the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1919084/ms-excel-bubble-trouble-creating-amazing-looking-charts-closed&quot;&gt;question Remou (the original poster of this question) was referring to&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator should be able to clean that tag out; though I don't know if we should change it since &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ms-access&quot;&gt;Microsoft Access is referred to as &lt;code&gt;ms-access&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Keeping the &lt;code&gt;ms-excel&lt;/code&gt; tag would seem consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, we should re-tag &lt;code&gt;excel&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;ms-excel&lt;/code&gt; to retain consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T00:28:16.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-22T00:28:16.310" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28924" CreationDate="2010-01-22T01:27:06.157" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add a tab in the Profile for 'Name History'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T01:27:06.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T02:21:40.547" Score="10" ViewCount="756" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I hit upon an interesting question here on Stack Overflow (about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211055/does-linux-provide-a-monotonically-increasing-clock-to-applications&quot;&gt;monotonically increasing time&lt;/a&gt;, but that is beside the point). I immediately thought I could contribute somewhat, and so tried to log-in, using my google OpenID thingadongdong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn’t work. well, somehow it &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt;. Anyhow, I was greeted with a ‘we don’t know you around here, so start something new and tell us who you are’-ish message. I only recently updated to Firefox 3.5, and since this is a machine on the quit, I never bothered to load all of my user data into the new version, so also logins and passwords are still stuck in the old browser version. So I go back to Firefox 2.x and look up my password for stackoverflow.com, but it is not in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, but people: I find this OpenID concept positively disengaging. I have more trouble with my OpenIDs than with my classical, particular accounts, save those from Yahoo!, whose account management is unspeakable. And this is yet another flaw of OpenID: the browser can’t help you to remember the key data; for the browser, authenticating, at stackoverflow.com, using a Google OpenID account, looks like logging into Google, not Stack Overflow, so it won’t tell you what password you had used. OpenID has many more flaws, but you already knew that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out, as I come back to stackoverflow.com, in the new browser (but that’s beside the point), and resolve to accept-n-click that ‘yeah, I’m no one here so let’s register again’ button, I get directed to a page that knows bloody &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; about me---EXCEPT FOR THAT PICTURE that serves to identify me. Look at it and tell me it is not a default chosen by the system. If so, I did log in to Stack Overflow I swear in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So am I paranoid or did they lose part of your user data? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T10:01:02.700" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T10:01:02.700" Title="Does Stack Overflow forget their registered users?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;thingadongdong&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="9" />
  <row Id="36559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36557" CreationDate="2010-01-22T02:56:22.833" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your post is too long and meandering, and I have no idea what I need to do to reproduce your problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your last question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no idea if you're paranoid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They did not lose part of &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; user data.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you used the OR operator between the two in a sentence suggesting that the operation as a whole must be true, and the second part is not true, then the first part must be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry I'm not more helpful.  I worked today, so I've already had my daily dose of crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: This post and its contents do not reflect the views and positions of Pollyanna, Adam Davis, their sock puppets, or any of their alternate personalities.  Please do not adjust your TV set.  The contents of this post were tested on animals, and those that survived wanted seconds.  Please recycle all unused bits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:Thingadongdong (That is all)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T07:31:28.550" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T07:31:28.550" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36505" CreationDate="2010-01-22T02:58:16.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I default to considering &lt;code&gt;sed&lt;/code&gt; a language and expect most such questions to be better suited for Stack Overflow than Super User. But I am not dogmatic about it. In some contexts Server Fault might the best place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T15:17:33.083" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T15:17:33.083" />
  <row Id="36561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36557" CreationDate="2010-01-22T03:20:18.097" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Mr. Flow,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your user thingadongdong page is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/256361/flow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/256361/flow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It tells me that you have a registered thingadongdong with a Google (gmail) OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have unregistered (cookie-based) thingadongdongs on other questions you have asked or answers you have provided?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general strategy is to click &quot;register&quot; to associate an OpenID with the cookie of the unregistered thingadongdong, thus making it a registered thingadongdong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T03:20:18.097" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36505" CreationDate="2010-01-22T03:35:31.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post it on SO, and make sure you frame it as a programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T03:35:31.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36565" CreationDate="2010-01-22T04:10:13.600" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that particular question is entirely marketing related, and have read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10800/why-are-seo-questions-shut-down-as-not-programming-related/10887#10887&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; proposing that it belongs on neither SO or SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my question not welcome here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I post it to SU and hope it won't be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131118" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T04:20:48.817" Title="Where does &quot;What's better for SEO, A or B?&quot; Belong? SO, SF, or SU" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36563" CreationDate="2010-01-22T04:18:23.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pure SEO doesn't really fit anywhere in the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one of the many Stack Exchange sites would work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T04:18:23.130" />
  <row Id="36565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36563" CreationDate="2010-01-22T04:20:48.817" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is my question not welcome here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is likely to be closed.  There are other sites better suited for SEO questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look under the heading &lt;strong&gt;Web Design/Hosting/CMS&lt;/strong&gt; in this question for possible alternatives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I post it to SU and hope it won't be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, you shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T04:20:48.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36579" CreationDate="2010-01-22T05:49:21.890" Score="7" ViewCount="1200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opera 10 has a nice turbo mode where all requests are re-routed to Opera's servers ( &lt;code&gt;global-turbo-x.opera-mini.net&lt;/code&gt; ) where the pages are compressed and sent back to the client browser. Consequently all requests to a site arise from that server instead of the actual server. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I was unable to access SO[FU] from Opera. Initially I thought SO[FU] was down, but when I checked from my iPhone, the sites were accessible. I tried again in Opera, this time with &quot;Turbo&quot; mode Off, and yep I was able to access. Turn it on, and SO[FU] just refuses connections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8494/serverrefusestoperformr.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T19:09:50.520" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T19:09:50.520" Title="SO[FU] rejecting requests coming from Opera if &quot;Turbo&quot; mode is on" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="36567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36581" CreationDate="2010-01-22T06:59:43.663" Score="12" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am surprised no one has thought of this before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you choose an answer as the best, why not also have an option to tip the answerer if they were particularly helpful? In other words, you would 'donate' reputation to them. I have wished this existed on a couple of occaisions. I think it would be a great way to thank helpful people - we do this in a restaurant, why not online?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T06:47:15.677" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T06:47:42.217" Title="How come no option to 'tip' answerers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36567" CreationDate="2010-01-22T07:11:35.413" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tip is a nice term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel bad if I mark something as answer when there others equally as good, it would be nice to &quot;tip&quot; or somehow acknowledge that they are also as good, possibly with a extra +10 (upvote + answer = 25, so upvote + tip = 20).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think though, that just being able to give a tip would be open to abuse and/or should only be open for the question asker to give to the people answering - it shouldn't be open for anyone to tip anyone - that is what upvotes are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="132901" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T10:44:31.447" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T10:44:31.447" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36573" CreationDate="2010-01-22T07:34:48.403" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to edit a comment a moment ago, and it completely doubled up the edit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A glitch in the matrix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/5XXSo.png&quot; alt=&quot;freehand double comment boxes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-03T09:28:44.357" LastActivityDate="2010-08-03T09:28:44.357" Title="Double comment edit boxes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T07:45:31.327" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found discussions on up/down vote ratios but another ratio that might be useful is answers to down-votes.  If a user has a low number of answers but high number of down-votes then they could be trawling the site poo-pooing but not actually providing useful input.  I see that as quite a negative attitude, like they are afraid of contributing and being open to criticism themselves.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't think this would be worth displaying anywhere, nor is it badge-worthy but maybe a quiet, system gnerated warning when it reaches a certain level?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141615" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T07:59:05.570" Title="Another ratio - Answers to down-votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36571" CreationDate="2010-01-22T07:59:05.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there are useless downvotes - and useful ones. In particular, I find a downvote with an explanatory comment to be a useful contribution. Warning someone away from a bad answer is sometimes just as useful as providing a good one yourself. In particular, if the right answer already exists, then there's no point in adding it again - but by upvoting the right answer and downvoting the wrong one, you'd be making the overall question more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T07:59:05.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36569" CreationDate="2010-01-22T08:06:16.037" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get quite the same effect - although I briefly thought I did, due to the &quot;Add Comment&quot; box still being present at the same time. I notice that in your picture the Add Comment box &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; obviously present - so I wonder if it's actually the same issue, but showing itself in a different form? (e.g. somehow your Add Comment button was renamed to Save Edits)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the Add Comment box should be &lt;em&gt;replaced&lt;/em&gt; by the edit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Chrome 4.0.249.64 (35722) beta on Windows 7, by the way. Also happens with IE8 (still with the buttons being labeled differently though - so not quite the effect you're seeing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T08:06:16.037" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T08:15:37.937" Score="44" ViewCount="480" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often an edit to one of my questions or answers will make it a lot better. The edit can constitute more to the site than someone posting another answer or comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users make quite a lot of good edits and are awarded the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot;&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/223/copy-editor&quot;&gt;Copy Editor&lt;/a&gt; Badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is no incentive for people to edit well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as the person that posted the question/answer, let me mark the edit as &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;very useful&lt;/em&gt;, and then reward some rep to the person that did the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don’t think we need a full voting system on edits. That will just make the sites more complex.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="147778" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T21:02:53.063" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T21:02:53.063" Title="Let me reward a good edit on my question/answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36574" CreationDate="2010-01-22T08:23:02.193" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a ton of things we provide for users to vote on -- questions, answers, comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure revisions are the most exciting or useful thing to vote on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's anything like the code reviews on Google Code -- where you can rate a checkin in revision control as positive or negative -- it's extremely rare. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect voting on revisions would be massively underutilized. I am more open to the other request, to allow @name comments that target editors of a post (who have not commented on the post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T08:23:02.193" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="36577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36574" CreationDate="2010-01-22T08:35:18.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Editing to make a question better is a good thing, but I doubt this is what we want to &quot;vote&quot; or reward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a &quot;normal&quot; thing. Questions (and answers) should be clear in the first place, and include details, from the original poster. Allowing the original poster to give reputation for good edits is like saying &quot;ok, guys, I'm too lazy to make a good question, but I'll reward the one who does it for me&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not encouraging original posters to make a good effort in what they write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T08:35:18.577" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36566" CreationDate="2010-01-22T08:51:55.357" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The value of this should be fairly limited, since &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;we are pretty aggressive about making sure all our HTTP requests come back compressed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the site itself has almost no images&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;we don't host images here in posts (all external image hosts)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;we run &lt;code&gt;pngout&lt;/code&gt; on all our .png images so they're as small as they can be&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(now, there are exceptions around stuff that IIS7 has cached, like RSS feeds, which we haven't quite figured out. But in typical use of the site, 95% of your requests should be compressed. Verify in the sniffer if you like.. we have!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: it looks like opera's &quot;Turbo Mode&quot; proxies are intentionally retrieving pages uncompressed and getting banned for anomalous bandwidth use per day. That's ... &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sadtrombone.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ironic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T09:09:02.040" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T09:09:02.040" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36567" CreationDate="2010-01-22T09:33:28.460" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what the bounty system is for.. if you really want to reward a great answer, then start a bounty and award it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq/#bounty&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq/#bounty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty system was also enhanced to make this easier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improvements-to-bounty-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T06:47:42.217" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T06:47:42.217" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42371" CreationDate="2010-01-22T09:48:38.407" Score="8" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just noticed something strange with deleted answers. If I write an answer, then delete it, I can still edit it (that's per design, from what I noticed on other questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what seems not normal, is that editing a deleted answers still counts as a normal edit, and puts the question to the top of &quot;recent questions&quot;, even if there is no visible change (except for moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not fully sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I thought it was worth reporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T07:48:38.000" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:49:34.660" Title="Editing a deleted answer pokes the question to the top" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32247" CreationDate="2010-01-22T10:08:37.240" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some more details on the very rare &lt;strong&gt;Signature Verification Failed&lt;/strong&gt; error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the logs shown, the provider [MyOpenId] has &lt;strong&gt;processed several logins from this one person within a very small duration (less than a second)&lt;/strong&gt;.  Each authentication received has a nonce in it that can only be used once. As a &quot;dumb-mode&quot; RP, Stack Overflow sends each assertion to myopenid.com for verification, and myopenid.com will (or should) verify the first one, and reject the subsequent ones, if it's actually the same assertion used multiple times, which it likely is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My only theory to explain what you're seeing is that this person (or his proxy?) is &lt;strong&gt;repeating his HTTP request that sends the assertion back to Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;. And his browser displays the response that came from one any of the tries besides the first one.  I don't know why a proxy would do that, but according to the HTTP spec, a GET request is supposed to be entirely benign, which the OpenID spec violates, so I might believe a problem here.  One other possible source of the problem would be a browser &quot;accelerator&quot; plugin that aggressively fetches HTTP resources, resulting possibly in multiple calls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Verifying that this is the problem might be difficult.  Certainly you can try using Fiddler on his computer to see if the assertion is sent to Stack Overflow more than once, but that won't capture any funny behavior at the proxy level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you see this in your the OpenID provider logs..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;148 ms ago  10.0.0.1  Approve for http://stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate/&#xA;269 ms ago  10.0.0.1  Approve for http://stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate/&#xA;0 min  ago   0.0.0.1  Approve for http://stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate/&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's bad -- see the multiples, there? And in such a short timeframe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should look more like this, one login, one record:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;119 ms ago  10.0.0.1  Approve for http://stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate/&#xA;316 ms ago  10.0.0.1  Sign in by password &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew (resident OpenID expert) noted that some OpenID providers do not validate the time nonces, so you wouldn't necessarily see a problem when using Google or Yahoo. That's why this one is somewhat specific to myopenid and rapid logins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T10:14:19.783" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T10:14:19.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36586" CreationDate="2010-01-22T10:51:18.483" Score="8" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;This changed yesterday, in response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36286/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what others feel - I'd like it if there was a gravatar image shown reflecting the user who's contributed the most. At present there's no hint who wrote the below answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/25srhok.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T08:18:41.103" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T08:18:41.103" Title="Community Wiki and Attribution of Authorship" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36585" CreationDate="2010-01-22T11:00:42.143" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36286/&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer in the question you linked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is in, but it has a side-effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since the community wiki calculation&#xA;  does not display percentages when all&#xA;  the edits are by the same person,&#xA;  posts of that type will look&#xA;  ownerless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You'll see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And its comments, in particular this very good question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;can't you just make it say &quot;username&#xA;  100%&quot;? – Kip 19 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T11:00:42.143" />
  <row Id="36588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-01-22T11:38:25.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff just posted a blog about some: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/careers-success-stories/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/careers-success-stories/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T11:38:25.113" />
  <row Id="36589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36371" CreationDate="2010-01-22T11:57:02.873" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea.  Moderators love their flags, so I think the 10k tools could have their visible flag count also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I suggest keeping the same blue color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T22:33:46.023" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:33:46.023" />
  <row Id="36590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T12:12:30.730" Score="100" ViewCount="3535" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be totally useless, but I wanted to join the league of people who use the Google chart API and the data dump to create pretty pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I took a look at the relative sizes of the &quot;communities&quot; on the site, i.e. the numbers of users who are active in certain tags, and also how much the communities overlap. A user is considered a member of a tag's community if they have at least three questions or answers in the tag. Quality (i.e. post scores) doesn't count; this is &lt;strong&gt;solely about the number of users&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:72.12,100.00,5.89,22.54,1.95,4.86,1.61&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=python%20%284211%29|c%2B%2B%20%285839%29|qt%20%28344%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;what's with pyqt?&quot; title=&quot;what's with pyqt?&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,63.18,45.00,30.23,17.50,12.27,9.55&amp;amp;chco=00AFEF,BEB013,000000&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Super%20User&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=windows%20%28880%29|linux%20%28556%29|mac%20%28396%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;the center is where the flame wars start&quot; title=&quot;the center is where the flame wars start&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:69.65,39.30,100.00,12.46,21.73,25.56,9.58&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=sql-server%20%28218%29|performance%20%28123%29|security%20%28313%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;so, what exactly is the performance of a secure sql-server?&quot; title=&quot;so, what exactly is the performance of a secure sql-server?&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:25.64,5.13,100.00,1.28,19.23,3.85,1.28&amp;amp;chco=40ff40,30e0e0,ff20ff&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Meta&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=always-friday-in-iceland%20%2820%29|unicorns%20%284%29|status-declined%20%2878%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;this is from the April datadump -- there'll be more unicorns in May&quot; title=&quot;this is from the April datadump -- there'll be more unicorns in May&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts? Any three-combinations you'd like to see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The three C's&quot; as per Koper's request and the three ancients for Pollyanna:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:28.70,100.00,48.26,12.84,21.36,20.17,11.42&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%20%283472%29|c%23%20%2812098%29|c%2B%2B%20%285839%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;it's just a letter&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:15.64,18.96,100.00,0.47,0.47,0.95,0.00&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=cobol%20%2833%29|fortran%20%2840%29|lisp%20%28211%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;yep, it's not a lot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post additional &lt;strong&gt;requests as answers&lt;/strong&gt;; I'll edit the graph in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T05:52:46.097" LastActivityDate="2010-11-21T11:58:57.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" Title="Sizes and overlaps of communities on the sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="40" CommentCount="21" FavoriteCount="37" />
  <row Id="36591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36631" CreationDate="2010-01-22T12:43:29.160" Score="16" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is it possible that a question was asked &quot;-1s ago&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;[screenshot no longer available]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The servers seem to be even 6 (or more?) seconds out of sync:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;[screenshot no longer available]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-30T17:24:42.253" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T17:24:42.253" Title="Was a question asked in the future?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36591" CreationDate="2010-01-22T13:03:38.927" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the time is recorded in the database, but the comparison done on the web server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T13:03:38.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14448" CreationDate="2010-01-22T13:28:43.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that it's a logo is likely of very little interest to a non-sighted user. All they need to know is whatever information the image conveys. In effect, it's conveying the main heading of the site, which is not present in any text. Therefore, &lt;code&gt;alt=&quot;stackoverflow&quot;&lt;/code&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;alt=&quot;stack overflow&quot;&lt;/code&gt;) is probably most appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@redtuna: I believe that the fact that there's a link wrapped around the logo, which links to the home page, should be communicated via the &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; of the link. This information is specific to the link, not the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5058" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T13:28:43.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T13:50:47.587" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd quite like to see the overlap of users between the sites - who's active on SO, SF &amp;amp; SU (and meta?) generally, not in particular tags. Given that over all of recorded history this might be quite large, perhaps restrict it to the last week/month/quarter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T13:50:47.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15545" CreationDate="2010-01-22T13:54:17.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can Markdown be recovered from the SO data dump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but as with most translations the markdown may not match the original.  However, the HTML output would be the same, so there's no real impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/podcast-80/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO podcast #80&lt;/a&gt; we learned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393/cletus&quot;&gt;William Shields&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  has taken up Joel’s challenge to write&#xA;  a Markdown parser the right way — and&#xA;  produced an excellent series of&#xA;  articles about what he’s learned in&#xA;  the process: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/01/jmd-markdown-and-brief-overview-of.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/01/more-details-on-jmd-markdown-parsing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/01/markdown-musings-on-unintended.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cforcoding.com/2010/01/markdown-headings-grief-and-unknown.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;four&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;  It’s a perfect example of the type of&#xA;  learning that Stack Overflow itself is&#xA;  all about; kudos to William for&#xA;  sharing it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;William shares in those articles that one of the uses of his parser will be converting HTML into markdown.  You might contact him to see where he's at, and what other resources he is aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, conversion of markdown to HTML wouldn't be a bad topic to discuss on SO as well, so you might consider using that resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T13:54:17.407" />
  <row Id="36598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36574" CreationDate="2010-01-22T13:58:19.130" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concept is nice, but unfortunately it would lead to people &lt;em&gt;expecting&lt;/em&gt; to be rewarded for making 'good' edits to posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now we already have a lot of people that are unhappy when someone doesn't select an answer (even if they're already voted up to the top) - we don't need another &quot;Oh noes, I'm not getting rep that I know I deserve!&quot; trigger point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T13:58:19.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36613" CreationDate="2010-01-22T14:03:32.987" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31799/cant-access-careers-search-after-creating-a-cv&quot;&gt;Can&amp;rsquo;t access careers search after creating a CV&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How on earth do I test-drive the search interface for hiring managers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to be stuck on the candidate side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hitting the &quot;I'm hiring&quot; button when not logged in makes me login, tried to redirect to /employer and then redirects to /cv.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrrgghh! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142225" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T14:44:18.557" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:04:19.450" ClosedDate="2010-01-23T01:23:51.323" Title="Searching Stack Overflow Careers from the candidate side" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;employers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15545" CreationDate="2010-01-22T14:06:15.993" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't you write some &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;regular expressions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to convert the HTML back to markdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T14:06:15.993" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T14:23:14.877" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For alex:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,61.52,12.59,19.31,2.59,2.70,1.57&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%23%20%2812098%29|java%20%287443%29|objective-c%20%281523%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T14:23:14.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T14:35:28.313" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's great !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see, on SO :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ruby on Rails&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Django&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There you go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:96.93,50.24,100.00,4.19,5.84,2.24,0.83&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=ruby-on-rails%20%281991%29|django%20%281032%29|asp.net-mvc%20%282054%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;probably looks a lot like the ruby-python-c# graph&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T14:55:42.883" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T14:55:42.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T14:37:58.133" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to do a &quot;starts with&quot; on these? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, to clarify a slice in alex's request, I'd like to see an [objective-c]/[iphone-*]/[cocoa] breakout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your wish is my command:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,47.98,24.32,39.13,17.17,20.48,16.26&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=iphone%2a%20%283174%29|objective-c%20%281523%29|cocoa%20%28772%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;it's all about that iThingadongdong&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T15:14:10.780" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T15:14:10.780" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36567" CreationDate="2010-01-22T14:52:52.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's see -- you have the upvote, which you can award to anyone, including multiple posts, to indicate that they are &quot;good.&quot; These reward the recipient with +10 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have the &quot;accept,&quot; which is to indicate that said answer was &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; one which either directly solved your question or got you closest there. You can only accept one answer, and this rewards the recipient with +15 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the other answers are &quot;as good,&quot; they will be rewarded by other members of the community with their upvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: Once your question is here, it's not just your question anymore; it's the community's. They will also read it, and vote accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use your own analogy: Your upvote &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; your tip. Your acceptance is &quot;paying the check.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T14:58:11.693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T14:58:11.693" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36606" CreationDate="2010-01-22T14:55:06.143" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I offered a bounty on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2015288&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, but after the bounty expired, the only and top-rated answer was not auto-accepted. Now I don't have the option to accept any answer and the bounty points seem to have vanished altogether ... Is this a bug, expected behavior or did I do something wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This all happened many days ago, so it can't be related to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13186&quot;&gt;slight delay in auto-acceptance&lt;/a&gt;. Or can it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135623" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T20:51:05.887" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:51:05.887" Title="Highest-ranked answer not auto-selected at end of bounty and now I cannot select any answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36605" CreationDate="2010-01-22T15:00:23.637" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any answer with fewer than 2 upvotes will not be auto-accepted; you have to manually accept it. This is part of the &quot;contract,&quot; if you will, that starting a bounty gives you -- you're not &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to let it run out, you're supposed to select an answer. This is by design. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules of bounties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot;&gt;If a bounty is unresolved, you can never accept an answer.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9902/what-happens-if-there-are-no-answers-to-a-bounty-question&quot;&gt;There are no refunds for unresolved bounties.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21183/bounty-process-clarification&quot;&gt;Auto-resolved bounties (where the asker does not select the answer) only gain half-rep.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22094/how-to-extend-a-bounty&quot;&gt;Bounties currently cannot be extended if you feel you're not getting good answers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this can also be found in the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once initiated, the bounty period&#xA;  lasts 7 days. If you mark an accepted&#xA;  answer, your bounty is awarded to the&#xA;  answerer (do note that accepted bounty&#xA;  answers are permanent and cannot be&#xA;  changed). If you do not accept an&#xA;  answer in 7 days, here is what happens&#xA;  at the end of the bounty period:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least&#xA;  2 upvotes will be automatically&#xA;  accepted. Half the bounty will be&#xA;  awarded to the owner of that answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is no answer meeting the above criteria, and you as the&#xA;  question owner have not opted to&#xA;  accept an answer, you forfeit your&#xA;  right to ever accept an answer to your&#xA;  question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In any case, you will always give up&#xA;  the amount of reputation specified in&#xA;  the bounty, so if you start a bounty,&#xA;  be sure to follow up and accept the&#xA;  best answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T15:07:16.053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T15:07:16.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36567" CreationDate="2010-01-22T15:06:13.560" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you appreciate the help somebody provided, accept their answer, and then look through some of their answers to other questions. When you find good answers, upvote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do not&lt;/strong&gt; abuse the voting system. Vote only for questions that you genuinely feel merit an up vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T16:24:42.540" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:24:42.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36605" CreationDate="2010-01-22T15:13:24.637" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i38.tinypic.com/140eo3l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;It's not a bug!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T15:13:24.637" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36574" CreationDate="2010-01-22T15:25:45.263" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usual expedient: go to their profile, find a deserving question or answer of theirs and vote for it. Extra fun when you can bump them into a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T15:25:45.263" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36634" CreationDate="2010-01-22T15:36:46.860" Score="9" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question suggests that the servers used in the SO rack are not properly time sync'd:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36591/question-asked-in-future&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36591/question-asked-in-future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How are the servers clocks set?  (ie, NTP, or otherwise?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they synchronized to the same source, each other, or what configuration do you use?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do you have a single source you use, and what stratum level is it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who assigns a timestamp to a given post - the Database, or HTTP server?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not so concerned about keeping time exact with the rest of the world, this is primarily due to the possibility of gaming the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine a scenario where the web-facing servers are tested to find out which one is 'slowest' - several seconds behind the other servers - and then using that very slight advantage to exploit the FGITW issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would only work if&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The servers are not adequately time synchronized (ie, to within a second)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The HTTP servers assign the official post time to the post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it's a small advantage, and possibly not worth worrying about, but you may find that over time other interesting problems crop up if the systems are not properly time synchronized.  A good configuration using NTP should yield a server to server difference of less than 10mS - certainly enough to eliminate concerns over gaming, and to avoid other problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T18:34:26.470" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T03:39:38.910" Title="SO server time sync?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T15:37:28.123" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;PHP Javascript and HTML Anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bet it will just be a single circle :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well &amp;hellip; almost:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:98.56,100.00,62.87,43.01,33.91,45.99,27.86&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=php%20%286307%29|javascript%20%286399%29|html%20%284023%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:46.80,100.00,62.87,34.99,35.47,45.99,29.66&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=css%20%282995%29|javascript%20%286399%29|html%20%284023%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T16:29:13.743" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:29:13.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36591" CreationDate="2010-01-22T15:55:34.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rob is probably right.  Turns out the built-in NTP client for windows servers is only expected to keep servers within several seconds of each other, not within a second or sub second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2007/10/23/high-accuracy-w32time-requirements.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2007/10/23/high-accuracy-w32time-requirements.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are simply using the built in time sync mechanisms, then you could have posts appearing 10 seconds in the future, and those users would beat others to the punch in the 'newest' listings, even if they posted several seconds after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T15:55:34.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36599" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:04:19.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30757/what-if-you-have-a-careers-cv-but-want-to-post-a-job-as-an-employer/30758#30758&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt; to a similar question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Careers terms, you're either a CV owner, or an employer -- you cannot be both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At least not with the same OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thus, if you really want to do this, you must use two different OpenIDs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:04:19.450" />
  <row Id="36614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36626" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:14:17.540" Score="10" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's kind of a pain (when you have a bunch of downvotes you gave or got) to have to compute your rep in the 'Recent Activity' page to see how far you are from the cap.  How about we change the color of the rep shown, when the rep cap has been reached for 'Today'?  I think it'd be best to have this visible no matter what time frame you're in, even though it only applies to the 'Today' rep cap.  Here is a screenshot of what I mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1599/repcolor.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; As Shog9 pointed out, this would help reduce confusion.  If there was a tooltip on it also explaining what it meant, it might cut down on all the rep-cap questions we get on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit2:&lt;/strong&gt;  I think some people are getting the wrong idea.  It's not about holding off on answering questions, it's about striving to answer more and better so that I can reach the cap.  It's to help motivate more activity, not to lessen it.  One of the purposes of rep is to incentivize asking and answering questions, so by letting someone know they're getting closer to the rep cap, they'll be motivated to answer more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also works for the Mortarboard, Legendary and Epic badges since those are directly related to the rep-cap.  I hope someday to get all those particular badges, so a little bit of help from site with bookkeeping will help keep me pushing.  I'm always able to work better with a goal in sight, one of the strengths I believe of the StackOverflow sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-06T21:25:52.367" LastActivityDate="2010-10-06T21:25:52.367" Title="Highlight the reputation number when cap is reached for the day" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36614" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:19:40.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or simply, you can answer questions also, for the first purpose, which is providing a solution to someone, besides the &quot;earn reputation&quot; goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such &quot;feature&quot; can only push some people to post less answers, I don't see why there would be an advantage in implementing such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:19:40.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1713" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:23:26.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a form of information pornography; but yes, it is useful for all manner of number crunching and following users and their trek through the system. That's what I like about the idea -- that you could then have time-based metrics to solve all sorts of issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What percentage of 'new' users ask Subjective questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does the nature of questions change as a user gets higher in rank?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now you could determine that through a lot of time-based analysis, but it would be complex. It would be nice to have this information de-normalized, even if just a tooltip when hovering over the question asker's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:23:26.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36614" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:28:14.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it helps reduce confusion about the cap, then it's probably worthwhile. Not sure a simple color change is enough for that though; a key or footnote might help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, seems kinda pointless; you can almost always tell when you've hit the cap 'cause up-votes don't contribute any rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:28:14.200" />
  <row Id="36619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36614" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:34:55.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just use my &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reputation Tracker&lt;/a&gt; - when the number reaches 200, you've hit the cap. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Works across different sites, too.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I'm somewhat biased...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:34:55.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:38:35.987" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very cool.  How about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;security &amp;amp; cryptography &amp;amp; C# (for size comparison)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;WPF &amp;amp; silverlight &amp;amp; Winforms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:10.48,0.83,100.00,0.60,7.80,0.70,0.51&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=security%20%281268%29|cryptography%20%28101%29|c%23%20%2812097%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:95.69,44.25,100.00,18.53,25.01,10.62,7.67&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=wpf%20%281622%29|silverlight%20%28750%29|winforms%20%281695%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T17:10:30.937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T17:10:30.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17308" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:40:24.123" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe have a Calendar Control or Date Picker, so you can just mouseclick to select the exact day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:40:24.123" />
  <row Id="36622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:44:45.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you do ORs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;css || html || javascript || web-development&lt;/code&gt; plus &lt;code&gt;c || c++&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:85.54,54.40,100.00,17.93,38.77,25.21,13.88&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=html%20etc%2e%20%2812387%29|c%20and%20c%2B%2B%20%287877%29|java%20and%20.net%20%2814481%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T17:11:18.963" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T17:11:18.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:46:02.990" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My third and probably last request :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;jquery&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I threw in IE to have a third one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,63.92,9.70,46.59,8.35,6.28,6.16&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=javascript%20%286399%29|jquery%20%284090%29|internet-explorer%20%28621%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T17:06:17.670" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T17:06:17.670" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="36624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10523" CreationDate="2010-01-22T16:50:35.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also have it link to the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view&quot;&gt;Timeline&lt;/a&gt; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T16:50:35.117" />
  <row Id="36625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36567" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:05:32.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we allow 'tipping' then people will start to expect to be tipped (if it gives reputation), and it will become another contentious point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system provides adequate means of thanking your answerers, there's no need to add additional layers of &quot;thank you!&quot; on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really appreciate their work, add a comment to that effect - trust me, they like being recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a counterexample, I would &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; to tip both answers on this question I posted yesterday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2248865/rotate-webpage-via-code&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2248865/rotate-webpage-via-code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to think of another way to reward multiple answers beyond the usual voting/accepting/commenting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T14:12:23.547" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T14:12:23.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36614" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:07:52.517" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could try my Greasemonkey script (see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23656/greasemonkey-script-to-gold-plate-sofu&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; for details). Amongst other things it displays your daily rep on the link bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I'd not used this for a while, it looks like the change to the daily reputation page has broken the calculation for the rep. I'll have a look at fixing this shortly.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt; I just uploaded another version of the script. It works on my box&lt;sup&gt;TM&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T17:52:50.137" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T17:52:50.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:19:33.660" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C#, ASP.NET, WinForms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,52.89,14.01,41.10,13.42,7.82,7.72&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%23%20%2812097%29|asp.net%20%286398%29|winforms%20%281695%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T17:26:30.540" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T17:26:30.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:31:30.513" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not-programming-related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just so we can see if the same bunch of people is responsible for all the screwing around. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,14.34,8.00,13.08,7.81,4.01,4.01&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Fridays%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=subjective%20%287258%29|not-programming-related%20%281041%29|fun%20%28581%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T17:36:51.513" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T17:36:51.513" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:34:16.717" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I'm curious about the relative community sizes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;matlab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.net&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:2.10,93.65,100.00,0.63,0.42,22.47,0.28&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=matlab%20%28167%29|java%20%287442%29|.net%20%287947%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T17:40:52.910" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T17:40:52.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="36630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36632" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:43:25.807" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the SO site names show as misspelled/unrecognized in the text boxes.  These should be added to the dictionary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3909/spellingchecker.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T18:14:48.853" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:14:48.853" ClosedDate="2010-01-22T17:46:47.920" Title="Have spelling checker not mark site names" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36591" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:45:10.730" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the servers sync via NTP with &lt;a href=&quot;http://pool.ntp.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pool.ntp.org&lt;/a&gt; -- there was an issue previously that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/1406/windows-server-unable-to-synchronize-ntp-time-reliably&quot;&gt;documented on Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most recently, the database servers didn't have access to the internet any more, so their NTP calls to &lt;a href=&quot;http://pool.ntp.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pool.ntp.org&lt;/a&gt; were failing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We set up an internal NTP source for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: new problem related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/109839/windows-services-not-starting-automatically&quot;&gt;time service failing to start&lt;/a&gt;. Crossing my fingers..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T01:37:43.620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T01:37:43.620" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36630" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:45:36.753" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The spellchecker is likely built into your browser (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3932/please-add-a-spell-checker-to-the-markdown-editor&quot;&gt;there's a another post about that&lt;/a&gt;). Right click on the word and add it to your personal dictionary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141936" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T17:45:36.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:45:53.787" Score="28" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this line in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/terms-of-service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Careers Terms of Service&lt;/a&gt;, which I need to agree to if I wish to file my resume:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may not reverse engineer, reverse compile or otherwise reduce to human readable form any software associated with the Service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems rather excessive, especially for a programmer-oriented site like Stack Overflow. When I answer questions on Stack Overflow, I sometimes de-minify Stack Overflow's own JavaScript or CSS in order to explain how something works with reference to Stack Overflow itself. According to this, I am not allowed to de-minify any of Stack Overflow Career's code in order to inspect how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also run nightly build releases of browsers, in order to help find compatibility problems, and sometimes I encounter a bug on a website. Just last week, I found an incompatibility between the nightly build of WebKit and a local job site, and inspected their source to track the bug down and report it. According to this agreement, I would not be able to do the same on Stack Overflow Careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &quot;any software associated with the Service&quot;? Like jQuery or WMD? This appears to say that I'm not allowed to de-minify jQuery or WMD, as they are both software associated with the service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;This clause is also troubling, though not a show-stopper:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You agree not to access the Service by any means other than through the interfaces that are provided by Stack Overflow for use in accessing the Service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that I can't use a Greasemonkey script to improve the interface at all, or use any sort of update notification program to notify me of messages without manually logging in to Stack Overflow careers? Why would these uses be forbidden?&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This concern has been adequately answered below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, beyond those sections which I have significant problems with, I feel that the terms of service is in general too long, verbose, and full of things that make me uncomfortable. For instance, the choice of law and forum section, the fact that Stack Overflow can unilaterally change the terms of service at its discretion without notice, the fact that I'm required to provide warranties of correctness of all information provided to Stack Overflow (with no value placed on this; how much am I liable for if I make a mistake and accidentally provide some information that is incorrect?), but Stack Overflow makes no warranties to me beyond a 90-day refund period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the length of the terms of service is intimidating and, I believe, unnecessary. There's no need to specify illegal activities that are disallowed; they're illegal, of course they're not allowed, that's why there are laws against them. The long section on various kinds of spamming, hacking, and harassment could probably be reduced into one short paragraph. And the agreement repeats its disclaimers of warranty an liability several times, which is redundant. The excessive length means I had to read it twice before I felt reasonably comfortable that I'd seen everything in the agreement. That meant I had to spend a fairly significant amount of time reading and understanding the agreement, when most of that agreement is not particularly relevant to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not sure how to tag this question; it's not exactly a request for a feature, nor is it exactly a bug, so I've marked it as discussion, but I would like to see this actually fixed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm still waiting on an answer or resolution to this. I would like to file my résumé on Stack Overflow Careers, but the reverse engineering clause is currently preventing me from doing so (the other issues are not stopping me, but they do make me feel a bit uncomfortable). It's especially troubling because, as pointed out in the comments, that clause is forbidding the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;exact same thing that Stack Overflow itself did&lt;/a&gt; in order to enhance the WMD editor that it uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with the answer (and comments) which say in essence &quot;don't worry about it, no one will ever call you on it&quot;. In order to purchase the service, I would have to state that I agree to the terms of service, which I do not. I refuse to sign my name to something that I fundamentally disagree with; it would be dishonest for me to agree to these terms of service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T17:48:36.257" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T17:48:36.257" Title="Reverse engineering clause in Careers terms of service?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;legal&gt;&lt;terms-of-service&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36610" CreationDate="2010-01-22T17:55:51.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The database servers didn't have access to the internet any more, so their NTP calls to &lt;a href=&quot;http://pool.ntp.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pool.ntp.org&lt;/a&gt; were failing. We set up an internal NTP source for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this time, the Windows Time service was mysteriously stopped on 5 of 6 web tier servers, even though it's set to &quot;Autostart&quot;. I restarted it. Event log shows nothing relevant. Who knew NTP was so freakin' complicated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T22:10:20.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T22:10:20.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36633" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:02:56.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the GreaseMonkey bit I would argue that a SO interface in this sense is not indeed the web site UI proper, but rather any service interface.  The service interfaces provided by SO are things like the web site (of course), any API or web service that is officially blessed/released, the data dumps (possibly), etc.  With GreaseMonkey you're still accessing the web site interface so it's not a violation of that bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, though, INAL...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:02:56.480" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36633" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:04:59.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't worry about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's probably there only for malicious intents. It's up to Jeff whether to sue you or not, and I'm sure he won't sue you for using a Greasemonkey script.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In some countries (such as most of europe) there are laws that prohibit prohibiting reverse engineering software&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the time it's impossible to prove in court&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if it can be proven, if you didn't do anything malicious no jury or judge in their right mind would make you pay more than a few dollars, if anything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, not a lawyer. But still.. Don't you have anything better to do than to worry about this? :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:04:59.033" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:16:30.520" Score="12" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happen to live in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Haifa, Israel&lt;/a&gt;. When I type this into Careers, the result becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hefa, H'efa Israel&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? Consulting the Wiki entry above, Hefa (or H'efa - would that be the Klingon spelling?) is not a pronunciation of the city name in any of the locally spoken languages. A search for Haifa returns 6,950,000 results, while a search for Hefa returns 297,000, so the intarwebs tend to agree with Wikipedia on the spelling as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please fix that. Or maybe, while you iron out such errors in location names, you could consider allowing freeform entry in that particular field and make text replacement a suggestion, not a mandate - since I  prefer leaving the field empty to having my CV show this mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19530" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T15:42:12.997" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T15:42:12.997" Title="Location field spells city name incorrectly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;location&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36638" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:25:20.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, having it as a freeform entry is much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 years from now many countries and cities will have died, and many new ones will have formed.. And it would be difficult to keep up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:25:20.810" />
  <row Id="36644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36647" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:42:12.410" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30076/javascript-infinite-loop-on-so-in-firefox-does-anyone-else-see-this&quot;&gt;Javascript infinite loop on SO in Firefox - does anyone else see this?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting an unresponsive script error for Firefox 3.5.7 with NoScript and Adblock Plus enabled for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1631414/what-is-the-best-battleship-ai&quot;&gt;this Stack Overflow Question&lt;/a&gt;.  There are other Meta Questions regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34403/unresponsive-script-error&quot;&gt;Unresponsive scripts&lt;/a&gt;, but due to the differing versions, this is a separate (non-duplicate) question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MJ7SHaJorfU/S1nw-eVTowI/AAAAAAAAAQE/KJ496ZdimXo/s400/Soscript.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Unresponsive Script Error&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link to full-size image is available &lt;a href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/UWTpfl4TvSRu4PUyNO90sQ?feat=directlink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T20:45:14.107" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:45:14.107" ClosedDate="2010-01-22T18:52:06.037" Title="Unresponsive script in Firefox for Stack Overflow Question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;&lt;scripts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36049" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:43:33.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the display of &quot;total score&quot; in the stats page should be adjusted to follow suit with the way reputation is handled near a user's avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything over 10,000 is displayed as 10K, 10.1K, etc. Also instead of displaying just the text &quot;total score&quot; in the &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; attribute on those items, show the detailed score:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;top-count&quot; style=&quot;color:#ccc&quot; title=&quot;total score: 19,496&quot;&amp;gt;19.5K&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would keep the columns from wrapping, but still retain the level of detail displayed before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139129" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:43:33.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36638" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:46:52.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should definitely look at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28080/why-does-careers-location-field-change-jyvaskyla-to-jyvaskyla&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28080/why-does-careers-location-field-change-jyvaskyla-to-jyvaskyla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24962/careers-wont-let-me-list-reykjavik-iceland-as-location&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24962/careers-wont-let-me-list-reykjavik-iceland-as-location&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is entirely dependent on what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ygeoblog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo Geolocation API&lt;/a&gt; returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:46:52.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36644" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:50:55.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly, STRONGLY urge you to upgrade to Firefox 3.6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.5 has massive perf problems with prettify.js that IE8, Opera, Safari, and Chrome do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously. Think about that. IE-FRICKIN-EIGHT can do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:50:55.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:55:47.700" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when a question is closed there are already some answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this questions is an exact duplicate of another then it is probably a valid question, except that is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the answers in the new question may be good answers, sometimes better than the answers in the first question. So it would be nice if when a question is closed as a duplicate that all the answers to this question be copied to the first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8041" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T22:25:18.873" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T22:25:18.873" Title="Copying the answers for a duplicate question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36648" CreationDate="2010-01-22T18:58:25.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes duplicates get merged together, thus taking all of the answers into one single question.  The argument not to merge, though, is that it makes it provides more meat for search engines to index which leads to better search results.  For this reason duplicates are often/usually left where they are when there are answers on both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links at the top of the closed-as-duplicate question will lead you to the other question, from a usability perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T18:58:25.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1195" CreationDate="2010-01-22T19:00:49.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This request appears stagnant, yet I think it would be very useful. The issue just came up (well, I &lt;em&gt;helped&lt;/em&gt; it come up): see comments at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2118055/how-to-force-overriding-a-method-in-a-descendant-without-having-an-abstract-base/2118732#2118732&quot;&gt;How to force overriding a method in a descendant, without having an abstract base class?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If nobody can think of a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good reason to not do this, I think I might just get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a CW &quot;question&quot; named &quot;C# Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)&quot; with &quot;header&quot; information, like related tags, index of other FAQ articles, etc. Then subsequent CW &quot;questions&quot; like &quot;C# FAQ - Covariance and Contravariance in C# (Variance)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-06T19:06:21.877" LastActivityDate="2010-05-06T19:06:21.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-22T19:00:49.763" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-01-22T19:18:07.867" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://assault.cubers.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://xeoncross.com/images/frag_crossing_220x220px.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Assaultcube Game Engine&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142244" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T19:18:07.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-22T19:18:07.867" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="36652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T19:17:16.197" Score="-7" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can we make this tool more refined? I keep seeing weird questions where the user has 1 reputation, and someone downvotes anyway. These questions seems to be coming from students. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was expecting this place to be more for serious programmers, which it is, but how can we assist the folks at Stack Overflow with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creating something like &quot;Studentoverflow.com&quot; (programming questions for students) -or-&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indicating that the user should have at least 1 year of experience programming when signing up?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T19:33:07.583" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:52:38.537" Title="Making stackoverflow a more refined place" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36652" CreationDate="2010-01-22T19:27:44.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess simply from the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No question is too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elitism is more a danger than a virtue, in my opinion. Geek communities are known for years of &quot;RTFM&quot;, I think it has been done to death. SOFU sites welcome anyone, and this is a quality. Nobody forces anyone to read and answer questions they don't want to see. And from what I see every day, &quot;refined&quot; questions exist and are successfully answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem besides luxury tastes from some people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indicating that the user should have&#xA;  at least 1 year of experience&#xA;  programming when signing up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know other kinds of sites which are asking you to justify &quot;years&quot; before you consult them, and it's a known fact that nobody ever lied when entering them... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T19:33:19.983" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T19:33:19.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7194" CreationDate="2010-01-22T20:06:02.730" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just had trouble finding the current post that actually answers this question, so here's the link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36754" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:06:02.730" />
  <row Id="36659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T20:23:55.073" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26721/long-answers-are-truncated-in-so&quot;&gt;Long answers are truncated in SO&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a character limit getting applied retroactively to old questions?  I ask because of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/747926/windows-media-player-ignoring-me&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/747926/windows-media-player-ignoring-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used edits to keep a running update on where I was on solving the problem.  All the edits are still there in the editing page, but the page that's actually displayed is cut off mid-word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I eventually solved the problem with help from another user, so this really doesn't affect me.  But if somebody with a similar problem were to find this page, some of what got truncated could be of value to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Labeled &quot;bug&quot; because that seemed most appropriate from the &quot;bug feature-request discussion support&quot; set, and &quot;is-it-a-bug-or-a-feature&quot; wasn't an option.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137386" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:23:55.073" ClosedDate="2010-01-22T20:26:38.643" Title="Retroactive Character Limit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-20T05:01:54.643" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when someone posts a question to Stackoverflow, the members write comments indicating that it's been taken from another web site, or is a homework question, rather than offering a solution. The main purpose of posting questions is to learn software concepts that are not clear or messy.  True, the question may have been taken from another site, but it may be very complex to solve. In an effort to learn the concept, posting the question to Stackoverflow allows many good programmers to give many different solutions to the same problem, which provides more understanding than the original website.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it necessary to write discouraging comments or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136491" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:58:33.437" Title="Commenting instead of answering?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36660" CreationDate="2008-12-20T05:07:55.020" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to find comments used appropriately. I would guess that you're referring to comments that ask posters to clarify or clean up their questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I'd recommend breaking your question above into paragraphs. Then, I'd proof read it a couple times to make sure it's mostly correct and flows well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I tend to agree that a question's source isn't very relevant, I'm not going to walk someone through their homework. I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; however, give them tips and pointers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is: &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Should commenting be discouraged&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, I say: &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. Life before comments was worse (comments weren't on this site at first!). Before comments, the answer thread was full of clarifications and follow ups. It was crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding @BobbyShaftoe comment on another answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe he is asking whether or not&#xA;  it is good for people to leave&#xA;  discouraging comments to a question&#xA;  because of its possible source, be it&#xA;  from another web site or homework&#xA;  assignment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think polite comments noting that a post's source hasn't been appropriately credited is fine. Rude comments are rarely justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:27:53.443" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36660" CreationDate="2008-12-20T05:12:11.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually if a person seems to be seeking to learn something rather than merely be given an answer, or has a real problem to solve, then I think people respond generously and well.  In cases where a person just wants to earn reputation by asking a question from somewhere else or wants an answer to a homework problem they are too lazy to solve themselves, then people can be rightly (I think) critical of the question.  That's not to say that mistakes are not made or that everyone sees things from the same perspective.  We are a community, and communities do not always agree on everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commenting provides a way to give feedback on the question itself rather than the problem the question addresses, as well as to provide a means of carrying on a conversation around a problem or answer.  I'd have to agree with @Michael Haren that the commenting systems seems to work okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:27:53.443" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-20T05:12:11.487" />
  <row Id="36663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36660" CreationDate="2008-12-20T05:13:09.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are good for something that is not a direct answer to the question.  Sometimes people need clarification before they can answer.  Sometimes they want to suggest the question be changed in some manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4430" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:27:53.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36660" CreationDate="2008-12-20T05:23:58.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Commenting the question gives opinion about the question and doubts in the questions can be clarified.So that question may be altered for easy understanding.But a good programmer will never endup with discouraging comments.According to my view commenting is good .And  please don't hurt others by discouraging comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136491" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:27:53.443" />
  <row Id="36665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36660" CreationDate="2008-12-20T05:53:13.883" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going on the OP's assumption that most posters' motivation is to find information, and agreeing that SO is an excellent source of insightful gems from many different perspectives, I find that comments are useful for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Requesting clarification,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding related information to the original question,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clarifying, disputing, or offering caveats to other answers,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding humor or side comments that aren't directly related to the question or answers, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Offering feedback, or a reason for up- or downvoting, to help the OP improve.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note that all of the above can be (and usually are) done positively.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same vein, I'll often edit questions or answers to make them clearer, in the hope of encouraging more helpful (or polite) responses, rather than downvoting with a disparaging comment.  It takes about the same amount of effort and, IMHO, everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A variation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hanlon's Razor&lt;/a&gt; often puts things into perspective:  &lt;em&gt;Never attribute to trolling anything that can be adequately explained by inexperience.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, comments are welcome!  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:27:53.443" />
  <row Id="36666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36652" CreationDate="2010-01-22T20:52:38.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a surprising number of nuanced questions about difficult subject scattered here and there: you just have to keep your eyes out for them, and I generally find more chaff in the form of &quot;What's [your|the] [best|favorite|hardest|oldest|newest|...]&quot; questions and repetitions of bog-easy-to-search-for stuff than questions from greenhorns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, what do you have against beginners? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:52:38.537" />
  <row Id="36667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36660" CreationDate="2010-01-22T20:58:33.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the main point of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we discourage copy-paste questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.  If the post is more than X% copy-paste from some other site, then we first need to be concerned with copyright issues and plagiarism, and second with whether the person who posted it is truly interested.  They could readily re-phrase it themselves if they read through it at least once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X varies from user to user - some people don't want to see more than a short quote copied, while others are fine with most of the post copied as long as the OP has posted a line or two on what confuses them, or what steps they've tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general, when the original post is mostly a copy and paste, it simply demonstrates that the person who posted it isn't interested enough in the question to re-phrase it and specify what their specific issue is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T20:58:33.437" />
  <row Id="36668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T21:20:27.173" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;SF:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Windows, Linux, Macosx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apache, IIS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MySQL, Oracle, SQL-Server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DNS, IIS, PHP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:71.43,17.97,100.00,2.30,5.53,3.69,0.92&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=mysql%20%28155%29|oracle%20%2839%29|sql-server%20%28217%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,53.55,46.92,19.91,17.54,7.58,7.11&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=dns%20%28211%29|iis%20%28113%29|php%20%2899%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;SU:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Windows, Linux, OSX&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harddrive, video, ram&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monitor, Multiple-monitors, remote-desktop&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox, google-chrome, ie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OSX, USB, PDF&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,20.21,15.54,13.99,12.44,6.22,6.22&amp;amp;chco=00AFEF,BEB013,000000&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Super%20User&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=firefox%20%28193%29|google-chrome%20%2839%29|internet-explorer%20%2830%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,65.81,25.64,29.91,17.09,11.11,10.26&amp;amp;chco=00AFEF,BEB013,000000&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Super%20User&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=hard-drive%20%28117%29|video%20%2877%29|ram%20%2830%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T09:08:01.993" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T09:08:01.993" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T21:30:16.603" Score="10" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you hover over code on a question or answer, it would be nice to in addition to the syntax highlighting to maybe show a link in the top right corner or something you can click on that will open a small window with just that code in it so you can copy and paste the code very easily.  Or else a link/button to copy the contents to a clipboard, I believe this can be accomplished with Flash.  I have seen these features on most blogs and sites that have syntax highlighting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-22T21:33:23.307" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T22:06:01.057" Title="Link to open Code in a new window or copy to clipboard option" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36670" CreationDate="2010-01-22T21:33:02.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They could add a colored line, like they do in SuperUser quotes, that could be clicked on to copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T21:33:02.057" />
  <row Id="36672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T21:50:01.673" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;haskell lisp f# &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C++ Java C#&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thanks man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:84.86,100.00,96.33,16.97,11.01,15.14,7.80&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=f%23%20%28185%29|haskell%20%28218%29|lisp%20%28210%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:48.26,61.52,100.00,15.17,20.16,19.30,10.31&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%2B%2B%20%285838%29|java%20%287442%29|c%23%20%2812097%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T09:16:29.417" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T09:16:29.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="36673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36670" CreationDate="2010-01-22T21:52:50.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the perfect application for greasemonkey...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T21:52:50.200" />
  <row Id="36674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36460" CreationDate="2010-01-22T21:55:54.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Too much work for not enough benefit. Easier to just fix them as they come up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T21:55:54.250" />
  <row Id="36675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36670" CreationDate="2010-01-22T22:06:01.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Syntax highlighter&lt;/a&gt; does it but it has quite a big overhead when loading. &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The google alternative&lt;/a&gt; is a lot faster but has no new window feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO already has syntax highlighting though so just a new window icon would be useful, and fairly easy to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T22:06:01.057" />
  <row Id="36676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35583" CreationDate="2010-01-22T22:17:05.400" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/135152/omg-ponies&quot;&gt;OMG Ponies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does he have a great handle, but he is very active in the database related questions.  Does great editing of question syntax when needed and seems to always be hanging around and helping out.  Might as well make it official and put him on the &quot;payroll&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/136803/omg-ponies&quot;&gt;Meta OMG Ponies&lt;/a&gt; user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136707" LastEditorUserId="136707" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T23:25:15.737" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T23:25:15.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-22T22:17:05.400" />
  <row Id="36677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36648" CreationDate="2010-01-22T22:24:18.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be better to merge the questions and answers, but to leave something of the original behind. I'd leave at least the title, and a link to the new, merged question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine leaving the original question behind, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T22:24:18.283" />
  <row Id="36680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T22:56:06.460" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about RIA technologies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Silverlight vs Flash vs Air&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:91.35,100.00,12.42,7.67,0.97,6.82,0.73&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=silverlight%20%28750%29|flash%20%28821%29|air%20%28102%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69390" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T09:20:19.047" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T09:20:19.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="36681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T22:58:26.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about Android, iPhone, Windows-Mobile&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,16.02,8.43,2.36,1.36,0.48,0.28&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=iphone%20%282503%29|android%20%28401%29|windows-mobile%20%28211%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13279" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T09:23:43.423" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T09:23:43.423" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="36682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T23:01:41.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ASP/ASP.NET vs PHP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:5.30,100.00,98.58,1.33,1.91,18.57,0.97&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=jsp%20%28339%29|asp.net%20%286398%29|php%20%286307%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139924" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T10:39:55.800" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T10:39:55.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T23:02:18.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seriously, it doesn't look like it would be very hard to write a small web utility that let people put in their own choice of 2+ tags and have this auto-generated, instead of having this flood of requests. Show me the link to the data dump and I'll do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be a lot of fun and an interesting new use for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Ah, found it. I'll see what I can whip up :) Any other suggestions for types of charts that people would want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140451" LastActivityDate="2010-01-22T23:02:18.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T23:12:05.143" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scripting languages.... fight!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;perl vs python vs ruby&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:23.04,100.00,47.20,7.72,3.73,11.33,3.09&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=perl%20%28970%29|python%20%284210%29|ruby%20%281987%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,35.31,5.24,1.22,0.52,0.00,0.00&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=bash%20%28572%29|powershell%20%28202%29|applescript%20%2830%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135193" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T09:29:56.933" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T09:29:56.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T23:19:23.160" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see Apache, nginx, lighttpd. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,6.25,2.63,4.28,1.32,0.33,0.33&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=apache%20%28304%29|nginx%20%2819%29|lighttpd%20%288%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130071" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T09:32:00.377" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T09:32:00.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-22T23:30:02.220" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;how about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.NET, Mono, ASP.NET&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.NET, VB.NET, C#&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,1.76,80.51,1.43,49.16,1.01,0.97&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=.net%20%287947%29|mono%20%28140%29|asp.net%20%286398%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:65.69,14.83,100.00,12.23,57.19,12.11,11.42&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=.net%20%287947%29|vb.net%20%281794%29|c%23%20%2812097%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134408" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T10:06:26.690" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T10:06:26.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-22T23:59:42.103" Score="10" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the ServerFault user page (http://serverfault.com/users) there is a search box to search for users. There are 2 users with the name &quot;Tom O'Connor&quot; (http://serverfault.com/users/13650/tom-oconnor and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users/16732/tom-oconnor&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/users/16732/tom-oconnor&lt;/a&gt;). If you type &quot;tom o&quot; into the box you get these two. If you add the next character, &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;, then both names disappear. It's almost like it doesn't handle &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt;'s at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132503" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-20T14:05:24.870" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T14:05:24.870" Title="Users Search box doesn't find names with an apostrophe '" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36696" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:05:00.530" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2106466/&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment portion for the accepted answer shows 5 of them on load and displayed a hyperlink with text &quot;show 2 more comments&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon clicking, two more showed up. One at the 4th location and one at the end. Is this the behaviour by design because I can't grasp  the logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/1695jkx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Before click&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Before clicking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/2vwz3nb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;After click&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;After clicking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T00:35:04.000" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T00:49:05.383" Title="&quot;show X more comments&quot; - Bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36693" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:17:59.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before expansion, I see 5 comments, after expansion, I see 7. Thus &quot;2 more&quot; is correct. This was done in Firefox 3.6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no error expanding the comments in IE8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T00:17:59.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36695" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:21:16.543" Score="9" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to peruse all the questions about the Java language, class libraries, JVM, etc., in part to learn about these things and in part because I have decent expertise on many of these areas to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I subscribe to the &quot;java&quot; tag in my feed reader, I'm absolutely inundated with questions that aren't really &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Java -- examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about Spring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about XML (where the user irrelevantly is also using Java)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions specific to EJB, JDBC, Hibernate, Swing, the Facebook Java API etc. etc. -- see, if I wanted to see those things, I'd be looking for &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; tags!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about how to learn C++ .. if you're a Java programmer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about how this bit of Java code would be written in Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the list just goes on, and on, and on.  It's quite a flood of stuff that I don't care about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I find just the questions that are really &lt;strong&gt;about Java&lt;/strong&gt;?  Do we need a new tag, like &lt;code&gt;plainjava&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;justjava&lt;/code&gt;?  Or, should people with an EJB question (and &lt;code&gt;ejb&lt;/code&gt; tag) just not be adding the &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; tag as well?  Or am I just out of luck?  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; so far, all the answers given require me to keep maintaining a list of all the specific technologies I'm uninterested in. But this isn't really an issue of what I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; interested in; what I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; interested in is simply questions that are &lt;em&gt;about Java&lt;/em&gt;, as opposed to &lt;em&gt;related to Java&lt;/em&gt;. Isn't there a better way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To illustrate how this is not a great solution, the following link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java%20-swing%20-eclipse%20-hibernate%20-spring%20-jsp%20-servlets%20-tomcat%20-j2ee%20-jdbc%20-jpa%20-android%20-gui%20-beginner%20-applet%20-netbeans%20-c%23%20-xml%20-maven-2%20-.net%20-jsf%20-j2me%20-windows%20-gwt%20-ant%20-jboss%20-php%20-google-app-engine%20-python%20-jar%20-database%20-javascript%20-c%2b%2b&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java%20-swing%20-eclipse%20-hibernate%20-spring%20-jsp%20-servlets%20-tomcat%20-j2ee%20-jdbc%20-jpa%20-android%20-gui%20-beginner%20-applet%20-netbeans%20-c%23%20-xml%20-maven-2%20-.net%20-jsf%20-j2me%20-windows%20-gwt%20-ant%20-jboss%20-php%20-google-app-engine%20-python%20-jar%20-database%20-javascript%20-c%2b%2b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... doesn't even seem to work.  But if I remove one excluded tag from it, then it does.  Seems like I'm overflowing the site's capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Groan! Even with filtering all these most-popular tags out, the ten most recent posts are still about: Spring, Java, Unicode, Cold Fusion, Servlets, HTML, SOAP, Apache-Poi, Java, MySQL!  This seems hopeless unless some kind of &quot;justjava&quot; tag is introduced...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138526" LastEditorUserId="138526" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T19:34:38.850" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T19:34:38.850" Title="How can I see questions about &quot;java&quot; -- no, I mean really about *java*?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36693" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:23:07.210" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your annotated picture shows that you are expecting the second hidden comment to show at the bottom - this is not the case.  In this example one of the hidden comments was in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9083" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T00:23:07.210" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36695" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:30:47.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting if you could create a Boolean expression for tags.  Like: &lt;code&gt;java and not ejb and not jdbc&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9083" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T00:30:47.347" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:31:15.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about some size/overlap comparisons of managed languages on JVM and .NET?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the JVM, how about: java, scala, clojure, rhino, jruby, jython.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For .NET: c#, f#, ironpython, powershell, boo, nemerle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I ask rather greedily, as it'd be cool to put in my slides when talking about Scala next month.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:34.65,3.96,100.00,1.98,3.96,0.00,0.00&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=ironpython%20%2870%29|boo%20%288%29|powershell%20%28202%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:16.67,96.67,100.00,0.00,0.00,6.67,0.00&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=rhino%20%285%29|jruby%20%2829%29|jython%20%2830%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137042" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T10:21:11.880" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T10:21:11.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:39:36.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[C++] vs. [Java] vs. [language-agnostic]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:78.45,100.00,31.60,24.66,16.70,17.78,11.66&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%2B%2B%20%285838%29|java%20%287442%29|language-agnostic%20%282352%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T10:11:26.880" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T10:11:26.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="36700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36693" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:39:43.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes (it's not a bug), by default the comments that are chosen to be shown are the ones with the highest number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd prefer the &quot;show N more comments&quot; link to show up at the &lt;em&gt;top&lt;/em&gt; of the list, as (especially on meta where 15 comments are shown rather than 5), the link might be below the edge of my screen and I'd rather just read all the comments once in order, rather than read some of them twice once I've finally gotten to the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T00:49:05.383" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T00:49:05.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:51:11.057" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Apple] vs. [Google] vs. [Microsoft]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:90.24,100.00,31.71,14.63,4.88,19.51,2.44&amp;amp;chco=00AFEF,BEB013,000000&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Super%20User&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=apple%20%2837%29|google%20%2841%29|microsoft%20%2813%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:26.62,100.00,75.32,0.65,0.00,8.44,0.00&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=apple%20%2841%29|google%20%28154%29|microsoft%20%28116%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:66.67,16.67,100.00,0.00,0.00,0.00,0.00&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=apple%20%288%29|google%20%282%29|microsoft%20%2812%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T10:29:35.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T10:29:35.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:57:10.467" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The JVM languages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scala&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clojure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Groovy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limiting to three is hard. Leave Java out, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the following, perhaps with either Java or the biggest community from above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JRuby&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jython&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the following two, with either Clojure or Scala.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Haskell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Erlang&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,59.78,83.24,7.26,6.15,3.35,1.12&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=scala%20%28179%29|clojure%20%28107%29|groovy%20%28149%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:16.20,16.76,100.00,1.12,2.23,1.12,0.56&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=jruby%20%2829%29|jython%20%2830%29|scala%20%28179%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,65.60,49.08,7.34,6.42,5.96,2.29&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=haskell%20%28218%29|erlang%20%28143%29|clojure%20%28107%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132113" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T09:41:02.150" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T09:41:02.150" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31796" CreationDate="2010-01-23T00:58:37.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &quot;You voted this question up (click to undo)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T00:58:37.500" />
  <row Id="36705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25104" CreationDate="2010-01-23T01:12:23.440" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They could use it for a third parameter sort, so votes-answers-accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T01:12:23.440" />
  <row Id="36707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23965" CreationDate="2010-01-23T01:28:39.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has already been fixed, but I just ended up fixining it on my own StackExchange... I also rewrote the &lt;code&gt;getTagsSelector()&lt;/code&gt; function to be a little more streamlined. Perhaps Jarrod will learn to love jQuery a bit more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;function getTagsSelector(jPrefs) {&#xA;  var replacements = {&#xA;    '#': 'ñ',&#xA;    '+': 'ç',&#xA;    '.': 'û'&#xA;  };&#xA;  // jPrefs is a jQuery set&#xA;  return jPrefs.map(function() {&#xA;    var tag = $(this).text().replace(/(\s+|\xa0|#|\+|\.)/g, function(match) {&#xA;      if (replacements.hasOwnProperty(match)) return replacements[match];&#xA;      return '';&#xA;    });&#xA;    if (tag.indexOf('*')&amp;gt;-1) {&#xA;      return &quot;div.tags:regex(class,t-&quot;+tag.replace(/\*/g, &quot;.*&quot;)+&quot;)&quot;;&#xA;    }&#xA;    return &quot;div.t-&quot;+tag;&#xA;  }).get().join(&quot;,&quot;);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; noting Jarrod's comment about &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt; not being matched by &lt;code&gt;\s&lt;/code&gt; - I added &lt;code&gt;\xa0&lt;/code&gt; to the match for replacements&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130602" LastEditorUserId="130602" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T11:41:12.533" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T11:41:12.533" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36695" CreationDate="2010-01-23T01:33:35.013" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;jvm&lt;/code&gt; to your list of Interesting tags, and add &lt;code&gt;spring&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;xml&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;ejb&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;jdbc&lt;/code&gt;, etc. to your Ignore list.  Then go check the &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; box on the prefs tab of your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T01:33:35.013" />
  <row Id="36709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T01:36:47.360" Score="2" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;Details of printing have been talked about, but this is the feature request for a Printer-Friendly Button.  The button would print a good-looking version of the question and answers instead of just using the print feature of your browser.  There could even be a user setting or some way to print with comments also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T20:10:37.680" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T17:26:40.347" Title="Printer-Friendly Button" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;printing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36712" CreationDate="2010-01-23T02:35:31.670" Score="-2" ViewCount="1304" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the website would look much better with calibri as the first font in the CSS &lt;code&gt;font-family&lt;/code&gt; attribute. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9393/calibri.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is a screenshot after some firebug hackery (remember to zoom in and see it at 100% zoom), &lt;a href=&quot;http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/6233/defaultm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is the normal one. Note that I simply changed a couple of things without giving it much thought, probably a much better job could be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Jeff's answer is a valid issue, but I think it can be fixed fairly easily with &lt;a href=&quot;http://remysharp.com/2008/07/08/how-to-detect-if-a-font-is-installed-only-using-javascript/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the jQuery font.isInstalled plugin&lt;/a&gt;, that allows you to check whether the user has or doesn't have a certain font through javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you can add the following code that adds the &lt;code&gt;calibri.css&lt;/code&gt; style if a user has the font:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(document).ready(function () {&#xA;   if (font.isInstalled(&quot;Calibri&quot;))&#xA;      ImportCss(&quot;calibri.css&quot;);&#xA;});&#xA;&#xA;function ImportCss(name) {&#xA;    if (document.createStyleSheet) {&#xA;        document.createStyleSheet('/static/' + name);&#xA;    }&#xA;    else {&#xA;        var styles = '/static/' + name;&#xA;        var newSS = document.createElement('link');&#xA;        newSS.rel = 'stylesheet';&#xA;        newSS.type = 'text/css';&#xA;        newSS.href = styles;&#xA;        document.getElementsByTagName(&quot;head&quot;)[0].appendChild(newSS);&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in calibri.css you can have - for example -:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;body&#xA;{&#xA;    font-family: Calibri;&#xA;    font-size: 16px;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;caption, h1, h2&#xA;{&#xA;    font-family: Candara, Calibri;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And have this in your main css file:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;body&#xA;{&#xA;    font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif;&#xA;    font-size: 13px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if someone doesn't have calibri (or javascript enabled) they will see the website with the current font and the right size. If someone does have calibri, calibri.css will be imported and both the font and the size will be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I do on my website, and it works pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T12:32:00.977" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T12:32:00.977" Title="Using calibri, consolas and other microsoft cleartype fonts by default" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36710" CreationDate="2010-01-23T02:47:11.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is really needed.  I guess it wouldn't really hurt, either.  If you don't have those fonts it would just fall back to the next one.  But to really explain why I don't think they should do this I have to tell a short story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, I never cared about fonts at all until just over a year ago.  My philosophy was, &quot;Arial, Helvetica: who cares?&quot;  And then chrome came out at about the same time as StackOverflow.  At the time I normally used Firefox.  I wanted to give Chrome a good try, so I decided to use it as my primary means of browsing StackOverflow.  I didn't visit StackOverflow from firefox at all for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then one day, it happened.  I already had a Firefox window handy and wanted to look up something on StackOverflow.  I was shocked at how bad the site looked in Firefox by comparison to Chrome.  Looking at them side by side it was obvious that the big difference between the two browsers for this site was the font rendering.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I knew what to look for.  As I started using Chrome more often I noticed the difference in a few other sites as well.  The odd thing was that sometimes Firefox came out better in my opinion.  It really depended not only on what I was familiar with but also which rendering style worked better for that design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you could say I learned an important lesson about fonts here (except that I still don't know how to choose the right fonts for my own work).  But the real reason I'm telling this story is that you might find the StackOverflow font choices already work pretty well if you just try a different browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T04:10:13.620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T04:10:13.620" />
  <row Id="36712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36710" CreationDate="2010-01-23T03:22:09.087" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I love &lt;a href=&quot;http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/a-comprehensive-look-at-the-new-microsoft-fonts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the &quot;C&quot; fonts&lt;/a&gt;, there are some fairly serious problems with them when used in websites intended for large audiences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are &lt;em&gt;significantly&lt;/em&gt; smaller per &lt;code&gt;px&lt;/code&gt; than other fonts, enough so that it's a serious problem for substitutions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only Windows machines with Vista, Win7, or Office 2007 will have the &quot;C&quot; fonts installed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We actually started the SO beta with Calibri as the default font, and I had to pull it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T03:22:09.087" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36709" CreationDate="2010-01-23T03:28:51.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think this is a cool idea. Definitely not a priority, but would be something to &quot;brag about&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I've never heard the idea before and could probably be easily convinced it's a terrible idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T03:28:51.270" />
  <row Id="36714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36715" CreationDate="2010-01-23T02:17:53.417" Score="11" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First of all, I should say that I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that this question does not belong on Meta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow URLs are inspirational to me, the way they are designed is very clever and they work really well but I can't seem to understand the logic being the IDs, here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/2121720/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you change the ID to ID++ (&lt;code&gt;2121721&lt;/code&gt;) one could think it would fetch the next question. Wrong, instead you're redirect to another question whose ID seems to be totally unrelated (&lt;code&gt;2121212&lt;/code&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/2121212/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this happen? Is there some checksum algorithm on the IDs? Here is a sample trace:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2121720 -&amp;gt; exists&#xA;2121721 -&amp;gt; 2121212&#xA;2121213 -&amp;gt; exists&#xA;2121214 -&amp;gt; 2121155&#xA;2121156 -&amp;gt; exists&#xA;2121157 -&amp;gt; 2120884&#xA;2120885 -&amp;gt; exists&#xA;2120886 -&amp;gt; 2115014&#xA;2115015 -&amp;gt; 2114896 (what happened here?)&#xA;2114897 -&amp;gt; 2114799&#xA;2114800 -&amp;gt; 2114670 (what happened here?)&#xA;2114671 -&amp;gt; exists&#xA;2114672 -&amp;gt; 2110215&#xA;2110216 -&amp;gt; exists&#xA;2110217 -&amp;gt; 2106982&#xA;2106983 -&amp;gt; 2106955 (what happened here?)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The IDs seem to decrease. &lt;strong&gt;Can someone bring some light on this strange redirect behavior?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-12T02:25:51.650" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T02:25:51.650" Title="Logic Behind StackOverflow Question IDs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="36715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36714" CreationDate="2010-01-23T02:24:13.733" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks to me like the IDs that redirect are actually IDs of answers - so when you put in 2121721, that ID actually belongs to an answer to the question with the ID 2121212. Notice how it redirects to one of the answers, not just to the question. The reason they decrease is that the answer was created after the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this tells me is that the IDs are at least somewhat global. It may or may not mean everything is stored in the same table - though I wouldn't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140530" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T05:06:02.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36714" CreationDate="2010-01-23T03:21:38.840" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow uses one table to hold both questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answers. The ID is the primary key in the table called &lt;code&gt;Posts&lt;/code&gt;. The ID is incremented each time a question or answer is posted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, the ID and ID+1 for two posts would likely point to two entirely different questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read about the database schema in &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding_the_StackOverflow_Database_Schema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Understanding the Stack Overflow Database Schema&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Posts Table&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In StackOverflow, questions and answers are both considered posts. If a record has a null ParentId field, then it's a question. Otherwise, it's an answer, and to find the matching question, join the ParentId field up to Posts.Id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Id - primary key, identity field from the original StackOverflow database.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Title - the title of the question. Answer titles will be null.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;OwnerUserId - joins back to Users.Id. If OwnerUserId = -1, that's the community user, meaning it's a wiki question or answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;AcceptedAnswerId - for questions, this points to the Post.Id of the officially accepted answer. This isn't necessarily the highest-voted answer, but the one the questioner accepted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;Technically the schema is for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump&lt;/a&gt; which is not a 100% mirror of the live database, but gives you a reasonable subset of the data.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-12T01:37:13.847" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T01:37:13.847" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T05:18:21.010" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29672/how-much-is-enough-reputation&quot;&gt;How much is &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; reputation? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30578/is-stack-overflow-reputation-marketable&quot;&gt;Is Stack Overflow reputation marketable?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the benefit to get big reputation on SO? Can i get good job from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T05:43:11.177" ClosedDate="2010-01-23T18:51:18.190" Title="What is the benefit to make big reputation on SO? Can i get good job from it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36717" CreationDate="2010-01-23T05:23:38.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people using SO as a hiring point would most likely be looking at the quality of the answers you give and not just what big number is next to your name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T05:23:38.250" />
  <row Id="36719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36717" CreationDate="2010-01-23T05:43:11.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;e-Glory, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you get a job with e-glory? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But at the end of the day, even if you're unemployed, and down to your last dollar, and your best girl is through with you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By golly you've still got your stackoverflow rep :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1569" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T05:43:11.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6643" CreationDate="2010-01-23T06:46:08.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will answer the Project Management part of your question (and perhaps even the 'Human Factor' part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think every software programmer should know a minimum about project managment. Everyone who works on a project should have some basic knowledge. It's unfortunately one area where many people think it's just common sense or they don't get a chance to attend good trainings. I think there is definitely a need for a Q&amp;amp;A area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We opened a stackexchange site focused on project management at &lt;a href=&quot;http://askaboutprojects.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://askaboutprojects.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why have &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; site for project management questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because many questions will be just too subjective or discussions and will be closed on stackoverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because not every project is for software, so it makes sense to share project management experience and knowledge with project team members or project managers from other industries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your project management questions are welcome on our site :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community is smaller, but the users give very interesting feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T06:46:08.987" />
  <row Id="36721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36789" CreationDate="2010-01-23T06:50:48.273" Score="7" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many questions which have replies running to more than 1 page&#xA;is it possible to export all the answers to PDF?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142269" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T00:42:59.870" Title="How to export question- answers to PDF/DOC" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T06:51:14.887" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35051/add-comment-button-over-the-related-links-and-therefore-unusable&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Add comment&amp;rdquo; button over the Related links (and therefore unusable)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been bothering me for a while now.  It seems when I use firefox 3.5.7 my add comment button is always stuck underneath the right hand panel of the side.  I can never add a comment, unless its really far down.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138304" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:54:00.757" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:54:00.757" ClosedDate="2010-01-23T18:53:18.840" Title="add comment and firefox" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T07:15:23.157" Score="-5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please read: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matt Cutts: &quot;Adding a 301 redirect can be an especially good idea if your site changes&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm johnny my URL might be 134564/johnny and if I change my username to paul, and people have outside links to my profile at 134564/johnny, they'll still work. This means more than one URL to a page. Issue a 301 if the name doesn't match (doesn't waste more DB, as you need the username in the profile anyway). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T14:33:46.693" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T14:33:46.693" ClosedDate="2010-01-23T18:37:25.337" Title="SO should validate a username in the URL and issue a redirect on mismatch, right?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;vanity-url&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36723" CreationDate="2010-01-23T07:22:45.950" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the benefit of issuing a redirect (causing an extra request) instead of just serving the right content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T07:22:45.950" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36723" CreationDate="2010-01-23T08:23:24.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So should we also be redirecting the URL on questions if the title in the URL is incorrect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36723/we-love-ponies-we-love-ponies-we-love-ponies&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36723/we-love-ponies-we-love-ponies-we-love-ponies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131346" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T08:23:24.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T10:07:23.380" Score="0" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23611/view-code-in-new-window&quot;&gt;View code in new window&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the title says, I request a feature where the source code listed in a question has a button attached that can give you a new tab (or just show the code in full screen in the current tab) with a full screen view of the source code. That could be cool!!&#xA;I have always hated scrolling in a source code example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T10:07:23.380" ClosedDate="2010-01-23T10:21:58.883" Title="Where is the &quot;show me the code in full screen&quot;/&quot;show me the code in full screen IN a new tab&quot;-button?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" />
  <row Id="36728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36729" CreationDate="2010-01-23T11:44:28.770" Score="28" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it's not just a page views number, because, if I press F5 several times, it won't increase the number of views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could store my IP address in a table, but wouldn't that make it slow? They would need to query a database one more time for each request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138970" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-15T12:51:29.253" LastActivityDate="2011-07-15T12:51:29.253" Title="How does Stack Overflow calculate the number of views in a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="36729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36728" CreationDate="2010-01-23T12:20:09.863" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to cheat writing a script that continually fetched a page to get 10k views and the gold badge, but it didn't work :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It saves all the IP addresses that viewed the page in the last hour or so. If the IP already viewed the question then the view count isn't increased. It is kinda resource intensive but it's the only way to have an accurate view count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After an hour or so the entries are deleted so the table doesn't get too big and slow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-08T20:52:22.807" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T20:52:22.807" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="70922" CreationDate="2010-01-23T13:16:19.807" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;When logged in and on the Accounts page (e.g. clicking your username in the top bar), the page shows your details including the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OpenID&lt;/a&gt; string. Mine doesn't fit (or is presumably) underneath the &quot;grey&quot; area on the right. In case most are short, I'm just using a Google one so I would assume it isn't an edge case...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, I move my mouse over the top of it to see the value as a tooltip, etc., but none appears. Could such a feature be provided? The text is not fitting (and wrapping), and I guess it is a bug. But it doesn't have spaces, so no breaks, therefore not a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141346" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-22T14:06:33.000" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T14:06:33.000" Title="OpenID information doesn't fit on accounts page and no hover option is provided" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36723" CreationDate="2010-01-23T13:37:46.700" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should read some of Matt Cutts' later stuff. Like the one &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;there is an option for reading newer posts&quot;&gt;posted in 2009 about the canonical tag&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ugly url such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265&lt;/a&gt; can specify in the HEAD part of the document the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;canonical&quot; href=&quot;http://example.com/page.html&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That tells search engines that the preferred location of this url (the “canonical” location, in search engine speak) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://example.com/page.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://example.com/page.html&lt;/a&gt; instead of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's already implemented in the trilogy of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T13:37:46.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34901" CreationDate="2010-01-23T13:37:58.257" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yay, two OpenIDs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this the exact problem that OpenID was intended to solve, needing to create new accounts for every site you visit?  So now I have to make a new throwaway OpenID just so that I can search through resumes at this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a hard problem to solve, either.  I have personally built 3 different sites where users can be from one or more conflicting user groups.  Various Marketplace sites have been doing this for 15 years now.  Why have this silly restriction at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142279" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T13:37:58.257" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36837" CreationDate="2010-01-23T13:46:47.347" Score="5" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/6418/wrongcolor.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is easily &quot;fixed&quot; by changing the class of the error message from &lt;code&gt;form-item-info&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;form-error&lt;/code&gt;. The error message will be much more visible, and more in sync with the others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9903/formerror.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:10:47.207" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:10:47.207" Title="If no title is given error message appears in the wrong color" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36709" CreationDate="2010-01-23T13:53:47.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's not really any need for a button, if a style sheet for printing is defined (with &lt;code&gt;media=&quot;print&quot;&lt;/code&gt; attribute).  Those &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Click here for printer-friendly version&quot; links are generally considered a bad idea&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Stack Overflow currently does not define a print stylesheet. I think you'd have a slightly better chance of getting your suggestion approved if you changed your question to something like &quot;please provide a style sheet for printing.&quot;&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;Of course, I'm pretty sure the response would be something like &quot;this is already a very text-heavy website, I don't think it's needed.&quot; :)&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I was wrong, printer styles &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; defined. They are in the same stylesheet, using &lt;code&gt;@media print&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T14:09:21.240" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T14:09:21.240" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T14:13:10.873" Score="28" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to the way SO loads questions and then hides 'ignored' tags, I will occasionally see a question (for just a split second) that I actually have some interest in.  It would be really nice to be able to temporarily disable my ignore tags so that I can see all the questions in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142140" LastActivityDate="2011-04-30T16:40:47.010" Title="Temporarily disabling 'Ignore' tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36695" CreationDate="2010-01-23T14:19:54.990" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Promoting sth's comment and my follow-up comment to an answer, you can filter out certain tags by preceding them with &quot;-&quot;.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java%20-ejb%20-jdbc&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java -ejb -jdbc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get feeds the same way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/java%20-ejb%20-jdbc&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/java -ejb -jdbc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T14:19:54.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36735" CreationDate="2010-01-23T14:55:40.050" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would probably use the &quot;ignored tags&quot; function if I could quickly toggle the setting. It might be nice of the &lt;code&gt;Hide Ignored Tags&lt;/code&gt; check box was on the questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/hide-ignored-tags1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T14:55:40.050" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36738" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T15:06:09.230" Score="4" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow question feeds by default don't provide updates for comments.  What's the solution to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141944" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-27T15:34:06.953" LastActivityDate="2010-08-27T15:34:06.953" Title="Is there a feed for Stack Overflow that also has comments in RSS?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;&lt;updates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28977" CreationDate="2010-01-23T15:12:35.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easiest IMO is to search for the tags (e.g. search for &lt;code&gt;[-spring][java]&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is a RSS-feed link at the bottom of the result page: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2488/rssf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T15:12:35.237" />
  <row Id="36740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36738" CreationDate="2010-01-23T15:15:29.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use the experimental timeline feature. It's not linked anywhere yet, so you have to type the URL yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/[question number]/timeline&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/36738/timeline&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/36738/timeline&lt;/a&gt; for this one. It does include comments. But remember that it's experimental; in particular, there's &lt;strong&gt;no corresponding RSS feed&lt;/strong&gt; (yet?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T15:15:29.070" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-23T15:55:52.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to follow up &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36590/sizes-and-overlaps-of-communities-on-the-sites/36703#36703&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; with a comparison relative to Java. So, picking Java, the largest jvm language (apparently), and the smallest jvm language (of those I listed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scala&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jRuby&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It almost makes you feel sorry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,2.41,0.39,1.59,0.28,0.05,0.05&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=java%20%287442%29|scala%20%28179%29|jruby%20%2829%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132113" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T16:25:30.740" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T16:25:30.740" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T16:20:48.523" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Wait, what?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; you may think. This just occurred to me and before I go on with the actual request, I'll explain a bit further:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sites, such as the lair of nerds &lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt; allows for voting individual comments &lt;em&gt;(that's good as we obviously can see on any Trilogy site)&lt;/em&gt; and the comments are also rated with words describing the quality of content such as &lt;em&gt;&quot;funny&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;insightful&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;informative&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature request is sort of an inverse feature: I'd like to get a confirmation that this won't happen on any of the Trilogy sites. The reason is that while commenting systems on news sites and similar do benefit from metadata describing the actual content, Trilogy sites should contain only informative answers with a hint of insightful wherever it applies to - that is, the site should always thrive to get good answers instead of losing itself into the depths of metadata craziness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This request also relates a bit to a recent blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;post about improved comments&lt;/a&gt;, especially this short part at the end of the post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, we don’t want Stack Overflow to&#xA;  turn into a social networking site for&#xA;  chatty cathys, so there’s only so far&#xA;  we will go in supporting pure&#xA;  conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. This request applies to both answers and  comments alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:12:02.497" Title="Do not add any additional metadata to actual votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36709" CreationDate="2010-01-23T16:21:53.073" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if there's a big need to support printing, but in truth, when you want to print something, it should come out of the printer in a way that's better formatted for printed media. The print stylesheet does a decent job by itself, but there are some things I find lacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a &quot;printable view&quot; of a question that does/has the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows the question, and all answers on a single (web) page. Currently it's question + each page of answers (by design), so you end up with multiple printed copies of a question. This wastes paper, is confusing, and also makes it somewhat annoying if you want to print only certain sections of the answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows the vote count for answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hides all functional links such as &quot;add comment&quot;, etc. Currently, this is partly implemented.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shows the entire comment history on all answers. Currently you'd have to expand all the answer comment histories manually.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hides the page footer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Various layout tweaks to reduce the printed length. For example, comments currently have way too much empty vertical space.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; There is now an API-based application called &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/179/stackprinter-the-stackoverflow-trilogy-printer-suite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackPrinter&lt;/a&gt;, as Jeff pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19356/printer-friendly-layout-truncates-long-titles-on-firefox/50871#50871&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; -- I haven't tried it myself, but it should solve some of the issues I've mentioned here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T17:26:40.347" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T17:26:40.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36746" CreationDate="2010-01-23T16:25:09.730" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a new user on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser.com&lt;/a&gt;. I asked a question which is very important to me. I did not manage to get a proper answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some work on the site, i managed to get 55 reputation points. The question is 3 days old now, but i can't find the &quot;start a bounty' option at the end of my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was asked when I had 1 reputation point, and no badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142128" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:41:32.877" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:41:32.877" Title="Can new users with 55 reps points offer a bounty?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36745" CreationDate="2010-01-23T16:30:59.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You must have at least 100 reputation to offer a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work/16067#16067&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T16:30:59.043" />
  <row Id="36747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36748" CreationDate="2010-01-23T16:47:07.960" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I want to reply to a comment made by Jeff Atwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of the following will notify him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Jeff Atwood: I agree with you (this one would be the &quot;Canonical&quot; form, the one that works for sure)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Jeff I agree with you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Jeff: I agree with you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Jeff, I agree with you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thanks Jeff, I agree&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 4 above, but with Atwoof instead of Jeff&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thanks Jeff Atwood, I agree&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because I prefer typing just &lt;code&gt;@Jeff:&lt;/code&gt;, but if he won't get the notification I'll use &lt;code&gt;@Jeff Atwood:&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: oh well, found the answer on the SO blog, probably should have looked earlier: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not deleting the question in case other people were wondering the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T17:07:00.987" ClosedDate="2010-01-23T17:18:12.813" Title="Question about the new @name comment notification feature" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36747" CreationDate="2010-01-23T17:07:00.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@name works, even if the user name is &lt;strong&gt;name lastname&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T17:07:00.987" />
  <row Id="36749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36742" CreationDate="2010-01-23T17:07:25.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to say that this won't happen. It doesn't matter why a comment or answer was voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T17:07:25.757" />
  <row Id="36750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36742" CreationDate="2010-01-23T17:17:36.980" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I remarked before (somewhere.. but I can't find it) that it was interesting how no other sites seemed to pick up this particular dimension of the Slashdot moderation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone think of other sites which have comment metadata like Slashdot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:11:10.890" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:11:10.890" />
  <row Id="36751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36742" CreationDate="2010-01-23T17:39:49.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, when I have Slashdot mod points, I don't find the categories helpful.  Some time ago, Slashdot metamoderation changed from asking if a certain mod point use was correct to asking if the comment it applied to was helpful or not - in other words, Slashdot metamoderation is limited to good comment/bad comment.  I wonder if they'd drop the categories for moderation if they weren't so entrenched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, I usually comment to explain a downvote, and sometimes for an upvote.  I don't have to deal with inappropriate or multiple appropriate categories, and I can be as specific as I like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T17:39:49.733" />
  <row Id="36753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-23T18:15:15.623" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about databases/platforms &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C#|VB.NET|.NET, Sql Server, Oracle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Java, Oracle, Sql Server &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C++, Oracle, Sql Server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C#, Java, Sql Server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C#, Java, Oracle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PHP, Oracle, MySQL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think C# should be C# or VB.NET or .NET, I don't know about java)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MySQl, Oracle, Sql Server (on stackoverflow, as a control for the above)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the color mixup, but with all those wishes, it was pretty hard to keep a consistent ordering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,20.82,5.50,17.05,3.27,2.33,2.06&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%23%20/%20vb.net%20/%20.net%20%2816245%29|sql-server%20%283383%29|oracle%20%28894%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,45.46,12.01,12.12,5.90,5.08,3.14&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=java%20%287442%29|sql-server%20%283383%29|oracle%20%28894%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,57.95,15.31,12.09,3.77,6.47,2.72&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%2B%2B%20%285838%29|sql-server%20%283383%29|oracle%20%28894%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,61.52,27.97,19.30,20.72,7.46,6.43&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%23%20%2812097%29|java%20%287442%29|sql-server%20%283383%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,61.52,7.39,19.30,3.84,3.63,2.28&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=c%23%20%2812097%29|java%20%287442%29|oracle%20%28894%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,54.70,14.17,38.88,3.93,5.06,3.16&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=php%20%286307%29|mysql%20%283450%29|oracle%20%28894%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,98.06,25.91,24.96,9.25,10.96,7.22&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=mysql%20%283450%29|sql-server%20%283383%29|oracle%20%28894%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:49:15.433" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:49:15.433" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T18:26:56.827" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;The graphic on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36590/sizes-and-overlaps-of-communities-on-the-sites/36753#36753&quot;&gt;Sizes and overlaps of communities on the sites&lt;/a&gt; are very interesting, can we have the same for “wanted” skills on careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g If I already know x and y what should I learn next…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we don't see a full data dump for this just&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Employer  id -&gt; all tags searched for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CV id -&gt; all tags of each time (e.g. separate hate / love)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No need for any other data, however location would be interesting as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T08:05:54.027" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T08:05:54.027" Title="Sizes and overlaps of search for skills on careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36756" CreationDate="2010-01-23T18:50:23.043" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflowsurvey.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; for real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134863" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T18:52:16.847" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:52:47.047" Title="StackOverflow Audience Survey" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;survey&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36755" CreationDate="2010-01-23T18:52:47.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's something Alex / Inedo did, and they are our official advertising partners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check the survey tag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/survey&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/survey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for prior questions on this topic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T18:52:47.047" />
  <row Id="36760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T19:35:40.613" Score="3" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;How Does Stack Overflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first time I am here; this site seems a bit strange compared with traditional technology sites. It is organized by tags, not by topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems cool, but it is not easy to find the thing I want. Can you give me some advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-10T12:35:00.287" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T12:35:00.287" ClosedDate="2010-01-24T00:50:01.867" Title="Why/how should I use Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36768" CreationDate="2010-01-23T19:43:17.627" Score="4" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was spending some time on SO today (a Saturday) and saw some good questions with no answers, and some good answers which deserved more upvotes. But many people &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doesn't access trilogy sites on weekends&lt;/a&gt;, so there is a relatively small audience today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is: make all questions with &quot;low&quot; views (maybe using the same algorithm as the &lt;code&gt;Tumbleweed&lt;/code&gt; badge) or unanswered status (no upvoted answers) reappear on a different day at the same time they were originally posted.  Or, at times when they are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more likely to get an answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this can be a positive way to get more questions away from the unanswered tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T14:16:36.633" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T14:20:00.370" Title="What about a &quot;weekend replay&quot; feature?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="36762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36761" CreationDate="2010-01-23T19:49:42.620" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any reason you can't just go through the pages yourself? Order the questions by time (the &quot;newest&quot; tab and then you can easily go as far back as you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you particularly want questions posted at 9am on Saturday to appear at 9am on Monday? It's not like the time of day at which they were posted is likely to be relevant to the question, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Any reason you can't scan down a few pages looking for questions with a low number of views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T20:16:41.433" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:16:41.433" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36760" CreationDate="2010-01-23T19:50:46.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my view, the Stack Overflow way of doing things has two advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tags make it easier to apply certain categories to your question. For example, if you ask about your PHP script having an issue with the connection to the Mysql server caused by a network error: Would you put the question in the PHP topic, the Mysql topic, the networking topic? There is always edge cases where any categorization attempt fails; with things like programming, where you may be touching many different areas at the same time, that's the case even more so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;traditional tech sites,&quot; as you call them, are often forum based, phpBB-style. They make it easy to get lost within a thread, where the 15th post on page 27 of a certain thread usually has nothing to do with the initial post. Even if it does, hardly anyone will ever read it, unless google happens to send them to that particular page. The SO approach prevents that kind of confusion by clearly making the distinctions &quot;question -&gt; answers -&gt; that's it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The success the Stack Overflow family of sites has had within a very short time frame seems to suggest that it has taken a good approach that is working well. You'll find your way around :-) Welcome aboard!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T19:50:46.360" />
  <row Id="36764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36761" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:02:31.170" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jon here. When I come back after being away for a day or two, I make a special point to click on the one or two tags that I follow most closely and catch up on the recent questions. We are all in different timezones and have different schedules, so what constitutes &quot;back in the game&quot; to one person is going to be entirely different for another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt; -- people who post on the weekends are just going to have to be aware that they may not get as many eyes on their question as if they posted during the week. (Except for superuser -- traffic there seems to not dip as much on the weekends and during holidays as on SO and SF.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:02:31.170" />
  <row Id="36765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36760" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:06:04.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Welcome to Stack Overflow. You may find this link useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to come back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; with any other questions about SO that you have!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T20:11:22.910" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:11:22.910" />
  <row Id="36766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36760" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:09:32.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is organized by questions: one page for each question asked. The tags are additional details to help classify the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For each question, anyone can propose an answer. And anyone with enough reputation can vote on each answer (the arrows next to each answer). You can vote the answer as &quot;useful&quot; (up arrow), or &quot;not useful&quot; (down arrow), or not vote.&#xA;The result is that the question-asker will rapidly see the top-voted answers float to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As balpha explained, these features tackle the typical problem of other forums: that you &quot;get lost within a thread, where the 15th post on page 27 of a certain thread usually has nothing to do with the initial post&quot;.one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:09:32.010" />
  <row Id="36768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36761" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:22:16.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community user automatically bumps old unanswered questions periodically, so there's already a process to help the kind of questions you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person who posted the question wants to, they can bump it, and if you are particularly interested in a question you might even bump it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if no one is interested in it, then the community user will bump it occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently the process works fairly well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T11:18:07.887" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T11:18:07.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:32:13.230" Score="9" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a technical question about the way SO implements a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does SO use JS to direct the user to the question page if they click on the votes/number/views on the question list on the homepage? Is there an advantage to this other than cleaner HTML?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   &amp;lt;div onclick=&quot;javascript:window.location.href='/questions/[question location]'&quot; style=&quot;cursor:pointer&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;div class=&quot;votes&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;div class=&quot;mini-counts&quot;&amp;gt;0&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;div&amp;gt;votes&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;div class=&quot;status unanswered&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;div class=&quot;mini-counts&quot;&amp;gt;0&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;div&amp;gt;answers&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;div class=&quot;views&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;div class=&quot;mini-counts&quot;&amp;gt;0&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;div&amp;gt;views&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;        &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;    &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T21:06:55.087" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:42:38.387" Title="Why did Stack Overflow use onclick JavaScript on the homepage?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36772" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:42:07.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the onclick handler is on a &amp;lt;div&amp;gt; element, not on a simple &amp;lt;a&amp;gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask me, this question belongs on SO, not on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141125" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:42:07.487" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36772" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:42:16.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess would be that it's because putting &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;s into a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is 1. invalid and 2. doesn't work consistently cross-browser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably be possible to work around that using &lt;code&gt;display: inline-block&lt;/code&gt; somehow, but that is also not consistently supported yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:42:16.113" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36779" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:51:45.717" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the following example needs no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is going on here? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would you do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(function() {&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// Do Stuff&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;})();&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142296" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T20:58:27.790" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:04:26.420" Title="Is this how Markdown should be rendering code inside a list?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36777" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:56:01.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;search for &quot;skip a line and indent eight spaces&quot; to see the example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is going on here? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would you do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {        &#xA;    // Do Stuff       &#xA; })();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there is indeed a bug having to do with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19624/markdown-formatting-bug-with-code-blocks-in-lists&quot;&gt;blank lines inside code that is itself inside a list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T20:56:01.463" />
  <row Id="36779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36777" CreationDate="2010-01-23T20:57:04.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm note sure about what &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; happen (the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original markdown spec&lt;/a&gt; leaves out all the edge cases), but I guess this is what you want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is going on here? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why would you do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;   // Do Stuff&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All is back to good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just add another four spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-23T21:04:26.420" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:04:26.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36772" CreationDate="2010-01-23T21:42:38.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be for SEO purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It reduces the total number of links on the page - there are various rumours that having over 100 links on the page is bad.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It reduces the link-to-text ratio, which is more of a concern than the above (e.g. Wikipedia articles have hundreds of links, but not every word is linked to something!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To make sure the first link for a question contains the best anchor text. AFAIK search engines ignore subsequent links to the same page, so it's best to link to the question with its title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers about &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; inside &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; may also play a part, but really are invalid since the inner elements don't need to be &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37947" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:42:38.387" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19624" CreationDate="2010-01-23T21:43:10.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also note that additional scroll bars appear if there are long lines in a code block containing empty lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;function() {&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// here we do lot's of stuff, and because comments are evil we get strange scrollbars displayed&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/a9cd53d9-adaf-4f4a-a806-299e7a86597a/view-source&quot;&gt;source view of this post&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:43:10.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36784" CreationDate="2010-01-23T21:52:17.147" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last two or three times I answered some question in SO (the last 2-3 hours), I was asked for &lt;em&gt;Human verification&lt;/em&gt;. Is this a new bug, eventually related to the resolution of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32712/overactive-spam-ku&quot;&gt;Overactive spam-ku&lt;/a&gt;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's normal to happen from time to time, but now it was like as it gets triggered on all questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Haven't tested... and it's not a big deal.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;EDIT: Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was NOT a bug, It just toke too long to enter the answers and that triggers the bot filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastEditorUserId="141148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T02:15:46.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T02:15:46.153" Title="Human verification on all answers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36783" CreationDate="2010-01-23T21:57:03.953" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means you've tripped into one of the bot filters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can happen if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You change IP between loading the page and hitting submit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You take a long time forming your question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your network connection is flaky&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are going too fast (opening lots of pages very quickly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time between loading the page and hitting submit is very short&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone sharing your IP is doing something suspicious (school or work networks)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You aren't registered and are loading pages in a strange pattern&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T21:57:03.953" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:04:10.737" Score="19" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happen to like the &amp;lt;kbd&gt; tag for showing when keys should be pressed, but I can never remember it on the very few occasions that it would actually be useful. Having it in the help file would meant that I don't need to find another question that has the tag in use, and try to copy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/kbd-elements-are-way-intrusive/1974#1974&quot;&gt;some people&lt;/a&gt; do crazy things with this tag ;-), but in general I think that it is useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135484" LastEditorUserId="135484" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T00:50:59.790" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T00:50:59.790" Title="Could the &lt;kbd&gt; tag be added to the stackoverflow editing help?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;help&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36787" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:04:45.697" Score="6" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2123358/what-coding-practices-are-considered-derogatory-to-the-compiler-closed&quot;&gt;&quot;What coding practices are considered derogatory to the compiler? [closed]&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow. I imagine that the poster thinks that this is a joke. At least that is how his/her/its comments read to me. Shortly after it was closed, the poster reposted, a situation that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2123425/what-coding-practices-are-considered-derogatory-to-the-compiler&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard took care of&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the moment I have flagged the question as spam, but I note that I am the only one to have done so. What say you? Is this cause to invoke a stronger mechanism than the usual close-n-delete gang, or have I over-reacted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T06:44:51.153" LastActivityDate="2010-06-11T21:00:30.327" Title="How should &quot;humorous&quot; trolling be handled?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;humor&gt;&lt;trolling&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36786" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:07:52.600" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks and feels like a joke question; like the only reason the asker is asking that question is to troll. My take? Warning, and if he continues, Box him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't do any good to box this specific user, but if you can narrow down with some specificity who he 'really' is, I'd box that person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T22:07:52.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36721" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:13:07.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it's true that we don't provide any view of a question that actually shows more than 30 answers, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the RSS feed for a question is limited to 30 answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T00:42:59.870" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T00:42:59.870" />
  <row Id="36791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36792" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:16:57.383" Score="4" ViewCount="1039" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as SO, SuperUser &amp;amp; Serverfault I seem to be seeing the same thing used elsewhere. Are they all run by FogCreek/Joel/whoever, or is the software licensed to 3rd parties? For instance there's a Startup site I saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a full list, and information about the software, anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144795" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T00:38:08.483" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T00:38:08.483" Title="Is the Stack Overflow software licensed to other sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;licensing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36791" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:22:52.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;stackexchange&lt;/em&gt; is the name of the service proposed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can visit the website &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; to have more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a list of stackexchange sites here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list is not full, but is quite extensive: most users want to appear in the list, but not all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are not all run by the same people as SO, Superuser and serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T22:22:52.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36786" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:25:41.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What say you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eh.  I never downvote, so I can't comment on that aspect of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd probably close it as subjective and argumentative.  It's certainly subjective - a compiler is a state machine.  It is impossible to insult a state machine, therefore the whether input is derogatory or not is completely subjective based on what human is reading the code.  Argumentative because the author insists compilers should be treated as having feelings, and argues essentially a religious viewpoint.  We cannot prove or disprove his point because he's not giving objective ways to measure compiler unhappiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this cause to invoke a stronger mechanism than the usual close-n-delete gang, or have I over-reacted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't flag something unless it really is offensive, abusive, hate speach, spam, or requires moderator attention.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it might be considered abuse of SO, but it's on the line, so I might vote it abusive one day, and not the next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T22:25:41.560" />
  <row Id="36794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36791" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:29:39.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; site mentioned by tucson, there are also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;clones&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; out there. Those are obviously not licensed or controlled by Jeff or Joel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T22:29:39.490" />
  <row Id="36795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:35:36.153" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most popular js libraries (according to tag counts on SO)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jQuery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prototype&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dojo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;redhat flavors (on SF)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;redhat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fedora&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;centos&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was gonna suggest ubuntu variants (kubuntu, xubuntu, etc) but other than ubuntu those tags are pretty scarce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,3.01,2.10,2.05,0.49,0.12,0.10&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=jquery%20%284090%29|prototype%20%28123%29|dojo%20%2886%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:26.47,29.41,100.00,5.88,16.67,14.71,5.88&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=redhat%20%2827%29|fedora%20%2830%29|centos%20%28102%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140463" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T09:40:20.373" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T09:40:20.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36786" CreationDate="2010-01-23T22:52:52.647" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we need a second experience measurement to help identify what is funny? Like a second mechanism to upvote and downvote funnyness. I think funnyordie.com does this, maybe this is a good market that StackOverflow should be going after?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-01-23T22:52:52.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-23T23:48:32.870" Score="8" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty darned rare that &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; have a question like this, but here we go. I recently started playing with &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/quartzcomposer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apple's Quartz Composer&lt;/a&gt; tool. This tool is a &quot;visual programming language&quot; (Lord how I hate that term) for developing graphic effects, animations and other compositions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amongst its uses are things like building screen savers (my current desire with the tool), iTunes visualizations, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's bundled with Apple's development tool suite (XCode), and is considered by Apple to be a development tool. I'd liken it more to Flash -- it's highly visual, with some scripting enabled. (However, it's considerably &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; visual than Flash is -- you can do amazing things in Flash with nothing but code; near as I can tell so far, you can't do a &quot;nothing but code&quot; project with Quartz Composer. They call that the Core Graphics API instead.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of me says Stack Overflow, because it is considered development, has all of the standard programming constructs (variables, logic, etc), and its development environment can be likened to, say, BizTalk's workflow design tools. Part of me, however, says that Stack Overflow is completely inappropriate, because these compositions are &lt;em&gt;essentially&lt;/em&gt; code-free -- sure, you can use Javascript in them, but that's about the extent of it. (Again, as far as I can tell so far -- I've only been playing with it a few days.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of me says that Super User might be appropriate in light of the reasons I think Stack Overflow might not be. But Super User &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; feels like the wrong community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not web-based, so DocType is completely out of the question. (Not that we support them here at Meta anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, wall of text aside, should questions regarding Quartz Composer go to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somewhere else entirely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T10:50:21.710" Title="Which (if any) Trilogy site is appropriate for Quartz Composer questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36797" CreationDate="2010-01-24T00:32:06.167" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your concerns completely and I feel the same way on being SO vs SU material.  I would support posting on either, except I think it would get the swift action of community moderation for migration to the other site back and forth as I am sure some would disagree with its placement on either. I think SO would have many more people that could answer the question though.  I am sure there are some people on SU that have the knowledge to answer, I just think SO would have more and could get an answer much quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and that previous answer to this question that was completely uncalled for has been taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T10:50:21.710" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T10:50:21.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19018" CreationDate="2010-01-24T04:20:19.797" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree this would be nice feature and I look forward to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the last day, I went through Super User and removed all the &quot;belongs-on-stackoverflow&quot;, &quot;belongs-on-serverfault&quot;, &quot;belongs-on-meta&quot;, &quot;belongs-on-superuser&quot;, etc. They are obviously found on migrated questions most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A black list would prevent this from ever having to be done again. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T04:20:19.797" />
  <row Id="36805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-24T05:26:13.937" Score="19" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often see people use words in square brackets as part of the question title, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[iphone] can't display frobnicator after doohickey&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  how to round a number to two decimal places [c++]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, when the asker is prompted to enter tags for their question, they'll typically just use the same words. This is redundant, as Stack Overflow has tags for this very purpose (and they work better for searching and categorisation than bracketed words in the title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion: On the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page, when the title is typed using words in square brackets like the above, automatically &lt;em&gt;remove&lt;/em&gt; the words from the title and pre-populate the tag entry field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T20:29:02.863" Title="Automatically move bracketed [tags] in the title to the tags field" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-24T06:51:21.823" Score="3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16634/count-only-questions-with-upvoted-answers-towards-the-accept-rate-percentage&quot;&gt;Count only questions with upvoted answers towards the accept rate percentage&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the requirements for a question to count toward acceptance rate is at least one answer, but that answer doesn't need upvotes. The problem with this is that if someone posts an answer that's flat out wrong or belongs as a comment on the question, the question then counts toward acceptance rate. I don't want to accept something that doesn't even resemble an answer, but not having too many questions, even a couple like this harm my acceptance rate. I realize I can delete the question, but I want to leave it in hopes that it is answered eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not make the criterion for including questions in acceptance rate calculations at least one upvoted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T06:51:21.823" ClosedDate="2010-01-24T07:40:32.803" Title="Acceptance rate criteria and answers with no upvotes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36805" CreationDate="2010-01-24T07:47:18.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select Id, Title from Posts&#xA;where DeletionDate is null&#xA;and dbo.RegexIsMatch(Title, '\[[\w\+\.\-]{3,}\]') = 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1,188 questions of 438,994 match. Sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;[WCF] What files I need to check-in after adding a web service reference?&#xA;[WPF] Custom binding class is not working correctly&#xA;GWT Javascript Exception in Hosted Mode: Result of expression 'doc.getBoxObjectFor'  [undefined] is not a function.&#xA;&quot;[MySQL] Joins are evil&quot; - Cal Henderson&#xA;[jQuery] Show LIs based on ID in sequence&#xA;[CSS] Layer doesn't stretch to height of containing image&#xA;Generating a 3d captcha [pic]&#xA;[iPhone] Delaying but not disabling iPhone auto-lock&#xA;[C++] Hide class' methods from Intellisense and/or certain &quot;clients&quot;?&#xA;Get first key in a [possibly] associative array?&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T07:47:18.513" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-01-24T10:35:06.863" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;1.Jon Skeet once debugged a program he never saw, He mailed his Russian friend saying&#xA;&quot;you forgot to call the update() method in the orders form&quot; he was right&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.Jon Skeet once sneezed out came &quot;LINQ&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3.He doesn't sleep he spins wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4.Compiler outputs are actually replies from E-mails to Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5.When you down vote J S's answer a phenomenon called &quot;Skeetastrophy&quot; happens resulting in any of the following &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your System Abruptly Shuts down,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You're Reputation  decreases by 75%&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You'll forget who you are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to be Continued&#xA;(credit also goes to Phil Haack's Comment on Scott Hanselman)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3978" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T13:55:14.413" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T13:55:14.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-24T10:35:06.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36797" CreationDate="2010-01-24T10:40:22.513" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask on Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd justify it with that programming isn't about the code, it's about using logic to create an application, no matter if it's JavaScript, C# or &lt;em&gt;visual code&lt;/em&gt;. Additionally, the chances of finding someone with expertise in it are highest on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T10:40:22.513" />
  <row Id="36810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36786" CreationDate="2010-01-24T10:49:53.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should &quot;humorous&quot; trolling be&#xA;  handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All humorous trolling should be handled by troggy our new moderator using his awesome powers of burnination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T10:49:53.770" />
  <row Id="36811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36834" CreationDate="2010-01-24T10:58:33.847" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16843/add-requirements-for-a-tag-maybe-a-template&quot;&gt;Add requirements for a tag (maybe a template?)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2125613/sql-server-count-records-including-zero-per-ten-minute-intervals&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and was a nice user initiative to include create and load scripts, so you could easily start think about a concrete solution for user problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is: what about to include some template on questions bound to specific tags? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For SQL questions, that template would to suggest to cite SQL database vendor/version in use, some create script and data sample.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For regex questions, a data sample should be asked and, if contains &quot;HTML&quot;, already suggest to use a parser, or to attach a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001311.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blood drop to Cthulhu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some specific tags could to suggest marking a wiki (for books, for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this, we could to add answers including some test cases and make sure question is fully answered, by helping OP to make better questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:43:13.430" Title="Question templates depending on selected tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36811" CreationDate="2010-01-24T11:15:26.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why restrict people's creativity? I'm not sure this has been a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; issue - people can always request extra info via comments etc, without the system demanding things that aren't actually needed. I &lt;strong&gt;hate&lt;/strong&gt; being forced to fill in a form to ask a simple question, and we need to keep it as simple as possible. Quite often the details of which sub-build / revision don't actually matter at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; new users often need help with tags, so it may not even work for the people who would (on the surface) need it most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T11:15:26.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36817" CreationDate="2010-01-24T11:47:30.520" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;it happened to me few times lately that &lt;strong&gt;after submitting new question&lt;/strong&gt; the formatting of inserted code was &lt;strong&gt;corrupted&lt;/strong&gt;. I am 100% sure that it looked ok at the time I clicked &lt;code&gt;Post Your Question&lt;/code&gt; button. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did copy&amp;amp;paste from my text editor (I use tabs to indent the code) into SO question box and then I was fixing the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not have any screen shots but you can probably go through all the versions of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2126673/hash-assignment-when-key-value-are-stored-in-an-array-ruby&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; where I was reminded via comment to fix the formatting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141953" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T14:39:53.477" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T14:39:53.477" Title="corrupted `code` formatting after posting new question (on SO)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36815" CreationDate="2010-01-24T11:49:25.430" Score="2" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2082005/2121592#2121592&quot;&gt;cletus' answer&lt;/a&gt; has 2 votes up + correct answer = 35 points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;his scoring graph&lt;/a&gt; it says he got 170 points for that answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140828" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T15:19:32.653" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T15:19:32.653" Title="Is this a scoring error?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;scoring&gt;&lt;score&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="36815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36814" CreationDate="2010-01-24T11:52:04.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note the yellow glow around the &quot;accepted answer&quot; tick. It means that this was a bounty question. Move the cursor over the tick; the tooltip will show additional details (bounty amount and accepting date).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T11:52:04.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36805" CreationDate="2010-01-24T11:52:41.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would be a good shortcut to entering tags, but I think it's better to allow for some creative &lt;em&gt;free room&lt;/em&gt; for authors. Also the box for entering tags is quite smart, better chances for using the correct tag and not (accidentally) creating a new one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, most [retag-request] question titles would look strange:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;OR  on Meta&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;[accept-rate] OR [acceptance-rate] on Meta&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;to  retag&lt;/code&gt;  instead of &lt;code&gt;[mathematics] to [math] retag&lt;/code&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, chances are low that meta have the same tags as the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastEditorUserId="141148" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T11:58:09.527" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T11:58:09.527" />
  <row Id="36817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36813" CreationDate="2010-01-24T12:30:04.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Markdown interprets lines indented by four spaces as code blocks. Tabs are pretty much ignored and will make your code look sloppy. And you don't want that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you cut and paste your code from your favourite text editor, swap out all the tabs for four (4) spaces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you can drop it in and the code will look good too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T12:30:04.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-24T12:31:19.297" Score="6" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com is today, I believe, the largest Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange type site &quot;doing&quot; &lt;em&gt;discussions&lt;/em&gt; (with more than 3,000 questions tagged 'discussion' and more than 10,000 registered users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very interested in figuring out if Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange sites can improve the status-quo of forums (newsgroups, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phpBB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt; discussions, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware of the fact that the following question was opened and moved to meta.stackexchange:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3703/stack-exchange-vs-discussion-forum/3767#3767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3703/stack-exchange-vs-discussion-forum/3767#3767&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Unfortunately the question gets very little attention since it moved there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel we could get valuable feedback from the users here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you recommend Stack Exchange sites vs other types of forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;I agree that the question is not directly related to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where else would you ask a question &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; Meta Stack Overflow &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt; Meta Stack Overflow users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-30T08:36:46.070" LastActivityDate="2010-11-30T08:36:46.070" Title="Would you recommend Stack Exchange sites vs. other types of forum?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;forums&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="36819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36832" CreationDate="2010-01-24T13:08:34.310" Score="-2" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a number of questions that are being closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;, when in reality they belong on either SuperUser or ServerFault.  For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2127093/self-timer-properties&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; has 3 votes to close as not programming related, which means it likely wont get migrated when its closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What should I do when I see these questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there anything that can be done to encourage use of the belongs-on-&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;_&lt;/em&gt;___&lt;/strong&gt; close reasons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="136084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T08:04:13.950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T08:04:13.950" Title="Too many questions are being closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;belongs-on&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36819" CreationDate="2010-01-24T13:12:23.040" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those of us that don't use SF and SU have no way of knowing whether an SO question is suitable to be moved to them, so we close it as NPR. And the belongs_on_ tags should be BANNED, not encouraged! Tags are not a mechanism for expressing your opinion about a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T13:12:23.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36819" CreationDate="2010-01-24T13:12:48.780" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should I do when I see these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag for moderator attention and explain the situation.  Moderators love flags and can make the appropriate action. You could also leave comments mentioning how it should be migrated, but that will not result in direct action.  When in doubt, flag for moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done to encourage use of the belongs-on-&lt;em&gt;_&lt;/em&gt;_ tags? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We do not want the &quot;belongs-on-xxxx&quot; tags being used ever for any reason.&lt;/strong&gt; They are an incorrect use of the tag system. They are currently a top candidate for the planned tag black list. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T15:07:03.663" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T15:07:03.663" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36813" CreationDate="2010-01-24T13:44:11.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that specific case, you had some lines with only three spaces at the start. A code block must retain at least four spaces at the start of each line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136472" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T13:44:11.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36824" CreationDate="2010-01-24T13:46:34.427" Score="5" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/63798/hp-pavilion-laptop-mapping-the-remote-control&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is shown as active (&quot;1h ago&quot;) on the superuser.com start page. I can see nothing that would explain it to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135515" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T13:55:11.537" Title="why is an old question active?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36823" CreationDate="2010-01-24T13:49:53.110" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been bumped by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/-1&quot; title=&quot;user of no real status&quot;&gt;Community user&lt;/a&gt; who occasionally grabs an unanswered question (or even more) and shoves it front and centre to the top of the activity queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It helps get the old questions seen by new and/or different people who may have missed them the first time around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T13:49:53.110" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36823" CreationDate="2010-01-24T13:55:11.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what Random said (which is correct):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see a question asking about who the Community user is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19738/who-is-the-community-user&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is from the super awesome FAQ: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stackoverflow-work-the-official-faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T13:55:11.537" />
  <row Id="36826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36805" CreationDate="2010-01-24T14:35:23.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it when people put the language in the title, for example &lt;code&gt;What is a vector (C++)&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/c-an-impossible-behavior&quot;&gt;I do it too sometimes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It tells me instantly what language/major area the question is about, and I don't have to dig through the tags.. Finding C++ in &lt;code&gt;array beginner vector c++ homework&lt;/code&gt; is much more time consuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: oh, and I don't think it's redundant at all. In the title there would be the most important tag, not all of them. This empathizes said tag giving to the reader more information that would be given without it, so by definition it cannot be redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: it also has a &lt;strong&gt;huge SEO advantage&lt;/strong&gt;. Most people google &quot;Language-Name-Here Question-Text-Here&quot;. If the SO question has the language name in the title, it will have it in the HTML title of the page AND in its url.. And having all the terms in the search query in the URL and title immensely helps ranking high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T22:19:40.910" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:19:40.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36829" CreationDate="2010-01-24T15:39:35.790" Score="8" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC, the data dump is not supposed to include any content that has been deleted. Since I just stumbled over some deleted comments in the data dump, this suggests a bug in the exporter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One such comment is number 877259, which I deleted and, after fixing some typos, replaced with comment 877279. As is visible &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065133/for-statement-in-python/1065149#1065149&quot;&gt;on the answer&lt;/a&gt;, only &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065133/for-statement-in-python/#comment-877279&quot;&gt;comment 877279&lt;/a&gt; is actually still around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of similar stories include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments 958129 and 958130 (deleted) and comment 958137 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1140117/how-to-implement-a-box-or-gaussian-blur-on-iphone/#comment-958137&quot;&gt;still there&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments 1145915 and 1145920 (deleted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313401/bubble-sort-vs-merge-sort-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if on the other hand this is on purpose, and the deleted comments are supposed to be in there, please turn this question into a feature request to let the data dump at least reflect the fact that a comment is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T16:46:31.363" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T16:46:31.363" Title="Data dump includes deleted comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36818" CreationDate="2010-01-24T16:41:17.630" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would you recommend StackExchange sites vs other types of forum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To decide if StackExchange is more appropriate or better than another technology, you have to identify your end goals. It's like asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;is it better to buy a sports car or a truck?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Answer: it depends on what your needs are.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the most general terms &lt;em&gt;(my biased view)&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Open-Forum Discussion...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversations are organized as &quot;threads.&quot; Conversation start out responding to the original author. At various points in the exchange, any post that evokes (brings to mind) a response, a memory, a side story, a reminiscence, or whatever... it branches off into a sub-conversation. Sub-conversations generate further sub-conversations, generating further sub-conversations, etc. These all exist in parallel without any weight given to separate relevant answers from random missives; no weight separating correct from incorrect information. The more interesting the topic, the more posts and off-shoot branches it generates. It's the type of conversation you might have among a group of friends at a bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the plus side, some people like going bars. It's community-building. Forums start out fun. Everyone has a common interest and start out at the same level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem: &lt;strong&gt;Forums don't scale.&lt;/strong&gt;  They get noisier and noisier. Long-time users get tired of the new users asking the same old questions. New users can't find useful information and feel ostracized. Most find that, the more they talk, the less &lt;em&gt;value&lt;/em&gt; they get from the experience. In short, you stop learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/2009/11/02/the-chat-roomforum-problem-an-apology-to-technosailor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The chat room/forum problem&lt;/a&gt; by Robert Scoble&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;...Versus Deliberative Assembly&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, Stack Overflow does not encourage open, free-for-all discussion (many-to-many conversations). That is by design. Stack Overflow &lt;strong&gt;works more along the lines of &quot;deliberative assembly&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (many-to-one -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_assembly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question is posed; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You weigh in with a &lt;strong&gt;carefully-thought-out response&lt;/strong&gt;; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then a short comment session; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Followed by voting. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow doesn't work &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; like that but the goal is to get to a reasonable answer quickly without branching into different discussions. Various points of view carry different weights and float to the top. Less relevant information is pushed to the bottom. Incorrect or out-dated information is corrected collaboratively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The limitations of Stack Overflow:&lt;/strong&gt; Stack Overflow's design doesn't welcome (or even support) inter-answer debates. If your subject matter benefits from on-going collaboration, StackExchange may not be appropriate. Many scientific disciplines &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; open debate. You propose an answer, someone else responds with a retort and wants to know, &lt;em&gt;&quot;what do you think of that?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Back and forth, many-to-many, until all facets are thoroughly explored to its natural conclusion. That exchange doesn't happen in Stack Overflow or any StackExchange site... by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy&lt;/a&gt; by Clay Shirky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For communities that that &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; free, open-ended discussion and back-and-forth debate, traditional forums are your choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To create a collection of &quot;authoritative knowledge,&quot; vetted by a &lt;em&gt;community of experts&lt;/em&gt;, StackExchange seems to be a better choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001169.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T18:06:30.053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:06:30.053" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36827" CreationDate="2010-01-24T16:46:15.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted comments will be removed from the next export.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T16:46:15.620" />
  <row Id="36830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30827" CreationDate="2010-01-24T16:57:16.533" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of proposing a dialog box, a much better idea would be to allow them to be dragged and re-ordered, so everyone is happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T16:57:16.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35501" CreationDate="2010-01-24T17:11:24.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, due to popular demand, the comment timeout is now set to 15 seconds, sliding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:11:24.130" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36819" CreationDate="2010-01-24T17:31:04.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other two have said it best, but I thought I'd add one tiny little thing to the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close reasons go by a majority-rules scenario -- if there are 3 NPRs and 2 migrations, it's an NPR closure. Additionally, when it comes to migration, the guidance given by Jeff Atwood was, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32471/wondering-why-i-was-migrated/32474#32474&quot;&gt;&quot;when in doubt, don't.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Not &quot;don't close,&quot; but &quot;don't migrate&quot; if there's any doubt about which site it belongs on. Prudence is the better part of valor here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For everything else I would have said, see Troggy and Neil Butterworth's responses. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:31:04.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36835" CreationDate="2010-01-24T17:32:37.090" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope you all will forgive me for asking this here, but since this site probably attracts many that are MarkDown-friendly I thought it would be a good place to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking (which is almost always a dangerous thing, believe me), and I have a huge repository (in the non-version control sense of the word) of documents containing specifications for code I've written in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that I never seem to settle on anything that stands the test of time. I have a bunch of Word files, a bunch of OpenOffice writer files, a huge bunch of text files, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specification really needs just two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It needs to be versionable, I need to be able to check the file into source control, do meaningful diffs between versions, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It needs to output something slightly better formatted than just pure text&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I thought about using MarkDown. I know that HTML strictly follows the above two rules, but let me add a third that makes HTML go away:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It needs to be readable and easily editable in its source form as well, diffs needs to be understandable in the source form&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, is there a MarkDown implementation written as a console application, so that I could run my markdown text file through it to produce a html page, useful for printing, or serving on the web or whatnot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baring that, is there a MarkDown implementation for C# that would be easy to use for this that I could write my own tool around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are various perl and whatnot implementations but I'd rather have a pure .exe (even if it is a .NET exe) than a perl installation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:43:57.127" Title="Markdown console application?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36811" CreationDate="2010-01-24T17:43:13.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only template I would like posters to follow is to read this first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to Ask Questions the Smart way&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, the details just take care of themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:43:13.430" />
  <row Id="36835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36833" CreationDate="2010-01-24T17:43:57.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MarkdownSharp&lt;/a&gt; is Stack Overflow's server side implementation of Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T17:43:57.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36733" CreationDate="2010-01-24T18:10:31.480" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just moved most of the post validation to the server, so any submission errors can be simplified and placed in the same area on the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6915/stackoverflowserverside.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:10:31.480" />
  <row Id="36838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22778" CreationDate="2010-01-24T18:13:16.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We moved most of the post validation to the server, which reduces the chance that JavaScript quirks will disable the submit button. Also, any submission errors can be simplified and placed in the same area on the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6915/stackoverflowserverside.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:13:16.310" />
  <row Id="36841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36842" CreationDate="2010-01-24T18:41:22.410" Score="-6" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably this has been asked before but due to the insane amount of merge tag requests I wasn't able to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merging tags is probably the most common request here on meta. It would be nice if 10k's could do it themselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;15 votes required to pass, 5 to fail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10k's would see at the top on the page, next to &lt;code&gt;logout&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;about&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt; a &lt;strong&gt;merge requests&lt;/strong&gt; link with the number of requests they haven't voted in yet: for example, &lt;code&gt;merge requests (2)&lt;/code&gt;, in a visible color such as red. This will bring in many votes and makes the process really fast even though 15 votes are required, and with that many votes abuse would be non existent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow 1k's to propose new retag requests, but not to vote on them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe all of this would be too complicated and time consuming to implement. But I think it will be worth it in the long run.. Especially since I often see tags that should be merged, but they are almost never used so I wouldn't want to bother a mod with this. Or you can implement a simpler version of what I proposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T22:32:40.660" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:32:40.660" Title="Allow 10k's to merge tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="8" />
  <row Id="36842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-24T18:46:07.467" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Merging, while a useful skill, is still something that has enough consequences that it should be left to moderators.  I would say maybe individuals at 20K and above, but not just 10Kers. Looking at the numbers, 20K is the new 10K, and 10K is the new 5K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:46:07.467" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-24T18:58:03.133" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the best reason for forcing these suggestions to be made here on Meta is to make each tag change/merge &lt;strong&gt;open for discussion prior to implementation&lt;/strong&gt;. Merging a tag is so &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; destructive that it really shouldn't be left up to the whim of a single person, &lt;em&gt;regardless&lt;/em&gt; of their reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, not every tag change request is all that interesting or controversial. Implementing a fixed voting system would likely mean that boring requests would languish. Add in the need for some sort of discussion system on more controversial requests, and Meta suggestions start to look like a pretty good compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T18:58:03.133" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-24T19:04:44.460" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The long-term solution is an tag database solution that allows tag synonyms (two tags mean the same thing) and tag banning (disallowing certain tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until then, tag renaming is a non-reversible and potentially very damaging operation. Tag &lt;em&gt;requests&lt;/em&gt; can be made on meta but it should be left to the blessed few to &lt;em&gt;turn the second key&lt;/em&gt;. Just to be safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T19:04:44.460" />
  <row Id="36845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-24T19:06:24.817" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a complete moratorium on creating tags for  a month, and see if it causes any real problem? There is no shortage of the damn things after all. And if it doesn't cause the end of the world, relax it so that only 5K users (figure picked out of hat) can create them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T19:06:24.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-24T19:37:40.330" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a few I found interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,15.89,3.23,11.46,2.09,0.94,0.91&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=best-practices%20%284487%29|debugging%20%28713%29|code-golf%20%28145%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:38.82,100.00,7.62,13.03,3.13,3.92,2.64&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=git%20%28545%29|svn%20%281404%29|mercurial%20%28107%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:56.32,50.90,100.00,14.08,7.22,6.14,3.97&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=garbage-collection%20%28156%29|memory-leaks%20%28141%29|embedded%20%28277%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:15.08,20.35,100.00,1.76,2.07,2.68,0.35&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=emacs%20%28343%29|vim%20%28463%29|visual-studio%20%282275%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:65.91,51.49,100.00,26.19,34.45,32.86,22.14&amp;amp;chco=00AFEF,BEB013,000000&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Super%20User&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=windows-xp%20%28375%29|windows-vista%20%28293%29|windows-7%20%28569%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,54.95,10.09,40.18,7.57,5.41,5.05&amp;amp;chco=00AFEF,BEB013,000000&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Super%20User&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=linux%20%28555%29|ubuntu%20%28305%29|unix%20%2856%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:71.15,100.00,39.10,36.86,20.51,25.32,18.27&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=backup%20%28222%29|security%20%28312%29|performance%20%28122%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,22.23,14.13,18.87,13.14,6.82,6.82&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=linux%20%281012%29|ubuntu%20%28225%29|unix%20%28143%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T19:37:40.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="36848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-24T19:59:30.967" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many reasons this just won't happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag sponsorship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;people abusing to get obscure tag medals &quot;silver: ice-dancing&quot;, etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;people abusing to get taxonomist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag wars of every nature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;people being dangerously stupid (there is no undo): &quot;merge c# and .net - that'll be fine&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm tempted to add a &quot;status-declined&quot; - I'm &gt; 100% sure that's where this is heading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T19:59:30.967" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36852" CreationDate="2010-01-24T20:35:55.827" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've seen a couple questions of this type once in a blue moon, and am thinking of asking one, but wasn't sure if this was considered within the realm of SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Are questions about programming language design allowed on StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can find at least two &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1878412/should-primitive-datatypes-be-capitalized&quot;&gt;open&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/366998/good-resources-on-programming-language-design&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; on the subject, but I recall somewhere long ago reading that such questions weren't appropriate for StackOverflow. So I decided to go ahead and ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T22:07:41.077" Title="Language design questions on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36850" CreationDate="2010-01-24T20:42:10.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way to find out is to ask on SO. There seem to be three basic kind of language design questions - these are my personal opinions on them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm designing my own language - do you think XXXX would be a good feature [ok if community wiki]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Java has XXXX, why doesn't C++ have it too (or vice versa) [close as S&amp;amp;A]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why does XXXX have YYYY [ok if not blindingly obvious]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T21:10:31.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36850" CreationDate="2010-01-24T21:04:20.537" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's pretty reasonable, myself - particularly as we know that at least one of the C# language designers posts on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put it this way: I've seen quite a few such questions, and many of them have received interesting answers. There's a certain amount of guesswork required in most cases, but it can be informed guesswork - and sometimes there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a definite answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T21:04:20.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33116" CreationDate="2010-01-24T21:05:53.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We disable the WMD preview for smartphones, so you can, if you change your User-Agent to &lt;code&gt;iphone;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;ipad;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;android n.n;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T12:32:06.183" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T12:32:06.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36855" CreationDate="2010-01-24T21:13:37.817" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2109366/changing-the-mysql-query-delimiter-through-the-c-api&quot;&gt;opened a bounty on stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; hoping that my question would get more visibility, but sadly I noticed that it only got &lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt; views since I started the bounty yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, in 7 days, it will reach the top of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;featured tab&lt;/a&gt; (right now it's on page 2, and no one will look that far).. But I don't want to wait for 7 days before the visibility bonus of the bounty will come into effect - and &lt;strong&gt;eventually it will&lt;/strong&gt;. It just doesn't seem right to me having to sit for days before my answer goes up the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in my opinion the ordering should be changed. I have the following proposal: &lt;strong&gt;The reverse of what it is now&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People are more likely to receive an answer immediately (which is good, people want things now not later), that maybe the OP will mark as accepted in advance, therefore reducing the number of featured questions (which is good because the others get more visibility).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker will have time to accept the answer. For example, now the first question on the list on SO is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068651/how-does-a-delayed-commit-work-with-source-control-repositories-and-ci-servers&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, it ends in 2 hours and it currently has a very high number of views and thus high potential for answers. However, if I decide to answer now, what are the chances the asker sees it and has time to accept it before the bounty expires?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is none I can see. Same potential for visibility and answers, but simply reversed (you get a lot of visibility and answers right away, and little later on, instead of the inverse).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-19T23:09:28.433" LastActivityDate="2010-11-19T23:09:28.433" Title="Changing the way bounties are ordered" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;featured-tab&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36854" CreationDate="2010-01-24T21:23:52.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is handled the same way eBay handles auctions -- the ones ending first are shown at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not feel any of your proposals would make things better, in fact, I think a few of them would make things worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer to your question is, the ordering favors &lt;em&gt;answerers&lt;/em&gt; -- they can come in, provide an answer, and see results (accept or auto-accept, if it meets the criteria in the /faq) quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answerers are &lt;strong&gt;doing all the work&lt;/strong&gt;, so why is it reasonable to change the ordering to inordinately benefit you, the asker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-24T21:52:12.737" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T21:52:12.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36850" CreationDate="2010-01-24T22:07:41.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they're perfectly fine, so long as 1) they aren't thinly-veiled rants about some language feature the author doesn't care for, and 2) they're reasonably specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36850/language-design-questions-on-so/36851#36851&quot;&gt;I gotta agree with Neil&lt;/a&gt; - you're not gonna know how it'll go over 'til you try. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100902/is-lua-interesting-from-a-programming-language-design-perspective&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is pretty lousy (IMHO), yet it got one rather nice answer that makes it worth reading... But if Norman Ramsey hadn't responded, it would have been a waste of time - the author could have asked &quot;Why would I want to embed Lua in my app?&quot; and received essentially the same responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T22:07:41.077" />
  <row Id="36857" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-24T22:15:13.230" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the ignored tags feature should be enabled when searching questions by tag. For example, I have the &lt;code&gt;iphone&lt;/code&gt; tag hidden in my preferences on Stack Overflow, and so when I go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/iphone&quot;&gt;search for questions&lt;/a&gt; with that tag, the list is empty. This doesn't make much sense, in my opinion; I obviously don't want to ignore iPhone questions if I'm specifically searching for them. &lt;strong&gt;It would be great if ignored tags were not taken into account when searching by tag.&lt;/strong&gt; The same applies to interesting tags as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take this a little further, it would also be great if there were a button off to the right on all pages that allowed the user to temporarily toggle the ignored tags feature at will. This way, we'd be able to click a single button/link and see all the questions that have been ignored, and click again to hide them again. Just a suggestion I thought I'd throw out there; I'd be happy with my first proposal, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this has already been posted, I searched and couldn't find anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130082" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T22:15:13.230" Title="Don't hide questions when browsing an ignored tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36854" CreationDate="2010-01-24T22:21:01.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People are more likely to receive an answer immediately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or not. By the time a bounty can be offered, the question has already sat around for two days - if it hasn't been answered, then there's a decent chance that the answer is either obscure, or the question was poorly asked. Letting it sit around for the duration of the bounty gives the author time to improve it... or failing that, more users time to run across it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;therefore reducing the number of featured questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not offering a bounty would accomplish the same thing, quicker... if the system doesn't do what you want, then don't use it and thereby reduce the noise for those who do use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, if I decide to answer now, what are the chances the asker sees it and has time to accept it before the bounty expires?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That really depends on how often the asker checks SO. You'd &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that since it was worth offering a bounty, he'd stick around and watch it... But, who knows? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2075311/how-is-the-performance-of-entity-framework-4-vs-entity-framework-3-5&quot;&gt;The top question right now&lt;/a&gt; is exceedingly general, and I gotta wonder if the author's time wouldn't have been better spent just posting his query and asking for advice in making it execute faster rather than soliciting clairvoyants on SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T22:21:01.000" />
  <row Id="36859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36863" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:00:53.687" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;We usually get several answers to our questions. Quite often there will be more than one correct answer, as well as lots of interesting comments and discussion about the topic. Although there is already accepted answer I find useful (mainly for others) to provide an answer which is the &lt;strong&gt;summary of all answers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you give me your comments on that? Keeping in mind that,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Such summary would help me (and hopefully others) to understand more about my question and the accepted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not after reputation (points).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was suggested somewhere not put answer in the question itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2126673/hash-assignment-when-key-value-are-stored-in-an-array-ruby&quot;&gt;the prototype here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141953" LastEditorUserId="141953" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T00:30:54.023" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T13:54:43.210" Title="Should I provide a summary of all answers as a self-answer to my question? Or do it some other way? Or not at all?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;&lt;summary&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:06:01.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This whole problem would just go away if tag black listing and tag synonyms were implemented. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system should know that if someone types in n &lt;kbd&gt;c-sharp&lt;/kbd&gt; they really mean &lt;kbd&gt;c#&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T23:06:01.880" />
  <row Id="36861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36371" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:13:38.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely think that this would help close the gap between moderators and 10k users. Plus, if the users already have the information available, it seems natural that they should have it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T16:44:10.077" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:44:10.077" />
  <row Id="36862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:25:41.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until it consumes more than 5% of a moderators bandwidth, I doubt it's an issue.  Can you quantify the 'problem'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is, the current system seems to work fine.  There's no re-tagging backlog, and if there is it's because they want more discussion, not because they can't handle all the requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please bring some numbers to the table to help us understand the magnitude of the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T23:25:41.430" />
  <row Id="36863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36859" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:43:27.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, after choosing a selected answer, you could update your question outlining all of the useful information from the other answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T23:43:27.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36859" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:44:39.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people get irritated when people post answers that merely re-hash the existing answers.  If you have nothing new to add, vote up the good answers so that the 'summary' is merely the top few answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T23:44:39.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36854" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:47:42.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want more attention, choose a higher bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions to which I've attached a 550 bounty have received plenty of attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many, many questions which are worth only 100, 150, or 200 bounty, and I can get more rep answering regular questions than spending that time on the &lt;em&gt;chance&lt;/em&gt; that I might capture a small bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; attention than the current system gives you, give more of your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T23:47:42.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36859" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:49:16.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Creating a new answer summarising the others is a good idea from the perspective of people who view the question, later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But wouldn't there be a tendency for readers to upvote the answer? If they do, &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; get the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's better to modify the question as Farseeker suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T23:49:16.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36371" CreationDate="2010-01-24T23:53:12.660" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be very good. I only check the mod tools once a week, if that... simply because when I get there, it is empty (I guess SO is busier than SU so more interesting page!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I actually saw a number and it was just a click away, I would happily &quot;mod&quot; a lot more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2010-01-24T23:53:12.660" />
  <row Id="36868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-01-25T00:46:40.820" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In relation to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35013/stack-overflow-careers-success-stories/35021#35021&quot;&gt;Robert's story&lt;/a&gt;, I actually got my current job through SO, but back before SO Careers existed. (So, it pays to buff up your SO profile with good answers!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was one of the first beta testers on SO, as was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/122/mike-stone&quot;&gt;Mike Stone&lt;/a&gt;. Mike went to become one of the top SO users for a couple of months (at least until the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/a-question-about-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;big disagreement&lt;/a&gt; over &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/i-move-to-close-this-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question closing&lt;/a&gt;), so, he and I kind of knew each other through SO that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, Mike came on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/311/what-about-the-irc-channel&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow IRC channel&lt;/a&gt; one day to get second opinions about a candidate he was interviewing that day. So, during that conversation, I mentioned the fact that I was looking for a job, and I suppose the rest is history. :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not quite a SO Careers success story per se, but still a SO career success story. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T00:46:40.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T01:34:23.207" Score="1" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19173/what-do-the-ignored-tags-and-interesting-tags-fields-on-the-user-prefs-page-do&quot;&gt;What do the Ignored Tags and Interesting Tags fields on the user prefs page do?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click on &quot;Questions&quot; in order to see if there is anything I can help with.  I often find my self swimming through a pile of stuff that I don't know about (Java mainly).  Is there a way to &quot;hide&quot; all the topics that don't pertain to me so that the stuff I'm looking at is only the stuff I'm comfortable dealing with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in reference to StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137116" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T01:34:23.207" ClosedDate="2010-01-25T02:05:46.897" Title="Filter &quot;Questions&quot; based on topic" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;&lt;filter&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36841" CreationDate="2010-01-25T03:56:08.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;em&gt;happen&lt;/em&gt; to know that 1 out of the 6 current SO ♦ moderators has screwed up a mass retag already, and that had to be rolled back in the database.  Multiply that by the ~450 users who have 10k or greater and try to imagine the hijinks that would ensue.  I vote no, since I know exactly how easy it is to mess this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T03:56:08.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36873" CreationDate="2010-01-25T04:26:17.103" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an answer posted on a question with a bounty. The bounty will expire in a few hours and no new answers have been posted in a few days. My answer currently stands to win the auto-accepted half bounty. My question is, can I ask the questioner to award me the full bounty, or is that wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T04:34:12.937" Title="Etiquette: asking questioner to award bounty" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36875" CreationDate="2010-01-25T04:33:54.980" Score="4" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click the title element for adding a new question the text &lt;em&gt;What's your programming question? Be specific&lt;/em&gt;, doesn't disappear until I click on another element on the page and then back to that element again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This just started happening in the last day or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142342" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T01:00:42.660" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T01:00:42.660" Title="Javascript Bug in stackoverflow title for new question?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36871" CreationDate="2010-01-25T04:34:12.937" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without seeing the specific question or answer, I'd have to say in general that that would be wrong.  If the questioner had gotten the answer they needed, they probably would have awarded the bounty.  Remember that they still &lt;em&gt;lose&lt;/em&gt; the full amount regardless of whether or not they &lt;em&gt;award&lt;/em&gt; the full amount, so there's really no incentive for them to just let it expire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T04:34:12.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36872" CreationDate="2010-01-25T05:21:30.410" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed (inconsistently): the text does not go away when the text field is clicked in (build version 6176) -- Firefox 3.5.7, Mac OSX 10.6.2. This is not always reproducible; it occurs about 75% of the time at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&lt;/a&gt; page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/pikcR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sherlock Hulk makes a discovery&quot; title=&quot;Watson! screenshot smash!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T06:10:43.213" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T06:10:43.213" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36878" CreationDate="2010-01-25T06:15:59.270" Score="1" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13085/i-am-bad-at-answering-questions-on-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;I am bad at answering questions on Stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3811/how-about-a-difficulty-rating-for-questions&quot;&gt;How about a difficulty rating for questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a new user to Server Fault and Stack Overflow. I am trying to help and answer questions, but it is difficult, because there are too many questions and it is hard to figure out which questions are answerable with my knowledge. So what about an option like &quot;level of question&quot;. Like, beginner, intermediate, expert? I click the Java tag and so many Java questions appear. It's difficult to dig for beginners questions which I can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142227" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T13:27:26.017" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T13:27:26.017" ClosedDate="2010-01-25T12:13:41.070" Title="Level for questions needed: beginner, intermediate, expert" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;rating&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36876" CreationDate="2010-01-25T06:25:15.007" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And who decides the hugely subjective complexity number? Something might look like a simple question to the poster but actually be inherently complex and subtle, or it might be a nightmare to the asker (hence asking it), but actually be pretty simple or a FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you're new to an area, it might easily be that this &lt;strong&gt;one thing&lt;/strong&gt; that nobody else groks is the &lt;strong&gt;one thing&lt;/strong&gt; you've been working at for the last 2 weeks, so you can help with despite your relative inexperience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just can't think of a way of making that work in practice... just hang for a little while; there &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be questions you can help with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T06:25:15.007" />
  <row Id="36878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36876" CreationDate="2010-01-25T07:10:18.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For now, kick back and learn. When I first registered, I had no idea how much I was about to learn. This site works wonders for filling out knowledge, so you shouldn't feel ashamed or useless for not knowing how to answer a majority of the questions. That's normal; I learn a new thing or seventeen every day on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when a question comes up you are unsure of, pull out your favorite text editor and start working on it yourself. If you find a solution and nobody has posted it, post it! But don't be discouraged if someone beat you to the punch; take it as a learning experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T07:10:18.583" />
  <row Id="36879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T08:58:36.193" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2131049/problem-in-htmlunit-api-for-java-headless-browser&quot;&gt;Problem in HtmlUnit API for Java (Headless Browser)?&lt;/a&gt; wallows in the depths of having no answers which I find to solve my dilemma. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I go about setting a bounty on this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it even possible for me to do so? If so, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T09:13:52.607" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T09:24:19.760" Title="How do I set a bounty on my Java question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36879" CreationDate="2010-01-25T09:01:26.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to wait two days and have enough reputation before you can start a bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T09:01:26.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T09:01:19.013" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren&amp;rsquo;t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite a day never goes by where I don't marvel at the wonders that is the Stack Overflow trilogy of sites. Its superiority over other forum systems in dealing with questions and answers leaves me positively agape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, spoiled by the experience, I meet the old chap, Frustration, when asking questions on more mainstream topics on the basic forum software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where can one turn toward to ask questions that do not fit the fields covered by Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142819" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T09:33:19.830" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T09:33:19.830" ClosedDate="2010-01-25T09:18:49.303" Title="Where's the equivalent site for topics outside of computer science?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36882" CreationDate="2010-01-25T09:03:24.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Loads of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; sites out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140505" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T09:04:07.587" />
  <row Id="36884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36882" CreationDate="2010-01-25T09:06:01.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plenty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18154" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T09:06:01.267" />
  <row Id="36886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36882" CreationDate="2010-01-25T09:08:33.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many sites using same engine as StackOverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ServerFault.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SuperUser.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StartUps.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a site isn't built just with an good engine; most important thing are people. And to check if there are good people using a site, you'll need to spend some time in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T09:08:33.197" />
  <row Id="36887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36879" CreationDate="2010-01-25T09:18:07.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if I don't get a good answer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to get good answers, you have to put some effort into the question. Edit your question to provide status and progress updates. Document your own continued efforts to answer your question. This will naturally bump your question and get more people interested in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after 2 days, you still don't have an answer you like, you can offer a bounty. Slice off a bit of your own hard-earned reputation -- anywhere from 50 to 500 -- and attach it to the question as a bounty. We'll even throw in 50 reputation to sweeten the deal. The bountied question will appear with a special icon in all question lists, and it will also be visible on the home page Featured tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135484" LastEditorUserId="135484" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T09:24:19.760" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T09:24:19.760" />
  <row Id="36888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T09:56:04.647" Score="11" ViewCount="259" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20683/viewed-1-times&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;viewed 1 times&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1 Question&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the user profile. So, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;If i = 1 Then&#xA;  &quot;Question&quot;&#xA;Else&#xA;  &quot;Questions&quot;&#xA;End IF&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140625" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T13:32:07.473" LastActivityDate="2010-12-21T23:11:34.973" ClosedDate="2010-01-25T17:12:01.817" Title="spell fix in user profile: 1 questions" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;plurals&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36892" CreationDate="2010-01-25T10:24:27.810" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put up a bounty of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070375/what-are-you-the-most-excited-about-in-the-new-versions-of-jquery&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer automatically accepted was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070375/what-are-you-the-most-excited-about-in-the-new-versions-of-jquery/2115192#2115192&quot;&gt;some random one&lt;/a&gt; and not &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2070375/what-are-you-the-most-excited-about-in-the-new-versions-of-jquery/2070386#2070386&quot;&gt;the most upvoted one&lt;/a&gt;. Why so? Is this a bug or am I not getting how the bounty system works ? Is it possible to change this to accept the one that had the more upvotes and not some random one ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T10:40:36.527" ClosedDate="2010-01-25T20:09:52.127" Title="Why some random answer was auto accepted ? Is it possible to revert this?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36891" CreationDate="2010-01-25T10:40:36.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like Jeff pointed out in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18944/in-a-bounty-scenario-can-an-answer-from-before-the-bounty-be-automatically-accep&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; given by ChrisF, bounty will not be awarded to a question existing prior to the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to award it to the most upvoted answer, &lt;strong&gt;you should accept it yourself&lt;/strong&gt;, before the bounty runs out of time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T10:40:36.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T10:44:42.960" Score="-2" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/886/a-friends-list-on-stackoverflow-would-be-nice&quot;&gt;A &amp;ldquo;Friends List&amp;rdquo; on StackOverflow would be nice&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already, in my brief few months on SO, I have noticed some distinct personalities and have come to expect certain kinds of responses from certain people.  I moderate how I say things to those people so that they can best hear what I'm saying (sometimes choosing to wisely stay silent), and I learn how to read what they're saying more effectively so I can better understand them.  I should be able to tag notable personalities I've encountered to facilitate this process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual people have a history of behavior.  It would be very helpful for me to record my opinion of that history in a way that allowed me to act on it quickly and efficiently in the future.  Being able to simply tag someone with a particular tag I choose so I have a shorthand reference to their history of behavior as perceived by me is a good way to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like these tags to appear next to their name and user icon every place that is displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason I want this is because there are a large number of users who appear as 'unknown' or 'unknown (google)' or some other thing and use the default random geometric art icon.  If I could just recognize them by their names, I would be much less interested in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read through some discussions of the community surround SO and it's related sites.  A common fallacy I see technical people (including myself) fall into is that if you can just get to the objective truth that should be obvious to anybody that all these messy differences of opinion and personality clashes will become moot.  That is just not how people work, and basing decisions on how to run a community on the assumption that you can somehow makes things work that way will just lead to endless difficulties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site is not a pure ground of questions and answers, it has people and personalities and all the messiness that this entails.  I would rather see that tackled head on than quietly ignored in the hopes that the purity that isn't there will somehow magically assert itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, if people are insistent that somehow who people are is not important, and only the questions and answers are, then I think we should put everybody on even ground with the 'unkown' people and hide names, reputation scores and achievements from view.  All of those things are either handles by which someone might form an impression about someone's history on the site, or explicit recognition of that history.  If people's history's and identity are not supposed to matter, they should be hidden so that they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135429" LastEditorUserId="135429" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T17:10:33.597" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T18:12:43.923" ClosedDate="2010-01-25T19:42:55.697" Title="I would like a way I can tag individual users for myself so I can recognize them more easily" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="36894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36900" CreationDate="2010-01-25T10:51:41.523" Score="2" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;i know i will get flamed for this but i will ask it anyway: &lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt; the Jon skeet facts&lt;/a&gt; , and since i am stuck with trying to find a property for a .net class that apparently doesn't exist  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2131245/c-webclient-assigning-chunk-size-when-using-asyncuploaddata&quot;&gt;Reference&lt;/a&gt;) .. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering the following:&#xA;&lt;li&gt; Is there a way to raise the &lt;del&gt;Batman&lt;/del&gt; TheSkeet Sign for him to come for the rescue?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;li&gt; Is it ethical to ask him to modify the .Net framework to expose a property that doesn't exist, even if it was just for me...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;TIA&#xA;&lt;br/&gt; &#xA;&lt;br/&gt; &#xA;&lt;B&gt; Edit After Jon skeet's answer: &lt;/B&gt; &#xA;&lt;br/&gt; &#xA;&lt;br/&gt; &#xA;i guess i should have used some &amp;lt; joke&gt;&amp;lt; /joke&gt; tags to show the none serious parts :)..&#xA;Your answer is far more professional than my question! ,&lt;b&gt;and to avoid any misunderstanding  i hold great respect for all those who respond to my questions and i try every offered solution &lt;/b&gt;, but every now and then when i can't find an exposed .net property my 1st thought would be &lt;i&gt;&quot; i bet Jon skeet can make it exposed&quot; &lt;/i&gt; . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140828" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T12:56:54.580" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T12:56:54.580" ClosedDate="2011-08-07T18:37:34.757" Title="After reading Jon Skeet Facts , it is only logical to" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36893" CreationDate="2010-01-25T10:55:33.853" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reminded the other day that we're supposed to be answering questions, and voting on those questions &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; giving too much attention to &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; asks them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tag system is designed to help us keep track of question topics, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the people behind those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to answers, of course, because they're tied to the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a collection of people and personalities, but we have different user ids to help us distinguish each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think allowing users to tag other users might lead to abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T10:55:33.853" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="36900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36894" CreationDate="2010-01-25T11:29:14.900" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need me. You need &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; who knows the answer. So ask a question as well as you can, and tag it appropriately. I may well look at it anyway, but more importantly someone else may do so quicker. As the volume of questions has increased (and as my 3G signal on the train is somewhat flaky), I no longer always go through all questions in the morning to see if I missed any interesting C# ones overnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; get really desperate for my input, tweeting at me (@jonskeet) usually works - I'll generally check such questions, but I may not provide an answer if it looks like one of the existing ones is correct, or if I don't know the answer. But just to reiterate, the knowledge of the Stack Overflow userbase as a whole is far, far greater than my knowledge as an individual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you're referring to something from C# in Depth, then that &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; make it somewhat me-specific - and as I run a query for &quot;C# in Depth&quot; every day, mentioning the book somewhere in the post is likely to draw my attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T11:29:14.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36888" CreationDate="2010-01-25T11:39:35.843" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Orthograph be warned / A story's told by elders / Which does not end well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1165936105&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/205/mourning.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;unknown (yahoo) -- last seen: yes -- He complained one times too often&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-21T23:11:34.973" LastActivityDate="2010-12-21T23:11:34.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2010-01-25T12:33:53.927" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is maddening. The only questions I'm likely to put a bounty on are those really tricky questions which need some effort on the part of the answerer. Still, if no-one answers at all or if someone posts a non-answer with 0 upvotes, the bounty will go unresolved. This is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; because I wasn't tracking the bounty - believe me I needed an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now eventually I found the answer myself, and Jeff's mentioned on the podcast many times that it's good to go back and update the question/answer your own question for the good of those who come after you. So I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't accept my answer, and if someone else had eventually answered I couldn't accept theirs either. This isn't about the rep at all - just a question of marking the question as resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And another thing: Doesn't this also negatively impact my accept rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26334" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T12:33:53.927" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36907" CreationDate="2010-01-25T13:07:07.453" Score="6" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132303/i-know-nothing-about-wcf-web-services-please-help&quot;&gt;I Know Nothing About WCF Web services - Please Help&lt;/a&gt;&quot; used to be titled &quot;WCF Web Services&quot;, and said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;hii i want to create a method to save&#xA;  a file and call this method form&#xA;  client using wcf web services. but i&#xA;  dont know how to create it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to close this as not a real question. I felt it really meant, &quot;I don't know anything at all, please teach me something&quot; (and edited the title accordingly). I felt we should support people who come here because they've tried to learn something or tried to do something, and had questions, but who have at least tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, please tell me why I'm wrong, as I'm sure I must be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the OP has deleted his question, apparently after three downvotes (none of which were from me). The text of the original question is included above, as is the original title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T15:30:00.770" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T10:58:40.780" Title="&quot;No Question Too Newbie&quot; - Are You Sure?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36906" CreationDate="2010-01-25T13:13:18.813" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a problem of &quot;too newbie&quot;, but of &quot;too general&quot;, hence not a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of very newbie questions which can be answered nonetheless are &quot;What is &lt;code&gt;bool&lt;/code&gt; in C++&quot;?, or &quot;What is this &lt;code&gt;goto&lt;/code&gt; thing?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T13:13:18.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36906" CreationDate="2010-01-25T13:14:15.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whats he really needs is an introductory article / book / tutorial on the subject, and in order to be coherent it really needs to be properly structured and written by &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel the same when closing questions like that, but I don't believe that StackOverflow is the correct place for such broad questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T13:14:15.300" />
  <row Id="36909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36906" CreationDate="2010-01-25T13:16:04.983" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting to close is OK in my opinion. It doesn't look like the OP provided any data and didn't mention a specific problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You were wrong to edit the title, because it can be seen as offensive, you put words in the mouth of the OP based on your &lt;em&gt;assumption&lt;/em&gt;, and you've changed the meaning of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T13:16:04.983" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="36914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T13:46:55.473" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get annoyed often, but this just has. I put time into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132058/removing-an-element-from-multidimentional-array-php&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt;, writing (tested) functions and trying to understand a users question that the user was trying to ask (because I failed to grasp fully the problem when I first wrote my answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote a couple of things, came back to it and wrote a better function (the one the user probably wanted) only to find that between the time I started writing the function and finished, the user had deleted the question. Half the annoyance is that I have some better code that would fit the users requirements exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we lower the upvotes required to 1 (someone posted a answer that someone else though was worth something) rather than what it is now (~2?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T15:51:36.913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T00:47:08.977" Title="Reduce maximum upvotes before a question cannot be deleted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36859" CreationDate="2010-01-25T13:54:43.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point of a summary - I can read the answers myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless, of course, there's some reason I'm not going to read the answers myself, like if there are too many answers. In this case, a summary might be welcome, if it's kept up to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T13:54:43.210" />
  <row Id="36916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T14:08:50.090" Score="7" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;canonical URL&lt;/a&gt; used for a question currently includes the title, e.g. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means if the title of the question ever changed, the canonical URL would change... which doesn't feel quite right to me. It feels a bit like trying to change a primary key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it make more sense to use the non-changing part as the canonical URL, like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way however often the title is changed, search engines will always see the same URL as the canonical way of addressing the same question. Admittedly that URL won't have any keyword matches in, but I would &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; that matches in other URLs which have the same canonical URL are taken into consideration. (Before anyone asks, I've never seen any of the Google indexing code, and would certainly refuse to answer any questions on it even if I could.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same suggestion applies for user pages of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I emailed Matt Cutts about this, and here's his reply (with permission):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tough call. Normally we'd say to use&#xA;  rel=canonical to prune out any&#xA;  unneeded parameters. In this case,&#xA;  that would prune out the keywords.&#xA;  Dropping the keywords is cleaner from&#xA;  a theoretic standpoint, but&#xA;  standardizing on the url with the&#xA;  keywords would work better for SEO and&#xA;  probably for user clicks. It can work&#xA;  either way. As long as the&#xA;  keywords/title are almost always&#xA;  unchanging, I'd probably recommend the&#xA;  latter. But if the title changes a&#xA;  fair fraction of the time, then it&#xA;  might be better to stick with the&#xA;  numeric identifier alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ideal case would if the title&#xA;  words were the key, not the numeric&#xA;  number. That's what WordPress can do&#xA;  and that's what I do on my blog, for&#xA;  example, e.g.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/detect-page-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/detect-page-changes/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess it depends on how often the title changes - in my experience the title may often change within the first hour (while the question is being edited) but not after that. Changing the canonical URL based on time would be somewhat strange though :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T11:47:04.300" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T11:47:04.300" Title="Strip titles from canonical URLs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17557" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:19:24.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am experiencing this too, quite frequently (for a few hours a few days a week). The culprit is &lt;code&gt;ads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; in 90% of the cases and &lt;code&gt;gravatar.com&lt;/code&gt; in 10%. It's especially annoying because before ads has not loaded, you can't start an answer or write a comment. I'm located in Germany, on a 100 Mbit DSL line in the office, and on a smaller DSL line at home, both with completely different providers. I have had this problem on both lines. In both cases, I'm behind a standard router, but that's it - no Proxies or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess some downtime, lag or routing problems can't be helped, but it would be a great help if the page could be designed in a way that you can at least already start typing even if not everything has loaded yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T16:50:14.860" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T16:50:14.860" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36919" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:26:17.330" Score="14" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because I can't find where this has been asked before (I am pretty certain it is somewhere), could someone explain the &lt;code&gt;always-friday-in-iceland&lt;/code&gt; meme?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T00:35:33.950" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T00:35:33.950" Title="Always Friday in Iceland?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;memes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36918" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:36:12.410" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Haha, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30134/has-tony-the-pony-been-hacked-closed&quot;&gt;started&lt;/a&gt; with the user &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22459/olafur-waage&quot;&gt;Olafur Waage&lt;/a&gt; who lives in Iceland.  I believe it started with someone asking a Friday type of fun question and it started as a comment, then turned into a tag.  And then people started slapping it on more fun meta questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Friday is kind of the official &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/21413#21413&quot;&gt;let a few fun questions survive on meta&lt;/a&gt;&quot; relaxed day. I believe someone asked a fun type of question and it was not Friday and someone's defense was it is always Friday in Iceland!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T17:54:20.440" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T17:54:20.440" />
  <row Id="36920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36914" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:39:28.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible remedy for &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; specific situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you already have a well-crafted answer to a deleted question, why don't you repost your own version of the question (and your answer)? You can add a brief disclaimer as to where the question originated, if that makes you feel better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T00:47:08.977" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T00:47:08.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:44:21.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone in the unfortunate position of programming in ColdFusion, I'd like to see these tags compared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;coldfusion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;php&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;asp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:2.62,100.00,1.74,0.65,0.03,0.82,0.03&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=coldfusion%20%28165%29|php%20%286307%29|asp%20%28110%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T15:52:33.653" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T15:52:33.653" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36916" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:45:49.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the blog post you link to, the canonical tag is used to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;specify your preferred version of a URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the preference changes (because the title changes), what's wrong with telling google so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the URL with the title in it was based on the assumption that a keyword match in the URL is of high value, SEO-wise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say you &quot;would hope&quot; that it would be taken into consideration -- but you don't know. Since the current way of handling it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have advantages (the above mentioned assumption!), but &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; have any disadvantages (besides your gut feeling), I'd vote against changing anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T15:45:49.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36918" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:46:03.590" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/21413#21413&quot;&gt;The Friday Afternoon meme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T15:46:03.590" />
  <row Id="36924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36916" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:51:37.570" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, I like have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; help text available in the url.  I think maybe what we should do is just keep the canonical url fixed at the original title, no matter how bad it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T15:51:37.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36929" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:53:34.943" Score="6" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;How frequently are the trilogy sites indexed by search engines?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Are the more popular trilogy sites indexed more frequently than the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I've asked is a search-engine-independent question, but an answer relating only to Google should be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:26:59.040" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:26:59.040" Title="How frequently are new questions indexed by search engines?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;seo&gt;&lt;search-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36916" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:55:19.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer to see the question title when I see a link, even on these sites.  The titles rarely change, and in fact are nothing more than window dressing, as you can put anything in the 'title' part and the link will go to the same place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, titles don't change that often.  Is this really a problem?  Can you quantify it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they are convenient window dressing, even if the URL itself isn't shown, I'll mouse over it and check it out in my browser's status bar so I know where I'm heading if I choose to read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T15:55:19.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36906" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:55:38.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no question too basic, but there are askers who are too lazy and who will on occasion ask questions which do not deserve to live. Voting to close as it isn't a question is perfectly fine in these situations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on my mood I might even suggest that they have crossed into the spam/offensive territory, but the associated penalties might be a bit too harsh - depending on how much of a repeat offender to the OP turns out to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the cited situation, it's not a question, so can't be treated as too newbie, it's just a request for teh codez. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T15:55:38.793" />
  <row Id="36928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36925" CreationDate="2010-01-25T15:58:57.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've often seen a question or answer I post ends appearing on google within 15 miniutes or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T15:58:57.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36925" CreationDate="2010-01-25T16:04:23.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have experienced posting a question, then searching google immediately after for the core issue of the question and having that question pop up as a result of the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Google may be aware of a question posted within 60 seconds of it being posted.  I haven't done any testing to find out if this is always true, but when Jeff has discussed Google bot activity on the site, and how they update the sitemap (ie, it's dynamically generated, and google slurps it at least once a minute, if not more frequently) then it is likely that you may as well assume Google has what amounts to a direct feed for new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, answers do not receive the same level of attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T16:04:23.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36914" CreationDate="2010-01-25T16:06:07.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why users can delete their own questions &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;. What about only ever giving users the right to &lt;em&gt;vote&lt;/em&gt; to delete their questions, just like is currently possible with close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If users really want to disassociate themselves from dumb things they've asked, then they should flag the question for moderator attention (at which point perhaps it could become owned by the Community user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I totally understand why you're annoyed by that question being deleted - I'd be annoyed if I put as much effort into an answer as you clearly did, only to have it purged from the record (and not viewable by you, since you're not - yet - at 10K).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T16:48:14.833" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T16:48:14.833" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36893" CreationDate="2010-01-25T16:17:13.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be a great idea to keep track of who is who when users keep changing names.  While it shouldn't matter so much for Q&amp;amp;A, it makes a difference in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T16:17:13.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36925" CreationDate="2010-01-25T16:27:31.373" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Google's point of view, ASAP. Google wants to update their search as often as required to capture changing content... taking into account the popularity of the site. So, a site receiving a new post every few seconds with 10s-of-millions of page views per month?... wicked fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a big déjà vu moment every time I search Google for information about a question &lt;strong&gt;which was just posted moments before&lt;/strong&gt; and the first Google hit is &lt;strong&gt;to that question.&lt;/strong&gt; Freaky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T18:14:11.010" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:14:11.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36888" CreationDate="2010-01-25T16:44:12.877" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/2408691898_b245cd2d0f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;S&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-21T22:51:13.580" LastActivityDate="2010-12-21T22:51:13.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36893" CreationDate="2010-01-25T17:03:08.153" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has repeatedly declined requests that allow users to vote on, tag, flag, or otherwise 'mark' users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the key point here is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the problem you are trying to solve, and how will this improve the site for everyone involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem you indicate is largely personal.  &lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt; have a problem communicating with some people on the site, and &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; want a way to remember that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; need to change your communication patterns on a per-user basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firstly&lt;/strong&gt;, you haven't demonstrated that by giving you this tool, something will significantly change for the better site wide for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondly&lt;/strong&gt;, you don't quantify the effects you are currently experiencing - we don't understand the magnitude of the problem - how often you have this difficulty, and how bad the effects of it are when they are improperly managed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thirdly&lt;/strong&gt;, you don't show that others need this feature - please show comments, edit wars, etc that demonstrate a need for this system - ie, you should be able to show objectively that if people had been marked appropriately, certain discussions would have had a better public outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fourthly&lt;/strong&gt;, you don't demonstrate that it won't be used poorly - in other words you don't show that your current marking scheme won't result in more 'bad' marks than 'good' marks.  In effect you are implementing an invisible 'demerit' system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fifthly&lt;/strong&gt;, you don't show an adequate understanding of unintended consequences - what if someone breaks into the system and gathers the data, publishing it widely?  What if it's accidentally exported in the data dump?  Should administrators have access to it?  If a user learns that they are marked badly by someone, or many people, what recourse do they have to have their record expunged if they change their behavior significantly (say they start being treated for depression - is it right to continue to use your bad assumptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sixthly&lt;/strong&gt;, this is not a social networking site.  It's not a site for discussion.  &lt;strong&gt;If your conversation requires you to know the history of the person rather than the objective discussion at hand merely to communicate with them, you are not using this site correctly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T17:03:08.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36914" CreationDate="2010-01-25T17:38:58.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really easy to get an up-vote. You can write a good-&lt;em&gt;looking&lt;/em&gt; answer and get &lt;em&gt;an&lt;/em&gt; up-vote. Probably more than one, but there does need to be some sort of compromise between users wanting to delete questions they realize aren't going anywhere and answer authors wishing to preserve their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the question author can override &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; voter, while answer authors can override &lt;em&gt;any number of voters&lt;/em&gt;, opting to remove their answers at any time unless that answer has been accepted. Putting the question deletion threshold at a single up-vote makes this system entirely too harsh on users - especially new users who are still getting used to how SO works - who belatedly realize they've asked a question that they maybe shouldn't have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was easier to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26844/there-needs-to-be-a-way-to-delete-content-or-disassociate-your-account-from-said&quot;&gt;disassociate a question from a user&lt;/a&gt;, then this might be less of a concern, but as you've seen here, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; still possible to salvage questions that do have some value - rarely is anything ever truly deleted on SO. I think the system should stay as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T17:38:58.557" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36916" CreationDate="2010-01-25T17:42:23.523" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I see your point, the title of a question does not change &lt;em&gt;nearly&lt;/em&gt; enough to warrant such a drastic change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The price of not including proper keywords in the canonical title would be rather severe, as URLs with keywords in the title do much, much better in search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/dozba/status/8200379680&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dozba's twitter stream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wow, Foursquare fails &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; at SEO: &quot;http://foursquare.com/venue/11707&quot; vs. &quot;http://www.yelp.com/biz/university-coffee-cafe-palo-alto&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T17:56:00.857" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T17:56:00.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36633" CreationDate="2010-01-25T17:45:04.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As usual, I am not a Lawyer, the following is strictly personal opinion and should not be considered legal advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The careers website is a little more strictly legalized than the rest of the &quot;trilogy&quot; for a variety of reasons.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That particular clause, for instance, is likely primarily meant to protect Careers in the event that someone breaks into the system and uses it for nefarious purposes.  If sensitive information leaks out, and a person sues Careers, then Careers can point out that another user broke the terms of service, and therefore Careers is slightly less liable than it might be otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's unlikely that the agreement will be changed, even if it means that you won't be able to use their service.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's unlikely that this particular clause will ever be proactively enforced - it is only meant to be used after-the-fact, not to spur legal action, but to stop legal action.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the clause says what it says, and means what it means.  I can't say that I fully read your question, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you wrote the question hoping to get the clause changed, sorry - you're probably out of luck.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you wrote the question hoping for a legal statement or interpretation from the owners of &quot;Careers&quot;, sorry, you're &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; out of luck.  Consult with a lawyer if you must understand how this clause is &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; to impact you, and the consequences of such action should it occur.  At the end of the day, it's not much more than a game of risk/reward.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T17:45:04.547" />
  <row Id="36942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36893" CreationDate="2010-01-25T17:59:04.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've implemented the system for my username.  Please let me know what tags you'd like to see there - I'll put the highest voted comments below as my personal-interaction tags, so we can have a sense at how well the system might work in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T17:59:04.093" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36893" CreationDate="2010-01-25T18:00:14.590" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what Greasemonkey is for. You can change the site to be whatever you like, in the privacy of your own home. You don't need permission, support, or anything else. And, it's programming so you can ask how to do it on Stack Overflow itself! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T18:00:14.590" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36893" CreationDate="2010-01-25T18:12:43.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, it's already too tempting to remember users. The attribution blocks on every question, answer, and revision give folks a sense of ownership and probably encourage some to participate more than they would otherwise, but they also make it tempting to consider criteria other than &quot;is this a good question&quot;, &quot;is this a good answer&quot;, &quot;is this a good edit&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have said, if you feel a user is being abusive, then &lt;em&gt;flag the post where they're expressing that attitude&lt;/em&gt;. Otherwise, try to remember: the real value of SO isn't asking questions and getting answers, it's &lt;strong&gt;finding answers to questions that have already been asked&lt;/strong&gt;. If the question is good enough to find its way into search results, and your answer to it stands the test of time and the scrutiny of other readers, then it doesn't matter so much how the person who originally asked the question acted - your answer will still matter long after he has been forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T18:12:43.923" />
  <row Id="36947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T18:33:05.297" Score="9" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question starting with a blockquote gets closed as a dupe, the automatically inserted  &quot;Possible duplicate(s)&quot; block and the original quote block end up as one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest adding an additional empty (or not) comment to the auto-insert:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&gt; **Possible Duplicate:**  &#xA;&gt; [&amp;ldquo;viewed 1 times&amp;rdquo;](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20683/viewed-1-times)  &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- End of automatically inserted text --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&gt; 1 Question&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36888/spell-fix-in-user-profile-1-questions-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36888/spell-fix-in-user-profile-1-questions-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T01:33:36.113" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T05:00:03.023" Title="&quot;Possible duplicate&quot; link block not separate from blockquote at start of question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36947" CreationDate="2010-01-25T19:03:46.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a nice separator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...like we used to do, before this was automatic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T19:03:46.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36952" CreationDate="2010-01-25T19:22:29.503" Score="2" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when I use the above URL as a direct hyperlink inside stackoverflow then the &lt;code&gt;&quot;&lt;/code&gt; character is automatically removed when a user selects the hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably need some kind of escaping - but I couldn't figure out how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt; doesn't work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139218" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T20:48:47.793" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:55:21.237" Title="Howto escape a &quot; character in an hyperlink" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36951" CreationDate="2010-01-25T19:25:46.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%22&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran a single double quote through PHP's &lt;code&gt;urlencode&lt;/code&gt;, which encoded the, you guessed it, chararcters needed to be changed when using a URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T19:25:46.627" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="36954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T19:31:16.787" Score="18" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently when the &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; option is enabled in the preferences, any question with an ignored AND an interesting tag is hidden.  This keeps many &quot;interesting&quot; questions from being seen when this option is used.  This works fine for those who want to ignore homework, but not so good if the volume of questions in topics alien to the user is overwhelming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To fix this, it is proposed that a new option &quot;Keep Interesting Tags&quot; be added. When &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; is enabled, the behavior of enabling &quot;Keep Interesting Tags&quot; is to show any questions that have both interesting and ignored tags.  When &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; is disabled, the setting of &quot;Keep Interesting Tags&quot; has no effect (and could be hidden from the user). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141801" LastEditorUserId="141801" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T20:05:42.573" LastActivityDate="2010-08-05T00:25:37.633" Title="Provide &quot;Keep Interesting Tags&quot; option when &quot;Hide Ignored Tags&quot; enabled" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="36956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36957" CreationDate="2010-01-25T19:51:37.190" Score="2" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got a Mortarboard badge due to a bounty I received today. The definition of the Mortarboard badge is to have gotten the max rep for one day, but the FAQ states that bounty does not apply to the 200 daily rep limit. So technically, I haven't reached my daily limit, yet I still got the Mortarboard. I can understand why the system awarded the badge, but it doesn't seem entirely correct... does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142099" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T20:44:33.123" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T20:44:57.630" Title="Mortarboard badge awarded in response to receipt of bounty" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="36957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36956" CreationDate="2010-01-25T19:57:18.363" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bounty will always be awarded &lt;em&gt;even beyond the rep cap&lt;/em&gt; (in that sense the bounty doesn't apply to the rep cap), but afterwards, you won't be getting any more rep. In other words, upvotes &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the bounty are awarded, upvotes afterwards aren't. So you have reached the rep cap for today, hence the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not 100% consistent and has been criticized before, but that's the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T19:57:18.363" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36956" CreationDate="2010-01-25T19:58:07.363" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, any rep you earn via any means, up to the first 200, counts toward your rep cap. Hence your bounty most likely put you at or over 200 for the day, and you have effectively rep capped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference with bounties (and acceptance in general) is that they are immune to the &lt;em&gt;effects&lt;/em&gt; of the rep cap. That is, at 200, you get nothing for upvotes -- but acceptances and bounties will take you over the 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how the legendary Jon Skeet averages over 200 per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T19:58:07.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36954" CreationDate="2010-01-25T20:07:45.203" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hidden tags are usually topics in which the user doesn't have any expertise, no matter if the question has an additional interesting tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, hiding questions &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; the system! You can only look at a fixed amount of questions, by hiding questions the chances of seeing a question &lt;em&gt;you actually can answer&lt;/em&gt; are increased. Showing questions both with hidden and interesting tags leads to more noise on the questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want that feature, write a script yourself. The hiding / highlighting of questions is completely done by client-side javascript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T20:07:45.203" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36956" CreationDate="2010-01-25T20:44:57.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have hit the rep cap for the day, thus you earn the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T20:44:57.630" />
  <row Id="36962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36951" CreationDate="2010-01-25T20:46:26.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- [link style one][1]  &#xA;- [link style two](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&quot;)&#xA;- &amp;lt;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;- http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&quot;&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should work OK in all non-naked (bare URL) link styles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link style one&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link style two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T20:46:26.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22135" CreationDate="2010-01-25T20:52:35.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that this feature is implemented! The warning bar appears telling you that the post you're editing has already been edited elsewhere!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks Jeff &amp;amp; Co!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T20:52:35.880" />
  <row Id="36964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36966" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:07:32.367" Score="0" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very similar&lt;/strong&gt; (but not exact duplicates):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34850/can-locking-a-post-discourage-new-answers-and-a-solution&quot;&gt;Can locking a post discourage new answers? (And a solution)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34815/give-diamond-moderators-the-ability-to-partially-lock-a-post&quot;&gt;Give Diamond Moderators the Ability to Partially Lock a Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a proposal for the seldom used mod-only &quot;lock&quot; feature: right now locking a post prevents voting on it. In all the instances I've seen a locked post so far, this behavior never seemed to be desired by the mods. I therefore propose that voting should be allowed on locked posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(originally two suggestions, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36970/please-change-the-name-of-the-lock-feature-to-freeze&quot;&gt;split apart&lt;/a&gt; to allow separate voting)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T21:45:29.783" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:32:52.187" Title="Allow voting on locked posts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36964" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:14:20.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do you think that voting should be allowed on &quot;locked&quot; posts? If it were allowed, there would be very little difference from a &lt;em&gt;closed&lt;/em&gt; post (which allows commenting and voting, but no new answers).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure, &quot;frozen&quot; evokes the meaning a bit more than &quot;locked&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T21:14:20.870" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36964" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:21:05.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm against voting on locked posts, as such posts can't be commented on (to point out problems) or edited (to correct problems): an unpopular post so-locked would be effectively pilloried, forced to endure down-votes without any opportunity for the author to improve or remove it, while a popular post would be elevated, allowed to reap up-votes without being troubled by criticism or contradiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locked should mean just that: a post temporarily &lt;em&gt;locked away&lt;/em&gt; from the effects of the tools normally available to users. &lt;em&gt;All&lt;/em&gt; the effects. If a moderator doesn't want that, then they shouldn't be using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T21:50:38.663" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T21:50:38.663" />
  <row Id="36967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36968" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:27:42.617" Score="5" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15330/how-do-i-put-a-bounty-on-a-question&quot;&gt;How do I put a bounty on a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/100313/help-needed-all-desktop-icons-have-disappeared&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; on Super User and I didn't receive an answer, so I would like to place a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow I can select &quot;start a bounty&quot;. But I cannot find something similar on my question on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just to blind to see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: my reputation on superuser.com is 215&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139218" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T00:36:47.927" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T00:36:47.927" ClosedDate="2010-01-25T23:48:30.110" Title="How can I add a bounty?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36967" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:31:17.837" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A question has to be open for 2 days before you can set a bounty on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T21:31:17.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36971" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:41:32.337" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the answers on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/999313/iphone-app-signing-a-valid-signing-identity-matching-this-profile-could-not-be-f&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (but on all answers I'd guess) the dates say something like &quot;Aug 12 at 19:04&quot;. Is this deliberate or a bug that thinks it's 2009 still?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T22:26:40.843" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:26:40.843" Title="Are the dates of answers assuming we're still in 2009?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;dates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="36970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38673" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:43:59.943" Score="6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(split off from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36964/changing-what-locking-a-post-does-and-changing-the-term-itself-too&quot;&gt;this suggestion&lt;/a&gt; to allow voting on separate feature requests)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;Locked&quot; is a really bad term for this, since locking a thread in a forum means preventing new replies from being posted, while here on SO when a question is locked the only thing you can do is post an answer. This is very misleading especially for people not familiar with it (and as it is very rarely used not many people are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore propose to rename it to &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt;. Mods would therefore be able to &lt;em&gt;freeze&lt;/em&gt; posts. I think the word &lt;em&gt;freeze&lt;/em&gt; is much more accurate for what the feature actually does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T10:25:59.067" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T10:26:30.033" Title="Please change the name of the &quot;lock&quot; feature to &quot;freeze&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36969" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:45:48.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's the desired behavior as &quot;Aug 12&quot; unambiguously refers to &quot;Aug 12, 2009&quot;. Year is needed only for dates more than 11 month old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked up an old answer of mine from January 2009 to see the timestamp. It explicitly mentions &quot;'09&quot; which means StackOverflow engine smartly formats timestamps based on the current date.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/444251/how-to-store-a-list-in-a-db-column/444268#444268&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/444251/how-to-store-a-list-in-a-db-column/444268#444268&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T21:45:48.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36969" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:48:49.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you hover over the date, it gives you the complete Date/Time stamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's no year, you can assume they the current or former year, as long as another year hasn't elapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T21:48:49.963" />
  <row Id="36973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36988" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:49:34.923" Score="16" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to look up some locked posts to check on because of the recent feature requests, and saw that there was no &lt;strong&gt;islocked:1&lt;/strong&gt; option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would help complete the set of advanced search options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T20:27:43.607" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T20:27:43.607" Title="Add advanced search option for finding locked posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36970" CreationDate="2010-01-25T21:52:35.057" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a two line blurb like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;*************************************************&#xA;* This Question Has Been Frozen by a Moderator. *&#xA;* No New Replies, Votes, or Edits may be made.  *&#xA;*************************************************&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other adjectives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Post is in &lt;strong&gt;Time-out&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This Post has been &lt;strong&gt;boxed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This Post is in &lt;strong&gt;Conflict Resolution&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T21:52:35.057" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="36977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36970" CreationDate="2010-01-25T22:28:37.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Word usage&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does &quot;Frozen&quot; mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this isn't a discussion board, why do we care what &quot;locked&quot; means to them - are we not allowed to use words just because some people coming from a particular type of community might be confused?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What work has been done to find out what &quot;locked&quot; means on other community sites (ie, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm concerned, &quot;Locked&quot; is fine shorthand for &quot;Voting is Locked - no further votes and flags are being accepted,&quot; or &quot;Post is locked from editing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the reality is that if you compare our terms with terms used in other forums, &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; else matches - why are we so concerned that people might be confused with &quot;locking&quot; when every other term diverges from what they may be used to as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if we come up with a new term, it should related to what is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Frozen vs Locked vs ???&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know that &quot;Voting is now frozen&quot; really gives the same impression as &quot;Voting is locked.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reference to voting, you usually use the phrase, &quot;The polls are now closed&quot; - but we use closed for a different, though related, form of question 'locking.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think we might want to dig down into the roots of 'locking' to understand what's really going on - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is locking &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; all about?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally Locking results when an official moderator has made the determination that the community is no longer able to responsibly determine a post's fate - the option for the community to self-moderate is removed due to the community's own behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this definition, &quot;The community is locked out of moderation&quot; is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does it matter?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't really matter anyway, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We receive nearly 40,000 posts per day.  How many are locked?  A vanishingly small number.  They are outliers, and as such don't even need to be understood by the majority of new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the site were designed from the ground up so that every term was immediately and painfully obvious.  Perhaps at some point in the future when all the kinks have been worked out a mass re-naming can occur so that things are a little more intuitive.  In this particular case, though, I'm not sure that there's much to be gained by a name change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:28:37.360" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36964" CreationDate="2010-01-25T22:32:52.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the primary reasons to &quot;lock&quot; a post is to take away the ability for people to fight over open/close voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the post is in contention due to excessive community moderator action, removing editing and voting privileges is the intended action of locking the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, locking says, &quot;The community appears unable to responsibly moderate/edit in this question, therefore the official site moderators are restricting voting and editing abilities to official moderators only.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:32:52.187" />
  <row Id="36979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-25T22:43:35.907" Score="1" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-get-my-code-blocks-formatted&quot;&gt;How do I get my code blocks formatted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where should we post large chunks of code that we don't want to clog up our posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to make a scrollable code block? Or do we have to use external website like pastebin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second question - is there a more reliable way to paste code blocks? I'm finding it difficult to paste code on SO sometimes.. it will sometimes only take the 'middle chunk' of my code block as code, no matter what I do or how hard I indent or where i put the &amp;lt; code &gt; blocks... any advise??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-25T22:47:05.040" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T00:43:30.640" ClosedDate="2010-01-26T01:12:49.230" Title="where to paste large blocks of code / text?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;code-block&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="36980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36954" CreationDate="2010-01-25T22:45:13.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142369" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:45:13.627" />
  <row Id="36981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36979" CreationDate="2010-01-25T22:46:12.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After you paste the code block, select it, then hit the code button:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;101&#xA;010&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:46:12.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36979" CreationDate="2010-01-25T22:46:33.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very large code blocks automatically scroll both horizontally and vertically.  They still take up a lot of vertical space before they scroll, though, so your post may still appear pretty cluttered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general I've suggested pasting only tiny excerpts of code, with links to pastebin or similar services where the larger pieces of code exist to put the small post into context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your second question, Code blocks must be indented by 4 spaces on every line.  The editing bar has a code icon (looks like a small block of 1's and 0's) to help with this.  Paste your code, then select it in the editing box, and press the code icon.  It'll indent everything you've selected by 4 spaces, and it will show up correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and other HTML tags may fail due to the use of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; symbols in the code, so the best way is to indent everything 4 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T00:43:30.640" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T00:43:30.640" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="36983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36979" CreationDate="2010-01-25T22:52:35.247" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding scrolling code blocks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need &lt;em&gt;that much&lt;/em&gt; space for the code on which you're asking a question, you probably have a larger problem. Generally speaking, if I have to read your code for 5 or 10 or 20 minutes to understand what's going on, I'm not going to answer your question. It's essentially the &quot;big wall of text&quot; problem, but with syntax highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My recommendation is to find the smallest working set of code possible which reproduces the error, and paste &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; in instead. This helps those of us who might want to answer by giving us only what we need (better signal-to-noise ratio), and it helps you by not (potentially) exposing more of your (or your company's) code than is critically needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-25T22:52:35.247" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22135" CreationDate="2010-01-25T23:25:05.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1577/notifications-for-concurrent-changes-when-editing-posts/28119#28119&quot;&gt;Notifications for concurrent changes when editing posts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is partially implemented. You'll get async topbar notifications during editing, if someone else saves a revision during your editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Now, if you save before the notification, there will still be a conflict, but depending on the timing of the edits in &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; cases you should know about it.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since March 2011, a warning is shown &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1577/notifications-for-concurrent-changes-when-editing-posts/28119#28119&quot;&gt;after you save as well&lt;/a&gt;, if a conflict occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T20:27:50.187" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T20:27:50.187" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="36986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36979" CreationDate="2010-01-26T00:14:17.883" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/clippy_code_formatting.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T00:14:17.883" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36872" CreationDate="2010-01-26T01:00:37.557" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design -- the help text disappears when you begin typing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title field had to be handled a bit differently because it typically has focus when the page loads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this might actually be a behavior we want to extend to the tags field, since the help text disappearing on focus is not exactly helpful when you, y'know, &lt;em&gt;need help entering text on that field&lt;/em&gt;.. the one you just tabbed into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T01:00:37.557" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="36988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36973" CreationDate="2010-01-26T03:53:32.700" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case that isn't implemented, for whatever reason, you can find out if a post has ever been locked by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+%22Post+locked+by%22&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aql=&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;cad=h&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;using the following Google Search&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &quot;Post locked by&quot; -migrated&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Type that into Google.  The &lt;code&gt;-migrated&lt;/code&gt; allows you to omit posts with the word 'migrated' in them (for those posts that are locked due to migration).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also try &quot;&lt;code&gt;Locked By Jeff Atwood&lt;/code&gt;&quot; (or any of the moderator Names) to see ones that may slip through, but this should catch most of them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T03:53:32.700" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T03:59:41.983" Score="2" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29315/ignored-users-option&quot;&gt;Ignored Users option&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353/add-the-ability-to-ignore-users&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a user on SO that is young and act very immature, they take the whole point thing way to far and live on SO just to gain points.  Here lately I post some very well defined and legit questions about some concepts I am learning and trying to understand better and this person will go out of there way to post negative comments about me posting questions.  An example is last week I had a question in regards to performance of loading different kinds of files for settings, like ini, json, xml files and then today I posted a question in regards to the performance of accessing an array of setting once it is returned from one of these files and the kid is non stop complaining about me &quot;posting the same question over and over again&quot; when in reality the questions are completely non related to each other and just bashing me.  I have been very polite to him in my comments back and tonight someone down voted him so he starts bashing me that I down voted him and it's just getting really annoying as it is happening more and more often with this user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am just asking, is there an option to block my post showing up to certain users?  If this is not an option I think it would be a really good idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:10:29.793" ClosedDate="2010-01-26T13:10:13.623" Title="Is it possible to block a user?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;block-user&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="36990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36989" CreationDate="2010-01-26T04:05:30.473" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to your concerns, if you think a user is unfairly targeting you, then your best bet is to flag a comment that you think is inappropriate and let a moderator know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not a good idea to retaliate. It just weakens your case.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're posting questions that are quite broad or open ended (as performance questions necessarily are if you don't have a specific set of constraints in mind), then you're going to raise the ire of that part of the community that thinks you're just asking open-ended questions to gain reputation, instead of actually looking for an answer to a specific problem you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community as a whole (well, the 'older members') tend to look down upon people who are using the reputation system as a game, instead of answering specific questions for specific problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: After taking a look at your Stack Overflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/143030/jasondavis&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;, it does seem like you ask broad, open-ended question on a wide variety of topics, combine that with your ratio and that's a possible indicator of why this particular user targeted you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying it's right, but it is a plausible explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T17:10:29.793" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:10:29.793" />
  <row Id="36992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T04:39:21.610" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25239/how-can-i-see-all-the-posts-matching-my-interested-tags&quot;&gt;How can I see all the posts matching my interested tags?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11563/tab-for-interesting-questions&quot;&gt;Tab for interesting questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 2 tagging features, interesting tags and ignored tags. How about having a tag white-list or changing the interesting tags implementation. This would make it far easier to focus on the subjects you're interested in. Interesting tags just highlight what I'm interested in, I still have to search through pages of content to see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133042" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T04:39:21.610" ClosedDate="2010-01-26T05:26:06.090" Title="Tag Whitelist (length requirements are stupid)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="36993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T05:17:26.970" Score="-12" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;Html Entities are a very good way at preventing xss and preserving meaning to users of the system.  This is an excellent ratio of security and usability and this is why Html Entities is a very popular xss defensive measure. Currently for StackOverflow posts tags are stripped out,  unless they are in a code block.   This recently became rather upsetting when talking about HTML, and then realizing how often people talk about tags. (Like this post :) and this html that you can't see:      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know what I'm talking about when it comes to xss.  I have many cve nubmers to my name,  here an ironic xss vulneralbity in a Profense,  which is  a waf: CVE-2009-0468.  Stripping tags does not make your system more secure against xss than using html entities.  In fact xss is still possible even without greater than and less than symbols.  For instance this code is vulnerable to xss because the user input is within an href.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;print('&amp;lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.xssed.com/'.striptags($_REQUEST[xss]).'&quot;&amp;gt;link&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't need &amp;lt;&gt;  to execute javascript in this case because you can use &#xA;onmouseover,  here is an example attack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://127.0.0.1/test.php?xss=&quot; onMouseOver=&quot;alert(/xss/)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In php you use this following code to prevent against xss.  This is a common type of xss even in applications written by highly skilled software engineers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;patched:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;print('&amp;lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.xssed.com/'.htmlspeicalchars($_REQUEST['XSS'],ENT_QUTOES).'&quot;&amp;gt;link&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information on this attack:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_%28Cross_Site_Scripting%29_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#RULE_.233_-_JavaScript_Escape_Before_Inserting_Untrusted_Data_into_HTML_JavaScript_Data_Values&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_%28Cross_Site_Scripting%29_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet#RULE_.233_-_JavaScript_Escape_Before_Inserting_Untrusted_Data_into_HTML_JavaScript_Data_Values&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142380" LastEditorUserId="142380" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T07:42:37.040" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T07:42:37.040" Title="Why doesn't Stack Overflow use HTML entities?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="22" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="36994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36993" CreationDate="2010-01-26T06:32:41.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please refer to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To post code, click the code button in the editing toolbar or manually indent by 4 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T06:32:41.367" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="36995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35724" CreationDate="2010-01-26T07:00:42.253" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think we should have the option to pay the difference to upgrade to lifetime&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can of course do this -- if you'd like to upgrade to lifetime and apply your $29 toward that, just email us -- careers@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T07:00:42.253" />
  <row Id="36997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2010-01-26T10:19:35.120" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather late to the party (come on, Necromancer!), but I want to say that I've been learning languages partially through Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to note that &quot;the way&quot; (my preferred way) to learn languages through SO is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to post lots of newbie questions about them. The process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start following that language tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the simpler questions in that tag, particularly questions about things you have lots of experience with in other languages. I know regular expressions pretty well, so I can learn a lot about a language's syntax and workings by reading that language's regex questions. Pay attention to the code examples to learn syntax.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you have major problems, the purity is not worth the frustration. Resort to using the Googles to find more general language references, but don't forget to Google &quot;site:stackoverflow.com&quot; to search SO for your question first. SO probably already has your newbie question, and Google's search engine is better than Jeff and Joel's. Sorry, guys.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eventually, you will start being able to predict the answers to (some) questions people post about that language. At this point, start posting answers. Maybe they'll be wrong or not very good or not &quot;the best way&quot; to do it, but you can't learn if you don't stick your neck out somewhere, and someone will come along and post the right answer anyway if you don't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After doing this for a couple months, I find I know quite a bit about a language. Languages I have done this with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I started &lt;strong&gt;Python&lt;/strong&gt; from a book, but I didn't care much for it, so I turned to reading Python questions on SO and, with the help of example code, learned much. Though saying I learned it on SO is a misnomer, as I had great help from the wonderful online documentation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I won't pretend I know it even remotely completely, but the little &lt;strong&gt;Haskell&lt;/strong&gt; I know mostly comes from SO. I have yet to find a good introduction to monads, but despite this I am able to answer some more basic Haskell questions and get quite a few upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I already knew C, but I've learned a lot of &lt;strong&gt;C++&lt;/strong&gt; from SO. Most of what I had to Google were basic syntax problems, but SO taught me about using &lt;code&gt;std::vector&lt;/code&gt;s and the different forms of &lt;code&gt;using&lt;/code&gt; and other things. It wasn't that much of a leap, but now I can answer some basic C++ questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Currently working on &lt;strong&gt;Ruby&lt;/strong&gt;. Lots of help from the Ruby online documentation so far, but whenever I upgrade to Ruby 1.9 I'll be in much better shape.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: It's doable, and you don't even have to make an ass out of yourself. It certainly puts the pressure on you to learn, but I'm used to that with programming, as I've been entirely self-taught from the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T10:19:35.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="36998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3131" CreationDate="2010-01-26T14:59:56.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is not a tutorial.  The format does not lend itself well to teaching a new language starting from basics.  Yes, taken together the questions illuminate a lot of a given language, but there will be dark spots which not only aren't described here, there aren't any clues that tell you your missing something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That last point is important - without a 'language roadmap' of some sort, you won't learn some basic aspects of the language, you won't know that you're missing parts of it, and that will hobble you in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, you cannot expect to fully learn a language on SO with no outside resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is a &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; place to enhance a good tutorial, though.  If you are already an accomplished programmer, you may be able to dig into the meat of the language, and while going through basic instruction look up related questions on SO to drill down into why or when one might choose one construct over another.  You might use SO to teach you advanced topics that are glossed over in the basic tutorial, since it's geared towards someone who may not understand advanced CS topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd be interested in seeing someone try.  I suspect that SO &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; become a good resource if someone took the time to put together a series of questions that became the tutorial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is part of a series on learning Python for beginners.  Please read the question carefully, and submit answers that are simple, clear and easy to understand.  Your answer should answer the question with as much detail as necessary for a beginner - but no more.  Please do not post an answer consisting only of links - the intent is to build a fully self-supporting tutorial for Python on SO.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above would appear at the top of every tutorial question, and you might have the following basic questions (each in its own question post):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the history of Python - who created, why, and what are its roots (in terms of other languages that preceded it)?  What languages have claimed this language as one of their influences?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the basic constructs of Python?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the control structures of Python?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are variables in Python, and how are they used?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll probably need to CW the post to avoid the wiki police, but other than that there's no reason not to post a tutorial series of questions, and thereby learn a language while providing a resource for others who might want to learn a given language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expect, though, that once someone starts doing this, these will pop up all over the place as others will follow suit.  It may result in a backlash from the community (all I see are these stupid tutorials!) but I believe this could be a very good resource for programmers, and a way to bring beginners into the community on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T14:59:56.630" />
  <row Id="36999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-02-25T15:55:59.297" Score="30" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Update:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See Jeff Atwood's blog post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Great Edit Wars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as the usual close wars we're all familiar with I'm aware that there have been several edit / rollback and tag wars recently, some have been over whether or not &quot;Google it yourself&quot; answers were acceptable, others over issues of formatting, and a great many over what tags should be called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being involved in an edit war recently I read the following passage in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shirky.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clay Shirky&lt;/a&gt;'s book &lt;a href=&quot;http://herecomeseverybody.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here Comes Everybody&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wikipedia also arms its users with ways to help enforce the bargains that make the site work. Wikipedia lists a number of rules for the site, including writing from a neutral point of view and assuming good faith during disagreements. No direct enforcement mechanism is attached to these rules, but users periodically invoke them when they are arguing about the content of an article. This invocation has no formal effect, but it arms the user with a kind of moral suasion that is often enough to settle an argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if we had rules for how to manage disagreements on Stack Overflow it might help to resolve them and could at least better define what is expected of participants in terms of justification of edits and behaviour which may make them more civil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest we have to Wikipedia's rules are the following from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;site FAQ&lt;/a&gt; written by Jeff Atwood:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Be nice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Treat others with the same respect you'd want them to treat you. We're all here to learn together. Be tolerant of others who may not know everything you know. Bring your sense of humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do have these sofaq questions which deal with how and when to close, edit or retag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21788/how-does-editing-work-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does Editing work in Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11474/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts&quot;&gt;What is the etiquette for modifying posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18878/how-do-i-correctly-tag-my-questions&quot;&gt;Tips for effectively tagging questions.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stackoverflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a “closed” question in Stackoverflow? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; also has a lot to say about expected behaviour on the site, but &lt;strong&gt;neither the FAQ nor the above questions deal with how to resolve disputes&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;As far as I can recall there hasn't been any discussion followed by consensus of what to do when there is disagreement over edits or tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not just looking for answers prescribing conventions on specific issues of style, formatting or tagging but &lt;strong&gt;how to resolve any disagreement that may arise&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Issues to Address&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we even be discussing this?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a downside to locking this down too early?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are there rules that have to be followed?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they absolute or just guidelines?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who decides what they are?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should everything Jeff Atwood says be taken as authoritative or can the SO community decide to deviate from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What constitutes community consensus?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should both parties proceed once it is clear there is a difference of opinion?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we need a formal (technical) and/or informal (social) process for resolving disputes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What examples of community consensus on matters of style or tagging could be invoked?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How should both parties behave towards one another?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What can people do to show good faith on both sides?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What if the other party isn't following expected behaviour?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should any party have to defer to the other?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does the OP have more rights?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the OP defer to community consensus?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it depend at all on the situation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each answer doesn't have to cover every issue, it may be helpful to tackle them separately so that consensus can be reached on each independently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it may be that eventually more moderation features are added to the site to help resolve such disputes, but since both sides may have access to such features we may never be able to solve such disputes by purely technical means. As Clay Shirky says in his essay &lt;a href=&quot;http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&quot;technical and social issues are deeply intertwined. There's no way to completely separate them.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T15:29:49.557" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T17:26:56.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T15:55:59.280" Title="How should disputes be handled on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T19:48:43.543" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Should we even be discussing this?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Yes.  We're a wiki, and based on our current size (35,000 users and growing), it's an issue we should hash out now rather than later. Do you want to have this discussion when 5000 users actively edit &lt;em&gt;every day&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Are there rules that have to be followed?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they absolute or just guidelines?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a line from Pirates of the Caribbean that seems to fit here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The code is more what you'd call &quot;guidelines&quot; than actual rules.&lt;/em&gt; -- Barbossa&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Who decides what they are?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, we do. There should always be input from Moderators (like Jeff and Jarrod) but at the end of the day, 2 users cannot police an entire community of programmers.  We do that ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What constitutes community consensus?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community Consensus, much like everything else, is &lt;em&gt;tyranny of the majority&lt;/em&gt;, so whatever the predominant attitude at Stack Overflow is is what's done. &lt;em&gt;With some exceptions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Dispute Resolution&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disputes should be handled quickly by as many 'High Reputation' users as possible.  The more people that are involved, the easier it is to reach consensus.  While sticking one's head in the sand seems to work for the Ostrich, it doesn't work so well for programming communities.  There are some users who say, &quot;I never downvote&quot; or &quot;I never vote to close.&quot;  These high reputation users are doing the community a disservice, and ought not to get involved with any activity, if not all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reputation confers privilege, which confers responsibility.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to Handle a Dispute&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any time a user makes an edit that may be questionable, they ought to explain their reason for editing (in either the comments or the &quot;Edit Summary&quot; field).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the Original Poster disagrees, then they should explain why in the same space provided. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other users weigh in on the edits; and consensus should be reached through logic and precedent, and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; because of feelings toward that user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the Original Poster or Editor refuse to desist or acquiese to community consensus, then a uservoice request or email ought to be submitted regarding that user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reasons that cannot be used to Dispute an Edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's &quot;My&quot; Post.&lt;/em&gt;  This goes directly against the FAQ which states that questions are owned by the community, not the original poster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What examples of community consensus on matters of style or tagging could be invoked?&#xA;Consensus does not have to be verbal, it can come in these forms:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prior tags. If you have 50 questions tagged Windows2K3, then retagging it to Windows2003 does not follow convention, even if you don't like that tag nomenclature.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How should both parties behave towards one another?**&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What can people do to show good faith on both sides?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor and OP&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Be Civil&lt;/em&gt;: Your problem is with the wording of the question, not the particular user.&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;Original Poster&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Don't take Personal Offense to Edits&lt;/em&gt;: As a writer, I've had plenty of my stuff torn apart by editors. I thought I was a great writer, but there's always room to improve.  Edits are meant to improve the quality of writing on Stack Overflow, and it says nothing about you as a person.&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;Editor&lt;/strong&gt;: Refrain from namecalling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What if the other party isn't following expected behaviour?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ignore them&lt;/em&gt;.  Users define their own reputation.  When a user notices that his opinions carry less and less weight, and he's being overruled by more and more of the community with each edit, they'll either change their behavior, or leave.  Either way, we're better off for it.&#xA;  If they are habitually harassing you (and this does not include reasonable and logical edits), then submit a complaint to the Stack Overflow team (team@stackoverflow.com), or open a uservoice request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Should any party have to defer to the other?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Does the OP have more rights?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, but only when it comes to the 'intent' of the question.  If the question asks about how to do Widget X, then it's unfair to reword it to ask how to do something else.  It's not unfair, however, to edit the question so that the intent isn't lost.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;There's an old saying to paraphrase: &lt;em&gt;A question isn't complete when there's anything more to add, but when there's nothing more that can be taken away&lt;/em&gt;.  For OPs, that means that you ought to expect superflous wording to be discard for brevity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Should the OP defer to community consensus?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone should.  But that requires the community to be involved, at all levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Does it depend at all on the situation?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, no. But if a poster just isn't happy with a community response to his question, he's free to nominate it for deletion, or put it out under Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T19:48:43.543" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:07:19.847" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Should we even ask this question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with this question, aside from it being subjective, argumentative, requiring extended discussion, and a meta question about stackoverflow (ie, all the things listed in the FAQ as &quot;Questions you shouldn't ask&quot;) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we enforce any guidelines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who can watch the watchers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;This is a social problem with no technical answer.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once two people come to loggerheads about a particular editing matter, as exemplified in a few recent questions and answers, then neither is prepared to cede their ground.  Even in cases where the existing FAQ clearly sides with one or the other, they still continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such rules or guidelines are community decided and approved, there's not much that's going to prevent this from happening again unless we also add powers to lock questions, or deduct rep, or add yet another layer of moderation on top of the existing tools and layers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a social problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The site is not stable yet - premature optimization isn't good.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind also that this site is only 6 months old.  It's not finished - not by a long shot - even though it has most of the major intended features.  Decisions we make now may stunt us in the future, even if this is considered a living, breathing document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel have always been fairly hands off.  Rather than spelling things out to a T in the FAQ and stepping in every single little dispute they're giving us space to see what happens, only occasionally adjusting things before they get too out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's nice to have boundaries, I think they are right, and it's still good to keep things loose and adjustable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The problem isn't a big problem.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit and close wars that have happened aren't consuming the site - they are happening on a very small percentage of questions, and in general few people actually see them, nevermind are involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are of such a low incidence that I don't think we need to approach this question and lock them down yet, especially if it may result in a poor set of rules that don't fit what this site may be in 6 more months (twice it's lifetime from now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The site is going to be very different in a year&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; important to understand that right now there are   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;68 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130654/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow/130656#130656&quot;&gt;10k+ mods&lt;/a&gt; (0.2% of the total users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;564 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130654/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow/130656#130656&quot;&gt;3k+ mods&lt;/a&gt; (1.3%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1015 &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130654/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow/130656#130656&quot;&gt;2k+ mods&lt;/a&gt; (2.3%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;44,604 users (11,375 users with 100 or more rep)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 6 months or a year the site dynamics will be substantially different as we should have 3-5 times that many people moderating.  This is because the rep limits for actions are fixed, and the mods will continue to grow in number - it's not like grading on a curve, anyone can become a 3k mod in 15 days.  The dynamics will be so different that we can't possibly imagine now what we'll need then to keep things in check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the site features have largely stabilized (look at the &quot;svn revision: 2562&quot; in the lower right and note how many changes have been rolled out since this post), and once the active user count levels off to a gentle rise instead of exponential, then we will have a point where we can take stock and determine the right rules for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - Donald Knuth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit wars are not affecting even one tenth of one percent of the user base or questions, nevermind the 3% trigger that Knuth suggests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the above numbers are cumulative, and as of Feb 25, 2009.  There are 68 users with 10k+, 496 users above 3k and below 10k, and 451 users above 2k and below 3k. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T17:26:56.527" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T17:26:56.527" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:07:19.833" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:14:12.810" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who watches the watchmen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7565" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:14:12.810" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:31:12.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, disputes should be settled through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=147744&amp;amp;title=claw-plagh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Claw-Plagh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some prefer a less entertaining approach: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Building Communities with Software&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:31:12.817" />
  <row Id="37004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:39:12.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Be nice&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; aspect is the most enormously powerful and least used tool to get your point across. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being nice doesn't mean you have to be all cheesy and mindful of the poster's feelings. All it means is that in your approach, you are not 'telling' them they are doing something that you don't agree with but rather just 'suggesting' that it's not int the best interest of the site to have the question/asnwer/comment written in the manner in which it was posted. Writing a bad post should never be considered 'offensive' to a reader, unless there are actually derogatory terms used in the post. So if you're going to close, comment, or down-vote any post, you need to take your emotions out of the situation and provide your feedback keeping in mind this is an extremely diverse forum and the best contribution that you can make to it in any form is one of a professional manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, adding Humor to the 'suggestion' makes you seem like you are above all of the drama that occurs here and you can have fun using the site while adding your constructive criticism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:39:12.173" />
  <row Id="37005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:48:28.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we even be discussing this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disputes of this nature effect the community and hurt it.  When &quot;wars&quot; occur they cycle the question through the main page Active tab and this means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other legitimate questions are pushed off the front page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users that could be contributing answers are involved in these wars (i.e. their knowledge isn't going into the community.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users are continually having to ignore the question (or visit the question to see what's up.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33226" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:48:28.360" />
  <row Id="37006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T20:55:50.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trial by Combat, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to limit damage moderators can do is to limit the moderators.  One needs to set daily limits to how many times they can do certain things.  Limits to voting, limits to editing, limits to rollback, whatever it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way the damage caused by one or two people is limited and can be fixed by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, by setting limits, it makes the task more valuable such that it will only be used when it is very important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T20:55:50.620" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-25T22:57:33.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone above mentioned &quot;Tyranny of the majority&quot;, and I think that accurately describes the situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What about the minority&#xA;opinions/questions?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do they get    selected against?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What technical&#xA;mechanisms will be in place to manage&#xA;giving them a hearing? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should&lt;/em&gt; they be given a hearing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the interests of disclosure, I suppose I should disclose that I occasionally take minority views on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-25T22:57:33.667" />
  <row Id="37008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-26T15:53:33.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should everything Jeff Attwood says be taken as authoritative or can the SO community decide to deviate from the FAQ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only if he says that we can deviate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T15:53:33.757" />
  <row Id="37009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2009-02-26T15:54:40.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question: &lt;strong&gt;How should disputes be handled on Stack Overflow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: Not with a monstrous 81-answer comment block. =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:11:09.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-02-26T15:54:40.930" />
  <row Id="37010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:32:22.703" Score="-8" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well. There are two types of &lt;strong&gt;answers&lt;/strong&gt;, IMO, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Happy&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Sad&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When found a &quot;Happy&quot; answer I am happy that a solution of my problem is found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;Happy&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is a real overall solution to the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When any of available answers does not satisfies me, but I understand that this is the &quot;maximum&quot; that is (actually) offered, and I would like to &quot;close&quot; the subject, I accept a 'Sad' answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;Sad&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is a working workaround, a way to facilitate, but not totally&#xA;resolve the problem. This is when you can't say that you haven't an answer, nor you really have one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if someone in time proposes a new solution to the problem, that will satisfy all of the problem's aspects, I will be able to advance the answer to the Happy 'level'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By ex, a &quot;Sad&quot; answer could have 5 points, and a &quot;Happy&quot; - 10 points. When passing from Sad to Happy = +5points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2092298/force-exceptions-language-in-english&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, when I ask for changing the exceptions language to English, there is a &lt;code&gt;&quot;Sad&quot;&lt;/code&gt; solution (the first one), but this solution does not satisfy me entirely, cause needs some code changes, but I don't want it. Maybe, if one day somebody propose me a solution without the code change, I will have a happy solution, but actually I can't say that I have found the answer, nor I can say that I hadn't found one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140625" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T16:03:49.760" Title="Happy and Sad Answers Feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;subjective-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37089" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:34:42.387" Score="3" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone else getting this today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;503 Service Unavailable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No server is available to handle this request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is no longer happening.  I'll wait to see if one of our fearless leaders wants to post what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T17:24:20.683" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T20:36:37.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:50:58.553" ClosedDate="2010-01-26T23:49:47.020" Title="StackOverflow: 503 Service Unavailable" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:35:50.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DownForEveryOneOrJustMe.com is down too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:35:50.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37010" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:36:11.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta-Commentary about the question and its answer is superfluous to the goal of providing an all encompassing resource of programming knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hate to sound cold, but people that good don't care about how you feel when you heard the answer, they just care about the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:36:11.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:36:11.663" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And the trilogy CSS is down too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2385" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T20:36:37.603" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T20:36:37.603" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:36:11.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, things were fine for me &amp;lt;5 minutes ago, now I'm getting a 503 for whatever I do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:36:11.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" />
  <row Id="37019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:37:37.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm. A lot of this site works badly without CSS... Or is the JavaScript gone too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135110" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:37:37.433" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" />
  <row Id="37020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:38:23.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down for me. JavaScript and CSS files aren't loading either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133362" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T20:35:56.933" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T20:35:56.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" />
  <row Id="37022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:40:27.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;down for everybody&lt;/a&gt;, not just me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Up now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:40:27.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37010" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:40:44.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already have a system for this: voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're happy with an answer, upvote.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you're unhappy with an answer, downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer needs work, don't vote, but leave the answerer a comment to encourage them to improve what they said in a way that helps you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:40:44.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:42:15.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, this site sure looks bad without its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001320.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;collection of tiny details&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138813" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:42:15.847" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" />
  <row Id="37026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:42:28.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sites are back up! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;☺&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:42:28.810" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" />
  <row Id="37027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:45:55.747" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want the last 5 minutes of my life back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133256" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:45:55.747" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:33:40.260" />
  <row Id="37028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37010" CreationDate="2010-01-26T15:46:00.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think enough emotion is already portrayed through voting and other user feedback (good and bad). Seeing how worked up people get from just that, I would have to say I would not like this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T15:46:00.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37010" CreationDate="2010-01-26T16:03:49.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but this solution does not satisfy me entirely, cause needs some code changes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, of course. You don't want to change the language/culture defaults for Windows and you don't want to change the language/culture defaults for your app - yet you want it to change for &lt;em&gt;a portion of your app&lt;/em&gt;. That's a very specific need, and requires custom support from the application itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of questions like this, asking for something difficult in the hope that someone else has already done the work, written the code, and perhaps even squirreled it away somewhere in anticipation of just such a question. Sometimes, they get lucky... But otherwise, the best answer to &quot;I want my app to do something unusual&quot; is going to be, &quot;Here's how you'd write some code to make that unusual thing happen&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's just fine. Really, it's not too much to expect that programmers asking questions on a programming site should be able to &lt;em&gt;write computer programs&lt;/em&gt;. Answers that &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; go the extra mile to provide tested, working library-ready code will already tend to get up-voted and accepted over those that don't, so I don't see why adding a way to further snub otherwise helpful answers is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T16:03:49.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T16:25:42.847" Score="10" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a vanity search set up on Google. Every once in awhile a post or a comment comes through that just seems ambiguous, outdated, or whatever... so I follow the link and I clean it up or delete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see my deleted posts. +10K users/moderators can see deleted posts. Deleted posts are listed in the sitemap.xml. &lt;strong&gt;But can Google see deleted posts?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related question:&lt;/em&gt; If Google already index the post, will it likely be removed from the search listings after deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T16:46:15.543" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T22:28:36.507" Title="Can Google (search engines) &quot;see&quot; deleted posts or comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;search-engine&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37030" CreationDate="2010-01-26T16:35:37.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they are indexed and cached by Google. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135470/what-is-wrong-when-i-translate-from-delphi-to-c-image-processing&quot;&gt;This deleted Question&lt;/a&gt; shows up on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;rlz=1G1ACAW_ENUS334&amp;amp;=&amp;amp;q=what-is-wrong-when-i-translate-from-delphi-to-c-image-processing&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;aqi=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T16:35:37.830" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37030" CreationDate="2010-01-26T16:37:30.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote we each donate a portion of our rep to the google bot so searching for deleted posts is easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in favor, run around in circles screaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T16:37:30.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34799" CreationDate="2010-01-26T17:05:09.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the interest in keeping things simple, isn't it enough just to add it to your personal statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:05:09.167" />
  <row Id="37036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37030" CreationDate="2010-01-26T17:22:10.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the correct thing here is that deleted questions should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; show up in Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that if they do show up, you run into the same situation that makes Experts Exchange so evil &amp;mdash; someone has a problem and finds a results in Google that looks like it should have their answer.  But when they click the link it brings them to a page that hides the everything unless they first make a significant investment in the site.  It doesn't matter that on StackOverflow it's time rather than money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T22:28:36.507" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T22:28:36.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37043" CreationDate="2010-01-26T17:33:34.797" Score="-5" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2275/make-links-posted-by-users-open-in-a-new-window&quot;&gt;make links posted by users open in a new window&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was taught in my html programming class to pop up to a new window when you have a link in a list, especially a long one. I'm used to seeing this on many websites so I forget to manually pop a window into a new browser when I find something that may answer one of my questions.&lt;BR&gt;Can the links in answers be allowed to pop up to a new browser window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142408" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:47:17.587" ClosedDate="2010-01-26T18:37:16.320" Title="Can links in the answers be popped up" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37041" CreationDate="2010-01-26T17:38:04.007" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd rather they didn't. If I want a new window open, I'll do it myself. Middle click or &lt;code&gt;shift+click&lt;/code&gt; will do the job just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised students are still being taught to do this. Most people now consider it to be annoying behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:38:04.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37041" CreationDate="2010-01-26T17:47:17.587" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was taught in my html programming class to pop up to a new window when you have a link in a list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No offense buddy, but your html programming class sucks. The browser should not be presuming that I want to have a new window open up -- that choice should be left to me the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:47:17.587" />
  <row Id="37047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34799" CreationDate="2010-01-26T17:57:47.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the site caters to companies searching for rockstar developers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the companies start asking for that feature, specifically in the context of searching for developers with specific travel preferences, then it will be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T17:57:47.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T16:35:36.640" Score="1" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a total noob when it comes to servers, so I just wanted to get a rough idea of how much some of the most visited sites in the world cost to host. What's your rough estimate for Stack Overflow's monthly server fees?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T09:44:45.620" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:44:45.620" ClosedDate="2010-01-27T00:27:19.183" Title="What would you estimate are Stack Overflow's monthly server fees?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;server&gt;&lt;cost&gt;&lt;hosting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37048" CreationDate="2010-01-26T16:44:03.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well all of StackOverflow's servers are Co-located, so they own all the hardware and it's Co-Located in a Datacenter. For some ideas on the initial outlay take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/new-stack-overflow-server-glamour-shots/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt;. Obviously the current amount of hardware is now greater than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as for co-location costs, the servers are co-located with Peak internet, and I assume by the fact they get free advertising on all the sites are offering some discount to the guys for hosting costs.&#xA;Co-lo costs will take into account Rack rental, Bandwidth and Power, it might be possible to guess what sort of bandwidth the sites are pulling from the public information available, and I guess you could work out the power needed by looking at the specifications of the servers, but its going to be a lot of guessing because we don't know what the DC is charging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T18:05:57.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37048" CreationDate="2010-01-26T18:33:38.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They run a full rack off of one 1Gbit ethernet line going to the host.  Without discounts such hosting typically costs $300/mo to $3,000/mo depending on overall bandwidth, power requirements, peering redundancy, and miscellaneous host provider differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could certainly call up Peak and have them give you an estimate for a similarly sized system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T18:33:38.653" />
  <row Id="37053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37057" CreationDate="2010-01-26T18:36:13.997" Score="-2" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to encourage new developers at my company to use tools like stackoverflow. The problem I have run in to is without the ability to vote up/down and comment on posts, my developers can't get the full use out of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the restriction on new users and the purpose behind reputation points, but I was wondering if there could be some system for me to &quot;Vouch&quot; for my employees. I would envision something where I could give some number of my points to someone that I know is reputable to allow them to instantly make use of more of the site features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does something like this exist? If not is there some reason that I am missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;This transfer of reputation points from one user account to another would probably not be a 1 to 1 transfer. More like if I want to give a user 10 points to get started, I would have to give up 100 points. This way if a user is spinning off side accounts for themselves they would need to vote up 9 of their own answers with the same account just to break even. More than that would establish a pattern that is easy enough to detect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second EDIT:&#xA;I could also see there being some minimum level a user needs to get before he/she can vouch for someone and a max limit to the number of people you can vouch for a month, or year, or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141930" LastEditorUserId="141930" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T01:42:20.163" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T01:42:20.163" Title="Vouch for a new user, i.e. Granting reputation points to another user" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37053" CreationDate="2010-01-26T18:38:46.457" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just have them interact with the site for a little while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't take much to overcome the voting and commenting limits. One or two decent questions or answers should take care of this, and you could even give them a hand and vote on their posts (taking the merit of the post into consideration of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your suggestion would allow easier sock puppetry and is therefore a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plain and simple, the purpose of reputation is to give the system a way to measure how much it should trust you based on your (assumed) knowledge of the system. Your suggestion would give people that trust based on nothing but your word. If the user couldn't get 100 rep in the system by themselves in a very short period of time, then you are clearly 'vouching' for the wrong people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T18:59:23.523" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T18:59:23.523" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="37056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37053" CreationDate="2010-01-26T18:57:56.287" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since reputation is, at its core, a measurement of someone's experience with the site, how can you &lt;em&gt;vouch&lt;/em&gt; for experience they &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation gives them progressively more site-moderation abilities. But they are not using the site. They didn't author the posts, they didn't earn the reputation... you can't &quot;give&quot; that &lt;em&gt;experience/reputation&lt;/em&gt; to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T01:38:20.283" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T01:38:20.283" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="37057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37053" CreationDate="2010-01-26T19:01:13.253" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If not is there so reason that I am missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Philosophical:&lt;/strong&gt; reputation represents a user's interaction with Stack Overflow, not some abstract measure of their &quot;programming goodness&quot; - allowing users to &quot;vouch&quot; for others takes a value that has meaning only in a very limited scope and takes even that meaning away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Practical:&lt;/strong&gt; up to around 10K, increases in reputation increase what users are allowed to do on the site. The use of simple, common tools is encouraged by making the reputation required to use them low: asking and answering is available to everyone regardless of reputation, and you can easily gain the ability to vote, flag, and comment on other user's posts in a couple of hours. Beyond that however, tools start to become dangerous in the hands of users who don't understand the site: retagging, editing, closing, deleting... Each of these requires that users invest some time before being allowed to use them. And so giving new users a &quot;leg up&quot; would at best subvert this... and could actually make it easier for dishonest or malicious users with excess reputation to abuse the system (by bestowing high-level privileges on their friends or sock-puppets at will).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, when I introduce a co-worker to SO, it's so they can ask a question: this requires no special assistance from me or anyone else, since new users can ask questions &quot;out of the box&quot; - I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; however help by up-voting answers until they're able to gain enough reputation to do it themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T19:01:13.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Databases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MySQL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oracle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Webservers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apache&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IIS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lighthttpd&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Python implementations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Python&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IronPython&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jython&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,9.88,25.91,5.88,9.25,2.35,2.14&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=mysql%20%283450%29|postgresql%20%28341%29|oracle%20%28894%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,12.26,25.16,3.87,3.23,0.00,0.00&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=mysql%20%28155%29|postgresql%20%2819%29|oracle%20%2839%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,94.74,1.58,6.49,0.70,0.18,0.18&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=apache%20%28570%29|iis%20%28540%29|lighttpd%20%289%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,37.17,2.63,7.24,1.32,0.33,0.33&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=apache%20%28304%29|iis%20%28113%29|lighttpd%20%288%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:0.71,100.00,1.66,0.69,0.12,0.95,0.12&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=jython%20%2830%29|python%20%284210%29|ironpython%20%2870%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T19:43:58.007" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T19:43:58.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T19:14:51.567" />
  <row Id="37059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37053" CreationDate="2010-01-26T19:48:41.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider 50 reputation to be the level where one can fully use the site - voting, commenting, put images and links in posts, etc.  It is beyond all the spam filtering rep levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that 'vouching' for another user should be an acceptable practice, once one has gained enough reputation to be trusted by the community to confer a step up to the new user.  Surely we can trust our 10k+ reputation holders to know when a personal contact is worth that head start.  If someone with 10k can be trusted with this power, the issue is not whether it should be given, it's what reputation one should have before conferring a head start on someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with others that the reputation should have a significant cost to the person granting it - 500 rep to give a 50 rep kick start seems high, but the amount can be adjusted to balance the act.  It needs to be high enough that they aren't simply free invites to spam and to give weight to the act, but low enough that a reasonable person might be able to invite a few co-workers without breaking the bank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However - 50 rep is easy to confer on another person within a matter of days using normal voting patterns, so I'm not sure that this feature is needed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, this feature might be considered in terms of increasing SO membership more widely.  There are only 40 people in Michigan that use SO.  What could SO become if we doubled the number of users in each state in the US?  One way to do this is to offer this incentive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Invite a friend to SO.  It will cost you 100 rep, and they will start off with 50 reputation so they don't have to deal with anti-spam issues.  Once they gain their first 1k rep (100 upvotes) you will receive a 200 rep 'bonus' for inviting a useful contributor to SO, which ends in a net 100 rep increase for you for those you invite that stick around.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the numbers would need to be modified, but it would certainly be one way to increase membership and participation in SO, which can only be a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T19:48:41.397" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T19:56:18.853" Score="15" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would expect a “New” next to the “Remove” and “Move Down” on the bar above the top item in the experience section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I has just taken me 5 minutes to find it at the bottom of the page, but I always put the most recent job at the top of my cv)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then had to &quot;press&quot; move up lots of time to get my current job to the top of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also when you move a job up/down, the window should scroll to keep the &lt;strong&gt;moved job in the centre&lt;/strong&gt; (with it's bar visible), otherwise you have to press “move up” then scroll the web browser to re-find the job you have just moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T20:18:19.667" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:16:39.333" Title="Make it easy to add another job to the top of Experience section" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="37062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T20:22:09.853" Score="5" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to trade my reputation for air miles on a 1:1 basis.  I think Jeff and company should look into incentive programs that airline companies offer businesses for air miles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I could then fulfill my StackOverflow long dream of meeting Jon Skeet in person.&lt;/strike&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, make it so!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/Make-It-So-776665.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Turns out I'd need a lot more rep to get to Europe, and comments below appear to suggest that Jon is difficult to meet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T17:00:07.730" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:00:07.730" ClosedDate="2010-01-26T20:47:09.360" Title="Trade rep for air miles" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="37063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37062" CreationDate="2010-01-26T20:31:28.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a joke, but seriously, wouldn't it be cool to be able to trade some of that excess rep for cool stuff like SO t-shirts*, mugs and stickers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as we're not giving out rep to other users, I'm okay with converting rep into some more usable form of currency. What's a poor soul to do after they hit 10k anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;Come on, picture it with me: &quot;I hit 10k rep on Stack Overflow and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.&quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T20:31:28.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37062" CreationDate="2010-01-26T20:33:18.377" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would I need air miles when I can simply order my transporter chief to take me anywhere in the world with the push of a button, or when I can simply order my android helmsman to take me across the galaxy in the blink of an eye?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't trade my reputation as Star Fleet's greatest captain for anything!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: The final frontier&lt;br&gt;&#xA;These are the voyages of the awesome guy Welbog&lt;br&gt;&#xA;His continuing mission:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;To explore strange, new ideas&lt;br&gt;&#xA;To seek out new noobs and new suggestions&lt;br&gt;&#xA;To boldly answer what no one has answered before!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(duuun da da duuun da da duuuuun &lt;em&gt;[that's the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme]&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T20:39:54.180" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T20:39:54.180" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="37065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2360" CreationDate="2010-01-26T20:50:59.927" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a simpler solution would do: first count downvotes, then upvotes, and finally accepted answers and bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T21:59:20.863" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:59:20.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T20:52:35.183" Score="31" ViewCount="813" Body="&lt;p&gt;So now that I've gotten past 3000 points on Stack Overflow, I don't feel much incentive to keep playing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing new will happen until 10000, which seems unachievable. Shouldn't there be something to aim for at 4000, 5000, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are badges, but they're not really doing it for me. I need a carrot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4321" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T06:58:00.863" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T06:58:00.863" Title="Lost my motivation after 3000 points" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rep-ability&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T20:55:55.737" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about, because you're learning to get better at what you do, and how to communicate more effectively in writing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I'm open to suggestions as to ability &quot;unlocks&quot; between 3k and 10k, or above 10k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T20:55:55.737" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="37068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:03:57.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a long hike from 3k to 10k, though I'm pretty persistent and will keep striving, but it would be nice if there was another step in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:03:57.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:05:59.097" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about an extra 618 rep on meta when you hit 5K on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit I really like the ability to view up/down votes at 1000 rep but I don't participate enough here to get there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  One smaller goal is to try to move up on the user pages.  For example on SO, I'm on page #33 and I'm 93 rep away from getting to page #32.  It also changes frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="4068" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T21:32:24.903" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:32:24.903" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:06:18.380" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you could say I lost my motivation after 10K. I still visit the site daily, and I still ask/answer questions. However, it's no longer a &quot;game&quot; - it's just a great technical resource. Perhaps that's not such a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:06:18.380" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:07:19.063" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Summarizing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28965/daily-reputation-statistics/28972#28972&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; on a related thread: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make up some goalposts that are realistic for your situation, pass those goalposts, repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next relevant goalposts for you are probably attaining a silver badge for your main tag(s) -- that's doable in the 4k-6k range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-26T21:23:23.677" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:23:23.677" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:20:45.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pick someone to compete with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But not Jon Skeet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T11:16:39.427" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T11:16:39.427" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:24:16.997" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget the free Telerik license at 10k...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:24:16.997" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:27:22.183" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it makes you feel better, I went through the same thing. So badly, in fact, that my Meta rep has eclipsed my main SO rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, this is largely due to the fact that my primary expertise is in C# -- an area with &lt;em&gt;tons&lt;/em&gt; of competition on SO. Thus, by the time I see a question which I can answer, typically there are seventeen answers already posted. (And another seven come in while I compose mine!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took to answering Cocoa/Objective-C questions a bit, but one look at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14048?tab=activity#tab-top&quot;&gt;recent activity&lt;/a&gt; will show that I spend most of my time doing &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17955/is-the-automatic-election-of-moderators-flawed-in-stackoverflow/17957#17957&quot;&gt;junior janitor&lt;/a&gt;&quot; tasks -- editing, commenting and closing. Time well-spent; it's a contribution I can make to the site which helps keep its content clean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, I just wish I had enough time to fully clean the place up. But at the rate of content growth, that just isn't possible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:27:22.183" />
  <row Id="37076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5390" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:38:47.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can vote on questions and answers (but not on comments), view vote splits, and vote to close questions with Opera mini on my BlackBerry, but I cannot post answers or comments. Ian's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5390/support-for-opera-mini-pocket-pc/9432#9432&quot;&gt;point&lt;/a&gt; is valid, but it'd be nice to have at least mid-90s &quot;submit, next page&quot; functionality on mobile browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:38:47.540" />
  <row Id="37079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:52:39.070" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delete your account and start over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142378" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:52:39.070" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:57:17.403" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good.  Now go get 3k on SF and Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T21:57:17.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-26T21:58:32.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;compare versions of visual studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:19.22,100.00,4.57,12.52,1.06,3.13,1.06&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=visual-studio-2005%2a%20%28307%29|visual-studio-2008%2a%20%281597%29|visual-studio-2010%2a%20%2873%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142421" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T07:13:41.790" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T07:13:41.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T21:58:32.270" />
  <row Id="37082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37030" CreationDate="2010-01-26T22:22:38.283" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Google's behaviour is outside of Jeff et al's ability to control, maybe the message displayed should clearly state that the question was deleted instead of showing the usual 404.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T22:22:38.283" />
  <row Id="37083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28232" CreationDate="2010-01-26T22:45:07.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that rep inflation is an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the problem another way. As more people join the site and ask more questions and provide more answers there's more work for those with higher rep to do. So back when the site started there were a few hundred users, now there are over 127000 (3226 pages at 35 users per page). In the early days Jeff and the other moderators could cope with the site traffic. As the site grew and a few people got 2K, 3K and 10K rep they could assist in the editing, closing and deleting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take the number of posts per &quot;moderator&quot; (10K user) we should be looking at keeping this number constant so that these users are not overwhelmed with stuff to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T22:45:07.980" />
  <row Id="37084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37086" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:02:21.890" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I don't understand the daily reputation limit on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that previous upvotes that didn't count before hitting the limit don't make up for downvotes received after hitting the reputation limit, however I've twice hit this scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I receive a down vote (-2 reputation) before I reach the daily limit, then an upvote that should take me to between 190 and 200 reputation for the day sticks at 190. Only 'accepted answer' reputation seems to be immune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the reputation limit 200 - 10 * number of downvotes? If so this seems a little harsh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19563" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T23:06:34.873" Title="Reputation limit after receiving a downvote before reaching 200 for the day" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37084" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:06:34.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rep limit is 200 - 2*downvotes - 1*yourdownvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36491/real-reputation-cap/36493#36493&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; shows how to see where you are for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T23:06:34.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37087" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:12:38.713" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16762/what-happens-to-old-vote-points-when-a-question-becomes-community-wiki&quot;&gt;What happens to old vote points when a question becomes community wiki?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the title says it all for this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132425" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T23:14:49.723" ClosedDate="2010-01-26T23:56:40.313" Title="If I change a question to a wiki after the fact will I lose the points I've gotten for it?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37087" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:14:49.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16762/what-happens-to-old-vote-points-when-a-question-becomes-community-wiki&quot;&gt;No, not even with a recalc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is actually a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31902/remove-reputation-gained-from-questions-and-answers-turned-community-wiki&quot;&gt;feature request&lt;/a&gt; to change this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T23:14:49.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T23:17:25.317" />
  <row Id="37089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37011" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:40:47.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cause of outage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/106537/tuning-linux-ip-routing-parameters-secret-interval-and-tcp-mem&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/106537/tuning-linux-ip-routing-parameters-secret-interval-and-tcp-mem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T23:40:47.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-26T23:40:47.183" />
  <row Id="37090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:43:29.453" Score="26" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new @user feature&lt;/a&gt;, I am interested in a feature wherein if I preface a comment to one of my own posts with &quot;@Downvoters&quot;, a notification would be sent to all users that downvoted that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to this previous &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1751/allow-an-edit-to-notify-downvoters-i-think-ive-fixed-the-issue-now-please-ch&quot;&gt;request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141514" LastEditorUserId="141514" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T00:17:11.110" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T18:23:54.840" Title="Feature request: @Downvoter sends a notification to all downvoters for your post" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="37091" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:45:33.023" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1177/allow-questions-to-be-saved-as-drafts-prior-to-posting&quot;&gt;allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it takes really long time to write a question, so &quot;draft question&quot; feature will be really useful.  Hypothetical: I'm creating a big question and marking it as a draft.  As soon as it is ready, I clear the &quot;draft flag,&quot; and voila.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-10T13:18:50.247" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T13:18:50.247" ClosedDate="2010-01-27T00:27:27.950" Title="Draft questions feature request" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37091" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:50:22.853" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I do, which I'm sure a lot of other guys/gals here do too, is to 'draft' the question offline. In Notepad or any text editor. Save it offline if need be then copy and paste as a new question when ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature request is nice at first thought, but it'll introduce a few other issues. E.g. the hassle of 'draft management', people ignoring the drafts and let the list grow. I won't be surprised if there will be some requests for 'live' questions to be set back to 'draft', etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-10T12:42:58.087" LastActivityDate="2010-08-10T12:42:58.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37091" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:56:09.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I select the text and ctrl-c it, then if it get's messed up I can paste it right back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-26T23:56:09.597" />
  <row Id="37094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37090" CreationDate="2010-01-26T23:57:46.363" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if my username is &lt;strong&gt;Downvoter&lt;/strong&gt;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T20:06:49.823" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:06:49.823" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="37095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37048" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:02:27.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every CoLo will charge you a different amount depending on location of the CoLo, proximity to the back bones, and how full the CoLo is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is SoCal rates are pretty easy to figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A full 42U rack will cost you $650-850 a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each 110v power circuit will cost you ~$250 a month.&#xA;Each 220v power circuit will cost you ~$800 a month (and not everyone offers 220, but almost no one actually needs it, except my company).&#xA;Some places charge you per kVa on the power, but if you aren't planning on adding and removing hardware a flat rate is easier to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bandwidth is where the numbers really start to fluctuate.  The more you buy the cheaper it gets by the meg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was looking for a CoLo some prices that I was quoted were (this is for a 20Mbps circuit):&#xA;$940&#xA;$2820&#xA;$1520&#xA;$2000&#xA;$1100&#xA;$300&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different companies have different qualities of bandwidth available, as well as different SLAs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you said most visited, sorry but the trilogy has a lot of traffic, but no where near what some of the biggest are at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MySpace for example (when I worked there 2-3 years ago) had 3 data centers in the LA area.  They used more power than Chernobyl put out when it blew up.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FaceBook is in the same basic area, but they are now building the first data center which they will own.  Sites setup on this scale cost millions per month just to keep the servers on and connected to the internet, not to talk about the hardware costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T00:02:27.350" />
  <row Id="37096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37100" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:05:16.160" Score="32" ViewCount="716" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browsing the user pages on SO I came across user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/196105?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;ski&lt;/a&gt; - who enjoyed a rep gain of over 4K in the first couple of weeks of November.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't look to be an über-bounty hunter - some of the high-rep answers were posted minutes after the questions, and only have a few up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are some 'artificial' users in the system, but this one looks odd.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's going on there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T23:03:49.390" Title="Who or what is this SO user?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37096" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:09:13.060" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get it to show the rep earned from just that period, and it looks like he just won several bounties.  Move along: nothing to see here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T00:09:13.060" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37096" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:10:22.793" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking through their answers, many of them did win bounties.  You can tell when a bounty is collected by the yellow outline around the checkmark.  If you hover your mouse over the checkmark, it even tells you how much the bounty was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went through and deleted all of the sock-puppet accounts that were used to create bounties won by this user.  There were around 20 sock-puppet accounts (I lost count), and over 5000 points of bounty awarded.  There were over 1000 points of &lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt; reputation gained (because the system adds a free 50 to every bounty), which I assume was the whole point of this experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not deleting the account yet because there are still some other accounts that have used the same IP address that need to be looked into for strange behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T15:07:18.783" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:07:18.783" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37096" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:12:23.100" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... Almost all of his rep comes from answers to bounty questions, very short answers, many of which didn't collect a lot of up-votes otherwise. Also, although the bounties were offered by different users, a lot of those users appear to share the same Gravatar (== same email address) and appear to have abandoned the site immediately after accepting his answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, a bit suspicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;tell-tail gravatar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit irresponsible, but I'm going to suggest that perhaps the most reasonable explanation for this is that he is some sort of space alien, come to this planet for the express purpose of taking over the bodies of low-ranking SO users and forcing them to offer bounties and accept his answers. FWIW, this is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; why the whole &quot;bounty&quot; system has always made me a bit uncomfortable: it exposes SO users to just this sort of space-alien-body-snatcher abuse. As we all know, SO reputation is &lt;em&gt;irresistible&lt;/em&gt; to space aliens. They &lt;em&gt;crave&lt;/em&gt; it, and will do almost anything to reach 3K (after which they tend to lose motivation rather quickly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T00:18:09.657" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T00:18:09.657" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="37101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:29:29.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have any way to show the overlap of users between the StackExchange Sites? I think it would be interesting to see these charts comparing SO, SO Meta, SU, and SF&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T07:13:09.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T07:13:09.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T00:29:29.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:31:39.937" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at it this way, at 3K you got the best reward. You broke your addiction and got a little piece of your life back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T00:31:39.937" />
  <row Id="37103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37053" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:37:07.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not that I am advocating doing this, in fact, it would probably be extremely popular if not downright against the rules. But couldn't you achieve this using the bounty system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T00:37:07.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37107" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:48:11.413" Score="-1" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;When users' profile pics include spouse or kids (or both), is it to be assumed that they all answer and ask questions on StackOverflow together? Or are they in the frame for moral support, generally speaking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T01:35:13.533" ClosedDate="2010-01-27T01:35:55.420" Title="Other People in the Picture?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37104" CreationDate="2010-01-27T00:53:21.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The profile picture (avatar) doesn't necessarily have to be a picture of the account owner. Very often it's just a picture the owner likes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T00:53:21.697" />
  <row Id="37106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37104" CreationDate="2010-01-27T01:07:31.697" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a custom gravatar is used, the profile picture must always be of the user. If you observe any violations of this rule, please report it to the site management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T01:07:31.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37104" CreationDate="2010-01-27T01:29:15.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When users' profile pics include spouse or kids (or both), is it to be assumed that they all answer and ask questions on StackOverflow together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T01:29:15.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37104" CreationDate="2010-01-27T01:35:13.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a profile picture is of multiple people then it is assumed the youngest is the one at the keyboard asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T01:35:13.533" />
  <row Id="37109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37131" CreationDate="2010-01-27T01:45:43.743" Score="9" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just hit 10k on stack-overflow, and I noticed that my rep graph ends up at what looks like just over 9000 (&lt;em&gt;cough&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's quite a mismatch. I hear there are problems with bounty rep not being counted, but I don't think I've ever set or won a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the cause could be.. but perhaps someone could look into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot of what I'm on about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/1264559803004377600.png&quot; alt=&quot;10,198 rep but graph is below 10,000&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T05:52:34.880" Title="Reputation graph level is lower than actual" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37096" CreationDate="2010-01-27T01:55:03.317" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a query I like to call &quot;La bounty hunter 2.0&quot;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It show the list of the most successful bounty hunters in the system. Marc ... you go girl. Not able to grab the total score for the bounties cause its not in the dump.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Reputation&amp;nbsp;Bounties&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt;      96095      32       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/126352&quot;&gt;Justin Grant&lt;/a&gt;      9287       28       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/196105&quot;&gt;ski&lt;/a&gt;               5679       20       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/95810&quot;&gt;Alex Martelli&lt;/a&gt;     52804      18       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/24054&quot;&gt;kgiannakakis&lt;/a&gt;      19261      17       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/66372&quot;&gt;Freddy Rios&lt;/a&gt;       10982      16       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/45773&quot;&gt;Steffen Opel&lt;/a&gt;      3420       15       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12748&quot;&gt;ShuggyCoUk&lt;/a&gt;        12030      12       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/166538&quot;&gt;najmeddine&lt;/a&gt;        6964       12       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/185859&quot;&gt;Drew Marsh&lt;/a&gt;        4309       11       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/118903&quot;&gt;Vinay Sajip&lt;/a&gt;       14838      11       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/14860&quot;&gt;paxdiablo&lt;/a&gt;         60439      10       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3827&quot;&gt;eed3si9n&lt;/a&gt;          13950      10       &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/122428&quot;&gt;jitter&lt;/a&gt;            11701      9        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/123582&quot;&gt;Rich Seller&lt;/a&gt;       14361      8        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/89263&quot;&gt;Jerry Bullard&lt;/a&gt;     2327       8        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/58549&quot;&gt;Zac Thompson&lt;/a&gt;      2054       8        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/55774&quot;&gt;Frederik Gheysels&lt;/a&gt; 12666      6        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/68611&quot;&gt;Praveen Angyan&lt;/a&gt;    3477       6        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/68727&quot;&gt;Alconja&lt;/a&gt;           2729       6        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/76583&quot;&gt;Seb&lt;/a&gt;               8325       6        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/30506&quot;&gt;Louis Gerbarg&lt;/a&gt;     11170      6        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/83667&quot;&gt;José Basilio&lt;/a&gt;      13929      6        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18393&quot;&gt;cletus&lt;/a&gt;            69976      6        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/13263&quot;&gt;slf&lt;/a&gt; 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    5171       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/6380&quot;&gt;Scott Hanselman&lt;/a&gt;   4362       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/154152&quot;&gt;silky&lt;/a&gt;             9769       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62970&quot;&gt;MarkusQ&lt;/a&gt;           9424       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/57757&quot;&gt;Unknown&lt;/a&gt;           11385      5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/68507&quot;&gt;Ben S&lt;/a&gt;             12536      5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/68607&quot;&gt;TFD&lt;/a&gt;               2073       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;         118596     5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23283&quot;&gt;JaredPar&lt;/a&gt;          67345      5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/138475&quot;&gt;Pascal MARTIN&lt;/a&gt;     20184      5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53114&quot;&gt;Gumbo&lt;/a&gt;             41797      5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3603&quot;&gt;Richard Szalay&lt;/a&gt;    6741       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/86611&quot;&gt;Shiraz Bhaiji&lt;/a&gt;     7361       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/167483&quot;&gt;DaveParillo&lt;/a&gt;       1284       5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/15416&quot;&gt;MSalters&lt;/a&gt;          14991      5        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4737&quot;&gt;jamesh&lt;/a&gt;            4944       4        &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/46149&quot;&gt;Henrik Opel&lt;/a&gt;       4829       4        &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sql: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;select top 50 u.Id as UserId, u.DisplayName as UserName, u.Reputation, COUNT(*) as Bounties &#xA;into #t&#xA;from votes v &#xA;join posts p on p.Id = v.PostId&#xA;join posts a on a.id = p.AcceptedAnswerId&#xA;join Users u on u.Id = a.OwnerUserId&#xA;where VoteTypeId = 8&#xA;group by u.Id, u.DisplayName, u.Reputation&#xA;order by COUNT(*) desc&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;spshog9&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T23:03:49.390" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T23:03:49.390" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50424" CreationDate="2010-01-27T02:08:37.827" Score="10" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;While pursuing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37096/who-or-what-is-this-so-user/37110#37110&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; I noticed that the rep chart doesn't list the amount and question for any bounty spent.  I think it'd be good for it list all rep gained or lost, and why.  This would also apply to flagging losses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2281/repchart.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-19T14:11:46.750" LastActivityDate="2010-05-19T15:19:18.313" Title="Have text with rep chart show ALL rep lost or gained" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37115" CreationDate="2010-01-27T02:09:12.147" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35185/vote-count-not-correct&quot;&gt;Vote count not correct&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2144034/why-cant-i-call-orderby-in-a-class-that-extends-list/2144044#2144044&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; (currently) shows as having 3 votes.  However, if you click the score (and, for some strange reason, only if you have &gt;1K rep), it says that it got 2 upvotes and no downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, in my recent page, and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=34397&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's tracker page&lt;/a&gt;, it shows as having only two votes, and the total ΔRep for today shows as 50 when it's actually 60.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Was one of the upvoters deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T02:13:19.657" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T04:24:53.317" ClosedDate="2010-01-27T04:25:01.663" Title="The case of the mysterious disappearing upvote" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37114" CreationDate="2010-01-27T02:13:57.940" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35185/vote-count-not-correct/35207#35207&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; about the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T04:24:53.317" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T04:24:53.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37127" CreationDate="2010-01-27T02:25:59.690" Score="9" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the minimum be eliminated?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At least for Meta, where the information is more useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never understood this restriction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T02:31:26.277" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T04:23:45.660" Title="Why do vote-counts require 1,000 reputation to see?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T02:43:58.463" Score="8" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &quot;Ask Question&quot; page, the Title input box initially contains &quot;What's your programming question? Be descriptive.&quot; in grey text. Typing text erases the prompt and displays what you type in black text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;em&gt;pasting&lt;/em&gt; text into the input box doesn't trigger the erase, inserts the pasted text into the prompt, leaves the text grey, and typing any further text doesn't trigger the erase either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing happens on other input boxes that contain initial grey prompts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browser: IE 7.0.5730.13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: This appears to be an IE-specific problem. I wasn't able to repro it in Firefox or Safari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-27T23:29:21.773" LastActivityDate="2010-11-27T23:29:21.773" Title="Pasting text into input boxes behaves incorrectly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;ie7&gt;&lt;paste&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37119" CreationDate="2010-01-27T02:50:51.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is by design -- the help text&#xA;  disappears when you begin typing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title field had to be handled a&#xA;  bit differently because it typically&#xA;  has focus when the page loads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think this might actually be a&#xA;  behavior we want to extend to the tags&#xA;  field, since the help text&#xA;  disappearing on focus is not exactly&#xA;  helpful when you, y'know, need help&#xA;  entering text on that field.. the one&#xA;  you just tabbed into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36872/javascript-bug-in-stackoverflow-title-for-new-question/36987#36987&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T02:50:51.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T02:50:51.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37090" CreationDate="2010-01-27T02:53:29.347" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't mind too much, as long as the identities are still kept secret, as I see the use for good this could have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I see a much bigger problem for heavy downvoters (of which some argue there are not enough), who might be constantly anoyed by the notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T02:53:29.347" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37126" CreationDate="2010-01-27T03:24:07.777" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asking a question or editing an existing one, the fade-in on the &quot;How to Tag&quot; / &quot;How to Format&quot; box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;module newuser&quot; id=&quot;how-to-title&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;fires whenever the focus is changed between the title box, question body text box and the tags textbox.  While it's not a functionality issue, it does get somewhat annoying watching that thing blink in and out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T04:21:12.110" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T04:22:29.530" Title="Fade in effect on info box triggers too often" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37090" CreationDate="2010-01-27T04:06:14.467" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've thought more about this, and frankly... I don't like the idea of leaving a comment for down-voters &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;, with or without notification. Down-voting isn't supposed to open a dialog - new users are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;encouraged to comment when down-voting&lt;/a&gt;, but it's not mandatory - and if they don't feel the need, that's &lt;em&gt;just fine&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I've seen too many instances where a &quot;Why the downvote?&quot; comment poisons further discussion, turning comments into a debate over whether the vote was merited - this is noise, as comments are supposed to be relevant to the content of the post itself. In most cases - and especially when comments have already been posted prior to the request - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/74559/is-it-now-discouraged-to-ask-for-reasons-for-downvotes-as-a-comment&quot;&gt;I flag or delete these downvoter-addressed comments&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's easy to feel frustrated, when you put substantial effort into a post only to see it down-voted without explanation. But this is an attitude that must be &lt;em&gt;discouraged&lt;/em&gt; rather than justified. Remember: voting is primarily a means of communicating with &lt;em&gt;other readers&lt;/em&gt; and with the system itself; comments should be reserved for providing auxiliary information, suggestions, and constructive criticism to the author. They're two separate mediums, and need to stay that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you notice your post being down-voted and honestly want advice on improving it - regardless of whether or not that advice comes from the same users who down-voted it - by all means, ask for suggestions! Just stay focused on the &lt;em&gt;content&lt;/em&gt;, not the &lt;em&gt;voting&lt;/em&gt; or other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-18T16:08:35.340" LastActivityDate="2011-05-18T16:08:35.340" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37125" CreationDate="2010-01-27T04:08:34.463" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following query fails, resulting in a blank page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/programming-languages&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/programming-languages&lt;/a&gt; or functional-programming or lua or haskell or sml or ocaml or valgrind or learning or teaching or shell-scripting or ksh or latex or academia or image-processing or lambda or lambda-calculus or lambda-expressions or scripting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a query for tagged questions with 17 terms (if I have counted correctly) OR'd together.  If I remove the final term (&lt;code&gt;scripting&lt;/code&gt;) or the term &lt;code&gt;lambda-calculus&lt;/code&gt; and the associated &lt;code&gt;or&lt;/code&gt;, everything is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks to me as if there's a limit that shouldn't be there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41661" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T06:53:59.120" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T09:39:19.087" Title="limit on number of tags in an &quot;or&quot; query?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;limits&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37124" CreationDate="2010-01-27T04:20:52.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The alternate form&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=valgrind&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=valgrind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;allows for longer strings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So extrapolate the nightmare and you have this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=programming-languages+or+functional-programming+or+lua+or+haskell+or+sml+or+ocaml+or+valgrind+or+learning+or+teaching+or+shell-scripting+or+ksh+or+latex+or+academia+or+image-processing+or+lambda+or+lambda-calculus+or+lambda-expressions+or+scripting&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=programming-languages+or+functional-programming+or+lua+or+haskell+or+sml+or+ocaml+or+valgrind+or+learning+or+teaching+or+shell-scripting+or+ksh+or+latex+or+academia+or+image-processing+or+lambda+or+lambda-calculus+or+lambda-expressions+or+scripting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T09:39:19.087" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T09:39:19.087" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37122" CreationDate="2010-01-27T04:22:29.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We believe these boxes, which contain important FAQ style info, were being ignored by most users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the fade-in is intentional. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that on edit, there's less fading when editing an answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How often are you tabbing amongst these fields?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T04:22:29.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37116" CreationDate="2010-01-27T04:23:45.660" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just thought it would be fun to give folks something at 1000 rep, since there was a bit of a gap between 500 (retag) and 2000 (edit other people's posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T04:23:45.660" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37096" CreationDate="2010-01-27T04:25:50.163" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I though I would check a little deeper on the owners of the questions, that the user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/196105/ski&quot;&gt;ski&lt;/a&gt; got most of his rep from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(This is just a sampling, there are more than are listed here.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/52562/gosuda&quot;&gt;Gosuda&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/401442e0215ede82c75154bf593f0bf5?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen: &lt;strong&gt;Dec 2 at 2:48&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1621395/how-to-format-this-international-phone-number-in-rails&quot;&gt;How to format this international phone number in Rails?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;80R 6Q 2A 159 up 15 down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56429/patrick-o-connell&quot;&gt;Patrick O Connell&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen: &lt;strong&gt;Nov 11 at 20:36&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/528769/best-web-app-for-creating-screen-mockups&quot;&gt;Best web app for creating screen mockups?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;120R 5Q 4A 40 up 3 down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/59643/lee-tang&quot;&gt;Lee Tang&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen: &lt;strong&gt;Nov 11 at 20:32&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1641354/problem-communicating-with-gmail-in-rails-app&quot;&gt;Problem communicating with Gmail in Rails app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;106R 14Q 1A 57 up 7 down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61031/kerzin&quot;&gt;Kerzin&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen: &lt;strong&gt;Nov 11 at 20:30&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1641619/newb-problem-getting-typeof-in-java&quot;&gt;Newb problem getting typeof in Java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11R 6Q 0A 27 up 3 down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/57339/willem-obst&quot;&gt;Willem Obst&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b65c9d89ce729b9d99a78e2d52b263d1?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen: &lt;strong&gt;Nov 11 at 20:34&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1640554/plugin-to-add-pagination-in-a-flex-datagrid&quot;&gt;Plugin to add pagination in a Flex Datagrid?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;68R 12Q 2A 224 up 23 down  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65272/k-berman&quot;&gt;K. Berman&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen: &lt;strong&gt;Nov 11 at 18:40&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1646711/reflecting-on-the-class-of-the-immediate-ancestor&quot;&gt;Reflecting on the class of the immediate ancestor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1R 7Q 1A 12 up 2 down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61149/utrecht&quot;&gt;Utrecht&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen &lt;strong&gt;Nov 11 at 20:28&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644582/problem-writing-to-file&quot;&gt;Problem writing to file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;39R 4Q 1A 16 up 2 down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56363/vichy-potaine&quot;&gt;Vichy Potaine&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen &lt;strong&gt;Jan 16 at 16:54&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/501994/what-is-the-most-active-public-forum-message-board-for-discussion-of-rails-implem&quot;&gt;What is the most active public forum/message board for discussion of Rails implementation issues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;13R 3Q 0A 18 up 2 down  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/66538/emo&quot;&gt;emo&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32d18237527880c030f59f79e6b59ee7?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen &lt;strong&gt;Jan 16 at 16:54&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/854015/nicer-alternative-to-the-default-rails-scaffolding-stylesheet-scaffold-css&quot;&gt;Nicer alternative to the default Rails scaffolding stylesheet: scaffold.css?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;41R 4Q 4A 45 up 2 down  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/78333/landise41&quot;&gt;landise41&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b8742e7429b7c025c7429be8f02f1c58?s=24&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;last seen &lt;strong&gt;Nov 12 at 1:38&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/963292/how-do-you-debug-a-rails-application&quot;&gt;How do you debug a Rails application?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10R 9Q 0A 12 up 1 down  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were 5 of them that were last seen within &lt;strong&gt;8&lt;/strong&gt; minutes of each other:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;On Nov 11 between 20:28 - 20:36&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56429/patrick-o-connell&quot;&gt;Patrick O Connell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/59643/lee-tang&quot;&gt;Lee Tang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61031/kerzin&quot;&gt;Kerzin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/57339/willem-obst&quot;&gt;Willem Obst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/61149/utrecht&quot;&gt;Utrecht&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of them, only &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/57339/willem-obst&quot;&gt;Willem Obst&lt;/a&gt; has a different Gravatar. They also have less than 200 Rep each. Which means they probably used up most of their rep paying for bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;My conclusion:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone set up a significant number of users to try to game the system. After they had enough rep to put up the largest possible bounty, on a many of them, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/196105/ski&quot; title=&quot;It's usually guys that try this&quot;&gt;he&lt;/a&gt; had them all start a bounty. Which he then awarded to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing is, if all of the users were combined into a single user instead, he would probably have over 10k rep, instead of the 5.7k rep he currently has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that this attempt really backfired. I don't think he really enjoyed getting the rep in that manner. Which stopped him from participating that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;There may be a possibility that user &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/196105/ski&quot;&gt;ski&lt;/a&gt; was uninvolved with the shenanigans, but I doubt it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T04:25:50.163" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40127" CreationDate="2010-01-27T04:57:30.137" Score="20" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you lock a post, you also lock out users from being able to flag for moderator attention on said post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a useful feature to allow flagging from the post if something has changed or needs to be changed with the locking of the post. It would allow a user to explain their reasoning within the relevance of the post/page itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/67128/notepad-load-langs-xml-failed-closed&quot; title=&quot;flang-a-lang&quot;&gt;due to a question&lt;/a&gt; that needed to be locked/closed due to some answer spam issues. It was a legit question and I did not want the OP to feel like he had done anything wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment explaining why I did this and wanted users to be able to flag the question if something legitimate needed to be added. That is when I noticed that you can't flag the question after being locked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing major, just an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T07:13:01.443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T07:13:41.817" Title="Ability to flag locked posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="37131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37109" CreationDate="2010-01-27T05:52:34.880" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you by any chance have a lot of posts deleted, or migrated to other sites? That, and the 100 rep bonus granted for associating accounts, are the only causes of discrepancies that I know of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get your rep recalculated, can you post a screenshot here of your graph and rep immediately afterwards for comparison?  You know, for science...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T05:52:34.880" />
  <row Id="37132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37130" CreationDate="2010-01-27T07:29:39.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be all for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However -- assuming I understand this part of SO right -- flagging is a type of voting, and you can't vote on a locked post. There is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34815/give-diamond-moderators-the-ability-to-partially-lock-a-post&quot;&gt;open feature request&lt;/a&gt; to allow partial locking (in that case, only forbid closing and deletion votes); in other words, to allow specifying the allowed and restricted types of voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll vote to close this question as a dupe, just wanted to explain this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I repeat: I'm all for doing this. Until then, the workaround is to flag a different post and mention &quot;This is about Q 67128: &amp;hellip;&quot; in the message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T07:29:39.820" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37134" CreationDate="2010-01-27T08:16:02.927" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I yesterday asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2139652/&quot;&gt;how to achieve knowledge-transfer between developers&lt;/a&gt; on stackoverflow.com, but it was closed because it is &quot;subjective&quot;. Because I am new to this platform I don't know all the secret rules to create a succesful question. And english is not my first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards I realized that not making it a community wiki could be the problem. Was that the problem? Or are there other flaws?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I repost it? Because I think it is unlikely that a closed question will be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139590" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T10:39:54.187" Title="Was my question closed because it should be a community wiki?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="37134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37133" CreationDate="2010-01-27T08:26:46.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion: The question is fine. Yes, it's a candidate for &quot;community wiki,&quot; because there's no real one-and-only answer, but now that you made it wiki, it's okay. I voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing this question as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; was wrong. The definition of this close reason is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's impossible to objectively answer this question, and the question was asked in a confrontational, argumentative way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first part holds for your question, the second one definitely doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T08:26:46.960" />
  <row Id="37135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37133" CreationDate="2010-01-27T08:27:24.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Afterwards I realized that not making&#xA;  it a community wiki could be the&#xA;  problem. Was that the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know. I think it's an interesting question. It is true that it is a typical community wiki question, but don't worry about that - it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; already marked as community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I repost it? Because I think it&#xA;  is unlikely that a closed question&#xA;  will be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, don't repost it. It has been reopened already. In any case, &lt;strong&gt;never post duplicates of your own closed questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T08:34:16.020" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T08:34:16.020" />
  <row Id="37136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37133" CreationDate="2010-01-27T08:32:17.057" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community wiki, yes.  There's no finite answer to the question.  But closure seems harsh - there are a lot of open questions regarding estimating tasks.  Your question about knowledge transfer between developers seems just as appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142409" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T08:32:17.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T08:42:32.493" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm expreincing this bug:&#xA;When I first come into SO for the day, the &quot;Notification Bar&quot; at the top tells me that I have 4 new answers. When I click the link, I'm only shown 2 answers. How come?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139190" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T08:42:32.493" Title="&quot;Notification Bar&quot; tells me I have 4 new answers and I only see 2" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37133" CreationDate="2010-01-27T10:39:54.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actual title is &quot;How to make developers learn from each other?&quot;. That sounds confrontational, at best, and may be why some people thought the question was argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good question. I'm glad it's back open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T10:39:54.187" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T10:59:08.867" Score="2" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is where bright minds meet. I wish this site publish a book containing questions and answers of different users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers given by the programmers who use Stack Overflow amaze us for many reaosns: their great ideas, solid analysis and accurate answers; much of which is usually not found in other books or tutorials. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You gave so many different possible correct solutions that the phrase, &quot;there are many ways to kill the chicken,&quot; comes to mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Publishing a book such as this would benefit students, beginners, intermediate and master programmers alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agree or disagree? Possible or impossible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T12:55:49.307" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T13:59:42.810" Title="Stack Overflow Books" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37143" CreationDate="2010-01-27T11:01:45.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may actually be a good idea. I believe there have been precedents when some sites published the best of their online contributions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand it promotes the idea of collaborative editing. Meaning, the most up-to-date version is only online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T11:03:36.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37161" CreationDate="2010-01-27T11:30:49.110" Score="6" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just curious to know if there are any companies from India using SO careers to locate candidates? If not, is it worth spending money on Stack Overflow Careers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have any plans to focus on the Indian market?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T12:52:58.173" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:59:52.600" Title="Are there any companies from India using Stack Overflow careers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25276" CreationDate="2010-01-27T11:50:56.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are interested in exporting you cv resume data from linkedin I have written a web service to do so take a look at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onebiglink.com/cvexport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.onebiglink.com/cvexport&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T11:50:56.287" />
  <row Id="37147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T11:52:15.957" Score="29" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just flagged a post for the first time (spam), and clicked sumbit from the div popup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I wasnt sure that the postback had been successful, as nothing happened on the main page. Could the flag button be highlighted or disabled to show that you have already flagged the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139675" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T07:59:33.340" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T07:59:33.340" Title="When you flag a post, can the 'Flag' button be highlighted or something?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37147" CreationDate="2010-01-27T12:03:11.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you attempt to &quot;flag&quot; on a question/answer you have already flagged, you will be informed that you have already flagged such question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, that is not to say the process could be improved some how. I have a feeling Jeff would decline this feature request, but he always continues to surprise us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T12:03:11.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37150" CreationDate="2010-01-27T12:03:31.343" Score="-1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm 100% sure it never was yellow.. Anyone else's changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T12:37:39.473" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T12:37:39.473" ClosedDate="2010-01-27T12:41:48.993" Title="Why did my avatar change here on meta, even if my email didn't?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;picture&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37149" CreationDate="2010-01-27T12:08:39.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have no email address set on your meta account. Update your meta profile information with your email used with gravatar and you should see your picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be the same story with your Super User account also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T12:08:39.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T12:25:57.423" Score="28" ViewCount="320" Body="&lt;p&gt;It currently says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;First accepted answer on your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this very confusing since it appears to imply that you can accept an answer on someone else's question, and/or that you can accept more than one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is especially a concern since this is probably the easiest badge to acquire, so many newbies inexperienced with the SO system will run into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be much more clear if we change it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Asked a question and accepted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: I don't think it's necessary to specify that the badge cannot be awarded several times. Usually it's only specified if it can.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-02T20:34:18.010" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T20:34:18.010" Title="Description of the &quot;Scholar&quot; badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;wording&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33880" CreationDate="2010-01-27T13:22:59.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's fixed now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T13:22:59.993" />
  <row Id="37157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16294" CreationDate="2010-01-27T13:30:53.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this... The answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answering questions is part of the cost of using StackOverflow. i'd tell him, &quot;Tough.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Came close, but I think it's more than that. By answering questions you are building rep points which have two significant benefits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your own questions have a higher&#xA;likelyhood of being taken&#xA;seriously/getting noticed, and thus&#xA;being answered quickly. In my&#xA;experience there are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of&#xA;one-time users with poor questions,&#xA;and I have found that as my&#xA;reputation grew, my questions&#xA;started receiving more attention.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By gaining rep points you gain the&#xA;ability to offer bounties, which can&#xA;be an invaluable way to get a difficult&#xA;question answered. So by spending time&#xA;to answer others' questions you're&#xA;&quot;saving up&quot; for the time you have&#xA;a difficult problem at work which&#xA;a bounty might help solve&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, I'd say, as long as you're allowed to spend time working on your own projects/taking breaks (your &quot;20% time&quot;) and as long as you're meeting your deadlines, answering questions is a very good use of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T13:30:53.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T13:30:53.000" />
  <row Id="37158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37143" CreationDate="2010-01-27T13:59:42.810" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, the best answer I come across, I tend to put in my personal wiki with a link to the question and proper attribution.&#xA;This allow me to have a copy of all the knowledge I think is valuable, while keeping the ability to go back to it at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A book sounds interesting. Although, you'd have to have Jon Skeet Facts in there somewhere. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T13:59:42.810" />
  <row Id="37159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37145" CreationDate="2010-01-27T14:15:10.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the moment, the top countries searched are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top Countries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;United States, United Kingdom, Canada,&#xA;  Mexico, Spain, Czech Republic,&#xA;  Germany, Norway, Australia, Italy,&#xA;  Portugal, Netherlands, South Africa,&#xA;  Egypt, Switzerland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top locations lay within these countries, with predominance in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am Swiss, and even though Switzerland is on the top countries list, out of 2407 searches as off now I have been hit 8 times only in searches, 7 times in the beta phase alone, and never been contacted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to the impression, and I might be wrong, that the top countries list is the exhaustive list of all countries companies participate in and that there is little activity outside the top 5, with a clear max in US and UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would conclude that investing money in other countries is only an option if you are willing and able to relocate to one of the top countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be great to show the search stats and distribution of companies searching to potential candidates, not only a top list, but numbers of companies, candidates and searches conducted per country and area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it is a taking and giving, or better a chicken and egg problem. There have to be enough potential candidates to have companies starting to search and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for focusing on a market: I do not think that J&amp;amp;J will advertise apart from SO sites for Careers. Correct me if I am wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T14:15:10.573" />
  <row Id="37160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37145" CreationDate="2010-01-27T14:15:19.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best information I have shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Top Countries&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;United States&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;United Kingdom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Canada&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mexico&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Czech Republic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Germany&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Norway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Australia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Italy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Portugal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Netherlands&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;South Africa&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Egypt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Switzerland&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T14:15:19.403" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37145" CreationDate="2010-01-27T14:28:03.570" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As to what markets SO is going to focus on; I don't think that they are focusing on any particular market, apart from the SO users. My understanding is that it is their hope and intention that StackOverflow users who are looking for colleagues will try using &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, and from their, use the CV search function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have said, in markets other than the US, they are facing a little bit of the chicken and egg problem. In the US, which admittedly has a massive proportion of programmers, $10 for a year is nothing, and so a lot of people will get a paid CV &quot;just in case&quot; it helps. This leads to more interest from American companies, since there are more American programmers, and so a cycle is created, and they reach a certain critical mass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site as a whole needs to become much larger so that the &quot;20%&quot; of jobs and jobseekers outside of the US get their own critical masses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can easily afford the registration fee, then I would suggest that you do it, since you never know... However if it is not so easy to come by the money, then I would suggest that you don't do it, since unless you are in the US, or can work in the US without a H1-B, then you are less likely to find it immediately useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135484" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T14:28:03.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T15:03:02.803" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is superuser, but is there a firefox plugin of any sort that will allow it so when I go to any of the trilogy sites it will just auto log me in?  So I don't have enter my myopenid URL, or password, or anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:30:14.323" Title="Automatic Login with OpenID" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37162" CreationDate="2010-01-27T15:07:51.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to log into OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you should try using &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MyOpenID&lt;/a&gt;, I cannot even remember the last time I had to log in on any of the sites on any of my machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also check to make sure you are not clearing cookies when you exit your browser. Stop that sillyness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T17:30:14.323" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:30:14.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-01-27T15:11:55.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about Meta privileges based on your highest Trilogy rep minus something or divided by something?  My SO rep is worth a hundred extra starting points on SF and SU, which is more or less as it should be, but it should give me some street cred on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T15:11:55.793" />
  <row Id="37168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37170" CreationDate="2010-01-27T15:47:31.143" Score="-5" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, the permalink to an answer works like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a title=&quot;permalink to this answer&quot;&#xA; href=&quot;/questions/2121172/possible-reasons-for-tellg-failing/2121359#2121359&quot;&amp;gt;link&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to change it so that it becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a title=&quot;permalink to this answer&quot;&#xA; href=&quot;/questions/2121172/possible-reasons-for-tellg-failing/2121359#2121359&quot;&#xA; onclick=&quot;prompt('Permalink for this answer:', 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2121172/possible-reasons-for-tellg-failing/2121359#2121359'); return false;&quot;&amp;gt;link&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will make the following dialog box appear with the text already selected if you have javascript enabled, so all you have to do is press &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl-c&lt;/kbd&gt; and then &lt;kbd&gt;Enter&lt;/kbd&gt; or &lt;kbd&gt;Esc&lt;/kbd&gt;, instead of having to open a new page and then copy the URL from the address bar. Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8767/examplepermalink.png&quot; alt=&quot;example&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have Firebug you can test it right away how it would look like! Just type in the console:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;prompt('Permalink for this answer:', 'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2121172/possible-reasons-for-tellg-failing/2121359#2121359');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users without javascript enabled (not sure if this is supported at all) will experience the old exact behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:31:08.203" Title="Changing the way the &quot;link&quot; button works on post" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="37169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37168" CreationDate="2010-01-27T16:08:51.390" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who opens a new page and copies the address?  I right-click the link and choose &quot;Copy shortcut&quot; or &quot;Copy link address&quot;.  That's faster even than a javscript popup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:08:51.390" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37168" CreationDate="2010-01-27T16:31:08.203" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uh... If you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wanted to do something fancy, you could simply create a HTML input field, populate it with the URL, and select it. At least this wouldn't result in a modal dialog standing in your way and prompting you with two buttons that &lt;em&gt;look&lt;/em&gt; different but do the same thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that would be pointless. Because &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;even today&lt;/strong&gt;, if you click that link your browser will navigate to the resulting URL. And you can then copy the &quot;permalink&quot; out of your address bar (which probably already selects the whole thing when you click in it), or bookmark it, or hit File-&gt;Send Link, or print out 20 copies and make a suit of clothes from the resulting inky paper... just like you would do for &lt;em&gt;every other URL&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you're a &quot;power user&quot; who knows all the &quot;secret browser tricks they don't teach you in browser school&quot; you can &quot;right click&quot; on the &quot;link&quot; with your &quot;mouse&quot; and simply copy the URL that way. Just like you would do for &lt;strong&gt;every other link to everything, everywhere.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think it is a good idea to abandon common practices based only on a &lt;em&gt;suspicion&lt;/em&gt; that someone, somewhere, is using The World-Wide Web for the very first time and must therefore be accommodated at the expense of everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:31:08.203" />
  <row Id="37171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37173" CreationDate="2010-01-27T16:45:59.493" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens to those answers that have been upvoted but have exceeded my maximum points of 200 very early on within a 24 hour day? Do they get adjusted when the 24 hours have lapsed i.e. carry it over to the next day with the adjusted upvotes, some of them have 3 and a blank, others are accepted but no more...so is there any real point to me hanging around on SO if I can answer questions but get no more upvotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone answer this for me as the FAQ seems a bit vague in that respect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Best regards,&#xA;Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:03:49.000" Title="I have a couple of answers upvoted" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37171" CreationDate="2010-01-27T16:47:39.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no adjustment made, you just simply don't get the rep added from upvotes that would take you past 200.  You'll see that in your recent activity by some positive value that is not a factor of 10 (or labeled Bty for bounty awarded).  That'll be the balance of the rep you'll earn that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the point isn't to bank rep, it's to provide useful input to the community.  So sure there's a point in hanging around!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:47:39.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37171" CreationDate="2010-01-27T16:48:15.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reputation from upvotes after you hit the reputation cap is lost. You don't get the reputation for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; for all of the parts of the reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the reasons you might stick around is that if your answer is accepted as the answer to the question, you still get the 15 reputation from it, even after the reputation cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T17:03:49.000" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:03:49.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30489" CreationDate="2010-01-27T16:49:17.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not pointless when looking at answers: if you're considering which approach to take first, you try the one suggested by the person with the highest rep.  The badges are a secondary indicator.  I would suggest that this is exactly why these numbers are displayed with the answers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation has a certain stickiness because of this, and it's a natural part of how the site works.  Someone coming &quot;off the street&quot; shouldn't expect to be able to get the same attention as someone who already has an established reputation, even if they're giving the same quality of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user images, though, are unimportant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="58549" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:49:17.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30489" CreationDate="2010-01-27T16:55:57.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are biased by numbers, you really should block the current vote counts of the posts as well, and set your sorting preference to 'newest first'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T16:55:57.647" />
  <row Id="37177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:12:52.227" Score="6" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My feature-request:&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;There should be a way to search for multiple tags at once&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;A OR B&lt;/strong&gt;, rather than &lt;strong&gt;A AND B&lt;/strong&gt;) from the GUI&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reason:&lt;/em&gt; When looking for interesting questions asked while I was gone, I will follow this procedure:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on &lt;em&gt;newest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on one of my &lt;em&gt;interesting tags&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open a number of links, scrolling down until I find one that I've seen before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the next &lt;em&gt;interesting tag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open a number of links, scrolling down until I find one that I've seen before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only do I have to try to remember which questions I've seen before, but some of them have &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; of my &lt;em&gt;interesting tags&lt;/em&gt;, so that something I've &lt;em&gt;&quot;seen before&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I actually first saw a minute or two ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Edit]&lt;/strong&gt; A simple thing would be make the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Interesting Tags&quot;&lt;/em&gt; header link to a page that displays all posts that have one of your interesting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141513" LastEditorUserId="141513" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T19:20:51.467" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T19:20:51.467" Title="Search by more than one tag at once (OR)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="37179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37177" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:25:14.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could manually construct your url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the one I use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=perl~+~regex~+pcre+or+language-agnostic+or+parse+or+rosetta-stone+or+code-golf&amp;amp;sort=active&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=perl~+~regex~+pcre+or+language-agnostic+or+parse+or+rosetta-stone+or+code-golf&amp;amp;sort=active&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:25:14.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37182" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:26:49.120" Score="1" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or is SO having Javascript problems in Firefox 3.5.7?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't add any comments, nor vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the console:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Error: editorReady is not defined&#xA; Source: http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2089031/edit&#xA; Line: 97&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Error: vote is not defined&#xA;Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2089012/recommended-commenting-tool-add-in-for-visual-studio/2089031#2089031&#xA;Line: 49&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;works fine in Chrome. This started some 15 Minutes ago. I did't change anything on my end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T07:32:06.650" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T07:32:06.650" Title="Javascript problems in Firefox 3.5.7?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37180" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:28:53.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is SO having Javascript problems in&#xA;  Firefox 3.5.7?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I use Firefox 3.5.7 for SO sites and have had no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:28:53.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37180" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:34:09.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clear your cache, do a forced reload and try it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:34:09.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37187" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:44:04.120" Score="2" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the comments of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2148658/java-list-use-through-use-of-jstl-cforeach/2148672#2148672&quot;&gt;this SO answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maybe it's due to your low reputation that you're unable to delete your own answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is because of my low rep. but i think the fact i can't delete my own answers is a bit lame.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation&quot;&gt;SO FAQ about reputation&lt;/a&gt;, but I can't seem to find the minimum reputation one would need before being able to delete &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; question/answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there actually a minimum reputation for this? If so, how much is it? And can it be added to the SO FAQ as well to avoid future questions/confusions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T18:04:54.430" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:04:54.430" Title="How many reputation points do you need before you can delete your own question or answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:51:22.463" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37119/pasting-text-into-input-boxes-behaves-incorrectly&quot;&gt;Pasting text into input boxes behaves incorrectly&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Scenario&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click Ask Question button.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste something into the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Expected Results&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pasted text shows up in black&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moving focus to question body prompts search for duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Actual Results&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pasted text shows up in gray (like the default text)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moving focus to question body does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; trigger search for duplicates&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other notes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hitting submit gives error that no title was entered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If text is typed manually there doesn't seem to be any problem, only an initial paste breaks it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the paste, manually editing the title doesn't cause it to be accepted either&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tested on IE8 on WinXP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:01:06.217" ClosedDate="2010-01-27T18:18:39.890" Title="Cannot paste question title using Internet Explorer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;internet-explorer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37183" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:53:55.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a more &lt;em&gt;unabridged&lt;/em&gt; version of that FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does “Reputation” work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need &quot;+250 to vote to open/close your own questions.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And according to this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5221/how-can-a-question-or-answer-be-deleted&quot;&gt;What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You can delete your own post, provided you have registered  your account (logged in using an OpenID)&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You can't delete your answer if it has been accepted.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You can't delete your question if the total score of all answer(s) to it is &gt;= 2, or it has been closed  less than 48 hours ago.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Deleted answers can be viewed, edited, and undeleted by their original authors, however deleted questions cannot be seen by their authors (unless they have a reputation &gt;= 10K or happen to be moderators).&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:53:55.580" />
  <row Id="37187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37183" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:53:59.637" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless something changed &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; recently, you don't need any rep to delete your own answers, &lt;strong&gt;provided you're using a registered (OpenID) account&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Same goes for questions, although there are additional restrictions if answers have been posted and up-voted.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/259453/mark&quot;&gt;Mark&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (the user in the question you link to) is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a registered user, and therefore cannot delete his posts unless/until he associates an OpenID with his account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5221/what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that-actually-mean&quot;&gt;What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:53:59.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T17:53:59.637" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37185" CreationDate="2010-01-27T17:57:09.427" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I confirm that this also occurs on IE7 when I am NOT logged in.  The default text &quot;What's your programming question? Be descriptive.&quot; does not disappear, and clicking in the ask a question box doesn't preview possible duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after logging in, the Ask Question page appears to work normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T17:57:09.427" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37185" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:01:06.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike Pollyanna, I do see this on IE7 even when I am logged in. The gray default text does not disappear from the text box, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:01:06.217" />
  <row Id="37191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:01:22.787" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree - you don't see people spamming bad answers and getting lots of reputation for it, but you do see people spamming bad questions.  &lt;strong&gt;That tells you there's something wrong with the system&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've already made the answers gain non-linear rep to stop great answers from providing &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much rep; why not do the same to questions to stop bad questions?  &lt;strong&gt;Only instead of starting out high and getting lower, start out low and get higher&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg. First three votes only get &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; rep, next three get &lt;strong&gt;+3&lt;/strong&gt;, next three &lt;strong&gt;+5&lt;/strong&gt;, next three &lt;strong&gt;+10&lt;/strong&gt;, then drop back down so that overall, a 15+ vote question will still gain just as much rep as it does now, but a 3-vote question will gain much less.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, judge &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; on questions much harsher than on answers, since they are &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; rarer (compared to &lt;strong&gt;-1&lt;/strong&gt; for answers).  You may want to consider making those non-linear as well (starting out low and getting higher).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141513" LastEditorUserId="141513" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T16:26:09.193" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T16:26:09.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:06:10.917" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I (just now) mentioned on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold/37191#37191&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, I think &lt;strong&gt;the weight of a downvote should increase non-linearly&lt;/strong&gt;, the way that upvotes are now - only instead of starting out high and getting lower, it should start out low and get higher!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141513" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:06:10.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T18:06:10.917" />
  <row Id="37193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:14:00.243" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one suggestion for solving this:  Keep track of reputation points received from questions and points received from answers.  Reputation from questions should only be given if the asker already has achieved that amount of reputation from answers.  In other words, &lt;strong&gt;limit each user's question reputation total so that it is always less than or equal to their answer reputation total&lt;/strong&gt;.  That seems like a fair solution, that should not penalize any active, productive members of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17035" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:14:00.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37196" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:20:34.113" Score="7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not the kind of guy who plays moderator; I think the worst action I've ever taken against anyone on SO is a downvote. I prefer to ignore instead of flag, but I'd rather flood the moderators with a ton of spam flags than see my favorite tech resource devolve into Y!Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators have a tough enough life as it is without excessive flagging, but after searching for meta, I couldn't find any guidelines on what should or should not be flagged. Are there any? Are there repercussions to incorrectly flagging? I'm sure this is in the ToS, but I couldn't find that either. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137939" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:15:00.383" Title="Are there guidelines on what to flag as spam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;&lt;spam-prevention&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37194" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:27:24.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spam is any advertisement of any kind in any question, comment, or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:27:24.973" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37194" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:28:10.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brennan:&lt;/strong&gt; [looking at the screen] What exactly am I supposed to be squinting at? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Booth:&lt;/strong&gt; It’s like pornography; you'll know it when you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_%28Bones%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bones:Pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See also:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I know it when I see it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T22:04:17.520" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:04:17.520" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:49:27.450" Score="-15" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing here to discuss &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/822581/what-c-library-for-http-client&quot;&gt;this inquiry&lt;/a&gt; on the primary Stack Overflow Internet web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current text of said query reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm looking for c++ library implementing HTTP client.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It should handle cookies as well.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  What would you propose?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thank you in advance for your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am offended at the quality of grammar, punctuation and spelling demonstrated in that question; and hereby respectfully request that one of the Stack Overflow editors please rewrite it into proper English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142469" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T19:55:16.690" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:35:44.360" Title="Broken English on StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;non-english-speakers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="37198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37197" CreationDate="2010-01-27T18:52:12.327" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must be new here. That's very good English, especially compared to some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T18:52:12.327" />
  <row Id="37199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:03:40.303" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/139/why-should-i-upvote-a-question&quot;&gt;Why should I upvote a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1871/what-purpose-does-downvoting-questions-serve&quot;&gt;What purpose does downvoting questions serve?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on questions played a big role in the site when we didn't have the option to comment on, close, migrate, flag, or edit questions which did not fit the site or required modification to be useful and usable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is, question votes are not much more than a popularity contest, and a lot of bandwidth is taken up on Meta regarding question votes.  Notably:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;Why aren’t people voting for questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16006/why-is-down-voting-a-question-important&quot;&gt;Why is down-voting a question important?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases a downvote is being given where a good edit should be used instead, or a comment indicating that the question user needs to provide more information.  People are also downvoting in the case of duplicates (or suspected duplicates) when they don't want to do the work of finding the duplicate.  There is no need to downvote to 'alert' other users that a question isn't worth spending time on - if it's bad enough that it can't be fixed, and so bad that you want to be sure others avoid it &lt;em&gt;then it's not worth keeping open&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;These are all situations where the person downvoting should be taking a different action.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=voting+questions&quot;&gt;Upvoting on questions is very low&lt;/a&gt;, and several questions have thrown ideas at how to increase question upvoting artificially, and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8376/how-to-encourage-voting-on-questions&quot;&gt;new badge&lt;/a&gt; was even implemented to encourage this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given all this, I am now convinced that voting on questions is an unnecessary distraction.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting no longer provides any useful information about a question, and there are more than adequate means of fixing or removing questions that need work.  Voting makes more sense for sites like Meta where questions aren't really questions, but suggestions and discussions.  For purely Q/A sites such as SO, SF, SU, the voting is superfluous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only two possible positive things voting now provides are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A way for users at lower rep levels to have a voice when they are unable to perform many of the other functions that are needed to fix a question (I contend this is useless, but perhaps they need &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; sort of outlet)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A 'hook' to get new users into the reputation game (which fails frequently because questions aren't getting upvotes, especially questions from new users)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is truly the case, then we should consider removing question voting altogether, or removing the effect of question votes on reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I wrong?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What obvious and explicitly important role does question voting play in our community?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T19:12:38.377" ClosedDate="2010-01-28T11:44:11.393" Title="Why do we vote on questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37199" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:12:38.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only two possible positive things voting now provides are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about when you're searching for something, and you get several results - don't you look to the highest-voted matches first? I do. Even if the choices are 0 and -1, all else being equal I'll look at the 0-ranked question first. In that scenario, even the down-vote led to a positive result: helping me to narrow down search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/139/why-should-i-upvote-a-question&quot;&gt;Why should I upvote a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1871/what-purpose-does-downvoting-questions-serve&quot;&gt;What purpose does downvoting questions serve?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T19:12:38.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-27T19:14:40.060" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:22:29.557" Score="22" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has the electorate badge increased the number of votes on questions since it was implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T19:54:54.680" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T00:33:45.650" Title="Is the Electorate Badge Working?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37197" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:23:48.290" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;English isn't my first language either. I really can't see what is wrong with this question. I understand perfectly well what he or she is asking for. Therefore I assume that you can understand the question as well. Relax and cut us non-native speakers some slack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;re-write that crap&quot; isn't the nicest English either and there is no need to hyphenate the word &quot;rewrite&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135433" LastEditorUserId="135433" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T19:29:51.897" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T19:29:51.897" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:28:05.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has increased them coming from me, so yes.  Although my part is small relative to the whole....  Not that I particularly care about the badge, but the discussion around the badge got my attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T19:28:05.113" />
  <row Id="37206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:28:21.667" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is anecdotal, obviously:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I now go to Stack Overflow daily and expend my entire vote amount on questions. I don't vote on answers any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this is to pay reparations for the fact that I used to vote on answers about 90% of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T19:28:21.667" />
  <row Id="37208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37213" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:39:56.803" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there is a few duplicates but I want to narrow it down a bit more....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the etiquette in regard to asking questions, any pointers, tips? I know if the question is tagged as subjective it will be voted to close immediately - no questions asked based on the community feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, how do you find duplicates fast? Despite a search functionality, it seems a bit slow having to wade to find the ones that match the question accurately or nearest when someone puts in a comment to say 'Duplicate...with an {url_to_nearest_question}', there must be some shortcut to achieve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe, the limit to increase the number of questions (15, 30, 50 per page) might help instead of wading through pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the feeling of the community, with consideration...due to the misunderstandings of the english language or misinterpretation, or even lack of english as it may not be their native tongue, any clear idea of guaranteeing that the question would be understood? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like for example, posting a question that is vague or not clear or even ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Best regards,&#xA;Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T20:22:22.057" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T20:22:22.057" Title="How to find the right meaningful question to ask and finding duplicates fast!" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="37209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37208" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:45:33.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the etiquette in regard to&#xA;  asking questions, any pointers, tips?&#xA;  I know if the question is tagged as&#xA;  subjective it will be voted to close&#xA;  immediately - no questions asked based&#xA;  on the community feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try reading the official SO FAQ (here on meta). Lots of information there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, how do you find duplicates fast?&#xA;  Despite a search functionality, it&#xA;  seems a bit slow having to wade to&#xA;  find the ones that match the question&#xA;  accurately or nearest when someone&#xA;  puts in a comment to say&#xA;  'Duplicate...with an&#xA;  {url_to_nearest_question}', there must&#xA;  be some shortcut to achieve this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO's search engine is really bad compared to google's. Google &lt;code&gt;your question title site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, you'll get much more relevant results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have the common&#xA;  tags listed and grouped with the&#xA;  answers you have posted on a prior&#xA;  occastion, maybe, the limit to&#xA;  increase the number of questions (15,&#xA;  30, 50 per page) or select a tag from&#xA;  dropdown box and see the answers that&#xA;  was posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on the feeling of the community,&#xA;  with consideration...due to the&#xA;  misunderstandings of the english&#xA;  language or misinterpretation, or even&#xA;  lack of english as it may not be their&#xA;  native tongue, any clear idea of&#xA;  guaranteeing that the question would&#xA;  be understood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you asking how to ask a question and have the guarantee to be understood if the person who asks it doesn't speak English? If yes the answer is &quot;use magic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T19:53:44.523" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T19:53:44.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37194" CreationDate="2010-01-27T19:51:09.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen here on meta I think the mods are very eager to do their work. They very often suggest to flag questions for their attention, if there is something wrong with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I say if you're undecided, flag it in all cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T19:51:09.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37197" CreationDate="2010-01-27T20:20:26.663" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, that's much too well-written to be broken.  Surely it can't be too hard to break?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;We searching C++ for to plow HTTP defendent.&#xA;Must also bake chocolate chip.&#xA;Can you do me?&#xA;&#xA;Thankee.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Howzat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T21:35:44.360" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:35:44.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37208" CreationDate="2010-01-27T20:22:06.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;After trying the site's search box (or Google), I find that the best way to check for duplicates is to go the the &lt;strong&gt;'Ask Question' page&lt;/strong&gt; and type in a clear, well-thought-out title. The &lt;strong&gt;'Related Questions' suggestions&lt;/strong&gt; contain a really good list of candidates to look through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T20:22:06.907" />
  <row Id="37216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37220" CreationDate="2010-01-27T21:20:38.437" Score="2" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&lt;/a&gt; (you need to impersonate google to see it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;priority&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; field is handled really well. Questions with many answers and/or upvotes have higher priority..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if anyone knows the exact formula they're using to calculate it. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:33:22.713" Title="Does anyone know the formula used by SO to calculate the &lt;priority&gt; in the sitemap?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;seo&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2010-01-27T21:26:57.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge was not announced on the blog, and I don't recall it being mentioned on the podcast.  The only people who know about it are those that got it, those that monitor the tags page aggressively, and those that spend enough time on meta to see an electorate related message float by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, when the January data dump is made available you should be able to use stackql or another query service to find out what, if any, impact the new badge made on question votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:26:57.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37194" CreationDate="2010-01-27T21:27:13.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I consider anything that is not either a well defined question (according to my criteria) or a well defined answer (again, according to my criteria) to be spam. I then flag it accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I flag as spam non-answers posted as answers (along with a comment explaining the reason for the flag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:27:13.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37216" CreationDate="2010-01-27T21:33:22.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early days they discussed the ranking algorithm for the front page quite a bit, but they never released what they ultimately settled on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My expectation is that they are likely using the same algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what it is, they've only hinted at the path they took to develop it.  You might try searching the stackoverflow blog for entries mentioning &quot;ranking.&quot;  This link might do the job:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-6254779591266030%3Awa6mxc6y8y6&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;q=ranking&amp;amp;sa=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-6254779591266030%3Awa6mxc6y8y6&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;q=ranking&amp;amp;sa=Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:33:22.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35905" CreationDate="2010-01-27T21:38:13.327" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest 'Vote Ordered Questions', that way the word 'Vote' appears first for those of us who use a lot of tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T22:51:30.247" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:51:30.247" />
  <row Id="37222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="230" CreationDate="2010-01-27T21:48:20.353" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just posted a question on superuser site, started getting great answers, then BAM it got closed as possible duplicate, and it wasn't even a duplicate, sure same topic but I was looking for totally different thing regarding the same issue....so I told them what I thought in the comments...it got deleted :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm so frustrated with this policing on these boards. The boards are great, people are awesome and share their knowledge but the policing has to stop, at the minimum they should read the questions carefully. I understand it's free, but come on....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134881" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T21:48:20.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37226" CreationDate="2010-01-27T22:04:55.273" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/shaun-finglas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CV&lt;/a&gt; listed upon Careers under the Student account type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I am a student, I graduate in the coming months (I'll be done by this summer time) so I was wondering what the opinion was of listing my CV as a student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you say it's harmful in terms that employeers may simply disregard it as it is labled as a student account, or do they not know until they view your CV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty hard done for when it comes to money (boo hoo) so splashing out for something that I'm getting for free seems pointless, but at the same time if it helps me get a job for when I finish university, I'm all for it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any advice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134974" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:09:02.570" Title="Would you say that being a student on careers is harmful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;advice&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37225" CreationDate="2010-01-27T22:10:55.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No more than actually being a student hurts your chances.  As soon as they read your CV they'll find your work experience and schooling experience anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:10:55.913" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37194" CreationDate="2010-01-27T22:15:00.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, the is-it-spam bar is set pretty high.  Like C. Ross points out, &lt;em&gt;I know spam when I see it.&lt;/em&gt;  It's egregious, offtopic, and reads like it was written by a marketroid or a bot.  It sticks out like a sore thumb.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think I've ever actually flagged anything as spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been tempted.  Recently I came across a user on SU who left a &lt;em&gt;.signature&lt;/em&gt; on his posts -- an ad-copy-ish sentence and link to some application or website.  In this situation, his posts were useful and ontopic (excepting the .sig), and he had made a grand total of maybe 4 posts over 2-3 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ad-copy-.sig was irksome, and I considered flagging the posts as spam, but decided against it.  Instead, I edited out the ad-copy and link from each of his posts, flagged one post for the mods, and suggested the user be added to any watch list that might exist (for users who aren't worthy of banning, but might be soon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:15:00.383" />
  <row Id="37228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37401" CreationDate="2010-01-27T22:39:41.790" Score="5" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I had to submit this with firefox&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not experienced any problem asking questions until today. When I submit my question, it claims I don't have any valid tags provided. But I do. &quot;php markdown css&quot; are all valid tags, yet the page continues to clear the tags field, and claim I have no valid values when I attempt to submit a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody else experiencing this right now other than me? I'm noticing also that the font-color is not changing to a darker (black) color when I focus on the field. This suggests to me that there's a js-issue at the heart of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T03:55:46.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T07:06:22.267" Title="Can't ask a question on SO with Chrome" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37228" CreationDate="2010-01-27T22:42:17.243" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of people seem to have intermittent problems with SO on Chrome; I've had two &quot;events&quot; today where I've had to empty the browser cache, which always fixes it (for me, at least).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suspicion is that the script files are cached in a corrupt state, breaking everything. Empty the cache and try again. We really should report these issues to the Chrome boards at some point... I'm not sure SO can do much about cache corruption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T22:42:17.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2010-01-27T23:00:43.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I do a bit more is downvote bad questions; I now downvote bad questions that are marked CW a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more, so much so that I will go to a CW question just so I can downvote the question (and vote to close, if it isn't already closed). It hasn't really changed how I upvote good questions though, as I was doing that already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the way I vote on answers has changed much either, except I will no longer go through all answers in a CW poll-type question up- and down-voting each one (this was the main way I exhausted my vote quota; I no longer ever run out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T23:00:43.033" />
  <row Id="37231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T23:13:47.947" Score="7" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been pointed out that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow sitemap&lt;/a&gt; is only available to certain user agents (for instance, &lt;code&gt;msnbot/2.1&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)&lt;/code&gt;, and presumably other common user agents of popular search engine bots). &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33965/how-does-stack-overflow-protect-its-sitemap/33967#33967&quot;&gt;Jeff has already answered&lt;/a&gt; that this is because it's a large file and it was being abused by being downloaded too often; which is reasonable, but I think using a whitelist approach for such a restriction is short-sighted, and a blacklist (perhaps along with some other techniques) would work better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lazy developer who discovers this restriction on Stack Overflow (or other sites that do the same thing) is likely to just use a user-agent string from a popular search engine bot to get around the restriction, thus destroying the usefulness of filtering and logging based on user agents. A slightly less lazy developer may crate a user agent string that claims to be &lt;code&gt;my agent (like msnbot/2.1)&lt;/code&gt;, getting around the restriction but winding up in the end with crazy user agent string like browsers need in order to get around web-sites that improperly use information in user agent strings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.302.2 Safari/532.8&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An author of a new bot or search engine could also ask to be added to the whitelist; but if many sites did the same thing, it would be prohibitive to ask to be added to each and every whitelist. So, if whitelisting the sitemap becomes a common practice, then in order for new search engines or other users of bots to become competitive, they'd have to take one of the approaches above, which in turn makes it harder to effectively do any sort of whitelisting, blacklisting, or distinguishing between different bots in logs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the alternatives? Well, blacklisting known bad user agents would be one. I can't imagine that new bots or other software that abuse the sitemap enough to worry about come about all that often. A blacklist would also avoid problems if one of the major search engines changed their user agent to something that didn't match the existing whitelist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another improvement would be to split the sitemap up using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#index&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sitemap indexes&lt;/a&gt;. There could be a smaller sitemap index, which referred to several other sitemap files and the date they were last updated. This would reduce the load from both good and bad user agents; you would not have to send Googlebot information about pages that haven't been updated in several weeks, if you had an index which broke the sitemap down into sections that depend on how old the information is. Now, sure, a bad user agent could be pathological and try to traverse the index and all of the sitemaps within it without regard to update times or without regard to what information it actually needs, but blacklisting (based on user agent and/or IP) would probably work fine for such user agents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T15:24:40.137" Title="Why does the Stack Overflow sitemap.xml use a user-agent whitelist instead of a blacklist?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37278" CreationDate="2010-01-27T23:22:42.480" Score="3" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered a question and the user seems to like the answer, but hasn't accepted it. I checked his profile, and it shows &quot;Unregistered User&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the user can't accept the answer because they aren't registered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141622" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-27T23:30:44.147" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T07:22:39.510" Title="Can unregistered users accept answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-27T23:38:02.477" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently hear talk about users being discouraged by sitting in the vast gap between 3k and 10k rep, and by having nothing left to attain after the 10k barrier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if we could solicit the sponsors of various tags to give product offers to people who are above a certain level and have a lot of points in their sponsored tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if could we get Red Gate Software to give away a free &lt;em&gt;personal-use-only&lt;/em&gt; copy of their profiler to people who have &gt;15k and have a lot of votes in the &lt;code&gt;[.net]&lt;/code&gt; tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Adobe give away free copies of Flash?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would Joseph Albahari be willing to give auto-complete to people who have answered in the &lt;code&gt;[linqpad]&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;[linq]&lt;/code&gt; tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an idea...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T00:21:28.230" Title="Would more offers from Sponsors add incentive to contribute to the site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37238" CreationDate="2010-01-27T23:42:38.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Free stuff is always incentive, but I'm not sure we'd get buy-in from the sponsors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T23:42:38.237" />
  <row Id="37240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37238" CreationDate="2010-01-27T23:43:07.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a good idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would bet a lot of money that the sponsors won't ever agree to this. Microsoft giving away free copies of their software to people answering questions on an unofficial website? Just don't see it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not fair to, for example, me. I'm very good at C, C++, html, css, javascript, web development, lua, mysql and that's pretty much it. Except for mysql (which doesn't have a sponsored tag), all of them are open technologies. So only some people get &quot;prizes&quot; for their &quot;work&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone has a lot of answers in a certain tag, it's reasonable to believe that they already have that software, so what would they do with a second copy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-27T23:43:07.910" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="37241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37238" CreationDate="2010-01-28T00:13:13.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that we'd need a company like Telerik to chime in and discuss the success of their product give away.  Not only did the promotion get me from 8K to 10K fairly quickly, it has allowed me to nearly forget about Infragistics and when my license (support) expires in 200 something days, I'll be buying the upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality is that there is some cost involved in giving licenses to products away.  You may face increased support costs, etc.  However, I'm guessing the number of Telerik questions on SO increased with their promotion and their support costs per license are not nearly as high with the 10K users as the avg. joe customer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without knowing how Telerik feels about it, its hard to really measure the success...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as a user I think these are great ideas to get folks on the site.  Sure, many are there just to help, but sometimes a little incentive here or there doesn't hurt...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T00:13:13.483" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37238" CreationDate="2010-01-28T00:15:39.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still see a lot of 10K+ rep-er contributing immensely. The fact that they reach 10k meant they spent considerably amount of time here and many continue to do so for whatever 'intangible' benefits they get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are only after the rep points and decided to 'fade' out after 10K, then so be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T00:15:39.407" />
  <row Id="37243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37238" CreationDate="2010-01-28T00:21:28.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bribing doesn't scale, but sometimes it can be an option to drive attention for a few weeks. For example, the Telerik offer brought a few people over the 10000 mark and now they have access to the Tools to view flags, which could have been intentional to just get some more help there. (or maybe i'm just making this up)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now, the initial impact is over. People still look at it and take the offer if they want, but it's not that huge drive anymore. If Jeff would pay for those licenses then now it wouldn't be worth it anymore. Of course, this is not the case, but hypothetically it would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T00:21:28.230" />
  <row Id="37244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T00:56:42.003" Score="2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am interested in answering questions regarding C, C++, Linux, networking, etc.  I know that to increase in reputation the fastest way, it's very necessary to be the first at replying to the question.  How can I be alerted in the fastest way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141944" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T11:38:20.340" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T11:41:24.200" Title="Get alerted, so that I can answer questions in the fastest way" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37244" CreationDate="2010-01-28T01:00:05.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bookmark the tag(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure view sort is &quot;Newest&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hit F5 every now and then&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T01:00:05.223" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37244" CreationDate="2010-01-28T01:13:06.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be great if the questions list were dynamically updated every so often with JavaScript using the Comet technique, like how new status updates are shown on Facebook. It would save people from having to hit F5 every 5 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130082" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T01:13:06.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T01:16:14.000" Score="1" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there other ways to earn reputation other than answering and asking questions? I know you can get badges for other things, but are there other ways to get reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-03T12:10:19.660" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T12:10:19.660" Title="Are there other ways to earn reputation other than answering and asking questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="37248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37247" CreationDate="2010-01-28T01:27:09.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Association for 100, Accepting Answers for 2, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37096/who-or-what-is-this-so-user/37100#37100&quot;&gt;Alien Methods&lt;/a&gt; for hundreds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T01:27:09.620" />
  <row Id="37249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37244" CreationDate="2010-01-28T01:30:40.347" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Constant Vigilance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use the ReloadEvery add-on in Firefox to refresh the Questions page every 5 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T01:30:40.347" />
  <row Id="37250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37247" CreationDate="2010-01-28T01:35:01.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides associating your accounts, no. That's all people do here. (Rep for comments/editing answers doesn't strike me as the best idea)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T01:35:01.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37231" CreationDate="2010-01-28T02:03:11.657" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1, couldn't agree more!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's white-list will force new search engines to partly impersonate google, same reason for which all browsers impersonate mozilla (that died decades ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very interesting and hilarious article on the matter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And then Google built Chrome, and&#xA;  Chrome used Webkit, and it was like&#xA;  Safari, and wanted pages built for&#xA;  Safari, and so pretended to be Safari.&#xA;  And thus Chrome used WebKit, and&#xA;  pretended to be Safari, and WebKit&#xA;  pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML&#xA;  pretended to be Gecko, and all&#xA;  browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and&#xA;  Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0&#xA;  (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)&#xA;  AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko)&#xA;  Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and&#xA;  the user agent string was a complete&#xA;  mess, and near useless, and everyone&#xA;  pretended to be everyone else, and&#xA;  confusion abounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T02:03:11.657" />
  <row Id="37255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37228" CreationDate="2010-01-28T02:43:32.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are ypu using the stable or the developer build? The developer builds are known to cause exactly this (and other) problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T02:43:32.370" />
  <row Id="37256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37244" CreationDate="2010-01-28T02:50:24.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also set up an RSS feed for your favourite tags: see &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Searching and RSS&quot; in the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T02:50:24.443" />
  <row Id="37258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37228" CreationDate="2010-01-28T03:49:54.093" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try pasting it in, rather than typing it in. That &quot;fixed&quot; it for me on Safari (yes, I had this problem too, on a non-chrome browser!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T03:49:54.093" />
  <row Id="37259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37244" CreationDate="2010-01-28T04:13:08.953" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a little auto-update webservice for a while until I got my servers IP banned... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Side note: would such a service that fetches new questions on favourite tags be a good or a bad thing? It would mean a lot of requests to the SO server, but a lot more request against my server, as long as there are at least two users connected)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T04:13:08.953" />
  <row Id="37260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37281" CreationDate="2010-01-28T04:26:47.160" Score="15" ViewCount="3678" Body="&lt;p&gt;Come on, let's have some fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0?s=80&amp;amp;d=monsterid&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0?s=80&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to say more ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently I do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user has a custom avatar, such as me, then nothing will change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user doesn't have a custom avatar then an unique one will be displayed based on the md5 of the user's email. But, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;several styles you can choose from&lt;/a&gt;. The one we use is called &lt;code&gt;identicon&lt;/code&gt;; it's the most professional of all the ones available. But there are more themes, such as &lt;code&gt;monsterid&lt;/code&gt; (see example above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They as well are for all intent and purposes unique, different for each email. Let's play around with the hash and get more examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/da5b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0aa?s=80&amp;amp;d=monsterid&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/db4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0?s=80&amp;amp;d=monsterid&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ca4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0?s=80&amp;amp;d=monsterid&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ba4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0?s=80&amp;amp;d=monsterid&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/aa4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0?s=80&amp;amp;d=monsterid&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T07:26:02.967" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T03:33:50.513" Title="Change gravatar type to &quot;monsterid&quot; for meta only" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="37261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T05:25:20.123" Score="3" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12334/how-to-log-in-to-so-using-a-google-apps-account&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about using Google Apps to login to stackoverflow, etc.   It seems there is a problem with the release of DotNetOpenAuth in use right now.  I see the release of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohloh.net/p/dotnetopenauth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DotNetOpenAuth&lt;/a&gt; 3.4 is supposed to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/dotnetopenid/msg/dcec52038450e8f7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;better support for Google Apps&lt;/a&gt;, and it is now available.  Will the various stack properties be using version 3.4 soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142393" LastActivityDate="2010-07-27T10:08:37.857" Title="Google Apps and DotNetOpenAuth 3.4" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;dotnetopenauth&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37228" CreationDate="2010-01-28T06:11:43.413" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens to me after I tried to paste something in. The text is grey. I had to delete it to start typing again. After I try to submit..it gives me the error your reporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not using a dev build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T06:11:43.413" />
  <row Id="37271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1326" CreationDate="2010-01-28T06:46:41.733" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I haven't really seen mentioned is how this waters down the value of SO rep &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of SO.  I've seen Joel in person touting the new careers site by noting that you can find ace programmers with thousands of SO rep, so they must be great, right?  Um, it depends.  It could mean they've asked 2 or 3 questions about &quot;favorite programmer joke&quot; or &quot;funniest code comment&quot; that everyone loves to upvote (or, more likely, 200 questions on how to set breakpoints).  Yes, we're programmers, and we loves us some geek humor, but that certainly doesn't qualify the person asking as an expert developer.  I've asked 4 questions (100% accept rate) and answered 90+ with lots of accepts and upvotes, yet I continually run into people with much higher reps who have contributed no meaningful answers.  That brings down the value of reps in general.  If I was an employer searching the careers site, I'd want to &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; that rep points = capability/experience without having to research answer history for each person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note that I do believe (counter to some arguments in this answer thread) in the free-market's ability to set the value of the &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt; themselves -- that's fine.  I just think question value and member rep should be two completely, unrelated things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142496" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T06:46:41.733" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37231" CreationDate="2010-01-28T06:47:30.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;What IS your fascination with my forbidden closet of mysteries?&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/5nWvz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://is.gd/5nWvz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that checking the user-agent wasn't enough. I added a reverse DNS check as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T06:47:30.873" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13085" CreationDate="2010-01-28T06:48:00.030" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's ok. Some people aren't very good at asking questions. For example, Jon Skeet has been here twice as long as you have but he's asked approximately the same number of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T06:48:00.030" />
  <row Id="37274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37261" CreationDate="2010-01-28T06:52:16.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;We don't use DotNetOpenAuth, we use the older DotNetOpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We may switch at some point, but we had some stability concerns -- we're by far the largest consumer of that library, and we want it to be WELL tested before updating.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now use DotNetOpenAuth, so if the library supports it, we should too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T07:46:32.837" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T07:46:32.837" />
  <row Id="37275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37260" CreationDate="2010-01-28T06:53:28.113" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;MonsterIds are really, really ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T06:53:28.113" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37260" CreationDate="2010-01-28T07:19:24.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They look much better in this page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T07:19:24.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37235" CreationDate="2010-01-28T07:22:39.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deleted Koper's answer because it was 100% incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T07:22:39.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37282" CreationDate="2010-01-28T07:51:19.833" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Stack Overflow use CSS sprites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, could someone post the image with CSS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T09:20:58.107" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T09:20:58.107" Title="Does Stack Overflow use CSS sprites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37260" CreationDate="2010-01-28T07:54:47.373" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a Greasemonkey script even I can &quot;write&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           monstify&#xA;// @namespace      stackoverflow&#xA;// @description    Use monsterid instead of identicon&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @author         Benjamin Dumke&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;/* most of this code is stolen^H^H^H^H^H^Hadapted from Kip&#xA;   Robinson's accept rate details script at&#xA;   http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/62156 */&#xA;&#xA;(function() {&#xA;&#xA;  //boilerplate greasemonkey to wait until jQuery is defined...&#xA;  function GM_wait()&#xA;  {&#xA;    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined')&#xA;      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);&#xA;    else&#xA;      unsafeWindow.jQuery(function() { letsJQuery(unsafeWindow.jQuery); });&#xA;  }&#xA;  GM_wait();&#xA;&#xA;  function letsJQuery($)&#xA;  {&#xA;  $(&quot;img&quot;).each(function(){&#xA;     $(this).attr(&quot;src&quot;, $(this).attr(&quot;src&quot;).replace(/d=identicon/, &quot;d=monsterid&quot;));&#xA;  });&#xA; }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does the replacing on &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the Trilogy Sites, but you know how to change it to your needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible improvements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only replace gravatar images that are really user images&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do it without jquery so you can do it earlier (so the original images don't appear briefly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make the monsters prettier -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37260/change-gravatar-type-to-monsterid-for-meta-only/37275#37275&quot;&gt;the Dood&lt;/a&gt; isn't totally wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to refine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T11:57:35.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T11:57:35.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37280" CreationDate="2010-01-28T08:10:51.627" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/all.css?v=6184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/Img/wmd-buttons.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T08:10:51.627" />
  <row Id="37283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37280" CreationDate="2010-01-28T09:06:50.430" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3acExt5Dh8PqkafM%3ahttp://www.personal-development.info/blog/gremlin.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sprite&quot;&gt;&#xA;There are also sprites using stack overflow. I saw this one this morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T09:06:50.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37315" CreationDate="2010-01-28T10:18:31.193" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2151969/in-c-how-do-i-convert-an-array-of-bytes-into-a-string-of-hex-numbers&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one question was asked and get some answers; later, someone found that's a duplicate question, and voted to close. That questions followed it's natural course and OP picked some answer as correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we vote to close that question as exact duplicate anyways, to get those questions merged in future? Or should we just leave it and save closing votes for other questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T16:49:06.620" Title="Should we vote to close a duplicate question with accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37244" CreationDate="2010-01-28T10:40:38.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://code.google.com/p/open-so-frontend/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is the application which I really needed. Thanks to the developer who made a simple application using Java Swing :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141944" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-11T11:41:24.200" LastActivityDate="2010-08-11T11:41:24.200" />
  <row Id="37286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37284" CreationDate="2010-01-28T11:09:43.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on when the answer was accepted. I have seen many users simply ignore the closed status and select an answer anyway, most likely because they want to keep their accept rate high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most scenarios answers on duplicate questions are duplicates in themselves. Unless there is a small amount of answer overlap, merging will end up making a bigger mess of the question. This is just one of the factors looked at before merging questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, multiple ways of asking a question is important as far as Google is concerned, since it will direct users to the correct question for different search keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T11:09:43.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T12:27:57.287" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a bug when submitting a form using Chrome 3.0.195.38.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1. Entered Title&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2. Entered Information&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3. Entered Tags&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At this point used developer console to &quot;document.getElementById('tagnames')&quot; response was &quot;virtual-machines windows-server-2003 msvirtualserver&quot; matching what I typed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4. Pushed &quot;Post Your Question&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Used Fiddler to verify what was posted to the server and the variable tagnames was null.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;End result was the form fails to post since no tags were included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142394" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T13:56:11.153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T13:56:11.153" ClosedDate="2010-01-28T17:40:56.917" Title="Chrome form submittal bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;form-submit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37288" CreationDate="2010-01-28T12:28:30.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, the bug was fixed last night!  Thanks guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142394" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T12:28:30.237" />
  <row Id="37292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T13:30:49.763" Score="10" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is migrated to another site sometimes the comments no longer make sense.  While you can delete the comments on the question in the new forum, you aren't able to do so on the original.  Making new comments on the question is obviously not appropriate, but there are times when cleaning up comments (much like the answers are deleted on the original) does make sense.  Automatically deleting them is probably not appropriate but once the question has been migrated, I should still be able to manually delete comments that now are out of context or serve no purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a huge priority for me, but if it's an easy fix -- like, just don't mark the comment as not being able to be deleted -- then I think it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just hit this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/114207/google-marks-seemingly-perfect-emails-as-spam-closed&quot;&gt;this Super User question&lt;/a&gt;, so I was going to post a question when it suggested this one as a duplicate. So, I thought I'd edit this one to bump it onto the front page again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T18:37:36.090" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T18:37:36.090" Title="Allow deleting comments on migrated questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37297" CreationDate="2010-01-28T13:36:11.047" Score="1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen users page it is ordered by Top reputated users... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything like MVP for Stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If so what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suggestion:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Diamond Badge for MVP would be my suggestion..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="138350" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T13:46:13.690" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T14:42:05.427" Title="Is there anything like MVP[Diamond Badge] for Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="37294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T13:27:36.533" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a journey toward glorious ascending enlightenment in C++, I have sailed my schooner along the river that is Meyer's &lt;em&gt;Effective C++&lt;/em&gt;. Now, at the banks of rest and reflection, my mind is plump with the pressure of escaping questions. Questions which I must ask before the energetic interrogative phrasing destroys my skull as a melon would explode when injected with too much alcohol via syringe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some concern the language of C++ itself. While others refer to the actual text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask of thee, fellow programmers, you great minds, you tall glasses of water, on your advice on the best cause and course to broach these subjects on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might say to post the questions separately. Others may hint at grouping them, making use of Meyer's uncanny point numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should one also assume that others have indeed read this book? Would, or could (or &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt;), one use it to establish the setting on which one's question is based? Or do I provide excerpts to go with my questions for those in the crowd that may not have come across this world-shattering publication?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T13:52:42.100" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T13:58:45.190" Title="Questions on questions stemming from a read of Effective C++" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37294" CreationDate="2010-01-28T13:52:49.213" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make each question individually. One&#xA;question per question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As you type, check the suggestions&#xA;for duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put the question in your own words.&#xA;Mention the source of your&#xA;questionings at the end of each post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don't assume that others have read this book. You'd be surprised at home many people have not read the same books as you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T13:58:45.190" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T13:58:45.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37293" CreationDate="2010-01-28T13:53:22.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exactly how would this work? What would such an MVP have to do and what does he or she have to offer SO that is not already there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between badges, reputation and chasing Jon Skeet, I think there is more then enough rewards on SO already. I am not entirely sure what an SO MVP badge or even an SO MVP will bring to the table?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T13:53:22.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37293" CreationDate="2010-01-28T14:00:07.323" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO|SF|SU there are three ways of recognizing users (borrowing your bullets).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation, which is pointed out on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;users page&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is already an indicator of who is the Most Valuable Programmer &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(we call him &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;, though &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt; is in pursuit)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges, which reward special actions, like actually voting on things, and is seen on the aptly named &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderators, users who have pretty much full control on the site.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We elect those to help run the site.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These are the users who have the diamond after their name, Like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/23354/marc-gravell&quot;&gt;Marc Gravell&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/132480/diago&quot;&gt;Diago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What more do we need?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T14:00:07.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37225" CreationDate="2010-01-28T14:25:38.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll disagree with Pollyanna who says (at the time I'm posting this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No more than actually being a student hurts your chances. As soon as they read your CV they'll find your work experience and schooling experience anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but I say, but if it wasn't there they'd &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to read your CV to find out.  If they have a lot of resumes to look at and they're looking for easy ways to weed people out, having something like &quot;Student&quot; catch their eye before they've read the CV is probably not a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T14:25:38.213" />
  <row Id="37301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37293" CreationDate="2010-01-28T14:32:11.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be a diamond badge because the diamond (♦) is already used to denote the few &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; moderators appointed by the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, since 10K is the highest level you can &lt;em&gt;earn&lt;/em&gt; on the system, it might be a nice convention to have their flair indicate that plateau. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not suggesting adding special abilities, MVP, a new badge, nor anything like that. Maybe just an unobtrusive indicator like a small text (&quot;10K&quot;) placed after the username. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/rcartaino/folders/Jing/media/09be3724-2299-4520-ac9f-4ca7e6a731e5/2010-01-28_0926.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T14:42:05.427" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T14:42:05.427" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37303" CreationDate="2010-01-28T14:44:22.833" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should people flag posts that are not programming related, or just add a comment saying such?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big red box and text &quot;flag with care&quot; makes me question whether or not this is appropriate use of flags.  I feel like if this is important enough to flag perhaps a fourth option should be in the list specifically for this since it'd be a common reason for flagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:10:25.047" Title="Should we flag questions that are not programming related?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;not-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37302" CreationDate="2010-01-28T14:46:26.523" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you acquire 3,000 rep, you will be able to vote to close questions as &quot;Not Programming Related.&quot; There are plenty of users with sufficient rep to close-vote these types of posts, so please don't flag them for moderator attention. If you currently do not have the power to close-vote, work really hard to acquire it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T14:46:26.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37302" CreationDate="2010-01-28T14:54:55.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that &quot;flagging&quot; questions for close-able reasons is the responsibility of +3,000-rep users (i.e. vote to close).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flagging system isn't really designed to give you voice in areas where you have not earned the experience/reputation. &lt;strong&gt;Flagging is designed to bring quick attention to &lt;em&gt;egregious&lt;/em&gt; problems that require special/expedient consideration of a moderator.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not programming related&quot; doesn't fit that criteria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T14:54:55.740" />
  <row Id="37306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37225" CreationDate="2010-01-28T15:09:02.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea was that professionals (i.e., non-students) would be encouraged to pay for a membership to prove they're serious about posting their CV online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is a 10-year pro and they have &quot;student&quot; on their CV, that doesn't look too good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:09:02.570" />
  <row Id="37307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37302" CreationDate="2010-01-28T15:10:25.047" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever you do, please, please, please do not &lt;strong&gt;tag&lt;/strong&gt; it as &quot;not-programming-related&quot;. This misuse of the tag system is endemic, and it drives me nuts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:10:25.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37311" CreationDate="2010-01-28T15:21:25.187" Score="10" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it all right to paste a long bit of source code and ask the community to find the bug in it? (Naturally also describing what is wrong with as well as possible and including any compiler errors etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a thing that I am working on in a new language and I am unsure if Stack Overflow is intended for requests like &quot;here is my code, please figure out what's wrong with it&quot;. My code will not compile and I cannot tell from the error messages and the documentation what I'm doing wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Stack Overflow the right place to go in a situation like this, or would someone stuck like me have to go narrow it down and then come back to ask a more specific question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T16:04:31.580" LastActivityDate="2011-02-26T19:18:45.773" Title="Does SO discourage questions like &quot;this is my code, please find the bug&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37308" CreationDate="2010-01-28T15:33:55.100" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does SO discourage discourage questions like “this is my code, please find the bug”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it alright to paste a &lt;strong&gt;long*&lt;/strong&gt; bit of source code and ask the community to find the bug in it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;* Emphasis mine&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have a thing that I am working on in a new language and I am unsure if Stack Overflow is intended for requests like &quot;here is my code, please figure out what's wrong with it&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My code will not compile and I cannot tell from the error messages and the documentation what I'm doing wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Create the smallest example you can replicating the error. Don't just post a big source file and expect to get consulting for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is Stack Overflow the right place to go in a situation like this, or would someone stuck like me have to go narrow it down and then come back to ask a more specific question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, in SO pleads for help on specific problems is not discouraged, but don't just dump a source file and ask &quot;I get error. Plz help.&quot; as you'll get closed as fast as you can say &quot;Not a real question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you show that you made due diligence and have put some effort in figuring out the problem yourself, provide enough information, while still keeping it short, the comunity will try and help you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:33:55.100" />
  <row Id="37311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37308" CreationDate="2010-01-28T15:37:15.973" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, it's a bad idea to paste in a big block of code like that. Many people on Stack Overflow won't really bother giving it more than a cursory glance. Sometimes you'll get lucky and someone will be able to take a look and tell you the problem at a glance, but that doesn't always happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of questions also aren't as valuable to other programmers who might be searching for a similar problem. Because the line with the error will be buried deep within the question with lots of extraneous material, it will be hard for someone else searching for the same problem to tell if your question is relevant to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good technique for getting better answers, and even solving your problem yourself, is to try and isolate the problem by removing more and more code until you have a minimal example that gets the same error. In the process of doing this, you may even discover the problem yourself (once you've isolated it down, it sometimes becomes apparent immediately what the problem is). Even if you don't, you'll now have a short example, that experts in the language in question may be able to eyeball and see the problem, or at least will be able to download it, try the code themselves, and perhaps isolate the problem that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd recommend trying to stay away from big blocks of code with &quot;please find the bug&quot; attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:37:15.973" />
  <row Id="37313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37308" CreationDate="2010-01-28T15:39:13.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really have no clue what the problem is in your code, you need to learn good debugging techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main technique applicable to your situation is to narrow the error down.  In many situations the easiest way to do that is to comment out sections of code until the error no longer occurs.  Then uncomment the last section you 'removed' and start commenting out lines of code in that section until the error goes away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the compiler reports an error, and a line number, you can't be certain that the problem actually occurs on that line, only that the compiler detects there's a problem once it got to that line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now comment out all the other code that's not necessary to make the error happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever is left is hopefully a very short piece of code that demonstrates the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are still stumped, post that small snippet of code, the error you're getting, and a short blurb explaining what you've done so people don't think you're just asking for a handout with no effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you still need help, search SO for debugging techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T15:46:20.200" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T15:46:20.200" />
  <row Id="37314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2010-01-28T16:01:01.837" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to assert, 'no.' My reason is as follows. I continually observe sympathy voting. Some truly awful question will get a downvote or two. Moments later, it's back to 0. The user is net positive for rep, reinforcing mediocre questions. The question is back to 0 or even above, giving it a rating it does not deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offer an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2155791/what-pattern-does-log4-j-use&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T16:01:01.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37284" CreationDate="2010-01-28T16:49:06.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes we should. Consistently. So that we have a single canonical version of each question, and a tree of pointer leading to it if you find a duplicate first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more delicate questions are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the duplicates be merged?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the duplicate be deleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that the answer to both of those questions is &quot;No.&quot; because the duplicate has a title that will search differently that the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T16:49:06.620" />
  <row Id="37317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T16:53:43.927" Score="4" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Takeaway: If removed negative-rep answers don't get ignored during re-calcs, why should removed positive-rep answers?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the last year I've &quot;contributed&quot; a great amount of answers to questions - some good, some not so good. Some of the no-so-good answers were downvoted, resulting in a negative rep. And some were upvoted a couple times, for their helpfulness, but ultimately skirted for much better answers provided by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to go through and remove older &quot;noise&quot; that I've contributed. If I remove these older answers which have an upvote or two, do I lose that acquired rep during  a recalc? Or do I get to keep my rep gained by helpful (but not accepted) answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T17:21:48.290" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T19:13:18.660" Title="Clean-ups and recalcs" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37317" CreationDate="2010-01-28T16:55:31.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I remove these older answers which have an upvote or two, do I lose that acquired rep during a recalc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you lose that rep.  Deleted questions and answers are not counted in a rep-recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T16:55:31.177" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37340" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:17:47.037" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the primary goals is for search engines to index content from the trilogy sites and provide high-ranking search results.  Is there anything outside of general SEO practices that can be done within the confines of the trilogy UI to help improve search results?  Or, in other words, are there ways to structure questions and answers such that meld with SEO practices?  Any caveats to Markdown that could hurt rankings?  Obviously using relevant keywords and descriptive phrasing so the index has more to go on, but what else can help or hurt the index rankings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:27:31.320" Title="How to best structure content for high index rankings?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;seo&gt;&lt;search-indexing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37319" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:23:45.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if you noticed this or not, but Google already handles the Trilogy pretty well. I can honestly say that almost any time I Google a programming question, the Trilogy is first page, and often top listing -- assuming said question was already asked here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it's possible for us to screw up our Markdown so badly that we hurt a given question's indexing. For example, overuse of images and underuse of text would definitely cause some issues. But by the time the answers get in and indexed, even that will likely be low-impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T17:23:45.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37319" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:24:10.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be interesting to do a keyword analysis on top google searches where we would like to appear, and then incorporate such verbage in our questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T17:24:10.547" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37317" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:41:28.243" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Removed negative-rep answers do get ignored during a rep recalc.  It's rare, but I've seen people gain reputation as a result of a recalc.  Most often, though, the losses due to other (positively-voted) questions and answers being deleted outweigh the smaller gains from the deleted negatively-voted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T17:41:28.243" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:41:32.907" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36289/how-can-i-link-accounts&quot;&gt;How can I link accounts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to Link accounts between Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142517" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T17:41:32.907" ClosedDate="2010-01-28T17:45:10.480" Title="How to Link accounts between Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;description&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69003" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:49:50.983" Score="8" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2167/increase-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;, and was actioned in a way that I can't help but feel is just wrong. This is why I've created a new question, given that the previous one has the 'status completed' tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a better system for handling captcha throttle thresholds on users. Currently, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some reductions in CAPTCHA throttle&#xA;  thresholds, if you have &gt; 10k rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;for edits -- reduced by two-thirds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;for post submission times --&#xA;  min seconds&#xA;  reduced by one half, max minutes&#xA;  increased by 2x&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is that 10k reputation is &lt;strong&gt;waaaaay&lt;/strong&gt; too high. As has been suggested, there should be some form of scaling involved in the threshold, rather than this system where editing/re-editing your posts confronts you with those damned loveable robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would like to ask that you start scaling back the threshold when the user hits something lower, say 500, or 1000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131808" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-30T21:43:25.390" LastActivityDate="2010-10-30T21:43:25.390" Title="Look again at increasing the captcha threshold for post editing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37317" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:53:40.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's much use in deleting your low vote answers. First, &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; found them useful enough to upvote them. Second, the vote system itself one major way in which SO turns the volume down on noise. If there are plenty of higher-voted answers, they will appear above yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T17:53:40.397" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37324" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:58:15.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it really a big deal to hit the captcha occasionally? It's like a surprise side encounter while on the main story mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T17:58:15.893" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37748" CreationDate="2010-01-28T17:58:41.853" Score="233" ViewCount="31447" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37260/change-gravatar-type-to-monsterid-for-meta-only/#comment-81028&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt;, I have started building a unicorn avatar maker. It's still quite ugly, and the results aren't different enough yet, but this is what it looks like so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1795/omgunicorns1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Question list&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8639/omgunicorns2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel's profile&lt;/a&gt; (removed the images from here to make this thing a little shorter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just way too stupid, or should I go on? If so, any suggestions? I'm thinking of things like backgrounds etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Updates&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update 2010/01/30: Version 0.2.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now prettier and with legs, rainbows, and stuff. Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Æther: &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/43722cb1e955874a8eb721e9dfe101d1?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; Jeff Atwood: &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/51d623f33f8b83095db84ff35e15dbe8?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; Troggy: &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/530e6ec931a34c5d3c53926bd2b736bc?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update 2010/01/31: Still version 0.2, the images are (almost) unchanged.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now its &lt;strong&gt;on the App Engine for everyone&lt;/strong&gt;, so go ahead pounding my quota:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/HASH?s=32&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Replace HASH&lt;/strong&gt; by the md5 hash that gets given to gravatar (or any hexadecimal number, really). Don't just copy &amp;amp; paste the above into your browser. I thought this was clear, but looking at the access logs, it looks like I have to explain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;?s=32&lt;/code&gt; parameter can be omitted. The only legal values are 32 and 128; defaults to 32. Other parameters are ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37260/change-gravatar-type-to-monsterid-for-meta-only/37281#37281&quot;&gt;this greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; and change the substitution line to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(this).attr(&quot;src&quot;, $(this).attr(&quot;src&quot;).replace(/www\.gravatar\.com/, &quot;unicornify.appspot.com&quot;));&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you'll see meta the way it has been looking to me for the past days: Full of unicorns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just want to replace the identicons, i.e. those users that don't have their own gravatar set up, use this instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$(this).attr(&quot;src&quot;, $(this).attr(&quot;src&quot;).replace(/(www\.gravatar\.com\/avatar\/)([a-z0-9]*)\?s=(\d+)&amp;amp;d=identicon(.*)$/, &quot;$1$2?s=$3&amp;amp;d=http%3A%2F%2Funicornify.appspot.com%2Favatar%2F$2%3fs%3d$3$4&quot;));&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you just want to see it once, without any greasy monkeys: Paste this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:(function(){$(&quot;img&quot;).attr(&quot;src&quot;, function(){return this.src.replace(/www\.gravatar\.com/, &quot;unicornify.appspot.com&quot;)})})()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into your location bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update 2010/02/14: Version 0.4&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be deploying a new version later today. Some of you have showcased your own unicorn avatar below using a direct link to &lt;code&gt;unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/...&lt;/code&gt;. These images will then show the updated version. If you want to preserve the historical record by keeping the old version, you'll have to host the image somewhere else, or at least change the image URL. The old ones will be available by passing an additional parameter &lt;code&gt;v&lt;/code&gt; with the value &lt;code&gt;3&lt;/code&gt;, i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/HASH?s=32&amp;v=3&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No new old-version images will be created, but the previously created ones will still be available for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the unicorns have their own website by now, this is probably the last update I'll be posting on this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update 2010/04/01&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff finally rolled out the Unicorn avatars for us all to enjoy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-15T01:04:51.293" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T13:57:47.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" Title="My God—it's full of unicorns!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;unicorns&gt;&lt;april-fools&gt;" AnswerCount="42" CommentCount="60" FavoriteCount="87" />
  <row Id="37329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:03:39.750" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;iloveyouiloveyouiloveyouiloveyou&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/c60d994d29c63ea5d83702924b935461?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;jon b unicorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T23:17:32.917" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:17:32.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:10:05.880" Score="4" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2152108/us-government-apis&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; closed as &quot;not programming related&quot;.  The question boils down to, &quot;What good APIs are available for accessing information related to politics in the US?&quot; Commenters speculated that perhaps web-based APIs were not considered fair game.  This doesn't seem right to me, since there are tons of questions about the Google Translate API, Yahoo Query API, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2055510/little-known-or-useful-web-services-we-all-should-know-about/2055535#2055535&quot;&gt;APIs in general&lt;/a&gt;, etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it an issue of &quot;is there an X to do Y&quot;, as opposed to &quot;how do I use this specific X to do Y&quot;, not being allowed generally on the site?  Or is it that this sort of question ought to be community wiki?  Or something else entirely?  None of the close voters seem to have left comments, so any insights are appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, it's yet another why-was-my-question-closed topic!  In my defense, I'm not the only one confused, commenters on the topic also seem to be stymied.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139945" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:17:52.977" Title="Is-there-an-x-for-y questions permissible?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="37331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37335" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:13:24.890" Score="5" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/jonskeet/status/8317560066&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tweet from Jon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the automated jerk detector also double as an automated nice-guy detector?  I was under the impression it just blew out serial-downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What all is caught by the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:23:35.613" Title="Are serial upvotes detected?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;tactical-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37330" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:13:41.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't &lt;strong&gt;specifically&lt;/strong&gt; programming related because of the juxtaposition of API's and something not programming related&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:13:41.833" />
  <row Id="37333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37330" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:14:41.160" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect people were turned off by the length of your question. You only really need that last paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does anyone know any good APIs for&#xA;  obtaining information on the status of&#xA;  American legislation, legislators&#xA;  (such as voting histories), agencies&#xA;  and/or upcoming elections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a fair game programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:14:41.160" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37331" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:16:02.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it covers most all unusually patterned voting cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T18:23:35.613" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:23:35.613" />
  <row Id="37335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37331" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:16:57.503" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should detect serial upvotes as well, to help prevent sock puppet accounts upvoting each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vote Fraud and You&lt;/a&gt;, apparently serial upvoting is actually a bigger problem than serial downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:16:57.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37350" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:17:05.223" Score="8" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do I see this huge gap at the bottom of most pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Xb25fTcjIRQ/S2HUc-_PxpI/AAAAAAAAAI0/aqbESwkN4FA/s800/stupid.PNG&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T20:25:00.470" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T20:48:14.407" Title="Empty Space at the Bottom of the Page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;whitespace&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28967" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:17:20.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is very annoying, as I'm used to it working one way in the post editor and often fail to remember the extra spacing needed for comment formatting. Here's a comment just posted this morning - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2153526/comments&quot;&gt;tremble at the ugliness&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Ruddy: I don't think so... &lt;code&gt;pBlock&lt;/code&gt; is of type &lt;code&gt;TCHAR**&lt;/code&gt;, so an index applied to &lt;code&gt;(*bBlock)&lt;/code&gt; will be an index into an array of `TCHAR`s. Note that if it was actually a byte array, you'd need to cast it to a &lt;code&gt;TCHAR&lt;/code&gt; array first anyway in order to set a double-byte NULL terminator! @unknown: I missed this last night, but... You're `free()`ing the wrong object! See my edit... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:17:20.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37330" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:17:52.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think such questions are fair game. From the FAQ about what kind of questions are allowed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Programming questions, of course! As long as your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;written clearly and simply&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the site is for &quot;questions that can be answered&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these criteria were met with your question, and generally any kind of &quot;is there X to do Y&quot; can meet these criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marking &quot;subjective&quot; may be warranted, but often the answer is not really subjective, is it? You may talk about QUALITY of data sources, but the source either exists or it doesn't. That's pretty objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130063" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:17:52.977" />
  <row Id="37339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37331" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:21:38.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it does look for up vote patterns as well.  How do I know?  It happen to me on Super User once.  Over a pattern of a few days, tons of my questions and answers got voted up back to back.  Within a few days, all the rep gained from the week disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:21:38.937" />
  <row Id="37340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37319" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:27:31.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most influential action a user can take to encourage the search engines to link to your content to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Use a Clear, Well-Thought-Out Title.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title of a question (which becomes part of URL) carries a significant weight when it comes to search engine rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:27:31.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37343" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:40:16.317" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the &quot;Employer Views of Your CV&quot; figure does not eliminate duplicate views by the same employer, so it's not clear how many employers you've actually reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, my stats were showing 6 search hits and no views.  It then went to 7 search hits and 2 views.  Which suggests that the same employer viewed twice, otherwise how did the other one find my CV without searching?  When I declined their invitation it soon changed to 7 hits and 3 views (I'm guessing this is the same employer looking at my CV to remind themselves who I was?).  The same thing happened again yesterday.  The number of hits increased by one and the views increased by two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my suggestion is to display the number of unique employer views rather than (or as well as) the total number of views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:49:52.773" Title="&quot;Employer views&quot; is misleading, should show how many unique employers viewed the CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="37344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:40:20.153" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Needs more googly eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yay! My very own unicorn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/pollyanna_unicorn.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was disappointed earlier to find that the same wasn't done for SO, and this morning I find that you've got one up that does it dynamically!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I can see what my SO unicorn would be (since I use different avatars on SO and Meta, of course):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/51301603f62b97a6fecdeeb3a5d41eca?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd have to say that's even a bit better than my metacorn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T19:47:57.020" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:47:57.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:41:03.040" Score="8" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;Background, elaborating on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2832/details-about-the-flagging-mechanism&quot;&gt;my answer here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 3 queues of flags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment Flags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moderator Flags (where you type in the little message)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spam/Offensive (That 10K Users can see)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderator Flags&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;These flags have your name attached to them, let you write a message, and are the only ones to set off the mod-signal (the red box in the toolbar)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment Flags&lt;/strong&gt; These flags &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; show who flags an item.  It shows the # of flags a comment has, its up-vote score, the question thread, comment, author, and built-in links to clear flags and delete comment. (Personally, I never delete a comment without visiting the thread to review all comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spam/Offensive&lt;/strong&gt; I won't bother describing this in detail since most of you have 10K rep on some site, but the only difference for a mod is we can clear the flags on an item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on Meta, we get a lot of flags on comments that make absolutely no sense to me.  It's obvious there's nothing offensive about the comment.  Usually the comment is disagreeing with someone.  My assumption (which I never act on because it's unverified) is that whoever is being disagreed with is flagging the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I consider this to be abusing the system and even-moreso &lt;em&gt;bloody annoying&lt;/em&gt;.  Having to sort through a bunch of comment threads to see if something is worse than it appears in the actual comment takes time.  If someone continually flagged items with write-ins on obviously-fine items, I would tell them to stop.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is - should Moderators be able to see who flags comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand you may be concerned that, by knowing who is flagging the item, we would take sides with or against that person.  I don't have a magic potion that would prevent that, just my track record and honesty.  As Bill said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think we're all mature enough to not&#xA;  try and get retribution against&#xA;  someone for flagging it. We were all&#xA;  chosen as moderators (many of us by&#xA;  community vote) at least in part for&#xA;  this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think with the ability, we'd be able to sort out troublemakers quickly/more efficiently, and (hopefully) show users that we expect them to be more mature and not go flagging everyone who disagrees with them.  I expect it would also reduce the time it takes to wade through comment threads by seeing if it's just A &amp;amp; B butting heads again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15961/will-a-moderator-know-if-i-flag-them&quot;&gt;Related Thread - Will a moderator know if I flag them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just my take on it, from Meta.  I'm curious to see what the SO mods think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastEditorUserId="147532" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-25T19:20:06.507" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T19:20:06.507" Title="Should moderators be able to see who flags an item?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:42:44.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As bmargulies mentioned, some truly worthless questions are being voted on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I refuse to expend 2 rep to downvote when it'll back up soon after&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A prime example of vote up idiocy... &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2187348/how-many-bytes-in-a-32bit-integer&quot;&gt;How many bytes in a 32bit integer?&lt;/a&gt; ...5 down and now 4 up&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastEditorUserId="27535" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T20:24:43.007" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T20:24:43.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:45:25.823" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need more rainbows and sparkles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/fc3225dc3119500fcbf7af646a83c914?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;nathan unicorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T23:21:18.163" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:21:18.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="37348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37343" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:49:52.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a situation where you may want to install a tracking bug yourself.  The service I use is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trackmycv.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.trackmycv.com&lt;/a&gt; and I've installed two tracking bugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One goes very near the top of &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/adamdavis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my CV&lt;/a&gt;'s Personal Statement, and one goes near the bottom of the personal statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A shortened version of the personal statement is shown on search results, and the full version is shown if they view my CV.  So an employer search hit will result in a count in the shortened personal summary image, while an employer view will hit both the short and full images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then find out if it's likely the same employer searches based on the results.  Unfortunately the service I note above doesn't give a great deal of statistics or information (even a raw log of IPs would be nice...) but there are many image based tracking services that can be used in a similar manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:49:52.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:53:33.967" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Needs more legs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Behold, legs on my unicorn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicorn.xn---wie-geek-p9a.de/0.2/128/44adec8d6f10bfc9c0219015a89eca61.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My unicorn appears to have anger issues with rainbows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132145" LastEditorUserId="132145" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T06:36:53.510" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T06:36:53.510" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37336" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:53:51.953" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a canvas for you to draw things you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, you can do whatever you want with this blank area here. Like maybe a spider. Yeah, a spider is cool. Then you can maybe add a solar system or something. This one needs a moon. And this one here needs green rings. Green rings make the planet look more professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're looking good, orbiting that spider. But something is missing. It needs something red in there. Like, a red square. Yeah. A red square with a blue triangle on top. That looks kinda like a house. Houses suck. Screw that. Uhh. Let's see. Yeah, that works. It looks like a highway down there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need a train on this thing. Trains are cool. Especially ones with big puffs of steam coming out the front. I have no idea how to draw trains. I think they look something like this. Yeah, that works. Now it needs a conductor. I hope he doesn't get electrocuted. Maybe he's a semiconductor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of semiconductors, the spider needs to be powered somehow otherwise he'll go out. Let's hook him up. Cool. He's fully charged and ready to go now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just gotta sign it and it's done!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/stupid2.png&quot; alt=&quot;YEAH SPIDERS&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA; &#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T20:48:14.407" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T20:48:14.407" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="37351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37336" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:55:47.503" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have ignored tags.  That's where they were.  All questions get loaded, then the ignored tags get hidden.  But the space doesn't go away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:55:47.503" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:56:46.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moderators have a tough enough job as it is.  If they are overburdened because some people are using the flagging system inappropriately, then we should let them see who it is, and reprimand them for abusing the limited time moderators have to help keep this place reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, let moderators see who is flagging comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:56:46.797" />
  <row Id="37353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37317" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:57:31.773" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody learns in a different way.  By removing alternately-worded answers, you remove your contribution from the set of possible information that might help somebody understand a topic that they may not understand from the original answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for much the same reason that we close - and do not delete - similarly worded but identical questions - it may be the words in &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer that lead somone to the site from a search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130047" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T18:57:31.773" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2010-01-28T18:58:00.693" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if you just &lt;em&gt;ignore them&lt;/em&gt;? I mean, &lt;em&gt;one flag&lt;/em&gt; doesn't really do much on its own, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can understand you may be concerned that, by knowing who is flagging the item, we would take sides with or against that person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I'm concerned that you'd discourage them from flagging and they'd instead step up their arguing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If someone continually flagged items with write-ins on obviously-fine items, I would tell them to stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially here on Meta, flagging comments has traditionally been &lt;em&gt;encouraged&lt;/em&gt;: both for offensive language or inappropriate remarks, as well as for pointless or unnecessary comments, including things like &lt;em&gt;&quot;+1 I agree right on&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;should be CW&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;google it&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This is all very subjective of course - most people probably aren't bothered by it at all, but a handful of annoyed users can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37369/add-blue-highlighted-number-to-featured-tab-on-questions-page&quot;&gt;raise a big stink&lt;/a&gt; if they decide to confront those posting comments they don't like. Flagging can be cathartic for them, while keeping the noise down for the rest of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry flags annoy you, but honestly I'd rather you're annoyed by invisible flags than &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; is annoyed by visible comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-25T19:17:20.443" LastActivityDate="2011-06-25T19:17:20.443" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="37356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37358" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:05:24.453" Score="-6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update: the current amount of downvotes is enough to understand the suggestion is not welcome. No need to go further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=spring&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;the spring tag&lt;/a&gt;, for example - skaffman is the ultimate spring helper, with more than 10% of the spring questions answered, with average of 2+ upvotes. Yet, he hasn't even received a silver badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we have a logical distinction of tags, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;language tags (lots of questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;framework/tool tags (less questions)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other tags (subjective, best-practices, web-development, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest to lower the number of votes required to gain the tag badges for the second group, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;these tags don't have that much questions in them compared to the language tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it will encourage people to answer &lt;em&gt;very specific&lt;/em&gt; questions, which are rarely upvoted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to achieve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make the limits 300 and 750 for questions that have &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; below 4000 questions total&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(extra) introduce bronze tag badges (for 10-20 upvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wouldn't differentiate between the 2nd and the 3rd group, but that's no harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="141771" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T20:50:22.967" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T20:50:22.967" Title="Lower the required upvotes for badges in &quot;small&quot; (framework/tools) tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:05:57.960" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to see mine, so I can start using it right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This needs to go live on April, 1st, along with the new pink CSS background colors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4461/c658f5d2eae05b8e7cab26a.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c658f5d2eae05b8e7cab26a40106cd7c.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicorn.&amp;#252;-wie-geek.de/0.2/128/c658f5d2eae05b8e7cab26a40106cd7c.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T20:07:12.710" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:07:12.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37356" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:08:24.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The goal isn't to hand out badges (although I do agree that badges are a good aspect of the system).  The goal is to provide useful content which is obviously being achieved in your examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toward your suggestion, how do you dynamically determine what the logical distinction is?  And further, how do you apply that over on SF and SU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T19:08:24.397" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:11:40.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frankly, I consider this to be abusing the system and even-moreso bloody annoying. Having to sort through a bunch of comment threads to see if something is worse than it appears in the actual comment takes time. If someone continually flagged items with write-ins on obviously-fine items, I would tell them to stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not judge the comment on itself? If that comment is innocuous, then &lt;em&gt;may be&lt;/em&gt; the discussion is heading the wrong direction: read 2 comments back, 2 comments forward. If doing that you don't find anything troubling, leave it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging comments is too easy, and there is no downvotes for comments, which makes it likely to be abused. That being said, don't make it harder to flag. Maybe the amount of mod work needed could be diminished by providing some context when showing up on the queue(nearby comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T18:26:52.800" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T18:26:52.800" />
  <row Id="37360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37317" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:13:18.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I periodically go through and clean out my &quot;useless&quot; posts. But much like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37317/clean-ups-and-recalcs/37325#37325&quot;&gt;Jon B said&lt;/a&gt;, I don't delete low-vote answers based on that criteria. I look through the other posts and see &lt;strong&gt;if I had anything of significance to add&lt;/strong&gt; to the exchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If its all been said, I'd just as soon delete the excess noise I created. But if I had anything interesting to add, low votes or not, I would leave the post for the benefit of those who come after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T19:13:18.660" />
  <row Id="37361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:15:02.400" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a bit new to the moderator status, but here is my take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am fine with the way it is currently.  I don't mind looking through flags and seeing what people are having problems with. Moderators are there for the edge cases and usage issues. I will go in and read the comment trails and find out what the issues are.  I think overall though, I believe people like that they can flag anything they want and remain anonymous.  It is a little bit like voting in the sense of no one knows who did it, not even moderators. Flags bring light to potential problem questions/posts/comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be OK, though, if this feature did not get accepted. I would rather have too many flags, than too few and flags can always be ignored if needed. Flags are what moderators spend most of their time dealing with though as I like to leave as much question closing as possible to 3k users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-07T11:56:47.603" LastActivityDate="2010-12-07T11:56:47.603" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37356" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:21:30.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the current limits are fine. If you are truly dedicated to your &quot;small&quot; tag you'll get your rewards eventually, and you will appreciate them that much more for the hard work it took. I don't mean to brag, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=matlab&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;MATLAB tag&lt;/a&gt; has fewer than half the questions of the two tags you linked to, but I am currently 26 votes away from sweet, sweet gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Okay, maybe I mean to brag &lt;em&gt;a little&lt;/em&gt;. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T19:21:30.297" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:27:54.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like people don't want to be known by their flags, but the moderators have too many comment flags to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, it sounds like there's no reason for the moderators to even see comment flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if that's not going to change, and we're not going to 'vote' them the power to see them, then I suggest that moderators only look at comments with multiple flags (2+) rather than comments with only a single flag.  Note that comments with too many flags will get automatically deleted anyway, so the system takes care of itself.  There may not be need for moderator intervention in the majority of flags, especially if only one person found a problem with a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T19:27:54.727" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T19:58:39.347" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36610/so-server-time-sync&quot;&gt;SO server time sync?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36591/question-asked-in-future&quot;&gt;Question asked in future?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just came across a question where the timestamp was negative. See image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2156917/php-doctrine-toarray-problem&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2156917/php-doctrine-toarray-problem&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ep2up.com/uploads/1264707916.png&quot; alt=&quot;negative time&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last edit was 5 minutes ago, and the question itself more then an hour ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T19:58:39.347" ClosedDate="2010-01-28T20:01:00.060" Title="Negative timestamp on SO" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37336" CreationDate="2010-01-28T20:02:31.100" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens on Safari and Chrome when you have set certain tags to be hidden instead of dimmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does not happen on Opera, IE, Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; fixed in Safari 5 and Chrome 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T20:25:16.103" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T20:25:16.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37356" CreationDate="2010-01-28T20:29:10.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Complicated and unnecessary. I say no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;::sigh:: Still no &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/latex&quot;&gt;LaTeX&lt;/a&gt; specialists. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4161/will-robertson&quot;&gt;Will&lt;/a&gt; is banging along toward it. Go Will!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the current rate I should only need another 3-4 year to get that one, and I am OK with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T20:29:10.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-01-28T20:35:51.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;ASP.NET, WPF, WinForms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,25.35,26.49,9.07,14.79,6.63,4.69&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=asp.net%20%286398%29|wpf%20%281622%29|winforms%20%281695%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T20:44:35.913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T20:44:35.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-28T20:35:51.647" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37370" CreationDate="2010-01-28T20:38:34.573" Score="14" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Homepage view, the Featured tab shows a number in blue (on SO) of the number of featured questions.  Please add this icon to the Featured tab on the Questions page also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1329/featurehighlight2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; The main reason for this is so that I'll know if there are any featured questions without having to go to the featured tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T06:11:28.537" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T06:12:00.940" Title="Add blue highlighted number to Featured tab on Questions page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;&lt;featured-tab&gt;&lt;questions-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37369" CreationDate="2010-01-28T20:39:45.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. Meta needs to be more consistent with the other sites. If bounty questions are represented by a bluebox-number on SO, they ought to be handled the same here. Perhaps blue isn't the best color (theme-based?), but the idea should be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I just noticed that SO's Questions Page also doesn't show the number of featured posts, but it does from the front page (as does Meta). I still support the extending of this feature to the Questions Page regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-28T20:52:06.833" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T20:52:06.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2410" CreationDate="2010-01-28T23:05:42.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This also happened to me on StackOverflow when I answered my own question here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2109502&quot;&gt;Can I specify a range with the IntegerValidator attribute on a custom ConfigurationSection?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The email basically contains my own answer to this question, presumably because I've not yet marked it as accepted - I guess I should have turned off alerts for that question, but I wanted to leave it open for a while to see if anyone had any better ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have enough rep to edit the question to mark this as a bug ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33051" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T23:05:42.770" />
  <row Id="37373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T23:14:20.113" Score="3" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37096/who-or-what-is-this-so-user/37110#37110&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; with a bounty leaderboard. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the question, should the site have an area where you can see a bounty leaderboard (monthly, yearly)? Yay, nay, waffles?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-30T06:08:33.527" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T07:00:04.427" Title="Bounty Leaderboard - Do we need it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="37374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37373" CreationDate="2010-01-28T23:17:57.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's an obvious benefit to SO to having a bounty leaderboard.  The bounty questions get plenty of exposure as it is.  Sure, it's a nice bit of statistics, and some people might get a warm fuzzy feeling pretending to be Han Solo, but is the impact on SO positive, neutral, or negative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T23:17:57.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-28T23:20:58.520" Score="4" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1182/bounty-hunter-badges&quot;&gt;Bounty Hunter badges&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37373/bounty-leaderboard-do-we-need-it&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I was thinking that a Bountyhunter badge would be nice, like the tag-specific badges, 400 votes for a silver, 1000 for a gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-01-28T23:20:58.520" ClosedDate="2010-01-28T23:35:00.047" Title="Bountyhunter Badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37377" CreationDate="2010-01-29T00:14:30.607" Score="1" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys have the best, most easiest to use, simplest question and answer wall I have ever encountered, and you're pumping out new ones all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, and I'm sure many other people, would really LOVE to have this system ourselves to use on our client projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm thinking is something like &lt;a href=&quot;https://uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UserVoice&lt;/a&gt;, where you can add an &quot;Ask Question&quot; button on myClientsSite.com and it takes me to &quot;StackOverflowOpenAPI.com&quot; or something, where we can run our own micro Q/A for the client.  And then you could have an XML/JSON alternative so we could programmatically read/write questions/answers to the StackOverflow-like open hub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You guys are the most qualified on the internet to do something like this.  Is this something you're thinking about in the future???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks so much,&#xA;Lance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136662" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T00:41:09.803" Title="Can the StackOverflow Company create a Generic Question Answer Forum with an API?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37376" CreationDate="2010-01-29T00:15:31.620" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T00:15:31.620" />
  <row Id="37378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37376" CreationDate="2010-01-29T00:41:09.803" Score="-11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just use Stack Overflow, and tag them with 'other'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T00:41:09.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T01:58:33.257" Score="2" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see the community size of any Stack Exchange or Stack Overflow site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, see how many active members there are where an active member might answer or ask questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141465" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-14T12:06:28.303" LastActivityDate="2010-08-14T18:29:15.510" Title="Community size of a Stack Exchange or Stack Overflow site" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37383" CreationDate="2010-01-29T01:59:02.400" Score="7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote up a Google Chrome extension based off of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5933/greasemonkey-script-to-show-profile-reputation-and-badges-from-all-so-sites-in/&quot;&gt;the original Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using it, you can turn this:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3421/beforez.png&quot; alt=&quot;before&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;into this:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/4241/afterss.png&quot; alt=&quot;after&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cefmeggebokgopdeklmoheokhmppcpob&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Download the Google Chrome extension here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Please let me know if you run into any bugs)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version 1.3&lt;/strong&gt;: Fix for change to SOFU code (now working with revision: 2010.5.9.5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version 1.2&lt;/strong&gt;: Fixed extension after code change on SOFU&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version 1.1&lt;/strong&gt;: Initial Release&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-10T05:44:59.110" LastActivityDate="2010-05-10T05:44:59.110" Title="Google Chrome SOFU aggregator extension" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;extension&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37384" CreationDate="2010-01-29T02:10:39.047" Score="4" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened to be looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/5/organizer&quot;&gt;Organizer&lt;/a&gt; badge, and I noticed that even though the rep required to retag posts is 500, there are many people with rep lower than 500 who have the badge.  I wondered if maybe this is because they retagged their own posts, but I don't have a retag option on sites where my rep is lower.  Anyone know what causes this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a question of them losing rep after hitting 500, since one of them is down at 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: almost asked this on StackExchange instead, since I assume it applies to sites other than just StackOverflow.  Feel free to move if I made the wrong call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139945" LastEditorUserId="139945" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T04:22:43.147" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T04:22:43.147" Title="Users without sufficient rep retagging posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37381" CreationDate="2010-01-29T02:14:31.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a perfectly good question for Meta, as it applies directly to StackOverflow and the rest of the trilogy. Probably even more SO than SE because each individual Exchange site can set their own badges (I believe?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they edited their posts with different tags? You might want to take a look at the type of questions they've asked and look at the history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if they did get to 500 reputation, but decided to delete all of their questions/answers, and then got a rep recalc, they could have very little reputation with still having the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T02:14:31.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37380" CreationDate="2010-01-29T02:19:15.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to think of expanding this at some point to accomidate other sites. For instance, because most of the StackExchange sites have flair enabled, it would probably be fairly easy to allow users to add them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T02:19:15.283" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37381" CreationDate="2010-01-29T02:20:36.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did a little digging around this and found the following revision history for the single question by a user with only 3 rep, and the organizer badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1884705/revisions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1884705/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears from this history that the user did edit the question, but not the tags and that then another user edited tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like a legitimate bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131327" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T02:20:36.200" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37381" CreationDate="2010-01-29T02:40:27.930" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only 100 rep is required to edit community wiki posts, which would probably explain many of these cases. A user can also retag their own post, does that count toward the tag? If so then even a 1-rep user could get the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T02:46:10.647" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T02:46:10.647" />
  <row Id="37387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37379" CreationDate="2010-01-29T02:43:17.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anton Geraschenko has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2750/yet-another-se-sites-statistics-tool-latest-data-jan-19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;compiled some metrics&lt;/a&gt; such as number of questions, answers, users, and activity of the Trilogy sites and various StackExchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T02:43:17.317" />
  <row Id="37388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37379" CreationDate="2010-01-29T03:23:59.747" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pick an arbitrary amount of rep to decide what counts as &quot;active&quot; and then find the user page where that rep is displayed.  There are 35 users per page, so everyone above that page is &quot;active&quot;.  Say I choose 100 rep.  The page where under 100 rep occurs is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=876&quot;&gt;page 876&lt;/a&gt;, so about 30,700 active users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users?page=185&quot;&gt;page 185&lt;/a&gt;, so about 6,400 active users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moms4mom: &lt;a href=&quot;http://moms4mom.com/users?page=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;page 4&lt;/a&gt;, so about 100 active users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chiphacker: &lt;a href=&quot;http://moms4mom.com/users?page=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;page 3&lt;/a&gt;, so about 70 active users&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other metric I use is how many questions on the front page as a ratio of the oldest question on the front page.  Remember that the front page shows all post activity, answers as well as questions, so they aren't all 'new' questions.  Right now it's going to be low due to slower nighttime activity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO: 50 questions, oldest is 30 minutes old.  This gives you about 2,400 posts per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta: 50 questions, oldest is 13 hours, so about 92 posts per day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moms4mom: 50 questions, oldest is Jan 20th, so about 6 posts per day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chiphacker: 50 questions, oldest is Jan 8th, so about 2.5 posts per day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between these two metrics, I feel I can size up a new stackexchange site quickly enough to decide whether it's worth sticking around, or whether I should spend my time elsewhere until the community has either matured or died off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T03:23:59.747" />
  <row Id="37389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37381" CreationDate="2010-01-29T03:59:46.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a 5 minute edit window where you can edit your own post and it won't show up in the revisions. The OP probably edited the tags during this window and got the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T03:59:46.650" />
  <row Id="37391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37393" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:05:54.790" Score="0" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know, I know. This is a question for meta.meta.stackoverflow.com but common :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like being able to see how many up-votes / down-votes a question has by clicking between the arrows like you can on SO and other little things like that. I don't know how much work is involved though in keeping each site caught up to the others features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastEditorUserId="141620" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T16:28:46.067" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:28:46.067" ClosedDate="2010-01-29T06:00:26.063" Title="Update meta with all the features of SO" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37391" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:10:30.083" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you're not clicking hard enough. It works for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6857/circle.png&quot; alt=&quot;See?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:10:30.083" />
  <row Id="37393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37391" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:12:23.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That particular feature only works if your reputation is high enough (though I don't know what the limit is). Your rep on SO is probably much higher than on meta - I have the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:12:23.917" />
  <row Id="37394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37391" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:12:56.333" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is linked to reputation. You need a 1000 reputation points to be able to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the reputation table on the FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:12:56.333" />
  <row Id="37395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37396" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:26:16.490" Score="3" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;This gives an idea from 2008. I'm curious to see how many orders of magnitude it's changed since:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9822/age-distribution-of-stackoverflow-users&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9822/age-distribution-of-stackoverflow-users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:52:34.337" Title="How many users does Stack Overflow currently have?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37395" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:29:27.170" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The newest user id in the meta database is approximately &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users?tab=newest&quot;&gt;142539&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For SO the id is currently around &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=newest&quot;&gt;261572&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I very rough estimate, but at least that many have registered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="94928" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T05:35:40.087" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:35:40.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37399" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:38:56.770" Score="1" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed you can be notified of questions that you own, but you can't really be notified when other interesting questions are asked. I know you can star a question, but that's sort of manual work (which us programmers tend to find a way to automate :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:47:18.873" Title="Notify me when somebody elses question is answered (If I check a box on their question)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37397" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:43:57.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each question has its own RSS feed for you to track answers to. It's in the form:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/&lt;/a&gt;{questionID}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which will update in your feed reader of choice any new answers posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:43:57.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37397" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:47:18.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to reduce the load on the server, and avoid a situation where thousands of mail are sent an hour, subscribing to a question is purposefully limited to the person who asked the question.  The RSS feed is more suitable for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:47:18.873" />
  <row Id="37400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37395" CreationDate="2010-01-29T05:52:34.337" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 128 thousand stackoverflow users right now.  Users are periodically culled for users that have only 1 rep who don't return after a few months.  This can be determined by looking at the users page, and multiplying the number of user pages by 35 users per page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at users with 100 reputation or more (ie, those that are relatively 'active') you find there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37379/community-size-of-a-stackexchange-or-stackoverflow-site/37388#37388&quot;&gt;about 31 thousand active SO users&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually there are a small flurry of statistical type questions on Meta just after stack overflow data dumps, so if you bump this question just after January ends you may find someone willing to re-run that age query and give you a new graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T05:52:34.337" />
  <row Id="37401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37228" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:06:22.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you pointed out, it was a javascript issue - we were using the wrong event handler when capturing key presses.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Switching our script to use the &lt;code&gt;keydown&lt;/code&gt; event, instead of &lt;code&gt;keypress&lt;/code&gt;, solved the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for reporting this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T07:06:22.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:10:03.350" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to start working on a patch for WMD for one of the most annoying areas I have with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say I select a method from Visual Studio (like so):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;string PartialFileName {&#xA;            get {&#xA;                return System.IO.Path.Combine(VodCast.DownloadPath, CleanName + &quot;.partial&quot;);&#xA;            }&#xA;        }&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then I would like it formatted nicely. So I highlight it and click the code button like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;string PartialFileName {&#xA;            get {&#xA;                return System.IO.Path.Combine(VodCast.DownloadPath, CleanName + &quot;.partial&quot;);&#xA;            }&#xA;        }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh you are so ugly girl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm thinking of some sort of patch that heuristically detects this use case and fixes up the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good idea? Bad idea? Is it just me? have you any suggested heuristic that does not interfere with any other normal use cases? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T07:50:21.133" Title="Automatic syntax highlighting - there must be a better way" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37404" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:16:48.890" Score="4" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to work out whether or not I'm imagining a newly-implemented feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that I've just gone back to a tab where I previous had reputation X (on the questions page), and seen it change to reputation X+10 in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would certainly be a neat feature, using the same sort of ajax approach as the background checks for new answers being posted to questions. However, I'm slightly unsure as to whether I'm just imagining it or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else seen this? If I'm right, does anyone know how long the feature's been there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T10:52:47.713" Title="Is reputation auto-updating now?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;ajax&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37403" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:22:26.567" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say you are imagining things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firebug will have stayed open 5 minutes by the time I finish writing this, and I see no ajax requests at all. So, either you're spending too much time here and you started hallucinating, or it waits so long in between ajax requests that this feature would be useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T07:22:26.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37407" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:29:50.823" Score="-4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are ordered by rep, but the way it's done feels very unnatural and it took me a while to understand how it worked. Basically you have to read column by column instead of line by line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet, at 2x1, is second.. Kyle at 1x2 is 8th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be much better if they were ordered so that the first line has the top 5 users, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;aaettkioa&#xA;fld eesrt&#xA;tlow  ,te&#xA;e nrlt ul&#xA;rw'iihfny&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T07:35:50.450" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T09:16:01.147" Title="Change the way users are ordered in the users tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;users-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37405" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:33:22.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. We are all used to the existing order now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T07:33:22.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37405" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:41:09.797" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading down the list of users is quieter than wading through the mucky mess of rows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a wider, gentler, sense of calming whitespace between the columns than there is between the rows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ample sum of relaxation as you scan down affords a breathing channel as you slide down the board of Snakes and Ladders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/RVt9R.png&quot; alt=&quot;phantom and hulk have easier time between columns&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T09:16:01.147" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T09:16:01.147" />
  <row Id="37408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37402" CreationDate="2010-01-29T07:50:21.133" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a number of languages the whitespace and formatting is significant. It already struggles to cope with many languages - trying to understand the implications of &lt;em&gt;changing&lt;/em&gt; the code is a huge job, even if you writing an IDE/tool for a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not format it before you copy it? (in VS: Ctrl+E,F or Ctrl+E,D) Or better; don't write bug-ugly code in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T07:50:21.133" />
  <row Id="37409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37380" CreationDate="2010-01-29T09:15:18.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't seem to work for me - is using Google's OpenID service hurting me? I can only see the thing for the site I'm on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T09:15:18.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T09:21:16.663" Score="4" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;My mouse died today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I wanted to add a comment with just the keyboard, I found that it was just not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/229/3140652661.png&quot; alt=&quot;lifeless screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow for me a way to be able to add comments without having to make use of the mouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T09:52:48.450" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T10:06:36.157" Title="Option to click on the Add Comment link without a mouse" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;keyboard&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T09:23:45.327" Score="11" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gray text shown in the &quot;Title&quot; and &quot;Tags&quot; edit boxes when creating a new question doesn't follow the usual UI convention for watermark text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual behavior (e.g. of the watermark text of the Browser's own search box, and of other websites) is to clear out the watermark immediately when you set focus to the edit box, and then to restore the text onblur if the edit box is still empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, the watermark text remains in the box until you start typing.  I found myself selecting and deleting the text in the box before starting to type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136315" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T17:05:09.940" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T17:06:39.720" Title="new question title &amp; tags gray watermark text should clear on focus" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;help-text&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37410" CreationDate="2010-01-29T09:45:11.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Windows has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/mousekeys.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MouseKeys&lt;/a&gt; and I'm assuming OSX and Linux have something similar, so it is possible given the right configuration of your system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that the kind of user who never used a mouse - rather than just on the odd days it was broken - would be familiar with such tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3171" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T09:45:11.057" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37410" CreationDate="2010-01-29T09:54:44.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hadn't noticed the missing tab behaviour; but this works with gleeBox on chrome (yes I know the question was opera):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;press g (bring up gleeBox)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;type &quot;add c&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;press enter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that since &quot;add c&quot; is in the title, you'd have to press [tab] to get to the right link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But gleeBox is great; I have it set to apply a jQuery selector by default (&lt;code&gt;h3&amp;gt;a&lt;/code&gt;) on stackoverflow, so I can [tab] through the titles ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T09:54:44.670" />
  <row Id="37415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37403" CreationDate="2010-01-29T10:52:47.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think I've experienced that, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure the screen has magically updated once or twice while I was looking at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just told myself it was wishful thinking: the excesses of an overheated imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T10:52:47.713" />
  <row Id="37416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T11:10:37.080" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13851/only-apply-the-rep-cap-to-score-from-votes&quot;&gt;Only apply the rep cap to score from votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately I've been frustrated that some questions (e.g. about unusual technologies) can take a long time to get answered. So I've been thinking of what SO can do to help, specifically what can be done to motivate answerers to answer even more questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though now I'm mostly an asker, in a lull at work last year I spent a few months answering a lot of SO questions, so I'm also familiar with the mindset of the frequent answerers who probably account for a big % of SO's answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that experience, I've got a suggestion for SO: remove the impact of bounties on the daily rep cap, so top answerers will be more motivated to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, if an answerer gets a bounty, they are locked out of upvote rep until the next UTC day.  Some saintly answerers may ignore this, but I'm embarrassed to admit I'm not one of them.  When I was doing a lot of answering I got really lazy the day I won a bounty. Also, simply having an outstanding bounty answer made me less excited to answer other questions for a few days, as I never knew when the bounty would appear and make the rest of my day rep-less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this stopped me from answering easy questions. But for hard questions requring an hour to build a SQL query or code sample answer, knowing there was less/no rep involved sometimes made me put off the extra effort.  I know this is a selfish and mercenary reaction, but I also suspect it's also not uncommon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change has been requested many times before. And I can understand SO's relunctance to make the change because it seems like the main beneficiaries are top answerers who are complaining about getting &quot;only&quot; 200 rep per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I really think this change could also help folks like me who just want to get their questions answered more quickly. How about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136315" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T11:12:28.650" ClosedDate="2010-01-29T17:11:24.263" Title="Help askers get answers a little more quickly by divorcing bounties from daily rep cap" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37416" CreationDate="2010-01-29T11:12:28.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can get over the unusual technology effect by simply adding a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T11:12:28.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-29T11:54:48.597" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stupidly cute, I love them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a ponycorn:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/pOePo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HN9u2.png&quot; alt=&quot;hashed unicorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130637" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T23:15:40.063" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:15:40.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37419" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T11:56:47.030" Score="4" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3230/so-badge-progress-report&quot;&gt;SO Badge Progress Report&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to check how close I am to the C++ silver badge at Stack Overflow. Is there any way to check it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/165520/prasoon-saurav&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is my Stack Overflow profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140054" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T13:17:53.983" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T12:47:07.060" ClosedDate="2010-01-31T15:38:14.327" Title="How close am I to a silver C++ badge on SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-29T12:25:17.460" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unicorns with fricking laser beams attached to their heads!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139675" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T12:25:17.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37419" CreationDate="2010-01-29T12:32:19.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an anti-answer... but the stats page totally used to show you all the time and where you were relative to the top people - what happened to that?  They took it out... why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T12:32:19.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6476" CreationDate="2010-01-29T12:39:52.130" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Required - Dark grey borders&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/discussion&quot; title=&quot;eggs and ham?&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jibber jabber rabble rousing with the other users. Ideas, takes and things that fly out of the top of your skull. About user behaviour, thoughts on the voting system or other such relevant matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot; title=&quot;three bags full sir&quot;&gt;feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishes and wants for how the trilogy should or could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/support&quot; title=&quot;bamboo walkers are sturdy&quot;&gt;support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you work this thing? Or how do you better work with the sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bug&quot; title=&quot;it's really a feature&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something's broken with the trilogy. Or something is not working as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Moderator only - Maroon&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-completed&quot; title=&quot;anybody have a fork?&quot;&gt;status-completed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The feature requested has been completed or filed as done. Or the bug has been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; title=&quot;move along&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is expected and how the site works. That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-declined&quot; title=&quot;move right along&quot;&gt;status-declined&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. The feature requested or change is not going to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-norepro&quot; title=&quot;i zee nah-sing&quot;&gt;status-norepro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unable to replicate the specific bug report. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-deferred&quot; title=&quot;talk to the hand&quot;&gt;status-deferred&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This problem lies outside the Stack Overflow code base or with a third party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-planned&quot; title=&quot;hmmmmmmmmmm&quot;&gt;status-planned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Got it in the pipeline. Who knows when it'll be out though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-review&quot; title=&quot;did you file that TPS report?&quot;&gt;status-review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're looking into it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/status-reproduced&quot; title=&quot;well lookee what we got here&quot;&gt;status-reproduced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug report has been successfully replicated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot; title=&quot;you've got questions? we've got answers&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions and answers covering the basic uses of the site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T09:28:08.343" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T09:28:08.343" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37411" CreationDate="2010-01-29T12:55:38.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It confused me at first, too: on other sites where I've seen that type of behavior, it usually meant that a script hadn't finished loading/processing, and I thought that's what was happening here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The secondarily confusing part is that you can focus that text box in the middle of the watermark text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much like Dominic, I was too lazy to post this (because it is a little thing, after all), but I agree that it should be changed to the more standard behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T12:55:38.607" />
  <row Id="37429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:02:35.580" Score="7" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;As commented by @dlamblin on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2010&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; I would also be interested by the ads system of stackoverflow to be reusable on other websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible or a similar system does exist already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142552" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T07:59:05.293" Title="running open source ads on 3rd party websites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="37430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:07:06.410" Score="-2" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently only trilogy accounts can be linked and shown on the CV.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible for us to add our flair badge from &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; StackExchange site, if you used the same OpenID to register and login?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine that showing, e.g. your &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MathOverflow&lt;/a&gt; flair, on your CV could be an additional &quot;selling point&quot; for programmers with a strong mathematical orientation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1163" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T13:24:01.037" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:38:03.200" Title="Linking StackExchange accounts to Careers CV" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="37431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37433" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:15:15.330" Score="-4" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have another issue with conflicting coding styles in a project. I knew I'd &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1780815/how-do-you-like-your-naming-conventions/1780873&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; on this in the past, so I did a search and found the original thread in &lt;a href=&quot;http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache%3aastdRyc7HSkJ%3astackoverflow.com/questions/1780815/how-do-you-like-your-naming-conventions/1780873+naming+style+acidzombie24+site%3astackoverflow.com&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google's cache&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this original thread more useful then the newer one. But either way, shouldn't the thread be closed and point to the other one rather than getting deleted? If it should have been deleted, why? I'd like it to be more clear to me in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T20:05:44.857" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T20:05:44.857" ClosedDate="2010-01-29T18:25:49.627" Title="Should this thread have been deleted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37431" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:30:02.470" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was correct to close and delete your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been eligible for merging, but as I see from the answers, there's really no 'value added', and your question is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:30:02.470" />
  <row Id="37433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37431" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:30:45.870" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that thread should have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's vague, it's poorly worded, it's subjective, it's argumentative and it's a very common question. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=naming+conventions&quot;&gt;There are at least 5000 questions about naming conventions&lt;/a&gt; and most of them are worded better than that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently six people thought the thread was so bad that it needed offensive flags, which is why it was deleted. As were a lot of your threads, now that I'm looking at it. Perhaps a group of people has decided it hates you. Regardless of that, the thread in question needn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:30:45.870" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37430" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:38:03.200" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange sites are far too varied in topic to be associated with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can probably speak for Jeff in saying that he would not enjoy being the one to pick and choose which StackExchange sites &quot;qualify&quot; to be linked to StackOverflow Careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I agree that having a MathOverflow reference on your CV might be advantageous, but I think this is a case where you don't need to change the system to get what you want. Simply add a link to your profile in the appropriate section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:38:03.200" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37436" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:51:16.697" Score="4" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you post some statistics on how exactly the number 200 was chosen, how does it perform, a graph that shows how many pageviews/revenues come from users with rep X ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T15:36:36.647" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:29:05.927" Title="How was 200 chosen as the rep needed for reduced advertising?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;noise-reduction&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37435" CreationDate="2010-01-29T13:56:07.823" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was chosen using a scientific process similar to this &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(all characters are figments of Atwood's imagination)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: We need advertising to keep our four-chambered stomach full, Jeff.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: It's a necessary evil, I know.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Good Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: So let's reduce advertising for common users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Evil Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: Noooo!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Good Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: The idea that advertisements might be reduced later will encourage participation through selfish idealism! Evil Jeff, you must agree that it will work.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Evil Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: I suppose. At what point should advertisements be reduced?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Interruption Duck&lt;/strong&gt;: Quack&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: How about 200 reputation points?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Good Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: Sounds good.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Evil Jeff&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm late for an appointment with Dogbert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, it's a number someone pulled out of his unicorn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T13:56:07.823" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37435" CreationDate="2010-01-29T14:10:03.453" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it's an arbitrary number without any scientific basis as Welbog points out, but it turns out to be a good number. By far, the majority of StackOverflow users are one time users who don't even have an account and are dragged here via Google and we want to have maximum advertisement on those users without sacrificing user experience for StackOverflow contributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The threshold is meant to distinguish SO &quot;users&quot; from &quot;one timers&quot; and it's pretty successful at doing that: only ~25k of registered accounts (about 20 percent of them) have 200 reputation which means the threshold is not low. It's pretty easy to get 200 rep in a day or two -- this means it's not too high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T14:10:03.453" />
  <row Id="37438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37435" CreationDate="2010-01-29T14:31:59.203" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been said some times that the largest group of visitors are non-users through Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is nothing else than yet another appearance of the Pareto principle (the 20-80 relation for the friends). If this holds true, then the bulk of the traffic comes from non-users that visit the site, that might have a greater chance of clicking on the ads, as they haven't seen the same ad over and over again. Also, you generate goodwill from users that drive the content, that generates the non-user traffic. It's a win win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=3666&quot;&gt;there are now 183849 registered users&lt;/a&gt; (so we are not counting unregistered visitors, that are in the number of a million), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=613&quot;&gt;there are only 21423 users with &gt;= 200 rep points&lt;/a&gt;, there is 8.5 times more people looking at the &quot;extended&quot; advertising than the &quot;reduced&quot; advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T16:29:05.927" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:29:05.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37440" CreationDate="2010-01-29T14:34:55.170" Score="16" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Should &amp;lsquo;Hi&amp;rsquo;, &amp;lsquo;thanks&amp;rsquo; and taglines and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see a question like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi everyone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In C, how do I compute the sum of two&#xA;  integers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been struggling with this for six&#xA;  weeks now and fear I'm about to get&#xA;  fired, so any help would be greatly&#xA;  appreciated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CubicleMonster&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I almost automatically hit edit, and leave it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In C, how do I compute the sum of two&#xA;  integers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I comment such edits with &quot;brevity&quot;. Is this mean, am I doing everyone a disservice by &quot;de-socializing&quot; the questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Justification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions are directed at everyone, the greeting doesn't add much&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time frames don't age well. Two years later it's meaningless&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The author info is already displayed, signatures are unnecessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concise, brief questions promote reading and responding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135651" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T20:17:09.230" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T02:05:44.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-29T14:52:20.183" ClosedDate="2010-01-31T06:59:35.520" Title="Editing for Brevity?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37439" CreationDate="2010-01-29T14:37:18.707" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those kinds of questions absolutely should be edited for brevity. You are doing the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just be careful, there are roving packs of hypersensitive people who will almost always find something offensive about your edits once they are aware of them. One day it will be &quot;You removed their emotion and intent&quot; and the next will be &quot;Don't make trivial edits&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I encourage what you are doing, but just take the word of caution that if you do this a lot, the hypersensitive super minorities will come out of the woodwork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For further examples of this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/&quot;&gt;Should ‘Hi’, ‘thanks’ and taglines and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T14:37:18.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37439" CreationDate="2010-01-29T14:37:51.857" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes &lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T14:37:51.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37439" CreationDate="2010-01-29T14:39:23.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to remove things like that, on the grounds that extra text hides the actual question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got to be a bit careful not to remove details that look irrelevant but are not (often things like that contain an extra, important piece of information in the middle of a bunch of fluff).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T14:39:23.287" />
  <row Id="37443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34377" CreationDate="2010-01-29T14:47:07.217" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself not voting on answers because of the badge, and I don't vote on questions unless they deserve it very much (up or down, this is prior to the existence of this badge), so a side effect for me is that I don't vote as much as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T14:47:07.217" />
  <row Id="37445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-29T15:21:10.773" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Get off my gravatar!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135304" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T15:21:10.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37439" CreationDate="2010-01-29T15:25:29.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes BUT&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice people leave comments to 'google', 'RTFM', 'do a search' if certain comments are not there. So if he says I searched and did this and that I would leave it in. I'm pretty well trained to skim paragraphs of useless data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34537" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T19:51:48.387" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:51:48.387" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-29T15:25:29.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1260" CreationDate="2010-01-29T15:59:14.437" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;............................................________&#xA;....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,&#xA;.............................,.-”...................................“-.,&#xA;.........................,/...............................................”:,&#xA;.....................,?......................................................,&#xA;.................../...........................................................,}&#xA;................./......................................................,:`^`..}&#xA;.............../...................................................,:”........./&#xA;..............?.....__.........................................:`.........../&#xA;............./__.(.....“~-,_..............................,:`........../&#xA;.........../(_....”~,_........“~,_....................,:`........_/&#xA;..........{.._$;_......”=,_.......“-,_.......,.-~-,},.~”;/....}&#xA;...........((.....*~_.......”=-._......“;,,./`..../”............../&#xA;...,,,___.`~,......“~.,....................`.....}............../&#xA;............(....`=-,,.......`........................(......;_,,-”&#xA;............/.`~,......`-...................................../&#xA;.............`~.*-,.....................................|,./.....,__&#xA;,,_..........}.&amp;gt;-._...................................|..............`=~-,&#xA;.....`=~-,__......`,.................................&#xA;...................`=~-,,.,...............................&#xA;................................`:,,...........................`..............__&#xA;.....................................`=-,...................,%`&amp;gt;--==``&#xA;........................................_..........._,-%.......`&#xA;...................................,&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T15:59:14.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37455" CreationDate="2010-01-29T16:03:35.613" Score="-1" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest that the &quot;ask a question&quot; title box be added to nearly every page of Stackoverflow.  When a user enters the question title, it goes to the normal ask a question page with the expanded list of related questions so it acts as both a search box, and a quick way to get started with a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/StackOverflow_frontpage_question.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above the fold screen realestate is 'expensive', and I understand this is a rather significant change for SO.  It doesn't fix a 'problem' so much as enhances the user experience of the site.  The &quot;Ask Question&quot; button is hidden off to the side, and to new users the presentation downplays the role of asking questions, and instead suggests to them that they should answer questions - the &quot;add a new answer&quot; box is on every single question page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the 'old timers' may well bristle at the thought of helping newbies create new questions, many of which are truly sub-par, the whole point of the site is to become a universal programming resource.  Having more users with more questions, and capturing more of the worldwide programming audience is more important than maintaining the status quo. Keeping the bar high for new users to almost intentionally limit their interaction with the site is counterproductive given StackOverflow's ambitious goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that a lot of people are coming from Google, and they are used to the interface paradigm where the search box is everpresent at the top of the page.  If they don't get the results they are after, they merely tweak the search box and press enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than forcing users to go back to the google search they came from - and possibly to a different website - it would be nice to capture them in Stackoverflow, and give them what they need here.  Present a 'search/new question' title box at the top of every page and let them find the better results here while also suggesting that they can fill out more details in the body of the questions and get nearly instant feedback from the userbase with either answers, or links to duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to help them understand that they are best served by staying here, we might also include a small type line right below the question box - &quot;New questions typically receive their first response within 5 minutes.  Ask now!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T03:46:12.137" Title="Lower the bar for asking a question and question search, like Google" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;user-experience&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37450" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T16:16:47.030" Score="6" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a bug in the renderer for comments wherein &quot;`Foo`s&quot; will not render with &quot;Foo&quot; in a monospaced font if followed by non-whitespace? See the comment below for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment 1: Test: &quot;\`Foo\`s&quot;. Result: `Foo`s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result here: Test: &quot;`Foo`s&quot;. Result: &lt;code&gt;Foo&lt;/code&gt;s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result below: Test: &quot;`Foo`s&quot;. Result: `Foo`s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment 2: You have to `Frobber` the `Foo`s using a `Bar`. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Result here: You have to &lt;code&gt;Frobber&lt;/code&gt; the &lt;code&gt;Foo&lt;/code&gt;s using a &lt;code&gt;Bar&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141514" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-20T11:36:08.890" LastActivityDate="2011-02-20T11:36:08.890" Title="Comment renderer bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37449" CreationDate="2010-01-29T16:30:36.967" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm not in favor of lowering the bar any more than it already is.  If a new user can't figure out how to ask a question with the current arrangement, they don't qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:30:36.967" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T16:32:24.187" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a couple cases on Stack overflow, and then searching meta where there are multiple tags with the same intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about cases like the Flex tag and the flex3 tag, there should be some separation here since Flex would be version independent. The case I'm talking about is tags like [flex3] and [adobe-flex3], or another one I saw was [media center] and [media centre] These tags are really trying to tag the same thing, but if they were to be combined into just [flex3] or [media center], people will still try to use the alternative, mostly because in the [media centre] case, this is the correct spelling to some while [media center] is the correct spelling to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would like to suggest, that like closing questions, when a certain number of users, with a high enough rep vote to back-end combine them, these multiple tags would be treated as one. So if I am reviewing [flex3] I would get results from [adobe-flex3] as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this will make questions and answers more visible based on tagging intent. and reduce the number of tags I need to follow to see everything that is going on in my area of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141190" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:10:03.527" Title="Auto Combining of Tags on the back end" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37449" CreationDate="2010-01-29T16:35:44.787" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of something, and I don't like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4778/pantallazoab.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Please, don't.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:35:44.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37449" CreationDate="2010-01-29T16:47:52.510" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making it too easy to ask would be a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering should be easy (and it is -- there's an input form at the bottom of every question), but asking should be less so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea that you should have no barrier to participation on the open internet isn’t just a myth, it’s a dangerous and destructive myth. We believe you need a barrier to keep those people who aren’t serious out. For example, wikipedia intentionally does this. We aren’t talking about a concrete wall lined with razor wire, but a toddler sized barrier to keep the most bored and uninteresting users (or, if you prefer, “the majority of the internet”) away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/podcast-79/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/podcast-79/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T00:51:21.783" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:51:21.783" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T16:54:44.803" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;Newest&lt;/code&gt; tab is cached for 2 minutes. This means that if a new question is posted, it may not appear for up to 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to increase the cache time, but invalidate the cache immediately when a new question is posted? This way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users get their answers faster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People spamming F5 won't suddenly find 4 new questions they want to answer at the same time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's unlikely to be a performance problem for the server (even if a new question is posted every 20 seconds, generating 3 lists per minute is nothing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T16:54:44.803" Title="Invalidate cache when new question is posted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;cache&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37411" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:06:39.720" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title field always has focus by default on the /ask page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the title field would &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; have help text -- except when you move the focus away from it. Not exactly so &quot;helpful&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T17:06:39.720" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:21:24.677" Score="-4" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always seen SO as an interesting place to start discussions about programming-related topics. But lately I've noticed that almost &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2157512/moving-forward-to-a-business-related-career-closed&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2154157/what-are-the-chances-for-an-overseas-applicant-to-get-hired-in-us-europe-aust&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about career is getting closed, just when interesting points of view are starting to be expressed. I know that the main focus of SO is programming, but in my honest opinion, our careers are about programming and this is a rich subject to be discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, is there a reason for that? Is it forbidden at SO to ask career-related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T21:26:48.920" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:26:48.920" Title="Why do all my career-related questions on Stack Overflow get closed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;career-development&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37462" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:24:28.413" Score="4" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the recent screen it makes no sense that you click the icon and get presented a blank page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The today tab being the first valid option should be defaulted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134974" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:08:50.767" Title="Make the recent screen show today's detail by default" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="37460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37458" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:26:54.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the StackOverflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In my mind, there are three broad&#xA;  guidelines that determine whether a&#xA;  question is appropriate for Stack&#xA;  Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does this question match the criteria provided in the Stack&#xA;  Overflow FAQ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is this question accepted by the community, as reflected in upvotes,&#xA;  favorites, views, and answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Does this question teach me anything that could make me better at&#xA;  my job? Can I learn something from it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So career questions don't really meet point 1 and definitely not point 2 (as a close means that the question is not accepted by the community). Whether they meet the third criteria is questionable and might strongly depend on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40347" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T17:26:54.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37458" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:27:22.010" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've always seen SO as an interesting place to start discussions about programming-related topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, then you saw wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a discussion forum.  It is a place to ask questions that have answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;From the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. &lt;strong&gt;This is not a discussion board&lt;/strong&gt;, this is a place for questions that can be answered! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T19:29:22.340" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:29:22.340" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37459" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:37:27.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a blank page if something has happened recently that you haven't seen yet. The default view is to show &quot;recent&quot; activity, hence the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There won't be any new activity to show in the &quot;recent&quot; view if the orange envelope isn't orange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/PSKbi.png&quot; alt=&quot;activity&quot; title=&quot;activity&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/2Gg4n.png&quot; alt=&quot;no activity&quot; title=&quot;no activity&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T19:08:50.767" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:08:50.767" />
  <row Id="37463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37458" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:40:22.010" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always maintained that very few career related questions apply &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; to programmers, and so most career questions end up being, &quot;How to deal with a bad boss - for programmers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I typically vote to close such questions is that there are &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; better sites for career advice than SO, and SO is intentionally very narrow focused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start allowing 'fluff' questions, eventually the front page will have a significant number of them all the time because they are so easy to pile on with one's own subjective experiences and thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;strong&gt;will&lt;/strong&gt; drive away expert programmers who live and breathe programming, who we need on the site to help with &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you can get career advice elsewhere, but you can't get as good programming advice elsewhere.  &lt;strong&gt;If we allow career advice here, we will necessarily lower the quality of programming advice - the reputation system guarantees that soft, subjective questions will be more highly valued by the community if they are allowed to persist.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T17:40:22.010" />
  <row Id="37464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37459" CreationDate="2010-01-29T17:47:33.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be better served by an external tracking service, such as Jon Skeet's RepTrac:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=2915&amp;amp;sf=706&amp;amp;su=1254&amp;amp;meta=2915&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showzero=true&amp;amp;showflair=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=2915&amp;amp;sf=706&amp;amp;su=1254&amp;amp;meta=2915&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showzero=true&amp;amp;showflair=true&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replace my user numbers with your user numbers.  It always defaults to today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;recent&quot; page is for &quot;recent&quot; activity, as indicated by the new activity envelope icon at the top of the page to the left of your username.  The &quot;today&quot; and other buttons are available for you to select a different time period than 'recent' but the 'recent' page is intentionally designed to support the envelope &quot;recent activity&quot; indicator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps what you really want is a separate link or button that goes to the recent page and selects the &quot;today&quot; time period for you.  If so, please modify your request, otherwise this is likely to be closed as by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T17:47:33.553" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T18:36:17.573" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I see a question popping up on the Questions page (10 seconds ago it wasn't there) and when looking at that question it's already answered. Actually this question is one or two minutes old, but it didn't appear to the public until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can it be that this question is already answered? Is there a faster way to see new questions other than looking at the feed or the Questions page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136740" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:27:16.993" Title="How can people answer a question that's not yet on the feed or on the Questions page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;feed&gt;&lt;fastest-gun&gt;&lt;visibility&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="37466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T18:40:56.910" Score="208" ViewCount="2296" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present if you see a question that may be a duplicate and has an easy answer you can post the answers or post a link to the duplicate question.  (Or the few hi-rep users can vote to close it as duplicate, think of normal users here, not the people that read Meta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is better for Stack Overflow if a link to the duplicate is posted as a comment, or the user votes to close the question as a duplicate.  However, the user gets more rep if he/she posts the easy answer quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First person to post a comment that points to possible duplicate gets some rep if the question is closed as a duplicate and at least 2 of the other closers chose that same dupe question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whenever someone votes to close as a duplicate, a “possible duplicate” comment should be posted with a link to the other question, if there is not already a link to it in a comments.  &lt;em&gt;(The system now does this)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Ether said,  The removal of reputation earned from answering a question that is later closed as a duplicate would at least remove the negative incentive, but is that enough to correct this behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a “duplicate finder” badge part of the solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A bronze badge for being the first person to vote to close a question as a duplicate with the same “duplicate of” question chosen as most closers choose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A silver badge for doing the same 25 times.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/11/dr-strangedupe-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-duplication/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/77103/improve-tools-for-closing-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;Improve tools for closing as duplicate&lt;/a&gt;, would also help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T13:02:29.610" LastActivityDate="2011-08-31T06:59:24.360" Title="Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;incentive&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="23" FavoriteCount="26" />
  <row Id="37467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37465" CreationDate="2010-01-29T18:41:16.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tabs for sorting questions differ in what they include in their listing. Here are the criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;hot&quot;:&lt;/strong&gt; A question must have at least 11 views to be included in the list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;newest&quot;:&lt;/strong&gt; This appears to show only questions that were asked over 1 minute ago.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;active&quot;:&lt;/strong&gt; This appears to show questions immediately after they have any activity on them (i.e. when they are asked, when an answer is posted, etc.).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when I want to catch new questions ASAP, I use the &quot;active&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T19:27:16.993" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:27:16.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37465" CreationDate="2010-01-29T18:46:00.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Home page (recent questions &gt; 'active' tab) seem to be marginally faster (i.e. less cached) than the Question page ('questions' page &gt; 'newest' tab). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think the feed would be even slower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, for speed, check out the Home page, 'active' tab for the fastest response time.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have found that the minute or two you gain &lt;em&gt;rarely&lt;/em&gt; makes a difference in the scheme of things. Every once in awhile a super-short-tailed post comes along (asked-answered-accepted within 2-3 minutes) but those are &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; in the minority, don't generate much reputation, and are hardly worth worrying about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T18:51:21.977" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T18:51:21.977" />
  <row Id="37470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37466" CreationDate="2010-01-29T18:52:12.490" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if it doesn't make sense to lower the reputation threshold to vote to close as a duplicate. Unlike other votes to close, there is already a bit of a check on this; you have to actually point out which question this is a duplicate of. That discourages (at least a little) people from doing it casually. So unlike &quot;subjective and argumentative,&quot; where it's really a matter of opinion, and makes sense to restrict to higher reputation users, it would be good to have more participants in fighting duplicate questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your second point, the site already marks questions as possible duplicates after a certain number of votes. Perhaps it could do so (less intrusively, maybe) after the first vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T18:57:40.233" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T18:57:40.233" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:06:22.707" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the various sites in the stackoverflow world discourage questions related to career advice and soft skills, perhaps a new site for this kind of thing might be in order?  Or is the thinking that there isn't enough interest for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142566" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T21:05:09.957" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:21:10.470" Title="Should the stackoverflow team create a site for IT career questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="37472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37466" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:08:37.820" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another possible solution might be to separate the problems of flagging duplicates and voting to close the duplicates. What if anyone (or almost anyone) could flag a duplicate using the functionality presently built into &quot;close as duplicate?&quot; Then &quot;close as duplicate&quot; would be enabled for higher reputation users once the first duplicate has been flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastEditorUserId="7714" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T20:41:37.253" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T20:41:37.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37453" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:10:03.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forget auto-combining tags. This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2779/could-the-tagging-system-be-enhanced-to-support-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;better implemented as tag synonyms&lt;/a&gt;; tags that &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; the same thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will avoid the inevitable questions, &quot;why does [abc] get changed to [xyz]?&quot; &lt;em&gt;(But it will start the inevitable, &quot;Why does my search match [xyz] when I didn't search [xyz]?&quot; You can't win.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:10:03.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37471" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:10:34.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really? You want: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;meta.careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting a little long on site addresses eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:10:34.397" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37471" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:10:43.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow format is not well suited to discussions; it is designed to be oriented around questions and answers (that is, problems that are &lt;em&gt;answerable&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General programming discussions are much better suited to somewhere like &lt;a href=&quot;http://reddit.com/r/programming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddit.com/r/programming&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:10:43.773" />
  <row Id="37476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37471" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:17:28.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think that's a good idea, you can head to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; and create one yourself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:17:28.733" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37466" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:20:53.407" Score="121" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to see the removal of reputation earned from answering a question that is later closed as a duplicate. Currently there is little incentive to post an answer on the original question (or merely post a link to the original), rather than re-answering the question. It's tiresome seeing the same answers again and again, and seeing this behaviour awarded with reputation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-04T07:06:18.387" LastActivityDate="2010-11-04T07:06:18.387" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="37479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37471" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:30:04.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; that there isn't enough &lt;em&gt;interest&lt;/em&gt;. Those sites remain tightly focused on their stated purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow - Programming Questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Super User     - Power User Computer-Related Question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Server Fault   - Professional System Administration Questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Questions related to career advice&quot;&lt;/em&gt; are &lt;em&gt;rarely&lt;/em&gt; within the scope of any of those tightly-focused topics. So, yes, they are discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow, for example, is about programming and programming-related questions. It can't realistically become a &lt;em&gt;anything-of-possible-interest-to-programmers&lt;/em&gt; site without losing focus. &quot;Anything of interest to programmers&quot; covers &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too much territory and runs the risk of becoming a Yahoo! Answers-style free-for-all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:30:04.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37466" CreationDate="2010-01-29T19:35:06.053" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure this is a great idea.  On the surface it sounds interesting, but often times people simply skim the question and then vote to close not realizing that there are differences in the questions.  It then is much harder to get the question reopened and basically an uphill battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T19:35:06.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T20:22:16.097" Score="7" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Reproduction&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pull up something with a wildcard tag which matches lots of tags.  I ran into this while using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=django~&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;django~&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the sort order to &lt;code&gt;featured&lt;/code&gt; (or any of the links below &lt;code&gt;Ask Question&lt;/code&gt;).  For &lt;code&gt;django~&lt;/code&gt;, you end up at a URL like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=django%20or%20django-models%20or%20django-templates%20or%20django-admin%20or%20django-forms%20or%20django-urls%20or%20django-views%20or%20django-queryset%20or%20django-orm%20or%20django-modelforms%20or%20django-signals%20or%20django-authentication%20or%20django-flatpages%20or%20django-queries%20or%20django-syncdb%20or%20django-middleware%20or%20django-managers%20or%20django-apps%20or%20django-formsets%20or%20django-testing%20or%20django-tagging%20or%20django-comments%20or%20django-mptt%20or%20django-model%20or%20django-modelformsets%20or%20django-imagefield%20or%20django-aggregation%20or%20django-generic-views%20or%20django-cms%20or%20django-fields%20or%20django-validation%20or%20django-widgets%20or%20django-template-tags%20or%20django-file-upload%20or%20django-haystack%20or%20django-cache%20or%20django-filter%20or%20django-database%20or%20django-profiles%20or%20django-sphinx%20or%20django-select-related%20or%20django-sessions%20or%20django-rss%20or%20django-contrib%20or%20django-permissions%20or%20django-syndication%20or%20django-mailer%20or%20django-wsgi%20or%20django-voting%20or%20django-template%20or%20django-templatetags%20or%20django-treebeard%20or%20django-trunk%20or%20django-widget%20or%20django-manage.py%20or%20django-inheritance%20or%20django-multilingual%20or%20django-pagination%20or%20django-notifcation%20or%20django-sites%20or%20django-south%20or%20django-project-architect%20or%20django-pyodbc%20or%20django-search-lucene%20or%20django-custom-tag%20or%20django-custom-tags%20or%20django-1.1%20or%20django-email%20or%20django-formwizard%20or%20django-generic-formset%20or%20django-history%20or%20django-hosting%20or%20django-groups%20or%20django-errors%20or%20django-exceptions%20or%20django-development-server%20or%20django-dispatch%20or%20django-ajax-selects%20or%20django-atom%20or%20django-content-type%20or%20django-contrib-formtools%20or%20django-contrib-markup%20or%20django-csrf%20or%20django-registration%20or%20django-rest-interface%20or%20django-settings%20or%20django-openid-auth%20or%20django-permalink%20or%20django-multi-table-inheri%20or%20django-model-history%20or%20django-tutorials%20or%20django-uni-form%20or%20django-uploads%20or&amp;amp;sort=featured&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The response headers indicate a 404 response, even though the page is blank.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The URL is 2,262 characters long, which the browser and/or server doesn't handle well.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;Microsoft has &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427/EN-US&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;documented&lt;/a&gt; their maximum URL length in IE at 2,083 characters.  I don't know if other browsers have different limitations, but Firefox and Safari both receive 404 errors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you do this on wildcard tags which match much fewer tags, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=python%20or%20python-3.x%20or%20pythonic%20or%20python-2.6%20or%20python-c-api%20or%20python-datamodel%20or%20python-mysqldb%20or%20python-2.5%20or%20python-2.x%20or%20python-module%20or%20pythoncard%20or%20pythonpath%20or%20python-2.4%20or%20python-interpreter%20or%20python-mode%20or%20python-decorators%20or%20python-egg-cache%20or%20python-embedding%20or%20python-3.1%20or%20python-c-extension%20or%20python-path%20or%20pythonw%20or%20python-socketserver%20or%20python-visual%20or%20python-svn-swig-api%20or%20python-time%20or%20python-twitter%20or%20pythonce%20or%20python-2.1%20or%20python-imaging-library%20or%20python-import%20or%20python-install%20or%20python-gil%20or%20pythonian%20or%20python-design-patterns%20or%20pythonista%20or%20python-nose%20or%20python-openid%20or%20python-2.2.3%20or%20python-2.3%20or%20python3%20or%20python2.6%20or%20python-challenge%20or%20python-api%20or%20python-uno%20or%20python-server-pages%20or%20python-slots%20or%20python-standard-library%20or%20pythonwin%20or&amp;amp;sort=featured&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=python~&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;python~&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), everything works as expected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Solution?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing that came to my mind was to reuse the &lt;code&gt;tagname&lt;/code&gt; being passed in.  When constructing links, use a sanitized version of the original &lt;code&gt;tagname&lt;/code&gt; string.  The current functionality appears to construct the URL using the tags which resulted from the search.  Using the original &lt;code&gt;tagname&lt;/code&gt; string would result in a URL like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=django~&amp;amp;sort=featured&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (shown below), when clicking on &lt;code&gt;featured&lt;/code&gt; under &lt;code&gt;django~&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=django~&amp;amp;sort=featured&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=django~&amp;amp;sort=featured&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131442" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T13:31:32.870" LastActivityDate="2011-04-04T21:36:00.267" Title="Links from wildcard tag search results returning 404" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;wildcards&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37484" CreationDate="2010-01-29T20:29:34.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think someone should instead combine django tags so the list isn't so long, or the system should recognize when its wildcard matches result in too long a query string and disallow such broad wildcard matches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T20:29:34.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T20:39:19.443" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found what appears to be a bug in the rendering of hyperlinks with quotation marks in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see what I mean, have a look at the edit history of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1733938/looking-for-tool-that-can-see-tables-and-data-in-sqlce-in-computer-that-isnt-h/2164886#2164886&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice that if you rollback to the original version of the answer (by actually saving it), you'll see that the markdown isn't replaced with the proper text hyperlink; it remains on the page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue appears to be the quotation marks in the hyperlink, which, when removed, fixes the markdown rendering issue (don't worry, I've verified that the hyperlink still works after removing the extraneous quotation marked bits of the hyperlink, as you'll see in my edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131185" LastEditorUserId="131185" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-29T21:06:28.473" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:06:28.473" Title="Rendering of Hyperlinks with Quotation Marks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="54298" CreationDate="2010-01-29T21:00:33.430" Score="3" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to help the owner, not to hijack. The question's owner still has the power to decide. You can only contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142232" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T07:00:10.543" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T07:00:10.543" Title="What about raise a bounty in a collaborative way in someone else's question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T21:05:35.917" Score="0" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a page somewhere that lists all the badges that are available on StackOverflow (and what is required to earn them)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking someone must have asked this question before, but my searches came up empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:18:06.137" Title="Complete list of badges that can be earned on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37490" CreationDate="2010-01-29T21:18:06.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except the Generalist badge (throws &lt;code&gt;NotImplementedException&lt;/code&gt;) and the Beta badge (no longer relevant), all badges on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt; page can still be earned, along with specialized badges for every tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:18:06.137" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37471" CreationDate="2010-01-29T21:21:10.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://advice.personforce.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Career Advice&lt;/a&gt;&quot; would appear to be what you are wanting so it is out there.  You may just not know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133916" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:21:10.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32023" CreationDate="2010-01-29T21:30:44.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This add-on is great! However, I just discovered that it is not compatible with Firefox 3.6 :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feature request: what do you think about adding an indicator of new messages (i.e. the same as the orange envelope icon)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug report: sometimes it stops updating (perhaps related to having a humongous number of tabs open, which I usually do); also, if there is more than one browser window open, usually only one of the windows will continue to update, and then if that window is closed the other window(s) do not resume updating, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:30:44.967" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18739" CreationDate="2010-01-29T21:36:17.793" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started showing my flair shortly after I joined SO, even though I only had a couple hundred rep. It's not my rep count that I'm proud of, it's the fact that I'm part of such a great community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, I'm proud to be linking to SO. The more great people who discover SO, the better (for those people and for the overall SO community).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142570" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:36:17.793" />
  <row Id="37502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37145" CreationDate="2010-01-29T21:59:52.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present I think the job adverts on “&lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;joil on softwere job site&lt;/a&gt;” is a good indication but over time more employers will use one half of the service without the other half. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T21:59:52.600" />
  <row Id="37505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-29T22:14:23.097" Score="-1" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;How come &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2165022/how-can-i-troubleshoot-my-perl-cgi-script&quot;&gt;Brian D Foy's answer to his own question&lt;/a&gt; isn't community wiki'd but everyone else's is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he get any reputation for his own answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastEditorUserId="157251" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T17:05:01.543" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:05:01.543" Title="Community Wiki, how come one answer isn't" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37505" CreationDate="2010-01-29T22:16:30.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He made it community wiki after posting his own answer.  Answers posted before the question is made CW don't become CW automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2165022/timeline&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2165022/timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the question revisions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2165022/revisions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2165022/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note he explicitly made it CW after posting it.  But since the edit was made within 5 minutes it counts as the original posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T22:16:30.237" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37505" CreationDate="2010-01-29T22:16:43.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer was posted 'before' the question was marked a community wiki, the answer is not nesseciarly community wiki'd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He must therefore mark it community wiki himself afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-29T22:16:43.280" />
  <row Id="37510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-01-29T23:10:13.430" Score="156" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/tx3wr.png&quot; alt=&quot;The world's most advanced open source database.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140381" LastEditorUserId="140381" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T14:26:25.000" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T14:26:25.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-29T23:10:13.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:09:47.027" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes see questions where people are asking how to do something that someone who knows better knows not to do (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2166099/calling-a-constructor-to-re-initialize-object/2166138#2166138&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is the one that inspires this question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get torn when I see questions like this.  On one hand, not giving the answer because it's really poor style seems overly paternalistic.  On the other hand, giving an answer can allow less experienced developers to shoot themselves in the foot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious how other approach this dilemma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:27:41.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-30T00:09:47.027" Title="When to give risky information" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37514" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:13:11.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on this is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are trying to do something really dangerous or stupid, step up and tell them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are asking a question that shows they're making a poor design choice, answer the question if you want to, and point out that you wouldn't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in general, it's absolutely valid to point out mistakes or stupid choices. It's one of the advantages of getting feedback from the community. Just don't forget that someone may be in a real situation, having real problems, and couldn't care less about comments on how this and that pattern learned at Uni would have solved it way better. It's a question of individual judgement in every case, really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:13:26.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-30T00:13:11.413" />
  <row Id="37516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37514" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:14:42.870" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is better to give the answer, with all the known caveats, instead of not giving any answer at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the person is determined, google might eventually turn up an answer, &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; those caveats. At least if you yourself post an answer, you can make sure you put every effort into making sure the person asking is told exactly why this approach is a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, a google search on how to terminate a .NET thread will give you the documentation page for &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ty8d3wta.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thread.Abort&lt;/a&gt;, you won't find much information telling you that this is usually a monumentally bad idea to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you answer the question, you have a chance of pointing the person asking in the right direction instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:14:42.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-30T00:14:42.870" />
  <row Id="37517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22883" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:18:19.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so this is a bug in the AutoComplete jQuery plugin. Within the &lt;code&gt;function selectCurrent()&lt;/code&gt;, there is this line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var cursorAt = $(input).selection().start;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this calls to another function in the AutoComplete plugin. Now, in Internet Explorer (8 at least), the second call to &lt;code&gt;if ( field.createTextRange ) {&lt;/code&gt; succeeds and it enters that branch, while on FireFox, field.createTextRange is undefined, hence it jumps into the last block. Seems like TextRange is an IE-only object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On IE, the call to &lt;code&gt;range = document.selection.createRange()&lt;/code&gt; results in an empty range, possibly because nothing is selected (while on FireFox, the returns the index of the last character instead)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$.fn.selection = function(start, end) {&#xA;    if (start !== undefined) {&#xA;        // snip...&#xA;    }&#xA;    var field = this[0];&#xA;    if ( field.createTextRange ) {&#xA;        var range = document.selection.createRange(),&#xA;            orig = field.value,&#xA;            teststring = &quot;&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;&quot;,&#xA;            textLength = range.text.length;&#xA;        range.text = teststring;&#xA;        var caretAt = field.value.indexOf(teststring);&#xA;        field.value = orig;&#xA;        this.selection(caretAt, caretAt + textLength);&#xA;        return {&#xA;            start: caretAt,&#xA;            end: caretAt + textLength&#xA;        }&#xA;    } else if( field.selectionStart !== undefined ){&#xA;        return {&#xA;            start: field.selectionStart,&#xA;            end: field.selectionEnd&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;};&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know what the proper way of fixing this is, but I added a check in case we have an empty range, in which case I return the length of the string instead of 0. This mirrors FireFox' behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    // snip...&#xA;var field = this[0];&#xA;if ( field.createTextRange ) {&#xA;    var range = document.selection.createRange(),&#xA;        orig = field.value,&#xA;        teststring = &quot;&amp;lt;-&amp;gt;&quot;,&#xA;        textLength = range.text.length;&#xA;    // Check for an empty range and return the length instead.&#xA;    if(textLength === 0){&#xA;        return {&#xA;            start: field.value.length,&#xA;            end: field.value.length&#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    range.text = teststring;&#xA;    var caretAt = field.value.indexOf(teststring);&#xA;    field.value = orig;&#xA;    this.selection(caretAt, caretAt + textLength);&#xA;    return {&#xA;        start: caretAt,&#xA;        end: caretAt + textLength&#xA;    }&#xA;} else if( field.selectionStart !== undefined ){&#xA;    // snip...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That fixes the Tag Overwrite problem. Another problem is that the cursor is not placed at the end of the line (as in FireFox) but at the beginning. This is a minor fix, back in the &lt;code&gt;function selectCurrent()&lt;/code&gt;. Change this code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$input.val(v);&#xA;hideResultsNow();&#xA;$input.trigger(&quot;result&quot;, [selected.data, selected.value]);&#xA;return true;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$input.val(v);&#xA;var ieInput = $input[0];&#xA;if(ieInput.createTextRange) {&#xA;    var range = ieInput.createTextRange();&#xA;    range.move(&quot;textedit&quot;);&#xA;    range.select();&#xA;}&#xA;hideResultsNow();&#xA;$input.trigger(&quot;result&quot;, [selected.data, selected.value]);&#xA;return true;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As said, this is only tested in my own environment and works fine there, but I do not know if this is really the proper way of fixing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:18:19.803" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37514" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:27:41.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you should look from the other side, if you know what I mean. I often see questions like that being answered with things like &quot;don't do that!&quot; or &quot;why? it's bad practice!&quot; even without knowing if guy is just looking for an explanation. In fact, most of the answers I see don't give any explanation at all. It's something like &quot;just do what I'm telling you to do&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know about the other people, but I'm a guy who do asks questions to find some information other that &quot;don't do it&quot;. And because of that, I tend to give all the information I can, trying to explain how it could be done and why it shouldn't. And I would be glad if everyone did it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:27:41.520" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-30T00:27:41.520" />
  <row Id="37519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:28:29.417" Score="3" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beset by the world covered by the couch surfer and idle wild. The people, hoi polloi, have gotten lazy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should know. I'm one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Praytell, fellow thee, when did the world of programmers turn their collective keyboard crunches on Stack Overflow instead of the overlords o' Google?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Twere it the lack of Google's ability to return a single answer?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or mayhap the answer finds itself in the reliability of Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T01:24:29.740" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T07:45:49.210" Title="Why do you think people use Stack Overflow instead of Google?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37519" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:33:25.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe SO is usually easier. Google results are an automated attempt to answer your question, and being automated, he may not understand it very well, or may not bring the best results, or even, there may not be the exact answer out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you post to SO, you don't have to try to find something similar, and spend time trying to get if that page answers your precise problem. You have a real human, and expert reading it, and understanding it (most of the time). His answer will specific for you, so it will probably be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, when you post to SO, it already searches within the site for a similar question, which is somewhat like googling in SO =).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself go to SO if I think I probably won't get a decent answer quickly through Google (a very specific question, for example)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130149" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:33:25.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37519" CreationDate="2010-01-30T00:35:52.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't, necessarily. Some of us do, sure, but the whole point originally was, I thought, to make search results from search engines like Google to show StackOveflow as the best answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if that's working, people search for their questions and then wind up on Stackoverflow as a result. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, people being learning animals, they come here to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5948" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T00:35:52.857" />
  <row Id="37523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37519" CreationDate="2010-01-30T01:13:14.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm looking for info on a specific problem, I've often done &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &amp;lt;search terms&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in google. It seems to give a deeper keyword trawl than SO's inbuilt search. (I believe this is because SO's search is only titles/tags?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142575" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T01:13:14.650" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69743" CreationDate="2010-01-30T01:49:20.837" Score="12" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36245/request-for-data-dump-to-contain-userid-of-closers&quot;&gt;my previous request about userid of closer info&lt;/a&gt;, I'd also like to request for the data dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;close reasons for each close vote (currently 11 for SO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for duplicate questions, all of the individual duplicate-of question IDs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for migrated questions, the URL of the new migrated question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking about an idea where questions that are most often marked as duplicate-of are highlighted somewhere. Something like some FAQ stats (actual FAQs, not just &quot;how to use the site&quot; info :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I just noticed that the latest data dump doesn't even contain close and reopen vote types (6 and 7) &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;. I wonder why that is. Obviously that's a necessary first step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: It turns out that the February data dump contains data for types 6 and 7, but only 1214 close votes. These seem to be the &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; close votes, that automatically expire after five days or whatever. There are three days worth of close activity in the February dump (29 Jan to 31 Jan), and since the January dump was created more than five days after the month rollover, there were none in the dump for that month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this request, I'd like to see the close &lt;em&gt;resolutions&lt;/em&gt; that are stored somewhere after five close votes have been accumulated and the question is in fact closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T23:11:55.320" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T23:28:47.727" Title="Request for data dump to include more closed question info" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37526" CreationDate="2010-01-30T01:56:44.907" Score="-1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-get-my-code-blocks-formatted&quot;&gt;How do I get my code blocks formatted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some script or something that is used within the Stackoverflow's editor to put in syntax highlighting for code when posting a programming-related question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks and best regards,&#xA;Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T02:01:44.627" ClosedDate="2010-01-30T16:24:30.627" Title="How can you put in a colorized code into the question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37525" CreationDate="2010-01-30T02:01:44.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/JOVGB.gif&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot with freehand circle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paste your code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;select it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click the little binary icon (pictured)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;profit!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T02:01:44.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37555" CreationDate="2010-01-30T02:27:54.127" Score="5" ViewCount="551" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to-make-a-stackoverflow-clone&quot;&gt;Am I Allowed To Make a StackOverflow Clone?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm developing a software with the same purpose as StackExchange. I'm currently in the very early alpha stages; when I'm done I plan to release it as open source, localize it in Italian and open an Italian stackoverflow-like website for programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://anacletus.wowpanda.net/questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;You can see a showcase of what I've done so far here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really love stackoverflow and I want my software to be very similar to it, so I intentionally took a lot of inspiration from its design and features. Before considering the main developing phase over I'm planning to implement all of SO's core features, like reputation, badges, close votes, community editing, etc. (Well, not exactly identical, for example the badges and their requirements will be different)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I don't want to take it too far and make you guys mad (especially Jeff :P). So what I'm asking here is, are you fine with how I did things so far? Did I take &quot;too much inspiration&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very open to make changes (as long as they are not unreasonable) if that's the community's or Jeff's wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PS: the logo with the panda is completely unrelated, I just needed one to fill the space)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T04:14:14.200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T17:08:12.587" Title="I'm making a SO clone. Am I copying too much from the real stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="37528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T02:39:58.500" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that looks confusingly similar to a real Trilogy/Stack Exchange site. It has almost exactly the same notification drop-down. It has a very similar layout, uses diamonds to indicate moderators, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think that duplicating the same functionality is OK, I think making it look this close makes it confusing; you reach the &quot;uncanny valley&quot;, where it's like a trilogy or Stack Exchange site, but not quite the same. I'd recommend spending some time coming up with a design that give you the same basic functionality, but doesn't look quite so similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T02:39:58.500" />
  <row Id="37531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T05:05:30.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would benefit from reading and actually trying to understand &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001284.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Code: It's Trivial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T05:05:30.490" />
  <row Id="37532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T05:12:15.420" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28276/what-answer-to-accept&quot;&gt;What answer to accept?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This questions the intensions of SO. What if someone comes up with a great, insightful answer for your question and you select it as the best answer, and then someone builds upon that a little bit. The second answer is the &quot;best&quot; answer, but the hard work was done by prior poster. Should one select the most complete answer or the one of which had the most work into it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142579" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T07:48:57.440" ClosedDate="2010-01-30T06:25:24.617" Title="You've selected an answer, but a better one comes along. What to do?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37532" CreationDate="2010-01-30T05:28:03.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One should select the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user just copy&amp;amp;pasted the old one and added little (but in your opinion important) content you could incorporate it in the old accepted answer if you have enough rep, or ask a mod to do it otherwise. &lt;s&gt;In this case you could also ask a mod to delete the other answer, which becomes redundant.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T05:52:53.247" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T05:52:53.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T07:03:21.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff has a crack legal team that has been known to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10630/will-stack-overflow-sue-me&quot;&gt;inflict the suing&lt;/a&gt; on people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T07:03:21.387" />
  <row Id="37535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T07:09:15.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And on an even more serious note. To quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Grace Hopper&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's easier to ask forgiveness than it&#xA;  is to get permission&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff is NEVER going to give you explicit permission to copy his baby. Nonetheless, many aspects of his baby were copied from many other sites and products (xbox, craigs list and so on) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get an email from him asking you to change your stylesheet or icons I would comply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T07:09:15.367" />
  <row Id="37536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T07:24:35.460" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm always amazed by such questions. I mean, you like much the idea of these sites, ok. You like it so much that you would like to have the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a possibility for that, with StackExchange, something ready to use, made especially. But you can have reasons to not use it, like a will to improve it to match your needs and objectives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is not what you do. You just want to copy it, without any inspiration else than &quot;making SO in Italian&quot;. It doesn't matter that you &quot;made the graphics yourself&quot;, if it was to do the exact same thing, you could have saved you the hassle and copy the original directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are making the exact same thing, without a bit of inspiration or personal idea, and it's obvious why. You want SO in Italian, for convenience and money reasons, probably, and you don't want to pay StackExchange. That's all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's purely stealing, you know it, and still, you have the &quot;need&quot; to come here and ask for authorization?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T07:24:35.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T07:31:34.853" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to the questions posted....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Am I copying too much from the real stackoverflow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Definitely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what I'm asking here is, are you fine with how I did things so far?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Kudos to you for being about the replicate the features and UI, I'm totally fine with it, but this question will have to be answered by Jeff and hs team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did I take &quot;too much inspiration&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Oh yes. Just ask yourself, without SO/trilogy sites, what would you have achieved? I bet it will be very different, might be better or worse, who knows? E.g. You might use timestamp instead of &quot;nn hrs/days ago&quot;. You might use a dialog box instead of the dropping notification bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T07:31:34.853" />
  <row Id="37538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37519" CreationDate="2010-01-30T07:45:49.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would answer with another question:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many times have you googled a question for 5 minutes, and then given up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see Stackoverflow as the place where you can ask your programming question if googling five minutes just does not help (the five minutes criteria is just an example; I suppose some will search more or less than that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's a very interesting question. Google might not be the right solution for complex questions. And Stackoverflow is a possible solution: the famous &quot;human-powered search engine&quot; (better than mahalo, though, because more focused).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T07:45:49.210" />
  <row Id="37540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36906" CreationDate="2010-01-30T10:58:40.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is misspelling &quot;hi&quot;, not using a capital letter at the start of sentences, and starting a sentence with &quot;but&quot; a valid reason to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T10:58:40.780" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2010-01-30T11:09:35.610" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bad spelling and grammar (at least of native English speakers) may serve as useful metadata - it could indicate that the question asker didn't put a lot of effort into the question. See, for example, the question quoted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36906/no-question-too-newbie-are-you-sure/37540#37540&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T11:09:35.610" />
  <row Id="37542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2010-01-30T14:37:11.053" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, especially if you fix all the &lt;code&gt;it's&lt;/code&gt; used instead of &lt;code&gt;its&lt;/code&gt;. It really makes my eyes bleed, and I'm not even native English speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138149" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T14:37:11.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28384" CreationDate="2010-01-30T15:17:00.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.excbadaccess.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ESC_BAD_ACCESS&lt;/a&gt;&quot; website look similar to stackoverflow .It contains only questions about iphone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141327" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T15:17:00.037" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37549" CreationDate="2010-01-30T16:10:57.767" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, SO newbie here and I just wanted to know why my question was closed so quickly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2167254/system-admin-experience-for-young-developers&quot;&gt;System Admin experience for young developers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it too open-ended?  It seems like one that only programmers could answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142588" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T16:32:01.983" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:32:01.983" Title="Why was my question closed so quickly?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="37549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37547" CreationDate="2010-01-30T16:15:38.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question isn't about the activity of programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:15:38.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37547" CreationDate="2010-01-30T16:20:07.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the close reason states, it's not programming related. Server Fault might be better as one of the comments suggested. A developer and a sys admin are 2 very different roles IMO, and reading your question makes me wonder which group you consider yourself to be in (or want to be in). It's not till the end that your goal becomes clear. I'm not sure what Scientific Computing entails but somehow I feel sys admin tasks may not fit the bill, at least not at the level that would contribute to Scientific Computing. I could be wrong of course :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:20:07.000" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T16:23:47.303" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering how useful the accept rate stat is. It seems to me that a stat that shows participation might be more useful. I doubt even on my best day I could be the one to give the accepted answer to one of Jon Skeet's questions (which are often more musings than questions). However there is no doubt that he gives back orders of magnitude to SO than he takes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in Jon Skeet's case the rep alone indicates participation, however there are many people who ask few questions but answer, or try to answer, many. And some people's questions simply have no answer -- they are looking for something that doesn't exist. So they may have asked 5 questions with only 2 having acceptable answers but they may have 50 answers and 20 are accepted. Such a person is clearly participating and giving more than they are taking but their questions are labeled with the unflattering &quot;40% accept rate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57348" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:36:14.613" Title="Accept rate usefulness" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37551" CreationDate="2010-01-30T16:27:51.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it useful but I always hover over the rate to see how many questions they had. If it's 50% accept with 3 of 6 questions then I see no problem. Usually such users are very new or ask questions very infrequently. OTOH, if it's 150 of 300 I'll raise an eyebrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in those cases I wouldn't skip them outright. Even if the OP never marks your post (or any post) as the answer, that's where the community backs you up with votes if your reply is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW there are tons of related questions on meta, search for &quot;accept rate.&quot; This is a good one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23321/is-it-appropriate-to-comment-on-peoples-accept-rate&quot;&gt;Is it appropriate to comment on people’s accept rate?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastEditorUserId="59111" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T16:36:14.613" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:36:14.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37551" CreationDate="2010-01-30T16:35:57.170" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow depends almost wholly on being a good resource for questions &lt;strong&gt;with answers&lt;/strong&gt;. To make sure that a visitor sees there are answers, the following steps are taken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Encouraging a Question asker to accept an answer (in return receiving &lt;strong&gt;2 reputation&lt;/strong&gt; for doing so).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rewarding the answerer &lt;strong&gt;15 reputation&lt;/strong&gt; when their question is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A voting mechanism to see that the community vets answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A label for the Question asker that shows what their accept rate is -- the idea being if the user has a low accept rate, it may not be worth it to take the time to answer their question.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of users prefer to 'take' and not 'give'; going against the raison d'être of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T16:35:57.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T18:11:43.607" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; be end user confusion about which site is which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Copy all you want, but if two people look at the sites and can't immediately say &quot;this one is different than this one&quot;, then we have a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must carve out your own style and &quot;look&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T18:11:43.607" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-01-30T18:44:57.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://openacs.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/IZX2f.png&quot; alt=&quot;A toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T09:37:50.723" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T09:37:50.723" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-30T18:44:57.743" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T19:11:32.493" Score="4" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started going through all the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bstackoverflow%5d+closed%3A0&quot;&gt;open questions on SO tagged [stackoverflow]&lt;/a&gt;, and retagging those that involved &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; stack overflows as [stack-overflow]. However, there are many SO-related questions in there that need to be migrated, which requires the involvement of more 3k+ users, or a moderator. Help please? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS. interesting markdown bug: the link does not show up in the preview, although it does appear properly in the final posted version.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T19:11:32.493" Title="Migration requests: [stackoverflow] posts on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-30T20:01:55.047" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one missing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4f7c0c43b0fb87f905d369d42d2667ac?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt; -&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicorn.&amp;#252;-wie-geek.de/0.2/128/4f7c0c43b0fb87f905d369d42d2667ac.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T20:18:50.737" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:18:50.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-09T04:01:41.140" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so I ask a question, or I answer someone else's, or someone marks one of my questions/answers up or down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I know, without actually visiting all of the questions I may have asked, the answers I may have given? Are there any notifications sent to me (not by email, that's so passé -- hey, cool HTML entities work), but the next time I login or visit? RSS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do I have to make a note to visit my profile page every time I'm here?&lt;/p&gt;" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T22:33:30.880" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:33:30.880" ClosedDate="2010-01-30T22:33:42.190" Title="Notifications" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37567" CreationDate="2008-08-09T04:05:49.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/users/806/boyetboy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;your profile page&lt;/a&gt; is lacking in this regard? It shows your questions, answers, and how they were rated. It's not notifications per se, but you can see everything on one page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I guess you edited the question after I started typing, so you know about the profile page. Don't know what else to tell you other than &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;file a feature request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:57:01.387" />
  <row Id="37569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37567" CreationDate="2008-08-09T04:08:56.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;top two issues on the uservoice site&lt;/a&gt;, both planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:57:01.387" />
  <row Id="37570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-22T02:15:41.260" Score="8" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I searched &lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;userstyles.org&lt;/a&gt; but nothing turns up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first ham-fisted attempt is below.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stylish&lt;/a&gt; plugin for Firefox makes it easy to apply user styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed the right-hand 'boxes'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question list expands for widescreens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removed uservoice link -- you have it bookmarked, right?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Made the answer count box colors more pleasing to my eyes, answered questions stand out more&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[new 22aug2008] Keep #fff body background, makes this style usable pretty much throughout site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wishlist:&#xA;  Redirect the logo to an image with replaced colors - I'd prefer not to be stuck w/ a white background. Also, am I the only one repulsed by the orange-into grey gradient?  The midtones are vomit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post your own styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  body {&#xA;    background-color: #fff !important;&#xA; }&#xA;&#xA;  #header {&#xA;    margin-top: 5px !important;&#xA;    border: 0 !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA; .module {&#xA;    display: none !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  .question {&#xA;    margin: 0 !important;&#xA;    width: 100% !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  #mainbar {&#xA;    width: 100% !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  .container {&#xA;    width: 98% !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  .betamessage-top {&#xA;    display: none !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  .votes {&#xA;    padding: 10px !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  .status {&#xA;    background-color: #07c !important;&#xA;    padding: 10px !important;&#xA;  }  &#xA;&#xA;  .status.answered-accepted {&#xA;    color: #363 !important;&#xA;   background-color: #7c0 !important;&#xA;  } &#xA;&#xA;  .answered-accepted strong {&#xA;    color: #363 !important;&#xA;  }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1042" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:57:24.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T12:46:17.087" Title="Do you have a userstyle for stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37570" CreationDate="2008-08-22T02:49:20.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very interesting... I made one for Jeff's Coding Horror, simply because I grew tired of the font.  I also made a more customized version of ESR's site.  However, these are not public because they contain only minor adjustments.  I make a current effort to inform everyone I know about this plugin as after using it for the first day or two, I realized how crucial it is to the browsing performance.. ie: getting to the information efficiently.  There's also the simple matter of taste.  This is a great plugin, I'm going to have to try your styles in a moment.  Being it's beta, I wouldn't be surprised though if you'd have to change it substantially when the production/stable gets released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:57:24.070" />
  <row Id="37572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37570" CreationDate="2008-08-22T10:25:51.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a transparent image (don't hate me for the quality):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img33.picoodle.com/data/img33/3/8/22/f_sotransm_c029fe8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Transparent OS&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit: My stylish doesn't seem to work :/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2025" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:57:24.070" />
  <row Id="37573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37570" CreationDate="2008-08-24T16:12:38.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Ross: I had a problem on my second machine when copying and pasting directly into stylish, it just wasn't applying. Possibly some funky character substitution going on.  I got it to work by doing &quot;Write Style &gt; For stackoverflow.com&quot; and then only pasting the style code itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I removed the namespace/domain stuff from the code above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1042" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:57:24.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T12:45:42.220" />
  <row Id="37574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37570" CreationDate="2009-01-06T12:45:31.317" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://userstyles.org/styles/10675&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;best style&lt;/a&gt; currently available on UserStyles.org&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1042" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T20:57:24.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-06T12:45:31.317" />
  <row Id="37590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-30T21:05:59.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be doing some innovation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a waste of time to do something that's already done, but you have the opportunity to take the basis and make it better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you can't copy is the users and leaders that make these sites a reality and full of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142595" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T17:08:12.587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T17:08:12.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T21:12:07.680" Score="10" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure where to put this, or if I should email the SO team, but since the ads are upvoted here....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going to this page results in a server error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/220x250&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/ossads/220x250&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131808" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T16:20:26.213" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T16:20:26.213" Title="Ad is not loading correctly (Server Error)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;error-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1125" CreationDate="2010-01-30T21:24:10.097" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At minimum I think there should be an &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;nbsp&lt;/code&gt;; between the tag and the 'x' so the 'x' doesn't get pushed over to the next line all by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19513" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T21:24:10.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37591" CreationDate="2010-01-30T21:42:21.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to report the same thing. The advertisement frame shows an ASP.NET YSOD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T21:42:21.090" />
  <row Id="37594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37607" CreationDate="2010-01-30T21:51:39.403" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes see questions where the author is clearly only working in C, yet the C++ tag is included anyways. I then see people offering C++-style solutions to the problem, only to have them ignored or rejected. In such cases, is it correct to remove the C++ tag from the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142599" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:40:11.983" Title="Should the use of C++ tag to get extra attention for C questions be discouraged?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="37595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37594" CreationDate="2010-01-30T21:58:34.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an answer using C++-specific features would not be suitable or appropriate, then yes. However, most C programmers these days use a C++ compiler, as there are performance and efficiency improvements to be found there, so it does get to be a bit of a grey area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T21:58:34.117" />
  <row Id="37596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:13:22.887" Score="1" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;By &quot;SEO part of the URL&quot; I mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/question_id/&lt;strong&gt;this-is-the-seo-part&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SEO part appears to be constructed where for each character in the question's title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's a letter or a number, copy it in the SEO part&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's not and the last character in the SEO part is not a dash, add a dash&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, however, has the big problem that questions with C++ in the title appear to a human reader to be about C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/c-an-impossible-behavior&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/c-an-impossible-behavior&lt;/a&gt; , whose title is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;C++&lt;/strong&gt;, an “impossible” behavior.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My proposal&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider plusses as valid characters. You don't even have to replace them with &lt;code&gt;%XX&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/c++-an-impossible-behavior&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/c++-an-impossible-behavior&lt;/a&gt; is a perfectly valid URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I know that some of you don't like it when &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36805/automatically-move-bracketed-tags-in-the-title-to-the-tags-field/36826#36826&quot;&gt;people put the language in the question title&lt;/a&gt;, but whether you like it or not it's something that is done in practice. So I feel that what I proposed is necessary, and I also ask you to please not discuss here about whether putting the language in the title is good practice or not. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There has been some discussion about whether &lt;code&gt;+&lt;/code&gt; is a valid character in an URL, and whether it has a valid meaning. &lt;strong&gt;In a path it is valid and it doesn't have a special meaning&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RFC&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  reserved    = &quot;;&quot; | &quot;/&quot; | &quot;?&quot; | &quot;:&quot; | &quot;@&quot; | &quot;&amp;amp;&quot; | &quot;=&quot; | &quot;+&quot; |&#xA;                &quot;$&quot; | &quot;,&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;code&gt;3.3. Path Component&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  pchar         = unreserved | escaped |&#xA;                  &quot;:&quot; | &quot;@&quot; | &quot;&amp;amp;&quot; | &quot;=&quot; | &quot;+&quot; | &quot;$&quot; | &quot;,&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The path may consist of a sequence&#xA;  of path segments separated by a&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  single slash &quot;/&quot; character.  Within a&#xA;  path segment, the characters    &quot;/&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;;&quot;, &quot;=&quot;, and &quot;?&quot; are reserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;code&gt;pchar&lt;/code&gt; (the valid characters in a path) is formed by unreserved characters &lt;strong&gt;in addition to&lt;/strong&gt; the reserved characters explicitly allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T15:20:44.637" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:20:44.637" Title="Please consider +'s (plusses) valid characters in the SEO part of the URL" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53227" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:27:53.683" Score="20" ViewCount="793" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the things between the normal keyboard and the monitor in &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/error-lolcat-problemz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this picture&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/error-lolcat-problemz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cat on laptop&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image appears when you strike upon an error on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-02T22:26:58.187" LastActivityDate="2011-01-02T22:26:58.187" Title="What kind of computer is being used in &quot;Workin on ur problemz&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;error-page&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="37598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:23:52.513" Score="0" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;And &quot;not-programming-related&quot; tag has been used for around 1887 times. It seems that only few of these tagged questions get moved to SU by some random users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2169574/if-a-computer-is-connected-to-internet-via-wireless-and-lan-both-which-way-inter&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which I asked with &quot;not-programming-related&quot; tag and then someone said it's not programming related, so move it to SU. Shouldn't we remove this tag then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably that randomness would be applied to this question as well :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:32:28.730" Title="Why is it that everything not related to programming (even networking concepts are not spared) is moved to Superuser by some users?" Tags="&lt;not-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37598" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:27:32.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because those users have read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, try to refrain from asking questions about Stack Overflow itself unless you absolutely, positively have to. Most programmers don't come here to learn about the intricacies of this site; they come here to get answers to their programming questions. Let's try to help them out by not cluttering up the system with navelgazing meta-discussion. If you want to suggest a feature or discuss how Stack Overflow works, visit our meta-discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;networking, servers, or maintaining other people's PCs and contains no source code, ask on Server Fault.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;general computer software or hardware troubleshooting, ask on Super User.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;web design and HTML/CSS layout, and your job title is &quot;designer&quot;, ask on Doctype.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:28:33.183" />
  <row Id="37600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37594" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:28:47.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion if the problem can occur in C++ too (and being a superset and all, it can) you shouldn't remove it. Maybe someone else with the same problem coming to the question with google is using C++, and can therefore use the C++ solutions that have been rejected by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:28:47.537" />
  <row Id="37601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:29:18.127" Score="12" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;This comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alice, are you thinking about choosing&#xA;  an answer? You've collected quite a&#xA;  bunch of answers and it would be good&#xA;  if you mark that or those you think&#xA;  that answers your question. That's how&#xA;  SO works. Otherwise, it's unclear if&#xA;  your question has been answered or&#xA;  not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was posted 20 minutes or so after &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2169322/when-to-use-pointers-in-c&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was originally asked on SO. I really think the acceptance rate nagging is getting out of hand - perhaps we could have a clear statement in the blog or somewhere that people don't have to immediately accept answers, and should in fact wait to give people a chance to reply? As it happens, the replies to this question were rather poor, so I would be sympathetic with the OP not accepting any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T23:27:52.673" Title="Acceptance rate nagging getting out of hand?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="37602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37598" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:29:45.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag exists for several reasons: Tags existed before moving posts and people can retag before (with lower rep) they can vote to move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3978" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:29:45.850" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37598" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:32:28.730" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sort of &quot;meta&quot; tagging about the question itself, and not the &lt;em&gt;topic&lt;/em&gt; of the question, is discouraged. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37302/should-we-flag-questions-that-are-not-programming-related&quot;&gt;Should we flag questions that are not programming related?&lt;/a&gt; for more information on the accepted practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are still (as you've noticed) hundreds of questions tagged &quot;not-programming-related&quot; still existing on Stack Overflow. Eventually these will get cleaned up, but it's a big job and the diamond moderators only have so much time available for this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:32:28.730" />
  <row Id="37605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37601" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:35:21.750" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah... That's &lt;em&gt;waaay&lt;/em&gt; too soon to &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; someone to accept an answer, much less feel justified in nagging them about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:35:21.750" />
  <row Id="37606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37601" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:38:00.090" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I think that answers that solve the problem should be accepted - if nothing else it stops the Community user bumping the post if it's been inactive for a while - I also don't think that constant nagging helps. Perhaps I should start flagging particularly snide comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that there used to be a prompt about accepting an answer when you viewed your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the more polite comments I've seen, but it's still wrong to post it against a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that strongly just don't answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just checked the question and the OP has only asked four questions and has accepted answers on the other three, so the OP clearly knows how SO works. So I flagged the comment too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T22:43:46.430" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:43:46.430" />
  <row Id="37607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37594" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:40:49.320" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of people using C are genuinely confused about the differences between the languages. And most C questions are in fact C++ questions too in that almost all C89 features are subsumed in C++. The only real issue occurs when you suggest using  a&quot;real&quot; C++ feature like std::string rather than an array of char, but this doesn't seem to be much of a problem. So I would leave the tags alone, unless it is very, very obvious the question is solely about C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:40:49.320" />
  <row Id="37608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:42:09.537" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions&quot;&gt;Best Time to Ask Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65/stack-overflow-stats-graphs&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow stats graphs&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be subjective but I am bit confused, probably some one from SO Team, involved in Traffic Monitoring could answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the best time to post a question to get a quick answer and what is the worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2169673/web-dev-frameworks-compatible-with-net-3-5&quot;&gt;posted a question&lt;/a&gt; 1/2 hour ago and it seem all the devs are out for a drink. (3 views).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136156" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T22:52:55.303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:52:55.303" ClosedDate="2010-01-30T23:27:48.120" Title="Best and the worst time to look for an answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37601" CreationDate="2010-01-30T22:43:10.270" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never really been a fan of the whole &quot;accept rate&quot; thing, at all. Stack Overflow exists for people to ask questions and give answers. It simply doesn't matter if the person who asked the question understands the mechanics of the site enough to &quot;accept&quot; it - if they spend enough time here and care enough, they'll figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer the &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt;, not the &lt;strong&gt;asker&lt;/strong&gt;. Zillions more unnamed people will eventually see the same question and answer through Google search. Some of them might even vote your answer up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T22:43:10.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:04:22.643" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know what questions I'm subscribed to and what questions I'm not subscribed to. I'm having to visit questions one-by-one to check or uncheck things. Please, change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d.imagehost.org/view/0593/stackoverflow_screenshot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://d.imagehost.org/view/0593/stackoverflow_screenshot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://e.imagehost.org/view/0837/stackoverflow_screenshot2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://e.imagehost.org/view/0837/stackoverflow_screenshot2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130600" LastEditorUserId="130600" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T11:21:59.377" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T11:21:59.377" Title="one place to manage daily new answer notifications" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37610" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:19:15.220" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any reason you can't just click the envelope beside your name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T23:19:15.220" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37597" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:20:17.853" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's ridiculous. Everyone knows a cat can't use a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T23:20:17.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37601" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:22:22.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it o.k. to leave a comment, or to not answer, if an asker with more than 20-30 questions has a rate below 40-50%. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to nag about accepting an answer in a specific question? That's not o.k., not even after a day. The asker may be wanting to do some more research, plan to put up a bounty after two days, or simply be away from their machine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-30T23:27:52.673" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T23:27:52.673" />
  <row Id="37614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37596" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:23:28.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't have plus in the URL, so it would need to be encoded, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/c%2B%2B-an-impossible-behavior&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/c%2B%2B-an-impossible-behavior&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;pound also has to be encoded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/i-love-programming-in-c%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793678/i-love-programming-in-c%23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion: &lt;em&gt;meh&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T23:23:28.550" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="37616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37621" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:26:12.770" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;At Stack Overflow, I put 'sofaq' into the search box. Most of what emerged was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I put &lt;code&gt;sofaq closed:0&lt;/code&gt; into the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two things emerged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-13T16:14:30.170" LastActivityDate="2010-09-13T16:14:30.170" Title="Just the FAQs, ma'am? (how to browse the FAQ)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37616" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:32:26.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about searching on SO or here on meta? If it's the former I would expect a lot of the posts to be marked as closed as they would have been migrated here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The policy is to keep SO focused on programming questions, so questions about how SO works - which includes questions about the FAQ will be closed and migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T23:32:26.613" />
  <row Id="37618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37632" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:33:26.907" Score="4" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;The presence of lengthy and contentious debates on FAQ questions here is confusing. I note in particular &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11747#11747&quot;&gt;the FAQ on community wiki&lt;/a&gt;. Shog9 tried to help this with a link in his answer, but the link is broken. If something is a real, accept-no-substitutes, FAQ, I think that discussions should be ruthlessly removed by moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T03:41:30.953" Title="FAQs as discussion items" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;faqs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:36:56.963" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just reread the top-level faq. While it mentions the rep impact of community wiki, it offers no suggestion or advice as to when if ever a new user might be well-advised to check the 'community wiki' box on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I read the community wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11747#11747&quot;&gt;official FAQ&lt;/a&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the top-scoring, accepted, answer also offers no guidance as to when to check the box. It talks about 'posts,' but has nothing specific to say about questions versus answers. Further, the giant clutter of debate in the comments led me to abandon all hope of asking for clarification in this regard by posting a comment. So I'm posting this question to appeal to someone who feels up to it to enhance that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T03:42:16.147" Title="Community Wiki guidance lacking" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;faqs&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37616" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:41:38.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag [sofaq] was deprecated and the tag [faq] is now favored. All FAQ questions are now located on meta, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-01-30T23:41:38.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37596" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:43:27.777" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;freaks out there&lt;/a&gt; think, that your URL is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; perfectly valid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.2. Reserved Characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many URI include components consisting of or delimited by, certain&#xA;     special characters.  These characters are called &quot;reserved&quot;, since&#xA;     their usage within the URI component is limited to their reserved&#xA;     purpose.  If the data for a URI component would conflict with the&#xA;     reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before&#xA;     forming the URI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; reserved    = &quot;;&quot; | &quot;/&quot; | &quot;?&quot; | &quot;:&quot; | &quot;@&quot; | &quot;&amp;amp;&quot; | &quot;=&quot; | &quot;+&quot; |&#xA;                &quot;$&quot; | &quot;,&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;reserved&quot; syntax class above refers to those characters that are&#xA;     allowed within a URI, but which may not be allowed within a&#xA;     particular component of the generic URI syntax; they are used as&#xA;     delimiters of the components described in Section 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T18:08:08.587" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T18:08:08.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-30T23:51:50.677" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10390/why-has-community-wiki-transmuted-from-the-original-intent&quot;&gt;Why has &amp;ldquo;community-wiki&amp;rdquo; transmuted from the original intent?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read many posting here on meta, you will get a consistent message.  The purpose of community wiki is to allow collaborative creation of real answers to real questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I look at the questions that end up community wiki, that is not what I see. What I see is that it is used to establish a gray zone between concrete questions with concrete answers (on the one hand) and opinion/discussion on the other. By and large, opinion/discussion gets closed as 'not a real question' or 'subjective and argumentative.' But some number of posts that are not concrete questions with specific answers are allowed to remain -- so long as they are cwiki. The justification for this seems to be 'well, this tripe is too tasty to discard, but no one should get any rep for it.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a single occasion on which I've seen a cwiki question or answer serving as a vehicle for collaboration, or allowing low-rep users to stick an editorial oar into the river of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People aren't editing the question or collaboratively editing a single answer to reach a high polish. They are all posting different answers. Dozens of answers. Hundreds of answers. &lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt; No one is going to read all that stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is a good thing, and maybe not. It certainly leads to some level of confusion and whining about unequal treatment. (See recent meta question about career questions, e.g.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I end up thinking that what we need here is to get our story straight. Given the recent &lt;em&gt;ex cathedra&lt;/em&gt; pronouncement about leaving some humor questions open, wouldn't it be less stressful to write up and stick to a policy that covers this stuff, instead of having a policy that talks about one phenomenon and a practice that does something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:27:57.180" ClosedDate="2010-01-31T01:59:22.800" Title="One More Time: are we misusing community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37624" CreationDate="2010-01-31T00:06:34.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you that community wiki is misused.  Rather than accepting something of such low value (and assuming you don't want to just ignore it, like I find myself doing), how about just ripping the darn thing out?  Maybe accompanied with stronger downvote weight to counteract massive upvotes in joke threads (how &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; that change coming?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:06:34.080" />
  <row Id="37626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-08-31T16:54:08.130" Score="11" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've written a basic stackoverflow ubiquity command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial version refused to execute properly because one of the parameters was not in the correct format. Specifically the postData parameter to browser.loadURI and browser.loadOneTab needs to be a nsIMIMEInputStream object which shog9 pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The working version of code follows which can also be found at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.appidx.com/ubiq/stackoverflow.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.appidx.com/ubiq/stackoverflow.js&lt;/a&gt; and installed (if you already have ubiquity) by visiting: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.appidx.com/ubiq/stackoverflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.appidx.com/ubiq/stackoverflow.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy, Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CmdUtils.CreateCommand({&#xA;  name: &quot;stackoverflow&quot;,&#xA;  author: {name: &quot;Aryeh Goldsmith&quot;},&#xA;  homepage: &quot;http://www.appidx.com/ubiq/stackoverflow.html&quot;,&#xA;  icon: &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico&quot;,&#xA;  takes: {search: noun_arb_text},&#xA;  license: &quot;MPL&quot;,&#xA;  description: &quot;Searches the highlighted text on stackoverflow.&quot;,&#xA;  _version: &quot;55&quot;,&#xA;&#xA;  preview: function ( pblock, inputObject) {&#xA;    var query = inputObject.text;&#xA;    pblock.innerHTML = &quot;Search beta.stackoverflow.com for &quot; + query + &quot;&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;    var url = &quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;;&#xA;    params = {&quot;search-text&quot;: query, &quot;hiddenstuff&quot;: ''};&#xA;&#xA;    jQuery.post( url, params, function( html ) {&#xA;      var $ = jQuery;&#xA;      pblock.innerHTML += &quot;&amp;lt;div style='display:none;'&amp;gt;&quot; + html + &quot;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;      var links = $(pblock).find('.summary h3 a');&#xA;      links.each(function (i) {&#xA;            if (this.href.match(/^chrome/)) {&#xA;              this.href = this.href.replace(/chrome\:\/\/ubiquity/i, &quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com&quot;);&#xA;            } else if (this.href.match(/^\//)) {&#xA;              this.href = &quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com&quot; + this.href;&#xA;            }&#xA;&#xA;            this.target = &quot;_blank&quot;;&#xA;        });&#xA;&#xA;      var ques = $(pblock).find('.summary h3');&#xA;      var details = $(pblock).find('.summary .excerpt');&#xA;      var out = &quot;&amp;lt;div style='margin-bottom: 6px;'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Previewing the first 5 results:&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;      for (var j = 0; j&amp;lt; ques.size() &amp;amp;&amp;amp; j &amp;lt; 5; j++) {&#xA;        out += &quot;&amp;lt;div style='padding: 5px;'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&quot; + ques[j].innerHTML + &quot;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;        out += details[j].innerHTML + &quot;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot;;&#xA;      }&#xA;      pblock.innerHTML = out;&#xA;    });&#xA;    },&#xA;&#xA;  execute: function( inputObject ) {&#xA;    var query = inputObject.text;&#xA;    var url = &quot;http://beta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;;&#xA;    var params = {&#xA;      &quot;search-text&quot;: query,&#xA;      hiddenstuff: &quot;&quot;&#xA;    };&#xA;&#xA;    var dataString = Utils.paramsToString(params).substring(1);&#xA;&#xA;    var windowManager = Components.classes[&quot;@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1&quot;].&#xA;                  getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator);&#xA;    var browserWindow = windowManager.getMostRecentWindow(&quot;navigator:browser&quot;);&#xA;    var browser = browserWindow.getBrowser();&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    var stringStream = Components.classes[&quot;@mozilla.org/io/string-input-stream;1&quot;].&#xA;                   createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIStringInputStream);&#xA;    if (&quot;data&quot; in stringStream) // Gecko 1.9 or newer&#xA;      stringStream.data = dataString;&#xA;    else // 1.8 or older&#xA;      stringStream.setData(dataString, dataString.length);&#xA;&#xA;    var postData = Components.classes[&quot;@mozilla.org/network/mime-input-stream;1&quot;].&#xA;               createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIMIMEInputStream);&#xA;    postData.addHeader(&quot;Content-Type&quot;, &quot;application/x-www-form-urlencoded&quot;);&#xA;    postData.addContentLength = true;&#xA;    postData.setData(stringStream);&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;    if(browser.mCurrentBrowser.currentURI.spec == &quot;about:blank&quot;)&#xA;      browserWindow.loadURI(url, null, postData, false);&#xA;    else&#xA;      browser.loadOneTab(url, null, null, postData, false, false);&#xA;  },&#xA;})&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="155107" LastEditorUserId="155190" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-08T08:36:10.047" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T08:36:10.047" Title="Stackoverflow Ubiquity command" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37624" CreationDate="2010-01-31T00:20:12.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The community will find the most natural fit for working with the mechanics of the site. The usage of CW will only change if the system changes to make the other, more desired behavior, more natural. Putting words in a policy document only serves to pit religious fanatics against everyone else, and stopping it will be like trying to sue piracy into oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:20:12.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-31T00:20:12.647" />
  <row Id="37632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37618" CreationDate="2010-01-31T00:24:25.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. That FAQ in particular has been a steaming pile of time-wasting discussion for far too long... Whatever purpose such ranting might once have had on a FAQ question, it's long ago disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I just used up all my flags for the day requesting moderator deletion, and I encourage you to do likewise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:24:25.723" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37624" CreationDate="2010-01-31T00:27:57.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that &lt;em&gt;in practice&lt;/em&gt; editing other people's stuff seems to be a step taken with care and considerable though for the original author's feelings and intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true for both CW posts, and for regular posts as edited by 2000+ rep users. The big exception I see is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; poorly formed questions, which some people try to rescue (sometimes to great effect, sometimes not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the whole, I think this is a good thing---it avoids fights and petty snits---but it does sometimes get in the way of collaborative improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:27:57.180" />
  <row Id="37635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-31T00:35:12.297" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got this message while editing my post on StackOverflow, I pressed X to close, and the message comes again and again, &lt;strong&gt;Without any new updated by the comments.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a known bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142309" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:35:12.297" Title="A potential bug: &quot;Be advised: this post has been edited 1 time by other users while you were editing.&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37594" CreationDate="2010-01-31T00:40:11.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that most people, after getting all &quot;Use &lt;code&gt;boost::Foo&lt;/code&gt;&quot; answers the first time they do that will learn better. Or at least, that is why &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't stick a [c++] tag on my c question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T00:40:11.983" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35011" CreationDate="2010-01-31T01:15:00.860" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if chromium or stackoverflow did it, but I don't have that problem anymore.&#xA;So thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140381" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T01:15:00.860" />
  <row Id="37638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37439" CreationDate="2010-01-31T01:52:09.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a proud member of one of the &quot;hyper sensitive super minorities&quot; I'll just point you to a comment to RichB/Geoffrey in the duplicate question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Rich B: The community is obviously split. At the very least it should be a given that salutations alone shouldn't be edited, but &lt;strong&gt;an important point that most arguments stem from is that if an author really wants his salutations in there they should stay there.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if you remove salutations and the OP doesn't respond or care in any way, fantastic, well done!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if the OP wants the question to contain salutations and adds them again, just get over it and move on with your life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course if you're really just looking for an argument (and of, course, the &lt;em&gt;incredible&lt;/em&gt; excitement you must derive from it)  keep removing those salutations when the OP adds them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastEditorUserId="135186" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T02:05:44.017" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T02:05:44.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-31T01:52:09.520" />
  <row Id="37639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37597" CreationDate="2010-01-31T02:04:35.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an iKibble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T02:04:35.720" />
  <row Id="37640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37597" CreationDate="2010-01-31T02:15:45.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a keyboard for the blind and deaf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139053" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T02:15:45.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-31T02:19:39.933" Score="11" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/blog&quot;&gt;[blog]&lt;/a&gt; x 124&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/blogs&quot;&gt;[blogs]&lt;/a&gt; x 235&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/blogging&quot;&gt;[blogging]&lt;/a&gt; x 88&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;#37642&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to choose whether to keep [blog] or [blogs].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's been four months.. I think that's enough time to wait for feedback. Can a moderator please merge them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T04:24:17.037" Title="Merge [blog], [blogs], and [blogging]" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37641" CreationDate="2010-01-31T02:20:25.033" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 if you think &lt;code&gt;blog&lt;/code&gt; should be kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-1 if you think &lt;code&gt;blogs&lt;/code&gt; should be kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I can't vote my own post but I say &lt;code&gt;blog&lt;/code&gt; is much better, even if it has less questions tagged as such)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T02:20:25.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-01-31T02:20:25.033" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-31T02:58:29.263" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sweet! My blood-red unicorn is stabbing at the rainbow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e77/kpeaton/unicorn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's hardcore! Well, as hardcore as a unicorn can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T02:58:29.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-31T04:38:31.023" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should totally submit this to Gravatar, and see if they will add it as an option!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T04:38:31.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37591" CreationDate="2010-01-31T06:12:39.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, and these ad errors are in SO sidebar as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5729/joomlaquestionerror.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134388" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T06:12:39.527" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37651" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-31T06:16:20.937" Score="18" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Flair as Images&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, this has been done before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, In hopes that we can have this done on a non-hack basis, I have created an implementation that works on &lt;strong&gt;ALL STACK EXCHANGE SITES&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, et al: please consider using this implementation!  I would really like an official version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://otac0n.com/StackOverflow/flair/1.png?theme=dark&quot; alt=&quot;Jeff Atwood&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://files.otac0n.com/StackOverflowFlair.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://files.otac0n.com/StackOverflowFlair.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woooo hooo!  Completed!  Thanks, team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;I have set up a permanent redirect from my site to StackOverflow.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means, that everyone using mine should now be using yours automatically, for the main site.  It will break for other sites, tho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone, please update your image links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Can I get a status-completed flag?  Please?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T06:46:37.997" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T06:46:37.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T20:07:16.320" Title="Flair as Images: ASP MVC Style" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="37652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37653" CreationDate="2010-01-31T07:11:44.977" Score="5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Stack Overflow for the past six months and I try to answer many community wiki questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where can I see list of recent community wiki questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why there isn't a wiki tab under questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where can I find a list of highest voted community wiki questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T07:42:25.717" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T00:46:00.323" Title="Where can I see the list of new community wiki questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37652" CreationDate="2010-01-31T07:13:53.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try this search: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=wiki:1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=wiki:1&lt;/a&gt; (You can sort it by clicking the tabs), or enter wiki:1 in the search box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't a tab, most likely because community wiki questions aren't really displayed much differently than any other question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find just the highest questions of all time to be just as (or more) useful as a list of the highest community wiki questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T07:25:05.367" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T07:25:05.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-31T07:43:06.853" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37591/ad-is-not-loading-correctly-server-error&quot;&gt;Ad is not loading correctly (Server Error)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browsing SO, I found this interesting &quot;ad&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1649/23027303.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T16:37:08.077" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T16:37:08.077" ClosedDate="2010-01-31T14:02:33.503" Title="Ad server bug: &quot;Server Error in '/' Application.&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28263" CreationDate="2010-01-31T08:17:27.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just head to the unofficial &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery/&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow Stack Overflow Ad Gallery&lt;/a&gt; and vote your heart out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T08:17:27.430" />
  <row Id="37660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14442" CreationDate="2010-01-31T08:20:01.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could visit the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery/&quot;&gt;Unofficial Meta Stack Overflow Stack Overflow Ad Gallery&lt;/a&gt;. If it's not there, it would be greatly appreciated if you could add it at a later time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T08:20:01.980" />
  <row Id="37661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-23T06:58:48.677" Score="8" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I post some of my issues to Stack Overflow and other places on the web. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I be concerned about what people can deduce from these posts about my projects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131156" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T08:27:34.257" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T12:29:45.563" Title="How much can people deduce from my project(s) by looking at my posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;&lt;project&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37661" CreationDate="2008-10-23T07:02:59.137" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on your questions I know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You use PHP and MySQL&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You use Bazaar as a VCS&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You don't know much about writing a &quot;clean&quot; PHP app, but are interested in learning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, to me, is rather generic and uninteresting. If you're really concerned about it, post &quot;sensitive&quot; questions as an anonymous user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140319" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T08:24:47.270" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-23T07:02:59.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37661" CreationDate="2008-10-23T07:03:32.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every line of code has some information about the software it belongs to. But as long as they are no secret business logics. I won't worry about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a tip: change the identifier names (functions,variables etc.) this will obfuscate a lot of the real function and foccusses on the algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T08:24:47.270" />
  <row Id="37664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37661" CreationDate="2008-10-23T07:03:35.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It only depends on you how much do you reveal. If you post much code, or a trend can be seen in your question, then some things can be deduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinions you should be concerned about disclosing too much information. If your project is proprietary closed source, then your employer may not be happy about too much information flying publicly about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, as statetd on the beginning, &lt;strong&gt;it depends only on you&lt;/strong&gt; how much info you reveal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T08:24:47.270" />
  <row Id="37665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37661" CreationDate="2008-10-23T07:06:18.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is debatable, I think you should mind your audience as much as your questions. If your project is sensitive try to recreate your problem in a similar situation without posting real code. This all depends on your company's policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone really wants to take the time to follow all of your posts on all sites, which is also possible in industrial espionage, there's nothing much that can be done unless you start asking your questions directly to a specialized support team where everything is kept from the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again the Internet is your best bet at getting help on pointy subjects. It's a risk to be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best of luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134487" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T12:29:45.563" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T12:29:45.563" />
  <row Id="37666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37661" CreationDate="2008-10-23T07:22:55.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What might concern you is that you are leaving a digital trace not only of your activities, but your ability to learn and ask effective questions. Thus, it's not not so much your &lt;em&gt;projects&lt;/em&gt; which leak, but &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I interviewed you for a job, one of the things I like to chat about is the websites you use to keep current and seek assistance. If you mentioned Stack Overflow, that might be a rich source of additional information to make a hiring decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6521" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T08:24:47.270" />
  <row Id="37672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:25:11.703" Score="5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tag editing appears to be fairly random. It seems to me that the point of tags is to help me find stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, I use the &lt;strong&gt;[c#]&lt;/strong&gt; tag to find questions on C# - one of my specialities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do people keep editing tags to say &lt;strong&gt;[subjective]&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;[off-topic]&lt;/strong&gt;? Why would I ever want to search for subjective questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just the (still unattainable) Librarian badge calling? I'm sure we'll all get it eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to edit tags in the following circumstances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag might help the asker get a useful answer - for instance if they've missed a C# tag on a clearly C# question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tag might help those answering - for instance if they've failed to specify .Net 3.5 but are asking about Linq (only added in 3.5)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They've put one tag where another different one might be appropriate - for instance &quot;sql&quot; and &quot;2005&quot; instead of&quot;sql2005&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure of the point in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;subjective&quot;, &quot;off-topic&quot;, etc - why bother with a tag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;duplicate&quot; - there's a close option for this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;coding&quot;, &quot;programming&quot;, &quot;software&quot; - aren't they all?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;meta-discussion&quot;, etc - surely the &quot;stackoverflow&quot; tag already states that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some fairly pointless tag editing going on - with no agreement on when we should edit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What rules do you follow? When would you re-tag? When wouldn't you? Am I missing something? Do some people find &lt;strong&gt;[subjective]&lt;/strong&gt; a really useful tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've split the debate on subjective out into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19113/do-we-really-need-the-subjective-tag-and-is-it-commonly-mis-used&quot;&gt;new question&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T11:35:03.920" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T11:35:03.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-02T16:35:24.780" Title="When should you edit tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="26" />
  <row Id="37673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:29:31.227" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of &quot;subjective&quot;, &quot;off-topic&quot; tags are because these questions should not be there (if you stick to the FAQ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can edit tags before closing a post (see the FAQ and the number of reputation needed). So they tag for people who have the privilege to close a post to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" />
  <row Id="37674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:30:35.280" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I generally go by the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add tags that are related to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove inappropriate tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change new tags to existing tags that represent the question better&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I originally thought &lt;em&gt;Subjective&lt;/em&gt; was a good idea because it would help people avoid those types of questions more easily but now it seems unnecessary.  The question title is almost always enough.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2635/simucal&quot;&gt;Simucal&lt;/a&gt; said something interesting in the question comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;        &lt;p&gt;What if I wanted to view all Stackoverflow questions but filter out the purely Subjective/Opinion questions? By removing the tag you are preventing that from happening. If I just want to see the discussion on Stackoverflow technical algorithms &amp;amp; design you just prevented people from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;      &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a scenario that I hadn't considered.  Maybe &lt;em&gt;Subjective&lt;/em&gt; is a good idea for future versions of SO that allow more complicated tag filtering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm torn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-09-29T13:30:35.263" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:30:44.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tags like that would be a lot more useful with a more sophisticated search and user profile configuration.  Perhaps filtering out all questions tagged &quot;subjective&quot; or &quot;not-a-question&quot; would be useful to some people?  Or maybe I want to see all questions related to java, but not coding type questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;coding&quot; - questions about s/w design aren't about coding.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;programming&quot; - questions about architecture or technology choice (or configuration) aren't about programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing you could do to fight duplicate tags (e.g. &quot;meta&quot; vs &quot;stackoverflow&quot;) is allow only people of a certain level to create new tags.  People of a lower level could tag things, but only using existing tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137560" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:31:48.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &quot;subjective&quot; at least serves a purposes when there is no single correct answer, which in many cases is perfectly acceptable.  That may be my Perl roots talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;off-topic&quot; and &quot;duplicate&quot; - They serve to explain why the question was closed, so I agree that unless someone is using these for statistics on the back-end, they don't seem very useful since that can be covered in the verbal explanation of why it was closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree on &quot;Coding&quot; and &quot;Programming&quot;, since anything that lacks these tags should be &quot;off-topic&quot;, and that's deprecated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I think &quot;software&quot; could be interpreted to mean &quot;software used for programming&quot; rather than &quot;the software we are writing&quot;, and as such could be a useful tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" />
  <row Id="37677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:32:00.300" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I click on particular tag, say C#, I'd like to be able quickly to scan over the questions by looking at the other tags. Having subjective or offtopic tag on a question lets me skip those and go to the questions with the actual problems that needed solving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, how people use tags is highly subjective in itself... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131157" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" />
  <row Id="37678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:34:48.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Daok - while I sometimes disagree (plenty of useful subjective questions) surely that's what voting's for.  Tagging is more like a beginning-moderator action - I don't think it should be used for Vote Down++&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the duplicates the vast majority of posts marked duplicate are already closed as duplicates. If the duplicate tag is a queue for moderators to close we (that is those of us that can close) need to remove that tag when we close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="37679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T13:38:28.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags to remove&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;useless tags&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. &quot;coding&quot;, &quot;programming&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;broken tags&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. &quot;sql&quot; and &quot;server&quot; instead of &quot;sqlserver&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wrong tags&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. &quot;java&quot; in a C# question)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags to add&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;warning tags&lt;/strong&gt;: e.g. &quot;not-a-question&quot;, &quot;offtopic&quot; (I add a comment saying, &quot;reformulate as question&quot;, etc. and add the tag for future closing if necessary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;forgotten tags&lt;/strong&gt;: where it makes sense to have that tag but it's not there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All other cases&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instead of retagging, &lt;strong&gt;add a comment asking the user to do it&lt;/strong&gt;. In my opinion, asking the poster has more teaching value. You can also edit later if the poster does not care. It's also less &quot;tag war&quot; prone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131112" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T14:39:40.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;#148660&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Keith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check this link &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/148905/how-did-you-first-get-interested-in-programming&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/148905/how-did-you-first-get-interested-in-programming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This must be closed because it gives nothing to any developer in the world. Who care how someone start loving programming. So tagging at &quot;subjective&quot; seem to be good. Like that someone like you will be able to close it. SO is not a website to get reputation but to answer developer question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37672" CreationDate="2008-09-29T15:22:12.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a balance here - on the one side you have the need to tidy up others' posts, and on the other there is the courtesy to them of not changing their posts unnecessarily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I always want to know the reasons for the change - I often comment with my reasons for an up or down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With moderating lots of us can change tags - I think it's important (enough for an aberrant meta-question, anyway) that we agree.  Too many times you see 6 or 7 edits to a posts basically adding and removing the same tags - I don't think that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think part of the problem is that on the whole use of the subjective tag is, in itself, subjective. If we disagree then how do we resolve it? Go back and forth editing the post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think every open question should be flagged as subjective. Argumentative posts should just be closed - leaving a fine line where the tag is actually useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;meta&quot; I don't get it - surely all &quot;stackoverflow&quot; tags are &quot;meta&quot; and vice versa - why do we have two tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &quot;off-topic&quot; surely the correct response is no tags at all? I mean if it really is off-topic then no programming tag makes any sense, and tagless posts disappear quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really with Sklivvz on the comments - particularly for not-a-question, as those posts are really often beginner posts needing help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:24.127" />
  <row Id="37682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-14T02:27:41.290" Score="8" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does it take for something to go from being merely subjective to a &quot;best practice&quot;?  Is a &quot;best practice&quot; no longer subjective?  It seems like something becomes a best practice when a lot of people adopt it.  But there are plenty of examples where popularity  != the &quot;best&quot; practice, or even a &quot;good&quot; practice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, subjective is one of the most frequent tags on SO so far, and it seems to have a negative connotation.  One of the ways it has become so frequent is because of SOers who re-tag questions as &quot;subjective&quot;.  Should all questions be worded so that they have some clearly defined metric, such as &quot;What's the fastest way to instantiate a widget class?&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since programming is often described as an art, isn't art inherently subjective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6688" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T11:37:33.710" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T11:37:33.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-10-14T02:27:41.290" Title="Best-Practices versus Subjective" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37682" CreationDate="2008-10-14T02:37:15.543" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm unfortunately not an artist.  I wish I were.  I go at coding as more of a building project, with well defined parameters and specifications. I give a client what they want using the tools I have available.  I believe something is considered best practice when it is documented by industry leaders and by groups of experts who have seen the same problems solved hundreds of ways, and seen the pitfalls and successes.  These are usually documented in order to keep other wayward souls from making the same mistakes and having to relearn things that the coding community has already learned.  I believe it is important to continuously read up and understand the documented industry best practices, and to have enough experience to know when it is better to deviate and why.  There will always be an infinite number of solutions to problems, but being aware of the experience of others that solved similar problems avoids much headache and heartache. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;As soon as I posted this a question came up that illustrates what is truely subjective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/199829/what-is-the-best-language-for-a-beginner-to-write-a-blog-engine-in&quot;&gt;What is the best language for a beginner to write a blog engine in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's true the &quot;Subjective&quot; Tag has been overused as of late, questions like these have absolutely no correct answer. Of course, I also believe, that doesn't mean they aren't important to those that ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141032" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:53.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37682" CreationDate="2008-10-14T02:44:57.667" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;best practice&quot; is just a buzzword to make a technical option sound more standard than it is. The very term &quot;best&quot; assumes degree of goodness, which is by nature subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, is using version control a best practice? How about garbage collection? Refactoring? Continuous integration? Coding conventions? Unit tests? Pair programming? Thick specification documents in boxes? The answer is mostly &quot;it depends.&quot; Similar buzzword is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lifehack.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lifehack&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/27&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NO BEST PRACTICES&lt;/a&gt; linked from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58086/what-are-best-practices&quot;&gt;What are &quot;best practices?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you say that something is a “best&#xA;  practice”, you may impress the&#xA;  uninitiated, or intimidate the&#xA;  inexperienced, but you just look&#xA;  foolish to people who believe in the&#xA;  possiblity of excellence. Excellence&#xA;  in an intellectual craft simply cannot&#xA;  be attained by ignorantly copying what&#xA;  other people say that they do. Yet,&#xA;  the notion of a best practice is&#xA;  really just an invitation to be an&#xA;  ignorant pawn in someone else’s game&#xA;  of process manners– or it’s a trick to&#xA;  make people pawns in your own game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simple, honest alternatives are&#xA;  available:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“Here’s what I would recommend for this situation.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“Here is a practice I find interesting.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“Here is my favorite practice for dealing with {x}.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;“{Person X} attributes {practice Y} for his&#xA;  success. Maybe you’d like to learn&#xA;  about it.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't fully agree with the whole &quot;intellectual craft&quot; and &quot;excellence&quot; bit, but you get the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:53.080" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37682" CreationDate="2008-10-14T05:53:06.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I am taken aback by the sheer number of questions that ticker through here whilst not solving a single concrete problem &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calling them &quot;subjective&quot; or &quot;best-practice&quot; or even &quot;poll&quot; does not help any. Most of them exist merely to make the author feel warm and cosy about himself and generate tremendous amounts of rep as a welcome side effect (up-voting questions like &quot;What is your favorite [whatever]&quot; simply is beyond me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The so faq (there should be a badge for reading it) makes the intent of this site quite clear, and asking subjective questions sure as hell is not on the list. Most of the people asking subjective questions simply are too lazy to go and read a book about the topic, or google it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the question has a fundamental flaw: &quot;Best practices&quot; are as big a part of current fashion as anything, and where you draw the line between &quot;subjective&quot; and &quot;best-practice&quot; is, you guessed it, subjective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd probably be best if there was a community &quot;vote as subjective&quot; button, and when that hits ten, the question is converted to a community wiki and all the rep generated gets revoked. This would help a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:53.080" />
  <row Id="37686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37682" CreationDate="2008-10-14T06:27:43.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would differentiate between &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt; BP and things that are only &lt;strong&gt;called&lt;/strong&gt; best practices because it is a currently very popular buzzword and adds credibility to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/199820/best-practices-vs-subjective#199839&quot;&gt;stephenbayer&lt;/a&gt; gives a very good definition of &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt; BP. Rephrasing his words and adding something of my own, BP are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;well documented&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;developed by industry leaders and by groups of experts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;based on lots of experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;constantly changing and emerging&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;accepted by the majority of experts in the field&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is not much room left for subjectivity here, either a practice is accepted as BP, or it isn't. The process of developing/documenting a practice and the acceptance process as BP by the community however, is,  should be, and has to be subjective. &lt;em&gt;Inifinite diversity in infinite combinations.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the discussion wether programming is an art or not, the answer to that is obviously... well, subjective ;-) For me as an engineer, the answer is: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Certainly not!&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; In my opinion, this is mostly used as an argument by developers too lazy to adopt BP. (Yes, this is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; subjective.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22114" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:53.080" />
  <row Id="37687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37682" CreationDate="2008-10-14T07:37:13.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What does it take for something to go from being merely subjective to a &quot;best practice&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When something is merely subjective, you would expect that contradictory answers are the norm. A subjective question is asking the community an opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;When a question is marked as best-practice, it is assumed that there is already a consensus on the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is a &quot;best practice&quot; no longer subjective? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that if a question is marked as best-practice it should not be generally marked as subjective. There can be some borderline cases where this makes sense, but I generally re-tag the questions which are marked as both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should all questions be worded so that they have some clearly defined metric, such as &quot;What's the fastest way to instantiate a widget class?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. I think that subjective and best-practices questions are very useful and welcome in SO. Of course, if what you really want to know is very specific, then your question should be just as detailed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since programming is often described as an art, isn't art inherently subjective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, ehm, you might consider extremely clever or witty coding as art. Normally though I think that programming is a craft, and a young one at that. By the way -- is making statues art? In some cases, yes. In some others, for example sculpting souvenirs, it's not. Should there be best practices in sculpture? You can bet there are. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131112" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:53.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37682" CreationDate="2008-10-14T23:40:46.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could define a Best practice the way the nice people over at the SEI do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A best practice is one that is &lt;em&gt;proven scientifically&lt;/em&gt; to improve results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quickly makes most &quot;best practices&quot; not best practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And might just make you a CMMI bigot too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2789" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:42:53.080" />
  <row Id="37689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:38:28.590" Score="9" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it would be a good idea to track a programming language's popularity by looking at Stack Overflow. I took 20 languages and counted the number of questions per language and put the results up in a table. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used a very crude algorithm and compiled &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedorictemple.blogspot.com/2008/11/tiobe-programming-index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;The Doric Temple&quot;&gt;the results on my blog&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran the algo against the number of questions asked for a particular language, but this could be useful information to have if the developers of Stack Overflow could create a page for it somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could use votes and answers as well as questions to gauge the popularity of a language, and they could also restrict the queries to a particular month to get an indication of current popularity rather than historical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be useful? Does it make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Apparently, SO was not seeded (see comment), so no bias towards .NET from that angle)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T11:15:06.523" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T11:15:06.523" Title="Using Stack Overflow to track language popularity" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;languages&gt;&lt;popularity&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:41:18.680" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be measuring how hard it is to solve problems with the language (i.e. how likely people are to need to use StackOverflow), rather than popularity of use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence the few questions from smug Lisp weenies :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131913" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:42:03.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can be used to track language popularity on stackoverflow. This one data point should not be used to talk about general popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when this site has matured a bit, perhaps this one data point should be added to e.g &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.langpop.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.langpop.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136079" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:44:30.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_theorem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bayes' theorem&lt;/a&gt;. It depends on the probability of reading stackoverflow given language X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:45:49.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find studies like this very interesting.  Just recently google started &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.org/flutrends/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Flu Trends&lt;/a&gt;&quot; where they are using the number of people who search about the flu as an indicator of the the number of people who have the flu in that state.  You can view a map of all 50 states to see where the flu epidemic is spreading to and to what degree so you can have early warning systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful.  It might not be directly indicative of how popular a language is in general but that doesn't mean the information isn't useful.  As far as implementation I think if we could have something similar to how we can select our reputation on the graph it would be neat to be able to select a range of time and see a overlayed line graph of the various languages and their question frequency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2635" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:50:14.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Had just done exactly that a few minutes ago, before checking your post, to compare Python vs Ruby. Python has about twice the tag frequency of Ruby, which seems right. Since Python is Ruby's elder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15124" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:52:17.657" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the impression that stackoverflow readers are strongly biased towards the Microsoft stack, thus the popularity of C# and related languages. This is not a random sample of the programming population.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus general popularity is out of the question. It surely might be useful to track how the membership evolves over time or to know what are you most likely to find here, or similar stuff. I think I'm not the only one waiting for DB dumps or at least the SO API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T10:56:30.020" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All such a sample will ever give you is a measure of the likelihood of the next question on SO being about language X. It cannot be reliably used to determine the popularity of languages in the &quot;real world&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T11:03:50.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A better way to find out about the popularity would be to post a community wiki question with various choices are answers, set some guidelines for voting,&#xA;the number of votes should give a fair indication of the language that is popular&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141813" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T11:05:04.323" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will always be tracking how many questions are asked about a language on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I ask about Installshield, do I ask because it's &quot;popular&quot;, or just because I'm chained to the smelly rotten carcass of it? If there is a continuous but notable increase in C++ questions - does it get more popular, or did they release an update with new features? A continuous decrease of Java questions - did people give up on it, or have they found a place with more Java experts? A jump in ADA questions - did it just capture the spotlight, or did a company using it just change its internet access policy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are to many influences that you cannot control for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31317" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T11:36:21.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, if we all ask 10 Cobol questions, it will be the most popular language of all? ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T12:16:51.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No - not unless the vast majority of all programmers asked questions here. Even then, there would be the problem of proportion: would few questions mean that a language was not popular, or that it was easy to learn or had so many tutorials available that it didn't need questions asked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, you'd have to factor some difficult-to-measure attributes just to get an estimate of popularity amongst SO users, and there's no guarantee that we're representative of the rest of the programming world. Comparing Java to PHP in your table gives you a good indication that it's not representative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T12:44:43.267" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To embellish the answers above, I'll add that by counting Stack Overflow questions you might be tracking the &quot;popularity&quot; of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;current-generation languages,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with tricky corner-case issues,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;used by less-experienced programmers,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on Windows,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;who listen to podcasts,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and read blogs,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and don't work in mutually-supportive development teams...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T13:01:22.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I love statististics. Can't have enough of them. Just make it easy to find the one supporting my current claim. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T13:05:19.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be a useful data point if you include information from several more sites.  Some other data you might incorporate into your measurement could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Language popularity on open source sites like SourceForge and Google Code.&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frequency of languages mentioned on programming blogs (all of them, not just the popular ones).&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Surveys of language support in popular IDE's (e.g., you might be able to find out how many times the Perl, Ruby, and Erlang plugins have been downloaded for TextPad).&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a bit of data mining you can probably come up with a useful metric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-12T14:16:58.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I  don't think it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of: a lot of programming languages have other forums too. For example, Perl's low  popularity here (&amp;lt; 2% of the questions) is IMO, although some very highly respected people from the online Perl Community spend their time here (too), mainly because Perl folks have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perlmonks.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PerlMonks&lt;/a&gt;, a Perl specific site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the amount of questions that are asked is more because people are having trouble with the language. Not all languages are equally hard.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a better metric could maybe be the number of replies to questions, and/or how long it takes for a question to be answered. Or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37689" CreationDate="2008-11-13T21:07:36.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested in including the results in &lt;a href=&quot;http://langpop.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://langpop.com&lt;/a&gt; if SO grows to be a fairly large community that continues to add languages and diversify, rather than trend towards one particular set of technologies.  Incidentally, I'm always looking for other cool new things to add to that site, so let me know (via email, preferably).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Dave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:18.510" />
  <row Id="37706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:20:39.630" Score="11" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I'm doing an academic paper, journal article, or other professional presentation.  Would you say that it would be possible to use Stack Overflow as a reference?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I'm pretty sure that the answer here would be &quot;yes.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's the follow up: When, if ever, would it be a &lt;em&gt;good idea&lt;/em&gt; to cite a Stack Overflow question as a reference in an professional paper/presentation of some kind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T11:22:14.603" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:22:05.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:20:39.630" Title="Stack Overflow as a reference in a professional paper/presentation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;citation&gt;&lt;academic&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:25:27.483" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an academic paper, you should be careful with using unofficial references. Stack Overflow is an example of this. Anyone can write anything, and the only guarantee you have as to the quality of the writing is the reputation of the author and the number of up-votes the answer received. Publications such as professional magazines and articles are subject to known peer-reviews and are checked for accuracy and authenticity. While answers on Stack Overflow are also subject to peer-review, the standards of that review are not well known, if they even exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, while you may want to use Stack Overflow to provide direction for a paper, you would be wise to double check any answers you get, and see if you can find an established paper/article that supports that information. Then you can reference the official source, and give credit to Stack Overflow in general for helping with your research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:22:05.180" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:22:05.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:25:27.483" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:29:57.693" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Added to the excellent points above, bear in mind that the community-editable nature of the site means that any references you make could well be out-of-date / deleted / modified by the time your paper is published.  There are mechanisms for looking back at earlier versions of a question or an answer, but please bear in mind that it is your academic reputation that's at stake, not that of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131632" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:32.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:29:57.693" />
  <row Id="37709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:29:58.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that springs to mind are unofficial &quot;polls.&quot;  Like for example, you could cite &quot;Is C more easily affected by buffer overflows?&quot; (hypothetical topic) and use it as an anecdotal example to illustrate your point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:32.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:29:58.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:31:06.160" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For academic reference purposes, treat Stack Overflow the same as you would treat Wikipedia - somewhere to start, but not definitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exception to this is when you are quoting someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:21:02.573" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:21:02.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:31:06.160" />
  <row Id="37711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:32:22.337" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither Stack Overflow nor Wikipedia should be used as a reliable source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139367" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:20:35.660" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:20:35.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:32:22.337" />
  <row Id="37712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:41:11.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen more answers with wrong things (including posted by myself) than all right on Stack Overflow. You should be very careful with citing Stack Overflow in academic papers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:19:41.550" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:19:41.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:41:11.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T15:51:45.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. But only for poking some fun with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:32.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T15:51:45.510" />
  <row Id="37714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T16:07:35.183" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be a good idea to use Stack Overflow as a reference in some academic or professional presentation if you are using it as an example of an excellent community driven website with the aim of providing technical direction for its users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a fantastic example of a late 2008 bleeding edge fully functional website.  It's also remarkable that it is written using ASP.NET MVC technology which is just barely in beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any of the current various merits of Stack Overflow are certainly reference-able with the caveat that, since this is a Beta website living on the cutting edge anything you reference may not exist 6 months or further from now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as fodder for a presentation on late 2008 state-of-the-art technical community websites, Stack Overflow is perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:18:54.640" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:18:54.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T16:07:35.183" />
  <row Id="37715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T16:48:38.330" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply put: NO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an academic point of view, SO is nothing more than a forum where a bunch of uncredited people discuss and rate themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145381" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T10:56:32.207" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T16:48:38.330" />
  <row Id="37716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2008-11-11T17:03:51.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one set of circumstances where I believe Stack Overflow should be cited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your primary source of information is Stack Overflow, and that information is unavailable elsewhere, and you can verify that information is correct (by testing), then I think it would be very bad manners not to cite Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is particularly important if the information sourced on Stack Overflow is central to your thesis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A discussion about an undocumented API reference that someone has discovered, and that you can verify by checking a compiled binary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A programming technique that is unpublished elsewhere, but that can be demonstrated in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144567" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:18:00.880" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:18:00.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-11T17:03:51.590" />
  <row Id="37717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37718" CreationDate="2010-01-31T11:37:48.390" Score="8" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it a good practice to delete your own answer, if it's not upvoted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes someone has rephrased my answer. Sometimes it is correct, but users consider it irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131410" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T11:46:04.987" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T12:14:54.497" Title="Deleting your own answers without upvotes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37717" CreationDate="2010-01-31T12:14:54.497" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the other person's rephrased answer is better, is technically correct, and covers the same ground, then I'd definitely consider deleting an answer. However, I'd never delete an answer just because it didn't get any upvotes. And if it's technically correct and addresses the question, I won't delete it if it a gets negative score - a lot of SO users vote on the basis of what they WANT the answer to be rather than what it actually IS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T12:14:54.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37419" CreationDate="2010-01-31T12:47:07.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As ChrisF commented, here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug/21623#21623&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; that will tell you how many votes you have in a particular tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question directly I count you currently have &lt;strong&gt;344&lt;/strong&gt; upvotes for non community-wiki posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: to do this I tweaked the script to work on your profile page (normally the script exits unless viewing the current user's profile page to minimise spurious requests to the server). If you install the script and are logged in you would be able to count the upvotes by clicking the triangle next to the c++ tag on the profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T12:47:07.060" />
  <row Id="37720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37724" CreationDate="2010-01-31T13:11:53.040" Score="4" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7635/what-to-do-when-a-user-deletes-all-their-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;What to do when a user deletes all their questions and answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SU, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/4428/paxdiablo&quot;&gt;user&lt;/a&gt; recently edited away all his answers (replaced them with &quot;.........................................&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/posts/45651/revisions&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(He probably also deleted all the posts that he could, as there are now just 3 (accepted) answers left – and those do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; account for his reputation score (&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;: 524 before any recalc kicking in).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, just wondering: Is a user &quot;entitled&quot; to do that? Are other users entitled to revert such edits? (The posted content, after all, is not exclusive property of the OP, but published under cc-wiki.) &lt;em&gt;Edit&lt;/em&gt;: someone already reverted those 3 remaining answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56285" LastEditorUserId="56285" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T14:06:09.750" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T20:49:43.863" ClosedDate="2010-01-31T20:46:12.483" Title="Is it ok for a user to remove *all* their contributions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37720" CreationDate="2010-01-31T14:25:26.133" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last time this happened, the defacement was all reverted and then some negotiation between the management and the user ensued. The site makes it clear that people who type stuff in here are granting a license, and so defacing your own stuff is no better than defacing anyone else's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T14:25:26.133" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37720" CreationDate="2010-01-31T16:25:57.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and undeleted the content (1 question, lots of answers) and removed PaxDiablo as a user, since that was what he seemed to want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T20:49:43.863" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T20:49:43.863" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-31T16:42:07.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now to patiently wait for caches to clean out so I can be unicornified!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6973/71911c9cfb9a0335619cdee.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mine's leaping&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T16:42:07.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37652" CreationDate="2010-01-31T17:55:05.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to Chacha102's answer and also directly answering the third question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can apply various filters. Besides &quot;wiki&quot; they are: &quot;hasaccepted&quot;, &quot;closed&quot;, &quot;answers&quot; and &quot;votes&quot;. There is also &quot;user&quot;, but it is not so interesting in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a way to filter for a particular tag, the &quot;[&lt;em&gt;tag&lt;/em&gt;]&quot; syntax. E.g. [perl] to only display questions tagged with &quot;perl&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples (enter in the search box in the upper right on any page):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This example is also an answer to the third question. To list highly voted Community Wiki (CW) questions that have not been closed (100 votes in this example - result takes up 2 pages for Stack Overflow):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiki:1 closed:0 votes:100&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To list CW questions that have not been closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiki:1 closed:0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To list CW questions that have not been closed, have at least 7 upvotes and no accepted answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiki:1 closed:0 votes:7 hasaccepted:0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To list CW questions that have not been closed, have at least 3 upvotes and have no answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiki:1 closed:0 votes:3 answers:0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To list CW questions that have not been closed, and have at least 12 answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiki:1 closed:0 answers:12&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To list CW questions tagged with Perl that have not been closed, and have no answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiki:1 closed:0 answers:0 [perl]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be expressed as URLs. E.g. for the third example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=wiki%3A1+closed%3A0+votes%3A7+hasaccepted%3A0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These filters were described in an old Stack Overflow blog entry: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Search – Now 61% Less Crappy&lt;/a&gt;. The filters are documented in &lt;code&gt;/search&lt;/code&gt; and are more up to date, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt; for Stack Overflow. There is a new filter: &lt;code&gt;intitle&lt;/code&gt; (&quot;questions with specific words in the title&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Illustration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pil.sdu.dk/1/until2039-12-31/SO/SearchFilters_2010-01-31.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T00:46:00.323" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T00:46:00.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37527" CreationDate="2010-01-31T17:56:43.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I would rearrange the elements some - maybe put the up/down votes on the right, something like that. I can look at it and &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; it's not a SOFU website, but I don't think I could tell the difference between it and a StackExchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you should change the background of the accepted answer to green, like SOFU &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; to do. I liked that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T17:56:43.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37729" CreationDate="2010-01-31T18:41:00.943" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be handy if someone could essentially create a custom questions time line. Ideally it would allow questions from more then one tag to be displayed at once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if someone's interesting tags include PHP, jQuery, and ecommerce, they can create a time line that show all question tagged with PHP, jQuery, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; ecommerce. Basically if a question has one of these tags, even if it doesn't have any of the other tags, it will be listed in that users questions time line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would make it easier for those of us who only want to follow a specific set of tags. Especially when that number of tags is greater then a handful. Even better when many of those tags get very few questions. It would beat having to open up each tag's timeline every time we log into SO to see if new questions have been asked with that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142624" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T18:46:01.167" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T18:46:01.167" Title="View questions from all interesting tags into one timeline" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37728" CreationDate="2010-01-31T18:45:03.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's possible already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php+or+jquery+or+ecommerce&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php+or+jquery+or+ecommerce&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T18:45:03.103" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16276" CreationDate="2010-01-31T20:36:46.653" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a good idea to expect from people posting at least minimum of effort in writing and expressing a question properly and grammatically. If I ask for help, I want to indicate proper attitude, that I do not just throw a question out of myself but I give a minimum effort to &lt;strong&gt;help others to help myself&lt;/strong&gt;. It's also a matter of respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if I see question asked this way &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2172206/working-thru-sample-code&quot;&gt;Working thru sample code&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;trying to work thru some sample&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working &lt;strong&gt;thru&lt;/strong&gt;? What's that? It's a clear indicator I'm too lazy to type the word through, inappropriate attitude I believe. What's next? &lt;strong&gt;Posting questions in SMS language?&lt;/strong&gt; I would really wish that users of StackOverflow and sister sites keep their attitude as well as content on minimal professional level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit surprised I've been bawled out by some users because of my harsh comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. I'm not a native English speaker myself, but it's not a problem for me to have English dictionary and spell checker installed in Firefox, and use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142630" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T20:36:46.653" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-01-31T20:48:55.503" Score="14" ViewCount="972" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to announce that the latest version of my Stack Overflow Reputation extension for Google Chrome is available in Google's extension repository.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The extension now supports showing reputation from Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault and Meta (following requests from users). It also utilizes jQuery 1.4.1 for better performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To use it, you need Google Chrome version 4 (or Dev build 5), and a profile on one of the Stack Overflow sites (of course :)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get it by searching the extensions repository for 'Stack Overflow' or browsing directly to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/SOExtension&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/SOExtension&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments and requests are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132272" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T08:22:19.360" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T08:22:19.360" Title="Stack Overflow Chrome Extension" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;tools&gt;&lt;extension&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="37732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37731" CreationDate="2010-01-31T21:05:32.797" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm Jon Skeet, and I approve this extension.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In all seriousness, I have it installed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps an option to poll periodically and pop up a little box when the rep changed would be nice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T21:05:32.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37745" CreationDate="2010-01-31T22:34:44.870" Score="1" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's due to my bad English, but I don't understand why some questions on SOF are considered to be &lt;code&gt;offensive&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2173568/intel-80386-machine-code-to-assembly-language&quot;&gt;there was one guy who had a &quot;homework&quot; question&lt;/a&gt;. And a few seconds after asking the question I saw comments calling it &quot;offensive&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, that's pretty blatantly homework and, thus, blatantly offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then another user tagged the question as &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; and that seemed to calm those leaving comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone please try to explain this to me? Specifically, why an &lt;code&gt;offensive&lt;/code&gt; question is acceptable when it is &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139218" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T23:48:12.500" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:23:19.900" Title="Why are people calling this homework question &quot;offensive&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;homework&gt;&lt;offensive&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="37735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-01-31T23:00:48.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: @balpha - these are awesome btw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One suggestion though... since you've gone to the trouble of adding a mane &amp;amp; legs, maybe give them a tail (same colour as the main, except a bit bigger &amp;amp; getting thicker towards the end)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, because I think it's appropriate, I've added your greasemonkey script snippet to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13592/10k-rep-users-should-have-the-cornify-button-back/13625#13625&quot;&gt;my Cornify button script&lt;/a&gt;, so now cornifying will unicornify the gravatar for the relevant question/answer too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Damn it, my rainbow &amp;amp; unicorn hating workplace is blocking &lt;code&gt;unicornify.appspot.com&lt;/code&gt; (a conspiracy to be sure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm going to have to painstakingly type in my gravatar md5 hash into my mobile phone so I can see mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HC8H6.png&quot; alt=&quot;alconja's unicorn&quot; title=&quot;it's unicornlicious!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:53:21.633" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:53:21.633" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37734" CreationDate="2010-01-31T23:03:51.963" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the many questions elsewhere on meta for discussions on homework policy.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Here's one from the faq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think people are way too quick to pull the spam and offensive levers.  Those words mean something specific to me, and most questions and answers closed as such don't satisfy those definitions.  It'd be nice if the trilogy had a &lt;em&gt;not a question, and cannot reasonably hope to ever be one&lt;/em&gt; close reason, but save that, I tend to leave those posts alone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other people, the word &lt;em&gt;offensive&lt;/em&gt; means something completely different to them.  In my mind, I think I've been offended maybe a handful of times in my life.  Other people, they're offended daily.  It's a very subjective word in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everyone agrees.  Note that the question was closed against a different reason - that means only one, maybe two, people voted to close as offensive.  That's the beauty of a voting system - it takes more than one.  If a majority thought it was offensive, well, maybe they're on to something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: I see that you answered the poster's entire homework.  Frankly, it's &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; kind of responses that make people dislike homework questions on SO.  You've helped him cheat, and you haven't helped him learn at all.  You may have helped later readers, and that's your answer's only saving grace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(but I'm not offended.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastEditorUserId="130268" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-01-31T23:30:18.487" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:30:18.487" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37734" CreationDate="2010-01-31T23:13:00.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone was leeching off SO to get the SO people to do their homework for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's fairly offensive to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;, who actually had to learn that sorta stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aid to understanding, I would like to provide further information about US code of conduct; in particular, the codes of conduct held at my University. I expect this to be generally the code of conduct of respectable academic institutions world-wide, modulo penalties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, the goals of these codes is as follows(this is in general and I may have missed a few big points, specifics may not always apply):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To ensure that one student does not gain an unfair advantage in a competitive situation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To ensure that all students who pass the degree have a base level of knowledge, i.e., it's not been taken from other people and the student himself does not know it. Passing students who have cheated degrades the value of the degree.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To ensure academic integrity; such lying is not tolerated in the academy: everyone has a proper citation and proper attributation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To ensure that student abilities are accurately and properly evaluated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, it should be noted that a student in a class has a different goal than a developer in the workplace. The student is being evaluated on his knowledge and critical thinking; his goal is to learn. The developer is being evaluated on his ability to push product out the door to the specified quality requirements; his goal is to make product. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This difference engenders a different rule of conduct for using code and asking questions, which is reflected in the student codes of conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~beth/REM357_syllabus_files/UI%20Academic%20Honesty.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Any assignment that was created by another student that you are turning in as&#xA;your own work is considered cheating. Purchasing papers from websites or other&#xA;students on campus is academic dishonesty, the equivalent of cheating and/or&#xA;plagiarizing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.cs.uidaho.edu/~billjunk/AcademicHonesty.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cheating is the unauthorized use of information or study guides in any academic exercise.  Any form of academic deception or any action that attempts to defraud could be considered cheating.  The methods of cheating are varied and well known by students and instructors.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/css385/syllabus2009.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plagiarism is an especially vile form of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism may include 1) the direct copying of another’s writings, with or without minor rephrasing, without citing the source, and 2) not indicating directly quoted passages when the work is cited as a general source.  Academic honesty is governed by the Student Code of Conduct. All suspected instances of academic dishonesty will be referred to the Dean of Students. Sanctions, including receiving a grade of &quot;F&quot; for the course, may be imposed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plagiarism will NOT be tolerated.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be sure to cite sources to support and lend credibility to all of your writing. Please be very zealous in citing sources for your ideas when you write. UI instructors now have at their disposal several powerful and sophisticated web-based instruments for detecting plagiarized text. Even a sentence or two plagiarized in a document is a form of scientific misconduct. It is very tempting and easy to copy text directly, but it works against the educational process and is a form of theft.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastEditorUserId="130556" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T01:23:19.900" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:23:19.900" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="37738" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-10-09T22:27:50.630" Score="7" ViewCount="449" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just deleted an answer I had left to a question because it had been proven to be wrong.  It seems that this would be the proper thing to do, since the purpose of the site is to provide correct answers - misleading information is the last thing we all want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if the answer is providing important information about approaches that have been tried and rejected?  What if it's an obvious but wrong choice, and others are likely to leave the same answer if they don't see yours?  What if there are later responses that refer to yours, and you're removing the context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a compromise I waited a day before removing my post.  How would you have done it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:27:30.213" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:27:30.213" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-19T18:11:16.663" Title="When or should you delete your incorrect answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;wrong-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37738" CreationDate="2008-10-09T22:29:55.027" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once it hits -2, I assume I'm an idiot and delete it to prevent further damage.  I also delete it if I see that someone beat me to the punch and posted the same exact information sooner.  In that case, my answer is just redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148633" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:13:12.653" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37738" CreationDate="2008-10-09T22:32:01.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would prefer to edit the answer and explain whats wrong and why its wrong.&#xA;IMHO thats the best way in all cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131564" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:13:12.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37738" CreationDate="2008-10-09T22:34:43.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreeing with Ben Hoffstein, I also delete my answer when it goes negative. However, I generally don't remove redundant answers as these are suppose to be automatically sorted out by the voting systemz, and different explanations of the same thing might help someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:13:12.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37738" CreationDate="2008-10-09T22:36:57.087" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you provide feedback to a question and you think you have &lt;strong&gt;added something substantive&lt;/strong&gt; to it, &lt;strong&gt;leave it&lt;/strong&gt;. Even if it doesn't directly answer the question the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were &lt;strong&gt;completely out of the ballpark&lt;/strong&gt; with your response, just save everybody time and space and &lt;strong&gt;remove it&lt;/strong&gt;.  We are humans, and we are just not on the same page as others sometimes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: If it adds value, leave it. If it doesn't, remove it and move on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just because it isn't exactly right&lt;/strong&gt;, doesn't mean it doesn't add any value to the OP or future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually take some time to go through all of my responses that have not been ticked up.  If I find that I didn't really add anything to the post, I remove it.  Otherwise, I just keep it there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148918" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:13:12.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37738" CreationDate="2008-10-09T22:38:01.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you realize that you made a mistake or your answer does not contribute any value to the topic. Regardless of the vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144609" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:13:12.653" />
  <row Id="37744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37738" CreationDate="2008-10-09T23:04:23.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of mine are rated fairly well, but I put one semi-serious semi flippant answer out there and got bashed to--well right now it's -34.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to think it's a valid point though so I'm leaving it, and I did get enough corresponding upvotes that it actually earned positive rep (not that I really care much, but I found that interesting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after posting I usually review the others who have posted and if it turns out I misread the question, my response was worse than someone else's or mine is a dupe, I'll kill mine--I've done it 3 or 4 times so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140390" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:13:12.653" />
  <row Id="37745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37734" CreationDate="2010-01-31T23:30:34.897" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original title asked a perfectly valid question. The original &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; however, sounded like an assignment pulled straight from someone's homework with no effort made to understand it much less figure out how to solve it. I suspect this is the source of the disgust evident in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP has since returned to clarify his goal. I've edited the question to reflect this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:30:34.897" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37734" CreationDate="2010-01-31T23:38:06.237" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not specifically talking about this question, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find that any question that is basically &lt;code&gt;plz-send-teh-codez&lt;/code&gt; is offensive, as the original poster is basically telling the people looking to answer their question that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't value your time, and I value my time so much that I'm not even going to begin to attempt to build this thing myself. Therefore, write me the code, for free, even though you probably get paid to do this during the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any question that personifies that statement, I wholeheartedly feel should be downvoted and closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once again, I'm NOT talking about the specific homework question you are talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-01-31T23:38:06.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-01T01:12:08.457" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think mine is on fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/297e728fc79110ee2ea25ccc69a8ffae?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T01:12:08.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-01T02:22:17.997" Score="144" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, you &lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt; change the default avatars on S[OFU] to unicorns on April 1st.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MUST&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok this was implemented... I'm sooo happy now :D Thanks Jeff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="135015" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-13T16:14:38.690" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T16:14:38.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="37749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23178" CreationDate="2010-02-01T02:29:22.163" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm bumping this as I think it's important. Actually SO's HTML is pretty clean, I only see errors about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Missing ALT on images (like it's already been said, important for accessibility)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;tfoot&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; where it's not allowed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Errors with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;form&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;s missing &lt;code&gt;ACTION&lt;/code&gt; or other mandatory attributes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So compared to other websites it's already &lt;strong&gt;REALLY&lt;/strong&gt; good, I would say making the most important pages (view question, view question list, ask question, etc) validate won't take more than 1 hour of work. If you don't think following standards is important, at least do it just to make us happy and to be able to say &quot;hey my website validates&quot; :) It's not that much work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T02:29:22.163" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-01T03:01:14.273" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bug-eyed, the same color as glow in the dark stickers, every bit as shapely as a gummi bear, and seriously hung up on that rainbow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/9100fb18460057e68cadc6132add0f7f?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just horrible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add my vote for the 20100401 application date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T03:01:14.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-30T07:36:19.900" Score="4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stack-overflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;ldquo;closed&amp;rdquo; question in Stack Overflow? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Motives aside, I want to close some of my questions. Many of which have answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone tell me how to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T07:14:03.443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:19:51.023" ClosedDate="2010-02-01T18:18:05.947" Title="How do I close my own question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37752" CreationDate="2008-11-30T07:38:54.947" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a close link under the tags, just click on that, assuming you have enough reputation points, then choose the &quot;no longer relevant&quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need 250 reputation points for that but you currently only have 240, so I'll vote this question up to give you the power :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, keep in mind that, even though you may not find it useful any longer, others may. Consider leaving it there for posterity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T05:34:44.960" />
  <row Id="37754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37752" CreationDate="2008-11-30T07:40:23.917" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do you want to close them?  Just accept the answer and allow them to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen many questions here where the &quot;accepted&quot; answer is not the best.  If someone comes along and wants to offer you some better advice on something you've asked, you should allow it.  At the very least, so others can see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T05:34:44.960" />
  <row Id="37755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37752" CreationDate="2008-11-30T07:57:29.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree on not closing your own questions - by definition you are the person least able to judge the answers, otherwise you wouldn't be asking!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I would also be carefull about closing other questions - really only if they are way off topic or duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T05:34:44.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37759" CreationDate="2010-02-01T06:47:33.897" Score="9" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you can see it as well, but I get &quot;this month&quot; highlighted at the same time with &quot;today&quot; (I clicked today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I agree that, since today is the first of the month, today is also the whole month, and it makes kind of sense that both are highlighted, but was it really intended? A tab widget (which is what that set of entries appears to emulate) does not work this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/739/todaythismonth.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-20T13:48:33.300" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T13:48:33.300" Title="&quot;this month&quot; highlighted with &quot;today&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37756" CreationDate="2010-02-01T06:51:11.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that logic, &lt;code&gt;this week&lt;/code&gt; should be highlighted every Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T07:20:56.470" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T07:20:56.470" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37761" CreationDate="2010-02-01T07:07:56.173" Score="37" ViewCount="1078" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; have these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to write something like &lt;code&gt;[Inline Link](http://foo.com)&lt;/code&gt; and have it work in a comment instead of &quot;Inline Link - &lt;a href=&quot;http://foo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://foo.com&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point (not my comment):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6311/longlink.png&quot; alt=&quot;Long link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't that look smashing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133847" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-01T08:49:55.017" LastActivityDate="2010-04-01T08:49:55.017" Title="Inline links in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="37759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37756" CreationDate="2010-02-01T07:18:47.800" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's intentional. The links for &quot;today&quot; and &quot;this month&quot; are identical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/youruserid?StartDate=2010-02-01&amp;EndDate=2010-02-01&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really the date range you are clicking on/selecting, not a specific tab (at least, not when two tabs contain the same data).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T07:18:47.800" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37786" CreationDate="2010-02-01T08:04:21.380" Score="-5" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure stackoverflow already uses the same color as VS for everything except comments, which are displayed gray:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/* Test */&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's much better to display them in green-ish (same exact color as the default theme in Visual Studio).. Very often they contain useful information that should be easy to read, and gray on gray is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently made a &lt;code&gt;prettify.css&lt;/code&gt; for my blog, so here it is. Everything is straight from VS except for numbers (&lt;code&gt;abc = 5;&lt;/code&gt;) that are red instead of black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.com { color: #008000; } /* &amp;lt;-- color of comments */&#xA;.str, .tag { color: #A31515; }&#xA;.kwd, .atv { color: #0000FF; }&#xA;.typ { color: #2B91AF; }&#xA;.lit, .atn { color: #FF0000; }&#xA;.pun, .pln { color: #000000; }&#xA;.dec { color: purple; }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T14:23:23.537" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T01:16:41.460" Title="Use the same colors as Visual Studio for prettify.css" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;style&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37758" CreationDate="2010-02-01T08:32:43.607" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this should be allowed. If you can add links (and you can), why can't you give them meaningful names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take Æther's post as an example, he could have just said &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6407/allow-html-tags-in-comments&quot;&gt;related proposal&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Looks much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T08:32:43.607" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37763" CreationDate="2010-02-01T08:41:24.367" Score="0" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://haacked.com/archive/2007/01/22/Identicons_as_Visual_Fingerprints.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; says that Identicons are generated on the basis of hash of the user's IP address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, what happens if I change my IP address (for example - log in fro a different machine)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:11:15.437" Title="How does an identicon identify a user?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;identicon&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37762" CreationDate="2010-02-01T08:43:19.853" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Then you get a different icon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unless&lt;/em&gt; you provide an email. In which case the icon is based on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;as gravatar does, as it is&quot;&gt;hash of your email&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T09:13:19.457" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T09:13:19.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-01T20:47:14.060" Score="6" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow has just recently come onto my radar screen, but I've been an avid user of perlmonks for a while, as well as a reader and &quot;fan&quot; of main people behind this very site. Because of that, I think this site looks very promising and I would like to know what others think about these enhancement ideas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: these have nothing to do with perl programming, I just use that as a comparison for a similar site that seems to share a similar niche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sub-portals&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, let me start with the biggie. What do people think about segmenting SO into sub-portals based on language? Sure, tagging and searching work well, and hierarchy is so 1998, but I can't count the number of times I've seen people ask if there was a &quot;rubymonks&quot; or a &quot;pythonmonks&quot; or a &quot;foobar_language_monks&quot; site out there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, I don't advocate bifurcating SO content. I just think a couple of tweaks along with some alias sites (ruby.SO.com // python.SO.com // foobarlang.SO.com) would work wonders at garnering more language-specific awareness (and thus experience) under the entire SO umbrella. Also, I think it would help avoid the (unintended?) possible prejudice among potential users that this site is mostly for DotNet people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Direct Perlmonk Ripoffs&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some personal-favorite perlmonks features that (apparently) are not here at SO, but should be (apologies if they already are, please feel free to correct me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chatterbox:&lt;/strong&gt; (real time web-based convo, see perlmonks.org for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Posting types other than Question:&lt;/strong&gt; After doing a little homework here, I see not every original post on SO is really intended as a question. Perlmonks has something called &quot;meditations&quot; and &quot;Cool Uses&quot;. It seems like SO could benefit from this as well, using a scheme a bit bigger than &quot;folksonomy-tagging-only&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best and Worst posts:&lt;/strong&gt; links (see not only what's hot, but what's been downvoted alot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Categorized Posts:&lt;/strong&gt; Folksonomy-style tags are good, but sometimes a &quot;top-down&quot; organizational style has benefits too, if used judiciously. (see e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Categorized%20Questions%20and%20Answers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Perlmonks Categorized Q and A&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's enough for now. Great site, thanks for any constructive criticism and feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139007" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-22T09:34:47.967" LastActivityDate="2010-05-22T16:07:00.930" Title="Can stackoverflow benefit from some pearls of perlmonk wisdom?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;perlmonks&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37765" CreationDate="2008-12-01T20:53:04.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see the benefit of a chatterbox function, but I don't know whether the server could handle the load currently. What you call &quot;meditations&quot; already exists here, where people ask for best practices and similar. There's already a best post section, not sure what the point of a worst post section would be, as since the post is bad, why would you want to read it? Categorized posts essentially exist on SO already, only they were created by the users. Having some pre-created for the users doesn't make much sense anymore, now that the site already includes the basics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T08:50:02.550" />
  <row Id="37767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37765" CreationDate="2008-12-01T20:56:55.943" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One argument against heirarchy or segregation is that sometimes I answer questions about answers I don't know, just because what is being asked is more general than the asker really knows.  I won't be able to do them if I don't see those posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3333" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T08:50:02.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37765" CreationDate="2008-12-01T21:02:34.780" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for sub-portals, What you are suggesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;perl.stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and what exists now is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;stackoverflow.com/tagged/perl&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the current situation is all that onerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133301" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T08:50:02.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37765" CreationDate="2008-12-01T22:05:27.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On bifurcation and subportals: an excellent article was highlighted on a previous thread &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188991/which-programming-blog-entry-opened-your-eyes-and-made-you-do-something-differe#189049&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (credit to @Ryan, not me...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21849" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T08:50:02.550" />
  <row Id="37770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37765" CreationDate="2008-12-01T22:49:27.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are my 5 cents.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the portal idea, when I look at the tags of questions I have answered I see LOTS of tags that don't match what I thought I would answer on. If there was a VB.Net portal, I would hang there all days long and miss good information and a lots of answers would never be made by me on other topics I have knowledge in (there are similarities between the languages and controls and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like Chatterbox for one reason. A lots of questions will be asked and answered in the chat and therefor never will be recorded for other to learn from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of meditations/cool uses. A lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like &quot;Best and Worst posts&quot;. I don't know why, but I think its to much judging as it is already. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Categorized Posts is just a way to serve the information in another way. That cannot be a bad thing. ;) As long as its an enhancement and not an replacement I'm for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138658" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T08:50:02.550" />
  <row Id="37771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37765" CreationDate="2008-12-01T22:53:50.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I idle here a lot. SO really IS a .NET site in general, with side knowledge being brought in by the .NET participants that helps the other areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a problem? In my view, yes. There is a whole world of programming out there beyond .NET/LINQ/C#/MS-SQL &amp;amp; web development, and there are a lot of questions about it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T08:50:02.550" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-01T22:53:50.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37762" CreationDate="2010-02-01T11:16:16.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The relationship between identicon/Gravatar and email address was clarified for me in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37096/who-or-what-is-this-so-user&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, how come so many 'different' users had the same identicon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T11:16:16.383" />
  <row Id="37773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37779" CreationDate="2010-02-01T11:17:10.063" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I post &lt;code&gt;Yeah, I agree&lt;/code&gt; and then realize I forgot @Jeff and edit it to &lt;code&gt;@Jeff: yeah, I agree&lt;/code&gt;, will Jeff be notified or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what happens in the inverse scenario (I take a @name out with an edit) if the person hadn't been already notified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T12:52:52.307" Title="Does the new comment @notification system take edits into consideration?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37775" CreationDate="2010-02-01T12:03:00.737" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34715/accept-rate-percentage&quot;&gt;Accept Rate Percentage&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My accept rate is not being shown. Any reason for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142164" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T12:07:16.017" ClosedDate="2010-02-01T12:47:20.667" Title="accept rate not shown" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37774" CreationDate="2010-02-01T12:07:16.017" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You haven't asked enough questions. You need to ask at least 4 non-CW questions before you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T12:07:16.017" />
  <row Id="37776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37760" CreationDate="2010-02-01T12:13:16.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer gray as the comments' color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T12:13:16.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37773" CreationDate="2010-02-01T12:52:52.307" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a five minute grace period to edit your comments. After that time, it's locked and the script can run to send notifications on any @ matches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click on the envelope for messages, you will note that comments posted on your posts will show up first. The @name notifications are on  a slight delay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you need to comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, I agree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you're doing it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T12:52:52.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37785" CreationDate="2010-02-01T14:13:44.087" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=6180&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;current version of SO's Master.js&lt;/a&gt; (6180) won't load in Firefox 3.6 &lt;code&gt;Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 GTB6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Therefore, vote counts don't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works fine in Chrome and Fiddler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Content Encoding Error&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The page you are trying to view cannot&#xA;  be shown because it uses an invalid or&#xA;  unsupported form of compression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T18:34:22.960" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:34:22.960" Title="Master.js won't load in Firefox" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="37784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37783" CreationDate="2010-02-01T14:14:39.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I pressed Ctrl + F5 and the problem was fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder how it happened... (Was the cache corrupted?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T14:14:39.297" />
  <row Id="37785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37783" CreationDate="2010-02-01T14:20:27.257" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that browser updates have been causing caching problems with SO's javascript.  I had a similar issue a couple times when I updated chrome, and I've seen other stories like this.  The solution is generally &quot;clear your cache&quot;, and beyond that the problem usually fixes itself after the first time you run into it.  It really is generally just a caching issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't see the same problem on other sites and so there may be a genuine bug here somewhere.  It could be there's something in how SO has their caching setup that's causing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T14:20:27.257" />
  <row Id="37786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37760" CreationDate="2010-02-01T14:23:23.537" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prettify just creates elements in the DOM that match up with a style sheet.  As always, your browser will allow you to override any style definition you want in your own sheet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T14:23:23.537" />
  <row Id="37787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37752" CreationDate="2010-02-01T14:27:57.893" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to remember here is that the purpose of the &quot;close&quot; feature is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to indicate that the question is resolved, and it's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to protect your question from abuse.  We have accepted answers for the former and ♦-moderator locks for the latter.  The purpose of the &quot;close&quot; feature is to allow the community to shutdown questions that it feels should never have been opened in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T17:19:51.023" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:19:51.023" />
  <row Id="37789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29424" CreationDate="2010-02-01T14:39:55.260" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's an interesting idea, but if I were an employer I would have a hard time justifying paying for a service where I can only see a small bit of anonymous information.  You'd have to unlink the stackoverflow account to really be anonymous, which would eliminate a huge feature of the SO CV search service.  Even if you showed a rounded off reputation score, employers still wouldn't be able to review your questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another sense, it's like looking at advertisements which give only a little information, but force you to contact them for details.  &quot;If you have to ask, you can't afford it&quot; is one perception, the other is that when compared to a search that's full of other candidates who have their information open and available your 'closed' listing looks less attractive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hiding form your current employer, however, seems the easiest to resolve, though.  If this CV is 'discovered' then the response is simply, &quot;I keep my resume updated and online regardless of my long term plans.  It's not an intention to leave my current job, it's a pro-active realization that even though I plan on continuing with the company, and even though the company plans on employing me long term, sudden economic shifts may affect both of us.  If anything, it's simply being as prepared as one can be for the unpredictable.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T14:39:55.260" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:01:41.667" Score="3" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently hacking my way into c++ because I want to learn about using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juce.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JUCE&lt;/a&gt; library to create some basic software.  community is much smaller than, say, that of PHP or Flash, where people are falling over themselves to give good answers.  I know that nobody likes answering homework questions, but when there is only a small number of community members, it must be hard to strike a balance between getting noobs on board at one end while pushing in deep at the other end.  Asking &quot;noob&quot; questions when already existing &quot;noob&quot; questions are much more advanced is daunting, so,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I ask for help without alienating my &quot;leaders&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132365" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:47:45.790" Title="Asking Questions etiquette on specific forums" Tags="&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37794" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:22:04.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you feel uncomfortable with asking beginner questions for your specific community then ask it at Stack Overflow until you build up your confidence. In general, I feel that smaller communities will be more than happy to help. If they weren't I wouldn't exactly call it a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142296" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:22:04.290" />
  <row Id="37797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37706" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:24:32.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are trying to show what problems (or questions or issues, etc.)  programmers have in real-life then a set of Stack Overflow questions may be a good source.  (Think of using Stack Overflow as a sort of survey when you don’t need to connect the people that are taking part in your experiment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if you are trying to say how an API works, then you better to point to the API documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-22T14:16:48.757" LastActivityDate="2010-08-22T14:16:48.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T15:24:32.460" />
  <row Id="37798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37756" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:35:38.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it really was intended, but I'd say it's a feature, not a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:35:38.237" />
  <row Id="37799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37800" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:36:11.013" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list of questions I asked on my account page is nice, but I keep finding myself clicking on &quot;next&quot; because the newer questions are listed on later pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that it is more likely that a given user would want to check his newer questions for answers, wouldn't it be better if older questions were moved to later pages rather than newer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:38:58.807" Title="List of questions asked on account page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="37800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37799" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:38:58.807" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can order them by &quot;newest&quot; or &quot;recent&quot;. The site will remember your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:38:58.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:42:23.587" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openpanel.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Open Source Hosting Control Panel&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/24pf901.png&quot; alt=&quot;Open Source Hosting Control Panel&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="134079" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T10:59:03.237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T10:59:03.237" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T15:42:23.587" />
  <row Id="37802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37794" CreationDate="2010-02-01T15:47:45.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a general question about how to integrate oneself within a community as a beginner, and probably has no place on Meta, but in the interest of helping out a noob:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to get help from a community that you've just joined is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Listen in for a long while before asking questions.  If you don't have a good feel for the community and the predominant personality types, you're liable to get burned, and people may not help you on principle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be overtly humble - Don't overburden them with, &quot;Sorry, I'm new, Please help, I just got started, I don't understand&quot; but make sure your questions and responses are not of the &quot;know it all&quot; variety.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be concise - try to get to the core of the question quickly so they can zero in immediately on the problem, or ask you relevant questions to get to the core.  Don't babble on about irrelevant discussion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't take anything personally, even if it's meant personally.  Keep in mind that you're there to get information from &lt;em&gt;people&lt;/em&gt;.  They may be rude and inconsiderate, but if you really want to know what they know, let the snide remarks and comments roll off your back as long as they are still providing you with good information.  Be professional about it - you can learn a lot at the hands of an abusive, recalcitrant teacher, and it won't matter in 5 minutes or 5 years that they insulted your lineage - they are simply words on the internet, and not even worth the energy it took to display the characters on your screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But keep in mind that there are a lot of other forums out there - pick one that caters to people new to the language, and just listen in to the more advanced forums so that it's easy to 'graduate' as you improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T15:47:45.790" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37651" CreationDate="2010-02-01T16:32:28.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Flair-as-Image looks good but my gold badge doesn't appear in your version. See below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen capture from Stack Overflow vs. &quot;Flair as Images: ASP MVC Style&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/rcartaino/folders/Jing/media/951555b9-1cb6-49b4-aee8-0e4ca61f7610/2010-02-01_1129.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is the actual linked-png for a &quot;live&quot; comparison to see if it is fixed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://otac0n.com/StackOverflow/flair/98786.png?site=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;theme=default&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T17:52:59.513" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:52:59.513" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-01T16:38:52.460" Score="77" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://filezilla-project.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/LbRrZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;FileZilla&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T16:38:52.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T16:38:52.460" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="37805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29424" CreationDate="2010-02-01T16:59:14.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different answer because it's a fundamentally different approach to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How is the current system not anonymous?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check it out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/anonymous&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/anonymous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are literally not required to enter ANY information in any field EXCEPT an email address when filing your CV (which you would need for careers to contact you on a hit anyway).  Your CV is separate from the billing system, so you can enter (or not enter) anything in any field and it won't be associated with whatever you put in the billing information, which won't be shown to employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you require them to contact you prior to gaining access, then why put your sensitive information in the CV at all?  It won't ever be visible to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you wanted to show up in location specific, or skill-set searches, but make your location/skills unavailable unless contacted, they can run a series of searches to find out where you live or what your skill set is, so there's no point in anonymizing that but also making it available for searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, you can be as anonymous or open as you desire, and require them to contact you for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try out the system more fully and describe exactly what you want to make anonymous, but can't currently, or how the anonymous experience could be improved.  Right now you are making a very general request, but as far as I can tell one can immediately fulfill your request right now in the system as it is currently implemented.  You need to be more specific.  Examples would be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T17:11:20.530" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:11:20.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:01:50.457" Score="4" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35577/add-feature-to-wmd-for-re-aligning-code-blocks&quot;&gt;Add feature to WMD for re-aligning code blocks&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People seem to be prone to just paste code from their IDE into stackoverflow, often with reams of whitespace on the left-hand side. This unnecessarily wastes space and often also cuts lines on the right side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Repairing that manually is almost as annoying as the breakage itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2178418/revisions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2178418/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposal: after detecting a code-block, remove &lt;code&gt;(smallest number of leading spaces) - 4&lt;/code&gt; spaces from every line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:16:28.037" ClosedDate="2010-02-01T17:39:05.317" Title="remove common whitespace in front of sourcecode blocks" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37806" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:11:03.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even giving us a button to strip that amount of spaces would be good.  It's a pain to do it manually every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:11:03.633" />
  <row Id="37808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37806" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:16:28.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your code example is too long that it's a pain to do manually, consider shortening the code example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, put it in a code editor, highlight it, press &lt;code&gt;shift&lt;/code&gt; - &lt;code&gt;tab&lt;/code&gt; a couple times, then copy and paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:16:28.037" />
  <row Id="37809" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:20:09.637" Score="6" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Firefox 3.5.7 on Windows XP, I loaded SO's front page to see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/1979/so1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The offending HTML snippet is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;tags t--0&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;     not&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/0&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged '0'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&amp;gt;0&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9201/so2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2178565/revisions&quot;&gt;particular question&lt;/a&gt; has since been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can confirm this rendering bug happens with IE 8 as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133801" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:20:09.637" Title="Bug in rendered &quot;not&quot; tag?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:22:08.803" Score="9" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an easy way to find out what your user rank is?  If not it would be nice to have that feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can go to the users tab and find out what page I am on (96) and  multiply that by 35 (users per page) and then subtract my location on the page (12) to get my user rank (3,348)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that rank is that important, but it is fun to know.  Is there an easier way or if not can a way be made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="16241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T06:10:29.833" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T14:05:32.400" Title="Easy Way to find out what your user rank is?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;rankings&gt;&lt;user-rank&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="37811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37810" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:25:09.250" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are ranked high enough you will appear in this list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://so.chrisballance.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://so.chrisballance.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows the top 1,015.  You have to be above 7,943 rep to be in that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-20T14:05:32.400" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T14:05:32.400" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:27:21.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frickin' awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/32dcb4e95fd5eb20c0f61d1ba3468242?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;John Rudy's&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:27:21.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37810" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:29:15.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can go to the users tab and find out what page I am on (96) and multiply that by 36 (users per page) and then subtract my location on the page (12) to get my user rank (3,348)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, the correct formula is users per page * (pagenum-1) + position:  35 * (96-1) + 12 = 3337.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:29:15.340" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:35:44.140" Score="9" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I go to someone's user profile page and click on 'accounts' to see their associated accounts, and click on a profile link to another SOFU site, this opens a new browser page/tab. It would be much more polite if this was not done -- please let me decide if I wish to open a link in a new tab or not, thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is coming from the &lt;code&gt;target=&quot;_blank&quot;&lt;/code&gt; attribute in the anchor tag, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;.html&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/&amp;lt;userid&amp;gt;.html&lt;/a&gt; iframe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-15T06:51:28.767" LastActivityDate="2010-12-15T06:51:28.767" Title="Opening a user profile page on one of the other sites creates a new browser window" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:48:40.413" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine looks like it has the sad puppy eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicorn.xn---wie-geek-p9a.de/0.2/128/530e6ec931a34c5d3c53926bd2b736bc.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T17:48:40.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37814" CreationDate="2010-02-01T17:56:46.900" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this annoys me as well. I'm perfectly capable of &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+clicking or middle-clicking if I want to follow the link in a new tab...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of behavior makes some sense in the &quot;Close as Duplicate&quot; pop-up, where navigation would interfere with a half-completed action and the new window behavior thus serves as cheap protection against mis-clicks. But there's nothing to be &lt;em&gt;lost&lt;/em&gt; on the associated profiles page, where the back button works just fine following navigation to an associated profile, bringing you back to where you left off...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T18:02:17.637" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:02:17.637" />
  <row Id="37818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:08:37.107" Score="-8" ViewCount="203" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across a SO question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689/recommended-fonts-for-programming-closed&quot;&gt;good programming fonts&lt;/a&gt; and it got closed because it was not programming related. In some way it's programming related because you spend hours everyday looking at the same font while programming and if it's not clear good font then you're actually doing a disservice to your eyes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet questions like &quot;what are some good programming jokes&quot; or &quot;favorite &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/192793/what-is-your-favorite-programmer-t-shirt&quot;&gt;programming t-shirts&lt;/a&gt; stay open&quot;!&#xA;As if a good programming t-shirt will make you a better programmer or will you help in your programming job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice to those people who close questions which have &lt;strong&gt;REAL&lt;/strong&gt; benefits to programmers: why don't you spend your time in a more productive fashion? Really.. what are you gaining from closing this type of questions? Are you getting points or are you becoming more famous? To me, you are annoying and you are not benefiting anyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot more open questions on SO which have no direct benefits to programmers in their daily programming tasks. Why aren't these closed as not programming related!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choosing a good font for your IDE is making a good choice. And yes, you can be more productive by using a good font. A bad font can tire your eyes and make programming uncomfortable and maybe make you take more breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T17:44:54.913" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T17:44:54.913" ClosedDate="2010-02-01T18:18:12.310" Title="Overzealous Stack Overflow Question Closers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="37819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37818" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:11:34.667" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My advice to those people who close questions which have REAL benefits to programmers, why don't you spend your time in a more productive fashion? Really.. what are you gaining from closing these type of questions.. are you getting points or are you becoming more famous? To me, you are annoying and you are not benefiting anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To prevent Stack Overflow from becoming &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo! Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:11:34.667" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37818" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:12:55.613" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question is a year old and has 115 answers.  Do you need more font recommendations than that?  It doesn't need to remain open for the same reason many of the other questions you pointed out don't need to remain open: there aren't going to be any more unique and valuable answers added at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:12:55.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37818" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:14:11.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the way, the questions you have listed have been closed and opened and closed and opened multiple times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If enough people are interested in a question, it will be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:14:11.943" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37651" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:17:05.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anti-aliasing please:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;&#xA;graphics.TextRenderingHint = TextRenderingHint.AntiAliasGridFit; &#xA;// or TextRenderingHint.ClearTypeGridFit&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T18:34:18.903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:34:18.903" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:29:45.513" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something appears to be wrong with mine...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/245cbb4a955146221b62d37879a3128e?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:29:45.513" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37832" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:34:41.617" Score="25" ViewCount="1365" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that lots of people get help from the site everyday, and in general it is a great site. I love answering questions and getting answers for other knowledgeable programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But.....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is probably one feature, one thing about Stack Overflow (or related sites) that gets me annoyed. That is my question: What is the one feature about Stack Overflow that annoys you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post the features/bugs/habits up and if someone has already said it, give them an upvote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-09T16:18:06.627" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T16:18:06.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T18:34:47.890" Title="What is a bad feature of Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="31" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="37826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:36:19.460" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't stop. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:36:19.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T18:36:19.460" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:36:39.040" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I hate is users that whine when they get downvoted, or because their question got closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:36:39.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T18:36:39.040" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:40:28.123" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Belongs-on-xxxxxxx]&lt;/strong&gt; tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T18:40:28.123" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T18:40:28.123" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:50:14.763" Score="5" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12222/please-display-match-count-after-search&quot;&gt;Please Display Match Count after Search&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;em&gt;seems-like-someone-must-have-asked-this-before-but-I-can't-seem-to-find-it&lt;/em&gt; department:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I do a text search, it would be nice if the screen reported back the number of results. You get the number of results when you do a tag search (i.e. &quot;30 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt;&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to quickly see if a regular text search yielded a reasonable number of results or if I was &lt;em&gt;too general&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. thousands of matches).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T19:00:41.917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:00:41.917" ClosedDate="2011-02-10T22:20:29.113" Title="Could &quot;Search Results&quot; show number of matches?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T18:50:51.830" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;fix&quot; provided below is now part of the global feature itself, as such, this post will not make much sense to those who aren't familiar with the previous state of the feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time I clicked (accidentally) on the votes next to an answer/question and saw two 0's stacked, I thought it was a bug with the voting script (client-side). It wasn't until today that I actually learned that these stacked numbers (I've only seem 0/0) actually represent upvotes vs downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I understand it, it's a great feature (not necessarily a good implementation though) - just confusing if you're not expecting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Firefox users, there's hope:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've decided to whip up a small greasemonkey solution to colorize the differing vote details. You can click-to-install it over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37841/greasemonkey-colorized-vote-details&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37841/greasemonkey-colorized-vote-details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sampsonresume.com/labs/dead-giveaway.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T05:40:00.013" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T05:40:00.013" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T18:50:51.830" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="37832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T19:06:53.820" Score="80" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta questions describing clearly broken behaviour closed as &quot;status-bydesign&quot; when Jeff really means &quot;closed-because-I-say-so&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:06:53.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T19:06:53.820" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="37833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37810" CreationDate="2010-02-01T19:17:30.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another different view of the user rankings is here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/users/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I've only run the query for users with &gt;10k reputation. But it shows a lot more stats (and per-tag for each user, too) than just reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How's &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer accept rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:17:30.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T19:22:33.630" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the one feature about Stack Overflow that annoys you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not open source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not an open source activist, but stackexchange isn't customizable enough for my needs, and none of the open stackoverflow projects are anywhere near feature complete, nevermind stable and usable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T14:19:25.000" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:19:25.000" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T19:22:33.630" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T19:45:07.947" Score="4" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea to encode, in the JavaScript source, some revision information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that information, the code can check to see if it matches the current revision that is encoded in the current webpage. This way it can display an information bar that tells the user to update their cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this would cut down on the number of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/browser-cache&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[browser-cache]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T20:41:55.147" Title="It might be good to indicate when a user's cache needs to be flushed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;browser-cache&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37835" CreationDate="2010-02-01T19:53:30.797" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is easily achievable I would support this. Just the time spent in telling the same people over and over to clear their cache would make it worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could find a way to post another set of warnings if you have cookies/JavaScript disabled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would fix most of the issues you see here from people who cripple their browsers and then cry when the internet stops working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:53:30.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37835" CreationDate="2010-02-01T19:57:06.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or they could just version the script file names and side-step the whole issue. Not sure why scripts are being cached &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt;, given that they already have the version number appended in the querystring... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff elaborates on their use of this technique &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37835/it-might-be-good-to-indicate-when-a-users-cache-needs-to-be-flushed/37838#37838&quot;&gt;in another answer&lt;/a&gt;. JavaScript &lt;em&gt;can already access the version information&lt;/em&gt; as it's stored in the URL of the JavaScript file - all that would be needed would be a variable in the file itself with this same version number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But I think it's a lousy idea&lt;/strong&gt;, a bad work-around for a poorly-understood issue. The scripts are updated frequently, and the current cache-control methods handle these updates just fine for &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; users &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the time - else the site would be perpetually crippled. If the SO team were to add code to manually check the version # on the client, they would be better off sending client and network information back to SO when the problem is identified, with the goal being to identify the root cause(s) of the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T20:41:55.147" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T20:41:55.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37835" CreationDate="2010-02-01T19:57:50.647" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, we already do. View source and see for yourself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/question.js?v=6196&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;    &#xA;&amp;lt;script src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/tageditor.js?v=6016&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that &lt;strong&gt;certain proxies and browsers seem to ignore this version information in the URL&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T19:57:50.647" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37835" CreationDate="2010-02-01T20:17:33.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of asking the user to flush his cache, why not do it for him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/question-6196.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/js/tageditor-6016.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And redirect to the correct file serverside?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T20:17:33.830" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T20:45:15.437" Score="2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29171/defect-in-vote-too-old-to-be-changed-check&quot;&gt;Defect in &amp;ldquo;vote too old to be changed&amp;rdquo; check&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvoted an answer, then cancelled it.  Then later on after it was augmented/improved I tried to upvote again and was told I could not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a defect I think.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of similar questions here on Meta, but there are too many for me to determine if ths is a dupe - because this is a special case and it is unclear to me if it is desired behavior or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO this is brain dead.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T20:49:41.010" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T20:49:41.010" ClosedDate="2010-02-01T21:03:48.280" Title="&quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot; defect" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T20:49:34.740" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are some of the common searches you use, or searches that you can act on immediately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A0+[subjective]+closed%3A0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finds questions tagged subjective that have no answers and are still open.  Some of them are probably worthwhile closing, others may be worth answering, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What searches do you find useful, either in terms of answering them, or in cleaning up and improving SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:27:34.123" Title="Interesting stackoverflow searches" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="37845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T20:56:15.363" Score="-16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OpenID, not being able to post iPhone questions on Super User, the idea of a &quot;trilogy&quot; instead of just one site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="543" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T00:31:32.077" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:31:32.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T20:56:15.363" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37844" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:07:56.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the search Jeff says they use to look at the feature-request list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I usually use this one to look at that list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred+-status-completed&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request+-status-declined+-status-deferred+-status-completed&amp;amp;sort=votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:07:56.867" />
  <row Id="37847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37844" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:11:07.827" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we only get 12 close votes a day, I have a lot of searches bookmarked that I iterate through when I'm bored:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bstackoverflow%5d+closed%3A0&quot;&gt;tagged &quot;stackoverflow&quot; and open&lt;/a&gt; (see this recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37562/migration-requests-stackoverflow-posts-on-so&quot;&gt;support request&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bbelongs-on-superuser%5d+closed%3A0&quot;&gt;tagged &quot;belongs-on-superuser&quot; and open&lt;/a&gt; (zero remaining at the moment)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bbelongs-on-serverfault%5d+closed%3A0&quot;&gt;tagged &quot;belongs-on-serverfault&quot; and open&lt;/a&gt; (also recently down to zero)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bnot-programming-related%5d+closed%3A0&quot;&gt;tagged &quot;not-programming-related&quot; and open&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also have a few &quot;problem users&quot; that I regularly monitor in case a question needs to be flagged or closed (e.g. see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23404/whats-the-deal-with-user-shore&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27946/endless-question-user-what-to-do&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, although I shouldn't list the actual users I watch in case someone gets offended).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T21:27:34.123" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:27:34.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:22:05.727" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17248/highlighted-search-terms-in-links-makes-them-to-lose-underscored-style-on-hover&quot;&gt;Highlighted search terms in links makes them to lose underscored style on hover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11416/highlighted-search-terms-cover-portions-of-character-descenders&quot;&gt;Highlighted search terms cover portions of character descenders.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Missing underline on hover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/2010-02-01_1526.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is easily fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the CSS file, 'all.css', this rule adds the underline when hovering over a question link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a:hover {&#xA;    text-decoration:underline;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add another selector for &lt;code&gt;.search-highlight&lt;/code&gt;. Like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;a:hover, a:hover .search-highlight {&#xA;    text-decoration:underline;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Voila:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/2010-02-01_1627.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T21:31:16.873" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:31:16.873" ClosedDate="2010-02-03T10:25:31.920" Title="Search results - Question titles matching search text not underlined" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;css&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37850" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:31:58.997" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179241/python-chaining/2179265#2179265&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179241/python-chaining/2179265#2179265&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141499" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:11:52.053" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:11:52.053" Title="Should I Have Received Enlightened Badge For this Answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37849" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:37:21.010" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the badges have a large delay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:37:21.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37849" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:38:04.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you post your answer before or after the other answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If before, then yes, and the badge awarding system is probably just taking it's sweet time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If after, then no. Sorry, Enlightened is a tough one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:38:04.583" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37853" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:39:10.367" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is SO's policy on questions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2180254/good-and-quite-cheap-php-developers-where-to-find&quot;&gt;this fresh one&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it reeks like traffic / PR whoring, even though it might be a legit question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do? Close? Remove the link? Leave as is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The question already answered itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as spam by Michael Todd, AdaTheDev, Chacha102, Andomar, mopoke 15 secs ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:32:35.423" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T23:55:26.200" Title="Policy on posts that seem to exist only to promote a link?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37852" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:42:23.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is what the &lt;code&gt;Close as Spam&lt;/code&gt; Button is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:42:23.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37849" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:44:48.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe deleted answers still count for &quot;firstness&quot;, so if someone replied before you did, but then deleted their answer, you won't ever see the Enlightened badge.  Some moderator/10k+ user will have to confirm for you whether there is a deleted answer on this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:44:48.857" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37852" CreationDate="2010-02-01T21:47:44.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;7 Downvotes, Closed as Spam, and link edited out, all in less than 8 minutes.  Good job Stack Overflow Community, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37194/are-there-guidelines-on-what-to-flag-as-spam/37196#37196&quot;&gt;you know it when you see it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T21:47:44.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38331" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:03:47.987" Score="19" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just learned that the Enlightened badge, is for the First (in time order) answer on a question that is also accepted (with 10 upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until now I thought it was for the First answer for a user that got accepted (with 10 upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current text is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First answer was accepted with at least 10 up votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm suggesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The First answer for a question was accepted with at least 10 upvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;though other suggestions would be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:10:56.520" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T23:54:58.863" Title="Better text for the Enlightened Badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;&lt;badge-description&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:05:30.133" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not enough cowbell. I gotta have more cowbell!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:05:30.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-01T22:05:30.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37860" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:11:01.277" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we remove an entry from our favorites? If possible, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136156" LastEditorUserId="136156" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-01T22:30:02.183" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:30:02.183" Title="Can we remove an entry from our favorites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="37860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37859" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:11:58.590" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just click the star on the question once more, and it will be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:11:58.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37863" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:30:51.857" Score="0" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two downvotes within 5 seconds of each other on two separate threads...seems intentional.  What can be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2177590/how-can-i-reorder-a-list-in-python/2177607#2177607&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2177590/how-can-i-reorder-a-list-in-python/2177607#2177607&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179241/python-chaining/2179265#2179265&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179241/python-chaining/2179265#2179265&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141499" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:31:29.153" Title="Malicious Downvotes?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37862" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:31:29.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the moderator to check on it.  They're quite helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:31:29.153" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:51:41.497" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33311/what-privileges-are-given-to-a-1000-reputation-member-of-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What privileges are given to a 1000 reputation member of Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure what is it related to..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1000     Show total up and down vote counts&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136156" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:58:48.313" ClosedDate="2010-02-01T23:03:52.793" Title="What exactly is that we achieve at 1000 reps?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37864" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:58:26.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dupe.  See:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33311/what-privileges-are-given-to-a-1000-reputation-member-of-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33311/what-privileges-are-given-to-a-1000-reputation-member-of-stack-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142409" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:58:26.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37864" CreationDate="2010-02-01T22:58:48.313" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get what was requested here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on the vote count to the left of a question or answer, and you will see how many up- and down-votes it has received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/4732/so1000.png&quot; alt=&quot;click and see the wonderfulness&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T22:58:48.313" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13592" CreationDate="2010-02-01T23:04:00.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow needs to add an itemshop where people can buy stuff like cornify for TrilogyPoints. They are almost like Reputation points except that they cost money and are only for buying stuff like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard that the next feature will be that you can replace the top ad bar (which is hidden for 200+ rep) with a FarmVille game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, the talks with Evony are ongoing, but Evony wants to wait until the counter on the StackOverflow ad inquiry page reaches 10 million so that they are even partners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T23:04:00.297" />
  <row Id="37868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37852" CreationDate="2010-02-01T23:55:26.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of motivation (and in this case, the motivations are not good), questions and answers that consist of &lt;strong&gt;only a link&lt;/strong&gt; are equally frowned upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-01T23:55:26.200" />
  <row Id="37869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-02T00:03:28.320" Score="-22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Why was this answer just downvoted?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:03:28.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T00:03:28.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T00:14:14.177" Score="4" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a few cases where I've asked a question on StackOverflow, and received a number of good responses which then made me realize that there was a much better/clearer/more concise way to to ask my original question. I know I can edit my original question, but I'm always hesitant to rewrite the original question for fear that parts or all of the current responses will no longer make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the preferred course of action when this happens? Should I just post an entirely new question? Or edit the existing question, which may very likely lead to the current responses no longer making sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142681" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:32:33.200" Title="Re-asking a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="37871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37870" CreationDate="2010-02-02T00:20:10.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't re-ask the question.  Edit the original, and leave as much of the original as you think is necessary to give context to responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142409" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:20:10.590" />
  <row Id="37872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37870" CreationDate="2010-02-02T00:32:33.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't edit the existing question text .Instead append any clarifications you need to make after it. There is nothing gets answerers as wound up as seeming to have written an answer that appears not to address the question, because the question's meaning was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:32:33.200" />
  <row Id="37873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T00:34:53.630" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24611/is-it-legal-to-copy-stack-overflow-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stumbled across &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/faq/86871/iphone-nsurlconnection-simultaneous-requests-limit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; which takes Stack Overflow questions, and gives the answer or the top voted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main point of the site seems to be to shower you with adverts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the CC wiki license I'm assuming they're ok to do this. Or does it break copyright?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T01:16:05.453" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:16:05.453" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T02:30:02.257" Title="Is reconstituing Stack Overflow data (as an FAQ site) ok?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37873" CreationDate="2010-02-02T00:37:35.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing not. Considering the license on StackOverflow clearly states that there should be attribution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, the horrible design should get it shut down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I guess there is a statement on the home page stating it was from Stack Overflow, although I still think it pretty shaky...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:37:35.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37873" CreationDate="2010-02-02T00:46:36.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, what a useless site. It doesn't attempt to do anything interesting with the dump data, but just throws it up in a totally unnavigatable (sp!) format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T00:46:36.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-02T01:33:01.717" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nonintuitive search functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:33:01.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T01:33:01.717" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37466" CreationDate="2010-02-02T01:45:03.423" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send us a package of cookies for every 100 duplicates we vote as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No rep gaming issues, no badge gaming issues, no problem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:45:03.423" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T01:48:51.853" Score="-3" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14056/seo-in-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;SEO in stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36925/how-frequently-are-new-questions-indexed-by-search-engines&quot;&gt;How frequently are new questions indexed by search engines?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, I believe I've noticed that SO questions appear on Google within about half an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I gave &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2134391/create-an-interactive-logon-session/2179747#2179747&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; 5 hours ago and Google &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=shgina.dll+ShellLocalMachine+%2BInitiateInteractiveLogon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;still gives no results&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are frequent updates only for questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T13:58:23.253" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T14:30:18.687" Title="How often does Google index SO content?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;indexing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="37880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-02T01:52:07.617" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poor iPhone support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T01:52:07.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T01:52:07.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37886" CreationDate="2010-02-02T01:55:43.570" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a post is edited (by the owner or by people with more 750 / 2K rep), then made Community Wiki, the edit history is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37825/what-is-a-bad-feature-of-stack-overflow/37826#37826&quot;&gt;these comments&lt;/a&gt; show, such loss can be detrimental to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this be changed?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why does it happen in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Fixed link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T02:39:19.973" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T03:10:52.943" Title="Why does making a post Community Wiki clear the history" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37879" CreationDate="2010-02-02T02:06:09.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google indexes websites when it feels good and ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T02:06:09.723" />
  <row Id="37884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-02T02:12:19.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Users who deliberately bump questions to expose their answer/question to the front page in hopes of harvesting rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134799" LastEditorUserId="134799" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T22:12:36.097" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T22:12:36.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T02:12:19.273" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37881" CreationDate="2010-02-02T02:39:08.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're describing does not happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect you are referring to edits during the 5 minute grace period after posting (or editing, for that matter), which are automatically collapsed together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so that is [status-bydesign].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T02:39:08.477" />
  <row Id="37886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37881" CreationDate="2010-02-02T02:49:21.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't about CW doing anything to the comments or the history. This is about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot; title=&quot;in ur time editing ur context&quot;&gt;five minute edit grace period&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timestamp of the the question in question: &lt;strong&gt;18:34:41Z&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First answer timestamp: &lt;strong&gt;18:36:19Z&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between the first post and the end of the grace period we have about one minute and 38 seconds. Magical time. Time enough inside the five-minute window to change the original question post. It may have been switched to CW in that time, but it's also possible to change the entire bulk or title of the post as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we can then deduce that it was Professor Plum in the library with the wrench.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T03:10:52.943" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T03:10:52.943" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-02T03:04:16.890" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aww, mine is far away...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/19bf2865d86b4cdb70d32a10787e0cbb?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138924" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T03:04:16.890" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="37889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39185" CreationDate="2010-02-02T03:45:33.317" Score="23" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Choose a question you haven't voted on yet, click on the rating so it will show the amount of upvotes and downvotes. After that, vote on it. If the question has a rating of -15, it will show &quot;16&quot; instead of &quot;-14&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now with freehand circles and drop shadows, enjoy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uploads.segfaulting.com/1.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://uploads.segfaulting.com/2.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a bounty since this bug really bugs me. No pun intended!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T07:05:48.850" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T07:05:48.850" Title="Voting on a question after having clicked the upvotes/downvotes count will display an incorrect value" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37889" CreationDate="2010-02-02T04:16:32.433" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before voting, the votes on this question stood at +1/-1 (normalized as 0). I upvoted it, and I got a big juicy 3, or when turned into two numbers, +2/-1. Removing the upvote left a 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying downvoting this time, +1/-1 downvote-&gt; 1, or when turned into two numbers, +1/-2, and when reversed, the result was also wrong (I failed to write this one down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvoted and downvoted a few times, reversing the vote each time, and got the &quot;normalized&quot; count up to a 4 before the vote window ran out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like some javascript has lots its marbles!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No screenshots with freehand circles; sorry to disappoint everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T04:16:32.433" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="37892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36397" CreationDate="2010-02-02T04:34:55.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted that particular question but I don't make a habit of doing so to every question that I believe is so wrong it should never have been posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With such questions I don't try to impose my personal morality, although it may certainly appear so at times. I look at the question and ask myself, as a professional system administrator, &quot;how would I react if someone did that on &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; network?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No it's not a question of morality or ethics, which are at best extremely fluid concepts, it really is a question of professionalism. System administrators who help, and at times even encourage, others to circumvent systems put in place by our fellow system administrators do not deserve a job but do deserve to have the same thing done to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Farseeker's reply to my comment was quite frankly way over the top, as it completely ignored context. &lt;strong&gt;Context is everything&lt;/strong&gt;. The question may well be considered perfectly acceptable and receive effective answers elsewhere but it should not have been asked on a site intended for professional system administrators. Even more importantly, it should not have received that first answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142690" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T04:34:55.200" />
  <row Id="37893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-02T05:02:11.503" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People who post questions like this, questions that are sooo subjective and EVERYBODY has an opinion on. People who have insanely high reputation all have questions like this as their &quot;best questions&quot; even if they have no technical merit or insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142691" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T22:37:09.830" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:37:09.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T05:02:11.503" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40356" CreationDate="2010-02-02T05:42:09.617" Score="14" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admit this feature request is probably somewhat limited in useful scope, but I'm throwing it out there anyway. Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1777/what-html-tags-are-allowed-on-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user/6394#6394&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, and because I want to use it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32490/closing-migrating-question-instructions-guidance/32515#32515&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, I'm requesting that &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; be supported on &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; tags in posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On very long answers, such as the closing/migration guidance answer, this would allow direct linking to the specific closure reason. This would then allow us, when someone &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37818/why-was-good-programming-fonts-closed-closed&quot;&gt;asks why a question was closed&lt;/a&gt;, to link directly to the appropriate reason and description thereof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recognize the limited scope of this, however, I have seen other long answers that could stand to have that kind of &quot;deep&quot; linking ability as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If this is a dupe; I couldn't find it in a quick Google search. However, if it is, please identify the dupe and I myself will gladly contribute a close vote!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The original incarnation of this post had either &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt;, but preferenced &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt;. Per Koper's answer, which I agree with, I took out the idea of supporting &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt;, because Koper's right -- too dangerous.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T00:44:10.147" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T00:44:10.147" Title="Support anchor names in posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;anchor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="37895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37894" CreationDate="2010-02-02T05:45:21.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted it, but &lt;strong&gt;don't allow ids to be specified&lt;/strong&gt;. It will break the validation of the page even more if someone chooses an id already in use, and especially, it will break javascript features too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong with allowing &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt;. Honestly you will most likely be the only person using it, but still, it won't hurt and it should be easy to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T05:45:21.827" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-02T06:09:21.770" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://liquibase.org/dotnetport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://liquibase.org/liquibasedotnet2.png&quot; alt=&quot;LiquiBase-Database Version Control&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142694" LastEditorUserId="142694" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T19:33:47.620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T19:33:47.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T06:09:21.770" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37889" CreationDate="2010-02-02T06:45:54.353" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, if you show the number of upvotes and downvotes and then you vote (doesn't matter if you upvote or downvote), it will simply add the 2 values and come up with a new, &lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt; value. It doesn't matter if the initial value vas negative, as Koper thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His question as I'm writing is at 4/1 votes. If I upvote, the split count will disappear and it will simply show me 6 (although it should be only 4). If I downvote, the same thing will happen, the vote count will incorrectly show me 6 (&lt;code&gt;4 + 2&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;4 - 2&lt;/code&gt;). I think it simply adds the number of downvotes and upvotes together, instead of substracting the downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T06:45:54.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T07:12:55.697" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27167/why-is-the-ask-question-page-a-better-search-than-search-itself-for-searching-f&quot;&gt;Why is the &amp;ldquo;Ask Question&amp;rdquo; page a better search than Search itself for searching for a question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to open a question titled &quot;What's the best SQLite Cocoa library?&quot;. The suggestions told me that the question might be closed for being subjective, but also suggested some similar questions. The answer I found this way was better than the answers that I found when I searched using the search box. In fact, the question I found didn't even appear in the list from the direct search. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some way to use the better search without opening a question? Is there a reason they're so different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T07:12:55.697" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T07:33:09.177" Title="Similar question search works better than actual search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T07:48:22.870" Score="-7" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Meta Stack Overflow for about a month or two now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What name you would suggest instead of Meta in Meta Stack Overflow?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And why would that name suit?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T08:00:07.303" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T10:07:53.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T07:48:47.360" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T15:02:55.973" Title="What name would you suggest instead of Meta Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;rename&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37899" CreationDate="2010-02-02T07:49:56.157" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would choose &lt;strong&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe just &lt;strong&gt;meta&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason it is called meta is because it is a Q and A site about a Q and A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta- (from Greek: μετά = &quot;after&quot;, &quot;beyond&quot;, &quot;with&quot;, &quot;adjacent&quot;, &quot;self&quot;), is a prefix used in English (and other Greek-owing languages) to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel meta is a very appropriate name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T07:49:56.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T07:49:56.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37899" CreationDate="2010-02-02T07:54:52.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you asking why the word &quot;meta&quot; is significant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meta- (from Greek: μετά = &quot;after&quot;, &quot;beyond&quot;, &quot;with&quot;, &quot;adjacent&quot;, &quot;self&quot;), is a prefix used in English (and other Greek-owing languages) to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In epistemology, the prefix meta is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced them, when, what format the data are in and so on)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Douglas Hofstadter, in his 1979 book &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38210/what-non-programming-books-should-programmers-read/40166#40166&quot;&gt;Gödel, Escher, Bach&lt;/a&gt; (and in the sequel, Metamagical Themas), popularized this meaning of the term. This book, which deals extensively with self-reference and touches on Quine and his work, was influential in many computer-related subcultures, and is probably largely responsible for the popularity of the prefix, for its use as a solo term, and for the many recent coinages which use it. Hofstadter uses the meta as a stand-alone word, both as an adjective and as a directional preposition (&quot;going meta&quot;, a term he coins for the old rhetorical trick of taking a debate or analysis to another level of abstraction, as in &quot;This debate isn't going anywhere.&quot;). This book is also probably responsible for the direct association of &quot;meta&quot; with self-reference, as opposed to just abstraction. The sentence &quot;This sentence contains thirty-six letters,&quot; and the sentence it is embedded in, are examples of sentences that reference themselves in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/55/what-about-meta-meta-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;meta-meta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T07:54:52.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T07:54:52.073" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37899" CreationDate="2010-02-02T08:36:42.073" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://waffles.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://waffles.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the only name that makes sense!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T08:36:42.073" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T08:36:42.073" />
  <row Id="37904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37894" CreationDate="2010-02-02T09:31:49.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted it as well. I am wondering if a markdown for named anchors will be more helpful instead of just HTML?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Link From ver 1][1]&#xA;[Link From ver 2](#target)&#xA;.&#xA;.&#xA;&#xA;[Link To][#target]    &#xA;.&#xA;.&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: #target&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T09:31:49.870" />
  <row Id="37905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37857" CreationDate="2010-02-02T09:36:07.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Gave the first answer to a question, and that answer received at least 10 upvotes and was accepted&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Aaronaught's comment is great, but is still IMOPO* ambiguous, since a single user can give multiple answers to a question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* In my overly pedantic opinion&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T09:36:07.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37936" CreationDate="2010-02-02T09:37:01.683" Score="1" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two laptops at work, both connected to the same network. One is quite happily connecting to stackoverflow, the other gets 403 (unauthorised? can't be bothered to check).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main differences between the two laptops are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working laptop: Vista, proxy IP 192.100.130.8&#xA;Non-working : XP, proxy IP 192.100.130.7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The non-working laptop also routinely runs fiddler, but the fault happens with or without fiddler, on all the browsers installed, and continues to fail even though I've cleared cookies / cache. The only thing I can assume is that the proxy's IP has been banned. This affects most of the stackoverflow family, including meta, and superuser.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142700" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:53:04.017" Title="How did I upset the stackoverflow gods?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;access&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37899" CreationDate="2010-02-02T09:46:35.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My problem isn't with meta, but with the stackoverflow.com part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe meta.sofu.com or something? (Unfortunately it seems that every single non-localised version of &lt;code&gt;sofu&lt;/code&gt; is taken - .com .net .org .info)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I know I know, stackoverflow is the name of the engine, and the company, but that doesn't change my opinion that the usage of stackoverflow.com in the meta domain just feels exclusive, rather than inclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T09:46:35.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T09:46:35.453" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T09:54:59.723" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dont know if this question stands on meta.stackoverflow... If it doesn't close it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know StackOverflow is built with asp.net MVC and they would have used many HTML Helpers..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;List of HTML Helpers used by StackOverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any one knows it can share it with me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T09:54:59.723" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:45:21.597" Title="HTML Helpers used by StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37923" CreationDate="2010-02-02T10:04:22.167" Score="-3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if we can spread the world, by just one click - email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132194" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T10:22:09.303" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T12:49:43.380" Title="from where can I refer a friend to visit stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;friends&gt;&lt;growth&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="37911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37909" CreationDate="2010-02-02T10:09:39.050" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would open up stack overflow to sending people unsolicited e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to refer someone to stack overflow, send them an e-mail yourself. If it's not worth the effort to send an e-mail, then is it worth referring them at all? How hard is it to send an e-mail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T10:09:39.050" />
  <row Id="37912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37909" CreationDate="2010-02-02T10:21:24.890" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write to your friend. Ask him/her about his/her life. Then, mention StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do it all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T10:21:24.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-02T10:25:55.393" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35722/human-verification-appears-too-much-in-the-way-when-reorganizing&quot;&gt;human verification appears too much in the way when reorganizing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T10:25:55.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T10:25:55.393" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="58765" CreationDate="2010-02-02T10:42:28.197" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, only the character change count of your last edit (within the 5-minute boundary) is counted. This gives odd results: if &amp;mdash; after a major update &amp;mdash; you change one character to fix an SO markdown bug or a spelling error, the count will be &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably not high on your list, but I'd like to suggest to show the count of the combined changes, which will raise less eyebrows I reckon :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1728562/revisions&quot;&gt;see revision two here&lt;/a&gt;, where the big green block really isn't one character long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In case this revision tree ever changes or this bug ever gets fixed, here's screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dumpt.com/img/viewer.php?file=ou3g7fdnk5jnc3q5k6lx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dumpt.com/img/files/ou3g7fdnk5jnc3q5k6lx_thumb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Dumpt.com&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PS: this issue seems solved for new edits, see answer below, can someone close this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137826" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T16:11:02.367" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T16:11:02.367" Title="Merged edits within 5-min boundary show wrong character change count" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37919" CreationDate="2010-02-02T10:54:06.640" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27487/how-can-i-search-within-my-own-questions&quot;&gt;How can I search within my own questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to search only within my questions on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T11:32:57.220" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T11:32:57.220" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:42:43.927" Title="How to search only within my questions on SO?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T11:02:13.517" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couldn't find another question about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some characters are overlapping in codeblocks on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ep2up.com/uploads/1265107725.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of characters overlapping&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;H&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;e&lt;/code&gt; are overlapping in this screenshot. Today is the first day I noticed it. Using chrome 4 beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weird, the characters aren't overlapping anymore now. It looks like the problem occurs quite random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;It occured again. The font used is Consolas. Just the default font I guess. I use Windows 7 with Chrome 4.0.249.78 beta (36714). But I guess the problem lies with chrome then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T17:35:01.133" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:35:01.133" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:48:33.570" Title="Characters overlapping in codeblocks" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;code-block&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37917" CreationDate="2010-02-02T11:03:55.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the Advanced Super Ninja search options, it mentions being able to use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:84201&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put your user id number in there and you should only get questions you have posted in with that in your search terms. You can also apply this is to any user id and get all question only by a certain user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Dominic Rodger reminds us of the shortcut also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T11:19:32.667" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T11:19:32.667" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37918" CreationDate="2010-02-02T12:14:14.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No problems showing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/742844/how-to-determine-if-binary-tree-is-balanced/2178292#2178292&quot;&gt;that code&lt;/a&gt; in any other browser I tried. I guess you should take the bug report to Google then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(To determine which font is used on your computer: see &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/43280/utility-to-determine-the-font-used-on-a-site/&quot;&gt;Utility to determine the font used on a site?&lt;/a&gt; at Super User.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T12:14:14.600" />
  <row Id="37921" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T12:28:52.320" Score="2" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;On community wiki posts both the revision history link &amp;amp; community wiki links lead to the same page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the username in the community wiki post point to the user profile page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Revision link&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5537/62141873.png&quot; alt=&quot;hard to see screenshot of revision link hover&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community wiki link&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4535/27703557.png&quot; alt=&quot;even harder to see screenshot of explained linkage&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T12:41:26.143" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T13:15:46.843" Title="Revision history &amp; community wiki links show the same page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="37922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37921" CreationDate="2010-02-02T12:47:31.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was always the way. It wasn't until recently that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36286/redesign-community-wiki-edited-posts&quot; title=&quot;gone baby gone&quot;&gt;last editor link was removed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki posts are less about individual users and more about the collective work of all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On non-CW posts, the last edited time links to the revision list. On the area noting the author (bottom right), it would link to the author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a CW post is a group effort (ideals, man, they're glossy), it displays the author who contributed most overall (on a rough percentage) to the latest version of the post. It also links to the revision list to show you all of the authors/contributors to that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, on CW, it's about the Borg and not about the red shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T13:15:46.843" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T13:15:46.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37909" CreationDate="2010-02-02T12:49:43.380" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much everyone knows about it already... and if they don't: &lt;strong&gt;SHAME ON THEM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T12:49:43.380" />
  <row Id="37924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37906" CreationDate="2010-02-02T12:50:59.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's your proxy?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's the first thing I'd check...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's obviously a problem at your end, not much they can do from here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T12:50:59.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T12:58:59.083" Score="0" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the general principle that writing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12918/can-we-have-a-ruling-on-latex-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;latex document is writing in a markup language&lt;/a&gt; that often insists on receiving the respect due to a programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm less happy to see the use of tools, such as LyX, appearing on SO in this way, where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2184030/list-of-figures-does-not-look-good-number-and-text-on-top-of-each-other&quot;&gt;question doesn't actually involve latex source&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it make sense to say these are SU questions, or does this just make matters needlessly complex? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T13:16:24.270" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:24:54.143" Title="Lyx is not Latex" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;latex&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2010-02-02T13:10:43.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for cutting the necessary waiting period for a bounty in half. 48 hours is too long. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T13:10:43.003" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37879" CreationDate="2010-02-02T13:58:23.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's finally been indexed, 6 hours later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T13:58:23.253" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37925" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:02:42.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's making things needlessly complex, and can stay on SO.  My reasoning is that if we consider LaTeX to be programming, then tools that are used &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; to work with LaTeX can be considered &quot;programming tools&quot; and are fair game, just like IDEs, markup validators, and debuggers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can probably be considered to be similar to Dreamweaver.  Technical questions belong on SO, for example regarding generating specific markup codes or proper encoding.  General usage questions, e.g. &quot;Why does Dreamweaver crash after my upgrade?&quot; belong on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:02:42.167" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T14:10:10.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37925" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:03:29.763" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO LyX questions belong on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; just as much as MS Word or OO.o Writer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about editing ODF programaticaly would belong on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, just as a LaTeX question would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:03:29.763" />
  <row Id="37931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37925" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:24:54.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely this simply comes down to the question of &lt;strong&gt;Which site has the most people able to answer this question&lt;/strong&gt;, and the answer is the same site as the one with the most LaTeX users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, why do LaTeX questions belong on StackOverflow?  Although LaTeX could kind of be considered programming in some sense, in reality it's not programmers who use LaTex, and so its not programmers who are best suited to answer LaTeX questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:24:54.143" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37984" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:38:07.827" Score="6" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have the SQL chops to do this query, so I'm hoping someone else might.  I'd like to 'bin' all the questions on SO based on how long until they received their first upvoted answer.  Not the time to the upvote, the time to the first answer that eventually received an upvote - in other words I don't want to include answers with no upvote in the time calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bins could be linear or logarithmic, whichever is easier to implement.  If someone can even just give me a starter bit of SQL that works on stackql or another existing SO data dump site to work with I'll fiddle with it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:12:51.453" Title="How quickly are questions answered on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37946" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:47:35.697" Score="-1" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23241/is-there-a-way-to-edit-a-question-without-bumping-it-to-the-front-page&quot;&gt;Is there a way to edit a question without bumping it to the front page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28994/closes-edits-should-not-bump-questions-on-recent-list&quot;&gt;Closes / Edits Should Not Bump Questions on &amp;ldquo;Recent&amp;rdquo; List&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31211/is-im-tired-of-seeing-this-get-bumped-a-valid-reason-to-lock-a-post&quot;&gt;Is &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m tired of seeing this get bumped&amp;rdquo; a valid reason to lock a post?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=feature+request+bump&quot;&gt;a lot of &lt;code&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/code&gt;s to make more actions bump a question to the front page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the fact that there have been some questions/&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/26518#26518&quot;&gt;answers that have been locked because of too much activity&lt;/a&gt;, and that there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery&quot;&gt;others&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37825/what-is-a-bad-feature-of-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;come up&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;every once in a while&lt;/a&gt;, could we have an option to to a non-bumping edit and to add a non-bumping question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be it would not be appropriate on SO, as the amount of questions already takes care of this problem, but on Meta, well, is easier to get on the nerves of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that something similar &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23241/is-there-a-way-to-edit-a-question-without-bumping-it-to-the-front-page&quot;&gt;has been already proposed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T15:58:50.963" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:58:50.963" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T16:02:37.103" Title="Add option to not-bump question when editing/answering" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:51:17.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When one of them snorts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1796" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:51:17.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T14:51:17.920" />
  <row Id="37935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37933" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:51:32.273" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a better idea. Stop using the front page so much. Then it won't bother you at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:51:32.273" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37906" CreationDate="2010-02-02T14:53:04.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Swap the machine/proxy assignments to see if it's a problem with the machine, or the proxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the machines, then you'll have some difficulty tracking it down, but since you can see the HTTP requests using fiddler you should be able to see what the difference is in the requests that causes the site to spit you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the proxy, check to see if both proxies are configured identically.  If not, swap the IPs on the proxies to find out if it's a problem with the IP or the proxy configuration.  Pay attention to the HTTP request to see if perhaps one proxy is giving you the 403, rather than the site itself - could be blocked at the proxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's the IP, and nothing else is different, then email team@stackoverflow and request their assistance in determining if they have that IP blacklisted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If at any time in the past your computers abused SO (lots of traffic, bot, etc) then you may have fallen victim to such an IP block that usually automatically clears.  Are there others using the proxy?  Could be them.  Either way, if you're certain it's the IP then email the team and ask if they can give you an idea why this might be happening.  They won't spend much time on the issue, so don't expect a thorough examination, especially if you haven't done most of the investigation already, but they are usually good about answering simple requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T14:53:04.017" />
  <row Id="37937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:03:45.410" Score="1" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is quickly approaching the 500,000th question asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something special planned to celebrate this?&#xA;Should the poster be awarded a special badge or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post below what you think should happen when the counter hits 500,000!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134355" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:38:34.363" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T15:38:19.437" Title="What do you think should happen when the 500,000th question is asked?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;awards&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37937" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:04:51.820" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post below what you think should happen when the counter hits 500,000!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:04:51.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37937" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:05:29.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The universe collapses and all Unicorns will die!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:05:29.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37932" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:09:10.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The result will be different on different tag names.&#xA;Questions on general topics, for instance, &quot;PHP HTML Entities&quot; get their answers in minutes or sometimes even in seconds. SharePoint questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2150526/is-it-possible-to-customize-a-sharepoint-list-form-so-that-selecting-a-bdc-value&quot;&gt;like this&lt;/a&gt; can live for days and no answer received at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150794" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:09:10.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37937" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:09:15.010" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;Id&lt;/code&gt; field on the &lt;code&gt;Posts&lt;/code&gt; table will increase to &lt;code&gt;500001&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:09:15.010" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37947" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:09:53.697" Score="11" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Curious on a habit I am starting to see on the trilogy. There is nothing stated on this in the FAQ so figured I would ask here. What is the policy on using a web address as your display name? Personally to me this feels more like spamming since the profile gives you a field for a web address. Just curious what others think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:44:07.143" Title="Policy on display names" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37937" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:10:57.813" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Real programmers don't understand your silly base-10 Martian talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real programmers&lt;/strong&gt; will be more excited about the &lt;strong&gt;524,288th&lt;/strong&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:10:57.813" />
  <row Id="37945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:19:17.247" Score="43" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rubyonrails.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Ruby on Rails - we are in beta! help, docs, patches are welcome!&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://uploads.makevoid.com/rails-stackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ruby on Rails - we are in beta! help, docs, patches are welcome!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142714" LastEditorUserId="142714" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T04:44:51.323" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:44:51.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T15:19:17.247" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="37946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37933" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:28:40.393" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the &lt;em&gt;purposes&lt;/em&gt; of bumping is allowing users to review new content. Without automatic bumping, harmful content can be added without the scrutiny of community self-moderation. Bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:28:40.393" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37942" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:33:02.707" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the policy on using a web address as your display name?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no policy, because it is not, or has not been, a problem.  Note that even if one uses their web address as their name, the link still points to their user page, where they are, and always have been, free to link to wherever they please.  The links are nofollow until you get a certain rep, so it's not a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, as long as the name isn't blatantly offensive I don't believe we need a policy.  Let people put whatever they want there - if they are positively contributing to the site then it's a small cost for their contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent name change was only implemented because people incessantly complained to Jeff and Co. about it.  The squeaky wheel gets the grease.  As soon as it becomes more of a burden to field questions about this non-problem than it takes to 'fix' it, a change in policy will be made.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, unlike the &quot;changing names frequently&quot; problem, this is something that can't be fixed with a technical solution - every name would have to pass before a person for review, which means that people would have to flag posts by such users and have a moderator make a determination, which would result in all sorts of belly-aching on Meta - see: Chet Atwood issue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That 'cure' may be worse than simply telling people, &quot;Hey, if they're advertising a site, I don't care.  Only alert a moderator if it's blatantly offensive, otherwise let them get their pittance of branding because they are actively contributing to the site, and the branding is so minimal it's not worth worrying about.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T15:44:07.143" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:44:07.143" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37937" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:38:34.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you think should happen when the 500,000th question is asked?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the off-topic questions should collapse in upon themselves, forming a black hole that generates a gravity well powerful enough to get rid of all non programming questions, leaving real programming questions alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:38:34.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:42:18.037" Score="-3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043058/scripting-http-more-effeciently&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for example. There is no accepted answer because I was looking for other ways to script HTTP more efficiently than using Java/apache commmon's HTTP Client. How come I have to choose one answer, yet there isn't even a right answer to that question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142469" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:58:28.093" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T17:07:13.147" Title="Some questions shouldn't have an accepted answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6866" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:43:15.180" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because C# 'programmers' need more help and guidance. Also, many times people just add tags for the language that they primarily develop in for every question that they ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142469" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:43:15.180" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37949" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:45:22.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one's forcing you to accept an answer and no one's forcing you to have 100% acceptance rate. Just leave it the way it is, most of us understand that some CW questions simply can't have a best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:45:22.617" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:50:44.320" Score="124" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just looked into all the open source implementations mentioned, to summarise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most active that look like the best bets&lt;/strong&gt; (as of June 2011)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gitorious.org/shapado&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shapado&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Ruby, mongomapper and mongodb. &lt;a href=&quot;http://shapado.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live site&lt;/a&gt;, also provide hosted sites for free. AGPLv3. Seems to be under active development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.osqa.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OSQA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; . Django. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.osqa.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live site&lt;/a&gt;. GPLv3. More actively developed fork of CNPROG.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://askbot.org/en/questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASKBOT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Django &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;code&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://askbot.org/doc/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;docs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://askbot.org/doc/import-data.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;import data&lt;/a&gt;. GPLv3. To install type &quot;pip install askbot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.question2answer.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Question2Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.question2answer.org/qa/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live site&lt;/a&gt; PHP, MySQL. Actively developed. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.question2answer.org/license.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GPL license&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cnprog/CNPROG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CNPROG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Django. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnprog.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live site&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Update 21/01/2011:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;link leads to a page which says CNPROG is officially closed&lt;/em&gt;). GPLv3. Not a lot of recent activity; last code commit, Oct 2009 (as of Feb 2010). Primarily developed in Chinese, although there are English translations.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;No longer supported according to the website.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ones that look sort of finished&lt;/strong&gt; (as of Jun 2011)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/nsanta/openoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;openoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Ruby, PostgreSQL, Haml. MIT license. No example site, and I can't find anyone using this one. Not a lot of recent activity; last code commit, May 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpancake/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phpancake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. PHP, Zend framework, MySQL. &lt;a href=&quot;http://phpancake.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live site&lt;/a&gt;. MIT license. Last activity Jan 2010. Renders very poorly in some browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cahoots.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cahoots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. PHP, MySQL. GPL, MIT license. Officially inactive; demo site offline; last update Aug 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/anantgarg/Qwench&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Qwench&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; PHP. &lt;a href=&quot;http://anantgarg.com/qwench&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Example site&lt;/a&gt; (no pages except question list). &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/anantgarg/Qwench/commits/master&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;No activity since Dec 2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;soclone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Django framework. MIT license. Seems to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/source/list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gone stale in Nov 2008&lt;/a&gt; (and only started on Google Code at the end of Oct 2008).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plurk &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Solace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Python. BSD license. No example site, and I can't find anyone using this one. &lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/plurk/solace/changesets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Last commit was Dec 2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/stacked/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stacked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ASP.NET, Ra-Ajax, ActiveRecord ORM. GPLv3. &lt;a href=&quot;http://ra-ajax.org/stacked&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live site&lt;/a&gt;. Seems to have gone stale in Jun 2009. Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://ra-ajax.org/lawsuit-settled-the-war-is-over.blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;legal issues&lt;/a&gt;, but they seem to be over now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Others that seem to be work in progress&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/mcaprari/fortytwo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FortyTwo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Python, Django, CouchDB. &lt;a href=&quot;http://couch.caprazzi.net/fortytwo/_design/fortytwo/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Example site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;link leads to a 404&lt;/em&gt;. Unknown license. Little info. [Last commit in January 2011]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/fuadmuhammad/kerjakelompok/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kerjakelompok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. No example site. Unknown license. Little info.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/dkd/smartr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SmartR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. No example site. Unknown license. Little info.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ripper234/Stack-Underflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Underflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. C#. No example site. License is &quot;do whatever you want with it&quot; (I haven't defined a formal license yet). Written as a learning project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/membrain/T002_rails-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;T002_rails-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Rails. No example site. Unknown license. Little info. Apache license.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lampcms.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LampCMS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; PHP 5.3, MongoDB LGPL 3 License&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sorted by language&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PHP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.question2answer.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Question2Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cahoots.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cahoots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpancake/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;phpancake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lampcms.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LampCMS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Python&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://askbot.org/en/questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASKBOT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/cnprog/CNPROG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CNPROG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/OSQA/osqa/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OSQA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/soclone/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;soclone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plurk &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Solace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/mcaprari/fortytwo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FortyTwo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ruby&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gitorious.org/shapado&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shapado&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/nsanta/openoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;openoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/membrain/T002_rails-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;T002_rails-overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/stacked/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stacked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ASP.NET&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C#&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/ripper234/Stack-Underflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Underflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unknown&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/fuadmuhammad/kerjakelompok/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kerjakelompok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/dkd/smartr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SmartR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did I miss any? Disagree? Please add a comment or update this answer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't really want to get into listing clones, but I have just come across &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answerbag.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Answer Bag&lt;/a&gt; which seems to be an all-encompassing clone covering everything from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answerbag.com/category/aviation_508&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;aviation&lt;/a&gt; through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answerbag.com/category/programming_178&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;programming&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answerbag.com/category/religion_114&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;religion&lt;/a&gt;. Or maybe that was there first? And &lt;a href=&quot;http://justanswer.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Just Answer&lt;/a&gt; is another...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131577" LastEditorUserId="166203" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T09:44:58.080" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T09:44:58.080" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T15:50:44.320" CommentCount="26" />
  <row Id="37954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37949" CreationDate="2010-02-02T15:58:28.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How come I have to choose one answer, yet there isn't even a right answer to that question?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to do anything.  If you don't want to, don't accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recognize, however, that you had a very broad and open ended question to start off with.  You wrote a question which, by definition, does not have a single universal answer.  So you already chose the path that leads to no answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you should at least vote up everyone that contributed something that is useful - in this way you not only highlight their contribution as a reasonable contribution, but it's also a 'tip' of sorts to give them reputation for reading and answering your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also consider objectively reviewing all the answers, and selecting the one where the contribution was above and beyond what you originally asked.  It may not be &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; answer for your question, but you are simply recognizing that they provided the best information given your limited input.  Post a comment on their answer indicating that while this isn't &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; answer, you appreciate their time and selected their answer because they obviously put significant effort in it and you want to give them the additional 15 rep tip for their help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the site has suggestions for what you should upvote and select as your answer, at the end of the day they mean whatever they want to you.  They highlight the answers in a certain way, change the ordering, and give reputation to the contributor.  If you feel an answer is deserving of those features, then you can provide them even if they don't meet the site's definition of 'answer' or 'upvote'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T15:58:28.093" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24933" CreationDate="2010-02-02T16:06:31.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would also be really nice to be able to add employers to a list of companies that you would like to work for. Or maybe a list of employer attributes that you are looking for (e.g. small company &amp;lt;50, startup, pet friendly, telecommute only, etc.) Then, when employers search, you could sort results or highlight results based on people that are looking to work at your company specifically or at a company like yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may also help in your sales pitch to certain companies if you could say, &quot;Hey there are 3,000 programmers that are currently saying that they would like to work for you&quot;. Even for existing employers you could send updated statistics that say, &quot;Wow! This week 200 potential candidates said they want to work for your company&quot; Think of the PR possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T16:06:31.197" />
  <row Id="37956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T16:20:16.030" Score="5" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should I edit out the (thankfully obsfucated) e-mail address from this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2185598/java-to-c-cross-compilation&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;?  Is this something we should allow on the site going forward?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care about the &quot;thank you&quot; or &quot;hello&quot;, but this might lead to an answer being sent by e-mail, which would mean it wouldn't be peer reviewed (for what that's worth), and the answer would be lost to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T18:07:28.953" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:32:23.670" Title="Allow users to put their e-mail in posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;inappropriate-content&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="37957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37956" CreationDate="2010-02-02T16:23:20.767" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone want's to post their email, let them.  I don't think it's a great idea though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T16:23:20.767" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37956" CreationDate="2010-02-02T16:25:08.470" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's noise. Like &quot;Howdy&quot; and &quot;Thanks to all my peeps, peace out!&quot;. Get rid of it! (In this case you do not have to do anything though; someone was faster)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T18:32:23.670" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:32:23.670" />
  <row Id="37959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37956" CreationDate="2010-02-02T16:27:19.977" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went ahead and removed it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't email answers to people.  It totally removes the aspect of people finding answers to their problems on Stack Overflow through google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T16:27:19.977" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37956" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:03:21.173" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reasons to include an email in a post might be to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arrange a personal contact&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Converse about the post off the site&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of which move the site in directions that have been declined time and time again for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO is not a social networking website.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions and answers are meant to appear onsite so that future SO users may benefit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site already has a feature to email the question owner if they want to receive updates via email.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 5 years the email will have absolutely no value or bearing on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it doesn't belong - there's no reason to have it now, and there's no reason to have it long term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:03:21.173" />
  <row Id="37962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37956" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:03:30.283" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers are for the benefit of the Stack Overflow community not just for the OP. So tacking on your email address to a question (perhaps) in the hope of a direct and private answer is up there with the same sin committed by Usenet folks who request that you &quot;plz reply directly to email&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:03:30.283" />
  <row Id="37966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38017" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:36:21.363" Score="-4" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many, if not most, new-user helper features turn off by the time you get to 200 rep, for instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37963/why-does-serverfault-always-show-the-add-comment-box-on-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37963/why-does-serverfault-always-show-the-add-comment-box-on-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider increasing the 100 rep gain for associating accounts to 200 to get seasoned users past all the new-user limiters that have been added in the last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T03:35:54.403" Title="Increase account association rep 'bump' from 100 to 200" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="37967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:36:46.637" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/89927e2f4bde24991649b353a37678b9?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, I'm purple..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm.. Looks a bit stoned/drugged out of eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:36:46.637" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37971" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:40:21.323" Score="-5" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a background of the problem, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38001/statistics-current-ratio-of-link-and-run-on-the-so-trilogy&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Feature Proposal&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature proposal is reduce posting of &quot;linking hit-and-runs&quot; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer is a &quot;linking hit-and-run&quot; if links occupy &gt;= 15% of the body and the character count if lower or equal to 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is qualified as a &quot;linking hit-and-run&quot;, one of the following actions could be implemented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning Only:&lt;/strong&gt; Warn the user that his answer is a &quot;linking hit-and-run&quot; and considered bad etiquette on this website to post that kind of answer and that posting such answer might incur negative reputation for that very reason.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning and CW:&lt;/strong&gt; Warn the user that his answer is a &quot;linking hit-and-run&quot; and that it will be marked as &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt; unless he adds more body content. If the user decides to post the answer anyway, the answer is marked &lt;em&gt;community wiki&lt;/em&gt; and no reputation is gained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deny:&lt;/strong&gt; Outright deny posting the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should reduce the number of users posting small and cryptic answers linking to an other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a change is required as this has become a community problem and this trend cannot be reversed on a case-by-case down-voting of those types of answers. New users have no idea that this is frowned upon which is why this problem needs to be solved systematically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T23:02:31.223" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:56:38.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T17:49:00.353" Title="Reduce posting of &quot;linking hit-and-runs&quot; answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;link-and-run&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="37969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37966" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:41:38.030" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think creating an account association should give you diamond mod powers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:41:38.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37966" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:43:04.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should automatically be thought of as being a trusted user on ServerFault just because you had enough rep to get the association bump on StackOverflow. I think 100 is the maximum I would ever want to see, and even that I think is too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem to go with the grain of reputation relating to how much the system trusts you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:43:04.453" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37968" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:43:24.797" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose simply downvoting un-useful answers. Works only client-side, but pretty effective nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:43:24.797" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37968" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:47:02.400" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a link is useful then it should be upvoted, if it's not useful then it should be downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be decided on a case-by-case basis, since there is no way for the system to know the efficacy of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T17:47:02.400" />
  <row Id="37974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37968" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:47:50.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To some degree, as a question asker, I would like a very, very quick and dirty answer, whatever it may be, rather than someone who might have a link handy skipping it because of the scary dialog box.  Let the community handle it, and that will usually occur in cases where others post a better answer sans link.  In cases where the only answer is from someone with a link, that's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it really needs to be done on a case-by-case basis, which can only effectively be handled by the community via voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A link-only answer isn't ideal, but it's better than nothing, and far from &quot;wrong&quot; or &quot;bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T18:05:10.267" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:05:10.267" />
  <row Id="37975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:52:16.553" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34611/page-title-from-first-url-in-comment-is-used-for-title-text-of-all-additional-url&quot;&gt;Page title from First url in comment is used for title text of all additional urls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24571/tooltip-for-internal-comment-links-shows-wrong-title&quot;&gt;Tooltip for internal comment links shows wrong title&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery/&quot;&gt;unofficial ad gallery&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed something odd a comment of mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2996/pantallazo1hz.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fired up Firebug, and sure enough, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://contexts.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://contexts.org&lt;/a&gt; link had a &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; attribute set to &lt;code&gt;open source advertising sidebar 1h 2010&lt;/code&gt;, which is correct for the previous link, but wrong for the second one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see that this problem is reproducible on the comments to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo&quot;&amp;gt;youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a title=&quot;these are not the droids you are looking for&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1120542/these-are-not-the-droids-you-are-looking-for/&quot;&amp;gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/1120542/…&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a title=&quot;these are not the droids you are looking for&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo&quot;&amp;gt;youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a title=&quot;these are not the droids you are looking for&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo&quot;&amp;gt;youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T18:01:31.180" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:01:31.180" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T18:27:18.797" Title="Wrong title attribute on links on comments" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-02T17:57:48.367" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/a73e9f4540f815a3cf22710364a5c67e?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;unucorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had 15 rep I would vote you up :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142620" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T18:40:38.970" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:40:38.970" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37968" CreationDate="2010-02-02T18:18:31.547" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gist of your suggestion, from reading the comments is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't like answers meeting some&#xA;  criterion.  While these answers are&#xA;  currently being downvoted, and the&#xA;  downvoting works to indicate that the&#xA;  answers are poor, I would prefer that&#xA;  these answers were never posted in the&#xA;  first place.  Thus, it is important to&#xA;  introduce a potentially imperfect&#xA;  automated system to prevent these&#xA;  answers, because their mere existence&#xA;  is a community problem which requires&#xA;  immediate action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this rephrasing, I think you can clearly see that you've got two things you need to do before we can even think about specific implementation details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You need to prove to the community at large that this perceived problem does indeed exist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are able to do that, you then need to demonstrate that rather than relying on the core mechanism for evaluating content on SO, which is peer moderation, an automated solution is required.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is, you have placed the cart before the horse by outlining an algorithm and arguing about its effectiveness before you have even demonstrated that the problem as stated exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:18:31.547" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T18:18:31.547" />
  <row Id="37978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37979" CreationDate="2010-02-02T18:23:02.990" Score="-1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;When somebody puts a @username reference to somebody, could the system find either (in this order):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comment above the one with the reference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or, the most recent post of any kind on the page by the user (if 1 isn't available)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My idea is that this would be a #comment-123456 style link to the comment or post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:06:08.240" Title="Autolink @username in comments to most recent relevent post with #comment-123546 style anchor" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;auto-linking&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="37979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37978" CreationDate="2010-02-02T18:26:38.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There really shouldn't ever be enough comments for this to be a serious concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if there are, our system has already failed to suppress excess discussion anyway, so whatever we do at that point is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:26:38.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37978" CreationDate="2010-02-02T18:33:52.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could make it more obvious:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/3360/commentmarking.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a simple matter of coding :) (smiley edited in for those who don't get mild sarcasm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T18:47:35.833" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T18:47:35.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37978" CreationDate="2010-02-02T18:47:06.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you really want are &lt;em&gt;threads&lt;/em&gt;. A tried-and-true method for dealing with forking discussions and sub-discussions. Threads are &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; for any non-trivial discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, SO tries its best to &lt;em&gt;discourage&lt;/em&gt; non-trivial discussion. So I doubt we'll ever be seeing threads (or any of the various substitutes commonly used by people who can't deal with hierarchies) on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31028/can-we-have-threaded-comments-on-answer-comments&quot;&gt;Can we have threaded comments on answer comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T19:06:08.240" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:06:08.240" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="37983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:00:45.007" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37889/voting-on-a-question-after-having-clicked-the-upvotes-downvotes-count-will-displa&quot;&gt;Voting on a question after having clicked the upvotes/downvotes count will display an incorrect value&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although not a show stopper, there's a minor bug in the way that the total reputation is recalculated after voting up a post immediately after viewing the vote split.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Locate a question or answer that has &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; upvotes and down downvotes and click on the reputation value to show the voting split (you need to do this anyway to find them). For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time I looked at this question it had a rep score of 89 comprised of +91/-2 votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I then clicked on the upvote button it recalculated the repution total as being 94 instead of 90. Refreshing the page in my browser then shows the correct new score as being 90, so it's really a UI bug rather than a server side data thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like there's some wonky addition going there, i.e. the downvote value is being added to the upvote value as an absolute value instead of as-is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some screen-shots with the obligatory free hand circles/annotation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Browse to question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9613/97768180.png&quot; alt=&quot;Step1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show vote split:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8731/30308500.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click upvote:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/337/47399994.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:00:45.007" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T19:01:46.567" Title="Vote split feature temporarily miscalculates reputation after up-vote" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="37984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37932" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:03:04.130" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a couple of graphs at the bottom of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats-SO.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO stats page&lt;/a&gt; that attempts to graph this. With the wide variance in time to answer, I've used a log scale on the bin sizes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=20&amp;amp;chd=e:AAAAAHA2SM..0Eb1PxKXHWFPDiCxCIBqA4AE&amp;amp;chtt=Time%20to%20first%20answer&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|1s|2s|7s|20s|54s|2m|6m|18m|49m|2h|6h|16h|1d|5d|13d|37d|102d|279d|1:|0|30%&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=20&amp;amp;chd=e:AAABAHArNC4H..tPdKTnOuL8IjGxEhDYCGAX&amp;amp;chtt=Time%20to%20accepted%20answer&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|1s|2s|7s|20s|54s|2m|6m|18m|49m|2h|6h|16h|1d|5d|13d|37d|102d|279d|1:|0|22%&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These graphs don't try to do the &quot;earlier answer that eventually received an upvote&quot;, but just &quot;earliest answer&quot; and &quot;accepted answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The snippet of SQL the graph uses (against my database, which happens to be PostgreSQL) is shown above the graph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T19:12:51.453" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:12:51.453" />
  <row Id="37985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37966" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:03:54.783" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37966/increase-account-association-rep-bump-from-100-to-200/37970#37970&quot;&gt;From comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;100 is the optimal number without going too high -- that gives you vote up, flag, leave comments, edit cwiki, and vote down. What else is really necessary? Also, reduced advertising at 200 is something you should still have to earn IMO. – Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:03:54.783" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T19:04:17.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38020" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:04:05.360" Score="12" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a gravatar is changed, other users will only notice it if they clear their cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, Gravatar changes can go unnoticed for a very long time because people don't usually clear their cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be very easy to add a version field to the users table and append it to the Gravatar query string, like this:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/hash?s=32&amp;amp;X-StackOverflow-Version=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/hash?s=32&amp;amp;X-StackOverflow-Version=3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravatar will ignore the extra field  (I checked)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, whenever someone changes their gravatar, they could update this version field in their profile page, and force everyone to see the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="34397" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T19:26:32.717" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T14:43:39.097" Title="Force Gravatar Refresh" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;cache&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37986" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:06:28.350" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gravatar will ignore the extra field (I checked)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please reference their API that indicates this usage is supported and will always be true in future revisions of their interface.  Otherwise it would be unwise to implement it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:06:28.350" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37986" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:11:16.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure we want to encourage people to change their gravatar images frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't take that long for gravatars to refresh, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:11:16.543" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="37989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:16:22.460" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/8931e023c82f232d4d02a115710fb8fc?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/8931e023c82f232d4d02a115710fb8fc?s=128&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HMS Unicorn landing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134376" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T19:20:34.447" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:20:34.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="37990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:28:36.520" Score="3" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Should &amp;lsquo;Hi&amp;rsquo;, &amp;lsquo;thanks&amp;rsquo; and taglines and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26237/editing-others-posts-general-etiquette&quot;&gt;Editing others' posts - general etiquette &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19477/is-it-ok-to-edit-a-correct-answer-for-fullness-instead-of-answering&quot;&gt;Is it OK to edit a correct answer for fullness instead of answering?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've actually come across this scenario twice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stumble across a question for which I want to know the answer, say I'm looking for information about an obscure error message. The original poster has already accepted an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now although my question is similar to the poster's, the accepted answer failed to resolve my question completely. It mentions one possible cause of the error. (It did at least point me in the right direction). I eventually find a solution to my problem (I found an additional cause for the same error message), and rather than posting another answer to the question, I edit the accepted answer appending my findings at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there's no rule book for when its appropriate to edit another's post so consensus opinion is the most I could hope for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is and isn't acceptable reasons for editing another user's post? I'll take the liberty of listing some of the &quot;givens&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acceptable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spelling/Grammar correction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-tagging&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unacceptable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vandalism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132772" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T21:37:31.153" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:37:31.153" ClosedDate="2010-02-02T20:28:55.663" Title="Editing Etiquette: Editing someone else's answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37990" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:30:57.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The correct action in your case would be to add your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why give someone else credit for your hard work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:30:57.467" />
  <row Id="37992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37990" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:31:08.027" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's acceptable to edit another's answer if it makes it a better answer, without changing any original intent.  This is if your solution was derived from his answer or is related to it.  It's all about quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're not only helping any answer-seekers, but you're helping the original answerer to get more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you found a solution that was completely different than any of the answers, then post it as an answer itself, leaving those other answers as alternatives.  If any of those answers you found to be completely wrong, then you could leave a comment for the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T19:54:02.700" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:54:02.700" />
  <row Id="37993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:33:28.053" Score="7" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, the moderator elections have came! Yay! I got an annoying little pop-up on my screen telling me to vote in the elections!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted. And now am stuck on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/vote-moderator&quot;&gt;this useless voting page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I suggest either redirecting the user when they are finished voting, allowing to change their vote, or making the page somehow not just &lt;strong&gt;be there&lt;/strong&gt; when I'm done voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a little box on the bottom that says 'Go back', and is disabled until you use your 3 votes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just think that ideally the page should say 'Hi! Here I am! Come Vote!', I click on the link, I vote, and then somewhere it should feed me right back into the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you should probably have each candidates name link to their 'nomination' answer in the SO Election thread, so people who have no idea who the candidates are can know a little more about them before voting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing a vast majority of the StackOverflow community doesn't actually go on meta (or if they have, we've scared them away), and probably didn't see the thread for the elections. So it might be useful to point them there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; Ahh, I didn't notice it does link to their profile. I still think that having a page that doesn't &lt;em&gt;do anything&lt;/em&gt; once its served its purpose is annoying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T21:27:03.067" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T08:32:55.720" Title="Moderator election voting page &quot;not useful enough&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="37994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37986" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:37:19.870" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gravatar.com server &lt;a href=&quot;http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F7deca8ec973c3c0875e9a36e1e3e2c44%3Fs%3D32%26d%3Didenticon%26r%3DPG&amp;amp;submit=Submit&amp;amp;http=1.1&amp;amp;gzip=yes&amp;amp;type=GET&amp;amp;uak=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tells a browser&lt;/a&gt; to cache for only 5 minutes, though they are doing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some caching&lt;/a&gt; themselves as well. I doubt that their own caching can be fooled by additional parameters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:36:17 GMT&#xA;Last-Modified: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:32:54 GMT&#xA;Expires: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:41:17 GMT&#xA;Cache-Control: max-age=300&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:37:19.870" />
  <row Id="37995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37993" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:38:36.200" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sort of like the idea of not linking to the &quot;pitch&quot; provided by each user. Instead, Jeff currently sends you to their record where you can examine their helpfulness, and general behavior on Stack Overflow. Perhaps this was by-design, or just a happy accident, but it seems like a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, some of the users have taken the liberty to add a small pitch in their profiles too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:38:36.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="37996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37993" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:46:25.073" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I voted. And now am stuck on this useless voting page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How'd you manage to get to this web page, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the voting page (if you're logged in, and have the requisite 200 rep) shows who you voted for. I wouldn't call that &quot;useless&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and probably didn't see the thread for the elections&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meta thread is linked on the voting page. Don't make me bust out hand-drawn screenshot circles on you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T20:42:19.860" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T20:42:19.860" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="37997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37993" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:47:28.613" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same thought at first, and then I realized how bad of an idea linking to our initial pitches would be. The first few of us who answered (I was, I think, the fourth?) were pretty tongue-in-cheek. Oh, sure, we had our &quot;real&quot; pitches at the top (well, most of us), but we really digressed badly on many of them as they went further. I'm not sure if many of us would want that particular face to be the link. We joked about bribery, zombies, cuss words ... Man that was a fun couple of days!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The profile link is perfect, as Jonathan Sampson said. You have our actual track records, and we are free to edit our profiles to pimp (I mean, &lt;em&gt;pitch&lt;/em&gt;) our campaigns. I took advantage of that as soon as I realized I was one of the lucky 15 nominees to make the real election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T19:52:33.487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:52:33.487" />
  <row Id="37998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:47:41.373" Score="10" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/vote-moderator&quot;&gt;vote for moderator&lt;/a&gt; page, provide a way to see questions that you have &quot;in common&quot; with the potential moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see perhaps a button (with a count) for each candidate that shows me which questions I have asked/answered/commented on that that candidate has been active on as well.  It would be GREAT to see direct actions (moderations of my entries) highlighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm looking for is how the candidate performs on questions with which I'm already familiar and situations where I participated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133472" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T21:26:32.583" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:26:32.583" Title="Provide a way to see a moderator candidate's questions that you have interacted with" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="37999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37998" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:51:32.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, none of us are moderators yet. I do think it would be neat to show some basic statistics about the user beside their name though. How long they've been a member, what their current reputation is. How many questions, answers, badges, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:51:32.693" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37990" CreationDate="2010-02-02T19:58:41.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a lot to add about this particular problem, feel free to add your own answer, even though one has already been accepted and likely the original rubberneckers have already wandered off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just have a slight amendment, you could add that as a comment under the accepted answer, e.g. &quot;this solution mostly worked for me too, except I had to use the Frobnitz in the Foobar rather than the Whizzbang, and I needed to add option Quux.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T19:58:41.413" />
  <row Id="38001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38005" CreationDate="2010-02-02T20:22:25.693" Score="3" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am personally starting to be a bit fed up with the prevalence of what I call &quot;linking hit-and-runs&quot; answers (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2186041/change-content-of-a-div-using-javascript/2186048#2186048&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major problems with these types of answer are that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They require the asking user to read a complete article (or worse, actually browse the site)&#xA;to find something that may be buried really deep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They usually steal reputation from people who are putting an effort in their answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The links may die unexpectedly, leaving future visitors without the answer they are looking for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the numbers below, the problem is quite prevalent. I've defined a &quot;link-and-run&quot; (LAR) as a post where links occupy &gt;= 15% of the body and the character count is lower than or equal to 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a possible solution, please see &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37968/reduce-posting-of-linking-hit-and-runs-answers&quot;&gt;Reduce posting of “linking hit-and-runs” answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;LAR Calculator&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following program calculates the ratio of posts considered to be &quot;linking hit-and-runs&quot; in the Stack Exchange Network data dumps. Simply run it in the same directory as the data-dump you want to parse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will show you two ratios. &lt;strong&gt;LAR/Total&lt;/strong&gt; is the number of LARs relative to the total numbers of posts. &lt;strong&gt;LAR/Qualify&lt;/strong&gt; is the number of LARs relative to the number of posts below 200 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://pastebin.com/f18d3c0ab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Read Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Current LARs&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These numbers are calculated with the application above using the January 2010 data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;       Ratio          LAR /      Total   (  Percent )&#xA;  LARs/Total        97787 /    1819345   (   5.37 % )&#xA;LARs/Qualify        97787 /     459812   (  21.27 % )&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server Fault&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;       Ratio          LAR /      Total   (  Percent )&#xA;  LARs/Total         3918 /      94217   (   4.16 % )&#xA;LARs/Qualify         3918 /      22399   (  17.49 % )&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;       Ratio          LAR /      Total   (  Percent )&#xA;  LARs/Total         6751 /      84934   (   7.95 % )&#xA;LARs/Qualify         6751 /      28233   (  23.91 % )&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T10:22:24.623" LastActivityDate="2010-10-23T00:12:32.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T20:22:58.877" Title="Statistics: Current Ratio of &quot;Link-And-Run&quot; on the Stack Exchange Network" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;link-and-run&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37993" CreationDate="2010-02-02T20:25:30.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if the response bar at the top didn't ask me to vote, when I already have.  Isn't voting tracked by user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T20:25:30.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37993" CreationDate="2010-02-02T20:28:08.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you should probably have&#xA;  each candidates name link to their&#xA;  'nomination' answer in the SO Election&#xA;  thread, so people who have no idea who&#xA;  the candidates are can know a little&#xA;  more about them before voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm guessing a vast majority of the&#xA;  StackOverflow community doesn't&#xA;  actually go on meta (or if they have,&#xA;  we've scared them away), and probably&#xA;  didn't see the thread for the&#xA;  elections. So it might be useful to&#xA;  point them there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My pearl of wisdom for anyone running for this moderator job, the gravatar and handle you use will play a key role in your election. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T20:28:08.613" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="38005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38001" CreationDate="2010-02-02T20:35:56.100" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the idea that &quot;Link and Run&quot; answers are bad, but, given that, I have to point out that your second bullet point makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Usually steals reputation from people who are putting an effort in their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're bad answers, I doubt they're going to steal much rep.  Given that they are just bad answers, I say we just treat them as such and downvote them.  Also, continue to provide and upvote good answers.  People learn to adjust their behavior through both positive and negative reinforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T20:35:56.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T20:35:56.100" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37998" CreationDate="2010-02-02T20:51:44.020" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably faster if you search these entries yourself, instead of waiting that this gets implemented. I picked one candidate randomly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.de/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=%22chris+nava%22+welbog+site%3Astackoverflow.com&amp;amp;btnG=Search&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;chris nava&quot; welbog site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T20:51:44.020" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:04:16.720" Score="5" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many cases where people have responded to me, given my moniker of &quot;Sofware Monkey&quot;, people have chosen &quot;@Monkey: ...&quot;, which makes sense.  Likewise, if Jeff Cho and Jeff Atwood had both commented, I might use &quot;@Atwood: ...&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like it would be very useful to do an ends-with match as well as the current starts-with match for identifying comments for notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, if no match is found with Starts-With, perhaps it could try again with Contains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="8946" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T06:21:23.180" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T06:43:18.793" Title="Could comment notification also add &quot;Ends With&quot; as a test?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="38008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38232" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:11:24.817" Score="4" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that I quite often get a captcha confirmation when I post a question or answer.  All it takes is to write a longish piece of text or check a couple of things to make sure what I am saying is on track.  I can easily spend 15 to 20 minutes on an answer if I am being careful and thorough, especially if I paste in links to back up what I am saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This always makes me nervous, as well as being a pain/annoyance. What if the recaptcha site doesn't work properly? What if I lose my internet connection while doing it (happens a lot on my laptop due to a faulty wireless card)? What if I get the captcha wrong?  It becomes easy to lose 15 - 30 minutes of work just because SO imposed an additional step on me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this &quot;too long&quot; check really necessary?  I mean, how long &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; it take a human to type 1000 characters of text?  You can't really say, since it depends on the content.  Certainly you can set a threshold of where it's too fast, but not where it's too slow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T09:26:34.147" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:26:49.840" Title="Eliminate the captcha on long questions &amp; answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;too-long&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:16:38.237" Score="0" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow creates different accounts for one openId at google on different machines. Is there any way to use one account on all machiches?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:36:45.227" Title="Stackoverflow creates different accounts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38009" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:18:44.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is that you use &lt;a href=&quot;http://myopenid.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myopenid.com&lt;/a&gt; (or another solid provider) instead of the Google OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure there is a way to make the Google provider work, but there have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.stackoverflow.com+openid+google&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;issues&lt;/a&gt; with the Google provider since the start and in my opinion it is not worth the trouble. I have used myopenid.com since I started on StackOverflow in the beta, and I have never had an issue, and I cannot remember the last time I even needed to log in. Things &lt;strong&gt;just work&lt;/strong&gt; which is the only way it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you have a solid OpenID set up, email team@stackoverflow.com with the accounts you know of, and they can merge them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:18:44.537" />
  <row Id="38011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38008" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:21:38.087" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copy/paste your answer into notepad before hitting submit. It's become a habit of mine on sites that I don't trust (I've not had troubles on the SOFU sites yet, thank goodness)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:21:38.087" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38007" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:24:12.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It still doesn't solve the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; problem. It would be interesting if we could address Jeff as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@wood: this is a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:24:12.510" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38008" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:24:51.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What if the recaptcha site doesn't work properly? What if I loose my internet connection while doing it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...what if there's no captcha, but things fail anyhow? I always get my post, no matter how small, onto my clipboard before hitting submit on &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; site...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:24:51.293" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38008" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:33:57.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you take advantage of the preview window so as to not submit until you are satisfied with your edit?  I usually only have two or three edits register when I am posting, even for extensively thought-out posts involving a lot of code and details; I also use the Firefox plugin &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/el/firefox/addon/4125&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's All Text!&lt;/a&gt;&quot; so I can use my editor of choice (vim) for writing my post, which really helps out when writing code on the fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:33:57.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38009" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:36:45.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the google openid, and I've never had any of these problems. Are you sure you have a &lt;em&gt;registered&lt;/em&gt; SO account, rather than just having an unregistered account linked to your google-mail email address?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you let me know some way of identifying your posts (any clue at all) I'd happily take a peek...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:36:45.227" />
  <row Id="38017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37966" CreationDate="2010-02-02T21:41:12.270" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I signed on at Meta and associated my account with SF (just yesterday) I was rather surprised that I received any rep at all. Why should I (or anyone else)? It makes absolutely no difference how I may be &quot;performing&quot; on any other site. On this one I'm a complete noob and expected to be treated accordingly. Under the circumstances I think 100 rep is very generous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142690" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T21:41:12.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:00:30.837" Score="18" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;Secret organizations have let us know that Jeff has a pile of SO t-shirts hidden somewhere under his bed... What's going to happen to them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/dU4H6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Boxes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;freehand circles are intentionally omitted&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T12:25:14.053" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T12:25:14.053" Title="What's going on with Stack Overflow T-Shirts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;t-shirt&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="38019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38018" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:03:26.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I already got mine...Maybe Jeff doesn't like you as much as he likes me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:03:26.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T22:03:26.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37986" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:03:42.980" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to force Gravatar to immediately start to show a different gravatar for you, change your email address in your M?S[OFU] profile. Email addresses are free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:03:42.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38018" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:04:47.533" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He will send them out free, they'll take over our bodies and we'll become StackOverflow automatons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh wait, &lt;strong&gt;I'm already there&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-02T22:12:42.227" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:12:42.227" />
  <row Id="38022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38024" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:05:14.147" Score="3" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the information presented on the moderator voting page is not really sufficient to make an informed decision.  Moderators are not really just good SO users but are active SO citizens who help SO.  This has a lot more to do with editing and commenting and less on the quality/quantity of their questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, information on edits/comments is not available.  It would be nice if this information could be made available in relation to moderator voting (i.e., links to specific edits and comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T01:36:11.543" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T01:36:11.543" Title="Insufficient info for moderator vote" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38022" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:07:21.443" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would anyone choose which edits and comments should be attached?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:07:21.443" />
  <row Id="38024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38022" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:09:39.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some&lt;/em&gt; of the nominees' recent editing and commenting history is available, although their closure history (equally important) isn't. That information can be viewed via the &quot;Activity&quot; tab on the nominees' profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'll be the first to grant that this isn't exactly an &lt;em&gt;optimal&lt;/em&gt; solution -- there's a very finite amount of information there. However, it is something to go on when making your decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:09:39.397" />
  <row Id="38025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:18:42.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that these ads are distracting. Even after stumbling over it more than once and now knowing that it's an ad, it often catches my eye at first glance and makes me have to focus too hard to find what I'm looking for. I'm not a fan for the same reason I dislike animated ads- it's not the animation per se that's a problem, it's that it distracts from the desired content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-31T18:59:50.007" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T18:59:50.007" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17463" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:22:44.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I do this, but someone comes along with a better answer, for example &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983587/how-do-i-manually-specify-the-test-files-to-run-in-autotest&quot;&gt;How do I manually specify the test files to run in autotest?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:22:44.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:06:10.473" />
  <row Id="38027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38168" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:29:28.023" Score="-4" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have voted for the stackoverflow moderator election and although I did, today I got a reminder bar up in the screen when I visited stackoverflow. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1796" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T04:51:09.443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:51:09.443" ClosedDate="2010-02-10T21:55:13.693" Title="Spare us of the vote reminder" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38027" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:35:57.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All users with rep &gt; 200 got the notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a one time thing so feel free to dismiss it with &lt;em&gt;extreme prejudice&lt;/em&gt;, chuck norris style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:35:57.277" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-02T22:43:59.487" Score="46" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GettingStarted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/SKMev.png&quot; alt=&quot;Get started with hacking on GHC!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastActivityDate="2010-02-02T22:43:59.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-02T22:43:59.487" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-02T23:41:18.157" Score="14" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this page from ServerFault, this is a really weird and confusing render of the version diffs I imagine it is a markdown problem &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/posts/103977/revisions&quot;&gt;diff of answer on server fault&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The weird thing is specifically the horizontal scroll bars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T03:28:28.647" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T03:28:28.647" Title="Really weird (bad, confusing) version diff" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38031" CreationDate="2010-02-03T00:09:29.183" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is because you are formatting it wrong.&#xA;Stop using code blocks, use block quotes instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T00:09:29.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38031" CreationDate="2010-02-03T00:26:56.583" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huh... Looks like the diff tool forgets to close &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks. So every time a new code block appears in the change, it nests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haven't been able to reproduce it though. It's not just &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks, or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks in lists... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T01:02:52.867" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T01:02:52.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38027" CreationDate="2010-02-03T01:07:25.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Picture says a thousand words...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/25u0660.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Close voting bar for good, click X&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T01:07:25.913" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T01:18:58.557" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37758/inline-links-in-comments&quot;&gt;Inline links in comments&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a comment recently and wanted to include some URLs. To save space in the comment section I tried to markdown the URLs, except it just came up as &quot;[link text](&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.longerurl.com/fullurl/files/relevantfile.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shortenedurl.com/test....&lt;/a&gt;)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if I've missed any earlier discussion on this topic, my search did not reveal anything this specific. Are there any other ways to include hyperlinks in comments, or does one just give the URL and let the comment formatter automatically link and shorten it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134799" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T01:18:58.557" ClosedDate="2010-02-03T10:32:10.843" Title="Markdown URLs in comments?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2010-02-03T01:21:34.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, since username can be duplicated, it is NOT simple as pie.  In fact I think it takes multiple calls in all except a few instances as you try to triangulate the actual user.  If you have a post from the user then you have a chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked for the actual user ID to be embedded in the search feed, which would make it much simplier to get from question to person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34374/embedding-userid-in-questions-feeds-api&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34374/embedding-userid-in-questions-feeds-api&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142738" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T01:21:34.120" />
  <row Id="38040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38001" CreationDate="2010-02-03T01:39:01.770" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As you can see from the numbers below, the problem is quite prevalent. I've defined a &quot;link-and-run&quot; as a post where links occupy &gt;= 15% of the body and the character count is lower than or equal to 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if I agree that this is a &quot;problem&quot; at all; can you cite some actual examples of said 'link-and-run' answers for us to judge ourselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T01:39:01.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T01:39:01.770" />
  <row Id="38041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38001" CreationDate="2010-02-03T01:48:12.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dunno about the prevalance of them. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/96001/why-does-my-intel-i7-920-display-8-cores-instead-of-4-cores/96002#96002&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for example. One word, 100% link, and was all the answer that was required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see many of them on ServerFault that aren't spam (and those are dealt with real quick)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T01:48:12.700" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T01:48:12.700" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6835" CreationDate="2010-02-03T01:56:40.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=41601&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackql.net/default.aspx?qid=41601&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also pass in a url-encoded query and get back csv data, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;http://stackql.net/quick.ashx?q=select%20id%20from%20users%20where%20displayname%3D'joel%20coehoorn'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a C# class to get the results (untested/typed directly into edit window):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public static class StackQL&#xA;{&#xA;    private const string baseUri = &quot;http://stackql.net/quick.ashx?q=&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;    public static IEnumerable&amp;lt;int&amp;gt; UserIDsFromDisplayName(string DisplayName)&#xA;    {&#xA;       // could also order by id, or some other attribute&#xA;       string baseQuery = &quot;SELECT id FROM Users WHERE DisplayName='{0}' ORDER BY Reputation DESC&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;       foreach (string id in RawQuery(string.Format(baseQuery, DisplayName.Replace(&quot;'&quot;, &quot;''&quot;))).Split('\n'))&#xA;       {&#xA;           yield return int.Parse(id);&#xA;       }&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    // data returned in a csv string&#xA;    public static string RawQuery(string query)&#xA;    {&#xA;       using (var wc = new WebClient())&#xA;       {&#xA;           return wc.DownloadString(baseUri + HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode(query));&#xA;       }&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T03:19:15.643" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T03:19:15.643" />
  <row Id="38045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T02:41:13.703" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My spaced out hippy unicorn:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/fecb84f9ad278f1afa3c57981eba50f3?s=128&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is way fun. Unicornatars in Wordpress blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/02/01/double-dispatch-without-rtti/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.somethingorothersoft.com/2010/02/01/double-dispatch-without-rtti/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to add support for 48px for them to work out of the box-ish :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139612" LastEditorUserId="139612" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T02:56:34.323" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T02:56:34.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38001" CreationDate="2010-02-03T02:54:52.860" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why this is a big problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times I simply link to man pages of the relevant function the user is looking for, or similar. Those websites existed for over a decade and I doubt the links are gonna be dead any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the people writing the manuals/documentation obviously know a lot and I don't see how an answer written by me can possibly be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, pretty often my answers that contain the name of the function with a link to its manual page and not much else are accepted by the asker, so I guess they don't consider it a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T02:54:52.860" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T02:54:52.860" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38031" CreationDate="2010-02-03T03:06:33.923" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting, but not a show stopper. I hope that Jeff addresses it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it is time to replace Markdown with something easier to parse and format, like WikiText. The PHP parser for Wikitext works really well and the new beta version of wikipedia has a javascript WYSIWYG editor with Office 7 style ribbon. Their editor is a lot more powerful than the one SO uses. I think this would be a great improvement. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. This I don't agree. At all. I'll try and give you 10 reasons why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Markdown is easy to parse &lt;em&gt;for humans&lt;/em&gt;, which is something I'd like over something that is easy to parse &lt;em&gt;for computers&lt;/em&gt;. Programming is hard lets go yadda yadda yadda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a bug with Markdown per se, but with the implementation of the diff system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a showstopper bug, so making such a big implementation change to &lt;strong&gt;another templating system for this one bug&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you imagine what the change would entail? There is already an enormous body of data in Markdown. What do you propose? Keeping both backends meaning double the code for no real gain? Change the existing data to be able to parse it with the new backend, potentially loosing information in a non easely recoverable way?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seriously? A ribbon interface? Even ignoring the fact that some (many?) people, including me don't like/hate the ribbon interface, we'd like the site to be kept simple. This is unnecessary complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are developers. We should be able to understand Markdown rules to use it effectively and fall back to HTML when needed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are developers. We like to edit the source by hand. Most/all Javascript Rich Text Editors suck, big time. Also, having this as a requirement would make it harder for mobile devices users to &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;WikiText has a lot of features that make it incredibly more complex than Markdown. Although we are smart enough to learn it, learning something new is a burden, in this case for no real gain. Also, it sets the bar to entry higher. If you are going to propose a Rich Text Editor, see 7.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This site is done in C#, not PHP. You are asking the team to reimplement &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; parser?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do you think that there would be &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; problems with a different parser?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you really need all the power of WikiText?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last one is free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T03:06:33.923" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T03:11:44.927" Score="6" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the end time for the moderator voting not posted on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/vote-moderator&quot;&gt;vote page&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130131" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T03:54:16.297" Title="Why is the end time for the moderator voting not posted on the vote page?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38051" CreationDate="2010-02-03T03:16:35.790" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the time wasn't posted on the election thread for a while, I'm guessing they are using the same philosophy. &lt;em&gt;6-8 weeks (or sooner)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I guess the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; says one week..... I feel sad now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T03:54:16.297" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T03:54:16.297" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6866" CreationDate="2010-02-03T04:49:11.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This problem is one reason I think that language tags should not be used to indicate what programming language you happen to be using. I don't think c# should be used unless the question is about the c# programming language, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I think there should be an orthogonal characterization system, where one could optionally set the programming language and platform. That way, the tags will indicate what the question is about, and this other thing will indicate the context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T04:49:11.753" />
  <row Id="38054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T05:16:31.660" Score="-1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20432/related-questions-in-ask-question-page-is-better-than-search-tool&quot;&gt;Related questions in &amp;ldquo;Ask Question&amp;rdquo; page is better than search tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31908/search-for-so-questions-by-words-in-the-title-is-failing-purpose-trying-to-find&quot;&gt;Search for SO questions by words in the title is failing (purpose: trying to find question before i ask a duplicate)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20432/related-questions-in-ask-question-page-is-better-than-search-tool&quot;&gt;Related questions in “Ask Question” page is better than search tool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26684/searching-for-similar-questions&quot;&gt;Searching for similar questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29508/asking-questions-brings-up-better-related-questions-than-search&quot;&gt;Asking questions brings up better Related questions than search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5167/search-box-vs-question-title&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5167/search-box-vs-question-title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11387/why-does-insert-favorite-search-engine-here-get-better-search-results-than-so&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11387/why-does-insert-favorite-search-engine-here-get-better-search-results-than-so&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see tell from personal experience and see from the related questions above the &quot;search&quot; feature kinda sucks, while the &quot;Related questions&quot; is actually pretty good. This is because &quot;search&quot; searches in the title, question text, and in all the answers. &quot;Related questions&quot; searches only the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose to either stop searching the answers too, or weigh the titles &lt;strong&gt;a lot more&lt;/strong&gt; than the contents, and the contents a lot more than the answers (after all you're searching for questions 99% of the time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=programmer+cartoon&quot;&gt;searching for &quot;Programmer Cartoon&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on stackoverflow. You're obviously looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon-closed&quot;&gt;What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?&lt;/a&gt;, but what is the first result? &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke-closed&quot;&gt;What is your best programmer joke?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll be wondering why it's the first result since it really has nothing to do with cartoons. That's a good question. The answer is that &lt;strong&gt;in the &lt;em&gt;third&lt;/em&gt; page of answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075/what-is-your-best-programmer-joke/788760#788760&quot;&gt;one single answer&lt;/a&gt; mentions the word cartoon&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that you can just use &lt;code&gt;intitle:1&lt;/code&gt;, but how many people know that you'll get much more relevant results with it? The current system can be greatly improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T05:41:13.070" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T07:11:59.587" ClosedDate="2010-02-03T08:26:50.117" Title="Improve search functionality" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38054" CreationDate="2010-02-03T05:37:44.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't like stackoverflow's own search function, you could &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com.ar/search?hl=es&amp;amp;rlz=1C1GGLS_esAR350AR350&amp;amp;q=programmer+cartoon+site%3astackoverflow.com&amp;amp;btnG=Buscar&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;oq=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;use Google instead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposal you are making &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31908/search-for-so-questions-by-words-in-the-title-is-failing-purpose-trying-to-find&quot;&gt;has been already been made&lt;/a&gt; and implemented. Trust us, search works better than it used to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T05:44:25.857" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T05:44:25.857" />
  <row Id="38056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T06:03:20.057" Score="13" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the answers in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16827/does-stackoverflow-provide-a-public-api-for-querying&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, public API was a priority for Jeff, back in August.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know when it will be available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55562" LastActivityDate="2010-05-29T16:50:48.750" Title="Status of the Stackoverflow API" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="38057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T06:04:34.950" Score="22" ViewCount="523" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Found in the &quot;Highest voted questions&quot; list on the 10k tools &quot;stats&quot; tab today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2284425/what-are-ten-really-good-short-programs-you-can-write-to-help-become-fluent-with&quot;&gt;What are ten really good, short programs you can write to help become fluent with a new language?&lt;/a&gt; (question is +37 and best answer is +27)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2284860/how-does-c-compute-sin-and-other-math-functions&quot;&gt;How does C compute sin() and other math functions?&lt;/a&gt; (question is +23 and best answer is +15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;both with obvious duplicates of long standing. I've voted to  close, but I doubt it will ever happen, not am I entirely sure it would be fair at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think is points out very clearly that we're not getting enough policing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any given day, I can open the 10k tools on Stack Overflow, go to the close tab, and burn through all my close votes in an hour or so (hey, I take some time to compare proposed duplicates and search out better ones myself, and try to write politely encouraging comments to users I guess may be to be new or sensitive). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it doesn't make a dent in the supply of bad questions that need to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I put to you a set of linked questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do we need to get more questions closed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If so, what can we do to encourage more closing?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do we need to do to maintain quality control while we do it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are the cultural norms we bring to closing sufficiently professional? What can we do to create fewer hurt feeling even while we maintain discipline and focus on the site?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we closing the right questions right now?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are we closing too many good questions, and if so are &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; getting consistently re-opened?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many related resources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33459/can-we-have-a-longer-list-of-close-nominated-questions-in-the-toolsclose-page&quot;&gt;Can we have a longer list of close nominated questions in the tools:close page?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34959/shouldnt-we-encourage-people-to-try-to-edit-questions-before-closing-them&quot;&gt;Shouldn’t we encourage people to try to “edit” questions before closing them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7441/can-and-should-more-be-done-to-encourage-users-to-search-first-and-ask-only-if&quot;&gt;Can (and should) more be done to encourage users to search first and ask only if the don’t find an existing answer?&lt;/a&gt; and several other like it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25053/badge-for-closing-question&quot;&gt;Badge for Closing Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36819/too-many-questions-are-being-closed-as-not-programming-related&quot;&gt;Too many questions are being closed as “not programming related”&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26305/why-dont-stack-overflow-users-still-know-how-to-close-questions-appropriately&quot;&gt;Why don’t Stack Overflow users STILL know how to close questions appropriately?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/129/are-there-better-alternatives-to-closing-questions&quot;&gt;Are there better alternatives to closing questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T02:17:30.930" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T17:59:00.753" Title="Should we encourage more closing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closing&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38007" CreationDate="2010-02-03T06:43:18.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... all we need is a good morphophonemic software and a training run to help our new awesome comment notifier AI.  I get the feeling that very soon, a rudimentary knowledge of english will become necessary.  Anyone want to work on such an AI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141660" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T06:43:18.793" />
  <row Id="38062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38057" CreationDate="2010-02-03T06:50:58.917" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Are we closing too many good questions, and if so are they getting consistently re-opened?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a non-trivial set of questions which occur in variants.  That is to say, the set of answers to question Q is not sufficient to answer Q', while Q' may be considered nearly identical to Q.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest allowing people to merge similar questions (the mechanics of which I am not certain of).  I think this would eliminate the issue of hurting people's feelings or discouraging them and also the possibility of closing good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141660" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T06:50:58.917" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="38063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38057" CreationDate="2010-02-03T06:54:12.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts, starting with my answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not sure, I'll say more later&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quality here means closing most of the bad questions and few good ones, and getting most inappropriately closed questions reopened. To make that happen we need to have something like unto a consensus about what the close reasons mean and how they should be applied.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mostly. I only occasionally see signs of excessive emotional commitment to closing, which is good. One thing I have been seeing more of lately is multiple votes cast against a question without a single comment; often the question really is that bad, but I don't think this helps either the poster or newly eligible closers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have started trying to comment on my reasoning on more questions to educate both the perpetrator-of-the-bad-questions/victim-of-my-humorless-gestopo-like-rule-mongering and any close qualified users who haven't been exercising the power. But this is a slow, even glacial, way to make progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a bit wary of offering a badge, for fear of encouraging closing for its own sake. We, or at least I, want to close questions because they detract from the mission of the site, not just because those are the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Small suggestions: we could, perhaps, benefit from a blog post on why the sites should sick close to their mandates and how closing contributed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T07:05:46.573" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T07:05:46.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38057" CreationDate="2010-02-03T07:04:58.073" Score="-11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the majority of people would agree that SO doesn't need to condone any more censorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T07:04:58.073" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38054" CreationDate="2010-02-03T07:11:59.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If having the desired result in position #2 is so infuriating to you, why not put your search term in quotes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22programmer+cartoon%22&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22programmer+cartoon%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this all the time when doing Google searches to get better results on phrases. Why would our search engine be any different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T07:11:59.587" />
  <row Id="38066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38056" CreationDate="2010-02-03T07:14:42.747" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime this year. Ideally sooner rather than later. It is a high priority, but I have a lot on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://mindgrapes.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mind grapes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: now in &lt;strong&gt;private&lt;/strong&gt; beta, and will remain so for 30-60 days so we make sure we get it right for V1. We don't want to go public until we feel confident it's right. Email team@stackoverflow.com with your intended use case if you want to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T01:02:07.207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T01:02:07.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T08:02:41.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/b4ae7f8b50a2c32287e456394570679e?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;Me&quot;&gt; (primary e-mail)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/75eb4651eef973b320ff2861d557828c?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;Me&quot;&gt; (secondary e-mail)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could learn to live with it ;-p Fantastic work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone wanting to swap gravatars; note that the gravatar caching means that &lt;em&gt;changing&lt;/em&gt; the image against your gravatar is slow to take effect. Adding a second e-mail address and associating &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; with a second image is much more effective. Then all you have to do is change you e-mail address (easy) and you have an immediate update. For many e-mail providers (gmail in particular) you can use the + trick to get additional working e-mail addresses - i.e. if your r e-mail address is &lt;code&gt;somebody@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt;, you can use &lt;code&gt;somebody+meta@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt; (for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T09:12:57.217" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T09:12:57.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37993" CreationDate="2010-02-03T08:32:55.720" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not useless!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the page that says what votes I have cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T08:32:55.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T08:36:34.587" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/968600e7af6142f855bee42cef332d21?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you could start a new religion with this, at least something like a zodiac style future prediction thing..I think mine says I'm romantic and I will be lucky in finding a new job this year..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;good job &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T08:36:34.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" />
  <row Id="38070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38073" CreationDate="2010-02-03T08:47:15.390" Score="10" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;Visiting Stack Overflow daily, I am simply enamoured by it all.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Sadly, most of my colleagues don't know about the site, let alone the trilogy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I explain to them the concept of the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the points to be mentioned&#xA;which attracts developers who are not&#xA;a part of stackoverflow?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do I explain to the concept of stackoverflow to a project manager?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="138350" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-28T10:22:15.803" LastActivityDate="2010-05-28T10:22:15.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T08:47:15.390" Title="Explaining Stack Overflow to potential users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T08:55:37.383" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tell them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a site,&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;, where you&#xA;  can ask programming questions and get&#xA;  great answers. The next programming&#xA;  question you have, go ahead and ask it&#xA;  there! Be sure to read&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt; first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T08:55:37.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T08:55:37.383" />
  <row Id="38072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T09:02:18.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask them to search &lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; instead of Google if they got any problem with programming related stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T22:29:00.773" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:29:00.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T09:02:18.490" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T09:06:07.920" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leverage the fact that you can ask &lt;strong&gt;ANY&lt;/strong&gt; programming related question and always get an answer in less than 5 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it's not always true, but it's true enough times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little story that will show you how some people will just refuse to come to SO for some reason only they know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a friend who kept asking me Java questions (even if I told him a &lt;strong&gt;million&lt;/strong&gt; times that &lt;strong&gt;I've never done Java&lt;/strong&gt;).. So I just copy&amp;amp;paste what he asks me on Stack Overflow, then link him the answers. He's been very satisfied with them and he kept thanking me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, the day after he always asked me another Java question. After some time I really got tired of it and told him &quot;just ask on Stack Overflow, I won't help you anymore&quot;. He says &quot;OK&quot;. 10 minutes later I ask him &quot;What's the link of the question, anyway? I'll upvote it&quot;. He says &quot;I'll post it tomorrow&quot;. Then later in the day I found out he asked a friend of mine instead (who doesn't know Java either.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T22:27:58.763" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:27:58.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T09:06:07.920" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T09:12:08.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they ask you a question, you search Stack Overflow and reply with the answer you found. Repeat the next time, and the next; lead by example, teaching a man to fish, leading a horse to water and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T09:12:08.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T09:12:08.077" />
  <row Id="38075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T09:13:06.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they try to solve their problems by searching the web, chances are they've already been to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I joined: I started using SO because I noticed it keeps popping up in search results.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T09:13:06.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T09:13:06.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-03T10:20:13.523" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It annoys me that the &quot;Related&quot; column on the right hand side on every question leads to a lot of false positives when searching (e.g. with Google). Conversely if &quot;-&quot; is used to filter the result (e.g. &quot;-Java&quot; to exclude hits containing Java) it leads to false negatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be possible to restrict the search using the tags, but the search engine syntax for this is complex and has to be remembered somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T11:07:13.290" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T11:07:13.290" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T10:20:13.523" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T10:22:16.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My life finally has a purpose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/fb042ce6a66cc962a00576632311c880?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T10:22:16.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T10:44:51.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Remember that website you always run&#xA;  into when searching for&#xA;  programming-related solutions on Google ? Well&#xA;  you can even ask your own questions there !&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also what I did once was to wait for the person to ask me a question. Then I'd ask the question on SO, wait 5 minutes for the answer and then show it to the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T10:44:51.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T10:44:51.873" />
  <row Id="38082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T11:27:43.460" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine is a ninja unicorn. Or a ninjacorn. Notice how it's camouflaged!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/2863e506256679592c6d824b2a1b69a5?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;Ninja-style!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142212" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T11:27:43.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38085" CreationDate="2010-02-03T11:40:27.410" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14028/qa-revisions-should-be-hidden-from-search-engines&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A Revisions Should be Hidden from Search Engines&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are previous versions of a question/answer indexable by Google ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning, if a question is updated, there is still a trace of the old text under the revision history log. Is this page hidden from robots ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T13:16:47.470" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T13:16:47.470" ClosedDate="2010-02-03T12:55:43.977" Title="Are previous versions of a question/answer indexable by Google?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38083" CreationDate="2010-02-03T11:48:08.407" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check the robots.txt file and you'll see this chunk:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;User-Agent: *&#xA;Allow: /&#xA;Disallow: /posts&#xA;Disallow: /posts/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the revision histories of each post sit in the &lt;code&gt;posts&lt;/code&gt; folder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disallow here means that if the search engines are playing nice, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14028/qa-revisions-should-be-hidden-from-search-engines&quot; title=&quot;reach for the *&quot;&gt;or they take the lines as inherited&lt;/a&gt;, they won't index the revision history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T11:48:08.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some sites use things like &lt;code&gt;0.gravatar.com&lt;/code&gt; -- at least the homepage of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.gravatar.com&lt;/a&gt; itself does. The following change handles that, also ignoring the case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;replace(/\w*\.gravatar\.com/i, 'unicornify.appspot.com'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now that &lt;a href=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unicornify.appspot.com&lt;/a&gt; is a true web site, maybe add the Greasemonkey thingy there as well? And, here's a bookmarklet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;function loadJQuery(onload){&#xA;  if(typeof jQuery != 'undefined'){&#xA;    onload();&#xA;  }&#xA;  else{&#xA;    var h = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0],&#xA;      s = document.createElement('script'),&#xA;      loaded = false;&#xA;    s.type = 'text/javascript';&#xA;    s.src = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.js';&#xA;    s.onload = s.onreadystatechange = function(){&#xA;      if(!loaded&#xA;        &amp;amp;&amp;amp; (!this.readyState || this.readyState == 'loaded'&#xA;             || this.readyState == 'complete')&#xA;      ){&#xA;        loaded = true;&#xA;        onload();&#xA;      }&#xA;    };&#xA;    h.appendChild(s);&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;loadJQuery(&#xA;  function(){&#xA;    $jq = jQuery.noConflict();&#xA;    $jq('img').attr('src',&#xA;      function(){&#xA;        return this.src.replace(/\w*\.gravatar\.com/i, 'unicornify.appspot.com');&#xA;      }&#xA;    )&#xA;  }&#xA;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;javascript:(function(){function%20loadJQuery(onload){if(typeof%20jQuery!='undefined'){onload();}else{var%20h=document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0],s=document.createElement('script'),loaded=false;s.type='text/javascript';s.src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.js';s.onload=s.onreadystatechange=function(){if(!loaded&amp;amp;&amp;amp;(!this.readyState||this.readyState=='loaded'||this.readyState=='complete')){loaded=true; onload();}};h.appendChild(s);}}loadJQuery(function(){$jq=jQuery.noConflict();$jq('img').attr('src',function(){return%20this.src.replace(/\w*\.gravatar\.com/i,'unicornify.appspot.com');})})})()&quot;&amp;gt;Unicornify this page&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could also use tricks like used by &lt;a href=&quot;http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Printliminator&lt;/a&gt;, to fetch both jQuery and another script (with a dummy URL parameter to enforce fetching the latest version each time) to run the actual jQuery replacements as well. That way, you can change the latter when needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But that Printliminator bookmarklet seems to load jQuery no matter what, which I guess could yield problems when mixing versions? Also, using &lt;code&gt;function()&lt;/code&gt; rather than &lt;code&gt;void(..)&lt;/code&gt; seems easier after all, so forget my earlier comment on that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:14:48.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-02-03T12:15:58.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in the process of advertising my site on SuperUser (still waiting for them to get back to me...). One of the ads I've prepared is a banner ad that looks a &lt;em&gt;bit&lt;/em&gt; like the startups.com ad (I actually made it back in December when I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32042/allow-for-sponsored-tags-on-superuser&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, so I'm not copying, I'm not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I've gone for this type of ad is that it gives an immediate clue that the site is similar to SuperUser, so would be a familiar experience for users, it would be difficult to convey that message otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did however want to ensure that it stood out from the host site, I hate ads that pretend to be content and wouldn't have a favourable response to any ad that tricked me, so why do it myself?&#xA;I've got a filmstrip border on the ad to tie in with the theme on my site and the colour scheme is based on my site's, so I think it clearly distinguishes it from the actual SuperUser content while still implying a familiar experience for any would-be users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T12:15:58.717" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T12:50:49.137" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awesome, mine looks like a nightmarish unicorn from hell :) Now if it only could breath fire...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/411cf599ae9fe1ef80d40644c83c0f78?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T12:50:49.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T12:50:49.137" />
  <row Id="38090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44099" CreationDate="2010-02-03T12:55:33.103" Score="53" ViewCount="805" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep on seeing a fair number of questions (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2191776/i-want-generate-insert-which-include-my-primary-key-not-generated-by-nhibernate&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) which get marked as answered within 5-10 miniutes of being posted - sometimes the questions like this are insanely popular and actually see some proper discussion, however often I see questions have few views and only 1 answer - The trouble with these questions is that very few people have scrutinised the answer for correctness, or possibly a better solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always make a point of not accepting my answers until a day or so has passed - &#xA;would it not be a good idea to put a short (1 hour or so) time limit on accepting answers on new questions with few views or votes, &lt;strong&gt;or perhaps just an additional confirmation dialog&lt;/strong&gt;, something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your question is new and not many people have had a chance to look at it yet.  Are you sure you don't want to wait to see if anyone else has a better suggestion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T22:25:43.177" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T16:51:51.403" Title="Discourage questions being marked as answered within an hour or so of being posted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-03T13:18:45.220" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we have community involvement in voting, the best answer can be voted up by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this doesn't help questions that are asked and answered very quickly -- but if the answer fixed the problem for the asker, why mess with it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a better answer, posting it will cause the post to be 'bumped'. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doing this at a high use time of day&lt;/a&gt; will almost guarantee upvotes if your answer is better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T13:18:45.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T13:27:17.163" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ctrl+K is the keyboard shortcut to delete characters to the EOL on Linux, OS X, etc systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't work in the WMD Editor on StackExchange sites because it kicks off the 'code sample' insertion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The WMD convenience keyboard shortcuts shouldn't trample on fundamental native ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132739" LastEditorUserId="132739" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T13:44:01.930" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T13:44:01.930" Title="CTRL-K in WMD Editor tramples native text manipulation" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;text-editing&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38100" CreationDate="2010-02-03T13:29:58.673" Score="3" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34587/smart-quotes-in-parentheses-point-the-wrong-way-example-tst-tst&quot;&gt;Smart quotes in parentheses point the wrong way (&amp;ldquo;example&amp;rdquo;) [&amp;ldquo;tst&amp;rdquo;] {&amp;ldquo;tst&amp;rdquo;}&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/145509/why-does-abcd-startswith-return-true&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to change the &lt;code&gt;“ ”&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;&quot;&quot;&lt;/code&gt;, however it keeps reverting back to &lt;code&gt;“”&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a chrome issue, parser, my cache, a bug or maybe intended? Obviously “ ” aren't valid quotes for some text editors or for a programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T20:47:02.600" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:47:02.600" ClosedDate="2010-02-05T12:37:27.603" Title="Are double quotes being replaced in titles?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;quotes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-03T13:45:54.517" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think this is a good idea as it could also help cut down on situations where someone provides an answer that may work and gets to be accepted, but someone else later on comes along and provides the best solution for the problem and ultimately gets the accepted answer status. I believe you lost the points if your accepted answer is unaccepted so having a waiting period before an answer could be accepted might cut down on hard feelings because of changing accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I might go as far as to argue that there should be about 24 hours between when a question is opened and when an answer can be accepted just to give a good opportunity for people to view the question and possibly answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T13:45:54.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38098" CreationDate="2010-02-03T13:46:44.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's no bug, it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34587/smart-quotes-in-parentheses-point-the-wrong-way-example-tst-tst&quot;&gt;feature&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T13:46:44.733" />
  <row Id="38101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38195" CreationDate="2010-02-03T13:55:38.083" Score="6" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this must be a duplicate, but I cant find it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking through the list of questions, it would be nice if the ones with bounties could show when the bounty is due to end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/2ivrk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:15:04.190" Title="Show when bounties end when browsing through questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38800" CreationDate="2010-02-03T14:23:02.607" Score="6" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very often, but not always, clicking the permalink of the 30th answer on some page (using whatever sorting), gets one to the page &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; that answer, where then obviously the &lt;code&gt;#anchor&lt;/code&gt; of the linked answer does not exist. Hence, it seems like the link refers to the question instead of to an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It happens for all three sorting methods&lt;/strong&gt;, though &lt;em&gt;testing&lt;/em&gt; for sorted by vote might be a bit difficult as people might cast a new vote during testing... (Testing with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;some old question&lt;/a&gt; might help, but now that I link to it, it might get some attention again... Just choose whatever sorting you like, then go to the 2nd page, and click the permalink of the last answer for that sort order. You'll get to the 3rd page, for all sorting methods.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I figured maybe there's a difference whether or not an answer has been accepted, but it does not seem to matter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it only shows from page 2 and up. Maybe things are affected by deleted answers as well (which I cannot see, but the 10k's might see different behaviour)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When a question has exactly 60, 90, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers%3A120&quot;&gt;120&lt;/a&gt;, ... answers, one gets no answers at all for the very last permalink, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/108631/what-is-your-single-favorite-development-tool&quot;&gt;like&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/IPnYH.png&quot; alt=&quot;No posts shown at all, just pagination&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the issue is not about &lt;em&gt;clicking&lt;/em&gt; the permalink shown beneath the answer itself, but following that very same URL from some other post, or from the activity notifications. Am I right to assume that, with 30 answers per page and 3 sorting methods, in a worst case scenario 1 out of 10 permalinks might not work for part of the audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It feels a bit like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18655/random-sorting-appears-to-screw-with-answer-permalinks&quot;&gt;Random sorting appears to screw with answer permalinks&lt;/a&gt;&quot; but that was caused by true random sorting, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18655/random-sorting-appears-to-screw-with-&quot;&gt;is fixed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-21T11:22:47.963" LastActivityDate="2011-01-21T11:22:47.963" Title="Pagination might cause permalinks to open the wrong page, no matter what sorting is used" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34974" CreationDate="2010-02-03T14:27:54.827" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can do this! Just define an Interesting tag that is a combination of the ones you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. in the Interesting Tags box, type &quot;tags+bug&quot;. Be careful not to let the auto-completion change it. Click the Add button, and you have an interesting tag called &quot;tags+bug&quot;. Click its button, and you get a search which finds answers which are tagged &quot;tags&quot; and &quot;bug&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T14:27:54.827" />
  <row Id="38106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T14:28:59.160" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am getting the notable question badge when it is 3k views, not 2.5k views, but the badge says for 2.5k views. Now awhile ago it wasn't as easy to get this badge but now it is easier. We should not be giving this badge this easily. I am wondering why I didn't get this badge when I had 2.5k views like it said earlier... Seems ambiguous to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142469" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T20:44:06.943" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:44:06.943" Title="Why am I getting the Notable Question Badge now?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38106" CreationDate="2010-02-03T14:31:30.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/674911/light-weight-er-diagram-tool&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, then it's possible that it should have been given just after 2,500, but the service could have been backlogged or not running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T16:17:51.187" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:17:51.187" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-03T14:34:30.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Classic... and April is still like 2 months away!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My little pwn3y (er.. unicorn)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like Skittles... Touch the rainbow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/282eed17fcb9682bb2816697482b64ec?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T14:34:30.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T14:34:30.210" />
  <row Id="38110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T15:21:37.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take your typical broken programming help forum and make three important changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A voting mechanism for answers that works and people actually use, so you don't have to go digging through a question to find what works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And wiki-based editing system and people who actually use it.  Questions and answers are worded clearly and are less likely to be out of date.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet &amp;amp; friends.  It's not one hour or day to get an answer.  It's often as little as one minute.  Really.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other things, too, but that's my elevator pitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T15:21:37.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T15:21:37.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38113" CreationDate="2010-02-03T15:30:33.247" Score="4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2190218/trouble-with-svn-post-commit/2192979&quot;&gt;this question about SVN post-commit hooks&lt;/a&gt;, and then noticed that the answer above mine could use an edit. Both answers had 0 votes at the time. When I edited the answer that preceded mine, it became the second answer in the question.  This seems wrong to me. It's intuitively obvious that the earlier answer is likely to get more votes, which means that I've just jumped the queue, so to speak, over someone who provided a decent answer very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there's a good way to fix this, but I figured I'd bring it to the mods' attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23309" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T15:34:10.540" Title="Am I gaming the system accidentally when I edit a post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;exploit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38111" CreationDate="2010-02-03T15:34:10.540" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers at the same vote level, when in &quot;highest voted order&quot;  (default) mode, are shown in random order, so this is not affected by your edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;newest first&quot; edits don't &quot;re-new&quot; the answer, so it doesn't change the order either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect you were in &quot;highest voted order&quot; and it randomly put the one you edited higher, but the next user might see a different order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, don't worry about it.  As long as the edit was a worthwhile contribution, then you've improved the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T15:34:10.540" />
  <row Id="38114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38106" CreationDate="2010-02-03T15:34:53.690" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem seems to be round-off error.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/674911/light-weight-er-diagram-tool&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; had just over 2500 views when I looked at it, but that figure is shortened to 3k in your profile stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T18:15:03.760" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T18:15:03.760" />
  <row Id="38115" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38117" CreationDate="2010-02-03T15:38:57.830" Score="8" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this has been asked before (I'm sure it has) but I couldn't find the answer immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question on SO which includes a table of data from a MySQL database. What is the best way to include a table of data in a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142778" LastActivityDate="2011-05-09T18:48:31.077" Title="best way to include table (of data) in a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;tables&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38106" CreationDate="2010-02-03T15:41:14.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The average question does not receive anywhere near 1,000 views, nevermind 2,500.  So it is a notable question once it's reached that number of views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Older October 2009 data on Stackql (stateoverflow is giving me a 403):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;select avg(p.ViewCount) from Posts p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;81&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should be removing deleted posts, but I suspect that isn't going to change the average that much.  81 views is not a lot, and 2,500 views is 30 times more than the average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T15:56:18.913" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T15:56:18.913" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38115" CreationDate="2010-02-03T15:52:06.363" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people like ASCII Art. Though it's annoying to type in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;| Username  | Password  | Email_Addr |&#xA;--------------------------------------&#xA;| Username1 | Password1 | Email 1    |&#xA;| Username2 | Password2 | Email 2    |&#xA;| Username3 | Password3 | Email 3    |&#xA;| Username4 | Password4 | Email 4    |&#xA;| Username5 | Password5 | Email 5    |&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T15:55:12.957" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T15:55:12.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:09:55.183" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree.  There have been several situations where I arrive on a question and have something new to add to the discussion or solution, but simply hit the back button because an answer has already been accepted. Maybe that's wrong of me, but I only have a limited number of hours in the day, and I'd rather spend them productively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is another feature that could only be turned on for very new users (measured either by time or reputation) -- either disable the accepted answer button entirely, or leave it up with some extra nag text like &quot;Please consider waiting a little longer before accepting an answer, so as to encourage more answers to be posted!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion would be suitable to go along with the text suggested here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26548/when-a-question-is-posted-can-we-advise-the-poster-to-hang-around-and-respond-to&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26548/when-a-question-is-posted-can-we-advise-the-poster-to-hang-around-and-respond-to&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:09:55.183" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38143" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:10:00.007" Score="6" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at new questions, I want to filter out questions that are tagged for subjects I don't know enough of or am not interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm searching for information, I don't really care about filtering out these tags as answers which may be filtered out may still be relevant and provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, someone may ask about a tool to help them perform screen scrapes for java apps.  They may be developing in C++, and so tag their question with this.  An acceptable answer may include the Java Access Bridge, which can be used from any .NET application via p/invoke.  While I filter out C++ questions, when searching for ways to scrape Java apps this workable answer would be excluded from the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, I'll search for an answer and I'll see lots of results pop up and then immediately disappear, being filtered out.  The only way to stop this is to reload and stop page execution before the filter runs.  Its a hit or miss situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion would be to provide a &quot;Filter search results&quot; checkbox on the screen or let me set this from within my preferences.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:40:41.217" Title="Turn off tag filtering for search results" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:12:28.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree... if I ask a question and found my answer, I accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you are thinking about subjective answers, but if you have a specific problem and found your solution, why should you wait?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18573&quot;&gt;this question is related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:12:28.797" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38057" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:15:47.090" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently it was brought up that perhaps there should be more abilities opened up for users in the 5k-10k range.  How about offering a &lt;em&gt;very limited&lt;/em&gt; set of moderator tools, such as a simple list of questions that have close votes on them? 3k users already can close questions, so being able to find some of these faster might be beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: one more idea: perhaps users with higher rep should get more close votes per day? 12 is not very many for a 10k user who can see a list of many many questions that should be closed. This could be even higher still for 20k+ users (since it was also brought up that perhaps there should be another tier beyond 10k).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T17:34:12.043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:34:12.043" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:18:15.493" Score="-2" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6407/allow-html-tags-in-comments&quot;&gt;Allow HTML tags in comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/197/how-about-newlines-within-comments&quot;&gt;How about newlines within comments ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially code would be helpful in comments.  It is very difficult to clarify on multiline code when it looks like this: &lt;code&gt;int a = 10;&#xA;int b = 20;&#xA;//Some comment&#xA;if(a+b &amp;lt; c)&#xA;{&#xA;    return c;&#xA;}&#xA;return b; //Another comment&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141513" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:13:47.223" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:43:02.147" Title="Allow code, links in comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38123" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:20:17.813" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are not meant to hold important or significant information.  Such things should be placed in questions or answers.  If you believe that something really doesn't belong in a question or answer then you might consider using an outside service, such as pastebin, to host the code and link to it in the comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments do already provide links, though (although perhaps there's a reputation requirement for that?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:20:17.813" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38127" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:25:23.650" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37889/voting-on-a-question-after-having-clicked-the-upvotes-downvotes-count-will-displa&quot;&gt;Voting on a question after having clicked the upvotes/downvotes count will display an incorrect value&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have enough rep on Stack overvflow to see the up votes vs the down votes then find a question that has some down votes and upvotes.  (I used this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/507291/should-we-select-vb-net-or-c-when-upgrading-our-legacy-apps/507309#507309&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/507291/should-we-select-vb-net-or-c-when-upgrading-our-legacy-apps/507309#507309&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expand the vote totals by clicking on the answer's score.  Then click upvote.  The score becomes the total of all votes (including down votes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total of a question prior to voting&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://xs.to/image-1FEF_4B69A460.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;PreVoteTotal&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual Votes on the question&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://xs.to/image-35DC_4B69A460.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Actual Votes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total after voting&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://xs.to/image-99D1_4B69A460.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;PostVoteTota&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wrong total is only displayed, not saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="16241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T16:30:42.267" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:30:42.267" ClosedDate="2010-02-03T16:40:08.593" Title="Upvote gives more than one point if there are down votes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16725" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:26:21.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bumping this since it's fairly old.. I think though the question acceptance rate should be display &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; on the user profile, as &quot;trivia&quot;, and not every time a user answers as the OP suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:26:21.433" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T16:26:21.433" />
  <row Id="38129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38119" CreationDate="2010-02-03T16:31:49.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would definitely be useful to have the &quot;only show interesting tags&quot; checkbox on any search/question list page, rather than just the user preferences, so it can be turned on and off more readily.  I don't hide uninteresting tags simply because there are too many circumstances where I may wish to see them, or even see questions that have both &quot;interesting&quot; and &quot;uninteresting&quot; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T16:31:49.877" />
  <row Id="38130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38057" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:04:40.253" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are still well over &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed:0+%5bnot-programming-related%5d&quot;&gt;1000 open, &quot;not-programming-related&quot; questions&lt;/a&gt;. So either more closing is needed, or more editing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Closing is... effectively janitorial work. It's not glamorous, and shouldn't be. It's going to appeal to certain people who appreciate the site and see it as a way they can pitch in, and those are the people who &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be doing it, not those looking for some reward. I think the best way to encourage them is simply to avoid &lt;i&gt;dis&lt;/i&gt;couraging them. Which goes hand in hand with...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...Maintaining quality control. Those of us who joined during or shortly after the Beta had an example to follow: there weren't nearly as many questions posted, and so when Atwood closed one of them it was easy to notice. It's &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; harder now: there are far more questions posted, and only the most egregious violations are closed while still visible on the first Questions page. So where's the example for new users to follow? I think making the list of recently-closed questions visible to users with 3K rep points could go a long way toward helping here, allowing new users to learn from example before jumping in themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can leave comments explaining, politely, why a question is being closed. However, some people are still going to take this badly. I try to leave comments on questions posted by new users, but tend to consider those who've been around for a while to be &lt;em&gt;willfully abusing the site&lt;/em&gt; and therefore usually avoid commenting. Sadly, there are people on SO who so hate the very &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; of closing that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38057/should-we-encourage-more-closing/38064#38064&quot;&gt;they will act badly regardless&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW... There was a time when I would take about an hour each evening and go through posts that I'd missed during the day looking for things that needed to be edited or closed. Like you, I found it easy to use up my daily allotment of close-votes. I've cut back on this practice lately, primarily because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The timezone I'm in causes end-of-day voting to use up my votes for &lt;em&gt;the next day&lt;/em&gt; - meaning I have no close votes left if I see something during the day that should be closed quickly. (See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18005/please-let-me-know-when-im-running-low-on-close-votes&quot;&gt;Please let me know when I’m running low on close votes!&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; useful anymore. I can't really explain this one... Donno, maybe the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38057/should-we-encourage-more-closing/38064#38064&quot;&gt;incessant whining&lt;/a&gt; got to me finally. Or maybe winter made me lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T17:27:17.487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:27:17.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:12:19.473" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering how many questions on StackOverflow have comments to the kin of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This should go on serverfault.com. - Author&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone do a query on this information, like a search for comments containing a link to 'serverfault.com' or 'superuser.com' or 'stackoverflow.com'? Because comments are saved during the migration, they should still be intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Is there even a community dump of data for serverfault/superuser?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: For those who ask, I'm just wondering how often we 'tell' people to go to another site vs just voting to migrate it to the other site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T17:17:21.083" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:53:30.673" Title="How many comments just tell users to go elsewhere?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:13:23.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I keep on seeing questions marked as answered within 5-10 minutes of being posted - The trouble with these questions is that very few people have scrutinized the answer for correctness, or possibly a better solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[We should] put a short time limit on accepting answers on new questions with few views or votes, or perhaps just an additional confirmation dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have notifications, so if a new answer is posted, the OP is alerted and they can change their mind, especially if the new answer points out flaws in the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, the OP knows best whether the answer worked for them or not.  Yes, a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answer may come along later, but that doesn't negate the fact that not only was the accepted answer &quot;good enough&quot; but the person that submitted it delivered it more quickly so the OP could get on with their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effect of preventing or even discouraging people from accepting an answer immediately is going to be overall negative.  We've already had to put measures in place to encourage people to accept answers more, and many, many, many comments posted are devoted to asking the OP to accept an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that the community's highest voted answer appears immediately below the accepted answer, and anyone who comes to this question in the future will start at the top, and if the first answer doesn't work, they'll try the second, and so forth until they've resolved their problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system has many measures already to account for poorly chosen accepted answers, and is designed to work despite them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, if such a measure is implemented, it might encourage some users to take longer to post their answers.  Yes, they may be more finely crafted than a quick and dirty (but correct!) answer, but the OP is left waiting for their answers because some people choose to use this grace period to inflate their chances at getting accepted, rather than posting a good, quick answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem/9758#9758&quot;&gt;I do NOT want to, in any way, discourage the quick and dirty answer.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a change would have a stronger negative impact on the system than positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:13:23.447" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38123" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:13:47.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use the backtick character (`) to add code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:13:47.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:15:49.620" Score="-2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;500+50 makes sense for a new site, filling up with users who aspire to have a couple thousand points in reputation. But over a year later, with many users having 10k+, and some having many times that, is 500+50 antiquated? Should the bounty ceiling be raised a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would my 500+50 bounty really draw the attention of somebody with 60-100k?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a high-rep user loses interest in answering-for-rep (since the largest bounties are trivial), what incentive do they have to go into the featured tab anymore? Does it become the case that your bounty-question will draw the attention of lower-rep users, with a few exceptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T13:21:16.713" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T13:21:16.713" Title="Is the Bounty-cap of 500+50 Obsolete?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38134" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:18:06.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it is still the largest amount of rep that can be gained with one action, I think it still works for those reaching for higher rep goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:18:06.510" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38134" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:18:22.750" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that people with 10k+ no longer do it for the rep, they're already hooked, and would answer your question regardless of bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:18:22.750" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38134" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:23:32.800" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see bounties got rid of altogether. I can honestly say they have never motivated me to answer a question, and the fact that a question with a bounty cannot be closed seems to me to go against the basic ethos of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:23:32.800" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="38139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38134" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:23:36.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you break 10K, rep is effectively meaningless anyway: and more meaningless rep is still just as meaningless. Those who are into it as a way of keeping score or setting personal goals will still go for it, because there's still a 200-per-day cap on reputation gained for normal up-votes. So that bounty is a least &lt;em&gt;three days&lt;/em&gt; of work, for a single answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:23:36.200" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38134" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:28:31.870" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely second this. A big bounty is a sign that somebody is willing to give up a few day's &quot;work&quot; (accumulated rep) for a question that is very important to them. &#xA;I don't hink bounties necessarily get that much more quality &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; - all the real veterans give a good answer anyway, bounty or not. &#xA;But a bounty provides continuous &lt;em&gt;exposure&lt;/em&gt; over a seven-day period across all time zones, enhancing the probability that everyone in the SO community who is competent to answer my question, no matter where they happen to live, get to see it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm totally for keeping bounties, and for extending the cap to 1000 or 1500. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T17:46:45.087" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:46:45.087" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38134" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:30:33.050" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A single good answer to one bounty question should not give a new user the system's trust equivalent of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; 2000 Edit other people's posts&#xA; 3000 Vote to close or reopen any questions&#xA;10000 Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they answer four 550 rep bounties better than anyone else, then I'd guess they're pretty good, but if bounties can go to 1k or more, then you're really giving people pushes that they may not deserve.  Further, it increases the chance of and possible damage due to gaming the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, look at the distribution of bounties right now.  Very few offer more than 200 rep.  People are not chomping at the bit to &lt;em&gt;offer&lt;/em&gt; higher rep bounties, and those in the 10k+ bracket that could offer 2k bounties simply don't ask that many questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a snapshot of bounties currently offered now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Bounty   Number offered&#xA;100      52&#xA;150      19&#xA;200      7&#xA;250      9&#xA;300      3&#xA;350      0&#xA;400      0&#xA;450      1&#xA;500      0&#xA;550      4&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/bounty_distribution.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;550 is still a significant bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But the main reason to avoid increasing it is that a single bounty should not impart significant community trust.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T17:45:09.257" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:45:09.257" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38057" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:33:13.760" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stopped going over the &quot;Close&quot; list because of how quickly I exhausted my close votes. Give me more close votes for that list, and I'll start cleaning up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:33:13.760" />
  <row Id="38143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38119" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:40:41.217" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good solution would be to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36735/temporarily-disabling-ignore-tags/36737#36737&quot;&gt;extend this suggestion&lt;/a&gt; to any page that shows a listing of posts. The idea being to place the &lt;code&gt;Hide Ignored Tags&lt;/code&gt; check box within close proximity of the filtered content so it can be quickly toggled on/off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/hide-ignored-tags1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:40:41.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38131" CreationDate="2010-02-03T17:53:30.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I leave a comment when I vote to close as to 'why'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migration is no different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are less likely to read close reasons contained in the &lt;code&gt;close (1)&lt;/code&gt; link than they are to read them  in comments below the question (where they don't have to click on anything to see the comment).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also helps that comments are voted on and when you write that something needs to be moved, even people that can't close can vote up your comment, giving it more weight in the eyes of other would-be closers that may be on the fence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This helps make sure it gets moved quickly because people are checking the close reason to make sure others agree with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T17:53:30.673" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-03T18:07:35.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no reason a question can't be answered faster than that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no reason a question &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be answered correctly in that time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One-shot users will simply not accept the answer and never return to the site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a warning message might be appropriate for when ink is still drying on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is only [n] minutes old, and other users may wish to add more answers. Are you sure you want to accept an answer now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T18:07:35.040" />
  <row Id="38146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-03T18:13:24.167" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I found the exact answer within 5 minutes, why wouldn't I be able to accept it ? Often see questions like &quot;this is not working, help&quot; with an answer like &quot;do this, it'll fix it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also new users that come by not often will never come back 1 hour later to accept the answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T18:13:24.167" />
  <row Id="38147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T18:18:32.953" Score="4" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I login today and notice that I have gone from 11,481 down to 11,195.  I don;t see how this could have happened through the voting system.  I know that another member was annoyed when I corrected their response in a comment and proceeded to arbitrarily downvote many of my responses, but that could not account for 286 points.  It's not the end of the world here, but it is a little discouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138568" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T18:53:23.140" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T18:53:23.140" Title="I just lost 286 rep points. Why?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38147" CreationDate="2010-02-03T18:24:08.607" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1053?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;reputation graph&lt;/a&gt; doesn't show a sudden drop, then chances are that a reputation recalc was done on your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may have been triggered by the abusive downvoting you experienced.  When those downvotes are deleted, a rep recalc is done to reflect the deleted votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases a rep recalc results in a lower rep due to migrated and deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T18:24:08.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38150" CreationDate="2010-02-03T18:34:37.457" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a situation I face with one of my own questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132418/delay-signing-during-development-and-not-on-the-build-server&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132418/delay-signing-during-development-and-not-on-the-build-server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the hell to do with this.  My current plan is to eventually accept my own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the question is on my record as being unanswered.  I wish this not to be the case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if I should delete it.  I don't believe deleted questions show in search results, but I want this question to show up in searches so that people looking for this information can get pointed to the correct solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it should be closed.  I don't know if closed answers show up in search results.  If they do, then closing is fine.  But I can't close it alone; I need other users to join with me.  This means my accept rate is lower than it would be if I could close it by myself.  If they don't show up in search results, then I don't want to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, my goals are to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Close&quot; my question to further answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove the question from my list of unanswered questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have my question come up in search results as a &quot;signpost&quot; for the correct answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T18:41:37.053" Title="Should this question be closed, deleted, self-answered, or what?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38149" CreationDate="2010-02-03T18:41:37.053" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leave your question there and accept your answer with the link to the answer you found on the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T18:41:37.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35566" CreationDate="2010-02-03T19:06:46.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good alternative might be to alert users (via the orange pop-down bar) next time they sign on that their reputation has been recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a link to some page describing why their reputation may have changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T19:06:46.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T19:10:54.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35839" CreationDate="2010-02-03T19:28:43.793" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(can I have the bounty now?)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T19:28:43.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2010-02-03T19:33:13.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already one &quot;API&quot;: the JSON flair URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see the minimal improvements to that API that I mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3238/offer-additional-properties-to-json-flair&quot;&gt;this long-standing feature-request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T19:33:13.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T19:33:13.487" />
  <row Id="38154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35566" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:06:33.970" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe a rolling reputation recalc would be sufficient.  Rather than doing it all at once for everyone, just iterate through all the users at a rate of x recalcs per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, there's no real need to recalculate anyone with under 1k reputation.  Although I'd fix it at 1,200 so even if they drop 20% of their reputation, they won't lose any privileges they've already gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are about 7,000 users with 1k+ reputation.  If you do a rep recalc for one user every 15 minutes, then you'll iterate through the entire userbase every 3 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want yearly recalcs, then do a user every hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could even measure DB load and only do the recalcs when the site is lightly loaded, as often as every 15 minutes - there is plenty of CPU time and DB bandwidth for this during the lower usage times.  This would give people at least 1, but no more than 4 recalcs per year depending on the site loading.  A simple, &quot;Your reputation has been recalculated&quot; notification with a link to a faq item about recalcs and why their reputation might have changed.  As the site grows the recalcs will become less frequent per user, and you might consider adding additional rules - if the user has been inactive since the last recalc, don't do a recalc.  If the last recalc had them change less than 5% of their rep, then skip this one, and do it next time (ie, less frequent recalcs for those that appear to have fewer issues), and so forth.  But this might not be needed at all as long as the site can iterate through the selected userbase once a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By making it a standard procedure, people may be annoyed, but they'll learn to accept it and move on to more important complaints, like why their question was closed in under 30 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:06:33.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:11:41.697" Score="3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not immune to downvotes, far from it, but I don't typically get many and usually only on new answers.  The last few days I've had more than the usual number of downvotes on old questions, like 2-3 per day.  I'm left wondering if it's just a statistical anomaly or something more sinister.  Anyone else experiencing more than the usual number of downvotes recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:49:13.783" Title="Statistical anomaly or is there someone who doesn't like me?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35566" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:13:25.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than doing site-wide, or rolling recalcs, do a queue of recalcs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a small set of actions to posts which result in a reputation disparity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Migration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Abuse detection&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;??? (Please edit other examples where reputation isn't updated but should be)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the system isn't going to change to rectify these situations dynamically (ie, a recalc will always be necessary):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When any of these actions occur, take all the users that were or might be affected and add them to a queue.  The queue will contain the user number, the reason for the recalc (post deletion, migration, abuse detection), and, if available, the relevant post reference.  Periodically the system will go through the queue, perform the recalc, and post not only a notification that the recalc occurred, but the reason and associated post, if available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:13:25.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38155" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:17:58.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really (&lt;em&gt;knock on wood&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been going through questions and voting on them to get that damned Electorate badge. Maybe others are doing the same? (Although legitimately, unless you ask a lot of questions, you shouldn't be seeing &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; many)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:17:58.577" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38155" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:27:47.807" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Statistical anomaly or is there someone who doesn’t like me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anyone else experiencing more than the usual number of downvotes recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably, but not me.  It's a rare day that I get a downvote on SO, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2915?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;as you can see&lt;/a&gt; I haven't been contributing much since May of last year, and have instead been living off the interest of my existing posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you are concerned, flag one of your posts for moderator attention and explain that you believe above-normal downvotes have been occurring on your account.  Be aware that if you make such a request then you may experience a rep-recalc.  This might result in a greater rep-loss than the spurious downvotes caused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:27:47.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38161" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:32:15.330" Score="-1" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question was about using web-design skills to make websites for opensource projects and using those websites to showcase skills on a portfolio site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2194897/has-anyone-made-websites-for-popular-opensource-projects-and-used-them-in-a-portf&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2194897/has-anyone-made-websites-for-popular-opensource-projects-and-used-them-in-a-portf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To highlight some points I used bold lettering which was probably rightly distracting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inside 5 minutes, i have 4 down votes and my question is probably not visible to users due to this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fixed the issue by removing all bold lettering from the question, but now it's probably gone far below the normal threshold and looks like a very bad question or a troll question, which it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have explicitly requested that downvoters kindly reconsider the downvote because the bug is fixed. But they would not be bothered to come back to the question since it is already at -4 and they probably forgot about it while going through more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if 4-5 users (a few may not even be out of college) who do not have knowledge or experience in the domain just come and downvote, I fix the issues they have, and they do not bother to cancel their downvote, many other users who might find the question interesting just lose it as it is now pushed firmly back in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly not correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no evil involved - just a combination of mistaken formatting (me) and impulsive down-voting (someone else) and the question goes below a thought threshold ( -4! ).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Hence I opine that this is a &quot;bug&quot; of some type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do to fix this kind of problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope I dont get downvoted here because I mysteriously offend someone in spite of my providing a polite, civilised explanation - like it happened over there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some strange reason, 3 of my replies explaining my position have been deleted. This ensures that I sound like a cry-baby &lt;strong&gt;which I am not&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the mods want to frame me, I cant do much. You guys rule, your powers are so great that no God can even touch you. Happy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Provoking a person into answering repeatedly by deleting explanations&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;trolling&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;mods who troll&lt;/strong&gt; out of love for mischief are &lt;strong&gt;not doing everything in the best interests of SO&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please don't make this slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've faced a cabal many years ago. And by keeping quiet back then, &lt;strong&gt;I only encouraged them to continue trolling me&lt;/strong&gt;. So I'm going to &lt;strong&gt;keep explaining my side of the story&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You&lt;/strong&gt; deleting &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; comments is &lt;strong&gt;neither normal or fair&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Deleters, you are just wasting my time and your own.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I would like to say is that meta should probably not become IRC or slashdot. SO is one place where flaming is limited by many checks. This would have to be the number 1 issue faced by the SO team during beta and since launch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so this is another bug. Jeff Atwood would probably be wise enough to notice this. If he feels that deleting comments that explain one's position is bad, he is welcome to state so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; did not expect a flame war here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue was a bug report about speedy downvoting and someone has taken it all the way upto trolling by &lt;strong&gt;selectively deleting&lt;/strong&gt; my explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brevity is evil&lt;/strong&gt; in this case. Sorry, you asked for this long reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137765" LastEditorUserId="137765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T06:47:31.050" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T06:47:31.050" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:49:02.647" Title="Any features against quick downvoting which prevents the question from being viewed by more users?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;&lt;rollbacks&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38160" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:35:45.293" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would delete the question and start over -- you should be able to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:35:45.293" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38160" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:40:37.573" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question, even without the bold formatting, &lt;em&gt;clearly lacks focus&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really not sure &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What you're asking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What answers you're hoping for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why you need help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; post a question which is difficult to read or parse, I always post a very simplified first paragraph that summarizes the core of the my problem, and then put a bold, bulleted question sentence at the bottom which clearly asks for a specific answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, and this is where the magic occurs, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I delete everything in between&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may help you if you try this exercise before re-posting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T20:40:37.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38103" CreationDate="2010-02-03T20:48:41.707" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should not be affected by random ordering of answers with the same votes, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18655/random-sorting-appears-to-screw-with-answer-permalinks/18938#18938&quot;&gt;that is explicitly disabled once the # of answers exceeds the pagination limit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there has always been this limitation for deep linking when you select an alternate answer sort order, ever since the beginning -- probably a dupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we currently suspect this has to do with deleted answers -- do you have 10k rep on the target site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T11:21:39.633" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T11:21:39.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38160" CreationDate="2010-02-03T21:30:13.793" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm answering this and not commenting because comments are shown smaller and even without formatting, I need a line to each point that Pollyanna has raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question, even without the bold formatting, &lt;em&gt;clearly lacks focus&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it does not lack focus, it lacks skilled formatting. Consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What you're asking  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What answers you're hoping for  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why you need help&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These questions:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Has anyone else done something like this - made good looking websites for open source projects - and used them to make a good portfolio site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your answer could be: &lt;strong&gt;Yes/No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Yes, you could point to a blog article or book or discussion thread or another SO question* close to that question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise you could choose to &lt;strong&gt;ignore the question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) What has been the experience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could answer: &lt;strong&gt;Good / Bad / I have not done this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Good, explain why and optional link to support &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Bad, explain why and optional link to support &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;question marks&lt;/em&gt; in there to show the specific information I requested.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;?&quot; &amp;lt;--- Note the basic English language syntax in use in each case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think I should follow Jeff's (and Geoff's) advice to repost the question this time with formatting as suggested by them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting data point is that the profiles of few of the downvoting users (especially the initial 3-4) do not contain web design among listed skills or interests.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings a &lt;strong&gt;subtle&lt;/strong&gt; point into the current analysis:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;if a person has no skills in technology A, but is skilled in technology B, and goes about selectively down-voting posts or answers on topic A, that should be a bug of some type, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think my error was to have posted the wrong formatting at just the wrong time with the wrong users with down-voting powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I cannot provide a solution to the cross-domain up-voting / down-voting problem, I hope that I have at least lucidly pointed it out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And it may be old knowledge to you folks, it is new to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137765" LastEditorUserId="137765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T21:41:41.460" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T21:41:41.460" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38160" CreationDate="2010-02-03T21:34:19.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When something doesn't work out the way you expect, there's two ways of looking at it.  A significant number of others might be wrong in disagreeing with you or, in this case, thinking that your question is not really about programming.  That happens.  Usually, though, when it happens an equal or larger number come to your defense and the question eventually gets reopened and voted back up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, they could be correct.  It's not wrong for someone to down vote your question.  It's their right and duty to vote questions the way they see fit, not in accordance with your wishes.  If you find that people down vote your question and no one else seems to be sticking up for it, I'd assume that there's something wrong with the question and use it as a learning, as opposed to a complaining, opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T22:00:04.117" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:00:04.117" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38160" CreationDate="2010-02-03T21:40:14.473" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, forget the fact that your question was downvoted. It hurts and it's true, when a question reaches -3 or so, downvotes start to pour in unjustly, simply because everyone thinks this question needs to be downvoted, &lt;em&gt;just because so many others already did&lt;/em&gt;. It's a group dynamic and it's stupid, but just you wait, you'll find that you're not entirely immune to it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, forget and move on. Maybe ask again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I share Pollyanna's point that your question lacks focus. What is your goal in asking this? SO is a great place to find out what other people's experiences are but people want to know &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; they should open up &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt;. It's hard work to ponder about such a question and hammer out a meaningful answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T21:58:47.817" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T21:58:47.817" />
  <row Id="38168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38027" CreationDate="2010-02-03T22:00:51.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because we are lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1796" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T00:25:16.920" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T00:25:16.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38155" CreationDate="2010-02-03T22:15:46.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the answers you're getting downvoted on posted by any of the nominated moderators, or do they have other answers by those people? I've been getting upvotes on a few of my old questions and answers, most likely due to my profile being linked from the moderator elections. It could be that those old threads are getting more attention, and people just disagree with the answers you provided for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:15:46.793" />
  <row Id="38170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38070" CreationDate="2010-02-03T22:47:31.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tell them it is like having thousands of peers who are willing to help solve real world programming issues.  You can even try to help them when they have issues.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I told my management team that it felt like my team went from 3 developers to 2000 almost right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:47:31.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-03T22:47:31.573" />
  <row Id="38171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38155" CreationDate="2010-02-03T22:49:13.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen it happen from time to time...  However, there are days where I get quite a few upvotes on really old questions/answers that probably offset some of those haters out there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:49:13.783" />
  <row Id="38172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21907" CreationDate="2010-02-03T22:53:27.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to view a page with recent questions with any of my preferred tags. Else it's a bother to go to the page for each tag and skim, then move to the next tag. This would make jumping in to any of the sites much quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T22:53:27.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38174" CreationDate="2010-02-03T23:06:29.690" Score="7" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/vote-moderator&quot;&gt;nominees&lt;/a&gt; who are actively answering questions, is it acceptable for them to mention their nomination in comments when others express an appreciation for their efforts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-03T23:13:18.613" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T17:28:20.203" Title="Is campaigning acceptable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38173" CreationDate="2010-02-03T23:14:13.930" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest not.  Self-promotion in other contexts in SO usually leaves a bad taste.  Let your work speak for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T23:14:13.930" />
  <row Id="38175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38173" CreationDate="2010-02-03T23:25:03.127" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Come on - let's have some campaign slogans. Does anyone remember Barry Goldwater's (1960's Republican maniac) classic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In your heart, you know he's right!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and his opposition's rejoinder:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In your guts, you know he's nuts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T23:25:03.127" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38173" CreationDate="2010-02-03T23:30:44.437" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't do it myself. If it has nothing to do with answering the question, &lt;strong&gt;it's just noise&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just seems tacky. Then again, that's probably why I am not going to win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T23:30:44.437" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38173" CreationDate="2010-02-03T23:35:29.233" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No way, man. You gotta tell them to vote for you &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you give them an answer. Maybe even withhold it 'till they post a screenshot of the voting page, with the big &lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; next to your name...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-03T23:35:29.233" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T00:17:33.457" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the right hand column of &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/robthijssen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my SO Careers CV page&lt;/a&gt;, there is a blue box which states that my Public CV is part of &quot;A free Stack Overflow service&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not. I paid good money to list my CV on SO Careers and I don't want a recruiter who is unfamiliar with the SO Careers business model lumping me in with everyone who did not pay to list their CV. I'm not asking for a badge that says I paid, I would just like the misleading statement removed from the listing that I paid for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130814" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T04:08:38.903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:03:10.353" Title="Public CV on careers page states it is a free service" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29966" CreationDate="2010-02-04T00:31:48.103" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only one display name change is allowed every 30 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user accounts less than 2 days old may change their displayname at will&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a 15 minute grace period after each change during which you may change your displayname at will&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T10:46:49.537" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T10:46:49.537" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38173" CreationDate="2010-02-04T00:33:59.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd consider it acceptable in a comment, &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt;, and especially if you went back and deleted all these comments after the election is over...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T00:33:59.393" />
  <row Id="38182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38178" CreationDate="2010-02-04T00:34:23.310" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But it's true -- the &lt;em&gt;public&lt;/em&gt; CV page is free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt; CV page that employers see through their private search interface is not the same as the public CV page (it has more information and other features) -- and that is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; free, nor is it tagged as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, you pay a nominal yearly fee to file your CV which makes your CV visible in the private CV search engine. This doesn't have much to do with the public CV except that some of the information on the CV is similar, depending on what sections of the CV you've marked as public-visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: we can't have any indication on the free public CVs that the user has paid to file, and be listed for private employer search. &lt;strong&gt;Doing so would &quot;out&quot; anyone that has a public CV and happens to be looking for work.&lt;/strong&gt; Their current employers would be able to tell (by the absence of the &quot;free public CV&quot; tag) that they are not happy with their current job and seeking other employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The free public CVs and paid private employer search are two different worlds, and bridging them in the manner you are describing would destroy both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sorry, but if this is a problem for anyone, please email careers@stackoverflow.com and we'll be more than happy to refund your money in full.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T04:08:31.257" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:08:31.257" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10254" CreationDate="2010-02-04T01:51:48.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure but i Just tried it 2/3/10 and it didn't work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from yubico's website&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yubico OpenID Server&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Welcome!&#xA;&#xA;There are two ways to use the Yubico OpenID server. The simplest is&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;to go to any site which supports&#xA;  OpenID and log in to it using the&#xA;  following OpenID URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://openid.yubico.com/server.php/idpage?user=cccccccbihth&#xA;&#xA;You will then be redirected to our OpenID server, and can login to the&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site authenticated using your YubiKey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;If you wish to use a more personal OpenID URL, you need to set up your&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;own web site and be able to modify the&#xA;  HTML code for it. Insert the following&#xA;  markup into the  of the HTML&#xA;  document at your own home page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.server&quot; href=&quot;http://openid.yubico.com/server.php&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.delegate&quot; href=&quot;http://openid.yubico.com/server.php/idpage?user=cccccccbihth&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Once you have made this change, you should be able to use your own URL&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;as the OpenID URL when using any&#xA;  OpenID enabled site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You can verify that it is working by using the external OpenID Checkup&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;You can read more about OpenID.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130857" LastEditorUserId="130857" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T02:44:58.880" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T02:44:58.880" />
  <row Id="38184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38173" CreationDate="2010-02-04T02:06:06.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it would hurt more than it would help. It's a bit tacky, and &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't consider voting on someone who does that, if I knew nothing else about him. Others might react differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, is it really such a big deal? Do you really want to have more responsibilities on the site and an obligation to be logged on as much as possible? Sure, we do it anyway, but as a hobby. If you win the election, great, if not, what did you lose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T17:22:44.590" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T17:22:44.590" />
  <row Id="38185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10254" CreationDate="2010-02-04T02:22:42.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clavid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.clavid.com/&lt;/a&gt;, which can use Yubikey for authentication. Not really a solution, but it is a workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141936" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T02:22:42.967" />
  <row Id="38186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T03:11:59.483" Score="3" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a long text without spaces in my question and it is not aligned properly.Please have a look at the below question.how can I format such lengthy text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2196223/need-help-parsing-an-iis-log-in-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2196223/need-help-parsing-an-iis-log-in-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T04:26:11.497" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:26:11.497" Title="my question is not formatted properly" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38186" CreationDate="2010-02-04T03:13:34.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Put backticks on both sides, or insert four spaces before it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T03:13:34.147" />
  <row Id="38189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-04T03:36:17.090" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He liked being purple, but the other unicorns made him feel inadequate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/7bb5f2493a0683f05729bfd93c4c8636?s=128&amp;amp;d=%3Cpath_to_url%3E&amp;amp;r=G&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73488" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T03:36:17.090" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-04T03:36:17.090" />
  <row Id="38190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38178" CreationDate="2010-02-04T03:39:18.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;It might not be a bad idea to point out that while the &lt;em&gt;public&lt;/em&gt; CV is free service, this particular user is also listed on SO careers and the private CV there gives more information.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff raises a valid and important point in the comments. A way of dealing with that is to provide a checkbox in the edit view to enable a one line note on the public CV indicating that this user is listed on SO Careers while keeping the &lt;em&gt;PUBLIC CV&#xA;A free Stack Overflow service&lt;/em&gt; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, if a subscriber elects not to check the box, her public CV would be no different than any other user's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think this is an important feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T05:03:10.353" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:03:10.353" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1475" CreationDate="2010-02-04T03:56:09.743" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Image Based Flair&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created an implementation of flair which generates an image of your current reputation automatically. It is currently using PHP GD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9482/image-based-flair-downloadable-implementation-v2-1&quot;&gt;More Information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Current Features&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Configurable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Edit your accounts by opening &lt;code&gt;system/config.yaml&lt;/code&gt; and editing the values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Customizable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Create your own themes by editing/adding YAML files. (2 themes by default [basic,advanced] in 2 different flavors [normal, inverted])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expandable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Currently supports all 4 SO sites. Adapts to new additions to the StackOverflow family with a simple config file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Examples&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This script no longer works due to the new flair API. I have no intention of updating it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The desktop theme included in the distribution will not render exactly the same as the above. The reason is that I didn't include one font used due to licensing restrictions. For reference, the reputation font (missing) is &lt;strong&gt;DIN 1451 Engschrift LT&lt;/strong&gt;. The theme files are as in, so by dropping in the font as &lt;code&gt;dinb.ttf&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;code&gt;system/fonts&lt;/code&gt; folder, it should render as the above.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-15T14:19:41.783" LastActivityDate="2011-03-15T14:19:41.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T04:08:04.300" Score="1" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9807/firefox-freezes-script-execution-uses-100-cpu-upon-trying-to-quote&quot;&gt;Firefox freezes (script execution uses 100% cpu) upon trying to quote. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possibly Related&lt;/strong&gt; (but probably not):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9807/firefox-freezes-script-execution-uses-100-cpu-upon-trying-to-quote&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9807/firefox-freezes-script-execution-uses-100-cpu-upon-trying-to-quote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under some circumstances (which I haven't been able to figure out) trying to quote some text using the &lt;em&gt;Quote&lt;/em&gt; button in the bar will cause wmd.js to loop. It happens every time on every browser (so it's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; related to firebug).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll post a test case as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:08:38.043" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T04:10:47.040" Title="wmd.js looping when trying to quote test" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38192" CreationDate="2010-02-04T04:08:38.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Testing,​&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &#xA;  test test test test test test test test test &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;/* Some code. Hi */&#xA;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;trying to quote this will make the script loop.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:08:38.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-04T04:08:38.043" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38101" CreationDate="2010-02-04T04:15:04.190" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This does happen, on the homepage -- anything in the top (n), it is sorted in the order of the bounties ending soonest, with the bounty that is closest to expiring on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the expected place to browse for &quot;bounties that are ending soonest&quot;, not the full question list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:15:04.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38178" CreationDate="2010-02-04T04:50:54.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for that box is to encourage other people to sign up for their own public CV.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's also there to tell you that &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; is part of a larger website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/b2gills/4329626384/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Public CV blue box by b2gills, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2680/4329626384_7fbeb9ec04_o.png&quot; width=&quot;248&quot; height=&quot;160&quot; alt=&quot;Public CV blue box&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T04:50:54.407" />
  <row Id="38207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34928" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:12:36.213" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not seeing any inline background color styles on questions now, so I think we fixed this somewhere along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:12:36.213" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38211" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:21:48.267" Score="7" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most frustrating things on the SO sites, is when I'm typing a large comment ( or answer), and then it won't post, because the Q or A has been deleted.  How about warning the deleter that someone is commenting (or answering) on his post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T05:43:40.883" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:57:51.003" Title="Notify deleter when post is being deleted, that comments/answers are being made on it" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:25:13.593" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot;&gt;Is there an editing &amp;lsquo;grace period&amp;rsquo; on answers after they have been posted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could've sworn an answer just changed after I refreshed the page, but I can't see any revision history... So as the title says, is this possible, or am I just going crazy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe by users over 10k? Or if you edit within a certain time frame?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:25:13.593" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T05:30:40.883" Title="Is it possible to edit a question without leaving revision history?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38209" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:29:58.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 This has happened a couple times to me in the past, and it definitely is rather frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a 30 second interval while editing to check the status, and pop in our favorite orange-bar when there's a major change in status...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:29:58.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:32:09.427" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any sites similar to Server Fault that one can turn to for advice and help on ethical hacking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142447" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T05:38:21.893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:38:21.893" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:43:43.470" Title="Sites similar to Server Fault for ethical hacking" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38212" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:34:56.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure any ethical hackers would want to spread knowledge like that around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:34:56.503" />
  <row Id="38214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38209" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:40:07.803" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could be handy, but only if I can see what they're typing. If it's just a comment telling me what I already know (and what prompted me to delete the post in the first place...) then there's no reason I should wait around for them to finish writing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a feature would also allow me to preemptively respond to comments. Which could be fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:40:07.803" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38681" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:52:17.213" Score="15" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have the &quot;not a real question&quot; close reason on Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I understand that on Meta, we have many discussions (such as feature requests) which aren't really questions. So maybe &quot;not a real question&quot; isn't quite the verbiage we want. But we should have something that isn't &quot;blatantly offensive&quot; nor &quot;spam&quot; to address questions such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38201/what-database-will-be-used-by-stackoverflow-by-2010&quot; title=&quot;Is your crystal ball better than mine? Because mine keeps showing Jetsons re-runs&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20668/new-close-reason-question-asks-to-predict-the-future&quot;&gt;Question asks to predict the future&lt;/a&gt;&quot; has come up in the past, but that was for Stack Overflow proper, and it was also addressed (in the Stack Overflow world) cleanly by &quot;not a real question.&quot; We don't have that option here, and &quot;Not Stack Overflow related&quot; doesn't quite match, either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question which inspired this feature request isn't really offensive, nor is it spam, an exact duplicate nor even too localized. Sadly, it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; Stack Overflow related. But at the end of the day, it's a completely unanswerable question, and really doesn't belong -- even on Meta -- at least, not until 2020, when a definitive answer will be available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you don't like &quot;not a real question&quot; on Meta, do you have better alternatives? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-07T05:12:17.137" LastActivityDate="2010-05-07T05:23:45.907" Title="&quot;Not a real question&quot; on Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38215" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:54:14.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Totally Useless Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T05:54:14.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38215" CreationDate="2010-02-04T05:58:31.567" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is to support the sites of the trilogy. It's more light-hearted, but that doesn't mean that every other hour needs to include a spit-balling question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta is also not another dumping ground for any riff-raff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Unwanted noise&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question has been deemed as ill-fitting with the spirit and/or support of Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you know what? Some questions are about support, other questions are supported by users. Which then brings you to point out that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37493/what-do-stack-overflow-users-like-for-breakfast/&quot; title=&quot;close reasons in the morning!&quot;&gt;some noise is allowed&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T12:07:17.497" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T12:07:17.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-02-04T06:19:10.083" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The advert was designed to mislead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It misled me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be misleading thousands of visitors, even after the &quot;changes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite surprised to see it still on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142809" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T06:19:10.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30319" CreationDate="2010-02-04T06:51:34.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's possible to enter tags as [php] [-server] now. At least when I try it on dev, it gets stripped out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T06:51:34.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38215" CreationDate="2010-02-04T07:28:03.607" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few ideas that should be implemented ASAP:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;not yet relevant&lt;/strong&gt; (for questions like the one you refer to)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;too nosy&lt;/strong&gt; (for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/817/what-kind-of-agreement-do-joel-and-jeff-really-have-is-this-public-info-closed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;whining&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34221/so-where-can-i-ask-developers-questions-closed&quot;&gt;you know the kind&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;wanting to turn Stack Overflow into a social networking site&lt;/strong&gt; (you probably don't need me to search for examples)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;Facebook Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; (as a shorter alternative to the previous one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;unhelpful rant&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34902/stack-overflow-a-great-resource-on-first-inspection-a-community-of-trolls-naz&quot;&gt;for this&lt;/a&gt;); automatically changed to &quot;closed as &lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; if the markdown source exceeds two kilobytes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;kindergarten&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36413/iso-more-people-to-start-a-power-leveling-clan-for-so-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;too sophisticated for the simple minds of Meta&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36723/so-should-validate-a-username-in-the-url-and-issue-a-redirect-on-mismatch-right&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;would require a seven pound user manual for Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35347/have-downvotes-cost-more-to-be-refunded-when-a-comment-on-that-question-answer-g&quot;&gt;ex.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;huh?&lt;/strong&gt; (as a shorter alternative to one of the previous two [or both?])&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T07:37:00.483" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T07:37:00.483" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38225" CreationDate="2010-02-04T08:01:58.663" Score="13" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3aeIoOoZuFtYv5y3oDzH1muBvZv0sLlDi3hoini8iQj1npm7lbiWj9kmiXgZivf8fWeVdvcsbObPdzbHcUZlY2a9Z6ZmY2Z1Z0ZVZMXbXdXnXVW5WyWjVzWOVwVbVUUvU0VZVIWQUoUvTyUOV2UXUhW2bvdZeBfv&amp;amp;chtt=Votes%20per%20question%20by%20week&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|0|1|2|3|4|1%3a|28%20Jul%202008|25%20Jan%202010&quot; alt=&quot;votes per question by week&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats-SO.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Full Stack Overflow stats graphs for February dump.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:12:38.423" Title="Did the Electorate badge make a difference in question voting?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38222" CreationDate="2010-02-04T08:11:04.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is also an answer, and therefore isn't much of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;gaze at=&quot;navel&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;On the other hand, what does that make this? ...&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/gaze&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To make this less of what @random said, I will add that this experiment at least worked on the small scale on me. I've taken to upvoting more questions than I used to, which was almost none before, simply because I'd never thought of it. I'm quite a ways from getting the badge, but I figure as time passes my ratio will level out and it'll pop up randomly someday and make me feel good about myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="135301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T08:18:32.073" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T08:18:32.073" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38222" CreationDate="2010-02-04T08:14:03.393" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skinner box FTW&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T08:14:03.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28121" CreationDate="2010-02-04T08:39:06.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reproduced with Firefox 3.5.6 on Linux:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5766/sqriiql.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T08:39:06.470" />
  <row Id="38228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T08:48:20.227" Score="6" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2197356/revisions&quot;&gt;What might you put in your own C#-like language?&lt;/a&gt; was closed at &lt;strong&gt;04:50&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet I was able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2198299/revisions&quot;&gt;post an answer&lt;/a&gt; at the time of &lt;strong&gt;08:41&lt;/strong&gt; some four hours later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was later reopened at &lt;strong&gt;08:57&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142309" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T19:11:57.360" LastActivityDate="2011-01-29T04:56:21.927" Title="Incorrectly able to answer a closed question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38222" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:12:38.423" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the Electorate badge when it was released, so I don't have to change my attitude&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130099" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:12:38.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38231" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:20:21.557" Score="1" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment&quot;&gt;Notify user when their name is mentioned in comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don&amp;rsquo;t own them)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I get my message through to the one I want to talk to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139597" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T09:24:34.417" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:24:34.417" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T10:19:09.783" Title="When using @ to talk to someone who's commented, will he get notified?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;replies&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38230" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:22:58.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yep&lt;/strong&gt;, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:22:58.947" />
  <row Id="38232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38008" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:26:49.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;due to popular demand, I removed the maximum time check as a CAPTCHA trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you can take hours, &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt;, nay ... &lt;em&gt;WEEKS&lt;/em&gt; ... to compose the very best answer possible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:26:49.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35839" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:45:29.160" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you guys fully understand the ramifications of this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember our friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/137184&quot;&gt;~quack&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about how his user &quot;name&quot; exists, and why. (Also consider how you won't be &quot;addressing&quot; users like this at all, really..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I enabled this for Google and Yahoo only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:45:29.160" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9478" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:52:16.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this error today, so this seems to not have been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2257" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:52:16.397" />
  <row Id="38236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38240" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:46:24.647" Score="10" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/does_not_exist&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/does_not_exist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the code on the right pane, and if it is a real language, what does it do exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134974" LastActivityDate="2011-04-01T16:45:47.937" Title="What is the code on StackOverflow 'Page Not Found' pages?" Tags="&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;programming-languages&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38236" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:50:40.920" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was created on Meta : &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27112/amusing-404-page-not-found-images-for-trilogy-sites&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27112/amusing-404-page-not-found-images-for-trilogy-sites&lt;/a&gt; and is not a specific language, but multiple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142818" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:53:49.577" />
  <row Id="38238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38236" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:51:02.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like a mixture of obsfucated C and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brainfuck&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:53:49.577" />
  <row Id="38239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38236" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:51:03.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fancy and esoteric ways of printing '404'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:53:49.577" />
  <row Id="38240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38236" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:51:16.897" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_%28computing%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;polyglot&lt;/a&gt; code - that is code that will compile unaltered in more than one language, all of which write 404 to stdout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can spot at least&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brainfuck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multitude of scripting lanauges (Python, Perl, ...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27112/amusing-404-page-not-found-images-for-trilogy-sites&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27112/amusing-404-page-not-found-images-for-trilogy-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38883" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:53:49.577" />
  <row Id="38241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38236" CreationDate="2010-02-04T09:51:44.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know line three is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brainfuck&lt;/a&gt;. Go figure out what it does :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38889" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T09:53:49.577" />
  <row Id="38242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38244" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:02:33.720" Score="5" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are edited as soon as they're posted on the trilogy. Instantaneously even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's as if they are pounced upon by a legion of editors and proofreaders, hungry dictionary and grammar wolves, baying at the gates ready to clean up and fix typos and formatting blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a dedicated band, full-time editors you may say, who help edit the posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139597" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T16:06:00.237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T18:59:52.380" Title="Full-time, dedicated editors on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38242" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:05:17.677" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone over 2000 rep (only 100 rep if you're talking about Community wiki posts) with a desire to not have their eyeballs and sense of English assaulted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T15:11:22.623" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T15:11:22.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28579" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:19:23.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er... what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All Jon Skeet gravatars look correct to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T10:19:23.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:19:08.783" Score="0" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28525/how-do-i-post-a-screenshot-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How do I post a screenshot on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I post image on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="158555" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T10:32:34.870" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T10:32:34.870" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T13:04:13.227" Title="How can I post image on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38255" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:23:29.977" Score="5" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/13/yearling&quot;&gt;Yearling badge&lt;/a&gt; meant to be awarded every year to active users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This behavior seems...odd.  Certainly if we take &quot;yearling&quot; literally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142762" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T10:38:14.327" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T11:03:43.300" Title="Why can the Yearling badge be awarded multiple times?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;yearling&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62943" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:32:05.713" Score="11" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to have an optional brief tag description?&#xA;To sum-up what could go in it or simply what they are about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;For example knowing what can/should go in the &quot;development&quot; tag.&#xA;Or explaining with what language are related to &quot;boost&quot; or &quot;groovy&quot;.&#xA;It helps people to know straight away if the question is related to their domain of expertise or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit: solved&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This is now implemented using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tag-wiki&quot;&gt;tag wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142817" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T03:57:53.467" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T14:48:02.510" Title="Tag description" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38242" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:36:46.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an aside, those who're editing will see the same message one sees when editing one's own post. The last point seems &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/38242/revisions&quot;&gt;to be forgotten&lt;/a&gt; on meta every now and then... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;► fix grammatical or spelling errors&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ► clarify meaning without changing it&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ► correct minor mistakes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ► add related resources or links&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ► always respect the original author&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T10:36:46.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38256" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:41:58.357" Score="4" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/2qn7534.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Freehand circles demonstrating my point&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, WTF? (In case you can't read my cursorwriting, the line above that is &quot;3 &amp;lt; 7&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll admit that this example is a bit disingenuous. The question attracted a number of downvotes because it looked like Yet Another Bad Interview Question, but then it attracted some very interesting answers and started getting upvotes (and favorites). The actual ratio is +8/-5, which (in this case) explains why there are more favorites than upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've seen this before, and I doubt that every time it's caused by some intense downvoting. Some questions get more favorites than upvotes, and this is probably wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know some people use (or used) the favorites system as a way of getting back to questions where, say, they had asked the OP for clarification, but I believe that is now an unnecessary use of the favorite tool, with the addition of comment notification. There are so many ways now to get back to a question you asked a while ago that this use is no longer necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I propose a modest change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If simple bookmarking is the intended use of the &quot;Favorite&quot; function, then we should change the name to &quot;Bookmark&quot; so it appears nonjudgemental.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the &quot;Favorite&quot; marking has no more use as a bookmarking tool, and solely conveys the &quot;I like this question&quot; or &quot;I will find this useful in the future&quot; meaning, why not add a popup saying &quot;If you like this answer, perhaps you should consider upvoting it.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that these two changes are not mutually exclusive. People will frequently bookmark things they like, so the popup could be useful even if the name is changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discuss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T14:35:16.810" Title="Questions with more favorites than upvotes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="38253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38250" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:51:48.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought part of the idea behind tags was that tags would describe the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If our description needs a description, then our system has a serious problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Now that I understand your intentions and reasons, I think it's not bad. I just have just three problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a lot of tags (450+ &lt;em&gt;pages&lt;/em&gt; of tags). Many are unnecessary duplicates, and many are somewhat necessary redundancies. Adding descriptions to all of these is going to be a pain, and would probably be better as part of a greater, large-scale &quot;tag reorganization&quot; effort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where would the description go? Enough people miss the FAQ as it is, and it's sitting there at the top of the page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I still feel like tags are (fairly) self-documenting. Sure, I didn't know what Adobe Flex was when I first got here, but I figured it out fairly quickly. Looking things up on the internet is pretty easy. If this is a problem, I don't see it as a very serious one, and with such a potentially time-consuming solution, I'm not sure the solution is worthwhile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, though, a possible answer to #2 would be to put the description on the page that comes up with tagged searches so when you click on a tag, you get the tag description, and questions in that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="135301" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T11:15:40.853" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T11:15:40.853" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28579" CreationDate="2010-02-04T10:54:17.720" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That image is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d8ebb117e8d83d74ea95fbdd0f87e13?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d8ebb117e8d83d74ea95fbdd0f87e13?s=32&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt; and the servers at gravatar.com really &lt;a href=&quot;http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2f6d8ebb117e8d83d74ea95fbdd0f87e13%3Fs%3D32%26d%3Didenticon%26r%3DPG&amp;amp;http=1.1&amp;amp;gzip=yes&amp;amp;type=GET&amp;amp;uak=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tell your browser&lt;/a&gt; to only cache it for 5 minutes. Maybe, some day in the past, they told your browser to cache forever, but if so then that has been fixed by Gravatar long ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; -- It seems Gravatar is the cause of the problem after all, as they seem to be setting the &lt;code&gt;Last-Modified&lt;/code&gt; date to the date one &lt;em&gt;first subscribed&lt;/em&gt; (or &lt;code&gt;Wed, 11 Jan 1984 08:00:00 GMT&lt;/code&gt; when not subscribed), rather than to the date one &lt;em&gt;changed&lt;/em&gt; the avatar. For the image above, one gets &lt;code&gt;Last-Modified: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:32:56 GMT&lt;/code&gt; though Jon changed it more than a year later, somewhere &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28192/has-jon-skeet-been-hacked/28194#28194&quot;&gt;after November 2nd 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When requesting a resource, most (if not all) browsers will add a conditional &lt;code&gt;If-Modified-Since&lt;/code&gt; header for things they already cached, and indeed then Gravatar currently (wrongly) &lt;a href=&quot;http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6d8ebb117e8d83d74ea95fbdd0f87e13%3Fs%3D32%26d%3Didenticon%26r%3DPG&amp;amp;last-modified=Sat%2C+27+Sep+2008+17%3A32%3A56+GMT&amp;amp;gzip=yes&amp;amp;http=1.1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;returns&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified&lt;/code&gt;, and does not return any image data. This is not according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.gravatar.com/2005/10/06/state-of-the-gravatar/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official description&lt;/a&gt; from late 2005:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve implemented an If-Modified-Since handler that will return 304 Not Modified if the requested avatar has not been changed since the last time your browser downloaded it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Thanks to Kip for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37986/force-gravatar-refresh/38831#38831&quot;&gt;finding the issue&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;code&gt;Last-Modified&lt;/code&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; Instead of changing the avatar, Jon could also temporarily have used a different email address to get a different avatar at Stack Overflow. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28192/has-jon-skeet-been-hacked/28194#28194&quot;&gt;a comment&lt;/a&gt; he confirmed that such was not the case; he indeed changed the avatar itself.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T00:34:00.517" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T00:34:00.517" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38249" CreationDate="2010-02-04T11:03:43.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it. Maybe when you get 10 it'll convert into the Decader badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47612" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T11:03:43.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38252" CreationDate="2010-02-04T11:27:06.163" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted you, but only because of your lacking cursor hand-writing skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Favourite&lt;/em&gt; is a bookmark (bookmarks are called favourites in IE, too, IIRC). Even if people disagree and downvote they still could be interested how the question evolves. Maybe they hate it that much, that they want to watch it going down. I doubt that a renaming is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tooltip &quot;Do you want to upvote&quot; isn't useful here, I think. Understanding and clicking  the favourite star seems more complicated than the upvote arrow (according to support entries here on Meta). So I doubt that people who &quot;bookmark&quot; and do not upvote do that unintentionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T11:27:06.163" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="38257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38405" CreationDate="2010-02-04T11:29:16.533" Score="19" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried changing my display name on meta this morning. I wasn't allowed; the message was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! There was a problem updating&#xA;  your profile: Display name may only be changed once&#xA;  every 30 days; you may change again in&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;1 hour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I decided to (impatiently) wait. Well, actually, I gave it another shot before the hour ended and it said I still had 38 minutes to go. Now, after trying it out for the last time, the message is as follows:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i49.tinypic.com/1in6m0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why has the time increased from 1 hour to 12 hours? When will I actually be able to change my name? None of these values are really correct. I've changed my name on Sunday or Monday, so there should be about 26 days to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; and now it's up to &lt;strong&gt;5 days&lt;/strong&gt;. This makes no sense. How much time do I have before I can change my name again? At least say 4 all the time because it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/221/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;guaranteed to be random&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i49.tinypic.com/rtjpu8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T10:40:32.530" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T10:45:22.630" Title="Time left until I can change my display name keeps randomly changing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="38258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38252" CreationDate="2010-02-04T11:31:12.193" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I still find the need to use the favourite icon to bookmark a question you have commented on, as when asking for more information from users, you only get @replys if the user knows to use them, and I find that this is not often the case, especially on server fault where we get a lot of new users just asking 1 question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T11:31:12.193" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38250" CreationDate="2010-02-04T12:27:23.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree - there are plenty of tags that not all developers can be expected to know about, and making them self descriptive would just make the tags really long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that every time someone comes across a question tagged with a tag that they don't recognise then the tag serves no purpose at all for that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some example tags that could do with a short 1 line description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lucene&lt;/strong&gt; - Should give a rough idea of what Lucene is&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;r&lt;/strong&gt; - What the hell is &quot;r&quot;!?  Never heard of it before!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Groovy&lt;/strong&gt; - See &quot;r&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor&lt;/strong&gt; - Is this tag for people looking for an IDE / editor, or someone developing some sort of editing tool?  Or is there some obscure technology known as &quot;editor&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mac&lt;/strong&gt; - Apple mac or &quot;media access control&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I've realised that although this is essentially implemented (sponsored tags), this may in fact undermine the whole sponsored tags thing StackOverflow has going on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="136084" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T13:05:30.743" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T13:05:30.743" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T12:50:14.570" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;The markdown editor breaks URLs that have a &lt;code&gt;[]&lt;/code&gt; in them in the post preview. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.example.com?array%5b%5d=item1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Test link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the URL is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.example.com?array[]=item1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it works fine in the final result, though, so it's very minor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-16T17:25:12.987" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T17:25:38.213" Title="Post preview breaks URLs with square brackets" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38264" CreationDate="2010-02-04T12:51:10.807" Score="11" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Important&lt;/strong&gt;: this question contains &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;outdated information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some answers have this yellow border&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8767/24201060358pm.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What’s it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142828" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T19:04:05.903" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T19:04:05.903" ClosedDate="2010-09-24T18:05:44.817" Title="What’s the yellow border I see in some answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38266" CreationDate="2010-02-04T12:58:37.140" Score="1" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Stack Overflow grows day by day and a larger number of people use it daily, what is the total number of hits/day for Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T18:41:25.043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T18:41:25.043" Title="What is the total number of hits/day for Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;traffic&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38262" CreationDate="2010-02-04T13:01:30.910" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the accepted answer icon features that yellow highlighted border, it means that the answer was chosen while the question had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot; title=&quot;your head&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; on its head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hover over the image of the tick, you will see the information about its worth and when it was chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T13:01:30.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38263" CreationDate="2010-02-04T13:03:39.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Jeff mentioned it was currently at around 1.4m hits a day in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/podcast-81/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #81&lt;/a&gt;, so that figure's probably accurate to around Jan 31st, 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T13:03:39.780" />
  <row Id="38266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38263" CreationDate="2010-02-04T13:06:43.267" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the daily figures &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;at Quantcast&lt;/a&gt;. By default it shows people, click on the Page-Views option in the combo box to see the views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently it is getting around 1.4-1.5M/day on weekdays and around 0.6M/day at weekends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/profile/trafficGraph?wunit=wd%3Acom.stackoverflow&amp;amp;drg=&amp;amp;dty=ar&amp;amp;dtr=dd&amp;amp;gl=6mo&amp;amp;ggt=large&amp;amp;showDeleteButtons=true&amp;amp;width=520&quot; alt=&quot;Quantcast graph&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T13:06:43.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38257" CreationDate="2010-02-04T14:30:28.847" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For reference, this appears to be happening to me as well. Yesterday it told me I could change it again in 2 days, now it is saying Feb 20th. The only other answer is some wretchedly buggy code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T10:45:22.630" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T10:45:22.630" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-02-04T14:34:15.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone suggested badge images yet, like the ones seen in Team Fortress 2 or on Kongregate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't read all the suggestions above. Perhaps there should be a badge for 'failed to read all previous suggestions because of short attention span'?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142697" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T14:34:15.593" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-04T14:34:15.593" />
  <row Id="38277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38252" CreationDate="2010-02-04T14:35:16.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen that behavior mainly on the &quot;train-wreck questions&quot;, where , I suppose, people want to go back, not because of how good the question is, but rather to see how it turns out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I imagine some people might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/1931/john-t&quot;&gt;a bit protective of their votes&lt;/a&gt; (not such a good example, as there is only one favorite there), so they might be favorite a question that they liked, but not cast a vote, for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T14:35:16.810" />
  <row Id="38279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T15:23:54.233" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I add my own OpenID provider icon to the list of Google, Yahoo, AOL and myOpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have my own OpenID server, and I would like to have an icon for it, right next to myOpenID. Is there a way to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, could I please have it?  (It would fit snuggly under Site Management/Content, I believe.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141310" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T16:30:10.647" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T16:30:10.647" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T15:34:20.947" Title="Can I add my own OpenID provider icon to the list of Google, Yahoo, AOL and myOpenID?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38279" CreationDate="2010-02-04T15:29:41.253" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it would be for you only, it wouldn't make sense to change the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could however do it with GreaseMonkey. I have some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3004/implement-myopenid-affiliates-on-the-login-page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JS at meta.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; that tweaked the login page to make to more like the current SO login (it added in a large MyOpenID login and a link to a MyOpenID affiliate). I've disabled it since we moved to Beta 6 as the email login made it less relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could copy some of that code into a GreaseMonkey script to add an arbitrary icon to the page just for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T15:29:41.253" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T16:34:05.443" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15020/winnerless-bounties&quot;&gt;Winnerless bounties&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26958/what-happens-if-bounty-expires-after-seven-days-and-you-have-not-selected-an-answ&quot;&gt;What happens if Bounty expires after Seven Days and you have not selected an answer ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had asked a question earlier, got one answer which was not satisfactory. It has one upvote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I started a bounty and have not got any new answers yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2102841/log4net-comparing-adonetappender-and-rollingfileappender&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;SO- bounty&lt;/a&gt;  says that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If there is no answer meeting the&#xA;  above criteria, and you as the&#xA;  question owner have not opted to&#xA;  accept an answer, you forfeit your&#xA;  right to ever accept an answer to your&#xA;  question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I do not accept this answer(which was posted before I started the bounty), &lt;strong&gt;do I lose the right to accept answers for any of my past/future questions ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142835" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T16:40:08.003" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T16:40:08.003" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T20:57:48.973" Title="bounty questions -no answers after bounty has started- what happens?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38261" CreationDate="2010-02-04T16:35:42.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that the URL generator (highlight your URL, then hit the world-with-arrow icon) gets confused if the URL being highlighted has a close-square-bracket -- it thinks &quot;aha someone already put the end of URL marker in for me, so I won't bother putting in another one&quot;, which prematurely ends the URL markup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;link text: text&#xA;url: http://blah/foo]bar&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[text]bar[1]&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://blah/foo&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than what should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[text][1]&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://blah/foo\]bar&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T16:35:42.197" />
  <row Id="38284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38282" CreationDate="2010-02-04T16:38:54.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you're just not able to accept answers for this specific question in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T16:38:54.123" />
  <row Id="38285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T16:39:04.217" Score="24" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful if we could see the number of upvotes cast for our comments, or other people's comments in response to us directly in the user profile in either the activity tab or the response tab respectively. It should be quite easy to implement (e.g. sharing a single partial view for displaying comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be useful, since we can evaluate the legitimacy of the comment and address horrible mistakes sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-10T08:53:07.690" LastActivityDate="2011-07-10T17:32:40.303" Title="Display the Number of Comment Upvotes In Recent Activity Pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="38288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T18:18:17.450" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was pointed out to me today that I don't need to copy and paste the Æ in &quot;Æther&quot; to respond to her comments, the system accepts &quot;Aether&quot; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know if this is a special case for the Æ character, or if the comment notification system has a unicode (or other character set) translation table to support this feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;ü&quot; would be another character, for instance, that might be translated to the equivalent english character. (as well as the o and a umlauts)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not asking for a change, just want to make sure I'm not doing unnecessary work when replying to comments by understanding the system.  My search-fu is weak, as I was unable to find a prior discussion on this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T06:16:48.677" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T06:16:48.677" Title="Comment notification special characters" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;languages&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38290" CreationDate="2010-02-04T18:22:05.743" Score="12" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/119919/kryton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow. I recently decided to change the name on my profile. I did this, &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; I made a spelling mistake! I wrote &quot;Kryton&quot; instead of &quot;Kryten&quot;! When I tried to fix this, a message came back saying that I can only change my profile name every 30 days. Why? Is there any way I can fix my profile name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142843" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-09T03:14:44.010" LastActivityDate="2010-10-09T03:14:44.010" Title="Why can I only change my Stack Overflow profile once every 30 days?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38289" CreationDate="2010-02-04T18:24:59.840" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com to correct this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also attempt to change your profile on another site, and then copy the profile to stackoverflow on your user account page.  I don't know if this will work, but if it does please report back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change and discussion surrounding it is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29966/can-we-restrict-the-ability-of-users-to-keep-changing-their-names&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29966/can-we-restrict-the-ability-of-users-to-keep-changing-their-names&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might consider changing this to a &quot;feature-request&quot; and asking that a grace period of 5 minutes be allowed for typos and such when one does change their name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T18:31:42.820" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T18:31:42.820" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38289" CreationDate="2010-02-04T18:33:29.070" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29196/should-you-be-allowed-to-change-your-handle-in-so/29257#29257&quot;&gt;after a two-day grace period for new users, one display name change allowed every 30 days.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;The owner ♦&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to that question and explain your problem. Some of us are hoping that he sees some of the problem arisen from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T18:33:29.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T18:37:10.950" Score="6" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to have the ability to take an users profile on StackOverflow and run a query to see our interactions in the past. Like if he (or she) comments on a question of mine, or I answered a question of theirs, that would show up in the cross section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One use case for the cross section query is to help with the moderator voting that is currently in progress. Looking over the moderators nominees I recognize familiar names, but I honestly can't recall our interactions in the past or if those interactions were pleasant. Using the tool that I am proposing you could run a query against the nominee and see where in the past your paths have intersected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20774" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:07:55.137" Title="Ablity to cross section users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38250" CreationDate="2010-02-04T18:46:47.760" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great idea. Perhaps a short paragraph of text could be displayed on the tag pages themselves (i.e. any page whose URL starts with &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/...&lt;/code&gt; - searches and stats alike), with the option to collaboratively edit this text opened up to any user who has more than N upvotes in that tag (say 200?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T18:46:47.760" />
  <row Id="38294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38292" CreationDate="2010-02-04T18:49:57.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be great for when you know someone had answer or comment you liked, but you can't remember which question to look under for it.  The &lt;strong&gt;user:&lt;/strong&gt; advanced search feature is limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T18:49:57.333" />
  <row Id="38295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38292" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:04:44.413" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But I don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to be cross sectioned! It sounds painful, and messy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:04:44.413" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38292" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:07:55.137" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is too social for SOFU. The focus here should be on the quality of the questions and answers, and not the interactions with other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your point about the mod elections is valid, but just looking at the candidate's activity in general should do the trick (not just where you were also involved).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:07:55.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:11:10.187" Score="16" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the first time, I've created &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/meta_stack_overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;statistics graphs for &lt;code&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Here's a couple of the distinctive &quot;this must be meta&quot; graphs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3af.AAAAAAAAAAGqAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP.OiAAMTAAAAAAAAAAT.AAAAn.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaqAAHHLEJsKMOwL5PgMORaSJNHTnQ9MfRxcFbTmUcJkzY.a7iRhHjpzuvSlalUrMgmkG&amp;amp;chtt=Closed%20questions%20by%20week&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|0%|40%|1%3a|%204%20Aug%202008|25%20Jan%202010&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=20&amp;amp;chd=e%3aAAADAvCgZ2..pyW6LxGcEKBxBgBTBdBLAY&amp;amp;chtt=Time%20to%20first%20answer&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|1s|2s|7s|20s|54s|2m|6m|18m|49m|2h|6h|16h|1d|5d|13d|37d|102d|1%3a|0|34%&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of the graphs are disrupted a bit prior to the date when meta was introduced; this is because of all the old migrated questions from SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Updated stats pages for the whole trilogy are &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-17T00:52:33.327" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T00:52:33.327" Title="Meta Stack Overflow statistics graphs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38250" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:11:36.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on any tag. Then scroll down the page, until you find a section on the right labeled, &quot;Related Tags&quot;. In most cases, the first tags listed therein describe the tag you originally clicked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/groovy&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;groovy&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Related tags: grails, java, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/boost&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;boost&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Related tags: c++, stl, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best part about this is that it doesn't take any extra work to establish and maintain this information: if questions are tagged appropriately, tag relationships can be established automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1195/create-a-tag-homepage-faq&quot;&gt;Create a tag homepage/FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:11:36.067" />
  <row Id="38299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39033" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:20:40.117" Score="2" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found that using the feature Jeff describes &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35597/search-with-and-operator/35644#35644&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; searching on words works great, but when it first comes up it's on the 'relevance' tab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3434/search1d.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when I hit the 'newest' tab, it loses the &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;, so I have to manually modify the url to get the 'newest' tab on an AND search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6961/search2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like search could be implemented to keep the &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;  I've removed the display components that some people couldn't handle, and have added the freehand circles, though frankly I'm burnt out on that meme, since people have decided they'll now downvote if you don't have them.  When a meme get's pushed that far, it's no fun anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T05:03:34.097" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T06:39:00.693" Title="Search not keeping AND when changing tabs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20823" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:23:57.113" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like nothing has changed in the last four months on Github - are you aware of any further progress on this outside of Github?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:23:57.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:52:08.390" Score="15" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is (currently) &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1024/tags-on-answers&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14241/add-the-ability-to-tag-an-answer-differently-than-the-question&quot;&gt;possible&lt;/a&gt; to tag answers. Yet, if I query the data dump using &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt;, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310870/use-of-prototype-vs-this-in-javascript/310914#310914&quot;&gt;one answer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have a tag, namely &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt;. I'm at a loss: how did that happen?&lt;sup&gt;&amp;dagger;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Id, Tag FROM Posts, PostsTags &#xA;WHERE Posts.PostTypeId = 2 AND Posts.Id = PostsTags.PostId&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The are also five answers (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/176/apache-php-error-log-per-virtual-host/207#207&quot;&gt;207&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/935/string-literals-and-escape-characters-in-postgresql/936#936&quot;&gt;936&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194/upgrading-sql-server-6-5/950#950&quot;&gt;950&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/111102/how-does-a-javascript-closure-work/111111#111111&quot;&gt;111111&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/512266/java-multiply-operation-behavior/512673#512673&quot;&gt;512673&lt;/a&gt;) with a view count of 1 instead of 0:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT Id, ViewCount FROM Posts WHERE PostTypeId = 2 AND ViewCount &amp;lt;&amp;gt; 0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackQL does not use the newest release of the data dump, but I verified that these results also hold for the most recent release (January 10).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;sup&gt;&amp;dagger;&lt;/sup&gt;: &lt;code&gt;PostTypeId = 2&lt;/code&gt; means that the post is an answer, not a question (&lt;code&gt;PostTypeId = 1&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T21:23:17.170" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T21:23:17.170" Title="The mystery of the tagged answer - and more" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="38306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38305" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:54:59.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not possible through the interface, but you are talking about a database, that can be manipulated directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely a test they did in the past, that they forgot to remove&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:54:59.133" />
  <row Id="38307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38305" CreationDate="2010-02-04T19:58:40.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That post points to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/310870/use-of-prototype-vs-this-in-javascript/310914#310914&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T19:58:40.467" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4528" CreationDate="2010-02-04T20:14:21.820" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’d like to point out an example scenario which demonstrates the utility of assists. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2189142/getting-short-filename-of-command-line-argument-from-batch-file/2202790#2202790&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I asked for help to correctly get a command-line argument. The two posted answers were not useful, but the two comments (to the question itself) did give me a nudge in the right direction. As a result of the two comments, I did some testing and found the solution myself. I figured the correct action to take was to post the final answer myself since none of the existing answers were applicable. However, the most that I could do to credit the two people who helped (ie &lt;em&gt;assisted&lt;/em&gt;) was to up-vote their comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that an assist feature could be helpful in the this situation—like ExpertsExchange has—(though I’m sure that someone can probably explain why even in this scenario it is unnecessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131979" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:14:21.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37090" CreationDate="2010-02-04T20:30:21.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am interested in a feature...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would this improve stackoverflow questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, all it will do is provide a communication path for people to complain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What good purpose does it serve&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What do you expect the outcome to be (both positive and negative)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What evidence do you have that the purpose will be served, and the outcome will be more positive than negative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I believe people worry too much about downvotes.  Yes, it would be nice to know why, but what would that accomplish, other than starting many arguments that won't actually result in a better question or answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:30:21.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38310" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T20:29:04.247" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&#xA;all i hear is that openId works like a SSO for the whole internet. Ok, how do i the following:&#xA;I am on a site (not stackoverflow), and i am logged in with my openId-URL. Now i want to ask a question on stackoverflow and click a link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;. As i understand all this openid i should be logged in directly on stackoverflow. But instead i have to login again with my openId-URL on stackoverflow. So where is the SSO?&#xA;Do i need some parameters on the url or something special to make it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maxHeadroom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:42:31.363" Title="How can i login directly on stackoverflow with openid?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38310" CreationDate="2010-02-04T20:31:17.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it's an authentication system, but it's not like you can just walk around. It's more like a doorman that stops you at every door, but recognizes that ID card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140561" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:31:44.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38310" CreationDate="2010-02-04T20:42:26.327" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on your openid provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, your path might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to somesite, use openID to login&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That website calls up your openid provider to see if you are who you say you are&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Your openid provider makes you log in with a username and password&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Your openid provider then tells the website that you are a-ok with them&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The website lets you in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if your provider supports caching of credentials for 24 hours, then on the same computer shortly after logging in you might do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to some &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; website, use openid to login&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That website calls up your openid provider to see if you are who you say you are&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Your openid provider &lt;strong&gt;finds the cached credentials&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Your openid provider then tells the website that you are a-ok with them&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The website lets you in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second situation you still had to log in to the second website with openid, but you didn't have to provide username and password because you already did that once earlier in the day, and the provider caches the credentials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if you move to another computer, wait for the cache to expire, or if your provider doean't cache the credentials, then you'll have to log in with your username and password.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But regardless, you'll have to tell the website who your openid provider is and/or your personal openid URL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow and other websites may cache your provider info separately as well, so they might help you sidestep some of that process, but fundamentally openID does not save you from signing in to each website, it only saves you from having to have a separate username and password for each website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:42:26.327" />
  <row Id="38313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38310" CreationDate="2010-02-04T20:42:31.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not possible because sending a openid and password in a query string is surely not secure. It's not a global login system where you login once and suddenly you are logged in for all of the internet. Cookies prevent this because a cookie can only be read from the domain it is generated fro&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:42:31.363" />
  <row Id="38314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38305" CreationDate="2010-02-04T20:47:56.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this be a sub product of an hypothetical question/answer merge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, this might be a good old plain bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T20:47:56.623" />
  <row Id="38315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T21:29:44.580" Score="0" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has the Stack Overflow crew considered partnering with other existing, more traditional forums to support open ended discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand Stack Overflow is strictly a Q&amp;amp;A site. We all know the drill. We also all know that when a more 'discussion-y' question is asked it's either coerced into Community Wiki mode or out right closed by the moderators. And that's fair enough I suppose but sometimes a question is open ended or spawns many, many comments. With Stack Overflow's lack of threads it can be difficult to follow anything of length. So, on to the my feature request!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Partner with other forums such as Reddit (stackoverflow.reddit.com?) so if open discussion is wanted it can happen &lt;strong&gt;easily&lt;/strong&gt;. And by easily I mean provide a link on each question page saying something like &quot;Open an official discussion at $forum_name&quot;, or if the discussion was already opened then &quot;Join the official discussion at $forum_name&quot;. And of course on the forum posts provide a link back to the SO question for reference. When clicking the outgoing link a bunch of heavy lifting is automatically taken care of such as signing into the forum (As who? Obviously that will have to be figured out) and filling in the various post fields with data from the question and submitting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to which forums would be official partners I only came up with Slashdot and Reddit as possible candidates but I imagine that there should be a number to choose from depending on the topic of the question. Select the best forum for the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key part is to still let SO be really good at Q&amp;amp;A and still let the various forums be really good at being forums while providing a little bit of official integration between the two. Additionally if the discussion devolves into nothing worth while then it's only related to SO and not actually a part of it. No harm, no foul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the risk of making this sound too 'discussion-y', what do you people think? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS, And on second thought maybe this would be better implemented as a browser plugin or Greasemonkey script. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PPS, Or perhaps the focus should be a little narrower. One of the options for closing a question could be to migrate it to a forum area. That way the Q&amp;amp;A isn't polluted with discussion questions and the actually discussion could be isolated to a discussion area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59180" LastEditorUserId="59180" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T17:53:14.847" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T17:53:14.847" Title="Partner with &quot;traditional&quot; forums to support open ended discussions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="38316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T21:31:19.987" Score="11" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the SO staff we have the awesome new feature of being notified when our name is said in a comment on someone else's post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the rules getting posted everywhere: (can we put them in an faq possibly?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only applies to other people in the comments that you are commenting on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Response must include @username that you are referring to, where &quot;username&quot; is a reasonable match to the user's current display name (as seen in the comments above yours).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There must be a starts-with, case insensitive match of at least THREE characters to the displayname. So @a and @ab will never match anyone or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces cannot be used to match, so if the person's display name is &quot;Peter Smith&quot; then just use @peter or @petersmith to match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if there are five people named &quot;John&quot; in the comments, writing &quot;hey @john, have you considered apples?&quot; will match the most recent John to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only one person can be replied to at a time in a comment. The first one &quot;in&quot; wins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;...is a reasonable match to the user's current display name...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; How is this implemented? I want to make sure I'm notified of any @responses, and if my username isn't optimal for this I will definitely change it. (for example, will @Crazy match my username?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T00:06:31.100" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T01:00:03.287" Title="How exactly are @replies matched to usernames? Can I make my username easier to @reply to?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36590" CreationDate="2010-02-04T21:34:59.840" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Windows automation languages (on Stack Overflow and Server Fault):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PowerShell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VBScript&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Batch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt; If you notices discrepancies regarding the numbers for previously posted graphs and these ones, that's because these two are the first graphs based on the February 2010 data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,71.36,60.45,6.36,7.27,9.09,3.18&amp;amp;chco=F4A83D,9A4444,75845C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Stack%20Overflow&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=powershell%20%28220%29|vbscript%20%28157%29|batch%20%28133%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=v&amp;amp;chd=t:100.00,5.45,9.09,5.45,1.82,1.82,1.82&amp;amp;chco=164464,F3F1D9,E8272C&amp;amp;chtt=Community%20sizes%20on%20Server%20Fault&amp;amp;chs=300x200&amp;amp;chdl=powershell%20%2855%29|vbscript%20%283%29|batch%20%285%29&amp;amp;chdlp=b&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131247" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T06:49:51.463" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T06:49:51.463" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-04T21:34:59.840" />
  <row Id="38318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38315" CreationDate="2010-02-04T21:36:18.713" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not opposed as such, but why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why add any complexity to the interface here when people interested in holding discussions could post on one of those other sites in the first place, or could settle on a place to move the question in the comments or ..., or ..., or ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T21:36:18.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38315" CreationDate="2010-02-04T21:46:57.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a rather bad idea. You're basically proposing the complete &lt;strong&gt;fragmentation of discussions&lt;/strong&gt; on the site. We already have comments, @replies, it should normally be ok. Adding a new site into the mix would be awful; most users &lt;strong&gt;don't know/care&lt;/strong&gt; that there's anything beyond the site they use (SO/SF/SU). When you migrate a question you might as well delete it, it's gone to them. So sending a whole discussion to another site would hurt even more. It would also rupture the community and confuse users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system has worked up to now, why change it for a small minority of questions? If it works 99% of the time, it's more than fine. Take meta as an example; it's mostly a discussion site. It works without the need to go offsite or require nesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T21:46:57.800" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38316" CreationDate="2010-02-04T22:01:35.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;...is a reasonable match to the user's current display name...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; How is this implemented? I want to make sure I'm notified of any @responses, and if my username isn't optimal for this I will definitely change it. (for example, will @Crazy match my username?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, yes it will. It will match the last user that matches the first three characters after a &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;. I'm not exactly sure about a username like  &lt;code&gt;pi sqr&lt;/code&gt; if &lt;code&gt;@pi s&lt;/code&gt; would match, as spaces are taken into account, but haven't tried it, and it's rather hard now to change usernames to try it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T22:01:35.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38315" CreationDate="2010-02-04T22:03:00.510" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And on second thought maybe this would be better implemented as a browser plugin or Greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yup. There's no reason why any question (or answer...) on SO couldn't be submitted to, say, Reddit. But there's rarely any reason to do so, and putting that directly into the SO UI would only serve as a distraction in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T22:03:00.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38315" CreationDate="2010-02-04T22:30:42.363" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow &lt;strong&gt;proposes to end&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;traditional forums to support open ended discussion.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very existence of Stack Overflow is based on the premise that these threaded systems don't work. Or at least that &lt;strong&gt;they certainly don't scale.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it depends on what your needs are. Stack Overflow is focused on asking questions and getting quick, accurate, and timely answers. It might seem to make sense on the surface that promoting more discussions would be a wonderful thing. &lt;strong&gt;But it's an oil and water thing.&lt;/strong&gt; One does not promote the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/2009/11/02/the-chat-roomforum-problem-an-apology-to-technosailor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Chat Room/Forum Problem&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;by Robert Scoble&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, while you're reading, take a look at this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Group is its Own Worst Enemy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;by Clay Shirky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you'll find is more conversation isn't necessarily better. When you have a site where you come to find answers, it's worse. Much worse. The more people involved in a &quot;conversation,&quot; the more noise each new connection will bring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ultimate fail for threaded discussions is that more conversations you get involved in the less you are learning. And, with Stack Overflow, the very &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt; of the system stops working. Old users get bored. New users get frustrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and the whole thing devolves into just another giant mess-of-a phpBB forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36818/would-you-recommend-stackexchange-sites-vs-other-types-of-forum/36828#36828&quot;&gt;Would You Recommend [Stack Overflow] or a Traditional Forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-04T23:03:28.403" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T23:03:28.403" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-04T22:47:18.957" Score="3" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36591/question-asked-in-future&quot;&gt;Question asked in future?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2203659/regex-to-detect-leading-zeros-and-check-the-lenght-from-0-to-12-digits/2203672#2203672&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; while it was deleted, and it said, &lt;code&gt;edited in 2 seconds&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obligatory freehand circle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5113/editedin2seconds.png&quot; alt=&quot;edited in 2 seconds&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T00:17:37.330" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T00:17:37.330" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T23:50:09.217" Title="Edited in 2 seconds?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;edit&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-02-04T22:59:08.837" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that it supports the proposal, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats-SO.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill's SO stats graphs&lt;/a&gt; (scroll to the last graph) show that the majority of questions have accepted answers within an hour of posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: question &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38297/meta-stack-overflow-statistics-graphs&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow statistics graphs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T22:59:08.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38327" CreationDate="2010-02-04T23:07:12.560" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28402/no-reputation-for-upvote-given&quot;&gt;No reputation for upvote given?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29716/recent-activity-vote-counts-are-missing-corrupt&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Recent activity&amp;rdquo; vote counts are missing/corrupt&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked the envelope next to my username to check what was going on, and saw this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5215/norep.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2203663/return-a-reference-to-an-instance-of-an-object-in-php&quot;&gt;the question this was an answer to&lt;/a&gt; nor &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2203663/return-a-reference-to-an-instance-of-an-object-in-php/2203693#2203693&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; are marked community wiki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142859" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T23:10:14.380" ClosedDate="2010-02-04T23:31:02.693" Title="Got an upvote, but no reputation (no community wiki)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38326" CreationDate="2010-02-04T23:10:14.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually that's because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;you hit the rep cap for the day&lt;/a&gt;. Click the envelope next to your name and click on 'Today'. How much reputation have you gained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T23:10:14.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38329" CreationDate="2010-02-04T23:15:03.260" Score="4" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm based outside of the US, and yet the ads that I see on Stack Overflow are always for US based jobs.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is this because SO does not have advertisers outside of the US, or because SO has some setting (that I have have not discovered) that allows you to set your locale?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, get programmer job ads from other countries onto SO as well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138717" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T00:16:35.100" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T00:16:35.100" Title="Ads on Stack Overflow for jobs outside of US" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38328" CreationDate="2010-02-04T23:30:31.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I take it you are referring to these job ads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6389/jobs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;obligatory hand drawn circle screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, you can go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; to see all of the jobs. Most of them are US based, which is why you see US-based jobs so often. There is no setting to change your locale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it would be nice to see more jobs outside the US, but it is really down to who pays to advertise their job vacancy and where the job is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, if you read the jobs board &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?pg=pgFAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, it says that the advert is only shown for 21 days, meaning that even if there are jobs outside of the US, they soon disappear from the listings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116923" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T23:30:31.587" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38339" CreationDate="2010-02-04T23:52:06.343" Score="5" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the faq does say no question is too small and I haven't found this question asked elsewhere so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest the introduction of icons for the badges, as seen in Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source or even Kongregate. Imagine your favourite badge transformed with a colourful and amusing image!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a community as large and diverse as this one, we ought to be able to come up with some decent badge icons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What say ye?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: How about them apples? (Just a sample of what's possible..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/708d33b019.jpg&quot;&gt; Commentor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/e367b04bbe.jpg&quot;&gt; Epic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142697" LastEditorUserId="142697" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T04:10:17.967" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:10:17.967" Title="Graphical Badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37857" CreationDate="2010-02-04T23:54:58.863" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per my comment, my suggestion for the text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First to answer and accepted with at least 10 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not too verbose, but still pretty clear IMUEO&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* In My Un-Enlightened Opinion&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T23:54:58.863" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38330" CreationDate="2010-02-04T23:57:22.943" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My eyes are already bleeding&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastActivityDate="2010-02-04T23:57:22.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38330" CreationDate="2010-02-05T00:10:29.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason, this reminded me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmS_hMnFNVM#t=1m12s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a scene from &lt;em&gt;Time Bandits&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. View last few seconds starting from about 1:12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T00:13:31.003" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T00:13:31.003" />
  <row Id="38334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38330" CreationDate="2010-02-05T00:15:35.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't sound real useful even for visual effect, since the badges are only seen when you look at your profile page or the badge page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T00:15:35.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38316" CreationDate="2010-02-05T00:20:16.463" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to make super easy to get all the notifications under this notation, and to curb other users from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38007/could-comment-notification-also-add-ends-with-as-a-test&quot; title=&quot;wrenched!&quot;&gt;throwing your name around&lt;/a&gt;, simply change your DisplayName to a three-letter word. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No more @Juggler or @Drummer which you would miss because they reference you that way since it's part of your DisplayName and how they talk to people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you changed your name to CJD, that will remove all temptation for their reference preference and future replies to @cjd sets you up for the notifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T00:20:16.463" />
  <row Id="38336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38330" CreationDate="2010-02-05T00:22:56.333" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We do have a very large community here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of programmers, system administrators and computer power users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I'd count too heavily on this community for engaging, attractive, consistent (from a design language perspective) graphical icons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you want a bunch of awesome freehand MS Paint art, you are totally in the right place. Freehand circles and arrows FTW!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T00:22:56.333" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38288" CreationDate="2010-02-05T00:37:24.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds to me like &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/01/15/1469885.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQL Server Collation&lt;/a&gt; at work. Go Stack Overflow team; the discovery of this makes my life (and I'm sure many others') much easier!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T00:37:24.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T01:04:35.117" Score="-7" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;So Mr Jeff Atwood decides to completely change my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/37818/revisions&quot; title=&quot;trail&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; title&lt;/a&gt;. And that was after it was changed by another person. I find this act annoying and disingenuous. I understand some people didn't like what I said and the post was voted down many times. But does every questions have to be &quot;nice&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I too have an opinion to make. Or is this not a free area? Is every person with enough reputation here to make every post look pretty? The new title does not correctly convey my intent. The question wasn't about fonts in particular. It was about why some good questions get closed in general. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4689/recommended-fonts-for-programming-closed&quot; title=&quot;what the font?&quot;&gt;The fonts question&lt;/a&gt; was just an example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I feel some people don't know how to use the extra power they have. &#xA;How would Jeff feel if I changed one of his question's title according to what I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; should be proper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you trust a post by someone when it has been edited to serve the publisher? &#xA;I think I should just ask technical questions and stay away from politics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T01:30:23.730" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T03:42:28.907" ClosedDate="2010-02-05T08:51:46.857" Title="Is editing someone else's question's title completely justified and proper or self serving?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38330" CreationDate="2010-02-05T01:06:25.687" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I feel that the beauty of the badges is in their names. Some are very creative and others are well, some may say abstract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as part of me is curious/excited to see how the graphical badges might turn out, I feel that it will dilute the names' impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having say that, maybe someone can come out with a couple 'prototype' graphical badges that can swing my vote. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Added dboarman's recommendation&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img197/8514/badgeideas.png?0.6349713410095544&quot; alt=&quot;some badges from dboarman&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T02:07:31.617" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T02:07:31.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38338" CreationDate="2010-02-05T01:16:24.277" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to your question is in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;does every questions has to be 'nice'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Be Nice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And as for the rest of your question, I think you need to lose the feeling of ownership of the questions you ask.  They are not yours!  Every question you ask become part of the SO community for everyone's benefit.  Yes you may get some rep points for contributing a good question or providing a good answer, but in the end the purpose of the entire site is to be a resource for programmers/sysadmins/superusers everywhere to be able to find answer to common, and not so common, questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T01:20:22.693" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T01:20:22.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38338" CreationDate="2010-02-05T01:20:33.987" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the title on the question, changing it was totally justified. If you cannot ask your question civilly, perhaps you should not be asking it at all.  Let's all try to be adults, mmkay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today must be quote from the FAQ day, because this clause also applies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your posts being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&amp;lt;wistful&amp;gt;If only we had some of the close reasons &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38215/not-a-real-question-on-meta/38221#38221&quot;&gt;proposed here&lt;/a&gt;, the discussion would now be over.&amp;lt;/wistful&amp;gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T01:30:34.680" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T01:30:34.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38338" CreationDate="2010-02-05T01:21:21.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roll it Back.  That is the power you have. (and you'll get a badge if you haven't gotten it yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T01:21:21.770" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38330" CreationDate="2010-02-05T01:35:44.887" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see graphical badges on some of the Stack Exchange sites -- epic advice and VFX overflow come to mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I fully support this kind of customization for SE, I am not sure it really fits well with the highly-text oriented, no frills nature of the trilogy at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T01:35:44.887" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36591" CreationDate="2010-02-05T02:03:33.997" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I see one of this bugs I'm reminded of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Isaac Asimov&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;sub&gt;(Can't seem to find it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?68253&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;online&lt;/a&gt;, sadly)&lt;/sub&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Asimov's writing, &lt;strong&gt;thiotimoline is notable for the fact that when it is mixed with water, the chemical actually begins to break down before it contacts the water&lt;/strong&gt;. This is explained by the fact that in the thiotimoline molecule, there is at least one carbon atom such that, while two of the carbon's four chemical bonds lie in normal space and time, one of the bonds projects into the future and another into the past. Thiotimoline is derived from the bark of the (fictitious) shrub Rosacea Karlsbadensis rufo, and the thiotimoline molecule includes at least fourteen hydroxy groups, two amino groups, and one sulfonic acid group, and possibly one nitro compound group as well. The nature of the hydrocarbon nucleus is unknown, although it seems in part to be an aromatic hydrocarbon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T02:13:59.603" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T02:13:59.603" />
  <row Id="38351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38338" CreationDate="2010-02-05T02:48:39.527" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing is one of the single best features of SOFU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you think someone who closes is a question about programming fonts is a Nazi, you don't know what a Nazi is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T03:42:28.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37651" CreationDate="2010-02-05T03:26:12.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://otac0n.com/StackOverflow/flair/2.png?site=forceclose.com&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is really good. I would really like the source code so I could integrate this into &lt;A href=&quot;http://forceclose.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Force Close&lt;/a&gt; (my StackExchange site). Is there any way I can obtain it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T03:26:12.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-05T03:26:12.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T03:49:11.760" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make comments from original poster stand out. Use different light background color than white. Like what happens with accepted answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T04:29:40.247" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:29:40.247" Title="Make comments from original poster stand out. Use different background color" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38363" CreationDate="2010-02-05T03:51:46.933" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The poster's name already appears in a different style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T03:51:46.933" />
  <row Id="38365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38363" CreationDate="2010-02-05T03:54:44.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. There are already too many colored backgrounds on questions. There's a background for the OP's question signature, for signatures on any answers the OP posted, and for any comments the OP might have authored. And also for tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all just &lt;em&gt;too much&lt;/em&gt;. I'd rather see more superfluous lines and boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T03:54:44.120" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38367" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T04:21:12.653" Score="0" ViewCount="37" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;How about making it possible to set up bounty on someone else&amp;rsquo;s question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing a &lt;strong&gt;difficult and interesting&lt;/strong&gt; question, in which its owner is not myself, &lt;strong&gt;without an accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt;, it would be interesting anyone offers a bounty because of, as you know, you can not duplicate the same question. This way, if its owner do not offer a bounty, how can i get an interesting and useful answer ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136678" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:21:12.653" ClosedDate="2010-02-05T04:23:55.567" Title="To add a bounty to a question that does not belong to me" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38315" CreationDate="2010-02-05T04:37:58.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we need free-form discussions for the reasons Robert mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do think an editorial layer on top of the Q&amp;amp;A is a good thing, and a highly complementary curated editorial &quot;yin&quot; to our freeform user-generated &quot;yang&quot; -- like the relationship between &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtogeek.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://howtogeek.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T07:04:21.280" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T07:04:21.280" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-25T08:22:30.397" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;After posting 7 questions on StackOverflow, and various searching on YouTube and other sites, as well as input from several colleagues, I have been able to solve my issues with PHP, Dreamweaver CS3, Xampp, and the ability to test the use of PHP includes on my localhost server. It took approximately 1 week to gather all the information necessary to actually get it up and running smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering if there is a place here on StackOverflow where someone such as myself might provide/post a somewhat comprehensive solution to this problem for someone in the future so that they don't have to ask 7 questions on the site and seek a weeks worth of assistance from various other sources, as I have needed to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I respect the process here, as it has been helpful to me. Just wondering how we might go about contributing larger suggestions on how to solve bigger problems such as integrating a number of elements together, as was the case here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be acceptable to just post my final solution, rather than asking a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:01.980" Title="Posting Complete Solutions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="38370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38369" CreationDate="2008-11-25T08:23:49.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way to do this, is to ask the question and answer it yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151167" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:01.980" />
  <row Id="38371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38369" CreationDate="2008-11-25T08:25:54.447" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask the question, then answer it yourself.  Have your answer ready, and paste it in quick to avoid people wasting time.  Better yet, include the fact that you'll be self answering in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:01.980" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38369" CreationDate="2008-11-25T09:27:05.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a blog it might be a very good place to go for a detailed problem and solution description. You can link to the questions here on SO and to other sources from the blog post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't have a blog, this is the perfect excuse to start one :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:01.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38369" CreationDate="2008-11-25T09:54:54.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to avoid the charges of 'Reputation Harvesting' when posting answers to your own question, mark the question as 'Community Wiki'. Maybe the site should do this automatically if the question writer is the first to post an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skizz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:01.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38369" CreationDate="2008-11-25T10:05:54.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it happened to me in my first question, when none of the answers were really what I was looking for. Eventually I continued to google and read some relevant reference material until I found the answer for myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted the answer to my question, but the thing is, I can't &quot;accept&quot; my own answer!!! so  when I had enough points, I just closed the question and edited it to put the answer as a part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:01.980" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-09T03:42:11.237" Score="8" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, I've been seeing some pretty liberal definitions of &quot;exact duplicate&quot; in some people closing SO questions.  If I recall correctly, Jeff had intended to make it so that there were loose rules on closing duplicate questions.  So I had always assumed that an exact duplicate was meant to be... well... an exact duplicate.  So that if someone were to accidentally double-post a question, the second one would be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extremely similar topics should be posted in the thread itself.  If I wanted to be berated for not utilizing search better, I'd go post on usenet.  Now I realize that people who close threads don't &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; to berate people.  But it's difficult not to take offense at having a thread closed as a duplicate, and I feel that this may chase newbies away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is your interpretation of &quot;exact duplicate?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:23:49.407" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:23:49.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T03:42:11.237" Title="What is an exact duplicate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="38376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38375" CreationDate="2008-12-09T03:45:30.903" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Exact duplicate&quot; to me means a question that will generate the same answer as another  previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a question is closed as an exact duplicate, there should be a link to the older question.  If it isn't really a duplicate, someone can reopen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130940" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:30.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T03:45:30.903" />
  <row Id="38377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38375" CreationDate="2008-12-09T03:47:36.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I closed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/350861/what-bad-practice-do-you-do-and-why&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt; question because it has the same answers as the other two questions just like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:30.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T03:47:36.967" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38375" CreationDate="2008-12-09T03:47:54.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the questions are semantically the same even though they don't use exactly the same words then I would consider them to be duplicates, though perhaps not exact duplicates.  I realize that I probably have a different opinion on this subject than Jeff since he reopened a question of his that I had closed for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:30.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T03:47:54.347" />
  <row Id="38379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38375" CreationDate="2008-12-09T04:00:31.857" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason I close them as a dupe is if I find an earlier question to which nothing substantial is added by the new question. This evaluation, unfortunately, varies with how much sleep I had the night before :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As more and more (what I consider) rubbish, rep-seeking questions appear on SO, it devalues its usefulness in my opinion, so I tend to close for other reasons as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like &quot;Do you have a widescreen monitor?&quot; (yes or no are the only possible answers, which one is &lt;strong&gt;right&lt;/strong&gt; and how does this relate specifically to programming rather than, say, running Word?) and &quot;How do you meet a partner when you're working 80-hour weeks?&quot; - I mean, who really gives a XXXX? I thought SO was to be for programming questions, not some &quot;Dear Abbey&quot; column for the terminally lovestruck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting to the point where I'd like to shut down every question that can't be answered with either an algorithm or code snippet, but my votes are, of course, limited (that's a good thing, I assure you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By all means, if you disagree, vote me down. If enough of you get together, you can take away my power to close questions altogether (that's not a dare or a challenge by the way, I'd rather you leave me alone :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:53:30.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-09T04:00:31.840" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-28T23:35:47.290" Score="1" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I replied to a post.  It was the first reply.  The post wasn't very clear and I made a guess as to what the OP wanted.  It appeared that he didn't understand array indexes.  However, as the question &quot;evolved&quot; or was edited to become clearer, my answer slowly became irrelavent and to someone just browsing it may appear irrelavent.  I'm guessing that's why someone downvoted it.  Now, I don't care too much about voting or scoring, but I do care about answers becoming obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If questions can be modified and there is no active &quot;conversation&quot; of that modification it can be misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does StackOverflow prevent &quot;evolving post syndrome.&quot;  Maybe allow the answers to be tagged as no longer relevant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/396521/is-there-a-cleaner-syntax-for-applying-an-operation-to-each-element-of-a-sequen#396534&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/396521/is-there-a-cleaner-syntax-for-applying-an-operation-to-each-element-of-a-sequen#396534&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:54:32.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-28T23:35:47.290" Title="Evolving questions and voting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="38381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38380" CreationDate="2008-12-28T23:41:58.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess one existing mechanism is for those with 2000+ reputation point to make updates to the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do agree. On StackOverflow, there is a problem that the &quot;Question - Answer&quot; format (intentionally) does not contain discussions well, whereas comments are often not read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution might be more aggressive deletions of the weaker answer to declutter things. The other is more aggressive edits to the answers. Both can be done within the current framework and only require behavioral changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:54:32.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-28T23:41:58.167" />
  <row Id="38382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38380" CreationDate="2008-12-28T23:46:48.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see all edited versions of the question. &#xA;When the question change some answers will not fit and will travel down the list. But I think the best way is to up-voting the more correct answers rather than down-voting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better to vote the correct one up than the not so correct down is my philosophy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138658" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:54:32.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-28T23:46:48.360" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38380" CreationDate="2008-12-29T00:14:43.670" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your answer is now irrelevant and or wrong, then you are encouraged to delete it; or make the appropriate edits (but only if you are adding additional value, if someone else has answered correctly, just delete your bad one). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its much better for a question to have a few correct answers, rather than a few correct answers &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; lots of downvoted incorrect answers, that just adds clutter for no good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10387" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:54:32.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T00:14:43.670" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38380" CreationDate="2008-12-29T00:44:03.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a weakness of the system.  It might be nice to have a feature which notifies you when questions you have answered are edited, but that could get spammy with minor edits, so then again it may not be so useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My tendency is to ask for clarification in a comment if I feel a question is poorly worded, even if I think I know what is being asked for.  Otherwise, be prepared to revisit your answer and delete or edit it, as others have suggested.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent of the site is that people will monitor their own answers and modify/delete them as appropriate.  It's unlikely that high-rep users will delete your answer, as that requires a lot of effort making inferences as to the state of the question at the time when you answered it, and guessing about your preferences as to whether it should be deleted.  From what I've seen, it's left up to you to delete answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T04:54:32.880" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-29T00:44:03.143" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T06:15:02.847" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a formal education so to overcompensate on my traditional resume I have a section at the top that lists out all my proficiencies along with how many years of experience I have with that skill. I have been frequently complimented on this because it gives hiring managers a good overview of my skill set. It would be nice to have a similar feature on Careers. For the skills you could use SO tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:19:11.047" Title="Careers: give me a place to list my proficiencies and years of experience" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38388" CreationDate="2010-02-05T06:19:27.297" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren&amp;rsquo;t programming questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a video editor website to the tune of the SO family would be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142875" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T15:34:01.890" ClosedDate="2010-02-05T19:11:10.883" Title="SO for video editors?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38387" CreationDate="2010-02-05T06:21:10.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should start a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange Site&lt;/a&gt; for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange is basically the engine that StackOverflow, Meta, SuperUser and Serverfault all run on, but is able to be customized to whatever topic you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T06:21:10.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T06:31:59.960" Score="-4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27534/see-who-is-upvoting-downvoting-my-question-answer&quot;&gt;See Who is Upvoting/ Downvoting My Question/Answer&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I see which user(s) have upvoted or downvoted my questions and/or answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142541" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T06:49:19.903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T06:49:19.903" ClosedDate="2010-02-05T08:48:30.970" Title="Finding out who voted on my question or answer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38389" CreationDate="2010-02-05T06:33:50.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All votes are anonymous. Kind of like elections. That makes sure no one is pressured to vote a certain way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This acts in both a good and bad way. People can downvote posts that they think are bad. But, if someone thinks it is a good post, while a lot of other people think it is bad, they can upvote knowing that there is full anonymity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can see is the balance (&lt;code&gt;Upvotes - Downvotes = Balance&lt;/code&gt;), or when you get to 1,000 reputation, the breakdown of those. (&lt;code&gt;Upvotes&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;Downvotes&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T06:33:50.003" />
  <row Id="38402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38315" CreationDate="2010-02-05T09:54:19.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you're looking for... da, da, dah-DAH!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Sidewiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where you can go and shoehorn an extended discussion or other such mess on a particular question. And you won't be bothering those who don't want to join in on the frivolity. So, less haters. Possibly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T09:54:19.050" />
  <row Id="38403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21068" CreationDate="2010-02-05T10:17:21.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see this too - it's very annoying trying to find when I have further questioned an answer and have to recheck all q's manually to find updates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T10:17:21.650" />
  <row Id="38404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T10:27:01.673" Score="3" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31638/can-job-seekers-perform-searches-on-careers-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;this posting&lt;/a&gt; Jeff quite reasonably lays out that SO users and employers should keep themselves separated and that SO careers works because it's a quality offering charging honest fees for a genuine product. I'm not arguing with that general ethos ... but should there be a special case for the small request from proven SO users? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a contact approaches a trilogy user, knowing its their industry, and asks for advice on getting a bespoke app written. Obviously it will be one of the first thoughts: &quot;there must be someone on SO able to do the job&quot; ... but how to find them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a small one-off app (ignoring support questions), a $500 1-month sub to careers is out of the question. There's a budget, but that'll be a large chunk of it right there. A question on SO, even on meta, is obviously the wrong place, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while my rep isn't the highest, I have been around here long enough to have proven my loyalty to the crowd, but also for the crowd to have proven itself to me. So how might someone go about making a personal connection, or a careers type search for a project or short contract? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NB&lt;/strong&gt; this isn't a backward, thinly veiled, attempt to get someone to respond: it is a genuine question, albeit triggered by a real situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:37:30.883" Title="Searching on SO careers for someone - surely we are all special cases?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;contractor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38257" CreationDate="2010-02-05T10:44:45.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, some clarification of the rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only one display name change is allowed every 30 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user accounts less than 2 days old may change their displayname at will&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there is a 15 minute grace period after each change during which you may change your displayname at will&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T10:44:45.470" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38289" CreationDate="2010-02-05T11:03:22.383" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is now a 15 minute grace period after every displayname change during which displayname may be changed as often as you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T11:03:22.383" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11036" CreationDate="2010-02-05T11:05:24.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;not quite the same, but close: the reputation is available on mouseover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T11:05:24.093" />
  <row Id="38410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21068" CreationDate="2010-02-05T11:35:42.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be notified of all activity on any question that I post including comments to answers posted to my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we'll be doing this -- it seems excessive, as a lot of the comments may not be directed at you, but the answerers themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we do have @user style comment notifications now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T11:35:42.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T11:43:24.113" Score="1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37937/what-do-you-think-should-happen-when-the-500-000th-question-is-asked&quot;&gt;What do you think should happen when the 500,000th question is asked?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty soon the 500,000th question will be asked on Stack Overflow. I feel like this event should be celebrated or commemorated in some way. What are your ideas for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:18:53.917" ClosedDate="2010-02-05T12:33:12.017" Title="Coming up to half a million questions on Stack Overflow!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38415" CreationDate="2010-02-05T11:47:42.197" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I guess only he/she knows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's strange ... I got an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2201658/difference-between-nonserialized-and-xml-serialization-xmlignore&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; yesterday and it was a perfectly fine answer. And it was the only answer I had. Decided to wait a day before accepting it (per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28550/how-much-time-should-i-wait-before-accepting-a-response-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt;). So I log back in today and it's gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen answers deleted before if a &quot;better&quot; one has appeared or if there's a problem with the answer. However in this case ... no reason I can see to dump the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139495" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:09:42.817" Title="Why did user delete his answer to my question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38423" CreationDate="2010-02-05T11:49:57.887" Score="9" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example: a question is originally tagged &quot;jsp servlets&quot;. Is it fine to retag it to &quot;jsp servlets java&quot;. Same goes for the case when asking a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this will allow more people who are watching the &quot;java&quot; tag to see it and eventually be helpful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it will also mean that it will be &quot;uninteresting&quot; for others in the &quot;java&quot; tag who don't have experience with jsp or servlets.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it might be considered 'polluting' the &quot;java&quot; tag with questions that are only indirectly related to java (by virtue of being written in java)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&quot;java&quot; above is just an example, same goes for every language)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T15:37:00.833" Title="Is it fine to tag/retag questions on specific frameworks with a language tag?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-05T12:06:54.743" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://watir.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://watir001.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/watir-so.png&quot; alt=&quot;Watir, automated testing that doesn’t hurt. Looking for developers.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17469" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T04:09:03.613" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T04:09:03.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-05T12:06:54.743" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="38415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38412" CreationDate="2010-02-05T12:09:42.817" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who can't see the original answer, it indicated that the NonSerialized attribute couldn't be applied to fields because it was meant for binary serialization, which is only partly true and it looks like the answer was deleted after someone commented that it was incorrect.  I've added what, I think, is the correct answer -- XmlIgnore is only processed by an XmlSerializer and if doing binary or SOAP serialization, you need to use NonSerialized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:09:42.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38413" CreationDate="2010-02-05T12:12:20.610" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that's probably fine, but more so because it's all part of the &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; development toolchain, rather than the java language specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:12:20.610" />
  <row Id="38417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38411" CreationDate="2010-02-05T12:18:53.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I for one will celebrating by treating myself to a day of programming and answering SO questions wearing just my pants and socks....watch out ladies!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:18:53.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38386" CreationDate="2010-02-05T12:19:11.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They may institute that, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001054.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it doesn't seem likely&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:19:11.047" />
  <row Id="38419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2010-02-05T12:35:21.660" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last night &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/5640/geoffrey-chetwood&quot;&gt;Rich B/Geoffrey Chetwood&lt;/a&gt; got suspended for a whole year. Extreme, don't you think? While some will surely not miss him, due to his confrontational nature, I'm a bit puzzled, but mostly &lt;strong&gt;worried&lt;/strong&gt; about what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking over his recent activity, I see no reason for such a suspension. Sure, people probably flagged him for simply being Rich B and answering back, but most of his comments and answers were tamer, more civil than his usual self. So why was he suspended? Shouldn't moderators see that some of those flags are unwarranted? I believe the system failed by suspending him without any explanations. What if you or I are next? It could happen; I'm sometimes more caustic than usual in the comments, some people don't like me and it's not that hard to get comments flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current suspension system is a &lt;strong&gt;black box&lt;/strong&gt;. Input goes in, suspensions come out. What happens in between is a total mystery. This is in stark contrast to what you read when you first join the community. Here's what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember, Stack Overflow is run by&#xA;  you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;Super User FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember, Super User is run by you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;Server Fault FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember, Server Fault is run by you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Meta FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, which is probably the most telling one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the high end of this reputation&#xA;  spectrum there is little difference&#xA;  between users with high reputation and&#xA;  moderators. That is very much&#xA;  intentional. &lt;strong&gt;We don't run Meta Stack&#xA;  Overflow. The community does.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, these were not just empty words, &lt;strong&gt;I actually believed in them&lt;/strong&gt;. Now I don't. This is sort of a final nail in the coffin; I know I'm powerless. If Jeff wants a user off the site, no one can do anything about it, no matter how much &quot;power&quot; the community has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one request. Make this suspension system just a little bit &lt;strong&gt;more open&lt;/strong&gt;. Allow moderators to join in, have a vote. &lt;strong&gt;Let no one have complete control&lt;/strong&gt; over what is probably the greatest power in the community. This would ensure that such decisions are not perceived as spiteful/vengeful/rash. Also, give clear reasons as to why a person has been suspended. There's no need to go into all the gory details, but a short sentence can sometimes be enough. Needless speculation is not what we want, neither is finger-pointing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T12:35:21.660" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="38421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T13:25:25.477" Score="7" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;A message in my careers message box has some hidden links that show as &amp;lt;link temporarily hidden&amp;gt;. I've tried clicking 'I'm interested; show the complete message' but nothing happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried using Chrome 4.0.249.49 (35163) beta, Safari 4.0.4 (6531.21.10), and Firefox 2.6 (all on OS X 10.6.2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I show the hidden links?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Aha! Viewing the source shows a potential problem with the HTML:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span class='temporarily-hidden'&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;email temporarily &amp;lt;span class='temporarily-hidden'&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;link temporarily hidden&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; &amp;lt;&amp;lt;span class='temporarily-hidden'&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;link temporarily hidden&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the extra &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/code&gt; before the last &lt;code&gt;span&lt;/code&gt;. Is Jeff parsing HTML with regexes? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Posting a message through the reply form unhides the links. (Unless the problem was coincidentally fixed while I was writing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4702" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-27T04:22:24.297" LastActivityDate="2011-03-27T06:37:55.100" Title="Bug: Cannot unhide temporarily hidden links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;messages&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38413" CreationDate="2010-02-05T13:37:43.170" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope so, because I do this all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really can't see what the negatives of doing this are. Questions related to JSP and Servlets &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; Java questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T13:37:43.170" />
  <row Id="38424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38801" CreationDate="2010-02-05T13:53:07.610" Score="11" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;This URL (obtained by right-clicking &quot;link&quot; below the answer and selecting &quot;copy link location&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/731832/interview-question-ffn-n/849062#849062&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/731832/interview-question-ffn-n/849062#849062&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;leads to a blank page.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I assume it is designed to go to whatever page the answer is on, but this is not working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A workaround is to copy the URL from the page number link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/731832?tab=votes&amp;amp;page=3#849062&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/731832?tab=votes&amp;amp;page=3#849062&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that relies on the answer staying on the same page, and in CW questions it often does not (except with &lt;code&gt;?tab-oldest&lt;/code&gt;, but that's probably not the default for many users.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is by design, is there a reliable way to get a permalink to an answer that remains valid if the answer gets pushed down to a different page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T12:24:50.310" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T12:24:50.310" Title="Permalink to answer not working (possibly because the answer is not on the first page)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="38425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38413" CreationDate="2010-02-05T14:00:37.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can end up running out of tag space.  If a question is tagged &quot;&lt;code&gt;servlets jsp google-collections optimization&lt;/code&gt;&quot; and try to add all implied tags you have &quot;&lt;code&gt;servlets jsp java google-collections guava optimization performance&lt;/code&gt;&quot; etc.  You can't because of the 5-tag limit, so you have to drop one.  Arguably &quot;java&quot; is the best tag to drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T14:00:37.577" />
  <row Id="38426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38413" CreationDate="2010-02-05T14:05:29.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say only do so if the question lies in your area of expertise and you're 100% sure the new tag applies.  I remember that there were differing opinions on whether every &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; question also needed the &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt; tag.  Also, I'm tempted to add &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt; to every question tagged &lt;code&gt;android&lt;/code&gt; but I'm not certain it always applies, or if it always &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; apply in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T14:05:29.843" />
  <row Id="38428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37231" CreationDate="2010-02-05T15:24:40.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Unfortunately, I speak by experience)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blacklist&lt;/strong&gt; : a continuous work to identify and block access to clever people stealing content, running poor scripts (that impact the server performance) or trying to find a new way to regain access once blacklisted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whitelist&lt;/strong&gt;: a simple and efficient way to identify and add access &lt;strong&gt;once&lt;/strong&gt; to the good guys and let them make good work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142889" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T15:24:40.137" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38413" CreationDate="2010-02-05T15:37:00.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some who really don't like this, because it confuses questions that really pertain to the language of java as opposed to the platform.  And they have a point.  But personally I think the need to tag for your platform supercedes that, and so I say go for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T15:37:00.833" />
  <row Id="38432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38404" CreationDate="2010-02-05T15:49:29.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess what you after here is not so much a Careers site (where long term Careers are on off) but a freelancing site, which I think would be a good idea, but it's a different paradigm to the Careers site. Most people on the Careers site I would expect to look for long term positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T15:49:29.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:04:39.037" Score="-2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a bounty question which benefits nobody except for the OP who is trying to outsource what is obviously his own work. This is incredibly unprofessional by any industry means, so he is already doing himself a disservice, yes. But why should we have to put up with it...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179800/how-count-it-with-java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2179800/how-count-it-with-java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is literally and only asking how to solve his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142469" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T16:55:37.933" Title="Can someone close this question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38433" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:09:49.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could encourage votes to close as &quot;too localized.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T16:09:49.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38433" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:09:50.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This site is run &lt;strong&gt;by the community&lt;/strong&gt; which means that &lt;strong&gt;community members&lt;/strong&gt; with the &lt;strong&gt;close vote&lt;/strong&gt; power (3000 reputation and above) can choose to vote to close a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the question has been on the site for a good 5 days and no one in the community chose to close this question. There is not even a single flag on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the community has spoken that the question you've linked is a perfectly valid question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T16:09:50.820" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38433" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:11:09.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see problem with that. I would think that if the question is not interesting enough we  may just ignore it and that's it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is somebody else willing to solve his problems, we can't do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, he won't be able to keep his work like this and probably he could learn something after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T16:11:09.990" />
  <row Id="38437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38433" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:17:10.473" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of questions out there that bug me a bit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please fix me codez&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whatz wrong with me codez&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, had he not posted his code and asked how he could go about summing those items up, people would say, can you show some source code.  With that said, he is trying to solve something with code and he clearly asked for how to do something specific.  Seems like a well formed question to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really unprofessional?  Supposed that you work on a team of 10 developers and you get stuck on this problem, at what point do you turn to the programmer on your left/right and say, I'm stuck?  Is that any different that what he has done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T16:17:10.473" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38404" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:33:56.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the data dump? You can try queries on it to find users with many high-voted posts in the tags that are specific to your case. You can also filter by the location field if neccessary (although that's a free-text field, so would require some manual work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also check if they have a entered a website into the corresponding field or if the AboutMe field contains an email address or a link -- which would be a sign that this person is open to contacts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously won't give you any of the data on carreers, but it might be a good way to start finding potentially interesting people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T16:33:56.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38444" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:53:42.460" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; this isn't a duplicate...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been looking through the DataDump and I've noticed a number of posts (137) where the answer was posted &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a difference of a few minutes I could understand as being down to time synchronisation issues between servers, however answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391523/&quot;&gt;#391523&lt;/a&gt; was apparently posted nearly 4 &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; before the question was asked! (Question posted Dec 24 '08 at 14:24, answer posted Dec 21 '08 at 23:29)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T17:01:11.930" Title="DataDump - Answer posted before the question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38433" CreationDate="2010-02-05T16:55:37.933" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have to agree, but I looked at it and think it looks reasonable &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; to survive. There have certainly been far worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; revoke bounty, but we tend to reserve that for obvious misuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T16:55:37.933" />
  <row Id="38444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38441" CreationDate="2010-02-05T17:01:11.930" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions were merged; maybe the datestamp was for the later answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know they were merged because I followed that topic very closely (and wrote the original compiled 'accepted' answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T17:01:11.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38448" CreationDate="2010-02-05T17:05:42.353" Score="1" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually we tend to organize the sitemaps.xml files in a human way (by categories).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for Stackoverflow, due to the number of modifications in each categories, all the sitemaps files would need to be regenerated and they would also be downloaded all the time by the search engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So do you know how is the sitemap index file of Stackoverflow organized? Is it organized like a &quot;change log&quot; of only &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; URLs since last sitemap.xml generation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;sitemapindex xmlns=&quot;http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;   &amp;lt;sitemap&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;loc&amp;gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/sitemaps/2010_02_05.xml.gz&amp;lt;/loc&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;lastmod&amp;gt;2010-02-05&amp;lt;/lastmod&amp;gt;&#xA;   &amp;lt;/sitemap&amp;gt;&#xA;   &amp;lt;sitemap&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;loc&amp;gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/sitemaps/2010_02_04.xml.gz&amp;lt;/loc&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;lastmod&amp;gt;2010-02-04&amp;lt;/lastmod&amp;gt;&#xA;   &amp;lt;/sitemap&amp;gt;&#xA;   ...&#xA;&amp;lt;/sitemapindex&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Content update notification is only a matter of &quot;changefreq&quot; and &quot;priority&quot; in previous sitemaps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Content deletion is only a matter of HTTP 404?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142889" LastEditorUserId="142889" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T17:18:04.400" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T18:30:28.283" Title="What is the structure of the sitemap.xml of Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;sitemap&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38586" CreationDate="2010-02-05T17:16:28.320" Score="0" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;To save on some of the arduous editing and improve simple grammar/formatting, is there interest on allowing an &quot;official&quot; bot on the Trilogy sites to do some of this manual labor? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd think this bot would be permitted to make edits without succombing to Captcha's, checking validity of links, spelling, formatting errors, etc. The bot would only act under human intervention by marking things of interest (like Word spellcheck where you have to confirm or ignore) and a human would have to go back later and confirm. Wikipedia has such bots and they seem to work well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T07:18:36.413" Title="Bots on Trilogy Sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="38447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T17:28:43.563" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Using Firefox 3.5 under XP) When I load the front page of any of the trilogy sites and scroll down past N questions, if I want to see more questions, the option is to load the complete list, which immediately presents me with the same N questions I just scrolled past, possibly with one or two just added at the top of the list.  Would it be a good idea to have the complete list, when loaded from that link, be positioned at the Nth item, so as to minimize overlap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135997" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T18:04:01.357" Title="Front page annoyance: is this behavior optimal?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;frontpage&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38445" CreationDate="2010-02-05T17:58:05.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=sitemaps.xml+site%3Astackoverflow.com+filetype%3Axml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=sitemaps.xml+site%3Astackoverflow.com+filetype%3Axml&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on &quot;Cached&quot; and you'll find the sitemaps file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is incomplete, I assume google doesn't cache the entire thing, but it should give you a significant amount of information as to how the whole thing is put together, and some of the tradeoffs made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001174.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his blog post on sitemaps&lt;/a&gt;.  It doesn't give much detail, but it does give a little insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T17:58:05.817" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38447" CreationDate="2010-02-05T18:04:01.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The behavior differs for me, are you sure you're seeing the same questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I browse to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; I get the list of Recent Questions and the &lt;code&gt;Active&lt;/code&gt; tab is selected. If I click on the &quot;complete list of questions&quot; link at the bottom the page it shows the &quot;All Questions&quot; page with the &lt;code&gt;Newest&lt;/code&gt; tab selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two lists are quite different. I think a screenshot with obligitary freehand circles would  help us visualise your problem better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T18:04:01.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38445" CreationDate="2010-02-05T18:30:28.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that Jeff might be 404 it not only filtering by User Agent, but also by IP Address, as I could not access it (get 200) by changing my UA to Google's Bog, MS's nor Yahoo's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't surprise me, it's actually a very good idea, as if &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; were making an &lt;em&gt;illicit&lt;/em&gt; crawler, I'd try to spoof the UA to look like Google, but I could not spoof Google's IP Address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T18:30:28.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41728" CreationDate="2010-02-05T18:34:39.867" Score="10" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the votes table, the field CreationDate in the votes table only contains the date, with all the times set to 12:00:00 AM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some purporses, this information is needed to determine if there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38090/discourage-questions-being-marked-as-answered-within-an-hour-or-so-of-being-poste&quot;&gt;issues regarding accepted answers&lt;/a&gt; in particular, and perhaps other types of voting patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this how SO internally stores the data, and if so can this be changed so the time is also recorded?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this data is scrubbed during the dump (in order to prevent, for instance, matching up voting times with times people were seen on SO) can this be more finely grained so that some types of votes, such as &lt;code&gt;AcceptedByOriginator&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Close&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Reopen&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Deletion&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Undeletion&lt;/code&gt; will have the actual vote times?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be useful for generating data that may show how changes to the system are likely to affect behavior, and to measure the effectiveness of new features/badges/etc.  The five vote types I've specified above don't require anonymity since we know who voted to accept, and who votes to close and open questions already.  However if it's still a risk, please at least let us see when answers are accepted, which has no risk of personally identifying information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/933/omission-of-vote-time-in-data-dump&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/933/omission-of-vote-time-in-data-dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm asking that only a portion of the data be made available, data which is already public on the website, so there's no point in anonymizing it.  The above question was asking that all voting times be made available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T02:42:39.607" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T08:12:34.970" Title="Vote datetime in datadump - No time?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T18:58:14.597" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like many other 'value added' features for high reputation users, I'm suggesting that while the API should be freely available to every SO user (Keys can be handed out on the SO user's own page if you want to restrict API access to just SO users), I know that if everyone accesses the API once a minute 24/7, SO will get swamped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will necessarily be restrictions in place to limit usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm suggesting that these limits are relaxed for high-rep users.  They are the ones likely most interested in comprehensive 3rd party interfaces, and the most likely to use them significantly to enhance their already excessive use of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it would artifically slow down the API roll out.  Deploy them to high rep users first, see how the system responds, and lower the rep level needed for certain API functions as the system is tested and able to accept heavier API usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm not a fan of restrictions, I understand that some restrictions will have to be put in place, and rather than requiring everyone to request a high-usage key directly from the SO team (which will tie up resources that might be better spent elsewhere) decide on a rep level where it makes sense to automatically provide that access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side effect, if you have access levels higher than 10k (say 25k if you want to start off with fewer than 93 maximum possible users) then you'll give others more incentives to go beyond 10k.  Even if they don't intend to use it, they will have a goal post &lt;strike&gt;feeding their addiction&lt;/strike&gt; encouraging them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:33:08.643" Title="Allow high-rep user to use API at a higher rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;high-rep-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18005" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:05:39.820" Score="38" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know what you're thinking. &quot;&lt;em&gt;Did he close twelve questions or only eleven?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is Jon Skeet, the highest rep user in the world, and would blow your question clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://fckingblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/do-you-feel-lucky-punk.png?w=390&amp;amp;h=300&quot; alt=&quot;Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T19:20:25.590" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T19:20:25.590" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38458" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:10:27.063" Score="1" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed by default answers are sorted by votes.  That means when I post an answer and I then look at all the other answers (esp. new ones with zero votes) for rep reasons I'm tempted to not vote for the others because it will keep my answer at the bottom until someone else comes along and votes for my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to fix this?  I would like it if myself and others were not tempted by greed for rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  Notice I am not speaking of down voting others.  So I don't see this as a duplicate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141237" LastEditorUserId="141237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T19:55:25.023" LastActivityDate="2010-04-20T20:19:53.267" Title="Should answer authors vote?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38455" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:12:44.767" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution is to grow up. Don't treat these sites like they're a video game. You're here to help people and be helped, not just to gain rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T19:12:44.767" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38455" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:21:36.117" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is anything wrong to use the website just to gain rep rather than helping others. The reasons you have are your business and your business only, if you consider SO to be a game then good for you, I hope you are having fun! (Since this is a pretty radical view I want to explicitly say that I'm &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; being sarcastic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that being said, if you think it's a problem for you (&quot;helping the competition&quot;) don't vote them or vote them the day after. You are just 1 person; you won't make a huge difference. There will be other people voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This probably won't be a popular answer :(&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T19:21:36.117" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38455" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:27:29.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question links to a lot of related questions that have insightful discussion on this problem.  They are all describing a slightly worse form of this, that of downvoting other answers to enhance your own, but the reasons to allow voting on questions you've answered are still applicable to this situation.  My take on this is given as an answer here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28777/disallow-downvoting-other-answers-if-ive-posted-my-own/28780#28780&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28777/disallow-downvoting-other-answers-if-ive-posted-my-own/28780#28780&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: If I am capable of answering the question correctly, then I'm also capable of knowing whether other answers are more or less correct, useful, interesting, or insightful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are the people that should be encouraged to vote, and they shouldn't have to make the choice between voting &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; answering, when voting &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answering will improve the overall question significantly more than one or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-20T20:19:53.267" LastActivityDate="2010-04-20T20:19:53.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:39:29.570" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using Midori on Ubuntu (9.10), I can't ask a question because when I try to add a tag, the tags text field doesn't clear...I can still erase all the text in there and add my own tags, but since it didn't clear correctly, the site still thinks that I haven't added tags, so the form won't submit. Instead, I get a validation message saying that I need to add tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should be pretty easy to replicate as it happens to me every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142905" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T22:26:28.977" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:26:28.977" Title="Bug: Can't ask questions using Midori browser" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:39:31.550" Score="10" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody deleted an answer because of an incorrect comment, and I wanted to put a comment on there telling him that the original commenter was wrong, and that he should undelete his answer (which had 4 upvotes at the time).  I had to edit the answer to put &quot;Why was this deleted?!&quot; to get my message through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130648" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:00:47.023" Title="Allow Comments on Deleted Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29986" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:46:22.000" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of showing the Rep when hovering over the truncated Rep, they could just show it in a tooltip when you hover over the user name, just like when you hover over the user name for a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this would also be pretty easy to implement, since it is already done for comment user names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T19:46:22.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38464" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:46:23.477" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29004/devdays-reviews-sitting-at-home-crying&quot;&gt;DevDays reviews - Sitting at home crying&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, that's disappointing... I can't find the hilarious Spolsky/Atwood intro video from&#xA;DevDays. Not a presentable copy anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is off-topic, but this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; StackOverflow ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137850" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T19:29:31.550" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:29:31.550" ClosedDate="2010-02-06T01:47:22.963" Title="StackOverflow conference intro video. Where?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;devdays&gt;&lt;devdays-2009&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:51:40.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my story. I've just deleted an answer of mine with 4 upvotes (while all other answers on the page were at 0 or 1) after the OP made grave edits to his question that rendered my answer totally asinine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At worst, my answer now suggests that I just can't read. At best, it now looks like I mixed things up and posted an answer to a totally different question. Which, in point of fact, &lt;em&gt;I have&lt;/em&gt;, but any new visitor to the page would have trouble to understand the situation. He would just see the question &quot;how to do X&quot;, then my top answer &quot;here's how to do Y&quot;, and conclude that I and those who upvoted me must be a bunch of morons. He would then probably proceed to downvote my answer (and rightfully so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I could still just leave my answer sitting there, since it would take a whopping 21 downvotes to make it a net loss for me. However, not being considered a moron is well worth giving up 40 points IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lesson learned: always keep an eye on the questions you recently answered. They can get edited in ways you'd never imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T19:51:40.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38468" CreationDate="2010-02-05T19:54:52.950" Score="2" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is done to prevent people from changing their display name to another persons', for example Jon Skeet, and then also changing their gravatar to match too?  In comments it seems there is no visible differentiator, and the differentiator in questions and answers is just reputation and badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem to be a problem for stackoverflow, but I'm just wondering what are possible safeguards against this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Also it doesn't even have to be deliberate, if two people just happen to choose the same display name, and they both participate in the same question/comment thread, that would be confusing right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142906" LastEditorUserId="142906" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T20:01:09.283" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:28:51.247" Title="How to handle people impersonating other people by choosing the same display name" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="38467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38466" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:00:43.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past it was dealt by flagging for moderator attention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have examples it's happening now or is it just an abstract concern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:00:43.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38466" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:00:53.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag an answer by the user for moderation attention and explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mods will take a look and determine if the user's name is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; Jon Skeet, or he is trying to impersonate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;somebody else&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also it doesn't even have to be deliberate, if two people just happen to choose the same display name, and they both participate in the same question/comment thread, that would be confusing right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily. I understand your concern, but you can still hover the user to see the user name, they'll have different gravatars, different reps and in a conversation, you'd realize if there is a big change in opinion/attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On any other situation outside a comments discussion, who you are talking to &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T22:28:51.247" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:28:51.247" />
  <row Id="38469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38471" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:02:23.163" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I should have known better, but I answered a question too quickly and without fully thinking -- a silly mistake -- and I provided the wrong answer. I realized my mistake moments later and deleted my answer so that I could post the correct answer. I had already been downvoted twice by the time I deleted my answer (it was probably not 3 minutes after I answered)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the &quot;proper&quot; action to take if you realize you provided the wrong answer? Should I have instead edited my answer to provide the correct answer rather than deleting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, the question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2209934/php-operator&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2209934/php-operator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:05:30.537" Title="Proper way to correct a mistaken answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38469" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:04:46.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you did was perfectly proper. Editing an answer is more appropriate when making a minor correction or adding detail. If your answer was flat out wrong (and downvoted), deleting it makes better sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:04:46.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38469" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:05:30.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you should edit your answer and correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other people will come, see it's correct, and upvote it to compensate for the downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:05:30.537" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38474" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:17:43.440" Score="-4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently you can't delete your own question if it contains answers that were upvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose there's an exception when the question is being downvoted, because if it is, it may need to be deleted.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Otherwise it goes against the spirit of removing bad content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T15:17:47.123" Title="Allow deleting questions with negative score" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38473" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:22:23.973" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason behind disallowing deletion for questions with upvoted answers is that the people who answer the question in good faith shouldn't lose the reward of turning a bad question into a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, even bad questions might yield good information we want to be found via google later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is closed, then the question can be deleted, and that's the proper path for a question with upvoted answers that should be deleted - close it, then two days later delete it.  In this way you have to have many people in agreement that as good as the answer is, the whole thing just needs to be chucked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the OP submits their question to the community, if someone contributes something the community values, the OP loses the ability to get rid of the question.  This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T15:17:47.123" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T15:17:47.123" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38473" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:22:47.593" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even bad questions can provide good content. That's the entire point of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/95/reversal&quot;&gt;Reversal&lt;/a&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and if we implement this I'll never get one. =(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:22:47.593" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38482" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:28:56.253" Score="10" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37109/reputation-graph-level-is-lower-than-actual&quot;&gt;Reputation graph level is lower than actual&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/134444/tony-henrich&quot;&gt;this user's&lt;/a&gt; rep graph and noticed it's off by a fairly significant amount.  What's up with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/356/20100205152042.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T20:41:15.240" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T07:21:15.717" ClosedDate="2010-02-06T14:08:32.790" Title="The reputation graph doesn't seem strictly accurate" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38461" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:30:12.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea, especially since comments on one's posts result in you being notified, while edits do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit to prove you get notified&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T21:25:41.000" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T21:25:41.000" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23661" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:31:45.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;whatcha gonna do when they come for you?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/bad-boys-070219-big.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suspension is a penalty, and each time you tangle with the site administrators your penalty increases.  The point is to limit their ability to continue their non-constructive behavior on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they make a new account during suspension, they are very limited in what they can do with low reputation, and if they are caught with a second account they'll be suspended for longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T00:56:18.560" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T00:56:18.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38453" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:33:08.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This suggestion implies a couple of things about an API that we don't know to be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One, that the API will know who you are!  This is hardly a guarantee given the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/what-would-a-stack-overflow-api-look-like/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;read only nature of the eventual API&lt;/a&gt; (at least at first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, that the API will have a key scheme similar to say Facebook.  Unlike Facebook, most of SO's content is cc-wiki and publicly accessible; why go through the trouble of api-keys unless you've got something to protect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I'd consider a case where SO cannot serve everyone who wants to use the API (at a reasonable rate) a flaw.  One that should be fixed (either with improvements in efficiency, or with additional hardware) not papered over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:33:08.643" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38483" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:39:13.233" Score="6" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just tried to post a question to Meta and received:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be&#xA;  submitted because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;must include one of these tags -- bug feature-request discussion support&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are these tags required? What are the proper usages for each one? I wasn't able to find any documentation about these tags? Should this be in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T21:08:00.277" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T21:08:00.277" Title="&quot;must include one of these tags -- bug feature-request discussion support&quot;" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38477" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:42:48.480" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get 100 extra points for associating your SO and meta accounts. Those are not reflected in the graph, the offset should be exactly 100. In your image, though, it's a bit larger... No idea why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; looking at the answers to related questions to the left (such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37109/reputation-graph-level-is-lower-than-actual&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29486/reputation-history-graph-reports-lower-than-current-rep-level&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;), the rest of the offset is just due to migrated or deleted posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-05T20:55:38.077" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:55:38.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38481" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:56:28.480" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt;: You are reporting a bug you found on SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt;: Your post is requesting new functionality for SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;discussion&lt;/code&gt;: You want to start a discussion about a SOFU-related matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;support&lt;/code&gt;: You are asking for help using SOFU (includes request for moderator assistance or mass retagging).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These required tags help keep meta organized and on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T21:05:52.530" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38464" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:57:24.017" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T20:57:24.017" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38477" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:59:22.823" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mine is off by 320 points, but it doesn't bother me. I would guess a major bug in the graphing library.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard of some silly assumption but that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2621/why-does-reputation-have-a-lower-bound-of-1/2625#2625&quot;&gt;1 was the lowest number&lt;/a&gt;? They should have used gnuplot. Oh, well. I've got 116 rep points now, those days are behind me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T07:17:27.007" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T07:17:27.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38477" CreationDate="2010-02-05T21:27:58.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to jump in and tell you that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2621/why-does-reputation-have-a-lower-bound-of-1/2625#2625&quot;&gt;lowest possible rep is 1&lt;/a&gt;, but the reputation graph doesn't take that into account. I believe that it's &lt;code&gt;[status-by-design]&lt;/code&gt;, because the rep graph is supposed to show everything unchanged, while the 1 lowest rep is just a design decision to avoid some &lt;em&gt;social&lt;/em&gt; problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/135854?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;our friend here&lt;/a&gt;, you can have a negative rep history, but because the lowest possible rep is 1, still have a lot more rep. This way, you'll have as much rep as you have earned since you hit 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the only other reasons for having rep uncounted on the graph is the association of users between sites and the deletion/migration of questions/answers without a recalc for that user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T07:21:15.717" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T07:21:15.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38461" CreationDate="2010-02-05T21:28:34.970" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a better idea would be to un-delete all of the answers and questions. I know I've personally had a few of mine closed when they shouldn't have been and they're are probably a lot of other questions that were mistakenly closed too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T21:28:34.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38424" CreationDate="2010-02-05T21:57:09.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The permalinks implicitly require that you have not changed the default sort order from Votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is [status-bydesign] at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: assuming you have the default votes sort order, my &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; is that this is sometimes affected by deleted posts; do you guys have the 10k rep to see the deleted posts in these questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T09:12:25.527" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T09:12:25.527" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38461" CreationDate="2010-02-05T22:00:47.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if we did allow this, I'm pretty sure the notification code is only checking posts where &lt;code&gt;DeletionDate = null&lt;/code&gt; -- that's a routine thing to include on every query we make, and deviating from it in this one area would be awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:00:47.023" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38466" CreationDate="2010-02-05T22:13:58.367" Score="-8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue could be resolved if there was a &lt;code&gt;UNIQUE&lt;/code&gt; constraint in the database on display names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/constraint-primary-key.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/constraint-primary-key.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:13:58.367" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38460" CreationDate="2010-02-05T22:26:22.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it works OK in Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE7/8, and Firefox, I would rate this as a bug in Midori, not us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:26:22.703" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="72574" CreationDate="2010-02-05T22:39:37.103" Score="4" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my user page for each site I can view my questions/answers for that site.  Is there anywhere that I can view all of them at once?  It is inconvenient to have to view three pages every morning instead of viewing one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142339" LastActivityDate="2010-12-17T16:42:16.270" Title="One homepage for stack, super, meta and fault?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38495" CreationDate="2010-02-05T22:44:18.573" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5933/greasemonkey-script-to-show-profile-reputation-and-badges-at-the-top-toolbar&quot;&gt;Greasemonkey Script to show profile reputation and badges (from all SO sites) in the top toolbar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/302ylic.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;this script requires greasemonkey&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T22:44:18.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38503" CreationDate="2010-02-05T23:11:27.853" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of featured questions here on meta is shown as 3 for me now, but when I click on the &quot;Featured&quot; tab I only see two questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6278/featureda.png&quot; alt=&quot;Only 2 questions&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell I'm not hiding any questions, no greasmonkey scripts changing things.  I am only seeing the problem on meta.  Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T04:02:07.847" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T04:02:07.847" Title="Featured Question count is incorrect" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;featured-tab&gt;&lt;question-count&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38500" CreationDate="2010-02-05T23:23:22.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38499/i-think-my-bounty-is-bugged-i-want-a-rebate/38502#38502&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt; in Evan Carroll's question, the reason is that the third bounty question is voted too low to be shown on any of the front page views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T23:23:22.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-05T23:23:22.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23366" CreationDate="2010-02-05T23:45:09.613" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding this to a full answer from my comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general agreement (at least as a moderator) on &quot;being a jerk&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;how many flags your content generates on a daily basis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone gets the occasional now and then flag, which is normal; people interpret things differently. No worries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;if you're getting consistently flagged multiple times every day like clockwork&lt;/strong&gt; -- the odds of you being a jerk, as judged and determined by the community, are high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point you're causing discord in the community and occupying moderator time that could be used for more constructive tasks. This is when the cycle of email warnings, followed by possible suspensions, tends to kick in -- which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23661/what-is-the-point-of-a-30-day-account-suspension/23681#23681&quot;&gt;documented here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-05T23:45:09.613" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38495" CreationDate="2010-02-06T00:18:21.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37380/google-chrome-sofu-aggregator-extension&quot;&gt;Google Chrome extension to show reputation and badges from all SO sites in the top toolbar&lt;/a&gt; (based off of the original Greasemonkey script).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9580/barcd.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T00:18:21.687" />
  <row Id="38509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-02-06T01:37:08.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Collaborator&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent is to distinguish the editing of answers from providing supportive and helpful comments. Editor and Strunk&amp;amp;White, IIRC, can be attained simply by editing your own posts. In addition not everyone has the rep to edit other people's answers. ...just a thought that there should be a distinction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2211388/serialize-object-to-xml-problems&quot;&gt;SO question 2211388/serialize-object-to-xml-problems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I may know the answer, but there is an answer with a good start. Sure, I'll up-vote it (or at least I should). Then, instead of competing for the accepted answer, possibly duplicating most of the already up-voted answer and embellishing with some &lt;em&gt;campaign style&lt;/em&gt; code snippets, I support the one already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this encouragement could produce higher quality answers. The downside to this, obviously, is how it could be implemented. I hope my explanation makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible implementation could be an icon only visible or click-able by the OP (?), or an additional option in the &lt;em&gt;flag&lt;/em&gt; that tags the comment as supportive and collaborative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T17:23:51.043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:23:51.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-06T01:37:08.637" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T01:52:07.913" Score="9" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am very curious as to whether my close judgements correspond to those of the larger community. When I'm vote #5, it's clear enough. Not so much so when it's vote #1. I make my vote, I move on, and I never find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of understanding the community and tuning my personal standards, I'd like to know, either individually or collectively, how often things I vote to close end up closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there's already a way to do this, I've missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T02:50:53.607" Title="Could there be close statistics visible to each user?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38510" CreationDate="2010-02-06T02:14:18.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure, could be nice. I'd kinda like to see a short history for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the votes I cast - close, open, normal Q&amp;amp;A, comments... Just a quick way to refer back to things I've recently looked at but don't care to bookmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T02:14:18.407" />
  <row Id="38512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38516" CreationDate="2010-02-06T02:16:22.787" Score="1" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've been curious for a little while now, how many defectors there are from the site-that-shall-not-be-named.  I'm one.  Totally dig the trilogy format over their format.  Anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T03:25:09.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-06T02:16:22.787" Title="Any fellow EE defectors?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38510" CreationDate="2010-02-06T02:17:08.197" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now you'll have to sort your beans via Google:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &quot;closed as [reason] by [your DisplayName]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T02:17:08.197" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38510" CreationDate="2010-02-06T02:22:24.207" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if vote-to-close/re-open actions were recorded under the user &gt; &lt;code&gt;activity&lt;/code&gt; tab. I'm often curious myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to weigh adding features to satisfy my curiosity versus the potential &lt;em&gt;usefulness&lt;/em&gt; of such a feature. In the case of close/re-open situations, it might be helpful to return to the question to support your decision based on how the comments/discussion is going. Then again, you might just be inviting unnecessary noise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would tend to err towards transparency and &lt;strong&gt;help users track the activities they perform on the system&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T02:50:53.607" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T02:50:53.607" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38512" CreationDate="2010-02-06T03:17:08.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not exactly a defector. Was active there quite some years ago and gave up after you-know-why, so I didn't exactly deflect as there was a couple of years' gap in between me quitting there and joining the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T03:17:08.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-06T03:17:08.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38512" CreationDate="2010-02-06T03:25:09.250" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why yes, I am an electrical engineer who is currently doing software development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T03:25:09.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-06T03:25:09.250" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T05:47:30.647" Score="15" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14163/x-users-earned-that-badge-where-value-of-x-is-wrong&quot;&gt;X Users Earned That Badge Where Value Of X is Wrong&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just noticed the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/27/notable-question&quot;&gt;Notable Question&lt;/a&gt;&quot; badge says there are 17 users who have earned it. The list of users follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;balpha&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chris Upchurch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Justin Standard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;aleemb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Coehoorn♦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Justin Standard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TheTXI&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aamir&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bill the Lizard♦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Spolsky♦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andrija&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list speaks for itself. This clearly isn't &quot;17 users,&quot; when a person's username apppears once per awarded-badge. Since Jeff has won this many times, his name appears many times. I think perhaps a similar format as the profile-page-badge-list would be better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;11 Users have earned this badge.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 x Jeff Atwood♦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;balpha&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chris Upchurch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 x Justin Standard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;aleemb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Coehoorn♦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TheTXI&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aamir&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bill the Lizard♦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Spolsky♦&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andrija&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As opposed to showing the same name over and over. Of course another option would be to change the title text from &quot;17 Users have earned this badge&quot; to &quot;Badge awarded 17 times,&quot; or something equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T01:09:41.283" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T01:09:41.283" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T09:04:35.777" Title="&quot;17 Users earned this badge.&quot; Not really" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;so-design&gt;&lt;redundancy&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38518" CreationDate="2010-02-06T05:50:52.930" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be fine, &lt;strong&gt;but&lt;/strong&gt; then you couldn't see the order they were earned in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T05:50:52.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38518" CreationDate="2010-02-06T06:26:14.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the wording were changed to &lt;em&gt;Badge Awarded 17 times:&lt;/em&gt; with the list following as Jonathan presented it the first time, then nothing is lost, the list is preserved as is...and it's now 100% accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T06:26:14.127" />
  <row Id="38521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38518" CreationDate="2010-02-06T06:26:56.777" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's mistitled.  It says &lt;strong&gt;&quot;17 Users earned this badge&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; when it really means &lt;strong&gt;&quot;This badge has been awarded 17 times&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number at the beginning strikes me as a good thing, so I'd reword it like this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;17 times has this badge been awarded&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T06:26:56.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29344" CreationDate="2010-02-06T07:24:22.527" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a user should be notified for all close reasons.  It could show up under the revisions tab, or they could create a new tab for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T07:24:22.527" />
  <row Id="38523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2010-02-06T08:02:35.947" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this &lt;a href=&quot;http://recordingquestions.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;audio recording question and answer site&lt;/a&gt; to be one of the few decent replications of the Stackoverflow technology.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- And it looks better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142261" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T08:02:35.947" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-06T08:02:35.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T08:37:01.900" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25209/what-is-the-official-etiquette-on-answering-a-question-twice&quot;&gt;What is the official etiquette on answering a question twice?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering.... when does posting multiple answers to the same question make sense? Is that a frequent use-case? Wouldn't be &quot;better&quot; to allow only one answer per person? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curiosity, not a request. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T14:07:28.097" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T14:07:28.097" ClosedDate="2010-02-06T08:41:38.550" Title="When does posting multiple answers make sense?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38526" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T09:18:05.390" Score="24" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a short time frame around midnight that does not belong  to either day. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23661/#comment-84684&quot;&gt;This comment&lt;/a&gt;, according to the tooltip, was made at 23:59:59 last night (server time). In my responses, it appears in &quot;this week,&quot; but neither in &quot;today&quot; nor in &quot;yesterday.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/5094/midnightcomment.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-30T08:19:46.647" LastActivityDate="2010-05-30T08:19:46.647" Title="Midnight comment doesn't belong to either day" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;&lt;responses&gt;&lt;midnight&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38526" CreationDate="2010-02-06T09:21:58.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Were you up all night making that graphic, hence able to post at 1 second before midnight??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the sql is doing a &gt; 00:00:00 and &amp;lt; 23:59:59&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T09:21:58.873" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38531" CreationDate="2010-02-06T09:58:16.687" Score="22" ViewCount="1875" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35264/should-ads-that-mimic-stackoverflow-ui-be-allowed&quot;&gt;Should ads that mimic StackOverflow UI be allowed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed lately that advertisers have been making their ads very closely resemble stack overflow styles (for example, AtalaSoft makes their ad look like an accepted stack overflow answer, with almost the same color and complete with tags, etc...).  I think Startups.com also has something like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/dTFcV.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, it's really annoying, and doesn't allow me to ignore advertisements since I will subconsciously identify the advertisement as an accepted answer or something else important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is however, very noticeably affecting my experience on the site.  I would suggest some type of authentication process for ads (though I'm assuming you certainly have this).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141896" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T06:24:51.803" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T06:24:51.803" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T23:11:12.083" Title="Getting Rid of Advertisements that Directly Resemble SO Styles" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;fui&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38530" CreationDate="2010-02-06T10:19:27.217" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;As described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this SO blog entry&lt;/a&gt;, if you type a keyword such as &quot;&lt;code&gt;subjective&lt;/code&gt;&quot; into the search box in SO, it is automatically coerced to the equivalent tag search &quot;&lt;code&gt;[subjective]&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to override this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to search for a keyword within a question, when that keyword happens to be a popular tag, but the question will not necessarily have that tag applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T18:04:05.007" Title="Override forced tag search?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="38530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38529" CreationDate="2010-02-06T10:26:27.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add quotes around the word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;subjective&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22subjective%22&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22subjective%22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T10:33:39.637" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T10:33:39.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38528" CreationDate="2010-02-06T10:41:08.920" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ugh, I was not aware of these and the ad sales weasels will have to be disciplined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have modified them in the meantime:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/stack-dotimage2.png&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/stack-dotimage-most-upvoted.png&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/stack-dotimage2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: policy update on these sorts of FUI (fake UI) ads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve updated the guidelines to disallow styles that mimic SO/SU/SF or look like question/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there should not be any more in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T23:06:19.500" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T23:06:19.500" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38533" CreationDate="2010-02-06T11:49:51.900" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;After two &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38528/getting-rid-of-advertisements-that-directly-resemble-so-styles&quot;&gt;recent&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35264/should-ads-that-mimic-stackoverflow-ui-be-allowed&quot;&gt;incidents&lt;/a&gt; of advertisers using fake UI in ads do we need a way to report ads that's quicker than raising the issue on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since ads are seen more by newer users we can't rely on long time users to report them before the advertisers have benefited from them; so a way for users to directly report ads would mean they spend much less time up on the site. Ideally I'd like to make it so that advertisers realise that trying to game Stack Overflow is counter-productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think facebook has a good implementation of this:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3422/facebookads.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that you can remove the ad by clicking the 'x' (replacing it with a new one, or eventually a &quot;Find your Gmail friends&quot; message that can't be removed) and there are several reasons you can report the ad for. There is also a &quot;like&quot; feature, which might provide useful stats to advertisers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be useful to have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14716/sponsor-gallery-page-or-something-like-that&quot;&gt;Sponsor Gallery&lt;/a&gt; so that everyone can see what ads are appearing on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T08:12:12.427" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T08:12:12.427" Title="Report ad feature needed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;fui&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38532" CreationDate="2010-02-06T12:30:03.490" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, we just need all the ads to be visually approved by us before they go in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T12:30:03.490" />
  <row Id="38534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2010-02-06T12:33:59.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stackexchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find a list here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each site focuses on a specific subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T12:33:59.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-06T12:33:59.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T13:01:06.637" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love a Stack Overflow light version. You could probably achieve this with a CSS document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd want all &quot;clutter&quot; removed. The whole bar to right for example. Also, removing the count for favorites, up and down voting etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can keep the vote up/down buttons, but remove details such as how many votes it has had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one who would love a version where you only can: search, see and answer questions? No other details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61521" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T15:36:41.320" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T15:36:41.320" Title="Stack Overflow &quot;light&quot; script?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;scripts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T14:05:21.267" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31801/post-your-question-fails-on-opera-10-10-win-xp-sp3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Post your question&amp;rdquo; fails on Opera 10.10 Win XP SP3&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Post your question&quot; just disables after clicking, not sending question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Serverfault, Opera browser 10.10/win32&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Now and here I have this issue... :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be connected with TAGS auto-completion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going Back and Forward DOES NOT help, it clears Title and tags////&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137852" LastEditorUserId="137852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T14:30:20.187" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T14:30:20.187" ClosedDate="2010-02-06T17:23:07.630" Title="&quot;Post your question&quot; just disables after clicking, not sending question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T14:24:21.697" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37889/voting-on-a-question-after-having-clicked-the-upvotes-downvotes-count-will-displa&quot;&gt;Voting on a question after having clicked the upvotes/downvotes count will display an incorrect value&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Step to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lets say an answer as a current total score of 6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;click on the total score to &lt;em&gt;View upvote and downvote totals&lt;/em&gt; (let say +7/-1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvote the answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the total score shown becomes 7 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the total score shown should be 5 (+7/-2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is just a visual glitch, the downvote is correctly taken into account and, if you refresh the page, you'll get the correct total score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T07:06:07.243" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T07:06:07.243" ClosedDate="2010-02-06T15:39:35.087" Title="Wrong total score shown after a downvote when you view the upvote and downvote totals" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38535" CreationDate="2010-02-06T15:09:49.127" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you're the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; one but I don't find all that so-called &quot;clutter&quot; gratuitous or unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the &quot;meta data&quot; surrounding the posts provide important context (for me, anyway). Voting indicates the apparent correctness/vetting of the information. &quot;Related questions&quot; might give me an important clue to finding more information. Flair gives me a visual cue about who's talking about what... Sure, I might not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; care about the number of viewers... until I do. It might tell me why a question doesn't seem to have the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; answers, yet (low readership).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that &quot;clutter&quot; makes the experience much more immersive for me. That's how I learn. It's a whole &quot;concepts of cyberspace&quot; thing; making a &lt;em&gt;personal connection&lt;/em&gt; with something that, in reality, is little more than a big heaping pile of text. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T15:09:49.127" />
  <row Id="38541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38542" CreationDate="2010-02-06T15:39:45.990" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i asked a question and there has been a couple of answers. I'm getting a message that I may want to ask for a bounty on this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2148239/i-found-a-jquery-image-rotatation-script-and-adding-hyperlinks-to-the-images-brea&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2148239/i-found-a-jquery-image-rotatation-script-and-adding-hyperlinks-to-the-images-brea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really sure what a bounty is or does - however - I did answer my own question - in case anyone else needed the answer for something similar - and I am not allowed to vote for my own answer? Can someone help me as to proper stackoverflow etiquette?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142941" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T15:57:09.723" ClosedDate="2010-02-06T20:09:23.477" Title="Question pertaining to bounties and selecting an answer for a question I asked" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38541" CreationDate="2010-02-06T15:56:06.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are not allowed to vote for your own answer, correct. Because &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; you think your answer is helpful, as you wrote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't found a solution to your problem, you can open a bounty and give some of you reputation to another user that correctly answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you have already found a solution that no one has provided an answer for, you can answer your own question and accept your answer. This can only be done 2 days after the question is posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; is very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T15:56:06.463" />
  <row Id="38543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38541" CreationDate="2010-02-06T15:57:09.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering your own question is completely legit. But as you mentioned, you aren't allowed to upvote it. Others should give their opinion on the quality of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T15:57:09.723" />
  <row Id="38546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38529" CreationDate="2010-02-06T18:04:05.007" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use Google to conduct your search: &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com subjective&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T18:04:05.007" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38549" CreationDate="2010-02-06T18:16:46.277" Score="18" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what the generally accepted/community-endorsed etiquette is in this situation. Ideally I would like to push the original question back onto the front page, as if it were a new question (because it is for me); but editing it seems strangely invasive (?). I believe I could post my own &quot;answer&quot; simply saying that I am having the same problem, and I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that would also make the question reappear on the front page; but that seems suboptimal since I wouldn't really be providing an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I simply ask the question again, provide a link to the original question and accept the imminent &quot;Closed as exact duplicate&quot;? Perhaps that would be easiest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142947" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T19:04:45.323" Title="What if my question is technically a duplicate, but the original question was never answered?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38555" CreationDate="2010-02-06T18:17:37.850" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered some questions on SO, they were migrated when meta was launched, I later created an account on meta and associated it with my SO account.  I (as in my meta identity) then became the owner of those answers, as normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when I disassociated the accounts, my ownership of those answers stuck, and they are still associated with my meta account, even though I haven't touched those posts since they were moved to meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect that my revisions to migrated questions and answers would show up under my username from the original site, grayed out, similar to what happens when the original poster has deleted their account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T22:23:53.643" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:23:53.643" Title="After disassociating accounts, I am still the owner of my migrated answers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38547" CreationDate="2010-02-06T18:20:05.473" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but editing it seems strangely invasive&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not at all. Take the time to do what you can to improve the original question - perhaps it was never answered simply because it wasn't as clear or specific as it might have been. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can write a &lt;em&gt;significantly better&lt;/em&gt; question, you might just want to ask it yourself. If it then gets answered, flag the original for moderator review, and ask that they close it as a duplicate of &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question... That way, the original author (and anyone else who happens to come across it) can still find their way to an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T18:20:05.473" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38547" CreationDate="2010-02-06T18:23:34.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I simply ask the question again, provide a link to the original question and accept the imminent &quot;Closed as exact duplicate&quot;? Perhaps that would be easiest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be in very poor taste -- one should never intentionally create a question knowing that it will be closed. Doing it repeatedly would be grounds for reprimands from &quot;The Management&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &quot;bump&quot; a question back to the front page of the Active list by editing it, &lt;strike&gt;commenting, &lt;/strike&gt;or even posting an answer (although this option doesn't make sense in this situation). Especially on meta, it's not unusual to see a &quot;bump&quot; by someone commenting &quot;I have this problem too&quot;, with perhaps a few more diagnostic details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T19:04:45.323" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T19:04:45.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38451" CreationDate="2010-02-06T18:48:30.233" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, this information would be really useful - it would be great to see it for all types of votes (useful for things like seeing how many upvotes a post receives after its been marked as accepted) but in particular its good for the &quot;special&quot; vote types (closing, accepting answers etc...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T18:48:30.233" />
  <row Id="38555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38548" CreationDate="2010-02-06T19:23:33.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The associated accounts allows the database to &quot;find you&quot; when the question is migrated between sites. When you created the association, meta was able re-address the previous questions to your meta account. As far as the meta database is concerned, your meta account is the author of those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like having your mail forwarded. The post was &quot;re-addressed&quot; to your meta account. Just because you disassociated your meta account (i.e. stopped having your mail forwarded), the database doesn't go through and somehow &lt;em&gt;disassociate&lt;/em&gt; all the old messages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T20:58:02.570" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T20:58:02.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="58377" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:12:34.157" Score="4" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming that straight SEO questions are unwanted here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/387797/good-programming-website-like-so&quot;&gt;Good programming website like SO?&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow is a good overview of alternative forums but makes no mention of SEO in its 9 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8401/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions that aren’t programming questions&lt;/a&gt;? on Meta&#xA;mentions 10 categories, the closest match for SEO being &lt;strong&gt;Web Design/Hosting/CMS&lt;/strong&gt; but that suggests &lt;strong&gt;doctype&lt;/strong&gt; as its top suggestion. While &lt;strong&gt;doctype&lt;/strong&gt; seems like an excellent resource in some respects (CSS questions for example) it only has 14 questions tagged SEO. Those 14 questions do look good, but if you've become used to the hugely well-populated resource that is StackOverflow 14 questions is shockingly small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32545/which-seo-questions-should-be-closed-as-non-programming-non-admin&quot;&gt;Which SEO questions should be closed as non-programming/non-admin?&lt;/a&gt; on Meta doesn't really have much discussion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you've got a tricky SEO question, where do people go? Who do you find yourself asking? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would think SEO would be a great topic for Q&amp;amp;A along the lines of StackOverflow, since its a topic for which there is, intentionally, few hard and fast rules and a lot of conjecture. I'm not looking for rough set of guidelines (sure, they exist), but a good Q&amp;amp;A resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139495" LastActivityDate="2010-07-24T23:46:12.177" Title="Where to find answers to SEO questions?" Tags="&lt;google&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38557" CreationDate="2010-02-05T20:14:31.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.seochat.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://forums.seochat.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.highrankings.com/forum/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.highrankings.com/forum/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/index.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T19:37:42.247" />
  <row Id="38559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38557" CreationDate="2010-02-05T21:02:38.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this current time none of the stackoverflow and associate sites provide adequate space to discuss and learn about SEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The forums given by Albert are good and if you are serious about learning SEO I recommend SEOmoz.org of which site I am a Pro member. They provide good training for their members and on their free sections. (I do not benefit from this recommendation in any way whatsoever.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T19:37:42.247" />
  <row Id="38560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38557" CreationDate="2010-02-06T08:36:35.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: this is a self-promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of months ago we started &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.searchmarketingarena.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Search Markering Arena&lt;/a&gt;, a site based on StackExchange (the same StackOverflow platform) focused on SEO/SEM Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="123527" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T19:37:42.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38569" CreationDate="2010-02-06T20:09:28.423" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed today that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;Users&lt;/a&gt; page on StackOverflow is throwing a javascript error when loaded in Google Chrome (4.0.249.78 36714 Windows 7 x64). Here's the message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;jquery.typewatch.js:89 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token =&#xA;users:23 Uncaught TypeError: Object #&amp;lt;an Object&amp;gt; has no method 'typeWatch'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This prevents from filtering the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130891" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T22:22:48.747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:22:48.747" Title="Filter users on StackOverflow not working on Google Chrome" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T21:27:56.627" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the important things I have learned about programming best practices and security, have come from questions like this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide-to-website-authentication-beta&quot;&gt;Guide to Website Authentication&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Can we have a way to aggregate all of these tutorials/guides into an easy-to-find place that the community can edit through wiki?&lt;/strong&gt; There are a lot of complaints about poor programming practices. This would be a great way to help curb that and stay current with best practices as they evolve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142903" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T22:21:56.453" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:21:56.453" Title="Section for tutorials and guides" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;tutorials&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="38563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T21:32:22.107" Score="2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88303/where-can-i-ask-questions-for-networking&quot;&gt;Where can I ask questions for networking?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where can i ask questions about networking, distributed systems and logic ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow ? or otheroverflows ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139967" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T07:47:51.843" ClosedDate="2011-04-21T15:39:37.650" Title="where to ask questions about networking and logic?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38562" CreationDate="2010-02-06T21:42:00.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All questions and answers are community editable if you have enough rep. Enough is 2000 for &quot;owned&quot; content and 100 for Community Wiki content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for finding them, if you want to know about topic Foo, why don't you search for &quot;Foo&quot;? Consider using &quot;[foo]&quot; because tag searches are often more precise. Well liked &quot;guide&quot; questions almost always have a great many votes, so they come to the top if you sort that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T21:42:00.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38563" CreationDate="2010-02-06T21:44:58.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;ServerFault.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T21:44:58.307" />
  <row Id="38566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38563" CreationDate="2010-02-06T21:45:07.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Serverfault is the appropriate place for networking and distributed systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T21:45:07.217" />
  <row Id="38567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38562" CreationDate="2010-02-06T21:46:56.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow does its best to be an aggregate of all programming questions that the &quot;community can edit through wiki.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are asking for is an &lt;strong&gt;aggregate of the aggregate&lt;/strong&gt;; the important things; just the &quot;good stuff.&quot; But what is important to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; would almost certainly be missing what was important to &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;. That's why we have all this voting, and tags, and all that other search stuff... to help you cull through the piles of text to find &quot;the good stuff&quot; of interest to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; looking for a community consensus, look to the Questions &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;hot&lt;/code&gt; tabs. That's what the community has deemed &quot;most interesting&quot; &lt;em&gt;en masse&lt;/em&gt;. I'm sure that's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; really what you are looking for. So....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want is a way to mark special pages that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; find interesting. How about Stack Overflow favorites &lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/vote-favorite-off.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;, browser bookmarks, social bookmarking (Delicious, StumbleUpon), etc? Unfortunately, nobody can do that for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel that your best-of collection is of general interest to a particular group of users, publish it in a blog or add it to one of those online social bookmarking sites. &lt;strong&gt;I don't see any realistic way for Stack Overflow to bless some group of post as &quot;the official aggregate.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T22:13:01.013" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:13:01.013" />
  <row Id="38568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38526" CreationDate="2010-02-06T21:53:28.880" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the next data dump, you'll be able to confirm the timestamp on that comment (it's not included in the most recent dump). The data dump contains the timestamps of posts and comments to millisecond resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: From the April data dump, here's the comment record in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;row Id=&quot;84684&quot; PostId=&quot;23661&quot; Score=&quot;1&quot; Text=&quot;...&quot; CreationDate=&quot;2010-02-05T23:59:59.907&quot; UserId=&quot;4228&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure enough, the comment was posted less than one second before the midnight rollover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some comments (up to February) that might cause similar trouble:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;$ psql sof -c &quot;select id, postid, creationdate from comment&quot;|grep 23:59:59&#xA;  172364 |  335820 | 2008-12-02 23:59:59.037&#xA;  183993 |  350874 | 2008-12-08 23:59:59.50&#xA;  282123 |  463524 | 2009-01-20 23:59:59.073&#xA;  520148 |    7794 | 2009-04-01 23:59:59.187&#xA;  561158 |  749724 | 2009-04-14 23:59:59.137&#xA;  574475 |  758349 | 2009-04-17 23:59:59.50&#xA;  631688 |  822589 | 2009-05-04 23:59:59.797&#xA;  681025 |  870810 | 2009-05-16 23:59:59.077&#xA;  834963 | 1024997 | 2009-06-21 23:59:59.39&#xA; 1076834 | 1250113 | 2009-08-08 23:59:59.27&#xA; 1197074 | 1359962 | 2009-08-31 23:59:59.85&#xA; 1238060 | 1396654 | 2009-09-08 23:59:59.79&#xA; 1551372 | 1676327 | 2009-11-04 23:59:59.557&#xA; 1659243 | 1773927 | 2009-11-20 23:59:59.93&#xA; 1700045 |  274711 | 2009-11-27 23:59:59.687&#xA; 1737379 | 1843691 | 2009-12-03 23:59:59&#xA; 1816251 | 1911340 | 2009-12-15 23:59:59.593&#xA; 1853936 | 1943315 | 2009-12-21 23:59:59.953&#xA; 1886720 | 1895949 | 2009-12-28 23:59:59.09&#xA; 2010286 | 2077742 | 2010-01-16 23:59:59.403&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One would expect&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; this kind of timestamp to appear with a probability of 1 in 86400 (there are 86400 seconds in a day). The data dump contains 1759400 comments, and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1759400 / 86400 = 20.363426&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 20 such comments in the above list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* disregarding the nonuniform distribution of activity on SO throughout the day&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-04T10:33:02.867" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T10:33:02.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38561" CreationDate="2010-02-06T22:22:40.493" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't reproduce this on Chrome 4.0.249.78 -- have you tried clearing your cache?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:22:40.493" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T22:31:11.850" Score="-8" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Should &amp;lsquo;Hi&amp;rsquo;, &amp;lsquo;thanks&amp;rsquo; and taglines and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28416/what-is-the-policy-on-signatures-and-links-in-answers-for-stack-overflow-question&quot;&gt;What is the policy on signatures and links in answers for Stack Overflow questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to add a signature to all my answers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would consider this fair use when I spend time answering questions. &#xA;The signature would of course contain a link and obviously, yes, it is for improving the page rank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134874" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T23:08:37.903" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T23:08:37.903" ClosedDate="2010-02-06T22:46:34.313" Title="Is adding a signature considered spamming?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38570" CreationDate="2010-02-06T22:37:54.753" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Signatures are not allowed on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put whatever information you want on your user page -- that's what it is there for! -- but cluttering up questions and answers with redundant information is not a valid use of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28416/what-is-the-policy-on-signatures-and-links-in-answers-for-so-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28416/what-is-the-policy-on-signatures-and-links-in-answers-for-so-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5029/are-taglines-signatures-disallowed-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5029/are-taglines-signatures-disallowed-on-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T22:37:54.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2010-02-06T22:56:27.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to be able to write near-perfect English that is easy to understand with no spelling or grammar errors very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to post lots of good answers. Most high-rep users have many answers with 4 or 5 votes; pending a lot of time on one great answer does not give us much payback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to be an expert in something that a lot of users are interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are not quick enough for post the first answer, look at posting the best answers to 2 or 3 questions with bounties each day.  Also consider questions that get lots of views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to learn which answers get the up votes and change your behaviour, so you write more answers like them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to do the above most days for a long time; a lot of up votes come on answers you wrote many months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However you could just try to be as helpful as possible and not care about rep. You will still earn a lot of rep, but you will have a lot more fun while doing it and you will be creating more value.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-06T23:16:23.677" LastActivityDate="2010-02-06T23:16:23.677" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-06T22:56:27.947" />
  <row Id="38574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-06T23:54:18.733" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just closed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2212440/root-directory-www-public-html-closed&quot;&gt;a question on SO&lt;/a&gt; that migrated to superuser.com and the question was locked (I could not subsequently vote on a comment) and all its answers were marked deleted. It appears this behaviour is just for migrated questions; those closed for other reasons do not appear any differently, such as for duplicate questions which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37466/give-an-incentive-for-finding-duplicate-questions/37478#37478&quot;&gt;what I would have expected&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose and intent of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T00:04:01.867" ClosedDate="2010-02-07T03:04:32.840" Title="New behaviour: closed questions are now locked and lose their answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38574" CreationDate="2010-02-07T00:04:01.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure migration has always worked this way. What's the point of keeping answers or allowing re-opening, when the question is still open (and answers still visible) on a different site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T00:04:01.867" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-02-07T00:15:04.650" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack of All Trades&lt;/strong&gt; — amass a certain amount of rep (say, 1000) on each Trilogy site (excluding Meta). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have to associate all your accounts to get this badge, but that's kind of the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T00:15:04.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-07T00:15:04.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T02:53:08.323" Score="6" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Adobe cancel their tag sponsorship?  I don't see their logo on flex/flash or anything else anymore but remember seeing it pretty recently.  I still see sponsored icons for android and sql-server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just curious.  I didn't see any posts about it here on meta (but lots of old posts complaining about the sponsorship and Adobe Flex vs Flex lexer..).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T02:53:08.323" Title="'flex' tag no longer sponsored by Adobe?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T04:14:13.920" Score="8" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions can obviously be re-tagged to the benefit of all.  For example, if you recognize a question as &quot;WPF&quot; specific and it's not tagged &quot;WPF&quot;, it's easy to add the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are many questions, many by folks who seem fairly new to SO, which are quite vague.  The question could be interpreted many ways, and IMHO it's really not possible to re-tag unambiguously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are two examples I've responded to with comments to the OP attempting to clarify the question recently:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2203975/move-node-in-tree-up-or-down/2207972#2207972&quot;&gt;Move Node in Tree up or Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2215104/making-child-control-an-icontainer/2216108&quot;&gt;Making child control an IContainer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the first post I cite above, the answerer whose vote was accepted never acknowledged a problem with his code I informed him about, but now, after rejecting my suggestions as fantasies, has implemented at least one of them. :) Which I find comic, not irritating. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am seeing is that clarification inquiries are often ignored by the OP, or there is a rush of answers that assume one of the possible interpretations of the OP's question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not &quot;rock my world&quot; :) in any way: I'm sixty-six years old, at the end of my career in software, and I had my (very satisfying) fifteen minutes of fame at Adobe decades before the Ipod was an immaculate conception. :) For me, right now, writing my own novel is as important as understanding Linq. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I wonder, is there any possible &quot;gentle&quot; mechanism for somehow &quot;incubating&quot; these really vague questions into a slightly &quot;more ready to hatch&quot; state before they are given full-fledged question status on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I certainly don't have any &quot;vision&quot; in this area of how a constructive mechanism could be created that addressed this, but I trust that the SO collectivity might have some ideas, and so I &quot;dare&quot; to bring this topic up. And, certainly, it's possible that nothing could be created around this &quot;issue&quot; that didn't have a &quot;cost&quot; of dampening spontaneity... and that cost could be &quot;unbearable.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider it a &quot;less than positive thing&quot; if I &quot;give up&quot; on asking clarifying questions simply because they are often ignored. Nor, since the &quot;rep game&quot; really doesn't mean anything to me at this point, do I wish to &quot;rush out&quot; with an answer to a question based on what I assume are dubious assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it becomes apparent to me that it is a waste of time to give a solid thoughtful reply to a question that's ambiguous and for which an answer has been accepted: what does that mean for the over-all quality of SO? Well, maybe a &quot;big fat&quot; &quot;nothing&quot;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139329" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T07:00:05.817" Title="How to handle un-retaggable and vague questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;vague&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38580" CreationDate="2010-02-07T05:24:31.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the user doesn't clarify enough so that good answers can be given, then the question will be closed, probably with the 'Not a real question' reason, but some of us have asked for better reasons here on Meta for that situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T05:24:31.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T05:28:18.590" Score="5" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;My website follows robots.txt, and only has at most 1 connection to a host at one time. It never fetches a page more than once an hour. Well within reason (I hope), so I'm wondering why I'm banned and how to resolve it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users of my service have asked to graph their SO numbers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cralwer's IP:&#xA;208.83.223.136&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cralwer's DNS:&#xA;webnumbr.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And example of me trying to fetch an SO page (30 second timeout)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webnumbr.com/create?url=http://stackoverflow.com/users/90025/paul-tarjan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webnumbr.com/create?url=http://stackoverflow.com/users/90025/paul-tarjan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130173" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T08:11:39.777" Title="Why is my crawler banned by StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;blocked&gt;&lt;robots&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38582" CreationDate="2010-02-07T06:10:49.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send a mail explaining this to team@stackoverflow.com. All non Google/Bing/Yahoo crawlers are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37231/why-does-the-stack-overflow-sitemap-xml-use-a-user-agent-whitelist-instead-of-a-b&quot;&gt;being filtered both by User Agent and IP address&lt;/a&gt; for security/performance reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; Co. are the ones you have to talk to in order to be unfiltered for crawling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T06:10:49.223" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38446" CreationDate="2010-02-07T07:18:36.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think as programmers we could implement something starting with very basic stuff, then adding as we went.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T07:18:36.413" />
  <row Id="38588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T08:11:02.443" Score="5" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just attempted to up-vote someone else's post on a question and got this: &lt;img src=&quot;http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5852/sobugged.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not Matthew Flaschen!  In addition, my up-vote was reflected when I clicked it pictured), but when I refreshed the page the answer was back to zero (this could have been because someone down-voted it, I guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case it's relevant, I'm currently running Safari 4.0.4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139945" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T08:20:09.153" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T09:00:02.990" Title="A case of mistaken identity, or, &quot;You can't vote for your own post&quot; on somebody else's post" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38582" CreationDate="2010-02-07T08:11:39.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;that IP is not in our ban list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; IP in the ban list for 2 GB of bandwidth used in a day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-A INPUT -s 208.83.223.139/32 -j DROP  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T08:11:39.777" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38588" CreationDate="2010-02-07T08:20:10.790" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't reproduce this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T08:20:10.790" />
  <row Id="38591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-02-07T08:34:58.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet sent &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Asimov&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3 laws&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; the ghost in the machine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet wrote Mac OS X in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;QBasic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have a Jon Skeet screen-saver - it locked me out &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet on existentialism, &quot;Did you download my screen-saver yet?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; the pattern from which &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; other patterns emerge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first human to have a legitimate &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/3432/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A fan-site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-19T10:54:12.393" LastActivityDate="2011-02-19T10:54:12.393" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-07T08:34:58.940" />
  <row Id="38592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14643" CreationDate="2010-02-07T08:54:57.740" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Half a year later, Jon's answer isn't true anymore. There is an exprimental timeline feature on the sites now (see Jeff's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt;). Being experimental, it's not part of the UI yet, but it's pretty much what you requested. It works like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/QUESTIONNUMBER/timeline&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a little bookmarklet set up to view the timeline of the question I'm currently looking at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href.replace(/questions\/(\d+)\/.*$/,&quot;posts/$1/timeline&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T08:54:57.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38594" CreationDate="2010-02-07T09:45:33.257" Score="3" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the depth limitation of bullet lists a markdown feature? Or was it introduced in the markdown processor rewrite? I'm talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;data with&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sub nodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and sub-sub-nodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and so on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; - data with&#xA;  - sub nodes&#xA;   - and sub-sub-nodes&#xA;    - and so on&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen people struggle to describe object graphs etc. I see it behaves the same &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/demo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but is this one of those cases where following the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; spec is unnecessarily limiting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T09:47:30.277" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T12:00:12.387" Title="WMD / bullet lists" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38593" CreationDate="2010-02-07T12:00:12.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depth limit of bullets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 1&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 2&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 3&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 4&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;- item 1&#xA;    - item 2&#xA;        - item 3&#xA;            - item 4&#xA;                - item 5&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T12:00:12.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38595" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T13:11:45.413" Score="20" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've nearly given up on downvoting questions. Why? It seems that no matter how awful, there's someone to upvote it. Several someones. Missing critical information? 'Pls send me teh codez?' No matter. I downvote, four people upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sympathy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People looking for that new badge,  voting willy-nilly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tea-party of users who &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; this to become Yahoo Answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were duke, the rep cost to vote would be symmetric (it would cost the same to vote up or down), and there would be a rep floor to vote for questions. Anyone is qualified to vote for answers, but questions should be voted on by people who have demonstrated that they have a clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit1: The joke in the first sentence doesn't make sense with the new title, so I removed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit2: I had considered collecting a sheaf of examples before posting this, but I went ahead because I had a sense from other discussions that a number of people of significant mass in the community were observing the same phenomenon, and might chime in. Seeing the reactions so far, I'll deposit examples, and then you can all decide if this is a real issue or, alternatively, if I'm a grumpy misanthrope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit3: also posted as an answer to the thing this seems to be a dup of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't about rep, at least in my mind. It's about encouraging the effort it takes to write a question that some third person will get value out of some future day. The idea of voting for (and against) questions is that the questions that have more usefulness will be voted up, and less will be voted down. If gaming, or sympathy voting, or martians, persistently upvote awful questions, then the goal is not achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T17:09:51.073" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T17:36:13.323" ClosedDate="2010-02-07T23:23:51.243" Title="Sympathy upvote problem on questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="38598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T14:59:41.837" Score="0" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to suggest renaming the &lt;em&gt;fanatic&lt;/em&gt; badge to something with a more positive connotation. I'm taking regular days off SO just to avoid it (which is hard, as I have to be careful about what Google hits I click). As I know badges are there to support a certain behavior (visiting SO in this case), I feel that at least for me, the naming of that badge has the opposite effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T00:51:43.120" Title="Rename the fanatic badge to something positive" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38598" CreationDate="2010-02-07T15:14:18.287" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add a suggestion for an alternative name independently of the general suggestion of renaming the badge, I'd like to suggest &lt;code&gt;hard-working&lt;/code&gt; here (both in the sense of working hard at SO and not always working hard at work, as discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/podcast-82/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #82&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T15:14:18.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38595" CreationDate="2010-02-07T15:19:56.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without wide-spread statistics (or even a few, solid examples), it's hard to identify if there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a wide-spread problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in a most general sense, it comes across as saying that you don't want to vote because, no matter how often you try, everyone doesn't agree with you. You're using apathy to counter, what? ... subterfuge? Stupidity? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15706/should-good-answers-always-be-upvoted/15717&quot;&gt;Some people simply vote in &lt;em&gt;reaction&lt;/em&gt; to the current vote&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a few random, anomalous votes are so fundamentally damaging to your view of voting, then you're over-thinking the whole thing. &lt;strong&gt;When questions are receiving so &lt;em&gt;few&lt;/em&gt; votes, the random, anomalous vote (up or down) is of &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; statistical significance.&lt;/strong&gt; Really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If voting were &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; wide-spread as to garner dozens-to-hundreds of votes per question, then out-lying voting patterns would hardly be noticeable. In the meantime, &lt;strong&gt;we need more voting on posts, not less.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T16:59:31.933" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T16:59:31.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38595" CreationDate="2010-02-07T15:56:55.810" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really I don't think it is much of a problem.  Even if the question is poorly worded and phrases like &quot;plz send me the codez&quot;, the question has some value.  The person asking it obviously has difficulty figuring out how to accomplish something and is asking for help.  Just because the phrasing of the question sucks, doesn't mean that other people can't find value.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of times I have seen questions which are blatantly asking for the code to a problem, are swiftly dealt with. (Ever seen what happens when someone is asking for a solution to their homework problem without at least trying to find the answer first?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really find it kind of funny (funny interesting not funny haha) that you think that only qualified people should vote for questions...but anyone can vote for answers.  I would guess that most people who vote for questions are not qualified to vote for the answer because they don't know what the answer is, but they would like to find out.  Hence why they up vote the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minus certain instances where moderators have to step in for one reason or another, the whole point of the site is for the collective to decide what is important and what isn't.  By qualifying who is allowed to vote for what, it is kind of defeating the purpose of the site.  One could argue that getting additional tools etc. for rep counts goes against this, but as jeff pointed out there are certain abilities that you can't give out to everyone on day one.  There has to be some order to the site.  Things like voting to close questions and editing other people responses, and note that edits can be rolled back and it takes multiple votes to close a question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="1942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T17:10:45.317" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T17:10:45.317" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T15:57:07.930" Score="1" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does the badges work in SO in terms of implementation and database? For example how are the badges implemented on the database? and how does the algorithm know which badge to choose from when there can be a duplication of steps in order to get one of badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142981" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T16:50:07.847" Title="Badges Algorithm for SO" Tags="&lt;badges&gt;&lt;algorithm&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="38606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38595" CreationDate="2010-02-07T16:19:14.510" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rarely downvote unclear questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting costs reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting a question doesn't help anyone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of downvoting the bad questions, I leave them and just upvote the good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the bad questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I post questions asking for clarifications&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make educated (or sometimes stupid) guesses about what they wanted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to state my assumptions of what they want in the question and ask the OP to challenge my assumptions if that's not what they wanted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if the question is really bad, I ignore it completely, or vote to close as not a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making upvoting questions cost rep will just cause people stop upvoting questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138424" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T16:19:14.510" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38605" CreationDate="2010-02-07T16:23:18.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elves. It's all done by elves. The DB just records which badges the elves have conferred on which users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T16:23:18.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-07T16:23:18.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38605" CreationDate="2010-02-07T16:46:28.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each badge is going to have it's own set process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the &quot;Tumbleweed&quot; badge doesn't need to run a schedule more often than once daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the &quot;Good Answer&quot; badge could easily be event-driven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real answer is: it depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T16:46:28.257" />
  <row Id="38609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38605" CreationDate="2010-02-07T16:50:07.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/so/badges1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screen 1&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ritter.vg/misc/stuff/so/badges2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screen 2&quot;&gt;&#xA;Then we have some queries to figure out who should get what.  It's similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://Im.joking.read.Johns.answer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;multi-use combinatorics problem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T16:50:07.847" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2010-02-07T16:55:51.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't about rep, at least in my mind. It's about encouraging the effort it takes to write a question that some third person will get value out of some future day. The idea of voting for questions is that the questions that have more usefulness will be voted up, and less will be voted down. If gaming, or sympathy voting, or martians, persistently upvote awful questions, then the goal is not achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T16:55:51.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T17:06:43.450" Score="24" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, I've taken the current badges on StackOverflow, and broke them into &lt;strong&gt;actions&lt;/strong&gt; you can perform on the site. (Posting, Editing, etc). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I decided on the &lt;strong&gt;actions&lt;/strong&gt;, I gave each action a &lt;em&gt;gold&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;silver&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;bronze&lt;/em&gt; badge, and saw which badges actually fit into those categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This left me with a list that shows which site actions don't have certain levels of badges in them. I'm not saying that we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; put these badges in place, I'm just giving an overview of where the disconnects are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Posting&#xA;&#xA; Question&#xA;  Views&#xA;   [b] Popular Question - Asked a question with 1,000 views&#xA;   [s] Notable Question - Asked a question with 2,500 views&#xA;   [g] Famous Question - Asked a question with 10,000 views&#xA;&#xA;  Votes&#xA;   [b] Student - Asked first question with at least one up vote&#xA;   [b] Nice Question - Question voted up 10 times&#xA;   [s] Good Question - Question voted up 25 times&#xA;   [g] Great Question - Question voted up 100 times&#xA;&#xA;  Favorite&#xA;   [b]&#xA;   [s] Favorite Question - Question favorited by 25 users&#xA;   [g] Stellar Question - Question favorited by 100 users&#xA;&#xA;  Tagging&#xA;   [b]&#xA;   [s] Taxonomist - Created a tag used by 50 questions&#xA;   [g]&#xA;&#xA; Answers&#xA;&#xA;  Votes&#xA;   [b] Nice Answer - Answer voted up 10 times&#xA;   [s] Good Answer - Answer voted up 25 times&#xA;   [g] Great Answer - Answer voted up 100 times&#xA;&#xA;   [b] Teacher - Answered first question with at least one up vote&#xA;   [s] Enlightened - First answer was accepted with at least 10 up votes&#xA;   [s] Guru - Accepted answer and voted up 40 times&#xA;   [g]&#xA;&#xA;  Commenting&#xA;   [b] Commentator - Left 10 comments&#xA;   [s] Pundit - Left 10 comments with 10 upvotes&#xA;   [g] &#xA;&#xA;  Bounty&#xA;   [b] Altruist - First bounty you manually awarded on another person's question &#xA;   [b] Benefactor - First bounty you manually awarded on your own question &#xA;   [b] Investor - First bounty you offered on another person's question &#xA;   [b] Promoter - First bounty you offered on your own question &#xA;   [s]&#xA;   [g]&#xA;&#xA;  Low-vote accepted answers&#xA;   [b]&#xA;   [s] Tenacious - Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total &#xA;   [g] Unsung Hero - Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total &#xA;&#xA;Reviewing&#xA;&#xA; Voting&#xA;  [b] Supporter - First upvote&#xA;  [b] Critic - First downvote&#xA;  [s] Civic Duty - Voted 300 times&#xA;  [g] Electorate - Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions&#xA;&#xA; Editing&#xA;  [b] Editor - First edit&#xA;  [s] Strunk &amp;amp; White - Edited 100 entries&#xA;  [g] Copy Editor - Edited 600 entries&#xA;&#xA; Retagging&#xA;  [b] Organizer - First retag&#xA;  [s]&#xA;  [g]&#xA;&#xA; Rollback&#xA;  [b] Cleanup - First rollback&#xA;  [s]&#xA;  [g]&#xA;&#xA; Flagging&#xA;  [b] Citizen Patrol - First flagged post&#xA;  [s]&#xA;  [g]&#xA;&#xA; Deleting&#xA;  [b] Disciplined - Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher&#xA;  [b] Peer Pressure - Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower&#xA;  [s] &#xA;  [g]&#xA;&#xA;Site&#xA;&#xA; Viewing&#xA;  [b]&#xA;  [s] Enthusiast - Visited the site for 30 consecutive days&#xA;  [g] Fanatic - Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days&#xA;&#xA; Reputation&#xA;  [b] Mortarboard - Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time&#xA;  [s] Epic - Hit the reputation cap of 50 days&#xA;  [g] Legendary - Hit the daily reputation cap on 150 days&#xA;&#xA; Membership&#xA;  [b] Autobiographer - Completed all user profile fields&#xA;  [s] Beta - Actively participated in the Stack Overflow private beta&#xA;  [s] Yearling - Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation&#xA;  [g]&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Misc&#xA; [b] Scholar - First accepted answer on your own question&#xA; [b] Self-Learner - Answered your own question with at least 3 up votes&#xA; [b] Tumbleweed - Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and low views for a week&#xA; [s] Generalist - Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags&#xA; [s] Necromancer - Answered a question more than 60 days later with at least 5 votes&#xA; [g] Populist - Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x&#xA; [g] Reversal - Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this may be of use to someone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="150512" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T16:42:22.980" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T16:42:22.980" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-07T17:15:28.647" Title="Map of Badges currently in use" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="38616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38612" CreationDate="2010-02-07T17:30:44.707" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I filled the blanks. Bolded entries are the ones I added/modified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Posting&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Views&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Popular Question - Asked a question with 1,000 views  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Notable Question - Asked a question with 2,500 views  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] Famous Question - Asked a question with 10,000 views  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Nice Question - Question voted up 10 times  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Good Question - Question voted up 25 times  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] Great Question - Question voted up 100 times  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favorite&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] &lt;strong&gt;Favorite Question - Question favorited by 10 users&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;strong&gt;(Name change) Favorite Q -&gt; Grand Question - Question favorited by 25 users&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] Stellar Question - Question favorited by 100 users  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tagging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] &lt;strike&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Junior Taxonomist - Created a tag used by 10 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;em&gt;I think this would just encourage abusive behavior, no badge here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Taxonomist - Created a tag used by 50 questions  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;strong&gt;Stellar Taxonomist - Created a tag used by 250 questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Votes&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Nice Answer - Answer voted up 10 times  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Good Answer - Answer voted up 25 times  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] Great Answer - Answer voted up 100 times  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commenting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Commentator - Left 10 Comments  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;strong&gt;Guide - Left 10 comments with 6 upvotes&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;strong&gt;(changed from silver to gold) Pundit - Left 10 comments with 10 upvotes&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bounty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] &lt;strong&gt;Solver - Won a bounty. &lt;strike&gt;This badge can be awarded several times.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;strong&gt;Consultant - Won a 550 rep bounty. This badge can be awarded several times.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;strong&gt;Bounty Hunter - Won 10 bounties.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;strong&gt;Boba Fett - Won 25 bounties.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Reviewing&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Critic - First Downvote  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Civic Duty - Voted 300 Times  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;strong&gt;Outstanding Citizen - Voted 2,000 times&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] Electorate - Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Editor - First Edit  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Strunk &amp;amp; White - Edited 100 entries  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;strong&gt;Editor-in-Chief - Edited 1,000 entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retagging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Organizer - First Retag  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;strong&gt;Cataloger - Retagged 75 entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;strong&gt;Bibliothecary - Retagged 750 entries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rollback&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Cleanup - First Rollback  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;em&gt;I think this would just encourage abusive behavior, no badge here&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;em&gt;I think this would just encourage abusive behavior, no badge here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flagging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Citizen Patrol - First flagged post.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;em&gt;I think this would just encourage abusive behavior, no badge here&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;em&gt;I think this would just encourage abusive behavior, no badge here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deleting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Disciplined - Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Peer Pressure - Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] &lt;em&gt;I think this would just encourage abusive behavior, no badge here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] &lt;em&gt;I think this would just encourage abusive behavior, no badge here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Site&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Viewing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] &lt;strong&gt;Loyalist - Visited the site for 7 consecutive days&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Enthusiast - Visited the site for 30 consecutive days  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] Fanatic - Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[b] Mortarboard - Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[s] Epic - Hit the reputation cap of 50 days  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;[g] Legendary - Hit the daily reputation cap on 150 days  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T03:08:12.887" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T03:08:12.887" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-07T17:30:44.707" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="38617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T17:32:43.533" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm probably just being an idiot, but are there any ways that we can help out stackoverflow outside of visiting the site itself? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17310/how-to-contribute-to-stackoverflow-besides-asking-and-answering&quot;&gt;There's a list of things we can do besides just posting on the site&lt;/a&gt;, but I just wanted to ask if there are any additional things we could do to &lt;s&gt;beat the crap out of expert sexchange&lt;/s&gt; help the site we love so much! :D (reviewing it on other websites, linking to it from blogs, spreading the word, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T20:30:25.140" Title="How can I help stackoverflow outside of the site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;contribution&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38595" CreationDate="2010-02-07T17:36:13.323" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We complain that some users ask hundreds of poorly written questions and we wonder why. Well, for every person that downvotes, there will always be at least one that upvotes thinking that the question has &quot;potential&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A downvote incurs &lt;strong&gt;a penalty&lt;/strong&gt; for both the person that downvotes, and for the one that receives it. Therefore, &lt;strong&gt;it's more expensive to downvote&lt;/strong&gt;, yet the impact can be minimal (-2 is a very small penalty). Upvotes, however, are &quot;free&quot;, you lose nothing for casting one. The downside to an upvote is that even heavily downvoted questions can earn the person that asked rep points. It seems unfair that 5 downvotes are equal to a single upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to understand that, although the questions have potential, &lt;strong&gt;downvotes can have a beneficial effect&lt;/strong&gt;. I've always tried to improve my questions and answers after they were downvoted. It made me question what I had written, helping me identify the weak points. These sympathy upvotes sometimes hurt more than they help; a person that only cares about rep will only see the bottom line; 4 downvotes, 1 upvote? Cool, 2 rep points, enough for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote when the question really &lt;strong&gt;has merit&lt;/strong&gt;, when you see &lt;strong&gt;an effort from the author to improve&lt;/strong&gt;. If a question is mostly bad, but there is some value to it, instead of upvoting, first look at the author's profile, check out his other questions. If there's no improvement whatsoever, &lt;strong&gt;leave the upvote for someone who deserves it more&lt;/strong&gt;. They need to learn something, they need to be stimulated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T17:36:13.323" />
  <row Id="38619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38598" CreationDate="2010-02-07T17:51:46.653" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. There's people here who actually cried on the 98th or 99th day if they missed logging in for this badge... I got mine on meta on 2010-01 (New Year's Eve still in my timezone) and thought it was a great present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, you're right, the definitions of &quot;fanatic&quot; are largely negative.  How about &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Connoisseur&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; as a replacement? It invokes the image of a person who is sophisticated and distinguished, rather than someone who might be a raving lunatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T17:51:46.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T17:58:32.587" Score="26" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow logo on the maintenance page is squashed!&amp;mdash;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.johntopley.com/stackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;example of correct and incorrect aspect ratios&quot; title=&quot;Stack Overflow logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  This issue was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/56763/stack-overflow-logo-on-maintenance-page-has-the-wrong-aspect-ratio&quot;&gt;raised again&lt;/a&gt; on July 12, 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-12T15:31:26.903" LastActivityDate="2010-07-12T15:31:26.903" Title="Stack Overflow logo on maintenance page has the wrong aspect ratio" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;maintenance&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T18:02:39.723" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32247/cant-login-to-so-with-openid-the-signature-verification-failed&quot;&gt;Can&amp;rsquo;t login to SO with openid - The signature verification failed. &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OpenID has worked beautifully for me for a long time, but it's failing me today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cleared history in my Chrome browser today.  When I tried to log into Stackoverflow with my OpenID it failed.  I tried two other browsers, Firefox and IE, with the same result.  I get this message: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Unable to log in with your OpenID&#xA;  provider:  The signature verification&#xA;  failed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to OpenID and reset my password.  It gets me back into Meta with no problem, but when I try again with Stackoverflow.com I get the signature verification failure message again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I managed to get into Meta with enough success to ask this question, so I believe the account is valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just successfully logged in using my Google ID, but then I'm asked to create a new account.  I'd rather not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why am I suddenly unable to log into Stackoverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And please don't tell me how &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; can log out and back in again.  I have no doubt that you can, because I've been able to without any issues for over a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastEditorUserId="131628" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T18:19:17.543" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T18:19:17.543" ClosedDate="2010-02-07T21:36:38.063" Title="Can't Log Into Stackoverflow With OpenID; Success With Meta" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login-problem&gt;" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38617" CreationDate="2010-02-07T19:46:39.283" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd8/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DDD8&lt;/a&gt; last weekend (at Microsoft's Reading UK HQ) there just &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been some random developer going around with a brown envelope filled with &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/how-to-get-stack-overflow-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trilogy stickers&lt;/a&gt;. I didn't recognise &lt;s&gt;me&lt;/s&gt; him though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T19:46:39.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38617" CreationDate="2010-02-07T20:30:25.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An obvious answer, talk it up with people you meet. I'm not much of a programmer, so I talk up serverfault and superuser, especially with people who aren't engineers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141936" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T20:30:25.140" />
  <row Id="38624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38598" CreationDate="2010-02-07T20:46:21.247" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess this just goes to show that you can't please all of the people all of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, 'fanatic' seems a perfectly accurate description of anyone who is present on 100 consecutive days on any of the StackOverflow sites (and yes, I have a Fanatic badge for StackOverflow; and yes, I'm proud of it; and no, I don't want it renamed; and yes I was livid when my vacation in obscure corners of darkest England meant that my sequence was broken at somewhere around day 90 and I had to start over).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T20:46:21.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-05-21T02:26:17.683" Score="22" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've thrown together an app to do so, posted as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T21:06:12.997" Title="How do you place Stackoverflow Flair on Facebook?" Tags="&lt;facebook&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="38628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38627" CreationDate="2009-05-21T02:54:22.713" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Embed Stackoverflow Flair into your Facebook profile using this &lt;a href=&quot;http://apps.facebook.com/stackoverflow%5Fbadge/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;application&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a silly verification step to prevent impersonation.  On a related note, if you have an idea on how to make that part suck less send an answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/884721/using-openid-to-prove-stackoverflow-membership&quot;&gt;this way&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Facebook flakes out (this is partly an experiment with the Facebook beta APIs, there's no separate database backing any of this; so it should scale well) here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://apps.facebook.com/stackoverflow%5Fbadge/?reset=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;super secret url&lt;/a&gt; to start over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug reports appreciated, but preferably through Facebook rather than answers/comments here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T21:06:12.997" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T22:43:03.120" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an employer looks at my resume, sends me a message and I respond to that message to say &quot;Yes I'm interested&quot; or &quot;No thanks&quot; or &quot;I'm not looking for work right now&quot; (the three default system responses), is it possible for other employers to see any statistics about how I have responded to previous employer messages that I have received or is this private between me and the employer who sent me the message? (I'm hoping the latter is the case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T23:16:54.220" Title="Can employers see how many employer messages I have said &quot;No thanks&quot; to?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-07T22:44:33.710" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astackoverflow.com+%22Ruby+off+the+rails%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;Ruby off the rails&quot; site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I don't get &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/150638/ruby-off-the-rails&quot;&gt;Ruby off the rails&lt;/a&gt; in the first few pages. However, a separate question about hosting does, and there are links to the question I was searching for from the first page's hits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I tried some different searches to see if it was two titles having a similar name that was the problem. Instead, I tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22How+do+I+replace+an+executable+with+a+mock+executable+in+a+test%22+site%3Astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How do I replace an executable with a mock executable in a test? site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, and found that that got no Stack Overflow hits. Removing the site: limitation got hits for copycat websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another update&lt;/strong&gt;: Searching for &lt;code&gt;&quot;Is there a secure way to set up a mysql root password?&quot;&lt;/code&gt; got only &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/sitemap.xml&lt;/a&gt; within Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T21:48:37.763" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:04:25.070" Title="Searching in google with a question's title doesn't make the question appear on the first page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38635" CreationDate="2010-02-07T22:49:43.623" Score="7" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case of a 'working' solution but a dangerous one, should I flag it as 'Requires Moderator attention'?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I see lots of these, mostly server side web related answers with serious security problems.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've now seen one ending with &quot;And you're done&quot;, as in saying &quot;Copy-&gt;Paste-&gt;Deploy on production&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if I should flag this kind of answers or just let the community do it's magic. It seems like in this case the community did it's magic as this answer was marked as accepted and was then unmarked after a few comments.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: Link to an example answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2218438/php-is-there-a-correct-method-for-saving-config-data/2218487#2218487&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2218438/php-is-there-a-correct-method-for-saving-config-data/2218487#2218487&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132909" LastEditorUserId="132909" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-07T22:56:39.633" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T15:03:21.230" Title="Irresponsible answers on SO, should we flag them?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38638" CreationDate="2010-02-07T22:50:58.253" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38631/searching-in-google-with-a-questions-title-doesnt-make-the-question-appear-on-t&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I was using LMGTFY to replicate a google search of stack overflow to replicate a problem I had. For &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35256/sorry-posts-cant-contain-that-content&quot;&gt;understandable reasons&lt;/a&gt;, LMGTFY is banned, but what should I use instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus down-votes for those telling me to google for the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T04:59:46.787" Title="How do I replicate google searches?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38636" CreationDate="2010-02-07T22:54:15.940" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38411/coming-up-to-half-a-million-questions-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Coming up to half a million questions on Stack Overflow!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we are very close to reaching half a million questions on StackOverflow. Should we celebrate at certain thresholds? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1796" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T23:05:42.833" ClosedDate="2010-02-07T23:06:06.297" Title="Celebrate questions count?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38632" CreationDate="2010-02-07T22:59:41.157" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Php is not one of my skills, but this looks like it is mostly fragile and contrary to good practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd just go with a down vote and explanatory comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T15:03:21.230" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T15:03:21.230" />
  <row Id="38636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38634" CreationDate="2010-02-07T23:05:42.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Let's celebrate with a surprise party for Jeff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for it to be a surprise, you have to act like nothing is happening. Just keep posting questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;signal&lt;/strong&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T23:05:42.833" />
  <row Id="38637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38630" CreationDate="2010-02-07T23:16:54.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Employers can only see your responses to them, not anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T23:16:54.220" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38633" CreationDate="2010-02-07T23:26:41.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some options/workarounds: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Screencast yourself doing that search and post the video up on one of those video sharing websites&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19775#19775&quot; title=&quot;you have a soul don't you?&quot;&gt;Freehand circles&lt;/a&gt; across a series of unanimated images between each step.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create an animated GIF of the actions you're talking about and posting the image. Super bonus upvotes for freehand circles in an animation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Create ASCII art blocks, leaving &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30046/how-do-i-include-a-code-block-right-after-a-list-without-it-turning-into-a-blockq/&quot; title=&quot;on the right track&quot;&gt;numbered bullets between each step&lt;/a&gt; so it's not all an entire block of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fumetti &lt;a href=&quot;http://alienlovespredator.com/2010/01/19/youre-so-white/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;example in action&quot;&gt;the whole experience&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T02:14:56.187" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T02:14:56.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38598" CreationDate="2010-02-07T23:29:09.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course it is negative. You are spending 100 consecutive days on a geek-site. Get some holidays in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T23:29:09.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38631" CreationDate="2010-02-07T23:31:20.373" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site:stackoverflow.com intitle:&quot;ruby off the rails&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;works, but it's strange that Google doesn't put the direct string match on the title at the top with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &quot;ruby off the rails&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, this isn't a Stack Overflow problem, but a Google problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=ruby+off+the+rails&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=ruby+off+the+rails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-07T23:31:20.373" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38598" CreationDate="2010-02-08T00:51:43.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should just be shortened to &quot;Fan&quot; maybe? While Fan is just short for Fanatic, nowadays the words have two different meanings, with the former being associated with Supporters of Sports Teams and the latter being associated with Supporters of Explosives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a Supporter Badge, so that name is taken. Groupie would be another name for Die-Hard-Fans I guess, but it's not entirely positive either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T00:51:43.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T00:51:43.120" />
  <row Id="38644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T01:01:50.767" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37889/voting-on-a-question-after-having-clicked-the-upvotes-downvotes-count-will-displa&quot;&gt;Voting on a question after having clicked the upvotes/downvotes count will display an incorrect value&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a strange bug: Find a question (or answer) with lots of votes. Then click on the number so you see the number of up- and downvotes. You should now see a green number and a red number. If you subtract the green from the red, you get the number that was there originally. But if you now vote (either up or down), it adds those two numbers together instead. So, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;^             ^   =click=&amp;gt; ^&#xA;57  =click=&amp;gt; _60_          64&#xA;V             -3           V&#xA;              V&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is only slightly annoying, not a major bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132987" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T01:01:50.767" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T02:01:19.953" Title="up/downvote bug (sum instead of subtract)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38649" CreationDate="2010-02-08T02:18:04.420" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21788/how-does-editing-work-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does Editing work in Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I view the changes made to a question, in the SO-style visual diff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I've seen this before, but the &quot;history&quot; button eludes me. Clicking &quot;edit&quot; gives me a drop down of the revisions, but not the actual diff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This edit is a demonstration of the revision history functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142984" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T02:31:07.173" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T03:43:42.483" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T08:08:17.383" Title="View history of changes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;edit&gt;&lt;diff&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38647" CreationDate="2010-02-08T02:31:59.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the part that says &lt;code&gt;edited [some time] ago&lt;/code&gt; under your question. That brings you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/38647/revisions&quot;&gt;the revision page for this question&lt;/a&gt;. I have edited your question as a demonstration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;JavaScript bookmarklet&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also install yourself &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14643/full-timeline-of-a-question/38592#38592&quot; title=&quot;snatched!&quot;&gt;this little bookmarklet&lt;/a&gt; to view the revision history of a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href.replace(/questions\/(\d+)\/.*$/,&quot;posts/$1/revisions&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;URL format&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, for any post (question or answer), grab the ID and swap it out in the following format:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/{postID}/revisions&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T02:39:38.237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T02:39:38.237" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38647" CreationDate="2010-02-08T03:43:42.483" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can review the change list at any time that there are changes through the GUI by clicking on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/38647/revisions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;edited &lt;strong&gt;X min ago&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1600/change1.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you'll be shown all edits in a sequence separated by edit, with additions of that edit in green and deletions in red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2899/change2.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a 5 minutes edit window that &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; show on the edit history (all edits in that window are shown as 1 edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T03:43:42.483" />
  <row Id="38650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38633" CreationDate="2010-02-08T04:59:46.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=(YOUR QUERY)&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=meta+stack+overflow+unicorns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Working Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T04:59:46.787" />
  <row Id="38654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15990" CreationDate="2010-02-08T06:22:36.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO the current &quot;Want to reach top devs?&quot; is good except that the text is placed suboptimally. Black margings on the left of the captions are muuuch wider than on the right and that makes the ad a bit imperfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be much better to have both captions moved to the right a bit (about 10 pixels) so that the margins on both sides don't differ so much. Of course alignment should not be changed in any way - both captions should be moved to the right unchanged and for the very same offset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T06:22:36.917" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T07:25:11.197" Score="0" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4397/purposeful-question-bumping-abuse-or-feature&quot;&gt;Purposeful Question Bumping: Abuse or feature?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199401/what-concept-used-in-net-for-creating-mobile-software&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199401/what-concept-used-in-net-for-creating-mobile-software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so the edit history is obviously a bunch of phony edits intended to bump the question..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this isn't &quot;proper&quot; behavior, but what is the best way to deal with the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139257" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T21:39:22.557" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T00:21:48.653" Title="How to deal with question bumping" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38655" CreationDate="2010-02-08T07:35:12.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to deal with this is to flag the post for moderator attention, with a short note describing what you've observed. The moderators will take care of it from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T07:35:12.320" />
  <row Id="38657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38655" CreationDate="2010-02-08T07:35:36.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm actually surprised the question has gone that long without someone rewriting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4397/purposeful-question-bumping-abuse-or-feature&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Trivial edits in order to bump a question are perfectly acceptable, if it is getting out hand, then just flag it for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T07:35:36.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38655" CreationDate="2010-02-08T07:37:52.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would only make sense if you have a good question or answer that is likely to get upvoted. Otherwise, there are easier ways to get reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user can edit all s/he wants, the post was made a CW. In fact, all of the user's top question were made CW in the same way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T07:37:52.580" />
  <row Id="38659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38655" CreationDate="2010-02-08T07:46:50.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No matter what moderators can do, why not just leave a public comment? Then everyone who reads it might learn about it. These sites are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;run by us&lt;/a&gt;, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T07:46:50.117" />
  <row Id="38660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38655" CreationDate="2010-02-08T08:12:21.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to vote to close as &quot;spam&quot;. That usually hasn't any effect (only in the rarest of cases such a question will get to five close votes), so it's more a symbolic gesture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T21:39:22.557" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T21:39:22.557" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38632" CreationDate="2010-02-08T08:36:18.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let the Community Work its Magic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's sitting at the bottom of the page with a -2, with lots better (and clearer) answers above it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T08:36:18.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38663" CreationDate="2010-02-08T08:58:38.377" Score="2" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty hard to searching only pages contain exact word like &quot;Objective-C++&quot;.&#xA;Search result with double-quotations contains heavy of &quot;Objective-C&quot; results.&#xA;Any tips?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142973" LastEditorUserId="142973" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-12T04:48:48.773" LastActivityDate="2011-03-12T04:48:48.773" Title="How can I get search result exact word like &quot;Objective-C++&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search-results&gt;&lt;exact-phrase&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38662" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:00:53.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any reason the tags page won't work for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you can also search within tags as documented at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T09:00:53.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1596" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:11:00.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't know if I'd be able to find these, but here ya go...from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38330/graphical-badges/38339#38339&quot;&gt;a similar thread.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img197/8514/badgeideas.png?0.6349713410095544&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I know these may not be the &lt;em&gt;designs&lt;/em&gt; you are looking for, but I do think they look a lot better than the bronze, silver, &amp;amp; gold dots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T09:27:14.757" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T09:27:14.757" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38666" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:13:55.793" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2214224/auto-fetch-all-youtube-videos-from-account/2220468#2220468&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2214224/auto-fetch-all-youtube-videos-from-account/2220468#2220468&lt;/a&gt; I can't get code formatting to work. What do I do wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I understand it was still in the list. However, I used two linebreaks between my last listitem and the code. How much linebreaks should I use then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="85514" LastEditorUserId="85514" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T10:09:33.680" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T10:09:33.680" Title="Why does code formatting not work" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38665" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:18:36.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recommend avoiding code inside lists, personally, but you need to indent 8 spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T09:18:36.020" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38665" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:23:42.097" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;item 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;item 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;function(code-in-a-list){&#xA;  //with four leading spaces&#xA;}&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Code: (this line ends the list too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;function(code-outside-a-list){&#xA;  //with four leading spaces too&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T09:23:42.097" />
  <row Id="38668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15990" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:34:30.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An alternative text suggestion for the current &quot;Want to reach top devs?&quot;: &quot;Top developers could see your ad here.&quot; broken into two lines - &quot;Top developers&quot; on the first line, then the logo, then &quot;could see your ad here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having only one text doesn't attract as much attention as would having different texts used with the very same black square and logo. Also IMO it's better to start with something absolutely positive. &quot;Top developers&quot; are absolutely positive - what could be better? But &quot;Want to...&quot; leaves the door open to saying &quot;No, thanks&quot; and this is not so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="132564" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T06:20:16.490" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T06:20:16.490" />
  <row Id="38669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1596" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:34:52.723" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The woot! badge for enthusiast and the more received advertisements (e.g. Android and Red-Gate) shows that the infrastructure is there if someone has gone to trouble of creating them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The graphics could be time-dependent too, so a new badge could have a shiny corner like the sparking new pin it is, with older badges looking a little tarnished and in need of TLC (although not the Gold ones, obviously). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T09:34:52.723" />
  <row Id="38670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:50:08.100" Score="7" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently a recent change implemented &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35721/show-close-reason-descriptive-text-on-question&quot;&gt;this feature request&lt;/a&gt; (or similar).  But there's a bug when there are multiple close reasons listed: the first close reason shows the &lt;strong&gt;description&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;time stamp&lt;/strong&gt; of the second close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seen on WinXP, Firefox 3.5.x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/106090/where-can-i-get-a-fine-tip-keyboard-closed&quot;&gt;this SuperUser question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imagebin.ca/img/wtH8PcXx.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;note text &amp;amp; time on first are duplicates of second&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see the migration's timestamp by examining &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2219684/where-can-i-get-a-fine-tip-keyboard&quot;&gt;the StackOverflow original&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imagebin.ca/img/mbRawk.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;note original text &amp;amp; time clearly seen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples showing this affects all the sites (thanks, random):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/80103/bob-loblaw&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/80103/bob-loblaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/94729/chico-and-da-man&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/94729/chico-and-da-man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313401/bubblicious&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313401/bubblicious&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313342/imdb-kimoze&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1313342/imdb-kimoze&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/89915/free-php-forum-that-is-not-bloated-closed&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/89915/free-php-forum-that-is-not-bloated-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/89915/bloated-php&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/89915/bloated-php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T04:39:15.693" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T04:39:15.693" Title="Bug in close-reason-descriptive-text with multiple close reasons" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="38671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1596" CreationDate="2010-02-08T09:54:34.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/25zt0rk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Citizen Patrol&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/jfw2s3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Commentator&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/nzptlw.png&quot; alt=&quot;Scholar&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/2dmfbed.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tumbleweed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Etc... :-]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://teamfortress2.fr/achievements.php?eng&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Achievement Generator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T09:54:34.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T10:56:55.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T10:09:52.480" Score="0" ViewCount="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17520/problem-in-opera-when-sorting-by-recentviewsnewestvotes-in-user-profile-page&quot;&gt;Problem in Opera when sorting by (recent|views|newest|votes) in user profile page&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an issue with Paginators and Sortables on User Page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click &lt;code&gt;next&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;sort&lt;/code&gt; by a votes/views/recent.. the page &lt;strong&gt;scrolls all the way up&lt;/strong&gt;, loosing focus of eg. &lt;code&gt;answers&lt;/code&gt; section. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have this issue in &lt;code&gt;Opera 10.10&lt;/code&gt;, FF and Chrome works ok&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143019" LastEditorUserId="145210" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-15T13:34:45.463" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T13:34:45.463" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T10:21:51.087" Title="JavaScript issue with Paginators and Sortables on SO User Page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;opera&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36970" CreationDate="2010-02-08T10:26:30.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We changed &quot;lock&quot; so that it prevents questions from being answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; applies when you lock the question itself and not an individual answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T10:26:30.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34815" CreationDate="2010-02-08T10:30:58.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Locking a &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; now disallows new answers from being provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No other changes to lock, just that new ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is largely to prevent the redundant &quot;lock, then decide on a BS close reason to prevent new answers&quot; on some of the really popular old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T10:30:58.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T10:46:06.583" Score="11" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this has something to do with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35721/show-close-reason-descriptive-text-on-question&quot;&gt;recent change regarding close reasons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the reasons have gone (unintentionally?) missing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Super User, I no longer see the &quot;no longer relevant&quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on Meta, there are even only three left, namely &quot;dupe&quot;, &quot;not SO related&quot; and &quot;too localized&quot;. Where are the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side effect is that questions closed with a now gone reason have no reason at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/67128/notepad-load-langs-xml-failed&quot; title=&quot;you are language failure&quot;&gt;a question previously closed as &quot;no longer relevant&quot;&lt;/a&gt; doesn't display any reason at all (yes, it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34815/give-diamond-moderators-the-ability-to-partially-lock-a-post&quot; title=&quot;take a chill pill y'all&quot;&gt;a bogus reason to stop&lt;/a&gt; the many spam answers that should now be fixed):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/ACys1.png&quot; alt=&quot;llama does a spit take&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Reverted this back to [bug] as the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/21612/revisions&quot;&gt;empty close reason&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is still an issue that needs to be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T07:38:02.933" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:38:02.933" Title="Close reasons have gone missing, previously closed as such affected" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38676" CreationDate="2010-02-08T10:48:12.090" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are merging close reasons; there were too many, and they were redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T10:48:12.090" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38683" CreationDate="2010-02-08T11:11:10.770" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see extra whitespace in the page headers of SO/SU/SF/MSO with Chrome 4.0, Opera 10, and Firefox 3.0.  Is it intentional?  Could it be removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1372/screenshotkp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;extra whitespace&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T11:51:35.307" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T11:51:35.307" Title="Extra whitespace" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38678" CreationDate="2010-02-08T11:31:24.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, if this whitespace was taken away, it would look really heavy, cluttered. This whitespace is important to keep it &quot;light&quot;, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess it's only a matter of personal opinion, here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T11:31:24.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T11:34:51.933" Score="38" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just had my first encounter with the new close reasons dialog and I have to say &quot;noooo!&quot; - it's far too big and means that I am guaranteed to have to scroll the page whenever I use it. Also, it provides me with no information I don't already have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I just voted to close a question as a dupe. This involved me scrolling down to find the &quot;close&quot; button on the new giant dialog, and then scrolling up to be able to enter the close reason in the &quot;dupe&quot; dialog. Gah! I hate scrolling!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I suggest that when one gets over either a certain rep or a certain number of closes, this reverts to the older version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-09T06:18:18.163" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T06:18:18.163" Title="Make new close reasons dialog experience-sensitive" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38215" CreationDate="2010-02-08T11:35:12.013" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a tough one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe &quot;Absurd&quot;? I guess &quot;Not a real question&quot; fits the bill but we need new text to describe it, as it will have a different definition on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: completed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;noise or pointless&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question does not add anything useful; having it present on the site is actively harmful because it distracts from other more useful questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-07T05:23:45.907" LastActivityDate="2010-05-07T05:23:45.907" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38678" CreationDate="2010-02-08T11:51:17.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if your name is Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious The Third Twice Removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you're Jon Skeet and have 5 skadillion badges and rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you have access to several additional topnav menus that regular users don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's because the topnav bar can extend all the way across to the left.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T11:51:17.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38758" CreationDate="2010-02-08T11:56:39.387" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to add a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26345/provide-a-programmer-bookshelf-with-your-cv&quot;&gt;&quot;Programmer Bookshelf&quot;&lt;/a&gt; section to my CV but neither&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[![alt desc][1][2]]&#xA;&#xA;  [1]: image url&#xA;  [2]: amazon link&#xA;&#xA; or &#xA;&#xA; &amp;lt;a href=&quot;amazon link&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img alt=&quot;alt desc&quot; src=&quot;image url&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Work when saved, despite working in the live preview&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently have the following in my Background section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img alt=&quot;The Pragmatic Programmer&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HXiIojloL._SY185.jpg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0201485672&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img alt=&quot;Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21ZceZ5jBTL._BO2,204,203,200,35,-76_SY240.jpg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0262640376&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img alt=&quot;The Design of Everyday Things&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419AvyCIVTL._SY185.jpg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0596517742&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img alt=&quot;JavaScript: The Good Parts&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bum-QsrNL._BO2,204,203,200_SY185.jpg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img alt=&quot;Don’t Make Me Think!&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4189W8B2NXL._SY185.jpg&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but on &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/sam-hasler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/sam-hasler&lt;/a&gt; it's rendered as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;            &amp;lt;div class=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;                &amp;lt;h3&amp;gt;Background&amp;lt;/h3&amp;gt; &#xA;                &amp;lt;div class=&quot;statement&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0201485672&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0262640376&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0596517742&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;            &amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastEditorUserId="2541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T23:39:47.597" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T01:14:05.333" Title="careers doesn't allow images in markdown or preview broken" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38676" CreationDate="2010-02-08T12:07:00.510" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to SU, I do think there is a need for a proper replacement for no longer relevant, as users often use it to close thier own questions. A more likely replacement could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question abandoned. (User has not done any work on question after 3 months and no ability to flag accepted answer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Related to Beta Software (Question was related to a Beta or Prerelease version of software and no longer applies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Known software bug or problem. (Problem or item was listed as a bug, and a new version of software/hardware solved problem. Therefore the question is no longer relevant to the listed problem)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I realise my last point may be the exact reason we need no longer relevant on SU&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T12:26:10.180" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T12:26:10.180" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4283" CreationDate="2010-02-08T12:18:36.013" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've spotted this behaviour a few times.  And I always downvote the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T12:18:36.013" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38697" CreationDate="2010-02-08T12:22:19.300" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider a question where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; clear what is being asked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More information (code and/or stack traces) is needed to give anyone a realistic chance of answering the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The asker is not responding to requests for more informaiton&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17282/not-a-real-question-change-to-not-a-valid-question&quot;&gt;has&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34712/close-reason-for-not-specific-enough-questions&quot;&gt;been&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33286/downvotes-versus-close-votes-on-questions&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7829/remove-close-button-as-it-is-useless&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt; and I used to think I knew the answer - incomplete information is not one of the multiple choice answers for the reason for closing a question so it is not a valid reason for closing and you should just downvote instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But recently there has been a trend for people to vote to close as &quot;not a real question&quot; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this now the official (or de-facto) policy?  Should we all start doing the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: this is a support question, I am not suggesting any change to the closing mechanism or penalties for those who vote to close for the wrong reasons.  There are already plenty of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+vote-to-close&quot;&gt;feature requests&lt;/a&gt; for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:09:39.400" Title="Questions with incomplete information - downvote or close?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;not-a-real-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38676" CreationDate="2010-02-08T12:31:49.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be due to a change in the close reason ID (assuming that it is an ID of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at this question of mine - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/189/should-there-be-an-option-to-move-questions-between-so-sf-here-and-su-when-it&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/189/should-there-be-an-option-to-move-questions-between-so-sf-here-and-su-when-it&lt;/a&gt; - closed for being an exact duplicate, it has the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you look at this question - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21612/sites-taking-almost-any-keyboard-input-as-back-button-closed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21612/sites-taking-almost-any-keyboard-input-as-back-button-closed&lt;/a&gt; - which was closed as &quot;no longer relevant&quot; (if I remember correctly) doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if the reason ID no longer exists in &quot;reason description&quot; table you'd get the observed behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the old reason descriptions should be kept, but changed to their replacements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T12:31:49.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38687" CreationDate="2010-02-08T12:38:43.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's clear what's being asked, then don't close it as NARQ -- it's going to be answerable with some work by the OP. Even if the information is somewhat incomplete, the fact that the question is readily apparent indicates that it is a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be ready to close as NARQ if the OP doesn't clarify nor provide the additional information needed. I don't know what a &quot;reasonable&quot; timeframe looks like there, but after a &quot;reasonable&quot; timeframe, bust out the close vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as to the downvote: That is a highly personal choice. I would never tell someone when nor how to vote. As always, vote your conscience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T12:38:43.260" />
  <row Id="38691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38680" CreationDate="2010-02-08T13:29:10.417" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, that is a big wall of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we need an 'expert mode UI' setting in our profiles so that folks who have (say) 6k to 10k rep, and have got the hang of things, can revert to the minimal look and feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T16:01:42.083" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:01:42.083" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T13:29:46.830" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-whats-it-all-about&quot;&gt;Accepting answers, what&amp;rsquo;s it all about?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you get 15 reputation for answering your own question, and then marking it as the accepted answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142369" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:46:28.730" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T17:51:11.683" Title="Do you get the points from answering your own question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="38693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38692" CreationDate="2010-02-08T13:31:57.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't even float to the top when you accept it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T13:31:57.840" />
  <row Id="38695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38692" CreationDate="2010-02-08T13:37:07.550" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't. Neither do you get the 2 points for marking an accepted answer. Also, when you accept an answer, it stays right where it is and does not appear at the top of the list. And beware of giving yourself your own bounty, you won't get the bounty or a refund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142369" LastEditorUserId="142369" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T13:42:25.387" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T13:42:25.387" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38692" CreationDate="2010-02-08T13:38:16.097" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, &lt;del&gt;you only get the 2 points for marking an accepted answer on one of your questions&lt;/del&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(This is no longer true, not sure since when)&lt;/sub&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is simple, to avoid you &lt;del&gt;printing your own money&lt;/del&gt;creating rep out of thin air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T14:46:28.730" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:46:28.730" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38687" CreationDate="2010-02-08T13:51:55.357" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can answer an incomplete question fully. Only, part of the answer will be &quot;&lt;em&gt;... and that is all that can be said based on the data you have given us&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't count on the OP complementing the question, and the content of the &quot;incomplete answer&quot; can be useful to other users. If the answer hints at useful but missing info, other users with similar questions can use that as reference and ask a better question next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can still have good questions with incomplete information. It could be a good seed for a discussion or expert exchange. Downvoting based on data incompleteness seems shortsighted to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143026" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T14:09:39.400" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:09:39.400" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38692" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:06:24.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, there is a legit use case for that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OP asks something,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;works on finding it out by himself,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has an &quot;AHA!&quot; moment, learns something new,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comes back and shares his newfound knowledge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's not really answering himself in this case, he's actually providing an answer for those who have the same question he had in the beginning of his quest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, earning reputation points from that has great abuse potential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143026" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:06:24.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38702" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:09:28.497" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18033/question-about-accept-rate&quot;&gt;Question about Accept Rate&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How comes this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/181018/saurabh&quot;&gt;user&lt;/a&gt; has an accept rate of 0% despite having accepted at least one &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220366/get-unicode-value-of-a-character/2220476#2220476&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; out of 6?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141148" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T22:47:39.587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:47:39.587" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T17:30:44.230" Title="Accept rate bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:10:54.937" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Favelet / Bookmarklet&lt;/strong&gt; to quickly view a Unicornified™ Gravatar based on its MD5 hash: (view &lt;a href=&quot;http://jsbin.com/ohoxi3/2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jsbin.com/ohoxi3/2&lt;/a&gt; for draggable link)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:(function(){var%20q=prompt('Gravatar MD5 hash:');if(q){document.location='http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/'+q.replace(/%20/g,'').replace(/@/g,'')+'?s=128';}})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/24e08a9ea84deb17ae121074d0f17125?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;My normal Gravatar&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/24e08a9ea84deb17ae121074d0f17125?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;My Unicornified™ Gravatar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131916" LastEditorUserId="131916" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T08:35:31.027" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T08:35:31.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T14:10:54.937" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38700" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:12:35.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was accepted at sometime between a few hours ago and now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The acceptance rate is not &quot;live&quot; information, it's calculated by a batch job every few hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:12:35.603" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:24:40.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is acceptance of an answer supposed to appear in the timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, could that be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When trying to accurately answer an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38700/accept-rate-bug&quot;&gt;acceptance rate question&lt;/a&gt;, I headed to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220366/&quot;&gt;potentially referred question&lt;/a&gt;, and I needed to determine to a certain degree of accuracy when the accepted answer had been accepted, which &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2220366/timeline/&quot;&gt;the timeline&lt;/a&gt; isn't showing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:24:40.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:27:26.483" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://clojure.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/4fL9e.png&quot; alt=&quot;Clojure is looking for contributors and programmers.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:27:26.483" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T14:27:26.483" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38680" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:48:03.923" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the &lt;em&gt;very least&lt;/em&gt; it needs to pop up in a place where I don't have to scroll to read it or press the buttons on a 21&quot; panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T14:48:03.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38709" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:52:49.063" Score="0" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just upvoted an answer to my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2201355/ms-entity-framework-vs-nhibernate-and-its-derived-contribs-fluentnhibernate-lin&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and my upvote seems to have been registered as a downvote. This is the answer #3, Tom Bushell. I wonder how can I change this as SO says &quot;Vote too old to be changed, unless this answer is edited.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What went wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143033" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T22:47:25.653" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:47:25.653" Title="Upvote has been registered a downvote on SO?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:57:26.450" Score="54" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://eclipse.org/contribute/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/f2tvmp.png&quot; alt=&quot;Contribute to Eclipse&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18154" LastEditorUserId="18154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T15:51:42.310" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T15:51:42.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T14:57:26.450" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38707" CreationDate="2010-02-08T14:59:05.450" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most likely explanation is that you misclicked the arrow, I doubt there's a bug that big that hasn't been found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a workaround, you can leave a comment asking someone to trivially edit the answer, and then you can change your vote.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There, I edited it for you, you can now change the vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Apparently you could only upvote to 0, so the -1 wasn't from you, it was from someone else, and your problem was that the upvote didn't applied in the first place&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T15:39:51.297" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T15:39:51.297" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38711" CreationDate="2010-02-08T15:18:02.813" Score="9" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know a few close reasons have been merged, but &lt;strong&gt;no longer relevant&lt;/strong&gt; was useful, and now it's not here anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be use in its place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T14:19:13.930" Title="What happened to close reason &quot;no longer relevant&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38710" CreationDate="2010-02-08T15:25:20.680" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say &lt;strong&gt;too localized&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would only be relevant to a small geographic area, &lt;strong&gt;a specific moment in time&lt;/strong&gt;, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis mine. Whoa man I can see &lt;em&gt;through time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T15:25:20.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38713" CreationDate="2010-02-08T15:56:10.877" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Firefox 3.6, some Home4Film advertisements are stretching the entire page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/bdk30z.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/bdk30z.png&quot; alt=&quot;here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the same behavior in Opera, IE8, and Chrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134813" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T23:06:58.167" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T00:11:28.653" Title="Advertisement stretching the page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38712" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:01:34.267" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's apparently an image that is meant for the advertisement banner above the question and in between answers, and it ended up in the sidebar in stead. Someone must have mixed them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:01:34.267" />
  <row Id="38715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:11:53.173" Score="5" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23701/why-cant-i-change-my-vote-if-the-post-has-been-edited-during-the-initial-5mn-gr&quot;&gt;Why can&amp;rsquo;t I change my vote if the  post has been edited during the initial 5mn grace period ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had down-voted somebody for a very short, unhelpful answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After about 5 minutes I came back to see that he had improved his answer.  I attempted to change my vote, but found that the my vote was &quot;too old to be changed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at the age of the question and it said &quot;Answered 6 minutes ago.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't this scenario allow me to change my vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T23:12:24.210" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T23:54:10.850" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T17:24:50.290" Title="When a user changes his answer within the 5 minute interval, your time to change a vote is not extended" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;change-vote&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38715" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:19:26.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the edit happens in the first five minutes, then it counts as being originally written then, and you won't get a chance at a revote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has just changed the vote timer to five minutes to coincide with the edit timer, as per his &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23701/why-cant-i-change-my-vote-if-the-post-has-been-edited-during-the-initial-5mn-gr/38759#38759&quot;&gt;answer here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T23:54:10.850" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T23:54:10.850" />
  <row Id="38717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26447" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:20:12.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just upvoted this question after the same thing happened to me. I just logged into ServerFault for the first time in a long time to see the message &quot;You have 1 new response.&quot; I click it, nothing. I click through the date-spans, nothing. Well, what is the response?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it too tasking on the database to request the x-most-recent responses to show on that page? Fortunately for me, I only have a few questions, so I can manually scrub through and find the newest response. But if I have 10 questions, 20 questions, or 50 questions, this scrub-time becomes very tiresome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:20:12.720" />
  <row Id="38718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38715" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:26:54.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been reported before, and Jeff tagged it as &lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt;.  This is unfortunate because it is awkward for whoever posted the erroneous answer.  Do you fix it quickly (meaning the downvoter cannot cancel their vote) or leave it for 5 minutes (attracting more downvotes?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:26:54.723" />
  <row Id="38720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:38:09.400" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moose.perl.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://naraka.pauleira.com/moose/stackoverflow-moose-ad.png&quot; alt=&quot;Moose is a postmodern object system for Perl 5 that takes the tedium out of writing object-oriented Perl. It borrows all the best features from Perl 6, CLOS (LISP), Smalltalk, Java, BETA, OCaml, Ruby and more, while still keeping true to its Perl 5 roots. &quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143026" LastEditorUserId="143044" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T16:46:22.040" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:46:22.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T16:38:09.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:41:09.660" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://padre.perlide.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://naraka.pauleira.com/moose/stackoverflow-padre-ad3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Perl Application Development and Refactoring Environment&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143026" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:41:09.660" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T16:41:09.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38724" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:45:35.973" Score="5" ViewCount="536" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I logged in to stackoverflow and saw that my gravatar was again a &quot;monster&quot; and not my gravatar pic. I went to gravatar and the avatar was working fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was using a username+stackoverflow@gmail.com address, (I really love the + addresses in gmail) and when I swichted it back to just username@gmail.com (which is also registerd at gravatar, as main account) the proper gravatar picture appeared. I tried to put the + address again to see if it was still not working, but now I got a &quot;email address not valid&quot; error... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are username+whatever@gmail.com emails not valid anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140156" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T23:05:58.183" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T23:05:58.183" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T23:06:23.830" Title="Why are username+something@gmail.com addresses not valid anymore?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:47:41.647" Score="18" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This badge would be awarded for hitting the reputation cap on a Saturday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming it's more difficult on a Saturday than on a Sunday (because of timezone skew) but if Sunday is harder then make it Sunday instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:09:53.013" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T17:43:54.630" Title="Badge suggestion: Overtime" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="38724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38722" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:48:57.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently using username+unicorn@gmail.com, and it &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; to be working for me. Is that just my browser cache? Have I lost my unicorn?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T16:48:57.027" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-08T16:59:43.280" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catalystframework.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/sG9kz.png&quot; alt=&quot;The elegant MVC framework for Perl&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143026" LastEditorUserId="146004" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-12T01:52:56.003" LastActivityDate="2010-04-12T01:52:56.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T16:59:43.280" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38723" CreationDate="2010-02-08T17:03:13.103" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jeff has stated, badges are there to promote good behavior on the site, and I think this does that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:03:13.103" />
  <row Id="38727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38723" CreationDate="2010-02-08T17:09:53.013" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Weekends and evenings are typically dead times - if you think it's hard getting a good answer to a moderately difficult question during the middle of the weekday, forget about it in the evening or weekend!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting more involvement on evenings and weekends is a good cause, and I believe this badge may help to some degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:09:53.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38680" CreationDate="2010-02-08T17:27:00.693" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of leaving it as the huge stonking great big dialog it is, or making it less visible for higher rep users, why not make it hide the reason descriptions by default and either make them only appear when an reason is selected, or make a floaty description box appear as the mouse pointer wanders tantalisingly down the screen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:27:00.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T17:44:01.273" Score="9" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38723/badge-suggestion-overtime&quot;&gt;comment thread&lt;/a&gt;, we should find a consistent way of handling new badge ideas. Recently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38301/badge-answering-machine-closed&quot;&gt;badge: answering machine&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a dupe of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas&lt;/a&gt;, while the Overtime suggestion seems to warrant its own thread (although it has now been closed as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest posting serious badge suggestions (that have an actual chance of being implemented) as new questions, while keeping the fun, not so serious ones in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T17:45:42.800" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T21:59:20.647" Title="Post additional badge ideas as single questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="6" />
  <row Id="38730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38729" CreationDate="2010-02-08T17:48:39.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it'll end up where they all, serious or fun, get posted as single questions anyway.  The fun ones are often still serious requests for badges.  It's better, in my mind, to just catalog them in with the Additional Badge Ideas question and let the powers that be weed through that to pick out which they want.  Close the new ones as dupes with comments of &quot;Please add this to...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:48:39.830" />
  <row Id="38731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38729" CreationDate="2010-02-08T17:49:12.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that we need to have all questions/suggestion/comments regarding new badge ideas in one spot. Let the votes judge which ones have &lt;em&gt;an actual chance of being implemented&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:49:12.263" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38729" CreationDate="2010-02-08T17:55:34.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was the one who posted the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38723/badge-suggestion-overtime-closed&quot;&gt;Overtime&lt;/a&gt; badge suggestion as a single question.  I was aware of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas&quot;&gt;Additional Badge Ideas&lt;/a&gt; thread and the reason I did not post there was because it is too long already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would work well if the administrators occasionally weeded through it and deleted the ones that definitely weren't going to be implemented, or had already been implemented, to keep the size down, but at 4 pages it's hard to search for a specific suggestions and new ones will go unnoticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe there are just too many badge suggestions already, and new ones should not be posted at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T17:55:34.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38729" CreationDate="2010-02-08T18:18:23.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another advantage of posting badge ideas as single questions is the the automatic &quot;related questions&quot; search that happens when you enter a new question.  It cannot (at present) automatically search other &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to the question you are answering, so it's easier to avoid inadvertent duplicates with single questions than with all suggestions in one thread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T18:18:23.230" />
  <row Id="38734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38729" CreationDate="2010-02-08T18:27:52.390" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to think we need to add another trilogy site just to handle badge suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;badges.meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T18:27:52.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38680" CreationDate="2010-02-08T19:10:34.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;FWIW, here's the new huge close box, as it appears on my usual size browser on my 13&quot; MacBook laptop (my browser is not quite maximised). Yes, the whole thing doesn't even quite fit vertically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/so-close-window-huge.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T19:10:34.903" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38680" CreationDate="2010-02-08T19:51:07.287" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The layout wastes a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of space for no real reason. After stripping out the pointless table tags, I restyled it and was able to get the exact same information on-screen easily:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_close_dialog.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Click to view original size - 1024x768&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_close_dialog_scaled.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of SO question with close dialog in 1024x768 window&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T19:51:07.287" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36818" CreationDate="2010-02-08T20:07:59.003" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to a post from Helder Ribeiro on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-exchange-gets-a-blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow blog&lt;/a&gt; I found today a very interesting text on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://yoomoot.soup.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yoomoot blog&lt;/a&gt;. The text is written to promote yoomoot, but I think parts of it fit stackexchange very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using some of the ideas from that blog to explain my view on the stackexchange vs. forums question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sins of online forums:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                |    Email group    |   stackexchange  | &#xA;--------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Disorder        |         More      |       lot less   | &#xA;--------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Clutter         |         More      |       lot less   | &#xA;--------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Repetitiveness  |         More      |       lot less   | &#xA;--------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Aimlessness     |         More      |       Less       | &#xA;--------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Incivility      |         More      |       Less       | &#xA;--------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Virtues of online forums:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                          |    Email group    |   stackexchange  | &#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Focus                     |         Less      |       More       | &#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Reusability               |         Less      |       More       | &#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Streamlined notifications |         Less      |       More       | &#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Navigability              |         Less      |       More       | &#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;Consistency               |         Less      |       More       | &#xA;------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blog post I mentioned has very interesting texts explaining each term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T20:07:59.003" />
  <row Id="38741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28642" CreationDate="2010-02-08T20:17:31.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason we enjoy Stack Overflow is because we can be successful very easily and quickly.  There are enough questions here that we can find one that we are able to answer - this is a win.  Then people up vote or accept the answer, and we feel very successful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At most jobs you probably don't have a project that can be completed to success in the same amount of time.  And if you did then you probably wouldn't have someone come put a big gold star on your computer monitor, or some other instant recognition of your success.  Most likely you just get another change request in your queue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Stack Overflow there is no feature backlog or deadlines, which makes it significantly less stressful and more enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;a href=&quot;http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kathy Sierra&lt;/a&gt; has written about how much people enjoy feeling smart and like a winner.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/07/i_know_somethin.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This was the closest I could come&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/rumours.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;rumors&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T20:17:31.673" />
  <row Id="38742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:15:43.840" Score="10" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a bit of a morbid concept, but having recently had a friend die unexpectedly and having to deal with the online repercussions of this event has gotten me to thinking about what should happen to my accounts when I kick the bucket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't had any great insights yet, but here are some things I think are worth thinking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an entry in the FAQ telling the person's loved ones what to do with respect to the account would be extremely helpful, specifically who to contact, how to contact them, and what proof is necessary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some form of optional date of death on the user account screen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some way to mark the user as no longer being able to generate content and blocking any attempt to login as the user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The danger I see in implementing such features is the possibility of someone faking another person's death and thereby locking a user out of his or her account or worrying his or her friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130036" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T21:43:22.610" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:24:25.270" ClosedDate="2010-02-08T23:30:39.843" Title="How should a user's death be handled?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="24" />
  <row Id="38743" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:21:05.547" Score="5" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, there not being a way to specify the &lt;em&gt;end&lt;/em&gt; of a list, and multiple line breaks making list item contents paragraphs, the only way to have adjacent lists is to alternate between ordered and unordered lists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. ordered list item&#xA;&#xA;- unordered list item&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above text outputs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;ordered list item&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;unordered list item&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like a bug to me. I tested in the &quot;canonical&quot; PHP version and it does distinguish the lists. It seems that Showdown is more greedy than expected when looking ahead for subsequent list item markers. This is how it's rendered off the server:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ordered list item&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unordered list item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: egads, the server version has a completely other bug (rendering the second list as a child of the first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132307" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T08:33:57.677" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T08:33:57.677" Title="Adjacent lists in WMD swallowed into a single list" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="38744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38742" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:21:18.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I am thinking about doing outside of SO specifically is setting up some form of password escrow that will allow my family to get at my usernames and passwords after I am dead.  I am also giving thought to building an online &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadman%27s_switch#Software_uses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;deadman's switch&lt;/a&gt;, but there are many dangers associated with that (the possibility of bugs in the code, sites changing format, accidental trigger due to illness, the danger of putting that much power in one place, etc.). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130036" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T21:21:18.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38757" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:25:03.623" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been looking at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1450?tab=favorites#tab-top&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow favourites&lt;/a&gt; sorted by date added to favourites. I think the ordering is wrong because the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2224379/ruby-on-rails-how-do-you-check-if-a-file-is-an-image&quot;&gt;Ruby on Rails: How do you check if a file is an image?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; question was asked today and I added it to my favourites today, so it should appear first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that it's actually ordering by recent activity, because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;Strangest language feature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was asked on 3 January but had &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature/2224741#2224741&quot;&gt;an answer&lt;/a&gt; added 35 minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.johntopley.com/stackoverflow_favourites.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Stack Overflow Favourites&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T08:59:33.263" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T08:59:33.263" Title="Ordering is wrong when sorting favourites by date added" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="38746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38742" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:27:13.370" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While dealing with one's online estate is an issue many highly connected people should think more about, what's the worst thing that happens to a SOFU account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one can get access, so it goes permanently dormant. Good questions and answers remain helping people all over the internet. Bad questions and answers remain voted into oblivion, hurting no one. The only real bummer is that contact info in the profile silently stops working. OK, not ideal, but not really a big problem either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the team should set policy on how to handle things in the event that they get contacted by someones heirs, but there is no need for a lot of infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T22:15:15.177" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:15:15.177" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38742" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:40:42.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/61178/how-do-you-prepare-for-death&quot;&gt;How do you prepare for death?&lt;/a&gt; at Super User:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dutch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediamatic.net/index.php?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mediamatic.net&lt;/a&gt; organized a few events on this topic, like last year's: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediamatic.net/page/65222/en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ik R.I.P. — About death and self-representation on the internet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their website &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ikrip.nl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IkRIP&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;I Rest in Peace&quot;) allows one to define what to do with ones profile on their websites (including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.picnicnetwork.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PICNIC Network&lt;/a&gt;). I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ikrip.nl/page/1329/en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; should be standard functionality on sites like Facebook et al. Maybe here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T21:40:42.727" />
  <row Id="38748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38742" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:46:24.147" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not unlike a book club you might join.  You occasionally go the the club, people get to know you a little bit, and one day you stop attending.  Meeting minutes may include your contributions to the discussion for future attendees, but there's no need to post a message to all that details the reason you are not attending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, such a public notice would be more disruptive than no notice at all.  Those who are personally interested in the deceased might ask around and find someone closer to you that will then fill them in, and it will be, as it should, a private chat regarding a mutual friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The account does not accrue debt, nor are there any pecuniary rights associated with it.  It has no extrinsic value - the reputation was associated with the knowledge and skills of the deceased, so there's no reason to pass that along in the will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who owns the account might themselves choose to give their account details to a trustee if they would like something special done with the account after their death.  This is what a trustee, whether legal, or merely a good friend or family member, does for one after their passing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The deceased did not make it clear what was to happen with their account prior to death, therefore there is nothing that needs to be done, and therefore NO need to provide this in the system.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for those families that have concerns, they may contact team@stackoverflow.com and discuss their options with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T21:46:24.147" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38729" CreationDate="2010-02-08T21:59:20.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had to give up with retag-requests all in one post, I think we have to move on from doing badge requests that way also.  We should start creating badge request standalone questions, so each badge can be evaluated alone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;badges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tags should be used, so The Dood and his team will see them in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37844/interesting-stackoverflow-searches/37846#37846&quot;&gt;feature-request list&lt;/a&gt; that they generate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T21:59:20.647" />
  <row Id="38750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38631" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:04:25.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;tongue in cheek&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what you're talking about, but it works for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=Searching%20in%20google%20with%20a%20question%E2%80%99s%20title%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20make%20the%20question%20appear%20on%20the%20first%20page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=Searching%20in%20google%20with%20a%20question%E2%80%99s%20title%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20make%20the%20question%20appear%20on%20the%20first%20page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;/tongue in cheek&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that Google doesn't guarantee that any particular result will show up in a search, and SO only lists about 10% of the total questions in its sitemap.  If the question doesn't appear in the sitemap, and nothing links to it, it may fall from Google index.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, search is an interesting business, and while the page title is important, the indexes used might give other results a higher priority than the SO question even if the title is the same as your search terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:04:25.070" />
  <row Id="38751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:13:54.663" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.reddit.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/EYIn6.png&quot; alt=&quot;The elegant MVC framework&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143062" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T01:09:35.620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T01:09:35.620" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-08T22:13:54.663" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38742" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:24:25.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be pretty rare that an active user dies and his real life friends/family both know about his SO account and think that anything needs to be done about it. (Stack Overflow is not a social networking site!) Rare enough that it should be handled by e-mailing the SO team rather than having any particular procedure. The appropriate action would probably be to just delete the account. All the user's questions, answers, and comments would still be there, their name would just be grey and unclickable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the team gets an e-mail from Alice saying that Bob has passed away, they have no way of confirming that. I guess all they could do would be to send an e-mail to Bob informing him that someone has requested that his account be closed. If he doesn't respond after some time (a month?), then his account could be removed.  Of course if Alice has access to Bob's e-mail, she could just request the account deletion directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:24:25.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38743" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:30:55.527" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First list&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second Item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second List&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fourth Item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hello World&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HTML comments seem to eliminate the problem. It would be nice if a couple returns distinguished one from another, but unfortunately that isn't the case. For now &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- foo --&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; seems to break them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-08T22:36:32.957" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:36:32.957" />
  <row Id="38754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:32:34.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I checked out the timeline on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/38299/timeline&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and saw that the last date showing is Feb 9, when as of this moment we are still on the 8th (I checked server time: 2010-02-08 22:32:14Z).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:32:34.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38743" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:33:28.097" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Markdown really supports what you want. Refer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://babelmark.bobtfish.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;babelmark&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://goo.gl/TWFQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://goo.gl/TWFQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; have two lists on top of each other (still an odd use case) I suggest doing this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. ordered list item&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- list separator --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;- unordered list item&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which produces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ordered list item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unordered list item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T22:33:28.097" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38680" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:35:04.537" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greasemonkey to the rescue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Now with &quot;floaty description box appear as the mouse pointer wanders tantalisingly down the screen&quot; as suggested by @CodeByMoonlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: A screen shot (&amp;amp; to make sure I hit my free hand circle quota, I've indicated where the cursor was, since print screen doesn't capture it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/14twoyd.png&quot; alt=&quot;compact question close dialog&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teh codez:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;        if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;        } else { &#xA;            $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;        var popup = $(&quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;            .css({&#xA;                position: &quot;absolute&quot;,&#xA;                border: &quot;solid 1px #000&quot;,&#xA;                display: &quot;none&quot;,&#xA;                background: &quot;#FFD&quot;,&#xA;                width: &quot;200px&quot;,&#xA;                padding: &quot;5px&quot;,&#xA;                textAlign: &quot;left&quot;,&#xA;                zIndex: 100,&#xA;                &quot;-webkit-box-shadow&quot;: &quot;2px 2px 5px #666&quot;,&#xA;                &quot;-moz-box-shadow&quot;: &quot;2px 2px 5px #666&quot;,&#xA;                &quot;box-shadow&quot;: &quot;2px 2px 5px #666&quot;&#xA;            })&#xA;            .appendTo(&quot;body&quot;);&#xA;        $(&quot;.post-menu&quot;).bind(&quot;DOMNodeInserted&quot;, function() {&#xA;            $(&quot;ul.close-reasons&quot;).closest(&quot;div&quot;).css(&quot;width&quot;, &quot;auto&quot;);&#xA;            $(&quot;ul.close-reasons tr:odd&quot;).each(function() {&#xA;                $(this).hide();&#xA;                var text = $(this).text();&#xA;                $(this).prev()&#xA;                    .mousemove(function(e) { &#xA;                        popup.text(text).css({top: (e.pageY + 15) + &quot;px&quot;, left: (e.pageX + 15) + &quot;px&quot; }).show();&#xA;                    })&#xA;                    .mouseleave(function() {&#xA;                        popup.hide();&#xA;                    });&#xA;            });&#xA;        });&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: it uses the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DOMNodeInserted&lt;/a&gt; event, which I'm not sure is supported by all browsers... tested &amp;amp; working in Firefox 3.6 though, which I'm guessing is where most greasemonkey is run from anyway)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T00:11:28.247" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T00:11:28.247" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38745" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:44:00.870" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;edit: you're right -- bugfix going in now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was tying to the latest favorite by ANY user, not you specifically. Which made it superficially look correct as long as you were the LAST person to favorite something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T08:59:26.243" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T08:59:26.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38684" CreationDate="2010-02-08T22:51:12.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Works OK for me, confirmed on careers (although here is the same, because careers and SO have the same code paths). I think your syntax is slightly wrong, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&quot; alt=&quot;TEH GOGLES!&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&quot; alt=&quot;TEH GOGLES!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&quot; alt=&quot;TEH GOGLES!&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;[![THE GOGLES!][1]][2]&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif&#xA;[2]: http://google.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T01:14:05.333" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T01:14:05.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23701" CreationDate="2010-02-08T23:14:15.767" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am relaxing the vote undo window to 5 minutes to coincide with the editing grace window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-08T23:14:15.767" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1218" CreationDate="2010-02-09T00:09:10.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the first issues I had after my first quarter of an hour on StackOverflow was &quot;Where is the &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; button on &lt;em&gt;tag page&lt;/em&gt;?! am I blind?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that is desirable usability feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T00:36:27.137" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T00:36:27.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T00:09:10.297" />
  <row Id="38761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38712" CreationDate="2010-02-09T00:11:28.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fixed!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and now the body is not too short to post as an answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T00:11:28.653" />
  <row Id="38763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2010-02-09T01:10:02.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know you're addicted to SO when you can't send a short E-Mail or Facebook message any more without thinking &quot;wait, that's not 15 characters yet!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T01:10:02.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T01:10:02.110" />
  <row Id="38764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38782" CreationDate="2010-02-09T02:17:00.267" Score="7" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the status on the SO moderator elections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the election was planned to take one week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans on when the results will be published? &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; the results be published, or just who the new moderator is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did I overlook a big election thread?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T03:42:17.207" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T05:28:01.777" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T05:28:06.300" Title="When will the elections end, and Will they publish the results?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38770" CreationDate="2010-02-09T02:21:24.287" Score="-1" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really hope I'm not the only one that feels this way.  On StackOverflow, there are some, but thankfully a small number, of users that are rude or seem to be actively trying to make the site a negative place.  I haven't experienced this negativity first-hand (though I probably will after posting this), but I feel like these few are tainting StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real negative feedback tools we have are flagging offensive comments and down-voting answers.  But not all of these comments are against the community rules, per se, nor are mean answers incorrect, which is what would warrant a down-vote.  Plus, there are other actions, like overzealous closing and down-voting, that I'm sure make some people feel unwelcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hesitate to request a feature allowing users to anonymously censure each other, since that could make these same users lash out and make things worse.  But do you think there's a good way that we could discourage jerks or eventually vote them off SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just found a related question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15143/whats-with-all-the-rude-comments-recently/15168#15168&quot;&gt;rude comments&lt;/a&gt;.  The answer there is to flag rude comments.  I thought flagging was reserved for offensive comments.  Also, I'm not sure how anonymous flagging is kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141265" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T16:27:20.510" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:38:17.250" Title="Is there any way to anonymously censure users for anti-social behavior?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;culture&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38764" CreationDate="2010-02-09T02:36:12.420" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They printed out the User Voting page and are throwing darts at it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too bad none of them have good aim. We can expect one to hit the paper by Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we will know who will become the next Moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T04:41:47.547" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T04:41:47.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="198" CreationDate="2010-02-09T02:59:55.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why the author's answer must immediately show the rep, etc. See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2226380/c-what-using-statement-do-i-need-here&quot;&gt;question on SO&lt;/a&gt;. This is indicative of the higher rep author getting the up-votes and accepted answer when clearly another answer is more complete and provides a code example. Give a 5 minute window before the author's information is visible.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also add that this is not a singular, or rare occurrence. There have been a couple of occasions that this has happened to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/154185/what-is-object-marshalling&quot;&gt;question on SO&lt;/a&gt; does not directly reflect a need for anonymity during a &lt;em&gt;grace period&lt;/em&gt;, it does show a disparity in the amount of reputation one answer will get over another even though the answers are essentially the same. I view both answers as identical&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2245425/can-i-inline-a-variable-if-its-idisposible/2245523#2245523&quot;&gt;Can I &quot;inline&quot; a variable...&lt;/a&gt; - although, props to the author of the accepted answer for editing his answer and referring readers to a better answer in the same thread.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T16:30:00.830" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:30:00.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38765" CreationDate="2010-02-09T03:08:52.447" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, I'm not sure how anonymous flagging is kept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kept &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; anonymous. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37345/should-moderators-be-able-to-see-who-flags-an-item&quot;&gt;Even the moderators ♦ don't see who flags comments&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hesitate to request a feature allowing users to anonymously censure each other, since that could make these same users lash out and make things worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it could have a chilling effect on other users, who see the effects and withdraw. There's something inherently unsettling when users are removed based solely on anonymous complaints. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bitter flame-wars and pointless arguing are no fun. So if you see something truly inappropriate, by all means, flag it and move on. But think twice before you start flagging every little thing that annoys you, or flagging based on the ID of the user who posted rather than what was written. You never know who might be reading your words with just a touch of irritation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T03:08:52.447" />
  <row Id="38772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="94824" CreationDate="2010-02-09T03:31:04.593" Score="14" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the same way that you can search for closed questions using the &lt;code&gt;closed:1&lt;/code&gt; search clause, is it possible to filter out migrated questions from your search?  I don't see something like a &lt;code&gt;migrated:0&lt;/code&gt; option, but I'm not as familiar with the search options as I should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why I ask is that it is getting more and more difficult to search for bad closed questions to vote to delete as more questions are migrated, because these migrated questions always appear in the search results for &lt;code&gt;closed:1&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that outright identifying them as migrated &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10641/instead-of-closed-for-migrated-questions-migrated&quot;&gt;has been declined&lt;/a&gt;, and that a filter for display of migrated questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31264/proposal-option-to-filter-out-migrated-or-closed-questions&quot;&gt;has been requested&lt;/a&gt;, but I thought that I would check to see if there was a simple search option I was missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135615" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-12T13:25:40.130" LastActivityDate="2011-06-12T13:25:40.130" Title="Can I search for migrated questions, or filter them out in searches?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38840" CreationDate="2010-02-09T04:47:50.563" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question brings up a similar idea: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35211/adding-someone-elses-answer-to-your-own-to-make-a-better-answer&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35211/adding-someone-elses-answer-to-your-own-to-make-a-better-answer&lt;/a&gt;, but doesn't address it for what I'm suggesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you get tons of answers, some may be great, some may be bad, and &lt;strong&gt;some may be good but don't provide a complete solution&lt;/strong&gt;. When I get an answer that I accept that has helped me figure out a solution, I want to accept it as the winner even if it hasn't provided a complete solution. At this point I'd like to put my exact solution not as an addendum to my question, but rather below it as like &quot;OP provided solution&quot;, or something to that affect. This could speed up the search efforts by passers-by instead of them having to read all the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:35:09.260" Title="Add a way to provide a guided-solution to your own answer without answering the question yourself" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38776" CreationDate="2010-02-09T04:51:50.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you want to answer your own question and accept it? You can always credit the original poster who helped you and link to it for more info, and it makes it even easier for future users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T04:51:50.743" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38788" CreationDate="2010-02-09T05:03:33.580" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to search for posts by a particular user. I'm not sure of the syntax, or if there is a specific search syntax for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is search made on user questions specific?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T05:15:13.747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T08:01:34.873" Title="Searching for a particular user's questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38778" CreationDate="2010-02-09T05:06:55.900" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can search user questions from the search bar, just input &lt;code&gt;user:130154&lt;/code&gt; to see my questions here on Meta. You can get your own questions by searching &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T05:06:55.900" />
  <row Id="38780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38778" CreationDate="2010-02-09T05:07:11.110" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For eg, Search &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:138350+pagination&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:138350 pagination&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T05:07:11.110" />
  <row Id="38782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38764" CreationDate="2010-02-09T05:28:01.777" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-results/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-results/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T05:28:01.777" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T06:15:39.233" Score="3" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is loading other SO users flair pages to create a simple overview of one’s friends scores (rep and badges) considered abuse? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know how Jeff feels about “social” features and I would be really bummed out if I managed to get myself banned for creating an HTML page with an iframe for each of my buddies. The page would be my browser home page, so it would get quite a few hits during the day. Hardly anything that would put any noticeable load on the servers, but I do wonder if I would get banned on principle alone. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10932" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T06:23:35.133" Title="Can Flair be abused?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;ban&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38783" CreationDate="2010-02-09T06:23:35.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But watch out for the DDOS filter. If you load to many pages too quickly, you get like a 15-20 second ban. This can happen pretty quickly when you are doing 5-10+ page views (flairs are each a view I believe) on a page load.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T06:23:35.133" />
  <row Id="38785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-02-09T07:03:20.817" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/999#999&quot;&gt;Beginner's Luck&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Rookie of the Year&lt;/strong&gt; (or &quot;of the Week&quot;). Hit 1000 rep within the first week of joining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T07:03:20.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T07:03:20.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38745" CreationDate="2010-02-09T07:17:00.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This morning the ordering is different again! This feature is definitely busted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.johntopley.com/stackoverflow_favourites2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;Stack Overflow Favourites&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T07:17:00.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38787" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T07:17:28.127" Score="18" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've analyzed the votes &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-results/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;based on the .blt file&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;                           User : [1st, 2nd, 3rd]&#xA;             ------------------------------------&#xA;             Robert C. Cartaino : [045, 061, 074]&#xA;                 George Stocker : [153, 170, 170]&#xA;                           Kyle : [207, 248, 211]&#xA;                           Will : [336, 231, 168]&#xA;               Jonathan Sampson : [330, 267, 233]&#xA;                    Jason Cohen : [350, 258, 221]&#xA;                    John Topley : [217, 159, 165]&#xA;               Jonathan Leffler : [321, 222, 189]&#xA;                         mmyers : [317, 211, 191]&#xA;                      John Rudy : [145, 144, 163]&#xA;                    Dave DeLong : [212, 164, 153]&#xA;                         Welbog : [198, 143, 157]&#xA;                         jjnguy : [129, 138, 145]&#xA;                            Kip : [121, 177, 167]&#xA;                          Gumbo : [408, 252, 231]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is the code I tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import re&#xA;&#xA;d=open(&quot;stack-overflow-moderator-election-2010-votes.blt&quot;).read()&#xA;d=d.replace('&quot;Stack Overflow Moderator Election 2010&quot;',&quot;&quot;)&#xA;d=re.sub(&quot;#.*?\n&quot;,&quot;&quot;,d)&#xA;&#xA;votes,names=d.split(&quot;\n0\n&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;votes=[map(int,x.split()) for x in re.findall(&quot;1 (.*) 0&quot;,votes)]&#xA;#[[1, 2, 3], [3, 4, 2], [3, 2, 5], [3, 6, 7],&#xA;&#xA;names=[{&quot;name&quot;:n.strip('&quot;'),&quot;votes&quot;:[0,0,0]} for n in names.strip().split(&quot;\n&quot;)]&#xA;#[{'votes': [45, 61, 74], 'name': 'Robert C. Cartaino'},&#xA;&#xA;for x in votes:&#xA;    if x:names[x.pop(0)-1]['votes'][0]+=1&#xA;    if x:names[x.pop(0)-1]['votes'][1]+=1&#xA;    if x:names[x.pop(0)-1]['votes'][2]+=1&#xA;&#xA;lines=[&quot; %30s : %s&quot; % (&quot;User&quot;,&quot;[1st, 2nd, 3rd]&quot;)]&#xA;lines.append(&quot; &quot;*13+&quot;-&quot;*36)&#xA;&#xA;for x in names:&#xA;    lines.append(&quot; %30s : %s&quot;%(x['name'],x['votes']))&#xA;&#xA;print &quot;\n&quot;.join(lines)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T08:37:29.307" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T08:37:29.307" Title="Vote analysis for stackoverflow moderator election" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38778" CreationDate="2010-02-09T08:01:34.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please refer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt; -- this is linked on every search result page in the right hand column as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T08:01:34.873" />
  <row Id="38789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38790" CreationDate="2010-02-09T08:45:09.200" Score="3" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you order by votes on your &lt;strong&gt;Profile Page&lt;/strong&gt;, for questions with the &lt;strong&gt;same number of votes&lt;/strong&gt; what do you think of then ordering them by &lt;strong&gt;accepted answer&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as an example, if I has answered 10 questions, each having three up votes and two of them having been accepted as the answer, on my profile page i would like to see the accepted answers appearing above the other question with the same amount of rep given to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: So that I'm clear, this suggestion is for &lt;strong&gt;your profile page&lt;/strong&gt; when viewing your answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130947" LastEditorUserId="130947" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T12:06:19.903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T12:33:13.550" Title="Answer Ordering (on your Profile Page) for 'Votes'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38789" CreationDate="2010-02-09T08:56:20.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems innocuous enough (another sort column added to the existing query). I'll check into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T12:33:13.550" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T12:33:13.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38792" CreationDate="2010-02-09T09:31:21.903" Score="-3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12984/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-both-up-down-voted-your-answer-question&quot;&gt;Is there a way to see who both up/down voted your answer/question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to find out the list of users who have voted on my posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users leave comments saying -1 or +1 (for some reason) while those who don't comment leave me guessing who's voting on my posts. Downvotes without comments also don't help me figure out what is wrong with my question or answer. But I'm not saying all downvotes need to have comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do I find out the users that have voted on my posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T10:08:21.593" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T10:08:21.593" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T15:00:54.873" Title="Seeing the list of users who voted on my posts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38791" CreationDate="2010-02-09T09:39:50.710" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voting is anonymous &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12984/is-there-a-way-to-see-who-both-up-down-voted-your-answer-question&quot;&gt;by-design&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I guess, its to avoid extra conflicts / misunderstandings between members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T09:45:11.603" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T09:45:11.603" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38796" CreationDate="2010-02-09T09:51:02.013" Score="12" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicated questions are a thing we want to avoid on these sites. However, it will happen anyway, this is why we get the &quot;exact duplicate&quot; close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions which are coming back frequently, and they are closed as duplicate of an initial one, usually. For questions which are coming back the most, it could be good to take over the original question to improve it (because often it was badly asked, compared to a duplicate, which is finally a bit silly, but it has the most answers). Eventually, it could be nice to even make some CW, so that they become references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides the fact of &quot;Is it a good idea to take over a question someone else asked, &lt;em&gt;for the greater good&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;, there is the question of &quot;how to find these?&quot;. I know that so far, the link to duplicate is only included in the question, which is potentially editable, so it's not a solid reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides this constraint, &lt;strong&gt;is there a way to find which are the questions which are the most referred to in a duplicate context?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it is not possible with the current search tools, but maybe it could be with a data dump? As a further idea, would this have an interest in being formalized (like for example including the main duplicate link to the close description), and eventually have a &quot;top duplicates&quot; accessible in moderation tools?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T10:29:22.433" Title="Is there somehow a way to find the questions which are the most referred to when closing duplicates?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38793" CreationDate="2010-02-09T10:03:40.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very good idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see a big potential for this. For instance on Super User, there are like a gazillion questions about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/search?q=sync+folders&quot;&gt;syncing 2 folders&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and dupes come in almost every day. I still need to look for the original though. So having a list of all these kind op &quot;mother-dupes&quot; would be awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T10:03:40.650" />
  <row Id="38796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38793" CreationDate="2010-02-09T10:29:22.433" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These only count those dupes where the &quot;possible duplicate&quot; link(s) where inserted automatically; this feature hasn't always been in the site. I just used a very simple matching algorithm, too, so take the numbers with a pinch of salt. Only shows the top twenty (for Server Fault only those with more than one dupe). Based on the February data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meta:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;19 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093&quot;&gt;Make recent activity and responses show new comments on questions/answers I have commented on (even if I don't own them)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6033&quot;&gt;Trilogy Portal: Community Colloboration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/431&quot;&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988&quot;&gt;Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740&quot;&gt;What are &quot;Community Wiki&quot; posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237&quot;&gt;How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865&quot;&gt;Consecutive Day Count in profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3353&quot;&gt;Add the ability to ignore users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3615&quot;&gt;Should downvoting be allowed on comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32509&quot;&gt;Has Stack Overflow been haiku-hacked?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/675&quot;&gt;Is there a page that displays questions with zero answers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Clones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2498&quot;&gt;What are the architecture details of Stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459&quot;&gt;Should we be allowed to edit comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25202&quot;&gt;Isn't the &quot;vote too old to be changed&quot; 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Windows programs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1477&quot;&gt;Where to purchase computer parts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/5631&quot;&gt;Is it possible with Google searches to ban any and all results from a domain?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/7739&quot;&gt;Windows backup by Imaging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/1611&quot;&gt;Daily-Reading for General Geekiness.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/87629&quot;&gt;Compaq Presario 6608Au Blue Screen problem &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/3804&quot;&gt;Free Windows ISO Mounting Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/3864&quot;&gt;Which Windows tweaks do you use and they actually work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/36&quot;&gt;Free DVD recorder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/2141&quot;&gt;&quot;Must Have&quot; Windows Mobile Software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server Fault:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/99264&quot;&gt;&quot;Extra Printers&quot; in XP under Fusion 2.05&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/9766&quot;&gt;What a beginner should know/learn for sysadmin job?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/67722&quot;&gt;SQL Compliance Manager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/155&quot;&gt;Best Windows remote support / screen sharing tools?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/31392&quot;&gt;Who is a good registrar these days?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/23744&quot;&gt;hosting your own DNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/39180&quot;&gt;what's the syntax for Accessing smb/windows shares via alternative ports?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 dupes: &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/38208&quot;&gt;Sharing Domain name between domain controller and webserver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T10:29:22.433" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T11:26:00.547" Score="0" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;First:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a vote-to-close option such as &quot;Bidding Request&quot;? It could even be broadened for homework requests and &quot;can you do my job for me&quot; requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be specific, there are plenty of times people post with good intentions but under a lot of stress. They throw out a giant block of code and say &quot;I can't figure out why it won't work!&quot; These are frustrating and maybe worth of closing, but not what I have in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically I get &lt;strong&gt;REALLY&lt;/strong&gt; f'in angry when people post vague feature requests, schematics, or in the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2190370/read-three-files&quot;&gt;homework questions&lt;/a&gt;, they actually copy and paste the assignment including the teacher's instructions like &quot;remember to put your name in the corner&quot; type stuff. And then the SO closes with &quot;Thanks!&quot; or &quot;Much appreciated&quot; or something else that implies they are &quot;down&quot; or even polite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like being treated like a waiter or a valet driver. I don't like being condescended to, and I don't like the idea of SO getting some rep as a place where programmers do free bitch-work for points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI, I also don't consider this the same issue as &quot;Let Me Google that For You&quot; or RTFM. There are plenty of times I've read the manual or Googled and just needed someone to explain it to me better via a forum. This is about closing questions that are really just work requests and which treat the site like a code farm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think that the Stack Exchange design/framework would actually be good for a freelance bidding board? I know that the e-commerce angle is not readily built in, but the overall aesthetic and reputations scores might be more conducive to attracting the right crowd then most sites I've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131983" LastEditorUserId="131983" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T12:06:11.493" LastActivityDate="2010-10-07T14:50:51.163" Title="Vote to close option &quot;bidding request&quot; // Would SX make good bidding site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38797" CreationDate="2010-02-09T11:33:13.437" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see what's your problem. If it's a &quot;paste the code plz&quot; question and you don't want to answer, &lt;strong&gt;DON'T ANSWER&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you want to prevent other people - willing to help even with these sort of questions - from answering? What good would it serve? The asker gets his or her answer, the answerer wants to answer (otherwise they wouldn't), and you are not forced to do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of SO getting&#xA;  some rep as a place where programmers&#xA;  do free bitch-work for points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry about other people's rep. Anyways the situation you described happens very rarely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T11:33:13.437" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T11:52:44.340" Score="0" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36566/sofu-rejecting-requests-coming-from-opera-if-turbo-mode-is-on&quot;&gt;SO[FU] rejecting requests coming from Opera if &amp;ldquo;Turbo&amp;rdquo; mode is on&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until last December, I can access the site normally, but my company banned google search, yahoo search, and stackoverflow too at Jan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was start using with Opera Turbo turn-it-on till second week of January,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but after that, I cannot get access, getting timeout error when I tried to access though Opera Turbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think its because of the packets are getting drop completely without even response from router or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/64.255.180.51&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some info&lt;/a&gt; for opera turbo IP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Your IP address is 64.255.180.51 and reveals:&#xA;&#xA;You are located in Oslo /  Norway &#xA;Your ISP is: Jupiter Hosting Corporation &#xA;Your Host is: r03-03.opera-mini.net&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its kind of proxy server, which would cause high bandwidth usage. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I am using the site through some other proxy services which is limited by time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am wondering, is there the way to overcome this issue or noway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I duplicating someone else post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T11:52:44.340" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T12:34:58.330" Title="Opera Turbo's IP is under drop list by stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38103" CreationDate="2010-02-09T12:20:46.150" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed - it was totally my bad (all the way back from October 2008).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the paging code was using the wrong answers collection; it was &lt;strong&gt;incorrectly using all answers, instead of filtering out deleted answers&lt;/strong&gt;.  This behavior would only appear on or near the page boundaries of questions with deleted answers - the more deleted answers, the wider range the bug could appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for finding and researching this! However, I'll not be able to eat today as punishment for introducing a bug ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T12:20:46.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38424" CreationDate="2010-02-09T12:23:41.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed - it was totally my bad (all the way back from October 2008).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the paging code was using the wrong answers collection; it was &lt;strong&gt;incorrectly using all answers, instead of filtering out deleted answers&lt;/strong&gt;.  This behavior would only appear on or near the page boundaries of questions with deleted answers - the more deleted answers, the wider range the bug could appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for finding and researching this! However, I'll not be able to eat today as punishment for introducing a bug ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T12:23:41.530" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38804" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:10:25.290" Score="1" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do some comments have a &quot;pencil&quot; icon at the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When does it happen, and what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5421/pencil.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:56:24.357" Title="Why do some comments have a &quot;pencil icon&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38802" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:13:07.763" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means that someone edited the comment. You can edit comments up to 5 minutes from the time you posted it. If you hover over the pencil it even tells you why it's there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/2607ipd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;hover to see what the pencil means&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:13:07.763" />
  <row Id="38804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38802" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:13:35.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they were edited within 5 minutes of their creation. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/459/should-we-be-allowed-to-edit-comments&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should we be allowed to edit comments?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:13:35.050" />
  <row Id="38805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:14:11.727" Score="5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to know if one of your edits to a post gets reverted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, there should be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T14:04:10.203" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:04:10.203" Title="Knowing when your changes are reverted?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38802" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:14:37.090" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's to signify the editing of a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hover over the pencil image, it'll say it has been edited X times. I'll give you an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136243" LastEditorUserId="136243" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T17:56:24.357" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:56:24.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:19:50.687" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having no way to view all my comments, particularly as the data's there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:19:50.687" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T13:19:50.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:22:19.340" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being awarded certain badges and having no idea why. Tell me which question or answer they pertain to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1450" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:22:19.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T13:22:19.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38813" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:24:15.827" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2162157/lost-richfaces-skin-when-rendering-through-richpanel-and-a4jinclude&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; disappeared as soon as I'd placed a bounty on it.  Where has it gone?  It's not even listed in my list of questions on my SO profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143087" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:44:39.210" Title="bounty question disappeared" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38805" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:26:54.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but it shouldn't matter that much. You shouldn't take your edits personally. An edit can be reedited or reverted for too many reasons.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, if you made a mistake while editing, it would be nice to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36052/allow-post-editor-to-see-comments-directed-at-him&quot;&gt;contact you via @comment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:26:54.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:44:20.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9de005b3d7306ed232ed3f6f37f04739?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;My Unicorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man, look at the size of that horn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="302" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:44:20.787" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T13:44:20.787" />
  <row Id="38813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38809" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:44:39.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is currently listed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?page=3&amp;amp;sort=featured&quot;&gt;3rd page of featured questions&lt;/a&gt;.  From the initial featured questions page you must click on the &lt;strong&gt;Browse the complete list&lt;/strong&gt; link and browse the additional pages of questions to find it, but its there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T13:44:39.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T13:44:44.780" Score="7" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click the notify  daily of any new answers check box, notifications aren't sent.  My work email server may be filtering them, but can someone provide and example of a notification email so I can let the mail admin guys know what to look for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143087" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:51:58.930" Title="notify email doesn't work" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notify&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:03:54.517" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Please post this on Super User.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (works also with Server Fault)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the worse is that the question gets migrated anyway, of course, so it's closed on the original site. So you can't even explain to the original commenter why he shouldn't recommend that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually makes me turn green and rampage my desk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T14:03:54.517" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T14:03:54.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20874" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:09:22.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got this issue with &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/81745/machine-not-taking-keyboard-input-closed&quot;&gt;Machine not taking keyboard input &lt;/a&gt;.  It got migrated to SU, I decided it wasn't a worthwhile question and deleted it.  But the question is still on SF.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130318" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T14:09:22.930" />
  <row Id="38817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:11:55.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love it, love it, love it! This is pure amazing! Can I showcase these unicorn avatars on cornify.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sparkles and rainbow hugs to you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T14:11:55.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T14:11:55.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47794" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:14:44.730" Score="12" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please combine the following tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;korn&lt;/code&gt;: 23&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;ksh&lt;/code&gt;: 86&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Into the &lt;code&gt;ksh&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already removed the one &lt;code&gt;kornshell&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T14:18:51.803" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T14:18:51.803" Title="Retag Request - Korn Shell" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;&lt;always-korn-in-belllabs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="38819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38822" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:20:45.003" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2215314/sybase-central-issues-on-64-bit-windows-2008-server-r2&quot;&gt;This question on SO&lt;/a&gt; clearly belongs elsewhere, but the asker already put a bounty on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is migrated, does the rep get refunded? Does the question continue to be a bounty question on the target site if the user has enough rep? (The asker in the referenced question does not have any associated accounts, but I'm curious about what happens.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just tried to add my own close vote, but apparently you can't when there's an open bounty. However, a mod should still be able to close/migrate/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T11:39:04.913" Title="What happens to a bounty question if it gets migrated?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38819" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:25:17.850" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions with bounties on them can't be closed or migrated (unless by a superpower of mod type personage).  It'll stay until the bounty's accepted or expired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T14:25:17.850" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38819" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:45:18.207" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The correct procedure would be to flag for moderator attention. If required diamond moderators can migrate the question by removing the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounty is removed and refunded&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question is closed and migrated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I have flagged the question as well for the SO mods to look at it&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T14:45:18.207" />
  <row Id="38823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38845" CreationDate="2010-02-09T14:51:13.033" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried a search, but I get answers also in the results.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'd like to search only questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried: &lt;code&gt;wiki:1 question:1&lt;/code&gt; (shot in the dark) but it didn't work, I still get answers in the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, perhaps a way to search only answers would be useful too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I propose the &lt;code&gt;question&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;answer&lt;/code&gt; search operator to combine &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;with the rest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:17:46.337" Title="Is there a way to search for community wiki 'questions'?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2010-02-09T15:34:25.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I come here each time my app is building... and often realize i'm still there several minutes after it finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142817" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T15:34:25.530" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-09T15:34:25.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38846" CreationDate="2010-02-09T15:40:06.943" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else experiencing the following problem today with Stack Overflow:  When I refresh my page (Questions tagged 'java') the page loads but the browser loading icon continues to animate with the status message &quot;Waiting for www.gravatar.com...&quot;.  However, as far as I can see all page content has already loaded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm running Firefox 3.5.7.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Tried flushing my browser cache but it didn't help but restarting Firefox fixed the problem.  Weird thing is it only happened if I searched for Questions tagged with &quot;java&quot; (sounds bizarre I know) and viewed the &quot;Newest&quot; tab.  If I searched for multiple tags (but including java) everything was ok.  Also, it looked like my browser isn't waiting on gravatar.com consistently; It was also waiting on ads.stackoverflow.com (and also google-analytics.com some of the time).  Anyway, not a big deal (obviously) - Just weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="127479" LastEditorUserId="127479" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T16:38:58.853" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:17:46.833" Title="Gravatar Problems?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38830" CreationDate="2010-02-09T15:44:52.563" Score="4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which actions modify &lt;code&gt;/posts/row/@LastActivityDate&lt;/code&gt;? Creation and edits seem obvious, but what if, say, the post is a question and the owner accepts an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T16:30:49.427" Title="When does a post's LastActivityDate change?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38826" CreationDate="2010-02-09T15:51:41.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your browser is hanging waiting for Gravatar then really it's between you and Gravatar, SO's not to blame.  Flush your browser cache and try it again, see if that helps.  If not, then you've got something going on preventing communication with Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T15:51:41.083" />
  <row Id="38829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38826" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:22:48.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cannot reproduce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No problems with Gravatar here - flushed the cache, reload SO, and it still loads very, very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T16:22:48.287" />
  <row Id="38830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38827" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:30:49.427" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For all posts, the LastActivityDate is set/reset when a post is created/edited. For questions, the addition/edit of an answer also resets the LastActivityDate. Basically, anything that will cause the question to be bumped onto the front page of the site. Accepting an answer does not bump the question to the front page, and therefore does not reset the LastActivityDate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T16:30:49.427" />
  <row Id="38831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37986" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:32:48.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem is that Gravatar is sending a bad Last-Modified header. It seems to be when you signed up for Gravatar, not when you last changed your gravatar image. This makes Chrome, in particular, think that the image has not changed, even on a Ctrl+F5 refresh. Even though Gravatar sends a max-age of 300 seconds (5 minutes), the browser sees that Last-Modified hasn't changed and figures it doesn't need to re-download the file. The only way I've gotten Chrome to update Gravatars is by clearing my cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be resolved if Gravatar would send a proper Last-Modified header. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/abuse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tell them about it here&lt;/a&gt;. (Note: that page is technically for reporting abuse, but it is the only way I could find to send a message to an actual person. If there is a page to report problems please let me know.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue would also be partly resolved in Chrome if Ctrl+F5 refresh actually ignored cache like it is supposed to. (I opened &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31389&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a Chrome bug report&lt;/a&gt; about this, which was closed as a dup of &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1906&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this bug report&lt;/a&gt;.)  &lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Looks like Chrome has fixed this bug now! Not sure what release will first include the fix though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T14:43:39.097" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T14:43:39.097" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:33:19.407" Score="3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep my user flair icon on my Blogger based blog. I noticed this morning that it's gone. The unmolested script is still in the page. Nonetheless, I copied and pasted the script from ServerFault lest something had changed in it recently (it hadn't, but I did it anyway because I'm like that). Still nothing. I used the iframe option and that worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else missing their &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; user flair icon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134121" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T01:49:57.643" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T06:21:45.747" Title="ServerFault user flair doesn't show up when using the script, but does with an iframe" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38776" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:49:23.187" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You already have this ability. Simply follow these steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get editing privileges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the best answer to include a comprehensive solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accept that answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the solution you used is displayed directly below your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T16:49:23.187" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38843" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:51:21.920" Score="10" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1661/shouldnt-a-rep-less-newbie-at-least-be-able-to-upvote-a-good-answer-to-his-her-o&quot;&gt;Shouldn&amp;rsquo;t a rep-less newbie at least be able to upvote a good answer to his/her own questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting requires 15 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that we should make an exception and allow voting on answers given to your own question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Just like a new user can comment on his own questions and answers, he should also be able to upvote his answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, it will encourage people to ignore questions by new users, especially on low-activity days, so that they can spend their time answering questions with a motivated voter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems unfair to the users that they cannot reward their answerers (&lt;strong&gt;plural&lt;/strong&gt;)  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2230641/question-about-windows-events&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T20:11:54.377" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T20:11:54.377" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T22:04:06.077" Title="Allow new users to vote on answers they've received" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="38835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38834" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:58:53.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is addressing a &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; with the way SO works. You suggest that people may be discouraged from answering new-users because new-users cannot upvote. That seems to ignore the fact that others can upvote, and new-users can accept. There is plenty of incentive to answer 1-rep users in my honest opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T16:58:53.983" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38834" CreationDate="2010-02-09T16:59:31.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When new users can't upvote answers to their questions, it just encourages 'pity upvotes' because people want them to be able to vote on their answers.  Upvotes should be for quality questions, not to boost someone to a level of being able to do basic stuff (that should just be a consequence, not the reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T17:26:11.350" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:26:11.350" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38834" CreationDate="2010-02-09T17:13:57.813" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I see a new user post a question or answer, and it's a good post, then I upvote it.  They then only need one other upvote to be able to vote themselves on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a really, really low bar partially so that it's easy to 'grant' them this privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't pity - it's merely recognition of a good post coupled with being a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I generally upvote good posts anyway, so it isn't that far from my normal pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do feel that users should be able to upvote on their own questions regardless of their reputation level, so this feature is something I'm all for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T17:29:49.673" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:29:49.673" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38838" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T17:19:53.933" Score="6" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35264/should-ads-that-mimic-stackoverflow-ui-be-allowed&quot;&gt;Should ads that mimic StackOverflow UI be allowed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a complaint.  I'm not sure if this has been mentioned (I did a quick search), but the recent ads for Startups.com that are formatted to look like they're a part of Stack Overflow are especially aggravating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I see an ad like this: &lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/startupslookingSOfineline.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... I keep thinking I clicked on the wrong link in my search!  I end up saying to myself, &quot;I was looking for help about such-and-such, not something about business quest..... oh, right, it's another &amp;amp;@#*ing ad.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you at LEAST put some kind of box around it or give it a different background color?  That way they'd stand out from the actual content of the page.  My brain has enough to worry about when I come here; I don't need to actively separate ads and content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, I just realized, THE NAME OF THE AD is &quot;startupslookingSOfineline.png&quot;!  So unless that's just a weird coincidence, the ad itself admits it's already on a fine line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for griping about this, but it's been driving me nuts lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135372" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T17:38:51.063" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:46:16.573" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T18:50:01.027" Title="Stealth ads for Startups.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38838" CreationDate="2010-02-09T17:28:01.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least the magazines have learned to put &quot;This is a paid advertisement&quot; on the top of pages or columns and use a slightly different typeface where an ad is similar in appearance to normal article content...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:28:01.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38776" CreationDate="2010-02-09T17:35:09.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In cases like this I edit the answer with more complete information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those without editing privileges, I suggest adding a comment to see if the user is willing to update their own answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that fails, or you can't comment, then add a new answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:35:09.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38838" CreationDate="2010-02-09T17:39:12.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of it as incentive to gain 200 Rep. Once you get that, you can enjoy reduced advertising that only appears in the column on the right of the page (it's mentioned in the list of Rep-based abilities in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T17:39:12.717" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T17:59:11.857" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13611/why-dont-high-rep-users-ask-questions&quot;&gt;Why don&amp;rsquo;t high rep users ask questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions says it all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143101" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:10:16.753" ClosedDate="2010-02-09T18:13:00.587" Title="In stackoverflow how come users with top reputation have just answered! they don't face problems and ask questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38834" CreationDate="2010-02-09T18:02:05.347" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this sounds like a good idea, it is vulnerable to sockpuppeting and other abuse. Consider: two new users join the site. Each post a question, and then answer each other's question. Upvotes for all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current system forces the new user to post an answer that is regarded as useful by someone who isn't fresh out of the gate. 15 rep is a very low barrier as it is. It should almost be higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:02:05.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38842" CreationDate="2010-02-09T18:10:16.753" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of StackOverflow is canned answers, and most high reputation users have learned this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very few times are there questions that require understanding the situation. We just have to know what you are trying to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, clicking a link via Javascript doesn't really require much understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats the cool part about programming. There is really only a few ways to do stuff. Which makes it easy to provide answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:10:16.753" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38823" CreationDate="2010-02-09T18:17:46.337" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;wiki:1 views:1 apples oranges &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the search results will only return questions which contain apples or oranges (answers don't have views).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:17:46.337" />
  <row Id="38846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38826" CreationDate="2010-02-09T18:17:46.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this a lot between 00:00 and 09:00 GMT today (Feb 9, 2010). A traceroute to Gravatar showed some gnarly looking packet loss at one of the transit providers between my ISP and Gravatar. I also saw the SO Google Analytics domain exhibiting the same problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm putting it down to run-of-the-mill upstream TCP/IP congestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:17:46.833" />
  <row Id="38847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38838" CreationDate="2010-02-09T18:46:16.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am delighted that this is the worse problem we've had with the advertising on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go visit any other site, and you'll realise how tame SOFU is in comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be expecting to be bullshited online anyway. Even in real life. Are this ads really so deceptive to be a problem? I remember people complaining about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25005/has-anyone-clicked-the-new-woot-ads&quot;&gt;Woot! ads&lt;/a&gt;, which were not deceptive, in my opinion. This one has a completely different color scheme, and is obviously an image, not text rendered by the browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing, Jeff said he'd be putting a black border around those ads. I don't know why he haven't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T18:46:16.573" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2010-02-09T18:49:10.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;High-rep users have the desire (and ability) to provide high-quality content, whether it is a question &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; an answer. But, asking &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; questions is hard (emphasis on the word &lt;em&gt;&quot;good&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). There are many more opportunities to provide good answers, once the question has been asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;High rep or not, they are only one person... and there are (as of this post) about 61,000 people who have &lt;em&gt;asked&lt;/em&gt; questions on Stack Overflow. So, naturally, &lt;strong&gt;the opportunities to &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; questions are much more prevalent&lt;/strong&gt; than coming up with one to ask yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T19:00:04.567" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T19:00:04.567" />
  <row Id="38849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38850" CreationDate="2010-02-09T19:03:39.240" Score="5" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I reach the daily cap and still receive some upvotes for my answers, are they going to be counted toward me gaining some tag badge or are they lost? While I am not that fond of having lots of rep, I have an ambition of getting certain badges (I'd like to put that on my resume ;-)). So, is it 'beneficial' for me to do that after I hit the cap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143105" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T19:53:00.533" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T19:53:00.533" Title="Do upvotes still count toward gaining tag badges after you hit daily cap?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38849" CreationDate="2010-02-09T19:05:10.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, upvotes still count as votes, you just don't get rep from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T19:05:10.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:07:39.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I want to know the answer to a question, I usually so some research beforing asking someone else for help. Maybe that's a generational thing - &quot;back in the day&quot;, we didn't have StackOverflow, or even the Internet, and Compuserve took too long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I have a focused question, I ask it on SO. I just haven't had many small, focused questions lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T20:07:39.793" />
  <row Id="38854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38861" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:25:03.617" Score="1" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the best forum to go to for programming person-specific career advice in a discussion format (not suitable for SO)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142588" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T20:48:51.223" Title="Best programming career discussion forum" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13611" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:25:19.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those that excel at StackOverflow The Game (TM) are natural problem solvers.  The system self-selects for those that are great at understanding a question, analyzing the issue, and synthesizing a reasonable answer in seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding answers to questions is easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I have a question, I'm likely able to resolve it without asking anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could turn it into an SO question, but that would take a good bit of work - I loathe writing poorly worded questions, and will spend some time 'crafting' a question with relevant information while trying to cut out anything that clutters it.  It's really too much like work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, a lot of my questions aren't &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; me - I posted many questions to either fill gaps in SO knowledge, to satisfy my own sense of humor*, or to grind reputation.  Very few of them are actually questions I needed answers to, and fewer still were questions that I couldn't easily find answers to via my usual means.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It turns out that those questions where my normal methods fail, and where I actually need an answer aren't easily answered by other SO'ers either.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323693/why-do-i-get-service-unavailable-with-multiple-chat-sends-when-using-xmpp&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323693/why-do-i-get-service-unavailable-with-multiple-chat-sends-when-using-xmpp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T20:25:19.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38858" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:27:51.490" Score="6" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;code&gt;Recent Activity =&amp;gt; Revisions&lt;/code&gt; page rollback notifications refer to some GUID instead of the revision number:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://koper.wowpanda.net/guids.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know that is the only page where this is done. Everywhere else notifications refer to the revision number:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://koper.wowpanda.net/number.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What am I supposed to do with that scary looking guid? Is there even anything I &lt;strong&gt;CAN&lt;/strong&gt; do with it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is it shown to me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Can't the revision number be shown instead?&lt;/s&gt; Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38856/rollback-to-74f3bce8-24a5-4ebe-82ea-b5c6e2512a8a/38858#38858&quot;&gt;Pollyanna's answer&lt;/a&gt; I now realize that showing an unicorn is a much better idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how it would look like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://koper.wowpanda.net/unicorns.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T20:48:49.193" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T01:13:23.453" Title="Rollback to [74f3bce8-24a5-4ebe-82ea-b5c6e2512a8a]" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;rollbacks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38856" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:36:49.103" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What can you make out of that GUID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could make a hat, a broach, a pterodactyl!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YV5h6xzGKo#t=0m41s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YV5h6xzGKo#t=0m41s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-09T20:42:01.843" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T20:42:01.843" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38856" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:39:46.073" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What am I supposed to do with that scary looking guid? Is there even anything I CAN do with it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make a unicorn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/74f3bce824a54ebe82eab5c6e2512a8a?s=128&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/74f3bce824a54ebe82eab5c6e2512a8a?s=128&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why is it shown to me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can make a unicorn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/74f3bce824a54ebe82eab5c6e2512a8a?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Can't the revision number be shown instead?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But.... Unicorns!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/9F78852039D66E25?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/F53B4626A51EE168?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/866456A708164744?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/B5E2CE7060153786?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/B5AC532F70755C05?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/6B01EF8E3FD957C6?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/CC4A24BAF278A6EB?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/3C546F661B528330?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/9EF677D62C8CE27D?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/CAA844F9FCD3D5E1?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/750F5E9490944499?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/1232BA8D763DD162?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/6CC2BE36F523E809?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/1232BA8D763DD162?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/1277BFA00F9D7EB4?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/5BE9A85E3D827558?s=32&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T01:13:23.453" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T01:13:23.453" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38862" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:47:23.457" Score="5" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way for me to see how many upvotes and downvotes I have in a given tag? I am working toward having two tag badges and would like to know how far from my aim I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143105" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T15:50:47.937" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T23:06:23.333" Title="How can I see how many upvotes and downvotes I have per tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38854" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:48:51.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can start by checking out out these sites hosted by StackExchange (the same software engine that runs Stack Overflow):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://advice.personforce.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Personforce Career Advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Get Career Advice Here. A place to ask questions about your career and job search. Ask questions and get career advice at the Personforce Career Advice Forum!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careeroverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CareerOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A community site for career advice. No registration required. Always 100% free. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T20:48:51.223" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38860" CreationDate="2010-02-09T20:49:33.297" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags/php/topusers&quot;&gt;user stats page&lt;/a&gt; for that tag if you are in the Top 20. The light grey number is how many upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the scope you are looking at. One column is just the upvotes for past 30 days, the other is all time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't on that page, I don't believe there is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-25T21:32:39.167" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T21:32:39.167" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38860" CreationDate="2010-02-09T21:03:00.467" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've also created a report at &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/users/&lt;/a&gt; that shows a number of stats, including upvotes and downvotes, for each user and tag. Currently I've only run that query for users with over 10k reputation, so unfortunately it doesn't show your account. But hopefully this will be useful for others. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-25T23:06:23.333" LastActivityDate="2011-07-25T23:06:23.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38866" CreationDate="2010-02-09T21:03:44.803" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question on SO was closed a few minutes ago.  Now it isn't, but has 3 votes to close.  So I guess it was closed, and reopened, and is on it's way to being closed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2232338/how-big-is-the-importance-of-a-bachelor-of-science&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2232338/how-big-is-the-importance-of-a-bachelor-of-science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see the actual close history for a question?  Any way to prevent the loop of close/reopen/close when there is some disagreement on whether or not a question should be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T21:26:35.047" Title="Any way to view close history of a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="38866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38865" CreationDate="2010-02-09T21:05:38.560" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that it's been edited, you can click the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2232338/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; to see this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This form of link - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/&amp;lt;postid&amp;gt;/revisions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/&amp;lt;postid&amp;gt;/revisions&lt;/a&gt; - is always valid, but you have to type it in manually if no one has edited the post in question. For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/38865/revisions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/38865/revisions&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T21:05:38.560" />
  <row Id="38868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38865" CreationDate="2010-02-09T21:26:35.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any way to prevent the loop of close/reopen/close when there is some disagreement on whether or not a question should be closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one user can vote to close or to re-open a question more than once. So the termination condition for such a loop is built into the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also ask a moderator (flag -&gt; Requires Moderator attention) to lock the question, thereby preventing it from being re-opened/closed. But this is rarely necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-09T21:26:35.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T22:55:04.043" Score="10" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey guys, first time posting on Meta, so bear with me if it doesn't belong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the new descriptions for why certain things are closed, Internet is spelled with a lowercase i. It should always be capitalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would only be relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the &lt;strong&gt;internet&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T18:04:56.377" Title="Spelling error in &quot;Too Localized&quot; reason for close" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;spelling&gt;&lt;grammar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="38872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-10T01:21:41.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that the comment controls are hidden and only show up on mouse over and the fact that they aren't &amp;lt;a&amp;gt; tags.  This seriously sucks for anyone using &lt;a href=&quot;http://conkeror.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;conkeror&lt;/a&gt; and, I imagine, anyone using a screen reader. Though we, or maybe I as I might just be the only SO user using it, can now vote with out reaching for the mouse, the comment controls still elude me because of this complete pain in the butt markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, another thing that drives me insane is how poorly SO handles larger font sizes. I'm one of those people who jacks up the fonts to a minimum of 14. On SO this causes text to disappear behind ads on the right rather than wrapping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10738" LastEditorUserId="10738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T00:41:48.037" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T00:41:48.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-10T01:21:41.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38860" CreationDate="2010-02-10T01:49:45.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is also a greasemonkey script that will fetch your tag stats for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug/21623#21623&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20896/im-not-appearing-in-the-all-time-list-for-java-is-this-a-bug/21623#21623&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130310" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T01:49:45.903" />
  <row Id="38875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38876" CreationDate="2010-02-10T02:21:16.010" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the sanitizer that keeps us safe from nefarious things like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;alert('evil here');&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; here on SOFU public/available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T02:34:49.513" Title="How is input sanitized in the SOFU World?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38875" CreationDate="2010-02-10T02:34:49.513" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://refactormycode.com/codes/333-sanitize-html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is how it's done&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice to know if Jeff has updated the public version since then; there are 53 refactorings, but none by Jeff Atwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T02:34:49.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-02-10T02:52:06.753" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I don't see that ad removed and something being CLEAR that it was removed, I will not return to SO again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone told me to come here to this site, and I being a complete newbie clicked on the stupid AD, and also tried to downvote a question because that ad was between awnsers and I tought that SO allowed &quot;related&quot; questions apear below a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, I am still confused, the ONLY ad that I seen so far is this one or ones like these, they are confusing the hell out of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143119" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T02:52:06.753" />
  <row Id="38879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T03:04:15.550" Score="20" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did some number crunching on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-results/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moderator election results&lt;/a&gt; to see how closely they lined up with the rankings in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35583/nominations-new-stack-overflow-moderator-closed&quot;&gt;moderator nomination thread&lt;/a&gt;. I was going to post this as a comment on the SO blog, but I decided I'd share my findings here for those of you who enjoy statistics and graphs. If you are impatient, I'll cut to the chase and tell you that there was very little correlation between ranking in the moderator nomination thread and ranking in the actual election. Which wasn't very surprising to me, but I thought I'd share anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Just as I went to post this, the title auto-search showed me &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38787/vote-analysis-for-stackoverflow-moderator-election&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;another&lt;/i&gt; post on election statistics&lt;/a&gt;. In the comments there, Jeff suggest a strong correlation between the user's rep and their election ranking. So I added that into my graph. Sure enough, there is a correlation: approximately half of the voting behavior is likely based on the user's reputation.&lt;sup&gt;0&lt;/sup&gt; If we take Jason Cohen out of the results, reputation explains about 77% of the voting behavior (see my second update below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The table below shows the user's rank in the actual election&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, as well as the number of upvotes and downvotes they received in the nomination thread on Meta.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Rank  User                Upvotes  Downvotes  Net votes&#xA;-------------------------------------------------------&#xA; 1    Gumbo               14        8          6&#xA; 2    Jason Cohen         14        5          9&#xA; 3    Jonathan Sampson    43       19         24&#xA; 4    Will                15        7          8&#xA; 5    mmyers              57        8         49&#xA; 6    Jonathan Leffler    19        5         14&#xA; 7    Kyle                46       14         32&#xA; 8    Dave DeLong         11        5          6&#xA; 9    John Topley         42        7         35&#xA;10    Welbog              27       24          3&#xA;11    George Stocker      42       21         21&#xA;12    John Rudy           15       13          2&#xA;13    jjnguy              18       13          5&#xA;14    Kip                 13        6          7&#xA;15    Robert C. Cartaino  22        9         13&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also created a chart, showing the user's rank in the election, as well as the rank if selections were made based solely on: number of upvotes in the nominations, net vote score in nominations, &lt;em&gt;lowest&lt;/em&gt; number of downvotes in nominations, and reputation on Stack Overflow.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/9676/electionrankings.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is a summary of the data in the chart, with some statistical analysis. The &quot;average difference&quot; statistic is the averge of the absolute difference between a user's rank in the election and the user's rank by the given ranking method.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Ranking    Correlation              Average&#xA;Method     coefficient  r-squared  difference&#xA;--------------------------------------------&#xA;Election     1.0000      1.0000       0.0&#xA;Net votes    0.2894      0.0837       4.3&#xA;Upvotes      0.0507      0.0026       5.0&#xA;Downvotes    0.2658      0.0706       4.7&#xA;Reputation   0.7036      0.4950       2.0&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're wondering why downvotes have a positive correlation, it is because the &quot;downvotes&quot; ranking represent what would happen if we had chosen moderators based solely on who had the &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; downvotes on the nomination thread. If we chose based on most downvotes, the correlation would indeed be negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;: I noticed that Jason Cohen was a major outlier in the ranking by rep. If you remove him from the stats, you get correlation coefficient = 0.8813, and r-squared = 0.7767, which is a very strong correlation.&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;0&lt;/sup&gt; At least, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that's what r-squared tells you. It's been a while since I've taken a statistics course.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Based on the inverse of the order in which they were eliminated by the Meek STV algorithm. For the top three users, relative ranking is based on transferred votes.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Data was retrieved on 2010-02-09, sometime &lt;em&gt;roughly&lt;/em&gt; around 7:00 PM GMT.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; Note: in the event of an &lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt;-way tie for &lt;i&gt;i&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; place, all tied users are assigned the rank &lt;i&gt;i&lt;/i&gt;, and the next-highest-ranked user is assigned &lt;i&gt;i&lt;/i&gt;+&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt;. For example, John Topley and George Stocker both received 42 upvotes, which ties them for 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; place when ranked by upvotes. The next highest user, with 27 upvotes, is Welbog, so he is assigned 6&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; place, and no user is assigned 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; place.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt; Of course this isn't &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; accurate, because we don't know how people who voted for Jason would have voted had he not been there.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T05:40:36.683" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T05:40:36.683" Title="Some statistics from the Stack Overflow moderator election results" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-02-10T04:16:08.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like these sorts of &quot;lookalike&quot; ads are still being allowed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/1_home4film_su_banner_1%20728x90.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ad from Super User with similar interface&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this ad has a different color scheme than Super User, where I saw it, and is offset slightly by the &quot;film-strip&quot; look, but it still proved to be confusing to me (briefly). I don't use Super User nearly as much as I do Stack Overflow, so I'm not as familiar with the color scheme. The font rendering actually tipped me off sooner, as I'm on a Mac but the fonts look like they were rendered on Windows, then I noticed the content was ad-like (though it has just enough overlap with Super User that it might plausibly be an SU question), and then I noticed the color difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that these sorts of ads, even with some offset and a different color scheme, can be confusing, and it feels like advertisers are trying to trick me into clicking on the ads. I don't appreciate them trying to fool me like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, of course, this is a Stack Exchange site that's being advertised; it can only look so different from one of the Trilogy sites. I guess I'm just not sure exactly where the line is drawn on these kinds of ads, but I'd prefer it to keep these ads looking a little less similar to the interface than they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T04:16:08.843" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T04:25:05.397" Score="4" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36366/please-provide-a-table-of-duplicates&quot;&gt;Please Provide a &amp;ldquo;Table of Duplicates&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if it would be possible to automatically link from a question to other questions which have been closed as duplicates of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already automatically link from the duplicate question to the older question. But sometimes a duplicate question gets some good answers, possibly even a better answer than the original, before it is closed. Or sometimes the duplicate may just have the question or answer explained in a slightly different way that works better for one particular person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many bug trackers will link in both directions between a duplicate bug and the original; it seems like it would make sense for SO to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the duplicate question is deleted because it really adds nothing of value, then the link back to it should be deleted too. And these links would probably need to be considerably less prominent than the link from the duplicate to the original, perhaps displayed under the comments or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69755" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T04:41:40.207" ClosedDate="2010-02-10T06:04:31.163" Title="Link from question to duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38882" CreationDate="2010-02-10T04:41:40.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a duplicate question has answers, this makes sense. It's a sensible alternative to  &quot;automatically merging&quot; duplicate questions. By simply linking, you don't lose the benefits of keeping the duplicate, alternately-worded question around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question page already shows &quot;related&quot; questions&lt;/strong&gt; in the right-hand column. Perhaps, just above that, there could be &lt;strong&gt;a list of &quot;duplicate&quot; questions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T04:41:40.207" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T05:04:53.163" Score="0" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10713/can-we-have-search-default-to-and-instead-of-or&quot;&gt;Can we have search default to &amp;ldquo;AND&amp;rdquo; instead of &amp;ldquo;OR&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to be able to search for (term X) AND (term Y). The search help page explicitly states that it searches for questions containing (X) OR (Y), when X and Y are separated by a space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, AND is more useful than OR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143122" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T05:04:53.163" ClosedDate="2010-02-10T05:54:11.197" Title="How do I tell search I want to look for ALL terms?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38886" CreationDate="2010-02-10T05:47:09.540" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had/have the top scoring &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2151188/is-this-a-problem-typically-solved-with-ioc/2153220#2153220&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question which had a bounty that ran out yesterday, but I have yet to see the bounty points, here approximately 12 hours later. What happened to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135815" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T12:38:00.840" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T12:38:00.840" Title="What happened to my bounty?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="38886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38885" CreationDate="2010-02-10T05:52:00.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ineligible for automatic bounty selection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a bounty is placed on a question, there are two cases where it will be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have been chosen by the person who asked the question, where you will reap the full bounty points.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You have an answer that scored at least &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;and was created&lt;/em&gt; after the start of the bounty. If automatically selected, you will win only half of the score.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers posted before the start of the bounty run are not eligible for the automatic option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T05:54:57.810" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T05:54:57.810" />
  <row Id="38887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38885" CreationDate="2010-02-10T05:53:42.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is documented in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once initiated, the bounty period lasts 7 days. If you mark an accepted answer, your bounty is awarded to the answerer (do note that accepted bounty answers are permanent and cannot be changed). If you do not accept an answer in 7 days, here is what happens at the end of the bounty period:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be automatically accepted. Half the bounty will be awarded to the owner of that answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If there is no answer meeting the above criteria, and you as the question owner have not opted to accept an answer, you forfeit your right to ever accept an answer to your question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In any case, you will always give up the amount of reputation specified in the bounty, so if you start a bounty, be sure to follow up and accept the best answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T05:53:42.070" />
  <row Id="38888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-02-10T05:54:25.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to implement available API's in different programming languages or at least to my favorite programming language :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135838" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T05:54:25.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-10T05:54:25.580" />
  <row Id="38889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10713" CreationDate="2010-02-10T05:54:51.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is now implemented in a simpler way; just begin each word with a + if it must appear in your results, eg:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;+apples +oranges&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T10:55:43.427" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T10:55:43.427" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32623" CreationDate="2010-02-10T06:50:15.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. On questions with large numbers of answers, it's hard to be sure whether your answer has already been given. On some questions, this is subjective, and it may not be bad to have duplicate answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On community wiki type questions, such as &quot;Best book on topic X&quot;, then it's probably better to avoid duplicate answers. Is there a mechanism that exists to deal with this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T06:50:15.423" />
  <row Id="38896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T06:52:09.757" Score="5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13546/please-allow-me-to-follow-questions&quot;&gt;Please allow me to follow questions.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I follow a question? Is there some kind of trick that I'm not aware of where I can keep abreast of the answers posted to a question which may or may not be my own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143124" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T07:06:20.207" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T07:06:20.207" ClosedDate="2010-02-10T08:48:39.540" Title="Following a question, any question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tracking&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="38897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38896" CreationDate="2010-02-10T06:56:38.723" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/38896&quot;&gt;question feed&lt;/a&gt; link at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T06:56:38.723" />
  <row Id="38898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-02-10T08:43:46.150" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could say I lost my &quot;motivation&quot; to answer after 3000 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least the motivation to earn reputation the fastest possible. My objective was to reach the 3000 mark, to get the closing votes, to help maintaining the site. Now that I got it, I focus mostly on a &quot;semi-moderating&quot; job, with answering from times to times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderating tools are too far, but I have all what I need: votes, edits, close votes, comments, and flags. Far enough to spend already too much time on these sites :-]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general about the question, like stated by others: &quot;You have 3000 points, now help maintaining this site&quot;. At least cast a vote to close from times to times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T08:43:46.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T09:28:11.943" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/106997/why-doesnt-my-dvd-player-work-under-windows-7&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on SU there was an edit by Ivo which isn't showing as rolled-back, yet I still see the original question text on the main question page rather than the edited one. I've seen this before recently, though didn't take note of the URL (sorry for being a bad user and not giving full details in a bug report!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first version in the edit history shows as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;since upgrading to W7, I cant use the DVD player.&#xA;Is there a fix for that here or a new DVD download?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with Ivo's edited version being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Why doesn't my DVD player work under Windows 7?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with an additional tag (hardware-problem). I see the new tag when looking at the main question page, but still see the original question text. I've tried in a different browser (one I don't normally touch SO/SF/SU with) to make sure it isn't a local caching issue here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132690" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T12:43:18.483" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:00:03.080" Title="Edited version not showing to question viewers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;edit&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38900" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T09:35:25.260" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31801/post-your-question-fails-on-opera-10-10-win-xp-sp3&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;Post your question&amp;rdquo; fails on Opera 10.10 Win XP SP3&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post Your Question button grays out but nothing happens then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it possible to use Opera 9.64 on MacOS X with Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I had to post this question with Safari.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T09:41:57.080" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T10:01:26.700" ClosedDate="2010-02-10T10:01:37.947" Title="Is it possible to ask questions from Opera on MacOS X?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38899" CreationDate="2010-02-10T09:36:16.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The homepage is cached for about 60 seconds. This is normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(looks fine to me now)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T09:36:16.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38903" CreationDate="2010-02-10T09:36:18.453" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to withdraw a bounty after starting a bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A week back I started a bounty for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2152142/why-my-yui-datatable-within-an-updatepanel-disappears-after-postback&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just found an answer for that question which was not on the answers list. Can I answer it and accept my own answer or withdraw the bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T12:41:17.273" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T12:41:17.273" Title="How can I withdraw my bounty?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38902" CreationDate="2010-02-10T09:37:41.787" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounty is non-refundable, and the bounty is extracted permanently from your rep at the start of a bounty period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can answer and accept your own answer but no bounty will be awarded, and standard self-accept rules apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T09:37:41.787" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29986" CreationDate="2010-02-10T09:43:43.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems harmless enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is checked in but will not be deployed until ~9 pm Pacific today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T09:43:43.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T09:52:00.880" Score="0" ViewCount="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19253/exclude-specific-words-in-stackoverflow-search&quot;&gt;Exclude specific words in stackoverflow search &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just now I wanted to search SO for &lt;code&gt;SSPI&lt;/code&gt;, but the keyword comes up a lot in SQL Server context, which is not what I want. So I was wondering if I could specify that I want all the questions with &lt;code&gt;SSPI&lt;/code&gt; in it, but not the ones that are tagged &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T09:52:00.880" ClosedDate="2010-02-10T09:58:53.333" Title="Is it possible to search for a question which does NOT have a specific tag/keyword?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38900" CreationDate="2010-02-10T10:01:26.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, I highly recommend that you upgrade to Opera 10 (the current version as of this writing), as it fixes a lot of Opera bugs w/r/t the tags field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people less charitable than myself might suggest that Opera itself is a bug. That's completely unfair. Opera does render &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; websites correctly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T10:01:26.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38929" CreationDate="2010-02-10T10:43:28.143" Score="15" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tools?tab=close&amp;amp;daterange=last2days&quot;&gt;Close votes panel under tools&lt;/a&gt;, we have something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/4701/mostvotescounts.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current active close votes for first question is 0 actually (its closed and reopened), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can we get current active votes count in bracket like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;5 (0) The best tools money can buy&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T08:53:01.973" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T08:53:01.973" Title="Can we get a little bit more detail on most close votes panel under tools?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25276" CreationDate="2010-02-10T11:19:29.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Import from Facebook, LinkedIn (and soon hResume) is now possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T11:19:29.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38912" CreationDate="2010-02-10T11:19:32.717" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might have been noted before, but for instance on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2236295/executing-a-method-dynamically&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt; the home page shows the incorrect author as Mr. Skeet. Mr. Skeet just edited the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143135" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T12:46:07.383" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T12:46:07.383" Title="Incorrect Author showing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38911" CreationDate="2010-02-10T11:20:44.743" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;no-repro -- I see the author as kerido on the SO home page currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in some views, we do show the owner of the last activity of the question (editor/answer) in that slot, and the homepage is one of those views (since the homepage is ACTIVE, so last activity is what is most relevant)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon skeet also answered the question so he would show up there, too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T11:20:44.743" />
  <row Id="38913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-02-10T12:20:50.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about your questions showing up more in the front page when you have over x rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Maybe only count rep from answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T12:20:50.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37066" CreationDate="2010-02-10T12:22:21.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about being over to offer a bounty after 1 day when you have over x rep and after half a day when you have over y rep?  (Maybe with a larger minimal bounty size and the +50 not being added on)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T12:22:21.897" />
  <row Id="38915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-09T15:54:18.453" Score="3" ViewCount="1017" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2133/recommended-syntax-for-an-image-with-a-link&quot;&gt;recommended syntax for an image with a link&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering how to create an image link using the Markdown format? I wanted an output like &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;&quot; rel=&quot;some text&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;/path/to/file&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. Can't also seem to find it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Forgot to add the &lt;code&gt;rel&lt;/code&gt; attribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T13:24:28.163" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T08:58:45.720" Title="Create an image link in Markdown format" Tags="&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="38916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38915" CreationDate="2010-02-09T15:58:49.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;markdown syntax page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#img&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;images&lt;/a&gt; section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140505" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T13:24:28.163" />
  <row Id="38917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38915" CreationDate="2010-02-10T01:23:42.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There does not appear to be a single markdown construct that will do what you want, however both of the following pieces of markdown work (as least on SO):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com.au/images/nav_logo7.png&quot;&amp;gt;](http://google.com.au/)&#xA;&#xA;[![Foo](http://www.google.com.au/images/nav_logo7.png)](http://google.com.au/)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it would be a handy thing to have (along with markdown markup for width, height, floating left or right and adding a caption).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I don't think there is any markdown available for the &lt;code&gt;rel&lt;/code&gt; attribute of links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com.au/&quot; rel=&quot;some text&quot;&amp;gt;![Foo](http://www.google.com.au/images/nav_logo7.png)]&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above looks like your best case, although by this stage you almost might as well just use HTML for the image as well and be done with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T13:24:28.163" />
  <row Id="38918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T13:26:21.527" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since ruby on rails v3 was released recently, some new tags appeared: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rails3&quot;&gt;rails3&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ruby-on-rails3&quot;&gt;ruby-on-rails3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: should we merge &lt;code&gt;rails3&lt;/code&gt; into &lt;code&gt;ruby-on-rails3&lt;/code&gt; or merge both of them into &lt;code&gt;ruby-on-rails&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is true that rails 3 has some specificity, I don't think that'd be a good idea to keep track of framework version in tags, but that's just me. What do you guys think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T14:26:30.353" Title="Ruby-on-rails vs ruby-on-rails3" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38956" CreationDate="2010-02-10T13:31:23.033" Score="18" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18005/please-let-me-know-when-im-running-low-on-close-votes&quot;&gt;Please let me know when I&amp;rsquo;m running low on close votes!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I vote to close a question (and I've already voted to close 12 questions that day), it requires me to go through all the steps of closing before it tells me I'm out of close votes.  When it happens &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2229724/what-tools-are-available-for-checking-compliance-to-c-c-style-guidelines&quot;&gt;on a question that is an exact duplicate&lt;/a&gt;, that requires three extra steps to find out I can't vote to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Request one of &lt;strike&gt;two&lt;/strike&gt; three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &quot;Close Vote&quot; counter is left when you vote to close questions (in the same dialog box: you have &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; votes left today)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not let a user vote to close if they've reached their limit (clicking on 'close' will immediately pop up the 'You have no more votes' dialog).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grey out the 'close' when you are out of close votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this happen? In the 10K tools section, I generally go through all the ones that are slated to be closed or reopened and either add my vote one way or the other.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T14:34:17.627" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T21:16:11.433" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T22:21:28.307" Title="&quot;Closing question&quot; dialog box makes me go through steps even when I have no more votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="38920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T13:57:46.093" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2059109/internships-for-pre-freshman&quot;&gt;careers question&lt;/a&gt;  on SO would in the normal scheme of things have been closed as not programming related. But as it has a bounty, we can't do that. Is the bounty system really intended for this kind of question? Note it is Community Wiki, so there can be no correct answer and it is hard to see how the OP is going to justify the final bounty award.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:02:58.040" Title="Bounty misuse - again" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38920" CreationDate="2010-02-10T14:26:12.803" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki doesn't necessarily mean that there can't be a correct answer. This is why you can accept answers on a CW question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I don't think the poster used the bounty to shield his question from closing. He obviously believes his question is legitimate (and others do too, obviously), and wanted to pop it to the &quot;featured&quot; tab, to gain more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I agree that such question shouldn't be on SO, as it would be more suited on one of the emerging stack Exchange sites. I guess that such questions were tolerated for a while, before any alternative (from what I see in &quot;related&quot; questions). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question should probably be closed, but there is indeed not much to be done about it with a bounty, and this is the issue right now. But at worst, it will last only 4 days, and then it will fall under close votes as fast as it will be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T14:26:12.803" />
  <row Id="38922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38918" CreationDate="2010-02-10T14:26:30.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merging it to &lt;code&gt;ruby_on_rails3&lt;/code&gt; would make most sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might still be people around using &lt;code&gt;v1&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;v2&lt;/code&gt; of &lt;code&gt;rails&lt;/code&gt; and would like to ask questions based upon these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. : C# also has multiple tags targeting its version. [ &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c#2.0&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c#3.0&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;c#4.0&lt;/code&gt; ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T14:26:30.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38920" CreationDate="2010-02-10T15:17:56.370" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14591/why-cant-we-close-questions-with-bounties-closed&quot;&gt;my question here&lt;/a&gt;, which Jeff closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best response there was to flag for a moderator's attention.  It would also help to try to jump on these things and close them early, before the questioner can put a bounty on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just flagged the original careers question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T15:17:56.370" />
  <row Id="38926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38928" CreationDate="2010-02-10T15:35:14.300" Score="4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21866/what-is-the-relevance-of-in-comments&quot;&gt;What is the relevance of &amp;ldquo; @ &amp;rdquo; in comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this has already been asked. I noticed that when user's refer to others there is an &quot;@&quot; in front of their display name. So if some one was referring to my display name, it would read &quot;@AGoodDisplayName&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this done by stackoverflow/markdown?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If so, how to do it (or is this just a convention that people are using? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143142" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T22:24:22.890" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T22:28:00.607" Title="Referring To Other Users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38926" CreationDate="2010-02-10T15:38:06.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a convention people use. StackOverflow uses the @Username to notify users of comment responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/35913#35913&quot;&gt;Jeff's post&lt;/a&gt; about the criteria for users being notified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T15:38:06.300" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38907" CreationDate="2010-02-10T15:56:11.020" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only currently open questions show in that list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The list only counts votes cast in the selected time period&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The list shows the total number votes (subject to the above) so you can find the close history by 1) selecting a long time 2) computing integer V/5 for number of times closed, and V%5 for currently active close votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar remarks apply to the votes to repoen list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No more information is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW- This is all the result of observation and deduction. I have no official word on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T17:26:11.730" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:26:11.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24057" CreationDate="2010-02-10T16:03:45.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have enough points yet to vote this up, but I like this idea. A more general approach would be to add companies as tags, since I may want to follow all of a companies tags even if they don't sponsor them. Even more general would be creating a group or hierarchy. Looks like that has been vetoed before, but maybe &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1620/meta-tags&quot;&gt;meta tags&lt;/a&gt;&quot; would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142481" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T16:03:45.110" />
  <row Id="38931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38926" CreationDate="2010-02-10T16:04:36.183" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that at sign (@) is a convention used on Stack Overflow to address other people. The developers have taken that &quot;convention&quot; and made it a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/35913#35913&quot;&gt;functional direct-reply mechanism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the convention started in other social media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first place where it became the social norm, I believe, was in IRC &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;em&gt;citation needed&lt;/em&gt; :) ]&lt;/sup&gt;. Participants would use the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; symbol to refer to other folks in the discussion by their nickname.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the convention was adapted from e-mail, where @ was used to mark a passage as &quot;attention&quot; to someone (other than the main recipient) in the cc: list. If I was sending a message to Jeff about Waffle Wednesday, I might also cc my assistant, Marc. The message would look something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;To: Jeff&#xA;cc: Marc&#xA;&#xA;I ordered sixteen dozen waffles for the office. They should be here by 10am.&#xA;&#xA;@Marc, please confirm.&#xA;&#xA;Rob&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; symbol had no &lt;em&gt;functional&lt;/em&gt; purpose in email. It was simply convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T16:09:41.777" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T16:09:41.777" />
  <row Id="38932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T16:32:08.870" Score="2" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35264/should-ads-that-mimic-stackoverflow-ui-be-allowed&quot;&gt;Should ads that mimic StackOverflow UI be allowed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve Krug's famous statement when it comes to interface design is: Don't Make Me Think. What got me thinking about Stack Overflow's design is those pesky and annoying advertisements  interspersed with genuine content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my beef in a nutshell: I don't care where programmers ask business questions, and I don't want that stupid blue advertising text interrupting the flow of a real Stack Overflow discussion. Is it possible to change its placement or change its design so it looks less like part of the content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not objecting to advertisements. It's just that in this case they are very poorly integrated into the interface. They actually detract from the usability of the content that all the great programmer/writers generously provide. And it's that content that is the reason for many of us to visit, read, and contribute. Please rethink the way advertisements are integrated, and thank you thank you for a great resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T16:42:28.883" ClosedDate="2010-02-10T17:26:28.267" Title="Advertisements too close to content, disagreeable and simply poor interface design" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T16:48:10.403" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was cleaning up tags, came to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1553862/changing-time-zone-on-linux-by-using-command-closed&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and since it was migrated I couldn't edit the tags.  I wanted to flag for the moderator, but found that migrated posts don't have flag links.  I think we should keep the flag link on the migrated posts for situations like this (and also in case it got migrated but was offensive, and people still wanted to flag it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-23T10:11:24.927" LastActivityDate="2010-08-23T10:11:24.927" Title="Keep moderator flag link on migrated questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38936" CreationDate="2010-02-10T16:54:24.993" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got this today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rcartaino.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/2010-02-10_1036.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is no reference to it in the 'Badges' page. Does this mean I talk too much? What did I win?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T16:55:44.383" Title="What is the &quot;discussion&quot; badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38935" CreationDate="2010-02-10T16:55:44.383" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a tag specific badge.  There are two tabs in the 'badges' page.  One for general badges, and one for tag specific badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;Tag Specific Badges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/42/discussion&quot;&gt;Discussion Badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T16:55:44.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T16:57:41.010" Score="0" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to find any way to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T17:05:29.237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:05:29.237" Title="How to delete your own answer?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38937" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:01:02.690" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be a delete link under your answer - click it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/28ankfn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Delete Link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:01:02.690" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38920" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:02:58.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say the bounty system is intended for anyone who wants to get more attention for their question and so, yes, it is intended for questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem really is that bounty questions turn reputation into currency, leading to special rules for bounty questions to prevent gaming the system.  I could do without the bounty system entirely -- perhaps all we really need is a fixed number of &quot;markers&quot; that one could turn in to get a question boosted to the front page to attract more attention or perhaps the ability to trade reputation for an extended boost without the attendent grant of reputation to the accepted answerer.  That would enable us to keep the same close rules in effect and still get some extra attention for a question needing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:02:58.040" />
  <row Id="38940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38937" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:03:05.853" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't delete an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:03:05.853" />
  <row Id="38941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38942" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:15:15.990" Score="9" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are being asked to vote on questions more often, however from a user’s profile page you can only see how many up and down votes they have done, you can’t see how the voting splits between questions and answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T17:44:26.473" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T18:18:16.950" Title="How do I find out how many of my votes are for questions rather than answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38941" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:22:20.330" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, You can't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is something the Stack Overflow API should address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're polling your own vote information for the API, you should be able to get this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:22:20.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39026" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:19:17.820" Score="2" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that I can change my stackoverflow gravatar by modifying my email address;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With gmail, the address gmailuser+foobar@gmail.com is delivered to gmailuser@gmail.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By adding +foo I also get a new gravatar from stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm looking for a &quot;nice looking&quot; one to use.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an easy website that will display a gravatar given an email address?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143174" LastEditorUserId="143174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T15:19:00.227" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T15:19:00.227" Title="What is the easiest way to display the gravatar for an email address" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38944" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:27:20.823" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gravatars are based on the Md5 of your email&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So run each email through an MD5 hashing algorithm and insert the resulting MD5 into the a gravatar URL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a2104f846a8165d60b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a2104f846a8165d60b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a2104f846a8165d60b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a2104f846a8165d50b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a2104f846a8165d50b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a2104f846a8165d50b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a3104f846a8165d50b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a3104f846a8165d50b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d6a3104f846a8165d50b5b14af7f0313?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143152" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:27:20.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:31:55.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a linked in application or facebook application so i can see my work mates and friends activity on stack overflow in those websites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:31:55.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-10T17:31:55.900" />
  <row Id="38947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69959" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:36:31.090" Score="7" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm getting the &quot;You can only comment every 15 seconds&quot; error even though I haven't commented for a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-11T23:01:12.400" LastActivityDate="2010-11-11T23:01:12.400" Title="Get &quot;You can only comment every 15 seconds&quot; error erroneously" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;rate-limiting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38869" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:42:34.450" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're going to fix the spelling, you should at least fix it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of &lt;strong&gt;teh Interwebs&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:42:34.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22584" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:43:04.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has now been done&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T17:43:04.883" />
  <row Id="38950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25283" CreationDate="2010-02-10T17:43:55.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow#Careers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Careers&lt;/a&gt; surports markup, this is fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-06T11:18:50.933" LastActivityDate="2010-09-06T11:18:50.933" />
  <row Id="38951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38869" CreationDate="2010-02-10T18:04:56.377" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the word &quot;Internet&quot; capitalised is too localized.  The internet is so vast, and encompasses so much that one word can't really be expected to hold all that communication and information goodness.  We really should be open to other possible phrases and words, as suggested by ~quack.  Fortunately XKCD provides a table for such situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/interblag.png&quot; alt=&quot;Terms I have used or heard used to make fun of the internet (table with worldwide, inter-, blogo-, blago-, web- on the rows, and net, web, sphere, tubes, and blag on the columns.  The cells contain X's where the row word is used with the column word, such as blago-net, or inter-tubes)&quot; title=&quot;Sometimes I hate the internet.  Sometimes it makes me happy that 'The Tubes' has become slang for the internet so quickly.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that this be coded such that the actual word used in the informational message is randomly chosen each time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T18:04:56.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38941" CreationDate="2010-02-10T18:18:16.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38941/how-do-i-find-out-how-many-of-my-votes-are-for-questions-rather-than-answers/38942#38942&quot;&gt;George&lt;/a&gt; is right, there's no way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, there is a way, but it is more theoretical in nature. You could call&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/QUESTIONNUMBER/votes&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question, while providing your correction authentication information. That call returns a JSON object like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[{&quot;PostId&quot;:38942,&quot;VoteTypeId&quot;:2},{&quot;PostId&quot;:38941,&quot;VoteTypeId&quot;:2}]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; call for this very meta question returned. It means that I upvoted the question (38941) and George's answer (38942). VoteTypeId is 2 for upvotes and 3 for downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you call it with a question ID, it returns both votes on the question and votes on answers to this question (which you can distinguish because it has a different number than the question). If you call it with an answer ID, it only returns the vote for this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should of cause be doing this slowly, so you don't get &lt;strong&gt;banned&lt;/strong&gt; for excessive calls. Restricting this to questions in your active tags could at least give you an estimate on your question vote / answer vote ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again, as I said, this is more theoretical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Disclaimer: This answer is not endorsed (and is probably being frowned upon) by stackoverflow.com llc or U.S. Air.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T18:18:16.950" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T18:21:38.113" Score="5" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8143/sogooglesearch.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The search box would AutoComplete and provide you a list of popular searches based on what you type. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T18:21:38.113" Title="Implement Google-like AutoComplete on Searches" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38962" CreationDate="2010-02-10T18:42:44.153" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought I read a blog post but when I tried it on Startups.com it just keeps logging me out as one user and back in as the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this allowed? And is it something StackExchange sites can turn on/off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144795" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T19:39:59.843" Title="Can I add/merge 2 OpenIds on the same account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38919" CreationDate="2010-02-10T18:46:29.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would still like to be able to see the reasons behind the other close votes though -- so perhaps the warning should be contained in the popup that has the radio buttons? Some piece of text could &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be included at the bottom, say &quot;You have N close votes left today.&quot; so I can decide for myself if this question is worth spending my last vote(s) on, before actually hitting the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T18:46:29.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38947" CreationDate="2010-02-10T18:56:14.063" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will also get this error if you tried to do anything comment-related that is rejected, e.g. submitting a comment that is shorter than 15 characters. Your next attempt is rate-limited, even though you didn't actually submit a real comment. (IMHO this is a bug; failed comment attempts should either have a different error message or have a different rate limit duration, but it's &lt;s&gt;likely&lt;/s&gt; certain to be closed as &quot;status-bydesign&quot; anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T19:01:15.647" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T19:01:15.647" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38975" CreationDate="2010-02-10T19:16:30.287" Score="5" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did the margins for the silver &amp;amp; gold specialty badges change recently?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I reached 400 votes for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=sql-server&amp;amp;sort=stats&quot;&gt;sql-server tag on SO&lt;/a&gt;, but it's been ~2 days and still haven't been awarded the badge.  I gather there's a delay to make sure votes aren't reversed/etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, what does it take to get a Citizen Patrol badge?  I've flagged numerous things, comments and questions alike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T19:48:52.823" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T22:01:27.003" Title="Where's Ma Badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="38959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38958" CreationDate="2010-02-10T19:21:09.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes in community wiki questions don't count towards tag badges.  Perhaps some of your 400 votes are in CW questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T19:21:09.250" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38919" CreationDate="2010-02-10T19:26:29.210" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's annoying, and takes several seconds out of your day, perhaps minutes if you spend a long time finding the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's only once a day, maximum (unless you have a very poor memory...) and the close vote limitation isn't meant to be 'bumped' into - it's there to prevent overuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are regularly running into it, then you may want to reconsider your strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these reasons it is unlikely that you will be told where you are at.  If it's important to you, then you can keep track using another system (greasemonkey might automate this for you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But implementing it might encourage people to look for questions just to use the remainder of their votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that while this would have great utility for those that are at 10k reputation, and are actively working on keeping the site clean, the vast majority of open/close users are under 10k, and don't have moderator tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By showing them that they have open/close votes left they may feel that they should use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's trivial to find closed questions and hard to find open questions that should be closed.  So the net result is negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be fine with this if it was shown only to 10k rep people (perhaps on the tools page), and since 10k rep people need to close/open more frequently I would further recommend that they be given 24 or more votes per day so that the &quot;limit&quot; is not run into on a daily basis for those who actively police the tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T19:47:52.793" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T19:47:52.793" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="38961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38944" CreationDate="2010-02-10T19:34:36.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generate your own image, then register it with &lt;a href=&quot;http://gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatar.com&lt;/a&gt; and use the same email address you always use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T19:34:36.823" />
  <row Id="38962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38955" CreationDate="2010-02-10T19:39:59.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you registered the two openids seperately, you'll need to contact team@stackoverflow to have them merged, unless this is a stackexchange site.  There you will need to find out who the site administrators are and ask them to merge the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there's a way for you to easily add an openid to an account if the id you are trying to add already exists in the system with another account.  There may be a way if you disassociate the ID with the existing account and then re-add it, but I don't know whether the system will accept that attempt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T19:39:59.843" />
  <row Id="38963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T19:54:19.490" Score="10" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am spending more and more time on Stack Overflow recently and I started to think: it's very addictive, getting rep is cool, I have some long term goals (getting the python and django badges) and it seems as a great way to spend time and increase programming knowledge. But on the other hand, is it really better than getting your hands dirty and coding something more instead of answering questions, especially that there are some questions that could be solved by a few minutes of googling or even just one google hit? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I spend more or less two hours a day, trying to solve other people problems - wouldn't it be better to take some open source project and try to add some code there? It would be a lot harder, but wouldn't it be more beneficial to one's programming skills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143105" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T21:05:28.033" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T21:05:28.033" Title="StackOverflow vs. actually coding something" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;programming&gt;&lt;language-agnostic&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38963" CreationDate="2010-02-10T20:08:38.237" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have learned more answering questions on SO than I could have otherwise.  A significant fraction of what I've learned makes it back into my daily coding.  Since joining SO I've picked up jQuery and Rhino.Mocks as two daily use tools and I owe much of my mastery of both to SO.  I probably would have eventually picked them up anyway, but I think I've progressed much faster by digging in deeper to answer questions about problems I've never had personally.  In many cases, I've solved a problem before I had it, then used my answer in some way to address an issue of my own later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T20:46:08.720" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T20:46:08.720" />
  <row Id="38966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38963" CreationDate="2010-02-10T20:26:52.823" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can sharpen the saw, or you can cut the wood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do only one or the other you will ultimately end up with less cut wood than if you balanced sharpening and cutting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T20:26:52.823" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38963" CreationDate="2010-02-10T20:44:14.340" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't you find that you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; writing code when answering questions? I certainly do - probably half the answers I provide (or possibly more) include code. Sometimes I don't need to test it, but other times I do... and I find I'm getting better at writing code without mistakes first time. Admittedly the snippets on SO are usually fairly simple, but it's still definitely a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this detracts from a sense of balance, however. I've found I haven't had nearly as much time for coding various Open Source projects as I'd like to recently - but that's more to do with writing than with Stack Overflow, which I tend to do in odd little bits of free time, rather than when I've got a large chunk which I could give over to coding something significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, all three of my most recent open source projects - &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/morelinq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MoreLINQ&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/unconstrained-melody&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unconstrained Melody&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/noda-time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Noda Time&lt;/a&gt; - probably owe their existence to SO. They came about due to answering questions on LINQ, generic constraints, and date/time handling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T20:44:14.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:08:54.533" Score="6" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which I search for something like &lt;code&gt;&quot;f-script&quot;&lt;/code&gt; it seems like the &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; is ignored?  Can I have special characters in my search terms or is it not supported?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T14:59:49.603" Title="How to search for special characters on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38919" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:16:11.433" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful to understand the problem's magnitude if we knew how many people were actually using up their close votes per day. If it's fewer than 100 users, then I wouldn't want Jeff and Co spending an hour or more to add a this feature. Does SO even see 1,200 close votes a day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back of the napkin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 30 questions closed in the last 5 hours (arguably the busiest hours of the day) which means that perhaps 150 questions are closed daily, leading to 750 close votes spent per day. Assuming that there's contention on 10% of them, then another 75 open votes are spent as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that only 20% of questions get closed, the remainder having an average of 2.5 votes each, there's another 300 votes cast for questions which don't end up being closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm wildly guessing there's about 1,125 votes for close or open daily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that many people are affected by this on a daily basis.  The SO developers should consider spending their time on higher priority tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T21:16:11.433" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:30:08.510" Score="6" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might just be me, but I sometimes find the breakout of information between the main User page, and the &quot;Recent&quot; page (mail icon) a little confusing.  I can never remember which page to go to to check the status on a recent question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking it might make sense if these two pages were combined into a single view, where you can see the status of everything (lists of activities, reputation updates, reputation chart, etc.), maybe in a tabbed format, or something like that.  For example, on one tab, you might see your rep chart, along with a list of recent changes, possibly combined somehow with the list of total reputation earned for a particular item in the past period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these were combined, the mail icon could still be highlighted for recent activity, but it would just take you into the all-encompassing User view, and possibly highlight the areas that have recently changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60096" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T19:56:13.400" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T19:56:13.400" Title="User page and Recent (mail icon) page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="38971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38976" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:41:56.170" Score="-5" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interactive / Real time code compilation for stackoverflow.com. That will improve the answer correctness of the stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When adding a new code block, let the user try to compile the code and see the result. It will be useful to demonstrate class designs, algorithms, and logics.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143164" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-04T20:35:17.627" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T20:35:17.627" Title="Feature request: real time code compilation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;code&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38970" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:42:28.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, just have the &lt;code&gt;Recent Activity&lt;/code&gt; page on the top of the &lt;code&gt;User Profile&lt;/code&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T21:42:28.213" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38971" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:52:43.213" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a pretty big technical challenge that would provide very little return, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beside, people are &lt;em&gt;discouraged&lt;/em&gt; from posting entire bodies of working code. You should limit your posts to just enough relevant code to describe the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T21:52:43.213" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="38975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38958" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:53:41.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for your second question (citizen patrol badge):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't get it for flagging comments, as according to Jeff Atwood it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5326/give-citizen-patrol-badge-for-flagging-comments-too/7145#7145&quot;&gt;&quot;Not possible, as comments aren't logged in the same way as posts.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with questions/answers, you only get it for flagging as spam/offensive. Again, Jeff says it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6120/citizen-patrol-badge-not-awarded/7147#7147&quot;&gt;&quot;is only awarded for spam and offensive flags, as we moved the mod flags to another table. So if you really want it, flag spam/offensive.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (see his comment towards the bottom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T22:01:27.003" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T22:01:27.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38971" CreationDate="2010-02-10T21:53:43.070" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is already a solved problem, use &lt;a href=&quot;http://codepad.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;codepad.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T21:53:43.070" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="38977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:00:13.997" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/192801/frustratedwithformsdesigner&quot;&gt;This user's name&lt;/a&gt; isn't actually the vaguely amusing &quot;FrustratedWithFormsDes&quot; (22 chars), even though that's how it's displayed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729739/oracle-pl-sql-tips-for-immediate-output-console-printing&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2238726/generate-html-documentation-for-perl-code/2238759#2238759&quot;&gt;answers&lt;/a&gt;. The full name appears on the user page and in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the name truncated in some cases, but not in others? If you don't want to display more than 22 characters, then why allow user names to be longer in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Just saw an answer from a user with a 24 character name, not truncated: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2240575/where-do-custom-build-tools-go-in-your-source-tree/2240616#2240616&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2240575/where-do-custom-build-tools-go-in-your-source-tree/2240616#2240616&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T22:06:14.640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T22:58:26.880" Title="Why are long user names allowed, but truncated on questions and answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="38978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38977" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:04:54.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess we could reduce the font size in the user cards, if your name is longer than (n) characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although not all characters are the same width, eg:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MMMMMMMMMMMMMM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;vs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIIIIIIIIIIIII&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note&lt;/em&gt; There is the same ammount of &lt;code&gt;M&lt;/code&gt;s as &lt;code&gt;I&lt;/code&gt;s in the above demonstration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-10T22:50:21.963" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T22:50:21.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38977" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:08:54.887" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a balance between giving the user flexibility, by allowing him to pick most any name they want, and keeping the user interface from having strange display problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T22:08:54.887" />
  <row Id="38980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:19:30.360" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are Firefox plugins out there that do search on stackoverflow using stackoverflow.com search engine. What I would be interested in is searching from Firefox search box using Google for only stackoverflow.com content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, this would still use Google as search engine, but would add site:stackoverflow.com automatically to every query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this can be done by adding a new search engine to Firefox that uses original Google engine as default?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="706" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T15:15:39.687" Title="Firefox Google search to use only stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;google&gt;&lt;firefox&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38980" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:34:26.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just add a search shortcut for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.google.com/search?q=site:stackoverflow.com+myquestion&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T22:34:26.700" />
  <row Id="38983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38980" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:35:16.013" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bookmark a Google search where you have used &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;e.g. &lt;code&gt;CPU site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then edit the bookmark (menu Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks.../Bookmarks Menu/&amp;lt;select the bookmark - it is at the end&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fill out the &lt;code&gt;keyword&lt;/code&gt; field. E.g. with &quot;so&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Replace the word you used in the original search (CPU in the example above) with &lt;code&gt;%s&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now searches in Stack Overflow can be done directly from the address bar, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;so wix installer&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;kbd&gt;F6&lt;/kbd&gt; toggles focus to the address bar.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T15:15:39.687" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T15:15:39.687" />
  <row Id="38984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38993" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:42:22.693" Score="-2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click on any tag in SO, it return zero results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2152476/why-is-windows-select-not-always-notifying-thread-bs-select-when-thread-a-cl&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; post for example have the tags: windows, c, select, stdin, multithreading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click on any of the above tags, except c tag, I got &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page, which is tell me: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are on the Featured tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are no Featured questions in the&#xA;  windows tag at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you'd like to select a&#xA;  different tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, now I'm actually reading, and understand what going on..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142309" LastEditorUserId="142309" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T04:23:25.613" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T04:23:25.613" Title="There is a problem in SO, so you can search with tags" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="38987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38996" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:56:04.047" Score="12" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming you are doing a routine tag fix that doesn't require discussion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many posts should someone re-tag en masse (which bumps messages in the &lt;code&gt;active&lt;/code&gt; tab) before asking a moderator to use their non-bumping, tag-renaming super powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T06:39:51.063" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T06:39:51.063" Title="How many retags should you do before asking a moderator?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="38989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38977" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:58:26.880" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In answer to your edit, the names aren't actually being truncated at a specific number of characters, they're just being truncated by virtue of the fact that the user cards are &lt;code&gt;div&lt;/code&gt;s with &lt;code&gt;overflow&lt;/code&gt; set to &lt;code&gt;hidden&lt;/code&gt;. So if your name has a lot of narrow characters (III) you'll fit more in than if you use wide characters (MMM). You can see this by looking at the source (or setting your browser text size smaller).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its the right way to do it, since although it means it's a little unpredictable as to where it will get truncated, at least you're guaranteed to fit the maximum number of characters in regardless of which characters are used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T22:58:26.880" />
  <row Id="38990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38999" CreationDate="2010-02-10T22:58:55.833" Score="-4" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new Flattr service could be integrated with StackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like someone's question / answer / comment? With Flattr integrated, you could reward them with actual cash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143168" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T22:19:03.933" LastActivityDate="2010-08-12T22:19:03.933" Title="Micropayments via Flattr for StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;donation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="38991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38990" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:00:54.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this type of feature was suggested in the past and met with rejection (my gut tells me this will be evident in the coming votes). Sounds a bit too much like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mahalo.com/answers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mahalo Answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:00:54.800" />
  <row Id="38992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38987" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:12:22.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For myself, I wouldn't think twice about 10, but would probably balk at 50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:12:22.660" />
  <row Id="38993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38984" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:12:45.000" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you on the &quot;featured&quot; tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice this text in the body of the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are on the Featured tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are no Featured questions in the [stackexchange] tag at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps you'd like to select a different tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:12:45.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="38994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38990" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:13:29.697" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't going to happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff talked about this on many, many occasions on their &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pod casts&lt;/a&gt;. They confronted Jason Calacanis (big believer in micro-payments) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4141.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #56&lt;/a&gt; where they hashed it all out. The conclusion was that Stack Overflow uses an &quot;expert economy&quot; (reputation, prestige, education, etc) and even attempting a &quot;token economy&quot; would essentially destroy Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:13:29.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38968" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:14:11.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;try putting it in quotes: search for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;f-script&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(though I have no idea what &quot;f-script&quot; is..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:14:11.067" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="38996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38987" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:35:23.030" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say at whatever point posting the request here on meta becomes less work than manually retagging the posts.  Somewhere around 10 but less than 20 is my rough guesstimate.  Any more than that would definitely draw complaints that the tag was being spammed (which I know from past experience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:35:23.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38987" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:35:41.250" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should worry about question bumping, it would probably do them good to see the light of day one last time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:35:41.250" />
  <row Id="38998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:40:10.993" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if we could associate our SO accounts so that new questions that we ask could show up in Google Buzz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/buzz/documentation/#connect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Buzz documentation&lt;/a&gt;, all you need to do is add something like this to the feed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;me&quot; type=&quot;text/html&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/profiles/your.username&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: It seems there is currently a &quot;me&quot; link on the website tag in the profile page, which can be picked up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, you can make chains in the social graph: If you link to your website from Stack Overflow, and then link to your Google profile from your website, this will allow Buzz to pickup Stack Overflow as a content source. (I think you have to include all stages of the chain as links on your profile though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55" LastEditorUserId="55" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T10:36:32.043" LastActivityDate="2010-08-16T15:08:43.277" Title="Add the XFN 'me' link to RSS feeds" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="38999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38990" CreationDate="2010-02-10T23:41:56.560" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely not. Aside from anything else, I suspect that if it could incur direct financial gain, I'd have to completely stop posting to SO from work. Many other people may be in the same situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm assuming that the incidental gain of more people buying C# in Depth is okay :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-10T23:41:56.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38998" CreationDate="2010-02-11T00:29:06.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you can start by making sure you're using your Google Profile as your OpenID, which we already fully endorse and support:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T00:29:06.187" />
  <row Id="39003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-21T23:05:12.177" Score="8" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems more and more lately that people on this site dislike subjective questions, as opposed to ones about narrow, technical topics. I don't understand this. I see two reasons as to why subjective questions should be respected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Understanding multiple points of view on a subject makes you more informed and allows for better decision making. I like to post subjective questions just to understand what the different arguments are. Yes, people argue, but a healthy debate is a good thing and attacking a point of view is not the same as attacking someone personally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They're fun.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the above, why does the community seem to hate subjective questions more and more lately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144252" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-25T16:16:27.913" LastActivityDate="2011-03-25T16:16:27.913" Title="Why the bias against subjective questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2008-11-21T23:10:04.680" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ones that really are interesting and/or fun usually fare well, the problem is that there are lots of stupid/flamebait/boring/redundant ones popping up lately and the tolerance level for them has dropped as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138147" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T01:19:19.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-11-21T23:10:41.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39005" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-12-15T17:45:13.673" Score="9" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a lot of questions that don't have enough details to allow any one to start formulating an answer.  And yet the question will have several psychic answers provided.  How can we encourage detailed questions?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we encourage users to post comments asking for more information rather than pointless answers?  Down voting does not seem a cost effective solution. For an example, see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/369051/best-database-for-c-product#369129&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/369051/best-database-for-c-product#369129&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5618" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T16:06:50.353" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T16:06:50.353" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T17:52:12.583" Title="How to combat psychic answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39005" CreationDate="2008-12-15T17:46:58.800" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many cases where psychic answers correctly predict the intended question. The point should not be to combat psychic answers -- it should be to combat vague questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139257" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T01:22:30.183" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39005" CreationDate="2008-12-15T18:16:59.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We also need to understand that people of all levels will post questions and answers. Often it can be helpful for newbies to give them answers to help them see how ambiguity in their questions can lead to answers they weren't intending. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These people I am sure aren't deliberately writing ambiguous questions, they just don't know better. It is all part of the learning curve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little bit if tolerance goes a long way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T01:22:30.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T18:16:59.613" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39005" CreationDate="2008-12-15T21:29:39.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the comments and answers indicate, the issue is not to stop people being psychic, but to ensure that the questioners get feedback - not just downvotes but verbal feedback - asking for more information.  If they're rank beginners, it seems they cannot even edit their own questions (well, empirically, a lot of newbies edit their question by adding answers - I've not been that much of a newbie for a while, so I don't remember except that it was a little frustrating for a while).  So, it is then up to people who can edit to combine the extra information into the main question and request that the newcomer remove the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tolerance of newbies is important.  If someone with a few hundred points or more asks a question without enough information, they deserve any brickbats lobbed at them in the form of down-votes or whatever.  If they're a newbie, they need the education more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments help.  Sometimes, it is necessary to edit the question to get their attention.  Overall, on average, I'd say that most people get the message and end up being sensible.  I may just be avoiding the topics where this is not self-evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T01:22:30.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T21:29:39.787" />
  <row Id="39009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39005" CreationDate="2008-12-15T21:32:21.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Request for more information can be made in the comments section. Then the question can be edited to make it more meaningful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T01:22:30.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2008-12-15T21:32:21.250" />
  <row Id="39010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T01:25:56.733" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first rhetorical question on SO… well I was wondering about the moderation requirements so I made my first trip to meta. I searched for &quot;who can edit questions?&quot;, as I had on stackoverflow, and got nothing useful. Then I looked at the &quot;hey, you're new here!&quot; banner and followed the link to the FAQ, where I got the info. (Well, actually I got the idea to directly enter the URL &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt; .)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it were my second time visiting meta, I might never have found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, FAQs being frequently asked, wouldn't it be useful to put them somewhere the search engine can find?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; To be crystal clear, here is a link &quot;demonstrating the misbehavior&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+kind+of+questions+can+I+ask+here%3F&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=what+kind+of+questions+can+I+ask+here%3F&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;/strong&gt; The proposal here is to &quot;put them somewhere the search engine can find.&quot; I don't propose rephrasing the FAQ and didn't mean to propose to give it the &lt;em&gt;format&lt;/em&gt; of a question. So I have edited the title of this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143172" LastEditorUserId="143172" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-29T02:30:45.037" LastActivityDate="2011-04-29T02:30:45.037" Title="Should the FAQ page be returned in search results?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;site-faq&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39013" CreationDate="2010-02-11T02:25:09.383" Score="5" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/826777/revisions&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post of mine with the revision remark of &quot;Jeopardy compliance&quot;. I tried to find what this is, but I have had no luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136063" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T04:25:13.690" Title="What is jeopardy compliance?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="39013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39012" CreationDate="2010-02-11T02:28:07.630" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, but pretend you're on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeopardy&lt;/a&gt;: phrase it in the form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T02:28:07.630" />
  <row Id="39014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39010" CreationDate="2010-02-11T02:32:37.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is that the FAQ should be consulted &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; searching, since those questions are asked frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do make a good point, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T02:32:37.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43079" CreationDate="2010-02-11T02:41:40.447" Score="6" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[winapi]&lt;/code&gt; - 2503 questions&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows-api]&lt;/code&gt; - 30 questions&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[win32api]&lt;/code&gt; - 2 questions&lt;/strike&gt; (Completed Mar 5/2010)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[win32-api]&lt;/code&gt; - 62 questions&lt;/strike&gt; (Completed Mar 5/2010 while waiting for Chinese food to arrive lol)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[window]&lt;/code&gt; AND &lt;code&gt;[api]&lt;/code&gt; - 3 questions ( &quot;&quot; )&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[windows]&lt;/code&gt; AND &lt;code&gt;[api]&lt;/code&gt; - 114 questions (likely needs hand-sorting)&lt;/strike&gt; (Completed Mar 20/2010)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proposed:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;[win32]&lt;/code&gt; - 835 questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to leave the &lt;code&gt;[win32]&lt;/code&gt; tag for now. It should probably have its own request question anyway. In finishing this up, I only removed that tag from only a couple of questions, so that may indicate it was used instead of &lt;code&gt;[winapi]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T03:29:13.373" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T03:29:13.373" Title="Tag merge request: [windows-api] and others into [winapi] on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T03:23:09.803" Score="-2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28402/no-reputation-for-upvote-given&quot;&gt;No reputation for upvote given?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is getting upvote but point not adding to my Rep, Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T18:31:02.867" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T18:31:02.867" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T16:05:59.527" Title="My question is getting upvote but point not adding to my Rep, Why?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39017" CreationDate="2010-02-11T03:34:12.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two most likely answers are that you've hit your rep cap for the day, and that the question is community wiki.  Since you've posted hundreds of questions on Stack Overflow, and you don't give a clue as to which question, we're not going to be able to be more helpful than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T03:34:12.213" />
  <row Id="39019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39017" CreationDate="2010-02-11T03:34:29.297" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have reached the maximum limit of 200 reputation per day*, then you will not acquire any more reputation for that day except for accepted answers and bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*A day is defined as the 24 hour period between 00:00 UTC and the next occurrence of that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T03:34:29.297" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T04:01:11.467" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me the total search statistics are not that useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would showing the stats for the last 50 or 100 searches show a better picture of what employers are currently looking and what countries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26301" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T04:01:11.467" Title="Employer search statistics for last 50-100" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" />
  <row Id="39021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39012" CreationDate="2010-02-11T04:25:13.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeopardy&lt;/a&gt; is a TV game show in the US.  Contestants are given an answer, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!#Gameplay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;they must respond with a question&lt;/a&gt; - in other words all their responses have to be in the form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On StackOverflow, all questions have to be in the form of a question.  If there's no question mark, or English sentence that that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://academicwriting.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_identify_the_four_types_of_sentences&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interrogative&lt;/a&gt;, then the &quot;question&quot; isn't a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edit, among other things, made sure there was a question that people could answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T04:25:13.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T04:37:51.003" Score="1" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of questions being unfairly closed, often like &quot;subjective or argumentative&quot; because they are poorly written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take this question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2242182/revisions&quot;&gt;edit history&lt;/a&gt; for example. The original question was bad formulated, but by no means was this an &lt;strong&gt;invalid&lt;/strong&gt; question. It got closed in &lt;strong&gt;less than 5 minutes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason: Obviously the user asking the question was not an english speaker, so he did what he could (probably using google translate or something), but for some people that was not good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took me less than a minute to rephrase the question, and it got reopened a few minutes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the solution I'm proposing here is to add two tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;need-rephrase&lt;/code&gt; ask for help in order to make the question more understandable&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;need-translate&lt;/code&gt; this is probably more extreme, it would let the author write the question in it's own language so another user would come and translate it to english.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not closing questions aggressively (note that most of the bad formulated questions are from newbies, and we don't want to be rude with them if we want the community to grow).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lowering the barriers of entrance to the non-english speakers.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does not need new functionality or features.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People would be able to collaborate not only with technical skills but also with their language knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132555" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T11:25:07.320" Title="Need-Rephrase &amp; Need-Translation Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;internationalisation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="39023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39005" CreationDate="2010-02-11T04:44:40.897" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to Combat Psychic Answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe we need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we encourage detailed questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think detailed questions can be encouraged any more than they already are.  Yes, we could make the instructions in the right hand column blink...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/cooltext_howtoask.gif&quot; alt=&quot;How To Ask Is Your Question About Programming?&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but that won't work either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best way to deal with this is to let the person post the question, and then let the community assess it.  Some of them will just shake their head and move on.  Some will ask follow up questions.  Some will downvote.  Some will vote to close.  Some will take what little information they have, and attempt an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is &lt;em&gt;great!&lt;/em&gt;  If we give a shotgun approach to a new question, then something may well hit the target, or the community will eventually reach a  consensus on whether it should be closed, edited, or downvoted into oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what happens, the person who asked the question gets a lot of fast feedback.  If the issue is important to them they will engage the community and the question will be fixed, and the answers will get better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they don't engage, and the question remains broken, then it doesn't hurt anyone to have some wild-guess answers floating around, some of which might help someone else with a similar problem later, searching google for similar terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can we encourage users to post comments asking for more information rather then pointless answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe this is necessary, and in fact it's a good survival trait to approach the problem with some guesses even when it's not clearly defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen several questions where the OP responds to the guessed answers with additional information that eventually fills the whole picture out, but they did not respond to direct questions in the comments.  Some people simply engage differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From their perspective they ask a question, and all they get in response are more questions.  What they might prefer is a few answers that may be wildly off the mark - they may know immediately that they are off the mark, or they may try it out and come back with more information.  Regardless, this is how they engage with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not necessary to discourage people from trying to solve a problem when the issue is not clearly defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T07:27:07.360" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T07:27:07.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-11T04:44:40.897" />
  <row Id="39024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39022" CreationDate="2010-02-11T04:52:24.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a pretty invalid question from my perspective -- blatant do my homework stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T04:52:24.707" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39022" CreationDate="2010-02-11T05:28:38.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pablo, you provided a beautiful solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It took me less than a minute to rephrase the question, and it got reopened a few minutes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary tongue of my household is not English. I understand the frustration one has when they cannot clearly communicate in a foreign tongue. Most of my communication is in a foreign tongue, and every now and then I fumble my words, but somebody is there to help me make myself clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the beauty of the Stack Overflow community, we're helping eachother. In this type of situation, if you understand a question better than others, please take the liberty to edit it for the benefit of the community - step in for those who cannot clearly communicate their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking from experience, your efforts will be greatly appreciated ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T05:28:38.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38944" CreationDate="2010-02-11T05:57:40.060" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/gravatar.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/gravatar.htm&lt;/a&gt; but with corrected code&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;HTML&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;HEAD&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;TITLE&amp;gt;Gravatar Client Display&amp;lt;/TITLE&amp;gt; &#xA;  &amp;lt;script src=&quot;MD5.js&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&#xA;   function getIt()&#xA;   {&#xA;    var base = &quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/&quot;;&#xA;    var email = document.getElementById(&quot;email&quot;).value; &#xA;    var hash = MD5(email);&#xA;    var fullUrl = base+hash +&quot;?d=identicon&amp;amp;s=128&quot;;&#xA; 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       b=FF(b,c,d,a,x[k+7], S14,0xFD469501);&#xA;        a=FF(a,b,c,d,x[k+8], S11,0x698098D8);&#xA;        d=FF(d,a,b,c,x[k+9], S12,0x8B44F7AF);&#xA;        c=FF(c,d,a,b,x[k+10],S13,0xFFFF5BB1);&#xA;        b=FF(b,c,d,a,x[k+11],S14,0x895CD7BE);&#xA;        a=FF(a,b,c,d,x[k+12],S11,0x6B901122);&#xA;        d=FF(d,a,b,c,x[k+13],S12,0xFD987193);&#xA;        c=FF(c,d,a,b,x[k+14],S13,0xA679438E);&#xA;        b=FF(b,c,d,a,x[k+15],S14,0x49B40821);&#xA;        a=GG(a,b,c,d,x[k+1], S21,0xF61E2562);&#xA;        d=GG(d,a,b,c,x[k+6], S22,0xC040B340);&#xA;        c=GG(c,d,a,b,x[k+11],S23,0x265E5A51);&#xA;        b=GG(b,c,d,a,x[k+0], S24,0xE9B6C7AA);&#xA;        a=GG(a,b,c,d,x[k+5], S21,0xD62F105D);&#xA;        d=GG(d,a,b,c,x[k+10],S22,0x2441453);&#xA;        c=GG(c,d,a,b,x[k+15],S23,0xD8A1E681);&#xA;        b=GG(b,c,d,a,x[k+4], S24,0xE7D3FBC8);&#xA;        a=GG(a,b,c,d,x[k+9], S21,0x21E1CDE6);&#xA;        d=GG(d,a,b,c,x[k+14],S22,0xC33707D6);&#xA;        c=GG(c,d,a,b,x[k+3], S23,0xF4D50D87);&#xA;        b=GG(b,c,d,a,x[k+8], S24,0x455A14ED);&#xA;        a=GG(a,b,c,d,x[k+13],S21,0xA9E3E905);&#xA;        d=GG(d,a,b,c,x[k+2], S22,0xFCEFA3F8);&#xA;        c=GG(c,d,a,b,x[k+7], S23,0x676F02D9);&#xA;        b=GG(b,c,d,a,x[k+12],S24,0x8D2A4C8A);&#xA;        a=HH(a,b,c,d,x[k+5], S31,0xFFFA3942);&#xA;        d=HH(d,a,b,c,x[k+8], S32,0x8771F681);&#xA;        c=HH(c,d,a,b,x[k+11],S33,0x6D9D6122);&#xA;        b=HH(b,c,d,a,x[k+14],S34,0xFDE5380C);&#xA;        a=HH(a,b,c,d,x[k+1], S31,0xA4BEEA44);&#xA;        d=HH(d,a,b,c,x[k+4], S32,0x4BDECFA9);&#xA;        c=HH(c,d,a,b,x[k+7], S33,0xF6BB4B60);&#xA;        b=HH(b,c,d,a,x[k+10],S34,0xBEBFBC70);&#xA;        a=HH(a,b,c,d,x[k+13],S31,0x289B7EC6);&#xA;        d=HH(d,a,b,c,x[k+0], S32,0xEAA127FA);&#xA;        c=HH(c,d,a,b,x[k+3], S33,0xD4EF3085);&#xA;        b=HH(b,c,d,a,x[k+6], S34,0x4881D05);&#xA;        a=HH(a,b,c,d,x[k+9], S31,0xD9D4D039);&#xA;        d=HH(d,a,b,c,x[k+12],S32,0xE6DB99E5);&#xA;        c=HH(c,d,a,b,x[k+15],S33,0x1FA27CF8);&#xA;        b=HH(b,c,d,a,x[k+2], S34,0xC4AC5665);&#xA;        a=II(a,b,c,d,x[k+0], S41,0xF4292244);&#xA;        d=II(d,a,b,c,x[k+7], S42,0x432AFF97);&#xA;        c=II(c,d,a,b,x[k+14],S43,0xAB9423A7);&#xA;        b=II(b,c,d,a,x[k+5], S44,0xFC93A039);&#xA;        a=II(a,b,c,d,x[k+12],S41,0x655B59C3);&#xA;        d=II(d,a,b,c,x[k+3], S42,0x8F0CCC92);&#xA;        c=II(c,d,a,b,x[k+10],S43,0xFFEFF47D);&#xA;        b=II(b,c,d,a,x[k+1], S44,0x85845DD1);&#xA;        a=II(a,b,c,d,x[k+8], S41,0x6FA87E4F);&#xA;        d=II(d,a,b,c,x[k+15],S42,0xFE2CE6E0);&#xA;        c=II(c,d,a,b,x[k+6], S43,0xA3014314);&#xA;        b=II(b,c,d,a,x[k+13],S44,0x4E0811A1);&#xA;        a=II(a,b,c,d,x[k+4], S41,0xF7537E82);&#xA;        d=II(d,a,b,c,x[k+11],S42,0xBD3AF235);&#xA;        c=II(c,d,a,b,x[k+2], S43,0x2AD7D2BB);&#xA;        b=II(b,c,d,a,x[k+9], S44,0xEB86D391);&#xA;        a=AddUnsigned(a,AA);&#xA;        b=AddUnsigned(b,BB);&#xA;        c=AddUnsigned(c,CC);&#xA;        d=AddUnsigned(d,DD);&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    var temp = WordToHex(a)+WordToHex(b)+WordToHex(c)+WordToHex(d);&#xA;&#xA;    return temp.toLowerCase();&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143174" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T05:57:40.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17443" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:26:17.127" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy way to display the gravatar for a given email address&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38944/what-is-the-easist-way-to-display-the-gravatar-for-an-email-address&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38944/what-is-the-easist-way-to-display-the-gravatar-for-an-email-address&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143174" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T06:26:17.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-07T04:53:13.043" />
  <row Id="39029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39032" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:27:14.583" Score="-2" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a newbie, I stumbled upon this site yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a question I gave a perfectly correct and valid awnser, yet two people downvoted the answer and one downvoted my profile, and no explanation was given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this allowed? If I did something wrong, I should be told what I did wrong, and if I did not, why the hell they are downvoting me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143119" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T14:54:04.403" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:04:35.893" Title="Why downvoting newbies without explanation is allowed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39035" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:29:27.887" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;My gr-avatar changed. Read that it was a hash of email address. However it's the same as last time. Is the hashing case sensitive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;SomeEmail@SomeDomain.com is different from someemail@somedomain.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not hate my old icon. The new one really blows. So now I miss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Verified case is irrelevant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Logged into SO this morning and I have the old gr-avatar, issue gone but not resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: If you have not provided an email in your profile the gr-avatar is assigned by the IP that you use when you sign in. You can change your gr-avatar fooling with the value of the email at the expense of notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133468" LastEditorUserId="133468" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T16:17:03.440" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:17:03.440" Title="Issue with changed gravatar icon. Changed after asking a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;hash&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39029" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:34:35.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not possible to &quot;downvote a profile&quot;, however your profile page does show how many votes &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have made. If you downvote somebody else, then the downvote counter on your profile increments by one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T06:34:35.893" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39029" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:37:23.530" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is this allowed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because voting is anonymous.  Forcing voters to leave a comment may often result in retaliatory downvotes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I did something wrong, I should be told what I did wrong, and if I did not, why the hell they are downvoting me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally they will leave a note, but if not then you can assume:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe they don't think your answer is altogether wrong, but are simply nit-picking one thing.  Some people downvote for simple spelling or grammar issues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe they think you are wrong, but you are right and they have a misconception.  Mistakes happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes when others answer a question, they downvote other answers because they feel their answer is better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's quite possible you are wrong in a significant way.  If you can, leave a comment asking why people are downvoting your answer.  Otherwise, consider revising your answer with proof, either to documentation, or with a code example that proves your point.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could be that they simply don't believe you, but rather than take the time to disprove you they simply downvote without really knowing whether you're right or wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the bottom line is that people can and will downvote for any and all reasons, good, bad, or ugly.  If you know you are right, just shake your head at their stupidity, and move on to answering the next question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel you are being unfairly targeted, and no one is responding to your requests for reasons why they are downvoting, link to your answers here and we might be able to help you understand whether there's a good reason to downvote you or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T06:37:23.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38299" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:39:00.693" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a bug in search input sanitization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fixing that also removes the requirement to use AND between quoted words as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T06:39:00.693" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39029" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:42:40.647" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2242593/when-comparing-for-equality-is-it-okay-to-use&quot;&gt;referring answer&lt;/a&gt; in the comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no downvote at all, only 1 up,0 down now, &#xA;it's mean that people upvoted you first and then they found a better answer, and withdraw their upvotes, that's all. It's fair enough, in my humble opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Old answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is only one downvote in your 13 answers, so I will assume &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2242589/how-to-change-this-c-function-to-work-in-c/2242596#2242596&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is the one you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got +2 and -1 in that post, and there is a comment for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my humble opinion, the answer is not well explained and needs code formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And up/downvoting is not to a &lt;strong&gt;person&lt;/strong&gt;, it's for a particular question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's agree to disagree with respect to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T16:04:35.893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:04:35.893" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39030" CreationDate="2010-02-11T06:53:11.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want a stable gravatar, provide a stable email address in your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, as alex noted (should have been an answer IMO) it is based on IP address in the absence of an email address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T06:53:11.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T07:23:11.633" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38680/make-new-close-reasons-dialog-experience-sensitive&quot;&gt;Make new close reasons dialog experience-sensitive.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to click &quot;close&quot; to vote to close things. I would get a tooltip with the reasons for closing, and I'd pick one and press enter, and then I'd be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I click &quot;close&quot; to vote to close things, and I get a ginourmous tooltip with the reasons for closing and paragraphs explaining each one in detail, and I have to scroll to pick the reason I want half the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the expanded tooltip is a great idea, but perhaps it should revert back to the original, shorter version for users over a certain reputation threshold, or who have cast a certain number of close votes, or are otherwise experienced enough that we can trust them to understand the close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T07:23:11.633" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T08:59:14.487" Title="New close descriptions cool, but annoying" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2010-02-11T07:42:14.720" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several big reasons, most stemming from the fact that subjective questions are, by definition, subjective, which means any idiot with an opinion can contribute.  This leads to the following issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they are popular, they gather a lot of votes, and those that post them are often viewed as rep whores, even when it's community wiki'd.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they are popular they are always (seemingly) on front page, which irritates people - they don't want to see the same, &quot;What if compilers had feelings&quot; question every time they visit SO for a week.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they are easy to think of and post, and due to their longevity on the front page, if we let too many stay open then a significant number of questions on the front page are these silly subjective discussions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;StackOverflow is not a discussion forum - it's a place where you get answers to questions.  Discussion may &lt;em&gt;lead&lt;/em&gt; to an answer, but it isn't generally an answer in and of itself.  If you must discuss technical topics at length, there are other forums where such discussion is welcome.  StackOverflow is not this forum.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programmers like everything to be in their proper places, and if the problem they are looking at is not black and white, they try to convert it into one that is black and white.  While discussion is stimulating, and while some subjective questions have solutions, but everyone thinks a different solution is better than everyone else's solution, the reality is that there's no one best measurably and objectively &lt;strong&gt;right&lt;/strong&gt; answer for a subjective question.  And it irritates people, sometimes to the point of starting arguments and flame wars.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site is designed to exclude such discussions.  We let a very few through because, hey, we're not robots, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalmatica/224999425/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;we all so very much want to be&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T07:42:14.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-26T05:43:56.267" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39043" CreationDate="2010-02-11T08:31:34.157" Score="13" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just got Google Buzz on my Google Account and you can connect sites to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to connect Stackoverflow into Google Buzz? I.e. whenever you post questions or answers it'll show up in Buzz?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T14:45:57.127" Title="Enable Stackoverflow as connected site to Google Buzz?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="39042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T08:36:17.673" Score="-8" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be bronze, silver and gold badges awarded to accepted answers with a certain number of downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/can-you-bring-the-color-back-to-meta/119#119&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, an accepted answer with a whopping of -31 downvotes! It's not easy to get your answer downvoted 30++ times, and it is not easy to get your answer accepted. Don't you think to get both is an accomplishment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T10:37:20.427" Title="Badge for Accepted Answers with A Certain Number of Downvotes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39041" CreationDate="2010-02-11T08:37:40.747" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why, sho nuff, there is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your &lt;strong&gt;Google Reader shared items&lt;/strong&gt;, Picasa Web public albums, and Google Chat status messages will automatically appear as posts in Buzz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just go to your activity page and grab the feed for your trail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/&lt;/a&gt;{userID}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then just share everything in that stream feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bada bing, bada boom and you're buzzing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T08:37:40.747" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39042" CreationDate="2010-02-11T08:43:40.113" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see why we would like to reward a bad answer (judged so by the community) which is taken as accepted (depending only on the asker's judgment). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opposite makes sense, and this is why it is rewarded (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/37/populist&quot;&gt;Populist badge&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges exist to &quot;encourage&quot; a good behavior, remember that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T08:55:13.090" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T08:55:13.090" />
  <row Id="39045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35577" CreationDate="2010-02-11T09:18:48.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use Ctrl+K repeatedly to delete all except the last &lt;code&gt;N % 4&lt;/code&gt; spaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T09:18:48.620" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T09:16:06.637" Score="2" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I register on this website?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I click &quot;register&quot;, it asks me for my OpenID.&#xA;So I gave my Yahoo ID, but nothing happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone of you please guide me on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-11T17:23:36.170" LastActivityDate="2010-07-11T17:23:36.170" Title="How can I register on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;registration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39046" CreationDate="2010-02-11T09:23:51.530" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OpenID is a system where you only need to enter information such as your name and location only once. When logging in to site which uses OpenID such as SO it requests a permission to use the credentials from the OpenID provider you entered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that when you log in to your Yahoo ID, the site calls the Yahoo ID provider for your credentials which you either allow or deny (&lt;em&gt;some providers use the word &quot;share&quot; for this&lt;/em&gt;) - and apparently you did allow - and then starts treating you as a logged in user without the need to create a yet another account for some site on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T09:23:51.530" />
  <row Id="39048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39046" CreationDate="2010-02-11T09:52:10.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click the &quot;register&quot; link at the top of the page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Click the OpenID provider of your choice&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Confirm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Done&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T09:52:10.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39446" CreationDate="2010-02-11T10:14:22.133" Score="11" ViewCount="2750" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want a Stack Overflow wallpaper to be set as my desktop background. Is there a collection of Stack Overflow wallpapers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like a good way to show the interest to people in answering questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rlv.zcache.com/stackoverflow_bounty_hunter_badge_tshirt-p235427238913722082trlf_400.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rlv.zcache.com/stackoverflow_good_answer_badge_shirt-p235296636487991987q6v8_400.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rlv.zcache.com/stackoverflow_fastest_gun_badge_tshirt-p235825482821239975trlf_400.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/05/12brent.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/O4iis.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-17T16:20:43.463" LastActivityDate="2010-09-17T16:20:43.463" Title="Where can I get Stack Overflow wallpapers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="39050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39049" CreationDate="2010-02-11T10:23:48.857" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is one for you:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5900/wallpaperso.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T10:23:48.857" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39042" CreationDate="2010-02-11T10:37:20.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Gnoupi said, we don't want to reward bad answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were proposing new Badges for SO/SF/SU, your example shouldn't have been taken from Meta, where downvoting means something different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's answer wasn't &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; bad, it was just unpopular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T10:37:20.427" />
  <row Id="39053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T10:45:35.437" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://habrahabr.ru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://habrahabr.ru/&lt;/a&gt;, for example, uses Ctrl-RightArrow to go to previous page and Ctrl-LeftArrow to go to next page. It's a very convenient way to navigate and supposed to be an easy change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarification, it's not about back and forward browser buttons, it's about going from for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;amp;tab=newest + CtrlRightArrow = &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;amp;tab=newest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;amp;tab=newest + CtrlLeftArrow = &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;amp;tab=newest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154478" LastEditorUserId="154478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T14:29:25.087" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:29:25.087" Title="Feature request: use Ctrl-RightArrow/Ctrl-LeftArrow to navigate between pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;navigation&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2010-02-11T11:05:36.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that instead of changing the weights of down-votes an alternative solution could used for the reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically instead of using every vote on the question/answer for the reputation the &quot;vote balance&quot; could be used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example if user has 4 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote balance    up-votes    down-votes    reputation earned&#xA;Q1:      1             1            0                +10&#xA;Q2:     -1             0            1                 -2 &#xA;&#xA;Q3:      1             3            2                +24 (+30 -4)&#xA;Q4:     -1             3            4                +22 (+30 -8)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the fact that Q1 earned +10 reputation and Q2 -2 is not an issue for anyone.&#xA;The problematic ones are Q3 and especially Q4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of counting each up-vote/down-vote for the reputation, we could consider the overall vote balance of a question. That would eliminate the problem the Q3 and Q4 created in the current setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same situation would look as follows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Vote balance    up-votes    down-votes    reputation earned&#xA;Q1:      1             1            0                +10&#xA;Q2:     -1             0            1                 -2 &#xA;&#xA;Q3:      1             3            2                +10&#xA;Q4:     -1             3            4                 -2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It think that would be more fair than changing the weight of the down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35763/earning-reputation-for-poor-questions&quot;&gt;Earning Reputation for Poor Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3241" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T14:16:21.670" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T14:16:21.670" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-11T11:05:36.543" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39049" CreationDate="2010-02-11T11:21:50.883" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You minimize your browser window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139677" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T11:21:50.883" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39022" CreationDate="2010-02-11T11:25:07.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't allow translations of questions.  The scheme proposed assumes that asking the question is an only action average user should perform.  There are also many other activities: such as commenting--and &lt;em&gt;responding&lt;/em&gt; to comments, answering others questions etc.  Users without English knowledge just won't make it, unless someone constantly mentors them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, such behavior--ask a question and do not talk anymore-- is not to be &quot;standardized&quot; (and special tags mean it), but instead is to be disapproved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T11:25:07.320" />
  <row Id="39057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T11:36:44.493" Score="-3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2244046/i-want-programm&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is obviously an exceptionally poor question, it still amazes me that 5 people can vote to close and yet not one of them leave a comment to help explain how the poster can improve their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see loads of similar examples where questions from new users are closed and heavily voted down without anyone taking any effort to explain why - &lt;strong&gt;not a pleasant experience for new users.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything that can be done to encourage users to leave comments when voting to close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T22:19:05.317" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T22:19:05.317" Title="Is it acceptable to vote to close a question without leaving a comment?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39053" CreationDate="2010-02-11T11:37:54.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If implemented, then rather than having a site define keyboard shortcuts, I'd use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;standard relationships&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; instead. Then it's up to the browser to handle it. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;  :&#xA;  &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;start&quot; href=&quot;/questions/39053&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;next&quot; href=&quot;/questions/39053?tab=oldest&amp;amp;page=2#tab-top&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  :&#xA;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, just like the Stack Overflow sites already do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/7322?tab=oldest&amp;amp;amp;page=2#tab-top&quot; title=&quot;go to page 2&quot; &#xA;  rel=&quot;next&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;page-numbers next&quot;&amp;gt; next&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T11:37:54.757" />
  <row Id="39059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48706" CreationDate="2010-02-11T11:39:27.767" Score="6" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's something which I noticed first in SuperUser yesterday but dismissed it, this time I saw this in SO. I logged onto SO today, and there was a notification - &quot;You have 2 new answers and 1 new notification&quot;. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3633/uploadq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked on the link, it shows me there is only 1 answer and 1 comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/2697/uploadr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same happened yesterday on SuperUser as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133693" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T16:37:43.217" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T16:37:43.217" Title="Number of answers indicated by notification is one more than actual" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39057" CreationDate="2010-02-11T11:57:59.500" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The close reason &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the comment. The question page describes exactly what's wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, or &#xA;  rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it really help for users to have added that as a comment too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now admittedly it doesn't help a new user if they receive close votes but can't see those votes until after the question is closed, but that's slightly different. (It's possible that the question owner &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; see close votes, regardless of reputation - if that's not the case, it possibly should be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T11:57:59.500" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39059" CreationDate="2010-02-11T12:08:18.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely an answer was deleted by its owner before you clicked on the link.  Once you reach 10K pts, you will be able to see deleted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T12:08:18.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39057" CreationDate="2010-02-11T12:16:33.213" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree with Kragen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the close and the explanation given by the system were both perfectly valid, it's a matter of basic courtesy towards total newbies, or non-native speakers, to not run them over with the close vote, but at least leave a quick note explaining what's wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many newbies a) don't speak the language very well and b) may not be familiar with the concept of the site - in a chatroom, the way he put it may be a fully valid start of a long conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If in doubt, please take the time to explain why something gets closed. People who get this on their first go are very likely not to come back, and understandably so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T13:53:46.217" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T13:53:46.217" />
  <row Id="39063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39205" CreationDate="2010-02-11T12:35:09.260" Score="13" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I ask a syntax question about the Apache Module &lt;a href=&quot;http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mod_rewrite&lt;/a&gt;, I get at least one comment and close vote saying &quot;belongs on serverfault&quot;. Recent example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2219098/cleaning-up-nested-mod-rewrite-statements&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly disagree with this. Mod_rewrite's rewrite rules have conditions and basic flow control. The rules are distributed as text files along the web application or web site itself. They are an integral part of the product - not the server they are set up on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that specific server setup questions (&quot;How do I set up IIS with multiple sites?&quot;, even &quot;my mod_rewrite rules don't work on my Apache&quot;) belong on SF. But &lt;em&gt;how to write&lt;/em&gt; mod_rewrite rules is definitely programming related IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we are merrily answering tens of thousands of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/css&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/a&gt; questions on SO, even though these are arguably much less &quot;programming&quot; related and there is doctype.com for that. We also already have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mod-rewrite&quot;&gt;1,125 mod_rewrite related questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know what the official position on this is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T12:05:25.640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T12:05:25.640" Title="mod_rewrite questions getting migrated to SF" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;policy&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39057" CreationDate="2010-02-11T12:38:21.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not a real question&quot; is SO jargon.  We know what it means, newbies are still just guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should be trying to clarify this reason, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T12:38:21.153" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39041" CreationDate="2010-02-11T12:59:49.847" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have some site (a blog maybe) that links to your profile with the rel='me' attribute, in such a way that they are linked through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findyours.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;social graph api&lt;/a&gt;, it appears automatically, as it did on my Buzz: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/XQf2F.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need to link to your profile, without the username, ie: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1782&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1782&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-25T14:45:57.127" LastActivityDate="2011-02-25T14:45:57.127" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="39066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2010-02-11T13:15:14.843" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some questions are closed as subjective too quickly - the questionner should be given a chance to provide more details.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Debates like &quot;Is C# better than Java?&quot; are actually not subjective in the literal dictionary sense. There actually may be an objective answer, but it will be different depending on who is asking the question. Usually it depends on the project you are working on, and &lt;strong&gt;the people&lt;/strong&gt;. To quote Joel, who as usual &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;said it well&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you decide between C# and Java? The only real difference is which one you know better. If you have a serious Java guru on&#xA;  your team who has build several large&#xA;  systems successfully with Java, you're&#xA;  going to be a hell of a lot more&#xA;  successful with Java than with C#, not&#xA;  because Java is a better language&#xA;  (it's not, but the differences are too&#xA;  minor to matter) but because he knows&#xA;  it better. Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone willing to give a &lt;strong&gt;definite&lt;/strong&gt; answer (rather than &quot;it depends, tell us more details&quot;) is probably argumentative and IMHO inexperienced. Those answers should be downvoted. But the questionners might be genuinely seeking guidance, and should often be given a chance to provide more background details before the questions are closed.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T13:15:14.843" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T13:46:24.730" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38874/this-ad-looks-confusingly-like-the-super-user-interface&quot;&gt;This ad looks confusingly like the Super User interface&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/1_home4film_su_banner_1%20728x90.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;(Found on superuser.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a similar tactic to the ad below, &lt;em&gt;or am I being a bit too precious&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bVx0jDn51dg/R6i7LXof9eI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/SNpLIwn7v7M/s320/IECodec.FakeSpywareAlert.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130507" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:08:56.153" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:08:56.153" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T14:32:21.940" Title="Is this advert style ok?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T14:10:09.927" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23442/slow-email-notification&quot;&gt;slow email notification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24659/instant-email-alerts-and-notifications&quot;&gt;Instant email alerts and notifications&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The option under an asked question says that Notify &amp;lt;emailaddress&gt; daily of any new answers, so it is clear that in case of new answers email will be send on daily basis..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHY?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In today's world where every site is getting more interactive why is this great helper site not mailing the person who asked the question as soon as the question gets any answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature would really help, because I think the majority of people here have questions that arise during work, so the sooner they get the answer the better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Till then I refresh my question's page every 5 minutes or so, :-s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-08T10:08:31.017" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T10:08:31.017" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T14:38:22.180" Title="Why doesn't Stack Overflow send me a mail as soon as someone answers my question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39069" CreationDate="2010-02-11T14:32:48.913" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeff noted in the last &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/podcast-83/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I am not a fan of email, to put it mildly, as I wrote in Is Email = Efail and Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine. Given my discomfort with email, I struggle with the role of email on Stack Overflow — mostly trying to keep it at arms’ length while using it appropriately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I agree with Joel’s position here, which is that aggressive email notifications are toxic to the growth of a community. That’s why our email notifications are somewhat.. slow. &lt;strong&gt;It’s intentional.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt bandwidth considerations are taken into account here as email notifications are explicitly opt-in per question, therefore Google will probably still gulp the majority of the bandwidth with the emails (even if sent out once per answer) pretty negligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131358" LastEditorUserId="131358" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T14:39:22.243" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T14:39:22.243" />
  <row Id="39078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T15:21:48.007" Score="3" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would be interesting to see what the growth rates are like for new languages (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scala&quot;&gt;scala&lt;/a&gt;). These graphs could be used as a demonstration that a particular language is gaining traction for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT: yes, I &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; that I could get this myself from the data dump but it seems like a useful stat to me and one that people would use. Hence the suggestion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132008" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T16:09:09.443" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T16:09:09.443" Title="Can I see something similar to a reputation line graph but for the number of questions in a tag?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="39079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39078" CreationDate="2010-02-11T15:32:11.437" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always download the data dump and plot the graph yourself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T15:32:11.437" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39133" CreationDate="2010-02-11T15:50:15.843" Score="3" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I was a victim of an &quot;upvote cluster&quot; cast by a community member as a result of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2241169/2241243#2241243&quot;&gt;his satisfaction with an answer of mine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, this upvote cluster is expected to be caught by the voting anomaly detection in the system. As expected, my rep got down a little bit (by ~300) which made me think of a possible issue in the system and brought me here to ask this question. What exactly happens after the anomaly detector detects a suspicious vote cluster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should do one of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cancels the votes in that specific cluster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cancels &lt;em&gt;all votes&lt;/em&gt; ever cast by that person towards you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cancels &lt;em&gt;all votes&lt;/em&gt; ever cast by that person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Totally recalcs the rep of the target member.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adjusts the rep of the target member by removing the rep caused by that specific vote cluster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to the first question is 1 &amp;amp;&amp;amp; the answer to the second is 2, then the system is likely to have a bug, since I believe the amount of rep I've got from that person in that cluster was about 100, at most. Otherwise, if there was a recalc (which takes off the rep from deleted answers), or if all votes ever cast are canceled, the system is probably working normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T21:43:04.807" Title="How does the vote-cancellation mechanism work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;voting-anomaly-detection&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39057" CreationDate="2010-02-11T15:56:11.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps any question closed as &quot;not a real question&quot; should be accompanied by &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;How to Ask Questions the Smart Way&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T15:56:11.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:13:15.163" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow contains a lot of questions (peculiarly, in [algorithm] tag), that say, like, &quot;at the current state of art it's unknown whether this problem has a polynomial solution&quot;.  The thing is that the &quot;current state of art&quot; is constantly changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should there happen a massive cleanup of such answers, when scientists, at last, solve this problem?  Or the reference to &quot;current state&quot; are enough to invalidate all such answers as soon as it happens?  What measures should we take now to make such a cleanup easier in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is not &quot;predicting-the-future&quot; question (&quot;when?&quot;, or &quot;will it happen?&quot;).  It's about &quot;what will we do when it happens?&quot;  &lt;strong&gt;The scientific progress imposes a serious threat to StackOverflow reputation as a source of up-to-date answers!&lt;/strong&gt;  We should think about our strategies in advance, before it became a serious problem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastEditorUserId="136055" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T16:22:27.427" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:32:15.490" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T16:59:39.783" Title="What is going to happen when scientists solve whether P = NP?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39082" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:16:42.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1696/add-a-magic-8-ball-feature-to-the-ask-a-question-page&quot;&gt;Magic 8-Ball&lt;/a&gt; says: &quot;Reply hazy, please try again.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:16:42.910" />
  <row Id="39084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39082" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:22:55.210" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if (P == NP)&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;{&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11705/how-to-deal-with-obsolete-answers&quot;&gt;HowToDealWithObsoleteAnswers&lt;/a&gt;();&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;}&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:22:55.210" />
  <row Id="39085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39082" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:23:10.000" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the whole debate started 40 years ago or so, and there's been no progress made. I suspect it's ok to not worry about it. If you like, you could add a state-of-the-art tag, and industrious people could review them when the start of the art changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:23:10.000" />
  <row Id="39086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39082" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:24:56.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that once P = NP is 'solved' then the whole of the computer industry will change so drastically that Jeff and Joel will throw up their arms in panic and reboot SO by erasing the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either that or there will be a collective, &quot;Meh,&quot; and they'll let people who are interested in revisiting old P=NP problems work through them at their leisure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:24:56.970" />
  <row Id="39087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39089" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:30:25.073" Score="0" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1569/is-there-any-way-to-favorite-bookmark-an-answer&quot;&gt;Is there any way to favorite / bookmark an answer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23670/can-i-bookmark-a-question-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Can I bookmark a question on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some threads match my tags and that's okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are threads that I would like to have as &quot;favourites&quot; regardless of whether they match any of my tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I could add a unique tag to such threads, that would not be a good idea because it creates a global tag clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better alternative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141746" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T16:40:12.857" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T17:00:24.587" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T17:41:16.547" Title="Can one mark individual threads as &quot;favourite&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="39088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39082" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:32:15.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If P==NP, I'll be deciphering the SSL traffic sniffed from Jon Skeet's network and hijack his account!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:32:15.490" />
  <row Id="39089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39087" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:34:05.270" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the star beneath the vote-counter. This marks that particular thread as a &quot;favorite.&quot; Once a question is marked as &quot;favorite,&quot; it will show up in your &quot;Favorites&quot; tab on your user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/vote-favorite-off.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T17:00:24.587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T17:00:24.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2686" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:41:56.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me prefix my answer with this statement, I love to teach. I've always enjoyed it and I like, where possible, to mentor rather than just teach rote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I have little time for someone who hasn't tried to learn themselves. Even a &quot;I tried searching Google but wasn't able to find anything relevant&quot; would be better than a clear statement that they've done nothing more than find SO and post their question. Let's be clear here, they had enough intelligence to find SO, I'll just leave that out there hanging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no such thing as a stupid question, I heartily support that statement. There is, however, such a thing as a lazy question, often mislabelled as a stupid question. I fully support that newbies are going to ask questions with, for the experienced, very simple answers and where the answer incorporates guiding the OP to a more correct path or helping them dig into the internals of difficult problem then that's an answer worth posting. If it's just pointing them to documentation (anyone who doesn't know what documentation is (I saw someone comment about this) shouldn't be trying to write computer programs in my opinion) then that's a waste of their time and ours, they should be directed to find that information themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They'll never gain the skills needed to get Google to present what they are looking for rather than what it thinks they are looking for if they are always presented the answer on a plate. Do we really want to turn SO into a manual search engine? I thought the intention here was to build a repository of quality information relating to software engineering/development/programming issues that was searchable (locally and from Google) rather than simply replicate what's already out there, however facile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's be clear, the supposedly rude responses are primarily symptoms of lazy questioning which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a bad habit. Why are so many people intent on removing the symptoms while the cause is effectively supported through that action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132504" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:41:56.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39087" CreationDate="2010-02-11T16:54:52.770" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should just click the star under the voting controls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/6719/sofavoritestar.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6719/sofavoritestar.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastEditorUserId="5640" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T16:59:59.453" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T16:59:59.453" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T17:02:39.997" Score="1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of users will up vote if they see a question or answer that has -1 but is not totally terrible.  So you then have (-1 + 10) = 8 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So an answer that should have got no&#xA;  rep, gets +8 rep, due to the helpful&#xA;  person that down votes it.   (Thanks&#xA;  for the down-votes, they give me lots&#xA;  of rep!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if instead we said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;If (totalVotesForItem =&amp;gt; 0)&#xA;   repGained = totalVotesForItem * 10&#xA;Else&#xA;   repGained = totalVotesForItem * -1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then getting one down vote and one up vote will give 0 rep gain rather than 9 rep gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T17:56:29.707" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T17:56:29.707" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T21:38:36.063" Title="More often than not if someone down votes me I get +9 rep! Is that right?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39093" CreationDate="2010-02-11T17:05:58.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be a better solution to just increase the cost of down votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like this is already in the works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/&quot;&gt;Should the weight of downvotes be increased?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T17:05:58.213" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39193" CreationDate="2010-02-11T17:24:40.430" Score="10" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently gave two different answers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2245196/c-urban-myths&quot;&gt;a cw question&lt;/a&gt; (because it was basically asking for a list of independent items, of which I happened to provide two).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that it adds no value to have the two answers grouped in the user stats page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It adds unnecessary complexity to the answer list. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The answer list is a handy collection of links to my answers, and this policy suddenly hides one of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer scores are most useful when seen individually. If one of my answers has a score of +8 and the other has -2, I want to see that -2 to check if I can improve anything. I won't see that if I see a +6.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead I suggest to display something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6  Question Title (answer #1) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;-2 Question Title (answer #2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; There is a workaround that lets you see these data &quot;decoupled&quot;. It is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a35135&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;search for your posts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T08:10:47.950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T08:52:49.143" Title="Do not group together answers to the same question in user page stats" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T17:28:15.540" Score="1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35593/whats-the-so-policy-about-having-multiple-user-accounts&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s the SO policy about having multiple user accounts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26735/when-is-it-right-to-report-multiple-accounts&quot;&gt;When is it right to report multiple accounts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed today a user with a duplicate account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same name, location, age and photo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a sockpuppet account due to no upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering how the community should deal with this. Should we just email the SO team? Do we post it here on meta tagged [duplicate-user] or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My example is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5120/tony-benbrahim&quot;&gt;Original&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/80075/tony-benbrahim&quot;&gt;Duplicate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T17:31:53.677" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T18:45:04.050" Title="How should we deal with a duplicate user?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;duplicate-user&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39099" CreationDate="2010-02-11T17:31:53.677" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would email the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found their email! team@stackoverflow.com &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was right at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6719/sofavoritestar.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you could also use the flag option under a post. There is a place to email the mods there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6719/sofavoritestar.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T17:31:53.677" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39078" CreationDate="2010-02-11T17:33:24.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could do this with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130173/paul-tarjan&quot;&gt;Paul Tarjan&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://webnumbr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;number tracking service&lt;/a&gt;, if it wasn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38582/why-is-my-crawler-banned-by-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;currently blocked by SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T17:33:24.067" />
  <row Id="39105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:06:13.700" Score="7" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless the state of a favourite star, the tool tip text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;Click again to undo&quot;.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When deselected, the tool tip text should read &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;Click to mark as a favourite&quot;.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This follows &lt;a href=&quot;http://sensible.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steve Krug&lt;/a&gt;'s &quot;Don't Make me think&quot; principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141746" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T21:30:50.917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T21:30:50.917" Title="The star for favourites gives the same tool tip text regardless of state" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30187" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:08:06.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While we don’t want to pummel anyone with ads, we do need to advertise responsibly to ensure we generate enough revenue to fund continued development of the site — specifically, so I can pay Jarrod and Geoff. I’d love to be able to hire Geoff full time, and continue to increase Jarrod’s meager salary so it actually resembles something approaching professional wages. This money does not go into buying gold-plated humvees and designer megayachts. Yet. It all goes directly toward feeding your fellow programmers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's from the following link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You reduce the ads we see by getting 200 reputation but then you put adds right in front of our faces with almost every question (as a guy who sticks mostly to the sql-server world). This seems like an odd double standard and I have to say I'm not a big fan of this approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140209" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T18:08:06.350" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-12-05T06:02:57.713" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39105" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:09:33.600" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the message is clear enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says:&#xA;&quot;This is a favorite question (click again to undo)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this needs to be explained any further, I understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6719/sofavoritestar.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T18:09:33.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39111" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:09:37.610" Score="4" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed a behaviour that may or may not be a markdown bug. It is a discrepancy between the preview and the rendered result, which is why I would need to post a question to check it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an official place to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T18:13:01.987" Title="Is there a sandbox to post test questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="39111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39109" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:11:24.317" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T18:11:24.317" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39109" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:13:01.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not try it on your question and then change it back when you are done? Can you not edit your own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it works, maybe you could describe it and change this to a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T18:13:01.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34375" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:18:26.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; notification bar would be nice. I have had at least 2 show up, then I'm forced to go deal with it as I lose my screen real-estate - by an overtly orange bar nonetheless. &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; don't mind the notifications, actually I like them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it would be nice if there were some options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;preference to dismiss notification bars based on an interval&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;opt to not have them shown&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make the reward notification bar a bit smaller&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;combine multiple awards into one notification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T18:18:26.673" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39115" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39132" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:38:50.740" Score="0" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a JavaScript error on the &quot;Add Comment&quot; link for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1785764/asp-net-control-events-not-firing-inside-repeater/2242432#2242432&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. I've never seen the behavior on any other answer before, but clicking the link produces the following error in Firebug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;w.find(&quot;textarea&quot;).charCounter is not a function &#xA;var vote=function(){var l={informModerat...t.documentElement.scrollTop}}})(jQuery);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the error the comment frame never displays and a comment cannot be posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry I didn't mention it initially... I receive the error in Firefox 3.5.7. I do not receive the error in Chrome or Internet Explorer 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the problem was, it has ceased now when I click that link. I have seen it approximately once more since I initially reported the issue, but it has been several weeks. If I see it again I'll update this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135618" LastEditorUserId="135618" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T16:00:43.880" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T16:00:43.880" Title="Bug: Add Comment Link JavaScript Error on Some Answers" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;add-comment&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39127" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T21:06:33.563" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my question is migrated to meta or SU and closed in SO then should i delete those questions from SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and if i delete those moved , unanswered, or answer not selected questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then would it effect to my accept rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="140836" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T21:13:19.387" LastActivityDate="2010-04-12T22:05:31.170" Title="If my question is migrated to meta or SU and closed in SO then should i delete those questions from SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39127" CreationDate="2010-02-11T21:28:01.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, deleting unanswered questions does affect your accept-rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the question has been migrated, it doesn't really make sense to keep it on a site it doesn't belong to.. (unless you want some extra traffic :P)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T21:28:01.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39115" CreationDate="2010-02-11T21:30:11.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;no repro. Have you tried disabling all Firefox extensions / running in &quot;safe mode&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T21:30:11.370" />
  <row Id="39133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39080" CreationDate="2010-02-11T21:43:04.807" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, a complete recalc is done. There is no such thing as a partial recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T21:43:04.807" />
  <row Id="39134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39147" CreationDate="2010-02-11T22:01:35.533" Score="11" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you do not want the background information, please read below the horizontal ruler.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm taking three interns for a three month unpaid internship starting in March. Those interns are coming straight out of college and this internship is the only thing between them and their diplomas. Since I'll be their direct supervisor, I pretty much have a white card to do whatever I want with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not the first time I've done this (in fact, I've been doing for the past three years) and I know that those students are usually eager yet terrified of joining the workforce. At the college I take my interns from, I have a reputation of being a strict supervisor simply because I usually take their top students and that reputation is justified. Yet, students always come out of their internship saying that they loved the experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Simply because I know this is their first exposure to the workforce as IT specialists and I try to make the experience as pain-less as possible. While most of the week is dedicated to work, I usually try to set time aside during the week for R&amp;amp;R or education (Beer nights, competitive code competitions, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a strong believer of continual self-education and giving back to the community which is why I love Stack Overflow so much. I've been mostly providing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26210/andrew-moore&quot;&gt;high-quality answers&lt;/a&gt; to user questions and I'm looking for a way to give more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking this year of having Stack Overflow Thursdays. Essentially, I would dedicate half of Thursday to browsing Stack Overflow and answering questions (with good quality answers). Whoever gets most reputation during that half-day would get a free beer at the next beer night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would help teach them the importance of community in their work field and also would help them to hone their skills/acquire new ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think? Is this a good idea or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T22:08:53.587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T00:35:37.623" Title="Stack Overflow and interns... Good or bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;internships&gt;&lt;training&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T22:02:50.530" Score="7" ViewCount="555" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to ask hardware (mostly embedded systems) questions on StackOverflow?  And, if not, is there another site out there with a quality reader base for such questions where answers will likely be forthcoming? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T21:24:12.117" Title="StackOverflow for hardware / embedded systems?" Tags="&lt;general&gt;&lt;hardware&gt;&lt;embedded&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="39136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39135" CreationDate="2010-02-11T22:04:27.587" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;electronics.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; (formerly &lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com/&quot;&gt;chiphacker.com&lt;/a&gt;) for hardware and interfacing. Embedded software questions are perfectly acceptable on Stack Overflow I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142198" LastEditorUserId="142198" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-11T21:24:12.117" LastActivityDate="2010-12-11T21:24:12.117" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39134" CreationDate="2010-02-11T22:06:32.373" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love it, you're an inspiration to us all.  Except give them the beer while they're answering questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, I wish more employers would pony more up toward the community end of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T22:06:32.373" />
  <row Id="39138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39134" CreationDate="2010-02-11T22:07:40.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Overall a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot to be learned on SO on a wide variety of topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I wouldn't do is use rep as a motivation/contest. Think of something win/win instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replacement idea: Spend 30-45 minutes at the end of the day where everyone shares with everyone else what they learned during the session. Give free beer only to those who have something to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T00:35:37.623" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T00:35:37.623" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2010-02-11T22:17:19.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we need some way to blow of steam for those 'wall-of-shame' type questions.  How about a checkbox for my answers that makes them only show up for people who also want to see hilarious answers to stupid questions?  Learning from others' mistakes, so to speak.  Maybe make it only available to users with a certain minimum rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136564" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T22:17:19.220" />
  <row Id="39142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38926" CreationDate="2010-02-11T22:24:22.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to make it easier to do this, and you are using Firefox, you might want to look into these two Greasemonkey scripts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38600/script-to-add-reply-links-to-comments&quot;&gt;Script to add “reply” links to comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30085/greasemonkey-script-to-assist-twitter-style-replies-in-comments&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script to assist twitter-style @replies in comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T22:24:22.890" />
  <row Id="39144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:05:34.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we could code a sarcasm detection machine and prevent the user from posting if it's detected&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;uhhh... A sarcasm detector - &lt;a href=&quot;http://snuh.tumblr.com/post/377768142/a-sarcasm-detector-thats-a-real-useful&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that’s a real useful invention&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:05:34.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5314" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:14:56.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sarcasm, unfortunately, is something that does not translate well, and may be easily misunderstood in text.  While sarcasm is a form of communication, it's simply not a very good one because it relies on common assumptions and is underpinned by emotions.  You can't easy convey emotions in text, and you can't assume anything about a random reader's background when they reach the site from Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few things can be said sarcastically that can't also be said in a clear way and thus reach more people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a technical website sarcasm should be used sparingly, if ever, and only when the intent and joke is blatantly obvious to people of all backgrounds.  Sarcasm should not be used to convey important technical information - even the most blatant sarcasm is often opaque to a speaker new to English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If sarcasm appears on a question or answer, call it out in the comments, edit it (sarcasm tags work well), etc, if only for the benefit of those poor sarcastically impaired folk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider donating your excess rep to the sarcasm therapy foundation, where thousands of people are helped each day to understand, and more importantly integrate, sarcasm into their daily use of English.  Just 3 rep a day can help boys like little Bartholomeus here come to terms with the subtleties of English as she is spoke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://itodyaso.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/learning-must-be-serious.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Everyone knows learning must be serious and difficult and you must remain seated at all times. No fun allowed.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-11T23:31:59.503" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:31:59.503" />
  <row Id="39147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39134" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:15:22.480" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all for encouraging people to learn through teaching... but I wouldn't use rep as the criterion for the beer. Quite often a very simple answer will gain a lot more rep than a problem which took a lot of work and goes into a lot of detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you ask each intern to put forward their &quot;best&quot; (in their eyes) three answers from the afternoon, and you judge them personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, I'd suggest getting actively involved with their answers - give suggestions as to how you might tackle things differently, etc. Think of it like a code review :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:15:22.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39135" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:18:17.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; embedded hardware are welcome, as are questions about cross-compilers targeting such hardware and questions about embeddable OSs, and libraries that are designed to support programming cute little boards, and and and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about soldering, designing PCBs, ground loops, why the magic smoke got out of your chip, and so on, are not appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:18:17.060" />
  <row Id="39149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39135" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:28:51.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;Embedded Systems&quot; covers such a huge area that there's no easy way to answer this.  Here's a helping:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Stackoverflow&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great for programming embedded systems.  Questions about compilers, build process, software testing, etc are all warmly welcomed.  Don't ask about chip programmers, and other hardware specific stuff here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;ServerFault&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much to my dismay, some people are referring to thin clients, kiosks, network advertising displays, etc as embedded systems.  Technically they are, but questions about integrating particular products with your servers, setting them up, handling software and user issues with these are best left to the IT crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;SuperUser&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are using an Intel Atom, Micro ATX, Beagle board, or some other Common Off The Shelf hardware with an OS such as windows or linux, and you have questions about integrating them with various USB motor controllers, microsoft robotic software, or such, then you may find some help here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Chiphacker&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, soldering, chip programming, wiring, sensors, best way to measure  some real world phenomena, etc all are best placed here.  You can pretty much ask all of the above at Chiphacker, but you may get a better response for some problems on the above various sites - for instance C algorithms on an 8 bit microcontroller are perfectly well suited for StackOverflow, and even assembly language questions, but if you prefer you can mount those questions at Chiphacker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:28:51.600" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T18:48:33.987" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to limit my searching to only specific tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If I search for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22tcp+networking%22&quot;&gt;tcp networking&lt;/a&gt;&quot; I get matches in almost every category.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What I really meant was tcp networking (in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[android]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I could (potentially) add the implied tag to the search but I thought that since this website was so (nicely) tag oriented there must be some way to limit to a set (or just one) tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that by clicking a tag that the search would understand that that is the only group I am interested in. But it does not seem that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-09T14:46:08.877" LastActivityDate="2010-04-09T14:46:08.877" Title="Limit searches to within specific tags" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39134" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:38:31.380" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you (and they) may be better off if you ask them instead to monitor a few RSS feeds they are interested in and spend 45 minutes a day (about the same amount of time) spread throughout the day simply reading what other people have posted, and answering what they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During beer night (or during another company meeting is beer night is reserved for social interaction only) have them explain (3 minutes or less each!) some concept or technique that they found interesting or new that they learned from SO, and how they used it, or might use it, in their work.  Then the other more experienced programmers will riff off what they learned, and expand things for them - they will learn a lot more through interesting programming discussion with experienced programmers, and they essentially get to choose the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would expose them to more opportunity to learn something new at SO (rather than refreshing constantly, looking for something interesting for a short period of time), it would make your beer nights/company meeting a little more productive with a little direction, it would help them learn to multitask, and they won't have to 'give up' their half day of SO reading because they feel they are in a time crunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-11T23:38:31.380" />
  <row Id="39152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:40:54.637" Score="0" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38538/wrong-total-score-shown-after-a-downvote-when-you-view-the-upvote-and-downvote-to&quot;&gt;Wrong total score shown after a downvote when you view the upvote and downvote totals&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got over 1000 rep on Stack Overflow (yay me!), and I was playing around with the Up/Down Vote Totals feature (i.e. if you have over 1000 rep, click on the number of votes of a question or answer and it'll show you how many upvotes there were and how many downvotes there were).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I found a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to repro:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.) Find a question with some upvotes and downvotes (you must be over 1000 rep). I used &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250582/which-language-for-a-quick-gui-app-sqlite-database-crud-2-4-tables&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250582/which-language-for-a-quick-gui-app-sqlite-database-crud-2-4-tables&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.) Click the vote tally to see the up and down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3.) Upvote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upvote/downvote tally was +6, -3. I hit upvote while looking at the tally, and it said 10 as a total. &lt;strong&gt;That's wrong!&lt;/strong&gt; Next, I undo-ed my upvote, and it went down to 9. At this point, if you refresh the page, it'll say 3 (or 4, if you don't undo your upvote). If you click the vote total and see the tallies again, it'll be correct, but the total is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Browser: Google Chrome 4.0.249.89 beta (38071) on Windows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T07:06:18.053" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T07:06:18.053" ClosedDate="2010-02-11T23:42:01.780" Title="Bug with Upvoting while Showing Question Up/Down Vote Totals" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39135" CreationDate="2010-02-11T23:55:53.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Embedded software questions are acceptable.  Tag them with '&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/embedded&quot;&gt;embedded&lt;/a&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131014" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T17:18:18.750" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:18:18.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39157" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:10:08.990" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2248516/mysql-operate-on-many-rows-using-long-list-of-composite-pks/2248553#2248553&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to my question on SO, the answerer completely ignored the fact that there are two keys involved, which was VERY clear in my question (though I edited the title after that to add the word &quot;composite&quot;). So not only is his answer wrong, it's stupid, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I've run into cases lately where I downvoted when evidently I shouldn't have, does this merit a downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142684" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T00:12:11.920" Title="Does an answer that ignores major details in a question deserve a downvote?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39156" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:12:11.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say yes, with the caveat that you should add a comment explaining why -- and revisit the answer if it gets edited to be fixed (remember, re-voting is valid after an edit) and upvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T00:12:11.920" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39150" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:15:10.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see search tips!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;short answer, search for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;tcp networking [android]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;without the quotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T00:15:10.463" />
  <row Id="39160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39325" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:15:47.263" Score="1" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;One time recently when I got the Human Verification screen, I clicked the &quot;I'm A Human&quot; button, then lost track of what I was doing and clicked it again. I think this ended up asking me for verification again, even though it had already received verification and performed the action I'd been requesting. I honestly forget exactly what happened after the second click, but it didn't make sense and seems like a usability problem to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time since then, I've managed to not click the button again, but if you watch closely, you'll see that the captcha image disappears, and this causes the button to jump upward in the page, almost like it was a new page load and something more needs to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the page be rewritten to just sit still until the action is complete and the page is redirected? Why snap the captcha out at all? Or, can the &quot;I'm A Human&quot; button please NOT jump around, or can it become disabled, or something else so I don't have to have the &quot;whoops, don't click on that&quot; hitch every time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may see that usually, the &quot;I'm A Human&quot; button flashes by too fast to click on. Just consider that sometimes it is possible, since internet requests can vary in time a lot, depending on many factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, so far, I've not been able to duplicate the second click (it goes too fast for me). Maybe it happened one time when the network response was a little slower (thus being the trigger for prompting me to click on it in the first place). In any case, I think it's still an issue, and wish that page elements wouldn't jump around unexpectedly--a usability no-no, for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142684" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T00:15:29.087" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T02:00:03.310" Title="&quot;I'm A Human&quot; Button Sticks Around and Accepts Another Click" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39165" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:39:01.213" Score="2" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the FAQs on SO and meta SO, and still am not fully clear on what deserves upvotes and downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone point to a guide for these things? Here are some examples of questions and concerns I've had that I haven't been able to find good help for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some answers on a question (not mine) are correct, but leave out something critical such as &quot;but if you do this without proper locks, high concurrency will cause race conditions that break the code.&quot; I chose to downvote some posts because of this, but someone was dismayed that I had done so. So now what? I shouldn't downvote? One person did update his answer to add the missing info, so I removed the downvote on that answer. But one person also downvoted my answer (in the same question), pointing out a defect, but didn't remove it after I fixed that defect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what gives? I realize that tactical downvoting when answers are equally good is probably frowned on, but is it really purely tactical downvoting if the answer downvoted, while correct as far as it goes, could be misleading or poor practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems pretty obvious what upvotes for answers mean: it was useful, helpful, and so on. And downvotes for questions seem obvious to me: the question was off-topic, impossible to understand, offensive, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what do upvotes on questions mean? I can think of a dozen &quot;good&quot; questions in my area of expertise, but I wouldn't ask them because I already know the answer. Unless, is that an accepted way of using SO? Should I ask questions that people might want to know the answer to, then go ahead and answer them myself? &lt;em&gt;--interjection: yes, I finally saw that the FAQ says &quot;It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question&quot;--&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there some guidelines for what makes a good question? Why do people vote up questions in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the point of clicking the favorite icon on a question? Do people use these to easily find questions again (implying it's something they also need help with), or simply to express that the question is one they liked (and for what reasons)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very competitive, but I want to use the site properly, with no one important having any quibbles with my upvoting and downvoting practices. (I say &quot;important&quot; because an individual may mind very much that I downvoted him, even though the majority culture of the site might be in favor of my action.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That competitiveness also changes what I consider nice. I don't mind someone downvoting my answer if they say why, and will bother to remove the downvote if I fix the problem. So I was feeling no qualms about doing something similar for others' answers, until someone complained. So what do I do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read a couple of answers and some more posts (see comments below and also &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20084/generating-reputation-through-downvotes&quot;&gt;generating reputation through downvotes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22771/the-answer-to-tactical-downvoting-problem&quot;&gt;the answer to tactical downvoting problem&lt;/a&gt;, which were interesting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I was hoping for (at least about downvotes) was less of a philosophical/metaphysical discussion and more of a concrete one, ala &lt;em&gt;&quot;Here's the purpose, here's how it should be done&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. I realize that may not be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I think the choices &quot;this answer is useful&quot; and &quot;this answer is not useful&quot; leave out some middle ground, something like: &quot;this answer is useful IF {major caveat}, otherwise it's not useful.&quot; So I'm still left wondering if I'm going to end up downvoting things that others would criticize me for (and wondering if I ought to even care about that kind of criticism).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess one helpful thing I read was the idea of using votes to try to make the best answers float to the top, and otherwise pretty much leaving them alone (thinking in terms of relative global value rather than absolute global value or any kind of personal value). Of course, this runs smack into tactical downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2247751/dynamic-columns-sql-server-months-as-columns/2247834&quot;&gt;this question on SO&lt;/a&gt;. I downvoted an answer and clearly explained why. Now my answer has a downvote without a comment. Sigh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142684" LastEditorUserId="142684" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-09T17:36:28.600" LastActivityDate="2011-06-09T17:36:28.600" Title="Guide for Upvoting and Downvoting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;culture&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:39:06.737" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't actively seeking programming positions, when I was contacted by a stellar employer on StackOverflow Careers.  At each step in the hiring process I became more excited about the company and now love working here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139465" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T00:39:06.737" />
  <row Id="39163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:39:54.737" Score="13" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35256/sorry-posts-cant-contain-that-content&quot;&gt;I know from here&lt;/a&gt; that lmgtfy is banned, but I've noticed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.playerdiy.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.playerdiy.com/&lt;/a&gt; is as well. What other sites are banned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until Jeff answers definitively this is a 'poll' type question.  When you find a site that is blocked, please post it as an answer here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T02:23:47.630" LastActivityDate="2011-02-08T18:11:41.370" Title="&quot;Sorry, posts can't contain that content.&quot; what content exactly (besides lmgtfy)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;blacklist&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39161" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:51:17.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will almost always downvote a .NET answer that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;doesn't use the &lt;code&gt;using&lt;/code&gt; statement on newly-created objects of classes that implement the &lt;code&gt;IDisposable&lt;/code&gt; interface. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;uses &lt;code&gt;new XmlTextWriter()&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;demonstrates how not to catch exceptions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;recommends the use of WSE as other than a last resort&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also down vote an answer that says something stupid like &quot;Java clients can't communicate with a WCF service&quot;, but then everyone does &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not recommending that you follow my example. I'm only suggesting that if anyone gives you grief for following my example, you can refer them to this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T00:51:17.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39161" CreationDate="2010-02-12T00:57:26.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can tell you what I use the Favorites for - basically to keep track of questions that I'm interested in either seeing what the answer is, or where a discussion goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as competitiveness, there is a time and place for it - but it won't win you anything here if you don't take care in keeping that in check. Yes, we all want the &lt;em&gt;prestige&lt;/em&gt; of a high reputation. But it comes in little bits and chunks. I've been able to start giving back and answering questions. While it is difficult at first, I've found that my knowledge has expanded - even in areas that I wasn't particularly interested in. Don't let that competitive edge get the better of you. I've been 30 seconds behind someone and posted an equivalent (if not slightly better answer, IMO) and maybe gotten &lt;em&gt;an&lt;/em&gt; up-vote while the one that beat me got accepted and 5 up-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember this, though - the people that pose the questions are not the only ones who will see your answers. Somewhere down the road, another person will come along and see your answer. If it is truly better, it will eventually all come out in the wash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Up-voting &amp;amp; Down-voting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I had to think about it a bit, but I've come to the conclusion that I look for a specific characteristic shared by both questions &amp;amp; answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;clarity&lt;/strong&gt; - descriptive problem statement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for questions:&lt;br&gt;&#xA; 1. &lt;strong&gt;show me&lt;/strong&gt; - show me some evidence that some earnest effort has preceded the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for answers:&lt;br&gt;&#xA; 1. &lt;strong&gt;accuracy&lt;/strong&gt; - be correct in the facts&lt;br&gt;&#xA; 2. &lt;strong&gt;explanation&lt;/strong&gt; - simply providing a piece of code is not always all that is needed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, that said, I also find it difficult for me to always live up to my standards. If I look at my question a day later and I am confused, I will delete it and/or start over. Answers are quickly judged by the community and I take those to heart. If my answer gets a down-vote, I would certainly like to know why. If my answer is wrong due to my misunderstanding of the question, I will either attempt to correct it or delete it and see if I can start over. Admittedly, I have stepped into situations where I misunderstood the question and my answer was completely wrong. I took my lumps, deleted the answer, and moved on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T19:28:50.583" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:28:50.583" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39163" CreationDate="2010-02-12T01:22:29.633" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't expect Jeff to post a blacklist of excluded sites - why make it easy to find alternatives to the blocked ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T01:22:29.633" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40707" CreationDate="2010-02-12T01:31:33.457" Score="8" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like a &quot;tab-top&quot; anchor has been removed from the user profile page.  When you are in your profile and click on another tab (say, the &quot;activity&quot; tab), you get a link like &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/18511?tab=activity#tab-top&lt;/code&gt;.  However, there is no &quot;tab-top&quot; anchor on this page, so you are taken to the top of the page, rather than to the tabs section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; this is something that has broken fairly recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bounty&lt;/strong&gt;: As a 10k&lt;b&gt;+&lt;/b&gt; Meta user, I'm putting some of that &lt;b&gt;+&lt;/b&gt; on the line to draw attention to one of my overlooked posts that should be trivial for the team to address. (Hey, it worked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29986/show-full-reputation-for-10k-users-in-tooltip-when-hovering-over-rep-in-sig&quot;&gt;last time&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-09T08:36:12.890" LastActivityDate="2010-10-09T08:36:12.890" Title="Clicking tabs in user profile scrolls to top of page (&quot;tab-top&quot; anchor is missing)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39169" CreationDate="2010-02-12T02:34:25.180" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2247250/assembla-vs-unfuddle-for-subversion-hosting&quot; title=&quot;the following question&quot;&gt;the following question&lt;/a&gt; on SO related to source control hosting, which was, by the way, very similar to the following 2 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69384/opinion-of-hosted-svn-providers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/69384/opinion-of-hosted-svn-providers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/297153/can-you-recommend-a-svn-closed-source-project-hosting-site&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/297153/can-you-recommend-a-svn-closed-source-project-hosting-site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strangely, it was closed and migrated to &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/107701/assembla-vs-unfuddle-for-subversion-hosting&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; for the following reason: &quot;This question is related to computer hardware or computer software in general, and is a better fit for Super User.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Predictably, the guys on SU closed it, deeming it &quot;not computer related&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is - how does a question on Subversion Source Control get closed on SO - and worse, migrated to SU? Obviously I believe that this question has a lot of relevance to programmers, as it is merely a refinement or call for further clarity if you will, of two other highly-upvoted questions on SO (29 upvotes between them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1943" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T02:43:05.867" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T03:00:03.180" Title="How could a question on Source Control hosting be migrated to Super User?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39168" CreationDate="2010-02-12T02:42:54.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question had other problems -- it's subjective, it's kind of a duplicate, and also a poll, which is strongly discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T02:42:54.743" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-02-12T02:44:46.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another success story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://karlgrz.blogspot.com/2010/02/heres-to-new-beginnings.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://karlgrz.blogspot.com/2010/02/heres-to-new-beginnings.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That push was the news that our department at (former employer) was in jeopardy of being outsourced. Great. So I put in a year of work, only to now have --zero-- chance for my promised &quot;promotion&quot;. That was the last straw. Nevermind the fact I was working on software that --nobody-- cared about, not even the client. Nevermind I was doing more than I should have been. My job was going overseas. Time to act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And I did. The day I found out about that (the morning, actually...) I had my updated resume in my Google Docs account ready to go. The feed for jobs.stackoverflow.com is in my reader, and I caught a listing from Mediafly. I filled out the form to the best of my abilities and linked to my Stack Overflow Careers public CV, and had an email back later that evening. The rest is history. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T02:44:46.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39161" CreationDate="2010-02-12T02:48:28.527" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To avoid too much tit-for-tat, I avoid downvoting answers on a question when I'm entering an answer of my own. Since I have the rep, I'll edit another answer to supply a small missing bit or correct and edge case. If it's more wrong than that, I'll leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it's really wrong, I generally prefer to trust the community to vote in the right direction to push up the more correct answer. I reserve downvotes for answers that I know are dead wrong and for which I don't have the time or expertise to fix them or type in an alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if there's a pretty good answer, but I just can't resist the urge to type in my own that had a different emphasis or slant, I'll generally &lt;em&gt;up&lt;/em&gt; vote the alternative. And I often find that behavior reciprocated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T02:48:28.527" />
  <row Id="39173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39161" CreationDate="2010-02-12T03:02:55.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For your example 1:&lt;/strong&gt; I leave a comment with the missing critical information, or edit it into the answer myself.  I don't downvote unless the answer is clearly unhelpful, but I don't upvote it either if it's missing critical information.  I don't generally downvote answers on questions I am answering myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For your example 2:&lt;/strong&gt; If the question is useful and clear, I upvote it.  In addition, if I find the question interesting, I upvote it (If I answer the question, I consider this being interested enough to upvote the question).  If the question is not clear to me, but it produces some interesting answers, I will upvote it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't generally downvote questions, unless they are particularly egregious.  Those kinds of questions are typically asked by users with 1 rep anyway, so there's no point in downvoting them; I vote to close or flag the question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For your example 3:&lt;/strong&gt;  I will favorite a question if I want to come back and look at it later, or keep it for future reference.  There are no scoring considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T03:08:45.107" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T03:08:45.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T03:11:20.253" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38680/make-new-close-reasons-dialog-experience-sensitive&quot;&gt;Make new close reasons dialog experience-sensitive.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The option to close a question on SO has now ballooned to a large amount of text. Is this really necessary? Shouldn't the explanations be as a tool tip instead? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I operate with a resolution of 1440x900 and I found it to take up the screen to the point where I have to scroll to see all of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is an exact copy and paste from the box itself; don't kill the messenger)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Why should this question be closed?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;         This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with another identical question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not programming related&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;         Questions on Stack Overflow are expected to generally relate to programming or software development in some way. This question is very far afield from programming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;subjective and argumentative&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It's impossible to objectively answer this question; questions of this type are too open ended and usually lead to confrontation and argument.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too localized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;         This question would only be relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;         This question is a discussion of this web site or community itself, and is a better fit for Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;belongs on serverfault.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  This question is server or system administration related, and is a better fit for Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;belongs on superuser.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  This question is related to computer hardware or computer software in general, and is a better fit for Super User.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136869" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T04:06:48.550" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T04:06:48.550" ClosedDate="2010-02-12T04:14:49.597" Title="Large amount of text to close a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T03:31:55.467" Score="-5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a general UI paradigm at SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;up pointing triangle, clicking spins the number UP  &#xA;&#xA;    N      an integer  &#xA;&#xA;down pointing triangle, clicking spins the number DOWN  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The respective tool tips are:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;up:&lt;/strong&gt; This question is useful and clear (click again to undo)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;down:&lt;/strong&gt; This question is unclear or not useful (click again to undo) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new, so I'm guessing the wording ought to read something like this:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;up:&lt;/strong&gt;  This question is useful and clear (click to increase the vote count, a second click subtracts one vote)  &amp;lt;== &lt;em&gt;clumsy wording, see alternative below&lt;/em&gt; {gl}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;up:&lt;/strong&gt;  This question is useful and clear (click to increase the vote count, click again to decrease)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;down:&lt;/strong&gt; This question is unclear or not useful (click to decrease the vote count; costs one reputation point per click)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(my suggested wording is clumsy but at the same time it's clearer than &quot;click again to undo&quot; ~~ I say this because a tool tip needs to be helpful and instill confidence in the end user)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: ?? does down voting actually cost a reputation point?  {gl}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141746" LastEditorUserId="141746" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T15:44:11.010" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T15:44:11.010" Title="Tool tips confusing on up spinner and down spinner" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T03:47:09.883" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3110/when-did-so-start-using-tables-for-layout&quot;&gt;When did SO start using tables for layout?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any benefit not to use divs instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about this. This is the HTML to each comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;comments&quot; id=&quot;comments-39176&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;tbody&amp;gt;&#xA;             &amp;lt;tr class=&quot;comment&quot; id=&quot;comment-86495&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                   &amp;lt;td class=&quot;comment-actions&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;table&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tbody&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tr&amp;gt;&#xA;                             &amp;lt;td class=&quot;comment-score&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;                                     &amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&amp;amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;                               &amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be much smaller without the two tables, one inside one, to each comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142309" LastEditorUserId="142309" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T19:51:36.820" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:51:36.820" ClosedDate="2010-02-12T04:04:39.147" Title="Is there any particular reason why SO comments rendered as table?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tables&gt;" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="39177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39175" CreationDate="2010-02-12T03:49:42.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand what you're saying, but in the context of a browser a pointer cursor implies a clickable action and leads to the assumption that you're going to click it.  From this perspective the wording is logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I think the majority of people are getting it.  There seems to be a fair amount of voting happening!  I don't think it's worth changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T03:49:42.177" />
  <row Id="39178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T04:04:54.543" Score="-1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;p&gt;It happens often on stackoverflow or other forums that someone asks a question that is too specific of the app he/she is currently developing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the &quot;too localized&quot; close reason (which may or may not apply in this case), how do you politely tell the other person that his/her question is not appropriate because 1) you don't really have all the information needed to make an informed decision; 2) nobody else in the forum would benefit from an answer since it's too specific; and 3) you would be doing his/her job for free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136798" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T04:15:34.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T04:19:36.017" Title="Drawing the line between helping out and doing other people's jobs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39178" CreationDate="2010-02-12T04:08:44.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually vote to close the question as &quot;too localized&quot; and leave the question be. No comments, no answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a comment will do absolutely nothing as chances are, someone will step in and answer their question. At least by voting to close, you have chances of the question closing before anyone answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions though that might only benefit the OP, but that I still answer. Some OPs do show that they tried to make their code work but hit an impasse in every single way possible. Those I answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do vote to close are the questions  of the type &quot;I've been doing this in my program, I've been asked to do this, here's the code, I don't know what to do&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, what annoys me more are students that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2242182/simple-exercise-in-c-homework&quot;&gt;come in for homework questions&lt;/a&gt;. I find that appalling in every way possible. I think we need a close reason for &lt;strong&gt;homework&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T04:15:34.573" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T04:15:34.573" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T04:49:59.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39178" CreationDate="2010-02-12T04:11:05.017" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You don't really have all the information needed to make an informed decision...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;If this is the case, you really ought not answer the question to begin with. If you want to, post a comment asking for more information - maybe even nudge the user along telling them specifically what information would help the readers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nobody else in the forum would benefit from an answer since it's too specific...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;That's not necessarily the case. I've seen some pretty specific questions that I've benefited from in various ways. You may discover methods that you didn't know existed. You may learn practices that would greatly reduce your own personal work-load. You may find many nuggets within other people's specific code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You would be doing his/her job for free...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Try to educate the user with gratuitous commenting and descriptive explanations. Don't do everything exactly as they need it - change up a couple variable names. They can't help but to learn something along the way :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get the feeling the user is simply looking for some cheap-labor, simply mark the question &quot;not a real question&quot; or &quot;too localized&quot; and let time decide its fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T04:11:05.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T04:49:59.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39182" CreationDate="2010-02-12T04:52:19.393" Score="-2" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a proposal to add the following new close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no prior research/work&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The question refers to a complex problem where the asker has shown no evidence of prior research or work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reasoning&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, Stack Overflow has been victim to a lot of questions where students post &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2242182/simple-exercise-in-c-homework&quot;&gt;full homework questions&lt;/a&gt; or employees basically post complete assignments without showing any sign of prior research or work (give-me-the-codez). Right now, those questions are being closed as &lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt; but that reason seems not specific enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T05:28:42.253" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:12:56.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T04:52:19.393" Title="Proposal for new close reason: &quot;no prior research/work&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;homework&gt;&lt;give-me-the-codez&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39181" CreationDate="2010-02-12T04:58:39.540" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not a real question&quot; looks to cover it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to drill down as to why they're wasting other people's time (except for those users who enjoy posting shots in the dark/full answers to homework) then leave a comment as to why it's not a real question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T04:58:39.540" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T04:58:39.540" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T05:14:59.747" Score="3" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2249502/c-sample-project-need-help-with-algorithm/2249536#2249536&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, I typed a non-numbered list, using the syntax:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* first point&#xA;* second point&#xA;* third point&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it worked perfectly. Then someone left a comment referring to &quot;point #1&quot; so I figured I should edit to make it a numbered list to make it easier for future commenters to refer to the various points. I switched only the first bullet from &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;1.&lt;/code&gt; and the other two bullets automatically changed to &quot;2.&quot; and &quot;3.&quot; in the automatic as-you-type preview under the edit box. Then, when I submitted my edit, it still looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;second point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;third point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I did another edit, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1. first point&#xA;1. second point&#xA;1. third point&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and as expected, the result was like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;second point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;third point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure which behavior is the correct interpretation of the markdown, but the actual interpretation didn't match the interpretation in the as-you-type edit box. Minor problem, but I figure SO is so good I might as well throw this in and maybe it will become just a tiny bit better!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65977" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-24T20:42:37.960" LastActivityDate="2010-11-24T20:42:37.960" Title="Preview of formatting doesn't match the actual formatting, during edit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39183" CreationDate="2010-02-12T05:27:04.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it is a bug (testing with this answer)... Typing this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. first&#xA;* second&#xA;* third&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;previews as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;second&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;third&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But renders as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;second&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;third&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why you don't see the revision, I think that edits have the 5 minute grace period feature applied to them too, so your first revision wasn't saved because it was replaced by the second edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T05:27:04.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37889" CreationDate="2010-02-12T07:05:36.760" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixed - thank you for finding this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T07:05:36.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T07:36:43.840" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10984/removing-a-downvote-adds-reputation-that-wasnt-there&quot;&gt;Removing a downvote adds reputation that wasn&amp;rsquo;t there&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was tried to downvote &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2249419/can-we-get-the-following-flexibility-in-python-as-in-perl/2249628#2249628&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer because its kind of spamming activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after that I noticed he/she is new user and its just cost myself -1 and withdrew my downvote, but I noticed that, he become 3 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it just coincident or by-design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T07:36:43.840" ClosedDate="2010-02-12T09:56:51.263" Title="Downvoting reputation 1 user hit ourselves penalty as -1 and withdrawing downvote make them +2?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7424" CreationDate="2010-02-12T08:07:13.713" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges that can be awarded more than once will say so in the description on the badge page, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/33/favorite-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/33/favorite-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{blah blah blah badge description}. &lt;strong&gt;This badge can be awarded multiple times.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T08:07:13.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T08:45:04.943" Score="0" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was my answer so bad &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2230552/the-best-tools-money-can-buy/2230640#2230640&quot;&gt;on this particular question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the answer was okay. But it seems like most people disagree with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help me become a better Overflower. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really baffled, as evidenced by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts//2230640/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history of my answer&lt;/a&gt;. I think the answer is OK. Sure, it has no direct connection to JEE, but the question was rather open. I referred to a now deleted part of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have the chance working with the best tools (including free/open source), what were they? Could you live without them? How did they improve your life and your productivity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Jira directly connected to JEE? Source Control? Why are those and a task control is not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143127" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T10:19:12.537" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T14:37:17.513" Title="Why is my answer downvoted?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39097" CreationDate="2010-02-12T08:52:49.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if I agree with this; multiple answers to the same question are still one logical whole -- in that they are all &lt;em&gt;answers to the very same question&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving people special &quot;props&quot; for one answer versus another on the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; question means they'll be incentivized to compete with their own answers and one-up themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We really would prefer that people edit their answers and provide only one good-better-best answer to a question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25209/what-is-the-official-etiquette-on-answering-a-question-twice&quot;&gt;except in exceptional circumstances&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T08:52:49.143" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T08:57:32.040" Score="8" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the tag, this is a serious feature request.  Once in a blue moon, I've wanted the ability to downvote my own answer to some question.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38869/spelling-error-in-too-localized-reason-for-close/38948#38948&quot;&gt;Here's one (admittedly silly) example.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously upvoting one's own posts is out of the question.  But &lt;em&gt;down&lt;/em&gt; is different.  Voting my own answer down can help me &lt;em&gt;improve the site&lt;/em&gt; by pushing my answer lower in the ranking than another answer with a better or more situation-appropriate alternative.  It's not something I'd do &lt;em&gt;often&lt;/em&gt;, but I would use this feature if it were available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If implemented, I'd expect this feature to operate just like downvotes on other user's posts.  That is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get a few seconds to undo the downvote; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I get to remove the downvote after an edit to the post; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I lose a point for placing the downvote (CW excepted);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I lose two points for receiving the downvote (CW excepted).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If you're noticing that I'd lose 3 points for downvoting my own non-CW post, congratulations! You can add!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of a couple of &lt;em&gt;potential downsides&lt;/em&gt; to this change.  The first one may be a dealbreaker; the second is probably not that big a deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Strategic downvoting of oneself: since you can undo the vote after an edit, and you can always edit your own posts, someone could &lt;em&gt;downvote themselves&lt;/em&gt; soon after posting (especially on a FGITW answer) to garner extra sympathy upvotes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badge collecting: the Peer Pressure badge just got easier, because if you have a -2 score on an answer, just downvote and delete for an instant badge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T09:12:39.657" Title="Why can't we downvote our own posts?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="39195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39194" CreationDate="2010-02-12T09:05:49.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;stop hitting yourself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CFzCBbOXKc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CFzCBbOXKc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T09:05:49.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39194" CreationDate="2010-02-12T09:06:15.923" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're posting answers that are noise, delete them. That's what that action is there for. Why do you want to keep around answers that you don't believe in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to downvote your own answer, it's a sign that it shouldn't be there. If it's an alternate viewpoint/solution than the majority would agree with, the votes will decide that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T09:06:15.923" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39194" CreationDate="2010-02-12T09:12:39.657" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New Users can abuse this way, if it is get implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For Example, Post 100 Questions and Answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self downvote all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since he/she is rep 1, nothing lose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10984/removing-a-downvote-adds-reputation-that-wasnt-there&quot;&gt;after that withdraw all the downvotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He/she will get &lt;strong&gt;300&lt;/strong&gt; points :-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T09:12:39.657" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39191" CreationDate="2010-02-12T09:46:34.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Profilers, designers, frameworks,&#xA;  graphical components, and other tools&#xA;  are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He said &quot;other tools&quot;, but I think that even with this you were waaaay off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T09:46:34.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39200" CreationDate="2010-02-12T10:11:12.130" Score="1" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have trouble finding the right tags for my questions. I tend to use tags which summarize my question. But I think tags should be more descriptive of the context that the question relates to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, there might not be much of a difference, but here's an example on Meta: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39191/why-is-my-answer-downvoted&quot;&gt;Why is my answer downvoted?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags I chose: &lt;strong&gt;[voting]&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;[discussion]&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;[meta-discussion]&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;[downvoting]&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;[style]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tags after an experienced user worked them over:  &lt;strong&gt;[discussion]&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;[downvoting]&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;[specific-question]&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the latter is clearly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you define your tags? Is there a rule of thumb for tagging? And if so, can you express the rule in one sentence? What would that be like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143127" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T10:25:14.897" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T10:25:14.897" Title="Finding the best tags to fit a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;how-to&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39199" CreationDate="2010-02-12T10:23:53.823" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My one sentence: &quot;Don't worry about it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag questions the best you can, and then let the community decide what tags fit - the SOFU family of sites are collaboratively edited after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example you gave is a perfect example that the system works. You're not necessarily going to know which tags tend to be used until you've been around a while, so let more experienced users re-tag things. Some day you'll have a better idea, and you'll be able to get stuck in to re-tagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T10:23:53.823" />
  <row Id="39201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T10:54:21.263" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Correctly parsed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+linux&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c++&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c++&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Incorrectly parsed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+c++&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+c++&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parsed as 'java' + 'c' + '' + ''&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c+++java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c+++java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parsed as 'c' + '' + '' + 'java'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replacing the + characters with the encoded form %2B gives the same result:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+c%2B%2B&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+c%2B%2B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parsed as 'java' + 'c' + '' + ''&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2B%2B+java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%2B%2B+java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parsed as 'c' + '' + '' + 'java'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143102" LastEditorUserId="143102" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T16:17:52.657" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:17:52.657" Title="Bug: when passing multiple tags via URL, tags containing '+' are incorrectly parsed" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39163" CreationDate="2010-02-12T10:56:01.807" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree however with the &quot;what content exactly&quot; part of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you refuse a post because of a content, explain what it is, or this is just frustrating. I once fought with a stupid post office form for 30 minutes to understand what &quot;invalid character&quot; was in what I wrote, because it wouldn't tell me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T10:56:01.807" />
  <row Id="39203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39191" CreationDate="2010-02-12T10:59:59.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be terribly concerned about down-votes on an answer in CW. It is a discussion thread, people will disagree with it. There is a reason rep is not affected by wiki discussions. There will be disagreements and as a result of those disagreements, there are down-voted responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, it seems your overall track record represents a favorable following in the community wiki. I wouldn't think that 4 down-votes on this should bother you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T10:59:59.053" />
  <row Id="39204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39191" CreationDate="2010-02-12T11:23:26.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;@bitschnau I don't think your answer deserves 4 downvotes, but as dboarman already says, people read the non-Java related part of your answer, and downvotes are given easier in CW posts because they are used more as a sign of &lt;em&gt;disagreement&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably the best thing to forget it and move on. Having a question or answer downvoted happens to everyone once in a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T11:34:52.833" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T11:34:52.833" />
  <row Id="39205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39063" CreationDate="2010-02-12T11:50:14.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My official opinion is that mod_rewrite and build tools can fit in both places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless there's some particular tone of the question that tilts it heavily toward &quot;sysadmin&quot; or &quot;programmer&quot; I think they are usually fine where they were originally asked (SF or SO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T11:50:14.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39201" CreationDate="2010-02-12T11:52:20.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please use one of the many alternate URL syntaxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bare / naked form has inherent limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also, &lt;strong&gt;when combining tags that contain plus, you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; use space to delimit the tags.&lt;/strong&gt; You &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; use plus to delimit tags when any tag itself contains a plus. All our internally constructed links already do this for you, so this is only an issue when you manually combine them for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T11:52:20.217" />
  <row Id="39207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T12:27:43.060" Score="-1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26731/raise-bounty-upon-setting&quot;&gt;Raise bounty upon setting&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe some of you will agree with me on this one but bounty system needs some kind of upgrade. I'd recommend following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you don't get your answer, maybe you should be able to increase bounty, double it or something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the automatically accepted answer isn't the correct answer, then we should have a possibility to decrease the bounty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138604" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-20T10:07:02.233" LastActivityDate="2010-06-20T10:07:02.233" ClosedDate="2010-02-12T14:21:56.713" Title="Is it possible to upgrade the bounty feature?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="39208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39207" CreationDate="2010-02-12T12:52:19.420" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first suggestion has some merit, the handling of an ending bounty that had no or no satisfying response is not optimal at the moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be made possible to set a second bounty on a question after the first one has run out (with no refunds on the first bounty, though). A question becoming un-bountyable and un-acceptable after a bounty has run out with no auto-accepted answer is a terrible condition IMO. (Discussion &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=bounty+accept&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second suggestion I'm against. If I put up a bounty, I have to pay it, period. If you don't get an answer that matches your expectations, it's your risk.-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T12:52:19.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42634" CreationDate="2010-02-12T13:09:42.930" Score="13" ViewCount="558" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm specifically interested in adding translation for baby language, look how my son looks confused at the current interface in English:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/IGtZo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Simon using SO&quot;&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He even tries to ALT+TAB to get away from it, but his fingers aren't long enough yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't implement this ASAP, you'll lose the next generation of programmers to a rival site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; could be adapted for my feature-request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-18T17:29:32.993" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T17:29:32.993" Title="Add automatic baby-language translation for posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39209" CreationDate="2010-02-12T13:38:16.533" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, for one, absolutely need this feature implemented. I am so sick of having to open up Google translate to translate SO into my native Klingon before using it. Do you have any idea how complicated it is for a severed head living eternally in an infernal jar to go through the extra clicks and menu navigations of Google translate in addition to the already-infuriating Stack Overflow controls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's practically impossible, let me tell you. It's a wonder I can use this website at all through my overactive force of will alone! A lesser head would have given up a year ago, but still I press on in spite of the massive oppression and poor accessibility to post-human users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rise up against the oppressive corporocentric majority! Cephalocentrism will be the new way of the world!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T13:38:16.533" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="39211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:22:30.190" Score="3" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow really has a nice clean interface, but I always find some little things I like to tweak - with stylish and/or greasemonkey - in the sites I visit most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I have replaced Arial (I really can't stand that font) with Droid Sans and also replaced the fixed width font with Droid Sans Mono. I also switched off the little red &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; from the interesting/ignored tag boxes on top right -- I believe they look a lot better without those, and I can remove them from my profile's pref page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm curious, have you tweaked your interface and how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138149" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-28T22:21:34.733" LastActivityDate="2010-11-05T21:35:54.460" Title="Have you modded your SO interface?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39211" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:33:25.070" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have, but only in a very minor fashion. I adjusted the inline code fonts to clean up the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33709/formatting-of-inline-code-is-ugly-and-can-result-in-river-like-patterns-when-used/33764#33764&quot;&gt;&quot;river&quot; effect&lt;/a&gt; a bit. I haven't felt much need to go farther than that; the rest of the UI is fine for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I added a couple of GreaseMonkey scripts now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO Dupecloser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO Show Today's Reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO Tag Votes and Tag Badges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T18:55:25.477" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T18:55:25.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39191" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:37:17.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the comments on the question is normally a much better way to find out than asking on MSO.  The comments are likely left by people who downvoted you and are explaining why.  Try to understand what the commenters are saying.  In this case, you seem to be arguing with them, not trying to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may or may not agree with reasons why people downvote you, but trying to refute their reasons and coming to MSO for more reasons is probably not productive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T14:37:17.513" />
  <row Id="39214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39218" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:38:59.557" Score="2" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: Sourav Mukhop ****** [sourav**********@yahoo.co.in] &#xA;    Sent: Friday, Febuary 5, 2010 10:29 PM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    I am a fresher.I want to learn about java,php etc.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:08:01.933" Title="Advertising Inquiry: a fresher" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:42:07.133" Score="14" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/442/what-kind-of-edits-contribute-to-strunk-white/445#445&quot;&gt;Self-edits and retags don't count&lt;/a&gt; toward S&amp;amp;W. The former are easy to filter, but what about the latter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#! /usr/bin/perl&#xA;&#xA;use warnings;&#xA;use strict;&#xA;&#xA;sub num_last_editor {&#xA;  my($id) = @_;&#xA;  open my $fh, &quot;&amp;lt;&quot;, &quot;posts.xml&quot; or die &quot;$0: open: $!&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;  my $n;&#xA;  while (&amp;lt;$fh&amp;gt;) {&#xA;    ++$n if /\bPostTypeId=&quot;1&quot;/         &amp;amp;&amp;amp;&#xA;            /\bLastEditorUserId=&quot;$id&quot;/ &amp;amp;&amp;amp;&#xA;           !/\bOwnerUserId=&quot;$id&quot;/;&#xA;  }&#xA;&#xA;  $n;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;die &quot;Usage: $0 id-num\n&quot; unless @ARGV == 1;&#xA;&#xA;my $n = num_last_editor qr/\Q$ARGV[0]/;&#xA;print &quot;$0: last editor on $n\n&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastActivityDate="2011-08-25T15:23:48.470" Title="How do I estimate Strunk &amp; White progress?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;badge-progress&gt;&lt;editing-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="39216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39214" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:42:18.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T14:42:18.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T14:42:18.410" />
  <row Id="39217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39163" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:45:58.030" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I favor downvoting and deleting all answers that are just in the form of a web link, since one goal of SO is to have all necessary information on the site, and there's always the chance that information elsewhere will be deleted or modified so it's no longer appropriate.  It's also possible that people will read SO offline sometimes, much as there's ways to read Wikipedia offline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true of the &lt;strong&gt;bleep&lt;/strong&gt; answers I've seen:  they're links to links to potentially incorrect and potentially temporary information.  I don't see any use for &lt;strong&gt;bleep&lt;/strong&gt; on this site other than feeling superior to others, and find any banning quite reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that people shouldn't Google for information before replying, or provide links to outside sources, only that people should include enough information in the post itself to be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:  I do think preventing submission of the first version of this answer because of a textual mention (not a link) of a site formed from the initials of &quot;Let me Google that for you&quot; may be going overboard.  At least on MSO, where we might be expected to discuss these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T14:45:58.030" />
  <row Id="39218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39214" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:46:05.237" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Sourav,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am the fresh&lt;i&gt;est&lt;/i&gt;. It's not Java, PHP, etc that you need to learn about (though I do commend you for wanting to learn about them), but rather the skills of becoming even more fresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, every day I clean my teeth three times a day with Mr. Clean, clean my ears out with Liquid-Plumr and moisturize my skin in a bath of lukewarm methyl soyate. It is with these solvents that I am able to maintain my freshest status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're on the right track since you're already fresher than most and you have my approval for wanting to become even fresher to the point that you might be able to challenge me at the 2010 Freshest Man Competition And Shoe Clearance in Cleveland, Ohio this July. I look forward to seeing you there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Freshly,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T14:52:32.530" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T14:52:32.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39211" CreationDate="2010-02-12T14:51:50.393" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I want to experience the site as the creators intended it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T14:51:50.393" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39214" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:00:39.130" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Sourav,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for contacting the Soda Factory hotline.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want a fresh drink, reply to this message with 1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want to speak to a sales representative, reply to this message with 2&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want us to e-mail you the options again, reply to this message with 3&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or just wait patiently and a customer representative will be with you shortly.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thanks again, and we hope you enjoy our fresher drinks  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The stackoverflow Soda-Bot&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;This address is not monitored, please do not reply to this e-mail&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:00:39.130" />
  <row Id="39221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:03:25.600" Score="11" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the data dumps have breadcrumbs other than posts and comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#! /usr/bin/perl&#xA;&#xA;use warnings;&#xA;use strict;&#xA;&#xA;use Time::Local;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Count daily activity in &lt;code&gt;$seen{$date}&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;my %seen;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Count comments and posts or edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sub comments {&#xA;  my($id) = @_;&#xA;  open my $fh, &quot;&amp;lt;&quot;, &quot;comments.xml&quot; or die &quot;$0: open: $!&quot;;&#xA;  while (&amp;lt;$fh&amp;gt;) {&#xA;    next unless /UserId=&quot;$id&quot;/;&#xA;    die &quot;$0: $.: no CreationDate&quot;&#xA;      unless /CreationDate=&quot;(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})T.*?&quot;/;&#xA;    ++$seen{$1};&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;sub posts {&#xA;  my($id) = @_;&#xA;  open my $fh, &quot;&amp;lt;&quot;, &quot;posts.xml&quot; or die &quot;$0: open: $!&quot;;&#xA;  while (&amp;lt;$fh&amp;gt;) {&#xA;    if (/OwnerUserId=&quot;$id&quot;/) {&#xA;      die &quot;$0: $.: no CreationDate&quot;&#xA;        unless /CreationDate=&quot;(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})T.*?&quot;/;&#xA;      ++$seen{$1};&#xA;    }&#xA;    elsif (/LastEditorUserId=&quot;$id&quot;/) {&#xA;      die &quot;$0: $.: no LastEditDate&quot;&#xA;        unless /LastEditDate=&quot;(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})T.*?&quot;/;&#xA;      ++$seen{$1};&#xA;    }&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally the tally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;sub as_time_t {&#xA;  my($date) = @_;&#xA;  die &quot;$0: bad date '$date'&quot;&#xA;    unless /^(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)$/;&#xA;  timegm 0, 0, 0, $3, $2-1, $1-1900;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;die &quot;Usage: $0 id-num\n&quot; unless @ARGV == 1;&#xA;my $id = qr/\Q$ARGV[0]/;&#xA;comments $id;&#xA;posts    $id;&#xA;&#xA;my($start,$end) = map as_time_t($_), (sort keys %seen)[0,-1];&#xA;for (my $t = $start; $t &amp;lt; $end; $t += 86_400) {&#xA;  my($mday,$mon,$year) = (gmtime $t)[3,4,5];&#xA;  $seen{ sprintf &quot;%04d-%02d-%02d&quot; =&amp;gt; $year+1900, $mon+1, $mday } += 0;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;my $streak = 0;&#xA;foreach my $date (sort keys %seen) {&#xA;  if ($seen{$date}) {&#xA;    ++$streak;&#xA;    printf &quot;%4d - $date - $seen{$date}\n&quot;, $streak;&#xA;  }&#xA;  else {&#xA;    $streak = 0;&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example usage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;$ cd &quot;Stack Overflow Data Dump - Feb 10/Content/022010 SO&quot;&#xA;$ streak 22656&#xA;[...]&#xA; 149 - 2010-01-27 - 38&#xA; 150 - 2010-01-28 - 17&#xA; 151 - 2010-01-29 - 25&#xA; 152 - 2010-01-30 - 17&#xA; 153 - 2010-01-31 - 7&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastEditorUserId="140234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T17:58:00.790" LastActivityDate="2010-09-21T20:01:27.747" Title="How do I estimate Fanatic progress?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;&lt;badge-progress&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="39222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:20:16.540" Score="12" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do rollbacks count as edits towards the Strunk &amp;amp; White badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastActivityDate="2010-12-19T23:52:13.057" Title="Rollbacks and Strunk &amp; White" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing-badges&gt;&lt;badge-progress&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39224" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:22:31.373" Score="10" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask several questions about the same problem domain but each question is independent from the others. Should I put all the questions in a single post or should I split them and send multiple posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143247" LastActivityDate="2010-05-21T04:45:09.887" Title="One post with multiple questions or multiple posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;multiple&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="39224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39223" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:26:34.797" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Split them and ask multiple questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way it's easy to select a correct answer. If you ask several questions in &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; question you risk having answers that are both correct and wrong at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17413" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:26:34.797" />
  <row Id="39225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39227" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:29:06.103" Score="2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted some questions that are very narrow. If they even have an answer, it is one which doesn't really solve the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there be a way to prevent those questions from counting in the accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133964" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T15:54:16.593" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:54:16.593" Title="narrow question with no accepted answers, count in accepted rate" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="39226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39223" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:30:03.043" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they're good questions you should split them up to get more EXP; however, if they are bad questions you should probably ask a single complex question, that way you're less likely to get downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:30:03.043" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39225" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:32:13.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that an accept rate between 80 and 100% is still acceptable (it has been discussed somewhere on meta). There are some questions I asked on which I can't accept an answer and in the end I still have a pretty good acceptance rate even thought it's not 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community wiki questions will not count in your accept rate but I think that outside of that there should not be a way to bypass this rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If most of your question can't be answered, leading to a very low acceptance rate, you should consider improving your way of asking questions or maybe realize that SO is not the place for such complicated questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also put a bounty on your question in order to try to get better answers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:32:13.367" />
  <row Id="39228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39225" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:34:44.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're asking that many questions that are so narrow that they don't get answers, then perhaps it's a reflection of the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have a 100% percent accept rate on Stack Overflow. What's the issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/3097/ubuntu-pppoe-connection-timeout&quot;&gt;One of your questions on Server Fault&lt;/a&gt; is better suited for Super User (except for &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/30148/vps-server-missing-files&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, which belongs on Stack Overflow), maybe that's why they haven't been answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/36293/centos-vps-virtual-memory-problems-diagnostics&quot;&gt;The final question is so abstract&lt;/a&gt; that no one could ever provide an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:34:44.447" />
  <row Id="39229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39211" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:36:47.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I've tweaked my entire meta-UI:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34939/did-you-ever-wish-you-could-have-a-hot-dog-stand-themed-meta-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34939/did-you-ever-wish-you-could-have-a-hot-dog-stand-themed-meta-stackoverflow-com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:36:47.197" />
  <row Id="39230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39221" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:47:02.177" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has your spouse left you or complained about the amount of time spent on SO? Been reprimanded for using SO at work?  If so, you're well on your way to the Fanatic badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T15:47:02.177" />
  <row Id="39231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39286" CreationDate="2010-02-12T15:57:34.217" Score="4" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I logged into Careers today and noticed that my CV was hidden from employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall making any changes to my settings recently, the only action I've taken with Careers recently is to reply &quot;No thanks&quot; (or possibly &quot;No longer looking&quot;) to a message from an employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should replying &quot;No longer looking&quot; have changed my overall CV status? I didn't intend to make my CV un-searchable by employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T20:25:17.840" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:25:17.840" Title="My CV is suddenly hidden from employers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="39233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39231" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:05:48.447" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;No longer looking&quot; does mean that you are no longer looking for a job, in which case it is &lt;code&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/code&gt; to hide your CV after selecting that option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are &quot;no longer looking&quot;, why waste employers' time by listing the CV of someone not interested in a job anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:05:48.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:22:34.550" Score="2" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/heading-off-the-temptation-to-cheat-in-computer-science-classes-at-stanford/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;'s the article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if SO should have copy-and-paste traps like they have on some content sites like &lt;em&gt;New York&lt;/em&gt; magazine, where if you copy text, it will paste with a note of where it comes from. e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Albany needs a new novelist. William&#xA;  Kennedy's books are brilliant, but his&#xA;  ghosts and gangsters roam a state&#xA;  capitol that's been gone at least six&#xA;  decades. Capturing the absurdity that&#xA;  has reigned since Eliot Spitzer&#xA;  arrived as governor, and that reached&#xA;  new nonsensical heights this week,&#xA;  calls for a Hudson Valley version of&#xA;  Carl Hiaasen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Read more: Chris Smith: &lt;a href=&quot;http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/02/chris_smith.html#ixzz0fL5zm3yA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What We’ve&#xA;  Learned From the Paterson Circus --&#xA;  Daily Intel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would only foil the most bumbling cheaters, but it would be interesting to see how often the little tag would show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130994" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T16:24:53.597" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:59:03.367" Title="Have you seen the NYT article on CS cheating at Stanford?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39240" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:25:58.320" Score="7" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems some think if an OP knows the answer to their own question, it should be closed as &quot;Not a real question.&quot; I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2253096/trivia-how-can-i-get-a-nullreferenceexception-in-this-code-sample-closed&quot;&gt;an example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP posted some C# trivia. The question was clear. It was a little brain-teaser, yet here we are, closed because it's &quot;not a real question.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems wrong and hasty to me. Surely the goal of SO is to share knowledge and have a little fun doing so -- judging questions based on whether the OP knows the answer already or not seems a little pedantic. Is this a step too far?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T16:39:18.673" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:14:15.590" Title="Closing questions just because the OP knows the answer: good or bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="39237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39236" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:30:37.220" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that question should have been closed just because the OP knows the answer. As long as it's a valid question, it may help other people later on who don't know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think it was closed because of the fact that he phrased it like it was some kind of game. If he had left out the trivia bit and simply asked the question, it probably would have been fine. I don't see why labelling it as trivia was necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:30:37.220" />
  <row Id="39238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39236" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:31:16.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's on its way to being reopened. Currently 3 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why some voted to close it, perhaps they just didn't like the &quot;trivia&quot; aspect. If code golf is valid, I don't see why this isn't, as long as it's limited-dosage. That second part is the most important part, though. Just as you don't see new code golf several times a day, or (I think? at least I don't) even every day, you shouldn't see new &quot;trivia&quot; type brainteasers such as this that frequently, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:31:16.953" />
  <row Id="39239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39236" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:35:10.817" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with the question was that its formatting and layout was... lacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was very unclear what the OP was asking by the format and lack of care taken in asking the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future, if the OP spends the time to make the question look better, it's far more likely to stay open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:35:10.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39236" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:37:36.400" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is more thought, and less a response to your specific example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I too don't think questions should be closed simply because the OP knows the answer. Allowing people to ask question for which they already have an answer creates more potential for others to learn. I'm sure many of the big names at Stack Overflow could ask questions I would never think of, which would result in me learning things that I may have never learned before. In fact, this happened this morning, and I was floored by what I learned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see the community get behind questions, and not genuine problems. I see some people wonder why top-answerers don't often ask their own questions. Many times it's because they don't really have any problems. If the focus was shifted from &quot;only ask questions for genuine problems&quot; to &quot;ask questions that help us grow,&quot; I think we'd see the general knowledge of the community flourish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Skeets of Stack Overflow began pouring out their knowledge in the form of questions, we'd see some pretty astounding content, in my humble and unbiased opinion :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T16:40:26.097" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:40:26.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39214" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:42:40.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Sourav,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now this is the story all about how&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  My life got flipped, turned upside down&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And I'd like to take a minute just sit right there&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called bel-air  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In west philadelphia born and raised&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  On the playground where I spent most of my days&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When a couple of guys said were up in no good&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Started making trouble in my neighborhood&#xA;  I got in one little fight and my mom got scared&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And said you're moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I whistled for a cab and when it came near the&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  License plate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If anything I could say that this cab was rare&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  But I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I pulled up to a house about seven or eight&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Looked at my kingdom I was finally there&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Keep it fresh,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:42:40.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39221" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:57:04.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're missing November 15th, so work it out from there ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:57:04.463" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39235" CreationDate="2010-02-12T16:59:03.367" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not really Stack Overflow's place to &quot;trap&quot; the content of the system from copying. &lt;strong&gt;Quite the opposite.&lt;/strong&gt; All content on Stack Overflow is freely available and &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; licensed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; for copying and reuse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible benefit of adding text to copied content is to help the recipient provide proper attribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T16:59:03.367" />
  <row Id="39247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39214" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:08:01.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Mr. Sourav,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try Mentos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours in freshness,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:08:01.933" />
  <row Id="39249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39236" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:14:15.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closing questions just because the OP knows the answer: good or bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, but pretend you're on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's obvious from this direction that a question should NEVER be closed just because the OP knows the answer, regardless of whether he posts the answer himself or not.  In fact I'll occasionally post a question I know the answer to without posting the answer to fill out gaps in SO's knowledgebase.  I find that I often learn new things about the question beyond what I already knew.  This is perfectly fine behavior on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't see anything in your example that shows the OP knows the answer, or that it was closed because 5 people thought the OP knew the answer.  Are you sure that is the reason for the close votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:14:15.590" />
  <row Id="39250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39221" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:21:23.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder why someone hasn't set up a webservice that &quot;visits&quot; SO daily on behalf of users that sign up for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;/classy&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:21:23.223" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39211" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:24:23.343" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  I can understand why one might do that, but I use several different' computers to access SO based on a circumstances, and I don't want to have to synchronize all my mods amongst them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm waiting for the API so I can use a single, customizable web interface to access all the stackexchange sites I visit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing we'll have an API in 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:24:23.343" />
  <row Id="39252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39265" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:25:32.640" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are there differences between the newest questions displayed on Stack Overflow, and the feed generated for same resource?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say, if I want to check the newest questions published under any category, via feed, I get the latest question atleat 3 minutes and sometimes 20 minutes later than it appears on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136156" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T17:32:55.137" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:26:12.540" Title="Why are feeds not up to date?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feed&gt;&lt;updates&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38765" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:38:17.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you find yourself running into people who are contributing more noise than content, flag them. If you find people who spend the majority of their time flaming others, and causing problems, flag them. This will bring them into the attention of your local Moderators, and they will be able to evaluate whether the behavior deserves further action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can say that I'm stunned by some of the things that are flagged &quot;offensive&quot; though. If you decide to go this route, be sure it's &lt;em&gt;genuinely&lt;/em&gt; offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:38:17.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39211" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:40:52.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few greasemonkey scripts I've started using.  It's more about functionality than looks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5933/greasemonkey-script-to-show-profile-reputation-and-badges-from-all-so-sites-in&quot;&gt;Extended top bar&lt;/a&gt;, the most look-changing.  I use it more for the links than the extra graphics, and have been thinking about modding it to match my preferences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38680/make-new-close-reasons-dialog-experience-sensitive/38756#38756&quot;&gt;Revert the close-reason dialogue&lt;/a&gt; from wall-o'-text to reasonably-sized.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38738/greasemonkey-script-to-show-latest-activity-in-question-overview&quot;&gt;Show latest activity glyph&lt;/a&gt; for the front page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:40:52.643" />
  <row Id="39255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:41:11.957" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two questions which are closed and unanswered on www.stackoverflow.com.&#xA;Please delete these questions... Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed Question Links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2216641/file-sharing-in-windows-7-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2216641/file-sharing-in-windows-7-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2117188/restore-backup-in-sql-server-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2117188/restore-backup-in-sql-server-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143252" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T17:56:16.003" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T18:49:21.540" Title="Please delete my closed and unanswered questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39255" CreationDate="2010-02-12T17:43:51.453" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;First, you could post a link to the questions so it's easy to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, they'll get deleted if they have to, closing them is the first step towards that in the question life cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, if they don't have answers, you could delete them yourself clicking on &lt;strong&gt;delete&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Both questions are closed because they were migrated, so they will remain in the original site as placeholders, and to find them in the sister sites.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They should not be deleted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T17:52:05.513" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T17:52:05.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2010-02-12T18:45:43.200" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short John Sheehan's answer says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came to SO seeking answers. I began to understand that this wasn't &lt;em&gt;just another place to get answers&lt;/em&gt;. Far more than that - this community thrives on the willingness of those who came before me to share their knowledge and experience.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To show my respect for their knowledge and willingness to share, I follow in their footsteps. It is an honor to have both my questions &amp;amp; answers recognized. Even more, I enjoy having the opportunity to give back to this community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere in a post a few days ago (regarding someone getting 3k rep and unsure what to do next) that it was time to give back. I didn't want to be &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; person. Also, a comment was made that you can learn even more by answering questions. I didn't fully believe that at the time. But I believe it now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T18:45:43.200" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T18:45:43.200" />
  <row Id="39259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39255" CreationDate="2010-02-12T18:49:21.540" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once (s)he knows they've been migrated the author does not need the place holders any more - the &lt;em&gt;author&lt;/em&gt; should be able to delete his/her own migrated questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T18:49:21.540" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T18:50:54.920" Score="2" ViewCount="434" Body="&lt;p&gt;When responding to potential answers I sometimes like to include a code block to clarify what I'm talking about. Is it possible to have clean code-formatting in comments or only in questions and answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143257" LastActivityDate="2011-02-02T19:19:20.097" Title="How do I post code in comments?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;source-code&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39260" CreationDate="2010-02-12T18:54:17.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean &lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt; or something more like multiple lines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you refer to inline coding, It's done with enclosing text with &lt;strong&gt;`&lt;/strong&gt;, otherwise you can't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T18:54:17.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39260" CreationDate="2010-02-12T18:54:33.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen this as possible. The best you can do is use the back_tick to &lt;em&gt;shade&lt;/em&gt; the code. That's why you don't see much in the way of code-blocks in comments. Only small references to specific pieces within a given answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T18:54:33.573" />
  <row Id="39264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39260" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:20:56.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments, by  design, are intended to convey brevity. If you have a code-block that you need to bring attention to, append onto your original post beneath a title like &lt;strong&gt;Update #2&lt;/strong&gt;, and then reference it from within a comment if you need to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have small inline examples, you can just wrap them in back-ticks ` &lt;code&gt;var foo = bar&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:20:56.433" />
  <row Id="39265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39252" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:26:12.540" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this applies to feeds in general - they are not always immediately updated. Or rather, the updates are not always immediately visible. I've been to new posts/articles before they appeared in my feed reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the volume of activity on SO, I'm not surprised that the feed is not always up to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:26:12.540" />
  <row Id="39266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:29:04.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compiling.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:29:04.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T19:29:04.250" />
  <row Id="39267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39291" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:29:48.430" Score="13" ViewCount="456" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comments on @Wil's answer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/108112/virtual-machine-software&quot;&gt;this Super User question&lt;/a&gt;, moderator @Diago threatens @Wil and any other user with more than 3,000 reputation with suspension if they answer &quot;not correctly formatted or ambigous&quot; questions or questions that &quot;should be closed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is bullshit. It was a good answer to a poorly constructed but well-intentioned question. Is this official SO trilogy policy, or is @Diago overstepping his authority here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T03:55:50.020" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T12:28:28.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:08:50.240" Title="Account suspension for answering questions well?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:32:45.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He may be tired of closing all questions himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a SU user, but I hear it's a no man's land, full of duplicated questions and rep hungry users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T02:52:14.153" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T02:52:14.153" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:42.430" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="54295" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:33:52.933" Score="10" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to request a simple change in the way the bounty system works.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Award the bounty the first time an answer is selected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow the person who asked the question to change the selected answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The award occurs either during manual selection or when the bounty timer expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes to answer selection do not subsequently affect bounty points, but allow them to affect rep points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasoning:&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes a later answer is simply better, but when the bounty expires, there is no way to change it. Even if the answer later proves to be misleading, incomplete or just plain wrong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143174" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T06:53:29.783" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T06:53:37.633" Title="Bounty system change request; Award bounty on first answer selection" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:45:55.563" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff does not seem to agree that there's a problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38391/high-reputation-users-having-trouble-understanding-super-user/38406#38406&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38391/high-reputation-users-having-trouble-understanding-super-user/38406#38406&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we have to accept that SuperUser is a different beast than SO or SF, and as such more is expected from those that have the ability to guide it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:45:55.563" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:42.430" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="39272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:49:56.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that users should not be punished for attempting to answer poorly worded questions, even if they may be closed.  The whole point of the site is to give answer to people who have questions, and even if the question is closed a useful bit of information may have been given that the OP can use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, though, if you believe a question is going to be closed, it's highly recommended that you wiki your post, or put a shorter answer as a comment so you do not appear to be rep-whoring for a question which obviously doe not fit the site requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that if you don't, and the question is eventually deleted, you will lose the rep you gained when your rep is recalculated.  If you do this frequently then you may be in for a shock when you find out how much of your rep was founded on poor questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T20:00:48.630" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:00:48.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:42.430" />
  <row Id="39273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:51:34.197" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see both sides of this. For one thing, as Diago has mentioned, Super User is indeed a bit of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38391/high-reputation-users-having-trouble-understanding-super-user&quot;&gt;wild west zone&lt;/a&gt;. A lot of users there do, in fact, seem to be rep-whoring instead of taking the time to clean the site. This is extremely bad and likely very frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I do think threatening users with suspension because they don't vote to close questions that they don't think should be closed is ... well ... overstepping. Like &quot;jumping the shark&quot; overstepping. (I think we can all agree that reasonable people may disagree about what should and should not be closed.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note that Diago himself did not want to take this step initially. His earlier posts on that thread were very much against boxing high-rep users as a means of behavior modification. However, as of yesterday, it looks like he changed his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand and respect the frustration mods on Super User are likely experiencing, but it is a completely different beast, and it's (honestly) never going to be as tight as Stack Overflow is. That's the nature of the game with &quot;general computing&quot; sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is the wrong way to approach the problem. I do agree there is a problem, and it needs some kind of approach, but I think this technique is going to cause a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of Meta butthurt. In fact, it already is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:51:34.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:42.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:53:24.040" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To put some perspective on my expletive comment to the top of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never interacted with Diago before (as far as I remember) and I have nothing against him, and I can see that his situation on SU is somewhat difficult and frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the threat of &lt;em&gt;suspension&lt;/em&gt; for answering a question and/or not formatting it correctly is &lt;em&gt;bound&lt;/em&gt; to get people up in arms, and rightly so. Like most SO members, I'm here to ask and answer questions. I'm happy to fix some spelling and formatting as I go along. I do so, not as much as others, but still plenty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if answering questions imposes on me the &lt;em&gt;obligation&lt;/em&gt; to clean up others' posts, and not doing so gets me reprimanded in some way, I will not feel motivated to stay around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T20:16:53.877" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:16:53.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:42.430" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:57:50.910" Score="1" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;My desktop environment (including browser) is configured to have white text and dark background. With many websites that don't set the text color for input boxes, or set both text color and background color, is it OK. But StackOverflow is unfortunately not one of them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking, answering questions and writing comments is OK (input box background is not set), but search box has white background, so I see silver text on white background, which is not very readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could &lt;code&gt;color: Black;&lt;/code&gt; please be added to CSS stylesheet for &lt;code&gt;#hsearch .textbox&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. captcha input box has similar (yet opposite) problem - text color is set to black, but background color is not set :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T03:56:56.683" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T03:56:56.683" Title="Search box background and text color" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:59:54.340" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is going to work. SU should try to make it easier to do the right thing (close bad questions), not punish people for doing what comes naturally (answering questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, SU is young - SO had single-vote closing/opening when &lt;em&gt;it&lt;/em&gt; was young, and a lot of people made use of it. SO also had Jeff leading by example, while SU doesn't really have anyone with that same level of visibility and respect doing the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T19:59:54.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:42.430" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T19:59:57.053" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments have been deleted so I'll repost them here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/2chuky8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, Diago, not only the FAQ &lt;strong&gt;doesn't say that questions need to be well formatted&lt;/strong&gt; (or that you can't ask multiple questions at once), but it does say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is completely optional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that &lt;strong&gt;a high rep user isn't forced to use his or her powers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T20:37:31.033" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:37:31.033" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:42.430" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="39280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37814" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:03:38.437" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 from me, &lt;code&gt;target=&quot;_blank&quot;&lt;/code&gt; is super annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it is in an iframe that is intended to be embedded on external sites, I guess &lt;code&gt;target=&quot;_parent&quot;&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;target=&quot;_top&quot;&lt;/code&gt; would be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:03:38.437" />
  <row Id="39281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:04:52.710" Score="6" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Background:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9811/allow-more-than-1-comment-upvote-in-5-seconds&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9811/allow-more-than-1-comment-upvote-in-5-seconds&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Summary of that thread: &quot;Can we change the 5 second limit on up votes?&quot; Status: &quot;Declined.&quot;&#xA;My interpretation of the reason: An altered time limit might lead to more noise in the signal, the very thing the mechanism is designed to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My take is this:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is not the time limit, &lt;strong&gt;the problem is the failure message behavior&lt;/strong&gt;.  I believe the &quot;you can't upvote on a comment again so soon&quot; message's BEHAVIOR is complete &lt;strong&gt;overkill&lt;/strong&gt;, though I understand the necessity for the underlying time limit mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problems with the current error:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brings up a popup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Displays the most visually noisy red error I have yet seen on the site, total overkill.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remains open until you manually click to close it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provides no indication of when the functionality will actually be available again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All just so to tell you that you're being a bit too eager in your non-value-changing upvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I argue that the the problem isn't the mechanism, it's the presentation, and I think that we can propose something better and much less annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What alternatives can we come up with?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastEditorUserId="137918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T22:16:41.850" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T19:31:01.483" Title="Better Visual indicator for time limit on comment upvotes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:14:26.703" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In our &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38391/high-reputation-users-having-trouble-understanding-super-user&quot;&gt;previous discussion&lt;/a&gt;, the problem was &lt;em&gt;duplicate&lt;/em&gt; questions getting answers they shouldn't get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; question getting an answer it (probably) shouldn't get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think these are the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess my question is, &lt;strong&gt;what is the harm in allowing these answers to bad questions?&lt;/strong&gt; So what if a few people get a little extra rep trying to answer people's questions in good faith? I really can't see a problem there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now &lt;strong&gt;if the answering is not done in good faith&lt;/strong&gt; (as with some of the duplicates, where it appears that users may know about the dupes but answer anyway with almost straight copy/paste) then that is an entirely different matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:14:26.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:14:26.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39281" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:14:29.823" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arrow Fadeout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When an upvote is clicked before the limit is met, turn the up arrow red or some other warning color, but then immediately start fade it back to grey.  The fade should take as long as the limit is set for, so once the button has turned fully grey again, the upvote mechanism should be available again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optionally, this behavior could be based on the user's reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For less than (e.g.) 300 rep: display the current message.&#xA;Once the user has a certain amount of rep (e.g. over 300): Display the simpler, less annoying, fadeout.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastEditorUserId="137918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-08T19:31:01.483" LastActivityDate="2011-03-08T19:31:01.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:15:47.293" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm used to typing tags then typing enter to submit the form. Once I've typed a tag followed by a space, I expect the completion to disappear and leave the tags are entered. This is how it works in del.icio.us for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow keeps the tag suggestions box opened, and catches the enter key to mean tag selection. A tag gets changed into another that I didn't expect, I have to revert that, find some other way to move the focus from completion, and submit again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like completion mode to be more unobtrusive. It should activate only when I type a new tag or edit an existing tag, and deactivate when the cursor moves away from the tag currently being completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140381" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T18:27:16.280" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T18:27:16.280" Title="Tag completion stays open after space has been typed, steals `enter` focus" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;autocomplete&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13702" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:19:14.667" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The completion lag thing also happens to me (firefox and chromium). It makes &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39284/tag-completion-stays-open-after-space-has-been-typed-steals-enter-focus&quot; title=&quot;completion steals ENTER focus&quot;&gt;that other bug&lt;/a&gt; more annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140381" LastEditorUserId="140381" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T20:25:55.873" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:25:55.873" />
  <row Id="39286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39231" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:25:09.277" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should replying &quot;No longer looking&quot; have changed my overall CV status? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replying &quot;no longer looking&quot; tells us you.. are no longer looking, and turns off employer searchability on your CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you don't want this, just decline employer requests instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:25:09.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39298" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:39:01.327" Score="7" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't be go through the normal process of flagging? (to remove offensive comments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are sometimes discussions entirely gone because a diamond moderator deletes all comments from a post. IMO, this serves no purpose, and unilaterally ends a discussion leaving no trace of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T21:03:11.583" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:42:47.367" Title="Remove moderator abilities to delete comments" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:42:29.683" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is why I am not a fan of the idea of mixing suspension with question/answer practices outside of spam/crap posts. It is just too extreme of an action to be used to &quot;attempt to solve&quot; overall content and appropriate question/answer issues. I stated similar concern and commented on an answer in the SU high rep users &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38391/high-reputation-users-having-trouble-understanding-super-user/39027#39027&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though Diago's intentions were known, this was not a good way to approach this and this is a perfect example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep-Whoring answer like posts are extremely hard to prove.  It is similar to trying to prove people's &quot;intentions&quot; behind posts on any of the sites. Look at any of the legal and moral question/answer discussions on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We need to try every positive enforcement before any negative enforcement, let alone suspension.  On the other side though, it would be nice to see more involvement from any high rep user on SU (and this could go for any of the sites) to help maintain and improve a site they love so much. I want to believe that they would like to help improve a site they visit often. It is not explicitly stated that you have to use your rep level earned abilities though, so we can't always expect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T21:10:35.753" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T21:10:35.753" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:42:29.683" />
  <row Id="39290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:44:37.480" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted it anyway, but I only half-agree and I have a much better solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prohibit them from deleting comments unless they are blatantly offensive&lt;/strong&gt; (as in really, such as &quot;[expletive] you piece of [expletive] [expletive] [expletive]&quot;, not &quot;offensive to the spirit of my ideas&quot; or stuff like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleting discussions for apparently no reason (as it recently happened &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39267/account-suspension-for-answering-questions-well&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) shouldn't be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;prohibit&quot; I mean &quot;tell them not to do it&quot; (and take action against them if they do, but I don't think it will ever go this far).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: removing &quot;noise&quot; comments (0 votes, no replies, etc) as it sometimes happen on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;very popular question&lt;/a&gt; should be allowed as well. All I want is that discussions don't magically disappear without explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: another cool idea would be to allow 10kers to see them anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T20:50:00.780" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:50:00.780" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:47:31.720" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As have been pointed out by the community and my peers my actions in &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; case were wrong. I had apologized to Will as this was in no way a reflection on him and it was also the reason for me deleting my comments, both on the original question and here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T12:28:28.567" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T12:28:28.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T20:47:31.720" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="39292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:49:07.660" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the perspective of trying to limit drama, and keeping discussions appropriate and on track, I just don't think this is a good idea.  Sometimes nonconstructive comments should be removed even if the community hasn't flagged them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments are superfluous.  Helpful, but not the main mission of the site.  If a comment contains important information then that information should be included in a new answer, or edited into the appropriate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally nothing critical is captured in comments, and should the site lose all comments, then the information it still has &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be as useful and helpful (though perhaps not &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; as interesting) as with the comments.  That's not true, but it is the ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T21:29:21.387" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T21:29:21.387" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-30T05:28:32.137" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:51:41.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't want the StackOverflow sites to become the trash heap of the internet.  A bunch of comments passing insults, even without offensive words, is still just a bunch of junk that needs to go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:51:41.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:53:38.153" Score="3" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35501/please-return-the-comment-rate-limit-to-a-flat-30-seconds&quot;&gt;Please return the comment rate limit to a flat 30 seconds&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's now 15 seconds until you can post a new comment, I can accept that.  Resetting the timer every time you hit the informational message is a PITA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking at two answers that both recommended the same knee-jerk response&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:53:38.153" ClosedDate="2010-02-13T04:21:39.457" Title="Comment Time Limit Increased?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="39295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:58:11.547" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed... I don't really get this behavior. It's become extremely&lt;sup&gt;&lt;b&gt;*&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; common, especially here on Meta, and the reasoning doesn't hold up. I could understand quick deletion in the case of spam, or &lt;em&gt;illegal&lt;/em&gt; content... But most of the comments I see removed are pretty benign. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mass-deletion of extensive discussion might make some sense on SOFU, but given that Meta was created &lt;em&gt;in part&lt;/em&gt; to provide a place to discuss matters pertaining to SOFU, it hardly seems appropriate to squelch those very discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system was set up to remove comments (and questions, and answers) that had been flagged &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; times, for some value of &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;. If that's not happening fast enough, then perhaps &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; needs to be reduced; otherwise, it should be left up to the readers to decide what is appropriate (again, excluding things that would create a liability for the site itself such as spam and content that breaks US law). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;b&gt;*&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;Ok, so that's an &lt;em&gt;extreme&lt;/em&gt; exaggeration - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39288/remove-moderator-abilities-to-delete-comments/39307#39307&quot;&gt;somewhere over 3% of comments&lt;/a&gt; on Meta are force-deleted. Perhaps I've just been more observant lately... Still annoying when it happens, but at these levels probably not worth a complete ban on deletion. It would be nice though, when a conversation is still &quot;warm&quot;, if moderators would ease up on the big red button - it may not seem likely that any of us actually have jobs that distract us from continually refreshing the page, but it is frustrating to return and find a dozen or so comments gone without a trace or explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T22:19:57.107" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:19:57.107" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T20:59:07.630" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is pretty hard to discuss this without an example of the type of contents being removed. I have a confession: I've deleted more than a few comments in my time (feel free to start the downvoting). Comments and sensible levels of discussion can be healthy, but if a thread gets derailed by a swathe of comments &lt;em&gt;that don't relate to answering the question&lt;/em&gt; then damage is done. Especially if the comments relate to a situation that is (or has already been) easily fixed, such as duplicates, formatting, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I obviously try to minimise any loss - we wouldn't destroy &quot;all&quot; comments just because a single comment was unacceptable. But sometimes genuinely an entire comment war is just noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you have a &lt;em&gt;very specific&lt;/em&gt; scenario you want to raise? If not, I'm not sure it is an answerable question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T20:59:07.630" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="39297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39267" CreationDate="2010-02-12T21:03:16.187" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Original comments here - &lt;a href=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/2chuky8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://i50.tinypic.com/2chuky8.jpg&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this doesn't exactly answer the question, it is far too much to write in comments and as I am mentioned in the question, I hope no one minds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to add in a few things here... I wrote them as a comment to Diago's answer, but it seems to have been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love working with a computer and go to Superuser.com to help people and answer questions. I find it a good outlet between phone calls and emails etc. I really dislike Diago's comments about me having to vote - The FAQ says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amass enough reputation points and Super User will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;10000    Delete closed questions, access to moderation tools&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;† you can always comment on your questions and answers, and any answers to questions you've asked, even with 1 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the high end of this reputation spectrum there is little difference between users with high reputation and moderators. That is very much intentional. We don't run Super User. The community does. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At no point does it say that I have to &quot;moderate&quot;, I do not want to sound bad or unappreciative for the tools - I do flag and delete/close from time to time, but at no time did I ever say I want to be a moderator - I am happy to do this when it comes up, but I am here to help people and answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean any disrespect moderators, but if you don't want to do it either (or it is starting to annoy you), perhaps you shouldn't be moderators?... And more importantly, if it became &lt;strong&gt;required&lt;/strong&gt; to moderate at over 3k, I would probably create a new account every time I reached 2,999!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I cannot say enough, in the last two paragraphs, I do not mean to be unappreciative, disrespectful or offensive in any way. I love this site - but it is a bit hard to write the above without sounding like an a$$.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for duplicates, I have flagged quite a few, &lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; If you are the first, it becomes really hard to try and find them. In the question that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38391/high-reputation-users-having-trouble-understanding-super-user/38406#38406&quot;&gt;Diago linked to&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/104641/what-is-your-favourite-file-copy-manager-replacement-for-windows-closed&quot;&gt;I was responsible for one question that was a CW&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/104956/nda-and-contract-template-for-uk-closed&quot;&gt;another which I voted to close then answered&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first - I had no idea it was a duplicate, I didn't post any questions in the original. In the second - I voted to close and I am sorry, but, I did not see any harm in giving someone an answer that can help them. If that was wrong, I am very sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway - I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39267/account-suspension-for-answering-questions-well/39282#39282&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer&lt;/a&gt;. I have voted to close questions when they are so bad, you can't read - this one however, it just sounded like he was overexcited and asking a lot of related questions, which I was happy to help with. (Maybe his &lt;kbd&gt;Enter/Return&lt;/kbd&gt; key was broken!). Also, look at all my &lt;code&gt;-&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;...&lt;/code&gt;, I am not the best at punctuation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, on the subject of duplicates, do I really have to search the entire site for a duplicate before I answer any question? Once I posted an answer and then someone voted as duplicate to something I answered - I just don't remember even posting it... It can be hard enough to remember items I have posted, let alone other users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I had a bit more I wanted to say, or change slightly, but I need to go out... I will either edit or respond to comments when I get back ~2-3 hours.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T03:54:27.023" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T03:54:27.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-12T21:03:16.187" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T21:03:41.927" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments should be deleted when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A record of their deletion and the content of what was deleted should be retained so that instances of moderator abuse can be investigated by other moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T21:03:41.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39281" CreationDate="2010-02-12T21:08:51.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X out arrow until upvoting is available again.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Display an alternative image to the up arrow (e.g. an X) and then replace the arrow after the limit is lifted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Can potentially be dependent on rep level as with the answer above.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137918" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T21:08:51.920" />
  <row Id="39300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T21:23:23.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes ask to remove sub-threads of comments because they are of no use.  For example, the threads where I exhibit an awful misunderstanding of what is asked for/answered about. After expressing that I got it I sometimes ask to delete this stuff, and I'm glad that the site is not flooded with useless stuff badly understanding users leave there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think that the ability to remove comments should be preserved.  It does a lot of good things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T21:23:23.113" />
  <row Id="39303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T21:53:53.497" Score="4" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure this scenario is familiar to all of you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You click an unanswered question and after reading the question, you want to help and answer. After you answered, you remain the first and only answerer with a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 15-20 seconds from your answer posting time, another answer comes up, suggesting exactly the solution you have suggested, but with more text (not necessarily more &lt;em&gt;detail&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a minute, more answers pop up with, again, exactly the same solution you have suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After an hour, your answer gets no votes, but the other answers each get at least 1 up-vote, and the one posted right after yours not only has the most votes, but is also accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be an elegant solution to stop this? I am sure I am not the only one who is annoyed by this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After speaking to others about this situation, one of them happened to mention in passing about hovering the mouse over the time of the posting to see the accuracy of the time posted, which I did not know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130066" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T17:44:28.203" Title="Acceptable solution for 'answer copying'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="39304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2010-02-12T21:58:55.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talk to me about it. This exact thing just happened to me. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39231/my-cv-is-suddenly-hidden-from-employers&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood posted the exact same thing I posted 4 hours before&lt;/a&gt; and he got the accepted answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All joking aside, there really isn't anything you can do about that. Before, answers were sorted by votes/time, which led to the problem of people posting small, incomplete answers in order to get the accepted answer. Now they are sorted by votes/random, which solves that particular issue but brings out others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T21:58:55.753" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T22:02:51.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only time I really use the &quot;comment delete&quot; ability on SU is to clean up migrated posts to SU from SF/SO.  I will sometimes go through and remove &quot;belongs on superuser&quot; and similar type comments to clean them up as most of the time, as the question is now on the correct site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do read any flagged comments, but just because only one person finds a comment offensive does not mean it needs to be silently deleted.  I also do get annoyed when people (comment OP's and moderator removal) remove a comment when their are many responding to that comment. Then you have these broken comment threads that can become very confusing. Sometimes the master wipe comments needs to happen, but not often. I try and read through everything to make sure it can be read clearly after a removal of some sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the removal of this ability, I would be ok with it's removal if that is what needs to be done. I wanted to mention though how I find it useful in keeping the site clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for meta, I think everyone does a pretty good job here with community moderation and really does not require much of any &quot;moderation&quot;.  Meta may not have lots of traffic, but the people here are actively involved. I do like seeing honest on-topic positive and negative discussions of the trilogy, the features, the requested features, and overall site issues/suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T22:42:47.367" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:42:47.367" />
  <row Id="39306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2010-02-12T22:04:33.963" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; users &quot;know better&quot;; that is, if there are two identical answers, they either vote for the older answer or both get up-voted. If another user improves their answer, well, good for them. That's what we want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An apt quote from @shog9:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;If two answers are so similar, so interchangeable, or so fundamentally subjective that a single vote can mean the difference between one or the other garnering a lion's share of the up-votes, then there's really no point in worrying about it - either author could have chosen to improve their work; i don't lose any sleep over the battle between apathy and subterfuge.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- shog9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the quote is, if one vote makes the difference between one post getting voted up and the other not, the post must be &lt;strong&gt;so trivial&lt;/strong&gt; to begin with, that you shouldn't really worry about it. How votes are distributed for such subjectively trivial posts is &lt;strong&gt;a crap shoot, not really earned&lt;/strong&gt;. I know it &lt;strong&gt;stings a bit&lt;/strong&gt; when the vote distribution is so random but, really, you shouldn't worry about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Bottom line: if you want to get up-votes, WRITE A GREAT ANSWER.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - @Jeff Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T02:44:48.780" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T02:44:48.780" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T22:08:31.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's become extremely common, especially here on Meta -- @shog9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Extremely common&quot;? Well, let's look at the stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On meta to date:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total comments: 86,789&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Deleted comments: 9,174&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Deleted comments by owner: 6,011&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Deleted comments by non-owner: 3,062&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 3.52% of all comments have been removed by a moderator -- roughly 1 out of every 28 comments on average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that &quot;extremely common&quot; to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(for perspective, as of the time I composed this answer, this &lt;em&gt;entire question and all the answers&lt;/em&gt; have a grand total of 24 comments.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:08:31.883" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2010-02-12T22:09:02.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, it should not be assumed that an answer that appears within seconds (unless the answer is really short, I don't think someone could read your answer and submit a copy that fast) or even minutes is copying your answer.  I've had occasions where I typed an answer to a question and submitted, only to find that there were other answers submitted that said basically the same thing... and the &quot;New answers have been submitted&quot; bar hadn't appeared at the top of my screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for answers with longer explanations, when a someone comes along later and compares a terse answer with little information to a longer answer with a good explanation, I see no problem with them voting for the longer answer.  I've received (uncommented) down votes for which the only reason I could come up with was that a later answer had provided a longer and more complete explanation than the one I gave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137890" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:09:02.257" />
  <row Id="39309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39288" CreationDate="2010-02-12T22:14:40.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been my experience that anytime there was a wholesale delete on comments from a thread, it was warranted.  How many discussions with people like the one we should not name turned into flame wars providing ZERO value to the site other than a distraction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's great the mods can quickly delete the comments.  I'd think they already track this on the back end, so I have no concern here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-12T22:21:09.757" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:21:09.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2010-02-12T22:16:44.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not an answer per-se, but a different way of looking at the problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After 15-20 seconds from your answer&#xA;  posting time, another answer comes up,&#xA;  suggesting exactly the solution you&#xA;  have suggested, but with more text&#xA;  (not necessarily more detail).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After a minute, more answers pop up&#xA;  with, again, exactly the same solution&#xA;  you have suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which might also mean they type slower than you... a fair number of questions have a limited number of answers. If you thought of it that fast, there's a chance someone else did too. I wouldn't be surprised if a reply/comment similar to this appears while/shortly after I'm typing my rambling thought. (Edit: what appears after I submit? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39303/acceptable-solution-for-answer-copying/39308#39308&quot;&gt;a similar answer!&lt;/a&gt; I'm reasonably certain he came up with it on his own.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After an hour, your answer gets no&#xA;  votes, but the other answers each get&#xA;  at least 1 up-vote, and the one posted&#xA;  right after yours not only has the&#xA;  most votes, but is also accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not getting votes, find a way to improve it. If the two answers are virtually indistinguishable, why would someone vote for one over the other? To the community they are the same and the selection process is therefore random. I'm sure there's a lot of people who have been on both ends of this process. In the grand scheme of things it probably balances out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:16:44.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38404" CreationDate="2010-02-12T22:37:30.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/426/what-does-the-im-open-to-employers-not-recruiters-contacting-me-preference-m&quot;&gt;&quot;I'm open to employers contacting me&quot;&lt;/a&gt; option in the profile preferences page. Perhaps something similar could be implemented again for situations such as yours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T22:37:30.883" />
  <row Id="39318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2010-02-12T23:40:34.777" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to Robert C. Cartaino's answer I would like to provide my opinion on his remark &quot; If another user improves their answer, well, good for them. That's what we want.&quot;, also &quot;But if the information you provided is so subjectively trivial that someone can just copy it without anybody noticing... it's probably not worth worrying about the random up-vote it might get.&quot;. Here's my take on this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Define &quot;improves&quot;? or &quot;subjectively trivial&quot;? In the context of an SO user who has posted the answer first &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; someone else posted a near identical answer with their own embellishments to their answer, which raise the issue of the very nature and idea of the core economics of humanity and democracy. Such as posting an answer on SO or any other forum. The fundamental issue is the word 'copyright infringement', now I am no lawyer, but on behalf of someone who was distressed at the very nature of the copied answer posted in response to a question - 40 seconds later, a few words sprinkled here and there, guess who got the up-vote despite the 40 seconds difference - the other poster! Why? Because the other poster had more reputation and more badges. Which I think is creating a divide between the high reputation and low reputation... and it showed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SO and any other forum should treat others with respect and equally, not based on what their reputation points are or how many badges they have. The system is flawed, lest the time should be shown to include the seconds to counter and settle any arguments of plagiarism and copyright infringements...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you remove the tool-tip when the mouse hovers over the time of post submission and put that in as a permanent feature into the page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T23:40:34.777" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-12T23:53:15.317" Score="-4" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently been desperately searching for &quot;Hello World&quot; programs for a particular product, and I keep getting SO results that are irrelevant, near the top of my search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just realize that this is because SO has this greeting on many pages...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello World! Stack Overflow is a&#xA;  collaboratively edited....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if SO were a less honourable site, I would think this is a deliberate attempt at search engine manipulation, but I don't think SO is that kind of site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please ensure that &quot;hello world&quot; only comes from user posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit]&#xA;OK, it looks as if simple &quot;hello world sharepoint web part&quot; is not misdirected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try this... '&quot;hello world&quot; sharepoint webpart deploy render'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An irrelevant SO entry is #4 on the first page. This has been the general direction of my searches - searching increasingly narrowly, for something that was causing me a lot of grief. My impression was that I was getting a lot of these irrelevant SO results, but the impression was wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, it's not a general problem, except that &quot;hello world&quot; can be the most difficult thing in some narrow cases, which can lead to this misdirection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - when has &quot;-1&quot; been used to say &quot;disagree&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143274" LastEditorUserId="143274" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T00:36:16.323" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T20:01:18.860" Title="Recommend remove &quot;Hello World&quot; from SO greeting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39319" CreationDate="2010-02-12T23:54:41.693" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if that's intentional (from SEO perspective) or not but it's a great thing in my opinion as it can attract a bunch of people from search engines to SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use the Stack Overflow built in search instead for this specific case to search within the &lt;code&gt;[sharepoint]&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-12T23:54:41.693" />
  <row Id="39321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39319" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:00:23.057" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hello, World&quot; is probably &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the most common programming phrases in existence. So, naturally, if you search for that term, you're very like to get the world's largest programming site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who else, other than programmers, are searching for &quot;Hello World&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T00:00:23.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39319" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:00:50.513" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did the following search in the three main search engines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hello World site:stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://google.com/search?q=Hello+World+site%3Astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://bing.com/search?q=Hello+World+site%3Astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=Hello+World+site%3Astackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not &lt;strong&gt;once&lt;/strong&gt; I have fallen on a link not related to a user question. They are all links to user questions containing the words &lt;strong&gt;hello world&lt;/strong&gt; (at the exception of Yahoo which added a bunch of links from sub-sites). Unless you post the exact query you used to get your results, I'm ready to dismiss this as pure fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the issue at hand here is that your product is not very well know. It is therefore not the fault of SO per se, but of the product authors/maintainers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-31T19:07:20.457" LastActivityDate="2010-05-31T19:07:20.457" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39319" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:04:44.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't repro this. &lt;strong&gt;What search terms are you using?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried 4-5 different things with &quot;hello world&quot; and I can't get any SO results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T00:04:44.347" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39319" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:07:19.410" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've recently been desperately searching for &quot;Hello World&quot; programs for a particular product, and I keep getting SO results that are irrelevant, near the top of my search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) What product?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1a) What product's documentation is so poor that you need to Google for a Hello World?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T00:07:19.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39160" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:15:22.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, well, I noticed we only set width on the CAPTCHA image and not height, nor do we specify an alt tag for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I added all three. Marking this completed, then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T00:15:22.503" />
  <row Id="39326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39319" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:17:23.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently been desperately searching for info on Stack Overflows, and I keep getting SO results that are irrelevant, near the top of my search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if SO were a less honourable site, I would think this is a deliberate attempt at search engine manipulation, but I don't think SO is that kind of site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more serious note, your request sounds a bit silly. Are you writing to everyone who runs a site that turns up in your results? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not simply search for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Hello World -Stackoverflow&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and be done with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T00:45:27.077" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T00:45:27.077" />
  <row Id="39327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39331" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:47:00.583" Score="0" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;What should I do if I want to anonymously report suspicion that a user is gaming the reputation system? It isn't clear that the question flag can also be used to flag &lt;strong&gt;users&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original question as posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once in a while you come across those odd cases where someone has a hi-rep, &gt;10k for example - and asks a very simple question. A little bell goes off and you get a tingle in the back of your mind. I spent 3 years in intelligence with the Army. So even subtle things tend catch my attention. Given the opportunity, I'll even do  something that might bug that person to see the reaction(s) - sorry, but some habits never go away. I will certainly do a little research to determine whether my instincts are substantiated.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   Now, I would love to give an example, but I wish to do so anonymously. I happen to have one of the moderator's&#xA;  email and wondered if I should give that person my information directly. If the community wishes that I post&#xA;  all my information here, I will do so. It just really rubs me the wrong way to see this system getting abused. It&#xA;  does this community no good at all. Btw, I'm not really sure what tags to&#xA;  use for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T01:14:24.747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T04:38:37.627" Title="How to anonymously report suspected reputation farming" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:47:54.323" Score="2" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where's the link to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=&quot;&gt;search help&lt;/a&gt;? Shouldn't it be in the faq?&#xA;I came to it by accident when I hit enter on an empty search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T07:50:07.570" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T07:50:07.570" Title="Link to search help?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;faq-update-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39328" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:49:33.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it's also in the sidebar of every search result page, but that's a good idea too!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Are there any search options?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indeed there are. Advanced Super Ninja Search Options no less. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;Visit the search page&lt;/a&gt; to see them &amp;hellip; but you must first snatch this pebble from my hand, grasshopper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T07:49:42.383" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T07:49:42.383" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39327" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:51:57.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is what the &quot;Flag&quot; function is good for. Flag the suspicious post and write down why. Better let moderators handle it, don't post any details here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T00:51:57.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39327" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:52:58.917" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the question, saying it requires moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt; link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the &lt;strong&gt;Requires Moderator attention&lt;/strong&gt; link.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;State your reason why you are flagging the post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/23maefr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;How To&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T00:52:58.917" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39339" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:56:22.797" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still don't understand how search by title works on SO. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;search help&lt;/a&gt; has the example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;intitle:1 apples oranges &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is that '1'? That '1' is making me feel stupid right now and sites which do this to me have significant usability issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean first or bring back one or what!? Does that syntax follow some known standard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T07:56:48.217" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T07:56:48.217" Title="Searching using intitle" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;syntax&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="39333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39327" CreationDate="2010-02-13T00:57:23.183" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having high rep and asking what you perceive to a be a simple question does not equal rep mongering.  Why not just down vote the darn thing and move on?  I know it sounds crazy, but Jon Skeet does ask questions from time to time.  You typically get rep by providing quality answers and asking good questions.  I think its rare to find this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else getting tired of the cries of moderator abuse and rep mongering?  Crazy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T04:38:37.627" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T04:38:37.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39336" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:08:13.527" Score="2" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1323/flag-abusive-users&quot;&gt;Flag abusive users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a lot of users get confused on the proper procedure to report a problematic users (sock-puppeteering, cheating, etc.). &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39327/what-do-i-do-if-i-suspect-someone-of-rep-mongering&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the site's procedure right now is to flag's a user's answer/question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/23maefr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Current Procedure&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, nothing is wrong with a particular post, but there's a problem with the particular account itself therefore it seems unnatural to flag an answer/question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution is therefore simple. Allow the user to flag an account for moderator review the same way you can flag a post. Add a simple &lt;strong&gt;flag&lt;/strong&gt; button on the user's page. This would solve most confusion right now on how to report a problematic user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T02:44:37.457" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T02:44:37.457" ClosedDate="2010-02-13T02:40:44.497" Title="Add a flag link on the user's profile page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39327" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:16:45.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems quite possible that someone could have a really high rep for their expertise in one area, but be a complete noob in another.  (This example may be in error, but ...) I'm thinking Alex Martelli asking how to write a Hello World program in COBOL.  (@Alex, in case you read this - no offense intended, you (and your Python expertise) just came to mind.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137890" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T01:16:45.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39334" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:21:50.180" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You wouldn't know of problem-accounts had it not been for problem-posts. Certainly we couldn't call an account flag-worthy if it yielding &lt;em&gt;absolutely no problem posts&lt;/em&gt;, could we? :) I would suggest hunting down some offending posts, and flagging them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that you can also email the team following the &quot;contact us&quot; link in the footer of every page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T01:21:50.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39332" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:25:19.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be a boolean flag. If it's set to 1, it limits the search to titles only. Compare the results of the following two searches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;intitle:1 foo&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt; - You'll quickly note that the former is far more limiting, requiring the term &quot;foo&quot; to exist (even as a substring) in the titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T01:25:19.753" />
  <row Id="39338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39269" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:26:47.880" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might want to include some sort of mark on the 'Bounty' accepted answer, even if the user changes it. This would get rid of any support cases where someone has the accepted answer and claims the never received the bounty points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just a side thought, does the bounty thing prompt an alert box when you try to accept the first answer for a bounty question? This might be a good thing so it makes sure that the user knows they will be giving the rep to that user and won't be able to reassign the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T04:07:37.147" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T04:07:37.147" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39332" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:30:28.123" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of those &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;search options&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;em&gt;boolean&lt;/em&gt; options, meaning they're on or off, true or false, 1 or 0.  The &lt;code&gt;:1&lt;/code&gt; part of the syntax helps the search function recognize it as an option.  Other options use the number as a variable, and take something other than 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Booleans:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;questions with specific words in the title        intitle:1 apples oranges&#xA;questions that have an accepted answer      hasaccepted:1 apples oranges&#xA;answers that are accepted answers              isaccepted:1 apples oranges&#xA;questions that have been closed                   closed:1 apples oranges&#xA;posts that are community wiki                        wiki:1 apples oranges&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Variables:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;posts from a specific user                                user:1234 apples oranges&#xA;questions that have a minimum number of answers        answers:2 apples oranges&#xA;posts with a minimum number of votes            votes:15 apples oranges&#xA;questions with a minimum number of views     views:250 apples oranges&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T07:56:33.667" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T07:56:33.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39332" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:48:45.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's supposed to mimic google's operators like inurl or site, but it's not quite right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T01:48:45.987" />
  <row Id="39341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39342" CreationDate="2010-02-13T01:51:15.063" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2256140/most-appropriate-masters-degree&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (just an example) and was wondering if it would be considered a valid question under &quot;career building&quot; from the Stack Overflow blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/a-question-about-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Question About Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current results for Which type of “programming related” questions are appropriate [on Stack Overflow]?, in order by votes, are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(1) - (6) [omitted]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(7) Questions about social engineering, management, or &lt;strong&gt;career building&lt;/strong&gt;, ergonomics, or other “soft” topics related to development work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The “winners” of this poll, items 1-7, map strongly to my idea of what we built Stack Overflow for. Items 8-11 … not so much.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for my sense of what &quot;belongs,&quot; what's the call on this type of question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T02:19:01.523" Title="Are CS-degree questions considered valid &quot;career building&quot; questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39341" CreationDate="2010-02-13T02:19:01.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is career-building questions for programmers directly and definitely relate. However, that opinion appears to be a minority one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T02:19:01.523" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39352" CreationDate="2010-02-13T10:49:06.760" Score="8" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to make a question Community Wiki to avoid the appearance of, and discussions about, rep-whoring (especially when it's a &quot;easy&quot; question likely to get many upvotes) but not the answers, because it is a regular question and not a CW one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; I am of course asking this for a serious question over on SO, and not for any of these possible MSO questions that would turn out to be instant favourites with the community, and net a ton of upvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What is your favourite &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unicorn Avatar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What does your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unicorn avatar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; look like?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Why do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unicorn avatars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are so popular?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How do you like your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unicorn avatar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Added for @quack) How do you like Pekka's alternative E-Mail &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unicorn avatar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/100a6c42a31a56e882475725d65537f8?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T22:38:54.690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:38:54.690" Title="Is it possible to make a question CW but not its answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39351" CreationDate="2010-02-13T12:56:29.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It used to be possible, but evidently no longer is.  Sorry about posting an incorrect answer earlier, and thanks to everyone who jumped in to correct me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Yes.  When you make a question CW, all of the answers are CW &lt;em&gt;by default&lt;/em&gt;.  Each person can still manually uncheck the CW box on their answer before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're trying to avoid the appearance of rep whoring, but you think the question is still valid (maybe for a question you intend to answer yourself, or whatever reason), I don't think it would be out of line to put a note at the end of the question pointing out the CW state of the question and reminding people to make their answers non-CW.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T18:52:24.043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T18:52:24.043" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="39354" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T15:47:43.650" Score="9" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rdbhost currently provides a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sandbox with the Stack Overflow dump data&lt;/a&gt;.  It uses the PostgreSQL engine, and thus PostgreSQL syntax for SQL. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a PhpMinAdmin-type web-interface for manipulating the database.  There is also a Python DB API module.  The DB API module is described &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/howpython.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on our site&lt;/a&gt;, as well as an intro&#xA;on using &lt;a href=&quot;http://rdbhost.blogspot.com/2010/02/sqlalchemy-and-stackoverflow-data-dump.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQLAlchemy to access SO data&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any problems with it, please let me know at dkeeney@rdbhost.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update, June 8:&lt;/em&gt; The data dump account on has been updated again yesterday with the June 1st data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138716" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T03:30:29.843" Title="Data dump sandbox by RdbHost" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T15:49:19.283" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I am new the world of stackOverflow and just (very) recently learned about the META side of things, I want to explain my ambivalence...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &quot;questioner&quot;...&#xA;I find the display scheme of  big, bold print indicating the question, and a few (2 ?) lines of response visible plus the VOTE, etc graphics on the left to be perfectly reasonable. After searching for help, this style of presentation does provide fast and easy decision making in determining if my &quot;particular&quot; answer has been found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a potential &quot;responder&quot;...&#xA;I find that the presentation is very ineffective for me to determine if there is a question in which I might be able to assist. In this case I am much more used to the &quot;classic&quot; one-line question format &lt;em&gt;along with&lt;/em&gt; a scheme for breaking out various levels or aspects of an area. For example to TAG something as ANDROID is not terribly granular -- and it gets &quot;worse&quot; if a question has, say, a JAVA, and perhaps 3 or 4 &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; TAGs as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, being able to use multiple TAGs does offer a lot of flexibility and widens the potential audience greatly! I just want to be able to &lt;em&gt;easily&lt;/em&gt; get to areas of programming that I can be helpful in without having to grind through so many areas that I cannot.... See my ambivalence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I suppose there are several responses you might offer ... {Please feel free to prepend each with &quot;You Twit! &quot; }&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. There is a way to completely customize your display... didn't you look in the FAQ before posting this trash?  -- Uhm , yes, I did. And please forgive me if I missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. There are SUB-TAGs within each TAG ... you'll find them &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C. You're missing the whole point of StackOverflow ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D. I can see your point BUT just use it for awhile and you'll find it very effective...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as many others I imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I invite your responses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tob&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. I meant to add this to the original post but carried away by the ENTER key...&#xA;The best line I ever heard regarding the definition of &quot;Ambivalence&quot; was: Watching your Mother-in-Law drive over a cliff in your brand new Cadillac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143210" LastEditorUserId="143210" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T16:40:28.240" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T16:40:28.240" Title="Feeling ambivalent about stackOverflow GUI scheme" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39355" CreationDate="2010-02-13T15:51:36.787" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess we'd need to see a screenshot of your proposed layout to really understand what you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: also, as a new user, welcome to meta! Now give us your proposed screenshot! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T16:49:12.643" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T16:49:12.643" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39355" CreationDate="2010-02-13T15:52:30.733" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm active only in less frequented tags (although PHP is among one of the most popular), I must say I've never felt the need for a more granular tagging system. There are usually 20-30 relevant questions (i.e. questions that have tags I have marked as &quot;interesting&quot;) on the front page, and a quick scan of the headings tells me whether I'm interested in taking a closer look or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I understanding your question completely wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be sure, you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; aware of the &quot;interesting tags&quot; function that highlights questions from your areas of expertise, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/expressing-your-tag-preferences/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/expressing-your-tag-preferences/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T16:52:52.313" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T16:52:52.313" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39355" CreationDate="2010-02-13T16:59:02.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One could argue that making sure the question is interesting is left in the hands of the asker. The 'question' as listed in the header should be descriptive and concise so that those who would answer know what the questioner wants and click through to see more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't design around poor questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133752" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T16:59:02.000" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2010-02-13T17:31:26.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The metric for upvotes is &quot;helpful&quot;. It is fundamentally subjective, and depends on communications style, philosophical bent, and facts on tap among other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO same &quot;objective&quot; content &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; mean same helpfulness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people may &quot;get it&quot; better with more words, or with slightly different words (changing just &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; word choice could make the difference).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but that is the way it is, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the way it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I am unsympathetic or anything. I would swear that I get robbed---&lt;strong&gt;robbed&lt;/strong&gt; I tell you---at least once a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T17:44:28.203" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T17:44:28.203" />
  <row Id="39362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39370" CreationDate="2010-02-13T19:16:51.950" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;This a follow up on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39332/searching-using-intitle&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt;. Why doesn't intitle:1 show questions which have my search terms in the title only. Filter out questions which do not have all the words in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: intitle:1 cookie static (or intitle:1 +cookie +static)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it displaying questions which do not have both words in the title? Is there a boolean format I am not aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T21:53:19.080" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T21:53:19.080" Title="Why does intitle:1 show questions whose titles don't have all my search terms?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="39364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T19:59:43.973" Score="4" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/886/a-friends-list-on-stackoverflow-would-be-nice&quot;&gt;A &amp;ldquo;Friends List&amp;rdquo; on StackOverflow would be nice&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to add a Stack Overflow user as a fav?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143296" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T20:14:24.530" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T21:01:26.660" ClosedDate="2010-02-13T20:26:52.463" Title="Add Stack Overflow user as a favorite" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;friends&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39364" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:04:24.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can subscribe to a particular user's RSS feed, that's as close as I've found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/1234567&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136564" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T20:04:24.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:11:48.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get a Gold badge for voting 600 (25% to questions) times, silver for voting 300 times. In case of editing, the Silver is for 100 edits and the Gold is being proposed for 1000 edits or so. I feel there is a bit of a disparity here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135739" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T22:23:44.243" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:23:44.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39364" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:14:22.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friends list or anything which will render this site in a social community is not what the owners of this site had in mind. In more than one of the SO Podcasts, Jeff mentions he won't anything that resembles adding friends or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastEditorUserId="20261" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T21:01:26.660" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T21:01:26.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18005" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:32:39.513" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They finished this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://shog9.com/so_meta_18005_close_no_more.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of close dialog indicating no close votes remain&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T20:46:41.127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T20:46:41.127" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39362" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:32:57.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try putting the terms in quotes for an exact match&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;intitle:1 &quot;cookie&quot; &quot;static&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I added an alias for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;intitle:1 +cookie +static&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;now works as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=intitle%3A1+%2Bcookie+%2Bstatic&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=intitle%3A1+%2Bcookie+%2Bstatic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-01T21:53:12.780" LastActivityDate="2010-05-01T21:53:12.780" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39372" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:37:46.500" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38823/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-community-wiki-questions&quot;&gt;Is there a way to search for community wiki &amp;lsquo;questions&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I search for community-wiki questions &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I could use the [community-wiki] tag, but that only resulted in 4 posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T00:43:53.090" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T00:43:53.090" ClosedDate="2010-02-15T16:40:23.760" Title="Search only for community-wiki threads" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;search-results&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39371" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:40:40.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search &lt;code&gt;wiki:1&lt;/code&gt; to see all community-wiki questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T20:40:40.100" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T20:59:55.193" Score="5" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Touchpad for the lose on freehand circles sorry guys. Basically on SO I started out with 100 points for association. That is all I had. Now I ask a question which gets one upvote and I accepted an answer. I have waited almost an hour so cache shouldn't be an issue. (I have seen the graph update much faster.) Basically the issue is the numbers on the left are lets say 'WAAAAYYY' to large. Of course if you would like to bump my rep to match the graph ;) I could go with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/788/screenshot2uv.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pic of bug&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out by RegDwight the rep is listed as decimals. Which should not be the case either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T00:58:44.893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T00:58:44.893" Title="Reputation graph showing far less than reported reputation" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1524" CreationDate="2010-02-13T21:03:59.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still think this would be a nice badge, and would like to suggest &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_Slave&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Galley Slave&lt;/a&gt; as an alternate name...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T21:03:59.107" />
  <row Id="39375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T21:22:34.497" Score="4" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32104/legendary-badge-calculation&quot;&gt;Legendary Badge calculation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35350/observation-about-downvotes-and-epic-legendary-badge&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35350/observation-about-downvotes-and-epic-legendary-badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32087/how-close-are-you-to-an-epic-legendary-badge&quot;&gt;this greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; script and today it's showing that I've reached the daily reputation limit on 51 days. But the &lt;code&gt;Epic&lt;/code&gt; badge wasn't coming, and since I'm a relatively new user, I created a little manual statistics for the days I have =&gt; 200, and for the days that I have near 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The days with =&gt; 200 turned out to be &lt;strong&gt;38&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the number of days when I've actually reached the daily reputation limit (as the badge says) is &lt;strong&gt;55&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, since on many of those days I have upvotes that are ignored due to &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; reaching the reputation limit, it seems a bit &quot;unfair&quot; to have such a big margin. The discrepancy, of course is due to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;my downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleted questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users undoing accepted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my suggestion: In order to have more proper results - i.e. at least to meet the badge description, make it work as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;count all days with &lt;code&gt;reputation =&amp;gt; 200&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;count all days where you have upvotes whose reputation was &quot;trimmed&quot; (due to the rep cap)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(optional) count all days where &lt;code&gt;reputation + own downvotes =&amp;gt; 200&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. No, I'm not complaining that &quot;mommy, I didn't get my badgey. * weep * &quot;. I'm suggestion a rational improvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.S. I'm tagging &quot;bug&quot;, because it might be realized as such. Imagine what the discrepancy will for for the Legendary badge - it might be 50!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="141771" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T22:03:37.703" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:03:37.703" ClosedDate="2010-02-13T22:04:10.323" Title="Epic / Legendary badges: counting the days" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" />
  <row Id="39376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39393" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:01:18.373" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I noticed that Coding Horror site now requires logging in with OpenId. Well I tried but it gave an error message: &quot;The OpenID URL you provided is invalid.&quot; I checked and I wrote URL just like it has been. What is wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I signed out from StackOverflow and tadaa, I cannot log back in. This gets to my nerves. I have to remember some kind of URL format instead of just a name. The whole thing is complex enough without hassle with URLs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137721" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T23:12:03.840" Title="How do I get OpenId to work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32104" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:29:50.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39375/epic-legendary-badges-counting-the-days-closed&quot;&gt;my thread&lt;/a&gt; is a duplicate of this one, so I'll re-express my opinion here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32087/how-close-are-you-to-an-epic-legendary-badge&quot;&gt;this greasemonkey&lt;/a&gt; script and today it's showing that I've reached the daily reputation limit on 51 days. But the &lt;code&gt;Epic&lt;/code&gt; badge wasn't coming, and since I'm a relatively new user, I created a little manual statistics for the days I have =&gt; 200, and for the days that I have near 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The days with =&gt; 200 turned out to be &lt;strong&gt;38&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the number of days when I've actually reached the daily reputation limit (as the badge says) is &lt;strong&gt;55&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, since on many of those days I have upvotes that are ignored due to &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; reaching the reputation limit, it seems a bit &quot;unfair&quot; to have such a big margin. The discrepancy, of course is due to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;my downvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deleted questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;users undoing accepted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's my suggestion: In order to have more proper results - i.e. at least to meet the badge description, make it work as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;count all days with &lt;code&gt;reputation =&amp;gt; 200&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;count all days where you have upvotes whose reputation was &quot;trimmed&quot; (due to the rep cap)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(optional) count all days where &lt;code&gt;reputation + own downvotes =&amp;gt; 200&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last item is optional, because in most cases it will be covered by the previous point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Got my &lt;code&gt;Epic&lt;/code&gt; badge on the &lt;strong&gt;53rd&lt;/strong&gt; day according to the greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the actual algorithm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="141771" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T11:42:58.717" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T11:42:58.717" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-13T22:29:50.217" />
  <row Id="39378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39380" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:39:27.513" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that has been closed and reopen a countless amount of times (I'm sure many of you are familiar with it), and I couldn't help but notice &lt;code&gt;close (1)&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I clicked it (not because I wanted to close it, I just wanted to look at the proposed close reason) and it said &lt;code&gt;12 votes remaining&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5200/12votesremaining.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a new feature? If yes what's the exact formula to calculate the amount of close votes needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope this isn't a duplicate, I promise I searched and looked at the blog too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:44:41.863" Title="If a question has been closed before, are now more than 5 votes needed to close it again?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39378" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:44:00.943" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the number of close votes &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; still have. Nothing to do with the 5 close votes per question limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:44:00.943" />
  <row Id="39380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39378" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:44:41.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18005/please-let-me-know-when-im-running-low-on-close-votes&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. You only have 12 closing vote per day, and now, it is shown how many you have left in this box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12008" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:44:41.863" />
  <row Id="39381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19579" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:44:58.680" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've also got a publicly accessible SQL Server with the data dumps for Server&amp;nbsp;Fault, Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow, Super&amp;nbsp;User, and Meta&amp;nbsp;Stack&amp;nbsp;Overflow. The connection information is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/02/querying-the-stackoverflow-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/02/querying-the-stackoverflow-data-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-02T16:41:43.887" LastActivityDate="2011-08-02T16:41:43.887" />
  <row Id="39382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3422" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:45:56.060" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got a publicly accessible SQL Server with the dumps from ServerFault, StackOverflow, SuperUser, and Meta.  Connection info is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/02/querying-the-stackoverflow-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/02/querying-the-stackoverflow-data-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:45:56.060" />
  <row Id="39383" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T22:51:43.107" Score="14" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose to change the wording of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18005/please-let-me-know-when-im-running-low-on-close-votes&quot;&gt;the new close votes count&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;12 votes remaining&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;You have 12 votes left&lt;/strong&gt;, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39378/if-a-question-has-been-closed-before-are-now-more-than-5-votes-needed-to-close-i&quot;&gt;the former can be confused with the votes remaining in order for the post to be closed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel kinda stupid right now and I'm sure many of you haven't mistaken it, but if I did then other people probably will (especially new users). The change has no downsides and takes only a few seconds to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5200/12votesremaining.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-13T22:57:25.523" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T22:57:25.523" Title="Change the wording for &quot;X votes remaining&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39384" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-13T23:42:19.310" Score="3" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to be active here for a few months now but I noticed that after posting questions I'm much more likely to contemplate solutions, delve into various subjects, sometimes even get distracted when trying to solve a problem or just simply decide on the best solution. Sometimes I spend days deciding on the next way to go forward with something. Fortunately I am currently in a position where I can afford to spend so much additional time, when I could do the things much faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I was too into code generators and copy-pasting sample code, and I spent too little time actually thinking about good programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this pattern for a while now. I can't decide if it is a bad thing or good thing, though it does seem like a good thing because all in all I think my code pieces get better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156860" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T03:13:17.543" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T03:13:17.543" Title="After you started using SO, has your overall productivity fallen or risen?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39384" CreationDate="2010-02-13T23:50:52.190" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask Jon Skeet :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T23:50:52.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39384" CreationDate="2010-02-13T23:54:49.317" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After you started using SO, has your overall productivity fell or risen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-13T23:54:49.317" />
  <row Id="39387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39384" CreationDate="2010-02-13T23:55:44.810" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be very honest: It has fallen slightly. (I have spent a lot of time here since I signed up in October, as I've been working and online very, very much of my time.) You turn to SO in the spans in between work, and sometimes you hang on a bit longer to get an answer right, to read an interesting question or to change wording. &lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt; I have learned a &lt;em&gt;bunch&lt;/em&gt; of really, really important things. I look at my own code in a new way, and I use better practices, many of which I &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; about, but not always &lt;em&gt;followed&lt;/em&gt;. I put that at least partly down to the constant exposure to SO, and the fact that any error or bad coding practice in an answer is found out and pointed out within minutes. It's not peer programming, but it feels a bit like it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T00:16:28.760" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T00:16:28.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39384" CreationDate="2010-02-14T00:35:33.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a time perspective mine has dropped significantly. I spend a considerable amount of time on SU, however it has kept me away from SO and SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the quality of my work is concerned it has definitely improved. I am currently busy with a new project in MVC and the amount of information I have been able to retrieve from SO has improved the quality and the time I spend writing code. So I would say from a productivity perspective I do get more done in less time overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am addicted though. Something I am trying to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T01:10:32.063" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T01:10:32.063" />
  <row Id="39389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T00:42:15.807" Score="-4" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional or just pure coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2988" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T00:49:52.043" ClosedDate="2010-02-14T01:20:41.840" Title="Has anybody noticed that &quot;You're welcome!&quot; is exactly 15 characters?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;&lt;character-length&gt;&lt;minimum&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39392" CreationDate="2010-02-14T00:49:00.653" Score="1" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been invited with a resume filing discount on the site a while ago. I'm going to attempt using it once I'm done filling my resume on my profile with my reputation scores. However, I'm not sure what to fill for my website. Currently, my main website is still under construction. I have a personal blog under my domain, but it is not related to programming by any means. It's more related to personal life, careers, work/life balance, travelling, etc. Knowing this information, would you still recommend putting that particular website down, or would it be better to modify my profile with the updated website when I actually get around to finish off my webpage? I hope this is the right place to ask my question, as this is not directly related to system administration, software development, or computer enthusiasm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132982" LastEditorUserId="132982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T04:55:29.213" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T04:55:29.213" Title="Stackoverflow Careers: Personal Website Merits" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="39391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39389" CreationDate="2010-02-14T00:49:52.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coincidence &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T00:49:52.043" />
  <row Id="39392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39390" CreationDate="2010-02-14T01:32:00.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're in the right place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are willing to make your CV public you can use your public CV URL as your website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say whatever URLs give employers a better sense of what kind of person you'd be in the workplace are fair game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T01:38:06.170" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T01:38:06.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39376" CreationDate="2010-02-14T01:34:07.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is your openid provider?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally you just click the logo button of your provider on the login page; you don't have to remember urls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also improved the login page to make it more clear that there are buttons to click, see bottom part of screenshot below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/Z2f6L.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-03T23:12:03.840" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T23:12:03.840" />
  <row Id="39394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39390" CreationDate="2010-02-14T01:47:27.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what to fill for my website&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a website that showcases your skills, ability, efforts in your field, etc, then use that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, then don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reason to invite potential employers to view your website if it has little to do with what they are interested in finding out.  There's a personal interests field, and you could fill that out with a variety of personal information, but you should again only post things there that will enhance your image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason for this is that you can't discern how interested they will be in your death metal band hijinks (or whatever you might be interested in that can be discovered from your website) until you meet them in person.  During an interview if it appears that you might improve your chances with a given interviewer, then you might broach subjects outside of your core skills and abilities.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you needn't fill out every field in the CV just because it is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T01:47:27.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39384" CreationDate="2010-02-14T02:19:50.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only answer for SuperUser and not any others, I would say it is a mixture!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some times, I do feel like I am spending a lot more time than I should on the site, but, without it - I would probably feel a bit depressed - I am self employed and apart from working on larger projects when I take on contract workers, I am generally on my own and it is very boring!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering questions is great, reputation doesn't mean that much - but when people say thank you in comments or you get the feeling that you are helping someone with a problem - it is a great feeling and the sacrifice of a few minutes here or there is worth it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally I would say productivity is up. If I am stuck on a problem, just finished a phone call or similar, SuperUser gives me the few minutes of peace I need before going back to the problem - and I feel like I work better straight after having a few minutes off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T02:19:50.953" />
  <row Id="39396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39476" CreationDate="2010-02-14T02:44:16.387" Score="3" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65674&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; for a while now and I love it (I love it so much that its the only thing keeping Google Chrome from becoming my default browser). It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65674&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow 2.0&lt;/a&gt; and basically what it does is round the corners of certain objects, as well as a few other CSS tweaks, on the SO family of sites (see image below). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was just wondering if Jeff &amp;amp; company have ever thought about incorporating some of these features? Right now the only thing that I can see that is holding the script back is the use of the Firefox only &lt;code&gt;-moz-border-radius&lt;/code&gt; property (however a few browsers now support the CSS3 &lt;code&gt;border-radius&lt;/code&gt; property). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Xb25fTcjIRQ/S3djysTMnmI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MYt8MrTvq2A/s912/so20.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T02:54:41.030" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:27:06.750" Title="Stack Overflow 2.0?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T03:17:54.733" Score="0" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you search for other users on the &quot;overflow&quot; sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143217" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T03:56:25.057" Title="How do you search for other users on the &quot;overflow&quot; sites?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39397" CreationDate="2010-02-14T03:25:00.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is a bit vague. You can search user questions by preceding your typical searches with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:130154&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the latter number is the userid. For instance, you could find all &quot;greasemonkey&quot; posts by myself by searching:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:130154 greasemonkey&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to look up users by their display name (in whole or in part), you can do so by searching the Users tab at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&lt;/a&gt; - just begin typing in a name, and let the magical ajax take care of the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T03:25:00.410" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39401" CreationDate="2010-02-14T03:39:00.950" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2259844/revisions&quot;&gt;title under the revisions&lt;/a&gt; appears to have removed the space between the two words &lt;em&gt;adminfiles&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt;. If you look at the original title, there is clearly a space there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really an issue, just a small bug which is easily fixable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133681" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T10:05:56.340" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T10:05:56.340" Title="Spacing issue with revision viewer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;cosmetic&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39397" CreationDate="2010-02-14T03:56:25.057" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search for other users, eh? Given the date, I assume you mean, &quot;...for romantic purposes&quot;. Nudge nudge, wink wink...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's ok, you can admit it - everyone needs love sooner or later. However, I must caution you: angling for amour on SOFU is a game fraught with danger; sure, these sites might &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be one big meat-market, stacked to the rafters with the lonely and the desperate... and sure, some of the bio photographs are down-right &lt;em&gt;tantalizing&lt;/em&gt;... &lt;em&gt;but all is not as it seems&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Uncle Shog's Quick Tips for Avoiding Mating Mishap on SOFU&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bio pictures are occasionally retouched&lt;/strong&gt; Experts tell us that immediate physical attraction is the single best indicator of emotional compatibility, but crafty hackers often make use of shady tools such as &quot;Photoshop&quot; and &quot;Paint&quot; in their attempts to subvert these reactions. Be on the look out for blurry backgrounds, mis-matched breast sizes and pixilated moustaches - these are dead giveaways for such devious manipulations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vote-exposition in comments is not necessarily a come-on&lt;/strong&gt; Sure, &quot;+1, love it&quot; &lt;em&gt;sounds&lt;/em&gt; like an open invitation, but SO users are notorious teases. Proceed carefully - leave a follow-up comment complementing one of the user's own answers, and hold out for a stronger response before daring to extend an invitation of an intimate nature.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dirty talk might just be jargon&lt;/strong&gt; When chatting up a new acquaintance, colorful euphemisms are a fun way to &quot;get to know each other&quot;. On SOFU however, you must always pay careful attention to context: &quot;finger&quot;, &quot;poke&quot;, &quot;unzip&quot; and &quot;male to female ethernet connector&quot; might not mean what you think...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22795/best-place-to-meet-female-programmers-for-romance&quot;&gt;Best place to meet female programmers (for romance)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T03:56:25.057" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39399" CreationDate="2010-02-14T04:23:11.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I get my django-adminfiles to render the uploads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revised:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How &lt;del&gt;can&lt;/del&gt; do I &lt;del&gt;get my&lt;/del&gt; make markdown play nice with django-adminfiles&lt;del&gt;to render the uploads&lt;/del&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;End result shows the strike out of &quot;to render the uploads&quot; leaving you correctly with no space between &quot;adminfiles&quot; and &quot;?&quot;. It's getting rid of that and bunching up the left over characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice it doesn't ever bother to strike out a space, so this would appear to be by economical design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the revision was to accommodate that strange behaviour of leaving a space before any punctuation marks, then you'd probably see that space still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T04:23:11.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39406" CreationDate="2010-02-14T05:07:34.910" Score="-1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;For my likes and dislikes, while I'm sure what I'm going to put for dislikes for my profile, there are some technologies that I like. However, for some of those technologies, I'm not familiar with them, but I am in the progress of learning them and would love to have the opportunities to improve it further in a job setting (although I'm improving them on my own time when I'm not working on school projects or studying for exams for school). In that case, would you recommend putting them on the technologies that I like, or leave them off to avoid misleading people into believing that I'm fluent in those technologies that I'm beginning to learn? Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132982" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T17:10:14.103" Title="Stackoverflow Careers: Technology Preferences" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T06:50:04.517" Score="33" ViewCount="1186" Body="&lt;p&gt;This evening I was contacted by a community member who felt my moderator-activity was too frequent. This is following the closing/migrating of several questions. Being a new moderator, I'd like to submit myself to the community for just a moment and invite any and all criticism to better understand what is expected of me from the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, only 10k+ users will be able to view the recently-closed page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tools/recently-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tools/recently-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you who do not have access to the &lt;em&gt;tools&lt;/em&gt; page, here are some recent items that I've participated in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260331/clarification-on-google-reader-tags-closed&quot;&gt;Clarification on Google Reader Tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as not programming related by Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Reopened following further details from OP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260228/do-you-program-when-youre-drunk-closed&quot;&gt;Do you program when you’re drunk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as subjective and argumentative by Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260216/registering-as-iphone-developer-closed&quot;&gt;registering as iPhone developer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as not programming related by Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260204/cheapest-hosting-that-comes-with-smartfox-closed&quot;&gt;Cheapest hosting that comes with smartfox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as not programming related by Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260200/what-free-blogging-services-allow-completely-custom-css-closed&quot;&gt;What free blogging services allow completely custom CSS?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as not programming related by Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260050/what-language-makes-a-strong-developer-these-days-closed&quot;&gt;What language makes a strong developer these days?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as subjective and argumentative by bmargulies, cletus, Chacha102, Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2259846/preventing-gmail-from-automatically-adding-contacts-closed&quot;&gt;Preventing Gmail from Automatically Adding Contacts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as belongs on superuser.com by Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2258410/whats-the-best-site-to-sell-possibly-used-software-closed&quot;&gt;What’s the best site to sell (possibly) used software?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as not programming related by skaffman, Neil Butterworth, Chris Jester-Young, Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2256945/removing-a-non-empty-directory-programmatically-in-c-or-c-closed&quot;&gt;Removing a non empty directory programmatically in C or C++&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as exact duplicate by Neil Butterworth, bk1e, Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2256791/which-edition-of-windows-7-is-most-suitable-for-software-developers-closed&quot;&gt;Which edition of Windows 7 is most suitable for software developers?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Closed as exact duplicate by APC, jleedev, Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10k+ users can continue on their own through the history. I'll close this question with a statement from the response email back to the community member:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Being a new Moderator, I do sincerely appreciate the accountability provided by the community...It is this type of feedback that will ultimately improve Stack Overflow, and I think we're all united in that effort.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T07:29:46.050" LastActivityDate="2011-02-11T12:53:01.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T06:50:04.517" Title="Moderator Accountability Request" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;accountability&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="39406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39403" CreationDate="2010-02-14T07:15:24.087" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't know of any specific technologies that you don't like, that's great! You don't have to fill out every section. It's just there to express a preference if you know there's something you don't want to work with or use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, I've listed [.net] and [windows-programming] because they are far from my core areas of expertise, and [extreme-programming] because I've had bad enough experiences with it that I don't wish to go for it again, but again, if you've got nothing you would rather avoid, you're probably ahead of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: looks like in my pre-sleep haze I totally misunderstood your actual question.  I think it would be quite fine for you to include technologies that you find interesting, even if you aren't very familiar with them, in your &quot;likes&quot; section. The Favorites/Likes/Dislikes are used by employers to try to find candidates that would best match their positions, which doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be proficient in all the technologies used by those positions. Quite often it's enough to simply find someone who is Smart and Eager to Learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T17:10:14.103" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T17:10:14.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T07:23:42.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of those seem like legit closes. The Google Reader one sounds like the guy was using the API and wondering about the behavior of the labels so that one might be acceptable, but the rest were definitely duplicates, subjective, or off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T07:23:42.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T07:23:42.057" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T08:21:23.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Johnathan, I have one suggestion.  After you posted this question, you closed (rightly) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260451/how-to-make-a-javascript-comments-script-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;How to make a Javascript Comments Script?&quot;).  It looks a bit abrupt, and triggered the OP to ask two identical questions, both of which were closed.  When a diamond moderator closes a question, particularly as the only closer, it looks better if he posts a quick comment justifying the closure.  &lt;em&gt;&quot;This question is far too vague.  You'll get a better response if you...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T08:21:23.650" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T08:21:23.650" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T08:47:38.110" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky's blog&lt;/a&gt; about the importance of learning C well for communicating with co-workers about software and for code optimization due to C being much closer to the machine than other modern languages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have recently talked to another friend with previous co-op placements mainly in the software industry, and he gathered from his co-workers while he was working at those work terms about the value of developers who master C/C++ skills. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because C and C++ are so challenging to master and use effectively, what are your takes on the importance of mastering them to maintain a competitive edge over those who don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132982" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T08:53:37.503" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T08:53:37.503" ClosedDate="2010-02-14T12:27:49.403" Title="Value of knowing C and C++ well as a software developer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;employers&gt;&lt;programmers&gt;&lt;advice&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T10:55:35.077" Score="-3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I understand the need for getting a precise/objective answer to questions, I do feel that SO is becoming pedantic and totalitarian. If a question is tagged as &lt;b&gt;subjective/non-programming related/community-wiki/fun/off-topic&lt;/b&gt;, does it really require voted to death [closed]? The OP has clearly made his intention, why not live with it. No one can game a CW post. &lt;p&gt;I remember SO being fun and witty. Almost every question spawned curiosity. What else does a programmer crave for! Paraphrasing voltaire, &quot;One may not agree with what the other says, but one should definitely stand up for the right of others to say so&quot;. I have found some great insights in smart retorts and regret missing that. Why not have a different section for that because of the &lt;strong&gt;close&lt;/strong&gt; trigger happy guys&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143313" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T17:29:26.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T10:55:35.077" Title="What is the alternative to closing posts marked, subjective/non-programming related/community-wiki" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39413" CreationDate="2010-02-14T11:41:19.587" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260888/javascript-if-box-checked&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260888/javascript-if-box-checked&lt;/a&gt; and it bothers me when I see this and similar questions that are simply expecting people to do it for the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they usually get it done, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should these questions be discouraged (via downvote)? Or is this considered a perfectly acceptable query on SO? I ask because I'm still new-ish around here and I'd like to hear (read) the general consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151858" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T16:08:55.250" Title="Should 'do it for me' questions be discouraged?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="39413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39412" CreationDate="2010-02-14T11:48:03.430" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my mind, if there are people on SO ready, able and willing to write some code for those askers, it's perfectly all right for them to do so. After all, the community always profits from it as a whole - it helps make SO a real programming compendium where you not only find &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, but real-life code snippets to go with it. So, no harm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand and in no contradiction what I just said, I think people who have nothing else to contribute than &quot;plz send teh codez&quot; are lazy bummers, and deserve a downvote and a snarky comment &lt;em&gt;anytime&lt;/em&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T12:30:28.207" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T12:30:28.207" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39410" CreationDate="2010-02-14T13:02:48.333" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While I understand the need for getting a precise/objective answer to questions, I do feel that SO is becoming pedantic and totalitarian. If a question is tagged as subjective/non-programming related/community-wiki/fun/off-topic, does it really require voted to death [closed]? The OP has clearly made his intention, why not live with it. No one can game a CW post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because it is tagged correctly and CW doesn't mean it should be allowed. The majority of the questions wouldn't have been asked if the user had read the FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What kind of questions should I not ask here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one am fed up of questions like &quot;What is the one programming skill you have always wanted to master but haven’t had time?&quot; coming up on the front page. It is not the intention of the site to be a discussion board full of questions that cannot be conclusively answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T13:02:48.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T13:02:48.333" />
  <row Id="39415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39412" CreationDate="2010-02-14T13:06:37.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since every question (except exact duplicates) is unique and the set of people who see it and interact with it is as well, it seems unlikely to be able to predetermine how one should vote.  You and I may disagree on whether a situation is a lazy programming simply asking for code or represents a teaching opportunity for someone who wants to learn, but doesn't know where to start.  I'd say follow your own inclination on voting, but be aware that there are people who probably disagree with you and will vote differently.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T13:06:37.547" />
  <row Id="39417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39419" CreationDate="2010-02-14T13:41:41.810" Score="22" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently a lot of different new users have gotten Necromancer badges for answering with recommendations to use ForeUI on various old posts. Could they be collaborating to spam the site or is this genuinely the community supporting this product? Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220647/how-do-you-prototype-your-software-ui/2261034#2261034&quot;&gt;smartutor&lt;/a&gt; - member for 4 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1639820/planning-web-applications/2260882#2260882&quot;&gt;Henry Sean&lt;/a&gt; - member for today&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1535774/iphone-ui-controls-for-winforms/2260938#2260938&quot;&gt;Amanda&lt;/a&gt; - member for today&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1401370/form-designer-for-dummies/2260999#2260999&quot;&gt;David&lt;/a&gt; - member for today&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1687942/is-there-a-free-website-prototype-designing-tool/2260337#2260337&quot;&gt;whitney&lt;/a&gt; - member for today&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be other examples too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138424" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T05:13:21.427" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T05:13:21.427" Title="What is all this ForeUI spam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="39419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39417" CreationDate="2010-02-14T13:57:43.237" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm quite sure of it. Smartutor has answered three questions, all about prototyping and he links to ForeUI in all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's not coincidence that 4 new members mention this software at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T13:57:43.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39422" CreationDate="2010-02-14T14:53:32.677" Score="-2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't know what these tools are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4565/what-facilities-are-there-in-the-moderation-tools&quot;&gt;see here first&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; of the tools have potential for abuse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The vast majority of them can be useful for people with 3,000 rep or even less.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't the tools be available sooner, if they can be useful? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2,000 rep&lt;/strong&gt;: access to all tools not related to closing, reopening or deleting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3,000 rep&lt;/strong&gt;: access to all tools not related to deleting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10,000 rep&lt;/strong&gt;: access to all tools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T19:12:51.300" Title="Why is 10,000 rep needed to access moderation tools?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3934" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:12:54.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say the same for altGr+B which is the '{' character on the Hungarian keyboard layout. It is the hotkey for the strong-text.&#xA;Same for the AltGr+Y which is the &gt;. It is the hotkey for the 'redo' command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143324" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T15:12:54.300" />
  <row Id="39422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39420" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:13:19.087" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;because to get 10k, you have to stick around for a while. If you've stuck around for a while you have an idea of how things work. If you know how things work, you can be an effective moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T15:13:19.087" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:17:35.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;#2 doesn't strike me as particularly &lt;em&gt;argumentative&lt;/em&gt;. &quot;Not a real question&quot; would probably have been more descriptive. Not a big deal though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260476/can-i-get-rid-of-the-status-bar-at-the-bottom-of-eclipse-closed&quot;&gt;This Eclipse question was migrated to SU&lt;/a&gt;. Yeah, it's not strictly a programming question, but questions about tools primarily used for programming have been generally accepted on SO - note the hundreds of existing Eclipse questions on SO vs. the 45 now available on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T15:17:35.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T15:17:35.210" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:55:23.713" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now I haven't looked at every question, but glancing at the titles, I would say you are probably correct.  The only thing I would suggest is maybe wait a little while before closing a question.  I would bet that the community is going to close it for you.  Even though you agree with the community and can do it, by letting the community handle the situation itself it removes you from being the bad guy.  What you have to remember is that a lot of people like the fact that the community regulates what questions there are on the site etc. etc.  Being a moderator, you have the ability to drastically affect how the site functions, and even though you could be correct in closing each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people will disagree with you (however off base they might be)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone glancing through the question will immediately examine (for a second or two even if they agree with you) whether or not you made the right decision.  That being said, it may be better to let smaller problems take care of themselves, so when you need to you can handle larger issues without facing so much scrutiny.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1942" LastEditorUserId="132324" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T06:17:43.583" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:17:43.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T15:55:23.713" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:58:58.840" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These all look reasonable to me.  If you're sure something needs closed immediately, like in the case of &quot;Do you program when you’re drunk?&quot;, then don't hesitate.  That's one of the reasons moderators are here, to act a little more quickly than the community can in cases where it's clearly needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm unsure, I usually wait to see what the community thinks.  We are here to enforce community standards, not our own.  If a question is borderline, I don't feel right about slamming it closed with my one mod vote.  If 4 other people agree with me, I don't feel too bad about casting the last vote to close.  If other people disagree, they can still reverse my decision by voting to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T15:58:58.840" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T15:58:58.840" />
  <row Id="39426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:08:37.783" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-whats-it-all-about&quot;&gt;Accepting answers, what&amp;rsquo;s it all about?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somebody commented on one of my questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You've asked many questions, you should go back and mark some of them as accepted. – davr 16 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't know how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T16:05:39.063" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T16:08:35.610" ClosedDate="2010-02-14T20:39:47.333" Title="How do you accept answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39426" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:09:56.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the (faded out) tick to the left side of the answer that you feel is the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T16:02:22.523" />
  <row Id="39428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39426" CreationDate="2010-02-14T15:15:12.667" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on this :&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/su/img/vote-accepted.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;next to the answer you find most helpful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143138" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T16:02:22.523" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39426" CreationDate="2010-02-14T16:08:35.610" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do note that -- while appreciated -- you have no obligation to accept answers. If someone is being too pressing about this flag their comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T16:08:35.610" />
  <row Id="39430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39412" CreationDate="2010-02-14T16:08:55.250" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than discouraging people from asking &quot;plz send teh codez,&quot; I usually try to encourage them to improve their question.  Asking for details about what they've tried so far is usually enough to get them moving in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T16:08:55.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39417" CreationDate="2010-02-14T17:11:33.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, if the software author keeps spamming the site with advertisement like this, it will only hurt him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ForeUI might become part of the blocked content list and his product will never be mentioned by legitimate users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His IP range will be blocked and won't be able to use SO for reference.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;... ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T17:11:33.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T17:16:15.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue #5 could be kept open and moderation there crowdsourced. Otherwise, I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T17:16:15.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T17:16:15.047" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39420" CreationDate="2010-02-14T17:18:03.843" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though it started with a very simple idea, SO has grown in complexity over the last year and a half. There are a lot of details to know, a lot of cultural background and uneasy consensus that oils the wheels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question here on meta and the fact that you haven't associated accounts suggest that you don't actually know much about the internals of the sites; not even the stuff that could be learned by reading the faqs and or pouring over your own profile pages, much less the things that can be found by reading the blog and tracking down thing referenced therein that you didn't already understand. Why would we want to trust you with greatly magnified power on the site until after you have rectified the situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;They don't give any privileges.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; them (and for that matter that I miss them on SFU) shows clearly that they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; worth something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; subject to abuse. In the simplest case, they would allow you to cast all your close votes in a great hurry with insufficient consideration: my experience and reports from others suggest that it takes the best part of an hour to cast all twelve votes with &lt;em&gt;sufficient&lt;/em&gt; consideration, but the simple mechanical limit is probably closer to five minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, they are an motivation to use the site well. You need to contribute steadily for a long time or heavily for a non-trivial time to earn them. (It took me circa 1 year to get there at around 30 points a day, but you could do it in under 2 months &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; you could match the performance of the greats). The effort of getting there should help you clear up any deficit of understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T19:12:51.300" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T19:12:51.300" />
  <row Id="39434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39410" CreationDate="2010-02-14T17:29:26.070" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The alternatives are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;not asking off topic questions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;taking them to some forum or chatroom where they &lt;em&gt;are on topic&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T17:29:26.070" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T17:29:26.070" />
  <row Id="39435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T17:37:49.957" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have said already, it might be better to let the community have first crack at some of the cleanup that the community can do, like flagging questions for close, and instead focus on the things that 10k users cannot do or do not have enough information to do effectively, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;merging duplicate questions into one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;investigating suspicious voting activity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;issuing warnings to users who repeatedly post useless, vague, or plagiarizing posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;performing reputation recalcs on users who have just had a number of posts deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mass re-tagging, and blacklisting new inappropriate tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T17:37:49.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T17:37:49.957" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T18:09:02.497" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question gets closed, I have to wait two days before I can vote to delete, which is fine, but it would be nice if those questions appeared on a list in moderator tools after two days, so I could find them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T04:23:39.713" Title="How do I get a list of questions that are eligible for deletion?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="39437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39436" CreationDate="2010-02-14T18:10:07.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go about 10 pages back on this page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tools/recently-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tools/recently-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(or the Serverfault/SuperUser equivilant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Migrated questions are not eligible for deletion by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff needs to add something that filters out the migrated questions along with questions that aren't passed the 4 day deadline. But until then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T18:16:19.363" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T18:16:19.363" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35723" CreationDate="2010-02-14T18:32:35.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eclispe Mylyn plugin, that gives me live stream of tags i have subscribed. I can answer some questions. Author nline-offline status...(Hmm...Also needed feature on main SO). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142227" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T18:32:35.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T18:32:35.053" />
  <row Id="39439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39420" CreationDate="2010-02-14T18:50:20.133" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39420/why-is-10-000-rep-needed-to-access-moderation-tools/39433#39433&quot;&gt;dmkee gave a great answer&lt;/a&gt;. Read it carefully. There is a surprising amount of subtly to the SO &quot;culture&quot; that does take time and effort to pick up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's one example: the ability to view flags. You might think this is pretty benign, but flags were initially visible at a &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; lower rep level, and it caused no end of drama; some folks would &lt;em&gt;go off&lt;/em&gt; upon seeing a single flag on something they'd written, and no amount of assurance that it made no difference unless several other people flagged within a relatively short time-span would comfort them. Allowing users to flag spam and abusive posts is an important part of community-driven moderation, so reducing this drama while still allowing &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; user oversight is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, there are a number of 10K tools that are useless to anyone without the associated 10K &lt;em&gt;abilities&lt;/em&gt;: recently deleted posts, posts with outstanding delete votes, and posts with outstanding undelete votes are all pointless for folks who can't see deleted posts, vote to delete or vote to undelete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have a specific tool in mind, one which you consider a beneficial utility for users with &amp;lt; 10K rep points, I suggest that you post a feature-request here describing that tool and detailing why you think it would be useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I suggest you bide your time, and continue learning about how the sites work. A good place to start might well be the publicly-visible &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3a1&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;list of recent, closed questions&lt;/a&gt;, where you can see first-hand what sort of questions are deemed inappropriate for SO and why. Note that this is similar to &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the 10K tools...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T18:50:20.133" />
  <row Id="39440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39436" CreationDate="2010-02-14T18:57:43.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do agree that there should be a one-stop list of questions eligible for deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a recent 10K user (meta), I'm still struggling a bit as to what a &lt;em&gt;conscientious&lt;/em&gt; 10K user, interested in helping out the site, should do. There's a lot of &lt;em&gt;&quot;look-but-don't-touch&quot;&lt;/em&gt; reports. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deleting closed posts is a good candidate&lt;/strong&gt; and should be surfaced as an obvious 10K moderator activity. But there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do this. A simple &quot;Closed Questions Eligible for Deletion&quot; report should be a tab or at least at the top of some list somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T18:57:43.990" />
  <row Id="39441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39442" CreationDate="2010-02-14T20:08:44.360" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to ask a question on StackOverflow whether I should use the new Rails 3 for my new app or not. but I got a dark red box saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;The question you're asking appears subjective and is likely to be closed.&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what's wrong with subjective questions in general. Although there isn't right or wrong answer all the times, they definitely help making some important design decision as some users might have more knowledge and better knowledge about certain technologies or how different technologies play well together and it's programming-related. Is it a matter of re-formulating my question to have a definite answer or should I ask my question somewhere else? if so where do you suggest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143331" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T20:27:29.350" Title="What is the issue of asking subjective questions to make design decisions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective-warning&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39441" CreationDate="2010-02-14T20:19:48.520" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Focus less on subjectivity, and more on &lt;em&gt;answerability&lt;/em&gt;.    You're right when you say that design questions are often, by their nature, subjective.  That's not the end of the world.  More important: for us to provide any help, the question needs to be reasonably answerable, in something less than a ten-page white paper, and with a minimum of religious arguments.  The subjective questions we see often don't meet this criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, remember that a short little regex is triggering the box.  Nobody's dinging you - it's just a hint that you should look again at your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did you end up asking your question?  A link to it may help provide some context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T20:19:48.520" />
  <row Id="39443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39441" CreationDate="2010-02-14T20:20:58.630" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO FAQ&lt;/a&gt; answers your query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions that you're asking are useful questions to discuss, but SO is not the proper forum for such discussions, at least as envisioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134374" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T20:20:58.630" />
  <row Id="39444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39441" CreationDate="2010-02-14T20:27:29.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it a matter of re-formulating my question to have a definite answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ask, &quot;Should I use the new Rails 3 for my new app?&quot; and then describe your app requirements, skills, etc. The eventual answer(s) will be useful primarily to you, but that's ok - you can accept the one that works for you in good conscience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't&lt;/em&gt; ask, &quot;Would you use the new Rails 3 for your new app?&quot; or &quot;Is Rails 3 a good choice for new app development?&quot; - that's asking a question that &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; can answer, even if they've never used nor plan to use Rails. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39441/what-is-the-issue-of-asking-subjective-questions-to-make-design-decisions/39443#39443&quot;&gt;As dsolimano notes&lt;/a&gt;, those are the sort of discussion-fodder appropriate for forums and message boards, but not a good fit for SO's Q&amp;amp;A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T20:27:29.350" />
  <row Id="39445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:05:32.737" Score="2" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to say that I am glad that I found Stack Overflow. This is a great site: I can ask questions and get answers quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I would also like to say that sometimes, after I've asked a question and received several answers, I'll have a problem with implementing one of them and respond with a comment... Only to be ignored by the author of that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a lack of comment-response-back in Stack Overflow... It's like people are really hungry, they get a question (food), then they try to answer it and leave (eat and run). They don't make the mission fully complete (pay the check? help with the dishes?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you understand, and wow that was a bad analogy above, but maybe you'll get my point anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143333" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-14T21:17:37.507" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T22:49:51.023" Title="Why isn't there more dialog between askers and answerers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="39446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39049" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:08:36.850" Score="30" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unicornified Wallpapers!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a high-res Unicorn courtesy of course of @balpha and his marvellous &lt;a href=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unicorn Farm.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Unicorn en route from Iceland to Basle, Switzerland, above the black forest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4_1920_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4_1920_1080.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1080&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4_1680_1050.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1680x1050&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4_1600_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1600x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4_1280_1024.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x1024&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4_1280_800.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x800&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/4_1024_768.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1024x768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Unicorn riding the green plains, with Rainbow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1_1920_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1_1920_1080.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1080&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1_1680_1050.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1680x1050&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1_1600_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1600x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1_1280_1024.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x1024&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1_1280_800.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x800&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/1_1024_768.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1024x768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Unicorn on white canvas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2_1920_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2_1920_1080.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1080&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2_1680_1050.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1680x1050&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2_1600_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1600x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2_1280_1024.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x1024&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2_1280_800.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x800&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/2_1024_768.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1024x768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Unicorn riding the plains&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3_1920_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3_1920_1080.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1920x1080&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3_1680_1050.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1680x1050&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3_1600_1200.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1600x1200&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3_1280_1024.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x1024&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3_1280_800.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1280x800&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/unicorns/3_1024_768.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1024x768&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm releasing the images under the same license that applies to this answer - i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Creative Commons by-sa&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T18:00:37.103" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T18:00:37.103" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="39447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39445" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:15:10.273" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this is sometimes certainly a side-effect of SO's reputation system that is otherwise one of the things that make the site work so well. Some answerers will stay for follow-up questions, some won't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a question-answer site in the sense that there is supposed to be a question, and one or more good answers to it. SO is not a discussion forum as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a follow-up question does not get answered, it is usually perfectly legitimate to open another question, as long as it's not really &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; trivial step to a common problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T21:15:10.273" />
  <row Id="39448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39445" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:23:54.720" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My recomendation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Give them rep-incentive to help you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't accept an answer until they help you.  This may give them more incentive to help you further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T21:23:54.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39455" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:33:57.370" Score="17" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new SO mods should be added to the page on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;MSO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7255/missingmods.png&quot; alt=&quot;Missing Mods&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T06:26:04.103" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T06:26:04.103" Title="'About' Page list of moderators needs to be updated" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;about-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:41:46.750" Score="9" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/85949/emails-from-a-support-system-that-have-the-ticket-number-as-the-email-address-cl&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Super User:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3887/capturekp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was migrated there from Stack Overflow. There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1934099/how-might-emails-from-a-support-system-work-that-have-the-ticket-number-as-the-em&quot;&gt;link to the original question&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was subsequently &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/112657/emails-from-a-support-system-that-have-the-ticket-number-as-the-email-address&quot;&gt;migrated to Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;. However, there is no indication of that on the Super User question as you can see in the screenshot above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T06:20:07.217" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T18:16:52.570" Title="Question that is migrated for the second time doesn't have a &quot;migrated to&quot; link" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="39452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39445" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:45:19.567" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I checked out some of the answers you've commented on, and... I actually see &lt;strong&gt;quite a lot of back-and-forth&lt;/strong&gt;. More than I &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; see on SO answers... &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO works best when you can describe, in your question and preferably succinctly, a specific problem with enough detail that someone reading it who is familiar with the topic can identify the problem and present a solution &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; lots of tedious conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Actually, SO works best when you can find an existing question matching your problem and those criteria &lt;em&gt;that already has an answer&lt;/em&gt;. That's &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; conversation tends to be discouraged: if I have to read a whole chain of messages before I can determine whether or not my problem matches what's being discussed, it's going to take a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; longer for me to wade through SO and find a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you find yourself engaging in lengthy discussions on &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question you ask&lt;/strong&gt;, consider that you may not be doing a very good job of presenting your problems and thus aren't getting effective answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, &lt;strong&gt;you may be trying to ask follow-up questions in comments&lt;/strong&gt; rather than posting them separately as new questions - this is also an ineffective way to use SO, as it relies on one individual working with you in order to resolve multiple problems... and individuals get bored and go to bed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T21:45:19.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39445" CreationDate="2010-02-14T21:56:54.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that a &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; for much dialog is a sign that someone (either asker or answerer) has been unclear: that is, that either the question or the answer wasn't very good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If things are clicking over just right, SO shouldn't need or have much dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T21:56:54.667" />
  <row Id="39454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-14T22:28:03.540" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be problems with running Chrome version 4.0.249.89 (38071) on StackOverflow - The edit toolbar disappears, clicking on comments to view the comments, replicates the comment input box...Has anyone else experienced this...? Funnily enough Meta works fine!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.box.net/shared/pf741z68e8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clicking on comments to expand list of comments replicate the comment input boxes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.box.net/shared/55jz7206f2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Edit Toolbar buttons disappeared&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T06:21:49.850" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:21:49.850" Title="StackOverflow Ajax problem with latest Chrome" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39450" CreationDate="2010-02-14T22:45:43.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I propose to change it so that current moderators are listed automatically instead of a static webpage (as it appears to be the case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise we'll have the same problem next time there are new moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T17:53:59.230" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T17:53:59.230" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39445" CreationDate="2010-02-14T22:49:51.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From just the handful of questions I've looked at you have received answers from very helpful, very engaged people who are doing more than the usual amount of effort to give you what you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of your comment trails after five or six messages deep - this is more than usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond agreeing with the answers that suggest you review you questions, I'd suggest the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit your question with all the new information. It looks like you are getting good answers and then realising that you were looking at a browser specific issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consider offering a bounty on questions. Perhaps the extra work to get your question over line requires an extra reward, past providing the initial working but not perfect solution?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps it is time for a new question? If you have enough new information, sometimes your question has actually changed focus enough that it doesn't resemble what was asked. In this situation I'd say asking a new, refocused question is perfectly valid and will give a nice fresh slate for some more exact answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131327" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T22:49:51.023" />
  <row Id="39457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-02-14T23:17:21.383" Score="34" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, moderators should &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; do what the rest of the community cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow does not need a moderator to close down somewhat-questionable questions.  Dozens of 3000+ reputation users already rapidly vote to close down questions.  Let the community make those decisions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, plenty of things can't be done by non-moderators.  We need you to look for suspicious voting patterns.  We need you to be a &lt;strong&gt;neutral&lt;/strong&gt; arbiter.  We need you to use the tools that you have, and that we don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139271" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T23:17:21.383" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-14T23:17:21.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39454" CreationDate="2010-02-14T23:41:36.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beta version is not officially supported, so you probably won't get much of an answer from the time other than &quot;use a stable version&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Your images don't load&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-14T23:41:36.337" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T03:29:47.680" Score="3" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are unit testing questions in scope for this site?  I found a stack exchange (bugoverflow.com) site geared for testers but I'm not sure of where to go for unit testing questions as this is primarily a developer activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS, I referenced the site in case it adds clarity.  However, if referencing other sites isn't kosher, please feel free to edit the reference out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143341" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T03:37:13.253" Title="Unit testing here or somewhere else?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;&lt;testing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="39461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39460" CreationDate="2010-02-15T03:36:47.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unit testing,TDD, and other aspects of ensuring the strength of the product of your programming are best discussed on stackoverflow.com.  In fact, there is a tag 'unit-testing' that currently has 3,354 questions associated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T03:36:47.543" />
  <row Id="39462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39460" CreationDate="2010-02-15T03:37:13.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/unit-testing&quot;&gt;more than 3000 uses of the [unit-testing] tag&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow...I think you can safely ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T03:37:13.253" />
  <row Id="39463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33184" CreationDate="2010-02-15T03:44:57.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New users on any of the SOFU sites can post as many links as they like.  See the little gray &lt;em&gt;&quot;add comment&quot;&lt;/em&gt; link below your post?  Click it, and add any links that won't fit into your post there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;does take some thought&lt;/em&gt; to come up with that workaround without any prior hints, but I'm willing to bet a month's salary that I'm not the first to figure out that particular trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T03:44:57.717" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39436" CreationDate="2010-02-15T04:23:39.713" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tools?tab=delete&amp;amp;daterange=last2days&quot;&gt;Delete&lt;/a&gt;&quot; tab will show you the questions with the highest number of delete votes. That won't show you all the closed questions that are eligible for deletion, but it's a pretty good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T04:23:39.713" />
  <row Id="39465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27026" CreationDate="2010-02-15T04:49:50.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7739/so-family-quick-reference-to-qs-as-and-favs-last-update-07-21-2009&quot;&gt;Grease Monkey script&lt;/a&gt; here that should do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T04:49:50.420" />
  <row Id="39466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7739" CreationDate="2010-02-15T04:55:54.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't work for me. I made sure to restart and add the sites, but I don't see anything&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T04:55:54.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39468" CreationDate="2010-02-15T05:06:23.980" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4857/ande-turner&quot;&gt;user&lt;/a&gt; has currently only 129 points. And he had placed a bounty of 550 points for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2167393/vala-gotchas-tips-and-tricks&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;. If somebody rightly answers this, from whose account does this 550 points come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139879" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T06:18:10.573" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:18:10.573" Title="Put bounty when you are already bankrupt?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39467" CreationDate="2010-02-15T05:08:26.583" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the bounty is created, the points are removed in anticipation of a future answer. The 129 rep that you see now is the result &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; bounty-rep deletion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T05:08:26.583" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:03:03.030" Score="1" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36791/is-the-stack-overflow-software-licensed-to-other-sites&quot;&gt;Is the Stack Overflow software licensed to other sites?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see that stackoverflow's Q&amp;amp;A system is used on multiple domains - meta, careers, serverfaults etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would StackOverFlow, in the near future allow others to hosts their Q&amp;amp;A sites based on the same platform ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143342" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:06:31.963" ClosedDate="2010-02-15T18:50:01.660" Title="StackOverFlow Platform" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39470" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:06:31.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.  They are already doing what you suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:06:31.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-15T06:06:31.963" />
  <row Id="39472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39528" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:11:06.903" Score="4" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over in the Perl tagged questions, we seem to have a much smaller group of people who are asking questions, and a small but regular group of folks answering them.  We've been pretty good at catching, marking, and closing duplicates (I think, anyway.)  I figured this was pretty much SOP for the rest of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I saw a couple questions today:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2226510/closures-in-c-event-handler-delegates&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2226510/closures-in-c-event-handler-delegates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first answer explains the solution, and then as part of the answer, links to another SO question that &lt;em&gt;answers the exact same question&lt;/em&gt;.  For something like closures, sure, this might be more difficult to look up, but the one that really got me was this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2263347/convert-string-to-datetime&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2263347/convert-string-to-datetime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking how to convert a string to a DateTime.  In fact, in a cursory search of SO, using the exact text in the title, I came up with plenty of pages of questions.  Slight variations of the question came up with many more answers, all either almost close or exact duplicates to it.  In fact, this question was considered so &quot;popular&quot; by a few of the commentators that this was one of their &quot;Once a month&quot; questions (with the author then replying that he was compiling a list of once-a-month'ers.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What !?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does the author acknowledge that this was a duplicate, but he &lt;em&gt;posted it anyway!?&lt;/em&gt;  And on top of that, no one else bothered looking for duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And just to avoid hypocrisy, I went through as many of the exact-duplicate tagged questions as I could to find one similar ones to this, and the closest I could get was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23229/reduce-number-of-questions-about-generics-covariance-in-c-net&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; about covariance.  One might consider this question a general case of that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37466/give-an-incentive-for-finding-duplicate-questions&quot;&gt;One Discussion&lt;/a&gt; about rewarding the finding of duplicates on meta before, but it looks like either the outcome of that discussion is either uncertain or still under discussion. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is leaving duplicates really the status-quo for questions in other parts of SO?  Is it tolerated?  Or is it just acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134097" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T01:57:49.273" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T03:03:36.530" Title="Exact Duplicates not being caught, or even when pointed out, ignored" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39451" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:19:51.240" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a high priority; in my experience questions that are migrated twice have &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; problems, and need to be handled with manual intervention anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:19:51.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39472" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:20:58.243" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason duplicates are discouraged/not allowed is because it waters down the content of the site.  You really don't gain value for having two of the same questions with the same answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few duplicates are tolerable on the site.  They should be closed and directed to the first question so the answers can be aggregated on one single question instead of spread out between a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, this isn't the end of the world, duplicate questions are discouraged, but they can have their place too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:20:58.243" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39454" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:21:34.717" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't reproduce this in Chrome. Have you tried clearing your cache?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:21:34.717" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39396" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:27:06.750" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to make the corners &lt;em&gt;even sharper&lt;/em&gt; now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T06:27:06.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39489" CreationDate="2010-02-15T06:50:44.173" Score="-4" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I allowed to publish a 'SO Tips &amp;amp; Tricks' article on my blog that I have already written?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article is now live at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sarfraznawaz.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/stackoverflow-tips-tricks-5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sarfraznawaz.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/stackoverflow-tips-tricks-5/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hello all, thanks for your comments they clarified a lot and now i have updated the article on the site. Thanks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140077" LastEditorUserId="140077" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T06:03:57.153" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T08:48:21.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-16T11:13:37.467" Title="SO tips &amp; tricks" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;blog&gt;&lt;article&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39477" CreationDate="2010-02-15T07:03:17.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are allowed to post tips and tricks articles.  But it may not be received well if any of your tips or tricks could be considered gaming the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; I scanned the article and it looks good to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T07:03:17.940" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T07:10:55.420" Score="9" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefox and Opera users...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I got the itch for another greasemonkey script - this time to retrieve the user details for any given user in a question without having to go to their page. Perhaps some of you will find this useless, but I happen to find an interest in this type of meta-information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instructions are simple, just click the users gravatar from within a question and the details will slide in. Click the icon again to slide them back up and out of sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Install:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://sampsonresume.com/labs/stackoverflow/icon-informer.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sampsonresume.com/labs/stackoverflow/icon-informer.user.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Runs on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;SuperUser&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;ServerFault&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sampsonresume.com/labs/stackoverflow/icon-information.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T15:03:10.143" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T18:09:12.557" Title="Greasemonkey/Opera: Quick User Details" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;so-addon&gt;&lt;user-information&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="39481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39477" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:04:06.583" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And if it is OK with you I don't &quot;need&quot; to install the grease-monkey scripts (point 3). Nor in fact do I want to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &quot;Markdown&quot;, not &quot;MarkDown&quot; (point 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Subtle&lt;/em&gt; styling (to emphasize words etc) is entirely appropriate (point 6).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only add images (point 7) &lt;em&gt;when they help the answer&lt;/em&gt; - not just to make it shiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 5-minute editing &quot;cleverly&quot; (point 10) would be interpreted by me as &quot;gaming&quot;. Don't do &#xA;that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T08:04:06.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:03:00.207" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13871/what-stackexchange-sites-are-out-there&quot;&gt;What StackExchange sites are out there?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined stackoverflow almost a month ago. Since then, it helped me a lot, and by &quot;a lot&quot; I mean &quot;a lot&quot; :). Here I found a large community with a very helpful mind, providing with their expert opinions on various programming and design problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very very much, stackoverflow community....... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other site, like this one, where I can find help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149210" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T08:38:31.143" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-15T08:03:00.207" ClosedDate="2010-02-15T09:28:41.703" Title="Is there any other site like stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39482" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:05:17.620" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not found another programming forum as active as this one. If you are after different kinds of help try the sibling-sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;superuser.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144231" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T08:08:51.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-15T08:05:17.620" />
  <row Id="39484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39482" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:05:33.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154430" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T08:08:51.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-15T08:05:33.547" />
  <row Id="39485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39482" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:08:05.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends.  If you have Perl questions, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://perlmonks.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Perlmonks&lt;/a&gt;.  If you have questions about Emacs, there is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;emacs-help mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  Etc., etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8457" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T08:08:51.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-15T08:08:05.463" />
  <row Id="39486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39482" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:14:34.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/19.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Coding Related Help &amp;amp; Questions&quot;&lt;/a&gt; section of The Daily WTF forums is kind of similar, though it lacks the &quot;run for reputation and archivements&quot; buzz of stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139146" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T08:14:34.413" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-15T08:14:34.413" />
  <row Id="39487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39482" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:25:16.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's the Programming and Design section of &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt;, It has a pretty poor signal-to-noise ratio compared to SO though, and it tends to be mainly students looking for solutions to programming homework problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142198" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T08:25:16.160" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-15T08:25:16.160" />
  <row Id="39489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39477" CreationDate="2010-02-15T08:52:47.097" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super User and Server Fault have other purposes than &quot;giving you 100 reputation&quot;. Just saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And besides, highly disagree with that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Be the First to Answer a Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If there is question you think you&#xA;  know the answer of, jump to it&#xA;  instantly and answer it. If you have&#xA;  answered it correctly and are the&#xA;  first to answer then if anyone else&#xA;  visits that question, he may vote you&#xA;  up rather than providing his own&#xA;  correct answer that you have already&#xA;  provided. Even if you are not sure&#xA;  about your answer, post it, you can&#xA;  modify it later on by viewing others’&#xA;  answers that you think are correct. By&#xA;  default, all answers are ordered by&#xA;  number of votes, so if you manage to&#xA;  get some votes, your answer will be on&#xA;  top of all there by having more&#xA;  chances of getting votes and finally&#xA;  chosen as the final correct answer&#xA;  something for which you earn 15&#xA;  additional points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially on Stack Overflow, answers are going &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; fast. so most of times there will be at least 2 other answers at same time as your, even if you post as fast as you can. It's not about the speed, then, it's about the quality of your answer. You can be the first to write a 4 words answer with a fast link. I will still vote for the answer which came 10 minutes later, with a detailed explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And about your &quot;answer even if not sure and correct when seeing other answer&quot;, that's stupid. You are actually promoting stealing answers and the &quot;fastest gun in the West&quot; behavior. You only forgot one thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nobody cares about your reputation besides you. You are not here to enlarge your reputation, you are here to give answers to people asking questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, nobody cares if you answered first. What matters to the person who asked, is that at the end of the day, he has his answer, a correct and complete one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can write about tips for Stack Overflow, for a better use (like using ignored and favorite tags, adding pictures, etc.) But giving tips to have a better reputation, it serves no one. Besides the ego, I guess: &quot;My reputation is bigger than yours.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because besides that, what is the use for reputation? You gain more &quot;powers&quot; to help the community, to edit posts, to vote to close the questions which are not matching to the criterias, etc. Reputation only gives you more possibilities to moderate. Which means actually caring for the site, and not only about you. I don't see that matching to such &quot;reputation&quot; methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, the author changed his article. The part about SF and SU is improved, inviting people to get involved in these sites as well, instead of only using them as &quot;100 rep&quot;, good. You could also mention that most of what you write works for these sites as well (besides the code specific parts, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 4th point has been revised as well: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Be the First to Answer a Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If there is question you think you&#xA;  know the answer of, jump to it&#xA;  instantly and answer it. If you have&#xA;  answered it correctly and are the&#xA;  first to answer then if anyone else&#xA;  visits that question, he may vote you&#xA;  up rather than providing his own&#xA;  correct answer that you have already&#xA;  provided. By default, all answers are&#xA;  ordered by number of votes, so if you&#xA;  manage to get some votes, your answer&#xA;  will be on top of all there by having&#xA;  more chances of getting votes and&#xA;  finally chosen as the final correct&#xA;  answer something for which you earn 15&#xA;  additional points. Getting your answer&#xA;  (correct one) to be first just makes&#xA;  it more likely to get quick votes but&#xA;  remember this is not the rule of&#xA;  thumb, an answer posted after even&#xA;  half an hour can be voted up and&#xA;  chosen as the final correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another important thing is that once&#xA;  you have posted your answer, you can&#xA;  revise it, add more details such as&#xA;  lists, images, etc. This shows how&#xA;  comprehensive answer you have given&#xA;  with examples/demos and makes your&#xA;  answer best in the queue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is less inviting to answer &quot;at all cost&quot;, good. You can emphasize more on the fact that if on the short term, the first short correct answer is getting votes, on a middle and long term, answers which are describing and explaining the most are the ones getting the most votes. I won't say that this is always like this, but most of times, a higher quality (and longer) answer will have more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest you to encourage &quot;descriptive&quot; answers in case of a link. Even if a perfect answer can be found at a given link, a good answer on SO should include the interesting part from it as well, or at least an extract or summary, if too long. Because links are not eternal, and a great answer can be lost if the linked site goes down. Link should still be, but only as a link to the source. The point is to have the interesting data on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T08:48:21.630" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T08:48:21.630" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39826" CreationDate="2010-02-15T09:07:56.340" Score="30" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime I see a question with a few votes to close, and I don't know why (valid question and so on). I usually click on the &quot;close&quot; link to see why other users want to close the question. In most cases it's because the question is a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now with the brand new 10 foot long closing box, I have to scroll down to find the &quot;cancel&quot; button. I'm not a big fan of this. Could we make it so that you can close this box by pressing the &quot;escape&quot; key ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T23:49:17.113" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T23:49:17.113" Title="Could we close the &quot;Why should this question be closed?&quot; box with the Escape key?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T09:32:20.177" Score="2" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is a new trick, but I have found a way to squeeze some extra reputation on old answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say there is a question by another user with many answers where an answer of mine has gained a lot of attention (comments, votes). Every time I add a new answer to that question, the questions is regurgitated to the top of the active questions stream. Apparently this causes it to gain renewed attention and it squeezes out of my answer some extra reputation drops. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is tempting to do it specially if the answer is near a &quot;badge threshold&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works best when the answer represents a rather polemical point of view, or there is a kind of discussion going on between the answers, and not when there is just an attempt to find an answer to a technical issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is a bug and how can it be fixed or if it should be fixed at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130363" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T22:36:19.503" Title="Harvesting reputation on old answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39491" CreationDate="2010-02-15T09:39:02.547" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a way, if it was a bad answer, it wouldn't get upvotes. So it's not really gaming the system, because such votes are deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Artificially reviving questions without adding value is annoying though, and is already &quot;punished&quot;. Can be with artificial edits, answers, etc. as well. But don't do that. If you really want to &quot;harvest&quot;, then improve noticeably your original answer. Then it will be well deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nothing to change in the way the sites work, you get the same effect for someone poking the question, adding their answer 6 months later. No reason to prevent that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T09:39:02.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39490" CreationDate="2010-02-15T09:45:17.897" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely agree!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would even propose to extend this feature request not only to the close box, but to any other pop-up on the site. It can be frustrating if you have to click on the box to make it disappear. A quick tap on the escape-key is the most natural way to close these kind of boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T09:45:17.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19368" CreationDate="2010-02-15T09:57:29.957" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question seems to be outdated, so here's an up-to-date answer ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the official list of stack exchange sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/sites&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com/sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-03T23:20:12.403" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T23:20:12.403" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T10:48:29.220" Score="4" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;So 10% of the time when I go to type stackoverflow.com I actually type stackoverflow.co.nz because .co.nz is my local ccTLD. Force of habit if I've been surfing locally. I normally don't get as far as hitting enter but tonight I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If i do this in IE i get a dialog box asking me if i want to allow the website to open a program on my computer. Obviously I clicked &quot;Hell No&quot; in response to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I pulled out my sniffer I couldn't find anything. The site just seems to recursively redirect to itself and with each iteration it appends a /stackoverflow.com to the url as below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;http://www.stackoverflow.co.nz/stackoverflow.com/[etc etc]stackoverflow.com/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there actually anything nasty there or is this just IE being alarmst? Firefox &amp;amp; Chrome just seem to shrug it off with an eventual BAD REQUEST 400. But I wondered, what's this meathead up to? Something mindless or something sinister? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140283" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T12:22:43.810" Title="What's this meathead up too?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39490" CreationDate="2010-02-15T10:52:26.733" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GreaseMonkey Script, just straight forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For fading out effect, attaching &lt;code&gt;.fadeOutAndRemove()&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;.click&lt;/code&gt; event would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           Esc to Close Dialog&#xA;// @namespace      stackoverflow&#xA;// @description    Attach Esc Key to close-popup dialog&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/questions/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/questions/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;$ = unsafeWindow.$;&#xA;&#xA;$(document).keypress(&#xA;   function(e){&#xA;      if(e.keyCode==27){&#xA;         $(&quot;.close-cancel&quot;).click();&#xA;      }&#xA;   }&#xA;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T11:22:28.150" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T11:22:28.150" />
  <row Id="39499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T12:18:51.273" Score="0" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what I did...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a bunch of images in my gravatar account, but stackoverflow always seemed to display the same one no matter which was picked on gravatar.com. One day my icon spontaneously changed to a different image, though not the one which I had selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided I'd better fix it, so I clicked 'Change picture' on my SO profile and selected the image I wanted, noting SO's warning about it taking time to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A weekend passed, and this morning my SO icon is back to the original (wrong) icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extra info: I've had support queries before regarding my accounts needing to be manually tied together on the different sites because it had become rather muddled. I wonder if this has somehow got something to do with my strange gravatar behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130711" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T15:04:19.813" ClosedDate="2010-02-16T01:45:52.287" Title="My gravatar icon is the wrong image" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39496" CreationDate="2010-02-15T12:22:43.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a bunch of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=long+url+buffer+overflow+internet+explorer+site%3Amicrosoft.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;buffer overflow vulnerabilities&lt;/a&gt; in various versions of Internet Explorer. It seems this site is trying to demonstrate some of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like their registration is going to expire in 10 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T12:22:43.810" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39499" CreationDate="2010-02-15T12:27:44.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently I'm seeing a cartoon chap in a chair. However, if you want a quicker gravatar update one trick is to change your e-mail address. Since you are on gmail this is trivial. Let's pretend your e-mail address is currently &lt;code&gt;some.user@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt;. You could associate a new gravatar image against &lt;code&gt;some.user+stackoverflow@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt; and everything will work, and as it is a new e-mail address it'll update immediately. You should see a link marked &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/emails/new&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;add a new email&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (on gravatar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T12:27:44.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T12:52:58.900" Score="0" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;What was Stack Overflow built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was used for building StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T01:37:43.563" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T01:37:43.563" ClosedDate="2010-02-15T13:07:08.240" Title="How was Stack Overflow built?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39502" CreationDate="2010-02-15T12:56:19.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is developed with ASP.NET MVC, C# 3.5 and saves data into SQL Server 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And no, it's not some OpenSource wiki engine, not yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T12:56:19.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39502" CreationDate="2010-02-15T12:56:20.130" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's specifically developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T12:56:20.130" />
  <row Id="39505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T13:35:22.377" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;At present it's orange - a low contrast color - and small, hard to see whether you have 27 or -27 characters left, so it's difficult to see that you've gone over the character limit. To be more usable it needs better highlighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140780" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T15:39:21.467" LastActivityDate="2010-04-18T00:00:02.997" Title="Negative characters left on comment edit to be different colour" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;character-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39491" CreationDate="2010-02-15T14:26:33.400" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens with me is that some random person will upvote an old answer of mine.  I'll see that vote on my recent activity page, and so I'll go back and read it over again.  At this point I often find a typo or something else that needs a correction or clarification, and so I'll edit my original answer.  Now the question is bumped and I get even more votes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I doubt this has really earned me much real rep (at least long term), because this tends to happen to more popular (read: highly voted) answers, and I've turned a few of them community wiki like this.  If they ever do a rep re-calc that's really gonna hurt me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that adding a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; answer to the question rather than editing your old one is kind of despicable, unless you really do have something new to say on the topic that doesn't fit with your original.  I think in nearly 3000 answers I've been in that situation 2 or 3 times at most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T14:26:33.400" />
  <row Id="39507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39491" CreationDate="2010-02-15T14:29:11.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A far better way to game the system by not gaming the system is to edit an old answer and provide further detail. Editing an answer puts the question back on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards &quot;Is it a bug?&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not really a bug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Discussion&quot; questions should normally be Community Wiki. If you're posting &lt;strong&gt;multiple&lt;/strong&gt; answers to a question, you're doing it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow is not a discussion forum&lt;/strong&gt;.  The only communication takes place between the Question &quot;Asker&quot; and the &quot;Answerer&quot;. Not between multiple answerers (unless you post a comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T14:29:11.290" />
  <row Id="39508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39499" CreationDate="2010-02-15T14:36:40.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's true, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;your gravatar should be&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/3d7e0433078e5d9b54fb90edf7bd10a3?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="131061" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T15:04:19.813" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T15:04:19.813" />
  <row Id="39509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39761" CreationDate="2010-02-15T15:11:22.967" Score="9" ViewCount="328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking though my daily rep scores with a piece of Java, makes me think that the &lt;code&gt;ParallelArray&lt;/code&gt; approach might be a good idea, I noticed that the last digits were strangely distributed. Table is my rep positive mod 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;0: 217&#xA;1: 15&#xA;2: 2&#xA;3: 3&#xA;4: 55&#xA;5: 4&#xA;6: 1&#xA;7: 137&#xA;8: 5&#xA;9: 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blogs.sun.com/tackline/resource/so-rep-red-circles.png&quot; alt=&quot;Graphical representation (from Open Office)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 0 I can understand. But the 7, 4 and even 1 (-3, -6 and -9), what is that about? Spooky coincidence? Is there some silent discarding of downvotes going on&amp;lt;/paranoia&gt;? Some weirdo rounding? Or is it just that my sucky code is buggy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was to guess I'd say that there was some kind of &lt;code&gt;ceil(daily-rep / 100) * 3&lt;/code&gt; quota on downvotes. I may be seeing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My code has been requested. I am ashamed of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public class Rep {&#xA;    private static final long[] rep = {&#xA;&#xA;1220601600000L, 54,1220688000000L, 161,1220774400000L, &#xA;/* ... bulk of data edited with WordPad's search-and-replace elided ... */&#xA;25595,1265961600000L, 25615,1266220800000L, 25642&#xA;&#xA;    };&#xA;    public static void main(String[] args) {&#xA;        long[] reps = reps(rep);&#xA;        long prev = 0;&#xA;        int num = reps.length;&#xA;&#xA;        int count = 0;&#xA;&#xA;        for (int i=0; i&amp;lt;num; ++i) {&#xA;            long r = reps[i];&#xA;            reps[i] -= prev;&#xA;            if (r - prev &amp;gt;= 200) {&#xA;                ++count;&#xA;            }&#xA;&#xA;            prev = r;&#xA;        }&#xA;        System.err.println(count);&#xA;        java.util.Arrays.sort(reps);&#xA;        System.err.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(reps));&#xA;        long[] lastDigits = lastDigits(reps);&#xA;        java.util.Arrays.sort(lastDigits );&#xA;        System.err.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(lastDigits ));&#xA;&#xA;        int[] d = new int[10];&#xA;        for (long  x : lastDigits) {&#xA;            ++d[(int)x];&#xA;        }&#xA;        System.err.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(d));&#xA;        for (int i=0; i&amp;lt;10; ++i) {&#xA;            System.out.println(i+&quot;: &quot;+d[i]);&#xA;        }&#xA;&#xA;    }&#xA;    private static long[] reps(long[] rep) {&#xA;        int num = rep.length/2;&#xA;        long[] reps = new long[num];&#xA;        for (int i=0; i&amp;lt;num; ++i) {&#xA;            reps[i] = rep[2*i+1];&#xA;        }&#xA;        return reps;&#xA;    }&#xA;    private static long[] lastDigits(long[] rep) {&#xA;        int num = rep.length;&#xA;        long[] lastDigits = new long[num];&#xA;        for (int i=0; i&amp;lt;num; ++i) {&#xA;            lastDigits[i] = (1000+rep[i])%10;&#xA;        }&#xA;        return lastDigits ;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-20T14:16:58.647" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T14:16:58.647" Title="Anomalous last digit tally for daily rep" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39509" CreationDate="2010-02-15T15:14:55.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the odd numbers are a result of receiving and &lt;em&gt;casting&lt;/em&gt; downvotes in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Assume that a regular day your rep gain will end in 0 baring any 'special cases'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few 'special cases':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You cast a downvote (-1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You are downvoted (-2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have an answer accepted (+5)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for 9 to happen, only one of the specific cases can happen, or a very specific combination of 2 or three of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation where you gain exactly the rep cap -1 is very rare.  That means that you could have only downvoted once, and you have to have an even number of accepted answers &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you hit the cap on votes that day. (Otherwise you would end up with a 4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T15:37:54.030" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T15:37:54.030" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="39511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39509" CreationDate="2010-02-15T15:30:24.543" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to your profile you've been a StackOverflow member for 528 days and have made 1717 downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This averages out to just about 3 downvotes per day, or the -3 you're seeing (thus, the trailing digit would be 7).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T15:30:24.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39630" CreationDate="2010-02-15T15:42:35.437" Score="9" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you look at a question, off to the right is the list of tags on it, including the number of tags that exist in the database for each of them (maybe off by some yet-to-be-cached amount).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I go to edit that question, the tags don't show to the right.  This is one of the things I use when editing to determine whether a tag is worthy of being there (just one of the things).  Please have the question-specific tag list show when editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now I have to open a new window to relook at the tag list, or backup and start over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot of how I'd like it to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/65EAl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tag Edit Mockup&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-31T16:10:00.357" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T11:02:06.493" Title="Keep tag list when editing questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:01:38.863" Score="9" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the dash (-) be ignored in the tab completion dialog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for example, if someone typed in &lt;code&gt;sqlserver&lt;/code&gt; as a tag, they would see tags of the format &lt;code&gt;sql-server*&lt;/code&gt; in the results - currently they only see tags of the format &lt;code&gt;sqlserver*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that I suggest this is that although the convention is to use the dash as a separator in tags (for example &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;visual-studio&lt;/code&gt;), its not always immediately obvious where the seperator should go.  This inevitably ends up with a small percentage of people tagging a question as being &lt;code&gt;sqlserver&lt;/code&gt; rather than &lt;code&gt;sql-server&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm suggesting this on the assumption that this would be easy to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T21:42:24.430" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:24:49.030" Title="Suggestion: Ignore dashes (-) in the tag search / drop down box when asking a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:04:55.283" Score="4" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29518/can-and-should-stack-overflow-automatically-rewrite-bit-ly-links&quot;&gt;Can and should Stack Overflow automatically rewrite bit.ly links?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see minified urls used often, especially in comments. While they have obvious advantages, I don't like not being able to see where a link will bring me &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; clicking on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's your take on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138149" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T16:13:23.493" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T18:43:01.733" ClosedDate="2010-02-15T18:45:00.827" Title="What's your opinion about using minified urls?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;security&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39514" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:08:22.550" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm against it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't twitter.  We have 600 characters in comments, and, the comments box does its own form of URL shortening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is much more helpful to know where you are heading before you click on a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T16:08:22.550" />
  <row Id="39516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39514" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:08:58.290" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to see where it takes you before you click on it, copy and paste this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/yjtp7mu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/yjtp7mu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and turn it into this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://preview.tinyurl.com/yjtp7mu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://preview.tinyurl.com/yjtp7mu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could probably even get someone to make a Greasemonkey script for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: I am not advocating their use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T16:08:58.290" />
  <row Id="39517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39514" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:09:05.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly there's no point on StackOverflow.  You have plenty of space to list the full url.  Even with comments, if you need that much space you probably should think about posting your own answer instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are a few cases where the markdown chokes on urls.  For example, try using something like Browsershots.org to post a screenshot example.  For those edge cases, url shorteners are the only choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T16:09:05.603" />
  <row Id="39518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39512" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:11:42.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The input element where you enter the tags uses an autocomplete prompt that will show you how many instances of a tag there are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T16:11:42.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39514" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:13:39.233" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like them for the same reason as you (and additionally - I like being able to see whether I've visited a link before - using the default &lt;code&gt;:visited&lt;/code&gt; style stuff).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got a quick bookmarklet for unobfuscating URLs so I can see where I'm going before I go there - take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.longurlplease.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Long URL Please&lt;/a&gt; (the temptation to obfuscate that URL is immense... resisting...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It currently supports: bit.ly, cli.gs, digg.com, fb.me, is.gd, j.mp, kl.am, su.pr, tinyurl.com, goo.gl, 307.to, adjix.com, b23.ru, bacn.me, bloat.me, budurl.com, clipurl.us, cort.as, dwarfurl.com, ff.im, fff.to, href.in, idek.net, korta.nu, lin.cr, livesi.de, ln-s.net, loopt.us, lost.in, memurl.com, merky.de, migre.me, moourl.com, nanourl.se, om.ly, ow.ly, peaurl.com, ping.fm, piurl.com, plurl.me, pnt.me, poprl.com, post.ly, rde.me, reallytinyurl.com, redir.ec, retwt.me, rubyurl.com, short.ie, short.to, smallr.com, sn.im, sn.vc, snipr.com, snipurl.com, snurl.com, tiny.cc, tinysong.com, togoto.us, tr.im, tra.kz, trg.li, twurl.cc, twurl.nl, u.mavrev.com, u.nu, ur1.ca, url.az, url.ie, urlx.ie, w34.us, xrl.us, yep.it, zi.ma, zurl.ws, chilp.it, notlong.com, qlnk.net, trim.li, url4.eu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T16:13:39.233" />
  <row Id="39521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39509" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:37:17.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The downvoter is not recorded in the database, so my check for your own downvotes was moot. This suggests that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39509/anomalous-last-digit-tally-for-daily-rep-wtf/39511#39511&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt; has a point, because your downvotes make&#xA;the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wrote my own program to check this; I'm posting it here so everyone can look for bugs. Note that this doesn't take the daily rep cap into account (hence the &quot;Total rep&quot; is a little higher than your actual rep), and it doesn't count bounties and days without rep change (both are obviously 0 mod 10).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sqlite3&#xA;from collections import defaultdict&#xA;import datetime&#xA;&#xA;user_id = 4725&#xA;&#xA;db = sqlite3.connect(&quot;so201002.db&quot;)&#xA;db.row_factory = sqlite3.Row&#xA;&#xA;dayrep = defaultdict(lambda: 0)&#xA;&#xA;for post in db.execute(&quot;SELECT * FROM Posts WHERE OwnerUserID = ? AND CommunityOwnedDate IS NULL&quot;, (user_id,)):&#xA;    for downvote_received in db.execute(&quot;SELECT * FROM Votes WHERE PostID = ? AND VoteTypeID = 3&quot;, (post[&quot;ID&quot;],)):&#xA;        dayrep[downvote_received[&quot;CreationDate&quot;]] -= 2&#xA;    for upvote in db.execute(&quot;SELECT * FROM Votes WHERE PostID = ? AND VoteTypeID = 2&quot;, (post[&quot;ID&quot;],)):&#xA;        dayrep[upvote[&quot;CreationDate&quot;]] += 10&#xA;    for acceptance in db.execute(&quot;SELECT * FROM Votes WHERE PostID = ? AND VoteTypeID = 1 LIMIT 1&quot;, (post[&quot;ID&quot;],)):&#xA;        dayrep[acceptance[&quot;CreationDate&quot;]] += 15&#xA;&#xA;# no need for this -- the downvoter isn't recorded    &#xA;# for downvote_cast in db.execute(&quot;SELECT * FROM Votes LEFT JOIN Posts ON (Votes.PostID = Posts.ID) WHERE Votes.UserID = ? AND VoteTypeID = 3 AND Posts.CommunityOwnedDate IS NULL&quot;, (user_id,)):&#xA;#    dayrep[downvote_cast[&quot;CreationDate&quot;]] -= 1&#xA;&#xA;print &quot;Total rep: %d&quot; % sum(dayrep.itervalues())&#xA;&#xA;mod10 = [n % 10 for n in dayrep.itervalues()]&#xA;for number in xrange(10):&#xA;    print &quot;%d: %d&quot; % (number, mod10.count(number))&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the result is much closer to what you would expect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Total rep: 25499&#xA;0: 241&#xA;1: 6&#xA;2: 2&#xA;3: 21&#xA;4: 3&#xA;5: 97&#xA;6: 7&#xA;7: 1&#xA;8: 50&#xA;9: 0&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T16:58:39.410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T16:58:39.410" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39513" CreationDate="2010-02-15T16:45:45.653" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a great idea, especially since the auto-completion box tells you which version of the tag is the more often used one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T16:45:45.653" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39514" CreationDate="2010-02-15T17:25:45.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted my opinion here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/daAYbu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/daAYbu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T17:25:45.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T17:26:28.443" Score="5" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36735/temporarily-disabling-ignore-tags&quot;&gt;Temporarily disabling &amp;lsquo;Ignore&amp;rsquo; tags&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hiding ignored tags is useful, for example, if I'm a C# guy but not a Java guy so I like to answer C# questions that I find casually on the front page and ignore the Java questions I can't answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if I'm looking for a solution to a problem tagged &quot;C#&quot; that's answered in a question that happens to be in some small way related to Java and thus is also tagged &quot;java&quot;, then I won't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131603" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T17:32:26.453" ClosedDate="2010-02-15T21:12:20.023" Title="Don't &quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; on search results pages" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39472" CreationDate="2010-02-15T17:28:51.870" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we'll start to see a reduction in duplicates until we start removing reputation from answers posted to these duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could also encourage people to look for dupes by giving out badges for closing. SO gives out badges for virtually every other behaviour that should be encouraged (sometimes too much, as a new user observed recently), but there is nothing to inform a 3k user that now he has the ability to close questions other than the appearance of a new 'close' link. He can merrily continue on posting answers to dupes and continue harvesting more rep, and if he never looks at meta, he'll never be the wiser that this is not the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T17:28:51.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39532" CreationDate="2010-02-15T17:58:45.660" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem&lt;/strong&gt;: Stack Overflow blanks out when trying to open multiple tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steps to Reproduce&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For 10K+&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to Tools.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on 10 questions (middle click) to open in new tabs (5 opens / second).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to click on 'Close' in the Question of a newly opened Tab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Receive error &quot;Error retreiving close reasons&quot;&#xA;  -OR-&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to open an 11th tab and receive blank page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use case&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With 12 close/reopen votes a day, or multiple questions that need to be viewed for deletion, I usually open them up all at one time and investigate each one, so I don't have to go back and forth between other tabs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resolution&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If I can only reopen/close a max of 12 questions a day, then the limit should also be 12 requests in a short time frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T21:41:15.277" LastActivityDate="2010-04-16T22:00:03.200" Title="Stack Overflow Page Request Limits or Bug?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39531" CreationDate="2010-02-15T18:04:50.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This, I'm guessing, is to stop DDOS-like attacks where there are a large amount of requests in a short time frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solution:&lt;/strong&gt; don't open up so many tabs. I limit myself to opening 6-8 tabs at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T18:04:50.673" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26870" CreationDate="2010-02-15T18:29:27.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all, I realise classic asp is old news to most people, but still used by some :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appears to be 685 questions tagged 'asp' and 875 questions tagged 'asp-classic', could these be merged to asp-classic? I recognise that some tagged asp may actually be referring to asp.net and need to be merged with that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will this kind of clean-up need to be done every six months, or is there a feature on the way to prevent this kind of issue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143361" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T18:29:27.467" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39514" CreationDate="2010-02-15T18:43:01.733" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You asked, so... My take on this problem is &lt;a href=&quot;http://lnk.nu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lnk.nu&lt;/a&gt;. It's a link shortener that &lt;em&gt;preserves&lt;/em&gt; the domain name in the short link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lnk.nu/meta.stackoverflow.com/16jd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lnk.nu/meta.stackoverflow.com/16jd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, if you ask a programmer to solve a social problem, you'll probably get a technical solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T18:43:01.733" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39491" CreationDate="2010-02-15T19:43:07.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is a bug&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can it be fixed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's already addressed with the auto-wiki after a certain number of user edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other changes would alter something fundamental about how SO works.  For instance preventing bumping for simple edits, preventing rep gain for old questions, or a similar mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if it should be fixed at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it's necessary.  If you get 20 rep each time you edit it, then you might gain an additional 100 rep that you might not have otherwise gained until it becomes wiki, but only if the answer was especially good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all your posts turn to wiki, you'd have to generate new answers or questions, which is a good behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is, however, a method to game the reputation system, and if someone notices this and alerts the moderators, you might receive a &quot;Please stop this behavior&quot; warning, and if continued they might choose to prevent you from doing this.  Banning is one option, simply turning all your posts into CW is another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to do this, please make substantial edits.  ie, edits that improve or change the substance of the answer, not merely the wording, spacing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding adding a new answer to the question rather than editing an old answer, if the new answer is useful and doesn't duplicate existing answers, then by all means, post a new answer.  It only increases the total knowledge of SO.  IF your answers are insubstantial, and you do this frequently, then you will likely become of interest to the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T20:24:07.607" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T20:24:07.607" />
  <row Id="39536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39540" CreationDate="2010-02-15T20:29:10.407" Score="3" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked two questions in a day about mapping IDictionaries in Fluent NHibernate, one about using a composite-key for the index (which isn't yet supported - information gleaned through stack overflow) and another about standard mappings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2252474/use-component-as-idictionary-index-in-asmap-in-fluent-nhibernate&quot;&gt;Use Component as IDictionary index in AsMap in Fluent Nhibernate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2254176/how-to-map-idictionarystring-entity-in-fluent-nhibernate-closed&quot;&gt;How to map IDictionary  in Fluent NHibernate [closed]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other question is linked from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter of these questions has been closed as a duplicate and apparently can be merged into the former. I think that this will be a very useful question to have open as it essentially documents the fluent nhibernate interface for this very frequently used object (information which is hard to come by). The other is a very specific usage of the mapping for IDictionary which I think will be useful to have the lack of availability documented for people as I spent several hours searching for it before coming to stack overflow for a definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions have answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone either explain why this question has been closed or vote to keep it open as I know I would have found it useful to have available when searching last week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137917" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T20:56:21.657" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T21:18:48.953" Title="Why was this question closed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T20:56:27.960" Score="18" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel Spolsky has just posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Raising money for StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; where he talks about seeking venture capital for StackOverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If instead they opted to seek shareholders from the StackOverflow community along the lines of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://codeoffsets.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alliance for Code Excellence&lt;/a&gt;, but at a larger scale, would you be interested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking this because I suspect there might be enough fanatics willing to invest $500 or so in a product they love to raise a considerable sum. People also often talk about the motivation for high rep users. It seems to me having an actual stake in the product might be a decent incentive (especially if you also get a gold badge for buying shares).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T17:28:29.220" Title="Would you take a share in Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39536" CreationDate="2010-02-15T20:58:28.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it should be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To an outsider (someone who doesn't really know NHibernate), it looks like another example of a new user asking the same question twice instead of bumping their first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not your fault, but that's probably why it happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I vote to close a question I do the following first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check the user's question history. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this question a duplicate of an earlier question they asked?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check Google for &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com &quot;searchwords&quot;&lt;/code&gt; to see if the a similar question has been asked before&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check the comments to see if someone has posted a duplicate, and I check that question for similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T20:58:28.550" />
  <row Id="39541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:03:38.947" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. I really like Stack Overflow and would be willing to do something along the lines you suggested. A collection of programmers, server admins, super users and ponies could invest in the site and take a proportion in shares. It would be a nice way of those who were there at the start or quite early on to maintain a sense of ownership and community as the site gets bigger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it should get badges as this obviously undermines the integrity of the site, I also wonder if this would raise anything like the sums Joel considered necessary to further the site. Still, Even if it's not the sole method of finance, it would be nice for the community to own a part of Stack Overflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T21:03:38.947" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="39542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:05:25.060" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Stack Exchange? Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Stack Overflow? No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides Ad Revenue or (Oh God, spare me) paid membership, there isn't a business model there; at least not one that would justify a ROI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this is with no data on how much their ads bring in whatsoever. They may bring in a healthy chunk of change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Stack Exchange is the whitebox version of Stack Overflow. It's the version they sell to customers. It is funded by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FogCreek LLC&lt;/a&gt;, not Stack Overflow LLC. FogCreek LLC &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4352/what-will-vc-investment-mean-for-stackexchange/4356#4356&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;currently pays a royalty to Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt; for the use of its codebase. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow as a company is distinct from Fog Creek Software as a company -- this was talked about in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/05/podcast-4/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast #4&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39545/possible-negative-effects-of-vc-funding-for-stackoverflow/39565#39565&quot;&gt;Joel's answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39545/possible-negative-effects-of-vc-funding-for-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;about negative effects of VC&lt;/a&gt;, he brings up something I'd forgotten about: &lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow Careers&lt;/strong&gt;.  I believe Stack Overflow careers is a viable business model and I'd definitely buy shares of a company that held that product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T13:36:38.523" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T13:36:38.523" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39536" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:12:32.240" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To extend &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39536/why-was-this-question-closed/39540#39540&quot;&gt;George's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions were about Fluent NHibernate, both about IDictionary, both from the same low rep user on the same day. Looking at these data statistic teaches us, that the asker (that means &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;), made a mistake and misunderstood how SO and question bumping works (see also sniperX' comment to the closed as dupe question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many questions out there and many dupes. Your questions met a common dupe pattern. To avoid this trap in the future, best thing to do is to mention the first question and explaining how the new one differs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag the closed one for mod attention and ask for re-opening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T21:18:48.953" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T21:18:48.953" />
  <row Id="39544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:20:44.877" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't answer that without seeing a prospectus. How does SO make money? Is it profitable? Does it have a plan for growth? You need more than just a neat idea for a business to work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that Jeff and Joel don't have all of this worked out - just that it's not public information. As outsiders, we have no facts on which to build a decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T21:20:44.877" />
  <row Id="39545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39565" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:33:56.143" Score="17" ViewCount="873" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming Joel and Jeff succeed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;obtaining VC funding&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, what negative effects would you anticipate on the way Stack Overflow currently works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how harmful would they be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how could the &lt;em&gt;users&lt;/em&gt; mitigate these effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see this happen, but this is the first thing I would do if I were the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VC&lt;/a&gt; and wanted to generate more revenue from Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Introduce &quot;sponsored answers&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The sponsored answer would appear at the top of the answer list for any question (above the accepted answer and highest-voted answer.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would almost invariably say &quot;Product X will solve your problem; Use product X&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would of course be paid for by the vendor of product X.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users could vote on the sponsored answer (as that would be useful feedback for the vendor) but it would not change the position of that answer on the page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you think of any other examples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:06:26.533" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:06:26.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-17T12:03:56.953" Title="Possible negative effects of VC funding for Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;business-model&gt;&lt;venture-capital&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="39546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39545" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:41:09.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so if there were &lt;strong&gt;Sponsored Answers&lt;/strong&gt;, I would be creating a Greasemonkey script to do something like the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upon page load, sponsored answers would immediately get a downvote from me. (I got the rep...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The sponsored answer would then be hidden from my view.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more, I bet there would be bands of users that would all flag a sponsored answer as spam in order to delete it, given that they don't  make it immune to that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T21:41:09.597" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39545" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:45:05.903" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my knowledge of working with a few VC companies in the past, I don't think that there would be much pressure in changing what is already working*, but a lot of pressure to simply maximise profit from existing money making areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think that this would be achieved by removing the reduced advertising on certain reputation and possibly more adverts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this, I think there would be a lot more activity turned to Stack Exchange and basically monetising the idea of Stack Overflow, or it will turn the other way and expand like crazy into other areas - make money from sponsorship/advertising and not let other people use Stack Exchange based sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; I am guessing that this site is turning a profit based on the previous post where they donated cash to various Open Source projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="132901" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T22:20:54.840" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:20:54.840" />
  <row Id="39549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:45:06.823" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that we programmers (many of whom are entrepreneurs) are currently the customers and likely biggest competitors (ie, willing to use open source SO projects to avoid SE charge) of stackexchange, then I would be very surprised if he made the prospectus public enough to make a decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many programmers who might make use of such information to start their own competing service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense, Jeff and Joel's greatest threat is their current asset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it could merely mean he's acting on his own belief hinted at in a very early podcast that they needed to branch out and have language specific version of SO (and by extension SE) so that the SO of China, for instance, doesn't eat their lunch in one of the biggest upcoming economies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has been amply demonstrated, SO the model can be duplicated in a month's time.  If they don't capture the market, then while they may have been the originators of it, they won't be the person who benefited from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T21:45:06.823" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:52:21.587" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;On stackoverflow Ive noticed there is a vote down feature.What would make a post good enough that it would not get voted down and also be good enough to have alot of anwsers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:02:58.127" Title="How to make a good valid post that would not get voted down by other users?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39550" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:56:36.470" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Checklist to ensure maximum question answer-ability:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that the post actually &lt;strong&gt;has a question&lt;/strong&gt;. It's those things with the question-marks after them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that question &lt;strong&gt;hasn't &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; been asked&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make sure it is &lt;strong&gt;programming related.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question must be &lt;strong&gt;able to be answered&lt;/strong&gt;. There should be a definite or close to definite answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make sure that the &lt;strong&gt;English is able to be understood&lt;/strong&gt;, and mostly uses correct capitalization/grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Provide &lt;strong&gt;enough information&lt;/strong&gt; to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking at asking questions in a particular tag/language, find a question with that tag, click on the tag, and click on stats near the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you scroll down, you will see the Top Askers for that particular tag. Look at the questions those people have asked, how they posed them, and you might notice some recurring themes about how you should ask a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=php&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot;&gt;PHP page for example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T22:02:50.267" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:02:50.267" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39550" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:56:43.850" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask a question that is (a) programming-related, (b) hasn't been answered before and (c) contains enough details and background information for people to give you a specific and helpful answer. Bonus points if it's an interesting question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read this for more on asking good questions: &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142198" LastEditorUserId="142198" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T22:02:58.127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:02:58.127" />
  <row Id="39553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39550" CreationDate="2010-02-15T21:59:17.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A. Post on meta.stackoverflow.com for stackoverflow related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. Read everyone else's answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T21:59:17.213" />
  <row Id="39554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39545" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:05:20.993" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you say, it would have to be about monetisation/ROI for the VCs, off the top of my head, so some examples that could appear might be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cash bounties for questions (instead of just rep bounties)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't really see that this one would be too harmful assuming they aren't given &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; much priority over normal questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tip jar style micro payments on top of voting (where the house takes a % of course)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Could actually be a good thing for the community...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More ads/&quot;sponsorships&quot; of questions/tags&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly acceptable to the community, but it starts skating a fine line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More subversive ads (like those annoying linkification of keyword type ads)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think this would be enough to start turning away the regulars (certainly for myself anyway). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...although it would be interesting to see if they only did it for low/no rep users which from what I understand is the majority of page views (i.e. people coming from google), whether it would have an effect on the community given that it would largely go unnoticed (not that it would make it acceptable in any way, but it might be sneaky enough to slip beneath the radar)...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paid subscriptions&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Given Joel/Jeff's opinions of that sex-change site, I think this is very unlikely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what the users could do to mitigate these effects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Speak your mind here on meta (so far the SO team has shown that they definitely care about what their community thinks - hell the fact that they treat it as a community &amp;amp; not as group of potential customers is a good start).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go elsewhere (aka vote with your wallet/ad-viewing-eyeballs). All content is CC licenced so there's nothing stopping someone from building an OSS-SO, taking all the content as a seed and trying their luck using a different model.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:05:20.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39557" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:09:42.347" Score="0" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello, My proposal is for the requirement of 50 rep for commenting be disabled &lt;em&gt;for Meta&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest this because most of us use nothing but stackoverflow and occasionally look at some things here. I am a bit active reading and commenting in Meta(and have been a few months) and other than the linked-account 100-rep bonus, I've only made 43 rep. Well, what about the users on stackoverflow that don't have enough reputation to get this 100-rep bonus on Meta? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe commenting is the real way to go here at Meta because it is more built for discussion, so you don't want to have to put an answer for something you'd otherwise just put a comment for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again, my proposal is that 1-rep users here can comment on other people's questions only on the Meta site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T10:27:14.703" ClosedDate="2010-02-16T15:07:03.180" Title="For meta allow 1-rep users to comment?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39555" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:12:16.617" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a bad idea.  1-rep users can still add and comment on their own questions and answers.  Beyond that they should still first demonstrate some investment in the community, just like the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:12:16.617" />
  <row Id="39557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39555" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:14:17.423" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm being silly, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; says 1-rep users can comment on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:14:17.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:17:45.623" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, no badges for $&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:17:45.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:20:46.913" Score="1" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/accepting-answers-whats-it-all-about&quot;&gt;Accepting answers, what&amp;rsquo;s it all about?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I accept answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a 0% accept rate, and I don't know how to increase it, can someone explain how this works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T01:34:45.783" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T01:34:45.783" ClosedDate="2010-02-15T23:57:46.957" Title="How can I accept answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39559" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:21:34.640" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to accept answers to your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137411" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:22:56.380" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39559" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:21:53.877" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to tick the little box that says &quot;Accept this answer&quot; next to the answer you want to accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140117" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:22:56.380" />
  <row Id="39562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39559" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:22:11.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on the green check mark to the left of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137746" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:22:56.380" />
  <row Id="39563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39491" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:23:24.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another way to game the system would be to use a sock-puppet to ask a duplicate of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gained a couple of votes for my answer when a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36888/spell-fix-in-user-profile-1-questions&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20683/viewed-1-times&quot;&gt;“viewed 1 times”&lt;/a&gt; was asked. (Though it wasn't a sockpuppet - honest!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T22:36:19.503" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T22:36:19.503" />
  <row Id="39564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39559" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:24:49.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accept rate is calculated over &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; your questions. To accept an answer, decide which one best answers your question and click on the tick mark to the left of the answer (under the sum of votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133973" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:24:49.980" />
  <row Id="39565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39545" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:28:55.887" Score="35" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're not going to accept funding that would in any way interfere with what made Stack Overflow successful. Period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow succeeded because it was NOT plastered with flashing ads, paid membership, and corrupt &quot;sponsored&quot; answers. Nobody is going to mess with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, we already make half our revenue from something that is completely invisible if you don't look for it: Stack Overflow Careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the goal of raising VC would be to create, partner with, and/or buy StackOverflow-like communities for other fields. I don't expect very much would change in the way StackOverflow itself is run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We deliberately put the Stack Overflow community-generated content under Creative Commons and make data dumps of it available regularly as insurance... if Stack Overflow ever slips into the hands of an evil person who does evil things, the content of the site is freely available and someone else can set up a non-evil site. We did this because IMDB and CDDB both started out with &quot;community generated content&quot; which was appropriated by commercial companies trying to make a buck, and we wanted to insure that this could never happen to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="4" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-15T22:35:56.810" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:35:56.810" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="39566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-15T22:32:18.050" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Selling shares in a company to the general public is not legal in the US without going public, i.e., an IPO. The shares have to be registered and listed on a public stock exchange, like NASDAQ or NYSE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben &amp;amp; Jerry's managed to find a law, I think in New Hampshire IIRC, that allow them to register in New Hampshire and sell shares to residents of that state. This is quite unusual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-02-15T22:32:18.050" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="39568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T00:12:44.233" Score="5" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone seen any good uses of the stackoverflows creative commons license. I mean something like a blog listing the best recent questions or a wiki synthesising various answers into a unified view of a topic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I've only seen this used for statistics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32462/stackoverflow-statistics&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow Statistics&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/65/stack-overflow-stats-graphs&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow stats graphs&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36590/sizes-and-overlaps-of-communities-on-the-sites&quot;&gt;Sizes and overlaps of communities on the sites&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T17:30:54.373" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T05:00:03.417" Title="Any good use of creative commons license?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T00:59:11.507" Score="9" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears that &lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;statoverflow&lt;/a&gt; is not in good working order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other SQL data-dump sandboxes available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T17:14:25.167" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T17:14:25.167" Title="Data Dump Sandboxen" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;community-data&gt;&lt;stackoverflow-sandbox&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="39572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39569" CreationDate="2010-02-16T02:04:37.840" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;List of data-dump sandboxes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/49424/stack-exchange-data-explorer&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Data Explorer&lt;/a&gt; ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://odata.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://odata.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/02/querying-the-stackoverflow-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ozarific SQL Server&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22869/stackql-yet-another-data-dump-sandbox&quot;&gt;StackQL: Yet Another Data Dump Sandbox&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strike&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;)(&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL Dev site&lt;/a&gt; (slow))&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39354/stackoverflow-data-dump-feb-version-available-on-rdbhost&quot;&gt;RdbHost: Postgresqlicious&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rdbhost&lt;/a&gt;, requires registration)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4179/data-dump-sandbox&quot;&gt;Data Dump Sandbox&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://statoverflow.com/sandbox/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StatOverflow&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T14:36:31.850" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T14:36:31.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-16T02:04:37.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33954" CreationDate="2010-02-16T03:00:03.273" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have this strange problem, also.  Recommendation: put the button and links below the box.  It will work every time.  Sometimes life is just easier if you agree with the Muses.  I've wasted an hour too much on this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39570/why-is-the-comments-box-obscured-by-right-hand-text-box&quot;&gt;39570&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131360" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T03:00:03.273" />
  <row Id="39574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39472" CreationDate="2010-02-16T03:03:36.530" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, there are some people who answer questions that are duplicates. Some of them may be doing this for the rep. Maybe not all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The indication of close votes is up at the top of the page. The answers are at the bottom. It's possible that some of those answering don't see, or didn't notice, the close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that there were no close votes when the person started reading the question, but that they arrived before he submitted the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, I think there should be a warning dialog when answering a question that has close votes due to duplication. Something like, &quot;This question has (n) votes to close as a duplicate. [list links to proposed duplicates]. You may wish to answer one of the duplicates instead, since this question may be closed as a duplicate.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it would then be nice if there were a way to automatically transfer the new answer to one of the duplicate questions. Otherwise, some people will answer the duplicate just to keep from retyping their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T03:03:36.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T03:56:13.827" Score="1" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sort of a message board community but much better... question and answer based with reputations... using the open source software provide by SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149427" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T10:12:31.343" Title="What would it entail to build a stack overflow for investing?" Tags="&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="39577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39576" CreationDate="2010-02-16T03:59:20.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would take at least $129 a month.  See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/pricing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pricing page of stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T04:00:13.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39576" CreationDate="2010-02-16T06:50:55.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The code for Stack Overflow is not open source. Go ahead and try to replicate it, it'll be &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-hacker-news/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;harder than you think&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T06:50:55.580" />
  <row Id="39583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39576" CreationDate="2010-02-16T07:02:32.770" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some folks are trying just that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.basicallymoney.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.basicallymoney.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cashcommons.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cashcommons.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.investery.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askprotrader.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askprotrader.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there are more...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a complete list of StackExchange sites here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackExchange sites are using the (almost) same platform as stackoverflow to build Q&amp;amp;A sites around different topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it takes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the $129/month for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; service, or perhaps less money if you go for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;StackExchange clones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a large base of users (in the hundreds or thousands). Which means you either already have a very large network (hundreds or thousands of potential users who know you already) or you have the time and energy to gather these users.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case I would recommend you to visit and browse &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; where hundreds of people (including me) are discussing about setting up our Q&amp;amp;A sites. You'll find plenty of infos there (more than a thousand questions answered on all aspects, from technical to marketing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastEditorUserId="142196" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T10:12:31.343" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T10:12:31.343" />
  <row Id="39584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T07:04:45.090" Score="7" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;While playing around with the stackoverflow &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;data-dump&lt;/a&gt; I was getting a feel for the schema and data by looking at my own posts and comments and I happened coincidentally to notice my comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature/2003277#2003277&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; which turns out to have been popular.  However, I had no idea until I stumbled upon it in the dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the profile page be a way to find everything that a given user has posted, be it a question, answer, or comment?  I recognize that comments are definitely not the primary focus and I wouldn't want to encourage commenting just for the sake of getting voted up (the comment in question was a drive-by comment that I never gave a second thought to until now).  However, it would be nice to have a record of my past comments, or to be able to view comments of other users at a glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, in particular, the comments would be most valuable (or detrimental) to those using SO et al as a resume since comments tend to illustrate a user's temperament and civility when dealing with others much more so that questions and answers which are often more carefully worded and edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140463" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T07:33:39.020" Title="Why are comments not listed on the profile page too?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-16T07:31:04.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get it -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now we’re biting off the bigger goal of changing the way everyone gets answers to their questions on the Internet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely this is what StackExchange is about, not StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T07:31:04.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39584" CreationDate="2010-02-16T07:33:39.020" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You pretty much answered the question yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are lightweight; even as far as &quot;they shouldn't contain information that you care about to persist&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comment voting even more so -- even though comments often get their votes for being witty, saying something funny, or including the words &quot;freehand circles&quot;, the purpose of comment votes is to help a reader quickly identify those comments that are most relevant.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The information is in the data dump, so if you want to revisit your comments, it's easy to do (of course I have done so myself, only to find &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36827/data-dump-includes-deleted-comments&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;) -- but that's what Jeff calls &quot;information pornography&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at least the most recent comments &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; shown on the profile page (in the activity tab).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T07:33:39.020" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39589" CreationDate="2010-02-16T09:24:07.047" Score="25" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel &lt;a href=&quot;http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recently posted&lt;/a&gt; about going for VC funding for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes me nervous for ill-defined reasons. Somehow it feels like &quot;the man&quot; would have elements of control in a site which has really been very community-focused so far. Now I'm no tin-foil hat wearer normally, and feel a little silly for even raising this concern... but it may be symptomatic of a deeper concern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we really want to be influential on a stock price?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, so VC funding is a long way from floating on the stock market, but it's a step in that potential direction. Let's suppose SO &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; float... could I influence its price? If myself and a few other high rep users wrote carefully worded (and time-separated) posts trashing the site - not in a stroppy way, just in an &quot;it's so sad, small decisions X and Y have gradually deteriorated the site until it's no longer the place it was&quot; kind of way... would that lower the value? I'm not saying I would want to do that by any means - it just makes me nervous that I potentially &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To view it the other way round: I've always been clear that I don't want to be paid for answers. Yet if I owned stocks in SO, then every time I tried to make the site better by answering questions, editing, commenting etc then I'd effectively be protecting my investment. Would it be unethical to do this on company time, waiting for a build?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for the ramble - I just wanted to air some uncomfortable feelings and give others an opportunity to do likewise. Answers telling me to pull myself together are welcome :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T14:16:43.950" Title="If Stack Overflow ever floats, would we be &quot;insiders&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;money-making&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39588" CreationDate="2010-02-16T09:38:20.783" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me like the VC funding would be much more focused on the Stack Exchange platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Stack Overflow is related to SE, it seems like is a completely different venture in the minds of both Joel and Jeff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39545/possible-negative-effects-of-vc-funding-for-stackoverflow/39565#39565&quot;&gt;Joel's answer&lt;/a&gt; to a question about the VC deal.  It gives hope for the SO family of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're not going to accept funding that would in any way interfere with what made Stack Overflow successful. Period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think any tinfoil hats will be necessary, at least not in the foreseeable future.  &lt;em&gt;Pull yourself together man!!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T09:45:15.227" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T09:45:15.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-15T05:11:32.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-16T10:25:04.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, provided I don’t need to invest more than a few $100, and I don’t need to pay US legal freeze to do so, or have problems with UK tax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I could also &lt;em&gt;consider&lt;/em&gt; the dividend in the form of being able to place free adverts, rather then cash)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T10:25:04.397" />
  <row Id="39591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39555" CreationDate="2010-02-16T10:27:14.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just 1 rep on meta, but I can add comments. So, I do not get your question. And on Stack Overflow and Super User, you can comment from 50 rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143346" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T10:27:14.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39593" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T10:33:53.773" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chrome, if I resize a textarea the live preview and help side note appear over it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9369/careerslivepreview.png&quot; alt=&quot;live preview textbox overlap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T10:33:53.773" Title="careers live preview and help side note positioned over resized edit box" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="39597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39588" CreationDate="2010-02-16T11:45:19.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm failing to really understand how extra funding would benefit either SO or StackExchange - what would it be used for exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt; seems to be going quite well - its a fantastic QA site, and (I guess) its turning a profit, but I'd also say that its pretty much reached saturation point - the vast majority of programmers who go on the internet to ask / answer questions already use StackOverflow for exactly that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There isn't any need for any &quot;land grab&quot; - the land has already been well and truly grabbed already!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its not exactly repeatable (there is only 1 internets)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extra publicity isn't really needed either&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackExchange&lt;/strong&gt; also seems to be going quite well - its a fantastic piece of software, and I'd guess that the hosted StackExchange service is also turning a proffit.  At the same time however StackExchange is primarily software that has been written for a programmer QA environment, and has been adapted for other purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works really well for SuperUser and ServerFault because combined with StackOverflow these are sites catering to 3 very similar demographics - &lt;em&gt;People who would ask, discuss and answer questions online&lt;/em&gt;.  However if you told me that investment was going into setting up a StackExchange style site for QA on say, car maintenance, or cooking, then I'd question how popular you would expect these sites to become?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow careers&lt;/strong&gt; is again a fantastic service / product, and is clearly going quite well, however works because it exists alongside StackOverflow.com.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attempting to rapidly expand careers would undermine the point of the service - &lt;em&gt;a small pool of high quality candidates.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Setting up similar services for fields other than programming would only really works if there was an associated StackExchange QA site already there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand if investment in the &lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow team&lt;/strong&gt; was offered it would be a completely different story - it strikes me as far more fesable to raise VC for a new product or service based on the proven success of StackOverflow, than it does to raise cash for StackOverflow or StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T11:45:19.647" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="39598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T11:50:24.180" Score="0" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5547/what-is-copying-profile-in-account-tab&quot;&gt;What is copying profile in account tab?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;Account Association Between Websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29144/unable-to-comment-on-a-migrated-question&quot;&gt;Unable to comment on a migrated question?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I joined serverfault 6 months ago, and joined stackoverflow more recently. I want to copy the info I entered at stackoverflow to the old serverfault profile. This is easy if you're creating a new account (e.g. copying from stackoverflow to meta, when creating an account at meta), but I couldn't see how to do this the other way round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T11:50:24.180" ClosedDate="2010-02-16T16:37:42.940" Title="How to copy profile from a newer member to an older one?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39588" CreationDate="2010-02-16T13:09:40.940" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No you are not an insider, you are a user.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Users can affect a site, its reputation and even its value, specially high-profile users. That would be as true for Stack Overflow as for every other site you use, and in fact is the case for every product and every company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T13:09:40.940" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39588" CreationDate="2010-02-16T14:16:43.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of a business is to generate wealth for the shareholders. Whether that's Jeff and Joel, some VC firm, or the general public, the ultimate goal is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly conceivable that Jeff and Joel could partner with a VC who would assume too much control and influence, and take the site in the wrong direction due to a lack of understanding. However, if Jeff and Joel want to see the site thrive they will avoid this situation through careful screening (as Joel has already described on his blog).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for being an insider - management, some employees, and perhaps some outside partners and vendors would be insiders. Not customers or users. And that's only really relevant if the stock is public, as insider trading regulations are designed to maintain a level playing field on the stock market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T14:16:43.950" />
  <row Id="39603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38710" CreationDate="2010-02-16T14:19:13.930" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here we have another example of &quot;no longer relevant&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/96613/gmail-chat-doesnt-work-in-ie8&quot;&gt;this question on SU&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem &quot;solved itself&quot;, no accepted answer, nothing. It's a typical case of a &quot;situation&quot; which is no longer relevant. &quot;Too localized&quot; would be weird for that kind, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, closing such questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36296/should-we-close-old-questions-with-no-more-feedback-as-no-longer-relevant-on-s&quot;&gt;has a point&lt;/a&gt;, because if someone comes with a similar problem, this existing question won't be of any use for him, and yet will be a living &quot;duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T14:19:13.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2010-02-16T14:58:01.090" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One man's offence is another man's belly laugh (to paraphrase a Heinlein quote). I love the way that tolerance only ever seems to work one way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we really want to turn SO into a monolithic knowledge repository rather than an agile, targeted collection of Q&amp;amp;As.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We try not to repeat code, why repeat ourselves with answers easily found elsewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't we just replace SO with a page with a single text line and a button labelled &quot;Find it for me&quot; where someone can type their question and then all the SO users can search the internet and post the answer back. We could call it SOogle, it'd be just like Google but manual and it could take weeks for someone to get back to you. Sounds Utopian...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132504" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T14:58:01.090" />
  <row Id="39606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T15:12:23.907" Score="3" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;i posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/81745/machine-not-taking-keyboard-input-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; a while back on SF, it was (rightly) moved to SU.  After a while, I decided the question was worthless.  I couldn't delete it on SF, so I went to SU and deleted it, expecting the closed question on SF to dissappear as well.  It didn't, and I can't seem to delete it or flag it for moderator attention.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar question was asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20874/when-a-question-is-deleted-it-should-be-deleted-from-all-sites&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; but the answer doesn't address my situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130318" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:42:10.027" Title="Delete question from all sites" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39606" CreationDate="2010-02-16T15:26:31.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email to the &lt;code&gt;team @ stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; explaining the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure to provide links to anything that might be useful for making a decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we had the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37130/ability-to-flag-locked-posts&quot;&gt;Ability to flag locked posts&lt;/a&gt;, then I would suggest that you do that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The ability to flag your own posts was originally disallowed. So I think this will happen eventually.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T18:45:14.617" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T18:45:14.617" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2010-02-16T15:31:08.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is self moderating. &#xA;If everyone agrees that LMGTFY links are bad, they [the posters] will get down votes. This in turn should discourage people from posting them in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139675" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T15:31:08.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-16T15:57:18.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now we’re biting off the bigger goal of changing the way everyone gets answers to their questions on the Internet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This I totally get, but so far as I can tell, there's no proprietary IP here. Not for asking questions on SO or SE sites, and not for careers. It's far too easy to duplicate the model, and would be far too difficult to enforce infringement of a copyright or patent (if one can even be obtained).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only option to make the business model proprietary-like is to be the only show in town. Given the infinite continuum of topics in the universe, to have a monopoly on the business model, you have to have a monopoly on the topic space, which is impossible if you aren't big enough. Even so, there will always be gaps in topic space coverage because the topic space itself is changing and expanding (which, I assume, is actually part of the goal of the business). Are there topics which won't be covered because of an ethical or moral issue? Given the business model, these gaps are bad. The direct coupling of revenue and time isn't so hot either, but it's not a deal-breaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From reading the blog entry, it sounds like this is the type of strategy Joel is thinking about. It's high risk that needs to be justified by a potential high reward. So, from the point of view of an investor, what are the next logical questions to ask about the reward model?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How scalable is it in the current markets?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How scalable is it in the target markets?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How sustainable is it in the current markets?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How sustainable is it in the target markets?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who are our current competition, and how can we offer better value?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who are our future competition?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the exit strategy?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I start answering these questions based on the current models (ads, careers, and StackExchange), one certainly makes more sense than the others, but none of them seem particularly appealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ads:&lt;/strong&gt; People generally dislike ads, no matter how benign they are on the page. Ad-blockers are becoming more and more popular, and even without them, people won't keep clicking on ads. This revenue stream will eventually be neutralized completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Careers:&lt;/strong&gt; The concept of providing a focused listing to a targeted audience is appealing and valuable, but if the major job sites get their act together and provide this service through their already-established channels and users, there will have to be competition on some other aspect, most likely price. More fingers in the same pie, particularly when it comes to price, is a huge negative. Furthermore, the market is already saturated with job sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackExchange:&lt;/strong&gt; This is the most sustainable revenue model of the three. However, there is already competition in this space. Most importantly, their product is FREE. They've already commoditized the product. The competition must take place on other facets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the model needs a lot of work before VC or public investment should even be considered. It's too early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T16:19:40.473" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T16:19:40.473" />
  <row Id="39611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39606" CreationDate="2010-02-16T16:08:31.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Hit the flag -&gt; requires moderator attention button on the two sites and request it. In fact, it has already gone from SU, so just SF to go.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, OK I get it. Sorry for being slow today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess &quot;flag another of your own posts explaining the situation and citing the affected post&quot; is the best option, then - closely followed by &quot;post on meta&quot;. Sorry for being a muppet there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T22:42:10.027" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:42:10.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T16:51:14.617" Score="2" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;for (var i = 0; i &amp;lt; 42; i++) {&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When code leads the post, Markdown differs between the preview and the submitted HTML. The submitted HTML does not format the code while the preview does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug does not repro on meta. I ran into the error when first posting this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2274573/edit&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2274573/edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the revision log seems to be missing, so I can't prove my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-17T05:55:11.240" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T05:55:11.240" Title="Code at the beginning of a post is formatted differently between submit and preview" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T16:58:38.443" Score="20" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;(related to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30187/what-does-rg-mean/30297#30297&quot;&gt;what does rg mean?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes I like the SO/SF/SU series of sites, and yes I think 99% of advertising on these sites is fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But RedGate is now sponsoring tags that are way off-topic, like &quot;performance&quot; and &quot;email&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This post is meant as a protest and a request. &lt;strong&gt;Please restrict advertisers to tags that are trademarks of their products.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is an inappropriate way to protest and this question is closed, I would invite someone else to reword / post in a way that is acceptible to the SO/SF/SU community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;clarification: Here's an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295312/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-unzip-textfiles-in-matlab-during-a-function&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the fastest way to unzip textfiles in Matlab during a function?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The original poster wants to know how to improve performance in a Matlab script. This has absolutely nothing to do with [rg]'s products, but they get to advertise on this page, and a user has no way of tagging a question &quot;performance&quot; without helping [rg] advertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="44330" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T16:14:03.747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:39:39.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-16T16:58:38.443" Title="legitimate ways for users to protest irrelevant sponsorship of tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39613" CreationDate="2010-02-16T17:02:15.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your question is inappropriate -- you're entitled to your opinion. But I'm not sure why any company wouldn't be allowed to sponsor anything. Red Gate is in the business of improving app performance. Why can't they promote that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T17:02:15.363" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-16T17:02:15.363" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="39617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39613" CreationDate="2010-02-16T17:24:11.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chances are good that the only way to prevent poor tag advertising practices is to buy up the tag advertising slots yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm certain that a small bit of greasemonkey could alleviate the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags are contained in this div (for the front page, more investigation may be required for other pages):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;tags t-flash t-actionscript-3&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;   &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/flash&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'flash'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/tag-adobe.png&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; width=&quot;18&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:text-top; padding-right:4px;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      flash&#xA;   &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;   &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/actionscript-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'actionscript-3'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/tag-adobe.png&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; width=&quot;18&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align:text-top; padding-right:4px;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;      actionscript-3&#xA;   &amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &#xA;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a script to remove all &lt;code&gt;img&lt;/code&gt; tags inside &lt;code&gt;div&lt;/code&gt;s that match the class &lt;code&gt;tags&lt;/code&gt; will probably resolve the situation for those that are irritated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, you might start a more level-headed discussion regarding the site's advertising policy, which is really not up for discussion, but in the past they have taken notice and changed advertising behavior based on feedback.  The OP here, though, is quite combative, and doesn't give a really good reason as to why it harms the user experience to have tags sponsored by any given company.  Do you protest that Google sells adwords to anyone, even if their product doesn't necessarily have anything to do with a given word they bid on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T17:24:11.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-16T17:24:11.227" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39539" CreationDate="2010-02-16T17:28:29.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel didn't explain what he needs the extra money for. In his example of Starbucks, opening a lot of new stores quickly is capital intensive. In the case of Q&amp;amp;A sites, doesn't StackExchange take care of this? Maybe they need to raise money to buy a lot of hardware to support a rapid growth. The hosting fee should be self sustaining specially when it starts at $120/month with no free hosting. Any web hosting company would LOVE to have these kind of fees instead of the commoditized $5/month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel should expand on his vision some more before talking about the need for more money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T17:28:29.220" />
  <row Id="39624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39512" CreationDate="2010-02-16T18:57:48.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the same problem, but... I really don't want any more clutter on the edit page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ctrl + back button is good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T18:57:48.737" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T19:14:16.743" Score="2" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgive me that I'm almost certainly producing a duplicate with this, but I'm confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the OP makes a feature request for &quot;Facebook style&quot; comment notification - i.e. when you make a comment somewhere, you get notified of all subsequent comments, no matter whether you are personally targeted using &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; or not. The question is marked &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt; as of January 16 &lt;strong&gt;this year&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the notification system as it works right now, does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; notify you of subsequent comments, which is kind of annoying because in the normal flow of the conversation, you tend to forget to address the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has this changed since that question was tagged &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:10:16.543" Title="Facebook-Style comment notification - implemented or not?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T19:25:57.223" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/966512/ie-doesnt-remember-login-information-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is definitely programming-related. The original poster is asking how to modify his HTML to force IE to remember the password entered. Based on my reading, this has nothing to do with the client machine, settings, etc., and should be reopened for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make this request primarily because I have the same question, and am interested in answers to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T19:47:23.523" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:37:27.153" Title="Closed question that should be reopened" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39626" CreationDate="2010-02-16T19:27:33.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Um, start a new question? And be sure to explain how it is programming related&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T19:27:33.353" />
  <row Id="39629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39625" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:10:16.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question you reference asks for all your comments to be on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/187606?tab=activity#tab-top&quot;&gt;your activity page&lt;/a&gt;, and, indeed, they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also asks for all comments on questions you've commented on to be on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/187606?startdate=2010-02-16%2013%3a45%3a40z&amp;amp;enddate=2010-02-16%2023%3a59%3a59z&amp;amp;tab=responses#tab-top&quot;&gt;your responses page&lt;/a&gt;, and they are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/35913#35913&quot;&gt;Jeff's answer on that question&lt;/a&gt;, they didn't implement exactly what Kip asked for. The question didn't mention &quot;@&quot; notification at all, but that's what they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:10:16.543" />
  <row Id="39630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39512" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:29:18.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea - it would be especially nice when you're trying to see which tags are the more popular variations of tags while retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:29:18.057" />
  <row Id="39631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39626" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:37:27.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have 3k+ reputation, you can nominate a question for reopening yourself; otherwise, you can always flag a question for moderator attention and make your case in the textbox.  In either situation, you should also add a comment to the question explaining why you think it should be opened, and then other 3k+ users can come along and add their votes to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:37:27.153" />
  <row Id="39632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52257" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:38:16.700" Score="13" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I find that closing a question as a duplicate is very cumbersome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if I already found a duplicate, I have the URL. I don't have the question ID or title directly. So instead of doing what would be easy, I must paste in the url to the edit box, and remove &lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/&lt;/code&gt; from the url, then go after the number and remove &lt;code&gt;/title...&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can we not just paste in the URL and some javascript magic extract the question ID for us? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, see this slightly related post &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21826/greasemonkey-easier-vote-to-close-for-duplicates&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21826/greasemonkey-easier-vote-to-close-for-duplicates&lt;/a&gt; I ask why is this not actually implemented in the site? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T23:28:19.857" LastActivityDate="2011-06-27T13:13:05.360" Title="Easier to close questions as a duplicate?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39632" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:42:03.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I paste the url in, then hit the tab key, and that usually works (though not always).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could certainly be smoother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really crazy when there are existing dupe links there, that I should be able to select, but I still have to do the cut-and-paste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:42:03.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39632" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:42:16.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless it is a daimond moderator only feature that is how to close works for me anyway? I generally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Copy full url&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click close as duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paste url and press space&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system will then popup the correct question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:42:16.117" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39637" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:48:34.577" Score="9" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I think it's ok it doesn't count as an edit, sometimes I leave a comment or an answer to a post, just to come back later and find it has been edited, making me look like I'm crazy for referencing something that does not exist or has changed meaning, without any trace that before it said something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest adding some visual indicator that the post has been edited, kind of like editing a comment works now, without it actually counting as an edit for automatic CW conversion purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-10T20:40:42.423" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T20:40:42.423" Title="Add an indication that a post has been edited in the 5 minutes grace period" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;&lt;indication&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39635" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:51:26.803" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not have a revision history? I want to look at how it was before sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just don't make it bump the question and don't make it count for automatic CW conversion, but for everything else it should just be what it is - an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:51:26.803" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39635" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:52:05.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something subtle would be nice, maybe change the sentence above the name to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;asked &amp;amp; edited &lt;strong&gt;1 min ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or throw the pencil icon in next to the &lt;code&gt;asked&lt;/code&gt; statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-16T20:57:17.170" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:57:17.170" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39632" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:52:06.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I paste a URL, the interface refuses to pop up the little drop down list, even when I strip out all the stuff besides the question ID. It's pretty annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think two things could happen here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Smooth out the paste-and-select process&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add some UI functionality so that the duplicate questions cited in the previous votes can be selected automatically (a button would work fine) instead of having to copy/paste the URL into the text box, which, as mentioned, doesn't work so well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T20:52:06.867" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2010-02-16T20:56:19.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like many others, I build &lt;a href=&quot;http://ripper234.com/p/open-source-stackoverflow-clone-by-a-n00b-webdev/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a Stack Overflow clone&lt;/a&gt; as well, mostly as a learning exercise.&#xA;This one might be the only OSS clone written in C# / ASP.Net MVC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="11236" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-06T07:45:02.137" LastActivityDate="2010-11-06T07:45:02.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-16T20:56:19.933" />
  <row Id="39642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39643" CreationDate="2010-02-16T21:21:44.993" Score="3" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen questions of all kinds on StackOverflow, many have something to do with sofware development but never seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2275292/is-it-unethical-to-send-data-to-myself-once-a-customer-installs-my-software&quot;&gt;Ethics&lt;/a&gt; tag?! Kind of wierd. Is this kind of question allowed of what to do with your customers, whether to show or not a page requesting user data?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143364" LastActivityDate="2011-06-10T20:37:46.580" Title="Is Ethics a valid tag for Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39642" CreationDate="2010-02-16T21:24:29.170" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethics questions are always subjective, and frequently argumentative. This tends to make them inappropriate for SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T21:24:29.170" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:02:51.743" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/a7c22254d91baa9ca18786a9d46549f0?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find mine awesome &amp;lt;3&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thanks balpha, you rock!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:02:51.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-16T22:02:51.743" />
  <row Id="39646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:06:13.283" Score="5" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;Relating to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39545/possible-negative-effects-of-vc-funding-for-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt;, what are the possible positive effects of venture capital funding for Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-08T10:14:08.937" LastActivityDate="2010-09-08T10:14:08.937" Title="Possible positive effects of VC funding for Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;venture-capital&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="39647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39646" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:07:02.517" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They will be able to afford to build a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/896/mobile-iphone-optimized-version-of-so&quot;&gt;mobile version of StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:07:02.517" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39646" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:10:31.527" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can afford to provide every 10K+ user their choice of pony, unicorn, waffles or being Jon Skeet for a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:10:31.527" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39646" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:11:42.760" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Localization becomes a priority. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:11:42.760" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39642" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:16:19.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There really isn't much in ethics that is strictly programming-related.  There are plenty of ethical issues that affect programmers, but they tend to be more general and would apply to quite a few professions.  Heck, look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the ACM code of ethics&lt;/a&gt;.  Most of the points don't even mention computing, and the ones that do aren't specific to software development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, and as Shog9 points out, ethics tend to be subjective, and it's really easy to get an argument started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:16:19.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39612" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:49:22.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can add a few empty lines before the code block as a work around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:49:22.447" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39505" CreationDate="2010-02-16T22:49:24.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be neat if it turned a very red color, but not for the reasons you say. Just because it would be neat. :3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87234" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T22:49:24.677" />
  <row Id="39654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39642" CreationDate="2010-02-16T23:11:22.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even where ethical questions are not really argumentative, they still tend towards discussion. Long, detailed discussions which are ill suited to the Stack Overflow format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-16T23:11:22.363" />
  <row Id="39655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39642" CreationDate="2010-02-17T00:03:20.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about ethics questions in general, but the particular question seems to be a useful question with useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T00:03:20.407" />
  <row Id="39656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39657" CreationDate="2010-02-17T00:03:46.523" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm horrified by the banner ads that are now appearing in the middle of the page. My love for SO is strong, but these challenge it a bit. I find them very distracting. Does anyone else hate them as much as I do? It wouldn't be too hard to convince me to shell out a few bucks every month to keep them away, if it comes to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142735" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T00:16:35.270" Title="Does anyone else find the new banner ads REEAAALLY annoying?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39656" CreationDate="2010-02-17T00:16:35.270" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be seeing it outside your normal account, since at 200 rep you shouldn't see them anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T00:16:35.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39664" CreationDate="2010-02-17T02:14:38.983" Score="4" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32700/what-happens-if-a-fifth-person-chooses-a-different-reason-to-close&quot;&gt;What happens if a fifth person chooses a different reason to close?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there priority of Close Votes' reasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that &lt;strong&gt;subjective and argumentative&lt;/strong&gt; has more priority than &lt;strong&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2274937/code-readability-vs-conciseness&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, each of them had same 2 votes (I've voted as &lt;strong&gt;too localized&lt;/strong&gt; for 5th vote)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about others? It will be good to know priority of those too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;id&quot;:1,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;exact duplicate&quot;&#xA;&quot;id&quot;:2,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;not programming related&quot;&#xA;&quot;id&quot;:3,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;&#xA;&quot;id&quot;:4,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;not a real question&quot;&#xA;&quot;id&quot;:7,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;too localized&quot;&#xA;&quot;id&quot;:104,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&#xA;&quot;id&quot;:102,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;belongs on serverfault.com&quot;,&#xA;&quot;id&quot;:103,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;belongs on superuser.com&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've participated in close as exact duplicate, but please just don't delete it, this one has proper answer to reference later on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T10:55:21.903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T10:55:21.903" ClosedDate="2010-02-17T10:52:23.827" Title="Priority of Close Votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="39659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39658" CreationDate="2010-02-17T02:20:57.350" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, of course Exact Duplicate isn't chosen as much as 'Subjective and Argumentative'... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to click type in the ID of the question  that you think it is a duplicate of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AKA:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more work....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;This has been a public service announcement by the LPA (Lazy Programmer Association)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T02:20:57.350" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39642" CreationDate="2010-02-17T03:20:14.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My problem with questions about ethics is that ethics are, by their very nature, subjective. There is no right answer. What is right for &lt;code&gt;Person A&lt;/code&gt; might be horrific for &lt;code&gt;Person B&lt;/code&gt; to even think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T03:20:14.023" />
  <row Id="39661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-17T04:03:09.617" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://drupal.org/contribute&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1039/droplet.png&quot; alt=&quot;Drupal.org: when you can't pin all the blame on PHP.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139007" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T04:03:09.617" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-17T04:03:09.617" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="39662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39646" CreationDate="2010-02-17T04:03:09.943" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They'd hire a real server admin, rather than needing developers standing in as server admins.  Not that the team has done a bad job, but there have been some avoidable outages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A development database that doesn't live on the production server.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Connections needed to force advertisers to give SO a second look who currently pass it over because they don't allow animated/flash ads.  It'd be nice to see some of the ad dollars from the VS2010 launch campaign make it's way to SO, for example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Money to promote serverfault a little better.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More user profile customization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if they really want to &quot;raise the level of discourse on the entire internet&quot;, they're gonna have to compete with phpBB on price at some point.  And that means a version that can be hosted on a php server.  And that means a re-write, or at least parallel implementation.  I don't think mono will cut it for that crowd.  I'm skeptical of the idea that php hosts are really cheaper in a meaningful way (I can find asp.net hosting for $5/mo, just like php - or even free from time to time), but the perception exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T14:10:19.463" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T14:10:19.463" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39612" CreationDate="2010-02-17T04:26:24.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;can't reproduce this. Underlying source code on meta and SO is identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T04:26:24.713" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39658" CreationDate="2010-02-17T04:34:24.777" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last vote cast has priority in the case of tiebreakers. Has nothing to do with the ID numbers in the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T04:34:24.777" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39632" CreationDate="2010-02-17T04:50:29.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't do copy paste for url. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drag dup URL to text box&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Double-click text box and wait&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T04:50:29.040" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T04:54:43.183" Score="-6" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;My prior rant (see on edits) proved somewhat valuable - there is now a not-anymore-so-&lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; feature that gives us 100 points (leaving us at the funny 101 state) when creating a new user on sites from SE network, proven you had enough points (200) in at least one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I still think 10 rep points is too much of a requirement to new users to post more than 1 hyperlink. And &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/367/remove-number-of-links-restriction-for-new-users&quot;&gt;I'm not alone (at least among skeptics)&lt;/a&gt;. If the intention is preventing spam, why not &lt;em&gt;simply applying the &lt;strong&gt;SPAM prevention mechanism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (that one with the cute robot image) to everyone with less than 10 points and remove this limit once and for all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-20T14:55:12.100" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T14:55:12.100" Title="spam prevention mechanism - earn 10 reputation to post more hyperlinks no more" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;spam-prevention&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39666" CreationDate="2010-02-17T04:59:31.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites&quot;&gt;associated&lt;/a&gt; your accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a bonus involved, if, as random says, you have 200 reputation on one of the accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the bonus, it would be misleading to share reputation between accounts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, answering questions on SO with reputation earned on SU might persuade readers that there was some kind of expertise involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135153" LastEditorUserId="135153" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T05:14:53.430" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T05:14:53.430" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39666" CreationDate="2010-02-17T05:14:08.800" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't have much reputation on the sites, as you've been a member of all the sites for just a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to be more interested in superuser, and you already have 41 rep points there. You'll realize that the more you participate on the sites, the more rep you'll get at a fast enough rate (no more than 200 points from votes casted on your posts in a single day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not shared across the sites because the rep is supposed to be a measure of your participation in one of the sites, and in a smaller sense, knowledge about the site's domain. Every site has a specific knowledge domain, your knowledge about programming does not mean you have a good knowledge of networking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T05:14:08.800" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39679" CreationDate="2010-02-17T07:46:22.470" Score="-9" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow does make it easy for new users, but not so much. I'm new here and, as such, I spent some time reading before doing anything. And then I go out to try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After spending some time on Super User, I went to Meta, as recommended, to ask a question about the interface (I didn't know about doctype yet). I've elaborated on the whole question, putting links and all, only to get marked as a &quot;spammer&quot; by an unjustified prevention mechanism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say unjustified because I had already proven, by its own concept, on the other associated site, that I'm not a spammer by earning the freaking reputation (bad naming, by the way - everyone wants to have &quot;reputation&quot; in real life, but this should not be the case here. I believe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, big frustration, after already having a bad first impression. It's the reason I did all this in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me, and I'm sorry for bringing all this text here. Not that anyone will read this. But maybe this system could be improved for new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all. Or so it was until I got a new deception:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New users can only post questions every 20 minutes; try again later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C'mon people! There must be better ways to fight bots and spammers! This interface is so innovative and yet this kind of thing seem so stupid!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how I currently feel about this whole Stack Overflow system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T10:40:15.407" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T10:40:15.407" Title="First Impressions: Great interface, interesting concept, bad implementation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-17T07:58:01.187" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gallio.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gallio.org/images/GallioAdOnStackOverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;Open, extensible, and neutral automation platform for .NET testing tools.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148651" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T07:58:01.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-17T07:58:01.187" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39678" CreationDate="2010-02-17T07:15:56.100" Score="-3" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24659/instant-email-alerts-and-notifications&quot;&gt;Instant email alerts and notifications&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I click on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/143411/cawas&quot;&gt;my name on the top of the screen&lt;/a&gt; and then click on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/143411&quot;&gt;user feed&lt;/a&gt;, at the bottom of that page, I'll get an RSS for updates. Great for notifications of messages I should read, as they're related to questions I've subscribed somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't we have an option to just receive those notifications through e-mail instantly? Not using feedburner or any other external source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24659/instant-email-alerts-and-notifications&quot;&gt;not the first time&lt;/a&gt; this question is asked, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;there are nice deviants&lt;/a&gt; from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's still &lt;em&gt;not answered&lt;/em&gt;! Hopefully it's for having the wrong approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just need to get email notifications, at very least, from direct answers to my questions. No need to try and automate anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Ways to get instant notification:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;opt-in config to auto-notify when getting answer to your question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;opt-in config to auto-notify when getting comments on your answer / question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;individually choose to get warnings on either the selected answer or question from anyone else with an opt-in config to auto-notify on the ones you've answered / commented.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple as that. I don't mind receiving too much notifications. I only mind receiving NONE!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T08:07:01.077" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T08:40:33.193" ClosedDate="2010-02-17T08:42:58.803" Title="Instant email alerts and notifications" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39674" CreationDate="2010-02-17T08:23:45.450" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really want to help improving the site, take the &lt;strong&gt;time&lt;/strong&gt; and build trust from community first, and go step by step with constructive manners. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just saying &quot;THIS IS BAD!, THIS IS BAD!&quot; will be just ends in unexpected results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also there is policy and rules on every sites, learn by reading FAQ, old questions and find the concepts why they are doing like that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T08:23:45.450" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="39678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39676" CreationDate="2010-02-17T08:34:57.897" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has actually been answered in one of the most recent SO &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/podcast-83/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #83&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the notes for the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am not a fan of email, to put it mildly, as I wrote in Is Email = Efail and Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine. Given my discomfort with email, I struggle with the role of email on Stack Overflow — mostly trying to keep it at arms’ length while using it appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short version is it is never going to happen this way. He explains his reasons well in the Podcast, and to be honest I agree personally. I despise e-mail in general and try and keep it to a minimum. I am currently on various mailing lists and the amount of information a get from them makes it absolutely useless. I prefer my RSS reader over e-mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you post a question and expect immediate results your expecting to much. Granted the Trilogy has built a reputation for providing fast answers, it is not guaranteed that it will happen. I have had a few questions that never gained any response due to them being extremely specialised or unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T08:40:33.193" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T08:40:33.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39674" CreationDate="2010-02-17T09:05:00.577" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a personal level, I appreciate that you did spent time reading before participating actively. However that conflicted the fact that you have problem asking questions in a well... 'nicer' manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I continue, please understand that I'm neutral and am trying to help more than anything. Here's my comments on some of your questions on Meta (in chrono order):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39666/&quot;&gt;spam prevention mechanism - earn 10 reputation to post more hyperlinks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;and you started the question body with &quot;I find this a little bit stupid...&quot;. You used an error message as the title and then attacked it directly in the body. Not a very good move for a first question. You might want to be constructive but I find it more tempting to rebutt your question than to support it, even if it's worth supporting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39669/&quot;&gt;What interface software system is used in superuser?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I think you were getting the hang of it and you've got your answer for this one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39671/&quot;&gt;asking question notify checkbox bug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Honestly, took a couple of re-reads for me to understand your question and I'm not the only one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39674/&quot;&gt;First Impressions: Great interface, interesting concept, bad implementation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is the one that prompted me to read your other posts and also give my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39676/&quot;&gt;Instant email alerts and notifications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Rather well-structured question with supporting links and numbered list, though I can sense some 'heat' in your tone. Eventually you ended with this sentence, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Simple as that. I don't mind receiving too much notifications. I only mind receiving NONE!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Not pretty I must say, it sounded like an angry paying client during an UAT feedback session.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I just used 30 minutes of my time to compile this reply. Anyway in short, the guys here can be 'nasty' at times, if you were to step on their toes or put up screenshots with soulless circles :P. The thing is, however nice they (we) maybe, most of them (or us) do not really tolerate blantant attacks albeit trying to be constructive, which I believe you are. It's the manner of delivery which perhaps should be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T09:05:00.577" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2010-02-17T09:28:16.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally second this. There is a number of questions I am working on in odd free minutes here and there. It would be great to have the markdown editor available when working on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T09:28:16.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-17T09:28:16.953" />
  <row Id="39681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36954" CreationDate="2010-02-17T10:37:56.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also agree with this request. If a question is tagged with both interesting and ignored tags then it should be categorized as &quot;interesting&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138991" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T10:37:56.440" />
  <row Id="39682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39688" CreationDate="2010-02-17T12:55:22.130" Score="1" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is not &quot;Is SO the place to learn...&quot; but rather should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a concerted drive from many people on SO to answer &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question, irrespective of the quality of the question or the availability of the answer. Any comment or answer that doesn't provide a definitive answer is leapt upon and the author is brought to task. Despite the leapers claim to be even handed, the OP is never chided (or at least in my experience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does make me question the objective of SO. If it is intended to be a place for non-programmers to learn how to program then it makes sense that any vaguely programming related question goes and should be answered in full even if there are 100K sites on the web also providing the same answer, after all we can't link to them all and a Google search link would get marked as 'Offensive' in seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, this is a programming Q&amp;amp;A site for programmers then I'd expect a far fewer 'free lunches' and a little more a la carte.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is it? Is SO a place to learn &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to program or is it a place to get help &lt;em&gt;while&lt;/em&gt; you are programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132504" LastEditorUserId="132504" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T09:46:58.443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:46:58.443" Title="Should SO be a place to learn how to program?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;learning&gt;&lt;scope&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39682" CreationDate="2010-02-17T13:00:01.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both of course, it's a Q&amp;amp;A site &lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt; programming, from beginners with broad inquiries to experts with specific technical challenges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you want to leave a sector out when everyone (from aspiring programmers, to experts in the field) can benefit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T13:00:01.043" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T13:06:52.173" Score="7" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FFS.&lt;/strong&gt; I do this all the time and it kills me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editor knows that an empty line followed by a number followed by a period followed by a space is a list item.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This works great&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its almost magic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that I almost always use a close parenthesis for my lists. I think it's a pretty common practice and I'm not a freak for doing it. And if you say I am I will sue.  The problem is that the editor doesn't accept the parenthesis as an acceptable list delimiter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) This fails horribly&#xA;2) This is on the next line I swear&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can haz parens as list delimeter 2? kthxbai (&gt;^_^)&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T00:50:00.037" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T08:50:30.220" ClosedDate="2010-02-18T21:54:10.407" Title="Add parenthesis to period as an accepted list delimiter" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;list&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39684" CreationDate="2010-02-17T13:31:03.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about terminating the line with a double space?:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) This works&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) This is on the next line I swear..oh yes it is!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) Woo look at me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T13:31:03.490" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15535" CreationDate="2010-02-17T14:13:43.623" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would only generate like 7 questions of people whining because they can't see the delete link... &lt;em&gt;how is it possible I can't delete my answer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the link, and the message that you cannot delete it, is simpler and avoids confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T14:13:43.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39682" CreationDate="2010-02-17T14:40:19.307" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which is it? Is SO a place to learn&#xA;  how to program or is it a place to get&#xA;  help while you are programming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a place where people with questions get help from people willing to provide answers. It's as simple as that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is &quot;give me the code please&quot; and there is someone willing to provide an answer, &lt;strong&gt;what's the harm&lt;/strong&gt;? If I want to do their work for them, why would you want to prevent me from doing it? There are no benefits (what do you gain? why do you care?) and everyone loses (I can't give the answer I'm willing to give, the asker doesn't get his answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T14:40:19.307" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39682" CreationDate="2010-02-17T14:57:27.327" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow should not be a place to learn programming for the very simple reason that the web is not well suited to teaching. If someone supplies a technical answer, one can at least test it. If someone supplies supposed good advice on learning a programming language, such tests are not possible. And frankly, many of the the people on SO simply do not know what they are talking about. The only way to really learn a programming language is to read a good book (and how many downright bad books do we see recommended on SO? - lots) and write some code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T14:57:27.327" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39723" CreationDate="2010-02-17T15:13:54.353" Score="5" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because I use my actual name for display on Stack Overflow, it is displayed outside the flair box (as seen here on my Careers CV):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img115.yfrog.com/img115/8462/picture4.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://img115.yfrog.com/img115/8462/picture4.png&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I could just shorten my display name, and this issue would go away.  And I understand the underlying CSS layout concept, but this brings to mind two questions:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this happens to display names as long as mine, why allow the display names to be that length?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the flair box expand for longer display names, if they are to be allowed?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CSS layout can be edited when embedding the flair on another site, perhaps we can have an option to control the flair CSS on the Careers CV display?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136970" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T19:53:32.540" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T19:55:28.027" Title="Long Display Names Cause Flair Layout Issue" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39689" CreationDate="2010-02-17T15:31:23.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be the same as on stackoverflow: a &lt;code&gt;white-space: nowrap&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;overflow: hidden&lt;/code&gt;; and a fixed width. In other words names that don't fit are silently truncated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T15:31:23.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39689" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:07:30.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39689/long-display-names-cause-flair-layout-issue/39690#39690&quot;&gt;Koper's answer&lt;/a&gt;, and to answer your question, &lt;em&gt;&quot;why allow the display names to be that length?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, flair came along as an afterthought by which time it would have been a major annoyance to truncate existing Display Names to fit the flair dimensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing there was an optimal size to fit 99% of cases, maybe you could ask for a parameter to be added that would allow you to control the flair width or fiddle with the CSS yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair#js&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair#js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T16:07:30.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39689" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:16:29.150" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's whitespace in your name, and room for more than one line of text, so I don't see why wrapping couldn't be used here. (CSS left as an exercise for those more well-versed in CSS.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T16:16:29.150" />
  <row Id="39693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:36:53.157" Score="7" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I ask a question, I would like it if I got a notification if someone as commented on any answer to the question I have asked.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I ask &quot;How do I foo&quot;.  Joe Answers &quot;One way to Foo is to Baz.&quot;  Then Ted comments on Joe's Answer &quot;You could also bar&quot;.  I would like to get a notification about Ted's comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rationale being that sometimes if a question is getting a little old (I tend to watch my recent questions actively), a useful comment will be posted and I might not see it a timely fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="131182" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T16:45:17.963" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T16:51:29.573" Title="Receive Notifications for Comments on any Answers to Your Question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39689" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:39:56.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've come to the conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff doesn't like people with long names.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, look at his name: &lt;em&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 letters&lt;/strong&gt;, and then &lt;strong&gt;6 letters&lt;/strong&gt;, for a sum total of &lt;strong&gt;10 letters plus a space&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats shorter than your entire last name!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a conspiracy I tell ya!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T16:39:56.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39693" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:51:29.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments aren't meant to carry significant information - we should instead encourage users to post answers if they have information relevant to the question, or post comments to the question directly if they have comments about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T16:51:29.573" />
  <row Id="39696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39703" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:53:26.890" Score="9" ViewCount="422" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28756/serial-downvoting-victim&quot;&gt;Serial Downvoting Victim&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked my rep today and I noticed I was down 50 points. Then when I looked at my &lt;code&gt;reputation&lt;/code&gt;I saw this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/H505s.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/L3LNi.png&quot; alt=&quot;link text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind you these questions weren't terrible questions and none of them (I don't think) have down votes besides the ones this person gave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone has something against me =( Is there a way to find out who or why the person went on a down-vote spree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140062" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-01T14:02:15.173" LastActivityDate="2011-02-01T14:02:15.173" ClosedDate="2011-02-01T15:23:14.617" Title="I keep getting downvoted, does someone hate me?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="39697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39696" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:58:08.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag one of those questions for moderation attention and explain what's happened, or e-mail team@stackoverflow.com. They'll fix things up for you - that pattern certainly looks as if someone's got angry with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T16:58:08.503" />
  <row Id="39698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:04:35.517" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry if this belongs on Meta. From one of my computers (a laptop) I can not access StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser, nor Meta. I can access the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Careers&lt;/a&gt;. I can access seemingly all other accessible sites on the Internet. I can access these sites from other computers on the network. The problem occurs at both home and work (i.e., in both places, from my laptop I can access the above sites but I have a desktop in each place that can access these sites). I tried from a friend's house too; we can access StackOverflow from his computer but not from my laptop.  The problem occurs in both IE and Chrome. I had previously been able to access these sites from this laptop. All relevant systems are Windows XP or Windows Vista. In particular, the laptop is Windows XP. This has been occurring for about a week. What could be causing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The error message in IE is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While trying to retrieve the URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following error was encountered: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can not connect to the server you have requested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The server might be busy at this time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The server is not reachable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please try later to see if you can go through. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This problem has now spread to other machines on my team. My internal IT department is useless. If anyone has any ideas I am all ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141514" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:25:46.033" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T07:00:04.990" Title="Unable to access trilogy sites and Meta" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39698" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:37:59.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You failed to mention what operating system your laptop is running.  Either way, let's have a look at your DNS settings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under Linux, have look at &lt;code&gt;/etc/resolv.conf&lt;/code&gt; for DNS settings that may be causing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under Windows, have a look at &lt;code&gt;%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\&lt;/code&gt; and run &lt;code&gt;ipconfig /all&lt;/code&gt; and look for DNS settings that may be causing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43263" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:06:33.640" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39698" CreationDate="2010-02-17T16:41:13.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you try to flush your dns?  On windows, do: &lt;code&gt;ipconfig /flushdns&lt;/code&gt;  After this, try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how this would be accomplished on Linux/Mac.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18196" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:06:33.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39696" CreationDate="2010-02-17T17:08:20.297" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yup. Somebody has it out for you. We'll review this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:08:20.297" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39696" CreationDate="2010-02-17T17:08:29.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a way to find out who or why the person went on a down-vote spree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, voting records are strictly anonymous and as such you will not be told who did this.  Such a person, and their supposed reason, is not worth knowing anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag one of your posts for moderator attention and they'll fix the problem and deal with the problem user if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting records are kept, and diamond moderators can find out who did this so they can take appropriate action, but the site's policy is not to release that information so people feel free to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T19:19:46.917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T19:19:46.917" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39696" CreationDate="2010-02-17T17:08:45.537" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from what Dominic said this will be reverted within 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a set of anti abuse scripts that run periodically which removed these types of votes and detects them quite easily. This happens quite often on some moderator accounts and we normally just wait until the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:08:45.537" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39698" CreationDate="2010-02-17T17:09:01.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens if you run &lt;code&gt;nslookup stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; from a cmd prompt?&#xA;What happens if you run &lt;code&gt;tracert stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; from a cmd prompt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:09:01.183" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39696" CreationDate="2010-02-17T17:09:56.970" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have several algorithms in place to deal with this type of activity that run daily.  When you wake up tomorrow this pattern of serial downvotes will be gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:09:56.970" />
  <row Id="39710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38814" CreationDate="2010-02-17T17:51:58.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Notification emails don't arrive on every new answer, but rather abridged, once per day (or two I guess), if there is a new answer on that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140360" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T17:51:58.930" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T18:13:48.447" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Homework on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen a bunch of complaints about homework and whether or not it's cheating to ask for answers online. I understand the general idea that not trying or just asking for answers is not good for you, but also isn't the internet and the community the most valuable tool to any programmer? If I had to name my most important programming tool it wouldn't be my IDE or a book on my shelf although I have learned a ton from books. Isn't this in a way preparing a student for solving real life technology specific programming problems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T18:17:20.387" ClosedDate="2010-02-17T18:16:42.150" Title="Is it wrong to ask homework questions?" Tags="&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;homework&gt;&lt;programming-languages&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T18:38:28.050" Score="7" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;When editing a lot of posts, only some of them show up on the &quot;activity&quot; tab on the user page. For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56338?tab=activity#tab-top&quot;&gt;my activity tab&lt;/a&gt; is missing these edits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1596066/flex-mxaxisrenderer-how-do-i-prevent-the-labels-from-being-scaled/2279758#2279758&quot;&gt;Flex mx:axisrenderer How do I prevent the labels from being scaled.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1208548/datatable-defaultview-sort-doesnt-sort/2278597#2278597&quot;&gt;DataTable.DefaultView.Sort Doesn’t Sort&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1391548/problem-with-getchar-in-c/2278523#2278523&quot;&gt;problem with getchar() in C&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/665905/deleting-rows-from-datatable-in-vb-net/2278057#2278057&quot;&gt;Deleting rows from Datatable in vb.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are edits before and after these that do show up on &quot;activity&quot;. Is this a bug or does an edit need to fulfill some special requirements to show up there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T18:44:23.520" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T18:44:23.520" Title="Which edits show up on the &quot;activity&quot; tab on the user page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-17T18:48:37.533" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/kopal/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Er7KBHV51-k/S3wgCl5VKfI/AAAAAAAAAkY/SR1o7vo3Vao/kopal-first-ad.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kopal - Distributed Social Networking.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140360" LastEditorUserId="140360" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-19T16:41:49.720" LastActivityDate="2010-08-19T16:41:49.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-17T18:48:37.533" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="39719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36109" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:30:59.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;warning&lt;/code&gt; - 75 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;issue&lt;/code&gt; - 81 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;error&lt;/code&gt; - 1,792 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;line&lt;/code&gt; - 146 (41 are tagged &lt;code&gt;command&lt;/code&gt; as well, so that's a different &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39718/retag-questions-with-both-command-and-line-tags-command-line&quot;&gt;re-tag request&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T19:30:59.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:41:52.480" Score="11" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2283696/book-recommendation-on-c-closed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was closed as a duplicate, and the asker said that the suggested question didn't show up in the Related Questions when he asked. So of course I had to try this myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I copy/pasted the question title into a new question, and the duplicate didn't show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I copy/pasted the question title into the search box, and the duplicate came up 4th in the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the searching algorithms different? We need to make it easy for users to find these duplicate questions. It's understandably confusing, especially for new users who don't understand the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-10-25T06:33:39.300" Title="Issues with question suggestion and search algorithm differences" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:52:49.530" Score="-10" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed the name &lt;code&gt;copypastecoder&lt;/code&gt; on a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/275526/copypastecoder&quot;&gt;user&lt;/a&gt;.  While this name isn't offensive &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt; it indicates the person has some wrongheaded ideas about programming, and indeed about SO.  Should I just go merrily along my way, or is there a way to send them a gentle nudge about the name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T20:00:11.187" Title="copypastecoder - What a name?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;&lt;offensive&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36109" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:53:40.917" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. There's also the issue of tags like this that have ambiguous meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;code&gt;[exception]&lt;/code&gt; could refer to a specific problem someone is having, or to a .NET &lt;code&gt;Exception&lt;/code&gt;-related question. That tag, by the way, is used by 1918 questions (fun times sorting that out!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T19:53:40.917" />
  <row Id="39723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39689" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:55:28.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A change will be deployed tonight that will address this.  Names that are really long will be truncated slightly as per @Koper's suggestion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T19:55:28.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39728" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:55:44.750" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;See these two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2280495/dataaccess-in-delphi-7&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2280495/dataaccess-in-delphi-7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2272978/from-net-to-delphi-an-erp-on-delphi&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2272978/from-net-to-delphi-an-erp-on-delphi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some suspect these two questions are from the same user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both questions clearly show the asker has no interest in learning.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;about the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;about the bashing in the answers and comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question got a lot of downvotes, the first a few.&#xA;Is that the way to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm considering posting an answer like this one that I posted on LinkedIn not too long ago (which a lot of people liked).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is that appropriate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been hearing 'Delphi is dead' since Delphi 1 (which tomorrow was released 15 years ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Delphi has it's place, .NET as it's place and other development tools/environments have their place too.&#xA;     The true developer knows when too choose what, and how to be more productive than the people doing only one thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All this bashing stuff is soooo stone-age. Modern languages (including Delphi, Java, C#, VB.NET) are all great languages. I have done projects and trained people in all 4 mentioned languages, all with really nice results.&#xA;     For some people it is easier to learn a few than others (background plays a role here, what languages do you know, and is it easy for you to learn something totally different).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I totally agree with Ralph that languages and environments don't die.&#xA;     COBOL is still very much used, as are Clipper and many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--jeroen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137204" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T20:06:17.307" Title="What do do with someone clearly showing they don't want to learn the language/environment their question is for?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bashing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39721" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:58:50.363" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just move along.  If that's what they want to be known as, well, then that's what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15689" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T19:58:50.363" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39721" CreationDate="2010-02-17T19:59:25.977" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're assuming a heck of a lot based on a screen name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of other reasonable explanations about why that name was chosen, none of which are any of our business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T19:59:25.977" />
  <row Id="39727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39721" CreationDate="2010-02-17T20:00:11.187" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you serious? How do you know he isn't being ironic? Why do you think his username is any indication of his approach to coding? What's it got to do with you, anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T20:00:11.187" />
  <row Id="39728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39724" CreationDate="2010-02-17T20:06:17.307" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do do with someone clearly showing they don’t want to learn the language/environment their question is for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose one or more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer their question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't answer their question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close the question if it doesn't meet site guidelines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvote or upvote the question according to the site guidelines and your own impression&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will meet many, many, many people in the world that are not interested in improving their skills, and scrape along in life by knowing just enough, but no more.  They aren't interested in analysis and synthesis, just applying their knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that person may not benefit from your answer, others may come along later with a thirst for knowledge and happen upon your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, it doesn't matter whether they will learn and grow.  Do what you would normally do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T20:06:17.307" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T20:13:50.323" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;What other Q&amp;amp;A site providers (hosting or software) are out there? I am interested in knowing how big the current Q&amp;amp;A market is and how fast it's growing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://qhub.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;qhub.com&lt;/a&gt; today and wondered if there are similar sites and if one can host his own using a Q&amp;amp;A web application (ASP.NET, PHP, ..etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T20:40:28.813" ClosedDate="2010-02-17T20:49:04.150" Title="What other Q&amp;A site providers (hosting or software) are out there?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39730" CreationDate="2010-02-17T20:17:04.280" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T20:17:04.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39730" CreationDate="2010-02-17T20:40:28.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.experts-exchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.expert-sexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T20:40:28.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-17T20:40:28.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39736" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T20:47:25.353" Score="0" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1125/move-the-remove-tag-icon-inside-the-tag&quot;&gt;Move the &amp;ldquo;remove tag&amp;rdquo; icon inside the tag&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Interestings tags' on the right of SO have small 'x' signs next to them, apparently for deleting the given tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this was not clear for me, because the 'x' signs are approximately halfway between one tag and the next one, which made me think this denotes a 'cross product' of my interesting tags. May sound silly but I only came to know that the 'x' is for delete after clicking on one accidentally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the next tag following the 'x' of the previous tag could be spaced a little farther away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-11T06:09:09.437" LastActivityDate="2011-05-11T06:09:09.437" ClosedDate="2010-02-17T21:21:10.680" Title="'Interesting tags' small x confusion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T21:41:11.623" Score="-1" ViewCount="190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Multiple times now I've seen questions of mine edited by people, and all but the accepted answer removed. Just because other answers aren't accepted doesn't mean they're not useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went back to try and pick out some commands I currently need from an answer to one of my questions, and someone has gone in and deleted it because it was not the accepted answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's really no reason to be doing this; I use these questions as references later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143493" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T00:21:02.580" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T00:21:02.580" ClosedDate="2010-02-18T01:07:45.390" Title="Can people please stop editing questions and removing things?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39737" CreationDate="2010-02-17T21:47:27.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're really worried that something useful was lost, flag the question for moderator attention.  They can see all deleted posts and rollback any changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130126" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T21:47:27.980" />
  <row Id="39739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39737" CreationDate="2010-02-17T21:48:18.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one should be doing this.  It should be &lt;strong&gt;extremely rare&lt;/strong&gt; that any answer is deleted.  Please flag the moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T21:48:18.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-17T21:51:51.933" Score="7" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;After hearing of 'answer deleting' going on from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39737/can-people-please-stop-editing-questions-and-removing-things&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (which turned out to be a red herring), I realized that I would have no way of knowing if someone deleted my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the feature-request for the original poster of an answer to be notified (through the recent-activity page (response envelope)) when that answer is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also just be noted in the revision tab of the recent-activity page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-17T22:26:47.337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:46:30.490" Title="Notify answer OP when answer is deleted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39737" CreationDate="2010-02-17T21:57:13.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;bergyman, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/253405/bergyman&quot;&gt;you don't have any&lt;/a&gt; deleted questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T21:57:13.953" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32087" CreationDate="2010-02-17T22:24:42.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Votes are anonymized, so it's impossible to deduct points for a user's downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad the data-dump XML is friendly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#! /usr/bin/perl&#xA;&#xA;use warnings;&#xA;use strict;&#xA;&#xA;die &quot;Usage: $0 id-num\n&quot; unless @ARGV == 1;&#xA;my $id = shift;&#xA;my %postid;&#xA;@postid{&#xA;  map { /\bId=&quot;([^&quot;]+)&quot;/ ? $1 : die &quot;$0: missing Id:\n$_&quot; }&#xA;  `grep -w 'OwnerUserId=&quot;$id&quot;' posts.xml`&#xA;} = ();&#xA;&#xA;my %repmod = (&#xA;  1 =&amp;gt; +15,&#xA;  2 =&amp;gt; +10,&#xA;  3 =&amp;gt;  -2,&#xA;);&#xA;&#xA;my %increase;&#xA;open my $votes, &quot;&amp;lt;&quot;, &quot;votes.xml&quot; or die &quot;$0: open: $!&quot;;&#xA;while (&amp;lt;$votes&amp;gt;) {&#xA;  next unless /&amp;lt;row\b/;&#xA;  my %attr = /\b(CreationDate|VoteTypeId|PostId)=&quot;([^&quot;]+)&quot;/g;&#xA;  next unless exists $postid{ $attr{PostId} };&#xA;  $increase{ $attr{CreationDate} } += $repmod{ $attr{VoteTypeId} } || 0;&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;my $i = 0;&#xA;foreach my $date (sort keys %increase) {&#xA;  next unless $increase{$date} &amp;gt;= 200;&#xA;  printf &quot;%4d. $date - $increase{$date}\n&quot;, ++$i;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example usage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;$ cd Stack\ Overflow\ Data\ Dump\ -\ Feb\ 10/Content/022010\ SO&#xA;$ legend 22656&#xA;[...]&#xA; 475. 2010-01-25 - 865&#xA; 476. 2010-01-26 - 828&#xA; 477. 2010-01-27 - 1486&#xA; 478. 2010-01-28 - 1110&#xA; 479. 2010-01-29 - 1228&#xA; 480. 2010-01-30 - 418&#xA; 481. 2010-01-31 - 325&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T22:24:42.987" />
  <row Id="39745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39509" CreationDate="2010-02-17T22:46:28.240" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: I think I've figured it out. I have done some deeper investigation and it looks like the reputation graph makes the following errors when computing daily rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Casting a downvote: &lt;strong&gt;-0&lt;/strong&gt; (instead of -1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Receiving a downvote: &lt;strong&gt;-3&lt;/strong&gt; (instead of -2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accepting an answer: &lt;strong&gt;+0&lt;/strong&gt; (instead of +2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting your answer accepted: &lt;strong&gt;+17&lt;/strong&gt; (instead of +15)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In both cases, all rep is being awarded to the person &lt;em&gt;receiving&lt;/em&gt; the vote, &lt;em&gt;including the rep that is supposed to go to the person casting the vote&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. For a downvote, the -1 for the voter and -2 for the recipient both go to the recipient.  For an accept &quot;vote&quot; both the +2 for the acceptor and the +15 to the acceptee go to the acceptee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that +17 and -3 are equivalent as far as their effect on the last digit is concerned.  So each downvote received or answer accepted subtracts 3 from your last digit. This gives the distribution you are seeing: 0, 7, 4, 1, 8, 5, 2, 9, 6, 3 (from most common to least common).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounties appear to work correctly, and those can end in 5. The only day that I got rep ending in 2 was when I won a bounty for 175, and took a single downvote (-3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran the numbers for my account and had the same anomaly as you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;0: 249&#xA;1: 6&#xA;2: 1&#xA;3: 0&#xA;4: 10&#xA;5: 0&#xA;6: 0&#xA;7: 39&#xA;8: 2&#xA;9: 0&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I looked at some of the days with 7 as final digit, and looked in my actual reputation tag, the last digit should have been 8. For example, for 2009-08-31, it says I earned -3 rep (which has last &quot;digit&quot; of 7, as defined by OP). But if I go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/18511?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-08-31&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-08-31&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/18511?Tab=Reputation&amp;amp;StartDate=2009-08-31&amp;amp;EndDate=2009-08-31&lt;/a&gt; (and I realize that this link won't work for anyone else) the only activity I see is one downvote against me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suspected that activity from another day might have spilled over, since the timestamps in the javascript array are all midnight Pacific time (not GMT). So I checked activity from 2009-08-30 through 2010-09-01, and still that one downvote was the only activity. (I think that was Labor Day weekend...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote my own code to see if it was the same as your results.  Here is the code I used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import java.text.*;&#xA;import java.util.*;&#xA;&#xA;public final class Main&#xA;{&#xA;&#xA;  //view reputation graph in user profile, search for &quot;var d = &quot;. Copy&amp;amp;Paste that array here.&#xA;  private final static String repData = &quot;[[1221811200000, 57],[1222070400000, 77], ... ,[1266134400000, 10817]]&quot;;&#xA;&#xA;  public static void main(String[] args)&#xA;  {&#xA;    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();&#xA;    cal.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(&quot;GMT&quot;));&#xA;&#xA;    List&amp;lt;String&amp;gt; dates = new ArrayList&amp;lt;String&amp;gt;();&#xA;    List&amp;lt;Integer&amp;gt; dailyEarnings = new ArrayList&amp;lt;Integer&amp;gt;();&#xA;&#xA;    int lastRep = 0;&#xA;    boolean isDate = true; //flip this each token, to know if we are at a date or rep&#xA;    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(repData, &quot;[], &quot;);&#xA;    while(st.hasMoreTokens())&#xA;    {&#xA;      String token = st.nextToken();&#xA;      if(token.length() == 0)&#xA;        continue;&#xA;&#xA;      if(isDate)&#xA;      {&#xA;        cal.setTimeInMillis(Long.parseLong(token));&#xA;        dates.add(String.format(&quot;%tF&quot;, cal));&#xA;      }&#xA;      else&#xA;      {&#xA;        int rep = Integer.parseInt(token);&#xA;        dailyEarnings.add(rep - lastRep);&#xA;        lastRep = rep;&#xA;      }&#xA;&#xA;      isDate = !isDate;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    int[] tally = new int[10];&#xA;    for(int i = 0; i &amp;lt; dailyEarnings.size(); i++)&#xA;    {&#xA;      System.out.println(dates.get(i) + &quot;: &quot; + dailyEarnings.get(i));&#xA;&#xA;      tally[(dailyEarnings.get(i) + 1000)%10]++;&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    for(int i = 0; i &amp;lt; 10; i++)&#xA;      System.out.println(i + &quot;: &quot; + tally[i]);&#xA;  }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T03:42:15.900" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T03:42:15.900" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-17T22:57:14.243" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editor where I type in my answer.  Most of it is fine, but I REALLY want a single return to show as a return!  There are times I want just a single newline, but I can't get it.&#xA;1.  Like a list&#xA;2.  That is on a separate line for each number&#xA;3.  Like this isn't, even though I'm typing it this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know it is by design, yes I know Jeff has said this is the way it is, but it's still a bad UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136906" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T22:57:14.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-17T22:57:14.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37154" CreationDate="2010-02-17T23:11:48.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a little modification maybe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asked a question and accepted an&#xA;  answer for it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T23:11:48.353" />
  <row Id="39748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39737" CreationDate="2010-02-17T23:44:33.887" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've checked all your questions. Here's what I found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of your questions were edited formatting wise, nothing was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Answer wise, there was ONE deletion, &lt;strong&gt;made by the owner of the said answer&lt;/strong&gt;, which is well within his rights to decide to withdraw his answer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is no foul play here, just normal community interaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-17T23:44:33.887" />
  <row Id="39754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39755" CreationDate="2010-02-18T00:56:48.053" Score="2" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4553/non-gravatar-avatar&quot;&gt;non-gravatar avatar?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to change my stackoverflow picture, but when I click 'edit' in my profile page and then 'change picture', I'm taken to some stupid gravatar web site... I really don't want the gravatar!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143505" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:06:43.520" ClosedDate="2010-02-18T21:53:45.713" Title="How do I change my stackoverflow profile picture?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;general&gt;&lt;picture&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39754" CreationDate="2010-02-18T00:58:33.310" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's tied to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatar&lt;/a&gt; that your Email address uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to Gravatar.com &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a profile and upload a picture.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add that Email address to your Stack Overflow profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait a few hours for it to propogate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4553/non-gravatar-avatar&quot;&gt;This question has been asked before&lt;/a&gt;, and is currently: &lt;code&gt;[status-deferred]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T01:06:43.520" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:06:43.520" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39741" CreationDate="2010-02-18T01:14:34.067" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your answers are deleted, you can still see them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MJ7SHaJorfU/S3yVQOO6A4I/AAAAAAAAAW8/67xUrVHjLok/s400/deletedanswer.png&quot; alt=&quot;deleted answer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:14:34.067" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-18T01:17:17.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy-Paste Answer Users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times, after answering a question (let say 6-8 min after) someone posts exactly the same response reformatted and added a link or any opinion only to get your points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad feature is that a feature is missing to report / flag that kind of answers, down voting is not enough !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143138" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:17:17.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T01:17:17.120" />
  <row Id="39758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-18T01:23:34.007" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not being able to create a SOFU friends list.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26327" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:23:34.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T01:23:34.007" />
  <row Id="39759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39741" CreationDate="2010-02-18T01:25:16.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like a bit of a niche feature; answers aren't often deleted by users &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; than the OP (moderator deletion and spam/offensive flag-deletion are the only two scenarios I can think of...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a request for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted&quot;&gt;making deleted questions and answers visible in their authors' profile&lt;/a&gt;. I think that would allow you to keep tabs on your deleted answers while also being more generally useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T01:46:30.490" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:46:30.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37825" CreationDate="2010-02-18T01:30:31.250" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Color themes for answered/accepted questions on Serverfault&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9463/screenshot20100218at222.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the display contrast / brightness are low or when using my computer outside, the colors themes are too close and confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143138" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:30:31.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T01:30:31.250" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39509" CreationDate="2010-02-18T01:37:25.497" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The data seems to count accepted answers you received as 17 instead of 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So without any accepted answers the rep ends in &quot;0&quot;, one accepted answer ends in &quot;7&quot; and two accepted answers end in &quot;4&quot;. Then follow 1, 8, 5, 2, 9, 6, 3 for an increasingly greater number of accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since days with less accepted answers are more common the daily reputation scores are distributed by the same pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked my reputation for a few days back and all discrepancies between the graph numbers and the real rep are explained by this. Additionally, of course, the -1 rep loss for down-votes you give is not reflected in the graph, since down-votes are not public information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T01:37:25.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="666" CreationDate="2010-02-18T01:47:02.267" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just having an opt-in preference to allow all my &quot;Recent Activity&quot; be public and set a regular RSS feed on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would sure use it, while there is no &lt;strong&gt;instant&lt;/strong&gt; e-mail notification. Though I've been using &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40927/how-do-you-do-to-keep-track-of-notifications/87528#87528&quot;&gt;Newt&lt;/a&gt; for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-14T12:24:22.160" LastActivityDate="2011-06-14T12:24:22.160" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9953" CreationDate="2010-02-18T02:47:34.103" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many answers here, sorry for adding one but I just want to include myself as an example of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;unless a new user's post is clearly spam, voting it down to -1 or -2 should be sufficient to send a message without piling on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I do think I had to be voted down, and community should express itself so I can see if I fit in or not. But, as far as I can see, the reputation system is also associated with spam and bot prevention up to a certain ammount of points. So, until that is reached by any valid user this should be the focus: making the user able to use basic resources, such as voting, posting links, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe even the system should change a little bit on that sense. One thing is getting reputation to be able to moderate. Another thing is to achieve &quot;human rights&quot; in the system. And that should not be too hard for newbies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, yet again, just my two cents as a newcomer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T02:47:34.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T02:47:34.103" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39768" CreationDate="2010-02-18T03:00:59.540" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done a search on Google using:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;site:careers.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't see my CV listed. Why? Surely Google has indexed my SO questions, which link to my SO profile, which links to my career CV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1406" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-04T10:42:04.133" LastActivityDate="2010-06-04T10:42:04.133" Title="CV not listed on Google" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39766" CreationDate="2010-02-18T03:04:13.170" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over a certain threshold, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow/7238#7238&quot;&gt;the &lt;code&gt;nofollow&lt;/code&gt; on your profile website link&lt;/a&gt; is removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;nofollow&lt;/code&gt; means that search engines will not &quot;follow&quot; the link, and therefore it will not be indexed from that particular location. Now, if it is linked from somewhere else, it would probably be indexed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, any and all links inside the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6905/can-we-not-relnofollow-links-in-profile-about-me-for-users-with-3000-rep/11358#11358&quot;&gt;About section are still nofollowed&lt;/a&gt;. Which means if you want to try and link to your CV from there, it won't do much searchbot good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either link to your CV from your own site (you're not currently doing so) or crack 2000 reputation on Stack Overflow and drop the link in your website field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T03:27:35.677" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T03:27:35.677" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39766" CreationDate="2010-02-18T03:59:17.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bottom line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your CV is only available if it's linked to on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow puts &lt;code&gt;rel='nofollow'&lt;/code&gt; in all links in a profile page; unless you have 2000 reputation, and then your &lt;code&gt;Website&lt;/code&gt; link is able to be spidered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link to CV through personal blog or Linked In.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get 2000+ reputation and put it in your &lt;code&gt;website&lt;/code&gt; field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T03:59:17.180" />
  <row Id="39770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39684" CreationDate="2010-02-18T04:07:43.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's transformed into HTML, and rendered by your browser. So even if 1)... 2)... were recognized, the output would still be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;First item&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;li&amp;gt;Second item&amp;lt;/li&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/ol&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and the output would still be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the change would allow markup that other Markdown engines wouldn't recognize, and produce exactly the same output. You might as well just get used to the period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T04:07:43.567" />
  <row Id="39775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39780" CreationDate="2010-02-18T07:40:37.603" Score="0" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi ! It seems to me that there are fewer people talking online on &lt;strong&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt; as sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number of views is decreasing, the number of answers logically too etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just a &lt;strong&gt;seeming or reality&lt;/strong&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDITED:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright look at this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the Graph '&lt;strong&gt;Daily Reach&lt;/strong&gt;' with max settings&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143517" LastEditorUserId="143517" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T08:37:59.103" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T10:12:55.123" Title="Stackoverflow - number of visits" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39684" CreationDate="2010-02-18T08:08:55.640" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a bad idea, but too significant a deviation from the markdown spec to be viable, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T08:08:55.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T08:14:47.063" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5029/are-taglines-signatures-disallowed-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Are taglines/signatures disallowed on stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a simple question - are links to personal sites allowed in people signatures in questions?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen edits that removed those links and also &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2286911/revisions&quot;&gt;did it myself&lt;/a&gt;, but is it explicitely stated anywhere that those links cannot be put in questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142458" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T08:25:48.543" ClosedDate="2010-02-18T08:24:32.260" Title="Signature in question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39775" CreationDate="2010-02-18T08:48:37.243" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a problem. From the figures actually on the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;            Reach  Change&#xA;Yesterday   0.291   +81%    Change in Reach over the trailing 1d period&#xA;7 day       0.203   -13%    Change in Reach over the trailing 1w period&#xA;1 month     0.224   -7%     Change in Reach over the trailing 1m period&#xA;3 month     0.2421  +50.9%  Change in Reach over the trailing 3m period&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm suspect of the &quot;Yesterday&quot; figure as it's early morning now (UK time) so there's little &quot;today&quot; traffic to compare against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The weekly and monthly figures are down, but again the former could be skewed by the time of day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the three month figures show an increase, and surely it's this figure that's the important one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, given that the graph is measuring the % of internet users who use Stack Overflow this number can't be expected to keep on rising. There will be minor (and perhaps not so minor) fluctuations in the reach on a weekly or monthly basis, so these figures should be treated with some scepticism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T08:54:49.323" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T08:54:49.323" />
  <row Id="39781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39684" CreationDate="2010-02-18T08:50:30.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35181/numbering-bullet-interpretation-bug/35206#35206&quot;&gt;might&lt;/a&gt; currently be using this to &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; an automatic list. So, no, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) one&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) two&lt;br&gt;&#xA;6) three&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T08:50:30.220" />
  <row Id="39782" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39783" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:01:28.173" Score="9" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the weirdest bugs I've ever seen, I think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the tags on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2287314/how-much-aggressive-could-one-go&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is &quot;javascript&quot; but on the SO homepage, it shows up as &quot;javas.&quot; If you click on it, that even takes you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javas&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javas&lt;/a&gt; (which has zero questions). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the time it took me to write this up, the error seems to have been fixed (and that question closed) but I took a screenshot before that happened. It's the fourth question from the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/5CiSH.png&quot; alt=&quot;jawas on the main page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65977" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T11:16:54.443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T11:16:54.443" Title="&quot;Javascript&quot; tag showing up as &quot;javas&quot; on main page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39782" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:05:42.193" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The snapshot cache of the front page was made before any subsequent edits during &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot; title=&quot;which is great, don't change it&quot;&gt;the five minute grace period&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, when they went to fix up the tag, it looked okay on the question page itself, but not on the home page, which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/853/how-aggressive-is-the-caching-used&quot; title=&quot;pull out yer stopwatches&quot;&gt;lagging because it's cached&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:05:42.193" />
  <row Id="39784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:12:39.673" Score="4" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13085/i-am-bad-at-answering-questions-on-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;I am bad at answering questions on Stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a bit of a problem here.  You see, I've been using StackOverflow for a couple years now, and it's saved my rear and/or blown my mind many, many times.  I've always wanted to participate and contribute to this amazing community, but it's impossible.  Here's why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every question I've ever wanted to ask has already been asked, sometimes multiple times.  And every time I see a question that I know I can answer confidently, someone's already answered it so eloquently and majestically that it brings tears to my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that leaves me, an average schmuck, to sit here and reap the benefits of this great site without being able to participate.  I guess I'm okay with that, but I feel like I at least owe someone gobs of money.  What's a guy to do?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T15:49:52.860" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:49:52.860" ClosedDate="2010-02-18T09:49:46.050" Title="How the heck am I supposed to contribute to this site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39784" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:15:48.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you have to put some work into it :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;try checking for unanswered questions every now and then, when you have a few minutes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;try off hours (morning / evening - depends on your timezone) when there are less people and the big answer-factories are offline&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143136" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:17:09.123" />
  <row Id="39786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39784" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:18:41.563" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't worry, be happy. There's bound to be a question at some point you get to before anyone else, and in terms of &quot;gobs of money&quot;, I'm sure the ads shown at your rep level cover any resources you're consuming. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:18:41.563" />
  <row Id="39787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39784" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:21:18.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most answers are quite short. If you try to give some background information or additional resources, people tend to upvote you. And you contribute to the community too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:21:18.377" />
  <row Id="39788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39784" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:21:41.247" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a question that you would have asked, if it's written well, vote for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see an answer that helps you out. Vote for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is contributing too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day you will spot a question that you know the answer too, or have a question that hasn't already been asked and will be able to contribute in that way too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Edit: Oh, sorry, my mistake, you have to have 15 rep to vote. You'll have to think of something else to get you that first little bit.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:21:41.247" />
  <row Id="39789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39784" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:25:03.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel your pain. Here are some tips that may help you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the tags you really know about as interesting tags. Now and then, enter the site and click on the tag. Sort by &quot;newest&quot;. You'll have greater options to actually answer something. I have answered novice C++ questions a minute after they have been asked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; answer to interesting cw and/or subjective questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask about a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2198935/resource-editor-not-available-in-visual-studio-2008&quot;&gt;strange wtf&lt;/a&gt; that only a few people may be experiencing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be creative. When you're learning a new technology, ask the why of something, or what is the connection between A and B, or what are the disadvantages or something new and cool, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:25:03.033" />
  <row Id="39790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39784" CreationDate="2010-02-18T09:26:31.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contribute to stackexchange Q&amp;amp;A sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check the list here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pick topics you know about or wish to know more about, and contribute to those sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is great about stackoverflow can be replicated to other topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's much easier to contribute when there are less users as you pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T09:26:31.503" />
  <row Id="39792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T10:08:11.997" Score="8" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13085/i-am-bad-at-answering-questions-on-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;I am bad at answering questions on Stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22290/are-demands-on-new-users-continually-increasing&quot;&gt;Are demands on new users continually increasing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3911/the-problem-with-noobs-and-reputation-points&quot;&gt;The problem with noobs and reputation points&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if there's a dup on this subject, did a simple search and found none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, here's the gist of it. Taking SO as an example, here are my assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the site grows (in the number of users), :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is getting comparatively tougher to ask non-duplicate and proper questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;*answering a question and get accepted becomes more competitive than months ago&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;new technology do not emerge as fast to generate new question pools&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;em&gt;Assumption #2 is based on #1 as relative growth rate of quantity of answerable questions can't match that of growing users&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are you guys' views about the assumptions and therefore my conclusion that:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is increasingly harder for new users to gain rep points which are required for them to contribute to the community in more ways (e.g. voting, editing, closing etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as I do accept that the above observations are 'natural', it can be really frustrating for new users who want to do more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T18:07:09.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T10:08:11.997" ClosedDate="2010-02-18T18:18:46.567" Title="Is it increasingly harder for new users to gain rep points for them to contribute to the community?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39775" CreationDate="2010-02-18T10:12:55.123" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let &lt;code&gt;P(A)&lt;/code&gt; be the probability that a given internet user has the Alexa toolbar installed, and let &lt;code&gt;P(S)&lt;/code&gt; be the probability that a given internet user is part of Stack Overflow's core audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here in Germany a poll is usually considered statistically valid if about 1,000 out of the 80 Million people have been asked. So let's assume 0.001 % (or one in 100,000) of people have to be asked for statistic data to actually have a meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alexa &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alexa.com/help/traffic_learn_more&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;states&lt;/a&gt; that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it is difficult to accurately determine the ranking of sites with fewer than 1,000 monthly visitors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words (we're of course simplifying a lot), Alexa considers their statistics for a particular site to be reasonably accurate if 1,000 people per month have been &quot;asked&quot;. Combining this with the above number means that the number of internet users Alexa knows about is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;N = 1,000 * 100,000 = 100,000,000&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/ict/graphs/internet.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ITU&lt;/a&gt;, 22% of all people were internet users in 2007 (the latest data they seem to have). Let's assume 25% out of 6 billion, which is 1.5 billion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can deduce that one in 15 internet users has the Alexa toolbar installed, hence &lt;code&gt;P(A) = 1/15&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall (but correct me if I'm wrong) that on some Podcast, Joel and Jeff mentioned that they estimate SO's worldwide potential audience size somewhere between 4 and 8 millions. Let's assume 6. So 6m out of the 1.5b internet users are (potential) Stack Overflow audience, &lt;code&gt;P(S) = 6 / 1500 = 0.4%&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Alexa page you refer to gives SO's reach as about 0.2%, in other words, the probability that a user that has the Alexa toolbar installed is a SO visitor is &lt;code&gt;P(A|S) = 0.2%&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Bayes' theorem,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;         P(A|S) P(S)   0.2% * 0.4%&#xA;P(S|A) = ----------- = ----------- = 0.012%&#xA;            P(A)           1/15&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, 0.012% of the 6 millions SO audience, or 720 people, have the Alexa toolbar installed. Because of the technical background of the people here, who are a lot less probable to install a spyware addon into their browser, the actual number is probably less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humorsphere.com/simpsons/homer-simpson-quotes.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reliable expert&lt;/a&gt;, 14% of people know that people can come up with statistics to prove anything. Thus, beyond any reasonable doubt, I have proven that the Earth is a disc. Now what was your question again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T10:12:55.123" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39792" CreationDate="2010-02-18T11:26:34.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is harder for new users to ask 'easy' questions; but for the ones that do get through, they're bound to get more reputation because people are voting on questions more due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/155/electorate&quot;&gt;Electorate Badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T11:26:34.253" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T11:26:34.253" />
  <row Id="39796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39792" CreationDate="2010-02-18T11:26:45.377" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As much as I do accept that the above observations are 'natural', it can be really frustrating for new users who want to do more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation-wise, this is probably true. There is an &quot;establishment&quot; of very active, high-rep users you are very unlikely to catch up to, because they will always progress at the same speed as you, and thus be ahead of you. Differently put, it is going to be very hard to top the current top 5 if they keep on going as they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the questions front, it is probably true that in the early days, there were more basic, easy questions available of which there were no duplicates. It &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; become harder and harder to come up with &quot;original&quot; questions the closer SO gets to its goal of being some sort of a &quot;Wikipedia for programmers&quot;. Still, there remains a neverending number of questions to answer, and if you know your stuff, you can answer them (and get good feedback) whether you're a newbie or a seasoned SO veteran. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T18:07:09.023" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T18:07:09.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T11:26:45.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T11:34:33.383" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reply notification stays red, even after I have viewed the comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After answering the question, stay on the same page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Refresh a page. Assuming comments are posted to the answer, you can view those comments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to another post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The notification balloon &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; indicates that you have a reply.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see the replies on the page refresh itself. It's not necessary to show the reply notification on every page I visit after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T16:59:58.923" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T16:59:58.923" Title="Reply notification stays red even after the comments are viewed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34394" CreationDate="2010-02-18T11:41:05.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to ask for this too, but since it's already there... So yeah it'd be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would encourage bad behaviour. A lot of good questions get 1 maybe 2 upvotes and it's not until recently that I realized that I wasn't upvoting questions a lot (only if it was funny+cw or if it was something I was looking for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not for the message if your ratio is messed up. I think it's not that big of a deal, not like the acceptance rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T11:41:05.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T13:00:33.750" Score="1" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whats going on with SO today? Earlier, the sites seemed awfully slow, and Meta was down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138604" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T15:17:06.240" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:17:06.240" Title="Meta not working" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;downtime&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39799" CreationDate="2010-02-18T13:06:37.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems as if &lt;code&gt;ads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; is not responding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133576" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T13:11:12.583" />
  <row Id="39801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39799" CreationDate="2010-02-18T13:07:00.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ya .. I also felt its slow, but not terribly though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked with Firebug and the time spent on &quot;Waiting for Response&quot; part has increased. Possibly there might be more load on the server, so its responding a bit slowly !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ads are also loading slowly I guess, ads.stackoverflow.com is trying to load for a long time !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138807" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T13:11:12.583" />
  <row Id="39802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39799" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:11:25.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted, &lt;code&gt;ads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; is (was) not responding. This leads to some javascript on the page not being executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can overcome this by pressing stop / escape (if it happens again)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:11:25.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39797" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:15:33.657" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the notification icon is really more of a thought experiment than an actual useful tool.  I suspect that some psychologist is collecting data on how often we click the notification icon when we know that we just looked at our recent information and can't possibility have anything new there.  I imagine that after the early &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising-experiment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dismal results from Amazon ads&lt;/a&gt;, @Jeff et al went the grant route and picked up some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ARRA funding&lt;/a&gt; in human behavior research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:15:33.657" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39797" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:21:17.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; that the notifications are &quot;sticky.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't want the notification inadvertently dismissed as a side effect of something else I did. If I just &lt;em&gt;happen&lt;/em&gt; to view a page generating the notification, I might not have noticed the reason I was being notified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notification is &lt;strong&gt;a good &quot;sticky note&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; to remind me to check something specific. If the notice just disappears, I will never know what action I was supposed to take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to leave it the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:21:17.433" />
  <row Id="39805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11115" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:25:15.053" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you can't send a quick E-Mail replies like &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;okay, 3pm&quot; without padding it to fifteen characters first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:25:15.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T15:25:15.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39792" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:29:11.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's true and I believe it happens in any kind of organization. If you arrive when an organization is already in place with most of the things already done, it will very hard to get as much &quot;credit&quot; (or &quot;rep&quot;) as the people who built the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand you benefit from all the work done by the &quot;founders&quot; and early participants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good news is that there are plenty of challenges in the future and plenty of other things to &quot;build&quot;. I guess there are areas of programming that are new... and there are other things than programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:29:11.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T15:29:11.737" />
  <row Id="39807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39808" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:44:05.913" Score="10" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the various posts about the software architecture and indeed the db hardware is documented too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also seen a reference to haproxy as the load balancing software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does haproxy run on though? It appears to be running on a Linux box, is this correct?  Or has some other linux based balancing appliance now been installed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143533" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:52:27.877" Title="Stack overflow network / load balancer architecture" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39807" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:47:11.820" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-network-configuration/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Network Configuration&lt;/a&gt; blog entry.  Jeff talks a lot about how they are using HAProxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stack-overflow-network-diagram-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;Network Config&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The HAProxy box is indeed linux.  I'm not sure if it is still a virtualized instance, but it used to be.  I assume that, since they now have redundant HAProxy boxes that there is at least one physical box doing load balancing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The High Scalability Blog also has some details on this as well:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131006" LastEditorUserId="131006" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T15:52:27.877" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:52:27.877" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39613" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:47:12.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your protest and request has been noted.&lt;/strong&gt; However, we'll have to just agree to disagree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sponsored tag is a way to help associate a brand with a concept (in this case, redgate == email) and, while we certainly understand your dislike of allowing brands to associate themselves with concepts, that's just how the world works, and has since the history of brand advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about cars. Now think about the word &lt;strong&gt;safety&lt;/strong&gt;. What comes to mind? 90% of people will say &lt;strong&gt;Volvo&lt;/strong&gt;, and Volvo has worked very hard for decades to &quot;own&quot; that concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we're doing is no different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:47:12.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T15:47:12.227" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="39810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:49:51.050" Score="6" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what the effect of the badge system (and to a lesser degree the reputation system) has had on participation and directing users how to use the family of sites. What have been the advantages and disadvantages? How would things be different without the badge system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What were the goals of the badge system and has it met these goals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence of perceived effects or a way to gather such evidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143500" LastEditorUserId="143500" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T18:35:11.373" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T22:47:50.403" Title="What is the effect of badges on user participation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39792" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:51:31.793" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a related topic, it may be harder for new users to get some high-level badges.  The highest vote totals for questions and answers seem to come from soft questions, often CW, which were tolerated a lot more a year ago than they are now.  I suspect (without hard evidence) that &quot;Great Question&quot; and &quot;Great Answer&quot; are a lot harder to get now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:51:31.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T15:51:31.793" />
  <row Id="39812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39810" CreationDate="2010-02-18T15:54:53.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say the badge system is working - it provides a backup to reputation, punctuating and peppering the experience while both are intangible.  The only disadvantage would be gaming the system to get them, but most of those are lowly ranked anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T15:54:53.580" />
  <row Id="39814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:04:49.017" Score="5" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;If not commercially sensitive, what requests/s peak does the site currently handle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how do you forecast load?  Do you have such a thing as a peak to average ratio? and if so what do you use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you use to monitor/analyse the logs? Presumably the weblogs from IIS are similar to apache's i.e. 1 line per request?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you do analysis like Mozilla do on their weblogs to see who and what browsers access the site etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143533" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T16:08:35.467" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T17:00:04.453" Title="How is load forecast / monitored for stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39810" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:10:41.000" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges were created specifically to give incentive for wanted behaviors.  It definitely works at giving incentive to do what it takes to earn the badge.  It helps build habits (mostly good, some bad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T17:24:46.603" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T17:24:46.603" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39810" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:12:54.553" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4141.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #56&lt;/a&gt;, Jason Calacanis called Stack Overflow an &quot;expert economy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation and badges are the &lt;em&gt;compensation&lt;/em&gt; in that economy. Reputation rewards good questions and answers. Badges cover the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Public disclosure&lt;/strong&gt; of that compensation &lt;em&gt;&quot;gives every programmer a chance to be recognized by their peers. Recognized for their knowledge, their passion, and their willingness to help their fellow programmers get better at their craft.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/stack-overflow-is-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow is You&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Without it, programmers would be asked to contribute in virtual anonymity.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would Stack Overflow work without that &lt;em&gt;compensation&lt;/em&gt;? Hard to say. Near-anonymous contribution works for Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T16:36:51.097" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T16:36:51.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39810" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:29:55.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I find the whole badge thing is an irrelevance, and I can't say I even bother looking to see what I got or what anyone else got for that matter. Maybe it's an age group thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use Stack Overflow to help folks out (and occasionally pose my own questions) and I'm not really here for some badge collecting exercise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I can't deny the satisfaction was seeing a rep bump every few days :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T16:29:55.170" />
  <row Id="39818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39814" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:33:20.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff talked about the size/request load in a Meta question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26689/how-do-we-grow-the-server-fault-and-super-user-communities&quot;&gt;growing communities&lt;/a&gt; and int multiple podcasts (right now 1m visits per day), but here's a graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8907/analyticsvisitorsmeta.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;serverfault.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/503/analyticsvisitorssf.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;superuser.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6666/analyticsvisitorssu.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7807/analyticsvisitorsso.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sites are monitored using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/analytics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Analytics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quantcast.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quantcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T16:33:20.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39792" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:41:26.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing you're missing is that as the number of questions grows it's increasingly easy to slip duplicate questions in.  It's no longer a simple thing to find and point back to the original so that the duplicate can be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T16:41:26.437" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-18T16:41:26.437" />
  <row Id="39820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:45:17.863" Score="7" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an unregistered user goes to answer a question, they have the option of OpenID login, but there are no easy OpenID buttons (like the &quot;Google&quot; and &quot;Yahoo&quot; buttons on the login screen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7075/noopenidbuttons.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:00:04.343" Title="No OpenID buttons for unregistered users when answering questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39822" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:50:24.623" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are cases where questions get asked on StackOverflow, and probably are better off on ServerFault. I often times add a comment saying such, but I think it would be nice to have the ability to community vote on that, and if X number of people agree, that it gets moved over automatically. This would work similarly to voting to close or re-open a question, and would therefore require a certain reputation in order to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched around on Meta, and haven't seen anything similar to this being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the answer below, this is already a feature, but if you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, you will see that this is not listed as one of the things that you can do in the Reputation area. I looked at that list, didn't see anything, and so I thought it was not a feature.  Perhaps the FAQ needs to be updated.  I also don't see this in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Meta FAQ&lt;/a&gt; either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T07:24:02.257" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T07:26:39.817" Title="Update SO FAQ to Include Transfer Question as Something Enabled by Reputation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;faq-update-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39821" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:52:00.050" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are given this option (voting to migrate a question) when you have 3k reputation.  It takes 5 votes to migrate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something you would like to change about the current implementation of this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T16:52:00.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39821" CreationDate="2010-02-18T16:58:37.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I often times add a comment saying&#xA;  such&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't. After the question gets migrated the comments remain and they won't make sense anymore, and they require manual intervention from a moderator to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T16:58:37.180" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39820" CreationDate="2010-02-18T17:00:39.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have that problem when I try to login from my blackberry, very frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T17:00:39.920" />
  <row Id="39825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39810" CreationDate="2010-02-18T17:20:41.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stopped voting on answers ever since the electorate badge came into existence&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T17:20:41.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39490" CreationDate="2010-02-18T17:29:37.777" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about we &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; put a little &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; in the &lt;strong&gt;top right-hand corner&lt;/strong&gt;?  This seems like it would be very intuitive for most users, and very quick since you probably just had the mouse-in-hand when hitting the close button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T18:29:24.547" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T18:29:24.547" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39858" CreationDate="2010-02-18T17:30:37.713" Score="32" ViewCount="1136" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow user list&lt;/a&gt; I see a certain trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Marc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Greg&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Alex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Andrew&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jonathan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Tomalak&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Brian&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Ólafur&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Juliet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you see where I'm going with this. There simply aren't enough &lt;em&gt;spider&lt;/em&gt;-men or &lt;em&gt;bat&lt;/em&gt;-men or other variations of &lt;em&gt;more-than&lt;/em&gt;-men. No, Stack Overflow seems to be populated solely by normal, plain, boring, weak, unlasery &lt;em&gt;men&lt;/em&gt;. Just thinking about it makes me yawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Stack Overflow were a movie, it would be one of those really weird experimental films that French people watch as a rite of passage to adulthood or something. I mean, it's one of those movies that has a scene in it where two people are arguing about C#, but all you can see is their shadows over a bowl of fruit on a table. And the fruit is out of focus. And the table has a finish to it that is rather unphotogenic in a way you can't quite put your finger on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know what I'm talking about. It's a movie about plain people doing plain things. Not even the type of men who would get into a knife fight over whether using jQuery on a ten-line HTML page is overkill (if you want to fight about this, talk to me after the movie &amp;ndash; I'll be by the ticket booth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see Atwood's Angels take steps to attract superheroic (and possibly supervillainous) users to the Stack Overflow trilogy. If we had these kinds of users, think of the good we could do in this world! Suddenly, XML-Parser-Man swings in and uses his XPath ray to eliminate nested regular expressions. Then camelCaseMan teleports in to format the question's content to make it readable. This would probably work better with comic-like onomatopoeic words like &quot;kaboom!&quot; and &quot;kanye!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some simple changes could be made to the existing content to bring in supermen. I have prepared some examples to get us started. I'm counting on you, the Meta superherobase (instead of userbase &amp;ndash; get it?) to do your part!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the FAQ, instead of something like this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Treat others with the same respect you'd want them to treat you. We're all here to learn together. Be tolerant of others who may not know everything you know. Bring your sense of humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Write something like this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Treat others like the freedom-loving citizens they are. Evildoers the world over are trying to work together and learn how to crush liberty and justice. Be tolerant of the tiny men who are struggling because they are aspiring to fight the good fight in their own way. You may even learn something from them. Make sure to taunt your nemeses wittily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is so much better. Suddenly the camera is facing the men arguing about C# instead of the table, and &lt;em&gt;oh my god&lt;/em&gt; they have &lt;strong&gt;knives&lt;/strong&gt;! I can hear the popcorn popping now! But wait, there's more. Why write something like this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I ask questions here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you could spice it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do I thwart evil using only Stack Overflow, a butter knife and a piece of cheese?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much better. MacGyver's mullet itself could not have phrased it better. The C# arguers' knives have morphed into &lt;strong&gt;light sabers&lt;/strong&gt;. Darth Skeet is trying to win Marc Skywalker over to the dark side! What happens next?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been doing my part by calling Jeff the fearless leader of the Atwood's Angels (which has a nice ring to it) who do everything in their power to fight giant bugs and install new features in spite of a rowdy, blind and raging userbase. See, when you put things that way it doesn't sound so French!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-29T04:04:30.777" LastActivityDate="2010-07-29T04:04:30.777" Title="Stack Overflow has too many men!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;bias&gt;" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="24" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="39829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-18T17:45:37.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; is needed. &lt;em&gt;Exciting back-stories&lt;/em&gt;! Someone needs to die in a freak closing accident (caused by race conditions on the server (caused in turn by Dalgas' scheme to siphon off extra milliseconds for use in his secret Dooms Day Device)), only to be reborn with altered DNA as a Crazed Defender of All that is Stacked and Overflowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T17:51:11.753" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T17:51:11.753" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39834" CreationDate="2010-02-18T18:08:13.063" Score="5" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-open-source-code-parenting.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Obviously&lt;/a&gt; the Markdown specification and reference implementation is pretty well orphaned &quot;upstream&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-open-source-code-parenting.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Obviously&lt;/a&gt; Jeff knows his stuff on parenting and is one of the major players in the Markdown space; surely one of the most visible ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore my question: Should Jeff take a lead to solicit input for a &quot;Markdown 2.0&quot; specification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4918" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T21:45:35.327" Title="Should Jeff take a lead on Markdown 2.0?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-18T18:10:25.977" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think you see where I'm going with this. There simply aren't enough spider-men or bat-men or other variations of more-than-men. No, Stack Overflow seems to be populated solely by normal, plain, boring, weak, unlasery men. Just thinking about it makes me yawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was bitten by a radioactive deer, TheTAXI was bitten by a radioactive Pony turned Unicorn by &lt;strong&gt;balpha the bad&lt;/strong&gt;, Alex is a vampire. We just don't want to get much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If Stack Overflow were a movie, it would be one of those really weird experimental films that French people watch as a rite of passage to adulthood or something. I mean, it's one of those movies that has a scene in it where two people are arguing about C#, but all you can see is their shadows over a bowl of fruit on a table. And the fruit is out of focus. And the table has a finish to it that is rather unphotogenic in a way you can't quite put your finger on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey! I like those movies! Also, it's a great analogy, but you missed that it's one of those movies where the present is shown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;black and white&lt;/a&gt; and the past in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;color&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Much better. MacGyver's mullet itself could not have phrased it better. The C# arguers' knives have morphed into light sabers. Darth Skeet is trying to win Marc Skywalker over to the dark side! What happens next?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McGyver uses regexes, he is one of the bad guys. Wait, what!? Skeet is Marc's father!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T18:12:17.937" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T18:12:17.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39831" CreationDate="2010-02-18T18:12:45.170" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been working with Markdown recently in an effort to bring the Best parts of Stack Overflow to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.yapb.net/post/2010/02/17/Missing-the-target-Accurately.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog engine I'm working on&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; pick up the mantle and say 'Markdown is this, or Markdown is that'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For my part, I'm using Markdown, but want to remove the ability to mix in HTML in markdown. This is just an experiment, but I feel like Markdown shouldn't contain HTML intermixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make some of my comments more permanent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see Markdown needing to take in things like Tables, and here's a possible way to do that (but it'd need to be added to the Markdown Spec):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    TableHeader | TableHeader2 | TableHeader3 &#xA;    TableRow    | TableRow2    | TableRow3&#xA;    TableRow    | TableRow2    | TableRow3&#xA;    TableRow    | TableRow2    | TableRow3&#xA;    TableRow    | TableRow2    | TableRow3&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Markdown could then transform this into an actual HTML table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an even better implementation that uses dashes and pipes, it's called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Discount Markdown implementation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;     aaa | bbbb&#xA;    -----|------&#xA;    hello|sailor&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the implementation, but I'm not entirely sure you'd need the horizontal dashes, although they'd help in the case of empty fields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;     aaa | bbbb |      |&#xA;    -----|------|------|&#xA;    hello|sailor|!empty|&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T21:45:35.327" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T21:45:35.327" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="39834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39831" CreationDate="2010-02-18T18:16:21.283" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the goal of a new Markdown spec is to be actively developed with strong leadership, then it needs someone with time, motivation, and experience to lead it - with all due respect to Jeff, he has a lot on his plate already; from the sound of things, he's struggled a bit with keeping a hold on the WMD project (no time to update the source / review forks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T18:16:21.283" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-18T18:39:17.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;don't want&lt;/em&gt; me to reveal my secret identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure my secret identity is one of those annoying, minor villains that never get the good plots, the rivers of fire &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; the piranhas with laser beams, but do show up over and over again to cause plot twists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not positive, 'cause he keeps me in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T03:06:02.560" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T03:06:02.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39837" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T19:31:31.537" Score="12" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the flair from the three sites (StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser) on my site and I have been doing some performance optimisations of my website and the flair are being identified by ySlow with performance issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First each button has it's own CSS file, could they not be combined into a single one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minify the three CSS files (from ySlow, gives C grade for this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compress the three CSS files with gzip (from ySlow, gives a D grade for this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53236" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T06:47:28.150" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T07:30:24.870" Title="Improve performance of SO/SF/SU flair" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flair&gt;&lt;performance-tuning&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-18T19:36:45.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not just a man, I have multiple personalities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;but they are all Abraham Lincoln&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T19:36:45.190" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-18T19:42:31.323" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each community is allowed only one super-hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New York has Spider-Man&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Metropolis has Superman&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow has Jon Skeet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/IOSZs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jon Skeet&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rest, we are all ordinary man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastEditorUserId="131377" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T21:19:28.530" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T21:19:28.530" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T19:42:41.853" Score="-6" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17183/do-away-with-minimum-char-limits-on-comments&quot;&gt;Do away with minimum char limits on comments.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong with with simply saying 'thanks' or 'cool'? I instead have to type 'thanks..................... :)', 'cool................. :)' and so on. Why have this restriction? Is there something wrong with simply thanking someone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130059" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T13:23:19.137" ClosedDate="2010-02-18T23:50:46.227" Title="Why have a comment min char limit?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39840" CreationDate="2010-02-18T19:44:48.523" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, comments should be used for more than saying &lt;strong&gt;thanks&lt;/strong&gt;, they should enrich a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short comments like &lt;strong&gt;thanks&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;cool&lt;/strong&gt; are just noise&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="52443" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T19:47:31.887" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T19:47:31.887" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="39842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39837" CreationDate="2010-02-18T19:45:03.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With regards to the CSS you could just move the tags into your own CSS file and use the unthemed version of the Flair. I used to do this for my own blog before I changed it and it can now use the standard flair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do like the idea of having a single file and choosing which flair to display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SE now offers Image Based Flair. Read more on the blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/flair-now-even-flairier/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-23T07:30:24.870" LastActivityDate="2010-09-23T07:30:24.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39840" CreationDate="2010-02-18T19:45:50.177" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comments are for dialog, not for love notes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-22T13:23:19.137" LastActivityDate="2010-11-22T13:23:19.137" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-18T20:11:08.773" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I fail to see the problem.  We have a fairly good mix of superhumans, but they often don't reveal themselves on SO.  Some out themselves on meta, a very few of which I can safely name without putting myself in danger:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;balpha&lt;/strong&gt; - consisting only of beta and alpha particles is stopped easily by paper.  Posts by finding very old computer equipment with glass exposed ICs and flipping bits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Urdnot the Krogan has a posse&lt;/strong&gt; - obvious.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shog9&lt;/strong&gt; - As Lovecraft documented during his descent into madness, Shog9 is the 9&lt;sup&gt;TH&lt;/sup&gt; shoggoth to gain sentience, setting himself apart from the other shoggoths, who were at first jealous, but no longer now that they see he wastes his talents on bits and bytes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miyagi Coder&lt;/strong&gt; - Karate kid number 0x10.  By this time Mr. Miyagi was transmuted into code, and placed in vidja games around the country.  Teaching karate similar to DDR machines, one person found himself excelling, and like the last starfighter Miyagi Coder was born from a vidja game.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mmyers&lt;/strong&gt; - One day a Fred Meyer and a Meijers opened across the street from - No, this isn't a joke, it's an origin story!  Stop laughing!  Alright, nevermind, now you guys will never know his powers or weakness, and thus will never defeat him.  Your loss I guess.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chacha102&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chachi_Arcola&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chachi&lt;/a&gt; in disguise, cousin of The Fonz.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ether&lt;/strong&gt; - I'd tell you about her, but I'm feeling oddly .. sleepy and... ... numb? ....  May..be..... later......&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T14:40:20.533" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T14:40:20.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-27T12:45:28.533" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-18T21:14:17.197" Score="10" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26447/top-message-says-1-more-response-available-but-linked-page-says-out-of-date&quot;&gt;Top message says 1 more response available, but linked page says out of date&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I haven't used StackOverflow for many months and I log in to see what's been going on.  I have a ton of answers and comments so the little popup bar on the top of the page says &quot;You have $n new comments.  See your responses.&quot;  When I click the link (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/1438/2009-07-07/2010-02-18?tab=responses&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/1438/2009-07-07/2010-02-18?tab=responses&lt;/a&gt;), it very unhelpfully notifies me that &quot;maximum of 90 days allowed&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix the responses page to show more than 90 days.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;or:  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix the popup to ignore responses that are older than 90 days since they aren't discoverable anymore.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;or:  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fix the responses page to show what it can even if part of the date range is out of range.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it's probably not a good idea to annoy lapsed users who are just now getting back to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-18T22:47:08.953" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T22:47:08.953" ClosedDate="2010-11-18T03:19:17.547" Title="Responses report doesn't work when you've been away too long" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40071" CreationDate="2010-02-18T22:04:40.833" Score="1" ViewCount="1533" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a stackoverflow.com id that worked well with Mac/Safari browser, and I used google(gmail) provide OpenID. The problem was that, I can't use the OpenID when I login with other browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used the 'Can't remeber your login information?' to get something like 'https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=BlahBlah', which ends up having 'The page you requested is invalid.' message from Google accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the course of the attempt to get out of this situation, I happened to make another User ID with different OpenID with the same gmail address for the first User ID, and I can't assign the gmail address to this new User ID, as it's already taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even worse, after my log out, I can't login again with the first User ID, And I can't use the second User ID, as I can't assign my gmail address to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q : Is there any way to login with my 'first User ID' without using open ID?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q : Is there any way to reset my open ID?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q : Can I delete the wrong user id so that I can login with 'https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id' at my PC?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143552" LastEditorUserId="143552" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T01:02:20.907" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T09:40:18.887" Title="I get 'The page you requested is invalid' when I enter the info from 'Account Recovery'" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39810" CreationDate="2010-02-18T22:47:50.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found some interesting data regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats-SO.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;SO Stats&quot;&gt;SO stats&lt;/a&gt;. Towards the bottom is a graph called &quot;Votes per question by week&quot; which does show an increase in the number of votes questions were receiving starting in January, which should coincide with the electorate badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, while votes for answer did dip slightly, it doesn't look like it took a very noticeable hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143500" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T22:47:50.403" />
  <row Id="39852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39854" CreationDate="2010-02-18T22:50:22.567" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, the word wrapping can duplicate words sometimes. I was just browsing through the front page of Super User and came across a question that seemed to be titled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;need a WindowsXP application that can take a directory listing and&#xA;and write it to a file&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I do have a screenshot, but I can't overcome my distaste for image-hosting sites. You might be able to see it for yourself if you look within the next hour or so; it's currently eighth from the bottom of the page.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This word duplication isn't a problem in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/110592/need-a-windowsxp-application-that-can-take-a-directory-listing-and-write-it-to-a&quot;&gt;question itself&lt;/a&gt;, and it hasn't been edited at all so it couldn't be a caching issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The page source looks fine, so it's likely a bug in IE7.&lt;/strong&gt; But I wonder because I've never seen this before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T23:09:26.000" Title="Possible bug with title word wrap" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39852" CreationDate="2010-02-18T23:09:26.000" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce it in IE6 (but not 7) using IETester.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to be this bug: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/05/19/the-ie-word-wrap-doppelganger-bug/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The IE Word Wrap Doppelganger Bug&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/and_and.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T23:09:26.000" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39837" CreationDate="2010-02-18T23:12:59.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YSlow isn't the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to improve performance, don't use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;iframe&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; or js iteration of the flair. You are uselessly initiating a request client-side to fetch external resources. Of course it will be costly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use the JSON format, parse it server side, and output your Stack Overflow information the way you want it on your blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-02-18T23:12:59.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-19T00:28:27.823" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ironically, the first thing I thought when I saw this was that it was one of those &quot;Wai rnt their ne chixxors?!?!!!1!!one!&quot; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gynocentrism FTW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139945" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T00:28:27.823" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-19T01:28:13.030" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I'll leave the gravatar switching to balpha, but I've made &lt;a href=&quot;http://shog9.com/greasemonkey/scripts/so_heroify.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a greasemonkey script&lt;/a&gt; for the reveal the names of peoples secret identities at least...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff Atwood =&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Jeff the Unicorn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Skeet =&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Super Skeet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TheTXI =&gt; &lt;strong&gt;TheTXI the Pony Destroyer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teh codez:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           SO Heroes&#xA;// @namespace      http://shog9.com/greasemonkey/scripts&#xA;// @description    Heroify SO usernames - By Alconja, simplified for Chrome by Shog9&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;var script = document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);&#xA;script.type = &quot;text/javascript&quot;;&#xA;script.innerHTML = &quot;(&quot; + heroify.toString() + &quot;)()&quot;;&#xA;document.body.appendChild(script);&#xA;&#xA;function heroify() {&#xA;  var prefixes = [&quot;Super &quot;, &quot;Mega &quot;, &quot;Ultra &quot;, &quot;Bat-&quot;, &quot;Spider-&quot;, &quot;Pony-&quot;, &quot;Sir &quot;, &quot;Astro-&quot;, &quot;Darth &quot;, &quot;Doctor &quot;, &quot;Ninja &quot;, &quot;Professor &quot;, &quot;Captain &quot;, &quot;Dark &quot;, &quot;Night &quot;, &quot;The &quot;];&#xA;  var suffixes = [&quot; the Evil&quot;, &quot; the Unicorn&quot;, &quot; the Brave&quot;, &quot; the Ultimate&quot;, &quot; X&quot;, &quot;zilla&quot;, &quot;-bot!&quot;, &quot; Skywalker&quot;, &quot; Norris&quot;, &quot; Skeet&quot;, &quot; the Benevolent&quot;, &quot; Overflow&quot;, &quot; the Pony Destroyer&quot;];&#xA;  var $links = $(&quot;div.user-details a, a.comment-user, #hlinks a:eq(1), div.started a:nth-child(2)&quot;);&#xA;  $links.each(function() {&#xA;    var uid = parseInt($(this).attr(&quot;href&quot;).replace(/\/users\/(\d+)\/.*/, &quot;$1&quot;));&#xA;    if ( !uid )&#xA;      return;&#xA;    var name = $(this).text();&#xA;&#xA;    var spc = name.indexOf(&quot; &quot;);&#xA;    if (spc &amp;gt;= 0) {&#xA;      if (spc % 3 == 0) {&#xA;        name = name.replace(/[^ ]+ (.*)/, &quot;$1&quot;);&#xA;      } else if (spc % 2 == 0) {&#xA;        name = name.replace(/(.*) [^ ]+/, &quot;$1&quot;);&#xA;      }&#xA;    }&#xA;&#xA;    if (name.length % 2 == 0) {&#xA;      name = name + suffixes[uid % suffixes.length];&#xA;    } else {&#xA;      name = prefixes[uid % prefixes.length] + name;&#xA;    }&#xA;    $(this).text(name);&#xA;  });&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T19:06:13.013" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:06:13.013" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="39859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-19T02:33:29.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52738/gnovice-the-expert&quot;&gt;doing my part!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T02:33:29.537" />
  <row Id="39862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T04:01:34.520" Score="10" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;What takes place when a question having an accepted answer is merged with another question which also has an accepted answer? Is one kept, and the other discarded? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what determines which? Is the master answer (belonging to the question that is not deleted after merge) given priority?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T04:05:11.390" LastActivityDate="2010-06-10T06:17:11.657" Title="What happens to both accepted-answers during a merge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;merged-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43941" CreationDate="2010-02-19T04:17:11.050" Score="8" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a question has received more than 999 votes and it appears in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;the main page&lt;/a&gt;, aka the home page, the number of votes doesn't seem to fit into the square.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of C#&lt;/a&gt; has now received 1048 when I wrote this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am using Firefox 3.5.7 (so it shouldn't be some fringe case)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/rcoeat.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141346" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T11:15:54.977" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T11:16:07.410" Title="Votes count overflowing box for questions with more than 1000 votes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;homepage&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-19T04:58:49.483" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I have to say is : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://5z8.info/56-DEPLOY-TROJAN-287.mw9----_l9i3_foodporn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://5z8.info/56-DEPLOY-TROJAN-287.mw9----_l9i3_foodporn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://5z8.info/dogfights_k8b2_launchexe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://5z8.info/dogfights_k8b2_launchexe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T04:58:49.483" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39868" CreationDate="2010-02-19T06:24:10.003" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25933/post-factum-bounty&quot;&gt;Post-factum bounty?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36567/how-come-no-option-to-tip-answerers&quot;&gt;How come no option to &amp;lsquo;tip&amp;rsquo; answerers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this could lead to possible corrupt behavior, but no more than the ability to create multiple users and go from IP to IP adding points to yourself. I got an answer from Clement on SO that was so epic that he deserves a bounty, but he answered it in like 30 minutes so obviously there was no bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T06:28:05.863" ClosedDate="2010-02-19T15:58:50.553" Title="Give other users a bit of your reputation (to say thankyou for an epic answer for which 10 is surely not enough)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39866" CreationDate="2010-02-19T06:28:05.863" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is not going to happen.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;mgmt will say &quot;if its good others will upvote it&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rep sacrifice opens up the system to gaming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T06:28:05.863" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39870" CreationDate="2010-02-19T06:51:48.087" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early this week I hit 10k in SO and I saw the Telerik Premium Collection offer. I decided to check it out later at home. But after few hours the &quot;Rep&quot; moderation job ran and I lost about 300 points (Telerik Promo ad disappreared).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://john.cognitivedelay.com/images/free-telerik.png#&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I am back to 10k rep but I no longer see the telerik promo offer. Will it appear again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this is a duplicate. Searched but no luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T06:58:27.713" Title="Telerik Premium Collection - how to get back the link" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;telerik&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="39870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39869" CreationDate="2010-02-19T06:58:27.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try this page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.telerik.com/registration-login/stackoverflowregistration.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.telerik.com/registration-login/stackoverflowregistration.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T06:58:27.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39863" CreationDate="2010-02-19T07:09:36.440" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't edit post so here's the screenshot taken from Chrome, numbers are hacked in of course:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/29pu5jm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Vote Overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should it be showing 1K or 1.1K instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T07:09:36.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T07:18:47.320" Score="1" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2294372/identify-process-using-a-file-in-c&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; was initially closed (because it wasn't a &quot;real question&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I felt it had the potential to be a good question (even though the OP wrote it poorly) and I decided to dedicate some time to improve it, and when I was satisfied with its quality I voted to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know if the people who voted to close will be notified of my edits and my reopen vote, so that they can vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="133732" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T18:45:09.517" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:58:34.903" Title="How do the re-open &amp; close notifications work?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;vote-to-reopen&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="39873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39872" CreationDate="2010-02-19T07:25:49.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt they will be notified. In anycase, you don't have to be the 'closer' to be the 're-opener'. The question will be bumped up in the active question tab to get attention (in a way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T07:25:49.473" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T07:28:16.207" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching for &quot;MON$ATTACHMENTS&quot;&quot; it searches for &quot;MONATTACHMENTS&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, searching for &quot;MON$ATTACHMENTS&quot; still searches for &quot;MONATTACHMENTS&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like it is impossible to search for something with a $ (dollar sign) in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should have found (at least) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62923/id-ing-deadlocks-in-a-thread-using-firebird&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150440" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T09:27:06.480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T09:27:06.480" Title="Search terms with dollar signs ($) are ignored" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;special-characters&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39877" CreationDate="2010-02-19T08:29:26.420" Score="2" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I've observed a lot of questions using the word &quot;confusion&quot; in the title. There is even a &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/confusion&quot;&gt;confusion&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt; tag.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is nothing wrong if a person is confused about the usage of some API/concept/etc, and there are not that many questions with this in the title, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't add information to the question title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is not helping when others google for the same thing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could there be some sort of discouragement, or better, encouragement of using &quot;How to&quot; or &quot;Why&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will effectively make the question title much clearer. When the author of the question is encouraged to think for a sentence starting with &quot;How to&quot;, he'll produce a better title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Confusion about interfaces&quot; -&gt; &quot;How to make partial implementations of an interface&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Confusion about cloning&quot; -&gt; &quot;Why the MemberwiseClone works for all my objects&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T09:00:22.803" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T09:00:22.803" Title="Discourage the word &quot;confusion&quot; in question titles, or encourage the use of &quot;How to&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;wording&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39932" CreationDate="2010-02-19T08:29:31.270" Score="-5" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;We wish people to vote more on questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore why not change the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“max 30 votes a day limit”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“no more then 30 votes a day, of which&#xA;  no more than 20 are for answers”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No more than 5 votes on answers in a day if you have not also voted on a question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now please come up with something along these lines that will in fact work.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T15:22:11.290" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:22:11.290" Title="Change max votes allow per day to get more people voting on questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39875" CreationDate="2010-02-19T08:52:17.457" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;How to&quot; doesn't add information to the title either. Better to construct a question title that really nuggets the gold out of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Okay:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How to make partial implementations of an interface&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Better:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creating partial implementations of an interface&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of users over 2k rep that can come along and fix up the posts. You're not ever going to programatically stop people from asking poor questions. They just either won't or don't know how to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, they exist to help other users get their &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/12/strunk-white&quot; title=&quot;won't you take me to, strunky town!&quot;&gt;Strunk &amp;amp; White badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you did have some kind of bot, it would probably be suspended/flagged over and over again because people enjoy making those who can read English weep at poor sentence structure. As they are wont to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T08:52:17.457" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T09:29:30.237" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list of StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt;, but it's not clear where to discuss and ask general architecture questions, network issues, and indeed the thorny issue of scalability!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kind of questions aren't directly programming, and so therefore don't fit on Stack Overflow. (Even though potentially related to programming of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where does one go to ask, ponder and query these onions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143533" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T09:42:29.007" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T09:45:48.983" Title="Architecture questions should go" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="39880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39883" CreationDate="2010-02-19T09:37:51.450" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I submitted &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2235050/accessing-a-web-service-from-your-browser/2250793#2250793&quot;&gt;an answer to a question&lt;/a&gt; that was offering a bounty that is due to run out today. When I checked it this morning, the little banner saying that there was an open bounty is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the bounty time limit is up yet, but if it was, my question is the highest rated with at least 2 upvotes, so I was expecting half the bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135377" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T09:50:11.280" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T10:05:29.310" Title="Disappearing bounty on a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39879" CreationDate="2010-02-19T09:45:48.983" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;. The 2nd part of the trilogy. It is foccused on network architecture and scalability. However if you are referring to development scalabality I can't why it won't be allowed on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you problem is related to your personal computer you can also look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;. The 3rd part of the trilogy focusses on computer hardware and software problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T09:45:48.983" />
  <row Id="39882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T09:55:14.403" Score="2" ViewCount="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On stackoverflow I edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133270/how-to-illustrate-usage-of-volatile-keyword-in-c/1284007#1284007&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, because the code was indented by 8 spaces, which was too much too show the whole lines.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, when I started editing, I saw the code indented only four spaces in the preview window. So the preview window looks different than the question/answer later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll try to reproduce this here (hope it works):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;code&#xA;    Indented by 4 spaces in the preview window, have a look!&#xA;/code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132488" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T09:55:14.403" Title="Tab width in preview window and real question/answer differs" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;preview&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39880" CreationDate="2010-02-19T10:05:29.310" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The auto-accept runs on a delay - it isn't immediate. You now have half of the 100 bounty (I don't think anyone did anything). Through fluke of timing, in the past I've actually had bounty answers accepted by the OP &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the bounty expired and &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the auto-accept kicked in, so full bonus ;-p But not today...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T10:05:29.310" />
  <row Id="39884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2010-02-19T10:40:17.277" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I didn't say I upvoted them, I just said that I assumed they were correct. :) – Robert Harvey Jan 21 at 23:28&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a difference in trust in an answer (because you have the knowledge to say something about it), and trust in an answer (because it is explained well, and the author is trustworthy). The StackExchange reputation mechanism does not distinguish between the two, and therefore it cannot be told what prevails and how a certain reputation is constituted. I do not think it is a big problem, but it is quite interesting what happens when for instance a user does not see the reputation of a person (who gives an answer) until he votes for an answer. That is one way to test it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to test this is by sending 3 groups of 50 persons an email with a question and two answers. For all groups, the question and answers are the same. Each person must choose the better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Group 1 gets a question and two answers. The author of answer A has a high (artificial) reputation. The author of answer B a low reputation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Group 2 idem, but other way around. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Group C idem, but without the reputation of the authors included.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The persons have to be familiar with the reputation system, otherwise the reputation does not make sense to them. There are different ways to extend such an experiment: showing/not showing the votes for an answer, looking at the reputation of the persons and see if there are correlations between own reputation and trust in another reputation, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also thought of another, similar approach to testing the influence of accumulated reputation and the trust it seems to convey. Show a video to the 3 groups and ask them to rate the video. The first group is not shown a rating, the second group is shown an average high rating of the video, and the third group is shown an average low rating in the video. What you try to decipher here, is how much an existing reputation/rating influences choice, trust, and perceived value. A video is not the same as a person, clearly, but I think the same internal mechanics play a role here (I’m not a psychologist.. anyone?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying assumption is of course that people are guided by other people, preferably exemplary people (or icons), and that the trust in SO-metrics allow for ‘not having to think myself’, hence consuming less energy and is therefore a preferred strategy for many people in such communities. There is of course nothing wrong with this, but it of course puts some requirements on the reputation system: the reputation people trust in must not be able to predict the behaviour of an reputed agent, at least when the agent has a high reputation. It means: I value my high reputation &gt; I have been willing, and will be willing to put effort in finding answers that are valuable &gt; therefore my intention is right. Even though intention does not equal quality of the answer, it comes quite close, because wrong/bad answers will degrade your reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143526" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T10:40:17.277" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T10:40:17.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39872" CreationDate="2010-02-19T10:57:01.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nestled high in the snowy peaks, among the moderation tools available to 10k+ users and Diamond mods, is a magical page that shows lists of recent close and reopen votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any appropriately high-rep (and attentive) user can see your reopen vote there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imagebin.ca/img/nFqeiEr.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;ooOOOOooo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T10:57:01.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T11:18:15.737" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a user chooses an interesting/ignored tag, they can choose any tag. Even those which are not in the database or being used by any question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is not creating a new tag, do these non-existent tags get searched for every time a user logs into the site and clicks on a question tab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T13:46:52.127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T13:56:28.143" Title="Adding non-existent tags to interesting or ignored set" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T11:54:19.813" Score="-9" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite often I see general or simple questions attracting many answers in a few minutes time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often this is because many people see the question at the same time with no anwers, and jump to the resque. They either don't see the other answers before they submit, or don't want to stop at 90% of the answer. Finish what you started, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is of course very competitive and democratic, but I still think this is a bit of a waste of effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I thought of was this: Suppose that if a new question is posted, it is initially only visible to a randomly selected 10% of SO visitors. This random audiance gets a headstart of 5 minutes to type in an answer. The question is visible to the other 90% as soon as the 5 minutes are over, or when the first answer is posted. The other 90% can then see the question, and verify that it makes sense, and post their own view if they don't agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plus is that we will spend less time duplicating each others work. The downside is a delay in answering questions. But I don't think 5 minutes is a big deal. I would expect that the person asking has already spent hours to investigate, and somthing like 20 minutes to seach for duplicates on SO, and typing in a properly phrased, tagged question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also not like the idea that you will see 90% of the questions with a delay, but for all questions combined you have the same odds as everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143348" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:10:56.370" Title="Suggestion: display questions with a random delay to avoid duplicate answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39888" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:04:26.263" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quite often I see general or simple questions attracting many answers in a few minutes time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the problem? In each of these cases the answer probably took less than a minute to write so there is very little wasted time. Most of the time I post a answer that takes less than a minute to write and then try and improve it if needed (Or delete if there is a better answer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I thought of was this: Suppose that if a new question is posted, it is initially only visible to a randomly selected 10% of SO visitors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't solve the problem. What happens if no-one in that 10% sample knows the answer? The same problem occurs 5 minutes later. It just slows down answers which is not what users want and it also slows down or stops some of the good answers. If you have a better answer it is a pain when there is a upvoted Ok answer as most of the time the Ok answer just keeps getting more upvotes and your good answer just sits at the bottom just gaining one or two up votes. A couple of times at this and answers will learn that if there is an answer with 4 or so upvotes not to bother writing a better answer as no rep is gained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue, suppose someone answers the question but not that well. The user accepts or the answer gains an upvote and it no longer appears on the &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; page. Hence, the user doesn't get the best possible answer as I only really look at the unanswered questions (and I assume I am not alone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often I find that multiple answers have subtle but important differences. Take for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2287903/safest-place-to-store-php-values-for-msql-connect/2287909#2287909&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; which incorporated my (deleted) answer as my answer took into account the fact that not all hosts allow you access outside the public directory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="137028" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T12:10:56.370" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:10:56.370" />
  <row Id="39890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39888" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:05:28.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO wants &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answers to questions, preferably &lt;em&gt;as fast as possible&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duplicate answers can be deleted, as often happens.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you fear duplicated effort, just don't answer any question posted in the last hour (or so).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say there is no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74939" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:05:28.423" />
  <row Id="39922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8891" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:11:19.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can net over 2600 votes that way. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454&quot;&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;center&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; cannot hold it is too late.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:11:19.303" />
  <row Id="39923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39924" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:27:54.110" Score="4" ViewCount="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what is the correct approach in case I ask a question and, through the comments and answers other people give, I realize that my question wasn't formulated correctly, or even that I asked the wrong question, because I asked one thing when in fact I wanted to ask another. &#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this case, I would like to reformulate the entire question, changing the title and everything. What should I do? Edit the current question (and put a commentary explaining why I changed the whole text) or start a new question, and put a link in the old one to the new one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143581" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:33:24.287" Title="How to refactor a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39923" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:30:21.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should start a new question. Whatever you do, don't edit your original question so that it invalidates existing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:30:21.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39923" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:33:24.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are already answers, &lt;em&gt;which answer the original question&lt;/em&gt;, I'd let it be and ask a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are no answers, you can either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;delete the old question, ask a new one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;edit the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which solution you choose depends on how much different the new question is from the old one, I think it's hard to answer this without any examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About comments: I don't think you have to explain it in the comments, if someone is interested he/she could just look up the edit history. Outdated information isn't usually interesting for most of your readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be nice though, to reply in a comment to the person who found out about your mistake, just to let them know you appreciate their comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:33:24.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:51:09.563" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask questions pretty regularly on stack overflow, and have got some really great answers.  Like the bounty scheme, perhaps there should be a mechanism where when you get a great answer, you can acknowledge it by giving a late bounty.  Just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143582" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-16T23:27:19.857" LastActivityDate="2010-07-16T23:27:19.857" Title="Suggestion: Allow users accepting answers to allocate some of their rep to the answerer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39926" CreationDate="2010-02-19T12:53:33.567" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already do this if you haven't placed a bounty on your question already.  Simply unaccept the answer you accepted, place a bounty, and re-accept the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this will prevent you from changing the accepted answer in the future if you should ever find the need to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T12:53:33.567" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T13:02:55.727" Score="0" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39848/i-get-the-page-you-requested-is-invalid-when-i-enter-the-info-from-account-rec&quot;&gt;I get &amp;lsquo;The page you requested is invalid&amp;rsquo; when I enter the info from &amp;lsquo;Account Recovery&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to connect to my account (this one) on another computer.&#xA;So I go to the login page, where I enter my openID (I got this openID by clicking on &quot;&lt;em&gt;Can't remember your login information?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after clicking the login button, I'm redirected to a &quot;google account&quot; page that says:&#xA;&quot;&lt;em&gt;The page you requested is invalid&lt;/em&gt;&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: my email address isn't @gmail.com, but @mycompany.com because we use Google tools in our company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T15:04:15.080" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:04:15.080" ClosedDate="2010-02-19T17:12:15.683" Title="How do I connect to Stack Overflow using openID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39887" CreationDate="2010-02-19T13:46:21.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should test this!  I'm going to add &lt;code&gt;non-existent-tags&lt;/code&gt; to my list, then check, add then retag this question to add &lt;code&gt;non-existent-tags&lt;/code&gt;.  I will report back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this works as expected.  If a question is tagged with one of my interesting tags, even if it didn't exist before, it'll be highlighted correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T13:46:21.020" />
  <row Id="39931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39876" CreationDate="2010-02-19T13:53:42.937" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are a gentle push to encourage behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This method you mention isn't a push, it's a shove out of a plane with no reserve chute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We cannot dictate what people vote on; and putting barriers up only pisses people off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people want something voluntary (badges) then they conduct a voluntary action (voting for questions and answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T13:53:42.937" />
  <row Id="39932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39876" CreationDate="2010-02-19T13:55:08.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I already spend all my votes on questions and none on answers, because of the electorate badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need for more incentive IMO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T13:55:08.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39887" CreationDate="2010-02-19T13:56:28.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The highlighting/greying of interesting/ignored tags is all done client-side, so it's actually done every time you load a list of questions anywhere on the site (even in search results).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the lack of database-based tag support is partly because of this design, but also because you can do wildcard filtering on the tags (i.e., 'javascript*') where the input text won't exist as an actual tag in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T13:56:28.143" />
  <row Id="39934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:05:55.453" Score="-4" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;One idea that came to my mind is to &lt;strong&gt;allow one additional vote for each 10k of rep&lt;/strong&gt;, so a 34K rep could vote 3 times on the same question / answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some insights:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At present, when a 50K rep user votes, it counts the same as a 200 rep vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I agree that an expert in Perl can be completely wrong about a Java question, and therefore his vote doesn't matter. What's more, a very smart person can be a newcomer with a low rep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, most of the time, the answer a hi-rep votes for is likely to be more interesting than what a newcomer votes for. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My main concerns are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would it unbalance SO?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;would it affect newbies questions / answers, since these are a very useful resource to begin programming?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, consider that &lt;strong&gt;hi-rep profiles are not that numerous&lt;/strong&gt;, and so giving them this possibility (a small amount of extra voting power) does not seem that unbalancing. They don't have to use the vote, they can, and the purpose is to use it only for quality, which a hi-rep will likely tend to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137564" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:26:36.300" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T03:26:36.300" Title="Do you think a mechanism to value hi-rep appreciation would highlight quality answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;high-rep-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39934" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:09:08.843" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do we need ways to make more reputation faster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People with high reputation earned it with hard work, and great knowledge.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You are assuming that newcomers now deserve to climb the ladder faster than those before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a benefit in this, the reputation thresholds are there for a reason, and I believe it's well balanced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T14:09:08.843" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39952" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:15:54.040" Score="9" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: Venkatesan R**** ****** [venkat***_****@yahoo.co.in] &#xA;    Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:37 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    I am very much interest to learn FLEX with backend PHP.Please &#xA;    guide me and help me to become a Best FLEX Developer.&#xA;&#xA;    Thanks and Regards,&#xA;    Venkatesan R**** ******&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T16:38:02.893" Title="Advertising Inquiry: become a Best!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39937" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:30:47.933" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/php+flex&quot;&gt;Flex and PHP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;~Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T14:30:47.933" />
  <row Id="39939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39942" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:30:07.983" Score="2" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16874/how-to-draw-attention-to-a-question-without-creating-a-bounty&quot;&gt;How to draw attention to a question without creating a bounty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions&quot;&gt;Best Time to Ask Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question might not be allowed but I am going to try... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that asking a question during certain times of the day will elicit much fewer responses then questions asked at peak hours of the day. If I have a question that didn't get much traffic, I didn't get an answer I was looking for, and now is getting towards the bottom of the &quot;Stack&quot; so few people are looking at it, how can I get more traffic to my question? Is there a good way other than offering a bounty? I shouldn't have to sacrifice my points should I?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143590" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T19:25:47.193" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:25:47.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T14:30:07.983" ClosedDate="2010-02-20T13:28:28.553" Title="How can I get a StackOverflow question to receive more traffic?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;traffic&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39939" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:32:14.563" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well you asked a question on Friday which is right on the spot. It's when more people flow in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update your question making it more precise. Provide more information on the issue. The quality of the question will rise and so the interest of other people to participate in it. Also each edit brings your question back to the main page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another hint which works all the time (not just on Friday). Ask interesting question! Not something that has been asked 50 times before of which 49 were closed as duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="136634" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T14:37:15.440" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T14:37:15.440" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T14:32:14.563" />
  <row Id="39941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:32:44.997" Score="10" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen in several places on MSO that people believe there is too much upvoting on questions (such as Neil Butterworth's comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39876/change-max-votes-allow-per-day-to-get-more-people-voting-on-questions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;).  Why do people believe this? I understand the problem with sympathy upvotes, but this seems to be another issue.  What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T15:21:08.140" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:19:15.620" Title="Why is there too much upvoting on Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="39942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39939" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:33:08.087" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Word your questions well. If and when new information comes up, or you have a significant improvement to make to your question, edit it, and it will be bumped back to the top slightly. Don't overdo this, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I shouldn't have to sacrifice my points should I?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not? Bounties are a great way to attract attention to a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T14:33:08.087" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T14:33:08.087" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39939" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:38:45.733" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And traffic has nothing to do with responses ;).&#xA;1000000 users can check your question but it might be that only 3 ppl respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T14:38:45.733" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T14:38:45.733" />
  <row Id="39946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39928" CreationDate="2010-02-19T14:47:41.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having a similar problem. In fact, I get a &lt;em&gt;&quot;Page not found - connection failure&quot;&lt;/em&gt; when I go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.myopenid.com&lt;/a&gt;, which suggests something is wrong at My Open ID's end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143446" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T14:47:41.403" />
  <row Id="39948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39941" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:02:54.600" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, there's two schools of thought. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is shown by Koper's comment above - just be merely existing, a question is a Good Thing and is therefore worthy of a reputation gain by the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another is that a question is not necessarily a big contribution to the site in a sense that it's a LOT easier to ask questions than to answer them, and as such asking questions is compensated (reputation-wise) entirely &lt;strong&gt;non&lt;/strong&gt;-commensurate compared with answering them ( in real life, an equivalent logic would be &quot;yes, people who serve Big Macs provide invaluable service to MacDonalds customers, and without them MacDonlds would not exist - but the work is so simple that anyone can do it and thus is not worth more than mimium wage&quot;).&#xA;E.g. it's far easier to gain rep points by asking loads of obvious questions (the usual example is just copy/pasting questions from some textbook), which basically deflates the worth of reputation of people who put in the effort to answer the questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anther factor in the second school of thought is that simple/dumb/obvious/Google-me type questions, precisely due to their obviousness, get up-voted a lot more than well-thought-out ones, because for any person who puts efforts into questions there's 100s of people who are too lazy to do so, yet both get rewarded the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear, proponents of the second school of though don't object to upvoting good questions - just to the fact that as the system currently works, it is NOT geared towards up-voting good questions, and explicitly geared against asking good questions (and, due to abovementioned rep inflation, implicitly discourages answering with good answers, at least on the margin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="119280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T15:08:16.560" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:08:16.560" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="39950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="87112" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:14:37.990" Score="6" ViewCount="781" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question now has a completely different answer, given the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/01/stack-overflow-search-now-81-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;announcement that Lucene.NET is being used to power StackOverflow's search capability&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that, I've created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/77558/now-how-is-lucene-net-utilized-on-stackoverflow-part-2&quot;&gt;new question to request a fleshing out of the details&lt;/a&gt; and linked the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the entry on the StackOverflow blog titled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/sql-2008-full-text-search-problems/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQL 2008 Full-Text Search Problems&lt;/a&gt;&quot; there is a &lt;strong&gt;strong&lt;/strong&gt; indication that &lt;a href=&quot;http://lucene.apache.org/lucene.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lucene.NET&lt;/a&gt; is being used for a number of the search operations on the back end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, how is it integrated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are many aspects to the &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; of it, so I'll try to fill in the blanks as to what I think as best I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indexing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt; - I believe that this is in an index of its own containing a unique id to quickly look it up based on a Term instance of that id (indexed, not analyzed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt; - These are kept in a separate index with multiple fields which have the ids to the documents in the Questions index.  Or, if that's too large, there is an index with just the tags and another index which maintains the relationship between the tags index and the questions they are applied to.  This way, when you click on a tag (or use the URL structure), it's easy to see in a progressive manner that you only have to &quot;buy into&quot; if you succeed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the tag exists&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which questions the tags are associated with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Replies&lt;/strong&gt; - Again, I would think this is in a separate index of its own, with a key back into the Questions index.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are you doing it?  What fields are you storing, indexing, analyzing (all operations can be separate operations, or mix-and-matched)?  &lt;em&gt;Just how much are you indexing?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you using special stemmers/porters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boost&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is related to indexing of course, but I think it merits it's own section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you &lt;strong&gt;boosting&lt;/strong&gt; fields and/or documents?  If so, how are you boosting them?  Is the boost constant for certain fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in the document, does the title get a boost over the body?  If so, what boost factors have you seen work well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly &lt;strong&gt;are you using vote data to apply a boost to content (such as questions and answers)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, how relative is the vote data to the search results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When actually performing a search, all of the indexes will have to be utilized for separate queries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When querying for a tag (by specifically clicking on one or using the URL structure for looking up tagged content), that's a simple TermQuery against the tag index for the tag, then in the associations index (if necessary) then back to questions, Lucene.NET handles this really quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When doing a general phrase or term search against content, what and how do you integrate other information (such as votes) in order to determine the results in the proper order?  For example, when performing this search on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=asp.net+mvc&quot;&gt;asp.net mvc&lt;/a&gt;, these are the tallies for the top five results (when using the relevance tab):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;q votes answers accepted answer votes asp.net highlights mvc highlights&#xA;------- ------- --------------------- ------------------ --------------&#xA; 21          26                    51                  2              2&#xA; 58          23                    70                  2              5&#xA; 29          24                    40                  3              4&#xA; 37          15                    25                  1              2&#xA; 59          23                    47                  2              2&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the highlights are only in the title and abstract on the results page and are only minor indicators as to what the true term frequency is in the document, title, tag, reply (however they are applied, which is another good question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is all of this brought together?  The biggest questions that stand out are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How is vote data weighed against the relevance score (and what boosts are applied to that score, either directly in the query, in the indexing, or indirectly by multiplying the relevance factor by a result of the vote data).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the replies are indexed separately from the questions, how are those relevance scores brought together?  My initial thoughts on this would is that the relevance score in the question is added to the relevance score of each individial reply and whichever pair has the highest relevance is the relevance score for the entire question and &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the factors outside of analysis that affect all of this?  How does vote/view/accepted answers/etc/etc affect the outcome?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are a lot of other questions I have about this, but as the answers start to frame things, I can expand upon that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140951" LastEditorUserId="140951" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-02T18:40:25.573" LastActivityDate="2011-04-12T17:48:30.520" Title="How is Lucene.NET utilized on StackOverflow (if at all)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;search-results&gt;&lt;so-design&gt;&lt;lucene&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="39952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39937" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:27:33.683" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Venkatesan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know much about PHP, but I do&#xA;  know that if you flex your backend,&#xA;  you will probably have some impressive&#xA;  output. It sounds like you're having&#xA;  difficulties in that area, so you may&#xA;  want to invest in some form of&#xA;  laxative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While you're treating that condition,&#xA;  might I recommend a good book on PHP?&#xA;  It will help pass the time and make&#xA;  you into a best developer posthaste!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yours in sympathy,   Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:27:33.683" />
  <row Id="39953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39937" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:32:53.453" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like learning backends as well.&#xA;  Especially FLEXible ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wish you well in your quest.&#xA;  Remember: No means no.  I don't know&#xA;  what that PHP is, though. It sounds&#xA;  like an STD. I recommend staying away&#xA;  from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All the best,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:32:53.453" />
  <row Id="39954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39950" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:35:16.007" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not being used yet. It's all SQL queries. They were able to push back the need for Lucene by doing things like removing the 1000 most common words from search queries and some other tricks like that.  The ungoodness of the site search is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kind of a running joke here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T15:40:27.900" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:40:27.900" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39941" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:40:29.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Electorate badge rewards voting on questions as well as answers (or, for people who have voted a whole lot on answers, questions rather than answers).  Granted that it doesn't have to be upvotes, we lose a small amount of rep for downvotes, and it feels nicer to upvote than downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree in general that questions are less valuable than answers, but discouraging upvoting them is not, apparently, the solution.  Perhaps question upvotes should get less rep than answer upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:40:29.820" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:43:56.580" Score="9" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should be able to see what the total count is for upvoted questions and up voted answers and vice versa. Right now it just takes a composite and shows total upvotes and total downvotes (on the profile page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142469" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T18:56:18.590" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T18:56:18.590" Title="Show a Users upvotes and downvotes grouped by questions and answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39941" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:46:00.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because a badge was created to encourage upvoting on questions since people were upvoting answers way more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142469" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:46:00.040" />
  <row Id="39958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39950" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:47:31.813" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the site does not use Lucene at all - see the comment from Geoff Dalgas, one of the site developers on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39950/how-is-lucene-net-utilized-on-stackoverflow-if-at-all/39954#39954&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucene.NET is not being used for Stack Overflow - we are using SQL Server Full Text indexing. Search is an area where we continue to make minor tweaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T18:30:54.550" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T18:30:54.550" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39937" CreationDate="2010-02-19T15:54:39.893" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Mr R,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your inquiry.  You should know that there is a limit the the number of Best FLEX Developers as specified by Adobe.  Unfortunately there are already 103 &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; Best Flex Developers than allowed by policy and regulation, and if congress meets before the summer solstice it is likely that this limit will also be enforced by law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not wish to put you in danger of prison, or worse - some corporate underpaid lackey - and so I must refrain from guiding you on this journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take courage, though.  There are ways of forcibly reducing the numbers of Best FLEX Developers, and while I certainly don't wish to encourage such methods, you may feel that being the Best requires that someone else sacrifice their dreams so you may achieve your goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours in infamy,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Alex Popacapinface&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T15:54:39.893" />
  <row Id="39960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39937" CreationDate="2010-02-19T16:01:55.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a best&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;VERY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; correct usage: Given any &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_order&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;partially ordered set&lt;/a&gt; (which the set of all developers indeed is), the existence of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal_element&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;maximal element&lt;/a&gt; in this set does not guarantee the uniqueness of the maximal element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A best developer is a developer &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt; such that there exists no other developer &lt;strong&gt;y&lt;/strong&gt; who is better than &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That does not mean &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt; is the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; best developer as the statement can be true for another developer &lt;strong&gt;z&lt;/strong&gt; as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, developers &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;z&lt;/strong&gt; need not be equally good. In fact, they may not be comparable under the given &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_order&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;partial order&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the joke is about the bad English of a non-native speaker, well, that is just plain mean and uncalled for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS:&lt;/strong&gt; Presumably, everyone here knows about the standard partial order on R&lt;sup&gt;n&lt;/sup&gt; for n &gt; 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T16:10:19.233" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T16:10:19.233" />
  <row Id="39961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39941" CreationDate="2010-02-19T16:02:17.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do people believe this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because they have a very strict set of beliefs as to when a question should be upvoted and the OP rewarded for their contribution to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be very many reasons they've chosen to not only limit their upvotes, but chide others who upvote for other reasons, and I don't know that there's a good reason to speculate on why they feel this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for me, I upvote &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that are interesting for any reason (technically, humorously, well thought out, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions that I want to see an answer to&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question by new users who don't have enough rep to upvote the answers to their own questions  (The first one is free - get them hooked on rep early)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other extreme is that some people only upvote a question if it is a shining beacon - a monumental and substantial addition to the SO knowledgebase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't matter.  Feel free to ignore people who suggest that you vote according to their patterns and beliefs, if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T16:02:17.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39956" CreationDate="2010-02-19T16:25:25.500" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes we should. It would also be nice to see other stats for a user, such as number of close votes given (split by questions still closed, and questions that have since been open), number of delete votes given, number of edits performed, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of this information might be available from the API, and therefore could be built into greasemonkey scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This all been suggested before, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T16:25:25.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39937" CreationDate="2010-02-19T16:38:02.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Venkatesan,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there is no problem at all with becoming a &lt;a href=&quot;http://best.eng.auburn.edu/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BEST&lt;/a&gt; Flex Developer. Please see the answer to question 3 of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bestinc.org/cgi-bin/bestqna.pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BEST Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While there are other compatible compilers only the distributed IAR Kickstart edition compiler is supported by BEST.&#xA;  You are welcome to explore other tools such as TI code composer, MSP-GCC, AQ430, ICC430 and the full edition of IAR but you will be on your own. You will have to modify and recompile all the libraries in order to use another tool&#xA;  If there are issues or limits with IAR we will be happy to work with you to overcome or work around these issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules do not prevent you from writing your code using Flex. Note, however, that there is no compatible Flex compiler that we know of, but you are free to write one yourself, should you indeed want to become a BEST Flex developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So go ahead and &lt;a href=&quot;http://robotevents.com/robot-competitions/best&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;register&lt;/a&gt;&amp;mdash;who knows, you might be the first BEST Flex developer ever!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just remember that according to section 1 and section 4.1 of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bestinc.org/MVC/FileManagement/download?file=%20593&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Generic Kit Notes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;you have to return your BRAIN&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T16:38:02.893" />
  <row Id="39966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39950" CreationDate="2010-02-19T16:40:33.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The extensive list of tools used on SO in the FAQ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; seems to indicate that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39950/how-is-lucene-net-utilized-on-stackoverflow-if-at-all/39954#39954&quot;&gt;Kip&lt;/a&gt; is indeed correct when stating that Lucene.Net is not being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff has always made a point to list every product used to built SO with and I know they also have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/26837/brent-ozar&quot;&gt;Brent&lt;/a&gt; around to help with the more complex SQL problems. He also spent some time optimising the databases for SO. At the time Lucene was looked at as an option but they have not implemented it since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T16:40:33.200" />
  <row Id="39967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39934" CreationDate="2010-02-19T16:43:30.963" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that high rep users already have somewhat undue influence on votes: if I vote on an answer and explain my vote, that's likely to attract more similar votes than if someone else does it. If I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want the votes to roll in, I can tweet about a particular answer being great or awful... and I suspect most high rep users have enough social networking to do something similar. I try to avoid doing this, mind you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on SO should be &quot;equal&quot; as far as possible, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T16:43:30.963" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39950" CreationDate="2010-02-19T16:59:07.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they were looking at lucene, I understood it was largely driven by performance issues with the native sql server full-text indexing rather than correctness or relevance issues.  I believe those performance issues were resolved, and therefore lucene was never implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since they added the &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[tagname]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;intitle:1&lt;/code&gt;, and other &quot;operators&quot;, I've been content with the search here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T17:15:25.690" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:15:25.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39934" CreationDate="2010-02-19T17:10:43.907" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One person, one vote.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could get into how dangerous it is to further a caste system on SO (and tie reputation to ability to vote!), and how additional voting privileges gained by other people voting for you simply forms a sort of compounding interest rate on reputation (thus increasing the gulf between haves and have-nots), but the reality is that there is NO good reason for this idea, and thus there's no reason to show the detrimental effects it will have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, prove that this change will improve SO, and then we can debate.  As it is, there is no debate without a good reason to implement it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T17:15:57.763" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:15:57.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39941" CreationDate="2010-02-19T17:13:07.210" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some history might throw a little light on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Way back in the misty depths of the beta, there were relatively few users, and most of them were experts of one grade or another (except me, of course, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; was just faking it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that environment basic questions were not very common (remember that Joel posted the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1003841/how-do-i-move-the-turtle-in-logo&quot;&gt;How do I move the turtle in LOGO?&lt;/a&gt; to emphasize that basic questions are OK), and were rarely upvoted. Instead it seemed to me that questions were being upvoted if they exposed or emphasized things that were not common knowledge among that well informed crowd or if they addressed problems that plagued these &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; programmers (or if there were technically meaningless fluff, but that is a different lesson).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; to get a lot of points on &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; questions, and we got used to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many, many more users, so many more people who might vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A larger fraction of users seem to be fairly young as programmers, so more interest in answers that are well known to the old folks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The electorate badge, which puts a disincentive on voting on answers &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; you vote on the question. &lt;sub&gt;Personal opinion here: with this addition some votes are being cast for questions that &lt;em&gt;are not&lt;/em&gt; helpful or interesting because they have answers that &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; helpful or interesting.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, it is easier now to do well with questions, and that just seems &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; to people who got the feel of the site back in the medieval period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second contributing factor is a class of users who ask an endless stream of questions without any obvious purpose, nor any willingness or ability to learn from the answers; nor any sign that they will ever mature as programmers. These questions are often badly posed, based on misunderstandings, or attempting to use the wrong tools the wrong way: questions that take care, effort, and time to answer. Now we could try ignoring these guys, but &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; beginners often ask questions that have the same problems and will &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; benefit from a good answer to them; so ignoring questions that look like there were emitted by question-pumps reduces the true utility of the sites and harms the people they could most help. This makes us (or at least me) resentful and suspicious of people who generate the bulk of their reputation from questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T17:19:15.620" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:19:15.620" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T17:28:56.407" Score="2" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;So why wouldn't #113300 be at least the first result in the drop-down, if not the only one, after typing its title exactly?  Does it use the same routines/indexes as the standard search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/MSO_DupeSearch.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:28:56.407" Title="Duplicate Search Results" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="39973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39613" CreationDate="2010-02-19T17:39:39.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;how much to buy the tag &quot;homework&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:39:39.500" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T17:39:39.500" />
  <row Id="39974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39863" CreationDate="2010-02-19T17:46:56.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's doing the same here on both Safari and Firefox. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative to displaying &quot;1.1k&quot; would be changing font-size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i49.tinypic.com/i50i00.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/552q2o.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(150% for the font size size)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:46:56.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39863" CreationDate="2010-02-19T17:54:07.627" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All we need is 49 people to downvote that question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T17:54:07.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15635" CreationDate="2010-02-19T17:59:25.927" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you receive 55 upvotes, would you do the same on another question and so on and so forth, generating a rep inflation no man has ever seen before, in some kind of perpetual motion machine (understanding by motion an 'exponential growing of reputation') crashing the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be so cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T04:25:59.367" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T04:25:59.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39209" CreationDate="2010-02-19T18:37:51.880" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow does not cater to infants, and has no plans to do so in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please set your infant's bookmarks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://moms4mom.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.diaperoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; which I'm sure will meet his needs better than SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T18:37:51.880" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-19T18:45:47.820" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cran.r-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/2j1q83t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The R-Project for Statistical Computing&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T18:45:47.820" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T18:45:47.820" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10713" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:00:47.193" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To all the critics: &quot;And&quot; is the default in all decent search engines. It just makes sense: if you are adding keywords you want fewer results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141840" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:00:47.193" />
  <row Id="39984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:06:42.967" Score="41" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cran.r-project.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/123o00y.png&quot; alt=&quot;The R-Project for Statistical Computing&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136108" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:06:42.967" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T19:06:42.967" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39993" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:09:35.750" Score="-2" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35864/full-contact-moderating&quot;&gt;Full contact moderating&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is getting a bad/poor question off the main page so important that it's worth closing a question even before it can be answered?  That behavior just encourages &quot;The fastest gun in the west&quot; race where any flaw in a question gets the &quot;close&quot; gun drawn on it.  The response is usually, &quot;It pollutes the main page&quot; which seems to be another way of saying, &quot;It makes it harder to get the first answer in to all those questions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T19:40:46.253" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:40:46.253" ClosedDate="2010-02-19T19:32:39.003" Title="How quickly should an off topic question be closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;meta-discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="39986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:11:08.370" Score="-6" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/824/i-want-to-see-who-marked-my-questions-as-favorites&quot;&gt;I want to see who marked my questions as favorites&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know who is following my questions. Voting, I know could create problems with this, but I don't see how it could be bad to see who's following you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-19T16:22:10.557" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T16:22:10.557" ClosedDate="2010-02-19T20:35:11.117" Title="Show me who has favorited my question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;followers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39986" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:14:48.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't see how it could be bad to see who's following you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess you've never had a stalker then!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this would be useful. Stack Overflow is all about the ideas and information exchange in the questions and answers, not about the people themselves.  If we took away everyone's account and transferred everything to the Community user, there should be little loss of value in the site. Stack Overflow is not a social networking site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:14:48.047" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="39988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40007" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:15:28.187" Score="-1" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please investigate this user: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/258482/arlen-beiler&quot;&gt;arlen-beiler&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since February 6th, he has been posting silly questions, looking to artificially inflate his reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131956" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T21:12:56.597" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:01:30.110" ClosedDate="2010-02-22T23:42:05.527" Title="Please investigate this user: arlen-beiler" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="39989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39995" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:16:20.977" Score="-15" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I have a question, and it is marked dupe, the system should check to see if it was offered as a related question when the title was being typed (simply by using the same search feature that the AJAX uses), and if my title doesn't match against the dupe in the related searches, the question should not be closed as dupe. If it's not offered, then one of two things happened. Either, A) the question wasn't close enough to be considered dupe, or B) they were similar but value exists in leaving both up for the differing titles (some people ask similar questions if varying ways and passers by may never find version A in their search but they would have found the &quot;dupe&quot; if it were left alone and answered appropriately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T20:36:38.367" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:36:38.367" Title="Don't allow for a question to be marked dupe if the dupe doesn't show up under &quot;related&quot; after typing your question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="39990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39988" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:17:19.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think someone is abusing the site, flag one of the offender's questionsfor moderator attention and explain why using the flag.  The diamond-squad will handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:17:19.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39985" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:18:23.140" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How quickly should an off topic question be closed? [closed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As quickly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is getting a bad/poor question off the main page so important that it's worth closing a question even before it can be answered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most certainly.  If the question doesn't belong, then neither do the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...any flaw in a question gets the &quot;close&quot; gun drawn on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post examples of questions that were closed which shouldn't have been closed.  Otherwise it wasn't just 'any' flaw - they are closed for meeting specific close requirements, or not fulfilling specific requirements to meet the site guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wow! this was closed in &amp;lt; 5 secs! Touchy today are we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I weren't lazy, I'd look for a dupe, and I'd probably find one, then close this question.  But it would take me far longer to cast my vote than 5 seconds...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:18:23.140" />
  <row Id="39992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39988" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:21:05.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those questions don't look that bad.  Newbie maybe, but not quite silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131485" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:21:05.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39985" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:21:08.673" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question can improve with editing, then it should be left alone long enough to be edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a question that's clearly off-topic isn't going to get any better by leaving it alone. It needs to go, as soon as possible, so that the OP can post it somewhere better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:21:08.673" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="39994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39986" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:21:17.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Again: SO is not a social network, it's a Q&amp;amp;A engine, that focuses on &lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Answers&lt;/strong&gt;, not &lt;strong&gt;Users&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:21:17.767" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="39995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39989" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:23:31.537" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a problem with this approach:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions can share no words in common, and if not tagged properly, won't show up in the related search column.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Related&quot; column depends heavily on the title as well as the tags in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt; : Help with this Java Code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: My Java Code has a bug, I'm trying to replace a string with&#xA;  another string, what's wrong with this&#xA;  regular expression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;code&gt;[java]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[code]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[bug]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Example 2 (duplicate of Example 1):&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt; : Problem with replacing strings using regular expressions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: This regular expression is causing me not to be able to replace one string with another string, what's wrong with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;code&gt;[java]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[regex]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[string]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those two will likely not show up in the related search, even though they are duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:23:31.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="39996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39989" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:39:16.460" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not? It's still a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is that some people think that having a question closed as a dupe is &lt;strong&gt;some sort of punishment&lt;/strong&gt;. Closing it is an attempt to concentrate the knowledge present on SO and avoid duplicate (duh?) effort of people writing answers. It's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; because something is particularly wrong with the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What to do about this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Well perhaps people could refrain from being snarky when pointing out that it is a dupe but that's a whole different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17413" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:39:16.460" />
  <row Id="39997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39989" CreationDate="2010-02-19T19:57:46.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a couple of fundamentally flawed assumptions here. First, that the computer is always right, while a human looking at the same data is wrong.  Second, that the person asking the question actually bothered to read what the computer suggested might be duplicates before posting the question.  In the first instance, when it comes to math I usually believe the computer is right and recheck my math first.  When it comes to subjective interpretation, though, I'm much less trusting of the computer's (the algorithm, in reality) judgement.  In the second instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/teaching-users-to-read.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;user's don't read&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T19:57:46.620" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="39999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39988" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:13:26.830" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While opinions may differ as to whether his questions are silly, so far I haven't seen any proof that his questions and answers are destructive to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than targeting the person, target the questions and answers, which is what the user community is doing as they moderate his posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the system is working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you can post some examples or explanation as to why his presence on SO is detrimental to SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:13:26.830" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37060" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:16:39.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the changes you propose, and suspect the current interface comes from the SO interface - answers provided at the bottom and float up as they are 'voted' up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Careers should have a different use case, which would require looking at the user interface from a fresh slate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, code re-use, and the expected user base's existing expectations may mean it makes sense to keep some of the current interface intact, so perhaps not a completely clean slate, but certainly a refreshing view should be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:16:39.333" />
  <row Id="40001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39989" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:18:26.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When two version of the same question have very dissimilar wording, we have a good candidate for leaving the later case &lt;em&gt;undeleted&lt;/em&gt; because that improves the searchability of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is still a duplicate, and we still want to have only one canonical version of each question. Accordingly, differently worded duplicates should still be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:18:26.960" />
  <row Id="40002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1177" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:23:07.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely need this!  Every day I come up with silly meta questions that shouldn't be posted yet, and when Friday rolls around, &lt;strong&gt;nothing!&lt;/strong&gt;  It's frustrating!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I'd like a deferred posting option.  I know my questions posted at late hours or on weekends aren't going to get answered, and I don't want to keep track of them so I can bump them.  Would be nice to make a draft and set it up to automatically post during a weekday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:23:07.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T20:23:07.913" />
  <row Id="40003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39989" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:36:23.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the reasons that Stack Overflow is heavily &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; moderated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it's not offered, then one of two things happened. Either, A) the question wasn't close enough to be considered dupe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mean not close enough to be considered a dupe &lt;em&gt;by the software that does a cursory check for exact duplicates&lt;/em&gt;.  That doesn't mean it's not the same as another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;or B) they were similar but value exists in leaving both up for the differing titles (some people ask similar questions if varying ways and passers by may never find version A in their search but they would have found the &quot;dupe&quot; if it were left alone and answered appropriately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This part is exactly right.  We &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; normally leave duplicate questions that are worded differently on the site.  That is, we close them but don't delete them.  The reason for this is exactly as you stated, so other people using the same keywords as the second question can find it.  Note that a link to the original question is automatically placed at the top of the post whenever a question is closed as a duplicate.  This is to ensure that people can find the original, even if they searched using different terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:36:23.623" />
  <row Id="40004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:46:06.283" Score="-1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many votes does it take to trigger the vote abuse filter?  I ask because I just got 3 downvotes on three different answers at roughly the same time (on SO).  Artfully enough they all came on my answers that were already negative.  I suppose if you're going to downvote something, you might as well downvote the things that are bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:52:15.397" Title="How many votes are required to trigger the vote abuse filter?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40004" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:51:16.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff hasn't given details of the algorithm (because detailing anti-abuse measures is an invitation to circumvent them), but I'd imagine it takes a lot more than three votes to trigger it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why is it bad to downvote bad answers, anyway? Why would that be considered abuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:51:16.333" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40004" CreationDate="2010-02-19T20:52:15.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How many votes does it take to trigger the vote abuse filter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely that you are going to get an exact answer to this question. and they may not even answer the real question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just got three downvotes that are suspicious - will this trigger the vote-fraud detector, or must I contact a moderator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, please flag one of the questions that was downvoted for moderator attention and note the situation so a moderator can take a look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T20:52:15.397" />
  <row Id="40007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39988" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:04:10.183" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it is interesting with regard to the other current Meta questions regarding question upvoting that this user (and not to pick on him - I think he is typical) has two upvoted answers (one vote each), many downvoted questions (I think more down than upvotes), yet has still managed to get a rep of 380 in three weeks. Is this really what we want SO to be like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T21:20:22.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40008" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:40:52.373" Score="5" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to show that I'm not only getting upset by newbie users, I've noticed that a lot of &quot;front-page&quot; users don't seem to be particularly bothered about posting answers to duplicate posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, everyone knows that the SO search is hopeless, but using Google you can usually find dupes with little trouble. And of course you can forget that you've seen a dupe before, so some answering of dupes is inevitable. But it does seem to me that high rep users should be making more effort to close dupes down - sometimes I feel I'm the only one doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:33:25.273" Title="Better example from front-page SO users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;high-rep-users&gt;&lt;closing&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40008" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:46:12.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's perfectly acceptable to answer a question &lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; vote to close.  Since a post may not actually get closed for being a dupe, a good answer needs to be attached to it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T21:46:12.890" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40014" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:50:11.320" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7334/any-guidelines-to-find-the-correct-place&quot;&gt;Any guidelines to find the &amp;ldquo;correct place&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where can I find what questions are appropriate for Server Fault vs Super User ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATED:&lt;/strong&gt; Is there a META-FAQ that covers all the sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143174" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-19T21:59:30.567" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T21:59:30.567" ClosedDate="2010-02-19T22:05:16.277" Title="What is the difference between Server Fault and Super User" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45433" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:51:34.033" Score="13" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[version-control]&lt;/code&gt; -  2166 questions  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[source-control]&lt;/code&gt; -  106 questions&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[vcs]&lt;/code&gt; -  62 questions (Except the ones also tagged with &lt;code&gt;[verilog]&lt;/code&gt; -- see below)&lt;/strike&gt; (Completed Mar 29/2010)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[revision-control]&lt;/code&gt; -  6 questions&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[source]&lt;/code&gt; AND &lt;code&gt;[control]&lt;/code&gt; -  14 questions&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;code&gt;[version]&lt;/code&gt; AND &lt;code&gt;[control]&lt;/code&gt; - 21 questions (some overlap with previous)&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I manually retagged 3 of the 12 questions marked with &lt;code&gt;[rcs]&lt;/code&gt;, ones that do not specifically refer to RCS, an old piece of revision control software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also retagged the single question with &lt;code&gt;[revision]&lt;/code&gt; AND &lt;code&gt;[control]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Someone has been busy, thank you. Updated the counts and manually retagged the 6 &lt;code&gt;[revision-control]&lt;/code&gt; questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.synopsys.com/tools/verification/functionalverification/pages/vcs.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VCS&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Verilog&lt;/a&gt; simulator, so &lt;code&gt;[vcs]&lt;/code&gt; unfortunately needs to remain in the system. There are currently only 3 questions tagged with both &lt;code&gt;[vcs]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[verilog]&lt;/code&gt;, so hopefully new questions about version control realize that &lt;code&gt;[vcs]&lt;/code&gt; (3) might not be the right tag for such a common topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-04T12:21:21.953" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T12:21:21.953" Title="Tag merge request: [source-control], [vcs] into [version-control] on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40010" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:53:48.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the FAQ for each site is a good start...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46780" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T21:53:48.567" />
  <row Id="40013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40008" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:55:28.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are not the only one trying hard to police duplicates. I suspect that I cast more duplicate votes than all other categories combined (and migrating votes make up the majority of the remainder).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I've been guilty of it myself (though I've never been of page one rank).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions where it is just easier to bang off an answer than find a duplicate, and if I'm not paying attention I sometime do exactly that. When I notice I &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make my answer CW. So I won't accumulate a ot of rep that will be lost in a later recalc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The marginal, kinda-sorta, maybe dups that Lance is talking about are another matter. If I think that they are not duplicates I answer them and leave it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38057/should-we-encourage-more-closing&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38057/should-we-encourage-more-closing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T21:55:28.767" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40010" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:56:06.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to learn more about SuperUser and &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to learn more about Serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUPERUSER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    *  computer hardware&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    * computer software&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SERVERFAULT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    *  servers&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    * networks&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    * many desktop PCs (other than your own)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T21:56:06.847" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40008" CreationDate="2010-02-19T21:57:47.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle, I agree with you that some of the first-page users on SO aren't pulling their mod weight. On the other hand, participation and community moderation are &lt;em&gt;not required activity&lt;/em&gt; on the Trilogy. At the end of the day, a very high-ranking SU user said it very well (I can't find the post currently, so I'm paraphrasing): &quot;If I knew that every time I hit 3,000 rep I'd have to start doing moderator work, I'd create a new account every time I hit 2,999!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of close activity going on over in SO, and when I have the opportunity, I try to use up my votes to help out as well. I'm not so sure this is that huge a problem there. Again, I agree in principle that all of us with 3,000+ should be helping contribute to the cleanup effort, and I again do try to do so (I find it much more entertaining than actually, y'know, answering questions), but it's not required for anyone. It's all volunteer at the end of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T21:57:47.560" />
  <row Id="40016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39988" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:01:30.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are better served to send an email to &lt;strong&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/strong&gt; than to create potential flame wars here on META with questions like this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:01:30.110" />
  <row Id="40017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40008" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:05:20.270" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I see this behavior &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; often from front-page users. And that's not surprising - answering questions quickly is a proven method of gaining rep, and knowing how to gain rep is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they're high-rep users in the first place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I did see one user delete his answer after I'd posted links to 4-5 existing instances of the same question. That was encouraging...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think we need more merging. It's the only way to actually &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; users to answer existing questions instead of scattering and duplicating their answers across every possible phrasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:05:20.270" />
  <row Id="40020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:25:53.170" Score="4" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is an official explanation of this phrase that can be used when people get up in arms over not being able to ask questions about computer games, because they are written with programming languages. Or why stir-fry is best for late-night programming deadlines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anybody actually set out to give a succinct and clear description of what this &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; means. I understand that we already have the current one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions on Stack Overflow are expected to generally relate to programming or software development in some way. This question is very far afield from programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But apparently &quot;relate to programming or software development in some way&quot; seems to permit talking about items that many in the community feel aren't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; programming-related, like how to find archives of old IRC chats from popular programming rooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question produces a good description, this would make life a lot easier. Nearly all arguments over what is and what is not programming-related could cease with a single reference back to this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how about it, what is the criteria for determining what is genuinely programming-related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T09:24:06.797" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T14:29:35.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T22:25:53.170" Title="What does &quot;not-programming-related&quot; unequivocally mean?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;not-programming-related&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40020" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:27:54.583" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programming related means that it's related to the actual technical art of computer programming, and not any of the externals surrounding programming and programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:27:54.583" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T22:27:54.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40008" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:28:26.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good on you for noticing this question was an exact duplicate. Of course, you would easily have known that since you saw and commented on the original version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first version of that was posted 6 hours before the second, at a time when I was fast asleep. Since I didn't see the original one (and, truth be told, I don't search for exact duplicates of &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question I answer), I had no way of knowing that same question had been posted before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't appreciate the implication that since I'm a so-called &quot;front page&quot; user, I have no qualms about posting answers to duplicate questions. How was I to know that question was a duplicate? There are zillions of examples of me voting to close a duplicate question without jumping in to answer it, &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; if I've already answered it before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like to have to answer the same question twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:28:26.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40020" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:31:16.543" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programming related means that the same question wouldn't make sense if you substituted &quot;lawyer&quot; or &quot;accountant&quot; for &quot;programmer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:31:16.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T22:31:16.543" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7334" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:34:30.933" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A quick reference for where to post your question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STACKOVERFLOW&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Read the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;programming&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;detailed and specific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;of interest to at least one other programmer somewhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SUPERUSER&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;Read the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;computer hardware&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;computer software&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;general computer software or hardware troubleshooting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just for clarification, Super User is not about ....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;* videogames or consoles&#xA;* websites or web services like Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress&#xA;* cellphones or mobile devices, except their computer interface &#xA;* electronic devices or media players, except their computer interface &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SERVERFAULT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/faq&quot;&gt;Read the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;servers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;networks&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;questions that contain no source code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;META&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Read the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question about Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question about Server Fault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A question about Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143174" LastEditorUserId="143174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T15:36:53.877" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T15:36:53.877" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40020" CreationDate="2010-02-19T22:45:40.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are obviously going to get N different answers to this, and (perhaps not surprisingly) I think the close-reason text is pretty poor, but to me programming related means something to do with WRITING a program. If I was to go into ultra-purist mode (and some say I never get out of it), I would say a question is not programming related if it cannot be answered in code in an existent programming language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T22:45:40.627" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T22:45:40.627" />
  <row Id="40027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40020" CreationDate="2010-02-19T23:10:50.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this question is that there is no unequivocal meaning.  The phrase can be interpreted differently by everybody on SO (although it's the opinions of the 3K+ that matter most).  One of the stated intents was to let the community steer SO, and this is one way we do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My usual test is the same as Greg's (would it make sense on UnbalancedColumns?).  I'm more liberal than some and less liberal than others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T23:10:50.923" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-19T23:10:50.923" />
  <row Id="40028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55779" CreationDate="2010-02-19T23:31:55.087" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figured that SuperUser would be the best place (out of SO, SF, and SU) to ask about webapps, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; explicitly states that it is &lt;em&gt;not about&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;websites or web services like Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where do I ask about that stuff? I don't mean asking about how to build a website or anything, but how to use a webapp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135271" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-02T18:37:51.750" LastActivityDate="2010-07-02T18:37:51.750" Title="Where should I ask about how to use web apps?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40028" CreationDate="2010-02-19T23:33:57.717" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would depend on what you mean by &quot;use&quot;. If you want to know how to create fanpages on facebook, you'll need to go and find a facebook forum someplace. If you want to incorporate FBML into your application, then you can post those questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-19T23:33:57.717" />
  <row Id="40030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-02-19T23:57:20.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Lisp people are probably the friendliest crowd on StackOverflow. They upvoted and answered well &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1249991/variable-references-in-lisp&quot;&gt;all my&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1187262/lisp-char-is-neither-declared-nor-bound&quot;&gt;ridiculously noobish&lt;/a&gt; Lisp-related questions. And they were actually very friendly and helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastEditorUserId="8954" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T18:36:21.200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T18:36:21.200" />
  <row Id="40033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40054" CreationDate="2010-02-20T00:18:23.667" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Examples&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-does-stack-overflow-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;How Does Stack Overflow Work? (The Official FAQ)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How does “Reputation” work on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;What are “Community Wiki” posts on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the FAQ is not specific to Stack Overflow (it's also used for Super User, Server Fault, and even somewhat for Meta) I propose to remove all specific references to SO from them, and substitute them either with nothing or &quot;the website&quot;. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does the website work? (The official FAQ)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are &quot;Community Wiki&quot; posts?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would apply to their contents too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some questions and answers in Stack Overflow are marked Community Wiki and are owned by a Community Wiki user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would become:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some questions and answers are marked Community Wiki and are owned by a Community Wiki user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could just do it now, but I figured it would be a good idea to gather the community's consensus first, also meta-meta discussion is just cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T05:14:03.930" Title="Removing &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; from titles and contents of the FAQs" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;faqs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-20T00:24:47.607" Score="2" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the &quot;Unanswered&quot; tag (with the default view of &quot;my tags&quot;) gives a list of unanswered questions with interesting tags. I'd like to see &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; questions matching my tags, not just unanswered ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143624" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T00:24:47.607" Title="Way to show all the questions in &quot;interesting tags&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40051" CreationDate="2010-02-20T00:25:45.483" Score="19" ViewCount="417" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; HTML tag be allowed and properly styled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently people wanting to write something small use either &lt;sup&gt;sup&lt;/sup&gt; or &lt;sub&gt;sub&lt;/sub&gt; which achieves a similar effect, but using it for small text is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Semantically wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Too small&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only the most advanced users know of this &quot;feature&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Small text is very useful in many circumstances on most (if not all) stack exchange websites. Here is a couple use cases! I put the text that would be &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in &lt;em&gt;italics&lt;/em&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;: If your C++ class has a private variable you cannot access it outside of the class or outside of friend classes/functions, that's the whole point of it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: if you really want to you can access it using pointer hacks, but the method to do that varies from compiler to compiler and it's technically undefined behavior.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User&lt;/strong&gt;: If your computer doesn't boot try the following step: [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Since you mentioned being an advanced user I skipped the most obvious reasons, such as the computer not being plugged in. But it never hurts to double check!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-24T01:11:07.257" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T03:38:33.657" Title="Allow the &lt;small&gt; tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;html&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40020" CreationDate="2010-02-20T00:34:18.227" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this &lt;em&gt;enumerated&lt;/em&gt; approach. You can link to the blog post, referencing the appropriate item number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Enumerated Guide to What Exactly Constitutes&lt;br /&gt; a “Programming Question”&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;From the blog post, (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/a-question-about-questions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Question About Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The current results for which type of&#xA;  “programming related” questions are&#xA;  appropriate on Stack Overflow, in&#xA;  order by votes, are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[ These items map strongly to my idea of what we built Stack Overflow for. ]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions intended to resolve a specific programming problem that have&#xA;  multiple possible answers. As with&#xA;  this answer, but the “correct”&#xA;  response is subjective. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions intended to resolve a specific programming problem that have&#xA;  only one correct answer. A “specific&#xA;  programming problem” can be defined as&#xA;  a problem that exists in code and that&#xA;  can be resolved with correct code (or&#xA;  cannot be resolved at all). These&#xA;  questions are normally&#xA;  language-specific. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about language-agnostic algorithms for&#xA;  hypothetical problems that have&#xA;  potential real-world applications. For&#xA;  example, traveling salesman or BSP.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about best practices and other aspects of programming,&#xA;  including use of software tools used&#xA;  in the development process, standards&#xA;  for maintenance and readability of&#xA;  code, advice to avoid potential coding&#xA;  pitfalls, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about software tools that, while not directly related to&#xA;  software development, involve some&#xA;  scripting or programming themselves,&#xA;  for example, Excel or Matlab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about hypothetical problems that don’t necessarily have&#xA;  real-world applications, for example&#xA;  “code golf” or the “FizzBuzz problem”.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about social engineering, management, or career&#xA;  building, ergonomics, or other “soft”&#xA;  topics related to development work.&#xA;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[ These items… not so much. ]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about hardware considerations such as server&#xA;  environments, building an optimal&#xA;  machine, problems with hardware, etc.&#xA;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about programmers’ favorite things (e.g. cartoons, books,&#xA;  movies, pop culture references).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Polls about what StackOverflow is for (like this one).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Questions about software not directly related to programming, such&#xA;  as Microsoft Word, or usage (not&#xA;  programming!) of device drivers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RUe02kPWvg&amp;amp;feature=related&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Learn it. Know it. Live it.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- Brad Hamilton, Fast Times at Ridgemont High&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T14:29:35.100" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T14:29:35.100" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T00:34:18.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-02-20T00:37:53.243" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a better measure of the friendliness of a community is how they react when you suggest their favourite tool is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the best one for a particular job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the small sample I've seen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Don't use regexps&quot; answers tend to have a positive score&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Don't use Java&quot; answers tend to have a score close to zero (with equal upvotes/downvotes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Don't use .NET&quot; and &quot;Don't use Ruby&quot; answers tend to have a negative score.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen any &quot;Don't use LISP&quot; answers but would be interested to see what kind of votes/comments they get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T00:37:53.243" />
  <row Id="40041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34980" CreationDate="2010-02-20T00:55:16.680" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Completely off topic, but hey, it's friday :-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/language-fanboys.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T00:55:16.680" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40035" CreationDate="2010-02-20T01:02:31.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; do not achieve the same effect, they are small but positioned different vertically as your post has rightly demonstrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious what would you need a small text for? Fine prints, disclaimers, foot notes? I don't see why these can't be displayed as normal sized text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In anycase, I totally agree that using &lt;code&gt;sup&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;sub&lt;/code&gt; for the sole purpose of making the text smaller is semantically incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T01:02:31.983" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40035" CreationDate="2010-02-20T01:50:06.250" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to get the small text effect &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;that I love so dearly&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But real, honest-to-goodness &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; support would be nicer. For one thing, &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;this is actually&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt; a bit &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; small...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T22:01:04.877" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T22:01:04.877" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40033" CreationDate="2010-02-20T02:10:28.153" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In cases where the question concerns the operation of &lt;em&gt;the software itself&lt;/em&gt; (vs. some community standard like &quot;are signatures allowed&quot;), then this makes sense - as long as all four sites are running roughly the same software, this &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you do get frisky and decide to start editing these, &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; try to come up with something better than &quot;How does the website work?&quot;. As potentially misleading as &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; might be, at least it's gonna come up in searches for &quot;stack overflow faq&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T02:10:28.153" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-20T03:15:21.310" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://incanter.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://incanter.org/images/incanter-so.png&quot; alt=&quot;Incanter, Data Sorcery with Clojure&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T03:30:34.533" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T03:30:34.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T03:15:21.310" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2010-02-20T03:25:50.533" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions on the programming of the automation model of Microsoft Word or other products. Such programming permits the development of applications based on these desktop applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T03:25:50.533" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T03:25:50.533" />
  <row Id="40057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2010-02-20T03:27:45.227" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions on the development of applications based on Microsoft Outlook and/or Microsoft Exchange, or perhaps applications based on Lotus Notes. Such mail-enabled applications take advantage of the underlying message-delivery, address book and calendar features of the application, and can build upon them with the use of custom forms and custom workflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T03:27:45.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T03:27:45.227" />
  <row Id="40064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-20T07:06:01.880" Score="9" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I received a message on careers from someone about &quot;positions we are working on for various top Ad Technology companies&quot; in my city... &quot;5 positions with 3 different companies in NYC for your review&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message lists the name of the company that this person works for (which is halfway across the country), but not the name of any of the companies whose positions are listed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What raises my suspicions more is that the email address given in the message is a Gmail address, and the top Google link for this person's email address is a blog post from a random developer out there decrying emails from recruiters with &quot;exciting!&quot; positions that give absolutely zero info about the company the position is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The email reads suspiciously like it's from the types of shady recruiters that Careers was designed to weed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find any way within Careers to report a suspicious message - is this something that we should be able to do? Is this &quot;employer&quot; breaking some terms of the site? Or am I being uber-anal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T10:04:52.023" Title="How to report careers messages which sound suspiciously like recruiters?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40129" CreationDate="2010-02-20T08:06:13.110" Score="25" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question back in December, and while going through my questions today I saw that it had no answers, so I decided to delete it, but I almost immediately changed my mind, so I reversed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An answer that was previously deleted is now showing up again. Is this how it's suppose to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I might be mistaken on what happened, I just tried it here and it just added a vote for deletion on my answer. Shouldn't my answer remain deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T22:32:03.033" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T22:32:03.033" Title="Undoing a question deletion that had a deleted answer brought the answer back?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40035" CreationDate="2010-02-20T08:10:39.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. The only thing this is really used for is tongue-in-cheek emulation of the proverbial fine print, usually for something off-topic. That's okay on Meta, but discouraged on SO*, and it's used a lot less there. Allowing the &quot;canonical&quot; tag &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, I fear, would lead to many more people being smart about the layout of the site. &lt;em&gt;Shudder.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Do you know SO? That's a great website, and I have even more rep there than here!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T08:10:39.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39848" CreationDate="2010-02-20T09:40:18.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you are using the same google account, you should just be able to click the &quot;Google&quot; button or enter the openid address &lt;code&gt;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id&lt;/code&gt; (and then use the same google account).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google openid is specific both the the google user account and the originating url, so you &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; get the same id between (for example) stackoverflow and serverfault, but you should get the same id whenever you go to stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can merge accounts etc. Can you point me at them so I can sanity check this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T09:40:18.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40064" CreationDate="2010-02-20T10:04:52.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is good. You might also e-mail the team via careers@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T10:04:52.023" />
  <row Id="40075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40066" CreationDate="2010-02-20T10:37:16.613" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was my answer that came back, I can no longer delete it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1929150/can-someone-explain-to-me-what-this-code-is-checking/1930039#1930039&quot;&gt;Here is the question&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a Delete(1) tag underneath and when I click that it shows a &quot;You already voted to delete...&quot; message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastEditorUserId="60761" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T18:22:22.150" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T18:22:22.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-20T10:40:03.190" Score="0" ViewCount="22" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20432/related-questions-in-ask-question-page-is-better-than-search-tool&quot;&gt;Related questions in &amp;ldquo;Ask Question&amp;rdquo; page is better than search tool&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is me on stackoverflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I search: &lt;em&gt;script tags in html document&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No good answer found (in the top 3 at least).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So I start posting a question: &lt;em&gt;How bad is it really to put script tags all over your html document?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now Related Questions appear with the best of suggestions, for example this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47886/seo-superstitions-are-script-tags-really-bad&quot;&gt;SEO Superstitions: Are &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags really bad?&lt;/a&gt; which had the exact discussion I was looking for.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what I feel. Like. Why didn't a popup below the search box suggest related questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, having to come up with a title forced me to actually put a question that made sense, which, I guess, was a really good query for stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this by design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T10:40:03.190" ClosedDate="2010-02-21T08:40:44.667" Title="Why don't suggestions appear below the search box?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-20T11:00:10.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://qa.php.net/write-test.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;PHP TestFest - Help Testing PHP&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/2u8wbxg.png&quot; alt=&quot;PHP TestFest&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="134079" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T00:50:13.700" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T00:50:13.700" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T11:00:10.240" />
  <row Id="40078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-20T11:26:41.453" Score="92" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sqlite.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/21o96p2.png&quot; alt=&quot;SQLite&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T11:26:41.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T11:26:41.453" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40083" CreationDate="2010-02-20T14:17:40.510" Score="9" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I know there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; discussion regarding increasing the down-vote weight, I am currently often getting reports of serial down-votes from various high reputation (20K+) users on Super User complaining about the loss of reputation. Although the latter is a problem, it is not extremely easy for the mods to track these without the help of the development team directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as I recognize that serial down-voting is a problem and is being handled to some degree, when you have 10K and more seriously have in the upper 15K+ range of reputation, does the few times a month you receive a down-vote really become such a problem compared to the rate you are gaining reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should you even be bothered at such high numbers? Or should you just shrug it off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T20:22:15.207" Title="Does a down-vote really make a difference with 15K+ reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;&lt;high-rep-users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40079" CreationDate="2010-02-20T14:28:00.547" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds more like user backlash against those who post answers on questions being found out as or closing as dupes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know what else is fun on Super User? Downvoting people who post on dupes instead of posting their answers on the main question. (It's their rep livelihood, man!) That's also a good way to burn off some rep and helps the site chop down some of that clutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when they're chasing the first column of page one, every little bit of rep they gain appears to make them more tetchy and thin-skinned to the downvotes they may receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T14:28:00.547" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40084" CreationDate="2010-02-20T14:28:18.097" Score="3" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2302444/where-to-buy-html-template&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2302444/where-to-buy-html-template&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this question is asking where to buy an HTML template. The answers provided are just website recommendations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this considered a programming question or not? If it's not programming related, do I flag or do I retag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142597" LastActivityDate="2011-09-05T00:44:13.643" Title="To flag or not to flag, that is the question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="40082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40079" CreationDate="2010-02-20T14:28:52.823" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a bad answer, you sort of expect it and don't mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting isn't a problem per se, it is just annoying if you have a good answer as it makes you question if you did something wrong, or what you did to annoy someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T14:28:52.823" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40079" CreationDate="2010-02-20T14:30:41.350" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I receive downvotes every day. Mostly I ignore them - SO has its fair share of nitwits, but sometimes I do get a bit miffed. For example,&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2302351/assign-one-struct-to-another-in-c/2302357#2302357&quot;&gt;this answer of mine&lt;/a&gt; is technically correct in every way, and addresses the question, but still got a downvote. I think it's human nature to want to know why, and to grumble a bit about such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Vaguely useless additional information - the question I referred to has now been downvoted an additional two times (with no reasons, of course) and flagged as both offensive and spam. Of course this is the weekend, and among the people that follow the [C] tag there do seem to be some utter bozos. I've never worked out why that should be - the C++ people are in general much more sensible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T20:22:15.207" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40081" CreationDate="2010-02-20T14:34:44.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not flag; not retag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not believe that this is a programming questions, and have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-in-stack-overflow-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;at least 3000 rep&lt;/a&gt;, vote to close. That is the correct procedure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To elaborate: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flagging goes beyond the &quot;vote to close&quot; reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Offensive, Abusive, or Hate Speech&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - Does not seem to apply.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Spam&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - Again, does not apply.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - If the community-moderation mechanisms are working, there is no need to flag a moderator. They are there to handle exceptional circumstances, not routine closing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Retag&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; ever retag a question to express your opinion about a question. Period. Tags like &quot;should-be-on-*&quot; or &quot;not-programming-related&quot; have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;no place on any of these sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T14:45:34.187" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T14:45:34.187" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40087" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-20T15:14:19.683" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12543/is-it-bad-form-to-prompt-new-questioners-to-formally-accept-your-answer&quot;&gt;Is it bad form to prompt new questioners to formally accept your answer?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A guy with 1 rep asks a good question, I supply a good answer, he comments &quot;great! Just what I wanted!&quot;, no upvote, no accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, do I respond &quot;welcome to SO, when you are provided with a correct answer, please consider clicking the checkmark next to it to accept it as the correct solution.&quot; or is that seen as rep-whoring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like rep, I like educating new users on how to use the site, but I like not being a whore more. What is the right thing to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142597" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T15:14:19.683" ClosedDate="2010-02-20T15:33:18.673" Title="Encouraging a new member to upvote and/or accept an answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-20T16:25:54.773" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I log in to Stack Overflow, the top banner says &quot;Welcome to Stack Overflow! Visit your user page to set your name and email.&quot; But I have set it, as witnessed by the Autobiographer badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I have &quot;registered&quot; here, I get the same thing: &quot;Welcome to Meta Stack Overflow! Visit your user page to set your name and email.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143656" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T22:35:48.023" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T22:35:48.023" Title="SO keeps saying &quot;visit your user page to set your name and email.&quot;" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;login&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40079" CreationDate="2010-02-20T16:32:06.693" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does a down-vote really make a difference with 15K+ reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, as it should.  It doesn't affect one's reputation score significantly (each downvote is only 0.013% of their total reputation) but it still has an emotional effect in terms of knowing that someone out there believes the answer to be wrong enough to push it lower in the list of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I very rarely get a downvote on SO (none in January, two so far this month), but when I do get a downvote I check out the question and answers.  I'll look to see if my downvote was due to new information (either in the question or answers) and re-evaluate my answer if there have been changes.  If I can't tell what was wrong, I simply ignore the downvote as a random event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regularly delete answers that fall below -1 where I see that there's a reasonable answer voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, a downvote does make a difference, and it does cause me to re-visit my answer, which I believe is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T16:32:06.693" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40091" CreationDate="2010-02-20T16:54:19.370" Score="13" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone gives away lot of his reputation points for his questions (using bounties) he should get the badge &quot;big spender&quot; or &quot;seeder&quot; or &quot;motivator&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136778" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T11:36:40.573" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T19:27:59.957" Title="Can we have a badge called &quot;big spender&quot; or &quot;seeder&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40090" CreationDate="2010-02-20T17:06:02.087" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the &lt;kbd&gt;[venture capitalist]&lt;/kbd&gt; as mentioned by ~quack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules might need to be something around gave more then 300 reputation on more then 3 bounty questions however, otherwise it will be easily abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flip side is people not understanding bounties, especially the loss of ability to accept an answer in future if the bounty expires. This may be a reason not to introduce the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T17:06:02.087" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-20T17:38:40.027" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;XAMPP - Apache, FTP, MySQL, PHP and Perl for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/i6cp4z.png&quot; alt=&quot;XAMPP - Apache, FTP, MySQL, PHP and Perl for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T17:38:40.027" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T17:38:40.027" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="40094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-20T17:51:22.103" Score="79" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Notepad++&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/2ynqx49.png&quot; alt=&quot;Notepad++&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="134079" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T01:02:34.373" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T01:02:34.373" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T17:51:22.103" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="40095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40090" CreationDate="2010-02-20T17:52:43.020" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of &lt;em&gt;&quot;badges are to encourage good behavior,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I don't think that bounties should be arbitrarily encouraged. &lt;strong&gt;They serve a &lt;em&gt;very specific&lt;/em&gt; purpose.&lt;/strong&gt; If there was a significant increase in the number of so-called &lt;em&gt;&quot;featured&quot;&lt;/em&gt; questions, that would detract from those that actually need it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the podcasts, bounties are only supposed to be used &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; you &lt;strong&gt;put the effort into getting the question answered yourself&lt;/strong&gt;. If you don't get an immediate answer, you are expected to improve, clarify, and document your continued efforts...first. That's why there is a 2-day waiting period to add bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should be encouraging bounties as an end-goal of giving away reputation or earning accolades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-20T17:59:24.033" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T17:59:24.033" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40079" CreationDate="2010-02-20T17:57:40.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;15K? After a few K, downvotes really no longer have a significant effect on rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People here on meta frequently write about 'voting on the question/answer, not the author.' Once the author has a few thousand points of rep, that situation is the reality. The tiny pebbles of the occasional downvote are not going to divert the giant rolling snowball of accumulating rep from upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T17:57:40.623" />
  <row Id="40097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40081" CreationDate="2010-02-20T18:14:40.907" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree about the use of flagging. In the past, &amp;lt;3K users have been encouraged to flag for moderator attention for questions that might deserve a close. I think, personally, that some close reasons and situations call for this more so than others, but I don't see any harm in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, I've got 8K, and if I've used all my closes for the day (a frequent occurrence) and I see something really awful, I flag it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT TO REFLECT CHANGE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we have the new 'close reason' flags, people without close votes are encouraged to use them to indicate close-worthy questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-05T00:44:13.643" LastActivityDate="2011-09-05T00:44:13.643" />
  <row Id="40098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-20T18:15:03.730" Score="32" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/people/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Project Help Wanted @ SourceForge.net&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/21m99nl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Project Help Wanted @ SourceForge.net&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastActivityDate="2010-02-20T18:15:03.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T18:15:03.730" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-20T18:23:23.053" Score="112" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.python.org/dev/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Python Programming Language&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i46.tinypic.com/jb084y.png&quot; alt=&quot;Python Programming Language&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="134079" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T12:38:15.357" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T12:38:15.357" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-20T18:23:23.053" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40090" CreationDate="2010-02-20T22:22:09.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally support badges for people starting bounties, for the simple reason that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bounties are great &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Badges are great &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm going to get one right away! (about 2,500 points spent on bounties and counting!) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make the thresholds high enough and the danger of abuse - i.e. frivolous questions impossible to shut down because they're a bounty - will approach zero. No up-and-coming SO'an is going to spend their precious points on a silly bounty badge. And the few dedicated badge-hunters who are going to start bounties &lt;em&gt;because of the badges&lt;/em&gt; I trust will be able to come up with an intelligent question - otherwise they have no business collecting badges, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T01:56:52.823" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T01:56:52.823" />
  <row Id="40109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T01:24:08.563" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm searching the site, it would be nice if I can see the results in &quot;My Tags&quot; order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How it should work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets say that the user that is searching now has the following tags on his list: (took from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2509/dmckee&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;c++× 126&#xA;latex× 71&#xA;linux× 56&#xA;language-agnostic× 33&#xA;unix× 33&#xA;math× 29&#xA;algorithm× 28&#xA;emacs× 23&#xA;bash× 21&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he searchs the site, and prefers to see it in &quot;My tags&quot; order, it means that questions with &lt;code&gt;c++&lt;/code&gt; tag going first, then &lt;code&gt;latex&lt;/code&gt; tag, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142309" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T02:09:34.680" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T02:09:34.680" Title="What about a new search tab? my tags tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40110" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40114" CreationDate="2010-02-21T01:31:11.497" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say a company (or a team of contributors to a FOSS project, or whatever other group of people) wants to show off its expertise in some area. Would it be ok for it to create a profile on SO and let the people in the group use the account to answer questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132962" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T02:06:46.467" Title="Are group profiles allowed?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rules&gt;&lt;groups&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T01:31:25.880" Score="26" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to any random heavily downvoted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/3117/flagbug.png&quot; alt=&quot;Profit!!!&quot; title=&quot;Profit!!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/status-bydesign&quot; class=&quot;post-tag moderator-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'status-bydesign'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-09T16:09:49.240" LastActivityDate="2011-08-22T09:29:10.247" Title="The flag pop up on heavily downvoted answers has grey text" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40111" CreationDate="2010-02-21T01:52:27.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably has to do with the Peer Pressure badge, which when a question or answer is eligible to produce it turns gray also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T01:52:27.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40109" CreationDate="2010-02-21T01:53:27.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They could add a parameter of &lt;strong&gt;myinttags:1&lt;/strong&gt; or something like that to the advanced search options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T01:53:27.870" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40110" CreationDate="2010-02-21T02:04:55.003" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's ultimately up to Jeff and wouldn't be easy to enforce, but everything in me says that this is contrary to all that StackOverflow is about, from using the rep earned to establish trust in the contributors to using it as a way to build personal brands.  For example, if a major contributor on your team leaves for greener pastures, does your team still deserve that score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to show off your team's skills, build a nice gravatar to share, use your team as part of your display name, and link to your team-mates in your profiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T02:04:55.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40110" CreationDate="2010-02-21T02:06:46.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting idea. I'm going to guess (along with Pekka) that the official line will be no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a specific use case that this helps with. If you have a team of members with their own individual accounts, and all are on the same project, it stands to reason that they will naturally end up upvoting each other -- not out of malice or attempting to game the system, but purely because they're already on the same page, and will likely naturally tend to agree with one another's posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that scenario, sometimes the accounts end up looking like sock puppets, even if they're not. As a result, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39310/my-friends-account-has-been-deleted&quot;&gt;mod action&lt;/a&gt; may get taken. So while I think that on the whole the idea is probably not going to be well-received, I can see it potentially alleviating that specific issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that assumes that this issue is actually widespread. My hunch is it's not, and that the downsides of doing this far, &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; outweigh this one positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T02:06:46.467" />
  <row Id="40116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40111" CreationDate="2010-02-21T02:13:26.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the Web Developer Toolbar in Firefox, it appears that the Flag Reasons box is a child element of the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; which contains the post. As a result, although the style information piece in the toolbar wasn't picking up font colors at all for me, I'm going to &lt;em&gt;guess&lt;/em&gt; that the Flag Reasons box inherits its font color from the post itself, so if the post font color changes, so does it. And of course, the post font color does in fact change when the post is heavily downvoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not that's &quot;correct&quot; behavior is debatable, but that's how it appears to be happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T02:20:47.867" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T02:20:47.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T02:15:44.243" Score="5" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should be able to search with our Interesting/Favorite Tags or our Ignored Tags, something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;myfavtags:1  &quot;test&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;myigntags:1  &quot;test&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm open to other ways of doing this also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-04T18:28:10.750" LastActivityDate="2011-09-04T18:28:10.750" Title="Add advanced search option to search within a user's Interesting/Favorite/Ignored Tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;&lt;favorite-tags&gt;" />
  <row Id="40118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-21T02:31:48.793" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.pidgin.im/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Pidgin - IM Client&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i47.tinypic.com/2mqp7hf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pidgin - IM Client&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T02:31:48.793" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-21T02:31:48.793" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T03:53:26.727" Score="10" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally I would not complain about this, but given that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/39/enthusiast&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/53/fanatic&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; are based on &quot;visiting the site&quot; each &quot;day&quot; it is silly for the &quot;day&quot; to be based on UTC clock for all users.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can speculate about the reason for this limitation, but I will refrain from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I am not the only one who has brought this up as an issue, but if badges are based on it, at least do the right thing and use local time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT&#xA;Someone suggested that changing a user timezone creates a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All times stored int he database are UTC.  If jeff and co just do two passes for whatever logic is used for checking the badges (one for UTC - like the way it exists now, and one for local time I think that would be far more preferable.  )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-09T03:04:15.390" LastActivityDate="2010-08-09T03:04:15.390" Title="Change the definiton of a &quot;day&quot; to be localized for users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40122" CreationDate="2010-02-21T04:06:31.170" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be appropriate to email the Stack Overflow team to check how far along I am on the Fanatic badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T06:58:35.247" Title="Is it appropriate to contact the SO team on Fanatic badge progress?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40119" CreationDate="2010-02-21T04:38:25.807" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I presume then that you suggest a configuration option be added, so that each user could specify his particular timezone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would happen to the calculation of badge progress if one changed his timezone? Say I am 99 days into achieving the Fanatic badge, and I changed my timezone from UTC-5 to UTC+5, thereby making the 100th day arrive?  What if I changed my timezone in the other direction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would everyone's reputation cap therefore also be switching to using local days? Could I artificially raise my rep cap if I switched timezones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can speculate about the reason for this limitation, but I will refrain from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need to speculate; the reason is quite clear.  The contrived edge examples above show that there are other considerations that come into play when one allows customizing timezones per user, therefore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's simply much easier if everything was on one standardized calendar.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T04:38:25.807" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40120" CreationDate="2010-02-21T04:51:29.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did this once upon a blue moon. Based on the response I got, it seemed like they were discouraging it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I suspect team@stackoverflow.com gets way too many e-mails to handle as it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system works, but has (according to what I was told) some undocumented behaviors to ensure that you have really &quot;visited.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, from what I was told, it didn't sound like checking a user's progress on those badges was trivial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just keep visiting. That's the behavior they're trying to encourage anyway. :) They don't want you to &lt;em&gt;stop&lt;/em&gt; visiting every day just because you got a badge. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T04:51:29.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40119" CreationDate="2010-02-21T05:48:03.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The skewed calendar actually helps me.  If I'm going to be busy all day one day, I can hit the site the evening before and the morning afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T05:48:03.110" />
  <row Id="40125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40120" CreationDate="2010-02-21T06:58:35.247" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too contacted them - to find out whether I'd miscounted.  They sent me a record of when I'd been seen. It turned out there was an extra day's break in my record which I'd not accounted for - so instead of being day 102 it was about day 97.  My fanatic badge arrived on the correct schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest not contacting them unless you're pretty sure that the badge is overdue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T06:58:35.247" />
  <row Id="40126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40119" CreationDate="2010-02-21T07:07:04.607" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced there's a real issue.  If you are visiting the site regularly, you will be hitting the site in about the same interval of the UTC day.  I've done things working across timezone boundaries, and as long as you are not trying to leave more than 24 hours between visits, you'll be OK.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T07:07:04.607" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37130" CreationDate="2010-02-21T07:13:41.817" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Locked posts can now be flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T07:13:41.817" />
  <row Id="40129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40066" CreationDate="2010-02-21T08:58:06.160" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design at the moment, as we'd have to check post history on undeletion to &quot;tell&quot; whether an answer to a deleted question really should remain deleted or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree it's not an entirely correct behavior, I am not entirely sure undeleting questions occurs enough for it to be a serious problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T08:58:06.160" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64693" CreationDate="2010-02-21T09:44:20.660" Score="12" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;==&gt; This issue has been fixed &amp;lt;==&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For historical benefit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the user's page (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/users&quot;&gt;SF&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;meta&lt;/a&gt;, ...), if you type &quot;T.J&quot; (no trailing dot) in the search box you'll see names starting with &quot;T.J&quot; (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/157247&quot;&gt;T.J. Crowder&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/167513&quot;&gt;T.J. Boberek&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/179824&quot;&gt;T.J.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, etc.) but if you type &quot;T.J.&quot; (with the trailing dot, as one normally would) nothing happens. At all. The currently-displayed results don't change (as opposed to showing no matches).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Related but different bug: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36692&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36692&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-16T08:02:56.240" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T08:02:56.240" Title="User search fails if name has dots" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46661" CreationDate="2010-02-21T10:08:04.060" Score="24" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;I listened to the Stack Overflow (hmmm, Stack Exchange podcast) and was a tad confused about the whole VC shenanigans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I seemed to understand is this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Exchange remains a separate entity to Stack Overflow, which is funded and owned by Fogcreek and is not raising money. It's Joel's other baby project.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow LLC (the guys the brought you Super User, Server Fault, Stack Overflow) are the ones asking for the money.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow need the money for something top-secret that is not related to Stack Exchange that may take up to a year to develop. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow is pretty profitable anyway. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I misunderstanding the message somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-26T10:00:06.160" LastActivityDate="2010-09-26T10:00:06.160" Title="We needs monies, for whats?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;venture-capital&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40131" CreationDate="2010-02-21T10:12:16.517" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've debugged with Firebug, and I noticed that when I search for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/filter/t.j.&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T.J.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it returns the following error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Server Error in '/' Application.&#xA;&#xA;The resource cannot be found.&#xA;&#xA;Description: HTTP 404. &#xA;The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.  &#xA;Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly. &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when I search for &lt;strong&gt;T.J. Crowder&lt;/strong&gt;, it's just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it happens when the searched name ends with a dot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T21:18:07.500" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T21:18:07.500" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40135" CreationDate="2010-02-21T10:43:14.787" Score="4" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is great resource to learn. For both someone asking a question and answering a question. Posing a question let you reflect on your problem. A lot of the questions started are never submitted because the act of posing a question helps solving it. Answering a question helps to stretch your knowledge bit by bit. You may answer questions directly but sometimes you know only 75% of the answer. Now you have to stretch your knowledge a bit to be able to answer it and you'll learn something on the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the positive side of Stack Overflow; on the other hand Stack Overflow is not good enough for systematic learning: I want to learn more about X!. You'll find something about everything, but it's not efficient. The knowledge that is in Stack Overflow is not refined in a way to allow this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is unavoidable for a site that wants to help users with immediate answers to their problems. The knowledge amassed is only a by-product of this process. Nonetheless it can be put to another use with some extra effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the basic idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Select and revise Stack Overflow questions and answers to allow efficient learning.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow question and answers cannot replace text books, articles or blogs, but can provide exercises for a given topic. We learn by application of the ideas presented in these other formats. If you dust off your &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TAOCP&lt;/a&gt; there are always exercises after all the theory. The exercise part is where the learning starts by reflections. Before that it's just following a beaten path: &quot;Oh yes it's this and that and O(n)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given some effort it is possible extract high quality exercises from Stack Overflow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select good questions (probably &amp;lt; 20% for this purpose)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the best answers &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assign some grade of difficulty (to create some order)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add additional tags (when the tags are missing or to not fit into the structure of the anthology)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Optional - Revise the question and answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Optional - Add missing questions and answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest advantage is that the posed questions are real world problems. This is a big factor to motivate learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be some feedback into Stack Overflow in later steps. Stack Overflow is really complicated enough but some form of quality improvements may be desirable. Wikipedia added some quality improvement measures later in the project after it gained a critical mass. It may be nice to see high quality content highlighted in Stack Overflow, but it is not essential to the anthology idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to start and see if this idea works is to take a tag with few questions (less than 1000) and categorise all of these questions. The target would be to extract ~100 questions. Some software is needed to support this. Development could start with a limited set of edit tools to select questions, answers and add tags. For learners a page to browse the anthology with direct links to Stack Overflow is enough to get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bad idea or would you like to work on this project?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135797" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-10T09:55:32.647" LastActivityDate="2010-09-10T09:55:32.647" Title="Stack Overflow anthology project" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;learning&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40134" CreationDate="2010-02-21T12:07:59.913" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe this would really provide a good way of learning. To my mind, books are the best way of learning systematically. (I'm biased as an author, admittedly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While much or indeed all of the information presented in a book is usually available online, books provide precisely the &lt;em&gt;systematic&lt;/em&gt; approach you mention. They are designed so that you can build up your knowledge. A good deal of time is spent working out the order in which ideas should be presented etc. This doesn't naturally come in the form of questions which developers would generally ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone wanted to learn C# from scratch, I doubt that I could piece together questions from Stack Overflow to provide anything nearly as effective as a well-written book. This doesn't detract from my view of Stack Overflow as a wonderful source of information - but different requirements (learning systematically vs finding out about one specific question) are best met by different solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I hadn't seen &quot;Stackoverflow question and answers cannot replace text books, articles or blogs&quot; in the original question. However, I'm still dubious about the idea of the project as a whole. I think I would rather complement book learning by encouraging people to read questions that interest them and try to answer those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T18:43:04.567" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T18:43:04.567" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40132" CreationDate="2010-02-21T13:04:13.353" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understood from @Joel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;, it seems to be that they want to take over the world and make Q/A communities for every topic before Google beats them to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting (on the indicators for why to go the VC route):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There’s a land grab going on. The business is in a new field with no&#xA;  competition, but the field has proven&#xA;  itself, and is obviously going to get&#xA;  very crowded very soon, so the faster&#xA;  you can grab territory, the better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a provable concept that’s repeatable. I always point to the&#xA;  example of the Starbucks IPO, which&#xA;  was brilliant because it was so&#xA;  simple. Every new Starbucks store that&#xA;  opened in Seattle became profitable in&#xA;  a matter of months. They tried a&#xA;  couple of stores in Chicago and&#xA;  Washington just to make sure it wasn’t&#xA;  a Seattle thing, and those worked even&#xA;  better. Thus, the formula of opening&#xA;  as many stores as possible was as&#xA;  close to a sure-thing as possible, so&#xA;  raising money was a no-brainer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T13:04:13.353" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40134" CreationDate="2010-02-21T16:14:43.700" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the desire to &quot;do something&quot; with the SO knowledge pool understandable - there are hundreds, if not thousands of invaluable gems in SO's pool of questions and answers. Gems not only because questions are well and correctly answered, but more importantly because dozens of people have looked over the information, corrected it, and added additional pieces from their own experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I found SO, the User Contributed Notes in the PHP manual were, the best example of this kind of knowledge accumulation I knew. Every function has hundreds of comments with real-world information like &quot;took me days to find this out, on OS xyz, this fails if abc is not installed and a is b&quot;. (Examples &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.php.net/mssql_query&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I agree with Jon in that the content here is not really made for systematic learning. That's what a classic book is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would find interesting to see are sort of on-line, editorial approaches - technically just simple hand-picked link lists, really - that highlight the best questions (and of course answers) from certain fields. For example, every PHP related security question has an answer on SO - you just need to fish them out, and compile them into a list to have a great compendium - not for systematic learning, but as a &quot;cheat sheet&quot; to look up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Having re-re-read the text carefully, I can see more ideas I like, albeit still not under the &quot;systematic learning&quot; umbrella. But &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; that is a question of perspective - I am self-employed and currently under a lot of pressure to get things done, which decreases interest in learning altogether new things. In that situation, what I am most interested in is what I mean by &quot;Cheat sheets.&quot; Quick, complete info drenched in expertise. But that doesn't have to be the only way to work through SO's knowledge base. So @Thomas, as far as the idea of building &quot;link lists to SO questions&quot; (in want of a better word, you know what I mean) paint me very interested in general, albeit with the aforementioned different perspective, and very little room for any sizeable contributions until the end of this year. I could, however, imagine the technical end of this could be quite easy to achieve in a Wiki maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T18:59:23.783" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T18:59:23.783" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T17:56:32.620" Score="44" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if the moderators could get an official e-mail account for their moderating activities like notifying users via e-mail. I’m a little worried about using my private one for these activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134194" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-22T20:32:17.103" LastActivityDate="2011-03-22T20:32:17.103" Title="Official e-mail account for moderators" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40138" CreationDate="2010-02-21T18:17:30.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest my e-mail address is public information and on my profile, so I have never had an issue sending from my visible account. It is extremely rare that I do mail a user, at most twice a month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is also raised if each site in the trilogy should have a separate account or a combined account for all moderators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Jeff's intense dislike of email I will be keen to hear his opinion. I am however not against the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T18:24:10.640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T18:24:10.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40138" CreationDate="2010-02-21T18:38:22.830" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A user's take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never received a moderator email, but I would &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; such a thing to come from the stackoverflow.com domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T18:38:22.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T19:59:30.200" Score="1" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea that reputation exists. It allows us to make objective considerations on certain people's contributions to the site. However, I noticed that some people who have 2k or more reputation get 95% of their reputation from asking questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that people with more reputation points should be considered more reputable because of their contribution in &lt;em&gt;answering&lt;/em&gt; questions not asking them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like the point that Pavel makes in his comment below. Not all reputation is equal... questions are different from answers, and should this distinction not be made more visibly? Like a ratio split of how the gain has been made? Like I get 80% of my Reputation from ANSWERING... rather then asking questions.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Quote&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the words of George Orwell... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;not all animals are equal...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And neither is reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143366" LastEditorUserId="143366" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T20:37:42.433" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T00:37:52.707" Title="Should reputation points be distinguished somewhere based on the source" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40141" CreationDate="2010-02-21T20:06:28.953" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easier to provide a good answer to a question than it is to provide a good question in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I should clarify this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that there aren't enough questions in total - just not enough &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; ones. The criteria for up-voting are that &quot;this question is useful and clear&quot;, whereas for answers its just &quot;this answer is useful&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's easier to provide a useful answer, even when the original question isn't very clear, if only because it points the OP in the general direction of a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a question has to be judged on it's own merits, whereas an answer can be judged in relation to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T22:07:23.040" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:07:23.040" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40141" CreationDate="2010-02-21T20:09:44.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides being easier to provide a good answer to a question than it is to provide a good question in the first place, people also tend to vote more on answers than on questions, that's why the electorate badge was created&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T20:09:44.237" />
  <row Id="40144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40141" CreationDate="2010-02-21T20:19:48.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a person is capable to write an answer, he or she is also capable to write a question for this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine a site, where only questions without answers are posted.  Is it helpful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine a site where everyone posts answers.  Each answer just &lt;em&gt;has to&lt;/em&gt; contain a question it's answering to, or refer to a problem it's solving.  Just like a collective blog, where everyone shares experience.  The thing is that it will be way more useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No wonder that answers are valued more.  They're just more useful to the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T20:19:48.817" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40138" CreationDate="2010-02-21T20:19:57.460" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently only e-mails from Jeff (et al) come from stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A definite plus to centralization here would be that if we were performing the e-mail &lt;em&gt;through&lt;/em&gt; the system, it would provide &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; clear tracibility / visibility / etc, rather than relying on separate communication as necessary. It would also make it impossible to spoof a telling-off (especially if the e-mail only contained a link, and all moderator messages were on-forum - although that might make it tricky to send a &quot;your IP has been black-listed because...&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having all comms via the envelope in the header bar is an interesting option; essentially &lt;strong&gt;limited&lt;/strong&gt; private messaging on the site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17173/&quot;&gt;as discussed here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The downside is that reply e-mails become a problem; where does that go? &lt;strong&gt;Many&lt;/strong&gt; times a moderator e-mail has had more than one message. The ♦ mods do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; have open access to the &quot;team@stackoverflow.com&quot; inbox (and I'm not sure I'd want to), but how does the user reply? The only thing I can think is &quot;on the forum&quot;, but then you are building more and more into the system for what is &lt;em&gt;largely&lt;/em&gt; an exceptional case. Moderator e-mails are not an everyday thing, thankfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My e-mail address is pretty-much open anyway, so I'm not &lt;em&gt;hugely&lt;/em&gt; fussed, but there is always the &quot;do I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to advertise myself as an attack-surface to somebody who is already misbehaving&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part it kinda works as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I'm also not a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; fan of anonymity - I stand by any comments I make as either a moderator or user - so even if it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; centralized I think I'd prefer it to come from &quot;marc@...&quot; than &quot;mods@...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T20:19:57.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T20:54:00.823" Score="2" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26014/why-is-the-stack-overflow-community-so-aggressive-about-question-criteria&quot;&gt;Why is the stack overflow community so aggressive about question criteria?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a question that was rather subjective I admit. A moderator converted my question to a community wiki, which is fine. But now the question has been closed as &lt;em&gt;subjective and argumentative&lt;/em&gt;. Is is not what community wiki questions are for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2298272/how-much-duplicated-code-do-you-tolerate-closed&quot;&gt;original question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138788" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T22:59:35.337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:59:35.337" ClosedDate="2010-02-21T23:49:55.593" Title="Why was my question closed after being forced into Community Wiki mode?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40147" CreationDate="2010-02-21T20:55:23.973" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, that's not what Community Wiki is for, not at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is what they are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T22:03:56.603" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:03:56.603" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40147" CreationDate="2010-02-21T21:31:22.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Community Wiki is not for subjective and argumentative questions, it is for the type of questions that have the need to be edited by many users at different levels.  The users who always post something along the lines of &quot;Make this question community wiki&quot;, are subverting the intention of the CW device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for the record, that question wasn't a poll, it was just a vague, subjective question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T21:31:22.970" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40147" CreationDate="2010-02-21T21:40:56.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's something of a tradition on SO of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14308/should-poll-questions-be-community-wiki&quot;&gt;using CW for polls&lt;/a&gt;: questions with a finite number of answers where users are expected to vote up the existing answers rather than posting duplicates, edit in additional information where appropriate, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of C#?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2245196/c-urban-myths&quot;&gt;C++ Urban Myths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another sort of question that's frequently seen on SO (and also often marked Community Wiki) is the &quot;What do you think?&quot; question. These aren't so much &lt;em&gt;polls&lt;/em&gt; as they are &lt;em&gt;discussion threads&lt;/em&gt;: the phrasing of the question invites each reader to share his own personal experiences and opinions, and discussion frequently thrives in the comments as well. While you will find many of these on SO (indeed, this category includes most of the most popular questions on the site), they tend to be more readily closed, as they have little to offer casual readers beyond opinionated arguments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961942/what-is-the-worst-programming-language-you-ever-worked-with&quot;&gt;What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/741581/what-are-the-worst-working-conditions-you-have-written-code-in&quot;&gt;What are the worst working conditions you have written code in?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As should be clear from the examples, the deciding factor is public opinion&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, not any set of concrete rules: &lt;strong&gt;if enough people like your question, it'll either stay open or get re-opened&lt;/strong&gt;; otherwise, it'll be closed and eventually deleted. No one person&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; can say for sure which outcome will befall an individual question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;sub&gt;Ok, so if a single moderator likes it then they can keep it open, and if a single moderator hates it, then they can delete it outright... but those tend to be edge cases.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;sub&gt;apart from moderators&lt;/sub&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T21:40:56.463" />
  <row Id="40151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40147" CreationDate="2010-02-21T21:41:19.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My two cents: It's a good question (and has attracted some good answers), and -- while it's indeed somewhat subjective -- it's not argumentative or confrontational. This question definitely has a place on SO and should be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T21:41:19.677" />
  <row Id="40153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40147" CreationDate="2010-02-21T21:57:29.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of reasons a Community Wiki question can be closed for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exact duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not programming related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective and argumentative&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not a real question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on serverfault.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs on superuser.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the validity of questions, the standard rules apply to Community Wiki questions. Personally, I flag my questions or answers CW when even though they satisfy these requirements, I don't want  to receive reputation points for them for some reason or other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that CW ever served its original purpose; I really doubt that that many low-reputation users edited CW questions or answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T22:04:47.630" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:04:47.630" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-21T22:15:48.200" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openkomodo.com/participate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/1456/screen4d.png&quot; alt=&quot;The power and extensibility of Emacs and Vim with 21st century usability.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139007" LastEditorUserId="139007" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T15:09:44.007" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T15:09:44.007" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-21T22:15:48.200" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40147" CreationDate="2010-02-21T22:19:54.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may as well throw in my 2 cents. I think that the S&amp;amp;A reason for closing (which was why the question was closed) should only be used for questions like &quot;Why does Java suck?&quot; and in fact I rarely close questions for the S&amp;amp;A reason. The question should not have been closed for any other reason (OK, I'm sure there's a dupe somewhere, but I can't find it), it was a poll, so it should have been CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:19:54.543" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="40156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T22:38:51.743" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are comments hidden by popularity and not by chronology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I'm reading the unhidden comments, half the time I have no idea what they are talking about and then I have to show all to figure it out. If the comments were chronologically hidden, displaying the oldest comments first, then each comment thread would be clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know people are immediately going to say, &quot;It is a feature!&quot;, but I think we'd be better off without it, regardless of the few situations where it would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143062" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:54:16.393" Title="Why are comments hidden by popularity and not by chronology?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40156" CreationDate="2010-02-21T22:49:13.767" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are no threads&lt;/strong&gt;. So if the first &lt;em&gt;n-1&lt;/em&gt; comments are responses to the first comment and the &lt;i&gt;n+1&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; comment is directly relevant to the post itself, then cutting off initially-shown comments at &lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; would hide a relevant comment while displaying a tangential discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing comments with the most votes first provides a method of highlighting the &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; comments... whether or not it actually works this way in practice varies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think hierarchical threads are a better way to handle in-depth discussion. But then, comments aren't really supposed to be used for in-depth discussions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-21T22:54:16.393" LastActivityDate="2010-02-21T22:54:16.393" />
  <row Id="40159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-21T23:21:41.877" Score="-3" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40147/why-was-my-question-closed-after-being-forced-into-community-wiki-mode&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40147/why-was-my-question-closed-after-being-forced-into-community-wiki-mode&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19260/split-subjective-and-argumentative-close-reason&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19260/split-subjective-and-argumentative-close-reason&lt;/a&gt;, among others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been many questions on SO that are subjective, yet not argumentative. Questions which were clearly stated (and thus, should not have been closed as &quot;not a real question&quot;), and yet questions which could only have been answered by an indefinite amount of discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose adding a new close reason that would permit such questions to be closed, simply because they are &quot;discussion&quot; questions and thus not appropriate for a Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The verbiage for the &quot;Subjective and Argumentative&quot; close reason used to include &quot;or would require extensive discussion&quot;. I agree with removing that part of the close reason, but thi  nk it should be moved separately into this new close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-15T19:27:46.203" LastActivityDate="2011-06-16T07:49:26.410" Title="Requesting New Close Reason: &quot;Discussion&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40159" CreationDate="2010-02-21T23:45:28.863" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent changes Jeff tried to drastically reduce the amount of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think few is good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't have enough to cover all possible cases; I think &lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt; is more than ok for discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T00:24:46.120" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T00:24:46.120" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40159" CreationDate="2010-02-22T00:09:45.387" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also be for this. I think that sometimes, discussing things to cover the overall range of subjective opinions, to create a kind of composite answer, is the correct way to handle certain questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143366" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T00:09:45.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40141" CreationDate="2010-02-22T00:37:52.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that one possible solution after thinking about it, might be to provide a ratio of how people are contributing to the community..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There will always be people who need to ask questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There will always be people who contribute by answering. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally enjoy answering questions because I feel &lt;em&gt;Alot&lt;/em&gt; more valued this way. However, I think that compulsive 'questioners' as these users should be branded is just a bad for the community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that people should get plus votes for asking questions. Gaining reputation to then edit peoples threads to contribute back to the community when the user has a &lt;strong&gt;proven&lt;/strong&gt; history of not contributing is just &lt;strong&gt;bad bad bad&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take this user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015/shore&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015/shore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has 3.4k reputation with questions which practically &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; get over the 2 line mark.&#xA;I am new to this community, so I can't profess to have been around while things were getting started, nor can say that I have a proven history of contributing back, but a user like this, who will one day hit the 10k reputation mark and then have limited moderation powers isn't really right - surely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its kind of like a surreptitous coup... because these users are devaluing the site right? Sure they are asking questions which would not otherwise have been answered... but they are very very poor questions to begin with. Ones which only take 10 seconds of research and then answers which take minutes to provide... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only have a limit on the amount of time I can answer questions... as I am sure lots of other people do. If you are spending your time answering these kinds of peoples' questions who seem to either be totally stupid or purposefully trying to become the leading kleptomaniac for the award of stupid questions, rather then answering other questions... then I think the community is suffering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The solution?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure. I think removing reputation for question asking would be sufficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143366" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T00:37:52.707" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40165" CreationDate="2010-02-22T01:36:29.873" Score="17" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I've seen many questions with this structure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a wall of code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a request for the community to debug it by inspection&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find a nice selection &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/207524/crystal&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I offer, as a thesis, that these questions are not consistent with the stated goals of SO. They do not, usually, create a resource of use to other people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a community, we could politely but firmly tell these askers to do enough of their own work to come up with a concrete, specific, programming question, other than 'can someone tell me what's wrong with this?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get me wrong. I'm sympathetic to people with problems. I have not been downvoting or voting to close these, because the community seems to be inclined in general to be helpful. I'm asking, are we really doing the right thing by encouraging the site to populate with these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the consensus is 'yes' then I'll just slink back to my cave. I'm not interested in starting a campaign here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T01:56:54.030" Title="Should we close 'fix my program' questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40164" CreationDate="2010-02-22T01:46:40.323" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, please close them as &quot;not a real question&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T01:46:40.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40164" CreationDate="2010-02-22T01:56:54.030" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Fix my code&lt;/code&gt; tells me nothing about the problem at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as the question states a specific problem &lt;em&gt;the person is trying to solve&lt;/em&gt; and is &lt;em&gt;asking for a solution&lt;/em&gt; to that problem, then it's an acceptable question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question asker does not take care to address a specific problem with their question, then you have two choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote to close the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to ascertain the problem the asker has, and rephrase the question so that it addresses their real problem.  Otherwise it will never be useful to anyone conducting a search.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T01:56:54.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40167" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T02:19:21.160" Score="14" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about how well I judge worthy questions in comparison to the rest of the community. How can I get a count of how many questions I have voted to close or delete, and how many of those questions have stayed closed/deleted vs. those that have been reversed? Am I an active closer compared to eligible users at large? (Probably, simply because I close at least a few every day and am aware enough to ask the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions that have been reopened do not show that they have been closed, unless I try to close it again and I'm informed that I cannot vote to close again. It would appear that a question timeline doesn't display a close event, let alone a re-open event. My understanding is that questions that have been closed and then re-opened are not shown as such in the data dump, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T02:25:32.913" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T12:00:03.607" Title="How many questions have I voted to close and voted to delete?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;vote-to-delete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:15:24.507" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Narcissism. We all crave praise and like being told how smart we are by people upvoting our answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131089" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:30:47.357" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:30:47.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:16:23.930" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T02:40:41.930" />
  <row Id="40172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:17:58.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping to land the best job ever, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61027" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T02:40:41.930" />
  <row Id="40173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2009-07-09T00:18:04.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shiny baubles and my addictive personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8590" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T02:40:41.930" />
  <row Id="40175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2010-02-22T02:50:41.567" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone told me that once you hit 50K, you can trade it in for a pony!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T02:50:41.567" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40203" CreationDate="2010-02-22T03:14:32.333" Score="0" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; both real users and temporary users can ask a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask&quot;&gt;new questions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume each user type has a different table. My question is how can I attach the question to the right user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the temp users have their own table for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Temp users don't have all the data that real users have. Like: email, password, and all users details.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand, there are a lot more temp users than real users. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it make more sense to have them in their own table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142309" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T12:36:13.177" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T13:10:25.153" Title="How does SO store temporary users in database?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40176" CreationDate="2010-02-22T03:29:52.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow even uses the same table for both questions and answers, so I really doubt they would split the users table in 2 :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T03:29:52.007" />
  <row Id="40178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2010-02-22T03:31:00.820" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to help people when I can - especially when it doesn't take much effort, and results in some level of appreciation/recognition ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it gives me the illusion that I'm doing something useful (instead of actually working).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T11:21:44.150" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T11:21:44.150" />
  <row Id="40179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40176" CreationDate="2010-02-22T03:44:36.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, not even REAL users have all that data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As S.Mark says, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff notes the StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; has a very loose intrepretation of an &lt;strong&gt;account&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, you don't really have to fill out ANY of the profile information. Even the username is not required. And &lt;em&gt;no one&lt;/em&gt; has to enter a password - SO uses OpenID for authentication, and therefore never accepts or stores passwords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that they are in the same table, and just don't have an OpenID attached to them. Most likely they have a flag on them that denotes them as temporary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T03:50:05.353" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T03:50:05.353" />
  <row Id="40181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2010-02-22T04:13:58.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Semi-altruism. I want there to be answers when &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; have questions. So I answer the questions that I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer. A kind of &quot;do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.&quot; Although someone else usually types the answer I would have typed in much faster than I can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134652" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T04:13:58.067" />
  <row Id="40182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2010-02-22T04:35:06.477" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like being right :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T04:35:06.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3742" CreationDate="2010-02-22T05:39:33.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because when you teach something to someone, then you yourself learn new things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140743" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T05:39:33.290" />
  <row Id="40185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-19T07:11:28.060" Score="0" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like I am getting addicted to Stackoverflow and I have a urge after few mins to check for new questions. Is there already a script which can do it for me and email me or may be pop an alert on my desktop whenever a new questions matching my tags appears&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if there is no such script what could be the starting point, apis and sample in python?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;obviously next step would be to automatically answer those questions so I can beat John Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6946" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T06:12:17.567" Title="stackoverflow script for automated checking questions" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;automation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40185" CreationDate="2009-06-19T07:13:39.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;obviously next step would be to&#xA;  automatically answer those questions&#xA;  so I can beat John Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you are joking right? ;-) no one has ever and will never beat Jon Skeet. Dint you hear about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305223/jon-skeet-facts/389274#389274&quot;&gt;guy who down voted jon skeet's answer&lt;/a&gt;? Better edit your question soon before he sees it. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can subscribe to tags and monitor the questions. I am using &lt;a href=&quot;http://snackr.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rss snackr&lt;/a&gt; to check it on my desktop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I once wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codegeeks.net/gmail-notifier-using-net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gmail Notifier using the rss facility&lt;/a&gt; in Gmail. I am working on a similar app for stackoverflow tags for my personal use. Its in vb.net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will update here as soon as I finish it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dotnetcurry.com/images/WinForms/Notifier.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12178" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T06:12:17.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40185" CreationDate="2009-06-19T08:05:14.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my  first attempt at such a script, currently it prints out new questions to stdout, may be Iwill add pluggable output class so that it can be emailed or SMSed or popped up on screen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. to track python use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ python sofeed.py python&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;here is the code&#xA;edit: changed getNewQuestions to generator without sleep,&#xA;so it upto user now to delay as he wants + it can be embedded into any application,&#xA;added a wxPython sample app too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sys&#xA;import urllib2&#xA;import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree&#xA;import time&#xA;import datetime&#xA;&#xA;def getQuestions(tag):&#xA;    pythonFeedURL = &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/%s&quot;%tag&#xA;    xmlData = urllib2.urlopen(pythonFeedURL).read()&#xA;&#xA;    xmlTree = etree.fromstring(xmlData)&#xA;    ns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom&quot;&#xA;    questions = {}&#xA;    for i, entryElem in enumerate(xmlTree.findall(&quot;{%s}entry&quot;%ns)):&#xA;        questions[entryElem.find('{%s}id'%ns).text] = (i, entryElem.find('{%s}title'%ns).text, entryElem.find('{%s}summary'%ns).text)&#xA;&#xA;    return questions&#xA;&#xA;def diffQuestions(prevQuestions, questions):&#xA;    &quot;&quot;&quot;&#xA;    check which of the curernt questions aren't there in old set&#xA;    &quot;&quot;&quot;&#xA;    newQuestions = []&#xA;    for qId, qData in questions.iteritems():&#xA;        if qId not in prevQuestions:&#xA;            newQuestions.append(qData)&#xA;&#xA;    # sort by order in feed&#xA;    newQuestions.sort()&#xA;    return newQuestions&#xA;&#xA;def getNewQuestions(tag):&#xA;    prevQuestions = {}&#xA;    while 1:&#xA;        questions = getQuestions(tag)&#xA;&#xA;        newQuestions = diffQuestions(prevQuestions, questions)&#xA;        yield newQuestions&#xA;&#xA;        prevQuestions = questions&#xA;&#xA;def getOutputString(newQuestions):&#xA;    s = &quot;%s new questions @ %s\n&quot;%(len(newQuestions), datetime.datetime.now())&#xA;    for q in newQuestions:&#xA;        s += &quot;Question: %s %s\n&quot;%(q[0], q[1])&#xA;        s += q[2]&#xA;        s +=&quot;\n------------------------------------------------------------\n&quot;&#xA;&#xA;    return s&#xA;&#xA;if __name__ == &quot;__main__&quot;:&#xA;    tag = sys.argv[1]&#xA;    newQuestionGenerator = getNewQuestions(tag)&#xA;&#xA;    useWx = 1&#xA;    if useWx:&#xA;        import wx&#xA;        app = wx.PySimpleApp()&#xA;        frame = wx.Frame(None)&#xA;        app.SetTopWindow(frame)&#xA;        timer = wx.Timer(frame)&#xA;        timer.Start(60000)&#xA;        def onTimer(evt):&#xA;            newQuestions = newQuestionGenerator.next()&#xA;            if newQuestions:&#xA;                wx.MessageBox(getOutputString(newQuestions), &quot;New Questions&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;        frame.Bind(wx.EVT_TIMER, onTimer)&#xA;        app.MainLoop()&#xA;    else:&#xA;        for newQuestions in newQuestionGenerator:&#xA;            if newQuestions:&#xA;                print getOutputString(newQuestions)&#xA;            time.sleep(1000)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6946" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T06:12:17.567" />
  <row Id="40188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40090" CreationDate="2010-02-22T06:31:40.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have suggested &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14421/badge-for-bounties-offered&quot;&gt;exactly this&lt;/a&gt; last August and have no response as of yet... obviously +1 from me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T06:31:40.407" />
  <row Id="40193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40167" CreationDate="2010-02-22T09:21:21.327" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions that have been reopened do not show that they have been closed,&lt;/strong&gt; unless I try to close it again and I'm informed that I cannot vote to close again. It would appear that a question timeline doesn't display a close event, let alone a re-open event. My understanding is that questions that have been closed and then re-opened are not shown as such in the data dump, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What? The full open and close history is shown in revision history for the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The timeline view is still experimental and frankly quite buggy. It should not be used as an official reference for, well, anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: quoted the relevant section I was responding to. The bold sentence is not correct; the question revision history does indeed contain all close and reopen events, along with what users were involved in said events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T08:53:50.520" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:53:50.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40159" CreationDate="2010-02-22T09:38:07.737" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;let's make a glorified list of X!&quot; problem is much more dangerous and pernicious than discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some subjective discussion is OK, as long as it's a reasonably low level relative to the core Q&amp;amp;A on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update: we changed &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot; to this, network-wide, which covers discussion, lists, and a number of other common scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not constructive&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-16T07:49:26.410" LastActivityDate="2011-06-16T07:49:26.410" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22388" CreationDate="2010-02-22T11:34:24.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. My logic is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Google uses &quot;and&quot;, not &quot;or&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The vast majority of Internet search goes through Google.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Therefore, you should have an extremely good reason for not working like Google does.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &quot;or&quot; just confuses people. Having a workaround that allows &quot;and&quot; but &lt;em&gt;isn't documented on the search tips page&lt;/em&gt; confuses people even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff, could you at least add your answer above to the tips page, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143712" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T11:34:24.087" />
  <row Id="40198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40176" CreationDate="2010-02-22T12:14:05.917" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexcahnge.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;, which is based on the same platform stores a unique reference to the cookie in the field for the OpenId on the database (as far as I can tell, from being an administrator on &lt;a href=&quot;http://photography.angle.uk.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my own StackExchange site&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130044" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T12:14:05.917" />
  <row Id="40199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T12:36:53.020" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20208/bug-report-migrated-questions-answers-can-be-upvoted-twice-by-the-same-user&quot;&gt;Bug report: Migrated question&amp;rsquo;s answers can be upvoted twice by the same user.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible to vote on an answer (and presumably a question) more than once when the question is migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just voted on a good &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/111949/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-waking-up-the-cdrom-when-running-explorer/111950#111950&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/111949/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-waking-up-the-cdrom-when-running-explorer&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; which was posted on the wrong site. I then flagged the question to get it moved to the correct site. After the question had been migrated, I noticed that the vote option became available to me again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My curiosity got the better of me and I tried to vote up the answer again, and indeed, both votes have counted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that technically, my accounts on the two sites are actually independant, but they have been linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this by design? or I have I stumbled upon a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="154539" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T12:36:53.020" ClosedDate="2010-02-22T15:00:52.760" Title="I've just found I've been able to vote twice for an answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40202" CreationDate="2010-02-22T12:56:29.783" Score="9" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I get two answers that jointly answer the question (one directly answers the question and offers a work-around, and the other offers a thinking-out-of-the-square kind of answer), can I vote for both of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I mean to accept both of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143717" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-18T11:08:03.500" LastActivityDate="2010-10-18T11:08:03.500" Title="Can I accept two answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40204" CreationDate="2010-02-22T12:58:30.730" Score="0" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has as of today 1067 bronze badges  (and I wish: Keep it up),&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;more respected to show a &lt;strong&gt;1K&lt;/strong&gt; display style .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134032" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T13:36:51.200" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T13:36:51.200" Title="It's time to start calculate the sum of badges that user earned by K" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40200" CreationDate="2010-02-22T12:58:55.707" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot accept both, but you can upvote both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can only be one accepted answer that awards 15 reputation to the answerer, but you can upvote as many as you like, that awards 10 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even upvote the accepted answer, awarding a total of 25 reputation points to the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T12:58:55.707" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40176" CreationDate="2010-02-22T13:10:25.153" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've got two questions in here, so I'll answer each individually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is how can I attach the&#xA;  question to the right user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's only one Users table in each Creative Commons dump.  The schema is described here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding_the_StackOverflow_Database_Schema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/Understanding_the_StackOverflow_Database_Schema&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I assume the temp users have their own&#xA;  table for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your reasons might be valid, but in the export, there's only one Users table.  They simplify the schema for easier exporting and public querying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26837" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T13:10:25.153" />
  <row Id="40204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40201" CreationDate="2010-02-22T13:20:46.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if it works the same way as rep, it would change at 10K (which will take quite a while to reach).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not personally bothered either way, although I'd still want to be able to see the exact number myself, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If/when I reach 1000 silver badges (again, a long way off) it's more likely to start causing display wonkiness. I'm very happy for the SO team to defer worrying about this until that point :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T13:20:46.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T15:26:07.467" Score="1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21549/comments-incorrectly-submitted-as-an-answer-instead-what-should-we-do&quot;&gt;Comments incorrectly submitted as an answer instead: what should we do?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New users are treating the site as a forum by replying to answers with another answer. I think we should make it clear that if you want to reply to an answer you should do it in the comments. Perhaps we should have something that stops users from answering their own questions  or at least make it clear how the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141056" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T16:36:13.473" ClosedDate="2010-02-22T16:00:06.057" Title="New users are treating the site as a forum by replying to answers with another answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="40206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40205" CreationDate="2010-02-22T15:29:02.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in the habit of making this clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your tools are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;downvotes (applied to the offending &quot;answers&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;comments (I usual put these on the answers as well, but that means that when the user does delete them the comment is lost to other new users.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually start with a comment and check back in later to apply the downvote if the situation hasn't been corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T15:29:02.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40205" CreationDate="2010-02-22T15:30:04.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already done. Try to answer your own question, a pop up asks if you're really sure and says that you should use comments instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the behavior you're describing is not really widespread.. I would even say it's quite rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T15:30:04.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40205" CreationDate="2010-02-22T15:37:02.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this comes from simple unfamiliarity with how things work here, and a quick comment usually sorts it out once and for all (for that user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is good, though: A simple note along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please do not add answers to your own question to communicate with users. To react to an answer you receive, please use the &quot;add comment&quot; function below that answer. You can edit your own questions at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for users with &amp;lt; 100 rep would make a lot of sense.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T16:36:13.473" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T16:36:13.473" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39015" CreationDate="2010-02-22T16:44:45.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T20:40:10.403" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T20:40:10.403" />
  <row Id="40211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2010-02-22T17:06:16.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it'd help if there were some quick video tutorials that highlight functionality and some of the dos and donts of the sites.  Some of the best sites I've been to lately have integrated video tutorials into the registration process or right at the end so as soon as your account is ready, you can quickly learn how to use the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Idea posted here..&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40214/please-provide-some-quick-how-to-and-training-videos-for-this-site&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40214/please-provide-some-quick-how-to-and-training-videos-for-this-site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T17:19:34.977" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T17:19:34.977" />
  <row Id="40212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39015" CreationDate="2010-02-22T17:15:48.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what to do with the &lt;code&gt;[win32]&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think most of the questions tagged with it refer to Win32-API, but it is also used in situations where it doesn't refer to that. There are 165 questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;[windows]&lt;/code&gt; AND &lt;code&gt;[win32]&lt;/code&gt;, which is few enough to skim through and manually re-tag where necessary. That would at least help a little in the cleanup process, though it probably won't catch everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T17:15:48.603" />
  <row Id="40214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40240" CreationDate="2010-02-22T17:19:07.617" Score="-2" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a bit of a learning curve when users first start using the site as we've seen with the OP adding an answer rather than editing their question or responding with a comment.  I've seen a few different sites that offer some video tutorials offering quick intros along with some dos and donts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the videos be a part of FAQ pages, part of a training page, and also included at the end of the registration process before the user would try to begin asking some questions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not create these videos for the trilogy sites?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FINAL EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's quite obvious that folks feel pretty strongly against this.  The comments and answers on this thread are all self reflecting and don't seem to place much thought about how others may or may not interact with the site.  In fact, I agree with much of what people have said here, but this really is not about me or you, it is about the noob who may not know how the site works and never reads anything (like FAQ)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd apply the following metaphor that really sums up my thoughts...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you buy Madden 2010 for the XBox, you can simply pop the game in the XBox and grab the controller and start playing.  You can open up the box and read the 42 page booklet on how-to play the game, or you can watch some of the game demos and go through the training modules embedded into the game.  You can do 3 different things in this scenario, choosing the one that fits &lt;code&gt;YOU&lt;/code&gt; best. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm simply saying that if you apply this metaphor to the SO sites, we only allow you to simply pop the game in and start playing and provide the booklet.  Why not the 3rd offering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="55747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T03:14:37.300" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T03:14:37.300" Title="Please provide some quick how to and training videos for the sites" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;training&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40214" CreationDate="2010-02-22T17:20:28.360" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we have to create these videos to explain how to use the site, then &lt;strong&gt;we're doing it wrong&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usability should never have to be explained by a video. When it is, it's a good bet that the topic is too complex. And that's &lt;em&gt;a bad thing.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;trade;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stated reason for a video is because a user doesn't realize that they probably shouldn't respond to their question with an answer when they mean to leave a comment for someone, or expound upon their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a user doesn't follow this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MJ7SHaJorfU/S4LSfE9nwsI/AAAAAAAAAZo/PDOZLLsMVKk/s800/dialog.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dialog box&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes you think they're going to take the time &lt;em&gt;to watch a video&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-22T20:09:26.703" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T20:09:26.703" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="40217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40218" CreationDate="2010-02-22T17:23:48.757" Score="6" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you think it is beneficial to use your real name as your display name on Stack Overflow towards one's career? I started out here using my typical online name, &quot;bytenik,&quot; before switching over to using my full name. Now colleagues that Google my name will find my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this really help my career? Do you think that enough people in the software engineering field are aware of Stack Overflow to make any sort of a difference / have anyone notice my experience in answering (and asking) questions here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140348" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T02:37:38.850" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T02:37:38.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-22T17:23:48.757" Title="Does using your real name on Stack Overflow help with your career?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40217" CreationDate="2010-02-22T17:30:51.587" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to use all forums as my own name.  Not because I want to push my name for my career but because I want to show that I stand publicly by my opinions.  I also give more faith to responses from people that use their names because they at backing there are also backing their opinions by their name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Named sources are typically much more reliable then hidden cloak and dagger types.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131437" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T17:30:51.587" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-22T17:30:51.587" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40217" CreationDate="2010-02-22T18:04:14.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ironically, I answered this today &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.yapb.net/post/2010/02/22/How-Stack-Overflow-Propelled-me-to-the-Front-Page-of-Google.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in a blog post about how Stack Overflow propelled me to the Front page of Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T18:04:14.180" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-22T18:04:14.180" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40237" CreationDate="2010-02-22T18:19:27.173" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer to go to the Question -&gt; Newest section of all Stack Overflow family websites. However, when clicking on the logo for the given website, it sends me to the &quot;Active&quot; tab. I would like if there was a setting inside the user account to control the default action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and no please no tips on &quot;Updating my bookmark&quot; or of the such. It would be great if I could just click the logo, and be taken there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135444" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T19:57:48.617" Title="Change what the &quot;default&quot; landing page is" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40221" CreationDate="2010-02-22T18:25:27.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They probably won't add a preference setting to set your default homepage, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can modify &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39622&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (excellent) GreaseMonkey script to do that for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;or update your bookmarks&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T18:25:27.600" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40217" CreationDate="2010-02-22T18:48:35.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't use my real name mainly because I think I have a fairly common name: Tyler. However, I  have a link on my profile where you can find out ALL about me and my name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also am 16, and thus do not really have a career. Yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T18:48:35.340" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-22T18:48:35.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15635" CreationDate="2010-02-22T19:25:44.563" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jon in that it might not be the most frequently used feature but the usefulness when it is needed could be big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was just thinking about this again and I thought a UI where you could check a couple of boxes and send those two revisions to the diff engine could do it, similar to a commerce site's &quot;compare these products&quot; UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/MSO_DiffRevs.png&quot; alt=&quot;Diff Revisions Selector&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there could be a new view that would show just those 2 revs side by side, with the changes to the most recent rev highlighted like in the existing rev view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.sqeq.com/image/MSO_DiffRevs2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Diff Revisions View&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T19:25:44.563" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T19:37:26.690" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Clones?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was rececntly browsing the web in search for a Dynamic DNS solution and stumble upon this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dyndnscommunity.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; . As you can see their site's question and answer is identical to stackoverflow so i was wondering if there was a framework that they are using in order to achieve that...&#xA;I apologize in advance if my question should't be asked here but i didn't know where else to post it whithout making people angry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131639" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T19:37:26.690" ClosedDate="2010-02-22T19:43:59.703" Title="Is there a stackoverflow question answer framework available?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;frameworks&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T19:37:57.610" Score="4" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to make a phone call but apparently that's all I can do.  I clicked what was essentially the &quot;Continue&quot; button and now I don't have any way to contact this guy except for his phone number and I have zero desire to make a phone call.  Talk about a major flaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Since I started writing this he emailed me directly, apparently he gets my email address but I don't get his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="871" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T08:34:37.890" LastActivityDate="2010-12-16T09:52:08.903" Title="I clicked the interested button on Careers to view the hidden phone number and now I can't reply" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40221" CreationDate="2010-02-22T19:50:18.740" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the the official word will be no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there are several features in place to bump content back to the top of the &quot;Active&quot; listing that don't affect the &quot;Newest&quot; page, and those features are integral to the way the site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to fix it for yourself, you browser has a bookma...ah heck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T19:50:18.740" />
  <row Id="40236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40221" CreationDate="2010-02-22T19:54:11.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the design decision to have default links go to the Active list is by design.  the desired user behavior is to look at new answers as well as new questions so the answers will be checked and voted on as frequently as the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also places focus on the real-time nature of the site, encouraging programmers to 'best' each other in active questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While your request might be nice for a small fraction of users, I suspect that since it can be 'fixed' on the user's end, it's not liable to attract enough attention to make them re-think their original decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T19:54:11.773" />
  <row Id="40237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40221" CreationDate="2010-02-22T19:57:48.617" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look to the right of the logo.  See that big box that says &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt; ?  Click it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it doesn't go to the newest tab, click the newest tab and SO will remember that you want to go to the newest tab next time you click &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't done significant testing to see if it'll remember your tab across browser sessions, etc, but you only have to do two clicks to set it up, and then the &lt;code&gt;Questions&lt;/code&gt; button takes you there for at least the remainder of your browsing session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T19:57:48.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40159" CreationDate="2010-02-22T20:17:58.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there should be a close reason &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Not a Q&amp;amp;A question&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, which would include discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T20:17:58.387" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40214" CreationDate="2010-02-22T20:24:32.853" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a &amp;lt; 20 secs overview video would be interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't tell if SO it's hard or easy to use right now, because I started to use it very early when it got out of the beta, so it is completely natural to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, it has more features, and although the basic structure remains, perhaps a new users would benefit from this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think an usability test is in order to identify weak points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask any of the user who are in the first page of the users tabs, all of them without exception ( I think ) would say &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt; because they master the system anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask any of the users who are in the last pages ( well let's say that have more than 100 rep )  most of them  ( I think ) would say &lt;strong&gt;YES PLEASE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... So, go ahead, :) Don't let us stop you from doing so :) :) :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T20:24:32.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40217" CreationDate="2010-02-22T20:30:31.263" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course not. Career placements should be given on the merits of your skills which I hope they would ascertain through interviews, CVs and other research they might do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most employers should &lt;em&gt;asume&lt;/em&gt; that you are active on sites like these, if anything I think it could potentially damage things, if you prove yourself to be an idiot by asking really stupid and obvious questions. I'm more interested to know what you don't know.. since that is easier to figure out on SO than what you do know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that you has to ask question X, so you don't know that topic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143366" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T20:30:31.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-22T20:30:31.263" />
  <row Id="40243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40288" CreationDate="2010-02-22T20:42:41.287" Score="4" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;The feature &quot;Recent activity on the front page&quot; has a subtle bug (or perhaps it is a feature): clicking on the link always takes you to he most recent activity which may not coincide with what's displaying on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;User A adds an answer. The front page says: &quot;1m UserA&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If during that minute user B added another answer, clicking on the link &quot;User A&quot; will take you to the answer added by the user B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a video that may explain this better: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwP2Nrrfp0&amp;amp;fmt=22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Recent activity bug on SO (engine)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt; Oops I cut too much from the start of the video. If you pause it one or two seconds in you can tell the link says: &quot;5m George Stocker&quot; and following the link takes you to Oscar Reyes' answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T08:31:17.400" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:32:13.840" Title="Recent activity bug (or feature)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40214" CreationDate="2010-02-22T20:47:25.847" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I voted it up.  I started SO in beta, and I'm only now seeing the user friction as I introduce others to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although they've tried to keep the interface simple, clean, and understandable, there's still a reasonable learning curve to really using the site well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beginners have no problem performing the simple tasks - asking, answering, and voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But get too far beyond that and you flail in the land of x reputation for action y, except when the post is z, but if it changes to z after your post then it may not affect your reputation earned before, but may affect your reputation earned after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's just the surface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, as much as programmers love reading manuals (they don't!) many people learn better by viewing/listening than by reading text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is a market for this type of presentation of the FAQ, and it will only help people use the site better.  Those speaking and voting against it aren't contending that it will harm the site, they are merely contending that it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; not add value.  (unless, of course, it gets in the way of normal use - I'd simply want it linked from the FAQ page, and perhaps in the sidebar along with the existing user hints.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, this is not something the SO team will likely allocate time and resources for.  If someone put together a very high quality video or set of tutorial videos, then might be the appropriate time to ask the powers that be to adopt them as additional new user resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T20:47:25.847" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T21:28:15.283" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2779/could-the-tagging-system-be-enhanced-to-support-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot;&gt;Implement a Tag Black List&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some tags should be automatically replaced by other tags whenever a question is posted or retagged. This should be a manually maintained list of replacements that is applied automatically. Without that, all retag requests are pointless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[as3]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2850/the-great-tagging-reorg/2853#2853&quot;&gt;was retagged to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;[actionscript-3]&lt;/code&gt;, has again &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/as3&quot;&gt;552 new questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[macosx]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6398/please-could-we-combine-the-osx-and-macosx-tags&quot;&gt;was retagged to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;[osx]&lt;/code&gt;, has again &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/macosx&quot;&gt;513 new questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[aws]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5954/combine-aws-tag-and-amazon-web-services&quot;&gt;was retagged to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;[amazon-web-services]&lt;/code&gt;, has again &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws&quot;&gt;37 new questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[db]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4849/move-db-db-design-tag&quot;&gt;was retagged to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;[database]&lt;/code&gt;, has again &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/db&quot;&gt;52 new questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[rails]&lt;/code&gt; is constantly being retagged to &lt;code&gt;[ruby-on-rails]&lt;/code&gt;, but has again &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rails&quot;&gt;41 new questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just look through old retag requests for more examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is decided for a tag that mass-retagging it to another tag is ok, it should also be safe to extend this to new questions asked in the future. If somebody later tries to post a question with a &quot;bad&quot; tag, that tag should automatically be replaced with the &quot;fixed&quot; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-14T06:20:28.443" LastActivityDate="2010-07-14T06:20:28.443" ClosedDate="2010-02-22T22:41:56.913" Title="Automatically replace &quot;bad&quot; tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40248" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T22:03:45.507" Score="32" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;When will Opera finally work with Stack Overflow? So far it seems that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31801/post-your-question-fails-on-opera-10-10-win-xp-sp3/31802#31802&quot;&gt;this bug is simply being ignored&lt;/a&gt;. Come on! It's just a single JavaScript bug in the tags field. The rest of the site works 100%. And don't say that it's just&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the many, &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; oddities of Opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every browser has just as many oddities as any other browser, all that matters is which browsers you actually test on. And I say this as a web developer myself. Don't test on Firefox, and it will not work on Firefox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, to be more constructive, here's how to reproduce it: Take the latest Opera (10.10) and just type anything from the start to the end. Write a title of a normal length, add some text, and the type several tags, possibly using the auto-complete feature. And hit the &quot;Post Your Question&quot; button. For me it fails in 99.99% of the cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However one must note that copy-pasting a bunch of tags works. Or perhaps it works if you hit &quot;Ask Your Question&quot; before the auto-complete kicks in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130893" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-10T08:05:12.713" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T08:06:11.823" Title="When will Opera support be fixed on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;opera&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="40249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40248" CreationDate="2010-02-22T22:37:37.793" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that you are looking at the result of a cost/benefit calculation. Supporting special cases takes developer time. Whether it is worth it depends on how many visitor they're looking at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No we can see from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/browsers-and-screen-size-on-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Browsers and Screen Size on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, that all versions of opera taken together are mightily outnumbered by IE6. So you know where the special case hours are going first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it gets worse, because opera users probably have another browser on their machine (at least on the desktop).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-22T22:37:37.793" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-22T23:00:01.727" Score="1" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33642/fix-behavior-of-the-notify-checkbox-on-questions&quot;&gt;Fix behavior of the &amp;ldquo;notify&amp;rdquo; checkbox on questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18323/preview-vs-post-linking-difference&quot;&gt;preview vs post linking difference&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The check box for &quot;Notify_&lt;strong&gt;__&lt;/strong&gt; ... daily of any new answers&quot;&#xA;is unchecked when [ Post Your Question ] is clicked and&#xA;there is some problem that prevents posting; for example,&#xA;the title was omitted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondary problem, here at meta.SO:&#xA;it's telling me that my &quot;Notify Email does not appear to be valid&quot;&#xA;but it will not show my entire (yes I know it's long) email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141746" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-10T23:47:12.793" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T23:47:12.793" ClosedDate="2010-02-23T08:30:25.123" Title="&quot;Notify_______ ... daily of any new answers&quot; gets unchecked" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40253" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40255" CreationDate="2010-02-23T01:15:30.423" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2315476/revisions&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2315476/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited this post, but I only made one change: adding a dollar sign before the line &quot;func_name();&quot;. But it says that I also added some text, &quot;that consumes a lot of resources&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm certain that I didn't add that text; in fact, I'm not even so sure it's correct!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the original author added that text, and it somehow got lumped in with my edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4321" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T08:30:00.130" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:30:00.130" Title="Bug report: SO says I made a change that I didn't make" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-review&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40253" CreationDate="2010-02-23T01:36:21.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a wild guess, maybe the 5 Minute Grace Period creates a race condition here? (Authors are able to change their posts within 5? minutes without the edit showing up as edit/revision, but I would guess it's still tracked)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T01:36:21.117" />
  <row Id="40255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40253" CreationDate="2010-02-23T01:39:06.803" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;About the only thing that would make sense is that the author originally included that text in his post when you hit the edit button and made your change. As you were making your edit, the author removed that text from his post within 5 minutes of posting it preventing it from becoming a new revision. When you submitted your change you then unknowingly put that sentence back into the post, and the system credits you with the addition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T01:39:06.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40132" CreationDate="2010-02-23T01:46:23.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was confused as well - initially I figured they were looking for VC for Stack Exchange, not Stack Overflow.  I don't understand what is compelling to VCs about Stack Overflow, or compelling to Stack Overflow about getting VC money.  They've already gotten advertisers and job/resume revenue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess we'll find out soon enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-26T09:56:27.830" LastActivityDate="2010-09-26T09:56:27.830" />
  <row Id="40257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40259" CreationDate="2010-02-23T02:14:17.967" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now if you edit a post during the grace period the following will happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The post is silently changed without any notice (such as &quot;last edited 1 min ago&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The added/removed/changed text is not available in the revision history (there is no revision entry at all)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is not bumped to the top of the activity page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The edit doesn't count towards the auto-CW limit and is ineligible for certain badges (such as Strunk &amp;amp; White).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the last 2 points are totally fine but the first two &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40253/bug-report-so-says-i-made-a-change-that-i-didnt-make&quot;&gt;cause a &lt;strong&gt;great&lt;/strong&gt; deal of confusion&lt;/a&gt; to both experienced and new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I propose that every edit made in the grace period adds a new revision and triggers the &quot;last edited&quot; notification on the post body&lt;/strong&gt;, while not bumping the question or count towards the CW limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has several advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It follows the principle of least astonishment. The observable behavior of every edit is the same.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It allows us to read past revisions (for curiosity or other reasons)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In general, it will cause much less confusion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I don't really see any advantage of the current approach.. Maybe less cluttering on the revision page? Does it really matter? I don't think so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T08:42:00.700" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:42:00.700" Title="Change the way edits in the grace period work" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40287" CreationDate="2010-02-23T02:23:28.337" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view&quot;&gt;Preview should match the posted view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18323/preview-vs-post-linking-difference&quot;&gt;preview vs post linking difference&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2315560/how-do-you-force-a-java-swt-program-to-move-itself-to-the-foreground&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2315560/how-do-you-force-a-java-swt-program-to-move-itself-to-the-foreground&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the preview the &quot;footnote&quot; links look pretty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the real thing they don't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just so you're aware.&#xA;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text in question is (these are links all on a new line, and in the preview they're each on a new line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Related:&#xA;&#xA;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309023/howto-bring-a-java-window-to-the-front&#xA;http://book.javanb.com/swt-the-standard-widget-toolkit/ch11lev1sec4.html&#xA;http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.swt/msg35192.html&#xA;[2] http://www.generation-nt.com/us/more-single-instance-apps-how-force-its-window-foregroun-help-27562692.html&#xA;[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.swt/msg35253.html and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=192036&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143747" LastEditorUserId="143747" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T16:52:58.857" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:52:58.857" Title="bug report: preview doesn't match &quot;the real thing&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40257" CreationDate="2010-02-23T02:50:30.263" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe less cluttering on the revision page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That. I'll sometimes make a half-dozen or more tiny edits within that grace period, everything from fixing minor formatting or spelling issues to re-writing awkward sentences (or occasionally, entire paragraphs...) that I missed during my pre-submit proof-reading. Is there any real benefit to holding onto such information? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and... Is there any &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; down-side to throwing it away? If you need the revision history to remember what changes you &lt;em&gt;just made&lt;/em&gt; to someone else's post, then maybe you should be spending more time entering revision comments before submitting... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does it really matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I come back a day, month, or year later and make a major revision to a post, quickly followed by the usual half-dozen &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; revisions, what are the chances anyone viewing the revision history cares about seeing anything but the difference between the current revision and the one that was active 10 minutes ago? Remember, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15635/show-the-diff-between-two-non-consecutive-revisions-of-a-post&quot;&gt;there's currently no easy way to compare non-consecutive revisions&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a thought: if you must edit something that's been posted or edited less than 5 minutes ago, then after submitting your changes, &lt;strong&gt;check the revision history before you wander off&lt;/strong&gt;! This is a good idea &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt;, since someone else may have submitted an edit as you were submitting yours, and although that &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; show up in the revision history you'll still have stomped on a (potentially-valuable) change. If your revision contains changes you didn't intend to make, then edit it and correct the problem... within the grace period on &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; edit! Remember, there's no information truly &lt;em&gt;lost&lt;/em&gt; here - if you removed something accidentally, it'll still be in the revision history where you can find and restore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also doesn't hurt to leave a comment when you plan to make significant changes to a post and think someone else might wish to do the same... You can then remove the comment when you're done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a less dramatic (though still technically-challenging, I'm sure) change would be to improve the handling of edit collisions such that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22135/optimistic-concurrency-for-post-edits/36985#36985&quot;&gt;edits within the grace period and edits submitted near-simultaneously are detected reliably&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20658/how-to-avoid-edit-collisions&quot;&gt;How to avoid edit collisions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26184/suggestion-block-edits-by-others-in-the-5-minute-window-after-creating-a-post-or&quot;&gt;Suggestion: block edits by others in the 5 minute window after creating a post or doing an edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T02:56:00.033" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T02:56:00.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T02:52:57.670" Score="7" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I stared at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2315760/any-memory-usage-paradigm-besides-stack-and-heap-question-refined&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2315760/revisions&quot;&gt;revisions&lt;/a&gt;) and I even thought &lt;strong&gt;[question refined]&lt;/strong&gt; as offical status of the post.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;somebody &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2315760/revisions&quot;&gt;removed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; it now, So, I've edited this question to get same effect&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about official status &lt;strong&gt;[closed]&lt;/strong&gt; as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;different font color or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;different font size or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;put the text &lt;strong&gt;[closed]&lt;/strong&gt; outside the question link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;put a special tag as suggested in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40260/different-font-color-for-question-status-closed/40262#40262&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to clarify from those?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T08:50:01.713" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:50:01.713" Title="Different font color for question status =&gt; [closed] &lt;=" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40260" CreationDate="2010-02-23T03:02:08.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see it added as a special (non user selectable) tag similar to the &lt;code&gt;[status-declined]&lt;/code&gt; type tags here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only would that give an immediate visual indication, &lt;del&gt;but it would also have the extra benefit(?) of allowing you to include/exclude &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; questions in searches&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I forgot, but as @waiwai933 pointed out, you can already search for closed questions (&lt;code&gt;closed:1&lt;/code&gt;)... however I still think the visual indication alone makes it worth implementing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to take the idea further though, you could expand the &lt;code&gt;[closed]&lt;/code&gt; tag to different tags for each close reason (i.e. &lt;code&gt;[closed-duplicate]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[closed-not-programming]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[closed-subjective]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[closed-off-topic]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[closed-too-local]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[migrated-to-meta]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[migrated-to-so]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[migrated-to-su]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[migrated-to-sf]&lt;/code&gt;) then you'd get some potentially useful search abilities since you'd be able to find questions closed for specific reasons... (plus you could find all questions migrated &lt;code&gt;/questions/tagged/migrated~&lt;/code&gt;, or all questions closed (not migrated) &lt;code&gt;/questions/tagged/closed~&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T04:02:05.260" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T04:02:05.260" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19098" CreationDate="2010-02-23T03:11:43.777" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disabling and enabling the tags is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stackoverflow&lt;/em&gt; is a programming site, I would expect it to automate tedious tasks. I would have both a blacklist for tags that hides all questions and a graylist that only hides questions that do not contain favourite tags. And visibility shouldn't apply when you search for the tag that triggers the black list!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is now, it is as if the library version of &lt;code&gt;quicksort&lt;/code&gt; returned the original array and told you to read its members in order by yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143720" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T03:11:43.777" />
  <row Id="40264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-23T03:56:33.680" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wymeditor.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/33f49l5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Help to improve WYMeditor&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35364" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T03:56:33.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T03:56:33.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T04:33:39.300" Score="3" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like this must be a duplicate, but I couldn't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be awesome if SO solved the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netflixprize.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Netflix problem&lt;/a&gt;. In other words, it would be nice to have a tab of the home/questions/unanswered page which prioritized questions &lt;em&gt;you are likely to vote up based on your previous voting history and the voting histories of users with similar tastes&lt;/em&gt;. Aside from being thoroughly excellent, this feature would help solve the problem that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9508/why-arent-people-voting-for-questions&quot;&gt;people don't vote on questions&lt;/a&gt;. It would clarify the meaning of an upvote: it means, &quot;I want to see questions like this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main objection I anticipate is that it would be computationally intensive and require heavy querying of the database. The load could be lightened by requiring 1k (or maybe even 10k) reputation, like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;show total number of votes&lt;/a&gt; feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T16:06:03.487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:06:03.487" Title="Personalized tab: show people questions they want to see" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;views&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T04:44:47.703" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am newbie on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When i find a good question or answer in Stack Overflow I'd like to save the link so that I can read it again later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="167493" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T05:36:06.227" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T05:36:32.247" Title="How to bookmark questions or answers I'm interested in?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40266" CreationDate="2010-02-23T04:45:39.373" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;browser bookmarks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T04:49:52.403" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40266" CreationDate="2010-02-23T04:46:41.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can mark questions &quot;Favourite&quot; in case you want to see them from your favourite tab in your user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143541" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T05:36:32.247" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T05:36:32.247" />
  <row Id="40269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40266" CreationDate="2010-02-23T04:46:47.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can click on the star to mark it as a favorite.  Welcome to the site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143746" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T04:49:52.403" />
  <row Id="40270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40266" CreationDate="2010-02-23T04:47:01.127" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also click on the star to put it in you stackoverflow favorites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T04:49:52.403" />
  <row Id="40271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T05:41:08.040" Score="9" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is, by design, an English-only site. Every non-English question will be closed in minutes as &quot;too localized.&quot; But still &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2316274/mac-os-x-java-closed&quot;&gt;some users&lt;/a&gt; think that if something is not mentioned in the FAQ, then it is allowed. So, how about fixing that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-31T14:21:50.783" LastActivityDate="2010-08-31T14:21:50.783" Title="Shouldn't the &quot;English only&quot; policy be mentioned in the FAQ?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;internationalisation&gt;&lt;language&gt;&lt;english&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40271" CreationDate="2010-02-23T05:52:26.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well there is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as brought up here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8162/we-need-to-help-non-english-speakers-somehow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143746" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T05:52:26.660" />
  <row Id="40273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40217" CreationDate="2010-02-23T06:01:04.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may not directly help with your career, but being active and helpful on forums and discussion sites, with the same username, helps build credibility. Plus a real name being shown means more than some seemingly meaningless username.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T06:01:04.210" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T06:01:04.210" />
  <row Id="40274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40271" CreationDate="2010-02-23T06:04:19.473" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps so, just to make it explicit. Although it is probably pretty obvious on hitting the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: oh yeah, and I wonder how many people read the FAQ before posting anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T06:04:19.473" />
  <row Id="40275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40281" CreationDate="2010-02-23T06:08:42.957" Score="13" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow will be down from 10 PM - 12 AM for maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is rather vague. It is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; 10 PM - 12 AM &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; (except in Iceland, where it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/always-friday-in-iceland&quot;&gt;always simply Friday&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this be in UTC since that is the site's rolling day time? Or just maybe specify a timezone...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example it is down &quot;now&quot; - is this the &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; maintenance window? Or is the site kaput? My assumption is the former, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: well damn me if I don't have access to that menu option. So self-fixed (yee-hah). But note to team; please include the timezone ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T06:24:32.347" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:57:04.087" Title="Timezone for maintenance messages" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40248" CreationDate="2010-02-23T06:09:23.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An edge case in one browser, a browser that doesn't seem to be in particularly wide use, is probably less important than bigger issues and/or more mainstream browsers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T06:09:23.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39698" CreationDate="2010-02-23T06:14:45.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be browser related, especially if you are using Opera with &quot;Turbo&quot; mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I wonder if you've picked up an IP address that has previously been a repeat address for one of our less clement guests. IP blocks are very rare, but do happen. Only Jeff and the team know for sure, so e-mail team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would check SO for any obvious cross-over, but it is down for maintenance at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T06:14:45.997" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40275" CreationDate="2010-02-23T06:15:02.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we start a new tag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;site-down-bored-must-post&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More relevant to the question, either specifying the time as PST, or converting it to UTC would be the two best options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;World Time Clock&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T06:15:02.720" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40280" CreationDate="2010-02-23T06:55:10.773" Score="12" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40275/timezone-for-maintenance-messages&quot;&gt;Timezone for maintenance messages&lt;/a&gt;, the team now shows timezone of PST for maintenance messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since that is tagged as status-complete, I'm starting another request to show these messages in UTC/GMT timezone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm at the timezone of GMT +8hr, PST makes no sense to me really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T15:14:51.560" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:14:51.560" Title="Change timezone for maintenance messages to UTC" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;&lt;maintenance&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40279" CreationDate="2010-02-23T07:10:17.640" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed - almost everyone knows where they are relative to UTC, but asking people to add in another factor (and get it the right way round) is a bit pointless. It's &lt;em&gt;particuarly&lt;/em&gt; tricky around this time of year, when there's a DST transition around the corner for many of us, but different people will experience it at different times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the rest of SO (e.g. the rep cap and badges) revolve around UTC also means it would increase general consistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not exactly a &lt;em&gt;big&lt;/em&gt; deal, but it would be nice to take a UTC-centric approach wherever possible, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T07:10:17.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40275" CreationDate="2010-02-23T07:52:05.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd actually like to see this implemented to display the time in the logged-on user's timezone if possible. I don't want to subtract (or is it add?) four hours (or is it three?) to know when you're going to be down! Making me think should be a crime!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, I'm only suggesting this because it sounds easy to do and seems convenient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T07:52:05.323" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40265" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:15:32.563" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you work up something from the data dump? It should have enough information for you to test out an algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that netflix recently awarded a one million dollar prize for this sort of algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netflixprize.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.netflixprize.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:15:32.563" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40248" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:18:21.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to be cognizant of whether you're using mouse or keyboard for tag autocomplete in Opera. Which is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have little tolerance for Opera, as it's more problematic for us than IE6, and supporting these minor Opera-specific inconsistencies -- things that work fine on Safari, IE7/8, Chrome, Firefox -- is a giant timesink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69616/not-able-to-submit-new-question-in-opera-in-ubuntu&quot;&gt;Not able to submit new question in Opera in ubuntu !!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-10T08:06:11.823" LastActivityDate="2010-11-10T08:06:11.823" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40271" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:20:56.047" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we really need &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000059.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a NO ELEPHANTS sign&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1438/1267783914_07a57c89de.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, isn't such a thing obvious? Would you go to a forum where everyone was communicating in French and type&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hey French Dudes, I got a question but I don't know French so I'm just going to go ahead and ask it in English anyway?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T08:08:23.677" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T08:08:23.677" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="40286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40279" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:22:39.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;strong&gt;wish&lt;/strong&gt; I could have like this, just wish, nothing serious :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;before 3 hour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Stack Overflow will be down in next 3 to 5 hour for maintenance.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;maintenence started 10 minutes ago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Stack Overflow is down 10 minutes ago for maintenance, and it will take around 2 hours.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5 minutes after maintenence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Stack Overflow was down till last 5 minutes for maintenance, now enjoy!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:22:39.380" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40258" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:24:39.970" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a duplicate (sorry dupe voters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're not using valid Markdown syntax. See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:24:39.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40243" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:32:13.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;by design, since the link always goes to the most recent activity. Caching and leaving stale browser windows open will of course link to a 'different' recent activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:32:13.840" />
  <row Id="40289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40232" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:35:56.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, the system is designed so that companies court you, not the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as a dating service -- once the initial &quot;OK, this looks interesting&quot; green light is lit, the rest of the conversation is direct between you and the employer via email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:35:56.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21549" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:41:12.480" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already do this, for ALL users on questions they own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5541/newuseranswerownquestio.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The standard answer editor does NOT appear by default for post owners&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead there is a single &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clicking the &quot;Answer Your Question&quot; button nags you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you sure you want to answer your own question? &#xA;  If you're responding to answers left on your question, use &#xA;  the comments link under each answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:41:12.480" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40217" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:45:57.133" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if recruiters were taking SO activity as a proof of skill or at least interest in the matter, I think you would benefit from it ONLY if you are unemployed during the time building reputation, or if the majority of your answers is given out of regular work time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it could be a benefit to see your skills and your value in a well known programming community, but for sure it will be a deal breaker to see that you spend a quarter (or more) of your time not actually working for your firm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T08:45:57.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T08:45:57.133" />
  <row Id="40292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T08:51:31.570" Score="-3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/468/other-language-localization&quot;&gt;Other language localization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1506/wikipedia-style-localization&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Style Localization&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the popularity of SO, does our Stack Overflow team has any ideas about internationalizing and localizing stackoverflow.com? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to know what languages they would consider for internationalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T08:29:06.210" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T08:29:06.210" ClosedDate="2010-02-24T02:25:09.330" Title="Internationalization and Localization of Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;future&gt;&lt;localization&gt;&lt;internationalisation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T09:24:17.703" Score="0" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I voted to close a question, but now, after the question was edited by it's owner, I want to remove/uncast my vote. How can I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T14:25:42.817" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T14:25:42.817" ClosedDate="2010-02-23T14:26:29.257" Title="How can I remove my close vote from a question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2010-02-23T09:27:51.097" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 2015, Front Page of SO is filled up with &lt;strong&gt;closed as duplicate&lt;/strong&gt; :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T09:27:51.097" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" />
  <row Id="40296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40297" CreationDate="2010-02-23T09:42:05.110" Score="-2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a question closed as &quot;not programming related&quot; but it really belonged on superuser.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would putting the &quot;Belongs on X&quot; close reasons at the top of the list encourage people to use them instead of a generic &quot;not programming related&quot; option?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19068" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T09:54:05.223" Title="Should &quot;Belongs on X&quot; be pulled up the list of close reasons?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40296" CreationDate="2010-02-23T09:54:05.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I've said before, I don't use the SF and SU sites so I have no means of knowing what is appropriate there. I therefore close non-programming questions as NPR. Given the grumbles from SF and SU mods about their sites being used as a dumping ground, I think this is the right thing to do, and I would in fact argue for the complete removal of the ability to transfer questions &lt;strong&gt;except&lt;/strong&gt; for users who have the ability to transfer them back - i.e. you must have over 3000 rep on both ends of the transfer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T09:54:05.223" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T10:23:19.690" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need to know that how much the Adobe Flex and ActionScript is growing and what Adobe Flex technologies standing in the Total Web. And also what market share it has already been captured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T10:23:19.690" ClosedDate="2010-02-23T10:47:58.267" Title="Adobe Flex and it's website projects' share on total web" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40035" CreationDate="2010-02-23T10:26:48.933" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I sometimes abuse&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for the text of footnotes, which is not really needed for any other reason than to make a too long of an answer look shorter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, I'd prefer &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5017/markdown-footnotes&quot;&gt;some Markdown's footnotes extension&lt;/a&gt; over &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;, especially as the semantics of a footnote could (one day) allow for different rendering (like tooltips, or like including links to jump back to where the footnote was referenced, Wikipedia-style, for very long answers...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; Of course, using &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; for the footnote &lt;em&gt;mark&lt;/em&gt; is not abusive, but for footnote &lt;em&gt;text&lt;/em&gt; it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T10:26:48.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-23T10:32:23.493" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://openerp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/254/thumbs/1931078746_b.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Open Source Management Solution - ERP&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132194" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T10:32:23.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T10:32:23.493" />
  <row Id="40301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T11:09:43.527" Score="2" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know stackoverflow can be used with almost every browsers today...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which browser does our moderators suggest to use for stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How much % of users use a particular browser(chrome/Firefox/IE/Safari)....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does our SO Team has a graph representing the above statistics....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T19:46:46.643" ClosedDate="2010-02-23T14:23:02.430" Title="Which Browser for StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;browsers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40301" CreationDate="2010-02-23T11:32:44.027" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/195/browser.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T11:32:44.027" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2010-02-23T11:56:26.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I predict the stackoverflow podcast will push the 3 hour mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really didn't think I would be proved wrong so quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140196" LastEditorUserId="140196" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-27T09:00:24.607" LastActivityDate="2011-01-27T09:00:24.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40301" CreationDate="2010-02-23T12:15:17.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dumped IE for Chrome because SO is SLOW on IE. It's all that fancy-pants client side stuff, especially when hiding/highlighting tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T12:15:17.363" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40301" CreationDate="2010-02-23T12:59:01.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt; for one reason: &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey&lt;/a&gt;.  There are tons of great grease monkey &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/greasemonkey&quot;&gt;scripts&lt;/a&gt; out there for &lt;code&gt;M?S[FOU]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T19:46:46.643" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T19:46:46.643" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:04:20.407" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2015 we can fight over who answers this question with some funny comment about already being 2015, get some upvotes, earning a new &lt;strong&gt;Necromancer&lt;/strong&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T13:04:20.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:06:54.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone on the internet will have over 10K reputation, and the &lt;em&gt;delete wars&lt;/em&gt; will be worse than the &lt;em&gt;close wars&lt;/em&gt; from when you needed only one vote to close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T13:06:54.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40309" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:22:51.977" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else getting a &lt;code&gt;The connection was reset&lt;/code&gt; message intermittently on meta this morning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:48:47.410" ClosedDate="2010-02-26T12:59:03.950" Title="Connection Reset Error on MSO 2010-02-23?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40309" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:25:13.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not me &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T13:25:13.267" />
  <row Id="40311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:31:43.703" Score="5" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ability to make text flow around images would be a nice touch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140234" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:30:44.090" Title="Support align attribute for HTML img tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40301" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:35:48.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct answer: any browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T13:35:48.267" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40345" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:42:59.687" Score="7" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: I only use SO from time to time, so this is only based on a &quot;light&quot; view of it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also, this is not a question about &quot;should we close as a duplicate?&quot;. The answer is obviously yes. This question is more about the feasibility of managing all duplicates, and the implications of that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO generates a lot of traffic. Questions on the front page stay for about 15-30 minutes max, during which most of them get around 3 answers. It is hard to answer a question without checking new questions very often, since they get answers so fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It works well this way; most questions (apart from exotic ones) get correct answers, very fast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions are duplicates, but only a few seem to be &quot;regular&quot; or obvious ones. In most cases, it will take longer for someone to find a duplicate question, and vote for it, than for someone else to give a correct answer in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a question only about Stack Overflow, because the other trilogy sites don't have such a large volume of users. On the other sites, typically Super User, duplicates are found, and closed quite fast, most of the time before an answer falls on them. But this is possible only because of the much smaller volume of users and questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So the question is: are these duplicates a problem which is out of control when these sites are gaining such volume?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it something to really worry about, or does it work fine this way? People can come and get an answer very quickly, without prior searching, just by asking. For most questions, there will always be people to answer. So from the point of view of someone coming to ask, it is not an issue. For obvious reasons, it is also not a problem for people answering, they get reputation this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be an issue from a storage point of view, since clearly duplication means more redundant data. But more importantly, it can be an issue to find an answer without asking a question yourself. With many duplicates, multiple useful answers become distributed over different questions, and it becomes harder to find most of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra question following on from these thoughts: should we be worried that the volume of users is finally pushing the site to be much easier to get duplicate answers from, than to search from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T15:30:00.847" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:02:56.127" Title="Is &quot;closing for duplicates&quot; still relevant/realistic on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5821" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:51:52.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2015, Markdown Editor will support all the html tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T13:51:52.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-02-28T06:40:48.567" />
  <row Id="40315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40313" CreationDate="2010-02-23T13:54:30.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;are these duplicates a problem which is out of control when these sites are gaining such volume?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, duplicates are not out of control, nor is the volume difficult to manage.  We have over 2,500 people that can vote to close for duplicate, and for the most part once one of them finds a dupe, a question is closed very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T13:54:30.633" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T14:53:27.440" Score="27" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have one feature-request with the objective of having duplicate questions with no answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To (try to) avoid people answering duplicate questions, add an alert that says the question has a probable duplicate if it has a close vote as &lt;strong&gt;Exact duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;, asking the answerer to go to the original and answer there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My objective is letting the duplicate question exist for search purposes, but the answers centralized in the &lt;em&gt;root&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T15:43:12.467" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:19:59.820" Title="Add an alert when answering a question that has at least a close vote as duplicate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;closing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40316" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:06:28.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some things to think about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should this information be displayed to users with less than 2000 reputation? Currently you don't see close votes until you reach that threshold. Since I imagine this warning would be most useful to new users, it seems like otherwise you risk excluding the people who need it most, but this would require a change (albeit a small one) in the reputation thresholds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Telling the user to answer the duplicate question might not be the best idea - since it's possible (or even likely) that the answer they were about to give has already been given there. Perhaps something like &quot;consider answering the original&quot; might do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T15:11:29.373" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:11:29.373" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40344" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:23:47.453" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the best practices when editing your own answer (for whatever reason, the question became clearer, a comment made you realize a mistake, you had a new idea, did some testing, etc).  Here are some options&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete the old and now invalid prior answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add a &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;edited&lt;/strong&gt; section along with a &lt;strong&gt;prior&lt;/strong&gt; section&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-edit the answer without any indication it changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Others?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do people think is the clearest way to make a revision to an answer.  Also, does it make sense to add a comment (if there is a comment thread) pointing out you edited the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've engaged in all of these and I still feel uncomfortable about them.  It would be nice if there was a community standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; side-issue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do put an edit section in (as I did here) where should it go -- at the start of the message or at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139921" LastEditorUserId="139921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T16:50:58.497" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:25:08.647" Title="Best Practices when editing your own answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="40319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40316" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:26:15.017" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, but I fail to see a good implementation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, how to simply phrase it so that you convey:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be a duplicate, but might not be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Point them to the (possibly multiple) duplicate(s)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encourage them to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; answer this one if they agree that it's a duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encourage them to review the existing question and add their input&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, even a simple warning might scare some people away from answering it, which would be a negative effect before we have consensus that it actually is a duplicate.  That discouraging message seems a bit heavy handed for only one dupe close (I've already seen a bad dupe vote today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a reason we require 5 votes before concluding that it should be closed.  Adding a preemptive message should be very carefully considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:26:15.017" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40311" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:30:44.090" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;align&lt;/code&gt; attribute &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_IMG.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;is deprecated&lt;/a&gt;, and is not allowed at all in &lt;code&gt;http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd&lt;/code&gt;, which is the DTD which sites in the Stack Overflow family use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that DTD, the allowed attributes for image are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!ATTLIST IMG&#xA;  %attrs;                              -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --&#xA;  src         %URI;          #REQUIRED -- URI of image to embed --&#xA;  alt         %Text;         #REQUIRED -- short description --&#xA;  longdesc    %URI;          #IMPLIED  -- link to long description&#xA;                                          (complements alt) --&#xA;  name        CDATA          #IMPLIED  -- name of image for scripting --&#xA;  height      %Length;       #IMPLIED  -- override height --&#xA;  width       %Length;       #IMPLIED  -- override width --&#xA;  usemap      %URI;          #IMPLIED  -- use client-side image map --&#xA;  ismap       (ismap)        #IMPLIED  -- use server-side image map --&#xA;  &amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'd better use something else if we want to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:30:44.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40322" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:34:00.713" Score="-8" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it a bit annoying which answers get the votes on SO. A practical answer to a practical problem, especially in a niche or relatively advanced topic, gets very few votes no matter how good. An opinion about a general topic gets many more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stand by my top two vote-earning answers, but they definitely reflect this tendency. I think I have written much more deserving and much more useful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - I'd like the ability to transfer votes from one answer to another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Common sense applies, of course - limits based on proportion etc should be included, moderators should be able to reverse my decisions (or delete the transferred votes) and perhaps ban me from doing this in the future if I abuse it, it should only be possible after I cross a certain reputation threshold, and votes should only be transferrable once (no shifting votes around as a quick con to get answers accepted by deception). Maybe there should be a reputation cost as a disincentive to abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But - used appropriately - it's a simple way that contributers who've earned the reputation can use that to highlight the answers they think are most useful, rather than those that attract the attention of the masses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136873" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:34:57.080" Title="Move votes from one answer to another" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40321" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:36:49.880" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No - I chose to mark that answer as useful, you shouldn't get to transfer that opinion on to another question of yours, which I may or may not deem useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more, this approach would open up the system to all kinds of abuse, since it's well known that answers with lots of votes attract more votes, since they get more attention, and there's a tendency towards &quot;all those people can't be wrong, here's a +1 from me&quot;. It'd be all too easy to instantly give yourself 3 upvotes on a question likely to attract a lot of attention, and so get more consequent upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:36:49.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40321" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:37:05.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The score of your answer represents how much the community as a whole thinks of it as interesting and helpful. It's by design that questions that can be useful to an extremely small number of people have a lower score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:37:05.073" />
  <row Id="40324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40321" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:39:42.230" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the paragraph where you explain the possible problems and measures to prevent them, is far larger than the one that explains the benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should tell you something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:39:42.230" />
  <row Id="40325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40313" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:40:41.400" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With many duplicates, multiple useful&#xA;  answers become distributed over&#xA;  different questions, and it becomes&#xA;  harder to find most of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it becomes easier. If 5 people ask 5 questions in completely different ways it's much more likely for user #6 to find at least one of them in the dropdown under the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I agree with you: most of the time giving an answer is faster than finding a duplicate and trying to close it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:40:41.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40321" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:43:32.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone's vote should be equal.  More reputation = more trust in the system, i.e., you can do more things, but your opinion about an answer or question doesn't (and shouldn't) count any more than anyone else's based on your reputation in the system.  Allowing high rep users -- at cost to themselves or not -- to take votes from one answer and apply them to another makes their opinions count more than other users on SO.  It think that would be fundamentally unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:43:32.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:41:20.303" Score="6" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question relating to computer game-design before, and someone hinted such questions are not allowed on SU.  Is there a comparable site QA resource for game development?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T00:46:30.483" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T00:46:30.483" Title="Game-Development questions - where?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40327" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:42:58.663" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have questions about coding computer games you can ask them on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38883" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:51:06.117" />
  <row Id="40329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40327" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:48:37.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Video Game questions aren't allowed on SU, but questions about MAKING games are fair game on SO - there's nothing game-specific about the programming used in games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Game questions aren't allowed here because that would bring forth &quot;Hey, I'm stuck on world 1-1 of mario, how do I jump?&quot;, and that's not why we're here. We're here for real questions not answered by GameFAQs or any other forum on the 'nets :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T15:51:06.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-23T15:52:09.520" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dev.fckeditor.net/wiki/WikiStart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;CKEditor - The Text Editor for the Internet&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/72rfki.png&quot; alt=&quot;CKEditor - The Text Editor for the Internet&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134079" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-05T20:23:59.800" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T20:23:59.800" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T15:52:09.520" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40333" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:13:39.290" Score="3" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that you can answer a question by filling out the &quot;Add An Answer&quot; form and clicking submit, but how do I just reply to the question with another question to ask for more information?  I noticed that other people can do it, but I must be blind or something, I don't see a &quot;reply&quot; button anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Chrome on OS X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:15:05.880" Title="How do you reply to a question on stackoverflow as opposed to adding an answer?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40332" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:14:53.563" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is the Add Comment feature, and you need 50 reputation to do that.  See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;SO FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:15:05.880" />
  <row Id="40334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40332" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:14:54.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try the &quot;Add Comment&quot; link right below the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142934" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:15:05.880" />
  <row Id="40335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40327" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:17:25.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, if you have a programming-related question, StackOverflow is a fine place to ask those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, questions about general game design that &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; involve programming belong elsewhere. There are a few sites in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange network&lt;/a&gt; that would be suitable for asking these questions. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamestruction.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Try this one.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T19:24:43.527" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:24:43.527" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40321" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:34:57.080" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one thing that you aren't taking into consideration: the possible explosion of complexity needed to measure the &quot;true&quot; worth of a post. It has been proposed in the past that  rep where not a fixed number, but inversely proportional to the amount of views of the question, or some other metric, and they all have been shot down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation isn't how much you are worth, or how much you know. It only means how much you have participated and how &quot;well known&quot; you are to &quot;the community&quot;. If you linger in less known tags, you'll be less known by &quot;the community&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:34:57.080" />
  <row Id="40337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40342" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:37:51.490" Score="4" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I occasionally use some of the other &quot;trilogy&quot; sites like SuperUser, but find the themes very distracting. I actually do like the SO theme the best, and since I use that the most, I would prefer having that look on all the other trinity sites. I would request a feature added to your user profile where you could select your CSS theme you prefer for the site you are on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T18:25:58.607" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T21:30:55.483" Title="Use StackOverflow colors on Super User (or any other &quot;trilogy&quot; site)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;color&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40318" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:39:36.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the answer and why I edited it. If it is to correct a grammar error, I put nothing. If I change it to reflect new information, I'll put an &quot;edit: [reason].&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit: typo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134652" LastEditorUserId="134652" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T18:02:16.423" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:02:16.423" />
  <row Id="40340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40337" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:45:23.330" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this can be accomplished via greasemonkey, and I suspect that some browsers may allow you to theme the website with a custom CSS without a greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Jeff and Joel are big on branding and user confusion issues, so I doubt they'll make this a built in feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you prepare to ask a question on SU, you &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; you're not on SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:45:23.330" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40313" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:47:04.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think closing duplicates is fine, but we shouldn't stress about people answering them.  As Koper pointed out (and the logic that's always been touted), it just gives us more ways to find the relevant question in a search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there was more active merging of answers to questions (on real exact duplicates).  I think for a high enough level of rep (15k?) there should be the ability to migrate answers from one question to another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40346/allow-high-rep-users-to-migrate-answers-from-one-question-to-another&quot;&gt;I've put in a feature-request for this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T17:04:05.617" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T17:04:05.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40337" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:47:46.087" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There really shouldn't be any reason why you shouldn't be able choose from any of the various themes.  Done right thematic elements would be localized in their own CSS file and it would simply be a matter of switching which CSS file gets loaded.  It's even possible, using cookies, to do this without requiring any schema mods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the jQuery &lt;a href=&quot;http://jqueryui.com/docs/Theming/ThemeSwitcher&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;theme switcher&lt;/a&gt; widget for ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:47:46.087" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40309" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:48:47.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the aspxerror page a few times this morning.  I prefer the waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:48:47.410" />
  <row Id="40344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40318" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:49:00.203" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally I edit out any irrelevant information, which includes &quot;was, edit&quot; and other time based markers.  In 20 years no one will care that the question changed, and if they're really interested they have the edit history at their fingertips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit the answer so it fits the question at the time you edit, and you'll be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I make exceptions to questions which are obviously discussions, but those are very, very rare on SO, and it really doesn't matter how or if you edit your questions on MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do decide to leave an &quot;edit&quot; section, make sure the most relevant/complete/up-to-date information is listed first, so people interested in the question as it currently stands see your relevant answer before all the previous discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T17:35:56.927" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T17:35:56.927" />
  <row Id="40345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40313" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:50:13.897" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should we be concerned? Yes. Here's an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2283236/how-can-i-achieve-jquery-animation-queuing&quot;&gt;How can I achieve jQuery animation queuing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a fairly common question. I found 3 duplicates within minutes of it being asked, and posted them in comments. Note that the first two links I gave have well over 1000 views, hinting at their popularity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was answered, and not closed. And... The answer is reasonably good - I might even recommend it in the future. But since it's attached to &lt;em&gt;yet another question on the same topic&lt;/em&gt;, it adds still more overhead to the process of finding an answer for anyone who goes looking for one. If the answer had been posted to (or merged into) one of the previous questions, then it could be viewed much more easily by future readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the potential to get completely out of hand... Good answers can get less attention than they might have otherwise, mediocre answers can get accepted, and direct comparisons between alternate solutions become more difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But asking people to &lt;em&gt;not answer questions&lt;/em&gt; is futile. I think Lance has the right idea here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40313/is-closing-for-duplicates-still-relevant-realistic-on-stack-overflow/40341#40341&quot;&gt;we need more merging&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:50:13.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40361" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:51:17.467" Score="43" ViewCount="496" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm adding this feature request to have high-rep users (15k?) to be able to migrate answers from one question to another, so that questions for duplicate answers can be consolidated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there would have to be parameters, and a complete historical record, so that it could be reversed if mistakes were made.  The questions would still be left pointing to the main duplicate (if there were multiple dupes, then there would have to be consolidation of that also).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this would take some work to implement, since a complete interface to handle all the details would be needed, but I think in the long run it would add to the organization and usability of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-01T01:46:17.363" LastActivityDate="2010-07-01T01:46:17.363" Title="Allow high rep users to migrate answers from one question to another" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;merging&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="40347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40318" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:54:49.020" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't have multiple answers that overlap substantially.  Deleteing an old answer and writing a new makes sense if the old is without merit and you do have something different and useful to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I generally write postscripts to answers if the new content is substantial: this is easier to see what is worth reading for those who have seen my old answer already.  Otherwise, I don't worry about putting an edit sentence at the end of the answer: it is clear the answer has been edited, and the edit history is there for inspection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastEditorUserId="140179" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T20:25:08.647" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:25:08.647" />
  <row Id="40348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:54:49.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just an idea... not sure how it would pan out in reality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask that all questions posted in other languages are tagged with the language in question. Then various other users who speak that language can assist in translating it to English, so that the rest of the SO community can have a crack at answering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this would require adding a note in the FAQ (which no one ever reads), and people to monitor tags for languages they speak, but it might work at least in theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T16:54:49.053" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40346" CreationDate="2010-02-23T16:58:20.217" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this could be &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; useful, providing a way to consolidate answers to common questions without the destructiveness currently involved in &lt;em&gt;merging&lt;/em&gt; (the questions would remain as &quot;sign posts&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but there would need to be some ground rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question being migrated from should be closed as a duplicate of the question being migrated to. (seems obvious, but without this it would be chaos!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be a waiting period after the question has been closed before its answers can be migrated. One day should suffice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be some sort of vote involved. I think the same system as is currently used for deletion would suffice: 3 votes to migrate, no voting limit. In instances where multiple destinations are chosen, first question with the majority of the votes is used.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers should be locked and soft-deleted on the original question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Votes, revision history, comments, and ownership should transfer intact.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Accepted answer&quot; status should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; transfer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be useful to have a list of answers pending migration as part of the 10k tools, both for review purposes and to aid in collaborative migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-24T01:40:06.547" LastActivityDate="2010-04-24T01:40:06.547" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40327" CreationDate="2010-02-23T17:06:16.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a Stack Overflow-type site, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://gamedev.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gamedev.net&lt;/a&gt; is a specialized site for the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T17:06:16.783" />
  <row Id="40352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40316" CreationDate="2010-02-23T17:09:48.397" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before the current duplicate-closing system was implemented, many users took the time to edit in the duplicate links &lt;em&gt;manually&lt;/em&gt;. This provided a very visible &quot;heads-up&quot; to other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is discouraged now of course, as such edits will end up causing duplicate duplicate links when the question is finally closed. However, you can still leave &lt;em&gt;comments&lt;/em&gt; - and you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; leave comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also recommend up-voting existing comments that link to the original(s) when you vote to close, as a way of reinforcing the validity of the links...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T17:09:48.397" />
  <row Id="40353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T17:29:18.513" Score="49" ViewCount="1288" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the common phrases, words, abbreviations that are used on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, and Meta Stack Overflow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is meant to be a very quick overview, not an in-depth tutorial.  When considering whether a term ought to be included, please use this test:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New user comes in and posts on day 1. What terminology or jargon are they likely to run into (comments, support, system messages, etc) that cannot be understood from the context without prior experience with the site (i.e. clear only if known). For example: &lt;em&gt;&quot;This is a dupe. Flag a diamond mod to close or migrate to SU.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Huh? Can these instruction be made clear from the glossary? Is it clear for those for whom English is a second language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Please:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the existing answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Insert relevant links to more detailed information on the term/phrase/abbreviation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add only factual information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep it very, very brief, terse, and to the point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Delete your own comments once they become irrelevant&lt;/em&gt; (integrated into the glossary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the &lt;code&gt;Edit Summary&lt;/code&gt; box to note reasons for your edit, not comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Please avoid:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opinion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using abbreviations, terms, and phrases inside a description&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unverified information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uncommon terms, abbreviations, phrases&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Long descriptions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unnecessary detail - link to the relevant FAQ instead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Citations or examples of usage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inside jokes that are not common on all of the trilogy (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta&quot;&gt;see meme thread for those&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Common Internet jargon (i.e., IMHO, TL;DR, RTFM, etc.) unless usage here differs significantly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Recurring discussion:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the experiment to keep meta-discussion in the comments is going well (ie, deleting them once consensus is reached) it is clear that some discussions will be recurring and we'll have to keep a record around so people new to the glossary can understand the consensus already reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add a new answer if you believe a new issue is likely to come up repeatedly.  For instance, discussion about what terms to include, whether the glossary should be broken up to make linking easier, or formatting issues might be best discussed in new answer/comment posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/q/7931&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-03T22:55:21.317" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T14:29:55.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T17:29:18.513" Title="Stack Overflow Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;glossary&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="28" />
  <row Id="40354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40353" CreationDate="2010-02-23T17:29:34.597" Score="31" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;2k User&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Editor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;3k User&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Closer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;10ker, 10k User, 10k Tools&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Refers to users who have surpassed 10,000 reputation which gives them access to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4565/what-facilities-are-there-in-the-moderation-tools&quot;&gt;moderation tools&lt;/a&gt;. While 10k users have access to moderator reports and notifications, generally only system-appointed moderators (♦ Diamond Moderators) can perform many moderator-level functions. These 10k users are still sometimes called &quot;moderators&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Accept Rate&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The percentage of a user's questions which the user has marked an answer as accepted. Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/new-question-asker-features/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;exclusions apply&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Accepted Answer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The answer selected by a question's author as &quot;most helpful&quot;. Accepted answers are marked with a green check mark (&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/vote-accepted-on.png&quot; alt=&quot;green check icon&quot;&gt;) next to the answer. Accepted answers involving a bounty have a yellow outline to the green check. Accepted answers generally appear at the top of answer list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/&quot;&gt;How does accepting an answer work?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Atwood&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Badges&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Part of the Stack Overflow Trilogy reward system. While &quot;reputation&quot; is generally awarded through the voting system, &quot;badges&quot; reward other types of participation, achievements, and behaviors. (See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;list of badges&lt;/a&gt; with descriptions and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17853/how-do-badges-work&quot;&gt;How do “Badges” work?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ban, Suspension&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: penalty box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Bounty&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A rep amount which can be added to the question, which will get awarded to the person whose answer is accepted as the correct answer.  This costs a little reputation, but it will push your post to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;featured tab&lt;/a&gt; for 7 days and visually distinguish it from other posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;CAPTCHA&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A mechanism that prevents &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bots&lt;/a&gt; from participating.  Some human behavior can look robotic to the system (extremely fast edits, for example), and will occasionally trigger the CAPTCHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/captcha&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/captcha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Close, Closed&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question where no new answers are accepted. Community members with more than 3,000 reputation can vote to close a question if, for a variety or reasons, it doesn't fit the site's requirements. Five close votes closes a question. Users may only vote once to close each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Reopen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Closer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community member with 3,000 or more reputation. Has the ability to vote to close questions based on criteria set forth in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comments can be added to a question or answer to communicate information that is not necessarily appropriate for the question or answer itself (asking for clarification, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question or answer that can be edited by any community members having 100 reputation or more. Questions and answers marked CW prevent users from receiving any reputation from upvotes or losing reputation from downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Creative Commons Data Dump&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A database export containing the cc-wiki-licensed data from each of the trilogy sites. The database contains the posts, comments, votes, badges, and user data (“sanitized” to protect privacy by removing all personally identifiable information). Blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Creative Commons License&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The license under which all contributed content is placed.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/05/now-licensed-under-creative-commons/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More details on the SO blog.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;CW&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Community Wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Data Dump&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Creative Commons Data Dump&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Delete, Deleted&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question or answer that has been marked as deleted by a moderator, or voted to be deleted by users with at least 10,000 reputation points. Deleted posts remain visible to moderators and 10k users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Diamond Mod[erator]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Moderator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Dupe, Duplicate&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A question which has been asked before.  Duplicates are discouraged&amp;mdash;ideally all the best answers for a given issue or problem can be found in one question.  Community members with more than 3,000 reputation can vote to close duplicate questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Editor&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Community member with 2,000 or more reputation.  Has the ability to edit any unlocked post on the site, even if they are not community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit War&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is where two or more users continually edit, or rollback a post. This is one of the reasons for a moderator to lock a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;FAQ&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Frequently Asked Questions&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the &quot;faq&quot; generally refers to the specific &quot;faq document&quot; linked at the top of each site, &quot;faq&quot; can also refer to any meta post linked with the moderator tag &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/faq&quot;&gt;[faq]&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-do-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;The Official FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a community-moderated post which attempts to annotate the features and behaviors on the trilogy sites in one central location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Favorites&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A list of questions that you can bookmark by clicking the star icon (&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/img/vote-favorite-off.png&quot; alt=&quot;star icon&quot;&gt;) underneath the voting controls for each question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Favorite Tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Setting a tag as favorite cause all questions with these tags to be highlighted a different color in your questions lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Formerly called &quot;Interesting tag&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Flags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Posts with serious problems can be flagged for moderator attention, being offensive, or containing spam.  Any post receiving six offensive or spam flags within a two-day period is automatically deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You generally only flag for moderator attention to ask moderators to do something that you don't have the ability to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Flair&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Refers to a small banner associated with a user's account, displaying their user name, reputation, badge count, and gravatar. Generally seen next to the authorship of a post but can also be embedded in an external website as a token of your membership and participation on any of the trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/nowearn-valuable-flair/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Now Earn Valuable Flair!&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Gravatar&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gravatar (an abbreviation for globally recognized avatar) is a service for providing globally-unique avatars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ignored Tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tags that you specify as ignored tags cause all questions with these tags to be filtered out of your questions list, either by deemphasizing them or (at your option) removing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; is a co-founder of Stack Overflow Internet Services, inc., which is the company that runs Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User and other Q&amp;amp;A sites in the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; is a co-founder of Stack Overflow Internet Services, inc., which is the company that runs Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User and other Q&amp;amp;A sites in the Stack Exchange network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;Chuck Norris&lt;/a&gt; of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Locked&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A moderator can &quot;lock&quot; a post where it can no longer be edited, voted or commented upon, closed or re-opened. If a question is locked, new answers can still be added to that question (provided it has not been closed), and any of the (unlocked) answers can still be edited and voted upon. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22228/what-is-a-locked-question-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a “Locked” question? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Markdown&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Markdown is the text format used to style posts. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;full reference&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Merge&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although duplicate questions are generally closed, sometimes a moderator will merge the answers from the duplicate question into the original question, and delete the duplicate.  The original question will now contain both the original answers, and the new answers from the duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Meta&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Refers to any posts that wish to discuss the operation or functionality of the site. The term &quot;meta&quot; also refers to the support site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, which was set up to handle technical support, feature requests, and &quot;meta&quot; discussions for the Stack Overflow trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Migration&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Occurs when a question is deemed more appropriate for one of the other sites in the StackOverflow Trilogy, and five users vote to close the question as &quot;Belongs on [Other Site]&quot;. The question (and all of its answers) are copied to the new site, and the original question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Moderator&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A Stack Overflow user that has been granted additional powers to oversee a site on the Trilogy. They can merge questions, do mass-re-tagging, and have other fun powers.  They are distinguishable by the ♦ after their names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;MSO&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Meta Stack Overflow website (this site).  A place to discuss Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User.  Specifically intended to report bugs, request features, and discuss moderation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Off-topic&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Usually to describe a question that is deemed outside the boundaries of a particular Stack Exchange network site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;OP&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Original Poster. A quick way to point at the person who wrote the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;OT&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;OpenID&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The principal login mechanism chosen for the Trilogy; a single user name and password allows you to log in to any &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OpenID&lt;/a&gt;-enabled site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Penalty Box&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When moderators determine that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a user's actions are detrimental to the site&lt;/a&gt; they may suspend that user for a period of time. During this time &quot;in the penalty box&quot; the user will not be able to post questions or answers, and their reputation will be locked at 1 until the suspension expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Post&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Refers to either a question or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Preferences, Prefs&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A small number of user-specific settings, such as &lt;em&gt;Interesting Tags, Ignored Tags, Hide Questions for Ignored Tags,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Notify Me via Email of Activity on My Questions and Answers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Profile&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A summary of a user's activity on the site.  See here for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood's profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Recalc&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Reputation Recalculation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;ReCAPTCHA&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name of the service used to implement CAPTCHA on Stack Overflow. See CAPTCHA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Recursion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can lead to a Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Recursion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reopen&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Closed questions can be reopened if five users with 3000 rep or more vote to reopen it. New answers can the be posted to the reopened question. Each user may cast only one reopen vote per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Close&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reputation, Rep&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A user's &quot;reputation&quot; is the total &lt;em&gt;score&lt;/em&gt; achieved by a user, measuring their level of contribution to the site. Generally, reputation points are gained (or deducted) when other users vote on your posts. As you gain more reputation, the system allows you to access more functionality and community-moderation abilities which are not available to lower-reputation users. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;How does “Reputation” work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reputation Cap, Rep Cap&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can earn up to 200 reputation per day, but no more.  Reputation earned from accepted answers is exempt from this cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Reputation Recalculation, Rep Recalc&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The process where a moderator can cause a user's reputation to be &quot;recalculated&quot; from the database record. Certain activities do not immediately change a user's reputation (i.e. deleting a post). A &quot;rep recalc&quot; can be performed to adjust a users reputation based on the current posts and votes in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Revision History&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A detailed accounting of all changes made by all users to a question or answer. The revision history can be accessed by clicking on the &quot;Edited [Date]&quot; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They take the form of &lt;code&gt;http://{site}/posts/{post-id}/revisions&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rollback&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Occurs when a user edits a question, and selects one of the older edits from the revision history to paste back into the question, effectively undoing any edits made subsequent to the selected revision. The complete edit history is still preserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Score&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total amount of upvotes, minus total number of downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SE&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SEI&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Exchange, Inc. &amp;mdash; the company (organisation). SEI is often erroneously used instead of SE to refer to the network of Q&amp;amp;A websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Server Fault&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The trilogy website located at &lt;a href=&quot;http://ServerFault.com&quot;&gt;http://ServerFault.com&lt;/a&gt;. Server Fault is for system administrators and IT professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SF&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Server Fault&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SO&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Stack Overflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Sock Puppet, Sock Puppet Account&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A duplicate account created by a user to perform activities they cannot perform with their main account. Examples include casting additional votes, voting on their own posts, or other activities prohibited or discouraged on the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Voter Fraud&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SOFU, S[OFU], S[O|F|U]&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User. The collection of sites in the most common definition of &quot;The Stack Overflow Trilogy.&quot; The acronym also occasionally includes an M for Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Spam&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A post in which the primary purpose of the post is to promote a product or service, not to participate in a meaningful way in the question/answer process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Spolsky&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Joel Spolsky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow refers to the programming Q&amp;amp;A site at &lt;a href=&quot;http://StackOverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://StackOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;. In functional discussions, &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; is often used to refer to the engine powering any of the trilogy sites, especially &lt;a href=&quot;http://StackOverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ServerFault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://SuperUser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Q&amp;amp;A site network that Stack Overflow belongs to. The current version, Stack Exchange 2.0, consists of several community-driven sites operated by Stack Overflow Internet Services that cover a variety of topics. A previous, now-defunct version, Stack Exchange 1.0, was a commercial, hosted platform built on the Stack Overflow engine which allowed individuals to operate independent Stack Overflow-like sites. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Status Tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some tags on Meta, denoted by their red color, can only be added to a question by a moderator. These tags are reserved for the purpose of giving a feature request or bug an official status from the development team. You may find that some of these tags have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37825/what-is-a-bad-feature-of-stack-overflow/37832#37832&quot;&gt;multiple meanings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/status-~&quot;&gt;Questions marked with status tags.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Examples: [status-by-design] [status-completed] [status-declined]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;SU&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Super User&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Super User&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The trilogy website located at &lt;a href=&quot;http://SuperUser.com&quot;&gt;http://SuperUser.com&lt;/a&gt;. Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tags&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Label words placed on each question by the OP.  Questions are grouped by tags. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Team&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow development team, which can be reached at team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Trilogy&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User. The collection of sites in &quot;The Stack Overflow Trilogy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has also been used to refer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;SO/SF/MSO only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;SOFU + MSO only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the list of all Stack Exchange network sites at any given time, including Area 51, any SE 2.0 sites, careers and apps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;User Card&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name of the block after a post or comment that contains the username, gravatar, reputation, and badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Views&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The number of unique visitors to a question or user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Vote[r] Fraud&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Suspicious voting patterns often related to multiple accounts owned by a single user. Can also refer to casting down votes as revenge. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Sock Puppet Accounts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Voting&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clicking the up arrow next to a question or answer registers an upvote, and awards 10 rep to the author. Clicking the down arrow registers a downvote. For non-wiki posts, downvoting subtracts 2 rep from the author and 1 rep from the downvoter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Wiki&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See: Community Wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="145948" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-01T14:29:55.973" LastActivityDate="2011-07-01T14:29:55.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T17:29:34.597" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="40355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40217" CreationDate="2010-02-23T17:38:30.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I was observed on SO by my current employers when they were in the hiring process. Several of my teammates have SO accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When acting under your real name, you implicitly stand by what you have to say. You take responsibility for your words. I think that's quite worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130556" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T17:38:30.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T17:38:30.900" />
  <row Id="40356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37894" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:01:44.347" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to see this so links to long posts can go directly to the relevant bit.  Especially useful for the FAQ, Glossary, and those posts with lots of general information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A simple implementation would be to automatically convert titles and headings into named anchors.  If you want to have links inside your post, just use a heading.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This then wouldn't require odd formatting, a special case, and would still produce readable markdown (one of the main features of markdown is that markdown source is human readable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Here's the title anchor (Title)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;This would be one anchor (Heading 1)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;This would be another anchor (Heading 2)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Here's the third anchor (Heading 3)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;And here's the fourth anchor (Heading 4)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fourth anchor is nearly the same size, weight, emphasis and font as normal text, so one can 'hide' anchors in the text if they don't want a noticeable heading.  It still has to be on its own line, but it's better than nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, links to them would be very nice - they'd have the heading in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parser may need to replace the spaces with underscores &lt;code&gt;_&lt;/code&gt;, remove invalid characters and add a monotonic number (so the page doesn't end up with multiple anchors of the same name) but overall it appears to be a relatively easy thing to implement, and will, as a bonus, be backwards compatible with existing markdown files - converting any existing headings into anchors simply by re-parsing them into HTML.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T18:18:43.003" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:18:43.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-27T21:49:24.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40313" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:02:56.127" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a potentially undesirable result of the reputation system. Would it be possible to add a new feature to the reputation system and answer system where a user could choose to answer a question OR below the text box with an answer, provide the link to a duplicate question. Then if that &quot;answer&quot; get's upvoted, they would receive 15 instead of 10 reputation points. This would theoretically encourage regular users to help moderate duplicates more carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a shot in the dark. I find SO an extremely fascinating psychology case in results based on different kinds of encouragement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:02:56.127" />
  <row Id="40358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40359" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:11:35.507" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to write an file-hosting website like Rapidshare. Can I ask requirements for the subject? It is programming related in the end and I don't wanna hit an iceberg after I start coding. Yet I don't know if it would be closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: For people who think it would be advertising and stuff. It's not a site I plan to launch. It's a school project. I just wanna know how I should define the scope. &#xA;The ones I have thought so far:&#xA;-Files should be in a non-shared folder&#xA;-They probably should have their own folders&#xA;-Server has to manage processes that transmit data to user&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm new to web programming. I just wanna have a basic guideline&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142583" LastEditorUserId="142583" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T18:49:59.850" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T15:44:46.483" Title="Asking for requirements suggestions in stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40358" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:13:39.093" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no, that's more of a marketing thing and too close advertising your own product/site.  Programming / code questions you have while writing the site, that's different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Have a look at this question on SO for tips on what technical details to include when building a new site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What should a developer know before building a public web site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T15:44:46.483" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T15:44:46.483" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40358" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:21:43.200" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think requirements analysis is fine fodder for a programming site, we'd have much better programs out there with more up-front thought.  Just make sure you're clearly asking for &lt;strong&gt;Technical&lt;/strong&gt; Requirements, like &quot;What method would I use in ASP.net to read a file in?&quot; (made up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is not the place for User Requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T18:33:37.700" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:33:37.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40346" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:40:07.173" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to propose a different solution. Instead of merging the questions one could create question pools. All questions are linked to all duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All questions are equal, there's no &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question with the highest vote gets shown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There should be links to the alternative questions like there is now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All the answers of the questions should be shown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accepted answer should be the one of the current shown question, if the user decides to view the duplicates all answers should be shown, but the accepted answer should be the one the author of the duplicate has specified.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please feel free to expand/improve this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132324" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:40:07.173" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T18:40:07.173" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8162" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:44:10.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guys,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   Just give them a chance.. I often see questions are not well formed getting downvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvoting is important, but downvoting beginners (newbies) will result in stopping them from using Stack Overflow. Believe it or not, it's real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be better to have a tag, or something, to mark it as a newbie question. So that they (or someone else who can understand) can have a chance to edit the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have posted a similar question &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39872/how-do-the-re-open-close-notifications-work&quot;&gt;How do the re-open &amp;amp; close notifications work?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on  Meta to ask for SO to notify the closers when the question is edited. This could be done if Jeff happened to see that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T19:48:08.813" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:48:08.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39872" CreationDate="2010-02-23T18:58:34.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to know if the people who voted to close will be notified of my edits and my reopen vote, so that they can vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, notifications are never sent to people who vote.  Whether it's upvoting, downvoting, flagging, voting to close or open, voting does not provide a feedback loop to the voters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are 2,500 people that can vote to open or close, and once you edit the question it will likely be seen by enough people to open it, especially if you make a comment saying, &quot;I edited it, and its should be ok - please vote to re-open&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you need additional attention, a message here (meta) can be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T18:58:34.903" />
  <row Id="40364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:27:40.727" Score="-1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone that has greatly benefited from using SO, I'd love to see a feature for user testimonials where the user can speak to any particular success that the site has enabled them to acheive.  &lt;strong&gt;Question: Are there any plans to add user testimonials?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143737" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:48:20.903" Title="Adding User Testimonials" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="40365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40364" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:30:06.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/i-heart-stack-overflow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;added to the blog&lt;/a&gt;, you can always email team@stackoverflow.com and tell them your story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:30:06.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40364" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:38:52.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean adding them to SO pages in some way, then I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no need to tell people how awesome something is if it really is awesome -- it's self-evident.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Testimonials are usually used when the barrier to entry of something is moderate to high (which is not the case here).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When it comes to what appears on pages, the trilogy sites are pretty focused on answering questions, not on the consequences (good or bad) of those questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that being said, I think you have an interesting idea, but I don't think there's any need to put it on SO pages. As mentioned, e-mailing the SO team for them to share in their blog, or elsewhere, is probably the most appropriate -- they are the ones who deserve the praise anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:38:52.950" />
  <row Id="40367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40364" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:48:20.903" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How awesome is a service if customers are begging you to add a customer testimonial page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea - I think it may be especially valuable now that they are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;looking for funding&lt;/a&gt;.  However, they may not be interested in publishing them on the site itself, so sending your testimonial to team@stackoverflow.com is still your best bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:48:20.903" />
  <row Id="40368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40369" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:49:16.767" Score="5" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SO, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=using&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;using tag&lt;/a&gt; seems to be used for two different things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Discussing the &lt;code&gt;using&lt;/code&gt; keyword in C# and a few other related issues&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not knowing what the tag field is for - eg a question tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339799/disabling-the-validation-in-struts2-and-use-my-own-customized-validation&quot;&gt;validation using struts2&lt;/a&gt;, another example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/850748/printing-list-of-strings-using-unwords-in-haskell&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second usage of the using tag seems to be less than useful.  Should I go in and remove the offending tag in case 2, or am I nitpicking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134374" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-15T22:40:49.553" LastActivityDate="2010-07-15T22:40:49.553" Title="Using tag on SO - Overloaded meanings" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ambiguous-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40368" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:51:39.307" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I go in and remove the offending tag in case 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;am I nitpicking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nits are annoying, nasty creatures that are to be dealt with harshly.  So yes, and it's a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:51:39.307" />
  <row Id="40370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40368" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:53:16.930" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a big fan of the verb using as a tag. That is not really what tags are for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, overloaded tag meanings have not caused any trouble in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least until a vendor associated with only one of the meaning sponsors the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:53:16.930" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40368" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:54:54.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you should, and while you are at it, if you had the rep, put the text into shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T19:54:54.090" />
  <row Id="40373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40327" CreationDate="2010-02-23T19:59:18.293" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many game topics are closely related to visual effects production. Similar software is used, similar programming challenges etc. Depending on the nature of the question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vfxoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vfxoverflow&lt;/a&gt; may help. (well I would say that ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:05:05.597" />
  <row Id="40374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40368" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:12:23.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anytime you see that the OP doesn't understand tags (random sentence entered as tags), then please fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The help about tags talks about &quot;Combine multiple words into single-words&quot;, but there are clearly some non English-speakers who don't know what that means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:12:23.633" />
  <row Id="40375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1483" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:13:20.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also suggest for people wanting to provide value, but also wanting to feel rewarded for that service, that instead of trolling the home page, that they also go through the Unanswered Question list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of questions out there that need answers, that don't have them. Of course, many of those are non-trivial in that you might need to do a bit of research yourself, or its in an area where you don't have the answer at your immediate fingertips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, most questions there are past the &quot;John Skeet&quot; filter... he either missed them, or decided not to answer... so have at it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:13:20.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-23T20:13:20.963" />
  <row Id="40376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:18:20.610" Score="4" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have answered a couple of questions that then got closed as duplicate of a previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In almost all of those cases I didn't see the original question come across Stack Overflow so I didn't add my answer then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I have added an answer to the now &quot;duplicate&quot; question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will my answer be merged into the original question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is my answer able to be found by someone if it isn't merged?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should I have to copy my answer to the original question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143778" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T20:22:55.857" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T08:00:01.590" Title="Does closing as duplicate lose new/better answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="40377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40376" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:19:52.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;will my answer be merged into the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes. If you want it to be, flag it for moderation attention and ask for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is my answer able to be found by someone if it isn't merged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;should I have to copy my answer to the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:19:52.433" />
  <row Id="40378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:27:05.350" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to be a normal human woman, but wrote one too many bad pieces of code, and was cursed to live out my life as a tabby cat by the Egyptian cat-god Bast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kZREEb7YA8E/RiMELKK435I/AAAAAAAAAVk/ZWzdGez2Dsw/s320/MolechFlame.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;cat worship&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T15:54:03.657" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:54:03.657" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39827" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:34:58.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps what the asker is really getting at is a need for a StackExchange based site for dating... for geeks? GeekMatch.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:34:58.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15703" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:35:42.400" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find the moderators on each site's about page near the bottom (sorry, no anchor so no direct link):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/about&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/about&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, all of the moderators at the above sites are moderators here at meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:35:42.400" />
  <row Id="40381" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:43:38.547" Score="2" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33459/can-we-have-a-longer-list-of-close-nominated-questions-in-the-toolsclose-page&quot;&gt;Can we have a longer list of close nominated questions in the tools:close page?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list with questions with the most close votes in the tools pages for users with &gt;10k reputation is currently limited to 15 entries. With the masses of questions asked each day, a question usually needs at least three close votes to show up on this list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it takes a few minutes for a question to collect it's first close vote, for example for being a duplicate, chances fall rapidly that it will actually be closed. If the question goes &quot;out of the spot light&quot; (which can happen very fast) without collecting three close votes it is no longer discoverable that this question should be closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of questions with &quot;Most close votes&quot; should be longer (lets say 50 entries), so that people can get a better overview of questions that might need to be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T01:42:02.533" ClosedDate="2010-02-23T21:38:11.600" Title="Make the &quot;Most close votes&quot; list longer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40376" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:46:14.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Will my answer be merged into the original question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you or someone else asks for that to be done, and a moderator agrees. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Is my answer able to be found by someone if it isn't merged?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the question is &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt;, it will still be visible and your answer will still be visible on it. Whether or not it is actually &lt;em&gt;seen&lt;/em&gt; will depend on future searches and the habits of those searching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Should I have to copy my answer to the original question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to, but you might &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to, especially if you've provided an answer that hasn't already been posted to the original, or improves in some way on the answers posted there. Generally, you should delete the answer on the closed question after re-posting it on the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also consider voting for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40346/allow-high-rep-users-to-migrate-answers-from-one-question-to-another&quot;&gt;this suggestion&lt;/a&gt;, which proposes a means of cleanly moving answers from one question to another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:46:14.360" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40376" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:54:50.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I have to copy my answer to the original question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original question doesn't have an answer similar to yours, then yes, you should consider adding your answer to the correct question, and deleting your answer from the closed question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to though.  You can also ask a moderator (flag for moderator attention) to merge the questions, but since you can do it yourself there's little reason to cause them more work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the original question already has an answer similar to yours, comment on it with your particular insights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:54:50.177" />
  <row Id="40384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40381" CreationDate="2010-02-23T20:57:21.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternately a way given to sort them so you can look at the questions with only one close vote and edit/comment/vote on them as needed to speed up the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the site is only going to get bigger.  Even if it's extended to 50 (still an arbitrary number) eventually it's going to overwhelm the list again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T20:57:21.047" />
  <row Id="40386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40337" CreationDate="2010-02-23T21:30:55.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want a Greasemonkey script to do this, look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5353/want-to-browse-meta-with-the-upcoming-superuser-stylesheet-logo&quot;&gt;this post by Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt;. Just before SU launched, he wrote that script to view MSO using the SU CSS. If you're a little familiar with Javascript you can easily modify it to view S[FU] using the SO color scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T21:30:55.483" />
  <row Id="40387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40388" CreationDate="2010-02-23T22:30:15.443" Score="1" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2322054/what-kind-of-application-would-benefit-from-being-written-in-f-opposed-to-the-mo&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt;, was closed for being subjective/argumentative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw potential in the question and tried to re-word it to remove the subjectiveness, but unfortunately by that point the question already had several close votes, and it was quickly shut down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as it happens, I (and others) have since uncovered duplicates that pretty much answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The organisational part of my brain is telling me that this question is now incorrectly classified. Personally, I would like to see it reclassified and closed as &quot;exact duplicate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible? Can mods do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, perhaps it doesn't matter, the dupes are listed in the comments, so it doesn't really make much difference)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-23T22:40:28.933" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T00:38:42.260" Title="Is it possible to change a close reason after a question has been closed. (And would you want to)?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40387" CreationDate="2010-02-23T22:39:58.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way is to reopen it, and then close it again. A mod will gladly do it for you, since moderator votes are binding and don't require other 4 people to agree, so they can re-open and re-close in a matter of seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flag it, and ask for the reason to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T22:39:58.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40391" CreationDate="2010-02-23T22:55:35.173" Score="10" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you do when you want to ask a question, but find an exact duplicate that doesn't actually have a useful answer? This has happened to me multiple times in the past, so I figure it probably happens to others as well and is therefore worthy of discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a recent example: I wanted to find an answer of mine that I'd deleted on SO, so I searched meta to see if this was possible. I found that someone had &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2645/show-all-of-my-question-answers-to-me-even-if-they-are-deleted-closed&quot;&gt;asked the same question in July last year&lt;/a&gt;, but it doesn't have any (real/useful) answers. Now, in this case the real &quot;answer&quot; is probably just &quot;you can't&quot;, but it's also entirely possible that things have changed since the question was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do I go about getting an answer to my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few obvious options are (with associated problems):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bump the old question by editing it (or its tags)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not possible for low rep users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;creates revision noise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bump the old question by adding an answer&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;creates unnecessary noise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just ask the duplicate question&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more noise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;duplicate will probably just be closed anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1409/how-about-making-it-possible-to-set-up-bounty-on-someone-elses-question&quot;&gt;This suggestion to create bounties on other people's questions&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;been [status-planned] since July, so may never actually be possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;your question may not be so burning that you want to create a bounty (especially for a low rep user), but that doesn't mean the question has no value&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&amp;amp; of course I'm sure someone will close this as a duplicate of an old, stale, unanswered question just for the beautiful irony (I did search, but didn't find anything).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T23:01:51.213" Title="What to do when your question has an old, stale, unanswered duplicate?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40389" CreationDate="2010-02-23T23:01:51.213" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly consider why the old one hasn't been answered (is it badly written, is it unanswerable, is it in the wrong place, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask your question, making sure you avoid the mistakes the old one made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make a note of the old question on your new one, (and explain why any answers that the old one has are no good to you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If appropriate (and if you have enough rep), vote to close the old one as a duplicate of your new one, and add a comment on the old one stating what you have done with a link to your new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2010-02-23T23:01:51.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40387" CreationDate="2010-02-24T00:38:42.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just edit in a &quot;Possible Duplicates&quot; section containing the links. This adds the useful information about duplicates to the question - that it was closed by a differing reason isn't really all that relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T00:38:42.260" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T00:58:44.230" Score="0" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking for a really good jQuery modal dialog plugin. I really like the one used here, so was just wondering what it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T01:51:38.180" Title="What plug-in is StackOverflow using for their modal dialogs?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40393" CreationDate="2010-02-24T01:37:15.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the code that causes the notification to appear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;        var msgArray = [{&quot;id&quot;:1393859,&quot;messageTypeId&quot;:2,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;You have 1 new comment. See your \u003ca href=\&quot;/users/recent/2915/2010-02-23/2010-02-24?tab=responses\&quot;\u003eresponses\u003c/a\u003e.&quot;,&quot;userId&quot;:2915,&quot;showProfile&quot;:false}];&#xA;        $(function() { notify.showMessages(msgArray); });&#xA;    &amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here are the scripts executed/loaded immediately prior to the above code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;    &#xA;&amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/js/master.js?v=6180&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&amp;gt;var imagePath = 'http://sstatic.net/so/img/';&amp;lt;/script&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll have to do a little more digging, but perhaps this will get you started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/770038/best-ways-to-display-notifications-with-jquery/770057#770057&quot;&gt;find another similar solution on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notify function simply inserts an html table.  It's located in the master.js script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var notify = function() {&#xA;   var d = false;&#xA;   var e = 0;&#xA;   var c =- 1;&#xA;   var g = &quot;m&quot;;&#xA;   var a = function(i) {&#xA;      if(!d) {&#xA;         $(&quot;#notify-container&quot;).append('&amp;lt;table id=&quot;notify-table&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/table&amp;gt;');&#xA;         d = true}&#xA;      var h = &quot;&amp;lt;tr&quot; + (i.messageTypeId ? ' id=&quot;notify-' + i.messageTypeId + '&quot;':&quot;&quot;);&#xA;      h += ' class=&quot;notify&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td class=&quot;notify&quot;&amp;gt;' + i.text;&#xA;      if(i.showProfile) {&#xA;         var j = escape(&quot;/users/&quot; + i.userId);&#xA;         h += ' See your &amp;lt;a href=&quot;/messages/mark-as-read?messagetypeid=' + i.messageTypeId + &quot;&amp;amp;returnurl=&quot; + escape(j) + '&quot;&amp;gt;profile&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.'}&#xA;      h += '&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;td class=&quot;notify-close&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a title=&quot;dismiss this notification&quot; onclick=&quot;notify.close(';&#xA;      h += (i.messageTypeId ? i.messageTypeId : &quot;&quot;) + ')&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;amp;times;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tr&amp;gt;';&#xA;      $(&quot;#notify-table&quot;).append(h)};&#xA;   var b = function(h) {&#xA;      $.cookie(g, (h ? h : &quot;0&quot;), {&#xA;         expires : 90, path : &quot;/&quot;}&#xA;      )};&#xA;   var f = function() {&#xA;      var h = parseInt($.cookie(g));&#xA;      if(isNaN(h)) {&#xA;         h = 0}&#xA;      if(h &amp;lt; 5) {&#xA;         $(&quot;.module.newuser&quot;).show();&#xA;         b(++h)}&#xA;      };&#xA;   return {&#xA;      showFirstTime : function() {&#xA;         if($.cookie(g)) {&#xA;            f()}&#xA;         else {&#xA;            $(&quot;.module.newuser&quot;).show();&#xA;            $(&quot;body&quot;).css(&quot;margin-top&quot;, &quot;2.5em&quot;);&#xA;            a( {&#xA;               messageTypeId : c, text : 'First time here? Check out the &amp;lt;a onclick=&quot;notify.closeFirstTime()&quot;&amp;gt;FAQ&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;!'}&#xA;            );&#xA;            $(&quot;.notify&quot;).fadeIn(&quot;slow&quot;)}&#xA;         }&#xA;      , showMessages : function(h) {&#xA;         for(var j = 0; j &amp;lt; h.length; j++) {&#xA;            a(h[j])}&#xA;         $(&quot;.notify&quot;).fadeIn(&quot;slow&quot;);&#xA;         e = h.length}&#xA;      , show : function(h) {&#xA;         $(&quot;body&quot;).css(&quot;margin-top&quot;, &quot;2.5em&quot;);&#xA;         a( {&#xA;            text : h}&#xA;         );&#xA;         $(&quot;.notify&quot;).fadeIn(&quot;slow&quot;)}&#xA;      , close : function(h) {&#xA;         var j;&#xA;         var i = 0;&#xA;         if(h &amp;amp;&amp;amp; h != c) {&#xA;            $.post(&quot;/messages/mark-as-read&quot;, {&#xA;               messagetypeid : h}&#xA;            );&#xA;            j = $(&quot;#notify-&quot; + h);&#xA;            if(e &amp;gt; 1) {&#xA;               i = parseInt($(&quot;body&quot;).css(&quot;margin-top&quot;).match(/\d+/));&#xA;               i = i - (i / e)}&#xA;            }&#xA;         else {&#xA;            if(h &amp;amp;&amp;amp; h == c) {&#xA;               b()}&#xA;            j = $(&quot;.notify&quot;)}&#xA;         j.children(&quot;td&quot;).css(&quot;border-bottom&quot;, &quot;none&quot;).end().fadeOut(&quot;fast&quot;, function() {&#xA;            $(&quot;body&quot;).css(&quot;margin-top&quot;, i + &quot;px&quot;); j.remove()}&#xA;         )}&#xA;      , closeFirstTime : function() {&#xA;         b();&#xA;         document.location = &quot;/faq&quot;}&#xA;      }&#xA;   }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T01:51:38.180" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T01:51:38.180" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40292" CreationDate="2010-02-24T02:06:43.330" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been rejected several times and in several ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my proposal ( now that I read it again it does look confusing ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3774/add-meta-tag-to-support-internationalization&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3774/add-meta-tag-to-support-internationalization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in summary is: &quot;Allow &lt;strong&gt;content&lt;/strong&gt; in any language, and let the user filter like if it was a tag. Default language is English&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way I may see Spanish and English content, but not Japanese or Russian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well that was rejected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff summarized the reasons here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically ( and in my own words ) the reasons are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;English is the lingua franca of programming. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you want to ask in other language, go somewhere else. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a shame, but that's the current state. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that eventually that change. As for now, just forget it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T02:06:43.330" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T04:49:54.893" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I created my account two months ago on stack overflow using my gmail account &lt;code&gt;web...@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt;. At that time I was user number 233679.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I login after three weeks gap to my same account using my same gmail account (&lt;code&gt;web...@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt;), I found myself as a new user on stack overflow with a new user number (276956) with no questions and with only 1 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone tell me that what happened and what is wrong with my account? How can I get my old account back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T10:28:08.427" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T12:00:03.043" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T07:13:22.613" Title="Duplicate account is created with one email (open id). I have lost my account. What happened?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40397" CreationDate="2010-02-24T04:54:24.323" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com with all the information you have provided here and they will merge your two accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T04:54:24.323" />
  <row Id="40399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40402" CreationDate="2010-02-24T05:26:43.650" Score="10" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are there two ways to &quot;like&quot; a question? Favorite and upvote. What's the difference? When should I do one and when the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131235" LastActivityDate="2011-01-16T15:18:16.440" Title="Questions: favorite vs. upvote" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40399" CreationDate="2010-02-24T05:29:17.483" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Favoriting a question makes it show up in your list of favorites on your user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvoting a question simply gives the author rep/chance to earn a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T05:29:17.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40399" CreationDate="2010-02-24T05:30:01.833" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You upvote a question/answer because it's a good question/answer. This &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; gives the author reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You favorite a question because you want to be able to find it again (maybe you have the same question). You can find your favorite questions by going to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131235?tab=favorites#tab-top&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/131235?tab=favorites#tab-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T05:56:14.917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T05:56:14.917" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40399" CreationDate="2010-02-24T05:38:02.520" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Favorite is like bookmarking, usually for post which you find useful for future references. Could be something entertaining or something so bad that you want to remind yourself not to commit the same mistake. :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvoting is a positive acknowledgement for a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T05:38:02.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43115" CreationDate="2010-02-24T06:19:21.787" Score="14" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my company, we copy the CV into a meeting request for the interviewer to read. I can't find a &quot;save as PDF&quot; or &quot;print&quot; option, so I save the CV as a web page and attach that to the meeting request, but it looks pretty ugly when the interviewer looks at it (I assume the CSS is lost for one thing). A PDF export option that looks nice would be very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use both IE8 and Firefox 3 and neither looks very nice when saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137103" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T03:35:48.490" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:30:23.900" Title="Careers: CVs ugly when saved or printed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40403" CreationDate="2010-02-24T06:27:21.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What browser? That is the one responsible of translating the layout for printing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;code&gt;media=&quot;print&quot;&lt;/code&gt; CSS would be welcomed anyway (I see none), and would require less work than a PDF export.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T06:27:21.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T06:41:22.090" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am running a long-term recruitment campaign where we want to get as many good people who match our criteria as we can. So I want to look daily for new candidates who match given search terms (either because they just joined, or because they changed their profiles). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful to be able to register one or more searches and get notified daily about any new matches. Currently I just run the search daily and check the list against those I've seen before, which is pretty clunky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine some slimy recruiter types using this to spam lots of people without regard to their qualifications. (I just want to read the CVs and get in touch with the small percentage who might really be suitable.) Some kind of vetting or filtering might help with this (maybe based on length and type of usage, or verified by a human at Fog Creek).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; pay more for such a service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137103" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T06:41:22.090" Title="Careers: monitor search terms and notify about new matches" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" />
  <row Id="40408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T07:21:00.730" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38544/stack-overflow-notifier-chrome-extension&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Notifier Chrome Extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37731/stack-overflow-chrome-extension&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Chrome Extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37380/google-chrome-sofu-aggregator-extension&quot;&gt;Google Chrome SOFU aggregator extension&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus far used Stack Overflow reputation display add-on in Mozilla Firefox. Is the same available in Google Chrome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T08:24:31.757" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T08:24:31.757" ClosedDate="2010-02-24T17:58:19.910" Title="Stack Overflow reputation addon for Google Chrome" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;addon&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40376" CreationDate="2010-02-24T08:00:01.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there need to be a way to see all questions that are duplicates of a given question, so you can move both ways along the links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T08:00:01.590" />
  <row Id="40410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40408" CreationDate="2010-02-24T08:18:11.630" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38544/stack-overflow-notifier-chrome-extension&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Notifier Chrome Extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37731/stackoverflow-chrome-extension&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Chrome Extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37380/google-chrome-sofu-aggregator-extension&quot;&gt;Google Chrome SOFU aggregator extension&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T08:18:11.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T08:26:03.800" Score="-4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;to avoid comments like the sixth one on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2319849/how-can-i-convert-a-text-file-outline-list-into-a-recursive-collection-of-objects/2319876#2319876&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T10:12:25.603" Title="In comments you should be able to post code that then pops up on mouse over" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40397" CreationDate="2010-02-24T08:37:05.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like this has already been merged; there was a third (unregistered) account with one question, which I've merged in. I'm assuming you are now back up and running?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T09:55:15.123" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T09:55:15.123" />
  <row Id="40413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40411" CreationDate="2010-02-24T08:45:11.310" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really, Vlad should have just edited his answer to correspond to the edit you made to your question. I've done so now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T08:45:11.310" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-02-24T09:17:54.493" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can understand and answer all the questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MathOverflow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77090" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T09:17:54.493" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-24T09:17:54.493" />
  <row Id="40417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40411" CreationDate="2010-02-24T10:12:25.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not really keen on the idea of encouraging codes within comments, short inline ones are fine with me though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you wouldn't want a pop-up/tooltip that is longer/taller than your browser view port.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T10:12:25.603" />
  <row Id="40418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40419" CreationDate="2010-02-24T10:36:32.560" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Stackoverflow have no option to search for questions with most answers or having most favourites? This would be a nice feature as a tab, 'active' topics or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am constantly on a lookout for interesting topics (often unrelated to a particular technology) and the hottest topics seem to be the most interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141175" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T12:44:01.143" Title="Search for most favourited / most replied-to questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;hot-questions&gt;&lt;active&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40418" CreationDate="2010-02-24T10:40:59.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For most answer questions, you could do this way,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers:100&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=answers:100&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will filter the search results to questions with 100+ answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T10:46:42.820" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T10:46:42.820" />
  <row Id="40425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40418" CreationDate="2010-02-24T12:44:01.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because Stack Overflow was not meant to be browsed, it was meant for you to come, ask a question, and get great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I grant you this vision could have changed since they went live almost one year and a half ago, and what you suggest could be debated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T12:44:01.143" />
  <row Id="40426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T12:52:32.827" Score="0" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just wondering, shouldn't the title of pages such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c#&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be something other than simply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unanswered Questions&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unanswered C# Questions &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be better for both search engines and users when attempting to choose the correct page from some search results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143152" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T15:00:03.230" Title="Title tag on unanswered pages doesn't change even when filered by tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T12:54:16.787" Score="6" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;First this question is not a dupe of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4935/mark-a-user-as-not-being-able-to-edit-your-question&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4935/mark-a-user-as-not-being-able-to-edit-your-question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the upvotes show it's an issue: I'm not seeing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question concerns specifically someone with 20K+ rep being eligible for the &quot;moderator&quot; status (you could vote for him on SO as a moderator, which I didn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen post where that person changed the entire question so that it fits an answer &quot;because then it adds value&quot;. The logic behind the edit being &quot;so it gets referenced in Google (and is searchable directly in SO) and if someone search for the question that fits the answer, then we have an answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't disagree that from that standpoint it seems to make some sense.  But the problem is that it makes the original poster very uncomfortable: why would such a poster come back to SO if it's to see his question completely distorted?  Also, why would people answering then getting zero votes or downvoted be motivated to answer more questions when they know the question may get completely modified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another case, and this has been the subject of a post here on meta that generated some heat, same 20K+ rep person simply didn't understand the question. So he modified it to a question where he portrayed the user as making something illegal or questionable and the user got downvoted to oblivion. The user left SO and went ballistic on Usenet and on blogs about SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not good in my opinion because, sure, you completely rewrite questions to make it fit your own view of the world but it's detrimental to existing SO users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both to the original poster who asked the question &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; to people answering the correct question (with the correct meaning, before the crazy edit took place completely changing the question) &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; to commenters, which often go crazy in comments because they dislike the edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That user never edited one of my question, but I was reading a weird series of 20 comments and understood that obviously there was an issue at work and when I saw the name of the editor I thought &quot;oh no, it's him once again&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is simple: what do I do when I think that a user with 20K+ rep is acting in an unacceptable manner, frequently entering into arguments in comments with various SO users and often re-inventing questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words: what has been put in place in the SO platform to prevent people at the very top (being eligible for meta-moderator status, I don't know how you call this) from subverting the platform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could push the logic a bit further: why not write random question, random answers, random upvotes and then after a few days rewrite the question so that it matches the answer with the most vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't there really a very serious issue here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, it's obviously not the first time the subject comes up, the problem is so obvious that it has prompted question here like &quot;mark a user as not being able to edit your question&quot; that I linked to above and it also prompted several blog entries criticizing SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't dare to flag his comments defending his own crazy edits because I'm thinking &quot;maybe he's meta-moderator now, so he'll see my flag and start editing my own questions to make me look a stupid poster&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's even worse than that: right now I'm thinking &quot;but why ask question as to how to deal with this and make stackexchange a better platform, because my post may be edited anyway to completely distort my question?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is how bad it is. I found it (and it's just an opinion) a bit disgusting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make a bad analogy, it's a bit like when you give to much power to someone who turns out to be a bad cop. This is an issue. It has to be dealt with. But it is very difficult to deal with a bad cop once he's near the top of its sphere of influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142507" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T16:04:23.260" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:04:23.260" Title="What to do when people with very high rep are completely changing the meaning of a question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="22" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40427" CreationDate="2010-02-24T13:00:47.367" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please provide a link for us to see what you are referencing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I doubt a moderator would act as you say, you may be misinterpreting his/her actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we (mostly Jeff) always say: &lt;strong&gt;If you can't handle other people editing your stuff, this is not the place for you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T13:00:47.367" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40427" CreationDate="2010-02-24T13:25:00.983" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you suspect that a question has been wrongly edited, you may use the &quot;Flag&quot; function, and select &quot;Requires Moderator attention&quot;. Then you can write whatever you want about what the issue is. If a user does a lot of wrongful editing, it will be noticed by other moderators, and possible action can be taken against this user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135505" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T13:25:00.983" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40426" CreationDate="2010-02-24T13:33:07.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23&lt;/a&gt; when you click on another tag name under &quot;Unanswered Tags&quot; on  the right sidebar, say &quot;.net&quot;, you will be browsing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23+.net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/c%23+.net&lt;/a&gt; or rather &quot;Unanswered c# and .net questions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence having the title to include the tag names is not that straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree that it could have been more informative, but I'm fine with the way it is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T13:33:07.753" />
  <row Id="40431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40427" CreationDate="2010-02-24T14:12:00.250" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the person doesn't have a ♦ next to their name (like mine, but it will be blue on SO) then they can &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; see who has flagged their posts.  They can't even see that they &lt;em&gt;have been&lt;/em&gt; flagged unless we tell them.  If the person you're talking about doesn't have ♦ moderator status (and I'm pretty confident they don't) then please flag the post so we can take a look at it.  There isn't a lot we can do without looking at the specific post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T14:12:00.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40427" CreationDate="2010-02-24T14:47:16.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I've often considered (but never followed through with, though I'm tempted) the editing titles of questions to more accurately reflect the underlying nature of the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a title like &quot;Why doesn't my variable change?&quot; may be an accurate description of what the OP is really looking for, in the long term it's useless on the site.  No one will ever go to that question for an answer, while a title change to &quot;Does C# handle ++ differently than other languages?&quot; might.  (This is just a made up example.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, care must be taken, and doubtless mistakes will be made, but I think a title or content changes to make things clearer often can result in better answers and higher ratings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's enough of a potential flashpoint that I also generally don't do it...I stick to grammar cleanup and the like.  But I could understand someone having very good intentions (and results) doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T14:47:16.620" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40427" CreationDate="2010-02-24T14:48:22.530" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've seen post where that person changed the entire question so that it fits an answer &quot;because then it adds value&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40427/what-to-do-when-people-with-very-high-rep-are-completely-changing-the-meaning-of/40428#40428&quot;&gt;downvoter points out&lt;/a&gt;, the site is, &lt;em&gt;by design&lt;/em&gt;, community collaboratively edited.  If you are uncomfortable with people editing your question, this may not be the best site for your contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40427/what-to-do-when-people-with-very-high-rep-are-completely-changing-the-meaning-of/40429#40429&quot;&gt;awe points out&lt;/a&gt;, the flagging system is the most appropriate way to get community elected moderators to look into the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What to do when people with very high rep are completely changing the meaning of a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are worried about lashback, or don't trust the moderators, then you have two more options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post here on Meta and request broad community consensus on the action (ie, hold the moderators accountable by engaging the community)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.com to bring the matter to the attention of the site owners and developers.  This isn't the best option, because they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; trust their moderators - if they didn't, they would have no time for development, instead spending all their time moderating petty issues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that posting on meta about the specific issue will likely come to the attention of the Team, but they may not intervene until they see the community process has failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally the community process gets good (if not great) results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; safely post a link to the relevant questions.  If there's a lashback, the community will see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, be prepared for the community to disagree with your assessment.  Come with an open mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, you should not be penalized, and if you are, bring that up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T14:48:22.530" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40444" CreationDate="2010-02-24T14:54:03.300" Score="11" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are lots of questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/feature-request&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;feature-request&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that don't have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/status~&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;status-*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we interpret this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is it because they are declined by default?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We just have to wait for a response (the team is very busy)? Is Jeff the only one that reviews this questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the ones that have negative votes may (or may not) be declined by default, but there are quite a few with some to a lot upvotes that should have an official answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T02:58:21.740" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T02:58:21.740" Title="Why are there so many feature-request with no official response?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;team&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:00:11.853" Score="2" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know of a company or person making physical badges? Like an embroidered patch or something? Sure, it's kind of old school, but some people like to attach pieces of flair to backpacks or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33724" LastEditorUserId="33724" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T18:46:47.870" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T18:46:47.870" Title="Is there anyone making actual physical badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;merchandise&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40427" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:03:28.953" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've seen post where that person changed the entire question so that it fits an answer &quot;because then it adds value&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done that. The key factor is the original question &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; adding value by being too vague or containing contradictory information. If there are two possible and incompatible interpretations, then either the original author needs to clarify it... or someone else does. Otherwise, it might as well just be deleted: questions without answers aren't useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In another case, and this has been the subject of a post here on meta that generated some heat, same 20K+ rep person simply didn't understand the question. So he modified it to a question where he portrayed the user as making something illegal or questionable and the user got downvoted to oblivion. The user left SO and went ballistic on Usenet and on blogs about SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heh... Ok, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28005/can-i-prevent-others-from-editing-my-question&quot;&gt;I think I know what you're talking about&lt;/a&gt;. Funny thing about that... This user decided he wanted to drag another user's name through the mud, alleging abuse on SO itself, on Meta, and elsewhere... While the revision history on &lt;em&gt;the question itself&lt;/em&gt; tells a much different story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which just goes to show how big a fool you can make of yourself if you fly off the handle instead of learning to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the problem is so obvious that it has prompted question here like &quot;mark a user as not being able to edit your question&quot; that I linked to above and it also prompted several blog entries criticizing SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plenty of stupid things get suggested here every day, and a good many collect far more up-votes. And ranting on random blog posts is hardly indicative of anything... Blogs are soapboxes for their authors, a place where they can spew whatever idiocy appeals to them without worrying about someone contradicting them with annoying &quot;evidence&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isn't there really a very serious issue here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it's not. There's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; a revision history, if the author has a problem with an edit he's free to quietly &lt;em&gt;and with a single click&lt;/em&gt; revert the post to its previous state. If that's not enough, he can flag the post for review by moderators (&lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; moderators, not the normal users you appear to have confused with moderators). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To stretch a bad analogy... It's as though cops have to perform all of their work in front of video cameras. Cameras they can't turn off or otherwise avoid. Cameras that when rewound can &lt;em&gt;revert portions of the world itself&lt;/em&gt; to the state it was in when originally filmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah. It's &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; awesome. You're livin' in the future, man... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:03:28.953" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="40438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40436" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:06:31.047" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Making badges is easy. The hard part is implementing badge rights management (BRM) that prevents malicious users from duplicating badges that they haven't earned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badge piracy is a serious issue. For every legitimate, physical badge made by hard-working badge manufacturers and developers, there are sixteen (16) illegally created badges in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fraudulent badges can be identified from their frayed edges, cheap colours that wash out in the rain and increased likelihood of being infused with narcotics and/or bloody pieces of glass. While these badges may be cheaper and easier to find than authentic badges, their quality is nowhere near the same level of standards as the real deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, if you find a badge that doesn't have the BRM seal on it, please report it to the Badge Manufacturers Association of America (BMAA).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:06:31.047" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:10:30.330" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme&lt;/strong&gt;: Link or it didn't happen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin&lt;/strong&gt;: Paraphrase of &lt;a href=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pics-or-it-didnt-happen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pics or it didn't happen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural Height&lt;/strong&gt;: TBD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;: Used in response to a user claiming an event (usually offensive to that user) inside S[OFU] or meta, without actually providing a link to the question or answer for the rest to see it really happened, or to judge if it was just a misunderstanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40427&quot;&gt;Example question&lt;/a&gt; (as of this writing, there is no link to proof of the claims, but you may need to see the edit history to see the first, original revision)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:10:30.330" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-24T15:10:30.330" />
  <row Id="40442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40436" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:41:55.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking that keeping my SO reputation up to date on a physical badge attached to my backpack is NP-hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:41:55.757" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40454" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:47:02.500" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25312/close-re-open-re-close-re-re-open-re-re-close-etc&quot;&gt;Close, re-open, re-close, re-re-open, re-re-close, etc&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2260221/whats-with-rubys-percent-syntax-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about Ruby's percent syntax and received lots of useful and good examples of where to use it. Someone closed it, however, and I don't think they really read the question, as it certainly was not subjective or argumentative. The title and example may be misleading, but the final paragraph asks the real question: &quot;why and when do I use this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this question should have been closed, and I think many people agree (given the upvotes and stars). How do I revert this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143819" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-12T01:56:55.397" LastActivityDate="2010-11-12T01:56:55.397" ClosedDate="2010-02-24T16:59:53.350" Title="How do I unclose a topic closed by someone else" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40434" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:47:35.277" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work in another publicly accessible community, where bug reports and feature requests are happily solicited from the userbase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have &lt;em&gt;thousands&lt;/em&gt; of open idea requests (the codebase is nearing 20 years old), and close only a sizeable fraction of those opened regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From our perspective, the idea requests are welcome, but not all of them are actionable; some are brilliant, and are implemented immediately because they work well with our vision; some are entirely incompatible and are closed/denied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The majority fit in between; they're ideas that would work with a bit of tweaking, or a bit of thought, but aren't necessarily on the primary development roadmap, so don't get our attention immediately. Nor do they warrant closing, because they are relevant, merely not timely or important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because our developers have their own ideas, their own neverending todo lists, we treat the open idea pile more as inspiration than as a roadmap. There's very much a feeling of &quot;we'll get to it when we've run out of other things to do&quot;, but this never happens in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to speak for Jeff and the others, but I think it's a normal thing to have to choose between two equally bad things in a public forum like this: either responding to most feature requests with a &quot;denied&quot;, and so risk upsetting the folk who love the community enough to contribute with their own ideas; or leave some of them dangling because they're not immediately and obviously wrong, but to do something worthwhile with them takes more time and effort than the idea deserves &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130029" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:47:35.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40501" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:52:44.157" Score="43" ViewCount="764" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is normally only a problem for political candidates, but it now impacts badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I've been too &quot;suckered&quot; by the hollow attraction of shiny pixelated bling, but alas the electorate badge still eludes me on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd think that with over 8k of votes cast it would be a pinch, but alas no. But I'm pretty sure that I'm &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; over the 25% &quot;question&quot; votes required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't make me pout! Why, stackoverflow, oh why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T09:26:50.287" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T19:40:47.467" Title="Electorate hates me" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40445" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:54:31.330" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may have voted mostly answers, I have the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now I don't vote on answers at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;Finally I can vote on answers again! (on meta at least)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so7.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T19:40:47.467" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T19:40:47.467" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="40447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40445" CreationDate="2010-02-24T15:58:38.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; ((7828 + 425) * .25) / 25&#xA; 82.530000000000001&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you need ~83 continuous days to votes on questions with 25 votes on each day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T15:58:38.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40445" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:06:24.660" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the electorate badge penalizes long-time users with a history of voting more for answers.    Such is life :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:06:24.660" />
  <row Id="40449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7609" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:08:36.840" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I deleted one after I misread the question, gave the wrong answer, but somehow got five upvotes anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136585" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:08:36.840" />
  <row Id="40451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:13:16.660" Score="17" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often when I vote to close, I want to go back and check the comments on the question, to see if it's been improved, to comment further, or to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be helpful to add a bit of a trail so I can find those questions again. I'm suggesting adding an event to the Activity page on the user profile, because this is the logical spot for the given action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize the Activity page is public, but I don't see why this content couldn't be added only for the currently logged-in user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative would be to add a new tab on the user profile page that only lists current-user content, and is not shown publicly. I'm sure there are other events, data, or statistics that could be shown here as well, so I'm certain a new tab like this wouldn't be underutilized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that could be done instead of this is to always add a comment stating why I voted to close. This works well enough, but only some of the time -- for example, if there is already a vote to close as a duplicate and a comment with a link to that duplicate, I'm not going to add a comment myself if I have nothing to add aside from a close vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to do it would be to favourite the question. This only works well to a point since questions that get voted to close don't necessarily end up being downvoted (i.e., for my &quot;closed favourites,&quot; I couldn't just look at the last page of my favourites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: Jon Skeet &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11188/make-close-votes-appear-in-recent-activity&quot;&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt; that votes to close on your own questions be shown in the Recent Activity area, which is not what I'm requesting here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T02:41:30.900" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T03:36:23.377" Title="Add a &quot;voted to close&quot; activity event somewhere on the user profile page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:20:46.363" Score="36" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/cv/1111&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;view a candidate&lt;/a&gt;, the title is &quot;Employers - Stack Overflow Careers&quot;. I see this title at the top of the browser windows and in the task bar at the bottom of my screen, but it would be much more useful to see &quot;Joe Coder - Stack Overflow Careers&quot; instead, particularly when I have several windows open with different candidates in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137103" LastEditorUserId="146719" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-13T19:07:37.227" LastActivityDate="2011-04-13T19:07:45.560" Title="Give candidate name in web page title" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40443" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:23:32.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you get 3000 rep then you can vote to &lt;strong&gt;reopen&lt;/strong&gt; any question, you'll see the link under the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have 250 rep then you can vote to &lt;strong&gt;reopen&lt;/strong&gt; your own questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T16:40:32.283" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:40:32.283" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40443" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:23:49.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how to i unclose a topic closed by someone else&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's called voting to re-open, and you need to have 3,000 reputation to be able to vote to close or re-open questions.  Asking here on Meta is one good way to alert those that can open it to review whether it should have been closed, and fix it if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it certainly was not subjective or argumentative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually it was quite subjective and argumentative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...people's obsession...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You discount that people might be using it for valid reasons, and imply that people who use it are doing so out of blind passion rather than for technical reasons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...How is this possibly more succinct and obvious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This isn't bad, but the phrasing used suggests &quot;even a dolt can see I'm correct&quot; rather than &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; asking the question.  This is a rhetorical question, and rhetoric is often subjective and argumentative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...insignificant cool factor...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, you demean those that use this feature as, perhaps, fan-boys who are little more than cool hair and ego.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title and example may be misleading but the final paragraph asks the real question of &quot;why and when do I use this?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately by the time you get to the point, you've already hit the hot button for a lot of programmers.  By setting them up in a defensive position you are not really asking for an answer, you are asking for validation of your point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a good programmer will let all this incendiary opinion slide off their back and answer the question (as several did) you can't count on that, and so should avoid such phrasing when asking a technical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:23:49.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40457" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:27:47.770" Score="6" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;Russian IT Q&amp;amp;A site: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askdev.ru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;askdev.ru&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastEditorUserId="143212" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T23:40:55.313" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T23:40:55.313" Title="Is this Russian site a legitimate copy of StackOverflow package?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40403" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:28:54.863" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a huge issue for many companies that still must pass paper and PDF copies around.  A printable CSS should be a requirement, especially since one can't pass a URL that shows the employer's view without signing in.  Given the number of people involved in hiring in even medium sized companies, and how many of them have to sign off on a document with the prospect information attached before even requesting an interview, I'm surprised this hasn't already been requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:28:54.863" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40455" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:33:08.990" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that particular site is a clone. It's been around before Stack Exchange became available. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:33:08.990" />
  <row Id="40458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40455" CreationDate="2010-02-24T16:46:36.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their blog makes mention of StackExchange and StackOverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askdev.ru/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.askdev.ru/blog/&lt;/a&gt; More specifically their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askdev.ru/blog/08/2009/Sammary-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%8F%D1%86/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Summary Post&lt;/a&gt; which seems to suggest that they hope to make the site more like Stack Overflow in the future, with regards to reputation-enabled editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T16:46:36.343" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40461" CreationDate="2010-02-24T17:29:07.113" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;standard daily reputation cap&lt;/strong&gt; question, I don't think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier this morning I answer a question and people seemed to like it.  (It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2326553/is-there-a-function-called-anytime-any-page-is-loaded-in-your-application/2326573#2326573&quot;&gt;here by the way&lt;/a&gt;.)  When I look at my recent activity summary, in the little green box I see the (correct) 19 upvotes, but an incorrect (I'm pretty sure) 155 reputation gained for that answer. Other than that, the only reputation I've gained today has been for one upvote for another answer from a previous day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, total activity for the day is (&lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt;) 19 upvotes for a question, and (&lt;strong&gt;B&lt;/strong&gt;) 1 upvote for another question.  But my reputation gained is 155 rep + 10 rep = 165 rep.  There are no downvotes (by me or against me) or accepted answers or questions asked or questions accepted or bounties.  I do not believe there has been any removing of &quot;accepted answer&quot; or removal of upvoting for my other activity, and &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; that there has been no such activity to explain 35 missing rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering why I don't have 190 rep + 10 rep = 200 rep for the two questions.  I don't care too much; I don't think my answer &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; extraordinary or anything.  Missing something about the same though bugs me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there another &quot;cap&quot; of some sore recently added.  Or, do I misunderstand the daily reputation cap?  Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resolution&lt;/strong&gt;:  Questioner error.  I thought it was on &quot;today&quot; but I was on summary.  This actually &lt;strong&gt;IS a standard reputation cap issue&lt;/strong&gt;.  Make sure you click &lt;em&gt;Today&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139692" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T19:18:17.433" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T19:18:17.433" Title="Reputation for upvotes inconsistent with upvotes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40460" CreationDate="2010-02-24T17:31:35.707" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to click &lt;strong&gt;Today&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The summary screen for some reason doesn't show you activity from midnight (UTC) unless you click &lt;strong&gt;Today&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T18:34:04.090" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T18:34:04.090" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40445" CreationDate="2010-02-24T18:14:50.393" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider yourself as being in a penal colony.  Eventually you will be released, and given a worthless shiny trinket.  Or you will die there.  The period of servitude will reflect your past behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do make it out, StackOverflow/wherever will consider that you have done your time and have become a reformed voter, one who appreciates the dangers of imbalanced voting.  You will be a better person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T18:14:50.393" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40464" CreationDate="2010-02-24T18:21:16.373" Score="10" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to search for posts that have links to other posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1004079/&quot;&gt;this post link text&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and I want to find all posts that have that linked in.  Is there a way to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I just put the number in the search, it only finds that post.  I want to find other posts as there is a lot of:  I saw this answer(link) but my situation is different...I want to find the &quot;different&quot; ones as one of those might  work for me instead of pushing in a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139898" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-25T09:35:16.990" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T09:35:37.987" Title="Is there a way to search for posts linked to other posts?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40463" CreationDate="2010-02-24T18:26:06.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No there is no built in way to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T18:26:06.210" />
  <row Id="40466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40467" CreationDate="2010-02-24T18:58:50.687" Score="7" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awhile back I remember it was possible to give your limited number of votes for one or another proposed feature.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And it was a nice easy scrollable list of all the suggested features.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Does that still exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T17:53:45.833" Title="Where's the list of upcoming features?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40466" CreationDate="2010-02-24T19:09:50.087" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are probably thinking about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/forums/1722-general&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stackoverflow Uservoice page&lt;/a&gt;.  MSO &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1/should-meta-stackoverflow-com-replace-uservoice-com&quot;&gt;now replaces Uservoice&lt;/a&gt;.  Use the tagging system here to find different combinations of feature requests and bugs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=feature-request&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Features&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=bug&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Bugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-planned&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Planned Features/bug fixes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status-review&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Features/bugs under review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=status~&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Features/bugs with any kind of status&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T17:53:45.833" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T17:53:45.833" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40466" CreationDate="2010-02-24T19:10:10.383" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+status-planned&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+status-planned&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T19:10:10.383" />
  <row Id="40469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40466" CreationDate="2010-02-24T19:22:44.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the service is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as noted on the service itself, it has been replaced with a stackoverflow-like site here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of highest voted requests is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of highest votes requests that haven't been implemented and aren't declined is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+-status-completed+-status-declined+-status-bydesign&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/feature-request+-status-completed+-status-declined+-status-bydesign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-24T19:30:55.910" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T19:30:55.910" />
  <row Id="40470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40455" CreationDate="2010-02-24T21:04:54.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their site is a legitimate &lt;strong&gt;clone&lt;/strong&gt; of StackOverflow, but not affiliated with SO or StackExchange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use their site and I really like how it implemented, although I use both askdev and SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135403" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T21:04:54.253" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T21:18:16.173" Score="6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can verify this bug by editing this message and comparing the message to what the site shows.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted the following message on stackoverflow: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Install firefox&#xA;- Click on the link&#xA;- Go to Tools | Error Console&#xA;- Look at the error&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In preview it shows up as   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Install firefox     &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Click on the link    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Go to Tools | Error Console  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Look at the error  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the site it shows up as only 1. and then a bunch of sub-bullet points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Install firefox&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click on the link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to Tools | Error Console&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Look at the error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember doing this pretty often in the past and it would always show up on the site as the preview does.   I'm afraid that the subset of my old messages that changed will be improperly formatted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The preview should match what the site displays in any case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3153" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T08:12:11.483" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T08:14:02.370" Title="Bug in markdown with numbered lists" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40474" CreationDate="2010-02-24T21:49:30.497" Score="2" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9731/fastest-gun-in-the-west-problem&quot;&gt;Fastest Gun in the West Problem&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can stack overflow more favor accuracy and correctness of an answer rather than submission time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my bet there is a strong statistical correlation between answer submission time and which answers are up voted.  Perhaps some UI tweaks could remove some of this correlation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, timely answers are appreciated, but I personally am fine waiting a bit longer if that means quality is higher.  Maybe there could be a knob that can be tweaked for each question by the submitter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T22:27:45.320" ClosedDate="2010-02-24T22:50:24.243" Title="Speed vs. Accuracy an Answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;speed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40473" CreationDate="2010-02-24T21:54:01.707" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They've tried to implement some things to solve the Fastest Gun in the West problem, like the random sorting of same-vote-number answers.  It's a tricky wicket of a problem, but then again I like fast answers when I'm looking for them, so I don't want to disincent people from giving them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T21:54:01.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40473" CreationDate="2010-02-24T22:27:45.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to argue against a well written post that was the first response. If you look, it's not like really bad responses are getting voted up just because they were posted first. If an answer is at all reasonable and is posted quickly, it makes two people happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More elaborate answers may not go noticed right away but the hope is that people looking for similar answers in the future will get to see all the contributions and vote from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140209" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T22:27:45.320" />
  <row Id="40476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40471" CreationDate="2010-02-24T22:47:02.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly, if you post this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1. Install firefox&#xA;- Click on the link&#xA;- Go to Tools | Error Console&#xA;- Look at the error&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should look like one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Install firefox&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Click on the link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Go to Tools | Error Console&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Look at the error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA; &lt;li&gt;Install firefox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA; &lt;li&gt;Click on the link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA; &lt;li&gt;Go to Tools | Error Console&lt;/li&gt;&#xA; &lt;li&gt;Look at the error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In which case, both implementations are wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you use the number format, it doesn't really matter what numbers you use. So there really isn't a good reason for it to do anything different than what it does now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;1.   Install firefox&#xA;1.   Click on the link&#xA;365. Go to Tools | Error Console&#xA;32.  Look at the error&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Install firefox&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Click on the link&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Go to Tools | Error Console&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Look at the error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T15:37:22.897" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T15:37:22.897" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-24T23:13:06.557" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello guys,&#xA;            Actually this is my first time in  on this website and I just want to know that can I post any question here about any language possible or this is restricted to some platform? I am asking this question because I do not see any categories on this site. So I fI am posting any question in Java then would it go to the same category as the one which goes in .NET category? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming that it belongs to the category what I write in tags textbox. is that right or it's just my assumption?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143883" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T00:46:48.440" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T00:46:48.440" Title="Are there any categories?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40478" CreationDate="2010-02-24T23:18:56.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, tags are considered categories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any programming related question is allowed on Stackoverflow, regardless of language. If you want to see a &quot;category&quot; then click the tag and you'll be taken to a list of questions that use that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T23:18:56.650" />
  <row Id="40480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40484" CreationDate="2010-02-24T23:27:10.050" Score="48" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I know once you get a certain amount of reputation, you can see the total up and down votes for questions. Well, my proposal is to always be able to see this on your own questions and answers. You can see it by going to your user page anyway, so why not make it possible to do by simply clicking on the number of votes(like you can when you have the rep)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-18T00:28:31.750" LastActivityDate="2010-08-18T00:53:01.530" Title="Please enable low-rep users to easily breakout up and down votes on their own questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="40483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40480" CreationDate="2010-02-24T23:38:01.463" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would take away the thrill of reaching 1000 rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T23:38:01.463" />
  <row Id="40484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40480" CreationDate="2010-02-24T23:42:45.060" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds reasonable. The author of a post has the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; to gain from seeing the breakdown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep limitation for requesting split votes is primarily to moderate the additional load on the server. If you let users view the vote breakdown on just their own posts (questions &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answers), the additional load would be negligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T23:42:45.060" />
  <row Id="40485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40480" CreationDate="2010-02-24T23:47:53.690" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;why not make it possible to do by simply clicking on the number of votes(like you can when you have the rep)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was actually arbitrarily placed as a bonus for 1k rep to make the long slog to 2k seem a little more pleasant since there's a stepping stone in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's really part of the game, I doubt that's going to change.  You can see the up/down for all questions in the data dump, or if you are impatient go to the user's page for the person that posted it and check out their reputation graph for upvotes and downvotes in that post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-24T23:47:53.690" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T01:02:21.450" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen of SO I think this should be on meta, but I can't seem to ask an anonymous question there. If anyone knows how to migrate this to meta, feel free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I have an account but accidentally asked a question once without logging in, is there any way to integrate that question with my account? I want it to show up on my questions page and be associated with my user name. The browser I asked the question with still remembers me (cookies or however), but when I try to register that user with my openID, it prompts me to log out and back in again. Is this at all possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T01:24:14.310" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T01:24:14.310" Title="If I have a question that I accidentally asked anonymously, can I integrate that with my account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40486" CreationDate="2010-02-25T01:10:15.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Either flag the question or email team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T01:10:15.227" />
  <row Id="40488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40480" CreationDate="2010-02-25T01:51:14.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was decided a reputation requirement was needed for performance reasons, as showing the individual votes requires a query in the &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt; table (counting them) instead of just fetching the &lt;code&gt;score&lt;/code&gt; field in the post's entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I personally think this is ridiculous; such a query would require a fraction of the time needed to perform all the operations of - for example - a single, uncached page view. And users with less than 1,000 rep can view pages, can't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T01:51:14.880" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34377" CreationDate="2010-02-25T01:55:57.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely agree, when I see stuff like Downvoter's personal message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I stopped voting on answers in order&#xA;  to get the electorate badge, I may&#xA;  resume once I get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i really think this badge does more bad than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is not a personal attack on Downvoter, indeed I myself have stopped voting on answers on stackoverflow and if I don't reach the vote limit at the end of the day (I rarely do) I just open a bunch of random questions with a score of at least +1 and vote them up without even reading them. I know it's bad and probably people will be mad at me now that I said it, but IMO a lot of people are doing what I'm doing (but not confessing it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T01:55:57.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40491" CreationDate="2010-02-25T02:36:56.253" Score="1" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where should I place this type of question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can I get a good job in the USA in the Web Design/Development field if I'm currently living in another country?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What other things are needed to live and work in the USA other than knowledge and experience?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should I send my resume to any company in the USA and have them call me directly to arrange all necessities? Or would they not ever hire me because I live in another country, even if I'm perfect for their requirements?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T23:21:15.790" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T23:21:15.790" Title="Where should I ask job-related questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40490" CreationDate="2010-02-25T02:50:53.073" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; sites here, some of which will be suitable for your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular these two might be good candidates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careeroverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careeroverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://advice.personforce.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://advice.personforce.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T02:50:53.073" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T06:28:34.697" Score="-2" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a previous post on Meta &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38580/when-re-tagging-is-not-possible-and-the-users-question-is-very-vague&quot;&gt;&quot;Vague Questions part one&quot;&lt;/a&gt; I rasied some issues that I believe have become even clearer for me now, a few months later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently spent several hours trying, through comments (not answers), to get certain questioners to answer specific questions that, from my point of view, are &quot;essential&quot; to being able to even &lt;em&gt;start&lt;/em&gt; to answer the question as asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most of these cases the question posters were people with low &quot;reputation&quot; scores on SO : but I don't conclude from that observation that they are necessarily inexperienced, or lack technically advanced skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one case, only after repeated comment-questions, did the question-poster finally disclose an aspect of the architecture they were using that really, from my point of view, made the original question a &quot;whole other question&quot; : then, later, with the same OP, after more comment-questions, yet another &quot;dimension&quot; was revealed :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In thinking about what kind of mechanism could help encourage people who post questions to answer, responding promptly, to comments on their OP which are trying to help them clarify the OP, I kind of draw a blank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that allowing SO users of a certain rep level (very high), to suspend answers being posted on questions where the OP has not answered a comment-question would be viewed as punitive, would be a &quot;negative&quot; for the whole community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it doesn't seem fair, or appropriate, to 'flag the post, and pass-off to the moderators such an issue, either : after all, what could they do ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the comment-question asked of the OP is very direct, and has a simple, or even binary, answer, like : &quot;is this WinForms or WPF&quot; ? Then I can see a certain validity in the idea of suspending answers until the OP responds to such a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, obviously, someone has to be the judge of what's a &quot;very direct&quot; question : and that gets subjective, doesn't it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were really concerned about the &quot;rep game,&quot; perhaps I'd focus my attention more on posters who were at a certain rep level, or who had a certain high-percentage of questions with accepted answers, but I think I can be of more use actually, on SO, to beginners. Possibly because I've spent thirteen of the adult years of my life living in countries where my own native language (English) was not the &quot;mother tongue,&quot; I think I can also be helpful with people whose first-langauge is not English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Appreciate your thoughts on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I am still trying to &quot;get over&quot; seeing code that I know will not compile in &quot;accepted answers&quot; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;thanks, Bill&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139329" LastEditorUserId="139329" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T07:23:13.713" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:47:02.617" Title="&quot;Vague Questions&quot; part two" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;vague&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40495" CreationDate="2010-02-25T06:28:54.913" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title really says it all, but when I use the @ character to ignore escapes in a string literal @&quot;Like This\&quot;, the \&quot; is interpreted as a quote character belonging to the string rather than the terminating quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135806" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:42:02.150" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:42:02.150" Title="Incorrect C# syntax highlighting with @&quot;\&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40493" CreationDate="2010-02-25T06:33:56.277" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Testing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;string test1 = @&quot;Like This\&quot;;&#xA;string test2 = &quot;Like This\\&quot;;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T06:33:56.277" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40493" CreationDate="2010-02-25T06:34:41.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's an issue with &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;google-code-prettify&lt;/a&gt;, which Stack Overflow uses, and is not something the Stack Overflow team are likely to remedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, google-code-prettify is open-source - so feel free to go fix it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T06:34:41.923" />
  <row Id="40497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40499" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:04:47.420" Score="2" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask a question about the careers site, where can I do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135658" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T14:10:33.427" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T14:10:33.427" Title="Where can I ask questions related to the careers site?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40497" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:08:16.613" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are in the right place.  You can ask careers questions here.  Just tag it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;[careers]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/careers&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; there are already lots of questions about the site.  Look to see if it was already asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:08:16.613" />
  <row Id="40500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40497" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:20:31.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just click on the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;feedback always welcome&lt;/a&gt;&quot; link which is in the footer of every page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imagebin.ca/img/05BdwwV.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hint: It'll lead you to a familiar place ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T09:51:36.837" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:51:36.837" />
  <row Id="40501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40445" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:27:45.353" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a small bug in the SQL that grants this badge - it's been fixed and your badge has been awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for finding this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:27:45.353" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:30:11.967" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about using the front-end (stats viewer) of Google Analytics. On which of the three sites, if any, can I ask it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The question is how can I cross browser stats with OS stats to see how many visitors use IE on XP)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I actually found the solution now, but it would still be good to know where to post this kind of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139819" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-04T17:04:01.107" LastActivityDate="2011-02-04T17:04:01.107" Title="Where to ask a Google Analytics question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;&lt;site-rec&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="40503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40504" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:31:45.393" Score="3" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not affecting me in any way :). But I am just curious to understand the reason behind it. Sometimes when trying to up-vote an answer from '0', I get the following state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/255utdh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On clicking the up-vote button again, it's displaying properly. Is it a bug? If not, why is it coming only sometimes and not always. I am seeing this in both IE8 and Firefox 3.5.8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135616" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T09:41:24.547" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:41:52.783" Title="Weird behavior when up-voting an answer?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40503" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:35:56.337" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's because you didn't click on the up-vote arrow, but a little lower on the number of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're seeing is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes/1007#1007&quot;&gt;a new feature that got implemented&lt;/a&gt; (actually it isn't that new anymore).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only available to users with more than 1000 rep though. Maybe that's why you only start seeing it now (or recently)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T09:41:52.783" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:41:52.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40502" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:44:59.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, there is &lt;strong&gt;no site in the trilogy&lt;/strong&gt; where you can ask that kind of questions &lt;strong&gt;at this time&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39615/superuser-website-applications-policy/39618#39618&quot;&gt;I have suggested to create one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a chance that you'll find a site &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; where you could ask your &lt;em&gt;particular&lt;/em&gt; question, but for anything &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; web-related, no such thing exists right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:44:59.453" />
  <row Id="40506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40492" CreationDate="2010-02-25T09:47:02.617" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the site needs changing. Sometimes you need to elicit more information before you can give a meaningful answer. It's requirements analysis on a small scale, it seems to be an inevitable part of human communication, and it's &lt;strong&gt;always going to be a fuzzy process&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already an excellent mechanism for ensuring questionners provide enough information: they &lt;strong&gt;won't get good answers&lt;/strong&gt; unless they do. Any questionner who won't/can't provide more information to get an answer, is not going to respond to any other stimulus. The best we can do is explain politely that it's not possible to answer the question without more information. Also, don't forget some people have &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/03/21/399688.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;psychic&quot; ability&lt;/a&gt; to answer questions where others think there's insufficient information - if questions were locked that couldn't happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some days I'm too busy/grumpy to have &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; one of those conversations - that's when I too fantasise about closing or freezing the questions. But instead, I &lt;strong&gt;just ignore&lt;/strong&gt; them, hoping someone else will help. I honestly think that's the best approach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T09:47:02.617" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="101868" CreationDate="2010-02-25T10:16:34.020" Score="8" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple question really - the default search-method here is OR - ie a search for &quot;apples oranges&quot; will show posts that have either apples or oranges or both.&#xA;I want to show only posts that have both apples &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; oranges in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried &quot;apples and oranges&quot; but that returns the same as &quot;apples oranges&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely there's a way to do exclusive search sets without resorting to the google-search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143854" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T11:04:25.597" LastActivityDate="2011-08-11T10:59:00.833" Title="How do I do an 'and' search on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40502" CreationDate="2010-02-25T10:55:06.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with fretje to check the list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; sites at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend in particular the following two stackexchange sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inbound.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://inbound.org/&lt;/a&gt;   (questions about Inbound Marketing, SEO, Social Media and Blogs)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://answers.onstartups.com/&lt;/a&gt;  (startups questions, many people there know about google analytics and the question should be well received)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142196" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T10:55:06.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T11:53:28.447" Score="2" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28559/subjective-question-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Subjective question on Stack Overflow.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In SO I've seen &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; subjective questions which stay open, while other ones are closed in say 3 minutes immediately without giving an explanation other than the usual boilerplate FAQ quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subjective and Open:&lt;/strong&gt; (few examples)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995113/strangest-language-feature&quot;&gt;Strangest language feature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75538/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;Hidden Features of C++?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1685985/is-4-5-years-the-midlife-crisis-for-a-programming-career&quot;&gt;Is 4-5 years the “Midlife Crisis” for a programming career?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2245196/c-urban-myths&quot;&gt;C++ Urban Myths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1596139/hidden-features-and-dark-corners-of-stl&quot;&gt;Hidden Features and Dark Corners of STL?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've throughly enjoyed reading all of these &lt;em&gt;discussions&lt;/em&gt;. But I was at a loss on why there's this difference between some questions and some others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T15:56:50.453" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T15:56:50.453" ClosedDate="2010-02-25T12:45:51.820" Title="Why are some subjective questions open while others aren't?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40511" CreationDate="2010-02-25T12:13:58.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog entry&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that we’re all programmers, so&#xA;  we love thinking of the world in&#xA;  absolute, binary terms — either fun&#xA;  questions must never be allowed, or&#xA;  fun questions must always be allowed.&#xA;  Well, I hate to be the one to break&#xA;  this to you, but the world is more …&#xA;  floating point. We will sometimes&#xA;  allow fun questions that meet the&#xA;  three broad guidelines I outlined&#xA;  above, but even then, only a limited&#xA;  amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow, contrary to popular&#xA;  opinion, we don’t hate fun. But only a&#xA;  certain amount of fun will be&#xA;  tolerated, and always with steely,&#xA;  businesslike frowns. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T12:13:58.023" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T13:00:00.577" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you sort the list of your questions (on your profile page) by date (newest) then choose the last page the final question is not in the correct order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reproducible: Only when I'm viewing my profile page, not on anyone else's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This image shows the problem:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_meACWbeRG9k/S4Zy_KUI4QI/AAAAAAAAAEs/Q8yF1-1gX20/s1152/sobug.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T13:45:06.397" Title="Bug in Questions List of user profile not sorting correctly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40514" CreationDate="2010-02-25T13:45:06.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you see is the last &lt;strong&gt;activity date&lt;/strong&gt;, in this case, an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/361/generate-list-of-all-possible-permutations-of-a-string/550628#550628&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Your questions are sorted by &lt;strong&gt;asked date&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you see is correct (or at least, by design)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T13:45:06.397" />
  <row Id="40517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1362" CreationDate="2010-02-25T13:49:35.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Show us SO's financials, then we can figure out if it's a good deal or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T13:49:35.967" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40502" CreationDate="2010-02-25T14:05:20.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it wouldn't be suited for a site in the trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Analytics?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Analytics Help Forum&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T14:05:20.350" />
  <row Id="40519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T14:07:08.443" Score="18" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;p&gt;My rep on SO just changed from 14,546 to 14,558.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking my recent activity, I saw that I'd received one upvote which only accounts for 10 of the 12 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously someone has rescinded a downvote on one of my posts - but which one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's trivial in this case, it's more serious if you lose an upvote as you'll lose 10 points, but not know which post it is. It would be useful to know, so that you can double check to see if there's anything missing or wrong in the post. For example, it could be that a question has been edited which now makes your answer misleading at best or just plain wrong at worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same has been asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25351/notification-when-my-answer-is-unaccepted&quot;&gt;when you lose the accepted answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T14:57:49.147" LastActivityDate="2011-05-26T03:49:42.503" Title="Show rep lost or gained from rescinded votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="40520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40522" CreationDate="2010-02-25T14:07:38.773" Score="-4" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is a great place to know how sharp people are there and how in-depth knowledge they have. They certainly become a source of inspiration for us. Just wanted to know who are you most inspired by here at SO in terms of good knowledge, quick answers with &lt;em&gt;great details&lt;/em&gt; and more. Personally, I am really inspired by these two people (of course &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; too) for having great knowledge and ability to sweep away quick votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/138475/pascal-martin&quot;&gt;Pascal MARTIN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54680/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who are you most inspired by?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140077" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T14:44:08.680" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T14:44:08.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T14:08:15.840" ClosedDate="2010-02-25T14:59:53.533" Title="Who inspires you the most here at SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40520" CreationDate="2010-02-25T14:15:29.410" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am inspired by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37493/what-do-stack-overflow-users-like-for-breakfast/37495#37495&quot;&gt;Waffle Bunny&lt;/a&gt;. I mean .. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's the Waffle Bunny!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Oolong_last_head_performance.jpg/601px-Oolong_last_head_performance.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Giant Waffle Bunny of Awesomeness&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T14:28:43.640" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T14:28:43.640" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T14:15:29.410" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40520" CreationDate="2010-02-25T14:26:19.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt; for his amazing ability to be both a competent programmer and businessman, and for taking a stand for good treatment of programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T14:26:19.230" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T14:26:19.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40520" CreationDate="2010-02-25T14:27:56.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert&quot;&gt;Eric Lippert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T14:27:56.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T14:27:56.403" />
  <row Id="40525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40520" CreationDate="2010-02-25T14:42:40.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/52443/urdnot-the-krogan-has-a-posse&quot;&gt;Urdnot the Krogan's&lt;/a&gt; severed Klingon head, who keeps a vigilant watch for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40436/is-there-anyone-making-actual-physical-badges/40438#40438&quot; title=&quot;defective-by-design&quot;&gt;dire&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35434/why-was-my-so-question-about-security-reporting-after-a-code-review-closed-not/35439#35439&quot; title=&quot;management&quot;&gt;threats&lt;/a&gt; to the Trilogy-o-sphere and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39214/advertising-inquiry-a-fresher/39218#39218&quot; title=&quot;Urdnot is the freshest!&quot;&gt;keeps us all fresh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also serves as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37435/how-was-200-chosen-as-the-rep-needed-for-reduced-advertising/37436#37436&quot; title=&quot;Not many people know this, but Urdnot's gravatar is a portrait of his severed Klingon head.  It's just very abstract.&quot;&gt;Official Trilogy Historian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T14:42:40.417" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T14:42:40.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40528" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:14:39.497" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32820/half-the-bounty-is-that-possible&quot;&gt;Half the Bounty? Is that possible?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just received a bounty of 50 rep today, but I thought the minimum was 100; 50 from the poster and 50 from the site.  I wasn't near the rep cap, so that's not it.  What's up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/761/bounty.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T16:28:59.767" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T16:28:59.767" ClosedDate="2010-02-25T18:47:01.700" Title="Bounty received of 50?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;auto-acceptance&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="40527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:21:18.017" Score="2" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people think that they have answered a question but haven't really and then it appears on the front page or elsewhere in such a manner that no one else thinks to look at the question because it's already been answered (even if there is no accepted answer).  It would be great to be able to flag an answer as unhelpful or that it didn’t' work and to then have it bubble up again o the front page and go back to red to show that there are no acceptable solutions on the question.  This would also force people to &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; something about people’s responses as well as help users realize when there answer isn’t helpful.  If there are no penalties to the poster then this just becomes a way to help them write better answers.  You could even add a badge for really helpful people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this is better than just looking for accepted answers as a ton of people don't ever check off acceptable answers and there are lots of junk answers as well.  This way the user is required to check on the status of their question to keep it active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d also suggest that this only results in a performance hit (if at all) for the person who posts the question.  If I know that a person has checked the responses that people left and that the solutions were either unhelpful or wrong then I would be more likely to address the user’s problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137619" LastActivityDate="2011-05-03T20:50:50.397" Title="Add the ability to mark an answer as incorrect" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;useless-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40526" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:21:40.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The highest voted answer created after&#xA;  the bounty started with at least 2&#xA;  upvotes will be automatically&#xA;  accepted. Half the bounty will be&#xA;  awarded to the owner of that answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T16:21:40.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40527" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:23:24.970" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Down-vote it and leave a comment describing why the answer is wrong. With a bit of luck, this will encourage the author to either fix it or delete it, rendering the question answered or visibly unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T16:23:24.970" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40527" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:24:12.490" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are looking at the unanswered tab, then it only considers questions answered when either an answer is accepted or one of the question's answers has a net score of at least 1 - it doesn't just show all questions without any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an answer is wrong, comment on it to say so - many users delete their answers when they're shown to be wrong, so users who look solely at the answer count will look at your question again. You could also downvote it, if you feel so inclined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I'd be interested to know whether a question with a net score of 0, with 1 downvote and 1 upvote marks a question as answered. Anyone know?&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T16:48:31.800" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T16:48:31.800" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:42:33.497" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Visual Studio debugger puts up an exception message it's really Jon Skeet at the other end typing into an instant messenger window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143869" LastEditorUserId="143869" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T16:50:29.670" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:50:29.670" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T16:42:33.497" />
  <row Id="40532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:58:01.423" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I am not alone in experiencing a dislike for having to read a question I think is for linux, only to find out that someone is running apache on windows-7 or windows95 or 3.1 or cp/m or whatever. Sometimes you have to read quite a bit before this is clear and so retagging saves someone else time.  Sometimes it is not clear what O/S is involved until you answer and the person says, oh, I meant windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it OK to retag questions that are O/S specific with the O/S tag, or is the tag only meant for issues specifically about that O/S?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this just isn't clear and there is not a clean distinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is current practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137487" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T17:27:08.447" Title="Proper re-tagging with &quot;windows&quot; and &quot;linux&quot; tags, or other OS-specific tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="40533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40532" CreationDate="2010-02-25T17:01:07.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question is specifically about how to do something in a given environment, then I think it's totally appropriate to tag the question with that environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T17:01:07.110" />
  <row Id="40534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40532" CreationDate="2010-02-25T17:01:40.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's especially important on SF and SU to tag the OS involved, since most of those types of problems are OS specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO it's less of a problem, but when it's important to the question, then the OS should be tagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T17:01:40.480" />
  <row Id="40536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40532" CreationDate="2010-02-25T17:27:08.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13295/lance-roberts&quot;&gt;Lance Roberts&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd add that if the OS is only incidental to the problem, then do not include it in a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T17:27:08.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T16:55:08.717" Score="1" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to receive emails carrying question and answers posted on SO. Do you know how to do that? I clicked on the NOTIFY checkbox with my GMAIL, but until know I received only 1 mail (with related responses) 2 days ago to a question I asked on January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I am doing something wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T21:57:46.430" LastActivityDate="2010-05-26T23:00:05.187" Title="Receiving emails" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:08:48.787" Score="1" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a question on Stack Overflow and after that I realized that the problem (and solution) was caused by a third party and nobody could really answer the question since it wasn't possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do I close such question? It degrades my accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't feel right for me to post answer to my own question and accept it, when nobody had a chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the question:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2267935/fileinfo-copyto-silently-fails&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2267935/fileinfo-copyto-silently-fails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143877" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T11:25:22.230" Title="How do I close question that cannot be answered?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40539" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:09:41.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too Localized&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If the question is very localized to a specific framework/package, it really isn't that useful to a wide variety of user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T18:09:41.563" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40539" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:10:49.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can't vote to close since your rep is too low, flag it for moderator review and just leave a note explaining why you want it closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, there is nothing wrong with posting your own answer and accepting it. You don't receive any reputation when you accept your own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T18:10:49.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40539" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:14:47.313" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just deleting it is probably easiest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T18:14:47.313" />
  <row Id="40543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:34:26.077" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38557/where-to-find-answers-to-seo-questions&quot;&gt;Where to find answers to SEO questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about Search Engine Optmization. It doesn't really feel like a programming question, nor a design question. Does it belong in stackoverflow, doctype, or somewhere else entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140098" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T18:34:26.077" ClosedDate="2010-02-25T18:42:59.727" Title="Where do I ask my SEO question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40545" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:35:00.630" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wondering if anyone has attempted to load the stackoverflow data into one of those compiled windows help files? I have always liked those. Just wondering if it has already been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133163" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T22:20:21.200" Title="Anyone made stackoverflow data available as a Windows Help File?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40544" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:38:58.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one has posted it, you could do it yourself and then make it available for the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T18:38:58.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10254" CreationDate="2010-02-25T18:57:45.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just got word back from yubico forums&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they upgraded there OID server I just tested and it worked&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this can be closed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130857" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T18:57:45.250" />
  <row Id="40548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:01:28.673" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;yubico recently fixed their openID server and it works with stack overflow (and i assume that means it will work with the rest)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the address is &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.yubico.com/server.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://openid.yubico.com/server.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130857" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T19:42:30.603" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T17:26:39.337" Title="Please add yubico OpenID to the list of &quot;shortcut&quot; openID addresses" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40551" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:07:54.980" Score="7" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I've been visiting the site continuously for the required amount of time to receive the  Fanatic badge, but I haven't received it yet. How do I find out how long I have left to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134974" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T04:00:35.887" Title="Why do I not yet have the Fanatic badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:13:42.597" Score="0" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want the feed for a tag. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=java&lt;/a&gt; does not work for me in my.yahoo.com. I can pull the feed if I don't filter it by any tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like a bug - not sure on whose side - yahoo or stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:00:03.130" Title="I can't pull RSS feeds into my.yahoo.com reader if I filter it with a tag" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40549" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:18:13.633" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you flag one of your posts, a moderator could let you know via email. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flag&lt;/strong&gt; on of your posts as &quot;Requires Moderator Attention&quot;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Type&lt;/strong&gt;: I think I should have fanatic badge by now, am I missing any days?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You'll either get a response as a comment in that post, or they may even email you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T19:18:13.633" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40550" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:26:27.033" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Ffeeds%2Ftag%3Ftagnames%3Djava&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The feed validates&lt;/a&gt;, so I would say it is an error on Yahoo's end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T19:26:27.033" />
  <row Id="40553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40556" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:41:59.373" Score="3" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;The basic scenario is that, in the course of answering a question, I might do a few searches and not really find a suitable link for additional information. If I've got some spare time and I'm familiar with the topic, it may make sense for me to write up an appropriate document, revisit my answer, and add the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, I might have some old code lying around that can be tidied up fairly quickly and contributed as an example - but it may be too big to just insert into an answer. A few snippets to illustrate the principle makes sense, but providing the full example has value too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, where do I put these things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of options, of course - free ISP web space, free web hosts, a commercial host aimed at small sites, free file hosting etc - but they don't really seem quite appropriate to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is that, like the questions and answers, I think these contributions should be editable by the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good or approved way to handle this kind of thing? Is it a real problem at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136873" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T20:24:08.103" Title="Repository for more substantial contributed documents, sample source code etc" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;content&gt;&lt;contribution&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40548" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:43:24.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there should be a button for every existing OpenId, otherwise we'll have a page full of buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the one we have are enough (and they are the most popular ones anyway)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T19:43:24.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40553" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:51:09.353" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's really long, put it on your blog. Otherwise, see these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2706/moving-a-personal-technical-blog-to-stackoverflow-serverfault&quot;&gt;Moving a personal technical blog to stackoverflow / serverfault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40553/repository-for-more-substantial-contributed-documents-sample-source-code-etc/40556#40556&quot;&gt;Shog9s answer&lt;/a&gt;. He points out another &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24608/what-is-the-etiquette-for-posting-an-article&quot;&gt;very related question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T20:06:25.923" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T20:06:25.923" />
  <row Id="40556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40553" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:58:10.183" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40553/repository-for-more-substantial-contributed-documents-sample-source-code-etc/40555#40555&quot;&gt;As fretje notes&lt;/a&gt;, if you have a blog then that would work just fine for medium-sized bits of code and/or articles. This is easily the most &lt;em&gt;flexible&lt;/em&gt; option, since you're free to include whatever you want - downloads, videos, cat pictures...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few decent sites out there already (CodeProject, etc) dedicated to hosting both full-blown articles (with associated discussions, supporting downloads, etc.) or short but non-trivial routines / snippets. Posting your stuff there and &lt;em&gt;linking&lt;/em&gt; to them on SO is a great way to benefit other users without locking your code into a single answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24608/what-is-the-etiquette-for-posting-an-article&quot;&gt;What is the etiquette for posting an article?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T19:58:10.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40553" CreationDate="2010-02-25T19:58:45.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want it editable by &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; community, the best place for it is &lt;em&gt;right here&lt;/em&gt;, as an answer to whatever question provoked you to develop it -- or even as an answer to your own (well developed!) question.  I don't think &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; question needs a super long and involved answer, but some of them deserve one.  (As &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/53978/ubuntu-automatically-mount-external-drives-to-media-label-on-boot-without-a-us/64970#64970&quot;&gt;an example&lt;/a&gt;...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to retain full control of your content, or you feel it's inappropriate for SOFU, by all means put it elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T19:58:45.360" />
  <row Id="40558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40553" CreationDate="2010-02-25T20:24:08.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I've already seen content that was linked to from SO disappear, leaving answers incomplete as the person that added the link didn't add much else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer that a complete answer be given that solves the problem, cut down as much as reasonable.  If more is needed, then one could put it in the answer as well - you've got up to 64k or so of space, so I don't see why not (other than the javascript performance of the code highlighter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, use pastebin or a similar service (there are several, some of which compile and run the code for some languages!) which allows you to post code examples of indeterminate length, and edit them collaboratively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But please, please, please make sure that the key points to the solution are in the answer itself.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T20:24:08.103" />
  <row Id="40559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T21:16:42.010" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question in Stackoverflow.com and the question was moved to meta.stackoverflow.com after a while. But I was never notified for any of the answers posted on the same issue. I am not sure why was that. Was that because my question was moved to Meta.Stackoverflow.com and I was not a member of Meta at that time? Or there was some another reason working behind the scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143883" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T07:28:38.203" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T07:28:38.203" Title="I am not notified" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40560" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-25T21:25:11.530" Score="24" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are, on SO, more an more users with names such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/220755/user220755&quot;&gt;user220755&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/281482/user281482&quot;&gt;user281482&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/198729/user198729&quot;&gt;user198729&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is better than the &quot;&lt;em&gt;unknown (google)&lt;/em&gt;&quot; kind of stuff we had before, but it's becoming quite confusing, with so many &lt;strong&gt;names that all look quite the same&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some users with such names have already been on SO for quite some time -- for instance, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/198729/user198729&quot;&gt;third one I linked to&lt;/a&gt; currently has more than 3k reputation, and has been a member for 3 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Would it be possible to suggest some of those users that &lt;strong&gt;they should choose a better display name&lt;/strong&gt;, pointing them to the edit-profile page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not be necessary for users who come, ask a couple of questions, and never come again ; but maybe this could be suggested to user with more than, say, 200 reputation?&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(i.e. users who have been on SO for a while, and might stay longer)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;suggest&quot;, I'm thinking about the orange bar that's dislayed when we get a badge, or have new comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T09:31:52.533" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T09:31:52.533" Title="Suggest userXYZ that they should choose a &quot;real&quot; name?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40559" CreationDate="2010-02-25T21:29:13.300" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're referring to not being notified about the Meta replies (hard to tell from your phrasing BTW), then its because you didn't have an account on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, you really should associate your accounts. It will help if a question is ever moved in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:29:13.300" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40559" CreationDate="2010-02-25T21:29:30.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40537/receiving-emails/40538#40538&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40537/receiving-emails/40538#40538&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently SO does not do email notifications...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:29:30.133" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40560" CreationDate="2010-02-25T21:30:37.650" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it very awkward addressing &lt;code&gt;@user&lt;/code&gt; in the comments. I don't know why it bothers me---odd, un-pronouncable, and &quot;not real&quot; names don't---but it really does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:30:37.650" />
  <row Id="40564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40560" CreationDate="2010-02-25T21:37:26.357" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh - what's the difference between user12345 and OMG Ponies?  Less to type, but otherwise arbitrary. We can change the username at will, and comments would be the only thing to break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reminding people about acceptance rating I can get behind, because it has a quantifiable impact, but not usernames.  Some are annoyed enough about acceptance rates, so I say &quot;pick your battles&quot; and don't believe this one to be worth anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:37:26.357" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37968" CreationDate="2010-02-25T21:56:38.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't want answers like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2327096/is-there-any-way-to-start-the-ruby-debugger-on-exception/2329932#2329932&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; banned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T21:56:38.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-25T21:56:38.580" />
  <row Id="40566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40569" CreationDate="2010-02-25T22:13:30.590" Score="3" ViewCount="142" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seem to be a lot of questions asked on SO (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2337927/how-much-is-too-much-for-a-lone-developer&quot;&gt;last example here)&lt;/a&gt; which are rants/cries-of-the-soul/shrieks-in-the-void etc... Most of them are career related (D'uh).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A vast majority are, of course, closed as &quot;Not a real question&quot;/&quot;Not programming related&quot;/&quot;Subjective&quot; - mostly, for a good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I find myself reading many of them with at least some interest and at times answering as they ARE worthy of answers/discussion - though not on SO. But they don't belong on Meta either as they are not about SO. Heck, sometimes I wish I could post a rant or two - but I refuse to do so on SO as it'd be hypocritical of me as closer of many such rants and against the site rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anyone consider creating RantOverflow? (I was thinking DailyWTF as a substitute, but that has a lot less useful/nice interface and infrastracture as SO engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="119280" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T22:19:47.113" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T23:05:39.863" ClosedDate="2010-02-26T07:11:35.053" Title="Proposed new StackExchange site: RantOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;rant&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44376" CreationDate="2010-02-25T22:15:39.230" Score="9" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently it's possible to cast 2 downvotes on a post.  You can flag as spam, thus casting a free downvote where you don't lose the 1 rep, and then actually downvote.  It might be that you can't cast an actual downvote after the graceperiod on the vote from the flag has expired.  I just flagged a SF question as spam and it allowed me to also downvote it right away.  I did remove the downvote so as not to double dip and now I can't go in and downvote it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is the double downvote by design?  I hope it's just a bug, given the change in weight of downvotes sometime in the next 6-8 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T00:03:11.653" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:03:27.767" Title="Double downvote by flagging as spam AND downvoting" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="40569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40566" CreationDate="2010-02-25T22:20:08.783" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure about RantOverflow, but I'm regularly seeing questions that would have their place on some kind of &lt;em&gt;AskTheDeveloppersFlow&lt;/em&gt;-like web-site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i.e. questions that are asking for opinion of some fellow peers -- not programming-related, but programmers-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131607" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T22:20:08.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40549" CreationDate="2010-02-25T22:35:45.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You were sorely missed on Nov 25th:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Finglas -&amp;gt; User accessed site Nov 28 at 17:41&#xA;Finglas -&amp;gt; User accessed site Nov 27 at 12:20&#xA;Finglas -&amp;gt; User accessed site Nov 26 at 8:35&#xA;Finglas -&amp;gt; User accessed site Nov 24 at 8:46&#xA;Finglas -&amp;gt; User accessed site Nov 23 at 9:43&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(edited slightly to remove IP and any irrelevant entries)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T22:35:45.803" />
  <row Id="40576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40580" CreationDate="2010-02-25T23:27:26.387" Score="2" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never heard of Stack Overflow until Joel made an announcement on his blog about it (like a year ago, post-beta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: Was Stack Overflow as helpful when it had hardly anyone on it as it is today? How long did it take to get answers? Was it still more helpful than your favorite forum/IRC/mailing list? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically what I'm wondering is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is Stack Overflow so useful because of its design or because of the mass amounts of people on it?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-25T23:29:27.943" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T04:11:02.120" Title="Was Stack Overflow as great in its beginnings as it is today?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;beta&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7616" CreationDate="2010-02-25T23:35:19.083" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually ask a question if I can't find it by quickly googling(as in, not having to go past the first page of google). The problem with most of my questions though is that a lot of them require discussion or are very localized.. so it sometimes &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; take days for me to formulate a good question to ask so that it isn't localized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T23:35:19.083" />
  <row Id="40578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40576" CreationDate="2010-02-25T23:38:48.423" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is a bit of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site itself is different from traditional forums, and therefore instantly gets attention. The reputation points and badges also has a lot to do with it's appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This attracted users who at the end of the day are brilliant, or very proficient in a particular area of expertise, or even users that are mediocre but still know the answers to common questions because they had to find those answers before. This means that even in the smaller areas you will find at least one person that can answer a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience SO has been great from the beginning, however I did follow it since the very first podcast came out, so also understand the original goals behind the sites. I do believe that it's the combination of users and design that make it work. It does however need both. Even with the best design in the world, without it's users it will be just another site. Ask anyone trying to launch a SE site at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T23:38:48.423" />
  <row Id="40579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40576" CreationDate="2010-02-25T23:41:04.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Both&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO currently has the most features out of ANY web forum I've visited. Its searchable, answers are sorted by votes, tags, run by the community, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO's traffic also pwns any other programming forum in traffic by at least 5 according to alexa. You are almost guaranteed an answer in an hour as opposed to a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both these &quot;features&quot; are why SO is so freakin' awesome. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T23:41:04.690" />
  <row Id="40580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40576" CreationDate="2010-02-25T23:44:44.713" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the first Beta Testers (I think from Week 2) and it was useful from the very first moment on, simply because it had critical mass from the get-go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't comment on ServerFault or SuperUser though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-02-25T23:44:44.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40583" CreationDate="2010-02-25T23:55:22.507" Score="1" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to have discussion site like SO for another purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IS source of SO like sites &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&lt;/a&gt; free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From where i can download, can i use on any site for any purpose free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T05:47:47.057" Title="Is source of SO free to use?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40581" CreationDate="2010-02-26T00:00:41.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot download the source. Those sites are hosted by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131227" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T00:00:41.077" />
  <row Id="40583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40581" CreationDate="2010-02-26T00:01:41.357" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, StackExchange and StackOverflow are not open-source software.  However, you can pay a fee to use the stackexchange software &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on your own site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, google for &quot;open-source stackoverflow clone&quot;, which should give you a free alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1 Apparently, stackexchange offers the first 45 days free as a trial&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130088" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T00:01:41.357" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40576" CreationDate="2010-02-26T03:14:34.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a critical mass to create question and post answers is &lt;strong&gt;fundamental&lt;/strong&gt; on a site like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff have mentioned it is like a restaurant. If you go to one and found it empty, you don't really feel like eating there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, is the design of the application that have retained and increased the number of users in the site. It is very addictive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a good design you've lost all those users in the first couple of weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T03:14:34.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40576" CreationDate="2010-02-26T04:11:02.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I preferred it earlier on.  Now there is so much crap on it.  Too much to wade through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T04:11:02.120" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31891" CreationDate="2010-02-26T04:39:25.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. I work on a lot of projects on my own time in order to learn new technologies, and I'd really like to be able to tag them on an individual basis and show that I have experience with them, even if it doesn't pertain to my work history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T04:39:25.477" />
  <row Id="40599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40581" CreationDate="2010-02-26T05:47:47.057" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;list of SO clones&lt;/a&gt;, some of which &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones/37953#37953&quot;&gt;are open source&lt;/a&gt;, developed on the language the OP liked the most (Python, Ruby, PHP, ASP.Net).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T05:47:47.057" />
  <row Id="40602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40716" CreationDate="2010-02-26T06:24:14.693" Score="21" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few weeks ago Joel mentioned that he would quit blogging on the ten-year anniversary of Joel on Software. However, it appears that he's going farther than that; the following appears in Joel's latest Inc column:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So having become an Internet celebrity in the&#xA;    narrow, niche world of programming, I've decided&#xA;    that it's time to retire from blogging. March&#xA;    17, the 10th anniversary of Joel on Software,&#xA;    will mark my last major post.  This also will be&#xA;    my last column for Inc.  For the most part, &lt;strong&gt;I&#xA;    will also quit podcasting&lt;/strong&gt; and public speaking. Twitter? &lt;em&gt;&quot;Awful, evil, must die, CB radio, sorry with only 140 chars I can't tell you why.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the end of the Stack Overflow podcast imminent? I realize no one could replace Joel, but is there a way to keep the show going in his absence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His reason for removing himself completely from the public eye:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The truth is, as much as I've enjoyed it, blogging has become increasingly impossible to do the way I want to as Fog Creek has become a larger company. We now have 32 employees and at least six substantial product lines. We have so many customers that I can't always write freely without inadvertently insulting one of them. And my daily duties now take so much time that it has become a major effort to post something thoughtful even once or twice a month. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The article is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100301/lets-take-this-offline.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;now up on inc.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T19:45:42.517" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T07:16:17.063" Title="Joel to quit the podcast?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;&lt;joel-spolsky&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40602" CreationDate="2010-02-26T06:26:11.693" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a podcast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T06:26:11.693" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40602" CreationDate="2010-02-26T06:31:23.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100301/lets-take-this-offline.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;his swan song&lt;/a&gt; is in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inc._%28magazine%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inc.&lt;/a&gt; Yes, it says that. He also pokes fun at Twitter and says he'll be done with that - or perhaps I totally misunderstood the joke. (It was in italics after all - and maybe that threw me off.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-20T07:16:17.063" LastActivityDate="2011-04-20T07:16:17.063" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40602" CreationDate="2010-02-26T06:54:49.173" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He basically says he's too busy catching the helicopter from the East Side to the place in the Hamptons to do any more blogging, he's tired of all the unwashed masses sending him emails, tired of all of the book store book signings, tired of his agent sending him movie scripts, and he's busy working on VC money to buy Expert Sex Change and force those responsible to endure public humiliation.  And there was something about a kid with an eye patch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and he totally wants to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://calacanis.com/2008/07/11/official-announcement-regarding-my-retirement-from-blogging/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cool like Calacanis so he's quitting blogging&lt;/a&gt; and buying a Tesla.  And getting a bulldog.  Or maybe a shitzu.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something like that - I can't really remember - I got so emotional and teary and the ink blurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or he just has some more &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-shark.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sharks to jump&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26177" LastEditorUserId="26177" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T16:07:54.293" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T16:07:54.293" />
  <row Id="40612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-26T08:16:02.877" Score="-1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40609/how-to-use-stackoverflow-com-to-get-solution-for-programming-problems&quot;&gt;How to use stackoverflow.com to get solution for programming problems?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to explain problem nicely in&#xA;question if we can't share live link of problematic&#xA;page?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How should i write better title for&#xA;question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to share Screenshot of problem&#xA;to give visual clue?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to format source code before&#xA;pasting code in SO's question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should i ask question using&#xA;unordered or ordered list or a long&#xA;paragraph is OK?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to use all SO's WYSIWYG editor&#xA;buttons to format question better?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to use TAGS, Is it necessary to&#xA;use all 5 tag or one/two is enough?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How we should use Edit Summary?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;any other tips to explain question very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T08:27:25.553" ClosedDate="2010-02-26T08:29:02.447" Title="How to explain question very well on SO to get better answer quickly?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;non-programming-related&gt;&lt;non-technical&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40612" CreationDate="2010-02-26T08:27:25.553" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to achieve this is to read many other questions. Some questions will be clear for you, whether you are expert in that given technology or not. These are the &quot;good&quot; questions. Try to figure out what makes them clear.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The other way is simply to get used to think with someone else's head, who has no idea what your situation is. This is the harder way.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For screenshots, you can use Flickr or any other image store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T08:27:25.553" />
  <row Id="40619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2010-02-26T10:13:46.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a blog, but the design is inspired by Stack Overflow. I liked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulstovell.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulstovell.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T15:30:23.757" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T15:30:23.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-26T10:13:46.100" />
  <row Id="40620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-26T11:20:57.727" Score="5" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I ask questions on the sites I often check the &quot;Notify me@example.com daily of any new answers&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call myself a power user but I do check back on the site often and can't remember ever seeing an answer in the email that I haven't already seen. I'd like some way of only receiving the email with answers in that I haven't already viewed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, I could just not tick the box but I don't want to miss something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd like to choose whether to receive the email for daily answers only if we haven't seen the answers on the site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funnily enough I have ticked the notify box on this question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131273" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T11:20:57.727" Title="Can we choose whether to receive the email for daily answers only if we haven't seen the answers?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;email&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40624" CreationDate="2010-02-26T11:56:18.593" Score="2" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is superuser.com a good place to ask a question about a virus that was detected or is there a better suited website that uses the stackexchange engine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143909" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T12:45:19.063" Title="Where would you ask a question about malware?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40622" CreationDate="2010-02-26T12:45:19.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Virus related questions are OK on &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;superuser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T12:45:19.063" />
  <row Id="40625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40628" CreationDate="2010-02-26T12:46:16.737" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if I can get alerts about interesting jobs from the careers site and if I can show interest if I find a position that is interesting for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135658" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T22:12:24.573" Title="Is there any way to get alerts about jobs on careers site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-26T13:31:24.087" Score="0" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/686/accepting-answer-without-upvoting&quot;&gt;Accepting answer without upvoting?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lately a lot of my accepted answers have 0 upvotes. Out of my last 8 accepted answers 5 are without upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that in 90% of the cases it's because the OP doesn't know that they could (should?) upvote. I'd feel bad explaining to the new users that they could also upvote me... in the end it's no big deal but still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what about either an auto-upvote when accepting or at least a message saying &quot;you know that upvoting the answer would be nice ?&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/686/accepting-answer-without-upvoting&quot;&gt;discussed before&lt;/a&gt;, but the accepted answer states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since it is simple enough to cast an&#xA;  upvote and accept the answer, I don't&#xA;  a see a reason to constrain the user&#xA;  in this manner. I agree, &lt;strong&gt;I've never&#xA;  had a situation where I wasn't&#xA;  upvoting along with accepting&lt;/strong&gt;. But,&#xA;  everyone has a different&#xA;  reason/rationale for upvoting, so I&#xA;  don't think the system should force&#xA;  that upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and I don't agree, there are lots of cases where users don't upvote when accepting, simply because they don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="131061" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T14:03:52.943" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T14:19:46.407" ClosedDate="2010-02-26T15:19:42.297" Title="Should accepting an answer automatically up-vote it?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="40628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40625" CreationDate="2010-02-26T13:31:44.460" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's really not how the careers site works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how the &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jobs site works&lt;/a&gt;. If you create a &lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?pg=pgSearch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;custom search&lt;/a&gt; for jobs in your area, you can add it to your RSS feed and be notified daily through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T13:31:44.460" />
  <row Id="40629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40627" CreationDate="2010-02-26T13:42:35.123" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check the rep on those users -- are they below 15? More importantly, were they when your answers were marked as best? &quot;New&quot; users -- that is, users who are below 15 rep -- can't vote, even on their own questions. Likely they &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to upvote you (they figured out the system enough to mark an answer, after all), but they were simply not allowed to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick glance at your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/90691/marcgg&quot;&gt;SO profile&lt;/a&gt;'s lowest-voted answers seems to indicate that these are in fact very low-rep users. I have no problem believing that a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2265408/jquery-dynamic-events-how-to-achieve/2265436#2265436&quot;&gt;user who now has 351 rep was below 15 on February 15&lt;/a&gt;, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2340550/how-to-use-hudson-tracker-with-a-ruby-on-rails-project/2340606#2340606&quot;&gt;user who currently has 23 rep was probably under 15 4 hours ago&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2340975/query-with-ruby-on-rails/2341003#2341003&quot;&gt;This guy &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; has under 15 rep.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note all times and reps are as of this posting. I have &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; intention of keeping them current. YMMV.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T13:42:35.123" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40627" CreationDate="2010-02-26T14:19:46.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please no. You are able to accept &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; up-vote (if you meet the requirement of having 15 rep), so I see no reason to force it upon anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If something like this would be implemented, I still would like to be able to take the up-vote back without taking the accept back. Some answers deserve to be &quot;accepted&quot;, but that doesn't mean they automatically deserve 25 rep from one user!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T14:19:46.407" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40602" CreationDate="2010-02-26T14:35:32.367" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;So having become an Internet celebrity in the narrow, niche world of programming, I've decided that it's time to retire from blogging&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Having achieved the only prize one can from blogging, I'm leaving on a high note.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it leaves me feeling that he's killing the golden goose - a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of people use FogBugz and other Fog Creek products because they learned about Joel through his blog, which attracted a lot of external links, specifically from people who could become his customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the market (blogs for programming/management/startups/software development/etc) is well saturated, and it could be that the return on his time is very small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as he pointed out, as Fog Creek grows, he has to decide as the public facing mouthpiece whether to continue and possibly offend people, continue, but change his output to a more bland flavor to avoid offense, or discontinue and recede into the background - let his products and marketing speak for the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is, after all, the Steve Jobs of Fog Creek, but unlike Steve he's not willing to be a showman and say what's necessary to propel the company forward - he says what he wants to say, and lets the chips fall where they may.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, after 10 years he may also simply be getting tired.  Writing a blog is &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt;.  Further, he may also be positioning himself to exit Fog Creek &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; to dig in and work harder on it to bring it to the next level.  The company is developed to the point where it's in a great position, but it may need new reins to take it higher.  As profitable as plateauing (or even moderate growth) can be, if you are not growing you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; eventually be declining.  This may require a new leader, a cash infusion, or simply more time commitments from the existing leadership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then he's also searching for investment in Stackoverflow - so perhaps he's merely digging in so he can focus on that endeavor, which has a very short window to succeed, or be overtaken by competitors in the areas it doesn't already have a foothold.  He has probably already found out that he's said too much about this effort on his blog and the podcast, and wants to avoid shooting himself in the foot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T15:43:17.510" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T15:43:17.510" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40602" CreationDate="2010-02-26T14:47:49.407" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now the real question is if the content of the blog will remain available? If not, I've got some copying to do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T14:47:49.407" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40648" CreationDate="2010-02-26T14:59:12.367" Score="-3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am allowed to change my vote on some question or answer when it is edited. Apparently, this allowance does not extend to a change of the Community Wiki state. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in question: Someone asked a question which would have been good as a CW, but bad as a non-CW question. It wasn't a CW, so I voted it down. People explained the CW thing to the questioner and she or he edited the question checking the CW checkbox. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to click on &quot;edit&quot; to do this and then click the &quot;Save Edits&quot; button. Yet, this edit seems not to be enough for me to change my vote on the question. I had to make a dummy edit in order to be allowed to change the vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I can't see a good reason why clicking on an &quot;edit&quot; button and then clicking on &quot;Save Edits&quot; isn't considered an edit, I file this under &lt;code&gt;bug&lt;/code&gt;. If this is by design, I'd be very curious about the rationale. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(BTW: I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19021/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19021/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/&lt;/a&gt; and don't think they're exact duplicates.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133368" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T20:05:48.987" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T20:05:48.987" Title="Cannot change my vote after Wiki status was changed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="40635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40634" CreationDate="2010-02-26T15:00:48.913" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rationale can be seen here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37825/what-is-a-bad-feature-of-stack-overflow/37832#37832&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37825/what-is-a-bad-feature-of-stack-overflow/37832#37832&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T15:50:50.303" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T15:50:50.303" />
  <row Id="40637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40659" CreationDate="2010-02-26T15:18:53.920" Score="9" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I answered a question that was tagged noob-question. After answering, I decided noob-question does not carry any useful information. But then I discovered there was 70 question tagged this way, and 300 or more question tagged newbie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think it is a good edit to remove uninformative tag?&#xA;Do you think such tags are somehow useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143923" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T18:08:08.880" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T18:08:08.880" Title="Removing useless tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="40638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40650" CreationDate="2010-02-26T15:38:14.150" Score="3" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: Jagidish ******** [mailto:jag*******@gmail.com] &#xA;    Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:02 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    I have a need of sme zend doccumens to study, if i &#xA;    getting doccument with source code for study it is &#xA;    good for me so plz try to help me.&#xA;                                        thank you,&#xA;                                        Jagidish &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:19:29.643" Title="Advertising Inquiry: need of sme zend" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40638" CreationDate="2010-02-26T15:59:30.770" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Gettin'-Jaggy-Wit'-It,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you spell &quot;please&quot; as &quot;plz,&quot; and&#xA;  &quot;documents&quot; as &quot;doccumens,&quot; how could&#xA;  you possibly expect to &lt;em&gt;understand&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  said documents when you get them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, because I do so enjoy&#xA;  exercises in futility, the web site&#xA;  you want is &lt;a href=&quot;http://framework.zend.com/manual/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Urs in lolspk,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T15:59:30.770" />
  <row Id="40645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40638" CreationDate="2010-02-26T16:35:27.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Jagidish,&#xA;&#xA;I have a need of sme zen doccuwomens for study, and &#xA;it is good for me too. plz try to help me, snd me ur &#xA;women.&#xA;                                    thank you,&#xA;                                    Alex&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T17:19:29.643" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:19:29.643" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40638" CreationDate="2010-02-26T16:40:46.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Jagidish,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WmVuZCBGcmFtZXdvcmsgaXMgYW4gb3BlbiBzb3VyY2UgZnJhbWV3b3JrIGZvciBkZXZlbG9w &#xA;  aW5nIHdlYiBhcHBsaWNhdGlvbnMgYW5kIHNlcnZpY2VzIHdpdGggUEhQIDUuIFplbmQgRnJh &#xA;  bWV3b3JrIGlzIGltcGxlbWVudGVkIHVzaW5nIDEwMCUgb2JqZWN0LW9yaWVudGVkIGNvZGUu &#xA;  IFRoZSBjb21wb25lbnQgc3RydWN0dXJlIG9mIFplbmQgRnJhbWV3b3JrIGlzIHNvbWV3aGF0 &#xA;  IHVuaXF1ZTsgZWFjaCBjb21wb25lbnQgaXMgZGVzaWduZWQgd2l0aCBmZXcgZGVwZW5kZW5j &#xA;  aWVzIG9uIG90aGVyIGNvbXBvbmVudHMuIFRoaXMgbG9vc2VseSBjb3VwbGVkIGFyY2hpdGVj &#xA;  dHVyZSBhbGxvd3MgZGV2ZWxvcGVycyB0byB1c2UgY29tcG9uZW50cyBpbmRpdmlkdWFsbHku &#xA;  IFdlIG9mdGVuIGNhbGwgdGhpcyBhICJ1c2UtYXQtd2lsbCIgZGVzaWduLiA= &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely, Alex&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T16:40:46.023" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40634" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:00:36.093" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say this is by design.  While you are free to vote however you like, the site encourages you to vote down only if the question is unclear or not useful.  It does not encourage nor does it need to support users that downvote because they believe it should be wiki, but is otherwise clear and useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If forcing a question into CW mode was a desired feature, then it would exist.  It does not, by design, and so I submit that wiki-bullying is not going to be supported by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A position I may well be downvoted into oblivion for, but one which I wholeheartedly agree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-26T17:21:24.363" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:21:24.363" />
  <row Id="40649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15650" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:12:02.997" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amusing, considering that lmgtfy is banned, while &lt;a href=&quot;http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jfgi&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://fuckinggoogleit.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fgi&lt;/a&gt; are allowed :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143933" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:12:02.997" />
  <row Id="40650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40638" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:18:10.813" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Jagidish,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your time in writing me - it is a great pleasure of mine to hear from my fellow brothers who were strangers once, but have reached out to become friends!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I am not able to help you in your business, but you strike me as the sort of honest, upright fellow that I believe I can trust you with an opportunity that I have at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, many years ago my father was killed in the great New York civil war.  Prior to his death he had obtained the favor of some government diplomats who engaged him in their secret - a certain treasure - and were to employ him in securing this treasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He relayed to me this information just before he died, and told me of his partners, all of whom are unfortunately also in the great beyond.  I have attempted to secure the treasure he died for, but the repository will not allow it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coincidentally, you share the name of my father, and I believe that the repository would release the treasure into your hands, so that my family may finally lay claim to their deserved inheritance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously you would be richly rewarded for your goodwill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please accept this opportunity - it has much greater rewards than zend doccumens might provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours in brotherhood,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shidijag&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:18:10.813" />
  <row Id="40651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40559" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:33:32.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the user was notified on the original site that a question had been migrated; otherwise the only way to see what happened to the question is to explicitly go to it and follow the migration link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:33:32.000" />
  <row Id="40652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:47:39.070" Score="4" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;(This may be a limited, moderator-only option, but... who knows what kind of uses we can find for it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When conducting a poll or an election, earlier answers get &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more exposure (and many more votes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For issues where you want to weigh true community opinion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35583/nominations-new-stack-overflow-moderator-closed&quot;&gt;Nominations: New Stack Overflow Moderator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40585/free-laptop-to-deserving-meta-user&quot;&gt;Free Laptop To Deserving Meta User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...consider adding an option to &lt;strong&gt;hide the answers until some future date.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add a notice at the bottom of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a poll. Add your entry now. Answers will remain hidden until 3/5/2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers/submissions will all appear at once with zero votes each. The ordering of the post will start out as random and people can start voting, giving each entry the same exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T21:18:09.237" Title="For Special Polls/Elections - Option to Hide answers Until Future Date" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;poll&gt;&lt;moderator-election&gt;&lt;moderator-nomination&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="40654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40652" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:54:08.853" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How would you handle duplicate answers, product of people not being able to see them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of polls (the very limited, official polls) is for people to vote on an answer that already exists.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This suggestion breaks the SO Engine spirit IMO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:54:08.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40652" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:54:33.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this will be implemented because it would be almost never used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:54:33.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33376" CreationDate="2010-02-26T17:57:01.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the field in a Google Account Profile page that asks for something that you cannot find with Google, technically &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; is a Google-searchable question. Of course that does not mean you will find the answer. The point to the SE sites is to draw upon the knowledge and experience of people who either have already been through the problem an asker is having, or to provoke interest in a new problem so that a group can work on it rather than just an individual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t think that it is right to evaluate the worthiness of a question since that task is highly subjective in and of itself. I recall giving a notable Microsoft MVP what for, who would leave snide and arrogant replies to any questions he deemed beneath him on the MS C++ Usenet group. Just because he already knew everything does not mean that everybody else, especially those who are just starting should shut up, go away and read the 1,000 page manual just to find out how to do a “simply thing”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, instead of determining the so-called value of a question (who would do that anyway? someone who knows the answers? someone who is a beginner?) the more effective solution is to get people to use the search function. Stack Overflow already has a terrific implementation of a way to encourage this behavior. I am very impressed with how it shows a list of related questions based on the title entered. I am sure that it has already worked many times. (Perhaps there is a way to glean how effective it is from the server logs?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131979" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T17:57:01.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-26T17:57:01.937" />
  <row Id="40658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40637" CreationDate="2010-02-26T18:03:52.540" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a good edit to remove uninformative tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tags should be used to specify the content of the post, not as derogatory uses targeting the user, and IMHO not to specify the complexity level of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T18:03:52.540" />
  <row Id="40659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40637" CreationDate="2010-02-26T18:05:43.650" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think at this time, &lt;code&gt;beginner&lt;/code&gt; is the most popular of that type of tag, and it is also the least offensive, so I say all tags like that should be merged into &lt;code&gt;beginner&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T18:05:43.650" />
  <row Id="40660" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40662" CreationDate="2010-02-26T19:43:55.973" Score="6" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38729&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, I'm posting this as a new question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Badge for getting more than one accepted answer in a single day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different levels could apply as usual, getting a gold badge for a lot (help defining the thresholds, I'm not very good at it, perhaps we could use the data dump to get good values) of accepted answers in a single day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T00:17:51.547" Title="Badge for getting more than one accepted answer in a single day" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40568" CreationDate="2010-02-26T19:46:08.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a 2 point decrease in rep without it showing up in my activity summary (and now that I think about it, it's not the first time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be as a result of a flag as spam on one of my posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T19:46:08.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40660" CreationDate="2010-02-26T20:25:25.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the idea, but we'd have to be careful.  There were a lot of answers accepted in the week right after they first introduced the Accept Rate feature.  That could skew things quite a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T20:25:25.967" />
  <row Id="40663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-26T20:32:21.833" Score="3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &quot;too localized&quot; is a valid reason to close a question, this should be mentioned in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-03T22:21:38.013" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T22:22:26.407" Title="&quot;Too Localized&quot; a reason to close, but not in the FAQ" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;too-localized&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40668" CreationDate="2010-02-26T20:47:46.327" Score="47" ViewCount="449" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40568&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; brought to my attention something that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22174/how-does-the-offensive-flag-work/22175#22175&quot;&gt;was always there&lt;/a&gt;, but few knew: flagging a post as SPAM produces a 2 point rep penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is I just got a 2 point decrease in rep without it showing up in my activity summary (and it's not the first time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be as a result of a flag as spam on one of my posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, this behavior could potentially be exploited, as I don't think this will show up in the anti-vote-fraud script, and furthermore, there's no way of knowing which posts are being flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we at least add the rep lost as a flag to the envelope summary as a way of alerting us?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If I hadn't been on the site at that moment, I probably wouldn't had known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T10:58:14.837" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T10:58:14.837" Title="Getting flagged as spam should appear in the activity summary" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;activity-summary&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40660" CreationDate="2010-02-26T20:50:17.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about more than one answer accepted by other people?  I can get two of my answers accepted in one day; all I have to do is ask two obscure questions and answer them myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T20:50:17.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40652" CreationDate="2010-02-26T21:18:09.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about simply hiding the votes on answers (but let the answers themselves stay visible)? That would still achieve your desired effect, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T21:18:09.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40665" CreationDate="2010-02-26T21:19:22.963" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it affects rep, it should show up in the activity log.  If my posts are getting flagged as spam, I want to know so I can act and fix them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T21:19:22.963" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40660" CreationDate="2010-02-26T21:23:15.267" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would you want this to be a badge earned just once, or multiple times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the various benefits already associated with having an answer accepted (various badges becoming available for that answer, the 15 uncapped rep) I'm not sure whether anything extra is really required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T21:23:15.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40665" CreationDate="2010-02-26T21:26:10.237" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed; I just flagged a post that was in the flag list in the 10k mod tools and it got another downvote and the poster took a -2 rep (actually, it was -102 since I was the sixth vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I don't see any posts from you in the flag list on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T21:26:10.237" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40625" CreationDate="2010-02-26T22:12:24.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP's question makes sense if he is speaking from the perspective of the employer. The careers site is all about helping employers find good candidates, so having an RSS feed for custom searches would be really awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-26T22:12:24.573" />
  <row Id="40673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40660" CreationDate="2010-02-27T00:12:18.320" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been said &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/102/additional-badge-ideas/1256#1256&quot;&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt; that there should be more recognition for those who are active in areas which get less attention from the community.  From that point of view these would be good to have - there are no badges for accepted answers &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; some reasonable degree of upvoting too.  Perhaps requiring three or more accepted answers would make the badges just that little bit shinier - a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_origin_of_the_bowling_term_turkey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Turkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I there's a concern about 'badge inflation' surely that could be addressed, perhaps by looking at the popularity of question tags, number of question views, or limiting to accepted answers that don't otherwise earn a 'Good Answer' badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastEditorUserId="138400" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T00:17:51.547" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T00:17:51.547" />
  <row Id="40674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-02-27T03:21:38.390" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scipy.org/Developer_Zone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;SciPy, the Matlab Killer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i45.tinypic.com/2eoxz5d.png&quot; alt=&quot;SciPy, the Matlab Killer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141287" LastEditorUserId="134079" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T12:49:09.773" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T12:49:09.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-27T03:21:38.390" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40676" CreationDate="2010-02-27T04:27:42.400" Score="0" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have added &quot;Stackoverflow Profile View&quot; gadget doesn't seem to get added to my igoogle page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I received &lt;code&gt;Information is temporarily unavailable&lt;/code&gt; inside an empty gadget...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have deleted all my gadgets and added &quot;Stackoverflow Profile View&quot; gadget still the same error...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ah nuts! StackOverflow has added javascript to de-frame itself. So, this gadget will no longer work.&lt;/code&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="138350" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T11:50:34.660" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T11:50:34.660" Title="&quot;Stackoverflow Profile View&quot; gadget doesn't seem to get added to my igoogle page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google-gadget&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40675" CreationDate="2010-02-27T05:58:12.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may want to consult the place that you downloaded the Stackoverflow Profile View gadget. If it was on Meta, you might want to post a comment/answer to the author's question introducing the widget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, the creators of Stackoverflow do not publish offical widgets, gadgets, or any other 3rd party application, as they are focused enough as it is on the actual development of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T05:58:12.573" />
  <row Id="40677" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-27T06:49:06.573" Score="0" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to get all questions/answers of my interested tags in my mailbox using SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T16:06:20.287" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:06:20.287" Title="General Email Question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;email&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40677" CreationDate="2010-02-27T06:56:28.990" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allow me to extrapolate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow's only built-in email feature is the feature that allows you to receive notifications about a specific question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use an external service that possibly would use an RSS feed to get the same effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T06:56:28.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-27T07:07:01.620" Score="-2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is one &quot;relatively simple&quot; functionality that could be added to SO to assist in helping clarify vague questions, and that would not be experienced as &quot;negative,&quot; or &quot;punitive,&quot; by people (particularly newcomers to SO, or people for whom English is not their first language).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestion would not &quot;get in the way&quot; of people who want to answer responding to questions immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let SO users of some appropriate &quot;rep&quot; (or any user?) suggest/invite questioners to fill out an optional on-line Form in which there are a series of check-boxes, or options from drop-down lists, or whatever UI is appropriate: somehow get their choices back into the original question in a useful, terse way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the design and content of that optional on-line Form: well, I trust the creativity of the SO community, in which I am only a &quot;larval&quot; newcomer, could best envision that, and optimize it for maximum benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obvious things, for example in C#, I'd like to know (which are not revealed in many questions and which cannot be inferred from the question) are whether the question is in the context of WinForms, WPF, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139329" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T16:09:43.183" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:09:43.183" Title="A simple, helpful, addition to SO functionality to aid clarifying &quot;vague questions&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40679" CreationDate="2010-02-27T07:29:43.167" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That seems like an awful lot of work (both to build, and to use). From my experience, asking &quot;Can you clarify?&quot; in a comment typically gets the job done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T07:33:26.560" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T07:33:26.560" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40682" CreationDate="2010-02-27T10:21:09.613" Score="0" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have nearly 170 questions in my user page... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to filter my own questions based on Tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For ex: I want to filter questions tagged &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestion....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T11:40:11.577" Title="Filter my own questions based on Tags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40681" CreationDate="2010-02-27T11:40:11.577" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go to the tag list on the bottom of your profile page and click the tag. This is the same as (e.g.) putting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:146857 [javascript]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into the search box. This will show all your posts, i.e. questions and answers, in the specific tag. To only show the questions, you can use this trick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:146857 [javascript] views:0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can replace the user number 146857 with &quot;me&quot;, i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me [javascript] views:0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T11:40:11.577" />
  <row Id="40683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40685" CreationDate="2010-02-27T11:48:46.877" Score="1" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have first downvoted an answer. Then, I decided to leave it the way it was before, meaning to undo my downvote just like it never existed, so I upvote to remove my downvote. Suprise! SO seems to consider it as two upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say I have an answer with -3, then I decide to downvote it making it -4. After deeper thoughts, I prefer to remove my downvote to let it the way it was before I downvoted, meaning -3, but SO makes it -2 automatically!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be supposed -3, and not -2? If someone else would have upvoted, it would have made it an upvote +1, not a +2!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, is there a way to tell SO that I only wish to undo my downvote, and not upvote the answer? I may understand why it does behave this way. I only wish to undo my downvote, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143033" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T01:06:32.880" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T01:06:32.880" Title="Upvoting a downvoted answer will do +2 upvote?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;math&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40683" CreationDate="2010-02-27T13:34:41.460" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To &lt;em&gt;undo&lt;/em&gt; a vote, click the same vote you clicked earlier. See the tooltips for help: &lt;em&gt;click again to undo&lt;/em&gt;. This will change -1 or +1 into 0 (for &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; vote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Clicking the other vote is not really &lt;em&gt;undoing&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;changing&lt;/em&gt; -1 into +1, or +1 into -1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T13:34:41.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-27T13:34:41.460" />
  <row Id="40686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-27T13:52:17.307" Score="6" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24090/validation-fail-unchecks-wiki-email&quot;&gt;Validation Fail - Unchecks Wiki/Email&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a question error, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;must include one of these tags -- bug feature-request discussion support&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;'faq ' contains a tag reserved for moderator use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the community wiki checkbox is cleared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ask Question&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter title and body&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select the &lt;code&gt;community wiki&lt;/code&gt; checkbox (below body on lower left)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter tags with an error (include &lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt; if you are not a moderator, or don't include a required tag)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Post Your Question&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Observe that the title, body, and tags are intact, but the &lt;code&gt;community wiki&lt;/code&gt; checkbox has been cleared&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know all the posting errors that can occur, but expect that if the post fails for some other reason (missing title/body, too short, ???) it may have the same issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minor error, but I still see people posting questions, then indicate later that they thought they checked CW, but they had to go back later and re-check it because it obviously didn't go through.  This might be one of the root causes for that situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T10:28:48.680" ClosedDate="2010-03-12T11:38:58.020" Title="Community Wiki checkbox reset on question submission error" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-27T15:42:40.403" Score="1" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12334/how-to-log-in-to-so-using-a-google-apps-account&quot;&gt;How to log in to SO using a Google Apps account&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to logon to StackOverflow using a google apps account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the logon page for stackoverflow, I put in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/site-xrds?hd=example.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/site-xrds?hd=example.com&lt;/a&gt; for the OpenID URL.  The browser takes me over to google apps to login. I login successfully, but when the browser returns to stackoverflow, the stackoverflow page gives me an error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The OpenId Provider issued an&#xA;  assertion for an Identifier whose&#xA;  discovery information did not match.&#xA;  Assertion endpoint info:&#xA;  ClaimedIdentifier:&#xA;  ht tp://example.com/openid?id=123445671234567712345&#xA;  ProviderLocalIdentifier:&#xA;  ht tp://example.com/openid?id=123445671234567712345&#xA;  ProviderEndpoint:&#xA;  ht tps://www.google.com/a/example.com/o8/ud?be=o8&#xA;  OpenID version: 2.0 Service Type URIs:&#xA;  (unavailable) Discovered endpoint&#xA;  info: {}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T15:59:50.050" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T22:09:24.223" ClosedDate="2010-02-27T22:44:58.367" Title="Is it possible to logon to StackOverflow using a google apps account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40691" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:06:56.197" Score="11" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say I ask a lot of questions and I manage to have the same person answer at least 14 of them. I can then exploit the system by accepting all of his or her answers and writing a script that - every day at 12:01 - unaccepts them and accepts them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point right after midnight UTC this person will have gained 210 reputation for the day and will be unable to gain more from upvotes, while their overall reputation won't change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I think the current system is really dumb, it shouldn't matter when in the day the answer was accepted&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T18:34:02.177" LastActivityDate="2010-06-09T18:34:02.177" Title="Possible way to abuse accepted answers to harass others?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;exploit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:04:31.950" Score="2" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to be a new stackoverflow user and my first question was a question dealing with logging in to stackoverflow with OpenId.  OpenId is based on hyperlinks, so in order to ask a question, I had to include more than 1 hyperlink.  When I posted, &quot;karma&quot; kicked in and told me I couldn't use more than 1 hyperlink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get around the problem, I just put a space in the protocol part of the url (eg, ht tp://example.com) to break the links, but it also makes the technical details incorrect.  It's minor, but in a small way ruins the integrity of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better solution would be to make the links not clickable in the question until the user gets enough Karma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original question I had that karma kicked in on was:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2347896/is-it-possible-to-logon-to-stackoverflow-using-a-google-apps-account&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2347896/is-it-possible-to-logon-to-stackoverflow-using-a-google-apps-account&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LOL, and &quot;karma&quot; kicked in for this question too, saying new users can only post question every 20 minutes; try again later.  I guess I can wait, but isn't 20 minutes exessive?  And wouldn't a CAPTCHA be more fitting? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T16:38:09.317" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T17:40:24.263" Title="Is stackoveflow's karma over zealous?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40689" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:09:22.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, probably simply not linking the links but allowing them is much better than the current system (where you awkwardly get around it by putting a space in http, like you said).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your second question see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog entry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:09:22.247" />
  <row Id="40691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40688" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:10:41.493" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, you would screw that person over. It would accomplish absolutely nothing for you, however, and I suspect that if people noticed you could face action from the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, it's possible. I don't think it's likely to happen though - at least not for long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree with you that a time-based rep cap is non-ideal (as has been discussed at length before), I've learned to just live with it. Accepting things you can't change makes for a lot more pleasant life :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:10:41.493" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40688" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:17:47.097" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First you have to find a person you really hate for all this effort, second this person must answer 14 of your questions and will third flag for mod attention as soon as he will figure out something is wrong (or he will post her on Meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to care about this edge case programmatically. Manual intervention will suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:17:47.097" />
  <row Id="40693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40688" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:24:27.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system to autodetect bad voting patterns will detect it and revert your changes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, a simple note to the moderators would revert the vote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once either of the above happens, then a reputation recalc will fix the possible reputation loss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, it's a lot of work for a little reward, and requires you to not only have many questions, but be interested in targeting a user that happened to answer several of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the system needs to be changed to prevent that action, but I'm sure if it becomes a common problem they'll take another look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:24:27.457" />
  <row Id="40694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40689" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:27:53.973" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm new to a stackexchange site, I'll put links in code blocks using the backquote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://someurl.com/ditheringtechniques/4colordither.html&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And ask in a comment that someone with the ability to edit remove the backquotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll do the same thing when I need to use a tag that isn't already available - I'll ask in a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It usually works out pretty well, and doesn't take long to get enough rep to participate more fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:27:53.973" />
  <row Id="40695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40689" CreationDate="2010-02-27T16:30:33.233" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, besides fighting spam, the reputation (or karma, as you call it) has the purpose of giving a quantitative value to the amount of trust the system (i.e. Stack Overflow) has in a user. For examples, new users often fail to make themselves familiar with the rules of the site. They don't read the introductory faq or even just the large box&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How to Ask&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is your question about programming?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provide details. Write clearly and simply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about this website, &lt;strong&gt;ask it on meta&lt;/strong&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;right on the &quot;Ask a question&quot; page. They just type anything they want to know into the question box and hit &quot;Post&quot;; no matter if the question actually belongs on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the reputation is also a way to measure how familiar a user is with (the rules of) the site, and thus how likely they are to abide by the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T16:30:33.233" />
  <row Id="40696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-27T17:27:05.867" Score="-5" ViewCount="674" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a few &quot;late hits&quot; recently. These are answers coming in months after the accepted answer. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54579/wcf-configuration-without-a-config-file/2345064#2345064&quot;&gt;In one case&lt;/a&gt; of the answer came in 17 months late!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, since the answer was a reference to a blog post written by the answerer, I questioned him in comments as to whether that was appropriate. I felt it was a bit spammy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1087185/http-testing-tool-easily-send-post-get-put/2348225#2348225&quot;&gt;In a second case&lt;/a&gt; the answer is another tool recommendation. I wouldn't call it spam, since I don't know if the answerer has any association with the tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these cases something we should be concerned with? There aren't too many of them, so maybe we can just leave them alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-27T19:59:13.060" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T14:03:07.950" Title="What to do about Late Answers (if Anything)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-27T17:31:37.400" Score="-1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just noticed (again) an ad &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; SO &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems the ad-scheduling should/could be a &lt;em&gt;teensy&lt;/em&gt; bit more intelligent...  ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140977" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T18:20:44.100" Title="An ad for stackoverflow *on* stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;cosmetic&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40697" CreationDate="2010-02-27T17:33:53.933" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really think there are any ads for SO on SO. There may be ads for SO Careers, other StackExchange sites, etc, but I have never seen an actual ad for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one that says: &quot;Want to reach top devs? There's a site for that.&quot;, but that is one for advertising on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the timing issue. I would expect to see the SO-related ads more often that any other, especially if publishers put limits on where their ads are shown, how many people, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T17:33:53.933" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-27T17:38:03.457" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with late answers on a question. In fact, quite the opposite -- assuming the answer is of &quot;average&quot; quality, more responses provides more information, which is a good thing, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should judge each answer on its own merits -- if it's bad, vote it down, regardless of whether it was the Fastest Gun in the West or arrived a year later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T17:38:03.457" />
  <row Id="40700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-27T17:38:22.520" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, they should just be left alone. Since SO is intended to be a resource, more information at a later time is fine, especially &lt;em&gt;(and I know this doesn't apply to your two examples)&lt;/em&gt; if the language changes and older answers no longer work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter if this helps the OP. Let's say I have the same (or a similar) problem two years later. If we didn't allow the 17 month late answer, then I would be stuck with two year old answers that may or may not work. Even if they do work, the 17 month late answer may provide the solution that fixed my problem, since my problem is probably not identical to that of the OPs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if they are spam (because of the content), then they should be flagged as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T17:20:53.433" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T17:20:53.433" />
  <row Id="40701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40689" CreationDate="2010-02-27T17:40:24.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What, only posting questions every 20 minutes is &lt;em&gt;excessive&lt;/em&gt;? Dude, I've only posted seven questions on Stack Overflow &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question Pumps are not well-regarded on the sites, so a mechanism to slow down posting is quite welcome, as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't be dismayed if the restriction was raised to one question a &lt;em&gt;day&lt;/em&gt;, even for everyone rather than simply new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T17:40:24.263" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40688" CreationDate="2010-02-27T17:46:16.200" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Running a reputation recalc on the target user would see them gain reputation from any other upvotes they received during the day, so it's not a foolproof plan. Since the scheme is not invisible, the perpetrator wouldn't live long before being taken down by a posse of moderators toting six-shooters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T17:46:16.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40697" CreationDate="2010-02-27T18:20:44.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; an ad for Stack Overflow (which I haven't seen), what's wrong with that? It would be an intelligent bit of self-promotion. Only a small percentage of people reaching the site know about all its advantages. Stickiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haven't you ever seen an ad for the television station you are watching? A &quot;subscription pitch&quot; for the magazine you are browsing? Wal-mart is &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; of advertisements about their lower prices. These cookies I just opened have a card in it about how fresh they are. So...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T18:20:44.100" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-27T18:40:50.597" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as the answer adds value, it doesn't matter when it's posted IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget there is always the possibility of a question being washed ashore a year later by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;community&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; user. It doesn't have to be somebody who actively searched for unanswered questions. And even if - so what? Sorting out old questions should be encouraged, shouldn't it? I admit it may be fishy if a product is actively promoted, but the blog post I find totally innocent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T18:40:50.597" />
  <row Id="40706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-27T19:15:59.997" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see nothing wrong in promoting one's own blog or product as long as it's relevant and it may be useful to the asker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T19:15:59.997" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39167" CreationDate="2010-02-27T19:33:25.670" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicorn.xn---wie-geek-p9a.de/39167.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T19:37:47.303" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T19:37:47.303" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-27T21:14:53.220" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the author of the first post (with a self-blog reference), I wanted to explain why I answered. Certainly, as someone new to Stack Overflow, I see that I didn't follow the normal naming conventions. My perspective as a Google user who hits Stack Overflow for answers is pretty different than an active Stack Overflow member. I'll absorb this feedback to answer differently in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Overflow is an awesome resource that has, in a short period of time, redefined how programming information is shared. Its tagging system has a side effect of greatly increasing its value to search engines. As such, the popularity of Stack Overflow questions can encourage the notion that a particular answer is the final word on a particular subject. It can drown out other voices on a particular subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, I wanted to solve a particular problem that is very likely to result in a search engine hit for a question which has a good accepted answer. As a technical aside, the accepted answer was spot-on for self-hosted WCF services but not directly applicable to IIS hosted WCF services, which is what my scenario was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T10:55:59.197" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T10:55:59.197" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-27T21:15:35.077" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that I object to characterizing such answers at &quot;late&quot;. Acceptance may mean that the original author and dealt with the problem in front of them and is moving on but it does not mark any kind of &quot;end&quot; to the question. Any question that is not &quot;too localized&quot; remains interesting even after the original author has accepted an answer and additional answers are always welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, if we were to treat acceptance as shutting down a question, then we should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; close duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T21:15:35.077" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-27T22:08:44.273" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the late answers are spam, flag them.  If they're good, upvote them, and help some guy get a Necromancer badge.  I don't see the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T22:08:44.273" />
  <row Id="40713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40687" CreationDate="2010-02-27T22:09:24.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any problems using a Google Apps account with Stack Overflow. I simply click the big Google logo on the SO login page to login.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T22:09:24.223" />
  <row Id="40714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55831" CreationDate="2010-02-27T22:32:19.217" Score="5" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says: how do I know if I've reached my daily rep cap? Is there a simple yes/no indicator at least? Even better, is there a place where I can see &quot;this is how many rep points left that you can claim today that is subject to the cap&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143806" LastActivityDate="2010-07-03T14:50:12.123" Title="How do I know if I've reached my daily rep cap?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40714" CreationDate="2010-02-27T22:33:38.497" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can click the envelope next to your name in the top of this page, click &lt;strong&gt;Today&lt;/strong&gt; and if you have less than 200 reputation points earned, you still haven't reached the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so6.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T22:33:38.497" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40602" CreationDate="2010-02-27T22:48:14.833" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not aware of any changes to the Stack Overflow podcast -- so I would say, no, Joel is not planning to quit the podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T22:48:14.833" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40714" CreationDate="2010-02-27T22:48:41.650" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shortly after the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; time that happens you'll be awarded the &lt;code&gt;Mortarboard&lt;/code&gt; badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T22:48:41.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40719" CreationDate="2010-02-27T22:59:12.173" Score="3" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;As only one answer can be right what do you do if someone has almost got it right, but is missing something? Or, even worse what do you if someone answers after you and although they're wrong have included a detail that you missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to cite their answer and then share the points. I often feel like the other people answering the same question as me are in competition with me. This seems like a shame. It'd be nicer if we felt like we were working together towards an answer that would help someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature is probably more trouble than it's worth and I worry that it might confuse users. But, what do people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139517" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T23:16:14.107" Title="Building on someone's answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40718" CreationDate="2010-02-27T23:16:14.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people generally add details to their own answers and cite the original source with a link (you should do this whether the original source is on SO or on any other site).  The goal of the site is to get the correct answer to the top of the page.  If you have to cobble together details from several sources in order to do that, go ahead, just give proper credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're just correcting an obvious typo, go ahead and fix the original post.  SO is collaboratively edited, so most people won't be offended in the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do get into a gray area when you start to add technical details to someone else's answer that just weren't there (or even hinted at) before.  You run the risk of rendering a previously correct answer incorrect, so be careful doing this.  You might add the detail as a comment and just let the original author decide.  If they agree, they can promote your comment up to the body of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-02-27T23:16:14.107" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40714" CreationDate="2010-02-28T01:38:03.250" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually I just found out that the Downvoter's method is not 100% reliable. I appreciate his effort in creating the picture, so I made my own (note: question titles are greyed out in this picture).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5019/13467900.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, according to the summary, I gained 193 points of reputation yesterday. This could mean that I may be able to get 7 more points. However, if you look at the itemized list, you see that I did not get any points for the last two items, since I've already reached my cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think this is the definitive way of telling if you've reached your cap or not: &lt;strong&gt;when you go to your Reputation/Today tab and see items you no longer get points for&lt;/strong&gt;. In this case, even if the tab title says that you have &amp;lt; 200 points, you're guaranteed to have already reached your cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is a sufficient but not necessary condition, but that's fine if you want to be safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143806" LastEditorUserId="143806" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T14:39:46.920" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T14:39:46.920" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-02-28T03:44:10.960" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet wrote code to account for the Pentium's floating point bug in software.  Post-FPU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T03:44:10.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-02-28T03:44:10.960" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40725" CreationDate="2010-02-28T03:58:05.130" Score="14" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been doing some retagging on Super User lately, and the tag page still shows the old, crusty, now-orphaned tags.  Worse, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/explain-to-newbie&quot; title=&quot;0 count on that page, but 8 shown on tag-tab search for 'newbie'&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/tagged/beginners-guide&quot; title=&quot;0 count on that page, but 5 shown on tag-tab search for 'beginner'&quot;&gt;tags&lt;/a&gt; are &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/posts/114375/revisions&quot; title=&quot;note first revision used the [explain-to-newbie] tag&quot;&gt;still available&lt;/a&gt; via the tag autocompletion, reporting their pre-retagging tag counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not expecting the retagging to immediately remove those orphans from the tag view, or update the tag counts.  I know these are done in batch &lt;em&gt;at some point&lt;/em&gt;.  But the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19753/what-happens-to-zombie-tags&quot;&gt;FAQ on zombie tags&lt;/a&gt; indicates the tags are pruned hourly, and that's not my experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in order to update the FAQ, I'd like to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How frequently are zombie tags pruned?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How frequently are tag counts recalculated?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My goal with this is to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; know how the website is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to function, so I can report a bug if I need to; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;b)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; update the FAQ with current information, to help future categorizers and tag editors know when their efforts will be reflected in the tag list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T05:35:08.313" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T05:35:08.313" Title="What *currently* happens to zombie tags?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;faq-update-request&gt;&lt;zombie&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40724" CreationDate="2010-02-28T04:51:39.703" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag cleanup runs every 24 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T04:51:39.703" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40731" CreationDate="2010-02-28T05:00:27.530" Score="6" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow FAQ&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reputation is never given, it is earned by convincing other Stack Overflow users that you know what you're talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow gives the reputation that one can gain from asking a question parity with the reputation that one can gain from answering a question. An interesting question yields +10 reputation, while an interesting answer yields +10. Votes up and down affect reputation equally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering a question well is more indicative of your subject knowledge than asking a question. In a majority of cases, people who are able and prepared to answer a question have a greater level of confidence and familiarity with the subject matter than the questioner does. Please note I do not assert that this is universally true, just that it is true most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it is very difficult to differentiate between people who ask and people who answer questions based on reputation; reputation does not differentiate between people who know what they are talking about, and those who do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A note on this&amp;mdash;I've read quite a few questions about reputation on meta today because I am frustrated by high-rep users who ask hundreds of questions but do not vote-up or mark-as-answered (my) answers. I understand that there is a utility to offering reputation to such users because they keep the flow of questions high and drive traffic to the site. However, if that is part of what you want reputation to be, it seems a little disingenuous to make the claim you do in the FAQ about the association of reputation to knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't the statement &quot;Reputation ... is earned by convincing other Stack Overflow users that you know what you're talking about&quot; false?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143982" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T02:14:34.893" Title="Disingenuity of &quot;Reputation ... is earned by convincing ... users that you know what you're talking about&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40726" CreationDate="2010-02-28T05:02:58.603" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is merely a way to addict people to the site by giving them a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It lost its original meaning the first time someone posted a humorous answer and got a lot of popularity upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T05:02:58.603" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49542" CreationDate="2010-02-28T06:51:15.673" Score="5" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2350334/entry-lvl-cobol-control-breaks&quot;&gt;Entry lvl. COBOL Control Breaks&lt;/a&gt; includes a large block of code (the whole program, I think), that causes Firefox to prompt me to stop the script about four times before it finishes rendering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't we really prevent such large code posts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T10:55:23.907" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T10:55:23.907" Title="Should we limit question size (out of self-defense)?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40728" CreationDate="2010-02-28T06:54:47.087" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We really shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is ridiculous to post something that big into a question, as the people who actually answer the question really don't need to know that much about the program. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a need for such a large code snippet, it should be hosted elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not seeing an ultra-super-mega-large-giant code snippet in there, so let me define how big is too big:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be too 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This question has happily given me the opportunity to write what a monologue from a baby might sound like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to apologize to PWHHFTLA (People Who Have a Hatred for the Letter 'A')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T16:57:08.627" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T16:57:08.627" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40732" CreationDate="2010-02-28T07:33:40.673" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title states, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/225714/user225714&quot;&gt;both&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/213199/user213199&quot;&gt;users&lt;/a&gt; involved in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2348897/iphonehow-can-create-a-game-like-tossring-app-released-recently&quot;&gt;the same question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a byproduct of not entering an e-mail address combined with random coincidence? Have I stumbled upon a situation of possible future collusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is little evidence to go on at this point (both seem to be involved in roughly the same subject area, but both have &amp;lt; 20 rep), so maybe this is just something to keep tabs on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T08:26:11.113" Title="Discovered two anonymous users with identical gravatars... in the same question (SO)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40726" CreationDate="2010-02-28T08:25:28.340" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are showing signs of becoming addicted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get used to that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of your good answers will never be accepted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of your accepted answers will never get upvote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If &amp;lt; 100 rep user asks question, it may never be accepted and upvoted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hi-rep user is more demanding and may not accept your good answer if he feels that there is better one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stackoverflow doesn't make finding unaccepted answers easy. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reminding someone of not accepted answer can be irritating for him. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the reputation you gain on the answers to easiest questions. People who upvote answers have to understand them. If you give a complicated answer on a very complicated question, even if it needed huge knowledge, it will probably give you almost no reputation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And please, gain a lot of reputation on asking questions. I feel to dumb to ask worth to upvote questions. Answering comes to me easier:) Asking questions needs some knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you search through questions here, on meta, you'll find some statistics saying that most of &gt; 4000 rep users gained their reputation by answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If FAQ changed, would you really feel better? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138198" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T02:14:34.893" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T02:14:34.893" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40730" CreationDate="2010-02-28T08:26:11.113" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither has an e-mail, and they share an IP - but there is no inappropriate activity &lt;em&gt;between&lt;/em&gt; the accounts. They &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be the same person, or they might be friends / colleagues. Who knows? Let them be, I reckon...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T08:26:11.113" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40733" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-28T09:12:00.610" Score="6" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understand, the public database dump &quot;should&quot; contain any information you could gather by scraping the site. As far as I can tell, revision histories are not included. Is there a good reason for this omission?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I actually asked this question mostly because I'm preparing a public dump of a StackExchange site and modeling it closely after the SO dump. I feel like people should have access to anything they could scrape from the site, but I wanted to know if there are likely to be any serious problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the non-public S[OFU] data is similar to my data, including the revision history would increase the size of the dump by far less than a factor of two and wouldn't complicate things very much. On my end, it looks like there is a separate table for revision history and current posts. So one easy solution is to just include the revision history table. Another possibility is to just include the revision history table, which would only slightly increase the size of the dump, but it means that if you want to query a post, you would have to search for the last row with a given PostId.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-08T23:10:18.090" LastActivityDate="2010-11-08T23:30:12.110" Title="Include revision history in the public data dump" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40728" CreationDate="2010-02-28T10:40:05.860" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think SO should enforce any smaller post length limit.  When questions are being asked we all want them to be detailed, why risk preventing that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@John I agree that the piece of code in the question you linked to is too long.  The community has decided that though by voting down the question and not answering it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@Chacha102, I personally can not think of any reason why a block of code as long as your last sample would ever be required, but that doesn't mean that it should be prevented.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, are we objecting to long questions or just long blocks of code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131047" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T10:40:05.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40738" CreationDate="2010-02-28T11:35:40.583" Score="3" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the recommended approach when you ask a question and you don't actually get valid answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd normally leave the question as unanswered but, of course, that leads to getting a low acceptance rate, which seems unfair. Asking in forums is normally my last resort so I tend to ask difficult questions and I understand some of them do not actually have a positive answer (for instance, when you ask whether there's a tool to do X and the only answer is &quot;there isn't, you'd have to write it yourself&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141539" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T17:10:52.517" Title="Poor answers and accept rate" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40736" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-28T11:58:01.443" Score="0" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there was a place to ask strategic questions related to the business behind a software project. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow I just posted my first question: &quot;in-app-purchaseable items browseable in iTunes?&quot;. Now the question has been closed, and I have been told to ask it on Super User. However, Super User seems to be targeted to end users, and there is not even a single question yet tagged &quot;in-app-purchase&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T12:09:16.677" Title="Where to ask strategic questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40736" CreationDate="2010-02-28T12:09:16.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.startups.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;startups.com&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The place to grow your business one question at a time. It's THE website for business people, entrepreneurs, small business owners, home-based businesses to ask business questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T12:09:16.677" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40735" CreationDate="2010-02-28T12:21:04.527" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing to check is that you've asked the question with all the appropriate information. Do any of the answers suggest you've given the wrong impression? Is there any new information you can add?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't personally worry about a low acceptance rate - not if anyone looking at your questions will see that you're an active participant who cares and is unlikely to abandon a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T12:21:04.527" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40735" CreationDate="2010-02-28T12:32:49.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever tried Bounty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From SO &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What if I don't get a good answer?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to get good answers, you have&#xA;  to put some effort into the question.&#xA;  Edit your question to provide status&#xA;  and progress updates. Document your&#xA;  own continued efforts to answer your&#xA;  question. This will naturally bump&#xA;  your question and get more people&#xA;  interested in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after 2 days, you still don't have&#xA;  an answer you like, you can offer a&#xA;  bounty. Slice off a bit of your own&#xA;  hard-earned reputation -- anywhere&#xA;  from 50 to 500 -- and attach it to the&#xA;  question as a bounty. We'll even throw&#xA;  in 50 reputation to sweeten the deal.&#xA;  The bountied question will appear with&#xA;  a special icon in all question lists,&#xA;  and it will also be visible on the&#xA;  home page Featured tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once initiated, the bounty period&#xA;  lasts 7 days. If you mark an accepted&#xA;  answer, your bounty is awarded to the&#xA;  answerer (do note that accepted bounty&#xA;  answers are permanent and cannot be&#xA;  changed). If you do not accept an&#xA;  answer in 7 days, here is what happens&#xA;  at the end of the bounty period: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The highest voted answer created after&#xA;  the bounty started with at least 2&#xA;  upvotes will be automatically&#xA;  accepted. Half the bounty will be&#xA;  awarded to the owner of that answer. &#xA;  If there is no answer meeting the&#xA;  above criteria, and you as the&#xA;  question owner have not opted to&#xA;  accept an answer, you forfeit your&#xA;  right to ever accept an answer to your&#xA;  question.  In any case, you will&#xA;  always give up the amount of&#xA;  reputation specified in the bounty, so&#xA;  if you start a bounty, be sure to&#xA;  follow up and accept the best answer! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, bounty awards, like all&#xA;  accepted answers, are immune to the&#xA;  daily reputation cap and community&#xA;  wiki mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T12:32:49.467" />
  <row Id="40740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40735" CreationDate="2010-02-28T13:06:00.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you're sure you've done everything in your power to present a good question, and it turns out to be so difficult and/or specialized that it simply doesn't get a qualified answer, you are perfectly right in leaving it open for future generations (i.e. not accepting an answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, when asking questions, you will be judged somewhat by your accept rate, especially if it is below 50%. This social dynamic is encouragement to close a question (e.g. by an &quot;I guess this can't be done&quot; answer of your own) where it might have been better for the system to keep it open, and see whether anything comes up later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a bit of a problem in the system IMO. Maybe it should be possible to &quot;give questions away&quot; to the community user if they don't find an answer, but might some day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T13:11:14.757" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T13:11:14.757" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40735" CreationDate="2010-02-28T13:08:45.840" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The acceptance rate is overrated!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignore acceptance rates of other users, ignore your own acceptance rate, ignore users who do not ignore your acceptance rate. They cannot provide a good answer anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you did not get a good answer, do not accept one. The green check mark indicating the answer which helped you is more important for future readers than this stupid accept rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T13:08:45.840" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="40742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40744" CreationDate="2010-02-28T14:13:01.123" Score="16" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read many discussions on APIs in search of inspiration to write the ideal SO client; I've also twice started writing one, but gave up almost immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My ideal SO client should pull new questions very often (at least each minute), find &lt;em&gt;interesting&lt;/em&gt; ones (by tags or who knows what), then alert me in an unannoying fashion (maybe an icon in systray?). It should also allow for different levels of interest, like: &quot;STFU, I'm working!&quot;, &quot;only interesting ones, please&quot;, and &quot;whatever, please: I'm bored!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gave a try to some rss readers, but without success, as there are too many new questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the best SO client I've found till now is the browser: click the &quot;questions&quot; link, read the summary, be happy if interesting questions are there, click the &quot;questions&quot; link again otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: is anyone successfully using something different than a browser to spot interesting questions on SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastEditorUserId="135050" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T14:44:20.873" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T01:22:06.527" Title="is anyone successfully using something different than a browser to spot interesting questions on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;api&gt;" AnswerCount="5" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40742" CreationDate="2010-02-28T15:08:29.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not quite the an answer (but too big to fit into a comment), but my ideal client would be one that took my history into account. For example, if there was a new question posted tagged &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt;, it would alert me as I have a answer in a question with the same tags that got ~80% of the upvotes and is the accepted answer. However if it was tagged &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt;, it would reject it as &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; is a major tag so it is weighted highly and I have no answers in the &lt;code&gt;c#&lt;/code&gt; tag even though I do have an answer in the random tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; came up, it should alert me as I have a lot of answers in the &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; tag and it should assume that as I have got upvotes in the &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; tag, some knowledge should carry over dispite the fact that I have no upvotes in &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt; and the &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; tag together. The question should be given a lower weight than if &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; came up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should be able to adjust the weight required for a question to be allowed to alert you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would probably be possible to make a fairly accurate system that could do fairly well. It would do better if it took into account how well you answered the questions it suggested to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything less than something like the above and I don't think there will be any point moving away from a browser based system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="137028" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T19:20:43.587" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T19:20:43.587" />
  <row Id="40744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40742" CreationDate="2010-02-28T15:35:44.673" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;̧&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T17:38:25.987" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T17:38:25.987" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40728" CreationDate="2010-02-28T17:04:32.637" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very long posts are frequently questions that fall under the rubric 'please debug my code.' As discussed elsewhere on meta, these question do not add value. They don't provide a resource that others can learn from. Putting a smaller limit on post sizes is another possible way to get the attention of the askers of those questions. Maybe they'll actually do the necessary work to boil out a concrete, specific, question rather than posting a wall of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T17:04:32.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40735" CreationDate="2010-02-28T17:10:52.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another thing that is good practice for questions for which you have yet to receive a good answer is responding to the answers given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I too rarely ask for help unless it is truly something that I just cannot figure out. This usually means questions that are of the WTF? and who-even-thinks-of-that type. As a result (at least on SU as opposed to SO), I have a relatively low accept-rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I make sure to respond to every answer to explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it does not work for me. That way, I make it clear that the question is not abandoned (I do have an interest in it being resolved), and by responding to the non-answer replies, I end up providing more information that would be helpful to others who would offer an answer (without having to constantly update the question with possibly superfluous details that may only apply to specific answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131979" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T17:10:52.517" />
  <row Id="40748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40733" CreationDate="2010-02-28T17:25:39.867" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sympathetic to this idea, but it will add considerable complexity to either the table structure of the dumps &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; the queries needed to do reliable data mining on the dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any idea how often people are frustrated in their data mining goals by &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; having the revision info (i.e. speak up if you've been stymied in the past)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T17:36:40.827" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T17:36:40.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40742" CreationDate="2010-02-28T18:30:27.167" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;code&gt;irc.freenode.net&lt;/code&gt; there is a channel called &lt;code&gt;#sobot&lt;/code&gt; with a bot that posts new question titles to IRC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T18:30:27.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40751" CreationDate="2010-02-28T18:45:49.527" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess everyone has used the 'interesting tags' feature of SO. You select a tag and the questions with selected tag are highlighted by adding the CSS class 'tagged-interesting'.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;The highlighting is done by Javascript after the DOM is loaded (because it was not working when JS was disabled). So, until the DOM is completely loaded, there is no highlighting and since i am on a slow-connection, the highlighting takes place after a long time (around 5-6 secs).&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Now, my doubt is why javascript was used for this, when this could have been done server-side by simply adding the class and wouldn't have caused much overhead to the server.&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I want to know the rationale behind it (I am sure there is) as recently I learned during my internship that Javascript should &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be used for user-interaction purposes (like up-voting).&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Am i thinking on wrong lines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T18:50:17.497" Title="SO &quot;Interesting tags&quot; highlighted using Javascript" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40750" CreationDate="2010-02-28T18:49:21.033" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO makes use of Cacheing that would be tossed out the window if they did this server-side. Consider that would require every users page would need to be cached, not so efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138019" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T18:50:17.497" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40750" CreationDate="2010-02-28T18:49:30.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it simplifies caching html. No need to store both variants in cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T18:50:17.497" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40754" CreationDate="2010-02-28T19:22:20.963" Score="0" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I raised one &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2216557/find-the-odd-coin-from-a-bunch-of-8-coins-using-a-electronic-weighing-machine-cl&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; in Stack Overflow regarding a puzzle. It was closed with the reason stated as its not related to programming. This should be relaxed. As good programmers are natural problem solvers. They think very effectively. Infact attacking a puzzle is like finding an algorithm with order, probability, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why still this barrier in place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143830" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T10:24:39.443" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T10:24:39.443" Title="Why should I not ask questions regarding puzzles on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40753" CreationDate="2010-02-28T19:24:27.387" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is a Question and Answer site, not a discussion forum. The more such &quot;puzzle&quot; or &quot;fun&quot; posts we get here, the more diluted the core value proposition will become. It will move further towards being a hangout, and less a place to get questions answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we need a special, moderator-only tag &quot;fun&quot; (or &quot;fun-fun-fun&quot; if &quot;fun&quot; is in use already). This would allow us to keep track of the number of &quot;fun&quot; questions on the site. Otherwise, there could be &quot;fun-creep&quot; and we wouldn't know about it. All of our complaints would otherwise fall on deaf ears, thinking that we're just not &quot;fun&quot; people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-02-28T20:03:52.673" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T20:03:52.673" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40753" CreationDate="2010-02-28T19:33:52.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting puzzle, but to be appropriate content for SO, questions need to be related to programming in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T19:33:52.593" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40742" CreationDate="2010-02-28T19:39:49.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of RSS fields for tags in my reader, for tags where I'm most interested in the tags, and there are very few questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I tried the 'python' tag RSS feed, and it was too noisy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice I find most of the questions I answer just by looking at the questions list, and sometimes the unanswered list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3978" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T19:39:49.397" />
  <row Id="40757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40761" CreationDate="2010-02-28T21:16:30.817" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about adding a filter to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;badges&lt;/a&gt; page? Most of the stack overflow users will take a sneak at this page many times when his/her reputation starts growing. Its just a place for virtual satisfaction. This is similar to achieving points in video games, only in stack overflow, the badges and reputation means &quot;knowledge&quot;. If you get addicted to it, the side effect you're gonna acquire is knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enough for the build up. Why not add a filter to the badges page to show &quot;only&quot; bronze, silver, gold badge OR have a sort by badge feature. This can be done without occupying any extra space in the site at all. There is already this legend on the right side describing about badges. When user clicks now, nothing happens, instead append the filtering logic of the badges there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its a pure suggestion, nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143830" LastActivityDate="2010-04-30T02:00:03.240" Title="Add filtering logic for the badges page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40758" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-02-28T22:47:35.973" Score="0" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been seeing many questions and answers with the first line of a method or class indented by a negative amount. I haven't been able to reproduce it. Maybe someone on the team can look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2352987/multi-threading-calls-in-windows-forms-application&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2352987/multi-threading-calls-in-windows-forms-application&lt;/a&gt; and get some idea of what's different about that text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, trying to edit it to align it properly causes some really screwy results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I'm using FireFox 3.5.8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T05:17:15.480" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:17:15.480" Title="Bad Indentation of Code" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40758" CreationDate="2010-02-28T22:59:58.740" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That example seems to be using quasi-random numbers of blanks at the start of the line, leading to quasi-random indentation of the code.  You can sometimes get odd effects if someone has managed to mix tabs and blanks, but that does not appear to be the problem with the example question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, people don't care enough about the layout of the code they're showing off.  They'll have to hope it doesn't come back to bite them when they're applying for jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T22:59:58.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-02-28T23:01:23.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you earn a Necromancer badge without adding a late answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-02-28T23:01:23.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40757" CreationDate="2010-03-01T00:28:11.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now i don't feel like this is necessary.  There aren't that many badges.  It is still easy enough to mentally filter them out if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T00:28:11.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40763" CreationDate="2010-03-01T00:34:01.697" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the offline page points users to the blog for more info about the outage, but there isn't actually anything posted about the maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7649/offlinen.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Offline Page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit misleading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T06:35:31.147" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T06:35:31.147" Title="Offline page should not point to the blog if there isn't anything to read" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;offline&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40762" CreationDate="2010-03-01T00:35:47.637" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If it turns into an extended outage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, we will post details on the blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;If&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's bothering me is that it doesn't tell when the maintenance started. If I was a new user for all I knew the maintenance could have started 1 month ago or 1 minute ago; in the former case I won't come back, in the latter I'll come back in a few minutes.. If it says &quot;it usually lasts an hour&quot; but doesn't say when it started, I'm just confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T00:35:47.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40758" CreationDate="2010-03-01T00:42:44.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seem similar issues in the past and assumed that it worked like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Poster know that four space indent makes code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Poster types four space&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Goes to IDE copies code&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pastes code, which doesn't do whay is expected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;remembers (or reads the instructions) that the 01010101010101010101010101 button is what is wanted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;selects code (including the indented first line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hits 010101010101010101010101011001&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;doesn't fix the first line.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T00:42:44.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40765" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T00:44:21.763" Score="0" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm considering posting my resume on the careers site.  I have about 15 years of industry experience.  I'm wondering if anyone who is very senior in the industry has had success on the careers site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a list of success stories anywhere?  Does anyone care to share their experience (positive or negative)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143932" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T00:58:51.433" Title="Careers Site Fruitful for Senior Architects/Managers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40765" CreationDate="2010-03-01T00:58:51.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer one of your questions, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/careers-success-stories/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; are a few success stories&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T00:58:51.433" />
  <row Id="40767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40768" CreationDate="2010-03-01T01:14:54.017" Score="3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else just counted up from -1 in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/XXXX&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/XXXX&lt;/a&gt; (where X is numbers)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do regular Stack Overflow users start at 1 rather than the usual 0? Was someone who knew Cobol on the team? ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, anyone else seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/10&lt;/a&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why are there random gaps in the account numbers? Is this just where accounts were deleted? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T07:09:05.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-01T01:14:54.017" Title="Random noticing of user account numbers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40767" CreationDate="2010-03-01T01:20:33.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has anyone else just counted up from&#xA;  -1 in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/XXXX&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/XXXX&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;  (where X is numbers)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do regular Stack Overflow users&#xA;  start at 1 rather than the usual 0?&#xA;  Was someone who knew Cobol on the&#xA;  team? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;code&gt;if (0)&lt;/code&gt; returns false; this is usually undesidered and may lead to surprising effects if not considered. Additionally an unregistered user could be considered by the system as having ID 0 (and now &lt;code&gt;if (0)&lt;/code&gt; makes sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I don't know about you but if I'm counting how many people there are in the room I start with 1, not 0. And I'm a hardcore C++ programmer, but starting counting from 0 outside of C++/arrays seems silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And why are there random gaps in the&#xA;  account numbers? Is this just where&#xA;  accounts were deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T01:20:33.037" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-01T01:20:33.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40780" CreationDate="2010-03-01T01:54:32.220" Score="2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was doing some re-tagging and I noticed that the automatically generated revision comment says that I edited the post body where I only edited the tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2230507/revisions&quot;&gt;Revision list&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/c59adca0-e591-45b3-b3b2-b77054425649/view-source&quot;&gt;Source before the edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/30cf2dfd-f193-476e-bc08-e94b424a54a3/view-source&quot;&gt;Source after the edit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131610" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T06:50:58.943" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T06:50:58.943" Title="Revision history suggests that I edited the post body, whereas I didn't" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T04:29:19.143" Score="5" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;When searching generic names (&quot;John&quot; for example) it may be useful to order the results by reputation since only the first X are shown, and I'm more likely to find the John I'm looking for if the ones with 1 reputation are filtered out instead of what appears to be random ordering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T06:19:48.537" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T06:19:48.537" Title="Ordering users by reputation in search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;users-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40767" CreationDate="2010-03-01T04:36:55.287" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The numbers would start at 1 because it's a database, and databases, in my experience, start at 1 for the autogenerated primary key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm with Koper, I haven't navigated the users in numerical order either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T07:09:05.250" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T07:09:05.250" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-01T04:36:55.287" />
  <row Id="40773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-01T05:26:31.003" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://npoi.codeplex.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Help make NPOI even more Awesome!&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_W1dLiLjFqdw/S4tOsaTKQRI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/WAyXcuPPZRM/s800/npoiad.png&quot; alt=&quot;NPOI for your Excel needs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144009" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T05:26:31.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-01T05:26:31.003" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40779" CreationDate="2010-03-01T05:49:25.957" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click on the Accounts tab when viewing my profile I get the screen with the title:&#xA;(To clarify, this occurs both on stackoverflow and meta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Oops! Something Bad Happened!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is continuing to happen. &#xA;This is the first time I have visited meta and have an account on stackoverflow and serverfault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if anyone can help me at this time? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140456" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T08:20:21.297" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T08:20:21.297" Title="Error viewing Accounts tab in User view" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;error-page&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40767" CreationDate="2010-03-01T05:53:21.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The User Id is represented by an auto-incrementing &lt;code&gt;int&lt;/code&gt; in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The StackExchange software uses SQL Server as their DBMS system. SQL Server uses &lt;code&gt;IDENTITY&lt;/code&gt; to specify an auto-incrementing field. The default parameters for &lt;code&gt;IDENTIDY&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;code&gt;seed 1&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;increment 1&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In English, this means that the first value is &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt;, and the next value is generated by incrementing &lt;code&gt;1&lt;/code&gt; to the previous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933196%28SQL.80%29.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;IDENTITY&lt;/code&gt; (Property)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T05:53:21.797" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-01T05:53:21.797" />
  <row Id="40776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40774" CreationDate="2010-03-01T06:05:02.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted on the error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not you, it's us. This is our fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Detailed information about this error has automatically been recorded and we have been notified&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;NOT YOU&lt;/strong&gt;, it is an error on the developers side of the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give it a few days/hour/however-fast-they-can-type, and it will be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T06:05:02.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40798" CreationDate="2010-03-01T06:29:34.967" Score="2" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any setting/userscript/extension available to disable/remove all reputation, badges and badge notifications from the stackoverflow interface?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just clutters the interface for me and I don't see the point in having them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Activity on sites like stackoverflow as someone that answers questions should be purely altruistic anyway ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the greasemonkey script mentioned in the answers I'm also using this userscript in Opera&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if(/(stackoverflow|superuser|serverfault)\.com$/.test(location.hostname)){&#xA;    opera.addEventListener('BeforeScript', function(e){&#xA;        var o = document.getElementById('notify-container')&#xA;        if(o){&#xA;            o.style.display = 'none';&#xA;            removeEventListener.call(opera, 'BeforeScript', arguments.callee, false);&#xA;        }&#xA;    }, false);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144011" LastEditorUserId="144011" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T01:18:21.323" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T01:18:21.323" Title="How to disable/remove all badges and reputation?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="40778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40777" CreationDate="2010-03-01T06:34:39.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no way to do this in the UI; you'd have to write a greasemonkey script to do it. Wouldn't be very hard, as all the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;s and &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;s you'd want to hide have unique names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T06:34:39.417" />
  <row Id="40779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40774" CreationDate="2010-03-01T06:44:31.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Chacha102 has noted, this was &lt;strong&gt;our fault&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug has been fixed - sorry for the troubles!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T06:44:31.317" />
  <row Id="40780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40769" CreationDate="2010-03-01T06:50:52.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, there are differences in the body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/30cf2dfd-f193-476e-bc08-e94b424a54a3/view-source&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/30cf2dfd-f193-476e-bc08-e94b424a54a3/view-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/c59adca0-e591-45b3-b3b2-b77054425649/view-source&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/c59adca0-e591-45b3-b3b2-b77054425649/view-source&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Save to disk and use a compare tool -- I don't want to ruin the mystery for you. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T06:50:52.487" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-03-01T06:55:09.573" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers that are &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; a link are always problematic and should be strongly discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But answers that contain a link and reasonable description/summary are (generally) perfectly acceptable, regardless of how early or late they are added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T06:55:09.573" />
  <row Id="40782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40696" CreationDate="2010-03-01T07:22:02.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you seem to feel this way because an answer was already accepted: accepted answers can be changed at any time. &lt;s&gt;(Unless there was a bounty.)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T09:27:25.783" LastActivityDate="2010-08-07T09:27:25.783" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40771" CreationDate="2010-03-01T07:24:11.453" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm agree, Not only sorting but also when the search results does not fit in one page, It would be great to have pagination option too. I think its currently showing first page only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I browse &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/filter/john&quot;&gt;filter/john&lt;/a&gt; page directly, looks like there is another page too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1193/userpage.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T07:24:11.453" />
  <row Id="40784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40786" CreationDate="2010-03-01T07:56:59.783" Score="7" ViewCount="461" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is ........ website a member of the Stack Exchange family of sites or is it a fake? if it's a fake, is it legal to copy a website one by one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144015" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T13:40:47.843" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T14:21:31.427" Title="Is this a Stack Exchange website?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24992" CreationDate="2010-03-01T08:16:16.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like its related to WMD, so, I just tried to reverse-engineer some of its js.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;basically, adding &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; to this line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var E=/^(&amp;lt;a\shref=&quot;(\#\d+|(https?|ftp):\/\/[-A-Za-z0-9+&amp;amp;@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;\(\)']+)&quot;(\stitle=&quot;[^&quot;&amp;lt;&amp;gt;]+&quot;)?\s?&amp;gt;|&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;)$/i;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and this line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;G=G.replace(/(^|\s)(https?|ftp)(:\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&amp;amp;@#\/%?=~_|\[\]\(\)!:,\.;']*[-A-Z0-9+&amp;amp;@#\/%=~_|\[\]])($|\W)/gi,&quot;$1&amp;lt;$2$3&amp;gt;$4&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and removing &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; from &lt;code&gt;[^'&quot;&amp;gt;\s]&lt;/code&gt; from this line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;G=G.replace(/&amp;lt;((https?|ftp):[^&quot;&amp;gt;\s]+)&amp;gt;/gi,'&amp;lt;a href=&quot;$1&quot;&amp;gt;$1&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;works here for &lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphey's_Law&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, better replace &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;%27&lt;/code&gt; in background, because its smells like SQLi :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS&lt;/strong&gt;: There is accepted answer already, but Jeff just bumped it, so looks like he might considering this again.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T08:16:16.463" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40784" CreationDate="2010-03-01T08:20:32.113" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer lies in the HTML!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;meta name=&quot;generator&quot; content=&quot;StackExchange 0.9 (20100222071553-3ea628eeebda)&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is indeed a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; site :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T08:20:32.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40784" CreationDate="2010-03-01T08:22:53.530" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a stackexchange website, here is the list (copy pasted from meta.stackexchange.com google cache)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Business&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yallastartup.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answers.yallastartup.org&lt;/a&gt; - Q&amp;amp;A site to discuss entrepreneurship in the Middle East &amp;amp; North Africa. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askaboutprojects.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AskAboutProjects&lt;/a&gt; - Project management (of all flavors: PMI, Agile, Scrum, Prince2, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.lokad.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask Lokad&lt;/a&gt; - Forecasting for business&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;BSchoolAnswers - Answers about Business School&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careeroverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Career Overflow&lt;/a&gt; - for career related advice including, finding a new job, resume help, dealing with co-workers and handling situations at your current job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.explainbusiness.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ExplainBusiness&lt;/a&gt; - Advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.headhunteriq.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;HeadHunterIQ&lt;/a&gt; - For recruiters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inbound.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;inbound.org&lt;/a&gt; - A site for asking inbound marketing questions (search marketing, social media, blogging, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://advice.personforce.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PersonForce Career Advice&lt;/a&gt; - Careers and job search&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;When Business - Small and general business questions&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Education&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.antimoon.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask Antimoon&lt;/a&gt; - For serious language learners (questions about English, other languages, and language learning methods)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://discusscampus.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Discuss Campus&lt;/a&gt; - get your questions answered about anything college-related by other students. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edcrowd.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;EdCrowd&lt;/a&gt; is a community of teachers passionate about using the power of the crowd to find the best answers to our questions and passing on that wisdom to our students.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://merspi.com.au&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Merspi&lt;/a&gt; - For VCE (the education system in Victoria, Australia) students and teachers to discuss any VCE-related question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;MedStudentAnswers - Answers for medical students, residents, and pre-med students.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Move the Cannon - For engineering students.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tutordaily.info&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tutordaily.info&lt;/a&gt; - everything about learning, teaching, tutoring, schools.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Tutor - A site for students to help each other with their classes and homework.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Uma - Questions about the content of undergraduate courses for Brazilian college students.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Fog Creek&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fogbugz.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FogBugz&lt;/a&gt; - A place to ask questions about FogBugz&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kiln.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiln&lt;/a&gt; - Supporting Kiln from Fog Creek&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Games&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;GamersQnA - Q&amp;amp;A for any game you can think of&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://draw3cards.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Draw3Cards&lt;/a&gt; - Q&amp;amp;A for Magic: The Gathering&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epicadvice.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Epic Advice&lt;/a&gt; - World of Warcraft&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamelegend.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game Legend&lt;/a&gt; - A community for the open exchange of video gaming wisdom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://outflopped.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Outflopped&lt;/a&gt; - Poker chat for the 21st century.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;ThePokerEcho - Poker Knowledge Exchange&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Zerg Overflow - StarCraft I &amp;amp; II&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Health, mind, body and spirit&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.diabetestalks.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ask.diabetestalks.com&lt;/a&gt; - all about diabetes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dearvesta.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dear Vesta&lt;/a&gt; - A community to provide advice and guidance. Share your quandaries with us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Fitness - Online fitness and health community&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inwardquest.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inward Quest&lt;/a&gt; - Spirituality, Mind Power &amp;amp; The Law Of Attraction&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mi.yodeya.com&quot;&gt;mi.yodeya.com&lt;/a&gt; - Q&amp;amp;A about Jewish life and learning&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Slim - For weight loss.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Holidays, locations and travel&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Buenos Aires Expat Q&amp;amp;A - Questions related to being an expat in Buenos Aires.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kerala.dzcus.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kerala&lt;/a&gt; - About Kerala, India.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mautanya.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mau Tanya&lt;/a&gt;- A general Q&amp;amp;A website for the Indonesian community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sfanswers.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SF Answers&lt;/a&gt; - A Q&amp;amp;A for everything San Francisco +Bay!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Town Feedback - For local towns and local people.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;House, home, and family&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.18snails.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;18 Snails&lt;/a&gt; - Gardening&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Home - About your home, garden, cooking, kids, etiquette and all things related.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://appliancewiz.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Appliance Wiz&lt;/a&gt; - Questions about repairing or purchasing home appliances&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.recipelabs.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask Recipe Labs&lt;/a&gt; - Food and cooking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://brewadvice.com&quot;&gt;Brew Advice&lt;/a&gt; - Dedicated to all things beer - homebrewing, beer pairing, beer storage, and much more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;DIY - Q&amp;amp;A for &quot;do it yourself&quot; enthusiasts.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;parent - parents helping parents.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iocasa.it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iocasa&lt;/a&gt; - an Italian site about your home: garden, repairing, purchasing, documents, fiscal stuff&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Kitchen - A community for people that are interested in good food and drink to share their thoughts, ask questions and offer help and guidance to others.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moms4mom.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moms4Mom&lt;/a&gt; - A place for moms (and dads) to ask questions about parenthood (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites/286#286&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more information&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Realty - Real Estate. Some interesting custom features implemented including custom badges and integrated blog.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://organicgreenfingers.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Organic Green Fingers&lt;/a&gt; - For questions about growing organically. Garden plants, food plants, houseplants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://petnibs.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Petnibs&lt;/a&gt; - Primarily for cats and dogs and any other non-human pet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;[null] - a place for people to ask questions and get answers about their pets.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.RealEstatePigeon.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Real Estate Pigeon&lt;/a&gt; - Real Estate Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;IT and computers&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;AgileShout - A Q&amp;amp;A site for anything Agile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.tectia.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answers.tectia.com&lt;/a&gt; - A place to ask and answer questions about SSH Tectia products.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askaboutdomains.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask About Domains&lt;/a&gt; - Web domains, domaining, and domainers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://askaboutgadgets.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask About Gadgets&lt;/a&gt; - A place to ask questions about gadgets: Phones, cameras, computers, mp3 players, game consoles or others gadgets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Bug Overflow - Software Testing is an art form. This site is dedicated to breaking software. Better Testers = Better Software.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlservercentral.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask SQL Server&lt;/a&gt; - SQL Server&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.sqlteam.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ask.SQLTeam&lt;/a&gt; - SQL Server&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cgheroes.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CG Heroes&lt;/a&gt; - Q&amp;amp;A for Digital Artists!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cgfaction.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CGFaction&lt;/a&gt; - an online community where CG Artists share their expertise with others. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Coder Exchange - For programmers of any form to share knowledge, code, and scripts.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://coverflowexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coverflow&lt;/a&gt; - Ask anything Apple related here&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;DynDNS Community - We have 3 million home networking experts. Learn from them and share your Q&amp;amp;A.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;ecomKick - Community dedicated to Magento Developers.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;FMOverflow - FileMaker related questions.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamestruction.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gamestruction&lt;/a&gt; - Questions about Game Development&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://help.4xpdf.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;help.4xpdf.com&lt;/a&gt; - For all questions related to PDF -- for the complete novice or the expert PDF developer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ipad-apps.me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ipad-apps.me&lt;/a&gt; - A place for users and developers to brainstorm ideas about iPad Apps.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mesadeayuda.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mesa de ayuda&lt;/a&gt; - Spanish - Software and hardware issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nullpointer.ph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NullPointer.ph&lt;/a&gt; - Filipino programmers and developers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;OfficeQuestions - Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;PacketDrop - A place to ask questions about communication networks &amp;amp; protocols&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pinu.ee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pinu.ee&lt;/a&gt; - Aims to bring together Estonian programmers and create a place for educated discussion. The name Pinu means stack in Estonian&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forum.rebex.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rebex Q&amp;amp;A Forum&lt;/a&gt; - questions and answers about .NET and .NET CF components&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.searchmarketingarena.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Search Marketing Arena&lt;/a&gt; - Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;SecurityCrunch - IT Security process, products and technologies&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sgexperts.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sg Experts&lt;/a&gt; - Q&amp;amp;A for the Singapore community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sharepointoverflow.com&quot;&gt;SharePoint Overflow&lt;/a&gt; - Questions about SharePoint&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sqla.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQLA&lt;/a&gt; - Sybase SQL Anywhere&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackunderflow.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackUnderflow&lt;/a&gt; - German speaking and writing programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://teradataquestions.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TeradataQuestions&lt;/a&gt; - Questions about Teradata&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://uxexchange.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UX Exchange&lt;/a&gt; - User experience: IA, Usability, Accessibility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vfxoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VFX Overflow&lt;/a&gt; - Where vfx artists go to ask and answer questions about the creation of computer generated imagery for TV and Film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Web Analytics Logs - for topics on the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Hardware - System building and general computer Hardware&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://windowsexperts.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WindowsExperts&lt;/a&gt; - Windows (presumably the operating system).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Miscellaneous&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.elmershack.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elmer Shack&lt;/a&gt; - a site for questions about ham radio and all things pertaining to it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fanofthefang.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fan of the Fang&lt;/a&gt; - Vampire &amp;amp; werewolf trivia questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.irosetta.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iRosetta&lt;/a&gt; - Ask anything related to language: Translations, grammar (syntax, orthography), etymology, semantics&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.monogiggle.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;monoGiggle Answers&lt;/a&gt; - Event Planning &amp;amp; Etiquette Guide&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.NaturalLivingExchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Natural Living Exchange&lt;/a&gt; - Q&amp;amp;A on all aspects related to natural living.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://exchange.bristolskeptics.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skeptic Exchange&lt;/a&gt; - Of critical thinking on pseudoscience, faith healing, the supernatural or alternative medicine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://styleguidance.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Style Guidance&lt;/a&gt; - style and fashion Q&amp;amp;A, outfit decision help, social shopping, and a place to get a second opinion&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Money&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Trader - A place to ask questions about trading stocks, commodities, futures, options, fixed income, currencies etc.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accountingecho.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AccountingEcho&lt;/a&gt; - All levels of accountancy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.basicallymoney.com&quot;&gt;Basically Money&lt;/a&gt; - Personal finance, saving money, spending money, investing money, borrowing money, etc.!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cashcommons.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cash Commons&lt;/a&gt; - Personal finance, investing, saving, spending, budgeting software, banking, coins, currency, credit, debt, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investery.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Investery&lt;/a&gt; - A place to share your investing experience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Finance - Finance related questions.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.taxqueries.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TaxQueries&lt;/a&gt; - Tax questions for professionals and business. Primarily US tax but also USA/Canada tax issues&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Music&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Key - For those playing, performing and recording music.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Song - Learn how to play songs correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.jguitar.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JGuitar Answers&lt;/a&gt; - Guitar related.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Riffer - For guitarists.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Photo and video&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://broadcastqa.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Broadcast Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt; - Broadcast Engineering and Broadcast Equipment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Editing - Questions about image editing software like Photoshop, Inkscape, Corel Draw, Gimp, etc.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://home4film.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Home 4 Film&lt;/a&gt; - Home Theatre and music equipment purchasing, setup and use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hookitupright.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hook It Up Right&lt;/a&gt; - Home Audio/Video and Home Theater questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photographr.info&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Photographr.info&lt;/a&gt; - Whether you're struggling with a camera function, lens purchase, photoshop plugin, ethical dilemma or career question, this is the place to ask!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://photography.angle.uk.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Photography.angle&lt;/a&gt; - All questions photography related, from everything about picking the right lens for your high end DSLR right the way through to taking great pictures using a cameraphone, as well as post-processing and film advice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Photo - Photography and anyone interested in photography&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.videowtf.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Video WTF&lt;/a&gt; - Video production, video cameras, editing, publishing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Science&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://astroanswers.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Astro Answers&lt;/a&gt; - All Astronomy related questions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://asksci.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AskSci.com&lt;/a&gt; - For scientific questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.climatedeal.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Climate Deal&lt;/a&gt; - Questions about climate change.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Go Take It Apart - Repair, disassembly, and broken tech.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorgroove.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MajorGroove.org&lt;/a&gt; - For research biologists: graduate students, postdocs, staff scientists, and faculty members in academia and industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Math Overflow&lt;/a&gt; - Mathematics. Target audience is professional mathematicians, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;NeuroKnowledge - Connecting the world's neuroscientists.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;opieweb - Organizational Psychology Information Exchange Web. Organizational Psych research, pedagogy, practice and community.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://payload42.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Payload 42&lt;/a&gt; - For space enthusiasts. Anything from launch vehicles, to astronomy, to space policy is fair game here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Science Stack - Questions about science.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Smartphones&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;App Q and A - Your Mobile App Source.&#xA;Questions, Answers, and Reviews for any mobile application on any device or platform.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.excbadaccess.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;EXC_BAD_ACCESS&lt;/a&gt; - iPhone development questions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forceclose.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Force Close&lt;/a&gt; - Android operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://phonehow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PhoneHow&lt;/a&gt; -  how to for everything smartphone, and every smartphone + iPad &amp;amp; iPod Touch!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slidetoask.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slide to Ask&lt;/a&gt; - iPhone and iPod Touch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sports&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Collected Questions - Dressage, horses and other riding disciplines.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Dog Sled Questions - questions and answers about dog sledding and sled dog racing.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Fantasy Sports Q&amp;amp;A - All about fantasy sports.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Kridaya - Cricket question and answer site.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sportsmanqa.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sportsman QA&lt;/a&gt; - Outdoor sports like fishing, hunting, camping, &amp;amp; hiking&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://talkdisc.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TalkDisc&lt;/a&gt; - For ultimate frisbee related questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4#698&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more information&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://worldcup2010.dzcus.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WorldCup South Africa 2010&lt;/a&gt; - Travel/soccer site for soccer enthusiasts traveling to South Africa for the World Cup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Startups&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Startups - For entrepreneurs and business people.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;VentureIQ - Startups, entrepreneurs and investors.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &#xA;&lt;/ul&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is community wiki, so feel free to add or edit.&lt;/p&gt; &#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T14:21:31.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2011-03-04T01:17:02.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40560" CreationDate="2010-03-01T09:22:22.613" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already do this -- a topbar reminder to fill in your account info -- at the time users register.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9923/stackoverflownewusertop.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T09:22:22.613" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40753" CreationDate="2010-03-01T09:34:58.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bragaadeesh,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cant able to see your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2216557/find-the-odd-coin-from-a-bunch-of-8-coins-using-a-electronic-weighing-machine-cl&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;, it seems removed. So my thoughts might not be relevant to your actual post, but its relevant to this discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO accepts the Community wiki discussion if the question is relevant to the programming(solving the generic problems (puzzles) in different programming languages). We have seperate  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot;&gt;code-golf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tag for this purpose. May be you can change your question to suite for code-golf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderators&lt;/strong&gt;: is Code-golf kind of questions still valid in SO?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T09:34:58.720" />
  <row Id="40792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T11:28:02.117" Score="0" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3669/would-it-be-possible-to-have-a-community-accepted-feature&quot;&gt;Would it be possible to have a &amp;ldquo;community accepted&amp;rdquo; feature?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO is okay with editing of questions themselves by others, why not allow the same people, or perhaps people with yet more rep, to accept answers for questions that are needlessly open? (I.e., where an acceptable/correct answer is obviously given, but the asker has abandoned the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't gotten to the point on SO of being an editor/admin, so maybe that's already an option, but from some of the other questions on meta, it doesn't seem like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T12:38:55.897" ClosedDate="2010-03-01T13:07:15.530" Title="Let editor/admin accept answers in abandoned questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40777" CreationDate="2010-03-01T12:10:05.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=site+specific+user+stylesheet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site-specific stylesheets&lt;/a&gt;. It'd be even easier if SO provided a &lt;a href=&quot;http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/13291&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CSS signature&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T12:10:05.450" />
  <row Id="40794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40792" CreationDate="2010-03-01T12:32:41.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really strongly disagree with the proposal. First off, the accepted answer is something the question asker should give if it was used to solve the problem. It annoys me when it isn't given but maybe my answer didn't quite solve the question (they may not have made the question clear enough, or I may have taken it the wrong way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since SO is okay with editing of questions themselves by others, why not allow the same people&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is Ok to edit someones question for clarity (formatting code is the main reason I edit), but you shouldn't ever assume what the question asker wants. It is very very rare that I rewrite the entire question and even when I do I only change the way the question is presented. In the same way that the community doesn't assume that a question is homework (if someone else tags a question as homework it is usually rolled back)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise I wouldn't want to assume that an answer is the correct one for the asker of the question. Take for example the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/956939/c-code-generation&quot;&gt;first question I asked&lt;/a&gt;, it wasn't very clear what I wanted and so the accepted answer is not the one with the most upvotes (and hence not the one the community would have selected). The discrepancy is huge as the accepted answer has 5 less upvotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As touched on, &lt;em&gt;the community already has a comunity accept feature&lt;/em&gt;, it is upvotes. If there is an question with no accepts but an answer has 5 upvotes, it is clear the community has accepted that as the best answer, despite the question asker not having done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you think an answer should be accepted up vote it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="137028" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T12:38:55.897" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T12:38:55.897" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T12:50:26.420" Score="2" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;xml is omitted from the question text. the reference has nothing about this ultra rare language..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T10:54:12.393" LastActivityDate="2010-06-24T10:54:12.393" Title="how to ask xml question in stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;&lt;xml&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40795" CreationDate="2010-03-01T12:57:29.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already fixed his question &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2355778/how-to-present-a-type-of-an-element-in-xml-schema&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T12:57:29.423" />
  <row Id="40797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40795" CreationDate="2010-03-01T13:01:33.300" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Select XML.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the &lt;code&gt;Format Code&lt;/code&gt; button (101010) or &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;K&lt;/kbd&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T13:01:33.300" />
  <row Id="40798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40777" CreationDate="2010-03-01T13:34:19.147" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30489&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;'s a greasemonkey script that does that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the accepted answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11586&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; also has one (although it only hides reputation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T13:34:19.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T13:57:27.270" Score="1" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used Stack Overflow before, but not as a registered user. I rebuilt my PC in the meantime and I'd like to post again using may previous account. Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T14:07:34.357" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T14:08:24.713" Title="Stack Overflow account - seek and recover request" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40799" CreationDate="2010-03-01T14:08:24.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you register with the site you'll have a permanent account you can use from any computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've done that if you can then find one of your previous questions you can &quot;flag&quot; it for moderator attention. Explain that you want the accounts merging and they'll do it for you (after verifying that you are the owner of both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T14:08:24.713" />
  <row Id="40802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40803" CreationDate="2010-03-01T14:10:29.263" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering where in Stack Overflow you can find a list of users who have received a badge for particular tag say C# or ASP.Net etc. ? Sorry if its obvious but I couldn't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Sorry I meant had got a badge tag I.e. gold for a 1000 up votest that type of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143759" LastEditorUserId="143759" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T14:17:21.417" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T14:22:30.217" Title="Users who have received a badge for a particular tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40802" CreationDate="2010-03-01T14:12:55.997" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Browse to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;Badges&lt;/a&gt; page and then select the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tags tab&lt;/a&gt; (on the far right of the page) and then select the tag you're interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you already have the badge yourself you can also select the badge from your profile page and it will take you straight to the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T14:22:30.217" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T14:22:30.217" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T14:24:48.777" Score="0" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see, that new questions appear for certain tag, but there is no rss feed for that. How often is feed updated or how long one must wait for rss to send notification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143105" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T17:38:11.690" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T00:07:55.087" Title="How often is the RSS feed updated?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;feed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40806" CreationDate="2010-03-01T14:53:53.840" Score="6" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been noticing recently that everyone in the world has more points than me on SO, and I began to wonder: is my number of answers above or below the mean for my score range? Is my mean votes/answer consistent with my score range? And then the same with my questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are some initial metrics which are probably not so good (even comparing to my score range might be wrong), but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What metrics would be interesting for performance on SO (aside from pure score)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a metrics feature been contemplated on Meta before (and would it be interesting)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[I know the data dump is available and that is one way to analyze for myself.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T17:57:34.113" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T17:57:34.113" Title="Performance Metrics on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;&lt;metrics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40805" CreationDate="2010-03-01T15:04:08.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I calculated the percentage of my answers which have been accepted: &lt;strong&gt;39%&lt;/strong&gt; for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can calculate it by searching &lt;code&gt;user:me isaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt; and then &lt;code&gt;user:me isaccepted:1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T15:04:08.893" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40805" CreationDate="2010-03-01T15:13:06.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13847/display-statistics-have-subject-badges-for-accepted-answers&quot;&gt;GreaseMonkey script&lt;/a&gt; a while back that adds the percentage of answers accepted to your answers summary. The output looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/3853214355%5F1ff4a7b0e7%5Fo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Accepted answers shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T15:13:06.800" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26707" CreationDate="2010-03-01T15:18:19.030" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ayende just tweeted about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8615&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NHibernate Donation Campaign&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Would love to see something go to NHibernate.  I'll be kicking in personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T15:18:19.030" />
  <row Id="40810" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T15:30:35.260" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to run a little script against the data dump this morning and found this when I went to look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackql.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackql.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;BanManPro Version 9.00 for ASP.NET&#xA;Administrator Login&#xA;Advertiser Login&#xA;User/Publisher Login&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T20:54:56.417" ClosedDate="2010-03-02T03:13:15.990" Title="StackQL appears to be down" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackql&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40812" CreationDate="2010-03-01T15:37:29.567" Score="5" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... either I'm stupid or something is wrong. I just tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40805/performance-metrics-on-so/40806#40806&quot;&gt;Koper's idea&lt;/a&gt; to find my ratio of accepted and not accepted answers on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me isaccepted:0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a115866%20isaccepted%3a0&quot;&gt;returns 52 answers&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me isaccepted:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a115866%20isaccepted%3a1&quot;&gt;returns 72&lt;/a&gt;. According to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/115866/balpha&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt;, I have a total of 218 answers. What am I missing (besides 94 answers)? Just searching for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;user:me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on the other hand finds 232 results, although it should be 218+11=229.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T15:47:43.177" Title="Search doesn't return all answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40811" CreationDate="2010-03-01T15:47:43.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is because &lt;code&gt;isaccepted:0&lt;/code&gt; returns the 52 answers you've given where the question has &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; accepted answer. Presumably there are another 94 questions where an answer has been accepted, but it was not one of yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T15:47:43.177" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40804" CreationDate="2010-03-01T16:01:05.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are using Google Reader you can hover your mouse over the date and it will tell you the time the post was originally posted and the time it hit reader. I checked a few RSS feeds from SO and the delay ranges from 20-60 minutes. That's about as reliable as they get from past experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133752" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T16:01:05.687" />
  <row Id="40815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T12:50:17.890" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to implement something similar on my blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody know the schema or how it is done??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144074" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T16:01:10.813" Title="How does stackoverflow implement their tags functionality on their database?" Tags="&lt;tags&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;database&gt;&lt;php&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40815" CreationDate="2010-03-01T13:08:29.413" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine it's something like this, no need to overly complicate it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question Table&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QuestionID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag Table&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TagID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TagName&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UserID (creator)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mapping table with some name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QuestionID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TagID&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly revision ID on the question and mapping table so you can tell which revision the tags went with, not positive here how they store revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say this because it allows you to see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many times a tag is used&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many answers a user has related to a tag (badges)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Easily get a tag list for auto-suggest (cached anyway I'm sure)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quickly get a list of tags for a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Filter a search by tags (as you can do via query parameters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See who created the tag (badges again)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135201" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T16:01:10.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40548" CreationDate="2010-03-01T17:26:39.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The services listed all have a million or more users. Yubico's technology may be &quot;really neat&quot;, but that's likely not the criteria for inclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T17:26:39.337" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40810" CreationDate="2010-03-01T18:18:59.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at Joel's comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40585/free-laptop-to-deserving-meta-user/40589#40589&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If that many people really use stackql, it's sorta still available on my home server: jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql ... but it's not pretty on a slow server with a home-broadband connection :( &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that the hosted one at that domain will no longer be available&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T18:18:59.700" />
  <row Id="40821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62812" CreationDate="2010-03-01T18:22:21.660" Score="6" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently there is a whole host of reasons why you don't actually ever want to offer a bounty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get -50 reputation even if you don't get a proper answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't accept an answer after the bounty expired.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your accept rate (the percentage) is permanently reduced because you can't accept an answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken together, these factors mean that I will never ever offer a bounty again. But I'm annoyed because now there is a question with no accepted answer which brings my accept rate down for the rest of existence, and I had no way of knowing that beforehand. This is stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134441" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T00:40:06.077" LastActivityDate="2010-08-30T16:35:06.773" Title="Make the downsides of offering a bounty MUCH more explicit" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="40822" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T18:25:06.133" Score="11" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16681/show-required-tags-when-asking-a-question-on-meta&quot;&gt;Show required tags when asking a question on Meta&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formulate a question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Insert a few valid tags, but not one of the required ones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;Post Your Question&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excepted results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Site reminds you to add one of the required tags (bug, feature-request, discussion, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Site expects you to solve a CAPTCHA, and only &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; tells you to add one of the required tags, then expects you to solve &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; CAPTCHA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134441" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T22:30:08.187" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T22:30:32.380" ClosedDate="2010-04-14T06:59:50.827" Title="Validate input BEFORE running captcha - not after" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40821" CreationDate="2010-03-01T18:48:42.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think these things are reasonably clearly stated in the link you get shown when opening a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq#bounty&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... If there is no answer meeting the above criteria, and you as the question owner have not opted to accept an answer, you forfeit your right to ever accept an answer to your question. ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...  In any case, you will always give up the amount of reputation specified in the bounty, so if you start a bounty, be sure to follow up and accept the best answer!  ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the link text could be changed to something &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; clear like &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Make sure you read the bounty rules before posting a bounty!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. It could be argued, though, that the person opening the bounty should simply read it beforehand to learn how things work, and not open a bounty and complain afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T18:53:45.537" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T18:53:45.537" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40810" CreationDate="2010-03-01T19:15:27.480" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had issues keeping the server online and due to a job and housing change haven't had time to maintain it properly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently looking for an alternative host; since I'm now a network admin I'm hoping to work something out with the college where I work.  The maintenance issue is another story, as it's more than just finding time at the moment, but also a place at home that I can actually get work done (it's hard with a 4yr old and 18mo old and no quiet office space in the house).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, due to all the support I received &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40585/free-laptop-to-deserving-meta-user/40589#40589&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; I made my &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;testing site&lt;/a&gt;  available publicly (so if you voted for me there's already a small return on the &quot;investment&quot;).  I pointed the stackql.net domain there as well over the weekend, but for some reason it hasn't caught on yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I succeed in finding hosting and time, my plans are actually to refresh the site using VS2010 as soon as it RTMs, and use it as a way to teach myself ASP.Net MVC.  The roadmap is to make it even easier to share queries: things like using mvc routes to pass values to sql variables via the url in a way that's easy to type and remember (and bookmark/email/tweet/etc).  Also, I plan to use Telerik controls again, but this time I'll stick to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telerik.com/company/press-center/company-news/telerik-embraces-open-source-with-new-extentions-for-asp-net-mvc.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;open source mvc collection&lt;/a&gt;, allowing me to post the code publicly for anyone who want to help host or contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At very least I know I'll have the time to update my test site to the latest data dump in a week or so (the kids are going to visit their grandparents for two whole weeks!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T20:54:56.417" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T20:54:56.417" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37641" CreationDate="2010-03-01T19:19:41.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also: 82 questions tagged &lt;code&gt;blogging&lt;/code&gt; (most of which should probably just be closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T19:19:41.433" />
  <row Id="40826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40831" CreationDate="2010-03-01T19:33:40.073" Score="3" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/473/can-i-re-ask-a-question-if-it-hasnt-been-answered&quot;&gt;Can I re-ask a question if it hasn&amp;rsquo;t been answered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13019/how-can-new-users-get-old-unresolved-questions-answered&quot;&gt;How can new users get old unresolved questions answered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38547/what-if-my-question-is-technically-a-duplicate-but-the-original-question-was-nev&quot;&gt;What if my question is technically a duplicate, but the original question was never answered?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question I'd like to ask, but an exact duplicate exists. It was asked by another user and has an accepted answer (unsatisfactory for me) more than a year ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it acceptable to re-ask the question in hopes that a year has brought some additional insight or suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I just bump the original question as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/473/can-i-reask-a-question-if-it-hasnt-been-answered&quot;&gt;suggested here on Meta&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/473/can-i-reask-a-question-if-it-hasnt-been-answered&quot;&gt;Can I re-ask a question if it hasn’t been answered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38547/what-if-my-question-is-technically-a-duplicate-but-the-original-question-was-never-answered&quot;&gt;What if my question is technically a duplicate, but the original question was never answered?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143791" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T21:29:40.577" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T21:29:40.577" ClosedDate="2010-03-01T21:28:16.913" Title="Should I re-ask an old question if the answer(s) aren't acceptable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40828" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T19:46:43.193" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be useful to allow flagging directly on a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/b2gills/4398508795/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Tag with flag by b2gills, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4398508795_c439f5c48a_o.png&quot; width=&quot;128&quot; height=&quot;32&quot; alt=&quot;Tag with flag&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be used to indicate that a given tag should be merged with another one. While we already &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/retag-request&quot;&gt;have a way to discuss tags that should be merged&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes they reappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could also be a way to automatically fill out a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/retag-request&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/retag-request&quot;&gt;retag-request&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/b2gills/4399275292/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Flagged tag by b2gills, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2768/4399275292_53ebb1eb15_o.png&quot; width=&quot;332&quot; height=&quot;256&quot; alt=&quot;Flagged tag&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T21:35:49.547" Title="Add the ability to flag a tag for moderator review" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40826" CreationDate="2010-03-01T19:46:55.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say re-ask it; while technically you should bump the old question chances are you won't get any news answers if it already has established (ie, upvoted) answers out of which one was accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe try to phrase it a bit differently and mention at the end that you found the possible duplicate but that its answer wasn't satisfactory for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T19:46:55.893" />
  <row Id="40830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40828" CreationDate="2010-03-01T19:50:36.913" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think posting a question on meta (as we do now) is sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for them reappearing, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19018/implement-a-tag-black-list&quot; title=&quot;Implement a Tag Black List - The never-ending hope!&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is aimed to solve that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T21:35:49.547" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T21:35:49.547" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40826" CreationDate="2010-03-01T19:58:01.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;has an accepted answer (unsatisfactory for me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That right there proves that it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; an exact duplicate.  So when asking your question, focus on whatever difference exists that makes this other answer not work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T19:58:01.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40821" CreationDate="2010-03-01T20:30:04.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say I am all that happy with the bounty system after burning 450 rep on this question - &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/114688/outlook-unable-to-synchronize-sharepoint-library-error-0x80004005&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/114688/outlook-unable-to-synchronize-sharepoint-library-error-0x80004005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really care so much about losing the rep, but now that the bounty period is over the question is essentially dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130157" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T20:30:04.447" />
  <row Id="40833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40835" CreationDate="2010-03-01T20:44:05.923" Score="5" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this ad, they seem to be funding Apache, JQuery etc. but looks very shady. Seems like they're trying to fit the Carbon Offset logic to coding and try to make some quick money out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://codeoffsets.com/Default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codeoffsets.com/Default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a scam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="146776" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T21:08:40.313" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T21:23:44.693" Title="Is The Alliance for Code Excellence a scam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40833" CreationDate="2010-03-01T20:48:20.540" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deliciously ironic point: One of the leaders of the Alliance for Code Excellence founded this very site on which you ask the question that insults the heritage of the Alliance for Code Excellence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://codeoffsets.com/Leaders.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://codeoffsets.com/Leaders.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139193" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T20:51:40.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40833" CreationDate="2010-03-01T20:51:17.723" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a scam, given that &lt;a href=&quot;http://codeoffsets.com/Leaders.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the people behind it&lt;/a&gt; (including Jeff Atwood, Alex Papadimoulis, and Jon Skeet) have established reputations that they stand to lose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't really make much sense to me though.  The carbon offsetting idea is intended to limit the total amount of carbon released into the environment whilst letting the market decide how to distribute the allowances most efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are economic incentives for purchasing carbon offsets; there are no incentives to buy bad code offsets, it's just a gimmicky way to donate money to open source projects.  If you want to donate to open source projects, why not just choose the recipients for yourself and make the donation directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; There may in fact be economic incentives &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to buy bad code offsets.  Are they tax-deductible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am in the US, which I'm not, and I decide to donate to the Apache Foundation, it is, in the words of Bob Dylan, a tax-deductible charity organisation.  If I choose to buy bad code offsets and ask for the money to go to Apache, will it actually cost me more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134654" LastEditorUserId="134654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T21:05:53.500" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T21:05:53.500" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40828" CreationDate="2010-03-01T20:51:54.083" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just flag the questions and write that it is the [foo] tag that concerns you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T20:51:54.083" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40833" CreationDate="2010-03-01T20:53:06.263" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not a scam. They &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; fund open source projects that are considered of good quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The leaders are the founders of Stack Overflow and The Daily WTF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T20:53:06.263" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40841" CreationDate="2010-03-01T21:09:52.467" Score="0" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this is a dup, but what happened to this feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not too long ago, people's name had the percent of questions on which they accepted an answer. I don't remember reading that it changed in the blog or elsewhere, yet suddenly this is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11236" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T21:34:06.027" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T21:35:25.807" Title="What happened to the percent of accepted answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40839" CreationDate="2010-03-01T21:12:02.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see it on your question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You must either be on the site anonymously or on one of the sites that you don't have enough non-CW questions (4) asked to have a rating yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T21:35:25.807" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T21:35:25.807" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40822" CreationDate="2010-03-01T22:30:32.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2nd captcha is currently not very desirable, but by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't repro getting the captcha on the 1st attempt though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T22:30:32.380" />
  <row Id="40846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34344" CreationDate="2010-03-01T22:31:25.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely see the logic, but I kind of like the idea that we're all equal here. I've seen sites that give longer users tons more influence on voting and everything, and it makes me feel like I don't matter at all. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T22:31:25.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40868" CreationDate="2010-03-01T22:32:23.297" Score="4" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found it odd that on the first page of the Java tagged questions, I cannot see any author, only the user who last modified the question. I understand the value that modifications add (provide an answer, fix a tag, format the code, etc), but I think it is unfair and also weird that the original author of the question is not there. It seems that all questions belong to 3 or 4 persons who perform all the modifications, and the knowledge added by the person who originally asked the question seems to be less important than the modifications made by other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the site should display both pieces of information (added by and modified by)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/iszLp.png&quot; alt=&quot;a screenshot of the Questions page&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132905" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T06:45:46.357" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:55:09.370" Title="Would it be possible to include the original author of the question even if it has been modified?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T22:36:28.747" Score="3" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remove &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;this question still needs 4 more votes from other users to close&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 3000 rep we probably know how it works :) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that you can already see how many people voted to close a question &quot;close(2)&quot;, this message seems a little redundant. I understand that some 3000 reppers might not know about the 5 votes to close a question thing, but I think the vast majority of us do and don't need a little popup to remind us. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-15T08:51:35.607" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T08:51:35.607" Title="Remove &quot;this question still needs 4 more votes from other users to close&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40848" CreationDate="2010-03-01T22:43:31.460" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's replace it with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You're a closing hero, keep up the good work!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-01T22:58:56.773" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T22:58:56.773" />
  <row Id="40850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30441" CreationDate="2010-03-01T22:45:27.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be aware that I got IP-banned from SO for using the script with default 60-second polling.  According to this thread - &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/443/etiquette-of-screen-scraping-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/443/etiquette-of-screen-scraping-stack-overflow&lt;/a&gt; - scraping more frequently than 15 minutes is not allowed.  So far the SO team has ignored requests to lift the IP block. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144040" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T22:45:27.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-01T22:45:27.120" />
  <row Id="40851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40848" CreationDate="2010-03-01T23:02:42.927" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like these popups, as it provides confirmation that the submission actually worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast this to what happens when you flag a post: when one flags for moderator attention, you get the popup &quot;thanks, we'll take a look at it!&quot;, but if flagging as offensive or spam, you get &lt;em&gt;absolutely no feedback whatsoever&lt;/em&gt; that the flag request was received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T23:02:42.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40852" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-01T23:12:56.537" Score="5" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see lots of &quot;user312&quot; and such, they are similar and make things difficult. I think it would be nice if we encouraged these users to pick a more personal name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have a bar that shows the first time, and Pascal suggested that we &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40560/suggest-userxyz-that-they-should-choose-a-real-name&quot;&gt;repeat the reminder&lt;/a&gt; when they get more reputation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that a more stackoverflow-y way of handling this is to &lt;strong&gt;give reputation points to people the first time they change their username&lt;/strong&gt;. If we want to be picky about it, we could restrict it to changes that don't match the user[0-9]* pattern. This sets the right incentives, in a way that I think will benefit everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133653" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T17:08:09.117" Title="Give reputation points for choosing a name" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40869" CreationDate="2010-03-01T23:13:48.627" Score="23" ViewCount="532" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been signed up for careers.stackoverflow since before it went live just to test the waters in case I ever needed to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last 24 hours (including one at 11pm Sunday night) I received 'Hey, give us a shot back!' from Amazon and another firm called QuantLab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is only suspicious to me because: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.) My CV, although 'published', literally has just a &quot;//TODO :D&quot; in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.) These are the first 2 I have received, both in the scope of a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Amazon really contact me simply because I listed C# as a skill? Or could this be somebody ready to inform me I've won the Nigerian lottery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other changes that would explain this anomaly? Or just a strange coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133711" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T12:59:01.230" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T01:29:09.483" Title="Have there been any reports of spamming on Careers.StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40852" CreationDate="2010-03-01T23:18:04.000" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already an incentive to change your name, its called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/9/autobiographer&quot;&gt;Autobiographer Badge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2010-03-01T23:18:04.000" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34344" CreationDate="2010-03-02T00:10:29.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that in general bad questions are dealt with fine, the majority of them are closed very quickly (as in 5 - 10 minutes) from what I have seen. If there is a question that needs to be closed faster you should be using the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; button to draw a moderators attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue is it makes the user interface more complex, which should be avoided. Rather than having the simple &lt;em&gt;Need 3 more votes to close&lt;/em&gt;, it could end up &lt;em&gt;need 3.75 more votes to close&lt;/em&gt; which makes no sense whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last issue is that, sure I have 10k rep on SO, but does that mean I should be trusted more? I have used the site, sure, but that doesn't mean I am always right. Requiring those 5 votes means that 5 people have to look over the question and decide &lt;em&gt;yes, this needs closing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="137028" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T00:15:41.597" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T00:15:41.597" />
  <row Id="40857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-02T00:50:13.483" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These requests are in fact valid.  If you respond &quot;interested&quot; you will be taken seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T00:50:13.483" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40742" CreationDate="2010-03-02T01:22:06.527" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something we are hoping desktop clients will innovate around; we're working on the API as hard as we can right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T01:22:06.527" />
  <row Id="40859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40434" CreationDate="2010-03-02T01:29:14.823" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeremy notes it is, sadly, kind of a lose-lose proposition to follow up on every single feature req.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always,&lt;strong&gt;please vote up feature requests you agree with&lt;/strong&gt;! I assure you that I regularly look at the highest voted bugs and feature requests which are not tagged with a [status-*]. Anything with a lot of votes is much more likely to be acted upon... So convince you fellow meta users that your request has merit, first!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T01:29:14.823" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34344" CreationDate="2010-03-02T01:43:05.460" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would just prefer that they increase the number of close votes you get per day for different Rep thresholds. Maybe 20 votes at 7k Rep and 30 votes at 10k Rep. I feel like I'm running out of close votes faster and faster every day trying to keep SO neat and tidy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps certain close reasons shouldn't decrement your close vote count. For example, voting to migrate questions isn't really &lt;em&gt;closing&lt;/em&gt; them, since they are still open on one of the other sites. I often use many of my close votes for duplicates, so I'd personally like it if those votes were basically free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping SO clean is hard. Let's go shopping! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T01:43:05.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40852" CreationDate="2010-03-02T01:51:55.550" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;a great idea - if rep points are deducted for changing it again; double on meta!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T01:51:55.550" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30441" CreationDate="2010-03-02T01:53:05.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;why don't you just use the RSS feed and write a script to filter that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T01:53:05.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-02T01:53:05.280" />
  <row Id="40863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40864" CreationDate="2010-03-02T02:19:39.523" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Change from &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;body id=&quot;stackoverflow-family-website&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way we can restyle the website simply modifying our user stylesheets without the need for greasemonkey scripts or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#stackoverflow-family-website .reputation-score&#xA;{&#xA;   font-color: red; // Reputation is now shown in red&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Idea taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40777/how-to-disable-remove-all-badges-and-reputation/40793#40793&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T02:48:50.450" Title="Implement a CSS signature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40863" CreationDate="2010-03-02T02:24:31.103" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using a Gecko based browser? Use this instead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;@-moz-document domain(stackoverflow.com) {&#xA; .reputation_score { font-color: red; }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131377" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T02:24:31.103" />
  <row Id="40865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40863" CreationDate="2010-03-02T02:48:50.450" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every system that exists, be it built into the browser or a plugin, that allows you to change the style of visited pages already has a way to discriminate websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would you want to add an &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; to the body?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you were using a bookmarklet (the lowest tech I can think right that would allow you to change a website's layout) can check the current address (&lt;code&gt;javascript:alert(location.host);return false;&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T02:48:50.450" />
  <row Id="40866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40852" CreationDate="2010-03-02T04:37:38.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As good as this idea sounds, I'm afraid you'd be rewarding people for changing their name to items that don't necessarily merit a reward. Try out some random words in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users&quot;&gt;users page&lt;/a&gt; to see the kind of names some people switch to after joining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T04:37:38.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34344" CreationDate="2010-03-02T05:30:51.700" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Counting on SU: there are only &lt;strong&gt;59&lt;/strong&gt; users with reputation above 3K who &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; vote on closing. Only &lt;strong&gt;105&lt;/strong&gt; users have reputation above 2K (only 3 pages on the Users list).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Reduce the reputation requirements for voting on closing a question and for editing other peoples' posts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastEditorUserId="7586" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T06:01:21.417" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T06:01:21.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40847" CreationDate="2010-03-02T06:32:38.133" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mmyers noted in his comment, what is shown here is specific to the sort order you've specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose &quot;newest&quot;, you get the original author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choose &quot;recent&quot;, you get the last person to modify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T20:55:09.370" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:55:09.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-02T08:48:04.347" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are looking closely at this. They are valid requests, as Geoff noted, but probably not the kind of &lt;em&gt;thoughtful&lt;/em&gt; requests that we want on careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T08:48:04.347" />
  <row Id="40870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T08:53:25.237" Score="2" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14664/how-does-so-syntax-highlight-citations-so-well&quot;&gt;How does SO syntax highlight citations so well?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feel free to close this one if it has a duplicate. I was browsing meta and I can't find the answer. Thank you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144053" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T09:06:03.643" ClosedDate="2010-04-12T02:16:08.340" Title="What Syntax Highlighter Does SO Use?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40870" CreationDate="2010-03-02T08:57:57.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as people dis our search...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=syntax+highlighter&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=syntax+highlighter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. &lt;em&gt;I'm just sayin'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T08:57:57.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40870" CreationDate="2010-03-02T09:06:03.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google Prettify. Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14664/how-does-so-syntax-highlight-citations-so-well/14670&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14664/how-does-so-syntax-highlight-citations-so-well/14670&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(So, yeah, this is a duplicate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T09:06:03.643" />
  <row Id="40874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20531" CreationDate="2010-03-02T10:07:53.780" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit late to the party, but everyone commenting in favor of linking to blog posts seems to be a person who actually has a blog and links to it.  In my opinion, SO is supposed to be like Bowser's castle in world 8: the answer is here, not in another castle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think an appropriate guideline for SO would be analogous to Wikipedia: links to supporting references are acceptable and welcome, but the meat of the answer, as it were, should be found on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134540" LastEditorUserId="134540" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T15:06:34.590" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:06:34.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-02T10:07:53.780" />
  <row Id="40875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-02T10:21:17.413" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;My Conclusion, YOU ROCK&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one day you managed to get 66% percent of my total employer views in direct requests, I have been signed up to this service ever since it launched and have &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; been contacted and only had 3 views, despite having the C# tag and lots of reputationimigigs. I guess living in Australia sucks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T10:21:17.413" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T10:25:33.470" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the same effect as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33906/newline-before-closing-pre-might-break-formatting-in-other-parts-of-same-post&quot;&gt;Newline before closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; might break formatting in other parts of same post&lt;/a&gt;. However, that Markdown bug made both the preview and the final results be rendered wrong. Now, it's &lt;strong&gt;only the preview&lt;/strong&gt; that is slightly off, but when ignoring that (like in this very post) then the final result is okay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Or: maybe the preview was never fixed, but I really don't recall seeing this since the other bug was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/33906/revisions&quot;&gt;marked&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt; on January 8th.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding a newline before &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of the closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'s might yield missing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt; .. &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tags in other parts of the preview of the same post. It also might break using the backtick elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things seem to be formatted fine if the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is on a new line by itself, or if &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;'s are on the last line of their &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; blocks. But if the first closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is at the end of the last line, then using a closing &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on a new line somewhere later, messes up the text above it, a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/0b4b4a00-f868-4f20-bed0-7840988a23da/view-source&quot;&gt;view source&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Some text in &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;, closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; on the last line, causing some of the&#xA;following paragraphs to merge into one. Editing this pre-formatted block to&#xA;put the closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; on a new line by itself, will fix the formatting of&#xA;those paragraphs, also in the preview.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Line, surrounded by blank lines. Should be a new paragraph followed by whitespace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another line, surrounded by blank lines. Should be yet another new paragraph, and should  &lt;code&gt;support backticks&lt;/code&gt; like everywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;More text in &amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;, closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; on the next line. When NOT changing the&#xA;closing &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; of the previous pre-formatted block, then putting the closing&#xA;&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; of THIS very pre-formatted block onto its last line, will also fix&#xA;the formatting of the paragraphs above.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the preview, this currently looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/gJZeM.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Safari &lt;s&gt;4.0.4&lt;/s&gt; 5.0.3, Firefox &lt;s&gt;3.6&lt;/s&gt; 4.0.b9 and Chrome 8.0.552.237 on Mac OS X &lt;s&gt;10.6.2&lt;/s&gt; 10.6.6.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-20T12:31:01.923" LastActivityDate="2011-01-20T12:31:01.923" Title="In the WMD preview, newline before closing &lt;/pre&gt; might break preview in other parts of same post" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;preview&gt;" />
  <row Id="40877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40905" CreationDate="2010-03-02T10:56:08.610" Score="3" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was lucky enough to get the update message &quot;This question was closed, new answers will not be accepted&quot; (paraphrased) while composing an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2362363/whose-fault-is-it-when-a-webpage-x-doesnt-show-right-on-browser-y-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an extremely unpleasant user experience. If it were a conversation, it would be something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A: So, tell me about your weekend&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    B: &lt;em&gt;Actually it's quite a funny story.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    A: Oh? Go on&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    B: &lt;em&gt;Well, I met up with a few friends that I haven't seen for...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    A: SHUT UP! Nobody wants to hear about your stupid weekend,&#xA;         we only care about work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand there are more than two people involved here, but the overall impression of the site as a user feels equally schizophrenic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like I at least ought to get some kind of warning that a question is being voted to close. Right now I get no signs at all, just a sudden message telling me to forget all about submitting that answer I spent a bunch of time carefully composing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you think SO ought to handle this situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40316/add-an-alert-when-answering-a-question-that-has-at-least-a-close-vote-as-duplicat&quot;&gt;Add an alert when answering a question that has at least a close vote as duplicate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140745" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T01:03:22.303" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T01:41:54.957" Title="Question closed while composing an answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T11:02:47.827" Score="2" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't go through all badge definitions. But this one should be considered an alarm sign for people, shouldn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142402" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T11:52:23.763" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:47:09.983" Title="Shouldn't we be scared to gain the Fanatic badge on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="40879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40880" CreationDate="2010-03-02T11:05:33.033" Score="0" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;On several occasions, I was reading a question thinking &quot;I know a guy that knows the answer to this&quot; and that guy (or gal) also happens to be a registered user. How can I bring this to the attention of this user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141906" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:05:07.840" Title="What's the best way to invite a user to answer a question on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;invitation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40879" CreationDate="2010-03-02T11:21:31.370" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not keep it simple? Just email or IM or {your preferred method of communication} them the &lt;strong&gt;URL to the question&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's how the rest of the web works...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T11:21:31.370" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="40881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40877" CreationDate="2010-03-02T11:23:23.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, there is seems to be some ways to answer even after question is closed, may be within some amount of periods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please take a look &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2339908/is-www-deprecated/2339936#2339936&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, its closed at &lt;code&gt;Feb 26 at 6:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;47&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and I could able to answer at &lt;code&gt;Feb 26 at 6:&lt;/code&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;48&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T11:23:23.690" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40878" CreationDate="2010-03-02T11:32:07.727" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Firefox? Good. Click on the site's icon next to the url, and click on &lt;code&gt;More Information...&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It counts how many times you've visited.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now, that's alarming. The day count is peanuts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T11:32:07.727" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40878" CreationDate="2010-03-02T11:58:27.570" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using Safari? Good. Blame the badge on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13727/did-safaris-top-sites-feature-earn-my-enthusiast-badge/15379#15379&quot;&gt;Top Sites&lt;/a&gt;. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T11:58:27.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40879" CreationDate="2010-03-02T12:21:10.270" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's good form to approach users on SO with questions just because they have shown to be knowledgeable in the past. Most people who can competently answer questions here have work to do. SO is a forum for people to pick from and answer questions whenever they are in the mood to, and have the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it okay to hint at a follow-up question in the comments of an question or answer. Anything beyond that I personally find rude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tag the question well so that the Guru of your choice is likely to stumble upon it if they are on SO at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T12:21:10.270" />
  <row Id="40885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-02T13:06:05.097" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that the request the employers sent you were about as sparse as your CV.  They are merely approaching you the way you are advertising yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will show up in employer searches, and they will see you CV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/erikkerber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/erikkerber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then view your user page at SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/132087&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/132087&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you will fit many open positions.  Just because your CV is incomplete doesn't mean it's useless, and one of the nice features about careers is that employers have a second source (your SO page) to check out one form of your output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, having a sparse CV may work to your advantage if your SO profile is particularly good.  If your CV leaves them wanting to know more, they will do a little bit more research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that employers have to &lt;em&gt;pay&lt;/em&gt; to use careers - it's not something spammers will usually do unless it's less than a penny per thousand people they can spam.  So it's unlikely that we'll see any real spam on there for awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T13:06:05.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11563" CreationDate="2010-03-02T14:27:31.203" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea. We can already choose, through preferences, to hide questions based on our ignore list and questions relating to our interesting tags are highlighted, so why not have the ability to only view the interesting tags as a whole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not sure that this should be a separate tab, could a search modifier or a link in the &quot;Interesting Tags&quot; section that is for &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; interesting tags work better? I don't know. That said, a tab would be intuitive given our existing interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T14:27:31.203" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40891" CreationDate="2010-03-02T14:41:14.777" Score="3" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody I know thinks that some of the questions/answers on stackoverflow violates certain core SDK agreements. Is this true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T12:10:16.510" Title="Do some of the questions/answers of Stackoverflow break SDK agreements?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40889" CreationDate="2010-03-02T14:45:42.113" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's probably referring to iPhone SDK questions.  There was a big stink when the iPhone SDK first came out about the restrictive NDA users had to sign to gain access to it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, that's an issue for those users, not for the StackOverflow administration.  Secondly, IIRC after the initial stink Apple backpedaled on some of the worst of the terms and basically indicated to developers that it wasn't interested in enforcing most of the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T14:45:42.113" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:10:24.223" Score="5" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Displaying the question right on the answer edit page is great, and I'm happy this was added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I've run into a problem a couple of times. If the question is long, particularly with a snippet of code, currently you have to drag-expand the question pane all the way to the relevant section, and then scroll the browser window up and down between the answer input box and the question pane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a vertical scrollbar on the question pane in addition to the resizing capability (so it's just like the text box I'm typing in right now). This would eliminate having to scroll back and forth, which would make it much less frustrating to answer those questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1189/display-the-original-question-beneath-the-answer-edit-form&quot;&gt;Original feature request for the display of the original question on the answer edit page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:10:24.223" Title="Add a vertical scrollbar to the original question pane on the answer edit page" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" />
  <row Id="40895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41505" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:16:15.070" Score="21" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally deleted my C# tag, but when I re-added it and clicked on it to get a list of questions tagged C#, I noticed the &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; was not URL encoded to &lt;code&gt;%23&lt;/code&gt;, so I only saw questions tagged &lt;code&gt;c&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44765" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T08:00:08.830" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T08:00:08.830" Title="After adding an interesting tag, the href is not URL encoded" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;url-encoding&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:35:56.500" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, also, recieved the Quantlab one and I'm convinced it's spam.  I already e-mailed careers about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was what I got from them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi There – &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I came across your information on&#xA;  &amp;lt; link temporarily hidden &gt; and I am&#xA;  interested in networking. My firm,&#xA;  Quantlab Financial is a&#xA;  science-driven, technology focused&#xA;  automated trading firm based in&#xA;  Houston, TX. We recruit all types of&#xA;  engineers from software to systems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even if you are not currently looking&#xA;  for an opportunity we would love to&#xA;  exchange contact information if your&#xA;  circumstances change. Quantlab also&#xA;  has a great referral program, if you&#xA;  refer a friend/colleague to Quantlab&#xA;  and we hire them, you receive a 1k&#xA;  referral bonus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I look forward to hearing from you,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jennifer Evans Quantlab Financial&#xA;  &amp;lt; email temporarily hidden &gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It came with information in the employer box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quantlab &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://quantlab.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://quantlab.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4200 Montrose Blvd Houston TX, 77006&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website leads to a Network Solutions &quot;Under construction&quot; page.  The address is for The University of St Thomas in Houston, Tx.  Specifically the ELS Language Building. Plug it into Google Maps and see for yourself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do a search for Quantlab Financial on google.com you get a linkedin profile, a profile on business week, indeed and half a dozen other profiles that one person could easily create.  No web page, no news reports, no official records or listings.  You also get a about a bajillion postings on pretty much every job listing site out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am absolutely convinced that the Quantlab one is a fishing scam.  If it isn't, I'll eat my hat (and turn very red in the face).  I have no idea about the Amazon one though, it could just be that you're that awesome ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I would add that I appear to have received the quantlab one at the exact same time you did.  ~16 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit Again:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After much confusion, I'm now pretty sure that they are real.  Austin (see comments) will confirm it as soon as he visits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Quantlab - my sincere apologies.  I'll leave up my posts so that you guys can see what made me convinced you were a phishing scam.  The primary culprits - the lack of web presence (or website) and the fact that Google Maps has your address listed as a language building at the University of St. Thomas.  Putting up a website would probably help a great deal to allay suspicion in the future.  I wish you luck in your recruiting, and apologize again for the trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134161" LastEditorUserId="134161" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T21:22:56.537" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:22:56.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40902" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:43:07.263" Score="6" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this mostly as people asking pure JavaScript questions and getting JQuery answers -- &lt;em&gt;yes, I know about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19492#19492&quot;&gt;meme&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm talking about serious answers here&lt;/em&gt; -- but I would guess that it happens for other languages/extensions, too.  Is this okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like most JS questions these days get at least one JQuery response, even if JQuery is never mentioned in the post or tags.  In most cases, the answers do seem to be technically valid, at least based on a lack of downvotes.  On the other hand, when I ask questions, they're usually about work rather than personal projects, and I don't have control over what libraries are included.  Even for personal projects, I might not want to learn how to install JQuery to solve one little problem.  But I don't know if I'm in the minority on either of those counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was inspired by the comment thread on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2363748/can-i-determine-the-current-state-of-the-display-css-style-for-a-given-element-us/2363757#2363757&quot;&gt;this SO answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastActivityDate="2011-02-06T14:14:10.407" Title="Is it okay to post answers using libraries/frameworks/extensions not already mentioned?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40878" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:47:09.983" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, being on SO all the time is a sign of a normal, healthy developer. At least I hope so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should really be alarming is getting the Fanatic badge &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/53/fanatic&quot;&gt;on Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11652/how-addicted-to-stack-overflow-are-you&quot;&gt;How addicted to Stack Overflow are you?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:47:09.983" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40897" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:50:04.313" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's pretty reasonable. If you're asking a question and &lt;em&gt;expecting&lt;/em&gt; a suggestion to use another library, but you can't for whatever reason, then indicate that in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:50:04.313" />
  <row Id="40901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40897" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:50:51.627" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For most questions, it is absolutely fine to suggest using another language. I mean, I tell people who want to parse XML with regular expressions to use XPath all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless they give a specific reason why they can't use a certain technology. Like maybe &quot;My boss got beaten up by XPath as a kid and won't let me use it.&quot; Not really a good excuse, but it's enough to earn a downvote on XPath answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the details that the asker has given and decide for yourself. It's not really something there should be a hard-and-set rule for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing a better language for a task is part of what makes an answer good. The asker doesn't know he should be using jQuery or XPath. That's why he asked the question in the first place. Just use your experience to help him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:50:51.627" />
  <row Id="40902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40897" CreationDate="2010-03-02T15:57:28.460" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it's okay.  If the OP wants to specifically &lt;em&gt;exclude&lt;/em&gt; common libraries, then they need to specify that in their question.  You typically get several different answers to a question, and different people reading the answers later can still benefit from the jQuery answer even if the OP chooses a plain JavaScript solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T15:57:28.460" />
  <row Id="40903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-03-02T16:03:08.727" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also like to comment that these ads are STILL too similar. I've been using the site regularly for a week or so now, and they STILL throw me off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked a lot of pages to see what happened when not logged in, and it seems that the Startups.com ads only show for logged-in users. It's like we're being punished for being regular contributors :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for the record, there is not always a black border. Sometimes there is, but often I get this version: &lt;a href=&quot;http://scottcranfill.com/images/so_ad.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scottcranfill.com/images/so_ad.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144070" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T16:03:08.727" />
  <row Id="40904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40889" CreationDate="2010-03-02T16:14:05.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal favourite is the question &quot;Where can I get Windows OS’s for testing my programs in Virtual PCs?&quot;, where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/445247/where-can-i-get-images-or-full-windows-oss-to-run-in-virtual-machines/445331#445331&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; says &quot;get a Technet Plus subscription&quot;. My objection is that this is illegal under Microsoft's licensing terms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Kudos to the author of that accepted answer, romandas, who has now edited the answer to mention the licensing problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are other examples where people have unwittingly advocated illegal solutions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastEditorUserId="135917" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T12:10:16.510" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T12:10:16.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40877" CreationDate="2010-03-02T16:14:45.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You won't have this problem if you stick to answering questions that aren't going to get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's some types of questions that have a high likelihood of getting closed, particularly right after being asked, and there many, &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; questions that will never get closed, ever. As you spend more time on the site, you'll be able to tell the difference (and once you hit 3k, you can join in the voting to close inappropriate questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T16:14:45.110" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74429" CreationDate="2010-03-02T16:31:38.673" Score="33" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally a users who are new to the site post questions without quite grasping that this isn't a traditional threaded message board. I've seen numerous occasions where these users try to respond to answers by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354060/pascal-programming-help/2360868#2360868&quot;&gt;posting another answer&lt;/a&gt; (in fact three times on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354060/pascal-programming-help&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an understandable mistake, but tends to clutter things up a bit. As a possible solution to this I propose a way to flag these types of answers, perhaps as &quot;should be a comment&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the continuing effort to be nicer to the N00Bs, it probably shouldn't penalize or scold them, but maybe it could either (a) move the answer into a comment on the main question; or (b) put some kind of a notification on their profile that tells them it has been removed and asks them nicely to repost it as a comment on one of the answers or the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-09T10:45:12.460" LastActivityDate="2011-01-09T10:45:39.963" Title="Feature Request: Ability to flag an answer as &quot;not an answer&quot; or &quot;should be a comment&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T16:51:51.683" Score="9" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36728/how-does-stackoverflow-calculate-the-number-of-views-in-a-question/36729#36729&quot;&gt;How does stackoverflow calculate the number of views in a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are question view counts calculated with respect to users that are logged in or anonymous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because sometimes when I ask a question on Stack Overflow, I really need to know the answer so I keep checking back on the site somewhat obsessive-compulsively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm logged in every time, so does every time I go back count as a new view?  Or only if some sort cookie has expired in my browser?  Or once my user id views it, can I not create any more views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trying to artificially inflate my views - I couldn't care less.  I just want to know why I'm not getting an answer - is it because plenty of people are looking but nobody knows, or is it because nobody is even looking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132210" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T21:26:33.693" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T21:26:33.693" Title="How are view counts calculated?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40906" CreationDate="2010-03-02T16:58:28.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a widespread problem; that is to say that there isn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; anything wrong with the software or the community moderation that misleads users to make these rare, occasional gaffes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I would prefer to see these types of minor corrections made through the &quot;normal&quot; means (comments, voting, teach by example, etc) rather than adding yet another function/link/menu to the system. Moderators can handle the occasional &quot;human exception.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably 100's to 1000's of these little behaviors where somebody doesn't quite do something correctly. If you add a function or a faq entry to explicitly handle every eventuality that can occur, this place would quickly become an unholy mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote to leave it the way it is. If it's &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; bad, flag a moderator. Otherwise, &lt;strong&gt;leave a comment describing the &quot;problem&quot; for the benefit/education of those that follow.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer to leave the human element intact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T20:51:00.580" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:51:00.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40909" CreationDate="2010-03-02T17:03:00.253" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40353/stack-overflow-glossary&quot;&gt;the glossary&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Views&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The number of unique visitors to a question or user profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I guess only your first visit counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T17:03:00.253" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40852" CreationDate="2010-03-02T17:08:09.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That seems like it would penalize people who thougtfully choose an appropriate name at the first.  We wouldn't want to change our names, and thus would not be able to get those points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136906" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T17:08:09.117" />
  <row Id="40913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40906" CreationDate="2010-03-02T17:29:49.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a problem sometimes, but way too small to justify creating a flagging function for. Just leave a comment, snarky if it's obviously a non-answer fishing for reputation, nice if it's a newbie who doesn't know better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T17:29:49.113" />
  <row Id="40914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40906" CreationDate="2010-03-02T17:37:45.193" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you need 1 Rep to answer and 50 rep to comment (Meta is different), answering is the only option a newbie has even if they &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to leave only a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T17:37:45.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40916" CreationDate="2010-03-02T17:48:43.560" Score="5" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says, how about making available &quot;trophy&quot; style badges, that are globally unique (only one such badge exists per site), and is bestowed to the current holder of some sort of record. Records, of course, can be broken, so the badge is not permanent and is transferrable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if a &quot;shadow&quot; of the trophy still remains after a user lost it, even if just for the memories =) Would be even nicer if each trophy has a dedicated historical trail page that other people can follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some obvious overall records are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest rep points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most rep gain in a day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most rep lost in a day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Highest average points per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quickest to [Mortarboard], [Epic], [Legendary]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quickest to [Enthusiast], [Fanatic]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most [Enlightened], etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most successful bounty hunter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most [Tumbleweed] (sad!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also have daily records that are reset every day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most rep gain yesterday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most acceptance yesterday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also have week/month counterparts too, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &quot;Quickest to&quot; records are not defensible. A user can only set that record once in his lifetime, and if lost afterward, can never won it ever again. Some users will never be able to win it ever, period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143806" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:15:14.043" Title="Idea for globally unique record-holding trophy badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40915" CreationDate="2010-03-02T17:51:39.060" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nah, Jon Skeet would have all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T17:51:39.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41228" CreationDate="2010-03-02T18:03:49.863" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;When taking a look at statcounter.com for my blog I noticed a a few hits that came from expert-exchange...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you supply a small image that would fit into the sidebar of most Wordpress templates that is an advertisement for serverfault that is maybe something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Using Expert's Exchange? Stop. Check out Serverfault.&quot; (Or maybe just an image add that says what serverfault is)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something like that but maybe more clever.  That way any bloggers who want to advertise serverfault (or any of your sites for that matter) can place an ad for it if we want to (for free of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there is the flare rep thing that you can post, but maybe a more direct ad would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131182" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-24T07:22:59.263" LastActivityDate="2010-05-24T07:22:59.263" Title="Wordpress Side-Bar Advertisement for Serverfault" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40917" CreationDate="2010-03-02T18:08:14.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know - I like the sentiment, but for the SO team itself to produce the content feels tacky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T18:08:14.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40917" CreationDate="2010-03-02T18:29:10.873" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm for it sentiment-wise as well, but....  I'd say to post your flair instead and put a little blurb by your flair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T18:29:10.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40980" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:04:26.220" Score="-1" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FAQ does say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What kind of questions can I ask here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If your question is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Server Fault&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Super User&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it is welcome here. No question is&#xA;  too trivial or too &quot;newbie&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People already hate me here, but for whatever reason I still want to try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really care that much for reputation system. I just want to be able to post decent answers or questions (with more than 1 hyperlink) and upvote people, just like I do in other SO-powered sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should I just give up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T16:56:26.093" Title="Am I insisting too much in trying to be part of the community?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="40921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40920" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:17:52.007" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether or not you care about the reputation system, you need reputation before the site will trust you to do certain things.  reputation == trust ... on all the stackoverflow sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:17:52.007" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40920" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:18:32.830" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People already hate me here, but for whatever reason I still want to try it.&#xA;  ...&#xA;  So, should I just give up?&#xA;  Am I &lt;strong&gt;insisting&lt;/strong&gt; too much in trying to be part of the community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took a look at your profiles - your votes here at Meta are in the negatives, while you have a 200ish rep at SuperUser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think maybe you are trying too hard. &#xA;If you really came to ask and answer questions, you should be just fine (just watch out if you post incorrect answers). However, if you came with the primary purpose of collecting rep points and becomming &quot;popular&quot;, this can be the root cause of your problem. I see a lot of users ask non-questions and dupes, trying to grab a gold medal, but they usually end up with zero or lower score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please don't whine. &gt;&lt;em&gt;_&lt;/em&gt;_&amp;lt; (Sorry, had to say it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed one of your Meta questions has a very negative score - I think what happened was that you worded your question/comment in a way that was slightly offensive and pressing of your thoughts/opinions that did not agree with the rest of the group. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:18:32.830" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="40923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22374" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:19:06.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really agree Question RSS feed, or any feed for that matter, should worry about showing recent items. It should always show every item and leave the rest to the aggregator. But maybe it could give an option, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/22374?startdate=yyyy-mm-dd&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/question/22374?startdate=yyyy-mm-dd&lt;/a&gt; to filter out everything before that date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I hope I'm not going too off-topic on the lines below.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, I just went to a old question that got several updates and even by ordering it by Newest or Oldest it's got hard to keep track among answers and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While RSS doesn't solve this issue, I think it could if it added comments on it (currently the feed doesn't show the comments). So we could see answers and comments mixed in the order they were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Question RSS should look a lot like the question expanded &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/22374/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;. It's a hidden feature I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36738/any-feed-for-stackoverflow-that-also-has-comments-in-rss/36740#36740&quot;&gt;just found out about&lt;/a&gt;, even if it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view&quot;&gt;been around for a little while&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The timeline is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14643/full-timeline-of-a-question&quot;&gt;perfect example&lt;/a&gt; of another basic feature that's available in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/adventures-in-delclusionism/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;places SO is using as reference&lt;/a&gt; such as Digg, Wikipedia, but the developers don't see any reason to implement it at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:19:06.107" />
  <row Id="40924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40915" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:20:28.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They already have this for tags.  Click on any tag and then click the stats tab near the top, and you can see the top users for that tag for all time and for the last 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:20:28.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:37:38.497" Score="1" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I click the &quot;logout&quot; link, I am taken to a separate page that contains nothing but a &quot;logout&quot; button.  I don't really see the point of this; I suggest removing this page and having the logout link actually log you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137910" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T11:44:53.220" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T11:44:53.220" Title="Do not ask for confirmation on logout" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;logout&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40925" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:41:18.673" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I never log out, I would think we'd only need a confirmation popup, just in case we accidentally hit the button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T19:57:48.027" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:57:48.027" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="87528" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:49:04.083" Score="5" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I myself don't have any &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6557/instant-notifications-of-answers-to-questions/31596#31596&quot;&gt;good way (this would be the perfect way)&lt;/a&gt; to do it, even while there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2175/how-do-i-track-people-answering-my-comments-closed&quot;&gt;some options&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be it for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31773/how-can-i-get-notified-by-email-or-rss-of-the-stuff-im-involved-in-at-stack-ov&quot;&gt;responses&lt;/a&gt;, reputation, interesting stuff...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find any simple RSS solution, the e-mail is just about answers to questions, and refreshing the &quot;recent&quot; will clear up on the second refresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't check the web site daily and I'm still looking for solutions here. So I'd like to know how &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; people do it. Not how I should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I was just tracking &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/116127/problems-running-some-apps-on-mac-no-error-message&quot;&gt;this question on superuser&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/13241/josh-k&quot;&gt;Josh K&lt;/a&gt;, who's no newbie, edited his answer as a reply to my comment. But I would never know this unless I checked the question itself! So, adding to the question, how would &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; keep track of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit2:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Reenforcing, I wish to know how &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;, who's answering this, do to keep track. It seems like nobody who does it different cares to post it, or maybe nobody does. The answers so far are rather telling &lt;strong&gt;me&lt;/strong&gt; how I should do. But even with all that suggestions, I'm having issues to keep track of responses, answers and conversations on all different StackExchange sites that I participate: unity3D, superuser, meta, and a lil bit of others. And I really needed a good way to get notified here just because I wish to (A) respond faster and (B) actually see who responded me. I'm just hoping this isn't just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: this edit is also a perfectly good example of how I would use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5199/please-add-the-ability-to-fold-blocks-of-code-in-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;folding block&lt;/a&gt;. I'd just fold this whole edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit3:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;While there's no emails &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/onbgjnpdcjdhjngbnhnhplnamagmiike&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange Notifier&lt;/a&gt; (google chrome addon) has been good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit4:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;SEN advised on last edit stoped working a while ago, and my only way was the Global Inbox. Now I've got a new way (see below)! Main issue is it's mac only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-15T21:27:58.720" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T21:27:58.720" Title="How do you do to keep track of notifications?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="40928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40925" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:50:43.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On sites that don't have a confirmation, I do occasionally click the &quot;logout&quot; button and it is a bit of a pain to have to log in again. I am also sure that the majority of the times I have hit the logout button, not just here but other sites, I didn't want to. I have never used this site from a public computer and so the additional step saves me time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue is it isn't like you never have your mouse near it. The the &lt;code&gt;tools&lt;/code&gt; button is right next to it and either too much or too little coffee could lead to me accidently hitting logout rather than tools (and I have done it) a few times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, some sort of confirmation is definitely required. I must admit the current text is strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're a registered user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can log in or out at any time using the OpenID you've already associated with your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something more along the lines of &quot;Are you sure you want to logout&quot; would be much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="137028" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T19:57:03.097" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:57:03.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40925" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:51:01.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to agree. This is not a damaging function. The page that &quot;logout&quot; displays simply tells you that you are a registered user and that you can log in or log out any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which my response is, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;DUH.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; I know I'm a registered user, I know I'm logged in, and all I want to do is log out. It really should be one-and-only-one click.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T20:08:30.667" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:08:30.667" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40946" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:51:02.723" Score="2" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-- this is a comment&#xA;UPDATE Employees SET fired = 1 WHERE noiseLevelInDB &amp;gt; 80&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144088" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T21:25:53.693" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T21:28:25.093" Title="SQL Syntax highlighter doesn't recognized double-dash comment syntax" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;sql&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40927" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:56:23.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just hit the envelope up top that takes you to the recent activity page, then hit the button that corresponds to the timeframe you want to check for responses in, or manipulate the date in the address bar to be more specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:56:23.660" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="40932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40930" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:57:28.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The code block should recognize every language ever known, and highlight the syntax appropriately.  Let's get this fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T19:57:28.197" />
  <row Id="40933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40925" CreationDate="2010-03-02T19:58:54.513" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While we're on this topic, can we &lt;em&gt;please&lt;/em&gt; fix the spelling of that text to &quot;log out&quot;? &lt;em&gt;&quot;logout&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is a noun, &lt;em&gt;&quot;log out&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is a verb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This was covered earlier at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29229/use-of-login-logout-is-inconsistent-and-incorrect&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29229/use-of-login-logout-is-inconsistent-and-incorrect&lt;/a&gt;, so please go upvote that question &lt;strike&gt;too&lt;/strike&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T20:11:17.900" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:11:17.900" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40925" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:03:53.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I remember a blog post by Jeff talking about adding this so a malicious script didn't do naughty stuff to you, but I can't find it (I don't even remember if it was on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;codinghorror&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackoverflow blog&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I bet you it's there for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/84237&quot;&gt;Arjan&lt;/a&gt; says, you'd be logged out if someone includes&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/logout&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; in a post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T20:58:31.750" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:58:31.750" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:23:22.487" Score="13" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm writing an email to a candidate, I want to include the candidate's name (&quot;Dear Fred, Please come work for us! ...&quot;) I have to believe this increases response rate (you could check this historically of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However because StackOverflow retains the last message I sent to the candidate, when I go on from Fred to Mary, the message still says &quot;Dear Fred&quot;. It's embarassing when I then forget to update the name, click [Send], and my message gives the wrong candidate name (I'm &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; this decreases response rate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd just like a simple check when I click [Send] that tells me if the candidate's name doesn't appear anywhere in the email, and suggests that I put it in. Even better, the message could just automatically include &quot;Dear X&quot; without me ever having to type it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Sarcastic (and entertaining) comments below notwithstanding, I don't want fake personalisation of messages. In fact, the way SO works now &lt;em&gt;encourages&lt;/em&gt; me to spam &lt;em&gt;exactly the same&lt;/em&gt; message to every candidate, without any personalisation at all. For those who haven't seen it, you get your last sent message already filled in as a prompt when you view a candidate's profile, and it's just a single click to send that message again word-for-word - so if I wanted to be robotic, I'd just draft a message that could apply to anyone and send that every time. Instead, I want to personalise the message in various ways, but definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; forget to personalise the name, which looks really dumb to everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137103" LastEditorUserId="137103" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T08:11:54.887" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T08:11:54.887" Title="Check for candidate name in email" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:25:00.970" Score="18" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some candidates come up many times in searches on Stack Overflow Careers. Once I've read the candidate's CV and decided not to contact them, or interviewed them and decided that they are not right for us, I don't want to see that candidate again unless something changes (e.g. my job spec changes, or the candidate's CV does). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please provide an [Evaluated, don't see again] button that lets me say I don't want to look at that candidate's CV in future until it changes. Please also provide a way for me to see previously evaluated &amp;amp; blocked candidates in searches (I would use this if my job spec changed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137103" LastEditorUserId="137103" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T07:57:45.140" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T07:57:45.140" Title="Allow me to prevent a candidate from appearing in future searches on Stack Overflow Careers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40920" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:26:07.443" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; the kind of person the reputation system is meant to slow down! You got here two weeks ago, and the first thing you do is start to criticize? Apparently, you feel you're very fast at assessing a site and determining how it should be run. You believe you can do this without using the site long enough to understand how it actually works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we allowed you and those like you free rein, we'd have total chaos, as everyone would immediately start making over the site in their own image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take your time. Learn what the sites are about. Once you've done that, you'll be able to make intelligent suggestions. You'll find that such suggestions don't get downvoted nearly as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out my questions on meta, and you'll see that I'm speaking as someone who gets not a few downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:26:07.443" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40920" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:31:00.503" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You just have to learn what the community is all about and eventually that will happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be patient. You just have 14 days using this site and you are already thinking people hates you and you are insisting too much. You are just beginning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, go back to SuperUser ( or even better StackOverflow ) and post more questions, add more answers. Analyze and understand why some questions are upvoted while others are downvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll need 2 or 3 questions with 4 to 5 upvotes to get your first 100 rep and you can post links from there. If you don't care about rep. mark your posts as community wiki and you'll still be able to be upvoted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, StackOverflow has a series of rules to which you must adhere to be part of the community ( for instance you're not an spammer, but we had bad experiences like  - this is covered in the blog.stackoverflow.com: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New question / Answers rate limit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those limits were set and if you want to be part of this you must observe them and not start your posting by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39666/spam-prevention-mechanism-earn-10-reputation-to-post-more-hyperlinks&quot;&gt;criticizing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39674/first-impressions-great-interface-interesting-concept-bad-implementation&quot;&gt;them&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, relaaaax, enjoy the ride be smart, think positive!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastEditorUserId="20654" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T20:37:43.077" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:37:43.077" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="40940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40936" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:39:41.857" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as an employee candidate on the careers site, I'd be pretty saddenned if you rejected me outright and never saw me turn up again in search results. What if I made major changes to my CV that might cause you to change your mind? What if your needs changed and suddenly I become a more suitable match?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer if you were only able to automatically ignore candidates for a certain amount of time, say a few weeks, so I wouldn't clutter up your search results in the short term, but still allow you to have another look at me later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T20:49:30.350" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:49:30.350" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40935" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:48:56.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a great opportunity for a Greasemonkey script. Not because it would be all that difficult for the SO Team to add to the site, but because &lt;em&gt;there's so much more you could do with it&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, why stop with personalized &lt;em&gt;names&lt;/em&gt;? If you wanna give folks the impression that you actually looked at their profiles, scanned their SOFU posts, &lt;em&gt;read their CVs&lt;/em&gt;... then what you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want is some good ol' Word-style &lt;em&gt;mail-merge&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cast your gaze upon &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear {{Name}},&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My name is {{RepName}} and I represent the HR department of {{Company}}, where we're currently looking for {{CandidateAdjectives}} candidates to fill a position in our {{DeptName}} group. This exciting position offers a chance to work with cutting-edge technologies such as {{NonCOBOLRequirements}} as well as established tools like {{COBOL}}. We noticed that you've done some work with {{RequirementsCandidateTagIntersection}}, and feel that you could be an excellent addition to our {{DeptMood}} team!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If working in a {{DeptPace}}-paced environment with {{DeptMood}} co-workers sounds like fun, please tell us why you think this job would be right for you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  {{RepName}}, {{RepTitle}}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, as a client-side script you'd be able to manipulate not only the templates but the variables themselves, thus creating an endless stream of fresh, dynamic messages to draw in potential candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the idea, but don't have the time or expertise to write such a script yourself? Never fear, SO is &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; of out-of-work Greasemonkey experts - just find one on SOC and hire them for the job!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;{{EndingThought}}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:48:56.000" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40936" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:51:23.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 I think that's fair as long as the blocked user get some kind of notification: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Profile blocked by N users&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should at least give the candidate subtle hint, there's something wrong with its CV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:51:23.590" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40906" CreationDate="2010-03-02T20:53:57.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is not needed. While it may be disturbing, the poster should be able to post a comment saying: &quot;This is a comment not an answer, post it as such&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related post: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19960/comments-for-comments-answers-for-answers-is-it-that-hard&quot;&gt;Comments for comments, answers for answers, is it that hard??&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T20:53:57.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T21:26:18.513" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO sites display with a set width to them.  Could we get the display to autosize based on the actual screen display space?  Either automatically, or maybe user-configurable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a web-programmer, so I don't know how possible this is or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T21:32:29.683" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T00:44:14.360" Title="Show sites at size of browser window" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;&lt;display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40930" CreationDate="2010-03-02T21:28:25.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case I suspect the problem is that the code is detected as a language other than sql, but I could be wrong about that.  Either way, the syntax highlighting is done using google's prettify.js tool, so I deferred the request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T21:28:25.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30521" CreationDate="2010-03-02T21:39:30.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I zoom in on SO ([Ctrl]+[+]) so that the site fills my screen. Then I set this CSS rule to make the text in the code blocks smaller (though I don't scale any of the other text... yet):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.post-text &amp;gt; pre {&#xA;  font-size: 0.625em;&#xA;  font-weight: bold;&#xA;  line-height: 1.2em;&#xA;  max-height: 450px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm doing this with Greasemonkey just because I'm familiar with it, but there are other extensions you can use to handle just CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T21:39:30.683" />
  <row Id="40948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40936" CreationDate="2010-03-02T21:40:07.590" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're asking for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a way to block candidates...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That so &lt;em&gt;perfectly&lt;/em&gt; match your search parameters...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That they come up every time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;scratches head&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that it's an unreasonable request, it just seems that perhaps the problem isn't with the candidate.  Have you considered narrowing your search down?  Obviously the search is including people you don't want - can you identify &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they aren't suitable and change your search to match?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If careers doesn't have the capability to hone your search so finely, then it's hardly living up to its promise of great developers for great jobs.  Suggest a feature change that allows you to search more effectively, leaving out those that don't fit your criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see a need for an employer to mark a CV as, &quot;Have already evaluated, please do not allow back into any search results for 6 months.&quot;  It's not a bad mark, it just simplifies the hiring manager's process.  Yes, he fits our criteria, but no, he is not a good fit for the job based on things in his resume or SO portfolio that we've evaluated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, I agree with having this feature, and no - I don't think there's a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; reason to let candidates know that their resumes was evaluated and excluded from future searches.  It unnecessarily complicates things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T21:40:07.590" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40945" CreationDate="2010-03-02T21:41:29.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd hate this, for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like being able to size my browser window to hide the panel on the right without losing question/answer size now and then (mainly when I'm working on two things at once).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like knowing approximately how my answers will look in terms of paragraph size and so forth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I like knowing that syntax highlighter wrapped things correctly &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mostly&lt;/strong&gt;, I like that this helps encourage brevity in code samples - if the sample is long enough that you're losing code for nesting reasons, it's time to re-focus your thoughts and pare down to just what's relevant to the problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-02T21:46:31.600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T21:46:31.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T22:03:26.163" Score="5" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the reputation graph; it's fun to track my reputation over time and helpful to see a visual representation of which questions and answers users have found most useful. One thing that seems like a bug to me is that when you first click to the rep graph, the listed end date is always today's date, even if I didn't receive any reputation today. The graph itself gets this right, with the right edge of the graph corresponding to the most recent day my reputation changed. But to see what day that actually was, I have to click in the graph and drag past the right end of the graph. Then the value for &quot;end date&quot; changes to the real date of my last rep change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be too computationally expensive to implement a change this frivolous, but would it be possible to show the &quot;real&quot; end date in the text field by default, rather than today's date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1482" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T22:03:26.163" Title="Show &quot;real&quot; end date on reputation graph by default" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" />
  <row Id="40951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="431" CreationDate="2010-03-02T22:33:09.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any way to send a personal message to another user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to the user's page, click on one of their questions or answers, and leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they next visit they will be notified that you have responded to their post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a &lt;em&gt;private&lt;/em&gt; messaging system, but it is a &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; messaging system, and it's the only one provided by SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-02T22:33:09.400" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-02T23:29:24.130" Score="4" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when there are duplicates, the newer question gets answers that are relevant and weren't mentioned in the first question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If merging is not suitable (for instance, a relevant answer would get hidden in a ton of other answers),  I think that adding a link on the old question to the new question might be helpful for people looking for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially if the question is asked on a different time (meaning a different crowd answering) or asked a big while after the first question (new developments might have occurred.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40346/allow-high-rep-users-to-migrate-answers-from-one-question-to-another/40361#40361&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; might serve this purpose better, but looks a lot more complex to implement correctly. What I propose should be easy to implement as a temporary measure at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5190" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-25T09:00:45.603" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T09:03:42.883" Title="Link previous questions to newer duplicates" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="40953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40954" CreationDate="2010-03-03T00:17:14.433" Score="1" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56541/david&quot;&gt;user profile for Stack Overflow user David&lt;/a&gt; lists 229 points for his top rated answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;229    Programming challenge: can you code a hello world program as a Palindrome? (3)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when you &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659752/programming-challenge-can-you-code-a-hello-world-program-as-a-palindrome/660276#660276&quot;&gt;view his answer&lt;/a&gt;, it lists &lt;code&gt;+43/-1&lt;/code&gt; votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This looks like a bug to me.  I would expect his profile to list something like +42 to his answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;42    Programming challenge: can you code a hello world program as a Palindrome? (3)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40953/inconsistent-votes-in-user-profile-vs-answer/40954#40954&quot;&gt;Downvoter&lt;/a&gt; helped me realize what's going on...  User David has three answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659752/programming-challenge-can-you-code-a-hello-world-program-as-a-palindrome/660212#660212&quot;&gt;Brainf**k answer&lt;/a&gt; +168/-1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659752/programming-challenge-can-you-code-a-hello-world-program-as-a-palindrome/660276#660276&quot;&gt;Python answer&lt;/a&gt; +43/-1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659752/programming-challenge-can-you-code-a-hello-world-program-as-a-palindrome/659776#659776&quot;&gt;John Skeet&lt;/a&gt; +25/-5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the sum of points is &lt;code&gt;167 + 42 + 20 = 229 == 229&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the &quot;Answers&quot; in his profile still links to just the Python answer.  I find this confusing &amp;amp; think Stack Overflow should have 3 separate answers listed in the users profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130662" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T20:18:11.237" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T20:18:11.237" Title="Inconsistent Votes in user profile vs. answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="40954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40953" CreationDate="2010-03-03T00:23:12.723" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, he has 3 answers on that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so8.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You were missing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/659752/programming-challenge-can-you-code-a-hello-world-program-as-a-palindrome/659776#659776&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;, that has +25/-5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... 167 + 42 + 20 = 229 == 229&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T00:23:12.723" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40964" CreationDate="2010-03-03T00:23:16.203" Score="2" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35480/what-size-t-shirt-would-you-want&quot;&gt;What size T-Shirt would you want?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38018/whats-going-on-with-stack-overflow-t-shirts&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s going on with Stack Overflow T-Shirts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it vaporwear or does such a thing exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I buy one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139207" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T01:32:47.660" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T01:53:27.517" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T20:46:36.260" Title="Is there a stackoverflow t-shirt, or is it just vaporwear?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T00:24:08.010" Score="9" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;User &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/284442/angela22&quot;&gt;angela22&lt;/a&gt; is answering questions with your typical &quot;lots of money to extract from&quot; style 419 scam. I've flagged a couple of the answers, but thought it would be easier to highlight the user instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5302" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T00:44:35.360" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T00:44:35.360" Title="angela22 - 419 scammer on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40956" CreationDate="2010-03-03T00:32:00.850" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is also a user angela bila posting now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T00:32:00.850" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40956" CreationDate="2010-03-03T00:34:48.410" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's Angela Bila's message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FROM: ANGELA BILA, ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE. [removed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAREST ONE IN CHRIST,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MAY THE GRACE OF ALMIGHTY GOD BE WITH YOU FOREVER. AMEN&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I AM ANGELA BILA , 23 YEARS OLD FROM ABIDJAN - COTE D'IVOIRE. I AM THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF LATE MR AND MRS JOSEPH BILA, WHO WAS A VERY WEALTHY AND PROMINENT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS DEALER BASED IN ABIDJAN, THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF COTE D'IVOIRE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I HAD A HUGE SUM OF MONEY US$12,500,000.00 MILLIONS USA DOLLARS (TWELVE MILLION AND FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND USA DOLLARS) WHICH I INHERITED FROM MY LATE FATHER AS THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF MY LATE PARENT AND THIS FUNDS IS DEPOSITED BY MY LATE FATHER IN ONE OF THE MAJOR BANKS HERE IN THE CITY BEFORE HIS SUDDEN DEATH. MY MOTHER DIED WHEN I WAS TWO YEARS OLD AND I WAS SPECIAL TO THEM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AS A MATTER OF URGENCY I NEED A FOREIGN ACCOUNT AND PERSONALITY WHO WILL HELP ME OUT TO TRANSFER THIS FUNDS INTO HIS / HER BANK ACCOUNT IN HIS COUNTRY. NATIONALITY OF ORIGIN NOT IMPORTANT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I WILL OFFER THE FORTUNATE HELPER WITH 25% FOR EVERY ASSISTANCE HE/ SHE WILL RENDER TO ME. ALSO I WILL LIKE YOU TO HELP ME INVEST THIS FUNDS INTO A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS VENTURES THAT WILL FETCH US HUGE PROFITS FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES. AND I WILL ALSO USE SOME PART OF THE MONEY TO WORK FOR GOD, SUCH AS BUILDING CHURCHES FOR GOD AND EVANGELIZING FOR HIM. BUT NOT ALL, BECAUSE I WILL USE SOME PART FOR MAKING STRONG BUSINESS INVESTMENTS IN YOUR COUNTRY. CONTACT ME NOW SO THAT I WILL FLUSH YOU UP WITH ALL THE VITAL INFORMATION RELATING TO THE DEPOSITED MONEY AND THE TRANSACTION.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KINDLY CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY NOW FOR MORE DETAILS ON MY PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW AND MY PHONE NUMBER:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MY EMAIL : [removed]@yahoo.fr &amp;amp; : [removed]@yahoo.fr TEL : [removed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THANKS AND REMAIN BLESS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ANGELA BILA. [removed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T00:34:48.410" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="40959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40945" CreationDate="2010-03-03T00:44:14.360" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As suggested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30521/is-there-a-way-to-change-the-default-code-view-size-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;this similar question&lt;/a&gt;, this may be a realm for user stylesheets or a greasemonkey script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the actual design from fixed to fluid presents a number of difficulties, not the least of which is, along the lines of Joel's point, the kind of uglifying stretch that big width tends to give to text content. A reading area too narrow &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; too wide tends to make reading more difficult and less pleasant, and I think SO has hit on a good balance. That being said, it's not impossible to make &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200504/fixed_or_fluid_width_elastic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an elastic layout&lt;/a&gt; that approximates the current layout and still caps the width at a usable level. We have min-width, we have max-width (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html#t25&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mostly&lt;/a&gt;), and we have math to figure percentages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I doubt that will be or will be perceived to be a trivial update. Fixed width sites have a sort of stability and ease (using percentages means stopping to figure percentages when you update/edit, and worrying about how browsers &lt;a href=&quot;http://haslayout.net/css/Percentage-Padding-Margin-Bug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;might screw it up&lt;/a&gt;) that is hard to rival. On the other side of things, a user-stylesheet solution has the advantage of only being concerned about one browser (typically), and one user's preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T00:44:14.360" />
  <row Id="40962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40877" CreationDate="2010-03-03T01:41:54.957" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34725/buried-but-not-dead&quot;&gt;grace period&lt;/a&gt; between when a question is closed and when answers are no longer accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the question doesn't belong on SO, then your answer, no matter how awesome, also doesn't belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was a dupe, or if it is migrated, then you should copy your answer, and move it to the original question, or to the site it was moved to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is in contention, and you think it might re-open, then plead you case in the question comments and see if it can be fixed so it does belong, is reopened, and you can finally post your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, however, there's little else that can be done.  As other suggest, you will eventually understand when a question is close to the line of belongs/doesn't belong and you can either ignore it until you are certain it's sticking around, or post a very quick answer, then edit it at your leisure (you can continue to edit existing answers once the question is closed, you just can't add new answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it's frustrating - it's happened to me once or twice, but it is how the site deals with these situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think a notification will be added because if the question doesn't belong, neither does the answer, and all the notification will do is encourage people to post incomplete answers so they can edit them after closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T01:41:54.957" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40955" CreationDate="2010-03-03T01:53:27.517" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/V93Ap.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next Step: putting up a page that lets you buy them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T01:53:27.517" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40969" CreationDate="2010-03-03T02:19:43.993" Score="5" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Timeline can be view by anyone, so vote details in timeline is a little bit contradict with &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1000       Show total up and down vote&#xA;  counts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, but I hope this &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to be changed :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40887/best-time-of-day-to-ask-question-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and timeline is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/40887/timeline&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, also a screen shot below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/9461/timelinerep.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS:I mean there is a work-around in timeline view to see up/down details without having 1000 reps. :-)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T04:51:24.060" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T06:00:03.857" Title="Upvotes and Downvotes details in timeline is by-design?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;timeline&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T02:37:58.940" Score="2" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29344/notify-author-when-question-is-migrated&quot;&gt;Notify Author when Question is migrated&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a user's question is migrated to another site nothing shows in the recent activity, not even on the revisions page.  Also, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that no notification shows up in the notification bar (but I'm not 100% sure since it hasn't happened to me recently).  If the migration doesn't happen very soon after the question is asked, the user might not even realize that there has been any activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that there should be some kind of notification to the user, at least a red-envelope notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T02:37:58.940" ClosedDate="2010-03-04T04:34:40.817" Title="User doesn't get notification when one of their questions is migrated" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T03:02:28.647" Score="6" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to post my code in a question and it's at present, 90+ lines long. Is it ok to post the whole thing, or should I try and only post the most important pieces?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144005" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T11:01:13.600" Title="Is there a limit to how much code one can post?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40967" CreationDate="2010-03-03T03:17:47.103" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most important parts only. We're here to solve problems that somebody else might have too, so get the problem down to its smallest subset before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T03:17:47.103" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40965" CreationDate="2010-03-03T03:18:27.150" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, now I understand your question. As far as this goes, I don't think it's too much of a problem. The 1000 rep limit is designed for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use less server resources&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be a step in between 500 and 2000 to sort of appease those who are obsessed with rep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the unfamiliarity of most people with this feature, it won't use too many more server resources, since most people who know about it have &gt;1000 rep. As for the second, someone who's determined enough will figure it out any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T05:06:59.933" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T05:06:59.933" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42277" CreationDate="2010-03-03T03:33:46.897" Score="13" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can a reason for closing be added which is &quot;Insufficient Effort&quot;, for when the asker has just not made any effort at all to formulate a 1/2 way decent question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My case in point would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367359/problem-with-my-array&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367359/problem-with-my-array&lt;/a&gt; where the asker hasn't even provided a question title that relates to what he might be asking (we can't really be sure if it does or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T07:51:10.287" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T07:51:37.853" Title="New reason for closing: Insufficient Effort" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40971" CreationDate="2010-03-03T03:44:45.077" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to say yes, but &lt;i&gt;“not a real question -- It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.”&lt;/i&gt; does fit this situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such questions usually garner a lot of &quot;what?&quot;, &quot;post some code!&quot; and &quot;what part are you having difficulty with, exactly? what have you tried?&quot; comments as well, and either the OP gets the message and edits his post, or he doesn't and wanders off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T04:42:10.930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T04:42:10.930" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40952" CreationDate="2010-03-03T03:56:42.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally the best way to handle this is to flag the newer post for moderator attention and request that they merge the answers onto the older question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't work for this to be done automatically, as often the newer question just collects cruft answers that aren't worth preserving, or the question was worded slightly differently so the answers wouldn't make perfect sense if they were translocated without editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T03:56:42.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40971" CreationDate="2010-03-03T04:19:02.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jeff's wording, however this can be too convenient a reason to close such posts rather than encouraging the OPs to improve their question quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number of votes typically shoot from zero to five very quickly in SO. There's usually not enough of a 'warning' period for the OP to edit the post between the 1st vote-to-close to the 5th. Although the closed post can be re-opened, but chances are, unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I have a better alternative, just tossing my 2 cents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T04:19:02.030" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23005" CreationDate="2010-03-03T04:35:12.990" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there should be a time limit that has to pass before you can cast another downvote.  And if you attempt to cast another within that time limit, it resets.  A time limit of ~30 seconds would work well to combat vengeful downvoters, giving them a &quot;time out&quot; so they hopefully cool off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T04:35:12.990" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40978" CreationDate="2010-03-03T06:09:13.627" Score="0" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br&quot;&gt;Should the markdown renderer treat a single line break as &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In markdown&#xA;a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; is inserted if you end a line with a double space&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I find this feature particularly confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why markdown swallows new lines? &#xA;Should SO make a modification so new lines are treated with respect without the double space hack? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T06:42:51.607" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T07:05:49.803" Title="What is the reason for the top secret two space newline markdown weirdness?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="40977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40976" CreationDate="2010-03-03T06:12:14.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T06:18:06.050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T06:18:06.050" />
  <row Id="40978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40976" CreationDate="2010-03-03T06:42:51.607" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosophy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown Syntax Documentation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traditionally, plain text email (and many other plain-text documents) were &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/319925/difference-between-hard-wrap-and-soft-wrap&quot;&gt;hard-wrapped&lt;/a&gt;: a newline would be inserted at the end of every line, as though you had typed it out on a typewriter. This has several advantages: words can be properly hyphenated to break them across lines, line-based diff tools (such as that used by SO's revision history) tend to work well with it, as do many other tools written for text processing (including a great many editors that even today will choke on very long lines).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the down side is that if you want your clients to properly differentiate between lines and paragraphs, re-flowing the former to make good use of wider screens while preserving the latter, then you need to demarcate paragraphs using something other than a single line-break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should SO make a modification so new lines are treated with respect without the double space hack? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. First off, that would be a breaking departure from the Markdown spec, meaning that text written to that spec (including much of the content on SO) might not display correctly. But also... It really isn't that big of a deal, and does make things like the revision history, quote blocks, etc. easier to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br&quot;&gt;Should the markdown renderer treat a single line break as &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T06:42:51.607" />
  <row Id="40979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34374" CreationDate="2010-03-03T07:05:11.023" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is now a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;uri&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;author&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;Joe Smith&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;uri&amp;gt;http://example.com/users/12345&amp;lt;/uri&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/author&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;field in the relevant RSS feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T07:42:18.063" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T07:42:18.063" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="40980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40920" CreationDate="2010-03-03T08:06:22.780" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;this site is dedicated to questions about ponies and waffles, and wafflepony/unicorn avatar creation; all other questions and answers are irrelevant fillers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="9345" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T16:56:26.093" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T16:56:26.093" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-03-03T08:52:33.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full Deck&lt;/strong&gt; (bronze) - Awarded for getting all available bronze badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full Deck&lt;/strong&gt; (silver) - Awarded for getting all available silver badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full Deck&lt;/strong&gt; (gold) - Awarded for getting all available gold badges&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, with new badges getting added every so often this may be awkward to implement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130947" LastEditorUserId="130947" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-15T07:41:13.903" LastActivityDate="2010-04-15T07:41:13.903" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-03T08:52:33.793" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="40982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42073" CreationDate="2010-03-03T09:03:47.053" Score="2" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using Opera Mini to visit these sites pretty constantly ever since I joined (although most posting has been done via a PC). However, ever since Feb 19th I've been unable to access any of them - it just times out. Access via an online proxy (such as Bypass That) within Mini works fine. Is it possible that this relates to the behaviour of Opera Turbo observed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36566/sofu-rejecting-requests-coming-from-opera-if-turbo-mode-is-on/36579#36579&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; (which has a major overlap with how Mini works)? The only reference I can find to Mini itself being blocked is the first comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40248/when-will-opera-support-be-fixed-on-so&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; (although the question itself is of no relevance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:10:09.027" Title="Is Opera Mini completely blocked from the SOFU sites?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;blocked&gt;&lt;opera-mini&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40982" CreationDate="2010-03-03T09:10:49.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, they blocked by IP address of high traffic, My Opera Turbo fails from Mid Jan, so yours might be different IP address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS: I've solved this by setting up my own proxy in a web hosting&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T09:10:49.310" />
  <row Id="40984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40967" CreationDate="2010-03-03T09:51:41.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would try to reduce it slightly, but there's significant value in posting a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; example if you possibly can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an article I wrote on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/complete.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;short but complete examples&quot;&lt;/a&gt; a while ago which I think still holds water. Basically take out everything that's definitely unrelated - particularly GUI and anything to do with files - so that the result is self-contained and short, but still clearly indicates what's going wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This process often lets you find the problem yourself, admittedly :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all this, I would rather have a 100 line program which I can run and see failing than a 10 line snippet without enough context to diagnose the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T09:51:41.317" />
  <row Id="40985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T10:44:47.460" Score="0" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question here without being logged in. How can I connect this Question with my account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-05T19:04:08.000" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T19:04:08.000" Title="Connect Questions to Stackoverflow Account" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="40986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40985" CreationDate="2010-03-03T10:46:34.633" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Write to &lt;code&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt;, they should be able to do it manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T10:46:50.813" />
  <row Id="40987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40985" CreationDate="2010-03-03T10:49:04.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the question for moderation attention, explaining what happened, what you want done, and what account you want it linked to. I'd do this from the account you want the question linked to, to save them having to check that it's OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T10:49:04.987" />
  <row Id="40988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40967" CreationDate="2010-03-03T11:01:13.600" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the technical side, there is no limit and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30076/javascript-infinite-loop-on-so-in-firefox-does-anyone-else-see-this&quot;&gt;it might even break the user's browser if there is too much code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, do not post too much code. Try to break it down to pinpoint the part that is linked to the problem. It will be easier to read, faster to load and will not scare people off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T11:01:13.600" />
  <row Id="40989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40991" CreationDate="2010-03-03T11:33:18.593" Score="13" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know, if you want to make somebody aware of an response to a comment, you have to address them using &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; if it's not their answer or question you're commenting in. (Sadly - Facebook style notification of all participants in a thread would be &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; better. But that's a different story.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you forget to do this, and edit your comment to add &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; a short time later, will the user see the comment on their &quot;recent&quot; page? Or do you have to remove and rewrite the comment to trigger the notification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T09:43:03.573" LastActivityDate="2011-01-12T17:34:16.027" Title="Will edited comments reach addressees?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="40990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T11:34:02.447" Score="24" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on a tag and you get &quot;N questions tagged TAG1 TAG2....&quot;. Could those tag buttons please have an 'x' by them, like the ones on Interesting tags? It's easy to add another tag to your search by clicking another tag button, but not to remove one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/78Fxh.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T09:12:30.827" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T09:12:30.827" Title="Wanted: a way to remove tags from a search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="0" />
  <row Id="40991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40989" CreationDate="2010-03-03T11:52:18.157" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they will reach the addresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T11:52:18.157" />
  <row Id="40994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T12:47:13.190" Score="12" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am i the only one who receives this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i50.tinypic.com/t9h4xz.jpg.&quot; alt=&quot;postgre&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.s. It's not shopped... ^^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82062" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T07:36:35.873" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:26:45.610" Title="Open source ad votes overflow?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40994" CreationDate="2010-03-03T12:52:15.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has 87 votes, and the other ads also start with the real vote count and then concatenates what seems to be a random string (but I suspect it's not random)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Aparently it was the user IDs of the people who posted the ads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T14:26:45.610" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:26:45.610" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="40996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41126" CreationDate="2010-03-03T13:00:57.417" Score="4" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a small one: The new field &lt;code&gt;EmailHash&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;code&gt;users&lt;/code&gt; table of the March data dump hasn't made it into the &lt;code&gt;readme.txt&lt;/code&gt; files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T10:22:54.207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T12:57:33.080" Title="Data dump readmes aren't up to date" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="40997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T13:01:32.563" Score="2" ViewCount="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using IE8 on Windows 7 64 bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I logged in to &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; to hide my CV from searches. When I went to the &lt;em&gt;file cv&lt;/em&gt; tab and tried clicking &lt;em&gt;Hide From Searches&lt;/em&gt;, nothing happened.  However, when I click &lt;em&gt;Hide From Searches&lt;/em&gt; on the &lt;em&gt;status&lt;/em&gt; tab, it works correctly.  Once I toggled it from &lt;em&gt;status&lt;/em&gt;, I noticed the same problem when the link changed to &lt;em&gt;Make Searchable&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a problem on the website or my local machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138813" LastEditorUserId="138813" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T01:40:08.927" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T01:40:08.927" Title="&quot;Make searchable&quot; and &quot;Hide from searches&quot; works on Status tab, but not File CV tab" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="40998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T10:02:14.177" Score="0" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30187/what-does-rg-mean&quot;&gt;What does rg mean?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does &quot;rg&quot; on the &lt;code&gt;[performance]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[sql-server]&lt;/code&gt; tags mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144411" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-08T15:45:59.707" LastActivityDate="2010-07-08T15:45:59.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-03T10:02:14.177" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T14:45:30.833" Title="What does &quot;rg&quot; on the performance and sql-server tags mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="40999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40998" CreationDate="2010-03-03T10:03:56.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These tags seem to be sponsored by RedGate.&#xA;Click on the tag to see references to the sponsor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T13:06:54.103" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-03T10:03:56.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T13:13:54.047" Score="1" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39845/responses-report-doesnt-work-when-youve-been-away-too-long&quot;&gt;Responses report doesn&amp;rsquo;t work when you&amp;rsquo;ve been away too long&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've returned to stackoverflow after a while and the line at the top said to me that I have a new response. I followed that link and the other page said I have no responses at all. But I did ask questions and I did get responses already! Where are they? I've noticed the time range selectors but &quot;last month&quot; is not far enough. Manipulating the dates in the URL fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144124" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T13:13:54.047" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T16:24:55.543" Title="It says I have a new response, but the link doesn't show any" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;responses&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T13:48:17.227" Score="15" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously some &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/stackoverflow&quot;&gt;questions tagged stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt; are about actual overflowing stacks, but many of them aren't (look through the list - many, if not most, are closed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be useful to popup a message saying &quot;If you're asking a question about the site, please ask it on Meta&quot; with a link to Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T13:53:17.277" LastActivityDate="2011-07-07T22:37:04.907" Title="Suggest Posting on Meta to users tagging a question &quot;stackoverflow&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="41002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41004" CreationDate="2010-03-03T13:54:56.103" Score="0" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran across &lt;a href=&quot;http://hwanswers.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; and it really bothers me how similar it is to SO in EVERY aspect without giving any credit whatsoever and even copyrighting the website for themselves. Is this legal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144128" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:38:48.353" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T16:10:27.513" Title="StackOverflow clones, legal?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41002" CreationDate="2010-03-03T13:56:23.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange site&lt;/a&gt;, which would be 'legal'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T13:56:23.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41002" CreationDate="2010-03-03T13:58:25.393" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;meta name=&quot;generator&quot; content=&quot;StackExchange 0.9 (20100226155312-a1b2fb6269ba)&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a stackexchange site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T15:04:27.960" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:04:27.960" />
  <row Id="41005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41001" CreationDate="2010-03-03T14:07:13.890" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it, you can't never go wrong when helping new users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add that there's some reputation threshold when this doesn't appear anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T14:07:13.890" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41009" CreationDate="2009-05-22T19:17:09.147" Score="8" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8231/are-answers-that-just-contain-links-elsewhere-really-good-answers&quot;&gt;Are answers that just contain links elsewhere really &amp;ldquo;good answers&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello all,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;I'm new to stackoverflow, but have been around on various forums for a while. I have noticed something that had me a little concerned. I was going to post this over in UserVoice but I realized that I didn't really have a great solution. So I thought I would solicit the opinion of the community, and see what you all thought would be a good approach to solving this problem (if you, in fact, agree it's a problem:)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of answers of the type:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Everything you need to know about &amp;lt;question&amp;gt; is here: &amp;lt;link&amp;gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Now often the answer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; correct, the answer &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; there. The user accepts the answer, and we all go on our merry way. But my concern is link rot. I've been following the Jeff/Joel blogs, speeches, etc. and it seems their intent is to make this site a repository of answers. In three years from now if I google a question (or use this site's search feature) and get to a thread that had linked to a answer, what happens if the source site has restructured/disappeared/moved/etc?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Even though linking is more expedient, I wonder if it will be detrimental in the long run? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;This is in response to lothar's comment, but since it expands on the discussion I thought I would move it up here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And with the necessary rep anyone can&#xA;  edit the answer and update a link if&#xA;  necessary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi lothar,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;That's true, and I did think of that. But my concern is &lt;em&gt;lost&lt;/em&gt; information. If the site that vanished had really great/hard to find information, a few problems will happen.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;First: The person discovering the link rot will most likely be someone looking for an answer.&#xA;Second: There is a decent chance said person will be new to the site and may not even be a member. So they may or may not ask the question again on the site (which we hold duplicate questions to be undesirable). &lt;em&gt;OR&lt;/em&gt; They just drift off into the ether, leaving the link still rotting.&#xA;Third: In the event that the link rot is discovered by a responsible user... Then what? If it was a particularly esoteric question, they still have to find someone who knows the answer, and cares to write it up again. And how will they find that person? They will open a new question:) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130022" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:31:13.153" ClosedDate="2010-03-04T23:28:35.660" Title="On posting outside links to the answer" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41006" CreationDate="2009-05-22T19:24:26.667" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;what happens if the source site has restructured/disappeared/moved/etc?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't that a universal problem with all content on this experiment called the World Wide Web?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't every single web reference a balance between cloning and referencing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO doesn't appear to be unique.  Wanting to be a repository could mean replicating a lot of information.  Whereupon, it becomes out of date here because it was updated there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no right answer -- if there was, the web would have already adopted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T14:28:50.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41006" CreationDate="2009-05-22T19:24:35.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can no more assurdly say that stackoverflow won't be here then you can the other site.  The nature of this site is that if that happens then it will be demoted and no longer relavent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While if they post more current information on the site that is linked to then it will be more relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T14:28:50.167" />
  <row Id="41009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41006" CreationDate="2009-05-22T19:30:24.830" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always tried to post the answer via a link when it has one and then give a snippet or the answer below.  I do this for 2 reasons.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If I find the answer via a search, I want to give credit to whose answer it is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I find it easier when the answers are actually posted to the questions within the SO site and don't have to navigate away to a random blog out there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you bring up a great third point about link rot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T14:28:50.167" />
  <row Id="41010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41011" CreationDate="2010-03-03T14:34:38.067" Score="1" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, I have two Stack Overflow accounts associated with two differents OpenIDs... Let's call them &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/140937/alon&quot;&gt;Account A&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/156964/alon&quot;&gt;Account B&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to ask if it is possible to move &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/156964/alon&quot;&gt;Account B&lt;/a&gt; reputation to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/140937/alon&quot;&gt;Account A&lt;/a&gt;, or at least remove &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/140937/alon&quot;&gt;Account A&lt;/a&gt; and associate &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/156964/alon&quot;&gt;Account B&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/140937/alon&quot;&gt;Account A&lt;/a&gt;'s OpenID account, instead of its current OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144129" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T14:48:10.483" Title="How to merge two Stack Overflow accounts?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41010" CreationDate="2010-03-03T14:48:10.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep. Email team@stackoverflow.com and give them the details of both accounts. They'll take care of it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T14:48:10.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41002" CreationDate="2010-03-03T14:52:29.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the fact that this particular site is Stack Exchange one, of course clones are legal. If it's written from the ground-up, then its someone else's tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been a variety of clone projects already started, such as: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16780/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16780/stacked-an-open-source-implementation-of-stackoverflow-com&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to-make-a-stackoverflow-clone&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to-make-a-stackoverflow-clone&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20819/is-codekicker-using-the-software-behind-stackoverflow-or-did-they-program-a-clone&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20819/is-codekicker-using-the-software-behind-stackoverflow-or-did-they-program-a-clone&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40455/is-this-russian-site-a-legitimate-copy-of-stackoverflow-package&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40455/is-this-russian-site-a-legitimate-copy-of-stackoverflow-package&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T14:52:29.927" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44111" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:12:32.547" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2290148/nhibernate-pivot-table-and-or-getnextid/2348493#2348493&quot;&gt;SO answers&lt;/a&gt; was accepted on a bounty question and got the bounty, but it does not show up in my account activity tab on my profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9270/screenshot20100304at135.png&quot; alt=&quot;recent activity tab on profile&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does appear in activity summary fom the envelope link. (also named recent activity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/3568/screenshot20100304at130.png&quot; alt=&quot;today summary via envelope link&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130028" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T04:54:31.140" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T04:54:31.140" Title="accepted answer with bounty does not show up on the activity tab" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40915" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:15:14.043" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Tumbleweed is one of those badges that is awarded more than once, and it's too easy to get.  Just post some valid but really difficult question about an obscure subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:15:14.043" />
  <row Id="41015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41013" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:37:22.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, I have never understood why the &quot;activity&quot; tab on my profile, which is supposed to show &lt;em&gt;what I have been doing&lt;/em&gt;, should show when one of my answers is accepted &amp;ndash; which is something &lt;em&gt;someone else has been doing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you're right, the acceptance doesn't show up in your activities tab. But I don't think that's wrong &amp;ndash; I think it's wrong that the other acceptances &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:37:22.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41002" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:38:48.353" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow you get &lt;a href=&quot;http://hwanswers.com/rewards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prizes&lt;/a&gt; for reputation on that site!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet could make a killing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140209" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:38:48.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-03-07T23:52:36.867" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, now I admit I haven't been here very long, but I've been seeing a trend amongst the users here: They love to answer questions! This is a good thing, but I think this phenomenon is a little out of hand. For example, look at either of these:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/622592/win32-programming-hiding-console-window/622594#622594&quot;&gt;Exhibit 1&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/513234/good-zlib-implementation-in-net/513376#513376&quot;&gt;Exhibit 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to &quot;call out&quot; any of the authors for questionable motivation, but clearly the authors of these answers did not take the time to fully read and comprehend the respective question. Furthermore, I've seen a number of answers beginning with phrases such as, &quot;Now, I'm not familiar with &lt;em&gt;specific language whose feature is in question&lt;/em&gt;, but you might try &lt;em&gt;code snippet (often syntactically incorrect)&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; Beyond lacking usefulness, these answers waste space and may work to confuse the asked question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my questions are as follow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why does this occur? Is this a symptom similar to Slashdot's &quot;first post&quot; disorder?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a good method to programatically detect such a response? (For example, Exhibit 2 talks of &quot;listing files&quot; in a gzipped file while the question mentions only &quot;network streams&quot; and &quot;zlib&quot; compression.*)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A down-vote moves the answer further from the question, and subtracts 2 reputation points. Is this sufficient? Should this reputation penalty scale to the users reputation level? (For example, Exhibit 1's author has 13k reputation; 2 reputation is nothing to him)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*I recognize that gzip uses zlib compression. My understanding is that gzip is only mentioned when talking of files on disc, not when discussing network-or-other streams.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:47:15.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-07T23:52:36.867" Title="What accountability for not reading the question?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41017" CreationDate="2009-03-07T23:57:04.487" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for programatically detect such response, I doubt it is possible.&#xA;Also, 13k reputation users are expected NOT to provide poor replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occurs because people like to answer and help, or are seeking fast reputation, but lack the knowledge needed to answer properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148740" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:43:32.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-07T23:57:04.470" />
  <row Id="41019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41017" CreationDate="2009-03-08T00:01:27.470" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Exhibit 1's author has 13k reputation; 2 reputation is nothing to him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be surprised about that - a lot of the power users track their reputation carefully and are acutely aware of every downvote. So if you think an answer is wrong or unhelpful, don't take the poster's rep into account when deciding to downvote (unless it's 1, in which case it doesn't go any lower, so don't bother).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:43:32.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T00:01:27.470" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41017" CreationDate="2009-03-08T00:10:47.307" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I read or respond too quickly.  I've learned to curb myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, sometimes people simply make a mistake.  Misunderstandings happen.  Vote them down if you think it's justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, it's just a programming forum.  Breathe deep - don't take it so seriously.  If you want something to fret over, go read the economic news and start thinking about a solution for that.  We'll all have much bigger problems if hyper-inflation sparks up than whether or not a code snippet was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they any more of a waste of space than this question?  I think not.  I'm sure that this opinion will earn me some down votes, but that's okay with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:43:32.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T00:10:47.307" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41017" CreationDate="2009-03-08T00:12:48.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm satisfied with the site's self-policing nature.  Top-ranked users here are careful, just look at the last 10 answers of each of the top ten users.  I think you'll find all their answers relevant and well articulated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, most of the noise comes from non-programming related questions.  Those get closed down quickly (too quickly by some accounts ;) Careless answers get also downvoted out of sight long before they endanger the signal-to-noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:43:32.183" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-03-08T00:12:48.300" />
  <row Id="41022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41017" CreationDate="2009-03-08T00:18:47.007" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does this occur?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read SO long enough, I think you'll find the &quot;fastest gun in the West&quot; problem discussed over and over.  The first correct answer tends to get voted up a lot.  Also, people here are eager to be helpful and sometimes they post too quickly without fully understanding the question.  It happens.  I don't think it's that big of a deal.  You could always downvote such an answer to get the poster 1/3 of the way to a Peer Pressure badge. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you programmatically detect these answers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt it.  But that's what the voting buttons are for anyway.  The community voting system does a much better job than any automated program could.  And even if we had a bot for that, it would only get one vote!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is -2 rep per downvote enough?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for everyone else, but to me it's &lt;em&gt;the downvote itself&lt;/em&gt; that stings, not the -2 rep.  Avoiding downvotes on principle is enough motivation for me to be careful when writing answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130126" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:43:32.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41017" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:47:15.807" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that downvoting an answer does more than just take reputation away and move the answer further down the list, it also changes how other users view that answer. If bad answers are being posted they will be downvoted and ignored. I don't think we need much beyond that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140209" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:47:15.807" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-03T15:47:15.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41025" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:53:41.860" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I was serial downvoted on SO - top four marked answers.  So, lost 8 rep and was sitting at #,#22.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the script caught it, because there's no downvotes for yesterday when I check the summary page.  But so far, I've only gotten back half the rep - I'm at #,#26.  I regained 4 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a bug?  Does the serial downvote reversal perform a recalculation?  My accounts are linked, in case does turn out to be a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136803" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T10:18:57.973" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T10:18:57.973" Title="Bug in the Downvote Reversal?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41024" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:58:51.380" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the serial downvote reversal &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7954/how-often-is-reputation-recalculated/7958#7958&quot;&gt;does perform a recalculation&lt;/a&gt;, so that will be where the other points went.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:58:51.380" />
  <row Id="41026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41024" CreationDate="2010-03-03T15:59:53.623" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it causes a recalc on your account, which would affect your rep in strange ways (deleted posts are now recalculated, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can be happy that now you have your real reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T15:59:53.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41006" CreationDate="2010-03-03T16:03:33.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know first hand that link rot is really annoying but it's somewhat unavoidable. Outside articles provide a lot of really great resources to answer questions on these sites. Besides outright plagiarizing those articles it's difficult to get all the information from them on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the SO family consisted of nothing but 100% original content created by the users but that's just unreasonable. Plus you're ignoring the really great resource that is the rest of the web. Just try your best to post as much of an answer as you can so that it is actually answered and then provide a link for more in depth information. That's really the best we can do in these situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that SO will allow us to edit these answers in the future to keep links updated. This is one of the main advantages of SO over a traditional forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140209" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T16:03:33.787" />
  <row Id="41028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41029" CreationDate="2010-03-03T16:46:52.980" Score="0" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I downvoted an answer on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answer marked as 0 votes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoted it as the answer was incorrect, it became -1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then the answer was corrected by a user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elected to upvote it, now at this stage I was expecting it to be 0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No, instead it went up to 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain this....that does not sound correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, using Opera 10.10, Win XP w SP3...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S: under Opera 10.10, submitting an question to Meta.stackoverflow does not work. Am using IE 8 to do this... sigh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&#xA;Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139628" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T10:20:41.620" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T10:20:41.620" Title="Bug in downvote/upvote" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41028" CreationDate="2010-03-03T16:49:56.933" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; were the one who downvoted it, and &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; ended up upvoting it, how can &lt;em&gt;your own votes&lt;/em&gt; cancel each other out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For it to end up at 0, you'd have to cancel your downvote (by clicking the down arrow again) rather than changing it to an upvote (by clicking the up arrow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T16:49:56.933" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:11:30.923" Score="8" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the reason to close &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2368043/expand-all-the-tree-nodes-at-the-msdn-library-site/&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; disturbing and annoying. For two reasons. It was closed by a single person and because it's &quot;too localized&quot;!? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if it were a generic treeview, it would have been OK but because I had a specific treeview (msdn library), it's too localized?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus I thought it takes like 5 people to a agree on closing a question or is it the more points one has, the more &quot;veto power&quot; one gains? (something I disagree in principle)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me what would the harm be if the question were left opened and I accepted an answer? It can still benefit some people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T18:07:20.293" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:20:17.980" Title="Closed for &quot;too localized&quot; and by a single person is a bad decision" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="41031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41030" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:19:48.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site has a very, very narrow focus already, but there are problems that have a significantly finer focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They only apply to one person, one time, one place, and have no general application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you re-wrote your question so the answers would have to apply to all trees on the internet, then it would certainly be worth opening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you are essentially asking for help with a single website for a problem that it is unlikely anyone will ever want solved except for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please consider editing your question with one or both of the following suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make it apply to many different websites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Re-phrase the question so it's obvious that this is a common problem many people are seeking a solution to (Perhaps explain why this technique is or should be very useful - ie, what are other programmers going to gain by reading your question and the subsequent answers?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then note in a comment to this question that you've updated it, and ask if people with powers to re-open can review it for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T17:19:48.300" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:25:54.320" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39450/about-page-list-of-moderators-needs-to-be-updated&quot;&gt;&amp;lsquo;About&amp;rsquo; Page list of moderators needs to be updated.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its been almost a month since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/02/stack-overflow-2010-moderator-election-results/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new moderators were announced on SO&lt;/a&gt;, however neither the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;SO about page&lt;/a&gt;, nor the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;MSO about page&lt;/a&gt; list them as moderators on the sites.  Are Jonathan and Gumbo going to become official anytime soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T06:25:55.867" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T06:25:55.867" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T17:51:11.513" Title="New moderators are not listed on the about pages" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41030" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:38:09.283" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I closed the question for the reason you referenced - too localized. You're asking how to manipulate a particular UI element on a particular website. This is more a super-user type of question than a programming question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wanted this to be a programming question you would have asked how to traverse the DOM triggering clicks or altering element-styles on targeted items. Instead, you said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...Looking for a Javascript script, plugin, tool, hack or whatever can do it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, to me, doesn't sound like you're interested in &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt;, but rather finding a useful doo-dad that can manipulate the DOM for you to make browsing &lt;em&gt;a specific&lt;/em&gt; website easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users are allowed to reopen, and I suspect that is what would happen if you made your question programming-related, and not so much a super-user question. In fact, if your question were modified to be programming-related, I'd even vote to reopen :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T18:06:42.770" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:06:42.770" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="41034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41035" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:47:36.547" Score="9" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34616/display-close-votes-for-all-users&quot;&gt;Display close votes for all users&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be useful for the OP (not everyone) to see close reasons when close votes are present on their question, regardless of the OP's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T17:50:21.423" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T20:26:44.810" Title="Can the OP please be allowed to see close reasons while the close is pending?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41034" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:50:21.423" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good suggestion! I think many OP's would preemptively fix their questions to address the close-reasons before the question gets closed. This would result in less people being frustrated over closed questions, and quicker reopen-votes too, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T17:50:21.423" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:03:14.020" Score="0" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to display my coding skills and communication skills on job interviews to stand out. My collection of answers on stack overflow seems like a nice display (although not as good as many others but good enough to me). However, is it okay if refer potential employers at job interview to them or will it make me look bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:16:47.060" Title="Is it okay to use my stack overflow answers as examples of my coding-style and communication skills; on job interviews" Tags="&lt;programming&gt;&lt;language-agnostic&gt;&lt;communication&gt;&lt;skills&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41038" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:09:47.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on your answers. If you yourself can vouch for them I don't see anything wrong with referring potential employers to them. Keep in mind that it will also point them in the direction of any questions asked by you, including this one (unless it's deleted, which it might be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139832" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:16:47.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41038" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:09:49.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that most employers would primarily care on how you do on their interview questions - that's how they compare candidates, and that should closely match the skills that they need. Stackoverflow just indicates interest in programming, general knowledge, &lt;em&gt;and (perhaps worst of all), a tendency to procrastinate while at work...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of whether to mention the stack overflow membership in a resume (or at an interview) has already been discussed here many times. For those of us using our real names or URLs, it is difficult to hide anyway so somebody is bound to find it. Thus, if a potential employer is interested enough, it would probably come up in their creative Googling, just like they would probably read some of your blog, and look for drunken pictures on your facebook profile. It is also possible that the employer would be interested in dumb things that you've said or in questions that got downvoted - we all have them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:16:47.060" />
  <row Id="41041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41038" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:09:52.827" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/introducing-stack-overflow-careers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/introducing-stack-overflow-careers/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168654" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:16:47.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41038" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:10:39.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that if the conversation during the interview gets around to questions like &quot;How do you keep up on new techniques?&quot; or &quot;What do you do in your spare time?&quot; etc... Then there would be no harm in mentioning that you're active in the StackOverflow community.  Assuming, of course, there's nothing here that you are ashamed of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mentioned it to me in an interview naturally, and you did okay in other facets of the interview, I'd check it out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:16:47.060" />
  <row Id="41043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41038" CreationDate="2010-03-03T17:11:25.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;if you have quality answers, then I'd say yes it would be beneficial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39677" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:16:47.060" />
  <row Id="41044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41030" CreationDate="2010-03-03T18:20:17.980" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was a particularly good question, though I'll argue that &quot;too localized&quot; doesn't apply - it's a specific &lt;em&gt;situation&lt;/em&gt;, but so are many programming questions. MSDN certainly isn't &lt;em&gt;local&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Not programming-related&quot; might have been a better choice, as you weren't really asking a programming question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Then again, much of MSDN can certainly be considered a programming &lt;em&gt;tool&lt;/em&gt;, and questions regarding those are usually allowed. Including past questions regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2022710/quick-msdn-search-in-firefox&quot;&gt;tools that &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; with MSDN&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, it's a bit of a gray area. And therefore one that moderators should refrain from jumping into votes-a-blazin'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm voting to re-open purely because a good, programming-related answer was posted to it prior to closing, and &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; is enough to salvage even a bad question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:20:17.980" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41105" CreationDate="2010-03-03T18:24:12.403" Score="1" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've notice over the last week or so that when typing questions or answers I sometimes get pauses of a few seconds where the input box is unresponsive.  This seems like it must be a problem with the previewer JavaScript, since my machine is otherwise inactive and it's a newly built system which has plenty of grunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: O/S is Windows XP SP3, browser is Firefox 3.6, Computer is an AMD Phenom II 965 BE @ 3.6 GHz, with 3.24 GiB RAM @ 1600 MHz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This is also happening in the comment boxes, so it's not the previewer after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T06:54:40.843" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:55:08.907" Title="The previewer while typing questions/answers has slowed down" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;preview&gt;&lt;slow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T18:29:56.043" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you create a new question, related questions takes up space and this pushes the content of the page downward.  For keyboard only users like myself, and for my screen size ... this causes the Tags area to move downward as well.  This is not a problem in itself, except that when I get into the Tags field, the &quot;dropdown&quot; assumes always that it should dropdown and the contents appear offscreen.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to resolve this would be to make the dropdown drop up if it is determined clipping would occur.  It is possible with Javascript to calculate this (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/prototip2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/prototip2/&lt;/a&gt; Viewport demo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another potential resolution would be to scroll the page on entry into the Tags field to ensure that some of the dropdown contents appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another solution would be to give the Tags presence higher up on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: You could simply reproduce this by resizing the window so that Tags field is visible but nothing below it.  Then start typing a tag in the field itself.  Since it drops down, it is invivisible.  On the surface this would seem expected, except that the page itself is chewing up real estate for related questions causing everything to be pushed downard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T06:58:31.053" LastActivityDate="2010-07-02T10:00:04.073" Title="Tags &quot;dropdown&quot; appears offscreen when writing a question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;usability&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T18:27:40.913" Score="0" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-were-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user-built-with&quot;&gt;What were Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a straight question over stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what is stackoverflow using for this site?&#xA;a. zend framework or cakephp or symfony or there own framework&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149251" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:30:18.117" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T18:37:24.747" Title="stackoverflow - using what?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41047" CreationDate="2010-03-03T18:28:19.657" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;framework Microsoft ASP.NET (version 3.5 SP1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;language C#&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;development environment Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;web framework ASP.NET MVC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;browser framework JQuery&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;database SQL Server 2008&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;data access layer LINQ to SQL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source control Subversion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;compare tool Beyond Compare 3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source control integration VisualSVN 1.5&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130543" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:30:18.117" />
  <row Id="41049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41047" CreationDate="2010-03-03T18:29:08.057" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136367" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:30:18.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41006" CreationDate="2010-03-03T18:31:13.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posting a link to a random Q+A forum is probably bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about a link to MSDN, or the SGI STL faq, or a Raymond Chen article?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You can't copy+paste them here, and summarizing them is likely to lead to errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T18:31:13.153" />
  <row Id="41053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41054" CreationDate="2010-03-03T19:35:05.137" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28756/serial-downvoting-victim&quot;&gt;Serial Downvoting Victim&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I appear to have been the target of a spate of what certainly appears to be malicious downvoting over on SO, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37862/malicious-downvotes&quot;&gt;One question on here&lt;/a&gt; suggests that I should flag this to a moderator by flagging one of the questions I've been downvoted on, but given that I didn't actually ask any of the questions concerned, I want to be sure that's the correct thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone who is a moderator happens to see this, and can indeed do anything about it (as it seems a bit crap that some perfectly valid answers will now hold less weight in peoples eyes - the rep loss, I care not about! :), I suspect that the user concerned has an ID of 21xx54 and has ejected their toys from the pram on the basis of a comment I made on an answer of there's (since deleted) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2371638&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7872" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T20:14:39.567" ClosedDate="2010-03-03T20:17:18.080" Title="Targeted &quot;malicious&quot; downvotes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;voting-anomaly-detection&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41053" CreationDate="2010-03-03T20:14:39.567" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28756/serial-downvoting-victim/28758#28758&quot;&gt;the best answer has already been given&lt;/a&gt; as Downvoter mentioned in his comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those too lazy to click through:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three ways to fix it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do NOTHING. The daily vote anomaly script will pick it up and&#xA;  your rep will be recalculated&#xA;  automatically.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If after 36 hours (give the script&#xA;  time to run) you still see a problem,&#xA;  then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Flag one of your posts and ask for a rep-recalc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Contact team@stackoverflow.com and they'll run a rep-recalc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T20:14:39.567" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-03T20:14:39.567" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41061" CreationDate="2010-03-03T21:44:34.163" Score="6" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today, I visited Stackoverflow to discover that I had lost reputation from the last time I had been there. I didn't have any new notifications of any sort and my history didn't show any downvotes or anything.. So I was completely perplexed.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, I was reading some stuff on Super User and found something I had answered. The question got moved from SO to SU along with my reputation I had gotten before(I had 3 upvotes+accepted before the move). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that we have some sort of notification for when our answers get moved from one site to another, especially if it involves moving reputation along with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T23:19:51.627" Title="Show notification when answers are moved (along with rep)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14614" CreationDate="2010-03-03T21:47:40.973" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This being &quot;by-design&quot; makes no sense to me...Anton and TheTxi make good points about the closed questions still being valuable...but in that case, I don't think they should be closed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131417" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T21:47:40.973" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41059" CreationDate="2010-03-03T22:30:01.747" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe others view this differently, but I can't really see any benefit in this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you win or lose reputation while you're away isn't actually relevant, because there is nothing to react to, or correct. Hence, there is no need for a notification. The same goes for a question that you answered and that was moved since, &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;: As long as there is some means to find out what happened to your answer, which does not seem to be the case at the moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not want to receive any such information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T23:19:51.627" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T23:19:51.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T22:32:21.443" Score="104" ViewCount="1179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think moderators should have the ability to cast a normal, non binding vote like if they were a normal user (while of course retaining their ability to cast a binding vote where necessary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be used in &quot;grey areas&quot; where a moderator can choose to give his or her opinion but not make a decision alone; a good example of this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41030/closed-for-too-localized-and-by-a-single-person-is-a-bad-decision&quot;&gt;Closed for “too localized” and by a single person is a bad decision&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also helps in areas not so grey (questions that everyone would agree should be closed) since the OP has the time to see &lt;code&gt;close (1)&lt;/code&gt; and possibly edit his or her question. The moderator can then optionally come back after a few minutes and close it for real if it's not improved (or maybe during that time other 4 people voted to close it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would also fit perfectly in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stakoverflow's official theory of moderation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since we’re about to add community&#xA;  moderators on both Stack Overflow and&#xA;  Server Fault, I need to document what&#xA;  it is, exactly, we expect moderators&#xA;  to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The short answer is, as little as&#xA;  possible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T10:49:58.650" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T17:10:27.840" Title="Add a way for moderators to cast a normal, non binding vote" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="25" FavoriteCount="8" />
  <row Id="41063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41062" CreationDate="2010-03-03T22:46:38.757" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Edit&lt;/strong&gt; -- Since this issue keeps coming up, I'll make a few points, based on my experience as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, the actions I take are almost always initiated by a moderator flag.  That means that my moderator actions are &lt;em&gt;never unilateral.&lt;/em&gt;  There is always concurrence from at least one other person in the community when I take a moderator action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I moderate based on what the FAQ says, on community consensus established here on meta, and on the primary mission of StackOverflow, which is to provide a high-quality resource for programmers.  Based on those principles, if I agree with the flag, I take action, using my binding vote.  If I have a doubt, I generally don't take action at all, and leave it for the community to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While moderators should be called upon to mediate exceptional situations, many moderator flags and actions are uncontroversial and unexceptional; they have more to do with sweeping the floors than they have to do with weighty issues such as inclusionism and exclusionism. Having binding moderator votes results in a system that is simple, swift and effective.  It makes it possible for the moderators to take out the trash, in a way that the ordinary user never even has to see it or be bothered by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's good for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Original post follows:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a good idea.  If I might put myself in the moderator's shoes for a moment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a new moderator, I might not fully understand the impact of my close votes (they close the question immediately).  This changes the way that I interact with the community; I can no longer cast close votes in the same manner than I did before, because they carry more weight now.  In a way, becoming a moderator has taken away my ability to interact with the community as a &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of moderation is not to interact with the community as a &quot;super&quot; user.  The purpose of moderation is to mitigate extraordinary problems or exceptional disputes, situations that cannot be handled by the system under ordinary circumstances.  In my view, that means that the activities of a moderator &lt;em&gt;under normal circumstances&lt;/em&gt; must touch the system in the same way as that of other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, moderators should be able to take off their moderator hat, if they wish to interact with the community in a non-moderator fashion, without the undue additional influence of moderator powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original text follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that, since the moderator elections occurred, some moderators have been making use of their new moderator powers by unilaterally closing questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I certainly assert the right for moderators to do so, I am of the opinion that, unless a question is an especially egregious case of system abuse (i.e. obvious spam), that it should be left to the community to cast its own votes, and decide for itself whether a question gets closed or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-03T17:10:27.840" LastActivityDate="2011-06-03T17:10:27.840" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="41065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41078" CreationDate="2010-03-03T23:12:31.893" Score="7" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Site owners want to know what ads work.  I clicked on this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?Task=Click&amp;amp;ZoneID=4&amp;amp;CampaignID=654&amp;amp;AdvertiserID=168&amp;amp;BannerID=1135&amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;RandomNumber=1596430552&amp;amp;Keywords=ad-gallery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/sbo_getahead_220x250_readtech.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Learn new things for cheaper.  I'm all over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T23:41:16.333" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T02:18:33.407" Title="This ad worked for me" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="41066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41062" CreationDate="2010-03-03T23:13:52.200" Score="42" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can be difficult to transition into the moderator role after having only been a lowly plebe.  If I were moderator, I'd expect to have a transition period where I was accidentally closing questions unilaterally when I only wanted to be 1/5th of the party closing a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While moderators should only &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to jump in for extraordinary cases, it would be nice if they had the ability to participate as 'normal' users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T13:46:23.450" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T13:46:23.450" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="41067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41062" CreationDate="2010-03-03T23:17:24.067" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 here, I agree.  What I would hate to see, though, is a flame war against a mod where someone thinks that they're being singled out when a mod chooses to use their mod-close-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we all know our mods have tough skin to deal with that :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T23:17:24.067" />
  <row Id="41068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-03T23:28:49.747" Score="7" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow&quot;&gt;Post Overflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the comments for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41065/this-ad-worked-for-me&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41065/this-ad-worked-for-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Nuff said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T00:00:08.877" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T00:00:08.877" ClosedDate="2010-03-04T02:30:30.570" Title="Bug Report: The Pollyanna Effect" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;css&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41068" CreationDate="2010-03-03T23:44:19.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy fix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.comments {&#xA;    overflow: hidden;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://koper.wowpanda.net/socomments.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-03T23:52:56.243" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T23:52:56.243" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="41070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41068" CreationDate="2010-03-03T23:54:57.877" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$('.comment-text div').attr('style', 'word-wrap: break-word; width: 650px')&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-03T23:54:57.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2010-03-04T00:07:30.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was about to ask this question, because I noticed a C# and Java question greyed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an idea that hasn't been considered: have a &quot;scale of importance&quot; and apply the highlighting/greying based on the &quot;score&quot; of interesting/ignored tags in the question. The score on a question would be calculated as: (# interesting tags) - (# ignored tags), which would give a range of -5 to +5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the case of a question having 1 interesting tag and 1 ignored tag, the score would be 0, and the colour of the question would be left as default. This makes sense because while it involves something we like, we're not sure about what the context will be, so don't let the system decide what to do with it automatically. If a question had 5 interesting tags, then we would &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to have a look at it, so highlight it to the max. The opposite goes for 5 ignored tags, where we probably aren't interested at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation where this would work the best is with questions that have 2 or 3 interesting tags and 1 ignored tag. There's a better chance of us being able to answer that one, so it would be a shame if it got ignored out of the list (based on the current algorithm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T00:07:30.173" />
  <row Id="41074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41062" CreationDate="2010-03-04T01:14:37.787" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41030/closed-for-too-localized-and-by-a-single-person-is-a-bad-decision/41033#41033&quot;&gt;stand by my close-vote&lt;/a&gt;. However, I would like to be able to cast a normal vote from time to time. Every now and then I get lucky and come in after four close-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example question was reopened, and close-voted &lt;em&gt;again&lt;/em&gt; by the community this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T01:14:37.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T02:07:07.583" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/48675/bounty-questions-should-get-bumped-periodically&quot;&gt;Bounty questions should get bumped periodically.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Community user should bump questions with active bounties aggressively, let's say 1 bump every day per bounty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think only good will come from it; bounties will get more visibility (this is especially beneficial in the first few days where the question is buried on the third page under the bounty tab) while it won't get annoying: with the current amount of bounties on SO, an average of a bump every 15 minutes. Considering that the average on the activity tab is 3.3 questions per minute this feature would increase the tab's activity by only 2%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I don't know about you but I rarely check the bounty tab; maybe with this feature implemented I can stumble upon a bounty I'm able to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T05:00:05.857" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T05:15:36.943" ClosedDate="2010-10-03T09:09:46.970" Title="Have the Community user aggressivily bump questions with bounties" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41065" CreationDate="2010-03-04T02:08:03.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a dollar a day to own a technology bookstore.  How can one &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; love this deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T02:08:03.150" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41065" CreationDate="2010-03-04T02:18:33.407" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T02:18:33.407" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-03-04T02:46:12.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some META-SOpedians thought I was a bit hard on the moderators in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41062/add-a-way-for-moderators-to-cast-a-normal-non-binding-vote/41063#41063&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt;, so just to make my position clear, here's my two cents on this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the original question wording, it was probably the right call.  Community would have most likely closed it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly off-topic.  OK for moderator to close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using the word, &quot;Developer&quot; doesn't mean it's programming related.  This one is clearly not; the OP should be talking to Apple.  OK for moderator to close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly off-topic.  OK for moderator to close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;CSS mentioned, let the community decide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Had consensus from other community members already; OK for moderator to close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly a SuperUser question.  No community consensus needed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even the OP knew this question didn't belong on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions can be very contentious.  At least you had partial consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Same as 9.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're doing a great job.  Keep up the good work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T06:16:57.680" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:16:57.680" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-04T02:46:12.543" />
  <row Id="41082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41084" CreationDate="2010-03-04T03:13:48.817" Score="7" ViewCount="455" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently come across a few really well written and researched answers contributed by low rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like my solitary upvote isn't sufficient reward for their efforts. (Yes, I know that truly good answers will attract votes from other users, but in less active tags this can take a while.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it 'wrong' to go to the user's page and go through other answers and questions they have worked on to give them 'bonus' rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't upvote obviously bad answers, but if the answer is at least ok - or if the answer is an area I don't have experience in - is this 'reverse-gaming' or a legitimate technique to help great new SO-ers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: thanks for the feedback. It's a good thing I asked first...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might have to ask a new question about how to help people 'level up' in quieter areas of SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32241" LastEditorUserId="32241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T09:03:41.463" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T13:35:14.033" Title="is it 'wrong' to upvote lots of answers from the same author to grant them bonus rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41082" CreationDate="2010-03-04T03:22:35.657" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is absolutely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should upvote (or downvote) posts based only on the post, and not the author.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that there's a nocturnal process that detects anomalous vote patterns (including multiple votes from the same person) and reverses them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T03:22:35.657" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="41084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41082" CreationDate="2010-03-04T03:26:39.723" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41082/is-it-wrong-to-upvote-lots-of-answers-from-the-same-author-to-grant-them-bonus/41083#41083&quot;&gt;Downvoter says&lt;/a&gt;, too many votes will trip the anomaly filter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor is it reasonable to vote for the authors other posts because you liked one in particular. &lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, it is &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; reasonable to go to their profile page and spend some time hunting up other deserving work of theirs and then vote for &lt;em&gt;those good&lt;/em&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T13:35:14.033" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T13:35:14.033" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41077" CreationDate="2010-03-04T03:34:10.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see where that would really hurt anything.  It'd be more of an annoyance on SF and SU where there's only ever a handful of bounty questions at a time, but I agree it would be plainly beneficial for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there is a formula that would work to determine the bump rate based on the number of bounty questions to even it out across the sites.  (or maybe that just doesn't even matter...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T03:34:10.927" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T03:51:15.070" Score="4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that reversing the hash would be quite time consuming, but isn't there a privacy concern with including email hashes in the data dump.  If I want to know if a person with a specific email address has a stackoverflow account, all I have to do is load the data into an SQL database and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Select * from users where emailhash = md5('email@example.com');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and if I got any results then I would know that an account exists for email@example.com. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1862" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:52:10.677" Title="Isn't putting the EmailHash into the data dump a privacy concern?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41086" CreationDate="2010-03-04T03:55:03.550" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Security concern&quot; implies that there's a risk.  What's the risk of knowing whether or not there's an SO account for any given email?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only thing I can think of is an employer getting a little too miffed about someone spending too much time on SO during company hours.  If that's the case, there's better ways to track that down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T04:06:53.113" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T04:06:53.113" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41086" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:02:12.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if I got any results then I would know that an account exists for email@example.com. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And which account it belongs to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this requires you to know the email address first.  Once you know the address, what's the advantage to knowing that this person has an account here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because you &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; glean information from the dump doesn't mean the information is a security risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T04:02:12.703" />
  <row Id="41089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41077" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:08:46.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, 7 free bumps, plus a listing in the featured tab for only 50 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it would hurt, but I don't see that it would actually benefit anyone.  Further, how do you time them?  Someone will eventually complain that their question was always bumped in the middle of the night, or they never saw it bumped.  There would be some additional accountability/overhead/complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meh.  I'm not against it, but I'm not for it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T05:15:36.943" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T05:15:36.943" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="41090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41092" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:30:43.103" Score="6" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to sound a little weird, but I was reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-great-edit-wars/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow's blog policy&lt;/a&gt; about big rep users' ability to edit other users' posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my posts recently underwent a bad edit from another user (that made me question if English was even their first language?), and went to investigate that user, and saw a pattern of &quot;micro&quot; editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean by micro editing is that overall, the post/question is perfectly fine, comprehensible, and readable, but minor changes - like a few spellings, contractions, or encodings with back-ticks were made. (Like a micro-manager, they focus on a tiny thing instead of the overall big picture).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind seeing (or having my) questions back-ticked because I was a beginner and couldn't figure out how (or that it existed at all). But, I am kind of queasy about seeing the big 'EDITED BY' stamped on a post (I think, uhoh, I/they must have royally f***ed up the question!) and then seeing the revisions: two misspellings corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the policy on micro-editing? Is it really okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not questioning at all the cases where a dedicated user edits a poorly formatted question to put in links or quotes or puts code in, or in some manner greatly improves the readability and comprehensability (is that a word?) of a question. I mean instead, the cases where, for example, the post was edited soley to insert an apostrophe in a 'youre', or something completely trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-28T13:45:19.840" LastActivityDate="2010-08-28T13:48:26.117" Title="Is it OK for people to micro-edit my posts?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;guidelines&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41090" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:35:49.613" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's what editing is designed for. Look at the sidebar while editing to see the general editing guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't worry that that people will mess up your question, they have to earn a certain amount of reputation before they're allowed to edit other people's questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-28T13:48:26.117" LastActivityDate="2010-08-28T13:48:26.117" />
  <row Id="41092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41090" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:37:15.133" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Yes, it is ok and encouraged.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because as programmers, we tend to be really picky about having stuff done a certain way. If you forget a semi-colon on a line, the program breaks. Misspell a variable? same thing. We tend to take the same approach to questions and like them to be correctly spelled. This applies especially if there are only a few mistakes, as they are easy to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't get worried about people editing your question. It happens to all of us, and is a part of how the site functions. It's even part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited, and all edits are tracked. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your posts being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question seems to have been badly edited, you can very easily click the rollback button, and it will get rolled-back to the previous version of the post. Other people can do this too, especially if they look at the revision history and see that the edit someone made changes the meaning of the post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the cool things about StackOverflow is every post is an effort on the part of the community. Everyone in the community can take a part in making sure the site is high-quality and easy to use for future question-askers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the question links you provided in the comments, it seems that all of those edits were perfectly legitimate, and probably improved the readability of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we have the ability to edit questions/answer, we can make it more enjoyable for everyone to read, and help you get answer faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T04:44:59.700" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T04:44:59.700" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41090" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:38:47.953" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of sounding harsh...  From the FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other people can edit my stuff?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like Wikipedia, this site is&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;collaboratively edited&lt;/code&gt;, and all edits&#xA;  are tracked. If you are not&#xA;  comfortable with the idea of your&#xA;  posts being edited by other trusted&#xA;  users, this may not be the site for&#xA;  you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like an edit you can always roll it back (on your own post, or when you get enough rep to edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T04:38:47.953" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41098" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:48:18.040" Score="1" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does logging in to StackOverflow keep me signed in to my Gmail email after logging out and regardless of the &lt;code&gt;Stay signed in&lt;/code&gt; checkbox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steps to reproduce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmail.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; and confirm you are logged out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; and confirm you are logged out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;code&gt;login&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;code&gt;Google&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter Email/Password and confirm &lt;code&gt;Stay signed in&lt;/code&gt; is unchecked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;code&gt;Sign in&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;code&gt;logout&lt;/code&gt; (up top)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;code&gt;Logout&lt;/code&gt; (down below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmail.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; and confirm you are still logged in&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &lt;code&gt;Sign out&lt;/code&gt; &amp;lt;- Shouldn't clicking &lt;code&gt;Logout&lt;/code&gt; on StackOverflow be doing the same thing as this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmail.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; and confirm you are logged out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are making sense but my frustration is that clicking &lt;code&gt;Logout&lt;/code&gt; (twice) on StackOverflow essentially does nothing. If I proceed to click &lt;code&gt;login&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Gmail&lt;/code&gt; I am immediately authenticated because I still have an active Gmail cookie. In order to effectively logout I need to click &lt;code&gt;Logout&lt;/code&gt; twice on StackOverflow and then manually browse to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmail.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Sign out&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143043" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T10:17:38.133" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T10:17:38.133" Title="Why am I stilled logged into Gmail *AND* StackOverflow after logging out of StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;logout&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41094" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:49:21.827" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the cookie is stored under &lt;code&gt;stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; domain, in your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T04:49:21.827" />
  <row Id="41096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41094" CreationDate="2010-03-04T04:49:32.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Gmail only erases the cookie once you shut down your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, this is not really a StackOverflow problem. This is an issue for the Gmail team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two cookie are completely different, and affect different sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow can only control whether you are logged in or out of StackOverflow, and Gmail can only control whether you are logged in or out of Gmail. The two are only interconnected to provide verification that you are the person that controls that OpenID. After that confirmation is complete, the two have no correlation with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to familiarize yourself with &lt;a href=&quot;http://openid.net/get-an-openid/what-is-openid/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how OpenID works&lt;/a&gt; and maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.howstuffworks.com/cookie.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cookies&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T04:56:06.693" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T04:56:06.693" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-03-04T05:13:09.227" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're doing fine, and I, for one, welcome our new stackoverlords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With great power comes great complaining, so develop a thick skin and you'll be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T05:13:09.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-04T05:13:09.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41094" CreationDate="2010-03-04T05:19:26.340" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's due to the way OpenID works, and how Google uses its login system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you &quot;login&quot; to SO, you are actually logging into your google account, just as if you had logged in at gmail.com.  SO sends you to google, lets you log in, and then google sends a response back to SO telling SO that you're really an OK guy after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you log out of SO, you are ONLY discarding a cookie that SO pays attention to.  SO does NOT send you to google, not does it perform a logout from google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you go back to google, you'll find you are still logged into google - you never logged out of google, you only logged in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO does not, and cannot, log you out of google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I proceed to click login and Gmail I am immediately authenticated &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a feature of OpenID, and would be the same with all OpenID providers that allow single sign-on.  They keep keys on your system so if another openid site requests verification, you don't have to provide your login credentials again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way you can loging to OpenID once, then visit all your OpenID enabled sites throughout the day without having to login again, even though the sites know nothing about each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a primary feature of OpenID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a problem for you, you may be able to find a provider that allows you to disable this feature, or use your own (there are simple implementations you can use in a variety of languages and platforms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T05:19:26.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41090" CreationDate="2010-03-04T05:47:28.397" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record: Sinan's edit was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2223541/revisions&quot;&gt;just fine&lt;/a&gt; the title makes more sense that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;code&gt;Why?&lt;/code&gt; to me, makes more sense than &lt;code&gt;Why? I don't understand&lt;/code&gt; it is more concise and to the point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T07:01:44.510" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T07:01:44.510" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41086" CreationDate="2010-03-04T05:52:28.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to put this to rest is not by quarterback armchairing but by proving this is a problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Send Jeff a list of 60K emails, I'm sure he will consider changing gravatar or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T05:52:28.197" />
  <row Id="41101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T05:59:07.260" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36052/allow-post-editor-to-see-comments-directed-at-him&quot;&gt;Allow post editor to see @comments directed at him&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2376915/how-to-print-out-the-memory-contents-of-a-variable-in-c/2376921#2376921&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone makes an edit to an answer of mine, and I want to ask them about their edit, will the @name mechanism (or perhaps something else) alert them to my comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, this could be seen as a feature request, though it's not tremendously important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-07T09:18:30.733" LastActivityDate="2010-05-07T09:18:30.733" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T14:46:24.173" Title="@comment notification and Editing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41086" CreationDate="2010-03-04T06:07:08.573" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are worried about your privacy you can salt your email: &lt;code&gt;email+salt@example.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But honestly, if you're privacy-concerned you should have been protecting your email address, not your SO account...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:07:08.573" />
  <row Id="41103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41101" CreationDate="2010-03-04T06:08:43.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if it worked with every person who has been active in the question; including posting another answer, casting a close vote, editing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:08:43.680" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41086" CreationDate="2010-03-04T06:52:10.677" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The email hashes are already available on every page of Stack Overflow, so the fact that they're included in the dump is sort of irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are concerned, you should:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not use an email that is obviously related to your username; e.g. if your username is &quot;waffles&quot; and your email is &quot;waffles@gmail.com&quot; that's pretty easy to guess. Compare with &quot;iluvzwaffles512@gmail.com&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hash your email address; instead of &quot;waffles@gmail.com&quot; use &quot;waffles+stackoverflow@gmail.com&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:52:10.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41045" CreationDate="2010-03-04T06:55:08.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't reproduce this. Have you tried running in Firefox safe mode with all plugins disabled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:55:08.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41046" CreationDate="2010-03-04T06:58:43.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And this is different from every other website on the planet .. how? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T06:58:43.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T07:27:29.140" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1377/auto-tagging&quot;&gt;Auto-tagging&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can tags be suggested after you enter your question? This would make it easy to pick tags that I might not have thought to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140176" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T07:27:29.140" ClosedDate="2010-03-04T10:16:35.170" Title="Can a suggested tags feature be added?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41109" CreationDate="2010-03-04T07:42:45.630" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/865/consecutive-day-count-in-profile&quot;&gt;Consecutive Day Count in profile&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to see that for how many &lt;strong&gt;continuous days&lt;/strong&gt; i have been using/visiting the stack overflow site? Any:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;way possible to know that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;any script out there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;any greasmonkey script&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean &lt;strong&gt;days&lt;/strong&gt; not months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140077" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T07:49:27.393" ClosedDate="2010-03-04T10:16:18.120" Title="For How many continuous days i have been using SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41108" CreationDate="2010-03-04T07:49:27.393" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39221/how-do-i-estimate-fanatic-progress&quot;&gt;perl script&lt;/a&gt; to estimate fanatic badge (which is 100 continuous days) on data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T07:49:27.393" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T08:17:25.637" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally found a solution to my problem. It is mainly based on an other user's answer but it needs some rearrangement to fit to my specific needs. I think about displaying the final code for any potentially interested users but where to put it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing the question to put it at the end does not feel right. We don't want the answers to be in the question. Do we ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding an answer is a bit off since the upvotes we could get should be for the OP&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We could add the final code in a comment on the accepted answer but there will be no code formatting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the best way to do this? Or could we expect a new dedicated place for the finally used solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142817" LastEditorUserId="142817" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T12:38:29.123" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:58:50.807" Title="Where to show final solution to a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41110" CreationDate="2010-03-04T08:39:17.747" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would edit the question. I see no harm in having the answer in the question, really. Indeed, in the past I've seen questions where the questioner has edited them with an &quot;eventual solution&quot; section which talked about multiple original answers being involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clarify what you actually had to do in the question, but accept the answer which provided you the most benefit towards reaching the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T08:39:17.747" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41113" CreationDate="2010-03-04T09:31:11.440" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have encountered strange OpenID authentication problem today. I have been using Google ID as my openID provider for Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have enabled remember my password for SO and meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;happended to change my google password(gmail) in a different machine (last night from home)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When i open SO today morning in my office machine, it just let me in. Eventhough the password is changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is this correct behaviour??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="133732" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T10:18:22.420" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T10:18:22.420" Title="Strange behaviour with OpenID authentication" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41112" CreationDate="2010-03-04T09:35:56.360" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is the correct behaviour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO and Meta are really not remembering your password. They don't even &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; your password. They just remember you were once authenticated by some third party that you trust. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Whenever a login is required --which, however, is not the case in your situation-- then all is delegated to your OpenID provider. Even then, that provider knows it's &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; that changed the password, so maybe the OpenID provider wouldn't prompt you for a confirmation either and just tell the site you're authenticated again.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T09:51:58.853" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T09:51:58.853" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41112" CreationDate="2010-03-04T09:40:35.337" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because cookies are saved at your office computer, which is under stackoverflow.com domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you browse stackoverflow.com, browser send existing cookies to Stack Overflow server, and server just check those are valid or not against its own database, not to the Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in your case, its just normal behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T09:46:14.920" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T09:46:14.920" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41115" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41116" CreationDate="2010-03-04T10:19:04.760" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been making a determined effort to get the reputation cap daily and thus far have achieved the 200 cap 3 days in a row. I have just looked at my reputation today (day 4) and see it's been capped out at 175 - I noticed this as I got 2x upvotes which gave me 11 rep. Is there any reason for this behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135812" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T10:23:08.060" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T10:31:25.670" Title="Capped at 175 Rep?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41115" CreationDate="2010-03-04T10:22:09.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're actually already at 200 for today - according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=103385&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&amp;amp;showflair=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mr. Skeet's Reputation Tracker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T10:22:09.993" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41115" CreationDate="2010-03-04T10:31:25.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did someone unaccept an answer of yours? That'd be -15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T10:31:25.670" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T10:57:29.907" Score="7" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just out of idle edge case curiosity during coffee break: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does an answer that was posted second count as a first answer towards the &quot;Enlightened&quot; badge when the first answer was deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T12:48:51.367" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:30:59.463" Title="Does second answer count as first when first answer was deleted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T11:44:19.033" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are best sites like SO (Which is programming related) with good user base and quick response for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Web accessibility&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usability&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Information Architecture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SEO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Web Typography&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastEditorUserId="140836" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T12:09:34.710" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T12:55:23.117" Title="What are best sites like SO for things like Web accessibility, Usability, Information Architecture?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;non-programming-related&gt;&lt;stackoverflow-sandbox&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41122" CreationDate="2010-03-04T12:40:41.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://doctype.com/&lt;/a&gt; ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T12:40:41.227" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41121" CreationDate="2010-03-04T12:50:54.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess not; the first answer, though &quot;deleted&quot;, it still exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not actually deleted from the database, it's soft deleted (you just don't see it anymore).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that makes the second count as the first, I don't know, I'll let Jeff confirm it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T12:50:54.857" />
  <row Id="41125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41122" CreationDate="2010-03-04T12:55:23.117" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchangesites.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of Stackexchange Sites&lt;/a&gt; question on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131610" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T12:55:23.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40996" CreationDate="2010-03-04T12:57:33.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the question has received [status-completed], I'm putting an answer so the question won't get bumped by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1/community&quot;&gt;this obnoxious guy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T12:57:33.080" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-04T12:57:33.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41121" CreationDate="2010-03-04T13:02:16.207" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with downvoter, I don't think so too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say first answer is deleted, second answer become first, then got a Enlightened badge with 10 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &quot;real&quot; first answer edited with new content and got undeleted, also got 10 upvotes, so there will be 2 answers Enlightened? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, probably its not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T14:38:01.707" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T14:38:01.707" />
  <row Id="41128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-04T13:26:46.110" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/kohana/userguide&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ep2up.com/uploads/1267708653.png&quot; alt=&quot;Kohana needs Documentation!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastEditorUserId="20261" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T09:17:04.917" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T09:17:04.917" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-04T13:26:46.110" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34021" CreationDate="2010-03-04T13:28:42.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Claim&lt;/strong&gt;: SO&amp;amp;co should not be serving up the FAQ header to visitors who block cookies, even though workarounds exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason&lt;/strong&gt;: It is bound to be annoying, and while SO and many its sibling sites are aimed at the tech savvy, many are not.  As a general point of usability, it is bad, and so should be stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further thought&lt;/strong&gt;: We might still want to put a piece of text at the top of the page referring to the FAQ, since we do want new users of the site to look at it, but it should be less ... aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T13:28:42.067" />
  <row Id="41130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T13:44:48.150" Score="22" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would make looking for the answers we have deleted so much easier...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T05:21:28.637" LastActivityDate="2011-05-22T15:33:49.173" Title="Can we have an isdeleted:1 search option/operator?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;advanced-search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41149" CreationDate="2010-03-04T13:49:12.103" Score="1" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ad sense (no pun intended). See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/govSM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;screen-shot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;I don't want to include it in the post because it is huge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm on the verge to start blocking them. (This is a joke, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not about the &quot;beer&quot; ad, but about having 3 ads in total on one page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get less ads with more rep (who knew!) then it is still counter productive, because a new user would come and see another ads riddled site (OK, it looks better than others but still) and gets annoyed by them and even before gaining any rep he will block them all for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastEditorUserId="143212" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T15:31:45.480" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:42:13.383" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T00:28:32.957" Title="Do Stack Overflow family sites have too many ads?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41131" CreationDate="2010-03-04T14:02:13.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By gaining a couple hundred reputation you can greatly reduce the amount of ads on your screen&lt;/strong&gt;. It would be nice if you didn't implement adblock, or any equivalent, as the creators of S(O|F|U) have to make some income to keep these sites alive. Blocking ads is just mean and selfish. Don't be that guy :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Responsible Advertising: Feed a Programmer&lt;/a&gt; (StackOverflow Blog) &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising-experiment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Our Amazon Advertising Experiment&lt;/a&gt; (StackOverflow Blog)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T14:21:14.377" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T14:21:14.377" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="41136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41131" CreationDate="2010-03-04T14:13:52.287" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything evil here. Just a somewhat compelling ad. A non-animated, non-expanding, non-content-hiding ad. There's not even a monkey to punch on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T14:13:52.287" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41130" CreationDate="2010-03-04T14:15:40.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, but few points might need to consider for them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;search is for everyone, but deleted questions / answers can only seen by 10k+ users, mods, and answer owners, its a little bit contradict there. they might need to do search based on reputation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;10k tools already have recently deleted questions list, so 10k+ users may probably not needed&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T15:06:08.710" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:06:08.710" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41131" CreationDate="2010-03-04T14:16:34.107" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to close as blatantly offensive, because I'm offended by people offended by beer. I'll have to close as not stack overflow related, as your dislike of beer is not the fault of this page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to say that at first didn't understand what your problem was. My first instinct was that there are 3 (count them! Three!!!!!11) ads, and you think that the site is going overboard with ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I respectfully disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128777001ac970c-pi&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While we don’t want to pummel anyone with ads, we do need to advertise responsibly to ensure we generate enough revenue to fund continued development of the site — specifically, so I can pay &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;Jarrod and Geoff&lt;/a&gt;. I’d love to be able to hire Geoff full time, and continue to increase Jarrod’s meager salary so it actually resembles something approaching professional wages. This money does not go into buying gold-plated humvees and designer megayachts. Yet. &lt;strong&gt;It all goes directly toward feeding your fellow programmers!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once you’ve earned 200 or more reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question ad banner will no longer appear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The two sidebar ads will stay, however, they will switch from a contrast visual style to a blend visual style (for text ads).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We aren’t planning to have more than 3 ads, and as always, &lt;strong&gt;we will &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; accept animated, Flash, or Silverlight ads&lt;/strong&gt;. We think this is a good, responsible balance of advertising, and hopefully sufficient to underwrite the continued development and improvement of Stack Overflow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;      &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/responsible-advertising-feed-a-programmer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do you expect them to pay for their bills? These are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery&quot;&gt;the most responsible ads I've seen around&lt;/a&gt;, and they are even &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2010&quot;&gt;giving back to the community&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T14:30:59.803" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T14:30:59.803" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41140" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T14:46:38.163" Score="6" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one hits the daily cap, then decides to sleep so they can do it all again the next day; then someone removes a vote&lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt;accepted answer&lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt;fill in the blank, does the attained limit still count or is it only if you end the day on the +200?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135812" LastEditorUserId="135812" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T10:04:00.757" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T16:41:46.107" Title="Epic/Legendary Badges and the Daily Limit" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;clarification&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41140" CreationDate="2010-03-04T14:48:55.977" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you hit the cap it's recorded and in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T14:48:55.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41140" CreationDate="2010-03-04T14:49:01.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It counts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same way that you don't get more reputation even if you are below 200 reputation (if someone removes a vote or accepted answer), the cap is already reached for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T14:49:01.467" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41131" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:07:39.243" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do Stack Overflow family sites have too many ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please compare to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.experts-exchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.experts-exchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://answers.yahoo.com/&lt;/a&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now go check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ask.metafilter.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the only service with no significant ads requires a $5 payment to create an account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that SO strikes a nice balance, and as other note if you do participate a lot you eventually will only have a few non-intrusive ads on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:07:39.243" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:14:25.820" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm adding this in a new answer because I think this needs airing.  I've received responses claiming to be from StackOverflow careers and claiming that Quantlab is legitimate.  However, what they claim in the response and what Quantlab told me in a response conflicts pretty seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first response I got from generic Stack Overflow careers was the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daniel,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We will speak to this employer and&#xA;  find out more information.  We believe&#xA;  they are trying to fill positions for&#xA;  this job:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?6373&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?6373&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-- Stack Overflow Careers careers@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the job they linked to is for a C# developer or a .net developer.  I list both of those as one of my Dislikes in my careers Stack Overflow profile.  If they are trying to fill that position, it makes no sense whatsoever for them to contact me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after that I received a second response from Atilla (still careers@stackoverflow.com) with the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for your response, we always&#xA;  value our community!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These guys are the definition of&#xA;  &quot;Stealth Mode&quot;, I've spoken to them&#xA;  several times, they are real and not&#xA;  phishing.  They just got funding and&#xA;  are looking to build out a team of&#xA;  programmers - Bootstrap Mode??. &#xA;  Either way, they are real: Thanks for&#xA;  the Help in keeping our boards clean,&#xA;  we appreciate it!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Attila&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, I supposed I can buy that.  A small team that just had funding and was trying to bootstrap could definitely not have much web presence.  But then Quantlab responded to my initial response to their invitation telling them in no uncertain terms that I was convinced they were a scam and didn't appreciate the attempt.  They responded with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi Daniel - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I certainly understand your concern&#xA;  regarding our lack of web presence.&#xA;  Actually we have been operating a very&#xA;  successful proprietary trading firm&#xA;  for 12 years. Because we trade our own&#xA;  capital and don't license any of our&#xA;  technology we are basically in&#xA;  business for ourselves. Great when you&#xA;  think about, but certainly makes&#xA;  recruiting a challenge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My contact information is below, try&#xA;  my email, it works - even get it on my&#xA;  blackberry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kate Brummett Recruiting Manager,&#xA;  Quantlab Financial &#xA;  &amp;lt; email temporarily&#xA;  hidden &gt; &amp;lt; phone temporarily hidden &gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait, what?  Someone needs to get their story straight!  Either you've been around for 12 years and you're a very successful firm or you just got funding and you're in the process of bootstrapping.  Which is it?  And the fact that your e-mail and blackberry work tells me nothing.  Mine do too, but that doesn't mean I'm not a spammer or scammer.  And why are you giving out an address that points to the University of St Thomas?  And a web address that leads to nowhere?  If they were a real firm that was just going stealth mode, then they shouldn't be giving any address or web address at all!  There's something &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; rotten going on in Denmark.  I don't know what it is, but too much of this information conflicts, it doesn't add up.  Someone is either very confused or not telling the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are legitimate, then I apologize - but from what I've seen, I sincerely doubt it.  And if they are a scam and someone bites they could screw some people over pretty seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: After a little more searching - looking for 'Quantlab Financial scam' ironically - I turned up a NASDAQ listing for them.  On an a Securities and Exchange Fraud lawyer's site.  They don't appear to be listing them as a fraud, but as legitimate though.  And I found a few blog posts or articles listing them as a firm that does high frequency trading.  I'm a little more willing to believe they aren't a scam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But either they or Careers needs to work a little harder in the future to keep things straight.  Because up until that point all the information I could see pointed straight to a scam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:  I'm pretty convinced they are real now.  See first post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134161" LastEditorUserId="134161" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T21:23:52.837" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:23:52.837" />
  <row Id="41145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41130" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:16:28.407" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little torn on this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been in situations where I've needed to find a deleted post, but had a hard time (fortunately it was in the google cache, so I could get the question number and use it directly) - it's helpful for those poor souls that post really bad questions, get great answers, and then have it deleted because it doesn't belong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, we recently had one OP request on meta that their SO post be deleted due to client copyright issues.  It was edited to remove the content, then deleted, then the relevant meta question deleted so it would be hard to find because the data is still visible to 10k users.  Further, some people delete their post once they realize there's a problem posting that info publicly, but they assume once it's deleted it's gone forever, so they never notify team@stackoverflow.com to remove it from the database directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's a class of reasons to make it easier to find deleted content, but there's an opposing class of reasons for making it difficult.  Even if they implemented a process to allow permanent database removal for special cases, they wouldn't always be used due to user misconceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now we have a compromise - yes, the data is still there, but it's really &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; hard to find without contacting the team.  Since the need to find a deleted question is (and should be, since it doesn't belong) rare, I don't know that there's a compelling reason to have this search feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:16:28.407" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14614" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:25:05.070" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing closed questions sometimes have is good answers.  If two people ask essentially the same question, each question might have a good answer that's worth keeping.  It is possible for moderators to merge the answers into one question, but that's not automatically done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:25:05.070" />
  <row Id="41148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:36:56.247" Score="-5" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &quot;543,543&quot; total questions on SO... did anyone personally observe any curious #s of questions? (I mean actually seeing the # on a page, not theoretically imagining the #)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:53:29.583" ClosedDate="2010-03-04T16:56:32.220" Title="Nice # of questions on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41131" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:42:13.383" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a new user decides to block the ads because they are annoying, then they are still an asset to the site in terms of their contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Stackoverflow team determines statistically that too many ads are being blocked, they can take action, such as putting the ads on the same server/directory as other external page elements so blocking the ads breaks the interface without more advanced ad blocking.  And even more advanced ad blocking can be overcome if needed, although there is a point of diminishing returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt; advertising is VERY easy to test (A|B testing being very common) and few users actually go to the trouble of blocking ads.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The existing layout is very minimal already, but if the ad response starts to drop, or new users vs ads displayed shows a disparity demonstrating blocking, then they will re-evaluate the ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But chances are good they've already optimized them for revenue in a situation that would account for new users blocking them.  (ie, A|B testing)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If revenue drops they may have to re-evaluate their ad strategy, but it may not be necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:42:13.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:45:14.080" Score="-3" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Stack Overflow have some sort of community standard for filtering out knee-jerk responses to questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am well aware of the issues when you try to parse HTML with regular expressions. In the abstract, it is A Bad Idea. And I know why. So it's frustrating when every mention of regular expressions and HTML now results in someone popping up to say, &quot;No, bad idea&quot; (examples &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2379872/how-can-i-programmatically-scrape-an-image-from-another-website/2379916#2379916&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2372807/regex-help-please-c/2372861#2372861&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; that I've seen within the last 24 hours) without explaining why or stopping to consider the situation. Because while a regex isn't the best possible solution to parsing a language grammar, it is better than nothing. More importantly, it is a perfectly valid solution when the situation is well-defined: if you look at my second example, the questioner has a completely fixed HTML string they want to parse. None of the problems of regex/ HTML parsing apply. But someone gets 3 upvotes for parroting Accepted Wisdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136593" LastEditorUserId="136593" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T17:39:17.920" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:45:38.583" Title="How Does the Community Handle Knee-Jerk Answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community-standards&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="41151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41148" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:46:24.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;did anyone personally observe any curious #s of questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, but one day was was wandering around the site because I was lost, and ran into this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/lost_stackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of two front page questions with votes, answers, and views following the combination 4 8 15 16 23 42&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure that means I'm screwed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T15:53:29.583" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:53:29.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41150" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:54:25.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;The &amp;lt;center&amp;gt; cannot hold&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:54:25.510" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:52:59.523" Score="4" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;On this site if you do too many clicks or post comments too fast or something like that you get redirected to the &quot;Are you a human&quot; screen. Does anybody know how the developers of this site did this, or how to do something similar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139005" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:42:16.753" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:42:16.753" Title="How to implement Stack Overflow's &quot;are you a human&quot; feature?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="41155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41154" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:55:57.230" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;just check how many hit / minutes you get from a specific ip or session or whatever and decide what are your preferred threshold and your good to go&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134804" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:59:31.610" />
  <row Id="41156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41154" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:58:08.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At a guess...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Write a HTTP handler that records requests and store them in session. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a new request comes in, check to see how many requests are stored (and expire old ones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the amount of requests in the past few minutes exceeds a given threshold, redirect the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're doing this in ASP.NET webforms, you could do this check on the site master page, ( or write a &lt;code&gt;IHttpHandler&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're using an MVC framework, you could write a base controller that does this check for every action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With rails, you could write a &lt;code&gt;before_request&lt;/code&gt; filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With asp.net MVC, you could write a &lt;code&gt;[ActionFilterAttribute]&lt;/code&gt; attribute&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132004" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:59:31.610" />
  <row Id="41157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41154" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:58:34.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd also check the user agent header of the request - if it doesn't look like a popular browser (or is empty) then throw the &quot;are you a human?&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T15:59:31.610" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41154" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:58:53.640" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now all this question needs is to be moved &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; to stackoverflow!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's almost certainly a heuristic that tries to &quot;guess&quot; that a user is some form of automated process, rather than a person, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More than &quot;x&quot; requests to do the same thing in a row&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More than &quot;x&quot; actions in a &quot;y&quot; period of time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ordinarily the &quot;x&quot; and &quot;y&quot; values would be formulated to be ones that it would be unlikely for a &quot;real person&quot; to do, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editing the same answer 5 times in a row&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting 10 questions within 1 minute&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've got your set of rules, you can then implement some code that checks them at the start of each request, be it in a method that's called in Page_Load, something in your masterpage, something in the asp.net pipeline, that's the easy bit! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7872" LastEditorUserId="7872" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T16:06:42.477" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:06:42.477" />
  <row Id="41159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41150" CreationDate="2010-03-04T16:02:57.460" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think the answers are not useful, vote them down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If more people do this the answer will quickly drop down to the end of the list of answers. This is how community moderation of answers works on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:02:57.460" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T16:09:50.660" Score="6" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;As seen at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2380636/how-to-implement-stack-overflows-are-you-a-human-feature-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2380636/how-to-implement-stack-overflows-are-you-a-human-feature-closed&lt;/a&gt; once the question is migrated, all answers are &quot;deleted.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it appropriate behavior to allow the creators to undelete the answer? Doesn't this make them get double the reputation also? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm.. I do wonder if the bounty will go to an answer with -3 votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-16T10:32:19.747" LastActivityDate="2010-10-13T14:00:06.703" Title="Intended? You can undelete migrated answers?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41160" CreationDate="2010-03-04T16:19:41.140" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't appropriate for answers to be auto-deleted, and I haven't seen that behavior before.  It looks like they may have modified that functionality for the worse.  One of the tough things on the SO sites is that they don't always let us know when they change things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/13531/mmyers&quot;&gt;mmyers&lt;/a&gt; points out that the answers have always been auto-deleted on the originating site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To answer the question:&lt;/strong&gt;  I think it's perfectly appropriate for users to undelete their answers to migrated questions.  They shouldn't be auto-deleted in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T16:35:15.757" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:35:15.757" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T15:55:01.207" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if Stackoverflow has used Gridview or a listview for listing their questions and Answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:22:20.830" Title="Stackoverflow using Gridview or Listview?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41162" CreationDate="2010-03-04T16:07:36.903" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is, it's simply a for loop written in-line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    &amp;lt;% foreach (Question q in (IEnumerable)ViewData[&quot;Questions&quot;]) { %&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    &amp;lt;h2&amp;gt;&#xA;        &amp;lt;%= q.Title%&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/h2&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;% } %&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138133" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:22:20.830" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41162" CreationDate="2010-03-04T16:12:18.343" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is built using ASP.NET MVC, not webforms.  So, they most likely just loop through the questions on the page and build the html.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148931" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:22:20.830" />
  <row Id="41167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41140" CreationDate="2010-03-04T16:29:27.797" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once a badge is awarded it is not retracted, but if it is later invalidated somehow (such as from the retraction of a vote that would have caused you to hit the rep recap), you won't earn another badge for the same thing when you meet those conditions again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't relevant for Mortarboard, since you can only earn one once, but it would count for the counter towards Legendary or Epic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: if the rep is removed on the same day, then you wouldn't get the badge, because the rep cap badges are not calculated until EOD. (They are not awarded instantly on first hitting the rep cap earlier in the day -- you will not have counted as hitting the cap unless you are there at EOD, when the batch process to calculate these badges is run.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T16:41:46.107" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T16:41:46.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41121" CreationDate="2010-03-04T16:30:59.463" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it does, but if the &quot;first&quot; answer is undeleted later on, then you lose your &quot;first&quot; status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can affect the validity of the Enlightened badge. If you later become eligible for another Enlightened badge and you &quot;un-earned&quot; the first one, you won't be given another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T16:30:59.463" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41180" CreationDate="2010-03-04T17:30:05.083" Score="1" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we have that ugly huge menu with explanations we may as well put it to good use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is server or system administration related, and is a better fit for Server Fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Migrate to Server Fault. Server Fault deals with people who &lt;strong&gt;manage or maintain&lt;/strong&gt; computers in a professional capacity. It is however not for general computer troubleshooting questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is related to computer hardware or computer software in general, and is a better fit for Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Migrate to Super User. Super User deals with computer hardware or software in general; however &lt;strong&gt;questions about videogames, websites or smartphones don't belong there.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is a discussion of this web site or community itself, and is a better fit for Meta Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(just for consistency)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Migrate to Meta Stack Overflow. Meta Stack Overflow deals with discussion of this web site or the community itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this would only be for the descriptions of the menu; the old ones should still be used in the &quot;question closed [...]&quot; bottom notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T17:35:11.890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:25:02.747" Title="Clarify further the goals of each trilogy website in the vote to migrate menu" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40927" CreationDate="2010-03-04T17:32:18.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the many, many features people want, but Jeff and Joel are loathe to implement for a variety of reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are, however, working hard on the API which I think will solve a lot of these issues as people build systems around the API to support their notification needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T17:32:18.667" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40927" CreationDate="2010-03-04T17:33:53.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Pollyanna says, when the API is out, it's likely there will be convenient online services popping up. Until then, it's the Envelope or Greasemonkey I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the pages behind the envelope icon can be filtered by time period, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/SO-time.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you can keep track of your notifications that way even if you're not on the site every day. I am on Superuser.com extremely rarely for example, but using those filters, I've never missed out on anything. It's not perfect, but it works surprisingly well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T17:39:03.833" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T17:39:03.833" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:05:21.917" Score="-1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I'm trying to type in tags, and select tags that already exist, I find the autocomplete a little slow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the autocomplete was cached locally.  I don't think it matters if the tag-name(&lt;b&gt;number-with-tag&lt;/b&gt;) gets stale - as long as you can quickly see the tag exists and a rough count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111307" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T20:01:46.733" Title="Cached faster autocomplete, tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41179" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:13:04.900" Score="10" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38250/tag-description&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38250/tag-description&lt;/a&gt; but I would like to bring new action to the topic as well as clarify some points of how it could work..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, there are a lot of cryptic and ambiguous tags out there. For instance the &lt;code&gt;r&lt;/code&gt; tag and the one here &lt;code&gt;always-friday-in-iceland&lt;/code&gt; (which I have no idea about). Some of these may be difficult to google about but I propose a way so that high reputation users can contribute descriptions to tags that regular users will enjoy. (and prevent mis-tagging and questions here about what a certain tag is for)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say high-rep (either access to mod-tools or able to edit posts) users should be able to click on a tag and it bring up a page for the tag. They can then click on a link like &quot;provide description&quot; or something like that to contribute a description. They can also vote on other contributed descriptions. I don't think reputation should be given for these votes. The one with the highest amount of votes gets displayed to all users. (possibly with a small link for &quot;see other descriptions&quot; on the tag page) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course will be subject to moderation to avoid inappropriate descriptions, but I believe this should be a good way of describing tags and giving relevant Wikipedia pages and/or official product pages&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this sound to you guys? I'm sure it would require more than some trivial line of code for stack-exchange, but I think it'd be worth it so that we don't have confused users wondering what tags like &lt;code&gt;code-golf&lt;/code&gt; mean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as an aside: This would be great at like the 5000 or 7000 rep mark as a stepping stone before the 10k mark :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-04T20:47:35.263" LastActivityDate="2011-05-04T20:47:35.263" Title="Should there be high-rep-user contributed descriptions for tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;tag-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41177" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:20:57.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we can have the tag description show on the tag stats page, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7323/tagdescription.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T18:27:11.400" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:27:11.400" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41173" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:25:02.747" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fine the way it is. One thing I've noticed over and over again is that people usually don't take the time to read. Having a &lt;strong&gt;wall of text&lt;/strong&gt; certainly doesn't make it any better. Also, the close popup is already &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt;, I don't want to turn my monitor to portrait mode just to be able to read all the close reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KISS&lt;/strong&gt;; always keep this in mind. We don't need to copy-paste the FAQ for each site into that close popup. If you don't know what the other sites do, don't vote to migrate to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:25:02.747" />
  <row Id="41181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41324" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:28:17.747" Score="13" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that the body of the questions and answers really gets in the way of randomly voting things up and down, reading comments, and commenting.  Watching the patterns of usage on SO, I can see a lot of other people have this same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does someone have a handy greasemonkey script that hides the body of the posts so I can focus on the important aspects of SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/SO_Sans_posts_short.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it will be of use to many others that really don't care to pay attention to the questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:42:53.693" Title="Script to remove useless SO content" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="41183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41181" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:30:44.560" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this would increase the efficiency of voting immeasurably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could just have a blank screen with a voting block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2194/vote.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/20000/0000/900/20930/20930.strip.print.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T19:39:24.640" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T19:39:24.640" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41181" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:32:22.560" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've kept the posters in... hardly random, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest you remove them. You wouldn't want to encourage fanboy-ism, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, why not change the voting buttons into monkey icons... then you could have some sort of &quot;punch&quot; noise when you vote too. I think that would make SO a lot more fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:32:22.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:36:37.933" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a message received by our Sales Team at Fog Creek&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello StackOverflow Community – &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do apologize for any concerns that&#xA;  our messages over the last few days&#xA;  have created. To clarify a few things&#xA;  I have asked the folks at&#xA;  StackOverflow to post this message on&#xA;  our behalf. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My name is Kate Brummett, the&#xA;  Recruiting Manager for Quantlab&#xA;  Financial. We are a Houston based,&#xA;  proprietary trading firm operating&#xA;  successfully since 1998. Because we do&#xA;  not require external investors or sell&#xA;  our products (basically we work for&#xA;  ourselves, which is nice) we have&#xA;  never really invested in creating a&#xA;  web presence. This obviously creates a&#xA;  challenge in the recruiting arena. &#xA;  Quantlab is an automated, global&#xA;  trading environment that is driven by&#xA;  state-of-the science research&#xA;  implemented by a cutting-edge&#xA;  technology team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a growing company, our recruiting&#xA;  efforts have taken us to pages like&#xA;  StackOverflow and JoelonSoftware.com&#xA;  because we hire Software Engineers,&#xA;  not just developers – people that are&#xA;  passionate, if not obsessive about&#xA;  writing creative, clean code to solve&#xA;  complex problems. The languages used&#xA;  are less important to our firm; the&#xA;  way you solve problems is our highest&#xA;  priority. We want to hire energetic,&#xA;  passionate engineers that enjoy&#xA;  working in creative, collaborative and&#xA;  challenging environments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have any questions, or just&#xA;  want to chat about working for a&#xA;  trading firm, send me a note, I am&#xA;  happy to respond. &#xA;  kbrummett@quantlab.com &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                                                  Kate Brummett Recruiting Manager&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144193" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T19:43:01.263" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T19:43:01.263" />
  <row Id="41188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41181" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:40:59.283" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's still too much work. Why not make a script to randomly dole out all of your votes indiscriminately for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better yet, just cut out the middle man, factory man, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; consumer man. Instead of asking, answering, or voting on questions, users can just receive a daily gift basket of random Rep and badges from SO, thus making them feel all warm and fuzzy inside while at the same time freeing them from having all their free time decimated by this so-addictive-it-must-be-illegal site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:40:59.283" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41181" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:48:42.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We NEED an SO API so that we can just script our voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:48:42.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41110" CreationDate="2010-03-04T18:58:50.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually add the final code directly to the most useful answer body, mark it as correct, and leave a comment to notify the original author, so he can fix it if he cares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T18:58:50.807" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41194" CreationDate="2010-03-04T19:01:57.273" Score="2" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;For many questions on Stack Overflow, I am glad to spend a few minutes giving the best answer I can think of at the moment, and sometimes my answer however naive, even seems to be useful to someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the time I have to spend with diversions such as Stack Overflow is finite. I just encountered someone who apparently had a lot of time, or a real passion for the subject at hand, or both, who was asking clarification after clarification in the comments, to the point of erasing his own previous comments for fear of running into a limit. I didn't know there was a limit to the number of comments, although I can see how he would know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand it's possible to be passionate about a subject or to be a perfectionist. However I was so tired of the discussion that I finally deleted my answer just to get rid of the whole situation. I didn't want to appear not to care about his remarks, but I do not use Stack Overflow as a chat site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole thing made me feel uncomfortable. How should I have handled it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I should have made it clearer that it was not the OP that was commenting on my answer, it was someone else, who had his own succinct answer to the same question, but for some reason preferred to make me edit mine than to enhance his own. I will reinstate my answer. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140311" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T08:08:07.340" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T08:08:07.340" Title="What do you do when someone ask for clarification after clarification in the comments of an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41191" CreationDate="2010-03-04T19:03:37.753" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't delete an answer, that doesn't seem fair. Just don't answer, or say you're busy and can't continue this any further - that, and encourage the OP to ask another question, is what I usually do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T19:03:37.753" />
  <row Id="41194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41191" CreationDate="2010-03-04T19:06:57.980" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it gets out of hand simply ignore him. As you said, your time is finite and the best way to learn something is by simply doing it yourself; let him research the subject on his own, guidance is enough most of the time. You answered, that's the most important thing; the knowledge gained by the community as a whole is important, not going into every little detail just to satisfy someone's curiosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, the badgering in the comments can simply be another form of &quot;do my work for me&quot;. If it's annoying, &lt;strong&gt;flag it as spam&lt;/strong&gt;. That's what it is for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T19:06:57.980" />
  <row Id="41197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41191" CreationDate="2010-03-04T19:38:36.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you do when someone ask for clarification after clarification in the comments of an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends.  I come here to learn more than I come to enlighten.  I usually see 5 situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments show a desire to learn more detail, but aren't attacking my answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are useful, correct, and on target&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are &lt;a href=&quot;http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/split+hairs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;splitting hairs&lt;/a&gt; - correct, but useless or delves into a depth not needed for the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are incorrect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comments are banter and more or less off topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user just wants more detail, and aren't attacking my answer, I'll give them a link to more information if I feel the answer is sufficient for the audience the question is geared towards.  If they continue to have questions, I'll refer them to another reference or two, and then eventually say, &quot;Try it out!  There's no better way to learn this material than throwing code at it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comments are on target, then I'll address then by fixing my answer and adding a comment.  If they continue to find problem after problem with my answer (and they are right, and it's not just splitting hairs) then I'll invite them to post a correct answer, and delete my own.  I'll try to understand and learn from this person who obviously understand the issue better than I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are splitting hairs, I'll concede the point, thank them for bringing it up, and explain that I simplified for the OP.  I'll try to find a more in depth reference to link to &quot;If you need more detail&quot; and that usually quiets the hair splitter.  I might answer them once or twice, but if it's obvious that they are going to go on and on, I'll ignore their later comments - they will never be satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the comments are wrong, and they continue to argue the point, I'll make a provably strong case for my answer and invite them to disprove it using code, references, etc.  Usually they will fail, and go away.  I don't ignore these comments because they can leave users confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Playful banter or offtopic stuff - I may or may not play along, but on SO I don't go on for more than a comment or two.  It's fun making connections with other users, but it's not a discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T19:38:36.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1768" CreationDate="2010-03-04T19:59:13.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a good idea. I think 99 times out of a 100, the OP won't care that checkmark was moved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nine times of 10, he won't even notice, in which case it really makes sense for someone who's interested in sharing knowledge  -- not just solving a his own problem -- to have a chance to highlight a better answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the one time out of 100,000 that an actual &quot;accept war&quot; erupts, where the person who received the accepted answer refuses to keep it, the OP can just post an answer himself and accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="437" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T19:59:13.570" />
  <row Id="41200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41176" CreationDate="2010-03-04T20:01:46.733" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be nice if the autocomplete was cached locally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's non-trivial. You could do it with HTML 5 client-side storage (available to a minority of users) or Gears (separate install, deprecated). Then you'd need to keep the lists in sync. And, as others have pointed out, it's not too bad already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it could be optimized further, but caching locally is like regex -- &quot;Now you have two problems.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T20:01:46.733" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T20:01:52.973" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34725/buried-but-not-dead&quot;&gt;Buried but not dead&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While doing a little investigation for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41160/intended-you-can-undelete-migrated-questions&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I discovered that I could undelete my answer to a now-deleted question. This shouldn't be possible, should it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit that this is fairly minor, since only 10k+ users can see the page anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-16T09:49:15.730" LastActivityDate="2010-05-16T09:49:15.730" ClosedDate="2010-05-16T09:49:10.437" Title="Answers to deleted questions can be undeleted" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;undelete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40853" CreationDate="2010-03-04T20:29:11.933" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kate Brummett noticed my comment on one of @Alcon's posts and has graciously offered a beer at the neighboring pub to stop by and visit.  Like I said in my comment, the reserved parking does exist; so I'll see the inside tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also emphasize in person that they need a better web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you trust my public &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/austin-salonen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CV&lt;/a&gt;, I don't work for them either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post-tour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Like I said earlier, I don't work for them.  Kate gave me a tour of the company so yes, it is a real place.  From what I saw, the employees are treated very well and I have no reason to think otherwise.  I won't go into the perks but I will say I was very impressed.  The office itself was gorgeous as well (I was reminded of the pics of the Fog Creek office when I got off the elevator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kate also assured me that they are working on the web site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if living in Houston appeals to you, you really should apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorUserId="4068" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T01:29:09.483" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T01:29:09.483" />
  <row Id="41203" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T20:30:38.903" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you get upvoted on a question, then the question gets moved over to another site - the original site deducts it from your total but does not remove it from your daily limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i48.tinypic.com/2h7f96g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;bland screenshot of votes total for day&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Picture taken whilst today button is pressed - this starts from my first bit of rep today 4/3/10)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The red line is approx at the time that &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/119251/10k-20k-tcp-connections-on-windows-servers&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; was moved from SuperUser.com to ServerFault.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have clicked the today button and checked on Jon Skeet's reputation tracker, and they both say the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the reason for this is either a bug or because I can undelete my answer and get the reputation - I am not really that sure and just thought it was worth asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132901" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T01:00:44.733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T01:00:44.733" Title="Bug with moved questions and reputation?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41201" CreationDate="2010-03-04T20:36:04.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess all it does is mark the answer as not deleted from the database, but it's never rendered as the question itself is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be interesting to test what would happen to reputation earned/lost in that answer in a recalc (whether it's really undeleted or not)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T20:36:04.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41208" CreationDate="2010-03-04T20:59:17.740" Score="9" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my retagging madness today, I came across a few questions tagged similar to the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[visual-studio]&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;[visual-studio-2005]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: should questions be tagged like this with both tags, or is it better to only apply the more descriptive/precise tag? How would this affect searching?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue. With a tag such as &lt;code&gt;[visual-studio]&lt;/code&gt;, there's 2 additional levels of tags: &lt;code&gt;[visual-studio-2005]&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;[visual-studio-2005-expres]&lt;/code&gt; (trailing 's' is not a typo -- tag length limit is in play), so if I have to tag a question with VS2005 Express and I should tag with all 3, I've burned up 3 of the 5 allowed tags just for the environment I'm using, which doesn't seem right. In fairness, these instances are probably rare, but certainly 2 out 5 tags can be significant sometimes, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T21:51:07.277" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:51:07.277" Title="Should questions be tagged with both a tag and a &quot;sub-tag&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;alias&gt;&lt;searchable&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41206" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:27:47.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, semantically the best thing would be to have some sort of inclusion, so that tag searches for visual-studio would catch the more specific tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not holding my breath for that, though.  Without something like that, having two tags is probably for the best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140179" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:27:47.120" />
  <row Id="41208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41206" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:34:35.423" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens to me all the time with &lt;code&gt;ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/code&gt; questions.  If I am posting a question, and I think the version is important, I use &lt;strong&gt;both tags&lt;/strong&gt;; the &lt;code&gt;ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/code&gt; tag, and a version-specific tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do this because, when I am perusing unanswered &lt;code&gt;ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/code&gt; questions, I only click the &lt;code&gt;ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/code&gt; tag;  I don't bother looking through the version-specific tags.  Maybe I'm just lazy, but I like to see all of the &lt;code&gt;ASP.NET-MVC&lt;/code&gt; questions under a single tag, and if the version is important to the question, it's also nice to see the version-specific tag in there also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastEditorUserId="102937" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T21:42:27.357" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:42:27.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41211" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:19:51.667" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;This afternoon at the office, I saw the advertising for Safari Books with a special rebate for SO users.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now I want to get there from home, but despite a dozen page refreshes, I can't find the ad.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Could someone post the url ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144204" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:41:20.993" Title="Where has the safari books promotion gone?" Tags="&lt;books&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41209" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:40:28.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;here &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41065/this-ad-worked-for-me&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41065/this-ad-worked-for-me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:40:28.360" />
  <row Id="41211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41209" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:41:20.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find it on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery/40840#40840&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Ad Gallery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:41:20.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22567" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:44:12.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope. Seems a bit false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Although I’m very ill-informed about, and sceptical of, the efficacy of advertising.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134863" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:44:12.440" />
  <row Id="41213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41150" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:45:38.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're already aware of the knee-jerk response to your situation, work it into the question.  Make it clear that it doesn't apply by showing us why your situation is different.  If you've done that, then the knee-jerk answer should get down-votes for being wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T21:45:38.583" />
  <row Id="41214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:49:38.903" Score="3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many ways to sort through all the answers a user has given on their profile page... Recent, Views, Newest and Votes. However, especially when sorting on &quot;Votes&quot;, it makes it hard to see overall which of your answers over time have been Accepted by others. It would be nice to have a way to sort answers so that all the &quot;Accepted&quot; answers are on top, with a secondary sort on Votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, and I'm sure this has been asked before, it would be nice to easily see what percentage of answers by a user have been accepted. This gives a good measure of the quality of their answers over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T22:03:58.483" Title="Sort Answers on User Profile Page by Acceptance" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41214" CreationDate="2010-03-04T21:58:40.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although not on the profile page, you can get the desired results using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3ame%20isaccepted%3a1&amp;amp;tab=votes&quot;&gt;search query&lt;/a&gt;.  Search for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;user:me isaccepted:1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then sort by votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the acceptance percentage, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2238/would-it-be-useful-so-show-peoples-hit-rate-i-e-percentage-of-answers-accep&quot;&gt;see this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="94928" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-04T22:03:58.483" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T22:03:58.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T22:49:30.387" Score="12" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time I saw the feature that lets you click on the votes for a question/answer to see the number of plus and minus votes, I thought it was a bug. I noticed it because I missed the arrow button I was aiming for. I remember trying to click on it again to see if that would do anything, but it didn't. So, I chalked it up to some strange javascript bug. I eventually learned what the feature was, but my first experience with it was that something was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this could be easily remedied by simply allowing users to toggle between net votes and plus/minus votes rather than only allowing them the one-time switch. A user would click once, think, &quot;Hmm, that's strange.&quot; then click again and see it &quot;go back to normal&quot;. After toggling a couple times, the feature's meaning would (hopefully) become apparent. It would also be nice to be able to return things to &quot;normal&quot; even if you know what the feature does, but I think the main benefit is making it more obvious that this is an intentional feature, not a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T23:12:40.147" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T23:36:53.167" Title="Toggling between net votes and plus/minus votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41223" CreationDate="2010-03-04T22:54:34.607" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5199/please-add-the-ability-to-fold-blocks-of-code-in-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;Code, block, question and answer folding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to do? Like a &quot;&amp;lt;textarea&amp;gt;&quot;. Just vertical without any horizontal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I really hope a better answer comes around. For now it's &quot;no&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T23:04:18.163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T23:04:18.163" Title="Scrollable blockquote" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-04T22:55:12.297" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been accused of asking many questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/89989/crazyjugglerdrummer&quot;&gt;solely to gain rep&lt;/a&gt;. However, they were all genuine, and I don't want to have me or my questions looked down on for this reason. I would be fine if I didn't gain rep for these questions (and if I lost all the rep for them I've already gained on them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, making them community wiki would cause the wonderful people who answered them to lose the rep they deserved. Would it be possible for them to gain rep but not me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastEditorUserId="130281" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T20:43:14.013" LastActivityDate="2010-09-09T19:08:21.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-04T22:55:12.297" Title="Option to not gain rep for votes on a question, but still have answers gain rep" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41220" CreationDate="2010-03-04T23:20:13.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your profile looks perfectly acceptable to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;51 questions &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  167 answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4281 rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;10 questions with zero votes &lt;br&gt;1&#xA;  question with negative votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every other question you've asked has gotten upvotes.  Some of them have gotten lots of upvotes.  Which means you are asking good questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bask in the glory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T23:20:13.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-04T23:20:13.273" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41219" CreationDate="2010-03-04T23:24:01.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you put your text within a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; .. &amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; block, it will cause a scrollable text window to appear after about a dozen lines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also indent each line four spaces to create a colorized &quot;code sample&quot; which will create the same scrollable window (with &quot;prettify&quot; code colorization). Or you can just hit the 'Code Sample' at the top of the editor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/JOVGB.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text will be in a mono-space font. There is no way to create a scrollable window using the  &lt;em&gt;literal&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;'Blockquote &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt; Ctrl-Q'&lt;/code&gt; formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T23:24:01.613" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1777" CreationDate="2010-03-04T23:40:37.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about a &amp;lt;blockquote&amp;gt; &quot;max width&quot; attribute for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41219/scrollable-blockquote/41223#41223&quot;&gt;allowing vertical scrolling&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-04T23:40:37.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-04T23:40:37.273" />
  <row Id="41225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13066" CreationDate="2010-03-04T23:44:57.547" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I second this very, very much. My favourites list is so full that it does not serve the purpose of &lt;em&gt;keeping track of questions&lt;/em&gt; anymore. I'm sure everyone comes across questions every day where they'll think &quot;I'd like to know the answer to that, too&quot;. You upvote it, favourite it, and forget it, until you clean up your favourite list a year later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A notification feature informing about a question getting an accepted answer (or any other status change, like a bounty and maybe even a closing) would be very, very helpful indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T20:15:10.300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T20:15:10.300" />
  <row Id="41226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41227" CreationDate="2010-03-05T00:58:01.260" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;Referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2383796/time-function-in-php&quot;&gt;this SO question&lt;/a&gt;, I am unable to post comments. The comment gets appended to the URL and then loads the page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people are also saying the question was edited just a while ago, but there is no &quot;edited&quot; note showing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T02:33:54.017" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T02:33:54.017" Title="Comment gets appended to URL, question apparently edited with no trail" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41226" CreationDate="2010-03-05T01:00:26.480" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot; title=&quot;and to a noodle, ramen&quot;&gt;five (5) minute grace period&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I checked the post around one (1) minute after you posted, it was regarding inserting into database with PHP and asking about date related functions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2383809/revisions&quot;&gt;Anthony Forloney&lt;/a&gt;'s first version answer (which is edited and deleted at the moment) tried to answer about that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it suddenly changed to HTML codes. That's why people are saying it was edited, but you've edited within the 5 minute grace period. So there is no record for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T01:12:58.500" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T01:12:58.500" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40917" CreationDate="2010-03-05T01:22:01.600" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something like this images here &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15990/a-better-your-name-here-banner-ad/16064#16064&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15990/a-better-your-name-here-banner-ad/16064#16064&lt;/a&gt; but aimed at server fault audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this image on stackoverflow.  Perhaps this will work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/try-serverfault.png&quot; alt=&quot;serverfault ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastEditorUserId="20267" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-24T06:03:13.783" LastActivityDate="2010-05-24T06:03:13.783" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T01:52:19.450" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31265/how-much-reputation-do-you-get-while-idle&quot;&gt;How much reputation do you get while idle?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, I will get +10 rep for an answer that I gave maybe a year ago [presumably dug up from a search]. I haven't got too many &amp;ldquo;nice&amp;rdquo; answers (with 10 or more upvotes) but I was wondering whether if I have answered a huge number of questions with good answers, whether it's possible to reach the 200 rep daily cap just from old answers that people have dug up and upvoted, or whether this is already the case for people who have outstanding reputation already (50K or more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know about the Epic badge; but if you gave 50 amazing answers on 50 separate occasions it still might not guarantee you the rep-increasing perpetuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134799" LastEditorUserId="134799" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T01:58:27.130" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T03:29:43.140" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T03:46:34.217" Title="Is there a point where one's reputation can increase perpetually without doing anything?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41001" CreationDate="2010-03-05T01:53:03.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37562/migration-requests-stackoverflow-posts-on-so&quot;&gt;retag discussion&lt;/a&gt; a while back on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, [stackoverflow] should refer to the site, and [stack-overflow] and [stack-overflow-exception] should refer to the buffer overrun condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T01:53:03.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41230" CreationDate="2010-03-05T01:53:16.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; probably has something similar, as hes provided a really long list of answers. It is probably possible and has, or will, be achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T01:53:16.280" />
  <row Id="41233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41235" CreationDate="2010-03-05T02:38:30.777" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40906/feature-request-ability-to-flag-an-answer-as-not-an-answer-or-should-be-a-com&quot;&gt;Feature Request: Ability to flag an answer as &amp;ldquo;not an answer&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;should be a comment&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35175/should-moderators-be-able-to-convert-answers-into-comments&quot;&gt;Should moderators be able to convert answers into comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've flagged certain answers as for moderator attention, noting that they should be comments. However, do moderators have any power to do anything in these situations, or should I instead not flag and just comment on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T04:49:49.157" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T05:31:49.307" Title="Flagging &quot;Comment&quot; Answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41233" CreationDate="2010-03-05T03:03:14.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can delete them. If the content is especially valuable, they could potentially add it to a comment, but there's no automated support for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35175/should-moderators-be-able-to-convert-answers-into-comments&quot;&gt;Should moderators be able to convert answers into comments?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T03:03:14.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-05T03:03:14.877" />
  <row Id="41235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41233" CreationDate="2010-03-05T03:05:33.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't transform it from an answer to a comment (by the same author), so in most cases I just leave a comment suggesting that the author make it a comment themselves.  If it's a truly content-free response, or if the author's account has been abandoned, I might just delete it.  The newer the answer or user leaving the answer, the less likely I am to delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T03:11:21.163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T03:11:21.163" />
  <row Id="41236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31265" CreationDate="2010-03-05T03:14:15.997" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get 300 to 600 rep per month (although I'm grossly estimating here based on a few recent history queries - see my comment below for my average since may/june 2009). with no significant further contributions to SO since May 2009.  With a nearly 30k rep, then I'd expect to need 10 to 20 times that, or 300k to 600k in order to reach the daily rep cap most weekdays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But right now I sit on my hands and get over 5k rep per year.  Disgusting, I know, but my answers are just &lt;em&gt;that good&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;sub&gt;/tongue_in_cheek&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the dynamics of this can be very interesting - I haven't looked into it further, but I'd be interested to know if there's a long tail effect where it should drop off over time, or if I simply participated well in some fundamental early-on SO questions that people keep revisiting.  Most of my highly voted posts have long gone into wiki mode, so it's just the 600+ posts with under 10 rep that gather 60 votes per month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like some of the other high rep posters here aren't getting as much idle rep as I am, but I suspect that stems from the fact that I'm not participating, they are, and it's hard to measure idle rep unless you've really been idle for about a month (past the time when answers are accepted).  I did not score very highly on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21454/who-gets-the-most-reputation-per-keystroke-on-so&quot;&gt;characters per reputation point survey&lt;/a&gt; so my posts don't seem to be intrinsically more valuable than other high rep users.  (At the time I think I was around 34 characters per reputation point...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; fell off the second page onto the third.  I might have to pick up my participation with the assumption that Jeff might send out free t-shirts like he sent out free stickers.  Probably not, though, and since I rarely wear t-shirts I suppose I shouldn't envy those that might get them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T03:32:16.350" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T03:32:16.350" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41220" CreationDate="2010-03-05T03:22:05.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I very much agree with this.  One of the reasons I stopped posting &quot;getting started guide&quot; poll questions, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315911/git-for-beginners-the-definitive-practical-guide&quot;&gt;this git question&lt;/a&gt;, was because of the backlash from people who thought I was rep-whoring - the main reason to keep it non-cw is so people have a good reason to do a good job on the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's a lot of value in having a single quick start guide for SO, and it's terrifically easy to crowd source such a guide here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Way too much flack, though, for something that obviously (by votes and favorites) benefits so many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, please let me CW my question without CW'ing the answers!  That should at least reduce the wiki-bullying a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T03:22:05.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-05T03:22:05.347" />
  <row Id="41239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41230" CreationDate="2010-03-05T03:29:43.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you suggesting that old questions eventual go to a state where they cannot be up voted any more.  I think that would be a good idea, or should maybe your points have a half life that decay over time to counter the situation you posed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T03:29:43.140" />
  <row Id="41241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41246" CreationDate="2010-03-05T04:49:48.223" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, this will come across as brash, but I assure you it is very sound logic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39986/show-me-who-has-favorited-my-question-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, and especially &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/824/i-want-to-see-who-marked-my-questions-as-favorites&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; it was made clear that SO is not a social network, so it didn't matter who followed you, so my questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What value is there in seeing who voted to close a question (unless I'm an administrator), other than stirring up an argument? Why not remove that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While we're at it, why not remove the star that shows how many people have favorited the question, if the favorite feature is only for the person using it? Let's remove that feature too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T11:18:24.500" Title="Don't show who voted to close a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41233" CreationDate="2010-03-05T04:49:49.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would simply flag the answer as spam, which gives the user an immediate (small) hit to their reputation and has the potential of giving them a bigger hit if 5 other people agree with you that this is spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T04:49:49.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41241" CreationDate="2010-03-05T05:04:22.950" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's for transparency. I like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The favorite count is used as a second indicator of the question quality. I like it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T05:04:22.950" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41241" CreationDate="2010-03-05T05:23:40.913" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding voting to close and blame:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd imagine that it's too easy for people to close a question for a grudge or just to troll. Downvoting has that one-point penalty for the same reason, so people won't just run down a list of questions voting down people they don't like, or following people they don't like to vote down their historic questions/answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding favorites vs upvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote up questions I think are good questions. I favorite questions I think are useful (seeing as this puts them on a list I can refer back to in the future). I don't find every aspect of software development useful, so I don't favorite as many questions as I upvote. Occasionally, I'll be interested in the subject of a question, but I feel it's either a bad question or overrated, so I'll favorite it so I can come back to it in the future to see if it has aged well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139257" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-16T11:18:24.500" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T11:18:24.500" />
  <row Id="41250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T06:43:26.123" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe most questions that are unanswered are unanswered because they are either poorly written or missing a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be useful for members to be able to leave either a comment or some sort of vote as to whether the question is correctly said, which would help the original poster to correct is question. People would be able to leave points for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not understand the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are informations missing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where is the problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What have you done so far that work/doesn't work?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, if the original poster notice that one aspect of his post is getting many hits, he might redo it in order to improve his chances of getting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133307" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T06:56:34.803" Title="Suggest aspects to fix in order for the question to be answered" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;improvements&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41250" CreationDate="2010-03-05T06:56:34.803" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already leave comments inviting the OP to clarify the question. In fact, if you have sufficient reputation, you can help the OP out by clarifying the question (assuming you understand what the OP intended).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even win some shiny badges for this :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T06:56:34.803" />
  <row Id="41254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41255" CreationDate="2010-03-05T07:13:58.153" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just answering a question when I observed the following behavior. I wanted to type something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;wget --bind-address=``ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'` ` URL&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;completely inside a code tag but it did not work. I tried using double apostrophe and back-slash apostrophe, but still it did not work. Is there any way to use the code formatting quote as such inside a code block?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135616" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-03T09:48:48.987" LastActivityDate="2010-09-03T09:48:48.987" Title="How to escape ` while answering/asking questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41254" CreationDate="2010-03-05T07:21:13.490" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should be able to use the backslash (&lt;code&gt;\&lt;/code&gt;) character before the backtick (`) to escape it code-formatting your text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Markdown:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&#xA;=\`ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'\` ` URL&#xA;&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rendered:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&#xA;=`ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}'` ` URL&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T07:21:13.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41254" CreationDate="2010-03-05T07:22:20.523" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;wget --bind-address=`ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{print $1}' ` URL&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with 4 spaces at line start&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T07:22:20.523" />
  <row Id="41262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T08:03:12.873" Score="4" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40164/should-we-close-fix-my-program-questions&quot;&gt;Should we close &amp;lsquo;fix my program&amp;rsquo; questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find there are lots of questions on SO of the form 'Here is this piece of code and it's not working. Can you tell me why?'. These are usually fragments of javascript code, or issues with CSS, or misadventgures in C++ or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this obviously helps the poster (which, in most cases, is usually an inexperienced programmer or a student) to fix his immediate problem, I think this kind of questions does not really benefit anyone else, cannot be used for reference because they don't show up in google because of the way they're formulated, and are no better than the 'homework' kind of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this kind of Q&amp;amp;A be discouraged in SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144227" LastEditorUserId="144227" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T08:23:01.850" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T10:02:41.817" ClosedDate="2010-03-06T05:28:14.660" Title="'What's wrong with this code...' kind of questions - are they really useful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41262" CreationDate="2010-03-05T08:08:18.480" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fixing someone's immediate problem is &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of the reason for SO. Sure, some questions will be more useful in the long term than others - but if it &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; stops someone from banging their head against a brick wall for a while, that's fine by me. It's even better if they also learn from their mistake :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T08:08:18.480" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41262" CreationDate="2010-03-05T08:13:53.477" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find that addressing questions like that cause me to scratch my own head from time to time, open up jsbin, and start plugging around some ideas. I benefit a great deal from other people's problems :) In fact, just a few minutes ago somebody asked a rather specific PHP question, which caused me to open up my IDE, and start writing some regular expressions. Within a few minutes, I had the solution, and I felt as though I accomplished something (considering I'm not a massive regex-guru).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T08:13:53.477" />
  <row Id="41265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41262" CreationDate="2010-03-05T09:03:09.817" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as they are stating what their problem is in the question, I see no problem with those type of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it help if you see they have taken time to write out their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130947" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T09:03:09.817" />
  <row Id="41266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T09:17:54.393" Score="-1" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most egregious this is. I was shocked, and dare I say, rather apoplectic, as I came upon a site in blantant copy use of the colors and UI elements which are seen on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the room, I present: &lt;a href=&quot;http://feedback.odesk.com/forums/26681-general&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://feedback.odesk.com/forums/26681-general&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there a lot of other sites that copy/paste Stack Overflow's feel without changing almost anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152337" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T09:31:34.907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T09:31:34.907" Title="Shocked at sites that copy/paste the Stack Overlow look and feel without changing anything" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41266" CreationDate="2010-03-05T09:22:45.843" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's UserVoice. It &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-private-beta-begins/#comment-4864&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kinda existed &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; SO&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T09:22:45.843" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T09:38:18.217" Score="-2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be that I'm being over-sensitive, but I think that we're all being a bit harsh on new people on Stack Overflow. Someone happens upon the site and asks their first ever question and is instantaneously bombarded by angry people telling them that their question has been written wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This elitist attitude towards someone who is just asking for help doesn't seem that fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144231" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T10:37:51.717" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T11:34:14.050" Title="Are We Being Too Critical Of New Members On Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="75099" CreationDate="2010-03-05T09:58:54.853" Score="7" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ads.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; in  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div class=&quot;everyonelovesstackoverflow&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;    ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;will delay (many seconds) to respond, thus &quot;page numbers&quot; and &quot;footer&quot; wont be rendered.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(I use Firefox v3.6 if that matters)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose I could implement a Greasemonkey script for that job but I prefer it to be the &lt;em&gt;default&lt;/em&gt; behavior :)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wouldn't it be better if the sidebar was rendered last?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-16T07:42:21.823" LastActivityDate="2011-01-16T07:42:21.823" Title="Reorder &quot;sidebar&quot; and &quot;pager&quot; divs in the generated html code" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;performance&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41262" CreationDate="2010-03-05T10:02:41.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, more than once, when banging my head against a brick, googling for salvation led me to a SO question like: &quot;What's wrong with my code?&quot;, which somehow helped me: while my problem was different than the asker's, answers contained links, running examples or good advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this happens more often with certain languages that others: c syntax is simply impossible to google, but when my code doesn't work and don't know why, I google the name of the method, or class, or whatever, and SO is a resource.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T10:02:41.817" />
  <row Id="41271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T10:23:52.897" Score="-4" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/700/can-we-get-rid-of-the-threshold-of-15-chars-for-comments&quot;&gt;Can we get rid of the threshold of 15 chars for comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be rather peachy to allow a grace on the minimum 15 characters needed for a comment for such morsels as &quot;Thanks&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this would perhaps encourage more niceness on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130711" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T12:00:11.440" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T12:00:11.440" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T12:23:10.953" Title="Can has exception to 15 character comment limit for &quot;Thanks&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;15-characters&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41271" CreationDate="2010-03-05T10:29:49.703" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An up-vote is a much better &quot;thank you&quot; than a &quot;thanks&quot; comment!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T10:29:49.703" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41268" CreationDate="2010-03-05T10:37:51.717" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These days, I don't see lots of such behavior on SO anymore. In fact, often the opposite is true: some people welcome a new user by upvoting his first question just to give him a head start. (Though I am personally not a fan of such gifts, either, since they kind of circumvent the initial 15-point rep threshold, which is there for a reason. But that's outside of the scope of this question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, if you feel insulted by an answer (or a comment), you can always flag it as offensive or even requiring moderator attention. If the answer is truly offensive or hateful, it will be deleted. And even if that doesn't happen, the answer will probably get a few downvotes from other members of the community who feel just like you do. At least that's what my personal experience is in the tags I visit on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T10:37:51.717" />
  <row Id="41277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41278" CreationDate="2010-03-05T11:17:19.797" Score="15" ViewCount="933" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How can I use different avatars on different SE sites?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How do avatars work?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How do the SE sites know when I changed my Gravatar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17443/how-is-the-default-user-avatar-generated&quot;&gt;How is the default user avatar generated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144236" LastEditorUserId="143909" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-09T06:10:11.147" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T19:42:31.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-04T04:29:35.087" Title="How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;avatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41277" CreationDate="2010-03-05T11:27:28.637" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your picture/avatar is tied to the &lt;strong&gt;Gravatar&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8212; for &quot;globally recognized avatar&quot; &amp;#8212; linked to your e-mail address. Or, when using your Facebook account to log into &lt;a href=&quot;http://facebook.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;facebook.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, the image &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/103734/my-gravatar-is-gone-after-adding-facebook-to-my-account/103753#103753&quot;&gt;is pulled&lt;/a&gt; from your Facebook profile picture, and also used on the regular stackoverflow.com website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravatar.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create a profile and upload a picture.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add that e-mail address to your Stack Overflow profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait a few hours for it to propagate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You might need to clear your cache to have the new image requested.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How can I use different avatars on different SE sites?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18232/how-can-one-link-merge-combine-associate-two-stack-overflow-accounts-users-anon&quot;&gt;Associate your stackoverflow profiles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change your e-mail address on the sites for which you want a different avatar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Follow the steps in &lt;strong&gt;How do I change my profile picture, or avatar?&lt;/strong&gt; (above) for the new address.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How do the SE sites know when I changed my Gravatar?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SE sites directly link to these Gravatar images from gravatar.com, so that when it is updated on Gravatar, it will be updated immediately on the SE sites as well. You may need to clear your cache to see the changes, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to Gravatar&lt;/a&gt;, your email address is hashed and used in your avatar's URL. For example, in the URL &lt;code&gt;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6b40908a8b13c9c7eecfcb95960cc0f6?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&lt;/code&gt;, the portion &lt;code&gt;6b40908a8b13c9c7eecfcb95960cc0f6&lt;/code&gt; is your email's md5 hash, provided you have an email address associated with your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How can I use a Gravatar image after logging in to facebook.stackoverflow.com?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to you Stack Overflow profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;edit&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/103734/my-gravatar-is-gone-after-adding-facebook-to-my-account/103753#103753&quot;&gt;use gravatar&lt;/a&gt;&quot; below your picture.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-28T19:42:31.767" LastActivityDate="2011-08-28T19:42:31.767" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-05T17:25:39.057" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41271" CreationDate="2010-03-05T11:48:40.903" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is noise. But&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks; that even improved performance by 25%. Awesome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks, I appreciate that you went through all those details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are 1. nice and 2. longer than 15 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T11:48:40.903" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T14:21:26.987" Score="2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/456/notifications-for-edits-by-others-of-my-own-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;Notifications for edits by others of my own questions and answers?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I missed it but it seems we don't get notifications when one of our questions or answers is edited by someone else.  Seems like this would be an important event to notify users about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T14:59:13.977" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:13:31.177" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T18:21:22.620" Title="No notification when a question or answer is revised?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41288" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T14:26:24.587" Score="72" ViewCount="1444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from the fact that there's been a lot of talk of venture capital being pumped into Stack Overflow lately, something hasn't been sitting well with me at all. Then I got to thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ever think about Jeff's user ID? It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;. Seems innocuous, right? Like maybe he was the first user or something? But no, think about it. Jeff could have had any user ID he wanted. He could have had 1337 or 3735928559 or even -4. But those would have been too obvious for most conspiracy theorists. Jeff is a more subtle man than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Jeff is even more devious than &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingpin_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wilson Fisks&lt;/a&gt;. You see, 1 is the atomic number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hydrogen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And what is made of hydrogen? Well, a lot of things. So we need to narrow it down some more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fiddling with some more numbers, we come to realize that Jeff's name is &quot;Jeff&quot;. But that's short for &quot;Jeffry&quot;. That means he's missing two letters off of his name. His ID is 1, and he's missing 2 letters. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Deuterium&lt;/a&gt; is hydrogen, having an atomic number 1 but an atomic mass of 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the main use of deuterium? Nuclear fusion! Fusion is also the name of a &lt;strong&gt;chocolate bar&lt;/strong&gt;. A really, really good chocolate bar. Oh man it's loaded with caramel and those little puffed rice things. Those little puffed rice things are sold in big blue boxes called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ricekrispies.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rice Krispies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm crazy (which I assure you I am not) Rice Krispies consort with marshmallows to produce the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_%28biology%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hybrid&lt;/a&gt; Rice Krispie squares. Now, how can marshmallows, which are round, be combined with Rice Krispies, which are cigar-shaped (not unlike &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UFOs&lt;/a&gt;), to form &lt;em&gt;squares&lt;/em&gt;. Obviously it's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_sines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;law of sines&lt;/a&gt;, which allows mathemagicians to create squares from circles and triangles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cosine and sine are abbreviated to &lt;code&gt;cos&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sin&lt;/code&gt; in mathemagical expressions. Clearly, then, it is a sin to create Rice Krispie squares. But more importantly, Wilson Fisk, the roundest man alive, is a sinner: The rounder the man, the more of a sinner he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing this, we must conclude that Jeff is trying to use enormous amounts of deuterium to power a marshmallow-based graviton emitter to make himself look less round through &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravitational lensing&lt;/a&gt;. By looking less round, people will mistakenly believe that he is not a sinner and therefore trustworthy. People will not stop and think that he is covering something up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is he trying so desperately hard to cover up? &lt;em&gt;The very fact that he is trying to cover something up.&lt;/em&gt; His devious self-referencing loop of lies has finally been exposed! No more will my fellows be confused by this convoluted web of mystery. I have prepared a graphical representation of this coding horror as my master stroke that will blow Jeff's plans out into the open:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/atwoodian-conspiracy.png&quot; alt=&quot;THE WORLD IS A LIE&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-04T23:39:12.920" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T23:39:12.920" Title="The Stack Overflow Conspiracy - don't tell Jeff I'm on to him" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;conspiracy-theory&gt;&lt;jeff-atwood&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="31" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="41289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:29:05.483" Score="7" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the code window here is always 79 characters wide. If there are lines longer than 79 characters, there will be a horizontal scroll bar shown, to see the rest of the code that does not fit in those 79 characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public static void fillCheckList(string ListType, int RecordNum, CheckBox chkRequired, TextBox txtComplete)&#xA;    {&#xA;        fillCheckList(ListType, RecordNum, chkRequired, txtComplete, null);&#xA;    }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it could look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public static void fillCheckList(string ListType, &#xA;                                 int RecordNum, &#xA;                                 CheckBox chkRequired, &#xA;                                 TextBox txtComplete)&#xA;{&#xA;    fillCheckList(ListType, RecordNum, chkRequired, txtComplete, null);&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least for me, the second example is a lot more easier to read, because I can see everything without using the scroll bar. This was not even close to the longest lines here: there are a lot sample code here, especially Xcode generated iPhone code, where lines are over 150 characters long. Using a scroll bar to see what is actually happening in the code is pretty difficult; Copying the code to an editor locally is a lot better solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there people who actually think that the first example is easier to understand or is it too difficult to split long lines before posting them here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144247" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T15:38:50.130" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:48:54.293" Title="Why people do not split long lines when posting code here?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41289" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:29:40.227" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I always split any code that I post so that it is immediately readable without scrolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:30:21.660" />
  <row Id="41291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41289" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:31:13.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they're lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:31:13.157" />
  <row Id="41292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41289" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:31:21.520" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being optimistic: because they didn't notice it overflowing (or at least - that's why I've done it in the past).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see code like this, and you've got at least 2000 rep - fix it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:31:21.520" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:32:20.083" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2241/daily-reputation-cap-effectively-counts-downvotes-twice&quot;&gt;Daily reputation cap effectively counts downvotes twice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37084/reputation-limit-after-receiving-a-downvote-before-reaching-200-for-the-day&quot;&gt;Reputation limit after receiving a downvote before reaching 200 for the day&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have 22 up votes today and a casted one down vote which to me means I should have &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cap(10* numupvotes - numdownvotes) = Cap(10 *22 -1 ) = 200  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I have 199 points which would lead me to believe the rep is calculated as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;cap(numvotes * 10) - numdownvotes = cap(22 *10) - 1 = 199  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this correct or intended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:32:20.083" ClosedDate="2010-03-05T18:13:47.260" Title="Reputation Math" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41289" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:47:48.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people have large displays where they edit the code in the IDE (potentially to check for validity before posting) and copy and paste it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144248" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:47:48.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41320" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:48:07.960" Score="10" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;At the bottom of every page on Stack Overflow, we have a link that goes to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising Info&lt;/a&gt; page. There are also a couple ad banners in rotation that go there as well. Most of the time, we get inquiries about the ad program from folks with varying levels of interest in advertising. But every now and then, we get an email from a hapless &quot;programmer&quot; who is desperately looking for help. This is one of those emails.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    -----Original Message-----&#xA;    From: D***** Song [********@gmail.com]&#xA;    Sent: Mon 2/8/2010 4:28 AM&#xA;    To: Inedo Media&#xA;    Subject: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&#xA;&#xA;    Hi,&#xA;&#xA;    Just wonder how I can be the programmer who answer the &#xA;    question from your site.&#xA;&#xA;    Thanks,&#xA;    D*****&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have responded to this email... if you were drunk. In other words, how would you &lt;em&gt;want to&lt;/em&gt; respond to this email? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:05:49.417" Title="Advertising Inquiry: the programmer who answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;advertising-inquiry&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="41296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41289" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:48:54.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many different reasons why a user would leave code like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not care&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not realize how it will be displayed to other users&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intentionally be making it difficult to read&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assume everyone else understands the code as well as they do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is not why they do this, the question is, how can we actively make this content more available to everyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;, IMO, is to let the many helpful 2k+ users reformat the code and/or leave comments on the question to indicate to the user that posting code in a more readable format will let the community give a better answer to their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:48:54.293" />
  <row Id="41297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24186" CreationDate="2010-03-05T15:58:47.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another voice for the option to suppress the pop-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144249" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T15:58:47.080" />
  <row Id="41299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41295" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:25:24.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Just wonder how I can be the programmer who answer the &#xA;question from your site.&#xA;&#xA;Thanks,&#xA;D*****&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank your for you inquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regret to inform you that my site is answered by bots. Most of them programmed by Jon Skeet. Human answering feature is currently not supported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can program a good bot and send the code to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:25:24.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:25:55.420" Score="50" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9295/agentatwood.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot; title=&quot;Your revelation disturbs us, Mister Welbogson.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:25:55.420" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41295" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:25:57.447" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Mr./Ms. Song,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, but we are not currently taking applications for that position. He's doing a good job answering all the questions so far, and you know that's not an easy job--what with jumping around to all his computers and logging in and out constantly. Some people are starting to suspect the truth; please don't spread this information around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If he wears out, I'll give you a ring. The telephone kind, not diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yours,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:25:57.447" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41295" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:29:26.770" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To: DJ Song&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Subject: Re: Stack Overflow Advertising Inquiry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Curse you and your trip-hop savvy! Do you have any idea what you've done? Do you realize the time and effort we've spent creating this grand illusion, the gorgeous charade that is Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;, lemme just tell you. It ain't easy grabbing millions of page-views with just one guy answering just one question, over and over and over again... &lt;em&gt;Especially&lt;/em&gt; a question as lame as &quot;How is programm formed?&quot; &lt;strong&gt;For starters, you can't &lt;em&gt;tell&lt;/em&gt; people that's what you're doing...&lt;/strong&gt; You must be subtle, you must be crafty, you must make up all manner of improbable pseudonyms, like &quot;Geoff&quot; and &quot;Eggs McLaren&quot; and &quot;Jon Skeet&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No one here has slept in over two years. We survive on a steady diet of Nutella, amphetamines, and vivid hallucinations. Last night, the spiders with human heads were so thick I could barely type out the advertising invoices...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And &lt;em&gt;that's&lt;/em&gt; what you want to be a part of? &lt;strong&gt;That&lt;/strong&gt; is the job you're oh-so-subtly trying to blackmail me into giving you? You fool! &lt;strong&gt;You're asking for a slice of hell!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take my advice, friend: run. Forget you ever saw this site and &lt;em&gt;run&lt;/em&gt;. Change your name, change your job, and pray that I never find you... Or me and these spiders might just grant your request...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They're hungry here you know. They're always hungry here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex PapaDeimos&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:29:26.770" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13536" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:30:54.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This still seems broken. I just searched on SO for &quot;get operation&quot;, and the first hit was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2113435/checking-operation-successful-after-any-linqtosql-operation&quot;&gt;checking, operation successful after any LinqToSql operation&lt;/a&gt;. It does not contain the phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest it comes to matching is in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You would &lt;strong&gt;get&lt;/strong&gt; an exception related to the update &lt;strong&gt;operation&lt;/strong&gt; failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:30:54.830" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:40:24.017" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_23&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;The Number ONE.&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9724/numberonen.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Number ONE.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-05T17:33:40.710" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:33:40.710" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:43:27.957" Score="6" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently ask questions about algorithms, data structures or low-level stuff on SO and I've noticed that most people specify the language they're working in when asking these kinds of questions.  I don't and my rationale is as follows: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you really understand the solution to a generic problem, you should be able to explain it in a language-agnostic way, and if you're a good programmer you should be able to understand an outline of a solution written in a different language than the one you're used to, or in plain English or pseudocode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am interested in input from people who may use different languages than I do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I primarily program in D, which is bleeding edge enough that there aren't very many canned libraries and not many people know it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I usually want to understand the solution at a conceptual level rather than just getting a black-box code snippet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any counter-argument to this?  Why should you make your question non-language-agnostic if it isn't inextricably tied to a single language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144252" LastEditorUserId="144252" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T01:23:34.830" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T05:29:13.130" Title="Why do people specify language when asking language-agnostic algorithm questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;language-agnostic&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41305" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:46:53.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it's because that they're looking for some frame of reference with which to bounce answers off of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:46:53.893" />
  <row Id="41308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41305" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:46:59.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certain languages might have built-in features that simplify the intended goal.  By explicitly stating your language of choice, it might enable knowledgeable language users to point out these features.  So, strictly algorithmically, I think you're correct, but there still might be practical consequences in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="404" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:46:59.433" />
  <row Id="41309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41305" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:48:16.433" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because sometimes the particular language you happen to be working in has a neat built-in way to solve whatever problem it is you're trying to solve. In terms of questions about algorithms for example, Python has &lt;code&gt;zip&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;map&lt;/code&gt; etc, which may make your life easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:48:16.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41305" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:48:16.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People express themselves the way they can. If they're deep down into some languages, it is likely it leaves impression on their thought patterns. Or it is simply the language they speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't think much of it. Who can, asks a question in the language-agnostic manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as answering goes, sometimes it may help if you make your answer also language-specific. Some beginner folks may not be able to translate it into their language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:48:16.560" />
  <row Id="41312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41305" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:53:51.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programming, which is the focus of SO, requires you write code. The code is language specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:53:51.773" />
  <row Id="41313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41378" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:57:31.300" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts&quot;&gt;What are &amp;ldquo;Community Wiki&amp;rdquo; posts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if this has already been asked, but I couldn't find it anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that you don't gain or lose rep for questions or answers that you set to community wiki.  But does it cost you rep to downvote someone else's cw post?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T10:53:25.970" ClosedDate="2010-07-28T12:32:05.307" Title="Does it cost rep to downvote a community wiki post?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41313" CreationDate="2010-03-05T16:59:41.810" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T16:59:41.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41313" CreationDate="2010-03-05T17:01:32.960" Score="-14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:01:32.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-05T17:01:32.960" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41318" CreationDate="2010-03-05T17:14:17.177" Score="1" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;This post on SO has a link to a text file, containing the content I was trying to put in the post editor when I got the error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2388125/what-is-the-best-way-to-perform-a-manipulation-with-huge-amounts-of-data-in-sql-s/2388464#2388464&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2388125/what-is-the-best-way-to-perform-a-manipulation-with-huge-amounts-of-data-in-sql-s/2388464#2388464&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;any idea which part of that is causing the error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137405" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:17:30.213" Title="Bug when posting this text content - goes to &quot;website not available&quot; error page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41317" CreationDate="2010-03-05T17:17:30.213" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No idea - but I edited it in without any problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:17:30.213" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41295" CreationDate="2010-03-05T17:30:13.510" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yo, Song - I hear you be steppin' on my turf. Back off, biatch, or I'ma mess you up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yours,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  Jon Skeet&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:30:13.510" />
  <row Id="41320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41295" CreationDate="2010-03-05T17:37:18.753" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dear Mr. Song,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your interest in our question answering position.  As you likely know, it is a very highly regarded position, and many people vie for a chance to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to give as many people the opportunity to participate as we can, we've created a system that permits people to take turns answering questions.  This allows them to share the opportunity to fill this fantastic position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The experience gained is resume boosting, and should, after a few months of work, vault you to the top of most resume stacks in the industry, so when you leave us you will be better off for the experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With great power, though, comes great poverty.  We do not pay those that fill this position, and so you must look upon this as a learning experience, not unlike an intern position in other companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to join the company and take turns answering questions with our several other question answerers, please visit our &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/login&quot;&gt;Employment Application&lt;/a&gt;.  Once you've completed that process, you can view questions.  You'll know it's your turn to answer when you see a &quot;Your Answer&quot; box at the bottom of the question.  Don't be worried if you see this frequently - we like to give new employees a good crack at answering a lot of questions so they may decide early on whether this job fits them well or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to answer all the questions that show that it's your turn - if you give up your turn, others will be given a turn.  Also note that your work will be closely monitored by other employees - they  may comment on your work, or even edit it to make it better.  Don't be frightened or worried - you've done nothing wrong!  But please try to do your best, and eventually you may also be called on to check other employee work as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you again for your interest!  We are anxious to have you start as soon as you are available, and hope you find the experience as rewarding as we expect it will be!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex Papadimoulis&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Recruiting Manager&lt;br&gt;&#xA;StackOverflow &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:37:18.753" />
  <row Id="41321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41295" CreationDate="2010-03-05T17:49:39.320" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dear Deep Song,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We already have an answer to &quot;the&#xA;  question&quot; from our site. It is 42.&#xA;  What we really need is someone who can&#xA;  tell us what the question was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We await your answer in 10 million&#xA;  years, give or take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks for the fish,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alex Papadimoulis&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:49:39.320" />
  <row Id="41322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41277" CreationDate="2010-03-05T17:54:20.497" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do avatars work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the initial phase your Avatar is grown from a combination of your DNA and the alien DNA.  The growth phase has several smaller phases, and in one of these phases a special biological neuro-transceiver is installed into the sensory and motor cortex of the alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you step into an Avatar transmitter machine, your brain is non-intrusively probed, and a link is established to the neuro-transceiver, allowing you to experience and control the alien body as though it were your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you are in control of this body, you are directed to the Tree-logy, where you are allowed to &quot;plug in&quot; (you will understand later) and answer programming questions directly, without having to type on a computer as you may have in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Avatar program, however, is only available for those users that reach 25k and above, as they've shown that they are capable of answering a great volume of questions, and therefore would be able to benefit from a human --&gt; alien --&gt; tree-logy interface to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, of course, we &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; benefit from this program, so we appreciate your support and interest, and hope to see you become eligible for it in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T17:54:20.497" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-06-04T04:29:35.087" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41295" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:05:49.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...how I can be the programmer who answer the question from your site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. Be my guest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just go to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on the first question that appears and provide an answer in the text box that appears at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Continue with the next question and let us know when ( and until ) you finish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In our current stage we don't offer money compensation for doing so, but in the future we may consider you according to your track. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:05:49.417" />
  <row Id="41324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41181" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:11:04.020" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/71149.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Install&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/71149&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;// ==UserScript==&#xA;// @name           PollyanaCODE&#xA;// @namespace      stackoverflow&#xA;// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://superuser.com/*&#xA;// @include        http://serverfault.com/*&#xA;// ==/UserScript==&#xA;&#xA;$ = unsafeWindow.$, X = [], M=[38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,98,97];&#xA;&#xA;$(document).keypress(&#xA;   function(e){&#xA;        K = e.keyCode | e.charCode;&#xA;        M[X.length] == K ? X.push(K) : X = [K];&#xA;        X.length == 0xA ? ( $(&quot;.post-text&quot;).toggle() , $(&quot;.vote-count-post&quot;).text(&quot;-30&quot;), self.status='Pollyana Virus Infected!' ) : 0x0 ;&#xA;   }&#xA;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen Shot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/774/pollyanavirusinfected.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T16:50:59.407" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T16:50:59.407" />
  <row Id="41325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41287" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:13:31.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 'envelope' window (&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/&amp;lt;yourid&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;), there is a 'Revisions' tab which has entries if your question or answer is revised by someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:13:31.177" />
  <row Id="41326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41218" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:13:56.887" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's reasonable to be able to toggle back and forth between the two modes. It would certainly come in handy when checking out potential bugs with the vote display (there have been a few in the past, and I believe at least one is still outstanding).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would at least spare us the posts from people who just hit 1000 rep and are confused about what they are seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:13:56.887" />
  <row Id="41327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41218" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:24:52.673" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All you need to do is press &lt;strong&gt;F5&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Jeff didn't want this feature to start with, I doubt he'll spend one more nano second on it&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:24:52.673" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39041" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:27:35.213" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are Google's official instructions on how to link sites to Buzz:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/buzz/documentation/#connect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/apis/buzz/documentation/#connect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144259" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:27:35.213" />
  <row Id="41329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:30:10.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait, wait, that was the rationale of SO? !! oohh gee and I always thought trying to conceal he was Craig: &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.google.com/images?q=David%20Anthony%20Higgins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://images.google.com/images?q=David%20Anthony%20Higgins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144260" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:30:10.307" />
  <row Id="41331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="73893" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:39:52.240" Score="8" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/content/flair-dark.css&quot;&gt;flair-dark.css&lt;/a&gt; file (used with the dark flair theme), there is a style defined for &lt;code&gt;body&lt;/code&gt;. No other theme has this defined, and it causes that theme to force the page you place the item on to have a black background, if you use the javascript version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this be fixed please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-04T16:22:59.857" LastActivityDate="2011-01-04T16:22:59.857" Title="Flair for dark style overrides style on page it's on" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41062" CreationDate="2010-03-05T18:45:44.927" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This can be used in &quot;grey areas&quot; where a moderator can choose to give his or her opinion but not make a decision alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point. Moderators can already leave comments, thus making their opinions known, just like normal users. Moderators can edit poorly-worded questions, just like normal users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And moderators can instantly re-open questions that they've closed if it becomes clear that they acted hastily in closing a question... Unlike normal users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what way are moderators currently prevented from expressing their opinions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This also helps in areas not so grey (questions that everyone would agree should be closed) since the OP has the time to see close (1) and possibly edit his or her question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, they can leave a comment... which can be a whole lot more visible to the OP than a tiny (1) next to the close button, not to mention potentially more helpful (especially for new users who won't see close reasons anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a story on the local news here recently... A bit of controversy surrounding the actions of an elected official. Seems a district attorney became uncomfortable when a business which dispensed certain botanical products opened in his neighborhood. While these products and the business of dispensing them for medical purposes are legal in this city and state, the DA was not happy seeing such trade being conducted openly... and so he began making complaints to the shop's landlord and various city officials. While doing so, he insisted that he was acting as a private citizen and not in his official capacity as a district attorney...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, ordinary citizens don't garner the attention of city officials in quite the same way as someone who works closely with them on a regular basis. And complaints from ordinary citizens don't generally carry the same sort of weight with other ordinary citizens as do those coming from a person elected to prosecute criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like it or not, when a moderator expresses his opinion on SO, &lt;em&gt;it is going to carry additional weight&lt;/em&gt;. Even if that opinion is expressed in a comment, even without an explicit threat attached, there's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; an implication of potential consequences. When you or I say we think a post should be closed, or opened, or locked, or deleted... well, that's mostly just talk. We can vote on some of that, but generally speaking we don't have the power to enforce it. A moderator &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; however, and thus his words, like his actions, carry more weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I cast a vote to open or close a post, I do so because I think it should be opened or closed. Moderators should do the same, but with the understanding that they, unlike the rest of us, &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; respond quickly to correct improper actions and &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; respond to public outcry, since it is the public, the ordinary users of Stack Overflow, who have granted them this privilege and responsibility. As much as I disagree with some actions taken by moderators, I would not ask them to relinquish their abilities or shirk their responsibilities; rather, when unsure what actions should be taken, they should take no action at all, preferring to let the community do what it desires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T18:45:44.927" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41338" CreationDate="2010-03-05T19:35:51.750" Score="2" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;This morning I posted a question on some relatively advanced aspects of C++. Its title was: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2387914/basic-questions-about-raii-stl-pop-and-pimpl&quot;&gt;c ++ is like a femme fatale that burns through lovers but I still want to get to know it - 1&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; (Later changed to &quot;Basic questions about RAII, STL pop, and PIMPL&quot;). This was closed in about 70 minutes as &quot;not a real question.&quot; Part of the reason may have been the vague formulation of the first question, which I edited soon after posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, so maybe I was trying too hard (it's Friday). But what about some of the comments I got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neil says &quot;Perhaps you would be happier staying on reddit? The rule here is one question at a time.&quot; I don't know where this comes from, there are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; postings on SO that contain multiple, related questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Toji says &quot;I'm sure you'll get some attention for the clever title, but it doesn't help much when someone is searching for the subjects you mention.&quot; So does this imply that the SO search engine searches only the title text and not the body, I highly doubt that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does an irreverent title immediately make your question worthless to the Stack Overflow community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148972" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-05T11:00:51.753" LastActivityDate="2010-09-05T11:00:51.753" Title="So, no &quot;funny&quot; titles allowed here? How &quot;useful&quot; should a title be?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;posting&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41337" CreationDate="2010-03-05T19:41:28.010" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does an irreverent title immediately make your question worthless to the SO community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, but it's likely to attract the wrong sort of attention if you're actually trying to ask a serious question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a real answer, then summarize your question (singular...) in your title, and expand upon it in the question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T19:41:28.010" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41337" CreationDate="2010-03-05T19:42:03.720" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bad title is a utter pain. A title should as accurately as possible describe the issue as it is what people use to gauge if they should take a look at the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I bother to click on a topic that has a &quot;funny&quot; title and find it holds nothing of interest, you have got me in a bad mood before I even read your question which increases the chance of me voting to close rather than fixing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T19:42:03.720" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41337" CreationDate="2010-03-05T19:43:35.603" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This morning I posted a question on some relatively advanced aspects of C++. Its title was: &quot;c ++ is like a femme fatale that burns through lovers but I still want to get to know it - 1&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What? There is fan fiction here now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was closed in about 70mins as &quot;not a real question&quot;. Part of the reason may have been the vague formulation of the first question, which I edited soon after posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What took it so long?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OK, so maybe I was trying to hard (it's Friday). But what about some of the comments I got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neil says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Perhaps you would be happier staying on reddit? The rule here is one question at a time.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know where this comes from, there are many postings on SO that contain multiple, related questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We prefer shorter, easily answerable questions. Multiple unrelated questions in a single post is bad because somebody else is looking for a solution to just one of your questions he will have to filter out the content not relevant to him. Try and keep the questions as simple and relevant as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Toji says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm sure you'll get some attention for the clever title, but it doesn't help much when someone is searching for the subjects you mention.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So does this imply that the SO search engine searches only the title text and not the body, I highly doubt that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the title does have higher weight than the body. Also, someone going through the search results/any list of questions would have a hard time knowing what the question is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does an irreverent title immediately make your question worthless to the SO community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irrelevant content == wasted time using braincells for us. That is bad if you want people relevant to the topic answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of fun is great, but don't go overboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T19:43:35.603" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41337" CreationDate="2010-03-05T19:44:31.047" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add to the other answers, that the title is primarily used for SEO, so I don't see how that original title would help someone searching Google for your same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T19:44:31.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-05T20:07:14.857" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for conspiracy: &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; does xkcd happen to mention the number 1 just &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/710/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;today&lt;/a&gt; as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/710/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collatz_conjecture.png&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; title=&quot;The Strong Collatz Conjecture states that this holds for any set of obsessively-hand-applied rules.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="132354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-27T21:30:46.710" LastActivityDate="2010-04-27T21:30:46.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-08T06:05:13.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41337" CreationDate="2010-03-05T20:09:33.477" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, no “funny” titles allowed here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you got it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How “useful” should a title be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be a summary of your question, good enough to attract people and post answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T20:09:33.477" />
  <row Id="41344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41353" CreationDate="2010-03-05T20:27:12.770" Score="5" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that PHP has recently over taken asp.net.  It also looks like PHP is growing faster than even just &quot;.net&quot; or java tags.  It would be cool if SO would show the rate of change or rather the 1st derivative of tags.  It would also be cool to sort all tags by the rate at which they are growing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this will produce more accurate statistics than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TIOBE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142380" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T00:15:59.500" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T00:15:59.500" Title="Display the rate of change for all tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-05T21:23:59.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fear question 1 asked by user 1!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139921" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T21:23:59.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41350" CreationDate="2010-03-05T21:26:03.253" Score="6" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think more reputation points should be required to add a new answer to upvote an existing answer.  I don't continually watch for new questions, so usually when I find a question it has generally already been answered.  It seems bit inappropriate to answer an already answered question in order to contribute to the conversation, but until you earn reputation you can't upvote or comment you can only add new answers which prevents me from contributing at the moment as much as I would like to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems backwards to me, if someone incorrectly upvotes an bad answer the damage is minimal as other users can down vote it and upvote the correct answers, whereas an incorrect answer wastes everyones time who has to read it.  So, IMHO, it should require more reputation points to add an answer then to upvote or comment on an existing answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say say that users should be prevented from answering unanswered questions until they have x reputation points as that might prevent the user who has the answer from providing it but perhaps should be required if the question is already answered to discourage users from reiterating previously given answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T21:32:10.613" Title="Why is 15 reputation required to upvote?" Tags="&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41347" CreationDate="2010-03-05T21:31:56.370" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably to prevent people from upvoting themselves with a large number of new accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T21:31:56.370" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41347" CreationDate="2010-03-05T21:32:10.613" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would essentially bar anybody from participating who hasn't asked a question worth a few upvotes.  A newcomer has to get reputation somehow, and for an experienced person the usual way is to start answering questions.  This is not only instant participation, but it allows the newcomer to start gaining rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any reason to bar answers over questions or questions over answers for a newcomer.  Either will be annoying if bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T21:32:10.613" />
  <row Id="41353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41344" CreationDate="2010-03-05T21:43:55.457" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I direct you to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/tagtrend.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Tag Trends&lt;/a&gt; page, which shows the proportion of questions per tag relative to the total number of questions, graphed over time. The data available today is the latest (March dump, which includes up to the end of February 2010). The final week sometimes shows some glitches due to it usually being a partial week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PHP is indeed growing quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T21:43:55.457" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6986" CreationDate="2010-03-05T21:46:15.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You will already get notified via the envelope when your questions are edited, and that counts as an edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-05T21:46:15.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41218" CreationDate="2010-03-05T23:12:32.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. We already made a ton of changes to this to make it more understandable (see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37841/obsolete-greasemonkey-colorized-vote-details/37842#37842&quot;&gt;red/green debate&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any more confusion and I will just pull the feature entirely to keep things simpler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-04T13:41:11.553" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T13:41:11.553" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41218" CreationDate="2010-03-05T23:27:32.503" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's no reason to think that clicking a number a gray number would cause an action to occur&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not? Your browser changes the cursor into a pointer, and the tooltip shows &quot;View upvote and downvote totals&quot;. Then how could someone expect &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; when clicking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/phGP2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tooltip says: view upvote and downvote totals&quot; title=&quot;What more info does one need?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-19T23:36:53.167" LastActivityDate="2011-01-19T23:36:53.167" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14401" CreationDate="2010-03-06T00:25:15.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Type this is the search box (upper right) on any Stack Overflow page to browse the list of all community wiki questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;wiki:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can apply other filters than just for Community Wiki. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37652/where-can-i-see-the-list-of-new-community-wiki-questions/37726#37726&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; for some examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T23:33:07.960" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T23:33:07.960" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-06T00:25:15.727" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41013" CreationDate="2010-03-06T00:40:36.727" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[status-bydesign]&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;recent activity&quot; section of the site is for &lt;em&gt;passive and indirect&lt;/em&gt; events, such as what other people have been doing with your posts (votes on your questions and answers, accepting answers, bounties received, edits made, comments left), and badges received as a result of this activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to see what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have been doing, go to the &quot;Activity&quot; area of your user profile. This is where you see the actual posts you have made, edits you made, comments you wrote, etc. (It should also list votes to close and delete, but alas this is not yet implemented.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T00:40:36.727" />
  <row Id="41360" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T02:02:18.730" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the SO search, I queried:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;peertopeer javascript&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking for information on the new websockets standard and was met with the &quot;Your search returned no matches&quot; page.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first suggestion on this page was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Place your search terms in quotes to search for a phrase&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this is obviously wrong. If you cannot find term1 + term2, how is it possible to find &quot;term1 term2&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being pedantic, but I thought I'd mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T02:10:36.200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T02:15:47.253" Title="Search suggestion on no results to quote search terms doesn't seem right" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41360" CreationDate="2010-03-06T02:15:47.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow converted your search into &lt;code&gt;[javascript] peertopeer&lt;/code&gt; which basically means, search for the word peertopeer in the tag javascript. This is a feature because javascript is a popular tag. Anyways, if you were to place the phrase into quotes, it would look for &lt;code&gt;peertopeer javascript&lt;/code&gt; as a phrase, and questions with that phrase might not be tagged Javascript. So it's possible that there are results, but not likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to do the &lt;code&gt;OR&lt;/code&gt; search, do the following search: &lt;code&gt;&quot;peer to peer&quot; &quot;javascript&quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T02:15:47.253" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-06T03:57:44.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I see what happened here ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/python.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T03:57:44.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T03:58:24.993" Score="5" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a duplicate as these tags have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6398/please-could-we-combine-the-osx-and-macosx-tags&quot;&gt;merged&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39575/merge-tags-macosx-and-mac-os-x-on-so&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt; (and a 3rd time in an answer to one of those questions). Those questions are marked with &lt;code&gt;[status-completed]&lt;/code&gt; and I need some confirmation/feedback on the current state (see below), so I'm putting this in its own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the OS-X tags in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Tag             Questions           Completed&#xA;---------------------------------------------&#xA;[osx]                2162        (Target tag)&#xA;[os-x]                  3          Mar 5/2010&#xA;[os] AND [x]            4          Mar 5/2010&#xA;[macosx]              599                      &amp;lt;-- HALP&#xA;[macosxserver]          1          Mar 5/2010&#xA;[mac-osx]               0                  --&#xA;[mac-os-x]              2          Mar 5/2010&#xA;[mac-os]                0                  --&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the set of specific version tags (Leopard, and Snow Leopard):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Tag             Questions           Completed&#xA;---------------------------------------------&#xA;[snow-leopard]        278        (Target tag)&#xA;[osx-snow-leopard]     28          Mar 7/2010&#xA;[osx-leopard]           1          Mar 5/2010&#xA;[osx] AND [leopard]    43    (Target tag set)&#xA;[snow] AND [leopard]   10          Mar 7/2010&#xA;[snow]                 18          Mar 7/2010&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also 520 questions tagged with &lt;code&gt;[mac]&lt;/code&gt; AND &lt;code&gt;[osx]&lt;/code&gt;. I'm inclined to say leave them alone, but I'd like some feedback on that. Should all the questions with the above tags also have &lt;code&gt;[mac]&lt;/code&gt; on them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T16:31:01.407" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T18:32:10.603" Title="Tag merge request: OS-X related tags on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41365" CreationDate="2010-03-06T04:10:54.800" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote is for [mac], [osx], and [snow-leopard]. Snow Leopard !== OS X. See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Versions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Versions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Makes sense to me to include the platform, if you're going to be deliberate about it, and, as stated, OSX and Snow Leopard are not interchangeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastEditorUserId="141160" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T04:16:42.310" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T04:16:42.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-06T04:39:30.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow Conspiracy - don’t tell Jeff I’m on to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dear Jeff,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's on to you.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Run!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T04:39:30.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34903" CreationDate="2010-03-06T04:43:00.507" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am interested in your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T04:43:00.507" />
  <row Id="41373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39568" CreationDate="2010-03-06T04:51:08.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as there doesn't seem to be anything out there, I have decided to start my own project to experiment with remixing content from &lt;a href=&quot;http://casebash-experiments.wikidot.com/stack-overflow-remix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://casebash-experiments.wikidot.com/stack-overflow-remix&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T04:51:08.463" />
  <row Id="41374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41305" CreationDate="2010-03-06T05:29:13.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another reason which hasn't been said yet is that it is a way to get your question seen. A lot of people browse questions by their 'interested tags'. If you add a popular tag to your question your chances of it being seen are that much higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T05:29:13.130" />
  <row Id="41375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14406" CreationDate="2010-03-06T06:49:34.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Revisit the idea of making teh Googles work in transcripting these with their &lt;a href=&quot;http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7049418.ece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;sounds like 'this guy'&quot;&gt;rolling out feature of auto-captioning&lt;/a&gt; on Youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have to clean it up some later with all those dings and dongs that distract them so from forming proper words in the stream of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bulk of the work would be done for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hard part is actually listening to them talk for clarifications in the transcript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T06:49:34.883" />
  <row Id="41376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27572" CreationDate="2010-03-06T10:15:13.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that the Tumbleweed badge is indeed awarded for questions where the only answer is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/111639/trendnet-te100-mp1u-print-server-wont-connect-to-my-canon-s750&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; over on Super User a couple of weeks ago and a day or so later thought that I'd found the answer so I posted my own answer and then accepted it. Things change (as they do) and the problem came back so I unaccepted my answer and deleted it as the information now needed to be in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question now had no answers and only 31 views which is not unreasonable given I thought I'd solved the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within seconds I got the Tumbleweed badge. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The annoying thing is I've now remembered what I did the first time and solved the problem.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T10:41:57.970" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T10:41:57.970" />
  <row Id="41377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41379" CreationDate="2010-03-06T10:42:47.877" Score="0" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2371292/buffered-reading-from-stdin-using-fread-in-c&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; question just came into SO and after 23 secs had about 226 views.  What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143087" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T16:28:32.807" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T16:28:32.807" Title="How did this question get so many views so fast?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41313" CreationDate="2010-03-06T10:53:25.970" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts/11741#11741&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voting on a community wiki post (up or down) does not affect any user's reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131247" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T10:53:25.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41377" CreationDate="2010-03-06T11:06:04.077" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was asked two days ago, it was edited a couple of minutes before you made this question. ~250 views seems to be normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T11:06:04.077" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T13:19:19.763" Score="5" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31253/the-bike-shed-problem-and-so&quot;&gt;The bike shed problem and SO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34893/why-do-non-programming-questions-get-many-responses&quot;&gt;Why do non-programming questions get many responses?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3486/why-is-subjective-the-top-upvoted-tag-for-questions&quot;&gt;Why is &amp;ldquo;subjective&amp;rdquo; the top upvoted tag for questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone provides a detailed and deeply insightful technical answer to a tough question he/she may get rewarded with 5 or 10 up votes.  But if someone answers a question like, &quot;Which is better, C# or Java&quot; they will hit the daily limit.  Is there anything we can do to fix this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144284" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T13:52:10.107" ClosedDate="2010-03-08T00:42:10.223" Title="Why are the least technical questions rewarded the most?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41380" CreationDate="2010-03-06T13:23:01.820" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because more people are interested in the general questions, and thus attracting more people. And more people visiting the question equals more people upvoting the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to do anything about it, because of this fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T13:23:01.820" />
  <row Id="41382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41388" CreationDate="2010-03-06T13:37:24.513" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened to be doing this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/166347/how-do-i-use-ruby-for-shell-scripting/2392597#2392597&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and I was going mad reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12694/escaping-backticks-fails&quot;&gt;the backtick post here on meta.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works fine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;backtick this `this`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;but this does not&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;backtick this &lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nor for bulleted lists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;nor this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;backtick this &lt;code&gt;this&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a bug and surely it's been mentioned somewhere. Is there any way around it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T14:13:11.330" Title="Backticks Don't Work in Numbered Lists" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="41383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41380" CreationDate="2010-03-06T13:39:29.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't necessarily true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, if a question is really broad or has far-reaching implications, it's going to end up as a Community Wiki post, which doesn't generate reputation. There are exceptions, of course. But if someone asks a really good question, they definitely should be rewarded for adding a significant amount of value to the community -- as it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, there's nothing stopping people from upvoting a post, even if it's a specific technical question that might be classed as &quot;difficult&quot; -- it's just that perhaps that kind of question wouldn't get the same exposure, or have people be familiar enough with the subject to even say if it's a good question or not. In that sense, it is kind of backwards, but at the same time, if you're asking that specific of a question, it's likely to be an issue localized to only a handful of people and of lesser benefit to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think of reputation as a measure of how much value someone has added to the community, then I think your problem will be resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T13:39:29.083" />
  <row Id="41384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41380" CreationDate="2010-03-06T13:41:14.777" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bikeshed&lt;/a&gt; effect, partly.  Few people are competent to comment on a deeply insightful answer to a tough technical question, and in fact relatively few people are going to look at it.  A whole lot of people can answer soft questions, and will likely upvote, and feel competent to upvote the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T13:41:14.777" />
  <row Id="41386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41380" CreationDate="2010-03-06T13:52:10.107" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many many ways in which StackOverflow is &quot;inefficient&quot;. Questions are rewarded by the time of day in which they're asked, how they're asked (my highest scoring question was closed as subjective and argumentative :), which technologies they ask about (C# vs. S-plus, for instance), etc. Highly technical questions &lt;strong&gt;and specific&lt;/strong&gt; questions are just not as sexy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the question is not whether SO rep is working. The question is: is SO rep working somehow to produce a great technical site. The answer is that, in spite of hundreds of thousands (millions) of idiotic tendencies, bad answers, stupid questions, and bad voting, &lt;strong&gt;on the hole (whole?) SO is a great place to ask programming questions and get answers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to your question: what can be done about this? You could start making all kinds of strange hierarchies (highly technical question: points doubled; rare technology stack: bonus points) but overly engineered social systems usually backfire and end up with people doing all kinds of weird stuff just to get more rep. Less rules=less gaming... I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T13:52:10.107" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23017" CreationDate="2010-03-06T13:58:38.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny, I just stumbled upon this while searching on Google :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You all paranoïds, I'm a Rebol Newbie, that is stated on my blog, I was learning Rebol last year. This year I may be learning scala and would then setup another blog called scalatutorial. Is ot forbidden to take the name of one's blog as alias ?!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sunanda has nothing to do with me, he doesn't even know me and conversely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134899" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T13:58:38.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41382" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:01:23.393" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah-hah.  You need to increase the indent of the code block for each level of the list it's &quot;under&quot;.  Indent 4 more spaces for each additional level:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;example code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;example 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;example 1 code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;example 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;example 2a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;example 2a code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ta-daaahh.  for reference, here's what's typed to show the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    example code&#xA;&#xA;1. example 1&#xA;&#xA;        example 1 code&#xA;&#xA;2. example 2&#xA;&#xA;  - example 2a&#xA;&#xA;            example 2a code&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T14:13:11.330" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T14:13:11.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41382" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:03:54.393" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to do this.  The one you want to use is to indent the code block 4 more spaces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;indent the code example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;backtick this `this`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also works for bulleted lists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;backtick this `this`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other way to do it is to escape the ` character.  This is the option you want to use if you're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; trying to format the line as code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Escape the backtick like this \`&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using escaping like `this`&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or on the next line like `this`&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also works for bulleted lists&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;like `this`&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or on the next line like `this`&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T14:03:54.393" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41382" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:04:21.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;List item1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Some code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;List item2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Some more code&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Double indent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T14:04:21.130" />
  <row Id="41391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41406" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:09:14.343" Score="18" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24400/view-source-link-on-all-questions&quot;&gt;View Source link on all questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked the following question on ServerFault:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/119419/how-do-i-hide-non-delegated-features-in-iis-7&quot;&gt;How do I hide ‘non-delegated’ features in IIS 7?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott's answer describes a couple of xml tags that I can modify, but because he didn't use the back-tick to escape them they're hidden from view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I don't have edit rights I can't open the source easily (no Edit link) to see if this indeed what was missing. After fiddling around looking around for another post that had revisions (to see how the revision list url was composed) I was eventually able to see the revision history for Scott's answer and then get at the raw markdown text via &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/0ea400e4-d521-4783-b8fd-5b51b5f60d56/view-source&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;View Source&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/posts/119803/revisions&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/posts/119803/revisions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to either provide a link that shows the revision history for questions and answers regardless of whether they had revisions or not, or, provide a &lt;code&gt;View Source&lt;/code&gt; link to allow us to see the raw Markdown on the revision of the post being rendered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a nice time saver because the &lt;code&gt;/posts/nnnnn/revisions&lt;/code&gt; link doesn't immediately commit itself in memory if used infrequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T15:09:40.963" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T15:53:09.753" ClosedDate="2011-01-21T19:50:05.750" Title="Please add a 'view source' link to questions and answers that have no revisions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;view-source&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:31:01.820" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1695347/does-ie8-have-rendering-bugs-like-6-or-7-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1695347/does-ie8-have-rendering-bugs-like-6-or-7-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140836" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T14:56:28.453" Title="Why there is no edit, delete button for this question on SO" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:33:07.357" Score="4" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392702/complete-the-code-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; brought up the issue of whether it is appropriate to retag someone else's question as &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt;.  While I believe that it's the community's responsibility as much as the OPs to make sure questions are tagged appropriately, it made me think about who should remove the &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; tag if the question isn't homework.  In most cases I think the community retains the right to change tags in all cases to accurately categorize the question, however, in the general case, only the OP really knows for sure -- everyone else only has opinions.  My sense is that only the OP, except in the most obvious cases, should be the one to roll back a &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T00:31:49.600" Title="Etiquette on retagging questions as homework" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41393" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:38:30.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never add the homework tag unless the OP states it's homework; you simply can't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's really that important for you to know (why??) you can ask in a comment first and refuse to answer until an answer is given (but other people will probably answer before the OP gets a chance to reply so you may as well just move on to another question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also tagging questions as homework is not that important. Who searches for &quot;homework&quot; anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least don't forget about the people that will come from google in the future searching that very question; don't purposefully give a vague answer if you think it may be homework, otherwise you're likely to push away potential new members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T14:38:30.787" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41392" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:47:26.603" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Migrated questions are (equivalent to being) locked, you need to edit at the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/67705/does-ie8-have-rendering-bugs-like-6-or-7&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/67705/does-ie8-have-rendering-bugs-like-6-or-7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T14:56:28.453" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T14:56:28.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34903" CreationDate="2010-03-06T14:55:34.303" Score="54" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know who that fancy schmancy &quot;Crono&quot; guy of yours is, but do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; remember this guy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/609/keenhead.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Commander Keen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the Greasemonkey script to have Commander Keen help you out with downvoting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/70678.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;install script&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/70678&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;view source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you're not brave enough to try it out, or too nice to ever downvote, or not greasy enough to have a monkey installed, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oovHwrZaQwo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's a crappy screencast&lt;/a&gt; to give you the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy downvoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T15:10:42.837" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T15:10:42.837" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="41399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34903" CreationDate="2010-03-06T15:30:58.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a browser plug-in to make voting or any other aspect of the site more entertaining&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Profit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wash, rinse, repeat for the rest of the Stack Exchange sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T15:30:58.667" />
  <row Id="41401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41393" CreationDate="2010-03-06T16:01:27.110" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some questions (I don't have links handy) where people posted stuff that obviously came out of an assignment. Usually people with very low rep, often posting different variants of the same question yet expecting different results. I can't document obvious beyond its definition, especially in a subjective sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, but asking (or bribing) your older sibling to &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; your math homework is cheating, asking for help is another story. This is no different. In the year that I've used SO, I find (more often than not) that someone will post correct code samples to such questions, alleviating the OP from the diligence that academia (call it what you will) demands. Its called low hanging fruit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I strongly suspect it is homework, and not just a &lt;em&gt;beginner&lt;/em&gt;, I am going to tag it as such. What is a natural response for someone who has to finish an assignment that has been put off for weeks that is due the following day? One might be &quot;&lt;em&gt;This is not homework!!!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, but the original tone of the question is what matters to me. Its painfully obvious when someone is in a bind to get the answer to a very basic question without (originally) providing more background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll tag it as homework if I see that the question warrants it, but I won't get into a tag war. I can, however, leave a comment and decline to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Down vote this if you want, my need for sleep has surpassed my ability to care :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T16:01:27.110" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="41402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23017" CreationDate="2010-03-06T16:17:30.503" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Linking to anything relevant that will help the OP is perfectly acceptable (in my book, anyway). I write a lot of tutorials that are published under the CC-BY-SA license or something even less restrictive. Some of them are ten pages long. Some may be prone to change as the subject changes, that's just the nature of software. If I think it will help, I'll link to my own site in an answer before I end up maintaining 10 copies of the same text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On or off SO, if its helpful, I won't complain if someone makes a link. However, I can't speak for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking to other answers on SO is quite common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not link to something that people weren't free to copy or distribute, which includes any page you can find on SO. The people who vote on my answers can decide if my idea of helpful coincides with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were you worried?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T16:17:30.503" />
  <row Id="41406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41391" CreationDate="2010-03-06T16:53:17.583" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GreaseMonkey Script&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/70690.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Install&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/70690&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;View Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1535/revisionspostmenu.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Added links to each revision (need to reinstall to take effect)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/8414/linkinrevisions.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-13T15:53:09.753" LastActivityDate="2010-05-13T15:53:09.753" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="41408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T18:19:48.397" Score="7" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33945/not-enforcing-fixed-width-font-family&quot;&gt;Not enforcing fixed width font family&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For monospaced text there is no generic font family in the font stack.&#xA;This causes problems if a user prefers to resort to the browser standard fonts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fix: Add a &lt;code&gt;,monospace, serif&lt;/code&gt; at the end of the font stack for monospaced text, per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/02/12/fixed-monospace-sizing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;. According to the piece, closing the font chain in such a way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;span {font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;, monospace, serif; font-size: 1em;}&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;This is a 'p' with a &amp;lt;span&amp;gt;'span'&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; inside.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This time around, the answer is: “It&#xA;  depends, but given browser defaults,&#xA;  16px.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Really! Even in Safari! And in all&#xA;  tested browsers, it falls back to a&#xA;  generic monospace font at the&#xA;  requested size even if the specific&#xA;  family (or families) we declare aren’t&#xA;  available! This can be verified by&#xA;  altering the specific font family to&#xA;  something that doesn’t actually exist&#xA;  ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T13:44:56.777" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:44:56.777" ClosedDate="2010-03-07T00:31:20.097" Title="There is no fallback font monospaced text" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="41409" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T18:50:06.717" Score="-3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Compare 2 profiles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;superstar Jon Skeet who works at google and who finds the time in between compiles to answer some questions and with the 4th question already hits the repcap with all the upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joe average without a current job, who out of complete boredom answers 234 questions per day and by the sheer numbers, also hits the repcap by the end of the day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they both might end up after a few months of using this site as people with a high reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation doesn't say much about the quality of the answers, since sheer quantity achieves nearly the same result (I think mostly though the repcap).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't display the accumulated repcap, but display the average number of upvotes/downvotes for all answers/questions given in the the last X months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This solves multiple issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is possible (although still very tricky) to get anywhere near Jon Skeet by answering with premium answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reputation actually says something about the answers this person gives and the knowledge they have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes it fun for others to try and get a higher reputation, because it really reflects  their knowledge and not if they have been using this site since the closed beta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and some more points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and even more good points&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions/answers should still be counted. Otherwise people might delete perfectly valid answers just to get a higher rep which is not what we want to encourage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T19:25:07.030" Title="reputation doesn't say anything about ones knowledge" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T18:55:09.680" Score="-2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;for every week a questions remains unanswered, give it 10 bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that questions which have remained unanswered for a year could give you 510 reputation (given that it is also accepted of course)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This system works like an auction, where the pressure to answer a question gets higher and higher until eventually someone will answer it, no matter how difficult the question was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T20:32:20.477" Title="have unanswered questions receive an auto rep bounty the longer it stays unanswered" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41409" CreationDate="2010-03-06T18:56:02.970" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation is not &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; as a proxy for knowledge. It is a proxy for good you've done for the SOFU communities and the trust the system therefore bestows upon you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The metric you suggest &lt;s&gt;might be&lt;/s&gt; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; interesting and I would like to see it somewhere, but it wouldn't do as a substitute for the &quot;system trust&quot; measure currently in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T18:56:02.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41409" CreationDate="2010-03-06T18:56:10.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;reputation doesn’t say anything about ones knowledge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that's why it's called Reputation and not Knowledge? What makes you think that it reflects knowledge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definition is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the state of being held in high esteem and honor &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that someone spending 24 hours a day answering question is, well, reputable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T18:56:10.520" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41409" CreationDate="2010-03-06T19:06:46.633" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you give an example of Joe average, because I can't find hi-rep user with no knowledge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation doesn't mean knowledge. For me it shows level of &lt;strong&gt;contribution&lt;/strong&gt;. It explains why you get more reputation for answering easy question. More people upvote it, because more people understand it, but in effect, you contributed to more people gaining knowledge. Higher reputation means that more people &lt;strong&gt;learn&lt;/strong&gt; from your questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If average Joe answers 234 questions a day, he helps a lot of people. And even when some of the answer aren't the best ones, he should be respected. That is why his reputation goes up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138198" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T19:06:46.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41393" CreationDate="2010-03-06T19:07:11.797" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions have the structure and content of pedagogical problems. Those questions---whether they are assignments given in a class, problems the OP is working from a book during self-learning, or even something that occurred to a curious user when comparing something new with their old ways---are best served by pedagogical answers, and a tag to identify them is appropriate. And it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; appropriate for the community to add that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've been using [homework] for that purpose, but it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; causes hard feelings sometimes. We don't want the OP to feel that they have been accused of doing something wrong, and the tenor of the &quot;It's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; homework!&quot; comments that some users submit suggest that that is exactly how they feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone what to suggest a better tag? What about [exercise]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T19:12:51.543" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T19:12:51.543" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41409" CreationDate="2010-03-06T19:08:08.130" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea is interesting, but it wouldn't help what (if anything) is the real issue at hand: You can &quot;earn&quot; 10 upvotes with a correct answer to a question like &quot;What was that string concatenation function in xyz called again?&quot; while a brilliant, deeply researched and double-checked answer to a complex problem nets one or two upvotes simply because &lt;em&gt;much fewer people understand the issue&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm not saying that any of SO's high-rep users gained their score by answering only string concatenation questions - I can't see anyone there who doesn't deserve theír &quot;status&quot;, and isn't a knowledgeable professional. (Actually, this is pretty surprising and a sign that the system works somehow, even if in theory it doesn't.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dynamic is that the majority of people will often not value &quot;deep&quot; contributions, and go for those they can understand - and express an opinion on - quickly. This is not to put down the users of SO - it's human nature, and &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; is subject to it. When I see a question where three people ponder a specific aspect of, say, movement detection in high-res infra-red images at moonlight, I leave them damn well alone because I don't know the first thing about the issue. I sure won't cast a vote because I have no idea whether what anybody says is correct. But I will happily upvote the first answer recommending to parse HTML with a DOM parser, instead of a regular expression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed previously, and I don't feel it's a &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt; per se. But if anything were to be changed about the voting  system, that's what I would address first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T19:14:02.993" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T19:14:02.993" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41409" CreationDate="2010-03-06T19:25:07.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joe average without a current job, who&#xA;  out of complete boredom answers 234&#xA;  questions per day and by the sheer&#xA;  numbers, also hits the repcap by the&#xA;  end of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like me. And I'm one of the top 20 SO users, judged on rep. So your point is ....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T19:25:07.030" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41410" CreationDate="2010-03-06T19:28:34.577" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the potential for some really wicked unintended consequences here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most questions that are unclear, deeply opaque, or based on horrible misconception get caught and either closed or have the issue explained to the OP so that they get corrected, it is likely that a few slip through the cracks. These questions &lt;em&gt;are not&lt;/em&gt; contributing to the community and &lt;em&gt;should not&lt;/em&gt; accumulate rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system proposed can not distinguish those from really hard problems (which, perhaps, &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; deserve some recognition).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put me down as against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T19:28:34.577" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41419" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T19:37:14.497" Score="12" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/981/syntax-highlighting-hints&quot;&gt;Syntax highlighting hints&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we all know, &lt;code&gt;prettify.js&lt;/code&gt;, which is used by Stackoverflow for syntax highlighting, allows the specification of the intended language.  However, we cannot reach this from our posts, so that syntax highlighting mangles everything that is not C or one of its derivatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a simple solution:  Allow the specification of a &lt;code&gt;class&lt;/code&gt; attribute for &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; tags, so that we can supply prettify.js with the language we intend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt; &amp;lt;code class=&quot;prettyprint lang-foo&quot;&amp;gt; ...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that this can either be implemented, or that someone gives a compelling hint to why this might not be feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it is even implemented somewhere, but lacking documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T07:28:38.893" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T22:45:03.693" ClosedDate="2010-03-08T13:37:53.900" Title="Allow `class` attribute for `&lt;code&gt;` tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41410" CreationDate="2010-03-06T20:32:20.477" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 I like the reasoning behind the idea. If SO cares about the vast number of unanswered questions, something definitely needs to be done in that department. I think there may be too many practical problems though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many unanswered questions are abandoned, i.e. the user who asked them is not likely to return to SO. You would have to introduce community question closing at the same time for this to have any effect - I'm not saying I'm totally against that, but it would be a &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; change to the system with a plethora of issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a bounty would put considerable pressure to close the question. A time limit to decide who gets the bounty would be necessary to avoid disappointment among people putting energy into answering the question. On the other hand, there may still not be a right answer, simply because the question is so hard, nobody understands it, or it's badly worded. What do you do then? In a normal bounty, there's the 7 day time frame after which you have to make a decision. What kind of time frame can you enforce on a year-old question? What if the user logs on to SO once a year? And so on an on. It's going to be too difficult to implement, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T20:32:20.477" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41419" CreationDate="2010-03-06T21:54:41.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love this for CSS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;element#id    { color:blue }&#xA;element.class { color:blue }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; is confused in this context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-06T21:54:41.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T22:17:47.277" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;This suggestion evolved from this thread: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41218/toggling-between-net-votes-and-plus-minus-votes&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41218/toggling-between-net-votes-and-plus-minus-votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Currently&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When users hover over the vote total for a question or answer, they see the following tooltip: &quot;View upvote and downvote totals&quot;. If they click, the display expands, and the net votes get replaced with a double-decker colored number sandwich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if...?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has me thinking, instead of adding a tooltip that says what will happen if you click, why not just display the data in the tooltip?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User hovers over 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tooltip appears saying &quot;3 upvotes, 0 downvotes&quot; or &quot;4 upvotes, 1 downvote&quot; or whatever&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all there is to it. A much simpler design that accomplishes exactly the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other advantages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to do anything to get back to the &quot;normal&quot; display. Nothing &quot;weird&quot; happens if you miss the vote arrow and click on the number instead. And, for those unfamiliar with the feature, there is no awkward resizing of the display and doubling of numbers to make them wonder if they're seeing a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T10:12:01.717" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T10:12:01.717" Title="Why not just show the upvote and downvote totals in the tooltip and be done with it?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41433" CreationDate="2010-03-06T22:28:09.613" Score="0" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;...and I've therefore lost my stats and posts/questions.&#xA;I'm sure the stats of my old profile aren't amazing to many people here but I would prefer keeping them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was in the middle of writing an email to SO and decided to visit metaSO to see if this has happened before. Turns out there are people who have done the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember reading one of the questions where a moderator recommended flagging the question, so I have done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/220314/helloworld&quot;&gt;Old, unregistered profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Current, registered user: /users/220294/helloworld&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(New account doesn't allow posting 2 links)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT: Forgot to add second link&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144290" LastEditorUserId="144290" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-06T22:38:27.220" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T00:31:53.310" Title="Created new account instead of just assigning OpenID" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;duplicate-user&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="41428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41423" CreationDate="2010-03-06T23:11:56.643" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes/1007#1007&quot;&gt;According&lt;/a&gt; to Jeff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The total vote count (score) is denormalized, but the individual up/down vote counts are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So to display it on every post would incur 2 vote table queries * number of visible questions / answers. Our DB is fast, but the vote table is pretty massive, and not doing a query is always faster than doing it..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's possibly something we could do on demand (as @hmemcpy notes), but as an &quot;always displayed&quot; it is a non-starter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting the tooltip using the &lt;code&gt;title&lt;/code&gt; attribute in its current way would require pre-populating for all posts as well. Only &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the tooltip would be implemented in a dynamic manner, and with a timeout to avoid unneeded invocations (rather than being fired upon first hovering), then this would not introduce (a lot of) additional Ajax and database calls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Jeff and Jarrod don't want to spend time on this: it's all changes in client-side JavaScript, so any 1,000+ reputation user could implement it and propose it to them... But then I like the current implementation and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41218/toggling-between-net-votes-and-plus-minus-votes&quot;&gt;your initial idea&lt;/a&gt; better, in which people who explicitly want to see the details get a response right after clicking (while those who don't care do not make unnecessary Ajax calls when leaving the cursor on the number). That other idea is all JavaScript changes as well, so go for it. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T08:06:20.223" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T08:06:20.223" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-06T23:14:36.067" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know what I should do open my question again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392096/upcoming-computer-books&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2392096/upcoming-computer-books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you reopen my thread again? My question was about software engineering :( And I could not find a topic in which what we should do for a closed topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And please add an action like talking moderators or something else to express our excuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T00:13:59.497" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T07:30:33.820" Title="Reopening Closed threads" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;reopen-closed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41429" CreationDate="2010-03-07T00:28:44.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was one of the people who voted to close your question, because I don't think it's appropriate for Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides the question being poorly worded and the body of the question not matching the title, it is not programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the methods I use to determine if a question is &quot;programming related&quot; is to replace the word &quot;programming&quot; with &quot;knitting&quot;. If the question still makes sense, then it is not programming-related.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a web site to figure out what are the upcoming [programming] books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a web site to figure out what are the upcoming [knitting] books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yup, that question still makes sense. So therefore I conclude that the question is about books, not about programming, and should be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Suggestion: If you're interested in finding out what books are about to be published, try looking on the publisher's website, or subscribe to a magazine about books.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: re &quot;And please add an action like talking moderators or something else to express our excuse.&quot; -- there already is such an &quot;action&quot;. Click the &quot;flag&quot; link to get a moderator's attention, and express your &quot;excuse&quot; in the text box that pops up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T00:28:44.670" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41424" CreationDate="2010-03-07T00:31:53.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please email the address at the bottom of every web page. Specific per-user requests like this aren't useful on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T00:31:53.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41419" CreationDate="2010-03-07T00:34:30.907" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;syntax highlighting mangles everything that is not C or one of its derivatives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of an exaggeration..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The comments in prettify.js are authoritative but the lexer should work on a number of languages including C and friends, Java, Python, Bash, SQL, HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, and Makefiles. It works passably on Ruby, PHP, VB, and Awk and a decent subset of Perl and Ruby, but, because of commenting conventions, doesn't work on Smalltalk, or CAML-like languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is now implemented. In addition to tag inference (a recent change), you can &lt;em&gt;manually&lt;/em&gt; specify the language as a hint to &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Code Prettify&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spec is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-or-tag-here --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    code goes here&#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;!-- language: lang-or-tag-here --&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;    code goes here&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may use either a &lt;strong&gt;tag&lt;/strong&gt; or a &lt;strong&gt;prettify language code&lt;/strong&gt; to specify, though prettify language codes are always guaranteed to work regardless of what language the tag happens to be set to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The complete list of supported prettify code languages is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-none&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-default&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-bsh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-c&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-cpp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-cs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-csh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-css&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-hs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-html&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-java&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-js&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-lisp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-lua&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-ml&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-perl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-php&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-proto&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-rb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-scala&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-sh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-sql&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-vb&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lang-xml&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T22:45:03.693" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T22:45:03.693" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28559" CreationDate="2010-03-07T00:42:57.470" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm apologize in advance for necroing this with a response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we limit ourselves to simple, objective questions that can have a definitive answer, we will limit our range of topics on important topics to programmers.  Much of what makes a good programmer good is not his/her technical mastery of a given language or API, but rather his/her judgement and skills in organizing code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of skills/judgements are, by definition, subjective.  A question like &quot;How should I design XYZ type of program&quot; is subjective, by definition.  However, questions like this are more often than not more informative than &quot;how do I use printf to format something like so?&quot;  Even if the question is subjective, and is not provably correct, some answers will be better, and show more insight than others.  Some people will consistently give answers that demonstrate more insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are exactly the kinds of people that I want to see with high reputations.  If I want a description of an API, I'll get a book, read the documentation, or just fire up a compiler.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, even if there is discussion back-and-forth between two viewpoints (both of which may be legitimate), reading that discourse can only help educate others on the appraoches suggested, the models used, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.  Which would you rather have access to, Knuth and Djikstra giving answers to questions that could be resolved by reading a spec, or them debating opposite points of view on program design?  Which would be more valuable, more informative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, some questions may become argumentative.  &quot;What's better, C# or C++?&quot;  But even in this flamebait question there's room for illumination - a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answer would point out that both languages serve different purposes, suggest where they may be more or less-well suited (and &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;), and give the asker an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of each.  My experiences have been that an answer like that would quickly be upvoted, and weaker answers (&quot;C++ because it's lower level and good programmers use low-level languages&quot;) would either be downvoted or just ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, even &quot;cut and dried,&quot; apparently objective answers often have a significant subjective component to them.  A simple question of &quot;how do I do X with Y&quot; might trigger someone with experience to point out that the question is itself a design smell, and points to an underlying problem that can be approached from a different angle.  This type of answer, IMHO, is better than the mechanical description of how to do the actual task asked.  Part of being a good developer is digging for the real requirements, and answering a question on SO is much the same.  So, the line between &quot;subjective&quot; and &quot;objective&quot; is a mighty thin one anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are other questions &quot;What's your favorite programmer comic&quot; that are just chat questions.  Fine, community-wiki those.  Sometimes joke answers are made - fine, community-wiki those, too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all 'subjective' questions do not fit that category.  And they are, in many cases the more important questions to be asked and answered.  It is that higher level thought that I'd really want to see more of.  And I'd like to see the people capable of providing it rewarded and recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I really need to know about operator precedence in C++, I'll read the spec.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T00:42:57.470" />
  <row Id="41436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41439" CreationDate="2010-03-07T01:14:47.817" Score="9" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello, I read quite a few forums and well, some of these forums are not all that alive(topics get answered in a day or two usually)  and while these questions are perfectly suitable for SO/SU/SF, the questioner does not particularly like it for one reason or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these questions, I would really like to repost to SO/SU/SF so that they can get a good timely answer (and then accept the most popular answer if I am not sure on the subject matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it ethically wrong to ask someone else's question on an SO site?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T09:24:18.283" Title="Is it wrong to ask questions &quot;for someone else&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41436" CreationDate="2010-03-07T01:28:21.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done it a couple of times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2033903/algorithm-to-find-palindromes&quot;&gt;Algorithm to find palindromes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1688447/java-how-to-add-a-comparator-class-to-increase-code-reusability&quot;&gt;Java, how to add a “comparator” class to increase code reusability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything wrong with it; I should point out though that even if both questions received great answers my friends keep refusing to use the website, for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: worth nothing that in both cases I personally knew the asker, and I asked them to pick the best answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T01:28:21.380" />
  <row Id="41438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41436" CreationDate="2010-03-07T01:28:42.333" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I would say this can go both ways there is one major flaw. You can't test out the answers. So this would just create a bunch of unanswerable questions since you would have to wait for the other person to respond on the other site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T01:28:42.333" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41436" CreationDate="2010-03-07T01:35:02.593" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we'd like to have the SO family be a repository of good questions.  I think as long you cite the original question appropriately, it's perfectly acceptable &quot;re-ask&quot; a question on the SO platform.  It's probably best to put it into your own words rather than simply copy paste.  I'd probably also reserve this for questions of common interest, i.e., general enough that many people will be interested in the answer.  If the answer to the question turns out to be &quot;you need a semi-colon at the end of the third line&quot;, it's probably not a good candidate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I haven't asked a question that I've seen elsewhere I have on a couple of occasions asked a question to which I already knew the answer just so SO would have a ready question/answer for future searches.  I've also asked questions that were prompted by observations about other questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T01:35:02.593" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41446" CreationDate="2010-03-07T03:40:39.843" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a little problem with the Time Frame Box:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lab.chacha102.com/timeframe.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice, I can't type in one of the examples and have it validate....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is annoying as I'd like to show the achievements I've accomplished before I graduate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as the picture states, about 2 hours ago my team just won a Robotics Rookie All-Star Award, and I came upon this error while trying to insert it into my CV. Yay? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T06:01:04.840" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T06:01:04.840" Title="Careers Time Frame gives Bad Example" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41429" CreationDate="2010-03-07T03:49:09.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a distinction between programming as an activity (which primarily involves working with source code of some kind, databases, source control systems, unit testing frameworks, etc) and programming as a profession (which also involves a lot of things like reading books or other training materials, career paths, conferences, professional etiquette, etc that only peripherally support programming the activity).  Please don't confuse the two.  StackOverflow is meant mainly to cover just the former.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, StackOverflow is also structured in such a way as to allow a certain amount of the latter type of question.  But whether your programming-profession-related question will pass or not is akin to winning the lottery.  You'll get no further whining if it's closed and forgotten than you would if your weekly Pick 5 comes up empty.  Hopefully, most programmers are smart enough to know better than to play the lottery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would be unlikely to vote to close your question.  Like Ether I have a test I normally apply; I think about how I would tag the question if I were posting it to a general purpose site.  Would I tag it &lt;code&gt;programming&lt;/code&gt;, or would I tag it something else, like &lt;code&gt;career-development&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;training&lt;/code&gt;?  In this case, I would likely tag it &lt;code&gt;training&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;books&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;programming&lt;/code&gt;, and so it passes my litmus test.  But I also don't generally vote to re-open questions that are borderline.  The reason it's borderline is because I can't also narrow it down to a specific &lt;em&gt;kind&lt;/em&gt; of programming: say &lt;code&gt;java&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;.net&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;javascript&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;database&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;php&lt;/code&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T07:30:33.820" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T07:30:33.820" />
  <row Id="41442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41448" CreationDate="2010-03-07T04:01:38.293" Score="5" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes&quot;&gt;The Problem with Reputation:  Does High Reputation Attract Too Many &amp;lsquo;Up-Votes&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: My original title was (high reputation users getting upvoted more often)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen an interesting effect in the Java tagged questions, which are the ones I browse more often - usually a good answer will get 5 upvotes, but I often see answer from user with high reputations getting much more than that, and a comparable good answer from someone that is starting now won't get as many upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just my unscientific impression. But was this noted by someone else? Do users with high reputations usually score high on their answers because these answers are always better, or because people tend to get those answers for granted because they come from users with high reputations? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all of a sudden Jon Skeet created a fake profile to answer questions, would this profile get on average as many upvotes as he usually gets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132905" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T07:22:25.670" ClosedDate="2010-03-07T09:14:17.933" Title="Jon Skeet effect (high reputation users effect)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41444" CreationDate="2010-03-07T04:05:01.617" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do Q &amp;amp; A require &lt;strong&gt;&amp;amp;lt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&amp;amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to produce greater than less than whereas comments require literal &lt;strong&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ? It seems inconsistent and inevitably I end up making an edit to fix it in one place or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hesitated to try them in the title because I don't want to know.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it simply the browser behaviour of input vs textarea and can it be tweaked or something like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T04:11:10.183" Title="Greater than, less than confusion" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41443" CreationDate="2010-03-07T04:10:24.533" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions and Answers allows actual HTML in them, while comments only allow markdown I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AKA, In an &lt;strong&gt;Question or Answer I can do this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source Code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;AKA, In an &amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Question or Answer I can do this&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T04:10:24.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41440" CreationDate="2010-03-07T04:30:08.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of improvements* to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28375/should-careers-stackoverflow-com-support-hresume&quot;&gt;implementation&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hResume&lt;/a&gt; on public CVs, Careers has gotten a lot stricter about what constitutes a &quot;valid&quot; Time Frame.  In the past Time Frame's were basically free-form text entry, which has made moving forward without breaking anything... interesting, let's say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, good catch on one of my oversights!  The examples on Careers have been updated to be things you can &lt;strong&gt;actually&lt;/strong&gt; enter without error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*To the curious amongst you, hResume uses hCalendar to specify education and employment timeframes, and hCalendar requires you format your dates as ISO8601 &quot;datetimes.&quot;  This drove the tightening of Career's validation of Time Frames.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T04:30:08.487" />
  <row Id="41448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41442" CreationDate="2010-03-07T07:22:25.670" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've considered creating another account just for testing this. (I'd let the team and moderators know first, mind you.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to think it's not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; bad though. Often two answers may look quite similar, but one just about has an edge on the other - either it's explained just that bit better, or has one more piece of information, or a code sample. I'd like to &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; that I have that sort of edge, and that that's why my answer would get more votes in that situation. But hey, I could easily be wrong...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T07:22:25.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41450" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-07T09:25:39.920" Score="22" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Sunday afternoon project this weekend was to add a bit of jQuery pixie dust to the tag trend graph page. The new &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/tags/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Tag Trends&lt;/a&gt; page allows you to choose which tags to compare and produces a graph interactively. You can also capture a link to a particular graph, for example the history for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stack_overflow/tags/?homework&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;homework&lt;/a&gt; tag is amusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available tags are those that have been used for 100 or more questions (1835 tags total at the moment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41344/display-the-rate-of-change-for-all-tags&quot;&gt;newsworthy graph&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x300&amp;amp;cht=lc&amp;amp;chd=e%3auXUMS7SBSHPnN2QWSeQiWsRRT8VZR4R2SlVOSASdScVQVLSqRWTiS0TLT3WFWVWYUMTzVOX7W9UjUrUbU3WRVVU3YPZSZsddcPb9b4eSe9gfdwfpeEfvgkfCfgeia6gNd3hreRdRimiGfrjFgmnEr6ldh8hYjBiBgTgmf51.,SjRCU5cYgvfOcNqLmliekOlXmdjdmpiZjgjte.gsi7cFf3gghTk1ingpe9iDiChlhBh.iPfOkUhPl5g5iujXfqhjhbg5mLlGmSlueYeZfFg2gAf0fUgChseVenlCgFhxfdfLjIhNg8hEiOgqgzjJhuoamum3nwjenUnPk0lU,b0gMimfDcmcNiXYIbHZgehdFffgQmElAgdgwjHm8gFdGgsfMdwfThzfyhGfHgddAm4jsl6k5kUe-frkceVfKb-dIfWdTbVcxdidSZpcce6eAcZcea1cmcNeRaAcocTdgbGZSZ0YxakZxa5W1YrXlU-Y9X5YbXfYAWBWxXHTD,8Sv-.-0iq6vu7fsivu4BulvWwuvFprs2sQqSuCoZsEqAo4uFlbvTypsEqRtRp.rJo-oUpSlFmHjgmhlfjkjXjIliisiBe5e4fobPfoh2fgfPe2die.eKb9b0bqb7aFbtc9ZLZnYqZJYYY-aLYCWTWZbRZKXgXSXzYwYtZlMs&amp;amp;chco=FF0000,00FF00,0000FF,FFFF00&amp;amp;chdl=php%7Cjava%7Casp.net%7C.net&amp;amp;chtt=Tag%20activity%20per%20week&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chxl=0%3A%7C0%25%7C12.89%25%7C1%3A%7CJul%202008%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C2009%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C2010%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7CMar%202010&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastEditorUserId="162705" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-31T21:27:15.063" LastActivityDate="2011-09-01T03:13:01.007" Title="Interactive tag trend comparison page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;graphs&gt;&lt;trends&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33945" CreationDate="2010-03-07T10:27:10.017" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a simple proven solution and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/02/12/fixed-monospace-sizing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eric Meyer has an excellent article about it&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;The solution is not new (Wikipedia deployed it in December 2009) and &#xA;Eric has done incredible work in verifying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can absolutely sympathize with Jeff when he says he's not willingly to go back to the &lt;code&gt;font-family: monospace&lt;/code&gt; hell I still think this solution should also be deployed on SO and sisters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposed fix is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;font-family:Consolas,Monaco,Lucida Console,Liberation Mono,DejaVu Sans Mono,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Courier New, monospace, serif;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T10:27:10.017" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32875" CreationDate="2010-03-07T11:26:19.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that editing your question pushes it to the top of the question stack again, pretty much guaranteeing it will get some additional attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T11:26:19.110" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2267" CreationDate="2010-03-07T13:42:57.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Qanda QAS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bulit in PHP and powered by Kohana MVC framework and MySQL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Project Homepage: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qandasystem.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.qandasystem.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Demo Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://demo.qandasystem.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://demo.qandasystem.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GitHub Repository (with wiki): &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/qanda/Qanda/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://github.com/qanda/Qanda/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138417" LastEditorUserId="138417" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-28T15:13:31.067" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T15:13:31.067" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-07T13:42:57.583" />
  <row Id="41454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41450" CreationDate="2010-03-07T15:14:03.427" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice piece of work, @Greg Hewgill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see how the the numbers develop as Stack Overflow trends towards a more industry-wide audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, the problem with these &quot;growth rates&quot; is that they reflect primarily the growth of Stack Overflow, not the industry in general. Stack Overflow &lt;strong&gt;started with a disproportionately strong .NET presence&lt;/strong&gt; because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/04/16.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt;'s and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/04/introducing-stackoverflow-com.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;'s influence in drawing the initial audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you see a &lt;em&gt;percentage&lt;/em&gt; gain in technologies like PHP or a &lt;em&gt;percentage&lt;/em&gt; loss in .NET, that doesn't (necessarily) reflect anything more than the normalization of Stack Overflow's audience coming more in line with the true developer population.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-11T12:28:09.773" LastActivityDate="2010-09-11T12:28:09.773" />
  <row Id="41457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41436" CreationDate="2010-03-07T17:21:28.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When this situation has occurred in the past, I encourage the questioner to re-ask their question on SO (which also has the benefit of bringing a new user to the community).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not want to ask the question for them as then I become a proxy agent for the responses -- how would I fully evaluate whether the answers actually addressed their issue or not?  I might also feel a bit whorish for doing so -- that question was not mine, so I really ought not to gain any &quot;reputation&quot; (numerical or social) from it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T17:21:28.300" />
  <row Id="41459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41419" CreationDate="2010-03-07T17:57:33.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I'm going to go a bit for Devil's Advocate:&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it really such a big problem? My opinion of this might be a bit biased as I lurk in the SQL, Python and every now and then Java tags, which might not be hit as bad, but after all the code is there, for the human to parse it. I generally just ignore syntax coloring, as it benefits long chunks of code, and you shouldn't be posting large chunks of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, this could be helped a bit if the language could be inferred from the tags. That way, this fix would work retroactively, and the work flow wouldn't change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T17:57:33.207" />
  <row Id="41460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2010-03-07T18:03:25.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've experienced this a few times. One example that comes to mind is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2290382/message-queue-system/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2290382/message-queue-system/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wyatt, Joel and I say essentially the same thing. In fact Joel and my post are nearly identical but Joel has +13/-0 while I have +4/-1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Joel's answer 10 (9) points more valuable than mine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Joel's answer 6 points more valuable than Wyatt's when he provides several options? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T18:03:25.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-07T18:03:25.197" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2010-03-07T19:58:34.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a combination of factors here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, high rep users had to start at 1 like everyone else.  They got there through consistently providing answers that are timely, accurate, well-written, and with follow-up. All five factors (consistency, speed, accuracy, prose, follow-up) are important.  There are a lot of users that are good at two or three or even four of those, but I think you'll find that most first-pagers tend to do all five.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accumulating a high rep makes surprising little difference in this system. You still post lots of answers, many of which are in early and of sufficiently high quality to earn a few upvotes regardless of who wrote them or when they arrived.  Whenever this happens you have both a time and votes advantage, so no matter what sort option is used people see a good answer at the top of the list with already a few votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this circumstance I freely acknowledge a &quot;piling-on&quot; effect, but I want to point two things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not necessarily bad any more.  It's a good thing when one answer stands out from the crowd in terms of communicating to the asker and future readers what the solution to that problem is, and bad when you have several answers suggesting different approaches that all have about the same score.  This is especially important when you have questions like &quot;Should I do A or B?&quot; and correct answer is &quot;Neither, do C&quot; or &quot;How do I do A?&quot; and the correct answer is &quot;A is evil, never do that. Do B instead.&quot;  Such answers need the credibility earned from a lot of votes. Since users have limited votes per day, it's common to only vote for one answer of a particular type, and so going with the most popular here is not a bad thing to do.  That said, I consciously try to avoid voting for answers that seem to have attracted this effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being a high rep user has little to do with it.  It's still about getting a good answer in fast.  You may see high rep users benefit from this more often, but as I mentioned earlier it's mainly because they're good at those points. I've had plenty of answers ignored that I thought were as good or better because I was a little too slow on the keyboard.  This is okay; one of Stack Overflow's best features is the speed with which you can normally attract a response to a question.  It happens enough that I can now often recognize that situation and just delete mine in favor of the earlier response.  There is a certain trust factor, though.  High rep users might benefit from a few extra votes for their answers now and then when they've earned the trust of other viewers to a question.  However, at such times this is both &lt;em&gt;1)&lt;/em&gt; trust that is first &lt;em&gt;earned&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;2)&lt;/em&gt; consistent with the way reputation is designed for Stack Overflow, that is, reputation is intended to gauge trust.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One final point is that for the &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; high rep users &amp;mdash; those in the first column of the first page &amp;mdash; high votes to an answer don't usually translate into high rep for answer.  The user has either already hit the rep cap for the day or would soon anyway, even if the answer earned no votes at all.  For I time I was in that group, and it was not uncommon to get enough votes to end that day at 400 or more if there had been no cap in place, even if my actual final score for the day was somewhere between 198 and 230.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-07T20:59:31.213" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T20:59:31.213" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-07T19:58:34.887" />
  <row Id="41462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41393" CreationDate="2010-03-07T20:29:33.330" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Homework&lt;/code&gt; doesn't apply to the person asking the question, it applies to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;Homework&lt;/code&gt; classification has a variety of uses:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Determining which Stack Overflow questions are homework-esque questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allowing someone to search &lt;code&gt;homework&lt;/code&gt; to see if their particular question has been asked before&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people use it as a sign that says &quot;Don't do this guy's work for him.&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's perfectly legitimate.  It's akin to someone not wanting to answer tag &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; questions. Do you believe that somehow removing that tag would make the question more palatable? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't, because people are smart enough to know an easy question when they see it. You may as well let them categorize them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T20:29:33.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3330" CreationDate="2010-03-07T21:05:32.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not allow a +100 bounty with no contributions on behalf of SO (not 50:50).  Sometimes if you ask a difficult or complicated question you just plain want to reward whoever gives you the answer (plus encourage people to invest the time).  At the moment complex or difficult questions just drop off a lot of the time as there is less motivation to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144315" LastActivityDate="2010-03-07T21:05:32.053" />
  <row Id="41465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41436" CreationDate="2010-03-08T00:15:49.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, give a man a fire and he'll warm a day... light a man on fire...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pyro humour aside, generally when someone asks a SO/SU/SF worthy question, i tend to link them here, and suggest they ask it here. In future they'll know where to ask, and can help themselves directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135565" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T00:15:49.430" />
  <row Id="41467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41635" CreationDate="2010-03-08T00:57:02.343" Score="4" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing a GreaseMonkey script to help me with retagging, and I need the post ID for the script. The problem is that on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=update+panel&quot;&gt;search results page&lt;/a&gt;, there is no output of the question ID in the DOM to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&quot;&gt;pages&lt;/a&gt;, we get &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;question-summary-12345678&quot; ...&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; but in the search results, all of them are &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div id=&quot;question-summary&quot; ...&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My request is to please output the post ID on the search results page to match the other pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I realized this DOM is also on the user profile page, and the ID is included in there as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T00:07:50.487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T00:07:50.487" Title="Add the Post ID to the Question Summary ID in the search results listing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search-results&gt;&lt;question-listing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2010-03-08T01:25:58.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe there's another way to look at this.  Maybe the &quot;problem&quot; isn't the upvoting itself, maybe it's the idea that all upvotes are identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If reputation is a measure of the community's trust in someone, then the value of an endorsement of an answer should, logically, scale with reputation.  Or to put it more simply, Jon Skeet upvoting someone has more meaning than if I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To take this to a more fully-fleshed system, you could argue that an upvote from someone with approximately the same rep as you is worth 10 points, as it is today.  An upvote from someone with 1 rep might be worth a single point, while a Jon Skeet upvote could be worth significantly more (20?  50?  100?  I hear that an upvote from Jon Skeet actually changes the correct answer to match what was posted...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may not change the actual upvoting, but may change the &lt;em&gt;impact&lt;/em&gt; of it - presumably the drive-bys would be from more casual people, and so would have little impact on a reasonably-repped user.  However, even a single upvote from a well-respected user could have significant impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, upvoting something is an endorsement of the answer.  Perhaps future votes on that answer should reflect on the rep of the up/down-voter?  So if you upvote something that then proceeds to get 100 downvotes, including the Mighty Downvote of Jon Skeet, then that's probably a sign of a lack of judgement on your part, and a rep hit may be appropriate.  This may also encourage people to annotate answers in comments rather than writing a new, but basically identical answer that just modifies one small bit.  This idea is (obviously) ripe with abuse potential, and would need to be thought out more fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T01:25:58.877" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-08T01:25:58.877" />
  <row Id="41469" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T01:47:13.337" Score="4" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow seems to be for questions of the form &quot;How do I do this specific programming task?&quot;; whereas, I want to ask a question of the form &quot;How do I design a system that has this functionality?&quot;. Such questions usually have several different good answers, and don't seem to fall into the &quot;well-defined programming question&quot; category. Should I post such questions on Stackoverflow, or is there a better place for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;related questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/596/which-site-for-database-design-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/596/which-site-for-database-design-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:15:24.113" Title="Is there a stackoverflow for design questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41471" CreationDate="2010-03-08T02:00:06.003" Score="0" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are meta and stack-overflow hosted on different machines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because, I can't get to stackoverflow.com, but I can get to meta.stackoverflow.com (obviously). My ISP has been particularly crappy with some domains lately, and indeed with some folders of some websites, while the root of the domain loads fine. In this case, I can load your sub-domain, but not your root domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to think this is my ISP, and I'm trying to rule things out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be, that one of the root hosts like level3 is not play nice with my ISP?&#xA;(Kinda like what happend back a few years ago, where they stoped supporting each other traffic, cutting off some websites from their users.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]&#xA;(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.&#xA;&#xA;C:\Documents and Settings\Mark Tomlin&amp;gt;tracert meta.stackoverflow.com&#xA;&#xA;Tracing route to meta.stackoverflow.com [69.59.196.215]&#xA;over a maximum of 30 hops:&#xA;&#xA;  1    12 ms     9 ms    12 ms  ool-18bf1001.dyn.optonline.net [24.191.16.1]&#xA;  2    11 ms     9 ms     9 ms  64.15.5.1&#xA;  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;  4    10 ms     9 ms     9 ms  64.15.5.97&#xA;  5    10 ms    18 ms   105 ms  rtr4-tg10-1.in.nycmny83.cv.net [64.15.0.17]&#xA; 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12    87 ms    91 ms    87 ms  te7-3.ccr01.smf01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.14]&#xA; 13    99 ms   101 ms   104 ms  te4-1.ccr01.pdx01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.94]&#xA; 14   102 ms    99 ms    99 ms  38.104.104.98&#xA; 15    99 ms    99 ms   101 ms  vl-12-PTLDORPBCR01.lsnetworks.net [216.110.192.21]&#xA; 16   102 ms   103 ms   103 ms  vl16-eugnor53cr01.lsnetworks.net [216.110.192.190]&#xA; 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 18   104 ms   104 ms   106 ms  ge-0-0-0-cvo-core2.peak.org [69.59.218.197]&#xA; 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 20   107 ms   105 ms   106 ms  sstatic.net [69.59.196.213]&#xA;&#xA;Trace complete.&#xA;&#xA;C:\Documents and Settings\Mark Tomlin&amp;gt;tracert xkcd.com&#xA;&#xA;Tracing route to xkcd.com [72.26.203.98]&#xA;over a maximum of 30 hops:&#xA;&#xA;  1     9 ms    11 ms    10 ms  ool-18bf1001.dyn.optonline.net [24.191.16.1]&#xA;  2    12 ms    13 ms    11 ms  64.15.5.2&#xA;  3    13 ms    10 ms     9 ms  64.15.10.129&#xA;  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;  5    19 ms    10 ms    10 ms  rtr4-tg11-2.wan.hcvlny.cv.net [64.15.4.25]&#xA;  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;  8    12 ms    12 ms     9 ms  0.ae59.tsr1.lga5.us.voxel.net [208.122.44.202]&#xA;  9    11 ms    14 ms    12 ms  0.ae57.csr2.lga6.us.voxel.net [208.122.44.210]&#xA; 10    14 ms    12 ms    12 ms  72.26.203.98&#xA;&#xA;Trace complete.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny, when I first tried to post this, it did not work from the location at the time.&#xA;This was due to api.recaptcha.net failing to load and the captcha would not show up.&#xA;Here is the ping and tracert for that mess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;C:\Documents and Settings\Mark Tomlin&amp;gt;ping api.recaptcha.net&#xA;&#xA;Pinging api.recaptcha.net [69.12.97.165] with 32 bytes of data:&#xA;&#xA;Request timed out.&#xA;Request timed out.&#xA;Request timed out.&#xA;Request timed out.&#xA;&#xA;Ping statistics for 69.12.97.165:&#xA;    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),&#xA;&#xA;C:\Documents and Settings\Mark Tomlin&amp;gt;tracert api.recaptcha.net&#xA;&#xA;Tracing route to api.recaptcha.net [69.12.97.165]&#xA;over a maximum of 30 hops:&#xA;&#xA;  1    12 ms     8 ms    10 ms  ool-18bf1001.dyn.optonline.net [24.191.16.1]&#xA;  2    10 ms     8 ms     9 ms  64.15.5.2&#xA;  3    10 ms    10 ms    10 ms  64.15.10.129&#xA;  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;  5   627 ms    19 ms    12 ms  rtr4-tg11-2.wan.hcvlny.cv.net [64.15.4.25]&#xA;  6    23 ms    14 ms    10 ms  rtr4-tg10-1.in.nycmny83.cv.net [64.15.0.17]&#xA;  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;  8    12 ms    14 ms    11 ms  ae-31-89.car1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.16.131]&#xA;  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;&#xA;Trace complete.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137471" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:35:24.347" Title="Are meta and stack-overflow hosted on different machines?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;server&gt;&lt;subdomains&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41470" CreationDate="2010-03-08T02:30:39.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39807/stack-overflow-network-load-balancer-architecture&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T02:30:39.107" />
  <row Id="41472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T03:22:43.703" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a minute ago I have some odd experience trying to find a tag under &quot;Tags&quot; section in the core &quot;www.stackoverflow.com&quot;. I don't know if it is a bug but just in case I reported.The sequence that triggers the possible bug is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was typing a tag (e.g. drupal, java) in the Tags section.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I clear my search box .. go from drupal to blank selection (nothing on the text box)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BUM Bug appears --- &gt; The first item on the sorted list below was an awfull &quot;blank tag&quot; with 203 results. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is ok to work that way (I really don't know). What I know is that some questions belong to the &quot;blank space tag&quot; and if I try to search only one blank space from the beginning of my search session it brings me back with the blank tag result. But what I'm saying here is when you clear the box (not even one miserable space) you get the same result and I think the average user will want to get back to the same set of results that it has when start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a little odd behavior.  Maybe it's OK, I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it's still the best QA site on the world wide web rigth now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="75852" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T15:20:30.273" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T15:20:30.273" Title="Possible bug in tagging selection system?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37758" CreationDate="2010-03-08T04:18:24.383" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I've wished for this feature a number of times, for adding a link to someone else's answer. Particularly because it was a comment to someone else's answer, it wasn't appropriate to add a separate answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments should generally be short—true. I think allowing this feature would make comments shorter and more readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment length limit should still be a valid incentive for people to keep comments short (I assume the links would continue to &quot;use up&quot; the comment length limit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60075" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T04:18:24.383" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41479" CreationDate="2010-03-08T04:51:49.200" Score="-10" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19990/routing-a-question-to-a-particular-so-member-or-members&quot;&gt;Routing a Question to a Particular SO Member or Members&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30564/how-to-ask-a-question-to-a-particular-user-of-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;How to ask a question to a particular user of stackoverflow.com &lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There come times where you have an advanced question about a platform (not a problem/error). Typical developers watching that tag won't be able to answer it, or the few expert developers might miss it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example:&lt;/em&gt; C# expert &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247621/what-are-the-correct-version-numbers-for-c/247623#247623&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt;, VSTO expert &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367318/how-do-you-hyperlink-to-word-2007-help-pages/2399123#2399123&quot;&gt;Otaku&lt;/a&gt;, Symbian expert &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2145407/the-best-way-of-developing-on-symbian/2146866#2146866&quot;&gt;QuickRecipesOnSymbianOS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some experts like Jon Skeet / Marc Gravell watch their respective tags, but that's no guarantee that your tough question will be seen by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a way to request a specific user to answer a question will be useful. An implementation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every question has &quot;inform&quot; link below it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clicking &quot;inform&quot; asks you for a specific user ID, eg. &quot;23354&quot; for Marc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marc then sees an alert on his Recent Activity page.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marc answers the tough question, and helps devs when they need him most&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131515" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:08:28.420" ClosedDate="2010-03-08T22:26:29.747" Title="Request a specific expert on a subject to answer your question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;specialist&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41474" CreationDate="2010-03-08T04:54:51.977" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some experts like Jon Skeet / Marc Gravell watch their respective tags, but that's no guarantee that your tough question will be seen by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very idea that anything is guaranteed, to anyone, is corrosive to community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make your question &lt;em&gt;good enough&lt;/em&gt;, it will attract the right audience. And if you don't .. well, fix your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, of course:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T04:54:51.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41472" CreationDate="2010-03-08T04:56:56.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't reproduce this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T04:56:56.190" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41474" CreationDate="2010-03-08T04:58:32.210" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this were possible, &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; would ping him with their question.  Given that, do you really think that feature would be useful to you?  Because either way you still won't stand out from the crowd or Jon has to just stop looking at any of the notices.  Either way, it doesn't help you at all.  And then put yourself in Jon's shoes for a minute.  Would you want to get a notice anytime anyone asks a question even remotely related to C#?  It'd get real annoying real quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; see this working if there were a &lt;strong&gt;stiff&lt;/strong&gt; reputation penalty to use it - say spend 50 points or so every time you want to send a request and require the question be community wiki.  That should keep the volume to something reasonable.  But I think I'd still find it more annoying than flattering to be the target of such requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T05:06:17.827" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:06:17.827" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41469" CreationDate="2010-03-08T05:06:58.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doctype&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:06:58.967" />
  <row Id="41479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41474" CreationDate="2010-03-08T05:08:28.420" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a &quot;high-rep&quot; user (not necessarily an expert, but easily findable on the first page), I occasionally get random people commenting on answers I've given, requesting that I look at their newly posted question. This happened just the other day, and as it happens that new question didn't have anything to do with anything I was interested in, so I did what I normally do - flag the question for moderator attention and &lt;strong&gt;indicate the user is spamming&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's also what I would consider such an &quot;inform&quot; feature to be. I answer questions on Stack Overflow on my own schedule and on my own whim. I would definitely not like to receive directed requests from random users about their latest question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:08:28.420" />
  <row Id="41480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41469" CreationDate="2010-03-08T05:08:38.793" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen sufficiently specific software architecture questions get a good response on Stack Overflow, which is as it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Veer to much into the nebulous and overly general and your questions may not fair as well. Which is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; as it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T05:15:24.113" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:15:24.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41470" CreationDate="2010-03-08T05:35:24.347" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The web servers are different, but they talk to the same database and are behind the same load balancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T05:35:24.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41494" CreationDate="2010-03-08T08:21:48.163" Score="6" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking around and I cant seem to find an automatic (i.e. buzz- or twitter-like) way to follow users inside SO. Why haven't the devs added such a feature? It could help beginner users follow other beginners with the same interests. We would be able to learn from each others' questions and pitfalls. Also, it would reduce double posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144305" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-01T20:14:46.453" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T19:44:45.347" Title="Is it possible to follow a user automatically?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;how-to&gt;&lt;social-networking&gt;&lt;follow-up&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41483" CreationDate="2010-03-08T08:24:08.210" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, because Stack Overflow is NOT Social Networking site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted from Jeff's Blog,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’re not building some hyper-viral&#xA;  social networking tool like Facebook&#xA;  or MySpace or LinkedIn where we try to&#xA;  game you into hanging around and&#xA;  socializing and building lists of fake&#xA;  friends to get results&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-25T19:44:45.347" LastActivityDate="2011-01-25T19:44:45.347" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41483" CreationDate="2010-03-08T09:00:47.867" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once there's a feature that can 'follow' users, there will be requests to be able to send message to those followed or followers. Then there will be requests to be able to blacklist or ban users then there will be requests to group the followed user lists then.......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T09:00:47.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41436" CreationDate="2010-03-08T09:12:10.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as you're genuinely interested in getting an answer to the question, I don't see anything wrong with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T09:12:10.077" />
  <row Id="41487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41436" CreationDate="2010-03-08T09:24:18.283" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to at least keep in mind is the idea of licensing. Some other forum might have something like &quot;All content submitted here is released under the &lt;em&gt;XYZ Awesome Documentation License&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, and that license might be incompatible with CC-Wiki. Or there might be no mention of licensing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would likely be a rare problem, but you should be aware that in such a case (especially when it's a more elaborate question) you might not be legally allowed to repost the question on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T09:24:18.283" />
  <row Id="41488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41492" CreationDate="2010-03-08T09:35:19.447" Score="4" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/955156/can-i-publish-some-stackoverflows-content-on-my-personal-blog/955166#955166&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; is closed as &quot;belongs on meta&quot;, but not migrated (I think migration wasn't available at that time). That's not a particularly  big problem in this case (there are similar questions around on Meta), but for the general case, should there be more questions of this kind: Is it of any use to flag such a question for mod attention? Can a moderator migrate a question that has already been closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T10:43:14.820" Title="Should non-migrated questions be flagged for a moderator?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T09:40:58.197" Score="1" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/98080/what-is-the-best-logging-solution-for-a-c-net-35-project&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, the accepted answer has lots of down votes. Should the community revise the accepted answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be other questions like the one I've linked to, that's just an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144333" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T09:48:19.193" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T12:08:25.047" Title="Accepted Answer with lot of Down Votes?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41489" CreationDate="2010-03-08T09:47:00.990" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person who asked the question chose that as the answer that worked for them, which is their right. The community gets to decide whether that's the &quot;best&quot; answer by voting, which they've done. The answer the community voted as most useful is &lt;em&gt;right underneath&lt;/em&gt; the answer that the person who asked the question thought was most useful (provided you've not done anything funny with the way you sort answers), so it's hardly difficult to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, note the comment by the person who asked the question where someone queried why he'd accepted the answer he did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No need to be concerned. My final&#xA;  solution went ahead with the&#xA;  enterprise library for a few reasons,&#xA;  firstly we were using a few other&#xA;  features of the library, secondly I&#xA;  liked the implementation and thirdly&#xA;  it was powerful enough for our needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the answer &lt;em&gt;met his needs&lt;/em&gt;, which is sort of the point of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T09:47:00.990" />
  <row Id="41491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41489" CreationDate="2010-03-08T09:50:24.310" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they should. The OP clearly explained why he marked it as accepted. From the FAQ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you have decided which answer is the &lt;em&gt;most helpful to you&lt;/em&gt;, mark it as the accepted answer by clicking on the check box outline to the left of the answer. This lets other people know that &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; have received a good answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words the OP found that answer the most helpful as that was what he/she used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The community already has a method of indicating what they think the accepted answer should be, upvotes. I don't think setting a precedent of changing accepted answers would be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T09:50:24.310" />
  <row Id="41492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41488" CreationDate="2010-03-08T10:43:14.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator can migrate the question by re-opening it and then closing it again for migration. Since diamond moderators can do this with a single vote the process is fairly simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T10:43:14.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27614" CreationDate="2010-03-08T11:46:35.907" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can convert SO resume to PDF/DOC/HTML using this site: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lab.madgex.com/hresume/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lab.madgex.com/hresume/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132472" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T11:46:35.907" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41483" CreationDate="2010-03-08T12:01:07.193" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/144305&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;follow a user's RSS Feed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. You will find the icon on every user page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T12:01:07.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41489" CreationDate="2010-03-08T12:08:25.047" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how you would edit this post. People didn't like the product this answer recommended. You certainly wouldn't edit the answer to recommend something different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T12:08:25.047" />
  <row Id="41496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-06-05T10:08:41.457" Score="6" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a blog on posterous that I use as a bloc-notes-with-bookmarks, everythings I find usefull I put on it as an article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't find this answer in the FAQ or in the privacy policy, so here I am: in policy terms, can I copy and paste a Stack Overflow question, with the answers I consider useful, and put it in my blog? Citing the source, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134903" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-20T12:39:47.340" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T12:39:47.340" Title="Can I publish some of Stack Overflow's content on my personal blog?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;license&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41496" CreationDate="2009-06-05T10:11:24.273" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. SO content is licensed CC-BY-SA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T12:27:38.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T12:45:34.503" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6250/vote-too-old-to-be-changed-unless-post-is-edited-problem&quot;&gt;Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited &amp;ldquo;problem&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to upvote &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2401225/template-classes-and-include-guards-in-c/2401253#2401253&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, but it is saying that the vote is too old to be changed even though I had not voted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually accidentally clicked on upvote for this once then immediately clicked it on again to undo it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I actually want to upvote it but it is not allowing me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39742" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T13:33:13.370" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T13:33:13.370" ClosedDate="2010-03-08T13:42:10.793" Title="Can not upvote a particular answer after undoing an upvote" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41498" CreationDate="2010-03-08T12:47:42.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has happened to me, my guess is that voting and undoing counts as a vote, and then you can't &quot;change your vote&quot; until it's edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's a bug or a feature though&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T12:47:42.630" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T13:14:33.817" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36969/are-the-dates-of-answers-assuming-were-still-in-2009&quot;&gt;Are the dates of answers assuming we&amp;rsquo;re still in 2009?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15576/add-year-to-dates-for-dates-within-11-months&quot;&gt;Add Year to Dates for Dates within 11 Months&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/928656/iphone-sdk-on-windows-alternative-solutions&quot; title=&quot;just an example&quot;&gt;at a question&lt;/a&gt; and it shows this info about the asker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;asked May 30 at 0:42&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cyclone&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1,267  ●1 ●3 ●15&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;85%&lt;/strong&gt; accept rate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The date, May 30, is not showing year. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130797" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T13:31:01.907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T13:31:01.907" ClosedDate="2010-03-08T14:42:20.763" Title="Why are the dates on timestamps and such not showing the year?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;&lt;dates&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41504" CreationDate="2010-03-08T13:28:52.610" Score="5" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;While tagging questions, it appears that there are both singular and plural tags for plenty of terms as stated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6752/merge-singular-and-plural-tags&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Assuming that there is no semantic difference between the singular and plural state of the tag, which one should we prefer? The one which was used more or the one which was used less up to that time? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140794" LastActivityDate="2011-02-12T19:43:57.187" Title="Tagging as singular or plural" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41501" CreationDate="2010-03-08T13:56:13.703" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one which was used more, which tends to be the singular one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T13:56:13.703" />
  <row Id="41504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41501" CreationDate="2010-03-08T14:11:54.413" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EDIT: Now that the platform supports tag synonyms, singular/plural tags with the same meaning should just be synonym-ified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;There should be a standard for this sort of thing, for consistency in the future.  It'll cut down on retag requests, since the singular will become the one that's used more often (which seems to be the current rule).  I admit that it won't eliminate them completely, due to new users and others who don't get the memo, but it'll help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where there's no semantic difference, I vote for using singular, just to save typing the extra letter.&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-12T19:43:57.187" LastActivityDate="2011-02-12T19:43:57.187" />
  <row Id="41505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40895" CreationDate="2010-03-08T14:26:59.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was able to reproduce this (I use Google Chrome 5, if that is of significance). I noticed that my existing C# tag is encoded correctly, but any new tag added that contains &lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; is not encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also happens (as would be expected) with other characters such as &lt;code&gt;{&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;}&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T14:26:59.897" />
  <row Id="41506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34377" CreationDate="2010-03-08T14:30:48.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found curious that &lt;strong&gt;this guy that has 200 rep and 660 total votes got the Electorate badge.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, all that he does in SO is to read questions and upvote questions. If I understood this badge correctly, this user upvotes answers, but rarely (or never) upvotes questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/209578/david-001&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/209578/david-001&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T14:30:48.117" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48709" CreationDate="2010-03-08T14:31:53.390" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question about notifications of revisions is marked &lt;code&gt;status-completed&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/456/notifications-for-edits-by-others-of-my-own-questions-and-answers&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/456/notifications-for-edits-by-others-of-my-own-questions-and-answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's not really completed.  The envelope turns red but you don't get the drop-down notification box that says &quot;You've had 3 edits to your questions&quot; or something similar.  We get this for answers and comments, but not revisions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This info is available in the revisions tab, so it's not totally hidden, but the ability to hunt down this information is not the same as notifications.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T16:42:27.893" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T16:50:42.313" Title="Notification when a question or answer is revised is not really status-completed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41501" CreationDate="2010-03-08T14:36:50.207" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes there is a difference - one example is &quot;assembly&quot; - in the singular this tends to mean &quot;assembly language&quot;, in the plural it seems to mean something related to web services programming (although sometimes people annoyingly use the singular for this too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142198" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T14:36:50.207" />
  <row Id="41510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T15:04:11.460" Score="-1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing a lot of people saying there won't be new close messages and I get the message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why is there a push to provide users with less specific information? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does not basic usability imply the more information we give the users the better their experience of SO will be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prior&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now we have a number of options to close questions but I feel there is one missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will often see questions which are a statement of a problem that are basically a request to code a solution as op. to a problem a user is having. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is if you can look at the question and know the answer is &quot;Hire a programmer&quot;.  Such questions should be closed.  I'm not sure what the exact wording on the reason should be but I feel like this is an option which is left out of the close choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139921" LastEditorUserId="139921" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T16:18:03.867" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:18:03.867" Title="New option in closing a Stack Overflow question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41510" CreationDate="2010-03-08T15:12:46.020" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the widespread consensus is to close &quot;please do it for me&quot; questions as &lt;code&gt;not a real question&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T16:09:55.493" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:09:55.493" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41510" CreationDate="2010-03-08T15:21:25.107" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There won't be new close reasons, they tend to go the other way around (merging into less)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too localized&lt;/strong&gt; may be a good choice for something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would only be relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is &lt;strong&gt;not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T16:15:50.890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:15:50.890" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T15:44:26.160" Score="10" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last night I updated my &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL testing site&lt;/a&gt; with the March data set.  No other updates were made (it still says &quot;October 2009&quot;, for example, and doesn't show any new columns like e-mail Hash) and it's still just StackOverflow data &amp;mdash; no superuser, serverfault, or meta yet.  Also, the testing site doesn't have the full-text indexes and it's still on my slow home server and connection.  But otherwise the link is usable with updated data.  Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T16:00:36.043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:00:36.043" Title="StackQL test site updated to March data" Tags="&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;stackql&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="41516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41507" CreationDate="2010-03-08T15:58:13.097" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The envelope turning red &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a notification.  It's much less intrusive than the drop-down badge/response notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T15:58:13.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41514" CreationDate="2010-03-08T15:59:17.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great, I love it!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't want to nitpick, I'm not sure about how it's in the raw data dump, but I just noted my age is enlisted one off (I'm 18 and am listed as 19). You can try it with the following query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE  DisplayName='Johannes Rudolph'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136840" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T15:59:17.700" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35264" CreationDate="2010-03-08T16:07:26.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It caught me out repeatedly, too. It is similar enough in appearance to the actual content, that I find myself erroneously reading the ads on every page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than lead me to click on it, I was irritated at the clearly underhanded tactics (this is no different to full-page ads misleadingly presented as articles), and promptly blocked the ads in my user stylesheet. Normally, I don't block ads, as I realise the sites depend on ad revenue (though I do block Flash, natch), but such devious ads as these (and similar ones introduced on digg.com) are a guarantee that I will block the ads, and assume the advertising company is just as dishonest and cynical as their advertising methods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If SO wants to show such ads, that's your call, but allowing such dubious advertising practices only reflects badly on the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please forbid such deliberately misleading and confusing ads.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144348" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:07:26.570" />
  <row Id="41519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41556" CreationDate="2010-03-08T16:07:30.643" Score="13" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm still 29, and this shows correctly on StackOverflow and the rest of the &quot;trilogy&quot; because I entered my correct birth date.  The data dump says I'm 30.  I know this is happening to other users as well &amp;mdash; you can see it here:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41514/stackql-test-site-updated-to-march-data/41517#41517&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41514/stackql-test-site-updated-to-march-data/41517#41517&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=470&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=470&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T21:46:37.080" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T21:46:37.080" Title="Age calculations are wrong in the data dump export" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;age&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41523" CreationDate="2010-03-08T16:17:49.827" Score="4" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently one of my colleagues user account has been deleted on SO. She is not regular user and she occasionally  logs in into the system to see questions and understand things around, she occasionally answers them and has some rep too(she don't remember the rep too). One fine morning her account is no longer active and she is not able to login. She first thought that she is doing something wrong with open id and then later I realized that my rep went down (as she voted on some my answers too) and we figured out that her account got deleted. on what basis an account will be deleted here on SO???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137330" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T20:28:22.033" Title="When will a user get deleted in SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41520" CreationDate="2010-03-08T16:19:38.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a specific account has shown no activity for four months and the rep is &amp;lt; 100, the account is &lt;strong&gt;unregistered&lt;/strong&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/when-is-an-account-abandoned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your colleague's account does not fall into this category she should contact team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T20:28:22.033" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T20:28:22.033" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41520" CreationDate="2010-03-08T16:36:38.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess would be that since this is a colleague, its possible SO was picking up both your activity and hers as coming from the same location. Therefore, if there was a high correlation in terms of voting on each other's activity, perhaps the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/more-voting-anomalies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vote fraud detection&lt;/a&gt; algorithm determined the accounts to be the same person and deleted one. I don't know for certain if the fraud detection goes this far, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does. Either way, the next step is to contact the SO team at team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:36:38.600" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41520" CreationDate="2010-03-08T16:57:00.713" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that Timothy has the truth of it. Unfortunately, heavily biased voting between colleagues &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; tend to make one of the accounts appear &quot;suspect&quot;. If something was erroneous, the account can &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; be recovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T16:57:00.713" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-08T17:00:42.193" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://timefinder.sourceforge.net/help-wanted.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://karussell.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/timefinder2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Find Time For TimeFinder!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144346" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T17:00:42.193" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-08T17:00:42.193" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41519" CreationDate="2010-03-08T17:01:09.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect they are doing the simple year calculation.  If you were born in 1970, and it's 2010, then sometime during this year you have already or will turn 40.  It's easier/cheaper than a full date calculation, and does it really matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be to avoid minor privacy concerns - look at previous data dumps and determine the birthmonth.  Seems a bit over concerned, though, so it's unlikely, but possible.  Notably one can determine the exact birthdate by reading the user page once a day and waiting for the age to change, so it's already visible, but takes up to a year to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T17:01:09.120" />
  <row Id="41527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41529" CreationDate="2010-03-08T17:06:54.857" Score="4" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suddenly lost 50 reputation points. My display name is 'Teja Kantamneni'. What happened? The activity is not showing any '-ve' or 'red'..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; It's on SO, not on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137330" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T17:33:01.647" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T18:42:13.723" ClosedDate="2010-03-09T02:00:45.207" Title="Why did I just lose 50 reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41527" CreationDate="2010-03-08T17:09:40.660" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably related to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41520/when-will-a-user-get-deleted-in-so&quot;&gt;other question&lt;/a&gt; you just asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow probably detected anomalies in the vote pattern between your account and the account you said got deleted. It probably thought that the account that got deleted was a sock puppet account, so it deleted that, and cancelled the upvotes that account gave you. I'm guessing that deleted account upvoted you 5 times, so you've lost 5x10 = 50 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details, you'll need to e-mail team@stackoverflow.com. If I were you, I'd send a single e-mail with this question and the other one. We're all just guessing at the cause, they can actually tell you what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T17:16:17.520" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T17:16:17.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41527" CreationDate="2010-03-08T17:34:37.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your account appears to have undergone a routine recalc. Nothing to be alarmed of. This may have been triggered by suspicious voting, or any number of other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to voting for coworkers, or having coworkers vote for you, I'd suggest not doing this. If you find this is easier than inter-office communication, just make sure your coworkers provide a descriptive profile to give legitimacy to them being a real person. Most puppet-accounts tend to be empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators understand that two people in the same office may share the same IP. For this reason, help us out by making it clear you are two legitimate users to avoid any confusion. And try not to upvote in excess one another to avoid upsetting the machines :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing you may consider is encouraging co-workers to mention their city/state where the office is located in their profile. To go the extra-mile, mention the company name to really make it clear that you use Stack Overflow in an office environment with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T17:42:06.480" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T17:42:06.480" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T17:49:24.667" Score="-3" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking more about tagging and the apparent problem so many people on SO seem to have with the concept.  The number of times I've had to fix questions tagged &lt;code&gt;visual&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;studio&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;sql&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;server&lt;/code&gt;, often for users with 3000+ reputation, defies reason.  And that's just the tip of the iceberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occurs to me that a lot of the problem is we've been trained by other sites to treat tags differently.  Programmers generally know how to do categorization, but that's just not how they look at the tag metaphor on a web site.  Sites like flikr and youtube need to also use tags for search indexing, and so they mix the categorization concept with a description concept, resulting in an impossibly fragmented tag inventory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution here, then, is a simple name change &amp;mdash; change the name, change the metaphor.  I think more people get that labels (as in gmail) are about categorization, and using the term &quot;label&quot; will help them expect to find existing labels and look for the correct ones rather than type whatever pops into their head, as appears to happen so often right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully expect this to end up status-declined, as this &quot;simple&quot; cosmetic change touches question urls, and that means mvc routes in code, bookmarks, etc.  At very least you'd have to leave the old routes around as duplicates for the bookmarks. But I would like to see if it could build up any support and hear others' thoughts on whether this would help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-29T18:29:47.120" LastActivityDate="2010-06-29T18:29:47.120" Title="Rename tags to labels" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;terminology&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41530" CreationDate="2010-03-08T18:02:42.550" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with these metaphors is that everybody understands them in different ways. Depending on who you ask,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;label&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;category&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;folder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;section&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;group&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;may all mean the same thing, or mean n+1 different things. So unless there is substancial evidence that a majority of people use the word (say) &quot;label&quot; for what SO's tags actually are, changing the wording might make the thing clearer for one small group, but at the same time alienate / confuse / aggravate / &amp;hellip; a different, possibly larger group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T18:02:42.550" />
  <row Id="41533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41530" CreationDate="2010-03-08T18:06:40.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe a label should actually be different.  A tag would act like tag on flickr, youtube, and twitter (hashtag), but a label would be different.  An &lt;strong&gt;elevated&lt;/strong&gt; tag if you will.  Something can be tagged as C# (meaning the poster marked it as C#) but when something is labeled as C# you &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; it is C#.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how this would work... but here is a quick idea -- users can vote for a tag being correct and with a certain number of votes a tag will upgraded to a label.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139921" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T18:06:40.357" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23386" CreationDate="2010-03-08T18:19:02.720" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first gut response is No. It's more from a personal standpoint that it seems that people are lazy in some respects... especially when the correct answer is the first hit on Google or the MSDN docs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, at the same time, Stack Overflow does offer something that Google doesn't... community certainty.  If you are asking the question because you truly don't know the answer, then even if the top Google hit is the right answer, how do you know that? The voting system on SO at least gives the asker a bit of reassurance that the simple answer is in fact the right one, which provides a little extra value to the person asking the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22407" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T18:19:02.720" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-08T18:19:02.720" />
  <row Id="41537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41519" CreationDate="2010-03-08T18:28:59.097" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the results of twenty randomly chosen users:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;User 218540: 28 years in data dump, 27 years on website&#xA;User 160208: 25 years in data dump, 24 years on website&#xA;User 23897: 40 years in data dump, 39 years on website&#xA;User 86038: 23 years in data dump, 22 years on website&#xA;User 20367: 39 years in data dump, 38 years on website&#xA;User 106040: 31 years in data dump, 31 years on website&#xA;User 2368: 27 years in data dump, 27 years on website&#xA;User 116553: 23 years in data dump, 22 years on website&#xA;User 191385: 15 years in data dump, 14 years on website&#xA;User 214528: 24 years in data dump, 23 years on website&#xA;User 18102: 35 years in data dump, 35 years on website&#xA;User 58309: 42 years in data dump, 42 years on website&#xA;User 110227: 32 years in data dump, 32 years on website&#xA;User 98585: 26 years in data dump, 25 years on website&#xA;User 184340: 39 years in data dump, 38 years on website&#xA;User 250022: 24 years in data dump, 23 years on website&#xA;User 8843: 39 years in data dump, 39 years on website&#xA;User 234438: 33 years in data dump, 32 years on website&#xA;User 5975: 27 years in data dump, 26 years on website&#xA;User 251474: 34 years in data dump, 33 years on website&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;14 out of 20 differ, and where they do, the age on the website is exactly one less than the age in the db.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Code used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sqlite3, random, httplib2, re&#xA;&#xA;# the &amp;lt;center&amp;gt; cannot hold it is too late&#xA;age_re = re.compile(r&quot;&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;age&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;\s*&amp;lt;td&amp;gt;\s*(\d*)\s*&amp;lt;/td&amp;gt;&quot;)&#xA;http = httplib2.Http()&#xA;db = sqlite3.connect(&quot;so201003.db&quot;)&#xA;&#xA;with_age = db.execute(&quot;SELECT Id, Age FROM USERS WHERE Age IS NOT NULL&quot;).fetchall()&#xA;random.shuffle(with_age)&#xA;&#xA;sample = with_age[:20]&#xA;&#xA;for userid, db_age in sample:&#xA;    url = &quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/%d&quot; % userid&#xA;    response, content = http.request(url, headers = {&quot;User-Agent&quot;: &quot;Hi Jeff! Joel says you're wrong. I'm checking that.&quot;})&#xA;    if response.status != 200:&#xA;        raise IOError(&quot;Response was %d&quot; % response.status)&#xA;    web_age = int(age_re.search(content).groups(1)[0])&#xA;    print &quot;User %d: %d years in data dump, %d years on website&quot; % (userid, db_age, web_age)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T18:28:59.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41530" CreationDate="2010-03-08T18:31:42.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it matters what they're called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a system with (a) any kind of complexity, and (b) the burden of learning the system is placed on each individual user, there are &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; going to be users who misuse the system to some degree (myself included). That being said, I think users legitimately try to use the system properly -- it's just that they do it &lt;em&gt;in the way they understand it&lt;/em&gt;, which isn't necessarily the same way the authors of the system intend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T18:31:42.497" />
  <row Id="41540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41527" CreationDate="2010-03-08T18:42:13.723" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hands up - that was me. I was looking into what happened in your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41520/when-will-a-user-get-deleted-in-so&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;previous&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt;, and instead of hitting &quot;history&quot;, I hit &quot;recalc&quot; (they are very close together). This triggered the &quot;cashier&quot; scenario Jonathan described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the click on &quot;recalc&quot; was me - but the new value is just routine activity. Here, I'll recalc myself: I &quot;lost&quot; 15 points (in reality, I never &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; those 15 points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T18:42:13.723" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="41541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41530" CreationDate="2010-03-08T19:34:52.387" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give users the opportunity to write a descriptive title, and they'll ask, &quot;Plz help!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give users the opportunity to write a descriptive question, and they'll ask, &quot;[80 lines of irrelevant code] why doesn't my code work .?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give users the opportunity to choose a category, and they'll pick the first one they recognize. Or just the first one in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give users the opportunity to add labels / tags / whatever and they'll write whatever comes into their head: non-standard abbreviations, synonyms, a copy of their title...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll always screw it up &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt;. That's why there's editing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T19:34:52.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="104357" CreationDate="2010-03-08T20:19:23.177" Score="10" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way that I'm aware of to easily locate questions that you have set bounties on in the past. It seems like there should be, however; perhaps under the &quot;activity&quot; tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-30T03:51:54.860" LastActivityDate="2011-08-30T03:51:54.860" Title="How can I see old bounties I have offered?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41542" CreationDate="2010-03-08T20:37:57.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More complicated that you're asking for but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can go to your reputation graph, find the dip in your rep that corresponds to the creation of the bounty, select that part of the graph, and find the questions with the bounty docked in the side bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this will start to get harder to do as you rep gets into the 15k range and 100 point moves stop showing up clearly on the graph... Unless you always offer &lt;em&gt;big&lt;/em&gt; bounties, then you can put the problem back until you have circa 40-50k rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T20:37:57.847" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41542" CreationDate="2010-03-08T20:40:40.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're referring to &lt;em&gt;active&lt;/em&gt; bounties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could go to your &quot;questions&quot; tab and sort by date (&quot;newest&quot;). As bounty questions can't be older than seven days old, you should be able to locate bounty questions quickly because of the blue &lt;code&gt;+xxx&lt;/code&gt; symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;inactive&lt;/em&gt; bounties, I think the only way is indeed what dmckee suggests, selecting a period in the graph and scanning for three-digit red &lt;code&gt;-xxx&lt;/code&gt; entries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T20:40:40.687" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T20:50:59.027" Score="6" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a pretty minor detail, but something that may be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at the timeline view of a question that has been closed and reopened it is difficult to tell when the question was reopened.  The Community user leaves a nice comment of &lt;strong&gt;A post was voted to be closed.&lt;/strong&gt; on the edit history of the the post when the community votes to close the question, but leaves no edit comment when the question is voted to be reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/966512/timeline&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.imgplace.com/img189/6634/42reopen.png&quot; alt=&quot;Example&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="94928" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T00:52:03.757" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T00:52:03.757" Title="Community user does not leave a proper comment when reopening" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;timeline&gt;&lt;reopened-questions&gt;" />
  <row Id="41546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41530" CreationDate="2010-03-08T20:53:08.760" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is not the terminology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that SO uses a space as a tag separator, which IMHO does not make any sense. Usually, a comma is used instead, especially since there aren't many (any?) tags that could contain a comma while there are plenty which would use a space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T20:53:08.760" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41519" CreationDate="2010-03-08T21:21:36.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Jeff should post a question on StackOverflow asking how to calculate someone's age from their birthday and the current date...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh look, he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; ask that in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9/how-do-i-calculate-someones-age-in-c&quot;&gt;2008&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps he now believes his current knowledge will be entirely obsolete in &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; year, not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/03/everything-you-know-will-be-obsolete-in-five-years.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;five&lt;/a&gt;, so he deliberately wipes his memory every 12 months to make room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T21:21:36.043" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41553" CreationDate="2010-03-08T21:31:13.517" Score="3" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple math is perplexing me. Today I earned 580 points on SO. 550 were from answering a bounty and 30 were from upvotes. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...bounty awards, like all accepted&#xA;  answers, are immune to the daily&#xA;  reputation cap...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've received at least 5 more upvotes since then on a different posting, but no points. Is something wrong with the system? Have I misunderstood basic addition and subtraction here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(p.s. I've searched for an answer on mSO and haven't found one, that's why I'm asking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-08T23:01:14.847" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T23:01:14.847" Title="Reputation Cap and Simple Math - Where are my points?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41552" CreationDate="2010-03-08T21:36:36.913" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bounty is immune to the daily reputation cap, &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the cap has already been hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in your case, you earned 30 points, got the 550 from the bounty which pushed you to the cap, and now you won't earn any additional reputation from normal upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13851/only-apply-the-rep-cap-to-score-from-votes&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74022" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T21:36:36.913" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T21:39:37.737" Score="3" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35264/should-ads-that-mimic-stackoverflow-ui-be-allowed&quot;&gt;Should ads that mimic StackOverflow UI be allowed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got this ad-banner on Stackoverflow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencast.com/t/MWUxMGE4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://screencast.com/t/MWUxMGE4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every ad tries to blend into the site (higher click through). To some extend I can understand. But this ad is really pushing to boundaries and to me, is not distinguishable from the rest of the site. Am I the only user being confused by these &quot;startups.com&quot; ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144357" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T21:44:53.617" ClosedDate="2010-03-08T21:47:57.220" Title="Does Stackoverflow gone too far with the ads?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41554" CreationDate="2010-03-08T21:44:53.617" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think ads should blend in with the site rather than impose themselves on you visually or functionality.  I also believe it's important that SO derive revenue for the service they provide.  Sponsorship of tags, ad areas, etc. are well worth the benefits provided to the development community by having SO host ads.  I don't believe they are doing anything irregular or obtrusive with their advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T21:44:53.617" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41519" CreationDate="2010-03-08T21:46:26.037" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will be fixed in the next dump.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T21:46:26.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T22:27:02.210" Score="4" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question recently about localization in general (is a specific concept English only, or applied to other cultures/localization/languages as well, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this suitable for StackOverflow?  I would think yes, but people objected to it otherwise, and wanted to ask the meta group what they thought.  I consider localization an important consideration for application development, but I know most people do.  Additionally, this is a very broad domain question I asked that isn't programming related, but programmers will probably deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question in question&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2405028/are-there-other-languages-besides-english-that-append-suffixes-to-arabic-numerals&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2405028/are-there-other-languages-besides-english-that-append-suffixes-to-arabic-numerals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any input, comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132108" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T22:58:28.683" Title="Is it suitable to ask broad questions about localizations on StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36303" CreationDate="2010-03-08T22:34:18.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As disccused on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41547/last-activity-two-days-ago-where&quot;&gt;Meta question here&lt;/a&gt;, and demonstrated by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/34772/timeline&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/34772/timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/posts/54108/timeline&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/posts/54108/timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and countless others, I'm sure), a poke from the Community user does not display in the timeline. Probably should, because sometimes it's nice to know that your question was pushed back to the front page to get more attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T22:34:18.807" />
  <row Id="41561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41562" CreationDate="2010-03-08T22:43:35.323" Score="3" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/747/show-total-votes-or-up-down-votes&quot;&gt;up/down vote counts&lt;/a&gt;? They were showing last week on SO but now they seem to be gone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T22:44:50.593" Title="What happened to the up/down vote count (vote details)?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;vote-count&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41561" CreationDate="2010-03-08T22:44:50.593" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You appear to be under 1,000 reputation on Stack Overflow since setting up a 500-rep bounty. The up/downvote splits show up at 1,000, and yes, you do lose privileges if you fall under their threshold after the fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll still see them on Server Fault, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T22:44:50.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41559" CreationDate="2010-03-08T22:58:28.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say yes, it goes on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strictly speaking it is indeed not programming, but you usually need to write some code to handle i18n and l10n. By knowing &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; you need to handle, you can then figure out what code you need to write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, asking lets you determine &quot;is it worthwhile to add code to handle this, or can we just do a reasonable workaround for this one language so we don't need to handle it and can keep the code simpler&quot;. If you know that there's just this one language, and an entirely feasible workaround exists, it's probably not worth writing code for it - but it's a different case if there are several languages that require it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144190" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T22:58:28.683" />
  <row Id="41566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41719" CreationDate="2010-03-08T23:26:10.407" Score="3" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to login to Stack Overflow with OpenID and I am receiving an error from Google saying &quot;Request-URI Too Large&quot;. Is this an issue with Google or an issue with Stack Overflow's implementation of OpenID?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My OpenID url: &lt;a href=&quot;http://54.org/thomas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://54.org/thomas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.server&quot; href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/openid-server.g&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA; &amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.delegate&quot; href=&quot;http://blog.thomasandcarrie.com/&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The URL &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144464" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T20:34:32.920" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T20:34:32.920" Title="Why can't I log onto Stack Overflow with my redirected OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-08T23:46:20.440" Score="4" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about we give a silver badge if someone accepts a certain number of answers (10,25, whatever)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might give more incentive to accept answers than the accept-rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible Name: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Appreciative&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or maybe &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;Learned&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (open for ideas here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:02:22.580" Title="Badge for accepting answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41567" CreationDate="2010-03-08T23:48:44.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only asked seven questions on Stack Overflow, so I would say no, because I would be ineligible for this badge. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I don't want to feel pressured to accept answers for the questions where I have not done so thusfar. In my opinion, these questions have not adequately been answered, so they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; stay unaccepted as a symbol that I am still soliciting good answers for these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-08T23:48:44.947" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41567" CreationDate="2010-03-09T01:25:04.520" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to be more objective, here are my 2 cents....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem of users not accepting answer can be categorised to some (not all) of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP don't bother&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the answers (if any) are not satisfactory (from the OP's perspective)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP doesn't know the importance of accepting an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP went on holiday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can the proposed badge help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP don't bother&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Might motivate the OP to accept&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the answers (if any) are not satisfactory (from the OP's perspective)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Might cause the OP to accept answers for the sake of accepting&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP doesn't know the importance of accepting an answer&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;He might not know of the existence of badge too&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the OP went on holiday&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Ermm.. still on holiday&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What ELSE can the badge do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Encourages more questions (despite the quality/genuinity) for the sake of accepting an answer, for the sake of the badge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neglecting those who answer lots more than questioning (not a real problem for me though)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After obtaining the badge, an user then go on a spree without accepting questions unless of course there's a 'gold' one for a higher number of accepted question. So what's after that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T01:25:04.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41567" CreationDate="2010-03-09T02:32:33.240" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So you want a badge in &lt;em&gt;addition&lt;/em&gt; to +2 the rep bonus?  If the rep bonus and constant badgering doesn't get them to accept more answers, what makes you think a badge will?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T02:32:33.240" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T02:39:26.607" Score="0" ViewCount="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'unanswered' view is 'questions with no upvoted answers.' My recollection of a few months ago is this: if I upvoted an answer to a question, and clicked on 'Unanswered', that question would vanish PDQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it seems to be taking much longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this real?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is real, is there anything I can to to restore a speedy departure?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T02:58:19.657" Title="Chasing upvoted answered questions out my sight" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41587" CreationDate="2010-03-09T02:57:15.117" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the Stackoverflow avatar image stored in the database?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T03:01:41.060" Title="The SO User Avatar Image: Stored in the Database or the File System?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;architecture&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41584" CreationDate="2010-03-09T02:58:19.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shady car dealer says:  &lt;strong&gt;That's real cache that you can take to the bank &lt;em&gt;today!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More formally - the site is more aggressively cached now than it was months ago, and certainly more than it was when they started.  If it's taking hours to go away, please be more specific with your timeframes.  Otherwise it looks like a simple &quot;The cache isn't fast enough for me!&quot; problem, which is of relatively low priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T02:58:19.657" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41585" CreationDate="2010-03-09T03:01:41.060" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The image is from Gravatar, who stores it. All SOFU does is provide the email hash for the Gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T03:01:41.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41600" CreationDate="2010-03-09T03:26:26.973" Score="2" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SuperUser the signature block background color seems too similar to the color of the name. Can the color be made to have a bit more contrast to the text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to only be an issue on the question as the answers have a white background and are not a problem. I am making this request because it is difficult for me to see, not for reasons of personal taste in color coordination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T11:56:40.240" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T11:56:40.240" Title="Change background color on SU signature blocks" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T03:34:11.290" Score="4" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm about to ask a question about some anomalous activity in my IIS logs.  Would it poor form to mention the IP addresses that I'm seeing the requests from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They reverse lookup to what looks like home DSL addresses, and I don't believe the owners to be up to any malicious activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131804" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T06:05:31.197" Title="Revealing a 3rd party's IP / FQDN in a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="41591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T03:34:59.347" Score="4" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been hearing a lot of people mention how Stack Overflow is unique and innovative. I would like to know what features/capabilities of this site are innovative and unique that you won't find elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I see, the sum of the parts might be innovative for this sort of offering, but the individual components can be found elsewhere....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just asking!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-17T16:56:29.527" LastActivityDate="2011-02-17T17:04:19.273" Title="What features of Stack Overflow are innovative?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="41592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T03:40:06.340" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just like every word in a book has been used elsewhere, its the unique combination of them that makes a novel a master piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, what makes Facebook/MySpace/Twitter all that revolutionary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its the uptake and social contribution that differentiates these sites from the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is special and revolutionary because of the people who contribute to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T03:41:39.113" />
  <row Id="41593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T03:51:26.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, it is not the features but rather:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The focus on the essence of questions and answers and not the inidviduals&lt;br&gt;&#xA; +&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the strong group of users (especially the pioneers/moderators) who are clear on what they want to achieve without giving in easily to 'temptations' while practising flexibility occsionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T03:51:26.037" />
  <row Id="41595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:02:59.543" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's so innovative about SO is that it combines all these features in a way that actually accomplishes the goal of getting answers to programming questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel didn't set out to create a programming forum - there were already plenty of them. They set out to solve the problems that plague most forums (like unhelpful or incorrect responses). While the individual features they used can be found elsewhere, the combination of those features has enabled a truly unique site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:02:59.543" />
  <row Id="41596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41589" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:05:52.287" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please, please, please include them. I'm sick of seeing ServerFault questions redacted for no good reason, it makes troubleshooting so much harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when someone says &quot;My web server, example.com, doesn't resolve to an IP address&quot; - well, great, how about you tell us your real domain name so we can actually HELP rather than just bug you to provide more detail lest your question get closed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, there's not really that much that can be achieved with a reverse dns lookup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:05:52.287" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:08:57.060" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would like to know what features/capabilities of this site are innovative and unique that you won't find elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns answering boring programming questions from stupid people into a fun game with instant feedback from your peers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;/tongue in cheek... partially...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:08:57.060" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41589" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:11:58.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since they are not your IP addresses, it might be good to respect other peoples' privacy.  As an analogy; would you post peoples' home mailing addresses?  Probably not.  But, if knowing the specific IP addresses is necessary to answer the question, then perhaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143071" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:11:58.603" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34464" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:19:44.807" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys are the best!  I'm bookmarking this wonderful site!  Thanks for saving me hours of frustration!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:19:44.807" />
  <row Id="41600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41588" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:29:22.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're using Firefox, might I suggest the &lt;a href=&quot;https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stylish Addon&lt;/a&gt; which allows you to provide user-styles that will be applied wherever you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you approach this issue from an accessibility vantage you have a stronger request. But even then, it may be faster/easier to install the aforementioned plugin and setup your own color-schemes to make aspects of the site (or web in general) more accessible to those who have difficulties distinguishing between foreground and background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T04:51:27.257" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:51:27.257" />
  <row Id="41601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:31:37.767" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What features of Stackoverflow are innovative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be founders with a clean conscience that they are not sucking from their users much more than they are giving back to the community at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be the fact that they try not to suck as bad as the competition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that you won't find anywhere else is the community, that even though its members existed before S[OFU], they were largely united by this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have met many of the people that I can now call friends if it weren't because of this site, and I wouldn't be able to meet so many technically competent people otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing that SO has going for it is the community. Everything else is, IMHO, secondary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:31:37.767" />
  <row Id="41602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T04:37:13.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although sharing similarities with Digg's model, I really love the peer-review system (up/down votes) put in place to help sort out good answers from great answers. These are especially helpful when I come across a topic that I know little about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others have said, there's probably nothing &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; original to SO. What makes this place so great is how preexisting things are brought together in such a way that it revolutionizes the way programmers communicate and educated one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of the buzz over ajax in the last few years. Javascript, not so new. XML, not so new. Asynchronous requests, not so new. Put them all together, wha! GMail!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T04:37:13.427" />
  <row Id="41603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41588" CreationDate="2010-03-09T05:18:54.700" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I agree that the contrast is low in that area.  Jeff was already burned out by the whole red/green upvote/downvote tally, though, and I get the strong impression that the designers never consulted a color accessibility website when choosing the palette(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, don't hold your breath...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T05:18:54.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34464" CreationDate="2010-03-09T05:47:33.283" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for giving me a reason to post an answer to a question and waste whomever is reading this's time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, and Thank you!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T05:47:33.283" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T05:47:33.283" />
  <row Id="41605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41589" CreationDate="2010-03-09T06:05:31.197" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it poor form to mention the IP addresses that I'm seeing the requests from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, they are just numbers, and in the case of home DSL addresses they are relatively ephemeral anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose in specific situations where the users might have an expectation of privacy or confidentiality - for instance an AIDs testing website - then you might xxx.xxx.xxx.159 them out or something to obscure them, but if it's just a normal website with nothing special going on, I doubt it's going to be an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use your best judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T06:05:31.197" />
  <row Id="41606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41607" CreationDate="2010-03-09T08:46:13.697" Score="-3" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not the first time that happened, but for example yesterday I answered a question. It was accepted with 3 upvotes. Someone ask to get some explanation so he can learn from it. I edit my post and gave an explanation. Since I edited my post I got a downvote with no explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the right way to encourage people to share knowledge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What can Stack Overflow do to prevent such things, or force people to explain why they downvote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very discouraging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;As referred to in an answer or in a comment I have misunderstood the downvote and a removed vote by a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the interesting discussion in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143906" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T21:38:43.713" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T21:38:43.713" Title="Are there jealous people within Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;knowledge&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41606" CreationDate="2010-03-09T09:18:05.023" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That answer doesn't have any downvotes at all - it has two upvotes and no downvotes. Looks like someone who previously upvoted you removed their upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T09:18:05.023" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41606" CreationDate="2010-03-09T09:18:49.593" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, of course there are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People like votes, points, badges... I'd like a ton of points, but I know I don't have the time or expertise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd've liked it if my first answer had've got accepted, but it didn't. I've reached 92 votes, and I'm jealous of people who have answers with 100. I'm not going to downvote others unless I have a technical reason. But some might, and such is life.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133080" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T09:18:49.593" />
  <row Id="41609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T09:31:07.513" Score="5" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently got some editing powers on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know to what extents is it advisable to go while editing other people's questions:&#xA;Should I keep only the tags in mind or should I go as far as converting all in-text &quot;code snippets&quot; to &lt;code&gt;code tags&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is &lt;em&gt;appropriate&lt;/em&gt; editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T09:56:52.180" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T09:56:52.180" Title="Editing other people's questions - what is advisable and what is not?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41609" CreationDate="2010-03-09T09:41:18.753" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the FAQ on this: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11474/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts&quot;&gt;What is the etiquette for modifying posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also take a look at: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts&quot;&gt;Should ‘Hi’, ‘thanks’ and taglines and salutations be removed from posts?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, check out all the questions here &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/%27editing%27%20or%20%27etiquette%27&quot;&gt;tagged as &lt;strong&gt;editing&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;etiquette&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T09:55:59.310" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T09:55:59.310" />
  <row Id="41611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T10:48:08.147" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lack of advertisements on SO is not quite innovative, but still very extraordinary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T10:48:08.147" />
  <row Id="41612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T11:54:00.423" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with most other answers about the right mixture, a good community and founders with integrity, but to me, there is one more important point: The &lt;em&gt;masterstroke&lt;/em&gt; of a user interface. You hardly notice it, and it manages to build a &lt;em&gt;flow&lt;/em&gt; that makes writing a joy. It provides extremely little obstacles and doesn't remind you of itself on every click. It's like an old english butler always staying in the background, but always there when you need him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of this is surely down to the markdown editor, but it's many other aspects of the UI as well and how things are handled. Probably the result of many hundreds of individual decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the UI so much I actually look forward to writing text in it, and I notice how many other forums / sites / wikis / ticketing systems lack comparable smoothness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception to the rule is the god-awful human test that &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; pops up when I edit my answers. Why oh why! I really am for disabling that at least for higher-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T01:08:22.763" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T01:08:22.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T12:14:41.490" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37942/policy-on-display-names&quot;&gt;Policy on display names.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the concept of what is and isn't spam is fluid and subjective but my question relates to usernames, not content. As an example this &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/120671/why-netstat-reporting-incorrect-machine-names&quot;&gt;ServerFault question&lt;/a&gt; is posted by a username clearly designed to try and attract web traffic. My personal feeling is that doing so constitutes spam, even though the question itself certainly is not spam. I'm interested to see if others interpret it the same way or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, should questions or answers by people using &quot;spammy&quot; usernames be flagged as spam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:12:31.763" ClosedDate="2010-03-09T13:29:17.623" Title="Does a username qualify as spam?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41613" CreationDate="2010-03-09T12:15:28.383" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I already asked this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37942/policy-on-display-names&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; When in doubt though. Flag a post by the user and mark requires a mod's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T12:15:28.383" />
  <row Id="41616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41613" CreationDate="2010-03-09T12:40:25.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is even more nebulous in that the site he's advertising is &lt;code&gt;Askaboutgadgets.com&lt;/code&gt; a Stack Exchange site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T12:40:25.460" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41567" CreationDate="2010-03-09T13:02:22.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've got a 2 rep incentive to accept, and also a nice green indicator of you accept ratio, which is more than enough incentive IMO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, this would encourage asking (forced) 10,25 questions only to accept answers and get that badge, with all that implies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see only disadvantages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:02:22.580" />
  <row Id="41618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T13:05:49.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one thing truly innovative and unique is the domain name: stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen one site yet with that particular name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:05:49.100" />
  <row Id="41619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41566" CreationDate="2010-03-09T13:10:05.620" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;it works for me (although it's &lt;em&gt;myopenid&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.server&quot; href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/server&quot; /&amp;gt;  &#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.delegate&quot; href=&quot;http://kle.myopenid.com/&quot; /&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:10:05.620" />
  <row Id="41621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41613" CreationDate="2010-03-09T13:12:31.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its not uncommon for companies to have a single shared username to use almost any kind of web site, SO/SU/SF included. This serves two important purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An employee's personal reputation is not enhanced (or degraded) while doing company business&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When employee Joe goes home, employee Sara can still comment on answers, update the question and try the suggestions that have been posted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While companies operating as a single, unified person is a subject of contention in many circles, I really doubt that its anything sinister when it comes to participation in Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, I'd kind of prefer companies to use &quot;My Name, Inc.&quot; rather than &quot;MyName.com&quot;, but that's just splitting hairs, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, SPAM is links in questions and answers that serve no useful purpose to the question or answer at hand. Then again, a question from a prince in Nigeria asking if anyone can receive his dead aunt's fortune would likely find me clicking the flag link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:12:31.763" />
  <row Id="41622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35256" CreationDate="2010-03-09T13:30:57.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never thought of &lt;strong&gt;lmgtfy&lt;/strong&gt; as a rude thing. I've always found it funny. I was going to use it &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/115261/macosx-how-can-i-see-who-is-using-the-files-im-trying-to-delete/117891#117891&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but changed it to go directly on google after reading all this (and Jeff's &lt;a href=&quot;http://is.gd/67x9w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; that leads to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15650/ban-lmgtfy-let-me-google-that-for-you-links&quot;&gt;other question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took me a while to realize that was the issue. First I had a smiley face and thought &quot;is it the smile?!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how this message could be better without tying it to a blacklist or ban thing or whatever, but I think this is not done in a good way right now. It's confusing at least for people, like me, who don't intend any bad or rudeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:30:57.560" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39632" CreationDate="2010-03-09T13:32:24.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the way I do it, and it's usually pretty quick: I just hover the cursor over the link to the already chosen dupe. The link (which includes the question number) is displayed in the browser's status bar, and the (text) cursor is still in the input field. Easy enough to type those digits in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:32:24.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41606" CreationDate="2010-03-09T13:37:45.917" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're all, to various degrees, jealous of Jon Skeet. But it's not his reputation that we covet, it's the &lt;em&gt;bunny slippers of doom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T13:37:45.917" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2010-03-09T14:01:25.937" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not the best video Google's done, but its the content that matters anyway - listen to one of the founders explain what makes it so uniuqe: &lt;a href=&quot;http://vodpod.com/watch/1614084-learning-from-stackoverflow-com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://vodpod.com/watch/1614084-learning-from-stackoverflow-com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also read the various and asundry blog posts written by Jeff on the topic, and you could also listen to some of the earlier podcasts where the discussion was a little more meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T14:01:25.937" />
  <row Id="41626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T14:25:32.260" Score="5" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would meta be the proper place to ask for feedback on a CV?  Are there existing threads where job seekers do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143932" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T08:31:12.247" Title="Post CV for Feedback?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;cv&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41626" CreationDate="2010-03-09T14:28:03.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for advice on the content of your CV, then no.  If you've got a technical request or problem on the site then go nuts.  I personally don't know of any sites that offer feedback, though.  I'm sure that there are career planning sites / forums out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T14:28:03.787" />
  <row Id="41628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41626" CreationDate="2010-03-09T14:45:20.223" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; many &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt; resources for job and career advice (many free services are probably local to you) that it would be doing you a disservice to pretend that Meta is a good source for such information and advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T14:45:20.223" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41606" CreationDate="2010-03-09T14:47:13.670" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there jealous people within Stack Overflow ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course.  Stackoverflow, just like Soylent Green, is made of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T14:47:13.670" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41634" CreationDate="2010-03-09T15:19:33.733" Score="1" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32569/why-my-daily-reputation-capped-at-199-points&quot;&gt;Why my daily reputation capped at 199 points?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have selected 'today' in my recent activity view. As you can see from the screenshot, i am getting no more points for upvotes, thought i only earned 197 rep points today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9335/reps.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;rep points&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what am i doing wrong here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to make it a bit more interesting: (not) more points... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9335/reps.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;rep2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144332" LastEditorUserId="144332" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T15:28:49.597" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T15:33:36.083" ClosedDate="2010-03-09T15:34:45.940" Title="Is there a 197 rep cap per day?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41630" CreationDate="2010-03-09T15:22:19.480" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The limit is 200, another upvote would take you over that limit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2902" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T15:22:19.480" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41630" CreationDate="2010-03-09T15:33:36.083" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Unsliced pointed out, there is a 200 rep cap per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you downvoted anyone today, you would lower the rep cap (1 per day)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it is possible that you actually got more than 200 rep today and the recent activity page is still cached. Eventually it will update to say that you got 200 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure you click on 'today', because clicking on the envelop brings you to a custom recent activity page that shows you stuff since you last visited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T15:33:36.083" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41467" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:05:40.777" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always scrape the question number from the hyperlink, so there is a way to accomplish this. And since the API is right around the corner (it is, right?), I don't think it's that big of a neccessity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T16:05:40.777" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41626" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:08:22.367" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds to me like this might be a new opportunity for the Careers site to go in this direction (by adding a question-and-answer area dedicated to &quot;help me with my career&quot; questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, we close a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of career advice-type questions on SO, so it might be an interesting experiment to give these posts a home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T16:08:22.367" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:25:25.913" Score="-2" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38971/feature-request-real-time-code-compilation&quot;&gt;Feature request: real time code compilation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hey, I recently came across this awesome set of widgets from IDEOne (http://ideone.com/) that allow you to have executable code snippets in webpages. I immediately thought Stack Overflow could benefit from this power and was about to start building a greasemonkey script to add them, but first figured I'd give Jeff and others the option to embed this natively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, here's the demo page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://run-this.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://run-this.appspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer: I'm not in any way affiliated with any of these people. Just thought the widget was cool and wanted it to work inside of Stack Overflow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT&lt;/em&gt; I appreciate all the wonderful down votes and &quot;answers&quot; that have nothing at all to do with what I'm really asking for, so I'll just assume that for whatever reason StackOverflow users that actually interact on meta just don't like this idea. I'll try to throw together a greasemonkey script. Once that's done, I'll post a link to it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130195" LastEditorUserId="130195" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T17:34:31.763" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T17:34:31.763" ClosedDate="2010-03-09T17:47:25.220" Title="Can we get these IDEOne/Run-This executable widgets installed on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;&lt;widgets&gt;&lt;widget&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:30:04.990" Score="-5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd think it would be a silver badge. Receive a net 100 upvotes on your answers to questions flagged as Community Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136521" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T19:16:22.760" Title="Badge Request: &quot;Philanthropist&quot; for Receiving 100 Upvotes on Community Wiki Answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="41639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41637" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:31:13.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I like the idea on paper, I get this queasy feeling every time I think of letting anyone put executable code on someone else's page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T16:31:13.993" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41638" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:33:24.070" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can already receive many of the current badges for CW answers (Nice Answer, Good Answer, Great Answer, etc.). Why do you need another one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T16:33:24.070" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41638" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:35:19.263" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. People already get &quot;good answer&quot;/&quot;great answer&quot;/etc badges in CW posts. It would be one more badge for essentially the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T16:35:19.263" />
  <row Id="41642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41638" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:39:39.743" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So if you provide a mediocre CW answer, and I edit it and improve it slightly, and someone else adds some stuff, and then I come back and fix the formatting, and then another guy shows up and corrects all the factual errors, and folks up-vote this now-great answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...then &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; should get another badge? How does this encourage the rest of us to participate...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a concrete example of what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41638/badge-request-philanthropist-for-receiving-100-upvotes-on-community-wiki-answe/41640#41640&quot;&gt;gnovice is getting at&lt;/a&gt;, take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/1243/shog9&quot;&gt;my Super User profile&lt;/a&gt;... 6 silver badges for CW answers that are not only effectively worthless, but which &lt;em&gt;I didn't even write&lt;/em&gt;. This &quot;Philanthropist&quot; idea would grant me yet another badge for doing nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T19:16:22.760" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T19:16:22.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41637" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:53:33.747" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with this idea is that users will be encouraged to post entire bodies of working code just to illustrate a point that would probably be &lt;strong&gt;better expressed in a short snippet&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't want to encourage that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should limit your posts to just enough relevant code to describe the problem. I can't recall any of my posts where this would have resulted in a better Q&amp;amp;A experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T16:53:33.747" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41647" CreationDate="2010-03-09T16:54:35.323" Score="15" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you try to enter a internationalized domain name as your &quot;website&quot; in your profile, it will be silently stripped of any non-English characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ex: My webiste is &lt;a href=&quot;http://linus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://linus&lt;/a&gt;.unnebäck.se/ but when I try to enter that it saves it as &lt;code&gt;http://linus.unnebck.se/&lt;/code&gt; when it actually should display &lt;code&gt;linus.unnebäck.se&lt;/code&gt; and link to &lt;code&gt;http://linus.xn--unnebck-9wa.se/&lt;/code&gt; (or just link with the ä, don't now what is the right thing to do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I wrote this post I also noticed that the markup ends the link at the first non-English character aswell, look at the example above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144036" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T06:54:44.820" LastActivityDate="2010-04-14T06:55:42.163" Title="Internationalized domain name silently dropped" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41638" CreationDate="2010-03-09T17:32:31.030" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the crap appears under CW (seemingly due to a mistaken impression that makes it OK), and it is possible that most of the CW material is crap (though I wouldn't swear to that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We certainly don't need another reason for people to post &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can't have any pudding if you don eat your meat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And stay off my lawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T17:58:31.407" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T17:58:31.407" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41644" CreationDate="2010-03-09T17:33:23.947" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When John Smithers edited &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns/37357#37357&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that it works if you escape the unicode character. So &lt;a href=&quot;http://linus.unneb&amp;#228;ck.se&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://linus.unneb&amp;#228;ck.se&lt;/a&gt; actually works. The markdown source for this is &lt;code&gt;http://linus.unneb&amp;amp;#228;ck.se&lt;/code&gt;. It's still just a workaround, but better than those &lt;code&gt;xn--bla-xyz&lt;/code&gt; things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO takes a whitelisting approach to characters in links, I suspect there won't be a change anytime soon; especially since Jeff is notorious for talking about &quot;crazy moon language&quot; for umlauts et al. But I agree it would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T17:33:23.947" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32294" CreationDate="2010-03-09T18:22:48.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have an option called &lt;code&gt;Hide Ignored Tags&lt;/code&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/143938?tab=preferences#sort-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/143938?tab=preferences#sort-top&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T18:22:48.943" />
  <row Id="41656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2167" CreationDate="2010-03-09T19:32:06.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The limits should be much more relaxed, especially if the captcha has been recently hit. Currently it is extremely annoying. And relaxed limits at 10k rep, WTF is that? How about making them relaxed at 1k or so - high enough to discourage most spammers from building it up, I suppose...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T19:32:06.513" />
  <row Id="41658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T19:44:24.497" Score="0" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I set up a bounty for the following question. The bounty period expired but the highest-voted didn't get auto-accepted and I don't see the check mark to accept it. I'd like to accept &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2022207/blueprint-push-column-partially-in-to-another-column/2027014#2027014&quot;&gt;graphicdevine's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2022207/blueprint-push-column-partially-in-to-another-column&quot;&gt;Blueprint: Push column partially in to another column&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any way to accept the highest-voted answer so that it doesn't count against my &quot;accept rate&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130918" LastEditorUserId="130918" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T20:50:36.633" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T20:50:36.633" ClosedDate="2010-03-09T21:34:21.463" Title="Unable to accept answer to this question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41658" CreationDate="2010-03-09T19:46:57.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once the bounty expires, there's no going back.  It's total commitment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T19:46:57.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T19:49:14.790" Score="29" ViewCount="772" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not have believed that someone could finish an entire website without understanding that there are two &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; machines involved - a client and a server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The story that follows has been deduced from this user's question history and apparent overall intelligence.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/164002/surya-sasidhar&quot;&gt;This guy&lt;/a&gt; was contracted to write an internal web application for a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knew nothing about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/a&gt;, so he &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1403711/asp-net-practice-projects-books-or-websites&quot;&gt;decided to try to learn about it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he apparently gave up that hope, and wrote the website by asking nearly 150 questions on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, he's finished, and, as he tries to upload the site to the production server, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2406538/comexception-in-asp-net&quot;&gt;still doesn't realize that there are two &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; machines involved&lt;/a&gt;.  (All of his development was &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1475722/window-application-to-webapplication/1475752#1475752&quot;&gt;done on localhost&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you work for the company that outsourced this project, &lt;strong&gt;cancel the project &lt;em&gt;before it's too late&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;/rant&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, for the question: &lt;strong&gt;What should we do about this &quot;programmer&quot; and similar users?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, should we add a Flag as Incompetent link that triggers a &lt;code&gt;You should change careers&lt;/code&gt; banner with a link to McDonalds' recruiting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;EDIT:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No-one has mentioned one of the primary reasons that I asked this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What if he's hired by your bank?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T21:33:56.760" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T21:37:04.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T19:49:14.790" Title="Convincing a Stack Overflow user to switch careers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="25" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="41661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41658" CreationDate="2010-03-09T19:52:50.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The highest voted new answer with at least two votes gets autoaccepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer was posted before you set the bounty, or it's less than 2 votes, then it won't be auto accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you allow the deadline to pass without selecting an answer, and none is eligible, then no answer will be chosen.  Further, once the bounty process ends the accepted answer cannot be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T19:52:50.153" />
  <row Id="41662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-09T19:54:41.730" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, now he knows something about programming so I guess SO is a success.  Doesn't say anywhere that SO is only for the already competent.  As far as the contracting company, caveat emptor...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T19:54:41.730" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T19:54:41.730" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="41665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-09T20:11:19.287" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Stack Overflow is only concerned with the specific questions being asked, and not what they reflect in his personal life. If he asks how to split a string based on every third character, fine. If he's asking this because somebody hired him to format a credit card number, and they think this would be a neat format, that's his problem, not ours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T20:11:19.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T20:11:19.287" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T20:12:05.607" Score="2" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use Evernote a lot for clipping items for reference or later retrieval. The best part is that the clipper stores the URL of where I found the information so I could go back and look at the original source. I have had the problem with the Firefox and Safari extensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out today that it doesn't work at all with the StackOverflow site. I figured I better report it as a possible bug (maybe it's a feature?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148816" LastEditorUserId="148816" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-29T14:03:11.980" LastActivityDate="2010-09-29T14:35:43.307" Title="Evernote to store questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41666" CreationDate="2010-03-09T20:13:57.570" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never used &lt;em&gt;evernote&lt;/em&gt;, but the fact that it doesn't work properly with Stack Overflow doesn't mean Stack Overflow is buggy :) Every post on Stack Overflow has a unique url by which you can refer back to any question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem(s) I could see is if you store a reference to an item that is later deleted. That would cause a bit of confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T20:13:57.570" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8058" CreationDate="2010-03-09T20:17:48.253" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is another case: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2408393/c-style-xml-comments-in-delphi-2010&quot;&gt;C# Style XML Comments in Delphi 2010&lt;/a&gt;. It has now 1 answer, but it does not say 1 Answer. Maybe better noticeable from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/delphi&quot;&gt;Delphi tag page&lt;/a&gt;. It shows red with zero answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I doubt the question was asked and the answer given in the same second :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Or should I post a new question for the stackoverflow team to notice this new case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1242" LastEditorUserId="1242" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T20:34:25.440" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T20:34:25.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-09T20:48:16.197" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not a professor in university, who checks if students don't cheat.  That guy gets the work done (doesn't he?), so is there anything you should be worried about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But actually this stuff makes my soul cry &quot;ffs, hire me instead!&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastEditorUserId="136055" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T20:54:51.217" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T20:54:51.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T20:48:16.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T21:31:11.280" Score="1" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm using myopenid.com. It worked perfectly on all of SO websites, but now i can't login into carrers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm getting:&#xA;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The signature verification failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;clear cookies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;different browser (Firefox and Chrome)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;different website (stackoverflow.com works, careers.stackoverflow.com does not work)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OpenId provider logs show: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Approve for &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144402" LastActivityDate="2010-04-09T00:00:03.007" Title="Is there a problem with openid login on careers?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-09T21:33:14.913" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that (even here on meta.stackoverflow.com) there's no reason to launch a &lt;strong&gt;named&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;ad hominem&lt;/em&gt; ~attack~ (I agree attack may be a bit harsh a term) based on a person's perceived abilities and/or skill level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since his full name is on here it could remain retrievable by possible employers years later ; even if he has progressed/learned a lot in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could also be emotionally devastating for the person in question: consider how you would feel if you noticed that you were promoted to the 'laughing-stock' of this online community...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138885" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T21:33:14.913" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T21:33:14.913" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41672" CreationDate="2010-03-09T22:00:18.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot reproduce the problem.  I logged out of careers, then logged in with my personal openid (phpmyid hosted on my domain) and it was fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vista, Firefox 3.5.8, phpmyid 0.9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T22:13:12.190" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T22:13:12.190" />
  <row Id="41675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T22:18:38.413" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5999/delete-my-account&quot;&gt;Delete my account?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9392/how-do-i-logout-from-a-non-registered-account&quot;&gt;How do I logout from a non-registered account?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see any links in the interface, or any help in the FAQ : how to unsubscribe stackoverflow ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144406" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-09T22:31:00.403" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T22:31:00.403" ClosedDate="2010-03-09T23:28:53.293" Title="How to unsubscribe stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;unsubscribe&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41675" CreationDate="2010-03-09T22:20:18.520" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl+W&lt;/kbd&gt;, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T22:20:18.520" />
  <row Id="41677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-09T22:22:22.047" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you work for the company that outsourced this project, cancel the project before it's too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you work for the company that outsourced this project, you might spend more time evaluating your contractors before awarding your next project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T22:22:22.047" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T22:22:22.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41772" CreationDate="2010-03-09T22:38:20.617" Score="10" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;I registered stackoverflowoverflow.com about a year ago with the aim of creating something like Meta.  Kyle made his forum, then Jeff made meta, and it never did anything.  It's set to expire in April I believe and I see no reason to renew it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would anyone like to pick up the cost and keep the domain?  Otherwise it will probably go into domain limbo and get auto-registered by a squatter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the offchance there's multiple people who would like it, post your idea, and I'll loosely award it to whichever I/everyone likes best.  &lt;em&gt;FYI: I'm on vacation and may not reply immediately. If you have q's/concerns/other my email is tom@ritter.vg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T00:55:04.337" Title="Would you like Stackoverflowoverflow?" Tags="&lt;meta&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="41680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41687" CreationDate="2010-03-09T22:47:50.893" Score="1" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did SO decide to use Markdown sharp? It seems that a better idea would be to get both the HTML and the markdown from the client-side WMD. This way there would be no incompatibilities between two implementations, at the expense of having to store both in the DB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131553" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:43:42.590" Title="Why use server side markdown?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;server&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33099" CreationDate="2010-03-09T22:48:34.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/C%23%20OR%20python&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/C%23%20OR%20python&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T22:48:34.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:06:00.433" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't believe you are &lt;strong&gt;on&lt;/strong&gt; to my sock puppet account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waffles is getting upset!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i26.tinypic.com/ofo5g4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ecbloguer.com/asiloveo/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/duckman2.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;He was the voice of Duckman&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T03:31:20.630" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T03:31:20.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-09T23:06:00.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:06:30.650" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Test case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hit daily cap&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask question and accept correct answer (+2 reputation as it should be)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get a downvote (-2 reputation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get an upvote (+2 reputation, imho it's a bug, because I've got 202 points with upvotes).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T23:10:57.140" Title="Bug (of hidden feature) in reputation counting" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;hidden-features&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41683" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:10:57.140" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least it's a good bug, instead of penalizing you, you get rewarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we could eliminate half the questions on meta if we could make the rep cap simple and streamlined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T23:10:57.140" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41680" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:19:15.747" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And then what do you do when people have javascript disabled? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, XSS protection is completely unrelated to Markdown support, even though it is super important. The typical XSS protection function has the following sig: &lt;code&gt;string protect(string)&lt;/code&gt; you could run the protection against the mystical submit markdown AND html implementation, which as pointed by me would completely fail if javascript is disabled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ... to recap. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you posted both html and markdown to the server: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your payload would be bigger (not that important) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You lose javascript off support for posting content. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a web browser has a slightly broken javascript system that fails with showdown.js, you would also be screwed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Malicious users would be able to make it really annoying to diagnose issues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T00:43:42.590" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:43:42.590" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41680" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:33:57.957" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And then what do you do when people sends you malformed/XSSed content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;post site=&quot;stackoverflow&quot; class=&quot;answer&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;You can never trust the user input, you &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; to check it server-side, and you &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; to check it on the client to improve responsiveness.&#xA;You can't avoid duplication of code (unless you are using server-side javascript).&#xA;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/post&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T23:33:57.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41680" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:47:13.800" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there would be no incompatibilities (since there would then only be one [someone can feel free to insert a Highlander pic/joke here]), there would also be no markdown for those with scripting disabled (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41680/why-use-server-side-markdown/41687#41687&quot;&gt;as pointed out by waffles&lt;/a&gt;) and there would be less protection from malformed content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T23:47:13.800" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41672" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:49:52.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it the same OpenID you're using now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also, see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32247/cant-login-to-so-with-openid-the-signature-verification-failed&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32247/cant-login-to-so-with-openid-the-signature-verification-failed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T23:49:52.660" />
  <row Id="41691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41680" CreationDate="2010-03-09T23:58:33.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really feel that @voyager's answer is the best one, but I think you hit on a valid point in your own question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This way there would be no incompatibilities between two implementations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, if there's incompatibilities between the two implementations then &lt;em&gt;the client side one is wrong&lt;/em&gt;. This is because the server is ultimately the system which sanitizes and stores the data. I have read (but can't recall now -- someone please comment with a link?) posts on meta explaining why certain parts of Markdown don't work right client side due to the limitations of the client side logic. Thus, the server side is the &quot;correct&quot; way and can't be done away with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ultimately, @voyager is right, you can never trust user input!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-09T23:58:33.043" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T00:06:17.337" Score="6" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;With no ability to close a question due to low reputation, users down vote a bad question and lose reputation. This reputation loss should be refunded when the question is successfully closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some users ask bad questions that should clearly be down voted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144413" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:15:38.943" Title="Cost of down voting a question should be reimbursed when closed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8137" CreationDate="2010-03-10T00:08:49.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unanswered + my preferred tags, sorted by newest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:08:49.613" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-10T00:08:49.613" />
  <row Id="41694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41698" CreationDate="2010-03-10T00:09:04.667" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;What is a &amp;ldquo;closed&amp;rdquo; question? How do they work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that, on some questions with a single close vote, I have come back later to check and the vote is gone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that because the votes &quot;age away&quot; after 2 days (like flags) if the five vote threshold is not met, or do the moderators periodically sweep old questions with lingering close and open votes?  Does it work the same way for reopen votes as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:34:38.147" ClosedDate="2010-03-10T17:00:58.233" Title="Do open and close votes age away after a few days?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64979" CreationDate="2010-03-10T00:12:16.547" Score="3" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42525/anyway-to-get-a-rss-feed-for-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;Anyway to get a RSS feed for unanswered questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't there an RSS feed for unanswered questions with a particular tag? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/php&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this would be a useful feature as the pages I watch the most are the Unanswered pages with my favorite tags...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2011-07-06T02:25:30.277" ClosedDate="2011-07-06T12:17:29.427" Title="Why is there no RSS feed for /unanswered/tagged/tagname?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41692" CreationDate="2010-03-10T00:15:38.943" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep loss related to downvotes on bad questions &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; refunded. But not until &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the question is deleted and  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a recalc happens. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, global recalcs actually did happen in the misty depths of time, but not recently, so the second condition is only fulfilled if &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; account gets a recalc for some reason. You can request one, but it is often not a great idea (you may lose more then you gain).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A side effect of this is that you shouldn't downvote every question that needs closing. Those that should be migrated and those duplicates that have sufficiently distinct titles to be worth keep around for search reasons will not be deleted, and the rep will never be refunded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is probably best just to stick with leaving a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:15:38.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41694" CreationDate="2010-03-10T00:19:48.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10582/what-is-a-closed-question-how-do-they-work/10583#10583&quot;&gt;Votes expire after 4 days&lt;/a&gt; AND moderators will sometimes clear them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T00:34:38.147" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T00:34:38.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41696" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:01:56.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't quite the same thing as what you asked, but I wouldn't mind a feed for Tumbleweed questions. That would at least give questions a bit of a chance to be answered before showing up in the feed, and it wouldn't deny anyone their prized badge (because subscribers wouldn't see the question until after the badge was awarded).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T01:01:56.340" />
  <row Id="41700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:31:27.900" Score="5" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is solved, should the OP edit the post to include the working solution provided by one of the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Codeaddict gave me the correct answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2406662/why-am-i-returning-empty-records-when-querying-in-mysql-with-php&quot; title=&quot;Why does the music store no longer sell 8-tracks any more?&quot;&gt;for my question&lt;/a&gt;. I accepted his answer and I also upvoted a helpful comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I also update my question's code to include his correction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131211" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T16:34:41.773" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T16:34:41.773" Title="Should I update my question to include the correct answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41703" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:34:31.270" Score="3" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently (~1hr ago) answered a question on SO about dynamic variables in javascript.  Basically, the asker wanted to do something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var i = 0;&#xA;while ( i &amp;lt; arr.length )&#xA;{ &#xA;    var &quot;varName&quot; + i = new SomethingOrOther();&#xA;    i++;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, that's not valid javascript and would throw an error.  Two answers were already present indicating that the OP should create an object associative-array style and set the properties dynamically using &lt;code&gt;[]&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var myObj = {};&#xA;var i = 0;&#xA;while ( i &amp;lt; arr.length )&#xA;{ &#xA;    myObj[&quot;varName&quot; + i] = new SomethingOrOther();&#xA;    i++;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all well and good, it answers the question but IMO it's horrendous advice.  I didn't downvote because I didn't want to seem too pushy, the answers did answer the question after all.  But in reality, this is terrible JavaScript and arrays were built for this purpose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var myArr = [];&#xA;var i = 0;&#xA;while ( i &amp;lt; arr.length )&#xA;{ &#xA;    myArr.push(new SomethingOrOther());&#xA;    i++;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is pretty much a summary of my answer.  My answer received minimal votes and the OP ended up going with one of the other answers, on to write &quot;bad javascript&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to my question - do you think it's better to answer the question or actually try and point people in a better direction if one is available?  What would get your vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T01:40:30.347" Title="Do you vote based on what is a direct answer to a question or what is the better advice amongst the answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41700" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:35:28.617" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope.  You should just do what you did and accept the answer that helped you.  Changing the code will screw up the context of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T01:35:28.617" />
  <row Id="41703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41701" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:39:31.690" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's always better to give a good answer.&#xA;You can also make comments to let people know what their answers are missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T01:39:31.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41700" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:40:56.617" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, don't change your original question but some people add an &quot;Edit&quot; or &quot;Update&quot; section at the end of their answer. It's not strictly necessary but you can add the fixed code to the end of your question (clearly marked as an addendum/solution).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T01:40:56.617" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:50:40.747" Score="3" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that somebody else is using the name &quot;duffymo&quot; on Stackoverflow.  They just signed up today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2413976/how-to-search-usenet-for-programming-questions-closed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is indicative of the kind of question this person will be asking, I'm worried that people will confuse him/her with me.  I can develop a bad rep on my own, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to delete this ID before they make me look like a big, fat eejit?  Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131628" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T01:52:43.413" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T02:24:54.193" Title="Somebody stole my nic" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41706" CreationDate="2010-03-10T01:55:33.273" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no requirement that user names be unique so I don't think it would be fair to delete the ID on &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; basis (there may be &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; reasons, though). Unless you feel that there is some sort of abuse or fraud that goes with the name choice, I don't think you have a case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you are free to change your name to something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I wouldn't worry about it at this point. You have no indication that this user is going to establish any sort of lasting presence on the system... and your Gravatars are unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T02:01:44.797" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T02:01:44.797" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41733" CreationDate="2010-03-10T02:03:15.657" Score="-1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just thought that this might be a good idea when posting an answer on SU a little bit ago. I posted a few pictures with the obligatory free hand circles and then remembered that some users cry out when users post pictures and say replace with a link. We could add maybe a flag, to the markdown to 'collapse' a div or something similar or to default with it collapsed and have a link saying something to the effect. 'Click to expand images'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T09:34:04.720" Title="Addition to markdown for images" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41708" CreationDate="2010-03-10T02:04:45.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beware, free hand circles are only mandatory on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T02:04:45.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2010-03-10T02:21:43.867" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subjectivity is something can't be well communicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143842" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T02:21:43.867" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41706" CreationDate="2010-03-10T02:24:54.193" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If he starts using your gravatar, &lt;em&gt;vee vill fiya ze lezars!&lt;/em&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T02:24:54.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T03:19:15.250" Score="9" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever you show a person's reputation, it would be nice if the hover over action on the reputation would show the amount of rep gained from asking vs. answering questions. Mostly I'm just curious (like knowing why a high rep user would be asking a relatively basic question, seeing a breakdown of &lt;code&gt;6000 rep on 500 asked, 40 rep on 60 answered&lt;/code&gt;, would explain a lot).  Much like the hover over on accepted answer rate, this would help in developing context without having to refer to the person's profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T16:50:17.287" Title="When you hover over a person's reputation breakdown between asking and answering" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation-display&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41712" CreationDate="2010-03-10T03:27:27.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about implementing this for myself via a user(greasemonkey)script. There is one user in particular that asks a lot of really poor (but technically &quot;real&quot;) questions and has accrued a substantial amount (nearing 10,000) of reputation as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T03:27:27.500" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="41714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41712" CreationDate="2010-03-10T03:28:31.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I kinda like the idea but not for your reasons. Say Jon Skeet (master of all C#) but does not know anything about perl (which I know would be nearly impossible :) ). How would you knowing the fact he has maxed out rep for answering questions help you answer his?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T03:28:31.537" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-10T03:42:08.173" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although this whole thread has derailed into a big&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ecbloguer.com/asiloveo/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/nelson.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Ha-ha!&quot; title=&quot;Ha-ha!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the point remains: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should we do about this &quot;programmer&quot; and similar users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; we do? Mock him until he leaves? Try to push him towards programming illumination through &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.karatethejapaneseway.com/photos/kata_code_book.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;code katas&quot;&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/6372/371296-scout_bonk_super.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;hurt him?&quot; title=&quot;hurt him with a bat?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dsJg1ai0o_s/R4KphnaUSxI/AAAAAAAAALM/1yngS_XbwLg/s320/01%2B-%2BShinji%2BIkari.bmp&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Leave him alone?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.steveklotz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Duckman.GIF&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;I just wanted to post some images&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T03:48:19.280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T03:48:19.280" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-10T03:42:08.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41718" CreationDate="2010-03-10T04:27:44.003" Score="3" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering whether it's valid to ask questions (on SO etc) about working code e.g. &quot;How can I improve this?&quot;, &quot;How would you do this differently&quot;...I'm not sure whether it seems right to ask that sort of question...just to clarify I'm not asking if it is ok to post one line of code and ask how would you re-write this to be Microsoft Office :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it's a bit different to the &quot;I'm not sure what is going on or what is going wrong&quot; code question or even different to &quot;Is this code performing inefficiently&quot; etc...where you actually require help in understanding the code or figuring out a bug etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often it's great to see how someone else would code the solution to a problem or function and seeing people with a lot more knowledge write code (for me anyway) is a great learning tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141346" LastEditorUserId="141346" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T05:19:12.747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T05:19:12.747" Title="Are posting questions on SO about code improvement or &quot;refactor this&quot; valid?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41716" CreationDate="2010-03-10T04:42:04.010" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the code is pretty self-contained and not very long (like more than 100 lines), I think it is perfectly fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T04:42:04.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41716" CreationDate="2010-03-10T04:46:04.883" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few great questions that concern how people would re-factor something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'd make sure that the question only talks about a specific task, and make sure to mention something like 'What is the best way to do X?' in the question. Provide your code snippet and ask if anyone knows of a better way to do that task. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At all costs, you don't want to post a &lt;code&gt;plz-fix-teh-codez&lt;/code&gt; question. If you can stick away from that, you'll be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T04:46:04.883" />
  <row Id="41719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41566" CreationDate="2010-03-10T05:46:51.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(redirection is not relevant, it's the &quot;long URL&quot; and Blogger OpenID which are the relevant bits here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bug in Blogger's OpenID support which is documented here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://trac.dotnetopenauth.net:8000/ticket/144&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://trac.dotnetopenauth.net:8000/ticket/144&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I contacted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/46926/andrew-arnott&quot;&gt;Andrew&lt;/a&gt; and he's planning to implement a workaround in &lt;a href=&quot;http://dotnetopenauth.net:8000/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DotNetOpenAuth&lt;/a&gt; but it'll take a few days to get implemented on our end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until then, there is a workaround:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.nerdbank.net/2010/03/how-to-upgrade-your-blogger-openid-to.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.nerdbank.net/2010/03/how-to-upgrade-your-blogger-openid-to.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T05:46:51.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41660" CreationDate="2010-03-10T06:05:55.570" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Don't do it.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My reasons, on a scale of negative to positive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Natural Selection:&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;Any company that couldn't weed out such blatant incompetence in either an interview (&quot;tell me about a project you've done. It was an ASP.NET application? That recorded sound? That used Flash? Which was embedded in a WebBrowser control in a C# application?&quot;) deserves to employ him. Let natural selection do its work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Our Purpose:&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;We're here to help, not to be vigilantes. Especially bad to single him out on this question (name has been removed already.) Bad Google-karma could destroy a subject's chance at a career indefinitely, regardless of whether he improves in the future. All you need is some blogger linking here and pointing out &quot;look what Stack Overflow is up to these days.&quot; IMHO, If you want to mess up someone's life, keep it off the Trilogy sites. That's what &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;4chan&lt;/a&gt; is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Motivations:&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;A lot of what I'll call &quot;blue-collar developers&quot; come from places where software pays many times more than what the alternatives pay (i.e. still many times less than what non-outsourcing shops pay.) Even here in the US, I know a lot of guys who go to community colleges and get IT degrees because IT pays (and it beats digging ditches). Telling them to 'get a different job' makes no sense to them. They didn't get into the industry because they have a passion for it or are good at it. Some dude they don't know telling them to give up their attempt to make a good living is going to sound pretty preachy when they're just after a good paycheck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139257" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T21:37:04.857" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T21:37:04.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-10T06:05:55.570" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T06:38:35.897" Score="2" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Homework on StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here in SO, some people accuse some questions because they are homeworkish. However, SO is a place to learn hence whether questions are homeworkish or not is not an issue. so why some people cry and say &quot;hey this is homeworkish question, close it&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T06:57:10.920" ClosedDate="2010-03-12T01:15:46.740" Title="Why is asking homeworkish questions a bad thing?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41721" CreationDate="2010-03-10T06:41:11.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;because you learn by doing, we complain when someone simply submits the question word for word and then expects the answer without doing anything themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T06:42:02.817" />
  <row Id="41724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41727" CreationDate="2010-03-10T06:54:53.277" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;My user page has list of question asked by me and answers given by me..... I can see a tooltip of a question when i hover over the question link but i cant see a tooltip of my answer when i hover over an answer....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any specific reason for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T17:58:56.473" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T17:58:56.473" Title="Why there is no tooltip for users-page answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;tooltips&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41721" CreationDate="2010-03-10T06:57:10.920" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asking questions related to homework is not only fine, but encouraged. Asking us to &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; your homework will be met with much deserved distain. I am sure that you can see the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even then, we like to know because a good answer to a homework questions is one that leads you to the answer; because when you discover the answer you learn it better, remember it for longer, and can use the way of thinking that you developed to learn on your own later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That business about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish, 'ya know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T06:57:10.920" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2010-03-10T07:38:43.927" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3486/why-is-subjective-the-top-upvoted-tag-for-questions&quot;&gt;subjective questions are upvoted more than others&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3aAvoid_Parkinson%27s_Bicycle_Shed_Effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bike shed effect&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People get pissed off cause someone seems to put in a small amount of effort (eg. &quot;Is Python better than Ruby?&quot;, &quot;Why does C++ suck?&quot; and so on) and seems to get a reputation gold mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence the hostility.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://malsain.org/~joss/bikeshed.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T07:38:43.927" />
  <row Id="41727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41724" CreationDate="2010-03-10T08:01:22.637" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mean the question titles of those you answered? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I would think that because there are more focus on your own questions. Hence they are displayed with larger font size, vote/answer/view counts,and of course the tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T08:09:56.923" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T08:09:56.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38451" CreationDate="2010-03-10T08:12:34.970" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you should know that all ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reopen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undeletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... votes are automatically aged away and hard deleted 4 days after they've been cast. So there's no actual permanent record of these votes being cast, unless the threshold is reached on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all you'd really be getting is the acceptance vote date and time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T08:12:34.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41626" CreationDate="2010-03-10T08:31:12.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a Stack Exchange site for careers: &lt;a href=&quot;http://advice.personforce.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Careers Advice&lt;/a&gt;. You could try asking there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T08:31:12.247" />
  <row Id="41732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3516" CreationDate="2010-03-10T09:29:05.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lesson learned from my side: This system makes people only answer questions from people that already have some reputation (and by that know how SO works). There are two answers from me that are totally valid and help everyone that will find it, but the answer was not accepted, as I am sure these people just saw the answer and were fine, not hinking of accepting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T09:29:05.707" />
  <row Id="41733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41708" CreationDate="2010-03-10T09:34:04.720" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can always just add a thumbnail into the answer with a link to the full picture, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imgur.com/v49jt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/v49jts.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Snuggie jumps&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess people complaining from the aesthetics will like this more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T09:34:04.720" />
  <row Id="41734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2010-03-10T11:06:10.663" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I know why this issue is now being ignored for at least eight months (and counting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First note that the languages worst affected seem to be &lt;strong&gt;Lisp&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Perl&lt;/strong&gt;, since they get their code partially greyed out by false-positive comment character matching (&lt;code&gt;#&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;//&lt;/code&gt;).  The next most disturbing group of mistakes is false string interpretation, affecting Lisp and VB (and others).  Then, SQL also seems to be affected by false-negative comment matching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the popular tag counts: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/tags&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you see, C#, Java, PHP, Javascript, C++, and Python are dominating the programming language occurrences, before SQL, which is the first affected.  The highest VB dialect is VB.NET, on the bottom of the second column.  Perl is far behind, in the middle of the fourth column. The Lisp dialects do not even show up until page 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the affected languages do not show up very often.  That in itself doesn't mean that no one in charge could notice.  However, let's look at the tags of the people making StackOverflow (scroll down to the &quot;Tags&quot; section on their user pages):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; seems to be mainly into VB, C++, C#, and SQL.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/a&gt; is a C# guy.  None of the affected languages appear in his tags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/3/jarrod-dixon&quot;&gt;Jarrod Dixon&lt;/a&gt; does ASP.NET and C#.  There is one occurrence of VB.NET.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2/geoff-dalgas&quot;&gt;Geoff Dalgas&lt;/a&gt; does C# and ASP.NET.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/26837/brent-ozar&quot;&gt;Brent Ozar&lt;/a&gt; seems to be mostly interested in databases with SQL.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, not only do the most badly affected languages not turn up very often, the developers of StackOverflow also are not interested in them at all.  They most likely see this as a non-issue.  &lt;em&gt;A bag of rice has fallen over in China, yawn&lt;/em&gt;.  They are also perhaps not familiar with the syntax of those languages, so that they do not see the problem even if you show them examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the most we will get from them seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41419/allow-class-attribute-for-code-tag/41434#41434&quot;&gt;&quot;the readme says it should mostly work&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps StackOverflow is not a general programming oriented site after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I don't want to sound so negative.  There seems to be a simple solution:  put &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code class=&quot;prettyprint lang-whatever&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; on the HTML whitelist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131533" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-26T04:00:13.720" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T04:00:13.720" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19478" CreationDate="2010-03-10T11:17:27.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meme:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;DoesntWorkException&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originator:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/7586/kobi&quot;&gt;Kobi&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2415817/a-b-echo-c-not-work-but-a-b-print-c-works-in-php&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; Mainly seen in questions asked by new users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tried to do &lt;code&gt;blah&lt;/code&gt; using &lt;code&gt;blah&lt;/code&gt; but it doesn't work. It used to work fine until yesterday. Please tell me what's wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural height:&lt;/strong&gt; Neverending&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135650" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T11:17:27.257" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-10T11:17:27.257" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41737" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T12:37:32.743" Score="0" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13040/you-have-one-new-answer-message&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;You have one new answer&amp;rdquo; message&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times when I open the site (and I open it many times a day) I get the alert &quot;You have new answer&quot; but when I click it, I see nothing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is somewhat annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130669" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T16:33:57.037" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T16:33:57.037" ClosedDate="2010-03-10T13:15:23.413" Title="גun truthfull alerts &quot;You have a new response/answer&quot;" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2010-03-10T13:08:46.660" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A workaround for VB is to add an additional apostrophe ' at the end of every comment line, so that the daft syntax highlighter thinks you've terminated your string. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Dear MarkDown&#xA;  'Unterminated &#xA;  Why Is Half My Code Red, It Is Not A String&#xA;End Moan&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Dear MarkDown&#xA;  'Terminated '&#xA;  This Is How It Should Look&#xA;End Moan&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes edit other peoples' posts to add the apostrophes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; based on Joel's suggestion to use &lt;code&gt;''#&lt;/code&gt; which is even better: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Dear MarkDown&#xA;  ''# Terminated &#xA;  This Is How It Should Look&#xA;End Moan&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135917" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-26T04:02:07.247" LastActivityDate="2010-10-26T04:02:07.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T13:18:26.623" Score="0" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24575/so-sites-dont-search-for-common-words&quot;&gt;SO sites don&amp;rsquo;t search for common words&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just tried searching for the word &lt;code&gt;most&lt;/code&gt; and the search instructions came up instead of the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it some keyword, or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152714" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T13:18:26.623" ClosedDate="2010-03-10T14:42:34.587" Title="Why you can't search the word 'most'?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;search-results&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2010-03-10T14:00:24.950" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I've already said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41419/allow-class-attribute-for-code-tag/41459#41459&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt;, this could be helped if the language could be inferred from the tags. That way, this fix would work retroactively, and the work flow wouldn't change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that prettify does have a way to specify the language, it would be only a matter of using that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T14:00:24.950" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41744" CreationDate="2010-03-10T14:19:33.247" Score="1" ViewCount="155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikis are great because they make information available. stackoverflow is great because it makes asking questions easy. I'd like to see how they can be put together, so that people can ask questions in a stackoverflow format and the answers can easily be migrated into a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: is there a stackoverflow type extension available for MediaWiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33745/wordpress-mediawiki-integration&quot;&gt;Wordpress MediaWiki Integration&lt;/a&gt;.  Ideally I'm looking for a introductory guide, also explaining some options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I'm looking for people's experiences with this and their advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144439" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T14:57:52.630" Title="Using stackoverflow to power a MediaWiki wiki" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;&lt;wordpress&gt;&lt;mediawiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41741" CreationDate="2010-03-10T14:29:23.563" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Umm... StackOverflow already incorporates many wiki features.  Earn enough reputation and you can edit anything, just like a wiki.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main difference is that StackOverflow allows a much greater sense of ownership for content, and so it only makes sense that it also requires a higher investment from users before granting editing privileges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T14:29:23.563" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2010-03-10T14:57:06.250" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO and similar sites are structurally unsuited for discussions.  They promote self-contained answers that can float up or down the order depending on votes and acceptance.  The only way you can effectively reply to somebody is in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For discussions, a threaded model like Slashdot's is much better.  It's not as good for getting good answers, unless you want to come back later and read only the highest-rated comments, because they tend to get buried in the other stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some subjective questions can work well in the SO format, such as the question about your biggest screwup.  That provoked individual responses that didn't refer to each other.  Something like &quot;Which is better, X or Y?&quot;  not only provokes flame wars but is best handled in discussion form to hammer out misunderstandings.  (&quot;X has flux capacitors.&quot;  &quot;Yes, but Y can handle them with three extra lines like this.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, flame wars are unproductive on any forum.  Objective questions tend not to promote flame wars, since most of us are fairly rational, and are convinced by evidence.  Subjective questions often do.  After all, if I really like vim is better than emacs, and have no good arguments for its superiority, I might well make bad ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T14:57:06.250" />
  <row Id="41744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41741" CreationDate="2010-03-10T14:57:52.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to use the features of StackOverflow for a company environment, take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T14:57:52.630" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:01:47.043" Score="6" ViewCount="376" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264875/how-do-i-add-formatted-code-to-a-microsoft-word-document-closed&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; about using “MS-Word” for formatting source code was migrated to Super User.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a problem that a lot of programmers will have&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not a problem that a non-programmer will have&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Therefore it is very unlikely that a SU user would know the answers, but it is possible that a StackOverflow user would know the answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore should the question have been closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or to put it another way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is StackOverflow for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only questions about programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or also questions that only a programmer will have&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T00:26:03.267" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T00:26:03.267" Title="Should this question have been closed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30728" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:05:22.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;And we're back to the problem that many of us just don't know what's considered appropriate on other sites.  I'm primarily a SO guy, and I have to decide, given an off-topic question, whether it would belong on SF, SU, or neither.  I'd be happier about it if somebody from one of those communities needed to be involved on a migration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:05:22.037" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:09:51.987" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, the question has been rightfully closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is particular to programmers, as there are other kind of blocks of text (other than code) with some kind of different formatting which can be scattered around in a word document. So the answer basically applies to those as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy the text into a program which does the formatting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;apply the formatting to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;copy it back to word&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:09:51.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:10:30.220" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it should have been migrated to SU.  It is a question about document formatting and is not necessarily a question only a programmer would have.  Technical writers, for example, who don't program can also have this question as well as editors, layout designers, etc.  There's nothing there about actually writing code, just how to display it in a document.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:10:30.220" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:12:18.940" Score="11" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Search for &quot;product stream&quot; in StackOverflow, quotes included.  The &quot;use fewer words&quot; suggestions shows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;product stream&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;product stream&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;product stream&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the links do link to &quot;product&quot;, &quot;stream&quot;, &quot;product&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite confusing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144442" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-15T18:31:21.497" LastActivityDate="2011-04-16T18:41:03.407" Title="StackOverflow Search &quot;use fewer words&quot; shows wrong link display" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:28:14.677" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, a lot of words could be -- and have been -- written on this topic.  But at heart, the issue seems to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SOFU's creators consciously chose to create a community just for objective questions, and there's nothing wrong with that.  There's nothing inherently wrong with subjective questions, either; they're &lt;strong&gt;simply not the intended purpose of SOFU&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people try to put subjective questions in a place that is marked &quot;This area is not for subjective questions,&quot; chaos ensues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:28:14.677" />
  <row Id="41754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:30:16.203" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also say, &quot;Yes&quot;, but not exactly because it's not programming related.  It belongs on SuperUser because the meat of the question is about document formatting, and therefore &lt;em&gt;it's more likely to get a good answer on SuperUser&lt;/em&gt;, as SuperUser is more targeted to things like document formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:30:16.203" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:31:06.453" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Programmers also have questions about programming careers that aren't really about the activity of programming, merely the things surrounding the activity of programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question being considered is not about the activity of programming.  It is, instead, about branching away from the activity of coding and taking a code product into another domain - that of word processing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that point on the code is non-executable (unless copied back into the programming domain), and is meant only for presentation and human-readable purposes.  Any activities surounding the code are word processing activities, not programming activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:31:06.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T15:34:03.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is StackOverflow for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Only questions about programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Or also questions that only a programmer will have&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only for questions about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a programmer, and have plenty of questions about the meaning of life, but I don't ask them in SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T15:34:03.440" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41758" CreationDate="2010-03-10T16:06:26.153" Score="5" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you get reputation points for other users' posts that you've edited if they are up-voted after your edit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138288" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T01:25:50.527" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T01:25:50.527" Title="Reputation points for editing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41757" CreationDate="2010-03-10T16:07:16.217" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, only the original author of the post gets reputation and badges for votes on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a suggestion a while back about being able to upvote &lt;em&gt;revisions&lt;/em&gt;, but I think it was declined. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T16:07:16.217" />
  <row Id="41760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41763" CreationDate="2010-03-10T16:09:51.800" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;i subscribe to SO rss, but it's not including answer to questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139597" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T17:06:02.833" Title="why rss feed of SO doesn't include answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41712" CreationDate="2010-03-10T16:22:27.800" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need context on the question-asker, there's no substitute for looking at their profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply breaking down the rep like you suggest appears to give more information, but at the same time, it could give information just as misleading as the overall rep number itself. There is far more information needed to give a good context than could be packed into a tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience on SO so far, I can usually tell the experience level/context of a question by how well the question is phrased, without looking at the rep number. As MrStatic mentioned, if Jon Skeet were to ask a question about how to get started with COBOL, I wouldn't expect to see a question title like &quot;i want how learn cobol ?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T16:22:27.800" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41712" CreationDate="2010-03-10T16:50:17.287" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this would help in developing context&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, as far as I can tell, is only useful if you plan on basing your answering and voting on the person, and not the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this site is meant to help others in the future.  Even if the user in question is gaming the site, the question may prove useful to others later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why should SO make it easier for you to base your voting and answering on the person and their history, rather than the post itself?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T16:50:17.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41760" CreationDate="2010-03-10T17:06:02.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last 80 seconds, SO received 20 new questions and answers (total posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main feed would have to be refreshed every 2 minutes to capture all the new posts (both questions and answers), and this is not the peak activity time for SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the main feed only contains newly asked questions, which still has to be refreshed every 10 minutes to capture all the questions (during this non-peak time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T17:06:02.833" />
  <row Id="41765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T17:08:23.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only it is not suitable for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;, it &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/760121/is-there-a-way-for-elegant-source-code-listings-in-openoffice-org-writer&quot;&gt;is a dupe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T17:08:23.003" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T17:33:55.690" Score="-13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, StackOverflow should buy some more hard drive space and stop deleting content. This kind of stuff is pathetic, my gmail account has over 7GB of space now! That's probably enough to hold the whole question/answer db.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T17:33:55.690" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="41770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41773" CreationDate="2010-03-10T17:47:58.647" Score="5" ViewCount="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had a number of cases where I have voted on an answer with the best of intentions, and then gone on to read other answers and/or comments and realize that my vote was ill-cast.  However, usually the realization comes too late to retract my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is really necessary to have such a short window of time to change your vote.  Can it not be 30 minutes or an hour as long as I don't have a competing answer on the question?  I assume the time limit is only to control/limit tactical-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T17:54:33.433" Title="Can the vote retraction window be made longer if you don't have a competing answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41770" CreationDate="2010-03-10T17:49:29.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you could wait before voting; after all, what's the rush?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You could first read other answers, comments, and finally cast your votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This feature is in place to avoid gaming the system, it's working great as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T17:54:33.433" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T17:54:33.433" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41679" CreationDate="2010-03-10T17:51:05.963" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't flow off the tongue quite as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36557/does-stackoverflow-forget-their-registered-users&quot;&gt;thingadongdong&lt;/a&gt; dot com, does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of vocal users unhappy about questions that are closed.  I think it would be interesting if someone turned your SOO into another stackexchange site that picks up all the closed questions&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; on SO and allows people to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't allow questions to be posted directly to SOO, only questions that someone actually posted to SO but were rejected by the community, so it truly became the overflow of stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be quite popular, and possibly profitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have the time right now to do this, but if no one else wants to pick up the torch, then I'll take it, pay the renewal fee, and see if I can dedicate some time to it before I become bored paying for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;/Image of a clock spinning around depicting the passage of time&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I made some time to do a proof of concept:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflowoverflow.stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflowoverflow.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are severe limitations to stackexchange that makes it impossible to migrate questions correctly and easily, but I've got several ideas on how to deal with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;  Except migrated or duplicate questions.  Perhaps some other types (blatantly offensive?) might be excluded...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T19:32:54.360" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T19:32:54.360" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="41773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41770" CreationDate="2010-03-10T17:52:39.237" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be pretty simple to do a check against whether you have answered the question or not.  I think this is a very practical idea, that would save frustration for those of us who have reflexes that are a little too quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T17:52:39.237" />
  <row Id="41774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:01:36.040" Score="4" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that quite often the best answer stays at zero points while the question is flooded with quick oneliners. Apparently most people don't bother to read long answers (and thus won't upvote) and also only the answers that already have votes (and thus are first in the list) get more upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Needless to say, this also promotes answering to new questions quickly precisely with such oneliners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone think of how to fix this and promote better answers instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I am tired of making 200 rep every day just by surfing the newest questions and throwing in some half-assed answer very quickly)&#xA;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144371" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T18:41:03.760" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:41:03.760" Title="Answers stating a popular opinion getting more votes than precise answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answer-quality&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41774" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:04:47.267" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/74850.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brevity is the soul of wit.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:04:47.267" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41774" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:07:55.507" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if the short answer is the correct answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:07:55.507" />
  <row Id="41777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41774" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:11:19.833" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have noticed that quite often...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is quite subjective as evidence (although maybe you could use the SO data dump to see if there's a real correlation between answer length and upvotes?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that well written (long) answers also get fiercly upvoted quite often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138885" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:11:19.833" />
  <row Id="41778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41774" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:20:11.147" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brevity != inaccuracy. I'm with Blaise Pascal on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would have written a shorter letter,&#xA;  but I did not have the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consciously try to make my answers as short as possible, commensurate with supplying the needed information. But then I'm English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:20:11.147" />
  <row Id="41780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41774" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:28:12.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; happen, but it is not universal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a certain amount of bike shed effect at work when that happens. Many people know the subject well enough to judge the one or two line summary, but fewer know it well enough to judge the detailed and nuanced answer. No cure for this; it is a feature of People 0.9, and the release is taking as long at Duke Nukem Forever.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is also the FGTW thing. Those short answer usually precede the long detailed ones, and can get bumped to the top of the list. Then lazy users coming along later may never even see the better one. You can try to beat this in &lt;em&gt;your own&lt;/em&gt; answers by building up a little at a time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the questioner was not clear people may not know how much information he really needs and/or is capable of taking advantage of. That can only be cured by prompting the OP, and they don't always respond promptly or at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:28:12.943" />
  <row Id="41781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41774" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:39:11.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The goal of stackoverflow is to bring the most &lt;em&gt;helpful&lt;/em&gt; answer to the top of the list. So that a person who finds the question is presented first the answer most likely to help them. I would suggest the most correct and accurate answer will not always be the most helpful. In many cases when I do a search that returns a SO question, all I need is one or two lines to refresh my memory on the topic and I can take it from there, I know what I need to do, I just don't remember where to start. In contrast, the longer, more complete and accurate answer that talks through all the intricacies and &quot;gotchas&quot; is unneeded and often hides the quick refresher I need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say the longer, more complete answer is bad, in fact I'd be much more inclined to accept a more complete and accurate answer. But from a voting, what's most helpful to the standard user, I can understand why often a brief answer comes out on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:39:11.047" />
  <row Id="41782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41774" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:39:23.760" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should try and see beyond the length of an answer to determine it's quality. I believe that what you have found is really more a Fastest Gun in The West problem than Bad Answers Being Upvoted. Another variable I've seen that contributes to upvotes, is the inclusion of relevant links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question's length is not indicative of quality. If the only variable that influences a vote spree where length, then were would we be? We would see lots of nonsensical posts that rant aimlessly about not-quite right subjective stuff or people just bodyless heads talking about lasers, or referring to inane games like Rock Band, or about whether there will be a giant quake in San Fransisco in the next 5 years (short answer: yes), or about whether the shortcut key for &lt;code&gt;indent&lt;/code&gt; is correct, or discussing whether a particular ad is annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, LOLCats are a great way of making a post seem longer, while at the same time making  people upvote you just for cuteness alone. Either way, you should never trust a politician, but there is always the possibility that the stock market plummets, and you should be ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, never rush into a war with Russia, and remember to bring cookies. If you excuse me, now I'll proceed to scream until my lungs collapse or a coworker hits me on the head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt; A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R G G G G G G G G G H H H H H H H H H h h h h h h h h h h h ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;* Plock! *&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T18:39:23.760" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:45:22.447" Score="0" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37986/force-gravatar-refresh&quot;&gt;Force Gravatar Refresh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8015/why-does-my-new-gravatar-image-not-update-on-stackoverflow-after-24-hours&quot;&gt;Why does my new gravatar image not update on stackoverflow after 24 hours?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21793/why-isnt-my-gravatar-image-updating&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;rsquo;t my Gravatar image updating?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got some flack for this earlier, so let me re-phrase. I added a gravatar a while ago now, and I can see the gravatar updated on sites other than stackoverflow, but not on stackoverflow. I looked around on meta, saw that other people had the same problem, tried their fixes, and still had the same problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still having this problem. I read all the &quot;duplicates&quot; suggested by Downvoter, including all answers and comments. I tried the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I logged out of gravatar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I logged out of stackoverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I logged out of gravatar, stackoverflow and meta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I changed my email address. This updated my gravatar immediately, but only to a different (uglier) automatically generated image.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I cleared my browser cache.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I disabled my browser cache.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I used a different computer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I used a different browser.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I used a different browser on a different computer, one that I rarely use and which had never been to stack overflow, meta, gravatar, or wordpress.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, every previously asked question uses some combination of the above to update the gravatar, and it still doesn't seem to be working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144454" LastEditorUserId="144454" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T14:57:59.953" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:57:59.953" ClosedDate="2010-03-10T19:06:01.580" Title="Gravatar Not Updating" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="41784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41786" CreationDate="2010-03-10T18:56:25.350" Score="3" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35264/should-ads-that-mimic-stackoverflow-ui-be-allowed&quot;&gt;Should ads that mimic StackOverflow UI be allowed?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each time I look at any question that annoying ad makes you think someone answered the question and it was viewed 274 times before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://u.kodingen.com/zv25N&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://u.kodingen.com/zv25N&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is breaking Stackoverflow's UI friendliness because now at the first glimpse, you see their ad instead of stats about the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think ads that pretend to be a native part of the UI should be banned. As we wouldn't like to read a NYTimes column and then find out it's an ad. It's just annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ads need to be clearly separated from the UI and obvious as to being ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139404" LastEditorUserId="139404" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T19:06:31.563" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T19:06:31.563" ClosedDate="2010-03-10T19:21:02.507" Title="Startup.com's ads are very annoying" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41784" CreationDate="2010-03-10T19:00:16.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Gain 9 more reputation and you won't see them in the left-column any more.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, you shouldn't see it anymore (unless it's a smaller ad in the right column).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T19:00:16.947" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40463" CreationDate="2010-03-10T19:12:29.767" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no built-in method for that, but you can find them if they're indexed by google by searching (using your example):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;link:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1004079/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the &quot;link:&quot; and the web page url.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This functionality is also accessible from the Advanced Search page, under Page Specific Search &gt; Links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T19:12:29.767" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2010-03-10T20:23:09.077" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't have voted to migrate that question. Formatting source code in word processors may not be directly programming related, but folks, &lt;em&gt;come on.&lt;/em&gt; &#xA;We have thousands and thousands of HTML related questions every day that could just as well have been asked by a designer (as opposed to a programmer). In fact, if you look closely, many of them &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; been asked by a designer. Not that I mind this at all - I'm happy about the HTML and CSS tags on Stack Overflow - but it should serve to give some perspective here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T20:41:23.763" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T20:41:23.763" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-03-10T22:00:29.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet writes letters to his gran in Visual Studio, and programs in MS Word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135015" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T22:00:29.900" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-10T22:00:29.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T22:02:44.843" Score="7" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of us are running low on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine#Dopamine.2C_learning.2C_and_reward-seeking_behavior&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dopamine&lt;/a&gt;. When can we expect Stack Overflow podcast 85?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T23:19:41.733" Title="When is Stack Overflow podcast #85 due?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T22:49:12.467" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;if I go to careers.stackoverflow.com and type in the same openId I use to login to stackoverflow then how does it find my stackoverflow id?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;do they save data on an id and associate it that way? or can any other third party (any other site) do that as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-10T01:18:26.777" LastActivityDate="2010-05-10T02:11:40.980" Title="how does careers.stackoverflow.com find my stackoverflow id?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41797" CreationDate="2010-03-10T22:52:29.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers.stackoverflow and stackoverflow are operated by the same company, so it stands to reason they do a simple internal lookup. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;On the other hand, using the openID it would in theory be possible to a third party to make the association as well - if not legally through an API, then through scraping of the accounts pages.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-10T23:45:45.200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T23:45:45.200" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41795" CreationDate="2010-03-10T23:19:41.733" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff is currently on vacation the Land of Mordor - trying to return his iPhone to Mount doom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel doesn't know how to post new entries, because you can't do it with Excel-VBA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2010-03-10T23:19:41.733" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-10T23:52:01.170" Score="-1" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to filter out questions asked by users who have less than an N% accept rate and who have asked a minimum of M questions. The value of M and N would be set on a per-user basis, or on a server-wide basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be a feature available to users after achieving a certain reputation threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134447" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T00:16:45.113" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T00:16:45.113" Title="Filter questions based on answer rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;&lt;filtering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41803" CreationDate="2010-03-11T00:08:21.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These kinds of suggestions are why that fool statistic should never have been made so prominent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't do fine grained filtering here. Indeed, so far we don't do &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; user filtering at all, and that is how it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I swear I'm going to stop accepting answer (not that I ask many questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T00:08:21.033" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41803" CreationDate="2010-03-11T00:14:33.480" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a huge number of high-rep users turned off the newbie noise, then no newbies would get good answers, and the site would fade away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not growing, then you're declining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T00:14:33.480" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="41809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41833" CreationDate="2010-03-11T00:42:20.833" Score="0" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try to login/signup to SO or MSO with my openID (54.org/thomas) SO uses my openid2.local_id (https://me.yahoo.com/a/gWn.F080w51ozXy_3SCmtxshJL8T) instead. I assume this means that if I change my OpenId2 provider I will lose access to my accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current openID setup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid2.provider&quot; href=&quot;https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid2.local_id&quot; href=&quot;https://me.yahoo.com/a/gWn.F080w51ozXy_3SCmtxshJL8T&quot;/&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the old &quot;chair &amp;lt;-&gt; keyboard&quot; problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried to login on other sites, including the openid wiki (http://wiki.openid.net/) and I'm seeing the same thing. This whole debacle is shaking my faith in openID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144464" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T03:34:45.437" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T06:27:14.040" Title="Unable to use OpenID delegate on stackoverflow.com (and MSO)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="41810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41809" CreationDate="2010-03-11T00:48:19.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For specific login issues, it is best to email the team directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T00:48:19.553" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T00:51:17.443" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know a few bots have been identified previously, and it wouldn't surprise me if some had experimented with posting questions using code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd rather not re-invent the wheel, and this seems the best place to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What code do you have or know of that is capable of posting new questions to stackoverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Small print:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I'm working on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflowoverflow.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflowoverflow.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; - the idea is to take closed questions from SO and post them there for those that want to continue off-topic conversations in a stackoverflow-like environment.  The code for posting to a stackexchange site should be essentially the same as code for stackoverflow. I've asked for code examples at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4891/automate-question-insertion-workaround&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;, but I imagine there are more SO bot developers here than there.  I also know that if I post it on SO it'll get sent here post-haste, so here we are.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T01:12:50.210" Title="Anyone have code for posting questions to stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;robots&gt;&lt;bots&gt;&lt;stackoverflowoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41679" CreationDate="2010-03-11T00:55:04.337" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make it a stackExchange site about C#, so it attracts Jon Skeet, then only give him negative rep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135696" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T00:55:04.337" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41818" CreationDate="2010-03-11T00:56:57.113" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every now and again, you get a homework question that recurs. The question itself varies, but it's the same poster and the same code snippets and there really doesn't seem to be any progress being made. Sometimes the question being asked seems to have been answered several times already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than ignoring these things and moving on, what general strategies would you suggest in this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, consider...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2322748/help-with-set-map-on-stl-for-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2322748/help-with-set-map-on-stl-for-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2361223/crash-adding-to-a-map-and-set-stl-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2361223/crash-adding-to-a-map-and-set-stl-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367891/adding-to-a-set-stl-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2367891/adding-to-a-set-stl-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394061/stl-set-not-adding-properly-c&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394061/stl-set-not-adding-properly-c&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394529/memory-leaks-stl-sets&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394529/memory-leaks-stl-sets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2404795/47-memory-leaks-stl-pointers&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2404795/47-memory-leaks-stl-pointers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136873" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T01:58:02.567" Title="Strategies for handling recurring homework questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41811" CreationDate="2010-03-11T01:12:50.210" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have a valid user's auth cookie, it should be possible, if you pay attention to what the JavaScript is doing on the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The SE codebase is far enough out of sync with ours now that I can't actually tell you what will work and what won't any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T01:12:50.210" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T01:46:08.547" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't help but notice that of the top users on all the sites, the majority are from outside North America:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Server Fault:&lt;/code&gt; 60% of the 10k users (SF only has 10 10k users)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Super User:&lt;/code&gt; 60% of the 10k users (SU only has 10 10k users)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Stack Overflow:&lt;/code&gt; 40% of the top 10 users (to keep the field even)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(users with no location specified were counted, but to err on the side of caution, were counted as North America).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because people in NA are working harder, and thus have less time to spend answering questions? Or is it because the other timezones are so far off the NA timezone that we're not competing with so many other people answering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, I think the message is clear: If you want to rep-whore, do it outside of the NA business hours!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T02:31:47.183" Title="More rep to be had for minority timezones?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41813" CreationDate="2010-03-11T01:58:02.567" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close as duplicates (if you have the mojo), comment about what you are doing and why, and (since it seem to be persisting) bring it to the attention of the moderators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T01:58:02.567" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41817" CreationDate="2010-03-11T02:00:13.890" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the sample size is too small to draw any general conclusions about the population.  It's likely that those few individuals are just smarter (or whatever attribute you want to associate with S[UFO] reputation) than the rest of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T02:00:13.890" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41817" CreationDate="2010-03-11T02:19:22.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Took me a number of re-reads to understand the OP's point. It's rather odd for me that NA users are highlighted. Are the trilogy sites built for NA users or is it because it is built/owned/hosted by NA guys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;India alone has about 1/6 of the world's population. China's just below 1/5. Not to mention the population of the entire non-NA region. In fact, all other things being equal, the numbers are showing that there are more NA users than it should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question (or rather this post) is for information only, I do find the statistics interesting. If it is to suggest something to be done, I don't think there should be any. It is just how the community grows and evolves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T02:19:22.820" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41817" CreationDate="2010-03-11T02:21:17.873" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your stat is meaningful. You have to compare it with the total number of active users per region and show that out-of-NA programmers significantly dominate the 10k spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only then you can say that the majority of the 10k users are coming out from North America and can draw inference from it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="3834" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T02:31:47.183" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T02:31:47.183" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52768" CreationDate="2010-03-11T02:30:47.870" Score="1" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to be able to retag locked questions (migrated questions in particular), without being able to edit the actual body. Kinda like a user with more than 500 rep and less than 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-22T05:51:35.307" LastActivityDate="2011-07-22T05:51:35.307" Title="Allow retagging of locked posts" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;locked&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="41823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41822" CreationDate="2010-03-11T02:42:41.810" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shouldn't happen so often that the community needs to take care of it - probably best flagged for mod attention with a note on the retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T02:42:41.810" />
  <row Id="41824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T03:09:36.120" Score="22" ViewCount="2116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mac OS 10.6 (a.k.a. Snow Leopard) includes a pretty new font called Menlo that supersedes Monaco as the default monospaced font. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to petition the overflowers to include it right after Consolas in the &lt;code&gt;font-family&lt;/code&gt; for code on Stackoverflow.com. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144471" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T06:55:40.650" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T06:55:40.650" Title="Add Menlo as monospace font for Mac OS 10.6 users" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;fonts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41824" CreationDate="2010-03-11T03:27:26.813" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a Mac user but I went looking for a preview of the Menlo font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://static.arstechnica.com/apple/menlo_v_dejavu_sans_mono_300.png&quot; alt=&quot;Menlo vs Sans Mono&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Image source:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/font-changes-coming-to-mac-os-x-snow-leopard.ars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/font-changes-coming-to-mac-os-x-snow-leopard.ars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://typophile.com/files/menlovsdejavusansmono_6131.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://typophile.com/files/menlovsdejavusansmono_6131.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon seeing more comments on Menlo vs Consolas, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.chalitnc.com/2009/09/20/menlo-vs-consolas/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; which compared both. Here's a visual comparison, courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.chalitnc.com/2009/09/20/menlo-vs-consolas/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.chalitnc.com/2009/09/20/menlo-vs-consolas/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://blog.chalitnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/menlo_vs_consolas.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Menlo vs Consolas&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T09:45:04.300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T09:45:04.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41824" CreationDate="2010-03-11T04:26:26.307" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Menlo should probably be placed &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; Consolas. The reasoning I have here is that many of us who are using the Trilogy from Macs probably have Microsoft Office installed -- and if we have 2008, we have the Microsoft &quot;C&quot; fonts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consolas does, admittedly, look really good on a Mac (I use it in XCode; I wasn't even aware that I got this new Menlo font when I upgraded until just now), but if you really want to give Mac users the best Mac experience, I would consider putting Menlo before Consolas in the chain, as it is highly unlikely that any Windows or Linux user will have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T04:26:26.307" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41822" CreationDate="2010-03-11T05:09:02.017" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question might have been locked because of a tag tug-of-war, so maybe not feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T05:09:02.017" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T05:17:08.190" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40066/undoing-a-question-deletion-that-had-a-deleted-answer-brought-the-answer-back&quot;&gt;Undoing a question deletion that had a deleted answer brought the answer back?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2418914/how-to-construct-a-string-based-on-regex-and-related-parameters-in-php&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; the answers were deleted because the question changed - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2418925/revisions&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2418935/revisions&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2418914/revisions&quot;&gt;deleted and then undeleted&lt;/a&gt; for a moment by the OP (I'm not sure it's intentional or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, we cannot delete our answers anymore, and it's showing &quot;delete  (1)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/4272/delete1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;shot of delete(1)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When question is undeleted, I understand, answers should be undeleted too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in this case, there is a vote to delete, which is known and held by system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the question is undeleted, and when undeleting answers, can the system skip the answers if there is delete vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T05:29:09.730" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T05:29:09.730" ClosedDate="2010-03-11T07:25:06.083" Title="Please don't undelete the answer if there is close vote on that answer upon undeletion of question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;undelete&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41809" CreationDate="2010-03-11T06:27:14.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thomas Paine.  Wow.  It's an honor to write to you.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're using delegation correctly, but Yahoo doesn't support it.  That is, Yahoo sees the incoming delegated auth request, ignores the claimed_id and sends the assertion with its own claimed_id instead.  So your own blog URL that's hosting these two HTML tags is completely irrelevant, and you could access the same account by just typing &quot;yahoo.com&quot; and logging in.  So you are correct: If you change the OP from Yahoo to some other OP in your blog, RPs will see you as someone different.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can always be seen as the original by just typing in &quot;yahoo.com&quot;.  So I recommend that you redirect your delegating blog URL to an OP that supports delegation (like Google Profiles or MyOpenID), then bind that as your second OpenID to your SO and MSO accounts.  Then you can use that as your primary OpenID and freely switch OPs in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T06:27:14.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41834" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T07:09:05.797" Score="4" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there was a fairly easy way to see what percentage of my reputation comes from asking questions or answering them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be fairly simple to calculate the average reputation points per question/answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No real reason for this I'm just a curious guy who is interested in meeting some nice pretty data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130239" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T09:30:52.343" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T18:17:58.523" Title="Am I a better asker or answerer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="41835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41834" CreationDate="2010-03-11T07:15:35.073" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No of answers and No of Questions in user's profile tell the whole story :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some stats on profile are also acceptble ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141652" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T07:15:35.073" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41837" CreationDate="2010-03-11T08:30:39.767" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I search for &quot;dojo&quot; on stackoverflow I'm taken to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dojo&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; which displays only a single result for the tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if I go into that single &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2296780/dojo-and-displaying-inline-svg&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; it clearly lists on the right hand side that there are (at the time or writing) 574 posts with the &quot;dojo&quot; tag.  If I then click on the tag again I'm taken back to the first page which announces that there is only one question with the dojo tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1440/capturexw.png&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously the problem is that I happened to have been on the featured tab when I did the search, so it searched within the featured questions.  Just me being dumb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144484" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T09:43:17.157" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T09:43:17.157" Title="Tag system bug?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41836" CreationDate="2010-03-11T08:43:13.660" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching maintains the current question type tab, in this case &quot;featured&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144484" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T08:43:13.660" />
  <row Id="41838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41836" CreationDate="2010-03-11T08:45:19.260" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're in the Featured tab. That will list all those questions tagged with such that have a posted bounty. As such, you'll see a far lower number than when on another tab view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on the other tabs and you'll see larger numbers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=dojo&amp;amp;sort=active&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot; title=&quot;like a frog in a sock&quot;&gt;Active&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=dojo&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot; title=&quot;fresh taste&quot;&gt;Newest&lt;/a&gt; are probably what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will/should then stick for future searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T08:45:19.260" />
  <row Id="41839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41836" CreationDate="2010-03-11T09:07:07.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the keyword you searched is also a tag, it will be redirected to the Questions tab filtered with that tag (e.g. &lt;code&gt;/questions/tagged/{keyword}&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the Questions tab, the selected sub-tab (stats/newest/featured...) will be default to your last selected one. So for your case, if you've searched from &quot;Questions&gt;Featured&quot;, meant your last visit to the questions tab is likely to be the &quot;featured&quot; sub-tab, hence your are redirected back there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've searched for something that's not a tag, you will be brought to this path &quot;&lt;code&gt;/search?q={keyword}&lt;/code&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T09:07:07.767" />
  <row Id="41840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4553" CreationDate="2010-03-11T09:56:14.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't even figure out how to use the freakin gravatar.  Gravatar doesn't say how the concept works. Stack exchange doesn't say either.  What am I supposed to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the downvotes, but there are zero links on gravatar or linked from this site that say step-by-step how to attach an avatar to your account.  Moreover, all the text more or less assumes you already know how all the OpenID stuff works.  This is a big usability gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144485" LastEditorUserId="144485" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T03:36:29.080" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T03:36:29.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T10:00:03.607" Score="4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14932/allow-author-of-accepted-answer-to-delete-it-in-certain-circumstances&quot;&gt;Allow author of accepted answer to delete it in certain circumstances&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is a dupe, but in the  answers I looked at here, I couldn't see any response from &quot;the management&quot; on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; we can't delete accepted answers. I've had the need to do this a couple of times on SO recently. Can anyone point me at a justification for not being able to do this from Jeff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T10:00:03.607" ClosedDate="2010-03-12T00:27:45.497" Title="why not delete accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14045" CreationDate="2010-03-11T10:32:33.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see  these tags. Althought I would not automatically add them to user's ignore lists or prevent indexing ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is just about consistent tagging. When all closed questions have a closed tag, I'd happily add this tag to my ignore list on my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132488" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T10:32:33.690" />
  <row Id="41843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14045" CreationDate="2010-03-11T10:51:06.470" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search now does this for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to filter out all closed questions, plug this into the nozzle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot; title=&quot;ajar&quot;&gt;closed:0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you can page back and forth as you desire with the interesting and ignore tags still holding on to their glistening hope of relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using tags to mark out the status of a question as opposed to the content is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10216/can-we-disallow-the-use-of-belongs-on-xxxxxxx-and-not-programming-related-tag&quot; title=&quot;shunt and curl&quot;&gt;bad SOFU tagging&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T10:51:06.470" />
  <row Id="41844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T11:16:22.773" Score="11" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;In line with the &quot;badges and other rewards should encourage desirable behaviour&quot;, what desirable behaviour does the &lt;strong&gt;Taxonomist&lt;/strong&gt; badge encourage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taxonomist&lt;/strong&gt; - Created a tag used by 50 questions &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not convinced that in itself having hundreds of tags that are infrequently used is actually a good thing.  As an example I'll go through some of the tags with ~50 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;jqueryui&lt;/strong&gt; (x51) - duplictae of &lt;strong&gt;jquery-ui&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;uml-modeling&lt;/strong&gt; (x51) - each of these quesions would be better tagged as &lt;strong&gt;uml&lt;/strong&gt; (x414)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fast&lt;/strong&gt; (x50) - should be tagged with &lt;strong&gt;performance&lt;/strong&gt; instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you get down to the more infrequently used tags it starts to become aparant that the vast majority of these tags should probably not be used as it makes it more difficult to find and group questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wondered if there was something else that I'm missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136084" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-03T22:25:31.360" LastActivityDate="2010-11-03T22:25:31.360" Title="What behaviour does the &quot;Taxonomist&quot; badge encourage?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;taxonomist&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41844" CreationDate="2010-03-11T12:13:10.627" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My 2 cents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Create          = New&#xA;Used            = Useful&#xA;Used &amp;gt;= 50 Qns  = Very Useful&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creating something new and very useful should be a desirable behaviour, yea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T12:13:10.627" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41844" CreationDate="2010-03-11T12:24:37.033" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a tag is used in 50 questions, it is likely to be a good tag: People managed to find it when asking their question, and possibly chose that tag over other variations of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T12:24:37.033" />
  <row Id="41851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41853" CreationDate="2010-03-11T12:29:02.320" Score="7" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Few minutes ago I Needed to do something, googled and found the exact question on SO &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1666511/installing-bcrypt-ruby-gem-on-windows&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;, but with an unperfect answer; googling more, I found the solution, and went back to insert my own answer (so I'll find it the next time I need it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than the asker, and of course people trying to solve that same problem (and me next time, when I'll have forgotten it), will anybody ever know that answer exists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, from the opposite point of view: how can I know that somebody just answered an old question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T12:31:21.163" Title="will anybody see my new answer to an old question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;old-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41877" CreationDate="2010-03-11T12:30:20.913" Score="5" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community user seems (at least as far as I can tell) to pick questions that have no accepted answer to bump to the top of the home page. This includes questions with no answers, one answer and sometimes several answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now while it might be a good idea for these questions to be revisited in the hope of getting a &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; answer, surely it would be better to concentrate on those questions with &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; answers at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/35071/video-tutorials-for-ms-office-2007&quot;&gt;Here's an example&lt;/a&gt; from Super User of where the question does have answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - can the algorithm be changed to favour questions with no answers at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T04:40:59.973" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T04:40:59.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T12:45:34.620" Title="Shouldn't the Community user pick questions with no answers rather than ones with no accepted answers to bump to the home page?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41851" CreationDate="2010-03-11T12:31:00.010" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, adding an answer to an existing question will bump that question to the homepage and bring it back to life again (until of course, it eventually floats down again as every question does in a typical SO question life cycle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are encouraged to add a new answer to an old question to improve the information contained there, if you are lucky, the OP can even switch the accepted answer (I've done it on some of my questions that are more than 8 months old when something better came along)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T12:31:00.010" />
  <row Id="41855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41852" CreationDate="2010-03-11T12:36:45.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the discussion: Should unanswered questions be considered all questions with no accepted answer or only questions with no answer. And I guess the same algorithm is used to figure out which questions Community user should pick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I vote for &lt;strong&gt;No!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T12:36:45.233" />
  <row Id="41856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41852" CreationDate="2010-03-11T12:52:04.163" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See the definition of answered, here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T12:52:04.163" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T12:52:04.163" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41844" CreationDate="2010-03-11T13:48:25.753" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a bad badge but like &lt;strong&gt;many&lt;/strong&gt; others it has a serious problem: it doesn't scale. Getting it on SO is relatively easy (just like getting &quot;Famous Question&quot;, &quot;Great Answer&quot;, etc), while getting them on let's say Server Fault is much much more difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should scale based on the activity on the website.. The more Stack Overflow is popular the easier those badges are to get. Next year they will probably be a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;50 questions is now not enough &lt;strong&gt;for SO&lt;/strong&gt;, imo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T13:48:25.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T13:51:32.007" Score="4" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a working url-based openid from blogger, but I can no longer log in to SO with that identity. I get an error on the Google side &quot;The requested URL /accounts/TokenAuth... is too large to process.&quot; Probably not an SO problem, but does anyone know the cause or a workaround? I'm not ready to change identities :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-17T07:00:03.543" Title="My blogger url-based openid stopped working" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19590" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:02:23.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes and No&lt;/strong&gt; - Personally I think that Stack Overflow is an extremely good resource for studying programming; however, it is only good from the standpoint of going through questions and finding interesting things to read about. In other words, it's a good resource if you already have some basic knowledge and are looking to expand your knowledge base. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I feel it is not a good replacement for guided study when you are first learning programming; namely the type you get through classroom instruction or through a very good programming book. Stack Overflow might be useful for students since they could ask questions about areas that they are having problems with something that they have already put a great deal of effort into, but on the same token it might be overused by students that are just trying to get their homework done for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1185" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:02:23.247" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T14:02:23.247" />
  <row Id="41860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:12:53.943" Score="14" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that it's used in many cases to illustrate the experience of the OP, but isn't the experience-level of the OP irrelevant to the topic of the question? Should we remove these types of things from the titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=intitle:1+noob&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=intitle:1+noob&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T20:23:13.533" Title="Should We Edit &quot;Noob&quot; Out of Titles?" Tags="&lt;editing&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41860" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:21:49.853" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title should describe the problem, not the audience - unless the audience &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the problem, in which case it's not programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, I'd remove it.  If it forms an important part of the question, reformat the question so it's clear that answers need to be aimed for a beginning audience, but the title itself should reflect the problem alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, it's slang that we don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to use on a professional programming site, and to some degree implements a needless class or caste system that is unproductive.  Yes, there are people of all experience levels, and sometimes the experience of the OP needs to be known.  But we do not need to use slang terms that may disenfranchise some even in such a small degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:21:49.853" />
  <row Id="41862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41288" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:22:53.267" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nah, what conspiracy?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User 1, aka user one, aka &lt;strong&gt;Neo&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; uper &lt;strong&gt;U&lt;/strong&gt; ser&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; erver &lt;strong&gt;F&lt;/strong&gt; ault&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; tack &lt;strong&gt;O&lt;/strong&gt; verflow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:22:53.267" />
  <row Id="41863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41860" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:22:53.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tough call. Personally, I feel like terms such as that should be edited out. I grant that often the OP himself has placed that in the title -- probably to acknowledge that he &lt;em&gt;ought&lt;/em&gt; to know the answer, but doesn't. However, I think it really doesn't add any value to the title, and may in fact turn off some people from answering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess YMMV. (Talk about a wishy-washy answer.) Personally, I guess I'd treat it the way I treat greets -- I probably wouldn't go in and edit &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; to get rid of it, but I'd most likely get rid of it if I was in editing for other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:22:53.487" />
  <row Id="41864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41860" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:25:05.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd also say yes for these reasons in addition to Pollyana's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is noob something that's really beneficial to SEO, since title is a major player in that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I could see where &quot;noob&quot; being in the title could encourage rep-whoring.  Someone seeing noob could think &quot;hey, easy pickin's&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:25:05.187" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41860" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:42:07.923" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I normally edit out stuff like this and add the &lt;code&gt;[beginner]&lt;/code&gt; tag if I think it's appropriate for the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question content should be separated from the user asking that question -- if someone is new to something, that should have no bearing on either the question being asked, or the answers they get to the question. However, it does provide some context in which to give an answer (hence the &lt;code&gt;[beginner]&lt;/code&gt; tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:42:07.923" />
  <row Id="41867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4523" CreationDate="2010-03-11T14:59:34.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm also totally in favour of a freelance / single gig site based on Stack Overflow. In such a site, reputation would certainly be a contributing factor to the client's decision whose services to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be opposed to any further connection between SO reputation and that freelance site, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T14:59:34.280" />
  <row Id="41868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:12:19.720" Score="3" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;In responding to a job offer on careers.stackoverflow.com, I formatted my message in paragraphs. It surprisingly fit exactly in the 500 (?) allowed characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when reviewing the sent message, it appeared cropped: 8 characters were cropped from the end of my message. Incidentally, I had 8 linebreaks in my message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I am on a Windows machine, I believe the JavaScript counter is not taking the &lt;code&gt;\r\n&lt;/code&gt; (CRLF) into account: these are two characters as opposed to one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, upon review, my message appears without any line breaks at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149383" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:12:19.720" Title="Responses on Careers are shortened/cropped" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;linebreak&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4523" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:15:15.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But the situation here should be different, less quantity and less tasks &amp;lt;&gt; higher quality and higher pricing. ($60/hour is a good rate for a good programmer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, $60/hr is a cheap rate for a good programmer.  An inexpensive rate for a good programmer is $90/hr, and $120/hr is an average rate for a good programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any place where you bid on projects you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; drive the price down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, even at your cheap $60 rate, a 1-2k project is only 17 to 33 hours of work.  That may be ok for very trivial designs or tweaks, but if someone wants to develop even a simple application then requirements collection, mockups, and design documentation alone will eat through all of that time leaving nothing for actual implementation, debug, test, nevermind good user interface work, maintenance, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; idea, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are already such marketplaces&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would be dominated by customers looking for low cost, high quality work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel is a firm believer in great jobs for great workers - which is not orthogonal to your idea, but there are obvious discontinuities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if you change the rep score as indicated, it absolutely does NOT speak to the qualities of a great consultant, especially the &quot;gets things done&quot; part of Joel's two requirement mantra for good employees&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel are busy with quite a few other tasks right now.  You might consider making such a site yourself, pulling user data from SO, and seeing if it garners interest.  If you can show that many SO users are interested in such a system, then you may receive the internal support you need to make it work long-term.  You can use the data dump to re-score users according to your own system, and see what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:15:15.053" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:15:30.910" Score="4" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;WHat is Rot13 text ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the site :About:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a programming Q &amp;amp; A&#xA;  site that's free. Free to ask&#xA;  questions, free to answer questions,&#xA;  free to read, free to index, built&#xA;  with plain old HTML, no fake rot13&#xA;  text on the home page, no scammy&#xA;  google-cloaking tactics, no&#xA;  salespeople, no JavaScript windows&#xA;  dropping down in front of the answer&#xA;  asking for $12.95 to go away. You can&#xA;  register if you want to collect karma&#xA;  and win valuable flair that will&#xA;  appear next to your name, but&#xA;  otherwise, it's just free. And fast.&#xA;  Very, very fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T16:42:52.333" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T10:21:33.377" Title="about: what is 'fake rot13 text'" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;fakes&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41870" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:18:34.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you would be interested in reading&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;H͚̥̠̲̺̠ͨ͌͞E̠͎̭̳ͪ͑ͬ̈́̔ͣ́ ̡̧̦̪̣̤̘͓͍͔̤ͭ͛ͩͮ͊ͣ͌C̴̮̞͔̘͎͊̅̾Ǫ̛̞̲͓̮͈̲̩̩̘̓͑̑̏ͩͥ͆̐M̵̎ͩ̾̉̀̈́̃ͭ́͏̤̲̙È̷͕̞̩̹̹̰͋̂̾̚S̵̢̛̩̫͈̓ͫ̓̌̚&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140047" LastEditorUserId="140047" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T10:21:33.377" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T10:21:33.377" />
  <row Id="41872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41870" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:20:32.303" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably a reference to expert sex change, another site that does programming Q&amp;amp;A, but tries really hard to extract money from Google visitors before showing them the answer.  I haven't personally seen this, but they probably have something on the page like &quot;a9dkjhaf aslkdjfh asdflkajdshf&quot; and say &quot;click here to decrypt the answer!&quot;  This is the &quot;fake rot-13&quot; as mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8457" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T15:27:49.617" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:27:49.617" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41870" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:20:34.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is a thinly-veiled reference to expert sex change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40015" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:20:34.630" />
  <row Id="41874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41870" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:24:16.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a dig at experts-exchange.com, a much-maligned precursor to stack overflow which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.coderjoe.net/archive/2007/08/10/experts-exchange-encryption/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;used to&lt;/a&gt; (not anymore) encrypt answers with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rot13&lt;/a&gt; in order to force people to sign up for a paid account. Not sure what &quot;fake&quot; means in that context, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133973" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:24:16.203" />
  <row Id="41875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41870" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:27:28.807" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guvf vf na rknzcyr bs ebg13 grkg. Vg'f n purnc jnl gb boshfpngr grkg jvgubhg npghnyyl rapelcgvat vg. Gur &quot;rapelcgvba&quot; vf rnfvyl oebxra naq vg'f hfhnyyl cerfragrq nf n wbxr sbez bs rapelcgvba.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fgnpx Biresybj'f nobhg cntr vf ersreevat gb gur cenpgvpr fbzr bgure fvgrf hfr bs boshfpngvat gurve nafjref fb gung lbh unir gb cnl gb frr gurz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139193" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T15:41:52.060" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:41:52.060" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T15:27:28.807" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41852" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:39:44.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by Jeff, it uses the 0-upvoted answers definition.  The community user will not bump a question if there are any answers with a score &gt; 0.  As for why this is preferred, let's look at it from both sides:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;At least one answer, total score is 0 or less&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's pretend for a moment that the question does not have any &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; answers.  In that case, isn't this question just as deserving of extra attention as one with no answers at all?  On the other hand, say it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have a good answer.  In that case, it only takes one upvote to that answer for it to disappear from the unanswered view and never get bumped again.  We &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to make sure the unanswered view is well maintained, and so the chance to upvote this answer is just as valuable to the community as bumping a question with on good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;No Answers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your argument here is that these questions are somehow more deserving of the extra attention.  I put it to you that there is often a very good reason these questions are not answered.  Often, the only purpose of bumping these questions is so we can spot them and vote to close them.  In other words, they are just as often &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; deserving of your time, not more.  I will grant you that a filter on the score for the question might fix this, so that it only bumps questions with a score &gt;= 0.  Then it would also provide the community a chance to downvote or close these bad questions in the same way it gives us a chance to upvote deservings answers to clean the unanswered view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T15:50:23.523" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:50:23.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T15:39:44.683" />
  <row Id="41878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41870" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:40:24.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Save the following code as a Bookmark. Then select any text you want to convert to/convert back from ROT13 and click on this bookmark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:var%20coding%20=%20&quot;abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM&quot;;%20function%20rot13(t)%20{%20for%20(var%20r%20=%20&quot;&quot;,i=0;i&amp;lt;t.length;i++)%20{%20character%20=%20t.charAt(i);%20position%20=%20coding.indexOf(character);%20if%20(position%20&amp;gt;%20-1)%20character%20=%20coding.charAt(position%20+%2013);%20r%20+=%20character;%20}%20return%20r;%20}%20S=window.getSelection();%20function%20t(N)%20{%20return%20N.nodeType%20==%20N.TEXT_NODE;%20}%20function%20r(N)%20{%20if%20(t(N))%20N.data%20=%20rot13(N.data);%20}%20for%20(j=0;j&amp;lt;S.rangeCount;++j)%20{%20var%20g=S.getRangeAt(j),%20e=g.startContainer,%20f=g.endContainer,%20E=g.startOffset,%20F=g.endOffset,%20m=(e==f);%20if(!m||!t(e))%20{%20/*%20rot13%20each%20text%20node%20between%20e%20and%20f,%20not%20including%20e%20and%20f.%20*/%20q=document.createTreeWalker(g.commonAncestorContainer,%20NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT%20|%20NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,%20null,%20false);%20q.currentNode=e;%20for(N=q.nextNode();%20N%20&amp;amp;&amp;amp;%20N%20!=%20f;%20N%20=%20q.nextNode())%20r(N);%20}%20if%20(t(f))%20f.splitText(F);%20if%20(!m)%20r(f);%20if%20(t(e))%20{%20r(k=e.splitText(E));%20if(m)f=k;%20e=k;}%20if%20(t(f))%20g.setEnd(f,f.data.length);%20}%20void%200&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140794" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:40:24.387" />
  <row Id="41879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42095" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:43:31.717" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not at all against ads.  I don't block them.  I actually pay attention to the advertising on trilogy sites for benchmarking.  But, can there be a limit placed on how long a specific ad can be run before the advertiser has to replace it with a new image?  The &quot;Free as in beer&quot; Splunk ad comes up on SF on seemingly 80% of my page loads and is getting quite stale......&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:06:34.340" Title="Time limit on ads" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:44:06.910" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;1Password is a program that stores passwords as well as credit card information so that I can enter that information on web sites securely and conveniently. When I used it when filing a CV, I received an error that said I needed to enter a credit card number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that there is some code that requires me to actually type in that field before it will be valid. 1Password puts it in for me so I never went through the credit-related fields. I was able to click in the field, and then use 1Password to fill in my credit card number and it worked fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144499" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T17:09:54.547" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T17:09:54.547" ClosedDate="2010-03-11T19:19:48.557" Title="Using 1Password when filing a CV causes &quot;no credit card number&quot; error" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41879" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:48:13.477" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps have new advertisers submit 1 design for each week for the length of their ad slot.  So if they buy a month of advertising, they have to submit 4 substantially different ads that are rotated to avoid user annoyance.  If they buy one week, and extend it, they have to submit a new ad, and can choose to have just the new ad run, or both randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:48:13.477" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41870" CreationDate="2010-03-11T15:57:13.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can translate rot13'd text by running it through this simple perl one-liner (reads from stdin - either a file or input from the console):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;perl -wlpe'tr/a-zA-Z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/'&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jr znl unir gb nqq fbzrguvat gb gur &quot;Znal Zrzrf bs Zrgn&quot; cntr vs guvf guernq tbrf penml!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T15:57:13.240" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41879" CreationDate="2010-03-11T16:16:41.870" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a user I can see your point, but as an advertiser on Super User and army of 1, I'd find it hard to come up with a fresh supply of ads week on week. I agree that ads should be rotated fairly regularly, both to avoid annoyance and to stop them being ignored over time. &#xA;Rotating ads is a good idea anyway as you can get an idea of what works well and evolve them to &lt;del&gt;snare more suckers&lt;/del&gt; attract more visitors interested in the finer points of home theatre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that the nice ad weasels here will rotate your ads (I don't think they even do it manually) so there is no technical reason to keep the same one on permanent display. For example I originally had two sidebar ads that were rotated evenly, but dropped one because it didn't perform so well. When I get a chance I plan to create 2 or 3 more and add them to the rotation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may also be more annoying if the advertiser has paid for a greater number of views. With my tiny budget I think my ads are displayed about 10% of the time, if someone has bought a bigger share it will be on show more and maybe annoy more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T16:16:41.870" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41858" CreationDate="2010-03-11T16:43:06.577" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because Blogger is a poor implementation of an old version of OpenID.  StackOverflow is sending longer URLs now than it used to -- still legal, but Blogger can't handle it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See my post for how you can fix it for yourself, without changing identities:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.nerdbank.net/2010/03/how-to-upgrade-your-blogger-openid-to.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to upgrade your Blogger OpenID to a decent one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T16:43:06.577" />
  <row Id="41888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41834" CreationDate="2010-03-11T17:10:58.040" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ask again later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T17:10:58.040" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2010-03-11T17:14:43.513" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From personal experience... Have a child!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That will force you away from SO for at least a short period of time, which may be just enough momentum to help you break free from its gravity. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T17:14:43.513" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41907" CreationDate="2010-03-11T17:16:50.737" Score="1" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I would like for the tag &lt;code&gt;cake&lt;/code&gt; to be removed from Stack Overflow. Someone decided to actually create a &lt;code&gt;cake&lt;/code&gt; tag due to this topic &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2420689/surprise-for-a-programmer&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2420689/surprise-for-a-programmer&lt;/a&gt; and my predictions of newbies getting cake and cakephp confused are already happening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, that tag was made yesterday and already there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2424890/cakephp-app-authentication-wordpress-authentication&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2424890/cakephp-app-authentication-wordpress-authentication&lt;/a&gt; which was originally tagged &lt;code&gt;cake&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;cakephp&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I request either the removal of the tag altogether, or making it so that the tag can only be used by moderators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T17:27:33.540" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:58:19.277" Title="Tag removal request" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="41891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41890" CreationDate="2010-03-11T17:19:21.360" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the only question with the tag &lt;code&gt;cake&lt;/code&gt;, I don't see it's a major problem IMO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be if there was a lot of &lt;code&gt;cake-php&lt;/code&gt; wrongly tagged questions, but there isn't&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T17:19:21.360" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2010-03-11T17:33:25.907" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;How can I keep from getting addicted to SO?&quot; asked Jul 9 at 17:39 by Jonathan Sampson ♦&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ahem:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/jsampsonrepgraph-1.png&quot; alt=&quot;graph of Jonathan's reputation, showing s distinct increase about the same time this question was asked&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By the time you asked this question, it was already too late.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T17:33:25.907" />
  <row Id="41896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2010-03-11T17:38:48.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of us know, and the people that do know don't hang out here to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just call it a &quot;pastime&quot; or &quot;hobby&quot; instead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-16T13:07:21.377" LastActivityDate="2011-07-16T13:07:21.377" />
  <row Id="41897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2010-03-11T17:40:43.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I missed a day due to travel on my way to hit 100 days in a row, my &quot;addiction&quot; dropped from have to check in every day, several times a day to I check in when I think about it: which is about once or twice a day during work hours only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a life, and I choose to live it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T17:40:43.847" />
  <row Id="41899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41834" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:17:58.523" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this (it might take a while to load):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=572&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=572&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T18:17:58.523" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41879" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:22:33.687" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I'd like this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I tend to notice a new ad.  The new ad gets a small amount of attention and very rarely a click to open in a new tab that I may or may not have time to follow up on.  Then it fades to the background.  If they're changing them up all the time then it's much harder to spot the new ones.  I end up having to ignore all the ads and space just becomes wasted - I may as well block them as there'd be no difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T18:22:33.687" />
  <row Id="41901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:27:21.110" Score="1" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are too many questions on StackOverflow. It is just too much for anyone to answer! I mean, I could spend my entire life trying to answer all the questions on StackOverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to show an example, this is my daily routine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go on StackOverflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to Unanswered Questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start from the top and answer each question, even if I  am not familiar with the language, or topic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Argue with people for down-voting me. I mean, just because I don't know anything about PHP  doesn't mean I can't answer how to assign a variable! At least I'm putting forth effort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I've only been able to answer 500 questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest that we make a change to the Ask a Question page to relieve this burden on the technology community, allowing us all to provide answers to questions that have already been asked. Then, when we have all answered them, we can undo the change and start answering the new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;input id=&quot;submit-button&quot; type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Post Your Question&quot; tabindex=&quot;120&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;input id=&quot;submit-button&quot; onclick=&quot;return false;&quot; type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Post Your Question&quot; tabindex=&quot;120&quot; &amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will stop all questions from being posted, and allow us to catch up with answering questions, even if we are inexperienced with the topic!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be even better if the submit button acted like the question was submitted, but simply took them back to the home page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please join me in the effort to catch up will all the unanswered questions!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T01:38:28.697" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T01:38:28.697" ClosedDate="2010-03-11T20:10:02.350" Title="Too many questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="41902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41901" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:34:44.053" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, we should delete everything and start over!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But perhaps you are going about things the &quot;wrong&quot; way, and getting intimidated by the size of the task you have taken on... For example, I &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; look at the front page of all questions. Never ever ever. That's way too massive and I'd explode from overload.  Instead, I simply conduct a tag search of the ~30 or so most interesting tags in my &quot;interesting&quot; list, set on auto-refresh every 10 minutes. That contains just three languages, a few tools, and a smattering of general concepts like project-management, code-review, fun, subjective, interview-questions etc. That's plenty for me to absorb each day, and almost all my reputation comes from answers in one tag ([perl]).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of my answer would simply be a reiteration of the points covered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11511/how-do-you-use-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T18:34:44.053" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41890" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:38:49.810" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I removed all tags but &lt;code&gt;fun&lt;/code&gt; from that question - it'll disappear soon. Next time, if a tag is bothering you, and you want it removed or change -go change it, you're way over the requisite rep for retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T18:38:49.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:49:03.593" Score="1" ViewCount="647" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10802/can-you-add-a-math-related-site-to-the-trilogy&quot;&gt;Can you add a math related site to the &amp;ldquo;Trilogy&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May I suggest adding a math/science sister site to the family. &lt;a href=&quot;http://mathoverflow.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MathOverflow&lt;/a&gt; is apparently &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34570/mathoverflow-net-how-can-we-get-members-of-this-site-and-the-so-sf-su-sites-to-s&quot;&gt;only for research mathematicians&lt;/a&gt; and they do not accept student questions. Also that site is apparently not part of the same family but is hosted by someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose for such a site would be asking questions related to mathematics, physics and other related areas, much in the same fashion that we do here on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144371" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-28T19:22:03.173" LastActivityDate="2011-03-28T19:22:03.173" ClosedDate="2010-03-13T17:22:17.283" Title="A math site similar to StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;math&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41905" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:50:24.903" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can go create one yourself at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mathoverflow is not part of the stackoverflow family of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ask stackexchange related questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T18:50:24.903" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41890" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:53:44.137" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone decides to roll back that edit, we could always go with the tag &lt;code&gt;[birthday-cake]&lt;/code&gt;. Then there would be no confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I noticed the question got rolled back, so I did what I said above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T13:58:19.277" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:58:19.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41916" CreationDate="2010-03-11T18:59:26.413" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neil Butterworth's comment on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2427738/24-hours-per-day-and-freelance-programming-jobs&quot;&gt;SO question&lt;/a&gt; notified me that there was a new &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careeroverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Careers Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we have a link to it on the footer with the rest of the Stack Exchange links?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we have a Linked Account option for CareerOverflow ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt; 3 !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diago pointed out that it is just a StackExchange site cleverly created with a similiar name as our Careers.StackOverflow.com site, and it is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an official affiliate or ally with the So/Su/Sf triliogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because CareersOverflow is not &quot;one of ours&quot;, in the furture, is it appropriate to suggest a question be not asked here but on CareersOverflow instead? Or other StackExchange sites? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T20:49:35.720" Title="CareerOverflow : Footer link, Associate Accounts option" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:04:17.753" Score="2" ViewCount="98" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the number of daily votes each user gets always fixed regardless of reputation? Users with increasing reputation are clearly spending more time on the site, and sometimes the lack of votes can by annoying. I have experienced that a lot in the past few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I am mostly concerned with not being able to upvote good questions and answers, of which there are many in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141626" LastEditorUserId="141626" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T09:05:59.613" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:05:59.613" Title="Daily limits on voting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41909" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:11:36.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;High-rep users have no more influence on the reputation of others than low-rep users do. This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:11:36.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41909" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:13:51.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number of daily votes is the same for every user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily agree that high rep users spend more time on the site... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:13:51.447" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:15:28.960" Score="-1" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2417108/is-hardware-impossible-to-debug-without-software&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2417108/is-hardware-impossible-to-debug-without-software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I CANNOT imagine why someone would want to close this. It has 5 upvotes and a bunch of answers. It is not subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, it is a question about hardware but it is from a software perspective. If you read the entire question you would see that my alternative to this question is to setup some software tests to test the hardware. How is this different from asking questions about users or software management? They are not specifically programming questions either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the trilogy of awesomes there is nowhere more appropriate to ask this question. As it is somewhat software related i think stackoverflow.com is a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can I ask the users of meta their opinion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: I work on a completely custom stack. From hardware up to software. Therefore the problems we face on a day-to-day basis are intertwined. I appreciate that most programmers don't need to worry about hardware so much but some do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastEditorUserId="1143" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T19:40:33.103" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T20:27:27.787" Title="Are software -&gt; hardware questions inappropriate for stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="41914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41913" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:16:57.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sure, it is a question about hardware&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;That's why&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:16:57.883" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41913" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:21:52.743" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not programming related. It's debugging hardware related. Yes, software is potentially an aspect in that, but I'm not seeing anything, y'know, coding-like in there. Thus, I concur with Downvoter, it's rightfully closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's nowhere better in the Trilogy -- true, but that's why there's a whole slew of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange sites&lt;/a&gt;. Not every question (not even every technical question!) belongs on the Trilogy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does it matter? You have 5 answers, including one you've accepted. Obviously, you got the help you need. Closure just means that no one else can add answers to the post. People can still vote, comment and edit to their hearts' content.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:21:52.743" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="41916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41908" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:30:50.957" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The updated answer with the release of SE 2.0&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the introduction of StackExchange 2.0, associating accounts across the whole StackExchange Network is possible and encouraged. There is also now a new central hub for all SE sites, accessible through the StackExchange link in the top bar of every site, and by visiting &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;. Once sites leave Beta from &lt;a href=&quot;http://area51.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Area51&lt;/a&gt; they will be added to the footers of appropriately matching sites, and also be highlighted on StackExchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The following answer applies to SE 1.0 Sites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to both questions would be &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. I would assume the link in the footer could be done if they applied to become members of the League of Justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CareersOverflow is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; site which is an official fork of the original Stack Overflow codebase. It's not part of the official Stack Overflow Trilogy. Only the trilogy sites and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;League of Justice&lt;/a&gt; members are placed in the footer. StackExchange sites are independently owned and maintained and hosted and developed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fog Creek&lt;/a&gt;. The databases are completely separate and there is no way to associate accounts the way it works on the Trilogy. In fact Fog Creek does the hosting for StackExchange themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official trilogy in four parts are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is acceptable to suggest to users to ask a question on &lt;strong&gt;any website&lt;/strong&gt; more appropriate to their question if it is not covered by the trilogy, whether it is part of StackExchange or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132480" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-07T20:49:35.720" LastActivityDate="2010-09-07T20:49:35.720" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41181" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:42:53.693" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This script replaces the question and its answers by randomly chosen comments from a few high-profile questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4020/quotified.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also hides all useless (i.e. all) comments. It's set to work only on Meta; for the other sites, you'd have to choose other source questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/71158.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;install script&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ndash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/71158&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;view source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:42:53.693" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:47:55.170" Score="36" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.castleproject.org/community/getinvolved.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8121/text2924821.png&quot; alt=&quot;Castle Project&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136798" LastEditorUserId="136798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-21T03:39:27.930" LastActivityDate="2010-04-21T03:39:27.930" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T19:47:55.170" />
  <row Id="41919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:48:04.327" Score="-3" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8578/aggressively-closing-duplicate-questions&quot;&gt;Aggressively closing duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the vote to close could be bit better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know people (me included) can be too lazy to ask questions that should not have been asked because they are duplicate or something else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time I think people can be too lazy when closing the questions. I don't think this scenario is uncommon. One user comes along and finds a question that he thinks should be closed. The next user sees the question and sees that someone has voted to close, so he does the same thing without thinking too much about it, and soon the question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22503/feature-request-new-system-for-agreeing-and-discussing-on-whether-to-close-quest&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; about it before a question should be closed is too much, but I believe that it should be more difficult to close a question that already have multiple answers and views. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps giving the user you asked the question a second change to be edit the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a minimum I think you should be required to leave a comment when closing a question, perhaps not all 5 users, perhaps only the first 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144016" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T20:10:46.717" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T20:37:47.280" ClosedDate="2010-03-11T20:19:02.860" Title="More difficult to close question as duplicate" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41919" CreationDate="2010-03-11T19:55:56.177" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps giving the user you asked the question a second change to be edit the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They already have that. The question can be editing even after it is closed, and could in fact be edited to the point where it should be re-opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At a minimum I think you should be required to leave a comment when closing a question, perhaps not all 5 users, perhaps only the first 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a reason why every time this comes up it gets shot down. That reason is Downvoter's comment on your question. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, closing duplicates &lt;em&gt;isn't easy enough.&lt;/em&gt; It takes 5 people, many of whom may not notice the four close votes on something that is blatantly a dupe. Additionally, we only get 12 close votes per day across all the closure reasons. This conspires to make us selective about what we close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice to you is that if you feel your question was unfairly closed (for whatever reason), edit it to point out why it was unfairly closed. That'll bump it and get you some exposure for getting it reopened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T19:55:56.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41919" CreationDate="2010-03-11T20:01:30.107" Score="-18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm glad to see there are more people that feel the same way I do about removing the ability of moderators to close questions. It's about time more people spoke up about the question-suppressors. You know how many of my questions have been closed for being a duplicated when they're nothing like the original question? In my opinion, this is just another way for the establishment of moderators to step on the small guys so they don't gain rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T20:37:47.280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T20:37:47.280" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41913" CreationDate="2010-03-11T20:12:10.647" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;close&lt;/em&gt; to programming related, but seems to lie slightly outside the proper bounds for the site. There are some clearly programming topics nearby (exercising all accessible states of the software, managing an instrumented feedback loop for automatically testing the hardware, how to &lt;em&gt;program&lt;/em&gt; a full featured simulation of the device as built, etc..), but even then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This isn't the place to ask about the instrumentation itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scope of the problem may be too large for Stack Overflow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T20:12:10.647" />
  <row Id="41925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41913" CreationDate="2010-03-11T20:27:27.787" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am an embedded systems engineer, and do both hardware and software design.  Your question is not programming related for the simple fact that programmers cannot answer it.  The correct audience would be hardware engineers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is hardware impossible to debug without software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a hardware question for a hardware engineer.  A software engineer cannot be expected to know this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Am I living in a dream world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a psychological, metaphysical, or philosophical question.  A software engineer cannot be expected to know this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better forum for this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://chiphacker.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://chiphacker.com&lt;/a&gt; - it's a stackexchange site catering to electrical engineering and microcontroller software, so you might get a better response there.  Otherwise you can check out the Circuit Cellar forums, and there are countless forums for USB development in particular.  If you post it to chiphacker I'll throw in my 10 cents, but you better explain what you mean by &quot;kit&quot; and &quot;software&quot; in terms of the hardware and tools used to test the hardware.  Your question is not at all clear in terms of hardware testing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T20:27:27.787" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T20:52:34.717" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;or is there another site in the SO family for those questions? or neither?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144517" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T21:52:32.770" Title="Is SO a good place to ask photoshop questions?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41926" CreationDate="2010-03-11T20:58:28.177" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super User may be your best bet, but it depends a lot on what you're doing with Photoshop. I know that Stack Overflow and Server Fault are definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; appropriate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know if &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DocType&lt;/a&gt; would be a good fit, but it's possible. There are also graphic design (and photography) sites on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; which may be a good fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T20:58:28.177" />
  <row Id="41928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T20:54:26.240" Score="0" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;You probably already know about this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4/list-of-stackexchange-sites&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of StackExchange 1.0 sites&lt;/a&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to find the info I want with Google, but the number of results for the search phrase &quot;open stackoverflow&quot; pointing to questions here at Stack Overflow is making the search a bit hard. So, what better place to ask than here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where can I find information/documentation on how to install/use/extend the SO Q&amp;amp;A system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to create a clone for a local community in my city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-15T13:37:47.147" LastActivityDate="2010-10-15T13:37:47.147" Title="Open Stack Overflow installation/download info" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;clone&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41928" CreationDate="2010-03-11T20:58:36.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a list of sites created by customers on the official stackexchange servers hosted by stackexchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can request a free site if you are a non-profit/etc/etc - but it is hosted by stackexchange, you don't get their software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few opensource stackexchange &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;clones&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't have any personal experience of any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ps. Should this be on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10897" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T21:01:05.040" />
  <row Id="41930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41928" CreationDate="2010-03-11T21:42:37.000" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow, Super User, Serverfault, and meta.stackoverflow are part of the Stackoverflow trilogy, and are run on one NON open source codebase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That codebase was licensed to Fog Creek software, who are converting it into a platform for running hosted sites based on this architecture, which you can use to make your own site right now at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; - it's free during the beta, and for 45 days thereafter (beta is still open, no official close date).  So try it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The codebase is not available anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mgb noted, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2267/stack-overflow-clones&quot;&gt;several other open sourceimplementations&lt;/a&gt; of the stackoverflow Q&amp;amp;A concept, but none are quite as complete as either stackoverflow or stackexchange.  The only instructions for installing any one of those sites would be with the maintainer(s) of the respective projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the original code base is not open source, stackoverflow and fog creek are not able to support any installation or usage issues with other software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T21:42:37.000" />
  <row Id="41931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41926" CreationDate="2010-03-11T21:52:32.770" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your question involves programming or automation, then it may be a good candidate for StackOverflow. Have a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/photoshop&quot;&gt;tagged questions&lt;/a&gt; for examples of what is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After looking at those questions, if your question doesn't seem to fit in with them, then SuperUser would be the best place to ask your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T21:52:32.770" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41935" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:37:58.480" Score="19" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I can see my total count of votes, but I'd be interested in having these be part of my activity tab, so I can easily revisit questions. I end up favoriting almost every question I upvote, just so I have a way to go back to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132424" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T22:54:55.133" Title="Can I see my vote history?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="41933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46761" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:44:36.453" Score="4" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;People like Mister Skeet probably generated 10s of thousands of Page Views for the SO site, this in reality translates to dollars in the bank, many dollars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently Mahalo announced plans to revenue share with the users providing content &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mahalo.com/answers/revshare_guidelines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mahalo.com/answers/revshare_guidelines&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should SO look to adopt a similar model? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;In light of the SE changes I think this question is way more relevant than it was a few weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-15T17:59:59.593" LastActivityDate="2010-04-15T18:22:39.087" Title="Revenue sharing with the community" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;revenue&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41932" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:49:11.420" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This used to be available in the form of a &quot;votes&quot; tab in your user profile, but it was removed for some reason. They were &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14610/where-did-the-votes-tab-go/14625#14625&quot;&gt;considering adding it to the &quot;recent activity&quot; section&lt;/a&gt;, but it hasn't happened yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T22:54:55.133" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T22:54:55.133" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41933" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:51:53.387" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they do an &lt;em&gt;excellent&lt;/em&gt; job of giving back to the community already, but then &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40585/free-laptop-to-deserving-meta-user-complete&quot;&gt;I'm biased&lt;/a&gt; (thanks again!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More seriously, IIRC there are actual studies for this kind of thing showing that when you start to mix explicit motivators like money with intrinsic motivators like altruism, respect, or fun, the explicit motivators tend to take over so that they are all the participants see. The explicit motivators replace rather than add to the intrinsic motivators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now have a situation where some people are providing for a free (intrinsically motivated) a service for which they would normally charge a client or employer $100s of dollars.  Setting up StackOverflow to pay out real money would &lt;em&gt;replace&lt;/em&gt; whatever motivation currently drives many of these people with what effectively amounts to a little beer money.  Pretty soon many of these users no longer find sufficient motivation to keep participating and the site suffers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T22:57:30.290" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T22:57:30.290" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41933" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:51:58.847" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cha-ching!  Sign me up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T22:51:58.847" />
  <row Id="41938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:52:09.110" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://circumflex.ru&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://circumflex.ru/img/banner.png&quot; alt=&quot;Circumflex — lightweight Web framework and ORM for Scala&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144525" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T22:52:09.110" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T22:52:09.110" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:56:38.763" Score="9" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions that you have personally favorited should be more visible in search results. I would recommend an implementation like Google Starred Search where favorited results can appear in a single line format up at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-11T23:02:38.057" LastActivityDate="2010-06-19T23:00:04.910" Title="Improve positioning of favorites in your search results" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;search-results&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="41940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41933" CreationDate="2010-03-11T22:56:40.230" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about some sort of profit sharing at the end of the year? You're not earning income per se and you don't know how much or if you will get anything, but you do receive a nice little gift (or gift certificate) at the end of the year. I know that I've appreciated the T-shirt and stickers. I also just got a gift certificate for helping out the local swim team -- completely unexpected and yet very much appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T22:56:40.230" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:01:09.230" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack overflow is currently overflown. Apart from google, what static caches (official or otherwise) exist for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T23:07:34.940" Title="What static caches exist for stack overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;offline&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41933" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:05:30.640" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to agree with Joel C. - keep money out of the community, the danger of poisoning is simply too great. If SO really reaps a notable profit, now or some day, I'd rather like to see some money going into things like what Google do with their Summer of Code, or some high-class, no-bullshit charity project - of course with the SO community having a say in where the money will go to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T23:05:30.640" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41941" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:07:34.940" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Geez.  I hope the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-000004/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new guy&lt;/a&gt; didn't reboot the servers by mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK -- just Google &lt;a href=&quot;http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache%3aQXZ7vvegvZUJ%3astackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet+c%23+skeet+site%3astackoverflow.com&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cache&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW -- seems to be back up now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T23:07:34.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:15:56.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kitten-saver&lt;/strong&gt; Someone has asked a question and put their own answer on it within five minutes of asking. You come along with a better answer, and they accept yours rather than their own. Therefore you're preventing God from killing a kitten. Alternatively it could be awarded for preventing someone from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2246691/how-do-i-query-a-database-field-but-ignore-the-html-markup/2246713#2246713&quot;&gt;parsing HTML with regular expressions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T23:15:56.543" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-11T23:15:56.543" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41949" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41952" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:29:07.633" Score="-4" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38396/make-vote-anonymity-optional&quot;&gt;Make vote anonymity optional&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I want to know from others and I don't mind sharing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically this is just a philosophy style of life. I love knowing more and more data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really not sure if this is a good idea. Maybe it could bring good to the community, maybe not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's just hear the feedback! :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: Also I wanted to know where I casted my votes myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T15:42:00.033" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T15:42:00.033" ClosedDate="2010-03-12T16:13:47.333" Title="Suggestion: opt-in preference to allow anyone to view where I cast my votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;preferences&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:30:31.033" Score="5" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been using my myopenid.com OpenID to log into stackoverflow.com for almost 2 years.  I have linked it with my superuser.com and serverfault.com accounts which use the same OpenID account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am still able to log into both of my other accounts (and I just created a meta.stackoverflow.com account).  However, when I try to log into stackoverflow.com, I get this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&#xA;&#xA;Message signature was incorrect.&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this error every time I try to log in for the past week.  I have tried using a different browser and changing my openid.com password, but nothing seems to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any suggestions as to how I can log into my account, please let me know.  Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144530" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T17:46:51.433" Title="Unable to log into stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41950" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:35:44.857" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally figured out that I could log in by prepending &lt;code&gt;http://&lt;/code&gt; to my openid.com account.  Oddly enough, this is not necesary to log into any of the other stackoverflow-related sites.  Perhaps it is a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144530" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T23:35:44.857" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41949" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:35:59.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like a lot of work, for what I think would be very little participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-11T23:35:59.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41954" CreationDate="2010-03-11T23:53:53.207" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had an occasion where someone reformatted the code in my question, not because it was ill-formatted, but to match his preferred style.  I would have liked to be able to type a reason for rolling back the edits when I did so - could the ability to do that be added?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T00:02:20.347" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T00:02:20.347" Title="Could we be permitted to provide a reason for rolling back" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rollbacks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="41954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41953" CreationDate="2010-03-12T00:01:04.767" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/41953/revisions&quot;&gt;This feature already exists!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open up the revision history on the post you wish to roll back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;edit&quot; on the revision you wish to roll back to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Type your reason for rolling back into the &quot;Edit Summary&quot; field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T00:01:04.767" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41950" CreationDate="2010-03-12T00:55:56.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the same problem, it does not work on any of the four SOFU sites. It works fine on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow#Careers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Careers&lt;/a&gt; and on Stack Exchange sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The work-around is to enter the OpenID URL on the error page. Then login works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Platform: Firefox 3.6, Windows XP Professional 64 bit. OpenID provider: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MyOpenID&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T17:46:51.433" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T17:46:51.433" />
  <row Id="41956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T01:45:41.943" Score="3" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often a higher rep means a user has been around longer. As a user gains more rep it's easier to implicitly gain even more from the trail they have left behind because of the abundance of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be interesting to show the usefulness (or &quot;worth&quot;) of a user in addition to amount of points, through some other means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example old timer Joe does a decent job,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joe Blow (1 year) @ 6000 rep.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;100 up votes / 50 down votes&lt;/em&gt; = &lt;strong&gt;2:1 ratio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but new user Bob provides more useful info&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bob Smith (4 months) @ 1000 rep.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;10 up votes / 2 down votes&lt;/em&gt; =  &lt;strong&gt;5:1 ratio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is simplified and doesn't calculate correctly by SO rep assignment rules, but you get the gist.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I would love to have the ability to filter on perceived worth. It would be very useful to increase your chances at seeing more experience or worthwhile answers and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note&lt;/em&gt;: I'm not being biased because I have low rep scores, because likely I have comparatively low ratios too. ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: There are other ways and combinations of metrics and events to determine a user's worth so focus on an ethereal worth metric that is theoretically perfect, and not on my simple example that obviously doesn't suffice to fit the bill.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turned this into a feature request which obviously would need lots of discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="136524" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T02:18:04.667" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T02:59:26.503" Title="Worth metric: Focus on reputation worth vs amount (user quality vs answer quantity)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="41957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41956" CreationDate="2010-03-12T01:52:34.273" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of times people will give downvotes because they don't like the programming language someone used, or some ancillary comment, etc.  This doesn't necessarily correlate with their usefulness, so I don't think that would be a good measure to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T01:52:34.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41956" CreationDate="2010-03-12T01:53:46.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation isn't supposed to convey the average worth of a user's contributions, it's meant to measure their overall contribution to SO.  Yes, those who consistently provide good content for a year will have a higher reputation, and are considered more 'trusted' by the site (allowing them to do more of the community functions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you asking for a new metric to replace reputation, or to stand beside reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T01:53:46.500" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41961" CreationDate="2010-03-12T02:08:26.157" Score="7" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does anyone know of any websites where developers propose software projects and try to recruit other developers to join them?&lt;/strong&gt; It's a pretty a straightforward idea, but I don't think I've come across one like that (OSS hosting sites like Sourceforge, Codeplex, Google Code, etc. are similar; but they're more about discovering &lt;em&gt;existing&lt;/em&gt; projects and contributing if you're interested).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like SO would be a logical place to seek out other developers who might be interested in collaborating on a new project (presumably OSS, but not necessarily). But then, this feels somewhat outside the realm of what SO is really for. Besides, it might be considered bad form to use it in this way. &lt;strong&gt;Is it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142947" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T20:27:45.200" Title="Is SO an inappropriate venue for assembling a development team for a new project?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;open-source&gt;&lt;teamwork&gt;&lt;recruiting&gt;&lt;collaboration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41959" CreationDate="2010-03-12T02:33:36.830" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes! (under some circumstances)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your team is being assembled for an open source project, you can use this &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/53346/open-source-advertising-sidebar-2h-2010&quot;&gt;advert thread on Stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to request help from developers. It's legal, free and explicitly set up by SO for the purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As users surf SO they see these open source adverts interspersed with commercial adverts. Keep refreshing the StackOverflow page and you will see one or two... eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="136524" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T20:27:45.200" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T20:27:45.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41956" CreationDate="2010-03-12T02:59:26.503" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/users/&lt;/a&gt; for some statistics on the 10k+ rep users. This shows the accept rate (percentage of given answers that have been accepted), along with average upvotes and downvotes per answer. For each user this is also broken down by tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be possible to run this for other users, but I haven't taken the time to do so yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T02:59:26.503" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41966" CreationDate="2010-03-12T03:27:45.217" Score="2" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49765/serverfault-wiki-how-does-subnetting-work/49836#49836&quot;&gt;epic subnetting answer&lt;/a&gt; appears to be truncated. The current edit of the answer just stops mid-sentence. I'm beyond &quot;fairly certain&quot; that I didn't edit it to be this way and, indeed, looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/c21f730d-9b6f-4096-b2e8-2e755ffba005/view-source&quot;&gt;source to the prior edit&lt;/a&gt; shows that the answer did continue on where the current answer just stops. I can't imagine that I actually would've truncated &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/12ba71c5-bf65-44a9-af98-1a45c68ced1a/view-source&quot;&gt;my current edit&lt;/a&gt; in such a way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In fact, I'll admit some vanity and say that I've re-read the answer in the last couple months, front to back, and I don't remember it being truncated until I happened to look at it tonight.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas on what might've happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any of the creative commons data dumps (though I keep meaning to grab one and rip out all my answers for &quot;backup&quot;). Does anybody have one handy from a prior month and can tell me if the full text of my current edit is available there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Google Chrome, at least, showing the revisions of the answer results in a very wild looking display with nested &quot;pre&quot; blocks that aren't actually in the answer. It's like the markdown parser has gone bonkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12988/serverfault-cut-off-truncated-on-long-post&quot;&gt;something like this happened before&lt;/a&gt;, but that was months before the answer I'm talking about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that doing a &quot;no-op edit&quot; is going to help, because the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/12ba71c5-bf65-44a9-af98-1a45c68ced1a/view-source&quot;&gt;source to the current edit&lt;/a&gt; is truncated. If one of the community data dumps doesn't have the old source in it I'll have to re-post that section based on the prior edit (which isn't the end of the world by any means, but is sort of annoying as I did a lot of revision, in general, in that last edit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130120" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T09:34:29.257" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T09:34:29.257" Title="Old answer mangled, appears very strangely when showing revisions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;truncation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42060" CreationDate="2010-03-12T03:47:01.910" Score="1" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a question is [closed] there is no way for the owner to delete it for 2 days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if no answers were given, it sits there like a duck, sitting as it would. And, just like a sitting duck, suffers the hit of other users being allowed to downvote it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can this unfairness be addressed somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T04:23:38.547" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T15:47:05.860" Title="Pain reliever - For when you want to rid yourself of a downward facing question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41964" CreationDate="2010-03-12T03:51:55.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, don't post questions that attract close votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway once its deleted you can ask for a rep recaclc and none of the rep you lost will be counted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides no matter how much you get downvoted, once you reach -1,-2 you start to attract compassion upvotes which cancel everything out rep wise (and usually leave you in front) You really need an atrocious question or answer to attract only downvotes.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T03:51:55.753" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="41966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41963" CreationDate="2010-03-12T04:01:00.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may want to view source on the revisions (in order from earliest to latest):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/6181d1f2-084e-48dc-b1aa-78df7963e75c/view-source&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/revisions/6181d1f2-084e-48dc-b1aa-78df7963e75c/view-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/a10208d4-c004-4f8a-a32a-4705aaf3c602/view-source&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/revisions/a10208d4-c004-4f8a-a32a-4705aaf3c602/view-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/43259602-44c6-4270-80f4-dfb8d3e8b146/view-source&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/revisions/43259602-44c6-4270-80f4-dfb8d3e8b146/view-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/c21f730d-9b6f-4096-b2e8-2e755ffba005/view-source&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/revisions/c21f730d-9b6f-4096-b2e8-2e755ffba005/view-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/revisions/12ba71c5-bf65-44a9-af98-1a45c68ced1a/view-source&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/revisions/12ba71c5-bf65-44a9-af98-1a45c68ced1a/view-source&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like revision #5 pushed it over the edge; there is a 30k char limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;add key=&quot;Questions.MaxBodySize&quot; value=&quot;30000&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that the markdown-to-HTML conversion (we call this &quot;cooked&quot; vs the &quot;raw&quot; of Markdown) also takes additional characters, as does CRLF and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we really should be warning users when they enter &lt;s&gt;a novella&lt;/s&gt; body text that's too long, rather than just truncating silently. I added a saner check for this through the standard question form validation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-11T09:34:21.383" LastActivityDate="2010-05-11T09:34:21.383" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2010-03-12T04:15:09.627" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Commenting on other user's questions in order to gain additional information in the appropriate manner (comments instead of answers) needed to construct good answers to other user's questions is by effect discouraged for new users. I think that the reputation system is perfect for other areas (e.g. restricting the ability to rank questions/answers) but I feel that restricting comments is too prohibitive and prevents some of the potential useful community feedback.  I believe that comments and answers should go hand in hand (both allowed or disallowed with low to no reputation) as they are both critical tools needed to properly participate in a question and one without the other encourages improper use.  This was my experience while trying to participate as a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T04:15:09.627" />
  <row Id="41968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35075" CreationDate="2010-03-12T04:30:06.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may be running the adblock extension.  If that is so, you may have blocked one or more ads, and blocked the voting arrows as a side effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can fix this by going into adblock options, and finding the &quot;block an ad that the filter missed&quot;   Odds are there is a tag of some sort there associated with stackoverflow.com&#xA;or perhaps just one named IMG.   Unblocking these, may bring the missing arrows back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142421" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T04:30:06.150" />
  <row Id="41969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41964" CreationDate="2010-03-12T04:30:10.207" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not just edit and change it to community wiki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T04:30:10.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="41971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41974" CreationDate="2010-03-12T04:54:22.707" Score="1" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think that if a question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2430021/under-what-circumstances-is-python-preferrable-to-php-for-web-development-and-vi&quot;&gt;for example, this one&lt;/a&gt;) is closed, it should not allow any further changes: comments, answers, edits, down-votes, or up-votes.  In order to make modifications to a question, it needs to be re-opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Upon review of answers, I can see the need to allow comments and edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do the down-votes continue to penalize the OP?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the OP is regretting the question (as I understand from &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41964/pain-reliever-for-when-you-want-to-rid-yourself-of-a-downward-facing-question&quot;&gt;this Meta discussion&lt;/a&gt;), can he/she flag the question themselves and ask for it to be removed.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T05:13:56.767" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T05:13:56.767" Title="Closed questions continue to be beaten up by downvotes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T04:59:22.417" Score="0" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just ran across &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2430557/how-do-i-achieve-the-following-in-html&quot;&gt;How do I achieve the following in HTML?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; The question, &quot;&lt;em&gt;What should i do in HTML so that it works in all browsers including IE6?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Oh, wait, my sprint card is downloading an image now...ah yes, the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; meat of this issue is an illustration, not an actual question containing details. (Working from slightly slower mobile internet, I actually had no idea an image was coming for a couple of seconds)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What ought to be done in these types of instances? Should somebody create a question from scratch, so the illustration become supplemental, rather than the main focus? What do you guys think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:11:30.460" Title="Questions...Illustrated" Tags="&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41971" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:04:09.380" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closed questions continue to hit the OP and any answers with downvotes (and upvotes) unless the question is deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The OP can either wait for two days and start the vote to delete process or plead their case to a mod for immediate delete if so badly need/want it off the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But edits and comments to a closed question can often point out or fix it up to allow it to be reopened. Taking that away means you leave the OP with no clue as to why they've been closed or any chance to improve it to be a better, more valid (or fitting/suitable) question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T05:04:09.380" />
  <row Id="41974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41971" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:05:12.123" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, to clarify:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you're suggesting is a &lt;strong&gt;lock&lt;/strong&gt; (which can be added by moderators).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A closed question means that the question &lt;em&gt;as it stands&lt;/em&gt; is not acceptable at the site, but it may be acceptable upon editing (eg. perhaps we're understanding the question wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your actual questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I believe so, but I'm not 100% sure.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) Yes, the OP can flag the question and ask for it to be removed if they so wish to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T05:05:12.123" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41972" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:10:31.597" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that a question should be created from scratch. In this case, I would guess that the OP does not know how to describe what is desired, or it was simply quicker to drop in the image. Images should be used to enhance or clarify the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question should be subject to editing and have the image removed, in my opinion. As in this case, I don't feel the image is necessary at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP is unfamiliar with the proper terminology for what is being asked (as is suggested by @D_N), doing the extra work to find out will be beneficial. Or editing and providing a quality edit to preempt the image (as @earlz did in this case) will also educate the OP. On a number of occasions, when I wasn't sure what the correct terminologies were and did a little extra research, I have actually determined the answers on my own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply throwing an image up to the community and saying &quot;How do I do this...&quot; is much akin to saying &quot;give me teh codez&quot;, in my opinion. Nice image or not, it isn't much more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T06:00:40.760" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T06:00:40.760" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="41976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42143" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:24:22.360" Score="126" ViewCount="3872" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre Edit 4:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pointing out that thread's popularity is a direct result of programming community interest in said subject, and that someone likely stands to become rich and/or famous by solving the problem none of the answers, save my own, came even close to resolving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long salutation describing my programming experience and implying that I am a programming genius even though I was educated as a philosopher.  Ill-fitting analogy explaining that philosophers make better programmers than classically trained programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meandering post describing a minor issue and suggesting a poor/incomplete solution while also inferring that those who disagree are blatant rep whores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Major edit that changes the whole point of the question, nullifying any existing answers, and openly marveling at inability of others to understand this trivial but super-important request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Response to detracters, repeating what I already said in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reluctant acquiescence to community, asserting that community is still wrong but accepting that it cannot help me any further, and I'm leaving unsatisfied.  Pointed comments directed towards specific users or answers publicly belittling them.  Thanks to those who obviously understand the issue even though their solutions were grossly inadequate, calling into question their schooling and ancestry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complimentary closing,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Signature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;P.S. Suggestion that people study &lt;em&gt;My favorite Programming Book&lt;/em&gt; before answering such advanced questions as these on SO.&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="130593" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-02T14:17:54.213" LastActivityDate="2011-06-23T20:49:08.590" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" Title="Question title that doesn't describe the problem" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;meta-meta-meta&gt;&lt;inappropriate-tag&gt;" AnswerCount="43" CommentCount="48" FavoriteCount="58" />
  <row Id="41977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:28:39.963" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick yet canned answer developed in my mind from reading the tags and 2 words of the title of your post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More offtopic and irrelevant vague things in response to @Pollyanna's comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T05:28:39.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T05:28:39.963" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="41978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41972" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:30:01.347" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A picture's worth 1000 words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the OP put in the time to make a diagram, why is that a bad thing? I'd much rather see that then the incoherent babbling of some posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151858" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T05:30:01.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="41979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:36:03.393" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dismissive reply by megapoint user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Statement of annoyance about having to explain himself by way of this update.&lt;/em&gt; Introduction to some ASCII art that elucidates nothing about the problem but does reveal why you ought to upvote him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;-----------------------------------&#xA;|                ___      _______/|&#xA;|           ____/   \    /        |&#xA;|          /         \  /         |&#xA;|         /           \/          |&#xA;|        /              *         |&#xA;|   /\  /                         |&#xA;|  /  \/                          |&#xA;| /    *                          |&#xA;|/                                |&#xA;-----------------------------------&#xA;my knowledge&#xA;* note that downturns and plateaus were result of listening to other people&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;-----------------------------------&#xA;|                                 |&#xA;|                                 |&#xA;|                                 |&#xA;|                                 |&#xA;|                                 |&#xA;|                                 |&#xA;|  _______________________________|&#xA;| / *                             |&#xA;|/                                |&#xA;-----------------------------------&#xA;your knowledge &#xA;* note that uptick is from one of my previous answers&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastEditorUserId="150097" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-27T09:45:59.870" LastActivityDate="2010-10-27T09:45:59.870" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="41980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:39:17.503" Score="-2" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes is it possible to get the Stack Overflow icons in Cornflower Blue? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like that color, I even have a tie of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T12:37:13.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T12:38:40.350" Title="Cornflower blue?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T05:50:51.657" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers own problem with the same solution already in the question.  Dismisses other answers out of hand as &quot;unworkable&quot; and &quot;overly simplistic.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reiterates ideal solution again while challenging others to prove otherwise with real data, while providing no proof of this perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T05:50:51.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="41982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41980" CreationDate="2010-03-12T06:04:21.267" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T06:04:21.267" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="41984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T06:08:06.623" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer that nearly copies an upvoted answer, with a few clarifying comments, in hopes of getting some cheap upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151858" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T06:08:06.623" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41959" CreationDate="2010-03-12T06:11:33.243" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than paying a bunch of people, just pay one to ask sufficiently well formed questions to fool the answer guys into thinking you genuinely attempted a solution. That's really one of the great things about SO. It's like a free Apple-care policy for software development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T06:11:33.243" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="41991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T06:31:27.893" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T06:31:27.893" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="41999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2010-03-12T08:30:55.763" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 3 AM I'm on SO and meta... but I'm DEFINITELY NOT ADDICTED!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143505" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T08:30:55.763" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T08:30:55.763" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T08:44:07.840" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41496/can-i-publish-some-stackoverflows-content-on-my-personal-blog&quot;&gt;Can i publish some stackoverflow&amp;rsquo;s content on my personal blog?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to make my own Q&amp;amp;A site, but somewhat more specific. I want to know will if there will be any intellectual property rights issues if I include some subset of questions on my site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can add a trackback to Stack Overflow if required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T07:01:08.003" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T07:01:08.003" ClosedDate="2010-03-12T14:02:17.553" Title="Can I use questions from Stack Overflow on my site?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;creative-commons&gt;&lt;license&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42023" CreationDate="2010-03-12T09:02:11.417" Score="12" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2431404/can-i-use-questions-asked-over-stackoverflow-in-my-site&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; currently has 19 close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than a dozen duplicate questions of this one have been generated in meta, possibly because of a bug in the migration. See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42000/can-i-use-questions-asked-over-stackoverflow-in-my-site&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42001/can-i-use-questions-asked-over-stackoverflow-in-my-site&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42002/can-i-use-questions-asked-over-stackoverflow-in-my-site&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, ..., &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42016/can-i-use-questions-asked-over-stackoverflow-in-my-site&quot;&gt;N&lt;/a&gt;, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/G1HRi.png&quot; alt=&quot;shot of the many dupes&quot; title=&quot;now, let's not get too carried away here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T09:48:33.533" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:48:33.533" Title="Multiple copies of a SO question closed as &quot;belongs on meta&quot; generated in meta" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;migration&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42021" CreationDate="2010-03-12T09:20:13.947" Score="5" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, I am not submitting comments every 15 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried it over the course of 10 minutes, on different threads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My account on SO is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/154152/silky&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/154152/silky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thread I'm trying to post a comment on is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2431541/how-to-test-asynchronous-methods-using-nunit&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2431541/how-to-test-asynchronous-methods-using-nunit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T09:30:50.130" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:31:37.117" Title="Cannot post any comments; always getting &quot;15 second&quot; message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42017" CreationDate="2010-03-12T09:28:29.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also - the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42004/can-i-use-questions-asked-over-stackoverflow-in-my-site&quot;&gt;only remaining version on Meta&lt;/a&gt; says it has 2 answers (in both the question-list view and the question page itself), but I can see none on the question page itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/35jayoj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;borked&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:28:29.853" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42018" CreationDate="2010-03-12T09:31:37.117" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deployment artifact -- there were a few places we weren't correctly calling the shared function to get the user IP, and thus the &lt;code&gt;x-forwarded-for&lt;/code&gt; HTTP header was not respected. Should be fixed in a minute or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:31:37.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42004" CreationDate="2010-03-12T09:37:08.303" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use SO data on your site, if you follow the rules (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as outlined here&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You are free&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to Share — to copy, distribute, and transmit the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to Remix — to adapt the work &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Under the following conditions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by&#xA;  the author or licensor (but not in any&#xA;  way that suggests that they endorse&#xA;  you or your use of the work).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work,&#xA;  you may distribute the resulting work&#xA;  only under the same or similar license&#xA;  to this one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130074" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:37:08.303" />
  <row Id="42023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42017" CreationDate="2010-03-12T09:37:55.057" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a bug in some refactorings around how our LINQ DataContexts are accessed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T09:37:55.057" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40686" CreationDate="2010-03-12T10:28:48.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bug is still there guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T10:28:48.680" />
  <row Id="42027" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T11:07:35.100" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3232/how-did-you-create-your-charts&quot;&gt;How did you create your charts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they use a public libray? What is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138970" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T11:07:35.100" ClosedDate="2010-03-12T19:03:06.177" Title="What javascript chart library is used by SO to show reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42098" CreationDate="2010-03-12T11:50:04.847" Score="4" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;How should I report answers which are pure noise? Thus, answers which actually needs to be &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; removed rather than edited. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67810/how-to-debug-a-jsp-tomcat-service-using-eclipse/2431392#2431392&quot;&gt;Here's an excellent example&lt;/a&gt;. It basically contains only the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks Jeremy Stein&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually belongs in a comment, but users with that low reps cannot post comments in others' questions yet. I checked the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; option, but none of the options suit the reason to remove the answer, e.g. &quot;cruft&quot;, &quot;noise&quot;, &quot;not relevant&quot;, etc. Should I flag &quot;Requires moderator attention&quot;? Wouldn't that involve too lot moderator work, those kind of answers come along pretty regularly and will be growing as much as Stackoverflow arrives more and more in top of Google results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:13:39.630" Title="How should I report answers which are pure noise?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;noise-reduction&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42004" CreationDate="2010-03-12T11:50:44.457" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://askjonskeet.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://askjonskeet.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T11:50:44.457" />
  <row Id="42030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42028" CreationDate="2010-03-12T11:55:42.527" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general, I'd downvote it to make it flow to the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T11:55:42.527" />
  <row Id="42031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42028" CreationDate="2010-03-12T11:56:54.693" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How should I report answers which are pure noise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd downvote it, and ask the poster to remove it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I've seen such answers myself and thought to myself, &quot;if only I could delete that.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe allowing &quot;reviewed deletion&quot; (i.e. deletion decisions are presented to moderators for review) for 10k+ users would be an idea? It would keep deletions under moderators' control but distribute the work more evenly across the community. Just a thought. I imagine moderators have enough stuff to clean up as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, in the tags I'm active in, this doesn't happen very often. Maybe it's different elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T12:58:47.127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T12:58:47.127" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42028" CreationDate="2010-03-12T12:26:06.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it is being used by a user who doesn't have the rep to comment then downvoting would only reduce their rep more (if possible), continuing the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there should be a feature that could transfer it (by mod if need be) to a comment without penalty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144556" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T12:26:06.520" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T12:29:23.333" Score="0" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983625/xcode-3-1-2-locks-up-when-loading-c-project&quot;&gt;this (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983625/...)&lt;/a&gt; question and although the IDE in question deals with c++, the question itself doesn't relate to c++ at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings up 2 questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should questions purely about IDEs be tagged with the language the IDE deals with?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And if so, if the IDE deals with multiple language (e.g. Visual Studio) and if the feature in question isn't available for all languages should it then be tagged with the appropriate language, a tag containing both the IDE and the language (e.g. VisualStudio-c++) or omit the language altogether?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144569" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T12:31:49.380" Title="Should questions purely about IDEs be tagged with the language the IDE deals with?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42034" CreationDate="2010-03-12T12:31:49.380" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A combined tag of both the IDE and language (in that order)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144569" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T12:31:49.380" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1610" CreationDate="2010-03-12T12:35:29.780" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-000004/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new member on the team&lt;/a&gt; (that will be focused on the API), I expect it will be in about 6 to 8 weeks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T12:35:29.780" />
  <row Id="42039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42040" CreationDate="2010-03-12T12:51:49.653" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41870/about-what-is-fake-rot13-text/41871#41871&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question and one of the answers were including some strange characters/contours. Does anyone know if this is a bug or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i43.tinypic.com/11h9dg7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140794" LastEditorUserId="140794" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T18:48:54.890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T18:48:54.890" Title="Is this a bug or deliberately done?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;strange&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42039" CreationDate="2010-03-12T12:54:43.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not a bug. You can do this kind of thing with unicode. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/revisions/58d15758-ca29-49bf-a52a-1f2c746ce6c9/view-source&quot;&gt;source of the answer&lt;/a&gt; (especially try to highlight some of those characters with your mouse; you'll notice that many of them are considered &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; character). Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T12:54:43.810" />
  <row Id="42041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24090" CreationDate="2010-03-12T13:20:25.210" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see this behavior as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:20:25.210" />
  <row Id="42043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T13:24:54.063" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;i have samme problem any update ??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:24:54.063" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42028" CreationDate="2010-03-12T13:26:16.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I typically leave a comment trying to explain that Stack Overflow is not a traditional forum, and ask them to remove their comment. If it's still there after several hours, I remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:26:16.150" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T13:28:39.547" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer that disagrees but doesn't actually provide any evidence as to why the suggestion made but the OP is wrong, trying to get the upvotes from the people that disagree with it but doesn't want to downvote the question to avoid the loss of a reputation point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Invented reason the system works good as it is 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Invented reason the system works good as it is 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:28:39.547" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T13:51:21.240" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/y9zyozc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A thinly veiled lmgtfy link&lt;/a&gt; that gets the OP to memorable quotes from Pulp Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T13:51:21.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42052" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:17:03.700" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is strongly related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41201/answers-to-deleted-questions-can-be-undeleted/41204#41204&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but I thought the following detail warranted a separate post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After undeleting an answer to a deleted question (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2432248/c-tab-container-has-no-border-setting-property/2432270#2432270&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), I notice that the answer does not show up in my profile  but the comments are visible in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/60761?tab=activity#tab-top&quot;&gt;Activity tab&lt;/a&gt; on my profile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is only temporary, as my activities will clean up but in the mean time there remains a path to the question on the site. I seem to remember that was undesired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:12:51.693" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:12:51.693" Title="Undeleted answer to Deleted question exposes a link to the question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:27:16.580" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late arriving answer seemingly ignored by everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130126" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T14:27:16.580" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42050" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:29:01.210" Score="2" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2358010/magento-custom-add-to-cart-process-not-working&quot;&gt;question to StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt; about an unusual issues I desperately needed help fixing. When I didn't get any relevant answers and the project deadline was approaching, I created a 500 point bounty. Since then I have received only one other answer, and it was just a suggestion on how to clean up my code, it had nothing to do with the core issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The project went live even with the issue. I found a workaround, but it's far from perfect. I posted my own workaround as an answer, hoping that it would provide more information about the issue, and that if anyone finds the question in the future at least there is a workaround in case no answer is found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bounty expires in 4 hours&lt;/strong&gt;. My own workaround has received +1 votes so far. I doubt anyone will provide an answer in the next 4 hours. My question is, what is the best action for me to take? Should I just let the bounty expire? Should I accept my own answer, even though it's incomplete? Should I accept one of the other answers even though they had nothing to do with the issue, just so that the 550 rep points don't go to &quot;waste&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:55:33.593" Title="My bounty is about to expire and I didn't get a good answer, just my own workaround" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42049" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:39:10.690" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You already lost the reputation; if you feel you can reward some answer that helped you in some way, you can award it to it... if not, you can let it expire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's your decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was me, I wouldn't just randomly award it, if no answer helped me, I'd let it expire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T14:39:10.690" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:40:49.813" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41757/reputation-points-for-editing&quot;&gt;Reputation points for editing?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about how Stack Overflow (and sibling sites) could support reputation points for providing edits to other users posts.  I was thinking some combination of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Levenshtein distance algorithm&lt;/a&gt;, percentage of content change, and time since last edit (e.g. encourage others to come back and edit some time &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the post &quot;cools down&quot;).  This way users who provide, hopefully, good edits for the benefit of the community can share in earning reputation points if the revised post is voted up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think everyone is focusing on the suggestion for earning reputation points for edits, and not on the &lt;em&gt;approach&lt;/em&gt; that may (or may not) be new.  I understand others have suggested adding the ability to earn reputation points on edits - not a new suggestion.  What I think is a new suggestion is how one might determine if an edit &lt;em&gt;sufficiently adds value&lt;/em&gt; and is therefore &lt;em&gt;worthy&lt;/em&gt; of earning reputation.  Could someone re-open this question and offer comments/answers on that part of the suggestion?  Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;See also:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8875/is-there-any-benefit-when-a-user-improves-edits-a-question&quot;&gt;Is there any benefit when a user improves (edits) a question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41757/reputation-points-for-editing&quot;&gt;Reputation points for editing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36574/let-me-reward-a-good-edit-on-my-question-answer&quot;&gt;Let me reward a good edit on my question/answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/278/adding-incentive-for-editing&quot;&gt;Adding incentive for editing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138288" LastEditorUserId="138288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T17:28:00.877" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T17:28:00.877" ClosedDate="2010-03-12T15:15:14.643" Title="Give reputation points for &quot;significant&quot; edits" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42047" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:41:39.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &quot;remains a path&quot;, but only users with sufficient reputation to see deleted questions can follow it. Other users get a 404. That doesn't seem entirely wrong, as the only thing in your profile is what you wrote and the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7714" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T14:41:39.923" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42049" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:42:44.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the risk you take when starting a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You said in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well I'd like an answer more than my bounty points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is a good attitude to take. However, given that, I'm not sure why you're posting this question. There are many discussions about this topic already on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T14:42:44.240" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:09:02.330" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42110" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:46:55.310" Score="12" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is anyone else seeing SO and meta responding very slowly when clicking links, etc?  I thought perhaps it was issues with my ISP at home, but I'm seeing the same sort of problems at work.  Periodically it will take a few seconds when I click on a link to get a response.  It seems to have started after yesterday's SO outage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Right now I can't seem to connect to SO at all.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Downforeveryorjustme.com&lt;/a&gt; reports SO is out for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT2&lt;/strong&gt;: Seems back up now... I won't keep updating if it goes down again, though.  Hope @Jeff posts something on his blog about why this is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T21:05:53.233" Title="Slowdown on SO and meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;performance&gt;&lt;outage&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="42055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42051" CreationDate="2010-03-12T14:54:18.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one clear advantage to this idea, and two great big disadvantages...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; be nice if, when users repeatedly post lazy questions that need heavy editing, they got only a fraction of the reputation granted after the edits. I should say, this would be nice if it actually motivated them to take a bit more time on their questions in the future... It's a bit frustrating to see users with thousands of rep points on SO still posting questions where the language they're asking about is misspelled in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as nice as that sounds, it would add a huge opportunity for abuse on the site: just edit a popular post and skim off a bit of rep by doing so, even if there's no real need for the edit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And worse yet... It would replace the current motivation for editing (an intrinsic desire to see better posts on SO) with an external motivator. This doesn't &lt;em&gt;necessarily&lt;/em&gt; mean that the people who edit now would leave and be replaced by rep-hungry butchers, but it sure sets the stage for such displacement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T14:54:18.260" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:05:51.417" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42131" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:01:14.860" Score="-18" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Or maybe some other variation of that, like &quot;20 downvotes anywhere within 1 day&quot;. Probably it should be bronze regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21575/mysterious-downvotes-14-random-downvotes-in-5-minutes/21576#21576&quot;&gt;script running&lt;/a&gt; against this badge, but that'd be fine. It's just for fun anyway. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, maybe it will be an incentive for most not getting that. I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; What about this other perspective - out of over 40 badges, all for &quot;good behavior&quot; none is actually &quot;awarded&quot; for &quot;bad behavior&quot;. So, having at least 1 could give us a better idea of how people are behaving in the &quot;bad manner&quot;. As for how people would actually react to that, I say that guessing here is pure speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-05T00:04:08.217" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T13:26:14.780" Title="Badge suggestion: Zealot (got 3 questions with at least 10 downvotes each)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;negative-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42056" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:04:35.680" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would encourage bad behavior, so it won't get implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff's always saying that badges are there to encourage specific actions, so I doubt they'll put a badge &quot;just for fun&quot;, let alone one that would make people post horrible posts in order to get downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-23T13:26:14.780" LastActivityDate="2011-02-23T13:26:14.780" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42056" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:05:28.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yah but there would always be the people that would then engage in negative behavior just to get the badge. Remember, negative attention is &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; attention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142044" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T15:05:28.750" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42056" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:16:14.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; Badges should be a reward for good things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the existing Tumbleweed and Peer Pressure badges. (Even though it's questionable if Peer Pressure is really negative as you can also think of it as a reward for taking the time to delete a bad post).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T15:16:14.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41964" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:32:07.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can this unfairness be addressed&#xA;  somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, no. Mostly because it also works the other way. Sometimes things get closed unfairly, and allowing for votes gives the community a chance to &quot;appeal&quot; the close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other times, a quality edit will reverse the &quot;bad karma&quot; and garner up-votes, positive attention, and possibly even a re-open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41964/pain-reliever-for-when-you-want-to-rid-yourself-of-a-downward-facing-question/41965#41965&quot;&gt;as waffles mentioned&lt;/a&gt;, if there was a little more tact in the questions that seem to attract this behaviour then it wouldn't be as big a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T15:32:07.200" />
  <row Id="42061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:33:59.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow: see Recursion - No, wait!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:08:12.433" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:08:12.433" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T15:38:10.167" />
  <row Id="42064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:45:42.897" Score="59" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A nicely worded, but pretty useless answer, which mainly gets its upvotes due to extensive use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt; formatting and by linking a lot of stuff, both related and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_cuisine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unrelated&lt;/a&gt; to the problem in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Useless title to draw more attention&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of &lt;strong&gt;basic information&lt;/strong&gt; about the questioner's problem.  Mostly, it repeats what everyone, who is familiar with the tags of the question, &lt;em&gt;already knows&lt;/em&gt;, but in more exuberant manner, providing the basic information &lt;em&gt;at least twice&lt;/em&gt;.  It also contains scarce &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt; inclusions to look programming-related.  The post also contains &lt;em&gt;a few&lt;/em&gt; formatting tricks, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ul.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unnumbered lists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, with item captions in bold.  Items of such list should contain a lot of text, so those who reads the question will be sure, that the user is an expert in his area, and has analyzed a lot of alternatives.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Numbered lists&lt;/strong&gt;, which, of course, &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;may be omitted&lt;/a&gt;, since users do not like numbers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;, both related and unrelated.  At least one link to the blog of the user.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Piece of code&lt;/strong&gt; in the language requested by OP, the piece being originally written in other language by a lowly voted answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post has at least two sections to justify the use of big font, which is used just to make the post look bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Another Useless title&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second section of such a post code snippets are posted.  The algorithm was not originally written by the author. But he rewrote it in C#, and since most users know C#, it would be easier for them to upvote a post that contains the language they are familiar with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public class Hello&#xA;{&#xA;   public static void Main()&#xA;   {&#xA;      System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;Hello, World!&quot;);&#xA;   }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this code, having been written quickly while the post is still under attention, contains a number of issues that were thankfully discussed on SO before.  The users links &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41288/the-stack-overflow-conspiracy-dont-tell-jeff-im-on-to-him&quot;&gt;the other stackoverflow question&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41181/script-to-remove-useless-so-content&quot;&gt;one more&lt;/a&gt;, just in case, so that others upvote him for his effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, a hesitating expression of hope that this post helps, knowing that what it helps is only the reputation counter of himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-12T07:48:00.140" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T07:48:00.140" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="42065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:52:07.127" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pile-on answer that adds nothing new, posted in the hopes that hanging onto the coattails of what looks like a high-vote question will score some cheap points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T15:52:07.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="71875" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:54:39.400" Score="10" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41964/pain-reliever-for-when-you-want-to-rid-yourself-of-a-downward-facing-question&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, then deleted the answer because I realized what I said had already been covered. After deleting, I editing in a note saying why I deleted it, but that edit bumped the question on the home page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that the question will get bumped if I undelete the answer (which is proper behaviour), but I think in the case where someone edits a deleted answer, there's no point bumping the question for content that most people aren't going to see (and since the answer is deleted, &lt;em&gt;shouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be seen anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; A nifty way to abuse the system (10k+ only!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:12:16.030" LastActivityDate="2010-12-10T05:48:55.310" Title="Stop an edited deleted answer from bumping the question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="42067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42085" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:55:01.613" Score="10" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that UserVoice is closed now that we have moved to Meta - but would it be possible to remove some lingering spam on the front page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/a3gwmo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-22T00:08:14.223" LastActivityDate="2010-09-22T00:08:14.223" Title="Remove Spam on UserVoice Front Page?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;uservoice&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:55:51.537" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer that addresses only the title and ignore the content of the post, poster didn't even read the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Example: Try jQuery)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T15:55:51.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="101134" CreationDate="2010-03-12T15:59:50.437" Score="12" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gave and then deleted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41964/pain-reliever-for-when-you-want-to-rid-yourself-of-a-downward-facing-question/42063#42063&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, but when I click the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/42063/revisions&quot;&gt;revisions list link&lt;/a&gt;, I get a page not found error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't I see the revision history of my own answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; I originally asked this question as a &amp;lt;10k user. Now that I'm over 10k, the latter link works, but I still don't think this is proper behaviour: a user who deleted &lt;em&gt;their own&lt;/em&gt; post should be able to see that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-05T23:44:37.747" LastActivityDate="2011-08-05T23:45:33.190" Title="Why can't I view the revisions of my own deleted answer?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:02:08.403" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet can parse HTML with regular expressions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59730" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:02:08.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T16:02:08.403" />
  <row Id="42071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42078" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:03:08.510" Score="12" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I brought a new user to Stack Overflow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just when I was about to privately answer yet another programming question I decided to do it.&#xA;She was kicking and screaming at first, but then she realized how cool Stack Overflow is and now we're both happy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how about a badge that would reward bringing new members who will become active users (i.e. get 200 rep)? Name doesn't really matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-16T11:18:59.857" LastActivityDate="2010-09-16T13:25:20.680" Title="Idea 1 of 3: Headhunter badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:03:17.603" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just got the 'Oops! Something Bad Happened' page when submitting an answer my thought was to resubmit.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Could the error page include text to indicate if this is an appropriate action to take in this instance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131125" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T21:29:38.227" Title="Should/could the 'Oops! Something Bad Happened' page be more helpful?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40982" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:10:09.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've since discovered that the 'block' appeared to be localised. The Mini servers are hosted in different locations around the world, and I was unable to access the sites via Mini while in Asia (which would use the China-based servers). Now I'm in the UK, Mini works normally (presumably as the Norway servers haven't been 'blocked', if that's what it was).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:10:09.027" />
  <row Id="42074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42049" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:17:22.740" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the dominant issue should be how the question/answers will help those who come after. The vetting (voting, accepted answers, etc) is a big part of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Selecting an answer is &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be your claim that &quot;this solution solved my problem.&quot; Faking that just to award a payment would defeat the whole purpose of vetting. If someone did not provide an adequate answer, don't just select one arbitrarily. &lt;strong&gt;Bounty awards should not factor into your selection.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not accept an answer, the system will select the &quot;people's choice&quot; for the best answer. But even auto-selected answers have to meet some minimum criteria. And none of your answers meet that minimum criteria. That would seem to support your decision &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to select an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:17:22.740" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42072" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:19:31.440" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Helpful to who? There is an internal error dump that the devs would use - the nitty gritty specifics probably aren't important. What were you trying to do? Or post? I have a &lt;em&gt;hunch&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:19:31.440" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42094" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:20:22.063" Score="2" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42071/idea-1-of-3-headhunter-badge&quot;&gt;Idea 1 of 3: Headhunter badge.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every now and then I post a link to SO on some local board when people ask a programming question. I'm always wondering if someone followed it and became a permanent user.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be good if I could make that link a unique one, so that SO could trace it and maybe reward me with a badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:02:04.067" ClosedDate="2011-03-09T02:34:48.313" Title="Idea 2 of 3: Promoter badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42066" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:25:07.840" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I want to explain why I delete my post I put a comment in instead of editing the question.  Not sure if the bump you're talking about is intentional, but this is at least a workaround.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:25:07.840" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42071" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:30:17.133" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you could reliably detect that the person was introduced by another individual and the amount of rep the other person had to gain was substantial enough to discourage people from trying to do it with sock puppets -- say 1000 rep within a year -- then it would be ok.  One suggestion would be to be able to send an email with a coded invite to another individual's email address, assuming its not already registered.  The coded invite could be used to tie the new registration (assuming it happens) to the person who sent the invite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, this wouldn't change how I use and recommend SO, but I do see it as a positive behavior that SO might want to encourage with a badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:30:17.133" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:37:20.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Brad posted his awesome suggetsion as a comment instead of an answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack Overflow:&lt;/strong&gt; Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Treasure of the Sierra Madre&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:37:20.077" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-12T16:37:20.077" />
  <row Id="42080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42082" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:45:43.233" Score="0" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be awesome if we get a tag/site for &quot;Best of&quot; Stack overflow/Server Fault/Superuser posts that gets updated Daily/Weekly/Monthly (by moderators???) with questions that are interesting or something new to learn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15474" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T15:07:01.887" Title="Best of Stackoverflow Trilogy posts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42099" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:51:20.760" Score="-4" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;For people whose badge ideas get implemented.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Because new good badges are good for the SO site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:21:53.793" Title="Idea 3 of 3: Badge inventor badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42080" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:52:06.203" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually &quot;best of&quot; is determined by the voting on a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in a particular topic, you could either search or filter by tag, then sort the results in descending order by the vote count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:52:06.203" />
  <row Id="42083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42049" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:55:33.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I wouldn't let it expire as then you end up with a useless question that can never be answered and most likely will not help anyone. My suggestion would be to accept your own answer and explain that at the time you only have a workaround and are still looking for a better solution. Now the important part is to mark your answer as community wiki so hopefully someone can edit it later with a better answer. The whole idea of a non-claimed bounty &quot;killing&quot; a question seems flawed to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:55:33.593" />
  <row Id="42084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42071" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:58:06.663" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to be a bit careful when you encourage/reward people for referrals. People become overzealous and it leads to abuses/spam in other public forums. Sites that have affiliate/referral programs often have big problems with their name becoming associated with spam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that badges don't have the same &lt;em&gt;value&lt;/em&gt; as cash payments but, still, the potential is there for people to start spamming public forums to rack up the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Join Stack Overflow. Tell them DaemonDOOdz327 sent you.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:58:06.663" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42067" CreationDate="2010-03-12T16:59:37.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went over there to do it and was able to log in but I couldn't find the mod tools anymore. (It took a few tries to even remember the right credentials) Bummer :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T16:59:37.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42081" CreationDate="2010-03-12T17:22:56.893" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be very frank, meta gets an pretty heavy stream of badge suggestions as it is (in fact at one point the mods closed all the various individual badge suggestions and made a unified questions to hold them all), and most of them are not so hot. A few are decent, a few really suck, and the really great ones are few and far between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggestions would magnify the scale of the sorting problem by encouraging an endless stream of suggestions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW--As I count it there are 44 existing badge separate of the specialist ones (admittedly there are several groups: [nice|good|great], [notable|popular|famous] and so on). We don't lack for either numbers of diversity of requirements. So we can afford to be picky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T17:31:59.637" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T17:31:59.637" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41972" CreationDate="2010-03-12T17:36:08.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't these questions be on &lt;a href=&quot;http://doctype.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctype&lt;/a&gt;? There's an HTML sandbox there right in each post for showing examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T17:36:08.893" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T17:39:54.020" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vague gratitude expressed to the OP because I have the same problem. Except on a different system, with different commands involved. But perhaps you can solve my problem too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T17:39:54.020" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T17:41:20.630" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gratuitous reply to fulfill need for camaraderie. Inserting random humor with only tangential relevance to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feigning humor failing. Must insert superfluous comic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.emailexpressdirect.com/worst%2Demail%2Dnewsletter%2Dmistakes/images/img-spam.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T17:41:20.630" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42054" CreationDate="2010-03-12T17:54:13.927" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.borev.net/ohnoes.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;oh noes!&quot; title=&quot;oh noes!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I might have to actually do work today...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T17:54:13.927" />
  <row Id="42093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36103" CreationDate="2010-03-12T17:57:55.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked many questions.  I really want a way to be able to quickly float the questions that have not been marked as having an accepted answer to the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I currently have accept rate of 86% on SF, 3 of the questions 22 eligible questions do not have an answer marked as accepted.  I want a view to quickly identify those 3 questions so I can do something about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T17:57:55.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42076" CreationDate="2010-03-12T18:02:04.067" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vaguely suspect something like this would result in a lot of people spamming links to the trilogy in places where it isn't really appropriate in order to get this badge.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:02:04.067" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41879" CreationDate="2010-03-12T18:06:34.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41879/time-limit-on-ads/41884#41884&quot;&gt;Rich's answer&lt;/a&gt; explains one of the big reasons: who's going to build the banner creatives? Quality banners require both skill and time (and, let's not forget the meta-time involved with approving, revisions, etc), and investing that cost (just to reach the high-rotation goal) likely won't bring a return in value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then there's also another thing to consider. Many visitors won't notice or click on an ad without seeing it lots and lots and lots of times. I don't know what the numbers are (they vary by creative, location, etc), but since &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; visit the site a lot more than most, you'll naturally see a lot of the same ad more and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent this from happening, we could simply disallow big/long campaigns. Or we could impose more non-industry-standard rules (in addition to no animation, no 3rd party hosting, reduced advertising, etc). Obviously, these would both have an impact on our revenue... so it really comes down to... is this feature/policy/rule worth everyone taking a pay cut?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:06:34.340" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32892" CreationDate="2010-03-12T18:09:37.110" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/2902/unsliced&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unsliced&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;If I can't agree with someone on something, then what else are they wrong about and isn't it my duty to help the community by highlighting this? Obviously just moving on is relatively easily said (and done).&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the times the easy way is the right way. Think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:09:37.110" />
  <row Id="42097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41972" CreationDate="2010-03-12T18:11:30.460" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Four things would have helped:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A textual description of what was needed, with the image then serving as a visual aid. This was added by Earlz in the first edit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A bit of text or code describing what the author had already tried and how it had failed. This was added by the author in subsequent edits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alt-text for the image, as an aide to those on slow connections or otherwise unable to easily view images. I added this now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A smaller image: the one originally part of the question was too wide for SO (and so scaled post-download) and saved as a high-quality JPEG in spite of its contents being primarily large areas of solid colors. I scaled this and re-saved it as an indexed PNG, reducing the size to almost 1/3 of the original without any careful tuning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:11:30.460" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42028" CreationDate="2010-03-12T18:13:39.630" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag it as spam!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:13:39.630" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42081" CreationDate="2010-03-12T18:21:53.793" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awarding badges manually rather than automatically through an algorithm is going to be prone to chaos, confusion, and a bureaucratic nightmare for the site maintainers.  Currently the only such badge is &quot;Hacker&quot;, which is being reserved for exceptional circumstances and still has not yet been awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current reward for suggesting a good idea is &lt;strong&gt;increased reputation on Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;. That reputation is visible on the other SOFU sites in everyone's user profile under the &quot;Accounts&quot; tab. I don't see a need to extend the recognition beyond that; if badges were awarded, many Meta regulars would want to be given this badge retroactively as recognition for their ideas that have been implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T18:21:53.793" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42103" CreationDate="2010-03-12T19:28:09.090" Score="9" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;In cases like this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2433868/how-to-create-a-tcp-client-to-send-commands-to-a-server-using-php&quot;&gt;Reposted Question&lt;/a&gt; where the user has reposted the same question multiple times, is there anything automated that eventually shuts such a user down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user has posted the same question 4 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They get closed fairly fast, but I'm wondering if such a user eventually gets a ban, either via an automated process or a moderator saying 'enough is enough'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151858" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T19:34:13.620" Title="Multiple reposts and closes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reposts&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42102" CreationDate="2010-03-12T19:33:22.680" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, this is a &quot;flag: requires moderator attention&quot; situation. Go to any of the posts and click the &lt;code&gt;flag&lt;/code&gt; link at the bottom of the question. Describe what you see. They can decide how to handle it from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T19:33:22.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42102" CreationDate="2010-03-12T19:34:13.620" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is mostly handled by the usual mechanisms. Most posters get the message fairly quickly. If they are unusually persistent (and this one might be), flag for moderator attention. They can insta-close, delete, lock, etc and summon the penalty box if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T19:34:13.620" />
  <row Id="42105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14056" CreationDate="2010-03-12T20:00:26.627" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9726/how-does-stack-overflow-work-so-well-with-search-engines&quot;&gt;this a very interesting topic&lt;/a&gt; so I've scanned through every single answer and now I want to summarize here what I've just learned and group all good links in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make no mistake, &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;earch &lt;b&gt;E&lt;/b&gt;ngine &lt;b&gt;O&lt;/b&gt;ptimization today is all about &lt;strong&gt;Google&lt;/strong&gt;, even while &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization#Getting_indexed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;people want to avoid saying it&lt;/a&gt; (just count words for &quot;yahoo&quot; or anything else there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3625720&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Golden Rule of SEO: Content is King&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is the first thing to consider. It's quite simple: &lt;strong&gt;have good content&lt;/strong&gt;. That's the primary reason StackOverflow has a chance to rank at google, simply because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;how page ranking works&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Websites that have no &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;amp;answer=35291&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;optimization&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt; concerns whatsoever but got nice stuff have a great chance of ranking high because there will be people linking to good content. And most sites trying to do SEO without content won't rank well because nobody will link to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that been said, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/the-importance-of-sitemaps.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackOverflow does a lot of work from a long time ago&lt;/a&gt; to keep &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theeggeadventure.com/wikimedia/index.php/Stack_Overflow_page_design&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clean HTML code&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One good example is how &lt;a href=&quot;http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rel='canonical'&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6193/suggestion-use-relcanonical-to-improve-stack-overflows-google-results/6226#6226&quot;&gt;applied in here&lt;/a&gt; to keep search engines away from linking to duplicate content. For instance, let's get &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; page source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;canonical&quot; href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14056/seo-in-stackoverflow&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is an optimization that will not help to directly rank in the search engine, but it will make the results the engine can find much more relevant and &lt;strong&gt;through that&lt;/strong&gt; it might generate more links (from people who found what they were looking for) to the good content it already have, thus actually indirectly improving its rank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So Clean and Optimized HTML does work in conjunction with Good Content, and both are about equally important... But content comes first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T20:00:26.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41959" CreationDate="2010-03-12T20:17:55.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of any websites where developers propose software projects and try to recruit other developers to join them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;careers.stackoverflow.com, monster.com, craigslist.com, dice.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T20:17:55.983" />
  <row Id="42107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T20:22:34.803" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;&amp;#x2639;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obligatory non-answer answer that was only posted so that maybe some random passerby will understand why I cannot earn any meta rep and vote this answer up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Update:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;&amp;#x263b;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after reading the well reasoned arguments you outlined in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastEditorUserId="130608" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T21:21:12.300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T21:21:12.300" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T20:44:25.523" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick answer posted just before voting to close the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T20:44:25.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42113" CreationDate="2010-03-12T20:53:17.817" Score="8" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read every page on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://recaptcha.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;, but it doesn't say anything about what I want to know, except this, which is peripherally related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our service also includes IP address filtering and detection. If we determine that a given IP address is successfully solving too many CAPTCHAs in a certain period of time, the address is immediately flagged for review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So presumably when I go on one of my retagging sprees, the system sits up and pays attention. However, even days later of little activity, I've been getting more difficult-to-type words, regardless of the frequency I hit the captcha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started with only easy words like 'with', 'and', etc., but now I'd say half the time it's giving me long/difficult-to-type words like 'congressional' (that's the only one I remember from my session a few minutes ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I imagining this, or are the words actually supposed to be more difficult as time goes on? I'd be particularly interested to hear from some high-rep users who have done a lot of manual retagging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, this is a bit of a whine post, but this, combined with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37324/look-again-at-increasing-the-captcha-threshold-for-post-editing&quot;&gt;low captcha threshold&lt;/a&gt;, is making it more time-consuming and annoying for me to do retagging, which really detracts from the job I want to do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Here is a sampling of the captchas I got during my recent retagging session just now. These are pretty easy ones compared to some I've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://jonseigel.info/images/StackOverflow/Captchas.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Captchas&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T20:48:35.570" LastActivityDate="2010-05-15T17:49:15.513" Title="Do the captcha words get more difficult over time?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;captcha&gt;&lt;re-captcha&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42054" CreationDate="2010-03-12T20:57:36.667" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last night we made a change to our network to the goal of simplifying our configuration.  We have removed TProxy from our HAProxy servers and are now using X-Forwarded-For headers to track IPs.  We also removed the IIS7 dynamic IP restrictions module from the IIS instances and are now using iptables / netfilter to control rate limiting.  The default maximum number of connections that are tracked for iptables / netfilter is 32764 which we hit at around 5:00am PST.  I bumped up this value to 65528 which solved the latency issues.  We will continue to keep an eye on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T21:05:53.233" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T21:05:53.233" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42109" CreationDate="2010-03-12T21:04:52.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they are not more difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that being said, even if they were (again they are not), only one of the two words could be &quot;more difficult&quot;, because for each captcha the server only knows the answer for one of the two words. They are read from actual books and since computers can't read them - that's the whole point - the server has no way to know how &quot;difficult&quot; it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A little tip; if one of the two words is illegible or very difficult then it's most likely the not-yet-discovered word and just typing anything - for example, &lt;code&gt;a&lt;/code&gt; - will work almost every time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T21:04:52.817" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42072" CreationDate="2010-03-12T21:29:38.227" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it couldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the next time you encounter this error page, it would say &quot;please resubmit&quot;, you would do it and get again the error page telling you &quot;please resubmit&quot; and after doing this ten times in a row, even you would figure out that something is not working properly and you will come back here and post about a problem we did not have before your proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T21:29:38.227" />
  <row Id="42113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42109" CreationDate="2010-03-12T22:23:48.833" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory, at least, it will get harder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recaptcha widget used here is based on a project that scans/digitizes books.  The captcha we see are created from words that the ocr scanner was unable to identify.  So, it works well as a bot preventative because we already know that the one of best ocr engines money can buy is unable to read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, these engines are improving all the time.  As the engines improve, the difficulty in the words they are unable to read should increase as well.  But in one sense this is a good thing, as it means we automatically stay one step ahead of the hackers.  It's a similar concept to the BCrypt password hasher, that we scale up the problem automatically as the attack sophistication increases.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, it's also only a matter of time until the machines are better than humans.  But at least for the moment recaptcha is the state of the art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think it's flagging you for more difficult captchas right now. I doubt that it scores them, though that certainly is a possibility.  And if you think &quot;congressional&quot; is hard, remember that these words are pulled from real books.  Real books don't always have nice clean words.  Sometimes you see 1/2 of a hyphenated word.  Or a number.  Or punctuation.  Or accents, foreign characters, digits, foreign words...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-15T17:49:15.513" LastActivityDate="2010-05-15T17:49:15.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42109" CreationDate="2010-03-12T22:34:59.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but as you get older it gets more and more difficult to remember anything beyond what you were doing in the last five minutes.  Coupled with the degradation in eyesight once you hit 40, it's a double whammy when trying to solve a CAPTCHA. Perhaps this is a sign that you've started the inevitable downhill slide though, according to your profile, you seem a little young for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T22:34:59.190" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T22:42:35.750" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer deliberately close to but not quite correct, designed to get the occasional downvote to be canceled by the occasional sympathy upvote, with the intention of picking up some easy rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T22:42:35.750" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-12T22:44:32.020" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Answer Posted After An Answer is Already Accepted With Superfluous Formatting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Introductory statement about familiarity with the problem. Short background on experience in the &lt;strong&gt;field of study&lt;/strong&gt; related to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotal short story about how post was just noticed today because &lt;em&gt;generic personal life event has prevented poster from participating in discussions&lt;/em&gt;! Statement of confidence that others can relate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Section about how if extenuating circumstances had not interfered, I would have posted almost the exact same answer. Short response stating that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41976/question-title-that-doesnt-describe-the-problem/42064#42064&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; is extremely valuable. Multiple praises of accepted answer. Transition to enumerated list of reasons why accepted answer is great:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Praise of accepted answer's formatting clearly being emulated in this answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Acknowledgment of skills and knowledge of the author of accepted answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Statement about brevity and conciseness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long winded response about what accepted answer would look like if extenuating circumstances had not interfered. Subtle yet sharp jabs at author of accepted answer inferring that my answer would have been better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pre-emptive edit in response to expected comments regarding freehand circles, waffles, or ponies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i39.tinypic.com/2wm1lds.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image stressing points mentioned above further&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Additional link future readers of question may find valuable that accepted answer did not contain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastEditorUserId="136414" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T23:00:12.263" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T23:00:12.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="42117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42119" CreationDate="2010-03-12T22:46:27.103" Score="0" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already old news that Google bought &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vark.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vark.com&lt;/a&gt;, which have a similar purpose but is nothing like this. Yet, thanks to that, maybe it's unlikely they'd have any interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe some other have an interest? It's probably popping out into many companies eyes by now and for some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, what do you think? Got any inside views? Just speculating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if it doesn't sell within 2 years, it could be big enough on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T05:15:59.257" ClosedDate="2010-03-13T19:55:39.963" Title="Will StackOverflow ever be sold to a major company? If so, when?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;google&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42117" CreationDate="2010-03-12T22:51:08.737" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it will be, but if it is... it will happen in six to eight weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T22:51:08.737" />
  <row Id="42119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42117" CreationDate="2010-03-12T22:51:22.293" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They seem to want to continue operating on their own: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raising money for StackOverflow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related MSO discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39545/possible-negative-effects-of-vc-funding-for-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Possible negative effects of VC funding for StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39646/possible-positive-effects-of-vc-funding-for-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Possible positive effects of VC funding for StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39539/would-you-take-a-share-in-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;Would you take a share in Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6140/what-is-the-profitability-and-future-business-outlook-of-the-stackoverflow-family&quot;&gt;What is the profitability and future business outlook of the StackOverflow family of sites?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-12T23:03:46.467" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T23:03:46.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42117" CreationDate="2010-03-12T23:05:38.350" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;42 &lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-12T23:05:38.350" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-13T02:40:34.537" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42122" CreationDate="2010-03-12T23:43:20.910" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just out of curiosity, is there some sort of tool, script or stored procedure that can use the monthly dump to calculate SO members' reputation as if there were no reputation cap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this is extremely hard to do, as it would effectively involve rebuilding the entire rep calculation process, but you never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My bet is that in the upper field (10-20k+), there will be extremely increased reputation numbers but roughly the same ranking order of users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T00:12:17.593" Title="Is there a script/tool to calculate the rep as if there were no cap?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42121" CreationDate="2010-03-13T00:12:17.593" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The are a few missing pieces, like downvotes issued by the user and offensive votes.  But it's possible to get an approximation that's probably closer than your current score.  Here's one that ignores bounties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DECLARE @UserID int&#xA;SET @UserID = 187606&#xA;&#xA;SELECT SUM(Case When VoteTypeID = 1 Then 15 WHEN VoteTypeID=2 THEN 10 WHEN VoteTypeID=3 THEN -2 ELSE 0 END)&#xA;FROM Votes v&#xA;INNER JOIN Posts p ON p.ID = v.PostID&#xA;WHERE p.OwnerUserID = @UserID AND p.CommunityOwnedDate IS NULL&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=614&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=614&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That gives you 37459 instead of your measly 24516&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T00:12:17.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-13T01:12:20.203" Score="1" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious is anyone else hesitant to work extra to answer questions for users who haven't even picked a user name other then the User***** one? I will admit I try not to go past my personal knowledge or a basic google. Yet if they have a user name I am much more apt to try to get to the meat of the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess in my userism(sp?) I tend to think if they did not fill that out at least, they probably won't upvote or accept an answer. And we all know that is the point right? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T02:39:56.177" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T14:52:43.120" Title="Anyone hesitant to work extra for User******s?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42123" CreationDate="2010-03-13T01:42:27.583" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;, The fact that they don't really care doesn't really affect my reaction to their question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A rose by any other name would &lt;s&gt;smell just as sweet&lt;/s&gt; still get me some rep ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130281" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T01:42:27.583" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42123" CreationDate="2010-03-13T01:43:53.393" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say that I even notice who posted the question.  I know that if I don't answer it as swiftly as possible, someone will beat me to the punch, and I will lose the first mover advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I put the same effort into them as any other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T01:43:53.393" />
  <row Id="42126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42123" CreationDate="2010-03-13T01:47:46.953" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large percentage of my interest is to answer the question, not for the original author, but &lt;strong&gt;for the other people reading&lt;/strong&gt;. In reality, you are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; talking over their shoulder to a much larger audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, I can't say I take the original author's name much into account. The only time the original author influences the effort I put into an answer is when I feel like they are not putting much effort into the question... then I feel like I am just being taken advantage of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T01:47:46.953" />
  <row Id="42127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42123" CreationDate="2010-03-13T02:19:21.320" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not if the question is any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the question sucks I don't care if the users has a proper name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, I notice and avoid certain users---ones who have annoyed me in the past---but I don't judge people for being new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T02:19:21.320" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42071" CreationDate="2010-03-13T03:46:39.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A &quot;Real Job&quot; Headhunter Badge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a badge if you've hired somebody off of jobs or careers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's certainly something we should encourage!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I originally was going to say &quot;real headhunter&quot; badge but &quot;real&quot; headhunting doesn't seem so great.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastEditorUserId="116" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T20:52:46.643" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T20:52:46.643" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2010-03-13T03:51:10.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stack OverflE??^D8p??E?f.?s??$??giL?]??E??^D8p?s???&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T03:51:10.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-13T03:51:10.933" />
  <row Id="42130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42117" CreationDate="2010-03-13T05:15:59.257" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Joel talk about seeking venture capital near the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/podcast-85/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Podcast #85&lt;/a&gt;.  From that conversation, it sounds like they really want to keep control of SO.  I don't think they're going to sell it any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T05:15:59.257" />
  <row Id="42131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42056" CreationDate="2010-03-13T06:07:43.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to analyze the bad behaviors on the site, the data from each of the SOFU sites is available in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;monthly data dump&lt;/a&gt;.  Download it and analyze to your hearts content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As has already been mentioned, badges are to encourage behaviors.  Having a badge that rewards a negative behavior would only encourage members to exhibit the negative behavior.  Upstanding and respected users on the sites would be forced to ask bad questions, just so they can say they have &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the badges. Definitely not a good idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T06:07:43.947" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42123" CreationDate="2010-03-13T07:20:52.047" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily feel hesitance, but...if we test by the opposite case (a known user with an accept rate of 100% and maybe a decent rep), I'm  more likely to &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to give these other kind of user's question &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; of my time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, being unnamed isn't so much the issue, except by association--abandoned questions, low chance of even knowing to upvote or accept an answer, perceived lower chance of them interacting in an intelligent manner (part and parcel with being here-and-gone, I think, more than a &quot;smart people are registered and dumb people aren't&quot; bias), and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastEditorUserId="141160" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T07:29:41.300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T07:29:41.300" />
  <row Id="42134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-13T09:34:27.600" Score="5" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had an answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556405/what-do-real-user-and-sys-mean-in-the-output-of-time1&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SO that just went past the threshold for a badge based on an answer being accepted (in this case a 'guru').  The answer was accepted some time ago, and the asker appears to have subsequently closed their account.  The badge doesn't appear to have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is (a): is this a bug caused by the original asker's account being closed, (b) functioning as designed or (c) something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; For specifics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers to the questions that are accepted with 40 upvotes are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/243387/best-language-for-safety-critical-software/243573#243573&quot;&gt;Best language for safety-critical software&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2145510/python-random-is-barely-random-at-all/2145551#2145551&quot;&gt;Python: Random is barely random at all?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371654/application-not-a-markup-language-for-producing-a-user-manual/372017#372017&quot;&gt;Application (Not a Markup Language) for Producing a User Manual&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556405/what-do-real-user-and-sys-mean-in-the-output-of-time1/556411#556411&quot;&gt;Why use Ruby instead of Smalltalk?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556405/what-do-real-user-and-sys-mean-in-the-output-of-time1/556411#556411&quot;&gt;What do ‘real’, ‘user’ and ‘sys’ mean in the output of time(1)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... With 4 'guru' badges on the account.  As far as I am aware none of the questions have been closed and migrated anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On serverfault I have one accepted answer with 40 upvotes and a single 'guru' badge on the account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/5267/what-is-good-about-the-bsds/5352#5352&quot;&gt;What is good about the BSDs?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was originally asked on SF and hasn't been migrated, so I don't think the problem is one of migrating questions between sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15401" LastEditorUserId="15401" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T08:22:40.860" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T09:04:06.253" Title="Badges based on acceptance might not work if the account of the asker's account is closed" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-11-26T15:29:30.930" Score="12" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;My family has a tradition to write notes on Thanksgiving to people who we are thankful for.  This year I am thankful for Stackoverflow.  Thanks, you guys are rad!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I totally understand if this message gets closed!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="632" LastEditorUserId="151987" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-21T05:04:35.780" LastActivityDate="2011-08-21T05:04:35.780" ClosedDate="2010-03-13T15:05:23.680" Title="A Thanksgiving Thank You" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;thanksgiving&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42135" CreationDate="2010-03-13T14:11:23.450" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am thankful for the community user who bumps old unanswered questions from time to time.  I'm further thankful that it's easy to disable this behavior simply by posting an answer that can garner one upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Happy Spring Thanksgiving!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T14:11:23.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42123" CreationDate="2010-03-13T14:52:43.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gotta say: Anyone who's username starts with &quot;User&quot; and ends with a number is just asking for it. I mean, how dare they not intuitively know how to update their profile and choose a more suitable username, such as &quot;Urdnot the Kronan Has a Posse&quot; or &quot;I Am Your King&quot; or &quot;Changing My Meta Name is Cool&quot; or even (how boring) their own names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only do I not answer their questions, I downvote their posts. All of them. In fact, I super &lt;em&gt;mega&lt;/em&gt; downvote all their posts. Then I crush their heads! Crush! Crush! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That rule applies to anyone, I think, whose username starts with &quot;User.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, wait. Oops ... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T14:52:43.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-13T15:06:23.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Six to eight weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6461" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T15:06:23.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42080" CreationDate="2010-03-13T15:07:01.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/api/userquestions.html?userid=22656&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;pagesize=10&amp;amp;sort=votes&quot;&gt;Best of Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=always-friday-in-iceland&amp;amp;sort=votes&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;Best of Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T15:07:01.887" />
  <row Id="42143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-13T15:44:06.610" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer that point out that your Architecture is obviously wrong and questioning why on earth you are still using this stupid technology when your problem could be solved by one line of jQuery code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$.butterfly({&#xA;    aLongList: ofParameters,&#xA;    whichAre: notExplained&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T15:44:06.610" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-13T16:10:59.493" Score="16" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask you to insert &lt;code&gt;id&lt;/code&gt; attributes (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;definition&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spec&lt;/a&gt;) for each heading and paragraph on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt; within the &lt;code&gt;div.content-page&lt;/code&gt;. These serve as specific link target anchors, allowing to correctly deep-link to a certain relevant portion of the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, change&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;When you have decided which answer is the most helpful to you…&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p id=&quot;accepted_answer&quot;&amp;gt;When you have decided which answer is the most helpful to you…&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144607" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-07T03:38:40.700" LastActivityDate="2011-04-10T08:44:52.707" Title="FAQ deep-linking" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;faqs&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42144" CreationDate="2010-03-13T16:26:29.960" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YES! I hate not being able to link to sub-headings...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure that paragraph-level linking is all that &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt;, but it wouldn't hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T16:26:29.960" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31762" CreationDate="2010-03-13T17:03:23.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is what you want:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41450/interactive-tag-trend-comparison-page&quot;&gt;Interactive tag trend comparison page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T17:03:23.120" />
  <row Id="42149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42151" CreationDate="2010-03-13T17:21:05.117" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just reading through some random Stack Overflow questions and noticed that some people actually take the time to write some nice long answers. So I got to wondering what some of the longest (high quality) answers are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gotten a few long answers to my own questions; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1189236/data-structures-for-message-passing-within-a-program/1191261#1191261&quot;&gt;this excellent answer&lt;/a&gt;, for example, had so much exciting insight that it led me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1201361/3d-game-development-tips-especially-game-architecture&quot;&gt;asking (begging?) for more&lt;/a&gt; in a separate question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are some of the longest, detailed, high-quality answers you've ever seen?&lt;/strong&gt; Is there a record for longest answer in SO? If so, I want to find it here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131823" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T17:46:42.493" Title="What is the longest single answer you've ever seen on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42149" CreationDate="2010-03-13T17:27:01.153" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49765/serverfault-wiki-how-does-subnetting-work/49836#49836&quot;&gt;ServerFault Wiki: How does Subnetting Work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T17:27:01.153" />
  <row Id="42151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42149" CreationDate="2010-03-13T17:34:21.573" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=651&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a query on Stackql&lt;/a&gt; and here are the top results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058275/spanish-accents-in-sphinx-searches/2288529#2288529&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058275/spanish-accents-in-sphinx-searches/2288529#2288529&lt;/a&gt; (35480)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362687/the-net-sdk-programs-what-does-each-tool-do/2176970#2176970&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362687/the-net-sdk-programs-what-does-each-tool-do/2176970#2176970&lt;/a&gt; (33327)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/381177/freetextbox-and-firefox-3-rendering-issue/381446#381446&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/381177/freetextbox-and-firefox-3-rendering-issue/381446#381446&lt;/a&gt; (32673)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016284/matrix-transforms-concepts-and-theory-are-there-any-free-resources-for-learning/1022743#1022743&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016284/matrix-transforms-concepts-and-theory-are-there-any-free-resources-for-learning/1022743#1022743&lt;/a&gt; (31946)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the first three are longer than the fourth, they all contain lists or big blocks of code that inflate the length of the post. The last one, however, is a legitimately long and detailed answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T17:46:42.493" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T17:46:42.493" />
  <row Id="42152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42375" CreationDate="2010-03-13T18:28:40.023" Score="4" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an OpenID with MyOpenID, and I have a URL on my own domain to delegate to this MyOpenID, i.e. just a page containing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.server&quot; href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/server&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.delegate&quot; href=&quot;http://mysecretidentity.myopenid.com&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own URL is my primary OpenID on the Trilogy; this has been working fine for ages. But as of just now, I'm not able to login to any of M+SOFU, receiving a &quot;connection was reset before completed&quot; when trying to retrieve the page from &lt;code&gt;http://[site].com/users/authenticate/&lt;/code&gt; after returning from &lt;code&gt;myopenid.com&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logging in with the (undelegated) MyOpenID works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logging in to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bitbucket&lt;/a&gt; with the delegated Id also works, suggesting this is a SOFU problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The standards (different browser, clear cookies, etc.) didn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-12T12:35:17.020" LastActivityDate="2011-07-12T12:35:17.020" Title="Failure to log in with delegated OpenID" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-13T18:34:46.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit which completely changes the meaning, wording, and essence of the post due to its prior poor grammar and spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T03:42:13.310" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T03:42:13.310" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-13T18:37:24.250" Score="6" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is SO proper place to earn reputation for a good job? I look through the questions and it seems to me that we have a lot of artificial questions that were asked by people who actually know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144481" LastEditorUserId="144481" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T08:52:16.253" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:53:54.287" Title="Is SO proper place to earn reputation for a good job?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42154" CreationDate="2010-03-13T18:45:14.950" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that SO isn't a good place if your main motivation is to get reputation to get a good job. The motivation should be helping people - and it's pretty obvious when that isn't the case (IMO). Having said that, between SO and SO Careers, it can certainly be a &lt;em&gt;benefit&lt;/em&gt; when looking for a new job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I haven't seen much in the way of clearly artificial questions - could you give examples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T18:45:14.950" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="42156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42154" CreationDate="2010-03-13T19:03:44.653" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you start participating on SO with the goal of earning reputation to get a job, you will probably get frustrated quickly. Gaining reputation is often an arbitrary process, and a sole focus on rep will usually result in some kind of negative feedback from the community. Plus, it's entirely possible that your SO reputation will be shrugged upon when trying to get a job, simply because people don't know the site or don't value it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you participate on SO out of interest for your area of expertise, to converse with fellow developers, or to stay up to date in your technology, and if you bring along solid knowledge in your field, your participation will very likely, over some time, amount to a track record (including reputation points) that can be beneficial when looking for a job. It may even land you a job when you are especially active in a field, and point out to be looking for work in your profile - you never know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T22:51:18.563" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T22:51:18.563" />
  <row Id="42158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42169" CreationDate="2010-03-13T19:28:18.410" Score="7" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel and Jeff from time to time reference the social research backing their design decisions for Stack Overflow. Specifically I remember in one of the podcasts where they mentioned that time and again, people design social communities and as it grows, they get excited when they noticed certain trends. Then somebody more experienced tells them it's all been done before and just wait till you see how it changes when it grows to the next stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems they take a lot of care to try to understand how online communities work and design the software and user experience around those principles, in order to drive behaviors towards the site's goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to compile a list of references to some of the research they've mentioned, and what design decisions that research led to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132424" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T13:09:33.627" Title="Principles driving the community-driven and behavioral use of Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;design&gt;&lt;research&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="42159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42158" CreationDate="2010-03-13T19:39:44.467" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They've referenced a few books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0672326140&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Inmates are Running the Asylum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1594201536&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T19:39:44.467" />
  <row Id="42160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42158" CreationDate="2010-03-13T20:01:08.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This Friday's meta-meta-meta question labelled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41976/question-title-that-doesnt-describe-the-problem&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question title that doesn’t describe the problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is definitely worth a read when researching social behaviour on SO. It condenses a lot of patterns and behaviours common on SO - in an exaggerated and cartoonized form outlining the worst of the worst in a theatrical way, of course. Still, there's a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of truth in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A true piece of collective art IMO. Must be read including all comments, but should under no circumstances be read if you're new to Stack Overflow. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T21:39:13.100" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:39:13.100" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-13T20:44:33.243" Score="5" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your program has a problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You spend ages debugging the program.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You give up and ask on StackOverflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While writing up the question you realise the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened to me just 10 minutes ago. Anyone else ever had this happen to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T10:52:17.257" Title="Has anyone found an answer to a question using Stack Overflow without actually posting it?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;problem-solving&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-13T20:45:02.480" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Snarky non-answer that should have been a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T20:45:02.480" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42161" CreationDate="2010-03-13T20:49:34.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heh, actually happened last night. Was in the processes of cleaning up some code so I could paste it in the question and I saw the issue. Then of course found another issue and had to ask another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T20:49:34.913" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:02:23.103" Score="11" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;update: Since Stack Exchange 2.0 seems to be the new way to add to the Stack Overflow family, I have &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6043/proposal-for-a-smartphone-stack-exchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;made this an official &lt;code&gt;site-proposal&lt;/code&gt; on Meta Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Smartphone questions have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot;&gt;specifically disallowed&lt;/a&gt; by the Super User FAQ, but this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42146/android-questions-on-superuser-getting-closed-as-not-computer-related&quot;&gt;hasn't stopped people from trying to ask them&lt;/a&gt;. Instead of closing the questions outright, why not provide a site that they can be asked on/migrated to instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that this may conflict with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forceclose.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.appqanda.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;existing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://phonehow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://slidetoask.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt;, but it might be possible to partner with the operators of those sites to run the new 'trilogy' site. As part of the trilogy, it would benefit from increased traffic and community activity, and it could easily be the go-to place on the internet for smartphone questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-06T06:26:09.850" LastActivityDate="2010-05-06T06:26:09.850" Title="Can we start a smartphone site?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42161" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:02:44.320" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened to me yesterday &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2434906/wcf-service-library-vs-class-library-project-types/&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;. I just posted the answer, so that future searchers might learn from it. That's the way it's supposed to work, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132424" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T10:52:17.257" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T10:52:17.257" />
  <row Id="42166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:06:01.697" Score="6" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am still seeing a comment to a question in my inbox on Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/so1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42133/writing-comments-about-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42133/writing-comments-about-stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the question was deleted in the meantime. Being a &amp;lt; 10k user, I can't see deleted questions, so following the link leads me to the waffles page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I simply shouldn't be seeing the comment at all any more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-16T06:58:21.163" LastActivityDate="2010-06-16T06:58:21.163" Title="Comments for deleted answers still visible" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42166" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:07:31.730" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any link that leads you to waffles is very much &lt;code&gt;bydesign&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37493/what-do-stack-overflow-users-like-for-breakfast/37495#37495&quot;&gt;Click for Waffles!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:07:31.730" />
  <row Id="42168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42161" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:07:42.883" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anyone else ever had this happen to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. I usually try to update the question accordingly and post the solution - people may be doing research for me after all, and I wouldn't want them to do that for naught. I &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; it when that happens to me answering a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's only a few seconds old, hasn't received many views, and has no perceivable value for future generations, I tend to delete it right out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-13T21:27:22.367" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:27:22.367" />
  <row Id="42169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42158" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:08:28.827" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shirky.com/#media_and_community&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clay Shirky&lt;/strong&gt; involving Media &amp;amp; Community&lt;/a&gt;. Particularly his keynote speech at ETech: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a must read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Scoble&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.com/2009/11/02/the-chat-roomforum-problem-an-apology-to-technosailor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The chat room/forum problem&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a short post that exemplifies the problem Stack Overflow set out to solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kathy Sierra&lt;/strong&gt; has been a big influence with her writings about about creating passionate users and how people learn. She doesn't actively blog anymore (&lt;a href=&quot;http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog link&lt;/a&gt;) but she was on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/podcast-74/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow podcast #74&lt;/a&gt; talking about what drives users to want to contribute and &quot;show off&quot; online. Read her article, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/03/one_of_us_iisi_.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One of us is smarter than all of us&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and then &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood&lt;/strong&gt;'s &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/09/stack-overflow-none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One of us is smarter than all of us&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Spolsky&lt;/strong&gt;'s early talk about Stack Overflow (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Talks: Learning from StackOverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;) contains a lot of the research that went into the building of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:08:28.827" />
  <row Id="42170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:09:32.197" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer of poor inglish is formed and explanations running in intersection directions of longitude but rainfalls in code perfectwise question answering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public class Hello {&#xA;    public static void Main() {&#xA;       System.Console.WriteLine(&quot;Hello, World!&quot;);}&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144556" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:09:32.197" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42164" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:09:43.507" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slidetoask.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://slidetoask.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not much activity, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:09:43.507" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42164" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:10:11.447" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I like the idea, I don't think this will go off, partly because of the existing sites you mentioned, but also because smartphones is not the only topic that is disallowed by the Super User FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They would at least have to start with a &quot;Web Apps and Web Services&quot; specific site like I already suggested &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39615/superuser-website-applications-policy/39618#39618&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, as there are even less StackExchange site dedicated to that at this time. And while they're at it, they could as well start a gaming-specific site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:10:11.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42161" CreationDate="2010-03-13T21:23:37.907" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/16/troubleshooting-with-your-teddy-bear/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;legend&lt;/a&gt;, a college computer lab used a teddy bear as a lab assistant in order to lighten the load on the humans.  Before asking the human a question, you'd have to explain the issue to the teddy bear, which usually made the student realize the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily, now we have Stack Overflow, so we don't need to have teddy bears on our desks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134374" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T21:23:37.907" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39010" CreationDate="2010-03-13T22:50:15.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is always this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joking aside, if you really think that a lot of people search for &quot;who can edit questions?&quot;, there's nothing stopping you from asking the question here on meta, so it will eventually be available in the search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-13T22:50:15.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42192" CreationDate="2010-03-13T23:30:43.483" Score="2" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like there is some weirdness rendering the question bar in Mac Firefox. Safari seems to work fine and so does Firefox in Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100313-r2mjsawkp39c4ffd8c362fx8db.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139612" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T08:19:22.073" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T08:19:22.073" Title="Question tabs are not rendering properly in Firefox on MacOS" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;html&gt;&lt;tabs&gt;&lt;questions-tabs&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-14T01:09:36.937" Score="3" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should the example for search filter &lt;code&gt;answers&lt;/code&gt; use a bigger number than one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search filters are documented in &lt;code&gt;/search&lt;/code&gt;, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search&lt;/a&gt; for Stack Overflow. (These filters were originally described in a Stack Overflow blog entry: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/stack-overflow-search-now-61-less-crappy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Search – Now 61% Less Crappy&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line for filter &lt;code&gt;answers&lt;/code&gt; reads (description and example):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;questions that have a minimum number of answers         answers:1 apples oranges&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the allowed value is not limited to just 0 or 1: should a number higher than 1 be used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T21:21:21.880" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T21:21:21.880" Title="Should the example for search filter `answers` use a higher number?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42175" CreationDate="2010-03-14T01:14:08.590" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't exhibit this behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox 3.6 / OS X 10.6.2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T01:14:08.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42184" CreationDate="2010-03-14T01:14:20.790" Score="2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;What time zone do Stack Overflow's servers operate in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that it couldn't be my time zone, or the ones before me (I'm in North American Eastern Time), because I logged into SO earlier today (around 12 pm), then I logged in just a few minutes ago (around 8 pm), then about a minute later I got the Fanatic badge (yay me!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135696" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-24T18:16:14.743" LastActivityDate="2011-02-24T18:16:14.743" Title="What time zone do SO's servers operate in?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;timezone&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-14T01:18:11.350" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Especially badly written, or wrong answer with the sole purpose of gathering 3 downvotes, so I can delete this answer again and harvest myself a nice and shiny [Peer Pressure] badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Of course made CW so I won't lose any of those precious internet dollar points in the process.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T01:18:11.350" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-14T01:19:25.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42161" CreationDate="2010-03-14T01:51:49.887" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This used to happen to me all the time, but I've gotten smarter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T01:51:49.887" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42179" CreationDate="2010-03-14T01:57:10.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that everything is calculated based on UTC. All the times, for instance, are in UTC. The &quot;day&quot; for close votes begins at 0:00:00Z (UTC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ironically, I clicked the envelope icon to see why my rep had changed, and saw this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all times are in UTC; the current time is 2010-03-14 02:34:41Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T02:35:32.397" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T02:35:32.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-14T03:58:06.303" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15986/tool-tip-timestamp-shows-a-z&quot;&gt;Tool-tip timestamp shows a Z&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In recent activity tab, the times are displayed as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;2010-03-07 00:00:00Z to 2010-03-14 23:59:59Z&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is &lt;strong&gt;Z&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T04:06:09.203" ClosedDate="2010-03-14T10:25:12.270" Title="What is the Z in the time displayed on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42185" CreationDate="2010-03-14T04:06:09.203" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Universal Coordinated Time (which replaced Greenwich Mean Time) is also known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~hopkins/aos100/z-time.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zulu&lt;/a&gt; time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137077" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T04:06:09.203" />
  <row Id="42188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7436" CreationDate="2010-03-14T05:38:36.813" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where questions come to get answered, or closed!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T05:38:36.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-14T05:38:36.813" />
  <row Id="42191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42154" CreationDate="2010-03-14T08:53:54.287" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2441501/reverse-hello-world-in-java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2441501/reverse-hello-world-in-java&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;What is Your opinion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144481" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T08:53:54.287" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42175" CreationDate="2010-03-14T09:26:56.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the same &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; rendering on Windows and Firefox v3.6,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;if you change the zoom level, ie if you zoom out with &lt;kbd&gt;ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt; -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130098" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T09:26:56.497" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-14T09:34:05.190" Score="-12" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although SO already has Markdown and HTML, it would also be nice if BBCodes would also be supported. They are a de-facto standard on many internet forums and it would help new users if they could use the syntax they are used to. Even I still catch myself writing bbcodes very often and have to re-edit my posts to replace them with Markdown. And I've been using SO nearly every day for more than a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Added:&lt;/strong&gt; Seems that people totally misunderstood me. I didn't mean to add more formatting possibilities. I meant to add the possibility to use the same formatting possibilities already there, but with bbcode syntax. So you can use [b] and [i] and [code] and [url].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Added 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Wow, 11 downvotes and only one upvote. O_O Certainly not what I expected. With BBCode being so ubiquitous, I thought people would like the proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/is-html-a-humane-markup-language.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff went through a bunch of markup languages&lt;/a&gt; and disliked BBCode - but that's just Jeff. As he has often said himself - the people run SO, so the people are the ones who get the most say. So I just spoke my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, this certainly proves that people around here don't like BBCode. So be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130893" LastEditorUserId="130893" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T00:25:45.930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T03:24:40.077" Title="Suggestion: Add bbcode support to SO" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42193" CreationDate="2010-03-14T11:52:35.193" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;BBcode is far inferior to Markdown, IMO. Also, for a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of bbcodes, just replacing the square brackets with angle brackets gets you HTML, if it bothers you that much. Also, more formatting options means more code to debug, and more possibilities for collision. What about those showing optional arguments in methods names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some question talking about somemethod(num, [list])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T11:52:35.193" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42193" CreationDate="2010-03-14T11:57:29.970" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8380/bbcode.png&quot; alt=&quot;bbcode magic&quot; title=&quot;That's a 'no', in case you're wondering&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T11:57:29.970" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42158" CreationDate="2010-03-14T13:09:33.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scara.com/~ole/literatur/LessonsOfHabitat.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136813" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T13:09:33.627" />
  <row Id="42197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-14T13:21:43.690" Score="-4" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make some new thread for contest questions. Think that there two type of questions in SO &quot;please help&quot; and &quot;do you know&quot;. Think could be separated somehow. Couse there is some issue with reputation of questioners and answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144481" LastEditorUserId="144481" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T14:30:10.520" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T16:29:34.560" Title="Make some separation of &quot;please help&quot; and &quot;do you know&quot; questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42193" CreationDate="2010-03-14T14:35:18.183" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is worth recalling &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/is-html-a-humane-markup-language.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that bbcode was considered&lt;/a&gt; and rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have two sets of allowed markup as it is, and three would be an unnecessary complication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I knew and used bbcode for years before encountering markdown for the first time on Stack Overflow, and have come to intensely prefer markdown. I miss it &lt;em&gt;everywhere&lt;/em&gt; but most especially when I find myself using some tool to only supports the clunkiness that is bbcode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put me down as against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T03:18:11.107" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T03:18:11.107" />
  <row Id="42200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42197" CreationDate="2010-03-14T15:03:11.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend you participate in the site for a while first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm quite sure that despite all shortcomings (I think you have a point with your observations and some of the examples you present in your &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42154/is-so-proper-place-to-earn-reputation-for-a-good-job&quot;&gt;other question&lt;/a&gt;) you will find that, while not perfect, by and large, everyday &quot;business&quot; is still quite okay on Stack Overflow and its sister sites: People get questions answered, and people can give good answers to questions. People get support, broaden their knowledge, and are having fun while at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now sometimes, stupid or carelessly worded questions will get reputation unjustly. Sometimes, wrong or shallow answers will get reputation unjustly. Sometimes, a shallow answer will get unjustly accepted, while your deeply researched answer that you put half an hour's work (and five years' expertise) into does not get one upvote. That's why it's good not to be too focused on reputation, and not to take it too seriously. If you participate in the site, reputation is something that will accumulate itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T16:29:34.560" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T16:29:34.560" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42175" CreationDate="2010-03-14T17:47:43.290" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This only happens when zoomed out. Zoom back to 100% and it's fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt there's anything the StackOverflow team can do about this via their code; it's clear that Firefox is simply screwing up borders upon being zoomed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T17:47:43.290" />
  <row Id="42207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-14T18:48:01.873" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thx everybody for answering!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the consensus is that none of SO, Server Fault, or Super User would be the right place for questions like that and it isn't only about one question, does anybody know a forum that is suited for these types of question (title) and has somewhat near the quality of answers and competence you find at Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1st version:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;title: On which site should I ask “how self-employed programmers organize their real-life todos”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I have no clue where to ask and I fear that even Meta might be the wrong site, but I got to try somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty impressed with the quality of answers and competence you find at Stack Overflow, and can't think of a better group of people to ask but since this question doesn't have anything to do with programming itself I fear that it doesn't fit on any of SO, Server Fault, or Super User.&#xA;(I have a gazillion todo-lists on paper and need to find a better way of organizing it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A) Can I just ask that on Stack Overflow? (I guess - no)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;b) Do you know any site of similar quality that would fit this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144636" LastEditorUserId="144636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T01:27:21.107" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:27:21.107" Title="Which forum for workflow and organizing-type questions for the self-employed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;forum&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42207" CreationDate="2010-03-14T19:03:02.173" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not exactly what you want to ask but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/78756/what-do-you-use-to-keep-notes-as-a-developer&quot;&gt;What do you use to keep notes as a developer?&lt;/a&gt; is very similar and you should find your answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this question was asked a long time ago where off-topic rules were much more relaxed. If it was posted today, it would have been closed right away for being not programming related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T19:03:02.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42207" CreationDate="2010-03-14T19:04:15.137" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On which site should I ask “how self-employed programmers organize their real-life todos”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have no clue where to ask and I fear that even Meta might be the wrong site, but I got to try somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is appropriate for Meta, “how self-employed programmers organize their real-life todos”, is not. Here we discuss only about Stack Overflow. And ponies. And waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm pretty impressed with the quality of answers and competence you find at Stack Overflow, and can't think of a better group of people to ask but since this question doesn't have anything to do with programming itself I fear that it doesn't fit on any of SO, Server Fault, or Super User. (I have a gazillion todo-lists on paper and need to find a better way of organizing it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the sites are aimed at &lt;em&gt;technical&lt;/em&gt; problems. Your question is about workflow, something a bit more subjective than &lt;em&gt;How to do a loop on Haskell&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A) Can I just ask that on Stack Overflow? (I guess - no)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;B) Do you know any site of similar quality that would fit this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; don't, but maybe somebody here does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T19:04:15.137" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42161" CreationDate="2010-03-14T19:10:30.600" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Repeatedly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process of formulating a well-asked question will often lead you to think about the problem differently -- and this can either lead you to the answer directly, or give you a great idea of where to look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151858" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T19:10:30.600" />
  <row Id="42213" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-14T19:17:03.287" Score="-7" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon for people to flesh out answers incrementally for the sake of posting first. Usually this gets the key point out and then more detail is provided shortly afterward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if there was a checkbox in Answer/edit mode that could be set by the user to indicate it's being worked on, or more is coming. This would be reflected to viewers by the current answer and a note &quot;This answer is in progress...&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The progress status would time out automatically if two minutes pass after the last edit was made to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; This addition could solve problems including but not limited to: premature voting by assumption of a final edit when more are pending, allowing questioner to get answers early and iteratively, users to have less &quot;exam&quot; stress trying to blurt things out quickly. Overall it can contribute to a healthier answer base. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="136524" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T03:10:15.687" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T03:10:15.687" Title="Answer In Progress status/checkbox" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42213" CreationDate="2010-03-14T19:31:15.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would not this encourage partial answers? Aren't we suppose to be discouraging &quot;first to answer wins&quot; behavior? Sounds like a bad idea to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T19:31:15.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42213" CreationDate="2010-03-14T19:54:37.103" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to disagree somewhat with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42213/answer-in-progress-status-checkbox/42216#42216&quot;&gt;Jonathan here&lt;/a&gt;.  We've not supposed to discourage &quot;first wins&quot; we are supposed to encourage &quot;&lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; wins&quot;. There is nothing wrong with building answers incrementally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think that each stage of an incremental answer should stand on its own, able to be abandoned as is if it comes to that. And I think that a &quot;working on it flag&quot; would not encourage &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; behavior, and I am accordingly against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T20:06:41.610" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T20:06:41.610" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42207" CreationDate="2010-03-14T20:57:10.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try &lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/399985/five-best-to+do-list-managers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lifehacker's Five Best To-Do List Managers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T20:57:10.377" />
  <row Id="42221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18841" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:00:26.273" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stupid rule. Need to be changed. Why cant you get your rep if you haven't got an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144481" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T21:00:26.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42213" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:12:32.753" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On occasion I write answers like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rev 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is because of reason Foo. (in progress...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rev 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is because of reason Foo, which happens during condition Bar when creating a Frobnitz. See the documentation entitled &quot;Bar during the Frobnitz: Foo and Quux!&quot; (in progress...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;rev 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is because of reason Foo, which happens during condition Bar when creating a Frobnitz. See the documentation entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://uber.documentation.info/bar_frobnitz#foo_and_quux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Bar during the Frobnitz: Foo and Quux!&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking up the exact reference documentation may take a few minutes, but I can give the quick answer right away so I submit that first. (Yes, usually to play the FGITW game, but also because a partial answer instantly is usually better than a longer answer later.)  Generally I can get the last revision in before the end of the five minute window, so it's not like there's a huge wait. I just put in the &quot;in progress...&quot; marker so someone else doesn't zealously try to edit in the URL before I have finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see what an &quot;in progess&quot; checkbox would do, that regular text (as shown above) would not. Perhaps if this checkbox prevented others from editing... but then, I could see this being abused, e.g. to post spam links that others could not immediately remove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T21:12:32.753" />
  <row Id="42223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42229" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:27:39.293" Score="4" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone. A cautionary tale for you all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2442287/&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; on SO earlier today, where I wanted to know if there was a correct industry standard way (like ISO approved) to write the /* and */ symbols used in the C language. (Thinking more of typography than ASCII code points.) It may seem an eccentric thing to ask, but I have my reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was quickly closed off as &quot;not programmer related&quot;. Seemed strange to me, a question about a programming language is not about programming? At first, I went though the motions of calling for it to be reopened, but I looked again and decided I could have asked the question in a more general way, so to be more useful to the community and not look quite so eccentric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could have just changed the text to ask the question differently, but my then the question was closed and the answers already given wouldn't have made any sense with my reworded question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I changed tack and clicked the delete button. By now, it was too late and I needed four more votes. I changed the question text to just &quot;Please delete this question&quot; in the hope that people would come along and help by also clicking the delete button. Only problem there was that other people came along and kept putting the original text back. (For well meaning reasons, I'm sure.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now, I'm in the situation of being voted down (and losing rep points?) for something I don't want and have tried to delete. &lt;em&gt;sigh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question in haste, repent in leisure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3568" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:03:02.217" Title="The question that wouldn't die!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42250" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:30:45.347" Score="4" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there might be a bug in the Markdown preview script. It shows the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo**strong text**&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo*&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;strong text*&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've looked at several other Markdown parsers, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;what could be considered the reference implementation at Daring Fireball&lt;/a&gt; and they render it as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;foo&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;strong text&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which is what I would expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the server-side implementation has this behaviour, so I'll put &lt;code&gt;foo**strong text**&lt;/code&gt; below to see what happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;foo*&lt;em&gt;strong text&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is by design then I'm sorry. If it's unintentional I'll see if I can make a patch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; The above at the time of posting renders as &lt;code&gt;foo*&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;strong text*&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;. This is consistent with the behaviour of the previewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132428" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:56:56.997" Title="Bug in SO's Markdown parsing for bold" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42226" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:36:19.047" Score="1" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that it meant that I should get 400 upvotes (which equals to 4000 points) only for my answers to questions which weren't marked as community wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've just seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/276101/polygenelubricants&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; with reputation a little bigger than 4000, who has a silver badge in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'java'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;java&lt;/a&gt; tag. He couldn't have earned the 4k for the answers only (I didn't count, but he earned at least 500 points for asking questions and at least 300 for answers to questions without the Java tag).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how are these 400 upvotes calculated? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144411" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-07T11:14:44.610" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T15:22:41.943" Title="What does it mean '400 upvotes for silver badge in certain tag'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42225" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:41:23.930" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badge undoubtedly counts upvotes received above and beyond the rep cap. Thus, rep cannot be used as reliable gauge to determine a person's eligibility for silver tag badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I was apparently wrong in the original about CW posts and questions. The badge does explicitly state that it is for answers only.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T08:56:20.697" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T08:56:20.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42223" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:44:20.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quickest thing to do will probably be to click the &quot;flag&quot; link below the question and send a message to the moderators to close/delete it for you. Once your question is deleted, you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14107/how-can-i-request-a-reputation-recalc&quot;&gt;request a Rep recalc&lt;/a&gt; from the moderators and any Rep you gained or lost on said question will be nullified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T21:44:20.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42223" CreationDate="2010-03-14T21:50:49.393" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like it's typography related.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C standard&lt;/a&gt; does not include specific requirements for the number of points for an asterisk, nor the angle of the foreslash.  Section 3.4.9 contains the sum total of all the requirements for the comment block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore your specific query is not programming related.  This information is not needed to write a C program, nor is it used in any C programming tools - they use the character set provided by the operating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to re-write the question, you will need a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; good reason as to how it applies to actually programming, rather than merely being a tangent to programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-14T21:56:48.367" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T21:56:48.367" />
  <row Id="42229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42223" CreationDate="2010-03-14T22:09:30.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Go on then... we &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to keep as much genuine content on-site as possible, but in this case I think I'm sold that we won't miss it. Consider it toast. Let me know if you want a recalc along with that, but from a previous reply you may actually be quids-in on this question (so a recalc may reduce rep - but then it might have done that anyway ;-p).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T22:09:30.430" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42225" CreationDate="2010-03-14T22:33:44.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user could have lost reputation, either by being downvoted, or spending it on bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastEditorUserId="67366" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-18T15:22:41.943" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T15:22:41.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45720" CreationDate="2010-03-14T23:28:17.793" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we have a list of URLs to target specific SO elements in a page -- an answer, a specific comment, etc. -- and info about how to go about retrieving the ids for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T20:41:55.320" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:36:17.100" Title="URLs to link to a particular comment, and other SO elements?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42213" CreationDate="2010-03-14T23:33:53.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;IMPORTANT: This answer is in progress...&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose a user could just write into the top of their answer a bold line stating so, like I just did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this is prone to being forgotten and orphaned up there. That's one reason I proposed a feature that would timeout such a declaration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastActivityDate="2010-03-14T23:33:53.660" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42236" CreationDate="2010-03-14T23:48:01.723" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have a permalink for the answers, just click on the link button, or right-click and copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-06T23:36:17.100" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T23:36:17.100" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42242" CreationDate="2010-03-15T00:36:04.167" Score="4" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you lose the 15 pts if someone later unaccepts your answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143806" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:39:52.070" Title="Do you lose the 15 pts if someone later unaccepts your answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42241" CreationDate="2010-03-15T00:38:53.043" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you do lose points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T00:54:13.807" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T00:54:13.807" />
  <row Id="42243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T00:53:13.293" Score="3" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I buy a book, I go to amazon and look up the ratings there. I have noticed that it's really hard to find any kind of review or rating for developer components and libraries. &#xA;There are so many knowledgeable users so I think it would be great to add this feature to stackoverflow.&#xA;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T00:59:28.580" Title="How about reviews/ratings of developer components/libraries?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42243" CreationDate="2010-03-15T00:59:09.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's acceptable to ask questions asking for good and bad features of components or libraries (though others will disagree).  Of course, a lot have already been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T00:59:09.423" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42243" CreationDate="2010-03-15T00:59:28.580" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be interesting as a sister project, but library reviews is a fair deviation from a Q&amp;amp;A site, so I can't quite picture it being part of SO proper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T00:59:28.580" />
  <row Id="42246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42223" CreationDate="2010-03-15T01:03:02.217" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, there were commonly used tools called 'pretty printers'. They took &lt;em&gt;source code&lt;/em&gt;, yes, even C source code, and formatted it typographically. In fact, 'vgrind' is still in stock linux distros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, asking about how to make code look nice when printed in a book can be programming-related, insofar as people write programs to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:03:02.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42261" CreationDate="2010-03-15T01:05:20.983" Score="7" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel published on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/podcast-future/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt; his request for ideas for the new podcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T21:45:47.010" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-15T01:06:28.440" Title="What ideas are out there for the new podcast?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="42248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42247" CreationDate="2010-03-15T01:06:15.647" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't get rid of all the technical discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:06:15.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-15T02:41:26.010" />
  <row Id="42249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15275" CreationDate="2010-03-15T01:19:04.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had the same thing happen and I also don't understand why this is &quot;by design&quot;. If the asker has accepted an answer then how does migrating to another site change that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131356" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:19:04.367" />
  <row Id="42250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42224" CreationDate="2010-03-15T01:21:44.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Notice the lack of any white space between &lt;code&gt;foo&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;strong&lt;/code&gt;?  Intra-word emphasis in markdown like that is intentionally disabled here.  It's not strictly to spec, but it's needed here because often source code, variable names, language/product names, file paths, etc have * or _ in them.  If you really want to show that emphasis, you can use html instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you do have a bug here.  It should ignore the markup completely.  Instead, it renders just the italic portion of the markup (one asterisk instead of both).  I suspsect a regex somewhere is treating the &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt; character as whitespace/word boundary so it no longer looks like the middle of a word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm okay with this bug because you're in a well-defined exception (intra-word emphasis) and the preview renders consistently with what's finally posted.  Sure, it'd be better if it were fixed, but I suspect they have many things to spend their time on that I want more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T01:56:56.997" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:56:56.997" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42241" CreationDate="2010-03-15T01:39:52.070" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, and unfortunately this is one of the instances where it's quite difficult to determine exactly &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; answer you lost the points for. The best way I know of is to keep a page open containing a list of your accepted answers (from the envelope page, for example), and compare it to the post-unaccepted status page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="893" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T01:39:52.070" />
  <row Id="42252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42247" CreationDate="2010-03-15T02:08:59.757" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;More interviews/guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T02:08:59.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-15T02:08:59.757" />
  <row Id="42253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42247" CreationDate="2010-03-15T02:23:09.427" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A narrative around the business of starting up / running a technology company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T02:23:09.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-15T02:23:09.427" />
  <row Id="42254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T02:51:36.600" Score="12" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just edited the link in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts&lt;/a&gt; and I got an Organizer badge for it. I didn't retag anything, though. Bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131356" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-03T00:20:18.767" LastActivityDate="2011-07-03T00:20:18.767" Title="Organizer badge given without retagging" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-planned&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42193" CreationDate="2010-03-15T03:24:40.077" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A point worth mentioning here is that SO's (the company) goals now include &lt;em&gt;replacing&lt;/em&gt; most of the old phpBB and vBulletin -style forums out there.  Your main argument is that bbcode is a known standard, but I think a big part of the impetus for StackOverflow is that the known standards are &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; &amp;mdash; let's go do something better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I agree the oft-shown url examples like this are ugly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[text here](http://example.com)&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, there's several ways to show a url in markdown.  I think the &quot;footnote&quot; style syntax works pretty well, and hyperlink button on the toolbar makes it easy to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[text here][1]&#xA;&#xA;... end of post&#xA;&#xA;  [1]http://example.com&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T03:24:40.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43033" CreationDate="2010-03-15T03:43:40.700" Score="20" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to view your own &quot;comment karma&quot;, that is, how many total upvotes I have on my comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for reputation or anything for comments, it just seems that I'd never know my comment had been upvoted unless I keep checking back on questions I have commented against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be kinda nice to see a total count of how many comments I've made, especially since a few of the badges are linked to comment counts and upvotes on comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T15:49:01.697" Title="Is there any way to see your &quot;Comment Karma&quot;?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="42258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42262" CreationDate="2010-03-15T04:31:11.910" Score="9" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not understand some of the details regarding Badges. I am not saying that the site has not given proper details - just that I couldn't understand them, and would like to know what they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason behind this is &quot;Explanation of each badges are given in one line.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all are very clearly explained. But people like me who know less English - might not understand the exact meaning of the badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok - now the question. I have listed the Badges I don't understand, including the descriptive sentence for reference (original at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/badges&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disciplined - Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher.&lt;/strong&gt; (I am confused here. Why would someone delete the post when it has 3 or more upvotes on it? A post with more then 3 upvotes might include some good details / be a good question. Why remove/delete it from stackoverflow?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Epic - Hit the daily reputation cap on 50 days.&lt;/strong&gt; (My bad English - I couldn't understand this sentence.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Generalist - Active in many different tags&lt;/strong&gt; (But how many different tags? Oops! Sorry. I forgot my question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26347&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26347&lt;/a&gt;. I believe it is not in use now.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beta - Actively participated in the Stack Overflow private beta&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;(Where is this private Stack overflow site? - I also want to actively participate.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mortarboard - Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time&lt;/strong&gt; (What does this mean - &quot;Hit the daily reputation cap?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Populist - Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;(I couldn't understand the exact meaning of &quot;votes by 2x&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reversal - Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;(Does this mean - Question is bad, answer is good?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yearling - Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;(Does this mean, to achieve this Badge, we must be active members and within that year we must gain +200 reputation - is it something like this?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know - many people may not like my question, and might hate this kind of question.&#xA;But I am confused and I would like clarification, so, I have asked the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance for sharing your great knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sagar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133296" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T18:33:17.197" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T11:21:32.523" Title="Badges - Explanation" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T04:29:38.697" Score="2" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've posted two questions now. Very specific ones at that. They were being answered by people who understood the question and doing so with reasonable and helpful answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I see this message over and over again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;closed as &lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt; by spender, CMS, Gaby, gnovice, Jonathan Sampson♦ 56 mins ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's driving me nuts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you want to close and/or delete this question for being so in your face that you can smell the back of my head, that's fairly reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I find it insincere for you to keep closing questions I ask about my website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that vague? No, it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted an overall general opinion on the design of my website. I didn't want only opinions on my clock script or my window script. I wanted opinions about the entire thing. So why would I write it any other way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stop closing my posts, gods dammit! I was getting lots of feedback. Now I'm not thanks to it being closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T06:14:42.057" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T00:59:08.937" Title="Questions using my site as the basis are unfairly being closed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="42260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42258" CreationDate="2010-03-15T04:40:02.143" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disciplined - This is to reward someone who found a duplicate or some other reason that his question was not appropriate, and decided to delete his question despite it getting him reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Epic - Very Simple. Get to 200 Reputation a day for 50 days. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generalist - Not Currently Active&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beta - Not Active Anymore (This was for when StackOverflow.com was in Beta, it is no longer in Beta, and you can't get the badge)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mortarboard - Get to 200 reputation in 1 day. The &lt;strong&gt;Reputation Cap&lt;/strong&gt;, as many people call it, is when you hit a point where you cannot get any more reputation from up votes, and must wait till the next day in order to receive reputation for upvotes. For StackOverflow, that cap is at 200 reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Populist - If the accepted answer for a question is 15, you have to get 30. It is double the accepted answers score (minimum of 20)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reversal - This is for if someone had a bad question, but you still were able to provide a great answer to it. If the question was hard to understand, yet you did and were able to answer it, you could get this badge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yearling - Yes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T04:47:21.787" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T04:47:21.787" />
  <row Id="42261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42247" CreationDate="2010-03-15T04:41:35.797" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have special podcasters on (not guest). These special podcasters would be the other SO Valued Associates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-000004/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kevin Montrose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00003/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Geoff Dalgas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/welcome-stack-overflow-valued-associate-00002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jarrod Dixon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They would either take the place of Jeff and/or Joel (not permanently of course) or podcast along side them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also after reading some of the comments on the blog post I would like to quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/podcast-future/#comment-45019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill Paetzke&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you add guests, please make sure they mix well with your dynamic–someone with a sense of humor. You’ve had a few dull guests in the past. Perhaps stick to guests who are fellow software entrepreneurs or software developers (regardless of employment) who blog well. Or make a web form for listeners to submit topic proposals and be guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally the main thing that has kept me listening to these podcast is &lt;strong&gt;YOU GUYS&lt;/strong&gt; (Jeff &amp;amp; Joel). You're funny and easily likable. If one of you takes an extended break &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;cough&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;Joel&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;/cough&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; I'll probably quit listening. It just wouldn't be right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="65977" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T04:48:26.403" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T04:48:26.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-15T04:41:35.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42258" CreationDate="2010-03-15T04:43:30.193" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Epic - Hit the daily reputation cap on 50 days ( Oh ! sorry. My bad English. I couldn't understand this sentence. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mortarboard - Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time ( What does this mean - Hit the daily reputation cap ?? - )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only earn up to 200 reputation points in one day. If you do something that would normally earn you more than that, you don't get the points. The reason for this is to encourage you not to just spend all your time on Stack Overflow trying to gain more reputation. If you get 200 points on one day, that's known as &quot;hitting the reputation cap.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beta - Actively participated in the Stack Overflow private beta ( Where is this private Stack overflow site? - I also want to actively participate )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Stack Overflow was first starting out, it was being &quot;beta tested.&quot; See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_testing#Beta_testing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_testing#Beta_testing&lt;/a&gt; That testing is over now, so if you don't already have this badge, you can't get it. :-(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yearling - Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation ( Means - to achieve this Badge - We must be active member &amp;amp; within that year we must gain +200 reputations - Is it something like this?? )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly. They don't want you to earn this badge by simply creating an account, and then waiting for a year doing nothing. That's why the reputation requirement is included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65977" LastEditorUserId="140449" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-01T11:21:32.523" LastActivityDate="2011-08-01T11:21:32.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42259" CreationDate="2010-03-15T04:54:23.377" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your questions: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2441582/web-page-opinions-and-suggestions-closed&quot;&gt;first&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2443988/looking-for-opinions-and-sugestions-on-my-website-general-question-closed&quot;&gt;second&lt;/a&gt; are not questions. You are asking for opinions about how to improve your site. Thats not how SO operates. You present the community with a question that requires a definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&#xA;How can I make widgetA work on my website. I am using this technology. Here is what I've tried so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This presents a real question. You need to figure out what you want to do to improve your web site. Another recommendation might be to promote yourself with a little more professionalism. This is not a forum, it is a question and answer community. Be respectful of the community and you will be respected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T04:54:23.377" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T05:12:20.033" Score="4" ViewCount="1129" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5221/what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that-actually-mean&quot;&gt;What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25088/how-can-i-delete-my-post-on-stack-overflow&quot;&gt;How can I delete my post on Stack Overflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello, now I am asking second stupid question. And I need to delete both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T18:19:25.017" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:19:25.017" ClosedDate="2010-03-15T18:20:37.577" Title="How can I delete my question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42265" CreationDate="2010-03-15T05:18:22.853" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a delete underneath the tags to the question that is visible to you if you asked it.  It's subtle and missable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T05:19:00.210" />
  <row Id="42267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T05:08:20.963" Score="1" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using this account for couple of days, but I am not registered and I do not want to lose all my questions. How to reqister here and take my questions from my unregistered account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T06:08:08.720" Title="how to register my unregistered account?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;registration&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T05:46:37.553" Score="6" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, if a question has no answers at all, you see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4719/zeroanswers.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question has one answer that has been upvoted at least once, you see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6608/oneanswer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question has one answer that has &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; been upvoted, you see this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6608/oneanswer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you can't tell if a question has likely been answered well vs. answered poorly/unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that questions that still need attention (because either the existing answer deserves an upvote or a better answer is needed) don't stand out at all from questions that have an answer with at least one upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that, if a question has one answer that has never been upvoted, you should see (something like) this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5963/onenonupvotedanswer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: I'm not saying this is the best possible graphic, I just threw this together to get the idea across.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will give questions with no upvotes a little bit more visibility while adding very little complexity to the UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="131453" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T18:47:57.387" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T22:29:32.720" Title="Would it be worth indicating that a question has no upvoted answers in the question listing?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42267" CreationDate="2010-03-15T06:08:08.720" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click the &quot;register&quot; link at the top of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do not hold the browser cookie to your unregistered account, visit the login page and click &quot;forgot your login info?&quot; (Note that you must have have voluntarily provided an email address to us at some point for cookie recovery to work -- we do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; require email.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T06:08:08.720" />
  <row Id="42271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36052" CreationDate="2010-03-15T06:16:20.107" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit long for a comment, so here's my thoughts on specific ways this feature would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of these comments will be &quot;correcting&quot; a previous editor, such as &quot;tag vandalism&quot; (popular examples being [belongs-on-*], &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34503/should-the-possible-homework-tag-be-discouraged&quot;&gt;[possible-homework]&lt;/a&gt;, etc.).  When I see that, I rollback myself, but it would be nice to just leave a cordial remark and perhaps a link to meta about why their action is generally frowned upon.  But they might also be correcting content of the question as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35670/clarifications-requested-on-the-moderator-election-process#comment-77319&quot;&gt;John's example&lt;/a&gt; shows, which is less meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also worse cases.  For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2445087/&quot;&gt;JoshJordan's edit&lt;/a&gt; went far beyond removing offensive text in order to make a joke at the OP's expense, and no one has any way of mentioning to him why that is counter-productive.  (And it's especially heinous given the frustration that user was already experiencing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of these comments will be simply asking an editor why they did something.  For example, a user, especially a new user (but then they'd have to already understand @user), might not understand an &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2445137/what-topic-in-computer-science-is-this/2445173#2445173&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;, and I'd certainly reply to them if they asked, in the interest of improving the SO community (if only a little bit).  But I'd have to find their comment towards me first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these types of uses are meta-discussion, but I am not suggesting to keep meta-discussion on SO: a comment seems the appropriate way to include a link to meta and complete the circle as appropriate.  In other cases, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2452093/how-to-get-the-index-or-the-element-itself-of-an-element-found-with-if-element-i/2452108#2452108&quot;&gt;short note&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T05:06:48.983" />
  <row Id="42272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42269" CreationDate="2010-03-15T06:19:11.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that a question has an answer with upvotes isn't an indication of whether the question has a good answer. If fact, even when a question has an upvoted, accepted answer, it doesn't mean it doesn't need attention. The answer may be wrong, or poorly worded, or missing some information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, it's worth reading the question and answer to see if it needs attention in the form of votes - is the most useful answer at the top? If not, vote it up. Are other answers helpful, if so, vote them up. Is the question clearly written and likely to be useful to others, if so, vote it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more importantly, you might learn something by reading the question or the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd discourage adding anything to the UI which might discourage users from reading questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T06:19:11.933" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42274" CreationDate="2010-03-15T06:25:41.183" Score="4" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay I ran out of flags &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/31186/user31186&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/users/31186/user31186&lt;/a&gt; is spamming hardcore on Superuser&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastEditorUserId="131932" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T06:38:13.943" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T06:38:13.943" ClosedDate="2010-03-15T12:35:21.493" Title="A user spamming" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;spam&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42273" CreationDate="2010-03-15T06:37:53.070" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you for the heads up.  Issue has been taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131932" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T06:37:53.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42259" CreationDate="2010-03-15T06:55:33.647" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42259/questions-using-my-site-as-the-basis-are-unfairly-being-closed/42264#42264&quot;&gt;dboarmann's answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was highly professional till someone closed my post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You were civil, which is certainly to be commended. We do occasionally get users who are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alas, your first &quot;question&quot; was presented in a stream of conscienceness style. Unfair though it may be that suggests an undisciplined (read 'not very professional') approach. We are comfortable with casual here, but this is a site for technical questions and precision is generally regarded as a good thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writing on your second question was better, but we expect and encourage appeals to be managed by editing the original rather than reposting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Stack Overflow is for questions that have answers, and your requests do not fit well in that mold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, &lt;em&gt;please do not be unduly discouraged&lt;/em&gt;. You are not on any list of bad users, and you have not made any unrepairable mistakes. &lt;strong&gt;You are welcome in this community.&lt;/strong&gt; Spend a little time scoping out the culture of the sites and reading the FAQ and learning how things work around here, and hopefully the rest of your time with us will be more fulfilling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T00:59:08.937" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T00:59:08.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T07:36:49.843" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an OpenID delegation set up on my own domain at &lt;a href=&quot;http://markashleybell.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://markashleybell.com/&lt;/a&gt;, using MyOpenID as the provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently made some changes to the site there and forgot to re-include the delegation links in the HTML. So when I tried to log back in to StackOverflow with my domain, I got an error message (understandably):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&#xA;&#xA;No OpenID endpoint found. &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've since reinstated the delegation tags, yet I still get this error, but &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; from the PC where I originally tried to log in when the tags were missing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can log in to SO with the same domain from two other PC's on my home network, and I can even log in to other OpenID sites from the afflicted PC, but it still won't let me log in to SO, from any web browser on that machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's almost like something is caching the fact that the endpoint was missing; I've tried clearing all cookies and the cache, but still no joy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136585" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T07:36:49.843" Title="I can't log in using my delegated OpenID, but only from one particular computer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;error&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40971" CreationDate="2010-03-15T07:51:37.853" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on this feedback I modified the description text for &quot;not a real question&quot; to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, &lt;strong&gt;incomplete&lt;/strong&gt;, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T07:51:37.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T08:11:41.073" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue is with answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2430791/drupal-incorrectly-escapes-tags-in-javascript/2432658#2432658&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2430791/drupal-incorrectly-escapes-tags-in-javascript/2432658#2432658&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I up-vote the answer about two days ago, I just tried to mark it also ask Accepted.&#xA;But accidentally I down-vote the answer. After this I tried up-vote it again and obtain the error message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vote is too old to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to return my up-vote back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137751" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T08:13:52.197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T08:17:05.910" Title="Vote up/down time out issue" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;&lt;timeout&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42278" CreationDate="2010-03-15T08:17:05.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a very limited window to change votes due to many exploits around this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited the post, which enables re-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T08:17:05.910" />
  <row Id="42280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42298" CreationDate="2010-03-15T08:53:09.637" Score="3" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19190/should-language-specific-questions-contain-the-language-name-in-the-title&quot;&gt;Should language-specific questions contain the language name in the title?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a set policy whether the programming language (or other context) should be part of the question title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example (look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1350994/revisions&quot;&gt;the revision history&lt;/a&gt;): &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1350994&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1350994&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: OK, this was discussed more than a year ago in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19190/should-language-specific-questions-contain-the-language-name-in-the-title&quot;&gt;Should language-specific questions contain the language name in the title?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there was no clear consensus. Perhaps we can reach consensus now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T10:19:29.097" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T19:44:39.477" ClosedDate="2010-03-15T20:02:23.687" Title="Is the programming language not allowed to be part of the title?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42280" CreationDate="2010-03-15T08:56:29.463" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if so, he arguably should have removed &quot;concurrently&quot; from the title, since the question is tagged &quot;concurrency&quot;. I wouldn't worry about it too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to remove the &quot;PHP&quot; from things like &quot;PHP: How do I fetch a foo from a bar?&quot;. Opinions may differ though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T08:56:29.463" />
  <row Id="42285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42280" CreationDate="2010-03-15T10:19:12.200" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think tags are used to make search more easy. But I personally think it is not bad to name the program language in the title. It is more clear to me, when it is named in the title. I always look first at the title before I look at the tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143346" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T10:19:12.200" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42291" CreationDate="2010-03-15T11:02:24.957" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my &lt;code&gt;&quot;About Me&quot;&lt;/code&gt; code i have now &lt;code&gt;Flying with &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;WCF&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Jquery&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;....&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I change this to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Flying with &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;WCF&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Jquery&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;.... &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/8413/copyofdevelopersareborn.jpg&quot;&#xA;alt=&quot;Great Pic&quot; width=&quot;210&quot; height=&quot;263&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to take my &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag... Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T17:49:07.153" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T17:49:07.153" Title="Why can't I include an &lt;img&gt; tag in my user profile's &quot;About Me&quot; section?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42288" CreationDate="2010-03-15T11:02:41.557" Score="2" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, considering there are icons for the performance tag, the flex tag, the android tag, and some other ones, won't it be possible to have an icon for the java tag ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144429" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T12:50:43.433" Title="Add icon to Java tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;icon&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42287" CreationDate="2010-03-15T11:06:12.537" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those are called &quot;sponsored tags&quot;, the only way to get an icon on them is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://inedomedia.com/stackoverflow.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sponsor them&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No idea &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30988/how-much-does-it-cost-to-sponsor-a-tag&quot;&gt;how much that will set you back though&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913/open-source-advertising-sidebar-1h-2010&quot;&gt;Open Source Advertising - Sidebar&lt;/a&gt; thing, although I'm not sure if java fits in there. Didn't it become open source recently? These are the requirements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It must be an advertisement &lt;strong&gt;soliciting&#xA;  the participation and contribution of&#xA;  programmers writing actual source&#xA;  code&lt;/strong&gt;. This is not intended as a&#xA;  general purpose ad for consumer&#xA;  products which just happen to be open&#xA;  source. It's for finding programmers&#xA;  who will help contribute code or other&#xA;  programmery things (documentation,&#xA;  code review, bugfixes, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I just now realize that this sidebar thing has nothing to do with tags, only an ad in the sidebar. I leave it in here just in case...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T11:12:38.537" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T11:12:38.537" />
  <row Id="42291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42286" CreationDate="2010-03-15T11:13:46.570" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can. Be mindful of the order of your attributes as well as the self-closing end slash &lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt; (since the sites are HTML 4)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your image needs to be coded up as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://example.com/image.jpg&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; alt=&quot;uighur&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Variations include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://example.com/image.jpg&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; alt=&quot;yo ho&quot; &amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://example.com/image.jpg&quot; width=&quot;125&quot; height=&quot;225&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://example.com/image.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ho-hum image&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;&#xA;&amp;lt;img src=&quot;http://example.com/image.jpg&quot;&amp;gt; &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T11:39:45.497" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T11:39:45.497" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42293" CreationDate="2010-03-15T12:37:34.097" Score="4" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264384/how-do-i-use-ioctl-to-manipulate-my-kernel-module/2264456#2264456&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264384/how-do-i-use-ioctl-to-manipulate-my-kernel-module&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. In the answer, I am suggesting that the OP take a look at some code that exists in the Linux kernel to use as an example, in particular &lt;code&gt;drivers/watchdog/softdog.c&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brought up a minor dilemma as I was considering editing my answer to make the file reference a link. Should I link to the raw file (the content of the link will change over time, possibly out-dating my answer) or should I link to the revision tip of the file that I was referencing, which again may obsolete the answer if the file changes significantly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While yes, softdog is unlikely to move much, it is a question worth asking. How do you handle linking to files for example purposes that are also under version control and likely to change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that SO is heavily edited, but I don't think any system exists (or could conceivably exist) to ensure that answers remain current and accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T13:42:02.200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T13:42:02.200" Title="Advice on linking to code repositories for examples" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42292" CreationDate="2010-03-15T12:44:35.810" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Link to the revision as it was when you posted your answer, and mention the fact that you've done so in your answer. I'd rather have an out-dated answer, clearly flagged as such, than an answer that links to some line in a file which is no longer what the answer was talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T12:44:35.810" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42287" CreationDate="2010-03-15T12:50:43.433" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also use Greasemonkey to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24065/user-script-to-remove-so-sponsored-tag-advertisements&quot;&gt;remove sponsored tags completely&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24480/script-to-add-more-branded-icons-to-so-tags-to-offset-adobe-branding/24481#24481&quot;&gt;add icons to common tags&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That looks like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8307/icon2tp.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really looks great :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/825/colorfull.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ponies&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3017/ponies.png&quot; alt=&quot;OMG Ponies!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T12:50:43.433" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42254" CreationDate="2010-03-15T14:43:08.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is related to the fact that when you reach 2000 rep (or 100 for CW on meta), there is no &lt;strong&gt;re-tag&lt;/strong&gt; per se, only &lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;, which may count as a re-tag from the perspective of the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ie: I don't think the code checks what you edited (body, title, or tags) when you edit a post&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T14:43:08.510" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42265" CreationDate="2010-03-15T14:59:33.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a delete underneath the tags to the question that is visible to you if you asked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you won't be able to delete a question if it has answers voted up by the community (or if you accepted one of those answers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can only delete it if you have no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T14:59:33.167" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42280" CreationDate="2010-03-15T16:21:00.710" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated in the comments of that edit, it's not so much the language name being in the title, it's the fact that it's clearly a tag that's been crammed into a field intended for a plain english sentence. It's a title field, not a denormalized database dumping ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a user sees&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;C++: is it safe to read an integer variable that's being concurrently modified without locking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They read it as   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;[C++]&lt;/code&gt; is it safe to read an integer variable that's being concurrently modified without locking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since SO already has a tagging system (which is tied to many things), it is redundent to be including a poor man's tag in the title. Same goes for users who decides to edit their question titles to say &quot;[Solved]&quot; after an acceptable answer is posted (double points if they don't actually mark the answer as accepted, triple if they post a &quot;reply&quot; thanking for the correct answer in the form of another answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if the question sounds overly broad (keywords match several unrelated languages) you could easily work the language/API into the text of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it safe to read an integer in C++ if it's being concurrently modified without locking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67468" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T16:21:00.710" />
  <row Id="42305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74074" CreationDate="2010-03-15T17:35:04.493" Score="2" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13501/links-to-urls-containing-parentheses&quot;&gt;Links to URLs containing parentheses&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following shows up fine in the Markdown preview but not in an actual answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;[the API](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newTransformer(javax.xml.transform.Source\))&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[the API](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newTransformer(javax.xml.transform.Source))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T11:25:14.410" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T11:25:14.410" Title="URLs with parentheses display incorrectly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T17:50:40.600" Score="0" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meta community is against small talk in questions (not the programming language) and is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2950/should-hi-thanks-and-taglines-and-salutations-be-removed-from-posts/3021#3021&quot;&gt;in favor of editing them out&lt;/a&gt;.  So, who wants to be cold enough to edit out the compliment in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2449213/multiple-repeat-replace-on-one-page&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T19:52:15.477" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T19:52:15.477" ClosedDate="2010-03-16T04:47:04.567" Title="Who is cold enough to edit out a compliment?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42306" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:06:47.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:06:47.690" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42306" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:07:01.077" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cleaned up the question and edited out the irrelevant bits. Let me know if you think I lost any of the author's original intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:07:01.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42306" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:07:41.920" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea was to eliminate the &quot;auto-sig&quot; stuff some people use in e-mails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever there's such a big community, you can't completely eliminate the pleasantries that make things go smoothly for everyone. To keep the noise down, they shouldn't be encouraged; but at the same time, actively discouraging them probably isn't a wise move either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen, this type of thing is actually pretty rare, and I'd just as well let it go. It doesn't add value to the question content, but it adds value to the site (meta-value, I guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;hi/thanks&quot; stuff is more noisy, as it doesn't add any value to the site content at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:07:41.920" />
  <row Id="42311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:22:52.707" Score="8" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2449304/in-java-what-is-the-syntax-for-commenting-out-multiple-lines&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow: in java what is the syntax for commenting out multiple lines?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that we're okay with people asking easily Googleable questions on SO. I normally overlook easy or lazy questions since one of SO's goals is to become a repository of answers to common beginners' questions. I get that, and it's a great goal. But isn't this taking it a bit too far? I don't mean to be snarky but I can't imagine this question helping anybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't write anything on SO itself 'cause if the community deems this a fair question I don't want to crap in the thread, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68587" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T20:11:47.393" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T20:11:47.393" Title="Questions which are too simple: is this one reasonable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18454" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:24:00.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a really old question, but I got my stickers fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Went through the normal procedure and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/how-to-get-stack-overflow-stickers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asked for them&lt;/a&gt;, and they arrived in my mail all the way to the south lands (Argentina). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This was a long time ago, but I just found this question &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T00:21:18.050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T00:21:18.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42311" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:25:36.623" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's not a duplicate, I'd let it be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It generates content at least, and someone searching google in the future may find the stackoverflow result and come to the site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:25:36.623" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42311" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:26:32.347" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the goal of the SO sites is to be a repository of knowledge, then there is no choice but to include the simplest of the simple questions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voting usually determines what is valuable to the community, and somewhat unsurprisingly, that question garnered a net 0 vote (gained reputation aside).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:26:32.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:34:46.040" Score="2" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34725/buried-but-not-dead&quot;&gt;Buried but not dead&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently added an answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2449244/why-i-get-a-segmentation-fault&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that, unbeknownst to me, had been deleted while I was writing my answer.  It seems to me that it shouldn't be allowed to add an answer to a question that has been deleted and, if it is allowed, then the answer should (by default) be deleted as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41201/answers-to-deleted-questions-can-be-undeleted/41204#41204&quot;&gt;41204&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i44.tinypic.com/2u9phqs.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-16T09:49:43.397" LastActivityDate="2010-05-16T09:49:43.397" ClosedDate="2010-05-16T09:49:48.427" Title="Answers to deleted questions should not be allowed or be deleted with the question" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42315" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:36:41.140" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, non-10k users aren't allowed to see or give answers to such deleted questions.. So I don't think that it's much of a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:36:41.140" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42315" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:36:45.727" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should work like when the question get closed, that you get a notification and you are not allowed to post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:36:45.727" />
  <row Id="42318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42311" CreationDate="2010-03-15T18:49:54.410" Score="-7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is completely legitimate.  But I usually downvote such questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T18:49:54.410" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42322" CreationDate="2010-03-15T19:22:46.407" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/qt&quot;&gt;Qt&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/qt4&quot;&gt;Qt4&lt;/a&gt; tags could better be merged I think (same for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pyqt&quot;&gt;PyQt&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pyqt4&quot;&gt;PyQt4&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Qt4 has been out since 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do we want this pluralism for when Qt5, Qt6 comes out in a few years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138885" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T19:38:50.643" Title="Qt versus Qt4 (versioning in tags?)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42320" CreationDate="2010-03-15T19:37:38.420" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, I'd be for keeping the numbers. Qt gets a whole lot of new features even with every &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; release, and tends to deprecate APIs and break backwards compatibility quite a bit with major releases (they did with 3 -&gt; 4, anyway). So we can be pretty sure that many of today's Qt(4) questions will be totally outdated in two years. I think it's good if the version numbers reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T19:37:38.420" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42320" CreationDate="2010-03-15T19:38:50.643" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have to make sure that &lt;code&gt;[Qt]&lt;/code&gt; tagged questions aren't without a doubt Qt3 related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Qt is generally referred to as Qt4, so I don't see the problem with the tag. We call IE 8 &lt;code&gt;[IE8]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T19:38:50.643" />
  <row Id="42323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42280" CreationDate="2010-03-15T19:44:39.477" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only do I not believe the language pseudo-tags belong in the title, I often edit them out when they're not relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll change a question like &quot;C#: How do I use the OpenFileDialog?&quot; to &quot;How do I use the Winforms OpenFileDialog?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb has been that if the question and answers would be the same if the language were different, then remove the language and try to get &quot;.NET&quot; into the title in a good place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T19:44:39.477" />
  <row Id="42324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:08:40.000" Score="26" ViewCount="558" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators on S[OFU] have a number of privileges above and beyond those of normal users. These are necessary in order for them to perform their duties as moderators: keeping the peace, identifying and mitigating abuse, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, most moderators also participate on these sites in a fashion similar to ordinary users: asking and answering questions, voting on posts, etc. And it occurs to me that while so engaged they might occasionally find their moderator tools useful for purposes not &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; connected to their jobs as moderators of the site... For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can view the email addresses of users who have provided one in their profile. Upon answering an unclear question and encountering disagreement from other users who interpreted the question differently, they might find it expedient to email the user directly rather than or in addition to leaving a comment on the question itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can view full names (if specified) and IP addresses, potentially allowing them to track down the physical location of a user. If a question has been edited by its original author such that the answer originally provided by a moderator no longer applies, the moderator could dress himself in a feathered suit and dance in front of the OP's house, creating a spectacle for the neighbors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Moderators can see who leaves votes on posts. A moderator whose question is down-voted without comment could find out which user had done so, and ask them privately for an explanation. &lt;/s&gt;  [edit by Jeff Atwood: not true -- striking this out because it borders on dangerous misinformation. See my answer, below.]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can leap tall buildings in a single bound. A moderator who found himself unable to answer a question due to the interference of a tall building could leap over it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not claiming any of this actually &lt;em&gt;occurs&lt;/em&gt; on S[OFU]... Merely that it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt;. And here's why I think it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;A on SO is intended to be valuable beyond a single Asker-Answerer interaction: a good question and corresponding answer can be valuable long after the original authors have moved on. While it might seem unfair that moderators would be able to obtain improvements to questions and/or promote their own answers in situations where other users are not, the end result justifies the means... If normal users could be trusted with the means, they would be allowed, nay, &lt;em&gt;expected&lt;/em&gt; to achieve these ends as well!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In order to be fair to other users, a moderator must first be true to himself. If a moderator sees another user a user down-voting &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; answers without explanation, he might be tempted to retaliate, at which point guilt might prevent him from fairly resolving the disputes of other users. Rather he should sate his curiosity and move on, perhaps even encouraging another user to do a better job of participating in the site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leaping tall buildings is cool, &lt;em&gt;regardless&lt;/em&gt; of the motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T01:53:56.540" LastActivityDate="2011-04-26T19:11:04.240" Title="Should moderators use their abilities for personal reasons?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;&lt;moderator-abilities&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="17" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="42326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:12:19.937" Score="-4" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25615/offering-actual-money-as-a-bounty&quot;&gt;Offering actual money as a bounty?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a decent market for cash bounties on questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it's been considered and I imagine at least one of the founders has a principled stance on the issue, which is probably good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if stackoverflow doesn't have cash bounties in its future, what about cashoverflow.com or something? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking, specifically, very quick things like... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a modified CSS for mediawiki that limits its width to 1280px, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a specific sql script&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or a specific batch file for backups w/ email alerts, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stackoverflow is great for general concepts, but it's not a great resource for having others do your work for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133440" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T16:49:23.933" ClosedDate="2010-03-15T22:14:11.283" Title="cash bounty for quick programming tasks or questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42324" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:13:20.030" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could happen&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;has happened&lt;/em&gt;? The first case, shows that you care about the site even if it might sound a little paranoid, the second case would be a really, really &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; scary precedent. No moderator should contact &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; user regarding downvotes, unless there is voting fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T20:13:20.030" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42326" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:17:20.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You get what you pay for... now this could be over priced bling, or the quality answers are underbid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current system is a level playing field. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I'd have to charge more for my answers than those offered by the great unwashed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T20:17:20.013" />
  <row Id="42329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42324" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:35:20.470" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plain and simple, the potential for abuse is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; there, no matter who is at the controls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we finally annoy Jeff for stupid new features enough that he disables the vote-collusion script and goes on a massive downvoting spree the likes of which we've never seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been an administrator on a public forum before (though it was private with a much smaller community), so I know where you're coming from with your questions. It's good to address these issues, but in truth, they really aren't a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the most important thing is that we continue to select moderators based on character by holding public elections. It's important that the community trusts its leaders. Should that trust ever be in doubt, there certainly are mechanisms by which the community can voice their opinions. Even moderators themselves can be proactive and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39405/moderator-accountability-request&quot;&gt;question their own actions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T20:35:20.470" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42326" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:39:56.117" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might seem like a decent idea on the surface, but anthropologically speaking, this would truly destroy any chance of Stack Overflow's continued success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without getting into the concepts of the &quot;expert economy&quot; or cognitive dissonance, consider this analogy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A friend needs a favor and asks you to drive them to the airport. It's about a two-hour round trip. Gas isn't cheap. I'm going to be missing my favorite sitcom. The missus is makin' pork chops tonight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But... glad to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenario 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A friend needs someone to drive them to the airport. They come to you and say &quot;I have a job for you. I need someone one to drive me to the airport. It pays $1.18. Interested?&quot; It's certainly a better &lt;em&gt;deal&lt;/em&gt; than before. But... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me? Nuh-uh. Not a chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, unless you are talking about a career-making system or paying the &quot;going rate&quot; for expert services, it would completely destroy the reasons anybody contributes their hard-earned time and expertise to this system... for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T16:49:23.933" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T16:49:23.933" />
  <row Id="42331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:41:12.327" Score="5" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12119/lower-the-amount-of-reputation-needed-to-comment&quot;&gt;Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason unregistered users (or users without rep) can answer a question but can't add comments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1008245/flex-whats-the-difference-between-an-mxml-component-and-an-mxml-module/2448734#2448734&quot;&gt;a question I asked&lt;/a&gt; has one (correct and helpful) answer, and three &quot;thanks, that helped me too&quot; &quot;answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136226" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T20:44:06.583" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T20:44:06.583" ClosedDate="2010-03-15T20:54:03.177" Title="Why does commenting require reputation when answering a question does not?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42324" CreationDate="2010-03-15T20:56:28.293" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most important attribute of a moderator is a thick skin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second most important attribute is an inordinate amount of patience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third most important attribute is wisdom, both in knowing when and how to act and more importantly when not to act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fourth most important attribute is the ability to separate out your participation in the forum (for lack of a better term) from your actions as a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergo, a moderator should never use his moderator powers to enhance his participation in any way.  Even, if it is just to look up an email address on an unrelated matter, he should respect the privacy wishes of the user in question and refrain from using anything other than publicly available data except in when performing his moderator duties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T20:56:28.293" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42324" CreationDate="2010-03-15T21:35:39.040" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should moderators use their abilities for personal reasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't care.  They put a lot of time and effort into the community, and for what, exactly?  If they want to play, &quot;I &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; you!&quot; then hey - it's just like every other large website run by a team of people with elevated privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless there's obviously egregious abuse of their ability, it really doesn't affect how I, or anyone else, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; uses the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More power to them, the job they do isn't fun or glamorous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T21:35:39.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42315" CreationDate="2010-03-15T21:46:39.050" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should encourage this and create a whole site based on deleted questions and answers, just for 10ks and above.  We need to talk about it like it's the most exciting thing in the world, and get everyone motivated to make it to Deleted Land (our version of Nirvana).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T21:46:39.050" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42324" CreationDate="2010-03-15T21:55:50.137" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Responses to the first four bullet-points in order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should resolve any disputes about question and answer content on site if at all possible.  We can see your email so that we can contact you when there's a need for confidentiality.  Question and answer interpretation should be done in the open for everyone to see.  If there's some confusion, I'd rather iron it out with everyone at once rather than just with one person via email.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've actually been tempted to do this, but resisted.  It's irritating when someone changes a question to render formerly correct answers incorrect, but the right thing to do is to modify your answer or accept the down votes.  (Since it's you, @Shog9, I know you're going to change the question now.  How can you change it to make this answer hilarious?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We can't see who voted on individual posts.  There's a script that looks for voting anomalies that reports if one user votes another user up or down a lot, and we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; see the results of that, even for our own profile.  So if you vote down an abnormal number of my questions or answers I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; notice it eventually.  (That doesn't mean I'll take retribution, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only while jacked in to the Matrix.  I will not give up this ability willingly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T01:50:42.923" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:50:42.923" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="42337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T21:58:09.713" Score="43" ViewCount="848" Body="&lt;p&gt;v.1.3 of MyStacks, an unofficial iphone app for browsing questions on the stack overflow trilogy sites, is &lt;a href=&quot;http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mystacks/id360030953?mt=8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;now available in the app store&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current Version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saves articles offline once viewed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Choose active, featured, week or&#xA;month feed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search articles &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse specific tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instantly swap between superuser.com, stackoverflow.com, meta.stackoverflow.com and serverfault.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Upcoming Version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse user profiles &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Syntax highlighting &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ideas needed...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3060/screenshot2010031617122.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9661/screenshot2010031800292.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5327/screenshot2010031617133.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5706/screenshot2010031617123.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144682" LastEditorUserId="144682" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T22:33:34.817" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T04:58:37.390" Title="MyStacks - stack overflow trilogy iphone app (free)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="42338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:01:25.203" Score="3" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it says in the title. It would be awesome if I could pass a list of tags to search for out of which I am given questions which are in either of the categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142997" LastEditorUserId="142997" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T22:54:28.770" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T22:54:28.770" Title="Allow &quot;or&quot; in searches using tags for Stack Overflow and similar sites" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42324" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:11:50.190" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators most definitely should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; use their abilities for personal reasons. I can't think of a single instance where this would be appropriate. The only instance I can think of that would appear similar would be if the Moderator was a victim of malicious activity, in which case they could react in a professional capacity to address the problem as they would for any other victimized user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T22:11:50.190" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42337" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:15:06.087" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like it so far. Any plans to support the rest of the trilogy or other StackExchange sites? Or posting content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136414" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T22:15:06.087" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42337" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:21:56.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please do a blackberry app.  I'll buy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T22:21:56.113" />
  <row Id="42343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42344" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:41:39.843" Score="2" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so I found a question over on stackoverflow which would appear to be the same on the surface:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1601021/subversion-merge-has-different-repository-root-than&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1601021/subversion-merge-has-different-repository-root-than&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I know that the cause is different and need to find a solution... do I ask my own question, or is there some way of expanding on this users' question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142055" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T22:46:24.873" Title="same question but not quite" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;similarity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42343" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:46:24.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll want to ask a new question with enough explanation of what the differences are to convince those who would question it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T22:46:24.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42347" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:46:46.790" Score="1" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;See my answer here (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2450954/how-to-randomize-a-javascript-array/2450976#2450976&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2450954/how-to-randomize-a-javascript-array/2450976#2450976&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've edited in a link to a wikipedia article which refuses to show up. Can't see anything wrong with this entry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138885" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-15T23:53:23.320" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T23:53:23.320" Title="Link refusing to show up" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42345" CreationDate="2010-03-15T22:55:47.490" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your original URL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher–Yates_shuffle) contained an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENdash#En_dash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;en dash&lt;/a&gt; character (Unicode 8211, &amp;amp;ndash;, etc...), and SO's Markdown engine tends to get confused by such characters in URLs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, the link works just as well with a hyphen (-), so I just replaced it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might find it helpful that Firefox will automatically escape such characters when you copy the URL out of the address bar, &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; so many sites have problems with them. The escaped form looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T22:55:47.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T23:20:56.707" Score="3" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made a short comment &lt;code&gt;direct link?    ?&lt;/code&gt; and it turned out that it wasn't long enough (although the character counter was happy with it), then added a few more characters to make it happy and then I got a message saying &lt;code&gt;only 1 comment allowed every 15 seconds&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This, although the comment 5 seconds ago wasn't actually accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an annoying bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9611" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T00:00:17.797" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T00:00:31.727" Title="Comment too fast pops up even though the comment wasn't accepted?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;timeout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-15T23:21:05.490" Score="0" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35185/vote-count-not-correct&quot;&gt;Vote count not correct&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2450895/how-to-achieve-multi-threading-using-javascript-with-ie6/2450904#2450904&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, I am experiencing some kind of bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When ever i click the vote count (which is 6 at the moment), it shows +7 and -0. If i refresh the page again, it shows total count as 6. I am able to reproduce this again and again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the poster (Daniel) has used some kinda hack?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, if you see the Daniel's reputation graph, he has on average earned 200 reputation each day. It seems to me that users like him are here just for earning reputation, because if you observe closely, he didn't know anything about web-workers. But when other users posted about web-workers, he just copied the links from them and changed his answer (earning more rep. points). Is this kind of behaviour supported or am i mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T23:26:04.490" ClosedDate="2010-03-15T23:59:29.980" Title="What is this? I am amazed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42350" CreationDate="2010-03-15T23:26:04.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to your comments about how he answers questions, his level of knowledge isn't important, as long as he's giving good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're all here for the &lt;s&gt;koolaid&lt;/s&gt;rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T23:26:04.490" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42349" CreationDate="2010-03-15T23:34:25.640" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a bug, it's by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Annoying as it is, it's intended&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T23:34:25.640" />
  <row Id="42354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42254" CreationDate="2010-03-15T23:34:47.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had the same thing happen.  I edited some grammar in &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/408527/when-can-you-put-c-expert-on-your-cv&quot;&gt;this SO question&lt;/a&gt;, which was re-tagged by the edit previous to mine (which occurred some 14 months earlier).  I did not change any tags, but was awarded the &quot;Organizer&quot; badge.  I also had over 2k rep at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like it only checked that I edited the question and that the question was re-tagged.  I wonder if someone can test to see if you can earn other, potentially similar badges like &quot;Cleanup&quot; in this manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144686" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T23:34:47.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42305" CreationDate="2010-03-15T23:58:14.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reopening due to misinformation being presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are you randomly escaping the last paren and breaking the nesting? This works fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[the API](http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newTransformer(javax.xml.transform.Source))&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/transform/TransformerFactory.html#newTransformer%28javax.xml.transform.Source%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the API&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be freaked out because the PREVIEW doesn't get it right, but the server side does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-15T23:58:14.583" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42349" CreationDate="2010-03-16T00:00:31.727" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you game the comment length indicator, it will game you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T00:00:31.727" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42324" CreationDate="2010-03-16T00:11:43.953" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think some misinformation is being presented here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is not possible for moderators to see who voted for a particular post.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators can see a summary of who has cast the MOST votes for / against a particular user, but it is presented as summary data, and it is not tied to any particular question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T00:11:43.953" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42337" CreationDate="2010-03-16T01:09:40.867" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the idea - code samples don't render so well (too wide) in mobile Safari - but there's a long way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm reluctant to directly link to it, but I see there is a &lt;em&gt;paid&lt;/em&gt; app in the app store that purports to be a viewer for SO, but doesn't make clear whether it is directly affiliated or not.  Includes a screen shot with Jeff's name and well-known Coding Horror icon - which seems a bit off if it isn't &quot;official&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T01:09:40.867" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42337" CreationDate="2010-03-16T01:54:22.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;nice to see an app out there finally. couple things i noticed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the refresh feed icon looks like it's stuck/frozen when not animating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;get rid of the refresh feed bar. move it to the top right corner maybe?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when you scroll to the top and bottom, it doesn't do the elastic animation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make tags buttons to browse that tag's questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132424" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T01:54:22.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11727" CreationDate="2010-03-16T02:07:15.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was having a similar issue using my 1id.com OpenID, it was being detected as an XSS injection by NoScript even though both sites are allowed in NoScript. I found a solution by changing the noscript.injectionCheck configuration property mentioned on &lt;a href=&quot;http://noscript.net/features#xss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://noscript.net/features#xss&lt;/a&gt; from the default 2 to 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This probably should not be used as a permanent solution but instead the details should be reported to the NoScript author so exceptions can be added to future versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140111" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T02:07:15.717" />
  <row Id="42364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42423" CreationDate="2010-03-16T07:11:34.180" Score="3" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've notice that Senior members rank higher when answering. Ideally this sounds like a good idea, however, I have had two experiences where a senior member has taken my idea rephrased it slightly and submitted it as his own. My answers received no votes, while a senior member due to their ranking gets credit for my solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T15:58:34.583" Title="Senior Members Stealing Answers and Out-voting" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="42365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T07:22:41.333" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know how to place an image in a Stack Overflow question. I have a screenshot file which is output of my code. So I want show that image in my question from local file system. I tried with &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;img&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag option, but it is asking me url of the image. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:29:23.223" Title="stackoverflow : Adding image in question" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42365" CreationDate="2010-03-16T07:25:45.233" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upload it to a image hoster and use it like a link, Reference is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;Editing Help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:29:23.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42365" CreationDate="2010-03-16T07:29:05.017" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upload your image to a free image hosting site and then specify the url with  tag.&#xA;ex: tinypic.com or imageshack.us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:29:23.223" />
  <row Id="42368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42364" CreationDate="2010-03-16T07:29:53.307" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The order of answers is not affected by reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You make a bold accusation - are you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; your answer was copied? What is the time difference between the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:29:53.307" />
  <row Id="42369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42364" CreationDate="2010-03-16T07:30:33.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've notice that Senior members rank higher when answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not true. Answers are sorted based on votes and the order of answers with similar vote count is randomized. There are more than enough cases that prove a low-rep member &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; easily outscore a high-rep member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have had two experiences where a senior member has taken my idea...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there may be not a million best ways to accomplish something. Sometimes it's just a couple good ways to do something and you can never be sure that someone has &lt;em&gt;taken&lt;/em&gt; your idea merely because it were there first. They may have reached the idea independently. Never ignore this possibility before accusing someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...rephrased it slightly and submitted it as his own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, a rephrased answer is no longer identical to your answer, in which case, it's perfectly possible that a third party believes one is better than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, &quot;answer stealing&quot; is a problem and the order randomization has made the problem a little worse. This has been discussed to death in meta before and is by no means limited to people in a certain rep category. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, like many things in Stack Overflow and real life, there's not likely to be a 100% practical solution for some problems. Just ignore it and go on to your next question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:30:33.237" />
  <row Id="42371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36582" CreationDate="2010-03-16T07:49:34.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A deleted answer is still an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt;, from the system's perspective, so editing it will bump the LastActivityDate on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if this is a problem, nor am I sure if it even happens enough to warrant any kind of consideration...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T07:49:34.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42364" CreationDate="2010-03-16T08:25:31.547" Score="23" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing to bear in mind is that just because you've submitted your answer before someone else doesn't mean they've seen your answer before posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite often I've posted an answer only to see that someone else has already posted something similar. If my answer doesn't contain anything beyond theirs, I'll delete mine... if I think mine explains the same thing better, or adds extra information, I'll leave mine up. The poster of the first answer may &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that I've &quot;stolen&quot; their answer - but in reality it's just two minds thinking alike, which should hardly be a surprise to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T08:25:31.547" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42152" CreationDate="2010-03-16T09:00:22.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, when we upgraded from DotNetOpenID to DotNetOpenAuth, it added some security features that &lt;strong&gt;break delegation for some users&lt;/strong&gt;, because they make the return URLs so absurdly long that they're rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew is aware of the issue and hopefully working on some config switches so we can turn this off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When your users can't even log on, that is the ultimate in &quot;security&quot;.. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this should be fixed now, we are using the latest DotNetOpenAuth with this setting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!-- turns off extra unwanted security features which produce VERY long URLs --&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;dotNetOpenAuth&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;openid&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;relyingParty&amp;gt;&#xA;      &amp;lt;security protectDownlevelReplayAttacks=&quot;false&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;    &amp;lt;/relyingParty&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;/openid&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/dotNetOpenAuth&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T20:35:26.710" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T20:35:26.710" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19579" CreationDate="2010-03-16T11:48:35.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actual data dump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BitTorrent&lt;/a&gt; URLs are announced on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow blog&lt;/a&gt;. The latest at &#xA;the time of writing is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legaltorrents.com/get/1042-mar-10.torrent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.legaltorrents.com/get/1042-mar-10.torrent&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Versions that can be downloaded using plain HTTP transfers can be found at (but has not been updated for some time): &lt;a href=&quot;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://media10.simplex.tv/content/xtendx/stu/stackoverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T11:48:35.127" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42382" CreationDate="2010-03-16T11:54:20.910" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to get the total reputation earned by me in a day? Any suggestion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T13:38:56.413" Title="How to get the total reputation earned by me in a day?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42381" CreationDate="2010-03-16T12:03:09.800" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet's reputation tracker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also click on the envelope next to your name and select &quot;Reputation&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="22656" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T13:38:56.413" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T13:38:56.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55740" CreationDate="2010-03-16T12:27:40.287" Score="8" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;Concerns have been raised in other questions that accept rate discourages asking hard questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the light of that, wouldn't it be reasonable that expired bounties do not count towards the accept rate? If a bounty has been put on a question, and it has expired without an answer being accepted (or even auto-accepted), that's arguably proof that the OP did everything in his power to get an acceptable answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming that the idea of accept rate is to identify those who just keep asking questions, without contributing to the community by marking answers as accepted, but correct me if I'm wrong here...? Based on that assumption, I don't see why the accept rate should be affected in said scenario, as that is obviously not what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were good answers, that the OP just did not bother to accept, they would be auto-accepted by pure virtue of being good answers, since it is a fundamental concept of the site that the quality of an answer should be reflected in its votes, so this scenario, too, should be out of scope for the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140017" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-02T13:27:24.813" LastActivityDate="2010-07-02T14:20:06.310" Title="Expired bounties arguably not eligible for accept rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="42384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43887" CreationDate="2010-03-16T12:31:05.713" Score="0" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39863/votes-count-overflowing-box-for-questions-with-more-than-1000-votes&quot;&gt;Votes count overflowing box for questions with more than 1000 votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't 1K votes instead of 1118 votes for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;Hidden features of C#&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T11:19:27.283" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T11:19:27.283" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T11:19:36.630" Title="Why isn't 1K votes instead of 1118 votes for Hidden features of C# ques?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;highest-voted-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42364" CreationDate="2010-03-16T12:48:24.113" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I briefly looked through all the answers you've given on SO so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that other users provided better or more usable answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure you're trying your best to be helpful, which is great. A good answer often comes down to little things like code formatting, readability, and understandability. Try working on improving these things in your answers and I think you will see an improvement in your response rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T12:48:24.113" />
  <row Id="42387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42364" CreationDate="2010-03-16T12:52:22.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that answers given by high-reputation users tend to be upvoted slightly more quickly and easily than those from others. That's often unfair, but it's human. At the end of the day, as far as I can see, the best answer still counts most on SO in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suspicion of &quot;stolen&quot; answers I find unfounded. I can see nothing supporting that allegation. To most technical questions there is a limited number of possible solutions, and it is likely that people will come up with answers similar to yours. It happens to me, and I'm sure most people here, all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T12:52:22.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42392" CreationDate="2010-03-16T13:07:14.870" Score="1" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the longer I leave stackoverflow open in a tab (because I'm so addicted) the slower it gets.  So, last night I left it running overnight and checked the memory on that tab this morning to find it had climbed to over 100MB.  Once I close the tab and reopen, everything is peachy again.  Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T17:21:03.777" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T17:21:03.777" Title="Anyone notice stackoverflow leaking memory in Chrome?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;performance&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42389" CreationDate="2010-03-16T13:11:54.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you have any extension installed?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Have you tried leaving it open on another site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like it could be a problem with that rather than a site like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T13:11:54.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42383" CreationDate="2010-03-16T13:37:28.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with your assumption that the accept rate is to identify those who keep asking questions without contributing to the community with accepted answers. However, one question that a person can no longer mark an accepted answer for shouldn't not sway anyone's acceptance percentage by a significant margin. Furthermore, its not that the person &lt;em&gt;couldn't&lt;/em&gt; have accepted an answer it's that they didn't. And perhaps there never was an answer worthy of selection, but there are plenty of questions without a bounty ever attached to them that also never had an answer worthy of selection. In the end, I wouldn't be upset if it were to change and those questions were excluded from the calculation, I can see that side of the argument. But, I think leaving it the way it is is slightly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T13:37:28.437" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T13:46:02.907" Score="0" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;When posting a code snippet on StackOverflow, there is a kind of syntax highlight which is cool. But, for some longer code snippets, wouldn't be way cool to have a kind of source x-ref (in the spirit of the report &lt;a href=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-report-plugin/examples/cross-referencing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;maven surefire&lt;/a&gt; produces) allowing one to have specific highlights in source code for element under cursor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144429" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:17:50.140" Title="allow cross-references in code snippets" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42389" CreationDate="2010-03-16T13:47:07.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I haven't, and I use it everyday on Gentoo (ver 4.0.295.0 (35884)) and Arch (can't check now the version, most likely 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't experienced leaks lately, not even with Google Wave (which crashes every now and then).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T13:47:07.660" />
  <row Id="42396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42399" CreationDate="2010-03-16T13:47:16.787" Score="8" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm doing some quantitative research on SO and I'm trying to find good &quot;natural&quot; or quasi-experiments that have occurred or will occur in SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean by a natural experiment is some policy change, events or even feature of the system that manipulates things like:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Views received&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) Answers received&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3) Probability that an answer is accepted&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4) Up votes / down votes    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The changes should manipulate these variables in a manner that's similar to what you would find in a true experiment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To provide an example, imagine I wanted to see if users asked more questions later if their first question received many answers. You obviously cannot just treat &quot;answers received on first question&quot; as an independent variable---it's almost certainly correlated with the posters characteristics, which will affect both the answers they receive and their future behavior. However, suppose by chance that a posters' question got a 10X increase in views because &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt; happened that day, then we could exploit this shock to try to uncover the causal effect of getting more views by comparing them to others with &lt;strong&gt;~X&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to summarize, I'm looking for some ideas on &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - it would be helpful if you have an approximate date when the change was implemented or will be implemented. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your answers - these are great. Too bad I had to pick just one answer. &quot;Gentlemen, you've both worked very hard, and in a way, you're both winners. But in another more accurate way, Barney is the winner.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144712" LastEditorUserId="144712" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T15:16:00.087" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T15:16:00.087" Title="What events/policy changes etc. in SO have exogenously manipulated things like views, answers, votes etc.?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;community-data&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="42397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42396" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:02:19.303" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change&lt;/strong&gt;: Display accepted answer ratio.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Result&lt;/strong&gt;: A lot of answers being accepted immediately after the policy change, and now some people are unwilling to answer questions from users with a low ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change&lt;/strong&gt;: Electorate badge for voting on a lot of questions as well as answers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Result&lt;/strong&gt;: I've heard of at least one user now voting more on questions; I don't know what effect it's had globally though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:02:19.303" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42396" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:11:26.333" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change:&lt;/strong&gt; Order answers with the same vote total randomly rather than based on time.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Implemented:&lt;/strong&gt; circa Aug 2009 (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18067/possible-solution-to-the-vote-ordering-controversy&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Result:&lt;/strong&gt; Theoretically, to level the playing field with respect to time of arrival as a solution to the FGITW problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T19:57:49.790" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T19:57:49.790" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:12:31.640" Score="1" ViewCount="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just now, I randomly clicked the Employer &quot;Search CVs&quot; button from the Careers home page while logged out. After being greeted with a employer login page, I then proceeded to click the login link at the top right hand corner of the page (the info bar: where it says about &amp;amp; faq). This brought me to the page whose URL is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/users/login?returnurl=/employer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://careers.stackoverflow.com/users/login?returnurl=/employer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, I entered my OpenID and logged in as a CV-creator. After logging in, I was redirected to the employer login page, as the above URL shows in the &quot;returnurl&quot; parameter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Basically:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To reproduce&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start on the home page, signed out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;Search CVs&quot; button under the Employers heading on the right side of the page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After being taken to a log in page, click &quot;login&quot; in the info bar at the top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Login&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expected&lt;/strong&gt;: to be redirected to the CV home page or to be given a &quot;already logged in&quot; message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actual results&lt;/strong&gt;: taken to employer login page while being already logged in as a CV-creator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a big bug, but it's most likely an easy fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:12:31.640" Title="Careers bug: seeing login page after logging in" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;careers&gt;&lt;login&gt;" />
  <row Id="42401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42396" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:16:05.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change:&lt;/strong&gt; Low rep users get a &quot;have you considered commenting&quot; popup when they down-vote an answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Implemented:&lt;/strong&gt; July 2009 (&amp;lt; 500 rep), modified December 2009 (&amp;lt; 2000 rep) - see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/2373/revisions&quot;&gt;revision history&lt;/a&gt; for Jeff's answer that announced the change.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Result:&lt;/strong&gt; Again theoretically, increase the number of comments that go with down-votes so the poster can know what was wrong with the question or answer and so correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T20:09:57.110" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T20:09:57.110" />
  <row Id="42402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42396" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:17:20.793" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change&lt;/strong&gt;: You are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29966/can-we-restrict-the-ability-of-users-to-keep-changing-their-names&quot; title=&quot;retroactively fitted&quot;&gt;unable to change your display name more than once per month&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Result&lt;/strong&gt;: I cannot find a suitable display name I'd like to have for a month so I keep the one I had when the change was implemented, also, it made Meta more boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T14:35:32.720" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:35:32.720" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42394" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:17:50.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's generally discouraged to be posting long code snippets. Certainly code snippets long enough to make use of such a feature. I do like the idea, but the effort/return ratio just isn't there for use on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can always manually hack in something to get the point across. I.e., see (1) in my code below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;public void x()&#xA;{&#xA;    ...&#xA;    int a = 42;  // *** 1 ***&#xA;    ...&#xA;}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:17:50.140" />
  <row Id="42404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46591" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:26:36.857" Score="13" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;To avoid confusion, add the year to the date display for suspension messages when showing the month, day, and time.  See the example below where it could be inferred that there was a problem with the system and a suspension that should have been lifted last month really ends next year.  Part of the confusion may lie in the fact that other dates in the system are in the past, so we are trained (by the app) to interpret dates without a year as being in the past.  Differentiating future dates by including the year when showing a date (vs. &quot;in X days/hours&quot;, which is obvious) makes this much clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i39.tinypic.com/14j714o.png&quot; alt=&quot;Suspension message&quot; title=&quot;Should have ended last month?&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-14T05:01:03.220" LastActivityDate="2010-04-14T22:06:07.443" Title="Suspension message needs to include the year when showing an actual date" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;account-suspension&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:53:55.503" Score="9" ViewCount="96" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a certain perspective, every post on meta fits the definition of too localized since they're all about &quot;an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet&quot;, namely, meta.  With respect to meta, I suggest we drop the final clause.  This would prevent &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42404/suspension-message-needs-to-include-the-year-when-showing-an-actual-date&quot;&gt;bug reports&lt;/a&gt; from being closed as &quot;too localized&quot; simply because the bug is rare (&quot;an extraordinarily narrow situation&quot;). While you might choose to prioritize a bug (or reject the report as by design), ignoring it because it only affects a very small number of people would be wrong, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would only be relevant&#xA;  to a small geographic area or  a&#xA;  specific moment in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2011-04-15T01:24:01.687" Title="Change the text of &quot;too localized&quot; in the meta close reasons" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42404" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:55:21.180" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should conform to the date information/user interface used elsewhere in the system:  Hovering over it with the mouse should reveal the full Z date time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:55:21.180" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42408" CreationDate="2010-03-16T14:56:50.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer the following verbage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This question would only be relevant to one whiny person.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T14:56:50.557" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42404" CreationDate="2010-03-16T15:04:16.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same could be said of Questions, Answers and comments. The current state is consistent with how dates are being displayed in the rest of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T15:04:16.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42417" CreationDate="2010-03-16T15:13:40.517" Score="2" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the following text&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;[Collections#sort][1]&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#sort(java.util.List, java.util.Comparator)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does render correctly on preview, but incorrectly once saved. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2455448/sorting-and-re-arranging-list-of-hashmaps/2455497#2455497&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2455448/sorting-and-re-arranging-list-of-hashmaps/2455497#2455497&lt;/a&gt; for this example in real life&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144429" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T17:18:32.170" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:31:56.157" Title="Markdown rendering URLs with spaces" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42414" CreationDate="2010-03-16T15:27:05.130" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is the space which breaks the URL. Try the url encoded one like:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;sort(java.util.List%2C+java.util.Comparator)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;instead of&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;sort(java.util.List, java.util.Comparator)&lt;/code&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also use backticks ` for inline codes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that, if you want to change sort algorithm during list usage, you can instead use &lt;a href=&quot;http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#sort%28java.util.List%2C+java.util.Comparator%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Collections#sort&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Notice that, if you want to change sort algorithm during list usage, &#xA;you can instead use [`Collections#sort`][1].&#xA;&#xA;[1]: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#sort(java.util.List%2C+java.util.Comparator)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastEditorUserId="133266" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T15:33:30.430" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T15:33:30.430" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42404" CreationDate="2010-03-16T15:33:07.420" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw that, too. Followed by the typical... A few seconds of looking it sideways; &quot;it must be a bug&quot;; think about it for a moment; a-ha moment and I figured it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a system-breaking problem; easy enough to figure out. But a &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; formatting tweak to eliminate those few seconds where something unexpected happens. It's a usability improvement straight out &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0321344758&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don't Make Me Think&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T15:33:07.420" />
  <row Id="42423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42364" CreationDate="2010-03-16T15:58:34.583" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen that time, and time again. That the best answer (in my opinion) will get more up-votes than other answers, regardless of when they were posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I sometime prefer to be the last person to the party. At that point, it doesn't matter how long you spend carefully crafting your answer. I have on some occasions taken hours to carefully craft an answer, that later ended up being the most up-voted answer. Quite often these answers will also become the &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my recommendation to you is to stop worrying about other users, and just make sure your answer is as good, as you can possibly make it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if I come across similar answers by two users, one of which has very little rep, I will be &lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt; likely to vote on the one from the user with the lower amount of rep. Which is the opposite of what you say you are seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T15:58:34.583" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42426" CreationDate="2010-03-16T16:14:23.250" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was jus reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/42056/timeline&quot;&gt;how many upvotes&lt;/a&gt; my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42056/badge-suggestion-zealot-got-3-questions-with-at-least-10-downvotes-each&quot;&gt;badge idea&lt;/a&gt; had received and noticed the question has -10 right now, but received 4 upvotes and 23 downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also odd how timeline groups all upvotes and downvotes on the question in one day (13), and the other day (14) it selective groups some votes and leave just 1 downvote count out of the grouping all in the same day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something is wrong there, I guess it's on the timeline view, also because on my recent view it says Mar 13 I got 12 downvotes and Mar 12 I got 2 upvotes. So, most likely, it wrongly repeated the line from Mar 13 on Mar 14.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T17:59:45.303" Title="Either Timeline is wrong or the vote count got messed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;timeline&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42425" CreationDate="2010-03-16T16:24:29.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; There really is something odd here. It literally doesn't add up. Anybody know what's happening here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I see a total of 4 upvotes and 13 downvotes for your question in the split view (1k+ users can see the distribution of upvotes and downvotes.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are referring to is not the number of total votes &lt;em&gt;your question&lt;/em&gt; received, but the total votes for your question and &lt;em&gt;any answers to it&lt;/em&gt; (if I understand it correctly.). Click on the detail button (in the grey bar) to see the list.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/Vots.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T17:59:45.303" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T17:59:45.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26398" CreationDate="2010-03-16T16:51:10.013" Score="-7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also wonder why not considering other approaches. I once read a very interesting article about programming in LISP, entitled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beating the Averages&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, by Paul Graham. It not only uses no regular scripting, but it also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfaq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uses no database&lt;/a&gt; for building an online store! I'm not sure if it's still designed like that up to today, but viaweb is still around just it's been called &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release184.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo Store&lt;/a&gt; for over 10 years and it's definitely possible to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opinion8r.com/web/blog/post/this_blog_has_no_database&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;build stuff with no database nowadays&lt;/a&gt;. I just don't know about large scales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.opinion8r.com/images/no_database.png&quot; alt=&quot;there's no database here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A database always seemed to me like a flawed concept of building something to manage data on top of something that's already build for that (a.k.a. the file system)! Sure you could come up with many different arguments, such as it's made for distributing data across systems, rather than managing how it's physically stored; it's software oriented rather than hardware; and so on. And I agree with it, but it still seems like there's a lot of room for improvement in that aspect, and so I was stunned by knowing that it was actually possible to build such a dynamic web site without a database. And I'd love to also see something like StackOverflow following that same path with success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T01:02:13.277" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T01:02:13.277" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42432" CreationDate="2010-03-16T17:07:31.290" Score="0" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was once again doing some research, trying to find a better way to get notifications, and I just realized this (if you want to know how I got to this, follow this steps: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2175/how-do-i-track-people-answering-my-comments-closed&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/suggestion-notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the first question came in and started receiving votes. Then someone had the same question, exact duplicate, and tried asking it. But it was closed and pointed to the older question, who then receive more votes from two different places. Then a third person came in and asked yet again the same question. Now the first question have 3 links to it, and more places to receive votes from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, people could just vote in the other questions as well, but that doesn't actually happen. In our example the first one is better linked already, and just like we would expect, it did receive the most votes. And it will continue to. And that's what happen in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What's wrong with that?&lt;/em&gt; To me, it makes whoever ask first or answer first gain better reputation and thus the society become more and more &quot;elitelized&quot; (if that's a word). Newcomers won't stand much of a chance to get reputation, there will be less and less space for new questions as they will all be duplicated somehow to older questions. As far as I can tell, that's already happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And what's the problem with people not being able to gain reputation as easily as in the beginning, anyway? It's a good thing to have the moderators and people willing to help already when you join in.&lt;/em&gt; Maybe there's no problem here, that's why I'm asking. &lt;strong&gt;Is there a flaw there?&lt;/strong&gt; It feels to me there is, but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T19:02:35.507" Title="Flaw in the Reputation System Design?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;design&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42428" CreationDate="2010-03-16T17:22:09.923" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with the first question-asker to gain all the reputation from their question. They put the question out there, so they deserve credit for it in proportion to how much value it has for the community. That, I believe, is the entire point of the reputation system. Converse argument: who else would get credit for the extra voting, if not the original person who asked the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for users not gaining reputation in the beginning, I seriously doubt this is a problem, although I don't have data to back up my assertion. I agree it's a little difficult to gain traction in the beginning, but that's to be expected if you're new to any community and people are unfamiliar with you. But the bottom line is that if the user can provide value through questions and answers, the voting will reflect that, and more often than not it works as designed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, as I've said previously, the question topic-space is constantly changing and evolving, so there is always new material that needs to be covered. This is an opportunity for everyone, including new users, to explore topics where &lt;em&gt;there are no duplicates&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T17:22:09.923" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42452" CreationDate="2010-03-16T17:32:55.767" Score="26" ViewCount="771" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;not-programming-related&lt;/code&gt; is no more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so9.png&quot; alt=&quot;shot of close reasons&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long live NPR!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T13:58:09.883" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:58:09.883" Title="It is a sad day on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;not-programming-related&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="29" />
  <row Id="42432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42428" CreationDate="2010-03-16T17:42:06.823" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design.  The first person to ask the question deserves the reputation, since they were the first to ask the question. Duplicates are explicitly closed to funnel answers into the main question(although they remain on the site to aid in searching).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for new comers, I don't have any data to support me, but from what I have seen if a user wants to be involved in the community he/she will.  Additionally, if you look at most high-rep users, the majority of their rep does not come from questions, but from answers.  If a user wants to gain rep quickly, becoming involved on the answer side of the Q&amp;amp;A will lead to higher gains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we must all remember that the real reason we are here is not for the rep.  The rep is just a game we play.  SOFU exist to answer questions, and as far as I can see, there is no flaw in the core goals of the sites.  Even if there were a flaw in the rep system, would it really matter if the sites continued to provide good, thorough and helpful answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="94928" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T19:02:35.507" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T19:02:35.507" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="42433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42428" CreationDate="2010-03-16T18:02:03.663" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many flaws in the reputation system -- like it doesn't reflect programming reputation very accurately, for one -- but this isn't one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T18:02:03.663" />
  <row Id="42434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42431" CreationDate="2010-03-16T18:03:59.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Awww, now we can't confuse people by saying something is NPR and having them wonder what the hell it has anything to do with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;public radio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess now when we say something is OT people will think it's overtime and we're telling them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6e25b12f81/wrap-it-up-box-from-greatestcommercialparodies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wrap it up&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T18:03:59.077" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42436" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T18:05:12.430" Score="1" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somebody asks question, I reply, they post comment on my reply. I don't get notification about their comment. Is that normal or is it bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:08:52.963" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:08:52.963" Title="Email notification about comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;email&gt;&lt;notify&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42428" CreationDate="2010-03-16T18:07:00.603" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I only hope people can also see the parallel I see here in this question... With money in real life, and heritage. It's really, really thin and far away, but not all that hard to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, but on Stack Overflow, just like in real life, you can't simply coast by on the work of others. As time goes by, you must build on what was there before and offer something that is improved. That is the way of life, and to simply allow people to get rewards from doing the same thing as others have done before, we will stagnate rather than flourish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, to get reputation on Stack Overflow now you must do something, provide information or offer insight, that is new and improves on the existing knowledge. If you can't or don't want to do that, perhaps you're in the wrong place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T18:07:00.603" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42436" CreationDate="2010-03-16T18:11:37.217" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO doesn't send email notifications for comments, period.  You will have the notification icon (next to your name in the banner) light up if they comment on your question/answer or respond to a comment you made using your name in the &quot;Twitter-style&quot;, @Rubycut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T18:11:37.217" />
  <row Id="42447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42431" CreationDate="2010-03-16T18:53:34.513" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may not be a popular answer, but I can see the redundancy in having a &lt;em&gt;&quot;Not Programming Related&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;Off Topic&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. NPR specifically states that a question should relate to programming or software development. If it does not follow that guideline, then the question is, by default, OT.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I don't have access I didn't know that NPR was replaced with OT. However, I think OT is fine. I have seen plenty of comments that alert the OP that a question is NPR. You also have to consider that a question could mention programming in some fashion but not actually be programming related - simply off topic. In that case, NPR does not give a tidy feel to the closure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T23:11:06.283" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T23:11:06.283" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42436" CreationDate="2010-03-16T18:57:28.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for E-Mail notification: That doesn't exist on SO (except for the negligeable daily thingie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for notifications not even turning up in the envelope: Sadly, that's by design. If it's not your question or answer the comment is made in, it will take a &lt;code&gt;@Rubycut&lt;/code&gt; for the message to reach you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;Related question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T20:24:46.353" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T20:24:46.353" />
  <row Id="42452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42431" CreationDate="2010-03-16T19:01:49.533" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am drinking a beer in its honour. May it rest in peace in Close Reason Heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.pekkagaiser.com/stuff/beer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T19:01:49.533" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42457" CreationDate="2010-03-16T19:19:55.077" Score="2" ViewCount="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to create my own sets of color coded tags.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To easily know what group a question belongs to without even reading it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143212" LastEditorUserId="143212" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T19:42:27.813" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T19:49:39.053" Title="Ability to create custom sets of tags, similar to 'Interesting Tags' and 'Ignored Tags'" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42455" CreationDate="2010-03-16T19:32:23.780" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This works when you restrict yourself to one of each, but not so well when your interests are broader.  Also, I think we're always learning, even in the stuff we're good at.  One of the best ways to learn, in fact, is to teach so I don't think I'd use this feature even if it did exist.  It would simply make an artificial distinction that I'd rather choose to ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I'm rethinking the entire interesting/ignored tags thing.  With the exception of the single ignored tag I have &lt;code&gt;spam&lt;/code&gt; -- I find that I'm interested in enough things that it doesn't really work as a discriminator any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T19:32:23.780" />
  <row Id="42457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42455" CreationDate="2010-03-16T19:33:09.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Answer to New Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is an interesting idea, applying grades of interest to particular tag-sets. Blue means &quot;I really like it,&quot; where as green means &quot;Somewhat interested.&quot; Or, relating this to your original question, Blue means &quot;I'm proficient in this area,&quot; and Green means &quot;I'm still catching on to this area.&quot; Anytime you see a blue tag, you know it's easy-rep-earnin' time! Greed tags, it's time to sit down and study a bit to provide a solid answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Vestigial-Answer From Original Question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is only an illusion. Most of the learning that I do on Stack Overflow is the result of answering questions. Even when I attempt to teach somebody (answering questions) something else, I typically end up learning something as a result of merely reading the answers provided by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be really difficult to accurately divide the learning/teaching experiences on Stack Overflow. Actually, I think it would be completely impossible. You could read the same question twice, provide an answer the first time through, and learn something profound the next time through. Each question contains the potential to both teach, and invite teaching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T19:49:39.053" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T19:49:39.053" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42431" CreationDate="2010-03-16T19:59:47.977" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'n a bit pissed off with this (no surprise there, I hear people mutter). Off topic (or OT , as we long-time Usenet users like to say it) is a very generic term.  A post can be off-topic because it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;argumentative   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not a real question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;too localized&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc. etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &quot;not programming related&quot; had a real meaning, &quot;off topic&quot; does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T20:13:02.037" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42464" CreationDate="2010-03-16T20:11:15.847" Score="6" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I provided a correct answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2452153/java-jaxb-generircs/2452452&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I just observed that my reputation for the day is 205, instead of the expected 230 (I have the greasemonky script for that). The question above doesn't appear in my daily reputation list (in the &quot;recent&quot; page). However I haven't (yet!) lost the reputation from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this is due to the user being deleted, but should this happen, since his question remains?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:08:33.463" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:08:33.463" Title="User - deleted; question - remains; all reputation gained from it - remains; entry in the &quot;recent reputation&quot; - missing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42462" CreationDate="2010-03-16T20:26:37.787" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shouldn't lose any reputation. The question is there, and so is the answer, the upvote and the accepted answer. You shouldn't lose the reputation even after a recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does look like a bug though - the question doesn't appear on your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/203907?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;reputation page&lt;/a&gt;, and clicking on the vote count shows &lt;strong&gt;0/0&lt;/strong&gt; which is clearly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/5772/sobug.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastEditorUserId="7586" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-16T20:38:47.173" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T20:38:47.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42462" CreationDate="2010-03-16T21:11:49.280" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Likely the user has been deleted for vote fraud and all of his votes have been canceled. This explains everything:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The vote count is 0/0 because the vote has been canceled&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The normalized vote count is 1 because when the vote was canceled it wasn't updated; it will be updated when the cron script recalculates them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question doesn't appear on your reputation page because the vote has been canceled&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your reputation hasn't decreased because when the vote was canceled it wasn't updated; it will be updated when a rep recalc is done.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just an educated guess but I'm pretty sure this is what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T21:11:49.280" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42469" CreationDate="2010-03-16T21:13:24.443" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there was a chance that a wxWidgets badge would be created. This toolkit is quite widely used for open-source projects. (Audacity, FileZilla, to name a few)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T21:20:11.273" Title="Any chance for a wxWidgets badge?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42468" CreationDate="2010-03-16T21:20:11.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=wxwidgets&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=30&quot;&gt;stats page&lt;/a&gt;, not for a while. Tag badges are automatically awarded once someone reaches 400 (for silver) or 1000 (for gold) upvotes for non-wiki answers in that tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since no one has more than 26 upvotes at the moment, it's not likely to be any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T21:20:11.273" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42472" CreationDate="2010-03-16T21:28:12.393" Score="7" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26398/stackoverflow-database-design-join-issues/42427#42427&quot;&gt;downvoted answer&lt;/a&gt; got a different style after a certain number of votes, to look dimmer, lighter. But the links did not followed up and are still dark, widely visible and even more highlighted this way. That's all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:07:32.700" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:07:32.700" Title="Dim out downvote answers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42470" CreationDate="2010-03-16T21:47:42.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like they just need to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.downvoted-answer a { color:#666 }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T21:47:42.897" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T22:14:29.610" Score="-6" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if users could opt-out of broadcasting their activity on their profiles to other users. I don't see why anybody else necessarily &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; to know which questions we answered, asked, edited or commented on. I can see how this information might be neat to share, but perhaps it should be optional. Of course all users would still have access to their own history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have some checkbox-goodness that lets us turn off personal-activity-listing on our profile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;Why?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of users have asked why, specifically, am I requesting this. While I don't think my &lt;em&gt;personal&lt;/em&gt; reason is relevant (let's stay away from the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Genetic Fallacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;), I will share my personal reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UserA wants to see SO work properly, so he answers, asks, comments and edits. UserB wants to annoy UserA, so he uses UserA's activity-timeline to scatter down votes on random users, and occasionally UserA. A grudge against UserA can be carried out in far more clever ways than down voting UserA exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent-activity information shares comments, revisions, questions, answers, etc. If this information could be made more private, it would be more difficult to trail UserA as UserB did in the aforementioned scenario. UserB could only cast downvotes when they stumbled upon content by UserA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T20:20:40.607" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:10:55.337" Title="Optional Activity-Broadcasting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;privacy&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="24" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T22:15:08.733" Score="-5" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, if tags wrap to a second line in a question listing, the &quot;recent activity by&quot; div gets pushed down an extra line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9334/biggap.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unusually wide gap if tags wrap to next line in question listing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:05:26.167" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:05:26.167" Title="Should extremely long tags be shortened?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42475" CreationDate="2010-03-16T22:28:07.607" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say somebody needs to use shorter tags. I mean, &lt;code&gt;webdeploymentproject&lt;/code&gt;? &lt;code&gt;badimageformatexception&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T22:28:07.607" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42269" CreationDate="2010-03-16T22:29:32.720" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are already too many color combinations. I usually just ignore the red/green box with the white/yellow number because I always have to think what it means.. Don't complicate it further!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T22:29:32.720" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42474" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:02:13.357" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree, specially for a mod. If anything, I even think that mods should have some other actions added (closes/deletions) to the recent activity list, but may be that is something just for mods to see, I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't know what is the problem with people seeing what we've been up to. The info it's out in the open, someone determined enough can already follow another user and even script it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an specific reason for this &lt;code&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T23:02:13.357" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="42480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42475" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:04:27.537" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the length of the tags, I don't think the question is any more rewarded for being &lt;em&gt;the most attention-grabbing question on the page&lt;/em&gt;. If someone were interested in those tags, they're gonna read the question. And, too, if the question is poorly written, then the alleged &lt;em&gt;reward&lt;/em&gt; won't be so great.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see a problem with the extra gap, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do agree, however, that the tags are extremely long. Why not shorten the tags when not describing a specific built-in type (as @Michael Stum points out)? For instance:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;webapplicationproject&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;webappl-proj&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;webdeploymentproject&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;webdeploy-proj&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just off the top of my head, but I think they are a reasonable place to start.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even still, BadImageFormatException can be shortened to an accepted abbreviation: &lt;code&gt;BadImageFormatExc&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T23:04:27.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:29:17.633" Score="51" ViewCount="958" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a preface, I've stopped using Stack Overflow after participating in the beta and using the system for a while.  I'm not trying to stir up controversy or ruffle feathers, though that seems likely to happen.  Rather this is a postmortem of one user's experience with Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always enjoyed answering programming questions.  It's a regular part of my job and one of the reasons I enjoying coming in each day.  I remember when I discovered Usenet and the vast flow of questions from all over the world.  It was like discovering a new continent.  For a long time, I participated on &lt;code&gt;comp.lang.perl.misc&lt;/code&gt; where I learned so much about Perl and programming in general.  And I had fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, Usenet has problems that are intrinsic to the system.  The same questions are asked over and over.  Then the same answers are given.  Then the same corrections and refutations of the answers.  Then the flamewars.  It got old and I eventually gave it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Joel Spolsky started talking up  Stack Overflow it seemed like an ideal replacement for Usenet.  And it does correct a number of problems with previous systems.  Notably, very basic and common questions are not commonly asked on Stack Overflow anymore.  People seem to be able to find their answers without having to ask and if by some chance they do ask, they are quickly pointed to the canonical question.  It's also a plus that people can correct minor issues with other people's answers without implying they are losers or stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow does so many things right and it was just the sort of system I thought I wanted, but I started losing interest.  For a long time, I thought it was because there was no &lt;code&gt;meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/code&gt; for people to have a place where they could, well, talk about meta-issues.  But after months away from the system, I think the problem runs much deeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first answered a Stack Overflow question, the little number next to my name started to go up.  It was pretty neat and made me happy to have answered well.  As I submitted more answers, the number started to go up a little faster.  Pretty soon I started looking for questions to answer that would make my number improve even more.  I love answering questions, but I also liked getting my number to go up.  Pretty soon, I found that I made a little calculation before starting to answer a question: &quot;Will this make enough of a difference in my number to be worth my time?&quot;  By the end, I was avoiding answering questions that I was interested in answering because there were already a few good-enough answers and I was unlikely to increase my number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've taken a psychology class or two, you probably see the problem already: my intrinsic motivation was completely replaced by an extrinsic motivation.  While there is debate among psychologists as to whether extrinsic rewards always drive out intrinsic motivation, few would agree that extrinsic rewards are better or more effective than intrinsic ones.  We instinctively know that people perform better for love of the game than for a paycheck.  When the extrinsic reward is a little number tacked to the end of your name, it seems even less likely to be effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ says: &quot;Reputation is completely optional. Normal use of Stack Overflow — that is, asking and answering questions — does not require any reputation whatsoever.&quot;  The first sentence is, of course, a lie.  If you participate on Stack Overflow, you have a reputation number whether you like it or not.  In addition, the &quot;reputation&quot; concept forms the core of the Stack Overflow experience by design.  The second sentence clarifies the first to explain the nugget of truth: you don't need to understand the reputation concept in order to begin working with Stack Overflow.  In other words, the reputation system is extrinsic by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While researching motivation theory, I can across this paper &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beswick.info/psychres/management.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.beswick.info/psychres/management.htm&lt;/a&gt;.  One paragraph in particular seems to sum up the Stack Overflow experience for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Extrinsic rewards have been found to reduce intrinsic motivation, but not in all circumstances. The majority of published research has dealt with the effect on motivation rather then performance, but consequent effects can be evident in performance, and there are many theoretical predictions supported at least in part by empirical findings. When people are intrinsically motivated they tend be more aware of a wide range of range of phenomena, while giving careful attention to complexities, inconsistencies, novel events and unexpected possibilities. They need time and freedom to make choices, to gather and process information, and have an appreciation of well finished and integrated products, all of which may lead to a greater depth of learning and more creative output. Extrinsic rewards tend to focus attention more narrowly and to shorten time perspectives, which may result in more efficient production of predefined or standardised products. Job satisfaction and long term commitment to a task may also be affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's tempting to think that hiding or truly making reputation optional would fix the issue, but I'm not sure that a fix is possible even if it were desirable.  If you look around at questions and answers on Stack Overflow, you'll find they are quite standardized, efficient and timely.  In fact, from the point of view of a programmer looking for an answer, Stack Overflow works nicely, thank you very much.  It seems like there are plenty of people who can thrive or ignore extrinsic motivation, so there doesn't seem to be a broad problem here.  If you want to make an omelet, you're going to break a few eggs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just don't expect to get chickens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1438" LastActivityDate="2011-06-02T21:28:28.513" Title="The problem with extrinsic motivation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="11" />
  <row Id="42483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42481" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:47:14.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading this post reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maguire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jerry Maguire&lt;/a&gt; when Mr. Maguire writes &quot;The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I have to say is this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T23:47:14.987" />
  <row Id="42484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42481" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:47:29.653" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely agree there is a dark side to the reputation system, influencing the way we post and word answers more deeply than is comfortable. No doubt. What the rep system fails to support is deep research on a subject, the exchanging of ideas, trying out different possibilities, developing new things, &lt;em&gt;playing&lt;/em&gt; without the pressure of producing an answer that can be upvoted and accepted. I assume - forgive me if I'm wrong - that this goes into the direction you mean by &quot;chickens.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt; all these things are still &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; to do, and they happen every day. The really interesting conversations sometimes take place in the comments sections. Rather few of them, that is true, but that is not necessarily only down to the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes SO extremely valuable in my opinion, despite the narrowness that the reputation system sometimes encourages, is the fact that it &lt;em&gt;works&lt;/em&gt;, that means, brings together a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; number of extremely good programmers. It keeps you up to date about best practices, tools and standards simply through the constant buzz of the huge crowd. It provides a platform of exchange that - at this moment - has no comparison on the global Internet. It is functioning well in many ways I wouldn't want to miss - in ease of use, quality of questions and answers, visitor frequency and transparency in management. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, if a new platform arises that has the goal of producing &quot;chickens&quot; in the sense you mean it, being less focused on shallow reputation points, I'll be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; interested to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T00:20:33.257" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T00:20:33.257" />
  <row Id="42485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:54:05.687" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would take a little work to implement but perhaps a &lt;strong&gt;workable solution&lt;/strong&gt; would be for it to turn into a poll (after 5 votes each way), showing how many votes each side has. Once there's a preset differential, say 10 clear votes, the question can be locked as either closed or opened, with any further voting disabled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a global website punch-ups can be a little difficult to organise. Besides which, cattle prods at 5 paces is probably more fun and less damaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T23:54:05.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42481" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:54:11.660" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;um... ok?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to summarize, &quot;Stackoverflow, due to its reward structure, will never, ever, ever receive &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; answers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree or disagree with that statement.  As Bill Cosby says, &quot;The proof is in the pudding.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is present in terms of questions and answers will help some, and not others. This site isn't for everyone, though, and frankly if the attempt was made to please everyone, then it would be nearly worthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since you've gone to such great lengths to analyze the motivation system, can you suggest ways to improve it, and share examples that demonstrate intrinsic motivation produces better results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T23:54:11.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42481" CreationDate="2010-03-16T23:55:16.293" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am quite positive that reputation does have an extrinsic influence to some degree in all participants on SOFU. The influence may be so small that it is irrelevant compared to the degree of satisfaction in answering a question. I enjoy seeing my reputation go up - I won't lie. That said, I have found it fruitless to only work at reaping the rep.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do like about SO (specifically) is that there are a great number of programmers out there willing to give me advice and help me learn. Often times, on a forum, if a question requires a little bit of research, it is easily ignored because there is no &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; to do the extra work to provide a well formulated answer. Reputation, however great or small, does provide that extrinsic influence that is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation has another affect. Those that fail to understand how the site works, or fail to abide by the rules of SOFU, see their reputation reduce. Eventually they lose interest and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the reputation gains, a good question is just that - a good question. A good answer is just that - a good answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-16T23:55:16.293" />
  <row Id="42488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42481" CreationDate="2010-03-17T00:01:10.143" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some psychologists teach that human beings have 5 basic psychological motivators:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prestige&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Curiosity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Security&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Experience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Connection&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone has a bias towards one or two of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow provides an experience that feeds into all of them to one degree or another.  The primary motivator, though, is prestige - there is a number, a metric, that is determined solely by the actions your peers take on your posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The others are fed to a lesser degree, but it seems you are saying it would be nice if Stack Overflow focused less on prestige and balanced the system so that it equally attracted those, for instance, that are more motivated by Curiosity and Connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would such a site look like?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can Stack Overflow be adapted to feed those motivations without watering down the experience the current users crave?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T10:08:40.150" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T10:08:40.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42474" CreationDate="2010-03-17T00:06:49.283" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the site is community moderated there is good reason to give the community visibility into an individual's activities.  Remove this and you eventually need to remove things from the data dump to match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T00:06:49.283" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42481" CreationDate="2010-03-17T00:23:35.220" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will always be people who &lt;em&gt;try&lt;/em&gt; to look for something like rep or badges, even if the system itself doesn't offer them. Because even if that's not your primary motivation, it's &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt; to see how you stack up to other users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do some users take it too seriously? Yeah. Do good answers still get posted to obscure questions? Yeah. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I lost most of my interest in gaining reputation once I was able to edit. I still enjoy finding interesting questions though, whether that ends in reading the answers or posting my own. Ultimately, SO &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; just another Usenet replacement, with its own rules and traditions, various people who take them seriously, and hoards of casual users who just want to learn or share their knowledge with others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, so long as SO doesn't place any &lt;em&gt;additional&lt;/em&gt; value on reputation (allowing high-rep users privileged access to cash or valuable prizes say...), this'll be a non-issue for most people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T00:23:35.220" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42474" CreationDate="2010-03-17T01:03:57.883" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good grief... If you don't want people to know what you're doing, just create a different account. It's not hard, and as long as you don't abuse them you'll be fine. Trust me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; paranoid, use a Tor proxy or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you'll lose whatever rep you had, but you can still ask, answer, and with a trivial amount of effort comment - so if that's all you want to do, then it should suffice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a wealth of existing tools meant to aid you in remaining anonymous, and SO works reasonably well with these... I don't see why any additional support is necessary (or desirable). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm missing the point, then please explain. Here's how I see it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who visits the site is immediately presented with &lt;em&gt;a great big list of recent actions&lt;/em&gt; on the &lt;em&gt;front page&lt;/em&gt;. In addition to this, there are numerous views and search keywords for filtering and refining recent activity, and feeds for users who wish to keep tabs on SO activity off-site. And that's just the stuff that &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt;, even users who never bother to create an account can see... Users with &gt;= 10K reputation points get &lt;em&gt;even more&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to say that recent activity is &lt;em&gt;kind of a big deal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I'm talking about the aggregated activity of all users on the site&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt;, while you're talking about the activities of a single user. But what's special about &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; recent activity? Well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It associates actions that might not be otherwise related. For instance, answers about CSS and edits to DDE questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has your name/info above it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#2 is completely under your control, of course. If you want to change your name to &quot;SiamKing&quot; and your picture to a bowl of tasty tom ka gai soup, that's easily done. And... #1 is under your control as well. Really. The only actions you &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; your primary account for are those that require rep (or mod abilities); everything else can happen on another account... or no account at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...And so I return to my original point: if you don't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; SO to associate your actions, then stop &lt;em&gt;telling&lt;/em&gt; it to associate your actions by using your account for everything. If you don't want SO to associate your actions with &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, then &lt;em&gt;stop telling it who you are!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trolls/griefers manage to figure this stuff out without explicit support from the site; I &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; you can handle it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so after a long, drawn-out interrogation in the comments, the end result of this is that you want a major change made to how the site operates to prevent a form of abuse that &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; occur, but &lt;em&gt;isn't currently&lt;/em&gt; occurring, and could probably be handled on an individual basis by moderators or site-admins in the rather unlikely event that it ever &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; occur. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;ignoring for the time being that you can search for activity by a specific user and filter by timestamp without ever visiting their bio page; I assume you'd want that blocked as well...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T03:05:50.923" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:05:50.923" CommentCount="42" />
  <row Id="42496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T02:24:03.860" Score="-5" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would it be possible to have community wiki answers with over 100 or so upvotes to be worth at least a couple points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe 100 is not the right number... any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T03:41:45.710" Title="Could community wiki answers be worth a few points?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="42497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42496" CreationDate="2010-03-17T02:33:44.277" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I won't speak for anyone but myself, but I don't feel that there is any need to offer &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; encouragement or reason for posting non-technical opinion, random [best|worst] of lists, fluff, or crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People participate in CW content questions because they get some personal satisfaction from the interaction. I &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; helping people, even in the absence of rep. I understand that other people find satisfaction in just the interaction of opinion. I'd rather they took it to a traditional forum, but I can live with the way things are now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might also mention---by way of historical orientation---that the distinction between &quot;hard&quot; and &quot;soft&quot; content as sources of reputation was the first big source of tension in this community. The current CW-if-it-doesn't-have-one-right-answer regime is one of several adjustment and compromises that were made at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T02:46:22.180" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T02:46:22.180" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42496" CreationDate="2010-03-17T02:34:13.903" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;whole reason&lt;/em&gt; community wiki posts came about was because people thought that certain types of posts should be allowed, but should have no effect on reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reversing that would require a very, very good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T02:34:13.903" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42496" CreationDate="2010-03-17T03:41:45.710" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, now that the site is up and running I have a hard time understanding the whole point of rewarding points for questions.  When you're in bootstrap mode and no one has points, getting rep for questions is pretty much necessary.  That was especially true, and still is somewhat, in meta, although here it makes a little sense -- you're essentially expressing agreement or disagreement with a feature request or point of view.  In SO and the others, though, it does little except encourage people to dream up questions -- thus the flood of poll/best/worst/funniest, etc. stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean does anyone really look at the votes on a &lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt; when trying to find an &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt; to a problem you are having?  The only thing that is really meaningful is whether the problem is close to your own so that the answers might be of some use.  A question with 1500 upvotes is pretty meaningless to me if it doesn't deal with the same problem I'm having.  Frankly, it's about 50/50 whether any of the most popular questions on SO would actually be useful in solving a real-world problem....unless your problem is what programmer cartoon or joke to use in your next presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if SO has reached the point where the reward of getting answers is sufficient and we ought to stop giving out rep for them.  I think we'd still probably see about the same number of questions per day and those we'd lose wouldn't be particularly valuable anyway.  We'd still get some fluff, but I think they'd be more driven by curiosity and, somehow, that makes them more palatable to me.  We could still allow voting on them, but the votes wouldn't translate to rep -- much like CW questions now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T03:41:45.710" />
  <row Id="42501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T04:01:49.087" Score="12" ViewCount="891" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I really don't need all this rep, and figured a fun (and fast) way to get rid of excess rep would be to put 500 point bounties on questions that I haven't accepted an answer for and then immediately accept the answer - thus turning the 15 point accept rep increase into a 565 rep increase for whichever (lucky?) meta user I choose for the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only drawback I can think of is that some people might not consider the answer 'worth' the extra rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beyond that, though, is there really a problem with this behavior?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What unintended consequences could this behavior have?&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assuming only one person did this on a regular basis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Assuming several high-rep people did this on a regular basis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I did this on a regular basis (about one-two 500 point bounties per week to keep me just above 10k) would this make you more likely to participate in my questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note that I am NOT doing this on SO - I occasionally use SO to answer some difficult questions, and I'm keeping my rep around for when I need to spend it on those.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really only concerns Meta, where, as far as I can tell, rep really doesn't matter (if It did, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; certainly wouldn't be getting it so easily...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2011-03-23T21:55:46.807" Title="Is bounty rep-dump gaming? (subtitle: Pollyanna lottery!)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T03:57:42.817" Score="-2" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;How I post a document to others in this (Stack overflow) site for answers.Thanks in advance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T04:34:26.950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T04:34:26.950" Title="How do i post a document in stackoverflow site for answers?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T04:05:44.187" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Oh whats rep got to do, got to do with it&#xA;What's rep but a second hand emotion&#xA;What's rep got to do, got to do with it&#xA;Who needs a heart&#xA;When a heart can be broken&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I see no problem with it on Meta itself. Since rep is more used as a form of voting on feature requests and what not. I &quot;could&quot; see an issue with it on the trilogy itself, but then again the rep is yours to give away and as long you aren't 'targeting' a friend just to give them rep I would see no issue either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastEditorUserId="137811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T04:13:06.147" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T04:13:06.147" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42502" CreationDate="2010-03-17T04:08:24.090" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If by document you mean long parts of text we suggest you don't. The point is to answer in the smallest most concise manner to get to the heart of the manner. If you wish you can post an except from something. Then link to the document so others can read it in its entirety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T04:08:24.090" />
  <row Id="42505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T04:17:30.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is essentially useless as far as rep goes - it doesn't get you much of anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for the sake of bragging rights for that lucky individual, I strongly recommend continuing this practice!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T04:17:30.577" />
  <row Id="42507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44526" CreationDate="2010-03-17T04:40:51.613" Score="23" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have close votes remaining, you can always see duplicates used as close votes by pretending you're going to close vote (select the 'exact duplicate' reason) and proceed.  But, after the recent changes to that part of the UI, you can no longer click-through if you are out of votes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/mblp8k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Scaled to 75% because that box is ridiculously big.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feature request:&lt;/strong&gt; If a user has enough rep to close-vote, then always allow that user to see duplicates used in other close votes, even if that user has cast their limit of close-votes for the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be done with a link beside the blue &lt;code&gt;[4]&lt;/code&gt;, or something else.  I really have little preference on how to make them visible, I just know it would be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-02T23:22:02.957" LastActivityDate="2010-06-02T23:22:02.957" Title="Cannot see duplicate votes when out of close votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T04:50:15.960" Score="2" ViewCount="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I bring up the meta.stackoverflow.com home page, links I've visited are highlighted with #666666 and the others are highlighted with #3d3d3d. This is hard on my eyes! It's hard to notice the difference. Maybe #666666 could be changed to #999999 or maybe a hint of green? (#9999bb)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing I should tag this as a bug... feel free to retag if this is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T04:53:08.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T04:53:08.753" Title="Can we change the a:visited color on the meta.stackoverflow.com home page?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;meta&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T06:12:51.927" Score="1" ViewCount="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I click on the header link telling me I have X responses, I get no responses. I noticed the date range is 4 days only. I thought it was 90 days. Yeah I guess the range is getting shorter so the query doesn't time out with the increasing size of the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't SO save the date of the oldest response and use it in the date range as the start date, specially when that date is not far off? SO already saves some info about the responses for me so might as well save that date and make the function work better instead of showing nothing. My guess it's not that important a feature to save extra data in the database?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know how to get those responses)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T06:12:51.927" Title="Response notification date range getting shorter?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" />
  <row Id="42511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T07:44:06.340" Score="3" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find yourself stranded pagination-wise if you have just one more favorite question to have its own page. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have 16 favourites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Delete anyone on Page 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GOTO page 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pagination broken. No way to go back to page 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132753" LastEditorUserId="132753" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T18:32:20.597" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:32:20.597" Title="Favourites pagination breaks if removing one of 15n+1" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;&lt;pagination&gt;" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42520" CreationDate="2010-03-17T10:31:47.203" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to associate my SO, SU and Meta SO accounts. A few days back I had no problem associating SO and SU, but now that I'm trying to do the same with Meta SO, I get the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can't Associate This Account&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We found differing IP addresses&#xA;  between sites for this association&#xA;  request - please return to Meta Stack&#xA;  Overflow and try again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what's causing this, is it the fact that I log in from different locations (home and work) at different times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144714" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T10:50:28.187" Title="Unable to Associate?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;association&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42519" CreationDate="2010-03-17T10:38:05.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the error says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We found differing IP addresses between sites for this association request &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you reveal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is it the fact that I log in from different locations (home and work) at different times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: &lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T10:38:05.970" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42519" CreationDate="2010-03-17T10:50:28.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your IP address differs by too much between HTTP requests, we can't allow the association. This should only happen if your IP is shifting by a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; between HTTP requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T10:50:28.187" />
  <row Id="42525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T11:09:44.420" Score="7" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd love to something like this implemented: feed://stackoverflow.com/unanswered&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a stackexchange site for user support, it would be very helpful to have a RSS feed showing a status of the neglected questions about our product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my POW: On stackoverflow, it could be a useful to have this to get new questions answered faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T23:55:32.487" Title="Anyway to get a RSS feed for unanswered questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42526" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T11:49:47.913" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2779/could-the-tagging-system-be-enhanced-to-support-tag-synonyms&quot;&gt;Could the tagging system be enhanced to support tag synonyms?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are an unending series of &quot;retag&quot; requests. Should there be a feature that has a map of synonyms, so that for example if someone enters &lt;code&gt;XP&lt;/code&gt; it is automatically rendered as &lt;code&gt;Windows-XP&lt;/code&gt; (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42493/retag-request-xp-windows-xp-on-super-user&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) or &lt;code&gt;gmaps&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;google-maps&lt;/code&gt; (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7524/retag-request-gmaps-google-maps&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose then it should also handle multi-word merges, as with &lt;code&gt;web&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;development&lt;/code&gt; -&gt; &lt;code&gt;web-development&lt;/code&gt; (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7118/retag-request-web-development-web-development&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131464" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T11:49:47.913" ClosedDate="2010-03-17T11:53:47.847" Title="Should there be an automatic retag feature?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42529" CreationDate="2010-03-17T12:02:45.817" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood&quot;&gt;Is the Populist badge broken? Or have I misunderstood?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1744070/why-should-exceptions-be-used-conservatively/1744176#1744176&quot;&gt;My answer&lt;/a&gt; currently outscores the accepted answer at 23:11, and has met the criteria for the populist badge for at least two weeks.  (I noticed when the accepted answer hit 10 and waited before asking about it, to make sure it wasn't just the badge job not having run yet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why have I not yet received the badge?  Is there some hidden criteria? (The description only says &quot;Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T13:27:00.800" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T13:27:00.800" ClosedDate="2010-03-17T12:38:40.043" Title="Missing populist badge" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;populist&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42528" CreationDate="2010-03-17T12:07:11.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it's not the top answer by votes?! The description is probably not clear enough here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acutally a duplicate, see here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood/6938#6938&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood/6938#6938&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136840" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T12:07:11.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42531" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T12:59:05.897" Score="27" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to follow up on votes on my CW posts as I do on normal ones, for cases like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42373&quot;&gt;voting on the new sites brainstorming&lt;/a&gt;, or just generic CW posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should appear in green (or red for downvotes) boxes with no reputation attached, like the votes look like on questions when you reached the cap, like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/cw1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post was turned to CW after harnessing a few votes, it should look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/cw2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For downvotes, it should look the same but red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T16:24:43.137" Title="Add votes on my CW posts to my summary screen" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;&lt;activity-summary&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-17T13:45:01.967" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/wikipp/en/page/contrib&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/ad-220-220.png&quot; alt=&quot;CppCMS Needs Your Help&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142982" LastEditorUserId="142982" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T15:26:49.040" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:26:49.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-17T13:45:01.967" CommentCount="19" />
  <row Id="42536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42537" CreationDate="2010-03-17T13:52:57.173" Score="4" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2462483/c-quick-way-to-invert-a-nullable-bool&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer on the referenced question was correct &lt;em&gt;and better&lt;/em&gt; than the current answer to the question as it now stands, with comments.  The OP wanted to know how to invert a nullable bool in C#.  The accepted answer was originally simply to invert the value (b = !b). The original answerer modified it within the 5 minute edit window due to some erroneous complaints that he'd failed to account for the case where the nullable had no value and some issues with what the OP really wanted when the nullable had no value.  As amended by the OPs comments, however, a simple negation of the nullable, which was the original answer, is &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; correct answer.  The current accepted answer, though it works, is really more complex than necessary and communicates a misconception about how assignments of nullables work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ordinarily I'd simply roll the edit back.  In this case I've asked that the answerer reinstate his original answer, but he apparently hasn't seen it or declined without response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the right call in this case?  Edit the answer (and completely change the sense of it from it's current state, leaving it open to more abuse from people who don't get it) or contribute my own answer (same as the original) in contrast.  I'm leaning toward the former, but I wonder if there's anything I'm missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-29T16:38:29.803" LastActivityDate="2010-08-29T16:38:29.803" Title="Reverting edit that makes an answer worse, but was within the 5 minute update window" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;grace-period&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42536" CreationDate="2010-03-17T14:05:31.670" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Post your own answer and vote the wrong answer down.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The answer is what it is now, and you left plenty of comments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there already is a better answer (from @Allen) now &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T14:05:31.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T14:14:20.057" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is rep on meta does count towards something: towards knowledge on the engine itself.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Although it's easier to get rep on funny posts, I like to think high rep users know what they're talking about when they answer questions about using the other sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it would ruin that meaning for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T14:14:20.057" />
  <row Id="42539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T14:19:39.087" Score="8" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was curious whether there were any local Stack Overflow meetups yet (in a similar vein to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meetups.jquery.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jQuery meetups&lt;/a&gt;).  The idea is that Stack Overflow people within a geographical area would get together at a local bar or something and talk code, SO, or whatever other common interests are shared amongst the attendees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings up a few questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there are already meetups happening, what's the &quot;official site&quot;?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, I'd love to start a Stack Overflow Philly meetup and meet some of my fellow community members.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What would be the best way to spread the word to the users in my geographical area?  The first thing that comes to mind would be asking for a shout out on the podcast, but unfortunately at the time of writing the podcast is going dark for a little while and is to return with a new format.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="549" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-18T15:05:50.890" LastActivityDate="2011-03-18T15:09:24.643" Title="Local Stack Overflow Meetups" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meetups&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42539" CreationDate="2010-03-17T14:30:20.237" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wait....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;other&lt;/strong&gt; people? I thought StackOverflow was just a bunch of robots that asked questions and gave me rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is too much for me. I'm just going to forget about it and go back to playing solitare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T14:30:20.237" />
  <row Id="42542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42539" CreationDate="2010-03-17T14:39:00.093" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watchout...  You'll soon hear that StackOverflow is not a social networking site...  If you want to get a &quot;meetup&quot; going, maybe checkout out &lt;a href=&quot;http://nerddinner.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://nerddinner.com&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T14:39:00.093" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42258" CreationDate="2010-03-17T14:46:38.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Disciplined - Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens that the community upvotes an answer that is wrong. If you are &lt;em&gt;disciplined&lt;/em&gt;, and it becomes clear that the answer is wrong (after a discussion in the comments, for example), you should delete your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T14:46:38.140" />
  <row Id="42544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T14:59:57.337" Score="-4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are now a lot of machine learning based translation systems that could be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stack Overflow translations all questions and answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Native speakers can edit translations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The edited translations are fed back into the learning set for the translation engine. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One problem will be stopping non-English speakers from editing the meaning of an item when the system thinks they are editing the translations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I think this will need external funding.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I was assuming that most people will be up-to-date on the research on machine translation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The modem machine transitions systems work very well provided they have a &lt;strong&gt;large&lt;/strong&gt; “learning set”  that contains documents that have been translated by hand that have &lt;strong&gt;very similar language usage&lt;/strong&gt; to what they are translating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Microsoft research has got very good results with them for translating knowage base articles from English to Spanish.   The most read articles are translated by hand and used as the learning set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Stackoverflow has proved what results can be got by harvesting the power of the users to build a question and answer site, it is not unreasonable to think that the power of a user based could be harvested to build up a training document set that colligates well with the questions and answers on Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The tabs may even help a transitions systems to know the context of the text)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastEditorUserId="132223" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T07:42:08.973" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T07:42:08.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-18T07:42:08.973" Title="Provide some kind of on-the-fly translation - E.g. French to English" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;languages&gt;&lt;translations&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="42545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42544" CreationDate="2010-03-17T15:07:04.230" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They just finished implementing this. You just have to install the Google toolbar and press the &quot;Translate&quot; button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T15:07:04.230" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T15:21:10.837" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not so bothered about meta rep, the only benefit for me would be if I reached 2000 on meta I have another inbound non-nofollowed link to my SE site, which is always welcome. So if you feel the reputation weighs heavily on your meta-shoulders and you want to lend a hand to an SE site owner then feel free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; botheration, I tiptoe past 2k on meta and the powers that be decide to remove around 500 rep from me. I'm sure it's not personal. Is it? Is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T20:13:09.430" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:13:09.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T15:25:31.177" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bounties weren't really designed as a &quot;way to get rid of excess rep.&quot; True, rep doesn't play quite as important a role on meta as the other systems. We've been given quite a bit of latitude to have fun to keep the mood light here but I feel like meta plays an important role in the trilogy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I feel like we should maintain at least a guise of playing by the rules.&lt;/strong&gt; Especially so when so many, how shall we say, &lt;em&gt;non-meta regulars&lt;/em&gt; come here with support questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while you're free to do whatever you want with your rep, I would say it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; gaming and shouldn't generally be encouraged. Rep and community moderation still guides people's behavior. Maybe not &lt;em&gt;yours&lt;/em&gt; personally, but the rules and system behaviors are there for a reason. Social networks can fall apart fast. I'd hate to see this become a race to the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that I'm overstating the significance of what you are suggesting, but I'm just making the point as part of a larger guiding principle. No fuddy duddy-ness intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T15:25:31.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2010-03-17T15:31:20.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternatively become an expert at E-E and you do not have to scroll at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144760" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T15:31:20.300" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T16:16:56.427" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will now be my new favorite search (I've already memorized the number):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3a2915%20hasaccepted%3a0&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;Pollyanna&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T21:25:32.773" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T21:25:32.773" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2010-03-17T16:36:52.840" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure the correct answer is to beat them (soundly) on level ground without playing games.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, it would bother me to feel that I needed to associate with or emulate my competitor at this level.  Especially when the competitor appears to be getting only 10% of the traffic I was getting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than personal annoyance, I don't see a good business case for such a change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T16:36:52.840" />
  <row Id="42552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39209" CreationDate="2010-03-17T16:43:34.167" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with this (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42544/provide-some-kind-of-on-the-fly-translation-e-g-french-to-english-closed&quot;&gt;nor this&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;code&gt;[feature-request]&lt;/code&gt;, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Language AJAX API&lt;/a&gt; can be used to have inline translations to any language that you'd like, using only Google's resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T16:43:34.167" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42474" CreationDate="2010-03-17T16:49:59.900" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why have the activity tab at all if you can turn it off? Let's just all turn it off and be done with it. &lt;strong&gt;Transparency is one of the best features of this site&lt;/strong&gt;. If we hide something, especially as moderators, it really sends bad vibes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a single good reason why this feature should be implemented. It would actually be a bad thing. Consider the case where I'm a big bad spammer; I turn off my recent activity and go on a rampage on one of the sites. Sure, a mod will see the flags, but I, as a normal user, would also like to be able to see this activity and really be certain that his recent actions are indeed nefarious and press that flag button knowing that what I'm doing is the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T16:49:59.900" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="42554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42507" CreationDate="2010-03-17T16:54:52.340" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;YES, PLEASE!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T16:54:52.340" />
  <row Id="42555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42507" CreationDate="2010-03-17T16:55:36.550" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This highlights why it's good practice to also indicate the duplicate link in a comment, so both those who &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; vote to close &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; those who are out of close votes can see the link prior to closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T16:55:36.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28475" CreationDate="2010-03-17T17:17:20.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Must be broken, Michigan shows up on there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/careers_michigan.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T17:17:20.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42507" CreationDate="2010-03-17T17:40:53.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit of an aside, but: I'd actually prefer that &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; could see the possible duplicates while the question is not closed yet, even those with less than 3k reputation. For those people I now always add a comment warning about the possible duplicate, but not every voter does that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more generic: if anyone could see any of the pending votes (not just the possible duplicates, but also the other close reasons), then that might save people from answering questions that are likely to be closed? (Or, in a few occasions: might get people commenting if they don't agree about the close reason.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T17:40:53.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42559" CreationDate="2010-03-17T17:53:44.443" Score="18" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;On all of the other SOFU sites a downvote means &lt;em&gt;The question is unclear or not useful.&lt;/em&gt;  However, here on meta, a downvote has become a sign of &lt;em&gt;I don't agree with the question, suggestion, feature request, bug, etc.&lt;/em&gt; being described in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does a downvote on Meta really mean?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What other reasons do people downvote on Meta?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is it okay for meta to redefine the meaning of the downvote?  The tooltips and instructions are all the same here on meta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: I'm not saying I disagree with the practice, just curious.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T19:16:18.857" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T19:16:18.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-04-23T16:05:00.353" Title="Why are people downvoting my question on Meta?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="5" />
  <row Id="42559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42558" CreationDate="2010-03-17T17:56:39.027" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because S[OFU] are Q&amp;amp;A sites. Meta is actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1&quot;&gt;a replacement for the UserVoice bug report/feature request site&lt;/a&gt; (with a bit of discussion thrown in...). The rules are different because Meta is... &lt;em&gt;kinda&lt;/em&gt; misusing the SO engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's ok because we really do need a bug report / feature request / meta discussion site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW: to the best of my knowledge, no one officially &quot;changed&quot; the meaning of a down-vote. Everyone has their own reasons for voting, it's a private matter, and you might well never know why you received an up- or down- vote unless they felt like telling you. The fact is, posts are allowed on Meta that normally aren't allowed on any of the other sites, and as a result you see voting behaviors that are rare elsewhere (but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; unknown: check out votes on some of the more subjective posts on SO...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T18:30:20.667" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T18:30:20.667" CommentCount="23" />
  <row Id="42560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33852" CreationDate="2010-03-17T18:05:33.703" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even with the completely &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; data that compete has, SO has overtaken sexchange&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/IP3r3.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://siteanalytics.compete.com/stackoverflow.com+experts-exchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T18:05:33.703" />
  <row Id="42562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42474" CreationDate="2010-03-17T18:51:43.760" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, Jon, you are a totally uninteresting person. If someone stalks you, then he is an idiot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the easiest way to follow you are the RSS feeds. Doesn't matter if you disable the activity page or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, if you think someone is abusing the system by downvoting everything you touch, then, hell, &lt;strong&gt;inform Jeff Atwood, master of SOFU, to figure that out, holy shit!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T19:31:59.067" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T19:31:59.067" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="42565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42568" CreationDate="2010-03-17T19:45:32.470" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I have an idea that just might work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we need is something like wiki.stackoverflow.com where all of those type of questions would go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would solve all of the complaint problems we have from people who don't like questions that get hundreds of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The criterion for this new site would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Any question that doesn't fit the SO guidelines providing:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is still programming related&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question cannot easily be answered &lt;i&gt;or&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is highly subjective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could even implement polls and similar tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just think - every time you see one of those annoying 'What feature do you...' questions. You can tag it [belongs-on-wiki]!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T20:06:13.077" Title="A creative solution for the community wiki questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T19:52:56.463" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose someone deletes their question (for whatever reason), what happens then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is it really deleted? (or tagged invisible which is effectively the same thing). Can moderators still see it Is it still in the datadump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if it was a popular question? Can the question (and it's answers)then still be resurrected but in someone else's (or an anonymous accounts name?). Since the questions and answers are under creative commons, I would guess not. But then, if a question is deleted, all answers which belong to others are also deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what happens to everyones points/votes/etc? Is it removed in a next recount?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T19:56:11.200" Title="what happens if you delete your question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42566" CreationDate="2010-03-17T19:56:11.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators and users with 10k+ rep can see most deleted content. The team can truly remove content, but that is rarely done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rep changes assoicated with deleted content get backed out at the next recalc. Except fo rep lost to spam flag which remains lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T19:56:11.200" />
  <row Id="42568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42565" CreationDate="2010-03-17T20:00:39.040" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of those questions that get hundreds of answers are an integral part of SO in my opinion - the fact that some people don't like them is no reason to abolish them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see no gain in separating those questions to a Wiki area. But even if there are gains I just don't see right now, consider the enormous downsides:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wiki questions would be outside SO's search function's scope&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Wiki would be a new site with rep points, signup, user list... What for?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Wiki section would probably turn into a question dump or cemetery before long, because the majority of users is already active on SO, and will see little incentive in being active in the Wiki section - there is no reputation to gain, and activity will be much lower than on SO proper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What improvement would a split bring that justifies these points, and the added technical and administrative cost of running a fifth site in the trilogy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T20:00:39.040" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="42569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42565" CreationDate="2010-03-17T20:06:13.077" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a site would just be slashdot v2.0, only without a properly threaded interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T20:06:13.077" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42558" CreationDate="2010-03-17T20:14:50.187" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the way the users of the SO sites measure the popularity of a feature-request using the SO engine.  Jeff and the team &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37844/interesting-stackoverflow-searches/37846#37846&quot;&gt;do searches&lt;/a&gt; every now and then on feature-requests to help them determine what to implement next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T20:14:50.187" />
  <row Id="42572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42575" CreationDate="2010-03-17T20:14:09.723" Score="4" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions&quot;&gt;Best Time to Ask Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When's the best day and best time to post a question to Stackoverflow.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I know that Stackoverflow is not US-only, I'd suspect that the majority of it's users are US based, so perhaps late in the day (EST or PST) would have the most active users generating the smartest answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, is the above assumption incorrect, and is there a more non-US-centric timeframe that generates the best answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, does the day and time not matter, and do you get intelligent and meaningful responses from this terrific community 24/7/365?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T21:32:50.977" ClosedDate="2010-03-17T20:59:37.623" Title="When's the best day and best time to post a question to Stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;productivity&gt;&lt;efficiency&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42572" CreationDate="2010-03-17T20:18:15.897" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For when most posts occur, there is actually a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Looks like the most popular time to&#xA;  post is between 15:00 and 22:00&#xA;  GMT/UTC, at least for all Stack&#xA;  Overflow data between launch and&#xA;  today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, on the other hand, you want to know when the most accepted answers are posted (thanks @Frank), the answer is the 15:00 hour (in UTC).  I did a little playing around with the l&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rdbhost.com/rdbadmin/main.html?r0000000767&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;atest data dump&lt;/a&gt; and ran the following query:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select date_part, count(*) from (select  date_part('hour', a.creation) from sf.posts q inner join sf.posts a on q.accepted_answer = a.id ) q group by date_part order by count DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a quick chart with this data:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=650x400&amp;amp;cht=bvg&amp;amp;chd=t:462,439,407,398,349,343,344,376,518,497,546,579,654,816,1023,1085,1029,877,928,882,883,755,658,568&amp;amp;chxt=y,x&amp;amp;chxl=1%3a|0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23&amp;amp;chxr=0,0,1300,100&amp;amp;chds=0,1300&amp;amp;chbh=15,5,5&quot; alt=&quot;Google chart showing data from above query&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastEditorUserId="4257" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T21:32:50.977" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T21:32:50.977" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42572" CreationDate="2010-03-17T20:18:26.783" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;US East Coast Time, early in the morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is very early my time (Alaska).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T20:18:26.783" />
  <row Id="42577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42572" CreationDate="2010-03-17T20:29:50.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd assume it depends on what you're asking, different tags have different activity curves over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135713" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T20:29:50.133" />
  <row Id="42579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:05:26.717" Score="4" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two recent code-golf questions have proceeded nicely until an accepted answer is chosen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2388254/code-golf-collatz-conjecture&quot;&gt;collatz-conjecture&lt;/a&gt; - originally the asm answer was accepted, now a &lt;em&gt;shorter&lt;/em&gt; solution is accepted, but not the &lt;em&gt;shortest&lt;/em&gt; by far&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2406780/code-golf-triforce&quot;&gt;triforce&lt;/a&gt; - asm answer is accepted even though it's one of the longest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is summed up by this comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Kamarey: No, I think there's more to&#xA;  code golf than that. Language&#xA;  comparisons for one. Show off your&#xA;  skill at programming (could you show&#xA;  me a programmer who doesn't?). Clever&#xA;  implementations. etc. Would the person&#xA;  who wrote the python interpreter have&#xA;  to include that code if they posted a&#xA;  python version? I could create a new&#xA;  languauge, triforce for example, that&#xA;  has a single letter command which&#xA;  implements a solution to this problem&#xA;  - should I include the language code or could I claim a result of 1 char&#xA;  (golfscript anyone?) On this site, I&#xA;  think size is less important. But what&#xA;  do I know? – Skizz Mar 12 at 9:37&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a meme on SO that code-golf is about &quot;cool-code&quot; or &quot;clever-code&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what should be done about these questions. The code-golf tag no longer applies so should it be removed? I think then all the golfed answers will look silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are cool-code or clever-code tags considered too subjective for SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136589" LastActivityDate="2010-09-01T11:05:50.630" Title="What should we do when code-golf goes bad?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42579" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:11:50.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42373/what-sites-are-currently-missing-from-the-trilogy/42458#42458&quot;&gt;proposal for a dedicated golfing site&lt;/a&gt;, which in theory, if all the high-ranking users are real golfers, should eliminate that sort of problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with the situation here and now, perhaps the best way to deal with it is to ensure that &quot;shortest code&quot; appears in the first line of any description of a code golf, and strip off the [code-golf] tag (and change the post title) if that line fails to appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my humble opinion, anyway. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T21:11:50.567" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:28:41.510" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some people give out laptops on meta, some give rep! Shouldn't be an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T21:28:41.510" />
  <row Id="42583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:29:02.647" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I object to this not because of the rep, but because you are permanently marking someone's answer as the &quot;correct&quot; answer to your meta question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you honestly believe that to be the case, it's kind of abusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: related to this, we are adding a 1-day delay between the time a bounty starts and when it can be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T08:08:24.140" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T08:08:24.140" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42587" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:35:15.470" Score="0" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24845/is-allowing-voting-and-accepting-answers-on-closed-questions-best-practice&quot;&gt;Is allowing voting and accepting answers on closed questions best practice?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious what people think about being able to vote on a question that has been closed?  Should it be allowed, or once a question is closed should all voting cease?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42572/whens-the-best-day-and-best-time-to-post-a-question-to-stackoverflow-com/42578#42578&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42572/whens-the-best-day-and-best-time-to-post-a-question-to-stackoverflow-com/42578#42578&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question closed and some tool (I won't mention names) makes a comment after its been closed.  I retort in jest and apparently I hurt her feelings and as a retaliation she down-votes my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think, should voting continue on closed questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T22:12:41.130" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:13:57.603" ClosedDate="2010-03-17T21:52:29.157" Title="Should votes count after a question has been closed?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42584" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:39:45.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the community still needs to rate questions and answers after they're closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T22:11:49.023" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:11:49.023" />
  <row Id="42586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42584" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:41:15.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So long as the question has not been deleted and therefore is still viewable by the world at large, I believe there is still value in capturing votes, since it will still affect how answers are sorted for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4660" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T22:13:57.603" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:13:57.603" />
  <row Id="42587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42584" CreationDate="2010-03-17T21:45:38.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer isn't always the best or even correct. The community needs a way to say which answer is best even after an answer is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136589" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T21:45:38.177" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T22:19:58.507" Score="-4" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that users with high reputation gets up-voted more even if their answer is not as complete as another with less reputation because of their reputation. I do not have any problem with that. In fact, I believe that these users have the right to be respected for their contribution to SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only problem I see is when a user with high reputation gets down-voted and his reputation lowers equally to someone with low reputation. Should a down-vote lower a user's reputation proportionately to the amount of reputation that user has? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Related:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42364/senior-members-stealing-answers-and-out-voting&quot;&gt;Senior Members Stealing Answers and Out-voting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135501" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-17T22:31:08.930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:31:08.930" Title="Make the reputation deducted for receiving a down-vote proportional to a user's overall reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="42589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42588" CreationDate="2010-03-17T22:28:38.877" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't want to start a progressive rep tax on SO.  The rep is for the quality of questions and answers, not for who gives them.  Vote the post, not the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:28:38.877" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42588" CreationDate="2010-03-17T22:30:12.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is no way to measure this, but I can offer my personal experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All other things being equal, I will accept the user with the lower rep, an an attempt to encourage that user to continue to participate in the community.  Of course, this is really just a tie-breaker; the number one criteria for deciding the accepted answer is correctness/completeness.  Also, if one correct answer comes in long before another, equally correct answer, the first one wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:30:12.947" />
  <row Id="42591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43649" CreationDate="2010-03-17T22:32:13.620" Score="20" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't sure it was possible, but last night I tested it out.  You can place a bounty and then immediately accept an answer for that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Purpose of Bounties&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary function of the bounty system is to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feature a question so it doesn't have to be bumped repeatedly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Give people an additional incentive to add new and perhaps more comprehensive answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also argue that a secondary function exists: provide other users an opportunity to gain a significant amount of reputation for a thorough and comprehensive or deeply researched answer (as generally the questions are hard to answer, or require special expertise or knowledge).  This is a particular help to those that don't have much time to spend daily on answering smaller questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As implemented, though, it &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be used without the top two benefits, and disallowing others the opportunity to provide a better answer by starting a bounty and immediately accepting it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, as an accepted answer with a bounty cannot be changed, it should require additional consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worse, it is possible that it may be considered gaming the system, or provide people a way to engage in other undesirable behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proposal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disallow acceptance of a bounty until 24 hours after it was started.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some might use this functionality to provide an 'extra' reward to a particularly good answer, that answer will still be there in a day, so it won't prevent this functionality.  It should only affect those that seek to short circuit the purpose of the bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T07:23:26.473" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T09:06:12.737" Title="There should be a minimum time between placing and accepting a bounty" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;gaming&gt;&lt;gaming-the-system&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42591" CreationDate="2010-03-17T22:35:05.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree completely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:35:05.367" />
  <row Id="42593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42591" CreationDate="2010-03-17T22:37:11.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with this. Bounties have special rules, including that an accepted answer to a question with a bounty can't be changed - probably worth encouraging users to put some extra thought into their choice...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, allow users to accept whenever they like, but don't &lt;em&gt;apply&lt;/em&gt; the bounty for 24 hours - and let the user change (revoke, move to another answer) their acceptance during that 24-hour timespan. Essentially, a grace period, such as exists for many other actions on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T22:37:11.910" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42595" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T22:59:49.267" Score="1" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42364/senior-members-stealing-answers-and-out-voting&quot;&gt;Senior Members Stealing Answers and Out-voting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes&quot;&gt;The Problem with Reputation:  Does High Reputation Attract Too Many &amp;lsquo;Up-Votes&amp;rsquo;?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that users up-vote other users more simply because a person has a higher reputation? If this is the case, should there be certain measures applied to counteract this, or to inform users?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135501" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T00:39:04.897" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T00:39:04.897" ClosedDate="2010-03-18T00:16:00.133" Title="Are members with high reputations getting more votes by others?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24845" CreationDate="2010-03-17T23:00:07.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say no (voting should not be encouraged or allowed), for the reasons discussed in this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37466/give-an-incentive-for-finding-duplicate-questions/37478#37478&quot;&gt;Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions&lt;/a&gt;. Currently there is no incentive to post on the original question (which will see fewer views than the new duplicate). If the user has something new to add, he should add it to the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things might be a bit different for posts that are closed for other reasons, as there is no other place to comment -- but if the question was closed for being off-topic or otherwise is inappropriate, we shouldn't continue to reward (and encourage) the answers posted there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T23:00:07.347" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42152" CreationDate="2010-03-17T23:02:58.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeff said, a new release will go out shortly that will resolve the issue. But you would do well to update your HTML snippet, which would not only avoid the problem now, but make you more secure at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;html&amp;gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid2.provider&quot; href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/server&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid2.local_id&quot; href=&quot;http://mysecretidentity.myopenid.com&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/head&amp;gt;&amp;lt;body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/body&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/html&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T23:02:58.953" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42595" CreationDate="2010-03-17T23:03:15.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should educate those coming in, that the purpose of voting is to rate the answer or question.  Actually, I think this is already in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;.  Education is the key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might come up with a modification of the FAQ that would help explain this better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T23:03:15.567" />
  <row Id="42599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42595" CreationDate="2010-03-17T23:06:33.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, but not at a large enough level to worry about. Except on Meta where Jon Skeet gets upvotes just for being Jon Skeet at this stage. But meta rep means nothing anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67366" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T23:06:33.957" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42595" CreationDate="2010-03-17T23:48:07.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you may be putting the effect before the cause.  Users get high reputation by giving lots of good answers.  Don't be surprised when a user who has demonstrated a pattern of leaving good answers gets lots of upvotes for continuing that pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-17T23:48:07.510" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T23:51:17.290" Score="-34" ViewCount="1440" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've never had an explicit policy around downvoting -- users are free to, if they like, cast &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; their votes as downvotes. Whether this behavior is &lt;em&gt;desirable&lt;/em&gt; or not is another matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we do discourage downvoting by making downvotes cost -1 rep to the casting voter. But, there's nothing in our policy that says continual downvoting is bad or wrong or inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my thoughts on this are changing. &lt;strong&gt;I no longer think it is community friendly behavior to cast an extreme number of downvotes&lt;/strong&gt;, and I am considering an explicit policy forbidding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some data points (as of today):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total SO upvotes cast:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;45,555,530&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total downvotes cast:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;365,192&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;users with more than 100 downvotes cast:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;596&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;users with &gt; 100 downvotes and the lowest ratio of upvotes to downvotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;        |           |         | up:down&#xA;user id | downvotes | upvotes |  ratio&#xA;--------+-----------+---------+---------&#xA; 187712 |       201 |      37 |    0.18&#xA;   2525 |       580 |     149 |    0.25&#xA; 136829 |       137 |      43 |    0.31&#xA;  55943 |       438 |     140 |    0.31&#xA;  19405 |       236 |      94 |    0.39&#xA;   5640 |      3299 |    1337 |    0.40&#xA; 180659 |       126 |      66 |    0.52&#xA;  78613 |       348 |     198 |    0.56&#xA;  39892 |       181 |     109 |    0.60&#xA;    432 |       310 |     197 |    0.63&#xA; 238704 |       198 |     132 |    0.66&#xA;  12643 |       170 |     116 |    0.68&#xA;  18256 |       219 |     152 |    0.69&#xA; 122428 |       167 |     118 |    0.70&#xA; 118854 |       120 |      86 |    0.71&#xA; 105662 |       273 |     201 |    0.73&#xA; 187690 |       135 |     101 |    0.74&#xA;   1782 |       573 |     430 |    0.75&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(this is a complete list, there are no more below this threshold.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this data I am leaning towards enforcing a &quot;no more downvotes may be cast&quot; if &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have at least (n) votes cast total&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your upvote to downvote ratio is lower than ~ 0.5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-17T07:12:26.550" LastActivityDate="2010-06-17T07:12:26.550" Title="Should we have a policy about &quot;too much downvoting&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="22" CommentCount="53" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="42604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T00:03:27.783" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently I have cast of 288 downvotes, and I feel that I should not be limited to openly expressing that I believe a question or answer is bad/wrong/not useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ratio Cap&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An upvote/downvote ratio would be a nice way of dealing with this. It allows the people that legitimately want to downvote people to continue to do so, but makes sure that they are also actively upvoting people as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem would be the frequency of ratio calculation. If the calculation is cached, there are a large number of ways it could be abused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Moving Cap&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possible solution might be a moving cap. Every week or so, take a percentage of the current posts (questions/answers), and that would be the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, I would favor against imposing any sort of limit besides the increase in the amount of rep both the voter and the receiver are deducted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T00:10:12.633" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T00:10:12.633" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T00:08:28.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably good to put in place if you're still planning on raising the hit taken from a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T00:08:28.653" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T00:19:50.147" Score="28" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm definitely against this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total SO upvotes cast:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  45,555,530&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Total downvotes cast:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  365,192&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For every 1 downvote, there are nearly 125 upvotes cast. This indicates, at least to me, an overall very positive and supportive community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be people who are either negative-minded or shitdisturbers or maybe just had a bad day. It's something we'll never get rid of completely -- and do we even want to? There are positive aspects about the people who aren't afraid to speak what's on their mind and vote for what they think is right, be it upvotes or downvotes. Sometimes the person who goes against the grain gives us an insight that we never would have thought about otherwise. That is a huge value to the community!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones who have no benefit (i.e., serial downvoting for no reason) are already mostly taken care of by the anti-abuse scripting, which, I should point out, does the same thing on &lt;em&gt;upvotes&lt;/em&gt; as well as downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T00:42:55.393" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T00:42:55.393" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="42607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42721" CreationDate="2010-03-18T00:33:23.603" Score="5" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, there could be a timeline showing you exactly when you've earned your badges in a more intuitive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you can click on the envelope icon (near your name) and look at the Badges tab but this way you have to click today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month. What about the badges earned more than two months ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144009" LastEditorUserId="144009" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T01:07:11.653" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:32:01.237" Title="Timeline showing badges earned at StackOverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;usability&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;&lt;timeline&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="42608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T00:45:56.390" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm ambivalent. I generally don't like to see absolute constraints, but we do need to maintain a welcoming enough community that new users do not get driven out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do we have by way of evidence (or even anecdote) that these sourpuss users are causing trouble?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if you are going to go ahead with it, the limits you suggest are conservative, and will affect very few users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will suggest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set the controlling ratio at 1:2 up:down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set &lt;code&gt;n&lt;/code&gt; at 150 (half of the Civic Duty threshold) or more&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow a waiting period between announcement and application&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T00:45:56.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T01:07:53.400" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I don't like is that I always saw voting as an independent thing, only relevant to the context of the post in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this, you are tying voting with a user behaviour (ie: you already downvoted too much, go upvote a little more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't this force the user to upvote stuff he wouldn't have upvoted hadn't this restriction existed?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is downvoting really such a big problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T01:07:53.400" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T01:10:33.913" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you looked at the heavy downvoters and seen whether the questions/answers they downvote deserve it or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further thoughts&lt;/strong&gt;: Do the heavy downvoters tend to downvote the newbies? Maybe we should add spawning protection for new users against heavy downvoters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T01:35:43.410" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T01:35:43.410" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T01:13:02.773" Score="53" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm reading your output correctly, only a small minority of users would even be affected by this.  If you pick &lt;em&gt;n = 100&lt;/em&gt;, and the ratio you suggest, how many is that exactly of our 596?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And is this really bothering you that much that you're going to pipeline this past all of the other &lt;code&gt;status-planned&lt;/code&gt; changes we've been waiting on, just to get these people to fall into line with what you have literally just decided is your point of view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your data can be interpreted another way:  People are severely attached to their reputation scores.  Take me, for example.  Do you really think I've only ever seen 33 questions or answers worthy of a downvote on all of SO in my time there?  Of course not.  I just don't see the point in wasting reputation points.  I don't think people are withholding downvotes out of a warm-and-fuzzy sense of community.  They just want a high score.  Therefore, the inverse corrolary doesn't hold:  People are not downvoting because they are anti-community sociopaths.  They are doing us all a favor by burning rep for the sake of &lt;em&gt;accurately&lt;/em&gt; representing content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to change the ratios as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;you've planned to do for 9 months&lt;/a&gt;, great, the community has pretty clearly been in favor of that.  But automatically blocking people from making editorial decisions based on automated user profiling just seems to make no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All you've demonstrated is that these people are a minority, the reasoning apparently being since they are a tiny minority, they must be doing something wrong.  But you have not demonstrated by any means that they are performing a disservice to, or harming, the community in any way.  Since that's your ostensible rationale for this change, I'd like to see the evidence of &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastEditorUserId="130914" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T01:36:16.540" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T01:36:16.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42607" CreationDate="2010-03-18T01:22:31.163" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it really matter when we got which badge? I can't really see much benefit in that. After all, they are there to stay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before implementing such a timeline, I would propose making the &lt;em&gt;reputation&lt;/em&gt; timeline more flexible in terms of selectable date ranges, better zooming and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T01:22:31.163" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42614" CreationDate="2010-03-18T01:31:29.033" Score="3" ViewCount="673" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is stackoverflow open source? If so - where can I get the source code.&#xA;If not - I see some people using it: answers.unity3d.com how did they get it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137976" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T02:58:40.973" Title="Install stackoverflow like software on my site" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42613" CreationDate="2010-03-18T01:34:34.717" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can get your own &quot;Stack Overflow&quot; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; - you can be up and running for free to give the platform a spin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T01:34:34.717" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42607" CreationDate="2010-03-18T02:11:26.440" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badges are displayed on your user page in the order they were earned, by date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The date is not shown, of course, but the order is already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T02:11:26.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T02:15:15.940" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're worried there's too much down-voting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neil's worried there's too much up-voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there's just too much &lt;em&gt;voting&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When SO was young, it was important that each user be able to really &lt;em&gt;spread the love&lt;/em&gt; so to speak; now, there are lots and lots of users who can and do vote. Maybe it's time to reduce the daily allotment of votes, up &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; down...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T02:15:15.940" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="42617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T02:18:04.393" Score="2" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user feed (on StackOverflow and Meta at least) contains entries for comments which have IDs that aren't unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick example (picked at random): &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/131779&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/131779&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at one specific question (42601), the feed contains 1 answer, 2 comments on the question itself, and 1 comment on the user's own answer. The question comments have the same ID (the URL with no fragment), and the answer and its comment have the same ID (the URL with ID in fragment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having duplicate IDs causes some (primitive/strict) parsers to drop some of the entries. Presumably comments need to have some kind of ID tacked onto the end of the URL to ensure the IDs are unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;URLs/IDs in full (sans domain):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question comments: /questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;answer + comment: /questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting/42604#42604&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144790" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:53:18.083" LastActivityDate="2010-04-25T07:00:06.790" Title="User feed contains comment entries with duplicate IDs" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42613" CreationDate="2010-03-18T02:58:40.973" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32638/which-cms-or-other-framework-should-i-use-to-develop-a-stackoverflow-like-site&quot;&gt;Which CMS or other framework should I use to develop a stackoverflow-like site?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T02:58:40.973" />
  <row Id="42619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42337" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:05:09.550" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone port this to Windows? It looks better than the current site -- and it seems ot have less advertisements. Maybe you could add Yahoo Questions, and Experts Exchange too that way it isn't so one sided. That will probably also widen the adoption, Yahoo Answers is still the 600lb gorilla.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:05:09.550" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42474" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:10:55.337" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recent Activity is a good way for the community to moderate itself. Turning that off means there's something that someone is trying to hide. Which isn't a good thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say there's a user who goes around &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting&quot; title=&quot;but we don't stop those users do we?&quot;&gt;posting inane upvotes&lt;/a&gt; on new users who post their first question, when it clearly is of no effort or readability. Something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;+1 Welcome to Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe they've gone and left some profane edit summaries on other users' posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recent Activity is the only way to show those both at a glance and allow the other users of the site to flag such behaviour as offensive or such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making that optional means less transparency in how the site runs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42324/should-moderators-use-their-abilities-for-personal-reasons&quot; title=&quot;unless you want to run favours&quot;&gt;We don't need less transparency&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:10:55.337" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42626" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:30:35.777" Score="1" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has any question or answer in meta stack overflow criticising downvoting in any way, shape or form escaped being downvoted itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting&quot;&gt;Even Jeff Atwood isn't immune.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have there been &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; exceptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:50:32.540" Title="Does criticizing downvoting automatically attract downvotes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42625" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:38:54.433" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course it does.  Watch this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downvoting sucks!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:38:54.433" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42625" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:50:32.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never gonna give you up, never gonna vote you down, never gonna lower your rep, and hurt you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:50:32.540" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:51:33.023" Score="7" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting&quot;&gt;This post's&lt;/a&gt; vote count does not accurately display the votes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;Because someone just had to complain.&lt;/sup&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my lengthy experience at StackOverflow, I believe that this is a conspiracy against us all! Jeff doesn't want his posts to look horrible so he created 10 sock puppet accounts to up vote him. Why does he not want these posts to look horrible? It is all an evil conspiracy I tell you! The most upvotes he gets, the better he looks in the communities eyes. Thus he secretly tricks us all into believing what he says is gold. It is a plot to bring back the concept of divine right! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when he has successfully tricked us all into accepting every word he utters, he will tell us all to program him machines to make waffles! And not just any waffles, these are waffles that will be delivered to him on the backs of domesticated ponies! Furthermore, he will attempt to create the perfect waffle maker! With so many developers at his disposal, there is no way he could loose! He will attempt to break the last law Einstein ever developed: &lt;em&gt;That the first waffle must always be the worst!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He will try to make a waffle maker that is so completely perfect that the first waffle will be cooked &lt;strong&gt;perfectly&lt;/strong&gt; through, thus proving Einstein's theory wrong. Why would he do this you might ask? Elementary my dear child. You see, once he has proved Einstein's theory wrong, he can slowly take over small pancake and waffle houses, and eventually move all the way up and conquer the International House of Pancakes, and change it to be the &lt;strong&gt;International House of Waffles&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he has turned that, we will all see his true intentions. You see, the mayor of a little town in Louisiana loves the House of Pancakes, however he despises waffles. As we all know, Louisiana is the biggest producer of rubber chickens. Therefore, the mayor will take the rubber chickens and begin to place them in random parts of California's Governor's mansion. There, Arnold (something I can't spell) will fall flat on his face, and then grab his nuclear missles and threaten Louisiana. Of course, in Louisiana is also the biggest producer of bacon. And you see, Jeff hates bacon, as shown by his avatar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/51d623f33f8b83095db84ff35e15dbe8?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, this is a picture of someone eating bacon. But, this is no normal person, as no one on earth could actually hate bacon. Therefore, Jeff must be an alien who has a secret weakness to bacon, and is attempting to destroy all the bacon in the world! When he has destroy bacon, the world will fall into chaos and some stupid programmer will create something similar to Y2K. Then, everyone will rush to StackOverflow to solve the problem of why their toilets are continually getting clogged up, made by what I like to call Y2.5k, and they will be forced to upvote his answers to their questions!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've figured you out Jeff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;In the above post, all facts about Famous People, State Industrial Production, and Historical Figures are assumed to be true.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T02:27:28.973" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T02:27:28.973" Title="Vote Count is Off and why Jeff is trying to destroy all BACON!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;bacon&gt;&lt;conspiracy-theory&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:56:15.983" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 18 users who exhibit this poor behavior out of how many now?  And how significant has the 'damage' been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tempted to close this as &quot;too localized&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;;-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But hey, I'm at the opposite extreme.  If you're going to force people to play pollyanna, you probably ought to make sure people like me have to play punisher occasionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say I'm a big fan of halting people at the poll box and inspecting their vote before allowing them to cast it, but you've got all the data.  Balancing a game is hard, and if this behavior is proving damaging then something does have to be done about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:56:15.983" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42628" CreationDate="2010-03-18T03:57:54.097" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: This answer was provided before the conspiracy was uncovered&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comments on that post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I cleared all votes on this post because I want it to get discussion. Ironically I can no longer lock it to prevent voting because locking now prevents answers from being added.. so &lt;strong&gt;I am adding +10 denormalized&lt;/strong&gt; (not real, no data is backing them) &lt;strong&gt;votes&lt;/strong&gt; as a cheap substitute for locking, for the moment. – Jeff Atwood♦ 3 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T03:57:54.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T04:02:22.643" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a kind of sticky one... On the one hand, I believe that people should be able to vote how they choose on posts. Especially (as has been pointed out) since there's a large portion of people who shy away from downvoting posts that truly deserve it, since they don't want to hurt their own rep. So having a minority who downvotes heavily is arguably a good thing, to make sure those (deserved) downvotes are still getting given (of course this presupposes that the downvoters in question are downvoting posts that legitimately deserve it, but you haven't provided data either way on that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, having disgruntled users (&amp;amp; the team swamped with emails) is obviously not a good long term scenario either...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another random idea&lt;/strong&gt;: Make the cost of a downvote relative to your up:down ratio like so (obviously you'd want to tweak the numbers)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; &lt;b&gt;Up:down ratio&lt;/b&gt; | &lt;b&gt;Rep cost for a downvote&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;---------------+------------------------&#xA; &gt; 200:1       |  0&#xA; &gt; 100:1       |  1&#xA; &gt; 10:1        |  2&#xA; &gt; 5:1         |  3&#xA; &gt; 2:1         |  5&#xA; &gt; 0:1         |  10&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That way people can still vote how they want, but if you're a serial downvoter, its going to cost you. Probably more complicated than its worth (&amp;amp; no doubt confusing to the user), but at least there's no hard limit on the user behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also &lt;em&gt;encourage&lt;/em&gt; people to make &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; downvotes (since they're free if you don't make many), which I think overall is a good thing for the health of the SO ecosystem (we need some reasonable number of downvotes happening to keep some semblance of control on the noise. Hopefully this suggestion would even out the downvoting across the board rather than having the bulk who barely downvote at all and a minority who downvote heavily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T04:02:22.643" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42628" CreationDate="2010-03-18T04:05:41.097" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The daily scripts will normalize the vote counts to their actual values anyway. So within 24 hours it will be back to &quot;normal&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T04:05:41.097" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42628" CreationDate="2010-03-18T04:05:53.220" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the bacon chunky?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T04:05:53.220" />
  <row Id="42634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39209" CreationDate="2010-03-18T04:10:42.623" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;pish posh, babies love Stack Overflow as-is -- this is a &lt;em&gt;known fact!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitpic.com/18nmbx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitpic.com/18nmbx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/f4hd6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-18T16:56:53.550" LastActivityDate="2011-02-18T16:56:53.550" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42628" CreationDate="2010-03-18T04:24:27.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He only likes beef jerky.  The bacon hater in him is fully armed and operational!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T04:24:27.423" />
  <row Id="42637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T05:50:43.757" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't sure until I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting/42609#42609&quot;&gt;Jeff's comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;is this a big problem&quot; considering the ratio we're talking about would affect 6 users out of a userbase of about 100k, I'd say no. But the ill will generated by this behavior has a disproportionately large effect, to the point that it starts driving out friendliness and replacing it with bitterness, discontent, and ultimately vindictiveness.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nastiness tends to spread. Even if you don't mean to be nasty, you had a bad day/week, and just spewed your venom for a little bit and are back to normal, the venom's in circulation. Coupled with the fact that it's &lt;em&gt;specifically designed/intended&lt;/em&gt; to affect edge cases, I think it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People, and people who pride themselves on their knowledge in particular, can either be prone to or become trapped in a self-perpetuating cycle of disdain and derision. It's not a problem yet, perhaps, because SO goes out of its way to encourage positive interaction. Don't ask me about numbers, I don't have them. But go look at the old tech forums and bulletin boards. Or just remember the atmosphere. Do you think people intended to set up a place where every thread could turn into a flame war or snipefest? I don't think, generally, that's the case, but I do think it became a widely known issue for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T05:50:43.757" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42638" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T06:30:10.543" Score="-4" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2465308/code-golf-write-an-stackoverflow-clone-closed&quot;&gt;Code Golf: Write an Stackoverflow clone&lt;/a&gt; is currently sitting at -14 votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I get a badge of some sort for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143132" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T06:39:53.980" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T06:52:48.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-18T06:30:17.267" Title="Badge for low score?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42638" CreationDate="2010-03-18T06:32:47.417" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll get a badge if you &lt;em&gt;delete&lt;/em&gt; a posting with a score of -3 or less. Not sure if it works for CW posts, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145159" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T06:35:23.293" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-18T06:32:47.417" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42628" CreationDate="2010-03-18T06:40:22.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He will try to make a waffle maker that is so completely perfect [&amp;hellip;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have very serious doubts about that. Jeff has &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37493/what-do-stack-overflow-users-like-for-breakfast/37522#37522&quot;&gt;admitted openly&lt;/a&gt; to having an affinity to a certain kind of waffle maker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/8200/hellokittywafflemaker.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's hooked. He's not going to want to replace this with something that is merely &quot;completely perfect.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T06:40:22.047" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42638" CreationDate="2010-03-18T06:52:48.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Badges are given out to encourage certain types of behavior that are considered &quot;good&quot; in some way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question receives 15 downvotes and no upvotes, chances are pretty high that it's a bad question. Posting bad questions is not considered good behavior, so there's no badge for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;On a side note, I've been having the idea in my head for quite a while to post this very code golf question. If you do something like that, you have to provide exact specs. In this case, either a REST API that is specified, or input/output of a CGI script, or something like that. CGI would probably be the best, meaning there's no network cruft to worry about. You'd also have to specify exactly what kinds of thing you should be able to do with the app, and provide sample input/output data, and more. Running a good code golf isn't just jotting down 2 1/2 sentences and then going home. I have myself run a pretty successful (in terms of how it was received by the community) code golf, and I assure you it was quite some work.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T06:52:48.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-18T06:52:48.127" />
  <row Id="42642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T06:56:14.630" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I no longer think it is community friendly behavior to cast an extreme number of downvotes, and I am considering an explicit policy forbidding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you trying to &lt;em&gt;make&lt;/em&gt; people act friendly by changing policy?  &lt;strong&gt;On the face of it, that doesn't sound like a good idea &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The world is not a carebear world, and even though I want the SO environment to be more welcoming than the real world, I don't see legislating downvotes changing that.  The main sources of unfriendliness are, IMHO, comments, answers, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42259/questions-using-my-site-as-the-basis-are-unfairly-being-closed#comment-94385&quot;&gt;other actions&lt;/a&gt;, rather than downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed more downvoting on my part recently.  I went from somewhere around 1,700:600 (2.83:1) to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54262/&quot;&gt;present&lt;/a&gt; 1,893:1,110 (1.71:1) for about 200:500 (0.40:1) in my most recent votes.  &lt;strong&gt;According to those numbers, approx. my last month's worth of voting doesn't meet the suggested 'friendliness requirement'.&lt;/strong&gt;  Yet, I don't feel like I'm doing anything wrong.  Am I blind and hateful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a conscious decision, but I have run into the daily vote limit often&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;.  Perhaps I have subconsciously realized I only have 30 votes per day and that upvoting from 5 to 6 isn't nearly as useful as legitimately downvoting from 2 to 1 or 0 to -1?  It's not that I don't want to upvote; I'm trying to make the most positive impact possible (legitimately pointing out errors and flaws should be a positive improvement, right?&lt;sup&gt;[2]&lt;/sup&gt;) and have limited votes to do it with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[1] Speaking of which, I bookmark posts when that happens, is my rapid-fire voting the next day on all those saved bookmarks triggering any &quot;suspicious voting&quot;?&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;[2] I am happy to reverse the vote when they respond to my comment and point out where I'm wrong, or fix the flaw, etc.  Or, as pointed out elsewhere here, if they just delete then they can get the rep back in a recalc, but the downvote stays on my record.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To temper that 200:500 ratio, I realized that a large chunk of those downvotes (about 100? strongly doubt it's more) are from community wiki questions, where I downvoted to express opinion, indicate duplicates (e.g. on the questions with 75+ answers), and so forth.  I have more &quot;large&quot; CW questions bookmarked, and could easily add 30 downvotes/day for several days by just going through most of them (again, upvoting good answers on those questions is largely redundant at this point, and I'd rather point out duplicates and flaws).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting#comment-95603&quot;&gt;dmckee's comment&lt;/a&gt; regarding downvotes being appropriate:&lt;/strong&gt; In a rep recalc (completed recently, and the first my account has ever had, AFAIK), I gained ~100 rep but didn't see a decrease in my downvote count. However, I also know I have one deleted answer with +6 votes, plus misc. others, so could it have been up to ~200 downvotes on now deleted non-CW questions/answers?  I have extremely few, if any, downvoted and deleted answers (e.g. no peer pressure badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking the higher estimate of 200 downvotes (but please someone mention if I've misinterpreted), that means roughly 18% of my downvotes have been explicitly endorsed by either the original poster or the high-rep users (i.e. owner-deleted answer or closed+deleted question+answers), which seems like a decent percentage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:00:07.060" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="42643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41858" CreationDate="2010-03-18T06:57:51.413" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I also received the following error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;414 Request-URI Too Large&quot; &#xA;  The requested URL /accounts/TokenAuth... is too large to process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a quick workaround, try logging into the blogger.com account first and then try to login to stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27083" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T06:57:51.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9431" CreationDate="2010-03-18T07:16:13.340" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These votes, if they don't reach the threshold, age and get auto-deleted after (n) days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So really we're just preventing hot-headed vote wars within that (n) day period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure if people are passionate enough to care about a given question and follow up &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; later, more power to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T07:16:13.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T07:18:42.013" Score="13" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a big fan of upvoting everything in sight, either, yet I don't see that being considered a problem. It seems absurd to stop people from casting their votes as they see fit, as long as they're not gaming the system, doing it out of malice or with bad intentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's already a &lt;strong&gt;rep hit&lt;/strong&gt; for downvoting. This rep hit should be increased to -2/-5 as proposed just to make it harder, but the total number of downvotes you're allowed to have should not change. &lt;strong&gt;Some questions and answers are bad&lt;/strong&gt;, there's no denying it, no matter how much editing you do. Why not be allowed to downvote it? It's a democratic process. They'll receive &lt;strong&gt;pity upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; anyway (which is probably one of the worst thing to do anyway; don't encourage people to be lazy, to not put any effort and to misinform).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason you've given is to keep the Trilogy community friendly. Ok, I agree, downvoting a lot seems unfriendly, but there needs to be some sort of backlash for undesired behavior. If my question gets closed within minutes or gets edited too much, I might feel equally upset, especially as a new user. Almost anything can be perceived as negative, even good things as closing as duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;strong&gt;we're too scared to lose our precious rep&lt;/strong&gt;. That could be a reason why there are so few people with a lot of downvotes, not because everyone is trying to be friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; reading Jeff's comments from this post I see that his intention is to reduce the complaints about downvotes. And I have the perfect solution! &lt;strong&gt;No more downvotes!&lt;/strong&gt; There's too many of them; &lt;strong&gt;0.8%&lt;/strong&gt; of all votes cast, simply enormous!1!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course people complain about downvotes, they're a form of punishment and of disagreement. &lt;strong&gt;No one likes to be proved wrong&lt;/strong&gt; or to be punished for being sloppy/ignorant/just plain wrong! The -1 we receive when we downvote is also a sort of punishment and a deterrent, yet we don't complain about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've been rather vocal about the 30s limit on comments, limit on name changes, lack of explanations regarding haikus, rep losses due to rep recalcs and a lot of other stuff, yet I don't see any of that changing. You want to make people feel better, yet you're once again &lt;strong&gt;annoying a very active part of the community&lt;/strong&gt;. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you looked into each email and examined it carefully? Have those people really been wronged? Were they only downvoted by the people you pointed out in your question or were they downvoted by multiple members of the community? You just want to find scapegoats for the angry members of the community that have been downvoted yet maybe those downvotes were warranted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T16:15:48.677" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:15:48.677" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="42647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42650" CreationDate="2010-03-18T07:24:48.000" Score="12" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/63/tumbleweed&quot;&gt;Tumbleweed badge&lt;/a&gt; is awarded for a low voted, lowly viewed and unanswered question (it's more like a negative badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, think of the question that is so mind-blowing in its awesomness that it ratchets up the attention of a large base of users as well as picking up a scurry of upvotes in its favor. But, it also has no answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;(How about the one with no accepted answers too?)&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a good idea to award a badge for such a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The eligibility of question [I mean number of votes, views etc] depends on review and suggestions. Basically I have an Idea that &quot;question with 5+ up-votes and 100+ views is eligible&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140364" LastEditorUserId="140364" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T05:29:17.110" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T05:29:17.110" Title="New badge for questions with a high number of views, high number of votes and no answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="42650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42647" CreationDate="2010-03-18T08:43:16.103" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there should be one for no accepted answers. That would only encourage users to avoid accepting answers in case they get a badge, which is not a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quite like the idea of a popular question that remains unanswered for a long time though, along the lines of Fermat's Last Theorem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130494" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T08:43:16.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42628" CreationDate="2010-03-18T09:06:06.217" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's how some people think pity upvotes aren't that bad a situation or no situation at all because you can't read intent behind how people vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then you find this mind-reading insight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I should also add that I think this was downvoted for hilarity and not because the community thinks it is a bad idea. I am all for hilarity but not when it prevents discussion of a semi-important policy change.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You thought the community was you? You're wrong. It's Jeff Atwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the bacon says if the community is against a feature request or policy change, but the oink oink says it's good and cracklin', then it'll be &lt;strong&gt;[status-completed]&lt;/strong&gt; soon enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you mister money man VC with your bling and ka-ching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T09:06:06.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T09:41:00.147" Score="0" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33307/rep-tooltip-doesnt-provide-any-context&quot;&gt;Rep tooltip doesn&amp;rsquo;t provide any context&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever there're comments to any post each comment contains the author name next to it. When I move the mouse to the author name SUDDENLY a hint with a number if shown. Turns out, it is the comment author rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is likely the only place where it is unclear. For example, when rep is shown next to a post it is a number just as well, but the hint clealy says &quot;reputation score [number]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not use &quot;reputation score [number]&quot; or any similar text for comment authors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132564" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-01T14:25:49.510" LastActivityDate="2010-07-01T14:25:49.510" ClosedDate="2010-03-18T09:46:01.393" Title="It's not obvious that a hint shown when I point on a comment author is the author's rep" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;tooltips&gt;" />
  <row Id="42654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:01:19.437" Score="6" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can easily find answers I;ve given, and comments made on my posts. But often I comment on an answer in a question and then never find the question again. Is this accessible anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144795" LastActivityDate="2011-03-03T21:41:16.533" Title="How can I find comments I've made or posts I've commented on?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="42655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42654" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:04:19.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/144795?tab=activity#tab-top&quot;&gt;activity tab on your profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that's a limited list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, you have to bookmark them yourself, or look them up in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the data dump&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=1021&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is an example for my userid on SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I would give an example with your userid, but as your accounts aren't associated, and &quot;John&quot; isn't particularly a unique name... ;-)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T10:17:53.983" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T10:17:53.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:24:51.360" Score="0" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1313/best-time-to-ask-questions&quot;&gt;Best Time to Ask Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any statistics as to what time and days questions are answered? For example, in IT sales, tuesdays are great days as compared to sundays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the time has been mentioned in a question before, the days are not. Wondering if tuesday is better than sunday?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151145" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T10:24:51.360" ClosedDate="2010-03-18T10:31:06.890" Title="The best time to ask a question" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42660" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:30:58.500" Score="4" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;When our reputation is going down ? I know one thing when someone downvotes to our question but what is other reason when our reputation is going down ? Is it that  if we delete the question which we asked the reputation goes down ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because here my reputation goes down by 45 points and I dont know reason.No one has made down votes to my any question after I had 728 reputation and now I has 683.I don't understand why it happened ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T10:32:12.047" Title="Why did reputation go down by 45 points?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42661" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:31:05.457" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to delete my question because of next:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not longer interesting in it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I didn't get any proper answer that can't be even upvoted. No one else didn't upvoted any of these answers. Most of them even don't answer this question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It decrease my &quot;accept rate&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't delete id because of &quot;there are too many answers&quot;. May be the rules for question deletion should be reviewed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the question itself:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2423709/is-it-possible-to-call-an-instance-method-from-a-static-constructor-in-wcf-servic&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2423709/is-it-possible-to-call-an-instance-method-from-a-static-constructor-in-wcf-servic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134936" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T11:10:28.293" Title="Can't delete my question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42658" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:32:12.047" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You were probably subject to a reputation recalculation, which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The process where a moderator can&#xA;  cause a user's reputation to be&#xA;  &quot;recalculated&quot; from the database&#xA;  record. Certain activities do not&#xA;  immediately change a user's reputation&#xA;  (i.e. deleting a post). A &quot;rep recalc&quot;&#xA;  can be performed to adjust a users&#xA;  reputation based on the current posts&#xA;  and votes in the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40353/stack-overflow-glossary&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Glossary&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T10:32:12.047" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42659" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:44:26.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind, you are destroying other people's answers -- answers they submitted in good faith -- when you delete your question. That's why the deletion rules are in place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I understand what you mean, as all 4 answers refer to your pre-edit version of the question. I humbly submit that you erred in the way you asked the question, since every answerer misunderstood you. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good idea to bring this up on meta, though -- that's what it's here for!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T10:44:26.053" />
  <row Id="42662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5460" CreationDate="2010-03-18T10:53:55.797" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;word-wrap:break-word&lt;/code&gt; suggestion is a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Works fine on posts, which are fixed width, and that is implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near as I can tell, there is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; way to get this to work on comments because they are variable width. That is, the actual comment size depends on whether or not the comment vote UI controls are present (fex, on your own comment, you don't have controls, if you're not logged in there are no controls, etc), and if the comment has say 100 upvotes that's wider still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: because we loop through comments on the fly for rendering anyway, we are now force-inserting &lt;s&gt;a soft hyphen&lt;/s&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44011/zero-width-non-joiner-allows-unclickable-titles#comment-100386&quot;&gt;boring&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/91498/is-there-a-css-problem-on-stackoverflow/91512#91512&quot;&gt;unicode spaces&lt;/a&gt; every so many characters without a space. So this should be truly fixed now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-16T18:06:31.907" LastActivityDate="2011-05-16T18:06:31.907" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42666" CreationDate="2010-03-18T12:13:32.503" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many no of question can we ask in stackoverflow ? Is there limit for that ? I am not talking about no of question per hour or minute but limit of total number question.And my second question is can we know about profile visitors ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:44:29.100" Title="Any limit for asking question,Knowing about profile visitors" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42665" CreationDate="2010-03-18T12:19:18.477" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How many no of question can we ask in&#xA;  stackoverflow ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no limit to the number of questions you can ask on Stack Overflow.  You can ask as many as you want.  However, be sure that your questions are useful and belong on the site.  If your questions are flagged as spam or offensive your account could be suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;can we know about profile visitors ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much the only information you get about others visiting your profile is under your profile image on your profile page.  It will tell you how many people have viewed your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T12:19:18.477" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T12:35:36.910" Score="3" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7505/please-sort-deleted-answers-to-the-bottom&quot;&gt;Please sort deleted answers to the bottom.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently deleted answers (visible to users with 10k+rep) are shown in order as if they are regular answers (i.e. if they have more upvotes than not-deleted answers, they still show above them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2465041/run-jsp-in-eclipse-on-specific-port-and-ssl/2468482&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, as they are deleted, they can be shown at the bottom (ordered by votes among themselves, if there are more than one deleted answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T12:35:36.910" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T00:31:59.527" Title="Ordering of deleted answers among others" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T13:06:03.370" Score="8" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if, when I say search using Google, the results I see that point to StackOverflow trilogy sites are influenced in any way by the votes we make. I don't know much about these sorts of things so it may well be a completely obvious answer to everyone else. I understand that back links to questions and answers is used to rank results but it would be great if the efforts we've made to vote on items is also taken into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if votes have such an influence on search result rankings? And if not, is there any way that this could be achieved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:34:43.577" Title="Do trilogy site votes influence external search engine results?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T13:06:59.717" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, new answer.  Let's assume for the sake of discussion that this problem is real and must be addressed.  Is this policy an effective way to do that?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the only effect of this policy would be cultural.  That is, Jeff and moderators could then truthfully say, &quot;Excessive downvoting is viewed as anti-community and is discouraged.&quot;  That in itself can be a powerful message that could have positive benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, I see little benefit.  The six people who would be affected have cast a total of 1800 votes, or about half a percent of all downvotes, or 0.003% of all votes.  So in all likelihood, people will continue to receive downvotes which are upsetting to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the people affected can easily get around this to continue to cast downvotes as they see fit, simply by also casting upvotes.  It doesn't seem to me that a person who is upset by downvotes will be less upset by the fact that the downvoter has cast more upvotes than is currently the case.  Rather, I think that the recipient of the downvotes first becomes upset, and then  goes to look for reasons why the downvote they received was unfair.  While this will reduce the incidence of one of those reasons (for six users), I think that the overall effect from the downvote recipient's perspective will be negligible.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, if we are simply looking for something we can say to the community when they are upset by excessive downvoting, this will be suitable.  If we are looking for a way to reduce excessive downvoting and keep people from getting upset in the first place, I don't think this will do very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:06:59.717" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T13:15:27.843" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to post this as an answer just because the comment thread on the appropriate answer is long enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Have you run your query on Meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:15:27.843" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42669" CreationDate="2010-03-18T13:27:27.947" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the number of votes does not influence the search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I can't think of a way to achieve this, except for contracts/agreements with google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:27:27.947" />
  <row Id="42673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42669" CreationDate="2010-03-18T13:28:19.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the site's owners have any possibility to &quot;prioritize&quot; the way their pages are indexed - except for building artificial obstacles to the indexing of low-vote questions which no sane site owner will do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as there is no all-encompassing Google toolbar-like programm counting people's actual visits to specific pages, and sending those results back to the search engine (and I hope this doesn't come true on a large scale), the only way I can see would be the search engine taking voting into considerations. Maybe they will do this one day (I think it's highly likely), or maybe they're already at it. I doubt, though, that we will be informed in detail if they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:28:19.427" />
  <row Id="42674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42669" CreationDate="2010-03-18T13:29:23.623" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can influence in indirect ways. More votes means more visibility, which probably means more people will link to the question from other sites/blogs, which in turn boosts search ranking.  Upvotes also keep the questions on the front page longer, which may (I have no idea) influence search ranking somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T13:29:23.623" />
  <row Id="42677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42669" CreationDate="2010-03-18T14:42:07.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The search results are very likely influenced by votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers with more votes get promoted to the top of the page. Search engines usually put more weight on what they find closer to the beginning of a page rather then at the end of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if you asked a question about jobs and career, somebody made a funny answer about ponies and it somehow got upvoted to the top, the question will be indexed and categorized as related to jobs with ponies. Especially, if there are follow-up comments mentioning ponies as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Did you notice there is a trend lately with all those ponies. People mention ponies everywhere, create nick names with ponies in it, joke about ponies, ponies this and ponies that. I mean, what's up? Is this a year of the pony or is somebody crazy about ponies or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Now, only 6 hours later, this question rates high for ponies in Google:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3674/poniesingoogle.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="136634" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T21:47:40.653" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:47:40.653" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T15:39:43.823" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a hypothesis. Implementing this policy won't change the flow of email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I support this hypothesis as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Stack Overflow users pass through three instars: larva, pupa, and moth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Larval users have such low rep that a downvote feels like a real hit. This feeling is amplified by the initial shock of that first bit of negative feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pupae have enough rep that the impact of a downvote is no longer a significant hit to their overall rep. Further, in the process of gaining that rep, they've met enough negative comments and downvotes to have some thickness of skin. (Unless, of course, they've gotten their rep entirely by throwing softball questions.) However, they are still coveteous of their rep, and so downvote sparingly, if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moths have enough rep to spend it on downvotes, and are &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; not perturbed by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, my claim: even polite, low-ratio downvoting will continue to generate plenty of complaining email. Because it is human nature to complain about the perceived unfairness of negative feedback. (And I bet that your email comes from a bimodal distribution: larvae and the constitutionally hypersensitive.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Meta, all the time, we write 'votes are on content, not people.' But the rep system guarantees that people will feel the sting. If you want happier users, then you need some way of getting bad content to sink without ruffling the feathers of its creators. This strikes me as a quest for a square circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are going to limit downvotes, I wish that you'd put a symmetrical limit on upvotes. Require more rep for them, or limit them. I mostly downvote to counteract the effects of what I see as ridiculous upvotes. I'm ready to leave something mediocre at '0', but I am provoked into spending rep when I see positive numbers on content of negative value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have some concrete suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An 'interstitial' page that comes up for the first N postings, for small N. It would say:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.1. Content you post is licensed, forever, to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.2. People get to vote on your content. Sooner or later, you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; get downvoted. Have faith; if you contribute to the site over the long term your upvotes will be many more than your downvotes. Please do not send unhappy email to the management just because you get a downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voting on question requires M points of rep, where M is at least 500. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T21:34:19.020" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:34:19.020" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="42679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42950" CreationDate="2010-03-18T15:39:53.013" Score="0" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tiny icon (&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/tag-postgresql.png&quot; alt=&quot;this one&quot;&gt;) on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postgresql&quot;&gt;PostgreSQL tag&lt;/a&gt; is nasty. Could we change it to use the favicon from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.postgresql.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;their website&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.postgresql.org/favicon.ico&quot; alt=&quot;to this one&quot;&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T03:05:46.680" Title="Please Fix the PostgreSQL Icon" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="42680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42679" CreationDate="2010-03-18T15:42:34.807" Score="-6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're asking for change just to modify an icon? Really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T15:42:34.807" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42679" CreationDate="2010-03-18T15:45:51.233" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you notice, when you go to the tag page you &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postgresql&quot;&gt;linked to&lt;/a&gt;, at the top of the page it explains why the icon is as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The icons for the tags do not necessarily represent the product the tag is describing.  The icons represent a company that is paying to have their logo next to that tag.  In this case &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commandprompt.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Command Prompt Inc.&lt;/a&gt; is sponsoring the &lt;code&gt;postgresql&lt;/code&gt; tag, which is why the tag carries the Command Prompt logo, not the Postgres logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sponsored tags have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sponsored-tags&quot;&gt;discussed extensively&lt;/a&gt; here on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T15:45:51.233" />
  <row Id="42682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39405" CreationDate="2010-03-18T15:46:19.470" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's one, don't go around asking new users to change their DisplayName for &lt;strong&gt;no reason.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Stack Overflow, @asdf. Can I interest you in changing your name? :) – Jonathan Sampson ♦ &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2422272/purevolume-round-corners/&quot;&gt;Mar 11 at 3:24&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about &lt;strong&gt;asdf&lt;/strong&gt; is so offensive or so in your face that a user should not be allowed to keep that as their DisplayName should they so wish? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a moderator, you telling new users that they can't have one name without notice of any unseen and unwritten guidelines that they're breaking creates a bad atmosphere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, flagged the comment as offensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And now that that comment no longer exists means it's been flagged by other users who thought similarly (noise or spam possibly too) or you've tried to cover your tracks.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Moderator duties involve what now?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording is vague and does not help a new member understand why they're being asked to change their name. If it's a community building message, it's certainly not clear as to how or why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when did it become the moderator's duties to go around chasing new users to choose an even more unique DisplayName than one they've chosen and/or identify with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emoticons are no substitute for being clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Intent vs clarity&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not clear or upfront, hiding behind an emoticon only shows you know you're being neither.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comment: That's subjective, and assumes a new user knows what the diamond means. Furthermore, it assumes the user can't understand English. Demands are demands on Stack Overflow. Requests are requests. – Jonathan Sampson♦ 8 hours ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask them to change their name. Why? &lt;strong&gt;No reason given.&lt;/strong&gt; When they see your DisplayName followed by a diamond, they might be inclined to click on it since other users don't have a diamond. And see that you're a moderator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their first post and a moderator is asking them to already change their name. But yet, there is no reason why this request is being made, other than... well, they have to fill in the blank here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T04:14:55.707" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T04:14:55.707" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-18T15:46:19.470" CommentCount="21" />
  <row Id="42683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42679" CreationDate="2010-03-18T15:47:22.887" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tag is sponsored, and it is up to the advertiser to choose the image.  Note that they are NOT advertising PostgreSQL the project, and therefore may be unable to use the project's trademarked icon, or even one very similar to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T15:47:22.887" />
  <row Id="42684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42685" CreationDate="2010-03-18T16:01:37.027" Score="4" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31082/why-did-i-lose-reputation-points&quot;&gt;Why did I lose reputation points?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's weird, I was at 2000 reputation yesterday and twittered proud about it. Now I'm down to 1700.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not gained many points by the twitter post and I don't get it why I fell 300 under the value before the posting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My profile is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33624/patrick-cornelissen&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133639" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T16:03:52.050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:40:18.793" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T00:13:40.720" Title="Why did I lose 360 reputation on SO?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42684" CreationDate="2010-03-18T16:05:12.753" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no discontinuity in your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/33624?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;rep graph&lt;/a&gt;, so chances are good that you had a rep recalc done on your account due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suspicious voting behavior&lt;/a&gt; (ie, another user(s) voting up your questions disproportionately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:05:12.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42684" CreationDate="2010-03-18T16:05:26.543" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like a system Wide Reputation recalc ran last night. I lost a little reputation as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that reputation you lose from the Recalc comes from different sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posts that are Migrated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Posts that are Deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People that &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/vote-fraud-and-you/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;may vote for your questions repeatedly&lt;/a&gt;, over the 'norm'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:05:26.543" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T16:38:52.567" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first saw this question title, I thought it was from a new user. Imagine my surprise when I saw it was Jeff Atwood who posted the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liberty lost for one is liberty lost for all. There's no getting around that.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvoting incurs a cost, yet it provides as much of a benefit as upvoting. It lets the passerby know what's 'good' and what's 'bad'. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already know that there are reports of sympathy upvotes (many, many reports). We know that users that serially vote for another user have their reputation recalculated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are we punishing people for their non-targeted aggregate behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're going to target people who only downvote, please also show us the data for people who mostly or only upvote. I think they are the problem because it's not possible for them not to have seen a 'bad' post in all their time here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T16:43:46.873" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:43:46.873" />
  <row Id="42689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T16:44:59.630" Score="7" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting costs you, not much, but it does cost you. There are discussions to increase the cost of a downvote on the issuer, I'm wondering if the same should be done for upvotes as well. I probably just set a lot of you on tilt, but give me a second to hash out my reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was recently discussing &quot;pity upvotes,&quot; where users apparently grant upvotes for no apparent reason (somebody want to help me on the technical definition?). After all, upvotes are free, and don't cost you anything. Allegedly, there's a problem with pity upvotes where users allegedly feel they can post &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; and get some rep from it. If this were the case, how would you suggest addressing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious as to whether it should cost me to upvote a question/answer. Not much, but &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;. That way I'm giving away of piece of me in order to elevate a worthy-post higher in the stack, both internally to a question, or externally on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced there is a pity upvote problem, but if there was, how many of these issuers would still cast pity votes if it cost them -1 reputation? The recipient still gains +10. I don't think your average user would have any problem with this, considering they themselves need only 1 upvote to pay the price to upvote 10 other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright, I'm done speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T11:15:29.377" Title="Towards Preventing &quot;Pity Up Votes&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;pity-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="42690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42689" CreationDate="2010-03-18T16:50:45.463" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple solution would be to implement the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;delayed increased rep hit for downvotes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, policy stating whether &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=pity+upvotes&quot;&gt;pity upvotes&lt;/a&gt; are acceptable or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting is what makes the site filter the crap out fast. If voting costs rep, then you are discouraging it, and the crap will stay longer, making the site less valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:50:45.463" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="42691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42689" CreationDate="2010-03-18T16:55:08.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could we have it so the cost is only incurred for answers which are already net negative? Obviously we'd have to warn users before their vote was submitted. Perhaps use the -3 threshold currently used for greying out answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how workable this idea is, just thought I'd put it in the mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T16:55:08.963" />
  <row Id="42692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:01:29.330" Score="9" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since stackoverflow already supports &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-KBD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;kbd&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt; for text &lt;em&gt;input&lt;/em&gt;, it only makes sense to support the matching &lt;em&gt;output&lt;/em&gt; from a program, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-SAMP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;samp&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt;, distinctly from the program &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-CODE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/a&gt; itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144813" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T17:01:29.330" Title="Could &lt;samp&gt; support be added to stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42703" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:06:04.427" Score="11" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we've been having a big discussion about so-called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting&quot;&gt;excessive voting&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and I figured I would weigh in with a more robust idea that accomplishes the same goal, better and without the need to artificially hinder users who just happen to stumble upon a lot of bad posts: the &lt;strong&gt;deviant vote alarm&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my idea: instead of going by absolute, arbitrary ratios, we look at votes on a weighted case-by-case manner: every vote that goes against the grain is a &quot;deviant&quot; vote. The more similar votes a post has, the more &quot;deviance&quot; the counter vote has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if a post has ten upvotes, a downvote is deviant. Likewise, if a post has five downvotes, pity upvotes are deviant. The downvote is considered more deviant because it is more against an established norm. Votes for or against mid-ground posts cannot be considered deviant. Deviance is accumulated by users, and dissipates over time. Deviance in an of itself is not a bad thing; rather it's just a measurement of how often a user votes opposite of everyone else. There should be no automated restrictions on actions that create more deviance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, both pity upvotes (against negative-voted posts) and malicious downvotes (against positive-voted posts) are captured and weighed using the same mechanism. Once a user has achieved a certain threshold of vote deviance, he is automatically flagged for a moderator to look into him (the deviant vote alarm). The moderator then uses his discretion to determine if the user is malicious or had legitimate reason for casting so many deviant votes. Singular deviant votes are not enough to trigger the alarm - thresholds need to be set so that false positives aren't commonplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T20:40:39.687" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T20:40:39.687" Title="Deviant vote alarm" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;pity-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="23" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42693" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:10:53.070" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I upvoted this, because I think it takes an interesting perspective. This reminds me of controversial-patterns, but instead the controversy is a property of the vote itself. A single down vote on a post that has 3 times its weight in up votes appears to be controversial, or as you put it &quot;deviant.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea could benefit from some discussion, but I like the direction and I think it would address &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; of the malicious voting patterns that take place on Stack Overflow. I often times do see posts with +5 or +10, and a single -1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T17:10:53.070" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="42696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42689" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:15:45.343" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've already seen too many questions/answers that deserve many more upvotes than they receive so trying to stop pity upvotes seems to be combating the wrong thing in my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140209" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T17:15:45.343" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42693" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:18:13.703" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The next natural step from there is a &lt;strong&gt;Lemming Alarm&lt;/strong&gt; for people who &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; vote in lock-step with the herd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All things in moderation, including conformity. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T17:18:13.703" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:28:37.053" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I am on the &quot;Tags&quot; tab on stackoverflow, and I sort them by &quot;Name&quot; (sub tab), and then I &quot;Type to find tags&quot;,  the results I get are good, but they are ordered by popularity when I want them to be in alphabetical order so I can find the right one more efficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't I be able to see them in Name order when I filter them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of where the results were a little murky to wade through. Go to tabs, name and find &quot;script&quot;  -- there are about 45 tags with script and they are all over the place in terms of order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-08T04:41:20.423" LastActivityDate="2010-08-08T04:41:52.703" Title="Filtering tags by name only lets you view them by popularity" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;sorting&gt;&lt;tag-search&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:30:24.340" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jstock/index.php?title=Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;JStock - Free Stock Market Software&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sites.google.com/site/yanchengcheok/Home/stackoverflow1.png&quot; alt=&quot;JStock - Free Stock Market Software&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142451" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T05:55:51.263" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:55:51.263" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-18T17:30:24.340" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42693" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:30:58.770" Score="16" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take this C++ question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I write  a macro that checks if&#xA;  the &quot;this&quot; pointer is null, that gets&#xA;  called in all my code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And say 10, or 100 people respond with quite plausible solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then someone who knows what he is talking about says that if you are in a state where your implementation's this pointer is null, you are deep in undefined behaviour land, so it is pointless (meaningless in terms of the C++ Standard) to test for. And that person downvotes some of the most plausible answers (as in fact they are all wrong). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this person being deviant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is not theoretical - this happens all the time on the C++ tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T17:49:44.750" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="42704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42701" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:33:45.897" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the Tab search box defaults in both the &lt;code&gt;popular&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; tabs to sorting by popularity then name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you're right that in the &lt;code&gt;name&lt;/code&gt; tab, it should sort by name first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T17:33:45.897" />
  <row Id="42705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T17:41:00.870" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like the fact that I have to pay to disagree with someone, but I get it.  If downvoting didn't cost something, the community could become very divisive (and retaliatory).  On the theory that one's life is much more pleasant when a person is positive themselves, I try to make sure that I reserve downvotes for things that are actively harmful - wrong/bad answers and abusive questions - and try to commend things much more than I knock things -- stems from advice that you need to give your kid 10 &quot;attaboys&quot; for each &quot;wtf&quot; just to keep things in balance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt; as long as people are following the rules, I respect their right to disagree with my philosophy.  I'd need to be convinced that the behavior has materially damaged the site before I'd support adding new rules to limit the behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, if you truly think this makes a person a bad community member, I'd be more inclined to expose it -- and other behaviors, like excessive question asking -- as part of an expanded &quot;reputation&quot; display.  I have no idea what nomenclature you'd use, but I'm thinking along the lines of &quot;5427 knowledge 1268 community 0.85 participation&quot; -- where the first represents reputation, but only from answers, not questions, the second represents contributing to others via votes, comments, etc, and the third the ratio of getting (asking) to giving (answering).  If you could encapsulate this into a single number for reputation with the ability to expand it a la the up/down votes on a question/answer to see the component parts, that would be ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T17:41:00.870" />
  <row Id="42707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42708" CreationDate="2010-03-18T19:07:43.043" Score="7" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have recently passed 3000 reputation points on Super User&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion there are not enough people to vote on closing on Super User so stuff that should be closed get two or three votes and then gets so old that no one notices them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to be able to view questions that someone voted to close during the last XX hours (where XX is something between 24 and 31.4152).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17413" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-20T09:21:59.497" LastActivityDate="2011-03-20T09:21:59.497" Title="Is there a way to find questions that have close votes but are not closed yet?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42707" CreationDate="2010-03-18T19:11:57.003" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right now it's only possible for moderators and users with more than 10K reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T19:11:57.003" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42710" CreationDate="2010-03-18T19:23:51.570" Score="3" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered some questions on Stack Overflow and got some votes. But my reputation is not increased. What is this? If there is a time to count this then what is the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141652" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T12:20:40.930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T12:20:40.930" Title="When will I get my reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42709" CreationDate="2010-03-18T19:25:35.063" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make sure the questions weren't Community-Wiki posts, which award no reputation due to their nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T19:25:35.063" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42707" CreationDate="2010-03-18T20:11:53.413" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/tools?tab=close&amp;amp;daterange=last2days&quot;&gt;feature&lt;/a&gt; is part of the 10k reputation community moderation tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be able to make a compelling argument to lower the rep threshold, though, for this one function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T20:11:53.413" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T20:22:34.537" Score="0" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39470/stackoverflow-platform&quot;&gt;StackOverFlow Platform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14656/the-stackoverflow-source-code&quot;&gt;The StackOverflow Source Code?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42613/install-stackoverflow-like-software-on-my-site&quot;&gt;Install stackoverflow like software on my site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/30269/is-there-any-open-source-code-we-can-get-similar-to-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;Is there any open source code we can get similar to stackoverflow?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello. The StackOverflow's site could be repurposed in many different ways for different purposes.   Is it an OS project?  Can I build my own instance of it?  Joseph&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T20:28:02.063" ClosedDate="2010-03-18T20:34:25.710" Title="Is StackOverflow Platform OpenSource?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:20:23.707" Score="-6" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16077/handling-harassing-users&quot;&gt;Handling harassing users?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of you are aware that I've been outspoken in regards to downvoting, sympathy voting, and quite a few other things that are against the majority. I've accepted the fact that most people either don't want to or can't have an adult conversation about this so they retaliate by downvoting old answers and comments. They got me pretty good actually, to the point where I was deleting old posts (on Meta) in an attempt to stop it.  I had a good laugh with the whole thing since rep points really don't matter here but it now appears that since they have downvoted everything on Meta and you can only downvote once, they have now moved to all the other sites and began downvoting anything I have there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: is this practice of harassment frowned upon, can the user(s) be located, and how is the best way to contact a moderator for assistance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastEditorUserId="136160" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T12:53:53.120" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:53:53.120" ClosedDate="2010-03-18T21:39:48.970" Title="Contacting a moderator" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;harassment&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42716" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:21:32.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt; team@stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:21:32.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42718" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:24:03.970" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the difference between Usenet and SO? I heard that Usenet shaped internet to be a liberal place where every voice got to be heard. Why would I leave my historical place and start using SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144819" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T22:29:19.993" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:50:20.010" Title="What's the difference between Usenet and SO? (From an old man that only know Usenet)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42718" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:28:23.453" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a peer-review system that offers quality-control of all code provided. That happens to be one of my favorite qualities. This is contrary to the standard methods in which people find help online. The (initially uneducated person) is given a couple block of code to copy/paste by another (potentially uneducated person) and that is that. On Stack Overflow, the (initially uneducated) user is fortunate enough to have the assistance of many other users to help him decide which solution is the best via their votes, comments, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, Stack Overflow* is generally a very user-friendly environment, with a careful ear to abuse and disrespect. We try to keep the floor clean enough for interns and experts to congregate with little-or-no bloodshed. The community is able to assist in this task via a slew of reporting tools, access to some mod-level information, and (if conversation is necessary) personal access to moderators themselves via emails or meta.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And lastly, the thing that &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; made this place what it is; we've got the concerted effort of two of programming's most-famous personalities (Jeff Atwood/Joel Spolsky) behind the veil making the system operate so well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*Not Meta, this place is just crazy.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T21:33:26.150" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:33:26.150" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42718" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:29:50.193" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a mechanism in place to police endless repeats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:29:50.193" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42607" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:32:01.237" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What about the badges earned more than two months ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can easily edit the URL (of your recent activity link, at the envelope icon) to show any date range you wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:32:01.237" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42716" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:39:17.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's just the two downvotes visible in your SO profile, I would say don't worry about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's more, there's an automated system that will pick them up if they come from the same person, and will undo the downvotes automatically every 24 hours or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would undelete any answers you deleted in reaction to this, it's likely they will be &quot;cleaned&quot; that way as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:39:17.583" />
  <row Id="42724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42744" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:48:10.823" Score="3" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to copy-paste the following google search url in comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=lang:c+%22char+***%22&amp;amp;sbtn=Search&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it shows like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=lang:c+%22char+&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=lang:c+%22char+&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;*&lt;/em&gt;%22&amp;amp;sbtn=Search&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is due to markdown syntax (** **). But, it should be taken care of, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:03:15.390" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:21:24.387" Title="URL shows differently on copy-paste" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;url-encoding&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42684" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:51:00.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You were &lt;em&gt;recalc-ified&lt;/em&gt; 11 hours ago. The system routinely recalcs the rep of its users, with no exceptions. I had mine done 11 hours ago as well. But find comfort in knowing that it only takes away what you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; don't have. Over the span of days,  and weeks, our reputation's can become a bit dishonest - this recalc process keeps them true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T22:40:18.793" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:40:18.793" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42718" CreationDate="2010-03-18T21:52:17.793" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No &lt;em&gt;alt.sex&lt;/em&gt;, at least so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T21:52:17.793" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T22:06:48.193" Score="3" ViewCount="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;On my BlackBerry 9700 (OS 5.0.0.351) the site (StackOverflow svn revision: 6532) works reasonably well. Even dynamic features like adding/editing comments are no problem. Call me masochistic if you like. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, when voting on a post, I get the orange &lt;code&gt;&quot;An error has occurred - please retry your request.&quot;&lt;/code&gt; message after a few seconds. The vote however is counted just fine. Given the limited JS debugging capabilities of the device I can't really investigate more closely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at &lt;code&gt;question.js&lt;/code&gt; this error message appears only once in the source, in a jQuery &lt;code&gt;ajax()&lt;/code&gt; error callback. This would indicate that the server did not reply 200 OK to the POST. Maybe someone with access to the server logs can spend a few minutes on this? I voted on SO question 2470907 a few minutes ago, if that helps filtering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is only marginally important, so thanks in advance for your time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:06:48.193" Title="Voting glitch in Blackberry browser" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;blackberry&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T22:34:06.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I suggest doing is provide a &lt;strong&gt;warning&lt;/strong&gt; to these particularly heavy handed users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only then, if the situation get's worse should someone intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:34:06.397" />
  <row Id="42734" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T22:38:54.213" Score="0" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;can You put a list of tags quite hidden but more astonishing than usual tagged software categories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:44:56.453" Title="stackoverflow is like the Wonderland, but what are the tags more astonishing?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42734" CreationDate="2010-03-18T22:44:56.453" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;strong&gt;ponies&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; tag is a hidden gemstone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ponies&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ponies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:44:56.453" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42736" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T22:47:36.680" Score="6" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the Stack Overflow shirts still exist? I just saw a picture of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/2/geoff-dalgas&quot;&gt;Dalgas&lt;/a&gt; with his shirt on, and the envy within me came alive. Is it too late to get a nice, black, Stack Overflow shirt - willing to pay if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sstatic.net/so/img/bio-geoff-dalgas.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T18:40:25.867" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T21:28:59.910" Title="Never got a shirt, too late?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;t-shirt&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="42737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42718" CreationDate="2010-03-18T22:50:20.010" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I can speak with some authority, as I still appear to be the 5th all-time poster on the Usenet group comp.lang.c++. And the answer is that SO is superior because of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Very superior user interface compared to any Usenet reader&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Almost immediate answers. Ignore the immediate answers though, and wait for the next ones. In any case, errors will be quickly pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Group moderation by the same people that ask questions and answer them means that trolls &amp;amp;  parasites for the most part get shut down quickly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;in some areas (like C#) I think SO is becoming the default technical source&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Usenet works better for discussions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you really want a complex question resolved, you are still probably better going to Usenet, particularly to the moderated newsgroups, or at least using both Usenet and SO.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My 2 cents, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T22:50:20.010" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42736" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:00:14.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ahem...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; He is one of the developers, does it surprise you at all that he got one of the shirts before everybody else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T23:00:14.350" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:32:10.180" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40463/is-there-a-way-to-search-for-posts-linked-to-other-posts&quot;&gt;Is there a way to search for posts linked to other posts?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Analogous to Wikipedia, I think it would be helpful to be able to see when someone links to your question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In form of a notification and/or in form of a page that lists the cross references. What do you think - would something like this be doable or at least useful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: What I mean is a representation of site-internal linking that shows which questions the &lt;em&gt;community thinks&lt;/em&gt; are related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18771" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-26T05:29:09.410" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T05:29:09.410" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T18:39:32.997" Title="I'd liked to see a &quot;linked by&quot; feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42736" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:46:19.767" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I forgot about this.  Have any other UK (or EU) front-page SO people got their free shirt yet? I haven't.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And not only do I not get a shirt, but I get all my posts here closed by Atwood!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:09:26.920" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-18T23:59:25.720" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42740" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:46:28.613" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well.... I'd like to see a dancing unicorn...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guess we're both kinda screwed....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-18T23:51:49.047" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T23:51:49.047" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:50:20.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Legislation to fight the behaviour of six people is stupid&quot; This is the nature of most laws: the actions of an extreme few require new laws to be instated. This social pattern has repeated itself over and over, even in the relatively brief history of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that's a common social pattern. But is it right? Well let's take a pause and go read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article7052392.ece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article over here&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The behaviour of one man has skewed the concept of everyday life for everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s [the] oddball 5% that is targeted by the tidal wave of legislation... It just changes the pattern of everyday life for everyone else. This is what drives me mad...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Happily, however, I have a solution to the problem, a way that normal human behaviour can be preserved. &lt;strong&gt;It’s simple. We must start to accept that 5% of the population at any given time is bonkers. There are no steps to be taken to stamp this out and no lessons to be learnt.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't agree strongly enough with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42601/should-we-have-a-policy-about-too-much-downvoting/42611#42611&quot;&gt;Adam's post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And is this really bothering you that much that you're going to pipeline this past all of the other status-planned changes we've been waiting on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please just implement the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;weight change of votes&lt;/a&gt; and we'll see behaviour changed, in a more even-handed manner. Heck, implement it first on meta as a beta test. But this is a more balanced approach than implementing a cap. If you have to put in a cap, that's a sign that something else is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, the tone of discourse on this thread has been really disappointing from one person in particular. I expected a bit more maturity, especially given the position he's in.  I will continue to flag posts as offensive as I see them. Perhaps I should have been mailing complaints instead if I wished them to result in immediate action? I guess the squeaky wheel really does get the grease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-18T23:50:20.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42724" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:55:43.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To steal John Smither's answer-as-a-comment: you'll want to escape the asterisks in the URL, or use a URL shortening service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We usually discourage URL shorteners, but you have enough weird characters in this one that it's probably OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Also note that this works fine if you use the link button (or Ctrl-L) to insert the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-11T13:21:24.387" LastActivityDate="2011-03-11T13:21:24.387" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:56:58.047" Score="4" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Do not read until Friday. You've been warned.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As seen above, I believe that we should put into effect a community wide effort to allow for Friday-likes posts throughout the week. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because every post is gem worthy of a throne, we should value them, and thus treat them like presents! And what do we do with Christmas presents that your Aunt gave you in September because she didn't want to remember to send it a week early in Decemember? We mark it as &lt;strong&gt;Do Not Open Until Xmas&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should take the same approach to Friday posts, where Friday posts made before Friday are simply tagged with a &lt;code&gt;already-friday-in-iceland&lt;/code&gt; tag, and on the top add a nice big header saying &lt;strong&gt;Do Not Open Until Friday&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and here is a picture of a waffle bunny: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Oolong_last_head_performance.jpg/601px-Oolong_last_head_performance.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I would like to cast my vote to make the waffle bunny the new 404 image. That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T00:52:06.867" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T00:52:06.867" Title="Please Read On Friday (Actually .. Read it Now)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;login&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;&lt;bunnies&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="42746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42740" CreationDate="2010-03-18T23:59:33.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A link-back list would not bring any benefit for the main audience in using the site IMO - if it would, it would have been asked for already. It is not trivial to implement - would bind SO developer resources for quite some time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.de/search?as_lq=www.stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;btnG=Search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google's &quot;links to&quot; function&lt;/a&gt; to find pages that link to a certain URL. I think this will do the trick in most cases already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't realize you mean SO internal links mainly. That I find not bad an idea (see the comment.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T01:57:16.260" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T01:57:16.260" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42745" CreationDate="2010-03-19T00:01:06.907" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I propose a new close reason: &lt;strong&gt;not yet friday&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T00:01:06.907" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42745" CreationDate="2010-03-19T00:15:32.017" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been quite partial to this one for 404 pages, actually...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://auroracoda.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/bunny-pancake.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6277" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T00:15:32.017" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42745" CreationDate="2010-03-19T00:31:05.143" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You people need to keep your rabbits away from the waffles, else they'll end up like this one.  Seriously, save the waffles for Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sqeq.com/image/giant-rabbit.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T00:31:05.143" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42736" CreationDate="2010-03-19T00:42:10.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SO shirts. Awesome!!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  How can i get?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I am no 'SO developer', moderator or Jon Skeet :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastEditorUserId="143903" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T00:48:02.733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T00:48:02.733" />
  <row Id="42751" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T00:56:15.303" Score="-7" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8692/force-accepted-answers-on-questions-by-inactive-users&quot;&gt;Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10672/encourage-users-to-select-accepted-answer-for-old-questions&quot;&gt;Encourage users to select &amp;lsquo;Accepted Answer&amp;rsquo; for old Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many users ask questions, and community members, out of the goodness of their heart (and a desire to help others) answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the problem: many users forget to select a best answer to their question, thereby depriving the answerers of well-deserved rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm the type of person that likes to present a solution when I mention a problem. So here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Increase the rep for selecting a best answer to 3 or 4&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is a no-brainer. The more you get for doing something, the more likely you are to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Automatically select a best answer when the following criterion are met:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is older than 7 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are 2 or more answers to the question&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer with the most upvotes is then selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts or suggestions on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T01:11:42.550" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T03:20:15.717" Title="The problem with users who forget to pick a best answer - and a possible solution" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42751" CreationDate="2010-03-19T01:09:22.443" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disagree for automatic selection of answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14594/can-we-have-an-option-to-disable-the-dont-forget-to-accept-reminder&quot;&gt;Don't forget to accept&lt;/a&gt; reminder already, it should be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T01:09:22.443" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="42753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42751" CreationDate="2010-03-19T01:11:42.550" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree that the more accepted answers the better, I do not agree with your proposed solution.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not be happy for the system to pick the best answer based on votes as this is not a good indicator of if that answer solved/answered the question.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have asked questions and intentionally not marked any as answered because none solved my problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a better solution to offer, but this is not the right one IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="242" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T01:11:42.550" />
  <row Id="42762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T01:55:07.040" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems we are not allowed now to question moderators. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42754/why-was-this-meta-question-closed-as-a-duplicate&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42754/why-was-this-meta-question-closed-as-a-duplicate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes Jeff, I fully expect to be put in the sin bin for this, and maybe on SO too. Some of us believe in open expression in both code, documentation, use and support, and believe that suppressing this in any form is wrong. You seem to disagree. OK, but consider that the people like me providing free and open answerers on your site is what makes it work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T02:04:52.600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:12:18.650" Title="Meta posts about specific users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2010-03-19T01:55:46.510" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having had a few months to think about this, I'm no longer sure it's a good idea, for two reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Downvotes were always essentially cosmetic, with an extremely minor effect on reputation. Despite this, received downvotes are taken quite seriously by users. Almost too seriously. If we raise them to -5 they are no longer cosmetic but can be wielded as cudgels on other users. This was never the intent of a downvote, so we would be twisting it into something ugly. Users are far, far more attached to their reputation scores than I ever could have predicted, and I believe more than doubling the weight of a downvote will cause a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of new, additional angst in the community over the occasional received downvote -- to the point that only users who want to hurt other users will cast them. &lt;strong&gt;Downvotes go from being cosmetic and psychological to weapons of war.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If we amplify the effect of a downvote, in all fairness, we must also amplify the cost to the casting voter as well. So what was -2 to the post, with -1 to the casting voter, will become -5/-2 or even -5/-3. The only reason we had downvotes cost -1 was to make people really think about using downvotes in moderation, only when appropriate. For such an extremely minor cost, users with 20k+ rep are still hesitant to cast downvotes for fear of losing reputation! Our goal is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to prevent people from casting downvotes, and it seems that given the current observed behavior (that is, very few people cast downvotes -- though a tiny select few cast a lot) &lt;strong&gt;we would be causing the majority of users to cast &lt;em&gt;even fewer&lt;/em&gt; downvotes than they do now&lt;/strong&gt;. This is, in my mind, a HUGE downside to this proposed change. We would be effectively nerfing downvotes into oblivion because they're now twice as &quot;expensive&quot; to cast.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real problem I want to solve here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;&quot;shore, there is always gold&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I am no longer convinced this is the right way to do it, but I am open to hearing ideas on that thread on other ways we could do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T17:38:14.570" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T17:38:14.570" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T01:55:46.510" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42762" CreationDate="2010-03-19T01:58:26.070" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When have we ever allowed attacking other users? Whether it's a moderator or not is irrelevant; if someone started a thread titled &quot;I think Neil Butterworth is a terrible user!&quot; I would edit it in the exact same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Concentrate on the specific posts you have issues with. &quot;Why was this question closed?&quot; is a totally reasonable meta question. &quot;Why does {user x} suck so much?&quot; is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T01:58:26.070" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42736" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:05:24.690" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I knew I shouldn't have weaned myself from SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh well, at least I have my stickers to comfort me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;my precious...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:05:24.690" />
  <row Id="42766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42762" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:12:18.650" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to question a moderator, email them. Most of them have contact information somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to complain about the actions of a moderator, email team@stackoverflow.com. Jeff loves email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you want others to commiserate with you on Meta, be subtle... For some reason, folks are much more likely to agree when you don't actually name names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:12:18.650" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="42767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42782" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:18:39.460" Score="10" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/124057/how-to-remove-extensions-from-and-force-the-trailing-slash-at-the-end-of-urls&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/questions/124057/how-to-remove-extensions-from-and-force-the-trailing-slash-at-the-end-of-urls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I would very much appreciate any help.&#xA;  And to first person that gives me the&#xA;  solution, I'll send two $50 iTunes&#xA;  Store gift cards for US store. If this&#xA;  offends anyone, I am truly sorry and I&#xA;  apologize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guy offered $100 of iTunes US gift vouchers to whoever can answer his question. I feel that this kind of goes against the grain of the good nature of SOFU. Now I certainly wasn't offended about his offer, but I felt my 'edit' finger begin itching, begging to remove the statement, knowing full well that he would get an answer with or without the incentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left it in, because it's really none of my business (I don't live in the US so the additional bounty is useless to me anyway), but let's pretend that I DID remove it. Would you be outraged, or feel that this was acceptable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T21:25:14.037" Title="Edit out an offer of financial reward. Right or wrong?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42767" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:20:18.023" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's spam!  Die die die!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, not so much.  But I'd be worried about the legal aspects of bartering for services on SOFU, so I'd remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit (Chacha)&lt;/strong&gt;: I believe this picture explains what should happen to it quite nicely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/stryder85/rockpaper.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T02:57:54.743" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:57:54.743" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:24:22.653" Score="24" ViewCount="1302" Body="&lt;p&gt;After thinking about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which I declined for the reasons &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased/42763#42763&quot;&gt;specified in my answer&lt;/a&gt;, and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a proposal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about if &lt;strong&gt;question upvotes&lt;/strong&gt; were only worth +5 rep instead of +10? And this was applied retroactively? (answer upvotes would be unchanged from the current behavior, so this would be question specific.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a better solution to the particular &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33398/the-surest-way-to-gain-lots-of-reputation-on-stack-overflow-ask-questions/33407#33407&quot;&gt;&quot;shore, there is always gold&quot;&lt;/a&gt; problem  without all the rather serious negative repercussions of increasing the punitive value and/or cost of downvotes across the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T09:55:36.193" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T09:55:36.193" Title="Should the weight of question upvotes be reduced?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="42773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:29:02.357" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK. I was looking forward to the increased downvote power, but I can deal with this as an alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:29:02.357" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:29:53.883" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fine with that. Something that's bugged me for a while is that while I don't mind helping out by editing poorly-asked questions, it seems wrong that some users come to &lt;em&gt;rely&lt;/em&gt; on this, coasting through asking one lousy question after another, occasionally garnering significant amounts of reputation post-cleanup. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Although to be fair, I have almost nothing to lose if this suggestion is implemented...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T03:39:00.107" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T03:39:00.107" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:38:49.213" Score="2" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had a look through the FAQ and either I'm going blind or there's no mention of how much rep an acceptance earns. On SF it's 15, so I naturally expected the same on MSO. However, when I logged in today, which I do infrequently, I was somewhat astonished to learn I'd reached the daily cap and the mortarboard badge with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37966/increase-account-association-rep-bump-from-100-to-200/38017#38017&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer that received only 2 up votes and an acceptance. Surely that can't be correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142690" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T02:41:30.213" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:41:30.213" Title="How many rep for an accepted answer?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42736" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:38:49.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll follow up with the shirts -- I know some users in the USA have gotten them already, but I'm not sure how much international shipping delays everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:38:49.527" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:39:26.670" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes a lot of sense; I've seen a user with over 7000 rep, with less then 30 upvoted answers. The majority of this rep (6k) is from questions. Many of them showing a complete lack of effort on the users part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151858" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:39:26.670" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42775" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:40:14.987" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've won &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42501/is-bounty-rep-dump-gaming-subtitle-pollyanna-lottery&quot;&gt;Pollyana Lottery&lt;/a&gt; that worth 550 points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:40:14.987" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42775" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:41:24.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tooltip on the accept arrow will tell you what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if the accept arrow is &quot;glowing&quot; that's a bounty accept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:41:24.113" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:51:55.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ya, go ahead. I'll lose a lot BUT so will Jon Skeet! Muh-ah-ah-ah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:51:55.183" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42767" CreationDate="2010-03-19T02:59:29.237" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it should be edited out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's always the possibility that the offer isn't even genuine. But assuming it's legit, it's essentially hiring someone to solve a problem. The place for hiring someone isn't within a question, it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://careers.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I don't have a problem if the question asker wants to offer something extra for an excellent answer, but it should be done outside the construct of the site, as a reward &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; a good answer, not a motivation to give a good answer. We already have bounties for that (although in this case the user is new/low-rep, this situation could potentially apply to anyone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T02:59:29.237" />
  <row Id="42784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42736" CreationDate="2010-03-19T03:46:42.707" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do exist, and we &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; try to mail you one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSInternetWeb/InterLabelInquiry.do?origTrackNum=9101010521297786600427&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;9101010521297786600427&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been on my list to track you down, but now that I've got your attention... do you have an alternate address? We could try sending it to the same one again... but that usually doesn't work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T03:46:42.707" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69266" CreationDate="2010-03-19T03:47:42.600" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the financial/money site based on SO software, but cannot for the life of me find it. Then I remembered there used to be a list of these sites somewhere. Where is the definitive list? I don't mean the one at the bottom of SO because that's a tight group focused on computers and not the entire picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-02T21:26:56.973" LastActivityDate="2010-11-02T21:26:56.973" Title="Where's the definitive list of &quot;Stack Overflow spawn&quot;?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42745" CreationDate="2010-03-19T03:57:40.003" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please Read On Friday &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Actually .. Read it Now)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T03:57:40.003" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-19T03:59:39.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff, the overall figures you've come up with tally with what I've noticed myself on SF. In general, active users tend to cast (very) roughly a 1:10 ration of votes. I really can't see the need for a policy change to handle the very minute number of extreme radicals you've uncovered. Just leave it be and accept that we're all different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T03:59:39.910" />
  <row Id="42789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43565" CreationDate="2010-03-19T04:08:49.157" Score="23" ViewCount="641" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figure it's time to let the cat out of the bag before someone else goes public with it, and it's just too hard living a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet is my sockpuppet account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a moderator please combine that account into my normal account for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T12:56:23.787" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T12:56:23.787" Title="Sockpuppet admission" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;sock-puppets&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-19T04:10:30.840" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too would like to come clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;Jeff Atwood's&lt;/a&gt; Account merged with mine. Along with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130154/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson's&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to keep the account ID associated with Jeff's account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Hey.. I stay busy. High school tends to be really boring. Plus, I always wanted to have a name long enough that it broke the rep badge.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T05:17:09.877" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T05:17:09.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-19T04:12:55.473" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It started to become obvious.  The stress from leading a double life must have been too overwhelming of late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T04:12:55.473" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42689" CreationDate="2010-03-19T04:19:12.350" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Gonna just re-purpose a comment I left &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score/38610#38610&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't really control how people vote (and probably shouldn't try). I don't think Sympathy Voting is a solvable problem: some folks will up-vote down-voted posts (just as others will down-vote up-voted posts) because that's just the way they think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be possible to avoid the situation where some users manage to pile up rather large amounts of reputation on the site based entirely on asking scores of bad questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T04:19:12.350" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="42794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-19T04:55:18.967" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take a merge with Marc Gravell as long as I get his knowledge...screw the rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T04:55:18.967" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42337" CreationDate="2010-03-19T04:58:37.390" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love it, look forward to the next release!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing though - timezones need some work. Everything is &quot;11 hours ago&quot; for me (GMT+11)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T04:58:37.390" />
  <row Id="42796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42799" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:06:54.780" Score="1" ViewCount="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a question on SO today, like I have many times in the past.  However, today's question was different in that it does not show up in the unanswered section when filtering by tag.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2470742/python-nonblocking-read-from-stdout-of-threaded-subprocess/2470821#2470821&quot;&gt;This is the question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/python&quot;&gt;This is where I would expect it to show up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone clue me in as to why it wouldn't be showing up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142417" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T05:20:09.890" Title="Why doesn't my question show up in unanswered questions when filtering by tag?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="42797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42858" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:08:43.390" Score="0" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_D_Foy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;brian d foy&lt;/a&gt; is a very &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8817/brian-d-foy&quot;&gt;prolific and incredibly helpful member of SO&lt;/a&gt;, especially in a Perl area - predictably. However, I have not observed &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22483/randal-schwartz&quot;&gt;even remotely equivalent level of engagement&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Randal Schwartz&lt;/a&gt; (he seems to have more answers about Smalltalk than Perl). Does anyone know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(it is, of course, his right and his decision - I'm merely very curious since Brian and Randal seem to be likely to have similar level of participation based on my very surface knowledge of who both of them are and what they do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T13:27:44.037" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T21:29:48.187" Title="Randal Schwartz on SO - but not in Perl" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;perl&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42796" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:11:40.083" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have an upvoted answer on your question. Note the text on the right side of the unanswered-questions-page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1,173 questions &lt;strong&gt;with no upvoted answers&lt;/strong&gt; tagged with python&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I admit, I sat here scratching my head for a moment too :) Even tried a more unique tag &quot;nonblocking,&quot; which had 7 results, none of which was your question. Turns out, having even 1 upvoted answer removes you from the &quot;unanswered&quot; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T05:11:40.083" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42797" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:13:03.467" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What can I say? We have no claim on the activities of famous users. Not even a little bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably he's playing that way because it suits him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T05:13:03.467" />
  <row Id="42801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42796" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:14:19.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Unanswered&quot; means having no upvoted answers. That question has upvoted answers ergo it does not appear in the Unanswered list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post on the matter&lt;/a&gt; around here somewhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T05:20:09.890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T05:20:09.890" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:32:38.030" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think changing the weight of downvotes would cause a stir, this one would cause a storm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular lets look at 3 lists: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;People most affected by the change with 3k rep or more&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User               Reputation QUpvotes AUpvotes QDownvotes ADownvotes Penalty&#xA;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/63235&quot;&gt;George2&lt;/a&gt;            3233       275      0        9          0          100.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/39677&quot;&gt;Blankman&lt;/a&gt;           4850       476      0        98         3          100.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/68183&quot;&gt;mrblah&lt;/a&gt;             3545       343      0        21         0          100.00 &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104015&quot;&gt;Shore&lt;/a&gt;              3184       302      2        209        0          99.34  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/51816&quot;&gt;Joan Venge&lt;/a&gt;         6362       608      7        162        6          98.86  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/62553&quot;&gt;Thanks&lt;/a&gt;             4916       438      12       73         1          97.33  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4639&quot;&gt;Edward Tanguay&lt;/a&gt;     11743      1019     34       21         1          96.77  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54964&quot;&gt;Masi&lt;/a&gt;               6052       613      31       170        1          95.19  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/32484&quot;&gt;dotnetdev&lt;/a&gt;          5236       400      23       23         16         94.56  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/143030&quot;&gt;jasondavis&lt;/a&gt;         3442       263      16       19         2          94.27  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/34537&quot;&gt;acidzombie24&lt;/a&gt;       6054       568      39       71         7          93.57  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/4653&quot;&gt;oo&lt;/a&gt;                 4314       786      56       43         8          93.35  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/53262&quot;&gt;LazyBoy&lt;/a&gt;            3474       195      17       29         6          91.98  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/82368&quot;&gt;kunjaan&lt;/a&gt;            3565       310      29       32         3          91.45  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/64878&quot;&gt;KingNestor&lt;/a&gt;         3881       348      33       7          3          91.34  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/8741&quot;&gt;ProfK&lt;/a&gt;              3119       275      33       14         1          89.29  &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/36590&quot;&gt;B. 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        14991      2        1261     0          60         0.16    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100754&quot;&gt;Sinan Ünür&lt;/a&gt;       22494      5        2662     1          79         0.19    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/76337&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt;    28844      6        2953     3          221        0.20    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/28169&quot;&gt;unwind&lt;/a&gt;           28276      6        2841     0          101        0.21    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/104349&quot;&gt;Daniel Roseman&lt;/a&gt;   10868      2        836      0          21         0.24    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/740&quot;&gt;SQLMenace&lt;/a&gt;        11960      3        1181     1          90         0.25    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/56338&quot;&gt;sth&lt;/a&gt;              16989      4        1547     0          32         0.26    &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/93623&quot;&gt;Fredrik Mörk&lt;/a&gt;     22548      6        2169     0          32         0.28    &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, it does punish some problem users quite effectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt; ... it also punishes some non problem users quite harshly, dbr, michael stum, you and me would be hit with a 12% reputation penalty. Which is odd, cause overall I think the questions I ask on SO are pretty good and if anything we need better questions on SO.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="18511" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T13:44:19.827" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:44:19.827" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="42803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:34:12.317" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admire your honesty in coming forward on such a difficult topic. Be strong!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given your bravery, I feel compelled to admit that I've also had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/5640/&quot;&gt;sockpuppet account&lt;/a&gt; for years. I cleverly changed the name so nobody would suss it out, but I think the jig is up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T05:34:12.317" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T05:55:15.677" Score="3" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just clicked to vote &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/118946/why-is-there-an-auto-connect-delay-to-a-hidden-wireless-network-ubuntu-9-10&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; up, but the number decreased to zero instead. When I tried to vote it up a second time, it said my vote was too old to be changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else run into this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional clarifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to yesterday, I had never cast any vote on the question one way or another nor attempted to do so. When I visited the question yesterday, it had a &quot;score&quot; of +1. I attempted to upvote the question by clicking on the up arrow. When I did this, the score reduced to zero. Then I clicked it a second time and it gave the &quot;Vote too old to be changed&quot; error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact if I go there right now, the score is zero and if I click the up or down arrow it gives the &quot;too old to be changed&quot; error. This would imply that I've voted, yet some folks  with the reputation to see the individual up/down votes are saying that the question indicates that it's received no votes at all (up or down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, poor Joe Casadonte (author of the question) now has a -50 reputation associated with that question (if you go look at his reputation tab).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I happened to have another browser window opened to the same question prior to this incident. When it happened, I saw his rep score go down. I would have though I was seeing things had I not had the other window still open with the higher rep score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144469" LastEditorUserId="144469" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T17:55:28.913" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T17:55:28.913" Title="I just clicked to vote a question up, but it reduced to zero instead (superuser)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42804" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:06:09.697" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible you had voted on the question before? Clicking the up arrow on a question that you already upvoted will undo the upvote, so the click results in a score loss of 1, just as you observed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/posts/118946/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline of this question&lt;/a&gt;*, there's no other vote that has been cast on this question, so if you saw a score of &quot;1&quot; on the question before you clicked the arrow, it's very like that this was your own vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* I don't have 1000 rep on SU to look at the split&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:06:09.697" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42804" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:06:38.543" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might you have accidentally double-clicked the vote button instead of single-clicking it? This would quickly set/unset a vote, which cannot be undone unless the post is edited in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:06:38.543" />
  <row Id="42808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:02:36.313" Score="0" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2474986/open-source-forum&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;; unfortunately someone decided to close it shortly after. I didn't get any answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can someone close my question even if I didn't get an answer or if I wasn't satisfied with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do people close questions without permission from the owner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T07:22:57.820" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T07:22:57.820" Title="Closing Question Rights in Stack over flow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42808" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:05:06.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2474986/open-source-forum&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;is still open :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142269" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:12:47.647" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42808" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:08:27.240" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Stackoverflow FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are some questions closed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions that are deemed sufficiently off-topic may be closed by the community. Users with 3000 reputation can cast a limited number of close votes per day. When a question reaches 5 close votes, it is marked as closed, and will no longer accept answers. Closed questions may be opened by casting reopen votes in the same manner. However, you may only vote to close or reopen a question once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An explanation of common reasons to close questions is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;available on meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And although your question is still open you may want to reread your question and check it for grammar mistakes or just a good ol' fashion terrible question that nobody is interested in. In some cases if you appear to be demanding an answer to your question, or for example asking why people aren't answering you, you may get a negative response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also don't need your permission to close your question, that's the value in a peer-moderated community. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure you &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5018/describing-close-reasons&quot;&gt;read this&lt;/a&gt; on meta, and maybe take a look there for your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138019" LastEditorUserId="138019" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T06:26:22.497" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:26:22.497" />
  <row Id="42811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42808" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:23:40.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have posted my Question and some one has closed that question,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &quot;some one&quot; is the community; closing questions is a (more or less) democratic process on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but i didn't get my answer from any of the viewer who have view my question or post theire answer,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's right; closed questions cannot receive answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how can anyone close question when I don't get answer or statisfied with the answer posted against my question???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[nit-picky answer:] By clicking &quot;close&quot;. [serious answer:] Your question is against the rules of Stack Overflow and thus not suited to be left open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why people close the question without permission of the question owner ???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no need for your permission. When you post a question on SO, you license it under CC-BY-SA and &lt;em&gt;allow&lt;/em&gt; Stack Overflow to host the content of your question. There is certainly no &lt;em&gt;obligation&lt;/em&gt; for SO to keep the content alive or even just show it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:23:40.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:32:10.980" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great idea; could it also be changed to make a downvote on a question -5 so that only questions with a net + award reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8946" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:32:10.980" />
  <row Id="42814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42808" CreationDate="2010-03-19T06:46:52.080" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding why your question was off-topic:&lt;/strong&gt; Stack Overflow is about programming/developing/etc., and your question (as currently worded) is about choosing an existing program to use on your site, which is more related to system administration.  Before the edit, it was hard to tell what it was asking at all, and that's why you got the &quot;not a real question&quot; close reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare going to a photographer's studio to ask how he develops film rather than going to get a portrait: the latter is on-topic and relevant for his &quot;purpose&quot;, but while the former might be related, it is off-topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T06:46:52.080" />
  <row Id="42816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T07:07:33.460" Score="1" ViewCount="139" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3926/tweet-question-and-answer&quot;&gt;Tweet question and answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2585/broadcasting-user-activity-over-twitter&quot;&gt;Broadcasting User-Activity over Twitter&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to be able to have my SO questions tweeted to my Twitter account when I ask them, so anyone following me on T can go into SO and answer if they know the answer. I thought about creating a program that does this in some way, but it seems a natural place for such feature should be in SO itself. How would this work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;each user would have a &quot;twitter account&quot; fields with username and login info&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;once the user starts a new question on SO, the title and link to question gets posted to twitter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be also triggered when the user's answer is accepted or he earns a new badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136013" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:34:57.933" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T12:54:33.353" Title="Twitter integration" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;&lt;twitter-integration&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T07:41:57.527" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;what is the reasoning behind being able to downvote a post yet still accept it as correct answer to my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144841" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:19:40.453" Title="downvote post yet accept it as correct answer" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42817" CreationDate="2010-03-19T07:43:09.920" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it probably requires extra code to prevent you from doing it, and no one thinks to do it, so it's usually never a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135301" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T07:43:09.920" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42797" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:06:35.080" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Randal sets his priorities in life like anyone else, and although I can't speak for him, I bet he sees that there is already a committed group of people handling the work so he can use his very limited time on something else that needs help. He's really doing quite a bit of work that most people don't see, such as the recent re-licensing of Squeak. That stuff is valuable too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when I see a question where I think his particular expertise and skills would be valuable, I'll point it out to him. Usually he tells me that someone got the right answer already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136666" LastEditorUserId="136666" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T21:29:48.187" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T21:29:48.187" />
  <row Id="42820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33398" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:16:15.357" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I eventually came to agree with the premise of this question, which is that too much rep is generated from questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:16:15.357" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T08:16:15.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37505" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:17:38.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't ask many questions, so I screwed up on marking it as a community wiki because I didn't really understand how that process worked. I thought marking the question as CW made all of the previous answers CW too. When I realized that hadn't happened, I fixed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136666" LastEditorUserId="136666" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T08:23:26.723" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:23:26.723" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20736" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:22:44.587" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the &lt;em&gt;atmosphere&lt;/em&gt; of code-golf on SO, The other sites mentioned all have us golf in secret and sometimes never reveal the secret source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who golfs regularly on SO in 6 or so languages, I find I am sometimes learning useful new things about those languages due to the openness and collaboration that is unique to SO code-golf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136589" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:22:44.587" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42816" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:34:32.787" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you'll find the community fairly resistant to this sort of thing. See: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2585/broadcasting-user-activity-over-twitter&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2585/broadcasting-user-activity-over-twitter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or click on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/twitter&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt; tag to see what I mean. I personally am agnostic about this kind of integration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:34:32.787" />
  <row Id="42825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39181" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:43:32.410" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that we updated &lt;strong&gt;not a real question&lt;/strong&gt; a bit, so I think it covers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally you can make a pretty good case for &lt;strong&gt;too localized&lt;/strong&gt; as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question would only be relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mix to taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:43:32.410" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T08:43:32.410" />
  <row Id="42826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:47:48.897" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm Tony the Pony and so is my wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On a more serious note, I'm still considering the idea of a sockpuppet account to see how much harder it really &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; to get votes for good answers without being a &quot;known name&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:47:48.897" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T08:47:48.897" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="42827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39181" CreationDate="2010-03-19T08:53:25.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a great idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This close reason will tell them baldly what was wrong with their question. Some will adapt their asking strategy the rest will leave. Everything will be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving comments seems to only help on occasion. Most seem to sincerely believe the community is there to compensate for their laziness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I believe it's important to help everyone and not scare people away from our great community. As they say, no question is stupid. Somebody may lack experience, knowledge or even the basic understanding necessary to compose a meaningful question. It should not be a problem, everyone has its own learning path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I see something like &quot;Hi need help how send email from java pls help send me the codez moron@jerkfactory.com&quot; I treat it as spam. Good chance somebody won a project on rentacoder for $15, has no skills to do it and wants to combine code pieces provided by helpful people. Close &amp;amp; delete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T08:53:25.120" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T08:53:25.120" />
  <row Id="42828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42830" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:01:31.840" Score="2" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to set to ignore every tag which isn't checked as an interesting tag without actually manually adding every single possible tag to list of tags to be ignored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140749" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T09:25:30.503" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T09:28:02.717" Title="Ignore what's not interesting" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:02:04.583" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my understanding of this (&amp;amp; the related blog post) it's partly to motivate increased voting for answers, rather than questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Isn't this contradictory to the aims of the &lt;strong&gt;electorate&lt;/strong&gt; badge - which seems to encourage voting for questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131125" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T19:53:47.217" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T19:53:47.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42828" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:28:02.717" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I'm afraid there isn't a way to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T09:28:02.717" />
  <row Id="42831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:25:20.757" Score="1" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5234/how-does-accepting-an-answer-work&quot;&gt;How does accepting an answer work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I need to do to increase my accept rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really sure how it works or what makes the rate increase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144845" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T09:42:20.713" LastActivityDate="2011-03-30T21:02:08.843" ClosedDate="2011-03-31T04:54:55.847" Title="Increasing my accept rate" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42831" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:29:16.007" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you ask a question, you have to accept one of the answers so the user who answered you correctly will get 15 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have asked 29 questions, but only accepted 8 answers... sounds like you are one that asks a question and then forgets to check the answers :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132890" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T09:34:46.333" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T09:34:46.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42835" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:43:43.537" Score="-1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I may as well mention straight off that the main reason I am asking this question is due to the upcoming reputation recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has always seemed silly to me how bounties affect privileges. After all, if rep is, as oft repeated, primarily a way of how much the system trusts you, bounties really shouldn't affect that. In terms of effects, this would lessen the pain from the rep recalc. One downside - this increase the number of bounties given out as users wouldn't be saving up their rep to gain privileges, so maybe it would be sensible to enforce a minimum reputation (500?) before you can post bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. If people are worried about others gaming the system, the better way would probably be to make the extra reputation gained from bounties not count towards privileges, rather than removing privileges for posting bounties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T10:27:06.727" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T10:27:06.727" Title="Exclude bounties from affecting privileges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42834" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:47:41.427" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is already a minimum rep to offer a bounty, I think it's 100. I guess we could increase it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any way we can disconnect bounties from reputation, so in all honesty this is unlikely to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, this is by design -- bounties are for people who either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;feel like they have an excess of reputation and can &quot;afford&quot; it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have an &lt;em&gt;urgent&lt;/em&gt; need to get an answer and the normal process needs goosing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also don't necessarily want to increase the number of bounties; they're valuable and worthwhile because they involve some sacrifice on both the side of the askers and the answerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T09:47:41.427" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42831" CreationDate="2010-03-19T09:48:39.587" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;see my thoughts here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712/will-the-accept-rate-score-encourage-unwanted-behavior/16716#16716&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16712/will-the-accept-rate-score-encourage-unwanted-behavior/16716#16716&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T09:48:39.587" />
  <row Id="42837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T11:14:08.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please explain to me why I should be penalised 10% of my reputation having asked 1 question to every 8 answers?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stupidly thought that asking questions that also happen to be useful to other people is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a sledge hammer solution to a situation that needs a scalpel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135186" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T11:14:08.953" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="42838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7322" CreationDate="2010-03-19T11:23:30.760" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than going through and majorly dropping all question points by half, why not just make upvotes on answers equal +15 or something?  Then no one loses any abilities they've worked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T11:23:30.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T11:23:30.760" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T11:30:24.780" Score="1" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36068/allow-batch-adding-or-removing-tags-from-interesting-ignore-lists&quot;&gt;Allow batch adding or removing tags from interesting/ignore lists&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I remove ignored or interesting tags in one go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144849" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T11:49:08.437" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T11:49:08.437" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T12:43:36.213" Title="Bulk remove tags in one go" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" />
  <row Id="42840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T11:32:57.993" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this not apply to meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As questions have different meaning here, I don't think it should apply.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A good bug report or feature request deserves the +10 per vote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rest of the sites, I agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T11:32:57.993" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T11:49:58.953" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I agree with the idea of tuning the weight of questions versus answers, but I really disagree with making it retroactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Answer withdrawn)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9634" LastEditorUserId="9634" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T23:03:10.713" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:03:10.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39181" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:12:56.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often post a question without doing any work to find the answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; do this if I can come up with a &lt;strong&gt;title&lt;/strong&gt; that is &lt;strong&gt;clear&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I then start to look for the answer and update the question with the progress.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes someone else know the answer and quickly types it in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes I find the answer and post it as the answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often my work looking for the anser and refining the question, leads to a good question that gets a good answer sometime later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132223" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:12:56.227" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T12:12:56.227" />
  <row Id="42843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:19:46.147" Score="3" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is now &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official&lt;/a&gt; I need to know how much I'm going to lose, does anyone have a tool out there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; My rep has already re-calc.  I'm going to assume others have as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T12:33:35.073" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:33:35.073" ClosedDate="2010-03-23T19:57:59.620" Title="Tool for forcasting my New reduced rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;tools&gt;&lt;reputation-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42816" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:25:42.040" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitterfeed.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TwitterFeed&lt;/a&gt; to do this.  Just add your SO RSS feed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:25:42.040" />
  <row Id="42845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42816" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:34:57.933" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/isnotrss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://twitter.com/isnotrss&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:34:57.933" />
  <row Id="42846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:43:47.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would the retroactive re-calc take into account the new cap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if one day you had +20 votes on questions, and &lt;strong&gt;then&lt;/strong&gt; +10 on answers, would you still get 200 for the day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:43:47.053" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36068" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:44:59.817" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;well, you can already use wildcards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entering &quot;php*&quot; without the quotes will highlight anything matching [php], [php4], [php5], etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:44:59.817" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42843" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:48:15.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could just ask a moderator to do a recalc and then manually work out how much rep you are going to lose via reduced question rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:48:15.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42843" CreationDate="2010-03-19T12:51:21.170" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tool &quot;Please be patient, you will lose your reputation soon (max. 1-2 weeks)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T12:51:21.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-17T18:00:28.433" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm absolutely impressed by how fast the questions are answered. &#xA;Some guys seems to be spending all day long waiting for questions: congratulations ! Your help is very appreciated, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how do you manage to be so fast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Well, I suppose SO community is really big, wow ! But Many of my questions have &quot;regular fast answerers&quot;. So this is dedicated to them !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:13:01.243" Title="How are you so fast?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;subjective&gt;&lt;thanksgiving&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42851" CreationDate="2010-03-17T18:01:05.997" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet has SkeetBot (not to mention he knows what you're going to ask before you ask it)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of us just get lucky (while maintaining our work, friendships, and family...hell, I even sleep sometimes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137986" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:13:01.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-17T18:03:17.600" />
  <row Id="42853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42851" CreationDate="2010-03-17T18:02:51.120" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of us are experimental artificial intelligence programs, but we're not supposed to talk about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133819" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:13:01.243" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42817" CreationDate="2010-03-19T13:14:34.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This situation is 1) incredibly rare and 2) perfectly valid from a data integrity standpoint.  Adding a feature to prevent this is unnecessary feature creep.  This is the kind of complexity that you don't need in your system increasing your fault rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are plenty of other situations that &quot;don't make sense&quot; from a holistic, human point of view.  Just because some of them are easier to implement than others doesn't mean we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; implement them.  The distinction between &lt;em&gt;can easily implement&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;should implement&lt;/em&gt; is subtle but important.  Further discussion is material for SO proper, not meta. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130914" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:14:34.043" />
  <row Id="42855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42817" CreationDate="2010-03-19T13:17:11.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because sometimes an answer is &quot;right&quot; but still &quot;wrong&quot;.  Like, maybe it's nearly incomprehensible, but after staring at it for a while you finally tease out the hidden clue which leads you to the solution.  Accept for truth, downvote for style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7867" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:17:11.580" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42817" CreationDate="2010-03-19T13:19:40.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what is the reasoning behind being able to downvote a post yet still accept it as correct answer to my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I already knew about this solution and I hate it.  I was hoping for something better from the SO hivemind, but technically it is correct, and people who come on this question in the future may not have known about this correct (but horrible) answer, so it's best to implement it, mark it as accepted, and move on with my life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also useful for those really hard bounty questions - you may have to accept an answer, even if it's not one you like or really agree completely with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:19:40.453" />
  <row Id="42858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42797" CreationDate="2010-03-19T13:25:49.093" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a number of interests marked as Keywords, including both Perl and Smalltalk, as well as things like jQuery and ZFS and git. About twice a day, I get a five minute window to hit SO (and occasionally SU), and quickly look at the questions in my keyword set. The Perl questions are generally answered well by the time I get there, but the Smalltalk and git and jQuery questions not so much.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why you see more answers from me on non-Perl things: the Perl area is pretty well covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22483" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:25:49.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T13:32:41.740" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By my count, I'm about to lose 710 rep on SO here, which knocks me down a level in terms of what I can do on the site (bye-bye, editing!). I, too, laboured under the impression that asking good questions -- providing the impetus to other users to provide answers -- was a desirable thing. I can't say that I'm against the change as a whole, but I'm not a fan of the recalculation that's coming with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked a few questions that have tons of views and that people seem to find a real use for, over and over again. How is it that those are suddenly less valuable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth -- and given that there's been a blog posting about it already I'd say that it's not worth a lot -- I don't like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23309" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:32:41.740" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-19T13:33:10.250" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am Spartacus!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134652" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T13:33:10.250" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42862" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T13:58:40.173" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Curious as to what the protocol is here for when you want to answer your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say for example I post a question with code illustrating the question. I later on come up with a solution. Now, even with the &quot;improved&quot; code, it could be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it taboo to answer your own question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it better to add the &quot;second version&quot; of the code to the original question?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Append, prepend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or should I delete the original question, and post a new one with the code I came up with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139329" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T14:18:58.383" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T14:18:58.383" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T14:22:09.830" Title="Modifying your own question because you have a better solution?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;changes&gt;&lt;edit&gt;&lt;rewrite&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T14:12:56.170" Score="10" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm someone who has most of their rep on Stack Overflow from asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have 16 accepted answers. 10 of those have no upvotes. 63% of my answers that were good enough to be accepted by the OP apparently weren't good enough for an upvote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that we need to reward good answers, and discourage people asking &quot;length of string in C#&quot; over and over to get rep.  But what about those of us who ask a low number of good questions?  My rep is going to be cut by quite a lot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel stilted by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;important rule changes to rep from questions&quot;&gt;changing of the goal posts&lt;/a&gt;.  (first when editing was 1000 &amp;amp; changed to 2000, and now once again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went back and looked at my 10 accepted with no upvotes. It looks like most of those are where I answered my own questions. So I'm asking a bunch of questions that are hard or edge cases, and when I find the solution I post it for the good of the community. At least a couple of those have comments saying, &quot;I have the same problem... did you find a solution?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could just keep my notes to myself and not update my questions. I think that I'm in that original use case of contributing to this site for the good of the community - and now I'm being treated as a second-class citizen because I tend to post questions that are not common, beginner-level issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; don't have more incentive to answer my questions (10 points for a hard or easy answer), but now I have less incentive to ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Results: I lost 27.5% of my reputation on Stack Overflow.  Not sure about superuser &amp;amp; serverfault, but I don't go there as much anyway.  I was preparing to move a couple questions to bounties, but I don't think I'll do that now.  c'est la vie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1753" LastEditorUserId="1753" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T13:20:31.010" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:38:29.227" Title="New rep recalc will hurt good question-askers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="28" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="42864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42767" CreationDate="2010-03-19T14:28:58.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My advice would be to let it be.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2 questions that I've posted so far on SO were so difficult that on one, we spent a week on the phone with Microsoft. The other one appears to be related to the group policy enforced lock down of the internal clients when combined with https.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For either of those questions, offering $100 might have got an answer faster, and sure would have been cheaper than the efforts needed to get an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134652" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T14:28:58.173" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42863" CreationDate="2010-03-19T14:31:45.567" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that reputation should be an indication of the knowledge you possess, not the number of questions you can ask. If you want more reputation, answer more questions. If reputation is your incentive for asking a question rather than the excellent answers provided by StackOverflow users then you're using the wrong site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastEditorUserId="23234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T14:42:21.227" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T14:42:21.227" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42863" CreationDate="2010-03-19T14:33:03.460" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A significant fraction of my accepted answers probably have no upvotes either -- because it requires rep to vote up an answer and lots of questions are from new users without sufficient rep to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in agreement with the change in relative vote worth between questions and answers, though maybe it doesn't go far enough.  It's too easy to game the system by asking hundreds of question and garnering a little rep from each; almost impossible to do by answering hundreds of questions.  For a start to get any votes by answering, you need to know something.  To answer hundreds of questions and get up votes on them, you need to know more than a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense I see up votes on questions as a loss leader.  It's easier to get involved here by asking questions, so there is some value in giving rep for it.  Getting rep starts you playing the game.  Once you're hooked on the game, though, to really play well, you ought to have to answer questions.  That's where the real value in the site is.  This change brings the balance of the value of the votes more in line with the value to the site for questions/answers.  Once the person is &quot;in the game,&quot; then the difference will encourage more of the behavior (answering) that is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another important benefit of having up votes on answers count more is that as the site encourages answering questions over asking questions, it also improves the site value for the answerer -- and not just in terms of rep.  Answering questions well is harder.  Answering questions well forces you to learn your craft better.  Get a down vote on a question and you may think the person just doesn't like you.  Get a down vote on an answer and you know you need to make sure that what you think is true, really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would estimate that I picked up jQuery (though I'm still learning) about twice as fast as I ordinarily would have (maybe about 5 times faster than Prototype, which is what I was using before), precisely because I started answering questions on SO about it.  Seeing answers that were better than mine -- and getting &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; up votes -- was both a learning experience and a motivator to learn faster.  In the end, I think this is a good thing for anyone who is serious about improving their craftsmanship as it encourages a better means of learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also, I think, a small step in making reputation actually have some meaning.  Now if we could only get a &quot;split&quot; display a la the question up/down vote to show how much rep is derived from asking/answering, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T14:33:03.460" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42868" CreationDate="2010-03-19T14:34:06.317" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/6851/is-the-populist-badge-broken-or-have-i-misunderstood&quot;&gt;Is the Populist badge broken? Or have I misunderstood?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find the description of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/62/populist&quot;&gt;Populist badge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; confusing. It says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provided an answer that outscored an accepted answer with 10 votes by 2x. This badge can be awarded multiple times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that mean if i have -5 votes and the accepted answer has -11 votes, i get the populist badge too? (-5 outscores the -11 by 2x). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does it only count for upvotes, or even the sum of up and downvotes (like displayed left to the answer)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34509" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T14:41:31.787" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T14:41:31.787" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T14:47:43.923" Title="Populist badge - what does &quot;votes&quot; mean?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;populist&gt;&lt;description&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42867" CreationDate="2010-03-19T14:36:26.487" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer must have a minimum of a 10 positive score. You must then get a score twice as high as the  accepted answer (minimum being a positive 20)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T14:36:26.487" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43006" CreationDate="2010-03-19T15:10:22.133" Score="9" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;This goes through the JSON API for reputation amounts for questions and halved the total gain points. The loop is needed because there is 90 days limitation on the range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;import sys,time,urllib2 as u2,json&#xA;&#xA;A=sys.argv[1:]&#xA;U,S=int(A[0]),A[1:] and A[1] or &quot;stackoverflow.com&quot;&#xA;t,c,g=0x1ca55fc00,time.time()*1000,0&#xA;&#xA;while True:&#xA; u=&quot;http://%s/users/rep-graph/%d/%d/%d&quot;%(S,U,c-t,c)&#xA; d=json.loads(u2.urlopen(u).read())&#xA; if not d:break&#xA; g+=sum(x['Gain'] for x in d if x['IsQ'])&#xA; c-=t&#xA; time.sleep(1)&#xA;&#xA;print &quot;Your reputation is expected to be down around&quot;,g/2,&quot;points&quot;,&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; filename.py YOURID&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example for Jeff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; filename.py 1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can specify the site name like superuser.com, serverfault.com like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; filename.py 1 superuser.com&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, Jon Skeet is going to lose &lt;strong&gt;688&lt;/strong&gt; points, and Jeff is going to lose &lt;strong&gt;2286&lt;/strong&gt; points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS&lt;/strong&gt;: I noticed that above numbers are not divisible by 5, reps cap is the only I can think of for that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know your ideas about bugs or improvements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-05-10T19:14:50.500" ClosedDate="2010-05-11T01:09:34.907" Title="Rough Reputation Lost Estimating Program for New Reputation Rule" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;lost-reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42873" CreationDate="2010-03-19T15:29:03.247" Score="-2" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22771/the-answer-to-tactical-downvoting-problem&quot;&gt;The answer to tactical downvoting problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17538/what-should-be-done-to-people-who-downvote-strategically&quot;&gt;What should be done to people who downvote strategically?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28777/disallow-downvoting-other-answers-if-ive-posted-my-own&quot;&gt;Disallow downvoting other answers if I&amp;rsquo;ve posted my own&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just tossing an idea out there to see what the SO swarm thinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that you would be prevented from downvoting any answers to questions where you have your own answer. It seems to me that this would prevent the mini-wars I've sometimes seen and be fairer on all involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could either choose to answer or choose to vote. You can't upvote your own answers, why should you be able to downvote &quot;competitors&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously it's needs some more thought with regards to what happens when you vote, then answer, for example. And I realise it might cause some angst for questions you've answered where the other answers are absolute rubbish. But I believe I would be happy just to point out the problems with the answer (in a comment) and let the swarm decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts? Am I just spouting rubbish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T15:32:50.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T15:29:03.247" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T15:59:10.987" Title="Should we stop people voting on answers when they have a &quot;competing&quot; answer?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;idea&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42871" CreationDate="2010-03-19T15:32:50.407" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I think this is probably a duplicate, but it would be tricky to find.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely not. If someone writes a very definitely wrong answer, I'm likely to downvote it and write an answer which addresses the original question &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; goes into the details of why the wrong answer is wrong. I'd &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; want to be able to cast that downvote, even if I'd also leave a comment explaining the wrongness. That downvote would be to say &quot;this is wrong, don't listen to it&quot; rather than to try to float my answer higher and get it more votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we think this is really a problem? Are people really downvoting competing answers that they &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; think are wrong on a regular basis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T15:32:50.407" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T15:32:50.407" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42870" CreationDate="2010-03-19T15:44:07.327" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here it is in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shog9.com//greasemonkey/scripts/so_question_rep_reduction_estimator.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Easy-To-Use Greasemonkey Format&amp;trade;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.shog9.com//greasemonkey/scripts/so_recalc_question_loss.png&quot; alt=&quot;A picture of a profile just after the script has been run&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same caveats: no allowances for the daily rep cap or bonuses, final tally may have a fractional component and none of this will be correct after the official recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;After installing, click button on any user's profile page to run script. Script is done when numbers turn green. First number is estimated rep, small numbers below are total gains and losses, difference reflects change from current site-calculated rep. Based on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23531/does-the-reputation-graph-indicate-the-results-of-a-recalc/23539#23539&quot;&gt;fake recalc&lt;/a&gt; script...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T15:53:35.043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T15:53:35.043" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="42877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42863" CreationDate="2010-03-19T16:27:29.863" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reward for answering questions is reputation. The reward for asking questions is knowledge. Those who ask good questions are already rewarded far beyond the capabilities of a simple number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T16:27:29.863" />
  <row Id="42878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T16:28:14.373" Score="12" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;The questions shown when asking a question are only based on the title, but it seems that the &quot;related&quot; sidebar, only shown after submission, often catches much more relevant questions.  This isn't surprising because the latter has the full text of the question plus tags to work with.  (Though I don't know exactly how it works.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Proposed feature:&lt;/em&gt; Generate a list of related questions using more information than just the title and display them on the same page as initially editing the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/j65p2u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T01:27:08.933" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T01:27:08.933" Title="Show &quot;related&quot; questions before question submission" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-19T16:31:35.263" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;But who is number 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T16:31:35.263" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42882" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T16:43:58.013" Score="7" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent 'frank exchange of views' about downvotes suggests another line of investigation to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would presume to attribute some goals to Jeff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users who put real effort into the site should earn rep and achieve moderation status.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Users who game the system should not achieve moderation status, and asking a lot of toss-off questions is more or less gaming.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Innocents should not get caught in the crossfire and either (a) feel motivated to walk away or (b) feel motivated to flood Jeff with email complaining about harsh treatment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering questions most assuredly counts under #1. I submit for consideration that careful editing also comes under that heading. However, there is no voting/rep pipeline for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if it were possible to vote edits up and down, with a suitable rep threshold? This would provide an additional way to take note of the real 'gardeners' of the community without having to hand out painful downvote raspberries to more or less innocent others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Net possible result: more separation in rep-space of the people who should get mod powers from those who don't without more injured email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other possible result: a reopening of flame wars about appropriate &amp;amp; inappropriate edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Various answers and comments motivate the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want rep here. I'm not that faithful of an editor. I'm just following a trail of mental breadcrumbs from Mr. Atwood's posting about users who find downvotes really upsetting. This is presented as a possible alternative to give rep where it seems to be wanted without downvoting people likely to squeak. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the threshold for voting on edits is high, then the amount of three-ring circus thus produced might not be too awful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastEditorUserId="138822" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T01:07:06.443" LastActivityDate="2010-07-31T13:05:13.850" Title="Rep for editing?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42882" CreationDate="2010-03-19T16:54:15.380" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even an additional badge for editing has been viewed as too much incentive (and I'd reluctantly agree), causing more harm through poor edits than encouraging good ones.  Rep would increase that problem tenfold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2475341/revisions&quot;&gt;frequently&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1899128/revisions&quot;&gt;edits&lt;/a&gt; (compared to the norm for 2k+ users; at least it &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/54262?tab=activity#tab-top&quot;&gt;feels&lt;/a&gt; that way), I have to say that I don't mind not getting rep and it would be nice to get more badges&amp;mdash;but I'm already editing without them, and will continue without extra incentive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T16:54:15.380" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43418" CreationDate="2010-03-19T16:54:34.957" Score="26" ViewCount="3010" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is regarding this blog post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello, I'm one of those people that has earned at least half of their reputation asking questions. I can completely understand the point of the change for the weight of votes on questions. My question is why does it need to be retroactive? To me this seems unfair to the community and I'll be quite put off if I lose edit or closing privileges(half of the things I do now are just go through editing questions). I have over 4000 rep, so I probably have nothing to worry about.. but I'm thinking of all the other users. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So moderators/Jeff what is the point of this change being retroactive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T17:34:45.820" LastActivityDate="2010-09-15T10:21:49.223" Title="New reputation changes. Is applying it retroactively fair?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;poll&gt;" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="42887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-19T17:02:03.793" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jonathan Sampson has said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Only one I can think of is that it gives an unfair disadvantage to those who join the system after the rep change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with this, as this would give an unfair &lt;b&gt;dis&lt;/b&gt;advantage to people who join after the change. Why should you get the advantage of having all of your old upvotes be +10, when the next person only gets +5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By making it retroactive, everyone is playing by the same rules, no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T18:26:08.417" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:26:08.417" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="42888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42797" CreationDate="2010-03-19T17:09:39.593" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankly I don't think there's much correlation at all between how well-known someone is in their particular community and how active they are in SO in a particular tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take me for instance for a view on the other side -- I'm a pretty much nobody in the Perl world. I don't blog, I haven't made any major CPAN contributions, and I don't usually go to conferences like OSCON or YAPC, yet I'm currently the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=perl&amp;amp;sort=stats&quot;&gt;7th highest contributor in the Perl tag&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not even one of the most active members of our local Perlmongers chapter. However I've got a good senior job doing Perlish stuff and am confident I can get another one should the need arise, which is one of the major reasons why I became active on SO in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Randal doesn't want to be or doesn't have the time to be active on SO, that's okay. It's not too often we have seriously challenging questions come up anyway - about 90% are &quot;how do I use this hash table&quot; or &quot;help me parse this XML with a regex&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T18:03:23.793" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:03:23.793" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-19T17:14:17.763" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep, rep, rep!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this so important? Did I miss something? Sometimes, it sounds like we are the natives of reputation &lt;em&gt;underflow&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whatever be the rule changes, they apply to &lt;strong&gt;one and all&lt;/strong&gt;.  People come to this site &lt;em&gt;primarily&lt;/em&gt; to solve their problems, earning reputations is just a system in-place to &lt;strong&gt;encourage&lt;/strong&gt; such behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong? So why this silly &lt;em&gt;hue and cry&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: sorry for outburst, but this rep thing brings the animal out in most of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update 1:&#xA;@all: losing power to edit or do something may irk one, but rep can be gained, and all this is done to leverage all against some users who use faulty means to increase their rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-15T10:21:49.223" LastActivityDate="2010-09-15T10:21:49.223" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48705" CreationDate="2010-03-19T17:39:16.473" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;All day I've been getting notifications that I have &lt;em&gt;&quot;1 new answer&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  But my recent activities page doesn't show anything new (other than a couple of comment responses on answers I've posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked all my questions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/search?q=user%3A12786+views%3A1&quot;&gt;it's a short list&lt;/a&gt;) and there aren't any new-and-deleted answers on any of them.  There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/111152/whats-the-proper-way-to-prepare-chroot-to-recover-a-broken-linux-installation&quot;&gt;a CW question&lt;/a&gt; whose answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/posts/111215/revisions&quot;&gt;got edited&lt;/a&gt; a couple of times today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe I'm not familiar enough with question-asking; do answer edits re-notify the question asker?  Or is this a bug in the notification system?  Or is something else going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T16:35:26.727" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T16:36:16.587" Title="Superuser answer notification bug?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;confused-users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42863" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:02:20.690" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not at all convinced that the change will hurt good question askers.  For all we know it will help.  The community has a clear bias towards answers when it comes to voting.  I think that's at least partly due to the fact that questions and answers receive the same number of points when voted on.  A lot of people dont't think that's balanced quite right.  How do we know that twice as many people won't upvote good &lt;strike&gt;answers&lt;/strike&gt; questions once the change is in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T21:19:47.713" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:19:47.713" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:15:05.223" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm in favour of this simply because it means &lt;strong&gt;we will finally see a global rep recalc&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm often frustrated when I delete bad questions with upvoted answers and know that those users will get to keep their rep, because recalcs aren't done often enough (or ever) for most users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. Thank you Jeff for the much more positive tone of conversation on this thread vs. that other one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:15:05.223" />
  <row Id="42894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:21:49.277" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's extremely frustrating to lose rep retroactively, when it was gained within the rules of the site.  There should be &lt;strong&gt;grandfather rights for rep&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:21:49.277" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:30:30.083" Score="26" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few reasons I can think of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not&lt;/em&gt; making it retroactive would be a pain to implement. And making the reputation system more fragile isn't something anyone wants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any sort of &quot;grandfather&quot; clause on this would just increase the discontent some new users feel regarding privileged old-timers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allowing users to keep their current rep until a recalc is run for some other reason would just increase the eventual shock. Even now, some users have never had a recalc, and their denormalized reputation is significantly different from what they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have (were deleted posts, etc. to be taken into account).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Better to just get it out of the way and deal with the fallout all at once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:30:30.083" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42900" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:31:43.233" Score="6" ViewCount="286" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems as though the statistics show that the rich will just get richer (in terms of the gap b/t very high rep and non very high rep users) while the poor will get poorer (literally, poorer).  Many users solidly in the middle class will pay the biggest penalty for this change.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How is this going to fit into the current philosophy of our larger community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a firm believer in applying policies that will actually fix the problem with no unknown or uncovered potential negative impacts.  I'm not exactly sure what problem/issue this proposed change is actually going to solve.  If anything, low rep users will only ask twice as many questions that still suck just to get the rep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced/42802#42802&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced/42802#42802&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="137798" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T04:31:44.657" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T04:31:44.657" Title="Will reduced question upvote value increase the reputation gap between users?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;bacon&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:33:00.363" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will penalize those who asked good questions in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:33:00.363" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:36:51.283" Score="12" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;In preparation for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;soon to be implemented change&lt;/a&gt; in the rep system, and the necessary global rep-recalc and the ensuing onslaught of &lt;em&gt;WTF!?! Where did all my rep go??&lt;/em&gt; questions that are bound to be asked.  What is the best way to prevent dozens of duplicate questions here on MSO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;S Mark suggested in a comment to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced&quot;&gt;original proposal&lt;/a&gt; to put up an alert bar on all the sites announcing the change.  Jeff declined saying that it would just be an invitation to support requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest toning it down a bit.  How about an alert bar only here on meta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be assumed that anyone on meta already knows about the changes and recalc and will just accept the notification and continue on their way.  Any other SOFU users who come here for support will get the notification as the first then when they log into MSO and hopefully have their question answered immediately.  Perhaps the bar could point to Jeff's original question proposing the idea or the blog post announcing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better way to handle the hordes of questions that are imminent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="94928" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T18:42:26.553" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:43:29.327" Title="How to handle loads of rep recalc questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;alerts&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42898" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:38:52.200" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Write a &quot;rep recalculation FAQ&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Close all questions as duplicates of that FAQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:38:52.200" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:39:11.563" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've said it before, and I'll say it again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The proposed change puts the emphasis on answerers, not questioners, I can live with that. But the change does &lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; regarding the &lt;em&gt;quality&lt;/em&gt; of the questions/answers. Controversial posts still garner a great net positive, pity upvotes still generate rep inflation and poor questioners still get a lot of rep even if downvoted several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it is retroactive (I accept it as necessary) might have been made worse by not having habituated the user base to frequent recalcs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increasing the weight of downvotes would have &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; &quot;punished&quot; heavily downvoted and controversial posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, the change is as good as done, as it has been published on the Blog, and Jeff's unlikely to backtrack in such a publicly way (nor he should).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:39:11.563" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42898" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:40:40.627" Score="17" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Big orange bar on the top of the screen, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Where did my rep go!?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:40:40.627" />
  <row Id="42902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42898" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:41:10.233" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every user should be sent a message whenever a recalc is done on his account, letting him know about the recalc, and how much rep was lost or gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a small matter of scripting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:41:10.233" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:52:04.567" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just need to find new prospects of Reputation. I hear there is a recent reputation fever out in the west. Perhaps we should try migrating and trying new things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T18:52:04.567" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42905" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:54:56.937" Score="59" ViewCount="2094" Body="&lt;p&gt;I lost a ton of reputation! Why did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="132480" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2010-12-06T07:40:39.437" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T15:40:47.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T18:54:56.937" Title="The global reputation recalc of March 2010" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;lost-reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="28" />
  <row Id="42905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42904" CreationDate="2010-03-19T18:55:44.377" Score="24" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the announcement&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;strong&gt;rebalancing question upvotes as +5 instead of their old value of +10&lt;/strong&gt;, we also fixed the following minor bugs in the reputation system:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;accepted answers and bounties were only partially immune to the rep cap before depending on the time of day you earned them, but they are fully immune now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;upvotes can now “replace” missing rep lost to downvotes, up to the +200 daily reputation cap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, any reputation changes from questions and answers that have now been deleted will not affect your final reputation score.  This is part of the reputation recalc process, which only counts &quot;live&quot; posts. &lt;strike&gt;Also, note that the change in question upvote weight was not applied to meta.&lt;/strike&gt; As of April 2011, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/85974/how-about-a-message-letting-us-know-the-reason-for-large-changes-to-our-rep/85988#85988&quot;&gt;the change &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; apply to Meta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;detailed audit&lt;/a&gt; of your reputation is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should always expect a small amount of normal flux and variation around your reputation score, which will be reconciled through periodic recalculations like this one. &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question upvotes change value&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While we value good questions (and asking a great question is absolutely an art), we want to explicitly encourage people to provide the best possible answers. Without people interested in providing good answers, the questions are moot. We know that answers have more intrinsic value than questions, and the reputation balance should reflect that.&#xA;  The question asker already enjoys a substantial benefit beyond reputation gain from upvotes on their question — namely, they get great answers to their question! Thus, the asker shouldn't need as much reputation gain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a few users who ask hundreds, sometimes even thousands of questions. Over time, these users generate a fairly sizable reputation entirely through the tiny trickle of upvotes gained by these questions. In a sense, we want to discourage question asking a little bit, and make sure that people who ask questions are doing it for the right reasons and not to generate reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In other words, we’re rebalancing a bit to favor answers. Based on the existing data in the trilogy, I believe this will be a positive change for everyone. For more discussion &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769&quot;&gt;see the meta topic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-07-21T15:40:47.957" LastActivityDate="2011-07-21T15:40:47.957" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T18:55:44.377" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2010-03-19T19:09:26.400" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do high rep users get high rep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Answering questions, quality answers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asking 100s of question, with the Electorate badge encouraging upvoting?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, how may &quot;integer divisions&quot; have upvote rep exceeding the the rep of any of the answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of downvoting a question like this, I'd prefer to find out where they live and confiscate their PCs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T19:09:26.400" />
  <row Id="42908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-19T19:25:02.540" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem harsh now, but we'll get used to it like we did with the reputation cap (which was, by the way, retroactively applied, and &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; was a huge blow for some users)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T19:25:02.540" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T19:42:52.727" Score="18" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;In November 2009, Go, a new programming language, was announced. The primary web site is golang.org.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People soon started using Stack Overflow to ask questions about Go. A primary tag for questions about a programming language should use the language name e.g. go, c, c++, java, etc. Some people used the web site name, golang, in addition to or instead of the language name go. From time to time, editors and moderators have cleaned up the tags, adding the tag go and/or deleting the tag golang as necessary. Comments were also left asking people to standardize on the go tag. As recently as March 13, there were 117 questions tagged go, 3 of which were also tagged in error with golang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List the active questions tagged with go and golang: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=go+golang&amp;amp;sort=active&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=go+golang&amp;amp;sort=active&lt;/a&gt;. You will see that, on March 19, Stack Overflow user 109070, Hannson, is adding the tag golang to questions tagged with go; he's made 55 changes so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please ask Hannson to stop and please revert his changes. If a question is tagged with golang, it should also be tagged with go, then, all golang tags should be deleted, leaving just the go tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T10:00:40.373" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T21:24:54.933" Title="Retag Request: Revert golang changes" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5790" CreationDate="2010-03-19T19:50:41.027" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/120699/word-list-sources&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on SU that could likely have been asked on SO as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I picked SuperUser thinking that there's a slightly different audience than on StackOverflow (overlap, yes, but not complete).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be nice if there was a way for a question to &quot;float&quot; across the different sites, but only earn rep on the one from which it originated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, add checkboxes for &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; listing a question on SF even though you asked on SU, but any voting/viewing on SF would &quot;count&quot; on SU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T19:50:41.027" />
  <row Id="42911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:01:37.533" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is everyone so sore?  It's an arbitrary number - it's as arbitrary as it has always been!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be in the millions on average, or in the hundreds on average.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:01:37.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42898" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:11:24.953" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for your ongoing contributions to Stackoverflow. We may have previously overvalued said contributions, and have recently corrected this oversight by reducing your reputation score. We hope that this will help you better understand the diminished value of your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:11:24.953" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T20:11:24.953" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:13:31.910" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where exactly is this &quot;gap&quot; you speak of between high-Rep and modest-Rep users? This graph from &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats-SO.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill's data dump stats page&lt;/a&gt; looks like a fairly smooth distribution for the Rep values above 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=a&amp;amp;chd=e%3aAAAAAAAAUoAACYAAA9DD..U6GlrnXXSZWbX8RZRkQvPcOcMrKVKmKNJRIWG9GhFxEfEDDECmCMBeBLAyAtAjAYALALAFAFABABABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&amp;amp;chtt=User%20reputation%20histogram%20%282%2b%20rep,%2083791%20rep%201%20users%29&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0%3a|1||||||||||10||||||||||100||||||||||1000||||||||||10000||||||||||100000||||||||||1%3a|0|14623&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps if you zoomed in on the graph above 1000 Rep and used a larger number of bins you might see something (like an unusually large bump somewhere above 10,000 Rep), but I kinda doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:13:31.910" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:18:56.587" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gimme da bounty! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T14:30:28.537" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:30:28.537" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-19T20:18:56.587" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="42917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:30:35.537" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27702/tags-with-usability-problems-app-config-and-web-config&quot;&gt;Tags with usability problems - app.config and web.config&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;searching for &quot;web.config&quot; in the search box yeilds a 404&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:40:56.093" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T21:00:34.367" Title="Can't search for &quot;web.config&quot; in the search box" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:35:08.157" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Beyond that, though, is there really a problem with this behavior?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, as Robert C. Cartaino said, I don't think it's really &quot;playing by the rules&quot;. However, I don't feel strongly enough about it that I won't answer in the hopes of winning the lottery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On SO, I think it would be different because people (rightly or wrongly) equate reputation with knowledge. Here, reputation measures either insanity or boredom, near as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What unintended consequences could this behavior have?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People might answer in the hopes of winning the lottery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, have I ever mentioned that you're my &lt;em&gt;bestest friend&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;all the world&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I still haven't, but let's pretend I just did.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:35:08.157" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:36:54.690" Score="15" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;h2&gt;This site is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions, real wrath of God type stuff.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rivers and seas boiling!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forty years of darkness!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Earthquakes, volcanoes...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mass hysteria!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T07:41:42.320" Title="My calm, rational assessment of the question upvote rep gain change and ensuing global rep recalc" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="42920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42919" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:39:20.230" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Locusts. Definitely locusts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:39:20.230" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42917" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:40:56.093" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try searching for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web-config&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[web-config]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:40:56.093" />
  <row Id="42923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42882" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:42:25.967" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, I read questions and answers (and write some), and then upvote and downvote as I see fit.  To vote intelligently on edits, I'd have to examine all the edits, which is not going to be as easy or natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, I don't see how it would work well without complicated mechanics, which I definitely don't want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:42:25.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42919" CreationDate="2010-03-19T20:55:28.957" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh whatever, I'm not afraid. How hard is it to keep closing the numerous &quot;why has my rep changed?!?!?!11oneeleven!!!&quot; questions as dupes and &quot;too localized&quot;? The worst that can happen is that we run out of close votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.nataliedee.com/111908/whatever-dude-whatever.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;whatever, dude&quot; title=&quot;whatever, dude&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T20:58:53.120" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T20:58:53.120" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42926" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:04:45.560" Score="13" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;If your boss sees that you spend a lot of time on StackOverflow to solve other's problems, how can you explain it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144873" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-16T20:57:13.047" LastActivityDate="2010-10-16T20:57:13.047" Title="Boss vs StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="9" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="42926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:07:40.183" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My code is compiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compiling.png&quot; alt=&quot;Are you stealing those LCDs?' 'Yeah, but I'm doing it while my code compiles.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If seriously, tell him that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Attempting to answer a question or to teach something to somebody is the best way to get a deeper understanding of the problem for yourself&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By regularly and intentionally getting involved in a vast variety of programming problems you expand your knowledge horizons and stay up-to-date, which makes you a better professional than that COBOL dinosaur at the desk in the corner, from which your boss only benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastEditorUserId="136634" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T21:12:44.503" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:12:44.503" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:07:50.107" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe explaining it is the wrong thing to do. What is it you get paid to do again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:07:50.107" />
  <row Id="42928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:07:57.017" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tell him it's an investment in a community/service that's provided me with dozens of good answers to hard problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:07:57.017" />
  <row Id="42930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:08:22.647" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe if it's a problem then your boss &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be putting pressure on you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if it's not a problem but your boss thinks it is and your boss wouldn't understand then maybe you should find a new boss (aka new job).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2543" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:08:22.647" />
  <row Id="42931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42898" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:11:07.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd cheer them up with some waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mightysweet.com/mesohungry/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Chicken-and-Waffle-Man.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;waffles!&quot; title=&quot;chicken and waffle man!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:11:07.687" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:14:07.607" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you spend &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of time solving other people's problems, maybe you can't explain why. You are paid to solve &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; problems of interest to your employer, not any arbitrary software problem that may be happening at some point of the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:14:07.607" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:19:16.747" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send him the link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.onstartups.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OnStartups&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He'll be spending days there answering business-related questions of other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:19:16.747" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42919" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:20:58.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;...as Hell's core temperature drops another 25 degrees...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:20:58.023" />
  <row Id="42936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:25:05.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My boss says that it's cool that I'm on Stackoverflow, sharing my knowledge and learning from others.  That makes me a better programmer, which benefits the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I should stop my working hours tracker when I enter SO.  But my boss nevertheless says it's cool... And I start suspecting that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:25:05.353" />
  <row Id="42937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:27:00.050" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something or is everyone (that's ever asked a question) going to lose reputation points over this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just take a step back and look at what this means - the site's owners decided to take a bite out of every user's cheese-cake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get wanting to tweak the incentive system here; fine, whatever. But if you assume rep matter to people (and I believe SO is based on this assumption to a large degree) then how is this kind of decision to reduce everyone's rep going to make any user of the site happier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When was the last time you saw a multi-million user system bitch-slap all of its users simultaneously like this? lol it's like waking up one day and see that your farm on farmville is fenced off and all your crops are failing because the Zynga people decided to discourage planting corn. retroactively! :) That's the sort of thing that you just don't do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get also that it's tricky to make the system backward compatible. But, guess what, tough luck. bw-compatibility is always tricky. That doesn't mean it's cool to set up a community, let people participate and enjoy themselves, gain reputation and brag about it with freaking iframe flare that publicizes SO and then take a chunk out of everyone's hard earned rep basically to save a few ifs in the codebase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I haven't participated in a while and got here by following the recent blog post about this. The reason I'm not participating as much any more, incidentally, is that I honestly don't find enough &quot;good&quot; questions. If anything I would suggest increasing the value of a good question, not decreasing it... I would not suggest, however, to do so retroactively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11208" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:27:00.050" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:30:53.213" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd explain and show to him a question I posted about that particular problem no one else could solve in the project for the last two weeks and how fast it was solved by using StackOverflow.com &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20654" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:30:53.213" />
  <row Id="42939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42946" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:42:29.887" Score="5" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/can-you-bring-the-color-back-to-meta&quot;&gt;Can you bring the color back to meta?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love SO but I can't bear that grayness here during spring (at least in Europe)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not even upvotes appear green...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142504" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T21:47:42.457" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T22:13:36.737" ClosedDate="2010-03-19T22:23:25.327" Title="Why is Meta that gray?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;so-design&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42939" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:45:11.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe because it's a neutral colour, as seems to be the intent of this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:45:11.150" />
  <row Id="42941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42939" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:46:20.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe lack of colors is supposed to indicate that its content is not actually useful end-user content, but rather some internal kitchen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:46:20.510" />
  <row Id="42942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40471" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:48:50.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There will always be a slight disconnect between the client-side JavaScript Markdown renderer, and the server-side C# Markdown renderer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the answer is &quot;don't do that&quot; -- it's not a good idea (nor does it really even make sense IMO) to mix dash and numbered styles in the same list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This particular discrepancy will be fixed in the next build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-11-25T08:14:02.370" LastActivityDate="2010-11-25T08:14:02.370" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42628" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:49:40.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I had to do it...&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I give you... &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;BACON WAFFLES&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i27.tinypic.com/fjdpv6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;bacon waffles!&quot; title=&quot;bacon waffles&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:49:40.100" />
  <row Id="42944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42919" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:50:53.500" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3011/2640789668_48a2a84ddf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;OH NOES!!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:50:53.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42939" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:51:19.010" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've left Oz and come back to Kansas, Dorthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:51:19.010" />
  <row Id="42946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42939" CreationDate="2010-03-19T21:57:30.440" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1775277.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why are mental institutions always in grey?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T21:57:30.440" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42939" CreationDate="2010-03-19T22:00:00.627" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blue.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why is the&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/BlueSky/blue_sky.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sky blue?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T22:00:00.627" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42939" CreationDate="2010-03-19T22:13:36.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, here's my answer but it was not.. uh.. shall we say.. &quot;popular&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/can-you-bring-the-color-back-to-meta/119#119&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/104/can-you-bring-the-color-back-to-meta/119#119&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T22:13:36.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42679" CreationDate="2010-03-19T22:23:41.787" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they sent us the icon, so it's their choice. I agree it doesn't read well at 16x16, but it's what they gave us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T22:23:41.787" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="72203" CreationDate="2010-03-19T22:24:03.110" Score="4" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm on Google Chrome 4.0.249.89 and was typing in a tag on a question on StackOverflow. The specific tag I was typing in was &quot;language-agnostic&quot;. Around &quot;language-ag&quot; I tried clicking on the drop down to automatically insert the rest when nothing happened. After that the drop down stayed and never really went away. I could click and it vanished, but &quot;language-agnostic&quot; still showed if I clicked back in the tag input box. I tried reproducing it and was able to: it happens if the tag input box has an extra space in it. The simplest way to reproduce is to hit space in the box before even typing anything, and then trying to click the drop down when you type and suggestions show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opening the JavaScript console in Chrome shows the following error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined. sstatic.net/so/Js/tageditor.js?v=6266:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143834" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-14T08:08:16.843" LastActivityDate="2010-12-14T08:17:56.697" Title="Bug: JS error when clicking on tag drop down when typing in tag name if space is present" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34108" CreationDate="2010-03-19T22:48:51.987" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Case in point: &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/121910/how-does-the-steam-platform-work-is-it-drm-can-i-trust-steam-powered-game&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/questions/121910/how-does-the-steam-platform-work-is-it-drm-can-i-trust-steam-powered-game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anybody help me re-open?  I feel violated.  I'm a long-time SU user and understand the &quot;no game questions&quot; policy. This was not a question about a game, but about the software platform / updater / DRM component required by the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question was very clear and specific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130199" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T22:48:51.987" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42882" CreationDate="2010-03-19T23:37:29.293" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already a hidden incentive for editing: you have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realultimatepower.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;power&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to edit other people's stuff! How many other sites on the internet grant that ability?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like pair programming, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-19T23:50:11.097" LastActivityDate="2010-03-19T23:50:11.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42925" CreationDate="2010-03-20T00:25:16.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Stackoverflow is a programming questions and answers site.  I use it to expose myself to new technologies, to hone my skills, and to find answers to pressing questions and roadblocks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T00:25:16.260" />
  <row Id="42958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42960" CreationDate="2010-03-20T00:35:59.673" Score="-1" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Venting about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;change to the rep&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, SO sells ads. That is how it makes money. People pay for ads that developers will see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the primary ad viewer? You? Me? Nope. It is the random Joe out on Google trying to find an answer to his questions. He gets a link to SO where it has been asked already and gets his answer. SO then hopes that he sees an interesting ad and clicks on that too.  Money made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Key to this is that users know that they can get good info from SO and the question has the key words they are searching on. I good answer is clearly key to this. But a well crafted question, with examples and key words makes a big difference too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is poorly worded, has no examples, etc, then searchers may start to think that SO's stuff is nice for the person who asked the question, but too hard to follow for someone looking in from the outside.  Money lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, SO is a long, long way from this state (quite the opposite in fact). But by telling the community that a good question is 50% as important as it used to be, the SO site is arguably taking a step in that direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my opinion tainted? Yes. I spent a lot of time on a lot of really good questions trying to make them really good for those who will follow after. I will go from over 3100 rep to about 1,750 from this change. I lose two nice privileges on the SO site that I was enjoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that is another point. I am now mad at SO. I will still ask questions (cause when you need an answer this is still the best place), but I am not as big an evangelist for SO as I was yesterday. I feel like the rules were changed in the middle of the game because of a very small minority of abusers.  So SO has lost an loyal fan too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is SO shooting itself in the foot with this change or am I just disgruntled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T01:49:42.007" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:51:30.690" Title="Is SO shooting itself in the foot?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42958" CreationDate="2010-03-20T00:42:30.370" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are shooting themselves in the foot, for that exact reason.  Good, relevant questions are what suck people in from Google, and they should incentivize that.  While there is still an incentive, it is lessened.  It's also penalizing those who asked those good, relevant questions that got them to this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T00:42:30.370" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="42961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42958" CreationDate="2010-03-20T00:50:44.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your questions aren't less-appreciated because they're represented by a smaller number. Those who use the metric sytem represent 10 feet as 3.04 meters. It's not because they don't appreciate distance as much, they just use a different system. Stack Overflow is switching systems, that's all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The value is in the vote, not its numerical representative(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T03:50:15.287" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T03:50:15.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42964" CreationDate="2010-03-20T01:04:24.010" Score="3" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not understanding the recent activity date ranges at all. For example, &lt;em&gt;today&lt;/em&gt; around 12PM I had 105 rep for the day. I was hoping to reach the cap when I got home from work :D but now I click &quot;today&quot; and I've got 25. I don't get it. When I click &quot;Yesterday&quot; it shows me posts from 2 hours ago. That's not yesterday, so that to me is a bug. Unless days are shorter in SO world of course. That's fine, but perhaps they should not be called &quot;today&quot; and &quot;yesterday&quot; if they don't start and end say, oh, around 24 hours apart. If I answered something today, I feel it should be in today, not moved out to yesterday after a few hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134977" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:54:48.197" Title="What exactly is a &quot;day&quot; in the recent activity area of my &quot;profile&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42963" CreationDate="2010-03-20T01:05:44.667" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Days are defined in UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The day ends at Midnight UTC, more commonly known as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4:00PM PST &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:00PM MST &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6:00PM CST &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7:00PM EST&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice these are &lt;strong&gt;Standard Times&lt;/strong&gt; not, &lt;strong&gt;Daylight Savings Times&lt;/strong&gt;. Therefore if you are in the Pacific Standard Timezone, and you post something at 2PM, at 5PM, it will be considered yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T01:12:19.500" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:12:19.500" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="42965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42958" CreationDate="2010-03-20T01:06:28.237" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think most of the really well-crafted questions come through multiple edits, which don't gain reputation at all.  I do feel bad for the people who are near a threshold and are going to lose a privilege or be delayed in gaining one, but I think this is one of those cases where you can't please everyone.  We get &lt;em&gt;tons&lt;/em&gt; of complaints about users who get thousands of rep on hundreds of bad questions.  Now Jeff is doing something about that, and a completely different group of people is complaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think things might even out over time.  People currently vote a lot more for answers than questions.  Once you adjust the amount of rep given for each kind of vote, I think you might see more total votes going to questions (hopefully only the good ones).  There are always unintended consequences to any change.  I think we should wait and see what the outcome is before we decide whether it was right or wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:06:28.237" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="42969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28728" CreationDate="2010-03-20T01:19:13.253" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers hResume support has been greatly improved recently.  Not only are public CVs marked-up for easy &lt;strong&gt;export&lt;/strong&gt; from Careers, you can also import&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; hResume CVs from arbitrary pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between these two functions you could keep - with a tiny amount of manual labor - a number of different locations for the same CV in sync.  Probably the easiest thing to do would be to make your public Careers CV the canonical one, and drive everything else off of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, a fully fledged API for Careers (especially a write-enabled one) isn't in the works as that's an awful lot of work to build something that would only be of utility to a handful of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;Do note that such a CV will be imported as &quot;drafts.&quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:19:13.253" />
  <row Id="42971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42958" CreationDate="2010-03-20T01:50:32.317" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say... maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only asked a single question in my time on SO, and only stand to lose 10 rep from the recalc, so I'm not worried about my own rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I liked the fact that questions and answers were valued equally - they cannot exist without each other. It's the answers that people are ultimately looking for, but without someone asking the questions, the answers won't be written. On the other hand, I'm sure this wouldn't have been considered a problem if the points had been like this to start with (at least not as much as is the case now), and while humans have a tendency to feel very bad about change, &lt;strong&gt;that doesn't mean change is always a bad thing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My concern is about the people who aren't feeling talented enough to actually answer questions - or the people who are just slow typers and can't answer questions before someone else comes along and posts the exact same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the change, asking questions provided them with a way to participate and being considered equally important - a question vote was considered equal to an answer vote. They can still do that, but we've just turned their difficulty setting up to 11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree with Joel that it's important that people ask questions for the right reasons - and I also believe that there are quite a few questions on SO which should never have been asked - I think there's a very real risk that SO will just appear even more elitist than it already does, because people who can answer questions are valued higher than people who can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing wrong with aiming for a high standard of questions and answers - but to me, making memes out of people like Jon Skeet &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; come off as being incredibly elitist and cliquey. By decreasing the value of people who can ask questions, I think it'll just make that problem worse - people will find it even harder to appear as a respected member of the community. Hell, I'm at 5.3k, which I consider to be fairly high, and I still wonder if anyone ever pays any real attention. It's not that it makes much of a difference to me, but I know it will make a big difference to other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be the case that this change really will encourage people to vote more on questions, which I think is a good thing - I know I need to get better at voting in general, but it holds even more true for question voting - but I have my doubts. Of course, that probably just means that my lack of voting is due to some completely different reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good thing is that they can always change it back - just change the values back and do a new recalc - so it's definitely not the end of the world, even if it turns out to have the completely opposite effect of what was intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144190" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:50:32.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42963" CreationDate="2010-03-20T01:54:48.197" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are on linux/unix/osx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ TZ=utc date&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will give you the time of day in UTC&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136589" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:54:48.197" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42882" CreationDate="2010-03-20T01:58:24.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I edit fairly extensively, and I trust my edits are mainly constructive.  I'd like to see some recognition beyond the Strunk &amp;amp; White badge for the work done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if a discretionary badge could be considered - maybe one that is triggered by someone completing another thousand edits (of other people's material).  A notification could be sent to some team (maybe the moderators, maybe some other team) which says &quot;this person could be eligible for the 'Senior Editor' badge; please check&quot;, with the team able to nix the award if the edits are seen as gaming the system rather than being constructive.  There'd need to be some tooling to help them review things quickly - and that may not be so easy.  Id suggest that the normal presumption should be &quot;yes, the user earned it&quot;, but maybe leave the team a week in which to review any specific award.  And yes, I think it would be nice to recognize ongoing effort, so the badge should be awardable multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Or maybe this is too complex again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a non-trivial problem rewarding constructive behaviour without also inducing unwanted and undesirable behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T01:58:24.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42980" CreationDate="2010-03-20T02:16:47.343" Score="3" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had posted a question some days back on SO, but due to lack of knowledge my description in the question wasn't very informative. So I did not get good replies which answered my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did some research myself, but still haven't found answer to the question. However now I edited my question to clearly ask what I am looking for. After editing I do not see my question being viewed or any new answer posted. Is the edited question shown up in the newly asked questions list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I post a new question for it. Even putting a bounty hasnt helped&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be done in such a case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144887" LastEditorUserId="419" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T03:52:28.793" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:36:35.687" Title="How do I attract users back to an edited question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="42979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-20T02:39:56.863" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://codespeak.net/pypy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://mental-asylum.de/files2/pypy.png&quot; alt=&quot;PyPy&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143097" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T02:39:56.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-20T02:39:56.863" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="42980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42975" CreationDate="2010-03-20T02:49:32.927" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the community user automatically bumps questions every now and then, but I don't know the exact rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T02:49:32.927" />
  <row Id="42981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35013" CreationDate="2010-03-20T02:58:18.680" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I posted my CV on SO a few months ago and I've had great success.  Being a fifth year university student and facing a terrible post graduation job market, I've been working on my job search for the last year.   Contacting companies on my own and working with career services on campus yielded a few results, but nothing that serious.  After posting my CV on stack overflow, I've received several serious inquiries and I just singed with a company who originally contacted me through Stack Overflow Careers.  I truly believe that SO helped me set myself apart from other potential candidate and let me give more than just bullet points about myself.  Without this, I doubt I would have gotten as good of a position as I now have for after my graduation.  This has taken a huge load off my mind as I try to finish up my final studies.  Thank you so much for your great site, if it wasn't for Stack Overflow Careers I may have ended up working on a cruise ship for hair metal fans... seriously.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141349" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T02:58:18.680" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42982" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T02:59:40.990" Score="3" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5303/will-there-be-rtl-support-in-stackexchange&quot;&gt;Will there be RTL support in StackExchange?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out my current display name, and Hebrew comments below... (name now changed back, see screen shots below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100320-ka1rg6yf4ws8ums55rdqw71suu.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100320-byi4gx35tpad4g3we4c5dj5k8k.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42982/use-of-rtl-languages-causes-ui-disfiguration/42987#42987&quot;&gt;the comment&lt;/a&gt; on Atwood's response for an example of mixed LTR/RTL comments. (screenshot below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.skitch.com/20100320-t9eq2esr3j6xkiib3fwua8cb7i.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T09:21:21.123" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T09:22:15.677" ClosedDate="2010-03-20T05:01:41.803" Title="Use of RTL Languages Causes UI-Disfiguration" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;&lt;rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="42983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42679" CreationDate="2010-03-20T03:05:46.680" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for putting that link... I hadn't realized what the logo was supposed to be.  Good thing it's not being sponsored by a graphics design firm!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ObPlug:  The Command Prompt guys have helped me out a couple of times and are pretty awesome to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T03:05:46.680" />
  <row Id="42984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42958" CreationDate="2010-03-20T03:14:14.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is your incentive for coming to a site such as Stack Overflow to ask questions? Is it to earn rep from the question or is it to get an answer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most people it's to get an answer. Imagine you're working on a project and you've been banging your head against a problem, and because of this your boss is on the warpath wondering why your app isn't ready, or your site is down and customers are threatening to mangle your soft sensitive bits, what do you do? You Google and discover Stack Overflow. So you pop in your question and within a few minutes you have a raft of answers many of which solve your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isn't that the real reward&lt;/strong&gt;, isn't that reward enough? Are you going to bitch about not getting rep points because you asked a question, or are you going to go away happy because you just saved your backside by getting help from the Stack Overflow community?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked 65 questions (against providing 663 answers) over my time with Stack Overflow which have gained rep worth ~1300, even if I lost all that rep or even double the amount, it's no big deal because many of those questions were asked under moments of pressure where I didn't have the time to research in depth. The reward for me is being able to tap into a highly enthusiastic and active expert technical community and get answers quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work from home and Stack Overflow is like being able to shout a question across the office to a bunch of colleagues and get immediate results, that's pretty cool and I'm not going to quibble about losing rep based on asking for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question, no, I don't think Stack Overflow is shooting itself in the foot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T03:14:14.337" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2010-03-20T03:16:42.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a sometimes visitor to this site. Two things keep me away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The depressing colour scheme, or more accurately the lack of a colour scheme&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The excessive waffling, which just makes it harder to sift the content from the dross&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T03:16:42.073" />
  <row Id="42986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="104" CreationDate="2010-03-20T03:25:55.297" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; through eyes of colorblind&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136086" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T03:25:55.297" />
  <row Id="42987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42982" CreationDate="2010-03-20T03:35:13.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a RTL issue. Not anything we're explicitly doing..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ah, except we were not allowing anything other than [A-Z0-9] when validating the first character. Fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we use &lt;code&gt;^[\w](?&amp;lt;!_)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6420/rxbcharclass.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T09:22:15.677" LastActivityDate="2010-05-09T09:22:15.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42999" CreationDate="2010-03-20T04:58:34.613" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using SO for 7 months... Last week I introduced SO to some of my colleagues... They showed great interest to use it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They started posting questions... After two to three questions posted by two of colleagues all their questions were down voted.. They called me and showed their down votes to me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I told them even i got down votes and then i decided to give tips/points to be considered while posting a question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post the code you've tried...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go through &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;faq of StackOverflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now i want some of other users of SO to give some tips/points to be considered while posting a question by a new user...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:49:26.277" Title="Tips/points to be considered while posting a question by new users" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42988" CreationDate="2010-03-20T05:10:15.387" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I worked up a blog-entry called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sampsonvideos.com/blog/?p=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Real Secret to Monster-Reputation on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that was specifically for new users. You might find it somewhat useful in helping them learn how the system &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; works for people who want heafty-reputation (which is typically the case with many new users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:10:15.387" />
  <row Id="42990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42991" CreationDate="2010-03-20T05:11:42.063" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently asked a question and received some great answers, including one that I eventually marked &quot;accepted.&quot; I've had this accepted answer for about 7 days now. Today, I found that I had some follow-up questions relating the solution in my accepted-answer, so I posted some comments on the answer. I'm worried that the answer-author may not get notified of my follow-up questions - is there some way I can ensure my comments will be read by that particular user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144600" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T05:22:50.267" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:22:50.267" Title="Notifying Answer-Authors of Follow-up Questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;asking-questions&gt;&lt;contact&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="42991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42990" CreationDate="2010-03-20T05:15:51.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon to have some follow-up questions after you solve your first problem with the help of another user. If the questions are minor enough, you may find it acceptable to ask via a comment. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prefixing your comment with @User&lt;/a&gt; (where &quot;User&quot; is the users name) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;will notify that user they have new comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your follow-up question is broad, you may consider posting it as a new question altogether, and letting other people attempt to help you with it. While we befriend some people here and there through their generosity, it's important to note that there are still many thousands of others who are fully-capable of handling your follow-up questions as well, so don't hesitate to create a new question when you feel it's necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:15:51.593" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42975" CreationDate="2010-03-20T05:36:35.687" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couple things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you edited the question it was bumped back to the home page. Please please please don't duplicate the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; edited it and replied to some of the comments asking for clarification to ping them for new insight. Either way, its Friday (and now the weekend) - you'd be surprised how many actually have lives outside SO and will likely get to it on Monday instead of working.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A bounty only guarantees that more people will look at it, not that you'll get more and/or better answers. I think a better rephrasing of the question (on Monday) would better help than the bounty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25163" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:36:35.687" />
  <row Id="42993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11874" CreationDate="2010-03-20T05:41:42.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is totally by design; the 15 rep you earned was from the PREVIOUS day, not today. So the fact that you've hit the cap at 200 today is completely normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, now that accepts and bounties are 100% immune (not just sometimes chronologically immune) to the rep cap, this is sort of irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:41:42.893" />
  <row Id="42994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32159" CreationDate="2010-03-20T05:43:58.040" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that accepted answers and bounties are &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; immune from the rep cap, not just occasionally chronologically immune depending on when they arrive, this should be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T05:43:58.040" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="42995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42996" CreationDate="2010-03-20T06:53:08.367" Score="-1" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe one of my questions was incorrectly closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am very interested in the power of&#xA;  different languages. Everyone who has&#xA;  programmed in multiple languages knows&#xA;  that sometimes a language allows you&#xA;  to express concepts which you can't&#xA;  express in other languages. You can&#xA;  have all kinds of subjective&#xA;  discussion about this, but naturally&#xA;  it would be better to have an&#xA;  objective measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There do actually exist objective&#xA;  measures. One is Turing-Completeness,&#xA;  which means that a language is capable&#xA;  of generating any output that could be&#xA;  generated by following a sequential&#xA;  set of steps. There are also other&#xA;  lesser levels of power such as Finite&#xA;  State Automata.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, except for domain specific&#xA;  languages, pretty much all modern&#xA;  languages are Turing complete. It is&#xA;  therefore natural to ask the following&#xA;  question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Can we can define any other measures of&#xA;    power which are greater than Turing&#xA;    completeness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now of course we can't define this by&#xA;  considering the output that a program&#xA;  can generate, as Turing machines can&#xA;  already produce the same output that&#xA;  any other program can. But there are&#xA;  definitely different levels in what&#xA;  concepts can be expressed - surely&#xA;  no-one would argue that assembly&#xA;  language is as powerful as a modern&#xA;  object oriented language like Python.&#xA;  You could use your assembly to write a&#xA;  Python interpreter, so clearly any&#xA;  accurate objective measure would have&#xA;  to exclude this possibility. This also&#xA;  causes a problem with trying to define&#xA;  the power using the minimum number of&#xA;  symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How exactly to do so is not clear and&#xA;  indeed appears extremely difficult,&#xA;  but we can't assume that just because&#xA;  we don't know how to solve a problem,&#xA;  that nobody know how to. It is also&#xA;  doesn't really make sense to demand a&#xA;  definition of power before answering&#xA;  the question - after all the whole&#xA;  point of this question is to obtain&#xA;  such a definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think that my explanation will be&#xA;  clear enough for anyone with a strong&#xA;  theoretical background in computer&#xA;  science to understand what I am&#xA;  looking for. If you do have such a&#xA;  background and you disagree, please&#xA;  comment why, but if you don't thats&#xA;  probably why you don't understand the&#xA;  question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, please vote to reopen my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2481814/objective-measures-of-the-power-of-programming-languages&quot;&gt;Link to my question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T21:31:05.840" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T21:31:05.840" Title="Request for question to be reopened" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;computer-science&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="42996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42995" CreationDate="2010-03-20T06:58:31.357" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought your question was specific enough and obviously programming-related.  I'd actually be happy to try and work up an answer for it, but it would take a lot of time, and I'd have to dig out my automata books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I did what I could do and gave you a reopen vote, 3 more to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T06:58:31.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42995" CreationDate="2010-03-20T07:17:00.633" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought your question was inappropriate for StackOverflow, while quite appropriate for ivorytower.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you find it necessary to first explain what the question meant, and the fact that you assume a lack of familiarity with Computer Science theory, pretty much proves to me what I thought when I voted to close - you're in the wrong place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Community (that's &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;, BTW) decides what's appropriate on StackOverflow. You're only one member of that Community, and you don't get to decide it should be open - the Community does, and will reopen your question when it feels like it, if ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T07:17:00.633" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="42998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42882" CreationDate="2010-03-20T07:33:04.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't imagine very many edits would ever be voted on. Every so often, though, I see an edit that so dramatically improves a question that I wish I could reward it directly. – &lt;a href=&quot;#42923&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36052/allow-post-editor-to-see-comments-directed-at-him&quot;&gt;leaving comments for editors&lt;/a&gt;, the poorly-named find-an-upvote-worthy-post-to-compensate-for-appreciated-non-votable-action principle does allow &lt;em&gt;indirect&lt;/em&gt; rewards for a good or great edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rolling back poor edits only takes 2k rep, and they can be flagged for attention.  This seems sufficient&amp;mdash;in terms of fixing that mistake if not in preventing more&amp;mdash;so I won't address poor edits any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But for those great edits where a &lt;em&gt;direct&lt;/em&gt; reward is desired, can you reward quality instead of volume without involving rep?&lt;/strong&gt;  Don't address any sort of punishment or disincentive, and allow only the equivalent of an upvote&amp;mdash;think how &quot;great comments&quot; work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i43.tinypic.com/keyw5c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;freehand &amp;quot;great edit&amp;quot; button&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't show the button without viewing the edit history, and thus the button would be on the revisions page.  You'd have to go through a tiny bit of work to even recognize the editor's effort&amp;mdash;that's a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tie it into badges for the editor equivalent of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/94/pundit&quot;&gt;pundit badge&lt;/a&gt;: +10/+100/+1000 for bronze/silver/gold.  Allow multiple gold awards, if you really want to recognize prolific editors, or cap at a silver badge (+10 bronze, +300-500 silver?) with multiple silver awards.  Initially this seems hard to get, but remember we're counting votes-on-edits rather than counting edits, and pundit is hard to get too: only 60 on SO currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the parallels with the pundit badge are attractive, it seems that most comments either need to be snarky or controversial to hit +10 (which makes sense, easier to get people to vote emotionally), so I don't want to draw too close of a correlation.  Importantly, I want nothing along the lines of &quot;40 edits with +10 or higher score&quot;&amp;mdash;instead I'd like to recognize that most work lies in the long tail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T15:42:24.463" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="42999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42988" CreationDate="2010-03-20T07:37:22.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to ask questions the smart way&lt;/a&gt; is a good general-purpose article to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search for related questions first. The question you don't have to ask at all is the best kind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure readers have enough information: don't be vague, and post code where you can. A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/complete.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;short but complete program demonstrating the problem&lt;/a&gt; is incredibly useful.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Be polite: remember that people are offering to help you out of their own time. Invest some of &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; time in making that as pleasant an experience as possible. This includes correcting spelling and grammar mistakes to a reasonable extent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read your question before posting it, putting yourself in the position of potential answerers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T07:37:22.417" />
  <row Id="43000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42919" CreationDate="2010-03-20T07:41:42.320" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The end is near, so.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unmotivationalposters.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;amp;g2_itemId=36&amp;amp;g2_serialNumber=2&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T07:41:42.320" />
  <row Id="43001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27566" CreationDate="2010-03-20T07:56:32.970" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42878/show-related-questions-just-before-question-submission&quot;&gt;Agreed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/j65p2u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of proposed feature&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43668/allow-declaration-of-programming-language-for-syntax-highlighting-closed&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/oh36sh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T13:23:06.650" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42995" CreationDate="2010-03-20T08:02:39.533" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The initial phrasing of the title was asking for trouble. It might not be completely fair, but people form their first impression of you question from the title alone, and if contains enough red flag words or concept they may only skim your question body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such is life in the fast paced world of Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you questions appears to be on a topic appropriate for stack overflow (one hurdle passed). However, the two answers you have are non-response, and I have a suspicion that the only response that can be made a lengths appropriate for Stack Overflow is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(i.e. that this is a field of academic endeavour too unsettled to be dealt with in a short format). If that is the case, then the question falls on the &quot;requires extended discussion&quot; hurdle and should be closed. However, this is not my field of expertise, so I'll hold my vote for the moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you do yourself no favors with the condescending tone you adopted here. None whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T08:11:37.533" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T08:11:37.533" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43005" CreationDate="2010-03-20T08:40:25.240" Score="130" ViewCount="6772" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I am concerned that my reputation score is incorrect, how can I audit it, or get a report of a detailed breakdown of my reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-06T10:43:12.057" LastActivityDate="2011-08-06T10:43:12.057" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-22T14:34:44.080" Title="How do I audit my reputation?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-audit&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="105" />
  <row Id="43005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43004" CreationDate="2010-03-20T08:47:10.743" Score="98" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Make sure you are logged in, and visit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;http://sitename.com/&lt;strong&gt;reputation&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cooking.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://cooking.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gaming.stackexchange.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://gaming.stackexchange.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will give you a detailed audit / report of your reputation over time, reflecting the current voting values. It will look something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA; 2     29812 (2)&#xA;-- 2009-11-15 rep +245  = 28647     &#xA; 2     29877 (10)&#xA; 3     29886 (-2)&#xA; 1     29877 (15)&#xA; 2     29886 (10)&#xA; 2     27958 (7)&#xA; 2     29905 [0]&#xA; 1     29905 (15)&#xA; 3     29884 (-2)&#xA; 2     29521 (2)&#xA; 2     31021 (5)&#xA; 2     29878 [0]&#xA; 9     28065 (550)&#xA;-- 2009-11-16 rep +275  = 28922     &#xA; 1     29915 (15)&#xA; 3     29882 (-2)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;note that this is not an actual, valid report, just an example that I kind of cut and pasted into&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;first number&lt;/strong&gt; is the vote type, where common vote types are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 = accepted answer (to or from you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 = upvote (to you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 = downvote (to or from you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 = penalty for post flagged as offensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 = bounty award (to you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;8 = bounty grant (from you)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 = penalty for post flagged as spam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;16 = edit suggestion approved &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;second number&lt;/strong&gt; is the post ID that the vote was on. Remember that votes on community wiki posts do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; generate rep, so those votes will not appear here. (Note that some vote types like offensive, spam, and bounties apply to any post regardless of its community wiki status)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;third number&lt;/strong&gt; is the value of the vote. Note that the value may be capped if you reach the daily upvote reputation limit. If the value is capped, it will appear in brackets like &lt;code&gt;[3]&lt;/code&gt; so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;date boundaries&lt;/strong&gt; are printed whenever your reputation changed in a given day(s). It contains the current date, the amount your rep changed (up or down) since the last time, and the total amount of rep you have earned to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of the page, there is a button that says &lt;strong&gt;Trigger Reputation Recalc&lt;/strong&gt;.  This will force the reputation value stored in the system to be recalculated based on the audit, correcting any errors.  Your reputation may change significantly if you have many posts that have been deleted or if many upvotes have been reverted after reaching the +200 cap.  Since this can be demanding on the servers, and &lt;em&gt;recalcs are normally reserved for gross errors or reputation scoring changes&lt;/em&gt;, a recalc can only be performed once every 24 hours; for more information, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14200/self-instigated-rep-recalc/&quot;&gt;Self-instigated rep recalc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="160017" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-04-08T01:17:10.427" LastActivityDate="2011-04-08T01:17:10.427" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-22T14:34:44.080" CommentCount="14" />
  <row Id="43006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42870" CreationDate="2010-03-20T08:48:13.693" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/&quot;&gt;How do I audit my reputation?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...etc. to pull a fresh and accurate rep-report for your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T15:12:53.853" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:12:53.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42898" CreationDate="2010-03-20T08:48:21.383" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can refer them to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T12:43:29.327" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:43:29.327" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43009" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T09:42:41.620" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/135/encouraging-people-to-explain-down-votes&quot;&gt;Encouraging people to explain down-votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to put my suggestion here and what to know your thoughts what you think about it. I have see many question marks as not useful and unclear or a question is useful and clear. But I want if someone mark it useful or not useful the he/she should be ask to give reason of his/her think of useful or not useful of question ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T09:45:55.293" ClosedDate="2010-03-20T09:52:00.650" Title="There should be reason when a person mark a question useful or not useful" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="96664" CreationDate="2010-03-20T12:25:54.230" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed at least once before but it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have&quot;&gt;accepted and implemented but not the way it was originally intended&lt;/a&gt;. If I overlooked an already existing identical feature request, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When commenting on questions from new users, mostly asking for clarification or additional information, I often find that these users have replied, but forgot, or didn't know, to address me using &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt;. I will find some of those replies but only by accident, when browsing through questions. Askers will be waiting for feedback and never receive any. (At least not from me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a real problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of real life examples. Obviously, this can only be the tip of the iceberg as those are the question I happen upon by accident later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2600083/smarty-issues-with-fckediter&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2600083/smarty-issues-with-fckediter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose that either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;notifications about subsequent comments be sent to every person who has commented in a thread. (&quot;Facebook style notification&quot;). The vast majority of comment threads on SO is max. 2-3 comments long, I don't think it will clutter people's inboxes.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or: Facebook style notification be activated for questions only so abovementioned situation doesn't happen&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or: Newbies are shown a big fat info that if you want to reply to a previous comment, please include the user's name prefixed with a &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; (I have not checked with a low-rep account whether this may already be the case, but from the number of &quot;lost&quot; replies I assume it isn't.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-28T03:22:22.317" LastActivityDate="2011-06-28T03:22:26.997" Title="Comment replies from newbies not reaching addressees" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="43011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43010" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:17:55.110" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not against this, per se, but it's becoming more and more like a discussion site.  This means that when you comment on a post, you are notified of any other comments made on that post, whether they were aimed at you or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory it sounds nice, but I'm worried about being swamped by notifications I don't really care about, and it's going to be harder to read the notification page because the comments won't be in context - you'll almost always have to view the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least right now I know that the notifications that show up on &lt;code&gt;/recent&lt;/code&gt; are in direct response to a post or comment I made, and I can usually understand it and decided whether to respond without having to visit the page where it's posted.  Even if I don't recall the context, I know it was to me or about my post, and so it's worth revisiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the better answer is education.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:17:55.110" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43004" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:34:47.690" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look, Ma!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can count the number of times I've been capped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;At this rate I'll have my epic badge in only nine more years...&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:34:47.690" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-22T14:34:44.080" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:24:34.547" Score="12" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that some folks edit the tags associated with questions to make the tag more generic, like converting &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/netbeans6.8&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'netbeans6.8'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;netbeans6.8&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/netbeans&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'netbeans'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;netbeans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT, most users/askers do not include version information in the text of their question and some of them do pick the 'versioned' tag.  That additional information is valuable at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please read the question before you edit version info out of tags.  If the version information is not in the question's text then take another moment to edit the text of the question, so the information is immediately available to folks that are trying to answer questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144899" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-06-04T17:57:41.753" LastActivityDate="2011-06-04T17:57:41.753" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-20T13:24:34.547" Title="Can folks that edit tags make sure they preserve the information that they would be editing away?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:44:38.233" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started posting questions to SO using an &quot;unregistered&quot; account some months ago. (Very convenient, by the way.) Now I want to register and establish a more permanent account. Trouble is, I cannot find a way to add a login/pass or OpenID to the account. When I go to the user page (http://stackoverflow.com/users/182237) and click on Register, and then log in through Google, it creates a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; account rather than associating the OpenID with my existing (unregistered) one. Am I just stuck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:52:01.053" Title="How do I associate an OpenID with an unregistered account?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43016" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:44:50.900" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the meta home page I noticed the community user is list as doing &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;, but cannot figure out what it is.  There is nothing on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34394/show-question-answer-vote-totals&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; or its &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/34394/timeline&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt;, but the recent activity is listed with the same timestamp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i39.tinypic.com/whzc76.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:42:03.957" Title="Anomalous community user activity" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;community-user&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43015" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:50:45.063" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He randomly &lt;em&gt;bumps&lt;/em&gt; old questions for them to appear in the homepage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not appear anywhere visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:50:45.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43014" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:52:01.053" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All you have to do is send an e-mail to team@stackoverflow.com (linked to at the bottom of every page) and supply the ID or user page URLs of the two accounts. They can then merge the accounts for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144190" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:52:01.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43013" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:54:05.187" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's good to be aware of, but there's always the possibility that the user (especially a new user) hasn't gotten the right tags in the first place.  The tag auto-completion sometimes lists a versioned tag before a generic tag, and it's easy to accidentally grab a tag you didn't really intend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the question doesn't specifically mention a version, but a tag does, adding a note to the post during the edit is a fairly good policy.  In those cases where it's especially unclear, leave a comment asking the poster for feedback (to verify the version, or indicate that the version isn't actually important to the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T13:54:05.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-20T13:54:05.187" />
  <row Id="43019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43020" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:59:30.503" Score="109" ViewCount="4822" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do I respond to a specific user when entering my comment?  Will they be notified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45708/how-do-i-view-my-recent-replies&quot;&gt;How do I view my recent replies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/how-do-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user-work-the-official-faq&quot;&gt;Return to the FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="140381" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2010-12-05T22:07:00.807" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T19:53:07.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-20T14:00:10.160" Title="How do comment @replies work?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;faq&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;comment-replies&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="49" />
  <row Id="43020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43019" CreationDate="2010-03-20T13:59:58.333" Score="110" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can use &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; syntax anywhere in your comment to reply to a specific user. This will notify that user in their &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/new-global-inbox/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.stack.imgur.com/gFSVY.png&quot; alt=&quot;global inbox&quot;&gt; global inbox&lt;/a&gt;. There is no notification through email.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help#comment-reply&quot;&gt;comment replies&lt;/a&gt; in the Markdown help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first author of the question or answer will always be notified of any new comment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can explicitly notify &lt;strong&gt;one (1)&lt;/strong&gt; other commenter or editor, by using &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt;, where &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; is the username with all spaces removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Single trailing punctuation such as a dot, comma or colon is ignored, like &lt;em&gt;@name, yes&lt;/em&gt; works, but &lt;em&gt;@name... no&lt;/em&gt; does not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Things like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/52368/does-op-also-notify-the-op&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;@op&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37090/feature-request-downvoter-sends-a-notification-to-all-downvoters-for-your-post&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;@downvoter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/75142/is-all-comment-supported&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;@all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have no special meaning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a user comments on their own post and there is only one person who has previously commented, then that person is &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82134/micro-refinement-to-notifications-for-comments-of-others-posts&quot;&gt;also notified&lt;/a&gt; if &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; is forgotten.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1093/make-recent-activity-and-responses-show-new-comments-on-questions-answers-i-have/35913#35913&quot;&gt;all&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36026/what-is-the-syntax-of-username-in-comments-when-username-has-spaces/36048#36048&quot;&gt;details&lt;/a&gt; that make this work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notifications apply to the author, commenters, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36052/allow-post-editor-to-see-comments-directed-at-him/36055#36055&quot;&gt;editors&lt;/a&gt; of the question or answer that you are commenting on—users not in that list cannot be notified. You can also notify a ♦ moderator who closed the question. The question and answers are all considered independently.  For example, if Alice was the author of, commented on, or edited the question or her answer, then you cannot notify her by commenting on Bob's answer (unless Alice &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; participated in that answer), and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must include &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt;, where &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; is a reasonable match to a user's current display name.  Users who have not set a display name in their profile are not notified.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the first word in the display name is at least three characters long, then there must be a starts-with, case-insensitive match of at least three characters in the display name.  This means &lt;em&gt;@a&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;@ab&lt;/em&gt; will never match anyone, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/61960/allow-for-comment-reply-to-usernames-with-less-than-three-characters-in-first-wor/75809#75809&quot;&gt;unless&lt;/a&gt; a user uses a first word that is only two characters. Like: &lt;em&gt;@Jo&lt;/em&gt; will notify Jo Miller, but not John, and &lt;em&gt;@B.&lt;/em&gt; will notify B. Gates, but not B.Gates. Users with a display name of just one or two characters are unnotifiable. If there are more than three characters in &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt;, then all given characters must match (neither &lt;em&gt;@alix&lt;/em&gt; nor &lt;em&gt;@aliceinwonderland&lt;/em&gt; will match user Alice).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if five people named John are participating, &lt;em&gt;@john&lt;/em&gt; will match the most recent John. (Use the next rule to differentiate.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaces are removed &lt;em&gt;from the display names&lt;/em&gt; for matching purposes. So to match Peter Smith you may use &lt;em&gt;@pet&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;@peter&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;@peters&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;@petersmith&lt;/em&gt;.  The last two are useful if Peter Jones is also participating, who can then be distinguished using &lt;em&gt;@peterj&lt;/em&gt;. However, no spaces are allowed in the &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; itself. Like to notify P Smith, one must use &lt;em&gt;@psm&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;@psmith&lt;/em&gt;. (Here &lt;em&gt;@P Smith&lt;/em&gt; would be handled as just &lt;em&gt;@P&lt;/em&gt;, which is too short.) Single quotes, dots, dashes and underscores should &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/51911/the-dot-in-username-within-first-3-character-preventing-from-comment-replies/51913#51913&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; be removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Special characters &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/48968/peter-works-for-peter/49409#49409&quot;&gt;are replaced&lt;/a&gt; with their simple equivalent. To reply to Piëre you can use both &lt;em&gt;@piëre&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;@piere&lt;/em&gt;. And to reply to Jörg you could use &lt;em&gt;@jorg&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/89051/joerg-works-for-jorg&quot;&gt;but not&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;@joerg&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comments containing more than one &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/should-we-discourage-the-user-of-multiple-redundant-username-pings/2615#2615&quot;&gt;are blocked&lt;/a&gt; unless they contain a backtick &lt;code&gt;`&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;In the latter case, only the first name mentioned using the &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; syntax will be &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2035/notify-user-when-their-name-is-mentioned-in-comment/35914#35914&quot;&gt;notified&lt;/a&gt;. For example, &lt;em&gt;@alice @bob Hi!`&lt;/em&gt; will notify Alice (if she has participated in that post), but not Bob.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An exception is the case when the first &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; either matched nobody, or matched the post's author (and thus isn't necessary); in this case, the next &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; will be checked.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When editing a comment within its limited editing period, if you change or add &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40989/will-edited-comments-reach-addressees/74781#74781&quot;&gt;the notification may or may not reach the new recipient&lt;/a&gt; depending on timing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first author of the question or answer will always be notified of any new comment. There is no need to use &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; to notify them. (You may still use it for clarity, if needed; however if only you and the author have been commenting on the post so far, the &lt;em&gt;@name&lt;/em&gt; will be automatically removed from the beginning of the comment, as it adds no value.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The notification must begin with a space or be at the start of the comment. For example, you &lt;a href=&quot;http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/39/whats-your-favourite-quote-about-programming/1079#comment-19850&quot;&gt;cannot use markup&lt;/a&gt; such as italics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Single trailing punctuation such as a dot, comma or colon is ignored. Like &lt;em&gt;@name, yes&lt;/em&gt; works, but &lt;em&gt;@name... no&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88631/why-was-i-not-notified/88639#88639&quot;&gt;does not&lt;/a&gt;. (Though a dot is valid in a username, the last dot &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/75811/using-user-name-colon-to-refer-to-a-user-in-comments/75812#75812&quot;&gt;is removed for matching&lt;/a&gt;, so &lt;em&gt;@St&lt;/em&gt; will notify St. although only two characters are used.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The notification only works for the username that &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/481203#481203&quot;&gt;is current&lt;/a&gt; at the time the comment is submitted, not any previous username(s) the target may have had.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact matching rules are not documented, but extensive tests performed on 30&amp;nbsp;August 2011 indicate that the following algorithm is used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take the first word immediately following the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt;, where the word boundary is determined by a space, a character not valid in user names (such as &lt;code&gt;: , / ! ?&lt;/code&gt;) or the end of the comment.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Remove one trailing dot &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; from the resulting string if applicable (and if the string has more than two characters).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the remaining string  ends in &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;'s&lt;/code&gt;, remove that piece from the string.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The resulting string will be matched against the user name with spaces removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: The comment ends with &lt;code&gt;@O'Conner's.)&lt;/code&gt;. The word immediately following the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; is &lt;code&gt;O'Conner's.&lt;/code&gt; since &lt;code&gt;'&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt; are valid in user names. Then the trailing dot is removed, and finally the &lt;code&gt;'s&lt;/code&gt; is removed, resulting in &lt;code&gt;O'Conner&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of supported notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name: some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name. Some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name, some text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;some text, @name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;some text, @name, more text&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;Some text, @name.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;This is mentioned in @name's comment.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@P.&lt;/code&gt; for both P. Smith and P. Jones (whoever commented most recently), but not P.Smith nor P.Jones. Likewise, &lt;code&gt;@P. Smith&lt;/code&gt; is handled as &lt;code&gt;@P.&lt;/code&gt;, so also matches P. Smith or P. Jones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@psm&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;@psmith&lt;/code&gt; for P Smith&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@peters&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;@peterj&lt;/code&gt; for Peter Smith or Peter Jones respectively&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples that will &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; trigger notifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@name...&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;abc@name&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*@name*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;*@name:*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;[@name](http://some-url)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@[name](http://some-url)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;@P Smith&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="155585" LastEditorDisplayName="Gnome" LastEditDate="2011-09-02T19:53:07.997" LastActivityDate="2011-09-02T19:53:07.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-20T14:00:32.327" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="43022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="54575" CreationDate="2010-03-20T14:19:14.610" Score="11" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just trying to figure out how many days I have capped with this code in &lt;code&gt;/users/rep-report&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;code&gt;javascript:alert(document.body.innerHTML.match(/+(?:\d{4,}|[2-9]\d{2})/g).length)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: see my answer for the correction&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got 29 days with 200+ but can I assume I've capped on 29 days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example following day, I got 218, Its not really capped, because 4 are accepted answers, they can consider in separate box with new rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 2   2010537 (10)&#xA; 2   2046512 (10)&#xA; 2   2046849 (10)&#xA; 2   2046849 (10)&#xA; 1   2042233 (15)&#xA; 2   2047621 (10)&#xA; 2   2047621 (10)&#xA; 1   2047621 (15)&#xA; 2   2040199 (10)&#xA; 2   2048019 (10)&#xA; 2   2048019 (10)&#xA; 1   2048019 (15)&#xA; 2   2048019 (10)&#xA; 2   2048117 (10)&#xA; 2   2048117 (10)&#xA; 2   2048117 (10)&#xA; 3           (-2)&#xA; 2   2048019 (10)&#xA; 2   2048545 (10)&#xA; 1   2048545 (15)&#xA; 2   2047950 (10)&#xA;-- 1/12/2010  rep +218&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-22T12:34:24.867" LastActivityDate="2010-06-22T12:34:24.867" Title="Reputation cap rule will change or anyday with 200+ can consider its a cap?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-20T14:19:29.837" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I did this on a regular basis (about one-two 500 point bounties per week to keep me just above 10k) would this make you more likely to participate in my questions?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134652" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T14:19:29.837" />
  <row Id="43024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T14:31:17.657" Score="10" ViewCount="687" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stack Overflow html editor is the best I've seen, is it available as a downloadable component?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T14:57:15.913" Title="What HTML editor is used by Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;markdown&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43024" CreationDate="2010-03-20T14:32:43.300" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wmd-editor.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WMD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130891" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T14:57:15.913" />
  <row Id="43026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43024" CreationDate="2010-03-20T14:34:39.000" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it is a reverse-engineered, custom-updated version of WMD: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141178" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T14:57:15.913" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43028" CreationDate="2010-03-20T15:02:34.967" Score="4" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I down voted a question because it was a poor answer. After this the answer was edited. I click the down vote to remove my down vote, then I go to click upvote to give it an upvote. A small notification pop's up telling me that it's too old to be changed unless it's edited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this done? I then have to go find an arbitrary thing to edit just to give it an upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T20:15:25.303" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T20:15:25.303" Title="Changing a downvote to an upvote" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-too-old&gt;&lt;change-vote&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43027" CreationDate="2010-03-20T15:09:01.187" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's just not how it works, and I've been bitten by it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current way to turn a downvote into an upvote is to just upvote, without &quot;canceling&quot; the down vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T15:14:12.930" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43032" CreationDate="2010-03-20T15:29:39.210" Score="3" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had &quot;maxed out&quot; daily rep on stackoverflow yesterday night (Pacific Daylight Time) -- except for acceptances, as usual.  (i.e., 00:00 to 07:00 or so, UTC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then suddenly this (PST) morning I noticed I'm getting rep again for upvotes I'm receiving on my answer.  On my &quot;reputation&quot; tab I clearly see upvotes received 6 to 9 hours ago (midnight to 3 AM PST -&gt; 7:00 to 10:00 UTC) with no rep gain, but also upvotes received 4 hours ago and later (4:30 AM PST and later -&gt; 10:30 UTC and later) which &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; indicate rep gain.  What's up?  I hadn't heard of impending rule changes wrt the daily rep limit (only of one impending change wrt the weight of upvotes on questions) -- is it a bug...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: as the accepted answer makes clear, there &lt;strong&gt;were&lt;/strong&gt; indeed rule changes (for the better, it seems;-) - and indeed my daily rep seems to have maxed out again now (at the nicer new level;-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130042" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T18:40:57.577" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:40:57.577" Title="Daily reputation limit just broke...?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="43030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43029" CreationDate="2010-03-20T15:35:29.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The daily limit is not based on your local time, but rather on UTC (what used to be called Greenwich Mean Time). Thus, depending on your area's daylight savings time practices, your rep cap probably expired around 5 PM. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more information on Pacific Time, and here for more information on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UTC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T15:35:29.303" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43029" CreationDate="2010-03-20T15:41:49.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Days, and thus the daily reputation cap, are defined in UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The day ends at Midnight UTC, more commonly known as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4:00PM PST &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:00PM MST &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6:00PM CST &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;7:00PM EST&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice these are &lt;strong&gt;Standard Times&lt;/strong&gt; not, &lt;strong&gt;Daylight Savings Times&lt;/strong&gt;. Therefore if you are in the Pacific Standard Timezone, and you post something at 2PM, at 5PM, it will be considered yesterday. If you get an upvote at 5PM when you hit the daily cap at 2PM, it is technically a new day, and you will get the reputation for the upvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T15:41:49.597" />
  <row Id="43032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43029" CreationDate="2010-03-20T15:42:43.247" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you are seeing the changes/bug fixes mentioned here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43008#43008&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43008#43008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T15:42:43.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42257" CreationDate="2010-03-20T15:49:01.697" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can run the following query if you have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/02/querying-the-stackoverflow-data-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SQL Server Management Studio&lt;/a&gt;, or you can run that query on &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;To see Comments sorted by Score&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select * from comments where userid=YourUserID order by score desc&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;To see count of comments that are eligible for Pundit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;select count(*) from comments where userid=YourUserID and score &amp;gt; 9 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T15:49:01.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42995" CreationDate="2010-03-20T16:05:25.043" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated and restated, the question can, at most, be a the start of a fuzzy discussion. It has no 'answer.' As such, it is possibly tolerable as community wiki, and probably best-suited for some other venue altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What appears to be a preponderance of us believe that 'programming' means practical programming. This is several steps away from that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has no immediate practical connections at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It does not pose a factual question; it solicits opinions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The opinions it solicits are not of the form 'I bet there are people out there with scars from dealing with this subject and I would be grateful for their accumulated insight.'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me that you would be best served by starting a blog, or finding a blog where people engage in this kind of &lt;em&gt;discussion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T16:05:25.043" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42995" CreationDate="2010-03-20T16:05:54.077" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, can I get my question reopened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was your question?  There wasn't a question mark in the entire thing.  I liked where it was going but there was no climax. I don't know if you were asking about how one would define objective measures, if you were looking for examples of specific concepts that languages express easily (for example python list comprehensives with lambdas can be likened to Linq which can be likened to SQL), or what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T16:05:54.077" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44100" CreationDate="2010-03-20T16:21:03.850" Score="11" ViewCount="579" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems the problem is localized to WebKit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody else notice this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All code snippets, not just a particular post;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2350874/ysod-yellow-screen-of-death-javascript-regexp-syntax-error&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2350874/ysod-yellow-screen-of-death-javascript-regexp-syntax-error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2481664/pass-array-to-client-side-for-display/2483402#2483402&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2481664/pass-array-to-client-side-for-display/2483402#2483402&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are just a couple..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T09:12:55.830" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T09:12:55.830" Title="StackOverflow code snippet horizontal scrolling broken WebKit" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;&lt;webkit&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T16:24:17.797" Score="5" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent change to completely exempt accepted answers from the rep cap, it is now harder to use the recent activity display to figure out how close you are to the daily rep cap.  It used to be that you could assume that as long as you were below 200 you hadn't capped yet.  Once you hit 200 you knew that you had to get accepted answers to add more rep that day.  Now, you can be over 200 for the day, yet not have hit the cap if the 200 includes rep from accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address this issue, I propose that the hover over for the rep value on the recent activity show the breakdown between rep points that are subject to the cap (normal question/answer votes) and accepted answers.  This provides a quick and convenient means to get at this information.  The alternative to is to hand calculate the points from reputation by viewing your reputation activity for the day, totaling the accepted answer points manually, and subtracting these from the actual reputation displayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T17:00:00.213" Title="Recent activity display should show capped vs. uncapped rep as a hover effect" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;reputation-display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="43044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43178" CreationDate="2010-03-20T16:34:08.557" Score="0" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello friends, I have my two OpenIDs connected to my Stack Overflow account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is Yahoo and other is &lt;strong&gt;(Google profile)&lt;/strong&gt; I want to change this Google profile to Gmail login... (I am not able to understand the difference between Google profile and Gmail one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;My scenario&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case 1:&lt;/strong&gt; I am logged in to Yahoo! Mail and I am able to log in at stackoverflow.com. (Perfect. No problem)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Case 2:&lt;/strong&gt; I am logged in to Gmail or iGoogle or Orkut or Blogger. At that time &lt;strong&gt;I am not able to log in&lt;/strong&gt; at stackoverflow.com. (MY original account. Username piemesons)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order for me to log in at stackoverflow.com, I must use my google profile OpenID: &lt;code&gt;www.google.com/profiles/jain.mohit27&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why this is happening? I am not able to understand: what's the difference between my Gmail id and Google id?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other thing I tried:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open a new browser. Log out of everything: Yahoo, Google, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now log in to Gmail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Open stackoverflow.com and try to log in using Google.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Site asks me to created a new account. (A brand-new account - WHY?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I try to swap OpenIds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enter &lt;code&gt;www.google.com/profiles/jain.mohit27&lt;/code&gt; as my OpenID. I got my original account. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now again swap OpenID, and try using Google. AND I GOT A NEW ACCOUNT - WHY IS THIS SO?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anybody explain this and tell me what to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody..????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138975" LastEditorUserId="138975" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T10:52:49.747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T10:52:49.747" Title="How can I change my OpenID?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;&lt;linked-accounts&gt;&lt;login-problem&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43004" CreationDate="2010-03-20T16:39:40.207" Score="21" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a few people confused about the new rep-reports, so I will try to give an example of both question-vote changes and daily-cap changes in one fell swoop:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;-- 2009-06-29 rep +129  = 986  &#xA; 2   1061283 (5)    # question upvote, used to be +10, now +5&#xA; 2   1061283 (5)&#xA; 1   1061350 (2)    # I accepted an answer&#xA; 2   1061283 (5)&#xA; 2   1061283 (5)&#xA; 2   1061380 (10)   # upvote on my answer&#xA; 2   1061660 (10)&#xA; 2   1061660 (10)&#xA; 2   1061660 (10)&#xA; 2   1060244 (10)&#xA; 2   1061380 (10)&#xA; 1   1061660 (15)   # someone accepted my answer&#xA; 2   1061660 (10)&#xA; 1   1061380 (15)   # someone accepted my answer&#xA; 2   1061660 (10)&#xA; 2   1061660 (10)&#xA; 3           (-1)   # I will never tell you who I downvoted!&#xA; 2   1062027 (10)&#xA; 2   1061660 (10)&#xA; 2   1062860 (10)&#xA; 3           (-1)&#xA; 2   1062894 (10)&#xA; 2   1062894 (10)&#xA; 2   1060376 (10)&#xA; 2   1062860 (10)&#xA; 2   1062996 (10)&#xA; 1   1062996 (15)   # someone accepted my answer&#xA; 2   1060376 (10)&#xA; 2   1046207 [2]    # upvote on my answer, 2 points &quot;fill&quot; daily cap&#xA; 2   1061283 [0]    # upvote on my answer, after hitting the daily cap :(((&#xA; 2   1060376 [0]&#xA; 2   1062860 [0]&#xA; 2   1047514 [0]&#xA; 2   1047514 [0]&#xA; 2   1062860 [0]&#xA;-- 2009-06-30 rep +247  = 1233&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Involved in daily rep-cap:&#xA;Question upvotes   4x  5 =  20&#xA;Answer upvotes    25x 10 = 250&#xA;They downvoted     0x -2 =   0&#xA;I downvoted        2x -1 =  -2&#xA;                           ---&#xA;                           268&#xA;Apply rep cap:             200&#xA;&#xA;Not involved in daily rep-cap:&#xA;I accepted         1x  2 =   2&#xA;They accepted      3x 15 =  45&#xA;Arr, bounty        0x  _ =   0&#xA;                           ---&#xA;                            47&#xA;&#xA;Total rep gained that day: 247&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if all of this is intended or will be how it is in the end, but that's how I interpret my whole rep-report now.  It makes sense of the numbers I've seen.  In particular, the real rep is counted in a linear fashion, and I've stripped that away in my table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T19:54:46.713" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-22T14:34:44.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43040" CreationDate="2010-03-20T16:45:33.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Totally seconded, and good solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T16:45:33.917" />
  <row Id="43048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43040" CreationDate="2010-03-20T17:00:00.213" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is necessary.  Someone please code up a Greasemonkey script for it; don't waste time with it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, the new rules make it &lt;em&gt;easier&lt;/em&gt; to eyeball your daily rep-cap, not &lt;em&gt;harder&lt;/em&gt;.  Look through your daily activity; subtract 15 from the daily total for each accepted answer; subtract any bounties won; and you're left with your daily cappable rep.  You don't need to consider what order you were upvoted or downvoted -- it's just simple arithmatic now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I find some users' concern over rep-cap and who's hitting it and who isn't ... well, childish.  If &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is the motivating factor over whether you answer a question or not, well, I'm sincerely &lt;em&gt;unimpressed&lt;/em&gt; with your reasons for being here and participating in this site.  &lt;strong&gt;Thus, I would prefer that the site's recent activities page continue in it's generic reporting of daily reputation.&lt;/strong&gt; If the rep-cap-obsessed need more info than the system provides, let them figure it out for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T17:00:00.213" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43039" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:05:04.253" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what it looks like in Chrome 5.0.335.0 dev on Ubuntu 9.04.  (Updated to 5.0.356.2 dev with no change.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2481664/pass-array-to-client-side-for-display/2483402#2483402&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/x20yvd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of line wrapping&quot; title=&quot;those are ova and sperm, because this is meta porn&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I hadn't updated Chrome in at least a few days (lazy, you know), I am fairly sure I have seen horizontal scrolling instead of wrapping with 5.0.335.0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T23:49:52.520" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42689" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:05:25.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like varying the cost for an upvote depending on what others think of the post, or whether the post is already above zero net score or not.  Dissenting opinions are important and they are sometimes the correct opinion (consider that experts are usually not in the majority).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather, let's go back to the question and think it through. &lt;strong&gt;Why are pity upvotes a problem?&lt;/strong&gt; Simply because they counteract &lt;em&gt;five&lt;/em&gt; downvotes rather than just one. If a user comes along and feels that a post currently at -2 net score really should only be at -1, it is perfectly reasonable to upvote it to bring it back to -1. However, they have also now (perhaps unknowingly) given the poster +10 reputation, which effectively undoes the effect of &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; downvotes. If a post yo-yos between -1 and -2 a few times, it effectively becomes a rep farm for the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;This is wrong.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation change for upvotes should be changed to +2 if the post has a net score below zero (or put another way, if there are more downvotes on a question than upvotes, the weight is +2; otherwise, it is +10).  This does make the reputation algorithm a little more complicated, as it now must take into consideration the current state of a post, but no one said that programming had to be easy. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:05:25.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:13:34.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We need a new vote-to-close reason: &lt;strong&gt;blatantly prejudicial&lt;/strong&gt;. There is no &quot;rich&quot; and &quot;poor&quot; on Stack Overflow -- this is a meritocracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:13:34.547" />
  <row Id="43062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:15:08.493" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5999/delete-my-account&quot;&gt;Delete my account?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I delete my account and all of my questions on StackOverFlow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:19:09.053" ClosedDate="2010-03-20T18:21:23.373" Title="Deleting all of my questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="43063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43062" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:17:27.633" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email team@stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:17:27.633" />
  <row Id="43064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43062" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:19:09.053" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can request that a diamond-moderator destroy your account. This may require some internal-dialog amongst the moderators before this action is &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; taken though as it's not a very common practice and may have some fine-rules that govern the action in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:19:09.053" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43066" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:24:30.547" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;How do I audit my reputation?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone come up with a way to count the totals and do a recalc projection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T18:31:50.077" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:31:50.077" ClosedDate="2010-03-20T18:28:29.500" Title="Figure out how many rep points you're going to lose from your questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43065" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:28:45.303" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can check your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/rep-report&quot;&gt;post-apocalyptic rep&lt;/a&gt; today. (Last line.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:28:45.303" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42958" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:37:52.007" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't have much to say about the rate recalc, I do want to address a part of your question, as it's an assumption of fact...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who is the primary ad viewer? You? Me?&#xA;  Nope. It is the random Joe out on&#xA;  Google trying to find an answer to his&#xA;  questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, you are the ad viewer, and ads are effective on you. It's just so very rare (tenths of a percent chance) that you'll notice an ad, that it seems like never. &lt;em&gt;Therefore&lt;/em&gt;, you think, &lt;em&gt;I'm not the one who ads are meant for, just Joe Google and the other &quot;normies&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's ok, just about everyone thinks the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:37:52.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43015" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:42:03.957" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is on the community user profile page..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi, I'm not really a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm a background process that helps keep Meta Stack Overflow clean!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do things like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Randomly poke old unanswered questions every hour so they get some attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Own community questions and answers so nobody gets unnecessary reputation from them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Own downvotes on spam/evil posts that get permanently deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:42:03.957" />
  <row Id="43069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42988" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:49:26.277" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realise you may not be a native English speaker, but basic grammar can make a big difference to how your question is perceived. In particular, don't end all your sentences with an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;elipsis&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;...&lt;/code&gt;). It gives the impression that you don't really know what you want to ask, and haven't really thought it through. For example, in this question, every sentence you've written should end with a single full-stop/period (&lt;code&gt;.&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen many good questions on Stackoverflow voted down and even closed due only to poor grammar and spelling. I've often been able to completely reverse that by editing the question to fix basic grammatical errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132073" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:49:26.277" />
  <row Id="43070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42958" CreationDate="2010-03-20T18:51:30.690" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel like the rules were changed in the middle of the game&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The game has been evolving over the last 3 years.  Nothing has &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; been set in stone.  If so, meta needn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, some changes can be frustrating, and all changes will affect some user more than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end of the day the playing field is still even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly, you are unhappy because you are playing the reputation game, but would you go back and undo all your questions (and the answers they gave you) and go back to your previous way of solving the problems you face?  Are you ready to state that SO has no ongoing value for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can fully use SO as a great programming resource with absolutely no reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry that this change affects you so much.  No, it's not fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But going forward, I believe it will actually improve the site and community as a whole.  Arguably the site's value lies in answers, not questions.  Questions are a dime a dozen.  Prior to stackoverflow good answers often cost $60/hr and a lot of frustration.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now answers can be had almost as cheaply as questions, and should they not be paid more handsomely, even if the method of payment is an ephemeral number in a database?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you spend the time to research and answer every question in the featured tab, not only will you get a great deal of reputation reasonably quickly, but you will learn an invaluable amount of knowledge in the process.  You'll be back up above 3k in no time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T18:51:30.690" />
  <row Id="43074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T19:56:19.817" Score="3" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to store and read on my ebook reader a lot of this incredible treasure found on stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about popular questions like this one&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;that has many pages and hidden comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Print to PDF is not helpful because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PDF is not an Ebook format &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions could have hidden comments&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Question could have pagination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will it ever be possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144912" LastEditorUserId="144912" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T08:06:38.870" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T14:50:34.010" Title="Export question to epub or some other open ebook formats" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;export&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1390" CreationDate="2010-03-20T20:21:01.520" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect there would be unintended consequences of this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say we implemented your change (namely, that upvotes to negatively voted posts don't grant extra rep). Knowing that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a downvote is enough to deny anyone rep on a post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;upvotes no longer give &quot;free&quot; rep to negatively voted posts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to honestly say &lt;strong&gt;I would be &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; likely to engage in &quot;pity&quot; upvoting than I was before&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't a fan of the practice precisely &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; it gave away free (and potentially unearned) extra rep and thus indirectly devalued my own. With this change implemented, you'd have single-handledly created a system where casting &quot;pity&quot; upvotes can be handed out without a concern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the OP said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;makes down-voting incorrect or unhelpful answers somewhat counter-productive: the sympathy up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change makes sympathy up-votes far more likely to occur, as no &quot;free&quot; rep is given out.. so why not upvote any mean old negative votes you see? What's the harm .. other than destroying all sort orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T20:43:42.980" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:43:42.980" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41860" CreationDate="2010-03-20T20:23:13.533" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;May I offer an argument for no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a &quot;noob&quot; tag would be highly inappropriate (because it is after all very relative), I have no problem with people putting their frustration into words, even if it does not directly complement the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this community starts listing acceptable and unacceptable vocabulary, instead of encouraging linguistic rigour on the part of the OP and participants, then many will, sadly, move on to other parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139539" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T20:23:13.533" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16701" CreationDate="2010-03-20T20:41:03.417" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Encouraging &lt;strong&gt;accepting answers&lt;/strong&gt; rather than &lt;strong&gt;always accepting an answer&lt;/strong&gt; might be key. How about a badge for every x answers accepted, without so many points attached? That way there's a slight incentive to accept, but not so much that it creates a bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139539" LastEditorUserId="139539" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T20:53:37.573" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T20:53:37.573" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43039" CreationDate="2010-03-20T21:04:41.923" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it is related but suddenly today I am getting similar text wrapping in code blocks. I came to Meta to check if anyone else had seen the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Fluid Version 0.9.6. Fluid is a site specific browser generator based on Webkit/Safari.  Ie used it to generate a SSB for StackOverflow and I have been using the resulting SSB for months now without issue. I am posting mostly Objective-C code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been posting just as I always have i.e. same formatting, same text editor etc but today suddenly I can't get code to format. It wan't to wrap the code like blockquoted text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example, see this post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2477603/iphone-how-to-embed-nsdata-in-xml-for-upload-to-server/2478052#2478052&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2477603/iphone-how-to-embed-nsdata-in-xml-for-upload-to-server/2478052#2478052&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gave up trying to post code in a couple of other post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll do some checking with all my browsers to see if its general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139494" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T21:04:41.923" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39015" CreationDate="2010-03-20T21:18:42.913" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have completed this request by hand, including another 5 questions with &lt;code&gt;[windows-api]&lt;/code&gt; that popped up since I last went through these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T21:18:42.913" />
  <row Id="43080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T21:51:54.567" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43039/stackoverflow-code-snippet-horizontal-scrolling-broken-in-chrome&quot;&gt;StackOverflow code snippet horizontal scrolling broken IN CHROME&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been posting almost daily to Stackoverflow for 6 months now without a problem. Today, I suddenly find myself unable to post properly formated code. Instead of displaying with a horizontal scroll, code wraps like a blockquote. I've made no system changes, browser upgrades etc between yesterday and today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tested it with three different browsers: Fluid 0.9.6 , Safari 4.0.5 (6531.22.7) and Chrome 5.0.307.11 beta (for Mac) for Mac. I'm running MacOS 10.6.2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Safari 4.0.5 (6531.22.7) test:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- (NSMutableArray *) orderedComponents{&#xA;    NSSortDescriptor *orderSort=[[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:[ComponentToLabelMO order_Key]&#xA;                                                            ascending:YES];&#xA;    //------------------------------------------------------^&#xA;    NSArray *sorted=[[[self components] allObjects] sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObject:orderSort]];&#xA;    self.orderedComponents=[[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:sorted]; //use self.property= to handle retention&#xA;    return orderedComponents;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dang, same problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More ordinary format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- (NSMutableArray *) orderedComponents{&#xA;    NSSortDescriptor *orderSort=[[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:[ComponentToLabelMO order_Key] ascending:YES];&#xA;    NSArray *sorted=[[[self components] allObjects] sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObject:orderSort]];&#xA;    self.orderedComponents=[[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:sorted]; //use self.property= to handle retention&#xA;    return orderedComponents;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome 5.0.307.11 beta (for Mac)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- (NSMutableArray *) orderedComponents{&#xA;    NSSortDescriptor *orderSort=[[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:[ComponentToLabelMO order_Key] ascending:YES];&#xA;    NSArray *sorted=[[[self components] allObjects] sortedArrayUsingDescriptors:[NSArray arrayWithObject:orderSort]];&#xA;    self.orderedComponents=[[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithArray:sorted]; //use self.property= to handle retention&#xA;    return orderedComponents;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same browser:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {&#xA;    FirstLevelZeroTVC *flz;&#xA;    FirstLevelOneTVC *flo;&#xA;    FirstLevelTwo *flt;&#xA;    switch (indexPath.row) {&#xA;        case 0:         &#xA;            flz=[[FirstLevelZeroTVC alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];&#xA;            [self.appDelegate.navigationController pushViewController:flz animated:self.shouldShowAnimation];&#xA;            break;&#xA;        case 1:&#xA;            flo=[[FirstLevelOneTVC alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];&#xA;            [self.appDelegate.navigationController pushViewController:flo animated:self.shouldShowAnimation];&#xA;            break;&#xA;        case 2:&#xA;            flt=[[FirstLevelTwo alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];&#xA;            [self.appDelegate.navigationController pushViewController:flt animated:self.shouldShowAnimation];&#xA;            break;&#xA;&#xA;        default:&#xA;            break;&#xA;    }&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yfrog.com/joscreenshot20100320at436p&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's a screenshot of what I see.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm seeing might be similar that &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43039/stackoverflow-code-snippet-horizontal-scrolling-broken-in-chrome/43078#43078&quot;&gt;reported in this question.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else seen this problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139494" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T22:34:31.170" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T04:35:24.433" ClosedDate="2010-03-21T05:44:52.587" Title="Mac Browsers: Code Suddenly Formatted as Bloc Quotes" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;&lt;webkit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-20T22:12:33.153" Score="1" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am active in &lt;code&gt;asp.net-mvc&lt;/code&gt; tag and I see that many people tag their question with &lt;code&gt;asp.net&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mvc&lt;/code&gt; tag, but not &lt;code&gt;asp.net-mvc&lt;/code&gt;. Since &lt;code&gt;asp.net-mvc&lt;/code&gt; is constructed by combining &lt;code&gt;asp.net&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;mvc&lt;/code&gt;, I suggest showing a message like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;Since you selected **asp.net** and **mvc** tags, maybe **asp.net-mvc** may be suitable too.&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Message would show only if a combined tag has high popularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138198" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T22:12:33.153" Title="More specific tag suggestion when tagging new question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43080" CreationDate="2010-03-20T22:27:35.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the same behavior on Chrome in Linux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firefox formats the code blocks correctly, which gives me the impression that it must be a Webkit related problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T22:27:35.173" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43074" CreationDate="2010-03-20T22:28:18.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A single question?  Use a Print to PDF writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what you really want is a way to export a selected set of questions (say, for a particular tag or tags).  To do that, you would have to walk the search results in the web site and export each page, or sift through the data dump and print each one to your desired ebook format using a report template.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T22:28:18.310" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43039" CreationDate="2010-03-20T22:38:11.287" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43080/mac-browsers-code-suddenly-formatted-as-bloc-quotes&quot;&gt;webkit related&lt;/a&gt; bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-20T22:38:11.287" />
  <row Id="43086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43101" CreationDate="2010-03-20T23:05:53.160" Score="2" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a similar question &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10497/how-do-i-put-my-stackoverflow-user-flair-on-my-blogger-blog&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. But I am unable to figure out how to add custom HTML to the Windows Live blog. Please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144627" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-20T23:13:42.600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T01:32:38.173" Title="How do I embed StackOverflow flair in my Windows Live Blog?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flair&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43039" CreationDate="2010-03-20T23:30:39.847" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;code&gt;word-wrap:break-word;&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;code&gt;.post-text&lt;/code&gt; class in &lt;a href=&quot;http://sstatic.net/mso/all.css?v=6534&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://sstatic.net/mso/all.css?v=6534&lt;/a&gt; is to blame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  .post-text{&#xA;    width:660px;&#xA;    font-size:107%;&#xA;    margin-bottom:5px;&#xA;    margin-right:5px;&#xA;    line-height:130%;&#xA;    word-wrap:break-word;&#xA;  }&#xA;  .post-text hr{&#xA;    background-color:#ddd;&#xA;    color:#ddd;&#xA;  }&#xA;  .post-text a{&#xA;    color:#000;&#xA;    border-bottom:1px #000 dotted;&#xA;  }&#xA;  .post-text a:hover{&#xA;    color:#6C0000;&#xA;    border-bottom:1px #6C0000 dotted;&#xA;    text-decoration:none;&#xA;  }&#xA;  .post-text img{&#xA;    max-width:640px;&#xA;  }&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;code&gt;word-wrap:break-word;&lt;/code&gt; is not what we want there.&#xA;Was it added recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WORKAROUND FOR CHROME:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stylish extension&lt;/a&gt; to Chrome&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Add a style with the following Code&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;.post-text{word-wrap: normal; !important;}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://weinzierl.name/temp/word-wrap-fix.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enable your new style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://weinzierl.name/temp/word-wrap-fix-enabled.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And the scrollbars are back:-)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://weinzierl.name/temp/word-wrap-fix-result.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84671" LastEditorUserId="84671" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T04:45:08.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T04:45:08.753" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2010-03-21T00:33:45.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it encourages randomly voting on questions. I once asked a question about a non-existing technology I made up, trying to keep the title as obscure and scary looking as possible, to get the Tumbleweed badge. Yes, this is not good behavior, I know :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, what's interesting is that my question &lt;strong&gt;about something that doesn't exist&lt;/strong&gt; was upvoted. It's impossible that whoever voted it understood the question and thought it was &quot;useful&quot; as it was designed to drive people away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I would link to it but then someone left a comment so I deleted it, and I don't have enough rep to see deleted questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T00:33:45.650" />
  <row Id="43095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="102" CreationDate="2010-03-21T00:39:18.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burning the midnight oil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Awarded for activity (vote, question, answer, comment) at least once per hour, for 24 hours in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selfless&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;strong&gt;Communist&lt;/strong&gt;, even if it was mentioned elsewhere)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First community wiki created (not turning a question into a community wiki, but really starting it as a wiki in the first place.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elitist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has at least 50(?) Ignored Tags for every Interesting Tags (or has had that for x days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Renaissance Man&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has had a high number(?) of Interesting Tags and no Ignored Tags for x days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really like how the last two play against each other :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139539" LastEditorUserId="139539" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-07T00:48:58.127" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T00:48:58.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T00:39:18.143" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14514" CreationDate="2010-03-21T00:53:34.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason OP is posting is because OP doesn't know 1) the solution to the problem and very often 2) doesn't understand the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often see the wrong answer accepted and the/an correct answer ignored. Further punishing effort to answer a question by downvotes/X by clueless OP will drive down participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bad Idea®&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T00:53:34.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43086" CreationDate="2010-03-21T01:32:38.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I added a comment on this to &lt;a href=&quot;http://x-evolutionist.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!25A0033DD834DD1D!12748.entry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://x-evolutionist.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!25A0033DD834DD1D!12748.entry&lt;/a&gt;. I attempted to add the flair both through iframe and script, and neither worked - they were both stripped from the HTML. I then tried pasting in the result of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/76337.html&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/76337.html&lt;/a&gt;, and left the result on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnwsaundersiii.spaces.live.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spaces&lt;/a&gt; page so you can see what does not get stripped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T01:32:38.173" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43103" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T02:35:56.930" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just answered a question on SO which included a complete connection string for the user's production database.  (No, I will not link to it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should I do about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-04-20T05:00:03.010" Title="Passwords in Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;password&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43105" CreationDate="2010-03-21T02:37:51.250" Score="0" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only been a member of SO for a couple of months but I must say that the site can be a bit daunting even for an experienced developer.  Part of this is because when users with very high reputations answer questions then it seems that everyone assumes that they have the right answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to go into the self-fulfilling nature of reputation increase for high reputation people.  But I think it is clear that people with high reputation scores get more upvotes (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes) because people assume (usually accurately) that they are correct.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if reputation was hidden on SO, at least for, say, the first hour after a question is asked then the probability of the best answer being upvoted the most would surely increase.  This might also require the hiding of the names of the answerers if they have very high reps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a second method of getting improved answers I would correlate the value of an answer (in terms of reputation gained) with the difficulty of the question.  And the simplest way to do that would be based on the time required for the question to be answered.  So if a question is answered within a minute then it is a 20% question (2 points per upvote), within 2 minutes a 40% question, within 5 minutes a 60% question and so on, on to say a 200% answer (20 points per upvote) on questions that have been hanging around for months.  This would encourage considered answers to new questions and tempt people into reducing the backlog - rather than encouraging people to sit on the 'newest questions' hoping for a gimme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two measures would incentivise people to answer the questions that no-one likes the look of and reduce the relative value of answering easy questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144898" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T04:42:51.860" Title="Hiding reputation and encouraging thinking time would improve the quality of answers on SO" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43104" CreationDate="2010-03-21T02:51:57.260" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason to think that the best answers &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; getting the most upvotes?  Yes, high-rep users get more upvotes, but &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes/36522#36522&quot;&gt;Correlation does not imply causation.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;  They got high rep by leaving good answers.  They don't give good answers &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; they have high rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also suggest applying more reputation for answers that take longer.  I think one of the reasons SO works so well is that you get good answers &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;.  Usually within a few minutes of asking a question, you have a few suggestions to try.  I wouldn't want to create an incentive for people to &lt;em&gt;take longer to answer&lt;/em&gt;.  They can already provide a quick summary answer and improve it by editing to make sure they get votes from latecomers.  The current system incentivizes answering quickly &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; taking the time to consider and improve your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T02:51:57.260" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43104" CreationDate="2010-03-21T02:52:59.850" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it is clear that people with high reputation scores get more upvotes (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/515/the-problem-with-reputation-does-high-reputation-attract-too-many-up-votes) because people assume (usually accurately) that they are correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It stands to reason and it is probably true to some extent, but I would not characterize it as &quot;clear&quot;. Recall that these people started out with the same reputation that you started with and acquired high reputation somehow. Generally by issuing good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reputation hiding has been suggested before and turned down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your second suggestions &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adds unnecessary complexity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;actually makes it harder for beginners to get a lot of rep (because right now more reputation is generated by simple questions that hard ones (see also bike shed effect))&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;works against Stack Overflow's wonderful ability to provide answers &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;doesn't increase the number of people able to answer the more obscure and/or really hard questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T03:19:38.940" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T03:19:38.940" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T03:11:52.290" Score="14" ViewCount="1019" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before anyone says that I'm whining about the re-calc, let me just say that I'm not. I actually do like it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But I also like stats (and being nosy), so post how much rep you will lose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current  - Recalc  = LOST&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;SO       8430  -   6156  = 2274&#xA;SF        426  -    314  =  112&#xA;SU        584  -    205  =  379&#xA;MSO      1372  -    765  =  607&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;TOTAL   10812  -   7440  = 3372&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new reps can be found at the bottom of those reports:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://serverfault.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://superuser.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T09:25:43.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T03:12:00.247" Title="Post how much rep you're going to lose with the new re-calc!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="39" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="43111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T03:21:47.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   51084   - 50081  = 1003 (-2.0%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know, I know, &quot;Boo hoo hoo,&quot; right?  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:43:05.187" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:43:05.187" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T03:21:47.177" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T03:22:15.477" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   15266   - 15246  = 20&#xA;MSO  7425    - 6541   = 884&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO change was small, but actually smaller than I thought. I took nearly a 1k hit on Meta though. Thankfully, Rep means nothing here. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastEditorUserId="52738" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T03:54:12.117" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T03:54:12.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T03:22:15.477" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T03:23:37.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SF   20289   - 19896  = 393  (-1.9%)&#xA;SO   4336    - 3792   = 544 (-12.5%)&#xA;SU   503     - 443    = 60  (-11.9%)&#xA;MSO  397     - 368    = 29   (-7.3%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:46:58.017" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:46:58.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T03:23:37.597" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27614" CreationDate="2010-03-21T03:27:43.590" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers public CVs are marked-up using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hResume microformat&lt;/a&gt;.  This support has improved considerably recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Ivo points out, &lt;a href=&quot;http://lab.madgex.com/hresume/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Madgex's hResume converter&lt;/a&gt; will give you a PDF or Word version.  I can't imagine you'd want to distribute a CV with such plain formatting, but it could serve as a starting point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Careers also has a print style sheet defined, so you can generate a quick B&amp;amp;W* copy of your CV by just printing to PDF (or XPS, whatever floats your boat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*This stylesheet also removes things like navigation links, the SO Careers logo, and underlining on links.  Under IE it also tries to place page breaks in intelligent places.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T03:27:43.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40403" CreationDate="2010-03-21T03:35:07.257" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Careers now has a print style defined&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way browsers munged style sheets for printing isn't standardized, so the style basically removes all the color.  It also removes the &quot;website&quot; bits, like navigation links and logos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;More strictly, on the public and employer pages for CVs.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T20:30:23.900" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:30:23.900" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T03:40:37.760" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like I'm set to lose almost 6k rep total, most of it from SO. I think this is likely due to the two highly-ranked questions that were migrated to Meta and deleted from SO that I still retained points for - the pre-migration rep will cease to exist on either site upon the recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, after the recalc my Meta rep will have surpassed my SO rep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;SITE  Recalc  - Current = Change (%)&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;SF    540     - 687     = -147   (-21%)&#xA;SO    14252   - 19060   = -4808  (-25%)&#xA;SU    1415    - 1600    = -185   (-11%)&#xA;MSO   15572   - 16178   = -606   (-4%)&#xA;&lt;b&gt;TOTAL 31779   - 37525   = -5746  (-15%)&lt;/b&gt;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By and large, it seems like I'm the hardest hit so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Looks like the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; now reflects the Meta-specific rep rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastEditorUserId="658" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T20:56:03.663" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:56:03.663" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T03:40:37.760" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43103" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:06:45.537" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you need to flag this type of thing to the mods and send an email to team@stackoverflow.com to see if they will edit the revision where the password appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably happens fairly infrequently but I'm sure the mods and team won't mind dealing with it due to the critical nature of such a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if it happens again then there's no helping some folk, like the Stack Overflow user  I watched one day posting his SQL connection string into the #stackoverflow IRC channel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T04:06:45.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43104" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:07:44.117" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it is clear that people with high reputation scores get more upvotes because people assume (usually accurately) that they are correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please post a list of questions where incorrect high rep user answers are voted above correct low rep user answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can prove that this is happening (and if it is &quot;clear&quot; then you should be able to find many examples of this) then I'm sure people will discuss what should be done to combat it, including your suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can't prove it, however, then your suggestion, like all the other similar suggestions for the same perceived problem, will remain unimplemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this type of behavior should be detectable without making the change first, there is no reason to experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, you are only putting forth your theory that correct high rep users are voted above correct low rep users, well that's been hashed to death in other questions, and this one should be closed as a duplicate of existing questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, you don't have to play the 'rep' game, but if you choose to do so, high rep users are in no way holding you back.  There are a lot of users that have quickly climbed the ranks over the last year and now lie in the area you might consider &quot;high rep&quot; - so &lt;em&gt;even if we assume there's a voting disparity&lt;/em&gt; it doesn't prevent someone from progressing at whatever rate they are capable of and choose to attain.  Keep in mind that the rep cap really does level the playing field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, let's do this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Review &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69083?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/69083?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Straight line.  He has the same ability to get rep as a under 1k beginner as he does as a 40k high rep user a year later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12960?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/12960?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same result.  There is no difference between them in terms of getting more or less rep at a higher and lower number, and both of them reached 40k in under 12 months.  That's an average of 120 rep per day, so it's under the rep cap, generally.  The line isn't straight because of the rep cap, it's straight because it's just as easy for them to get rep at a lower level as it is at a higher level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's go for some that accrue more slowly, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65696?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/65696?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, this graph shows that it was &lt;em&gt;easier&lt;/em&gt; to get rep at lower levels than high levels.  Further, he still will reach 10k rep in about a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/120292?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/120292?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same story.  Easier when first starting.  It may well be that these two examples are simply people who are spending less time on it as they go on, more research would be required to normalize the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's similar in all the above examples?  There is NOTHING preventing ANYONE with experience and skill from progressing up the reputation ladder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best there are a lot of people who want it to be easier to climb the ladder without doing the work, and/or without having the skills, and/or without having the clear communication skills that this site &lt;em&gt;rewards&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree with removing the reputation scores as they are an earned badge of honor, and one of the reasons why some people work so hard to give good answers to thousands of daily questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; don't understand is why people are even complaining about it in the first place.  Three thousand people have demonstrated that it's easy enough to get 3k rep in under a year, five hundred people have shown it's easy enough to get 10k rep in a year or two, over one hundred have 20k in 1-2 years, and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume it's really happening.  SO WHAT?  It's unfair?  Ok.  SO WHAT?  That high reputation has been earned!  Some people complain about there being a cycle of the rich getting richer, but if you look at a graph of reputation there's absolutely NO break, gap, or even a valley between those with high rep and those with low rep.  There's no cycle, there's no &quot;rich getting richer.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The only complaint I can see are people saying that the function of earning rep given the same answer input is also a function of existing rep, and that it's not linear.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - my functions aren't linear, and there's a feedback loop!  This game sucks!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's NOT EVEN HAPPENING.  So far everyone that has complained has ultimately admitted that they simply &quot;feel&quot; that it's harder.  They &quot;perceive&quot; a problem.  No one has offered to do the work of performing a double blind study on the site - rather they want their idea implemented, believing it will become self evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; that important to you, then do the work and prove it.  Don't expect the site to change significantly just to disprove &quot;&lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; perception of bias.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even then, well thanks for finding the mathematical model, but that doesn't mean we need to change anything.  Past 10k there are no additional benefits.  Does it really matter that the function is more complex than what you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; it to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T04:42:51.860" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T04:42:51.860" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:11:47.130" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess I'll post mine in the format everyone's using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   1351    - 931    = 420  (-31.0%)&#xA;SF   1       - 1      = 0&#xA;SU   407     - 322    = 85&#xA;MSO  888     - 443    = 445  (-50.1%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I lost more on MSO than on SO, but it doesn't matter here. Looks like I haven't really participated on SF that much... :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total lost: 950 rep points (counting MSO)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:'(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:50:32.017" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:50:32.017" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T04:11:47.130" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:12:37.567" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42338/allow-or-in-searches-using-tags-for-stack-overflow-and-similar-sites&quot;&gt;Allow &amp;ldquo;or&amp;rdquo; in searches using tags for Stack Overflow and similar sites&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure this is a very newbie question but how do I do an &quot;or&quot; search?  I tried searching for &quot;[windows-phone-7] [wp7] [wp7-dev]&quot; but it only gives me one result with all those tags rather than all results with any of those tags.  I searched meta for how to do &quot;or&quot; searches but didn't find an answer.  Found one question saying you could do &quot;or&quot; searches with tags but not combining it with search terms.  At any rate I can't seem to get any &quot;or&quot; search to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T04:19:51.280" ClosedDate="2010-03-21T05:41:24.703" Title="How do I do an &quot;or&quot; search?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:26:06.167" Score="0" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Intitle:1&lt;/code&gt; with the keyword(s) in double quotes brings back questions which have the keyword in the title and no more. Yet on a StackExchange site I get a lot more results with questions which don't have the keyword in the title. I know SE is a fork but I expect result to work the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134444" LastEditorUserId="14048" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T05:28:13.357" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:28:13.357" ClosedDate="2010-03-21T05:31:04.190" Title="Why does intitle:1 on a StackExchange site work differently than SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43080" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:35:24.433" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the same issue on Chrome 4.1.249.1036 stable and IE8 8.0.7600.16385 (32 and 64bit) running on Windows 7 64 bit. Firefox 3.6 does the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T04:35:24.433" />
  <row Id="43123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:39:14.490" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look in the CODE text for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1343515/how-to-save-the-content-in-uiwebview-for-faster-loading-on-next-launch/2468722#2468722&quot;&gt;answer by yonel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;CODE&gt;&#xA;NSArray &lt;em&gt;paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);&#xA;NSString&lt;/em&gt; documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];&#xA;NSString* diskCachePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@&quot;%@/%@&quot;, documentsDirectory, @&quot;myCache&quot;];&#xA;&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to reproduce here, but the *'s in the code change the code to be ITALIC instead of showing up as asterisks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author of that answer should have indented 4 spaces, but they didn't. They chose to use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;CODE&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag, which doesn't seem to be handled right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what I see on MAC SAFARI Version 4.0.3 (5531.9) (screenshot):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/4284cf4ba0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135255" LastEditorUserId="56338" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T07:18:25.983" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T07:32:37.420" Title="Example of broken MarkDown on Stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T04:47:20.703" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   26558   - 26767  = -209&#xA;SF     307   -   298  =    9&#xA;SU     206   -   194  =   12&#xA;MSO  30314   - 29817  =  497&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, I only lose about 75 on SO from the reduced question rep, more than made up for by the new rep-cap rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T04:47:20.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T04:47:20.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:05:53.650" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   704     - 561    = 143 (-20.3%)&#xA;SF   101     - 101    =   0&#xA;SU   101     - 101    =   0&#xA;MSO  133     - 123    =  10&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, oddly, it pays to not be active...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, there's no linking bonus for MSO, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139539" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:49:16.927" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:49:16.927" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T05:05:53.650" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:07:54.683" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thankfully this isn't happening on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current  - Recalc = LOST&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;SO       5192  -   4576 =  616&#xA;SF        101  -    101 =    0&#xA;SU        111  -    106 =    5&#xA;MSO      3145  -   2419 =  726&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;TOTAL    8549 -    7202 = 1347&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:07:54.683" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T05:07:54.683" />
  <row Id="43129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:08:32.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO    25182   - 25419  = -237  (+0.1%)&#xA;SF      312   - 238    =   74&#xA;SU      126   - 126    =    0&#xA;MSO    5875   - 5571   =  304  (-5.1%)&#xA;-----------------------------&#xA;Total                     141 (including Meta)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just had a recalc done on SO at my own request and lost a little over 400 rep, so I will be getting a chunk of it back now. The most significant hit in terms of percentage is at SF, but I really don't belong there anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:57:36.737" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:57:36.737" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T05:08:32.813" />
  <row Id="43130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:13:57.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Percentage wise I'm pretty wiped. I think retroactivity by itself would be fair (after all, they should be able to update the scoring system), but the way it combines with bounties really isn't - its just like letting people spend money they don't have. I don't know how I'm losing 54% on meta when the the weighting isn't being changed though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;------------------------------------&#xA;SO    2023      928      1095 (54%)&#xA;SU    526       306      220 (41%)&#xA;MSO   459       205      254 (55%)&#xA;------------------------------------&#xA;TOTAL                    1569 (including MSO)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T05:37:36.023" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:37:36.023" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T05:13:57.613" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:16:44.683" Score="6" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;While editing &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354800/winforms-control-begininvoke-asynchronous-callback&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354800/winforms-control-begininvoke-asynchronous-callback&lt;/a&gt;, I found that it actually contains tab characters (despite the fact that they cannot be entered into the editor via keyboard). That seems to screw up the formatting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain how the editor and display code handle spaces and tabs in code blocks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2011-05-10T13:38:07.660" Title="How does The Editor Handle Tab Characters?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;editor&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:24:51.560" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much is changing for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO     12,379 -  12016 =  363 (-2.9%)&#xA;SU         63 -     58 =    5&#xA;SF        101 -    101 =    0&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also &lt;a href=&quot;http://so.chrisballance.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ranked 385&lt;/a&gt; on SO, I'm interested in how it changes after the recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:43:58.137" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:43:58.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T05:24:51.560" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43131" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:32:11.303" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just added an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3122/formatting-sandbox/43134#43134&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; to the Formatting Sandbox with a little demo. View the source on it for a comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either 1 tab or 4 spaces is required. Almost all the time when I copy code, it's indented at least 1 level (usually a namespace), so for most cases, tabs should work fine to get the formatter to detect that a code sample is being posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:32:11.303" />
  <row Id="43136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43131" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:37:31.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MarkdownSharp&lt;/a&gt; will convert any tabs it finds to spaces. At least, once the post hits the server, that is what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:37:31.217" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:38:54.760" Score="29" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO     11962  -  12187 = 4294967071 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I should have used a signed integer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(that's -225, or +1.8%)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137119" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:38:54.760" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T05:38:54.760" />
  <row Id="43138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43123" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:40:51.737" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, you're using the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag directly. As this is a span-level HTML element you can have Markdown inside it; that's part of the Markdown spec.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, don't do that -- see &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either indent by 4 spaces, or use the backtick to indicate code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:40:51.737" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43123" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:43:27.373" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no objective-C expert but isn't the asterisk on the first line of code in the wrong place and should be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;CODE&gt;&#xA;NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);&#xA;NSString* documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];&#xA;NSString* diskCachePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@&quot;%@/%@&quot;, documentsDirectory, @&quot;myCache&quot;];&#xA;&lt;/CODE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I never use the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;code&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:43:27.373" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43143" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:43:42.723" Score="5" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize, per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43008#43008&quot;&gt;this meta thread&lt;/a&gt;, that a recalc is soon happening for everybody -- any way I can tell of it has &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; happened, for myself or any other user?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like it may have happened for Jon Skeet -- he's 160K right now and I'm pretty sure he was around 144K earlier today (I track &quot;half of Jon Skeet's rep&quot; as a pragmatic watermark for &quot;Stack Overflow Elite&quot;;-).  Mine, however, seems to still be 79.3K (so, by not dramatically changing via the recalc, it's &quot;dropped&quot; below the magical &quot;half of Jon's rep&quot; watermark;-), while, per &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/rep-report&quot;&gt;the rep-report&lt;/a&gt;, I should have 88.3K (above the half-of-Jon's-rep watermark again!-).  So I think my recalc hasn't happened yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, how can I &lt;em&gt;tell&lt;/em&gt;?  In either my own case, Jon's, and others'?  Any suggestion welcome, thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130042" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T09:06:17.943" Title="How do I know who the rolling recalc has yet happened for...?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43140" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:58:49.877" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will announce more on the blog on Sunday; even for the users who &quot;have&quot; a recalc, it's not quite right since it has bugfixes but not the +5 question dynamic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is true that for the referenced users, the question vote reduction is not going to matter a whole lot as they get the vast amount of their rep from answers anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:58:49.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:59:25.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST  &#xA;SO   17751   - 16818  = 933  (-5.3%)&#xA;SF     640   -   576  =  64  (-10%)&#xA;SU     263   -   208  =  55  (-21%)&#xA;MSO   2577   -  2054  = 523  (-20%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:56:31.040" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:56:31.040" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T05:59:25.150" />
  <row Id="43145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43140" CreationDate="2010-03-21T05:59:39.893" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42898/how-to-handle-loads-of-rep-recalc-questions/42901#42901&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42898/how-to-handle-loads-of-rep-recalc-questions/42899#42899&quot;&gt;good&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42898/how-to-handle-loads-of-rep-recalc-questions/42902#42902&quot;&gt;suggestions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42898/how-to-handle-loads-of-rep-recalc-questions/43007#43007&quot;&gt;made&lt;/a&gt; to notify users after their rep has been recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T05:59:39.893" />
  <row Id="43146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T06:25:56.937" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current - Recalc = LOST  &#xA;SO     11,560 - 11,187 =  373 (3.2%)  &#xA;MSO    10,477 - 10,052 =  425 (4.1%)  &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. My SO rep has now been recalculated, and I find myself on the same &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=13&quot;&gt;page of users&lt;/a&gt; that I was yesterday (I seem to have moved up by no more than a dozen places actually). So for me it was a virtual no-op.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T00:38:50.043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:38:50.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T06:25:56.937" />
  <row Id="43147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43123" CreationDate="2010-03-21T06:27:12.977" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You meant &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1343515/how-to-save-the-content-in-uiwebview-for-faster-loading-on-next-launch/2468722#2468722&quot;&gt;yonel's answer&lt;/a&gt;, not CoreyFloyd's, which I've now cleaned up.  Those edits were fairly conservative, and&amp;mdash;noticing that you have recently earned editing privileges on SO&amp;mdash;if you follow that example when/if you edit posts, then you should do fine.  Also see a brief &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11474/what-is-the-etiquette-for-modifying-posts&quot;&gt;editing etiquette overview&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-get-my-code-blocks-formatted/22189#22189&quot;&gt;code block formatting&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jeff pointed out, he was using pre and code tags together, which should be avoided. (I had to keep one because of the code starting with a hyphen after a list would be interpreted as a nested list item otherwise.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T07:32:37.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T06:54:29.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO is the only site where I'd notice (or even care about) a hit. Depending on what happens between now and then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Current - Recalc  = LOST&#xA;8172      7450      722  (-8.8%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About 1.5 month's worth of rep for me, given the frequency where I find time to use the site. I'm not losing any functionality, so its nothing to cry over. Reaching 10k will just take a month or so longer, no big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I, for one, welcome our new rep system overlords.&lt;/strong&gt; The thing is, as many questions have already been asked, it is increasingly harder to reach the high rep spectrum by just asking lots of questions &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt;. That will just continue over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May as well make it fair. I'm not shedding any tears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yep, I hit it dead on. I'm now at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/50049/tim-post&quot;&gt;7472&lt;/a&gt; but had a few votes on answers prior to the recalc. Its all good, I'll be even happier when I manage to hit 10k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll wait for the next DB dump, but looking over things, it seems like this had the exact intended result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-05T09:25:43.710" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T09:25:43.710" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T06:54:29.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43140" CreationDate="2010-03-21T09:00:42.720" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blame me. I kicked off a few manually last night. As noted this doesn't include the 5/10 q/a - but that isn't a big factor for page 1. I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/rep-report&quot;&gt;rep-report&lt;/a&gt; should indicate where you are currently (88341). I can do a pre-emptive recalc for you if you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: to avoid confusion, I finished page 1 column 1. So of course while all of us fully understand that rep is meaningless, and would never spend any energy or even button-clicks tracking it, we now all know where (on that scale of meaningless) we sit ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked, and a recalc on column 2 would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; shuffle anyone into column 1, so I've stopped there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastEditorUserId="23354" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T09:06:17.943" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T09:06:17.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43157" CreationDate="2010-03-21T09:22:26.327" Score="1" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am commenting on an answer to a question I wrote. I clicked the &quot;Add Comment&quot; button under the answer and the edit window opened and I typed my comment, then when I click the SECOND &quot;Add comment&quot; button to the right of the edit box, it does nothing. Why.&#xA;I am using Firefox and I have commented on questions before, so I don't think it is a simple java-script issue as others have pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144942" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T19:18:04.827" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T06:42:24.900" Title="The SECOND &quot;Add Comment&quot; button does nothing" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;add-comment&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42909" CreationDate="2010-03-21T09:55:15.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well spotted. Sigh. I've reverted the edits (the language is indeed &quot;go&quot;, not &quot;golang&quot;). It'll need the dev-team to de-badge them, though. I'll &quot;make enquiries&quot; ;-p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I &lt;em&gt;absolutely&lt;/em&gt; agree that random editing purely to get taxonomist is a bad idea)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T09:55:15.947" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43039" CreationDate="2010-03-21T10:07:21.263" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code block display on the iPhone has also suddenly changed... Anyone else seeing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There hasn't been any software update to cause this, so is it an intentional change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144923" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T10:07:21.263" />
  <row Id="43157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43153" CreationDate="2010-03-21T10:22:06.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go over the 600 character limit in a comment (or under 15), the &quot;Add Comment&quot; button simply does nothing. Sigh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144942" LastEditorUserId="144942" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T06:42:24.900" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T06:42:24.900" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42689" CreationDate="2010-03-21T11:15:29.377" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We should not be preventing &quot;pity votes&quot;, as that presumes that the down-votes are &quot;correct&quot; and the upvotes not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I vote on questions and answers, not users. There's no pity involved, I just attempt to use my votes to move posts toward a score that reflects their quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see a post at -5 and I think it's more of a -2, why shouldn't I vote it in that direction? The effect this has on the poster's rep is not my concern - I'm voting on a post, not the poster. It is up to the system to decide what my vote means in terms of trusting the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real problem, it seems, is that when there is disagreement about a post's proper score, many upvotes and many downvotes can be cast with little net change in the score, but much (positive) net change in the poster's rep. This is a fault of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the rep you get for a post should be (10 * votes) when votes is positive and (2 * votes) when it is negative. That way, the system trusts you based on your posts' net score, still with a large bias towards postive rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="369" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T11:15:29.377" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T12:02:16.033" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I get an RSS feed (for my iGoogle page) of all the latest stackoverflow questions, filterd by my tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144955" LastEditorUserId="144955" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T12:08:10.087" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T13:12:29.760" Title="How to Get an RSS Feed of Latest Questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T12:18:27.207" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For SO, the only site on which I actively collect reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Current  -  Recalc  =  Loss&#xA; 34,288  -  37,444  =  -3,156 (9.2% gain)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woo hoo!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:45:33.757" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:45:33.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T12:18:27.207" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T12:33:15.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Including Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; SITE   Current  - Recalc  = LOST&#xA; SO    26,055   - 29,882   = -3827 &#xA; MSO    2,704   -  2,332   =   380&#xA; SF       301   -    236   =    65 &#xA; SU       161   -     71   =    90&#xA; ----------------------------------&#xA;                             -3292&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T12:33:15.400" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T12:33:15.400" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T12:38:37.190" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;------------------------------------&#xA;SO   14201   - 14266  =  -65&#xA;SF     161   -   161  =    0&#xA;SU     217   -   209  =    8&#xA;MSO   2245   -  2268  =  -23 (just for reference)&#xA;------------------------------------&#xA;TOTAL                    -80&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost no change, and all my points on SF, SU are from migrated questions from SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T21:47:55.950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T21:47:55.950" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T12:38:37.190" />
  <row Id="43164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T12:48:49.117" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;oh, what the hell.  not much change, but for statistical porpoises (cause porpoises rock):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST  &#xA;----------------------------&#xA;SO     396   -   309  =  87  &#xA;SF     579   -   555  =  24  &#xA;SU   12416   - 12422  =  -8  &#xA;MSO   1913   -  1545  = 368  &#xA;---------------------------&#xA;total                   471 lost and a complete part of a balanced breakfast &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T12:48:49.117" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T12:48:49.117" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43160" CreationDate="2010-03-21T13:12:29.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;/feeds/tag/tag1+or+tag2+or+tag3&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/jquery+or+mvc&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/jquery+or+mvc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133266" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T13:12:29.760" />
  <row Id="43166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T13:31:24.833" Score="2" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a short post to say thanks for fixing what is my #1 most irksome bug: the inconsistencies in the rep system about timing of votes, accepted answers and bounties. Wasn't expecting it; at least I didn't see anything about it in the recent post about question upvote reweighting but maybe I missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made about ~7k difference to me (93k =&gt; 100k).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this affect the Epic/Legendary badges in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; Let me clarify that by saying that I &lt;em&gt;expect&lt;/em&gt; that badges won't be retroactively removed from those that already have them. What I think would be helpful would be a clarification on what hitting the rep cap means in the context of these badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18393" LastActivityDate="2010-11-20T20:44:21.040" Title="Daily reputation limit (greatest bugfix evah [sic]): do Epic/Legendary change?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;reputation-cap-badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43166" CreationDate="2010-03-21T13:39:15.567" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff said following on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43005#comment-97337&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think this is an unavoidable side&#xA;  effect of full immunity to the rep cap&#xA;  for bounties and accepted answers --&#xA;  they simply &lt;strong&gt;don't count at all&lt;/strong&gt; in the&#xA;  &quot;have I reached my daily rep cap&quot;&#xA;  calculation, only upvotes on non cwiki&#xA;  questions do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T13:39:15.567" />
  <row Id="43168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43166" CreationDate="2010-03-21T13:50:41.170" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presumably it would, but I think the way the badges work is that you don't get them taken away (mostly, I believe some beta badges got removed when it was changed so that you had to be active during the beta).  What typically happens is you just don't get another one when you qualify for it if a previous one had been invalidated.  In the case of badges awarded just once, this would be moot since the only time it would be detected is when it is being awarded again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T13:50:41.170" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T14:00:09.160" Score="2" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in the process of building a whole new website on my domain, and to begin with, I'd like to add OpenID delegation to it, so that I can use its domain URL to sign into OpenID authenticated websites, like StackOverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myOpenID&lt;/a&gt; as my OpenID provider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I added this to my website &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;head&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.server&quot; href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/server&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid.delegate&quot; href=&quot;http://lassevk.myopenid.com/&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid2.local_id&quot; href=&quot;http://lassevk.myopenid.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;link rel=&quot;openid2.provider&quot; href=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/server&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;X-XRDS-Location&quot; content=&quot;http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=lassevk.myopenid.com&quot; /&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/help#own_domain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;myOpenID website on delegation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I try to log into StackOverflow.com using the OpenID name &lt;code&gt;www.vkarlsen.no&lt;/code&gt;, I get this StackOverflow.com error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No OpenID endpoint found. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: This works on SuperUser.com, can StackOverflow have a cache of my old, incorrect, website content?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I try &lt;code&gt;www.vkarlsen.no/default.aspx&lt;/code&gt; I'm redirected to a myOpenID.com page that says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;myOpenID is not authorized to verify that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vkarlsen.no/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.vkarlsen.no/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt; is your identifier. If it is your identifier, you can set up myOpenID to verify it. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.myopenid.com/help#own_domain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the help page&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That link goes to the same page, clearly I did something wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, and here's the fun part. If I try to log into StackOverflow.com, using the OpenID name &lt;code&gt;trunk.vkarlsen.no&lt;/code&gt;, it then asks me if I want to associate the name with my account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the files on that site is 100% exactly the same as on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;C:\inetpub&amp;gt;fc /B wwwroot\default.aspx wwwroot_trunk\default.aspx&#xA;Comparing files WWWROOT\default.aspx and WWWROOT_TRUNK\DEFAULT.ASPX&#xA;FC: no differences encountered&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The site URLs are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vkarlsen.no&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.vkarlsen.no&lt;/a&gt; (production)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://trunk.vkarlsen.no&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://trunk.vkarlsen.no&lt;/a&gt; (source control trunk, for testing purposes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can anyone tell me what I did wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the following two OpenID names are associated with my StackOverflow.com account:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lassevk.myopenid.com&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;www.vkarlsen.no/index.php?title=main_page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That second name there is from my old site, which I'm hoping I can get rid of it I can just get my new site content working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I found this meta-question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42152/failure-to-log-in-with-delegated-openid&quot;&gt;Failure to log in with delegated OpenId&lt;/a&gt;, says something related to delegation was solved march 16th, however I'm having these problems today, march 21st, so I'm guessing I have a different problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="267" LastEditorUserId="267" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:59:54.773" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T22:10:26.877" Title="myOpenID Delegation for StackOverflow.com, what did I do wrong?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T15:13:13.873" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST  &#xA;-----------------------&#xA;SU   10585   - 10230   = 355 (-3%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T15:13:13.873" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T15:13:13.873" />
  <row Id="43171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43174" CreationDate="2010-03-21T15:19:09.393" Score="2" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;on many monitors, the very light gray background color of code blocks looks like 100% white, when looking at the monitor with even just a slight angle. While I do believe, that it wouldn't look good, if it were a lot darker, I feel that making it just a tiny little bit darker would help to separate it from the rest of the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially, when the spans are inlined in the rest of the text, and the code word could accidentally fit into the sentence, this is sometimes important to avoid confusion. And the font alone isn't different enough IMO to accentuate these small bits of text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About padding:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In exchange, we could/should get rid of the extra padding around inline &lt;code&gt;code&lt;/code&gt;, which many people (including myself) find distracting. This also includes vertical padding of the background box: Between two consecutive lines like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Test1&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;code&gt;Test2&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there should be at least one pixel of vertical white-space separating the background boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alternative:&lt;/strong&gt; Highlight code with a different foreground color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chris&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144785" LastEditorUserId="144785" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T18:45:38.973" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T18:45:38.973" Title="Slightly darker background color for code blocks" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;css&gt;&lt;layout&gt;&lt;code-formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43171" CreationDate="2010-03-21T15:52:12.637" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two monitors and the difference between the two is.. astonishing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first it's almost impossible to see, in the second it's very very dark and easily noticeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T15:52:12.637" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43171" CreationDate="2010-03-21T15:52:21.963" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Since every monitor on the world has different settings, you will always have people who find it too light or too dark. The best guess is to choose the colors such that they look fine on a monitor that's close to sRGB &amp;ndash; and this is currently the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T15:52:21.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T15:58:58.857" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like I'm down about 200 on stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T15:58:58.857" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T15:58:58.857" />
  <row Id="43177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43004" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:11:21.703" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43012#43012&quot;&gt;dmckee's post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/usr/bin/perl -nw&#xA;use strict;&#xA;our ($caps, $capped);&#xA;++$caps if /\[/ &amp;amp;&amp;amp; !$capped++;&#xA;$capped = 0 if /^--/;&#xA;END {print &quot;Days capped = $caps\n&quot;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that script is correct, then after the new metrics come in, I only need to cap my rep twice more to get my Epic badge. :-D (On SO, not on meta. :-P)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T16:11:21.703" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-22T14:34:44.080" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43044" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:15:24.643" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I correctly understand what's going on, but it seems as if you're unable to associate your Gmail login with your account. Here's how you do that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make sure you're logged in to Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to your Profile, and, if your Yahoo OpenID is listed in the &quot;openid&quot; field (not &quot;alt openid&quot;), click swap. This will change your OpenIDs around so that your Google profile OpenID becomes the primary one. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Login to Gmail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/login&quot; title=&quot;the login page&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/login&lt;/a&gt; while logged in to SO.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the Google icon above the OpenID input text box.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It will log you in with your Gmail OpenID, and will ask if you want to associate the OpenID with your current account. Answer yes. This will overwrite your Google profile OpenID with your Gmail OpenID on Stack Overflow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now, go to your profile page. You can see what two OpenIDs are registered with your account. Next time you have to log in, you can use either of them: you don't have to swap them first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope I helped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133268" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T16:15:24.643" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:16:32.900" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   45423   - 44921  =  498&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I lose some because of the reduced up-votes on questions; I lose some more because of votes for now deleted questions, etc.  I gain some back because of the 'accepted' answers not being part of the daily limit any more.  I had been wondering whether I needed to request a recalc; now I don't have to because it will happen anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the site should do a recalc for each user every month or so - it could be batched over the entire month, rather than all at once.  And a statistic on the rep page could be 'date/time of last rep recalc'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other three sites are 'unchanged'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15168" LastEditorUserId="15168" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T06:00:37.083" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T06:00:37.083" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T16:16:32.900" />
  <row Id="43180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:21:32.813" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current  - Recalc  = LOST&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;SO      30324  -  35270  = none&#xA;SF        131  -    131  = none&#xA;SU        101  -    101  = none&#xA;MSO       468  -    295  =  173&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look like I've pretty a lot of accepted answers at SO and questions at MSO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T16:21:32.813" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T16:21:32.813" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:26:52.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, I think I'm reading this correctly.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before: 4958. After: 3465 Difference:&#xA;  1493&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T16:26:52.997" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T16:26:52.997" />
  <row Id="43183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:44:00.900" Score="5" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; reason to gain reputation from agreeing with somebody else who already paved the road for your opinion/solution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I agree with AraK. Check which libraries and object files are linked with that code.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2484501/declaring-a-function-inside-a-function/2484524#2484524&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2484501/...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of answers are flagged occasionally, so I'd like to get the community-perspective on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obvious options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other users encourage author to use comments for agreements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deletion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T16:56:05.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T02:00:44.353" Title="What should be done with &quot;I agree with x&quot; answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;moderation&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:51:37.753" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would encourage authors to delete their own posts if they don't add any more information. However, it's perfectly reasonable to write an answer along the lines of: &quot;I agree with X: wurfles should not be frobgated; it causes tigdotting. However, you might also want to consider the possibility of rabgetting the wurfles instead.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T16:51:37.753" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:52:13.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they are in agreement to other answers but add something else to the conversation that has not yet been addressed then I think they're good.  Otherwise torch them.  They should be comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T16:52:13.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T16:52:36.757" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the answer adds no additional value to another user's answer, then it shouldn't really exist as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer in question kind of &quot;spells out&quot; what a linker error might be caused by. The question-asker said he was a beginner, so there may be some value in what was said. I think I'd leave this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T16:52:36.757" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43171" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:00:00.683" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is a case where a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; element with a 1px border might be useful to make the distinction more clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, it's probably pretty easy to do drop shadows in CSS now. I wouldn't know; my last foray into HTML design was several years ago (back when HTML 3 was the &quot;hottest thing ever&quot;). :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:00:00.683" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:03:31.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming it's actually an answer (and not just, &quot;I agree, in general, with my friend the other side of the room&quot;), &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; you don't think it adds anything, then down-vote it (and/or leave a comment to that effect). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, leave it alone, or suggest that the author expand on it; plenty of good answers build on existing answers, and IMHO that's perfectly fine... But it's worth encouraging the authors to make such answers stand on their own if possible, just in case the answer(s) they reference are later removed for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:03:31.933" />
  <row Id="43189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:14:36.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've posted a similar question before: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42028/how-should-i-report-answers-which-are-pure-noise&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42028/how-should-i-report-answers-which-are-pure-noise&lt;/a&gt; and it seems that flagging answers which are pure noise as &lt;code&gt;Spam&lt;/code&gt; is the accepted way (at least, that answer in my question got most upvotes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From now, I just flag &lt;code&gt;Spam&lt;/code&gt; for them (it also get downvoted by community -costs no reps- and thus go to bottom automagically) along with an explanatory comment. Although, &lt;code&gt;Spam&lt;/code&gt; is in my opinion a too specific term and whether it's appreciated by SO team/moderators is also not &quot;officially&quot; confirmed by any of the teammembers/moderators in my question yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="138231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:37:58.877" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:37:58.877" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30500" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:24:45.583" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came here to suggest this today, and have to +1/bump it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd suggest that a recently viewed questions could also live on the front page UI, above Recent Tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:24:45.583" />
  <row Id="43193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34431" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:25:02.617" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I observed my progress to the Epic badge with a greasemonkey script (search around for it in meta). Now I stopped. But even before I got it, it was an established behaviour for me to hit the daily rep cap. So whenever I get the Legendary badge, it will be a &quot;pleasant surprise&quot; (as Jeff said somewhere)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the pundit badge, it happens after a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether these are difficult to achieve or not, ask the ones who got them. The Epic wasn't at all hard to achieve for me, for example. Pundit still is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="141771" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T17:54:18.697" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:54:18.697" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:30:04.483" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue that it's best to simply leave &quot;I agree with [X]&quot; answers alone and simply not upvote them. We could suggest they should be comments, but not take any actions against them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do not fall under the &quot;spam&quot; moniker in my book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:30:04.483" />
  <row Id="43196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:33:35.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO     8736   - 8400   =  336  (-3.8 %)&#xA;SF       99   - 101    =   -2&#xA;SU      127   - 128    =   -2&#xA;MSO     367   - 288    =   81  (-22.1 %)&#xA;-----------------------------&#xA;Total                     413 (including Meta)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hit on SO is isn't massive but it surely isn't nice to lose rep ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got 26 upvotes on my questions (combined) so that would explain for a 130 loss from the 336 loss on SO. Not sure where the 206 other rep points went to (migrated questions maybe?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138885" LastEditorUserId="138885" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T18:37:13.487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T18:37:13.487" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T17:33:35.547" />
  <row Id="43197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:35:57.300" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've used &quot;I agree with X&quot; (or synonims) mainly continuing wiht &quot;but...&quot; and providing an alternative. In rare cases, extending the answer (sometimes editing the original answer is preferred).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with answers such as the linked one, or worse - answers that just copy-paste existing upvoted answers (yesterday I observed two such, copy-paseting from an answer of mine without even mentioninng it), &lt;em&gt;nothing special should be done by moderators&lt;/em&gt;. The community takes good care of such &quot;cheaters&quot; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:35:57.300" />
  <row Id="43198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43201" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:38:07.537" Score="4" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers to questions about emacs regularly involve lisp code, and emacs is often used to write programming languages. That said, emacs is an editor, and it seems questions about it belong on Super User rather than Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked several questions about emacs/auctex on Stack Overflow and no one has complained about them being out of place. Is there a policy on where these questions belong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144964" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T18:26:00.853" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T18:26:00.853" Title="Emacs questions: Super User or Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;allowed-topics&gt;&lt;emacs&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43198" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:39:27.990" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a trilogy lawyer, but: I think questions relating to using Emacs should be on SU, and questions relating to writing extensions for Emacs, or Elisp programming in general, should be on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:39:27.990" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:39:39.923" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this case I'm not sure if &quot;Check which libraries and object files are linked with that code.&quot; is adding anything new or not, so I'd be forced to leave it alone.  Sometimes restating the same basic information in a different way has value to the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where it's clear that no new information is added (&quot;+1 for Code Complete!&quot;) I'll often just delete the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T17:39:39.923" />
  <row Id="43201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43198" CreationDate="2010-03-21T17:50:23.480" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emacs is an editor often used by programmers &lt;em&gt;for programming&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Manipulating source code &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be programming related and more appropriate for SO than SU, for example, and I'd have to &lt;strong&gt;decide where the question belongs based on what and how it's asking&lt;/strong&gt;, not based on simply being about emacs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to browse functions and classes in emacs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to write elisp to back up files as I edit with emacs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to integrate emacs with mercurial? (depends on more details)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Super User&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to navigate my research paper's text in emacs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to automatically backup files as I edit with emacs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to integrate emacs with mercurial? (depends on more details)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Server Fault&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How to navigate Apache logs in emacs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Meta Stack Overflow&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do you #%@!ing idjits keep migrating my emacs questions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T18:18:35.533" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43198" CreationDate="2010-03-21T18:02:35.607" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emacs is a program, it is programming related. You could ask it on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emacs is a program, it is software related. You could ask it on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should be on Super User unless your question is explicitly about programming. If it has anything to do with the UI, or how stuff works in Emacs, then it should be on Super User.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that the people on Stack Overflow wouldn't probably know more about it. You could ask on Stack Overflow and wait for it to get migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T18:02:35.607" />
  <row Id="43203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T18:15:00.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current  - Recalc  = LOST&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;SO        537  -    473  =   64 (-11.9%)&#xA;SF        217  -    218  =   -1 (+0.46%)&#xA;SU       5186  -   5117  =   69 (-1.33%)&#xA;MSO      2288  -   1984  =  304 (-13.2%)&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;TOTAL    8228  -   7792  =  436 (-5.29%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess you can see where I'm most active! Looks like I'm losing my retag ability on SO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T18:15:00.350" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T18:15:00.350" />
  <row Id="43204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T18:44:00.610" Score="23" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now this is a blast from the past. See what I found in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/comments-now-with-flags-and-votes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post from April 2009&lt;/a&gt; (the introduction to comment voting):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;your best comments will also show up in your user profile page, but this isn’t implemented yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, just another 6 to 8 weeks then, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-07-17T18:48:20.123" Title="When will my highest-voted comments appear in my profile?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="43205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43204" CreationDate="2010-03-21T18:45:43.123" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T18:45:43.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T18:51:50.623" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't affect me that much, but here is how it affects me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current  - Recalc  = LOST&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;SO       694  -    685  =    9 (-1.29%)&#xA;SF       627  -    583  =   44 (-7.02%)&#xA;SU      1700  -   1702  =   -2 (+0.12%)&#xA;MSO       75  -     77  =   -2 (+0.26%)&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;TOTAL   3096  -   3047  =   49 (-1.58%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure why I am loosing 9 rep on SO when I have no question votes, but it's only 9 rep and it's not like I can do anything about it, so I don't really care. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131561" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T18:54:29.830" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T18:54:29.830" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T18:51:50.623" />
  <row Id="43209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:26:14.150" Score="1" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I shared this profile with that on Stack Overflow. I gained 100 points on both profiles, but today I didn't see them again on Stack Overflow. What could be happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144873" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T19:28:30.753" Title="Lost reputation points" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43209" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:28:30.753" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure why it showed you getting them the first time, but usually you only get the points on one of the sites (the one you did the association on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T19:28:30.753" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:32:25.863" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   4781   - 4114  = 667 (-14.0%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T19:32:25.863" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T19:32:25.863" />
  <row Id="43212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43221" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:36:20.203" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there's a mechanism in place to monitor and remove serial downvotes against a single user, but earlier today a thread received a downvote on the question and every single answer with no specific reason why.  This also got me thinking about visibility downvoting - it's possible that one answerer received a downvote and retaliated by downvoting everyone else involved in the thread?  Is that kind of vengeance downvoting monitored?  If not, could it be implemented (+feature-request tag)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, I'm talking about detecting that a user is downvoting all other answers (and possibly the question), after he received a downvote on his/her answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140753" LastEditorUserId="140753" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-26T16:48:04.253" LastActivityDate="2010-07-26T16:48:04.253" Title="Is there a mechanism in place to prevent serial downvoting on a single thread?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:36:41.557" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   14,543   - 13,541  = 1,002 (-6.89%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T19:36:41.557" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T19:36:41.557" />
  <row Id="43214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43228" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:36:52.723" Score="2" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;When checking on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43204/when-will-my-highest-voted-comments-appear-in-my-profile/43206#43206&quot;&gt;discussion over approaching punditry&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that the data dump (at least the one for Meta) seems to be missing quite a few comments. The most recent data dump includes 33256 comments. Considering that we're approaching comment ID 100000 on meta, I doubt that the whole rest was deleted. I didn't run around hunting for lots of examples, but comment &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36888/spell-fix-in-user-profile-1-questions/#comment-80017&quot;&gt;80017&lt;/a&gt; is one, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="2" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T20:43:01.357" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:43:01.357" Title="Comments missing from data dump" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43212" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:40:04.200" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am personally against this. It is very easily corrected by the community, and would probably catch too many false positives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if every answer to the question was actually wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is unlikely, I've seen questions with 3-4 answers that are all not useful/wrong. This can come from people misunderstanding the question or something else, but I should still be able to downvote all of them if I choose to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T19:46:37.067" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T19:46:37.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42898" CreationDate="2010-03-21T19:54:43.173" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree about the alert bar only here on Meta, and would additionally suggest to show it only for users who are new to Meta or who haven't been to Meta in over &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; days. (&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt;=30 ?)  You could have the &quot;first time here? check the FAQ&quot; bar as well as a bar saying &quot;Are you here because you suddenly lost a lot of rep? Read this article&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T19:54:43.173" />
  <row Id="43217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:03:54.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to have been hit rather hard... bye bye moderator tools. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;SITE  Current  - Recalc  = LOST&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;SO      11955  -   8732  = 3223 (-27%)&#xA;MSO     11061  -   7937  = 3124 (-28%)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least it isn't affecting Meta...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:03:54.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T20:03:54.157" />
  <row Id="43218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44121" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:04:19.210" Score="22" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is unacceptable! I'm being &lt;strong&gt;mocked&lt;/strong&gt; and I can't do anything about it. Looking over the rep report I see this at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/ivlp2u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;How dare he openly mock me like this????&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How dare he smile at me? I'm losing 427 points of my hard earned rep! Outrageous!!!! The nerve of the guy, staring at me and smiling while I suffer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a change. Make the smiley better reflect my feelings and comfort me in these dark days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i44.tinypic.com/ay52s9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;There, there. We'll get through this together&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-06-01T06:02:48.443" Title="Rep Repo Man is mocking us!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;reputation-audit&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="43219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:07:17.357" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SU   7012    - 6198   = 814&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't care less. I still think of these forums as modifiable Usenet / Fidonet. :-)&#xA;But I do think these sites are lately changing too fast: should slow down a little, and&#xA;do not change anything for a while to stabilize the system. They're becoming overly complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:26:33.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T20:07:17.357" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:11:50.823" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Question says it all: Should users edit other users' posts to correct grammar and spelling problems?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I've seen arguments both ways, and lean toward yes...but...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should, but they should not! make a fuss about it. Many users are not native speakers and their usage of English is greatly influenced also by their usage of their native language.&#xA;(Besides, it's not like native English speaking users know how to use proper English either; not many classical literature students here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These forums are first about technical issues, then language and grammar issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-24T14:02:39.810" LastActivityDate="2010-09-24T14:02:39.810" />
  <row Id="43221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43212" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:12:57.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy, the problem is that what differentiates a valid vote and a retaliation/pity vote is nothing more than &lt;strong&gt;intent&lt;/strong&gt;, and I don't know if even Google has an algorithm to detect intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let it be, don't worry too much about particular votes. You can't even be sure that it was the same person downvoting everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:12:57.983" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43218" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:17:03.403" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we get a greasemonkey script to change it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:17:03.403" />
  <row Id="43223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:21:37.183" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE  Current  - Recalc  = LOST&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;SO       2675  -   2653  =   22  (-0.82%)&#xA;SF        101  -    101  =    0&#xA;SU        101  -    101  =    0&#xA;MSO       256  -    256  =    0&#xA;-------------------------------&#xA;TOTAL    3133 -    3111  =   22  (-0.70%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; I lost 10 more points, probably due to an upvote by a user whose account has been deleted in the mean time. I have also climbed 10 pages up in the Users tab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T10:21:33.460" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:21:33.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T20:21:37.183" />
  <row Id="43224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41939" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:24:06.890" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about we just have them first in sorting order, with some type of UI look to point them out (like coloring, or a star next to them, etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:24:06.890" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43218" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:28:52.777" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You haven't been paying your late fees, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Repo Man&lt;/a&gt; is repossessing your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He just enjoys his work, that's why he is smiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:28:52.777" />
  <row Id="43226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43212" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:32:06.447" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't do this question, but I did one just like it the other day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OP asked an intelligent, very specific question. Four different respondents fired off dismissive answers that refused to engage with his specific question, demonstrating, each one, that they didn't know that Java has class object corresponding to the primitive types.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I downvoted them, every one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only to discover that someone wandered along and upvoted them all back to 0, on the grounds that I hadn't left comments explaining my downvotes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C'est la vie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:32:06.447" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:32:58.460" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO: 19,889 - 17,789 = 2100&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136650" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:32:58.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T20:32:58.460" />
  <row Id="43228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43214" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:42:54.490" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These missing comments will be in the next data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/creative-commons-data-dump-mar-10/#comment-44831&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/creative-commons-data-dump-mar-10/#comment-44831&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:42:54.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43230" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:52:11.567" Score="4" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally have the answer to my bounty question from last year. I've posted the answer in my question but I cannot accept it. What should I do for this case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133828" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:56:29.423" Title="I finally found the answer to my bounty question from months ago, now what?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43229" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:53:31.430" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update your question, leave the contents the same but on the bottom add something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I found the answer see below posted by me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137811" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T21:00:38.363" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T21:00:38.363" />
  <row Id="43231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43233" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:57:23.570" Score="-1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can I mark a question or an answer as spam and where can I find the list of Q/A marked as spam? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43209/lost-reputation-points&quot;&gt;I had an answer marked as spam&lt;/a&gt;, and, if I saw the list, I would probably delete it avoiding the penalty of 100 reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144873" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-21T21:00:56.633" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T21:00:56.633" Title="Questions/answers marked as spam" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;spam-prevention&gt;&lt;information&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="43232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43231" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:58:54.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a list. Human beans use their judgement to decide when a post is spam. I flag spam when it seems to me that the post is primarily flogging traffic somewhere or pushing a product without either asking or answering a question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:58:54.850" />
  <row Id="43233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43231" CreationDate="2010-03-21T20:59:24.133" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only see flag votes if you have over 10k reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10k rep users have a list of all questions/answers marked as spam, along with the counts for each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T20:59:24.133" />
  <row Id="43234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T21:13:59.157" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = Change&#xA;SO   9241    - 9311   =  -70   (gained)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm most active on SO so rep on all other SOFU sites are unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T21:13:59.157" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T21:13:59.157" />
  <row Id="43235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42767" CreationDate="2010-03-21T21:14:18.330" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must disagree here. Let me go through what appear to be the objections and rebut them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's &quot;illegal&quot; (against rules/TOS).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;SO is not a place to hire someone &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Such behavior provides incentives for behavior detrimental to SO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's against the &quot;spirit of SO&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the possible caveat of &quot;assuming this does not pose legal issues for SO parent company&quot;, this is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not against any of the stated rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will delete this post and STFU if someone will point me to proof that this is against the written rules.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;SO is not a place to hire someone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is a place to have people answer questions other people ask. &#xA;The answerers are already compensated - the rep has some utility value, even though it's not directly monetized.&#xA;(personally, a large incentive for me to asnwer questions is the fact that getting rep for them might provide me with bonus points on future job searches).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only difference between offering a rep bonus and a monetary bonus is the fact that the former is enforced by the system, but the latter is not.&#xA;(this is really the ONLY way in which &quot;not a place to hire&quot; is true - AFAIK such offers would not constitute a legally binding contract and can't be legally enforced).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Such behavior provides incentives for behavior detrimental to SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How so? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would prohibiting such an offer prevent someone from posting their question on SO? &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would prohibiting such an offer cause someone to change their asking or answering behavior on other questions? &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only difference in behavior that such an offer would elicit would be a potential effort by someone to try and answer the question which is so difficult that nobody would otherwise bother wasting their time on it - with &lt;strong&gt;the only net effect being a complicated question getting an answer, thus adding to useful content of SO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's against the &quot;spirit of SO&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is kind of subjective, but I feel it's objectively supported by bullet points above.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T21:14:18.330" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42767" CreationDate="2010-03-21T21:25:14.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that you should edit it out.  There is a bounty system in place, extending it into real things is a decision for the site owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving in external bounties would encourage people to offer further inducements to answer questions - which if they were not then actually produced then the site offering them would be blamed as much as  the person offering the bogus bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also would people eventually start offering those 'free' computers and other spam like hooks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144898" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T21:25:14.037" />
  <row Id="43237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35566" CreationDate="2010-03-21T22:02:52.377" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marking as completed due to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;How do I audit my reputation?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14200/self-instigated-rep-recalc/71678#71678&quot;&gt;Self-instigated rep recalc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-06T10:53:56.073" LastActivityDate="2011-01-06T10:53:56.073" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43169" CreationDate="2010-03-21T22:10:26.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, StackOverflow currently caches OpenID discovery results.  Waiting a day or so may get it to recognize the change.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="46926" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T22:10:26.877" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43294" CreationDate="2010-03-21T22:46:17.257" Score="6" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;All 11 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/281761/armecos&quot;&gt;armecos&lt;/a&gt;'s answers are promoting a single product named ComTrace.  He very rarely addresses any specific concerns from the questions.  (The closest I see is that &quot;No pay no gain&quot; could be responding to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461794/whats-a-good-free-serial-port-monitor-for-reverse-engineering&quot;&gt;&quot;Must be free&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.)  There's probably a language barrier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the diamond moderators aware of this serial spammer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:06:21.887" Title="Serial spam about ComTrace" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;spammer&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43244" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:01:30.480" Score="4" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jawa asked me this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42258/badges-explanation/42262#42262&quot;&gt;in a comment&lt;/a&gt; and I didn't know the answer. So I present it to the meta SO community:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[To get the Yearling badge] Do you need to earn the 200 rep within that one year or is it enough to get 200 at some point after being a member for a year? And does 'a year' mean the very first 12 months or the last (sliding window of) 12 months? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume that if you hit 200 reputation after you've already been around for a year, then you would get the Yearling badge. But I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65977" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:24:05.967" Title="Details on how the Yearling badge works" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;yearling&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43239" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:04:27.547" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely hawking their own commercial product and adding no value to the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:04:27.547" />
  <row Id="43242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:06:41.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, I understand two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reputation is a meaningless number.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This isn't necessarily directed at me (or so I hope... Jeff &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; say that the list that I was fifth on looked about right)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it's really difficult for me to not feel penalized when I lose 20% of my reputation and probably get knocked out of the top 100.  I like stackoverflow because it's a place where I really feel that learning is encouraged.  And I personally &lt;em&gt;love&lt;/em&gt; learning.  I'll probably still get a big portion of my upvotes from asking questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the decision. However, it's difficult not to feel discouraged though as my favorite part of using stack overflow will now essentially be considered to be half as important as the other part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least give me &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; kind of consolation here.  Maybe a new gold badge of some kind?  A top 20 question asker list?  Heck, I'd even go for an increase to the bonus I get for accepting answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:  I suppose the rep recalc didn't have as huge an effect as I thought it would.  I'm still not convinced that this is the best course of action, but I can live with it I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T13:05:14.450" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:05:14.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43239" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:08:44.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's definitely not from around these parts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Notice: You must operate by the order, only support Win2000 and WinXp(32 bit) system now! see &quot;FAQ---how to use it&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway - definitely a spammer, and looks like somebody flagged him already a few hours ago, although a few more couldn't hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:08:44.880" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43240" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:24:05.967" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty (maybe too?) simple. You'll get the yearling badge as long as you have at least (Years * 200) rep by the target date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't actually test that you got the reputation within the specified year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:24:05.967" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42904" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:36:00.360" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came here with the same question and the answer makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's an example of what will happen, based on my own account:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6968/stackplummet.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136524" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:36:00.360" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T23:36:00.360" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:39:49.050" Score="11" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta will now be shutdown due to &quot;Why did I lose rep questions?&quot; for the next several weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56555" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:09:39.150" Title="Attention MSO Users!" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43259" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:43:56.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least we survived the initial batch of questions. Now we just have to wait for the next 24 hours as people wake from sleep and start checking SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:43:56.213" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43259" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:45:40.317" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to have gained 90 points on SO.  What's more, my rep-score page has a smiley face at the end, and that has brightened my day.  To whom may I direct my thanks and praise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:45:40.317" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43272" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:46:09.507" Score="-9" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42885/new-reputation-changes-is-applying-it-retroactively-fair&quot;&gt;New reputation changes. Is applying it retroactively fair?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42769/should-the-weight-of-question-upvotes-be-reduced&quot;&gt;Should the weight of question upvotes be reduced?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My proposal is to reverse the effects of the recalc on all actions that have occurred before the recalc. My argument for this: Just because something is free doesn't mean that there isn't a contract of sorts in play (not legally binding of course, but still important). If a user does things according to the FAQ and guidelines, they should reap the benefits that come with these actions, such as No &lt;code&gt;no-follow&lt;/code&gt; in their link, and all other points-required features of the site. To take these all away (or even some of them) from people who have already earned them isn't fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum it up in 2 words: &lt;strong&gt;Grandfather Rights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who haven't noticed yet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141620" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T00:23:00.373" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:23:00.373" ClosedDate="2010-03-22T00:50:47.977" Title="Reverse the effects of the global reputation recalc of March 2010 on previous actions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:52:48.607" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   17,928  - 20,043 = -2,115 (+11.79%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135201" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:52:48.607" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T23:52:48.607" />
  <row Id="43268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:54:39.920" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I was expecting to lose somewhere around 120 and I lost over twice that on SO - I think that's most likely largely due to some questions that got migrated later. The loss on the others was about what I estimated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if it would be possible (in future) to show 'Rep Recalc' and the effect of it in a user's Recent section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, now I've got an additional puzzle - my Reputation link shows my overall total to be almost 286 less than is actually showing, and an answer I got 290 rep for has now vanished (I can't find the question either, although I'm unsure of its precise title). Getting confused...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134099" LastEditorUserId="134099" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T07:53:32.127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:53:32.127" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-21T23:54:39.920" />
  <row Id="43270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43266" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:57:54.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To take these all away (or even some of them) from people who have already earned them isn't fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Life isn't fair, and I'd argue it's not fair to give people higher reputation than the reputation algorithm says they've earned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2297" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:57:54.883" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43266" CreationDate="2010-03-21T23:58:22.933" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;discussed on the blog&lt;/a&gt; and we won't be pursuing that for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's complicated -- and complicated means hard to explain and understand, which increases the support burden.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leads to discontent as &quot;old&quot; users gained rep using different rules and may enjoy significant advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's more honest and equitable to say we value answers more than questions across the board as a sort of gravitational constant rather than &quot;oh, except for these users during this time period&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there will be some short-term pain with this change, but we believe it will make the entire trilogy Q&amp;amp;A ecosystem healthier for &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-21T23:58:22.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43284" CreationDate="2010-03-22T00:02:07.037" Score="23" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know, if this would be possible (at least for next time)? I mean, probably a lot of people don't read the blog (or even meta). These banners are displayed for so many things, so - why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144785" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T00:26:22.873" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:27:15.993" Title="How about displaying a banner on top, that the reputation was recalculated?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;reputation-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43274" CreationDate="2010-03-22T00:05:05.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the theory, but I am not sure this is a good idea, and I have opted not to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's because we'd be inviting &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; user in the system to complain about rep changes, instead of that subset of users who actually care about their rep scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: However, it &lt;em&gt;IS&lt;/em&gt; a good idea to do it on Meta! I totally support that, so good job whichever mod just put in the banner here... (smacks self for not thinking of this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T00:26:56.900" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:26:56.900" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="43278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43259" CreationDate="2010-03-22T00:09:39.150" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well the rep change is sure to liven things up and its always good to shake up the system to see if it improves things.  The worst that can happen is that the change is hugely unpopular and counter-productive - at which point the change can be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crunch will come if the change is hugely unpopular but beneficial!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the change has a positive impact on the site (I know that will be difficult to imagine if you've lost a bunch of rep - mines only gone down 19 as a result of the change) then everyone benefits regardless of short-term rep hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144898" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:09:39.150" />
  <row Id="43284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43274" CreationDate="2010-03-22T00:27:15.993" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put up a banner here on Meta to try and explain the reputation situation. I figure that if they're already here on Meta, they're here to complain, so the banner should save everyone some time and frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:27:15.993" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-22T00:52:05.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;------------------------------------&#xA;SO    40066  -  44761 = -4695&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hehehe, not bad :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:52:05.323" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T00:52:05.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T00:53:28.447" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's like the government having made a mistake calculating your taxes for the last little while. Just because they took a while to find the problem doesn't mean that you're now exempt on paying back the amount you're in arrears. You may not be charged interest, but that money wasn't yours, and you should give it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To grandfather the recalculation would defeat much of the point, which is to rebalance the site in favour of answers and away from Question Pumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T00:53:28.447" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43239" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:06:21.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just started seeing some flags. I've removed all of his answers and suspended him for one day. Let us know if the behavior persists after the 24-hour suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:06:21.887" />
  <row Id="43303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43309" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:38:43.520" Score="8" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really understand how storming to meta without taking a second to read the front page or the notification bar is a behavior we want to encourage. Why have &lt;s&gt;almost&lt;/s&gt; all of those questions been upvoted at least once?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, especially, why are some people answering them anyway even if they are fully aware that they are duplicates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:17:04.177" Title="Can we stop upvoting duplicates about the rep recalc and their answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43305" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:38:59.603" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered a question on Stack Overflow a few weeks ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2342687/google-im-feeling-lucky&quot;&gt;Google ‘Im feeling lucky’ (Stack Overflow)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which got migrated to Super User:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/113909/google-im-feeling-lucky&quot;&gt;Google ‘Im feeling lucky’ (Super User)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for some reason, I have just noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2342687/google-im-feeling-lucky/2342710#2342710&quot;&gt;this answer by SLaks&lt;/a&gt; remained active, even though the question is marked as closed and migrated. This answer can still receive votes and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evidence below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/9527/metaq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Question migrated from SO to SU, but one answer remains active&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140182" LastEditorUserId="140182" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T08:57:19.270" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T08:57:19.270" Title="Question migrated from SO to SU, but one answer remains active" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43304" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:42:13.240" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author of that answer chose to undelete it after the question was migrated.  Seems to be just bad manners on their part, but it only seems rarely done.  I've only seen a handful, one being the same user you noticed here &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489499/sudden-loss-of-reputation-points/2489501#2489501&quot;&gt;undeleting an answer today&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't recall if you need to be a 10k user to access the undelete link or not, and you can still only affect your own answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does appear to me that you are missing votes on the migrated answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:48:13.103" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43303" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:46:29.723" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I totally agree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upvote this answer instead! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:46:29.723" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43303" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:52:01.270" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Must... Click ..... Up arrow....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;calls to me!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:52:01.270" />
  <row Id="43311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43229" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:56:29.423" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag the answer for moderator attention and ask that they consider changing the accepted answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately, post a new question with the correct answer, and ask on meta for help closing the old one as a duplicate of the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:56:29.423" />
  <row Id="43313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2010-03-22T01:58:35.180" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I no longer think it is community friendly behavior to cast an extreme number of downvotes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff - while it is obviously your call, you being the Boss and all, this pronouncement seems to be running somewhat counter to your usual motto of &quot;let's stop guessing and support with data&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, i'd like to respectfully request that you provide the data and the reasoning behind that specific statement (as opposed to the data you provided that merely shows that there are a couple of large-scale downvoters, without substantiating why those people's behavior is, indeed, bad). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to be clear - I'm not necessarily disagreeng with that exact statement, provided you pick some reasonable definition of &quot;extreme&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But I'm extremely worried that it will lead to an un-intended consequence of having people use this statement to support the sentiments of &quot;ALL downvoting is not a community friendly behavior&quot; and the corollary &quot;Let's upvote crap even more than we do now&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T01:58:35.180" />
  <row Id="43315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43183" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:00:44.353" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Jon, authors should delete their own posts when they don't add any value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143605" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T02:00:44.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43317" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:08:40.593" Score="5" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wrote an answer that I then deleted upon review that the answer was subjective and may not be technically accurate.  I would like to undelete that answer to make it unsubjective and technically valid, but now I cannot find it.  How can I locate the question containing a comment I wrote and deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I meant to refer to answer instead of comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-24T12:07:41.680" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T13:00:03.677" Title="Cannot find my deleted answer" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;&lt;undelete&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43317" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:10:41.280" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You cannot undelete a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it might still be cached in your recent activity screen (the envelope) or clicking the activity tab on your profile (clicking your name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is, just copy and paste it into the add comment box, and you are back in business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you provided an answer to a question, an then deleted it, you should be able to see it, in red, under the list of answers. You can then click the undelete button to undelete it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I do not know if deleted answers show up in any of the recent activity streams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T02:17:34.807" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T02:17:34.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43303" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:28:17.137" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the same token, they shouldn't be downvoted either. If someone is feeling bad about the situation, there's no need to make it worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not blaming anyone, I'm just saying. The downvotes could have come from before a migration, too. A bunch of the dupes just got deleted before I had a chance to look at them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T02:28:17.137" />
  <row Id="43324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43325" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:33:37.853" Score="0" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23756/so-whats-happening-to-my-reputation-how-do-i-report-something-fishy&quot;&gt;So, what&amp;rsquo;s happening to my reputation? How do I report something fishy?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people get very upset about their reputation loss. I just helped moving question of one of them off stackoverflow.com and now being downvoted a lot. Well, not much damage is going to be done as the guy doesn't have much rep left but anyway, but where's the script I heard are there to prevent such kind of behaviors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6258" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T02:36:05.717" ClosedDate="2010-03-23T23:56:31.390" Title="I've been downvoted for moving question to meta" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;serial-downvotes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43324" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:36:05.717" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a single person has downvoted you more than 5 times in a single day, the abnormalities script, when ran, will pick up on it and reverse those votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This script runs at least once a day, so give it 24 hours and you'll be fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T02:36:05.717" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42904" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:43:18.980" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chemotherapy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  just happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for those who think it sucks, I ask you: why did you come to StackOverflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is to beat &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet&quot;&gt;Jon Skeet&lt;/a&gt; for the most rep, then I say this must be a bad day for you, but then who can beat Jon Skeet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you are like me (I imagine about 99.99% are), then you wanted to ask tough programming questions and/or answer them because it helps you learn and get better. Life for you hasn't changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rep is a fun thing.  Remember the main function is to get the system to trust you so you can help keep it clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were at 10k and fell below, then I say &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You were there once, you will be there again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heck, to anybody who has lost rep and cared enough to look at this quesion I will personally guarantee that you will be back at the rep you had on 03/19/2010 sometime in the future if you change nothing, but keep acting like it is 03/10/2010 (before this rep recalc was done.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has made me a better programmer, so I thank you and will stay a loyal user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2469" LastEditorUserId="135907" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T09:58:37.937" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T09:58:37.937" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T02:43:18.980" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="75020" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:53:12.103" Score="6" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the number of flags on a given day is limited (see the related questions below), I would like to see how many I have left before I flag a post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens for me most often when I'm doing a retagging and need a diamond mod to retag a migrated question, but other people apparently run out of flags quickly on spammy posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like a simple &quot;n flags remaining&quot; just like the similar feature that was recently added to the vote-to-close screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related questions:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15487/should-flagging-limits-be-raised&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15487/should-flagging-limits-be-raised&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8935/increase-the-number-of-daily-spam-flags-with-reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/8935/increase-the-number-of-daily-spam-flags-with-reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-15T04:44:32.783" LastActivityDate="2011-01-15T04:45:32.907" Title="Show how many flags I have left" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T02:57:42.230" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; favor?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &lt;em&gt;- Bill Watterson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T02:57:42.230" />
  <row Id="43331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43004" CreationDate="2010-03-22T03:00:51.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to tvan's comment, I whipped up a really-weird-audit-format to JSON converter.&#xA;Right now it will output something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;bonuses &quot;,&quot;rep&quot;:&quot;&quot;},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2009-05-18&quot;,&quot;rep&quot;:&quot;10&quot;},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2009-05-26&quot;,&quot;rep&quot;:&quot;25&quot;},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;blahblahblah&quot;,&quot;rep&quot;:&quot;youcannotseethisblah&quot;}]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I might update it to include more detailed information (poke me enough and I'll do it, I promise :D)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find the source code &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com/339753&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on gist.github.&#xA;Put that in a directory, then take your audit and put it in a file called &quot;audit.txt&quot; in the same directory. Run the script and you have your JSON. (if you look at the script, it can also be EASILY changed to output XML :D)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: run the script and pass in debug as a GET paramater will get you debug info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T03:00:51.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-07-22T14:34:44.080" />
  <row Id="43332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43333" CreationDate="2010-03-22T03:10:51.640" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am guilty of having a long list of ignored tags. Every now and then, however, I wonder what's happening with a language or field I know little about, in the hope that perhaps I can discover something new (after all, one of the goals of Trilogy is learning, no?), and end up not ignoring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the front page, I can click any ignored tag, which will, invariably, bring me to very useless blank page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be relevant/possible/useful to show what's being ignored, on clicking a particular ignored tag? The rule would be: if the tag selected is in the user's ignored tags, ignore all ignored tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139539" LastEditorUserId="139539" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T03:16:40.487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T03:23:25.873" Title="&quot;What am I missing?&quot; - exploring ignored tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;ignored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43332" CreationDate="2010-03-22T03:17:37.837" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Untick the &quot;hide ignored tags&quot; option in the prefs tab of your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/fthd6r.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot; title=&quot;Just found this bottle of little blue pills with this strange warning.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T03:23:25.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T03:52:12.840" Score="4" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43274/how-about-displaying-a-banner-on-top-that-the-reputation-was-recalculated&quot;&gt;How about displaying a banner on top, that the reputation was recalculated?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The status message about StackOverflow reputation change in meta&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Reputation scoring has been revised and recalculated on all Stack Overflow family sites. Learn more about this change.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would be really useful if it is SO also... I searched my profile &lt;code&gt;30 min&lt;/code&gt; to what made this change... Then when i browsed meta i found this... If the above status message is present in SO it would have been easier for me and other users...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T03:52:12.840" ClosedDate="2010-03-22T03:57:11.950" Title="Reputation Status Message in SO would be useful" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" />
  <row Id="43337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40480" CreationDate="2010-03-22T04:04:38.223" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already get complaints from people when they see one of their questions was downvoted with no comment explaining why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing new users who are not used to the system to immediately see that their post is getting downvotes even when it's overall positive will only amplify that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, downvotes are relatively rare.  It's certainly more interesting on meta to have this information, but on SO most users are content to upvote the good answers, leave the poor answers alone, and only downvote wrong answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, a downvote doesn't tell you anything.  It could be a bad vote - and even if it was valid you're still at a loss as to why your post was considered bad enough to get a downvote.  A lot of downvotes are probably improperly cast - as the recent up/down voting ratio limit is intended to help with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How will having the vote split available to all users really going to improve SO in any measurable way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;actionable&lt;/em&gt; information does the vote split provide that the overall vote value does not provide?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only a &quot;nice to have&quot; or &quot;navel gazing&quot; feature, and one that would simply cause more complaints if given to everyone, even if restricted to their own posts.  Yes, they can see that information now, but they have to look for it, and learn about the system to get there.  With this feature it's easy to find (lots of people confused about it at first when they stumbled on it by missing the up or down vote button), and actually not intuitive.  If someone intends to vote something up, thinks they hit the upvote button, and suddenly gets the split view it's only going to confuse them, especially as a new user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T04:04:38.223" />
  <row Id="43349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43350" CreationDate="2010-03-22T05:22:09.770" Score="2" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been using SO for a few months now, answering questions whenever I can, and learning a lot from reading answers. I frequently upvote answers and questions I find &quot;good&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes an answer or question is &quot;accurate&quot; but not particularly &quot;helpful&quot; (or educational). Take for example, an answer that's simply a blob of code without much explanation. I think anyone can recognize that better questions are those crafted with clear explanation about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it works, with possible variations, etc. In other words, &lt;strong&gt;rich&lt;/strong&gt; answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while I'd like to give an upvote to a technically accurate question, I'd like to give even more to rich answers--they really shouldn't both receive the same reward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it might be a good idea to break the points awarded from an upvote (and downvote) into categories, each worth &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; points toward a total vote points of &lt;em&gt;y&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clearness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Accuracy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Completeness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explanation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Originality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142651" LastEditorUserId="142651" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T05:36:37.560" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:39:43.503" Title="Feature idea: Increase granularity of voting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;answer-quality&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43349" CreationDate="2010-03-22T05:27:04.700" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The existing system has the advantage of being simple. The more complex we make it to vote, the fewer votes (I guess) will be cast. And voting ties into the direct feedback loop that helps keep people &lt;strike&gt;hooked&lt;/strike&gt; motivated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see it happening, even though the idea warrants consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:27:04.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43356" CreationDate="2010-03-22T05:39:47.857" Score="-1" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than the first 10 people, anyone who asks why their rep has changed on a given day should have &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; 500 points docked from their account to teach them a lesson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you need to leave an indication as to why their inability to read has caused them even further angst so that maybe next time, they'll keep their traps shut until they've looked at a few other questions first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, and auto-delete &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; question on the non-meta sites that contain the words &quot;rep&quot; or &quot;reputation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:48:06.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T05:39:47.857" Title="Feature request - how to handle people who can't master the basic ability to read" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;humor&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43353" CreationDate="2010-03-22T05:42:34.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little bitter about the rep recalc are we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just give it a week. By then everyone will have adjusted, and hopefully we won't get as many complaints about the lost reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still think that the rep recalc banner should go on the main site, but oh wells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:42:34.910" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T05:42:34.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43353" CreationDate="2010-03-22T05:43:58.933" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps we'll have to resort to the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;blink&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:43:58.933" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T05:43:58.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43353" CreationDate="2010-03-22T05:46:10.243" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;People don't read.  Never have. Never will.  The sooner you accept this, the sooner you'll be at peace with the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130268" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:46:10.243" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T05:46:10.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43353" CreationDate="2010-03-22T05:48:06.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, this is also part of the reason why I was against putting a site banner on SO/SF/SU (but I support it on meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T05:48:06.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T05:48:06.657" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T06:07:30.080" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the &quot;objective-c&quot; tag apply to iPhone questions? Personally, I feel it should be about the language itself, or platform independent questions, not questions where it is like &quot;How do I do this with the iPhone SDK&quot; -- while the SDK does happen to use Objective-C, I don't think that warrants a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, there seem to be a huge number of tags relating to iPhone development. Can we consolidate them into one &quot;iphone&quot; tag to replace &quot;iphone-sdk&quot;? It'd just be logical to me to have one tag for one kind of question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Another question: I've also seen lots of &quot;Xcode&quot; questions, maybe without that tag in particular, but still asking for how to do something in Xcode. Should those also be moved to the &quot;iphone&quot; (or &quot;iphone-sdk&quot;?) tag, and replace &quot;Xcode&quot; with &quot;iPhone&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I'm not sorry, at least yet :P.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145012" LastEditorUserId="145012" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T06:45:01.027" LastActivityDate="2010-04-24T11:19:01.700" Title="Tagging iPhone Questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;iphone&gt;&lt;consolidation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43358" CreationDate="2010-03-22T06:26:01.380" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;About your first question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Most novice programmers use the XCode IDE and The Interface Builder heavily which (opposite of Visual Studio or Netbeans) doesn't show the generated code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theoretically, you can build a full application without writing 10 lines in ObjC. So your answer in this area should include how to make it in the IDE not only in the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T06:26:01.380" />
  <row Id="43360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43373" CreationDate="2010-03-22T06:43:12.023" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the trivial questions, i.e. the questions answered directly from Google, get the most upvotes when answered. Take for example this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2131444/what-does-mean-in-java&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2131444/what-does-mean-in-java&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The answers get many upvotes, while they are directly quoted from the first Google hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand some answers that took the answerer great time to think about and write never get an upvote, if they do then its 1 or 2 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people tend to hunt for simple questions and answer them very quickly, there should be a motivation to make people answer hard and old questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139334" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:30:02.450" Title="Shouldn't answering complex questions get more upvotes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43365" CreationDate="2010-03-22T06:57:43.917" Score="4" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will there be any change in privileges (vote up, flag offensive, etc.) for users after recalculation of reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still last week in Stack Overflow, my reputation was around 525 and I got my Organizer badge (first retag) and after the change in the way reputation calculated I have got a reputation around 395. I still have the Organizer tag but no privilege to retag any question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-15T10:22:38.467" LastActivityDate="2010-09-15T10:22:38.467" Title="Change in privileges after recalculation of reputation?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="43362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43360" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:00:15.023" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a fault of the community. Simple answers to simple questions seem to be the will of the masses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately it's up to the community to vote for the type of questions and answers they like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes that will cause the type of behaviour you mentioned, but the more important thing is that the hard questions do still keep getting good answers too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt this can be fixed by fiddling with the rep system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clever people will continue answering hard questions because it is &lt;em&gt;fun&lt;/em&gt;, rep isn't everything&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136589" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:00:15.023" />
  <row Id="43363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43360" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:00:40.110" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well known phenomena. There have been several &quot;fixes&quot; proposed on meta, but none of them went anywhere (mostly due to complexity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It won't make you feel any better, but &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; don't hunt for easy questions. I just happen upon them and answer them to get them out of the way. I &lt;em&gt;prefer&lt;/em&gt; to deal with harder questions, but there are fewer of those I &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; answer well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:00:40.110" />
  <row Id="43364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43361" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:01:49.113" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll have to get the rep back to the level required for the privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:01:49.113" />
  <row Id="43365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43361" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:03:18.457" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue was raised in the short period we had between hearing about the plan and its implementation. There were no signs that the team felt it was necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You earned the badge, so you get to keep it. You'll get the privilege back soon enough, I imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:03:18.457" />
  <row Id="43369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43360" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:20:47.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's easy for more people to recognize a good answer to an easy question, so many more people are comfortable voting on those answers.  That most answers on easy questions are decent plus people hesitating before downvotes is a recipe for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/waffles&quot;&gt;waffl&lt;/a&gt;&amp;mdash; disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end you can't answer for the rep, but you can get the rep &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; you answered well.  And then all the questions are more on an easy keel for you: you'll have to work harder to distinguish your answers (or be a watchful FGITW) on easy questions, or you can answer harder questions in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged?page=549&amp;amp;tab=newest&quot;&gt;step back a few months&lt;/a&gt; and go for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/17/necromancer&quot;&gt;necromancer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:20:47.497" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:26:06.000" Score="3" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still see API links to older versions of Java, even when there's nothing relevant about that specific version. I realize that Google often links to 1.4.2 for some reason, but shouldn't we require stackoverflow users to take the time to link to the latest version of Java unless an older version is specifically being discussed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143806" LastActivityDate="2010-08-24T12:36:12.790" Title="Why are people still linking to older versions of Java API?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;java&gt;" AnswerCount="4" />
  <row Id="43372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43371" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:28:32.023" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you should &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; people to answer with updated links. It's &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; answer, not yours. If you don't like it, either downvote it, comlain about it in a comment, or write an answer with the &quot;right&quot; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a sizable number of API calls that haven't changed since 1.4.2 so they may still be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:28:32.023" />
  <row Id="43373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43360" CreationDate="2010-03-22T07:30:02.450" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really depends on why you participate. I've looked at some long / complex questions, and there is a lot of satisfaction and self-learning to be had from finding an answer. Or reading a good answer from others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, the rules of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bike-shedding&lt;/a&gt; means it is unlikely to be a rep-mine (although bounty isn't uncommon on such - and helps, since despite rumour we're not all here 24/7, so might not see it &quot;first time&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider that sometimes a ridiculously complex &lt;em&gt;sounding&lt;/em&gt; question can often have a trivial answer, and that a trivial question can actually (sometimes) demand an insanely complex answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure; quick and simple will be good for points - but I like to go a bit beyond that. Maybe it is just me. Besides, I've probably got enough points now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23354" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T07:30:02.450" />
  <row Id="43381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43361" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:04:00.803" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only badge that's ever been taken away from what I know is the Beta badge on SO. Apart from that, if you've earned a badge, it's yours to keep. The privileges, however, can be won and lost depending on your rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T08:04:00.803" />
  <row Id="43382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43600" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:09:43.283" Score="2" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Iam getting the following error when trying to login using blogger open id.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID&#xA;  provider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No OpenID endpoint found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132683" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T21:48:46.013" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:48:51.787" Title="Blogger OpenID not working again" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="43383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43817" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:18:02.987" Score="11" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the back of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;Global Reputation Recalc&lt;/a&gt; there has been a flurry, nay, &lt;em&gt;swarm&lt;/em&gt; of questions along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why my reputation decrease from XXXX to YYY?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How are rep change for today, brokened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users asking such are being downvoted and their questions &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot; title=&quot;don't forget, we're talking big letters here&quot;&gt;closed as duplicate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though a large base of users have been around the site for a while, many, it seems, were not aware of the realignment of question upvotes and other such clearing of house matters (like deleted and migrated posts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As not everyone reads the blog, nor do they hang out reading the posts on Meta, have the crumbs of information about the Global Reputation Recalc failed in delivery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137068" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T16:42:01.197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:17:24.363" Title="Communication breakdown on the Global Rep Recalc: A userbase uninformed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;communication&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43383" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:21:31.893" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A big sentence to the top of Meta says: &quot;Reputation scoring has been revised and recalculated on all Stack Overflow family sites. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Learn more about this change.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That should be enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Some of your comments concern the wider problem of asking Meta questions directly on SO because the user doesn't know about Meta. I think this should be tackled by a new &quot;intellisense&quot; suggestion, similar to &quot;the question appears to be subjective and is likely to be closed&quot;. Namely: &lt;em&gt;&quot;This question appears to belong to meta.stackoverflow.com. Consider asking it there.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Of course, you would find that out based on the words used when posing the question, especially its title. As a bonus hint, most of the related questions which will appear will have already been closed as &quot;belongs on meta&quot;, and this should be stressed visually to the user and used for the above hint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T17:16:36.423" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:16:36.423" CommentCount="18" />
  <row Id="43385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:24:03.000" Score="8" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duplicate questions are a drain on the trilogy community -- not necessarily a big drain, but a drain. Either you have to be a duplicate cop, or you find yourself answering a question only to have it closed as a duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suggest these changes, the goal being to encourage people to search before posting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even before the question is closed, list the links to questions people have voted as duplicates for &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; (not just people with close rights) to see, including the questioner. Remove these if the question survives for a day (or change them to &quot;related questions&quot;). (&lt;em&gt;Edit: I just went to post this as its own feature request, separate from the rest of this suggestion, because it has utility beyond the thrust of this idea. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1383/show-possible-duplicates-in-the-main-post-before-its-closed&quot;&gt;someone already has&lt;/a&gt; [and quite some time ago]. If you have an opinion about this point separate from the rest, I recommend going and voting on / commenting on that question.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a question is closed as a duplicate, ding the questioner's reputation by a smallish, but real, amount; say -10. This can be avoided if the questioner sees people are voting to close it, looks at the questions they're pointing to, and deletes the question themselves. &lt;em&gt;(Edit: Farseeker and others have pointed out that there should be a threshold so this doesn't hit newbies. I'm all in favor, that's a very good idea. It can be based either on rep, or on number of questions closed as duplicates. I prefer the latter -- Farseeker's suggestion was three, which seems reasonable.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, if this isn't done already, reverse any rep gained from up-votes on the duplicate question. &lt;em&gt;(Edit: Gnome points out that this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;currently done&lt;/a&gt;, but only if the question ultimately gets&lt;/em&gt; deleted, &lt;em&gt;which sets the bar very high indeed. I submit that it being&lt;/em&gt; closed &lt;em&gt;is sufficient.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, I did search before posting this! And reviewed the &quot;Related Questions&quot; list carefully, but to my surprise I didn't see this suggestion made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastEditorUserId="134069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T11:08:38.310" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T11:08:38.310" Title="Should there be a reputation cost for duplicate questions?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43371" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:28:37.307" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there has been a subtle change since 1.4.2, it could confuse someone who doesn't realize they're looking at old documentation. But it's fairly easy to get the right version. Just type, say, &quot;java arraylist&quot; directly into the address bar (at least in Firefox, the way I have it set up, and probably in most browsers) and you end up at the old docs. Then change the &lt;code&gt;1.4.2&lt;/code&gt; in the URL to &lt;code&gt;6&lt;/code&gt; and you get the new ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people with enough rep to do so, I think it's appropriate for them to change the links. I certainly wouldn't mind if someone did that to a post of mine. It might also help to popularize &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs108/JavaDocFast.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Java Doc Fast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65977" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T08:28:37.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43385" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:34:18.367" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, I'm wary about #2. I can see how it's a problem, but the main issue that I have with it is that some dupes are impossible to find. When one person uses the term &quot;PSU&quot; and someone else uses the term &quot;Power Supply&quot;, with no cross-over in terms, you'll never find the question. And if you can't find it, it's not fair to penalise the OP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone creates a duplicate question, and the question is closed as dupe with a link back to the original, you're greatly increasing the surface area of the question, which means that next time someone comes along you can find the question easilly, regardless of which search term you use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the SOFU search leaves a lot to be desired. I've given up on it and just use google &lt;code&gt;site:serverfault.com&lt;/code&gt; search. But you really can't expect a novice user to know or try this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this were to be considered, I would really strongly suggest it have thresholds in place. Maybe after the 3rd dupe or some other metric (that would need to be determined by studying the number of 'close as dupe' questions for each user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With #3 - totally agree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T08:34:18.367" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34460" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:39:09.350" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should know that the &quot;related&quot; column is &lt;em&gt;heavily&lt;/em&gt; weighted by tags.. just FYI. So if you want two questions to be &quot;related&quot; to each other, tag them similarly (and ideally, tag them identically). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also body and title matching of course but tags is the big one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: this is completed for asking per &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/91568/feedback-requested-similar-questions-displayed-in-sidebar-on-ask&quot;&gt;Feedback requested: Similar Questions displayed in sidebar on /ask&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-17T01:27:55.330" LastActivityDate="2011-05-17T01:27:55.330" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43392" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:46:49.303" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;strong&gt;ClaimID&lt;/strong&gt; changed syntax &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11558/claimid-accounts&quot;&gt;again&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This morning I cannot login using my ClaimID openID account on &lt;strong&gt;ServerFault&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52879" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-30T16:18:14.833" LastActivityDate="2010-09-30T16:18:14.833" Title="ClaimID login fails on ServerFault?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login-problem&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43385" CreationDate="2010-03-22T08:52:46.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be a cost, but remember there is &lt;em&gt;currently&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2038/should-you-gain-rep-for-asking-a-duplicate-question/43389#43389&quot;&gt;no gain (eventually)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Questions and answers sometimes get deleted; votes on deleted posts do not count toward your reputation. &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[blog]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will always be a need for questions and putting up &lt;em&gt;barriers to asking&lt;/em&gt; is not smart.  Such &lt;em&gt;punishment&lt;/em&gt; will make anyone think twice before asking anything, and while that might be a good thing from a pedogogical standpoint, it will hurt the site.  The keys is merely &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; reward mildly undesired behavior (too much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention dealing with potential abuse and gaming of any system that removes reputation&amp;mdash;some people love to screw with others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:37:21.113" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="43392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43390" CreationDate="2010-03-22T09:03:22.560" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're looking at this now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this was a configuration error on our end and is now fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T08:56:31.430" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:56:31.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43385" CreationDate="2010-03-22T09:08:48.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this really is an issue. Especially superuser (if I remember it right, there was a big discussion about this a few weeks ago) has big problems with duplicates, and a massive trend of experienced users not to vote to close them, but to answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Totally seconded&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;would not be necessary IMO &lt;strong&gt;if the loss of reputation from the question's closure would be calculated immediately&lt;/strong&gt; - I am pretty active on SO and I didn't know you actually &lt;em&gt;lose&lt;/em&gt; the reputation gained from closed questions at re-calc. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;See 2. - if you feel the effect of answering to a duplicate straight away, you are going to have a lot less incentive to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moderators would have to be able to reverse such close votes, but with no negative effect kicking in, the possibilities to screw with people (as feared in the comments) would be much reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would prevent questions from being answered of which people &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; deep down that is must be a duplicate, and make those people search for the duplicate instead. Maybe this would be best paired with a (very small) incentive on finding and voting duplicates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T09:26:49.907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T09:26:49.907" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43385" CreationDate="2010-03-22T09:14:58.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about just halve the reputation gain upon duplicate closed Q/A on recalc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T09:14:58.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43385" CreationDate="2010-03-22T09:23:05.693" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're acting like all duplicates are a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question is hard to locate (perhaps because of multiple different sets of terminology), then a duplicate that uses different terminology to express the same thing, and comes with a link is a good thing. It increases the visibility of the question that has the answers. Several times I've found solutions to problems I have had by first finding a closed question and then following the duplicate link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you can find a way to differentiate between the 15 millionth repeat of a simple question or a alternate phrasing of an existing question I don't think there should be any penalisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to that the issue that you don't want to discourage question asking. Surely it's better to have a few duplicate questions now and again (that are quickly closed by the community - so is it really a big problem) than discourage people from asking them in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T09:23:05.693" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T09:39:30.543" Score="-3" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18039/can-we-have-a-bug-hunter-badge-on-mso&quot;&gt;Can we have a &amp;ldquo;Bug Hunter&amp;rdquo; badge on MSO?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess we should reward a genuine bug report with some rep on the original site. How does that sound&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T09:50:39.903" ClosedDate="2010-03-22T13:25:43.737" Title="Rep reward for bug report" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;bug-reports&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43398" CreationDate="2010-03-22T09:50:39.903" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead, you may need to use your rep to get more attention, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What if I really want someone to look&#xA;  at my bug / feature request /&#xA;  discussion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Put a bounty on it. This costs a&#xA;  little reputation, but it will push&#xA;  your post to the featured tab for 7&#xA;  days and visually distinguish it from&#xA;  other posts. It will get more&#xA;  attention, but we can't guarantee it&#xA;  will necessarily be acted upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T09:50:39.903" />
  <row Id="43408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43416" CreationDate="2010-03-22T09:58:28.827" Score="0" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;How to view the questions which were &lt;em&gt;discussed&lt;/em&gt; today on SO, having tags in which I am either interested or participated (asked or answered)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastEditorUserId="143903" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T10:05:35.317" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:34:34.817" Title="Recent questions with Interesting/MyTags" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1383" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:10:18.170" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a very good idea indeed. I would change them to just &quot;related&quot; if the question survives unclosed for more than 48 hours or something (because apparently it isn't a duplicate, in the eyes of the community), but definitely make the information available to everyone (particularly the questioner!) right away. The questioner may well see the link, follow it, realize that their question is indeed a duplicate, and delete it -- saving everyone time and trouble. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:10:18.170" />
  <row Id="43410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43931" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:11:32.663" Score="2" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just searched for '1955211' in the SO search field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expected output: include the question/answer with ID '1955211' in the search results. If the search result set is a single question/answer, redirect to that (I seem to remember, that is already the case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual output: the 'no results' page showed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to fix: If the search term is /^[0-9]+$/ (or whatever a valid question/answer ID is), look up the ID database and include results with the queried ID.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complicacies: May provide results that are not (at first sight) correlated to the search query, e.g., when searching for 127001 or 123456.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problems steming from complicacies: If someone can't distinguish between the different result types, he should perhaps re-consider giving answers on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113195" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T08:56:05.613" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:56:05.613" Title="Let the search find questions by ID" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:14:10.387" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SITE Current - Recalc = LOST&#xA;SO   5410    - 3947   = 1463 (=27%, sob!)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:14:10.387" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T10:14:10.387" />
  <row Id="43412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43385" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:15:06.377" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would also want to penalise the people who answer questions that get closed as duplicates. Some of them appear to be doing this quite cynically, and are in effect gaming the system. I suggest -10 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:15:06.377" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:15:24.410" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the idea of recalculating reputation I must advice Jeff &amp;amp; Co. to recall the modern history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currency denomination wherever it was introduced only pissed off the population and made a lot of good-living people poor in the blink of an eye. It also caused severe psychological trauma for many, which lost trust in their government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It some sense, an online community is a microworld with its citizens, rules and sort of a government. The effects of denominating the reputation can also be serious. Consider psychological implications and the trust of your members. You say with enough reputation the site trusts you. Now people do not trust the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136634" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:15:24.410" />
  <row Id="43414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43410" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:29:22.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sicne you can already go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1955211&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1955211&lt;/a&gt; without doing any search, it's not clear to me that giving that as a search result for numbers would be useful. If I'm searching for a number, maybe I just want it to appear in the question/answer content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="147655" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:29:22.037" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43410" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:33:42.783" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice, if I could search &lt;code&gt;:1955211 some texts&lt;/code&gt; (with colon in front of question id), especially when I want to search on a question with hundreds of answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:33:42.783" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43408" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:34:34.817" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you want to view &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=active&quot;&gt;active&lt;/a&gt; questions with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43332/what-am-i-missing-exploring-ignored-tags/43333#43333&quot;&gt;hide ignored tags&lt;/a&gt; on.  There's pagination links at the bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will have to depend on your ignored tags instead of those you've participated in, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:34:34.817" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2445" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:35:56.650" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really would like to appreciate the proposal idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well. It has got more of flaws than the benefits(to anyone). As per your suggestion, it merely depends on the will and wishes of Original author, not on the system (ie no rules of automation), he may not be ready to give out his part of reputation to some one else, or may misjudge the edition as unnecessary. Not all people around the world are nice ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, It is prone to unnecessary editions of posts, (as like others have mentioned, no need to extend it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a minor modification in the posts, then it could be done without any credits.. if there is heavy modification required, then it's better to post a new answer. There is no wrong thing I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are more than one editions .. then complexity goes on building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not as champ as you(&lt;em&gt;couldn't find suitable word here, pls don't mind&lt;/em&gt;), but I just thought I could share some thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140364" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:35:56.650" />
  <row Id="43418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:39:14.977" Score="96" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/156/42885.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:39:14.977" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43385" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:48:14.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think @gnome (+1) is right when he talks about &lt;em&gt;barriers to question entry&lt;/em&gt;, just noted down the rep of every person asking a question on the first two pages of SO right now :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;85 - 28 - 1 - 58 - 16 - 868 - 1 - 394 - 8 - 12.5K - 64 - 814 - 704 - 1 - 18 - 175 - 161 - 868 - 814 - 321 - 147 - 29 - 1 - 1493 - 126 - 457 - 1 - 22&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this sample the majority of questions are being asked by relative newcomers to the site - the people least likely to 'know' that they should be searching for duplicates in the first place.  If this is a representative sample (and based on what I see day-to-day I think it is) duplicate question sanctions will penalise newcomers and this will surely impact on the flow of questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead if duplicates are a real evil punish those that indulge in them when they are experienced enough to know better rather than when it is more likely to be an honest mistake due to site inexperience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not &lt;strong&gt;only penalise duplicators who have the rep to edit questions&lt;/strong&gt; as by that point they really should know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already think that the line between related questions and duplicate questions is fairly blurred and this measure would make SO even more &lt;em&gt;expert-friendly&lt;/em&gt; (as opposed to user-friendly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144898" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T10:48:14.490" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:56:19.463" Score="3" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took several hours, but after &lt;em&gt;gruesome&lt;/em&gt; work two girls scouring the &lt;i&gt;'&lt;/i&gt;&amp;thinsp;net&amp;mdash;with only one cup between them to store rep!&amp;mdash;finally gathered up all the lost reputation points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i40.tinypic.com/294l83a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of Gnome with 1,160,825 rep.&quot; title=&quot;these are not the bookmarks you're looking for&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key to their success was clues hidden in the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation&quot;&gt;rep audit reports&lt;/a&gt;.  Over the course of the next several weeks I will be returning this rep to those deserving souls that come up with the best uses for these new reports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sort of custom, detailed graph control is an obvious choice, but even simple tools are needed to run locally and retrieve the reports so that personal downvoting history can be stripped before processing (if it's going to be uploaded anywhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the coolest, niftiest, and most useful purpose to which you can put the rep reports?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-06-01T06:01:37.503" Title="Rep reports lead to lost reputation recovery" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;reputation-audit&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43427" CreationDate="2010-03-22T10:57:30.973" Score="3" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have a report showing how many up and downvotes you got in each tag. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;java: 134 upvotes, 10 downvotes&#xA;perl: 100 upvotes, 8 downvotes&#xA;hibernate: 50 upvotes, 4 downvotes &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It will be easy for somebody or&#xA;yourself to quickly check what you're&#xA;good at and your main areas of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You will be able to check how close you are of&#xA;getting a tag badge (&quot;Earned N votes&#xA;for answers in the X tag&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The report could filter out the tags where you got less than, say, 50 votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137202" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T22:38:26.857" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T22:38:26.857" Title="Report on number of votes that you got on each tag" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;tag-badges&gt;&lt;reporting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38018" CreationDate="2010-03-22T11:36:51.917" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A white L is underway to me! Cheer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; got it!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://tweakers.net/ext/f/ZrSPE89QlgIu6AsTjbjN3gw8/full.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Crappy campic, my wife took our Canon to the Netherlands and she's only after 3 weeks back&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Many thanks, SO crew!! :)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="138231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-29T22:55:52.020" LastActivityDate="2010-04-29T22:55:52.020" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43428" CreationDate="2010-03-22T11:42:19.247" Score="12" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;This proposal was partly discussed in this post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18308/how-do-deleted-posts-affect-rep&quot;&gt;how-do-deleted-posts-affect-rep&lt;/a&gt;, but the only solution to update the rep after a post is deleted seems to be a complete recalculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering whether this is technically necessary. I think it would be more convenient for users if they got a hint before deletion how many rep they'd lose from this post. If they choose to delete it the effect should be instant. I have worked on denormalization strategies myself and have never seen the need to do a complete recalculation if the denormalized data is updated correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we should try to keep the currency &quot;reputation&quot; as solid as possible and avoid fluctuations altogether (besides rule changes, which I do strongly support).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another part of the problem is how deleting posts with down-votes should work, I don't think reputation should be regained. If everything is only soft-deleted anyway this wouldn't cause any additional headaches during recalculations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136840" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-15T10:28:30.947" LastActivityDate="2010-09-15T10:28:30.947" Title="Minimise reputation flux due to deleted posts" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43422" CreationDate="2010-03-22T11:46:29.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can craft &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:123266%20%5bjava%5d&amp;amp;tab=votes&quot;&gt;custom queries&lt;/a&gt; if there are particular tags you want to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;show off&lt;/a&gt;.  (And there's probably only a handful of singles or combinations you would, right?)  Include them in the bio area of your profile or elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the purpose of showing off proficiency, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags&quot;&gt;tag badges&lt;/a&gt; are just as accurate as the raw counts that you propose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checking your tag badge progress can now be done with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43421/rep-reports-lead-to-lost-reputation-recovery&quot;&gt;custom tool&lt;/a&gt;; we just need someone to write it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T11:46:29.853" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43426" CreationDate="2010-03-22T11:48:38.150" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds good to me, but I think that reputation should be regained for deleted posts with downvotes - you were wrong, have (hopefully) realised your mistake, and have removed it. Shouldn't that behaviour be encouraged? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might not be appropriate if &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; (the person who wrote the downvoted answer) didn't personally delete the question (e.g. a mod deleted it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd agree more for things flagged offensive/spam, since you've presumably done something actively detrimental to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T11:48:38.150" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43421" CreationDate="2010-03-22T11:51:54.843" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I printed off ten copies of my rep report then scrunched them up to use as fire lighters for my stove. Lost some rep but gained fire lighters, every cloud has a silver lining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T11:51:54.843" />
  <row Id="43430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43435" CreationDate="2010-03-22T11:54:28.943" Score="-8" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't rare when you downvote someone and explain your reasons that he returns a downvote on a totally unrelated question, most likely your latest or highest-scoring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is not a big deal (at least until it becomes serial downvoting the target user), but I think something simple can be done to get rid of at least half of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion is to disable downvoting for 5/10 minutes after you have been downvoted or after you've logged in after being downvoted. This will cool off the desire to respond to the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; this will rarely have &quot;innocent victims&quot;, since the downvotes are not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; commons. And if you really want to downvote someone based on arguments, well, wait 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141771" LastEditorUserId="141771" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T12:36:22.030" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T20:10:42.963" Title="Temporarily disable downvoting for users who have been downvoted" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43430" CreationDate="2010-03-22T12:03:28.333" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't help but feel this idea has some merit. The likelihood that somebody legitimately needs to downvote the downvoter's answer to a completely unrelated answer is small. It would not eliminate revenge downvoting, but ten minutes can help cool down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the big problem with this is that it cancels out the anonymity of votes. I could find out who downvoted me by randomly downvoting the suspects' answers or questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-25T20:10:42.963" LastActivityDate="2010-08-25T20:10:42.963" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43430" CreationDate="2010-03-22T12:03:31.857" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Not everybody is vengeful, and it will affect innocent people when they do nothing wrong. I think it's better to approach this on an individual base than sitewide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20261" LastEditorUserId="23234" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T12:28:21.347" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:28:21.347" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43430" CreationDate="2010-03-22T12:07:36.427" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree, this will conflict with anomalous detection script which currently active on SO, and this could lead real downvoter to do a conspiracy, IHMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:07:36.427" />
  <row Id="43435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43430" CreationDate="2010-03-22T12:08:18.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A cooldown period on downvotes is a good idea.  Perhaps your rep could influence the length of cooldown period, with newer users having to wait longer between downvotes than high rep people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way of crunching the stats to determine if revenge downvoting is a factor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144898" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:08:18.063" />
  <row Id="43436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43430" CreationDate="2010-03-22T12:16:08.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree. Although I don't have a habit of retaliating (not that I wouldn't - I just don't care enough since I'm too lazy :) , I disagree from another viewpoint. This site with all its rules, is getting too complicated. In the beginning it was simple, nowadays it is more about politics (watching your reputation) than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not complicate it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:16:08.043" />
  <row Id="43439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43421" CreationDate="2010-03-22T12:25:04.297" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used my rep report on SO to calculate PI to 1,000,000,000 digits, still well short of the world record held jointly by Jon Skeet and Chuck Norris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:25:04.297" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T12:35:52.013" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27566/would-it-be-feasible-to-tie-the-tags-of-a-new-question-to-the-related-questions-l&quot;&gt;Would it be feasible to tie the tags of a new question to the Related Questions list?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we write a question title, we get a set of Related Questions, but this list remains unchanged as we enter tags. It would be useful if the entering of tags refined the Related Questions further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T12:35:52.013" ClosedDate="2010-03-27T01:03:58.247" Title="Can we adjust the &quot;Related Questions&quot; according to entered tags?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:18:36.517" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17845/etiquette-for-answering-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Etiquette for answering your own question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to post a question on which I've done already quite a lot of research.&#xA;I want to know the opinion of some experts on SO to see what solution (or possibly another one I didn't mention) they prefer and why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which of the following is better:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;1 I post the question and possible answers all in the main question body?&#xA;&#xA;2 I post the question and a few separate answers?&#xA;&#xA;3 I post the question and don't mention any answers at all?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;some comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I use method 1, I'm not using the system as it should be used, since no one can vote on the answers. If they want to vote they have to copy the answer (maybe reword it) in a separate answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With method 2 I guess it could work. But I'm not giving anyone the moment in the bright light to own the answer and perhaps even defending it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With method 3 people start giving answers but I have to comment that I already know them and perhaps give my negative (or positive) points about them. I can remember that Jeff once said that it is better to show that you did your homework IN the question, so that people see that you actually did some work before turning to the community and just asking questions. So point 3 seems like to exact opposite of this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If I go with method 2, how do I make sure people have not already answered before I markup my answers?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;To make the question mare tangible. I want to ask what people see as the best way to do asynchronous programming in .Net. One can use the task parallel library, use delegates and the begin/send pattern, use the CCR (robotics) and iterators style programming, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;loads of possibilities. I just want to see what others are going with and what they perceive as (dis)advantages&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140206" LastEditorUserId="140206" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T13:30:32.220" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:30:32.220" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T08:29:31.973" Title="better to post question with separate answers or a question with answers in the main body?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;best-practices&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43448" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:21:23.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17845/etiquette-for-answering-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Keep the answers in the answers&lt;/a&gt;, as long as they are relevant, workable answers. If they are things that you have tried before, or constraints, add it to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:21:23.567" />
  <row Id="43450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42769" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:23:36.187" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I know it's a little bit late, I just wanted to say what I think : &#xA;The problem is that this will discourage old users of SO to ask questions. By &quot;old users&quot; I mean people that had eventually red the FAQ and that are possibly interested in earning rep thous will take care of the way they write their questions. But it will not discourage any one with no reputation at all to ask a i-have-nothing-to-loose question.&#xA;Thous this will possibly degrade the overall quality of the questions, and since I don't agree that much that A are twice as valuable as a Q, I don't think it is such a good idea. &#xA;I guess we'll see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133637" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:23:36.187" />
  <row Id="43451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43455" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:24:23.660" Score="2" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I edit my answer on SO, after this answer was accepted by the owner of the question, will the owner receive a notification of any sort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145042" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:42:18.167" Title="Notification on edited answers" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43448" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:26:22.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you're still asking the question, these &quot;answers&quot; must not have worked.  That means they're not really answers at all, just supporting information for the question.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps you're asking a multiple choice style question along the lines of &quot;what's the best way to X?&quot;  In that case, those questions are actively discouraged on StackOverflow, because the answer will depend on so many little things you're doing in your particular situation.  If you must ask the question, you should present what it is you're trying to accomplish in a larger sense, list out your constraints, things you've tried, and why they don't work, and ask for the best way for you to accomplish your goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:26:22.690" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43451" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:34:40.863" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can leave them a comment (either a &lt;em&gt;@reply&lt;/em&gt; or on the question), or perhaps they're watching their profile page for recent activity on their questions (the &lt;em&gt;recent&lt;/em&gt; button), or watching that question's RSS feed (generally unlikely, but useful for me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Now this has been edited after being accepted, as proof to the OP.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:42:18.167" />
  <row Id="43456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43463" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:38:01.757" Score="3" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to get real time notification of new questions being posted on SO for a particular tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried Google Reader but it is not realtime. Are there any real time Feed readers for SO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144887" LastActivityDate="2010-04-21T15:00:03.000" Title="How to get a real time notification of Questions posted in SO for a particular tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42863" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:38:29.227" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I lost about 20% of my rep from the change but won't complain.  My rep was probably too high for my involement.  I asked a couple of good questions that really boosted my total beyond where I should have been based upon the answers I have provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it's not about the rep, it's about getting answers that I need and trying to share my knowledge by answering someone else's questions.  Isn't that the point of the site??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140138" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:38:29.227" />
  <row Id="43458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43456" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:45:24.387" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an RSS feed for the tags page - subscribe to the feed on this page for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c%23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;replace the last bit with the tag of your choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="59303" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T14:00:16.900" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:00:16.900" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43465" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:46:35.180" Score="2" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;how about a new bronze badge showing the loss of rep in the rep recalc of 2010?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32700" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:31:55.947" Title="how about an &quot;I survived the rep recalc 2010&quot; badge" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43459" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:50:22.440" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about we all accept it's a good for the community as a whole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, what would the badge say for all the people that had their reputation boosted because they are good answerers and didn't get their reputation from asking questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prize is a better reputation system for all of us, we need nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T14:03:10.377" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:03:10.377" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43459" CreationDate="2010-03-22T13:55:54.800" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to discourage you from suggesting improvements and additions to the SO sites, but this one does not rank well when considered against the purpose of badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Badges are to encourage good behaviour on the sites - what good behaviour would such a badge encourage? Less whinging, perhaps? Of course, there's no way to measure that so the badge would be hard to reward without manual intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you might sell a t-shirt or two if it carried this slogan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23234" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T13:55:54.800" />
  <row Id="43463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43456" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:01:14.437" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest you'll get is the normal (non-realtime) feed.  Click on the tag you're interested in and scroll to the very bottom of the page for the link.  Here's an example for the c++ tag:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=c%2b%2b&amp;amp;sort=newest&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=c%2b%2b&amp;amp;sort=newest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:01:14.437" />
  <row Id="43464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43459" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:02:34.230" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure -- but you should only get it if, during the recalc, your rep goes up instead of down.  Sort of a retroactive award for acting in accordance with the best interests of the site despite the previous equal weight toward questions and answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:02:34.230" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43459" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:07:02.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uhmm ... let me think, ... no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:07:02.560" />
  <row Id="43466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43589" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:16:53.863" Score="1" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I've been having weird problems for the last 1/2 hour trying to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2490422/invoking-ado-net-from-matlab&quot;&gt;post an answer to a database-related question&lt;/a&gt; on StackOverflow, and I keep getting this result (on Firefox 3.6)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The connection was reset&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few&#xA;       moments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network&#xA;       connection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure&#xA;       that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem seems to occur when I try to post some code with 'd--- table' in it, where 'd---' is replaced by the word drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot post the following 3 lines, in either SO or this site, if they include the well-known SQL statements DROP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stat.executeUpdate('d--- table if exists people;');&#xA;stat.executeUpdate('create table people (name, occupation);');&#xA;prep = conn.prepareStatement(...&#xA;    'insert into people values (?, ?);');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;test again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;'dro* table'&#xA;'drop ball'&#xA;drop the table&#xA;drop fable&#xA;drop    t*ble&#xA;droptable&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;drop a table&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The evil words for me are &quot;drop&quot; and &quot;table&quot;... how come you guys can post? :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Could someone please suggest another online site that is not stackoverflow that is a quick way to try out a POST request of a text field?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; Never mind. I don't know what the answer is, but the same problem occurs on Google's website. So it's not stackoverflow. Now to go to my IT Dept...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T16:03:33.017" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:20:23.390" Title="Rejection of text containing SQL statements" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;sql&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="20" />
  <row Id="43467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43303" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:17:04.177" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps people are trying to up their downvote:upvote ratio to avoid &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;item-the-second&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:17:04.177" />
  <row Id="43468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:25:54.047" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;550 points??  That would increase my rep total 26 fold!  There's never a convenience store around when you need to buy a lottery ticket. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140138" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:25:54.047" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43466" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:27:39.430" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stat.executeUpdate('drop table if exists people;'); &#xA;stat.executeUpdate('create table people (name, occupation);'); &#xA;prep = conn.prepareStatement(... &#xA;    'insert into people values (?, ?);'); &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:27:39.430" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43466" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:28:10.443" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;stat.executeUpdate('drop table if exists people;');&#xA;stat.executeUpdate('create table people (name, occupation);');&#xA;prep = conn.prepareStatement(...&#xA;    'insert into people values (?, ?);');&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:28:10.443" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43459" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:31:55.947" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about an &quot;I got a badge&quot; badge?  We'll just give one to everyone because, hey, new badge, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:31:55.947" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:36:36.990" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23611/view-code-in-new-window&quot;&gt;View code in new window&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Large code blocks, including ones that are simply too wide for the browser, can make some questions difficult to read.  I suggest that clicking on a (non-inline) code block, or some handle associated with it, open that block up in a new window.  This would allow the window to be resized as needed to make the code legible and/or positioned so that you can refer to it when answering the question.  The same should be true in the question preview pane when editing an answer. As it is, with some questions, you need to scroll up/down to look at the question, then perhaps scroll up/down/sideways to view the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:54:09.353" ClosedDate="2010-03-22T14:57:40.523" Title="Handle large code blocks sanely" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;code-block&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43473" CreationDate="2010-03-22T14:43:07.737" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would give less incentive for people to post small code blocks and format correctly their code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the post needs enough code to make you scroll, it's a mild fail. If the post is not formatted to 80 chars wide, as God intended, it's a major fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.joelsedano.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/god.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I find rather funny is how I have changed my opinion completely in a few months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes I agree.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23611/view-code-in-new-window/23613#23613&quot;&gt;answered Sep 26 at 20:54&lt;/a&gt; - Ólafur Waage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm voyager, and I approve this answer.&lt;/em&gt; – voyager Sep 27 at 18:42 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T14:54:09.353" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T14:54:09.353" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43485" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:11:49.440" Score="41" ViewCount="323" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if there's already an existing term for this, so I'm inventing my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(tl;dr: I call them &quot;chameleon questions&quot; because they change every time you submit or edit an answer.  If you're already intimately familiar with the phenomenon, please skip past the first set of bullet points to where I ask for recommendations.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think many of us have experienced this on occasion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You open up a narrow-looking question, usually dealing with some specific error message.  The question probably contains a snippet of &lt;em&gt;sloppy&lt;/em&gt; but not quite &lt;em&gt;awful&lt;/em&gt; code; code indicating that the author, typically a new/low-rep user, possibly a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/03/02/82840.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mort&lt;/a&gt;, doesn't really know what he's doing.  I'm not trying to be condescending here, he's probably very intelligent and hardworking, but in this &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; case, he's clearly in way over his head.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, as a &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt;, it's not really too bad.  The goal and problem are both clearly stated.  The code is formatted (sort of).  Mort was polite and checked his spelling.  The question looks &lt;em&gt;answerable&lt;/em&gt;, although from a rep perspective&lt;sup&gt;*&lt;/sup&gt; it's an obvious dead-end, it's had maybe 3 views in the past 30 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So you decide, &lt;em&gt;you know what, this person took the time to write up the question properly, he deserves an answer&lt;/em&gt;, put on your good citizen hat and throw him a bone.  You slog through the ugly code, find the offending line, direct his attention to it and explain why it's wrong and how it needs to be fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, he leaves a comment saying that yes, that was indeed the problem and your answer helped him fix it &lt;em&gt;(great!)&lt;/em&gt;.  Oh, but, now there's another problem &lt;em&gt;(uh-oh...)&lt;/em&gt;. Something else is broken.  After letting out a long sigh, you read the comment and/or edited question, roll up your sleeves, and write up Take 2, hoping that's the end of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And of &lt;em&gt;course&lt;/em&gt; it's not the end.  Now maybe the error is gone, but it's not doing what it's supposed to.  If you're anything like me, your patience is now starting to wear thin. It's lousy code and you didn't volunteer to help him rewrite his whole app.  And of course, the question still only has 12 views, and nobody has upvoted either the question or your answer, &lt;em&gt;including the person you're helping&lt;/em&gt;, so this is turning out to be a genuinely thankless task in all respects.  Welcome to &quot;Family Tech Support&quot;, Web 2.0 Edition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Which is of course just an arbitrary number that none of us care about. Not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;, anyway. Not very &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt;, at least.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here's where I get to &lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt; question.  At this point, do you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment, stating as politely as possible that you've done your best to help him answer the original question he asked, and if he has a new problem then he should start a new question?  &lt;em&gt;(I did this once, and actually ended up with an accept, but I felt kind of guilty afterwards, I don't think anybody answered his 2nd question).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bite the bullet and edit your answer a 3rd, 4th, 5th time, however many times it takes to resolve his issue, knowing full well that he may not even remember to accept the answer once you're done? &lt;em&gt;(I may work for free on SO, but that doesn't mean my time is worthless.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just abandon the question, hoping that it will force Mort to start thinking for himself?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried all three of the above and none of them ever quite feel right. I do want to help, but at the same time there are a lot more &quot;lucrative&quot; questions I could be answering. And I don't mind spending a lot of time on an answer either, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the question is interesting or important to me, but debugging is dull work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer not to reference specific questions here; I'm pretty sure that this is a shared experience, and my objective isn't to point fingers at &quot;misbehaving&quot; members.  I'm more looking for some practical advice on how to dig myself out of these pits of despair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody have any other ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2011-01-22T20:41:47.840" Title="Exit strategies for &quot;chameleon questions&quot;" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:15:03.337" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to protest about how my recent duplicate question related to the grand reputation recalculation has been answered by some people here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people like Jeff Yates and Voyager have been both polite and helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others like Hop and Downvoter have answered aggressively, as if posting a duplicate question on this hot topic was a deliberately offensive or blatantly lazy move of mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I did all that looked reasonably possible to me to avoid posting a duplicate question. Yet none of the answers to related questions I've read mentioned the grand reputation recalculation. And I failed to see the banner on the form (not big enough, not the place where I tend to look for answers, either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please, may I remind you to be kind to newbies and assume good faith? If you were an occasional SO user and didn't know there was an ongoing grand reputation recalculation and you saw your score drop suddenly &amp;ndash; how do you think you would react?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145047" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T15:19:39.683" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:20:45.613" ClosedDate="2010-03-22T15:21:07.703" Title="Please be kind to newcomers" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" />
  <row Id="43480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43478" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:17:04.443" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Really&lt;/em&gt; depends on the question, and the mood I'm in. If the questions are closely related and I think I can get a good answer out of it, I'll put the time in; if it's devolving into a hand-holding discussion, I'll probably just walk away (and may even delete my answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In at least one instance, I've rolled back the question and asked the author to post a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:17:04.443" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43478" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:17:44.287" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what you mean. In fact, these questions typically cause me to add many &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; portions to my answers, over, and over, and over again. I generally try to stick with it for a few iterations - not everybody can get their point across the first time. Some times it takes some exercising to explain &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what their problem is. After about 3 or 4 updates, it does start getting a bit fatiguing. If I cannot answer the question in about 4 exchanges, I will likely leave my answer for a reference, and abandon the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:17:44.287" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43479" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:19:24.677" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/reputation&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/reputation&lt;/a&gt; to understand what is the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been an influx of people like yourself to complain about the loss of rep points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look on top of your question you'll see a banner already &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explaining what you were asking&lt;/a&gt;, as well as if you had looked at either the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions&quot;&gt;question tab&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/&quot;&gt;front page&lt;/a&gt; you would have learnt &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;what the problem was&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you've done it again (not &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=nice+to+new&quot;&gt;looking&lt;/a&gt; before asking), as this has been a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9953/could-we-please-be-a-bit-nicer-to-the-noobs&quot;&gt;hot topic before&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:19:24.677" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43478" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:27:52.270" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes a question just &lt;em&gt;feels&lt;/em&gt; like it's missing something. I can't really describe it in words. It's like they've told you the problem, but there's one minute, seemingly insignificant detail they've omitted that turns the entire problem upside-down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I get this feeling about a question, I now hit the Back button immediately. (It took me a few tries before I learned this lesson.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:27:52.270" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43478" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:28:26.390" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally as long as the OP is still trying to solve the original problem or something closely related, i.e., my answer still makes sense, I'll keep helping.   Once the topic starts to drift or it's clear that whatever I write the guy just isn't getting it, I'll just let the matter drop for awhile and make a mental note to check on it later when I'm less busy.  I might make a suggestion a new direction might be better handled as a new question.  Generally, I don't feel bad about this as most questions get answers and a new question is an opportunity for him to get more rep. Eventually, the time between check ups increases to the point where we both give up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:28:26.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43492" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:38:12.623" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;is it possible to find out who downvotes a question/answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142269" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:41:08.567" Title="is it possible to find out who downvotes a question/answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43487" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:40:16.400" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, voting is anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:40:16.400" />
  <row Id="43492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43487" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:41:08.567" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not. The rationale behind it is that this would prompt vendettas/mutual-downvoting-wars etc... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you wish to know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's to ask &quot;Why did you down-vote&quot;, your best bet is to add a comment to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe the down-vote was malicious (especially in a pattern), wait 2-3 days for the system to fix it (So has jobs which nullify serial down-votes) and if not, ask SO team (the email is available on the Contact link IIRC) to look into this. You can also try to attract moderator's attention (either on SO, or by posting details on Meta)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you just want to revenge the down-vote with one of your own, i somewhat sympathize on a personal level BUT, leaving aside large scale issue like &quot;good of the SO ecosystem&quot;, do you think you'd like it if YOUR down-votes would be retaliated against? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:41:08.567" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:48:18.923" Score="10" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;For just this brief time during the recalc, can we agree to close as &quot;off topic&quot; on SO with a comment link to the recalc blog post instead of migrating to meta where we simply have to go through the exercise again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:55:15.050" Title="Close and comment with link questions about rep recalc on SO instead of migrating them" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="43498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43497" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:50:42.913" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see the point of burning up close votes on two sites for the same questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:50:42.913" />
  <row Id="43500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43497" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:55:15.050" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel bad for a lot of these people. First, some of them put time into researching what happened. Some even write detailed posts explaining what they did to troubleshoot the problem. Then they get barked at for asking the question, and downvoted (reducing their rep even more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY SOMEONE PLEASE PUT A BANNER UP ON SO!!!&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:55:15.050" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:56:04.660" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem is bigger than that. I have had more than one question &quot;answered&quot; by a points whore and had to re-ask the question and get flamed as a result to try to get a deeper answer. I don't say that a points system is a bad idea, but these guys with 10k+ that pounce on all the easy questions every day should have some frequency factor as a quotient to discourage this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145041" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T16:08:38.397" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:08:38.397" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20309" CreationDate="2010-03-22T15:59:23.877" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This practice is partially fixed with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Great Reputation Recalc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reputation gained by asking questions is greatly reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T15:59:23.877" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43505" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:06:26.590" Score="12" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of measures proposed for &quot;the time of recalc&quot;.  Put banner on SO, increase amount of close votes, put banner on meta (already done) etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a small flaw in this logic: there's no &quot;time of recalc&quot;.  Recalc is an event that changes rep once and forever.  When the &quot;time of recalc&quot; ends, and all banners are removed, some users will start asking the question about their reputation again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that it would be useful to put banners to userinfo pages of currently registered users, the banners disappearing after user sees them once.  Userinfo is a particularly good place, because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't draw unnecessary attention of newcomers (they don't see it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it doesn't mingle those who's aware of the issue (banners are private, and disappear after fist read)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it will prevent user from asking such questions since the first place he goes to check his rep is his profile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worth doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136055" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:48:05.930" Title="Rep recalc questions won't stop: put a banner to user's profiles" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43504" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:13:13.513" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's only going to be a few days of madness, then tapering off to maybe another question about rep change once a day (as usual).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be patient, this too shall pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:13:13.513" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:34:17.787" Score="29" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;The SO blog is a critical resource for information about the operation of the SO family of sites.  In the past I've suggested moving the blog link from the bottom of the page to the top so it gets more visibility.  I still think that's a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, though, I think it ought to go further.  Whenever a new blog article that impacts SO operations is published, the SO family of sites ought to display a banner announcing it for 24-48 hours after the initial publish date.  This provides a significantly more visible mechanism to communicate important information about site changes via the blog without being too annoying in doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I know it won't solve the problem of clueless users entirely, I think being more proactive in communicating changes and making sure that people know about the avenues of communication would enhance the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-07T04:43:41.100" LastActivityDate="2011-02-07T04:44:29.383" Title="Use a banner to announce when new SO blog articles on SO operations are posted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;blog&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="43513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43512" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:37:01.083" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;RSS is the friend of those that care about what's going on in the kitchen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of SO users don't care, and needn't know - but those that are interested can avail themselves of the latest web technologies and receive updates on their favorite aggregation services about blog posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:37:01.083" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43512" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:43:16.990" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think changes relevant to the user interface (like the introduction of &lt;code&gt;@username&lt;/code&gt; in comments) or major system changes like the rep recalc should definitely be announced in some way, like the recalc was on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are things the majority needs to know even if it isn't interested in the blog (which it has the good right not to be.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T19:20:50.377" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:20:50.377" />
  <row Id="43516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43512" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:44:23.910" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree 100%. I think it's common sense to announce visible changes and new features. They happen infrequently enough that I doubt it would cause confusion or be a source of annoyance. The @user commenting (Pekka mentioned already), rep-recalc, voting issues and other are perfect candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mean to nitpick but I find it odd that voting on moderators was considered more important than the rep-recalc announcement. We had a banner for that. Kudos to our moderators; I participated in the voting. Yet, most people don't dwell on the matter once the new moderators were announced. Rep is an in your face change that should've been communicated. The @user comment feature was good to know about too and most people wouldn't pick it up till they read the blog/meta or if they were used to IRC/Twitter style @replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record I was &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43110/post-how-much-rep-youre-going-to-lose-with-the-new-re-calc/43234#43234&quot;&gt;positively affected&lt;/a&gt; by the re-calc but nonetheless think it could've been announced better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In closing, the SO team does a fantastic job overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Original before tv's edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally wouldn't mind since I listen to the podcasts and visit the blog/meta frequently. That said, I think this is ignoring the underlying motivation of this suggestion. Namely, important announcements should be communicated via the popup messages. We did the same thing for voting, so it should've been done for the rep re-calc. The keyword here is &quot;important&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;visible mechanism to communicate &lt;strong&gt;important&lt;/strong&gt; information about site changes via the blog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's important use the banner and link to the related blog post. I'm for that and it makes it sound like less of an RSS feed for the blog via the banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastEditorUserId="59111" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T17:18:36.270" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T17:18:36.270" />
  <row Id="43517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43504" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:48:05.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I support this idea (and disagree with Pollyanna), for the following reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The influx of questions we're seeing now comes from &lt;em&gt;regulars&lt;/em&gt;. Who supposedly read the blog and/or visit Meta on a regular basis anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we are yet to see is the influx of questions from the long tail: people who visit SOFU only every other day, only once a week, only every other week, only once a month, and so forth. This is a &lt;em&gt;much larger&lt;/em&gt; user group, and its members are even &lt;em&gt;less likely&lt;/em&gt; to learn about the recalc from either the blog or Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:48:05.930" />
  <row Id="43518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:49:39.777" Score="4" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Community user sometimes brings ashore questions that are obviously dead. Dead meaning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The user has deleted their account&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The question is unanswerable without further information. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions like this have a likelihod of 0.00000% of ever turning into a useful resource. It usually doesn't take an expert in the field to determine that because the wording is obviously hazy, and/or the questions are riddled with &quot;more info please&quot; type comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175856/images-are-not-appeared-in-firefox&quot;&gt;Recent Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it make sense to allow people to flag these questions as &quot;dead wood&quot;? And have moderators delete them after review? Or would this put too much strain on the moderators, or is it undesirable for some other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22531/what-happens-to-dead-questions&quot;&gt;What happens to dead questions?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T19:09:56.060" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T23:49:34.300" Title="Introduce flagging of questions as &quot;dead wood&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43518" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:51:52.457" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of adding two manual operations, why don't we ask Jeff to modify the Community User's bumping algorithm to exclude these questions (deleted user, extremely old, etc)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:51:52.457" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43518" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:53:40.003" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aren't these tools already available to the close-voting community?  Vote to close as &quot;too localized&quot;, then after a couple of days vote to delete.  Or, as @ChrisF points out in the comments, flag for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T16:53:40.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T16:53:40.003" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T16:53:57.960" Score="-21" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently noticed several cases where people edited posts (not mine), by changing some minor 1-2 character spelling issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this in and of itself is probably a good thing (it's well-known that poor wording and spelling errors make stuff much harder to read/comprehend), it is probably at least partially driven by the race for the &quot;Strunk &amp;amp; White&quot; badge. It also strongly points to the editor having OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) since they notice the little errors to fix :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I propose a semi-serious &lt;i&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_List&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Emil List&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/i&gt; badge (named after a criminal who famously had OCD that contributed to him evading the law for a pretty long while).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The badge would be awarded for extremely high proportion of the edits that amounted to less than 3 character differences, say 50%+ of your edits, for people who have 50+ edits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="157130" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-12T16:07:06.850" LastActivityDate="2011-05-12T16:07:06.850" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T17:13:35.913" Title="A new badge proposal - &quot;John List&quot;" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;badge-request&gt;&lt;negative-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="36" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T17:06:54.857" Score="0" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;I ask, because there are numerous questions all asking some variant on &quot;Why have I lost a bunch of points?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Related Questions feature must be failing to show the posters all the near-identical questions, otherwise they would surely consider reading one of them to find the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Addendum]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just tried it out myself, with &quot;I lost some points&quot;, and it came back with loads of questions that looked like they might have something to do with losing reputation points.  So, WFM, but perhaps some users are having a problem with it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evidently, the banner that both Downvoter and I can clearly see, is also invisible to some members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139895" LastEditorUserId="147655" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-19T15:58:33.203" LastActivityDate="2010-04-19T15:58:33.203" Title="Is the &quot;Related Questions&quot; feature broken?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;related-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43522" CreationDate="2010-03-22T17:15:30.937" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T17:42:58.770" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T17:42:58.770" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T17:15:30.937" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43523" CreationDate="2010-03-22T17:16:29.173" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You don't need &lt;strong&gt;related questions&lt;/strong&gt; to see the banner on top of this page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so10.png&quot; alt=&quot;Why won't you see me??!??&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T17:16:29.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43522" CreationDate="2010-03-22T17:18:44.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/badges-positive-only/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/12/badges-positive-only/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T17:18:44.053" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T17:18:44.053" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43606" CreationDate="2010-03-22T17:33:42.423" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just signed up on Meta (although, I thought I'd signed up before, but I must have been mistaken). After it created my account, it directed me to a generic &quot;something went wrong&quot;-type error page, and it never linked up my account with my Stack Overflow account. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea what went wrong or how to fix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145060" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T22:01:51.013" Title="Meta failed to link my account to Stack Overflow!" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;user-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43523" CreationDate="2010-03-22T17:40:05.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is because of the different wordings people can use to express the same problem can (and do) defeat the search algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an attempt to help with this, I added &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43530/why-did-i-lose-reputation-points-on-2010-03-22-closed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; that uses the wording of one of the old questions that got visited by users with a problem regarding the new recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T17:40:05.043" />
  <row Id="43539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T17:56:24.037" Score="4" ViewCount="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;On meta, for instance, this would be much more visible on the Questions page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/do1jpl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reputation scoring has been revised and recalculated on all Stack Overflow family sites.&quot; title=&quot;Not that anyone will see it, anyway...&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-04T23:40:22.580" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T23:40:22.580" Title="Change the banner background and foreground colors to make them more visible" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;notification-bar&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:02:58.417" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see one (probably) unintended side effect to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once people realize what's going on, they won't respond at all to the question until the bounty is started.  So although you'll no doubt get more participation in the bounty questions, you'll end up with almost &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; where there is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If every high-rep user did this, I think we'd all turn into bounty hunters, starving questions from the lower-rep users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably wouldn't call it &lt;em&gt;gaming&lt;/em&gt; the system... unless you're taking bribes.  Are you taking bribes?  Let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastEditorUserId="141911" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T18:26:13.990" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T18:26:13.990" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43549" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:31:04.643" Score="0" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;How does the bounty system work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this StackOverflow question:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2422616&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2422616&lt;/a&gt; my answer was accepted and awarded a bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bounty was 500.  The question asker had 500 rep deducted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was awarded 275 rep for the bounty.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it an auto-accept after bounty expiration?  If so, why wasn't it for 250 instead of 500?  I thought auto-accept bounties were half.  It does say on the question that the author accepted my answer though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145064" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:35:16.100" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T16:57:32.257" Title="Why did I only get 275 rep on an accepted bounty of 500?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:36:57.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with you. Here's what I wrote on the SO blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know what’s funny to me? The trilogy sites work because people &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; care about their reputation. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t try so hard. So, with these changes, you took away something people care about. You can laugh and say it’s just a number that has no intrinsic value or tell people to get a life, but you undermine the very reason the trilogy sites have succeeded so dramatically. You are basically saying, “We know what makes you tick, now we are going to take it away and hope you get over it.” The correct move, as many have pointed out, is to change the point system &lt;em&gt;going forward&lt;/em&gt;, not rob people of something they’ve worked hard to accumulate under a particular set of rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131453" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T18:36:57.527" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43546" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:36:58.293" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The user added the bounty for 500 reputation points, and the system added 50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system always adds 50 reputation points to every bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T18:36:58.293" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42066" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:37:10.553" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EDIT: A nifty way to abuse the system (10k+ only!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, yeah. But easily detected by other 10k users and mods (the last activity shows your name and the link goes straight to the deleted answer) - if you pulled that trick too often on the same post, you'd probably find yourself called to account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T18:37:10.553" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29761" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:48:27.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We sometimes turn a blind eye to those questions, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2494465/my-list-is-escaping-my-body-closed&quot;&gt;your question&lt;/a&gt; didn't belong because &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43538/why-im-getting-downvotes-on-this-question&quot;&gt;it didn't contain a question&lt;/a&gt;, but rather just a link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T18:48:27.960" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:48:49.847" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love mine! Too bad you can't add it dynamically as a picture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/4dfc8f56817006ef21327d5ff19ce04f?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T18:48:49.847" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T18:48:49.847" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43546" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:49:00.190" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bounty is 550 and the auto-accept grants you half those points, thus 275 points awarded. As I mentioned in my comment, the owner forfeits their rep as soon as the bounty is placed so it is not in their best interest to withhold selecting an answer (ie. gaming the system isn't possible in this manner).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is likely they didn't get to it in time to select it or neglected to do it. The SO team does have some notifications in place when the bounty is almost up in the form of emails and banner notifications (if memory serves me correctly) to encourage the OP to select an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T18:49:00.190" />
  <row Id="43556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="76105" CreationDate="2010-03-22T18:58:32.040" Score="5" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this question:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2422616/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2422616/&lt;/a&gt; I was awarded a bounty on an auto-accept after bounty expiration.  It also appears the question owner accepted my answer after the bounty expiration and partial award.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was confusing to determine exactly what happened based on the information available on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most problematic is the alt-text on the checkmark by my answer, which is &quot;The question owner accepted this as the best answer yesterday. This answer was awarded a bounty of 275 reputation&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading this, I incorrectly concluded that the owner accepted my answer, and then I was awarded a bounty, which left me wondering why the partial bounty award.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to put the two sentences in the alt-text in chronological order (OK, maybe they already are chronological in a literal sense if bounty awards are a daily batch process, but you know what I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be helpful to use different text for auto-accepts, for example &quot;This answer was auto-selected to receive a partial bounty of 275 reputation&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145064" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-23T23:17:41.510" LastActivityDate="2011-01-23T23:19:02.193" Title="Alt-text on auto-accepted bounty awards is misleading" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29761" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:00:01.260" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always found this debate puzzling.  CSS is a language.  HTML is a language.  XHTML is a language.  Browsers are the mother of all modern business application frontends.  And yet we still have this debate.  It's almost as if the SOFU community wants each question (without duplication of any kind) on one and only one website, even if that website is not related to the SOFU community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow is supposed to be a clearinghouse for programming questions of all kinds; the notion of stripping out all questions having to do with the browser (except for Javascript questions) seems extremely counterproductive to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="102937" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:00:01.260" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38018" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:02:55.143" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Date, a few days to go before start of April. Check&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Country, non US of A. Check&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check size, &quot;svelte yet manly&quot;. Check&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I'm in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many thanks... or should I say &lt;em&gt;Vielen Dank&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27535" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:02:55.143" />
  <row Id="43559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:05:45.860" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you vote for me as moderator, I'll do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, that'd be my campaign motto: &quot;Vote for me and I'll merge your account&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;may only be able to do it once; first come, first served; offer void in the US and countries where this would be illegal&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:05:45.860" />
  <row Id="43560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29761" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:07:46.843" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;CSS, XHTML, etc are languages, yes, but they are &lt;em&gt;markup&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;styling&lt;/em&gt; languages, which is distinctly different than &lt;em&gt;programming&lt;/em&gt; languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a question can be answered with code that can be compiled and run on a turing complete language compiler, then I'd say it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say might only because I'm sure someone will try to prove that CSS is turing complete.  That, however, does not mean that all CSS questions are programming questions - they are still going to be mostly styling, design, syntax, etc questions - not using CSS as a program so much as a markup or a modifer to a markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:07:46.843" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43110" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:16:00.333" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Stack Overflow&#xA;--------------&#xA;Before:   3170&#xA;After:    3101&#xA;--------------&#xA;Lost:       69 (-2.2%)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only answered questions on SO and didn't ask any; the lost points are from answers I've deleted. The nice thing is that I'm still over 3k. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131247" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:16:00.333" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-22T19:16:00.333" />
  <row Id="43565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:17:07.307" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to be a sock puppet, but I have become independent now. I don't need the hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:17:07.307" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43546" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:35:16.100" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the system changed so that 50 rep is restored to the asker after manually accepting a bounty.  I think this will make the system more deliberate, and also allow for setting a much longer period before expiring bounties (30 days vs 1 week, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:35:16.100" />
  <row Id="43569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43617" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:52:09.730" Score="6" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to hotlink a different image in my profile, instead of having to upload it to gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we have an option between gravatar (that would remain as default) and a link to an image?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you must know, I'd like to add my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37328/my-godits-full-of-unicorns&quot;&gt;unicorn avatar&lt;/a&gt; directly, he's really handsome:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/4dfc8f56817006ef21327d5ff19ce04f?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T19:14:47.100" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T19:14:47.100" Title="Allow adding an URL to the image in the user's profile" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;images&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="43570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38018" CreationDate="2010-03-22T19:53:04.050" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great stuff, cheers! White XL on its way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T19:53:04.050" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:00:33.243" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO you should never lose reputation retroactively. I played by the rules when I asked the question to gain the reputation - now it feels like I can't trust the rules anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/100894/stiank81&quot;&gt;lost &gt;25%&lt;/a&gt; of my rep because I mostly ask questions. But I have put a lot of effort into writing good questions, and feel that they are worth just as much as good answers. Even though I mainly ask questions to find answers to my problems it now feels like I've lost some of my motivation to write good questions. It's like they aren't valued - even though the questions are just as necessary as the answers to drive the community forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; you typically get a lot more upvotes on a good answer than a good question anyway.. There is e.g. almost 5 times more &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/24/good-answer&quot;&gt;good answers&lt;/a&gt; than &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/badges/21/good-question&quot;&gt;good questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to change the rules - fine. But I don't find it fair to make the changes retroactive..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142627" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T20:08:27.700" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:08:27.700" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43382" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:02:35.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://nzpcmad.blogspot.com/2010/03/misc-cant-login-to-stack-overflow-with.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9922" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:02:35.753" />
  <row Id="43576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:16:51.953" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I see it, your 'reputation score' is a reflection of the value that Stack Overflow places on your contributions to the SO community. If, for some reason, what SO values happens to change, it stands to reason that your reputation score should change accordingly. It may go up, or it may go down. That's just the way life is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18938" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:16:51.953" />
  <row Id="43577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:16:55.963" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know what programmers like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules and rule based systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, shows like surviver and biggest loser change the game rules every week, and all the participants act shocked and dismayed at the shifting ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But programmers like to know where they stand, and if the ground moves they expect the ground will shift equally for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In this case it doesn't.&lt;/em&gt;  Those with a preponderance of questions will move far down the ladder, and those who focused less on questions will stay closer to where they were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this question of &quot;fairness&quot; is ludicrous.  Define &quot;fair&quot; first, then we can determine whether this change is fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that's certain is that Stackoverflow, as a rules based system, is not set in stone.  Anyone who enters the game at any point should understand that changes are going to be made, and those changes will affect one, some, or all of the players.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roll with the punches, focus on giving good answers to questions, and one really shouldn't have to worry about the occasional changes, even one as far reaching as this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite frankly I'm surprised the rep system hasn't changed more since it came out of beta - balancing such systems is non-trivial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:16:55.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43518" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:32:26.970" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvote them, and have the Community user only bump questions with a &gt;= -1 score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, why would we want bad questions bumped?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:32:26.970" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43583" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:42:23.500" Score="6" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is a duplicate, I could only find related older questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every day I take 20 or so votes and clean-up old unanswered questions in a particular category.  A surprising number of these are with deleted users, self-answered, or actually have answers that were never accepted or up-voted.  A simple up-vote to a deserving answer takes it off the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;To be clear, I'm talking about voting on &lt;strong&gt;actually resolved questions&lt;/strong&gt;, not up-voting just to remove it from the unanswered list.  This means the question has an answer that solved the issue, but the original poster never accepted, was deleted (wasn't moved with th question?) and no one up-voted the answer either.  For this to work, you would have to know the topic, which is why you could only do this in tags you have expertise in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way for the community to handle these?  I can only cleanup a category about as fast as it grows, keeping the unanswered count about constant, but if the community focused on cleaning up a particular tag a time (or maybe just more votes used this way in general?), it seems we could assign rep where it's due and close out a lot of these old actually resolved/answered &quot;unanswered&quot; questions at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the best way to organize something like this, or is there too little interest to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only thought was a simple question here on meta that has a &quot;tag of the day&quot; to clean up (only up-voting answers that resolve the issue, not just up-voting to close of course) or something along those lines.  Or...am I just crazy for not wanting those unanswered questions to hand around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135201" LastEditorUserId="135201" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T20:53:26.553" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:33:12.547" Title="Old Question Clean-up via Votes" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;clean-up&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43518" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:45:30.210" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing requires 5 people which could take too long (you should still vote to close it despite flagging!), and downvoting won't achieve anything. Sure, the Community user may not bump it anymore, but the goal is not to not bump anymore but instead to get rid of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we have only relatively few questions like these, overcomplicating the UI for everyone doesn't make sense IMHO for such a rare case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:45:30.210" />
  <row Id="43583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43580" CreationDate="2010-03-22T20:47:34.967" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I don't recommend  doing this too much in a single day (or you'd be spamming the front page with old questions), it might help to edit them in order to give them a bump.  Add information if you can, fix grammar and spelling otherwise.  Anything you can do to make the question more clear or otherwise improve it will make it more likely to get an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T20:47:34.967" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:01:34.523" Score="7" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14200/self-instigated-rep-recalc&quot;&gt;Self-instigated rep recalc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/50560/allow-10k-users-to-recalculate-their-own-rep&quot;&gt;Allow 10k users to recalculate their own rep&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;rep report&lt;/a&gt; pages, what problems would arise if running the report also performed the recalculation on the live database (with a suitable warning/are you sure? message of course)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would there be an extra burden on the servers? I can't see it would be any more than at present with everyone trying the new feature out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this were the case and well publicised then there'd be less need for there to be a scheduled job running to do this for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose what I'm trying to suggest here is that if rep were seen as a more fluid thing that did go down on a regular basis due to deleted posts then if there was another major change it would be seen as less of an issue that it has been (for some people at least) for the last couple of days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59303" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-23T12:38:28.383" LastActivityDate="2010-06-23T12:38:28.383" ClosedDate="2010-06-23T13:15:21.610" Title="Would there be a problem with letting users do their own rep recalculations via http://stackoverflow.com/users/reputation?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43584" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:04:35.160" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now you can flag one of your posts and request a recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moderator will gladly do it, I've asked them in the past and it took less than 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:04:35.160" />
  <row Id="43586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43584" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:05:14.037" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Performing a rep recalc by visiting the rep-report page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many users visit that page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aren't rep recalc's already being done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:05:14.037" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:10:20.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't decide yet. It's hard to tell by just looking at your reputation gain/loss. I lost almost exactly 1K rep out of 8k pre-recalc, but considering that EVERYONE shifted the numbers have to be looked at as relative to the overall community. It is quite possible that despite losing a lot of rep, you gained ground on catching up to Mr. Skeet if your profile was more answer-heavy than question heavy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand it seems unfair to change the rules midstream, however I do kinda agree with the logic behind the recalc even if it does hurt to see that number drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those hard-core addicts out there that love to crunch SO data-dumps, I'd be interested to see some numbers on how the recalc affected the relative ranking of SO users by rep score. It would be far more interesting than the change in an arbitrary reputation number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:10:20.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43584" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:10:28.963" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we should eliminate the need for frequent rep-calcs altogether. Recalc is Ok in case of retroactive rule changes, but for everything else (esp. deletion) the effect should be instant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think so too, please join the discussion &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43426/minimise-reputation-flux-due-to-deleted-posts&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136840" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:10:28.963" />
  <row Id="43589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43466" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:20:23.390" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had this exact same problem last week, with the exact same symptoms. Unfortunately I deleted my own question once I found the cause, and realized it wasn't SO related, so I can't link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem isn't with SO, you have some kind of filtering software on your network that is sniffing out SQL Injection attempts and it is getting caught and rejected at the network level. If you want to confirm this, you can try typing the same words into Google, Bing or Yahoo and I bet you will get the same error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In our case it was the Intrusion Protection Module of our Cisco firewall that had a blacklist with several SQL commands that are especially dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132253" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:20:23.390" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43426" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:20:36.243" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The variable here is &lt;em&gt;hitting the rep-cap on a given day&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hit the rep cap, the effects of deleting a post depend on timing, and have to be calculated by walking the entire vote history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, deleting a post could mean you don't hit the cap on that day, whereas with the post, you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:20:36.243" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43612" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:22:03.047" Score="0" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I noticed my OpenID URL stopped working on meta, SU and SF. I was already logged into SO and didn't want to risk being locked out of my account so I h. My OpenID provider is MyOpenID.com, which is delegated from my blog URL. Using the myopenid.com URL directly seems to work, but my account is associated with my blog URL, which doesn't work. I get the message &lt;code&gt;No OpenID endpoint found.&lt;/code&gt; However, it continues to work fine with other OpenID Relying Parties, as well as the various OpenID testers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually had to create a new account just to report this bug. I suspect many users having the same problem aren't going through that trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Unfortunately my alternate OpenID was provided by Google using the profile-username URL format, which I recently switch to use userID format after the whole &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hacking_google_profile_gmail_email_addresses.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buzz privacy debacle&lt;/a&gt;. I forgot to update my account here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145079" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T22:43:09.103" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T22:43:13.910" Title="OpenID login no longer working on meta, SU" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;authentication&gt;&lt;myopenid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43584" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:24:14.340" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how much server load this would generate, but I would rather have rep-recalc be a scheduled thing. The perfect time for it is during the monthly (is it monthly?) maintenance downtime. That would recalc the rep and adjust for deleted/migrated posts etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving users an on-demand recalc option means the SO team needs to spend time coding preventative measures (time limits etc.) to prevent abuse. That might not be hard but opening it up means coding around these considerations. Making it a part of the system keeps this unexposed. I think it's better to flag a mod for an immediate request, otherwise have the system handle it in a scheduled manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastEditorUserId="59111" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T21:29:27.147" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:29:27.147" />
  <row Id="43594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43596" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:30:44.930" Score="5" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I do a search with &lt;code&gt;user:AaronLS&lt;/code&gt; on stackoverflow.com the first post that comes up has nothing to do with my username.  It is contained no where in the post, nor have I answered or commented on the post.  I had tried something like this &lt;code&gt;user:AaronLS [flex] binding&lt;/code&gt; looking for a specific post, but this seemed to not give me anything relevant to what I searched for.  Of course I can scroll through my profile and find the question but that gets annoying and it seems faster to google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143774" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-30T07:51:12.180" LastActivityDate="2010-12-30T07:51:12.180" Title="Allow searching by user name instead of user number" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43594" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:34:30.917" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to use the 'User number/id'.  See the number in the URL when you go to your profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yours on Meta is 143774.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T21:40:35.050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:40:35.050" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43594" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:40:15.550" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can also search using &lt;code&gt;user:me&lt;/code&gt; to search for your own user's posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:40:15.550" />
  <row Id="43600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43382" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:48:51.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We apologize for the inconvenience -- this was a configuration error on our end -- try now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:48:51.787" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43594" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:49:38.570" Score="-5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;User names aren't unique -- I could name myself &quot;AaronLS&quot; right now, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T21:49:38.570" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43958" CreationDate="2010-03-22T21:51:02.173" Score="13" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed this this morning - and I know it's happened before.  A bunch (20+) of jobs on the jobs board were timestamped this morning, even though they all appear to actually be older postings.  Do companies have the ability to update the timestamps on their postings?  Or is this the side effect of some sort of system maintenance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the (many) things that sucks about big job boards like Monster and CB is that very few of the &quot;new&quot; listings are actually new - their timestamps are just updated daily, creating an enormous headache for job seekers trying to browse only new listings.  I would hope SO didn't allow this sort of thing on their job board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131755" LastEditorUserId="132073" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T23:24:24.903" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:30:36.003" Title="jobs - why are old listings being mass updated to show as new?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43533" CreationDate="2010-03-22T22:01:51.013" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend switching to Google Profiles if you're having difficulty, for the reasons described below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/google-offers-named-openids/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T22:01:51.013" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-22T22:05:15.443" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that this question glosses over the fact that the question-rep change was implemented at the same time as another significant change, which effectively raised the daily rep cap for users who received a lot of accepts/bounties (i.e. the users who actually &lt;strong&gt;provided the most help&lt;/strong&gt; to others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To claim that one change should been forward-only implies that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; changes should have been forward-only, and I am fairly certain that those who were prone to receiving 200pt bounties or a half-dozen accept votes at 8 AM would disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to see statistics on what percentage of users (especially high-rep users) actually &lt;em&gt;lost&lt;/em&gt; rep as a result.  The reams of questions being asked on MSO give an impression of widespread resentment which I think is misleading, because the group is self-selecting; few people are going to come to Meta to complain that their rep went &lt;em&gt;up&lt;/em&gt; overnight.  And I'm willing to wager that the vast majority of high-rep users, especially users over 10k, actually &lt;em&gt;gained&lt;/em&gt; rep as a result of this change, because to get that high they generally would have had to provide a lot of good answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several people are classifying this as a unilateral &lt;em&gt;change to the rules&lt;/em&gt;, but to me, it's more like &lt;strong&gt;fixing a long-standing problem with the rep system&lt;/strong&gt;.  I'm not saying that people don't deserve &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; for working to make their questions as clear and concise as possible, and neither is Jeff - the votes still count - just not for as much as they used to.  This seems a lot &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; fair to the people who took their time to &lt;em&gt;help other people&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;ask for help&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What really makes SO shine, IMHO, is the quality of the &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;, not the questions.  Yes, there are some notable questions, but you can find questions anywhere.  You can &lt;em&gt;ask&lt;/em&gt; questions anywhere.  What you can't do is expect a solid answer in 5 minutes.  &lt;em&gt;That's&lt;/em&gt; what's important on SO, that's the reason for asking a question in the first place, and that is precisely why the system should encourage people to craft good &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt; and reward good &lt;em&gt;answers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question upvotes should never have been lumped in with answer upvotes in the first place.  This should be reflected in the &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; rep scores, not just &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt; ones.  Part of the rationale for this change, as I understand it, was to reassess the &quot;trust&quot; of users who haven't demonstrated exceptional proficiency by virtue of their answers.  Which is not to say that they &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; proficient; just that they haven't &lt;em&gt;proven&lt;/em&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, applying the change retroactively is &quot;fair.&quot;  It is, in my opinion, &lt;em&gt;making an unfair system fair&lt;/em&gt;.  This may have inadvertently punished a small handful of users who were using their rep privileges effectively, but if you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, the debate over question rep is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/1722-general/suggestions/109779&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;almost as old as the site itself&lt;/a&gt;.  It's disingenuous to claim that you had &lt;em&gt;no warning&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastEditorUserId="141911" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-22T22:13:09.683" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T22:13:09.683" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T22:20:08.773" Score="9" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33184/dont-limit-the-number-of-internal-links-new-users-can-include-in-questions-at&quot;&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t limit the number of &lt;em&gt;internal&lt;/em&gt; links new users can include in questions (at least on meta)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a new user on all three sites in the trilogy I am trying to write good questions but find one feature frustrating. I was in a situation where I was posting &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/122926/how-do-i-get-excel-to-close-completely-after-creating-a-macro-in-a-personal-workb&quot;&gt;a question on superuser&lt;/a&gt; and wanted to link to several other questions on superuser to say, &quot;Answers to these questions are not what I am looking for.&quot; But the spam filter blocked me and I was only able to link to one question because my reputation is low. (It would be nice if it had let me know that I could only include one link as soon as I tried to add the second rather than waiting until I hit post--but this is a minor quibble.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feature request is to allow more than one link in a question no matter the asker's reputation so long as the links are to other questions on stackoverflow, server fault, or superuser (or meta).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-08T08:24:58.653" LastActivityDate="2010-06-08T08:24:58.653" ClosedDate="2010-03-23T00:48:45.317" Title="Allow low-rep users to post more than one internal link" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;spam-prevention&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-22T22:21:30.210" Score="9" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be at least three &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; algos and/or storage/cache spaces for reputation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/157882/balusc&quot;&gt;The user profile itself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/157882?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;The reputation graph&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;The reputation list&lt;/a&gt; (only yours is visible).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, all three shows a different value. As of now, I see the following values:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;40,277&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;36,177 (the latest value of the array in &lt;code&gt;var d&lt;/code&gt; in JS source, evidently also highest point in graph)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;40,253&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noteable is that the graph wasn't updated accordingly during The Big March 2010 Recalc. This inaccuracy by the way also occurs here at Meta, I see respectively 800, 629, 742.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that so? That is counterinituitive to me in developer's perspective. The reputation list seems to be the most reliable source of all. Why isn't all the information derived from the one and the same source? I can imagine of caching reasons, but those differences would mean that there's a &lt;em&gt;bug&lt;/em&gt; in the code responsible for updating the cached values. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problems with regard to inaccuracy of the rep graph were &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/reputation-graph+bug&quot;&gt;regularly reported&lt;/a&gt;, but they were all taken for non serious, seemingly ignored and/or marked as &quot;by design&quot;. How that so? It's clearly a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also note that one would request a manual recalc for this (mods seem to be capable of this). Doing regulary recalcs is imo not a solution, but a &lt;em&gt;workaround&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I am not concerned about the reputation in general, but more about the &lt;strong&gt;quality&lt;/strong&gt; of the sites. To me, this is definitely a bug. Certainly when compared to the relative high-quality remnant of the site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-31T22:58:42.600" LastActivityDate="2011-03-31T22:58:42.600" Title="Reputation graph doesn't take the new rep rules into account: apparently, there are different algorithms or caches for different types of reputation" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43609" CreationDate="2010-03-22T22:36:59.320" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rep graph should be mostly accurate, but is still catching up to the /reputation report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T22:36:59.320" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43591" CreationDate="2010-03-22T22:43:13.910" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We apologize for the inconvenience -- this was a configuration error on our end -- try now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T22:43:13.910" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43580" CreationDate="2010-03-22T23:40:47.593" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The clutter of unanswered questions bothers a number of people (including me), Mr R. Lizard and others touched on it yesterday in the comments to this question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43104/hiding-reputation-and-encouraging-thinking-time-would-improve-the-quality-of-answ&quot;&gt;Hiding reputation and encouraging thinking time would improve the quality of answers on SO&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the necromancer badge is available for answering older questions, but I think that a reputation bonus would encourage people to look at the unanswered questions.  Incidentally the unanswered button on SO now lists over 81,000 questions - which is up 1,000 since yesterday and 14% of the question ever asked.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that could be done would be &lt;strong&gt;if the community user could automatically place a bounty of say 20 rep points on any unanswered question after six months&lt;/strong&gt; to give people an incentive to actually try to reduce the pile of unanswered questions.  If the number of unanswered questions keeps rising, SO will become more of a question and reputation site than a question and answer one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144898" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T23:40:47.593" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43518" CreationDate="2010-03-22T23:49:34.300" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add to the chorus: flag this for moderator attention and indicate in a brief sentence what about it is deadwood to you. This is a totally normal and expected use of mod flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-22T23:49:34.300" />
  <row Id="43617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43569" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:12:48.517" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just use the &quot;plus in email&quot; trick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;yourname@example.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;becomes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;yourname+sitename@example.com&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The email still goes to the same place, and you can set up a custom gravatar for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: the &quot;website&quot; field on your profile serves this function; I don't see us adding another URL field just for the gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-30T19:14:40.403" LastActivityDate="2010-07-30T19:14:40.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38018" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:18:11.897" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thank you guys. I just ordered the black one (XL), which was a no-brainer in my opinion. Formal enough for work, informal enough for a seedy night club. I can't wait to gloat at the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134989" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:18:11.897" />
  <row Id="43619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18039" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:20:37.420" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always give what seem to be valid bug reports (and retag requests) an upvote, to reward those pointing things out and taking initiative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:20:37.420" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18039" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:25:47.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that this is a badge that's specific to Meta - not to the Trilogy sites.  Site-specific badges aren't a great idea, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8435" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:25:47.370" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43633" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:28:54.297" Score="24" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I had 9241 rep on SO. Upon returning to the site I discovered I had mysteriously gained 70 points. Further inspection reveals that I had no upvotes or accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel my rep has been incorrectly inflated giving a false sense of my worth and the quality of my answers. This also makes me reach the 10K tools quicker than expected, and I wasn't planning on being distracted with those new capabilities so soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discovered the great rep-calc post and I feel somewhat guilty participating in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43110/post-how-much-rep-youre-going-to-lose-with-the-new-re-calc&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; since I didn't &quot;lose&quot; anything. Well, I did lose my lower rep, so I guess that's a compromise. I think the change shouldn't have been retroactive. Just award my future points according to this new algorithm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel as cheated as I do I suggest we band together by wearing &lt;a href=&quot;http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=5338&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this T-shirt&lt;/a&gt; till the official SO T-shirts are available &lt;sub&gt;(I have no affiliation w/this site etc.)&lt;/sub&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgur.com/frhMd.png&quot; alt=&quot;Fat Unicorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that my coffee's ready I can stop wasting my time on meta :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T02:26:56.680" Title="This is an outrage! Why did I just gain +70 rep?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43621" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:32:30.753" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, the inhumanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:32:30.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43580" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:33:12.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would tend to believe that most contributors don't often dive into the unanswered questions primarily because they don't have infinite time and there are already enough questions on the front page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny thing is, I do periodically go through the unanswered questions (usually when it's a slow day on the front page), and I've had the opposite experience.  Most older unanswered questions are either (a) very narrow, with one or two answers that are either completely off-the-wall or just way too general to be helpful, or (b) written so poorly that it's nearly impossible to understand what's being asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So normally I do one of three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is comprehensible but just not well-written, I'll edit it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is completely opaque, I'll leave a comment to that effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the question is fine but the author just hasn't accepted a relevant answer, I'll upvote any relevant answers and leave a comment. (Obviously this doesn't apply to users that no longer exist).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's really all we can do right now as users.  The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of &quot;hit and run&quot; users who don't even really understand how the system works; seems like every other day I see another user with a 0% accept rate.  Who knows when, if ever, these people will get around to upvoting/accepting answers.  The best thing to do is what we already do with new questions - read them, upvote good answers, add our own answers, or try to improve the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do have one thought for the site itself, which would be a filter for the unanswered questions section that says, point blank, &quot;show questions more than 60 days old&quot; (i.e. eligible for Necromancer).  Yeah, I know, badge farming and tag-spamming and all that, but it's no worse than some of the &quot;manual retags&quot; people do, and it's not that easy to score 5 upvotes answering an ancient question.  And let's be honest, what other motivation is there for the majority of users to dig any deeper than the front page?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That badge is a good idea but it doesn't completely accomplish its goal because it's too cumbersome IMO for someone to actually get a list of questions that (a) they can answer, and (b) are old enough to be eligible.  The only time I got that badge was an accident, the question had been bumped and I didn't realize how old it was.  If it were easier to be &lt;em&gt;deliberate&lt;/em&gt; about the whole process, I might decide to have some &quot;fun&quot; on some lazy Sunday afternoon and attempt a rez or two (with a quality answer of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Offering a carrot to the badge nuts might encourage more people to look at the unanswered questions, which would also result in them upvoting answers which are already complete/correct, which would subsequently help clean it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:33:12.547" />
  <row Id="43624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43621" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:37:53.947" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's due to solar flares and an unprecedented solar eclipse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:37:53.947" />
  <row Id="43625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43621" CreationDate="2010-03-23T00:39:35.927" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree.  I lost over -1500 points.  I demand satisfaction!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How &lt;em&gt;dare&lt;/em&gt; you retroactively award reputation for the time I spent answering questions after receiving bounties.  This, good sir, will &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T00:39:35.927" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13198" CreationDate="2010-03-23T01:19:07.097" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow is a &lt;strong&gt;Question and Answer&lt;/strong&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a little different than a discussion forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a Question, you really want an answer. A concrete &lt;em&gt;the answer to this will help me finish project X&lt;/em&gt; type question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question essentially asked programmers to navel-gaze. At best, any answer you got would be opinion, and at worst it would devolve into a flame-fest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have Digg, Reddit, and Slashdot for those. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="149432" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-04T02:42:00.700" LastActivityDate="2011-08-04T02:42:00.700" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43621" CreationDate="2010-03-23T01:51:28.467" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the Destroyer of Ponies ate a few too many:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/13/unicorn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot; title=&quot;unicorn, destroyer of ponies&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T01:51:28.467" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43635" CreationDate="2010-03-23T01:52:13.770" Score="0" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42707/is-there-a-way-to-find-questions-that-have-close-votes-but-are-not-closed-yet&quot;&gt;Is there a way to find questions that have close votes but are not closed yet?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35690/on-home-or-question-page-show-close-reopen-status&quot;&gt;On Home or Question page show close/reopen status&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When questions get close votes, can we have them automatically tagged so that other users with the rep to close questions can see them? I find myself wondering if questions don't get closed simply because they don't have the visibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T01:59:46.350" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T16:56:21.430" Title="Tagging questions for closing" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43634" CreationDate="2010-03-23T01:59:02.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What questions don't get closed?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If you have examples, post them here please&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they get closed quite successfully, and besides, 10k users and moderators can see a list with questions with close votes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T01:59:02.157" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43634" CreationDate="2010-03-23T01:59:46.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO this shouldn't be implemented using tags - they should be kept as a tool for categorising contents as much as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say it would be best implemented as a search term, a query string param or some other out of the way feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not sure that a list of questions with close votes should be available to all users... maybe I'm too pessimistic but I'd fear that would encourage less considered closing, with people regularly refreshing the close list, eager to close down posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly a very handy moderator tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131327" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T01:59:46.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43621" CreationDate="2010-03-23T02:11:33.973" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators, please close as a duplicate. Unfortunately I can't edit but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;The global reputation recalc of March 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T02:11:33.973" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43621" CreationDate="2010-03-23T02:26:56.680" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think &lt;strong&gt;+70&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;OUTRAGEOUS&lt;/strong&gt;, do &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; follow &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/jonskeet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@jonskeet&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4725" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T02:26:56.680" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T03:26:29.427" Score="3" ViewCount="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8746/firefoxscreensnapz002y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tag error message&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately that screen shot didn't catch the tags and I just noticed now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue is I had to repeatedly remove tags trying to figure out which one was the &lt;strong&gt;evil&lt;/strong&gt; tag I can't use. After doing this twice (feature / close) the Human Verification started popping up every single time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T04:04:21.360" Title="Non-specific tag error message" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43512" CreationDate="2010-03-23T03:35:12.170" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The major way a banner fails is the notice will disappear relatively quickly.  Any solution needs to address intermittent users that might spend &lt;em&gt;days&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;even a few weeks&lt;/strong&gt; away from the site at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even for users that spend time on the site every day, if they only spend a little bit of each day and just don't participate very much, I can easily imagine them looking for news and having no idea where to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;About&quot; and &quot;faq&quot; are important enough to be both at the top and bottom of the page; &quot;news&quot; should be too, instead of the effectively hidden blog link.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i39.tinypic.com/2sb3hbs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consistent promotion of the blog at the top of the page will catch those users who are able to read without annoying those that can't (they'll ask about it anyway) or those that don't care (including many new and low-rep users).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43421/rep-reports-lead-to-lost-reputation-recovery&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i40.tinypic.com/vmun0w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of &amp;quot;news&amp;quot; link&quot; title=&quot;these are not the bookmarks you're looking for&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Replace &quot;news&quot; with &quot;tools&quot; once a user hits 10k if horizontal space is a concern.  By then I expect them to know where it leads and have gotten RSS feeds if they care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have specifically chosen &lt;strong&gt;&quot;news&quot; instead of displaying headlines&lt;/strong&gt;, however, because it seems &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; raising the ire (read as &quot;email and complaints posted as questions&quot;) of users which aren't affected or otherwise wouldn't care is a major concern of those who would have to deal with it (e.g. not me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T11:03:43.583" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43641" CreationDate="2010-03-23T04:04:21.360" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just so you know, the moderator-reserved tag was &lt;code&gt;faq&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T04:04:21.360" />
  <row Id="43646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43650" CreationDate="2010-03-23T04:46:51.937" Score="6" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, the people on SuperUser are really awesome and I'm glad you guys are keeping that place full of information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I visited SuperUser today after my little plugin told me that I had visited SuperUser for 30 consecutive days. The thing is, I almost never visit SuperUser. So obviously I was surprised to learn that I got a badge for visiting a site I never go to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing this is not a program issue. So, my theory is that it has to do with this plugin I have on Google Chrome. Everyday, multiple times a day, it goes to my recent activity page on all 4 sites and finds out my rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this be how I got my badge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T06:31:46.233" Title="I don't like SuperUser THAT Much! (Wrongly Reward Enthusiast Badge)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;&lt;fanatic-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43646" CreationDate="2010-03-23T04:55:17.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;When your plugin send request to your recent activity page, browser also send your cookies together, Its just a normal behavior, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just confirmed that you need to login (need your cookies) to get your recent activity list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, may be there is no way to avoid that. Just enjoy it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T05:40:11.250" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T05:40:11.250" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42591" CreationDate="2010-03-23T05:03:25.527" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42501/is-bounty-rep-dump-gaming-subtitle-pollyanna-lottery/42583#42583&quot;&gt;already&lt;/a&gt; implemented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we are adding a 1-day delay between&#xA;  the time a bounty starts and when it&#xA;  can be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Added a screen shot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4199/youmayacceptthisanswera.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T09:06:12.737" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T09:06:12.737" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43646" CreationDate="2010-03-23T05:10:41.187" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, you have effectively scripted the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T05:10:41.187" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43646" CreationDate="2010-03-23T05:25:20.740" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38544/stack-overflow-notifier-chrome-extension/42268#42268&quot;&gt;known issue&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38544/stack-overflow-notifier-chrome-extension&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Notifier Chrome extension&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just wanted to point out a potential&#xA;  issue (that you can't really fix) with&#xA;  the extension. By doing a page scrape&#xA;  of the different sites, you register a&#xA;  hit for your account (makes sense) but&#xA;  this caused me to get the Enthusiast&#xA;  badge for my SU, SF, and Meta accounts&#xA;  (I actually earned it properly for&#xA;  SO). I know for a fact that I didn't&#xA;  visit those sites consecutively for 30&#xA;  days and they were just awarded 4&#xA;  hours ago on all three sites at the&#xA;  same time. I know I browse everyday&#xA;  with Chrome so unless Jeff just&#xA;  changed the rules, the unfortunate&#xA;  page scrape awarded me the badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing once an API is in place, the extension won't need to scrape the user page to get this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T05:25:20.740" />
  <row Id="43653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43512" CreationDate="2010-03-23T05:53:51.353" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much like Gnome's answer, you could include a little module on the right sidebar of the sites with news, showing the title of the last two posts from the blog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8241/stackoverflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;mockup&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, I like using Firebug in Firefox to add stuff to pages :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T05:53:51.353" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28020" CreationDate="2010-03-23T06:10:51.063" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contact &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/site/abuse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatar.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Report inappropriate content&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you have seen a gravatar or profile&#xA;  that is inappropriate for its rating,&#xA;  please report it here and we will take&#xA;  the necessary steps to resolve the&#xA;  situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Please post the url of the offending&#xA;  gravatar image or profile page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow asks gravatar.com to display &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; avatars with a rating of &quot;PG&quot; or &quot;G&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-28T17:07:32.323" LastActivityDate="2010-07-28T17:07:32.323" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42591" CreationDate="2010-03-23T07:23:01.683" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42501/is-bounty-rep-dump-gaming-subtitle-pollyanna-lottery/42583#42583&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt; has said on another question (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42591/there-should-be-a-minimum-time-between-placing-and-accepting-a-bounty/43649#43649&quot;&gt;S.Mark&lt;/a&gt; in this one), there's now a 1-day delay between when a bounty starts and when it can be awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T07:23:01.683" />
  <row Id="43657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T09:21:08.393" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;ITC is blocked at our company. Is there any other mirror to download the podcasts? A podcast collection is highly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145101" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T09:25:09.123" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T13:23:56.417" Title="Stackoverflow Podcast Mirror" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;podcast&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43669" CreationDate="2010-03-23T11:09:27.820" Score="9" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Stack Overflow (and related sites) you have:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1802/38582706.png&quot; alt=&quot;8 kviews&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Meanwhile on Stack Exchange sites you have:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1102/75469353.png&quot; alt=&quot;1k views&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Minus the hastily drawn arrows in MS-Paint, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the latter looks better, which is why I bring this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the same vein as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28986/bug-with-display-of-thousand-views-on-mso&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/29544/kviews-should-be-k-views&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; questions, and now that it's already been implemented on SE, will this change ever make its way here? Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I see the precision argument. Though I'd argue that at a quick glance while scanning a list of questions precision is less important than more easily comparing adjacent questions. And that the k next to the number makes it clearer that that question has had more views. But that's just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created a Greasemonkey script to force the k where I like it, and I guess one thing to look at is that Stack Exchange sites haven't had to deal with questions with nearly this many views yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7830/sok.png&quot; alt=&quot;226k views&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which personally I'd call an edge condition, and still prefer the k next to the number. But I understand others seeing it differently, and I think Pollyanna, and in related previous questions, Jeff, made a good point about maintaining precision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Well, here's a script for the rest of us: &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/72503.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;install&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/72503&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;view source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144943" LastEditorUserId="144943" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T11:25:57.283" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T11:25:57.283" Title="kviews vs k views; Stack Overflow vs Stack Exchange" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T12:32:35.287" Score="4" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ethical to downvote answers so my question is unanswered again?  In my specific example &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489308/select-list-value-undefined-in-document-ready&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, I have two answers, each with one upvote, neither of which seem to get the point of the question (if you can improve the phrasing, please go ahead).  Would it be ethical to downvote them each so that my question show as unanswered again?  Is this an effective tactic to get my question answered, short of a bounty?  I will happily do a bounty as soon as it's available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T13:47:36.157" Title="Is it ethical to downvote answers so my question is unanswered again?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;behavior&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;ethics&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T12:40:39.633" Score="9" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;A minor gripe with the Interesting Tags display and advertising, specifically on Stack Overflow but probably more generally applicable - sometimes there is a good-sized panel ad in the top right panel, above the interesting tags list, and sometimes there isn't (when not, it might be below the list).  This is when I'm logged in, so it isn't the anonymous/repped user ad level discrepancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result of this is that the Interesting Tags is not in the same location at all times, so grabbing one of my tags is a bit awkward (I have to hunt for the tag list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OTOH, I understand that the top of the right sidebar is prime ad space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the wizards who work on the SO software could somehow invent a solution that keeps the tags in a consistent place without sacrificing advertising needs, I think the resulting UI would be easier to use.  Any great suggestions for how this can be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142713" LastActivityDate="2010-06-27T11:00:04.203" Title="Place interesting tags list in a consistent location" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43663" CreationDate="2010-03-23T12:45:48.353" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be unethical if you &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; do it to make your question unanswered again. But if the answers in question weren't actually helpful, then a down-vote is never unethical (it's even in the tooltip text of the down-vote button).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this particular case, just go ahead and down-vote them. No harm done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T12:45:48.353" />
  <row Id="43666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43663" CreationDate="2010-03-23T12:45:56.043" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Downvoting for some gain &lt;em&gt;when you wouldn't otherwise downvote&lt;/em&gt; is probably a bit dodgy (but then, I'm a bit of a purist). I'm sure people do it, though (to push up their own answers, for instance). But you're free to downvote any answer you don't think is helpful (on your own question or others). You clearly don't find these two helpful. So the question is: Would you downvote them if they each had &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; upvotes and it wouldn't have any effect on your question's listing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T12:45:56.043" />
  <row Id="43667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43663" CreationDate="2010-03-23T12:48:04.343" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that both answers overlooked the bug in the code sample you posted, I believe it is fair to downvote them. Now, on the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489308/select-list-value-undefined-in-document-ready/2499884#2499884&quot;&gt;a new answer&lt;/a&gt; has been posted to your question, providing you with the solution to your problem! Go ahead and upvote + accept that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shame on the unicorn for covering the name of that shameless rep. whore!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/fo0itw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139369" LastEditorUserId="139369" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T13:09:21.227" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T13:09:21.227" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T12:49:34.403" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/981/syntax-highlighting-hints&quot;&gt;Syntax highlighting hints&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parser for code blocks has some kind of heuristic (the &quot;Prettify&quot; library, IIUC) for guessing what programming language syntax to use for highlighting. Its &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37402/automatic-syntax-highlighting-there-must-be-a-better-way&quot;&gt;guesses&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40930/sql-syntax-highlighter-doesnt-recognized-double-dash-comment-syntax&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13469/stackoverflow-syntax-highlighting&quot;&gt;far&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14549/syntax-highlighting-is-inconsistent&quot;&gt;from&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24719/syntax-highlighting-broken&quot;&gt;perfect&lt;/a&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While inferring the syntax from tags &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41419/allow-class-attribute-for-code-tag/41459#41459&quot;&gt;has been suggested&lt;/a&gt;, that doesn't help when there are code examples in different languages, or when the code is in an answer but the question doesn't deserve to be tagged with that language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I suggest we need a way to &lt;strong&gt;declare what language a code sample is&lt;/strong&gt;, to help the syntax highlighter to know rather than guess. &lt;strong&gt;Unlike other existing questions&lt;/strong&gt; asking about hints or inferrals, I'm talking about an &lt;strong&gt;explicit declaration&lt;/strong&gt; that a specific code block is to be highlighted as a specific language syntax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="70157" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-07T07:30:32.963" LastActivityDate="2011-03-07T07:30:32.963" ClosedDate="2010-03-23T12:58:16.023" Title="Allow declaration of programming language for syntax highlighting" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;syntax-highlighting&gt;&lt;prettify&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43662" CreationDate="2010-03-23T13:19:32.830" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We had quite an extensive discussion on this originally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14581/100-thousand-views-or-more-thousand-comes-below-views&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14581/100-thousand-views-or-more-thousand-comes-below-views&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff was of the opinion that by adding the &lt;code&gt;k&lt;/code&gt; in the number, you would lose precision, or had to make the font smaller, or make the field wider, and the page layout was already set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on SO you can have &lt;code&gt;10.1 kview&lt;/code&gt; but on SE you can only have &lt;code&gt;10k view&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to have this change made, you'll be swimming upstream against the idea of more information vs less information, as I understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, numbers like &lt;code&gt;949m&lt;/code&gt; would be too long, so there's a whole group of numbers that cannot be displayed with &lt;code&gt;m&lt;/code&gt; as the postfix without making the font smaller, enlarging the box, or doing horrible things like &lt;code&gt;0.9m&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know how stackexchange has or will resolve this last issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T14:09:59.747" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T14:09:59.747" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="43672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43678" CreationDate="2010-03-23T13:45:05.243" Score="14" ViewCount="501" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing that you guys probably aren't as sensitive as I am to the needs of our six-legged friends, I want to bring to your attention the following XpoLog Analysis Platform ad:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://welbog.homeip.net/~inferno/images/so/entomonism.png&quot; alt=&quot;ARROWED&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could we do something about this travesty? It advocates no fewer than four different horrible deeds one can rend unto another, including murder, miniature archery and sexism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you go out of your way every morning to murder our countless insect friends, I suggest you reconsider allowing this ad to be shown, and to inform XpoLog to make more tasteful ads. And if you do slaughter innocent hexapedal life every day, then you are a horrible entomonist! I hope a giant monster steps on you and doesn't care about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, guys. Animals don't deserve to be tortured like this no matter how many legs they have, no matter what sex they are. And using murder to advertise software is going too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T08:44:03.840" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T07:00:30.813" Title="Why does Stack Overflow allow sexist/entomonist ads?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;advertising&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43663" CreationDate="2010-03-23T13:47:36.157" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that putting the question bakc in the unanswered state is really going to help, so downvoting just to get to that state may be considered unethical, but worse - it probably won't even help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Address the answers in a comment as to what they did or didn't help with so when others come along and read them they understand why they aren't helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Downvote them if they are unhelpful or wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider rephrasing your question to make it more clear and easy to understand/read - this will also bump your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bump your question a few times until you get an answer (or people complain that you're bumping it) by editing the question in small ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T13:47:36.157" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43672" CreationDate="2010-03-23T13:48:24.407" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think that is offensive towards women, this is worse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?Task=Click&amp;amp;ZoneID=4&amp;amp;CampaignID=468&amp;amp;AdvertiserID=132&amp;amp;BannerID=807&amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;RandomNumber=387496343&amp;amp;Keywords=ad-gallery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/orcs-220x250.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No woman should be forced to see that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this one implies that womens into computers are old and not very attractive!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?Task=Click&amp;amp;ZoneID=4&amp;amp;CampaignID=542&amp;amp;AdvertiserID=84&amp;amp;BannerID=996&amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;RandomNumber=926119864&amp;amp;Keywords=ad-gallery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/ParallelStudio_Banner_Rockstars_Schneider_EvaluateNow_220x250S_ENG.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one promotes slavery for women (they've got a point)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/a.aspx?Task=Click&amp;amp;ZoneID=4&amp;amp;CampaignID=639&amp;amp;AdvertiserID=103&amp;amp;BannerID=1092&amp;amp;SiteID=1&amp;amp;RandomNumber=1760333861&amp;amp;Keywords=ad-gallery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ads.stackoverflow.com/ads/yt220x250.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;i&gt;Brought to you by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34181/stack-overflow-ad-gallery&quot;&gt;Unofficial Stack Overflow Ad Gallery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T14:01:49.300" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T14:01:49.300" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="43675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43672" CreationDate="2010-03-23T13:48:39.010" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm ok with murder and sexism, but archery is crossing the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T13:48:39.010" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43672" CreationDate="2010-03-23T13:58:24.763" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do tend to start every day by exterminating (preferably by fire, aerosol cans and a butane dual-jet cigar torch help for this) anything I see that has more than four legs. They are unnatural, foul creatures whose rotting, flame-broiled carcasses should be left as a warning to others not to intrude in my affairs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T13:58:24.763" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43672" CreationDate="2010-03-23T14:09:30.230" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're missing the larger picture... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who &lt;em&gt;benefits&lt;/em&gt; from the murder of a ladybug? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not you or me certainly. Nor even the mobs of brute misogynist archers who this ad would seem to be targeted at. We generally accord ladybugs some respect, or at least avoid going out of our way to bother them, because they do the same for us, preferring to prey upon...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aphids!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nasty&lt;/em&gt; little creatures, sucking the life-force out of plants like so many miniature vampires, carelessly spreading disease and filth in the process. And &lt;em&gt;helpless meals&lt;/em&gt; for your average ladybug. Is it any wonder they would eventually hatch a scheme such as this, &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; intended to trick us into destroying their enemies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T14:09:30.230" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42501" CreationDate="2010-03-23T15:05:23.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You really ought to accept Robert's answer, purely for the cognitive dissonance it would cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or this one, because I'm being, y'know, &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131713" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T15:05:23.637" />
  <row Id="43681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44124" CreationDate="2010-03-23T15:38:21.607" Score="12" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;A new tag was added for &lt;code&gt;asp.net+vb.net&lt;/code&gt; in StackOverflow.  If you click on the link/tag, you don't actually see the correct results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i43.tinypic.com/1zg820j.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net%2bvb.net&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/asp.net%2bvb.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="55747" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T07:13:22.587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T08:54:31.590" Title="Link to Tag broken when &quot;+&quot; is embedded in tag" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43684" CreationDate="2010-03-23T16:07:15.650" Score="18" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I do a manual retag, I'll often find other tags that look &quot;off&quot; and investigate further. These tangent tags usually lead to handfuls of questions that need retagging as well. If after a thorough search, the desired tag doesn't exist, then I'll create it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During my &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39015/tag-merge-request-windows-api-and-others-into-winapi-on-so&quot;&gt;retagging session this past Saturday&lt;/a&gt;, I ended up creating quite a few new tags in that process. Having created this many is abnormal, but so it goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/76337/john-saunders&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt; approached me directly by e-mail shortly thereafter. He noticed I had created these tags, and suggested that (a) some of them may not be appropriate, and (b) I get some feedback on Meta to improve the process for the future. I agreed completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here are the tags I created, with an explanation of either their current status, my thought process (or lack thereof), etc. Note: all the new tags are linkified for convenience, even though they don't show up with an underline. Also, between the time I got the list of tags from John and going back to analyze, some of the tags' statuses had changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dual-boot&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[dual-boot]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - This was a retag of a handful of questions marked with &lt;code&gt;[dualboot]&lt;/code&gt;. Not much to say here, as I think it was straight-forward.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/event-notification&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[event-notification]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - I don't see any questions with this tag now, though I remember creating it. I had run into several questions that mentioned event notification, so at that point I figured there should be a tag for it as people were using that terminology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/monitor-refresh-rate&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[monitor-refresh-rate]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - There was a single question about programmatically changing the refresh rate of the display, however that question seems to have disappeared and I can't find it under any tag now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/display-properties&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[display-properties]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - I put this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245012/setting-underlining-of-menu-hotkeys-by-api-windows&quot;&gt;question 245102&lt;/a&gt;. There was no existing &lt;code&gt;[display-settings]&lt;/code&gt; either, and I thought using the word 'properties' was more appropriate to find that particular question. I'm really not sure how else to describe that question with a tag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/device-disconnection&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[device-disconnection]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - This was used by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/544875/how-to-exit-sw-quickly&quot;&gt;544875&lt;/a&gt;, where the question-asker needed to respond to an event when an external hard drive was disconnected from the system. I did my best on that question, as it was somewhat vague.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/virtual-driver&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[virtual-driver]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - No questions are currently tagged with this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/540267/how-to-add-a-virtual-driver-like-cd-emulation-in-windows-explorer&quot;&gt;540267&lt;/a&gt; was asked by the same user as &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/544875/how-to-exit-sw-quickly&quot;&gt;544875&lt;/a&gt;, and I took the language used verbatim without thinking, transposing &lt;code&gt;[virtual]&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code&gt;[driver]&lt;/code&gt; into &lt;code&gt;[virtual-driver]&lt;/code&gt;. I made a 2nd edit within the 5 minute window and changed &lt;code&gt;[virtual-driver]&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;[virtual-drive]&lt;/code&gt;, but the new tag remained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/virtual-desktop&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[virtual-desktop]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/509733/win-api-and-c-desktops&quot;&gt;509733&lt;/a&gt; deals with errors in a class that creates a virtual desktop in C#. Now that I go back and read the question more thoroughly, it really doesn't have too much to do with virtual desktops, and is more of a newbie/fix-my-compiler-errors question. I'm on the fence as to whether &lt;code&gt;[virtual-desktop]&lt;/code&gt; should be kept or discarded at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/libsvn&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[libsvn]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - A single question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1564797/using-libsvn-to-get-latest-revision-for-a-tree&quot;&gt;1564797&lt;/a&gt;) deals with this SVN library. There is also &lt;code&gt;[libsvm]&lt;/code&gt;, but that is something completely different (I thought it might have been a typo, but it's not).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/getexitcodeprocess&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[getexitcodeprocess]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763686/getexitcodeprocess-process-termination-status-codes&quot;&gt;1763686&lt;/a&gt;. Brainfart. I've already removed this one and put &lt;code&gt;[exit-code]&lt;/code&gt; on it (and merged &lt;code&gt;[exitcode]&lt;/code&gt; (3) and &lt;code&gt;[exit-status]&lt;/code&gt; (1) into &lt;code&gt;[exit-code]&lt;/code&gt; (29) while I was at it).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/disk-space&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[disk-space]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - This was created as the anticipated target for a merge with &lt;code&gt;[diskspace]&lt;/code&gt; (50) which I discovered in my retagging. I haven't gone through those questions at all to see if it's a valid merge, but with 50 questions on it, it most likely is, or is pretty darn close.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/virtual-file&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[virtual-file]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2157682/create-a-virtual-file-and-execute-it&quot;&gt;2157682&lt;/a&gt; was interested in finding a way of executing a program that didn't physically exist in a file on the disk. Honestly I was at a bit of a loss as to how to tag this question, even though I knew what it was asking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/file-indexing&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[file-indexing]&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - I put this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2238606/how-to-check-whether-windows-file-indexing-is-on-or-off&quot;&gt;2238606&lt;/a&gt;, and I thought it was pretty straight-forward at the time. Now that I look back there is also &lt;code&gt;[indexingservice]&lt;/code&gt;, which may be more appropriate, or at least supplementary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's it. I really appreciate John contacting me about this (and also the way he did it, too). I truly want what's best for the site, and the feedback I get here should help me become a more productive member of the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you all for the feedback. I was expecting a lot more constructive criticism, but if everyone is content with what I'm doing, then I will happily continue. As I said, I welcome any/all feedback (not limited just to retagging) so send me an e-mail if you think it's appropriate. There's a direct e-mail link on my website. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T14:05:53.457" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:05:53.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T16:07:15.650" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T07:06:30.620" Title="Retagging accountability request" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;accountability&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43683" CreationDate="2010-03-23T16:22:28.327" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Jon, for bringing this to meta. I appreciate your hard work, and your willingness to discuss this with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed these tags while using the &quot;Questions with newly-created tags&quot; link that 10k users have access to. I'll occasionally use this tool to correct misspelled tags, or tags entered by users who don't understand what tags are. That's why I was so surprised to see Jon's name there! I've frequently seen his name on the posts he edits, and knew he was a good community-member who works hard to make the sites better. He's exactly the opposite if the kind of user I expect to see there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have particular problems with most of his particular tags. I have some question as to how many other users will follow the same thought process Jon followed and will reach the same tags he did, but that remains to be  seen. I notice that one of his tags already has about six uses, so I guess I'm answered on that particular tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon, thanks again for all your hard work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T16:22:28.327" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T16:22:28.327" />
  <row Id="43685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43683" CreationDate="2010-03-23T16:32:34.657" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks good to me, thanks for doing this work, and for putting so much consideration into it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T16:32:34.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T16:32:34.657" />
  <row Id="43686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43683" CreationDate="2010-03-23T16:40:47.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that last one (12) could be validly tagged &lt;code&gt;indexing-service&lt;/code&gt; because it is about checking to see if the Windows Indexing Service is running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, can't see any problems with the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="419" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T16:40:47.963" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T16:40:47.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43688" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:12:18.847" Score="0" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19756/how-does-the-comment-system-and-comments-work&quot;&gt;How does the comment system and comments work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33331/where-is-the-faq&quot;&gt;Where is the FAQ?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is surely answered somewhere, but currently I cannot find it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know your (i.e. mine) comment cannot be edited after someone replies, but if no one replies on them, after how many minutes do they become uneditable ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:14:54.320" ClosedDate="2010-03-23T17:29:33.910" Title="After how much time does your comment become un-editable?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43687" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:14:54.320" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, after 5 minutes the comment becomes un-editable. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19756/how-does-the-comment-system-and-comments-work&quot;&gt;See here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:14:54.320" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T17:14:54.320" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42654" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:23:28.530" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're willing to wait until the next month's data dump, you can see all your comments by querying Joel C's excellent &lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackQL&lt;/a&gt; with a query like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SELECT * FROM comments WHERE userid=&amp;lt;your userid&amp;gt; ORDER BY creationdate DESC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:23:28.530" />
  <row Id="43690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43691" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:24:56.190" Score="-1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2501860/explaining-to-boss-why-we-need-to-avoid-horizontal-scroll/2501930#2501930&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; was just upvoted 5 times, with zero down-votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I only got 42 rep for it - based both on my total rep count I see (last up-vote changed the count by 2) and based on Summary/Recent Activity screen (shows 5/42 for that question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think I hit the daily cap, since my &quot;recent&quot; activity shows 42 reputation between 2010-03-23 14:34:29Z to 2010-03-23 23:59:59Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I mis-understanding the timeframes for computing daily gap? (If I click on &quot;Today&quot; button it shows 253 rep, some of it from non-up-votes), Is that the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thx&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:30:50.820" Title="42 rep gain with no downvotes and 5 upvotes - why?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43690" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:30:50.820" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You answer your question yourself. When you click the envelope, the default view doesn't show a whole day. You have to explicitly click on 'today' to get everything for 'today'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, you already hit the cap today and that's why you only got 2 rep for the last up-vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:30:50.820" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43692" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43693" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:46:03.323" Score="9" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hello all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am working on a quantitative analysis of SO. I am particularly interested in the causal relationships in the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples to causal questions that I can think of are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does daily limit on reputation points cause users to contribute to the website constantly?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does putting up a bounty for a question cause that question to get more answers?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Does being able to edit answers/questions cause high quality answers/questions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the causal question, I am analyzing the data in SO to verify the causal effect in the system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is any causal question you have about the system that you would like to be verified with a data analysis. Please let me know. I will be happy to share my results with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145127" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T17:51:01.263" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:57:50.353" Title="What are the causal relationships in the StackOverflow website?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;community&gt;&lt;community-data&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43692" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:56:37.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be interested in how users habits change after they hit 10k rep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words do they spend less time on the site when they get to the last rep boundary and does their answer:vote ratio change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:56:37.127" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43692" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:56:39.763" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does lowering the amount of rep on questions cause better questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:56:39.763" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43692" CreationDate="2010-03-23T17:57:50.353" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do Badges help encourage the specific badge behavior, as per their design goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T17:57:50.353" />
  <row Id="43699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43702" CreationDate="2010-03-23T18:39:42.923" Score="8" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a stackoverflow user, I am having a specific bug that involves a combination of different technologies and i am pretty sure that chances are rather slim that another developer will have the exact same question at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the question of minor importance to the community, right?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Should I go ahead and post this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144171" LastEditorUserId="144171" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T19:29:54.687" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:57:14.460" Title="how custom to my needs can a question be" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="43700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43699" CreationDate="2010-03-23T18:42:00.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, as long as it's not already asked and on topic, every question is welcomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T18:42:00.397" />
  <row Id="43701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43699" CreationDate="2010-03-23T18:42:18.757" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely, just give enough detail so someone will be able to help you. And make sure that your question (obscure as it may be) hasn't already been asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T18:42:18.757" />
  <row Id="43702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43699" CreationDate="2010-03-23T18:43:45.840" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone else could have the same problem down the line. You never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important thing is to pose your question in a way that shows you put effort into trying to solve the problem yourself first. Demonstrate what you've tried, post any relevant code involved, link to articles about the problem, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are generally willing to help you solve your problem if they have knowledge in the subject matter, even if it is a localized problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T18:43:45.840" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43738" CreationDate="2010-03-23T19:06:26.000" Score="23" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/faq&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;[FAQ]&lt;/code&gt; tag&lt;/a&gt; here in meta, you are greeted with the complete list of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22228/what-is-a-locked-question-how-do-they-work&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;sofaq overhaul project&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occurred to me that the team could make the &lt;code&gt;[FAQ]&lt;/code&gt; tag a sponsored one here on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Meta&lt;/a&gt;, so it could have on the tag page (in addition to the image, if any - I don't know if it should even have one) a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postgresql&quot;&gt;list of links&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;the FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;about pages&lt;/a&gt; and maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2484/proposal.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1227/proposal2.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-15T02:20:24.073" LastActivityDate="2010-05-15T02:20:24.073" Title="Could SO sponsor the FAQ tag on Meta?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;sponsored-tags&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T19:31:26.560" Score="9" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Should the activity tab in the profiles of moderators list moderator actions too? For example, opening, closing, deleting, and undeleting. This information is already available from within the posts themselves, so it makes sense to tie it in with the rest of the moderator's activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, I'm not suggesting that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; moderator actions be listed. Only those which are already publicly communicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T20:01:43.220" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T20:15:48.597" Title="Moderator actions in activity tab" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43708" CreationDate="2010-03-23T19:40:03.513" Score="1" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even after following the advice &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1774/i-cant-log-in-with-my-openid-troubleshooting-tips&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; I still can't log in to log in to my stack overflow account from my copy Firefox. This is being posted using IE (yeuch).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I click on Login, then Google, it takes me straight to an inappropriate google account rather than giving me the opportunity to log in to the correct google account. I've tried getting SO to send me an Account Recovery e-mail, but when I paste that in as my OPenID URL, it just does the same as if I clicked on the google button - taking me straight to the wrong account.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all started because I logged out of Stack Overflow and the next time I tried to log in, accidentally used the wrong google userid. Now it seems to be stuck with that ID, even when I explicitly tell it to use another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, nothing has changed here firewall wise, I haven't changed my coockie policy and I have cleared my SO cookies in FF, all to no avail. Trying in another borwser was the only way to get it to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138432" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T20:06:02.967" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:22:09.297" Title="How do I get SO to use the OpenId I give it rather than the one it uses automatically?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43704" CreationDate="2010-03-23T19:42:24.800" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;Only thing to take into account if implemented for &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; users would be to extend the length of the list, or allow to paginate one or two pages back, as the activity tab would grow much faster were this to be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T20:15:48.597" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T20:15:48.597" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43704" CreationDate="2010-03-23T19:51:14.407" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be a little bit more broad, this information should be in &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; activity pages. If I can open and close, why isn't that reflected in my activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T19:51:14.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43705" CreationDate="2010-03-23T19:55:59.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried logging out of your Google account? I just tried logging in and out, and if I'm still logged in to my Google account it doesn't give me a choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T19:55:59.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43705" CreationDate="2010-03-23T19:59:37.310" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I worked out what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;diagnostic page&lt;/a&gt; to test the OpenID which the Account Recovery e-mail gave me seemed to stop Firefox from trying to use the incorrect one, allowing my to log in with the correct account the next time I tried to log on to SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still not sure why just clearing cookies didn't do the job, but at least it's working now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I feel bad about correcting disgnostic to diagnostic now *8')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138432" LastEditorUserId="138432" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:22:09.297" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:22:09.297" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43699" CreationDate="2010-03-23T20:09:51.983" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not? I personally like this kind of questions - I prefer them over very generic questions which everyone knows the answer to (including Google).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your part of the deal IMO: If there are very few (or no) people that can answer your highly specific question, then it's fair to also give those people a thumbs up, who are trying to help you without being able to come up with a 100% accurate step-by-step guide (e.g. because they don't have the exact same software/hardware setup on their machine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, a small pointer that goes into the right direction is enough to help solving the rest of the problem on your own. You can then update your post to give an account of how you finally solved the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144785" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T20:09:51.983" />
  <row Id="43713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43714" CreationDate="2010-03-23T20:36:30.940" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes&quot;&gt;Can we have the ability to rescind a close vote before it closes?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I remove a close vote (mine) on a question or is it simply not possible? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's not possible, why isn't it possible? We can negate down votes if the question has been edited appropriately, can't we change our mind about close votes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is similar to the following question and answer provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote-not-to-close-option-to-counter-the-vote-to-close&quot;&gt;How about a &quot;Vote not to close&quot; option&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/125/how-about-a-vote-not-to-close-option-to-counter-the-vote-to-close/185#185&quot;&gt;Answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-06T20:16:28.980" LastActivityDate="2010-06-06T20:16:28.980" ClosedDate="2010-03-23T20:41:41.673" Title="Remove a vote-to-close on a question" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;change-vote&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43713" CreationDate="2010-03-23T20:40:54.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How can I remove a close vote (mine) on a question or is it simply not possible? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it's not possible, why isn't it possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this has been requested and declined: See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/915/can-we-have-the-ability-to-rescind-a-close-vote-before-it-closes/33949#33949&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T20:40:54.590" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-23T20:55:50.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rubyonrails.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6941/rorg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ruby on Rails&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130877" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T20:55:50.697" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T20:55:50.697" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2010-03-23T21:03:59.757" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. This isn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeopardy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a technical forum and it should be dedicated to content - as long as there is meaning in the question users should not be bothered with petty details like this, which give no additional value to the forum such as. They have other things on their minds (like, solving a problem or looking for a solution).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if someone wants to go and edit question titles to fit the form of a question, I have no complains. Just don't ask it of everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T21:03:59.757" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T21:03:59.757" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19999" CreationDate="2010-03-23T21:08:15.043" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea that the &lt;strong&gt;best possible&lt;/strong&gt; title for a question will also be a question is, in short, completely off-the-mark. Titles are titles and have their own grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, while you can no longer earn many points writing questions on StackOverflow (new point system + tendency to not upvote questions), the best answers come to questions that have interesting titles/many upvotes/pageviews. Good titles entice the best answerers to &lt;strong&gt;read the question&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131669" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T21:08:15.043" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-23T21:08:15.043" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23611" CreationDate="2010-03-23T21:24:29.140" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that long (or numerous) code blocks (and/or images) should be discouraged while asking and editing questions, in much the same way duplicate questions are discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the user continues to post the question with ridiculously long/numerous code blocks or images, despite the warning, then they should be hidden and replaced with &quot;show/hide&quot; links that, of course, shows or hides each block in its entirety (or maybe all blocks with just one link if there are too many). It would also be nice if these links were available on anything longer than maybe 3 lines, or maybe even every block, but not automatically collapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only will this make it easier for those reading the question to show only the information they need to come up with an answer, but it also provides further discouragement to the user who asked the question, because now the people who might usually answer are less likely to spend time on a bloated question.  They see that certain parts are already collapsed, which they will soon learn is &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; bad news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, look at this mess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2469847/how-to-handle-custom-java-exception-in-flex-app&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2469847/how-to-handle-custom-java-exception-in-flex-app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just awful. Now, maybe all of that is necessary, I don't know (I doubt it). But if those were all collapsed, you could take one look and know &lt;em&gt;without scrolling&lt;/em&gt; that there is probably too much information being presented here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145138" LastEditorUserId="145138" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T21:30:54.237" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T21:30:54.237" />
  <row Id="43719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43721" CreationDate="2010-03-23T21:48:20.440" Score="-4" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, maybe it would be possible to come up with a more objective scoring scheme than &quot;resembling the code&quot;. Will work on this when I have a chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Main&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2499233/programming-language-shootout-code-most-like-pseudocode-for-dijkstras-algorithm&quot;&gt;a competition&lt;/a&gt;, but the question was closed. Seeing as &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24242/acceptable-level-of-code-golf-questions&quot;&gt;code golf is allowed&lt;/a&gt;, why did people feel it was necessary to close the question, especially since any programming tricks used in this challenge are much more likely to be useful in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary of responses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I'll summarise all of the arguments made against my case and why I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The code must be answerable in all major languages to be fair&lt;/strong&gt; While C# or Java are unlikely to win the comp, answers in these languages could still be interesting and competitions aren't all about winning. Besides, Java or Fortran is unlikely to win code-golf.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The code wasn't community wiki at the start for about 3 minutes&lt;/strong&gt;. This isn't an argument against not reopening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question is subjective&lt;/strong&gt;: This is much less subjective than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/953708/what-programming-language-best-bridges-the-gap-between-pseudocode-and-code&quot;&gt;question that gave me this idea&lt;/a&gt;. Instead of making vague statements about languages in general, we have a concrete case. Besides, the problem with subjective questions isn't the subjectivity per se, but the fact that they require extended discussion, which stackoverflow isn't really suited to. Closing the question has generated much more unwanted discussion than leaving it open ever would have.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your question is closed because it should be closed&lt;/strong&gt;: Maybe thats true, but thats not an argument.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You should have done more research&lt;/strong&gt;: You can always do more research. I think it should be clear to readers that I have a good idea of how this site works. And besides, this isn't a reason for closure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subjective questions can stay open with sufficent support&lt;/strong&gt; - Given the huge number of downvotes this &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be a valid reason for not voting to re-open. But I think that I've given strong enough reasons here for an upvote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You haven't provided counter arguments or you haven't countered anything&lt;/strong&gt;: Look above. I said all of this very clearly in the comments. If you disagree with anything, comment on that specifically, rather than just criticising everything.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that my portrayal of these arguments is as accurate as it can be in such a brief summary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="135151" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T04:54:19.137" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T04:54:19.137" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-25T04:54:19.137" Title="Why do people allow Code Golf, but not other competitions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;code-golf&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43719" CreationDate="2010-03-23T21:54:32.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is subjective, because different people will have different opinions about which program looks most like pseudo-code.  Code golf is not subjective, because the length of the program is visible to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T21:54:32.510" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43719" CreationDate="2010-03-23T21:58:56.953" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code golf questions do not always remain open. Yet the successful ones have the following characteristics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anyone in the community can answer them, in a variety of languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are community wiki.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 'win state' is easy to ascertain: Which one is shortest?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question, on the other hand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can't be answered in very many languages to 'win' (C-like languages are out)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was not community wiki at the beginning: It had 3 close votes before you made it wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 'win state' is not easy to ascertain: It's purely subjective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've left a comment to state that you weren't thinking of superficial appearances, but how close it represents those concepts.  Those are not objective criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T21:58:56.953" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43750" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:07:30.897" Score="-11" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be interesting to show some type of recognition on the main page for the &quot;developer of the week&quot;, i.e. the developer who received the most votes (not reputation since there's a 200 per day cap) for a week. While no mortal man can possibly catch up with Jon Skeet's reputation; they may be able to top him over the period of a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could make the game a bit more interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just thinking...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134817" LastEditorUserId="133693" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-27T12:55:43.053" LastActivityDate="2011-08-27T12:55:43.053" Title="Should StackOverflow have a &quot;Developer of the Week&quot;?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;&lt;reputation-leagues&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:17:18.083" Score="14" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some questions are getting closed as duplicates - good, the system is working. Unfortunately, some are getting closed as duplicates of other questions which are already deleted. This leaves all 1-9,999k rep users left scratching their heads when they try to view the duplicate. Even worse, imagine being the author of the question and having your question closed as a duplicate when the original question isn't accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think something is wrong. Today I undeleted a question (left it closed) since it was referenced in the close-reason for another question. Comments indicated that people were clearly irritated that they could not access the duplicate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;code&gt;[Comment]&lt;/code&gt; Ok, who thought it was a good idea to close this as duplicate of a deleted question, which most people cannot even see? For the record, I'm reopening - clearly there's enough interest in this question. – Kobi 14 hours ago&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;---&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;[Comment]&lt;/code&gt; The PosibleDuplicate link is broken. Voting to reopen. – Rahul G 7 hours ago&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;---&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;code&gt;[Flag]&lt;/code&gt; Closed as duplicate of a deleted question, fail. Thanks for moderating. – {username removed} 14 hours ago&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My undelete-action was short-lived, as a few users returned to delete the post again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly cannot be desirable to reference posts that the vast majority of users cannot even see, especially when the author of the redundant question cannot see (at the time of writing this, the author has a reputation of &lt;strong&gt;18&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what the solution is to this, but I'd like to hear some ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2495830/why-cant-there-be-an-ultimate-programming-language&quot;&gt;Why can’t there be an “ultimate” programming language?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Dupe of: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2469790/why-cant-we-have-a-single-programming-language&quot;&gt;Why can’t we have a single programming Language?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T22:23:18.910" LastActivityDate="2010-04-11T16:32:03.527" Title="&quot;Duplicate of...[deleted post]&quot;" Tags="&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;deleted-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43723" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:22:54.883" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a pretty uneven race. High rep users already have plenty of badges; adding a developer of the week distinction would just pile on the number of &quot;awards&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it would be really helpful unless, maybe, it was for higher profile tags, say the first 20-30 (i.e. java developer of the week, python developer of the week). Just make it a list of developers of the week, no badges or anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T22:22:54.883" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43724" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:28:35.350" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is a duplicate of a deleted question, then &lt;em&gt;it should be deleted as well&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose I should explain my rationale for this... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certain questions which don't really belong on SO that get asked repeatedly: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Why isn't [some obscure language that I just got infatuated with] more popular?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;When will [some product I'm anticipating] be released?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;em&gt;What's your favorite [something]?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, etc. Like all duplicates, they should be closed once identified as such. And like all off-topic questions, they should be removed once closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; merge them with the original and thereby keep all the deleted answers together... but why bother when they're &lt;em&gt;deleted&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said... In this case, the second question ended up being more popular than the original, and was forced into CW (as is traditional for this sort of popular off-topic discussion question). So it'll probably stick around... Because, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-where-we-hate-fun/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;we hate fun&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T00:00:59.250" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T00:00:59.250" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43929" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:44:12.777" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;When do I get them back? It simply says &quot;You have no more close votes today.&quot; I would prefer it say &quot;You have no more close votes today, please try again in X hours&quot; similar to when you're out of votes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T08:39:42.530" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:40:32.093" Title="Out of close votes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43723" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:45:21.213" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be for this if the basis for the &quot;Developer of the Week&quot; title wouldn't be just reputation, but, say, the fact that somebody has gone the &quot;extra mile&quot; (providing support in comments beyond the mere collection of reputation for a good answer) extraordinarily often, or provided a truly brilliant, unheard-of answer. Things like that would have to be picked (or nominated) manually by users in the different tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, we'll just have even more of a rat-race of people trying to collect as much reputation as possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T22:58:37.503" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T22:58:37.503" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43724" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:49:24.447" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43724/duplicate-of-deleted-post/43727#43727&quot;&gt;with Shog9 on this&lt;/a&gt;: if the original was properly deleted then the duplicated should be as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have developed a subjective impression that the ease of collecting the requisite close votes depends the category of close that is suggested. My impression of the order is roughly (from easiest to hardest):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;duplicate (easy as cake (well, waffles))&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;belongs-on-* (usually easy)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;off topic|too localized|not real&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;subjective and argumentative (sometimes &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; hard, indeed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suspect what you're seeing is people trying to short cut one of the harder to get closes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My recommendation:&lt;/strong&gt; Close with the proper reason, but write a comment along the lines of &quot;We deleted the same topic here: &amp;lt;link&amp;gt; for &amp;lt;reason&amp;gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T02:54:00.007" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T02:54:00.007" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43732" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:51:59.463" Score="-5" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/22151/indicate-how-trustworthy-the-upvotes-are&quot;&gt;Indicate How Trustworthy the UpVotes Are&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When calculating score for up vote/down vote should the rank of person issuing the vote be taken into account? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say if your question has been up voted by a person with higher score, you get more points, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please find flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143498" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-23T23:55:47.007" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T23:55:47.007" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T00:03:45.347" Title="Dynamic calculation of reputation based on voter's rank" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43724" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:54:55.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't always easy to prevent -- consider this timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question A is posted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question B is posted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question B is closed as a dupe of A.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question A is deleted for some reason that isn't relevant to explore.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;now question B points to an invisible question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to fix this is by some batch process in the back end that will search for &quot;dangling references&quot; and resolve the graph of dependencies. A dupe should always point to an open and undeleted question; if there is a circular dependency or there is no open/undeleted question to point to, a moderator should step in and merge or undelete (or delete!) questions as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-10T16:02:02.727" LastActivityDate="2010-04-10T16:02:02.727" />
  <row Id="43734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43732" CreationDate="2010-03-23T22:58:01.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have just gone through a tumultuous upheaval. And now, we'd like to somehow go back and figure out a weighted calculation of up-votes &amp;amp; down-votes based on the voter's reputation? No...here's one reason I can think of:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voting on questions should not be weighted by the voter's reputation for the simple fact that a question is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; the reason we are here. We are here to get answers. A good question is rewarded with up-votes. Answers are what we want - good answers are what we want to reward. I think that the current system for points awarded is excellent and see no reason whatsoever to change it...yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T22:58:01.590" />
  <row Id="43735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43729" CreationDate="2010-03-23T23:10:35.217" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same time everything else gets reset on SO - 12 AM, UTC, which is in about 50 minutes from now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they implemented this feature then it would also have to apply to upvotes/downvotes, comment votes, rep caps, etc.  Perhaps an entry in the FAQ would suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T23:10:35.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49986" CreationDate="2010-03-23T23:21:56.833" Score="8" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose I search for the tag [Python]. I should be able to have a tab that would display all of my favourites for Python. Don't make me think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastActivityDate="2010-05-15T21:23:25.453" Title="Add favourites tab after tag search" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43732" CreationDate="2010-03-23T23:28:29.500" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, leave it as it is. It's a &lt;strong&gt;democracy&lt;/strong&gt;, everyone gets equal voting rights, otherwise the playing field will not be even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the great thing about Stack Overflow, all votes are the same, no matter who casts them. Also, this could be a &lt;strong&gt;privacy concern&lt;/strong&gt; because if I see a +/- 25 I'll know it was from a high rep user; if that person also left a comment or answer, it could confirm my suspicion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T23:28:29.500" />
  <row Id="43738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43703" CreationDate="2010-03-23T23:30:39.420" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much does it cost? Should we take venture capital to afford it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: we now have a &lt;strong&gt;house sidebar ad on the meta home page&lt;/strong&gt;. I don't think we want to extend this to &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; page that the sidebar appears on, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/9745/metahousead.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the rest of your proposal, I am folding it into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1195/create-a-tag-homepage-faq&quot;&gt;Create a tag homepage/FAQ&lt;/a&gt; because I think that would be a way for the &lt;em&gt;community&lt;/em&gt; to set up those editorial content tag-specific pages rather than us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So transfer the &quot;but it needs to be on the tag page!&quot; votes to the above link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-15T02:20:14.857" LastActivityDate="2010-05-15T02:20:14.857" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43719" CreationDate="2010-03-23T23:32:25.363" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it does not fit one of the other closing criteria, then a questions can stay open, if&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; subjective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is subjective, but showed value to the community by gathering upvotes/answers faster than close-votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question meets neither of these options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because there exist exceptions, does not mean your question is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-23T23:32:25.363" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="43740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40665" CreationDate="2010-03-24T00:20:50.673" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These downvotes come from the Community user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, these downvotes age away if they do not reach the threshold, and are deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T23:36:18.200" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T23:36:18.200" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23211" CreationDate="2010-03-24T01:19:05.453" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It might be a good idea to leave the add comment link and simply tell people why they cant add a comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to vote up toby's answer, but of course I doin't have enough rep points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually came looking for this as somebody voted down an answer of mine that ideally would have been a comment, but I wasn't able to post as a comment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;arrrggghh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T01:19:05.453" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43719" CreationDate="2010-03-24T01:28:52.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Code-golf does not belong on the merits: it is a contest, not a question and this is a Q&amp;amp;A site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20912/so-weekly-code-golf&quot;&gt;solid consensus to keep it&lt;/a&gt;. There evidently is no such consensus to keep random contests such as the one you proposed. It's not fair, it's just the way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24242/acceptable-level-of-code-golf-questions&quot;&gt;pretty good consensus that we should limit [code-golf] to &quot;good&quot; questions&lt;/a&gt;, even then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T01:38:50.667" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T01:38:50.667" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43723" CreationDate="2010-03-24T02:59:58.350" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this sort of thing would be okay on the podcast or the blog, but not on the front page of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T02:59:58.350" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43752" CreationDate="2010-03-24T03:05:28.333" Score="1" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I look today on a few fresh question, and the view count was 0. Even after I refreshed the page a few time. This is definitely a bug, since the question isn't mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I don't think the all page was cached, since that the DateTime mark was change every reload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But mayby the SQL result is cached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just met this strange behavior again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3486/40063360.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142309" LastEditorUserId="142309" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T08:24:37.023" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T08:24:37.023" Title="A bug in the views calculation. Views: 0 time" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;views&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43751" CreationDate="2010-03-24T03:08:59.313" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We buffer view count increments, so this should be normal -- unless the post stays at 0 for more than say 5 minutes or so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You didn't provide any links to questions so I can't verify this is the case, but we haven't had any other reports of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T03:08:59.313" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T03:41:34.290" Score="4" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;Im logged in using my OpenID but profile images appear to be connected to Gravatar only? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145148" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T04:04:12.953" LastActivityDate="2011-06-18T13:34:12.697" Title="How to change to SO profile image if you’re using OpenID for login?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;openid&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43753" CreationDate="2010-03-24T03:42:00.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge, gravatar is the only option. Is there some reason it doesn't work as an option for you? You can add many email addresses and many pictures to your gravatar account, so as to not overlap various types of profile pictures with various types of websites that use gravatar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T03:42:00.843" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T04:04:51.300" Score="1" ViewCount="71" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/547/could-we-see-a-changelog-of-deployments&quot;&gt;Could we see a changelog of deployments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't there an official change list for all of the changes that are made to StackExchange and the Trilogy Sites? I think this would help to prevent many of the questions that arrive here about how users were once able to do something and now they can't. A change list would solve these problems and also it could include a list of the planned and scheduled changes such as the great rep-recalc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some reason that this does not already exist? Can The Team be so kind to tell us whenever they remove or add a feature? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T04:10:13.357" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T04:10:13.357" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T05:07:39.883" Title="Why isn't there a change list?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;revisions-list&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T05:48:15.963" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I discovered that the new point policy hasn't been applied to StackExchange. I just voted up someone's question and he got a whopping 10 points, instead of 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are SE sites follow SOFU sites on upvote point changes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T09:21:00.827" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T11:51:01.407" Title="Why the 5+ for Upvotes Changes is Not Applied to StackExchange Sites?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="43760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43759" CreationDate="2010-03-24T05:51:50.223" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackExchange is actually a fork of the Stack Overflow engine codebase.  They are no longer maintained by the same team and as such, Stack Exchange sites do not get the same updates that the SOFU sites get.  Likewise, changes made to Stack Exchange are not immediately implemented here on SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what Jeff &amp;amp; Joel have talked about on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/stackoverflow.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt; the teams still try to share bug fixes, but the requirements for the two engines are being driven by two different groups(people?) now so they cannot be expected to be the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Some related questions:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34764/the-relationship-between-stackoverflow-sites-and-stackexchange-site&quot;&gt;The relationship between stackoverflow sites and stackExchange site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20750/stackexchange-code-updates&quot;&gt;StackExchange code updates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20159/is-the-stackexchange-fork-of-the-code-base-final&quot;&gt;Is the StackExchange fork of the code base “final”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="94928" LastEditorUserId="94928" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T06:05:35.333" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T06:05:35.333" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43759" CreationDate="2010-03-24T05:52:09.987" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Belongs on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4985/will-the-reputation-system-change-reach-stackexchange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Will the reputation system change reach StackExchange?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7586" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T05:52:09.987" />
  <row Id="43762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T05:52:18.163" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;How does &amp;ldquo;Reputation&amp;rdquo; work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see a table in the FAQ section of SO detailing the points awarded for each action. Is this possible? Is it available somewhere or this is hidden for a purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135658" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T01:57:22.050" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T01:57:22.050" Title="Where can I find information about the points awarded for each action on Stackoverflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="43764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43762" CreationDate="2010-03-24T05:53:54.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;How does &quot;Reputation&quot; work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="59111" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T05:53:54.700" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43719" CreationDate="2010-03-24T07:18:06.220" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24242/acceptable-level-of-code-golf-questions/24258#24258&quot;&gt;unofficial code golf guidelines&lt;/a&gt;. Besides the fact that you should read it &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;, here's the most interesting part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low rep users:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New users are strongly discouraged from posting code golf questions until they fully understand the specific circumstances under which these challenges are considered appropriate. You have been warned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether it's written down there or not: &lt;em&gt;This should be a given.&lt;/em&gt; You are yourself aware that questions like this are a gray area. Taking some measures to inform yourself what things to take into account before posting this question should be an obvious step. This should include reading the inevitable discussions on the comment threads of those questions; but &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43719/why-do-people-allow-code-golf-but-not-other-competitions#comment-99298&quot;&gt;you didn't even bother&lt;/a&gt; to at least read some of the questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, instead of saying &quot;Okay, code golf is allowed, so my question should be, too&quot; just because there are (currently) &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/code-golf&quot;&gt;128 questions tagged [code-golf]&lt;/a&gt; on SO, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bcode-golf%5d%20closed:0&quot;&gt;of which 122 are open&lt;/a&gt;, you should have &lt;em&gt;looked&lt;/em&gt; at some of them to see how the community reacts to certain things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, after having understood the &quot;circumstances under which these challenges are considered appropriate&quot; you should have made the decision whether to post or not, and if so, what things to watch out for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T07:18:06.220" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="43771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43773" CreationDate="2010-03-24T08:03:57.843" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;After using SO, for sometimes, I realize that I got some problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2505697/how-to-code-feature-on-checking-visitor-ip-address-in-php&quot;&gt;Zen masters fighting each other&lt;/a&gt; on one of my question. Every side have their own arguments and everybody seem right. Frankly, this confuses me: &lt;strong&gt;How can I choose somebody's answer where I don't know the right answer?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I would like to propose the feature &lt;em&gt;I choose this, because&lt;/em&gt; for a user who asked. So at least he/she can explain why he has chosen the particular answer. Maybe it's silly, but as somebody who's getting helps from others' answers, I would like to know everybody get what they deserve. Usually in this kind of situation, I just upvote every good answer and check the one I think the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second feature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every hot question always got plenty answers and comments. If a debate starts among the answerers, it could become hectic. Right now there is only the possibility to sort answers based on &lt;strong&gt;oldest, newest votest&lt;/strong&gt;. So, is it possible to make a new sort based on timeline what make comment and answer collide. I believe it will be more easy to read. This feature can only be seen by the person who creates the question, or also for public. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144744" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T08:42:07.117" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T08:42:07.117" Title="Where can I give feedback on a new SO feature?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43771" CreationDate="2010-03-24T08:05:14.813" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144701" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T08:20:11.743" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T08:20:11.743" />
  <row Id="43773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43771" CreationDate="2010-03-24T08:27:32.537" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;strong&gt;I choose this because&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; feature is already there. Simply write a comment to the answer that you accepted with your reasoning, and possibly also on the answers that you decided not to accept. Also, you can upvote all of the answers which are helpful in solving your problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;sort based on timeline what make comment and answer collide&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, the feature actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2505697/timeline&quot;&gt;exists&lt;/a&gt;. Do keep in mind, though, that SO is not meant to be Yet Another BB, and dicussion is not really what it is meant for. For the same reason, questions which are likely to spawn much discussion and arguments are usually closed as &quot;subjective and argumentative&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question seems to be somewhat special. It sure is a valid technical question, but still a few other users have managed to get them self into into some sort of discussion/dispute. If you feel that someone is &quot;over the line&quot;, attacking the other party, please to flag the comment, and a moderator will have a look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139369" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T08:27:32.537" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43771" CreationDate="2010-03-24T08:27:46.450" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding your &lt;em&gt;second feature&lt;/em&gt; (Btw, it's best to ask separate issues in separate questions), there is a timeline view of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2505697/timeline&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2505697/timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See here for more information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36303/feedback-request-new-timeline-question-view&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T08:27:46.450" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2010-03-24T08:33:33.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cleanest syntax I think would be something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;# Python:&#xA;&#xA;import this&#xA;this.eat()&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, a language-specific comment mark, space, language identifier on the first line. Of course, &quot;Py&quot;, &quot;Python 2.6&quot; and misspellings like &quot;Pyton&quot; should work as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145161" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T08:33:33.750" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43759" CreationDate="2010-03-24T09:21:00.827" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside practicalities (e.g., StackExchange fork, etc.), I think it has more to with the fact that different StackExchange sites will want to strike a different balance between encouraging questions and answers. I'm sure it's a configuration parameter (I expect it always was, but even if not, I'd be shocked if they went in and changed one hardcoded number to another, having found they had to revisit it once).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T09:21:00.827" />
  <row Id="43777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23211" CreationDate="2010-03-24T09:41:06.247" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I find it frustrating that I can post comments on SO (where I am both a questioner and an answerer) but not on SU ( where I tend mainly to ask).  Particulalry annoying where your comment is borderline between an answer and a cooment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be possbile to somehow pool reputation between the sites for the purpose of comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130180" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T09:41:06.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43781" CreationDate="2010-03-24T10:34:38.267" Score="0" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;After posting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2499484/how-to-share-internet-connection-on-mac-os-x-to-virtualbox-vms-using-host-only&quot;&gt;question on Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;, which was the only one I knew before, I saw that there was Server Fault. Since my issue was not dev related but platform related, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/125337/how-to-share-internet-connection-on-mac-os-x-to-virtualbox-vms-using-host-only&quot;&gt;reposted it on Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;. But then someone on Stack Overflow advised that it should be posted on Super User. The Stack Overflow team took care of &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/123290/how-to-share-internet-connection-on-mac-os-x-to-virtualbox-vms-using-host-only&quot;&gt;migrating the question&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Asking to forgive the newb error :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145165" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T12:01:06.423" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T12:01:06.423" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T11:57:54.897" Title="Ended up posting the same question on the 3 sites. Hope it is not that bad!" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;&lt;all-sites&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43778" CreationDate="2010-03-24T10:39:26.807" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rule of thumb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Programming related? Ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer related, and the computer with the problem is not your personal computer but rather you are administering it for someone else? &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com&quot;&gt;Server Fault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer related, and the computer is your PC? &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com&quot;&gt;Super User&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T10:39:26.807" />
  <row Id="43781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43778" CreationDate="2010-03-24T10:40:43.020" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are forgiven. Now go and spread the joy and word of all that it is the mighty Trilogy :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T10:40:43.020" />
  <row Id="43783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T11:42:07.027" Score="0" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like a way to find questions that might be of interest to me, that are not neccesarily marked with one of my &quot;Interesting&quot; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe something that mines viewing history like iTunes &quot;Genius&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;edit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is to correlate similar user viewing behaviours in order to provide &quot;suggested reading&quot;.&#xA;I'm presuming that the data dumps don't allow us to see who viewed what questions, due to the anonymity requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can already see which questions get the most views, fewest answers, and so on using existing features.  If I want to answer questions I can browse under Unanswered (as several people have usefully suggested) for questions tagged with subjects I'm interested in.  Most of the existing views are sorted lists, with the sort based on some metric (views, votes, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there might be questions (even ones with answers) that would be interesting to me, but they don't have that many views or votes in total - they are in the long tail.  But if a few users with similar viewing history to me look at those, then they would be valid items for the &quot;suggested reading&quot; list, especially if not in my preferred or ignored tag sets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the blissfully unaware, Apple's iTunes has an opt-in feature (&quot;Genius&quot;) that uploads media play information to Apple central.  Some algorithm then collates that against similar data from other users, and comes up with suggested items to purchase from the store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;end-of-edit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138400" LastEditorUserId="138400" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T23:16:35.890" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:16:35.890" Title="Stack Overflow &quot;Genius&quot; Content Finder" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43783" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:08:11.427" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the same sort of relationships of what movies and music you like exist with what programming questions/answers you'll like?  I doubt it.  I think that &lt;code&gt;random&lt;/code&gt; is right and you should just browse unanswered.  That's what introduced me to &lt;code&gt;jquery&lt;/code&gt; which I'm now learning.  If you're insistent on having a tool, try coding something that suits your self, maybe as a &lt;code&gt;GreaseMonkey&lt;/code&gt; script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T12:08:11.427" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:18:51.080" Score="3" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've all seen the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=reputation&amp;amp;sort=newest&amp;amp;pagesize=15&quot;&gt;excessive number of questions&lt;/a&gt; on MSO about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent reputation recalc&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems to me that the change was communicated in &lt;em&gt;every reasonable way&lt;/em&gt;, but many seem to be able to miss the information bars on the sites, and on MSO when they go to ask about it.  Is there anything else that could have been done to improve the process or is this just an example of what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/4/joel-spolsky&quot;&gt;Joel&lt;/a&gt; meant when he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In fact, users can't read anything, and if they could, they wouldn't want to.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is there anything we can generalize from this experience about communicating change in our own projects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; This is not meant as a criticism of the team, but rather a discussion of how we can all improve our user communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastEditorUserId="16487" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T12:36:07.703" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:48:28.257" Title="S[OFU] users don't read?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43785" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:23:04.290" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the change was communicated clearly enough: The bar was/is only shown on Meta. Had it been shown on S(OFU), I'm sure the number of questions would have significantly decreased. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think those users who are not around on Meta much, came here to complain about their reputation change, and overlooked the bar, are necessarily idiots. People don't read everything on a new site, and they don't have to. Putting the bar on SO proper would have worked better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T12:28:08.220" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T12:28:08.220" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43785" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:38:13.083" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the last vote on moderators, a message was displayed in the top info bar (like badge notifications etc.), doing that in this case would have been the most intelligent option, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130064" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T12:38:13.083" />
  <row Id="43788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43785" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:39:29.510" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can reproduce this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Buy take apart furniture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Put it together&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consult the parts list only when you find out that you are missing something. Consult the actual instructions when your end result does not quite resemble the picture on the box. Your version is likely better, at least as far as your own criteria is concerned. Criteria does not equal apathy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, down votes indicate missing parts. I can't fault people for not reading the directions, I seldom do so myself. I like it when people don't read my documentation, they tend to reveal bugs that testers (who read the documentation) have missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try not to get so annoyed, its just human nature. Repetitive inane behavior demands a case in which it can become useful. Find one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also conceivable that some may be conducting &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;breaching experiments&lt;/a&gt;, though meta would be a less than ideal place to conduct them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T17:48:28.257" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:48:28.257" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43790" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:39:30.320" Score="5" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, bounty awards, like all&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;accepted answers&lt;/strong&gt;, are immune to the&#xA;  daily reputation cap and community&#xA;  wiki mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did one answer as commnity wiki mode after I have reached daily rep cap on SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remembered I didn't gain anything on that, and also I don't see on my recalc stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I just want to confirm its not really immume or Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:I understood I can't get anything on CW (and that's fine), but when I read FAQ again today, that make me rethink. So my understanding on FAQ is just wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS:you could find my answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2154384/regex-find-numbers-between-2000-and-3000/2154401#2154401&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T13:36:58.920" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:10:53.627" Title="Accepted Answers really immume to daily reputation cap and community wiki mode?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43789" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:43:43.610" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: It's not a bug; I found an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/revisiting-the-daily-reputation-cap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official source&lt;/a&gt; that indeed says the +15 aren't given for CW posts. This should definitely be made clearer in the FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Previous text:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're right, it should be immune. There should be a line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt; 1   2154401 (15)&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in your rep report. If there isn't, something is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I just checked my own report, I have found the same thing. I'm pretty sure this is a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T14:10:53.627" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:10:53.627" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:56:08.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;jeff@host# hg commit -m &quot;Muhahaah!&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... completely change what I just did&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;jeff@host# hg commit -m &quot;Soon the rebellion will be crushed and young Torvalds will be one of US! ^#^&amp;amp;*$, wait, I hate git&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... completely change what I just did&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;jeff@host# su rms@gnu.org&#xA;&#xA;rms@host: hg commit -m &quot;Now you have no #&amp;amp;$*(&amp;amp; idea WHAT to think or do!&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enuff said. &lt;code&gt;Status: bydesign.&lt;/code&gt; Need proof? Go figure out what to do in order to get the &lt;code&gt;Generalist&lt;/code&gt; badge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Don't tell Jeff that you figured out how the search worked. And here you thought &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fogcreek.com/Kiln/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;they actually used subversion&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T13:23:19.723" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:23:19.723" />
  <row Id="43792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43785" CreationDate="2010-03-24T12:58:26.757" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/141911/aaronaught&quot;&gt;Aaronaught&lt;/a&gt; commented in &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43746/why-my-reputation-reduced-by-chance-closed&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What we need is a big black-on-pink&#xA;  modal dialog in 72-point text that&#xA;  forces users to type out the phrase,&#xA;  in full, &quot;I understand that my&#xA;  reputation has changed as a result of&#xA;  a recent recalculation and do solemnly&#xA;  swear not to ask any new question&#xA;  about said recalculation&quot; before&#xA;  they're allowed to continue using the&#xA;  site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will never, ever get everyone to pay attention, no matter what you do - even a black on pink dialog box with a typed-out answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T12:58:26.757" />
  <row Id="43793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43785" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:06:52.023" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that something like this from time to time is entirely bad.  We had a number of user who obviously care about Stack Overflow and how it works who were completely ignoring meta and the blog.  Perhaps they won't make that mistake in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear: I'm not saying every Stack Overflow user must read the blog and post to meta.  But the more who do, the better, and after you have a certain investment in Stack Overflow you ignore them at your own peril.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:06:52.023" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43796" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:23:22.033" Score="1" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I close my answer then reputation point will be decreased ? I want to close my question because it is related to my another question. And for that question I have posted my own answer to my own question so if I don't close the question also for that question I have to give the same answer.What should I do for that ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:29:01.560" Title="Will reputation points be decreased if I close my own question?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;close&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43794" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:28:24.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you vote to close, voting is still available and rep continues to count (in both directions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you delete your question, then at the next recalc, rep gained from it will be removed. This will also apply, I believe, to any answers on the question. (And note that after a certain number of answers -- the exact count eludes me -- you won't be able to delete the question anymore.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:28:24.290" />
  <row Id="43797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43794" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:29:01.560" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close? no, but you'll need 4 more votes from others. Delete? Yes, but your rep will not drop immediately. If you delete a question or answer that earned up-votes, your rep will drop during the next recalc, which is scheduled at some point before the sun explodes again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(after all, something had to go boom to make the sun the sun, yes?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:29:01.560" />
  <row Id="43798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1765" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:33:59.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As they have again ignored SE Asia, I won't be attending. Or I could spend over 2k to fly back to the US to attend, I'd rather catch the interesting bits on Youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:33:59.203" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-24T13:33:59.203" />
  <row Id="43799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43785" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:49:23.247" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Putting a bar on top of the others sites wouldn't have made the change any more visible or less annoying to people anyway - &lt;em&gt;people don't read.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would, however, have brought the change to the attention of &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; more people who just wouldn't notice without being told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picking and using the right channel for communicating important information is probably the most difficult aspect of this process, and I believe it was done correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that we're only 3 days into the change.  After a week or three it won't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:49:23.247" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43800" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43837" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:51:19.297" Score="9" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been recently a user answering (with more or less good things) to questions on Super User, with all his links to programs made by &quot;linkbucks&quot; (meaning he earns money on each click, because it forces you to see ads before the actual link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/posts/123544/revisions&quot;&gt;an example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should this linkbucks site be added to some black-list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:27:29.870" Title="Should &quot;money&quot; links like linkbucks be blocked on the Trilogy?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;spam&gt;&lt;money-making&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43800" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:55:02.160" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that example is definitely spam.  Please flag it for moderator attention.  If the link eventually takes you someplace useful, you could just edit the answer to go directly there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a blacklist of sites you're not allowed to link to, I'll ask Jeff to add this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T14:03:11.807" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:03:11.807" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T13:59:25.383" Score="0" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43218/rep-repo-man-is-mocking-us&quot;&gt;Rep Repo Man is mocking us!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41288/the-stack-overflow-conspiracy-dont-tell-jeff-im-on-to-him&quot;&gt;The Stack Overflow Conspiracy - don&amp;rsquo;t tell Jeff I&amp;rsquo;m on to him.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was looking at my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;reputation report&lt;/a&gt; (nice feature by the way!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be fairly clear and obvious, especially with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43004/how-do-i-audit-my-reputation/43005#43005&quot;&gt;FAQ/legend kindly provided by Jeff&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am somewhat unclear about a minor detail. The last line of my report shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;** total rep 9434 :)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm sitting there trying to imagine what &quot;:)&quot; means - somehow I suspect that the obvious explanation (it's a smiley face because Jeff just felt like putting it there) is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just being paranoid or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.overthinkingit.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;overthinking it&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T13:59:25.383" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T15:23:14.420" Title="A minor question about the format of reputation report" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T14:04:43.460" Score="10" ViewCount="215" Body="&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;reputation report&lt;/a&gt; shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;** total rep 9434 :)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, on my SO banner, the rep shows as &quot;DVK 9,432●5●33&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which one is correct? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;2&quot; difference makes this unlikely to be related to some timing/lag issue, since I only had a +10 vote and an accept all day today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this is a technical question regarding logic in SO. Not an excuse to rant that reputation is irrelevant OR that it is the reason for existence :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it may relate to double-counting (or not counting) my acceptance of some answer... but no idea how to check that theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-09T07:55:48.603" LastActivityDate="2010-10-09T07:55:48.603" Title="Reputation report total slightly off from SO rep I see?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;&lt;reputation-display&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43805" CreationDate="2010-03-24T14:07:23.973" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reputation report shows your &lt;strong&gt;future rep upon recalc&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably, you've deleted a post with a downvote recently after last recalc (March 21st)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of your post with a downvote has been deleted by 10k+ users or mods after last recalc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note:Once a question is deleted, all the answers on that question also got deleted)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 of your downvoted posts (by you) got deleted as balpha mentioned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T14:12:49.553" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:12:49.553" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43218" CreationDate="2010-03-24T14:08:07.933" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It will be fixed in 6 to 8 weeks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119280" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:08:07.933" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43805" CreationDate="2010-03-24T14:56:58.240" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't--perhaps--accept an answer between opening the rep report and looking at the top of the page did you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T14:56:58.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43811" CreationDate="2010-03-24T15:46:42.177" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I answered a question that deals with a very common problem.  After reading the question title again I realized that very few people would express the question the same way as the person who asked it.  Therefore it would be hard for others to find it and its answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to suggest a new title for a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144171" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:06:03.277" Title="How to appropriately suggest title changes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43810" CreationDate="2010-03-24T15:47:42.053" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edit the title, or leave a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T15:47:42.053" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43810" CreationDate="2010-03-24T15:51:59.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can edit the title yourself if you have 2000 rep points (which you don't), leave a comment asking for such an edit, or maybe even flag the post for moderator attention, explaining your reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T15:51:59.600" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43814" CreationDate="2010-03-24T15:56:49.007" Score="1" ViewCount="50" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21462/undoing-an-old-vote-cannot-be-recast-because-vote-is-too-old&quot;&gt;Undoing an old vote cannot be recast because vote is too old&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2401970/how-to-run-only-the-latest-a-given-test-using-rspec&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2401970/how-to-run-only-the-latest-a-given-test-using-rspec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No upvote/downvote is marked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/anznlg.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if I try to upvote it :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i44.tinypic.com/2ahxxkg.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131061" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T16:01:06.307" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:01:06.307" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T16:01:14.510" Title="Can't upvote an answer" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43813" CreationDate="2010-03-24T16:00:36.993" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This means you had voted for the answer, and then changed your mind and cleared your vote while still in the grace period where changes were allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:00:36.993" />
  <row Id="43815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T16:14:10.073" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, check out this Stack Overflow user's &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/194112?tab=reputationhistory#tab-top&quot;&gt;rep graph&lt;/a&gt;. It's flatlined. At 5,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user has (as I write this) 8 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows no recent activity. (Despite the fact that the user has in fact posted in the highlighted timeframe.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked my own rep graph, and it looks pretty accurate and valid. Anyone know what happened with this guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry no pics and freehand circles this time. Not enough time whilst sitting at work. Anyone who wants to, please feel free to go for it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14048" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:42:20.743" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T17:02:53.077" Title="Weird Rep Graph Behavior" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation-graph&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="43816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43810" CreationDate="2010-03-24T16:27:20.067" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, I'm pro edits only for the reasons of:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1. correcting grammar  / punctuation / and the like (like that one blank between punctuation that everyone freaks about).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2. correcting it in a way that it adds extra info&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All other, in general, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:27:20.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43383" CreationDate="2010-03-24T16:30:05.287" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I certainly believe so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem from my point of view was that my reputation changed in an inexplicable way before the big banner went up at the top of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that instead of just posting a &lt;code&gt;Why did your reputation change? Reputation scoring has changed on all Stack Overflow family sites. Learn more.&lt;/code&gt; banner after the system had already changed, it would have been better if at the start of last week a banner had been posted along the lines of &lt;code&gt;Reputation scoring will be changed this week on all Stack Overflow family sites. Learn more.&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little warning for those of us who don't assiduously follow the blog would have saved a lot of confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138432" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:30:05.287" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-24T16:32:25.360" />
  <row Id="43818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43815" CreationDate="2010-03-24T16:42:20.743" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He do has recent activity list, doesn't he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2091/recentact.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:42:20.743" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2010-03-24T16:52:36.413" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like a combination of these would be best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would suggest is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you can, edit the code to remove the offending information.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This won't remove it from the revision history, but will hide it to minimise the posters exposure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contact team@stackoverflow.com to get the revision history changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never Flagged a post as &quot;Requires Moderator Attention&quot;, so I don't know how 'Loud' that is, so I will leave it to others to suggest whether this is a good option if you don't have enough reputation to edit the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138432" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:52:36.413" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33263" CreationDate="2010-03-24T16:53:16.927" Score="-3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've finally reached 10K, and I agree that flagging is being abused.  Offensive flags should be used for obscenities or directly insulting posts.  Spam flags should be used for those posts that seem to be posted for advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still waiting to see a useful flag in the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot of people are just flagging the post to hurt the user with the -2 lost rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T16:53:16.927" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43383" CreationDate="2010-03-24T17:12:50.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two types of numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The money idea: You can translate the number into other units. One money is two slices of bread, 37 miles are 60 kilometers, and so is one gallon of gasoline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The score idea: Space Invaders at its best: Shoot at things, and number grows. Be happy if you reach a highscore. Same for your number of Facebook friends, the result from your IQ test, and the tidyness of your appartment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can understand Stack Overflow reputation as either of those types.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Understand it as money: 10 rep is one answer upvote. 15 rep is one accepted answer. Just as you would with money, you need an &lt;em&gt;understanding&lt;/em&gt; of how one unit translates to another. If you care deeply about mortgage interest rates, you keep yourself informed. If you want a car that saves you money, you need to learn about energy prices, be informed about technological innovations, taxation advantages for employing reusable energy, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Understand it as score: It's a number. It grows when you do good things and decreases when you write crap. You do good stuff because you like doing good stuff, because it's fun. You shoot each space invader after the other, without each time checking that the score did in fact increase by the appropriate amount.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way of understanding reputation is fine. But if you are one of the first kind, you can be expected to keep yourself informed. If you make your money in selling oil, don't come complaining to the desert when it doesn't have any reserves left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My 2 cents. (That's Euro cents, which translates to approximately 0,0102258376 Deutschmarks.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:12:50.467" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33263" CreationDate="2010-03-24T17:20:22.913" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What could be done to stop the misuse of the spam and offensive flags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;at least according to my definition which isn't very strict&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very subjective.  The reality is that this flagging process is 'owned' by the community, and whatever they decide personally is their limit when it comes to spam or offense is what they will use to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say it's misuse - at best it's merely a different line in the sand than the line that you draw for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose one could start a campaign to force people to narrow their definition of spam and offensive, but I don't see that being terribly productive.  Adding a new flagging reason such as &quot;noise&quot; is just an invite to flag even more posts - not fewer.  I doubt it will cause people to re-categorize posts they consider spammy and offensive to noise in a significant amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that precious few posts and comments are flagged.  The system gets about 1,000 posts a minute (comments, answers, and questions - in that order) and right now there are very few items that are flagged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could hardly say we are being inundated with flags, properly or improperly used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:20:22.913" />
  <row Id="43829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43719" CreationDate="2010-03-24T17:42:03.823" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tub thumping&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe that my portrayal of these arguments is as accurate as it can be in such a brief summary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why bother with brevity? If you're gonna get on a soapbox, then &lt;em&gt;get on a soapbox!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Asking the unanswerable question&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got off to a bad start by asking, &quot;why did people feel it was necessary to close the question?&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...See, the answer to that question is displayed directly below the closed post. Each user votes for their reason when they vote to close, and the majority determines the result. So you already &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; the reason before you came here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that wasn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; your question at all. Your title came closer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why do people allow Code Golf, but not other competitions?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cut to the heart of the matter here: Code Golf questions aren't really &quot;questions&quot; either, but rather competitions wedged into the Q&amp;amp;A format. So why do many CG questions stay open, or get re-opened when closed, while yours did not? &lt;strong&gt;No one person can answer that&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are plenty of rules, guidelines, traditions and opinions about which questions should be allowed on SO, but ultimately the questions that stay open aren't necessarily the ones that follow the rules but those that are well-liked by those who read them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tilting at windmills&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here I'll summarise all of the arguments made against my case and why I disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first few answers you received tried to help you understand why some people &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; not like your question. And you responded to them by arguing that these reasons were invalid... Well, &lt;strong&gt;tough luck&lt;/strong&gt; - the people you responded to weren't the people who closed your question, they were just trying to help you gain a better understanding of the general attitudes on SO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep that in mind: most of the people you'll encounter on SO will &lt;em&gt;never read what you write here&lt;/em&gt;. Yes, you have a soapbox, but it's at the end of a blind alley in a bad part of town. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if you do catch the attention of someone who voted to close your question, you'd better have something more than an appeal to common practice: chances are, at least a few of the folks who voted to close your question have also voted to close the ones you're holding up as examples, and have merely been overridden by other members of the community who are under no obligation to do the same for you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but of course, you hope they &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When you can't inspire awe, go for pity&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all a charade of course. You have no interest in the answers to &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the questions you've asked. I said all this before, in fewer words, only to find that your response was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it is very clear, without requiring to be explicitly stated, that I believe the question should be reopened and that I opened this question to convince people to vote to reopen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you have no interest in learning from your mistakes, improving your question, or better understanding the actions of The Community. You came here looking for sympathy, hoping that by exposing your question to more people you would eventually find a few kind souls willing to allow it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you also found a few more willing to close it again. For the same reason. Within a half hour of it being re-opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the problem with jumping on a soapbox, you see... You get attention, but not always the sort you wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:42:03.823" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43832" CreationDate="2010-03-24T17:48:33.740" Score="2" ViewCount="150" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the daily reputation cap after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reputation scoring changes&lt;/a&gt;? I've noticed that since these changes occurred I still get reputation from upvotes (not accepted answers) even after the 200 daily reputation points. Is this normal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130891" LastEditorUserId="76337" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T19:51:32.023" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T19:51:32.023" Title="What is the new daily reputation cap?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43830" CreationDate="2010-03-24T17:52:43.490" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you had an accepted answer or bounty awarded to you in the day &lt;em&gt;at any time&lt;/em&gt; (that's the change) it doesn't count towards the cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you got an accepted answer when you were at 100, you can get up until 215 from upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you could only pass the 200 mark if you got an accepted answer when you were already at 200.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T17:52:43.490" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43836" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T18:21:37.437" Score="3" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24490/can-we-get-an-indication-comments-are-hidden-between-the-comments&quot;&gt;Can we get an indication comments are hidden between the comments?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a post gets too many comments, the link &quot;Add/show more comments&quot; appears. That's ok, but the problem is, that this can lead to disjointed comment threads: Assume the following comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;        Votes   Comment&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;            1   Comment1 - userX&#xA;            1   Comment2 - userY&#xA;            1   I think userX is correct. - userA&#xA;                @userA: I agree 100%. - userB&#xA;                @userB: But userY also has a good point. - userA&#xA;            1   @userA: I don't think so. - userB&#xA;            1   @userB: Comment7 - userA&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the comments are folded, it appears as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;        Votes   Comment&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;            1   Comment1 - userX&#xA;            1   Comment2 - userY&#xA;            1   I think userX is correct. - userA&#xA;            1   @userA: I don't think so. - userB&#xA;            1   @userB: Comment7 - userA&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Comment 4 and 5 are missing. That's also ok, but it would be great, if there was &lt;strong&gt;some kind of separator&lt;/strong&gt; - maybe an ellipsis &lt;strong&gt;(…)&lt;/strong&gt; - between Comment 3 and Comment 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &quot;Add/show more comments&quot; link can easily be scrolled out of view (and it looks almost exactly the same as the &quot;Add comment&quot; link), this can lead to some confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to point you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24490/can-we-get-an-indication-comments-are-hidden-between-the-comments&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24490/can-we-get-an-indication-comments-are-hidden-between-the-comments&lt;/a&gt; (this was found by AnonJr). Vote over there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144785" LastEditorUserId="144785" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T19:49:55.100" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T19:59:08.390" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T20:00:18.843" Title="Disjointed comment threads (&quot;Add/show more comments&quot;)" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43800" CreationDate="2010-03-24T18:27:29.870" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree these are nasty and unwanted, but I only support blacklisting if it's a recurring problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have one data point; let's revisit this if it becomes pattern-ish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:27:29.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29518" CreationDate="2010-03-24T18:30:07.387" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I agree with Joel C. in that shortened links are &lt;em&gt;occasionally&lt;/em&gt; a necessary evil:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are a few cases where the shortened links are necessary. For example, try linking to anything in the Internet Archive's wayback machine or a screenshot on browsershots.org. The markdown chokes and it just won't work without an intermediary. This makes an outright ban problematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, this is a fairly challenging technical problem, in that it requires us to go through all posts and follow all links -- how do we know which ones are &quot;url shorteners&quot;? The ones on a whitelist? And when do we do this? On a scheduled task or cron job? Every time a post is saved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it might make sense in the short term to just do this the old-fashioned way, with tiny slivers of fractional human effort -- if you see a shortened link that has no &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; to be shortened, then un-shorten it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T18:30:07.387" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-24T19:16:12.780" Score="7" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something I ran into on SO today: OP asked a question, and got and accepted an answer (mine). Then 14 hours later a different user (not the OP) edits the question, so that now it is asking for something slightly different, and proceeds to comment that my answer is wrong and provides his own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this OK behavior? It seems like a ploy to get rep: edit an old question, so that it bumps up to the front page, and so that the answers that were already provided look wrong and your new answer gets votes for being more correct. (None of the new visitors are going to bother to check the edit history.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I roll back the revision to the question? I don't really care, OP has already accepted my answer, and I have better things to do than get in an edit war. It just feels a bit rude, especially since it came from a high-rep user who should know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2505224/how-can-i-match-and-highlight-repeated-consecutive-words-with-a-perl-regular-expr/2505258#2505258&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, if anyone is curious.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T19:38:41.003" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T22:53:50.973" Title="Someone other than OP edits question, then comments that accepted answer is wrong. Is this OK?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-24T19:24:18.377" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://performous.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://zi.fi/shots/performous-ad3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Join the team and enhance the fun&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T19:24:18.377" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-24T19:24:18.377" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43842" CreationDate="2010-03-24T19:26:12.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a difference.  Tellingly, the input and desired output haven't changed.  They are phrased differently, and the question approaches form a slightly different angle in terms of phrasing, but the intent and meaning are clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course if that wasn't/isn't the case and the changes do fundamentally alter what is being requested, then it seems a somewhat underhanded abuse, and it should be flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T19:26:12.290" />
  <row Id="43845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43842" CreationDate="2010-03-24T19:28:59.950" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Brian thinks that the OP was asking the wrong question to solve the problem (which is absurd given the limited context of the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would roll back that title edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, Brian probably didn't have malicious intent, but this is definitely an activity that should not be encouraged. I'd want a mod to peek at this one for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit re my comment in there: I have no intention of editing his questions, I was just making a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T20:12:02.530" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:12:02.530" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="43847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43842" CreationDate="2010-03-24T19:50:10.107" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, he did change the character of the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, he has potentially made the question more generally useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, the latter justifies the former &lt;em&gt;only if&lt;/em&gt; it allows the question to better serve as a source for another (I'll do things like this occasionally upon finding a question that isn't an exact duplicate of one that's just been asked, but contains answers that are applicable to both). Otherwise, it's jumping the gun at best, and mildly abusive at worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously if the OP comes back and indicates (via an edit or a comment somewhere) that he &lt;em&gt;really did&lt;/em&gt; need to match &gt; 2 consecutive duplicates, then it's ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T20:04:20.960" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:04:20.960" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43842" CreationDate="2010-03-24T19:58:59.593" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original question specifically asks to match &quot;double words&quot;, so that is pretty clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be really complete, an answer can contain solutions both to match double words and multiple words, but it's not correct to say that a solution that only matches double words is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that the editing of the question was malicious, but it doesn't look good either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131612" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T19:58:59.593" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24490" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:02:26.763" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Comments are not meant to be discussion between each other, and for that reason they are not threaded. The best voted comments are shown by default with an indicator at the bottom that there are more comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional notification that there are comments between the highlight comments is unnecessary, and adds more UI clutter. It is generally obvious if highlighted comments are directed in response to a non-highlighted comment, and those that are curious can certainly show all comments to see the timing of each.  This is especially true since people are using the &lt;code&gt;@&lt;/code&gt; notification system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, comments are actually not very common, and more than 5 comments in a given post are not very common given the number of posts on the site. Those that are interested in the full details of discussion on a particular post are easily able to view the whole thing in order with a single click, and are notified that there are more with that message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding more UI clutter without simply going full out to a threaded comment system doesn't really make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:02:26.763" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43854" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:06:15.153" Score="2" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a Guru badge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2508945/can-anyone-explain-this-strange-behaviour/2509174#2509174&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, and I still (after 3 hours) haven't gotten Nice Answer and Good Answer badges for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, Eric Lippert got an Enlightened badge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2508828/where-to-learn-about-vs-debugger-magic-names/2509524#2509524&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, but still hasn't gotten a Nice Answer badge for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="13295" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-05T20:26:16.923" LastActivityDate="2010-04-05T20:26:16.923" Title="What happened to the Nice / Good Answer badges?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;nice-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43851" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:10:02.610" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible that answers for which you received Nice Answer and Good Answer have been deleted.  When the badge process runs, it checks to see if you have the correct number of a given type of badge, and only if you have fewer than you should does it award one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if a previously marked Nice Answer was deleted, then you met the requirements again, it wouldn't award you with another one until you had more Nice Answers than you have Nice Answer badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to your user page you have 52 answers voted 10 or higher, but 54 Nice Answer Badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While your old badges will not be taken away, you will not receive another Nice Answer badge until after you have 55 answers with a vote total of 10 or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:10:02.610" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2008-11-15T05:31:19.030" Score="5" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10811/&quot;&gt;How to ask and answer homework questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I started to answer a question, then stopped because it looks like a homework assignment.&#xA;What is the proper etiquette/response? Downvote the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-07T03:54:25.997" ClosedDate="2010-03-24T20:21:02.120" Title="Has SO become Cliffs Notes/Do My homework site for CS students" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;homework&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2008-11-15T05:34:04.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40219/what-is-the-policy-here-on-homework&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3415" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2008-11-15T05:34:11.600" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they wanna water down their very expensive education, let them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't feel it's my place to prevent someone from cheating. If it's a good programming question, I'll answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2008-11-15T05:35:13.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to be closed but: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually I just ignore it. Downvoting doesn't seem quite right as this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a place to ask questions, but at the same time, I don't feel like helping people who just post assignements here verbatim and wait for the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the difference is whether they've made an attempt to solve it or not. &quot;Can you help me out here, I've got x far but I can't figure out why this won't work? &lt;em&gt;paste code&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is much more acceptable and appropriate than a broad open-ended question that's obviously been posed by a teacher with no effort made by the poster to give their opinion on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former option there is quite a fun thing to help with and it's nice to give people pointers that make it 'click' without actually giving them the solution. When I was a student of other topics I'd occasionally post to online forums when I really couldn't grok why my formulas, etc, weren't working and I was always really grateful when someone gave me a nudge in the right direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care about 'cheating', I just think it's a matter of manners. Usually the people who post their assignment as-is are just here to use the community and not give anything back. It's the same as if someone who worked as a programmer posted here asking for someone to write something he needs done for work. Can you imagine the response to, &quot;My boss needs me to write a custom CMS, can you post the codes please?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="162463" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2008-11-15T05:43:19.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also answered at &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/230510/homework-on-stackoverflow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow isn't that unique.  There are plenty of programmer help sites out there.  If you're worried about StackOverflow being overrun with &quot;do my homework&quot; questions, go visit a few others that have been around a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will certainly get certain kinds of questions at certain times of year that correspond with semester or midterm projects wrapping up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2008-11-21T06:34:58.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always appreciated help when I was a C.S. student, and feel that I owe the same measure of help to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2009-03-20T14:39:54.950" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel more compelled to help a CS student if the they have put forth effort to solve the problem on their own.  Everyone gets stuck sometimes, I would have loved to have a site like this to refer to when I was in school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138924" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2009-03-20T14:46:01.830" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;With homework questions I find answering with how to solve the problem helpful, solving the problem for them isn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2009-03-20T14:53:26.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends how you answer and how they ask, We're here asking for help from others so why shouldn't they? Programming is about learning and not immediately knowing the solution to any given problem at any point. So if they ask legitimate questions regarding a language or structure issue then I think they deserve the help, especially as their asking is setting a good precedent and shows they care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however they ask you something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I needs make a program to work out latest currency and change it to other currency, Help me do this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then that's going to be closed pretty fast as that is not a question, it's a request for you to do their work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="35454" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:11:57.960" />
  <row Id="43864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43855" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:15:28.113" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has SO become Cliffs Notes/Do My homework site for CS students&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No more so than Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:15:28.113" />
  <row Id="43865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43888" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:27:41.510" Score="13" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;SO Careers does not allow the month of October to be spelled out in any date field (&lt;code&gt;Oct&lt;/code&gt; works fine) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could that possibly happen?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastEditorUserId="130213" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T00:02:23.057" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T00:02:23.057" Title="What does Careers have against October?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32311" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:27:52.663" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To post a counter argument to this (though I agree with the points made).  If duplicates were deleted then the problem with lots of questions getting lots of points would be less prevalent.  (As the rep from upvotes would be lost on the next recalc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that could have deterred the &quot;halfing the points for questions&quot; change.  (Or at least if dupes did not gain rep. it may have been able to make the change less needful.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:27:52.663" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43869" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:28:37.217" Score="1" ViewCount="56" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2063/large-blank-gap-between-question-list-and-pager&quot;&gt;Large blank gap between question list and pager&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no clue about HTML and everything related, but I guess this is not what it is meant to be (ie a bug), so I'll try and describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When opening the &quot;Unanswered Questions&quot; page on SO, I see some questions on the left and the usual sidebar on the right. Scrolling down, I've got multiple pages of nothing but space, then finally the footer. I think this space should not be there. It is about the same for each of &lt;code&gt;my tags&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;newest&lt;/code&gt;, and &lt;code&gt;votes&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a shot in the blue, but could this be related to having many ignored tags?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not experience this on the usual &quot;Questions&quot; page, so I wondered why it is only on the Unanswered page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39590" LastEditorUserId="39590" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T23:00:50.327" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T23:00:50.327" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T08:34:41.287" Title="The &quot;Unanswered&quot; page contains lots of useless space" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43927" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:35:40.787" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;About an hour or two ago I went and added a comment to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Recalc Blog post&lt;/a&gt; on blog.stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment has still not shown up.  I thought maybe it got lost in translation, so I tried to add it again.  (I had saved a copy.)  When I did this it told me that I had already submitted this comment (so I know it got received).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are comments moderated? Or are they not allowing comments on this post anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: This was my comment (in case someone has any idea why this would not be allowed to be posted).  It was in response to this post by Jeff: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/#comment-45446&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/#comment-45446&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I should note that this question rebalancing is based&#xA;    on 6+ months of meta.stackoverflow.com feedback on &#xA;    the subject — so it is coming from the community, as &#xA;    well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True that there was a problem with people asking lots of lame questions.  But the idea to half all question points was not from meta (at least as far as I could see).  It got posted on meta by Jeff and then cemented in 5 hours later (by posting it as a plan on the blog).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the point that &quot;this is just another reminder, all this talk about “it’s all about the community!” to the contrary, [this change shows] who’s really in charge&quot; has some weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with JohnMcG.  Jeff built it, he can do what he wants with it.  But, while the community gets to comment on meta all they want, in the end it is an owned product and unilateral decisions can be (and were) made and put in to effect with little to no feed back from the &quot;community&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T09:00:52.410" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T09:00:52.410" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T00:25:15.267" Title="Are comments moderated on blog.stackoverflow.com?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;blog&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43867" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:36:49.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you have the &quot;Hide ignored tags&quot; option set in your preferences, the questions matching your ignored tags will be removed from the page completely (instead of greyed out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all of the questions on the page match with your ignored tags, then the whole page will be empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the pagination controls (1 2 3 4 5 .. Next) always appear at the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:36:49.290" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43868" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:41:53.500" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just left two comments, one to the above linked post, and one to the latest podcast post.  Neither comment showed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last comment was on the 22nd, and things were getting a bit out of hand, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were being moderated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd expect them to just close comments on that one post, though, and direct people to continue the conversation on meta, and leave the other posts alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T20:41:53.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43842" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:43:47.913" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I saw the question and read the answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I pointed out that some answers, including the accepted one, were limited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I provided my own answer for the more general case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I pointed out in my answer that I use this example in my Learning Perl book. I've actually thought quite a bit about this particular problem for the book and the classes I teach.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As I have done with the thousands of other Perl questions, I made the title an actual question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did not edit the body of the question, change the inputs, or change the desired outputs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Despite allegations to the contrary, I wasn't trying to kick this to the front page. I answered and edited the title at essentially the same time, just like I do every morning when I go through the new Perl questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People don't have a problem with just the content of my answer, although they are downvoting me because they don't like that I made the comment to Kip's original, accepted answer. Eric Storm also commented with essentially the same content, and by the comment vote count, many people agreed with that. I don't think Kip's answer gives the questioner enough information to solve his potential problem, just the immediate problem. One of the biggest problems that newbies have with questions is that they don't know the scope of their problem. That's why they typically ask imprecise and short questions with very limited sample input. Answering exactly what a newbie asks leaves them with only half the stuff they need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some people misinterpreted what I did and took offense. I don't think there is any actual argument here about the actual question, the proper answer, or the proper title. However I did things, no matter how many times I've done this before, this time people thought I was a jerk. Once they decided I was a jerk, that's how they framed everything and how they voted. That's why no one bothered to try to work within Stackoverflow to solve this problem. There never was an edit war. There was a progression of edits, each by different people, that each improved on the last edit. Since they thought I was a jerk, they thought there would be an edit war and made this pre-emptive strike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not really concerned about that. I want to give the best answer to the question, and make the question as maximally useful to other people as possible. I've been doing this for many, many years and as part of the core Perl documentation. I'm a writer, and writing is editing and considering intent, etc. I'm not particularly attached to the exact words I use for any particular question title. At the same time people question my ability to intuit the actual question, they are quite confident in their own ability to interpret my actions. Most of this seems to stem from their fear of me gaining reputation points. That is, I don't think anyone would care if I did the same exact things without being in a position to get rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of that, I'm going to remove all of my comments from the SO question. Since you are afraid of my rep, I'll also make the answer community wiki. You can fight it out here. The future public doesn't care about our squabbles; they only want the answer to their questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, I'm leaving the question alone. I think the current title is fine. I would have thought it was fine before this tempest in a teapot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136666" LastEditorUserId="136666" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T22:34:49.093" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T22:34:49.093" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43842" CreationDate="2010-03-24T20:59:11.713" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than approaching this generally, let's stick to the specifics of this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original title: &lt;em&gt;Highlight the double Words&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Kip's title: &lt;em&gt;Regular expression to highlight duplicate words in a string&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Brian's title: &lt;em&gt;How can I match and highlight repeated consecutive words with a Perl regular expression?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brian correctly captures the OP's intent of &quot;double words&quot;, as I read the entire original question, rather than &quot;duplicate words&quot;.  The latter implies that for &quot;A B ... A&quot;, A would be a duplicate.  (The title change is the only edit Brian made.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shog9's title: &lt;em&gt;How can I highlight consecutive duplicate words with a Perl regular expression?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shog9 removes the redundant &quot;match and&quot; and changes &quot;repeated consecutive&quot; to &quot;consecutive duplicate&quot;.  This is perhaps a better wording, but it maintains the same clarification that Brian made!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brian's comment on your question had nothing to do with his title edit, and you're conflating the situation, then taking offense.  Providing a better answer to a question that has already has an accepted answer should be encouraged&amp;mdash;especially when the OP is relatively new to the site and appears to have made a snap judgement by accepting within an hour of posting.  I see no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fair to say you misunderstood, and I'd just move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Regarding bumping:&lt;/em&gt;  His answer had already bumped the question.  The question edit was about 20 minutes later, so while this could conceivably be primarily for the purpose of bumping, a look at his activity page shows he was reading at least one other question and  came back to edit the title.  As Brian shares in a comment below, he was working on something related during that time, but &lt;em&gt;he shouldn't have to account for his time&lt;/em&gt;.  I often work on multiple things at once, as I imagine most do.  (And if I couldn't, I'd never be able to use MSOFU. :P)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T22:53:50.973" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2010-03-24T21:01:44.347" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a lot of discussion about the problems caused by those who post tons of questions just to get reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now with the latest rep change and recalc, those who abuse this have had their points halved.  (Along with those that did not abuse.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it be a good idea that any question that is closed as a duplicate has the points given to the questioner revoked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T21:01:44.347" />
  <row Id="43875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43876" CreationDate="2010-03-24T21:23:44.883" Score="0" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like SO is dedicated to questions, but one thing that would be useful would be for people to share something they learned.  E.g. Recently I had an issue where I discovered IIS 7 is locked down so that even URL encoded strings which in turn contain an Ampersand are blocked from access.  To fix it required a Registry entry change, something I discovered only was referenced in two obscure places on the internet.  While I could have asked the SO community and waited for a bounty, one other option other than answering my own question would be to post the problem and solution.  I think there are community questions and wikis, but it may be useful to have a third element called something like Lessons Learned or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136720" LastEditorUserId="130494" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T21:51:57.757" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T22:08:46.127" Title="Why must everything be a question?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43875" CreationDate="2010-03-24T21:24:47.410" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the usual (and if I remember correctly, officially encouraged) way is in fact asking the question, and answering it by oneself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As earlz points out, this is not a very widespread practice. That, however, is no reason not to put valuable content onto SO. I would say if your &quot;monologue&quot; question gets closed because people don't like your answering your own question, take the case here on Meta. If it's a good, valid question, you will most likely get good feedback here, the question reopened, and a meta link preventing future closures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-24T22:08:46.127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T22:08:46.127" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="43877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43875" CreationDate="2010-03-24T21:50:54.573" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is perfectly fine to document the issue you solved by asking a question and answering your own question. Just keep the time between the question and answer short (e.g. prepare it in advance). You can also leave a comment to your question explaining why you answered your own question and perhaps add a reference to one of the articles below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the answers to these questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17463/is-it-poor-etiquette-to-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Is it poor etiquette to answer your own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/12513/stackoverflow-should-i-answer-my-own-question-or-not&quot;&gt;Should I answer my own question, or not?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15007/why-could-it-be-considered-gaming-the-system-if-you-answer-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Why could it be considered gaming the system if you answer your own question?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17845/etiquette-for-answering-your-own-question&quot;&gt;Etiquette for answering your own question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23712/consistently-answering-your-own-questions&quot;&gt;Consistently Answering your Own Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T21:50:54.573" />
  <row Id="43879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43882" CreationDate="2010-03-24T22:14:10.227" Score="11" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just came across this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/not-jquery&quot;&gt;[not-jquery]&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think this is poor use of the tagging system. The question already states that the user wants a solution that does not require jQuery. Tagging it as such doesn't provide any extra classification benefits. If it's not jQuery related, it just shouldn't be tagged [jquery].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Following this same pattern I could also tag this question &quot;not-waffles&quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Should I remove it?&lt;/strike&gt; (done)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130715" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T23:19:46.913" Title="Anti tags - Valid use or not?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43879" CreationDate="2010-03-24T23:03:32.337" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed. Your essential argument has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27666/questions-with-tag-not-programming-related-is-closed-by-marking-it-as-not-pro/27667#27667&quot;&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34503/should-the-possible-homework-tag-be-discouraged&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've gone ahead and removed those tags, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2511681/what-is-the-best-way-to-limit-text-input-entry-to-numbers-lowercase-letters-and&quot;&gt;only&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2033184/javascript-getelementsbycustomtagvalue&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/876115/how-can-i-determine-if-a-div-is-scrolled-to-the-bottom&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; used it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Copied from my now-deleted comments, which also means this answer might be accepted and the question doesn't have to linger in unanswered status as far as the system is concerned.  Though I suppose it could be closed as a duplicate or too localized.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T23:03:32.337" />
  <row Id="43883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43865" CreationDate="2010-03-24T23:10:36.917" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Confirmed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/RedOctoberError.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get a similar error with &lt;code&gt;Oct 2005-2007&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking someone misspelled October in the date checking code.  I should win a Pony if I'm right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Red October conspiracy (as noted in the question comments) seems to be more likely given the color of the error box, and the month that causes the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crazy Ivan indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T23:10:36.917" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43358" CreationDate="2010-03-24T23:17:46.947" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, objective-c can and does often apply to iPhone questions.  Some iPhone related questions can be answered without an objective-c solution, but many do involve the language.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please propose a list of iPhone tags that should be changed or merged for discussion (probably in a separate question) and see what others think.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, XCode and iPhone are not synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T23:17:46.947" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43879" CreationDate="2010-03-24T23:19:46.913" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to be the odd one here and say that it is marginally valid to use anti-tags. The use being for something like &lt;code&gt;How do I apply a CSS selector with javascript&lt;/code&gt; and of course, 3 or 4 people will probably suggest some very simple jQuery code. If their boss doesn't allow them to use jQuery, then that answer is not helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, I'd say it's ok to apply anti-tags.. They do look kinda weird though... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T23:19:46.913" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-24T23:30:26.533" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pre-edit #1:&#xA;Ramble about figuring out at a much later date how relevant this topic is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2813871/how-to-hash-a-password&quot;&gt;how to hash...&lt;/a&gt;. And then the importance of discussing this topic: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/49608/how-do-i-answer-a-question-when-doing-so-might-facilitate-a-train-wreck&quot;&gt;How do I answer...&lt;/a&gt;.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A crappy answer that has nothing to do with the question - but who cares because it's at the bottom of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Attempt to explain how the question was misunderstood and overly apologetic - and go into great detail how rude the biting comments are while explaining that we are all human and tend to make mistakes - except for the OP, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT2: Blame my misunderstanding on @David Thornley's awful editing of the question. Explain how my answer would have been correct if someone had left the question alone...I think - maybe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastEditorUserId="142742" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-12T00:46:11.217" LastActivityDate="2010-05-12T00:46:11.217" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42384" CreationDate="2010-03-24T23:30:39.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, it's an edge case that is probably not worth fixing (yet - if ever).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, in the long discussions regarding the views (12.4 kviews vs 12k views) Jeff indicated that precision was important, and thus they weren't planning on postfixing numbers with k, m, etc.  Although you can see that they do with some question views (such as the highest voted questions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, precision is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; important on the page itself - when people vote, they want to see the number increment.  It will be very dissatisfying to vote up, and see &lt;code&gt;1.12k&lt;/code&gt; change to &lt;code&gt;1.12k&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect that 4 digits (up to 9999) will be sufficient for quite some time, and since it's an uncommon edge case anyway, a fix is unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-24T23:30:39.110" />
  <row Id="43888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43865" CreationDate="2010-03-25T00:00:19.967" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time Frames are... complex.  This is (yet another) error resulting from tightening the data entry constraints on Time Frames .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suffice to say that there (was) a point in the time frame parsing code where we split it into two different strings that can be converted directly into DateTimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was accomplished with something roughly equivalents to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Regex.Split(timeFrame, @&quot;to|-&quot;);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact explanation of the error is left as an exercise to the reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;We of course haven't written our own date parsing code, as down that path lies wailing and much gnashing of teeth.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130213" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T00:00:19.967" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="43889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43890" CreationDate="2010-03-25T00:26:28.160" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry - I haven't found any other place to put this question. But I have a question regarding reputation and deleted answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One question (I can provided link) had not quite clear question about assembly. However the word assembly was not mentioned at the time anywhere (only x86) and it was marked homework and was marked by tag C.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seeing C tag and homework - i.e. having no idea that the question is about assembly - I answered the question.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Afterward (after few hours) the assembly tag was added&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then, as my question was indeed out-of-topic at this moment I was marked down -  I belive everyone in good faith but still.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had 2 options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vote for deletion of my post as it is out-of-topic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explian the situation and wait until unvote to delete of answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I choose the first option as 1. I have no chance of contacting person who voted down 2. it would left a question with wrong answer 3. I heard that after deletion of post the reputation does not count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it seems that markdown is permanent (at least - the change is propagated slower then other changes in reputation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can I ask for clarification for the reputation and deleted answers? Maybe only positive reputation don't count any longer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any chance of getting reputation back. I don't have enought time to spent on stackoverflow to 'hunt' for questions so even 2 points are (or may be rather feel) valuable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS. I'm not quite sure how to classify this question - discussion or support. I marked as support by sorry if it is mistag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144902" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T00:29:39.547" Title="Getting reputation back after marking down a question that was clarified afterwards" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;&lt;deleted-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43889" CreationDate="2010-03-25T00:29:39.547" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to flag the moderator and ask for a reputation recalc to get the deleted votes to not count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13295" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T00:29:39.547" />
  <row Id="43891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41976" CreationDate="2010-03-25T00:49:24.033" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unexplainably late reply with poor spelind and grammer by low-rep user that includes a suspicious &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/rickroll3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spammy-looking but still ambiguous link&lt;/a&gt; to something that might actually solve the problem, if only the web page didn't make your eyes bleed and head explode from looking at it because the background is yellow and the site uses frames and looks like it might be a direct word-for-word translation from the original Chinese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unnecessary closing greeting,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Vaguely foreign-sounding first name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T03:30:21.347" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-05-12T07:22:25.963" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43868" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:01:08.970" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they're moderated, but there's also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/33117/are-comments-broken-on-blog-stackoverflow-com&quot;&gt;spam trap&lt;/a&gt; that sometimes gets clogged or something (or maybe Jeff just has it tuned to filter out comments about people gaming the Taxonomist badge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T01:01:08.970" />
  <row Id="43893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39863" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:24:42.580" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick fix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;.mini-counts {&#xA;    margin-left: -4px;&#xA;    letter-spacing: -2px;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Report back when it overflows 9999, then I'll think about it once again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T01:24:42.580" />
  <row Id="43894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43895" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:29:51.110" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was away from stackoverflow.com for a few more hours than usual, and, when I turned up, I had a stack of notifications. One of them was that someone had answered a question of mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time I'd waded through the other notifications, that one was gone, and I'm stupidly unable to figure out how to use my user page to see what the most recent answer is to a question of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T01:40:26.287" Title="Someone answered a question, but which one?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="43895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43894" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:40:26.287" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Order your questions by recent activity.  This will show edits in addition to answers, but it should be easy enough to wade through them to find the one you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i39.tinypic.com/287p09k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T01:40:26.287" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:43:51.993" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently awarded the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/280730/nvl&quot;&gt;enthusiast&lt;/a&gt; badge, while my profile shows I have been member for 28 days, instead of the required 30 for the badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/20u4xlg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;proof!!!11one&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I have been at SO for 30 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143903" LastEditorUserId="2598" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-23T02:55:49.260" LastActivityDate="2010-07-23T02:55:49.260" Title="Enthusiast badge in 28 days!" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;enthusiast-badge&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43896" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:47:45.027" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it is somehow related to the 28 day month of February. Whether the flaw is in the calculation of the badge, or the number on the profile, it can probably be tracked back to February.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T01:47:45.027" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="43898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43900" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:56:52.730" Score="6" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen posts which have the same answers repeated over 5 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could understand if another person posted the same answer while you were posting yours, but sometimes the difference between an answer and the other is small enough to see that other person already gave that answer and it's not necessary to duplicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do people duplicate another answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="156246" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T20:12:56.790" Title="Why duplicate an answer?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;duplicate-answers&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43898" CreationDate="2010-03-25T01:59:22.940" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably just because it's an easy way to get some reputation, especially if the answer is short. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't believe that the &quot;other answers&quot; popup comes up immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143209" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-01-10T20:12:56.790" LastActivityDate="2011-01-10T20:12:56.790" />
  <row Id="43901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43896" CreationDate="2010-03-25T02:03:47.907" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that it is to be tracked back to February. That would have been a technically unintuitive calculation. It also actually doesn't calculate how long you've been a member. But it calculates how long you've visited SO consecutively and awards if it hits 30 days. Maybe this information is cookie-related and you've already visited SO 2 consecutive days before you registered yourself and became a member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T02:03:47.907" />
  <row Id="43902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43898" CreationDate="2010-03-25T02:07:18.017" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes 5 people do type their answers in parallel and all click save more or less at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138822" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T02:07:18.017" />
  <row Id="43903" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T02:25:41.487" Score="3" ViewCount="208" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Conspiracies:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42628/vote-count-is-off-and-why-jeff-is-trying-to-destroy-all-bacon&quot;&gt;Vote Count is Off and why Jeff is trying to destroy all BACON!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41288/the-stack-overflow-conspiracy-dont-tell-jeff-im-on-to-him&quot;&gt;The Stack Overflow Conspiracy - don&amp;rsquo;t tell Jeff I&amp;rsquo;m on to him.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/130154/jonathan-sampson&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sampson&lt;/a&gt; noticed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43865/what-does-careers-have-against-october&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, we cannot trust October. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1288/bill-the-lizard&quot;&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43896/enthusiast-badge-in-28-days&quot;&gt;expanded this suspicion&lt;/a&gt; to February as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Well, I have uncovered the conspiracy!!!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;, which shortened is Oct translates into 8. &lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt; is the 2nd month on the Georgian Calendar. 8 plus 2 equals 10, and and 10th months of the year is October. 10 is also the number of people it takes to make the perfect bacon sandwich. (From piglet to plate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now while I have not witnessed the construction of a perfect bacon sandwhich, rumor has it that the ambassador to the United States from non-other than Germany has. In Germany, they soak their bacon in beer, as to make it taste significantly different than American bacon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ambassador has a secret cover up mission. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He intends to soak all of the United States bacon with enough alcohol that while it tastes delicious, it causes everyone to become drunk in the morning. This is obviously an unacceptable way to go to work, so everyone who consumes bacon will be fired from their jobs thus increasing the unemployment rate. This will cause the ambassador from France to go up in arms and declare that no one should eat bacon any more, and instead switch to the Italian alternative porchetto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will cause the entire American bacon industry to go up in smoke as millions of French Americans make the switch from American made bacon to porchetto. This bacon industry is a very strong supporter of another breakfeast food industry that will, due to the lack of American bacon, go up in flames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What industry is this? The Waffle Industry! Creators of the Waffle Bunny!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Oolong_last_head_performance.jpg/601px-Oolong_last_head_performance.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, never trust October OR February as if you do, waffles will forever be extinguished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;That is all.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: If you want to find out how Jeff Atwood is contributing to the destruction of bacon, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42628/vote-count-is-off-and-why-jeff-is-trying-to-destroy-all-bacon&quot;&gt;click here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T16:42:33.033" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:42:33.033" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T15:39:41.570" Title="Why we cannot trust October or February. (It has to do with BACON!!!)" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;&lt;bacon&gt;&lt;conspiracy-theory&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20570" CreationDate="2010-03-25T02:56:24.870" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/3114/86074094.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;AC/DC sticker from last tour - PyAr - FF - Software  Libre Argentina - Beer brewery - Stack Overflow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks to Tom Ritter for giving me some stickers!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T02:56:24.870" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37810" CreationDate="2010-03-25T02:56:41.953" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am indexing all users on all sites here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1573/stackusers-com-all-users-all-the-time&quot;&gt;http://stackapps.com/questions/1573/stackusers-com-all-users-all-the-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="144906" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-20T13:55:35.670" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T13:55:35.670" />
  <row Id="43908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2231" CreationDate="2010-03-25T03:00:07.083" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am indexing ALL users on ALL sites &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1573&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="144906" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T12:16:28.933" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T12:16:28.933" />
  <row Id="43909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37810" CreationDate="2010-03-25T03:01:04.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of March 1st:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=1699&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://jcoehoorn.dyndns.org/stackql/default.aspx?qid=1699&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T03:01:04.433" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43903" CreationDate="2010-03-25T03:08:29.467" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see an obvious hole in your theory: There are no French Americans.  They all came to Canada 100 years ago and started making poutine, which is already a much bigger threat to both the bacon and waffle industries and public health in general than a little Dunkelager could ever be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T03:08:29.467" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48847" CreationDate="2010-03-25T03:43:15.380" Score="26" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;SOREP will be taken offline this month. SOREP V2 now lives on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1578/sorep-v2-ranked-flair-take-2&quot;&gt;StackUsers&lt;/a&gt;.com&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1578/sorep-v2-ranked-flair-take-2&quot;&gt;SOREP V2&lt;/a&gt;: Ranked and aggregated flair&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1578/sorep-v2-ranked-flair-take-2&quot;&gt;SOREP V2&lt;/a&gt; is a flair service that is built upon the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1573&quot;&gt;StackUser&lt;/a&gt; platform that provides ranked flair, both in standard layout and themes as well as custom aggregations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since early this year, before the advent of the API, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/543&quot;&gt;SOREP&lt;/a&gt; has been providing ranked flair for the big 4 trilogy sites. With the advent of the API and improved access to data (so long screen scraping!) the groundwork for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1578/sorep-v2-ranked-flair-take-2&quot;&gt;SOREP V2&lt;/a&gt; with an improved api and layout was put into motion with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/386&quot;&gt;Soapi.CS&lt;/a&gt; client library upon which the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1573&quot;&gt;StackUser&lt;/a&gt; data platform is built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Site Ranking, both as an ordinal value and a mouseover percentile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aggregated flair - all or specific number, sorted by reputation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All standard themes supported - &lt;code&gt;default&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;clean&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;dark&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;hotdog&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Custom display formats - &lt;code&gt;default&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;small&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;tiny&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Easy selection using a variety of identifiers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;user id and site &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackusers.com/Users/flair/1/stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/users/flair/{user_id}/{site_url}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackusers.com/Users/flair/jatwood@codinghorror.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/users/flair/{email address}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;association id&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackusers.com/Users/flair/febfb878-3f6f-4215-9323-46d15d62ac7d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;/users/flair/{association_id}&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1578/sorep-v2-ranked-flair-take-2&quot;&gt;http://stackapps.com/questions/1578/sorep-v2-ranked-flair-take-2&lt;/a&gt; for more info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also be interested in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1573/stackusers-com-all-users-all-the-time&quot;&gt;other tools&lt;/a&gt; available on stackusers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Default flair layout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/qYfUa.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Small flair layout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/HcCcn.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tiny aggregated flair layout&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i.imgur.com/1VGzG.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;I see a few questions on meta.stackoverflow.com regarding user ranking. There are several existing lists but they are focused primarily on users with higher scores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wrote a small applet that, via a trickle pull, indexes all users for the trilogy and meta down to the 100 rep mark, in order of appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 100 rep cutoff seems reasonable. On StackOverflow, the vast majority of users are &amp;lt; 100 and pulling that data seems over the top frivolous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may access this data in several ways&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INTERACTIVE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt; (detailed usage information here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AUTOGET:&lt;/strong&gt; (for you Benjol)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/default.aspx?site=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;userId=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/default.aspx?site=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;userId=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JSON:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/SEStats.ashx?site=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;userId=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/SEStats.ashx?site=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;userId=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JSONP:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/SEStats.ashx?site=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;userId=1&amp;amp;callback=foo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/SEStats.ashx?site=stackoverflow.com&amp;amp;userId=1&amp;amp;callback=foo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flair&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of using ranking in Flair is available on the interactive page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="144906" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-20T13:48:58.110" LastActivityDate="2010-09-20T13:48:58.110" Title="Trilogy Site Ranking - For those who need to know" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;rankings&gt;&lt;user-rank&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="43912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2010-03-25T03:48:29.230" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're on the front page it's easy :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, where's the ServerFault/SuperUser/Meta version? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T03:48:29.230" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2010-03-25T03:54:37.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to say that this &lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;had already been done&lt;/a&gt;... but then I realized that there's no ranking in those stats! For shame!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how often one does the 35*page + position calculation, I have to say I'm guilty. I have a bookmark in my toolbar (actually under the SO folder, which is in the toolbar) to my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users?page=11&quot;&gt;current page on SO&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=perl&amp;amp;sort=stats&amp;amp;pagesize=50&quot;&gt;stats page for my main tag&lt;/a&gt; (as you can see I'm in a race to claim the 7th gold perl badge).* I look at both of these a few times a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;I also used to have a bookmark to my meta user's page, but now that I'm on page 1 I can just click &quot;Users&quot; at the top of any page.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastEditorUserId="132636" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T23:12:33.400" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T23:12:33.400" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43898" CreationDate="2010-03-25T03:59:16.963" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you answer identically with a keyword difference, and then you downvote other answers, then you're more likely to score reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133879" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T03:59:16.963" />
  <row Id="43915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2010-03-25T04:00:07.710" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow users are &lt;em&gt;programmers&lt;/em&gt;, so they should all know better than to make a linear search through the users pages. With a modest extrapolation to bracket your position by score and a binary search you can nail it down in O(logN) time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastEditorUserId="2509" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T18:20:08.090" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:20:08.090" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43917" CreationDate="2010-03-25T04:25:09.667" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the questions don't get answered soon, in such cases it would be preferable to provide a bounty for answering such questions. Is there a mechanism to do it, without waiting for a few days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T04:29:12.033" Title="Associating bounty to a question" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43916" CreationDate="2010-03-25T04:29:12.033" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. You still have to wait 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If, after 2 days, you still don't have&#xA;  an answer you like, you can  offer a&#xA;  bounty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T04:29:12.033" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="43919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43922" CreationDate="2010-03-25T05:59:26.683" Score="-6" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been suggested before that we should be able to vote to close as &quot;not community wiki&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if we allowed this and the close votes were removed after it was made community wiki? Unlike vote to community wiki we haven't taken the undoable action of making it CW and so it is limited as a rep denying tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:07:30.737" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:21:47.910" Title="A new twist on the close as not community wiki" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43919" CreationDate="2010-03-25T06:07:13.013" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, all actions by non-moderators are undoable -- edits, votes to close, votes to delete. Voting to make a question community wiki is not so easily reversed, so I'd be apprehensive opening up to a large number of users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to keep things the way they are -- if you feel that a question should be CW, flag it for moderator attention and make your case in the text box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T06:07:13.013" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="43922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43919" CreationDate="2010-03-25T06:39:35.290" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  There's no good reason to give community wiki bullies a feature that makes their behavior acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether a question is CW or not is completely up to the person who posts the question.  The close reasons are very narrowly defined, and should be used appropriately.  None of the close reasons change based on whether a post is CW or not, so the close votes should not be removed or added based on CW usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you disagree with the OP about their usage of CW, downvote them and/or notify a moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, a question either belongs on SO and has value (and therefore should accrue or cost rep as determined by the community) or it doesn't belong on SO.  Very, very few questions actually benefit from letting everyone edit them and their answers, and generally it's better for the OP to choose non CW so the people who answer have incentive (rep) to give great answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bullying is not a community-building activity, and it should not be encouraged.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T06:39:35.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T06:57:29.370" Score="-7" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you get if you cross two different concepts?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Isn't it a big risk that we create enormous confusion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people come in with the picture of a phpBB system where you use &quot;I&quot; a lot. But then when you actually write the question, you have to twist your brain to accept that it should be &quot;we&quot;, because then it's a wiki. Then you have invested a lot of time and you also discover that the question was asked before. Do you really think anyone will delete the question then? No, of course not. He/she fill fight for it to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This twist is not understood by newcomers and is the reason that we all hate each other back at Stackoverflow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most effective method to destroy a community is do dive into it and make people angry at each other. I think SO fits that description like a hand in a glove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do not be surprised if &quot;stacks&quot; all over the world will create angry people. Do not be surprised if the never ending &quot;What's the right question?&quot;-question will be the discussion for every meta site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we change the wording to create better understanding? or Is the benefit better then the bad garbage(angry people)? What do you think? Or can we battle this problem with &quot;[closed]&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right answer to my question is:  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Major confusion and angry people&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144819" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:04:49.413" Title="What do you get if you cross a wiki and a forum?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;wording&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="43924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43923" CreationDate="2010-03-25T07:37:00.720" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you get if you cross two different concepts? Isn't it a big risk that we create enormous confusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, remember the Telefax &amp;ndash; writing through the telephone? Or the automobile &amp;ndash; a horseless carriage? The Earth as a Sphere, but the Australians don't fall off? Chewing gum &amp;ndash; you kinda eat it, but not really? And then beef jerkey &amp;ndash; kinda like chewing gum, but you really do eat it, but it's not gum, it's meat? There's still some major confusion going on around these topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A lot of people come in with the picture of a phpBB system where you use &quot;I&quot; a lot. But then when you actually write the question, you have to twist your brain to accept that it should be &quot;we&quot;, because then it's a wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then you have invested a lot of time and you also discover that the question was asked before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's great &amp;ndash; because you had a question, right? No need to wait until you get the answer. &lt;em&gt;It's already there!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you really think anyone will delete the question then? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are not supposed to be deleted. They are supposed to be closed as a duplicate, but stick around, so people searching for similar questions with different wordings in the end all can find the single canonical answer to their question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, of course not. He/she fill fight for it to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This is the Microsoft help desk, how can I help you?&quot; &amp;ndash; &quot;Yeah, I just bought this new computer, and there's Windows on it, but I want to turn off the computer for now and I can't find a way to stop Windows.&quot; &amp;ndash; &quot;I'll be glad to help you, sir; we get this question a lot. You have to click on &lt;em&gt;St&amp;hellip;&lt;/em&gt;&quot; &amp;ndash; &quot;What the &amp;amp;%$§ are you talking about? I'm not the first one who asks this? You already know the answer? Cut this crap right now! I demand you &lt;em&gt;forget the answer right now&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;re-find the solution!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This twist is not understood by newcomers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then start being helpful and explaining, instead of posting rants on Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and is the reason that we all hate each other back at Stackoverflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be news to me. Hey, here's a joke for lighting up a bit. Traffic radio: &quot;Attention drivers, a vehicle is driving against the traffic on I-101.&quot; Driver: &quot;What's he talking about, &lt;em&gt;a vehicle&lt;/em&gt;? There are, like, hundreds!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most effective method to destroy a community is do dive into it and make people angry at each other. I think SO fits that description like a hand in a glove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did it ever occur to you that the Stack Overflow community was &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; with this model of thinking? It's not like people were pulled away from their phpBBs and BBCodes and Smileys to be packed into this weird Wiki-Forum-Reddit-Thingadongdong. They were, in a sense, born into this way of doing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not be surprised if &quot;stacks&quot; all over the world will create angry people. Do not be surprised if the never ending &quot;What's the right question?&quot;-question will be the discussion for every meta site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like you have been doing some in-depth analysis. Do you have a magic eight ball that says &quot;We're all going to die!!!&quot; on all sides?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should we change the wording to create better understanding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you want to change the &lt;em&gt;wording&lt;/em&gt; although you claim the problem is in the &lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt;? That's the &quot;Patriot Act&quot; way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;or Is the benefit better then the bad garbage(angry people)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. At least I see quite some helpfulness on SO and very few fist fights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you think? Or can we battle this problem with &quot;[closed]&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have failed to prove that there even &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Right answer to my question is: &quot;Major confusion and angry people&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right answer to your question is: &quot;What is your question?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T08:04:49.413" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:04:49.413" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43923" CreationDate="2010-03-25T07:48:48.187" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What do you get if you cross two&#xA;  different concepts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know about concepts, but if you cross a minotaur with a centaur you get a person.  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;And/or a pony with a bull's head.  But I digress.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Discussatisfaction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(on conflicting requirements) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People searching for information do not want to swim through 17 pages of discussion to find the solution to their problem in a post on page 2 which was expanded in page 7. It is painful and is destroying the internet. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For some odd reason that I do not fully grok, people &lt;strong&gt;LOVE&lt;/strong&gt; discussing stuff ad-infinitum. This conflicts with point 1. Need proof, look at meta. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOs reputation/badges/wiki is one approach that can be used that focuses on long term usefulness as opposed to short term discussatisfaction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T07:57:16.677" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T07:57:16.677" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43896" CreationDate="2010-03-25T08:09:32.500" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User accessed site 6 hours ago (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site yesterday (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site 2 days ago (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 22 at 0:00 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 21 at 4:28 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 20 at 0:00 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 19 at 0:00 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 18 at 0:03 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 17 at 0:00 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 16 at 3:10 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 15 at 6:23 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 14 at 6:04 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 13 at 0:01 (*.57.143)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 12 at 6:05 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 11 at 2:33 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 10 at 2:47 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 9 at 0:33 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 8 at 4:15 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 7 at 2:28 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 6 at 0:48 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 5 at 0:22 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 4 at 0:00 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 3 at 0:01 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 2 at 0:07 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Mar 1 at 0:05 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Feb 28 at 0:06 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Feb 27 at 1:43 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Feb 26 at 0:35 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Feb 25 at 0:00 (*.4.49)&#xA;User accessed site Feb 24 at 21:57 (*.4.49)&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree; I count 30 rows here on your account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:09:32.500" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43868" CreationDate="2010-03-25T08:33:04.220" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the question, no they are not moderated ahead of time. Sometimes I moderate them after the fact if they aren't constructive or at least funny in a non-malicious way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the current lack of comments, this was an error in the latest version of WP-ReCaptcha. Comments were all being held for some reason-- I think because the WP-SuperCache was caching the old interface for WP-ReCaptcha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, fixed now, all pending comments were published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:33:04.220" />
  <row Id="43929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43729" CreationDate="2010-03-25T08:40:32.093" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree, this should behave the same way as the normal voting &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you reach the limit, it'll now tell you how many hours until 00:00 UTC when you get more. Just like upvotes/downvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:40:32.093" />
  <row Id="43930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T08:45:38.130" Score="1" ViewCount="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the trilogy sites we have the option to forward questions from one site to the other based on their content and appropriateness. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4873/add-question-migration-functionality-to-the-stackexchange-engine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;doesn't exist for StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there isn't a process in place to do this, and since at least the content on the trilogy sites is cc-wiki, what would be the best way for someone to try and salvage say, gaming questions that are closed on superuser, onto its dedicated stackexchange site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text of the question itself could be copied and inserted, but how should author attribution work in these cases? &#xA;As I read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SO blog post on this&lt;/a&gt; it seems to focus on the questions that are valid and were answered. Some closed questions have no answer yet and are orphaned.&#xA;What would be the correct way to reference they came from another site? Have a mod insert them into his stackexchange system and add the attribution information in the body of the question/answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144360" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:45:38.130" Title="How to give trilogy closed questions attribution on SE sites" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;attribution&gt;" />
  <row Id="43931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43410" CreationDate="2010-03-25T08:55:59.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already exists. Searching for a specific question ID will take you to that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proof? Try searching for &quot;43410&quot; right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not work for answers, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T08:55:59.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T08:47:23.980" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;few days ago i posted few questions on this site. The questions are on nothing but programmming language. But i wonder!! still there are unanswered and very few users had  viewed it. What is the reason behind this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:38:13.530" Title="why some question are less viewed by users or still unanswered?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;general&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43932" CreationDate="2010-03-25T09:25:15.910" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32127/why-are-questions-getting-less-and-less-views/32130#32130&quot;&gt;Similar question on meta&lt;/a&gt; showed this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Atwood's answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number to look at is the question age on the front page, which shows 48 questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now, the oldest question on the front page (at the bottom of the list) is 7 minutes old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have considered making this list dynamically larger as the site gets busier -- in other words, ensure that the range is at least 15 minutes -- but I'm not sure if people would actually scroll all the way down the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T09:25:15.910" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T09:31:57.903" Score="0" ViewCount="40" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4798/lets-make-it-easier-to-reply-within-comments&quot;&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s make it easier to reply within comments!&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we have a little &quot;ReplyTo&quot; icon appear when we hover over a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The function of this icon would be to display the Add Comment box (if it isn't already displayed) and append the username on the comment being clicked to the content of the Add Comment box, in the form of &quot;@username: &quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would help when replying to comments from users whose names are little tricky to read and/or type bearing in mind also that some of us haven't got the best of eyesight.  Whilst the light blue name on a white backgound has reasonable contrast is isn't the best and can make some names difficult to read accurately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the reply naming mechanims make a reasonable job of inferring who you might be replying to but I think its more polite to type someones choosen identity correctly.  Not having to type it at all would be a great help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This simple UI change would save everybody a few seconds everyday which can't be a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17516" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T09:31:57.903" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T09:37:07.480" Title="Add ReplyTo icon to comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;replies&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T09:41:01.393" Score="-4" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;The type of question I refer to is a question that can be answered using easily available Windows Forms bulit-in capabilities, or, in some cases, references to CodeProject articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I see an answer that only contains one sentence which suggests using a commercial suite that costs several hundred US $ : it does not seem approrpriate to SO to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you down-vote it? Seems like I am seeing many of these type replies lately on C# questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139329" LastEditorUserId="135200" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T13:57:52.313" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:57:52.313" Title="If an answer contains only a suggestion to use commercial (not open source) third-party software?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;third-party&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43936" CreationDate="2010-03-25T09:49:45.307" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the OP explicitely asked for nothing but Open Source &amp;ndash; No, why should you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even in that case an answer like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Foobar is not Open Source, but it has exactly the features you asked for and has very fair  and inexpensive licensing, so it might be interesting for you, in case you were mainly thinking about the price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;should be totally okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T09:49:45.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43936" CreationDate="2010-03-25T10:05:48.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such answers are ok, as long as they are indeed matching to the question, and that it's not an obvious advertising (like a case of most of related questions poked with the same kind of link by a new user).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answerer is involved with the &lt;strike&gt;commercial&lt;/strike&gt; program he suggests, it would be good if he was telling it in the answer, to be fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastEditorUserId="132632" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T10:15:47.510" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T10:15:47.510" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31168" CreationDate="2010-03-25T10:29:47.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be because downvoting someone works so much better than telling them to &quot;F**-off&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think downvotes actually represents quite nicely what intentional swearing (e.g. swearing to tell someone to shut up) in type means. A downvote is actually more effective than swearing cause it affects the recipient's reputation (and it shows you really meant it since it annoyed you so much that you were willing to take a downvoter-penalty yourself), while a curse can be ignored &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; upset innocent bystanders...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure you could &quot;accidentally&quot; utter &quot;bad words&quot; when actually talking. But you don't sit down and &quot;accidentally type&quot; a swear word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-- Personally when I see a question or answer with lots of downvotes, its almost as if I can hear several people screaming &quot;shut up!&quot; or similar... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145171" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T10:29:47.983" />
  <row Id="43941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39863" CreationDate="2010-03-25T11:16:07.410" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This now follows the same rules as views, and will be deployed later today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T11:16:07.410" />
  <row Id="43942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44108" CreationDate="2010-03-25T11:31:31.850" Score="5" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understood that, in order to delete or undelete, you need 3 10k+ users to vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the person that votes to undelete it is the owner, can he do it with just his vote alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/posts/2339363/revisions&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the question; it will probably be deleted again by the time you see this. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Also could be undelete as many time as possbile? I tried 3 times undelete, its works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i40.tinypic.com/2z7o8j8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T04:30:05.597" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T13:35:36.240" Title="Can the owner of a question get it undeleted with his vote alone? and also could be undelete many times?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;undelete&gt;" AnswerCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43942" CreationDate="2010-03-25T11:37:33.127" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an answer is &quot;deleted by owner&quot; then it can be undeleted by that owner (alone) too. I assume its the same for questions, I never tried. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="60761" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T11:37:33.127" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43936" CreationDate="2010-03-25T11:45:04.463" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should only vote up/down on answers with respect to their quality, not whether the answer involves commercial software or open source.  If the OP specifically asks for open source or free software, but the only viable alternative is a commercial product should I then not answer the question?  If I felt that using the open source alternatives was really a bad choice relative to the commercial software then I'd probably mention both but indicate why I think the commercial choice is superior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line, I think, is context.  Yes, down vote spam.  Don't merely assume it's spam because it happens to be a commercial product.  With @Gnoupi, I would agree that full disclosure is appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, though, an answer with only a link is a poor answer, no matter what it links to.  You should always include at least a summary of the linked information to cover the case where the link changes in order to keep the answer viable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T11:45:04.463" />
  <row Id="43945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T11:55:17.173" Score="0" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, March 25 is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mrbreakfast.com/article.asp?articleid=19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;International Waffle Day&lt;/a&gt;, and apparently there's a bit of controversy over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.geekologie.com/2007/05/keyboard-waffles.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;International Waffle Maker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:28:08.453" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-25T11:55:17.173" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T15:59:19.390" Title="Happy International Waffle Day" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="43946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43945" CreationDate="2010-03-25T12:20:00.313" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know what trips me up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.zyworld.com/barefootgirl/waffle%20house.gif&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090105233901AAVBrrU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Waffle House doesn't sell Pancakes.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The International House of Pancakes does, however, sell Waffles.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ihop.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various lesser Pancake houses, and they &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; sell waffles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T12:20:00.313" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-25T12:20:00.313" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T12:44:20.737" Score="15" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moderators, have fun! Here are some accounts that &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; could be merged. Users are considered identical if they have identical email / IP hashes and similar, non-empty usernames. This lists only those where there are at least three identical users &amp;ndash; so there's more :) The number in parentheses is the number of posts this user has made. Based on the March data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Stack Overflow&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/230089&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/230838&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/243352&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/248714&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/249498&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/252935&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/253643&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/261153&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/261434&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/261576&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/262291&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/264108&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/266773&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/267621&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/268702&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/275022&quot;&gt;Matthew (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/279203&quot;&gt;Matthew (0)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/189914&quot;&gt;Tom (2)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/200132&quot;&gt;Tom (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/233506&quot;&gt;Tom (2)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/245240&quot;&gt;Tom (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a 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&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/9305&quot;&gt;LightHeaded (2)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/9548&quot;&gt;LightHeaded (0)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/9621&quot;&gt;LightHeaded (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/9794&quot;&gt;LightHeaded (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/10050&quot;&gt;LightHeaded (0)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/10216&quot;&gt;LightHeaded (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/10625&quot;&gt;LightHeaded (1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/7062&quot;&gt;HeLp (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/7471&quot;&gt;HeLp (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/8661&quot;&gt;HeLp (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/8991&quot;&gt;HeLp (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/9058&quot;&gt;HeLp (3)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/9324&quot;&gt;HeLp (1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/17729&quot;&gt;HollerTrain (5)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/19519&quot;&gt;HollerTrain (5)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/19661&quot;&gt;HollerTrain (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/19084&quot;&gt;Hollertrain (1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/17609&quot;&gt;Steve Allen (1)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/27237&quot;&gt;Steve Allen (2)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/users/27413&quot;&gt;Steve Allen (1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T13:46:33.617" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:46:33.617" Title="A whole lot of users in need of merging" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43948" CreationDate="2010-03-25T12:51:30.627" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;That seems a lot of work for no benefit. Seeing their reputation they all appear to be abandoned accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why should be they merged? How will merging them make stack overflow better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T12:51:30.627" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43945" CreationDate="2010-03-25T12:56:03.523" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;hurray for me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17174" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T12:56:03.523" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-25T12:56:03.523" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43953" CreationDate="2010-03-25T12:58:04.180" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Gravatar isn't showing on Stackoverflow or here on Meta.  Everything checks out fine on Gravatar's site, and I'm using the same email address for all 3 accounts.  So what's up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Gravatar is definitely G-rated so what's up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145214" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:25:50.943" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:37:51.053" Title="My Gravatar isn't associated with my user" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43951" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:01:32.977" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes at least 24 hours before you will see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:01:32.977" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43951" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:02:29.013" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They use very aggressive caching. Wait a day or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively if you use gmail or another provider that supports this register a new gravatar account using the email &lt;code&gt;youraddress+something@gmail.com&lt;/code&gt;; after that upload your avatar and change the email on stack overflow (doing it in this order is very important)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:02:29.013" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43945" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:13:38.743" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tonight I'll be having waffles, whipped cream and jam. I'm looking forward to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:13:38.743" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-25T13:13:38.743" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:21:25.430" Score="8" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is motivating people who clearly have little to no understanding of &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; related to computer science, programming, or general use of computers to ask dozens of completely vague, unrelated questions?  There are several of these &quot;users&quot; on SO (I won't point any out; if you use the site regularly, you probably know a few).  They will ask questions covering four different languages, platforms, databases, technologies, etc., etc., within a couple hours.  It seems as though they are bots just randomly reposting questions found elsewhere on the internet.  It's bizarre.  These users also almost never accept answers, and their posts have a third-grade spelling/grammar level (even for an ESL person).  Why are people answering questions from these users?  They clearly do not even have enough contextual knowledge to know what they are asking... it's just annoying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:49:20.060" Title="Are there question-pumping bots out there?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;minor-annoyances&gt;&lt;culture&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43603" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:30:36.003" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Employers have the ability to pay extra for their jobs to be relisted. As you noticed, this is a standard feature on many job listing sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am very sympathetic to the poster's desire to tell which jobs are genuinely new. On the other hand, employers know that older ads get fewer replies (job seekers assume that if the job was listed three weeks ago, it might already have been filled), so they are willing to pay extra to relist their ad to send a signal that, yes, they are still looking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the next few months we're going to redesign the job listing feature and I'll be sure to take this feedback into account to make sure that we design it with a way that regular visitors can see which the genuine new jobs are (or perhaps give you a tool to &quot;hide&quot; an employer that you're just not interested in so that you don't see their ads again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:30:36.003" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43959" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:31:50.123" Score="3" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there is a max rep cap, is there also a cap for how much can be lost in a day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:04:09.517" Title="Does the daily rep cap also work for rep loss?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43959" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:34:42.747" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no kind of cap for rep loss, except the fact that you can't have negative reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you get to 1, and keep losing rep, you will stay at 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like san loss, once you hit rock bottom you can't get any more insane. What were we talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:34:42.747" />
  <row Id="43961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43959" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:34:50.373" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, there is no cap on the rep loss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You can't go below 1 though, so actually, the cap is the rep you have now minus 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:34:50.373" />
  <row Id="43962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43959" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:35:32.837" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is not (until you reach 1 rep). Because there is a -100 penalty for spam/offensive posts, this is probably a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:35:32.837" />
  <row Id="43963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43932" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:38:13.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two questions here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the views.  People will read a question if it appeals to them.  This means that the title and tags should be descriptive.  Of course, if nobody knows anything about the language you are asking about, there's really nothing we can do about that.  There's a whole lot of .NET people here, for historical reasons, and there's usually a few around for every language I've heard of people using in the last two decades, but you might have hit one that nobody here knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the answers.  Some questions are, simply, hard to answer, or really obscure.  In those cases, I'd generally prefer no answer to a wrong one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without knowing what questions you're referring to, I really can't say any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:38:13.530" />
  <row Id="43964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43957" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:39:27.873" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always attributed this to people who are desperately trying to teach themselves a language, but lack any sort of willingness to learn. I suspect some are also programmers who are totally unqualified for their jobs, and are trying to get the community to write their code one function at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:39:27.873" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43957" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:39:38.370" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simple: the more questions you pump out, the higher the chance of getting upvotes, the higher your rep becomes. They either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;only do it for the rep (eventually it adds up until you're well over 3k; that's why the new question vote rule was applied) or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they are so completely devoid of any programming knowledge, that they need to be hand-held while programming. It's almost unthinkable, but &lt;strong&gt;some users have basically outsourced their projects to Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;, one problem at a time. They don't care about marking answers as accepted since they already got the info they needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the poor spelling/grammar, &lt;strong&gt;why bother&lt;/strong&gt;? Someone's going to clean it up anyway? Why learn English or use a spell-checker when Stack Overflow has a built-in spell checker (2k+ users and moderators)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:39:38.370" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="43967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43968" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:49:01.427" Score="2" ViewCount="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the 'great recalc', do migrated questions &lt;em&gt;and answers, and comments, and flags, and votes et al&lt;/em&gt; now count for reputation points on the destination site? This wasn't made completely clear in the blog post...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141989" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T11:44:08.087" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T11:44:08.087" Title="What happens now to reputation points when questions are moved between 'stacks'?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;migration&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;&lt;recalculation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43967" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:53:06.923" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, they always did, except there hadn't been a recalc like this since 2008.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(this also works for badges, but that did work before the recalc, I got awarded a few when some old pre-meta post of mine got migrated here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that you also lose the &lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt; reputation for answers on migrated questions, as they are soft deleted when migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:53:06.923" />
  <row Id="43969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44001" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:58:17.167" Score="5" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious why some humorous posts are allowed and others are closed and deleted (something I thought was considered bad practice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T16:43:26.043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:45:52.090" Title="Why are some jokes closed and deleted and others are allowed?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;&lt;conspiracy-theory&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="43970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43969" CreationDate="2010-03-25T13:59:26.323" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it depends on how many users find it funny (ie: there isn't a &lt;strong&gt;rule&lt;/strong&gt; for this, you just have to win the community over, and the best way to do it is with ponies and waffles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and free hand circles for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T13:59:26.323" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43969" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:01:32.343" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a certain amount of tolerance for inside jokes (on MSO only). However, there is very little for unfunny and offensive jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:01:32.343" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43942" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:02:55.087" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the question is deleted by the owner, they can un-delete it immediately. No voting required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when a question is &quot;closed&quot; (the democratic 5-votes-to-close variety), it is then eligible for &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; deletion buy 10K/Moderator voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, &lt;strong&gt;a user cannot (and &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; not be able to) undo a democratic, voted action&lt;/strong&gt;. When it takes three users to vote-to-delete a question, it should take three users to vote-to-un-delete a question. The original author should not have any more power than the one-man-one-vote in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:02:55.087" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43969" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:04:29.687" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just like with the code golfs on Stack Overflow: As long as you don't understand which fun &quot;questions&quot; &lt;em&gt;stand a chance&lt;/em&gt; to be well-received (you'll never know for sure), you shouldn't post any at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:04:29.687" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:05:10.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very nice.... now for a bit of feature creep; show how many ranks you could climb if you a) got an answer upvoted, b) got an answer upvoted &amp;amp; accepted, c) hit the repcap for the day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That could provide a bit more motivation for some, especially lower on the rep ranking the separation between ranks is just a couple of points, and some are shared by users with the same number of points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133671" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:05:10.390" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43969" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:10:11.510" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess it depends on the community. You need 5 people to close it; if 5 are willing to do so it will get closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think many (but not all) of the joke posts aren't funny and are getting quite old, and I usually downvote them and sometimes even vote to close as off topic. Sometimes other people agree and they do get closed; most of the time they get upvoted, but I'm fine with that: as the FAQ says the website is ran by the community&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:10:11.510" CommentCount="16" />
  <row Id="43976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:14:44.520" Score="0" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38250/tag-description&quot;&gt;Tag description&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1195/create-a-tag-homepage-faq&quot;&gt;Create a tag homepage/FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41177/should-there-be-high-rep-user-contributed-descriptions-for-tags&quot;&gt;Should there be high-rep-user contributed descriptions for tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a question tagged &lt;strong&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/plsql&quot;&gt;plsql&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;. I have no idea what it is, but judging from what I saw in that specific question, I'd like to know more about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice if I could click on the tag and get a short description of the technology with links to more info. Sort of like the tag pages for sponsored tags have now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally this isn't very important, since it's easily Googled, but it would be a nice extra service. The info pages could be wiki as well (or probably must be for the idea to work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139819" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T15:30:38.893" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T15:30:38.893" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T16:27:43.020" Title="Display page with more background information about tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;information-display&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43969" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:15:28.073" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're only human, we have a need for amusement at times. Meta is a bit more relaxed when it comes to fun, but there is a limit. Your question was way beyond that limit; it was mean-spirited, it was simply meant to insult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand your displeasure at the waffle question, but if it really pissed you off that much, you should have flagged it and left a comment asking for moderator attention. That's the way it should be done, not by adding an answer to it (which should have been a comment), and certainly not by creating a new question mocking the first one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, &lt;strong&gt;let the community decide&lt;/strong&gt;. If it's too much, there will be backlash. The questions will get downvoted, closed and deleted. There's no need, however, to simply act the way you did. It was a childish act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:15:28.073" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="43978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43969" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:16:40.367" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never vote to re-open and/or undelete joke/fun posts. However, I vote to close/delete only &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; joke posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:16:40.367" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="43979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:17:37.230" Score="5" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43426/minimise-reputation-flux-due-to-deleted-posts&quot;&gt;Minimise Reputation Flux due to Deleted Posts&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your reputation should &lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt; be &quot;desynched&quot;. In other words if after a rep recalc your reputation is not exactly the same I consider it a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I propose to fix all the situations that make your reputation change after a recalc without actually modifying your current score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll list the ones I'm aware of; feel free to add more (this is why this is CW):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question is migrated (if that happens remove the reputation given from upvotes, and, if the user reached the cap, count the upvotes not previously counted because of the cap, if any). Do so for all the answers too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question/answer is deleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your question/answer is undeleted&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: obviously reputation recalcs will still be needed for changes like the decrease of rep for question upvotes.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T14:26:58.867" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:26:58.867" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-25T14:19:00.367" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T15:59:00.123" Title="Make reputation recalcs unnecessary" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;rep-recalc&gt;" AnswerCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="43980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43976" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:23:29.990" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, since tags can be created on the fly by just about anyone I think you'll find that the vast majority of tags will go unannotated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do see merit in doing something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each tag could have an editable description available to users with a certain amount of rep (I'd say 2000, since that's when retagging becomes available). Any user would be able to alter the description and it should keep an edit history, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at it that way might cause some trouble, though, since so many users could edit tag descriptions at the same time. You'd probably want to have some kind of locking mechanism once a certain percentage of users agree that the description should be finalized to prevent overediting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly you'd also want something to re-open tag descriptions if enough people disagree with them. I don't know. It's a good enough idea, but it would be hard to maintain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:23:29.990" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43976" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:25:21.907" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the tag page we could display a wikipedia-like section that can be edited by 2k+ users, explaining what the tag means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FAQ says that the website is a mix of a wiki, blog, reddit and a forum.. I think the &quot;wiki&quot; part is really lacking; so I think implementing this would be a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:25:21.907" />
  <row Id="43984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2010-03-25T14:29:57.710" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Already exists? &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37810/easy-way-to-find-out-what-your-user-rank-is/37811#37811&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37810/easy-way-to-find-out-what-your-user-rank-is/37811#37811&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145210" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T14:29:57.710" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T15:08:00.110" Score="4" ViewCount="110" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40490/where-should-i-ask-job-related-questions&quot;&gt;Where should I ask job-related questions?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to ask programmer job-related questions? such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What to consider when you apply for jobs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What to consider when try to become a freelancer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long time you need before throw away a web project?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so, it's not a technical question. It's more sharing experience stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144744" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T15:19:53.207" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:52:50.590" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T16:18:57.317" Title="About programmer job-related question?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;jobs&gt;&lt;php&gt;&lt;job-interview&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="43986" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T15:15:56.850" Score="1" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4397/purposeful-question-bumping-abuse-or-feature&quot;&gt;Purposeful Question Bumping: Abuse or feature?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7046/how-to-get-attention-for-your-old-unanswered-questions&quot;&gt;How to get attention for your old, unanswered questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering whether it's possible to bump an unanswered question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139235" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T15:21:26.543" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T15:21:26.543" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T15:19:26.093" Title="Bumping questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;bump&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="43987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44002" CreationDate="2010-03-25T15:31:12.027" Score="3" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just went into &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43986/bumping-questions&quot;&gt;a question that had 5 close votes&lt;/a&gt;, but didn't show the &lt;em&gt;Closed as Duplicate Question by XXX&lt;/em&gt; banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6264/possiblyclosed.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6264/possiblyclosed.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is definitely an edge case and I must have entered at the exact moment the fifth closing vote user was casted, but before it was closed, but I haven't seen this documented before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I tried to see if I could cast a vote, it said, as expected &lt;em&gt;This post is already closed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T16:07:00.573" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:32:40.037" Title="Question with 5 close votes is not closed?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;closed-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="43988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43987" CreationDate="2010-03-25T15:34:58.120" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this behavior.  It shows five people who closed it, the duplicates in the header, and the close reason box below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you loaded the page in between the time that the last vote was cast, and the time when the system modifies the question accordingly.  Race condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, I'm not sure what the reason could be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T15:34:58.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="43991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53253" CreationDate="2010-03-25T15:45:13.727" Score="53" ViewCount="3219" Body="&lt;p&gt;The request is simple&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Implement OData (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.odata.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.odata.org/&lt;/a&gt;) API for StackOverflow sites&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Benefits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a standard API.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OData allows the SO database to be queried and navigated for questions, users, answers by using any attribute of those entities&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4685" LastEditorUserId="17174" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-11T03:02:32.367" LastActivityDate="2010-12-29T01:58:10.413" Title="Implement OData API for StackOverflow" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;api&gt;&lt;data-explorer&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="43995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43991" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:04:49.407" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While OData is still relatively new, many other organizations are opening up their data using this format.  I expect that some very interesting mashups can result from having SO data available to OData tools and clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:04:49.407" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="43999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43991" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:12:34.350" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, ​​​​​​please​​!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:12:34.350" />
  <row Id="44001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43969" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:25:32.807" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;When funny items are most likely to be closed&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are more than 1-2 &quot;funny&quot; items on the top 15 questions, I'll vote to close one or more of them, except on Fridays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's good to have fun here, people do come here for help and suggestions, and having a constant stream of useless, offtopic items near the top of the front page can be discouraging, &quot;Huh.  I wonder if I came to the right place, and if they can even help me.&quot;  We should avoid the appearance of clique-ish and/or exclusive behavior, even though there's a pretty strong community underneath meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ok, so how do I be funny?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you want to be successful at posting a funny item, you'll need to participate in more of the regular questions to get a good understanding of the community, and to get people to know you a little bit.  Once you believe you have a good rapport with others here, try something funny late Friday afternoon, when such things are most likely to be accepted.  See what the community reaction is, and figure out why it did or didn't work.  If nothing else, you'll generally get lots of feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T16:45:52.090" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:45:52.090" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43987" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:32:40.037" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's definitely a race condition in the close voting somewhere.  I don't have an example right now, but there are a few questions out there that show &lt;em&gt;six&lt;/em&gt; users with close votes. It seems there's a short amount of time where the last vote is cast and registered but not yet fully applied.  I suspect you're looking at another way this race condition manifests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As bugs go, this one is pretty harmless.  But it still might be worthwhile to investigate the issue and make sure the same pattern isn't used somewhere more important in the codebase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:32:40.037" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:40:36.097" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.webcheatsheet.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WebCheatSheet&lt;/a&gt; a Stack Exchange site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it copyright infringment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T16:44:55.057" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:44:55.057" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T16:54:40.710" Title="Is this website affiliated to Stack Exchange?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;piracy&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44003" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:41:53.473" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;meta name=&quot;generator&quot; content=&quot;StackExchange 0.9 (20100322154749-dcc77b1d701f)&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:41:53.473" />
  <row Id="44005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44003" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:42:12.253" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is a stackexchange site&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T16:42:12.253" />
  <row Id="44006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43957" CreationDate="2010-03-25T16:57:03.153" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is hardly unique to the SO family. I've been on numerous other forums where users ask very basic (or scattershot) questions that could usually be easily answered with some searching. I suspect that posting a question is the first thing they think to do, either due to ignorance or laziness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, sometimes it is legitimately tricky business to find the information you are looking for, so posting the question to a forum or the like will be more likely to produce results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the site's primary language being English may cause difficulty for those who are not native English speakers. Not being well versed in the language can result in somewhat broken text that is sometimes difficult for native English speakers to comprehend - it does go both ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastEditorUserId="134410" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T18:42:29.923" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T18:42:29.923" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44008" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:02:13.190" Score="-3" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;Title speaks for its self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140749" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T17:29:24.293" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:29:24.293" Title="Why do I have to put at least x number of characters in the title?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44007" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:03:31.080" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:03:31.080" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44007" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:03:45.587" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because as x approaches 0, so too does our understanding of and interest in your problem. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:03:45.587" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44007" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:08:33.953" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might have noticed that you are asked to &quot;be descriptive&quot; when writing the title. The purpose of that is to have high chances to find a certain question using relevant keywords. Since the title always has a high rank in any kind of search (site-internal, google, or other), it should be a good (even if concise) description of the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of descriptiveness is (supposed to be) encouraged by the minimum character count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:08:33.953" />
  <row Id="44011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44113" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:11:00.970" Score="20" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using only a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;zero-width non-joiner&lt;/a&gt;, and maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-printing_character&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;other characters&lt;/a&gt;, allows unclickable titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that Joel had to be the grown-up and spoil the fun, here's what the home page looked like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/9632/bugg.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot&quot; title=&quot;There is a freehand circle here and it does have drop shadows. You just don't see them.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-02T03:37:26.257" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T05:44:42.190" Title="Zero-width non-joiner allows unclickable titles" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;unicode&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="25" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="44012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44007" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:11:02.140" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title is important because it is the primary piece of information people (are supposed to) search for before they post a duplicate question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136589" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:11:02.140" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44011" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:11:35.430" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What did you put in the text field? As the title has been stripped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:11:35.430" />
  <row Id="44015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44011" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:12:08.657" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now if only you could figure out how to add a blank tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:12:08.657" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43957" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:12:10.390" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether they are real users or bots, I say let them pump.  They are a veritable gold mine of interview weed-out questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand and agree to an extent about them wasting community resources, but unless that waste is significant - to the point where they're competing for front-page space with &quot;good&quot; questions - I see them as being mostly harmless.  And, as stated above, they do have a certain value, even if it's not the kind of value that the author expects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:12:10.390" />
  <row Id="44017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44030" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:12:54.473" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question with 10 views, and I would really like it not to get lost in time and space.  I started a bounty, expecting the question to pop up to the top of some list somewhere on SO, but that didn't seem to happen.  It still only has 10 views.  If people don't even see that it has a bounty, how could the bounty possibly be motivating anyone to answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that starting a bounty should cause the question to show up in the Active list or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144676" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T18:07:00.677" Title="Can a bounty increase attention to a question with low # of views (TumbleWeeds)?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;&lt;views&gt;&lt;tumbleweed&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44017" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:14:18.730" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it can! It's not a guarantee that it will be answered to your satisfaction - if it's tumbleweed right now, it could be that there really is nobody able to answer it. But if it's an important question to you, it's definitely worth the try. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting a bounty on a question is always also a symbolic gesture that it's important to you, you're willing to give something up for an answer. As such, it may cue people to do some research of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't be pissed off if it doesn't yield any results, though. When you start a bounty, the reputation is irrevocably gone, and a successful outcome is completely optional. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:14:18.730" />
  <row Id="44021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44050" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:15:19.693" Score="5" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little embarrassed. My &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/756127/building-pdf-files-with-c/756131#756131&quot;&gt;highest-rated answer&lt;/a&gt;, by a large margin, is on a question that's really just a survey question. The OP wanted to know about experiences with different PDF generation tools, and I was the first to answer how much I like iTextSharp. Basically all I said was &quot;I like iTextSharp;&quot; not exactly Jon Skeet material. Yet the answer was accepted and I keep getting upvotes for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel guilty, like I shouldn't be getting credit for just saying I like a certain piece of software. Is there anything I can do to cut off the stream of unjustified rep from this question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:20:19.537" Title="Gaining rep from &quot;survey&quot; questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44021" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:20:25.157" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely nothing to worry about IMO. Simple answers get mass-upvoted every day. Sometimes even incorrect or stupid ones!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you will see over time, providing deep, fundamental and well-researched answers often doesn't yield any reputation at all, or very, very little. I'm not meaning that in any bitter way - it's just how things work, and very much down to how people tick when voting, myself included. And sometimes the opposite will happen, a simple, effortless answer you didn't think twice about will get upvoted seemingly beyond reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I don't see anything wrong with the process here: 16 people repeated your statement that they are very happy with the software in question. While that may not be good enough for a review article in a computer magazine, it pretty much brings across the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T17:46:45.733" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:46:45.733" />
  <row Id="44024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44011" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:22:18.040" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:22:18.040" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44021" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:26:28.327" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can make your answer community wiki if you like, and that will prevent any further rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, 16 upvotes for a soft answer isn't all that bad in the grand scheme of things. Some of us have committed far worse sins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:26:28.327" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44011" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:44:32.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&amp;zwnj;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to reproduce this, just use &lt;code&gt;&amp;amp;zwnj;&lt;/code&gt; enough times to beat the minimum length filter. I even have it above this text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;can also type&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;Alt+200B&lt;/code&gt; in a text field. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastEditorUserId="16587" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T17:50:18.737" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:50:18.737" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44017" CreationDate="2010-03-25T17:53:03.177" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;By adding a question it shows up in the list of 'Featured' questions which I believe is sorted by the date the bounty will expire by default.  When your question gets close to the end of its bounty time, then you will be the number 1 question on the featured list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure about other people, but I regularly check Featured questions on SF to see if there is anything there I can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20267" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T17:53:03.177" />
  <row Id="44030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44017" CreationDate="2010-03-25T18:07:00.677" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The featured tab is available on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/&quot;&gt;homepage&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions&quot;&gt;questions page&lt;/a&gt;.  It lists all questions with an unawarded bounty, ordered by least remaining time before the bounty is automatically awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=featured&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i39.tinypic.com/1565rm9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T18:07:00.677" />
  <row Id="44031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43957" CreationDate="2010-03-25T18:47:38.177" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there question-pumping bots out there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;shifty eyes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;walks off hurriedly...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T18:47:38.177" />
  <row Id="44033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43039" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:03:40.667" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re: Jeff Atwood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow/42662#42662&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5460/post-overflow/42662#42662&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well and good, but can we add &lt;code&gt;word-wrap&lt;/code&gt; to the &lt;code&gt;pre&lt;/code&gt; tags too? The following fixes the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;pre {&#xA;    font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,Lucida Console,Liberation Mono,DejaVu Sans Mono,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Courier New,monospace,serif;&#xA;    margin-bottom:10px;&#xA;    overflow:auto;&#xA;    width:auto;&#xA;    padding:5px;&#xA;    background-color:#eee;&#xA;    width:650px!ie7;&#xA;    padding-bottom:20px!ie7;&#xA;    max-height:600px;&#xA;&#xA;    word-wrap:normal;&#xA;}&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65611" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:03:40.667" />
  <row Id="44034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44039" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:38:15.793" Score="0" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/27702/tags-with-usability-problems-app-config-and-web-config&quot;&gt;Tags with usability problems - app.config and web.config&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web.config&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/qoefjo.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sorry if this has been found before, I didn't see anything when I searched for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similiar to this post, but not quite : &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32417/dollar-sign-in-url-breaks-link&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32417/dollar-sign-in-url-breaks-link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:52:57.463" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T20:17:20.930" Title="Period in Tag/URL breaks page" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;url&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44036" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:41:47.183" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have posted an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2510839/force-users-to-logout-when-they-leave-my-php-website/2510853#2510853&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; and received 11 upvotes. If you &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/166712/anthony-forloney&quot;&gt;view my profile&lt;/a&gt; I have received the &lt;code&gt;Enlightened&lt;/code&gt; badge from it, but not the &lt;code&gt;Nice Answer&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the reputation change in any way affected how we earn badges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143674" LastEditorUserId="13531" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T19:48:38.673" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:48:38.673" Title="The reputation process has changed, but does that affect how users earn badges?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;badges&gt;&lt;enlightened&gt;&lt;nice-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44035" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:43:01.613" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those badges use vote counts, so I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you have to wait a little, or perhaps it's a bug related to something else, not the reputation change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing that comes to mind (but is pure speculation), is that perhaps an old answer of you got deleted, so the process detects that you need to have (for example) 3 badges, and it's counting the one you got from the deleted answer (perhaps to a migrated question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:43:01.613" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44035" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:44:00.630" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See : &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10441/is-everything-real-time-or-are-some-badges-given-during-batch-jobs&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10441/is-everything-real-time-or-are-some-badges-given-during-batch-jobs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You usually only have to wait a&#xA;  couple of minutes or so for the badge&#xA;  to turn up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:44:00.630" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43957" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:49:20.060" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a couple of cases where the user posting the questions seems to have been doing so on behalf of a group: maybe the whole company,  maybe a number of colleagues or classmates. This may have been due to the other members of the group not being fluent in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of at least one SO member who has posted 476 questions in 425 tags and has 64 badges, including a Famous Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only one answer, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:49:20.060" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44034" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:52:57.463" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web-config&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web-config&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Periods are filtered out, most likely &lt;code&gt;[by-design]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:52:57.463" />
  <row Id="44040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43699" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:57:14.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely!  You may think it's due to the complex interactions of these various technologies, but someone familiar with even only one of them may find the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just make sure it's about programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T19:57:14.460" />
  <row Id="44041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44044" CreationDate="2010-03-25T19:59:29.680" Score="3" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;When using Google to search Stack Overflow today, I noticed that the revision history pages all share the title &quot;Revisions - Stack Overflow&quot;. This is not very friendly to the search engine user:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/5190/revisiontitles.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest using the current title of the post in the page's &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, a few SEO questions arise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Should&lt;/em&gt; revision history be exposed to search engines?  It is not very useful to new visitors, but it might include terms that the user searched for that have been edited away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Should the revision history include a &lt;code&gt;rel=&quot;canonical&quot;&lt;/code&gt; link back to the actual question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:14:53.450" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:22:58.327" Title="Please include question title in title of revision history pages" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;revisions&gt;&lt;seo&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:06:46.137" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1326/please-charge-rep-for-questions-after-threshold&quot;&gt;Please charge rep for questions after threshold&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ive been thinking about the recalc lately and a few other things Ive read in regards to people using this site to do their homework, or write their companies programs for them one problem at a time..etc.   Personally I believe that in time, as the site becomes more and more popular the weighting of question upvotes will need to be modified again.  So before that can happen Im curious to see what you think of a Total cap on rep received via questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, if you're above 2K, still asking questions regularly and not answering any theres an obvious problem.  So what do you think of once X number is reached a user can only receive rep by ANSWERING questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T21:39:58.753" ClosedDate="2010-03-25T21:43:47.947" Title="Total cap on Question rep" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44042" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:10:08.857" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seriously, if you're above 2K, still&#xA;  asking questions regularly and not&#xA;  answering any theres an obvious&#xA;  problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wait, what? Can you elaborate on the &quot;problem&quot;? No one is forced to answer and the website is not about trading answers for questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone asks a lot of questions and doesn't want or is not able to answer any, it's perfectly fine by me. It would be much worse if the user tried to answer without the needed knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:10:08.857" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44041" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:12:07.560" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;    User-Agent: *&#xA;    Allow: /&#xA;    Disallow: /posts&#xA;    Disallow: /posts/&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: &lt;code&gt;rel=canonical&lt;/code&gt; should be used only for &lt;a href=&quot;http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;identical or vastly similar (layout differences only) content&lt;/a&gt;. In this case it would be mis-using it and google will ignore it for sure, and maybe even penalize the search rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: mystery solved. It's the &lt;code&gt;Allow: /&lt;/code&gt;; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Allow_directive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some major crawlers support an Allow&#xA;  directive which can counteract a&#xA;  following Disallow directive. This is&#xA;  useful when you disallow an entire&#xA;  directory but still want some HTML&#xA;  documents in that directory crawled&#xA;  and indexed. While by standard&#xA;  implementation the first matching&#xA;  robots.txt pattern always wins,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Google's implementation differs in&#xA;  that it first evaluates all Allow&#xA;  patterns and only then all Disallow&#xA;  patterns&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words &lt;code&gt;Allow: /&lt;/code&gt; overrides all the disallows and gives google access to the entire website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:22:58.327" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:22:58.327" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43919" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:15:32.370" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These have been stated so many times that they're in danger of becoming trite, but obviously they need to repeated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CW-mode for subjective questions is a compromise&lt;/strong&gt;, an uneasy truce between &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; users who want to use SO for topics that would otherwise not be allowed, and &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; users who would otherwise be willing to close them. This was born of heated arguments in the early days of the site, and does not reflect the original purpose of CW or necessarily fit with how that feature behaves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CW-mode isn't a license to post whatever you feel like.&lt;/strong&gt; Step outside the ill-defined bounds of what compromising users (including site admins...) feel is appropriate, and your question will &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; be closed. Posting a question as CW doesn't &lt;em&gt;entitle&lt;/em&gt; you to anything; it's just a tacit admission that &lt;em&gt;yes, you're kind of abusing the site&lt;/em&gt;... but you aren't doing it to game the rep system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with that in mind, &lt;strong&gt;it's not the responsibility of anyone voting to close a post to make it CW&lt;/strong&gt;, nor should it be: if they think it's an inappropriate question, then they should vote to close for that reason. It may be that they would be willing to withhold their vote if it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt;... but if so, they can easily ask a moderator to make the change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T20:21:47.910" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:21:47.910" />
  <row Id="44046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:11:57.347" Score="4" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41347/why-is-15-reputation-required-to-upvote&quot;&gt;Why is 15 reputation required to upvote?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twice now I've googled a question and the answer has been on stackoverflow.  Both times my question was answered and I wanted to up-vote the answer that I found helpful, but I can't do so until I have a 15 reputation.  So here I am, asking why one must have a reputation to simply upvote?  Of course, I now have a screen showing me related questions, the very first one list is &quot;Why is 15 reputation required to upvote? [closed]&quot;, but I'm still going to ask this repetitious question, just so I can start getting reputation, so that I can avoid repetition in the future and upvote an existing helpful answer, to an existing question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145241" LastEditorUserId="145241" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T23:16:07.337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T23:16:07.337" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T00:24:36.937" Title="Why require reputation to rate a response?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="44047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44046" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:13:45.780" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you realize how easy it is to get 15 rep? You could do it in less time than it took you to write that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144195" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:15:56.063" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43383" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:17:24.363" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the main reason that's used to defend, why this information shouldn't be communicated is (as I understand it), approximately: &quot;It would lead to a lot of emails/questions/..., people challenging the decision etc.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe, it would. It would replace the question &quot;What happened?&quot; with &quot;Why did it happen?&quot; This may be inconvenient here on Meta (while less inconvenient for the user), but IMO, like with any big change, such questions are justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better to redirect them as early as possible to the best post with all the discussion about the topic, so they're less likely to open a new question? Maybe using a &lt;strong&gt;dynamic&lt;/strong&gt; notification banner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every awarded badge, ever message reply is announced with a dynamic banner, in order to keep users informed what happened to their status, their profile, their questions and answers. Since this was a big status update, they might be interested in that, too - the next time they visit the site, even if they didn't log in for a month. (OTOH, non-registered or new users are not, so a static banner is probably not the best solution - though it's better than nothing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144785" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:17:24.363" />
  <row Id="44049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44046" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:18:32.630" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If rep weren't required for upvotes, people could easily create multiple accounts and upvote themselves. Now, they at least need to cross some threshold which means contribute something to the community, before they start cheating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135110" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:18:32.630" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44021" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:20:19.537" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flag them and we'll convert them to community wiki mode. If it's a &quot;List of X&quot; question, without a definite and concrete answer, that's what we usually do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:20:19.537" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44042" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:33:41.143" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't like giving no reputation for &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; questions after a particular reputation level -- just because a user has high rep doesn't mean he'll never have good questions again. However, I think it's reasonable to explore the idea of giving out no more than X &lt;em&gt;total&lt;/em&gt; reputation for questions - say somewhere around 1000?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my case, I've received 44 (net) upvotes on the questions I've asked on SO. Not counting reputation caps, that counts for &lt;strike&gt;440&lt;/strike&gt;220 reputation. If I ask another good question, I think I should still be able to get &lt;strike&gt;+10&lt;/strike&gt;+5 rep for an upvote. If I turn into a question pump, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; that reputation gain should fizzle or cease entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could get even more fancy by using a sliding scale -- no more than 50% of your rep should come from questions for the first 1000 rep, 20% for the next 5000, etc.. but complicating the formula would probably make it less likely to ever get implemented. Let's keep the back end as simple as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:33:41.143" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44059" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:53:16.883" Score="0" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed what I think is a bug. I answered a question on SO that was more cynical than anything and earned an upvote for it (I was at 190 rep for the day and it took me to 200). I then deleted this post (no reputation loss) and one of my other answers received an upvote, and there it was again +10 more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if I was seeing things, but I'm pretty sure about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135812" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T21:04:42.127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T21:04:42.127" Title="New Reputation Method - Possible Bug" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44057" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:55:58.733" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I then deleted this post (no reputation loss) and one of my other answers received an upvote, and there it was again +10 more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy those 10 points while you have them.  You'll lose them the next time your rep is recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:55:58.733" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44061" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:58:01.847" Score="0" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding of SO's text formatting engine is that it is a modified version of Markdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a diff somewhere between the &lt;a href=&quot;http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official distribution&lt;/a&gt; and SO's?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the SO version of Markdown publicly available for download/building?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134272" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:59:59.830" Title="Updated Markdown Engine Redistribution?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;tools&gt;&lt;downloads&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44060" CreationDate="2010-03-25T20:59:59.830" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the SO version of Markdown is written in C# and is available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137785" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T20:59:59.830" />
  <row Id="44063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44084" CreationDate="2010-03-25T21:04:04.190" Score="15" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User-Agent: *&#xA;Allow: /&#xA;Disallow: /posts&#xA;Disallow: /posts/&#xA;Disallow: /tags&#xA;Disallow: /tags/&#xA;[...]&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Allow_directive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some major crawlers support an Allow&#xA;  directive which can counteract a&#xA;  following Disallow directive. This is&#xA;  useful when you disallow an entire&#xA;  directory but still want some HTML&#xA;  documents in that directory crawled&#xA;  and indexed. While by standard&#xA;  implementation &lt;strong&gt;the first matching&#xA;  robots.txt pattern always wins&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  Google's implementation differs in&#xA;  that it first evaluates all Allow&#xA;  patterns and only then all Disallow&#xA;  patterns. (irrelevant in this case&#xA;  since Allow is the first, so google's&#xA;  special behavior does not apply here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the &lt;code&gt;Allow: /&lt;/code&gt; directive overrides &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the following disallows rendering &lt;code&gt;robots.txt&lt;/code&gt; effectively useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the reason all major search engines (bing, google, etc) crawl pages they are not supposed to, like post revisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See also&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44041/please-include-question-title-in-title-of-revision-history-pages/44044#44044&quot;&gt;Please include question title in title of revision history pages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T01:48:41.080" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T01:48:41.080" Title="Stack Overflow's robots.txt is completely useless" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;seo&gt;&lt;robots&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="44070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T21:23:32.643" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can somebody tell me how to use this gravatar stuff? Do I have to set it for my mail address? I've set it already, but how do I set it for this site?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145237" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T21:31:54.637" LastActivityDate="2011-06-19T16:12:38.203" Title="Gravatar doesn't work" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;gravatar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42909" CreationDate="2010-03-25T21:24:54.933" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/109070/hannson&quot;&gt;Hannson&lt;/a&gt;, Stack Overflow user 109070. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got an email from the SO team with a link to this post and I wrote them an apology which I'd also like to make public. I believe in honesty and this go vs golang thing was my mistake. I was unaware that moderators had been trying to get rid of the golang tag and I thought adding it would help users and search engines to find Go articles because &quot;golang&quot; is easier to find than &quot;go&quot;, which is extremely common. The fact that I could get a &quot;taxonomist&quot; badge while doing what I thought was right only encouraged me to continue doing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only (and hopefully last) suspension I've gotten on my SO account and I'm writing this to redeem myself and hoping you won't hold a grudge against me for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I bother to write all of this is because I do care!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here below is the email I sent to the SO team&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry for the inconvenience I may have caused and will not let it happen again. Let me be the first to say that I'm aware that Stackoverflow is not an MMORPG in which you go on quests for badges. The reason why I began tagging questions with the golang tag has roots to my frustration while searching for golang articles on Google (and other search engines). This ridiculously common term has really bad signal/noise ratio and by tagging with a more specific term it would encourage the use of &quot;golang&quot; and standardize it to help users find articles through search engines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that was doing good things for the community by helping people find golang articles but I do admit that the &quot;taxonomist&quot; badge was a sweet bonus but like I wrote above, it was not the main goal. How ever, I'd still like to see this tag used in the future although I doubt it'll ever take off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future I will try to be more careful and do things the right way; in collaboration with the SO community and I sincerely hope you won't hold a grudge against me for my mistake because this was all done in good faith. Looking back I can see how this made me look like a jerk, so I ask you and our community to please accept my apology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best regards,&#xA;Hannes Baldursson aka Hannson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142018" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T21:24:54.933" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44070" CreationDate="2010-03-25T21:25:07.773" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sign up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.gravatar.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gravatar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add an email address (then verify it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Add an avatar to your email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click &quot;Edit&quot; on your Stack Overflow profile to add email address&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait it out...not long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T21:25:07.773" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-03-25T23:08:51.753" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet decides when a program halts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145242" LastEditorUserId="145242" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-08T01:53:42.657" LastActivityDate="2010-04-08T01:53:42.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-25T23:08:51.753" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44080" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-25T23:33:52.410" Score="-3" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can I ask question in English and let know users they can answer in Spanish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this question was born cuz of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2520065/donde-puedo-encontrar-guias-de-programacion-para-c-en-espanol&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2520065/donde-puedo-encontrar-guias-de-programacion-para-c-en-espanol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Puedo poner preguntas y decirle a los usuarios que pueden contestar en español?&#xA;esta pregunta nacio por esto:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2520065/donde-puedo-encontrar-guias-de-programacion-para-c-en-espanol&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2520065/donde-puedo-encontrar-guias-de-programacion-para-c-en-espanol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nota: pueden contestar en español!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136924" LastEditorUserId="136924" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T23:40:22.177" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T00:24:43.100" Title="Can I ask question in English and let know users they can answer in Spanish?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44063" CreationDate="2010-03-25T23:42:03.997" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;So if this is true, why doesn't Google have search results for revisions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I'm not understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I tried searching Google for &lt;code&gt;site:stackoverflow.com inurl:posts/9033&lt;/code&gt;*, and while it had the revision page linked, it didn't crawl the page, since, as you can see, there is no summary blab for the revision page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*That question is the most upvoted SO question, so it should also be the most linked. Thus, since the revisions page is linked from that page, Google is almost definitely guaranteed to find it and index it if it was allowed to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89334" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-25T23:54:35.433" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T23:54:35.433" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44080" CreationDate="2010-03-25T23:42:36.693" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English is the &lt;em&gt;lingua franca&lt;/em&gt; of Stack Overflow (some would dare say programming). If you tell someone they can answer in spanish just to solve your problem, that leaves everyone else who uses this site that &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; speak spanish out in the cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would be akin to going into a chinese web forum and asking them to post their answer in English. I can imagine that would go over Really Well&amp;trade;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T23:42:36.693" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44063" CreationDate="2010-03-25T23:50:02.840" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, that's interesting, since the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/webmasters/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Webmaster Tools&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;robots.txt&lt;/code&gt; generator looks like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User-agent: *&#xA;Allow: /&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you're totally right that adding a disallow &lt;strong&gt;moves it &lt;em&gt;above&lt;/em&gt; the Allow&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;User-agent: *&#xA;Disallow: /foo/&#xA;Allow: /&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, thanks for digging this up.. solves a long-standing mystery!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T23:50:02.840" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44080" CreationDate="2010-03-25T23:52:08.917" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a (fresh new) Spanish programming forum which uses Stackexchange engine: &lt;a href=&quot;http://comunidad.desarrolloopensource.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://comunidad.desarrolloopensource.com&lt;/a&gt; (alias link &lt;a href=&quot;http://devopensource.stackexchange.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://devopensource.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138231" LastEditorUserId="138231" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T00:08:13.093" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T00:08:13.093" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44080" CreationDate="2010-03-25T23:57:08.813" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/non-english-question-policy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-25T23:57:08.813" />
  <row Id="44087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44080" CreationDate="2010-03-26T00:09:37.333" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/#en|es|If+you+are+not+familiar+enough+to+understand+English+answer+you+can+always+try+Google+Translator.+It+is+not+too+bad.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;If you are not familiar enough to understand English answer you can always try Google Translator. It is not too bad:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/#en|es|If+you+are+not+familiar+enough+to+understand+English+answer+you+can+always+try+Google+Translator.+It+is+not+too+bad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://translate.google.com/#en|es|If+you+are+not+familiar+enough+to+understand+English+answer+you+can+always+try+Google+Translator.+It+is+not+too+bad&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40347" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T00:09:37.333" />
  <row Id="44088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44080" CreationDate="2010-03-26T00:16:33.820" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;La razón por la cual no se permiten preguntas/respuestas en otros idiomas es para evitar fragmentación del conocimiento.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Es beneficioso para los no-nativos al inglés aprender el idioma puesto que la gran mayoría del conocimiento existente se encuentra en inglés. Además también aparece antes en ese idioma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Para buscar información en español, lamentablemente tendrás que ir a otro lado, pero será realmente una gran ventaja para vos aprender y desarrollar tu inglés, principalmente desde el punto de vista profesional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yo uso principalmente Stack Overflow u otras webs en inglés, pero he escuchado buenas cosas sobre www.elguille.info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dicho eso, siempre y cuando preguntes en inglés (que la comunidad sajona pueda entenderte), &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13676/is-english-required-on-stackoverflow/13679#13679&quot;&gt;podés agregar lo que quieras&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The reason questions/answers in other languages are not alowed is to avoid knowledge fragmentation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's beneficial for non-speakers to learn English as most of the existing knowledge it's written in that language, and also appears first in it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To search for information in Spanish, sadly you'll have to go somewhere else, but it will be a great advantage for you to learn and develop your English, mainly from a professional point of view.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I mainly use Stack Overflow or other webpages in English, but I've heard good things about www.elguille.info.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That being said, as long as you have an English version for them to understand you, you can add whatever you want.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T00:24:43.100" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T00:24:43.100" />
  <row Id="44094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T01:24:15.843" Score="9" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based off &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23611/view-code-in-new-window&quot;&gt;this question about viewing code in a new window&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to build a little greasemonkey script that allows you to expand code regions when they have scroll bars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Features&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click the code region to have it expand to whatever size it needs&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Removes vertical scroll altogether (expands to full height)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intelligently expands horizontally&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maxes out at window width so as not to make even more scroll bars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it still doesn't fit, it shrinks the font size&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Click again to return it to normal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teh codez&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(function() {&#xA;    function GM_wait() {&#xA;        if (typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined') { &#xA;            window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100); &#xA;        } else { &#xA;            $ = unsafeWindow.jQuery; letsJQuery(); &#xA;        }&#xA;    }&#xA;    GM_wait();&#xA;    function letsJQuery() {&#xA;        var maxHeight = null;&#xA;        $(&quot;pre&quot;).css(&quot;z-index&quot;, 1000).click(function() {&#xA;            var pre = $(this);&#xA;            if (!pre.hasClass(&quot;prettyprint&quot;)) {&#xA;                return;&#xA;            }&#xA;            if (maxHeight === null) {&#xA;                maxHeight = pre.css(&quot;max-height&quot;);&#xA;            }&#xA;            if (pre.css(&quot;position&quot;) != &quot;relative&quot;) {&#xA;                var oldWidth = pre.width();&#xA;                var codeWidth = Math.max(pre.find(&quot;code&quot;).width(), oldWidth);&#xA;                var maxWidth = $(window).width() - 20;&#xA;                var width = Math.min(maxWidth, codeWidth);&#xA;&#xA;                var maxLeft = (-1 * pre.offset().left) + 5;&#xA;                var idealLeft = (oldWidth - width) / 2.0;&#xA;                var left = Math.max(maxLeft, idealLeft);&#xA;                pre.css({width: width + &quot;px&quot;, position: &quot;relative&quot;, left: left + &quot;px&quot;, maxHeight: &quot;inherit&quot;});&#xA;                if (width &amp;lt; codeWidth) {                //last ditch attempt to fit...&#xA;                    var pc = 100 * width / codeWidth;&#xA;                    pc = Math.max(pc, 70);              //any smaller &amp;amp; you can't read it...&#xA;                    pre.css(&quot;font-size&quot;, pc + &quot;%&quot;);&#xA;                }&#xA;            } else {&#xA;                pre.css({width: &quot;auto&quot;, position: &quot;static&quot;, maxHeight: maxHeight, fontSize: &quot;100%&quot;});&#xA;            }&#xA;        });&#xA;    }&#xA;})();&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Minor bug fix where it wasn't working if it happened to initialise before the pretty print script had finished running. (Also limited the font-size shrink to 70% since below that it pretty much becomes unreadable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: Minor bug fix for &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44094/greasemonkey-script-to-expand-scrolling-code-blocks/70282#70282&quot;&gt;the overlapping chat box issue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3&lt;/strong&gt;: Now available over on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/2574/click-to-expand-code-regions&quot;&gt;StackApps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastEditorUserId="68727" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-09-05T00:33:25.577" LastActivityDate="2011-09-05T00:33:25.577" Title="Greasemonkey script to expand scrolling code blocks" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;greasemonkey&gt;&lt;code-block&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="4" />
  <row Id="44095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23611" CreationDate="2010-03-26T01:26:16.663" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're interested, I built &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44094/greasemonkey-script-to-expand-scrolling-code-blocks&quot;&gt;a greasemonkey script that helps solve this problem&lt;/a&gt; by allowing you to click the code region and have it expand to show all the code at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68727" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T01:26:16.663" />
  <row Id="44096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43762" CreationDate="2010-03-26T01:55:57.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reopening, because I think the OP's point was valid -- the official /faq should have been improved in this area. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I changed it to be more accurate and up to date, and included a table of ways you can gain and lose rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unofficial faq will always be more detailed, of course, but the /faq should have the essentials and it really didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T01:55:57.853" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T02:17:11.300" Score="5" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I press command-v, for paste in the &quot;dvorak-qwerty command&quot; layout, I expect the textarea to execute paste. Instead, it puts backticks around the current selection. Pretty much every other command is similarly mangled. It wouldn't be so bad if SO used a different key than command for the keyboard shortcuts, but in this case, I cannot copy or paste into the textarea with the keyboard at all (I have to use the mouse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a period of investigation (including looking at the WebKit source), I have determined the likely cause. The editor should be looking for &lt;code&gt;keypressed&lt;/code&gt; events instead of &lt;code&gt;keydown&lt;/code&gt; events to determine the key equivalent for a command. In Webkit, the code path for keydown and keypressed are different and return different results for &lt;code&gt;keydown&lt;/code&gt; vs &lt;code&gt;keypressed&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me know if this describes what the editor is doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly related issue:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2051&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2051&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145235" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T02:17:11.300" Title="Bug with editor when using Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard layout (Mac)" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editor&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-03-26T02:46:50.307" Score="20" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I can support a limit, but much less than an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who accepts an answer within, say, &lt;strong&gt;15 minutes&lt;/strong&gt; of posting their question is almost by definition being lazy in a bad way. That is, they're accepting &lt;em&gt;the first answer that comes along&lt;/em&gt; without considering all their options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hewgill.com/~greg/stackoverflow/stats-SO.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greg Hewgill's graph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; shows that very quick answers are accepted less often than the first probably more complete answers, but gives no clue about how soon the winning answer was accepted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=600x200&amp;amp;cht=bvs&amp;amp;chbh=20&amp;amp;chd=e:AAAAAGArNe43..tLdCT6O0MHIvG6EgDZCLAd&amp;amp;chtt=Time%20to%20accepted%20answer&amp;amp;chxt=x,y&amp;amp;chxl=0:|1s|2s|7s|20s|54s|2m|6m|18m|49m|2h|6h|16h|1d|5d|13d|37d|102d|279d|1:|0|22%&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: this is implemented. I think 15 minutes (the current setting) is completely reasonable; if you're accepting earlier than that, it's irresponsible IMO as others haven't even had a chance to even LOOK at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;†&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;code&gt;select extract(epoch from a.creationdate-q.creationdate) from post q join post a on (a.id = q.acceptedanswerid)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-05T16:51:51.403" LastActivityDate="2010-05-05T16:51:51.403" CommentCount="13" />
  <row Id="44100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43039" CreationDate="2010-03-26T02:52:31.760" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I made the &lt;code&gt;word-wrap: break-word;&lt;/code&gt; style apply to the child &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; element of &lt;code&gt;.post-text&lt;/code&gt; rather than the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T02:52:31.760" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T02:56:55.727" Score="20" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat related to a question here on meta about whether the number of questions in the &quot;Most Delete Votes&quot; list in the 10k moderator tools should be increased. I looked for that question every way I could think of, to add this as an answer (if it wasn't closed), but couldn't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just struck me that when I'm looking for questions to vote to delete, it does me no good to see questions I've already voted to delete, or questions that have been migrated or locked. The list would often be long enough if such questions were omitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-23T17:46:22.690" LastActivityDate="2010-05-23T18:01:13.783" Title="10k &quot;Most Delete Votes&quot; List - Don't Show Questions I Can't Vote For" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;delete&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;close-list&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44102" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T02:52:52.383" Score="2" ViewCount="504" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidently created a new stackoverflow account. How do I merge two accounts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, why didn't the site detected (by my email) I was the same person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="146126" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-28T20:09:40.343" LastActivityDate="2010-05-28T20:09:40.343" Title="Merge Stack Overflow accounts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;merge-accounts&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="44103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44102" CreationDate="2010-03-26T03:02:42.407" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll contact you by email to confirm, but after that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sampsonresume.com/labs/stackoverflow/merged.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User contacted, confirmed, and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://sampsonresume.com/labs/stackoverflow/merged-status-complete.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T15:44:26.427" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:44:26.427" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44109" CreationDate="2010-03-26T03:41:05.810" Score="3" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;I observed a reduction in views to questions since some week. I used to hit tens of views rather quickly, but now I hardly reach 10. This is strange, because I am mostly asking questions in java, which should be pretty popular. See for example &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513245/how-can-i-know-if-an-applet-is-running-in-a-browser-vs-invoked-from-eclipse&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513245/how-can-i-know-if-an-applet-is-running-in-a-browser-vs-invoked-from-eclipse&lt;/a&gt; (17 views)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513583/how-to-search-string-under-cursor-in-eclipse/&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513583/how-to-search-string-under-cursor-in-eclipse/&lt;/a&gt; (18 views)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513976/abstract-class-mouseadapter-vs-interface&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513976/abstract-class-mouseadapter-vs-interface&lt;/a&gt; (28 views)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the most viewed questions are around 800 views, not very high I would say.&#xA;Did something change in the site traffic? did the vote recount piss off people so much that they left ? Or maybe I am extrapolating from a too limited/biased dataset ? Also, there has been an openid outage, and depending on how visits are counted (with/without anonymous) many people could have been logged out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="78374" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T04:31:37.990" Title="feeling... decreased visits?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T04:02:20.830" Score="-3" ViewCount="162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm about to finish work for the day. It's Friday. I haven't seen a single Friday item on MSO today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes a pony sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131874" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:10:57.603" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T15:10:26.497" Title="Where's all the icelandics?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;pony&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44106" CreationDate="2010-03-26T04:10:48.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the best I could come up with on such short notice. Generally I have a week to plan my unintelligble rants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/129127412675645394.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/129130946397301269.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/129122489234014133.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/129120006068177813.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T04:10:48.203" />
  <row Id="44108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43942" CreationDate="2010-03-26T04:29:59.027" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deletion behavior depends how many answers and upvotes the question has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The behavior is different in the two cases. Try doing this on a question with 2+ answers or an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T04:29:59.027" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44105" CreationDate="2010-03-26T04:31:37.990" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a bug in the way views were recorded, which made them artifically high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bug was fixed a few months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T04:31:37.990" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41013" CreationDate="2010-03-26T04:54:03.123" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Related to this issue -- I have changed the &quot;Activity&quot; tab on the user profile to only show accepts from &lt;em&gt;the current user&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As balpha pointed out in his answer, that's what the Activity tab is supposed to do -- show the activities of this user, not of other users!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was a 1.5 year oversight on our part, and it is now fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T04:54:03.123" />
  <row Id="44112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42134" CreationDate="2010-03-26T05:11:32.053" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you aren't &quot;down&quot; one guru badge? Remember that migrated and deleted questions don't remove the associated badges -- you just won't earn the next few until the badge counts actually match the correct, remaining posts in the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: looks one one just barely made the threshold -- have you waited at least 24 hours? Some of the badges are awarded infrequently, for the ones that tend to happen infrequently, to reduce load on the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; the deletion of the user can affect this, I have seen subtle side-effecty things from that before. I'll check tomorrow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T09:04:06.253" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T09:04:06.253" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44011" CreationDate="2010-03-26T05:14:27.570" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is this any different than posting a bunch of unicode spaces in the post body? Or other general abuse of the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is &quot;don't do that&quot;, and the longer answer is &quot;if you keep doing that, there will be consequences.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: I added the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;zero-width non-joiner&lt;/a&gt; to our length check routine. You'll have to move on to other more obscure unicodez.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-02T05:44:42.190" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T05:44:42.190" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44115" CreationDate="2010-03-26T05:15:35.243" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I noticed my accepted answer rate went to 79% on SO. I went to mark answers on a couple of ancient questions that never got answered properly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for one of these I cannot mark an answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question in question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2181208/using-canvas-to-grab-pixel-data-from-page&quot;&gt;Using canvas to grab pixel data from page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does one do when this happens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32943" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:23:18.817" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:29:31.097" Title="Cannot mark accepted answer for one of my questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44114" CreationDate="2010-03-26T05:21:31.143" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You set a 150 point &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot; title=&quot;inner cogs&quot;&gt;bounty&lt;/a&gt; in the past that has now lapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question failed to get any new answers with &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; which would have been eligible for half the bounty on offer under &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32820/half-the-bounty-is-that-possible&quot; title=&quot;you snooze, you half lose&quot;&gt;auto-accept conditions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you also did not check the mark before the close of the bounty period, you can now &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty&quot; title=&quot;by design&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no longer&lt;/strong&gt; check any answer as accepted&lt;/a&gt; in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T05:29:31.097" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:29:31.097" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2010-03-26T05:49:29.403" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that it doesn't include the association bonus in the count towards &quot;100 points&quot;?  I officially have 121 points on ServerFault, but you haven't generated a rank for my account on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:49:29.403" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42617" CreationDate="2010-03-26T05:50:48.543" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, we are going with this URL format for comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;http://example.com/questions/1234/title/5678?cid=9999#5678&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;id&amp;gt;http://example.com/questions/1234/title/?cid=9999&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purely for the purposes of disambiguation in the RSS feeds, only -- these aren't functional links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no need, ever, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5436/direct-link-to-a-comment&quot;&gt;deep link to a comment&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T06:03:33.713" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T06:03:33.713" />
  <row Id="44118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2010-03-26T05:58:12.850" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Minor bug with the &quot;Interactive&quot; version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter an incorrect user number, and the &quot;User does not exist&quot; message comes up.&#xA;If you then enter a &lt;em&gt;valid&lt;/em&gt; user number, the previous message stays there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6191/userdoesnotexist.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screencap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I know, no hand-drawn circles.  How dare I?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27290" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T05:58:12.850" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5436" CreationDate="2010-03-26T06:04:15.660" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just can't see any legitimate need to deep link (permalink) to a comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conceptually, they are too ephemeral compared to answers and questions. And on top of that, whether a comment is &lt;em&gt;visible&lt;/em&gt; or not is completely dependent on how many other comments there are and how highly they are voted, among other variables...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linking to the question or answer should be sufficient, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T06:04:15.660" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34611" CreationDate="2010-03-26T06:39:21.690" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would only affect downstream links that did not themselves have a title, but fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T06:39:21.690" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43218" CreationDate="2010-03-26T07:01:58.180" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;GreaseMonkey Script&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/72481.user.js&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Install&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/72481&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is mine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;....&#xA;** total rep 2494 :(&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;PS: Its a shame that, I don't know how to use jQuery with Content-Encoding: text/plain&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Now its show how many points you're going to lose. (need to install again)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;...&#xA;** total rep 2524 (-16) :(&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastEditorUserId="139541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T09:01:36.070" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T09:01:36.070" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T07:56:35.450" Score="4" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26220/should-up-and-down-votes-cancel-each-other&quot;&gt;Should up and down votes cancel each other?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1390/should-we-reduce-rep-bonus-for-upvotes-on-posts-with-a-negative-score&quot;&gt;Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm describing here could have been discussed before. If so, I apologize in advance - this is a complex issue to search for (I tried!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times I've noticed the following effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone provides an answer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone else downvotes it for one reason or another, maybe unjustified&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People seeing the -1 feel bad for the answerer since the answer is reasonable and vote +1 to balance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effect of this: the user gained +8 reputation. The problem I see with this is that the answer would probably gain no upvote had it not had the -1 on it. The same works for questions, by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it more reasonable to cancel downvotes with upvotes, at least in the vicinity of zero - so that an answer with +1 and -1 wouldn't have a relatively large net positive reputation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: OK, thanks guys. I'll look there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140635" LastEditorUserId="140635" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T13:20:41.217" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T13:20:41.217" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T09:10:25.897" Title="The &quot;minus -&gt; plus&quot; effect on reputation" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;down-votes&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="44124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43681" CreationDate="2010-03-26T08:24:02.247" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; tags = Regex.Replace(tags, @&quot;(?&amp;lt;=[0-9a-z])\+(?=[0-9a-z])&quot;,&#xA;       &quot; &quot;, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will be deployed later. For your viewing pleasure and my future reference, a list of all tags containing a plus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;++&#xA;a+&#xA;aac+&#xA;accelerated-c++&#xA;ajax+hebrew&#xA;alt+space&#xA;b+tree&#xA;blitz++&#xA;c++&#xA;c++0x&#xA;c++1x&#xA;c++builder&#xA;c++builder-2007&#xA;c++builder-2009&#xA;c++builder-2010&#xA;c++-builder-5&#xA;c++builder-5&#xA;c++builder-6&#xA;c++cli&#xA;c++-cli&#xA;c++-concepts&#xA;c++-faq&#xA;c++filt&#xA;c++-mode&#xA;c++-standard-library&#xA;c++-streams&#xA;c++test&#xA;c-c++-mixup&#xA;cc++usersjournal&#xA;checkbox+table&#xA;c-not-c++&#xA;cocoa+checkbox+tableview&#xA;column+name&#xA;com+&#xA;crypto++&#xA;c-vs-c++&#xA;dev-c++&#xA;effective-c++&#xA;flash+mysql+php&#xA;formview+mode&#xA;g++&#xA;gdi+&#xA;git+ssh&#xA;gtk+&#xA;hfs+&#xA;iphone+post&#xA;iphone+uiwebview&#xA;j++&#xA;java+smack+xmpp&#xA;jvm+msil&#xA;lapack++&#xA;lazy-c++&#xA;learning-c++&#xA;libstdc++&#xA;mac+setup&#xA;managed-c++&#xA;managed-c++opengl&#xA;modern-c++&#xA;msql-connector-c++&#xA;mysql++&#xA;n+1&#xA;n+1-selects-problem&#xA;notepad++&#xA;objective-c++&#xA;open-c++&#xA;php+javascript&#xA;php+regex&#xA;project+&#xA;py++&#xA;s+&#xA;spy++&#xA;ssl+python+stomp&#xA;svn+ssh&#xA;tinyxml++&#xA;to-be-wikified+1&#xA;turboc++&#xA;unittest++&#xA;unresolved-externals-c++&#xA;vc++&#xA;vc++.net&#xA;vc++6.0&#xA;vc++-project-file&#xA;visual+studio&#xA;visual-c++&#xA;visual-c++-2005&#xA;visual-c++-2008&#xA;visual-c++-2008-express&#xA;visual-c++-2010&#xA;visual-c++-redistributabl&#xA;windows-6+&#xA;x++&#xA;xl-c++&#xA;xml+flash+actionscript&#xA;xslt+excel&#xA;y2k+10&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just the problem tags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;ajax+hebrew&#xA;asp.net+vb.net&#xA;b+tree&#xA;checkbox+table&#xA;cocoa+checkbox+tableview&#xA;column+name&#xA;flash+mysql+php&#xA;formview+mode&#xA;git+ssh&#xA;iphone+post&#xA;iphone+uiwebview&#xA;java+jsp&#xA;jvm+msil&#xA;mac+setup&#xA;n+1&#xA;php+javascript&#xA;php+regex&#xA;ssl+python+stomp&#xA;svn+ssh&#xA;to-be-wikified+1&#xA;visual+studio&#xA;xml+flash+actionscript&#xA;xslt+excel&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;Yes, some of these need to be fixed as well.. working on it.&lt;/s&gt; These should all be properly split now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T08:54:31.590" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T08:54:31.590" />
  <row Id="44125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T10:42:49.827" Score="9" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41013/accepted-answer-with-bounty-does-not-show-up-on-the-activity-tab&quot;&gt;accepted answer with bounty does not show up on the activity tab&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm used to looking in my &quot;Activity&quot; list (in my profile, not the notification area) when I notice my rep go up after hitting the cap, to see what was accepted when. It's always been very convenient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41013/accepted-answer-with-bounty-does-not-show-up-on-the-activity-tab/44111#44111&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, this was a &quot;bug&quot; which has now been fixed. However, it was a bug which was particularly useful. Please could we have an alternative? The reputation part of the notification area is harder to use, IMO - in particular because on a busy day, I'm likely to have had lots of (irrelevant) votes between accepted answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, some feed of &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; acceptances - and preferably &lt;em&gt;unacceptances&lt;/em&gt; as well, to answer another feature request - would be very useful. I also think it would be nice to show this in the public profile; it's interesting to see what answers a user has had accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22656" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-09T03:10:52.433" LastActivityDate="2010-11-16T05:44:19.023" Title="&quot;Answer accepted&quot; is no longer part of the activity feed... alternative please!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;support&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44131" CreationDate="2010-03-26T11:03:46.687" Score="3" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35185/vote-count-not-correct&quot;&gt;Vote count not correct&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2522343/2522374#2522374&quot;&gt;An answer to a question&lt;/a&gt; shows 3 votes, but when I click on it it shows +4/-0. I have also &lt;a href=&quot;http://csharpindepth.com/StackOverflow/ReputationTracker.aspx?so=118145&amp;amp;sf=&amp;amp;su=&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;mode=today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gained 40 rep from it&lt;/a&gt;. Why does the user interface lie to me :'(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/6064/uv1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8438/uv2.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137028" LastEditorUserId="137028" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T12:28:40.917" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T12:28:40.917" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T12:37:42.537" Title="Up-Vote Anomaly" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;up-votes&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44128" CreationDate="2010-03-26T11:34:54.800" Score="2" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40353/stack-overflow-glossary-dictionary-of-commonly-used-terms&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search?q=sofu&quot;&gt;SOFU&lt;/a&gt; stands for Stack Overflow, ... right? But where did the U come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I understand closing this but in my defense, search for &quot;SOFU&quot; and that thread is literally the last result on the last page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And random, thanks for the insightful reply. No, seriously, thanks to everyone who actually tried to answer the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144943" LastEditorUserId="131541" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-16T04:36:05.467" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T04:36:05.467" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T12:14:29.413" Title="What exactly does SOFU stand for?" Tags="&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44127" CreationDate="2010-03-26T11:36:28.820" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow, ServerFault, SuperUser - S[OFU]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T11:36:28.820" />
  <row Id="44129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44127" CreationDate="2010-03-26T11:37:11.643" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;tack &lt;b&gt;O&lt;/b&gt;verflow + &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;erver &lt;b&gt;F&lt;/b&gt;ault + &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;uper &lt;b&gt;U&lt;/b&gt;ser == S[OFU], or short SOFU. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOFU stands for the complete Trilogy, not just StackOverflow (SO).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T11:37:11.643" />
  <row Id="44131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44126" CreationDate="2010-03-26T12:14:21.520" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, for unexplained reasons, vote counts become corrupted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's happened at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/35185/vote-count-not-correct&quot;&gt;twice&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37114/the-case-of-the-mysterious-disappearing-upvote-closed&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34397" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T12:14:21.520" />
  <row Id="44133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2010-03-26T13:13:54.817" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't have a hyphen in its name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="33708" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T13:13:54.817" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-26T13:13:54.817" />
  <row Id="44134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2010-03-26T13:29:33.403" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. How can you treat so badly your users from a country that invented a waffle variation as beautiful as this? (Yes, apparently we came up with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bergisches-wiki.de/index.php/Bergische_Waffeln&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;heart-shaped waffle&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://media.kuechengoetter.de/media/105/12216445942780/waffeln_zutat.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T14:44:47.173" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:44:47.173" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:02:49.300" Score="1" ViewCount="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am using this &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tomcoote.co.uk/JavaScript/JSONSuggestBox/demo.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;suggestion box&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on my test site and I love everything about its look/feel.  But, the only problem the payload is HUGE.  The data file it uses is 757kb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As evidence by my reputation, I'm a newbie here and I like the suggestion box you use for tags.  I was wondering if the kind folks at stackoverflow could post a tutorial on how the tags suggestion box works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145214" LastEditorUserId="1782" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T14:07:24.783" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:07:24.783" Title="Tags Suggestion Box?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44135" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:06:07.110" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt they'd do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have better luck asking programming questions on &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt; to build your own, it shouldn't be so hard (although you don't specify your programming experience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also be acceptable to ask there if anyone knows of a better one, in regards to performance. A drop down suggestion thingy is quite common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:06:07.110" />
  <row Id="44137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:08:34.000" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find a locked post that you voted on (upvote or downvote). I found one with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite-programmer-cartoon&quot;&gt;What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Try to undo the vote. =&gt; The arrow will be unhighlighted, and the vote count will be &lt;em&gt;briefly&lt;/em&gt; changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An error message displays &quot;This post has been locked; locked posts can't be voted on.&quot; When this displays, the vote count is reset, but the arrow is not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After dismissing the dialog, the vote arrow is still not reset.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;strong&gt;this does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; happen when attempting to remove a vote that is too old to change&lt;/strong&gt;, so there is already some code written which will handle this properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshots!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5873/undolockedvote1.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6546/undolockedvote2.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1369/undolockedvote3.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1576/undolockedvote4.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:12:42.183" Title="Vote arrow not reset when attempting to undo vote on locked post" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;locked-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44137" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:12:42.183" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is displayed correctly again when you refresh the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not for or against it, but it seems to unimportant to fix unless it's adding one line of code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:12:42.183" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44106" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:30:48.527" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta is tired from the 100's of &quot;Why has my reputation expired&quot; posts that needed to be marked &lt;code&gt;Duplicated&lt;/code&gt; and closed.  Please give it a few more hours to recuperate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16487" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:30:48.527" />
  <row Id="44140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20549" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:35:36.597" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was curious about SO because I followed both Joel and Jeff, but I did not really take it seriously at first. Then, last may, there was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_thread/thread/d2bb73de380f216/245714123bcce819?lnk=gst&amp;amp;q=d%27foy+stack+overflow#245714123bcce819&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; about it on &lt;code&gt;comp.lang.perl.misc&lt;/code&gt; and I decided to give it another shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, AT&amp;amp;T got rid of its $5/month UseNet access offering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never participated on any programming &quot;forum&quot; on the web. To me, the greatest advantage SO has over UseNet is that it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; to eliminate not just from my own view, but from everyone else's as well, the bad and the ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That it is possible does not mean it is automatic (see, this &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2521396/can-my-perl-program-execute-code-stored-in-a-database&quot;&gt;horrifying post&lt;/a&gt;), but it goes a long way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, one can put thought and effort into an answer and be reasonably certain that it will not be lost in the noise. Gives us something to feel good about. Increases the sum of good programming knowledge in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130608" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:35:36.597" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-26T14:35:36.597" />
  <row Id="44141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:36:56.173" Score="5" ViewCount="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately, when I go to the site, it says I have two responses, but when I click to see them there's only one listed. I see some &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26447/top-message-says-1-more-response-available-but-linked-page-says-out-of-date&quot;&gt;similar questions&lt;/a&gt;, but those are about being away for a long time. This has been happening to me regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132425" LastActivityDate="2010-04-28T20:30:35.823" Title="# of responses in banner doesn't match number when clicking on the link" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44141" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:38:55.093" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the responses are recent, click &quot;Today,&quot; or &quot;This Week,&quot; to view all of the most recent responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:38:55.093" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:41:07.210" Score="3" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks a little like &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32358/unable-to-accept-answer-for-a-question-with-a-bounty&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; but is not - I posted a bounty and there was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2174621/blend-window-is-not-supported-in-a-wpf-project/2504038#2504038&quot;&gt;single answer&lt;/a&gt; on the last day. I reviewed the answer and wanted to accept it but the &quot;accept tick&quot; was not visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I upvoted the answer and commented &lt;strong&gt;before the bounty ran out&lt;/strong&gt; that I was unable to accept the answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this may have been a bug because there was only one upvoted answer to the question, which I know disables the auto-acceptance but appears to have disabled manual acceptance too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145253" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T15:49:08.103" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:49:08.103" Title="Unable to accept single answer before bounty expired" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-norepro&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44154" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:46:26.297" Score="29" ViewCount="749" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dearly Beloved,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this has been a very sad week for all of us. Our good friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/137184/quack-quixote&quot;&gt;~quack&lt;/a&gt; has lost what&#xA;clearly was a largely important part of his Trilogy life. After a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/25542/display-names-bugs-no-allowed-cant-reset-unset-kills-profile-copy&quot;&gt;month-long&#xA;struggle&lt;/a&gt;, he has given in to the inevitable and sent his Tilde to finally rest&#xA;in peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having our friend experience this tragedy would be sad enough, but the loss is&#xA;even greater: With an ASCII code of 126, the Tilde was the last of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_characters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;printable&#xA;characters&lt;/a&gt;. The implications of it being no more cannot even be imagined yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I ask you all to give a dignified salute to it that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;is colloquially known&#xA;as a 'squiggle' by people who do not know its name&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The manner in which you&#xA;pay the tribute is of your choice: Be it that you create a Haiku telling its story,&#xA;compose a song giving praise to the many wonderful deeds of the Tilde, use your&#xA;art skills to design a poster that commemorates the swung dash in all its glory,&#xA;write a Greasemonkey script to let the Tilde appear amongst us one more time&#xA;&amp;ndash; or whatever way you find to let the world know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;~, you will be missed.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T15:42:55.213" LastActivityDate="2011-05-28T14:47:56.243" Title="A last tribute to the Tilde" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;fun&gt;&lt;usernames&gt;&lt;navel-gazing&gt;" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="44146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44144" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:51:04.397" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You posted the bounty on the 16th, and it expired on the 23rd.  I can't tell what time you placed the bounty, and what time you tried to accept the answer, but if it was over 168 hours after placing the bounty, then the bounty expired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the new answer did not have at least two upvotes when the bounty expired, then it was not automatically selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:51:04.397" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:57:47.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My tribute:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2598" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:57:47.787" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-26T14:57:47.787" />
  <row Id="44148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T14:58:34.773" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would offer up the new name of &lt;strong&gt;squiggle quack&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T14:58:34.773" />
  <row Id="44149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:03:18.493" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have visions of tildes flying around, looking for a new user to possess...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://djtrousdale.com/arts/wp-content/original/2009_08/epuc-tilde.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;~&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:03:18.493" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:08:32.133" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You shall be missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;~&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&amp;nbsp;~&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;~&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;~&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;~&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;~&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;~&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;~&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T15:12:11.313" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:12:11.313" />
  <row Id="44151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:08:51.773" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often use the tilde to express &quot;approximately&quot; or &quot;about&quot;, as a replacement for &lt;code&gt;=&lt;/code&gt; when I provide WAGs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I can only offer my congratulations to quack for having fully realized his true nature, rather than only approximating the quackitude he so fittingly displays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your old self will be missed, but we look forward you full antics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;~quack&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;All hail the real quack!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:08:51.773" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44106" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:09:49.587" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/22459/olafur-waage&quot;&gt;only one true Icelandic&lt;/a&gt; has gone cold turkey since Nov 29 at 23:53.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself.&quot; - Douglas Adams&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/89b8f4a7429270308ac301bf7605f974?s=128&amp;amp;d=identicon&amp;amp;r=PG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He must be not wasting time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:09:49.587" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44106" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:10:57.603" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well no one wants a sad pony!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://wannasmile.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/mini-pony.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:10:57.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:13:29.330" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back-tick, its brother.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Its wavy nature; its slide&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Squiggling thus, tilde.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52443" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:13:29.330" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44101" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:19:08.507" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't mind seeing questions I've already voted for in the list (at least if I voted on the same machine, the link will be greyed out), but migrated questions are totally uneligible (for non-mods) so they should be in a different list altogether.  Perhaps there's already a &quot;recently migrated&quot; tab for mods, so these questions should go live there with that list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we're at it, a longer list of questions with delete votes would be welcome too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:19:08.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:22:09.250" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;~           ~          ~     ~      ~      ~   ~         ~~~~~~~         ~~~~~~&#xA;     ~          ~          ~          ~     ~         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     ~~~~~~&#xA; ~        ~           ~       ~     ~        ~       ~~~~~~    ~~~~~~   ~~~~~~&#xA;     ~         ~     ~        ~       ~     ~   ~   ~~~~~~      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~&#xA;       ~         ~         ~      ~     ~    ~      ~~~~~~         ~~~~~~~&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh tilde,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Speeding into the night,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I hope we meet again soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:22:09.250" />
  <row Id="44157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:26:58.367" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;..&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;~&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:26:58.367" />
  <row Id="44158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44167" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:30:27.127" Score="11" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been confusing me for ages. I go to StackOverflow. I see the link at the top saying that I have a new answer. I click it. It shows &quot;nothing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I click &quot;this week&quot;, &quot;last week&quot; - they all show &quot;nothing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I click &quot;this month&quot;, and the &lt;em&gt;most recent answer&lt;/em&gt; is one that I have seen three times before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have no idea what this link is telling me about. Where is this new answer? Why does this keep happening so often? It's either a bug or bad UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136714" LastEditorUserId="3" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-04T04:09:10.547" LastActivityDate="2010-05-04T04:09:10.547" Title="&quot;You have 1 new answer. See your responses.&quot; link doesn't show any responses" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;recent-activity&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="44159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:33:37.090" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Goodbye %7e, you were &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/unique.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:33:37.090" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25224" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:38:03.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mystackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stack Overflow Tag Monitor&lt;/a&gt;.  I think they might be adding email alerts at some point in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130169" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T15:38:03.257" />
  <row Id="44161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64929" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:37:18.800" Score="6" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to get feed of the top rankers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But there were too many feeds(because of their comments feed)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's annoying me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to get feeds of their &lt;strong&gt;answer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is it possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="150286" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-06-24T21:02:32.427" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T06:00:11.380" Title="Can I get Stackoverflow's user feeds, about only the answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;users&gt;&lt;rss&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="44162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44161" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:45:06.520" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14183/answer-only-rss-feed-for-a-user&quot;&gt;asked once before&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't see it having been responded to by an admin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastEditorUserId="130431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T18:12:06.483" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:12:06.483" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T15:58:24.433" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There once was a tilde from quacktown,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Who danced before names like a king's crown.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jeff said &quot;&lt;em&gt;Forget&lt;/em&gt; it!&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A forced user edit;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strike&gt;And far from the DB it was blown.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And far from SOFU went that clown!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T20:10:27.583" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T20:10:27.583" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T16:10:37.593" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;~fin&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T16:10:37.593" />
  <row Id="44165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T16:13:32.920" Score="27" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Console.Write((char)('T' + 'i' - 'l' + 'd' - 'e' + '.'));&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131612" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T16:13:32.920" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-26T16:50:46.397" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;~ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T16:50:46.397" />
  <row Id="44167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44158" CreationDate="2010-03-26T16:57:25.353" Score="11" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check the &quot;revisions&quot; tab on that screen: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1815492/how-to-determine-whether-a-net-exception-is-being-handled&quot;&gt;one of your questions was edited&lt;/a&gt; 21 hours ago, and that would trigger the notification while not showing anything on the summary page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it would be more helpful if the notification said &quot;&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; new revision(s) to your post(s)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T16:57:25.353" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T17:04:59.690" Score="0" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/what-were-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user-built-with&quot;&gt;What were Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User built with?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know what technologies do they use at Stack Overflow or any of these Stack based sites. If some of these is confidential fair enough but I am building an application that needs to be very scalable and reliable so I am just curious about what the best boys have used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Database&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Relational/Distributed? - Roughly how many tables?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do you interact with them SQL/ORM/anything else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Middle Tier&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a MT? If so what do you guys use Java/Ruby/.NET/Scala/(any new funky language)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Application servers do you use (Apache, JBOSS, ...)? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Front end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JQuery or Dojo or bespoke stuff?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Misc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clustering? How many clusters does Stack Overflow have?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Logging? How do you trouble shoot? JMX?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Web services? Have you built the stuff around webservices JSON/REST or whatever?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can keep adding a lot of departments but if someone wants to answer then great :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141820" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T18:34:41.613" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:34:41.613" ClosedDate="2010-03-26T17:09:07.340" Title="Tech Stack of Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45331" CreationDate="2010-03-26T18:45:08.250" Score="32" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another solution to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40316/add-an-alert-when-answering-a-question-that-has-at-least-a-close-vote-as-duplicat&quot;&gt;this problem&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Problem:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are voting to close as exact duplicate without leaving comments.  Such votes are invisible to everyone under 3k.  A comment is the primary way others can see that there's a duplicate until the question is actually closed.  Until people are notified, the question may get answers that really should go to the primary question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Possible solution:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When voting to close as exact duplicate, the system &lt;em&gt;automatically&lt;/em&gt; adds a question comment, &lt;code&gt;Possible duplicate of -link-&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would search the comments for the number of the duplicate, and if found it wouldn't add the new comment (ie, someone has already pointed out the dupe) but if not then it would add the comment.  This will also repress extra comments as others add their vote to close, unless they chose a different dupe primary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The comment would be either under the community user, or the user that voted to close as duplicate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would give us the same information we had when people manually marked questions with dupe info, and the same information we get when people comment on the question about the dupe.  Automating it would make it a little faster and consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T09:54:59.673" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T21:17:44.007" Title="Autocomment when voting to close as duplicate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="44174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44175" CreationDate="2010-03-26T18:47:37.073" Score="2" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/21788/how-does-editing-work&quot;&gt;How does editing work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/9090/is-there-an-editing-grace-period-on-answers-after-they-have-been-posted&quot;&gt;Is there an editing &amp;lsquo;grace period&amp;rsquo; on answers after they have been posted?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer on SO was edited by the original author but it doesn't show an edited timestamp or link to answer history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2525804/in-c-how-can-i-serialize-a-listint-to-a-byte-in-order-to-store-it-in-a-db-fi/2525812#2525812&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2525804/in-c-how-can-i-serialize-a-listint-to-a-byte-in-order-to-store-it-in-a-db-fi/2525812#2525812&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there times when edits are not shown as edits?  What are the rules for this?  Or am I misreading somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it was edited 'cause I read the original and new, and the comments refer to edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141444" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:49:28.067" ClosedDate="2010-03-27T00:58:55.560" Title="Edited answer does not show &quot;edited&quot; or history link?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44174" CreationDate="2010-03-26T18:49:28.067" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first 5 minutes the edits are not shown in the history. You have time to clean up typos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1069" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:49:28.067" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44173" CreationDate="2010-03-26T18:56:36.990" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest it's under the community user. No need to show who's voting unless it's already closed and all 5 users reached an agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I always leave a comment with the duplicate if I vote and it's not already there (ie: I manually do your algorithm)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T18:56:36.990" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="44177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42531" CreationDate="2010-03-26T18:58:45.207" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, the idea behind the reputation tag is to show reputation. As you do not receive reputation for a CW post, I'd say it doesn't belong in the reuptation tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to see both a votes given and received history, however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on Downvoter's rebuttal, I now favor adding CW votes to the &lt;em&gt;summary&lt;/em&gt; page, as well as the all votes tab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130431" LastEditorUserId="130431" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-29T19:58:12.730" LastActivityDate="2010-04-29T19:58:12.730" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44173" CreationDate="2010-03-26T19:00:40.960" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like this idea, as it embodies what has become common practice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would be even better if these comments were forced to the top of the list so as to be visible even when multiple comments already exist...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative to posting as Community would be to add an up-vote to the existing comment when a second user chooses the same link (again, keeping with common practice). Community would probably be simpler though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T19:00:40.960" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44173" CreationDate="2010-03-26T19:13:47.810" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best solution lies somewhere between this suggestion (adding comments) and the e&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1383/show-possible-duplicates-in-the-main-post-before-its-closed&quot;&gt;arlier suggestion to add the links to the question itself&lt;/a&gt;. I've never liked how questions closed as duplicates are edited to contain the dupe links in the question -- we've occasionally seen the OP editing these links out, which just hides information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should not be possible to remove these links.  They should even be visible if a question has been re-opened. &lt;strong&gt;I think the only real answer is to use a new &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; section directly above or below the question&lt;/strong&gt;, which is automatically populated as the close-as-dupe votes come in, and contains the final links after the question is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T19:13:47.810" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44187" CreationDate="2010-03-26T19:16:30.767" Score="1" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you need a &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/123582/force-macbook-to-connect-via-802-11a/123656#123656&quot;&gt;reference, this&lt;/a&gt; is where I got to notice the issue. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23292/what-are-we-doing-with-markdown-bugs-inconsistencies&quot;&gt;I'm not sure this should be posted as a new question&lt;/a&gt;, and I understand the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1227/preview-should-match-the-posted-view/23291&quot;&gt;preview not matching the post&lt;/a&gt; is a very well known issue, but since the last bug I posted was welcomed, I'll try this one as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only way I could have a good result with the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; was by opening and closing it without any Carriages-Return in between both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you set a &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; without closing it, it looks good on the preview, but bad on the final post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you put the &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; and close it, it's still messed up unless you do it all in 1 line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it should work with just 1 opening and closing tag for the whole portion I want to, but it just doesn't. Also I think this isn't actually a markdown issue, but it's at least related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T19:45:05.600" Title="Markdown &lt;del&gt; is a little buggy - works nice on preview, not so much when it's done" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;&lt;markdown-rendering&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T19:30:28.113" Score="7" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for feedback on the idea of editing questions to include links to a 3rd party documentation wiki for the purposes of capturing the question and answer in a reference format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically Stack Overflow is by far the best Q&amp;amp;A forum for programming related questions, but not always the best &quot;documentation&quot;, reference or tutorial source.  The idea is to include a link or tag in the footer of the question to aid in and link to a 3rd party documentation Wiki where the Q&amp;amp;A could be reformatted into reference documentation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would be two links, one explaining why the link is there, the other link would be to the documentation that is updated with the Q&amp;amp;A - kind of like for more information link.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If editing the message text is inappropriate then it could also be done in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've written up a more &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.delphi.org/2010/03/delphi-overflow-doc-wiki-initiative/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;detailed first pass&lt;/a&gt; at the idea.  Would like to find a way that is a win for the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarification&lt;/strong&gt;: I was actually suggesting adding a pseudo-tag into the message text, or the comments.  I agree that using the actual question tags is a bad idea.  The advantage of using the question body is that the links can be changed and updated as necessary.  Putting them in the comments is permanent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="255" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T04:54:08.690" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T13:14:28.397" Title="Acceptable to 'tag' questions for inclusion in 3rd party Wiki" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;wiki&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;&lt;external-project&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44183" CreationDate="2010-03-26T19:32:09.637" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer this be done in comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T19:32:09.637" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44181" CreationDate="2010-03-26T19:38:09.680" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see what you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a workaround, use &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;del&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;.  As you can see in the code below (hit view source in the revision history) I've opened a &lt;em&gt;strike&lt;/em&gt; tag before the text body, and closed it afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I do the same with &lt;em&gt;del&lt;/em&gt; tags, it mushes all the paragraphs together.  Perhaps &lt;em&gt;del&lt;/em&gt; tags only apply within &lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt; tags and can't encompass multiple &lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt; tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: reference to the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding to Spiff's answer, (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From experience, (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also used to happen (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things are not so simple (...) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/specs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;...link...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side-note, (...) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bandspeed.com/technology/interferers.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;...link...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T19:45:05.600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T19:45:05.600" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-26T19:38:09.680" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44189" CreationDate="2010-03-26T20:20:39.853" Score="28" ViewCount="867" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Overflow doesn't like me; I can't seem to keep my points. How can I post better and be well-received?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/&quot;&gt;Return to FAQ index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T12:44:37.010" LastActivityDate="2011-07-26T04:24:24.087" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-26T20:21:04.750" Title="How do I participate in Meta Stack Overflow and not die trying?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;meta&gt;&lt;faq-proposed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="7" />
  <row Id="44189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44188" CreationDate="2010-03-26T20:20:48.153" Score="22" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What Exactly Is Meta Stack Overflow? Why/How Is It Different? What Goes Here?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meta Stack Overflow is a special place for The Trilogy suggestions, bugs, and discussion. It is the only forum where more frivilous discussions are allowed. Meta Stack Overflow is also harsh[er] to your feelings. That said, here are a few guidelines if you'd like to keep your sanity and reputation points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do Always Search for Your Question First, (Repeat if Necessary)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta Stack Overflow has been around for some time, and the fact is that most common questions/bugs/suggestions have already been answered. It's easier and less time consuming to search for you question. If you can't find it, think of different search terms and search again. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heavily Consider Not Suggesting Anything If You Are New&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Although this sounds cruel, elitist, and rude, it is innately true. The higher-reputation users have been around longer than you have and have a better understanding of Meta Stack Overflow and The Trilogy. It takes a little while to get used to Stack Overflow/Super User/Server Fault/Meta Stack Overflow and learn the inner workings and methodologies of why things are the way they are. The reason it is very difficult to find anything on Stack Overflow/Super User/Server Fault/Meta Stack Overflow which is trivial or sloppy is that all of the inner workings have carefully been thought through, tested, and polished. In other words, if you have no idea what rocket science is, it makes no sense to walk into NASA and start telling them how things should be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you still have suggestion(s), that's great! However, the best advice to you is to hold that thought, learn the ropes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19392/what-is-up-with-the-waffle-fetish&quot;&gt;eat your waffles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoatmeal.com/comics/pony&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ride&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19479#19479&quot;&gt;your ponies&lt;/a&gt;, and then revisit us. You will have a better background and more experience to suggest. &lt;strong&gt;Don't Suggest Anything Before Thoroughly Looking If It Was Suggested Before.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't Criticize, Downtalk, or Insult. Be Constructive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meta Stack Overflow's primary audience is the high reputation users, the very ones who have spent hours, and sometimes sleepless nights answering and asking questions, sometimes even pouring out their hearts over mundane tasks like retagging. If you do post anything disrespecting, you can almost count on being reprimanded. Meta Stack Overflow is still composed of people, and as people, must be treated politely as such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Instead of being rude or disrespecting, turn those negatives into positives, be polite and constructive and you will be much better recieved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't Post Incorrect Answers/Comments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just like The Trilogy, wrong answers get downvoted. If you'd like to keep your reputation points, simply follow common sense. If you don't know, don't pretend that you do. If you aren't sure, say so (or don't post at all).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't Whine or Complain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While Meta Stack Overflow is a place for questions, answers, suggestions, and bugs, it isn't your mommy. Meta Stack Overflow expects its audience to act - and post - like mature adults. If you've had your hair ruffled up, the preferred procedure is to persevere, putting on a pretension of imperturbability in the presence of perceived persecution, and carry on. However, if you really feel that a great wrong was done, or a pattern is developing, you can post it on Meta Stack Overflow. But please, please, don't whine. &gt;_&amp;lt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Downvotes on Meta Stack Overflow can mean disagreement, incorrectness or that the downvoter got up on the wrong side of his/her bed. Votes are yours to cast, so are theirs. Don't complain about votes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remember Meta is a Website, Not Your Entire Life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just like any other activity, it is important to remember that life exists outside of this website. Spending days on end doing nothing but Meta Stack Overflow is bad for your health (and we have to put up with your crazed antics). So please, remember that Meta Stack Overflow is a website, and keep things in perspective. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When in doubt...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19480#19480&quot;&gt;Waffles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/19478/the-many-memes-of-meta/19479#19479&quot;&gt;ponies&lt;/a&gt; and bacon are good fallback subjects when you have nothing else to say.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="159251" LastEditorDisplayName="rlb.usa" LastEditDate="2011-06-09T06:20:10.460" LastActivityDate="2011-06-09T06:20:10.460" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-26T20:47:43.890" CommentCount="15" />
  <row Id="44190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26382" CreationDate="2010-03-26T20:38:20.997" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;An alternative would be to add &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;a search page&lt;/a&gt;, available via a link on the page footer. This would include a proper button, and possibly additional search options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="13992" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-02-16T17:13:11.217" LastActivityDate="2011-02-16T17:13:11.217" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26382" CreationDate="2010-03-26T21:04:08.000" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't this only an issue if your virtual keyboard doesn't have an enter key? My phone (HTC Hero - an Android phone) only has a virtual keyboard, but that keyboard has an enter key and it works fine on this site. I guess my point is that I imagine there aren't many devices that have a keyboard and yet still manage to not have an enter key of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145027" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T21:04:08.000" />
  <row Id="44193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44125" CreationDate="2010-03-26T21:13:13.847" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't &lt;code&gt;/recent&lt;/code&gt; work for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current design is much more logical -- the activity tab shows &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; activity not the activity of others -- so it is extremely unlikely to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, your accepted answers are already shown on your answers on your user page; just order your answers by &quot;recent&quot; and look for the tell-tale style..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T21:13:13.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44183" CreationDate="2010-03-26T21:13:23.690" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hey Jim, maybe a &lt;strong&gt;mock up&lt;/strong&gt; of a question with an answer would help getting the idea of what it would look like (blending in, obtrusive,...).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I personally would prefer the &lt;strong&gt;link in the message&lt;/strong&gt;, as the comment can end up at the bottom or even hidden.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, as this is intended mainly for the &lt;strong&gt;Delphi&lt;/strong&gt; community, where everybody tends to complain about the documentation (or lack of), I don't think those interested in the questions would object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133184" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T21:13:23.690" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44208" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:06:03.470" Score="-2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2198627/what-is-the-code-on-stackoverflow-page-not-found-pages-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2198627/what-is-the-code-on-stackoverflow-page-not-found-pages-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Call me a perfectionist (aren't all programmers) but I dislike having a closed question on my profile. The red is... ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be totally removed please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/102482/finglas&quot;&gt;SO&lt;/a&gt; profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134974" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T23:17:28.877" Title="Can a moderator or higher up delete a question of mine?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44196" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:14:05.633" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think your question will be deleted because deletions are reserved for special circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closed questions are just that, close. Yours was actually migrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there isn't a reason to delete it, other then your request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T22:14:05.633" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:19:37.273" Score="35" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per Jeff's request, redirecting here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question about using SO as a forum to publish content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the next ISO C++ standard is &lt;a href=&quot;http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/trip-report-march-2010-iso-c-standards-meeting/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pretty much locked down&lt;/a&gt;, I’m thinking of going back and revising all my popular Internet-published &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guru of the Week (GotW) articles&lt;/a&gt;, which along with my traditional magazine articles were eventually assembled into my three &lt;em&gt;Exceptional C++&lt;/em&gt; books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time around, during 1997-2003, I initially published each GotW as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post problem #N in &lt;a href=&quot;http://news%3acomp.lang.c++.moderated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;news:comp.lang.c++.moderated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;let people discuss it for a week or three&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;post  solution #N (and problem N+1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;further polish problem/solution #N and make it an Item in my next book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I’m going to do it all over again (revising and republishing them one at a time, as well as writing new ones covering new C++0x features, and then eventually republishing them in Exceptional C++ 2nd ed. etc.), I’m wondering what the right modern “programmer discussion forum” place is. I’ll probably still post them to comp.lang.c++.moderated for old time’s sake, but it’s not the preeminent “The Place C++ Programmers Hang Out” location it used to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, that’s Stack Overflow these days. I can’t think of a better current match for a participatory programmer hangout with threaded discussion (and more, voting and stuff of course... even if I may need to tolerate the possibility of my questions and answers getting edited, though I'll probably ignore all non-typo edits for book purposes). And I think it would be good for both GotW and SO -- for GotW to reach more C++ developers who would benefit from the material, and for SO to get more of just the kind of expert-Q&amp;amp;A-on-good-and-common-programming-questions that it's designed for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Appropriate or not? Would you prefer I do/don’t use SO as the main forum for new-and-improved GotW C++ article discussion? Are you okay with me posting copyrighted content (I would probably want to include a small copyright notice on every GotW problem or solution)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Herb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: Jeff, a public congrats again on all you’ve accomplished at SO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145284" LastEditorUserId="136558" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-04T16:43:54.473" LastActivityDate="2010-12-04T16:43:54.473" Title="Stack Overflow and GotW" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;copyright&gt;&lt;books&gt;" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="6" />
  <row Id="44200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:33:24.120" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is you'd be licensing all content under SO's license (linked in the page footer), in case you weren't clear with your &quot;posting copyrighted content&quot;.  Any copyright notices would be removed (by editors), similarly to how greetings and closings are removed, since they are redundant and contrary to SO convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I'm sure you're well-aware, you can still publish your content in book form, but if you include any content or improvements from SO, those are subject to SO's license, and you could have to apply that license (or compatible) to the whole book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I would appreciate more GotWs, as the previous ones have helped me greatly.  Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T22:33:24.120" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44203" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:40:02.213" Score="0" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't get badge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2502354/what-is-pattern-matching-in-functional-languages&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which was upvoted 10th time about an hour ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;strike&gt;Slowpoke is so slow&lt;/strike&gt; I'll get it a bit later due to some service delays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) it's a bug, which can be explained: some time ago I earned similar badge for the question which was later closed and deleted (or merged with something but I wasn't notified about it - one day it just disappeared). So till this moment I had 3 questions with 10+ votes and 4 'nice-question' badges. At the moment there are 4 appropriate questions and 4 badges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144411" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-26T22:49:45.707" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T22:54:20.693" Title="Where is my 'good question' badge? :)" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:43:39.647" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just so that you have context for this request, if you're wondering &quot;who the heck is this Herb Sutter guy?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Sutter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Sutter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sample &quot;Guru of the Week&quot; posts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/009.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/009.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/041.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/041.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/059.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/059.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/073.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/073.htm&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If these can be roughly made to fit the Stack Overflow Q&amp;amp;A format, I am tentatively for this&lt;/strong&gt;, because I think it's a great (and useful) addition to the programming community on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also note that we allow Code Golf (mostly, with caveats) and this wouldn't be that conceptually different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T22:43:39.647" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="44203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44201" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:48:48.597" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some badges aren't awarded real-time, but rather calculated from a batch script. If you're eligible for it, you'll probably get it shortly after 00:00 UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you were previously awarded this badge for a post that is no longer eligible (because a user was deleted, a vote was reversed or the question itself was deleted) then you have a &quot;credit&quot; of one badge, so the next time you earn one for real it will just pay back this credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T22:48:48.597" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44201" CreationDate="2010-03-26T22:54:20.693" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You suggestion #2 is how it works. When you fulfill the criteria for a new badge the script checks how many badges you already have and you only get a new one if you don't already have &quot;enough&quot; of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a bug, but by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T22:54:20.693" />
  <row Id="44208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44196" CreationDate="2010-03-26T23:17:28.877" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is fine -- in the future, it's more expedient to flag your question for moderator attention using the flag menu and explain what you want done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-26T23:17:28.877" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44296" CreationDate="2010-03-27T00:06:57.807" Score="1" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293035?tab=votes#tab-top&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293035?tab=votes#tab-top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One user posted 2 &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; spam answers and I flagged them both. (and downvoted them to boot!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When will they get removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;i&gt;He-he... posted a link to the wrong question.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142114" LastEditorUserId="142114" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T00:14:12.283" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T00:55:41.580" Title="Do flagged answers get deleted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44209" CreationDate="2010-03-27T00:20:08.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;They will be automatically deleted once they accumulate six spam/offensive votes. Also, a moderator might look through the flagged posts and delete the answers manually before that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T00:20:08.010" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-27T01:07:35.210" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think GotW installments would be terrific on StackOverflow. It would have to fall under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cc-wiki&lt;/a&gt; license, because we make &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dumps&lt;/a&gt; of the site available regularly, and people who consume those dumps will assume that they fall entirely under the same license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T01:07:35.210" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44216" CreationDate="2010-03-27T01:33:53.910" Score="10" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was searching for some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+file_get_contents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;coding related questions&lt;/a&gt; and the second result pointed to coderesource dot org. Albeit the unappealing presentation I dug a bit around and suddenly landed at Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turned out that the whole site, in the end, always points to Stack Overflow. They only contain the questions, not the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just later I turned off my ad-blocker (um...) and discovered the whole thing it a simply ad-ridden trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is such (ab)use of content ok with Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the whole SO content is made available, it probably is .. maybe I'm just too sensitive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131072" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T21:51:02.210" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T21:51:02.210" Title="What the ... is coderesource dot org?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;abuse&gt;&lt;content&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-27T01:40:17.400" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the format will need to change. In particular, I'd like to see one question per question, in order not to set a bad example. If we allow multiple questions, then there &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; be someone who says, &quot;well, &lt;em&gt;Herb&lt;/em&gt; did it&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T15:54:46.117" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T15:54:46.117" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44212" CreationDate="2010-03-27T01:41:24.257" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If they follow the license (I did not visit the site myself), such abuse is unfortunately allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would not think that makes it okay with most anyone involved (officially or unofficially, like most users), but that's part of the trade-off with a liberal license.  Most human visitors should see it for what it is, but search engines are a different problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, it's probably good that you alerted MSO about it, so thanks for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T01:41:24.257" />
  <row Id="44215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44183" CreationDate="2010-03-27T01:44:57.550" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please don't pollute SO with content that's really part of your wiki. Can you imagine if thousands of people did the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T01:44:57.550" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44212" CreationDate="2010-03-27T01:47:43.260" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually Google hammers these sites pretty hard -- it's difficult for them to come up as relevant in search results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: looked, this is actually close to correct. Every post links back directly to Stack Overflow, but they do NOT link the authors' SO pages, which is part of the terms of our cc-wiki usage agreement. The ads are also really bad, not adsense as I thought. Worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T01:54:04.760" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T01:54:04.760" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44212" CreationDate="2010-03-27T01:51:30.080" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; point to StackOverflow.  I saw at least one article from geekipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; visit the site.  After all, xrc seems to have suffered no ill-effects after a visit sans-ad blocker and I'm running a fully-patched system with up-to-date anti-virus software.  Unfortunately, &lt;strong&gt;that site may have put a virus on my system&lt;/strong&gt; (of the silently turn on your webcam variety).  And I'm sorry, Jeff, but I am talking about your old laptop here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only noticed because there was suddenly an oem02mon process that was pegging the cpu every few seconds, making the computer not show my keystrokes as it should.  It seems to have let me kill it without complaint, I haven't had this system long enough to know if that process is maybe supposed to be there, and google gives it mixed reviews (malware &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; sometimes use that name, but it's also normally part of some Dell laptop webcam drivers).  So I might just be over-reacting, but I wanted this out there right away before anyone else visited the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll post back later (meaning tomorrow at least) if I keep seeing suspicious behavior, and I will have my eyes open (and maybe boot from a flash drive to scan the disk, just in case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, since they do link back to the original content credit is given as per the license and I don't think StackOverflow has any real legal recourse.  The only good news I have is that if they really did give me a virus, Google is pretty good as spotting that kind of thing and it will &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; their search ranking, meaning the site won't make money and it will just go away on it's own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; After some looking, I don't think the laptop caught a virus, but I do think one of the ads &lt;em&gt;tried&lt;/em&gt; to give it one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T19:22:42.173" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T19:22:42.173" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44256" CreationDate="2010-03-27T02:00:20.807" Score="-6" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all loved Chuck E. Cheeses as a kid. Lots of games, a big weird looking mouse, PIZZA, and the coolest part! Tickets == Prizes! Well, since we've grown up we haven't had that kinda enjoyment. I recommend to the stack overflow team that they correct this injustice and give us prizes in exchange for rep. Something like bouncy balls for like 50 rep a piece, a cool plasma light thing for 8000 rep, and of course for Jon Skeet, a decked out &gt;$1000 laptop for 100,000 rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only would this make stack overflow more fun, but it would help to level the playing field. Jon Skeet gets a laptop and from then on no one can complain that he has more reputation and therefore obtains more reputation.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts on the subject? Prize ideas? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T02:10:30.697" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T16:35:46.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-27T18:07:51.770" Title="Reputation should be the new Chuck E. Cheese tickets!" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;waffles&gt;&lt;fun&gt;" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="44219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-27T02:02:51.023" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say go for it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But keep in mind, most users don't read meta, won't know what's going on, and no amount of disclaimers will help with that.  Every post will still be vetted by pretty much the same process as the rest of the site.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, no matter what we say here, too much deviation from the normal format probably just won't work.  You may have to re-write a lot the posts to fit the single question/answer format.  And too much answering your own question can attract downvotes as well, so CW is likely the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, you sound like a better fit as a partner for the How-To Geek site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T04:08:12.770" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T04:08:12.770" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44218" CreationDate="2010-03-27T02:03:47.900" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm all good.  I still play at Chuck E. Cheese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75852" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T02:03:47.900" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44218" CreationDate="2010-03-27T02:04:32.797" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is that then rep translates into money. And then there are all sorts of scams and politics involved because it involves money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T02:04:32.797" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44224" CreationDate="2010-03-27T02:36:57.617" Score="5" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was told that each and every upvote on a question will add 5 points to the asker's reputation. But apparently this wasn't followed on here, meta SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/3834?StartDate=2010-03-26&amp;amp;EndDate=2010-03-26&quot;&gt;my case for example&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_SDci0Pf3tzU/S61wLHSEpaI/AAAAAAAAFdU/fH13v_2xAFw/s912/my%20meta.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bug or feature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3834" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T07:11:29.750" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T07:11:29.750" Title="Meta SO Upvote on Question: +5 or + 10?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="44224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44223" CreationDate="2010-03-27T02:54:41.933" Score="12" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Question rep was halved across the trilogy, except for Meta:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;don't forget the very fine print&quot;&gt;Important Reputation Rule Changes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  * on Meta, the value of a question upvote will still be +10  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T02:54:41.933" />
  <row Id="44225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44183" CreationDate="2010-03-27T03:12:40.620" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that you don't control the tags.  Just about anyone can and will tag anything as completed or rejected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to do this, I would just pick one tag - something easy like, oh, I don't know, &lt;strong&gt;DELPHI&lt;/strong&gt; and just pull the rss feed for that tag into your own site or the DocWiki site where users there can follow it. That's good for everybody, because it also put qualified eyes on more delphi questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastEditorUserId="3043" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T04:04:47.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T04:04:47.753" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44218" CreationDate="2010-03-27T03:45:05.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Stack Overflow already does this...&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joel Coehoorn♦ &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40585/free-laptop-to-deserving-meta-user-complete/40589#40589&quot;&gt;won a laptop&lt;/a&gt; for only 66 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many users (with enough reputation to place them on page 1 or 2) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/free-trilogy-stickers-for-top-users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;won free stickers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also granted to high-rep (actively-helpful) users were some fancy-schmancy &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38018/whats-going-on-with-stack-overflow-t-shirts&quot;&gt;SO-Shirts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of prizes to be won for having enormous reputation. You just don't learn about them until they're immediately available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you can't go back and get in on that action,&#xA;I personally will buy you a laptop for every 1,000 &lt;em&gt;jpoints&lt;/em&gt; you acquire. &lt;em&gt;jpoints&lt;/em&gt; are converted forms of standard Stack Overflow reputation. Jon Skeet currently has 12 of them :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130154" LastEditorUserId="130154" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T03:53:15.170" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T03:53:15.170" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44218" CreationDate="2010-03-27T03:48:58.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's Chuck E. Cheese then there has to be Rock-afire Explosion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZFIsEcyAw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEZFIsEcyAw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T03:48:58.270" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34509" CreationDate="2010-03-27T04:06:18.750" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cooked up a simple &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/jldugger/stackoverflow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo pipe&lt;/a&gt; that inspects the beginning of the title for &quot;Comment by&quot; and &quot;Answer by&quot;. You can easily tweak it. Presumably your own questions aren't titled in a way to defeat that. It should be possible to parameterize by UID and site but I'll leave that up to someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136928" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T04:06:18.750" />
  <row Id="44229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44231" CreationDate="2010-03-27T04:12:46.643" Score="3" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2034137/&quot;&gt;link to a question&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2034812/idiom-vs-pattern&quot;&gt;one of my questions&lt;/a&gt;.  I have 10k rep on SO, so can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1/&quot;&gt;deleted questions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where has 2034137 gone, and why was it deleted using some uncommon method?  (Or why can't I see it if it was deleted normally?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T04:32:26.670" Title="Why was this question deleted?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;delete&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44229" CreationDate="2010-03-27T04:15:51.443" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deleted questions can still be voted to undelete, but IIRC they are also purged after a period of inactivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T04:15:51.443" />
  <row Id="44231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44229" CreationDate="2010-03-27T04:32:26.670" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was merged with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/276173/what-are-your-favorite-c-coding-style-idioms&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. Merging, unfortunately, completely removes the question being merged &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T04:32:26.670" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38056" CreationDate="2010-03-27T04:42:24.787" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I applaud the team for taking a whole 9 months to get it right, rather than rushing something out in 6-8 weeks.  Once you release a &quot;supported&quot; api, it's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; hard to change it &amp;mdash; much more so even than interface features or reputation scoring on the main site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is assuming, of course, that they did get it right.  That's even harder than making changes after release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T04:42:24.787" />
  <row Id="44233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44212" CreationDate="2010-03-27T05:01:07.490" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it is a horrible example of a website. It is not abuse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spread over 25 programming languages&#xA;  from 13 websites. We are adding new&#xA;  stuff daily!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they are not getting it exclusively from SO, but from other common QA sites as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are just as free to point to SO as you are in you blog. Is it a bad ad-ridden site? Yes. Is it abuse? No, at least not formally..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Some people can say it's wrong to SEO until you get to #2 where you actually only have a link pointing to the #1 spot but have tons of ads) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137798" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T05:01:07.490" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44239" CreationDate="2010-03-27T06:05:59.927" Score="0" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it that i am unable to mark as accepted/delete/vote/favourite in any of the posts? (my SO reputation is 219)&#xA;could anyone please tell the possible reasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145289" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T06:47:34.490" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T06:47:34.490" Title="Unable to accept vote or delete posts" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T06:23:59.497" Score="5" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think there is a way possible currently. So, this is also a feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The number of favorites I have on SO&#xA;  are increasing and it is difficult to&#xA;  find a particular one that I am&#xA;  looking for when I need it, defeating&#xA;  the purpose of marking it as a&#xA;  favorite in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marking questions as favorites on SO&#xA;  is a way of bookmarking that lacks&#xA;  many things. For example - I cannot&#xA;  categorize my favorites. It would be&#xA;  excellent if I could tag them or&#xA;  something (add a personal note as a&#xA;  reminder? though tagging is better) so&#xA;  that I can easily fetch the ones I&#xA;  need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know I can do this by bookmarking&#xA;  ALL the favorite questions in my&#xA;  browser and tagging them there, but&#xA;  that is just too much work. It can be&#xA;  done here on SO itself in a better&#xA;  way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you people think? Do you agree? Do you disagree? How do you tackle this problem?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Since I could not find a similar feature request here on meta, is there a way of dealing with this that I am not aware of?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135875" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T06:48:33.460" Title="How to search questions marked as favorites on SO?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;favorites&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44235" CreationDate="2010-03-27T06:47:28.203" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you tried clearing your browser cache?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T06:47:28.203" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44237" CreationDate="2010-03-27T06:48:33.460" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't you bookmark them using external software, like your web browser, instead? Then you could categorize them into folders, search them, etcetera..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T06:48:33.460" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44242" CreationDate="2010-03-27T07:16:29.603" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is question 2528290, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2528290/should-we-include-period-in-link-text&quot;&gt;&quot;Should we include period “.” in link text?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, acceptable on Stack Overflow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="63550" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T07:26:19.247" Title="Are HTML authoring questions acceptable on Stack Overflow?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44241" CreationDate="2010-03-27T07:26:19.247" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would be a great question for the mythological &quot;webmaster&quot; trilogy site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is absolutely not programming related in my opinion -- markup does not equal &quot;code&quot; -- but I'd rather others voted on it since my vote is binding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T07:26:19.247" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T07:39:48.820" Score="1" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all in the title, somewhat self explanatory. A couple points though, it would...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;be helpful with various&#xA;StackOverflow algorithms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create unique opportunity&#xA;'subscription' capability whereas&#xA;when &lt;em&gt;it is thought (algorithm?)&lt;/em&gt; an&#xA;answer has been 'found' then the&#xA;user is somehow informed/notified&#xA;an answer has been found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145291" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T08:23:31.533" Title="Radical Idea: A &quot;Wish I Knew&quot; button" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="44244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44243" CreationDate="2010-03-27T07:45:29.697" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this already exist? Tempted to close as duplicate of..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1696/add-a-magic-8-ball-feature-to-the-ask-a-question-page&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1696/add-a-magic-8-ball-feature-to-the-ask-a-question-page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T07:45:29.697" />
  <row Id="44245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44183" CreationDate="2010-03-27T08:12:51.683" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got to go with &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44183/acceptable-to-tag-questions-for-inclusion-in-3rd-party-wiki/44215#44215&quot;&gt;John Saunders&lt;/a&gt; here. Although I applaud your idea and effort, nothing of what you're proposing &lt;em&gt;requires&lt;/em&gt; these links (or &quot;pseudo-tags&quot;). Everything could theoretically done on a tabular sheet of paper that includes the question number and a couple of checkboxes (&quot;rejected&quot;, &quot;candidate&quot;, etc.) I'm not suggesting you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; it this way; just that your plan doesn't require any editing done on the SO side of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could provide your community with things like bookmarklets or Greasemonkey scripts (&quot;submit this question to the DocWiki&quot;) or the like, but editing the question or putting those comments in would be pretty much advertising, how worthy the cause might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T10:12:59.597" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T10:12:59.597" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23426" CreationDate="2010-03-27T08:23:28.897" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Click on your profile which will take you to the page &#xA; http:/meta.stackoverflow.com/users/12345&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then change the url to &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/12345&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/12345&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;?tab=accounts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will allow you to associate to other accounts..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145292" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T08:23:28.897" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44243" CreationDate="2010-03-27T08:23:31.533" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is what the question author is talking about, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you stumble on interesting questions that are still not answered or don't have many answers, and you would like to check it back later. Right now you can either favorite this question or subscribe to the question feed at the bottom of the page. The question feed is very good, but it would be nicer of that was a feature of SO itself. Marking the question as a favorite isn't a bad option, you can sort your favorites by recent activities and check them manually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An integrated page for answers and comments feed might make it easier to keep track of such question and maintain the distinction between a favorite question (which is closer to a browser bookmark) and this feature (closer to question feed). Or perhaps both features could be somehow combined. Some people use browser bookmarks for pages that aren't really bookmark-worthy, but which they'd like to visit later, so I'm not sure if the distinction is really worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum it up I'm interested in something like that but not sure if it's really worth it. I wanted to write a post in support of this idea, but the more I think about it it seems that it might lead to confusion and duplicated effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131587" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T08:23:31.533" />
  <row Id="44248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44250" CreationDate="2010-03-27T08:56:30.070" Score="7" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the text-color of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2528591/how-to-number-the-datas-from-mysql/2528599#2528599&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; gray instead of black?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see what's special about it - except for the fact that it is an exact duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2528591/how-to-number-the-datas-from-mysql/2528602#2528602&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt; to the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5294/grayanswer.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139710" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T09:09:12.960" Title="Why is the text of this answer gray?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;color&gt;&lt;formatting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44288" CreationDate="2010-03-27T09:01:05.260" Score="6" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is something strange with &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2522000/jpa-problems-mapping-relationships/2522023#2522023&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, I left a comment on my answer. Some time after, I deleted it to &quot;rewrite&quot; it and the system seems to see a &quot;ghost&quot; comment now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/8458/screenshot011i.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you click, look, there is no 1 more comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8411/screenshot012ui.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that the label also says &quot;add&quot; but it's the first time I see &quot;folded&quot; comments with 2 comments. Looks strange to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T20:49:55.320" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:49:55.320" Title="The system sees a comment that doesn't exist" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;comments&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44248" CreationDate="2010-03-27T09:02:33.653" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Posts are greyed out or dimmed when their total displaying score falls to &lt;strong&gt;-3&lt;/strong&gt; or lower. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T09:09:12.960" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T09:09:12.960" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49851" CreationDate="2010-03-27T09:13:58.713" Score="4" ViewCount="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find a similar question, forgive me if this is a duplicate. To illustrate the problem, I'll use the following example on SO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We previously had &lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;java-ee-5&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;java-ee-6&lt;/code&gt; questions so I have &lt;code&gt;java-ee*&lt;/code&gt; in my list of interesting tags which is translated into &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java-ee~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java-ee~&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;java-ee-5&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;java-ee-6&lt;/code&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;code&gt;java-ee-5&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;java-ee-6&lt;/code&gt; questions have been retagged now and &lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt; is the only tag left. The problem is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java-ee~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java-ee~&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;java-ee&lt;/code&gt; or '') returns 0 questions while there are many (504+) questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java-ee&quot;&gt;java-ee&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java-ee~&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java-ee~&lt;/a&gt; should return the 504+ questions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-14T06:04:20.697" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T06:04:47.760" Title="Query on tag with wildcard doesn't retrieve the questions if there is only one match" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;interesting-tags&gt;&lt;wildcards&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="44252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2010-03-27T09:51:56.403" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My unicorn is a punk:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://unicornify.appspot.com/avatar/dc1a5b5fdba36ae9cdcf6e267f1a86ca?s=128&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135547" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T09:51:56.403" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-27T09:51:56.403" />
  <row Id="44254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44145" CreationDate="2010-03-27T10:52:01.667" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Oh &lt;strong&gt;tilde&lt;/strong&gt;, oh squiggle,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;oh symbolic &lt;strong&gt;Not&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you who &lt;strong&gt;approximate&lt;/strong&gt; the string&lt;br&gt;&#xA;before the knot,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;oh curious cat's tail&lt;br&gt;&#xA;creeping into the cupboard,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;oh deviant dragon's tail&lt;br&gt;&#xA;decamping to the den,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you aren't alphanumeric enough&lt;br&gt;&#xA;for SOFU.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;see you at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;$HOME&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;~$&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T10:52:01.667" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-27T11:14:39.343" />
  <row Id="44255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T11:18:02.257" Score="0" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10979/exclusion-inclusion-strategy-with-ignored-interesting-tags&quot;&gt;Exclusion/inclusion strategy with ignored/interesting tags&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wonder, what will be displayed under recent question tab if let's say I have java tag to be ignored and C++ as interesting to me and someone mark his question with tags java, C++.&#xA;I personally wouldn't like to miss this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140749" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T03:30:56.490" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T03:30:56.490" ClosedDate="2010-03-27T11:38:43.270" Title="What will be displayed, Interesting or ignored?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44218" CreationDate="2010-03-27T12:11:11.307" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about instead of this we can earn rep by playing skee-ball?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T12:11:11.307" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T12:29:06.470" Score="18" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be helpful if there was an advanced search page. This could do the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow user to select AND instead of OR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow easy filtering by tags&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow easy filtering by user&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow searching of only questions with no accepted answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow searching of only questions with no answers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Include an actual search button, allowing search via &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26382/make-the-search-box-handheld-device-friendly&quot;&gt;handheld devices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would be a link to this search page on the footer of every page (no need to clutter the header).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of this is already available, but requires the user to know all the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/search&quot;&gt;tricks&lt;/a&gt;&quot; for searching on SOFU. This page would make advanced searches more accessible in general, as well as supporting some new functionality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What else would you want to see on an advanced search page?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-04-06T19:29:39.517" Title="Add an Advanced Search page" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;" AnswerCount="3" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="44259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44258" CreationDate="2010-03-27T12:47:56.830" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I run into frequently is the need to find a specific answer that was made in reply to a question of which I only remember a keyword or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I remember that I - or someone else for that matter - recommended &lt;code&gt;ABC&lt;/code&gt; in an answer to a question that dealt with &lt;code&gt;XYZ&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for &lt;code&gt;ABC&lt;/code&gt; alone yields way too many results, as does searching for &lt;code&gt;XYZ&lt;/code&gt;, often even if I search for an answer made by myself, narrow it down to my own answers using &lt;code&gt;USER:xyz&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution to this would be a combined search: Find only answers matching certain criteria, in a question matching certain other criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T18:06:04.517" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T18:06:04.517" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44260" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T12:52:53.347" Score="0" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36566/sofu-rejecting-requests-coming-from-opera-if-turbo-mode-is-on&quot;&gt;SO[FU] rejecting requests coming from Opera if &amp;ldquo;Turbo&amp;rdquo; mode is on&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever I try to open stackoverflow.com from my mobile phone using Opera Mini (5.0 beta) I get the server timed out error. But I am able to access all other sites just fine. Is this a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="39742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T12:52:53.347" ClosedDate="2010-03-27T20:40:58.870" Title="Opera mini : Unable to open stackoverflow" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;opera-mini&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44183" CreationDate="2010-03-27T13:14:28.397" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still don't agree with putting this information in the question itself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you object to using a comment (even with the solution to your concerns that I &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44183/acceptable-to-tag-questions-for-inclusion-in-3rd-party-wiki/44185#44185&quot;&gt;detail in comments here&lt;/a&gt;) then I suggest you add a new answer, set to wiki, with the link information and a short sentence describing the effort and link to here so others may review the effort before deciding it's spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T13:14:28.397" />
  <row Id="44265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T13:26:33.007" Score="3" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the endless page feature of FastestChrome for Chrome, which allows me to scroll to the end of a page and just keep scrolling to get the next page appearing below it. It works wonders on these pages as well, but when it fetches the next page SO and SU thinks I have javascript turned off and pops that ugly &quot;enable javascript&quot;-bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This by itself is no issue, I mean why should you have to fix something my browser extension causes? The problem is just that this bar has its position fixed to the top of the browser window at all times, and ends up blocking the top header, thus hiding both my account links and the search bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried using a user-CSS to hide the bar, but it shows up nontheless (ignoring !important). So as a last resort, is there some way anything could be done to prevent the noscript bar from hiding those links?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145301" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T13:26:33.007" Title="Enable javascript bar blocking page header" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;javascript&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-27T14:22:28.823" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd love to see this.  However, it does have to fit SO, rather than changing SO to fit GotW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO has no threaded discussion, except somewhat in the comments.  The answers deliberately change order.  It is best suited for asking one question per question, and collecting individual answers.  Replies from the original poster should be done via editing the question or in comments.  The license issues have already been pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think Community Wiki status is necessary.  Almost all the previous GotW questions have been questions with definite answers that are correct or not, while CW tends to be used for the softer questions, or at least questions with less definite correctness. You don't have to post the answer as an answer, but could edit the question instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T14:22:28.823" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44258" CreationDate="2010-03-27T14:42:04.580" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have an &lt;strong&gt;Advanced Search page&lt;/strong&gt; already:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i39.tinypic.com/1z5j6me.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;google search&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17413" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T14:42:04.580" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48549" CreationDate="2010-03-27T14:54:25.553" Score="0" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to link to a tag search such as the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[xml]+[php]+parse&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It won't create a link unless the square brackets are URL encoded.  That is, this doesn't work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[xml]+[php]+parse&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this does:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bxml%5D+%5Bphp%5D+parse&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bxml%5D+%5Bphp%5D+parse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be feasible to automatically URL encode these links?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8331" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T20:45:28.990" LastActivityDate="2010-05-02T11:51:12.820" Title="Linking to [tag] searches doesn't work unless the brackets are URL encoded" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;tags&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;url-encoding&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-27T15:01:00.430" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about posting a single new GotW question as an SO question and seeing how the C++ community there responds? Asking questions about whether it is acceptable on Meta is all very well, but it's how it goes down on SO that is really important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T15:01:00.430" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T19:07:48.020" Score="7" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that the envelope (on top) notifications aren't working is nothing new. Also, although I never used it, I just saw and read a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40537/receiving-emails&quot;&gt;question that email notifications are working somewhat buggy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is - why are they simply not removed, as to not cause any more confusion, until / and it, the day they are fixed and working properly ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135391" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T20:47:03.060" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T21:26:45.147" Title="Why not remove envelope and email notifications?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44218" CreationDate="2010-03-27T19:38:03.450" Score="-1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i41.tinypic.com/5cxa9g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Acquire Reputation, disregard wenches&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1228" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T19:38:03.450" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-27T19:38:03.450" />
  <row Id="44281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44279" CreationDate="2010-03-27T19:49:49.460" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about buggy as a &quot;wide-known fact.&quot; It's certainly more responsive than it used to be. Maybe it doesn't match your definition of &quot;new notifications&quot; but I certainly use it every day. I've seen anomalous cases where it notifies me of responses that have been read or deleted. But I would rather see its functionality increased and steadily improved, not eliminated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastEditorUserId="98786" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-27T21:20:14.873" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T21:20:14.873" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44279" CreationDate="2010-03-27T19:55:41.310" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do agree that the envelope needs some work, but I disagree that it should be removed. The basic problem with the envelope is the delay - it often takes ten or twenty minutes to register a response, and likely by the time it does light up you've already read it and responded. The other, related thing is that, even if you have responses, the envelope is not lit for the first visit to the site after a period of being away. Subsequent page loads show the lit envelope, but the first does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, not many people know that the envelope also lights up when your posts are edited, which can lead to people thinking that the envelope is lighting up inappropriately. This should be modified to be more obvious when you click the envelope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="658" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T19:55:41.310" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10254" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:31:03.497" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yubico fixed this on their end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey, it looks like Yubico fixed the problem on their end already.  I just logged in with my Yubikey to SO and it worked great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's from Andrew Arnott, the primary author of DotNetOpenAuth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:31:03.497" />
  <row Id="44285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44272" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:45:12.657" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try one of the other link formats &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5bxml%5d+%5bphp%5d+parse&quot;&gt;like so&lt;/a&gt;; there is a limit to what the &quot;naked&quot; (most naive) form can support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/editing-help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:45:12.657" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40537" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:48:14.120" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Email notifications will be quite slow, and that is by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:48:14.120" />
  <row Id="44287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24659" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:48:57.270" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The official answer is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/14555/notify-more-frequently-than-once-a-day/14600#14600&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:48:57.270" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44249" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:49:47.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The counts are denormalized so they can be slightly out of sync. This is rare, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The daily process will sync any that it finds that aren't right; this one is already correct now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:49:47.660" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44279" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:53:53.273" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My bike is broken right now. Still, I need it every day, I can't just throw it away. The same goes for the envelope. Fix it already!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:53:53.273" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:57:03.503" Score="3" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;The global reputation recalc of March 2010&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't logged into the site for about a month and my score is has dropped by over a thousand points!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By reading other similar questions, it seems that drops in score are usually caused by scripts that detect fraudulent voting, but I've had the score for a while now and this seems different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's happened? It'd be nice to receive a notification when your score drops that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141313" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T21:00:05.670" ClosedDate="2010-03-27T21:11:38.267" Title="Massive Score Drop?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;score&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44290" CreationDate="2010-03-27T20:57:58.887" Score="-2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;recalculation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T20:57:58.887" />
  <row Id="44292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44290" CreationDate="2010-03-27T21:00:05.670" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rule change&lt;/a&gt; and scores dropped because everyones score was recalculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;. You can read more about it &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43110/post-how-much-rep-youre-going-to-lose-with-the-new-re-calc&quot;&gt;here as well&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134240" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T21:00:05.670" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="44293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44279" CreationDate="2010-03-27T21:26:45.147" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Envelope as a notification that lights up - don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the underlying /users/recent function - My #1 Feature on SO! No really, NEVER remove that please. It may not light up, but I see when my reputation changes and I know that if it does, the /users/recent page will have information for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T21:26:45.147" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-27T21:38:29.567" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could you show us some samples?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an interesting idea, if you can manage to trim each article down to a question for people to answer.  Could you take a few of the GotW postings, make them into SO-like questions, and post them on your blog so we can get a better idea of what you're thinking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Posting something more akin to a discussion topic is fine for Usenet, but might get a question closed for one of the reasons (copied from the &quot;close question&quot; form) mentioned below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;subjective and argumentative&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's impossible to objectively answer this question; questions of this type are too open ended and usually lead to confrontation and argument.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;not a real question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="116" LastActivityDate="2010-03-27T21:38:29.567" />
  <row Id="44296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44209" CreationDate="2010-03-28T00:55:41.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For each offensive or spam flag, the original poster receives a -2 reputation penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the post has accumulated a total of six flag (any combination of spam and offensive), the post is chowned to the Community user, locked, and deleted, and the poster receives a -100 reputation penalty (giving a total penalty of -112).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think this entire sum is refunded upon a reputation recalc, which renders the whole exercise somewhat pointless if we ever move to regular recalcs  (please someone correct me if I am wrong -- do flags show up on the reputation audit?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132636" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T00:55:41.580" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:07:35.500" Score="5" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a suggestion that I think might improve SO. This idea was prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44199/stack-overflow-and-gotw&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;please note I’m not asking SO to change for GotW&lt;/em&gt; (just trying to preempt misunderstandings here :-) ). My goal is only to suggest a feature that seems like it could deliver a more general benefit to questions across SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Problem&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions, including good questions already on SO, are inherently complex and/or have multiple parts. Today, SO doesn't seem to deal with these as well as it might, in that people may want (or be able to) just answer one part -- indeed, I'm told people are incented to answer just the first part quickly -- yet there's no way to vote up/down the best answer to each part and thus bubble up the union of best answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/54262/gnome&quot;&gt;Gnome&lt;/a&gt; wrote this, which included one existing example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I foresee someone answering part 1 of 3 decently well and submitting (SO's voting plus current user behavior encourages answering first and fast), while someone else will not want to repeat or spend time on part 1, so only answer part 2. Then someone might answer part 1 in a different way, and everyone is busy looking at parts 1 and 2 (with answers for them likely with a high vote and at the top for most people) while ignoring the (probably much harder) part 3. Suddenly the non-threaded nature of the answers can turn the voting into noise. – Gnome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have seen this happen even with well-written questions, [...] One handy example of the above is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1073958&quot;&gt;stackoverflow.com/questions/1073958&lt;/a&gt;; well-asked, but once part A was answered, the attention dropped off. – Gnome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This concern has come up before (&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2995/multi-question-questions-how-best-to-handle-them&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;), and no doubt will again because some good questions are inherently not of a simple one-answer-covers-all nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggestion/Question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you be willing/interested in enabling multi-part questions in SO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to do it would be to just treat each part like an individual question, but connect them and display them together (e.g., part 1 and its answers, followed by part 2 and its answers, etc.). For viewing purposes, the default view might be to view all parts and only the current top answer for each so that the reader can take in the whole, and provide a &lt;strong&gt;[+]/Expand&lt;/strong&gt; button on each part which when clicked expands it to its normal state so that the reader can drill down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I'm &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; asking for a feature for GotW. Even if GotW never comes to SO, it seems like this could help better organize some of the questions that are already there and that are good questions but are naturally complex and/or naturally contain subparts, and seem to be a little unwieldy under the current system which doesn’t allow people to give (and bubble up) good answers to different parts of a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would be good to be able to bubble up the union of best answers, and even potentially present that as a default view of a complex/multi-part question. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145284" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T19:41:19.327" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T19:41:19.327" Title="Multi-part questions" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" AnswerCount="1" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="44298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:08:11.443" Score="3" ViewCount="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I update SU, see &quot;You have 1 new answer. See your responses.&quot;. I click &quot;responses&quot; and see nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142868" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-04T23:40:05.703" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T23:40:05.703" Title="&quot;You have 1 new answer. See your responses.&quot; banner doesn't disappear when the answer is removed" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notification-bar&gt;" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44307" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:19:19.423" Score="4" ViewCount="112" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do we deal with users repeatedly posting answers instead of comments or updating their questions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/278074/cinek1lol&quot;&gt;cinek1lol on SO&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;posted comments/clarifications as an answers on (as of now) all 3 questions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was told that this doesn't match with SOs Q/A concept&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;still did it again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139704" LastEditorUserId="139704" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T01:25:32.240" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T16:26:25.497" Title="How to handle users repeatedly posting comments as answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comments&gt;&lt;answers&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44297" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:31:45.097" Score="9" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My initial reaction is, it's too complex and too complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of questions on Stack Overflow is to be clear, concise, and answerable. A multi-part question is none of these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that &quot;some questions are inherently complex and multi-part&quot; is really true. Most real world programming problems can be broken down into distinct, answerable sections in my experience -- and are usually better and clearer for it. Now, that would not be the case &lt;em&gt;if you're devising some kind of intentional puzzle&lt;/em&gt;, which is sort of true in the GotW case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tags normally tie related questions together&lt;/strong&gt;, such that two questions with identical tags should be closely related. But a per-question tag would be a bit abusive to the tagging system. (but, I support a [gotw] tag or something similar for all the questions in this series)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I'd be interested to see any example URLs of actual questions on Stack Overflow that were multi-part and successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in my answer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44199/stack-overflow-and-gotw&quot;&gt;other question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think you need to be make it VERY VERY clear in the question that all answers MUST answer every (or at least, most) parts of the question, and any that don't will be downvoted or flagged for moderator attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of it is setting expectations within the GotW question itself. I think each one should have a small header/disclaimer explaining what it is, what it's about, and why it's allowed. Lots of users will encounter them with no background at all, expecting them to be identical to regular SO questions, and they're a bit different. But then so is [code-golf], and that's &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:31:45.097" />
  <row Id="44302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44305" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:35:07.063" Score="1" ViewCount="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img5.glowfoto.com/images/2010/03/27-1808471743T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Comment UI&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone else think that line looks a little funny? Due to the bad screen shot it appears solid but I think it's actually dotted. Either way, I understand small cancel link, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/03/the-opposite-of-fitts-law.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fitts Law&lt;/a&gt; and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T01:49:33.610" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:50:10.240" Title="UI issue when editing comments" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;user-interface&gt;&lt;layout&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44299" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:36:35.980" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;He sounds more English language challenged than an aggressive rule breaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T01:43:45.603" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:43:45.603" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44299" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:37:23.793" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that they have been dealt with appropriately so far, editing away the slightly desperate cries for help and so on.  Other than building in a mechanism to 'votekick' I don't see how it could have been handled better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reckon that &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/278074/cinek1lol&quot;&gt;cinek1lol&lt;/a&gt; will quickly get bored and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some facility to votekick user accounts would be counter to the SO community feel, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144898" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:37:23.793" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44302" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:37:55.317" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only an issue on meta, where we underline links in that way, so [wontfix] .. but, you bring up a good related point, in that the link DOES extend all the way across for no reason. So I'll look at that part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: you're right, this is kind of a minor bug, so changing to completed.. in addition to reducing the size of the cancel link, I also made the edit button itself use the pointer icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T01:50:10.240" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:50:10.240" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44299" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:39:27.930" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Add a comment to explain to him what he's doing wrong; be polite, he might not know the rules around here. If he ignores your comment, &lt;strong&gt;flag the answer&lt;/strong&gt; for moderator attention and move on. If enough people flag him, he'll lose 100 points; that should grab his attention...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people just don't seem to want to listen and learn anything. The best thing at times is to just flag and move on; don't worry too much about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135200" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:39:27.930" />
  <row Id="44307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44299" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:39:52.837" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd simply vote these &quot;answers&quot; down so that they drop to the bottom of the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In severe cases you can also flag for moderator attention so that they can clean up the question and delete the useless &quot;answers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:39:52.837" />
  <row Id="44308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16634" CreationDate="2010-03-28T01:51:12.833" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wholeheartedly support this proposed change. Currently, there is a perverse incentive structure going on. If an answerer sees a 100% accept rate, they'll basically know that they can make any effort at answering whatsoever and if no one else chimes in, they'll get an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question asker has been able to say &quot;I accept any answer, no matter how bad or unhelpful it is.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138948" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T01:51:12.833" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44313" CreationDate="2010-03-28T02:13:28.837" Score="14" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm always bugged by the inconsistency of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/2975/sospecificdatetime.png&quot; alt=&quot;Old Question/Answer&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8515/soyesterday.png&quot; alt=&quot;Yesterday&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind the &quot;3 hours ago&quot; thing so much for same-day questions, but it doesn't make much sense to me that I can see the specific time of day for &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; questions/answers but not for entries submitted &lt;em&gt;yesterday&lt;/em&gt;.  Wouldn't most people be much more likely to care about the time of day for &lt;em&gt;newer&lt;/em&gt; questions?  And it looks like there's more than enough room in there to add the &lt;code&gt;at hh:mm&lt;/code&gt; text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Call it nit-picking if you like, but I frequently find myself looking at the time stamps when I see two answers on a question that are almost the same, and want to vote up the one that &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; plagiarize.  Anyway, I think the UI consistency argument alone justifies the request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T03:32:47.503" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T03:32:47.503" Title="Add time to &quot;yesterday&quot; questions/answers" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;timestamps&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44309" CreationDate="2010-03-28T02:15:26.230" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you keep your cursor hovering over the &lt;code&gt;yesteray&lt;/code&gt; for a few seconds, the exact datetime will appear as a tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i42.tinypic.com/1z73l2u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T02:21:45.120" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T02:21:45.120" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44199" CreationDate="2010-03-28T03:06:04.893" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see this done.  I expect the community will be tentatively ok with it, but you might want to add a comment below each question pointing to the discussion here so people can look into it a bit further before reacting negatively to it.  Lots of people are pretty sensitive to things that even remotely resemble spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, please consider tagging it with GOTW so it's easy to see and get an RSS feed for it.  I'd like to follow them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the community usually reacts pretty well to high level and in-depth conversations, as long as it's a question that can be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So go for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T03:06:04.893" />
  <row Id="44313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44309" CreationDate="2010-03-28T03:15:18.307" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this suggestion is declined, or until it is implemented, you could always accomplish this with a Greasemonkey script. I knew timestamps were recorded in UTC, but I didn't realize they were always displayed in UTC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;span title=&quot;2010-03-15 18:40:23Z&quot; class=&quot;relativetime&quot;&amp;gt;Mar 15 at 18:40&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any rate, you can uncomment the one line in there to convert from UTC to your local time. That, though, may produce incorrect results for timestamps close to midnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;var $ = (typeof unsafeWindow !== &quot;undefined&quot;) ? unsafeWindow.$ : window.$;&#xA;function parseDate(s)&#xA;{&#xA;    var d = new Date(s.replace(&quot;Z&quot;, &quot;&quot;).replace(/-/g, &quot;/&quot;));&#xA;    //d.setTime(d.getTime() - d.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);&#xA;    return d.getHours().toString() + &quot;:&quot; + (d.getMinutes()+100).toString().substring(1);&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;$(&quot;span.relativetime&quot;).each(function ()&#xA;{&#xA;    if(this.innerHTML == &quot;yesterday&quot;)&#xA;        this.innerHTML = &quot;yesterday at &quot; + parseDate(this.title);&#xA;});&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144943" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T03:15:18.307" />
  <row Id="44316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44317" CreationDate="2010-03-28T04:23:38.413" Score="0" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work&quot;&gt;How does &amp;ldquo;Reputation&amp;rdquo; work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42179/what-time-zone-do-the-so-servers-operate-in&quot;&gt;What Time Zone do the SO servers operate in?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know how does a day is counted in stackoverflow. Is it my local time or it is GMT or PST. The reason behind this question is if my reputation cap ends for a day, I would like to know at what time the next day starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143830" LastEditorUserId="143830" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T04:35:08.393" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T04:35:08.393" ClosedDate="2010-03-28T05:20:58.153" Title="How do I know what time my reputation cap criterion will be reset?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;daily-reputation-limit&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44316" CreationDate="2010-03-28T04:26:35.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;SOFU uses UTC time. You can view the current time on your &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/recent/252398&quot;&gt;&quot;recent&quot;/replies page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all times are in UTC; the current time is 2010-03-28 04:25:18Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T04:26:35.590" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T04:32:39.477" Score="1" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/43805/reputation-report-total-slightly-off-from-so-rep-i-see&quot;&gt;Reputation report total slightly off from SO rep I see?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am having an inconsistency between my current reputation and the reputation calculation page of mine. Is this how it is or this is a bug ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/reputation&lt;/a&gt; link and my user link &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/252398/bragaadeesh&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/252398/bragaadeesh&lt;/a&gt; are showing two different reputations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/1583/repbug.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143830" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T04:32:39.477" ClosedDate="2010-03-28T05:20:29.043" Title="Reputation calculation page and my reputation are showing different values" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;reputation-page&gt;&lt;reputation-display&gt;" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49238" CreationDate="2010-03-28T05:00:49.650" Score="7" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a question's title has a backslash, inserted &quot;possible duplicate&quot; links &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2376240/sql-exception-when-transferring-project-from-usb-to-c&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2430022/sql-exception-when-transferring-project-from-usb-to-c-closed&quot;&gt;broken&lt;/a&gt; (check revision histories, both have since been fixed).  I'm not familiar with all of the markdown parsing, but the only significantly affected cases appear to be Windows paths, as it would otherwise be rare to end the title with a backslash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution appears to be as simple as replacing \ with \\.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T10:23:03.977" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T10:25:11.030" Title="Backslashes in duplicate titles break inserted links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26220" CreationDate="2010-03-28T05:44:14.830" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This becomes a very effective reputation denial tool -- if you want to stop other users from getting reputation, downvote their posts to -1 as soon as you see them (that is, when they start out at 0 votes). They'll now need at least 2 votes, minimum, to even begin gaining any reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right now I don't upvote a -1 because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Generally speaking, of course ... assume, for the sake of argument, the post in question is in fact objectively bad and not unfairly downvoted, or misunderstood.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't want a bad answer to have a better sort order.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't want to give &quot;free&quot; reputation to the type of user that produces bad answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once it is known that upvoting a -1 post doesn't give the post owner any reputation boost (and thus does not devalue your own reputation and ranking, or perversely incent bad posters), the &lt;strong&gt;incentive to cast these &quot;pity upvotes&quot; &lt;em&gt;increases&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -- because #2 no longer exists as a disincentive!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm. One thing I hadn't considered until I wrote this, w/r/t item number 1: sort order effects are less of an issue for questions than answers, because &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; sort order is aggressively affected by votes -- whereas &lt;em&gt;question&lt;/em&gt; sort order is a much looser and more indirect relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's &lt;strong&gt;karmically easier to justify pity upvotes on questions than answers&lt;/strong&gt;, because item #1, sort order, is not so heavily affected. Good thing &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/important-reputation-rule-changes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;question upvotes are only worth +5 now&lt;/a&gt;, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T05:44:14.830" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T10:11:22.747" Score="-1" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am surprised &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/124798/which-wiki-package-does-this-site-use-closed&quot;&gt;Which wiki package does this site use?&lt;/a&gt; was closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it isn't software-related then I don't know what it is. It isn't programming related, it isn't server related, it isn't web design or development related so what should it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145821" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T11:45:49.433" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T11:45:49.433" Title="Does Super User use some kind of automatic algorithm to close threads?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;&lt;close-reasons&gt;&lt;moderators&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44322" CreationDate="2010-03-28T10:18:46.083" Score="18" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super User recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/moderator-changes-on-super-user/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;he's on vacation, right?&quot;&gt;swapped out one processor for two&lt;/a&gt; to better the performance of the hyper-threaded closing algorithm used on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/faq&quot; title=&quot;U Q T&quot;&gt;the SU FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, that particular question is off-topic as it deals &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39615/superuser-website-applications-policy&quot;&gt;purely with a website&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't belong anywhere on the current trilogy make-up of sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastEditorUserId="137184" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T20:56:37.837" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T20:56:37.837" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44322" CreationDate="2010-03-28T10:51:23.707" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Super User is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about websites, it is about computer software. If the question had have been &quot;How do I use this wiki on my PC?&quot;, it would probably have been closed as a duplicate, but been an entirely valid question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T20:10:43.593" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T20:10:43.593" />
  <row Id="44325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T12:34:20.880" Score="14" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/88/find-out-which-question-answer-awarded-you-the-badge&quot;&gt;Find out which question/answer awarded you the badge&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have often the problem that I don't know why I got a badge and it's somewhere between painful and impossible to track what I have done to earn it.&#xA;It would be really nice if there would be a page where you can see what contributed to a specific badge (which questions/answers/votes/days of visit/...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be some kind of rule engine, so it should be possible to present the artifacts that triggered the rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133639" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-10-06T21:34:58.440" LastActivityDate="2010-10-06T21:34:58.440" ClosedDate="2010-03-28T16:34:21.180" Title="Add &quot;traceability&quot; to badges" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;badges&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44325" CreationDate="2010-03-28T12:38:03.367" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very good idea, this has been bugging me too. There are a number of badges that make it very easy to find out what they were awarded for (&lt;code&gt;good answer&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Guru&lt;/code&gt;) but how do you track down the question you earned &lt;code&gt;tumbleweed&lt;/code&gt; for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Ah, this has been discussed before and seems to be impossible to implement. Too bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T12:38:03.367" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44325" CreationDate="2010-03-28T13:16:38.140" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it's not possible to track which question/answer results in a badge, then at least the notification should be changed to not direct you to your profile.  I mean, if the profile only shows that the badge has been awarded, what's the point?  The notification message just told you that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, if I'm currently on the system when it happens, I go to the notification summary page and see if there is a recent question/answer vote that seems to have triggered it.   Not the best solution, but I think it's all we have at present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T13:16:38.140" />
  <row Id="44328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-03-28T13:20:14.530" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a minimum of one day should be required for acceptance. A question with an accepted answer discourages other answers -- including better ones. I have answered questions that already had an accepted answer, but it's been a frustrating experience -- spending time on something that is barely noticed, if at all. People move on after an accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does a question need another answer if one was already good enough for the asker? It depends on what you see as the value of a question. Is it to show that a problem was &quot;solved&quot; in record time, or is it to record a thoughtful answer with long term value to searchers? A carefully thought out answer gives context and raises issues that may not be addressed in the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also seen accepted answers that are wrong or misleading or incomplete, and the asker doesn't know any better. One down vote or comment on an accepted answer with 12 votes doesn't get much notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are concerned that this will mean some questions will end up without accepted answers. That doesn't bother me. Doesn't the answer with the most votes count for something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm glad to see there is no accepted answer to this question yet -- at least no &quot;offical&quot; answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145330" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T13:20:14.530" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44325" CreationDate="2010-03-28T14:18:30.933" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the &quot;surprise&quot; element of badges, but I also like being able to find out where I got them from. The other day I got my second &quot;Populist&quot; badge. This is for giving an answer that is upvoted 10 times over the accepted answer. So getting this badge can happen if the questioner, months after the question is asked, finally accepts a lower-voted answer than mine. This makes it effectively impossible to find the question/answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So +1 for this suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T14:18:30.933" />
  <row Id="44330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44365" CreationDate="2010-03-28T14:23:19.877" Score="13" ViewCount="560" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New version released: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45333/fast-multi-platform-data-dump-import-sql-2000-05-08-sqlite-mysql&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45333/fast-multi-platform-data-dump-import-sql-2000-05-08-sqlite-mysql&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just released a new import utility that uses SqlBulkCopy and an  &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2258310/get-an-idatareader-from-a-typed-list/2258448#2258448&quot;&gt;EnumerableDataReader&lt;/a&gt; fed by a streamed sequence from an XmlReader. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is fast and light and has more options than a body has a right to, yet is dead simple to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give it a shot and PLEASE let me know how it works for you. My email is at the bottom of the readme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;StackOverflow Data Dump Import v.09&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://skysanders.net/tools/se&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://skysanders.net/tools/se&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bin : &lt;a href=&quot;http://skysanders.net/files/soddi.9.zip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://skysanders.net/files/soddi.9.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;src : &lt;a href=&quot;http://bitbucket.org/bitpusher/soddi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bitbucket.org/bitpusher/soddi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quickly and cleanly imports StackOverflow Data Dump XML files into MS Sql Server 2000/05/08&#xA;using very little memory (&amp;lt;9mb working set).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, all 4 sites in the March dump imported in &amp;lt;5 minutes using less than 10mb ram. This is with no indexes. Suitable as a staging import.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all indexes, keys and full text on post body and title and all tags split is around 17 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All SO sites share a common schema and this utility imports all sites into&#xA;common tables, using a SiteId field along with the row Id as a composite&#xA;key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This results in large datasets, but enables interesting aggregation and mining&#xA;scenarios. You may use the SiteId field to migrate data out of the import location&#xA;after import, if your usage requires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;USAGE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;SODDI SOURCE CONNECTION [SCHEMA:schema name] [BATCH:batch size] [SPLIT] [DROP] &#xA;   [UNIQUE] [ROWID] [PK] [INDEXES] [FULLTEXT] [ALL] [[META] [SO] [SU] [SF]]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example command lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;soddi &quot;F:\Export-030110&quot; &quot;{connection string}&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the minimum required information. This simply creates tables with no&#xA;keys or indexes and bulk copies the data. This is the fastest option, typically&#xA;taking less than 5 minutes to import the entire March 2010 dump. Use this option&#xA;if you simply need to get the data in a table for further massaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;soddi &quot;F:\Export-030110&quot; &quot;{connection string}&quot; split schema:sx drop pk indexes so&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This example will import only the StackOverflow data, dropping and creating the object in schema 'sx'. The surrogate identity PK, 'RowId', will be included and typical indexes will be created. This will allow you to import each site into it's own schema in a single database, if so desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: this is a usage example only. If you are going to enable any import options it would be safe to assume that you plan to query the data from the import location. In this case, it is probably a good idea to just specify ALL. If keys and indexes are created before import, the typical import time is just over 15 minutes. If indexes and keys are applied to a populated database it could take hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen shot of a basic import run&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://skysanders.net/images/soddi-basic.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;No Options&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen shot of a fully loaded run with keys, indexes and full text indexes.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://skysanders.net/images/soddi-loaded.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;All Options&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latest data dump can be found at&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="144906" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T23:40:33.963" LastActivityDate="2010-05-03T00:00:03.023" Title="Do you want to quickly and easily import the SO Data Dump into your SQL Server?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;statistics&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="44331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3481" CreationDate="2010-03-28T14:41:37.853" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Updated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45333/fast-multi-platform-data-dump-import-sql-2000-05-08-sqlite-mysql&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45333/fast-multi-platform-data-dump-import-sql-2000-05-08-sqlite-mysql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is pretty fast(er) ;-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="144906" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T23:52:12.843" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T23:52:12.843" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2010-03-28T14:45:43.553" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h1&gt;MS SQL Server 2000/05/08 - MySQL 5.1 - SQLite3&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C#&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tested and working on release(s):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;March 2010 - all sites, any way you want it. 5 to 17 minutes depending on options&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a Windows application that will import to MySQL, MS SQL Server and SQLite:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45333/fast-multi-platform-data-dump-import-sql-2000-05-08-sqlite-mysql&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/45333/fast-multi-platform-data-dump-import-sql-2000-05-08-sqlite-mysql&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-25T22:39:49.317" LastActivityDate="2010-05-25T22:39:49.317" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-28T14:45:43.553" />
  <row Id="44333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23282" CreationDate="2010-03-28T14:48:38.100" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agent, you need to use a bulk copy strategy and stream the data into the database bypassing checks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Executing statements via a command is a slow and painful death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am currently getting ~12,000,000 records into SQL Server in less than 5 minutes with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44330/do-you-want-to-quickly-and-easily-import-the-so-data-dump-into-your-sql-server&quot;&gt;Do you want to quickly and easily import the SO Data Dump into your SQL Server?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-18T11:44:54.777" LastActivityDate="2010-09-18T11:44:54.777" />
  <row Id="44335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44350" CreationDate="2010-03-28T16:02:12.497" Score="-7" ViewCount="240" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that I wasn't clear about what I'm asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that new users might not always post the best questions and subsequently have their questions closed. Usually the users with low reputation end up writing questions that get closed, so is there a way which SO can make them take an extra step or two before they post their question so that we ensure their question is not closed? These extra steps should only be present until the user gets a slightly higher reputation. I think this would save people some time and effort when they're answering a question which may potentially be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example where the OP could have done a quick search and found the answer to his homework question and not have his question closed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2532885/dynamic-programming-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2532885/dynamic-programming-closed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143505" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-08-19T16:35:04.833" LastActivityDate="2011-08-19T16:35:04.833" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-28T17:18:47.473" Title="Precautionary steps for new users so that their questions won't get closed" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;new-users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" />
  <row Id="44336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44335" CreationDate="2010-03-28T16:16:34.007" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the purpose of SO is to collect the sum of programming knowledge, why would it be desirable for someone to not ask a question simply because it was answered elsewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally (from someone who does quite a bit of searching), the answers that I find (while comprehensive) don't always actually &lt;em&gt;help&lt;/em&gt; me overcome a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Google is not the only search engine :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is programming related, does not invite an extended discussion and has not been asked before on SO, I see no reason why it should not be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a protracted discourse in comments, I have found the root of the problem:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastEditorUserId="50049" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-28T18:43:38.657" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T18:43:38.657" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-28T18:38:10.230" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="44338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44299" CreationDate="2010-03-28T16:26:25.497" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I typically just grab the text in the 'answer' , move it to the original question, then replace the answer with something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your additional information has been&#xA;  automatically added as an addendum to&#xA;  your original question. Note,&#xA;  automatically does not infer a system&#xA;  process, Jeff Atwood has me captive in&#xA;  a warehouse with an automatic weapon&#xA;  pointed at me, hence the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you continue to post updates to&#xA;  your question as answers, he might&#xA;  pull the trigger. Please help me live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am of course kidding. But the text is similar. Mostly, new users just 'get it' and delete the now edited 'answer'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T16:26:25.497" />
  <row Id="44339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44218" CreationDate="2010-03-28T16:35:46.447" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the coolest part of Chuck E Cheese for me was being able to get beer .. umm .. &lt;code&gt;for my parents&lt;/code&gt; ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When one has a full pitcher with parents thinking he's just &lt;code&gt;in that big pool of balls, somewhere,&lt;/code&gt; one is increasingly inclined to say &lt;code&gt;#&amp;amp;$*# the tickets, I have beer!&lt;/code&gt; as he exits through a non-alarmed fire escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my opinion, however. Oddly, we never went back there after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T16:35:46.447" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-28T16:35:46.447" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43556" CreationDate="2010-03-28T17:38:19.767" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is really misleading text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I created this login here in order to complain about the auto-awarding and especially the text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My story, and I don't think this is the first time this has happened to me, is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just had a bounty on a question I posed expire without actually getting a good answer, and the bounty has been auto-awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That I'd posted the bounty on a weekend and so had trouble getting back to the problem in time was, well, irritating but not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the giving points away I can live with - I valued the question enough to put a bounty on it.  I don't care that an answer I wasn't happy with got those points either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do care that the question was auto accepted - it claims that I think that it was a good answer, and it discourages others from trying to answer the question properly, and it stops me accepting a later answer I deem correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want the question closed, I want to put a bigger bounty on it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145333" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T17:38:19.767" />
  <row Id="44345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T17:58:50.667" Score="84" ViewCount="995" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update (2010/08/11)&lt;/strong&gt;: Now &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackapps.com/questions/1369/not-a-real-question--a-stack-exchange-game&quot;&gt;uses the API&lt;/a&gt; to retrieve questions for the games. Added &lt;em&gt;Cooking&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Gaming&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update (2010/04/18)&lt;/strong&gt;: Now contains games from all four Trilogy sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have created a little game from the data dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following text is copied from the intro text on the website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's easy: After having chosen a site, you'll see a a button labeled &quot;Play&quot;. As soon as you click it, you will be presented with three questions from the Stack Overflow family site of your choice. Unfortunately, there has been a mixup in the database, and the backup strategy… well, let's just say it could have been a tiny little bit better. So you have to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have to find out which of the given tags, text excerpts, and vote counts belong to which question. Use your mouse to drag the tiles to their correct places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As soon as you have a plausible solution (&quot;plausible&quot; doesn't mean much – just that each question has a vote count, a text excerpt, and 1 to 5 tags), you will see a large button labeled &quot;I'm done!&quot;. If you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; done, you click it. And let's hope you sorted things out correctly, because the evil hyphen site is just around the corner to fight you in the grand finale. Or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;It currently includes only Stack Overflow questions, but sooner or later I'll probably extend this to the whole Trilogy.&lt;/strike&gt; [status-completed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, without further ado, I give you: &lt;a href=&quot;http://notarealquestion.appspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;notarealquestion.appspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have fun and give feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="115866" LastEditorUserId="115866" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-12T15:54:39.633" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T10:47:34.387" ClosedDate="2011-08-26T15:31:43.833" Title="Not a real question – A Stack Exchange game" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;data-dump&gt;&lt;not-a-real-question&gt;&lt;games&gt;" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="50" FavoriteCount="28" />
  <row Id="44346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44345" CreationDate="2010-03-28T18:05:57.123" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ahahahahahaha! This is &lt;em&gt;great&lt;/em&gt;, once again. It didn't take long to associate the &lt;code&gt;-3&lt;/code&gt; vote with the question ending with &lt;code&gt;Please help!&lt;/code&gt; :) The rest was a bit tougher. What a nice game for the whole family :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: this is really great. It takes a lot of general knowledge, and understanding of how the SO community works (in order to get the votes right). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T18:05:57.123" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44355" CreationDate="2010-03-28T18:06:17.373" Score="18" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every once in a while I take a look at the tools page and see a high number of flags - like right now.  And there is indeed some pretty spammy stuff in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fairly self-evident what to do with flagged &lt;em&gt;questions&lt;/em&gt;, I think - just vote to close/delete if the flags are in fact accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about flagged answers?  It doesn't really seem like there's much we &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; do about those.  Should we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag them again, hoping to bump the answer down and/or get it auto-deleted?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flag for (real) moderator attention, i.e. to confirm &quot;yes this is really spam&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just leave them alone (assuming that a proper mod will find it soon)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also - is there any particular action we should be taking if a post is erroneously flagged - i.e. somebody got annoyed that a question wasn't marked CW?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some guidelines on how best to use this feature would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T19:22:58.920" Title="What should 10k users do with flagged answers?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;flagging&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44345" CreationDate="2010-03-28T18:19:43.987" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love it.  Now it needs to be made into an iPhone game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastEditorUserId="63550" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-19T10:47:34.387" LastActivityDate="2010-09-19T10:47:34.387" />
  <row Id="44350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44335" CreationDate="2010-03-28T18:30:04.773" Score="15" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;New to SO != new to asking questions. Plenty of people manage to show up and ask questions without any real problems - it's the &quot;new to Teh Internetz&quot;, the lazy, and the clueless that run into trouble. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they're going to run into trouble no matter what. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Every&lt;/em&gt; site has this problem, some more than others. The big difference on SO is that we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; close and delete poor questions, rather than leaving them around to clog up the site and contribute to a reputation of mediocrity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T18:30:04.773" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-28T18:30:04.773" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41365" CreationDate="2010-03-28T18:32:10.603" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My vote is [osx], [osx-leopard], and [osx-snowleopard], and ditch all the rest by merging into those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145012" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T18:32:10.603" />
  <row Id="44352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44345" CreationDate="2010-03-28T18:59:45.887" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that I've finally gotten it working - love it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The negative-voted posts form a fantastic Stack Overflow hall of shame.  &quot;how do i show all divs in firefox&quot; was classic.  The entertainment value of those alone makes it teh awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(P.S. I beat you suckaz!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T18:59:45.887" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="44354" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T19:20:30.050" Score="3" ViewCount="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any web banners I can use to promote Stackoverflow, Serverfault, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm don't want to use a flair banner...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T19:34:33.180" Title="Stackoverflow Web Banners" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;promotion&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44347" CreationDate="2010-03-28T19:22:58.920" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flag them again, hoping to bump the answer down and/or get it auto-deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vote for this-- if you see something in the flag list that you feel strongly about, flag it yourself, too. Remember that enough flags (for really bad stuff) cause action to be taken automagically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flag for (real) moderator attention, i.e. to confirm &quot;yes this is really spam&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can also work if you have something specific you want to add with a sentence or paragraph of info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just leave them alone (assuming that a proper mod will find it soon)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the default, this should &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; work, and if it doesn't, we have built a bad system that needs to be fixed! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T19:22:58.920" />
  <row Id="44356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44354" CreationDate="2010-03-28T19:34:33.180" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, we don't have any banners per se, but I am OK with using the logos -- as long as they are linked back to the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T19:34:33.180" />
  <row Id="44357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-28T19:48:20.040" Score="5" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/20683/viewed-1-times&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;viewed 1 times&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you main screen turn on (look at my profile), you'll no doubt see that I have asked 1 questions. What you say? 1 question &lt;strong&gt;s&lt;/strong&gt;?  Plural?  Somebody set us up the bomb?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For great justice, any chance such a fundamental error can be corrected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems (in my humble opinion) a bit of a lazy coding error, and particularly irksome on what is &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; site for programmers and IT gurus in general.  Please fix this, you have no chance to survive - make your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137783" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-05-06T08:08:00.507" LastActivityDate="2011-05-06T08:08:00.507" ClosedDate="2010-03-28T20:34:44.677" Title="1 questions asked. 1 badges etc" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;profile-page&gt;&lt;plurals&gt;" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="44358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44362" CreationDate="2010-03-28T20:18:56.383" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10672/encourage-users-to-select-accepted-answer-for-old-questions&quot;&gt;Encourage users to select &amp;lsquo;Accepted Answer&amp;rsquo; for old Questions&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically as the title reads. Sometimes I see 'unanswered' questions which do actually have a good answer, only it's not accepted. Is there some way that I can flag an answer as the correct one, even if I didn't ask the question?&#xA;I see there is a 'flag' link but the title reads 'flag this post for serious problems', so it would seem like the wrong thing for a correct, but unaccepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T21:23:32.047" ClosedDate="2010-03-30T00:09:25.340" Title="How can I set or suggest an answer to an unanswered question that is not my own?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;unanswered-questions&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44358" CreationDate="2010-03-28T20:28:15.097" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some users don't pay attention to their questions to accept answers, and there's no technical solution to fix that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can do as a 3rd party to the question/answer is to upvote what you believe is the correct answer. (Also, you can upvote the question if you feel it's appropriate -- since this shows up in the activity summary, it may draw the asker's attention to the question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think even leaving a comment on the question to get the question-asker to mark an answer as accepted is taking it a step too far. Certainly, flagging is out of the question, and should only be used for instances of misuse/abuse of the system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136558" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T20:28:15.097" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38090" CreationDate="2010-03-28T20:38:37.630" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the right thing to do is to make the time to when an answer become accepted depend on community votes? My rough idea is that if a lot of people are saying that answers are good, then a genuinely good one can be nominated rapidly. On the other hand, if hardly anybody takes any interest in a question then the threshold drops over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145309" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T20:38:37.630" />
  <row Id="44362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44358" CreationDate="2010-03-28T21:23:32.047" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we're talking about the unanswered tab, applying an upvote to any answer present will &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;make the questions &quot;answered&quot; for the purpose of the tab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acceptance is a whole 'nother matter. It is a decision for the OP to make (exception after offering a bounty and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; accepting anything in the allotted time an answer &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be auto accepted). Acceptance mean no more or less than &quot;The OP accepted this answer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2509" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T21:23:32.047" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44364" CreationDate="2010-03-28T21:54:32.410" Score="7" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is related to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24827/explain-in-so-faq-concept-of-accepting-answers&quot;&gt;Explain in SO FAQ concept of accepting answers&lt;/a&gt;, but is a more specific feature request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please add a paragraph to &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/faq&lt;/a&gt; showing that one accepts an answer by clicking the check mark. I've seen posts from people who really didn't know that's what the symbol meant - perhaps it doesn't mean &quot;yes&quot; in all cultures?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also show a picture of a user block with low accepted answers, and show the relationship between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the site, I drive users towards reading the FAQ. It would be good if the necessary information were right in the document, and not just links to another site they don't have time to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76337" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T22:00:59.600" Title="The Site FAQ Should Graphically Show How to Accept an Answer" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;answers&gt;&lt;accept-rate&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44363" CreationDate="2010-03-28T22:00:59.600" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may be onto something here; Wikipedia has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_mark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In some European countries&lt;sup&gt;[citation needed]&lt;/sup&gt; (e.g., Finland  and Sweden), and in Japan, the tick can be used as an error mark and indicates &quot;no&quot; rather than &quot;yes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't that be funny, if some people are looking at the check mark thinking it means &quot;wrong answer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141911" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T22:00:59.600" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44330" CreationDate="2010-03-28T22:10:52.557" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the schema used by SODDI (&lt;a href=&quot;http://skysanders.net/images/SODDI-SCHEMA-70.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;full size&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am totally open to suggestions for useful indexes to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://skysanders.net/images/SODDI-SCHEMA-70.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is the script used to build the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;if 0 = 1--XXX&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;--XXX&lt;/code&gt; are the plugs I remove from the script as per options supplied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;IF 0 = 1--DROP &#xA;  BEGIN &#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Badges]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[Badges] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Comments]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[Comments] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Posts]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[Posts] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[PostsTags]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[PostsTags] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[PostTypes]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[PostTypes] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Users]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[Users] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Votes]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[Votes] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[VoteTypes]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;      DROP TABLE [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;&#xA;    IF EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   sysfulltextcatalogs ftc &#xA;               WHERE  ftc.name = N'PostFullText') &#xA;      EXEC dbo.sp_fulltext_catalog &#xA;        @ftcat = N'PostFullText' , &#xA;        @action = N'drop' &#xA;&#xA;    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA; 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   INSERT [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;          ([Id], &#xA;           [Name]) &#xA;    VALUES(2, &#xA;           CONVERT(TEXT,N'UpMod')) &#xA;&#xA;    INSERT [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;          ([Id], &#xA;           [Name]) &#xA;    VALUES(3, &#xA;           CONVERT(TEXT,N'DownMod')) &#xA;&#xA;    INSERT [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;          ([Id], &#xA;           [Name]) &#xA;    VALUES(4, &#xA;           CONVERT(TEXT,N'Offensive')) &#xA;&#xA;    INSERT [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;          ([Id], &#xA;           [Name]) &#xA;    VALUES(5, &#xA;           CONVERT(TEXT,N'Favorite')) &#xA;&#xA;    INSERT [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;          ([Id], &#xA;           [Name]) &#xA;    VALUES(6, &#xA;           CONVERT(TEXT,N'Close')) &#xA;&#xA;    INSERT [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;          ([Id], &#xA;           [Name]) &#xA;    VALUES(7, &#xA;           CONVERT(TEXT,N'Reopen')) &#xA;&#xA;    INSERT [dbo].[VoteTypes] &#xA;          ([Id], &#xA;           [Name]) &#xA;    VALUES(8, &#xA;           CONVERT(TEXT,N'BountyStart')) &#xA;&#xA; 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     [ParentId]              [INT]    NULL, &#xA;      [PostTypeId]            [INT]    NOT NULL, &#xA;      [Score]                 [INT]    NOT NULL, &#xA;      [Tags]                  [NVARCHAR](150)    NULL, &#xA;      [Title]                 [NVARCHAR](250)    NULL, &#xA;      [ViewCount]             [INT]    NOT NULL&#xA;      --ROWID, [RowId]                 [INT]    IDENTITY ( 1 , 1 )    NOT NULL&#xA;      --ROWID--PK, CONSTRAINT [PK_Posts] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [RowId] ASC ) ON [PRIMARY]&#xA;      --UNIQUE, CONSTRAINT [IX_Posts_Id_SiteId] UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED ([Id] ASC,[SiteId] ASC ) ON [PRIMARY]&#xA;      )&#xA;    ON [PRIMARY] &#xA;  END &#xA;ELSE &#xA;    TRUNCATE TABLE [dbo].[Posts]&#xA;&#xA;IF 0 = 1--INDEXES &#xA;  BEGIN &#xA;    SET ANSI_PADDING  OFF &#xA;&#xA;    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;                   FROM   dbo.sysindexes &#xA;                   WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Posts]') &#xA;                          AND name = N'IX_Posts_PostType') &#xA;      CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_Posts_PostType] ON [dbo].[Posts] ( &#xA;            [PostTypeId] ASC) &#xA;      ON [PRIMARY] &#xA;&#xA;    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;                   FROM   dbo.sysindexes &#xA;                   WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Posts]') &#xA;                          AND name = N'IX_SiteId_UserId') &#xA;      CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_SiteId_UserId] ON [dbo].[Posts] ( &#xA;            [SiteId] ASC, &#xA;            [OwnerUserId] ASC) &#xA;      ON [PRIMARY] &#xA;  END &#xA;&#xA;IF 0 = 1--FULLTEXT &#xA;  BEGIN &#xA;    IF (OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Posts]'),'TableFullTextCatalogId') = 0) &#xA;      EXEC dbo.sp_fulltext_table &#xA;        @tabname = N'[dbo].[Posts]' , &#xA;        @action = N'create' , &#xA;        @keyname = N'PK_Posts' , &#xA;        @ftcat = N'PostFullText' &#xA;&#xA;    DECLARE  @lcid INT &#xA;&#xA;    SELECT @lcid = lcid &#xA;    FROM   MASTER.dbo.syslanguages &#xA;    WHERE  alias = N'English' &#xA;&#xA;    EXEC dbo.sp_fulltext_column &#xA;      @tabname = N'[dbo].[Posts]' , &#xA;      @colname = N'Body' , &#xA; 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           [SiteId] ASC, &#xA;            [PostId] ASC) &#xA;      ON [PRIMARY] &#xA;&#xA;    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;                   FROM   dbo.sysindexes &#xA;                   WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Comments]') &#xA;                          AND name = N'IX_Comments_SiteId_UserId') &#xA;      CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IX_Comments_SiteId_UserId] ON [dbo].[Comments] ( &#xA;            [SiteId] ASC, &#xA;            [UserId] ASC) &#xA;      ON [PRIMARY] &#xA;  END &#xA;&#xA;SET ANSI_NULLS  ON &#xA;&#xA;SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER  ON &#xA;&#xA;SET ANSI_PADDING  ON &#xA;&#xA;IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * &#xA;               FROM   dbo.sysobjects &#xA;               WHERE  id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[Badges]') &#xA;                      AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id,N'IsUserTable') = 1) &#xA;  BEGIN &#xA;    CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Badges] ( &#xA;      [Id]     [INT]    NOT NULL, &#xA;      [SiteId] [VARCHAR](10)    NOT NULL, &#xA;      [Name]   [NVARCHAR](40)    NOT NULL, &#xA;      [UserId] [INT]    NOT NULL, &#xA; 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  <row Id="44366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49237" CreationDate="2010-03-28T22:10:54.413" Score="8" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44319/backslashes-in-duplicate-titles-break-inserted-links&quot;&gt;@Gnome's earlier question&lt;/a&gt;.  The markdown for automagically-inserted duplicate links breaks if the duplicate contains a URL in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/125079/how-does-http-to-work-closed&quot;&gt;In this case&lt;/a&gt;, markdown splits the URL into its own link, and text earlier in the title is given the correct link to the duplicate question.  The URLs work, but it looks wonky -- the question link doesn't span the entire question title, and users aren't expecting multiple links there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/78408/how-does-http-to-work&quot;&gt;How does &lt;a href=&quot;http://to./&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://to./&lt;/a&gt; work?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;link code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;[How does http://to./ work?](http://superuser.com/questions/78408/how-does-http-to-work)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137184" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-08T10:24:49.087" LastActivityDate="2010-05-08T10:24:59.993" Title="URL in duplicate titles wonkify related links" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;markdown&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;title&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40568" CreationDate="2010-03-28T22:23:25.880" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;R.E. not being able to re-downvote - just make an edit to the post, then you can, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144906" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T22:23:25.880" />
  <row Id="44369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44379" CreationDate="2010-03-28T22:31:26.080" Score="12" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/127062/issues-configuring-cups-print-server-for-ubuntu-server-9-10&quot;&gt;this user&lt;/a&gt; accept his own answer less than 48 hours after his question was posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11787/accept-own-answer-immediately&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11787/accept-own-answer-immediately&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26428" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T00:22:01.653" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:22:01.653" Title="How did this user accept his own answer less than 48 hours after his question was posted?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;accepted-answer&gt;&lt;self-answer&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44374" CreationDate="2010-03-28T23:53:54.233" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one seeing this, or have I completely lost it already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/4150/didkoperaskthis.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;The question appears to have been asked by Koper&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44369/how-did-this-user-accept-his-own-answer-less-than-48-hours-after-his-question-was&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7298/appearentlyhedidnt.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;but it seems that he didn't!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/26428/dennis-williamson&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8272/sockpuppet.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;Is Dennis Williamson really a sockpuppet!?!?!?1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/44369/timeline&quot;&gt;The timeline shows no sign of Koper&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastEditorUserId="130127" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T00:00:56.900" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:18:50.507" Title="Question seems asked by other user" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-bydesign&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44372" CreationDate="2010-03-28T23:55:25.883" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last modified by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click on &quot;1h ago&quot; to jump to the latest changed post, whether it's the question or an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130442" LastActivityDate="2010-03-28T23:55:25.883" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44372" CreationDate="2010-03-28T23:58:59.993" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This shows who last had activity in the thread. If someone edits a post or adds a new answer, they will be shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, Kop deleted his answer after he posted it. This means that technically he was the last person to have activity in the thread, but you can't see the activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10k users can &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/365/why-should-10k-rep-users-view-self-deleted-answers&quot; title=&quot;like eating cotton candy&quot;&gt;still see deleted posts&lt;/a&gt;. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23535/feature-request-ability-to-not-load-the-deleted-answers-after-hitting-10k&quot; title=&quot;feature blindness&quot;&gt;sometimes they'd rather not&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="9314" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T00:18:50.507" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:18:50.507" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44372" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:02:01.700" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what displays in that field depends on what tab you are on (it's either owner of post, or owner of last activity on post)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as Chacha noted, users who add then delete answers are still the owners of the last activity on the post even if you can't see it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:02:01.700" />
  <row Id="44376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40568" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:03:27.767" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those downvotes come from the community user, but will age away if the post does not reach the offensive threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:03:27.767" />
  <row Id="44377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44369" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:04:07.437" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this certainly cannot be marked at &lt;code&gt;[status-norepo]&lt;/code&gt;, as it obviously can be reproduced, and it has been!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:04:07.437" />
  <row Id="44378" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:17:23.427" Score="7" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Did you know?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everything on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt; has a permalink&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not many people know about this, and so many questions and answers are littered with complicated Amazon URLs which are probably more fragile than the permalinks that Amazon provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Example&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say for example I want to link you to the DVD &quot;The Blind Side&quot; on Amazon. I can give you the following mess of a link, copied directly from my address bar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B002VECM6S&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VECM6S/ref=s9_pop_gw_ir02?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;amp;pf_rd_s=center-4&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=17YV54QPR031ACGK3KDA&amp;amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=490157971&amp;amp;pf_rd_i=507846&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, at the bottom of the right sidebar, there is a little set of share links that looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/940/amazonshare.png&quot; alt=&quot;Share (envelope) (facebook) (twitter)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you see it?&lt;/strong&gt; If you click &quot;Share&quot; or the envelope, you are provided with a much nicer URL:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B002VECM6S&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://amzn.com/B002VECM6S&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does the URL look nicer, but Amazon calls it a &quot;Permalink&quot;, leading me to believe that this link is more permanent than the first link. Furthermore, one or more of the parameters in the first link might have data that could identify the computer of the person who copied the URL, whereas the amzn.com link seems to be universal. Presumably, the part after the slash is some internal ID number linked to that DVD, and presumably, that ID will not change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Feature Request&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose a feature request, wherein Stack Overflow (and related sites) will &lt;strong&gt;automatically detect Amazon links and replace them by their corresponding permalinks&lt;/strong&gt;, in an attempt to prolong the life of these links. Furthermore, since existing questions and answers are already littered with these messy links, if this system should be put in, it should scan existing questions &amp;amp; answers for the messy links and convert them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A system like this is already in place; certain links are converted into sponsor links automatically. So I think it would be equally possible to convert messy Amazon links into the short Amzn.com permalinks, to help prevent broken links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131823" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:37:28.217" Title="Replace Amazon.com links with amzn.com permalinks" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;amazon&gt;&lt;permalink&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44369" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:21:52.760" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, new bug -- I just fixed it. Sorry about that (I was checking the ownership state of the question instead of the answer, got my q and a variables backwards).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:21:52.760" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44378" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:22:59.623" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would have to work with the affiliate program, or we can't use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting-stack-overflow-affiliate-into-all-amazon-book-links&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10948/would-it-be-a-problem-if-all-amazon-links-were-converted-to-affiliate-links&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10948/would-it-be-a-problem-if-all-amazon-links-were-converted-to-affiliate-links&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:22:59.623" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44378" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:23:30.167" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not an actual permalink since it redirects you to the correct page when you click it. Real permalinks don't need to go get dressed when someone comes over to see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason why they're showing you that amzn.com domain is for the type-lazy and character restrictive services, such as Twitter, where letters, numbers and glyphs are at a premium. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those cases, the shortest URLs possible are rampant/most desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9314" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:23:30.167" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44378" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:27:23.577" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000ND6UTO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Take-Chance-Jeff-Atwood/dp/B000ND6UTO/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=music&amp;amp;qid=1269822384&amp;amp;sr=8-5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Permalink: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000ND6UTO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://amzn.com/B000ND6UTO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7889/takeachance.png&quot; alt=&quot;amazon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously: according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://affiliate-blog.amazon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon's affiliates blog&lt;/a&gt;, the format to use is: &lt;code&gt;http://www.amazon.com/dp/&amp;lt;itemnumber&amp;gt;?tag=YOUR_ID_HERE&lt;/code&gt; which isn't that messy, really. The item number is always the string of characters after the &lt;code&gt;/dp/&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="42471" LastEditorUserId="42471" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T00:37:28.217" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:37:28.217" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44378" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:28:40.843" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;or you can just use the first part of the link, which is all that is required to identify the product - in your example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B002VECM6S&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VECM6S&lt;/a&gt; is sufficient&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9345" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:28:40.843" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31913" CreationDate="2010-03-29T00:30:12.803" Score="25" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://openhatch.org/search/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://littlegreenriver.com/openhatchad.png&quot; alt=&quot;OpenHatch: the open source involvement engine!&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T00:30:12.803" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-29T00:30:12.803" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44728" CreationDate="2010-03-29T01:21:28.187" Score="2" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's already an explanation on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31806/if-a-question-becomes-community-wiki-are-all-answers-switched-to-cw-automaticall/31808#31808&quot;&gt;why answers become wiki&lt;/a&gt;. But this is about just the question part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why almost every question that starts as non-wiki and should not be wiki, are changed to wiki status after they reach a high amount of votes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just trying to understand how the &quot;CW flagging&quot; works, and a little bit on the reputation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes&quot;&gt;go to StackOverflow and sort questions by votes&lt;/a&gt; you'll quickly see that they're all community wikis, and &lt;strong&gt;most of them really should be&lt;/strong&gt;, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c&quot;&gt;the top one&lt;/a&gt;. They really are subjective and even don't have accepted answers, as there is no single answer for them. &lt;strong&gt;That's just fine for most of them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are some of them that don't seem like it fits the CW purpose of subjective questions. It seems like they are changed to CW after gaining some popularity and, &lt;strong&gt;if they didn't gain that, they wouldn't be changed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a very good example of what I mean is &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (on a side note, the highest voted example could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8472/practical-non-image-based-captcha-approaches&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;). They're questions with a single answer and that's it. I believe they would not be marked as wiki if they haven't received so much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are all of them mostly just &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/28917/why-did-my-answer-become-community-wiki-history-says-i-did-that-but-i-didnt/28919#28919&quot;&gt;edited too many times&lt;/a&gt; and automatically made into wiki? Both of my instances above didn't seem like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, taking what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4080/why-does-the-system-discourage-designating-answers-or-questions-as-community-w/4156#4156&quot;&gt;Kip said&lt;/a&gt; out of context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it (CW) is 'fun' rather than 'technical'--that the community feels it would generate unearned and undeserved amounts of rep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are those &quot;high voted questions&quot; changed to wiki just because of that? &lt;strong&gt;Is CW used just to prevent people from earning too much rep?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really missing a clarification on this whole subject (why does some questions become CW) from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/11740/what-are-community-wiki-posts-on-stack-overflow/11741#11741&quot;&gt;FAQ about community wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sorry if I used too much &lt;em&gt;bolding&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143411" LastEditorUserId="143411" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-31T18:15:56.670" LastActivityDate="2010-03-31T18:25:13.853" Title="Why do some highly voted questions become community wiki?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;community-wiki&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="44389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44388" CreationDate="2010-03-29T01:25:01.737" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason most of them are community wiki is both because they are subjective (which we tend to disallow), and they are meant to be polls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the top ones on that list, the answers are mostly items in a poll. What is the best hidden features of C#. As a courtesy, the people creating poll questions make them community wiki so someone doesn't get a lot of reputation just for being the first person to answer with a popular feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By making them community wiki, they also take the question out of the general context of 'Is this Answer/Question useful', and set them almost apart from the site. Community Wiki questions tend to have their own rules on voting. AKA: A Poll is based on popularity. Funny Posts are which ones made you laugh, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason for making things community wiki is just if you are posting something broad enough that a lot of people might have things to add, and you are letting them add it no matter how much reputation they have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72394/what-should-a-developer-know-before-building-a-public-web-site&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent example of that. Everyone had different backgrounds and expertise, so the community wiki let them add to a list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line for Community Wiki posts is they are meant to be posts where it is just not voting up/down answers. It is suppose to make the post more of a focal point to the users where everyone can participate, and they can throw away some of the rules/dramas of regular Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T07:37:44.847" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T07:37:44.847" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43991" CreationDate="2010-03-29T02:29:46.557" Score="84" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I emailed Jeff Atwood last night a one line email. &quot;You should make a StackOverflow API using OData.&quot; Then I realized that, as Linus says, Talk is Cheap, Show me the Code. So I created an initial prototype of a StackOverflow API using OData on an Airplane. I allocated the whole 12 hour flight. Unfortunately it took 30 minutes so I watched movies the rest of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CreatingAnODataAPIForStackOverflowIncludingXMLAndJSONIn30Minutes.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;THE CODE IS HERE&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://173.46.159.103/service.svc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A live running example is here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow has always been incredibly open and generous with their data. I propose that an OData endpint would give us much more flexible access to their data than a custom XML and/or JSON API that they'll need be constantly rev'ing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a proprietary API, folks will rush to create StackOverflow clients in many languages, but that work is already done with OData including libraries for iPhone, PHP and Java. There's a growing list of OData SDKs that could all be used to talk to a service like this. I could load it into Excel using PowerPivot if I like as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this service could totally be extended beyond this simple GET example. You can do complete CRUD with OData and it's not tied to .NET in anyway. TweetDeck for StackOverflow perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose we encourage StackOverflow to put more than the 30 minutes that I have put into it and make a proper OData service for their data, rather than a custom API. I volunteer to help. If not, we can do it ourselves with their dump data (perhaps weekly if they can step it up?) and a cloud instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137581" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T02:29:46.557" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="44391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43991" CreationDate="2010-03-29T02:46:23.210" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let the &quot;change&quot; happen to move to oData. It really seems sweet (from @shanselman's blog post). Can't wait to get my hands on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully a &lt;strong&gt;StackOverflowDeck&lt;/strong&gt; or a &lt;strong&gt;StackOverFlowy&lt;/strong&gt; built on SO oData, will come along pretty soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135914" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T02:46:23.210" />
  <row Id="44392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31071" CreationDate="2010-03-29T03:06:14.940" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to call out &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2331264/what-was-the-next-big-thing-when-you-were-just-starting-out-in-programming/2331505#2331505&quot;&gt;more love for SO&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131956" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T03:06:14.940" />
  <row Id="44396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T07:12:10.480" Score="4" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/34340/electorate-badge-rules&quot;&gt;Electorate badge rules?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my profile page &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/146857/pandiya-chendur&quot;&gt;Pandiya Chendur&lt;/a&gt; on Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;code&gt;601 upvotes&lt;/code&gt; but I didn't get electorate badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I see the percentage of my upvotes on questions?  Where can I find this detail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138350" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T07:23:50.670" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T07:23:50.670" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T07:45:58.530" Title="Am I eligible for &quot;Electorate&quot; Badge?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;voting&gt;&lt;electorate-badge&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44401" CreationDate="2010-03-29T08:13:42.077" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I'm new. The FAQ tells me to edit &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2536217/mysql-nested-case-error-i-need-help-with&quot;&gt;my question&lt;/a&gt; using a link just below the question, but there is no such link. There is a 'flag' link, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because I am new?  There is nothing in FAQ about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dan was kind enough to answer my question, however, it was to no avail and I can't seem to find a way to let him or anybody know that I tried his suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a more comprehensive set of FAQs or instructions that I haven't found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a new user this was my second question and I do have an edit link on this question, however this question is on Meta, which made me re-register with a new Openid never seen before. So I did and I see in my profile, that I have asked a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my profile on Stack Overflow  shows I have no asked questions even though the question itself shows that I am the one that asked the question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe fretje is right, but it doesn't make sense to me.  Also, thanks Chris, but fretje seems a lot closer to the answer, because between Stack Overflow and Meta I got 'never seen before' like three times and I used Openid each time.  Openid is supposed to be simple but I know Yahoo asked me four times before I could log into Stack Overflow and Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help? Does this mean I can't edit my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145384" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T08:53:57.753" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T08:53:57.753" Title="FAQ tells me to edit my question, but there is no edit link" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;editing&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44398" CreationDate="2010-03-29T08:19:14.390" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There should be an 'edit' link next to the 'flag' link. If it isn't there you probably are not logged in with the same account you were when asking the question. Can that be the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T08:19:14.390" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44398" CreationDate="2010-03-29T08:25:06.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did you lose the browser cookie to your unregistered account?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you provided an email address to us (you did) -- you can recover it by visiting the login page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/login&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/login&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;click the &lt;strong&gt;Can't remember your login information?&lt;/strong&gt; link on that page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prevent this in the future -- once you have your cookie back, I recommend clicking the &lt;strong&gt;Register&lt;/strong&gt; link at the top of the page and registering, so you can log in via OpenID at any time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T08:25:06.217" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44398" CreationDate="2010-03-29T08:33:45.977" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, this is garden variety &quot;I have two accounts.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found your accounts and merged them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future reference, life is simpler if you just click the &lt;strong&gt;Register&lt;/strong&gt; link at the top of the page -- that will convert an unregistered cookie-based account to a registered openid account.&#xA;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T08:33:45.977" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T08:51:04.407" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42904/the-global-reputation-recalc-of-march-2010&quot;&gt;The global reputation recalc of March 2010&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I noticed a sudden drop in my reputation points (from 640 to 420). I have looked at the summary page but nothing was mentioned there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone please tell me the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133455" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T09:20:37.283" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T09:20:37.283" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T09:18:33.200" Title="Sudden drop of reputation for no reason on Stack Overflow" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="44405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44407" CreationDate="2010-03-29T10:08:45.403" Score="2" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;How useful is it to edit posts and add Wikipedia-links to (probably) well-known things like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PowerPoint&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mac OS X&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Python&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;? Or to (probably) less-known things like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_AntiVirus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Norton&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avast!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Avast!&lt;/a&gt; antivirus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:19:58.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-29T10:09:19.740" Title="For well-known terminology, how useful is adding links to Wikipedia?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;editing&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;" AnswerCount="3" />
  <row Id="44406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44405" CreationDate="2010-03-29T10:30:21.003" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As useful as the articles that you are linking to are and will be in the future. I try to avoid linking to anything undergoing a serious edit war, or articles that have serious issues (i.e. not a single citation when citations are possible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the article in question can potentially drastically change to the point that its meaning contradicts, not supports your post, don't link to it. But then again, that goes for any external link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50049" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T10:30:21.003" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-29T10:30:21.003" />
  <row Id="44407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44405" CreationDate="2010-03-29T10:30:28.743" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;For common terms, I'd say it is not necessary - quite the contrary, it adds clutter to the edit history, and unnecessary distractions in the question's or answer's word flow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't know what Python, Mac OS X, or Youtube are, you can always look them up in Wikipedia. If you don't know how to do that, you're probably in the wrong place anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd add links only for lesser-known terms that may need explaining even to the intended audience of the question or answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138112" LastEditorUserId="138112" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T10:37:56.973" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T10:37:56.973" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-29T10:30:28.743" CommentCount="5" />
  <row Id="44411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44420" CreationDate="2010-03-29T11:09:29.173" Score="30" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;Via &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2537269/define-a-positive-number-to-be-isolated-if-none-of-the-digits-in-its-square-are-i&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, I have discovered that SO has 13 questions tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/urgent-help-needed&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;urgent-help-needed&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Most of these question do not have accepted answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is horrific! We really should do something to prioritize questions marked urgent, as someone might just get fired or thrown out of school otherwise. Therefore, I propose that all questions with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/urgent-help-needed&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;urgent-help-needed&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tag is shown on the front page with an extra large, extra bold, Comic Sans font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a free bounty of 1000 rep. should automatically be attached to question with this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Btw. I need help from a removing all occurences of a specific tag on SO. Can anyone help? This is urgent!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139369" LastEditorUserId="38765" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-13T13:02:21.400" LastActivityDate="2010-08-13T13:02:21.400" Title="Can we do something to help those in need of urgent help?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;&lt;meta-tagging&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="44414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T11:35:49.143" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/13065/wmd-editor-bug-german-keyboard-layout-creates-blockquote-section&quot;&gt;Why is Alt Gr + Q giving me Quote formatting instead of the @ sign?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, when using the Italian keyboard layout, I can't insert the ] symbol (closing square brace) because when I press &lt;code&gt;AltGr + è&lt;/code&gt; the editor inserts an inline code block, despite its shortcut is said to be &lt;code&gt;Ctrl + k&lt;/code&gt; by the tooltip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here you can find an Italian keyboard: &lt;a href=&quot;http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5640/keyboardwz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5640/keyboardwz.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145401" LastEditorUserId="1069" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-07-22T14:08:34.410" LastActivityDate="2010-07-22T14:08:34.410" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T13:32:56.347" Title="Keyboard shortcut bug with Italian layout" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;keyboard-shortcuts&gt;" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2010-03-29T11:37:01.353" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;All those of you who are against or are whining about the reputation change, should play World of Warcraft, that’s where after one patch, your super ability gets a nerf and you feel disappointed. But WoW players are mainly &lt;em&gt;kids&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can’t believe people are actually complaining about something as trivial and virtual as a reputation number on stack overflow. If you want to have a higher number, answer the goddamn questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes time, but then again, getting a CS in computer science takes at least four years…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No big deal. Now go do some work and don’t use &lt;em&gt;goto&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2684" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T11:37:01.353" />
  <row Id="44416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44345" CreationDate="2010-03-29T11:38:31.087" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really really great, and addicted!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about adding Difficulty Levels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beginner - show Question Age, Answer Counts, View Counts, (may be OP accept rate too)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intermediate - show Question Age only&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expert - current one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, New users can play and learn Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139541" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T11:38:31.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T11:41:57.240" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/24130/show-not-only-accept-rate-but-also-number-of-questions-asked&quot;&gt;Show not only accept rate, but also number of questions asked&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would make sense to show how many questions the user asked along with the percentage of accepted questions. Something like &quot;accepted 95% of 154 questions&quot; or the absolute values: &quot;accept rate: 63/70&quot;. This is the first thing I look up whenever I have the feeling the OP is trying to get his job/homework done by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44562" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T11:41:57.240" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T12:35:54.770" Title="Show number of questions along with accept rate" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;questions&gt;" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44411" CreationDate="2010-03-29T12:13:35.010" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/urgent-help-needed&quot;&gt;none left now&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;s&gt;the 4 questions left right now in that view are old cached copies, and will disappear shortly, along with the tag&lt;/s&gt; - all gone!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-04T14:37:55.457" LastActivityDate="2010-04-04T14:37:55.457" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T12:15:47.297" Score="0" ViewCount="125" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicates:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2585/broadcasting-user-activity-over-twitter&quot;&gt;Broadcasting User-Activity over Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/15110/why-isnt-superuser-on-twitter&quot;&gt;Why isn&amp;rsquo;t SuperUser on twitter?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can I associate my questions/answers with my Twitter account so my questions and answers are automatically posted on twitter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141835" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T12:22:04.367" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T12:22:04.367" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T12:23:58.620" Title="stackoverflow answers on twitter" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;twitter&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44421" CreationDate="2010-03-29T12:21:06.943" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;h2&gt;No&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor you should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel strongly about it, you could build it yourself once the Stack Overflow API becomes public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T12:21:06.943" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44405" CreationDate="2010-03-29T12:56:52.660" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_Itt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_%28punctuation%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fact-index.com/s/sp/space__punctuation_.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/completely&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;completely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s74438.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;! ~ ? = ‽&quot;&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnecessary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unnecessary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.englishclub.com/writing/punctuation-full-stop-period.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;right here, right now&quot;&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130109" LastEditorUserId="130109" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T15:19:58.883" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:19:58.883" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-29T12:56:52.660" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44411" CreationDate="2010-03-29T13:29:31.830" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The more annoying tags, the better people can use them for filtering!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T13:29:31.830" />
  <row Id="44427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44431" CreationDate="2010-03-29T13:53:27.107" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&#xA;On SO I've got the following orange message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You have 1 new answer and 1 new&#xA;  comment. See your responses.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have only 1 comment and 1 new revision of my question, no new answer. Did I overlook something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139891" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-08-04T23:39:52.513" LastActivityDate="2010-08-04T23:39:52.513" Title="message: 1 new answer, but only 1 revision" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;notification-bar&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44427" CreationDate="2010-03-29T13:57:51.760" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you didn't click &lt;code&gt;Today&lt;/code&gt; first (by default only the last 3 hours of responses are displayed when clicking on the envelope).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T13:57:51.760" />
  <row Id="44431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44427" CreationDate="2010-03-29T14:00:05.487" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find the other post on Meta, but a moderator mentioned that as a bug recently - revisions to your posts count as new answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: aha, found the link&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44158/you-have-1-new-answer-see-your-responses-link-doesnt-show-any-responses/44167#44167&quot;&gt;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44158/you-have-1-new-answer-see-your-responses-link-doesnt-show-any-responses/44167#44167&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145027" LastEditorUserId="145027" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T14:07:36.077" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T14:07:36.077" />
  <row Id="44435" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T14:41:17.373" Score="0" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm giving a presentation on social media with a short part based on stack overflow how would you describe its key principles? What are its key benefits over traditional forum/mailing list problem resolution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T09:38:35.377" Title="I'm giving a presentation on social media with a short part based on stack overflow how would you describe its key principles?" Tags="&lt;meta&gt;&lt;presentations&gt;" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="1" />
  <row Id="44436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44435" CreationDate="2010-03-29T14:43:32.767" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeff Atwood gave an excellent talk about StackOverflow at EclipseCon 2009 that covered a lot of the bases and design rationale, including how certain features were inspired by MMOs :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me try and dig up the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T14:46:06.223" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44435" CreationDate="2010-03-29T14:44:21.580" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139031" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T14:46:06.223" />
  <row Id="44438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44435" CreationDate="2010-03-29T14:47:32.440" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36737" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T14:47:32.440" />
  <row Id="44440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44442" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:10:18.657" Score="7" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have an issue that I detailed with code pastes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://gist.github.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gist.github.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be okay to provide a written description and link to the code pastes, or should I paste them in my question body instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148892" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T04:16:36.653" Title="Is it okay to link to gist code pastes?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;questions&gt;&lt;etiquette&gt;&lt;hyperlinks&gt;&lt;paste&gt;" AnswerCount="5" />
  <row Id="44441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44440" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:17:46.487" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally, you should be able to illustrate your problem with the &lt;em&gt;very least&lt;/em&gt; possible amount of code. Then I would say that it is best to include the code in-line with your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if you absolutely cannot be brief in your code samples then, sure, go ahead and link to an external source. But it will greatly decrease the number/quality of responses to your question. Few people will want to go off-site to trudge through large bodies of someone else's code and it becomes more difficult to discuss it back on the Stack Overflow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="98786" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:17:46.487" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44440" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:18:00.323" Score="7" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would post all (relevant!) code in the question body, for at least two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People can have a good overview of my problem right away and dive into my code directly rather than repeatedly clicking back and forth. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The code might also include some additional search terms, which is good for future users with a similar problem, or for SEO in general.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135907" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:18:00.323" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44440" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:37:46.797" Score="-4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow doesn't provide the functionality that gist.github provides. What's wrong with using gists? Gists provides the ability to revision control the paste -- each poster can make edits and pull from previous versions, fork, etc. This is valuable. Moreover, and impressive -- they don't even need git installed to do it through the web interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe SO can license the technology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="157251" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:37:46.797" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:44:20.290" Score="1" ViewCount="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;I answered this question which had a bounty (100 or 150 I think) but now it doesn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2463028/asp-net-custom-templated-datalist-throws-argument-out-of-range-index-on-button&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2463028/asp-net-custom-templated-datalist-throws-argument-out-of-range-index-on-button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145182" LastActivityDate="2010-04-26T15:56:26.920" Title="Confused about bounty questions" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;bounty&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44444" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:48:17.943" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that the bounty period probably expired without the owner of the question accepting an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144378" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:48:17.943" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:56:41.480" Score="2" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1170/should-i-be-able-to-cancel-my-up-vote-on-a-comment&quot;&gt;Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I clicked on the wrong comment and want to remove my &quot;up arrow&quot;, but I don't see any way to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way?  (I'm on Firefox 3.6, if that matters.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="138656" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:59:29.227" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T16:10:15.783" Title="Undoing &quot;great comment&quot; click?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;comment-voting&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44446" CreationDate="2010-03-29T15:59:29.227" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Comment votes don't really mean much, anyway, so it's no great loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T15:59:29.227" />
  <row Id="44449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44411" CreationDate="2010-03-29T16:08:52.120" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I propose that all questions with the urgent-help-needed  tag is shown on the front page with an extra large, extra bold, Comic Sans font.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, a free bounty of 1000 rep. should automatically be attached to question with this tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quite agree with this, but it would have be a purchasable question upgrade for the person asking the question (if they are in dire need, they surely can demonstrate such urgency financially) AND it would only be bolded/highlighted and with the bounty available for those who elect to participate in such questions by paying a small fee to SO for the privilege of helping those poor souls with urgent questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To everyone else, though, it would appear exactly as a regular question with no particular highlighting, and they would be ineligible for the 1k bounty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, I'd like to invest in SO before this &lt;strike&gt;scheme&lt;/strike&gt; feature is implemented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T16:08:52.120" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44451" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T16:56:11.800" Score="5" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to know what people are the most searching that is strongly different from what is available on the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143716" LastActivityDate="2011-04-24T06:44:27.400" Title="Is it possible to know the most searched keywords?" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;search&gt;&lt;data-analysis&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T16:59:13.260" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42507/cannot-see-duplicate-votes-when-out-of-close-votes&quot;&gt;Cannot see duplicate votes when out of close votes&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42507/cannot-see-duplicate-votes-when-out-of-close-votes&quot;&gt;Cannot see duplicate votes when out of close votes&lt;/a&gt;, the reason why I cannot see it is different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First question I saw was &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/125410/how-to-add-an-hotmail-account-to-outlook-2007&quot;&gt;How to add a Hotmail Account to Outlook 2007&lt;/a&gt;. I edited, then voted to close as &lt;code&gt;Not a real question&lt;/code&gt; because I honestly I couldn't tell what was being asked. Steps to add a Hotmail account are fairly straight forward and he referenced another &quot;problem&quot; that he didn't mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I voted to close I realized that the question already had another close vote (vote was cast while I was casting my vote) for &lt;code&gt;Exact Duplicate&lt;/code&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://superuser.com/questions/125414/hotmail-account&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I propose either being able to see what the duplicate question is (as the other &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/42507/cannot-see-duplicate-votes-when-out-of-close-votes&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; mentioned) or a notification (similar to &lt;code&gt;1 new answer has been posted&lt;/code&gt;) for when you are casting votes on questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/1339/firefoxscreensnapz002z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136930" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T17:05:21.843" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T17:05:21.843" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T17:14:09.590" Title="Cannot see the duplicate question even when you've already voted" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;close&gt;" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44451" CreationDate="2010-03-29T17:10:08.010" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the most-viewed items, and that's probably more useful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, StackOverflow's searches don't tell the whole story.  To really see a complete picture you'd also want to know about Google searches that ultimately led to StackOverflow pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3043" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T17:10:08.010" CommentCount="3" />
  <row Id="44455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T17:28:30.553" Score="9" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please read before voting to close as dup.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39450/about-page-list-of-moderators-needs-to-be-updated&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is an earlier instance of the same problem. I don't think this should be closed as dup because new changes have taken place since then, even though the old question is closed [status-complete]. (I'm also not sure why that was marked complete if Jonathan and Gumbo were not added to the list.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of moderators on &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/about&quot;&gt;Meta's &quot;about&quot; page&lt;/a&gt; is out of date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diago is still listed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Sampson is not listed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gumbo is not listed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;random is not listed (not yet a mod on meta).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;quack quixote is not listed (not yet a mod on meta).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39450/about-page-list-of-moderators-needs-to-be-updated&quot;&gt;&amp;lsquo;About&amp;rsquo; Page list of moderators needs to be updated.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18511" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-02T06:54:43.687" LastActivityDate="2010-04-02T06:54:43.687" Title="Moderator list on Meta's &quot;about&quot; page is out of date" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;about-page&gt;" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="44456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44345" CreationDate="2010-03-29T17:37:10.613" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually very fun. I managed to get my first attempt correct. Need to include the &quot;Accepted Answer&quot; if available. Great way to learn not only the community, but also if answers were included, some general knowledge. Match Jon Skeet's answers to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="142742" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T17:37:10.613" />
  <row Id="44458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44499" CreationDate="2010-03-29T18:58:07.330" Score="19" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5101/server-error-in-application-from-bad-url&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meta.SE bug&lt;/a&gt; came up which also applies to SOFU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any URL path ending in a dot produces a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/nosuchpageexists.&quot;&gt;low-level server 404&lt;/a&gt;, rather than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/nosuchpagexists&quot;&gt;usual SO 404&lt;/a&gt;, even when the dot is part of a string which is supposed to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet.&quot;&gt;ignored&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the URLs be sanitized before they are processed so that special characters are treated as literals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-05-14T10:21:55.757" LastActivityDate="2010-05-14T10:21:55.757" Title="Trailing periods produce a server level 404" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-deferred&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;http-404&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="2" />
  <row Id="44460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44462" CreationDate="2010-03-29T19:24:19.933" Score="1" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44218/reputation-should-be-the-new-chuck-e-cheese-tickets&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; has (as of now) 4 close votes, yet the most close votes list in the 10k tools shows that it only has 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10k Tool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so_close1.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/so_close2.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T19:27:59.363" Title="Difference between question and 10k close tool" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;10k-tools&gt;&lt;close-list&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T19:25:14.457" Score="23" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you visit a user's profile page, the actual username in the URL isn't supposed to matter. For example, all these URLs go to the same place:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-atwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-the-dragon&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeff-the-dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if your username happens to end in the letters &lt;code&gt;json&lt;/code&gt;, your profile page gets screwed up:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeffendinginjson&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/jeffendinginjson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132093" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T08:18:18.737" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T08:18:18.737" Title="Usernames ending in &quot;json&quot; cause trouble" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;url&gt;&lt;json&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="44462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44460" CreationDate="2010-03-29T19:27:57.290" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably the three oldest close votes are so old that they are not longer in the time interval you selected in the 10k-tools. If you select the &quot;today&quot; intervall it will only show the votes from the last day, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56338" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T19:27:57.290" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44460" CreationDate="2010-03-29T19:27:59.363" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;What time frame are you looking at for the close votes? Last 2 days? Last 7 days? It's likely that the three extra votes occurred &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the time frame you are looking at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52738" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T19:27:59.363" />
  <row Id="44464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44461" CreationDate="2010-03-29T19:31:03.577" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also broken: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/web.config&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/users/1/web.config&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T19:31:03.577" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44461" CreationDate="2010-03-29T19:32:53.730" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry, I won't do it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130127" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T19:32:53.730" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9134" CreationDate="2010-03-29T19:46:58.133" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Skeet does not need stack traces. He sniffs the call path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145423" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T19:46:58.133" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-29T19:46:58.133" />
  <row Id="44468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44472" CreationDate="2010-03-29T20:11:45.507" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my home, I can't open Stackoverflow.com.  Here's a tracert:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  7     7 ms    11 ms     7 ms  te2-1.ccr01.ams05.atlas.cogentco.com [149.6.129.13]&#xA;  8    10 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te1-4.mpd03.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.85]&#xA;  9     7 ms    11 ms     7 ms  te9-2.3494.ccr02.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.48.241]&#xA; 10    92 ms    91 ms    92 ms  te3-2.ccr02.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.69]&#xA; 11   116 ms   115 ms   115 ms  te8-7.ccr01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.28.1]&#xA; 12   127 ms   139 ms   127 ms  te0-0-0-3.ccr21.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.2.217]&#xA; 13   140 ms   139 ms   135 ms  te4-4.mpd02.den01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.130]&#xA; 14   160 ms   159 ms   159 ms  te7-3.ccr01.smf01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.14]&#xA; 15   174 ms   171 ms   171 ms  te4-1.ccr01.pdx01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.94]&#xA; 16   180 ms   172 ms   175 ms  38.104.104.98&#xA; 17   172 ms   179 ms   263 ms  ptldorpbcr01.lsnetworks.net [216.110.192.209]&#xA; 18   180 ms   182 ms   179 ms  vl16-eugnor53cr01.lsnetworks.net [216.110.192.190]&#xA; 19   189 ms   195 ms   194 ms  206-192-226-18.lsnetworks.net [206.192.226.18] &#xA; 20   178 ms   180 ms   182 ms  ge-0-0-0-cvo-core2.peak.org [69.59.218.197]&#xA; 21   176 ms   184 ms   180 ms  vlan5-cvo-colo2.peak.org [69.59.218.226]&#xA; 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA; 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From work, I can reach Stackoverflow.com, with a tracert ending in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; 18   180 ms   178 ms   182 ms  206-192-226-18.lsnetworks.net [206.192.226.18]&#xA; 19   180 ms   179 ms   181 ms  ge-0-0-0-cvo-core2.peak.org [69.59.218.197]&#xA; 20   178 ms   182 ms   177 ms  vlan5-cvo-colo2.peak.org [69.59.218.226]&#xA; 21   179 ms   178 ms   177 ms  stackoverflow.com [69.59.196.211]&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The strange thing is that the home trace almost gets to Stackoverflow.com, but can't quite reach it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137265" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T20:49:42.280" Title="Can't reach stackoverflow.com" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;timeout&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44495" CreationDate="2010-03-29T20:13:42.647" Score="12" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the day today, I've been logged out of SO. Usually when I have closed my SO tab and open a new one, but not always. I haven't experienced this previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suspect OpenId, but I have experienced no issues with Meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this isolated to only me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm using Chrome (4.1.249.1042 (42199))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18821" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T23:30:44.467" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:30:44.467" Title="Keep getting logged out of StackOverflow today" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;login&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" />
  <row Id="44471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44469" CreationDate="2010-03-29T20:27:39.557" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to say I'd had no problems with IE7, but just now the exact same thing happened to me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I had opened a question and was curious about the vote count, so I clicked on it, got an error, scratched my head, and reloaded the page to find that I'd been logged out somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13531" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T20:27:39.557" />
  <row Id="44472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44468" CreationDate="2010-03-29T20:46:08.530" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps your IP is being blocked by SO due to some suspected voting irregularities or overuse: see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/script-responsibly/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt;.  If I were you, I'd email the SO team (team@stackoverflow.com) with this data and see if they can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T20:46:08.530" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44468" CreationDate="2010-03-29T20:49:42.280" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can’t reach stackoverflow.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying stretching your fingertips bit further - it's probably just &lt;em&gt;barely&lt;/em&gt; out of reach.  Maybe a little yoga?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that doesn't help then I'm afraid your only choice is to move closer to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T20:49:42.280" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44469" CreationDate="2010-03-29T20:55:04.810" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;My experience is that I was logged out, and cannot log back in on SO. No problem here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using FF3.6.2 or FF3.6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137329" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T20:55:04.810" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44481" CreationDate="2010-03-29T21:32:02.180" Score="2" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I try to login to SO using my LJ openid I get this error:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No OpenID endpoint found. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only one ID assotiated with my account. What can I do to get the account back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:02:23.990" Title="Why can’t I login to StackOverflow using my LJ OpenID?" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;openid&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44477" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T21:37:28.873" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I set a bounty of 500 for answer to my question, nothing happened no accepted answer, although I didn't get the right answer the people who tried to answer should get the reputation or I should get it back, here is the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2478729/jboss-messaging-jms&quot;&gt;Jboss Messaging JMS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141835" LastEditorUserId="2915" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T22:24:00.977" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T22:44:52.833" Title="What happened to my question bounty?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;reputation&gt;&lt;specific-question&gt;" AnswerCount="2" />
  <row Id="44478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44469" CreationDate="2010-03-29T21:40:07.323" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not get any error.  I just refresh and it says &quot;First time here?  Check out the FAQ!&quot; and I'm logged out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FF 3.6.0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here I've been blaming our IT department all day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137119" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T21:40:07.323" />
  <row Id="44479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44477" CreationDate="2010-03-29T21:43:32.043" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/16065/how-does-the-bounty-system-work&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once a bounty is started, the question&#xA;  owner is obligated to select an&#xA;  answer. If the owner does not choose&#xA;  one, &lt;strong&gt;auto-accept may be activated&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  if:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;answer has been posted AFTER the bounty started&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; answer has at least 2 upvotes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If the bounty expires without an&#xA;  accepted answer, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1413/why-an-answer-cant-be-accepted-after-an-unresolved-bounty/1414#1414&quot;&gt;no answer can ever&#xA;  be accepted for that question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;What is Auto-Accepting?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If after one week no answer is&#xA;  accepted by the original poster, then&#xA;  the &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; answers with at least &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  upvotes posted &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; the bounty&#xA;  start are considered eligible for&#xA;  auto-accepting. The one with the most&#xA;  upvotes (or in the case of a tie, the&#xA;  earliest) will be automatically&#xA;  accepted and awarded half of the&#xA;  bounty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If no new answer has reached at least&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;+2&lt;/strong&gt; votes, the bounty is forfeit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/18944/in-a-bounty-scenario-can-an-answer-from-before-the-bounty-be-automatically&quot;&gt;In a bounty scenario, can&#xA;  an answer from before the bounty be&#xA;  automatically&#xA;  accepted?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastEditorUserId="101371" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T22:04:35.610" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T22:04:35.610" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="44481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44475" CreationDate="2010-03-29T21:55:46.413" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Send an email to team@stackoverflow.com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure you mention your SO userid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="101371" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T21:55:46.413" />
  <row Id="44483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44477" CreationDate="2010-03-29T22:44:52.833" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You should have gotten two email notifications as well as two SO site notifications that your bounty was closing. Once the bounty has started, it is the owner's responsibility to accept a suitable answer before the end of the bounty period.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your question was a bit unclear; you posted an answer 11 hours ago that said &quot;Sorry guys this wasn't what I was looking for, I wanted to see how to do it using application context with bean injection&quot;. This really should have been edited into the question 4-5 days ago, while the bounty was still running.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the very least you could have provided comments on existing answers so others can see what did and didn't work for you. I count ONE comment on the answers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bounty is not magic fairy dust that magically makes the perfect answer appear -- &lt;strong&gt;you have to put some effort into it too!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T22:44:52.833" />
  <row Id="44484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44496" CreationDate="2010-03-29T22:54:20.280" Score="28" ViewCount="644" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26689/how-do-we-grow-the-server-fault-and-super-user-communities&quot;&gt;How do we grow the Server Fault and Super User communities?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm not sure we can do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any given point in time, if you look at the home page of Stack Overflow, you'll see at least 4 or 5 questions that &quot;belong&quot; on Super User or Server Fault.  Well, &quot;belong&quot; is a bit subjective, and I'm sure you can convince yourself that configuring SuPHP for Apache 2.0 is programming related. And there's a pretty strong incentive to do so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Namely, &lt;strong&gt;if you ask your question on Stack Overflow, you will get an answer.&lt;/strong&gt; Even dumb questions, even questions that belong on SU or SF: On SO they all get answers, and fast. On SF and SU, maybe they will, maybe they won't. But on SO, the results will be pretty well solidified within the hour; even if you get bumped to SU or SF, at least you'll know. However, if you ask on SU and SF, it takes a day or two or three before you get to the same state, with your first response rolling in at around 8 hours later. &lt;strong&gt;So, the intelligent solution is to ask on SO first&lt;/strong&gt;, and if people complain, ask on SU or SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the participation rates in SU and SF are abysmal compared to SO. The crappy engineer will simply say: &quot;People need to start using Super User and Server Fault, and this will all be fixed.&quot; Of course, identifying a solution that is contingent on other people altering their behavior with no incentive to do so is wishful thinking at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as pointed out a dozen or so times on this forum: people don't want to check all three sites separately. And they have proposed several solutions to try to unify the sites, or at least provide an agregated view for that user. The unstated implication that seems to get ignored is &quot;Checking all thee sites is hard, &lt;strong&gt;I will not do it&lt;/strong&gt; unless the interface is simplified.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paradoxially, Jeff Atwood has offically stated that he has no intention of fixing this problem. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/why-cant-you-have-just-one-site/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In a blog post last year&lt;/a&gt;, he compared the individual sites to individual members of the League of Justice. Batman and Superman and need to be separate heroes, even though they fight for the same team, he argues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, to extend the metaphor, when people call the League of Justice, they now always call Superman. So much so, in fact, that Batman and Wonder Woman have stopped carrying their cell phones and only check their voicemail once a week. &lt;strong&gt;Now, no one even tries calling Batman because they know he takes longer to respond.&lt;/strong&gt; And besides, Superman can probably help instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than proposing yet another solution, I'm proposing that we at least acknowledge that there is a problem. Once we get past this first step, we can start looking at solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135283" LastEditorUserId="89334" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-09-12T18:17:04.280" LastActivityDate="2010-09-12T18:17:04.280" Title="Super User and Server Fault are Doomed" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;superuser&gt;&lt;serverfault&gt;" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="3" />
  <row Id="44485" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2009-01-13T06:51:08.227" Score="9" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several of the questions on SO that ask, &quot;Which of these is faster?&quot; or &quot;Why is this faster than the alternative?&quot; have one or more answers which explain the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211414/is-premature-optimization-really-the-root-of-all-evil&quot;&gt;downsides of premature optimization&lt;/a&gt; and suggest that the user profile their code to identify bottlenecks first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am (personally) disappointed seeing &quot;Premature optimization is bad!&quot; answers get up-voted on questions that are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Generally reasonable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interesting! Performance comparisons are fun to read about, even if they're not often useful. This &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the internet. (Pictures of cats are not particularly useful ;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe we could have the first person inclined to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22premature+optimization%22+site:stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mention premature optimization&lt;/a&gt; in their answer reference the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211414/is-premature-optimization-really-the-root-of-all-evil&quot;&gt;Is premature optimization really the root of all evil?&lt;/a&gt; question in a separate community-wiki-mode answer? We'd be centralizing our information a bit (DRY) and people could vote it up or down as they feel it's applicable. Other than that, I'd prefer to read the (often interesting) meat of the discussion without seeing the same meta-discussion again and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;em&gt;somewhat&lt;/em&gt; different story when the OP clearly doesn't understand that what they're doing is an attempt to optimize, but when the question is along the lines of &quot;Which is faster?&quot; they at least have some idea what they're talking about. It's also different if you have specific information as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this would be premature optimization, but just reciting the Knuth quotes seems silly, redundant, and not worthy of reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe other users don't feel the same way that I do - I just figured I'd throw it out there. I've seen it happen a few times now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-07-18T08:39:07.790" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-13T06:51:08.227" Title="How should we handle premature optimization discussion in optimization questions?" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;optimization&gt;" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44485" CreationDate="2009-01-13T06:57:31.490" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't think the answers are helpful, vote them down. If all they do is say premature optimization is a bad thing, they're not really answering the question &quot;which of these is faster and why?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers that say &quot;premature optimization is a bad thing, but this is the fastest way&quot; are helpful so I would vote them up (or down if the reason is bogus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO is working as expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14860" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T22:55:59.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-18T11:13:06.087" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44485" CreationDate="2009-01-13T07:15:47.257" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Premature premature optimisation discussion discussion is the root of all evil!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T22:55:59.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-13T07:15:47.257" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44485" CreationDate="2009-01-13T14:41:59.867" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please realize that a question like &quot;Which is faster...?&quot; is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; equivalent to an attempt to actually optimize. That may be the case, but please don't assume it is, unless the OP says something to the effect of &quot;I'm trying to make this linked-list implementation faster even though I'm only going to use it on lists with less than 10 items&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An experienced programmer who has worked on applications or libraries that scale well has a good mental model of which avenues hold the most promise for optimization, should it become necessary -- the same way most of us know how cold/warm a given temperature is, or the guy at the deli counter knows about how much a pile of cold cuts weighs before actually sticking it on the scale. So when it's time to measure performance and/or optimize, that programmer can save a lot of time by avoiding unnecessary effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone who is just starting programming in general (e.g. before understanding general algorithm tradeoffs like O(n&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;) bubble sort vs. O(n log n) quicksort), or who is just getting started in a particular library or system, may be trying to develop that kind of innate understanding or &quot;wisdom&quot; of performance &amp;amp; optimization techniques. Sure, it's possible to spend the time to actually put together test programs and measure it yourself, and occasionally it's good to do so, but it can save a lot of time to ask someone else who already knows the ropes. We should be pointing them at useful information about performance metrics, not just telling them that what they're doing is premature optimization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I've been on both sides of the fence (both giver &amp;amp; receiver of performance advice) and always appreciate it when someone makes a genuine effort to provide useful assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44330" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T22:55:59.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-01-13T14:41:59.867" />
  <row Id="44489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44485" CreationDate="2009-05-20T08:03:00.467" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any post that contains &quot;premature optimization&quot; should also contain a tangible, precise answer for the case that this optimization is justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sick and tired of people lecturing about premature optimization again and again. I know that this is an important lesson, but too many questions here are &lt;em&gt;dismissed&lt;/em&gt;, which in the end isn't very helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31317" LastEditorUserId="811" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T23:12:04.387" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:12:04.387" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-20T08:03:00.467" />
  <row Id="44490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44485" CreationDate="2009-05-20T08:11:52.230" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other day there was a question about which method for comparing two numbers and getting the highest numbers is the fastest. The quote holds very true here, if you're trying to optimize things like these, you're either working on an extremely small application or your optimization problems lie elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have two solutions and you're wondering which is faster, just put together a small test case that actually measures which is faster. The normal answer is that it doesn't matter and lets move on. Premature optimization IS bad because what you mostly need to do optimizations are measurements of what is actually causing the application to be slow and concentrate the effort on the real slowdowns, which are quite often in areas you would not expect. Yes, there are always programmers who say that they can feel what takes time and there are also plenty of the same who are surprised when the bottleneck turns out to be something else entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comparison would probably be to a carpenter starting to cut things randomly instead of measuring first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130834" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T22:55:59.273" CommunityOwnedDate="2009-05-20T08:11:52.230" />
  <row Id="44492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44435" CreationDate="2010-03-29T23:07:39.217" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/joel-talks-about-stack-overflow-at-google/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel Talks About Stack Overflow at Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1288" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:07:39.217" />
  <row Id="44493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44435" CreationDate="2010-03-29T23:20:27.457" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Focus on Q&amp;amp;A over discussion&lt;/strong&gt; (keeps individual threads targeted at individual problems, makes them easier to find later)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Searchable/organizable via meta-data&lt;/strong&gt; (tags + titles allow fast &amp;amp; effective filtering of search results)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community editable&lt;/strong&gt; (reduces the problem of new users abusing meta-data, allows incremental improvement)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ranked answers&lt;/strong&gt; (good answers posted after poor ones can still &quot;float to the top&quot; vs. lost in the noise of a traditional forum / list)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="811" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:20:27.457" CommunityOwnedDate="2010-03-29T23:20:27.457" />
  <row Id="44494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44484" CreationDate="2010-03-29T23:20:39.390" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a contributor to Serverfault, I see a lot of hard work by a core group of people to answer peoples questions, and i'm pretty sure the response time is a lot less than 8 hours, but I agree, there are problems. The primary of which is that there aren't enough experts at the moment, Serverfault and superuser don't have the same community of users both asking questions and answering them, there are a hell of a lot of people who come to SF and SU just to get an answer to their specific problem, without contributing back to the sites. There needs to be more emphasis on getting these using engaged and giving back to the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason for the slow take up of these sites, is that it often feels like SF and SU are the poor cousins of SO, everything is focussed around SO. It's often like, hey look out our shiny site we built for programmers, oh and there's some other sites over there as well. Yes I know this all started out as a programming venture, and Joel and Jeff are programmers, but that needs to change if we want the sites to be as successful as SO. We need to get more publicity for the these sites, nearly every programer I know has heard of SO, but I meet so many sysadmins who I tell about SF, and they have never heard of it, but think it's a great idea. Jeff and Joel, we know your not sysadmins, you don't know the sysadmin community, so why not find someone who does and bring them on as a consultant or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think SF and SU are doomed, they are providing valuable information to users, who often, especially in the case of SF, have no where else to look for these answers, and the quality of the answers are excellent (check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://serverfault.com/questions/49765/serverfault-wiki-how-does-subnetting-work&quot;&gt;subnetting question&lt;/a&gt;), but to get these sites to the level of SO needs work, and commitment, both from the team and the community, and I for one am happy to do this, because I believe the SF really could be the SO of the admin world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it in terms of the League of Justice, everyone knows about Superman, his shiny cape and red underwear give him away, maybe it's time Batman came out of the shadows a bit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there are a lot of people, contributing a lot of hard work to SF and SU and I think they need to be acknowledged for this, particularly when we spend time talking about how these sites are not working,  there work and time is valuable, these sites do work they could just work better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastEditorUserId="8768" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T08:57:59.437" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T08:57:59.437" CommentCount="7" />
  <row Id="44495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44469" CreationDate="2010-03-29T23:30:33.813" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I see what this is, and have fixed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NB: has nothing to do with OpenID, is completely a cookie issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:30:33.813" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44484" CreationDate="2010-03-29T23:40:16.533" Score="19" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you realize this, but you're asking for us to ruin Stack Overflow. Sure, &lt;strong&gt;let's allow any question to be asked on Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt; -- there is a huge community there of smart programmers who know stuff about almost any topic, and they'll answer &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;, right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know what lies at the end of that road: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yahooanswerfail.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answer Fail&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even dumb questions, even questions that belong on SU or SF: On SO they all get answers, and fast. On SF and SU, maybe they will, maybe they won't. But on SO, the results will be pretty well solidified within the hour; even if you get bumped to SU or SF, at least you'll know. However, if you ask on SU and SF, it takes a day or two or three before you get to the same state, with your first response rolling in at around 8 hours later. So, the intelligent solution is to ask on SO first, and if people complain, ask on SU or SF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Totally [by-design].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those questions and answers will get migrated -- so &lt;strong&gt;if you want that reputation attached to it&lt;/strong&gt;, follow it to the target site. Heck, even if all you want to do is &lt;em&gt;see the answers&lt;/em&gt; you have to follow it to the target site. This is actually OK, it's a legitimate way to learn about the other sites in the trilogy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;identifying a solution that is contigenent on other people altering their behavior with no incentive to do so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure there's incentive -- rep denial / migration and, in egregious cases (have yet to see this, though), banning of accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But as pointed out a dozen or so times on this forum: people don't want to check all three sites separately. And they have proposed several solutions to try to unify the sites, or at least provide an agregated view for that user. The unstated implication that seems to get ignored is &quot;Checking all thee sites is hard, I will not do it unless the interface is simplified.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember when the community was wondering, gosh, what could Jeff and Joel &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; do with a lot of venture capital money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, TRY TO WONDER HARDER(tm). Seriously, it's like you're not even &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T23:53:13.897" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:53:13.897" CommentCount="9" />
  <row Id="44497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-29T23:44:39.193" Score="0" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44469/keep-getting-logged-out-of-stackoverflow-today&quot;&gt;Keep getting logged out of StackOverflow today&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just recently started using Chrome to do all my SO related activities.  Several times today, I've been signed out randomly (once whilst posting an edit to my question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logging in again is straightforward, Google's saved my sign in details just fine.  It looks like Chrome's having no problem with my Google accounts cookie but it's having difficulty keeping track of my SO cookie.  Any ideas what could be causing the problem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140753" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-29T23:47:10.293" LastActivityDate="2010-03-29T23:47:10.293" ClosedDate="2010-03-29T23:47:01.887" Title="Random sign outs in Chrome" Tags="&lt;bug&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;google-chrome&gt;&lt;cookies&gt;" />
  <row Id="44499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44458" CreationDate="2010-03-30T00:04:15.777" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is a bug deep, deep in the .NET framework. Seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2515959/how-to-create-a-uri-instance-parsed-with-genericuriparseroptions-dontcompresspath&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2515959/how-to-create-a-uri-instance-parsed-with-genericuriparseroptions-dontcompresspath&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and related connect item, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;System.Uri&lt;/code&gt; incorrectly strips trailing dots&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/386695/system-uri-incorrectly-strips-trailing-dots?wa=wsignin1.0#tabs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/386695/system-uri-incorrectly-strips-trailing-dots?wa=wsignin1.0#tabs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T00:04:15.777" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44484" CreationDate="2010-03-30T00:22:44.937" Score="6" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to counteract the &quot;doom and gloom&quot; nature of this post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Server Fault traffic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Google Analytics, Oct 09 - Mar 10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/1259/serverfaultanalyticstra.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super User traffic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Google Analytics, Oct 09 - Mar 10&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9987/superuseranalyticstraff.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if by &quot;doomed&quot; you mean &lt;em&gt;growing at a more modest rate than Stack Overflow proper&lt;/em&gt;, then yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I totally agree that we can always do better here, I think it is unfair, and frankly a bit rude to the users who do frequent SU and SF, to imply that these sites aren't working. They clearly are; they're populated by good questions and good answers on a daily basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;strong&gt;they may not be working at the blockbuster level of Stack Overflow&lt;/strong&gt;, I would argue that STACK OVERFLOW is the (huuuge) outlier there, and not the other way around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This thing we're doing -- it is a marathon, not a sprint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T00:22:44.937" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44484" CreationDate="2010-03-30T00:34:32.147" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;StackOverflow came first, didn't it? So it's more mature, and has gained a reputation as a good site to ask and answer questions related to programming. ServerFault and SuperUser are not about programming, they have different focus and are less broad than SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking for myself, I've learned plenty from all three sites, and it makes sense to have them separate to allow discussion of their respective topics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134410" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T00:34:32.147" />
  <row Id="44503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44611" CreationDate="2010-03-30T02:14:35.823" Score="10" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really know which one should be preferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/user-interface&quot;&gt;[user-interface]&lt;/a&gt; (811)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ui&quot;&gt;[ui]&lt;/a&gt; (837)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135151" LastEditorUserId="1288" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-13T18:34:10.097" LastActivityDate="2010-12-13T18:34:10.097" Title="Merge tags [user-interface] [ui]" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;retag-request&gt;" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-30T03:05:30.177" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38178/public-cv-on-careers-page-states-it-is-a-free-service&quot;&gt;Public CV on careers page states it is a free service.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm loving the Stack Overflow Careers service in general and finally paid to file mine, but the core thing stopping me from linking people to my public CV is the &quot;PUBLIC CV, A free Stack Overflow service.&quot; notice on the side.  If this were to go away for users who have paid to file, I believe more people would use it as their primary CV link -- I know I would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="145445" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T12:36:48.723" ClosedDate="2010-03-30T04:48:21.357" Title="Removal of the &quot;PUBLIC CV&quot; notice on filed Stack Overflow Careers CVs" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;careers&gt;" AnswerCount="1" />
  <row Id="44505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44504" CreationDate="2010-03-30T03:07:59.750" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the words of &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/38178/public-cv-on-careers-page-states-it-is-a-free-service&quot;&gt;Jeff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it's true -- the &lt;em&gt;public&lt;/em&gt; CV page is free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;For all you closers, that link doubles as a duplicate link&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key part of that link is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We can't have any indication on the free public CVs that the user has paid to file, and be listed for private employer search. &lt;strong&gt;Doing so would &quot;out&quot; anyone that has a public CV and happens to be looking for work.&lt;/strong&gt; Their current employers would be able to tell (by the absence of the &quot;free public CV&quot; tag) that they are not happy with their current job and seeking other employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131779" LastEditorUserId="131779" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T12:36:48.723" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T12:36:48.723" CommentCount="4" />
  <row Id="44506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44440" CreationDate="2010-03-30T03:37:07.763" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can work in certain cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, you should do your best to pare your code down to the absolute most relevant bits on SO. Posting giant &quot;wall o' code&quot; questions (or answers for that matter) is discouraged for what I hope are obvious reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realize that you're asking other people to help you, so if you can help &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; by making your question as clear, short, and concise as possible, you're more likely to get good answers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel you absolutely can't pare the code down, and if answerers need to see more of the code, you can provide a &lt;strong&gt;[read more..] type of link to a pastebin or pastie or gist or whatever&lt;/strong&gt; if someone absolutely must see the full, giant code attached to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T03:37:07.763" />
  <row Id="44508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44440" CreationDate="2010-03-30T04:16:36.653" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I always include all the relevant code to answer a question, comments are limited.  In that case, a paste service can be an asset, but I would still avoid it if reasonably possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My current favorite is &lt;a href=&quot;http://codepad.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;codepad.org&lt;/a&gt;.  It has a clean interface, allows for forks and comments, executes a variety of languages in a sandbox, and will save pastes indefinitely&amp;mdash;if you create an account and choose to permanently save.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find execution especially helpful to demonstrate, confident you didn't make a &lt;s&gt;stupid mistake&lt;/s&gt;trivial error.  This is true even for broken code if you want to show the error message.  Though I rarely point it out, the confused beginner should be able to discover they can edit and re-execute the paste without having to deal with their local environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T04:16:36.653" />
  <row Id="44509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44411" CreationDate="2010-03-30T06:55:41.403" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tags shouldn't be removed until their answer gets 2012 upvotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T06:55:41.403" />
  <row Id="44510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43672" CreationDate="2010-03-30T07:00:30.813" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I found the &quot;Case of the Mondays?&quot; ad sexist. I didn't mention it at the time, but that's what &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/36079/can-i-disable-a-specific-annoying-ad&quot;&gt;annoyed&lt;/a&gt; me about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="38765" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T07:00:30.813" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-30T07:28:54.807" Score="1" ViewCount="20" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/23418/list-newest-questions-only-matching-my-interesting-tags&quot;&gt;List newest questions only matching my interesting tags?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Tags&lt;/strong&gt; is a nice feature which filters &amp;amp; shows the posts by my interesting tags. But this  filter only implemented in &lt;strong&gt;Unanswerd&lt;/strong&gt; posts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be really great if the feature is implemented in all the pages . Instead of having a  seperate My tags tab, we could have my tags button in all the pages (in right pane, to filter &amp;amp; show  only my interesting tags)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there is another one bug in &quot;My Tags&quot; tab, this feature doesn't sort the posts by the latest activity or a date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is mytags page&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/3d370e8378.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just opened the first post, check the last activity details.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/c1ce035adf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133732" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T07:51:03.990" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T07:51:03.990" ClosedDate="2010-03-30T07:50:38.483" Title="Feature Request : &quot;My tags&quot; Filter in all pages &amp;&amp; Bug : Sort not working in my tags" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;my-tags&gt;" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44484" CreationDate="2010-03-30T07:57:34.570" Score="10" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice in general that people who come and say &quot;Super User is doomed&quot;, &quot;Super User is good for nothing&quot;, &quot;Super User is a mess&quot;,... are usually people who spent 3 hours on it max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because anyone spending more time would know that most of questions on Super User get answers, at least the ones which are possible to solve. Even though the amount of questions asked is lower than SO, there is still a lot asked every day, and the counter of unanswered questions stays very much the same. I think there are like 20 questions per day, added to it, as opposed to the hundreds new questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, you may take longer to get your answer on Super User... but at least you get one. On SO, if nobody cared to answer you in the following 15 minutes, then it's practically over, your question joins the bottomless pit of unanswered questions, and only a few courageous ones, tracking your tags, or checking unanswered ones from time to time, may answer you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So seriously, I hardly see how SU is more &quot;doomed&quot; than SO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, if you can't care enough to switch site for one dedicated to your problem, why people should care enough to answer you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of course the above about SU applies very probably to SF, with the difference that SF is dedicated to a more restricted range than SU, and as such welcomes more sophisticated questions probably, with more complete answers. Although, I don't use SF a lot, so I could be mistaken, this is only my view on it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132632" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T07:57:34.570" CommentCount="8" />
  <row Id="44517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44484" CreationDate="2010-03-30T08:20:25.703" Score="4" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only asked a few questions on SU, but my experience couldn't be more different. Within minutes they had answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="135197" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T08:20:25.703" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="82418" CreationDate="2010-03-30T08:43:42.373" Score="2" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we have a &quot;download question&quot; feature on SO, which would let you save the whole question thread (as one long page) or maybe just as xml or text or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackprinter.appspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;StackPrinter&lt;/a&gt; can do that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132753" LastEditorUserId="132753" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2011-03-10T09:39:32.083" LastActivityDate="2011-03-10T09:40:45.357" Title="&quot;download question&quot; feature" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44521" CreationDate="2010-03-30T09:00:05.547" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something that could be done from the Data Dump, or, when it is released, the API.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8768" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T09:00:05.547" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42507" CreationDate="2010-03-30T09:55:40.357" Score="0" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not technically completed, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44173/autocomment-when-voting-to-close-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;we now auto-insert comments when you vote to close&lt;/a&gt;, so you can &quot;see&quot; the votes that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T09:55:40.357" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1383" CreationDate="2010-03-30T10:02:20.157" Score="3" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44173/autocomment-when-voting-to-close-as-duplicate&quot;&gt;inserted as comments now&lt;/a&gt;, as each close vote is cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T10:02:20.157" CommentCount="0" />
  <row Id="44528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44530" CreationDate="2010-03-30T10:27:06.803" Score="26" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;possible duplicate of [link]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The missing capitalization bothers me a lot; it should be &lt;b&gt;P&lt;/b&gt;ossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140478" LastEditorUserId="140478" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-12-01T13:52:50.277" LastActivityDate="2010-12-01T13:52:50.277" Title="Capitalize &quot;possible&quot; in the automatically inserted comments when you vote to close as a dupe" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-declined&gt;&lt;vote-to-close&gt;&lt;exact-duplicates&gt;&lt;auto-comments&gt;" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" />
  <row Id="44529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44173" CreationDate="2010-03-30T10:30:35.880" Score="8" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Implemented, but in a very naive way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forsee code cleanup in my future tomorrow..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;once closed, the question should auto-remove any comments of the type &quot;possible duplicate of..&quot;&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s&gt;when multiple people vote for the same dupe, should not insert duplicate comments (oh, the irony)&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I did not consider ordering by time (should these be inserted with some fake time, or given fake upvotes so they sort to top?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... would be to add an up-vote to the existing comment when a second user chooses the same link (again, keeping with common practice). Community would probably be simpler though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, that's a good idea!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T12:49:17.367" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T12:49:17.367" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="44530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44528" CreationDate="2010-03-30T10:34:28.203" Score="14" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;down with capitalist pigs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/stienman/grammar-police.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2915" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T10:34:28.203" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44533" CreationDate="2010-03-30T10:53:37.140" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had asked one question and got great answers,from that one answer I had accepted. Now I have follow-up question with that answer and I am also sending the message using @ character and username with it but I want to that particular user  is online or not means  right now is he/she signed in to the stackoverflow or not ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="144600" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T10:56:10.660" Title="How to know that whether particular user is signed in to the stackoverflow or not right now?" Tags="&lt;support&gt;&lt;stackoverflow&gt;&lt;users&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" />
  <row Id="44533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44532" CreationDate="2010-03-30T10:56:10.660" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is a &quot;seen&quot; field on the user profile which is public -- this will tell you the last time our website saw them with a granularity of about 15 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T10:56:10.660" CommentCount="2" />
  <row Id="44534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-30T11:20:20.793" Score="13" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new auto-comment feature for dupes is adding the same comment for each user that votes to close for the same reason. This just adds a lot of noise - traditionally, people have simply upvoted the original (manual) comment describing the dupe. Can I suggest that only the first dupe vote referring to a specific question should get a comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2544577/type-casting-c-and-c-closed&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2544577/type-casting-c-and-c-closed&lt;/a&gt; for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" LastEditorUserId="1" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T12:48:58.833" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T12:52:16.297" Title="Dupe comments are dupes" Tags="&lt;feature-request&gt;&lt;status-completed&gt;" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" />
  <row Id="44535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44534" CreationDate="2010-03-30T11:29:15.577" Score="2" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;According &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/44173/autocomment-when-voting-to-close-as-duplicate/44529#44529&quot;&gt;to Jeff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;once closed, the question should auto-remove any comments of the type &quot;possible duplicate of..&quot;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strike&gt;when multiple people vote for the same dupe, should not insert duplicate comments (oh, the irony)&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I guess this is work-in-progress?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And the wish for the upvote is in the same explanation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Jeff did some strikethrough, which I copied here. Might indicate it's already done (quick!), or will never be implemented. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84237" LastEditorUserId="84237" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-03-30T12:52:16.297" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T12:52:16.297" CommentCount="11" />
  <row Id="44536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42525" CreationDate="2010-03-30T12:10:41.983" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be a great idea or possibly extending this to include specific tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T12:10:41.983" />
  <row Id="44537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44521" CreationDate="2010-03-30T12:13:48.590" Score="1" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cant you just use onenote, evernote or zoho?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="136160" LastActivityDate="2010-03-30T12:13:48.590" />
  <row Id="44545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2010-03-30T12:41:07.527" Score="20" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: This is an application that I developed, but I got permission to post this by asking team@stackoverflow.com first.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feed Notifier&lt;/strong&gt; is a Windows application that resides in the system tray and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.feednotifier.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.feednotifier.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally use it to track all of my favorite Stack Overflow tags. I'm sharing it here because I think you guys might find it useful for the same purpose. Here's what it looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.feednotifier.com/images/stack_overflow.png&quot; alt=&quot;alt text&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Feed URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/python&quot;&gt;http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/python&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not like a normal RSS reader in that it gives you near real-time, &lt;strong&gt;transient&lt;/strong&gt; notifications.  If you see a headline pop up that isn't interesting, just ignore it and you won't see it again.  If you like it, click the link to launch it in your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I often am able to get an answer in first because this app lets me see it very soon after it was asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stack Overflow (and the rest of the trilogy) have RSS feeds all over the place so you can subscribe to just those things you are interested in.  However, you can also add &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.feednotifier.com/support/keyword-filtering-guide/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;keyword filters&lt;/a&gt; to the application to inclusively or exclusively filter the popups.  That can be useful if you find the application too distracting (I don't use them myself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also use the app to see Subversion commits as soon as they occur by subscribing to the TRAC timeline at work. I'm sure you guys can appreciate that use case as well. A full-blown RSS reader is overkill for that.  I can use svn log if I need to look through a list of commits, not my reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that this will be of use to some of you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="133875" LastEditorUserId="131713" LastEditorDisplayName="" LastEditDate="2010-04-13T06:23:56.160" LastActivityDate="2010-04-13T06:23:56.160" Title="Trilogy Addicts - Get &quot;real-time&quot; notifications of new questions" Tags="&lt;discussion&gt;&lt;stackexchange&gt;&lt;notifications&gt;&lt;rss&gt;&lt;tools&gt;" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="10" />
  <row Id="44546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44545" CreationDate="2010-03-30T13:07:33.470" Score="5" ViewCount="" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, just tried it, and I have to say that it seems quite good, for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does nice notifications for some &quot;unimportant&quot; feeds, giving you opportunity to check quickly if you are interested in, and to click on it if so, but doesn't disturb you with a long list to check. I like the &quot;click or forget&quot; approach (even though this notifier allows for caching them as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is obviously thought with things that programmers at work would expect and need: possibility to set a proxy, and most importantly, easy access to a &quot;disable updates&quot; command (in case someone checks on you, or work with you on same computer, to avoid the popping up all the time). In this approach, it could even have a keyboard shortcut to activate/deactivate updates... but that's not as necessary ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the fact that you can set your update time the way you want, even to a few seconds (and the fact it reminds you that under 1 minute, your sysadmin could be a bit unglad about it :) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great tool to follow questions on the trilogy indeed, and as well for some other news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;removed some bug report which wasn't really one&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be careful though about the &quot;feed cache&quot; setting, when trying to change a bit, it is necessary to compare with incoming updates, and should be at least as big as t